The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 7/7/23

Good morning, kids. As does happen on occasion, one story in particular jumps out and just crystallizes the nature of our nation, such as it is, today. The headline itself speaks volumes:

Interpreter Who Served with US Forces in Afghanistan, Fled Taliban Takeover, Shot Dead Driving Lyft in DC

As you ponder that, let's shift gears to the situation in France which is a warning about what is in store for us in the very near future, as if what happened here during the George Floyd 2020 Summer of Love wasn't warning enough.

Well, there’s one positive thing to be said about last week’s riots: they brought Western Europe’s alarming predicament into focus in a manner that few events in recent years have succeeded in doing, and, one can only hope, have opened the eyes of a considerable number of people who’d previously managed to avoid facing up to reality. How many people? Who knows?
Even before the rioting, to be sure, most Frenchmen understood very well what they were up against. Although heroic truth-tellers like Zemmour have been condemned in the French media for promoting the so-called “replacement theory” – i.e., the belief that native Europeans are being gradually supplanted by foreign peoples whose mass immigration over recent decades is the consequence of policies instituted by political elites without the consent of the populace. In fact, surveys have shown that most Frenchmen subscribe to the “replacement theory.”
But most of them also recognize just how dangerous it is to state publicly just what they think about these matters. On Monday, July 3, Christophe Cornevin reported in Le Figaro that two-thirds of French citizens polled before the recent spate of rioting would never consider running for public office because they “would fear for their safety or that of their family.” This followed a January 2022 report by Le Figaro that “no fewer than 1,186 elected officials” in France, including 162 members of parliament and 605 mayors or deputies, had been subjected to physical attacks “in the first eleven months of 2021.” Imagine how much higher a proportion of Frenchmen will shrink from political involvement now, after the homes of several mayors across France have been targeted by rioters. . .
. . . Ten years ago, I wrote here about a nonfiction bestseller, La France Orange Méchanique (France Clockwork Orange) by the pseudonymous Laurent Obertone, whose subject was the extraordinary increase in violent crime throughout France that has been caused by mass immigration from the Muslim world. “From 1830 all the way up to the outbreak of World War II,” I wrote, citing Obertone, “French crime rates were a tiny fraction of what they are now; from 1980 to 2000, the rate of violent crime multiplied by a factor of five.” And one thing you can be sure of is that that rate hasn’t declined in the 23 years since.
After La France Orange Méchanique, Obertone published a dystopian novel, Guerrilla (2016); two sequels followed. These fictions (which I haven’t read) imagine a French civil war that begins with a clash in one of the immigrant suburbs between police and a violent youth gang. On June 30, in the midst of the riots, Obertone granted an interview to a French website in which he acknowledged that the killing in Nanterre that triggered the recent wave of destruction bore a “striking” resemblance to the events that set off the war depicted in his trilogy:
The government is just as cowardly, the suburbs just as quick to ignite, the citizenry just as passive, the police just as muzzled, the media and other left-wing hustlers just as perfect in their active complicity….as I’ve been saying for a long time, this country is a can of gasoline with only a spark missing.

Bruce Bawer who writes at Frontpage Mag is a columnist you should get to know. He's living in Norway, which is on the same trajectory as England, France and much of Western Europe, towards being subsumed by Islam, and is right on the front lines. His observations about the near term prospects for France as well as its schizophrenic response to this as well as the complete obfuscation about the nature of the problem in the media and the usual Leftist circles mirrors that of the great Robert Spencer, who was our guest on the latest podcast (here and in the sidebar). In our fast, fascinating and frankly frightening hour's discussion, Spencer sees the writing on wall and can see the fall of the Fifth Republic, a possible coup to remove Macron from office (he still has another two years) and even a complete collapse of France into a state of civil war. In fact, what he envisions bears an uncanny resemblance to the scenario in the novel Bruce Bawer cites above.

An unreconstructed, inflexible totalitarian movement that will brook no quarter and demands either submission or death? The Left just tapped Mohammed on the shoulder and said "Hold my Bud Light!"

Michigan’s 4474 criminalizes hurting someone’s feelings or making the person feel threatened – subjective and arbitrary criteria that are virtually impossible to defend against in court. The two exceptions are if the conduct is constitutionally protected or if it serves a legitimate purpose.
As one might expect, the law is begging Michigan Democrats, who locked down the state and prevented people from buying anything they deemed “non-essential,” to abuse the living daylights out of entire groups of political opponents. In fact, this is the long-term purpose of the law, but first the short-term effects.
Two parts of the bill stand out. First up is the “injury or severe mental anguish” clause. This part of the law basically makes it possible to lock people up for things like pointing out reality. If you’re a culture reporter and published an article calling a man who claims to be a woman a man, that is theoretically grounds for getting five years in the slammer and a $10,000 fine if he protests. Prayed outside an abortion clinic and made a woman feel bad? Go to jail, Merrick Garland has already set the precedent here. Defend yourself against a member of a protected group but happen to utter a slur in the heat of the moment? Too bad. The bill doesn’t consider circumstances.
The bill can definitely become a double-edged sword for Whitmer and her legions of doom. Since having fat pedophiles dressed up as demons twerking in front of religious kids certainly can fall under the harassment on the basis of religion (remember, it’s all about feelings), then Christians who have protested porn and drag in schools should be able to use the law for good. . .
. . . Enter the insidious “legitimate purpose clause” – the way the Michigan Democrats will decide which conduct qualifies as felonious and which one doesn’t. If parents complain and file a complaint on the basis of religion against porn in schools or drag queens, will the state say that showing kids porn or exposing them to sexualized drag shows serves the legitimate purpose of fighting homophobia and transphobia? We’ve already seen the corporate press make such claims. Could the teachers and drag queens then accuse the parents of harassing them on the basis of sexual identity and counter-charge them? In Whitmer’s Michigan, we all know the answer. . .
. . . While it gets fought out in court, let’s explore where a Michigan Democrat with Merrick Garland’s Bolshevik impulses could take this law down the road. Christianity is no doubt a threat to transgenderism. The religion cannot coexist – no matter how hard libertarians try to say otherwise – with an ideology that is dedicated to destroying everything they believe. Once Michigan’s Democrats decide that simply being a Christian and expressing constitutionally-protected Christian teachings intimidates LGBT individuals or anyone else the state protects, get ready. Because when they’ve reached the point of targeting entire groups, it’s not going to be five years in a state penitentiary – it’s going to be a one-way ticket to some remote corner of the Upper Peninsula where no one ever sees you again. This logic can be applied to walking while black in a liberal white area or any other situation where there may be a perceived threat. Read your Soviet history for more on how this ends.

To use a well-known Ace of Spades commenter meme, "Isn't this really the story of Sharia and blasphemy laws?" Nina Jankowicz in a burqa with her Acme/Achmed Joy-Buzzer Clipper FTW!

Psaki-Psircling back to France, along with the Muslims, the usual Antifa and other Leftists thugs are getting in on the action, either ad hoc so as not to let a good crisis go to waste, or via a coordinated alliance with the Religion of Peace Peaceniks. As an aside, I meant to ask Robert Spencer his opinion of the residents of Hamtramck suddenly waving the American flag in our common rage against the rainbow fag flag. Just another taqqiya sunrise, I suspect he might conclude.

Be that as it may, I mentioned on the podcast, Islam and Leftism are essentially two sides of the same coin. In fact, aside from the pretty calligraphy and geometric patterns, as well as a 1,500 year history of butchery, both have a lot of things in common. Most especially, the ultimate goal of establishing some sort of paradise on earth. To do so, they must destroy the common enemy of Judeo-Christian civilization and the mostly peaceful (kind of a pun intended) advancement of human society and development.

While I was encouraged earlier in the week of reports of citizens rounding up and hogtying some of these rioters and handing them over to the police, I asked Robert on the podcast what he felt about the psyche and character of the average Frenchman in physically fighting back and trying to save their nation. Sadly, he was not so sanguine about it.

And that of course begs the question of whither the character and psyche of the average American? We'll probably have the answer to that soon enough. God help us.

Have a good weekend. See you tomorrow for the hobby thread. Be there. Aloha.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"Governments’ use of the pandemic to claim sweeping new emergency powers has had destructive effects."
Lockdowns: the Self-Inflicted Disaster
"While many more Americans are willing to consider that possibility after the Covid calamity, will it be enough to overcome the medical-industrial complex and their still robust propaganda machine determined to destroy any national political figure like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who poses a threat to their power and influence? We shall see." (he's still a doctrinaire liberal lefty, but his presence in the race is crucial - jjs)
Can RFK Jr. Overcome the Confirmation Bias of American Roulette Survivors?
"Rescuing controversial concepts from Woke totalitarians."
Beauty and Ugliness
The tragic irony of this story, as it reflects on the events of the past few years, is almost unbearable. - jjs
Interpreter Who Served with US Forces in Afghanistan, Fled Taliban Takeover, Shot Dead Driving Lyft in DC

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS

"Hines previously worked as a special counsel to former FBI Director Louis Freeh’s private company, according to his LinkedIn account. Freeh owned “Freeh Group International Solutions,” a lobbying firm with ties to the Biden family business. Their relationship dates back to 2013 when Hines served as special counsel to Freeh from 2013 to 2015. Freeh is a longtime ally of the Bidens."
Hunter Biden’s Prosecutor Worked for His Former Business Partner
"Graves refused to allow Hunter Biden to be prosecuted in his district, according to IRS whistleblower Gary Shapely."
REVEALED: Wife of US Attorney for DC who refused to prosecute Hunter Biden had 'all-access pass' to White House
Victor Davis Hanson: "A sordid world of serial lies." (VDH is a treasure but his conclusion is not based in reality - jjs)
The Bidens’ Existential Threats to the American Rule of Law
"Biden’s Department of Justice is still working on charging Americans for January 6 but will not investigate the cocaine security breach."
The White House That Tracked Down Grannies After Capitol Riot Wants You To Believe Cocaine Caper Has Them Stumped
"The discovery prompted widespread speculation that the cocaine could have belonged to Hunter Biden, [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden’s troubled son who has battled cocaine and crack addiction in the past and has recently been seen at the White House. However, officials did not say if the younger Biden is under suspicion."
Cocaine In White House Was In Different Location Than Previously Reported: Report
Less than a third of voters – 28 percent – thought otherwise, believing Hunter’s plea deal had little to do with nepotism, though only 13 percent answered: “Not at all likely."
DATA: Majority Disapprove of Hunter’s Sweetheart Plea Deal.
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
“I have just learned that the ‘Thugs’ from the Department of Injustice will be Indicting a wonderful man, Walt Nauta, a member of the U.S. Navy, who served proudly with me in the White House, retired as Senior Chief, and then transitioned into private life as a personal aide,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “He has done a fantastic job! They are trying to destroy his life, like the lives of so many others, hoping that he will say bad things about ‘Trump.’ He is strong, brave, and a Great Patriot. The FBI and DOJ are CORRUPT!”
Trump Aide Pleads Not Guilty To Concealing Classified Documents, Obstructing Justice
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"Read your Soviet history for more on how this ends."
One State Is Following Merrick Garland’s Footsteps To Criminalize Existing While Conservative
"Women have also been robbed in similar ways in another area of San Francisco." (Whirlwind status: [x] reaped - jjs)
San Francisco: Kids With Bats Attacking Moms, Nannies Picking Up Children After School
"Fuck their day up." (considering most people these days are at best "meh" to pro sports, go for it - jjs)
Activists Plot to Fill Neighborhood With Homeless People Ahead of MLB All-Star Game
"The left has been pushing the myth that most mass shooters are drooling white men in MAGA hats despite story after story proving otherwise."
The Left Circles the Wagons, Insists Philly Shooter Is Not a Trans BLM Supporter
"With more than half of black kids in America being raised by single mothers, the 'burdened' parties here are almost entirely fathers. But rather than hold them accountable for the debts to their families, the Task Force sees these men as victims — 'hindered' in their ability to secure suitable housing, jobs or education because of those nagging child-support obligations." (nothing must impede the Leftist-engineered bastardy and dissolution that has kept the welfare state growing for 60 years - jjs)
Ending Black Child Support Only Hurts Black Kids
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"The court determined that government officials likely violated the First Amendment by suppressing protected speech and the order states that government actors are barred from “collaborating, coordinating, partnering, switchboarding, and/or jointly working with” research groups and projects that advocate for censorship."
Judge's Injunction On Biden Censorship Operation Is More Far-Reaching Than Initially Reported
"Judge Terry Doughty of U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana Monroe Division described in his injunction the efforts from White House officials to pressure Facebook to censor a video Carlson made about vaccines in April 2021."
Facebook Suppressed Tucker Carlson Video That Did Not Violate Content Policy After White House Demanded It, Judge Says
"It’s a true Fourth of July case by a hero of this nation."
Biden v. Free Speech: Judge Doughty Delivers Americans a Win
"U.S. media should care about Americans’ First Amendment rights. Instead, outlets repeatedly insisted that online censorship wasn’t happening."
Missouri v. Biden Proves Corporate Media Lied About Big Tech’s Censorship Crusade Against Conservatives
"The guardians of the Constitution take a noble stand." (And yet Kavauagh and Coney-Barrett completely screwed us over with the gerrymandering case - jjs)
Three Landmark Supreme Court Decisions Protecting a Free America
Rabbi Dov Fischer: "Thanks to the Christian heroes who led the fight to the U.S. Supreme Court, a small Orthodox Jewish bakeshop now has a chance to keep baking challahs, bagels, rugelach, and — yes — even rainbow sprinkle cookies."
303 Creative Protects a Little Kosher Bakery From Homo Tranny Tyrants

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This form of thinly veiled “advertorial” has become commonplace in corporate media, especially amongst D.C.-centric “news” outlets that often serve more as a form of lobbying for tech firms as well as Big Pharma.
How D.C. Media Works: POLITICO Peddles HIV Narrative, Sponsored by HIV Drug Firm Gilead
"Disgraced duo spotted enjoyed sunset dinner amid rumors of CNN takeover bid."
Here's What Don Lemon and Jeff Zucker Discussed on Vacation in Italy
"Slowing down 5G deployment by not giving the FCC auction authority threatens the future."
5G Booms in China, as Congress Charts a Future for FCC Spectrum Authority
"Council members who agreed to the measure expressed reluctance with their decision. Councilman Jonathan Schechter indicated his belief that the cameras marked a negative trend down an undesirable path. “I don’t like this particular arc of this particular part of history,” said Schechter. “I’m screaming ‘stop’ as I vote ‘yes.’” (gee, how brave - jjs)
Nationwide AI Mass Surveillance System Takes Root In Another State
"FOX hasn't done itself any favors by canning Tucker."
FOX News, post-Tucker
On July 2, a video by “gay sex educator” Kevin Leonardo, “Removing BUTT HAIRS Using NAIR Cream – A Visual Guide!” was brought to the attention of the TeamYouTube Twitter account. During the video, Leonardo exposes his testicles and anus while demonstrating how to use the aforementioned products. (New PBS show: This Old Anus - jjs)
‘Misgendering’ Violates YouTube’s Guidelines, Exposing Genitals Apparently Doesn’t
SCOTUS ABOLISHES AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
"The Supreme Court has closed its term with a rare glimpse of renewal, but steep challenges lie ahead. The 'woke' Constitution of Justices Jackson and Sotomayor is in vogue with the top law schools, along with the remainder of our prestigious institutions. If deliverance comes, it is not likely to come through a hoary edict."
Two Americas Collide at the Supreme Court
William Jacobson: Our Op-Ed at Fox News Digital: “You probably think the Supreme Court just ended racial discrimination in university admissions, euphemistically called affirmative action, and a new day of equal treatment without regard to race or skin color has dawned. You are mostly wrong.”
Six Ways Higher Ed Will Attempt To Evade The Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Ruling
"Something like the end of affirmative action has happened before—and, for better or worse, it completely changed American elite culture."
The Price of Admissions
"Contra some accounts, the court did not hold that equal protection principles do not apply to the military academies’ admissions practices."
No, The Supreme Court Did Not Carve Out a Military Exception in Race-Based Admissions
Robert Zimmerman: "That the AFL has put these schools on notice is not the only threat these schools face if they continue their racist policies. AFL is one of a host of new non-profit legal firms that have sprung up in the past two decades to continue the fight — abandoned by the ACLU — of defending the First Amendment and the Bill of Rights from government encroachment."
Pushback: Non-profit Legal Firm Warns 200 Law Schools They Will be Sued if they Defy the Supreme Court’s Decision Ending All Racial Quotas
"The attacks still haven’t subsided, but my consolation is knowing a majority of Americans back my views."
The REAL Bigots: Leftist Elites Attacking Me and Other Asians Over Supremes' Affirmative Action Ruling
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"Robert Lighthizer’s new book, No Trade Is Free, should be the foundational text for a new generation of policymakers."
One Equal Temper
“A mother expecting her first child can request a three-year suspension of repayment.”
A Hungarian Lesson on Student Loans
"Every lawmaker who supports Bidenomics should be fired with prejudice, the next time their seat comes up for reelection."
Say, Looks Like That Supply-Side Stuff Works After All
"This crisis issue of housing affordability generates little attention in America today. In part, the disinterest results from corrupt and entitled ruling class potentates who can afford purchases and, in fact, benefit from fast-rising prices for their luxury residences."
America’s Middle Class Housing Crisis
Can someone please put this ponderous, tedious tired old bastard out of our misery?
Clyburn: Biden’s Economic Poll Numbers are Bad Because People "Are Sour" Due to Chinese COVID
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"When the going gets tough, change the acronym. . . So as Fink embarks on his newly announced 'transition' away from ESG, he should be reminded that for those for whom self determination matters, tyranny looks the same no matter how it's dressed up or what it's called."
Who's Afraid of E-S-G?
BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard are three of the world’s largest asset managers. BlackRock and State Street are members of both NZAM and a company named Climate Action 100+. Vanguard was also a member of NZAM until December 2022. Lawmakers say these companies appear to have colluded “to reach net zero emissions by 2050 or sooner across all assets under management.” (call me when Larry Fink et al are doing hard time in Leavenworth - jjs)
Jim Jordan, House Republicans Launch Investigation Into Two Massive Companies
"There’s only one rational thought animating these ridiculous schemes, and that’s the acknowledgment that the sun drives our climate."
The Biden White House Wants to Block the Sun to Save the Planet
"Eat bugs, live in tiny apartments, sacrifice your iPad, and give up all hope of moving up in life. Because otherwise, the global warming that isn’t happening will destroy us all. Just trust the globalists — what motivations would they have other than our best interests? And remember, Big Brother is always watching."
WEF Partner Aimed to ‘End’ ‘Private Car Ownership’ to Save the Planet
"No economic or common sense" is the sine qua non of everything Democrat-Leftist. - jjs
Biden's Billion Dollar Hydrogen Program Makes No 'Economic Or Common Sense,' Industry Experts Say
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"Insanity."
DHS IG Found Numerous Mistakes Leading to Release of Migrant on U.S. Terror Watch List
"Desantis’ immigration reforms — especially his law requiring employers to use the E-Verify system — are also pushing up wages in the construction sector, USA Today reported on June 21."
Florida CEOs Raise Wages, Urge Tech Innovation After DeSantis Immigration Reform
"The taxpayer funds were supposed to be used to help place 264,000 unaccompanied children with adult relatives or sponsors with whom they could await court dates, though the agency lost track of almost 100,000 of those kids."
The Office of Refugee Resettlement Quadrupled What It Doled to Contractors As It Lost Migrant Kids
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"If you think the skies were exploding over the long Independence Day weekend, wait until you hear what was going on in the mean streets of mostly blue cities nationwide."
25 Holiday Mass Shootings: 25 Killed, 161 Injured, 0 MAGA Hats Recovered
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
The initial incident went viral after Krolczyk released a TikTok video discussing how she was given zero points for a section of her project for using the term “biological women” in her Gender in Popular Culture course.
University Repeals Reprimand of Professor Who Failed Student for Wrongthink
"A radical proposition for educational freedom."
Let Kids Drop Out: Why Compulsory Education Harms Even the Most Gifted Students
"To teach full time in a Wisconsin public school, one must jump through time-consuming, resource-draining hoops to obtain an occupational license." (get rid of the damn unions too - jjs)
Want To Improve Public School Outcomes? End Teacher Licensing
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
Under RCV, often dubbed “rigged-choice voting” by its critics, voters rank candidates in order of preference. If no candidate receives more than 50 percent of first-choice votes in the first round of voting, the last-place finisher is eliminated, and his votes are reallocated to the voter’s second-choice candidate. This process continues until one candidate receives a majority of votes.
Oregon Democrats Are One Step Closer To Rigging Elections With Ranked-Choice Voting
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"Soros and former president Bill Clinton met with Albanian prime minister Edi Rama."
Nazi Collaborator George Soros’ Son Spent July 4th with European Leader Linked to FBI Bribery Case
POLITICS
Maryland Rep. Andy Harris confirmed the removal to Politico, telling the outlet that the Boebert feud was “the straw that broke the camel’s back.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene Gets Booted from House Freedom Caucus
"…and this is the guy they’re probably gonna slip into the race when Biden finally implodes like an experimental submersible that wasn’t designed by boring 50-year-old white guys."
Gavin Newsom Says Something So Mind-Numbingly Stupid, Only a Leftist Could Believe It
"A health event, or something in another indictment, could blunt Trump’s path to the nomination, but no candidate forum will do the job. On Aug. 23 a Republican not named Trump can 'win' the debate, or even the following one, but neither night can make this a different race."
No Matter Who Shows, the Debates Will Bolster Trump
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
"Cluster munitions are a category of rockets, bombs, missiles, and artillery projectiles that break apart in the air and blanket a large area. The munitions often fail and can devastate civilians." (appropriate coming from the world's greatest clusterfuck - jjs)
Report: Joe Biden to Supply Ukraine with Controversial Cluster Bombs
"One of the obvious lessons from the tide of the war in Ukraine is that globalist economics has defeated globalist interventionism."
The Decline of American Manufacturing Inevitably Means an Empty Wartime Arsenal
"The Ukraine War clearly demonstrates that Pacifism can sometimes turn into its opposite."
How Pacifism Leads to War
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
“Laxity and submission.”
After the French Riots
"The riots are the result of two centuries of de-Christianization." (capped off by about 50 years of Islamic immigration - jjs)
As Bloody Riots Reveal, Revolution Still Burns in France
"The ongoing situation in France bears a striking resemblance to the Black Lives Matter and Antifa violence that engulfed American cities following the May 2020 death of George Floyd." (it's worse than that by orders of magnitude; listen to our latest podcast with Robert Spencer - jjs)
Here’s What You Need To Know About France’s ‘Summer Of Love’ Riots
"In France, the demand for racism outstrips the supply."
France’s Number One American Import

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". . . China has been conducting espionage activities in Cuba since at least 1992, taking advantage of the fall of the Soviet Union to forge a closer relationship with the fellow communist nation."
Report: China Has Had an Intelligence Base in Cuba for at Least 30 Years
"President Trump initially blocked [Elliot] Abrams from joining his government as Deputy Secretary of State in 2017, but he was eventually brought in by fellow hawk Mike Pompeo as a special envoy with responsibility for Venezuela. For this opportunity, Abrams rewarded Trump by publicly trashing him. Abrams was one of President Bush’s most critical architects of the failed and costly Iraq war."
Biden Taps Notorious NeoCon & Iraq War Architect to Head Foreign Propaganda Ops
"Gershkovich was arrested in late March and charged with espionage, a crime that carries a 20-year prison sentence. The United States appears to be quietly working with Russia to secure the release of Gershkovich and Paul Whelan, a former Marine who was detained in Russia more than four years ago."
Biden Junta Open to Prisoner Swap to Free American Journalist Detained in Russia
"What 'Palestinian' leaders want least."
"Palestinian" Leaders Alarmed that Israel Wants to Improve Conditions for "Palestinians"
"Valuing certain people over others."
A Tale of Two Boats
Daniel Greenfield: "She works for a Muslim Brotherhood group, smeared Israel and defended Hamas." (Tsurkov rhymes with "jerk off." Rachel Corrie gets a playmate - jjs)
Elizabeth Tsurkov was Kidnapped in Iraq. Leave Her There.
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"The Army is still in love with woke and with Major Rachel Jones."
U.S. Department of Defense Lowers Fitness Standards for Transgender Members Embracing "Authenticity" (transgender members? - jjs)
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"Will easy weight loss remain only an option for the very rich?"
Weight-Loss ‘Miracle Drugs’ Under Fire for Potentially Causing Cancer They May Prevent
"The Association of American Medical Colleges goes cherry-picking for data supporting 'racial concordance' in patient treatment."
Selective Research from the AAMC
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Robert Zimmerman: "I have great doubts about this research, especially because the press release makes no effort to explain how the black holes were identified."
Scientists claim discovery of most distant supermassive black hole yet
"At the moment Europe has no capability of putting anything into orbit.
Europe’s Ariane-5 rocket completes its last launch
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"Roy Cooper’s veto comes after biological male seriously injured state volleyball player."
North Carolina Governor, a Democrat, Vetoes Bill That Would Protect Women's Sports From Biological Men
"Metro Bank, Britain’s seventh largest bank, would not open a business account for Our Duty, an international network of over 2,000 parents that advocates against gender transitions for minors, according to the organization’s founder Keith Jordan."
U.K. Bank Refuses To Open Account For Conservative Parent Group: Report
"I thought the CDC encouraged us to follow the science?"
CDC Says Transgenders Can ‘Chestfeed,’ But Didn’t Mention Possible Health Risks to Babies
"A sadistic meet-cute made possible by leftism."
Modern Transgenderism is a Bastard Child of Colliding Evils
"If there is one lesson we can glean from the events of Pride Month, it is that true pride is conspicuously absent. Instead, we find ourselves reduced to a mere shell of the nation we once were, a nation that valued virtue and righteousness."
Societies That Surrender Moral Foundation Historically Self-Destruct
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Douglas Murray: "Today America remains the number one destination in the world for people wishing to leave their own country and make a better life. . . What a shame that it is some of the people who have been born and raised here who take America — its opportunities and freedoms — the most for granted. The rest of the world, I can assure them, does not."
Anti-American Dolts Attack July 4th in Brutal Fashion
"Unilever’s share price went from $52.32 per share to $51.37 per share, erasing an estimated $2.5 billion in market cap as social media users called for a boycott, according to Google finance data. The packaged goods conglomerate saw its market cap drop from roughly $133 billion to $131 billion because its share price decreased."
Ben & Jerry's Parent Company Loses An Estimated $2.5 Billion After July 4 Tweet About 'Stolen Indigenous Land'
"Bud Light’s latest ad is getting slammed online as the beer brand keeps garnering angry comments and a huge number of dislikes, with the company facing ire from both sides of the social aisle."
Instead Of Hot Chicks In Bikinis, Bud Light Goes With ‘Grunting Men’ In Rehab Fail
". . . you’ll never hear sports media lament the decline of the NBA or question why it’s happening. After all, sports media outlets are in full agreement with the wokes at the NBA, and as long as these leagues can virtue-signal, why ask the difficult questions?"
Is the NBA Going the Way of Bud Light?
"Note: Besides the crappy lyrics, it appears she forgot how to carry a tune. Just a warning for your ears."
'The Home of the Slave': Millionaire Singer Jill Scott Sings Bastardized Version of National Anthem (filthy brainwashed c*nt- jjs)
"In contrast with his father’s scrupulously fair style, Luke Russert injects politics throughout his new travel memoir."
Heavy Luggage
HITHER & YON
Christian Toto: "Franchise still delivers out-of-this-world stunts but screenplay needs work." (waiting for a review from Lamont the Big Dummy - jjs)
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One – Hold on Tight!
"As the rock ’n’ roll star rounds up his farewell tour this weekend, his fans hope an Emmy will complete his award collection."
Elton for EGOT: The Perfect End to a Stunning Career

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1 happy fricking friday

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 07, 2023 07:39 AM (BRHaw)

2 st?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 07:39 AM (t0OGg)

3 :: shakes fist at rhennigantx ::

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 07:40 AM (t0OGg)

4 Mornin' Horde.
What's goin' on?

Posted by: Heirloominati at July 07, 2023 07:40 AM (kLVV3)

5
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 07, 2023 07:41 AM (ENBF0)

6 This followed a January 2022 report by Le Figaro that “no fewer than 1,186 elected officials” in France, including 162 members of parliament and 605 mayors or deputies, had been subjected to physical attacks “in the first eleven months of 2021.” Imagine how much higher a proportion of Frenchmen will shrink from political involvement now, after the homes of several mayors across France have been targeted by rioters.
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Then they're quite close to not being the government. They might call themselves the government, but they're not. The savages are the government in fact.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 07:41 AM (t0OGg)

7 Thank you, J.J.!!

Almost forgot....
Happy Birthday!!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2023 07:41 AM (1n+EO)

8 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2023 07:42 AM (odVni)

9 "Governments’ use of the pandemic to claim sweeping new emergency powers has had destructive effects."

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"Destructive" = color revolution

Posted by: moron robbie at July 07, 2023 07:43 AM (tpEKt)

10 Good morning JJ and horde
TGIF
Can't wait to hear the podcast this week

Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2023 07:43 AM (yEHEq)

11 morning horde,

thank fuck it's friday

even after nearly 3 weeks of vacation & holiday, this has been a LONG week.

only 8ish hours to go. let's see what fresh hell awaits.

off to covfefe & content

Posted by: SturmToddler at July 07, 2023 07:43 AM (Mkvkw)

12 Obertone? Guess need to add him to Tom Kratman's dystopian stories.

Japan Expo 2023 is supposed to kick off July 13 in Paris France. Wonder if it will happen?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 07:44 AM (KJSuP)

13 "Driving Lyft in DC"

He should have found a safer job, like painting water towers or wrangling polar bears or something.

Posted by: fd at July 07, 2023 07:44 AM (iayUP)

14 Interpreter Who Served with US Forces in Afghanistan, Fled Taliban Takeover, Shot Dead Driving Lyft in DC
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Also this is fake news. Guns are illegal in DC.

Posted by: moron robbie at July 07, 2023 07:44 AM (tpEKt)

15 I'm working on a theory. I'm always curious why people publicly do things that seem to be against their best interest. In this case, why arrest Trump, when you have an election fraud machine that guarantees you will win the next election? Seems unnecessary and a potential risk that you don't need to take.

My theory is that they are doing it purposely to help Trump in the primaries. It has had the effect of solidifying Trump support, and he is likely to win the nomination on Super Tuesday if current polling is correct and holds.

The second part of the theory is that they believe that the country will accept another stolen election as long as it is stolen from Trump.

FWIW Rasmussen is finding close to 80% of Republicans and majority of Independents think 2020 was stolen.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2023 07:44 AM (5TrS8)

16 "Hunter Biden’s Prosecutor Worked for His Former Business Partner"

Is that the one in jail?

Posted by: fd at July 07, 2023 07:46 AM (iayUP)

17 I was told that France refuses this time to raise the white flag.

Because it's racist.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2023 07:46 AM (odVni)

18 ... Spencer sees the writing on wall and can see the fall of the Fifth Republic, a possible coup to remove Macron from office (he still has another two years) and even a complete collapse of France into a state of civil war. In fact, what he envisions bears an uncanny resemblance to the scenario in the novel Bruce Bawer cites above.
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It could well happen, especially because the French - unlike, say, the Germans - have so much to lose. France is the *one* Western European country that might survive what's coming. France alone has a big enough country, demography that isn't past the point of no return, a strong enough non-urban population, a powerful enough economy and robust enough cultural pride to fight.

The only thing they are lacking is will, and existential threats not only to their country but to their entire culture, religion and way of life might - but only might - galvanize them. France - like its European neighbors and the United States - has a deep and widening rural/urban divide, which is part of this same conflict. Civil war is possible, but it will be part of the overall conflict.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 07:47 AM (t0OGg)

19 Oh. Louis Freeh. He should be in jail.

Posted by: fd at July 07, 2023 07:47 AM (iayUP)

20 I'm working on a theory. I'm always curious why people publicly do things that seem to be against their best interest. In this case, why arrest Trump, when you have an election fraud machine that guarantees you will win the next election? Seems unnecessary and a potential risk that you don't need to take.

My theory is that they are doing it purposely to help Trump in the primaries...

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I think it's a couple of things.

1) it's a predictable and unavoidable stage after a coup, same as looting the treasury

B) it's a way to setup their "increased turnout" BS that justifies their numbers inserted from cheating, same as the red-mirage "trump said pussy" nonsense and "roe vs wade got women voters to turn out in record numbers to codify inflation and a rotten economy because of abortion" silliness. This will be "no one wanted a convicted criminal elected president, and that's why Joe got 179M votes this time."

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 07, 2023 07:48 AM (tpEKt)

21 I saw Sound of Freedom last night. It's quite good. I'd call it entertaining except for its subject matter.

If you haven't been to a theater recently, I'd encourage you to go. Every butt in a seat helps send a few messages.

Jim Caviezel is made for his role and should get an Oscar nod. We'll see.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 07, 2023 07:48 AM (RqMSv)

22 Addendum to NASA [IIRC] saying July 3rd was the hottest July 3rd ever in history!!! [I assume meaning since 1980 or 1990 or similar] in...

Earth sets new record high temperature for third straight day with planetary average of 17.23°C [63°F].

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 07, 2023 07:48 AM (Vwz3I)

23 Hiya

Posted by: JT at July 07, 2023 07:48 AM (T4tVD)

24 Thank you JJ !

AGAIN !

Posted by: JT at July 07, 2023 07:49 AM (T4tVD)

25 That is why the Nevertrump crew is saying Trump has no chance of winning 2024. They were in on it in 2016 and 2020.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 07, 2023 07:49 AM (wsSEe)

26 15 Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2023 07:44 AM (5TrS

Yo Dave!!

Regardless of who supports whom, I get the feeling Trump will be the nominee. Of course we'll see what his legal persecution will do vis a vis his status as well as the reaction of the public.

Good to see you.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 07, 2023 07:49 AM (x0n13)

27 The bill can definitely become a double-edged sword for Whitmer and her legions of doom. Since having fat pedophiles dressed up as demons twerking in front of religious kids certainly can fall under the harassment on the basis of religion (remember, it’s all about feelings), then Christians who have protested porn and drag in schools should be able to use the law for good.
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Oh, good grief. C'mon. That isn't how any of this works, and the author *must* know that. These "laws" are not uniformly enforced or interpreted. That's precisely the opposite of they work and how they're designed to work. Law is gossamer thin and more fragile than a nascent spiderweb for some and an iron cage for others.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 07:49 AM (t0OGg)

28 Earth sets new record high temperature for third straight day with planetary average of 17.23°C [63°F]

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This can't be true, because it's 100F here.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 07, 2023 07:49 AM (tpEKt)

29 San Fran Kids robbing wine moms during skool run for their monster chirruns. Good. What took them so long?

Black Mens being burdened with bastid chirruns....sterilize them in middle skool, problem solved. You know the leftists wanna.

Ben & Jerry's is over priced, over hyped and sucks ass. Jerry Garcia was so high he didn't even know it was ice cream he was making.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 07, 2023 07:50 AM (XqIlw)

30 Yonder Horde.

So, Michigan’s 4474 criminalizes hurting someone’s feelings or making the person feel threatened –

Doesn't Michigan have a robust Muslim population that's known for inflammatory rhetoric?

Seems the situation might be ripe for hijinks.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2023 07:50 AM (Q4IgG)

31 19 Oh. Louis Freeh. He should be in jail.
Posted by: fd at July 07, 2023 07:47 AM (iayUP)

IIRC Lon Horiuchi's boss, no?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 07, 2023 07:50 AM (x0n13)

32 Governments’ use of the pandemic to claim sweeping new emergency powers has had destructive effects.

Just looking around my guess is it permanently broke about 1 out of 20 people.

Mask in your car FTW

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 07, 2023 07:50 AM (BRHaw)

33 FWIW Rasmussen is finding close to 80% of Republicans and majority of Independents think 2020 was stolen.
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Oh, no. I'm assured by first-time and onetime commenters here, many with single nicknames, that no one supports PDT outside of his tiny base!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 07, 2023 07:51 AM (Vwz3I)

34 27 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 07:49 AM (t0OGg)

You have to read the whole article. The author says that bringing a suit like that would itself be considered a violation of the law.

Madness.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 07, 2023 07:52 AM (x0n13)

35 Star and Stripes - Major awarded Soldier's Medal.
https://tinyurl.com/5y63syvn

Maj. Robert Bourgeau was awarded the Soldier's Medal for his actions on 4 July last year at the Mermaid's Grotto. The locale is a popular swim and dive spot but it is also dangerous. Bourgeau was there to SCUBA dive but called it off because of conditions. That is when he noticed a Japanese woman and then her daughter who were in distress from the rip current. Disregarding his own safety Maj. Bourgeau proceeded to rescue the woman, her daughter, and an Army soldier. Alas there was still a death, the creator of the Yu-Gi-Oh manga tried to assist but was killed. Kazuki Takahashi's body was recovered two days later.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 07:52 AM (KJSuP)

36 Most especially, the ultimate goal of establishing some sort of paradise on earth. To do so, they must destroy the common enemy of Judeo-Christian civilization and the mostly peaceful (kind of a pun intended) advancement of human society and development.
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Which is why the left and Islam are allies of convenience. They have the same enemy and so the left will use Islam as a cudgel and the Islam will use the left to justify their violence and sow self-loathing and guilt among their mutual victims.

Where the left is going to be very sorry, however, is the world immediately after they win (assuming they do, of course. I think they will, but that is by no means guaranteed). When Islam immediately steamrolls and destroys them, they will learn quite quickly that theirs was the briefest of Pyrrhic victories.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 07:53 AM (t0OGg)

37 The French get an undeserved reputation as surrender monkeys. Neither Britain nor the US share a border with Germany, so we've never had to deal with the debilitation of a Hun invasion. France had bad military leadership. The Fall of France in 1940 was a surprise to everyone including Hitler's generals.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 07, 2023 07:53 AM (RqMSv)

38 Happy Friday, everyone.

Interpreter Who Served with US Forces in Afghanistan, Fled Taliban Takeover, Shot Dead Driving Lyft in DC

He probably said something "problematic" and was raysis.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 07, 2023 07:54 AM (4olE8)

39 Damn- you survive Afghanistan and the Taliban, only to be murdered in Washington DC

Posted by: DB - spanning the globe at July 07, 2023 07:54 AM (geLO8)

40 You have to read the whole article. The author says that bringing a suit like that would itself be considered a violation of the law.

Madness.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 07, 2023 07:52 AM (x0n13)
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Will do.

The law will probably be thrown out by the courts, but it doesn't really matter. The ball has been advanced.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 07:54 AM (t0OGg)

41 Are they going to pin the coke on Kamala? That would be priceless.

Posted by: fd at July 07, 2023 07:54 AM (iayUP)

42
I'm working on a theory. I'm always curious why people publicly do things that seem to be against their best interest. In this case, why arrest Trump, when you have an election fraud machine that guarantees you will win the next election? Seems unnecessary and a potential risk that you don't need to take.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2023 07:44 AM

I don't think they have enough confidence in their ability to cheat again. Everyone knows what to look out for this time. Judicial Watch is doing a good job of forcing counties to purge their rolls of deceased voters or those who have moved. They found and purged nearly 80,000 in a couple of counties in my state of PA. You know how razor thin PA was in 2020.

Not that I'm 100% optimistic, because Arizona just showed some new and novel ways to cheat.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2023 07:55 AM (enJYY)

43 The Rastafarian Muppet of a Press Secretary is more of a disposable White House asset.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 07:55 AM (KJSuP)

44 37 The French get an undeserved reputation as surrender monkeys. Neither Britain nor the US share a border with Germany, so we've never had to deal with the debilitation of a Hun invasion. France had bad military leadership. The Fall of France in 1940 was a surprise to everyone including Hitler's generals.
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 07, 2023 07:53 AM (RqMSv)

They had a bigger army and even better tanks than the early panzers. But they had horrible generalship, horrible tactics, poor morale and a defeatist attitude behind the lines.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 07, 2023 07:55 AM (x0n13)

45 YooToob has pulled down a few "Cocaine in The White House" vids from uploaders I watch. The videos suddenly become "Private" and unviewable. I'm sure they were really "misinformation", and the Biden regime is no longer communicating with big tech platforms about directed censorship.

Posted by: A Sarcastic In Time Saves Nine at July 07, 2023 07:56 AM (6PuID)

46 The persecution of Trump has gone past politically expedient to a personal urge to destroy him.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 07:56 AM (KJSuP)

47 @15 Dave in Fla-They're Democrats(leftists) and when you have Democrats promising(campaigning) to lock up Trump under the guise of saving democracy, they deliver and their base demands it. They're not Republicans and pseudo conservatives that say one thing then do the opposite.. When the Democrats say they'll deliver to their constituency, they do.

They're evil tyrants and they're going to get their pound of flesh. Simple as that.

Posted by: JROD at July 07, 2023 07:57 AM (IlL6s)

48
I'm skeptical of those who say our COVID response was some dark plan to destroy the US. I do think that it was the usual way the government respond to emergencies. Don't have a plan, run around like a chicken with its head cut off, enact foolish and counterproductive policies, get comfortable with the power they afford, then reap the benefits as they ossify into permanence.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2023 07:57 AM (MoZTd)

49 Does the Threads symbol look like multiple sixes?

Posted by: Zinc face at July 07, 2023 07:57 AM (0pLZt)

50 Iowa teen gets life with possibility of parole after 35 years for Spanish teacher's beating death over a bad grade.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 07, 2023 07:57 AM (Vwz3I)

51 Oh I forgot. Happy Birthday To Ringo Starr.

The most talented of all The Beatles.

Then from dawn till setting sun
He practiced with that deadly gun
And hour on hour I watched in awe
No human being could match the draw of Ringo.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 07, 2023 07:58 AM (XqIlw)

52 39 Damn- you survive Afghanistan and the Taliban, only to be murdered in Washington DC
Posted by: DB - spanning the globe at July 07, 2023 07:54 AM (geLO

I remember the story of an elderly Auschwitz survivor who was in the South Tower of the WTC. She got all the way down to like the fourth floor when it collapsed on her and a number of firemen who were helping her down. Miraculously, they all survived.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 07, 2023 07:58 AM (x0n13)

53
Residuum from Monkeypox Pride Month --

This June, we celebrated Pride Month with Suntorians across the globe and launched Suntory Pride, our new platform celebrating the resilience, strength, and diversity of the LGBTQ+ community. Our Suntory Pride events throughout the month aimed to support and uplift the unique identities of our employees through empowerment, and most importantly, Pride!

This was Suntory Brands, in case that wasn't clear. Another one bites the dust.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Vote for Fen (then do it again)! at July 07, 2023 07:58 AM (5pZqO)

54 I saw a picture of Louis Freeh. Something happened to him - a stroke or something- and it appears he has only one eye.

Posted by: blaster at July 07, 2023 07:59 AM (pwExq)

55 France twice had a chance to militarily squash Hitler.

First when the Germans reoccupied the Rhine. And then in the early days of the Polish invasion; France actually invaded the Rhine, milled around for a bit, and then retreated back to the Maginot Line.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 07:59 AM (KJSuP)

56 This was Suntory Brands, in case that wasn't clear. Another one bites the dust.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Vote for Fen (then do it again)! at July 07, 2023 07:58 AM (5pZqO)
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What do Suntory Brands do?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 07:59 AM (t0OGg)

57 I'm working on a theory. I'm always curious why people publicly do things that seem to be against their best interest. In this case, why arrest Trump, when you have an election fraud machine that guarantees you will win the next election? Seems unnecessary and a potential risk that you don't need to take.

My theory is that they are doing it purposely to help Trump in the primaries...
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A competing theory is that they are drunk with power and completely insane regarding anything related to Trump. They've misunderestimated him time and time again and it's intolerable, so they will do *anything* to put him away for life. Even it means perp-walking him to a gallows on the White House lawn.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 07, 2023 07:59 AM (YIVH2)

58
On my #48, look at all the stupid post-9/11 stuff. We still have the Patriot Act, the Department of Homeland Security and the TSA. Betcha no one is thinking of getting rid of any of those.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2023 08:00 AM (MoZTd)

59 46 The persecution of Trump has gone past politically expedient to a personal urge to destroy him.
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Coincidentally enough, this news chyron onscreen right now...

Donald Trump's valet Walt Nauta pleads not guilty to charges he helped former president hide classified documents.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 07, 2023 08:00 AM (Vwz3I)

60 Well trying to drop a tip in the jar, but the robot check is being difficult 😥

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2023 08:00 AM (h61ld)

61 "France is the *one* Western European country that might survive what's coming."

Ireland is another, though it's small. Huge divide has developed between Dublin and the country. My cousin has the family farm and his betters say they want to kill half his cattle to reduce emissions. The Irish are peaceful hobbits with a long fuse, but then ...

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 07, 2023 08:00 AM (RqMSv)

62 48
I'm skeptical of those who say our COVID response was some dark plan to destroy the US. I do think that it was the usual way the government respond to emergencies. Don't have a plan, run around like a chicken with its head cut off, enact foolish and counterproductive policies, get comfortable with the power they afford, then reap the benefits as they ossify into permanence.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2023 07:57 AM (MoZTd)

In large part it was used as the springboard for instituting voter fraud.

Posted by: 7man at July 07, 2023 08:01 AM (qwO6y)

63
Iowa teen gets life with possibility of parole after 35 years for Spanish teacher's beating death over a bad grade.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 07, 2023 07:57 AM (Vwz3I)

I'd have taken that deal for a couple of bosses I had. It would have been worth it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2023 08:01 AM (MoZTd)

64 Donald Trump's valet Walt Nauta pleads not guilty to charges he helped former president hide classified documents.

But Hillary's maid can wipe down the bathroom server.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 08:01 AM (KJSuP)

65 I give you....

Suntory brands

https://tinyurl.com/bddkx663

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2023 08:02 AM (1n+EO)

66 44 37 Another thing forgotten about the French is Dunkirk. One of the most difficult situations for a large force is retreating in good order while conducting a spirited rear guard action. The French did that, with heavy losses, allowing a large percentage of the BEF and many French troops to escape Dunkirk.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 07, 2023 08:02 AM (rLD7a)

67 60 Well trying to drop a tip in the jar, but the robot check is being difficult 😥
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Are you sure it isn't a case of human error, Dave?

Posted by: HAL 9000 at July 07, 2023 08:03 AM (Vwz3I)

68
Earth sets new record high temperature for third straight day with planetary average of 17.23°C [63°F]

The Aggregation and Bombardment Eras would like to have a word with you.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Vote for Fen (then do it again)! at July 07, 2023 08:04 AM (5pZqO)

69 Happy National Macaroni Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 07, 2023 08:04 AM (NpAcC)

70 Iowa teen gets life with possibility of parole after 35 years for Spanish teacher's beating death over a bad grade.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 07, 2023 07:57 AM (Vwz3I)

Did they announced the sentencing in Spanish?

Posted by: dantesed at July 07, 2023 08:04 AM (88xKn)

71 *hides the AE35 unit from HAL*

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 08:04 AM (KJSuP)

72 UN chief calls for a robust international police force to help combat Haiti's armed gangs.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 07, 2023 08:05 AM (Vwz3I)

73 I think, sadly, contemporary America is not far behind France in the overall weakness of its citizenry. Just 3 years ago pretty much everyone (there were a few exceptions but pretty tiny percentage-wise) laid down and locked themselves in their house and wore the face muzzle in public over the sniffles. I saw very little evidence of widespread backbone…. We make fun of the frogs after WWII but don’t think our Lloyd Austin led military would compare favorably to the US military circa early 1941 (even as depleted as it was then it contained a Marshall, an Ike and a Patton…. And a MacArthur)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 07, 2023 08:06 AM (M23Y7)

74 Ireland is another, though it's small. Huge divide has developed between Dublin and the country. My cousin has the family farm and his betters say they want to kill half his cattle to reduce emissions. The Irish are peaceful hobbits with a long fuse, but then ...
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 07, 2023 08:00 AM (RqMSv)
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Just had a story idea...

The "elites" in the city are attempting to subjugate the country-folk and are using military tactics and strategy to bring them to heel.

Meanwhile, the countryfolk have struck an Accord with the Fair Folk to help them fight back...leading up to an epic battle between a modern military and ancient sorcery...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 07, 2023 08:06 AM (YIVH2)

75 I seem to recall one of the factions in France, perhaps slightly right of center (for the French) was calling for their followers who potentially included military types to stand down and let France eat itself.

The premise being; burn it down, scatter the stones, salt.

Then we'll talk.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2023 08:06 AM (Q4IgG)

76 UN chief calls for a robust international police force to help combat Haiti's armed gangs.

They want to be able to kidnap all the kids without getting shot.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 08:06 AM (KJSuP)

77 Did they announced the sentencing in Spanish?
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I'll allow it.
-- Señor Chang

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 07, 2023 08:07 AM (Vwz3I)

78 YooToob has pulled down a few "Cocaine in The White House" vids from uploaders I watch. The videos suddenly become "Private" and unviewable. I'm sure they were really "misinformation", and the Biden regime is no longer communicating with big tech platforms about directed censorship.

Posted by: A Sarcastic In Time Saves Nine at July 07, 2023 07:56 AM

At this point the white house doesn't need to communicate anything to them, they are all on automatic pilot in regards to removing anything critical of biden or democrats.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 07, 2023 08:08 AM (ncXxy)

79 69 Happy National Macaroni Day.
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Shouldn't that also be July 4th??

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 07, 2023 08:08 AM (Vwz3I)

80 I give you....
Suntory brands
https://tinyurl.com/bddkx663
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2023 08:02 AM (1n+EO)
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Huh. The Japanese don't usually go for this kind of malarky. I assume that their "Pride" crap was all out of their American subsidiaries.

America's cultural empire is cancerous.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 08:08 AM (t0OGg)

81 Dang it. Last night was Macaroni Eve and I forgot to celebrate.

Posted by: Sigh at July 07, 2023 08:08 AM (DhOHl)

82 Oh, FFS...

Some people need an anthill, some honey, and four stakes in the ground.

https://tinyurl.com/ya7wuht8

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2023 08:08 AM (1n+EO)

83 "Happy National Macaroni Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

*places feather in cap*

Posted by: Yankee Doodle Dandy at July 07, 2023 08:08 AM (iayUP)

84 It's also,
World Chocolate Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 07, 2023 08:08 AM (NpAcC)

85 Macaroni Eve

A James Bond femme fatale?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 08:09 AM (KJSuP)

86 JJ

The Elton John link does not work but it appears to be on their end.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 07, 2023 08:09 AM (BRHaw)

87 Good Morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear into the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 07, 2023 08:10 AM (u82oZ)

88 Salty!!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2023 08:10 AM (1n+EO)

89 "the countryfolk have struck an Accord with the Fair Folk to help them fight back.."

Fairy Wars?

Posted by: Yankee Doodle Dandy at July 07, 2023 08:10 AM (iayUP)

90 Happy Birthday Ringo

Carl Perkins w/ Ringo Starr - Honey Don't - 9/9/1985 - Capitol Theatre

https://youtu.be/XswcADHL5zc

Posted by: DB - spanning the globe at July 07, 2023 08:11 AM (geLO8)

91 Fairy Wars

Super Sylph Yukikaze of Fairy Squadron

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 08:11 AM (KJSuP)

92 Did they announced the sentencing in Spanish?
Posted by: dantesed at July 07, 2023 08:04 AM (88xKn)

si

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 07, 2023 08:11 AM (BRHaw)

93 85 Macaroni Eve
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I think Bond is attempting tp bring her to a rolling boil.

Posted by: Q at July 07, 2023 08:12 AM (Vwz3I)

94
Suntory's biggest footprint in this country is through some brands of spirits -- Jim Beam, Courvoisier are two.

VIA presented their full lineup in #65 (thanks!)

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Vote for Fen (then do it again)! at July 07, 2023 08:12 AM (5pZqO)

95 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta morning to ya, guv'nor

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 07, 2023 08:12 AM (u82oZ)

96 Macaroni Eve
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I think Bond is attempting tp bring her to a rolling boil.

I won't ask what kind of sauce.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 08:13 AM (KJSuP)

97 Shouldn't that also be July 4th??
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 07, 2023 08:08 AM (Vwz3I)
*****
Probably, but I'm not in charge of this stuff.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 07, 2023 08:13 AM (NpAcC)

98 Macaroni Eve > Eve Arden.

Posted by: Just spitballin at July 07, 2023 08:14 AM (DhOHl)

99 Happy National Macaroni Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 07, 2023 08:04 AM (NpAcC)

same to you , you yankee doodle dandy...

Posted by: SturmToddler at July 07, 2023 08:14 AM (Mkvkw)

100 > Dang it. Last night was Macaroni Eve and I forgot to celebrate.

Posted by: Sigh

My front porch is festooned with macaroni lights

Posted by: DB - spanning the globe at July 07, 2023 08:14 AM (geLO8)

101 Today [or tomorrow?] marks the start of the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, for the annual San Fermin festival.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 07, 2023 08:14 AM (Vwz3I)

102 Chunk Uglier and Anna Whogivesafuckian (whatever) from the "Young Turks" have apparently been declared enemies of the state...err..."transphobic" for maintaining at least a tenuous connection with reality.

Enjoy the Robespierre treatment, commies.

Posted by: Long Dong Silver at July 07, 2023 08:15 AM (Y6AXb)

103 "The taxpayer funds were supposed to be used to help place 264,000 unaccompanied children with adult relatives or sponsors with whom they could await court dates, though the agency lost track of almost 100,000 of those kids."

--

264 thousand unaccompanied children. And that number is likely far, far under the real number. Does it not ever occur to anybody, anybody at all, why these children have made their way here alone? Does it not ever occur to anybody, anybody at all, to just send them home??? Sheer, insane madness. And yes, all those questions are rhetorical. I know the answers.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 07, 2023 08:15 AM (sVtYq)

104 The people going after Trump are not sophisticated enough to have any electoral calculus in mind. It’s pure hate and nothing else. Trump will easily win the GOP nom and although I’ve generally had a gloom and doom attitude about elections since the 2020 steal I’m beginning to have a glimmer of hope. Pickens SC rally shows huge enthusiasm…. Mush brains is declining fast and even LIVs know it but he will be the Dem nominee guaranteed. He won’t step aside even if he’s drooling…. Trump may well pull off the impossible and get so many legitimate votes it’ll overcome the inevitable cheating…. I wouldn’t bet on it, but I’m beginning to see a path

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 07, 2023 08:15 AM (M23Y7)

105 All About Eve > Macaroni Eve > Eve Arden.

Good Morning Morons

Happy Birfday Sefton

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 07, 2023 08:15 AM (flINI)

106 same to you , you yankee doodle dandy...
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Mind the music and the step
And with the girls be handy!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 07, 2023 08:15 AM (Vwz3I)

107 So which banks own France? Imma looking for a good short.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 07, 2023 08:16 AM (fWTJL)

108 bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin,

After Dunkirk, in the battles by the Seine, the French inflicted significant casualties on the Wehrmacht. Less on the Luftwaffe, but they were trying to keep up on with the advancing Army, and were left behind.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 07, 2023 08:16 AM (u82oZ)

109 Parsley, sage and...

Posted by: S & G at July 07, 2023 08:16 AM (DhOHl)

110 Oh kami Japan. This is insane for a series mashup.

Godzilla meets Evangelion

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 08:16 AM (KJSuP)

111 "My front porch is festooned with macaroni lights
Posted by: DB - spanning the globe"

Is the chair against the wall too?

Posted by: fd at July 07, 2023 08:16 AM (iayUP)

112
Sheriff Grady Judd (Polk County) for FL Governor in 2026. The guy has a style.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Vote for Fen (then do it again)! at July 07, 2023 08:17 AM (5pZqO)

113 If things go pear shaped for the Young Turks, I'm sure they know of some Islamic sleeper cells for backup.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 07, 2023 08:17 AM (TZ75n)

114 Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 07, 2023 08:08 AM (ncXxy)
++++
This is why the recent ruling out of Missouri is less important than it looks. Thanks to the ideological uniformity of industry and the peppering of IC assets and former high-level government officials throughout industry, they've achieved the condition where they don't really *need* to give orders.

The "Working Toward the Fuhrer" concept does the job. As the Minister of Agriculture put it at the time:
Everyone who has the opportunity to observe it knows that the Fuhrer can hardly dictate from above everything which he intends to realize sooner or later. On the contrary, up till now, everyone with a post in the new Germany has worked best when he has, so to speak, worked towards the Fuhrer. Very often and in many spheres, it has been the case ... that individuals have simply waited for orders and instructions. ... But anyone who really works towards the Fuhrer along his lines and towards his goal will certainly both now and in the future, one day have the finest reward in the form of the sudden legal confirmation of his work.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 08:17 AM (t0OGg)

115 nterpreter Who Served with US Forces in Afghanistan, Fled Taliban Takeover, Shot Dead Driving Lyft in DC

--

A sad, pitiful and pathetic commentary on the current state of America. A tragedy for this young man and his family. He was a nice looking man, too. America has become the land of death, destruction, misery and hard leftism. And all that those things bring with it.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 07, 2023 08:17 AM (sVtYq)

116 All About Eve > Macaroni Eve > Eve Arden The Ardennes

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 07, 2023 08:15 AM (flINI)

how bout that?

Posted by: SturmToddler at July 07, 2023 08:18 AM (Mkvkw)

117 "31 19 Oh. Louis Freeh. He should be in jail.
Posted by: fd at July 07, 2023 07:47 AM (iayUP)

IIRC Lon Horiuchi's boss, no?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 07, 2023 07:50 AM (x0n13) "

& let's not forget bill barr, his lawyer ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying liars have been lying for decades at July 07, 2023 08:18 AM (dwh5k)

118 > The persecution of Trump has gone past politically expedient to a personal urge to destroy him.
____________

I think the word went out that Trump's fair game for any and all potential misdeeds.

He's fairly clean from a business perspective. The left went after him using that tactic and failed. So, now they're using any and all perceived crimes, real or made up, to hamstring his presidential run.

Plus, and this is my own personal theory; Trump knows a lot about the capitol city and its inhabitants. He knows enough that the political class and their elite handlers are worried.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2023 08:18 AM (Q4IgG)

119 104 The people going after Trump are not sophisticated enough to have any electoral calculus in mind. It’s pure hate and nothing else.
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They go after Trump in order to deflect from Biden, Kamala, Pistol Pete, Gavin, Pritzkers.... Dems are fucked and they know it. They are bagging as much cash as they can right now.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 07, 2023 08:18 AM (fWTJL)

120 98 Macaroni Eve > Eve Arden.
Posted by: Just spitballin at July 07, 2023 08:14 AM (DhOHl)

Three Face of Eve >Macaroni Eve > Eve Arden.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 07, 2023 08:18 AM (BRHaw)

121 Festoon

I'm adding that to my Funny Words list

tuba
snorkel
plinth

Posted by: DB - spanning the globe at July 07, 2023 08:18 AM (geLO8)

122 The alleged Young Turks are neither.

Posted by: Stating the obvious at July 07, 2023 08:18 AM (DhOHl)

123 Thanks to the ideological uniformity of industry and the peppering of IC assets and former high-level government officials throughout industry, they've achieved the condition where they don't really *need* to give orders.

So a Digital Wannsee Conference.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 08:18 AM (KJSuP)

124 I wonder how much grew back and/or continued growing elsewhere?

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon fell 34% in the first half of 2023, hitting its lowest level in four years.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 07, 2023 08:18 AM (Vwz3I)

125
Her Majesty called from Dallas and said she may be coming home today. The Borzoi that are there today make showing this weekend not worth the bother. She'll show today and see what happens, but it's unlikely she'll stay.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2023 08:19 AM (MoZTd)

126 I always felt a affection for Ringo Starr in that he was in the hospital a lot as a kid and didn't seem as narcissistic as Paul and John, but then he donated a lot of money to BLM without checking them out. Well, he didn't donate it. His organization did, but they evidently didn't do any research either
and it didn't sit well with me or with FenSpouse who's a big Beatles fan.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke-the Mikey candidate for Public Office at July 07, 2023 08:20 AM (9wRBr)

127 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)

128 There's no way the Michigan law passes Constitutional muster, is there?

I mean, The First Amendment pretty much says I have the right to hurt your feelings, no?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

129 126 I always felt a affection for Ringo Starr in that he was in the hospital a lot as a kid and didn't seem as narcissistic as Paul and John, but then he donated a lot of money to BLM without checking them out. Well, he didn't donate it. His organization did, but they evidently didn't do any research either
and it didn't sit well with me or with FenSpouse who's a big Beatles fan.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke-the Mikey candidate for Public Office at July 07, 2023 08:20 AM (9wRBr)

G D loves a good joke and Ringo will be the last living Beattle.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 07, 2023 08:21 AM (BRHaw)

130 124 I wonder how much grew back and/or continued growing elsewhere?

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon fell 34% in the first half of 2023, hitting its lowest level in four years.
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Generally speaking, rain forests are only good for growing rain forests. Most of the nutrients in the soil come from the trees. I thought Brazil learned this a long time ago. Now the price of mahogany is always real. Ditto cherry.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 07, 2023 08:21 AM (fWTJL)

131 Thx JJ, morning Horde, a happy weekend to all. I said it a couple of weeks ago when Fink was saying that ESG was problematic. They will just change it to SEG or GSE, with no effort to alter the policies. The big investors, like pension funds ,are the ones who have to complain about the decrease in the value of their investments in order to change Blackrock, Vanguard et al

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 07, 2023 08:21 AM (PVx3i)

132 I dislike both The Beatles AND chocolate. I am probably the only human on the planet like this

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 07, 2023 08:21 AM (flINI)

133 The alleged Young Turks are neither.
Posted by: Stating the obvious at July 07, 2023 08:18 AM (DhOHl)

How in the hell do they have their own cable channel?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

134 Ben & Jerry’s Parent Company Loses An Estimated $2.5 Billion After July 4 Tweet About ‘Stolen Indigenous Land’

Well, this is nice to see.
I know I will never be eating their ice cream.
Will only buy Blue Bell, unless they go woke.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 07, 2023 08:22 AM (NpAcC)

135 I mean, The First Amendment pretty much says I have the right to hurt your feelings, no?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

Even French knights had the right to fart in the general direction of the King of England.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 07, 2023 08:22 AM (BRHaw)

136 264 thousand unaccompanied children. And that number is likely far, far under the real number. Does it not ever occur to anybody, anybody at all, why these children have made their way here alone? Does it not ever occur to anybody, anybody at all, to just send them home??? Sheer, insane madness. And yes, all those questions are rhetorical. I know the answers.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 07, 2023 08:15 AM (sVtYq)

One of the points explicitly made at the end of the movie Sounds of Freedom is that the US is the largest consumer of child sex slavery and child pornography. The cartels control the border and this trade.

Posted by: 7man at July 07, 2023 08:22 AM (qwO6y)

137 > 122 The alleged Young Turks are neither.
Posted by: Stating the obvious at July 07, 2023 08:18 AM (DhOHl)

Well, Whogivesafuckian is a post-wall Armenian. I think Chunk actually is a Turk.

I'm sure that she only signed up for the show because of her anger issues against her daddy.

An Armenian appearing on a program called the "Young Turks" is like a Jew appearing on a program called "Sieg Heil!"

Posted by: Long Dong Silver at July 07, 2023 08:22 AM (Y6AXb)

138 I dislike both The Beatles AND chocolate. I am probably the only human on the planet like this
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 07, 2023 08:21 AM (flINI)

The Beatles are meh, but I like chocolate. Don't eat it often, but am not offended when I do.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 08:22 AM (Zz0t1)

139 >There's no way the Michigan law passes Constitutional muster, is there?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

I can see why you or anyone might think that

Posted by: DB - spanning the globe at July 07, 2023 08:22 AM (geLO8)

140 G D loves a good joke and Ringo will be the last living Beattle.
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Yep, the sickly Beatle will bury Paul, Mick Jagger, Keith and Willie Nelson.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 07, 2023 08:23 AM (fWTJL)

141 There's no way the Michigan law passes Constitutional muster, is there?

I mean, The First Amendment pretty much says I have the right to hurt your feelings, no?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

morning Sponge,

and yeah, but that won't matter. it'll take 7-10 years to wind it's way through the ocurt system, and by the time it gets to the supremes, the commie will have packed the court, if they don't just abolish it, and declare it approved (not constitutional, but approved) and you should shut up if you don't want to go to jail because reasons...

Posted by: SturmToddler at July 07, 2023 08:23 AM (Mkvkw)

142 There's no way the Michigan law passes Constitutional muster, is there?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

***

I'll allow it

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at July 07, 2023 08:23 AM (flINI)

143 > Does it not ever occur to anybody, anybody at all, why these children have made their way here alone?

It was reported, then quickly covered up, that upwards of 30% of the so-called "kids in cages" had no DNA relationship with their alleged "parents".

So why were they brought here? Not for anything good, you can bet.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 07, 2023 08:23 AM (Y6AXb)

144 I like The Beatles when they were still in their early rock n' roll stage

but then their music went off the rails
IMO YMMV FWIW

Posted by: DB - spanning the globe at July 07, 2023 08:24 AM (geLO8)

145 Larry Fink is a fink?

Posted by: My ten year old self reading the funny papers at July 07, 2023 08:24 AM (DhOHl)

146 One of the most brutal kapos in a Nazi concentration camp was not a Jew, but she was a fellow Leftist.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 08:24 AM (KJSuP)

147
Well, this is nice to see.
I know I will never be eating their ice cream.
Will only buy Blue Bell, unless they go woke.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 07, 2023 08:22 AM (NpAcC)

The wife bought a pint of their shit once.....Once. I told her to never do it again.

She hasn't.

I'm slightly disappointed her and the daughter went to see Indiana Jones yesterday. They liked it and said it was good. I trust The Critical Drinker reviews more than theirs, however.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)

148 133 The alleged Young Turks are neither.
Posted by: Stating the obvious at July 07, 2023 08:18 AM (DhOHl)
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This is true. Armenians hardest hit.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 07, 2023 08:24 AM (fWTJL)

149 Summer's Eve?

Posted by: Someone has to type it at July 07, 2023 08:24 AM (DhOHl)

150 Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 07, 2023 08:21 AM (flINI)

I'm not really a fan of their music. I think I was a little too young to appreciate it .I just felt Ringo had a tough childhood. I like chocolate. As I've gotten older it doesn't like me.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke-the Mikey candidate for Public Office at July 07, 2023 08:25 AM (9wRBr)

151 Today in history:

1947 Alleged and disputed Roswell UFO incident

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 07, 2023 08:25 AM (BRHaw)

152 UN calling for intervention in Haiti. Biden and his foreign policy team are complete nitwits but they have correctly stayed away from the Haitian mess. Their is no solution. If Biden and team thought about it they'd send in the Clintons to loot the place again , get the Big Guy a cut and then throw the Clintons under the bus

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 07, 2023 08:25 AM (PVx3i)

153 I said it a couple of weeks ago when Fink was saying that ESG was problematic. They will just change it to SEG or GSE, with no effort to alter the policies. The big investors, like pension funds ,are the ones who have to complain about the decrease in the value of their investments in order to change Blackrock, Vanguard et al
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 07, 2023 08:21 AM (PVx3i)
++++
Eventually. ESG is still at the forefront but it's sibling DEI is starting to be on the outs. Too many people have noticed how destructive DEI is for organizations. It sows unhappiness and poor productivity and increases turnover. It makes virtually *everyone* feel excluded and it forces the organization's population into warring factions that are unified in their fight against the white man but also in a circular firing squad otherwise. It's wildly destructive and too many have noticed.

So now it's all about "belonging" at the leading-edge organizations. DEI is dead and "Belonging Initiatives" are here.

The king is dead. Long live the king.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 08:25 AM (t0OGg)

154
I always felt a affection for Ringo Starr in that he was in the hospital a lot as a kid and didn't seem as narcissistic as Paul and John

John Lennon: Yoko Ono
Ringo Starr: Barbara Bach

Ringo, game, set and match.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2023 08:25 AM (MoZTd)

155 149 Summer's Eve?
Posted by: Someone has to type it at July 07, 2023 08:24 AM (DhOHl)

Autumn Fizz>Summer's Eve

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 07, 2023 08:26 AM (BRHaw)

156 Ringo Starr: Barbara Bach
Ringo, game, set and match.

You forgot the "zugg zugg"

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 08:26 AM (KJSuP)

157 I like The Beatles when they were still in their early rock n' roll stage

but then their music went off the rails
IMO YMMV FWIW
Posted by: DB - spanning the globe at July 07, 2023 08:24 AM (geLO8

You mean, when they discovered psychedelic drugs.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 08:26 AM (Zz0t1)

158 There's no way the Michigan law passes Constitutional muster, is there?

I mean, The First Amendment pretty much says I have the right to hurt your feelings, no?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

It is absurdly unconstitutional. Actually it’s intentionally so….and isn’t that the point.

Posted by: 7man at July 07, 2023 08:26 AM (qwO6y)

159
Will only buy Blue Bell, unless they go woke.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 07, 2023 08:22 AM (NpAcC)

The Pride of Brenham, TX? Not impossible but not likely.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2023 08:26 AM (MoZTd)

160 Summer's Eve?
Posted by: Someone has to type it

....makes me feel fine..

Posted by: Seals and Crofts at July 07, 2023 08:26 AM (TZ75n)

161 New York police dog survives being stabbed 12 times by burglary suspect, expected to fully recover

https://tinyurl.com/bdejkrt8

Posted by: redridinghood at July 07, 2023 08:27 AM (NpAcC)

162 If Biden and team thought about it they'd send in the Clintons to loot the place again , get the Big Guy a cut and then throw the Clintons under the bus
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 07, 2023 08:25 AM (PVx3i)
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There probably isn't much worth looting at this point, which is the reason why FJB hasn't intervened. As Jayne Cobb once put it, "10% of nothin' is still nothin'."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 07, 2023 08:27 AM (YIVH2)

163 Well, dealership called.

$1,800.00 to replace the a/c compressor.

But, 234,000 miles on the original wasn't a bad run.

Ouch.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2023 08:27 AM (1n+EO)

164 You forgot the "zugg zugg"
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 08:26 AM (KJSuP)

***

YUB NUB!

Posted by: Ewok at July 07, 2023 08:27 AM (flINI)

165 Summer's Eve?
Posted by: Someone has to type it at July 07, 2023 08:24 AM (DhOHl)

What was the sound when the water truck and the vinegar truck collided at the intersection?

DOOOSH!!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)

166 IIRC this latest Ben and Jerry's shit show isn't their first. The biz needs to suffer greatly, then die.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2023 08:27 AM (Q4IgG)

167 I'm surprised Ben & Jerry didn't market Penis Popsicles in multiple flavors.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 07, 2023 08:28 AM (fWTJL)

168 So why were they brought here? Not for anything good, you can bet.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 07, 2023 08:23 AM (Y6AXb)
++++
They were brought here for two reasons.

Reason one is that the people doing it perceive - probably correctly - that if there's a kid with an adult, neither will be deported. I suspect this is the majority reason by numbers.

Reason two is that they're being brought here as slaves. Literal slaves, for sale. I suspect this is the majority reason by revenue.

In both cases, the kids have probably been kidnapped or purchased from their parents.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 08:28 AM (t0OGg)

169 I'm slightly disappointed her and the daughter went to see Indiana Jones yesterday. They liked it and said it was good. I trust The Critical Drinker reviews more than theirs, however.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)

Radio talk guy Mike Gallagher said on his show yesterday something like “ignore all the conservative whining about the new Indiana Jones as woke; I saw it and it’s ripping good fun.”

Me…. I won’t see it despite Gallagher’s opinion

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 07, 2023 08:28 AM (M23Y7)

170 You forgot the "zugg zugg"
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 08:26 AM (KJSuP)

***

YUB NUB!
Posted by: Ewok at July 07, 2023 08:27 AM (flINI)

Dink dink. Dink dink dink DINK DINK dink.

Posted by: Spaceballs at July 07, 2023 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)

171 " ... So now it's all about "belonging" at the leading-edge organizations. DEI is dead and "Belonging Initiatives" are here.

The king is dead. Long live the king.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 08:25 AM (t0OGg) "

the only thing it'll never be about is "loyalty up; loyalty down".

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying liars have been lying for decades at July 07, 2023 08:28 AM (dwh5k)

172 I never understood the popularity of The Beatles. Then again, I don't understand the popularity of Taylor Swift or any other entertainer with mediocre talent.

Posted by: dantesed at July 07, 2023 08:28 AM (88xKn)

173 Summer's Eve?
Posted by: Someone has to type it at July 07, 2023 08:24 AM (DhOHl)

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 07, 2023 08:26 AM (BRHaw)

Spring Seepage > Autumn Fizz > Summer's Eve

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 07, 2023 08:28 AM (flINI)

174 Your first link to Stripe doesn't work. Also, do the stipe payments to CJN help here as well, or is that separate?

Posted by: Katja at July 07, 2023 08:29 AM (GDvjU)

175 "Will only buy Blue Bell, unless they go woke. "

* Stands in solidarity with redridinghood.*

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2023 08:29 AM (1n+EO)

176
Radio talk guy Mike Gallagher said on his show yesterday something like “ignore all the conservative whining about the new Indiana Jones as woke; I saw it and it’s ripping good fun.”

Me…. I won’t see it despite Gallagher’s opinion
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 07, 2023 08:28 AM (M23Y7)

Yeah.....THAT guy.....stopped listening to him years ago.

There's just something about talker guy egos that grow in a rapid timeframe that turn me off listening to talker guys.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

177 Mike Gallagher is a twat. Ignorable.

Posted by: fd at July 07, 2023 08:29 AM (iayUP)

178 the only thing it'll never be about is "loyalty up; loyalty down".
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying liars have been lying for decades at July 07, 2023 08:28 AM (dwh5k)
++++
It's a one-way street.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 08:29 AM (t0OGg)

179 153 Joe Mannix true, all of the free money being dumped into the economy from 2008 - 2022 caused companies to be real stupid about how they ran their businesses. DEI adds nothing to productivity, innovation or efficiency and therefore it is being jettisoned as inflation remains a problem.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 07, 2023 08:30 AM (PVx3i)

180
How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm after they've seen Macaroni Lights?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Vote for Fen (then do it again)! at July 07, 2023 08:30 AM (5pZqO)

181 Guardian UK

Sound of Freedom: the QAnon-adjacent thriller seducing America
Jim Caviezel stars as a hero trying to stop child traffickers in a paranoid new movie turning into a surprise box-office hit

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 07, 2023 08:30 AM (BRHaw)

182 I'm surprised Ben & Jerry didn't market Penis Popsicles in multiple flavors.
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 07, 2023 08:28 AM (fWTJL)

Are you sure they didn't?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)

183 152 UN calling for intervention in Haiti. Biden and his foreign policy team are complete nitwits but they have correctly stayed away from the Haitian mess. Their is no solution. If Biden and team thought about it they'd send in the Clintons to loot the place again , get the Big Guy a cut and then throw the Clintons under the bus
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The answer is simple - deep insert Karine and let her raise an army of freedom fighters. We will promise air support.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 07, 2023 08:30 AM (fWTJL)

184 DEI is supposed to be about advancing Blacks in companies, but in practice its about HR and AWFLs taking over.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 07, 2023 08:31 AM (RqMSv)

185 Not that I'm 100% optimistic, because Arizona just showed some new and novel ways to cheat.
-

That's the beauty of it.

They don't need Arizona to cheat. If people start looking at Arizona, they cheat in Georgia. If people start looking at Arizona and Georgia, they cheat in Michigan. Whack a Mole, Hydra, whatever you want to call it, they've figured it out.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 07, 2023 08:31 AM (wqFd7)

186 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2023 08:29 AM (1n+EO)
*******
🍦

Posted by: redridinghood at July 07, 2023 08:31 AM (NpAcC)

187 Guardian UK

Sound of Freedom: the QAnon-adjacent thriller seducing America
Jim Caviezel stars as a hero trying to stop child traffickers in a paranoid new movie turning into a surprise box-office hit
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 07, 2023 08:30 AM (BRHaw)

HA! Wasn't QAnon proven to be some 14 year old in his mother's basement?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

188 A basketball player named Dejounte Murray just signed a four year $120 million deal with the Atlanta Hawks. I have no idea who this is and I haven't watched a full NBA game in about 30 years. But this doesn't sound like a dying league to me.

Posted by: mr tmz at July 07, 2023 08:31 AM (rJ48h)

189 The Guardian[/i[] is leftist agitprop...

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 08:31 AM (KJSuP)

190 "I never understood the popularity of The Beatles. "

You don't have to. We take care of it for you.

Posted by: Music Company Executives at July 07, 2023 08:31 AM (iayUP)

191 Radio talk guy Mike Gallagher said on his show yesterday something like “ignore all the conservative whining about the new Indiana Jones as woke; I saw it and it’s ripping good fun.”

Me…. I won’t see it despite Gallagher’s opinion
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 07, 2023 08:28 AM (M23Y7)
++++
He may have liked it. There's no accounting for taste. Reviewers I generally trust have uniformly hated it after the first 20 minutes. And this is a weird movie in just how many leaks there have been over the past year, and those leaks all pointed toward typical Lucasfilm character destruction and excess. Those leaks have also now been confirmed.

The word of mouth is poison on this one. It isn't even a political thing for most people who aren't going to see it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 08:31 AM (t0OGg)

192 > The answer is simple - deep insert Karine

I just threw up in my mouth a little.

Eating breakfast here, dude.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 07, 2023 08:32 AM (Y6AXb)

193 uh

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 08:32 AM (KJSuP)

194 GOOD

On May 20, the school held the ceremony designed for Black students, which has been an annual tradition on campus for decades.

MSLF argues that the public institution violated Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

“All of Berkeley’s events and programs must be open to everyone, regardless of race,” said MSLF general counsel Will Trachman. “No event can cater exclusively to black students, just as no event can cater exclusively to white or Asian students.”

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 07, 2023 08:32 AM (BRHaw)

195 "Reference error: can't find variable Stripe"

Can I just send a check? Sheesh.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2023 08:32 AM (vcH1m)

196 >Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 08:28 AM (t0OGg)

Reason Three is, you use the kid to pry benefits out of the State

Posted by: DB - spanning the globe at July 07, 2023 08:32 AM (geLO8)

197 It's a one-way street.
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Wait until they discover the Social Justice boulevard allows two-way traffic.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 07, 2023 08:32 AM (fWTJL)

198 174 Your first link to Stripe doesn't work. Also, do the stipe payments to CJN help here as well, or is that separate?
Posted by: Katja at July 07, 2023 08:29 AM (GDvjU)

It's only for CJN. Ace's tip jar is in the upper left sidebar. The link is now fixed but here it is anyway, and thank you!

https://cutjibnewsletter.com/4694-2/

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 07, 2023 08:32 AM (x0n13)

199 Not that I'm 100% optimistic, because Arizona just showed some new and novel ways to cheat.
---
I've said Trump can't win under his current strategy because he's stuck in 2016.
We also need to understand the cheating on 2024 will look nothing like 2020 or 2022.

Republicans needs to realize you can't have a wave of you don't have an ocean.
Blowing hot air from a lectern won't make a wave.
Winning in 2024 is going to require a completely bonkers, absolutely wall-to- wall, endless relentless attacks from 100 million directions: Millions of followers unleashed in every direction. And, even with all that, a campaign that blows through and ignores any and all campaign laws in the last 120 days.
And that's why Trump is doomed to fail-- he, DeSantis, the rest of them as well. They are all running a top-down, consultant-driven, centralized traditional, rule-following, boring--stupid--campaigns.

The type Democrats don't even have to cheat to beat

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 07, 2023 08:32 AM (Ia8dk)

200 @162 true, but there wasn't much there to loot the last time either. The Clintons stole the money that had been donated for earthquake relief. NGOs are ripe for the picking

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 07, 2023 08:32 AM (PVx3i)

201 110 Oh kami Japan. This is insane for a series mashup.

Godzilla meets Evangelion
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 08:16 AM (KJSuP)

Singular Point? Or something else?

Posted by: XTC at July 07, 2023 08:32 AM (UnA8+)

202 How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm after they've seen Macaroni Lights?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Vote for Fen (then do it again)! at July 07, 2023 08:30 AM (5pZqO)

You asked for it........

https://youtu.be/JKa5WiWOapw

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 08:33 AM (Zz0t1)

203 Anyone who dislikes the Beatles and chocolate is an unmitigated cad.

Posted by: Ninth Circuit at July 07, 2023 08:33 AM (T0tUU)

204 all of the free money being dumped into the economy from 2008 - 2022 caused companies to be real stupid about how they ran their businesses. DEI adds nothing to productivity, innovation or efficiency and therefore it is being jettisoned as inflation remains a problem.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 07, 2023 08:30 AM (PVx3i)
++++
Eventually, this will be the case. I don't think we're there yet, at least not outside of the first movers.

For now, most of the big players are just starting to rebrand DEI as "Belonging" and continuing to mash the accelerator to the floor.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 08:33 AM (t0OGg)

205 Chris Plante >> Mike Gallagher.

Posted by: Anyone is better than Bongino at July 07, 2023 08:33 AM (DhOHl)

206 Singular Point? Or something else?

Imagine Gojira merged with Asuka's EVA-02...

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 08:33 AM (KJSuP)

207 176, 177 - The main problem with Gallagher IMHO is he’s still living in 1993… can’t we all just get along and find common ground? Let’s be nice!

Piffle like that. He doesn’t seem to understand what time it is… but I still occasionally listen to him at lunch. Mark Davis in DFW has the same deficiency; really nice guy but living in the 80s or 90s

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 07, 2023 08:34 AM (M23Y7)

208 149 Summer's Eve?
Posted by: Someone has to type it at July 07, 2023 08:24 AM (DhOHl)

"Ugh."

- - Dash Seals & Jim Crofts

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 07, 2023 08:34 AM (x0n13)

209 Biden will get 130 million votes on his way to a '24 election romp and will become the most popular president in history.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 07, 2023 08:35 AM (flINI)

210 197 It's a one-way street.
---------------
Wait until they discover the Social Justice boulevard allows two-way traffic.
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 07, 2023 08:32 AM (fWTJL)

Pileup on the Intersectionality Intersection: Muzzies and Homo/Trannies

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 07, 2023 08:35 AM (x0n13)

211 Hate em or like them they produced a shit ton of hits in nine years.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 07, 2023 08:35 AM (fWTJL)

212 > Summer's Eve?
Posted by: Someone has to type it at July 07, 2023 08:24 AM (DhOHl)

Summer's Eve, makes me feel hot
Blowin' through the foulness of my twat

Hey, it was a first draft.

Posted by: Seals and Crofts at July 07, 2023 08:35 AM (Y6AXb)

213 Gallagher and Hewitt are handjobs.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 07, 2023 08:35 AM (TZ75n)

214 Chris Plante >> Mike Gallagher>>dried up dog turd>>>>>Errorick Errorickson

Posted by: Music Company Executives at July 07, 2023 08:35 AM (iayUP)

215 I like early Beatles, just as I like early Elvis

Posted by: DB - spanning the globe at July 07, 2023 08:36 AM (geLO8)

216 Pileup on the Intersectionality Intersection: Muzzies and Homo/Trannies

And BLM as the traffic cops.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 08:36 AM (KJSuP)

217 A basketball player named Dejounte Murray just signed a four year $120 million deal with the Atlanta Hawks. I have no idea who this is and I haven't watched a full NBA game in about 30 years. But this doesn't sound like a dying league to me.

Posted by: mr tmz at July 07, 2023 08:31 AM (rJ48h)

Shohei Ohtani will be the first billion dollar contract athlete. It will likely ruin whatever team inks the deal. The Angels have a history of signing huge contracts and accomplishing nothing with them. We'll see if they continue the streak.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

218 It's interesting that I had used this sock for a week or so last month and it garnered pretty much no attention whatsoever.

If anyone still engaged in science I bet there's all sorts of potential knowledge to be gained about humans based on familiarity. Or not, because it probably already is, and that's why there's an 80 year old Indiana Jones kicking the asses of 20 year old supersoldiers in hand to hand combat.

Posted by: Jim Beam wants you to support p3d0 and scat fetishes, made a rainbow bottle too at July 07, 2023 08:36 AM (wqFd7)

219 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 07, 2023 08:36 AM (OjHyA)

220 Chris Plante >>>>> Michael Medved > Sean Hannity > Glen Beck >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Mike Gallagher

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 07, 2023 08:37 AM (flINI)

221 (throws smoke bomb, reappears)

Hey errybotty!

Posted by: Moron Robbie at July 07, 2023 08:37 AM (wqFd7)

222 Could be worse for the Lyft Driver.

he could have been trying to deliver water to those in need and had his entire family Droned by Biden.

Posted by: garrett at July 07, 2023 08:37 AM (GW6x4)

223

Summer's Eve, makes me feel hot
Blowin' through the foulness of my twat

Hey, it was a first draft.
Posted by: Seals and Crofts at July 07, 2023 08:35 AM (Y6AXb)

I spit covfefe.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 08:37 AM (Zz0t1)

224 @199 People's Hippo Voice-If WE cheat our asses off doing the same shit or come up with something more clever than whatever the Dems are going to do in 24' then I believe WE WOULD WIN.

BREAK THE LAW LIKE A MF'er in 24'

Posted by: JROD at July 07, 2023 08:37 AM (IlL6s)

225 >>I like early Beatles, just as I like early Elvis

Up to Rubber Soul. After that, they become really fucking annoying.

Posted by: garrett at July 07, 2023 08:38 AM (GW6x4)

226 210 Pileup on the Intersectionality Intersection: Muzzies and Homo/Trannies
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 07, 2023 08:35 AM (x0n13)

The better killers will win.

Insh'allah.

Posted by: XTC at July 07, 2023 08:38 AM (UnA8+)

227 "I never understood the popularity of The Beatles."

Combination of things. They were a boy band that captured the hearts of baby boomer teen girls. They took black R&B like Chuck Berry and made it white (like Elvis). But their biggest influence arguably was Broadway show tunes.

And then they became song writers. Elvis didn't write. They tapped into the zeitgeist of the 60s which they helped create.

And they were good musicians. Paul became one of the absolute best bass players of all time.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 07, 2023 08:39 AM (RqMSv)

228 *waves back to JJ upthread*

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2023 08:39 AM (vcH1m)

229 Unbelievable, the market wants to rally this morning. WTF? If they rally on Biden bullshit jobs numbers Imma gonna have to short them this afternoon.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 07, 2023 08:39 AM (fWTJL)

230 Head the Democrats ballots off at the pass and burn/destroy them. That's one idea......

Posted by: JROD at July 07, 2023 08:39 AM (IlL6s)

231 ......or fill them out ourselves, turn them in and count them.

Posted by: JROD at July 07, 2023 08:40 AM (IlL6s)

232 And they were good musicians. Paul became one of the absolute best bass players of all time.
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I think you're pushing it on that one.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 07, 2023 08:40 AM (fWTJL)

233 But they had horrible generalship, horrible tactics, poor morale and a defeatist attitude behind the lines.

They had a significant percentage of populace who were just plain on the other side. Just like here.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 07, 2023 08:40 AM (4PZHB)

234 Hate em or like them they produced a shit ton of hits in nine years.
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 07, 2023 08:35 AM (fWTJL)

So has Taylor Swift and I can't tell you one song of hers because if I've heard any, it didn't move any needle whatsoever.

My teenage daughter thinks she's incredible, so take that for what it's worth.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

235 >>Paul became one of the absolute best bass players of all time.

This is funnier than Seals and Crofts Parody.

Posted by: garrett at July 07, 2023 08:41 AM (GW6x4)

236 Hack the Dominion machines!

Posted by: JROD at July 07, 2023 08:41 AM (IlL6s)

237 I always liked fat, jujitsu, dead on the shitter Elvis over young Elvis.

Fat Elvis tried harder.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 07, 2023 08:41 AM (XqIlw)

238 The Beatles music is good but the cult around them was off - putting to say the least . Ringo was the only one who seemed not full of himself.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 07, 2023 08:41 AM (PVx3i)

239 And that's why Trump is doomed to fail-- he, DeSantis, the rest of them as well. They are all running a top-down, consultant-driven, centralized traditional, rule-following, boring--stupid--campaigns.

The type Democrats don't even have to cheat to beat

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

--

An (R) win in 2024 will be completely driven by the voters and will have little to nothing to do with the party, but the party can destroy it. Trump/Desantis is the only hope for the miracle that drives vengeful turnout that *might* create enough energy to overcome the cheating, but it will have to be combined with vengeful anger to stand up to cheating when its seen, too.

A miracle is our only chance. Hopefully Our Betters don't thwart the chance like we watched them do in 2022. Yeah, I know. They'll thwart it.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at July 07, 2023 08:42 AM (wqFd7)

240 So has Taylor Swift and I can't tell you one song of hers because if I've heard any, it didn't move any needle whatsoever.
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I listened to one Taylor Swift song in the car. Afterward, I could not whistle the melody nor tell you what the song was about. The Beatle songs were memorable. They still are.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 07, 2023 08:42 AM (fWTJL)

241 A miracle is our only chance.

California falling into the ocean?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 08:43 AM (KJSuP)

242 So is it a movie thread yet?

Posted by: I gotta ask at July 07, 2023 08:43 AM (DhOHl)

243 He may have liked it. There's no accounting for taste.

--

It's of course subjective what people like in movies. I'm always shocked when I see a terrible, I mean really terrible movie and places like IMDB have commentors rhapsodizing that it's the greatest movie ever. It's like I've watched a completely different movie! Latest was an old 1970s flick with Chuck Connors I saw called Tourist Trap. I renamed it Tourist Crap. It was barely watchable, despite his presence. But oh boy, the IMDBers thought it was the second coming. Magnificent. Spine chilling. It was trash, pure and simple, from every metric I know.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 07, 2023 08:43 AM (sVtYq)

244 Taylor Swift has great legs.

Better than George Harrison.

Posted by: garrett at July 07, 2023 08:43 AM (GW6x4)

245 >>So is it a movie thread yet?

Posted by: I gotta ask

music thread

Posted by: DB - spanning the globe at July 07, 2023 08:44 AM (geLO8)

246 A miracle is our only chance.

California falling into the ocean?

Posted by: Anna Puma

--

Tipping over. Get your Science right.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at July 07, 2023 08:44 AM (wqFd7)

247 244 Taylor Swift has great legs.

Better than George Harrison.
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George was the tiniest Beatle. Much like Keith to the Stones.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 07, 2023 08:44 AM (fWTJL)

248 >Taylor Swift has great legs.

she is easy on the eyes
that's all I know about her

Posted by: DB - spanning the globe at July 07, 2023 08:44 AM (geLO8)

249 Taylor Swift has great legs.

Better than George Harrison.
Posted by: garrett at July 07, 2023 08:43 AM (GW6x4)

I think she exudes "bad lay." Her ego is WAY too big to fit in a room with kink.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 08:44 AM (Zz0t1)

250 Indiana Jones 5: The Dial of Disaster

DC Comics had Dial H for Hero, if Disney could reimagine it they would call it Dial H for Herpes.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 08:45 AM (KJSuP)

251 > The Beatles music is good but the cult around them was off - putting to say the least
__________

Beatles - cult - (Apple Records) - Apple, Inc - cult

Make of that what you will....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2023 08:45 AM (Q4IgG)

252 Weight-Loss ‘Miracle Drugs’ Under Fire for Potentially Causing Cancer They May Prevent

"...the drugs are usually self-injected weekly into the stomach..."

*******

The stomach?
Sure, why not? I always trust a medical analysis by an attorney and journalist who doesn't know the difference between the stomach and the abdominal wall. /s

This guy sounds like he's trying out for the Ozempic cheerleading squad.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 07, 2023 08:45 AM (kXYt5)

253 music thread
Posted by: DB - spanning the globe at July 07, 2023 08:44 AM (geLO

++++
Save Ferris - Let Me In:
https://youtu.be/gzcqDpKSUgw

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 08:45 AM (t0OGg)

254 "Biden will get 130 million votes on his way to a '24 election romp and will become the most popular president in history."

To beat Trump the steal will need to be incredibly obvious, such that even Media can't spin it. So we'll have an illegitmate government and everyone will know it.

And things will start falling apart, and it will accelerate.

What then?

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 07, 2023 08:45 AM (RqMSv)

255 But they had horrible generalship, horrible tactics, poor morale and a defeatist attitude behind the lines.

They had a significant percentage of populace who were just plain on the other side. Just like here.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 07, 2023 08:40 AM (4PZHB)

except that 30 years before, part of that population literally WAS the other side. the joys of multiple wars in rapid succession over the same territory...

Posted by: SturmToddler at July 07, 2023 08:45 AM (Mkvkw)

256 The persecution of Trump has gone past politically expedient to a personal urge to destroy him.
____________

I think the word went out that Trump's fair game for any and all potential misdeeds.
---
Trump says, "The gloves are off!"
Sure. Whatever. They couldn't be more on.

Have you started a James Carvil-stye scorched-earth smear campaign against.... well, anyone?
What punch have you thrown that's landed?
Anything at all?
Where is all the millions from "stop the steal?" The millions from the last campaign? The $35 million raised in just the last 3 months?

Oh right. Toward a dick-slapping contest against DeSantis

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 07, 2023 08:46 AM (Ia8dk)

257 Aslace-Lorraine oui

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 08:46 AM (KJSuP)

258 I just thought: Bastille Day will be lit this year

literally

Posted by: DB - spanning the globe at July 07, 2023 08:47 AM (geLO8)

259 Now that I think about, Aslace-Lorraine was like a Risk card between France and Germany.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 08:47 AM (KJSuP)

260 "I think she exudes "bad lay." Her ego is WAY too big to fit in a room with kink."

Miley Cyrus punks Taylor saying that her BFs leave her because she's "boring."

Miley on the other hand ...

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 07, 2023 08:47 AM (RqMSv)

261 254 And things will start falling apart, and it will accelerate.

What then?
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 07, 2023 08:45 AM (RqMSv)

A push for mass gun confiscation, most likely.

Whether it will or won't work, they'll still go for it.

Posted by: XTC at July 07, 2023 08:47 AM (UnA8+)

262 Injecting needles into my stomach to lose weight?

How about you...ya know, just stop eating things that make you fat?

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 07, 2023 08:47 AM (sVtYq)

263 The walls are closing in on Trump.

Posted by: Pretty much anyone on cable news at July 07, 2023 08:48 AM (DhOHl)

264 Seriously JJ, I'm on my 4th attempt to send you guys some cash, but your robot check doesn't work.

There is only one robot in this transaction and it isn't me.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2023 08:48 AM (vcH1m)

265 ++++
Save Ferris - Let Me In:
https://youtu.be/gzcqDpKSUgw
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 08:45 AM (t0OGg)

March of the Swivel Heads - Ferris Bueller Soundtrack

https://youtu.be/GQFTAFLBdi4

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 08:48 AM (Zz0t1)

266 Someone up-thread mentioned Michael Medved…. I used to listen to that guy regularly in the early Obama years. He’s a perfect example of TDS…. Trump came along and it broke his brain. He lost a huge chunk of his audience and he didn’t seem to care. I’ll check his Twitter feed every so often out of curiosity and he’s still hating on Trump

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 07, 2023 08:48 AM (M23Y7)

267 XTC

Japan Expo 2023 is supposed to start July 13 in Paris France.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 08:48 AM (KJSuP)

268 262 Injecting needles into my stomach to lose weight?
How about you...ya know, just stop eating things that make you fat?
----------------
Had to go through Rabies shots as a kid. They were injected in the stomach. I was 5 years old.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 07, 2023 08:48 AM (fWTJL)

269 How about you...ya know, just stop eating things that make you fat?
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 07, 2023 08:47 AM (sVtYq)

That would be a step in the right direction.

Posted by: dantesed at July 07, 2023 08:49 AM (88xKn)

270 259 Now that I think about, Aslace-Lorraine was like a Risk card between France and Germany.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 08:47 AM (KJSuP)

Making a territory needed to complete two different sets is an interesting idea for a Risk-type game.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 07, 2023 08:49 AM (eYoxG)

271 >>Islam and Leftism are essentially two sides of the same coin.

And they are both coming for the children. Yes, they want to protect their children from creepy Sex Ed, but infidel kids can be raped (see: UK "grooming" gangs and the bacha bazi stuff).

Posted by: Lizzy at July 07, 2023 08:49 AM (avru5)

272 I bet Taylor Swift is a dead fuck.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 07, 2023 08:49 AM (TZ75n)

273 >>Had to go through Rabies shots as a kid. They were injected in the stomach. I was 5 years old.

Did your sister bite you after she was bit by a moose?

Posted by: garrett at July 07, 2023 08:49 AM (GW6x4)

274
Miley on the other hand ...
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 07, 2023 08:47 AM (RqMSv)

That raunch MTV appearance with Robin Thick showed she can give you a rim job while deep throating......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 08:50 AM (Zz0t1)

275 Do they make a stomach needle long enough for Jerry Nadler?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 08:50 AM (KJSuP)

276 @249 plus 5 min after you have sex with Swift she's written a song dumping all over you

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 07, 2023 08:50 AM (PVx3i)

277 >Japan Expo 2023 is supposed to start July 13 in Paris France.

Posted by: Anna Puma

they're doing it wrong
should be in Japan

Posted by: DB - spanning the globe at July 07, 2023 08:50 AM (geLO8)

278 Weight-Loss ‘Miracle Drugs’ Under Fire

" ...it’s long been known that obesity and being fat are powerfully related."

******

Now there's a head scratcher!

Posted by: Muldoon at July 07, 2023 08:50 AM (kXYt5)

279 Injecting needles into my stomach to lose weight?
How about you...ya know, just stop eating things that make you fat?
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 07, 2023 08:47 AM (sVtYq)

Calories in, calories out. PERIOD.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 08:51 AM (Zz0t1)

280 Making a territory needed to complete two different sets is an interesting idea for a Risk-type game.

It would be Bloody Risk

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 08:51 AM (KJSuP)

281 " ...it’s long been known that obesity and being fat are powerfully related."

******

This just in: Water can give you a strange sensation of feeling wet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 08:51 AM (Zz0t1)

282 >>Calories in, calories out. PERIOD.

The Tampon Diet

Posted by: garrett at July 07, 2023 08:51 AM (GW6x4)

283 273 >>Had to go through Rabies shots as a kid. They were injected in the stomach. I was 5 years old.

Did your sister bite you after she was bit by a moose?
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No. A dog bit me and we couldn't determine who's dog it was. Ergo - rabies shots. These were the days of reusable hypo needles. Big ones.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 07, 2023 08:51 AM (fWTJL)

284 Seriously JJ, I'm on my 4th attempt to send you guys some cash, but your robot check doesn't work.

--

Those electric cars aren't going to be able to identify crosswalks by themselves, you know.

Now get back to work.

- Thanks,
Google

Posted by: Moron Robbie at July 07, 2023 08:52 AM (wqFd7)

285 @227 re; The Beatles I need to add producer George Martin, the true fifth Beatle. Classical music background influenced their song writing and a great pioneer in production.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 07, 2023 08:52 AM (RqMSv)

286
Now that I think about, Aslace-Lorraine was like a Risk card between France and Germany.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 08:47 AM

Yeah, when asked I tell people I'm either of French or German ancestors - depending on the year. JackStraw also says his ancestors are from that area.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2023 08:52 AM (enJYY)

287 Rabies shots as a kid. They were injected in the stomach.

********

No they wereen't.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 07, 2023 08:52 AM (kXYt5)

288 Do they make a stomach needle long enough for Jerry Nadler?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Auger bits.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 07, 2023 08:52 AM (TZ75n)

289 Glen Beck got TDS bad. I don't think he's recovered.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 07, 2023 08:52 AM (sJHOI)

290 " ...it’s long been known that obesity and being fat are powerfully related."
******
Now there's a head scratcher!
Posted by: Muldoon at July 07, 2023 08:50 AM (kXYt5)
++++
Someone wrote that, and the received a paycheck for doing so...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 08:52 AM (t0OGg)

291 275 Do they make a stomach needle long enough for Jerry Nadler?
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Probably use a garden hose down his mouth.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 07, 2023 08:53 AM (fWTJL)

292 Risk, Jerry. A game of world conquest.

https://youtu.be/mBVD-81Y6Ro

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at July 07, 2023 08:53 AM (DhOHl)

293 "Paul became one of the absolute best bass players of all time. "

* Geddy Lee has entered the chat *

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2023 08:53 AM (1n+EO)

294
Japan Expo 2023 is supposed to start July 13 in Paris France.
Posted by: Anna Puma

That sounds as though its organizers washed out early in geography bees at school.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Vote for Fen (then do it again)! at July 07, 2023 08:53 AM (5pZqO)

295 Glen Beck got TDS bad. I don't think he's recovered.
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 07, 2023 08:52 AM (sJHOI)

I think he did, actually. Now, he's not gung ho Trump, but admits he's a much better president than Shitpants McFingerF*ck.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 08:54 AM (Zz0t1)

296 >> Do they make a stomach needle long enough for Jerry Nadler?

Deepwater Horizon, but it exploded and burned some years ago

Posted by: DB - spanning the globe at July 07, 2023 08:54 AM (geLO8)

297 BREAK THE LAW LIKE A MF'er in 24'
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Yup.
We followed the rules in 2020.
And the courts said, "no standing" and then, "too late now."

We have to blow up the campaign laws, expose them as the toothless niceties that intentionally hobble conservatives and are safely ignored by leftists.

The Constitution is the only law on running for President. Anything and everything else is completely legal .... if you win.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 07, 2023 08:54 AM (Ia8dk)

298 I have met Glenn Beck a couple of times. Genuinely nice guy. But, yeah. Haven't listened to him in years.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 07, 2023 08:54 AM (wsSEe)

299 Yeah not checked Japan Expo 2023's page to see if they have posted yet -

"Japan Expo 2023 has been cancelled due to riots."

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 08:54 AM (KJSuP)

300 "Paul became one of the absolute best bass players of all time. "

* Geddy Lee has entered the chat *
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2023 08:53 AM (1n+EO)

* Billy Sheehan laughs his ass off.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 08:55 AM (Zz0t1)

301 > 272 I bet Taylor Swift is a dead fuck.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 07, 2023 08:49 AM (TZ75n)

Well, she's hot and megarich, but can't seem to hold on to a man.

Dead fuck and/or batshit crazy, choose one or more.

Posted by: Seals and Crofts at July 07, 2023 08:55 AM (Y6AXb)

302 *peeks in chat*

Posted by: Les Claypool at July 07, 2023 08:55 AM (TZ75n)

303 293 "Paul became one of the absolute best bass players of all time. "

* Geddy Lee has entered the chat *
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The Chat Room is very crowded at the moment. May not be room for Geddy.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 07, 2023 08:55 AM (fWTJL)

304 A DJT-RDS ticket ain’t gonna happen. Too much bad blood between those camps now (alas). We need a strong guv like RDS to stay put anyway. I suspect Trump is gonna pick a female… probably Kari Lake. Ironically Kari Lake won’t likely help him with female voters…. She’s strong, aggressive and hot… AWFLs hate that combo.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 07, 2023 08:55 AM (M23Y7)

305 It's funny, but I'm not even a really big Led Zepplin fan and still, every time I hear their songs, I think "Their bass player carries that band."

I can't remember ever thinking that about the Beatles. I don't mind them at all and am not downing them. I just never even thought about them *having* a bass player. Which is, arguably, how bass is probably supposed to work, so maybe that supports the "absolute best of all time" position.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at July 07, 2023 08:55 AM (wqFd7)

306 Mike Watt is down with the bass.

Posted by: garrett at July 07, 2023 08:55 AM (GW6x4)

307 "* Geddy Lee has entered the chat *"

And James Jamerson wins the argument.

Jaco wasn't playing bass. He made it a different instrument.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 07, 2023 08:55 AM (RqMSv)

308 Glenn Beck is good at one thing: selling Glenn Beck.

Posted by: No thanks at July 07, 2023 08:56 AM (DhOHl)

309 "It's all about the bass."

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 08:56 AM (KJSuP)

310 > Deepwater Horizon, but it exploded and burned some years ago
Posted by: DB - spanning the globe at July 07, 2023 08:54 AM (geLO

And Sandra Fluke hasn't been able to get a Pap smear since.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 07, 2023 08:56 AM (Y6AXb)

311 plus 5 min after you have sex with Swift she's written a song dumping all over you
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 07, 2023 08:50 AM (PVx3i)

all of her songs are about ex-boyfriends, and none are about giving head and making sandwiches.

i'm just saying....

Posted by: SturmToddler at July 07, 2023 08:56 AM (Mkvkw)

312 Geezer Butler, also laughing.

Posted by: garrett at July 07, 2023 08:56 AM (GW6x4)

313 "It's all about the bass."
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 08:56 AM (KJSuP)

CURSE you for that f*cking earworm.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 07, 2023 08:56 AM (Zz0t1)

314 Guess what the Gov is basing its appeal of the censorship injunction on.

Go ahead.
Guess.

Here is a hint

The plaintiffs have __ standing.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 07, 2023 08:57 AM (wsSEe)

315
all of her songs are about ex-boyfriends, and none are about giving head and making sandwiches.

--

That should be on the sidebar.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at July 07, 2023 08:57 AM (wqFd7)

316 Well Ive never been to England
But I kinda like the Beatles

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 07, 2023 08:58 AM (BRHaw)

317 No standing and ongoing investigation are pretty dang useful phrases.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at July 07, 2023 08:58 AM (wqFd7)

318 Geezer Butler, also laughing.
Posted by: garrett

spreads his wings

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 07, 2023 08:58 AM (TZ75n)

319 Well, she's hot and megarich, but can't seem to hold on to a man.

Ehhhhh.... hot?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 07, 2023 08:58 AM (wsSEe)

320 *snickers*

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 08:58 AM (KJSuP)

321 299 Yeah not checked Japan Expo 2023's page to see if they have posted yet -

"Japan Expo 2023 has been cancelled due to riots."
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 08:54 AM (KJSuP)

"Algeria Expo, on the other hand..."

Posted by: XTC at July 07, 2023 08:58 AM (UnA8+)

322 Yeah, when asked I tell people I'm either of French or German ancestors -- depending on the year. JackStraw also says his ancestors are from that area.
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The French and Germans were constantly fighting over the huge "hemp" crop for which the region is famous.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 07, 2023 08:58 AM (Vwz3I)

323 Dead fuck and/or batshit crazy, choose one or more.
Posted by: Seals and Crofts at July 07, 2023 08:55 AM (Y6AXb)
++++
"Above the Crazy Line, we have the Danger Zone. This is your redheads, your strippers, anyone named 'Tiffany,' hairdressers. This is where your car gets keyed, you get a bunny in the pot, your tires get slashed and you wind up in jail."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 08:58 AM (t0OGg)

324 >>Miley Cyrus punks Taylor saying that her BFs leave her because she's "boring."

Hold on now - someone's gonna "CLAP BACK" on instagram/twitter/tiktok soon and then it will be WAR!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 07, 2023 08:58 AM (avru5)

325 309 "It's all about the bass."
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 08:56 AM (KJSuP)

Speaking of Obesity...

Posted by: XTC at July 07, 2023 08:59 AM (UnA8+)

326 What do Suntory Brands do?

With luck the most AoS comment you'll read all day.

Once more: the Bardstown Bourbon brands are units of Pritzker Private Capital. Except for Old Bardstown which is Willett and named after a horse.

"But why should we care what the Pritzkers do?"

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 07, 2023 08:59 AM (4PZHB)

327 all of her songs are about ex-boyfriends, and none are about giving head and making sandwiches.
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That should be on the sidebar.
Posted by: Moron Robbie at July 07, 2023 08:57 AM (wqFd7)

you are too kind sir.

thank you

Posted by: SturmToddler at July 07, 2023 08:59 AM (Mkvkw)

328 XTC and DB

For truly WTF, there is in Akihabara a Maid Cafe called NewType where all the maids are guys cross-playing. One of their drinks is called a Colony Drop. And it has been open for 11 years.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 08:59 AM (KJSuP)

329 "Above the Crazy Line, we have the Danger Zone. This is your redheads, your strippers, anyone named 'Tiffany,' hairdressers. This is where your car gets keyed, you get a bunny in the pot, your tires get slashed and you wind up in jail."
Posted by: Joe Mannix

There's sometimes a mysterious fire.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 07, 2023 09:00 AM (TZ75n)

330 CURSE you for that f*cking earworm.
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Try thinking of "On Broadway" instead. That's what sprang to my mind upon reading that comment.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 07, 2023 09:01 AM (Vwz3I)

331 > 312 Geezer Butler, also laughing.
Posted by: garrett at July 07, 2023 08:56 AM (GW6x4)

I crapped bigger than Paul McCartney.

https://is.gd/MXvO5Q

Posted by: John Entwistle at July 07, 2023 09:01 AM (Y6AXb)

332
No standing and ongoing investigation are pretty dang useful phrases.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at July 07, 2023 08:58 AM

Wife: "Did you take out the trash?"
Me: "I'm sorry but I can't answer that because it's under investigation. Also, you have no standing."

Might work with some tweaks.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2023 09:01 AM (enJYY)

333 Banned Books

And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
If I Ran the Zoo

Dr. Seuss Enterprises pulled Mulberry Street from publication in March 2021 along with five other works by Geisel due to the inclusion of imagery they deem "hurtful and wrong".

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 07, 2023 09:01 AM (BRHaw)

334
Bill Murray- Suntory Time

https://youtu.be/FiQnH450hPM

Posted by: DB - spanning the globe at July 07, 2023 09:01 AM (geLO8)

335 Taylor Swift is not hot… not to me anyway. I don’t get the appeal. The Beatles on the other hand are classic… Sgt Pepper and Abbey Road and Let it Be… all great music

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 07, 2023 09:02 AM (M23Y7)

336 Taylor Swift is the poster child for the saying "for every hot chick, there is some guy who is tired of her shit"

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2023 09:02 AM (vcH1m)

337 Since most of y'all hate on Jazz, I'll throw Ray Brown out there.

Heck, I'll even give Christian McBride an Honorable mention.

Posted by: garrett at July 07, 2023 09:02 AM (GW6x4)

338 > Ehhhhh.... hot?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 07, 2023 08:58 AM (wsSEe)

She's a 1.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 07, 2023 09:02 AM (Y6AXb)

339 328 XTC and DB

For truly WTF, there is in Akihabara a Maid Cafe called NewType where all the maids are guys cross-playing. One of their drinks is called a Colony Drop. And it has been open for 11 years.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 08:59 AM (KJSuP)

I don't think anybody's surprised by this.

Until someone puts a Voodoo Curse on East Asian male genetics that cause them all to have the jaw of Antonio Inoki.

Posted by: XTC at July 07, 2023 09:02 AM (UnA8+)

340 all of her songs are about ex-boyfriends, and none are about giving head and making sandwiches.

Posted by: SturmToddler at July 07, 2023 08:56 AM (Mkvkw)

One of the brats is a fan of Taylor Swift. As much as I want to find her to be just another despicable degenerate, I am grudgingly impressed. She is a hard-nosed businesswoman, and she gives her fans their money's worth.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2023 09:02 AM (PHmov)

341 Sgt Pepper's is crap. Pure shit.

Posted by: garrett at July 07, 2023 09:02 AM (GW6x4)

342 " ...it’s long been known that obesity and being fat are powerfully related.
Posted by: Muldoon"

However experts are still researching if there is a link between being thin and being skinny

Posted by: Ripley at July 07, 2023 09:03 AM (KrJTL)

343 Arguing about the Beatles in the twilight of Empire…

Posted by: tubal at July 07, 2023 09:04 AM (PCK5/)

344 There's sometimes a mysterious fire.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 07, 2023 09:00 AM (TZ75n)

Fake + pee stick

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 07, 2023 09:04 AM (BRHaw)

345 "One of the obvious lessons from the tide of the war in Ukraine is that globalist economics has defeated globalist interventionism."
The Decline of American Manufacturing Inevitably Means an Empty Wartime Arsenal

It's a feature, not a glitch. It's okay though we can't fuel the things that shoot and move weaponry for very long as the SPR is pretty much empty.

Posted by: Reforger at July 07, 2023 09:04 AM (B705c)

346 Wow. It turns out that when you put hundreds more satellites in orbit, you have to make hundreds more total course corrections. Stunning revelation.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 07, 2023 09:05 AM (wsSEe)

347 *decides to spin a platter*

The Thrill featuring Yukikare. "Sweet Whisper"

https://youtu.be/8NYKMzG8yys

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 09:05 AM (KJSuP)

348 Wait...is it Ringo's Birthday?

Is that why we are talking about the Beatles?

Posted by: garrett at July 07, 2023 09:05 AM (GW6x4)

349
Guys, Taylor Swift can't hurt you here
it's gonna be okay

Posted by: DB - spanning the globe at July 07, 2023 09:05 AM (geLO8)

350
She is a hard-nosed businesswoman, and she gives her fans their money's worth.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2023 09:02 AM

Her tickets were like $300 a seat in Philly recently. My money's worth in that case would need to include an entire night of s_xual debauchery.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2023 09:05 AM (enJYY)

351
all of her songs are about ex-boyfriends[-i]

That's why the lady is a tramp

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Vote for Fen (then do it again)! at July 07, 2023 09:06 AM (5pZqO)

352 >>Wow. It turns out that when you put hundreds more satellites in orbit, you have to make hundreds more total course corrections. Stunning revelation.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

with all the hardware floating around up there, I'm surprised there aren't more collisions

Posted by: DB - spanning the globe at July 07, 2023 09:06 AM (geLO8)

353 Her tickets were like $300 a seat in Philly recently. My money's worth in that case would need to include an entire night of s_xual debauchery.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2023 09:05 AM (enJYY)
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$300 won't buy you much debauchery, especially not for an entire night. Hell, the hotel alone will set you back at *least* half that.

Inflation's a bitch and a half.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 09:06 AM (t0OGg)

354 "Biden will get 130 million votes on his way to a '24 election romp and will become the most popular president in history.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report"

Don't be so sure about the that. The Deep State is still working on the winner and fortifying the totals.

Posted by: Ripley at July 07, 2023 09:07 AM (KrJTL)

355 Wow. It turns out that when you put hundreds more satellites in orbit, you have to make hundreds more total course corrections. Stunning revelation.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

******

Talk about blocking out the sun, eh!?

Posted by: Muldoon at July 07, 2023 09:07 AM (kXYt5)

356 Mo could show one guy. "This guy right here had a post removed at the request of the fbi. He has standing"

The gov would say "But, did the agent physically bash him in the head with a lead pipe? No? Then he was not harmed by the government actions. No standing!"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 07, 2023 09:07 AM (wsSEe)

357 Ehhhhh.... hot?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 07, 2023 08:58 AM (wsSEe)

She's a 1.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 07, 2023 09:02 AM (Y6AXb)

i mean, i'd let her write a song about me after banging her like a screen door in a hurricane...

Posted by: SturmToddler at July 07, 2023 09:08 AM (Mkvkw)

358 "Paul became one of the absolute best bass players of all time. "

* Geddy Lee has entered the chat *
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 07, 2023 08:53 AM (1n+EO)

***
Pffffft

Posted by: Victor Wooten at July 07, 2023 09:08 AM (flINI)

359 Speaking of popular culture bullshit, we watched a couple of episodes of Jack Ryan last night… we laughed and laughed and laughed… the CIA as your friend. Comedy Gold.

Posted by: tubal at July 07, 2023 09:08 AM (PCK5/)

360 Arguing about the Beatles in the twilight of Empire…

What were you expecting from these needle-dicks, a Shakespeare festival?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 07, 2023 09:08 AM (4PZHB)

361
France had a significant Communist party before (and after) WWII. Naturally, they were all anti-war after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Treaty and did everything they could to sabotoge the French war effort.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2023 09:08 AM (MoZTd)

362 Maxwell’s Silver Hammer is fun!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 07, 2023 09:08 AM (M23Y7)

363 I'm not paying $300/ticket to see Geritol Metallica, either.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 07, 2023 09:09 AM (TZ75n)

364 Antonio Inoki?

Enough jawline for ten American soi-bois.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 09:09 AM (KJSuP)

365 "Guess what the Gov is basing its appeal of the censorship injunction on."

From the opinion supporting the injunction:
"If the allegations made by Plaintiffs are true, the present case arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history."

This case has been going on since 2022 but has been ignored by the Media. It reads like a RICO case.

The appeal is in the Fifth Circuit, which is the most conservative circuit (TX, LA, MS).

FBI Wray will have to answer in the House next week and he can't deflect with "ongoing investigation." He's being set-up for impeachment, Garlsn to follow, let us pray

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 07, 2023 09:09 AM (RqMSv)

366 Some people will rob their mother for the Threads
Rats snitch on one another for the Threads
Sometimes kids get murdered for the Threads
So before we go any further, I want my Threads

Posted by: SMOD at July 07, 2023 09:09 AM (RHGPo)

367 B.B. King "Blues For A Dog"...

https://tinyurl.com/ms4mcxh5
2:12 full song
from Married With Children.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 07, 2023 09:09 AM (Vwz3I)

368 361
France had a significant Communist party before (and after) WWII. Naturally, they were all anti-war after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Treaty and did everything they could to sabotoge the French war effort.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2023 09:08 AM (MoZTd)

Now do the Rosenbergs and the CPUSA

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 07, 2023 09:09 AM (BRHaw)

369 >>“rigged-choice voting”

~~One Person One Vote!~~

One Person, fractional votes tabulated by a machine -- just imagine all the shenanigans Democrats can and do play under this scheme? How do you do a recount?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 07, 2023 09:09 AM (avru5)

370 Didn't Taylor Swift (probably not her real name) start her musical career as a "country" artist?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2023 09:09 AM (Q4IgG)

371 Her tickets were like $300 a seat in Philly recently. My money's worth in that case would need to include an entire night of s_xual debauchery.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2023 09:05 AM (enJYY)

mrs strum has a coworker that paid a grand for him and his wife to go to one show.

$1,000 for 2 tickets for 3 hours, tops, of pop music.

yeah, not interested.

Posted by: SturmToddler at July 07, 2023 09:10 AM (Mkvkw)

372 After yesterday's blowout ADP report, according to which almost half a million Americans magically found jobs, moments ago the BLS poured cold water on expectations for a confirmation of the surge in the latest jobs report, when the June payrolls number came in at a measly 209K, a big drop from last month's blowout 339K print which, of course, was revised down to 306K, and the lowest print since Dec 2020.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 07, 2023 09:10 AM (wsSEe)

373 She is a hard-nosed businesswoman, and she gives her fans their money's worth.

-

I can't quite put my finger on it, but I have this weird feeling there's some sort of interesting news story or article there.

Families can't afford to feed their kids on the same food budget that they had under Trump, and grad students who insist that those families pay off their student loans are spending $1000 per ticket for a Taylor Swift show.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at July 07, 2023 09:10 AM (wqFd7)

374
Didn't Taylor Swift (probably not her real name) start her musical career as a "country" artist?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2023 09:09 AM (Q4IgG)

Yes, and all her country songs are about ex-boyfriends.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2023 09:11 AM (MoZTd)

375 361
France had a significant Communist party before (and after) WWII. Naturally, they were all anti-war after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Treaty and did everything they could to sabotoge the French war effort.
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So just like the NYTs?

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 07, 2023 09:11 AM (fWTJL)

376 The latest idiocy is that you're supposed to call real women "menstruators".

I thought trannies liked to pretend to use feminine hygiene products, but I guess that's changed?

I've done some dumb shit in my life, but even I know better than to call a woman a "menstruator".

Because there's no way in hell that's going to end well.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 07, 2023 09:11 AM (Y6AXb)

377 Guy I work with made $5000 on 2 Swift tickets this past month.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 07, 2023 09:11 AM (TZ75n)

378 D.C. is a shithole just as bad as Philly. But the mayor there doesn't give a f, so murders like these will continue.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 07, 2023 09:11 AM (bkUtD)

379 Our Constitution's Pandemic Clause sure had some unanticipated bad downstream effects didn't it.

Too bad the Founders didn't spend more time considering its negative effects before they included it. In fact it would have been better if they just would have left it out. ...Certainly was a dumb Clause.

Posted by: torabora at July 07, 2023 09:11 AM (wo1bG)

380 >>Didn't Taylor Swift (probably not her real name) start her musical career as a "country" artist?

You are thinking of Carrie Underboob.

Posted by: garrett at July 07, 2023 09:11 AM (GW6x4)

381 Sgt Pepper's is crap. Pure shit.

Posted by: garrett at July 07, 2023 09:02 AM (GW6x4)

Well, the pop stuff isn't bad, but it sure isn't some genius album that many people claim it to be.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2023 09:11 AM (PHmov)

382 Taylor Swift… her real name.. born in Pennsylvania to wealthy parents.. 33 years old.

Posted by: tubal at July 07, 2023 09:11 AM (PCK5/)

383 belated yo

Posted by: REDACTED at July 07, 2023 09:12 AM (us2H3)

384 > grad students who insist that those families pay off their student loans are spending $1000 per ticket for a Taylor Swift show.

Grad students? Pretty sure Swift's core audience is about 12-13 years old.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 07, 2023 09:12 AM (Y6AXb)

385 364 Antonio Inoki?

Enough jawline for ten American soi-bois.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 09:09 AM (KJSuP)

He was a Muzzie and he was batshit insane, but he had masculinity to spare.

Posted by: XTC at July 07, 2023 09:12 AM (UnA8+)

386
Didn't Taylor Swift (probably not her real name) start her musical career as a "country" artist?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2023 09:09 AM

IIRC, it was actually bluegrass

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 07, 2023 09:12 AM (ENBF0)

387 Never forget that the immigration in Europeis encouraged because governments there simply do not want to engage in the agile conversation with their citizens about their welfare states. It costs a lot of money to pamper and baby their citizens, and honestly, maybe if their citizens paid for some services all by themselves, they could afford to raise children in their own, making the encouragement of immigration from parts of the world with cultures alien from those of Europe completely unnecessary. But nope! And you see what they get.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 07, 2023 09:12 AM (FbcWf)

388 The key to becoming a rich pop star is to always be embroiled in controversy.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 07, 2023 09:12 AM (wsSEe)

389 Most dangerous women I've ever been with was named Tiffany. Hot, tall, dark haired and just cray cray as were her whole family. 5 brothers and both of her parents, as well as her, were ex-cons with one still in prison for 40 years for murder. Jail or prison was just a normal part of their lives.

I barely survived but it was fun.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 07, 2023 09:12 AM (XqIlw)

390 with all the hardware floating around up there, I'm surprised there aren't more collisions
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Just wait until there are even more Chinese and Indian satellites up there than now!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 07, 2023 09:12 AM (Vwz3I)

391 >>I've done some dumb shit in my life, but even I know better than to call a woman a "menstruator".

I just call them Bonus Holes.

Posted by: garrett at July 07, 2023 09:12 AM (GW6x4)

392 with all the hardware floating around up there, I'm surprised there aren't more collisions
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We've now entered my professional expertise.

There is a LOT of space up there. You'd need to launch a few billion satellites before things look like a junk yard.

Interesting side note, SpaceX is trying to claim the 560 Km orbit for itself, telling everyone to keep out of their orbit. Violates 3 international treaties.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2023 09:12 AM (vcH1m)

393 Grad students? Pretty sure Swift's core audience is about 12-13 years old.

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Just like the Twilight films.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at July 07, 2023 09:13 AM (wqFd7)

394 Taylor Swift has one of the best pop music videos ever made, and might represent Peak Swift:
https://youtu.be/e-ORhEE9VVg

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 09:13 AM (t0OGg)

395 382: and she looks….mid. VERY mid.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 07, 2023 09:13 AM (FbcWf)

396 FBI Wray will have to answer in the House next week and he can't deflect with "ongoing investigation." He's being set-up for impeachment, Garlsn to follow, let us pray
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 07, 2023 09:09 AM (RqMSv)

Oh gosh I needed a good laugh this morning! Thanks!

Posted by: blaster at July 07, 2023 09:13 AM (pwExq)

397
Now do the Rosenbergs and the CPUSA
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 07, 2023 09:09 AM (BRHaw)

One of the great fictions we've been brainwashed into accepting is that the CPUSA was just a bunch of idealistic liberals ("The Romance of American Communism"). Whereas really they didn't twitch a finger except on orders from Moscow. They changed party lines at the drop of a hat, purged members and spied for Stalin.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2023 09:14 AM (MoZTd)

398 when your name is Swift, Tailor, you got to be a Singer

Posted by: REDACTED at July 07, 2023 09:14 AM (us2H3)

399 363: Metallica sucks anyway. Saw them in 1997. VERY disappointing concert.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 07, 2023 09:15 AM (FbcWf)

400 Families can't afford to feed their kids on the same food budget that they had under Trump, and grad students who insist that those families pay off their student loans are spending $1000 per ticket for a Taylor Swift show.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at July 07, 2023 09:10 AM

I know, right? Do they know how much ammunition you could buy for the cost of those concert tickets? Disgusting.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 07, 2023 09:15 AM (Wnv9h)

401 If your wife is your better half, does that make your mistress the better hole?

Bonus Holes. Lol

Posted by: JROD at July 07, 2023 09:15 AM (IlL6s)

402 >>Metallica sucks anyway. Saw them in 1997.

No Cliff. No Metallica.

Posted by: garrett at July 07, 2023 09:15 AM (GW6x4)

403 when your name is Swift, Tailor, you got to be a Singer
Posted by: REDACTED at July 07, 2023 09:14 AM (us2H3)
++++
*snort*

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 09:15 AM (t0OGg)

404 Damn that ass in those purple shorts.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 07, 2023 09:15 AM (TZ75n)

405 Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2023

Expert pollster and space dude!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 07, 2023 09:16 AM (wsSEe)

406 I'll just leave this here in case anyone is interested:

"Some 45% of avid fans are millennials, people between the ages of 27 and 42, while 23% are baby boomers, 21% are Gen Xers and just 11% are members of Gen Z—those 26 and under."

https://tinyurl.com/2a7nurkl

Posted by: Moron Robbie at July 07, 2023 09:16 AM (wqFd7)

407 Carole Kane sits back and enjoys the bass talk.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 07, 2023 09:16 AM (OjHyA)

408 wonder if Swift swallows ??

Posted by: REDACTED at July 07, 2023 09:16 AM (us2H3)

409
Sgt Pepper's is crap. Pure shit.

Posted by: garrett at July 07, 2023 09:02 AM

Well, the pop stuff isn't bad, but it sure isn't some genius album that many people claim it to be.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2023 09:11 AM

"album" Beatles suck; their best stuff was the "singles", back when they were still wearing suits & ties & making a semi-reasonable effort at personal hygiene and trying to sound like Buddy Holly

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 07, 2023 09:16 AM (ENBF0)

410 Laden or unladen?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 09:16 AM (KJSuP)

411
There is a LOT of space up there. You'd need to launch a few billion satellites before things look like a junk yard.

You'll know when there's a bunch of broken-down, smoke-spewing beaters up there pumping out Tejano music.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2023 09:16 AM (MoZTd)

412 There is a LOT of space up there. You'd need to launch a few billion satellites before things look like a junk yard.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2023 09:12 AM (vcH1m)

Yup. Volume increases as the cube of the radius. Math is a harsh mistress.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2023 09:17 AM (PHmov)

413 Jihadis/Islamists want to burn Western civilization back to the stone age.

Posted by: Wofus at July 07, 2023 09:17 AM (Y9yyP)

414 I know, right? Do they know how much ammunition you could buy for the cost of those concert tickets? Disgusting.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState

--

My ammo budget has seen a hit in the amount it buys, too.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at July 07, 2023 09:17 AM (wqFd7)

415 If the Beatles were so great, why were they only on Ed Sullivan twice, yet Topo Gigio and Senor Wences were on dozens of times?

Posted by: Fair Question at July 07, 2023 09:17 AM (T0tUU)

416 A leader of the QAnon conspiracy cult died last weekend in a dirt bike accident — though his minions believe his death is fabricated and part of a larger plan. Michael Protzman, 60, known to his followers as Negative 48, died Friday in the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota a week after an accident at the Meadow Valley Motocross track in Millville, Minnesota.

Posted by: SMOD at July 07, 2023 09:17 AM (RHGPo)

417 285: really?

Posted by: Pete Best at July 07, 2023 09:18 AM (FbcWf)

418 412 There is a LOT of space up there. You'd need to launch a few billion satellites before things look like a junk yard.
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I'm surprised the aliens can avoid them.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 07, 2023 09:18 AM (fWTJL)

419 I saw Metallica at a horse track around that same time.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 07, 2023 09:18 AM (TZ75n)

420 "Didn't Taylor Swift (probably not her real name) start her musical career as a "country" artist?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2023 09:09 AM (Q4IgG)

Yes, and all her country songs are about ex-boyfriends.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh"

She actually started singing in her church congregation as a youth. And all her songs were about her ex-boyfriends.

Posted by: Ripley at July 07, 2023 09:18 AM (KrJTL)

421 nice dick

funny

nice front pole

stupid

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 07, 2023 09:19 AM (BRHaw)

422 415 If the Beatles were so great, why were they only on Ed Sullivan twice, yet Topo Gigio and Senor Wences were on dozens of times?
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Probably cuz they couldn't spin dishes on sticks.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 07, 2023 09:19 AM (fWTJL)

423 You are thinking of Carrie Underboob.
Posted by: garrett at July 07, 2023 09:11 AM

Another one whose musical oeuvre seems to consist of "That Cheating Bastard!!!!"

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 07, 2023 09:19 AM (Wnv9h)

424 If the Beatles were so great, why were they only on Ed Sullivan twice, yet Topo Gigio and Senor Wences were on dozens of times?
Posted by: Fair Question

If you would tell your kids that a plate spinner was a staple of entertainment on Ed's show, they'd look at you like you had three heads.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 07, 2023 09:19 AM (OjHyA)

425 "The White House That Tracked Down Grannies After Capitol Riot Wants You To Believe Cocaine Caper Has Them Stumped"

The Junta's Law Enforcement Branch hasn't arrested anyone for the three bombings in DC last weekend. No identification of suspects given to the public, either.

Posted by: Gref at July 07, 2023 09:19 AM (AMIL/)

426 >> Didn't Taylor Swift (probably not her real name) start her musical career as a "country" artist?

She did. Her first album was quite sweet - very teen girl subject matter, e.g. "Tears on My Guitar" "You Belong to Me" etc. Listened to it in the car w/my elementary school-aged kid. No idea what she sings now.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 07, 2023 09:19 AM (avru5)

427 Hmm, flight from Atlanta is delayed. Looks like an extra hour and a half of free booze for me

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2023 09:19 AM (vcH1m)

428 413 Jihadis/Islamists want to burn Western civilization back to the stone age.
Posted by: Wofus at July 07, 2023 09:17 AM (Y9yyP)

And Western Civilization just keeps trying to show why they deserve it.

Posted by: XTC at July 07, 2023 09:19 AM (UnA8+)

429 416 A leader of the QAnon conspiracy cult died last weekend in a dirt bike accident — though his minions believe his death is fabricated and part of a larger plan. Michael Protzman, 60, known to his followers as Negative 48, died Friday in the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota a week after an accident at the Meadow Valley Motocross track in Millville, Minnesota.
Posted by: SMOD at July 07, 2023 09:17 AM (RHGPo)

now do fake Paul McCartney

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 07, 2023 09:19 AM (BRHaw)

430 Celebrate with me, Horde. The A/C is finally fixed. I found a service man who:
a: had an active phone
b: returned my call
c. kept the appointment
d. did not try to sell me a new unit
e. fixed the one I have

And it only took two weeks.

New windows arrive next Thursday, a day before Jewell's arrival on Friday for the ARMoMe on Saturday.

Life this morning is particularly good.

Posted by: creeper at July 07, 2023 09:19 AM (cTCuP)

431 I saw Metallica at a horse track around that same time.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 07, 2023 09:18 AM (TZ75n)

***

I saw Metallica open for Puppet Show in Saratoga Springs

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 07, 2023 09:20 AM (flINI)

432 @389 Hairyback Guy-there are background check services like Truthfinder.com that can help you vet your women or any other goofballs for that matter.

Hopefully you found out that info about her family later in the relationship because she hid it from you in the beginning.......

Posted by: JROD at July 07, 2023 09:20 AM (IlL6s)

433 413

To meet the Flintstones?

Posted by: Ziba at July 07, 2023 09:20 AM (4h9M3)

434 422 415 If the Beatles were so great, why were they only on Ed Sullivan twice, yet Topo Gigio and Senor Wences were on dozens of times?
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Probably cuz they couldn't spin dishes on sticks.
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 07, 2023 09:19 AM (fWTJL)

"Pfft"

- - Chihuahuas spinning plates spinning bears on top of them

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 07, 2023 09:20 AM (x0n13)

435 had a dream about crazy plane lady

Posted by: REDACTED at July 07, 2023 09:20 AM (us2H3)

436 I've been thinking the Beach Boys were actually the Vienna Boy's Choir in Southern California. Amazing voices and range for non-castratos.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 07, 2023 09:20 AM (fWTJL)

437
Well, I'm damned. Taylor Swift is her actual name.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2023 09:21 AM (MoZTd)

438 Posted by: creeper at July 07, 2023 09:19 AM (cTCuP)
++++
Congrats!

*Never* lose that tradesman's number!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 09:21 AM (t0OGg)

439 Pudinhead - it's scary sometimes around here.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 07, 2023 09:21 AM (OjHyA)

440 A leader of the QAnon conspiracy cult

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Cult?

Feds.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at July 07, 2023 09:21 AM (wqFd7)

441 427 Hmm, flight from Atlanta is delayed. Looks like an extra hour and a half of free booze for me
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Go for the tiny bottles of Maker's Mark.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 07, 2023 09:22 AM (fWTJL)

442 Biden administration seeks stay of judge’s social media order, saying it could cause ‘grave harm’

Posted by: SMOD at July 07, 2023 09:22 AM (RHGPo)

443 One of the great fictions we've been brainwashed into accepting is that the CPUSA was just a bunch of idealistic liberals ("The Romance of American Communism").

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2023 09:14 AM (MoZTd)

There were many starry-eyed socialists who were believers in the communist fantasy, but they were the quintessential "useful idiots." The real communists were exactly as you described.

Hell...my grandfather was a socialist, but smartened up when the stories of what Stalin really was emerged.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2023 09:22 AM (PHmov)

444 The most talented of all The Beatles.

Then from dawn till setting sun
He practiced with that deadly gun
And hour on hour I watched in awe
No human being could match the draw of Ringo.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy

And then......YOKO !

Posted by: JT at July 07, 2023 09:23 AM (T4tVD)

445 Interesting photo up top.

Posted by: dantesed at July 07, 2023 09:23 AM (88xKn)

446 Plate spinning was real entertainment. Unlike Real Housewives or the Bachelor.

Posted by: Archer at July 07, 2023 09:23 AM (gmo/4)

447 Celebrate with me, Horde. The A/C is finally fixed. I found a service man who:
a: had an active phone
b: returned my call
c. kept the appointment
d. did not try to sell me a new unit
e. fixed the one I have

And it only took two weeks.
Posted by: creeper

A sign of The Apocalypse or The Second Coming. Has to be one of those.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 07, 2023 09:23 AM (OjHyA)

448 Hell...my grandfather was a socialist, but smartened up when the stories of what Stalin really was emerged.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2023 09:22 AM (PHmov)

They should dig up Duranty and hang him.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 07, 2023 09:23 AM (BRHaw)

449
It's all of a piece. One reason I say that Islam will come to be the dominant civilization in the Northern Hemisphere soon, and for a very long time - the main reason - is that our civilizations, from China back around to America, offer their people ruthless authoritarian domination, just like Islam. But unlike Islam, there is no spiritual or or cultural or intellectual component, just materialism. And they fail to deliver on that materialism more every year.

But even if they could deliver on it - man doesn't live by bread alone, and iPhones and Meta pods and Soylent infusions are a poor substitute for a spiritual life, cultural identity, and a sense of purpose. That is why Islam will beat us all.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 07, 2023 09:24 AM (oINRc)

450 Looks like an extra hour and a half of free booze for me

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2023 09:19 AM (vcH1m)

Ah...morning drinking!

I usually start with a Bloody Mary, but there is a fine argument to be made for bourbon to kick-start the day.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2023 09:24 AM (PHmov)

451 442 Biden administration seeks stay of judge’s social media order, saying it could cause ‘grave harm’
Posted by: SMOD at July 07, 2023 09:22 AM (RHGPo)

Like Overlord and Bagration caused "grave harm" to Schickelgruber.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 07, 2023 09:24 AM (x0n13)

452 You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues...

Posted by: Archer at July 07, 2023 09:24 AM (gmo/4)

453
You are thinking of Carrie Underboob.
Posted by: garrett at July 07, 2023 09:11 AM

Another one whose musical oeuvre seems to consist of "That Cheating Bastard!!!!"

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 07, 2023 09:19 AM

That stupid song praising the value of $5,000 worth of vandalism where she carved her name into his leather seats? I'm guessing she was willing to do some time in county lockup.

Would not date.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2023 09:25 AM (enJYY)

454 Moron wisdom #372

You can't drink all day if you didn't start in the morning.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at July 07, 2023 09:25 AM (wqFd7)

455 >>Biden administration seeks stay of judge’s social media order, saying it could cause ‘grave harm’

Muh Democracies!

Posted by: garrett at July 07, 2023 09:25 AM (GW6x4)

456 Hell...my grandfather was a socialist, but smartened up when the stories of what Stalin really was emerged.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2023 09:22 AM (PHmov)

Grandfather was Workman's Circle and the I.W.W.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 07, 2023 09:25 AM (x0n13)

457 Can't figure out why Lady Liberty has no nipples.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 07, 2023 09:25 AM (fWTJL)

458 Don't want to wait 'til the sun's sinking
We could be feeling alright
I know you know what I'm thinking
Why don't we do a little day drinking
Why don't we do a little day drinking

Blame it on the work day
Blame it on the heatwave

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 07, 2023 09:26 AM (BRHaw)

459 >>Taylor Swift has one of the best pop music videos ever made, and might represent Peak Swift:
https://youtu.be/e-ORhEE9VVg

Ugh. Awful song and crazy lady.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 07, 2023 09:26 AM (avru5)

460 452 You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues...
Posted by: Archer at July 07, 2023 09:24 AM (gmo/4)

We used to sing it, "Gotta pay your dues if you want to hang with Jews."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 07, 2023 09:26 AM (x0n13)

461 They found some crack in an old bag at the WH

Posted by: REDACTED at July 07, 2023 09:26 AM (us2H3)

462 >>Hell...my grandfather was a socialist,

So, you got into Berkeley as a Legacy?

Posted by: garrett at July 07, 2023 09:26 AM (GW6x4)

463 This followed a January 2022 report by Le Figaro that “no fewer than 1,186 elected officials” in France, including 162 members of parliament and 605 mayors or deputies, had been subjected to physical attacks “in the first eleven months of 2021.” Imagine how much higher a proportion of Frenchmen will shrink from political involvement now, after the homes of several mayors across France have been targeted by rioters.
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Then they're quite close to not being the government. They might call themselves the government, but they're not. The savages are the government in fact.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 07:41 AM (t0OGg)

Way back when around 60s-70s in Italy, the Red Brigade was was successfully targeting judges, prosecutors etc.

So, they came up with a secret court to protect their judges, etc and get the violent communists under control. Secret Courts were the only way they could get people to do their jobs.

Probably, we're seeing the beginning of this sort of thing again.

Coming Soon to a Country Near YOU!!!
Secret Government!

It's all upside, at least we won't have to worry about voting anymore.

I see no way this can be abused.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 07, 2023 09:26 AM (fb7jX)

464 449 But even if they could deliver on it - man doesn't live by bread alone, and iPhones and Meta pods and Soylent infusions are a poor substitute for a spiritual life, cultural identity, and a sense of purpose. That is why Islam will beat us all.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 07, 2023 09:24 AM (oINRc)

That, and they still give men a Warrior's purpose.

The way they do it is unpleasant and repressive, by allowing no other emotional outlet but War and Violence, and yet...

Posted by: XTC at July 07, 2023 09:26 AM (UnA8+)

465 You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues...
Posted by: Archer at July 07, 2023 09:24 AM (gmo/4)

***

I heard dat...

Posted by: Robert Johnson at July 07, 2023 09:26 AM (flINI)

466 Can't figure out why Lady Liberty has no nipples.
Posted by: Pudinhead

It isn't very cold out?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 07, 2023 09:26 AM (OjHyA)

467 They should dig up Duranty and hang him.
Posted by: rhennigantx

He kicked the bucket in Its A Mad Mad Mad World.

Posted by: JT at July 07, 2023 09:26 AM (T4tVD)

468 The number of businesses who do not want to do their fucking job is astounding.

It took me 5 gun shops and 3 weeks to find one who would send their FFL to the CMP in order for me to receive my 1911.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 07, 2023 09:26 AM (wsSEe)

469 461 They found some crack in an old bag at the WH
Posted by: REDACTED at July 07, 2023 09:26 AM (us2H3)

Isn't this the story of Helen Thomas' crotch?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 07, 2023 09:26 AM (x0n13)

470 "Give me Liberty or give me Papillae"

Posted by: garrett at July 07, 2023 09:27 AM (GW6x4)

471 They found some crack in an old bag at the WH
Posted by: REDACTED

Now I have to clean off my screen.

Thanks!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 07, 2023 09:27 AM (OjHyA)

472
Although the conjugal visit sex could be hot.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 07, 2023 09:27 AM (enJYY)

473 We used to sing it, "Gotta pay your dues if you want to hang with Jews."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 07, 2023 09:26 AM (x0n13)

oui ve

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 07, 2023 09:27 AM (BRHaw)

474 We used to sing it, "Gotta pay your dues if you want to hang with Jews."
--------------------
And you know it don't come easy.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 07, 2023 09:28 AM (fWTJL)

475 My grandfather hated FDR with a fiery passion until the day he died.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 07, 2023 09:28 AM (wsSEe)

476 If you think educational related unions are bad then just wait until you consider educational administration AND their educationally related managers.

The administrators of educational systems are the apex predators of the taxpayers. The managers are the jackels...the clean up crew. The droppings from those two feed teachers and their droppings feed staff. The toilets must be swabbed.

Education is just a redistribution of wealth scheme. Of course it is. It gets 40%+ of state budgets.

Posted by: torabora at July 07, 2023 09:28 AM (wo1bG)

477 467 They should dig up Duranty and hang him.
Posted by: rhennigantx

He kicked the bucket in Its A Mad Mad Mad World.
Posted by: JT at July 07, 2023 09:26 AM (T4tVD)

"I'm mortified!!!!"

- - Joe Stalin

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 07, 2023 09:28 AM (x0n13)

478 She is a hard-nosed businesswoman, and she gives her fans their money's worth.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2023 09:02 AM

From a brief personal interaction, she's a snooty bitch. And that was before she was hugely famous (her first single had been out about six months).

Posted by: Bert G at July 07, 2023 09:29 AM (VARTN)

479 *Never* lose that tradesman's number!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 09:21 AM (t0OGg)

Not in a million years. It took forever to find him.

It was seventy-five degrees in here this morning when I woke up. I was shivering. Haven't seen that since the middle of June.

Posted by: creeper at July 07, 2023 09:29 AM (cTCuP)

480 85 Macaroni Eve

A James Bond femme fatale?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2023 08:09 AM (KJSuP)

*********

Her Four Cheese Pasta is to die for.

Posted by: James Bond at July 07, 2023 09:29 AM (xxG/v)

481 We used to sing it, "Gotta pay your dues if you want to hang with Jews."
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Is that from National Lampoon's "Hymietown", after Jackson statement??

BTW, Brave's online dictionary/spellchecker has 'Hymietown' in it [unless I added it years ago and had forgotten].

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 07, 2023 09:29 AM (Vwz3I)

482
Ignoramus has a new definition in the dictionary and it is spelled "Tezlyn Figaro".

Unless you were elected to student council in middle school, you have no business running for President of the United States and other blinkered and ignorant options flowed forth from her mouth in a mighty stream. Check out Vivek Ramaswamy's interview by The Breakfast Club -- https://youtu.be/DLotjyLHRmU -- to see what I mean.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Vote for Fen (then do it again)! at July 07, 2023 09:29 AM (5pZqO)

483
We used to sing it, "Gotta pay your dues if you want to hang with Jews."

Jewish kids don't join gangs until they become lawyers.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2023 09:29 AM (MoZTd)

484 471 They found some crack in an old bag at the WH
Posted by: REDACTED

Now I have to clean off my screen.

Thanks!
Posted by: Tonypete at July 07, 2023 09:27 AM (OjHyA)

I here all week

try the squid

Posted by: REDACTED at July 07, 2023 09:30 AM (us2H3)

485 This is a first for me. We have a medical emergency on board. We need to stay in our seats until the EMTs evac the sick passenger.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2023 09:30 AM (vcH1m)

486 NOOD Art Thread

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 07, 2023 09:30 AM (nRMeC)

487 >>Education is just a redistribution of wealth scheme. Of course it is. It gets 40%+ of state budgets.

Hell, we learned that the first day of our kid's kindergarten when the teacher pooled all the kids school supplies and redistributed some, kept others for communal use. That is SOP in public elementary schools.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 07, 2023 09:31 AM (avru5)

488
This is a first for me. We have a medical emergency on board. We need to stay in our seats until the EMTs evac the sick passenger.
Posted by: Dave in Fla

They finally cane for the muthafooker in back who is not real? Good to know!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Vote for Fen (then do it again)! at July 07, 2023 09:32 AM (5pZqO)

489 Looks like an extra hour and a half of free booze for me

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2023 09:19 AM (vcH1m)

Ah...morning drinking!

I usually start with a Bloody Mary, but there is a fine argument to be made for bourbon to kick-start the day.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2023 09:24 AM (PHmov)

well, you can't day drink if you don't start in the morning...

Posted by: SturmToddler at July 07, 2023 09:32 AM (Mkvkw)

490 Not in a million years. It took forever to find him.

It was seventy-five degrees in here this morning when I woke up. I was shivering. Haven't seen that since the middle of June.
Posted by: creeper at July 07, 2023 09:29 AM (cTCuP)
++++
Excellent. 75 is "it's too warm in here" for me, but I'm glad it's working!

One thing for which I am eternally grateful to my realtor is her encyclopedic knowledge of local tradesmen and who to avoid, who to pay extra for, who is worth waiting for, etc.

My A/C and roofing companies and my handyman were all her recommendations and she was spot on with all of them. Her deep local knowledge and years of experience working with them through her clients makes her knowledge base better than anything that any online service could ever hope to replicate.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 07, 2023 09:33 AM (t0OGg)

491 487: which is BS. That is, it is wrong that such a thing is thought of, much less done.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 07, 2023 09:33 AM (FbcWf)

492 The number of businesses who do not want to do their fucking job is astounding.

It took me 5 gun shops and 3 weeks to find one who would send their FFL to the CMP in order for me to receive my 1911.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 07, 2023 09:26 AM (wsSEe)
****
When I was a boy you could buy a firearm from the Sears and Roebuck Catalog by sending them a stock # and a check.

Posted by: torabora at July 07, 2023 09:33 AM (wo1bG)

493 Nasrat Yar was murdered by DC thugs, between the for of which, there may have been a mohamadan name or two. But the were still basically thugs. Probably known to authorities.

Posted by: Eromero at July 07, 2023 09:40 AM (Uv0D2)

494 which is BS. That is, it is wrong that such a thing is thought of, much less done.

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We sent dollar store crap the first day and then switched out to the good stuff the next week if needed.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at July 07, 2023 09:41 AM (wqFd7)

495 Didn't Taylor Swift (probably not her real name) start her musical career as a "country" artist?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2023 09:09 AM (Q4IgG)

Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989).

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at July 07, 2023 09:41 AM (Zvtjl)

496 Good morning, all, and thank you, J.J.

Fox News: Experts baffled by White House invoking Hatch Act to dodge Hunter cocaine question: 'ridiculous.' In part,
"White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates was asked during a Thursday press gaggle whether the president can deny that he or his son owned the cocaine found at the White House – a charge leveled by former President Donald Trump. "... Bates invoked the Hatch Act — legislation that prohibits federal employees from talking about or using federal resources for campaign purposes..." What? Wasn't Bates also among the 51 that signed the laptop was BS? If the cocaine is H's, wouldn't that screw up his pending plea agreement?

The US will provide cluster munitions to Ukraine as part of a new military aid package: AP sources, 1 hr ago

IMHO the UN/US 2030 sustainable development goals are both scary ambitious & nebulous. Now there's also health dot gov 'Healthy People 2030.' "Healthy People 2030 provides hundreds of evidence-based resources to help you address public health priorities." It could be good but, IM well over 29 yr old mind, public health & C19=lockdown, ventilators, etc. & lots gender involvement.

Aloha

Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect & speeds the security clearance process at July 07, 2023 09:41 AM (GshMh)

497 CAT, those gubshops wanted to SEL you a 1911, not hepplp you get one transferred from CMO.

Posted by: Eromero at July 07, 2023 09:43 AM (Uv0D2)

498 Some French military officers are making noises about bringing order to the country.
I guess they still haven't found the new Charles de Gaulle to form the French Sixth Republic.

Posted by: SMOD at July 07, 2023 09:46 AM (RHGPo)

499 Charles Martel, among any of those French officers, SMOD?

Posted by: Eromero at July 07, 2023 09:49 AM (Uv0D2)

500 Texas organization reports 30% spike in adoptions since reversal of Roe v. Wade

'In conversations we’ve had with our birth mothers, some have indicated that had they had an ability to get an abortion, they at least would have considered it,' Gladney Center for Adoption CEO Mark Melson said.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 07, 2023 09:52 AM (fs1hN)

501 Best podcast yet, in a long line of outstanding podcast editions.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 07, 2023 09:52 AM (iK/Um)

502 Vice President Kamala Harris entered the record books last month when an NBC News poll revealed she is the most unpopular vice president in history.

Posted by: SMOD at July 07, 2023 10:02 AM (RHGPo)

503 Biden Ignores Protests and Imposes Largest U.S. Wind Farm on New Jersey Coast

Posted by: SMOD at July 07, 2023 10:08 AM (RHGPo)

504 Tried the tip jar link. But it was bad.

Posted by: John at July 07, 2023 10:08 AM (/6+5O)

505 {504} Tried the tip jar link. But it was bad.

Posted by: John at July 07, 2023 10:08 AM (/6+5O)

Seems J.J. mangled the first link after the words "Personal appeal".

However, there's a second link to the tip jar at the end of the post, and that works. It takes you to the CutJib newsletter site, where you'll find a blue donate button.

If you use NoScript in your browser, be sure to allow stripe.com and stripe.network sites otherwise you'll get an error when pressing the donate button.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 07, 2023 10:47 AM (nRMeC)

506 504 Tried the tip jar link. But it was bad.
Posted by: John at July 07, 2023 10:08 AM (/6+5O)

The bottom link that says TIP JAR is working, or click my nic and look for SUPPORT CJN!

Or use this:

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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 07, 2023 10:47 AM (x0n13)

507
Of all the links to mangle, right?

Sheesh.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 07, 2023 10:51 AM (x0n13)

508 The US is worse off than Europe.
Have people forgotten the riots/nationwide insurrection of 2020?

There seems to be a rule with white civic nationalists that no matter how bad things are in the Ewe Ess of Aye ,necessarily, Europe is worse. Wishcasting does not make it so...

Posted by: Bob Bayonet at July 07, 2023 11:08 AM (cI/a2)

509 My gains -

I donwloaded the book "Body by Science"

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 07, 2023 06:24 PM (ZAzvZ)

510 oops. wrong tab.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 07, 2023 06:25 PM (ZAzvZ)

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