The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 8/1/23

Good morning, kids. I can make strong arguments both for and against Trump and DeSantis. One of the things on the positive side of the ledger for DeSantis is his standing up to the Left in the crucial area of education. His removal of the vile revisionist blood-libeling of America from the Florida curriculum should be the order of the day everywhere. In doing so he has been attacked as the revisionist and racist from the usual quarters, most notably the world's greatest ingester of semen and vomiter of stupidity Kamala Harris. While the response from our side of the divide, even from some of DeSantis rivals for the nomination, should have been to stand beside him, it was anything but that.

We should not be surprised Vice President Kamala Harris has attempted to play a new variation of the race card because it always works so well against Republicans. Her recent attack on Florida neatly deflects her own party’s lamentable historic legacy of supporting slavery and segregation. The real shock is the number of Republicans who have shamefully lined up to endorse Harris’ deeply cynical and mendacious lie.
By now everyone has heard Harris’ attack on a single sentence in Florida’s new, 23-page African-American history standards: “Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”
Read in context, as honest-minded people would do, it is clear the intent of this guideline to emphasize that freed slaves were not utterly helpless that victims but possessed resources to build their own self-sufficiency and resilience. They needed to be resilient, given the numerous laws (Jim Crow, etc.) Democrats enacted in southern states for a century to continue the oppression of blacks after the Civil War.
The Florida curriculum, by the way, extensively covers the brutality of the slave trade, the evils of post-Civil War segregation and the long struggle for civil rights against the intransigent opposition of the Democratic Party for a full century.
In fact, the real reason Harris and the left have jumped on the Florida curriculum guide is found on page 8: “Examine the condition of slavery as it existed in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe prior to 1619.” (Emphasis added.)
There’s the rub: Florida is contesting the gross distortions of the “1619 Project” beloved by the left, that holds America is to be wholly understood as a “slavocracy,” as though we invented the institution.
To appreciate the bad faith of Harris’ attack, consider this guideline from the national AP History curriculum that Democrats in other states insist be used: “In addition to agricultural work, enslaved people learned specialized trades and worked as painters, carpenters, tailors, musicians, and healers in the North and South. Once free, African Americans used these skills to provide for themselves and others.”
If Florida had repeated this longer clause in its curriculum guide, Harris could have said the same thing — though don’t hold your breath for her to attack states that use this statement in their curricula. There is, incidentally, considerable academic work, much it by left-leaning scholars, buttressing the point that freed slaves proved highly resilient amidst great obstacles. No one, before now, has ever construed this work as evidence that “blacks benefited from slavery.”
It is understandable why a demagogue like Harris would make this attack. What is inexplicable is the number of prominent Republicans who took Harris’ side.
Presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott, who has up to this point argued powerfully against the divisive identity-politics obsessions of the left, fully embraced Harris’ framing of the issue: “As a country founded upon freedom, the greatest deprivation of freedom was slavery. There is no silver lining . . . in slavery.” The Florida curriculum neither says nor implies that.
Fellow presidential hopeful Will Hurd and Reps. Byron Donalds, John James and Wesley Hunt joined Scott.
“Real leadership would have stepped up and said, ‘Hey, there is no upside to slavery. Slavery was not a jobs program,’” Hurd said. “But this is one more part of a fact pattern of Ron DeSantis being mean and hateful. Former Vice President Mike Pence was only slightly better: “Nothing good ever came from slavery. But I have a hard time believing that Florida intended to say anything other than that in their education standards. I’d encourage the governor to take another look at it.”
This can be chalked up to opportunism among Gov. Ron DeSantis’ rivals for the Republican presidential nomination next year, but it is political malpractice of the highest order.
It’s as if contemporary Republicans have forgotten the GOP voted more heavily in favor of the 1964 Civil Rights Act than Democrats did. As The Washington Post reported Monday, “Democrats are worried about a potential drop next year in turnout among Black voters.” The political fortunes of the Democratic Party depend upon keeping racial tensions at a full boil.
Why would any Republican want to cooperate with the left’s project of stoking racial animosity for electoral purposes, based on bad history and ignoring the appalling record of the Democratic Party as the party of slavery, secession and segregation?

Insane. We're being torn apart by the most vicious blood-libel in our history and these cocksuckers out cocksuck the literal and figurative champion in that department in order to gain political advantage with a voting bloc that votes 95% of the time (several times per election whether they realize it or not) Democrat, and in an election that is likely compromised already by that party. The only candidate in my lifetime to even make a not insignificant dent in that group ironically enough was Donald Trump, and he is about to be crucified as they jump on the bandwagon in the delusion of gaining political advantage on that front as well. The notable exception being Red Meat Ramaswamy.

The total lack of awareness that this nation is no more, and their eagerness to play along in this kabuki bullshit instead of taking principled stands in defense of DeSantis and Trump on these central issues disgusts me no end. I don't give a shit about your ambitions. We have a blowtorch in our face and are about to get shoved into it. My message to these idiots is fuck you people to hell.

Yesterday I touched upon this and it really is a what-the-actual-fuck kind of a pulse-raiser. Or it should be:

“Why would a Covid lab run by a shady Chinese company be operating in Reedley?” wondered Katy Grimes of the California Globe. At the end of July, after multiple reports on the lab, the Fresno Bee and Sacramento Bee were ignoring the story. So was Gov. Gavin Newsom, who shows strong support for Chinese companies.
In April, 2020, Gov. Newsom struck a $1 billion deal for masks with the Chinese company Build Your Dreams (BYD), not known for protective equipment. Newsom kept the details secret and the governor and his pals did not wear masks as they partied at an upscale eatery. It is now known that masks were ineffective and even harmful, but what happened to the $1 billion remains something of a mystery.
In early 2020, the telebriefings of the CDC’s Dr. Nancy Messonnier, conducted on January 17, January 24, January 29, January 30, February 3, February 5, February 12, February 25, and March 10, 2020, faithfully echoed China’s talking points.
On January 24, reporters who asked about China were told, “CDC has a team that’s been in China for many years where we work closely with the Department of Health in China.” There was information “from China” but Dr. Messonnier, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, wasn’t giving it out.
The CDC mouthpiece was “not at liberty to talk about” the issue of travel from Wuhan, and Dr. Messonnier was eager to “compliment the Chinese” for recognizing the source in the “Wuhan market.’ And so on. . .
. . . With this kind of official collaboration with the Communist regime, a secret Chinese lab in California should be no problem for federal and California authorities. Katy Grimes wonders if there are “more labs like this” in California and across the United States.
As revelations await, the allegedly retired Dr. Anthony Fauci is now the subject of an “official criminal referral,” by Sen. Rand Paul for lying about funding gain-of-function research at the WIV. Sen. Paul, a medical doctor, charges that “viruses that in nature only infect animals were manipulated in the Wuhan lab to gain the function of infecting humans.”

Meanwhile, from south of the border – you remember what a border is, don't you? – so many wonderful gifts are coming our way, like this one:

Move over, COVID-19, and say hello to leprosy. Yes, that leprosy, the biblical plague from the Old and New Testaments.
That’s according to the CDC, which says that there is “rising evidence that leprosy has become endemic in the southeastern United States.”
. . . Researchers said a high percentage of cases in the southern United States “were found to carry the same unique strain of M. leprae as nine-banded armadillos in the region, suggesting a strong likelihood of zoonotic transmission.” But while a recent systematic review “supports an increasing role of anthroponotic and zoonotic transmission of leprosy,” another study demonstrated that the cases in the eastern United States, including Georgia and central Florida, “lacked zoonotic exposure or recent residence outside of the United States.”
. . . That led researchers to suspect “that international migration of persons with leprosy is a potential source of autochthonous transmission.” They noted that “The number of international migrants in North America increased from 27.6 million persons in 1990 to 58.7 million in 2020, so a link to migration may account for the increase in incidence of leprosy in historically nonendemic areas.”
. . . So, not only are migrants bringing communicable diseases like COVID-19 and tuberculosis across the Southern border, but they’re also likely bringing leprosy. It’s been added to the Department of Health and Human Service’s (HHS) list of diseases with “public health significance,” according to U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP)

Meh. With people like Tim Scott on our side, who needs leprosy?

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Robert Spencer: "A murder in Brooklyn Saturday puts the spotlight on what America has become, and what it is likely to be like in the future. It also once again shows the weakness of the Left’s “intersectionality” coalition of various groups that claim victimhood, the most coveted status in today’s insane society." (this happened in the neighborhood I grew up in; yikes - jjs)
Why Did a Muslim Stab a Shirtless Gay BLM Dancer to Death in Brooklyn? (to get to the other side? - jjs)
Lloyd Billingsley: "Secret, illegal lab engineered mice to carry the Covid virus and harbored infectious agents - including E. coli, rubella, and malaria."
Covert Covid in California
Victor Davis Hanson: "The Harris Dilemma."
The Biden "Presidency" Is Unsustainable

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS

“Devon Archer’s testimony today confirms Joe Biden lied to the American people when he said he had no knowledge about his son’s business dealings and was not involved,” House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) said in a statement.
Devon Archer Testifies Joe Biden Was on Speakerphone for 20 Calls
“That plea deal was designed to cover up the corruption surrounding Joe Biden and his family. Especially when you look at the facts that the FARA violations were buried in this gun charge and now what Devon Archer has come forward and said, he confirms the fact that not only was Hunter Biden operating as an unregistered foreign agent, but that his daddy was always on call.”
'We Have More Than They Wish They Had On Trump': Byron Donalds Rips Dems After Archer Testimony
Margot Cleveland: "There will be no justice if the court allows the government and Hunter Biden to pretend the $1 million payment from Patrick Ho was for legal representation."
Are the DOJ and Hunter Biden Attempting to Commit Fraud in Federal Court?
"Joe Biden claimed he 'never discussed business' with Hunter."
House Democrat Says Hunter Biden Called His Father During Business Meetings
"Elizabeth Hirsh Naftali has sent millions to liberal politicians and causes, regularly visited White House."
When Hunter Biden's Art Patron Hit Federal Contribution Limits, Her Underage Children Kept the Money to Dems Flowing
"The burden to prove that he is innocent has now shifted to Joe Biden personally."
On the Impeachment of Joseph R. Biden
William Jacobson: "Joe Biden is on a media tour talking about Hunter’s daughter Navy, coincidentally in the days leading up to and during Devon Archer’s testimony about Joe’s involvement in Hunter”s influence peddling, creating a contrived distraction."
Now Joe Biden Can’t Stop Talking About The Granddaughter He Ignored Until Three Days Ago
"Unlike other Biden family members, Navy doesn’t appear to have directly profited from the pay-to-play scheme the Bidens are implicated in."
If the Bidens Recognized Navy as Family, She Would Have Millions From Foreign Oligarchs in Her Account
"For the Deep State’s permanent bureaucracy, Trump was never president."
Government Corruption Helps the Bidens and Hurts Trump
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
"James Savage, a voting machine supervisor in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, filed two lawsuits against Donald Trump, arguing the former president’s public comments about the 2020 election made him the subject of 'hatred' and death threats, which ultimately resulted in him having two heart attacks."
Judge Grants Trump Immunity in Pennsylvania Election Worker’s Lawsuit
William Jacobson: "
Georgia Courts Pushing Aside Potential Roadblocks To Trump August Indictment
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott, who has up to this point argued powerfully against the divisive identity-politics obsessions of the left, fully embraced Harris’ framing of the issue: “As a country founded upon freedom, the greatest deprivation of freedom was slavery. There is no silver lining . . . in slavery.” The Florida curriculum neither says nor implies that. Fellow presidential hopeful Will Hurd and Reps. Byron Donalds, John James and Wesley Hunt joined Scott.
Why are Republicans aiding the left in stoking racial animosity?
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
". . . And other things the media under-reported last week."
Nothing To See Here: “Foibles,” Global “Boiling” Dominate ‘News;’ Militarized IRS, DePopulation, Global Minimum Tax Not So Much
"Honest people do not desperately try to shut others up, wringing their hands about what’s being said or posted."
Hacks and Henchmen: ‘Disinformation’ Means You’re Over the Target
"It’s a typical leftist tactic to turn the guilty person into the victim and then try to cancel the person who dared to criticize her."
Joe Pesci, Sinéad O’Connor, and the Lousy Liberal Media
"The Left attaches to their attacks an entirely unwarranted moral heroism"
Dumb and Even Dumber
"Twitter parent company X corp is exploring a lawsuit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a UK-based dark money nonprofit run by a far-left British Labour Party operative named Imran Ahmed."
Shots Fired: Twitter Explores Lawsuit Against Pro-Censorship Operatives
"He's being punished."
The Journalist Who Started the Revolt Against Transgender Athletes in Women’s Sports
Christian Toto: "Dr. Pinsky's push to interview canceled voices runs afoul of Big Tech censors."
YouTube Punishes Dr. Drew (Again)
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"Perhaps, someday, we will learn the lesson that a crushing tax and regulatory burden doesn’t just hurt some unknown CEO in a Manhattan office somewhere. This burden makes everything harder for everyone, especially companies on the margin of survival."
Yellow Freight and an Economy on the Margin
Though increasingly unaffordable, Americans will still at least have the option to fly. France, by comparison, recently announced a ban on all short-haul flights under two-and-a-half hours in an effort to “reduce carbon emissions.”
30,000 Pilot Shortage + Union Demands Will Make Flying Unaffordable
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"We write to strongly urge the Department of Justice to bring suits against the fossil fuel industry for its longstanding and carefully coordinated campaign to mislead consumers and discredit climate science in pursuit of massive profits.” Democrat Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Democrat Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Democrat Massachusetts Sen. Edward Markey and Oregon Democrat Sen. Jefferey Merkley all signed the letter. (I strongly urge you and everyone like you to die and leave your stinking carcasses for the buzzards and worms - jjs)
Senate Dems Write Letter Calling On DOJ To Unite With FTC Against Fossil Fuel Companies
"There are some things that are front and center – the wolf at the door – including potential conflict, but there’s no doubt that climate represents an existential challenge to all of us." [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden has used that same talking point, calling climate change "the existential threat to humanity."
Blinken equates threat of nuclear war with climate change concerns in 60 Minutes Australia interview
"Environmental group lauds [junta's] work to stop the nation’s ‘truckification.’"
Biden Wages War on America’s Favorite Vehicles: Trucks
"Environmental, climate and vegan activists make their headlines by interrupting the public’s movement and events."
Why do Environmental Activists Intentionally Inconvenience the Public?
"You figure it out."
Lies, Damn Lies, and Kilowatt-Hours
Robert Zimmerman: "The result has been a steady decline in good scientific research, replaced by political influence-peddling, lobbying, and the steep rise of many powerful scientists using positions of authority to push their political agendas, often making claims on all sorts of issues, based not on real research but on what they 'felt' needed to be done."
Scientists increasingly put politics over uncertainty in their research papers
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"Move over, [Chinese] COVID-19, and say hello to leprosy. Yes, that leprosy, the biblical plague from the Old and New Testaments." (we won't "pass over" that one, eh? - jjs)
Now a Disease from Biblical Times Is Likely Coming Over Our Unsecured Border
Byron York: "Frantic Dems now drowning in the cesspool of their own creation."
New York City: A Sanctuary No More
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
“Here we have him in private admitting that it’s gain of function.”
‘Red-Handed’: Sen. Paul Explains Why He Filed ‘Official Criminal Referral’ of Fauci to the DOJ Over ChineseCOVID Testimony
“I was literally suspended from Twitter for predicting this.”
New Biden CDC Head Pushes Annual Chinese Covid Vaccines
SECOND AMENDMENT
"It is not hard to see this is an attempt to punish programs that are Second Amendment adjacent."
Biden Junta Targets Funding for School Archery and Hunting Programs
"Leftists keep on lying about their true goals on guns to get everyone to accept the intermediate steps to confiscation."
Confiscation: Why Isn’t the Far Left Honest About Their End Game On Guns?
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"Forcing people to sign so called Diversity, Equity, Inclusion oaths violates their first amendment rights."
Why Universities Should Get Rid Of DEI Statements
SCOTUS ABOLISHES AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
"The timing is so suspect, I have to wonder, are they that dumb?" said a current Columbia Law student, before the requirement was taken down. "They’re not even trying to hide it."
Columbia Law School Said It Would Require Applicants To Submit ‘Video Statements’ In Wake Of Affirmative Action Ban. Then it Backtracked.
ABORTION
"Ridiculous and disgusting, even for a pro-abortion state like Illinois."
Illinois Sued Over Bill Targeting Pro-Life Counselors, Pregnancy Centers for Supposed ‘Deceptive Business Practices’
"An appellate case about a Tennessean law restricting sex-change procedures on minors shows how Dobbs has brought the concept of 'liberty' back into the realm of sanity."
The Dobbs Framework In Action
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
"Luckily, the Supreme Court has cleared a path for eradicating the Democrat habit of counting votes long after the election until you win."
Beware the ‘Long Count’
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"The state defends a rule barring government money from flowing to parochial schools serving special-needs children."
Religious Discrimination in California
Robert Spencer: "The wave of the future."
San Diego Human Relations Commission Member Says "Book of Jews States Go Kill Palestinians"
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"Nothing, despite all the inconsistencies and strange coincidences."
What Are We Allowed to Believe About Obama Chef Tafari Campbell?
"Weiner, by reacting the way he does, only serves to raise the suspicions of the viewer, in effect encouraging him to dig deeper into the mystery whereas, had Weiner reacted more calmly, he likely would have never thought about it again after the podcast."
WATCH: Anthony Weiner Melts Down When Asked About Clinton Associate 'Suicide' Epidemic
POLITICS
"Polls leading up to the midterm election told a similar story of disillusionment toward [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden. A Quinnipiac poll released in June 2022, months ahead of the midterms, found Biden’s approval rating among black Americans falling 14 points since April 2022, descending to 49 percent."
Washington Post: Democrats Fear Black Voters Will Not Show Up for Biden
Sohrab Ahmari: "Along the way, he is crushing the dream of many conservative professionals."
Why Trump Is Winning the Primary—So Far
li>Jeffrey Lord: "The latest non-surprise."
Trump Leads Big Time In New Poll
Hence the need to castrate and make them drag queens. Testosterone is a helluva drug . . . - jjs
Report: High School Boys Trending Conservative
"The [so-called quote-unquote "president"] frequently departs from the White House on Friday and returns Sunday evening or Monday morning. He has a history of going home to his longtime residence, earning the nickname “Amtrak Joe” from his time being a Senator." (Being a crooked, destructive vegetable is hard work - jjs)
Biden Takes 10-Day Vacation After Spending Over 20% Of 2023 In Delaware
"Most of us here grew up believing that whether a president was Republican or Democrat, we were supposed to respect the dignity of the office. I think we can agree that notion was pretty well trashed by Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, and a cigar. And now, over and over again, by our embarrassingly senescent, hair-sniffing criminal-in-chief."
Joe Biden: Sexy, Sexy Beast
Blitz Canvassing, a vendor owned by GP3 – a Soros and Paul Ryan-linked firm first exposed by The National Pulse – was paid $1.2 million over the same period. GP3 also owns pollster ‘POS Strategies’, which has consistently published ludicrous outlier polling attempting to aid DeSantis. POS does not share its raw data, like reputable pollsters.
DeSantis PAC Spent Near 50% of Donor Cash Through RINO Strategist Jeff Roe’s Firms
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
Mr. Musk has restricted Starlink access multiple times during the war, people familiar with the situation said. At one point, he denied the Ukrainian military's request to turn on Starlink near Crimea, the Russian-controlled territory, affecting battlefield strategy."
Elon refused to provide Starlink for Ukrainian military to attack Crimea
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"The mysterious ’disappearance’ of China’s top diplomat is the latest proof that Xi is a ruthless dictator."
Xi Jinping’s ‘Disappearing’ Acts Leave No Doubt He’s a Dictator
"What an FBI investigation into mishandling classified information reveals about the Iran Lobby."
Biden Used ‘Iran Lobby’ Founder to Broker New Iran Deal
"The spectacle was all the more disturbing because the EFF is growing in political strength and could well play the kingmaker during next year’s elections."
South Africa: Potential Election Kingmaker Leads Stadium in White Genocide Chant
"The bombing occurred at a political rally in Bajur, a district in northern Pakistan on the border of Afghanistan, according to CBS News. The rally was organized by the Jamiat Ulema Islam party, which is headed by Fazlur Rehman, who was not at the event. Rehman has been a vocal supporter of Afghanistan’s Taliban government." ISIS claims responsibility for Pakistan suicide bombing that killed more than 50
Leader Kim Jong Un’s anti-American rhetoric has increased following the election of Joe Biden. During Donald Trump’s presidency, the U.S. enforced strict sanctions on North Korea, which forced Kim Jong Un – “Rocket Man” – to negotiate the country’s own denuclearization. Trump was also the first sitting president to enter the country. Since then, North Korea has ramped up its nuclear testing program and made countless international threats.
North Korea Says It’ll ‘Annihilate’ the U.S. This Century (not before Biden does it first - jjs)
"A Hamas spokesman describes peaceful Jews visiting their holiest site as 'an escalation' of religious war."
Enraged by Israeli Minister Visiting Temple Mount, Hamas Fires Rocket at Israel
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"Iran's head of culture and Islamic guidance in the Gilan province, Reza Tsaghati, was suspended after a video posted online allegedly showed him having sexual relations with another man, violating the country's ban on homosexuality."
You Bacha Bazi Dept.: Islamic Sharia Law Official Removed From Post After Gay Sex Tape Emerges
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
"Americans have lost patience with homeless advocates’ arguments that letting vulnerable people sleep on sidewalks and in parks is an acceptable part of urban life."
End of the Encampments?
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"Revising standards to suit the needs of medical professionals rather than patients will result in the premature deaths of many living people."
Redefining Death Would Pull The Plug On Brain-Damaged Patients
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"Do you own your car – or does it own you?"
The Danger of the ‘Smart’ Car
"Knowing that 3D distribution will allow scientists to better determine the nature of both dark energy (related to the acceleration of the universe’s expansion) and dark matter (related to an undiscovered mass that affects the formation and shape of galaxies)."
Euclid’s first images look good
"If this came from an upper stage, it means it survived re-entry far better than expected, and then survived floating the the ocean for a long period. Since it does not appear as yet that the agency has determined which launch the object came from, we do not know how long."
India officials confirm Australian beach debris comes from an old PSLV rocket
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
The law attempted to ban children from “sexually oriented” performances and forbids Pride events from taking place where children may be present. The law also prohibits “Drag Queen Story Hour,” in which sexually-dressed drag queens read books to children in schools or libraries.
Obama-Judge Suspends Law Protecting Kids From Drag Shows.
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
". . . countless people now recognize how political corporate America has become, and they are not willing to let it continue. Brands like Bud Light, Target, and Disney are likely to be permanently tarnished over their diversity stunts. This is perhaps part of the reason why diversity executives felt they had waning influence and support."
End of an Era: Conservatives Take Scalps In The Culture War
Michael Stone, chairman of Beanstalk Group, a New York-based branding firm, told the Post that targeting younger consumers is the correct approach, but that “Anheuser-Busch made a mistake executing on the strategy.” Yeah, that’s an understatement.
Distributors Have Given Up on Bud Light Ever Recovering From Dylan Mulvaney Debacle
"Now we can’t even drink coffee or wear shoes without thinking of the trannies."
Shoe and Coffee Companies Push Unnecessary Double Mastectomy Surgery
"Storytelling in the Age of the Left is a terrifying descent into Hell, turning upside down the age-old human effort of constructing stories and myths and fairy tales that try to understand the world."
When Icons, Myths, and Fairy Tales Get a Woke Makeover
"Political philosophy and political life itself have entered a post-everything phase, and this has rendered the very meaning of America on shaky grounds."
The Truth is Out There
HITHER & YON
"Reubens requested that any donations be made to Stand Up to Cancer or any organization that deals with Alzheimer’s Disease or dementia-related illness in honor of his parents, Judy and Milton Rubenfeld."
Pee-wee's Big Adventure Is Over. Paul Reubens Dead at 70
"In Barga and elsewhere, people think it’s still morning in America."
An American Night in the Most Scottish Town in Italy
“Moral exhortations don’t work when the hearers lack the necessary material incentives.”
The Catholic Prophet of Inequality

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 01, 2023 07:27 AM (Zz0t1)

2 A rare sighting. Kinda like the Chupacabra.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 01, 2023 07:27 AM (Zz0t1)

3 the best offense is a good defense

Posted by: REDACTED at August 01, 2023 07:28 AM (us2H3)

4 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 01, 2023 07:28 AM (Q4IgG)

5 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 01, 2023 07:28 AM (adINt)

6
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 01, 2023 07:28 AM (ENBF0)

7
"Reubens requested that any donations be made to Stand Up to Cancer or any organization that deals with Alzheimer’s Disease or dementia-related illness in honor of his parents, Judy and Milton Rubenfeld."

Pee-wee's Big Adventure Is Over. Paul Reubens Dead at 70

another grim milestone for the biden administration

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 01, 2023 07:30 AM (ENBF0)

8 Good morning again dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Good morning, kids. I can make strong arguments both for and against Trump and DeSantis.
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Embrace the power of "and."

Oh, wait.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2023 07:30 AM (JvZF+)

9 The BEST thing about Kumswala Harris talking about slavery is that she isn't 'African American,' she has no slavery in her bloodline, and the only actual ties to slavery is her relatives running the slave trade, not being a slave traded.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 01, 2023 07:30 AM (Zz0t1)

10 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 01, 2023 07:30 AM (BRHaw)

11 Todays FOAD Lists includes their own stupid words:

“Real leadership would have stepped up and said, ‘Hey, there is no upside to slavery. Slavery was not a jobs program,’” Hurd said. “But this is one more part of a fact pattern of Ron DeSantis being mean and hateful.

Former Vice President Mike Pence was only slightly better: “Nothing good ever came from slavery. But I have a hard time believing that Florida intended to say anything other than that in their education standards. I’d encourage the governor to take another look at it.”

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 01, 2023 07:33 AM (BRHaw)

12 We're being torn apart by the most vicious blood-libel in our history and these cocksuckers out cocksuck the literal and figurative champion in that department...
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Ace yesterday: But but but Trump is liable for rape!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2023 07:34 AM (JvZF+)

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“Democrats are worried about a potential drop next year in turnout among Black voters.” The political fortunes of the Democratic Party depend upon keeping racial tensions at a full boil.

The Democrats want to keep picking at the scab so it never heels. I wish more Black voters would see through the scam.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 01, 2023 07:34 AM (enJYY)

14 Gonzalo Lira is out on bail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW274f8s-ws

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at August 01, 2023 07:36 AM (eYv2D)

15 Kamala says more in a single sentence than most people say in a lifetime.

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2023 07:37 AM (Iojwk)

16 Mornin’, All. Who the hell is Will Hurd? Never heard of him before this.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 01, 2023 07:38 AM (xTRSc)

17 Happy Tuesday, one and all.

With regards to leprosy coming from south of our border: The people supposedly in charge of our country are just fine with this. First of all, it's not fair that poor countries have to have leprosy. We should be happy to be part of the disease equity movement. Secondly, it will never affect them.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 01, 2023 07:38 AM (4olE8)

18
Former Vice President Mike Pence was only slightly better: “Nothing good ever came from slavery. But I have a hard time believing that Florida intended to say anything other than that in their education standards. I’d encourage the governor to take another look at it.”
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 01, 2023 07:33 AM (BRHaw)

Pure pandering. There was something good that came from slavery. Those people were sold like cattle and some came to the United States, where eventually, they were freed and given an opportunity to become something greater than they could ever imagine.

But you political hacks just go ahead and keep f*cking that chicken.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 01, 2023 07:38 AM (Zz0t1)

19 Early America did take chattel slavery to new perverse heights, treating slaves as effectively breedable, valuable livestock instead of just working war prisoners and criminals and debtors to death and then getting new ones to replace them. But that's just what Americans do as a people. They take what other people are doing, add their own weirdness to it, and crank it up to eleven.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2023 07:39 AM (9UlRk)

20 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2023 07:39 AM (UK4rM)

21 Happy Tuesday, one and all.

With regards to leprosy coming from south of our border: The people supposedly in charge of our country are just fine with this. First of all, it's not fair that poor countries have to have leprosy. We should be happy to be part of the disease equity movement. Secondly, it will never affect them.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 01, 2023 07:38 AM

It's the Democrat way. Join them or they will kill you by any means possible. Really, whether you join them or not.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 01, 2023 07:40 AM (Zz0t1)

22 Early America did take chattel slavery to new perverse heights, treating slaves as effectively breedable, valuable livestock instead of just working war prisoners and criminals and debtors to death and then getting new ones to replace them. But that's just what Americans do as a people. They take what other people are doing, add their own weirdness to it, and crank it up to eleven.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2023 07:39 AM (9UlRk)

You went Jimmy the Greek. Never go Jimmy the Greek.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 01, 2023 07:40 AM (Zz0t1)

23 Kameltoe has been playing Critical Race Theory for some time

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2023 07:40 AM (UK4rM)

24 The trans meme to end all trans memes:

https://tinyurl.com/33hbbnf8

(Nitter)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 01, 2023 07:40 AM (adINt)

25

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 01, 2023 07:40 AM (5hfjS)

26 "Move over, COVID-19, and say hello to leprosy. "

I was already treated like a leper the first time around.

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2023 07:41 AM (Iojwk)

27 The Biden "Presidency" may be unsustainable but the policies will continue regardless of which figurehead the deep state installs as his replacement.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 01, 2023 07:41 AM (9yUzE)

28 Don't eat the armadillos.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 01, 2023 07:41 AM (Mp0gN)

29 Ohferpetessakes. Righties have been hollering that the unhygienic, primitive Aztecs spread disease, including leprosy, for YEARS. Many of these people are barely familiar with indoor plumbing. It's not exactly some big mystery.

We've gotten to the point where the Party is blaming bats, pangolins, and armadillos for their deadly policy decisions.

I don't want to hear anybody make fun of the Soviets or the CCP for blaming bad harvests on beetles and sparrows anymore. Motes, beams, etc.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 01, 2023 07:41 AM (0FoWg)

30 Fun fact… armadillos carry leprosy. The things are everywhere around here…

Posted by: tubal at August 01, 2023 07:41 AM (PCK5/)

31 It's a sad sad situation
And it's getting more absurd

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 01, 2023 07:41 AM (4I/2K)

32 Armadillos are up-armored possums.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 01, 2023 07:42 AM (4I/2K)

33 My read is that the were not saying "something good came from slavery", but that "slaves were skilled, intelligent workers and not ignorant subhuman disposable field beasts like The Narrative would have you believe".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2023 07:42 AM (9UlRk)

34 I'll bet these Rs rushing to condemn Florida are the same ones who run the "we need someone other than Trump, or we'll lose next year" milksops who really want the Ds to win anyway because they hate us.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 01, 2023 07:42 AM (Angsy)

35
Are armadillo eggs safe to eat?

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2023 07:43 AM (Iojwk)

36 With people like Tim Scott on our side, who needs leprosy?

Two different themes tied together with a bow. Nicely put.

Posted by: 7man at August 01, 2023 07:44 AM (qwO6y)

37 Doesn't Kamala's family, somewhere down the line, hail from India? India doesn't have a stellar track record with slavery either. Someone outta' ask Kamala about that. The answer would be 89 words of utter Himalayan gibberish.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 01, 2023 07:44 AM (Q4IgG)

38 That led researchers to suspect “that international migration of persons with leprosy is a potential source of autochthonous transmission.” They noted that “The number of international migrants in North America increased from 27.6 million persons in 1990 to 58.7 million in 2020, so a link to migration may account for the increase in incidence of leprosy in historically nonendemic areas.”

Old Best and brightest
New Sick and dying

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 01, 2023 07:45 AM (BRHaw)

39 I am just happy Bronny is home and resting up from his cardiac experience.

After breakfast, I am going to the movies and see "Barbie".

Then come home and look for tickets to Tay Tay's next concert.

Posted by: 8 year old American Adult at August 01, 2023 07:45 AM (5L/TD)

40 Trump thinks he can knock off his primary opponents like he did in 2016, when he had the wind at his back with lots of good (and bad) publicity.

The FJB administration is such a target rich environment, that's all the GOP should talk about.

Posted by: JM in Florida -- now in IllinoisI at August 01, 2023 07:46 AM (XCXsr)

41 Devon Archer Testifies Joe Biden Was on Speakerphone for 20 Calls

So the 16 or 17 tapes rumor out there is TRUE

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 01, 2023 07:46 AM (BRHaw)

42 Good Morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 01, 2023 07:46 AM (u82oZ)

43 In before the joke about the leper and the prostitute?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 01, 2023 07:47 AM (N3zMI)

44 If you're going to catch leprosy, it's better to catch it from money than from people.

Posted by: Toussaint at August 01, 2023 07:48 AM (5L/TD)

45 Critical Race Theory is the going plan for the Marxists

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2023 07:48 AM (UK4rM)

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

harrumph

Posted by: Vegan influencer who starved to death at August 01, 2023 07:48 AM (Iojwk)

47 Had armadillos all over in Florida, too. Burrowed under my home's concrete slab.

Posted by: JM in Florida -- now in IllinoisI at August 01, 2023 07:49 AM (XCXsr)

48
In before the joke about the leper and the prostitute?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 01, 2023 07:47 AM

It's time someone put their foot down about this foolishness. But it can't be me, it fell off.

Posted by: Father Damien at August 01, 2023 07:49 AM (enJYY)

49 Vegan influencer who starved to death

Darwin smiles.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 01, 2023 07:49 AM (u82oZ)

50 Hunter Biden had to explain how: “I think Owasco PC acted as a law firm entity, yeah.” That’s how Hunter replied initially, but then immediately equivocated: “I believe that’s the case, but I don’t know that for a fact.”

lyin piece of shit

And Justice is in on it!!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 01, 2023 07:50 AM (BRHaw)

51
Blah, blah, blah, this country was built on slavery. Oh, nonsense. It was the worst thing that could have happened to the South this side of William Sherman.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2023 07:50 AM (MoZTd)

52 14 Gonzalo Lira is out on bail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW274f8s-ws
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at August 01, 2023 07:36 AM (eYv2D)

It's been 13 hours. Hopefully he's currently on his way to Serbia rather than sitting in a Uke labor camp.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at August 01, 2023 07:50 AM (DTX3h)

53 Hiya

Posted by: JT at August 01, 2023 07:51 AM (T4tVD)

54 49 Vegan influencer who starved to death

Darwin smiles.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 01, 2023 07:49 AM (u82oZ)

Bleach in the gene pool.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 01, 2023 07:51 AM (BRHaw)

55 Illegal Immigration has been bringing diseases into the country for a long time. You would think this would rile up the wine moms, but maybe this will be the new social status thing.

"Margo has leprosy! I'm so proud!"

Posted by: davidt at August 01, 2023 07:51 AM (SYTee)

56 Paul J. Watson - Global Boiling:

https://youtu.be/OEtV3QlPUaU

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 01, 2023 07:51 AM (adINt)

57 Thanks JJ !

AGAIN !

Posted by: JT at August 01, 2023 07:51 AM (T4tVD)

58
Old and Busted: Good Health
New and Improved: Leper colonies

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 01, 2023 07:51 AM (enJYY)

59 After breakfast, I am going to the movies and see "Barbie".

Then come home and look for tickets to Tay Tay's next concert.

Posted by: 8 year old American Adult at August 01, 2023 07:45 AM (5L/TD)
------

LOL. I don't generally spend much time with Zoomers or my (sorta) own millennial cohort. But last week, I spent a week with some. The women were all jacked up about going to that Barbie thing, and one of the millennials was just gushing about how incredible the Taylor Swift concert was. It's exactly like you say, and it's very, very weird to see up close.

I will say, to their credit, the young men in the group stuck to talking about work, theology, and philosophy. Smart kids. But the ladies do act like middle schoolers.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 01, 2023 07:52 AM (0FoWg)

60 what's really weird is that in 5 years, people will wonder what ever happen to Meatball

I don't think I have ever seen a more dead-man-walking, politically speaking, than Ron

I guess his handlers convinced him that this was his shot

in 2028, he will flatten by much more skilled politicians, Donalds, Youngkin, Vance etc

the only reason he polls at 15 or 20 is he is the hope of the NTers

when they give up on him, he be down with Hurd and Asa

Meatball is terrible at this and would make a piss poor nominee

he only stays in cuz he's got a family and will need a job in a few

Posted by: REDACTED at August 01, 2023 07:52 AM (us2H3)

61
Are we doing leper jokes yet?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2023 07:52 AM (MoZTd)

62 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

Verse for the Day:

"And if you be unwilling to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve...but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."

–Joshua 24:15

Posted by: Tonypete at August 01, 2023 07:53 AM (EJWxb)

63 we are never going to hear another word about that covert lab.

not. one. word.

ever.

G'mornin' Horde, and thank you JJ!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying liars have been lying for decades at August 01, 2023 07:53 AM (JJZMp)

64 The Left's making up innocent cover for Biden Corruption reminds me of the Swedish Penis Pump scene in Austin Powers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTSYPg-KxhQ

This sort of thing ain't my bag baby!

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 01, 2023 07:53 AM (RqMSv)

65 Why are Republicans aiding the left in stoking racial animosity?

Stupidity

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 01, 2023 07:54 AM (BRHaw)

66 27 The Biden "Presidency" may be unsustainable but the policies will continue regardless of which figurehead the deep state installs as his replacement.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 01, 2023 07:41 AM (9yUzE)

///////

Red Meat Ramaswamy has a serious plan for Deep-sixing the Deep state.

Posted by: JM in Florida -- now in IllinoisI at August 01, 2023 07:55 AM (JPtPs)

67 I can make strong arguments both for and against Trump and DeSantis.

I respect you, JJ, but in the long run, it doesn't matter.

1. Neither one will be allowed to win.
2. If, by some chance, one of them does win:
- Trump: immediately hobbled with impeachment and intransigence from 'conservatives.'
- DeSantis: hobbled by his RINO advisors.
3. The 2024 steal will be so blatant and so huge that it will be obvious to even the blindest that it was an illegitimate 'election'. . . and nothing will happen in response.

It hurts me seeing you get agita over a pre-ordained kayfabe illusion.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 01, 2023 07:56 AM (AW0uW)

68 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 01, 2023 07:56 AM (uvymP)

69 Hey all of you beloved fuckers out there... The Donald has proven he is on your side and not that of multinational donors and I believe DeSantis et all is as well, but are being weakened by said donors.

Simple: Get behind him, unite, and clean up your states voter rolls that both political parties(GA and AZ) use to print false ballots. You know what your are getting; think back to your purchasing power in Feb. 2020. Simple.

Posted by: Danimal28 at August 01, 2023 07:56 AM (klw0w)

70 Time for a ag report.

Corn is looking very good in North Central or North East Kansas, helps by timely rain. Soybeans are doing Ok, and sorghum has a slow start.

All the calves born in the spring are weaned, and chomping down on native grasses and hay. Goats, sheep and llamas are disliking the summer high temps, but otherwise are gambling around the pastures.

In my prairie, woolly viburnum is making a show of delicate purple flowers, the beautiful but noxious musk thistle is getting ready to bloom (if I do not cut them down first) and I have seen the first Snow in the Mountain blooming. The local butterflies are thrilled.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 01, 2023 07:56 AM (u82oZ)

71 Are we doing leper jokes yet?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

It appears demand has fallen off.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 01, 2023 07:56 AM (EJWxb)

72 @67 The future isn't written -- Joe Strummer

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 01, 2023 07:56 AM (RqMSv)

73 I think there's something about growing up with the internet that fosters the urge to remain a child forever. Not sure what it is. But the timing lines up. Everything in the culture from Barbie and Tay Tay to all those superheros, to the infantile music I constantly hear, has grown increasingly childish starting about 25 years ago.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 01, 2023 07:58 AM (0FoWg)

74 As I sit here posting this comment from a gorgeous, clean, sunny Florida beach, I will proudly cast my vote in the primary for Ron DeSantis. If something changes, my vote will go to Vivek. I will not vote for Trump or any of the other hidden reefs.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at August 01, 2023 07:58 AM (WZw/N)

75 Goats, sheep and llamas are disliking the summer high temps, but otherwise are gambling around the pastures.

Posted by: NaCly Dog

Salty - they big into the slots?

Posted by: Tonypete at August 01, 2023 07:58 AM (EJWxb)

76 "Meh. With people like (insert almost any republican) on our side ("our side", lol), who needs leprosy?"

fixed it for you, JJ

2 party system: demonrats and a quisling 5th column

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying liars have been lying for decades at August 01, 2023 07:58 AM (JJZMp)

77 I’ve read that modern leprosy is a different disease from the Biblical one.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 01, 2023 07:59 AM (xTRSc)

78 Robert Pratt, of Pratt on Texas, had a good question - who is paying Will Hurd to run for President?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 01, 2023 07:59 AM (f0XAF)

79 We've got armadillos in our trousers. It's really quite frightening.

Posted by: Nigel Tufnel at August 01, 2023 07:59 AM (4I/2K)

80 Had armadillos all over in Florida, too. Burrowed under my home's concrete slab.
Posted by: JM in Florida -- now in IllinoisI at August 01, 2023 07:49 AM (XCXsr)
---
I see them in my neighborhood in south-central MO sometimes, when I'm walking at night.

And I often seen them pancaked in the roads...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 01, 2023 08:00 AM (YIVH2)

81 73 I think there's something about growing up with the internet that fosters the urge to remain a child forever. Not sure what it is. But the timing lines up. Everything in the culture from Barbie and Tay Tay to all those superheros, to the infantile music I constantly hear, has grown increasingly childish starting about 25 years ago.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 01, 2023 07:58 AM (0FoWg)

Yes.

Posted by: tubal at August 01, 2023 08:00 AM (PCK5/)

82 Have a wonderful day, everyone.

Time for chores for me, but may you continue to enjoy high summer and the beauty that is all over America. Well, not in the 'hood, but elsewhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 01, 2023 08:00 AM (u82oZ)

83 As I sit here posting this comment from a gorgeous, clean, sunny Florida beach, I will proudly cast my vote in the primary for Ron DeSantis. If something changes, my vote will go to Vivek. I will not vote for Trump or any of the other hidden reefs.
Posted by: Miss Issippi at August 01, 2023 07:58 AM (WZw/N)
===
Why?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2023 08:01 AM (JvZF+)

84 Project Veritas: Ashley Biden diary confirmation:

https://tinyurl.com/3f6h9t2p

(Nitter)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 01, 2023 08:01 AM (adINt)

85 Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 01, 2023 07:56 AM (u82oZ)

I needed that. Thx

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

86 I think there's something about growing up with the internet that fosters the urge to remain a child forever. . . .
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

My Grampa had a phrase in Pennsylvania Dutch that he used often - something about we having everything we needed from the Lord to be happy and moral. And also everything we needed to destroy ourselves. Choose wisely.

It sounded better in the Dialect.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 01, 2023 08:01 AM (EJWxb)

87 I’ve read that modern leprosy is a different disease from the Biblical one.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 01, 2023 07:59 AM (xTRSc)

It's treatable and not very contagious. They call it Hansen's disease now.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at August 01, 2023 08:01 AM (45fpk)

88 The story about how the biolab in Reedley, CA was discovered is hardly plausible. Code enforcement? An illegal garden hose? I mean, maybe. But seriously? As intrusive as the state of California is in everyone's biz I don't believe someone in state, county or city government didn't know what was going down and was being paid to keep quiet.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 01, 2023 08:01 AM (Q4IgG)

89 I thought leprosy has been known not to be contagious.

Posted by: dantesed at August 01, 2023 08:02 AM (88xKn)

90
Everything in the culture from Barbie and Tay Tay to all those superheros, to the infantile music I constantly hear, has grown increasingly childish starting about 25 years ago.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 01, 2023 07:58 AM (0FoWg)

Agreed

Posted by: Guys who always wear shorts at August 01, 2023 08:03 AM (MoZTd)

91 "Twitter parent company X corp is exploring a lawsuit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a UK-based dark money nonprofit run by a far-left British Labour Party operative named Imran Ahmed."

==

The left have an endless supply of "dark money nonprofits," don't they?

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 01, 2023 08:03 AM (mupln)

92 Handsome disease? That sounds great Todd!

Posted by: Emily Litella at August 01, 2023 08:03 AM (JvZF+)

93 I-uh, uh-I-uh,, l-l-like,, like-uh, uh-like, I-uh like p-p-popsicles

yeah

Posted by: John Fetterman at August 01, 2023 08:03 AM (5hfjS)

94 > Are we doing leper jokes yet?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

How many fingers am I holding up?
(snap)
How about now?

Posted by: DB - shadowy campaign figure at August 01, 2023 08:03 AM (geLO8)

95 80 Hwy 59 from Barling to Van Buren is about 9 miles long, and on any day you will see that many crunched armadillos. River levy on one side, lots of tasty crops on the other.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 01, 2023 08:03 AM (0EOe9)

96 Okay, I'll bite: What is Tay Tay?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 01, 2023 08:03 AM (N3zMI)

97 iirc, Legionnaire's Disease was/is leprosy.

Posted by: davidt at August 01, 2023 08:03 AM (SYTee)

98 How many fingers am I holding up?
(snap)
How about now?
Posted by: DB - shadowy campaign figure

I've got to hand it to you. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at August 01, 2023 08:04 AM (EJWxb)

99 Tay tay is Taylor Swift

Don't ask how I know this.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2023 08:05 AM (JvZF+)

100
My Grampa had a phrase in Pennsylvania Dutch that he used often - something about we having everything we needed from the Lord to be happy and moral. And also everything we needed to destroy ourselves. Choose wisely.

Now that our advanced philosophers are saying that Free Will doesn't exist, so you're not responsible for anything you do.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2023 08:05 AM (MoZTd)

101 Tonypete

My spellcheck AI is trying to take over. Gamboling, not gambling. Sheesh.

You have the eye of a skilled copy editor. So you gots that.

Now really time to go.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 01, 2023 08:06 AM (u82oZ)

102 Thx for ag report, NaCly!

here, the corn and soybeans are making a brave try, rescued from impending doom by a few inches of rain ... all the truck-garden produce is unusually thick skinned, trying to conserve moisture.
Monarch & various swallowtail butterflies are everywhere, but hungry birds are giving them a hard time. the forests smelled green and wonderful in the sun yesterday; so many flowers blooming!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying liars have been lying for decades at August 01, 2023 08:06 AM (JJZMp)

103 What's a Tay Tay?

Posted by: Infidel at August 01, 2023 08:06 AM (0zJ6Q)

104 There are Swifties among us

Posted by: DB - shadowy campaign figure at August 01, 2023 08:07 AM (geLO8)

105 A few months ago on my property I was out in the back forty when I saw a line of miniature panzers, 4 or 5 abreast, moving thru the bushline. First one tank would move, the the next tank and so on down the line and then change up their movement here or there. As they rumbled closer, I was relived it was a line of armadillos and they didn't even bother to look up as the rolled right under and past me. Armadillos have terrible eyesight.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 01, 2023 08:08 AM (5L/TD)

106 I think there's something about growing up with the internet that fosters the urge to remain a child forever. Not sure what it is. But the timing lines up. Everything in the culture from Barbie and Tay Tay to all those superheros, to the infantile music I constantly hear, has grown increasingly childish starting about 25 years ago.

--

It is a topic that deserves attention, because I've thought the exact same thing for a long time. Nearly everything "mass media" is geared towards the childish adult. Commercials, shows, trends, all just silly childishness. Glancing at TV advertising is a big tell. I do think the internet and social media plays a big role in that. But I also think it's part of the plan to infantilize American adults for a host of reasons.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 01, 2023 08:08 AM (mupln)

107 98 How many fingers am I holding up?
(snap)
How about now?
Posted by: DB - shadowy campaign figure

I've got to hand it to you. . . .
Posted by: Tonypete at August 01, 2023 08:04 AM (EJWxb)

High five….no wait

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

108 :::::The 2024 steal will be so blatant and so huge that it will be obvious to even the blindest that it was an illegitimate 'election'. . . and nothing will happen in response.:::

Yup.

There's a couple of indicators that the deep state doesn't even try to hide it anymore. In the past, if the FBI was coming down hard on conservatives, they would at least make a show of busting a couple of Democrats to try to defeat accusations of bias. Now it's just blatant. Come down like a dump truck load of cinder blocks on anyone associated with Trump. Give Hunter and all Democrats a pass.

I knew the fix was in in 2022 when the Democrats didn't even pretend to be moderate because they knew their radicalism was no liability in a rigged system.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 01, 2023 08:08 AM (9yUzE)

109 As to the effect of the internet on people’s personalities, I believe that it inflates a persons ego to often ridiculous levels. People often do carry on like 13 year olds with their “ ideas” on the net and get supported by their cohort of like- minded internet “ friends”. At best it is narcissistic… at worst it veers into a sociopathic mindset where the ideas and feelz are all important.

Posted by: tubal at August 01, 2023 08:09 AM (PCK5/)

110 :::Nearly everything "mass media" is geared towards the childish adult. Commercials, shows, trends, all just silly childishness. Glancing at TV advertising is a big tell.:::

The only time I ever watch normal TV is when I'm in a hotel. It has gotten incredibly stupid, especially the advertising.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 01, 2023 08:10 AM (9yUzE)

111 A conservative might roll their eyes if they see a gay guy dancing around. Isn't that worse than stabbing him to death?

Posted by: steevy at August 01, 2023 08:11 AM (FQmDC)

112
My personal classical music playlist has now reached 4400 pieces by 1450 different composers. In a sense, it's a totally pointless activity but, on the other hand, it's enjoyable to find something new by someone I've never heard of or really hearing the whole of something I should have known about before.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2023 08:11 AM (MoZTd)

113 >People often do carry on like 13 year olds with their “ ideas” on the net and get supported by their cohort of like- minded internet “ friends”. At best it is narcissistic… at worst it veers into a sociopathic mindset where the ideas and feelz are all important.

Posted by: tubal

...but enough about AoS

I KID I KID

Posted by: DB - shadowy campaign figure at August 01, 2023 08:11 AM (geLO8)

114 High five….no wait
Posted by: 7man at August 01, 2023 08:08 AM (qwO6y)
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Fist hump!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 01, 2023 08:11 AM (adINt)

115 Another fun fact about armadillos: Their litters are always of the same sex, either all males or all females.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 01, 2023 08:12 AM (xTRSc)

116 G'morning!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 08:12 AM (t0OGg)

117 Anybody else remember Lone Star Beer's Giant Armadillo ads?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 01, 2023 08:13 AM (N3zMI)

118 "Perhaps, someday, we will learn the lesson that a crushing tax and regulatory burden doesn’t just hurt some unknown CEO in a Manhattan office somewhere. This burden makes everything harder for everyone, especially companies on the margin of survival."

No, we don’t have nearly enough taxes on businesses. They need MORE regulation, not less. It is ALL the fault of free trade.

Posted by: Americans at August 01, 2023 08:13 AM (f0XAF)

119 There’s the rub: Florida is contesting the gross distortions of the “1619 Project” beloved by the left, that holds America is to be wholly understood as a “slavocracy,” as though we invented the institution.
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Uh-oh. That's a big forbidden thing. Disney's "The Proud Family" is going to be pretty unhappy about it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 08:13 AM (t0OGg)

120 Hiya Mannix !

Posted by: JT at August 01, 2023 08:14 AM (T4tVD)

121 Nearly everything "mass media" is geared towards the childish adult. Commercials, shows, trends, all just silly childishness. Glancing at TV advertising is a big tell. . . .
Posted by: Lady in Black

The parental units also have a big hand in this - listening to my SIL talk to her adult children is maddening. SIL is all caught up in the Barbie BS and has fully supported one of her daughters in her quest to participate in competive pole dancing. Not kidding. The daughter looks, and acts like a stripper.

Many times, "No!" is not deployed often enough. (If not, "Hell NO!!").

Posted by: Tonypete at August 01, 2023 08:14 AM (EJWxb)

122 Hiya Grammie !

Posted by: JT at August 01, 2023 08:14 AM (T4tVD)

123 The law attempted to ban children from “sexually oriented” performances and forbids Pride events from taking place where children may be present. The law also prohibits “Drag Queen Story Hour,” in which sexually-dressed drag queens read books to children in schools or libraries.
Obama-Judge Suspends Law Protecting Kids From Drag Shows.

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Meh, not surprised. And I'm no longer surprised that there are incredibly stupid parents that take their children to such filth. I feel bad for the kids who are being used by their virtue-signalling idiot parents, but such is life. They drew the short stick. Because none of this would matter or even exist if Karen and her soy husband didn't want to show off their lefty creds carting their impressionable children to this garbage.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 01, 2023 08:14 AM (mupln)

124 >The only time I ever watch normal TV is when I'm in a hotel. It has gotten incredibly stupid, especially the advertising.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

the only time I see TV is during football season when I watch college football at top secret websites that stream games live

I try to mute commercials- but what I see makes little sense
every 'family' is multi-racial or same sex couples

Posted by: DB - shadowy campaign figure at August 01, 2023 08:14 AM (geLO8)

125 116 Hey, Mannix! Where were you yesterday? We missed you and your babeage.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 01, 2023 08:14 AM (xTRSc)

126 ::::Video shows that Sibley and his friends were all shirtless and wearing swim trunks. While they were gassing up their vehicle, one of them started dancing.”::::

I am picturing the gas station scene in Zoolander but race-swapped.

Doesn't this fit the definition of a lynching or is it PK because Muslims did it.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 01, 2023 08:14 AM (9yUzE)

127 I can't wait to watch the Left turn around and call Tim Scott an Uncle Tom and a house n. Lay down with dogs you get fleas you dumbass.

Posted by: ... at August 01, 2023 08:15 AM (oEVuk)

128
Many times, "No!" is not deployed often enough. (If not, "Hell NO!!").
Posted by: Tonypete at August 01, 2023 08:14 AM (EJWxb)

I'll really give you something to cry about.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2023 08:15 AM (MoZTd)

129 Insane. We're being torn apart by the most vicious blood-libel in our history and these cocksuckers out cocksuck the literal and figurative champion in that department in order to gain political advantage with a voting bloc that votes 95% of the time (several times per election whether they realize it or not) Democrat
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Implied but also explained in a single sentence fragment, albeit a lengthy one.

The cocksuckers doing this are the ones causing the tearing apart.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 08:15 AM (t0OGg)

130 123 Parents like the one proudly recording Biden chewing on her baby....

Posted by: steevy at August 01, 2023 08:16 AM (FQmDC)

131 PSA, to go along with NaCly's ag report. Keep an eye out for snakes. They are looking for shade and water.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 01, 2023 08:16 AM (Mp0gN)

132 Morning, Horde...

I've just read the most bizarre duel I think I've ever seen. Two men fencing with backhoes.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 01, 2023 08:16 AM (YIVH2)

133 As revelations await, the allegedly retired Dr. Anthony Fauci is now the subject of an “official criminal referral,” by Sen. Rand Paul for lying about funding gain-of-function research at the WIV.
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Yeah, I'll get right on that.

:: makes exaggerated wanking motion ::

Posted by: Merrick Garland at August 01, 2023 08:17 AM (t0OGg)

134 I just heard Tommy Wiseau on my head screaming "You are tearing me apart, cock suckers."

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 01, 2023 08:17 AM (9yUzE)

135 I don't watch normal TV anymore. Not worth it

Posted by: Forget about it at August 01, 2023 08:17 AM (NBVIP)

136 The crap about the black history curriculum in Florida ignores that it was written in collaboration with several black historians, at least one of whom has a PhD in history. I believe he was the one who wrote about slaves learning trades in the Americas who then had means to support his family once freed. These opportunists are ignoring that inconvenient fact that is intended to highlight the achievements of some blacks who came out of an evil experience.

Posted by: Jen the original at August 01, 2023 08:17 AM (ARDJV)

137 Rock the Casbah!

*armadillo scritters across the screen*

Posted by: The Clash at August 01, 2023 08:18 AM (4I/2K)

138 Who is Will Hurd, anyway?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 01, 2023 08:18 AM (xTRSc)

139 I've just read the most bizarre duel I think I've ever seen. Two men fencing with backhoes.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

'Murica!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 01, 2023 08:18 AM (EJWxb)

140 I now have my own little conspiracy theory… you know all the climate change alarmists and how the ocean is boiling this summer etc etc. Well yesterday it was supposedly 105 degrees at 5pm here in north Texas when I left the house for a 20-mile after work bike ride for exercise. 10 miles out into the country and then back. Mostly in the sun (obviously). Bottom line: I don’t think it was 105… more like 95. I think our phones and weather people are lying to us to panic us over climate change. I was cautious at the beginning because… 105!! But pretty soon I realized I could peddle as hard as I pleased without getting heat stroke. I think they’re lying about temps…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 01, 2023 08:18 AM (xT8gx)

141 So, not only are migrants bringing communicable diseases like COVID-19 and tuberculosis across the Southern border, but they’re also likely bringing leprosy.
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Now, now. The article doesn't say that at all. It says merely "international migrants." It doesn't specify that it's because of our friends - nay, our betters - from Latin America.

I'm sure leprosy is being brought to us by the Irish!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 08:18 AM (t0OGg)

142 Yellow blew up because of spending on acquisitions like a drunken sailor on leave, and then mismanaging everything.

Posted by: Keep Movin On at August 01, 2023 08:19 AM (Ix9FU)

143 I will, BenHad
saw lots of frogs & toads, probably on that same mission, but no snakes (yet).

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying liars have been lying for decades at August 01, 2023 08:19 AM (JJZMp)

144 80 Had armadillos all over in Florida, too. Burrowed under my home's concrete slab.
Posted by: JM in Florida -- now in IllinoisI at August 01, 2023 07:49 AM (XCXsr)
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I see them in my neighborhood in south-central MO sometimes, when I'm walking at night.

And I often seen them pancaked in the roads...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 01, 2023 08:00 AM (YIVH2)

Obligatory comment

https://tinyurl.com/bdfewe4v

Posted by: Gref at August 01, 2023 08:19 AM (AMIL/)

145 Hiya, JT! Hey, Bulgaroctonus!

I was sick as a dog yesterday. Some intestinal bug. Unpleasant to say the least. Still a bit off, but feeling decently well.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 08:20 AM (t0OGg)

146 138 Who is Will Hurd, anyway?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 01, 2023 08:18 AM (xTRSc)

Short answer, something churned up and promulgated by the Media, the Cauldron of Woe..

Posted by: tubal at August 01, 2023 08:20 AM (PCK5/)

147 Yellow blew up because of spending on acquisitions like a drunken sailor on leave, and then mismanaging everything.
Posted by: Keep Movin On at August 01, 2023 08:19 AM (Ix9FU)
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This, too, is the story of Disney.

We'll see if the endings are similar. I doubt it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 08:20 AM (t0OGg)

148 Today is Spider-Man Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 01, 2023 08:20 AM (NpAcC)

149 Lawyer Alan Dershowitz revealed Monday that President Barack Obama would only attend his 75th birthday if he disinvited Fox News Channel host Geraldo Rivera.

Posted by: DB - shadowy campaign figure at August 01, 2023 08:20 AM (geLO8)

150 Who is Will Hurd, anyway?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 01, 2023 08:18 AM (xTRSc)

Someone who will drop out of the race while making money.

Posted by: dantesed at August 01, 2023 08:20 AM (88xKn)

151 145 Hiya, JT! Hey, Bulgaroctonus!

I was sick as a dog yesterday. Some intestinal bug. Unpleasant to say the least. Still a bit off, but feeling decently well.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 08:20 AM (t0OGg)

Ah. Leprosy…

Posted by: tubal at August 01, 2023 08:20 AM (PCK5/)

152 Senate Dems Write Letter Calling On DOJ To Unite With FTC Against Fossil Fuel Companies

You are no longer to supply the people with straw for making bricks; let them go and gather their own straw.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 01, 2023 08:21 AM (BRHaw)

153 149 Lawyer Alan Dershowitz revealed Monday that President Barack Obama would only attend his 75th birthday if he disinvited Fox News Channel host Geraldo Rivera.
Posted by: DB - shadowy campaign figure at August 01, 2023 08:20 AM (geLO

What was Barys demands for drowning the cook?

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 01, 2023 08:21 AM (BRHaw)

154 I've just read the most bizarre duel I think I've ever seen. Two men fencing with backhoes.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

'Murica!
Posted by: Tonypete at August 01, 2023 08:18 AM (EJWxb)
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Heh! You are more right than you know! One of the men is American, working on behalf of America, while the other is Chinese, working on behalf of China, of course...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 01, 2023 08:22 AM (YIVH2)

155 New Biden CDC Head Pushes Annual Chinese Covid Vaccines
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But that is not all!

Oh, no, that is not all!

https://tinyurl.com/3d4hp3df

(Nitter)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 01, 2023 08:22 AM (adINt)

156 According to the records of Atlantic slave trade, 3% of the transported slaves arrived in the US colonies, 50% arrived in Brazil.

Posted by: SMOD at August 01, 2023 08:22 AM (8Sl/T)

157 >>I just heard Tommy Wiseau on my head screaming "You are tearing me apart, cock suckers."

James Dean has one line, one, and you give it to Tommy Wiseau?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2023 08:22 AM (ZLI7S)

158 These opportunists are ignoring that inconvenient fact that is intended to highlight the achievements of some blacks who came out of an evil experience.

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The left will never stop screeching about it now. They have their attack lines and that's all they'll regurgitate as they throw it all up into the mouths of their viewers.

However, aside from Tim Scott (my very boring senator), I'm disappointed in John James and especially Byron Donalds, a sharp no-nonsense guy who has really been hitting it out of the park, imo.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 01, 2023 08:22 AM (mupln)

159
Anybody else remember Lone Star Beer's Giant Armadillo ads?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 01, 2023 08:13 AM

raises hand

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 01, 2023 08:22 AM (ENBF0)

160 Good morning, Hordelings!

Thanks and Happy Birthday, JJ!

Posted by: Doof at August 01, 2023 08:23 AM (StUJj)

161 My guess is the internet destroyed Yellow. Now truckers can use Uber style apps to pick up loads.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 01, 2023 08:23 AM (BRHaw)

162 Everything in the culture from Barbie and Tay Tay to all those superheros, to the infantile music I constantly hear, has grown increasingly childish starting about 25 years ago.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 01, 2023 07:58 AM (0FoWg)

Diana West called it back in 2008 with her book The Death of the Grown-Up. Read it and be astonished at her prescience.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 01, 2023 08:23 AM (AW0uW)

163 “Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”

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Like granting their descendents the mindset that they should milk U.S. taxpayers for $35T+ and counting in free sh*t, priority hiring for folks who will barely work, priority scholarships for folks who can barely read, free food, free clothing, free shelter, and the ability to continue griping and complaining and demanding more, more, more.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 01, 2023 08:23 AM (CM8Oa)

164 Ah. Leprosy…
Posted by: tubal at August 01, 2023 08:20 AM (PCK5/)
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Probably.

Among all of the plagues - Net Neutrality and Climate Change and COVID and Monkeypox and C. auris, etc. - I don't know how much of me is left for Leprosy to kill, but I am sure it will find a way.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 08:23 AM (t0OGg)

165 I wanna go home with the Armadillos

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 01, 2023 08:23 AM (BRHaw)

166 I don’t think superhero movies are a sign of the infantilization of society. Superman came out in 1978, after all, and having grown up in the 1980s, I can hardly call that a time where people were infantilized. (The Trend to lots of superhero movies points at the uncreativity of Hollywood and their intense fear of Trying Something New.)

But yeah, I can see that something is up in this regard. My first year of teaching opened my eyes to a lot of things - few of them good. Kids have no clue how good they have it now compared to when I was a kid and behave like spoiled brats all the same. (I rarely assigned homework but if I insisted they needed to take time after school to study for a test they would cry and howl. To which I replied “If I dropped any of you kids into a random time in the 1980s you wouldn’t survive three days.”

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 01, 2023 08:24 AM (f0XAF)

167 According to the records of Atlantic slave trade, 3% of the transported slaves arrived in the US colonies, 50% arrived in Brazil.
Posted by: SMOD at August 01, 2023 08:22 AM (8Sl/T)
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It's racist to mention that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 08:24 AM (t0OGg)

168
Slavery in the United States is part of the Poisonous Legacy of Colonialism. The British and French brought it here and we struggled over many years to expunge it. If reparations should be paid, they should be paid by them and the Democratic Party.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2023 08:25 AM (MoZTd)

169 According to the records of Atlantic slave trade, 3% of the transported slaves arrived in the US colonies, 50% arrived in Brazil.

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Where are all the ones that went to the Middle East?
- Questions never asked or discussed

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 01, 2023 08:25 AM (CM8Oa)

170 Between 1525 and 1866, in the entire history of the slave trade to the New World, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World. 10.7 million survived the dreaded Middle Passage, disembarking in North America, the Caribbean and South America.

And how many of these 10.7 million Africans were shipped directly to North America? Only about 388,000. That’s right: a tiny percentage.

Posted by: SMOD at August 01, 2023 08:26 AM (8Sl/T)

171 People, kids in particular, have an insatiable appetite for constant entertainment or diversion 24/7. The effect on their personalities is disastrous.

Posted by: tubal at August 01, 2023 08:27 AM (PCK5/)

172 Mannix a prayer for a speedy and complete recovery.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2023 08:28 AM (JvZF+)

173 Anyone want to make a meme for me?

I envision a picture of a female cashier handing a credit card over the counter to a customer. The cashier should be white. The customer should have Kamala Harris' head badly-photoshopped onto his or her neck.

The caption reads:
"I'm sorry, the race card is maxed out."

Would also work for any number of other people.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 08:28 AM (t0OGg)

174 150: a worthless former CIA agent who became a RINO Rep for TX-19. But for the rest of his life, when interviewed somewhere, the graphic/intro will be “former presidential candidate.” (The last sentence: h/t Rush Limbaugh)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 01, 2023 08:28 AM (f0XAF)

175 Linus - I believe the term of art they are using is "correcting the data" ...
which, as a phrase, should give cold chills to anyone who understands anything about reality.

for several years now, the difference between my observed temperatures (using calibrated thermometers referenced to NIST standards) and the NWS reported temps ranges from 2 to 6 degrees, consistently higher ... so yes, as far as I'm concerned, the are likely boldface lying to us about this, just like almost everything else.
why not? literally no downside, from their POV.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying liars have been lying for decades at August 01, 2023 08:28 AM (JJZMp)

176 No one less than Muhammad Ali once stated something along the lines of that he was actually glad his ancestors were slaves since it allowed him to be born in America. Today's black people certainly could say the same thing. Out of adversity and all that. It doesn't make slavery a good thing to acknowledge certain realities for its descendants.

Posted by: leber at August 01, 2023 08:29 AM (JfWkS)

177 Mannix a prayer for a speedy and complete recovery.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2023 08:28 AM (JvZF+)
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Thank you. It doesn't rise anywhere near that level, but I do appreciate it!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 08:29 AM (t0OGg)

178 Where are all the ones that went to the Middle East?
- Questions never asked or discussed
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 01, 2023 08:25 AM (CM8Oa)
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I think most of them were castrated or died during the journey, so they don't have descendants demanding reparations.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 01, 2023 08:30 AM (YIVH2)

179 73 I think there's something about growing up with the internet that fosters the urge to remain a child forever. Not sure what it is. But the timing lines up. Everything in the culture from Barbie and Tay Tay to all those superheros, to the infantile music I constantly hear, has grown increasingly childish starting about 25 years ago.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 01, 2023 07:58 AM (0FoWg)

The world got to the point where you didn't have to be hard and serious to survive anymore.

And so most people were no longer hard nor serious.

Formalities died, especially with people beginning to do their jobs at home through the internet, which only metastasized during the p(l)andemic, now that some 30 year old with arrested development can write code from home with pink hair, face piercings, and wearing pony pajamas, while having a non-stop stream of porn on his second screen until he fetishizes himself as a troon.

Posted by: XTC at August 01, 2023 08:30 AM (UnA8+)

180 Tay Tays are $20, $10 each.

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2023 08:30 AM (Iojwk)

181 169: or the ones who went to Brazil for that matter. Hint: as bad as cotton picking is, that has nothing on harvesting sugar in tropical climates.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 01, 2023 08:30 AM (f0XAF)

182 "We write to strongly urge the Department of Justice to bring suits against the fossil fuel industry for its longstanding and carefully coordinated campaign to mislead consumers and discredit climate science in pursuit of massive profits.”

I think these people have self-identified as volunteers to go into perpetual black-outs. They should be asked to individually boycott energy generated from these industries and if they don't, then disconnect Babylon DC from the grid permanently.

If cutting off Europe from NordStream gas by blowing up the pipeline is justification for their crusade, then C4 charges strategically placed around Babylon DC are equally warranted and morally justified.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 01, 2023 08:30 AM (p8A+W)

183 Between 1525 and 1866, in the entire history of the slave trade to the New World, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World. 10.7 million survived the dreaded Middle Passage, disembarking in North America, the Caribbean and South America.

And how many of these 10.7 million Africans were shipped directly to North America? Only about 388,000. That’s right: a tiny percentage.

Posted by: SMOD at August 01, 2023 08:26 AM

One other overlooked point is that white people did not go to Africa and capture slaves, their very own black brothers did that for us. Fellow blacks captured entire tribes and sold them to the white man. They knowingly and greedily did it to themselves.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 01, 2023 08:32 AM (QNSds)

184 An armadillo is kinda like an armored car, 'cept it's got feet instead.

Posted by: John Dawson 1972 at August 01, 2023 08:32 AM (tO+U3)

185 I think these people have self-identified as volunteers to go into perpetual black-outs. They should be asked to individually boycott energy generated from these industries and if they don't, then disconnect Babylon DC from the grid permanently.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 01, 2023 08:30 AM (p8A+W)
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Indeed. They should lead by example and voluntarily refuse to use ANY product or byproduct resulting from refining of fossil fuels. No energy. No transportation. No food. No medicine. No clothing.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 01, 2023 08:33 AM (YIVH2)

186 Ciampino's Rescue kitties

There's another more extensive photo update #133 at the link.
Take a look if interested. Make sure to click on
"See Older Updates" as well if it's your first time.
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Posted by: Ciampino -- Corpus Crispy - Texas in the Summer! at August 01, 2023 08:33 AM (qfLjt)

187 Mannix a prayer for a speedy and complete recovery.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2023 08:28 AM (JvZF+)

What happened to Mannix? Did he get thrown out of a speeding automobile again?

Posted by: dantesed at August 01, 2023 08:33 AM (88xKn)

188 183 One other overlooked point is that white people did not go to Africa and capture slaves, their very own black brothers did that for us. Fellow blacks captured entire tribes and sold them to the white man. They knowingly and greedily did it to themselves.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 01, 2023 08:32 AM (QNSds)

Also, Muslims.

Who never met an evil they didn't embrace (aside from wokeness).

Posted by: XTC at August 01, 2023 08:33 AM (UnA8+)

189 While our survival as an ostensibly Free nation depends on the next election , the Republicans( echoing JJ's take this am) are so disgusting and such clueless cowards it can make one wonder what DO these sniveling clowns stand for that's worth fighting for?

Trump May be( is) one of the most imperfect Warriors. Ever. But the son of a bitch fights relentlessly and fighting is the only way to win anything against the Marxists.
This am Accidentally saw clips of Comer and Jordan on Fox .....political stupidity and cowardice on full display. Disgusting indeed.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at August 01, 2023 08:34 AM (FCPbW)

190 Yellow was a conglomerate that never integrated the businesses it had. I think this was a major problem. Not THE problem,but a major problem to be sure.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 01, 2023 08:34 AM (f0XAF)

191 Guess I'll never realize my dream of going to dinner and a movie with Pee-Wee Herman.

Posted by: Kicks Dirt Dejectedly at August 01, 2023 08:34 AM (tO+U3)

192 well, I missed yesterday's Trump vs meatball flamewars

and the idiotic assertion by ace that a finding of liability in NYC means shit

Michael Sussman was found not guilty in DC when he lied to the FBI, in writing no less

NTers are losing so badly that they will now sink to any depths to harm Trump

after a few embarrassing primaries for meatball, the NTers will turn to their real goal, insuring Trump loses

I mean, they got their egos and they have to be stroked

Posted by: REDACTED at August 01, 2023 08:34 AM (us2H3)

193 Pee-wee's Big Adventure Is Over. Paul Reubens Dead at 70

Rather his Big Adventure has just begun.

RIP.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 01, 2023 08:35 AM (aD39U)

194 "Ciampino's Rescue kitties"

The kitties that were born inside my couch turned two yesterday.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 01, 2023 08:36 AM (9yUzE)

195 69: he’s not King.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 01, 2023 08:37 AM (f0XAF)

196 I’ve been told that armadillos are good eating.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 01, 2023 08:38 AM (xTRSc)

197 >the Republicans( echoing JJ's take this am) are so disgusting and such clueless cowards it can make one wonder what DO these sniveling clowns stand for

themselves
It's my view that most people go into government simply to BE in government- the payoffs are incredible

Posted by: DB - shadowy campaign figure at August 01, 2023 08:38 AM (geLO8)

198 The kitties that were born inside my couch turned two yesterday.

https://twitter.com/GenghisKhet/status/1686123443832414208

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 01, 2023 08:39 AM (9yUzE)

199 Lawyer Alan Dershowitz revealed Monday that President Barack Obama would only attend his 75th birthday if he disinvited Fox News Channel host Geraldo Rivera.
Posted by: DB - shadowy campaign figure at August 01, 2023 08:20 AM (geLO

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All three of them should get bent.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2023 08:40 AM (JvZF+)

200 The kitties that were born inside my couch turned two yesterday.

https://twitter.com/GenghisKhet/status/1686123443832414208
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 01, 2023 08:39 AM (9yUzE)
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I sure hope you let them out of the couch!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 01, 2023 08:40 AM (YIVH2)

201 200

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2023 08:40 AM (JvZF+)

202 DC… where you go to sell your soul for money.. cue up Robert Johnson Goin’ Down to the Crossroad..

Posted by: tubal at August 01, 2023 08:40 AM (PCK5/)

203 Mannix a prayer for a speedy and complete recovery.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Seconded !

Posted by: JT at August 01, 2023 08:40 AM (T4tVD)

204 175 - sock, thanks for the confirmation that I’ve not lost my mind. It occurred to me no one uses or even has an old fashioned mercury thermometer or similar. We all look at our phones… who feeds those number in? Yes frightening because everyone believes it

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 01, 2023 08:41 AM (xT8gx)

205 Whew-wee! What happened in the Quick Hits post yesterday?
That was a little extreme. Not exactly rage just the ... anger at Trump and, I guess, his over-eager supporters?

The best riposte was pointing out that using left-wing slurs to attack Trump in retaliation for his leftist attacks on DeSantis wasn't very good form.

As I've said: Trump is a bad choice. And DeSantis is worse.
And DeSantis is to blame for his failing campaign; hiring losing losers that lose. Trump's current passel of loser advisors isn't much better.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 01, 2023 08:41 AM (5jqeq)

206 “Why would a Covid lab run by a shady Chinese company be operating in Reedley?”

Good restaurants? Low taxes? Couldn't afford pricey Smallpox Starter, so settled for inexpensive COVID?

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at August 01, 2023 08:42 AM (MvF+J)

207 >Lawyer Alan Dershowitz revealed Monday that President Barack Obama would only attend his 75th birthday if he disinvited Fox News Channel host Geraldo Rivera.

the former President is a 13-year old girl- "I'm not coming if Susie is invited!"

Posted by: DB - shadowy campaign figure at August 01, 2023 08:42 AM (geLO8)

208 175 - sock, thanks for the confirmation that I’ve not lost my mind. It occurred to me no one uses or even has an old fashioned mercury thermometer or similar. We all look at our phones… who feeds those number in? Yes frightening because everyone believes it
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 01, 2023 08:41 AM (xT8gx)
++++
Which even if those sources weren't lying, they're irrelevant. I look at my phone and then look at my outdoor thermometer, and my phone is almost always showing a higher temperature. The official weather stations are not in my own yard.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 08:42 AM (t0OGg)

209 Pee Wee was great as the comic bookstore owner on "Everybody Loves Raymond" for that one episode.

Let me tell you something about Hackidu. It's evil!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 01, 2023 08:43 AM (5L/TD)

210 Blinken equates threat of nuclear war with climate change concerns in 60 Minutes Australia interview

There is an increasing fear in the energy generation industry that Biden will declare a Climate Emergency and assume complete dictatorial powers that dwarf the C19 overreaction.

Democrats have been pushing legislation to unconstitutionally grant the Executive this power, declared by fiat and comprehensive in its powers.

With the change in arguments that there is so much free power coming from "Renewables" that we can replace transportation, home heating and cooking with abundant electricity, to articles now telling us that its character building to only have power 80 hours a week to run our lives its pretty damned clear that its a coin toss with the Democrats whether to initiate WW3 a/o send the FUSA back into the 19th century.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 01, 2023 08:43 AM (p8A+W)

211 Columbia Law School Said It Would Require Applicants To Submit ‘Video Statements’ In Wake Of Affirmative Action Ban.

In Living Colored.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 01, 2023 08:44 AM (BRHaw)

212 >>“Why would a Covid lab run by a shady Chinese company be operating in Reedley?” wondered Katy Grimes of the California Globe.

It wasn't simply a covid lab -- they had all kinds of other bio agents:
Court documents confirm the CDC found potentially infectious agents at the location. These included both bacterial and viral agents, including: chlamydia, E. Coli, streptococcus pneumonia, hepatitis B and C, herpes 1 and 5 and rubella. The CDC also found samples of malaria.”

Posted by: Lizzy at August 01, 2023 08:44 AM (avru5)

213 The Republican Party is demonstrably, historically, unregenerately incapable of fighting the Left in the manner it needs to be fought. Trump promised something different in his approach, and delivered on many counts of important differentness. But even he doesn't understand how to fight them. I hear the argument that Trump has learned the hard lessons and if elected will turn into an avenging angel, but I am not convinced. DeSantis has shown signs of understanding, and as such will continue to be attacked by his own party in proportion to this (the Party despises authentic fighters).

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 01, 2023 08:44 AM (MoKe9)

214 185: yes indeed, the biggest “climate religionists” should be forced to undergo the fate of the environmentalist whackos in the novel Rainbow Six.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 01, 2023 08:45 AM (f0XAF)

215 >>By now everyone has heard Harris’ attack on a single sentence in Florida’s new, 23-page African-American history standards: “Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”

If I had a time machine, I would go back in time and attempt to prevent any Africans from being imported as slaves into the West.

We could do without the headaches and Jazz and Peanut Butter.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 01, 2023 08:45 AM (up/3i)

216 213 The Republican Party is demonstrably, historically, unregenerately incapable of fighting the Left in the manner it needs to be fought.
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They are the left. Duh.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 01, 2023 08:45 AM (D8mow)

217 203 Seconded!

Thirded!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 01, 2023 08:45 AM (xTRSc)

218
I’ve been told that armadillos are good eating.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 01, 2023 08:38 AM

If you're looking for good barbecue iguana is what you want.

Posted by: Wall of Voodoo at August 01, 2023 08:46 AM (enJYY)

219 199 Lawyer Alan Dershowitz revealed Monday that President Barack Obama would only attend his 75th birthday if he disinvited Fox News Channel host Geraldo Rivera.
Posted by: DB - shadowy campaign figure at August 01, 2023 08:20 AM (geLO

Jerry Rivers gloryhole rep just took a hit

Posted by: REDACTED at August 01, 2023 08:46 AM (us2H3)

220 Pee-wee's Big Adventure Is Over. Paul Reubens Dead at 70

Rather his Big Adventure has just begun.

RIP.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

No dancing on the bar wherever Pee Wee ends up.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 01, 2023 08:47 AM (EJWxb)

221 >>That led researchers to suspect “that international migration of persons with leprosy is a potential source of autochthonous transmission.” They noted that “The number of international migrants in North America increased from 27.6 million persons in 1990 to 58.7 million in 2020, so a link to migration may account for the increase in incidence of leprosy in historically nonendemic areas.”

I am simply shocked to read this.
Who would have imagined allowing unbounded migration of poor people from all over the world, with the assistance of DHS and refugee settlement NGOs, moving into all communities across our large country, we'd see new and previously eradicated diseases spreading!?!

Shocked. /s

Posted by: Lizzy at August 01, 2023 08:47 AM (avru5)

222 Columbia Law School Said It Would Require Applicants To Submit ‘Video Statements’ In Wake Of Affirmative Action Ban.
________

Hostage tapes.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 01, 2023 08:47 AM (lf83v)

223 Dershowitz is only 75? Looks like post-mortem.

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at August 01, 2023 08:47 AM (MvF+J)

224 Sad to hear that Mannix is down with leprosy. If enough of his digits fall off, he will have trouble posting his Mannix Babes. Is there a line of succession?

Posted by: Again With the Finger! at August 01, 2023 08:48 AM (tO+U3)

225 199 Lawyer Alan Dershowitz revealed Monday that President Barack Obama would only attend his 75th birthday if he disinvited Fox News Channel host Geraldo Rivera.
Posted by: DB - shadowy campaign figure at August 01, 2023 08:20 AM (geLO
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Much as I hate to give BHO credit for anything, I admit I would not want to attend a party that also invited Jerry Rivers. Of course, I would not attend a party with BHO, either...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 01, 2023 08:49 AM (YIVH2)

226 Lawyer Alan Dershowitz revealed Monday that President Barack Obama would only attend his 75th birthday if he disinvited Fox News Channel host Geraldo Rivera.
_____________

I think all three of their egos in the same building may exceed engineering standards.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 01, 2023 08:49 AM (lf83v)

227 You know how the left thinks religion is just a big scam that enables powerful people to frighten and intimidate people into obedience? And those running the scam exploit their followers for power and money while violating the rules of the religion all the time?

Now, think about how they operate their Climate Change organization.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 01, 2023 08:49 AM (9yUzE)

228 “Why would a Covid lab run by a shady Chinese company be operating in Reedley?”

The articles have been so poorly written that there isn't any information, which leads me to believe that the "lab" was simply a warehouse to store samples from other labs that no one had any intention of running.

The article suggests all kinds of pathogens which tells me that there is no focus. Occam would suggest that there were discount labs offering free clinics diagnostic services. Low lifes with diseases listed as found in the "lab" come in from clinics, samples taken and sent off to the lab where they won't be tested but fake results will be returned for a fee.

These labs close down, they can't just throw this in the dumpster, so they work up a few strawman entities, and dump their trash there until they can figure out what to do with it.

They just got caught (and I have doubts about the provenance of that discovery given how lazy inspectors are)

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 01, 2023 08:49 AM (p8A+W)

229 Are we doing leper jokes yet?
Not without Charlton Heston, you're not.

there's something about growing up with the internet that fosters the urge to remain a child forever. Status inquiry:
you do know where you fucking are right this minute, right?

"our advanced philosophers" Most of whom are addressed as "Pastor."

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 01, 2023 08:49 AM (4PZHB)

230 199 Lawyer Alan Dershowitz revealed Monday that President Barack Obama would only attend his 75th birthday if he disinvited Fox News Channel host Geraldo Rivera.
Posted by: DB - shadowy campaign figure at August 01, 2023 08:20 AM (geLO

Obama just wants to be the only POC at the gig

Posted by: Jerry Rivers at August 01, 2023 08:49 AM (us2H3)

231 Mannix is mort?

Sad. I heard leprosy is a bitch, but damn......that was fast.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 01, 2023 08:50 AM (vf0Uk)

232 210 There is an increasing fear in the energy generation industry that Biden will declare a Climate Emergency and assume complete dictatorial powers that dwarf the C19 overreaction.

Democrats have been pushing legislation to unconstitutionally grant the Executive this power, declared by fiat and comprehensive in its powers.

With the change in arguments that there is so much free power coming from "Renewables" that we can replace transportation, home heating and cooking with abundant electricity, to articles now telling us that its character building to only have power 80 hours a week to run our lives its pretty damned clear that its a coin toss with the Democrats whether to initiate WW3 a/o send the FUSA back into the 19th century.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 01, 2023 08:43 AM (p8A+W)

Klaus Schwab's daughter has already said that Permanent Climate Lockdown is coming, "whether you like it or not".

Posted by: XTC at August 01, 2023 08:50 AM (UnA8+)

233 Columbia Law School Said It Would Require Applicants To Submit ‘Video Statements’ In Wake Of Affirmative Action Ban.
Hostage tapes.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 01, 2023 08:47 AM (lf83v)

Some lily YT applicant needs to submit one wearing black face and bees talkin all dat ebonics and axing to get into dat skool to learns sumthin.

A really big fro like Fletch wore would be great!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 01, 2023 08:50 AM (5L/TD)

234 RIP Pee-Wee.

His Christmas special is a "drugs without drugs" experience.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at August 01, 2023 08:51 AM (iCOfj)

235 Lawyer Alan Dershowitz revealed Monday that President Barack Obama would only attend his 75th birthday if he disinvited Fox News Channel host Geraldo Rivera.
Posted by: DB - shadowy campaign figure at August 01, 2023 08:20 AM

Didn't Owebama get the message? Liberal shittard Gerry Rivers isn't at Fox anymore. He's readily available to start sucking the liberal cock full time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 01, 2023 08:51 AM (vf0Uk)

236 Climate crisis...

IMO the gaslighting that relates to temperatures, weather, etc. is to prepare the public for the coming "climate emergency." Unlike the "covid health emergency" that more or less ran its course the "climate emergency" will likely never end unless there's a wholesale change in leadership.

*biden gave himself the executive powers to declare just this type of emergency. There has to be at least the appearance of an "emergency" for the declaration to be issued. His handlers seem to want one. Soon.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 01, 2023 08:51 AM (Q4IgG)

237 Reedley had a tax-increment-financing incentive for bioweapon labs, so of course they flock there.

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at August 01, 2023 08:51 AM (MvF+J)

238 I’ve been told that armadillos are good eating.
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*cackle* *cackle*

I read that as "Army Dildos".

*cackle* *cackle*

Posted by: Kamala Harris at August 01, 2023 08:51 AM (lf83v)

239 Sad to hear that Mannix is down with leprosy. If enough of his digits fall off, he will have trouble posting his Mannix Babes. Is there a line of succession?
Posted by: Again With the Finger! at August 01, 2023 08:48 AM (tO+U3)

Perhaps the posting of lovely ladies led to the hand problems. Although I would have guessed carpal tunnel (or blindness) instead of leprosy.

Posted by: Doof at August 01, 2023 08:51 AM (StUJj)

240
Klaus Schwab's daughter has already said that Permanent Climate Lockdown is coming, "whether you like it or not".
Posted by: XTC at August 01, 2023 08:50 AM (UnA8+)

His family bloodline needs biblical erradication.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 01, 2023 08:52 AM (vf0Uk)

241 "the world's greatest ingester of semen and vomiter of stupidity Kamala Harris."

You do very good work, Mr. Sefton.

Very, very good work.

thanks.

Posted by: Boxx Culvert, 2023 pronouns: Shad/dap at August 01, 2023 08:53 AM (pScWL)

242 While in Reedley, be sure to stop at #1 rated Sun China Restaurant on Manning Ave.

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at August 01, 2023 08:54 AM (MvF+J)

243 Sad to hear that Mannix is down with leprosy.
______________

Mannix: How many fingers am I holding up?

Me: Uh, five. . . no wait. . . four. . . oopsies. . . three.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 01, 2023 08:54 AM (lf83v)

244 Point of order: Geraldo Rivera is not a Fox News host.

Can't imagine why Obama would fear him. He couldn't even find anything in Al Capone's basement, and his nose is like glass.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 01, 2023 08:54 AM (4PZHB)

245 buttressing the point that freed slaves proved highly resilient amidst great obstacles.

No! They are not resilient! Blacks are permanently victims and as a race are powerless to help themselves. They require cradle to grave government assistance in perpetuity!

-Totally not racist democrats.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 01, 2023 08:55 AM (O1z4v)

246
Can't imagine why Obama would fear him. He couldn't even find anything in Al Capone's basement, and his nose is like glass.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 01, 2023 08:54 AM (4PZHB)

It just goes to show the pettiness and fragility of the Owebama ego. Such a piece of shit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 01, 2023 08:55 AM (vf0Uk)

247 The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 08:56 AM (t0OGg)

248 Q: What did the man with Leprosy tell the prostitute?
A: "Keep the Tip."

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at August 01, 2023 08:56 AM (MvF+J)

249 Obama can only surround himself with throne sniffers and sycophants.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 01, 2023 08:56 AM (lf83v)

250 The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 08:56 AM (t0OGg)

DAMN YOU internet rumor mill.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 01, 2023 08:56 AM (vf0Uk)

251 Thank you, JJ.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They Don't Kill at August 01, 2023 08:56 AM (0q+t6)

252 It really is insane how quickly so many Republicans from top to bottom accepted that the ruling party used, and is using, the machinery of the state to arrest and imprison political opponents.

To protect the absolutely vital principle of self-rule--without which there is nothing--yes, we do have to sometimes defend someone who many find utterly distasteful and immoral by every measure. One you find repulsive. Or even hate.

You think the state needs to justify itself to the public to falsly convict a scoundrel, that it only destroys freedoms when persecuting a saint? How silly, grab your pitchfork and join the mob-- they will never come for you next, after all: You helped burn the lawbooks.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 01, 2023 08:57 AM (5jqeq)

253 >>“The number of international migrants in North America increased from 27.6 million persons in 1990 to 58.7 million in 2020, so a link to migration may account for the increase in incidence of leprosy. . .

1990 -- 27.6 million
2020 -- 58.7 million
2023 -- ???
What is the source of these statistics, and why have we been told for decades as far back as I can remember that there are only "11 million" illegal aliens in the US?

*Migrants vs. illegal aliens, all word games

Posted by: Lizzy at August 01, 2023 08:57 AM (avru5)

254 Q: What do you call a convention of short Irishmen with leprosy?
A: Lepercon.

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at August 01, 2023 08:57 AM (MvF+J)

255 1/6 of the country’s population is “migrants”.
This is fine.

Posted by: Montec at August 01, 2023 08:58 AM (t16Wm)

256 Never ask anyone at a leper colony to "slip ya some skin."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 01, 2023 08:58 AM (vf0Uk)

257 Which even if those sources weren't lying, they're irrelevant. I look at my phone and then look at my outdoor thermometer, and my phone is almost always showing a higher temperature. The official weather stations are not in my own yard.

I get different reading just from placement on different parts of my yard. You can go to any number of weather websites that post home weather station values and see within a ten mile radius 3-4 degree variation at any given time. When I go for a walk there are very discernable temperature variations as I go up or down a hill.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 01, 2023 08:58 AM (p8A+W)

258 1/6 of the country’s population is “migrants”.
This is fine.
Posted by: Montec at August 01, 2023 08:58 AM (t16Wm)

Democrats. Support them or they will replace you with someone who will, or kill you. Whichever comes first.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 01, 2023 08:59 AM (vf0Uk)

259 Did you hear about the laborer in the leper colony?

He worked his ass off.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 01, 2023 08:59 AM (lf83v)

260 It's not an official paid etc. holiday but it looks like Justin [with no dissent from the "Conservatives"] created a new holiday for August 1st -- Emancipation Day!

The first Monday in August is a national civic holiday though so hoping to piggyback I guess. BTW

https://tinyurl.com/2c25ue9b

Emancipation Day — August 1 - Canada.ca
It marks the actual day in 1834 that the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 came into effect across the British Empire. Canadians are not always aware that Black and Indigenous Peoples were once enslaved on the land that is now Canada. Those who fought enslavement were pivotal in shaping our society to be as diverse as it is today.

Addendum: Local Toronto news here informs me that it's Emancipation MONTH!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 01, 2023 08:59 AM (krqg6)

261 We had Chinese spy balloons fly over the United States and perform figure 8s over military bases to collect information with the U.S. government and military's blessings shortly after the U.S. government coordinated with China to help create a bioweapon in biolabs in China.

Occam requires us to assume the Chinese biolab in the United States is a Chinese biolab in the United States.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 01, 2023 08:59 AM (CM8Oa)

262 Did you hear about the leprosy hockey game?

They had to stop the game because there was a face off in the corner.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 01, 2023 09:00 AM (lf83v)

263 >>Lawyer Alan Dershowitz revealed Monday that President Barack Obama would only attend his 75th birthday if he disinvited Fox News Channel host Geraldo Rivera.

IT'S FUNNY BACUSE IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE THERE ARE THREE PEOPLE I CARE LESS ABOUT THIS MORNING.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at August 01, 2023 09:01 AM (avru5)

264 I’ve been told that armadillos are good eating.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
Armadillos are just possums with an armor coating.
So, yeah they're delicious.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at August 01, 2023 09:01 AM (dr4Q1)

265 > Obama can only surround himself with throne sniffers and sycophants.
__________

Huh.... I would have thought Geraldo would have fit right in.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 01, 2023 09:01 AM (Q4IgG)

266 The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

I'm kicking myself for not being quick enough to post a "When is the funeral" question.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 01, 2023 09:01 AM (p8A+W)

267 Just in the last hour on the internet I learned that Pee-Wee is mort, Joe Mannix is on the way, and Richard Simmons did NOT wear a headband. This Fountain of Information is awesome and wonderful!

Posted by: Information, Please at August 01, 2023 09:01 AM (tO+U3)

268 Point of order: Geraldo Rivera is not a Fox News host.

Can't imagine why Obama would fear him...

--

Never been around gay guys, eh?

It's not fear. It's some sort of imagined petty BS because that's how they think girls work, and they mostly imagine themselves as girl-adjacent.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 01, 2023 09:02 AM (CM8Oa)

269
I get different reading just from placement on different parts of my yard. You can go to any number of weather websites that post home weather station values and see within a ten mile radius 3-4 degree variation at any given time. When I go for a walk there are very discernable temperature variations as I go up or down a hill.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 01,

Yep. When I got my weather station I wasn’t sure where to put it and tried a few different sports. within my small property it could carry 2-3 degrees and humidity 3-5%.

But yeah we know for certain that the erf will warm exactly 1.2 degrees in 2050. 🤣

Posted by: Montec at August 01, 2023 09:02 AM (t16Wm)

270 Did you hear about the lawyer in the leper colony?

He charged an arm and a leg.

Posted by: DB - shadowy campaign figure at August 01, 2023 09:02 AM (geLO8)

271 It would make even more sense if Geraldo is gay.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 01, 2023 09:03 AM (CM8Oa)

272 I get different reading just from placement on different parts of my yard. You can go to any number of weather websites that post home weather station values and see within a ten mile radius 3-4 degree variation at any given time. When I go for a walk there are very discernable temperature variations as I go up or down a hill.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 01, 2023 08:58 AM (p8A+W)
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Yup. One end of town is consistently warmer than the other.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 09:03 AM (t0OGg)

273 As pointed out above, Ben Hur wasn’t afraid of leprosy following Esther’s example. One of the great scenes in film IMO when Willie Wyler shows the blood of Christ falling from the cross and washing the ground in the rain… then Miriam and Tirza discover they’re healed. I gotta watch that movie again… for the 20th time!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 01, 2023 09:03 AM (xT8gx)

274 >>I think there's something about growing up with the internet that fosters the urge to remain a child forever. Not sure what it is. But the timing lines up. Everything in the culture from Barbie and Tay Tay to all those superheros, to the infantile music I constantly hear, has grown increasingly childish starting about 25 years ago.

Huh. Interesting observation.
Narcissists trapped in adolescence. Aligns with my 40+ year old neighbor and her friends dressing up exactly like my teen nieces to go see Taylor - only with a lot of alcohol and drunken "Woooooooooooooos!!!"

Posted by: Lizzy at August 01, 2023 09:03 AM (avru5)

275 "When I go for a walk there are very discernable temperature variations as I go up or down a hill."

Motorcyclists learn this on the first day.

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at August 01, 2023 09:03 AM (MvF+J)

276 Watched the vid of the BLM "dancer" murdered by Muslims in Brooklyn. Pretty much looks like what might happen when two extreme and unyielding viewpoints collide. No victims, just provocateurs.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at August 01, 2023 09:04 AM (z0PdS)

277 Occam requires us to assume the Chinese biolab in the United States is a Chinese biolab in the United States.

Because there were boxes labeled to suggest Chinese origin. Most stuff is made in China, especially the cheap crap a fly by night tech lab would use.

Being how the Chinese business culture is the opposite of Judeo/Christian worldview, I don't doubt for a minute that recent migrants opened up a shop to undercut legitimate labs and this is the fallout.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 01, 2023 09:04 AM (p8A+W)

278 I hear the argument that Trump has learned the hard lessons and if elected will turn into an avenging angel, but I am not convinced.

Neither am I.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 01, 2023 09:04 AM (AW0uW)

279 Yep. When I got my weather station I wasn’t sure where to put it and tried a few different sports. within my small property it could carry 2-3 degrees and humidity 3-5%.

But yeah we know for certain that the erf will warm exactly 1.2 degrees in 2050. 🤣
Posted by: Montec at August 01, 2023 09:02 AM (t16Wm)
++++
Ground-level monitoring is dumb and not particularly helpful if you're trying to capture long-term trends over wide areas. It's great for us as people and our daily lives, but not so much for climatology. You want to be higher, where things are a bit more stable and averages might actually mean something.

This is one of the reasons that weather satellites are so useful. They can sample wide areas very consistently with no ground effects to confound your large data set. It's also why satellite data is not preferred by climatologists - it usually doesn't show what they want to demonstrate.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 09:05 AM (t0OGg)

280 Finger food and an ice cold keg. It won't cost you an arm and a leg. Dance all night to a rotten band. Come on, people, let's give 'em a hand. Saturday night in the place to be. Everybody cut footloose with me, at the party at the leper colony.

Party at the Leper Colony

- Weird Al Yankovic

Posted by: Archer at August 01, 2023 09:05 AM (gmo/4)

281 I get different reading just from placement on different parts of my yard. You can go to any number of weather websites that post home weather station values and see within a ten mile radius 3-4 degree variation at any given time. When I go for a walk there are very discernable temperature variations as I go up or down a hill.
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Yep. When I got my weather station I wasn’t sure where to put it and tried a few different sports. within my small property it could carry 2-3 degrees and humidity 3-5%.

--

And this is no-joke how the official measurements work. They have a station set up in a parking lot at Cape Town, and a station set up in a parking lot in Egypt, and all of that space in between is the average between those two parking lots.

Because that's Science.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 01, 2023 09:05 AM (CM8Oa)

282 The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 08:56 AM (t0OGg)

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So the reports about you contracting leprosy are 100% correct?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 01, 2023 09:06 AM (YIVH2)

283 Yup. One end of town is consistently warmer than the other.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Do the folks at that end eat a lotta beans ?

Posted by: JT at August 01, 2023 09:06 AM (T4tVD)

284 Because there were boxes labeled to suggest Chinese origin. Most stuff is made in China, especially the cheap crap a fly by night tech lab would use.

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IIRC the Chinese spy balloons were using some American equipment, which was comical.

Regardless, I'm done with benefit of the doubt. It's how we've gotten here.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 01, 2023 09:07 AM (CM8Oa)

285
I heard a Mike Huckabee monologue one time where he discussed how he removed the 'official' portraits of former Governors on the wall and put in a rotation of everyday citizens of the state. He reminded his staff to look at the pictures and remind themselves that *they* are who they are working for.

Refreshing concept. Non-existent in Babylon, DC.

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

286 More tolerance and compassion as South Africans call for the genocide of their white countrymen and violence against the French in Niger is causing a military evacuation (which they seem to very good at for some reason).

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 01, 2023 09:07 AM (lf83v)

287 I get different reading just from placement on different parts of my yard. You can go to any number of weather websites that post home weather station values and see within a ten mile radius 3-4 degree variation at any given time. When I go for a walk there are very discernable temperature variations as I go up or down a hill.
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There's a building on my campus that has highly reflective windows. When you walk by that building in the morning, you can immediately detect an increase in temperature in that vicinity because of the reflected solar radiation.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 01, 2023 09:07 AM (YIVH2)

288 Do the folks at that end eat a lotta beans ?
Posted by: JT at August 01, 2023 09:06 AM (T4tVD)
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Not that I'm aware of. Anecdotally from a chat with some liquor store owners, though, that end of town does drink more Bud Light.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 09:08 AM (t0OGg)

289 What happened to the globull warmening? Kinda cool out there. And it's August!!

Posted by: So confused at August 01, 2023 09:08 AM (NBVIP)

290 well, I missed yesterday's Trump vs meatball flamewars

and the idiotic assertion by ace that a finding of liability in NYC means shit

Michael Sussman was found not guilty in DC when he lied to the FBI, in writing no less

NTers are losing so badly that they will now sink to any depths to harm Trump

after a few embarrassing primaries for meatball, the NTers will turn to their real goal, insuring Trump loses

I mean, they got their egos and they have to be stroked

Posted by: REDACTED at August 01, 2023 08:34 AM

I personally thought Ace was flaming on purpose yesterday just to stir $hit up, could be wrong, but that was my gut feeling.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 01, 2023 09:08 AM (QNSds)

291 Klaus Schwab's daughter has already said that Permanent Climate Lockdown is coming, "whether you like it or not".

Let me guess that Ms. Schwab or whatever her name is now won't be held to those restrictions.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2023 09:09 AM (Keyt1)

292 The thing I hate most about lepers is how they’re always hauling carcasses up into trees.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 01, 2023 09:09 AM (xTRSc)

293 How is Tay Tay childish? I agree with superheroes and shit. But liking music? I don’t get the childish angle there.

Posted by: Montec at August 01, 2023 09:09 AM (t16Wm)

294 I have a PWS (personal weather station). It feeds to the manufacturer's weather site (Ambient Weather) and also to WeatherUnderground. If I wanted to (I don't) it could also feed into a NOAA/NWS system but their requirements are off the hook stupid.

Anyway, it's been up and recording all sorts of weather/climate data for about 4 years. I have a dataset for every month it's been online. It's all in .csv format so I can use Excel to analyze the data, draw graphs, do trends, etc.

What's being fed to the public by FedGov and so-called "climate experts" is unmitigated bullshit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 01, 2023 09:10 AM (Q4IgG)

295 #260 BTW
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Effing character limit!

"BTW <50 slaves were freed in British North America; and Ontario had banned the trade and holding even earlier although the Britannica link only mentions the 1793 trade ban."

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 01, 2023 09:10 AM (krqg6)

296 Klaus Schwab's daughter has already said that Permanent Climate Lockdown is coming, "whether you like it or not".

I was wondering how We The People would counter that move. Clearly we have zero representation in any elected office so we can't count on the democratic process here.

Is this how civil wars start? Because I'm thinking we are entering into an extremely dangerous Kill Or Be Killed scenario with lots of collateral damage done on both sides.

I think the opening move would be to cut off services to the Imperial cities. They would appreciate the irony of it. Sort of like when the February 2021 Power Outage in Texas where the iconic photo taken from a balcony from an apartment outside Austin's CBD. There was a ring of total darkness surrounding a brightly lit downtown. Even the parking garages and marquee signs were brightly lit.

Downtown was using power like it was free while the outskirts were experiencing the WEF dream.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 01, 2023 09:11 AM (p8A+W)

297 Consulting Wikipedia, leprosy is difficult to catch, takes years to manifest, and seems to be not nearly as bad as monkeypox. YOLO!

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at August 01, 2023 09:11 AM (MvF+J)

298 How is Tay Tay childish? I agree with superheroes and shit. But liking music? I don’t get the childish angle there.
Posted by: Montec at August 01, 2023 09:09 AM (t16Wm)
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Thematically, her catalogue is fairly juvenile. But I think it's more about how many Millennial (generally) women have adolescent obsessions with her.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 09:11 AM (t0OGg)

299 All branches of our reach-around government will be brought in to fight the plague of leprosy. It affects persons of coler disproportionately and turns them white. This must be stopped!

Posted by: The Ad Council at August 01, 2023 09:11 AM (tO+U3)

300 I personally thought Ace was flaming on purpose yesterday just to stir $hit up, could be wrong, but that was my gut feeling.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 01, 2023 09:08 AM (QNSds)

I was on my phone yesterday, which doesn't allow me to post on AoS, but I so wanted to scream, "You people are all insane! There is not going to be a POTUS DeSantis OR Trump!"

JFC, for all the boasting here about how 'everyone' knows the MFM are propagandistic pieces of shit, it sure seems as though a lot of people are willingly dancing to their fucking tune.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 01, 2023 09:11 AM (AW0uW)

301 I loath the infantilization of America, particularly those who embrace the term "adulting." Screw those people in particular.

But one cultural phenomenon that really stands out in this regard is the popularity of The Big Bang Theory. A group of four supposed geniuses who were nothing more than aged-out little boys.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 01, 2023 09:11 AM (KbCG3)

302 @290

>>after a few embarrassing primaries for meatball, the NTers will turn to their real goal, insuring Trump loses

There is and has never been a rationale for a DeSantis run in 24, the fact that he was, seemingly, pushed into service by his NT overlords, does him no favors.

But, Meatball is gonna Meatball.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 01, 2023 09:11 AM (up/3i)

303 I have a PWS (personal weather station). It feeds to the manufacturer's weather site (Ambient Weather) and also to WeatherUnderground. If I wanted to (I don't) it could also feed into a NOAA/NWS system but their requirements are off the hook stupid.

Dittos to the entire post.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 01, 2023 09:12 AM (p8A+W)

304 I was wondering how We The People would counter that move.

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Best I can tell it would involve the power cables and distribution to the bigwigs' homes and communities.

I mean voting on reducing their overall capacity, of course. Not any sort of direct action or the like.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 01, 2023 09:12 AM (CM8Oa)

305 Where I live we have pretty harsh winters. Not uncommon to have days sub 0. and it can get well into the 90s in summer as well. And people always fucking talk about how hot or cold it is. It’s like yeah assholes it’s called winter and summer. It’s cold every winter and hot every summer. Why does it always surprise you when it happens?

Posted by: Montec at August 01, 2023 09:13 AM (t16Wm)

306
I personally thought Ace was flaming on purpose yesterday just to stir $hit up, could be wrong, but that was my gut feeling.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 01, 2023 09:08 AM

I know when Ace has the desire to ban someone and throw red meat around so I just walked away. Sorry his choice is polling so bad and looks like Jeb Bush on tranquilizers. Vivek makes some good noise right now and will probably move into number two position in the next serious poll.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 01, 2023 09:13 AM (enJYY)

307 That fella who was the head of the leper colony in "Papillon" was also the head zombie in "The Omega Man".

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 01, 2023 09:14 AM (5L/TD)

308 When I overhear the neighborhood wine moms in conversation I think how if they couldn't use the word "like" they couldn't form a sentence.

Posted by: Dude over there at August 01, 2023 09:14 AM (NBVIP)

309 Put away your BIC lighters people. A couple tidbits:

The bacteria that causes leprosy (Mycobacterium leprae) is very similar to the one that causes tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) and the two diseases have many common features. Most notable is that the organisms are very slow growing and the resulting diseases are slowly progressive and insiidious (unlike respiratory diseases like COVID). TB and leprosy smolder, while COVID spreads like wildfire. This also means that it takes prolonged interpersonal contact to become infected with TB or leprosy. However, because of the slow bacterial growth, treatment consists of a prolonged course of antibiotics. But they can be treated successfully.

For a little perspective, "according to the National Hansen’s Disease Program, 159 new cases were reported in the United States in 2020." Compare this to NWS reports of an average of 243 people in the U.S. struck by lightning each year (2009 to 2018 timeframe).

Now there's something that will set your hair on fire!

Posted by: Muldoon, who relates everything to Gunsmoke at August 01, 2023 09:15 AM (l4B/J)

310 In spirit of The Morning Report, I figured I post the most humorous headlines from Lefty sites I've accumulated in tabs:

My Boyfriend Hid His Hobby From Me—Civil War Reenactments. Help! Should I view it as a warning sign about the future?

I’m in My 30s and Absolutely Desperate to Move Into My Parents’ Basement. Like seriously, it would be perfect.

From "Only Murders" to "Sex Lives," disability onscreen is improving but "still not enough". Experts discuss the ongoing need for more thoughtful representations of disabilty in front of and behind the camera.

“Hatred, plain and simple”: “Groomer” trope linked to nearly 200 anti-LGBTQ+ attacks in 11 months. GLAAD and ADL found 356 anti-LGBTQ+ attacks over that span, with nearly half linked to extremist groups.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 01, 2023 09:15 AM (9eUJM)

311 301 I loath the infantilization of America, particularly those who embrace the term "adulting." Screw those people in particular.

But one cultural phenomenon that really stands out in this regard is the popularity of The Big Bang Theory. A group of four supposed geniuses who were nothing more than aged-out little boys.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 01, 2023 09:11 AM (KbCG3)

This is about me?

Posted by: Taiwan waititi at August 01, 2023 09:15 AM (eggM4)

312 "I personally thought Ace was flaming on purpose yesterday just to stir $hit up"

There was a day last week when he was boldfaced pissed right out of the gate. Something again about DJT supporters making demands of RdS. Meh.

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at August 01, 2023 09:15 AM (MvF+J)

313 285
I heard a Mike Huckabee monologue one time where he discussed how he removed the 'official' portraits of former Governors on the wall and put in a rotation of everyday citizens of the state. He reminded his staff to look at the pictures and remind themselves that *they* are who they are working for.

Refreshing concept. Non-existent in Babylon, DC.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 01, 2023 09:07 AM (enJYY)

They went nuts when Trump had regular folk in to visit him in the Oval Office. And not Soros spawn either.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 01, 2023 09:15 AM (x0n13)

314 I was on my phone yesterday, which doesn't allow me to post on AoS, but I so wanted to scream, "You people are all insane! There is not going to be a POTUS DeSantis OR Trump!"

During the bombing of London during WW2, among the smoking rubble, people would crawl out from their collapsed dwellings, sit on makeshift chairs and broken concrete blocks and have their afternoon tea.

Talking about a GOP POTUS is people trying to seek normalcy during time of war - no matter how weird and pointless it seems to the uninitiated observer.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 01, 2023 09:16 AM (p8A+W)

315 302: silliness.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 01, 2023 09:16 AM (f0XAF)

316 Ground-level monitoring is dumb and not particularly helpful if you're trying to capture long-term trends over wide areas. It's great for us as people and our daily lives, but not so much for climatology. You want to be higher, where things are a bit more stable and averages might actually mean something.

This is one of the reasons that weather satellites are so useful. They can sample wide areas very consistently with no ground effects to confound your large data set. It's also why satellite data is not preferred by climatologists - it usually doesn't show what they want to demonstrate.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 09:05 AM (t0OGg)

The NOAA acceptable range of +-2 degree F for a certified weather station is almost 75% of the 2 C warming that will happen by 2050 and kill us all.

Does anybody really know what temp it is?

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 01, 2023 09:16 AM (BRHaw)

317 308 When I overhear the neighborhood wine moms in conversation I think how if they couldn't use the word "like" they couldn't form a sentence.

Posted by: Dude over there at August 01, 2023 09:14 AM (NBVIP)

Form a sentence? For most people, that word is air. Rob them of that and they'd suffocate.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 01, 2023 09:16 AM (KbCG3)

318 More the lab's owners: https://tinyurl.com/2jwyzfyv
Business created on April 3, 2019. How conveniently positioned to service covid outbreak.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 01, 2023 09:17 AM (avru5)

319 297 Consulting Wikipedia, leprosy is difficult to catch, takes years to manifest, and seems to be not nearly as bad as monkeypox. YOLO!
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Yes, it took decades for Fr Damien to catch it himself.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 01, 2023 09:17 AM (krqg6)

320 Sefton: "One of the things on the positive side of the ledger for DeSantis is his standing up to the Left in the crucial area of education. His removal of the vile revisionist blood-libeling of America from the Florida curriculum should be the order of the day everywhere."

Please, no. We need not argue over details of curricula. Simply give to parents the power to determine for their own children which institution, if any, shall receive the taxpayers' $15,753 per student-year K-12 subsidy.
Let the NEA/AFT/AFSCME facilities adopt whatever woke LGB&DS&MTQ they wish. When the NEA/AFT/AFSCME facilities are one option among many, they will kill their brand. See Bud Lite.

Posted by: Malcolm Kirkpatrick at August 01, 2023 09:18 AM (IoPCQ)

321
Thematically, her catalogue is fairly juvenile. But I think it's more about how many Millennial (generally) women have adolescent obsessions with her.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop

I went to her concert with kidlets. The average age in the place was maybe 22. If millennials are obsessed with her they didn’t show up to see her in concert. She like most pop singers has a base of fans who are young-ish people.

I’ve always like Taylor Swift. For a pop singer she’s great. I dunno, I don’t get the hate. And yes I know her politics, but if I only listened to artists who agree with me politically I’d never listen to music.

Posted by: Montec at August 01, 2023 09:18 AM (t16Wm)

322 and drunken "Woooooooooooooos!!!"
Posted by: Lizzy

Oh fer Peter Rabbit's sake! I loathe the Woo People. They have infected every aspect of modern life.

Ball games, graduations, weddings, viewing natural wonders, even Church functions. Ugh.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 01, 2023 09:18 AM (EJWxb)

323 "But one cultural phenomenon that really stands out in this regard is the popularity of The Big Bang Theory."

I noticed that minutes ago when I was looking up 'Sheldon jokes.' I was looking for the sick joke genre from the 1950s-1960s, but all search results were about TBBT, which I never watched.

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at August 01, 2023 09:19 AM (MvF+J)

324 ... I’m in My 30s and Absolutely Desperate to Move Into My Parents’ Basement. Like seriously, it would be perfect. ...
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 01, 2023 09:15 AM (9eUJM)
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Like, seriously?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 09:19 AM (t0OGg)

325 So the Morons are facing Leprosy these days? Its a struggle to be a moron.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 01, 2023 09:19 AM (D8mow)

326 Lightning causes leprosy???

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 01, 2023 09:19 AM (krqg6)

327 Does anybody really know what temp it is?
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 01, 2023 09:16 AM (BRHaw)

Does anyone really know what time it is? - Chicago (in its classic period)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 01, 2023 09:19 AM (xT8gx)

328 Does anybody really know what temp it is?
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 01, 2023 09:16 AM (BRHaw)
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Does anybody really care?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 09:20 AM (t0OGg)

329 312 There was a day last week when he was boldfaced pissed right out of the gate. Something again about DJT supporters making demands of RdS. Meh.
Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at August 01, 2023 09:15 AM (MvF+J)

========

Primary season is stupid and predictable.

Every primary season is just filled with questions like, "Why doesn't the guy I am not supporting use all of his money to attack the Democrat instead of the guy I am supporting in the primary race?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 09:20 AM (LvTSG)

330 When I overhear the neighborhood wine moms in conversation I think how if they couldn't use the word "like" they couldn't form a sentence.

replace "like" with variants of "fuck" and you described guy conversations.

Its sort of like when you watch disaster videos where a boat gets sucked under a bridge in flooding river, or a building collapses real-time or a plane crashes.

Women scream or chant "OH MY GOD" while men let out a long stream of curses.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 01, 2023 09:20 AM (p8A+W)

331 WILLFUL IGNORANCE: CNN Claims GOP Has No Evidence of Biden Bribery

Posted by: SMOD at August 01, 2023 09:20 AM (RHGPo)

332 I’ve always like Taylor Swift. For a pop singer she’s great. I dunno, I don’t get the hate. And yes I know her politics, but if I only listened to artists who agree with me politically I’d never listen to music.
Posted by: Montec at August 01, 2023 09:18 AM (t16Wm)
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She's talented and there's a reason she is as big as she is.

There are tons of late-20s/early-30s dames who are Taylor Swift obsessed. It's weird.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 09:20 AM (t0OGg)

333 Does anybody really know what temp it is?
Posted by: rhennigantx

Does anyone really care?
-- Chicago (and other cities too!)

Posted by: Tonypete at August 01, 2023 09:21 AM (EJWxb)

334 @315

>>302: silliness.

Please explicate the rationale for a DeSantis run in 24 while Donald Trump is the presumptive candidate.

It's not like he's running to the right of Trump in any meaningful measure and his taking, FLORIDA IS WHERE WOKE GOES TO DIE, national is not doing anything of substance.

He's third in a number of essential states, losing to Vivek, who seems to have the energy and pulse of what the GOP base is looking for.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 01, 2023 09:21 AM (up/3i)

335 There are basically two things that aren't childish :

1) War
2) Entrepreneurship

And most people don't have the stomach for either.

Posted by: XTC at August 01, 2023 09:21 AM (UnA8+)

336 WhenI got into weather needing I realized how dumb those national weather maps are. Oh it’s 92 in Dallas is it? Is that downtown? Airport? Suburbs? Cuz I’ll bet somewhere in the Dallas metro area it’s 100 and somewhere else it’s 87.

Posted by: Montec at August 01, 2023 09:21 AM (t16Wm)

337 "Lightning causes leprosy???"

No, but might very well cure it.

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at August 01, 2023 09:21 AM (MvF+J)

338 327, 328 - Horde mind

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 01, 2023 09:22 AM (xT8gx)

339 >There are tons of late-20s/early-30s dames who are Taylor Swift obsessed. It's weird.

Posted by: Joe Mannix

She is who they wish they were

Posted by: DB - shadowy campaign figure at August 01, 2023 09:22 AM (geLO8)

340 > Ground-level monitoring is dumb and not particularly helpful if you're trying to capture long-term trends over wide areas.
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My PWS is on a pole. In an open area. I need a ladder to reach it. It is, by NOAA's standards (such that they are) acceptable.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 01, 2023 09:22 AM (Q4IgG)

341 Will "The Turd" Hurd was my congressman for a regrettable but thankfully short period. During that time he represented the Democrats extremely well while ignoring the Republicans in his district. I laughed uncontrollably when I saw the words "presidential hopeful" with his name attached to them. Just another grifter using an election to enrich himself along with the other grifters mentioned in this report.

Posted by: FrankinTexas...fed up to here at August 01, 2023 09:22 AM (VcHM+)

342
Lightning causes leprosy???

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 01, 2023 09:19 AM

No. But in many cases it can cure it permanently. Ask your physician if 500,000 volts is right for you.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 01, 2023 09:23 AM (enJYY)

343 You don't have to be a weatherman to know which way the mercury is flowing.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 01, 2023 09:23 AM (krqg6)

344 I’m in My 30s and Absolutely Desperate to Move Into My Parents’ Basement. Like seriously, it would be perfect. ...
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 01, 2023 09:15 AM (9eUJM)
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Like, seriously?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 09:19 AM (t0OGg)

Like, totes.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 01, 2023 09:24 AM (KBA0C)

345 Heh, I saw most of the original Longest Yard last night. Never thought I'd say this but the 70s were fun.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 01, 2023 09:25 AM (D8mow)

346 There are tons of late-20s/early-30s dames who are Taylor Swift obsessed. It's weird.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Eh. Her songs are about breaking up and stupid ex boyfriends and first live and shit. A 28 year old who grew up listening to TAYTAY has lived every song in some way. I kinda get it. I also don’t think there’s anything bad about it. A little escapism is fine.

Is it really different than dudes who paint their faces every Sunday to watch “their” team play?

Posted by: Montec at August 01, 2023 09:25 AM (t16Wm)

347 What Could It Be? Mainstream Media Shocked By 30% Increase In Heart Attack Deaths Among Ages 25 To 44

NBC’s the Today show reported, “A national study from Cedars Sinai hospital shows the deaths related to heart attacks increased across every age group since the spring of 2020, but the group that saw the biggest increase isn’t who you might think… The relative increase in heart attack-associated deaths among 25-44-year-olds was a staggering 30%… Experts are still working to figure out why young people are so impacted.”

Posted by: SMOD at August 01, 2023 09:25 AM (RHGPo)

348 Tom Elliott
@tomselliott

Morning Joe defends Biden & Hunter's working relationship:
@Lemire
: "We should put this in context; this is the time when Beau Biden, the president’s other son, was ill & dying & then passed away. So perhaps he wasn’t as attentive to what he should have been"

https://tinyurl.com/mrytxp77

@Eugene_Robinson
: "We know how important family is to the president. So, do you hang up on your son?"

Posted by: redridinghood at August 01, 2023 09:25 AM (NpAcC)

349 >>I’ve always like Taylor Swift. For a pop singer she’s great. I dunno, I don’t get the hate. And yes I know her politics, but if I only listened to artists who agree with me politically I’d never listen to music.

I don't hate Taylor and used to play her first cd in the car. She's fun. However, the way that people have lost their minds over her concert is fascinating. Was in a shop on the Saturday Taylor was in town, and another shopper - a woman with a teen daughter - celebrated securing 8th row tickets for that night's concert right then and there. Can you imagine how much she spent? And she said they'd already seen Taylor twice in other cities.

Woooooooo!

*It's her money and she can spend it as she pleases, of course.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 01, 2023 09:25 AM (avru5)

350 extra, extra small print:

500,000 volts may cause hair loss and erectile disfunction.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 01, 2023 09:25 AM (krqg6)

351 344 I’m in My 30s and Absolutely Desperate to Move Into My Parents’ Basement. Like seriously, it would be perfect. ...
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 01, 2023 09:15 AM (9eUJM)
++++
Like, seriously?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 09:19 AM (t0OGg)

Like, totes.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 01, 2023 09:24 AM (KBA0C)

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Using it in speech I get. It's the modern form of ums and ahs. Using it in writing? That's just, like, fucking stupid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 09:25 AM (LvTSG)

352 One disease I’ve always been affable of is rabies. Nasty stuff.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 01, 2023 09:25 AM (xTRSc)

353 I know it's bad form to speak ill of the deceased, but I posit that Pee-Wee stole half of the Playhouse from Soupy Sales and half from Uncle Floyd.

Posted by: Stolen Valour at August 01, 2023 09:25 AM (tO+U3)

354 Battles are ugly affairs.

Posted by: dantesed at August 01, 2023 09:25 AM (88xKn)

355 Best I can tell it would involve the power cables and distribution to the bigwigs' homes and communities.

I mean voting on reducing their overall capacity, of course. Not any sort of direct action or the like.

I mean no one should ever use a leaf blower to spray down substation transformers with powdered graphite. That would be wrong. Dittos with leaving home-made Thermite canisters on top of neighborhood ground transformers.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 01, 2023 09:26 AM (p8A+W)

356 Lightning causes leprosy???

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 01, 2023 09:19 AM

No. But in many cases it can cure it permanently. Ask your physician if 500,000 volts is right for you.
Posted by: Divide by Zero
+++
Pretty sure we're all gonna be allergic to 500,000 volts.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at August 01, 2023 09:26 AM (dr4Q1)

357 354 Battles are ugly affairs.
Posted by: dantesed at August 01, 2023 09:25 AM (88xKn)

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Just make sure to get your red badge of courage.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 09:27 AM (LvTSG)

358 In before Art again if barely again.

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Wow. Glad JJ's doing editorial-light this week!

Happy Days of Severe Swelter 'roun hyar this week. How does the weather know it's August in Oklahoma. It do!

Posted by: mindful webworker - hey 98.6 it's good to have you back again at August 01, 2023 09:27 AM (bA+oM)

359 >>"We should put this in context; this is the time when Beau Biden, the president’s other son, was ill & dying & then passed away. So perhaps he wasn’t as attentive to what he should have been"

Is there no event Saint Beau can't be made the focal point?

Posted by: Lizzy at August 01, 2023 09:27 AM (avru5)

360 At the BEE:

Biden Makes Things Up To 7th Grandchild By Appointing Her Head Of Ukrainian Shell Company

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 01, 2023 09:27 AM (BRHaw)

361 All of his battles were ugly affairs; and his affairs were all ugly battles!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 01, 2023 09:27 AM (krqg6)

362 The Life re-definition is getting 'interesting'. Worthwhile pointing out it's at least partially based on the Bolshevik Oparin, who argued there is really no such thing as Life:

"Life is not characterized by any special properties, but by a definite specific combination of these properties.”

That is, it's a wholly Materialist view and denies that any thing apparently Living is any different from any thing that is apparently not. Oparin was also an enthusiastic supporter of Lysenko. The 'new' Transhumanism isn't aiming to transfer Life into another container or form, its final goal is to eliminate the idea of Life altogether.
Buckle up!

Posted by: LenNeal at August 01, 2023 09:27 AM (/BBNv)

363 Man, imagine being some backwards hick who believed that there was nothing and then there was a big flash of light and that was how the universe began. What a bunch of idiots.

I believe in the big bang theory, not that religious nonsense.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 01, 2023 09:27 AM (CM8Oa)

364 Living here NE Florida, I know all about lightning.

Posted by: dantesed at August 01, 2023 09:27 AM (88xKn)

365 Today I must, without fail, mow the lawn. Shit.

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at August 01, 2023 09:28 AM (MvF+J)

366 POW

@realDonaldTrump

Let them debate so I can see who I MIGHT consider for Vice President!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 01, 2023 09:28 AM (BRHaw)

367 My PWS is on a pole. In an open area. I need a ladder to reach it. It is, by NOAA's standards (such that they are) acceptable.

Exactly. Two meters off the ground. Still due to proximity to a large body of water, its only a Class 3 station.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 01, 2023 09:28 AM (p8A+W)

368 353 I know it's bad form to speak ill of the deceased, but I posit that Pee-Wee stole half of the Playhouse from Soupy Sales and half from Uncle Floyd.
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Soupy Sales is much moar subversive that Pee Wee. Fucking couldn't stand to watch that guy as a kid. Gave me the willies.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 01, 2023 09:29 AM (D8mow)

369 >>The relative increase in heart attack-associated deaths among 25-44-year-olds was a staggering 30%… Experts are still working to figure out why young people are so impacted.”

It's climate change, obviously. Duh.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 01, 2023 09:29 AM (avru5)

370 Soupy Sales has to be the most unfunniest comic ever.

Or at least tied with Carrot Head.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 01, 2023 09:30 AM (5L/TD)

371 369 >>The relative increase in heart attack-associated deaths among 25-44-year-olds was a staggering 30%… Experts are still working to figure out why young people are so impacted.”
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It's climate change, obviously. Duh.
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My money is on raycism.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 01, 2023 09:30 AM (DmtxH)

372 nood

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at August 01, 2023 09:30 AM (MvF+J)

373 It's climate change, obviously. Duh.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 01, 2023 09:29 AM (avru5)
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Don't rule out Net Neutrality. Or Leprosy. Or Monkeypox.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 09:30 AM (t0OGg)

374 352 “afraid of,” I meant.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 01, 2023 09:31 AM (xTRSc)

375 Noodlum Art

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 01, 2023 09:31 AM (N3zMI)

376 >>Soupy Sales has to be the most unfunniest comic ever.

Or at least tied with Carrot Head.

"Hold my soy milk. . ."
-- Hannah Gadsby

Posted by: Lizzy at August 01, 2023 09:31 AM (avru5)

377 I forgot to mention that I looked up the phrase "Uncle Tom" in Wikipedia and found Will Hurd's picture.

Posted by: FrankinTexas...fed up to here at August 01, 2023 09:32 AM (VcHM+)

378 Republican nominee Tim Scott is a worse Hitler than Trump!

Posted by: Legacy Media, TikTok, and Meta at August 01, 2023 09:32 AM (AMIL/)

379 Debt Tsunami Begins: US To Sell $1 Trillion In Debt This Quarter, 2nd Highest In History, As Budget Deficit Explodes

“There’s just a lot of supply coming. We’ve been surprised by the deficit numbers, which are sobering.”

Posted by: SMOD at August 01, 2023 09:33 AM (RHGPo)

380 a shop on the Saturday Taylor was in town, and another shopper - a woman with a teen daughter - celebrated securing 8th row tickets for that night's concert right then and there. Can you imagine how much she spent?

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She spent what people spend every year to go to the super bowl, World Series, etc. I once paid $700 for nose bleed tickets for a Stanley cup game. We all do dumb shit with our money. 😄

Posted by: Montec at August 01, 2023 09:33 AM (t16Wm)

381 Homebuyers Need To Earn 13% More In 2022 To Afford Their First Home

“Buyers searching for starter homes in today’s market are on a wild goose chase because in many parts of the country, there’s no such thing as a starter home anymore...”

Posted by: SMOD at August 01, 2023 09:34 AM (RHGPo)

382 “Nothing good ever came from slavery"

Were the Israelites not slaves in Egypt--erase Moses.
And Babylon too? Delete Daniel.

And what of those who were actually slaves in America? A white, white man 200 years later diminishes and denigrates their suffering--cheapens it to ... nothing.
Their children--nothing.
Their lives--nothing.
Their legacy--nothing.

Mike Pence calls himself a Christian.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 01, 2023 09:34 AM (5jqeq)

383 “Nothing good ever came from slavery"

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hahahahaha

Hey black people in America, hear that?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 01, 2023 09:35 AM (CM8Oa)

384 The thing I hate most about lepers is how they’re always hauling carcasses up into trees.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

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Guy #1: I spotted a leper in my pajamas.

Guy #2: Don't be silly! They come that way!

Posted by: Muldoon, not quite sure how this meme works at August 01, 2023 09:36 AM (l4B/J)

385 Germans Have "Moral Obligation" To Sacrifice Living-Standards & Wealth, Claims Green Party MP

Despite Germans facing growing poverty, a high-earning Green Party MP says Germans should give away more of their wealth

"Money is not the root of all evil,
Lack of money is the root of all evil" -- Rev Ike

Posted by: SMOD at August 01, 2023 09:37 AM (RHGPo)

386 Please explicate the rationale for a DeSantis run in 24 while Donald Trump is the presumptive candidate.

Trump could die, and then we would be left with Pence or similar.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 01, 2023 09:37 AM (aD39U)

387 Soupy Sales was a comedy genius. Watched his show every afternoon. Collected Soupy Sales trading cards. Did the "Mouse" religiously and when my folks got bugged did it in the hall.

Posted by: RIP White Fang at August 01, 2023 09:37 AM (tO+U3)

388 Juanita Broaddrick
@atensnut
Saw a tweet just now about Laura ingraham’s mustache. Sure enough turned over to Fox and What the heck????

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 01, 2023 09:38 AM (TGPs7)

389 In an apparent attempt to quell the political firestorm sweeping through the banking sector over its politically-inspired decision to debank Nigel Farage, Coutts Bank now says it will cancel its closure of the Brexit leader’s accounts.

On Monday evening, Mr Farage revealed that has received a letter from Interim CEO of Coutts, Mohammad Kamal Syed with a peace offering of sorts, saying it would no longer close his personal and business accounts after it was revealed that the bank had closed them down over his political views, friendships with political figures such as Donald Trump, and even his Twitter posts.

Posted by: SMOD at August 01, 2023 09:39 AM (RHGPo)

390 They woooooo! people all need to die horrible unspeakable deaths.

Now back to your regularly scheduled programing.

Posted by: Archer at August 01, 2023 09:39 AM (gmo/4)

391 Business created on April 3, 2019. How conveniently positioned to service covid outbreak.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 01, 2023 09:17 AM (avru5)

Yeah that date is super sus

Posted by: ... at August 01, 2023 09:39 AM (oEVuk)

392 Get back in that DeLorean, go back to 1619, and turn those damn slave ships around.

Posted by: Buford Tannen at August 01, 2023 09:52 AM (uZ4Ij)

393 All groups of humans have suffered in various ways throughout history. I do know that various members of "the community" have expressed the gratitude that they live here instead of back in the continent of origin. So in that sense, yes, they were fortunate that their ancestors were brought over even under rough circumstances.

Or they could have ended up in Arabia, where the Arab slavers cut off the balls of all the male slaves because they didn't want them to procreate with the women. (Someone should tell Lew Alcindor this.)

Posted by: Beverly at August 01, 2023 09:52 AM (Epeb0)

394 1/6 of the country’s population is “migrants”.

Identical to 1910, then.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 01, 2023 09:55 AM (4PZHB)

395 Immigrant leprosy?

Ellis Island wasn't a welcome center handing out orange juice and train tickets. It was an immigrant screening, medical inspection, and quarantine station. Obviously that was done for a reason. So when did we forget that our biosecurity was important enough to protect and start just waving them in?

Posted by: Gosport at August 01, 2023 11:14 AM (wOMO3)

396
189 While our survival as an ostensibly Free nation depends on the next election , the Republicans( echoing JJ's take this am) are so disgusting and such clueless cowards it can make one wonder what DO these sniveling clowns stand for that's worth fighting for?

Trump May be( is) one of the most imperfect Warriors. Ever. But the son of a bitch fights relentlessly and fighting is the only way to win anything against the Marxists.
This am Accidentally saw clips of Comer and Jordan on Fox .....political stupidity and cowardice on full display. Disgusting indeed.
Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at August 01, 2023 08:34 AM (FCPbW)

This, because it’s Trump or America is gone. People who believe DeSantis will deliver the goods are living in nahnah land

“d”Santis is a traitor, and bought and he will do as told. Period

Trump 2024

Posted by: Gonzotx at August 01, 2023 12:07 PM (MwHgU)

397 6 Please explicate the rationale for a DeSantis run in 24 while Donald Trump is the presumptive candidate.

Trump could die, and then we would be left with Pence or similar

That is the dumbest comment ever. Anyone can die at anytime of anything. President Trump has more energy than 10 “d”Santis

Posted by: Gonzotx at August 01, 2023 12:10 PM (MwHgU)

398 396, 397: please explain the rationale behind the primaries being canceled. Personally, I think we should just go ahead and hold the primaries just in case your King does not in fact deserve to get the nomination.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 01, 2023 02:03 PM (f0XAF)

399 really?

Posted by: Mian at August 02, 2023 03:36 PM (Yllzl)

400 interesting comments and different opinions.

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