The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 2/22/24

Good morning, kids. There's a line from Apocalypse Now where Martin Sheen reacts, about being given the assignment to take out Col. Kurtz for murder, "Charging someone here for murder is like handing out speeding tickets at the Indianapolis 500." Even a cursory examination of the dystopian landscape that our society, culture and government have utterly degenerated into, would likely yield an equal number of examples of corruption. Obviously, as the saying goes, the fish stinks from the head. But that doesn't preclude any number of places within and of the body politic that aren't equally rotten.

In fact, if you want to understand how it is that we've been laid so low, it starts with average people in our own neighborhoods, towns and cities. After nearly 60 or more years of brainwashing primarily in our schools and the parallel shunning of personal responsibility, ethics and morals in exchange for the selling of our souls to the devil, we have produced several generations of citizens who have neither an inkling of what American citizenship means and in point of fact view it as something to be scorned and despised.

What are the hallmarks of a banana republic? If you said a cult of personality, rampant political corruption and the wielding of the instrumentalities of office to silence one's critics, it's not just in Washington DC these days. It's almost everywhere and, as I suggest, it's how DC got to be that way:

The FBI is probing self-described “super mayor” Tiffany Henyard over mounting accusations of misconduct and misuse of office — as the Illinois Attorney General shut down her charity Tuesday, The Post has learned. The eccentric mayor — whose face is plastered across billboards in tiny Dolton, Ill. — is accused of spending taxpayer money on lavish and unnecessary trips and forking over one million dollars on a police detail then using them to retaliate against her percieved enemies.
Lawrence Gardner, 57, said he visited an FBI office after Henyard shuttered his trucking business because he refused to renew a $3,500 political contribution. “The FBI came out and went to talk to me and I gave them all the paperwork that I had,” Gardner told The Post. “They took photo copies … their division is public corruption.”
The business owner said he made an initial donation to Henyard, but she demanded more. “I made the payment,” he said. “Then every year, she started coming and required the same thing, and we had a problem about that.” When he refused to give her campaign more money, officials claimed he was illegally selling alcohol out of his business and pulled his license, according to Gardner, who said the allegations against him were false. The FBI told Gardner they received scores of complaints against Henyard “but they were just starting an investigation,” he recalled. . .
. . . The FBI investigation, first reported by Fox 32, is also using electronic surveillance, the station reported. Sherry Britton, a vocal Dolton resident, said the FBI paid her a visit last week, but she is remaining tight lipped on their advice. “I want to see her stopped,” Britton told The Post Wednesday. “This has to come to an end. This has to stop, it’s ridiculous.”
A spokesperson for Henyard told The Post they are unaware of any investigation, saying: “Mayor Tiffany Henyard and the Village of Dolton have not received any subpoenas and have not been contacted by the FBI or any other law enforcement agency.”
Meanwhile, Henyard’s charity “Tiffany Henyard Cares” was ordered to stop seeking contributions, Fox 32 reported. The charity did not register with the Attorney General’s Office or detail how much money they have raised, according to the station. An investigation by Fox 32 uncovered Henyard using a $10,000 Thornton Township donation for the charity.
They also reported on her using taxpayer money and public employees to support the troubled charity.
Dolton, a small village of about 20,000 residents, is now swimming in around $5 million of debt.

So, shakedown the taxpayers, loot the treasury, plaster your portrait all over place, leave the citizenry to suffer, and threaten anyone who might stand in your way. Doesn't that have a familiar ring to it? And sadly, tragically, the first name that comes to mind isn't necessarily Papa Doc Duvalier and Haiti.

Speaking of third world banana republic shit hole failed states Dolton is, if I'm not mistaken a bedroom community of . . . Chicago.

The lawsuit seeks “relief in the form of compensatory and loss-of-use damages, penalties and fines for statutory violations… as well as associated fees, interest, and other relief as deemed appropriate by the jury at trial.”
In other words, the Windy City is seeking billions of dollars from fossil-fuel companies based on the ridiculous assertion that they peddled products for decades that are now causing basements to flood on the West Side of the city.
I can’t help but wonder if this is a desperate money grab seeing as how Chicago is facing a $540 million budget shortfall in 2024. I also wonder if the recent influx of migrants to Chicago, which is costing the city millions of dollars per week, played a role in the lawsuit. After all, Mayor Johnson has been out and about hat in hand begging for funds from Cook County, the state of Illinois, and even the federal government to cover the cost of the migrant situation.
Of course, Johnson and his administration are also playing the race card on this issue. Angela Tavor, chief sustainability officer and commissioner of the Chicago Department of Environment, argues that “the lived experience of our residents tell us that [the] climate crisis disproportionately impacts under-resourced communities and exacerbates racial inequities.”
. . . If the six companies in the lawsuit decide to close shop in the Windy City, how would that impact the millions of Chicagoans who rely on the oil and natural gas delivered by those very companies on a daily basis? Would it improve their living conditions? Would it lift them from poverty? Would it even make any difference in the worldwide weather patterns that inevitably affect Chicago? In a word, no.
Ironically, this idiotic and baseless lawsuit will most likely result in Johnson’s constituents having less access to the affordable, abundant, and reliable energy that they crave.
Even worse, if the fossil-fuel industry were to declare Chicago a no-go zone in the future due to their concerns of potential litigation, the city would cease to function. Life in Chicago as we know it would grind to a halt.

This is of course madness. And it's a madness that feeds upon itself until at some point it has to consume itself. When Stalin's numerous 5-Year Plans ultimately and inevitably failed, whatever the firing squads couldn't deal with were shipped off to the gulags. Of course none of "the usual suspects" were to blame for counter-revolutionary subversion and sabotage when as we all know it was the policies and those who pimped them that were at fault.

They unleashed the criminals by decriminalizing crime and when businesses close up shop rather than being robbed and looted with impunity, it's the business owners that are accused of being "racist" since getting robbed is quite obviously seen as some sort of reparations for slavery or someting. Meh, tell that to the true believer who sees everything through the warped prism of Leftist anti-American, anti-Western dogma.

Even black Americans, after suffering the depredations of the anarcho-terrorist crimewave unleashed by their elected representatives and exacerbated by a wide open border have had enough of this crap. Another hallmark of banana republics and failed states are vigilantism and death squads.

Look what the hell is happening in this one Pennsylvania town. At some point, when law enforcement cannot and worse will not enforce the laws to protect the citizenry, there will be a reaction. In a sane world, there would be.

Meanwhile in another part of the forest, kangaroo courts, show trials and clearly anti-Constitutional verdicts are being hurled at Donald Trump for one reason and one reason only: his continued threat to the past nearly 80 years of the Ponzi scheme that was postwar America which he exposed and is now crashing in on itself.

There are eerie commonalities in all these five court cases involving plaintiff E. Jean Carroll, Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, New York Attorney General Letitia James, federal special counsel Jack Smith, and Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis.
One, they are either unapologetically left-wing or associated with liberal causes. They filed their legal writs in big-city, left-wing America—Atlanta, New York, Washington—where liberal judges and jury pools predominate in a manner not characteristic of the country at large.
Two, they are overtly political. Bragg, James, and Willis have either campaigned for office or raised campaign funds by promising to get or even destroy Donald Trump. Carroll’s suit was funded by left-wing billionaire Reid Hoffman. Smith sued to rush his court schedule in hopes of putting Trump on trial before the November election.
Three, there would not be any of these cases had Donald Trump not run for the presidency or not been a conservative. . . Four, in all these cases, the charges could have been equally applicable to fellow left-wing public figures and officials. . .
. . . We are entering a dangerous era in America.
Ideology and party affiliations increasingly determine guilt and punishment. Opponents are first targeted, and then laws are twisted and redefined to convict them.
The left is waging lawfare with the implicit message to political opponents: either keep quiet or suffer the consequences.

And now Letitia James, the Fani Willis of Dolton IL mayors is threatening to literally seize Trump Tower because, obviously, she can!

Of course, with everything collapsing in on the junta and unfortunately on top of us, what does the Kalorama Klown Komintern think will save the day?

Well, wipe Israel off the map, naturally!

It appears President Biden is moving to sell out Israel, with a possible UN Security Council resolution calling for a “temporary” cease-fire (which would surely become permanent) and opposition to an Israeli attack on Rafah, the last major Hamas stronghold.
But then Tuesday the United States vetoed a Security Council resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire, which our garbage media are shamefully describing as “widely supported” without reporting that within the UN “diplomatic community,” antisemitism is “widely supported.”
What the hell is going on?
A closer look at the Biden resolution draft reveals equivocations, calling for a cease-fire “as soon as practicable” and linking it to hostage releases, which “would help to create the conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities.” Clearly Biden wants to have it both ways, posturing as someone who supports Israel while working for a “diplomatic” solution. Do Biden’s people, let alone the rest of the world, really think this mealymouthed resolution would be taken seriously? . .
. . . Older Democrats mostly support Israel, but younger Democrats, many of them hopped up by the antisemitic ideologies of college-campus hothouses, support an unconditional cease-fire, when they are not actually pro-Hamas. The irresolute Biden, facing a tough re-election and paralyzed by progressive kryptonite, is trying to have both ways. Biden has never been a stout supporter of Israel.
His clashes with Israeli leaders date back to the 1980s at least, when he sparred publicly and privately with then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that relations between Biden and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are at “the breaking point”: “Biden abruptly ended their Christmas-week call following a tense exchange about civilian casualties,” it said.
“Biden, who was so angry that he was almost shouting in the Dec. 28 call, according to officials, declared the conversation ‘over’ and hung up.” The final piece of evidence of Biden’s bad faith is the persistent talk of creating a Palestinian state — the mythical “two-state” solution — to help end the war against Hamas. . .
. . . If a Palestinian state is the ultimate outcome of the current conflict, it will mean Israel was defeated by the Oct. 7 attack, even if Israel kills every Hamas fighter. Even in his present debilitated state, President Biden surely knows this, but his political self-interest, as always, will determine his decisions.

As disastrous as this would be, I don't think it's going to happen. Just as Latino- and Black Americans are disgusted with Biden, so are a growing segment of a previously divided lsraeli society.

Meh. Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants becomes the great unifier he was pimped as.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"The IRS’ practices are so egregious, I’m just going to report to all of you what Mena told the undercover journalist, and you can decide for yourselves."
Bombshell Report: O'Keefe Media Group Uncovers IRS's Use of AI to Spy on Americans' Bank Accounts, DOJ/IG Run Program
"The litigation boils down to the public’s right to know what makes the mind behind a mass shooting tick."
11 Months After Nashville Christian School Attack, Police Are Still Hiding Trans Shooter’s Manifesto
Victor Davis Hanson: "We are entering a dangerous era in America. The left is waging lawfare with the implicit message to political opponents: either keep quiet or suffer the consequences."
Blue Laws for Red Citizens
"Unfortunately, CBDCs [central bank digital currency] probably would be not only the ultimate government surveillance tool but, therefore, also a way to prevent political and religious dissidents from buying anything or going anywhere."
Experts, Politicians Cite Dangers of Feds’ Planned Digital Currency

ISRAEL AT WAR

Robert Spencer: "It has been clear for quite some time what side Biden is on."
Biden Regime Plans to Give Hamas a Grand Reward for Murdering 1,200 Israelis
"What the hell is going on? A closer look at the Biden resolution draft reveals equivocations, calling for a cease-fire 'as soon as practicable' and linking it to hostage releases, which 'would help to create the conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities.' Clearly Biden wants to have it both ways, posturing as someone who supports Israel while working for a “diplomatic” solution. Do Biden’s people, let alone the rest of the world, really think this mealymouthed resolution would be taken seriously?"
Biden the Political Opportunist Might Sell Out Israel to Save His Own Hide
Green is one of hundreds of Israelis who have traveled from across the country in the past month and a half to try to illegally obstruct aid from reaching Gaza. The rise of the anti-aid protests, led by an upstart group called Tzav 9, comes as the horrors of Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack have hardened Israelis' attitudes toward both the Palestinians and the international forces that support their struggle against the Jewish state.
Opposition to Humanitarian Aid for Gaza Goes Mainstream in Israel
Peter Hitchens: "Forty years of dealmaking have seen nothing but deteriorating conditions in the Holy Land."
The U.S. Should Get Out of the Israel-"Palestine" Game
David Harsanyi: "There is a gross moral hypocrisy in how the [so-called quote-unquote "president"] treats our allies."
While Biden Pushes Ukraine To Fight, He Demands Israel Surrender
"As Breitbart News reported, Blinken had earlier publicized his meeting with Lula, and praised him, without mentioning that the Brazilian leader had recently abused the memory of the Holocaust to criticize Israel’s war of self-defense against Hamas terrorists."
Israeli Minister Calls Out Blinken for ‘Rushing to Embrace a Holocaust-denying Antisemite’
Pelosi may have been seeking to restore her reputation among Muslim voters, which was damaged after she claimed pro-Palestinian demonstrators protesting for a ceasefire were peddling “Mr. Putin’s message” and urged the FBI to investigate them. The 83-year-old also took aim at Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, claiming she “had it with Netanyahu years ago, I mean, really, not trying to make peace or anything all along.”
WATCH: Malig-Nancy Pelosi Boasts She Protects "Palestinian" Terror Suspects from the FBI
"What one survivor of Hamas’s October 7 atrocities saw at the Nova music festival."
A Clear Blue Sky Over Israel

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Daniel Greenfield: "Hamas may be losing in Gaza, but it’s winning in Michigan."
Michigan Muslims Take Biden Hostage to Save Hamas
"‘They call Waters an anti-Semite for dressing up in a leather jacket,’ lecturer Dwayne Booth said in interview with socialist site."
Pink Floyd Frontman's Nazi Uniform Was No Big Deal, Penn's Anti-Semitic Cartoonist Says
"Featuring woman thrown off the Broward School Board for promoting anti-Semitism."
South Florida Muslim Federation Finds New Venue for Its Pro-Hamas Conference
"Do they know – or care – how they would fare under Islamic Law?"
The Nitwits on Campuses Who Want an End to Israel
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"Charles Rich and his wife are precluded from being on the Hopkins School's campus."
Connecticut Private School Takes Action Against Employee Who Joined Wife to Protest Outside Jewish Family’s Home
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
“This means the Biden [junta] directly subsidized ‘undocumented’ immigration under the guise of COVID-19 pandemic relief.”
Blue States, Cities Using COVID Funds to Support Illegal Immigrants
Maybe it's time for an organized citizens committee to quash the plague "by any means necessary" - jjs
Organized Migrant ‘Theft Groups’ Plague Pennsylvania Town
"On Wednesday, Adams said he is canceling the proposed budget cuts and will instead reduce taxpayer funding currently going to newly arrived border crossers and illegal aliens. Specifically, Adams said his office would cut another 10 percent in city-funded services for border crossers and illegal aliens and halt plans to carry out billions in more budget cuts on New Yorkers."
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Vows to Cut Funding to Migrants amid Record-Low Approval
"States are running out of options for how to deal with the migrant crisis."
Liberals Want Americans to House Illegal Immigrants: Is Your Home Next?
The lawsuit accuses Annunciation House of “openly and flagrantly violating many provisions of law in a systemic fashion.” These purported violations include providing shelter to illegal immigrants who have evaded law enforcement and engaging in human smuggling operations. Paxton’s office previously requested records from the organization to assess potential breaches of federal law. Subsequently, Annunciation House filed a counter-suit against the Attorney General’s office, alleging that the demands for records infringe on their “constitutional rights of association” due to their limited staff.
Texas AG Ken Paxton Sues Catholic NGO for Facilitating Illegal Immigration
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS & DEMENTIA WATCH
Kurt Schlichter: "What a sensible Democrat Party would do."
Senile is as Senile Does — and Joe Biden is Senile
Margot Cleveland: "Even if Smirnov is guilty, that does not exonerate Weiss."
David Weiss’ Latest Motion Shows He Compromised National Security By Protecting the Bidens
Victor Davis Hanson: "The constant deception needed to sustain a lie."
Delusions, Alternate Realities, and the Biden Consortium
"Joe Biden’s younger brother, in closed-door testimony to the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees, initially told his interviewers that he was not part of a business deal involving Hunter Biden and several of his associates, according to a source familiar with the interview. However, after investigators showed him an agreement that featured his signature alongside those of Hunter Biden and his business partners ,James Biden then told legislators that he did not remember signing the agreement."
Joe Biden’s Brother Switched Up Story On China Deal After Lawmakers Showed Him Receipts, Source Says
"If Biden lied about the Hur Report, the public deserves to know the full truth."
Release The Biden Transcripts Now
“Information obtained by the Committees indicate that prosecutors sought to keep the Biden name out of Mr. Ho’s trial. First, as the Oversight Committee previously noted, prosecutors in Mr. Ho’s case seemingly redacted Hunter Biden’s name from evidence used at trial,” the Republicans wrote.
Republicans Investigating Whether Hunter Biden Was Shielded By DOJ During Corruption Trial Of Chinese Associate
The shift in public relations suggests Biden has realized the recent news cycle about his “poor” memory damages his reelection campaign.
Report: Joe Biden Seeks to Redirect Attention from "Poor Memory" to Donald Trump’s "Crazy Shit"
"In addition to snubbing press conferences, Biden has participated in fewer interviews with media outlets than his predecessors, according to NBC News. Since his 2021 inauguration, Biden has done 86 interviews with media outlets, NBC tallied. Former President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama trounce Biden’s numbers, each doing 300 and 422 interviews, respectively, at the same point in their presidency."
Forget Basement Campaign — It’s Been a Whole Basement [fake] Presidency For Joe Biden
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
"We don’t mind the Left destroying themselves, of course, but we do mind them destroying great states with proud histories in the process. We only hope that the actual 'rule-following, law-abiding people' in those states decide to stand up and say “enough” before they are all forced into exile."
The Left Will Destroy Itself Trying to Destroy Trump
"Technically speaking, Donald Trump is guilty of something – he’s guilty of the crime of being Donald Trump."
The Crime of Donald Trump
"McAfee, who was sworn in on Feb. 1, 2023 after being appointed by Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, made his donation in June 2020 while still working as an assistant U.S. Attorney for the Department of Justice (DOJ), according to financial disclosures. He will soon have to decide whether Willis should be disqualified over allegations that she financially benefited from appointing her romantic partner, Nathan Wade, to work on the Trump case."
Judge Overseeing Trump’s Georgia Case Donated To Fani Willis Campaign Prior To Appointment
“Let’s just go to common sense, because the order that you’re reading is not common sense. It’s absolutely absurd … and for me to try to explain to you how Judge Engoron got to his ridiculous number would mean I have to go speak about politics and the problem with the dual justice system and election interference right now. But the numbers are what they are. What bank, whatever, just write a check. So that’s how they feel they had a right to come in under a consumer fraud statute that’s never been used in this way and butt their nose into two private, sophisticated individuals in a contract that has never been breached. No loan defaults, no loss of money, no victims, no damages,” she said, adding that banks had nothing to do with the lawsuit and actually testified that they loved working with the Trump Organization.
Trump Lawyer Alina Habba on NY Ruling: I Will Respond in Appeal and "You Can Read It and Weep"
"James, who accused Trump of making misleading financial statements to banks to secure better terms on loans, said that she would take over the former president’s assets if he couldn’t come up with the money for the fine. Trump, who is mounting a comeback campaign for the presidency, is planning to appeal the decision that barred him and two of his sons from doing business in New York in addition to the fine."
Letitia James Threatens To Seize Trump’s New York Buildings If He Can’t Pay Massive $350 Million+ Fine
"The only success you and your Get-Trump team have delivered of late, Ms. Willis, is to destroy Americans’ faith in the justice system."
Yes, Ms. Willis, You Are on Trial – In the Court of Public Opinion
"And the entire New York real estate market is noticing with alarm."
New York’s Trump Fraud Findings Refute Judge’s Conclusions
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"Christian nationalism has always been a part of the Left's talking points, and thus far, it has taken a back seat to MAGA Republicans and white supremacy. But it is about to be fused with them to become the third part of a triumvirate designed to further isolate those who do not see eye-to-eye with Left."
Trump Allies Accused of Planning to Leverage 'Christian Nationalism' During Second Term
Dennis Prager: "Why the Left hates order."
The Left and Chaos
"Funny how the left are the only ones who ever these mysterious 'dog whistles.'"
Calling a Shooter a 'Thug' is Apparently a Racist 'Dog Whistle' Now
"The announcement of Goynes-Brown's segregated business fair comes just two months after Boston Mayor Michelle Wu got busted for her "Electeds of Color Holiday Party" after the email invitation accidentally went out to the "wrong" people. Wu was eventually forced to apologize — but only for sending the invitation to people who weren't supposed to be invited. She left out the matter of why they weren't supposed to be invited."
North Las Vegas Mayor Celebrates Black Businesses. There's Just One (Huge) Problem.
"The globalists' war against the Christian ideal."
Mass Migration, Transhumanism, Sustainability, and God
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"A Midwestern media outlet selectively clipped the announcement speech for a Wisconsin Senate candidate this week."
Dark Money Group Peddles Viral Disinformation to Frame GOP Senate Candidate as Clueless Elite
The mainstream media's ongoing promotion of Beijing's propaganda has come amid growing U.S.-China tensions and fears of full-scale war between the two superpowers. Meanwhile, China has poured billions of dollars a year into a global disinformation campaign meant to promote its image and favored political outcomes.
Some of the Same News Outlets Warning About "Disinformation" are Taking Millions to Print Chinese Propaganda
"A few of the funded podcasts include a $227,420 linguistics program that delved into the use of a new gender-neutral pronoun in Swedish and a $228,546 program that discussed the recent history of Queens during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on the Black Lives Matter movement and ‘racism.’ Another project was a $5,000 podcast sponsored by the State Department that tackles issues affecting the trans and intersex community in Zimbabwe and a $556,544 initiative from the National Science Foundation featuring pandemic-related content for children."
YOU Paid $8.5 Million for Gov't-Produced Podcasts Promoting Far-Left Views
"Creating an environment that jeopardizes anonymous sources and encourages frivolous lawsuits will be disastrous for conservative media."
Florida Bill Could Help Left-Wing Groups Sue Conservative Media Into Oblivion
"Google’s Gemini is a joke, but it’s not a funny one. If globalists do truly plan to run much of society with AI as they claim, we’re in for a whole new level of leftist idiocy."
Congressmen Bash Google AI for Refusing Image of Tiananmen Square
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"The world’s economic policymakers could mitigate such a day by recognizing we are sleepwalking to a world crisis and taking measures to make our debt more sustainable. If they don’t, we should brace ourselves for economic turbulence at home and renewed financial-market strains as economic trouble abroad spills over to our shores."
The World's Drowning in Debt — Brace Yourself for Economic Turbulence
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
On page 13, the confidential ACP document reveals that this leftist trade association plans to spend a huge chunk of this extra cash to protect the Biden agenda—and specifically the IRA—from the Republicans on Capitol Hill and from former President Donald Trump should he win the election in November. The recommended expenditure is well into seven figures, with ACP pushing for spending north of $7 million to help keep the IRA in place as it exists now.
Leaked Confidential Leftist Document Details Plot to Pressure Republicans into Protecting Biden’s Radical Green Energy Agenda
"The Windy City is seeking billions of dollars from fossil-fuel companies based on the ridiculous assertion that they are now causing basements to flood on the West Side of the city."
Desperate for Money, Chicago Sues "Big Oil"
"Major corporate customers have already begun rethinking EV offerings amid the uncertain values. SAP will stop providing employees with Tesla vehicles due to concerns over fluctuating prices complicating planning. Car rental firms Hertz and Sixt have similarly moved to offload Teslas from their fleets."
Leasing Companies Are Demanding Payoffs from EV Makers Like Tesla as Resale Values Plummet
"Potential visitors seem willing to pay a 'climate tithe.'"
Aloha: Hawaii Plans to Hit Tourists with $25 “Climate Tax”
They defend this practice with the contention that that data is "poor" or "corrupted," by which they mean, well, that it doesn't show what they want it to show.
They Talk to the Trees?
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"Unlike inflation and higher interest rates, this economic reality is self-inflicted."
Guess Who's Closing Stores in Chicago Now
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
Robert Zimmerman: "Siegal perpetuates the earlier lies by making believe the risks are low, when in truth though the risks are rare they are also very serious and in fact deadly for some."
Why the Public Continues to Lose Faith with the Medical Community
SECOND AMENDMENT
“It is because of New York Democrats’ unconstitutional gun grab policies that the oldest gun manufacturer in the country has been run out of the state,” Rep. Elise Stefanik (NY-21) said in a statement. “I have spoken with local officials and Remington Arms union members in United Mine Workers of America, Local 717, about how we must stand up to New York’s failed unconstitutional gun bans. Hochul must stop her unconstitutional assault on the Second Amendment now,”
Remington Arms Leaves New York After 208 Years
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"The Supreme Court declines to hear a case about an admissions policy adopted in defiance of its affirmative-action ban."
Supreme Injustice
Board reportedly said “Wax should face sanctions, including a one-year suspension at half pay with benefits intact, but stopped short of calling for her to be fired and stripped of tenure.”
Report: Embattled UPenn Law Prof. Amy Wax Appealing Hearing Board Sanctions Quietly Recommended Over the Summer
"The insatiable greed of the educational establishment is never-ending."
The School Funding Fraud
"Chicago Public Schools (CPS) has paid over $90,000 to Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago since 2021 for a series of trainings provided through its Sexuality Education Program, which includes lessons on anal sex instruction and pro-transgender sexual communication. CPS denied the DCNF’s initial Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request related to the sexual education materials in August, stating that Illinois state law exempts 'course materials or research materials used by faculty members' from being released through FOIA requests."
Blue State Shields Schools’ Sex Ed, Gender Trainings From Public View
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
"Democrats on the 51-member New York City Council approved a plan in January 2022 that gave more than 800,000 foreign nationals with green cards, visas, and work permits the opportunity to vote in citywide elections so long as they have resided in the city for at least 30 consecutive days. Black New Yorkers, along with naturalized American citizens, the New York State Republican Party, the Republican National Committee (RNC), and Democrat officials like Councilman Robert Holden subsequently sued Mayor Eric Adams (D) and the city’s Board of Elections."
Appeals Court Upholds Ruling Striking Down NYC Voting Rights for Foreigners
"The D.C. Board of Elections must forfeit ERIC data reports about potentially deceased individuals to the Public Interest Legal Foundation."
Court: D.C. Must Fork Over Data About ‘Deceased’ People On Voter Rolls From Leftist-Linked ‘Maintenance’ Group
"Yeah, something doesn't quite smell right here. I'm not an expert, but if this was just related to a code issue, how is it possible for people who didn't vote by mail and never even requested a ballot to show up as having been counted?"
The Theory That Mail-in Voting Is Secure Just Died a Horrible Death
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"The eccentric mayor — whose face is plastered across billboards in tiny Dolton, Ill. — is accused of spending taxpayer money on lavish and unnecessary trips and forking over one million dollars on a police detail then using them to retaliate against her percieved enemies." (Just like a banana republic dictator would – or a fraudulent US "president" - jjs)
FBI finally probing ‘super mayor’ Tiffany Henyard — who is accused of corruption — as Illinois AG shuts her charity: sources
"The Telescope Fund will help top progressive donors steer hundreds of millions of dollars to Democrat causes."
Left-Wing Behemoth Arabella Advisors Quietly Added a Seventh Group to Its Dark Money Web
"'I've been dealing with these imbeciles for over 20 years now,' Thomas Von Essen says of embattled congressman."
9/11 Fire Commissioner Blasts Jamaal Bowman as Imbecile for Peddling Conspiracy Theories
POLITICS
“Eighty-five percent of the registered Republicans voted for either Trump or me, effectively…so that’s just a big conservative base, right? To try to appeal to people who aren’t a part of that base for a primary — I just didn’t understand that,” the governor said, explaining that the strategy simply will not work.
Ron DeSantis in South Carolina: ‘No Question’ Donald Trump Will Have Massive Victory over Nikki Haley
"The South Carolinian holds out the promise of returning to the GOP of 2012—and it will probably die with her campaign."
Nikki Haley Wants Her Voters to Pretend Trump Never Happened
Trump also enjoys much greater enthusiasm among his base in the Empire State than Biden. Sixty-one percent of New York Republicans want Trump as their candidate, while fewer than half of Democrats — 48 percent — want Biden. Siena pollster Steven Greenberg stressed the result should be considered in light of “just how ‘blue’ New York is.”
70% of New Yorkers Say Biden Unfit for Office.
Hogan’s surprise Senate campaign and a batch of daunting poll numbers is putting Democrats on defense for the seat they otherwise likely wouldn’t have worried about winning, several Maryland-based political operatives told the Daily Caller News Foundation. (Meh. Hogan is the Mitt Romney of Lisa Murkowskis - jjs)
Dems’ Senate ‘Nightmare’ May Have Just Come True
Johnson himself has knocked down suggestions to change the rules and make it harder for any one member of the GOP caucus to fire him. And Johnson has one big advantage. It may only take one member to advance a "motion to vacate" but do any Republicans really want another speaker election? Johnson is fairly safe as long as he doesn't do something stupid like take part in a Democratic plan to keep him in the speaker's chair.
House Democrat Floats a 'Mike Johnson Protection Plan' to Keep Him in the Speaker's Chair
He praised former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) for running against Trump, calling it “healthy” for the party. (Of course the little worm praised her - jjs)
Globalist Fraud RINO Paul Ryan Bashes Trump and "Trump Populism," Says It’s Now the "Establishment"
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
“There is no reason to hide it. We are allowed to export weapons to any country that we wish to.”
Russia Receives Around 400 Ballistic Missiles From Iran
At another point in his roughly 16 minutes of remarks, Biden reportedly took a moment to thank Pelosi, calling her his “boss” and saying they were able to pass significant legislation with her leadership.
Biden calls Putin "Crazy SOB"
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"52-year-old Assange faces up to 175 years in prison for espionage after distributing classified US government documents on his website. If convicted in the US, he would likely die behind bars."
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange too unwell to attend extradition appeal hearing, hundreds protest outside
"In other Egypt News: The government is selling off historic hotels and is building a massive Gaza border."
Egypt Scraps Controversial Renovation Project for Pyramid on Giza Plateau
The 11 employees “engaged in the malpractice of answering questions while looking at textbooks,” which was “a compliance violation and a serious act that can threaten to undermine the flight safety,” JAL said through their statement, the Inquirer Business reported. Five test supervisors were also reportedly found culpable in the misconduct.
Japan’s Two Biggest Airlines Admit Airport Workers Cheated in Exams Amid Scrutiny Over Recent Air Mishaps: REPORT
"Farage and Trump have had a close friendship for several years, with Trump suggesting in 2017 that Farage could be the British ambassador to the U.S. Farage hinted at his potential role, expressing the importance of having an ambassador in Washington who could maintain a relationship with the Trump administration should the Labour Party win the British election."
Farage: ‘If I’m The Right Person for UK’s US Ambassador… Wonderful!’
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
“Assisted dying is the quintessential policy of our times.”
Assisted Dying Isn't Freedom
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"The high altitude balloon company Space Perspective yesterday unveiled the test balloon capsule, dubbed Excelsior, which it plans to use for a program of ten flights beginning this year, prior to beginning manned flights on its Neptune manned capsule, shown in the graphic to the right."
Space Perspective unveils test balloon capsule for unmanned test flights
"Dubbed the Radcliffe Wave after the institute in which the astronomers were based who first discovered it, the scientists determined its wavelike behavior by mapping the motions of the star clusters along its length. Apparently, over time they are moving up and down, not unlike fans at a stadium doing the wave."
Astronomers: a 9,000-light-year-long stream of gas and dust ripples like a wave due to the Milky Way’s gravity
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"Parents could find themselves in even more trouble if DCFS finds any such abuse allegations to be warranted: Illinois law already classifies child abuse — depending upon the nature and severity of the abuse — as a criminal offense ranging from a misdemeanor that carries a maximum sentence of one year in prison and a $2,500 fine to a felony that can carry up to $25,000 in fines and 15 years behind bars."
Illinois Bill Changes Definition Of ‘Abused Child’ To Include Kids Whose Parents Object To Abortion, Transgender Hormones and Surgeries
Scott McKay: "A member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence drag queen troupe was charged with possession of children pornography and sexual exploitation of a child last week."
Bacha Bazi May Survive Longer Than American Christianity — And Here’s Just One Example
"Bill would mandate training to undo 'layers of potential biases' that pregnancy and childbirth are female experiences."
California Dems Want To Teach Health Care Professionals That Men Can Get Pregnant
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
". . . Americans are turning away from the propaganda poison of the anti-American 'expert' class and relying more on their own good senses. This is a good and necessary step forward."
Average Americans Are Snuffing Out 'Expert' Gaslighters
"Our three strongest cultural taboos admonish us against cannibalism, incest, and child abuse — taboos rooted in the deep and ancient experience that the outcomes are horrific and, even if it's only for a few people, the temptations are too great. As any scientist should know, and not try to excuse."
Who Had 'Scientists Suggest We Rethink Cannibalism' on Their 2024 Bingo Card?
HITHER & YON
Christian Toto: "Russell Crowe steals the film as a grumpy drone pilot with a chip on his shoulder."
Land of Bad Offers Everything You Crave in a Military Thriller
". . . my line of thinking here is a bit different than the average believer in alien life on other planets. I most definitely believe it's possible and even likely that there are intelligent beings on other planets in different parts of the galaxy and the universe. I mean, God's a creator, right? Look at the abundance of lifeforms that exist on Earth. Now look at how vast space is. Did He really leave all that space open and empty? I don't believe so."
A Florida Republican Congresswoman Just Made a Shocking Statement About UFOs

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1 Happy Birthday, JJ!!

Posted by: Muldoon at February 22, 2024 07:21 AM (991eG)

2 Thank you, JJ

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 07:23 AM (a1415)

3

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 22, 2024 07:23 AM (X4yCj)

4 That dog was never Joe's. He is not capable of handling a German Shepherd. You can see the results of his neglect. If that was your dog, it would be taken away and put to sleep.

I don't really need anymore reasons to despise the Bidens, but I'll take it.

Posted by: fd at February 22, 2024 07:23 AM (vFG9F)

5 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at February 22, 2024 07:25 AM (53oGX)

6 I think James Biden claims he threw away a 3.6 carat diamond so they can say Hunter found it in the trash.

Posted by: fd at February 22, 2024 07:25 AM (vFG9F)

7 Good morning Horde. Just love reading all these articles about norms being restored and the adults being in charge. Just warms my dark little heart.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 22, 2024 07:27 AM (lXCUP)

8 Yonder Horde

Pretty big cellular outage this morning....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 22, 2024 07:28 AM (Q4IgG)

9 Dolt Town, LOL!

lotta history there ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at February 22, 2024 07:28 AM (QwWES)

10 Mornin'. *sips coffee and reads content*

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 22, 2024 07:28 AM (qPw5n)

11 I think James Biden claims he threw away a 3.6 carat diamond so they can say Hunter found it in the trash.
Posted by: fd
-----------------------------

I can see that,, Hunter probably thought it was a crack rock.

Speaking of Rock

LETS DANCE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v_eSQCUObg

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at February 22, 2024 07:29 AM (X4yCj)

12 6 I think James Biden claims he threw away a 3.6 carat diamond so they can say Hunter found it in the trash.
Posted by: fd at February 22, 2024 07:25 AM (vFG9F)

A dead-drop by any other name....

Posted by: Warai-GPT at February 22, 2024 07:31 AM (9UlRk)

13
Yonder Horde

Pretty big cellular outage this morning....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 22, 2024 07:28 AM

"Mobile Network Not Available" on my phone. Consumer Cellular who uses AT&T and T-Mobile.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 22, 2024 07:32 AM (nIvob)

14 Jim Biden's Garbage wishes it was Marco Rubio's Garbage.

Posted by: Warai-GPT at February 22, 2024 07:33 AM (9UlRk)

15 And another one goes wacko.

Sorry, Rep Luna. There are no aliens in space.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 22, 2024 07:33 AM (Angsy)

16 Henyard ... hmm ... Chicken Coop ...

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at February 22, 2024 07:33 AM (+xYe0)

17 That Dolton, IL mayor reminds me of some small CA town years back. The council and mayor were pillaging the treasury, authorizing pay checks up to $400K. It's like the Tiki bar in Goodfellas where the mob takes over, milks things dry and does a bust out.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 22, 2024 07:33 AM (0EOe9)

18 I got T mobile. 5G working just fine.

Guess i got lucky (he says as he is inundated with service calls)

Posted by: Warai-GPT at February 22, 2024 07:34 AM (9UlRk)

19
Consumer Cellular is down here in Greenville, SC area. T-mobile and Verizon still working, but they're having big outages too.

Don't know what's going on, but this is major.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 22, 2024 07:34 AM (w6EFb)

20 While I despise Lockdown Larry Hogan,

I can tell you from personal friends of mine that work physically within the Maryland State House that the Democrats have come unhinged in the blatant fear of Hogan winning this race.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 07:34 AM (a1415)

21 "Don't know what's going on, but this is major.
Posted by: publius,"

It's pretty obvious that it's Russian hackers under Trump's direction.

Posted by: fd at February 22, 2024 07:35 AM (vFG9F)

22 Sorry, Rep Luna. There are no aliens in space.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 22, 2024 07:33 AM (Angsy)

But there might be "aliens" on "the moon" ... IYKWIM

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at February 22, 2024 07:36 AM (+xYe0)

23 Or the Feds doing a test run for November.

Posted by: fd at February 22, 2024 07:36 AM (vFG9F)

24 I just did my morning VM and text check on my Jitterbug geezer phone and everything is OK. They're on the Verizon system IIRC.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 22, 2024 07:36 AM (0EOe9)

25 While I despise Lockdown Larry Hogan,

I can tell you from personal friends of mine that work physically within the Maryland State House that the Democrats have come unhinged in the blatant fear of Hogan winning this race.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 07:34 AM (a1415)

It is nothing, nothing like what the Colonel is going through!

Posted by: Sgt Schultz at February 22, 2024 07:36 AM (Angsy)

26 I'll take Aliens in Your Anus for $200. Tribeck.

Posted by: Zombie Sean Connery at February 22, 2024 07:37 AM (a1415)

27 Good morning again dear horde and happy birthday JJ

Actual Justice Warrior has done a great job covering the madness that is Dolton IL.

Yeah she's got a rap sheet.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 22, 2024 07:37 AM (RIvkX)

28 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2024 07:37 AM (ENQN6)

29 Hey, I just looked up Tiffany Henyard's stuff. Great picture being it's Black History Month.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 22, 2024 07:39 AM (0EOe9)

30 Then Maryland also has former candidate Kim Klacik running against Baltimore County Executive Johnny 'O' to replace retiring Dutch Rupersberger.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 07:39 AM (a1415)

31 20 While I despise Lockdown Larry Hogan

As a fellow resident of the GPROMD, I concur with that view. One of the problems I had about his pandemic handling was how he treated it as performance art.

"Stay tuned! Governor Hogan is going to make a special announcement at 1000 about the lockdown restrictions!"

Hey asshole, just release it now. I have to go to work and I'm tired of waiting for you to make sure the cameras are at the most flattering angle.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 22, 2024 07:39 AM (lXCUP)

32 25 While I despise Lockdown Larry Hogan,

I suppose he was as good as we could have gotten for MD - there was that rain tax when I moved here, early 2015. WRT the lockdowns - he wasn't the worst governor - my biggest beef was, there were defined metrics for stage 1, stage 2 of lockdowns - that last one, stage 3...nothing - no clear decision on when we'd be DONE. Hated that fact. And of course, the gyms being one of the last to reopen after the initial lockdowns.

Posted by: MD_Mike at February 22, 2024 07:44 AM (BouEL)

33 "As a fellow resident of the GPROMD, I concur with that view. One of the problems I had about his pandemic handling was how he treated it as performance art. "

I think his best performance was when he, surrounded by Maryland State Police, and backed by the Maryland National Guard in full ballet rattle waited at BWI airport for the arrival of a bunch of Covid test kits that he had bought from I believe South Korea.

Reason for the armed maryland National Guard Presence?

'In case President Trump decides to confiscate these test kits, bought with Maryland taxpayer money'.

Look dumb-ass, in order for the plane to even bring them to this country, the Feds had to sign off on permission.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 07:44 AM (a1415)

34 Betcha some dipshit pushed a "critical security update" to a distribution center this morning that shitcanned a whole hub of the cellular infrastructure.

Posted by: Warai-GPT at February 22, 2024 07:45 AM (9UlRk)

35 31 NR Pax, my Ex and family are MD natives. During my time down there, I noticed one hearty breed, the watermen. Crabbing, fishing just making a living. And mostly ignoring any insanity Annapolis would come up with.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 22, 2024 07:45 AM (0EOe9)

36 " And of course, the gyms being one of the last to reopen after the initial lockdowns."

You mis-spelled Public schools.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 07:45 AM (a1415)

37 I can see why O'Keefe wears a bulletproof vest.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 22, 2024 07:46 AM (xOPRs)

38 In a sane world Tiffany Henyard would just be getting off of work at The Track now and paying her pimp his 99.9%, not "playing" at being a mayor somewhere in Bumfuck, Illinois.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 22, 2024 07:47 AM (2ijlT)

39 Happy Birthday JJ!

Posted by: blaster at February 22, 2024 07:48 AM (IFNME)

40 "Omg i just read an article on Arse Technica that you're supposed to lock down every single port going in or out of a server! We need to push a policy now!"

Posted by: Warai-GPT at February 22, 2024 07:48 AM (9UlRk)

41 Those of us for whom public corruption was always the #1 issue warned that no government so terribly corrupt as this one can contain it to their own precious highest ranks.

Every little bastard in the Party wants their cut. It always creeps downward.

This ends with your local grocer putting rat meat in your ground beef, and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it, because he *did* make his payments to the Mayor timely.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 22, 2024 07:48 AM (0FoWg)

42 Good morning JJ and horde
Hopefully a better shorter day for me today

Posted by: Skip at February 22, 2024 07:49 AM (X1dwT)

43 Wear the damn mask!

Posted by: Larry Hogan at February 22, 2024 07:49 AM (NBVIP)

44 WSJ:

Half of College Grads Are Working Jobs That Don’t Use Their Degrees
Choice of major, internships and getting the right first job after graduation are critical to career paths, new data show
Five and 10 years after graduation, many college-educated workers remain underemployed

Posted by: SMOD at February 22, 2024 07:50 AM (5Tntt)

45 "This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world."

1 John 4:2-3

Posted by: Marcus T at February 22, 2024 07:50 AM (TbpGr)

46 "Five and 10 years after graduation, many college-educated workers remain underemployed"

HMMMMmmmm....perhaps there is a lesson to be learned here.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 07:51 AM (a1415)

47 This ends with your local grocer putting rat meat in your ground beef, and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it, because he *did* make his payments to the Mayor timely.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 22, 2024 07:48 AM (0FoWg)

On the bright side, the average rat has about 648 calories, 63 grams of protein and 33 grams of fat.

Great for building lean muscle mass.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 22, 2024 07:51 AM (2ijlT)

48
According to the AP style guide when referring to racial issues the word Black must be capitalized.

The word white in such areas should not. Only White supremacists capitalize the word White.

/ stop the world I wanna get off

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 22, 2024 07:52 AM (nIvob)

49 Once a graduate’s first two or three jobs are clustered around one industry or set of tasks—say, an aspiring marketing strategist who takes a couple of food-service supervisor roles to pay the bills—it’s harder to hop onto another career lane, said Joseph Fuller, a management professor who co-leads the Managing the Future of Work initiative at Harvard Business School.

Posted by: SMOD at February 22, 2024 07:52 AM (5Tntt)

50 35 31 NR Pax, my Ex and family are MD natives. During my time down there, I noticed one hearty breed, the watermen. Crabbing, fishing just making a living. And mostly ignoring any insanity Annapolis would come up with.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 22, 2024 07:45 AM (0EOe9)

My wife and I live in a slightly redder county and most of the idiocy was disregarded. But as a govvie contractor, I had to deal with state and federal stupidity.

Perhaps I'm in the wrong line of work.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 22, 2024 07:53 AM (lXCUP)

51 "On the bright side, the average rat has about 648 calories, 63 grams of protein and 33 grams of fat. "

And fit damn near perfectly into a quart zip-lock bag.

For when you sues-vid that little rascal.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 07:53 AM (a1415)

52 ZOD IMPERIAL.

Posted by: ZOD at February 22, 2024 07:53 AM (JAgBS)

53 41 My Dad would always give the health inspector a pie when he visited the bakery. Boxed, just like a paying customer would get. Underneath the pie was a $10 (when it was worth something). This is because a health inspector can always find something wrong. Or a liquor agent can shut down a bar for offences real or created. Or a zoning inspector can deny a permit. Just a bit too much leeway.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 22, 2024 07:54 AM (0EOe9)

54 “Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Palestinian representatives, in addition to the United States” were “rushing to complete a detailed, comprehensive plan for long-term peace between Israel and Palestinians, including a firm timeline for the establishment of a Palestinian state, that could be announced as early as the next several weeks.”

The had a long term peace plan for almost 20 years until the vile murdering rapist devil worshipers decided to kill 1200 people.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2024 07:54 AM (ENQN6)

55 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 07:54 AM (Zz0t1)

56 "The word white in such areas should not. "

Not even at the beginning of a sentence?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 07:55 AM (a1415)

57 JJ.

Coming back from illness with avengance!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 07:55 AM (Zz0t1)

58 51 "On the bright side, the average rat has about 648 calories, 63 grams of protein and 33 grams of fat. "

And fit damn near perfectly into a quart zip-lock bag.

For when you sues-vid that little rascal.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 07:53 AM (a1415)

SOYLENT RED IS RAT

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2024 07:55 AM (ENQN6)

59 A vengeance.

Damn spelling woes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 07:55 AM (Zz0t1)

60 44 WSJ:

Half of College Grads Are Working Jobs That Don’t Use Their Degrees
Posted by: SMOD at February 22, 2024 07:50 AM (5Tntt)

Well, the sheer amount of regulatory obstacles in building new Gender Studies factories should have been a red flag to them. And that Sociology Cafe doesn't really need new people yet.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 22, 2024 07:55 AM (lXCUP)

61 The word white in such areas should not. "

Not even at the beginning of a sentence?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 07:55 AM (a1415)

Reggie white thinks this is some real freeze dried bullshit.

Posted by: Warai-GPT at February 22, 2024 07:56 AM (9UlRk)

62
How long before 'experts agree' that a diet of rat and crickets should be at the top of everyone's personal food pyramid?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 22, 2024 07:56 AM (nIvob)

63 Five and 10 years after graduation, many college-educated workers remain underemployed

Starbucks, the Big M Super Club, and el WaloMarto cannot accommodate the overwhelming supply of people with advance degrees in gender studies, wymenz studies, and poli-sci? Ermagawd, how are those poor kids gonna pay back the student loans?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 22, 2024 07:56 AM (YRsIm)

64 >>'In case President Trump decides to confiscate these test kits, bought with Maryland taxpayer money'.

Recently moved to Maryland. Found a post online that claimed "Maryland is not a state. Maryland is a cult."

Look at the MD state flag, and tell me a cult couldn't have devised it.

Posted by: ZOD at February 22, 2024 07:57 AM (JAgBS)

65 62 If George Segal was still alive he could sell cookbooks on The Food Channel.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 22, 2024 07:58 AM (0EOe9)

66 "Recently moved to Maryland. Found a post online that claimed "Maryland is not a state. Maryland is a cult." "

Mrs VIA peruses that website every damn day.

and it's pretty spot-on.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 07:58 AM (a1415)

67 The average rat has more integrity than the average politician. They also taste better.

Posted by: Rat Facts at February 22, 2024 07:58 AM (vFG9F)

68 Look at the MD state flag, and tell me a cult couldn't have devised it.
Posted by: ZOD at February 22, 2024 07:57 AM (JAgBS)

Isn't it the actual coat of arms for Lord Baltimore?

Posted by: Warai-GPT at February 22, 2024 07:58 AM (9UlRk)

69 WSJ: White House, Arab States Ramp Up Talks to Free Gaza Hostages

Posted by: SMOD at February 22, 2024 07:58 AM (5Tntt)

70 The Plymouth Avengance never advanced beyond the concept car stage. Pity.

Posted by: IIRC at February 22, 2024 07:59 AM (NBVIP)

71 In the age of TV (and even more in the age of the computer) no open society can cope for long with such tactics. It will either be too weak and lose authority, or it will be too tough, and the world will regard it as cruel and brutal.

On that day (in the near future) when a mass of illegals decide to take over a city or part of a town this is how it will play out. The citizens will be held to impossible standards.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2024 08:00 AM (ENQN6)

72 So....what would happen if Hamas immediately returned the remaining hostages, and surrendered?

Oh, that's right....

Peace.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 08:00 AM (a1415)

73 "We are entering a dangerous era in America.." ? We've well entered it, VDH. .

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 22, 2024 08:00 AM (4gD3D)

74
I remember when Americans being held hostage was occasion for a daily reminder of how many days it had been since their capture.

/ off my lawn

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 22, 2024 08:00 AM (nIvob)

75 64 68 The MD state flag was originally drapes in the Travelodge of Breezewood. Mr. Patel is still pissed.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 22, 2024 08:00 AM (0EOe9)

76 WSJ: A Gift From Russia to Kim Jong Un: A New Armored Limousine
Vladimir Putin gives a presidential car to the North Korean leader—in violation of U.N. sanctions

Posted by: SMOD at February 22, 2024 08:00 AM (5Tntt)

77 Judge Overseeing Trump’s Georgia Case Donated To Fani Willis Campaign Prior To Appointment

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Well, of course he did. How predictable. This b*tch will barely get a slap on the wrist and she will continue her persecution of Trump unabated and "vindicated."

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 22, 2024 08:01 AM (mupln)

78 "Well, of course he did. How predictable. "

He also donated to Kemp, and I believe was pretty even across the board on some very minor donations.

Not sure it's really an issue.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 08:02 AM (a1415)

79 WSJ: Still Resisting a Return to the Office? What If It Smelled Great?

Employers are pumping in fragrance to influence workers’ moods. Just be careful about the combo of lavender and pumpkin pie.

Posted by: SMOD at February 22, 2024 08:02 AM (5Tntt)

80 >>Isn't it the actual coat of arms for Lord Baltimore?
Posted by: Warai-GPT at February 22, 2024 07:58 AM (9UlRk)

Calvert and Crossland, but yes, Baltimore.

Disaffected Catholic refugees from Henry VIII's buck-wild screw-the-papists block party.

IOW, cultists.

Posted by: ZOD at February 22, 2024 08:02 AM (JAgBS)

81 The dystopian culture referenced by our host has been part of humanity since the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden. Recall their acts caused the distancing between themselves and God; had their been no misbehavior there would have been eternal peace and calm. We are living the cost of such arrogance and weakness ever since and the present life is no different, only made worse now by degree.

The ease of man's fall into sin and the convincing face of the deceitful serpent reveal our weakness. We can rejoice in the respite provided us by the deliverance of our souls from eternal darkness through the gift of Jesus, and we must be ever mindful that deceit and evil is ever present in our shadow, always near, and often our neighbor.

It is not enough to live a calm life on one's own terms and with one's own decisions. More often those nearby are seeking our destruction despite our wish to be insulated from them. For those with evil in their intent the only response is removal, root and branch, for they too have had the option of choosing a sober life. But they, like Eve, chose unwisely and it falls on us to defend ourselves from their poor judgement.

Posted by: Clear-Eyed Killer at February 22, 2024 08:03 AM (5mIZs)

82 “You know, I have a lot of Palestinians in my district, and I’ve protected them from the FBI going to Arabic bookstores, I’ve protected them after 9/11 to bring them together, we all were in the streets against the Muslim ban,” said the former House Speaker

And you will protect them when out Oct 7 comes.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2024 08:03 AM (ENQN6)

83 "The MD state flag was originally drapes in the Travelodge of Breezewood. Mr. Patel is still pissed."

This comment has several cultural nuggets of truth in it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 08:03 AM (a1415)

84 "in violation of U.N. sanctions"

Screw the UN. Take their building, fill it full of illegal immigrants, and tell all the members to go away.

Posted by: fd at February 22, 2024 08:03 AM (vFG9F)

85 *Just be careful about the combo of lavender and pumpkin pie."

Could lead to dancing.

Posted by: Church lady at February 22, 2024 08:03 AM (NBVIP)

86 Nikki Haley has commercials running here in Michigan for Tuesday’s primary. In it , she calls Congress “a nursing home “ as she calls for term limits. The Detroit News has endorsed her, instead of Biden.

Posted by: Jen the original at February 22, 2024 08:04 AM (J7JR0)

87 I posted about Tiffany the other day. She's paying herself over $200k in salary for a city job, however, she's ordered that if she's no longer elected to do that job, the salary drops to $22k.

Did I mention she's an 'africanamerican' politician?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 08:04 AM (Zz0t1)

88 Say what you will about avengance!!!, those were important years for the Papacy.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 22, 2024 08:04 AM (zdLoL)

89 "Employers are pumping in fragrance to influence workers’ moods. Just be careful about the combo of lavender and pumpkin pie."

What comes next....Reavers?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 08:04 AM (a1415)

90 I truly would like to see PDTS return to the white House and say something along the lines of 'Remember what I said about my success being revenge? Well that was BS. Hold my beer.'

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 22, 2024 08:05 AM (YRsIm)

91 “You know, I have a lot of Palestinians in my district, and I’ve protected them from the FBI going to Arabic bookstores, I’ve protected them after 9/11 to bring them together, we all were in the streets against the Muslim ban,” said the former House Speaker

What's a 'palestinian?'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 08:05 AM (Zz0t1)

92 "He also donated to Kemp, and I believe was pretty even across the board on some very minor donations.
Not sure it's really an issue.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice"

Nah. The good 'ol boy network is just a myth.

Posted by: fd at February 22, 2024 08:05 AM (vFG9F)

93
We've come to determine
You'll eat the vermin

Rat, the 'other' white meat

Posted by: Your Betters at February 22, 2024 08:06 AM (nIvob)

94 >>75 64 68 The MD state flag was originally drapes in the Travelodge of Breezewood. Mr. Patel is still pissed.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 22, 2024 08:00 AM (0EOe9)

Years from now, your spot-on observation will be quoted with humor at crab feasts on the Bay. Zod will make it so.

In one small corner of the world, you have achieved nameless immortality.

Posted by: ZOD at February 22, 2024 08:06 AM (JAgBS)

95 "Did I mention she's an 'africanamerican' politician?
Posted by: Sponge"

Angry arrogant black woman. Noticing a trend?

Posted by: fd at February 22, 2024 08:06 AM (vFG9F)

96 "We've come to determine
You'll eat the vermin

Rat, the 'other' white meat"

It's what's for supper.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 08:07 AM (a1415)

97 Cricket. It's what's for dinner.

Posted by: The American Insect Ranchers Association at February 22, 2024 08:07 AM (NBVIP)

98 What comes next....Reavers?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 08:04 AM (a1415)
----
*Shakes Magic 8 Ball*

RUN!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 22, 2024 08:07 AM (7fElN)

99 Joe Biden received a $1 million diamond from A Chinese company as a bribe, but he "threw it away" because he is honest and shit.

But we have to just accept the obvious lie because there is no way to prove he didn't.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2024 08:08 AM (NYzgN)

100 I just can not imagine a universe where Old Bay seasoning does not exist.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 08:08 AM (a1415)

101 "What's a 'palestinian?'"

$20. Same as in town.

Posted by: It had to be said at February 22, 2024 08:08 AM (vFG9F)

102 Consumer Cellular is down here in Greenville, SC area. T-mobile and Verizon still working, but they're having big outages too.

Down here in south KC.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 22, 2024 08:08 AM (iF0sF)

103
Angry arrogant black woman. Noticing a trend?
Posted by: fd at February 22, 2024 08:06 AM (vFG9F)

"Nothing to see here. Please disperse.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 08:08 AM (Zz0t1)

104 Back when would-be engineers became "managing engineers," did they get accused of hopping into another career lane?
All the junior programming apprentices with EIT cards in the basement cubicles -- did they "hop"?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 22, 2024 08:08 AM (zdLoL)

105 I just can not imagine a universe where Old Bay seasoning does not exist.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 08:08 AM (a1415)

Truth.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 08:09 AM (Zz0t1)

106 "Angry arrogant black woman. Noticing a trend?"

Is this where the 'AA' community got the 'AA' from?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 08:09 AM (a1415)

107 > I just can not imagine a universe where Old Bay seasoning does not exist.
____________

I put it on corn and my wife freaks out.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 22, 2024 08:10 AM (Q4IgG)

108 Phones are still down in Ga too. Probably a squirrel or something.

Posted by: fd at February 22, 2024 08:10 AM (vFG9F)

109 Papa Doc? The "put the lime in the coconut" guy from 7Up and the James Bond movie???

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 08:10 AM (2yu8s)

110 >>It is not enough to live a calm life on one's own terms and with one's own decisions. More often those nearby are seeking our destruction despite our wish to be insulated from them.
Posted by: Clear-Eyed Killer at February 22, 2024 08:03 AM (5mIZs)

This is correct. All should get on their knees.

Before ZOD.

Posted by: ZOD at February 22, 2024 08:10 AM (JAgBS)

111 Papa Doc? The "put the lime in the coconut" guy from 7Up and the James Bond movie???
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 08:10 AM (2yu8s)

Make 7

Up yours!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 08:10 AM (Zz0t1)

112 What's a 'palestinian?'
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 08:05 AM (Zz0t1)

I think it's a reach around with extra couscous added.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 22, 2024 08:10 AM (2ijlT)

113 I have AT&T and have no service right now.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 22, 2024 08:10 AM (R4t5M)

114 "I put it on corn and my wife freaks out."

I'm guessing she never tried it on popcorn, either.

French Fries?

Beer?

it's all good.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 08:11 AM (a1415)

115 All your cellphones
Now belong to us

Posted by: The Russians at February 22, 2024 08:11 AM (vFG9F)

116 Zatarain's >>> Old Bay

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 22, 2024 08:11 AM (YRsIm)

117
I put it on corn and my wife freaks out.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 22, 2024 08:10 AM (Q4IgG)

My wife puts pepper on watermelon.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 08:11 AM (Zz0t1)

118 It's National Margarita Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 22, 2024 08:11 AM (NpAcC)

119 In B'More, during Lent, you used to be able to get the "Old Bay' Fillet of Fish.

I still prefer them that way.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 08:12 AM (a1415)

120
Freshly caught rat, seared over the flame from a burning 55 gallon drum:

Where Meat Lovers Unite!

Posted by: Your Betters at February 22, 2024 08:12 AM (nIvob)

121 >>107 > I just can not imagine a universe where Old Bay seasoning does not exist.
I put it on corn and my wife freaks out.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 22, 2024 08:10 AM (Q4IgG)

J O Spice > Old Bay

Posted by: ZOD at February 22, 2024 08:12 AM (JAgBS)

122 97 Cricket. It's what's for dinner.
Posted by: The American Insect Ranchers Association at February 22, 2024 08:07 AM (NBVIP)

Zombie Hoagie Carmichael raises an eyebrow . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2024 08:13 AM (x0n13)

123 Behold the Kola Nut

https://youtu.be/AXmc7DG4uu8

Posted by: The Uncola at February 22, 2024 08:13 AM (NBVIP)

124 Freshly caught rat, seared over the flame from a burning 55 gallon drum:

Where Meat Lovers Unite!
Posted by: Your Betters at February 22, 2024 08:12 AM (nIvob)

"Do you see any cows down here?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 08:13 AM (Zz0t1)

125 Morning all. In and out all day. AT&T cell phone outage has me screwed.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 08:13 AM (IB/6k)

126 "J O Spice > Old Bay"

J O For crabs.

Old Bay for shrimp.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 08:14 AM (a1415)

127 The eccentric mayor — whose face is plastered across billboards in tiny Dolton, Ill. — is accused of spending taxpayer money on lavish and unnecessary trips and forking over one million dollars on a police detail then using them to retaliate against her percieved enemies.
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So she became mayor and put up giant pictures of herself like she's a socialist dictator and started hoovering out the treasury?

I've heard this tale before. Where I grew up in CO, our county's boss was the sheriff. He was a real piece of work. An outright gangster, and one who had this kind of contempt for the people who ostensibly elected him.

He had the benefit of control over a deeply corrupt small-county (population-wise - it was geographically huge) rural Republican machine. Dude had "SHERIFF" tattooed on his forearms because he knew he wasn't going anywhere. Voting against him was the time I have ever cast a vote for a Democrat. She had a platform more conservative and most, but could *not* get on the ticket as a Republican or an Independent.

Eventually, the sheriff *was* taken down by the state cops after a series of criminal fuckups ended in a bloodbath.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 08:14 AM (HnUIn)

128 Taekwondo instructor in Australia charged with murder in the deaths of a 7-year-old student and the boy's parents.
-------
Yoo, the owner of the Lion’s Taekwondo and Martial Arts Academy and known to his students as Master Lion, remains under police guard at a hospital after undergoing surgery for what police described as stab or slash wounds to his chest, stomach and arms.

Police allege Yoo strangled his student and the boy’s mother, Min Cho, to death at his academy on Monday evening. Yoo then allegedly drove her car to the family home where he fatally stabbed her husband Steven Cho.
=====
South [I assume] Koreans apparently.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 08:14 AM (2yu8s)

129 I have AT&T and have no service right now.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Nationwide. All major carriers. AT&T, Verizon & T Mobile.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 08:14 AM (IB/6k)

130 In other words, the Windy City is seeking billions of dollars from fossil-fuel companies based on the ridiculous assertion that they peddled products for decades that are now causing basements to flood on the West Side of the city.
++++
Hey, if it worked for 'Big Tobacco' ...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 08:14 AM (HnUIn)

131 A recipe from South Africa is described as follows:

Take one hippo. Gut and stuff cavity with Old Bay. Microwave for 3 hours, dust with Zatarain's, and serve with ketchup.

Posted by: AI Hippo Facts at February 22, 2024 08:15 AM (vFG9F)

132 Red Steeze asked the Google Woke AF AI to generate an image of The Lincoln Project attending a children's birthday party and the response was the best thing on the internet.

https://shorturl.at/juxNQ

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at February 22, 2024 08:15 AM (9yUzE)

133 It's also National Chili Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 22, 2024 08:15 AM (NpAcC)

134 In indicting Smirnov, Weiss confirmed his office had botched the Hunter Biden investigation by ignoring the FD-1023 for nearly three years — and then only investigating Smirnov’s claims after Grassley made the document public. Specifically, according to Thursday’s indictment, the FBI did not question Smirnov about his reporting until Sept. 27, 2023.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2024 08:15 AM (ENQN6)

135 Good morning! It great to see the comments are rollicking! You bunch are on fire.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 22, 2024 08:15 AM (4I/2K)

136

Nationwide. All major carriers. AT&T, Verizon & T Mobile.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 08:14 AM (IB/6k)

There's been several stories about how China was feared of launching cyber attacks........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 08:16 AM (Zz0t1)

137 118 It's National Margarita Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 22, 2024 08:11 AM (NpAcC)

"Sorry boss. Gotta leave early today. Come on over!"

Posted by: NR Pax at February 22, 2024 08:16 AM (lXCUP)

138 "I put it on corn and my wife freaks out."

I'm guessing she never tried it on popcorn, either.

French Fries?

Beer?

it's all good.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 08:11 AM (a1415)
----
Now I have to ask:

Has anyone combined Old Bay with bacon? Or does that tear a hole in the universe?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 22, 2024 08:16 AM (7fElN)

139 Alex the Chick hardest hit.
SYDNEY (AP) — With fangs that could pierce a human fingernail, the largest male specimen of the world’s most venomous arachnid has found a new home at the Australian Reptile Park where it will help save lives after a member of the public discovered it by chance.

The deadly Sydney funnel-web spider dubbed “Hercules” was found on the Central Coast...

The spider measured 7.9 centimeters (3.1 inches) from foot to foot, surpassing the park’s previous record-holder from 2018, the male funnel-web named “Colossus”.

“We’re used to having pretty big funnel-web spiders donated to the park, however receiving a male funnel-web this big is like hitting the jackpot,” said Emma Teni, a spider keeper at Australian Reptile Park. “Whilst female funnel-web spiders are venomous, males have proven to be more lethal.

“With having a male funnel-web this size in our collection, his venom output could be enormous, proving incredibly valuable for the park’s venom program.”

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 08:16 AM (2yu8s)

140 *Police allege Yoo strangled his student and the boy’s mother, Min Cho, to death at his academy on Monday evening. Yoo then allegedly drove her car to the family home where he fatally stabbed her husband Steven Cho.*

Police suspect fair play.

Posted by: Old Steven Miller line at February 22, 2024 08:17 AM (NBVIP)

141 >>126 "J O Spice > Old Bay"
J O For crabs.
Old Bay for shrimp.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 08:14 AM (a1415)

J O #1 for shrimp.
J O #2 for crabs.
Old Bay for t-shirts, enamelware, tourist kitsch.

Posted by: ZOD at February 22, 2024 08:17 AM (JAgBS)

142 I can’t help but wonder if this is a desperate money grab seeing as how Chicago is facing a $540 million budget shortfall in 2024.
++++
Everything in government that *isn't* a "desperate money grab" is a desperate power grab. Most things are both.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 08:17 AM (HnUIn)

143
https://shorturl.at/juxNQ
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at February 22, 2024 08:15 AM (9yUzE)

Suspected pederast Rick Wilson hardest hit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 08:17 AM (Zz0t1)

144 I have AT&T and have no service right now.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Nationwide. All major carriers. AT&T, Verizon & T Mobile.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 08:14 AM (IB/6k)

I've got Ting and its up. Thanks, AOP, again and again for the referral to them.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 22, 2024 08:18 AM (4I/2K)

145 "It's also National Chili Day.
Posted by: redridinghood "

It's about time Penguins get a day.

Posted by: Willie at February 22, 2024 08:18 AM (vFG9F)

146 Nationwide. All major carriers. AT&T, Verizon & T Mobile.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 08:14 AM (IB/6k)

Verizon? Oh dear

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 22, 2024 08:18 AM (SfhV1)

147 A new Civil War has been totally engaged by the Left. Most Americans are living under the delusion that what they've known and trusted about America is still possible or retrievable without some terrible struggle that will cost them. Still some sense or even understand this fact but don't know what to do about it. Why should they? It's terra incognito, and absent leadership -- other than Trump -- to explain to them or guide or inspire them. We're in an historically bad place.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 22, 2024 08:18 AM (4gD3D)

148 have AT&T and have no service right now.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Nationwide. All major carriers. AT&T, Verizon & T Mobile.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 08:14 AM (IB/6k)
*****
I have AT&T.
On IPhone tap settings
In settings tap cellular
Turn on WiFi calling to nearby Wi-Fi to carry calls

Posted by: redridinghood at February 22, 2024 08:19 AM (NpAcC)

149 Five 'injured' in 'apparent' stabbing at a high school in western Germany; suspect in custody.
====
Gee, Korean or Moslem??

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 08:19 AM (2yu8s)

150 Verizon works for me.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 22, 2024 08:19 AM (SfhV1)

151
From Tenement to Table, Exceptional Meat Every Time.

Posted by: Your Betters at February 22, 2024 08:19 AM (nIvob)

152 Commie dry run maybe? Who the hell knows.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 22, 2024 08:19 AM (R4t5M)

153 Look what the hell is happening in this one Pennsylvania town. At some point, when law enforcement cannot and worse will not enforce the laws to protect the citizenry, there will be a reaction. In a sane world, there would be.
++++
Vigilantism is probably already making a meaningful comeback, it's just hard to tell if the vigilantes take on a "shoot, shovel and shut up" approach to their work.

We're not South Africa yet, but we're on our way to an environment where "private security" are paramilitary mercenaries with automatic weapons and armored transport, and "neighborhood watch" groups are closer to militias.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 08:19 AM (HnUIn)

154 However, records and other information obtained by Republican lawmakers demonstrated that Hunter Biden and James Biden profited from a $5 million wire from a CEFC-linked firm in August 2017.

Those funds do not appear to have been transmitted to SinoHawk, but instead to Hudson West III.

This is how the FBI plans to GET Smirnov for lying. The 5 Mil happened but they are going to say he lied about the exact transfer details.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2024 08:19 AM (ENQN6)

155 Prosecution of Far-Right But Not Antifa for Same Riots ‘Constitutionally Impermissible’: Judge

A federal judge on Wednesday found that the “selective prosecution” of far-right groups without charging their far-left counterparts for the same acts is “constitutionally impermissible.” U.S. District Court Judge Cormac Carney of southern California therefore dismissed charges against two men from the “white nationalist” Rise Above Movement (RAM) who violently clashed with members of the far-left group Antifa at three southern California pro-Trump events in 2017. In his 35-page order, the judge stressed the importance of equal protection under the law.

Posted by: Disney at February 22, 2024 08:19 AM (RHGPo)

156 Boker Tov Patriots

I have service with Verizon here in NJ

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 22, 2024 08:20 AM (PQ4m2)

157 We are entering a dangerous era in America.
++++
We're well past the transition point. Authoritarian moose out front shoulda told ya.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 08:20 AM (HnUIn)

158 This is great. I'm glad to know that the cell phone infrastructure is so durable it only takes a half a day or so to restore from an outage to several major carriers.

Posted by: fd at February 22, 2024 08:20 AM (vFG9F)

159 Is it too early for conspiracy theories about the cell outage?

Posted by: NR Pax at February 22, 2024 08:21 AM (lXCUP)

160 Remember, you're the "extremist" for fighting back

You're the "extremist" for demanding The Bill of Rights, and the rule of law are faithfully and fairly adhered to.

You're the "extremist" for demanding the legal and judicial tyranny, and the weaponization of our government against the people, ends.

Trump is just the canary in the coal mine. If they can destroy him, they can destroy you. That's the message from this regime, as they replace you with illegals immigrants and create the situation for widespread unrest.

Posted by: Truthbomb at February 22, 2024 08:21 AM (oUoKb)

161 J O Spice, Zatarain's, Old Bay ... it's mostly salt.

But damned good extra bits for flavors.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 22, 2024 08:21 AM (4I/2K)

162 Meh. Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants becomes the great unifier he was pimped as.
++++
I doubt it, but even if this ends up being the case, it would only be clever if they meant to do that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 08:21 AM (HnUIn)

163 Summerville SC, Verizon is up

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 08:21 AM (a1415)

164 Is it too early for conspiracy theories about the cell outage?
Posted by: NR Pax at February 22, 2024 08:21 AM (lXCUP)

It's never too early for conspiracy theories. I mean, they predict the future in most cases.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

165 Interesting… phones are working here.

Posted by: tubal at February 22, 2024 08:21 AM (PCK5/)

166 Oh yeah.

G'morning, y'all!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 08:21 AM (HnUIn)

167 >>Most Americans are living under the delusion.

Some Americans are 'living' under Cotard's delusion.

Beautiful. Mutated.

Posted by: ZOD at February 22, 2024 08:21 AM (JAgBS)

168 So is this mobile down thing a Chicom probe of our secular system?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 22, 2024 08:21 AM (PQ4m2)

169 Another look at 30 meter band?

Posted by: fd at February 22, 2024 08:22 AM (vFG9F)

170 Judge blocks California from suing makers of 'abnormally dangerous' guns

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked California's attorney general from enforcing a new law that allows residents, the state and local governments to sue members of the firearms industry that manufacture or sell "abnormally dangerous" guns. U.S. District Judge Andrew Schopler in San Diego sided with, opens new tab a firearms industry trade association in finding that part of a gun control measure signed into law by Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom in 2022 was likely unconstitutional. It is the first ruling in a case challenging the constitutionality of California's Firearm Industry Responsibility Act.

Posted by: Disney at February 22, 2024 08:22 AM (RHGPo)

171 So..I can eat a bowl of chili and have a margarita later? Sweet!

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 22, 2024 08:22 AM (iF0sF)

172 I have AT&T.
On IPhone tap settings
In settings tap cellular
Turn on WiFi calling to nearby Wi-Fi to carry calls
Posted by: redridinghood

My phone lives on wifi calling. Without it an home, my phone is a brick. Lying AT&T. No, your map shouldn't be red all over Texas.

Because I can prove there are coverage gaps.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 08:22 AM (IB/6k)

173 Nationwide. All major carriers. AT&T, Verizon & T Mobile.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 08:14 AM (IB/6k)

Mine's working. Maybe try to text out of state kid and see.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 22, 2024 08:22 AM (Angsy)

174 131 A recipe from South Africa is described as follows:

Take one hippo. Gut and stuff cavity with Old Bay. Microwave for 3 hours, dust with Zatarain's, and serve with ketchup.
Posted by: AI Hippo Facts at February 22, 2024 08:15 AM (vFG9F)

Which fork do I use?

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2024 08:22 AM (ENQN6)

175 My Verizon phone in NTX isn't reporting any issues. I have a no G signal, but usually do at my house where there's a 5G tower thing 1/2 mile away.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 08:23 AM (Zz0t1)

176 How the Kremlin's enemies die: Poison, staged suicides, falling out of windows… the many different ways Moscow's opponents meet their maker, as Alexei Navalny is 'killed using KGB heart punch'

Posted by: Disney at February 22, 2024 08:23 AM (RHGPo)

177 "Is it too early for conspiracy theories about the cell outage?
Posted by: NR Pax"

THAT is not who we are.

Posted by: fd at February 22, 2024 08:23 AM (vFG9F)

178 Seems any outages are spotty.

Posted by: tubal at February 22, 2024 08:23 AM (PCK5/)

179 Is it too early for conspiracy theories about the cell outage?
Posted by: NR Pax

They are no longer called conspiracy theories.

They are to be called Spoiler Alerts from now on.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 08:23 AM (IB/6k)

180 Prosecution of Far-Right But Not Antifa for Same Riots ‘Constitutionally Impermissible’: Judge

A federal judge on Wednesday found that the “selective prosecution” of far-right groups without charging their far-left counterparts for the same acts is “constitutionally impermissible.” U.S. District Court Judge Cormac Carney of southern California therefore dismissed charges against two men from the “white nationalist” Rise Above Movement (RAM) who violently clashed with members of the far-left group Antifa at three southern California pro-Trump events in 2017. In his 35-page order, the judge stressed the importance of equal protection under the law.
Posted by: Disney at February 22, 2024 08:19 AM (RHGPo)

Did he put his order in a sealed envelope and hold it to his head before opening it? Judge Cormac the Magnificent!

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 22, 2024 08:23 AM (4I/2K)

181 In his 35-page order, the judge stressed the importance of equal protection under the law.
Posted by: Disney at February 22, 2024 08:19 AM (RHGPo)

The regime will need to do something about him post haste. Can't have rulings like that.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 22, 2024 08:23 AM (4gD3D)

182 Can you hear me now?

Posted by: That Verizon guy at February 22, 2024 08:24 AM (NBVIP)

183 My phone lives on wifi calling. Without it an home, my phone is a brick. Lying AT&T. No, your map shouldn't be red all over Texas.

Because I can prove there are coverage gaps.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 08:22 AM (IB/6k)

Coverage for most carriers in NE TX is VERY spotty. No, they don't blanket Texas with any G coverage.

I miss my cellular bag phone with 3w transmitter..........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)

184 "Which fork do I use?
Posted by: rhennigantx"

Pitch

Posted by: fd at February 22, 2024 08:24 AM (vFG9F)

185 "Is it too early for conspiracy theories about the cell outage?"

Are you new here?

It's NEVER too early for that.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 08:24 AM (a1415)

186 Trump is just the canary in the coal mine. If they can destroy him, they can destroy you. That's the message from this regime, as they replace you with illegals immigrants and create the situation for widespread unrest.
Posted by: Truthbomb at February 22, 2024 08:21 AM (oUoKb)

I think the IRS is gearing up to figure out a way to confiscate BILLIONS.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2024 08:24 AM (ENQN6)

187 Can you hear me now?
Posted by: That Verizon guy at February 22, 2024 08:24 AM (NBVIP)

He was later hired by Sprint.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)

188 >>161 J O Spice, Zatarain's, Old Bay ... it's mostly salt. Posted by: Count de Monet at February 22, 2024 08:21 AM (4I/2K)

Human...it's mostly meat. But damn good extra bits for flavors.

Posted by: ZOD Dahmer at February 22, 2024 08:24 AM (JAgBS)

189 BTW, WTF does "Arrah Akbal" mean in English?? Is Frank Costanza here to translate??

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 08:25 AM (2yu8s)

190 What's a 'palestinian?'
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 08:05 AM (Zz0t1)

A figment of some people's imagination. But in common day vernacular - savage animals with no regard for human life. Unintelligent collection of people who poked a bear and then cry because the bear woke up. Not an innocent civilian amongst those who identify as 'palestinian'.

How's that?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 22, 2024 08:25 AM (N39Ws)

191 44,000 AT&T customers reported issues on down detector.com

That's 44,000 that knew to report an issue at 5:00 am central.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 08:25 AM (IB/6k)

192 A recipe from South Africa is described as follows:

Take one hippo. Gut and stuff cavity with Old Bay. Microwave for 3 hours, dust with Zatarain's, and serve with ketchup.
Posted by: AI Hippo Facts at February 22, 2024 08:15 AM (vFG9F)

Which fork do I use?
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2024 08:22 AM (ENQN6)

For the hippo dish, a pitchfork is the appropriate utensil.

Posted by: Miss Manners at February 22, 2024 08:25 AM (4I/2K)

193 I look at the coverage maps carrier advertise on commercials. It is to laugh.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 22, 2024 08:25 AM (R4t5M)

194 Neanderthals used glue to make stone tools 40,000 years ago, a new study suggests “Earliest evidence of a multi-component adhesive in Europe”

.. I guess this means the patent has run out

Posted by: Disney at February 22, 2024 08:26 AM (RHGPo)

195 My At&T service here in SC is working.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 22, 2024 08:26 AM (4gD3D)

196 A pro-war Russian military blogger died on Wednesday, his lawyer said, after the blogger wrote the country’s military pressured him to remove a post exposing the scale of its losses in a recent battle in Ukraine. The blogger, Andrei Morozov, claimed in his post that Russia had lost 16,000 men and 300 armored vehicles in its assault on the Ukrainian city of Avdiivka, which the Russians captured last week. He deleted the post on Tuesday after what he said was a campaign of intimidation against him.

Posted by: Disney at February 22, 2024 08:27 AM (RHGPo)

197 >>190 What's a 'palestinian?' Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 08:05 AM (Zz0t1)

The bed-lice of the Levant.

Posted by: ZOD Dahmer at February 22, 2024 08:27 AM (JAgBS)

198 194 Neanderthals used glue to make stone tools 40,000 years ago, a new study suggests “Earliest evidence of a multi-component adhesive in Europe”

.. I guess this means the patent has run out
Posted by: Disney at February 22, 2024 08:26 AM (RHGPo)

"Epoxy on your house!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2024 08:28 AM (x0n13)

199 My At&T service here in SC is working.
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 22, 2024 08:26 AM (4gD3D)
----
Mine was working until a few minute ago. Now it says "SOS"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 22, 2024 08:28 AM (7fElN)

200 When I was in Puerto Rico recently it was really nice to have no cell phone issues. Coverage was really good.

Posted by: tubal at February 22, 2024 08:28 AM (PCK5/)

201 Every cell carrier...

https://downdetector.com

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 08:28 AM (a1415)

202 A pro-war Russian military blogger died on Wednesday, his lawyer said, after the blogger wrote the country’s military pressured him to remove a post exposing the scale of its losses in a recent battle in Ukraine. The blogger, Andrei Morozov, claimed in his post that Russia had lost 16,000 men and 300 armored vehicles in its assault on the Ukrainian city of Avdiivka, which the Russians captured last week. He deleted the post on Tuesday after what he said was a campaign of intimidation against him.

He should've posted that 75% of the casualties were women and children.

Works for the Hamas Media Group.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)

203 Neanderthals used glue to make stone tools 40,000 years ago, a new study suggests “Earliest evidence of a multi-component adhesive in Europe”

.. I guess this means the patent has run out
Posted by: Disney at February 22, 2024 08:26 AM (RHGPo)

Troglodyte glue was superior.

Posted by: Jimmy Castor Bunch at February 22, 2024 08:28 AM (4I/2K)

204 >>"It's also National Chili Day.

Look at me!

Posted by: Chili Palmer at February 22, 2024 08:29 AM (6IDWi)

205 >>cell service

Looks at can, inspects string, looks at other can.

Appears to be working.

Posted by: ZOD Dahmer at February 22, 2024 08:29 AM (JAgBS)

206 Minutes [leaked??] from U.S. Federal Reserve meeting show some officials worried that progress on reducing inflation could stall.
====

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 08:29 AM (2yu8s)

207 Reportedly, the cellular outage affects/affected ATT, Verizon and T-Mobile customers in various locations.

It was billed as a "national outage" but I don't think it was really "national."

Just sort of spread out. I have no cellular signal here in Kentucky, for example.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 22, 2024 08:30 AM (Q4IgG)

208
I think the IRS is gearing up to figure out a way to confiscate BILLIONS.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2024 08:24 AM

They can do it right now. Look at an organization chart. Banks are just a division of the IRS.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 22, 2024 08:30 AM (nIvob)

209 Mine was working until a few minute ago. Now it says "SOS"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 22, 2024 08:28 AM (7fElN)

Meal of the day?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 22, 2024 08:30 AM (Angsy)

210 AT&T still up here, at least for the time being.

Posted by: TeeJ at February 22, 2024 08:31 AM (o3xwr)

211 Minutes [leaked??] from U.S. Federal Reserve meeting show some officials worried that progress on reducing inflation could stall.
====

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 08:29 AM (2yu8s)

Milk is still over $5 a gallon. Take your inflation reduction and shove it up your ass.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

212 >>That's the message from this regime, as they replace you with illegals immigrants and create the situation for widespread unrest.

And hey, if the violence and drugs that comes in with the open border kills one of the elite's kids, like the former YouTube CEO's kid, then so be it.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 22, 2024 08:31 AM (6IDWi)

213 AmericanThinker: New York to hand out $10,000 cards to illegals, no I.D. required, what could go wrong?

Posted by: Disney at February 22, 2024 08:31 AM (RHGPo)

214 CNN's coverage of AT&T outage

http://tinyurl.com/2s3d47mw

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 08:32 AM (a1415)

215 "Recently moved to Maryland. Found a post online that claimed "Maryland is not a state. Maryland is a cult." "

Mrs VIA peruses that website every damn day.

and it's pretty spot-on.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 07:58 AM (a1415)

Howdy VIA!

I may or may not have posted a few things to that FB group.

Posted by: Doof at February 22, 2024 08:32 AM (JunzL)

216 Minutes [leaked??] from U.S. Federal Reserve meeting show some officials worried that progress on reducing inflation could stall. ...
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 08:29 AM (2yu8s)
++++
LOL

They *have* stalled. PPI inflation is running at 4% annualized, CPI is slightly worse. They're burning up at double the rate the Fed wants (they laughable consider 2% to be "stable") and that's getting legs. The Fed has backed down on interest hikes for now to try to avoid causing a fiscal crisis for the FedGov and they're terrified of blowing up the Treasury duration trade and crashing the stock market, but they're also losing control.

It will be deeply ironic if, once again, the Fed's political game-playing and can-kicking and consequence-immunizing tactics result in detonation during an election year.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 08:33 AM (HnUIn)

217 Mine was working until a few minute ago. Now it says "SOS"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 22, 2024 08:28 AM (7fElN)

You asked for it!
https://youtu.be/cvChjHcABPA

Posted by: Doof at February 22, 2024 08:34 AM (JunzL)

218 "I may or may not have posted a few things to that FB group."

Heh!

I may or may not have thought that you did.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 08:34 AM (a1415)

219 Reporting present and late. Phone carrier service issue… frustrating, annoying etc….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 22, 2024 08:34 AM (Zkbb8)

220
AmericanThinker: New York to hand out $10,000 cards to illegals, no I.D. required, what could go wrong?

Posted by: Disney at February 22, 2024 08:31 AM

If the truckers have their way those people may be the only ones able to afford food. Imagine honest citizens stealing cards from the illegals to buy food.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 22, 2024 08:34 AM (nIvob)

221 Large MLK Jr memorial in a Denver park is vandalized with several pieces stolen.
====
No, I don't know what that means either unless it was made of Lego blocks.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 08:34 AM (2yu8s)

222 It could be still spreading. If your internet goes down next, I would stay home from work and you might want to get some gas and supplies before it all goes to shit.

Posted by: fd at February 22, 2024 08:34 AM (vFG9F)

223 Google Rolls Out ‘Pre-Bunking’ Censorship Regime to Rig EU Elections

From this spring, Google's internal Jigsaw unit which operates to tackle threats to societies, will run a series of animated ads across platforms such as TikTok and YouTube in five EU countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, and Poland.

Building on previous campaigns the company has tested in Germany and central Europe, Jigsaw said the new project was an opportunity to reach citizens in countries with some of the largest number of voters in the EU, utilising the company's local expertise in these regions.

The ads will feature so-called ‘prebunking’ techniques, developed in partnership with researchers at the Universities of Cambridge and Bristol, aimed at helping viewers identify manipulative content before encountering it…

‘We've spent so much time having these really polarised debates. Our democracy is at stake, and the temperature just keeps getting higher and higher,’ said Beth Goldberg, head of research at Jigsaw.”

Posted by: SMOD at February 22, 2024 08:35 AM (RHGPo)

224 Verizon working OK in NH.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 22, 2024 08:35 AM (N39Ws)

225 Reportedly, the cellular outage affects/affected ATT, Verizon and T-Mobile customers in various locations.

It was billed as a "national outage" but I don't think it was really "national."

Just sort of spread out. I have no cellular signal here in Kentucky, for example.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

It's nationwide because it's coast to coast. But it is not total. It's spotty.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 08:36 AM (IB/6k)

226 What? Cell service is down? Well, that does it. Millions of people who may have tried to file voter registrations were possibly disenfranchised today. We have to have an open election in Nov. no registration or ID needed. Just swear you are eligible and have only voted once.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2024 08:36 AM (NYzgN)

227 >>Imagine honest citizens stealing cards from the illegals to buy food.

Imagine honest citizens stealing illegals as food.

Posted by: ZOD Dahmer at February 22, 2024 08:36 AM (JAgBS)

228 AmericanThinker: New York to hand out $10,000 cards to illegals, no I.D. required, what could go wrong?
Posted by: Disney at February 22, 2024 08:31 AM (RHGPo)
++++
What can go wrong?

Regressive, racist, xenophobic MAGAts will object and piss and moan and riot and cause violence until the policy changes, literally leaving refugees out on the cold. These people need our help, not the knee-jerk nativism and stinginess of the Drumpf worshippers.

Posted by: DU, Probably at February 22, 2024 08:36 AM (HnUIn)

229 AmericanThinker: New York to hand out $10,000 cards to illegals, no I.D. required, what could go wrong?

Posted by: Disney at February 22, 2024 08:31 AM

What is stopping any individual - illegal or not - from walking up and grabbing a free $10k?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 22, 2024 08:36 AM (N39Ws)

230 >>"The eccentric mayor — whose face is plastered across billboards in tiny Dolton, Ill. — is accused of spending taxpayer money on lavish and unnecessary trips and forking over one million dollars on a police detail then using them to retaliate against her percieved enemies." (Just like a banana republic dictator would – or a fraudulent US "president" - jjs)

"eccentric"
AYFKM?
The MSM throws around words like fascist, authoritarian and tyrannical all the time, but when there is a mayor who is treating her position as if she were the queen of a tiny, third-word country, all they can muster up is -- "eccentric?!?"

Posted by: Lizzy at February 22, 2024 08:37 AM (6IDWi)

231 Inoculation theory is a framework from social psychology that posits that it is possible to pre-emptively confer psychological resistance against (malicious) persuasion attempts (Compton, 2013; McGuire & Papageorgis, 1961). This is a fitting analogy, because ‘fake news’ can spread much like a virus* (Kucharski, 2016; Vosoughi et al., 201

. In the context of vaccines, the body is exposed to a weakened dose of a pathogen—strong enough to trigger the immune system—but not so strong as to overwhelm the body. The same can be achieved with information by introducing pre-emptive refutations of weakened arguments, which help build cognitive resistance against future persuasion attempts. Meta-analyses have shown that inoculation theory is effective at reducing vulnerability to persuasion (Banas & Rains, 2010).”

Posted by: SMOD at February 22, 2024 08:37 AM (RHGPo)

232 So, will the cell phone outage make texting and driving better or worse?

I predict worse as the idiots will be checking their phones every 3 seconds and will create massive pile-ups, much like the one outside of Denton on I35 the other morning.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 08:37 AM (Zz0t1)

233 One $370,000 podcast on Southern history featured an episode titled,

“Bedfellows Forever: How 19th-century male romantic friendships queer our understanding of historical masculinity.”

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2024 08:37 AM (ENQN6)

234 ... ‘We've spent so much time having these really polarised debates. Our democracy is at stake, and the temperature just keeps getting higher and higher,’ said Beth Goldberg, head of research at Jigsaw.”
Posted by: SMOD at February 22, 2024 08:35 AM (RHGPo)
++++
Unless you go to a government office in Washington, you'll find no "debates" as "polarized" as those that occur in offices in Silicon Valley.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 08:38 AM (HnUIn)

235 It will be deeply ironic if, once again, the Fed's political game-playing and can-kicking and consequence-immunizing tactics result in detonation during an election year.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

As long as they can stall it to the first wednesday after the first monday in Nov. Then the crash will be Trump's fault.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2024 08:38 AM (NYzgN)

236 >>Google Rolls Out ‘Pre-Bunking’ Censorship Regime to Rig EU Elections

Took me a minute to figure out what the heck "pre-bunking" is -- it's debunking stories before they make it online, right? Or probably first *suppressing* the stories (scandals, negative press for preferred candidates) and presenting their version before the real one can get out?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 22, 2024 08:40 AM (6IDWi)

237 132 Red Steeze asked the Google Woke AF AI to generate an image of The Lincoln Project attending a children's birthday party and the response was the best thing on the internet.

https://shorturl.at/juxNQ
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at February 22, 2024 08:15 AM (9yUzE)

From the supposed AI's response: "It is never okay for adults to be around children in unsupervised situations ..."

Okay, then who would supervise the children?

Posted by: AI is a Scam at February 22, 2024 08:40 AM (pjs7m)

238 I have 5g on t mobile but phone say no internet connection.

strange the www works

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2024 08:40 AM (ENQN6)

239 What is stopping any individual - illegal or not - from walking up and grabbing a free $10k?
Posted by: Our Country

Nothing. That is the point. But if it were you or I, it would be 1000 years in sing sing.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2024 08:40 AM (NYzgN)

240 "The world’s economic policymakers could mitigate such a day by recognizing we are sleepwalking to a world crisis and taking measures to make our debt more sustainable. If they don’t, we should brace ourselves for economic turbulence at home and renewed financial-market strains as economic trouble abroad spills over to our shores."

Economic policymakers could mitigate...

What planet does the author live on? Elected politicians make and implement policies. Call me when Leftist politicians around the world stop buying votes from more and more slices of their populations.

Posted by: Gref at February 22, 2024 08:40 AM (5fDan)

241 Milk is still over $5 a gallon. Take your inflation reduction and shove it up your ass.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

Hello!

Posted by: $8 / gal orange juice at February 22, 2024 08:40 AM (4I/2K)

242 Israeli police say three gunmen opened fire near a checkpoint in the West Bank, killing one Israeli and wounding at least eight.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 08:40 AM (2yu8s)

243 The MSM throws around words like fascist, authoritarian and tyrannical all the time, but when there is a mayor who is treating her position as if she were the queen of a tiny, third-word country, all they can muster up is -- "eccentric?!?"
Posted by: Lizzy at February 22, 2024 08:37 AM (6IDWi)

How many mustaches have they had to clean off the posters?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 22, 2024 08:40 AM (Angsy)

244 The CBO Revised The Cost Of Biden's Energy Policies Up By $466 Billion

... who saw that coming, except everybody

Posted by: SMOD at February 22, 2024 08:41 AM (RHGPo)

245 Took me a minute to figure out what the heck "pre-bunking" is -- it's debunking stories before they make it online, right? Or probably first *suppressing* the stories (scandals, negative press for preferred candidates) and presenting their version before the real one can get out?
Posted by: Lizzy at February 22, 2024 08:40 AM (6IDWi)
++++
"Prebunking" is just a word for preemptive algorithmic censorship.
- Something gets posted somewhere
- It's assessed by the AI processor
- If it contains wrongthink, it is "debunked" with the Party Line in real-time, probably with a "note" attached to it
- If it keeps happening, it is censored completely and those posting it are shadowbanned to have their reach destroyed

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 08:42 AM (HnUIn)

246 >>The same can be achieved with information by introducing pre-emptive refutations of weakened arguments, which help build cognitive resistance against future persuasion attempts. Meta-analyses have shown that inoculation theory is effective at reducing vulnerability to persuasion (Banas & Rains, 2010).”

Ah - that's "pre-bunking". Thanks!!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 22, 2024 08:42 AM (6IDWi)

247 The Coming Collapse Of El Nino And Flip To La Nina

" ... La Nina forms and is sustained - as is likely - then global temperatures are likely to return to much closer-to-normal levels."

.. politicians will be desperate to doing something so they can take credit

Posted by: SMOD at February 22, 2024 08:42 AM (RHGPo)

248 Did Joe put Kamala in charge of Cellular service?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 08:42 AM (a1415)

249 It's nationwide because it's coast to coast. But it is not total. It's spotty.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 08:36 AM (IB/6k)

Yeah we bad-ad-ad-ad-ad
We nationwide!

Posted by: ZZ Top Cellular at February 22, 2024 08:43 AM (4I/2K)

250 Benny Gantz, member of Israel's War Cabinet, says efforts underway to reach a ceasefire to pause the war.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 08:43 AM (2yu8s)

251 I posted about Tiffany the other day. She's paying herself over $200k in salary for a city job, however, she's ordered that if she's no longer elected to do that job, the salary drops to $22k.

-------

Clever. If I were living there, though, I'd say that if I were elected mayor in her place, that I'd award my first year's 22k salary to a lucky Dolton, IL resident.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 22, 2024 08:43 AM (0FoWg)

252 Great MR, JJ. I read the content…. Dolton, IL…. The town name contains the four letters “dolt” which sounds like an apt description of the mayor

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 22, 2024 08:43 AM (Zkbb8)

253 Prebunking sounds like foreplay for masturbators.

Posted by: I'll be in my bunk, right after I prebunk at February 22, 2024 08:43 AM (pjs7m)

254 126 "J O Spice > Old Bay"
J O For crabs.
Old Bay for shrimp.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 08:14 AM (a1415)

J O #1 for shrimp.
J O #2 for crabs.
Old Bay for t-shirts, enamelware, tourist kitsch.
Posted by: ZOD at February 22, 2024 08:17 AM (JAgBS)

This is probably the second most prolific topic on that "Maryland is a cult, not a state" group. It is topped by examples of the MD flag being displayed improperly. There are 2 quadrants with yellow and black on the MD flag. There is a very subtle but important distinction between them, and a lot of Marylanders go ape-shit when something has it displayed wrong. It's a cool flag, but folks need to settle down!

Posted by: Doof at February 22, 2024 08:43 AM (JunzL)

255 "NVDA could become a 10 trillion dollar company"

... would you like to invest in some tulips ?

Posted by: SMOD at February 22, 2024 08:45 AM (RHGPo)

256 Read from some website blogger We are in the Looting the Empire stage same as other civilizations have had before their collapse.

Posted by: Skip at February 22, 2024 08:45 AM (X1dwT)

257 Dolton seems aptly named. They elected this asshole. Why is any of it our problem?

Posted by: Maybe Dolton should aspire to suck less hard at February 22, 2024 08:45 AM (pjs7m)

258 What? Cell service is down? Well, that does it. Millions of people who may have tried to file voter registrations were possibly disenfranchised today.

~~We have to have an open election in Nov. no registration or ID needed. Just swear you are eligible and have only voted once.~~

Show up in person with photo ID and your current voter registration card.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Fixed.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 08:45 AM (IB/6k)

259 "There are 2 quadrants with yellow and black on the MD flag. There is a very subtle but important distinction between them, and a lot of Marylanders go ape-shit when something has it displayed wrong."

I've seen it both ways.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 08:45 AM (a1415)

260 They *have* stalled. PPI inflation is running at 4% annualized, CPI is slightly worse. They're burning up at double the rate the Fed wants (they laughable consider 2% to be "stable") and that's getting legs. The Fed has backed down on interest hikes for now to try to avoid causing a fiscal crisis for the FedGov and they're terrified of blowing up the Treasury duration trade and crashing the stock market, but they're also losing control.

It will be deeply ironic if, once again, the Fed's political game-playing and can-kicking and consequence-immunizing tactics result in detonation during an election year.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

The fed is stuck. They are being ordered to not hike, and preferably cut rates to help the party, while their previous hikes have not curtailed inflation. Either path they take will be bad news.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 22, 2024 08:45 AM (Uzult)

261 Prebunking sounds like foreplay for masturbators.
Posted by: I'll be in my bunk, right after I prebunk at February 22, 2024 08:43 AM (pjs7m)
++++
I prebunk every night when I get home from work. I walk in the door and I'm all over myself like a cheap suit!

Posted by: Skilled prebunker at February 22, 2024 08:46 AM (HnUIn)

262 Pundit Class Now Openly Touts 'Benefits' Of Ukrainians Dying

As Russia advances, masks come off in sickening narrative shift...

Posted by: SMOD at February 22, 2024 08:46 AM (RHGPo)

263 >>"Bill would mandate training to undo 'layers of potential biases' that pregnancy and childbirth are female experiences."

Maybe they just need chips installed in their brains that scramble their thoughts whenever they think childbirth is a woman thing? You know, like Harrison Bergeron

Posted by: Lizzy at February 22, 2024 08:46 AM (6IDWi)

264
Yeah we bad-ad-ad-ad-ad
We nationwide!
Posted by: ZZ Top Cellular at February 22, 2024 08:43 AM (4I/2K)

Heh.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)

265 It's nationwide because it's coast to coast. But it is not total. It's spotty.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 08:36 AM (IB/6k)

It’s quite strange for me… both my personal and work mobile phones are AT&T service. But only my personal phone is a brick (displaying SOS for no cellular service at the top right)… my work phone is fine and they’re both located right next to me. Strange

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 22, 2024 08:46 AM (Zkbb8)

266 I read Cook County as CROOK County. Eh, same difference.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 22, 2024 08:47 AM (DLJl4)

267 It's nationwide because it's coast to coast. But it is not total. It's spotty.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 08:36 AM (IB/6k)

Yeah we bad-ad-ad-ad-ad
We nationwide!
Posted by: ZZ Top Cellular at February 22, 2024 08:43 AM (4I/2K)

But your signal's down...
In that Texas town!

Uh huh huh HUH!

Posted by: Doof at February 22, 2024 08:47 AM (JunzL)

268
- If it keeps happening, it is censored completely and those posting it are shadowbanned to have their reach destroyed

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 08:42 AM

It doesn't even have to keep happening. When you hit 'Post' on Facebook it immediately goes through a censuring algorithm to check for keywords. It even investigates images for words.

If the post fails the test it will not appear on any other persons feed. They limit the 'reach' of wrongthink users that way.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 22, 2024 08:47 AM (nIvob)

269 A report indicates that President Joe Biden’s dog, Commander, has bitten Secret Service agents as many as 24 times at the White House and other locations.

Posted by: SMOD at February 22, 2024 08:47 AM (RHGPo)

270 They defend this practice with the contention that that data is "poor" or "corrupted," by which they mean, well, that it doesn't show what they want it to show.
They Talk to the Trees?

take 4 mins and watch

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2024 08:48 AM (ENQN6)

271 > New York to hand out $10,000 cards to illegals, no I.D. required, what could go wrong?
__________

So, I had to renew my driver's license yesterday. Cost me $48 for a "real ID" good for 8 years.

The real treat was seeing that the majority of people at the DMV were Hispanic. No habla English. All had the same, state driver's license application form.

And... several had with them the required documents for a "real ID." In Kentucky you may get a license if you're not an American citizen by showing your Conditional Permanent Resident Card along with the other documents.

Who here thinks this Conditional Permanent Resident Card is not in the "welcome package" that each illegal gets?

So, with a "real ID" driver's license the illegals can now use that to get onto military bases, into Federal buildings and, of course, fly domestically....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 22, 2024 08:48 AM (Q4IgG)

272 The fed is stuck. They are being ordered to not hike, and preferably cut rates to help the party, while their previous hikes have not curtailed inflation. Either path they take will be bad news.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 22, 2024 08:45 AM (Uzult)
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The prior rate hikes have helped, and would continue to help if they kept doing them. The Fed is not omnipotent, and it can't stop the inflation if Treasury keeps printing money through obscene deficits.

They can make it too expensive to keep doing that, though, and defend the Dollar. Historically, they do. They don't like it, but they do it. The Fed can't stop inflation on its own, because they're not the sole cause of it and, in recent years, probably not even the primary cause of it.

The Fed, as always, is walking right up to the precipice.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 08:48 AM (HnUIn)

273 The best thing Maryland ever did was put out a "Maryland Is For Crabs" shirt in response to the Virginia Is For Lovers campaign.

Maryland, home of the 4-abreast State Troopers rolling along I495 at exactly 55mph during the Carter error.

Maryland, home of the unmarked, broke-ass hoopty mini pickup in the breakdown lane of I495 running radar.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 22, 2024 08:48 AM (4I/2K)

274 269 A report indicates that President Joe Biden’s dog, Commander, has bitten Secret Service agents as many as 24 times at the White House and other locations.
Posted by: SMOD at February 22, 2024 08:47 AM (RHGPo)

gooder and harderer

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2024 08:48 AM (ENQN6)

275 "A report indicates that President Joe Biden’s dog, Commander, has bitten Secret Service agents as many as 24 times at the White House and other locations."

So now we even have canine bite inflation?

When will it stop?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 08:49 AM (a1415)

276 A New York appeals court upheld a prior ruling that struck down a New York City law giving local voting rights to nearly a million foreign nationals.

As Breitbart News chronicled, Democrats on the 51-member New York City Council approved a plan in January 2022 that gave more than 800,000 foreign nationals with green cards, visas, and work permits the opportunity to vote in citywide elections so long as they have resided in the city for at least 30 consecutive days.

Posted by: SMOD at February 22, 2024 08:49 AM (RHGPo)

277
So, with a "real ID" driver's license the illegals can now use that to get onto military bases, into Federal buildings and, of course, fly domestically....
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 22, 2024 08:48 AM (Q4IgG)

But the replacement theory is hogwash.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 08:49 AM (Zz0t1)

278 The more I think about Trump, his strengths and weaknesses, a high-level cognitive operator and warrior as his running mate, someone who can support him in slashing away at the deep state bureaucracy while going after the media with surgical savvy, is essential. Selecting someone like Tim Scott or any other politician stuck in a "business as usual" mindset of politics would be a tragic lapse. We're at war. He of all people must realize that.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 22, 2024 08:49 AM (4gD3D)

279 I've seen it both ways.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 08:45 AM (a1415)

But you MUST not accept the wrong way!!!!!

Posted by: Doof at February 22, 2024 08:49 AM (JunzL)

280 It doesn't even have to keep happening. When you hit 'Post' on Facebook it immediately goes through a censuring algorithm to check for keywords. It even investigates images for words.

If the post fails the test it will not appear on any other persons feed. They limit the 'reach' of wrongthink users that way.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 22, 2024 08:47 AM (nIvob)
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Yeah, they "prebunk" it.

So does Google, and Google will really crack down on search this year.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 08:49 AM (HnUIn)

281 Mornin’, All.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 22, 2024 08:49 AM (9yWhg)

282 And they are all registered to vote now. Oops. Inadvertently!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2024 08:49 AM (NYzgN)

283 It's nationwide because it's coast to coast. But it is not total. It's spotty.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 08:36 AM (IB/6k)

Yeah we bad-ad-ad-ad-ad
We nationwide!
Posted by: ZZ Top Cellular at February 22, 2024 08:43 AM (4I/2K)

But your signal's down...
In that Texas town!

Uh huh huh HUH!
Posted by: Doof

Down around San Antone

Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 08:50 AM (IB/6k)

284 So, with a "real ID" driver's license the illegals can now use that to get onto military bases, into Federal buildings and, of course, fly domestically....
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 22, 2024 08:48 AM (Q4IgG)

But the replacement theory is hogwash.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 08:49 AM (Zz0t1)

Which totally negates the reason we were all told about the necessity of a "Real ID". But it did let the states crawl up each our rearends to investigate us before issuing the ID.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 22, 2024 08:50 AM (N39Ws)

285 So, with a "real ID" driver's license the illegals can now use that to get onto military bases, into Federal buildings and, of course, fly domestically....
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 22, 2024 08:48 AM (Q4IgG)

9/11 Electric Boogaloo DOS

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2024 08:50 AM (ENQN6)

286 SEC has approved the Truth Social merger with its SPAC. Could make Trump's share worth $4B.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2024 08:51 AM (NYzgN)

287 RFK Jr campaign spent more than it raised in January: report
The independent candidate brought in just under $2.7 million while spending over $3.2 million.

http://tinyurl.com/3t7hr5zf

Posted by: redridinghood at February 22, 2024 08:51 AM (NpAcC)

288 90 I truly would like to see PDTS return to the white House and say something along the lines of 'Remember what I said about my success being revenge? Well that was BS. Hold my beer.'

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 22, 2024 08:05 AM (YRsIm)
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Me too.
Also good movie except for the ending parts 'The Star Chamber'.

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #89 at February 22, 2024 08:51 AM (qfLjt)

289 I've seen it both ways.
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Still, it's flags' illusions I recall
I really don't know vexillology at all

Posted by: joni mitchell at February 22, 2024 08:51 AM (2yu8s)

290 When this regime is finally toppled by whatever means it happens, I certainly hope that a lot of Silicon Valley executives wind up going out like Mussolini.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 22, 2024 08:52 AM (0FoWg)

291
But the replacement theory is hogwash.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 08:49 AM

Well it's hogwash, but here's why it is good for the country...

Posted by: Your Betters at February 22, 2024 08:52 AM (nIvob)

292 SEC has approved the Truth Social merger with its SPAC. Could make Trump's share worth $4B.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2024 08:51 AM (NYzgN)

"Time for a bigger fine!"

- - - - Supreme Court of NY

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)

293 282 And they are all registered to vote now. Oops. Inadvertently!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2024 08:49 AM (NYzgN)

DMV routinely update to AAMVA. That AAMVA data does to pushed to ERIC. So if your state has illegals getting DL then your state has illegals voting.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2024 08:52 AM (ENQN6)

294 286 SEC has approved the Truth Social merger with its SPAC. Could make Trump's share worth $4B.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2024 08:51 AM (NYzgN)

And Letitia James rubs her hands in glee thinking about getting her share of that.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 22, 2024 08:52 AM (N39Ws)

295 Might be time to research alternative search engines…

Posted by: tubal at February 22, 2024 08:52 AM (PCK5/)

296 But your signal's down...
In that Texas town!

Uh huh huh HUH!
Posted by: Doof

Down around San Antone
Posted by: rickb223

But our home is out of range!

A haw haw haw

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2024 08:53 AM (NYzgN)

297 RFK Jr campaign spent more than it raised in January: report
The independent candidate brought in just under $2.7 million while spending over $3.2 million.

http://tinyurl.com/3t7hr5zf
Posted by: redridinghood at February 22, 2024 08:51 AM (NpAcC)

Heh.

Piker.

Posted by: Michael Bloomberg at February 22, 2024 08:53 AM (Zz0t1)

298 I've seen it both ways.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 08:45 AM (a1415)

I've looked at MD's flag from both sides now
From up and down and still somehow
It's life's illusions, I recall
I really don't know Maryland, at all

Posted by: Joni Mitchell at February 22, 2024 08:53 AM (4I/2K)

299 "But you MUST not accept the wrong way!!!!!"

Who are we to say what is the right way, and what is the wrong way?

Perhaps they were born that way?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 08:53 AM (a1415)

300 286 SEC has approved the Truth Social merger with its SPAC. Could make Trump's share worth $4B.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2024 08:51 AM (NYzgN)

And Letitia James rubs her hands in glee thinking about getting her share of that.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 22, 2024 08:52 AM (N39Ws)
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She'll be in her bunk....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 22, 2024 08:53 AM (7fElN)

301 Heh. Maybe humiliation *wasn't* part of the kink.

@News9Tweets
19m
#Google has announced a pause on its Gemini AI tool’s capability to create images of people.

@Google_Comms
We're already working to address recent issues with Gemini's image generation feature. While we do this, we're going to pause the image generation of people and will re-release an improved version soon.

@Google_Comms
We're aware that Gemini is offering inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions. Here's our statement.

From the article from the India newspaper in the original quoted tweet:
“Addressing recent issues with Gemini’s image generation feature is our priority,” Google stated on X, formerly known as Twitter. The tech giant emphasized its commitment to revising the feature to ensure it meets the highest standards of accuracy and inclusivity. The pause is portrayed as a step towards refining the tool, with plans to reintroduce an improved version shortly.

I'm not hopeful, but I'd like to think the damage is done. I doubt it, but I want it to be so. Google's AI is anti-white to an extreme degree. This downtime for retooling will merely make it more subtle.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 08:53 AM (HnUIn)

302 Still, it's flags' illusions I recall
I really don't know vexillology at all
Posted by: joni mitchell at February 22, 2024 08:51 AM (2yu8s)

Vexillology bothers me.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 22, 2024 08:54 AM (Angsy)

303
I'm not hopeful, but I'd like to think the damage is done. I doubt it, but I want it to be so. Google's AI is anti-white to an extreme degree. This downtime for retooling will merely make it more subtle.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 08:53 AM (HnUIn)

Google sucks.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 08:54 AM (Zz0t1)

304 A report indicates that President Joe Biden’s dog, Commander, has bitten Secret Service agents as many as 24 times at the White House and other locations.
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When it started getting reported the several years ago, rumours circulated the groundskeepers et alia were blacks.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 08:55 AM (2yu8s)

305 Since when is a town with 20,000 residents (Dolton, IL) considered “tiny?”

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 22, 2024 08:55 AM (9yWhg)

306 Still, it's flags' illusions I recall
I really don't know vexillology at all
Posted by: joni mitchell at February 22, 2024 08:51 AM (2yu8s)

Vexillology bothers me.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 22, 2024 08:54 AM (Angsy)

Me too. So vexing.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 22, 2024 08:55 AM (4I/2K)

307 Which totally negates the reason we were all told about the necessity of a "Real ID". But it did let the states crawl up each our rearends to investigate us before issuing the ID.

My wife has to renew her license. They want birth certificate and social security card, among other things. To obtain a Real ID, which she already has. The fuck is the point of doing this every 8 years? If the last Real ID driver's license obtained (with the same documentation demanded now) isn't sufficient verification of citizenship and identity, then what's the fucking point of Real ID?

Posted by: Pointless Intrusive Bureaucracy at February 22, 2024 08:55 AM (pjs7m)

308 Yale University will once again require standardized testing for students applying for admission in the fall of 2025. The decision, announced today, ends the test-optional undergraduate admissions process that had been in place at Yale since the pandemic. According to the announcement, the past four years of test-optional admissions had given Yale what it described as “an invaluable opportunity to think deeply about testing policy and to generate new data and analyses. With testing availability now fully restored for prospective applicants around the world, we have reevaluated our policy with the benefit of fresh insights.”

Posted by: SMOD at February 22, 2024 08:55 AM (RHGPo)

309 Judge thinks the value of his shares is $0.50! Overstated its value!!! Sue sue sue!! Indict indict indict!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2024 08:56 AM (NYzgN)

310 I've got AT&T and I'm in the Northeast. I'm all good got 5G.

Posted by: Jaimo at February 22, 2024 08:56 AM (DBrN4)

311 I got crabs in Maryland!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 08:56 AM (2yu8s)

312 Since when is a town with 20,000 residents (Dolton, IL) considered “tiny?”
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 22, 2024 08:55 AM (9yWhg)
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It is in comparison to Chicago.

I live in a semi-rural community of about that size. This is not a big town by any stretch of the imagination.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 22, 2024 08:56 AM (7fElN)

313 "But you MUST not accept the wrong way!!!!!"

Who are we to say what is the right way, and what is the wrong way?

Perhaps they were born that way?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 08:53 AM (a1415)

Don't misgender the MD flag!

Posted by: Doof at February 22, 2024 08:56 AM (JunzL)

314 278 The more I think about Trump, his strengths and weaknesses, a high-level cognitive operator and warrior as his running mate, someone who can support him in slashing away at the deep state bureaucracy while going after the media with surgical savvy, is essential. Selecting someone like Tim Scott or any other politician stuck in a "business as usual" mindset of politics would be a tragic lapse. We're at war. He of all people must realize that.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 22, 2024 08:49 AM (4gD3D)
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It would also help if the person could be seen as a viable POTUS candidate in 2028. Tim Scott is not that at all.

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #90 at February 22, 2024 08:56 AM (qfLjt)

315 With testing availability now fully restored for prospective applicants around the world, we have reevaluated our policy with the benefit of fresh insights.”
Posted by: SMOD at February 22, 2024 08:55 AM (RHGPo)

"We are admitting mental defectives and other undesirables and we are ending that practice."

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 22, 2024 08:56 AM (R4t5M)

316 Massive phone outage, now my company is reporting a massive EDI outage affecting multiple systems.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)

317 Chicago Public Schools (CPS) has paid over $90,000 to Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago since 2021 for a series of trainings provided through its Sexuality Education Program, which includes lessons on anal sex instruction and pro-transgender sexual communication.

That would be the Butt, Bob.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2024 08:58 AM (ENQN6)

318 Good morning JJ and horde
Hopefully a better shorter day for me today
Posted by: Skip at February 22, 2024 07:49 AM (X1dwT)

Have a good one and stay safe !

Posted by: JT at February 22, 2024 08:58 AM (T4tVD)

319 My wife has to renew her license. They want birth certificate and social security card, among other things. To obtain a Real ID, which she already has. The fuck is the point of doing this every 8 years? If the last Real ID driver's license obtained (with the same documentation demanded now) isn't sufficient verification of citizenship and identity, then what's the fucking point of Real ID?
Posted by: Pointless Intrusive Bureaucracy at February 22, 2024 08:55 AM (pjs7m)
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When I went to get my DL renewed a few years ago, I *thought* I had brought the necessary documentation for REAL ID, but then I was told that one of the documents I brought (a utility bill) was "too old" (by about two months) and had to get a non-REAL ID. I could upgrade for an additional fee at a later time.

Idiots.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 22, 2024 08:58 AM (7fElN)

320 Morning Horde, thanks JJ. The left always tries to push all envelopes so I think the next up is "The case for raping children while simultaneously eating a their parents: a progressive viewpoint

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 22, 2024 08:58 AM (byGob)

321 so long as they have resided in the city for at least 30 consecutive days.
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I still don't agree with it but it's one thing if you're a property owner for, say, 10-20 years in a municipality; but 30 days?!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 08:58 AM (2yu8s)

322 Tim Scott reminds me of the dude running for mayor against the corporation in RoboCop 2.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 08:58 AM (Zz0t1)

323 >> truly would like to see PDTS return to the white House and say something along the lines of 'Remember what I said about my success being revenge? Well that was BS. Hold my beer.'

I want to see him sitting on a throne of skulls screaming "Burn them all!".

But I rarely get what I want.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 22, 2024 08:59 AM (CWkuC)

324 TracFone is fine.
I mean, people have to deal their drugs, right?
Nobody is going to shut THAT down.

Posted by: LenNeal at February 22, 2024 08:59 AM (43xH1)

325 Ha ha ha. Lound-eye dumbfucks.

Posted by: Chinese hackers at February 22, 2024 08:59 AM (R4t5M)

326
That would be the Butt, Bob.
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2024 08:58 AM (ENQN6)

"Where's the strangest place you've ever had sex?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 08:59 AM (Zz0t1)

327 " I got crabs in Maryland!"

Told you to stay away from Nancy D'Alesandro, didn't I?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 08:59 AM (a1415)

328 Interesting about Real ID… I just renewed mine. They needed the old license, of course, and two pieces of info containing current address, in my case two hard copies of utility bills.

Posted by: tubal at February 22, 2024 08:59 AM (PCK5/)

329
I think that Facebook also has employees who visually check 'problematic' accounts on a regular basis. The clue to that is people you do not know, have absolutely no way of knowing, do not want to know... showing up in your "People You May Know" area.

You see the same photograph over and over, that's the clue who is monitoring you. I then 'block' them. A couple days later, you'll have a new person checking on you.

Posted by: Your Betters at February 22, 2024 08:59 AM (nIvob)

330 Unfortunately, if the fed starts cutting rates, inflation will be back with a vengeance, and if they hike and officially bring the needed recession, the next step will be more printing up stimulus checks, negating the power of recession to clean up the economy. Like EMTs shocking a heart attack victim for hours.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 22, 2024 09:00 AM (OWtvf)

331 With all these cell outages, you're probably thinking right now that you made a big mistake getting rid of me.

Posted by: Landline at February 22, 2024 09:00 AM (Angsy)

332 MD state motto was, in Latin, Women's words, mens deeds. I think they changed it.

Posted by: blaster at February 22, 2024 09:00 AM (xhfG9)

333 Dolton is a stone's throw from the place in IN that i grew up. Just a suburban town.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2024 09:01 AM (NYzgN)

334 With all these cell outages, you're probably thinking right now that you made a big mistake getting rid of me.
Posted by: Landline at February 22, 2024 09:00 AM (Angsy)
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Hey! I'm back up to one bar! (which is about all I get in my basement office)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 22, 2024 09:01 AM (7fElN)

335 Director Alice Miller and the elections board violated the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) by failing to make available specific information within ERIC Deceased Reports. Under the NVRA’s disclosure provision, jurisdictions are required to make “available for public inspection, for a period of at least two years, all records concerning the implementation of programs and activities conducted for the purpose of ensuring the accuracy and currency of official lists of eligible voters.”

Voter and Voter voting records (not candidates but presence) are and have always been public records.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2024 09:01 AM (ENQN6)

336 "and had to get a non-REAL ID. I could upgrade for an additional fee at a later time. "

Maryland, in it's infinite wisdom decided to require that ALL drivers licenses be Real ID compliant.

You don't have the option for Non-Real ID compliant.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 09:02 AM (a1415)

337 Nationwide. All major carriers. AT&T, Verizon & T Mobile.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 08:14 AM (IB/6k)

Verizon here. Full service.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at February 22, 2024 09:02 AM (iODuv)

338 So, while I was standing in line at the DMV I took a gander at some of the forms the illegals had filled out in order to get their driver's license. Almost every single person had the typical KY application. Almost every single one was typed or had been filled out electronically.

A few were there to take the written test. In Spanish.

Even a number of the clerks were fluent in Spanish. It's unreal.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 22, 2024 09:02 AM (Q4IgG)

339 That would be the Butt, Bob.
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2024 08:58 AM (ENQN6)

"Where's the strangest place you've ever had sex?"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 08:59 AM (Zz0t1)

Can't use the 3-letter "s" word. It's "whoopie"!

Posted by: Doof at February 22, 2024 09:02 AM (JunzL)

340 332 MD state motto was, in Latin, Women's words, mens deeds. I think they changed it.

Posted by: blaster at February 22, 2024 09:00 AM (xhfG9)

I looked it up. They kept the motto, and have instead decided to change Latin.

Posted by: blaster at February 22, 2024 09:02 AM (xhfG9)

341 a Chicom probe of our secular system?

Not as much as every hiccup in Disqus at Insty, but, in principle...

So the service maps are a joke and we can prove there are gaps, but when it sneery-time down south every night in Chatsville, anybody who kept copper lines or a dial phone is "grampaw."
The best Phrenia is Schizo Phrenia, and we have a taste for it.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 22, 2024 09:03 AM (zdLoL)

342 I will be Trump's VP.

Imagine me standing on the debate stage with an idling chainsaw.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2024 09:03 AM (NYzgN)

343 What are the hallmarks of a banana republic?

El Presidente wears aviator sunglasses.
Dr Mrs Homewrecker prolly lets him play with the epaulets.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at February 22, 2024 09:03 AM (Rbu5d)

344
I looked it up. They kept the motto, and have instead decided to change Latin.
Posted by: blaster at February 22, 2024 09:02 AM (xhfG9)

What's Latin for "All your base are belong to us."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 09:03 AM (Zz0t1)

345 Morning Horde, thanks JJ. The left always tries to push all envelopes so I think the next up is "The case for raping children while simultaneously eating a their parents: a progressive viewpoint
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 22, 2024 08:58 AM (byGob)
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Then we'll get a heart-warming biographical sketch of how a Reaver challenged all three taboos at once...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 22, 2024 09:03 AM (7fElN)

346 Agree with OA above…. Tim Scott would be a disappointing VP choice. Of the names I’ve heard bandied about only DeSantis or Vivek are in the right mold. I’ve always been partial to Kari Lake

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 22, 2024 09:04 AM (Zkbb8)

347
Imagine me standing on the debate stage with an idling chainsaw.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2024 09:03 AM (NYzgN)

Attached to your AR.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 09:04 AM (Zz0t1)

348 Maryland, in it's infinite wisdom decided to require that ALL drivers licenses be Real ID compliant.

You don't have the option for Non-Real ID compliant.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 09:02 AM (a1415)

I want my Real ID to be Spectacular too

Posted by: Doof at February 22, 2024 09:04 AM (JunzL)

349 > Insider Paper
@TheInsiderPaper
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25m
JUST IN - Reports of mobile service outages of AT&T, Verizon, etc. emerged after major solar flare, Meteorologist say
______________

If we have a Carrington Event or EMP, we are well and truly fucked.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 22, 2024 09:04 AM (Q4IgG)

350 290 When this regime is finally toppled by whatever means it happens, I certainly hope that a lot of Silicon Valley executives wind up going out like Mussolini.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 22, 2024 08:52 AM (0FoWg)
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You mean shot dead and then hanged upside-down?
What is the point after the headshot?

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #91 at February 22, 2024 09:04 AM (qfLjt)

351 Parts of Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Denver stolen

http://tinyurl.com/44a6seus

Posted by: redridinghood at February 22, 2024 09:05 AM (NpAcC)

352
My wife had to get an 'OFFICIAL' record of our marriage. Of course it cost some money to procure. We thought the marriage certificate we had in our possession was valid.

Decades of pre-marital sex apparently.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 22, 2024 09:05 AM (nIvob)

353 I want my Real ID to be Spectacular too
Posted by: Doof at February 22, 2024 09:04 AM (JunzL)

The Feds had set a deadline for all state IDs to be Real IDs but then they postponed the deadline after postponing the deadline.

But they let illegals fly with a note from Epstein's mom so I don't think it means the IDs are any more "Real" than anything else.

Posted by: blaster at February 22, 2024 09:06 AM (xhfG9)

354 Hey there Cola-hearted woman,
Come and drink from my loving cup,
It will melt your cola-heart babe,
For it is filled with 7-Up!

Posted by: You Like It-It Likes You at February 22, 2024 09:06 AM (V5BDR)

355 ----
You mean shot dead and then hanged upside-down?
What is the point after the headshot?
Posted by: Ciampino - Update #91 at February 22, 2024 09:04 AM (qfLjt)

"HUMILIATION!"

https://youtu.be/1v3IfJ4fMXw

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 09:06 AM (Zz0t1)

356 My wife had to get an 'OFFICIAL' record of our marriage. Of course it cost some money to procure. We thought the marriage certificate we had in our possession was valid.

Decades of pre-marital sex apparently.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 22, 2024 09:05 AM (nIvob)

Decades??? Nah - you aint married

Posted by: Doof at February 22, 2024 09:06 AM (JunzL)

357 Did you know that Nancy Pelosi is older than Joe Biden?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 09:06 AM (a1415)

358 Here, a hospital issues birth certificate is not considered valid. It has to come from your birth state's "Dept. of Vital Records."

At a cost.

To you.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 22, 2024 09:07 AM (Q4IgG)

359 U.S. District Judge Andrew Schopler in San Diego sided with, opens new tab a firearms industry trade association
Posted by: Disney

I think I want to join this very effective trade association, anyone provide a link?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 22, 2024 09:07 AM (njz/M)

360 What's Latin for "All your base are belong to us."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 09:03 AM (Zz0t1)

According to state of MD Latin translators: E pluribus unum.

Posted by: blaster at February 22, 2024 09:08 AM (xhfG9)

361 ... The fuck is the point of doing this every 8 years? If the last Real ID driver's license obtained (with the same documentation demanded now) isn't sufficient verification of citizenship and identity, then what's the fucking point of Real ID?
Posted by: Pointless Intrusive Bureaucracy at February 22, 2024 08:55 AM (pjs7m)
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It's a hoop to jump through, nothing more. RealID provides - ostensibly - three things:
1. Proof of identity
2. Proof of citizenship
3. Proof of residency and jurisdiction

Point #3 is why, upon renewal, many states require renewed proof of residency (e.g., utility bills or similar). The first two points do not change, and should not need to be reconfirmed unless a system error occurs or they discover an error (e.g., you may have given them fraudulent proof of identity or citizenship).

The other major form of ID in this country is the passport. The passport provides only the first two items in the list: identity and citizenship status. And to your point, the State Department will renew an expired or expiring passport if you furnish it to them. It was fine before, so it's fine now. No need to provide initial paperwork again because it was already validated.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 09:08 AM (HnUIn)

362 Half an I.D., philosophically,
Must, ipso facto, half not be.
But half the I.D. has got to be
Vis-à-vis, its entity. D'you see?
But can an I.D. be said to be
Or not to be an entire I.D.
When half the I.D. is not an I.D.
Due to some ancient injury?

ERIC the half a voter I.D.!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 09:09 AM (2yu8s)

363
According to state of MD Latin translators: E pluribus unum.
Posted by: blaster at February 22, 2024 09:08 AM (xhfG9)

https://youtu.be/VL-NFtX6Wkc

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 09:09 AM (Zz0t1)

364 It is in comparison to Chicago.

I live in a semi-rural community of about that size. This is not a big town by any stretch of the imagination.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

I guess it's a matter of perspective. I grew up in a town with about 2,000 residents. That was "tiny." 20,000 does not strike me as "tiny" or "small," by any measure, even given that I now live in suburban DC.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 22, 2024 09:09 AM (9yWhg)

365 What is the point after the headshot?
Posted by: Ciampino - Update #91 at February 22, 2024 09:04 AM (qfLjt)
++++
The same point as a head on a pike outside the palace: an object lesson for those who might think they'd like to try their hand it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 09:09 AM (HnUIn)

366 You mean shot dead and then hanged upside-down?
What is the point after the headshot?
Posted by: Ciampino - Update #91 at February 22, 2024 09:04 AM (qfLj

That's how it's done in a meat-packing plant. Cannibalism-FTW!

Posted by: Roast Beast at February 22, 2024 09:09 AM (V5BDR)

367 Verizon and Comcast working here

also looked at my CO DL
it is Real ID

'I can drive a car, because my license has a star-
the big black Real ID star!'

(name that jingle)

Posted by: Don Black at February 22, 2024 09:09 AM (geLO8)

368 > But they let illegals fly with a note from Epstein's mom so I don't think it means the IDs are any more "Real" than anything else.
_______________

My wife has had her Real ID for a while. It's a horrible piece of ID. The photo is really low resolution... I can barely tell it's her. It's full of weird dots too... probably to foil counterfeiting, but as a form of ID it sucks.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 22, 2024 09:09 AM (Q4IgG)

369 I wonder if that wimpy judge in Fulton county will toss Fani like he should. Isn’t his decision due today?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 22, 2024 09:10 AM (Zkbb8)

370 For example, in one statement which has been cited, Wax said in a podcast about affirmative action that “I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Black student graduate in the top quarter of the class, and rarely, rarely, in the top half of my required first-year course.”

We will give special accommodations to allow them in. Give special accommodations to allow them to graduate. Then they get a prominent job because they "graduated from Penn".

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2024 09:10 AM (NYzgN)

371 197 >>190 What's a 'palestinian?' Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 08:05 AM (Zz0t1)

The bed-lice of the Levant.

Posted by: ZOD Dahmer at February 22, 2024 08:27 AM (JAgBS)
----
Remember that some imam claimed/declared beard lice to be sacred so no killing or even removing (advise to ISIS sometime ago).

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #92 at February 22, 2024 09:10 AM (qfLjt)

372 Decades of pre-marital sex apparently.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 22, 2024 09:05 AM (nIvob)

*shakes head sadly*

I knew eight years of Clinton would lead to this.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson work phone at February 22, 2024 09:10 AM (5YGrl)

373 My wife had to get an 'OFFICIAL' record of our marriage. Of course it cost some money to procure. We thought the marriage certificate we had in our possession was valid'

Check your birth certificate, no joke: I had a hospital-issued document for years, only to find on moving to a different state it was never a valid birth certificate issued by the official body of the County in which I was born.

Posted by: LenNeal at February 22, 2024 09:10 AM (43xH1)

374 I guess it's a matter of perspective. I grew up in a town with about 2,000 residents. That was "tiny." 20,000 does not strike me as "tiny" or "small," by any measure, even given that I now live in suburban DC.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 22, 2024 09:09 AM (9yWhg)
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Yep...around here, "the big city" could mean anything between the size of Jefferson City to the size of St. Louis.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 22, 2024 09:11 AM (7fElN)

375 Less so with the next case, when comments Wax also made in 2017 were resurfaced, in which she said, “I don’t think I’ve ever seen a black student graduate in the top quarter of the class, and rarely, rarely, in the top half. I can think of one or two students who scored in the top half of my required first-year course.” This apparently violated Penn’s policies on the confidentiality of student grades.

"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act".

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2024 09:12 AM (ENQN6)

376
I want my Real ID to be Spectacular too
Posted by: Doof

Prepare to be disappointed.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 22, 2024 09:12 AM (njz/M)

377 So Kemp appointed the judge in the Trump case to the bench. Shocked, shocked I say

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 22, 2024 09:13 AM (byGob)

378 These Chicago suburbs like Dolton are 2x2 mile blocks of single family homes. Cram in 20,000 people, put up a police and fire dept, k-12 schools, and call yourself a town.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2024 09:13 AM (NYzgN)

379 What is the point after the headshot?
Posted by: Ciampino - Update #91 at February 22, 2024 09:04 AM (qfLjt)
++++
The same point as a head on a pike outside the palace: an object lesson for those who might think they'd like to try their hand it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

That's like birds who crap on your windshield.

I sit outside and eat a bucket of chicken. Just to let them know what I'm capable of.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 09:13 AM (IB/6k)

380 Kind of funny the the RealID symbol is a Gold Star.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2024 09:13 AM (ENQN6)

381 I think the IRS is gearing up to figure out a way to confiscate BILLIONS.
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2024 08:24 AM (ENQN6)

Saw a video yesterday saying that two "respected economists", one on the right and one on the left, had recently published papers saying that we should get rid of IRA/401k because not enough people who need the money are taking advantage of these opportunities.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 22, 2024 09:14 AM (1Z8zZ)

382
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2024 09:12 AM

You decapitalized the word 'Black'! Report to reeducation camp immediately! Doubleplusungood wrongthink!

Posted by: Your Betters at February 22, 2024 09:14 AM (nIvob)

383 Check your birth certificate, no joke: I had a hospital-issued document for years, only to find on moving to a different state it was never a valid birth certificate issued by the official body of the County in which I was born.
Posted by: LenNeal at February 22, 2024 09:10 AM (43xH1)

Now do B Hussein!

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2024 09:14 AM (ENQN6)

384 The size thing is fascinating. 'City' is a matter of perspective. Town too. I would be a town of 20k to us today would have been called a city by Roman standards. Rome, the largest city of the ancient world, only cracked a million.

It also shows the vast difference in agriculture, medicine and nutrition.

But what has the modern world ever done for us. Best go back to fertilizing with nightsoil and bloodletting.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson work phone at February 22, 2024 09:15 AM (5YGrl)

385 To get a DL in the new state, I had to provide a birth certificate, which seems the one I had, had never been a legal document; just my original home state just didn't care or notice and issued me a DL there anyway.
Then, to get the *real* birth certificate in the County of my birth, I had to show them my driver's license.
Which was originally issued based on a bogus birth certificate.

Posted by: LenNeal at February 22, 2024 09:15 AM (43xH1)

386 >>“Assisted dying is the quintessential policy of our times.”

"I know, right?"
-- Chinese Fentanyl maker

Posted by: Lizzy at February 22, 2024 09:15 AM (6IDWi)

387 I wonder if that wimpy judge in Fulton county will toss Fani like he should. Isn’t his decision due today?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 22, 2024 09:10 AM (Zkbb

~~~~~

Who knows. Just saw a report yesterday that he donated to Fani's campaign.

Posted by: IrishEi at February 22, 2024 09:15 AM (kQDzN)

388 It is now E MULTIS PLURA.

Posted by: A tiny voice in the wilderness at February 22, 2024 09:16 AM (gN0vm)

389 Saw a video yesterday saying that two "respected economists", one on the right and one on the left, had recently published papers saying that we should get rid of IRA/401k because not enough people who need the money are taking advantage of these opportunities.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 22, 2024 09:14 AM (1Z8zZ)

I moved a substantial amount out of IRA as I think there will be a buy in within 10 years.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2024 09:16 AM (ENQN6)

390 'I can drive a car, because my license has a star-
the big black Real ID star!'

(name that jingle)
Posted by: Don Black at February 22, 2024 09:09 AM (geLO

I know! I know! It's Lilek's Oil!!!

Posted by: Texaco at February 22, 2024 09:17 AM (Angsy)

391 Saw a video yesterday saying that two "respected economists", one on the right and one on the left, had recently published papers saying that we should get rid of IRA/401k because not enough people who need the money are taking advantage of these opportunities.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Don't get rid of 401k. Get rid of penalties for early withdrawal.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 09:17 AM (IB/6k)

392 (name that jingle)
Posted by: Don Black

Texaco

Posted by: JT at February 22, 2024 09:18 AM (T4tVD)

393
Get rid of penalties for early withdrawal.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 09:17 AM (IB/6k)

I hate you......

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at February 22, 2024 09:18 AM (Zz0t1)

394 Don't get me started about fixing my daughter's misspelled name on her Social Security card when she was born.
If I had to do it over again I'd have left it. What a pain in the ass.

Posted by: LenNeal at February 22, 2024 09:18 AM (43xH1)

395 "I know! I know! It's Lilek's Oil!!!"

Needs a dinosaur.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 09:18 AM (a1415)

396 Saw a video yesterday saying that two "respected economists", one on the right and one on the left, had recently published papers saying that we should get rid of IRA/401k because not enough people who need the money are taking advantage of these opportunities.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 22, 2024 09:14 AM (1Z8zZ)
++++
Tax grab. The real target is likely the Roth, but they'd like to tax it all.

I doubt there is actually a plan to seize 401(k) accounts and IRA accounts and the like, but subjecting them to double-taxation is almost certainly on the agenda. These "economists" have given a frame for it: equity. It is unfair that those who have money to save for retirement are usually those who save for retirement, so we need to intervene and tax the "rich" savers to help out the poor non-savers.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 09:18 AM (HnUIn)

397 You don't recover from 24 years of Clinton, Bush, Obama in any less than that.

Posted by: Son of Dad at February 22, 2024 09:18 AM (8JB5s)

398
The Republican Vice-Presidential Pick: The Case for Jeb!

Posted by: Auspex at February 22, 2024 09:18 AM (j4U/Z)

399 247 The Coming Collapse Of El Nino And Flip To La Nina

" ... La Nina forms and is sustained - as is likely - then global temperatures are likely to return to much closer-to-normal levels."

.. politicians will be desperate to doing something so they can take credit

Posted by: SMOD at February 22, 2024 08:42 AM (RHGPo)

Yup. They will claim the cooling is because their righteous efforts to reduce CO2 release from fossil fuel use succeeded! Succeeded a only little bit, however. We'll be told the campaign against fossil fuels must continue, all-out, or we'll all die in 2036, not 2035.

Posted by: Gref at February 22, 2024 09:19 AM (5fDan)

400 So cannibalism is on the table I see.

Posted by: Big fat cracker daddy at February 22, 2024 09:19 AM (rbfpx)

401 >>Saw a video yesterday saying that two "respected economists", one on the right and one on the left, had recently published papers saying that we should get rid of IRA/401k because not enough people who need the money are taking advantage of these opportunities.

This was one of the first things TFG explored, justifying the confiscation of 401ks -- in his plan, having the fedgov "manage" all 401ks on behalf of citizens because it was "unfair" that some people have better fund managemnt, and still others aren't given the option for a 401k by their employer. He ended up creating a "universal 401k" for the latter, iirc, but was planning on taking all.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 22, 2024 09:19 AM (6IDWi)

402 In fact, if you want to understand how it is that we've been laid so low, it starts with average people in our own neighborhoods, towns and cities.

------------

"But it wasn't the bullet that laid them to rest
Was the low-T of high-heeled boys"

Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 22, 2024 09:19 AM (S/101)

403 If your dog had bitten people 24 times, they would take it away from you.

Posted by: fd at February 22, 2024 09:20 AM (vFG9F)

404 Texaco is correct!

Come on down and pick up the keys to your new Buick

Posted by: Don Black at February 22, 2024 09:20 AM (geLO8)

405
"But it wasn't the bullet that laid them to rest
Was the low-T of high-heeled boys"

Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 22, 2024 09:19 AM (S/101)

Not a bad earworm to have.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)

406 Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 09:20 AM (2yu8s)

407 "or we'll all die in 2036, not 2035."

Wait...The Late, Great Planet Earth wasn't a documentary?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 09:20 AM (a1415)

408 Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 09:20 AM (2yu8s)

Gesundheit!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 09:21 AM (Zz0t1)

409 #ThePersistence
@ScottPresler

We’re 2,438 voters away from flipping Bucks County, PA, 🔵🔜🔴.

We’re 1,302 voters away from flipping Centre County, PA, 🔵🔜🔴.

We’re 3,586 voters away from flipping Luzerne County, PA, 🔵🔜🔴.

This is a big deal.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 22, 2024 09:21 AM (NpAcC)

410 This was one of the first things TFG explored, justifying the confiscation of 401ks -- in his plan, having the fedgov "manage" all 401ks on behalf of citizens because it was "unfair" that some people have better fund management, and still others aren't given the option for a 401k by their employer. He ended up creating a "universal 401k" for the latter, iirc, but was planning on taking all.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 22, 2024 09:19 AM (6IDWi)

-------------

Old & Busted: ~~Obama~~DeathCare.
New Hotness: ~~Obama~~DeathFund.

Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 22, 2024 09:21 AM (S/101)

411 You know, the old canard about how certain demographics couldn't be expected to produce ID to vote because it was effectively discriminatory is somewhat less ridiculous in the world of Real ID. Here in TX anyway, the state has made obtaining one such a ridiculous pain in the ass to do so that it probably is especially burdensome for idiots.

Posted by: Pointless Intrusive Bureaucracy at February 22, 2024 09:21 AM (pjs7m)

412
This is a big deal.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 22, 2024 09:21 AM (NpAcC)

Heh.

Posted by: Dominion Voting Machines at February 22, 2024 09:21 AM (Zz0t1)

413 Luna is a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, which met in January to receive a classified hearing on UFOs/UAPs. Following the meeting, the Florida congresswoman told podcaster Grant Mitt that she believes UFOs are of “non-human origin” and could contain “inter-dimensional beings,” which shouldn’t be confused with extraterrestrial beings.

The term “inter-dimensional” suggests these creatures are not from our version of Earth, but from a different dimension or parallel universe. Or, as she put it, “they’re not necessarily a biological entity from another planet per se.”

This actually make more sense than from another planet.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2024 09:22 AM (ENQN6)

414 " Massive phone outage, now my company is reporting a massive EDI outage affecting multiple systems.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden"

And so it begins.

Posted by: In before the guy that always says "And so it begins" at February 22, 2024 09:22 AM (vFG9F)

415 Spraker Johnson want a 1 year CR when thin one runs out. How about one that runs out on Sept 30th, the end of the fiscal year. Then produce a fucking budget like they used to do in the olden days.

Oh, and Paul; Ryan says the Trump wing is the establishment of the GOP and shitheads like him and Romney are outsiders.

Posted by: TC at February 22, 2024 09:22 AM (FjlUt)

416 403 If your dog had bitten people 24 times, they would take it away from you.
Posted by: fd at February 22, 2024 09:20 AM (vFG9F)
~~~~~

Once if it's a bad bite. Otherwise after the second bite.

Posted by: IrishEi at February 22, 2024 09:22 AM (kQDzN)

417 406 Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 09:20 AM (2yu8s)

Drag queens in your child's elementary school. Love wins! -- MD Latin translators

Posted by: blaster at February 22, 2024 09:22 AM (xhfG9)

418 So cannibalism is on the table I see.
Posted by: Big fat cracker daddy

Now seating the Donner Party, Party of 9.
Now seating the Donner Party, Party of 8.
Now seating the Donner Party, Party of 7.
Now seating the Donner Party, Party of 6.
Now seating the Donner Party, Party of 5...

Posted by: Outback Steakhouse at February 22, 2024 09:23 AM (IB/6k)

419 instead decided to change Latin.

Something something about fat masked parolees -- but
whatever that is, is hundreds of years away from Latin.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 22, 2024 09:23 AM (zdLoL)

420 If Trump were actually politically savvy, he'd lean establishment if not fall into that camp entirely.

Posted by: Son of Dad at February 22, 2024 09:24 AM (8JB5s)

421 Gesundheit!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

LOL !

Posted by: JT at February 22, 2024 09:24 AM (T4tVD)

422 On the phone outage...

I didn't sleep at a Holiday Inn Express, but I did hear that there was a massive solar flare the other day, and then another one last night. My guess is they had something to do with the outages.

Posted by: IrishEi at February 22, 2024 09:24 AM (kQDzN)

423 "Once if it's a bad bite. Otherwise after the second bite."

I don't think they technically take it from you, as they let you get the remains back.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2024 09:24 AM (a1415)

424 Massive phone outage, now my company is reporting a massive EDI outage affecting multiple systems.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden"

And so it begins.
Posted by: In before the guy that always says "And so it begins"

Grab yur pew pews!

Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 09:24 AM (IB/6k)

425 #ThePersistence
@ScottPresler

We’re 2,438 voters away from flipping Bucks County, PA, 🔵🔜🔴.

We’re 1,302 voters away from flipping Centre County, PA, 🔵🔜🔴.

We’re 3,586 voters away from flipping Luzerne County, PA, 🔵🔜🔴.

This is a big deal.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 22, 2024 09:21 AM (NpAcC)

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BREAKING: Biden Announces $1 Trillion Package to Import an Additional 1 Million Military-Age Male Chinese "Migrants" to Bucks, Centre, and Luzerne Counties in Pennsylvania Before November. Developing ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 22, 2024 09:24 AM (S/101)

426 If fascism ever comes to America it will come in the name of liberalism - Ronald Reagan

>>CBS faces uproar after seizing investigative journalist’s files
BY JONATHAN TURLEY, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR - 02/22/24 9:10 AM ET

Posted by: JackStraw at February 22, 2024 09:24 AM (CWkuC)

427 "Imagine me standing on the debate stage with an idling chainsaw.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy"

The nice thing about an electric chain saw is you can hear the screams so much better.

Posted by: fd at February 22, 2024 09:25 AM (vFG9F)

428 I just saw a report on the collapsed Fern Hollow bridge in PA in 2022.

Inspectors were recommending repairs since 2009, but PennDot never did any of them.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2024 09:26 AM (NYzgN)

429 Apparently, President Grandpa's dog was a real terror:

The president's beloved German shepherd Commander bit Secret Service agents in at least 24 incidents , new documents reveal. Perhaps most shocking is an attack that left the White House's East Wing floors so bloodied, tours needed to be shut down for 20 minutes

Posted by: Don Black at February 22, 2024 09:26 AM (geLO8)

430 "Imagine me standing on the debate stage with an idling chainsaw.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy"

The nice thing about an electric chain saw is you can hear the screams so much better.
Posted by: fd

Does the horde need to know how you know this?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 22, 2024 09:27 AM (njz/M)

431 >>CBS faces uproar after seizing investigative journalist’s files
BY JONATHAN TURLEY, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR - 02/22/24 9:10 AM ET
Posted by: JackStraw at February 22, 2024 09:24 AM (CWkuC)

What does this mean CBS faces uproar? From whom? About what?

Is it CBS that siezed the files?

Posted by: blaster at February 22, 2024 09:27 AM (xhfG9)

432 I'm gonna take the dog's side.

Biden and his henchmen had it coming.

Posted by: Good Boy at February 22, 2024 09:27 AM (pjs7m)

433 Apparently, President Grandpa's dog was a real terror:

The president's beloved German shepherd Commander bit Secret Service agents in at least 24 incidents , new documents reveal. Perhaps most shocking is an attack that left the White House's East Wing floors so bloodied, tours needed to be shut down for 20 minutes
Posted by: Don Black

Dogs don't get that way on their own.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 09:27 AM (IB/6k)

434
Inspectors were recommending repairs since 2009, but PennDot never did any of them.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2024 09:26 AM (NYzgN)

George Bush hates black people.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)

435 Now seating the Donner Party, Party of 9.
Now seating the Donner Party, Party of 8.
Now seating the Donner Party, Party of 7.
Now seating the Donner Party, Party of 6.
Now seating the Donner Party, Party of 5...

Posted by: Outback Steakhouse at February 22, 2024 09:23 AM (IB/6k)

Hilarious.

Posted by: Big fat cracker daddy at February 22, 2024 09:28 AM (rbfpx)

436 Inspectors were recommending repairs since 2009, but PennDot never did any of them.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2024 09:26 AM (NYzgN)

Because Republicans!

Posted by: blaster at February 22, 2024 09:28 AM (xhfG9)

437 I hear about Brandon’s dog biting everyone and I immediately think of that scene in The Pink Panther….. I thought you said your dog doesn’t bite?! That’s not my dog

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 22, 2024 09:28 AM (aVfLq)

438 Should have shot the dog…

Posted by: tubal at February 22, 2024 09:28 AM (PCK5/)

439 How about Johnson use a budget crisis as a wedge issue in Sep, rather than pass a temporary CR to carry funding until Jan 4, like they always fucking do.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2024 09:28 AM (NYzgN)

440 >>What does this mean CBS faces uproar? From whom? About what?

>>Is it CBS that siezed the files?

Yes. They took all of her files, notes, computer, everything. According to Turley this is the first time CBS has ever done this with one of the their reporters. It is supposed to be confidential information including sources and it is usually given to the reporter when they leave.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 22, 2024 09:29 AM (CWkuC)

441 >>So cannibalism is on the table I see.

Hey, I mostly ate Democrats!

Posted by: Alferd Packer at February 22, 2024 09:29 AM (6IDWi)

442 I think this purported solar flare bricked my PC during a Windows Update last night. I had to unplug it, turn it back on and it came up with the blue screen of death telling me my computer couldn't restart.

I eventually got it working, but it has never done that before.

I have the event logged at 4:27AM. I think I'll see if I can find out when this flare hit earth.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 22, 2024 09:29 AM (Q4IgG)

443 270 They defend this practice with the contention that that data is "poor" or "corrupted," by which they mean, well, that it doesn't show what they want it to show.
They Talk to the Trees?

take 4 mins and watch

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2024 08:48 AM (ENQN6)

Just think about the factors that affect growth (and tree rings):
Sunlight (e.g. weather or other trees around or pest damage can affect)
Water (rainy seasons vs drought)
Soil nutrients
CO2 concentrations (20th cent rising, more growth)
Temp

Which is the biggest factor? A large enough sample can reduce some of those, but not all of those.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 22, 2024 09:29 AM (hONJj)

444 I hear about Brandon’s dog biting everyone and I immediately think of that scene in The Pink Panther….. I thought you said your dog doesn’t bite?! That’s not my dog
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 22, 2024 09:28 AM (aVfLq)

"BEEKEEPER! Next time you count your bees, you will count one less."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)

445 Eventually, the sheriff *was* taken down by the state cops after a series of criminal fuckups ended in a bloodbath.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) a

*******

Given that we have been dealing with a sheriff's dept. in a sparsely populated CO county with a long history of departmental corruption and disregard for constituents, this interests me. Do you mind saying what county? I'm guessing one of the eastern or NE Plains counties.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 22, 2024 09:29 AM (991eG)

446 GOPe Democrat Paulie Ryan is bashing America First once again while traitor Pence is working for NeverTrump™

http://tinyurl.com/yc7ymy96

Posted by: Danimal28 at February 22, 2024 09:29 AM (klw0w)

447 Hey, I mostly ate Democrats!

Posted by: Alferd Packer at February 22, 2024 09:29 AM (6IDWi)

Musta really gone through the Tums.

Posted by: Big fat cracker daddy at February 22, 2024 09:30 AM (rbfpx)

448 'City' is a matter of perspective. Town too.

In the old Northwest Territory (some of us will want to look this up), it was a matter of the state charter. In some states, when your 'village' gets a census count of 10,000, your system of government is changed for you, and you have to hire a police force and a full-time union fire department.

The Northwest Ordinance presumed a constant and natural growth from hinterland to urban zone, and did not foresee some not wanting to be Philadelphia or Baltimore.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 22, 2024 09:31 AM (zdLoL)

449 Here's the link to the CBS seizing files thing:

http://tinyurl.com/33frpj7s

Tired of cleaning up after you, Straw!

Posted by: IrishEi at February 22, 2024 09:31 AM (kQDzN)

450 Solar flares huh? It must have been small ones that only hit specific areas of the US.

Posted by: fd at February 22, 2024 09:32 AM (vFG9F)

451 Here it's every dog gets one bite because you didn't know it was vicious before that attack; and euthanizing the animal after a second. It may be first attack too if especially violent or fatal but I don't know for sure.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 09:32 AM (2yu8s)

452 >>Tired of cleaning up after you, Straw!

If I had a house for every time I've heard that ....

Posted by: JackStraw at February 22, 2024 09:32 AM (CWkuC)

453 Solar flares huh? It must have been small ones that only hit specific areas of the US.
Posted by: fd

As the world turns.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 22, 2024 09:33 AM (njz/M)

454 Biden probably abused the dog. Beat it, kicked it, took out all his rage on him.

Posted by: runner at February 22, 2024 09:33 AM (V13WU)

455 Cell phone outage:

Watch Tucker Carlson Uncensored episode 75 where he interviews Mike Benz. This has made me view today's cell phone outage in a completely different light. Now I'm asking, "What are the powers that be trying to censor? What don't they want citizens with phones documenting as it happens?"

The Interview on X (nee twitter) if you want to watch it:
https://is.gd/dBJV8G

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 22, 2024 09:33 AM (qPw5n)

456 Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is attracting thousands of donations from people who gave to President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign as she tries to cobble together a coalition of anti-Trump voters.

More than 5,200 donors to Biden’s 2020 campaign have backed Haley financially, including roughly 1,600 who gave more than $500,000 in January alone,

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2024 09:33 AM (ENQN6)

457 GOPe Democrat Paulie Ryan is bashing America First once again while traitor Pence is working for NeverTrump™

http://tinyurl.com/yc7ymy96
Posted by: Danimal28 at February 22, 2024 09:29 AM (klw0w)

Where's a mob style hit when you need one?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

458 why didn't they keep a soft or cage muzzle on that dog I wonder. also of course not have it roaming about.

I can't stop thinking about Commander. such a shame. super smart, capable dog went bonkers having to live with trash family of drug addicted thugs

Posted by: BlackOrchidZ at February 22, 2024 09:34 AM (AcWfM)

459 Biden probably abused the dog. Beat it, kicked it, took out all his rage on him.

Posted by: runner at February 22, 2024 09:33 AM (V13WU)

I'm betting he tried to stick his dick in it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

460 >>The president's beloved German shepherd Commander bit Secret Service agents in at least 24 incidents

>>Dogs don't get that way on their own.

Right, especially not smart breeds such as German Shepherds.

Also, that 24 count is only for SS agents, there were more incidents with other WH personnel.

Think it's clear that not only is that dog under great stress (likely mistreated), but I would guess that in some cases it was "protecting" feeble Joe.

My dog will growl at others if they approach while I am sleeping, and he's not fierce, just the protective nature. Imagine Joe bumbling round, maybe flying into a rage, and others have to handle him -- and then the dog thinks Joe is being attacked? This dog stuff signals great dysfunction in the WH, not just a bad dog.

Posted by: Alferd Packer at February 22, 2024 09:34 AM (6IDWi)

461 .

NOOD ART

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 22, 2024 09:35 AM (qPw5n)

462 454 Biden probably abused the dog. Beat it, kicked it, took out all his rage on him.

there is video of Joetato kicking Commander, so yeah

Posted by: BlackOrchidZ at February 22, 2024 09:35 AM (AcWfM)

463 I am dissapointed in the Trump family response to the insane NY verdict.

I think they should shutter their properties for a couple of weeks, and make a statement on how many jobs and payroll taxes they pay to that shithole

Posted by: Jonah at February 22, 2024 09:36 AM (BGQYY)

464 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)

465 I doubt if Joe spent much time with the dog at all. Photo ops and maybe a pet on the head once a day.

Posted by: fd at February 22, 2024 09:36 AM (vFG9F)

466 "...she “had it with Netanyahu years ago, I mean, really, not trying to make peace or anything all along.”

theh quote perfectly encapsulates Nancy' intellectual and educational level.

I mean, really.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at February 22, 2024 09:36 AM (Rbu5d)

467 I'm thinking the dog was a just a WH prop, and wasn't properly socialized at all

Posted by: Don Black at February 22, 2024 09:36 AM (geLO8)

468 yeah no cell service for me in chicago area. no pay phones anymore. Should have kept my landline. Wifi calling aint working either

Posted by: Jonah at February 22, 2024 09:37 AM (BGQYY)

469 Gee? Who knew there were 5,200 anagrams of "George Soros"?

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 09:37 AM (2yu8s)

470 458 why didn't they keep a soft or cage muzzle on that dog I wonder. also of course not have it roaming about.

Posted by: BlackOrchidZ at February 22, 2024 09:34 AM (AcWfM)

Because Decrepit Joe doesn't give a shit about his minions? Also, Commander would be inconvenienced by a muzzle. Joe won't tolerate that.

Posted by: Gref at February 22, 2024 09:38 AM (5fDan)

471 Imagine you're an informant. The reporter you've been talking to gets fired and you never hear from them again, and then some other person from the same organization comes by and asks "so tell me all about this little 'story' of yours....."

So of course they recant and get the hell out of dodge, and the organization says "Look, isn't it great we fired this hack reporter publishing false stories?!?!"

Posted by: Warai-GPT at February 22, 2024 09:38 AM (9XM3s)

472 >>I'm thinking the dog was a just a WH prop, and wasn't properly socialized at all

I'm thinking he was as "socialized" (abused, no boundaries) as Joe's kids.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 22, 2024 09:38 AM (6IDWi)

473 It must have been small ones that only hit specific areas of the US.

A little bit of Carrington in the night...

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 22, 2024 09:41 AM (zdLoL)

474 GM, all, and thanks, J.J.

Saw two ladies from Chicago interviewed last evening regarding the "migrant" crises in areas of their region, and what needs to be done. One was clearly beside herself. The other expressed sympathy for the 'migrant plight' (no, the problem is the vast number of illegals) & an understanding that everyone wants a better life, and this IS the Promised Land. They just need to get in line, wait their turn.

Meanwhile, havoc reigns.

A good friend has the same philosophy, though her area in MD, as is mine - a collar county abutting Phila. where we pretend there's no big problem for this is Joe's backyard - is rapidly going to hell in a hand basket. I look for answers on the broad gap of opinion but the best I can come up with are current teachings, brainwashing - whatever - defining White Christian as leaning to nationalism, while Black Christian leans towards tradition. I fear that - and the idea the country can afford to pay for just about any program - has become foundational, much more than talking points, again, thanks to repetition & the use of the "two word label" trick taught & still employed by O's admins.

Freebies, til SHTF.

Posted by: L - We're done for now. We just don't have the guts to turn off the lights on the show at February 22, 2024 09:44 AM (GshMh)

475 Threw the ring away... after prying the diamonds out.

Posted by: bang-a-gong at February 22, 2024 10:16 AM (Kl2BE)

476 Anyone who calls people who simply stroll into our country in violation of our laws “migrants” are pro-open borders. Full stop.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 22, 2024 11:15 AM (HudMh)

477 If you want the manifesto for the Nashville shooter go check out Steven Crowders undercover journalist. They got it!!! it is sickening!!!

Posted by: Patrick at February 22, 2024 12:51 PM (84KQG)

478 "As disastrous as this would be, I don't think it's going to happen. Just as Latino- and Black Americans are disgusted with Biden, so are a growing segment of a previously divided Israeli society."

I pray.
---------------------
ThunderB🇺🇸🇮🇱, Avenge Them
@Pimpernell13

Yesterday, a journalist explained to me that Israel needs to do a better job expressing sadness for the death of innocents in Gaza

Today, a Palestinian took a machine gun to a pregnant woman stuck in traffic
10:21 AM · Feb 22, 2024

Posted by: L - We're done for now. We just don't have the guts to turn off the lights on the show at February 22, 2024 01:03 PM (GshMh)

479 BREAKING: Biden Announces $1 Trillion Package to Import an Additional 1 Million Military-Age Male Chinese "Migrants" to Bucks, Centre, and Luzerne Counties in Pennsylvania Before November. Developing ...

This I get and don’t get…so if you are a “military age male”, being an illegal immigrant is bad, but if you’re not, it’s OK?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 22, 2024 01:16 PM (HudMh)

480 Today, a Palestinian took a machine gun to a pregnant woman stuck in traffic
10:21 AM · Feb 22, 2024
Posted by: L - We're done for now. We just don't have the guts to turn off the lights on the show at February 22, 2024 01:03 PM (GshMh)

Yet there are ads on YT sobbing over how bad they have it in Gaza, and here, this is how you can send hot meals to Gaza.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 22, 2024 01:18 PM (HudMh)

481 We are entering a dangerous era in America.
++++
We're well past the transition point. Authoritarian moose out front shoulda told ya.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 08:20 AM

Yeah, the first statement would have been accurate in January 2009.

15 years later, we are well past the entrance to the dangerous era and currently well into the era with no sense of how long this era of danger will last... or whether the dangerous era is set to subside or get much, much worse...

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