The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 3/5/24

Good morning, kids. Obviously the big story this morning continues to be the fallout from SCOTUS 9-0 evisceration of Colorado's attempt at unilaterally and illegally removing Donald Trump from the ballot.

But before getting to that, there always seems to be at least one link that gets lost in the sauce of the big stories of the day as well as act as a kind of barometer for where we are as a society. Yet again, and as befitting of a place that often is a trendsetter for the rest of the country, this one comes out of the Democratic People's Republic of California:

Michael Hart of San Diego was arrested under the American Innovation and Manufacturing Act of 2020, which prohibits the importation of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) without proper permits from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
HFCs are potent greenhouse gases commonly found in refrigerators and air conditioners, building insulation, fire extinguishing systems, and aerosols. They can be hundreds to thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere, exacerbating the climate crisis.

Stop the presses. Although this link is to Breitbart, evidently whoever the editor is over there just decided to cut and paste this bilge directly from AFP, Agence France Press. There is no "climate crisis" (certainly not one caused by man) and the physics of our planet's atmosphere is such that there is no way there will ever be a so-called "runaway greenhouse effect" that turns us into Venus in the next billion years or so, let alone the next 50. Now that you can see the shameless propaganda in the way the "journalist" is phrasing the story, we return to the action.

According to the Department of Justice, Hart purchased refrigerants in Mexico and smuggled them into the United States in his vehicle, hidden under a tarp and tools.
He then posted the items for sale on OfferUp, Facebook Marketplace and other sites, selling them on for a profit.

For profit? Oh the humanity! Making a profit is the equivalent of genocide!

“The illegal smuggling of hydrofluorocarbons … undermines international efforts to combat climate change under the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol,” said David Uhlmann of the EPA, referring to an agreement the United States, along with most countries, has signed. It calls to phase out the super pollutants by 80-85 percent by 2047.
The indictment also alleges Hart imported HCFC 22, an ozone-depleting substance regulated under the Clean Air Act. Mexico as a developing country has a longer timetable for phasing out such pollutants than the United States as a developed country.

So, some poor schlub gets nailed for smuggling freon into the US while millions of illiterate peasants, a not insignificant number of them being murderers, rapists, human traffickers, drug traffickers, possible terrorists, saboteurs from our worst enemies, or just flat out welfare sponges and disease-carriers get the red carpet and a ticker tape parade from the Biden junta.

I don't give a shit what the so-called "experts" tell us about freon, insofar as it causes a hole in the ozone layer. These are the same "experts" who in 1975 said Manhattan would be buried under a 500-foot deep glacier by the year 2000. The same "experts" who then told us in 2000 that Manhattan and the entire US coast would be submerged under 200 feet of water by the year 2015.

The same "experts" who claimed COVID was a natural mutation and could only be stopped by lockdowns, masks and repeated doses of a vaccine that, combined with the banning of things like ivermectin and HCQ, has actually killed more people by orders of magnitude than the virus itself – which we now know was created in a Chi-Com lab with the active participation and funding of Dr. Anthony Fauci. Speaking of mini-Mengele . . .

Breaking news from 2020: "It’s Official: We Can Pretty Much Treat Covid Like the Flu Now." What do you mean "now," white man? From the Wall Street Journal:

A case of Covid no longer means isolating for five days, according to the latest guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Friday. It’s the latest sign of the virus’s normalization four years after it upended our lives. You should now follow the same precautions with Covid as you take with the flu, according to new guidelines from the CDC. That means staying home until you’ve gone a day with no fever and symptoms start to improve. Take other precautions for the next five days, including wearing a mask and limiting close contact with others. Those are the same steps the CDC recommends for other respiratory viruses.
At what point have we had enough from these people? As evident practically from the start, the malignant Covid hoax -- part of a series of scarifying hoaxes perpetrated by the Left and its pet media starting in early 2016 as part of the "resistance" against the election of Donald Trump -- was (as we say in Ireland) a load of bollocks. . .
. . . The Malevolent Midget is gone now, pulling down his handsome pension for his "service," but the evil that he did lives on after him. Should Trump actually overcome the forces arrayed against him and actually pull a Grover Cleveland and get re-elected to the office from which a "fortified" election forcibly ejected him in 2020, a just universe would allow him to deal out some well-deserved payback for the forces behind the Russia Hoax, the Climate-Change Hoax, and the Covid Hoax, not to mention the abrogation of American sovereignty at the southern (and northern) borders, the collapse of the American military into a sob-sisterhood of feminist resentment and gay and "transsexual" triumphalism, and all the other ills currently attendant upon these United States. . .
. . . Hoaxes like these will never end until you do something about it. They will continue to pile on "catastrophe" after "catastrophe," demanding that we do something about it right now, including changing some of our most fundamental laws and principles in order to combat a non-existent "threat." The only thing these people understand is power. Not logic, argument, evidence, moral suasion. And the only way to respond to them is with greater power.

And the same "experts" who claim all of this are telling us that the mass invasion of unvetted and unassimilated foreigners into the US is good for the economy and our society.

Even if freon really isn't good for the ozone layer, given all of the outright lies our government and more alarmingly, science which is fully now in service to government have tried and in some cases succeeded in selling us (for our own good, of course!), the only thing that's been destroyed is trust in the institutions we thought were there to protect our safety, security and freedom.

Yeah, color me skeptical.

Friend and friend of the blog Michael Walsh nails it above. Should Trump by some miracle actually defeat all the forces of tyranny still arrayed against him, the supposed "retribution" and "revenge" he would or should visit upon those who stomped all over our freedoms, rigged an election and chucked scores of people in prison over a faked "insurrection" would be more than justified. A terrible swift sword of justice is indeed needed now more than ever. The problem is, the system is so utterly corrupted that that outcome is seriously in doubt.

And that brings us conveniently back to yesterday's 9-0 SCOTUS decision. While for sure it's a huge win, certainly for Trump but more crucially the scintilla of the rule of law in what's left of our nation, the question is, given the ideological divide (and the moral vacuity/turpitude of at least one member in particular of that body) is this a one-off?

The things to note in all of this is the fact that a) Trump was never convicted of let alone indicted and tried for fomenting an insurrection and b) the alleged "insurrection" that happened on 1/6/21 was anything but. Not one person who entered the Capitol was armed and in fact they were allowed into the building and even escorted all over by Capitol PD. The worst thing anyone did was put their feet up on Malig-Nancy Pelosi's desk and leave her a rude Post-It note on her in box.

On the other hand, the calls for violence were from FBI/DOJ plants like Ray Epps and BLM cadre in a MAGA hat William Sullivan, while Ashli Babbit was murdered by Capitol Cop Michael Byrd and Roseanne Boyland beaten to death by some of his colleagues. And even before that happened, Donald Trump was about a mile away calling for people to peacefully leave the area and go home.

Some insurrection. And as I said, there are dozens of people still languishing in the Garland Archipelago for doing nothing more than being at a rally and exercising their right of free speech. A right that evidently they didn't know no longer existed at that time. But that said, there are things brewing that, on top of the SCOTUS decision, have an even larger salutary effect, both on Trump and the body politic.

On Friday, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (i.e. the “D.C. Circuit” reversed a federal trial-level judge’s determination that January 6 Defendant Larry Brock had “substantially interfered with administration of justice.” That trial-level determination had significantly enhanced Brock’s prison sentence for felony obstruction of an official proceeding (i.e. Congress’ January 6, 2021 certification of the 2020 Presidential election) under 18 U.S. Code Section 1512(c)(2). The D.C. Circuit ordered resentencing. Brock, a 1989 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, A-10 Warthog pilot, and retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel with 29 years of Air Force service, had been sentenced to 24 months’ imprisonment in a federal penitentiary. . .
. . . The effect of the D.C. Circuit’s decision is to force the trail judge, in this case most likely still Judge Bates, to resentence Brock without the 3-level sentencing enhancement (“we vacate Brock’s sentence for his Section 1512(c)(2) conviction and remand to the district court for resentencing without the application of Section 2J1.2(b)(2)’s sentencing enhancement”, making his new offense level 14, not 17. Crossing offense level 14 with Criminal History Category I in the 2021 U.S.S.G. Sentencing Table, you find a Guideline Sentencing Range of 15-21 months, which Brock’s resentencing judge will almost certainly stick to. This will result in a sentence reduction of 3-9 months’ imprisonment for Brock, and since Brock has a federal prison release date of December 3, 2024, he could be released as soon as his resentencing judge conducts the resentencing!
The D.C. Circuit’s decision could also, as the Daily Caller suggested (without explanation as to why), lead to sentence reductions for other J6 defendants as well. That is because the D.C. Circuit’s Order is now binding on all D.C. federal trial courts, and any J6 defendant who has been sentenced with the 3-level offense level sentencing enhancement for “substantial interference with the administration of justice,” which there are several of, can move for a sentence reduction, which the sentencing court is bound to honor. And, any J6 defendants not yet sentenced cannot have the 3-level enhancement applied to their sentencing. In all cases, the sentencing reduction will not necessary be 3-9 months, as it was for Brock, because other defendants might have other crimes of conviction or serious criminal histories; it all depends on where on the Sentencing Table those defendants fall. But they will be significant in each case, as they are here.

I'm no F. Lee Bailey but if the sentencing reductions are significant, does that also not carry with it perhaps a reclassification of the charges/crimes from insurrection down to perhaps mere trespassing? And given the fact that we know from witness testimony and over 44,000 hours of videotape from the scene that at no point was anyone acting in a violent or out of control manner (the killers of Babbitt and Boyland notwithstanding) will we finally be able to completely trash the definition of what happened that day as an insurrection, and even a riot in the first place?

And should these reductions and redefinitions downward occur, what does that do to all the charges leveled at Trump from Jack Smith?

I wouldn't bet on it.

Center for Renewing America Senior Fellow and former Trump official Jeff Clark celebrated the ruling in exclusive comments to PJ Media. As PJ Media’s Matt Margolis reported, the Supreme Court voted unanimously on Monday to permit GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump to remain on the Colorado state ballot. This decision reversed a ruling from a lower court. Leftists had a royal meltdown at this SCOTUS refusal to rig the 2024 election, mourning that allowing a democratic election is an attack on democracy (that’s Democrat logic for you). But others see the ruling as a historic achievement for our Republic as the Founders established it.
Jeff Clark is one such person. “President Trump scored one for the history books today — a victory not just to keep himself on state ballots, but also a win for our system of federalism, better marking out the lines between federal and state authority,” he said. Trump isn’t the only target; all citizens who want to have the power to choose their own leaders should be concerned. . .
. . . Furthermore, Clark addressed Rep. Jamie Raskin’s (D-MD) announcement the Democrats are working on federal legislation to kick Trump off ballots. “That didn’t take long,” Clark commented. “At some level, you have to admire that Marxists like Raskin never give up. The Republican Party ranks are very thin on members this persistent.” If only Republican congressmen were as persistent in achieving justice and enforcing laws as the Democrats are in violating the Constitution to achieve their nefarious goals.

Ah yes. Cancer's answer to cancer, Jamie Raskin and his ilk are cooking up what amounts to a bill of attainder. Well, you have to destroy democracy if you want to save Democrats, er, democracy.

For now, in a GOP House, the bill is mostly virtue signaling, but tellingly Raskin is not so much trying to define insurrection as trying to define J6 as an insurrection. It’s the typical end run around the process of defining the thing because otherwise Democrat BLMers might fall afoul of it.
The Raskin bill conveniently defines J6 as an insurrection and carefully defines the term so as to specifically apply it to Trump. It does not however define what an insurrection is making the whole exercise into a bill that specifically exists to block a particular candidate from being able to take office on grounds that would be unlikely to apply to his own party. Does that raise some major banana republic issues? Obviously.
Still, has Raskin considered what kind of can of worms he’s opening here?

“An individual described in this subsection is an individual who has engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or has given aid or comfort to the enemies of the United States.”
Forget BLM for a moment. Giving aid or comfort to America’s enemies would block nearly every Democrat from taking or holding office. Pass a resolution declaring that funding Iran or any other terror group was an example of providing aid or comfort to America’s enemies and the party can get started.

Evil never rests. And the fact that our side is at best dodgy and at worst collaborationist, we're not out of the woods yet. Not by a long shot. Still, miracles do happen.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

“Nearly 60 years later, Moynihan’s findings look almost quaint.”
Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s Prophecy
Naomi Wolf: "As I looked at the spinning, exuberant, innocently joyful young people, I realized in a flash — this is the Revolution."
The Right is the New Counterculture
Daniel Greenfield: "Breaking the 'Self-Reinforcing Victim/Villain' cycle."
We Are the Victims and Everything We Do is Justified
Dennis Prager: "One might as well wish that daily consumption of a hot fudge sundae will lead to weight loss. . . If you still think the left-right divide is bridgeable, it is only because it is too painful to confront the tragic reality of contemporary American life: Today's left-right divide is at least as great as the North-South divide before and during the Civil War. The only thing that remains the same is that it was the Democrat Party that opposed freedom then, and it is the Democrat Party that opposes freedom today."
The Left-Right Divide Is Not Bridgeable
". . . America and indeed the West has its own hyper-exponential variant of the cultural strain observed in interwar France."
How Victimism Paved the Way for Hitler
Michael Walsh: "What lessons can we learn from this belated admission that the entire clusterkluge was a 'mistake?' How to compensate for those who watched their loved ones die from behind a plate-glass window in Mengele Memorial Hospital?. . . 'Better to beg forgiveness than ask permission.' Isn't that how the saying goes? I wrote my answer in this space almost a year ago. Never forgive, never forget, I advised."
Now They Tell Us

SCOTUS NUKES COLORADO 2024 TRUMP BALLOT BAN

"This is the first time the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment."
SCOTUS Unanimously Rules States Cannot Disqualify Trump from 2024 Ballot
Scumbag Tyrant CO Sec. of State Jena Griswold:“I do believe that states should be able, under our Constitution, to bar oath-breaking insurrectionists. And ultimately this decision leaves open, or it leaves open the door for Congress to act, to pass authorizing legislation. But we know that Congress is a nearly non-functioning body. So ultimately it will up to the American voters to save our democracy in November.”
Supreme Court "Must Be Dissolved": Liberals Melt Down Over Ruling That States Can’t Disqualify Trump from Ballots
Robert Spencer: "But make no mistake: the Dems will keep trying to 'save democracy' by destroying it."
Supreme Court Backs Trump
David Harsanyi: "That’s why it’s doomed."
The Supreme Court Is The Last Functioning Institution In America
"It's obvious that [Jamie] Raskin is determined to stop Trump, and Democrats, seeing Trump's victory as almost inevitable (based on the polls), are actively working on contingencies to stop it from happening. So don't think for a second that this is over. In a way, the battle over Trump's eligibility hasn't even started yet."
Democrats Are STILL Determined to Boot Trump Off the Ballot Despite Supreme Court Ruling
Furthermore, Clark addressed Rep. Jamie Raskin’s (D-MD) announcement the Democrats are working on federal legislation to kick Trump off ballots. “That didn’t take long,” Clark commented. “At some level, you have to admire that Marxists like Raskin never give up. The Republican Party ranks are very thin on members this persistent.” If only Republican congressmen were as persistent in achieving justice and enforcing laws as the Democrats are in violating the Constitution to achieve their nefarious goals.
Lawyer Celebrates SCOTUS Ballot Ruling as a 'Win' for 'Federalism'
“The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that individual states lack authority to enforce Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment with respect to federal offices,” she wrote, according to the Hill.
“Consistent with my oath and obligation to follow the law and the Constitution, and pursuant to the Anderson decision, I hereby withdraw my determination that Mr. Trump’s primary petition is invalid,” Bellows continued. (GFY - jjs)
Maine Secretary of State Withdraws Determination That Donald Trump Should Be Banned from Ballot
“Yeah, I think Trump gets it. Trump understands if this election is about Donald Trump’s personal baggage then he will lose some of that lead. But if it’s a referendum on Joe Biden, if this election is about actually supporting democracy, supporting our republic. This Supreme Court decision . . .was a big win for the Democrats, too. If they were seen as the ones keeping the standard-bearer for the other side off the ballot this would have been disaster for them. . . They have been walking around telling us they are the authorities on democracy. If they were literally keeping the Republican nominee off the ballot in one state or multiple states it would have been such a horrible look. They never could have never defended that across the next six months. Now they don’t have too. They got bailed out in a big way. But the way Trump is talking has clearly learned some big lessons.”
Democrats Got Bailed Out by the Supreme Court Decision
ISRAEL AT WAR
"No one has heard from Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in over a week."
Hamas Official Blames Israel for ‘No Real Progress’ in Hostage Talks, Doesn’t Know Which Hostages are Alive
"Israel will probably win the coming war, but Hamas will win the propaganda war."
The Coming Ramadan War
"Israel recalled its UN ambassador, Gilad Erdan, on Monday, claiming the UN had downplayed credible claims of rape."
UN Report Confirms: Hamas Committed Rape Against Israelis, Hostages (But not "rape-rape" right? - jjs)
"The true essence of Judaism and Israel, juxtaposed against the global slander and defamation heaped upon the country."
The IDF: Nobody Sings for Us
"The libels become canonized before the truth even gets out of bed."
The Latest Despicable Anti-Israel Lie

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"The protesters continued to trail behind the Democrat, who was visibly aggravated as she made her way toward the exit. Between sets of escalators, Ocasio-Cortez got in the face of the protesters to again defend herself before walking away."
Titty-Caca AOC Snaps at NYC Protesters at Movie Theater Demanding She Call Israel's Military Campaign in Gaza Genocide: "It's Fucked Up"
"Bowman, facing fundraising woes in difficult primary, turned to Tlaib to help raise cash."
Jamaal "Firebug" Bowman and "Rancida Taliban" Tlaib Lead "Free 'Palestine’" Chant at Joint Fundraising Event
"Biden consistently trails former president Donald Trump in nationwide polling, as well as in critical swing states like Michigan. Biden won Michigan in 2020 by roughly 150,000 votes."
Democratic Socialists of America Tells Members To Oppose Biden, Accuses Israel of "Genocide"
“She [interim principal Dara Kammerman] is perpetuating an antisemitic environment and a school of hate…The students continue these behaviors because they know there won’t be any consequences.”
"I Live in Fear": Jewish Teachers Sue Brooklyn School That Won’t Discipline Anti-Semitic Students
"On Christmas, the group at Mount Holyoke College shared a graphic of a masked man with the text 'May Israel fall Inshallah.'"
Anti-Israel College Students Label Themselves "Militants," Say "Armed Struggle" is the Way to "Liberate 'Palestine’"
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"Unhinged by hate."
Muslim Madness: Zionist Food Wrappers
Robert Spencer: "Salwan Momika is in serious danger, and so is the freedom of expression. Given the fact that the Western political and media elites already have a well-established admiration for authoritarianism and distaste for the freedom of speech, can the acceptance of the OIC’s demands be long in coming?"
The Future of Europe as a Free Society Could Hang on the Fate of This Man
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"The temporary order, issued on Saturday by the federal appeals court will allow the law to be enforced after seven days if the U.S. Supreme Court does not intercede."
Appeals Court Stays Block on Texas Latest Immigration Law
"The murder of Laken Riley and the other issues that have rippled out from this horrific crime have put a glaring spotlight on the Biden [junta's] border failures as well as the irresponsibility of woke local governments like the one in Athens-Clarke County. Riley would be alive today if this administration had secured the border; likewise, she would be alive if Athens-Clarke County had taken the illegal immigration problem more seriously. Shame on all of them."
Laken Riley's Murder Is the Fault of Democrats at Every Level of Government
"The relentless mocking is just more evidence of a fissure that's been growing between Biden and one of his most important constituencies, going back through his six decades in politics. Union guys in Rust Belt states like Pennsylvania and Michigan couldn't stomach Hillary Clinton in 2016 ("Welcome to the party, pal!") and went hard for Trump in 2016. Biden's reputation for being worker-friendly brought a lot of those guys "home" in 2020. And then he got into office and proved that his workingman schtick was all a lie. They won't make the same mistake in 2024.
Too Funny: Border Patrol Union Doubles Down on Biden Diss
Escobar called former President Trump’s pledge to deport illegal immigrants “horrific” before claiming Trump wants to “take us back to an era where people feared being in their own country simply because they belong to a minority group.” The Biden campaign official insisted that “it is impossible to deport every undocumented person in this country.”Illegal immigration has increased at an alarming rate under the Biden government. [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden’s initial acts in office included repealing several Trump-era border policies, such as the Muslim travel ban and the Border Wall project.
Biden Campaign Co-Chair Claims Deporting Illegals Will Harm America
Betsy McCaughey: "And the Dems' 'sanctuary city' policies make the danger worse."
Migrant Surge Brings Killers and Criminal Gangs
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS & DEMENTIA WATCH
"He said they gathered up more than 180 classified records totaling more than 600 pages and packed them into 15 boxes as Biden left the White House in January 2017."
Hunter Biden Helped Hire Aides Who Mishandled Joe's Classified Documents
“It was not the only time I’ve heard Hunter call his father regarding business matters,” Galanis said. “I was present when Hunter called his father on a cell phone and put the call on speaker.”
Biden Business Associate Jason Galanis Says Hunter Used Joe To Get Deals "Across the Finish Line"
"If so, what are the greater implications for the United States?"
Is Jill Biden Aspiring to be "Gucci" Grace Mugabe?
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
"In two months, Judge McAfee has to face the voters in overwhelmingly Democrat Fulton County."
Why GA Judge Won’t Disqualify Fani Willis
“In a city of 700,000, Donald Trump got 676 votes in the GOP primary. A tough jury pool,” he commented.
Russia Hoax Lawyer Marc Elias Admits Trump Can’t Get An Impartial Jury In D.C. Trial
"Wade’s former law partner Terrence Bradley testified last week that he did 'not recall' the answers to most questions posed by defense attorneys, including when the relationship between Willis and Wade began. However, Trump co-defendant David Shafer’s attorneys informed the judge Monday that they planned to submit the testimony of a new witness that would seemingly contradict Bradley’s testimony, should the court re-open the evidence on the motion to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis."
Nathan Wade’s Former Law Partner Privately Made Statements That ‘Directly’ Contradicted His Testimony, Witness Claims
"[Allen] Weisselberg pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree perjury, both felonies, at the Manhattan Criminal Court, the New York Post reported. He will serve a five-month prison sentence as part of his plea deal, and a sentencing hearing is set to take place on April 10." Former Trump Org CFO Pleads Guilty To Perjury In Connection With NY Civil Business Fraud Case
“The case to keep your eye on is the obstruction case,” McCarthy told “America’s Newsroom” co-host Bill Hemmer. “We miss it because Trump is not a party to that case. They are looking at the same statute that is key to Smith’s prosecution of Trump in Washington, and if they — as I expect they may, if they — if they say the Justice Department has not been correctly applying that statute, that’s going to have a catastrophic impact for Smith on his indictment.”
‘Catastrophic’: Andy McCarthy Tells Panel Overlooked Case Could ‘Blow Up’ Jack Smith’s Prosecution
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals finds Brock did not 'substantially interfere with administration of justice' – ruling could apply to other J6 defendants as well."
Sentence Reduction for J6 Defendant Larry Brock Ordered By Appeals Court May Have Implications for Other Defendants
"Biden family whistleblower Tony Bobulinski sued for defamation Democrats’ star witness in the Jan. 6 Committee’s show trials."
Tony Bobulinski Sues J6 Show Trial Star Cassidy "Madison Cornbread" Hutchinson For Defamation
“I think that a couple on the Court would go considerably further … the guy who likes to spend a lot of time on yachts,” Biden said. When Osnos asked, for clarification, “Thomas?” the [so-called quote-unquote "president"] just smiled.
Daughter-Raping, Criminal Rotting Vegetable Puppet "President" Biden Takes Aim at Clarence Thomas in New Yorker Interview
Christopher Rufo: "Major institutions have started rolling back their diversity bureaucracies."
Giving DEI the Pink Slip
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Rather than highlight the Vladimir Putin-like behavior of the Biden administration arresting a journalist for exercising his First Amendment rights, NBC’s “news” division attempted to delegitimize Baker by referring to him as a “libertarian writer” and “musician,” who “led a David Bowie tribute band” and just so happens to write for The Blaze.
NBC News Trivializes Blaze Reporter’s FBI Arrest To Legitimize Police State Tactics
Richard Fernandez: "The big danger of censorship is not that it angers those who are silenced but that it blinds those who are doing the silencing."
Why DEI Is So Powerful
"The very idea that the Supreme Court would allow the states to remove a presidential candidate from the state ballot was pure hopium being pumped by a corporate media that knew better but didn’t care. These liars only care about one thing: cynically hooking as many suckers, gulls, and dummies as possible."
9-0 Decision Proves the Corporate Media Liars – Again
". . . they're being encouraged by the current zeitgeist that whites are racist, so are the police, and that petty crimes shouldn't be punished. Judkis did leave one question unanswered: where are those free-lance reparations specialists going to shoplift now that the local CVS has closed? I'd wager this month's car payment that she'll have a somewhat less understanding take if the O.C. shoplifting gangs ever come to Georgetown or Adams Morgan."
WaPo Writer Makes It Official: Shoplifting Is Just Reparations
Researchers analyzed more than 7 million digital publications and found that the industry has failed to keep up with the rate of growth within scientific data output, according to the study published in the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication. “Our entire epistemology of science and research relies on the chain of footnotes,” study author Martin Eve told Nature. “If you can’t verify what someone else has said at some other point, you’re just trusting to blind faith for artifacts that you can no longer read yourself.”
More Than 2 Million Scientific Papers Mysteriously Wiped From Web
"Our most advanced technology is run by sycophants desperate to placate the kinds of people who write for smug left-leaning publications."
Google's Gemini blunder shows the dangers of woke control over AI
"Now, in the Free-for-All Age, tens of thousands of nobody writers are going to change the world with Substack."
No, Substack is Not a Haven for Misinformation
"More kids for what?"
Joy Reid’s Tacky TikTok Talk
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"No amount of gaslighting could convince the public that 'all is well.'"
Even Biden Doesn’t Want To Talk About "Bidenomics" Anymore: We Have The Receipts
"In particular, Bostic warned that a premature rate cut could trigger a surge of business activity that would raise demand and push inflation higher."
Atlanta Fed’s Bostic Warns Rate Cut Could Reignite Inflation
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
Betsy McCaughey: "Already, James has used the powers of her office to go after President Donald Trump and the National Rifle Association. Now she’s targeting a beef producer. What’s next? Furriers, car dealerships, Big Pharma, pro-life groups, friends of Israel, companies that donate to Republicans? . . . Since 2019, hundreds of businesses, including major financial institutions, have fled New York because of high taxes, regulations and crime. James’ legal vendettas will turn the business exodus into a stampede. Meanwhile, the city is suffering a surge in pedestrian assaults, subway attacks and retail theft."
Tish James is Turning New York Into a Banana Republic with Yet Another Lefty Lawsuit
". . . an unconstitutional “Energy Department,” run by a less-than-trustworthy “DOE Secretary” Jennifer Granholm, finalized only its NEWEST set of diktats and edicts – before the next set are formulated in their tax-funded Leviathan Lab of bureaucratic brickbats and imposed on us next year or the year after. . . Ain’t freedom grand?"
Bidenistas Release Latest Diktats For Sale Of Clothes Washers, Dryers
"Beavers are out there creating global warming and animal right activists have throttled any culling of the creatures. What's a social justice warrior to do?"
Fur Trapping to Save the Planet!
The poor schlub who sneaks in a tank of freon is treated like Hannibal Lecter, but the millions of wetback criminals, layabouts and disease-carriers are waved in with near ticker tape parades. What a country! - jjs
California Man First in US Charged with Smuggling So-Called "Greenhouse" Gases
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"Oregon’s drug-legalization law didn’t make things better. Now what?"
After Decriminalization
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"Sometimes it takes a moderate Democrat." (Moderate Democrat is someone who apologizes for raping you - jjs)
Freeing Philadelphia from Fauci’s Police State
SECOND AMENDMENT
Unfortunately, this looks like another Trump endorsee who didn't get vetted beyond "looks good on camera" and "is fabulously wealthy."
GOP Ohio Sen Candidate Bernie Moreno Mocks Gun Owners: "Do You Really Need 100 Bullets?"
"The bill aimed at teachers puts in place funding to provide free training for teachers with concealed carry permits who want to be able to defend their students and themselves in the event of an attack."
Gun Control Commies Urge Utah Gov. to Deny Funds to Train Teachers for Armed Classroom Defense
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"By refusing to hear the case about the school’s admissions practices, the Court effectively gutted last year’s decision against affirmative action."
SCOTUS OKs Admissions Discrimination at TJ High
Robert Zimmerman: "Florida here however has shown the way. There must be no compromise. There must be no mercy. These programs all have to disappear, and the sooner the better."
Real pushback: Faced with a legal requirement to end its DEI programs, University of Florida shuts them down
ABORTION
"Both parliament chambers 780 to 72 for the amendment at the Palace of Versailles."
France Puts Abortion in Constitution, Allowed Up to 14 Weeks
"For Democrats, the right to abortion does not even end at the point of birth — and that is the truth the media have hidden for years."
Republicans Getting Tripped Up By IVF Should Focus The Abortion Debate On Infants Born Alive
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
"Garland boasted that the DOJ is ‘challenging efforts by states and jurisdictions to implement … voter ID requirements.’"
Biden Department Of Justice Declares War On Voter ID And Other Election Security Laws
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
The four-minute track, which the campaign calls an "unprecedented step in political engagement," features a group of "hip-hop heavyweights." One of those heavyweights is Turk, a Louisiana-based rapper convicted in 2006 for the attempted second-degree murder of a police officer.
RFK Jr. Releases 'Campaign Anthem' With Rapper Who Tried To Murder a Cop
POLITICS
"The Associated Press called the race with roughly 38% of the votes counted as Trump led former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley 84.4% to 14.6%." 
Trump Wins North Dakota Caucus In Dominant Fashion
"The Impeachment flopped. House GOP needs to focus on improving Americans' lives."
House Republican Incompetence Boosts Biden and Democrats
"Other Republicans who are being talked about as potential candidates for GOP leader include Senate Republican Conference Chairman John Barrasso (R-WY), Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), and NRSC Chairman Steve Daines (R-MT)." (McYertle picked Thune behind the scenes ages ago to succeed him - jjs)
Thune Enters Race To Become Senate GOP Leader
“These findings represent a dramatic change in the standings when compared to earlier polls in the Senate race.”
California Dreamin’: Steve Garvey Surges In Senate Bid, Can He Beat Schiff-for-Brains?
"It's ready to go Republican." (I'd rather it go MAGA conservative, but okay - jjs)
Trump Says He Wants To Go All In On One State GOP Hasn’t Won In Decades
"The rising star should keep the hawks from the war cabinet."
Tulsi Gabbard Should Be Secretary of State, Not Vice President
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for the Kremlin, said the leak highlights “the direct involvement of the collective West in the conflict in Ukraine.” Despite the exposure of British presence in Ukraine, former UK junior defense minister Tobias Ellwood insisted this should not curtail “serious conversations taking place in the diplomatic corridors between Germany and Britain and indeed Nato, as well as to why this happened in the first place.”
Military Leak Reveals UK Boots on the Ground in Ukraine
"An Invesco survey in 2023 found that many central banks were uneasy with how the U.S. and its allies froze approximately half of Russia’s $650 billion gold and forex reserves. In light of these concerns, almost 68 percent of banks surveyed asserted their plans to keep gold reserves within their national borders, a significant uptick from 50 percent in 2020."
Russia Sanctions Spark Foreign Gold Flight From U.S.
"Ukraine could formally recognize the defacto partition of its eastern flank."
An "October Surprise" From "New" Ukraine is Possible
"'This hybrid attack aimed to generate insecurity and divide us,' a government spokesman said on Monday."
Leaked call reveals German military officials discussing shipping long range missiles to Ukraine to hit targets in Crimea
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"Exports to China, Venezuela soar as Iran-backed terror forces target Western cargo ships."
Illicit Iranian Oil Sales Hit $90 Billion Under Biden, Fueling Tehran’s Terror Proxies
"Qatar to expand natural gas production by 85 percent."
Hamas-Sheltering Qatar Cashes In on Biden Natural Gas Pause
"The European Parliament recently affirmed that Taiwan is a state independent of the PRC. Now is the time to secure the reality of a Taiwan that is free and a full member of the family of nations." (This is the same EU trying to erase Israel from the map - jjs)
European Parliament’s Bold Resolutions Call for U.S. to Recognize Taiwan
"A U.S. withdrawal from NATO would be good for both Europe and the U.S. For that to happen, Europe must rearm itself, and the U.S. must accept that Europe will no longer be in the position of vassals."
What’s So Great About NATO?
"The Kingdom keeps trying to burnish its image." (They can build a grand synagogue and renounce the parts of the Koran that call for slaying Jews, but I wouldn't bet on that - jjs)
Saudi Arabia and the Guinness Book of World Records
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
Since Youngkin’s inauguration, investigative journalists and conservative media personalities have uncovered how these neo-Marxist ideologies aren’t just permeating public education but also medicine and many other American institutions. Last week, for example, Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro published a thread on X documenting how several medical institutions are using DEI — an offshoot of Marxist orthodoxy — to “recruit more [racial] minority surgeons and stop hiring so many ‘walls of white men,’ especially after the death of George Floyd and the ensuing riots in the summer of 2020.”
Why Won’t Youngkin Commit To Veto Bill Forcing Health Workers Into ‘Unconscious Bias’ DEI Lectures?
"This [junta] has burdened women with many costs — costs that contribute to women remaining ignored, understudied, underfunded, and sick."
Jill Biden’s $100 Million Women’s Health Initiative Won’t Make Up for the Ways This Junta Hurts Them
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
". . . [Author Peter] Schweizer explores how two billionaires, China-based American Neville Roy Singham and Alibaba co-founder Joseph Tsai, prop up radical activists groups that use transgenderism as a weapon against the 'capitalist order.'”
Blood Money: Two of the Biggest Funders of the Radical Transgender Movement in the U.S. Are China-Linked Billionaires
"Bureaucrat Spotlight: State Department's 'LGBTQI Special Envoy' has visited 22 countries on 6 continents in position reestablished by Biden."
Meet the Biden Official Making Six Figures to Travel the Globe Pushing Transgenderism
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"Jill Biden reportedly arrived in Las Vegas on Saturday ahead of a campaign event for her husband [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden, who is vying to win the swing state of Nevada in the upcoming presidential election."
Bono Dedicates U2 Song "All I Want Is You" to First Lady Jill Biden
"Despite the multi-million dollar effort, Bud Light has only won back 1.2 percent of its lost market share. And in total, the boycott cost Anheuser-Busch $1.4 billion in 2023."
Bud Light Fumbles Its Super Bowl Hail Mary
Christian Toto: "Faith-based Ordinary Angels stars Swank, Ritchson avoid Daily Wire, Breitbart ..."
Here’s Why Hollywood Won’t Let Actors Talk to Conservative Media
"It’s just a simple fact that if the year-to-date box office is down over 17 percent compared to last year with more movies in wide release, that can only mean one thing: The dogs don’t like the dog food. If there’s more dog food (movies) and the dogs (public) are eating less of it (buying fewer tickets), what other conclusion is there?. . . The entertainment industry spent five years attempting to rewire human nature into something “queer” and obsessed with identity over merit. Now the industry is losing billions at the box office and on their streaming services."
Audience Rejection of Woke Hollywood Drops AMC Theater Stock 8%
"Bourgeois values bring stability, prosperity, and dignity—but happiness is another matter."
What Is Marriage For?
"Twentieth-century modernism alienates ordinary people and is the face of cultural suicide."
The Battle for Beauty
HITHER & YON
"And it is Nixon who deserves the most credit for its success."
Nixon, Not Kissinger, Was the Architect of "Detente"
"A recent volume of essays seeks to reconsider, and reclaim, Vilfredo Pareto’s intellectual legacy."
The Disappointed Liberal

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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 05, 2024 07:27 AM (ENQN6)

2 which prohibits the importation of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) without proper permits from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)....

They can be hundreds to thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere, exacerbating the climate crisis.

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Remember boys and girls, the same EPA has shown that there has been no warming in the U.S. since 1948, and that it's very likely been cooling off.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 05, 2024 07:28 AM (skf6d)

3 Link:

"A total of 863 stations, or 81%, reported either a decrease or no change in the number of hot days"

https://tinyurl.com/ytd8fh8f

Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 05, 2024 07:29 AM (skf6d)

4 Thank you, JJ!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 07:30 AM (a1415)

5 “The illegal smuggling of hydrofluorocarbons … undermines international efforts to combat climate change under the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol,” said David Uhlmann of the EPA.

China is building six times more new coal plants than other countries COMBINED

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 05, 2024 07:31 AM (ENQN6)

6 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 05, 2024 07:31 AM (Q4IgG)

7 These are the same "experts" who in 1975 said Manhattan would be buried under a 500-foot deep glacier by the year 2000.

From your typing fingers to G D eyes.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 05, 2024 07:32 AM (ENQN6)

8 It's Super Biggest Most Beautiful Mega Maga Tuesday!

Posted by: fd at March 05, 2024 07:33 AM (vFG9F)

9 Freon went bad the day DuPont's patent expired.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 05, 2024 07:34 AM (hxiTW)

10 >>> I'm no F. Lee Bailey but
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There is no law, the only thing holding us together are the remnants of our civility.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 05, 2024 07:35 AM (hxiTW)

11 >The Left-Right Divide Is Not Bridgeable

I agree
my shitlist is carved in stone

Posted by: Don Black at March 05, 2024 07:36 AM (oCjPU)

12 Good morning again dear horde and happy birthday JJ

So if you are a judge who is reversed 9-0 by the Supreme Court, you're professionally humiliated, right? Your career is finished, right?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 05, 2024 07:36 AM (RIvkX)

13 I'm no F. Lee Bailey but if the sentencing reductions are significant, does that also not carry with it perhaps a reclassification of the charges/crimes from insurrection down to perhaps mere trespassing?

JJ As far as I can tell the use of 18 U.S. Code § 2383 - Rebellion or insurrection has not been tried for any 1/6/21 case.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 05, 2024 07:36 AM (ENQN6)

14
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 05, 2024 07:37 AM (bEb2S)

15 I would have bought a slice of Tiger Three Chocolate Cake yesterday but the store was out.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 05, 2024 07:39 AM (hxiTW)

16 Keith Olbermann called to wish everyone a glorious day today.

Haha, nah, he hates us. And most everyone else too.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 05, 2024 07:39 AM (NOEBK)

17 So, if Nikki doesn't win any of the primaries on Super Tuesday, she's still the front runner, right?

Posted by: dantesed at March 05, 2024 07:40 AM (88xKn)

18 Blessed morning to you.

Posted by: Marooned at March 05, 2024 07:40 AM (kt8QE)

19 They arrested the UGA murder's brother for presenting a fake green card to authorities. The cops picked him up when searching for his murdering illegal trespasser brother because he looks a lot like him.

He came into the US last April and has since been arrested for DUI and shoplifting along with his murdering illegal trespasser brother. Currently in custody in Butts County GA. His lawyer says he can't go back to Venezuela because he fears for his life.

Posted by: fd at March 05, 2024 07:40 AM (vFG9F)

20 "So if you are a judge who is reversed 9-0 by the Supreme Court, you're professionally humiliated, right? Your career is finished, right?
Posted by: San Franpsycho"

Not if you are a Democrat. It's a career enhancement.

Posted by: fd at March 05, 2024 07:41 AM (vFG9F)

21 The only 'insurrection' that occurred on J6 was in congress. They should be held accountable for such, stripped of their pensions and jailed or expelled from the US. The FBI should be dissolved and every agent banned from any federal government position.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 05, 2024 07:42 AM (YRsIm)

22
As I was rambling about in Pixy's thread, see "Griffin's Case" with opinion written by Chief Justice Salmon Chase in 1868 concerning Sec. 3 of the 14th Amendment.

That has been the "settled law" on this. In a nutshell, Chase determined that Sec. 3 cannot be "self-executing" to remain consistent with other constitutional principles like due process, no bills of attainder, free speech, etc.

There must be a due process set up by Congress to enforce it.

All the Supreme Court did, 9-0, was reaffirm Griffin. Any fool should've known this.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 05, 2024 07:42 AM (w6EFb)

23 I'd go look at my usual Democrats On Substack but I think I'll wait for all the comment sections to fill up with incoherent rage and despair. I want to pick the best ones.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 05, 2024 07:42 AM (43xH1)

24 These are the same "experts" who in 1975 said Manhattan would be buried under a 500-foot deep glacier by the year 2000.

-

And who can't count how many moons the earth has.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 05, 2024 07:42 AM (skf6d)

25 They should be held accountable for such, stripped of their pensions and jailed or expelled from the US. The FBI should be dissolved and every agent banned from any federal government position.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 05, 2024 07:42 AM (YRsIm)

This is what's called a good start

Posted by: A dude in MI at March 05, 2024 07:43 AM (/6GbT)

26 His lawyer says he can't go back to Venezuela because he fears for his life.

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(fears for his life for heinous crimes against society in Venezuela)

Ah, an asylum seeker.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 05, 2024 07:44 AM (skf6d)

27 Breitbart writers write on a high school level. It needs an editor. Texas Monthly a local glossy has far superior writers. Only problem is that they are all communists.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 05, 2024 07:44 AM (hxiTW)

28 22 There must be a due process set up by Congress to enforce it.

All the Supreme Court did, 9-0, was reaffirm Griffin. Any fool should've known this.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 05, 2024 07:42 AM (w6EFb)

"Out here, due process is a bullet!"

- - John Wayne, "The Green Berets"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 05, 2024 07:44 AM (x0n13)

29 Everything written in this MR is summed up nicely at the end, in 3 simple words. “ Evil never rests”. Our side, sadly, not only rests but sleeps, colludes and profits in their response to evil. Is “ our side” really our side now? This question is what troubles me.

Posted by: tubal at March 05, 2024 07:45 AM (PCK5/)

30 27 Breitbart writers write on a high school level. It needs an editor. Texas Monthly a local glossy has far superior writers. Only problem is that they are all communists.
Posted by: Braenyard at March 05, 2024 07:44 AM (hxiTW)

They didn't write it. It was what we used to call "rip and read" from the wire service teletype.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 05, 2024 07:45 AM (x0n13)

31 The Great Awakening. Between now and November more Americans will realize that they've been systematically lied to. At his rallies Trump will pound on this and personalize it wiht Joe Biden. Can Media just ignore Trump? Developing ..,

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 05, 2024 07:45 AM (Gse2f)

32 Good morning horde!

Spent yesterday scoping out Lufkin, Texas as a potential retirement destination. Nice enough town.

Happy to come home and find out about the per curium, bitches.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 05, 2024 07:46 AM (1Z8zZ)

33 32 Good morning horde!

Spent yesterday scoping out Lufkin, Texas as a potential retirement destination. Nice enough town.

Happy to come home and find out about the per curium, bitches.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 05, 2024 07:46 AM (1Z8zZ)

They make decent tape measures there??

Posted by: tubal at March 05, 2024 07:47 AM (PCK5/)

34 "Out here, due process is a bullet!"

- - John Wayne, "The Green Berets"
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 05, 2024 07:44 AM (x0n13)

I thought it was 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance'?

Posted by: dantesed at March 05, 2024 07:47 AM (88xKn)

35 >>> Jena Griswold:“I do believe that states should be able, under our Constitution, to bar oath-breaking insurrectionists....

Example No. 846 of one is the kind of stupid which can not be fixed... AND meets her own definition of "oath-breaking insurrectionists".

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 05, 2024 07:48 AM (AkikQ)

36 Today's left-right divide is at least as great as the North-South divide before and during the Civil War. The only thing that remains the same is that it was the Democratic Party that opposed freedom then, and it is the Democratic Party that opposes freedom today."
The Left-Right Divide Is Not Bridgeable

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I disagree. I'm 100% for soaking the rich for example because the system is rigged. I suspect on the ground level the right and left could agree with each other on a lot of stuff. But the elite have to keep us divided and they spend enormous sums of money, time and effort to do just that.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 05, 2024 07:48 AM (2fIO4)

37 Good morning and Happy Tuesday, everyone! I'd ask it if it's time to go home yet but I'm working from home today.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 05, 2024 07:48 AM (lXCUP)

38 "Do You Really Need 100 Bullets?"

Yes. Next question.

Posted by: fd at March 05, 2024 07:49 AM (vFG9F)

39 Do you really need lunch?

Posted by: fd at March 05, 2024 07:50 AM (vFG9F)

40 >>> They didn't write it. It was what we used to call "rip and read" from the wire service teletype.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton
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I am speaking in day to day terms. They can't write. Or they write poorly. Presentation means something and their composition is poor.
If I want to direct someone, an uninitiated person, to some revealing information on a topic I will not direct them to Breitbart.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 05, 2024 07:50 AM (hxiTW)

41 "Do You Really Need 100 Bullets?"

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"Do you really need the perks and privileges that come with being a U.S. Senator?"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 05, 2024 07:51 AM (7fElN)

42 "Do You Really Need 100 Bullets?"

types... deletes...

Bob from the NSA sees all.

Posted by: davidt at March 05, 2024 07:51 AM (SYTee)

43 I think the left is engaged in a wholesale effort to make laws fungible.

Seems to be working...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 05, 2024 07:52 AM (Q4IgG)

44 Even if freon really isn't good for the ozone layer...

If freon were bad for the ozone layer, as opposed to bad for 3M because the patent ran out, then wealthy countries would move Heaven and Earth to get developing countries up to speed post-haste rather than giving them extra time to ignore their bullshit mandates.

Same as every other green piece of crap.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 05, 2024 07:52 AM (1Z8zZ)

45 “ Do you really need?” is always the preamble to the Marxist stance of “ you shall not accumulate”…

Posted by: tubal at March 05, 2024 07:53 AM (PCK5/)

46 Do You Really Need 100 Bullets

https://tinyurl.com/2zahycdx

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 05, 2024 07:53 AM (YRsIm)

47 I remember in my 7th grade science class we were taught that the absence of heat was the norm throughout the universe, and energy is needed to heat a thing up.

Which is what the Nat Geo mags did for us boys as we got to look at fat native titties flapping to and fro on the wimmens from deepest, darkest Africa in it's pages.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 05, 2024 07:54 AM (/SHEi)

48 “ I suspect on the ground level the right and left could agree with each other on a lot of stuff.”
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No. Nothing.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at March 05, 2024 07:54 AM (IkL4/)

49 " "Do You Really Need 100 Bullets?" "

Ain't got nothing to do with 'need'.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 07:55 AM (a1415)

50 “ I suspect on the ground level the right and left could agree with each other on a lot of stuff.”
————
No. Nothing.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at March 05, 2024 07:54 AM (IkL4/)

?? Yeah can't think of single thing

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 05, 2024 07:55 AM (pVWRI)

51
Naomi Wolf: "As I looked at the spinning, exuberant, innocently joyful young people, I realized in a flash — this is the Revolution."

She rights real pretty.

/ sic

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 05, 2024 07:55 AM (RKVpM)

52 No one needs 100 bullets. Ridiculous.

You need far more. Duh.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 05, 2024 07:55 AM (qH7II)

53 The Supreme Court Is The Last Functioning Institution In America

Texas v. Pennsylvania begs to differ.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 05, 2024 07:58 AM (1Z8zZ)

54 "Do you really need 100 bullets?"

Depends on how many points there are to the presentation I'm giving I reckon.

Posted by: TeeJ at March 05, 2024 07:58 AM (o3xwr)

55 "Do You Really Need 100 Bullets?"

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(tries to think of a single time I've ever heard anyone say "Dang, I carried way too much ammo into that encounter")

Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 05, 2024 07:58 AM (skf6d)

56 As a black person, registered as a Democrat and residing inWashington D.C. do you individually really 'need' to vote?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 07:58 AM (a1415)

57 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at March 05, 2024 07:59 AM (8okvb)

58 As a black person, registered as a Democrat and residing inWashington D.C. do you individually really 'need' to vote?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

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If they could read that they would probably wonder what you're talking about.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 05, 2024 08:00 AM (YT46P)

59 >>>> Same as every other green piece of crap.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Bad for the USA. He smuggled it in, the freon. So it is manufactured today, sold around the world today except here. Here we save DuPont at thousands of dollars expense to each individual that uses an appliance that requires refrigerant.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 05, 2024 08:00 AM (hxiTW)

60 49 Ain't got nothing to do with 'need'.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 07:55 AM (a1415)

Another great quote from Clint movie.

Posted by: vic at March 05, 2024 08:00 AM (A5THL)

61 RACHEL Maddow has cooties:

Super infestation! MSNBC scrambles to exterminate bed bug infestation found in Rachel Maddow's NYC studio before Super Tuesday election coverage

Posted by: Don Black at March 05, 2024 08:01 AM (oCjPU)

62
As a black person, registered as a Democrat and residing inWashington D.C. do you individually really 'need' to vote?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 07:58 AM

I imagine by a certain time in the evening that if you have not appeared in person, that someone casts your vote for you. That's the only plausible explanation for the huge turnout numbers.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 05, 2024 08:01 AM (RKVpM)

63 "Need" is something else the left is working on being fungible. Things like food, electricity, reliable transportation, justice, freedom, etc.

Depends on what the definition of "need" is.

Their definition, not yours.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 05, 2024 08:02 AM (Q4IgG)

64
Texas v. Pennsylvania begs to differ.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 05, 2024 07:58 AM

Preach

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 05, 2024 08:02 AM (bEb2S)

65 I miss the insane Olbermann angrily reading from a James Thurber novel on his show during the Bush years.
Dripping with insanity read his book on the air making weird comments.

Posted by: Redenzo at March 05, 2024 08:02 AM (V/pbu)

66 "The Left-Right divide is not bridgeable."

I've been saying this for 20 years. I grew up in the living rooms and salons of the Left, from Cambridge to Berkeley. I listened. It is not in the nature, the organism, of the Left to coexist with a competing ideal, to compromise, to yield to a political consensus against their interests. Leftist is a fundamentalism, a totalitarian ideology of conquest-and-purgation in its every form, from local school board to national governance. Many did not see this because the Left has historically been operating as the dissident, the outcast, the aggrieved minority clamoring (seemingly only) for a seat at the table.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 05, 2024 08:02 AM (Vt16a)

67 "One might as well wish that daily consumption of a hot fudge sundae will lead to weight loss."

Well yeah if that's ALL you eat. Think of the money you would save too.

Posted by: fd at March 05, 2024 08:03 AM (vFG9F)

68 Why is there even Super Tuesday TV coverage? Trump will dominate the R side, Biden's wizened lifeless husk will be declared the uncontested winner on the D side-

where's the scoop?

Posted by: Don Black at March 05, 2024 08:03 AM (oCjPU)

69 According to the Department of Justice, Hart purchased refrigerants in Mexico and smuggled them into the United States in his vehicle, hidden under a tarp and tools.
He then posted the items for sale on OfferUp, Facebook Marketplace and other sites, selling them on for a profit.
++++
Facebook is a bad black market. Never sell your illegal shit - unless it's regime-approved illegal shit like child abuse - on a regime-aligned platform.

Duh.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 05, 2024 08:03 AM (HnUIn)

70 Mornin’, All. Happy Tuesday.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 08:04 AM (9yWhg)

71 I wonder what the timing was for the discovery of Freon’s effect on the ozone layer vis a vis the expiration of Dow’s patent on Freon.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at March 05, 2024 08:04 AM (dQfJF)

72 Jena Griswold:“I do believe that states should be able, under our Constitution, to bar oath-breaking insurrectionists....

I'm getting tired of the bullshit. If you have evidence, arrest and charge. If we are going to do guilty without any evidence, fine.

All democrats, male and female are pedophiles.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 05, 2024 08:05 AM (mvepF)

73
Why is there even Super Tuesday TV coverage? Trump will dominate the R side, Biden's wizened lifeless husk will be declared the uncontested winner on the D side-

where's the scoop?

Posted by: Don Black at March 05, 2024 08:03 AM

They're looking for the caricature, the 'white nationalist' to tar and hold up as representative of more then half of the country. The search for that person may take all day.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 05, 2024 08:06 AM (RKVpM)

74 69 Lazy fuck could have unloaded that freon in an hour at any busy flea market.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 05, 2024 08:07 AM (0EOe9)

75 "I imagine by a certain time in the evening that if you have not appeared in person, that someone casts your vote for you. "

True, but I was thinking along the lines of the results of Sunday's Republican Primary in DC.

Pretty evident that there is simply way that a Democratic candidate is not going to win in a General Election.

So....can an individual black democrat residing in, and registered to vote in DC really build an argument that their own constitutionally recognized right to vote is really that important.

Or like 'more than 100 bullets', is it really necessary for the individual.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 08:07 AM (a1415)

76 So many assholes, so few bullets.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 08:07 AM (9yWhg)

77 The CDC can take their covid AND flu recommendations and put ‘em where the sun don’t shine. I never in my entire lifetime of 29 years prior to 2020 ever heard of or saw a person wearing a mask due to flu…

What happened in response to covid starting in March 2020… how they grabbed our freedoms of movement and assembly and control of our bodies…. How they used it as an excuse to foist overwhelming vote fraud through mail-in ballots…. It is the biggest outrage of my lifetime. If they think I’ll ever forget they are so wrong. Every time I think about it, my blood boils. Old people dying alone, young people having their school years destroyed…. All so bureaucrats and Karens can feel more powerful and noble….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 05, 2024 08:07 AM (4Fb0A)

78 >>>>>It is not in the nature, the organism, of the Left to coexist with a competing ideal, to compromise, to yield to a political consensus against their interests. Leftist is a fundamentalism, a totalitarian ideology of conquest-and-purgation in its every form, from local school board to national governance.
Posted by: Ordinary American at March 05, 2024 08:02 AM (Vt16a)
__________
^^^^This is the truth. There is no compromising with the democrats. It is their way or the railway, IYKWIM.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at March 05, 2024 08:08 AM (IkL4/)

79 Super Tuesday had more meaning before ballot box stuffing and convention rigging. Conventions used to be a thing. Now they are merely a ceremony.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 05, 2024 08:09 AM (hxiTW)

80 Pro-tip: When smuggling freon, be sure to hide it under the packages of fentanyl.

Posted by: Roy at March 05, 2024 08:09 AM (z+ik4)

81 I don't give a shit what the so-called "experts" tell us about freon, insofar as it causes a hole in the ozone layer.
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Freon is demonstrably ozone-depleting.

Whether it has any demonstrable effect on the ozone layer, however, is a very different issue. There are two major obstacles:
1. The ozone layer is dynamic. It moves around, its, density changes, etc. Measuring it is difficult, especially measuring it consistently over time to find the range *and* controlling for all the other confounding variables.
2. Like most refrigerants, freon is heavy The ozone layer is incredibly high, and the ground is low. To get something that is heavier than air up to the ozone layer is rather a lot of work. Surely some makes it up there thanks to convection, but how much? What are the losses, and where in the column? For every pound of freon vented at ground level, how much actually makes it up that high? I have no idea. I suspect it can't be reliably measured what with all the other variables.

But there's one variable that is perfectly well understood: the expiration date of refrigerant patents.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 05, 2024 08:10 AM (HnUIn)

82 76 So many assholes, so few bullets.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
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It will be slow and merciless.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 05, 2024 08:11 AM (hxiTW)

83 "... Garland Archipelago..."

There MUST be a proper and just answer to this SOON, or the American Experiment is over..

Thank you, JJ.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not Kill at March 05, 2024 08:11 AM (gxokI)

84 If Trump wins, instruct everybody on his team or those he plans to utilize in his administration to not talk to anyone, under any circumstances, until he is sworn in.

Immediately pardon himself, Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, and all of the non-violent J6'rs.

And within the first 30 days, reverse all of The Meat Puppets EO's, reconstitute all of the Trump era immigration policies, end the Russia/Ukranian War, unleash Israel to end The Palestinians, and generally move against the Deep State and Uniparty.

Of course this is what the Deep State/Uniparty fears a 2nd Trump Presidency will unleash, which is why Trump will more than likely never get a 2nd shot.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 05, 2024 08:11 AM (XV/Pl)

85 And the same "experts" who claim all of this are telling us that the mass invasion of unvetted and unassimilated foreigners into the US is good for the economy and our society.
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I find your lack of faith in your expert betters disturbing.

Posted by: Tom Nichols at March 05, 2024 08:11 AM (HnUIn)

86 >>> The indictment also alleges Hart imported HCFC 22, an ozone-depleting substance...

Is heavier than air.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 05, 2024 08:11 AM (Tcsmw)

87 If Democrats want to do away with charges, trials and convictions, and just go straight to the punishment phase, isn't there a name for that?

Starts with a 'V', if I remember right.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 08:12 AM (a1415)

88 The Raskin bill conveniently defines J6 as an insurrection and carefully defines the term so as to specifically apply it to Trump. It does not however define what an insurrection is making the whole exercise into a bill that specifically exists to block a particular candidate from being able to take office on grounds that would be unlikely to apply to his own party. Does that raise some major banana republic issues? Obviously.
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It does, but not *new* "banana republic issues."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 05, 2024 08:12 AM (HnUIn)

89 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, horde.

Posted by: Inogame at March 05, 2024 08:12 AM (53oGX)

90 The Freon hole was another great fraud instigated by the Demo-commies.

Posted by: vic at March 05, 2024 08:14 AM (A5THL)

91 “Democrats have been willing over the decades to not just address border security as a whole, but also to address our workforce needs and to make sure that we remain a country of immigrants,” Rep. Escobar told Acosta before adding: “Immigration is good for us economically.”

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 05, 2024 08:14 AM (ENQN6)

92 Can we pass a Raskin Bill?

You know, one that defines every male Raskin above the age of 18 as a pedophile. And then sentence them accordingly.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 08:15 AM (a1415)

93 Newseek still owes me an ice age.

Posted by: From 1975 at March 05, 2024 08:15 AM (NBVIP)

94 Biden announced a new commission to fight "corporate rip-offs". He claims the economy is almost shovel-ready and this idea could be just the thing needed to really kill it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 05, 2024 08:15 AM (ZY5SV)

95 86 >>> The indictment also alleges Hart imported HCFC 22, an ozone-depleting substance...

So it's A-OKAY for the Country directly connected at the border with us to use but not here ? So Mexico can deplete the ozone and it magically doesn't affect us ?Some magic barrier ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2024 08:15 AM (Akjoo)

96 "Do You Really Need 100 Bullets?"

It has been a while since grade school, but I'm pretty sure I don't recall learning about a "Bill of Needs".

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 05, 2024 08:15 AM (lTGtQ)

97 Occasional Cortex is reaping the whirlwind she sewed?

Good.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at March 05, 2024 08:16 AM (tT6L1)

98 He's desperate, inflation is still here and prices will not go down due to potatus' 3 years in office. So what do you do, sic the DOJ on big business, blaming everyone else and not your policies. FTC-DOJ to crack down on unfair pricing. Yep, that'll fix 3 year of biden's policies and the disaster of the plandemic.
https://tinyurl.com/sdr4kurr

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 05, 2024 08:16 AM (2NHgQ)

99
They're looking for the caricature, the 'white nationalist' to tar and hold up as representative of more then half of the country. The search for that person may take all day.

Want to add something to this:

If they can't find that person they'll hire an actor to play the part. The leftist propaganda war must be fought and won at any cost, including completely ignoring the truth.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 05, 2024 08:17 AM (RKVpM)

100 So it's A-OKAY for the Country directly connected at the border with us to use but not here ? So Mexico can deplete the ozone and it magically doesn't affect us ?Some magic barrier ?
Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2024 08:15 AM (Akjoo)
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Same magic which allows China to build all the coal fired power plants it needs while we shutter our coal fired plants.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at March 05, 2024 08:17 AM (tT6L1)

101 >Occasional Cortex is reaping the whirlwind she sewed?

Good.
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still- impressive rack

Posted by: Don Black at March 05, 2024 08:17 AM (oCjPU)

102 "Some magic barrier ?"

Like a really high wall?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 08:18 AM (a1415)

103 The EPA *loves* engaging in the forced obsolescence of refrigerants, and the new ones tend to be less good than the old ones. A good refrigerant is one that maximizes - as best as one is able - three parameters:
1. Non-toxicity
2. Low operating pressure
3. Non-flammability

Propane, for example, is a highly-effective refrigerant but it is neither non-toxic nor non-flammable, which is why it isn't used in most systems.

But the EPA adds two more:
4. Low "Ozone Depletion Potential"
5. Low "Global Warming Potential" (CO2 is a score of "1")

This can be achieved, but at the cost of flammability. Propane is zero ODP and 1 GWP and so is perfect, except for the risk of exploding or burning your house down. Systems leak. Eventually. And the current dominant refrigerant - R410A - is too much GWP for the EPA, and it is already a refrigerant riddled with downsides, namely operating pressure. Higher pressure means more opportunity for leaks and lower reliability.

The next refrigerants slated to replace R410A are likely going to fall into the "mildly flammable" category. It's all good, though. Increasing the risk of fire is a small price to pay for Mother Gaia's security!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 05, 2024 08:18 AM (HnUIn)

104 SCIENCE!

Posted by: Don Black at March 05, 2024 08:19 AM (oCjPU)

105 >>>Calling it “one on a huge list of priorities,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D., Md.) announced that he will be reintroducing a prior bill with Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Eric Swalwell to disqualify not just Trump but a large number of Republicans from taking office.
_Jonathan Turley

Posted by: Braenyard at March 05, 2024 08:19 AM (hxiTW)

106 OT: Okay, people, regarding my two-flat-tire crisis: AAA has been summoned and will send a tow truck. My shop is about five miles away, so I'll have to pay for part of the tow. They say they will be here in about ninety minutes.

It's still drizzling, so the whole thing will be distinctly unpleasant, even aside from the cost of two new tires. I might get lucky and find that one or both tires have simply been knocked loose from the wheels; but any collision hard enough to do that would damage the wheel, and they look okay. Probably the tires are not repairable.

If I have even a shred of luck, I'll be out of the shop before noon. But those shreds, it seems, are hard to come by these days, or wind has blown them away from me. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 05, 2024 08:19 AM (omVj0)

107 Years ago at the advent of the internet, I was a research assistant and spent most of my time looking up journal articles in the university's science library and making copies of them. Looking back it seems comical how much trouble I had with copy cards. Anyway, as all the research was being transferred online my internal alarm was going off. What would happen if we didn't want access to "that" research anymore. Could we delete it into the abyss? Apparently, we can.

Posted by: Quirky bookworm at March 05, 2024 08:19 AM (rKyZg)

108 Do I need 100 bullets?

Well, since that's the normal quantity in which bullets are sold, yes, yes I do.

However, if you're talking cartridges, 100 isn't even a good start.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at March 05, 2024 08:19 AM (tT6L1)

109 "The next refrigerants slated to replace R410A are likely going to fall into the "mildly flammable" category. It's all good, though. "

Should make leak detection easier.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 08:20 AM (a1415)

110 A U.S. withdrawal from NATO would be good for both Europe and the U.S. For that to happen, Europe must rearm itself, and the U.S. must accept that Europe will no longer be in the position of vassals.

Pretty shitty vassals.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 05, 2024 08:20 AM (1Z8zZ)

111 She's tidied up, and I can't find anything! All my tubes and wires, my careful notes...!

Posted by: Don Black at March 05, 2024 08:20 AM (oCjPU)

112 However, if you're talking cartridges, 100 isn't even a good start.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at March 05, 2024 08:19 AM (tT6L1)
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This has nothing to do with video game systems. Quit clouding the point with irrelevancies.

Posted by: Your Betters in Government at March 05, 2024 08:20 AM (HnUIn)

113 Should make leak detection easier.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 08:20 AM (a1415)
++++
*snort*

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 05, 2024 08:21 AM (HnUIn)

114 How can Trump be labeled as an insurrectionist when no insurrection occurred on Jan 6?

Posted by: dantesed at March 05, 2024 08:21 AM (88xKn)

115 blake. China and coal fired plants. According to my stepdaughter, we need to show other countries how global warming can be fought. We go to sustainable and they will follow and we need to give them tons of cash to help them with the transition. The lefttards are stupid, gullible and have unicorns as their symbol.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 05, 2024 08:21 AM (2NHgQ)

116 Naomi Wolf: "As I looked at the spinning, exuberant, innocently joyful young people, I realized in a flash - this is the Revolution.

This was not the Moral Majority of my father’s era. Rather, this was a subversive, courageous subculture that was resisting the dominant narrative, and the morass of darkness that is our dominant cultural moment.

These, I realized with a start - are the dissidents.

This (the conservative movement) is the counterculture."

Thanks for bringing this article to my attention, JJ.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 05, 2024 08:21 AM (SfhV1)

117 * BLAM!!*

Found it!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 08:22 AM (a1415)

118 97 Occasional Cortex is reaping the whirlwind she sewed?

Good.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at March 05, 2024 08:16 AM (tT6L1)

Indeed. She stands there among the affluence she had nothing to do with creating but has only oppugned, appalled at being inconvenienced by protestors whose entitled incivility she has embodied and converted to celebrity. Suck it up, buttercup.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 05, 2024 08:23 AM (Vt16a)

119 "The next refrigerants slated to replace R410A are likely going to fall into the "mildly flammable" category. It's all good, though. "

Should make leak detection easier.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Just leave a candle burning next to the refrigerator. If the house starts on fire, you have a leak.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 05, 2024 08:23 AM (lTGtQ)

120 Good morning, grammie.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at March 05, 2024 08:24 AM (tT6L1)

121 Last Friday, the agency's [FBI] Miami field office issued an alert that Majid Dastjani Farahani "is wanted for questioning in connection with the recruitment of individuals for various operations in the United States."
...in connection to a plot to assassinate current and former U.S. officials "in revenge" ... plot to assassinate current and former federal government officials for the Trump administration's 2020 airstrike killing of an Iranian military official.
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Wonder what they are really doing?

Posted by: Braenyard at March 05, 2024 08:24 AM (hxiTW)

122 Good morning blake!

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 05, 2024 08:24 AM (SfhV1)

123 It seems Naomi Wolff’s new husband has had a salutary effect on her….

Posted by: tubal at March 05, 2024 08:24 AM (PCK5/)

124 "How can Trump be labeled as an insurrectionist when no insurrection occurred on Jan 6?"

That's why this whole Raskin thing is so much fun to Fcuk with.

Just change your wording a little bit to read....

How can Raskin be labeled as a pedophile when no pedophilia has occurred?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 08:25 AM (a1415)

125 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 05, 2024 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)

126 Hiya Grammie !

Posted by: JT at March 05, 2024 08:25 AM (T4tVD)

127 I don't give a shit what the so-called "experts" tell us about freon, insofar as it causes a hole in the ozone layer. These are the same "experts" who in 1975 said Manhattan would be buried under a 500-foot deep glacier by the year 2000. The same "experts" who then told us in 2000 that Manhattan and the entire US coast would be submerged under 200 feet of water by the year 2015.

Freon is so damn heavy, it never GETS to the ozone layer.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 05, 2024 08:26 AM (Zz0t1)

128 Regarding chemicals and refrigerants, the huge explosion and fire that leveled an industrial plant north of Detroit has killed a19 year old pedestrian. The plant manufactured and filled nitrous and other gases cylinders and made thousands of vaping pens for the marijuana industry. Cylinders still exploding this am.

Posted by: Jen the original at March 05, 2024 08:26 AM (1q8Fq)

129 Just change your wording a little bit to read....

How can Raskin be labeled as a pedophile when no pedophilia has occurred?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 08:25 AM (a1415)
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You seem awfully wise for an Apprentice Idiot.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at March 05, 2024 08:26 AM (tT6L1)

130 Hiya JT!

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 05, 2024 08:26 AM (SfhV1)

131 Not only are we spied on, we’re targeted. I can still move, a bit slower maybe, but still able.

Posted by: Eromero at March 05, 2024 08:26 AM (o2ZRX)

132 >> The Raskin bill conveniently defines J6 as an insurrection and carefully defines the term so as to specifically apply it to Trump.

That would be a textbook "Bill of Attainder".

In fact, if you read the Griffin opinion, it covered all this. It's been settled law since 1868.

In a nutshell, Chief Justice Chase concluded that no, Sec. 3 of the 14th Amendment, to be consistent with the rest of the constitution, cannot be some "self-executing, self-evident" thing.

That is, you can say "he's an insurrectionist! Barred from office!", and automatically remove him. There's got to be definitions, procedures, due process, judicial hearings, etc. etc. And Congress is the entity that sets that up.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 05, 2024 08:26 AM (w6EFb)

133 125 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 05, 2024 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)

…Last, and Always…. Morning Sponge!

Posted by: tubal at March 05, 2024 08:26 AM (PCK5/)

134 90 The Freon hole was another great fraud instigated by the Demo-commies.
Posted by: vic at March 05, 2024 08:14 AM (A5THL)

I got an angry lecture and brochure from a Canadian Border Security Guard about Acid Rain while attempting to visit 30 years ago.

Posted by: Auspex at March 05, 2024 08:27 AM (j4U/Z)

135 "You seem awfully wise for an Apprentice Idiot."

I've been doing this Apprentice gig for a LONG time.

And I took notes along the way.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 08:27 AM (a1415)

136 80 Pro-tip: When smuggling freon, be sure to hide it under the packages of fentanyl.
Posted by: Roy at March 05, 2024 08:09 AM (z+ik4)

And underaged girls shackled and wearing fishnets.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 05, 2024 08:27 AM (x0n13)

137 The plant manufactured and filled nitrous and other gases cylinders and made thousands of vaping pens for the marijuana industry. Cylinders still exploding this am.
Posted by: Jen the original at March 05, 2024 08:26 AM (1q8Fq)
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I'm going with sub literate employees of a certain religious persuasion doing something stupid.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at March 05, 2024 08:28 AM (tT6L1)

138 *holds up lighter, flicks*

“Freeon!”

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 08:28 AM (9yWhg)

139 One final gripe about all the forced refrigerant obsolescence and then I'll quit bitching about it.

This is a prime example of failure to assess systems costs and consequences. When the EPA bans a refrigerant, it gets restricted and the price goes up dramatically. It makes repairs to systems using legacy refrigerants much more expensive, and often uneconomic. I replaced my A/C unit because it used a banned refrigerant (R-22) and repair costs matched or exceeded replacement costs, getting worse over time. I replaced a functional system that was well beyond its design life because I got a good price and I knew that the next fault would be its last, and then I'd be under the gun.

The banning of refrigerants creates a "replace preference" over a "repair preference," often inside the machinery's design life with proper maintenance. When that happens, how much waste is produced? Manufacturing isn't free or pollution-free, nor is transportation. How much material, how much money and how much fuel is wasted on new machinery that was purchased because repairing the machinery became prohibitive because of banned components? How much more Dread Carbon did the "fix" cause to be produced?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 05, 2024 08:29 AM (HnUIn)

140 "Freon is so damn heavy, it never GETS to the ozone layer."

You are the wind beneath my wings..

Posted by: Freon at March 05, 2024 08:29 AM (a1415)

141 "Do You Really Need 100 Bullets?"

Base load is 210.
600 for you SAW gunners.

... and then a whole lot more for the runner to get as needed.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 05, 2024 08:29 AM (Tcsmw)

142 "Strengthen the feeble hands, steady the knees that give way; say to those with fearful hearts,
“Be strong, do not fear; your God will come,
he will come with vengeance; with divine retribution he will come to save you.”

Isaiah 35:3-4

Posted by: Marcus T at March 05, 2024 08:30 AM (dmH0a)

143
…Last, and Always…. Morning Sponge!
Posted by: tubal at March 05, 2024 08:26 AM (PCK5/)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 05, 2024 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)

144 Which is what the Nat Geo mags did for us boys as we got to look at fat native titties flapping to and fro on the wimmens from deepest, darkest Africa in it's pages.

More coffee...
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 05, 2024 07:54 AM (/SHEi)

Hairyback Guy — Thank you for that memory. I’d forgotten my fascination with natgeo in junior high. Those magazines were in the school library!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 05, 2024 08:31 AM (4Fb0A)

145 "You seem awfully wise for an Apprentice Idiot."

I've been doing this Apprentice gig for a LONG time.

And I took notes along the way.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 08:27 AM (a1415)
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How many more years until Journeyman Idiot?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 05, 2024 08:31 AM (7fElN)

146 Wonder what they are really doing?
Posted by: Braenyard at March 05, 2024 08:24 AM (hxiTW)

Recruiting for the FBI?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 05, 2024 08:31 AM (0eaVi)

147 When do the Leftists start screaming that the Constitutional ban on Writs of Attainder is unconstitutional, because OrangeManBad reasons? Today?

Posted by: Gref at March 05, 2024 08:31 AM (5fDan)

148 Isaiah 35:3-4

Posted by: Marcus T at March 05, 2024 08:30 AM (dmH0a)

The Book of Isaiah is a gem among gems.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 05, 2024 08:31 AM (SfhV1)

149 And the CFBP is going to mandate that late fees on credit cards cannot be higher than $8, lower that the typical $32. It saves the average consumer $220 annually. Yep, that will help when the average consumer is paying thousands more annually for food, gas, housing. The potatus admin is getting desperate and the election is 8 months away. A very short time for their Hail Mary's to work. Unless people see reduces costs on consumables and less illegal immigration in the next 8 months these measures ar just window dressing.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 05, 2024 08:31 AM (2NHgQ)

150 Hairyback Guy — Thank you for that memory. I’d forgotten my fascination with natgeo in junior high. Those magazines were in the school library!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 05, 2024 08:31 AM (4Fb0A)
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I'm pretty sure we have a whole shelf of them in the library stacks outside my office...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 05, 2024 08:32 AM (7fElN)

151 Health and Safety training module.....

BBL.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 05, 2024 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)

152 144 Which is what the Nat Geo mags did for us boys as we got to look at fat native titties flapping to and fro on the wimmens from deepest, darkest Africa in it's pages.

More coffee...
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 05, 2024 07:54 AM (/SHEi)

Hairyback Guy — Thank you for that memory. I’d forgotten my fascination with natgeo in junior high. Those magazines were in the school library!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 05, 2024 08:31 AM (4Fb0A)

The women of Bali… Samoa???

Posted by: tubal at March 05, 2024 08:32 AM (PCK5/)

153 How many more years until Journeyman Idiot?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 05, 2024 08:31 AM (7fElN)
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He found his way to the TX MoMe, so, I'm guessing he's achieved that level of idiocy.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at March 05, 2024 08:32 AM (tT6L1)

154 So ready to be done with the first-trimester hormones I'm taking. They're clogging up my nose, making it hard to breathe and killing my appetite.

#tendays

Posted by: pookysgirl, chugging water at March 05, 2024 08:32 AM (dtlDP)

155 "The Book of Isaiah is a gem among gems.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 05, 2024 08:31 AM (SfhV1)"

Amen. Pure truth.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 05, 2024 08:32 AM (dmH0a)

156 I'm guessing that Today's Super-Tuesday results will read something like....Nikki Haley finished as a strong second place competitor, while Donald Trump struggled to even reach a next to last place finish.

Clearly Nikki's star is rising!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 08:32 AM (a1415)

157 I have a mechanically sound HVAC unit. It is against the law to top it off with the refrigerant that it requires.

That busted smuggler appears to have made it across the border OK his marketing method is how he was exposed.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 05, 2024 08:33 AM (hxiTW)

158 A commenter at Insty's suggested that the vape-pens powered by cheap lithium-ion batteries might have been the source of the fire.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 05, 2024 08:33 AM (2yu8s)

159 Do You Really Need 100 Bullets

What if I'm walking down the street and an acorn hits a car hood? 100 isn't nearly enough.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 05, 2024 08:33 AM (1Z8zZ)

160 The Book of Isaiah is a gem among gems.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 05, 2024 08:31 AM (SfhV1)
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My favorite line from Isaiah, when he's in front of the Lord: "Behold, I am a man of unclean lips!."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at March 05, 2024 08:33 AM (tT6L1)

161
Yesterday, I read up on Griffin and this Sec. 3 "self-executing" question. This has been settled law since 1868. INdeed, after Griffin, Congress passed the Enforcement Act of 1870, which set up Sec. 3 enforcement procedures.

The relevant sections of that have since been repealed, but they set up a "quo warranto" mechanism to remove "insurrectionists" from public office. A *federal* prosecutor, official would start quo warranto proceedings in federal court.

The purpose was to show so-and-so was an insurrectionist under Sec. 3. You know due process, evidence in court, judicial review, etc, etc.

Basically quo warranto is sort of a "Who bitch is 'dis?" type of thing.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 05, 2024 08:33 AM (w6EFb)

162 >> Calling it “one on a huge list of priorities,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D., Md.) announced that he will be reintroducing a prior bill with Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Eric Swalwell to disqualify not just Trump but a large number of Republicans from taking office.
______________

Pelosi's J6 committee circus was onto this back in 2022. Liz Cheney herself in an interview just after the committee released it's "report" said, publicly, Trump and any Republican who supported Trump through the J6 shit show should be disqualified from holding political office. It was a "recommendation" in that report IIRC.

The J6 report is non-binding, but apparently had some type of roadmap built into it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 05, 2024 08:34 AM (Q4IgG)

163 Reflective Index
Air 1.000293
CO2 1.00045

0.000157 / 1.000293=0.000156 or 0.000156%

How would one even try to measure the difference in reflected heat in the electromagnetic spectrum of 1 10,000th of 1 percent.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 05, 2024 08:34 AM (ENQN6)

164 "How many more years until Journeyman Idiot?"

TwoWeeks

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 08:34 AM (a1415)

165 Clearly Nikki's star is rising!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 08:32 AM (a1415)
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She's second to none!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at March 05, 2024 08:34 AM (tT6L1)

166 I got an angry lecture and brochure from a Canadian Border Security Guard about Acid Rain while attempting to visit 30 years ago.
Posted by: Auspex at March 05, 2024 08:27 AM (j4U/Z)

Yup...Acid Rain was gonna strip cars to bare metal, kill wildlife and make crops unsustainable.

Of course, all democrat wallermelon horse shit.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 05, 2024 08:35 AM (/SHEi)

167 If Democrats want to do away with charges, trials and convictions, and just go straight to the punishment phase, isn't there a name for that?

Starts with a 'V', if I remember right.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Yes. Very stupid.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 05, 2024 08:35 AM (IB/6k)

168 How would one even try to measure the difference in reflected heat in the electromagnetic spectrum of 1 10,000th of 1 percent.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 05, 2024 08:34 AM (ENQN6)
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Science as determined by Congress?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at March 05, 2024 08:35 AM (tT6L1)

169
The National Geographic magazines with the pics of topless African women with sagging boobs it gave me a skewed perception so when I first saw the real thing up close and personal it was so very good.

What a relief.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 05, 2024 08:35 AM (RKVpM)

170 Illicit Iranian Oil Sales Hit $90 Billion Under Biden, Fueling Tehran’s Terror Proxies

As planned.

Dems think a strong Iran is a weak Israel.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 05, 2024 08:36 AM (ENQN6)

171 "My favorite line from Isaiah, when he's in front of the Lord: "Behold, I am a man of unclean lips!."
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at March 05, 2024 08:33 AM (tT6L1)"

There is so much to choose from...

Posted by: Marcus T at March 05, 2024 08:36 AM (dmH0a)

172 Page 5 of the Health and Safety course:

Environmental Hazard – properties of a substance or mixture that causes aquatic toxicity and damage to living organisms in water or cause damage to the ozone layer

Who knew the Ozone Layer, the thing that's been around for thousands of years, was sofa king fragile.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 05, 2024 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

173 163 Reflective Index
Air 1.000293
CO2 1.00045

0.000157 / 1.000293=0.000156 or 0.000156%

How would one even try to measure the difference in reflected heat in the electromagnetic spectrum of 1 10,000th of 1 percent.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 05, 2024 08:34 AM (ENQN6)

This is an academic exercise transformed into a socio-economic fiat… Magic!!! in other words… happens all the time now.

Posted by: tubal at March 05, 2024 08:37 AM (PCK5/)

174 The most disgusting thing about the freon fraud is that it's only real purpose, then and now, was to maintain and maximize the profits of American chemical manufacturers who were about to lose market share to some much cheaper Mexican based facilities. And also, of course, those manufacturers who benefited from forcing mass replacement of ac systems.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 05, 2024 08:37 AM (S6gqv)

175 155 "The Book of Isaiah is a gem among gems.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 05, 2024 08:31 AM (SfhV1)"

Amen. Pure truth.

Posted by: Marcus T
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Other day in line at the store behind a guy wearing an Ismael's Tree Service T-shirt.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 05, 2024 08:37 AM (hxiTW)

176 If you ever take a refrigerator to the scrap yard, they can't accept it with freon. If it has it, they have to go through recovery procedures. They will tell you to back out, bust the line and come back, thus saving Earth.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 05, 2024 08:37 AM (0EOe9)

177 Leftist is a fundamentalism, a totalitarian ideology of conquest-and-purgation in its every form, from local school board to national governance.

Leftism is Islam without the moon rock.

They've even adopted their own veil.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 05, 2024 08:37 AM (1Z8zZ)

178 "Yes. Very stupid."

Hmmm....no, I don't think that's it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 08:37 AM (a1415)

179 How would one even try to measure the difference in reflected heat in the electromagnetic spectrum of 1 10,000th of 1 percent.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 05, 2024 08:34 AM (ENQN6)
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Science as determined by Congress?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at March 05, 2024 08:35 AM (tT6L1)
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Eh, you can measure just about anything with a finely tuned laser beam...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 05, 2024 08:38 AM (7fElN)

180 Daniel Sugarman @Daniel_Sugarman 2h
Happy Death of Stalin Day to those who celebrate

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 05, 2024 08:38 AM (2yu8s)

181 One tiny example: one project at work I have a vendor designing a component which requires a refrigerant. Because of federal rules an older refrigerant that would work just fine can’t be used… the vendor can’t find a suitable approved replacement so the component design has to change to meet requirements. The result: more dollars burned and more schedule needed. To protect the environment!!!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 05, 2024 08:39 AM (4Fb0A)

182 "Happy Death of Stalin Day to those who celebrate"

I was wondering why Democrats were wearing black arm bands today.

Thanks!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 08:39 AM (a1415)

183 140 "Freon is so damn heavy, it never GETS to the ozone layer."

You are the wind beneath my wings..
Posted by: Freon at March 05, 2024 08:29 AM (a1415)

A fart below Lizzo's piss flaps . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 05, 2024 08:40 AM (x0n13)

184 Occasional Cortex is reaping the whirlwind she sewed?

She can't sew.
You've missed a perfectly good opportunity to put
"SOW" and those floppy teats into the same sentence.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 05, 2024 08:40 AM (zdLoL)

185 Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok 15h
Meet Rose Johnson. A 6'2" male competing today in the semifinals of his school's girl's basketball team. He previously elbowed a girl to the side of her face, nearly giving her a concussion which benched her for the rest of the game.

How many more girls have to be injured before they stop participating in this madness?!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 05, 2024 08:40 AM (2yu8s)

186 Clearly Nikki's star is rising!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 08:32 AM (a1415)

I want to see this bony bitch vaporized. Nothing less will do.

The Podhoretz putz claims she's jockeying for 2028. Right. She's torching any possible support among the base. She won't be able to get a visitor pass for the 2028 convention.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 05, 2024 08:40 AM (Vt16a)

187 43 I think the left is engaged in a wholesale effort to make laws fungible.

Seems to be working...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 05, 2024 07:52 AM (Q4IgG)

They definitely put the FU in fungible!

Posted by: Shepherd Lover at March 05, 2024 08:40 AM (9IkLq)

188 "Eh, you can measure just about anything with a finely tuned laser beam..."

You can tune a piano...but you can't tuna fish.

Posted by: REO Speedwagon at March 05, 2024 08:41 AM (a1415)

189 So. . . smuggling fentanyl is A-OK, but freon is the worst!.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 05, 2024 08:41 AM (6IDWi)

190 Biden administration ADMITS flying 320,000 migrants secretly into the U.S. to reduce the number of crossings at the border has national security 'vulnerabilities'.

Gee, I wonder who paid for the tickets?

https://mol.im/a/13155765

Posted by: Ciampino - Tue #01 at March 05, 2024 08:41 AM (qfLjt)

191 I have a 30 year old refrigerator in my basement… no frills, just a fridge and a freezer compartment. It runs on the Devil’s gas… my main fridge has been replaced several times, in comparison..l

Posted by: tubal at March 05, 2024 08:41 AM (PCK5/)

192 You've missed a perfectly good opportunity to put
"SOW" and those floppy teats into the same sentence.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 05, 2024 08:40 AM (zdLoL)
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Drat on the sewed/sowed. As for the other, meh. Her physical endowments don't do much for me because that gaping maw spewing bilge is too much of a distraction.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at March 05, 2024 08:42 AM (tT6L1)

193 Which is what the Nat Geo mags did for us boys as we got to look at fat native titties flapping to and fro on the wimmens from deepest, darkest Africa in it's pages.

More coffee...
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 05, 2024 07:54 AM (/SHEi)

Hairyback Guy — Thank you for that memory. I’d forgotten my fascination with natgeo in junior high. Those magazines were in the school library!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 05, 2024 08:31 AM (4Fb0A)

The women of Bali… Samoa???
Posted by: tubal

My school library had the National Geographic Book "Daily Life in the Ancient World," which featured bare-breasted Cretan women. Very nice.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 08:42 AM (9yWhg)

194 The Mariannementum is growing!

Posted by: Marianne Williamson at March 05, 2024 08:43 AM (NBVIP)

195 I almost want to listen to Baltimore Talk radio today.

But my ragemeter is getting calibrated.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 08:43 AM (a1415)

196
If you ever take a refrigerator to the scrap yard, they can't accept it with freon. If it has it, they have to go through recovery procedures. They will tell you to back out, bust the line and come back, thus saving Earth.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at

Something strange is my utility will buy your old energy wasting refrigerator (their words) but only if it is working - as in cooling stuff down. I think you get about seventy five dollars and they come and pick it up for free.

I have no idea what they do with them.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 05, 2024 08:43 AM (RKVpM)

197 Most of the time, these days, the grifters of ConInc make me laugh. We're too far down this road for them to do any more damage than they already have, or for us to reverse course, so they've become entertainment. Ridiculous clowns. Wan, pasty cucklings with Stage-IV necrotic soydick are at least good for a chuckle.

But not David French. There's just... something about him. Something that awakens a primal urge to give him an Abu Ghraib grade swirly, yank his tighty whities over the top of his head, and then stuff him in the bathroom trashcan.

If, G-d forbid, I ever somehow run into him in the bathroom of a second-tier DC steakhouse where ConInc journalists go for their daily troughs of edamame, it's happening.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 05, 2024 08:43 AM (0FoWg)

198 I heard a preacher once who had been in the British Army in WW2 before he found his faith, and he said "anyone who has ever been in the British Army knows what it is to be a Man of unclean lips, from a people of unclean lips." And added that while he was in, it was just about required that you swore at least once in every sentence.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 05, 2024 08:44 AM (S6gqv)

199 Shockingly

AG Merrick Garland Calls Voter ID Laws ‘Unnecessary’

The attorney general said the Department of Justice is “fighting back” against states that have passed bills requiring identification that would prove such eligibility to cast ballots.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 08:44 AM (aD39U)

200 Apparently Nikki has no ad buys or "rallies" planned for after today.

I'm still not sure what she's really up to and would not be surprised if they are setting her up to run 3rd party.

Posted by: IrishEi at March 05, 2024 08:44 AM (at1KY)

201 What is it with democrats and "deeming"?

They want to "deem" a bill passed without voting and winning.

They want to "deem" someone an insurrectionist without a trial.

They want to "deem" shit is science without any scientific basis.

I'm seeing a pattern. They want to "deem" something to be true, otherwise, they'd lose their asses off.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 05, 2024 08:45 AM (IB/6k)

202 Trump's mini-presser yesterday was damn good, a presidential performance which served as a wonderful contrast to the spastic, decrepit malice otherwise offered to the country. He made a very sober, persuasive case why presidential immunity is so important.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 05, 2024 08:45 AM (Vt16a)

203 back when I was getting real science magazines the main recommended replacement for Freon was the old standby ammonia.

Posted by: vic at March 05, 2024 08:45 AM (A5THL)

204 Posted by: rickb223

We always deem Sponge to be FIRST!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 08:45 AM (9yWhg)

205 "I have a 30 year old refrigerator in my basement"

My MiL's kitchen has an operational 1953 GE fridge, still quietly churning away.

I have had to have two door handles cast to replace the worn out one over the decades.

But that damn thing just sets there, keeping food cold.

Draws less than 5 watts of power at full load.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 08:46 AM (a1415)

206 >The plant manufactured and filled nitrous and other gases cylinders and made thousands of vaping pens for the marijuana industry.
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Not anymore

Posted by: Don Black at March 05, 2024 08:46 AM (oCjPU)

207 And the CFBP is going to mandate that late fees on credit cards cannot be higher than $8, lower that the typical $32. It saves the average consumer $220 annually. ...
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 05, 2024 08:31 AM (2NHgQ)
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Pump the brakes.

If the typical fee is $32 and the new proposed fee is $8, then the savings are $24 per fee. If the total annual savings from the fee reduction are estimated at $220, that that implies approximately 9.2 fees per year. So round it down to 9 fees per year per "consumer" - which I assume means, "per credit-card holder."

Per the Boston Fed from 2021, 5.2% of all credit card holders paid a late fee. The total number of cardholders is estimated at 79% of the adult population, which translates to about 204 million cardholders. 5.2% of that figure is 10.6 million people.

The CFPB implies late "consumers" are paying an average of $288 per year today, which amounts to $58.8 billion in late fees if totaled from the number of cardholers. But per the CFPB itself, the total rake-off in late fees is $12 billion. That's a hell of a spread.

So what the hell does "per consumer" mean in CFPB parlance? Who's data are wrong, the CFPB or the Fed's?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 05, 2024 08:46 AM (HnUIn)

208 It's election day in Alabama and once more I will be voting for someone that has already dropped out of the race.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 08:47 AM (aD39U)

209 "How many more years until Journeyman Idiot?"

TwoWeeks
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 08:34 AM (a1415)

Hopefully you started out as a Master Idiot and then worked your way down...

Posted by: Boswell at March 05, 2024 08:47 AM (K+UlC)

210 "I have no idea what they do with them."

Ship them to Africa?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 08:47 AM (a1415)

211 If, G-d forbid, I ever somehow run into him in the bathroom of a second-tier DC steakhouse where ConInc journalists go for their daily troughs of edamame, it's happening.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 05, 2024 08:43 AM (0FoWg)

LoL… YD, I really need to subscribe to your newsletter.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 05, 2024 08:48 AM (4Fb0A)

212 The people responsible for over 800,000 dead Americans because they wanted to keep their slaves, once again do not like our Constitution because it keeps them from enslaving us.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 05, 2024 08:48 AM (dmH0a)

213 >>>> I have no idea what they do with them.

Posted by: Divide by Zero
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They capture the freon and use it in their old machines.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 05, 2024 08:48 AM (hxiTW)

214 >>How can Trump be labeled as an insurrectionist when no insurrection occurred on Jan 6?

The same way a biological male with no surgical modification can be called a "woman."

The same way eliminating "whiteness" - whites - can be called "diversity."

Words mean what they say they mean. Redefining words is so much easier that changing law.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 05, 2024 08:48 AM (6IDWi)

215 We always deem Sponge to be FIRST!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 08:45 AM (9yWhg)

He gets the automatic ROFR - right of "first" refusal.

Posted by: Boswell at March 05, 2024 08:48 AM (K+UlC)

216 I have no idea what they do with them.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 05, 2024 08:43 AM (RKVpM)
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It's probably better not to ask.

You also should not ask them why their main facility is right next to a cryogenics lab where they freeze heads....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 05, 2024 08:48 AM (7fElN)

217 So what the hell does "per consumer" mean in CFPB parlance? Who's data are wrong, the CFPB or the Fed's?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 05, 2024 08:46 AM (HnUIn)

What sorcery is this?!?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 08:48 AM (aD39U)

218 Wilcox writes, “two economists found that a stable marriage was estimated to be worth approximately $100,000 per year of extra happiness.”

never new i was rich

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 05, 2024 08:49 AM (ENQN6)

219
Draws less than 5 watts of power at full load.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 08:46 AM

I plugged my newish state of the art refrigerator into my backup battery and the display read that it was drawing 180 watts.

5 watts would be amazing.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 05, 2024 08:49 AM (RKVpM)

220 Morning everyone, thx JJ. Don't know if anyone mentioned this but comically deranged leftist Keith Obermann had a reaction about as expected to the SC findings, suggesting that the SC should be "dissolved" . A parody account of Obermann blamed the entire thing on liberal women. The problem was that people were having a hard time differentiating between real and parody. Kind of understandable

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 05, 2024 08:49 AM (58LrU)

221 >>> Biden administration ADMITS flying 320,000 migrants secretly into the U.S. to reduce the number of crossings at the border...

Looks like treason to.me. And they published this

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 05, 2024 08:49 AM (Tcsmw)

222 🎶This is the way to start the day
With JJ in the mawwwwnin'.🎶

Posted by: mindful webworker - warbling along at March 05, 2024 08:50 AM (9r4r+)

223 Hopefully you started out as a Master Idiot and then worked your way down...
Posted by: Boswell at March 05, 2024 08:47 AM (K+UlC)

Interesting that a Masters Degree takes about 7 years. Same time to go from Journeyman to Master in many fields.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 05, 2024 08:51 AM (ENQN6)

224 How much material, how much money and how much fuel is wasted on new machinery that was purchased because repairing the machinery became prohibitive because of banned components? How much more Dread Carbon did the "fix" cause to be produced?

Freon was never about CO2 it was about O3 and $$.
Rent seeking has gotten more sophisticated since DuPont wanting to ban a perfectly useful material as the patent expired.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 05, 2024 08:51 AM (TfEvu)

225 "And the CFBP is going to mandate that late fees on credit cards cannot be higher than $8, lower that the typical $32. It saves the average consumer $220 annually"

It is of zero benefit to me. Like 90% of what the Feds do.

Posted by: fd at March 05, 2024 08:51 AM (vFG9F)

226 "5 watts would be amazing."

I think I misspelled 'amps'.

F'n auto-cucumber got me again..

Yeh, that's the ticket.

Auto-cucumber.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 08:51 AM (a1415)

227 Anyone else remember those public service ads from the late 60s/early 70s that talked about kids getting trapped in old fridges and not being able to get out and dying, and showing ways to avoid that? They always creeped me out as a young 'un.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 08:51 AM (9yWhg)

228 Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 14h
“I will fight for every inch.” — Haley

Breaking911 @Breaking911
TAPPER: “Trump participated in an erection.”

https://tinyurl.com/mssdy7a9
12 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 05, 2024 08:51 AM (2yu8s)

229 What's a greenhouse gas?

Posted by: Lie if you have to at March 05, 2024 08:52 AM (NBVIP)

230 How can Trump be labeled as an insurrectionist when no insurrection occurred on Jan 6?
Posted by: dantesed at March 05, 2024 08:21 AM (88xKn)

Wow. Way to get yourself on a list somewhere.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 05, 2024 08:52 AM (1Z8zZ)

231 I have never paid a late fee. Twice in my life I have had one assessed, but I talked them out of the charges.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 08:52 AM (aD39U)

232 Something strange is my utility will buy your old energy wasting refrigerator (their words) but only if it is working - as in cooling stuff down. I think you get about seventy five dollars and they come and pick it up for free.

I have no idea what they do with them.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 05, 2024 08:43 AM (RKVpM)
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My guess? Sell the refrigerant and sell the carcass for scrap.

Most of the legacy refrigerants are technically still legal to use, but not legal to produce or import. That is, no *new* refrigerant. To keep legacy equipment running, you can still repair and recharge it - but the refrigerant has to be scavenged from existing inventory. There are two sources: new old stock, and recovery.

New old stock is essentially gone, so to get your hands on it, you have to get product recovered from existing systems and then cleaned up for reuse. Your utility is almost certainly doing this. Pick up the old fridge, recover the refrigerant, sell it to a reprocesser who cleans it up, repackages it and resells it to owners of other legacy systems that are still worth repairing.

If you think that sounds like an artificial market full of false economies, you're right.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 05, 2024 08:52 AM (HnUIn)

233 Raskin wearing that do rag while undergoing chemo always set my teeth on edge.

The grandstanding jackass couldn't put on a hat and go on about his business...nooo. he had to draw attention to his chemo and claim some victim cred.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at March 05, 2024 08:52 AM (tT6L1)

234 >>>> Biden administration ADMITS flying 320,000 migrants secretly into the U.S. to reduce the number of crossings at the border...

If that's the number they will admit to, how many more did they really bring in?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 05, 2024 08:52 AM (6IDWi)

235 Wilcox writes, “two economists found that a stable marriage was estimated to be worth approximately $100,000 per year of extra happiness.”

never new i was rich
Posted by: rhennigantx

I am. And I thank God every day.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 05, 2024 08:52 AM (IB/6k)

236 Hiya JT!
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead

Posted by: JT at March 05, 2024 08:52 AM (T4tVD)

237 Words mean what they say they mean. Redefining words is so much easier that changing law.

So they replaced Webster's Dictionary with Humpty-Dumpty's.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 05, 2024 08:53 AM (TfEvu)

238 I'm not familiar with this children's TV series but...

bebeboi @iam_bebeboi
Janice Burgess, the creator of ‘The Backyardigans’ has sadly passed away at the age of 72.

BNO News @BNONews
Janice Burgess, the creator of 'The Backyardigans' on Nickelodeon, has died, her friend says

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 05, 2024 08:53 AM (2yu8s)

239 The lefttards are stupid, gullible and have unicorns as their symbol.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 05, 2024 08:21 AM (2NHgQ)

Ever wonder why it's a unicorn? Because it has a phallus stuck to it's face.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 05, 2024 08:53 AM (1Z8zZ)

240 Amps, watts, whatever it takes...

Posted by: Movie reference at March 05, 2024 08:53 AM (NBVIP)

241 Isaiah is a gem. Best sermons I ever heard preached were a series of 10 by John MacArthur on Isaiah 53, the Fifth Gospel. You can find ‘em on YouTube and well worth the time at about an hour per….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 05, 2024 08:53 AM (4Fb0A)

242 So I thought I saw video of Roseanne Boyland being beaten with a baton by a fat, black, female cop.

I fully concede that I may be misremembering that.

All I found when I searched her name was article after article claiming that she had been trampled to death by the insurrectiony crowd.

Posted by: Tar Bae at March 05, 2024 08:54 AM (ck82W)

243 Freon was never about CO2 it was about O3 and $$.
Rent seeking has gotten more sophisticated since DuPont wanting to ban a perfectly useful material as the patent expired.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 05, 2024 08:51 AM (TfEvu)
++++
Yes. But the current version - banning R410A - is all about the "global warming potential" since the "ozone depletion potential" is already zero.

But the same overall question applies (in spirit, at least) to the CFC bans. What are the consequences of the additional costs and processes of the ban as compared to the thing the ban was ostensibly supposed to fix?

They never consider it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 05, 2024 08:55 AM (HnUIn)

244 Just leave a candle burning next to the refrigerator.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 05, 2024 08:23 AM (lTGtQ)

You work for Big Candle, don't you.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 05, 2024 08:55 AM (1Z8zZ)

245 What's a greenhouse gas?

Posted by: Lie if you have to at March 05, 2024 08:52 AM (NBVIP)

A fart in a greenhouse.

Posted by: pookysgirl, chugging water at March 05, 2024 08:55 AM (dtlDP)

246 Janice Burgess, the creator of 'The Backyardigans' on Nickelodeon, has died, her friend says
Posted by: andycanuck

I saw bits of it a few times. Seemed OK. My kid was never a big Nickelodeon watcher, though.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 08:56 AM (9yWhg)

247 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at March 05, 2024 08:56 AM (TAGym)

248 JJ I thought that no one from J6 arrested was ever charged with insurrection? I'm late to the party today.

Posted by: Jaimo at March 05, 2024 08:56 AM (DBrN4)

249 "Isaiah is a gem. Best sermons I ever heard preached were a series of 10 by John MacArthur on Isaiah 53, the Fifth Gospel. You can find ‘em on YouTube and well worth the time at about an hour per…."

Looking now. Thanks.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 05, 2024 08:56 AM (dmH0a)

250 Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie 12h
A government mandated kill switch in your car? Yes, that is one of the many bad things funded by the gargantuan uniparty spending bill up for a vote this week.

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 10m
It will be illegal for humans to operate automobiles in about ten years.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 05, 2024 08:57 AM (2yu8s)

251 >>I'm seeing a pattern. They want to "deem" something to be true, otherwise, they'd lose their asses off.

Kinda like how they like to DEBUNK things without ever providing any proof - one person/journo claims it's "debunked" and then everyone else starts adding "debunked" to the story as if this word magically changes the truth.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 05, 2024 08:57 AM (6IDWi)

252 Freon is so damn heavy, it never GETS to the ozone layer.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 05, 2024 08:26 AM (Zz0t1)

Contrails, man. The government spews it into the atmosphere so that African Americans get skin cancer. Started under Nixon. My Indigenous Atmospheric Justice professor told me.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 05, 2024 08:58 AM (1Z8zZ)

253
I think I misspelled 'amps'.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 08:51 AM

Ah, that makes sense then. Using amps to watts calculator would put it at 550 watts. Running nonstop (unlikely) at .20/kwh it would be about $80.00 per month to run. A more efficient frig would be 1/3rd that cost or $26.66 per month.

/ sorry for math

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 05, 2024 08:58 AM (RKVpM)

254 "JJ I thought that no one from J6 arrested was ever charged with insurrection? I'm late to the party today."

Under Raskin's Bill, you would not have to be formally charged, nor legally convicted.

Simply punished.

Should really speed up the whole judicial process.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 08:58 AM (a1415)

255 Contrails, man. The government spews it into the atmosphere so that African Americans get skin cancer. Started under Nixon. My Indigenous Atmospheric Justice professor told me.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 05, 2024 08:58 AM (1Z8zZ)
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Heh

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 05, 2024 08:58 AM (HnUIn)

256 Biden administration ADMITS flying 320,000 migrants secretly into the U.S. to reduce the number of crossings at the border...

That's 5 yrs x 320,000 counts of aiding and abetting an illegal and circumventing Homeland Security.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 05, 2024 08:59 AM (IB/6k)

257 I will soon be heading down to the Middle School gym to vote a straight Mega-MAGA White Nationalist Ticket. I'll be voting for Mark Robinson for Governor, who is fairly dark-skinned for a White Nationalist.

Posted by: Old North State at March 05, 2024 08:59 AM (V5BDR)

258 The problem that saying earth has greenhouse gas problem is that you are assuming that Earth is a greenhouse. It's not , as Earth dissipates heat into space.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 05, 2024 09:00 AM (58LrU)

259 BNO News @BNONews
Janice Burgess, the creator of 'The Backyardigans' on Nickelodeon, has died, her friend says
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 05, 2024 08:53 AM (2yu8s)

The Grandkids used to love that... It was a good show and long gone from Indoctrolodeon

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2024 09:00 AM (Akjoo)

260 Elon Musk @elonmusk 2h Replying to @stclairashley
It is obvious to anyone who is not a fool that this administration is deliberately importing vast numbers of illegals.

No grand conspiracy theory is needed to explain this, just simple incentives: they are far more likely to vote Democrat than Republican.

This is why Dems are constantly pushing to legalize illegals and won’t deport them, even when they are arrested for crime, which otherwise seem … I dunno … like an opportune time 🤷‍♂️

If illegals can beat up American police on camera in Times Square, be released without bail and get rewarded with free tickets to California, what more do you need to know?

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 05, 2024 09:00 AM (2yu8s)

261 > I'm seeing a pattern. They want to "deem" something to be true, otherwise, they'd lose their asses off.
___________

Not just true... but false if it suits them. It was "false" to assume the laws as written suggest Hunter Biden was guilty of crimes... that his father is as well.

It is false to say Trump's economy was better than *biden's because "this" particular metric says otherwise.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 05, 2024 09:01 AM (Q4IgG)

262 Biden administration ADMITS flying 320,000 migrants secretly into the U.S. to reduce the number of crossings at the border has national security 'vulnerabilities'. ...
Posted by: Ciampino - Tue #01 at March 05, 2024 08:41 AM (qfLjt)
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So instead of convoying up to the border, you just convoy up to your local airport and Uncle Sugar flies you in?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 05, 2024 09:01 AM (HnUIn)

263 "Ah, that makes sense then. Using amps to watts calculator would put it at 550 watts. Running nonstop (unlikely) at .20/kwh it would be about $80.00 per month to run. A more efficient frig would be 1/3rd that cost or $26.66 per month.

/ sorry for math"

That's OK.

Now I need to take my handy-dandy gizmo back up to Baltimore and plug the fridge into it.

Label plate says 5.

But I remember that the whole draw for a days operation was minimal.

And her entire electric bill for a month is less than $70.00

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 09:01 AM (a1415)

264 I am. And I thank God every day.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 05, 2024 08:52 AM (IB/6k)

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 05, 2024 09:02 AM (ENQN6)

265 Looking now. Thanks.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 05, 2024 08:56 AM (dmH0a)

Here’s the first one (overall summary):
https://youtu.be/8pjH6jbAlNosi=OaHYM6ba3saVI8H_

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 05, 2024 09:02 AM (4Fb0A)

266 How much more Dread Carbon did the "fix" cause to be produced?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 05, 2024 08:29 AM (HnUIn)

How much economic activity was generated? They are believers in the idea that broken windows are good because it employs a glazer. So they spend their careers breaking windows.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 05, 2024 09:03 AM (1Z8zZ)

267 I voted. Even did the research into most of the lower ballot races.

I look forward to pretty much all of my choices failing to win the nomination.

Such is the lot of the antagonistic independent at election time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 09:03 AM (GBKbO)

268 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 1h
JUST IN - RUSSIA AND CHINA ARE CONSIDERING DELIVERY AND INSTALLATION OF NUCLEAR POWER UNIT ON MOON SURFACE IN 2033-2034 - RIA
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This isn't going to end well; 1999 was about 30 years off.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 05, 2024 09:04 AM (2yu8s)

269 I was born in Brooklyn and went to elementary school there in the early 60s. PS 105 and PS 160. At least 1/3 of the teachers there were Jewish then. It pains me that current Jewish teachers face danger and harassment. A fallen culture, under the thumb of sub-mental morons, and not the good kind.

Posted by: Alas, and Alack at March 05, 2024 09:04 AM (V5BDR)

270
But I remember that the whole draw for a days operation was minimal.

And her entire electric bill for a month is less than $70.00

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 09:01 AM

Yeah, I have no doubt that a frig in a cool spot like a garage would very seldom need to run, especially if seldom opened. I *hope* to get ten years out of a refrigerator anymore. The electronics on the new ones go to shit in no time flat.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 05, 2024 09:05 AM (RKVpM)

271 149 And the CFBP is going to mandate that late fees on credit cards cannot be higher than $8, lower that the typical $32. It saves the average consumer $220 annually. Yep, that will help when the average consumer is paying thousands more annually for food, gas, housing. The potatus admin is getting desperate and the election is 8 months away. A very short time for their Hail Mary's to work. Unless people see reduces costs on consumables and less illegal immigration in the next 8 months these measures ar just window dressing.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 05, 2024 08:31 AM (2NHgQ)

And here is the only event on Joey's official calendar today, with campaign BS in the official description -

"The President convenes a meeting of his Competition Council to announce new actions to lower costs for hardworking families by fighting corporate rip-offs"

Posted by: Gref at March 05, 2024 09:05 AM (5fDan)

272 Best sermons I ever heard preached were a series of 10 by John MacArthur on Isaiah 53, the Fifth Gospel. You can find ‘em on YouTube and well worth the time at about an hour per….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 05, 2024 08:53 AM (4Fb0A)

John MacArthur is, I think, the most thorough expositor out there. I once read that it took him 12 years to get through the Gospel of John. (could be a Christianist fable)

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 05, 2024 09:05 AM (SfhV1)

273 "Who can find a virtuous woman? "

Where you gonna find a woman made out of china?

Oh....Virtuous....

Never-mind.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 09:06 AM (a1415)

274 Under Raskin's Bill, you would not have to be formally charged, nor legally convicted.

Stalin signed a few laws.like that.
Rounding up and executing the Polish officer corps was totes legal.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 05, 2024 09:06 AM (Tcsmw)

275 And the CFBP is going to mandate that late fees on credit cards cannot be higher than $8, lower that the typical $32. It saves the average consumer $220 annually.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 05, 2024 08:31 AM (2NHgQ)

It trains people to be okay with paying their CC bill late. Sure, the late fee is lower but they rack up more interest debt.

I doubt the people at the CFPB have failed to consider this.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 05, 2024 09:06 AM (1Z8zZ)

276 Just heard that Pepsi / Doritos has hired an outright child molester self professed p3d0 as a spokesman.

Criminal record and everything. 50 years old or so.

Doesn't identify as a woman, but as a little girl. And he demands to be around little girls like him.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 05, 2024 09:06 AM (cIiJZ)

277 #260-related I assume...

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 2h
NEW: Elon Musk says 'the groundwork is being laid for something far worse than 9/11' after Biden administration admitted flying 320,000 unvetted migrants into the US has national security 'vulnerabilities' - Daily Mai

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 05, 2024 09:06 AM (2yu8s)

278 254, ahhh, thanks for the explanation. LOL

Posted by: Jaimo at March 05, 2024 09:06 AM (DBrN4)

279 Ex Post Facto and Attainders were partially eliminated in the Magna Carta on 1215.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 05, 2024 09:07 AM (ENQN6)

280 "fridge"

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 05, 2024 09:07 AM (2yu8s)

281 Just heard Big Mike has said "she" won't run for president. The progs are having another bad day. Woohoo

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 05, 2024 09:08 AM (58LrU)

282 "fridge"
Posted by: andycanuck

He made a great Barnabas Collins.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 09:09 AM (9yWhg)

283 I don't give a shit what the so-called "experts" tell us about freon, insofar as it causes a hole in the ozone layer. These are the same "experts" who in 1975 said Manhattan would be buried under a 500-foot deep glacier by the year 2000. The same "experts" who then told us in 2000 that Manhattan and the entire US coast would be submerged under 200 feet of water by the year 2015.

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"The End of Snow?"

-- NYT 2/7/14

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychopathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 05, 2024 09:09 AM (S/101)

284 >>irst Lady Jill Biden announced recently that $100 million in federal funding would be allocated to “life-changing” research and development in women’s health. The White House initiative will contribute to the building of a health care system that “puts women and their lived experiences at its center,” Biden said, one in which women would no longer be an “afterthought.” One in which “women don’t just survive with chronic conditions, but lead long and healthy lives,” she said, standing alongside Maria Shriver in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

OK, what is a woman?
No really, specify who this is supposed to help.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 05, 2024 09:09 AM (6IDWi)

285 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 3h
Tesla halted production at its German factory Tuesday after assailants allegedly set fire to high-voltage lines nearby, cutting power to the US electric carmaker’s only plant in Europe, the company and authorities said.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 05, 2024 09:10 AM (2yu8s)

286 248 JJ I thought that no one from J6 arrested was ever charged with insurrection? I'm late to the party today.
Posted by: Jaimo at March 05, 2024 08:56 AM (DBrN4)

I believe you are right. They were charged with shit like "parading" and or "trespassing" yet had essentially misdemeanors transmogrified into felonies with all kinds of years tacked on for no reason at all.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 05, 2024 09:10 AM (x0n13)

287 I have a direct line on energy efficiency savings on air conditioning, since I replaced my early 90s system last year for a new system. The new system is not a fancy multi-stage system, it works like the old one. It's relatively unsophisticated, just up to all the new specs and standards.

During summer months, I am saving about $80/month in electricity. Break-even - assuming electricity costs remain stable, which they won't and so this is pessimistic - is around 100-110 months. Let's call it 8 months of A/C use per year. That's 12.5-13.75 years to break-even. That's inside the expected operational life of the machinery (usually 15 years), but not by a lot.

Energy savings alone will rarely justify equipment replacement.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 05, 2024 09:10 AM (HnUIn)

288 How would one even try to measure the difference in reflected heat in the electromagnetic spectrum of 1 10,000th of 1 percent.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 05, 2024 08:34 AM (ENQN6)

I have a proprietary computer program which can analyze this and TB of data... none of which you can see.. which demonstrates CO2 is bad. -- M. Mann

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 05, 2024 09:10 AM (1Z8zZ)

289 FYI, Kentucky just passed a bill removing the Governor's authority to appoint and requiring a special election to replace a Senator through the state house, heading toward the Senate... I suspect the local party knows what's up with Mitch.

Posted by: American Hawkman at March 05, 2024 09:10 AM (skAOD)

290 "The End of Snow?"

Hunter Biden hardest hit.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 09:10 AM (9yWhg)

291 Doesn't identify as a woman, but as a little girl. And he demands to be around little girls like him.
Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 05, 2024 09:06 AM (cIiJZ)

Remember that was Dylan perv. He always claimed he was living a girls life.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 05, 2024 09:10 AM (ENQN6)

292 Really love MacAthur’s combative forthright nature… wish we had more of that instead of the Wimps in the Pulpit we see so much now…

Posted by: tubal at March 05, 2024 09:11 AM (PCK5/)

293 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 3h
Tesla halted production at its German factory Tuesday after assailants allegedly set fire to high-voltage lines nearby, cutting power to the US electric carmaker’s only plant in Europe, the company and authorities said.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 05, 2024 09:10 AM (2yu8s)
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What happens when these destructive idiots start doing that to the main power grids?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 05, 2024 09:11 AM (7fElN)

294 ISIS continues to win friends and influence people...

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 4h
JUST IN - Blast shakes Taliban security base in northeastern Afghanistan

Blast shakes Taliban security base in northeastern Afghanistan
A blast shook a Taliban military base next to the airport in Faizabad, the capital of Afghanistan's northeastern Badakhshan province, ...

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 05, 2024 09:11 AM (2yu8s)

295 Who can find a virtuous woman? "

-

Which brings us back to yesterday's “what is the female equivalent to chivalry" question.

(yes it's technically also chivalry, but you understand the point)

Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 05, 2024 09:11 AM (cIiJZ)

296
The law , such as it is at the moment , is that the she/he/ it with the biggest stick IS the law.
The Marxists have every intention of doing what Raskin is laying out-- ie as a majority in the House refusing to certify a Trump election victory.
Trumps ultimate fate is linked to a Republican House majority-- or the lack thereof.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at March 05, 2024 09:12 AM (QjAQj)

297 >>The language of “deviance” may sound harsh. But in a purely descriptive sense, abusing drugs deviates from the strong—and beneficial—social norm of not consuming substances to excess. The capacity to manage that deviance, moreover, need not be explicitly carceral. The point, rather, is that when a society lacks sufficient capacity to enforce its norms, it may simply let those norms degrade.

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THIS COULD JUST AS EASILY APPLY TO THE EVER-GROWING PUSH/RELIANCE ON PRESCRIPTION DRUGS SUCH AS ANTI-DEPRESSANTS, ADDERALL AND OZEMPRIC.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at March 05, 2024 09:12 AM (6IDWi)

298 291 Doesn't identify as a woman, but as a little girl. And he demands to be around little girls like him.
Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 05, 2024 09:06 AM (cIiJZ)

Remember that was Dylan perv. He always claimed he was living a girls life.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 05, 2024 09:10 AM (ENQN6)

Yep theses guys envision themselves as 13 year old girls... really weird....and yet boucoo endorsements.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 05, 2024 09:12 AM (OiAR7)

299 I believe you are right. They were charged with shit like "parading" and or "trespassing" yet had essentially misdemeanors transmogrified into felonies with all kinds of years tacked on for no reason at all.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 05, 2024 09:10 AM (x0n13)

The favorite is tampering with admin of justice. To stop judge and jury tampering. It has been ruled several times that J6 was not a quote unquote justice event.
It was a parliamentary event.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 05, 2024 09:13 AM (ENQN6)

300 Rain has pretty much stopped, for now. Still 1.5 hrs. until the tow truck gets here. I guess I'll just hang out for a while.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 05, 2024 09:13 AM (omVj0)

301 NEW: Elon Musk says 'the groundwork is being laid for something far worse than 9/11' after Biden administration admitted flying 320,000 unvetted migrants into the US has national security 'vulnerabilities' - Daily Mai
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 05, 2024 09:06 AM (2yu8s)

Manufacturing a crisis to manufacture a crisis. It's all they know how to do and all they want to do.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 05, 2024 09:13 AM (Vt16a)

302 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 4h
JUST IN - Blast shakes Taliban security base in northeastern Afghanistan

Blast shakes Taliban security base in northeastern Afghanistan
A blast shook a Taliban military base next to the airport in Faizabad, the capital of Afghanistan's northeastern Badakhshan province, ...
Posted by: andycanuck

Workplace accident.

Those silly kids. They blow up so quickly.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 05, 2024 09:13 AM (IB/6k)

303 And the same "experts" who claim all of this are telling us that the mass invasion of unvetted and unassimilated foreigners into the US is good for the economy and our society.

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"THEY ARE "BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY", H8RS!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychopathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 05, 2024 09:13 AM (S/101)

304 misdemeanors transmogrified into felonies
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

"Transmogrified" is a great word.

As in "Dylan Mulvaney, a dude, transmogrified into an ugly dude in a dress."

Would someone who detransitioned be said to have "cismogrified?"

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 09:13 AM (9yWhg)

305 Hmmm. Queen of the Coup stepping down? Curious.

Elizabeth Hagedorn
@ElizHagedorn
New: Victoria Nuland intends to step down in the coming weeks as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Blinken announces.

Posted by: IrishEi at March 05, 2024 09:13 AM (at1KY)

306 Kentucky just passed a bill removing the Governor's authority to appoint and requiring a special election to replace a Senator through the state house, heading toward the Senate

==

Can the current governor veto this bill ?

Posted by: runner at March 05, 2024 09:14 AM (V13WU)

307 John MacArthur is, I think, the most thorough expositor out there. I once read that it took him 12 years to get through the Gospel of John. (could be a Christianist fable)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 05, 2024 09:05 AM (SfhV1)

I’m quite happy I got to be a member at Grace Community for two short years before we moved away from LA. In my time there it took him several months to preach through the first 3 chapters of Ephesians. It was a blessing; thorough and deep. I learned a lot and miss his preaching. Still watch him semi-regularly on livestream and YouTube

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 05, 2024 09:14 AM (4Fb0A)

308 266 How much more Dread Carbon did the "fix" cause to be produced?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 05, 2024 08:29 AM (HnUIn)

How much economic activity was generated? They are believers in the idea that broken windows are good because it employs a glazer. So they spend their careers breaking windows.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 05, 2024 09:03 AM (1Z8zZ)

Changing the allowable a/c refrigerant truly does rip-off consumers. If either your old condenser or evaporator die, you have to replace the entire system because the old, still-operating component doesn't work or work well using the new refrigerant. Bam! More profits for the evil (wink, wink) air conditioner industry from top to bottom.

Posted by: Gref at March 05, 2024 09:14 AM (5fDan)

309 @ElizHagedorn
New: Victoria Nuland intends to step down in the coming weeks as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Blinken announces.
Posted by: IrishEi at March 05, 2024 09:13 AM (at1KY)
++++
I'm sure that spooky toad is just moving to a different shadow office, deeper in the shadows.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 05, 2024 09:14 AM (HnUIn)

310 Biden pledges $2 million to tackle HIV among 'racially diverse transgenders in deep south'

... Streisand Effect ??

Posted by: SMOD at March 05, 2024 09:15 AM (RHGPo)

311 "Yep theses guys envision themselves as 13 year old girls... really weird....and yet boucoo endorsements."

I would be happy if one of them were to identify as a fetus..

At a Planned Parenthood rally

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 09:15 AM (a1415)

312 Changing the allowable a/c refrigerant truly does rip-off consumers. If either your old condenser or evaporator die, you have to replace the entire system because the old, still-operating component doesn't work or work well using the new refrigerant. Bam! More profits for the evil (wink, wink) air conditioner industry from top to bottom.
Posted by: Gref at March 05, 2024 09:14 AM (5fDan)
++++
Yes. It's good for everyone except the paying customer.

And the environment, of course. But whatever. Fascists gotta fascist.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 05, 2024 09:15 AM (HnUIn)

313 >>>I'm sure that spooky toad is just moving to a different shadow office, deeper in the shadows.
~~~~~

That was my first thought also.

Posted by: IrishEi at March 05, 2024 09:15 AM (at1KY)

314 NYT: Joe Biden's Superfans Think the Rest of America Has Lost Its Mind. In interviews with nearly two dozen of these Democrats — many of them older, and most of them women — they sounded by turns beleaguered, bewildered and protective.

“I’m sorry Joe doesn’t know how much I love him, but I do love Joe,” said Constance Wynn, 73, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. “I don’t even know why people want to pester the man, because the man has things to do.”

I thought the media only talked to MAGA voters? And/or people in diners? That’s refreshing to know Biden supporters exist in the eyes of the media.

The framing of this article is still condescending and anti-Democratic. the NYT continuing its 72 hours straight of snide commentary & attacks on Biden. an attempt to normalize Trump's insane MAGA base by showing, see, Biden has "super fans" too! They're old ladies who love him no matter what!!!

"They occupy a lonely position in American politics." -- what condescending crap. "Hey you two -- we've written a hundred puff pieces for Donnie highlighting his super fans, we need to write one for Biden so we can pretend we're being fair"

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 05, 2024 09:15 AM (JCZqz)

315
Energy savings alone will rarely justify equipment replacement.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 05, 2024 09:10 AM

Agreed, especially how a little deviation in line current and you've fried the electronics. The old stuff laughed that off.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 05, 2024 09:16 AM (RKVpM)

316 The end of snow continues...

Insider Corner @insiderscorner 1h
VIDEO: Following the intense California storm over the weekend, the Summit terminal at Palisades Tahoe ski park in the Sierra Nevada displayed damage. Wind speeds exceeding 180 mph shattered windows and led to the station being filled with snow.

https://tinyurl.com/2uask87h
13 seconds; loud talking

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 05, 2024 09:16 AM (2yu8s)

317 P3d0 stage doesn't come after the tranny stage.

Tranny stage IS the p3d0 stage.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 05, 2024 09:16 AM (cIiJZ)

318 Re: Kentucky House Bill - Yeah, in theory the Governor could veto, but the fact that this passed 88-4 makes one suspect that the veto would be overridden.

Posted by: American Hawkman at March 05, 2024 09:16 AM (skAOD)

319 @305 Nuland's work causing chaos is complete. I'm sure she'll become a foreign policy expert for Biden s campaign or whomever is the Dem nominee. The propaganda ministries will fawn over her .

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 05, 2024 09:17 AM (58LrU)

320 The same way a biological male with no surgical modification can be called a "woman."

Putting on a pantomime horse costume doesn't make a human a horse. Cutting off your dick doesn't make a man a woman.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 05, 2024 09:17 AM (1Z8zZ)

321 >>Biden pledges $2 million to tackle HIV among 'racially diverse transgenders in deep south'

How does the government "tackle" a sexually transmitted disease?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 05, 2024 09:17 AM (6IDWi)

322 Just heard that Pepsi / Doritos has hired an outright child molester self professed p3d0 as a spokesman.
Criminal record and everything. 50 years old or so.
Doesn't identify as a woman, but as a little girl. And he demands to be around little girls like him.
Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 05, 2024 09:06 AM (cIiJZ)

I remember when a Coca-Cola ad once referred to Pepsi as "black folks belly wash". But they didn't say black folks...

So now Coke can call them a "Pederast's Belly Wash".

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 05, 2024 09:18 AM (/SHEi)

323 318 Re: Kentucky House Bill - Yeah, in theory the Governor could veto, but the fact that this passed 88-4 makes one suspect that the veto would be overridden.
Posted by: American Hawkman at March 05, 2024 09:16 AM (skAOD)

Kentucky is an exceedingly odd state… Red to the hilt… but elects a Commie Lite Governor..

Posted by: tubal at March 05, 2024 09:18 AM (PCK5/)

324 “I’m sorry Joe doesn’t know how much I love him, but I do love Joe,” said Constance Wynn, 73, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. “I don’t even know why people want to pester the man, because the man has things to do.”

And yet it's we MAGAns who are the cultists.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 09:18 AM (9yWhg)

325 Biden pledges $2 million to tackle HIV among 'racially diverse transgenders in deep south'

But of course. Where else would you spend the money?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 05, 2024 09:18 AM (SfhV1)

326 "Cutting off your dick doesn't make a man a woman."

This man has no dick!

*Obscure movie reference*

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 09:19 AM (a1415)

327 Nuland's work causing chaos is complete. I'm sure she'll become a foreign policy expert for Biden s campaign or whomever is the Dem nominee. The propaganda ministries will fawn over her .
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 05, 2024 09:17 AM (58LrU)
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Yup. She might be "stepping down" but you can be sure she's just moving into another power position without visibility or accountability.

Deep-state toads like Nuland don't ever go away. Not until they die.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 05, 2024 09:19 AM (HnUIn)

328 "Not until they die."

But they still vote!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 09:20 AM (a1415)

329 I'm so done with these people:

@EndWokeness
54m
EXCLUSIVE:
The Department Of Veterans Affairs just BANNED the V-J Day kiss photo from all department facilities.
"To promote a culture of inclusivity and awareness… your cooperation is vital."

Posted by: IrishEi at March 05, 2024 09:20 AM (at1KY)

330 >>This man has no dick!

*Obscure movie reference*

"LOL"
- Cats and dogs living together

Posted by: Lizzy at March 05, 2024 09:20 AM (6IDWi)

331 We as a society have known how to not catch or spread HIV for 25+ years, and every year 50k or so people catch it.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 05, 2024 09:20 AM (cIiJZ)

332 321 >>Biden pledges $2 million to tackle HIV among 'racially diverse transgenders in deep south'

So a million each ? Seriously... How many can there actually be ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2024 09:21 AM (Akjoo)

333 It's starting to look like they're getting the band back together but this time it will be ALL underground.

Posted by: IrishEi at March 05, 2024 09:22 AM (at1KY)

334 Biden pledges $2 million to tackle HIV among 'racially diverse transgenders in deep south'

But of course. Where else would you spend the money?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 05, 2024 09:18 AM (SfhV1)
++++
Brand-name Truvada costs about $2k per month. The generic is wildly cheaper at $100 per month or less, but you can be sure this program won't be using generics.

So that $2 million will pay for Truvada for one person for 1,000 months, or 83 and a third years. My guess is that it will pay for Truvada for five years for each of the 16 people in the program.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 05, 2024 09:22 AM (HnUIn)

335 We as a society have known how to not catch or spread HIV for 25+ years, and every year 50k or so people catch it.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 05, 2024 09:20 AM (cIiJZ)

And apparently most of these folks are black trannies in Alabama.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 05, 2024 09:22 AM (SfhV1)

336 So I thought I saw video of Roseanne Boyland being beaten with a baton by a fat, black, female cop.

I fully concede that I may be misremembering that.

All I found when I searched her name was article after article claiming that she had been trampled to death by the insurrectiony crowd.
Posted by: Tar Bae at March 05, 2024 08:54 AM (ck82W)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsOD6z7m4bw

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 05, 2024 09:22 AM (1Z8zZ)

337 " and every year 50k or so people catch it."

Now do...Struck by train, after driving around lowered RR crossing arms.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 09:22 AM (a1415)

338 #333 was response to Joe Mannix #327.

Posted by: IrishEi at March 05, 2024 09:22 AM (at1KY)

339 324 “I’m sorry Joe doesn’t know how much I love him, but I do love Joe,” said Constance Wynn, 73, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. “I don’t even know why people want to pester the man, because the man has things to do.”

And yet it's we MAGAns who are the cultists.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 09:18 AM (9yWhg)

". . . the man has things to do.” Mostly underage girls including his daughter.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 05, 2024 09:22 AM (x0n13)

340 @EndWokeness
54m
EXCLUSIVE:
The Department Of Veterans Affairs just BANNED the V-J Day kiss photo from all department facilities.
"To promote a culture of inclusivity and awareness… your cooperation is vital."
Posted by: IrishEi at March 05, 2024 09:20 AM (at1KY)

The Bee right ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2024 09:22 AM (Akjoo)

341 @EndWokeness
EXCLUSIVE:
The Department Of Veterans Affairs just BANNED the V-J Day kiss photo from all department facilities.
"To promote a culture of inclusivity and awareness… your cooperation is vital."
Posted by: IrishEi at March 05, 2024 09:20 AM (at1KY)
++++
Why? Because the man didn't ask if he could kiss her? Because they're both white? Because it's from a time when this country could win wars?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 05, 2024 09:23 AM (HnUIn)

342 The illegal smuggling of hydrofluorocarbons … undermines international efforts to combat climate change...

Fentanyl's just fine, yo.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at March 05, 2024 09:23 AM (Rbu5d)

343 >>"Cutting off your dick doesn't make a man a woman."

Sorry, didn't intend to imply that it did - just that female athletes are expected to pretend a man in a women's locker room with an erect member is a "woman." Like, no skin in the game - just say "I identify" and they are magically transformed.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 05, 2024 09:24 AM (6IDWi)

344 >>>The Bee right ?
~~~~~

Nope. I wish.

https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/
1765005503040499813

Posted by: IrishEi at March 05, 2024 09:24 AM (at1KY)

345 Why? Because the man didn't ask if he could kiss her? Because they're both white? Because it's from a time when this country could win wars?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 05, 2024 09:23 AM (HnUIn)

More likely because Man and Woman

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2024 09:24 AM (Akjoo)

346 199 Shockingly

AG Merrick Garland Calls Voter ID Laws ‘Unnecessary’

The attorney general said the Department of Justice is “fighting back” against states that have passed bills requiring identification that would prove such eligibility to cast ballots.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 08:44 AM (aD39U)
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When I hear those statements I always ask the speaker 'Why don't you want Voter ID?' and the reply better be good. And no I won't accept 'minorities have problems getting one' since one is needed to open a bank account, to get employed, to buy alcohol, tobacco, firearms, enter a federal building, fly on a commercial airliner, and of course to drive a vehicle (take note sovereign citizens).

Posted by: Ciampino - Tue #02 at March 05, 2024 09:24 AM (qfLjt)

347 >>Why? Because the man didn't ask if he could kiss her? Because they're both white? Because it's from a time when this country could win wars?

Heterosexual expression

Posted by: Lizzy at March 05, 2024 09:24 AM (6IDWi)

348 "Transmogrified" is a great word.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 09:13 AM (9yWhg)

I have to thank Bill Watterson for bringing that word to my vocabulary via Calvin and Hobbes.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 05, 2024 09:24 AM (T+Iwg)

349 Why? Because the man didn't ask if he could kiss her? Because they're both white? Because it's from a time when this country could win wars?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 05, 2024 09:23 AM (HnUIn)
~~~~~

Yep. "Non-consensual"

Posted by: IrishEi at March 05, 2024 09:25 AM (at1KY)

350 More likely because Man and Woman
Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2024 09:24 AM (Akjoo)
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Heterosexual expression
Posted by: Lizzy at March 05, 2024 09:24 AM (6IDWi)
++++
I think the 'ettes have it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 05, 2024 09:25 AM (HnUIn)

351 "Yep. "Non-consensual""

Do we know for a fact that it was indeed non-consensual?

Did they ever find the guy, or the girl and question them?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 09:26 AM (a1415)

352 Yep. "Non-consensual"
Posted by: IrishEi at March 05, 2024 09:25 AM (at1KY)
++++
If some homo dude had non-consensually kissed some other dude, this objection would vanish like dew in the morn.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 05, 2024 09:26 AM (HnUIn)

353 So, white, AIDS-infected shemales of the South get no help from Brandon? That's the Power of Whiteness, right there. Even the ones who are pestilential dick choppers are still white nationalists who deserve no sympathy. They just can't help themselves. Even as Trump and his supporters commit a genocide against their people, they still look to him, and shout "THIS IS MAGA COUNTRY!"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 05, 2024 09:26 AM (0FoWg)

354 >>> The Department Of Veterans Affairs just BANNED the V-J Day kiss photo from all department facilities.
"To promote a culture of inclusivity and awareness… your cooperation is vital."
Posted by: IrishEi

I don't think "inclusivity" means what they think it means.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 05, 2024 09:26 AM (Tcsmw)

355 will we finally be able to completely trash the definition of what happened that day as an insurrection, and even a riot in the first place?

Of course not. The language has been firmly implanted in the minds of the true believers and LIVs. When even putative conservatives/republicans use the 'insurrection' language, that battle has been lost.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at March 05, 2024 09:26 AM (Rbu5d)

356 Raskin has a very punchable face

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2024 09:26 AM (Akjoo)

357 Naomi Wolf at CPAC, whodathunkit?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 05, 2024 09:27 AM (pohLc)

358 >>When I hear those statements I always ask the speaker 'Why don't you want Voter ID?' and the reply better be good. And no I won't accept 'minorities have problems getting one' since one is needed to open a bank account, to get employed, to buy alcohol, tobacco, firearms, enter a federal building, fly on a commercial airliner, and of course to drive a vehicle (take note sovereign citizens).

Never gets old - have to watch to the end: https://tinyurl.com/3rejt4ct

Posted by: Lizzy at March 05, 2024 09:27 AM (6IDWi)

359 and of course to drive a vehicle (take note sovereign citizens).
Posted by: Ciampino - Tue #02 at March 05, 2024 09:24 AM

Travelling!!!!!

- Every sovcidiot everywhere

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 05, 2024 09:27 AM (Wnv9h)

360 Did they ever find the guy, or the girl and question them?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

I think one of them was identified, or came forward and self-identified. Not sure, though.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 09:27 AM (9yWhg)

361 Do we know for a fact that it was indeed non-consensual?

Did they ever find the guy, or the girl and question them?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 09:26 AM (a1415)
++++
Yeah ages ago. They've been interviewed (at least, the woman has been). She said that he was a total stranger, but everyone was *very* excited by victory over the Japanese. He kissed her. She kissed him back. It happened to be immortalized in a iconic photo.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 05, 2024 09:27 AM (HnUIn)

362 TJM interviewed on Hollywood In Toto pod is outstanding.

What a project, watching every Best Picture winner!

Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at March 05, 2024 09:28 AM (QOnAd)

363 Cutting off your dick doesn't make a man a woman."

No more than breaking into a house via a window makes you family.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 05, 2024 09:28 AM (IB/6k)

364 "He kissed her. She kissed him back."

That would seem to be somewhat important to the discussion, no?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 09:28 AM (a1415)

365 FYI, Kentucky just passed a bill removing the Governor's authority to appoint and requiring a special election to replace a Senator through the state house, heading toward the Senate... I suspect the local party knows what's up with Mitch.
Posted by: American Hawkman at March 05, 2024 09:10 AM (skAOD)

It's not going to work. The Kentucky Constitution is clear.

So they would have to amend their constitution.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 09:29 AM (aD39U)

366 I think one of them was identified, or came forward and self-identified. Not sure, though.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

As what?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 05, 2024 09:29 AM (IB/6k)

367 "He kissed her. She kissed him back."

That would seem to be somewhat important to the discussion, no?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 09:28 AM

"Shut up!" they explained.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 05, 2024 09:30 AM (Wnv9h)

368 It's not going to work. The Kentucky Constitution is clear.

So they would have to amend their constitution.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 09:29 AM (aD39U)

Or re-call the Governor

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2024 09:30 AM (Akjoo)

369 I think one of them was identified, or came forward and self-identified. Not sure, though.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

As what?
Posted by: rickb223

As one of the kissers in the photo.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 09:30 AM (9yWhg)

370 do you need an ID to collect EBT payments/

Posted by: vic at March 05, 2024 09:30 AM (A5THL)

371 @346

>>(take note sovereign citizens).

** Ersatz Terrance Howard and Wesley Snipes furiously taking notes. **

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 05, 2024 09:30 AM (XV/Pl)

372 "It's not going to work. The Kentucky Constitution is clear.

So they would have to amend their constitution."

They don't have a Raskin device?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 09:30 AM (a1415)

373 Nood. Spanish fur.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 05, 2024 09:31 AM (Wnv9h)

374 Or re-call the Governor
Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2024 09:30 AM (Akjoo)

Now there is a plan.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 09:31 AM (aD39U)

375 That would seem to be somewhat important to the discussion, no?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 09:28 AM (a1415)
++++
Nope. He didn't get affirmative prior consent to engage in kissing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 05, 2024 09:31 AM (HnUIn)

376 art portrait up

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 05, 2024 09:32 AM (2yu8s)

377 And all the mentally ill still wandering the streets, Walmarts, Walgreens with their COVID masks on.

Posted by: Son of Dad at March 05, 2024 09:32 AM (8JB5s)

378 There is no truth to the rumor that all nine SCOTUS justices were seen leaving the court house in "golden sneakers"

Posted by: SMOD at March 05, 2024 09:33 AM (RHGPo)

379 "Nope. He didn't get affirmative prior consent to engage in kissing."

Oh, that's right.

Affirmative Prior Consent was a cultural norm back then. Almost forgot.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2024 09:33 AM (a1415)

380 229 What's a greenhouse gas?

Posted by: Lie if you have to at March 05, 2024 08:52 AM (NBVIP)
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Farts.

Posted by: Ciampino - Olfactory stimulants at March 05, 2024 09:33 AM (qfLjt)

381 >>do you need an ID to collect EBT payments/

Heh, "collect."
Last I heard, you are issued a card (like a debit card) that is automatically replenished every month. Wouldn't want to shame them by making them actually go and pick up their handout!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 05, 2024 09:34 AM (6IDWi)

382 More Than 2 Million Scientific Papers Mysteriously Wiped From Web

And this, graybox friends, is why you do not trust ePub books. Invest in hardcopies.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at March 05, 2024 09:37 AM (Rbu5d)

383 Affirmative Prior Consent was a cultural norm back then. Almost forgot.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Notary Public were more common back then too.
Lucky he hasn't been charged with assault.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 05, 2024 09:38 AM (Tcsmw)

384 No mention of HIAS involvement in Camp Darien and brining terror to the US?

Posted by: GOP sux at March 05, 2024 09:40 AM (Zzbjj)

385 I coulda been a contendah.

Excelsior!

Posted by: Manbearpig at March 05, 2024 09:43 AM (woPEM)

386 Execellent mono, JJ!!!!!

Experts. Yeahh... Most recently they have given us a simple flu virus which was used shut down the world and change world governments and then a 'vaccine' that is killing millions...

Yeahh....

Posted by: Danimal28 at March 05, 2024 09:46 AM (NU5WZ)

387 279 Ex Post Facto and Attainders were partially eliminated in the Magna Carta on 1215.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 05, 2024 09:07 AM (ENQN6)

Indeed. And outlawed by the Constitution. But such petty things don't matter to leftists like Raskin.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 05, 2024 09:48 AM (ynpvh)

388 Psalm 58
1 Do you rulers indeed speak justly? Do you judge uprightly among men?
2 No, in your heart you devise injustice, and your hands mete out violence on the earth.
3 Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they are wayward and speak lies.
4 Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,
5 that will not heed the tune of the charmer, however skillful the enchanter may be.
6 Break the teeth in their mouths, O God; tear out, O LORD, the fangs of the lions!
7 Let them vanish like water that flows away; when they draw the bow, let their arrows be blunted.
8 Like a slug melting away as it moves along, like a stillborn child, may they not see the sun.
9 Before your pots can feel [the heat of] the thorns-- whether they be green or dry--the wicked will be swept away. [2]
10 The righteous will be glad when they are avenged, when they bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 Then men will say, "Surely the righteous still are rewarded; surely there is a God who judges the earth.

Posted by: Plainoldtoast at March 05, 2024 09:58 AM (ytSiK)

389 Invest in hardcopies.

The Moron Menstrual Cycle, year after year. Six weeks or so of Marie Kondo downsize downsize, I just threw away all my pictures of my grandparents, getting ready for the new small apartment. And then, one glitch in the KindleTech, and omigod I'm building a new library and book bunker. We don't have any problem with schizophrenia; they have pills for that.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 05, 2024 10:01 AM (zdLoL)

390 Speaking at Tabernacle Baptist Church in Selma, Alabama to commemorate Bloody Sunday, Garland began by likening voter identification laws to Jim Crow laws

Well, seems like some churches need to have their tax-exempt status removed. Won't happen, as they pimp the "right" message.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 05, 2024 10:06 AM (ynpvh)

391 Good morning, all, and thank you, J.J.

"Still, has Raskin considered what kind of can of worms he’s opening here?" He and Debbie Wasserman Schultz are of the protected class, who've had outside support & assistance in the endeavor for at least the past two years. For example: Congressional Research Service, 'The Insurrection Bar to Office: Section 3 of the 14th Amendment,' Updated September 7, 2022

Within the 1st & 2nd paragraphs: "Some observers, historians, and other commentators are wondering whether the Disqualification Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment might provide a mechanism to disqualify individuals who participated in or encouraged the siege,
including former and sitting government officials, from holding office.
Invocation of the Disqualification Clause raises a number of novel legal questions involving the activities that could trigger disqualification, the offices to which disqualification might apply, and the mechanisms to enforce disqualification." (Click links on the document.)

So, just Trump, for now.

A Republic, w/three equal branches of government for checks & balances. But Civil Society is running our asses into the ground, imo.

Posted by: L - We're done for now. We just don't have the guts to turn off the lights on the show at March 05, 2024 10:07 AM (GshMh)

392 A terrible swift sword of justice is indeed needed now more than ever. The problem is, the system is so utterly corrupted that that outcome is seriously in doubt.
----

Disagree, Mr. Sefton. The problem is that Trump will never act as a swift sword of justice, even if he could beat the cheat, which he can't.

Trump could no more execute on such an operation as he could have stopped Fauci from lying to the country for more than a year, or stop Antifa-BLM from burning down the cities to the tune of $1.5 B.

Oh, he'll tweet about these things, make no mistake about that. He will tweet about them. There's your swift sword of justice, our great vanguard of liberty.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at March 05, 2024 10:25 AM (hWV0R)

393 I wonder if someday I will be offered a cigarette and blindfold by Biden's descendants, when my mic is discovered here?!

If so, I hope I will have the balls to utter the famous line "No thanks, I'm trying to quit!"

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at March 05, 2024 11:23 AM (fvaUq)

394 Something I would like to see covered more...

Long before Gaza, there was Hama.and the Arabs/Syrians did what they felt they HAD to do...over and over, until the violent radical terrorists of Hama were nearly wiped out, survivors went to Iran, and became Hamas and Hezbollah
"1982 Hama massacre"
(Not to be confused with the 1976 Hama massacre, 1981 Hama massacre or the 2012 Hama massacre).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Hama_massacre

Posted by: birdog at March 05, 2024 12:18 PM (SFGDK)

395
“…a vaccine that, combined with the banning of things like ivermectin and HCQ, has actually killed more people by orders of magnitude than the virus..”

The problem is that too many conservative writers take it too far. Yes, the Lefties lied and overstated many things. But not all things. Ivermectin and HCQ were never shown to be effective in real studies. And the banning and vaccines did not kill more people, over a million, than Covid did.

And while some died after being inoculated with the mRNA vaccine, it was the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, developed in the traditional manner, that caused enough problems that it was banned in the US. Which leads me to this:

More than 300 million vaccinations have been given. If you lined up over 300 million people and had them walk through your home some of them would die between the front door and rear.

So please. Quit over stating. The average person who’s not into politics reads this and gets turned off. They probably agree that the feds lied but the overstatement makes the author look like he has lied. Result? Joe and Jane just decide they can’t trust either and walk away.

As Sgt Friday said, “Just the facts, Mam.”

Posted by: James Lewis at March 05, 2024 02:03 PM (gpRTs)

396 Republicans do not realize that when they call people like Rep. Raskin a Marxist, they consider that a complement. If one wants to insult a Marxist, best to call them another form of collectivist. Democrats do not know what a Fascist is, so the only acceptable epithet to call a Marxist is a Nazi. Also, consider that Democrats still want to get rich, but they do not want you to get rich. And yes, they hate Jews and Blacks who are Republicans. If Democrats, particularly Jewish Democrats, do not want to be called Nazis, they need to stop ACTING like Nazis.

Posted by: Hamilton69 at March 05, 2024 03:26 PM (lCdHU)

397 "More Than 2 Million Scientific Papers Mysteriously Wiped From Web"
Paper books? We don't need paper books, they take up too much room, we have microfiche.
Microfiche is too hard to index, we'll scan them into the computer.
Maintaining our own servers and doing backups is too hard, we'll put it in the cloud.

We may have had to have a library in Berlin Xerox the pages and mail them, but libraries took their responsibilities seriously. Now, not so much.

Posted by: buddhaha at March 05, 2024 04:49 PM (lzfZG)

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