The Morning Report — 10/3/24 

Good Morning Kids. And I want to wish all of you, Jew and Gentile alike L'shona tovah for a sweet new year ahead. As we look at what's happening in Israel, we are once again reminded of the cost of freedom. As of this morning's report, there are at least 8 Israeli soldiers who are reported KIA in the latest battle with Hezbollah, along with however many who gave their lives in eradicating Hamas in Gaza, along with unarmed civilians shot, beaten, raped and abused to death, including babies roasted alive in front of their parents. On top of the past 75 years of wars and terrorist attacks since the modern nation state of Eretz Israel was RE-established in 1948 on the land where it had always been for thousands of years prior. It is after all the new year of 5785.

The American experiment, lest we forget, was given life by men who patterned it on Judeo-Christian tradition and history. Also, as our national cemeteries, and your own family histories can attest, paid many times over in blood and treasure to preserve. And as you scan the links, and in bitter truth, experience economic and even social hardships as a result of the gradual and now rapid abandonment and dissolution of the American experiment by a political movement and its party that is every bit as evil and implacable as Islam is in its multi-generational zeal to eradicate Judaism and Christianity around the globe, in its quest for absolute permanent power.

Given not just the two assassination attempts on Donald Trump, but those of Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, JFK and Reagan. By any means necessary is not just blather coming from Al Sharpton's bullhorn. They mean business.

So, Doug Emhoff pimp-slapped his girlfriend in public at Cannes back in 2012. Trump said "pussy" and was falsely accused of rape while committing the heinous crime against humanity of throwing a monkey wrench into the Left Globalists' plan of Fundamental transformation of America into a shithole socialist state. And for that he and all of us who stand in the way of that need to be put in our place. Ultimately, as history sadly teaches us, if we do nothing and continue on the path we are headed, will be a mass grave or the lake of ashes at Birkenau.

The latest evidence of this trend is from the bloated, yammering sub-literate bipedal knockwurst known as Joy Reid:

MSNBC host Joy Reid said Tuesday night during her network’s vice-presidential debate analysis that the Democratic Party base wants a “fist fight” debate with former President Donald Trump getting a “knuckle sandwich.”

Ah yes, that keen, highly cultured insight that elevates the discourse. They keep talking about how Kamala is bringing "JOY" to the election, or something. Maybe this is the Joy they mean? Or is it Behar. It sure isn't dishwashing liquid. Speaking of knuckle sandwiches, maybe we can get Doug Emhoff to the MSNSDAP set for a demo. As I await the man in the van from the ministry of truth and reconciliation.

Now that the Great Walz of China has flamed out, and Trump seems to be on the rise across most key demographics and in swing states, even so-called Democrat blue wall states and every state in the union, is this moldy oldie all that's left for the Left. Heck, the USSS is understaffed and underfunded (pfft), surely they can dig up another patsy with a gun from Central casting, nein?

In all fairness, the USSS is too busy protecting the Iranian president. Even while Iran is probably trying its hand at whacking Trump.

Special Counsel Jack Smith regurgitated Democrats’ phony “fake electors” smear in his latest brief filed against Donald Trump in federal court on Wednesday. Smith previously indicted Trump for questioning the administration of the 2020 election.
Writing in his 165-page screed about Trump’s legal efforts challenging the results of the 2020 contest, Smith claimed that Trump engaged in criminal activity by, among other alleged actions, “manufacturing fraudulent electoral votes in the targeted states.” This “plan,” the Merrick Garland appointee contended, was designed to “cause” Trump electors in these states to “sign and send to [Vice President Mike Pence], as President of the Senate, certifications in which they falsely represented themselves as legitimate electors who had cast electoral votes for [Trump].”
. . . It’s worth mentioning that Democrats had no problem advocating for electors to vote differently during the 2016 election following Trump’s victory against Hillary Clinton. As my colleague Jordan Boyd previously highlighted, corporate media ran “[a]rticles demanding state electors ‘prevent an irresponsible demagogue from taking office’ and overrule Americans to install Hillary Clinton as president” as part of their efforts to keep Trump from taking office.
Smith’s brief comes months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that presidents possess “absolute immunity” for “actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority” and “at least presumptive immunity” for “official acts.” The high court separately noted, however, that “[t]here is no immunity for unofficial acts,” and remanded the Biden-Harris Justice Department’s get-Trump lawfare back to the lower courts to determine whether certain actions alleged by Smith constitute “official acts.”

The entire case, along with the 1/6/21 as a Trump-led insurrection against the government reeks to high heaven. But to do this literally weeks before the election and just one day after the VP debate which could prove to have been a pretty big-ass nail in their chances to legitimately win said election, given the world going up in flames all around us, and Kamala and Biden holding a can of gasoline and matches for everyone to see, seems to me as if they know they've got nothing left.

Have a good day.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

A look at the Biden junta's key players show shocking antipathy for the United States and one of our greatest allies.
The War against America and Israel
Since the First Amendment has been in place since 1791, it is hard to imagine when referees were used in conformity with our Constitution. The Founders would have been repulsed by the idea of a “truth arbiter.” Yet it was a pitch that clearly went over big at the crowd at the World Economic Forum.
Jonathan Turley Op-Ed: John Kerry says First Amendment is the enemy, as elites try to stamp out free speech
California school district runs a summer course where students learn to disavow "whiteness" and embrace transgender ideology.
Inside A ‘Social Justice Academy’ Where Third Graders Learn To Be Leftist Activists

ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS/Hezbollah . . . AND BIDEN

Israel is determined to respond and says that it will do so in a place, time, and manner of its choosing. But the Biden junta, which told Israel to limit its response to the first attack in April, appears to want to restrain Israel again.
Biden Says Israel Should Not Hit Iran’s Nuclear Program; Act ‘Proportionally’
Victor Davis Hanson: The Biden junta's approach to Iran destabilized the Middle East and led to the October 7 Hamas attack and subsequent regional chaos.
How To Blow Up the Middle East War in Five Easy Steps
Meanwhile, the G7 countries still think a diplomatic solution “is still possible.” They’re delusional.
Israel: Eight IDF Soldiers Killed in Southern Lebanon
Additionally, by lifting political and economic pressure on Iran, the Biden-Harris government has allowed for the proliferation and rearmament of Iranian terrorist proxies throughout the region, including Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthi rebels in Yemen. The rearmament of these three terror groups culminated in the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack against Israel, which saw nearly 1,200 Israelis killed by a gunman who mostly paraglided into the Jewish state from Gaza.
Biden-Harris Ended Trump’s Squeeze on Iran. Now The Region is at War Again.
Daniel Greenfield: Dividing and taking apart an Islamic terrorist group.
The Revenge of Israel’s Women on Hezbollah
Stockholm and now Copenhagen.
Bomb Blasts, Gunfire Outside 2 Israeli Embassies.

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“was denied due process and fair treatment when suspended — a violation of university policy, according to his Sept. 27 Manhattan Supreme Court filing”
Columbia Student Suspended For Saying Be Grateful He’s Not ‘Murdering Zionists’ Now Suing for Anti-Palestinian Bias
Daniel Greenfield: Fake revolutions. Real slavery.
The Issue is the Revolution
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Robert Spencer: The twentieth-century Islamic scholar Muhammad ibn al-Uthaymeen states a standard Muslim view when he asserts that while human beings cannot see jinn, “undoubtedly the jinn can have a harmful effect on humans, and they could even kill them.” Hmmm. Did the jinns not only lead the Israelis to Nasrallah but do him in themselves?
Iranian Muslim Cleric Says Israelis Had Supernatural Help to Kill Hezbollah’s Nasrallah
Robert Spencer Part Deux: Are the “Palestinians” really the indigenous people of the area?
Indigenous People? Really?
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
It’s high time we come to know the Mexican Martyrs, as we face the anti-Catholic beast prowling about in America. (Hat tip to commenter Kathy from Kansas - jjs)
American Cristeros
Multiple conservative news sources are reporting on the latest: the massive fine and potential property seizure that Trudeau’s government will impose on Amish farmers for not complying to his insane, privacy-invading, travel surveillance diktats.
Castreau-Cescu Fines Amish For Not Putting COVID App on Phones They Don't Own
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Reid added, “It is a strange group of people, these people who can’t decide between arsenic and pancakes. It’s very hard to say these two things are equal but there are those people.”
MSNSDAP’s Reid: Democrat Base Wants ‘Fist Fight’ Debate, Where Trump Gets a ‘Knuckle Sandwich’
Baldwin has spent recent days campaigning in rural red counties, seeking to recruit what she calls "Trump-Tammy voters"—Wisconsinites who she hopes will pull the lever for both her and the former Republican president in the tightly contested swing state.
Democrat Sen. Tammy Baldwin Said Trump Voters Failed 'Moral Test.’ Now She Wants Their Votes.
Christopher F. Rufo: The real-world effects of the White House’s diversity initiatives will soon be revealed.
Unmasking the “Whole-of-Government” DEI Agenda
TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS AFTERMATH
He said the Biden-Harris government claimed it “couldn’t give us the Secret Service necessary, because they’re guarding the Iranian president who’s looking to kill Trump.”
Trump Forced to Downsize Rally Due to Secret Service Protecting Iranian President Instead.
The agency, which is set to get an additional $231 million in funding from Speaker Mike Johnson’s government funding bill, appears to have funneled more resources into administrative personnel than into protective operations, according to budget documents.
Despite Skyrocketing Budget, Secret Service Can’t Seem To Find The Money To Protect The President
"BIDEN BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
Nearly 20,000 illegal alien apprehensions have been recorded in fiscal year 2024 in the single Border Patrol sector.
Northern Border Patrol Sector Records More Apprehensions This Year Than Last 17 Years Combined
As of July 2024, ICE has allowed over 662,000 criminal non-citizens, including those convicted or charged with serious crimes like homicide and sex offenses, into the country.
The New Data on Migrant Crime
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
Miranda Devine: In the ever-evolving coverup of the coverup of the Hunter Biden laptop, it was instructive to hear a recent interchange between Dan Goldman, the odious New York Democrat, and Texas Republican August Pfluger, a decorated former fighter pilot, in the House Homeland Security Committee last week.
Hunter Biden’s 51 spies who lied are well overdue for their day in court
SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Chutkan wrote there is “no support” for Trump’s attorneys’ accusations that the government is driven by “bad-faith partisan bias,” ordering Smith’s 165-page brief on presidential immunity to be filed on the public docket. For weeks, Trump’s attorneys have argued Smith should not be allowed to file the motion, which they claimed would do little more than allow prosecutors to make their case in the “court of public opinion” ahead of the election.
Judge Chutkan Releases Jack Smith’s Massive Brief Detailing Evidence Against Trump
Special Counsel Jack Smith regurgitated Democrats’ phony “fake electors” smear in his latest brief filed against Donald Trump in federal court on Wednesday. Smith previously indicted Trump for questioning the administration of the 2020 election.
Jack Smith Parrots Phony ‘Fake Electors’ Smear In Latest Get-Trump Court Brief
In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote that the Democrat Party was “weaponizing” the DOJ against him “because they know” he is winning, pointing out that this unsealed motion came after Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), Trump’s vice presidential running mate, “humiliated” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) in the vice presidential debate on Tuesday.
Trump Slams DOJ, Jack Smith Over Unsealed Motion in Election Interference Case: ‘Hit Job’
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Heading into the debate, media members appeared to believe Vance would perform well considering his experience of winning a bruising Senate Republican primary in 2022. Vance’s performance fulfilled their expectations.“Vance’s Dominant Debate Performance Shows Why He’s Trump’s Running Mate,” Ross Douthat titled a New York Times column:
Debate Reviews: Media Elite Admit JD Vance’s Performance Was Spectacular
The BBC said Vance “probably” won the debate, calling the Republican a “polished public speaker” and Walz “halting and unsure.”
What the World Saw: Foreign Media Unanimous That Vance Won Debate.
While it’s no secret Democrats have become increasingly totalitarian in their views on what should be considered protected free speech, Walz solidified the Harris campaign’s position on the matter while trying to pull a “gotcha” moment on vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance at Tuesday’s debate.
Walz Solidifies Harris Policy Position That Would Transform Country As We Know It
Let's talk about the censorship reflex before we get to the part about why Commie Kamala has Democrats so worried.
Kamala Must Combat 'Frightening!' Commie Memes, but She Can't Because She Is One
The irrepressible talk show host took some time from his roadshow to speak with The American Conservative about the United States, the world, and life itself.
Tucker Carlson: Do You Really Believe Iran Is a Threat?
What jumps out from these two questions is just how much more trusting Democrats are in the media than Republicans or independents.
Democrats May Come From Venus, And Republicans Come From Mars, But Most Still Distrust The Media: I&I/TIPP Poll
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"This strike is about fairness." (Extorting the American Economy is fairness? - jjs)
Kamala Endorses Dockworkers Strike That Union Boss Boasted Would ‘Cripple’ The Economy
The cost to the U.S. economy is more than $4 billion a day, and very soon, this shutdown could lead to shortages and mass layoffs.
How Dirty Union Greed Is Holding The American People Hostage
In a statement, CVS attributed the layoffs to “continued disruption, regulatory pressures, and evolving consumer needs and expectations.” Its most recent quarterly report noted a four percent decline in same-store sales for non-prescription products.Inflation under the Biden-Harris regime has led to surging prices for families. A study published earlier this year found a family of four would need a household income of $177,798 to maintain a satisfactory quality of life.
CVS Lays Off 2,900 Amidst Biden-Harris Inflation, Crime.
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
Climate alarmists, despite what CBS debate moderators asserted, “can't demonstrate that emissions are really having any effects on anything other than maybe they're helping the planet get greener, which means there's more life,” Junk Science’s Steve Milloy told PJ Media.
Exclusive: Expert Calls Out VP Debate Moderators’ Climate Lies
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Schools should be secure, hard targets. School shooters should face severe punishment, including execution, if caught alive. Our stance on mass murderers must be unrelenting.
How to Stop School Shootings
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Remizov, a senior originally from Russia, set up the display with permission from the administration. It involved an array of American flags, and a banner showing the 9/11 Memorial in New York, as well as the 9/11 Memorial in Israel.
Students at Saint Louis University Disciplined for 9/11 Memorial
Teacher: “I was wrongfully fired from my teaching job because my religious beliefs put me on a collision course with school administrators who mandated that teachers ascribe to only one perspective on gender identity—their preferred view.”
Virginia School Board Agrees To Pay $575K to Teacher Fired for Refusing to Use Trans Student’s Pronouns
ABORTION
The amazing thing is that Carter does not dispute the premise of Novak's question. He simply says he does not know at what point in the preborn child's development you cross the line from abortion to murder. While I see this as a distinction without a difference, Carter is at least acknowledging the humanity of the preborn child. That is something the modern Democrat Party and politicians like Kamala Harris and Tim Walz reject out of hand.
Jimmy Carter Asks: When Is Abortion Murder?
THE 2020 AND 2022 ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH— Plus Anticipated 2024 Shenanigans
Ranked choice voting undermines our electoral system and should concern all those who value election integrity and fairness in the democratic process.
New Brief Calls Ranked Choice Voting a Major Threat to Free, Fair, and Secure Elections
“Smurfing” is actually quite dangerous. It relates to taking large donations and breaking them into a series of smaller donations to mask that they are large donations in order to get around campaign finance law limits, Schweizer explains. The Government Accountability Institute (GAI) is currently investigating about fifty different threats to American elections, and “smurfing” campaign contributions is one of the least understood ways of corrupting American elections.
Peter Schweizer Explains: What Is ‘Smurfing,’ and How Does It Threaten Election Integrity?
According to the memo from the RNC’s director of election integrity, Gineen Bresso, and senior advisor for election integrity, Josh Helton, the RNC has “devoted unprecedented resources” to making sure election integrity is in place across the country. The memo explains their achievements and what else they hope to accomplish before the elections. The memo also states that the RNC has hired over 115 paid staff to facilitate volunteer training at the state level.
EXCLUSIVE: RNC Recruited Hundreds Of Thousands Of Volunteers, Thousands Of Lawyers To Ensure Election Integrity
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
“She said he turned her around by her right shoulder, and she was completely caught off guard. He hauled up and slapped her so hard she spun around.”
Report: Harris’ Husband Doug Emhoff Allegedly ‘Forcefully Slapped’ Ex-Girlfriend
Schiff leveraged his role as the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee to leak unsubstantiated allegations to the media about Trump’s alleged involvement with Russia.
Adam Schiff -for-Brains Demands Crackdown On Election ‘Misinformation’ After He Spent Years Spreading Russia Collusion Hoax
Wild's car was also photographed parked in a handicap spot in Washington, D.C., in 2022, though there is no handicap parking placard visible in her car. (Moral-cripple is her handicap - jjs)
Susan Wild's Wild Ride: Rep's SUV Gets Booted for $775 in Unpaid Speeding, Other Traffic Tickets, Embattled Hamas-loving Democrat [BIRM]Still Parks in Handicapped Space
POLITICS
his virtuoso close summarizing the entire campaign’s core issues in a nutshell: how it’s more difficult for Americans to “turn on their heat,” “afford a nice meal,” “buy a house,” “live in safe neighborhoods” and “not have your communities flooded with fentanyl.”
Beyond ‘Defining’ To Shining: 5 Ways JD Vance Flipped The Script
Last night, J.D. Vance made the MAGA worldview – nationalism, populism, Trumpism, or whatever you call it – sound not just smart, or substantive, but rather, like something that could form the basis for a new bipartisan American consensus.
JD Vance didn’t just win, he showed America how issues should be debated
Last night’s vice presidential debate showcased more than just the strengths and weaknesses of the candidates.
A Revealing Exchange
Walz failed in his primary mission: to humanize Mrs. Kamala Harris and seal the deal with America’s voters.
Little Timmy's failed mission
“Democrats keep saying [Trump] is going to bring down the economy, but he was already president for four years, and taxes were lower,” former Hillary Clinton supporter Gabriel Lopez told the Philadelphia Inquirer on Tuesday. “We’re tired of the same politics. We got a different type of guy, and the people actually love him.”
Working-Class Voters in Philadelphia Realign with Republicans
During her tenure in the Senate, Harris was a known progressive ally and supported liberal policies such as the Green New Deal, decriminalizing illegal immigration, and banning fracking. Harris’s legislative record won her the title of most liberal senator. Since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee, Harris has walked back several of those far-left policies, but Omar said she is encouraged by Harris’s far-left Senate record, the Post reported.
'It’s About Seeing How Far We Can Push Her Once She Wins': Bro-Fo Omar and Fellow Progressives Plot To Push Harris Further Left Post-Election
A yes to nixing voter ID requirements, and a no to gas stove warning labels and AI regulations.
CA Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Executive Choices Point to Higher Political Ambitions
Former U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, who was a witness in former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment, said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that he will vote for Trump because he disagrees with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ policies.
Anti-Trump Impeachment Witness Sondland: ‘Yes’ I’m Voting for Trump — Biden-Harris Policies Are an ‘Existential Threat’
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Despite young people in many European countries, including Germany and France, opting for the populist right in recent elections, the think tank alleged that the preponderance of native European politicians in the EU Parliament could undermine backing from “young people” in the bloc for the globalist political project.
Europe Being Held Back by ‘Whiteness’, Claims Soros-Backed Think Tank
The bomb caused runway damage and cancelled 80 flights. Thankfully it did not hurt anyone.
U.S. World War II Bomb Explodes at Japan Airport
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
While it is unknown whether the disruptions may be related to possible cyber attacks, hostile hacking operations against the United States have increased in recent years. Last year, Iran-backed hackers broke into critical U.S. infrastructure in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, where the local Municipal Water Authority announced that a water pump on a drinking water supply line had been taken over.
Bank of America Outage Leaves Customers with Zeroed Out Account Balances.
HURRICANE HELENE AFTERMATH, BIDEN/HARRIS DEBACLE
“I try not to cuss but I am just so mad at the lack of Government support and I need people to hear how desperate this situation is,” Howard wrote in his caption. “I don’t have time to be nice or gentle right now. People are literally dying by the day here and it can all be fixed with Helicopters. It’s like our Government wants these people to die. They’re so incompetent, disorganized, and dishonest it’s disgusting.”
Politicians Are Hindering Rescue Efforts in North Carolina, and One Rescuer Has Had Enough
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
“A Democrat-run city or state is more likely to take away your plastic straw.Progressives of an earlier era understood that carrots had to accompany sticks.”
The Death and Life of Progressive Urbanism
Resurrecting a failed New Deal model is no way to alleviate America’s housing shortage.
Titty-Caca AOC’s “Social Housing” Dead End
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
The Sun makes the scientists look dumb again. . .What will happen next? As I have been saying now for years, no one knows.
Sunspot update: Sunspot activity crashes in September
It must be emphasized that this notice is from the Coast Guard, not the FAA. The FAA has said nothing new about SpaceX’s launch license application. This notice suggests several possiblilites, all or none of
which may be true.
Mid-October date for the 5th Starship/Superheavy test orbital launch?
The team compared the spectroscopic observations with laboratory measurements and detailed spectral models of the surface, concluding that carbon dioxide is present primarily as a surface veneer on a water ice-rich subsurface.
Carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide found on the surface of Pluto’s moon Charon
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Pierre-Alain Cottineau has since been indicted for rape, torture, and barbarism....
French LGBT activist arrested for sexually abusing disabled toddler
A bizarre interpretation of the Constitution’s “cruel and unusual punishments” ban.
Court Orders Taxpayer Funded Transgender Transition Surgery for Inmate
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Households hammered by record-high consumer prices under the Kamala Harris and Joe Biden junta are cutting back on non-essential spending, like pricey vacations.
Disney Shares Downgraded as Theme Parks Face More Trouble, Woke Streaming Series Flop
While some might argue that Matt Walsh happened to highlight a few imbeciles at the top of the DEI hierarchy, my own little experiment suggests gullibility is endemic to the field.
Was Am I Racist? a one-off?
Christian Toto: Conservative star shares how industry punished him for having 'wrong' views
Kevin Sorbo Schools [Fat Albert Speer] Whoopi: I’m Proof of New Hollywood Blacklist
HITHER & YON
Sources close to the situation confirmed the deal has gone firm, according to Variety. The iconic British Rock Band holds one of the most valuable collections in contemporary music, and the band was involved in negotiations with Sony for several years before they were able to find common ground. Their classic albums including “Dark Side of the Moon,” “The Wall,” “Wish You Were Here,” “Meddle,” and “Animals” are among the long list believed to be included in the sale, according to Variety.
Pink Floyd Reportedly Sells Music Rights To Sony For A Whopping $400 Million
Dante tells us in “Monarchia” that “the human race is in its ideal state when it is completely free.”
Dante And The Redemption Of Politics, Part III: Distinguishing Between True And False Freedom
Bernard-Henri Lévy deems Israel a “hearth that radiates a light and a language without which a part of humanity would be lost.”
A Beacon of Hope

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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 03, 2024 07:06 AM (gbOdA)

2 May the Lord bless you in the new year, JJ!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 03, 2024 07:09 AM (dE3DB)

3 Top 5!

Posted by: NR Pax at October 03, 2024 07:09 AM (jjoN6)

4 Remember when it was election interference to bring up Hunter's laptop?

Posted by: fd at October 03, 2024 07:10 AM (vFG9F)

5 Good morning, all! May GOD bless and sustain all who suffer both here and in Israel.

Posted by: Eromero at October 03, 2024 07:11 AM (o2ZRX)

6 Pilot flying Helene rescue missions in NC ordered out, threatened with arrest

No longer an internet "fabrication". Legit news orgs are reporting on it.

https://tinyurl.com/5bnhj85j

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 03, 2024 07:12 AM (zVeXI)

7 Remember when it was election interference to bring up Hunter's laptop?
Posted by: fd at October 03, 2024 07:10 AM (vFG9F)

Repair shop dude: "Oh, man, this is big. I need to give this to the FBI or something. "

FBI: "If you like having thumbs, you didn't see nuttin. Now gimme that, and don't say a peep or you're gonna regret it. "

Ah, Democracy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 03, 2024 07:13 AM (DDGz9)

8 Thank you, JJ. May your own year be blessed with increasing health and strength.

Posted by: sal, who watches way too much TCM at October 03, 2024 07:14 AM (f+FmA)

9 Thank you, JJ!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at October 03, 2024 07:14 AM (UWgy2)

10 Ah yes, that keen, highly cultured insight that elevates the discourse. They keep talking about how Kamala is bringing "JOY" to the election, or something. Maybe this is the Joy they mean?

You are getting soaked in it!

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 03, 2024 07:14 AM (gbOdA)

11 "Report: Harris’ Husband Doug Emhoff Allegedly ‘Forcefully Slapped’ Ex-Girlfriend"

Is this what it's going to take to beat Harris?

Posted by: fd at October 03, 2024 07:15 AM (vFG9F)

12 Prediction:

The junta is gonna smash two fly by wire helicopters together above Appalachia to show the soggy rubes why only they can fly rescue flights.

They will make up fake chat-bot generated "victims" for the story. It will quickly be demonstrable that none of them ever existed.

No one will care.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 03, 2024 07:16 AM (DDGz9)

13 TCM today: Sci-fi and horror mix. The good: Forbidden Planet The very bad: Queen of Outer Space.
Friday: Minor 50's musicals and Films that Changed Society

Posted by: sal, who watches way too much TCM at October 03, 2024 07:17 AM (f+FmA)

14 MSNSDAP’s Reid: Democrat Base Wants ‘Fist Fight’ Debate, Where Trump Gets a ‘Knuckle Sandwich’

And its still a mystery why people are shooting at Trump.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 03, 2024 07:18 AM (rHxhM)

15 >The bomb caused runway damage and cancelled 80 flights.
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as originally intended

Posted by: Don Black at October 03, 2024 07:18 AM (/7KEl)

16 Are the “Palestinians” really the indigenous people of the area?

Those would be the Canaanites, Jebusites, Hittites, someotherites I can't remember. All gone now.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 03, 2024 07:18 AM (/Djer)

17 "This strike is about fairness." (Extorting the American Economy is fairness? - jjs)
Kamala Endorses Dockworkers Strike That Union Boss Boasted Would ‘Cripple’ The Economy
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You know how hard it is to fuel my yacht and upkeep my mansion in this economy?!?!?
- Harold Daggett, Destitute Union Member

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 03, 2024 07:19 AM (fs1hN)

18 With Vance having this great showing as the heir apparent to Trump, i wonder if the assassination attempts start to dwindle?

Let's hope so.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 03, 2024 07:21 AM (DDGz9)

19 U.S. World War II Bomb Explodes at Japan Airport

Basically, it was a reminder about the FO part of the equation.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 03, 2024 07:22 AM (jjoN6)

20 Elon says Daggett has more yachts than he does.

Posted by: fd at October 03, 2024 07:22 AM (vFG9F)

21 Pink Floyd Reportedly Sells Music Rights To Sony For A Whopping $400 Million
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Will Roger Waters have an aneurysm when Trump plays Floyd songs at rallies?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 03, 2024 07:23 AM (fs1hN)

22 Feh.

It's Japan. They'll just say "buckle up, nutsacks" and take off through the crater.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 03, 2024 07:23 AM (DDGz9)

23 The cost to the U.S. economy is more than $4 billion a day, and very soon, this shutdown could lead to shortages and mass layoffs.

Why can't class act lawsuit be leveled at the union? They told us that their strike is designed to hurt people and the economy. Their demands are over the top indicating that they really don't want a solution. They also say that they have no contract.

Since they have no contract and without the contract they refuse to work, then I would interpret that as quitting. There is no law that says that a person can't just quit. There are laws that prevent one group of people to threaten or actually engage in violence against another group of people: those who are willing to do the work the union won't do.

If the union terrorists would just go home and take pride in their treachery against their neighbor instead of threatening harm to "scabs" then this would be an easily solvable problem

Since it is the union itself that is taking responsibility, the union should be the target of a multi-billion class action lawsuit.

Where is the problem in this logic? (because otherwise a whole line of lawyers would be filing papers)

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 03, 2024 07:23 AM (rHxhM)

24 Today is the feast day of St. Therese of Lisieux (1872-1897).
This middle-class girl who entered a Carmelite convent at fifteen and died at the age of 24, is a Doctor of the Church thanks to the influence of her spiritual autobiography.
An example that God can use unlikely instruments to accomplish great things...

Posted by: sal, who watches way too much TCM at October 03, 2024 07:24 AM (f+FmA)

25 "This strike is about fairness."

Everyone must get ahead. Being behind is not fair.

Posted by: fd at October 03, 2024 07:24 AM (vFG9F)

26 Politicians Are Hindering Rescue Efforts in North Carolina

Make examples of them on live TV. That will help.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 03, 2024 07:24 AM (jjoN6)

27 MSNSDAP’s Reid: Democrat Base Wants ‘Fist Fight’ Debate, Where Trump Gets a ‘Knuckle Sandwich’

And its still a mystery why people are shooting at Trump.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Remember the clip of the guy hitting the Pantyfa protester in the face with a helmet without knocking the ash off his cigarette?

Yeah, dems. Might want to be careful there.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 03, 2024 07:25 AM (zVeXI)

28 Good morning horde!

How long is a year in the Jewish calendar?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 03, 2024 07:25 AM (T7iTv)

29
Heck, the USSS is understaffed and underfunded (pfft)

Government failures must always be attributed to understaffing and underfunding, never incompetence or corruption.

We spend, in constant dollars, about 10 times more per pupil on education than we did 100 years ago. But all you ever hear is teachers blubbering about being underpaid.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 03, 2024 07:25 AM (BkEzK)

30 Politicians Are Hindering Rescue Efforts in North Carolina

Make examples of them on live TV. That will help.
Posted by: NR Pax

Pinochet up!

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 03, 2024 07:25 AM (zVeXI)

31 Trump’s decision to target nations and companies purchasing oil from Iran had a dramatic effect on the country’s ability to export petroleum. Iran went from exporting roughly 1.8 million barrels of crude oil daily in 2017 to a historic low of under 500,000 barrels per day in 2020. In addition, the Trump sanctions cut Iran’s GPD nearly in half between 2017 and 2020, dropping from almost $500 billion to just $240 billion.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 03, 2024 07:25 AM (gbOdA)

32
How long is a year in the Jewish calendar?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 03, 2024 07:25 AM (T7iTv)

They never buy retail, so it's 364 days.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 03, 2024 07:26 AM (BkEzK)

33 Good morning JJ and horde

I think might see the sun soon, don't think I have in weeks

Posted by: Skip at October 03, 2024 07:26 AM (K7Zrs)

34 A bizarre interpretation of the Constitution’s “cruel and unusual punishments” ban.
Court Orders Taxpayer Funded Transgender Transition Surgery for Inmate
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If you told the founders that one day prison officials would order that prisoners would have their genitals carved up to comply with the 8th amendment, they'd have left it out.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 03, 2024 07:26 AM (fs1hN)

35 But all you ever hear is teachers blubbering about being underpaid.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 03, 2024 07:25 AM (BkEzK)

It's everyone's goal in life to get paid as much as possible for as little work as possible.

They've already hit absolute zero on the work side of the ledger. So their only avenue for advancement is on the pay side.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 03, 2024 07:27 AM (DDGz9)

36 What’s with the snark about Tucker? I personally like him. Always have. He gets in the weeds sometimes but he makes you think.

Posted by: Jaimo at October 03, 2024 07:27 AM (BCuCF)

37 I tweaked my X settings so that no post, repost, mention etc containing the word 'Reid' would ever appear in my timeline

Posted by: Don Black at October 03, 2024 07:27 AM (/7KEl)

38
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 03, 2024 07:28 AM (bEb2S)

39 In one of the reports on feds in NC last night, they said they were hiding the number of dead.
Wouldn't a higher death toll be good for 'climate change' activists? Also, wouldn't the worse the disaster, the better opportunities for graft?
Or is that no longer the case?

Posted by: sal, who watches way too much TCM at October 03, 2024 07:29 AM (f+FmA)

40 We spend, in constant dollars, about 10 times more per pupil on education than we did 100 years ago. But all you ever hear is teachers blubbering about being underpaid.
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I'm sympathetic to the teacher that avoids all the woke crap despite the tremendous pressure to comply and has to deal with an unruly mob in her classroom. These kinds of teachers are certainly underpaid.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 03, 2024 07:29 AM (fs1hN)

41
Off to take a shower before taking the car in to see if the battery needs replacing. Or the starter. Or the alternator.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 03, 2024 07:30 AM (BkEzK)

42 Harris endorsed the dockworkers' strike? She's even stupider than I thought. Someone should let her know she's the vice president and there's an election in a month.

Posted by: Ribbed at October 03, 2024 07:31 AM (B0mGw)

43 "This strike is about fairness."

When the Left abuses the word "fairness", they mean "communism" and wealth transfer.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 03, 2024 07:32 AM (rHxhM)

44 21 Pink Floyd Reportedly Sells Music Rights To Sony For A Whopping $400 Million
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Will Roger Waters have an aneurysm when Trump plays Floyd songs at rallies?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 03, 2024 07:23 AM (fs1hN)

Roger Waters to Re-write "MONEY" with anti-semitic references. Surprised he hasn't done that already.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 03, 2024 07:32 AM (x0n13)

45 American Cristeros
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It is rare to see any mention of the Mexican war on the Church. Most people are unaware of it.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 03, 2024 07:33 AM (1bNHn)

46 39 In one of the reports on feds in NC last night, they said they were hiding the number of dead.
Wouldn't a higher death toll be good for 'climate change' activists? Also, wouldn't the worse the disaster, the better opportunities for graft?
Or is that no longer the case?
Posted by: sal,

It makes the Barak-O'Biden-Harris Administration look like a bunch of retarded, vicious, monkeys raping a football. We are supposed to believe that our government masters are gods. Perfect and pure. Any newz that says otherwise is 'misinformation' and is heresy. We live in Jonestown now.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 03, 2024 07:33 AM (/Djer)

47 Is Kamala going to intervene and settle the strike, thus saving the day just before the election?

Posted by: davidt at October 03, 2024 07:34 AM (i0F8b)

48 If the strike goes on for longer than a week, it's too late. The crash will hit right before election day.

Posted by: Ribbed at October 03, 2024 07:35 AM (iFMeW)

49 Most candidates will move to the center, in the past, yes??

Posted by: tubal at October 03, 2024 07:35 AM (PCK5/)

50 Happy New Year JJ

God bless and prayers for continued good health

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 03, 2024 07:35 AM (ANuwa)

51 Wouldn't a higher death toll be good for 'climate change' activists? Also, wouldn't the worse the disaster, the better opportunities for graft?
Or is that no longer the case?
_____

As always, questions on what facts will be reported, must include a complete analysis of the current situation. I suspect that because of the closeness to the election, that these facts will cause more harm to the government-media complex, temporarily outweighing the benefits of climate change alarmism or graft opportunities.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 03, 2024 07:35 AM (fs1hN)

52 Castreau-Cescu Fines Amish For Not Putting COVID App on Phones They Don't Own
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We shouldn't mock the Hoseheads here. We insist that nuns get birth control.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 03, 2024 07:36 AM (1bNHn)

53 Jack Smith is a Will Smith fart in the hermetically sealed stage car of mankind….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 03, 2024 07:37 AM (ANuwa)

54 If the Amish didn't want Trudeau to go after him, they shouldn't have embarrassed him by not getting COVID.

Posted by: Ribbed at October 03, 2024 07:37 AM (iFMeW)

55 Is Kamala going to intervene and settle the strike, thus saving the day just before the election?
Posted by: davidt

She can't. She's not president. Biden won't because it sticks a knife in her back for removing him.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 03, 2024 07:38 AM (zVeXI)

56 40 We spend, in constant dollars, about 10 times more per pupil on education than we did 100 years ago. But all you ever hear is teachers blubbering about being underpaid.
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A good bit of this is technological bloat. Instead of textbooks which you can use for years in elementary school, everyone has workbooks, which are consumable and have to be replaced each year.
Computers, copiers, classroom TVs, school security, fancy gyms, bi-lingual teachers- it all adds up. And that's just lower grades

Posted by: sal, who watches way too much TCM at October 03, 2024 07:38 AM (f+FmA)

57 I'm starting to pity Joy Reid. (Is her middle name Kant?)

She really should be in an institution somewhere.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 03, 2024 07:38 AM (1bNHn)

58 About 7.4 million noncitizens are in the “national docket data,” so 662,776 is 9% of the total, and if one extrapolates the numbers to the homicide rate in this country, it strongly indicates that the government is letting migrants into this country who commit murder at a rate 50% higher than the rest of the U.S. population.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 03, 2024 07:38 AM (gbOdA)

59 > Is Kamala going to intervene and settle the strike, thus saving the day just before the election
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she has no executive authority as long as Biden is president

that's what the Constitution says
what happens in actual practice is anybody's guess

Posted by: Don Black at October 03, 2024 07:39 AM (/7KEl)

60 She can't. She's not president. Biden won't because it sticks a knife in her back for removing him.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 03, 2024 07:38 AM (zVeXI)

The populace suffers while the nobles bicker.

Where have we seen this in history before...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 03, 2024 07:39 AM (DDGz9)

61 How long is a year in the Jewish calendar?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 03, 2024 07:25 AM (T7iTv)

They never buy retail, so it's 364 days.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 03, 2024 07:26 AM (BkEzK)

I thought it was 12 months of 30 days each making 360 days total. Tells you how much I know (not much)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 03, 2024 07:39 AM (ANuwa)

62 We shouldn't mock the Hoseheads here. We insist that nuns get birth control.
Posted by: Eeyore
____

Maybe sometimes a good bout of mutual mocking with our neighbors/neighbours is warranted.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 03, 2024 07:40 AM (fs1hN)

63 "The American experiment, lest we forget, was given life by men who patterned it on Judeo-Christian tradition and history. ..."

I keep hearing that, but I don't think it's true at all. The American Experiment was the product of The Enlightenment.
* At the time of the American Revolution, Christianity was pushing "The Devine Right of Kings". The Revolution was a total rejection of that concept.
* The author of the Declaration of Independence was a Deist (non-Christian). He evoke the concepts of "natural law" and rights provided by "Nature's God" (which is not the Judeo-Christian God).
* Contrary to the custom of the time, the Constitution made no references to the Almighty, whatsoever - the only exception being in the designation of the calendar year. It stipulated "no religious test" for holding public office.
* The Bill of Rights and the Ten Commandments are literally inconsistent. The former requires no preferential treatment of the government regarding religion; the latter requires your strict and exclusive adherence to the Jewish God.

One wonders if the people who say this stuff know a damn thing about either the Constitution OR the Ten Commandments.

Posted by: MrExcitement at October 03, 2024 07:40 AM (hOOi9)

64 In one of the reports on feds in NC last night, they said they were hiding the number of dead.
Wouldn't a higher death toll be good for 'climate change' activists? Also, wouldn't the worse the disaster, the better opportunities for graft?
Or is that no longer the case?
Posted by: sal,

It makes the Barak-O'Biden-Harris Administration look like a bunch of retarded, vicious, monkeys raping a football. We are supposed to believe that our government masters are gods. Perfect and pure. Any newz that says otherwise is 'misinformation' and is heresy. We live in Jonestown now.
Posted by: Puddleglum

Couldn't have said it any better.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 03, 2024 07:40 AM (zVeXI)

65 "I thought it was 12 months of 30 days each making 360 days total. Tells you how much I know"

If I'm not mistaken, they have some weird form of makeup days that I don't really understand.

Posted by: Ribbed at October 03, 2024 07:40 AM (B0mGw)

66 Political Theater. Kamala could pretend to be a 'mediator'.

Posted by: davidt at October 03, 2024 07:40 AM (i0F8b)

67 "This strike is about fairness.

Then everyone should make $300k a year with a 10% annual raise.

Posted by: fd at October 03, 2024 07:40 AM (vFG9F)

68 Trump’s decision to target nations and companies purchasing oil from Iran had a dramatic effect on the country’s ability to export petroleum. Iran went from exporting roughly 1.8 million barrels of crude oil daily in 2017 to a historic low of under 500,000 barrels per day in 2020. In addition, the Trump sanctions cut Iran’s GPD nearly in half between 2017 and 2020, dropping from almost $500 billion to just $240 billion.

Sanctions can only work if the those who previously done business with the target of the sanctions has a real and credible alternative. If a sanctioned state supplied oil or wheat, the one laying down the sanctions better have a way for the customers of that sanctioned state to obtain oil and wheat.

Under Trump, cutting Iran's oil sales was met by a huge increase of the former US's ability to export oil. Biden attempted to do the same thing to Russia, to make up for the loss of energy not by encouraging production, but by selling off the SPR.

Only Western nations are suicidal, the rest of the world wants to advance on and flourish.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 03, 2024 07:41 AM (rHxhM)

69 One wonders if the people who say this stuff know a damn thing about either the Constitution OR the Ten Commandments.
Posted by: MrExcitement at October 03, 2024 07:40 AM (hOOi9)

Don't get too excited. There was a little thing that had happened in the centuries prior called the Reformation. Some guy stapled his homework to a church or something.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 03, 2024 07:42 AM (DDGz9)

70 I must be missing something. Jack Smith was illegally appointed, so why is he allowed to continue this charade?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 03, 2024 07:42 AM (GP9wO)

71
I keep hearing that, but I don't think it's true at all. The American Experiment was the product of The Enlightenment. [/ii]

Utter bullshit. The Enlightenment is the enemy of Christianity. The Enlightenment gave us the French Revolution, Christianity gave us the American Revolution.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 03, 2024 07:44 AM (rHxhM)

72 Goldman

“So, I know my colleagues like to throw around the idea that they lied, they lied, they lied. They had no information. To the contrary, because only the FBI had the laptop in its custody, and nobody else had the laptop.”

The laptop shop had a copy. Rudy had a copy. NY Post had pieces parts of a copy.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 03, 2024 07:44 AM (gbOdA)

73 And Biden was instructed to say he is going to let the collective bargaining process play out

and he managed to utter this phrase a few days ago

so yeah- the Harris/Biden administration is gonna just watch the dock strikes from the sidelines

Posted by: Don Black at October 03, 2024 07:45 AM (/7KEl)

74 Edit to add Presidential assassins' targets: Teddy Roosevelt. The shooter got off 2 shots, and the speech in Teddy's breast pocket saved his life. He delivered the speech with blood stains on his shirt.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at October 03, 2024 07:45 AM (lPeS+)

75 "They had no information"

Then they should have shut up.

Posted by: fd at October 03, 2024 07:45 AM (vFG9F)

76 Utter bullshit. The Enlightenment is the enemy of Christianity. The Enlightenment gave us the French Revolution, Christianity gave us the American Revolution.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 03, 2024 07:44 AM (rHxhM)

Maybe you could say the atheist continental enlightenment gave us one, the Presbyterian Scottish enlightenment gave us the other.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 03, 2024 07:46 AM (DDGz9)

77 good morning JJ, Horde

Something ugly is going on in the flooded zones in NC, TN, etc. And it's not just bureaucrats and politicians getting in the way of rescuers and relief.

Posted by: callsign claymore at October 03, 2024 07:46 AM (bVcCg)

78 The Biden Junta does not understand that war has to have a winner and a loser. Junta-ites think "proportionality" and buying time somehow resolves conflict, because, I suppose, they think these countries ultimately prefer peace to war.

That is wrong: they prefer war. And war needs a winner.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 03, 2024 07:47 AM (EWPF4)

79 > I must be missing something. Jack Smith was illegally appointed, so why is he allowed to continue this charade?
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because the Dept of Justice is controlled by the DNC, and Jack Smith is doing their bidding

Posted by: Don Black at October 03, 2024 07:48 AM (/7KEl)

80 Under Trump, cutting Iran's oil sales was met by a huge increase of the former US's ability to export oil. Biden attempted to do the same thing to Russia, to make up for the loss of energy not by encouraging production, but by selling off the SPR.

Only Western nations are suicidal, the rest of the world wants to advance on and flourish.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 03, 2024 07:41 AM (rHxhM)

Because socialist believe everything is a zero sum game and that other countries can only become better by US becoming worse.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 03, 2024 07:48 AM (gbOdA)

81 Today is Bring Your Bible To School Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 03, 2024 07:48 AM (NpAcC)

82 Because socialist believe everything is a zero sum game and that other countries can only become better by US becoming worse.
Posted by: rhennigantx at October 03, 2024 07:48 AM (gbOdA)

I'd disagree.... they don't give a damn about other countries being better. They just want their own country to be worse, to destabilize whoever is running it so they can take it over.

Other countries benefiting from that is just a rhetorical side street to use or not at all.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 03, 2024 07:50 AM (DDGz9)

83 The first, by New York correspondent Will Pavia, is the more damning, describing how the Nebraska-born Democrat “looked staggered,” “distinctly uncomfortable,” and “confused Israel and Iran” out of the gate.

Because he sees NO difference.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 03, 2024 07:51 AM (gbOdA)

84 The Bill of Rights and the Ten Commandments are literally inconsistent. The former requires no preferential treatment of the government regarding religion; the latter requires your strict and exclusive adherence to the Jewish God.

One wonders if the people who say this stuff know a damn thing about either the Constitution OR the Ten Commandments.

You clearly know nothing about the rebels that formed the former United States. The pre-Constitution country wasn't filled with Hindus, Muslims and Druids. The 1st Amendment in its treatment of the Religious Freedom was a response to the same problem people had with JFK's Catholicism.

Many people came to the New World came to escape the persecution of the Roman Catholic Church. As the colonies grew, their enemies followed them and wanted to form their Catholic Theocracies so that they could continue to oppress Protestants.

This is captured, in part from the Danbury Letter from which the enemies of Christianity have wrested it such where the corruption of it is enshrined as establishing the "Separation of Church And State" doctrine to mean stomping out public expression of Christianity.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 03, 2024 07:51 AM (rHxhM)

85 I must be missing something. Jack Smith was illegally appointed, so why is he allowed to continue this charade?
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Two different cases in two different forums. Judge Canon (in Florida)wants breifings and a hearing to find outnif Smith is legally appointed. Judge Chutkan (in DC) skipped right over that question and Smith is continuing to smear away in that court.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 03, 2024 07:52 AM (81/YL)

86 Political Theater. Kamala could pretend to be a 'mediator'.
Posted by: davidt

Biden could end the strike today. Forced arbitration.

But he won't.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 03, 2024 07:52 AM (zVeXI)

87 Castreau-Cescu Fines Amish For Not Putting COVID App on Phones They Don't Own

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When is that pansy little commie going to be out of office? He's like a herpes virus that won't leave and stays with its host forever.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 03, 2024 07:52 AM (Yalpw)

88 69 One wonders if the people who say this stuff know a damn thing about either the Constitution OR the Ten Commandments.
Posted by: MrExcitement at October 03, 2024 07:40 AM (hOOi9)

Don't get too excited. There was a little thing that had happened in the centuries prior called the Reformation. Some guy stapled his homework to a church or something.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 03, 2024 07:42 AM (DDGz9)

I don't see what that has to do with it. Protestants have the Ten Commandments too.

Although I suppose you could say that the Protestant Reformation was a first step in taking power away from the Church, which made The Enlightenment possible.

As I understand it, the Catholic Church really hates America - something I was surprised to eventually learn, having been brought up Catholic. The Pope didn't like this whole "Freedom of religion: thing we had going on. It meant less power for him.

Posted by: MrExcitement at October 03, 2024 07:52 AM (hOOi9)

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Posted by: redridinghood at October 03, 2024 07:53 AM (NpAcC)

90 The news shutdown in NC reminds me of what the Democrats and the Propaganda Media did in Maui.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 03, 2024 07:54 AM (81/YL)

91 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at October 03, 2024 07:54 AM (53oGX)

92 Besides, it's Thursday, which means the President's weekend has begun

off to Delaware to rest
the country can suck hind tit

Posted by: Don Black at October 03, 2024 07:54 AM (/7KEl)

93 It's everyone's goal in life to get paid as much as possible for as little work as possible.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 03, 2024 07:27 AM (DDGz9)

Which is why capitalism and meritocracy are the only ways.

I DO want to get paid as much as possible for as little work as possible. But if I also know working harder will get me more money, I'll work harder.

Not because I love working - though I have loved jobs I've had - but because I love being able to pay my bills, feed my minions, and buy things I want.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at October 03, 2024 07:55 AM (VAFKP)

94 Democrats believe a fetus only becomes fully human once it grows up and embraces leftist ideology.

Posted by: ... at October 03, 2024 07:55 AM (LCr8f)

95 This is captured, in part from the Danbury Letter from which the enemies of Christianity have wrested it such where the corruption of it is enshrined as establishing the "Separation of Church And State" doctrine to mean stomping out public expression of Christianity.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 03, 2024 07:51 AM (rHxhM)

Catholicism was already a spent force by the mid 18th. C.

People fleeing to the colonies, mostly from Germany and England, were fleeing persecution from nominally Protestant (and, in really, Statist) regimes. Hanoverian England. The emerging technocracy of Prussia. Rome didn't have anything to do with much of anything at that point except for egging on the Spaniards and French sucking up every nugget of precious metal they could find.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 03, 2024 07:55 AM (DDGz9)

96 They'll try to delay the election, by using this strike. Crazy kooky conspiracy theory? Yes, yes it is. Sadly, those seem to be coming true these days, because everything is broken.

Anyway...

Lovely day here, finally, in Amish Country (PA). I got some bad golf in yesterday so I will follow that up with worse golf today and tomorrow. Go back to Babylon DC on Sunday. Meh.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 03, 2024 07:56 AM (/Djer)

97 the single minded vendetta against PDT by the left is psychopathic.

The world is burning down both abroad and at home but the sole focus of our government is PDT and his constituents.

Jason Voohrees is reasonable compared to these people.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 03, 2024 07:56 AM (tT6L1)

98 87 Castreau-Cescu Fines Amish For Not Putting COVID App on Phones They Don't Own

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When is that pansy little commie going to be out of office? He's like a herpes virus that won't leave and stays with its host forever.
Posted by: Lady in Black at October 03, 2024 07:52 AM (Yalpw)

If the Canadians had the good sense to do that sort of thing, it wouldn't be Canada. After the American Revolution, we sent the Loyalists there - the people who were loyal to the crown - the people who wanted to continue being oppressed by the King.

Really, it's America's fault. We screwed up by failing to take Canada from the British in the War of 1812.

Posted by: MrExcitement at October 03, 2024 07:56 AM (hOOi9)

99 There were 2 lies in or about the debate that particularly rankle with me, because I've seen very few on our side comment on them.

1. Walz answer about China continued to be a lie, and has been let go. He stuck with the claim that, while he admits he wasn't in Tiananmen as he had said, he still says he was in Hong Kong. But the evidence is that he was not yet in Asia, at all. (Hong Kong is in Asia.)

2. Tapper's lying claim that Vance is much more practiced at debates than Walz is equally dishonest. I think I saw one person point that out.

Both should be widely discussed by our side.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 03, 2024 07:57 AM (1bNHn)

100 Ahhh...The old "Jefferson was a deiest because he owned a koran" schtick.

Hey fella, mabe do a little research before you claim that.

No go back ad redo your work.

F-

Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at October 03, 2024 07:58 AM (89Sog)

101 Will SpaceX be allowed to test Starship in ten days or so? Man, I really hope so! Why the Junta FAS is so nasty and petty will someday be known definitively, buy for now we are all left to think its just another instance of Bidenism.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 03, 2024 07:59 AM (Uxbm6)

102 I can totally believe that Vance is more practiced in debating.

Who has Walz ever really had to debate in his career?

Two decades of feathering your nest in a gifted sinecure isn't going to harden you off against much of anything. Two years of fighting a hostile regime and its captive media will.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 03, 2024 07:59 AM (DDGz9)

103 The old "Jefferson was a deiest because he owned a koran" schtick.

I like pointing out that he had one so he could know who the enemy was since we were dealing with Islamic terrorism back then.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 03, 2024 08:00 AM (jjoN6)

104 In terms of “observational data,” Milloy continued, the theory that “emissions have somehow warmed the ocean water is completely faulty, because it's physically impossible for the atmosphere to warm the ocean. So it's impossible for emissions to warm the ocean.”

Guess he is referencing that 384.6 septillion watt furnace in the sky.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 03, 2024 08:00 AM (gbOdA)

105 Was Am I Racist? a one-off?
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Reminds me of Ronald Knox's radio hoax which preceded Orson Wells's by about a decade.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 03, 2024 08:01 AM (1bNHn)

106 Lovely day here, finally, in Amish Country (PA). I got some bad golf in yesterday so I will follow that up with worse golf today and tomorrow. Go back to Babylon DC on Sunday. Meh.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 03, 2024 07:56 AM (/Djer)
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It's either going to be remembered as golf or just a nice walk on a beauty of a fall day! Either way, have a good one.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 03, 2024 08:02 AM (Uxbm6)

107 97 the single minded vendetta against PDT by the left is psychopathic.

The world is burning down both abroad and at home but the sole focus of our government is PDT and his constituents.

Jason Voohrees is reasonable compared to these people.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 03, 2024 07:56 AM (tT6L1)

I guess you haven't heard that the Left are just puppets of the Globalists, and that the Globalists literally WANT the world to "burn down". They want the global population to be 1/2 billion, and the poorer everybody is, the easier it is to control them. Once you realize that's a feature, not a bug, you'll make more sense.

About 1/2 of Republican politicians have the same puppet masters, it's not just the Left (although perhaps that fraction is dropping rapidly, due to MAGA).

Posted by: MrExcitement at October 03, 2024 08:02 AM (hOOi9)

108 By the way, locally, Ruben Gallego, who is running against Kari Lake for AZ senator, is really going after Lake with attack ads. Gallego is also playing up his military service. He's throwing the kitchen sink at Lake, to the point I think his internal polling is terrible.

I will concede it's possible Gallego is hitting Lake hard because he believes in swarming someone when they're down. However, I also believe it's possible Gallego is desperate, else, why waste the money?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 03, 2024 08:03 AM (tT6L1)

109 Wasn't Jefferson the President when the brand new US Navy was fighting pirates overseas?

moslem pirates?

Unless I'm Wrong.™️

Posted by: Don Black at October 03, 2024 08:03 AM (/7KEl)

110 If the strike goes on for longer than a week, it's too late. The crash will hit right before election day.
Posted by: Ribbed at October 03, 2024 07:35 AM (iFMeW)

What critical goods actually come in via the eastern ports? Most consumer goods come from Chynah and, therefore, hit the west coast. Just wondering how big an impact this'll actually have in the short term.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 03, 2024 08:03 AM (T7iTv)

111 Morning Horde, thx JJ.
@44 JJ , I always thought the Pink Floyd song "Have a Cigar" was anti Semitic in its presentation of the music executive. Might be reading too much into it . By the way which ones Pink?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 03, 2024 08:03 AM (xH5nl)

112 So Canada and Trudeau never backed away from the covid hysteria?? They still insist on covid apps etc? I thought that all disappeared and was memory-holed sometime in spring 2022 when the junta realized the proles (at least here in the USA) had had it with that nonsense. It continues to this day up north? I didn’t know that…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 03, 2024 08:04 AM (O1oUp)

113 if you're taking flak, you're over the target

Posted by: Don Black at October 03, 2024 08:04 AM (/7KEl)

114 The Biden Junta does not understand that war has to have a winner and a loser.

Oh the definitely believe that war has a winner and loser. Its just you who are stuck in the paradigm of thinking its nation vs nation.

Its not. In a globalist world, Winners are the bankers who debt finance wars, members of the MIC who profit from munitions and service contracts, NGOs that profit from the chaos and death, politicians that broker hundreds of billions of dollars to all of the above and take their vig off the top.

We, the collateral damage, get plundered, wounded, enslaved and eventually destroyed. aka "Losers".

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 03, 2024 08:04 AM (rHxhM)

115 Mornin’, All. Happy Thursday.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 03, 2024 08:05 AM (v6JzV)

116 Black Sabbath explained all of this in "War Pigs"

Posted by: Don Black at October 03, 2024 08:06 AM (/7KEl)

117 French LGBT activist arrested for sexually abusing disabled toddler
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It does say he faces life in prison. I seriously doubt he'd get that sentence here.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 03, 2024 08:07 AM (1bNHn)

118 Black Sabbath explained all of this in "War Pigs"
Posted by: Don Black at October 03, 2024 08:06 AM (/7KEl)
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Yeah, they got that one right, didn't they?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 03, 2024 08:07 AM (tT6L1)

119 I wonder if the Genovese family is telling ILA pres Daggett to tone it down. The mob don't like publicity (didn't work for Gotti ) and the way he's acting is drawing attention.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 03, 2024 08:07 AM (xH5nl)

120 Bam Mother Fuckers Jack Smith Just Dropped A Jay Bomb. "When the defendant lost the 2020 presidential election, he resorted to crimes to try to stay in office," the filing said. "With private co-conspirators, the defendant launched a series of increasingly desperate plans to overturn the legitimate election results in seven states that he had lost."

Sigh. It won't matter. Nothing ever matters. He’s Teflon. And he will do or say something else outrageous and sweep this out of the new cycle within 48 hours.

I think this "Make them riot!" story has some damned strong legs. The night after Vance tells America Trump "peacefully transferred power", we see trump's own words: "Make them riot!" That's front page bold type stuff right there.

Those are not Trump's own words.They are the words of a campaign employee/co-conspirator. This is being mis-reported and folks are running with it.

Isn't the point of a conspiracy charge is that you are liable for the actions of your co-conspirators? we all saw the live stream of trump telling the mob to attack the capital. And they obviously had inside help. We already know he attempted a coup. RICO-level stuff.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 03, 2024 08:07 AM (ycI94)

121 Blake, pretty much

Posted by: Don Black at October 03, 2024 08:07 AM (/7KEl)

122 We spend, in constant dollars, about 10 times more per pupil on education than we did 100 years ago. But all you ever hear is teachers blubbering about being underpaid.
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A good bit of this is technological bloat. Instead of textbooks which you can use for years in elementary school, everyone has workbooks, which are consumable and have to be replaced each year.

It's also the case that 100 years ago we didn't have 50 administrators for every teacher. That having been said, I really don't think that teachers are undervalued.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 03, 2024 08:08 AM (T7iTv)

123 JJ
Ranked choice goes to AOL.

https://tinyurl.com/yp7rpkde

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 03, 2024 08:09 AM (gbOdA)

124 100 Ahhh...The old "Jefferson was a deiest because he owned a koran" schtick.

Hey fella, mabe do a little research before you claim that.

No go back ad redo your work.

F-
Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at October 03, 2024 07:58 AM (89Sog)

If you're talking to me, the idea that Jefferson was a Deist doesn't have anything to do with whether or not he owner a Bible. It's simply a historic fact. The religious inclinations of some of the Founders are somewhat unclear (such as Franklin and Washington), but there's no ambiguity about Jefferson.

At the time he was elected President, many Christians were literally in mourning, due to their President not being a Christian.

There was another early President (JQA, I think) who was not Deist, but his denomination was not considered Christian either, by many. "Unitarian", I think.

Maybe do a little research before you spout nonsense.

Posted by: MrExcitement at October 03, 2024 08:09 AM (hOOi9)

125 RCV can cause candidates who do not receive the most votes to win the election, subverting the will of the people.

thats the plan

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 03, 2024 08:10 AM (gbOdA)

126 Jimmy Carter Asks: When Is Abortion Murder?
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We're far too quick to absolve people like this. When a lib says something not 100% Maoist, he gets credit. Especially as here, where the context - the 70s - makes it far more in line with left orthodoxy than it seems to people with no historical memory.

Screw Jimmy.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 03, 2024 08:10 AM (1bNHn)

127 111 Morning Horde, thx JJ.
@44 JJ , I always thought the Pink Floyd song "Have a Cigar" was anti Semitic in its presentation of the music executive. Might be reading too much into it . By the way which ones Pink?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 03, 2024 08:03 AM (xH5nl)

I never would’ve thought that before… but Roger Waters did write the lyrics so it’s possible?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 03, 2024 08:11 AM (WdMlw)

128 Those are not Trump's own words.They are the words of a campaign employee/co-conspirator. This is being mis-reported and folks are running with it.

Isn't the point of a conspiracy charge is that you are liable for the actions of your co-conspirators? we all saw the live stream of trump telling the mob to attack the capital. And they obviously had inside help. We already know he attempted a coup. RICO-level stuff.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions

If that's the case, arrest and execute every "give them space to burn" politicians. Since they are Antifa co-conspirators.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 03, 2024 08:11 AM (zVeXI)

129 School districts (at least the big ones) are wildly corrupt. Teacher salaries are a drop in the bucket of all the money they sluice into various pockets.

Teachers know this, and feel like they deserve a bigger cut off the action.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 03, 2024 08:11 AM (DDGz9)

130 It's also...
Mean Girl Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 03, 2024 08:11 AM (NpAcC)

131 I must be missing something. Jack Smith was illegally appointed, so why is he allowed to continue this charade?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 03, 2024 07:42 AM (GP9wO)

Different judge. Appeals courts haven't ruled on it yet so Chutkan lets the farce continue because she's totes non-partisan and just interested in justice.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 03, 2024 08:11 AM (T7iTv)

132 “Democrats are Weaponizing the Justice Department against me because they know I am WINNING, and they are desperate to prop up their failing Candidate, Kamala Harris,” Trump wrote.
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We rate this as "True"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 03, 2024 08:12 AM (N7r0o)

133 114 The Biden Junta does not understand that war has to have a winner and a loser.

Oh the definitely believe that war has a winner and loser. Its just you who are stuck in the paradigm of thinking its nation vs nation.

Its not. In a globalist world, Winners are the bankers who debt finance wars, members of the MIC who profit from munitions and service contracts, NGOs that profit from the chaos and death, politicians that broker hundreds of billions of dollars to all of the above and take their vig off the top.

We, the collateral damage, get plundered, wounded, enslaved and eventually destroyed. aka "Losers".
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

https://youtu.be/yuBe93FMiJc?si=4BCMPIH4zBiN8CYK

Arthur Jensen nods in agreement.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 03, 2024 08:13 AM (/Djer)

134 "It's everyone's goal in life to get paid as much as possible for as little work as possible."

I said something like that to couple of reps from a company I was going to be doing some contract work for. They looked at each like "WTF?" That work went on for over 10 years.

Posted by: fd at October 03, 2024 08:14 AM (vFG9F)

135 People fleeing to the colonies, mostly from Germany and England, were fleeing persecution from nominally Protestant (and, in really, Statist) regimes.

Yeah, famines and war usually motivate people to get off the X.

I was referring to pre-Constitution times. Once the Civil War was settled, the New World became a magnet for the world's misfits - you know, the ones that the Establishment couldn't keep down.

America was Great because talent was unleashed. Those who couldn't handle being sheep and wanted to be lions came here. When prosperity roared, refugees from the aforementioned wars and famines followed.

Yes, the French Revolution crippled Roman Catholicism as the rebels wanted to destroy any institution that represented authority and order - which Roman Catholicism, in a way provided (other than the constant nation v nation wars and the political intrigue by the inbred psychopath aristocrats)

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 03, 2024 08:14 AM (rHxhM)

136 When is abortion murder?

"Murder" is defined by the state. What does the state say about it?

Regardless, abortion is always killing. If you are fine with killing a baby in the womb then the determination of when abortion becomes murder is a moot point.

Posted by: Donny Brook at October 03, 2024 08:16 AM (KJjQr)

137 Politicians Are Hindering Rescue Efforts in North Carolina, and One Rescuer Has Had Enough
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It's dismaying to think this very well might not decide the election (US president and NC governor) as it should.

Of course, we now find ourselves in the position Bernie complained about, having too many choices. We may fail because we have so very many deserving targets, we fail to concentrate on a few.

But I have trouble believing this isn't one of the optimal issues for us.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 03, 2024 08:16 AM (1bNHn)

138 OT: I've determined that Tim Walz is really Janice Joplin, who faked her death and had a sex change.

Walz: https://tinyurl.com/bdf6ydw4

Joplin: https://tinyurl.com/ej64tvj7

Compare the photos, Sheeple!!

Posted by: RS at October 03, 2024 08:16 AM (E7m29)

139 129 School districts (at least the big ones) are wildly corrupt. Teacher salaries are a drop in the bucket of all the money they sluice into various pockets.

Teachers know this, and feel like they deserve a bigger cut off the action.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 03, 2024 08:11 AM (DDGz9)

HISD is $2.1 Billion, the graft is in the cleaning, HVAC, and building.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 03, 2024 08:17 AM (gbOdA)

140 109 Wasn't Jefferson the President when the brand new US Navy was fighting pirates overseas?

moslem pirates?

Unless I'm Wrong.™️
Posted by: Don Black at October 03, 2024 08:03 AM (/7KEl)

What does that have to do with ANYTHING?

Actually, during the John Adams administration there was a treaty made with a Muslim country, wherein the Senate unanimously declared that America "is not a Christian country", or something like that. That wasn't in denial of our predominantly Christian population - it was a statement that the government that was making the treaty with them did not in any way represent Christianity (which it didn't). Presumably, that was helpful in the negotiation. No Senators apparently had any problem with that.

Posted by: MrExcitement at October 03, 2024 08:17 AM (hOOi9)

141 Will SpaceX be allowed to test Starship in ten days or so? Man, I really hope so! Why the Junta FAS is so nasty and petty will someday be known definitively, buy for now we are all left to think its just another instance of Bidenism.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 03, 2024 07:59 AM (Uxbm6)

I seem to recall reading that one of the reasons fedguv is slowing down development of Starship is because, without it, Starlink will fail some x number of satellites in orbit by y date and get fined a lot of money which will harm Musk personally.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 03, 2024 08:17 AM (T7iTv)

142 132 “Democrats are Weaponizing the Justice Department against me because they know I am WINNING, and they are desperate to prop up their failing Candidate, Kamala Harris,” Trump wrote.
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We rate this as "True"
Posted by: Huck Follywood

False. Kamala Harris is currently leading in overall polling, and Jack Smith, representing the government, has stated the prosecution is legitimate and not improperly motivated. Trump's claims are, at best, misrepresenting the state of the race, and baseless conspiracy-theories about government misconduct.

Posted by: Snopes.com at October 03, 2024 08:18 AM (ycI94)

143 School districts (at least the big ones) are wildly corrupt. Teacher salaries are a drop in the bucket of all the money they sluice into various pockets.

No kidding. The $/student is something approaching $15k. Given a room of 20 students, that is $300k/yr. I could lease out a Class A office building, pay the teacher twice what they are earning and can still cater food for lunches and support a myriad of extracurricular activities.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 03, 2024 08:18 AM (rHxhM)

144 Bank of America Outage Leaves Customers with Zeroed Out Account Balances.
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Weren't they one that went woke? One of the more egregious cases?

Posted by: Eeyore at October 03, 2024 08:19 AM (1bNHn)

145 >What does that have to do with ANYTHING?

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whoa dude, you're working up a lather
just chatting on a discussion board here

Posted by: Don Black at October 03, 2024 08:20 AM (/7KEl)

146 Back in 2012, GAI did one of its very first reports about “Obama.com” and highlighted how foreign money could be entering American political campaigns (a violation of federal law), because the site was not requiring credit card verification by including the three- or four-digit CVC security codes that every credit card carries.

Obamas stash came from Arab oil.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 03, 2024 08:21 AM (gbOdA)

147 But I have trouble believing this isn't one of the optimal issues for us.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 03, 2024 08:16 AM (1bNHn)

On the other hand, the target really is "Them". It's critical to get a sufficient block of the population to recognize that These People are interchangeable units of a hive mind, and that the real problem is the system of patronage and buttfuckery that lets them keep churning in and out of positions of unaccountable power. Focus on whacking one mole, and six more will pop up.

Focus on "Them", and it doesn't matter which slimeball rises to prominence, the ground work is already laid for the people to dislike them.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 03, 2024 08:21 AM (DDGz9)

148 By dribs and drabs, the story eventually comes out after being "debunked"

Remember the video of the hispanic men going up the staircase in the apartment building in Aurora back in August? And the vehement denials by Aurora PD and mayor that Venezuelan gangs were taking over portions of the city?

Local Fox channel in Denver now reports that one is in custody and five more are wanted in connection with the incident on the video and a fatal shooting in the same time period. Lo and behold, at least two of the men are now known to be Venezuelan. But the Aurora PD claims they are not known to be affiliated with Trena de Aragua gang. Buried deep in the story is a mention that officials acknowledge TdA "has a confirmed presence in Aurora."

https://is.gd/vi8ZVm

Posted by: Muldoon (RIP Jack G.) at October 03, 2024 08:22 AM (uCfKO)

149 Good morning, fine people. And a blessed holiday to all my Jewish friends.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 03, 2024 08:22 AM (SfhV1)

150 >>>“Smurfing” is actually quite dangerous. It relates to taking large donations and breaking them into a series of smaller donations to mask that they are large donations in order to get around campaign finance law limits, Schweizer explains.
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Peter Schweizer does a lot of goddnin our country, exposing the corrupt core of Uniparty politics.

This gets to the heart of an organized conspiracy to let a Swiss billionaire contribute millions of dollars illegally to Harris and many other Demofascists.

Prosecute!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 03, 2024 08:22 AM (vbJrD)

151 Yes, I was indeed indigenous, but that horny Jewish King had me whacked!

Posted by: Uriah the Hittite at October 03, 2024 08:22 AM (CV8a5)

152 whoa dude, you're working up a lather
just chatting on a discussion board here
Posted by: Don Black at October 03, 2024 08:20 AM (/7KEl)

It's called trolling.

I've seen it done better.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 03, 2024 08:23 AM (DDGz9)

153 That wasn't in denial of our predominantly Christian population - it was a statement that the government that was making the treaty with them did not in any way represent Christianity (which it didn't).

I cringe at the "America is a Christian Nation" because Christianity isn't a political collective, its an individual relationship with the Creator. The individuals, all who are redeemed, make up the spiritual "temple" with Christ as the cornerstone.

It just seems to me to be profane to declare by fiat that the Church of the Almighty God is made up in large part of reprobates. So please, get rid of the "Christian flag" or suggesting that any nation is a "Christian Nation".

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 03, 2024 08:23 AM (rHxhM)

154 In a letter sent Monday to the CEO’s of several tech giants, including Meta, X, TikTok, and Google, Schiff demanded to know how the companies would censor free speech in order to save “democracy.”

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 03, 2024 08:24 AM (gbOdA)

155 - deist: essentially, someone who believes in a single God/creator, but that God does not intervene in events.

..." with a firm reliance on divine Providence,...

Yep, sounds like it was written by a deist to me. /s

Posted by: TeeJ at October 03, 2024 08:24 AM (/vvA5)

156 Working-Class Voters in Philadelphia Realign with Republicans
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It's a shame all their ballots got lost. Oopsie! You don't have standing!

Posted by: Eeyore at October 03, 2024 08:25 AM (1bNHn)

157 So please, get rid of the "Christian flag"

As a wee one, I used to march into Vacation Bible School behind the Christian flag, singing 'Onward Christian Soldiers'.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 03, 2024 08:25 AM (SfhV1)

158 Well, he does call himself MrExcitement.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 03, 2024 08:26 AM (v6JzV)

159 Kamala Endorses Dockworkers Strike That Union Boss Boasted Would ‘Cripple’ The Economy
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She's already made the deal so she'll get credit for ending it.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 03, 2024 08:26 AM (1bNHn)

160 Here are Aurora's newest prooperty managers:

Naudi Lopez-Fernandez, 21 – In custody
Anderson Zambrano-Pacheco, 25
Niefred Jose Serpa-Acosta, 20
Edilson Yoel Pena-Angulo, 25
Danyeer Aramillo-Meneses, 23
Adan Jose Ramirez-Sanchez, 37

Aurora city manader actually said this:

“I’m going to be very blunt; I think that’s a false narrative. There was a lot of issues with the property management company on this. There was a lot of outreach at a city level, not at a police level but at a city level through the city manager’s office and the mayor’s office to try to get some systems in place where these people would actually become property managers,” Chamberlain said.

Posted by: Muldoon (RIP Jack G.) at October 03, 2024 08:27 AM (uCfKO)

161 On the other hand, the target really is "Them".

When Jesus asked the demoniac in the cemetery "What is your name". The reply was "Legion, for we are many".

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 03, 2024 08:27 AM (rHxhM)

162 If you're talking to me, the idea that Jefferson was a Deist doesn't have anything to do with whether or not he owner a Bible. It's simply a historic fact. ...

Maybe do a little research before you spout nonsense.
Posted by: MrExcitement at October 03, 2024 08:09 AM (hOOi9)

Correction: I meant to write "Koran". Jefferson DID famously own a Bible - he cut out various portions that he didn't like, essentially making his own version of the Bible. There was certain philosophy within it that he approved of, but other things he didn't like.

But obviously no Christian would refer to Jesus (or God) as "Nature's God". Haven't you people ever READ the Preample to the Declaration of Independence? Don't you know how your own Diety is referred to by your fellow Christians?

The Founders were radicals, for cryin' out loud! The original instigator, Thomas Paine, certainly wasn't anything anybody would call "Christian".

Posted by: MrExcitement at October 03, 2024 08:27 AM (hOOi9)

163 Adams and Jefferson both agreed that the Barbary pirates could not be negotiated with, but Adams felt paying their tributes was the way to go, since he thought DC was too financially tapped out for an overseas war.

When Jefferson went to Congress to make his case for war, he cited Islamic beliefs as the reason why they must be crushed, as they would never quit coming at we infidels.

His reading of the Koran was something a highly educated President did to prepare to speak with the Tripolitan ambassador. Nothing more than that. Just another Leftist inversion of reality.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 03, 2024 08:27 AM (awTae)

164 But the Aurora PD claims they are not known to be affiliated with Trena de Aragua gang. Buried deep in the story is a mention that officials acknowledge TdA "has a confirmed presence in Aurora."

https://is.gd/vi8ZVm
Posted by: Muldoon (RIP Jack G.) at October 03, 2024 08:22 AM (uCfKO)

They raped and killed a 12 YO girl here in Houston back in June and just this week they admit it is TdA.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 03, 2024 08:28 AM (gbOdA)

165 127 111 Morning Horde, thx JJ.
@44 JJ , I always thought the Pink Floyd song "Have a Cigar" was anti Semitic in its presentation of the music executive. Might be reading too much into it . By the way which ones Pink?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 03, 2024 08:03 AM (xH5nl)

I never thought that. I just thought it was a general condemnation of show biz in general for forcing artists to abandon their principles in exchange for the shot at fame and fortune. I think it was either written by or for their friend the somewhat obscure British folk rocker Roy Harper. See also Led Zeppelin's "Hats Off to Harper" from the third album

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 03, 2024 08:28 AM (x0n13)

166 Rwanda has had a Marburg outbreak which has killed eight since last Fri. Now two tourists may have taken it to Germany. War ✓, famine✓, pestilence ✓ , death✓. Hmmm

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 03, 2024 08:28 AM (xH5nl)

167 I thought Trump had NC in the bag before this storm. Now I’m worried that folks in the areas hardest hit, which are areas where Trump should garner a large number of votes, will be too busy getting their lives back together (and understandably so) to go vote… enough votes to cost him that state.

I also thought GA and AZ were in the bag but saw a couple Trump friendly pollsters on Hannity last night (yeah I know…. Why am I watching him?? I was just flicking by when he promised a segment with pollsters so I stuck around to listen). Anyway… GA and AZ are agonizingly close. According to these pollsters Trump is in a better position in PA and MI which to me is a strange inversion.

I still think Trump’s easiest path is all his 2020 states plus AZ and GA… then just one of PA MI WI

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 03, 2024 08:29 AM (nrfI8)

168 She's already made the deal so she'll get credit for ending it.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 03, 2024 08:26 AM (1bNHn)
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I think it's a stupid play, because this has all of the ingredients needed to blow up in Kamala's face. She endorsed a strike which will impact 10's of millions of Americans at a time when people are struggling.

Even if the strike ends tomorrow, Kamala still sided with a rich jackass who didn't care if his intransigence ruined millions.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 03, 2024 08:29 AM (tT6L1)

169 The Founders were radicals, for cryin' out loud! The original instigator, Thomas Paine, certainly wasn't anything anybody would call "Christian".

Posted by: MrExcitement at October 03, 2024 08:27 AM (hOOi9)

On the whole, do you think that is a good thing or a bad thing? I mean your premise that this is not nor ever has been a Christian nation?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 03, 2024 08:29 AM (SfhV1)

170 G'morn

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 03, 2024 08:30 AM (HnUIn)

171 Democrats May Come From Venus, And Republicans Come From Mars, But Most Still Distrust The Media: I&I/TIPP Poll
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How many advised Claudius to "Trust no one"?

Posted by: Eeyore at October 03, 2024 08:30 AM (1bNHn)

172 I will concede it's possible Gallego is hitting Lake hard because he believes in swarming someone when they're down. However, I also believe it's possible Gallego is desperate, else, why waste the money?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 03, 2024 08:03 AM (tT6L1)
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A GOP pundit says that race is tightening. If Trump wins Arizona. As it appears he is doing in polls, Gallego has to persuade people to vote a split ticket to beat Lake, and the election followers repeatedly say voters are less likely to do that than in past years. So I would guess Gallego (even if he is ahead) is worried Trump is pulling Lake to victory.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 03, 2024 08:30 AM (d5KoL)

173 Yonder Horde.

Chilly morning here in Bourbon Country.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 03, 2024 08:30 AM (Q4IgG)

174 MSNBC host Joy Reid said Tuesday night during her network’s vice-presidential debate analysis that the Democratic Party base wants a “fist fight” debate with former President Donald Trump getting a “knuckle sandwich.”
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Sounds violent and inciting to me. Those are the new rules, right? Metaphor must be taken literally and the speaker canceled?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 03, 2024 08:31 AM (HnUIn)

175 so this is what I was referring to:

After Thomas Jefferson became president of the US in March 1801, he sent a U.S. Navy fleet to the Mediterranean to combat the Barbary pirates. The fleet bombarded numerous fortified cities in present-day Libya, Tunisia, and Algeria, ultimately extracting concessions of safe conduct from the Barbary states and ending the first war.

had to look it up to be sure

Posted by: Don Black at October 03, 2024 08:31 AM (/7KEl)

176 162 Tom Paine was actually a Quaker. His advocating for war made it respectable for other Quakers to do so.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 03, 2024 08:32 AM (v6JzV)

177 "The original instigator, Thomas Paine, certainly wasn't anything anybody would call "Christian".
Posted by: MrExcitement"

If you can read "Age Of Reason" without blowing your top, you might be considered impartial.

Posted by: fd at October 03, 2024 08:32 AM (vFG9F)

178 As a wee one, I used to march into Vacation Bible School behind the Christian flag, singing 'Onward Christian Soldiers'.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 03, 2024 08:25 AM (SfhV1)

Me too! Very fond memories

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 03, 2024 08:32 AM (nrfI8)

179 "MrExcitement" should rename himself "MrExcitable."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 03, 2024 08:34 AM (tT6L1)

180 Helene has done significant damage to Harris and the democrats and they (and the media) don't realize it yet.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 03, 2024 08:34 AM (NKKzB)

181 66 Political Theater. Kamala could pretend to be a 'mediator'.

Posted by: davidt at October 03, 2024 07:40 AM (i0F8b)

She would need to pretend, alright. She, Joey, and Blinken each couldn't mediate a fight between two first-graders over a cookie that's already broken exactly in-half.

Posted by: Gref at October 03, 2024 08:35 AM (aBgBM)

182 MSNBC host Joy Reid said Tuesday night during her network’s vice-presidential debate analysis that the Democratic Party base wants a “fist fight” debate with former President Donald Trump getting a “knuckle sandwich.”
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Sounds violent and inciting to me. Those are the new rules, right? Metaphor must be taken literally and the speaker canceled?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 03, 2024 08:31 AM (HnUIn)

*Addressing Joy Reid*
Step aside, mush brain.
*eye poke*
*belly punch*
*windmill uppercut*

Posted by: Moe Howard at October 03, 2024 08:35 AM (Aqu9a)

183 If you're talking to me, the idea that Jefferson was a Deist doesn't have anything to do with whether or not he owner a Bible.

I thought a Deist believes in a Creator God, but that god simply created and walked away and doesn't intervene in the daily affairs of man.

It may be part of Jefferson's motivation to delete the miracles from his Jefferson's Bible because miracles interfere with his narrative of an indifferent god.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 03, 2024 08:36 AM (rHxhM)

184 145 >What does that have to do with ANYTHING?

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whoa dude, you're working up a lather
just chatting on a discussion board here
Posted by: Don Black at October 03, 2024 08:20 AM (/7KEl)

I guess I'll take that as an acknowledgement that, no, it doesn't have to do with anything, and whoever wrote that nonsense didn't really think it through when they were trying to make an argument, thereby failing miserably.

Sounds more like the clowns trying to tell me I don't know what I'm talking about are the ones "working up a lather", to me. They don't like being called out for spewing nonsense when they don't know WTH they're talking about.

Posted by: MrExcitement at October 03, 2024 08:36 AM (hOOi9)

185 Helene has done significant damage to Harris and the democrats and they (and the media) don't realize it yet.
Posted by: Ordinary American at October 03, 2024 08:34 AM (NKKzB)
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The pre Elon X wouldn't have allowed this information to get out or moved swiftly to suppress and censor the information as "misinformation."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 03, 2024 08:36 AM (tT6L1)

186 Good morning! Is everything sane yet?

Posted by: Piper at October 03, 2024 08:37 AM (BgmlQ)

187 Another thing about the debate, and the libs' coping: exactly how many of the skills needed do you lose in a few months not debating? The way they talk, Walz has been in a Trappist monastery for the last 20 years.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 03, 2024 08:37 AM (1bNHn)

188 If Trump wins Arizona. As it appears he is doing in polls, Gallego has to persuade people to vote a split ticket to beat Lake, and the election followers repeatedly say voters are less likely to do that than in past years.

If you're going to vote for Trump because you prefer his vision for America, please also vote for me so that I can stymie his efforts at every turn.

-- Gallego

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 03, 2024 08:37 AM (T7iTv)

189 John Kerry has openly declared himself an enemy of America. It's been years in the making, but he knows he is in the mainstream of the Democrat Party, so he is sure he will get lots of support.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 03, 2024 08:37 AM (23qBW)

190 ""MrExcitement" should rename himself "MrExcitable.""

Or he should just go back to using "Scogg Dogg"

Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at October 03, 2024 08:37 AM (89Sog)

191 Another thing about the debate, and the libs' coping: exactly how many of the skills needed do you lose in a few months not debating? The way they talk, Walz has been in a Trappist monastery for the last 20 years.
Posted by: Eeyore

This is why Vance going on all those adversarial sunday shows and interviews is so key. He's always sharp and on his game, he knows where the knives are coming form and how to handle them.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 03, 2024 08:38 AM (CIS44)

192 I want to start a heated spat about the early days of the Chevy small block and how Lee Iacocca was a secret Zoroastian and you're all a bunch of idiots for not bowing to my superior intellect because you can't handle facts and logic.

Who's in?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 03, 2024 08:38 AM (DDGz9)

193 Yonder Horde.

Chilly morning here in Bourbon Country.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 03, 2024 08:30 AM (Q4IgG)

I've heard those cooler temps are good for the products aging in charred virgin barrels in those parts therabouts.

Good morning!

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 03, 2024 08:39 AM (Aqu9a)

194 > Good morning! Is everything sane yet?

Posted by: Piper

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I would rate it SNAFU

Posted by: Don Black at October 03, 2024 08:39 AM (/7KEl)

195 It is splendidly cool and damp this morning. Extremely autumnal.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 03, 2024 08:39 AM (HnUIn)

196 Or he should just go back to using "Scogg Dogg"
Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at October 03, 2024 08:37 AM (89Sog)

That's an insult to scogg.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 03, 2024 08:39 AM (DDGz9)

197 I thought a Deist believes in a Creator God, but that god simply created and walked away and doesn't intervene in the daily affairs of man.

the Divine Clockmaker

but .. not indifferent, just not operating in Time

so spirits of His Divine Creation - like Divine Providence - were left in the creation to aid us.

lol I used to be a Deist when I was fully done with Catholicism. still mostly am but I have seen to much to think the Lord never intervenes. And, no Deist would say that the Creator is "indifferent."

I also spent some time as a Swedenborgian which is pretty out there. we could talk about that! you have to read Revelation a LOT

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 03, 2024 08:40 AM (s3qiR)

198 100 Ahhh...The old "Jefferson was a deiest because he owned a koran" schtick.

Hey fella, mabe do a little research before you claim that.

No go back ad redo your work.

F-
Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at October 03, 2024 07:58 AM (89Sog)
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He was explicitly a Deist. He denied the Incarnation, and the Mosaic miracles. That's a Deist (which, BTW, the Mahometans aren't.) He even went so far as to say God must have a body, or He couldn't exist.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 03, 2024 08:40 AM (1bNHn)

199 I think we all know what Ben Franklin worshipped…

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 03, 2024 08:40 AM (v6JzV)

200 Who's in?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

********

Heh!

Posted by: Muldoon (RIP Jack G.) at October 03, 2024 08:40 AM (uCfKO)

201 I've never even heard Leftists bring up that Koran thing in the context of deism. Just as a prevarication to serve up the false equivalence that "even the founders respected Islam, you bigots!"

A really cynical perversion of history. Par for the course, IOW.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 03, 2024 08:40 AM (awTae)

202 Well, time to walk the pooch. Hard to believe just a few weeks ago I had to be out the door by 5 else it got to warm out.

Later!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 03, 2024 08:40 AM (tT6L1)

203 wasn't there a comedian referred to as 'Mister Excitement' ?

George Gobel I think?

Posted by: Don Black at October 03, 2024 08:40 AM (/7KEl)

204 147 But I have trouble believing this isn't one of the optimal issues for us.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 03, 2024 08:16 AM (1bNHn)

On the other hand, the target really is "Them". It's critical to get a sufficient block of the population to recognize that These People are interchangeable units of a hive mind, and that the real problem is the system of patronage and buttfuckery that lets them keep churning in and out of positions of unaccountable power. Focus on whacking one mole, and six more will pop up.

Focus on "Them", and it doesn't matter which slimeball rises to prominence, the ground work is already laid for the people to dislike them.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 03, 2024 08:21 AM (DDGz9)
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The question is whether others will pay attention to that. They will pay attention to lurid stories like the floods in NC.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 03, 2024 08:42 AM (1bNHn)

205 The question is whether others will pay attention to that. They will pay attention to lurid stories like the floods in NC.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 03, 2024 08:42 AM (1bNHn)

Well i didn't say it would *work*....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 03, 2024 08:42 AM (DDGz9)

206 I think we all know what Ben Franklin worshipped…
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

BOOBS!

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 03, 2024 08:42 AM (CIS44)

207 - By the grace of God, and only by the grace of God, I am a Christian.

And Jesus, God, is the creator of the universe and all matter in it. In other words, nature. He is most definitely Nature's God and, at all times, in control of everything in it. From the tiniest subatomic partical to all human events.
The freedom I have in knowing that He is in control allows me not to worry over current events.
Sooner or later, my Lord will return and rule and reign from Jerusalem.

Posted by: TeeJ at October 03, 2024 08:43 AM (/vvA5)

208 168 She's already made the deal so she'll get credit for ending it.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 03, 2024 08:26 AM (1bNHn)
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I think it's a stupid play, because this has all of the ingredients needed to blow up in Kamala's face. She endorsed a strike which will impact 10's of millions of Americans at a time when people are struggling.

Even if the strike ends tomorrow, Kamala still sided with a rich jackass who didn't care if his intransigence ruined millions.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 03, 2024 08:29 AM (tT6L1)
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OK, you got me. Kamala would NEVER do something stupid.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 03, 2024 08:43 AM (1bNHn)

209 187 Another thing about the debate, and the libs' coping: exactly how many of the skills needed do you lose in a few months not debating? The way they talk, Walz has been in a Trappist monastery for the last 20 years.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 03, 2024 08:37 AM (1bNHn)

I read that Mayor Buttplug was the Vance stand-in during Walz's debate prep. Does anyone think PeteButt portrayed Vance as the man he is? He likely played Vance as the media portray him. Not helping Walz at all; perhaps unintentionally sabotaging Walz.

Posted by: Gref at October 03, 2024 08:44 AM (aBgBM)

210 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 03, 2024 08:45 AM (Zz0t1)

211 I read that Mayor Buttplug was the Vance stand-in during Walz's debate prep. Does anyone think PeteButt portrayed Vance as the man he is? He likely played Vance as the media portray him. Not helping Walz at all; perhaps unintentionally sabotaging Walz.
Posted by: Gref at October 03, 2024 08:44 AM (aBgBM)
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LOL. This is hilarious if it's true.

"Youngish, decent-ish-looking white guy. Who we got? Pete? Sure. Slot him in."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 03, 2024 08:45 AM (HnUIn)

212 It's also...
Mean Girl Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at October 03, 2024 08:11 AM (NpAcC)

That's SO fetch!

Posted by: Doof at October 03, 2024 08:45 AM (vNIMs)

213 https://tinyurl.com/y4pn2cnj

While not an "official" Christian nation, the roots of our nation is most certainly come from the Judeo-Christian ethic.

Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at October 03, 2024 08:45 AM (89Sog)

214 So, Doug Emhoff pimp-slapped his girlfriend in public at Cannes back in 2012. Trump said "pussy" and was falsely accused of rape while committing the heinous crime against humanity of throwing a monkey wrench into the Left Globalists' plan of Fundamental transformation of America into a shithole socialist state.

"HE WAS CONVICTED!!!!!"

- - -- - - - Leftist Retard

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 03, 2024 08:45 AM (Zz0t1)

215 "Youngish, decent-ish-looking white guy. Who we got? Pete? Sure. Slot him in."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at

Slot him in?

*Pete perks up*

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 03, 2024 08:45 AM (CIS44)

216 I read that Mayor Buttplug was the Vance stand-in during Walz's debate prep. Does anyone think PeteButt portrayed Vance as the man he is? He likely played Vance as the media portray him. Not helping Walz at all; perhaps unintentionally sabotaging Walz.
Posted by: Gref at October 03, 2024 08:44 AM (aBgBM)

Somewhere out there is a picture of buttigieg with a fake beard standing on a crate behind a podium.

And yet we don't have it.

Why do you even exist, journalism?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 03, 2024 08:46 AM (DDGz9)

217 Kamala has to side with Labor. No choice. Union members are Democrat foot soldiers. Can't alienate them.

Posted by: Don Black at October 03, 2024 08:46 AM (/7KEl)

218 That's SO fetch!
Posted by: Doof at

Fetch isn't going to happen. Stop trying to make fetch happen.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 03, 2024 08:46 AM (CIS44)

219 That's SO fetch!
Posted by: Doof

**********

Ain't gonna happen!

Posted by: Muldoon (RIP Jack G.) at October 03, 2024 08:46 AM (uCfKO)

220 But obviously no Christian would refer to Jesus (or God) as "Nature's God". Haven't you people ever READ the Preample to the Declaration of Independence? Don't you know how your own Diety is referred to by your fellow Christians?

Today's "Christians" don't have a good understanding of the spiritual world. What started this whole discussion was the silly idea that the Enlightenment is friends with Christianity. It isn't, it is the enemy. Of the many attacks that the Enlightenment has successfully had on Christianity is by eliminating the recognition of a spiritual world. Today's Christianity operates from a secular "Materialistic" perspective that relegates the Paraclete and anything "spiritual" as a external expression of ecstasy and little else.

When our ancestors said "Nature's God", it was in the context of immersion in the knowledge of a spiritual world that is largely alien to us today (thanks Enlightenment for the syncretization!)

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 03, 2024 08:46 AM (rHxhM)

221 Somewhere out there is a picture of buttigieg with a fake beard standing on a crate behind a podium.

And yet we don't have it.

Why do you even exist, journalism?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 03, 2024 08:46 AM (DDGz9)
++++
LOL.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 03, 2024 08:46 AM (HnUIn)

222 I am so glad I invested in these Beanie Babies and Pogs all those years ago, I can ride out these times of economic stress and imminent nuclear war in my cardboard box here in Poughkeepsie.

Posted by: The President of Braniff International Airways and Emperor of Peru at October 03, 2024 08:46 AM (056bO)

223 Good morning dear horde and Happy New Year 5785.

JJ the top pic es magnifico!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 03, 2024 08:46 AM (zG664)

224 MSNBC host Joy Reid said Tuesday night during her network’s vice-presidential debate analysis that the Democratic Party base wants a “fist fight” debate with former President Donald Trump getting a “knuckle sandwich.”

"When it comes down to it, they're gonna have to put a bullet in her."

- - - - - - - - Rick Wilson of the Man Boy Lincoln Project

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 03, 2024 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)

225 I think we all know what Ben Franklin worshipped…
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

BOOBS!
Posted by: BruceWayne at October 03, 2024 08:42 AM (CIS44)

I was going to say "the original grab em by the pu**y guy" but yours works very good.

Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at October 03, 2024 08:47 AM (89Sog)

226 Sen. Murphy thinks that Netanyahu is avoiding peace and ceasefire in order to help Trump. That take is as dumb as it gets

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 03, 2024 08:47 AM (xH5nl)

227 I can see clearly now
with my bifocals on.
I can see all
huge tracts of land
on display.
Gone are the blurry orbs
that had me blind.
It's gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)
Sun-shiny day!
It's gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)
Sun-shiny day!

Posted by: Ben Franklin at October 03, 2024 08:48 AM (Aqu9a)

228 wasn't there a comedian referred to as 'Mister Excitement' ?

George Gobel I think?
Posted by: Don Black

Maybe it was Steven Wright.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 03, 2024 08:48 AM (bMV3R)

229 > I think we all know what Ben Franklin worshipped…

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gettin' some stanky on his hang-down

Posted by: Don Black at October 03, 2024 08:49 AM (/7KEl)

230 Sen. Murphy thinks that Netanyahu is avoiding peace and ceasefire in order to help Trump. That take is as dumb as it gets
Posted by: Smell the Glove

A caller on Clay and Buck yesterday, Jewish woman from NY and self proclaimed "lifetime Zionist", called in and said she's voting for Harris because Trump has enabled BiBi and he's the worst thing to happen to Israel due to his own narcissism. They hung up on her.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 03, 2024 08:49 AM (CIS44)

231 "Kamala and Biden holding a can of gasoline and matches for everyone to see, seems to me as if they know they've got nothing left.

That is correct, and that is exactly why it has taken those two fucking blow hearts to lift a finger to assist NC flood victims. Hopefully, NC will stay red, but there is a tremendous amount of relocators and Illegals.

Posted by: just saying at October 03, 2024 08:49 AM (Uy/WF)

232 Re: Jimmy Carter asking anything.

For his 100th birthday he was taken outside to watch a flyover. Funny thing, he never moved, never did anything but recline in his chair and get pushed around by his attendant. He "watched" the flyover with mouth open, no movement at all, and no one interacted with him except his attendant. He's dead, it appears to me. They're wheeling around a corpse.

https://tinyurl.com/5n6f6e29

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 03, 2024 08:50 AM (0eaVi)

233 Kamala has to side with Labor. No choice. Union members are Democrat foot soldiers. Can't alienate them.
Posted by: Don Black at October 03, 2024 08:46 AM (/7KEl)

I think that's mostly public sector unions - which shouldn't exist. Private sector unions funnel money to the Dems but not nearly as many votes/volunteers.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 03, 2024 08:50 AM (T7iTv)

234 gettin' some stanky on his hang-down
Posted by: Don Black

esp is it was French and Busty

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 03, 2024 08:50 AM (CIS44)

235 155 - deist: essentially, someone who believes in a single God/creator, but that God does not intervene in events.

..." with a firm reliance on divine Providence,...

Yep, sounds like it was written by a deist to me. /s
Posted by: TeeJ at October 03, 2024 08:24 AM (/vvA5)

Well, Jefferson wrote the original draft, which was edited somewhat (mostly by Franklin, I think), so perhaps someone else in the committee threw in that stuff at the end in there. The Constitution has "in the year of our Lord" thrown in at the end too.

But "the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them" are certainly not the words of a Christian. Certainly the Bible doesn't have anything about how people should have an "equal station". If anything, the God of the Bible subjected people to slavery on occasion. Slavery is all over the Bible, and if there's anything in there that says it's a bad thing, I haven't heard it, and it was ignored for over a millennium.

Posted by: MrExcitement at October 03, 2024 08:51 AM (hOOi9)

236 226 Sen. Murphy thinks that Netanyahu is avoiding peace and ceasefire in order to help Trump. That take is as dumb as it gets
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 03, 2024 08:47 AM (xH5nl)

Not dumb. A disgusting and horrendoous blood libel.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 03, 2024 08:51 AM (x0n13)

237 @232 OrangeEnt , a vote is a vote

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 03, 2024 08:51 AM (xH5nl)

238 How can someone as nasty, vicious and stupid as Joy Reid have a high paying job?

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at October 03, 2024 08:52 AM (FfSAJ)

239 That's SO fetch!
Posted by: Doof
----------------------------------------
Fetch isn't going to happen. Stop trying to make fetch happen.
Posted by: BruceWayne

Ain't gonna happen!
Posted by: Muldoon (RIP Jack G.)

It's happening. You can't stop it!

Posted by: Doof at October 03, 2024 08:52 AM (vNIMs)

240 186 Good morning! Is everything sane yet?
Posted by: Piper

Not bloody likely!

Posted by: Rockland State Hospital at October 03, 2024 08:52 AM (CV8a5)

241 A caller on Clay and Buck yesterday, Jewish woman from NY and self proclaimed "lifetime Zionist", called in and said she's voting for Harris because Trump has enabled BiBi and he's the worst thing to happen to Israel due to his own narcissism. They hung up on her.
Posted by: BruceWayne at October 03, 2024 08:49 AM (CIS44)

Jewish woman from NY and self proclaimed "lifetime Zionist" - is that anything like lifelong Republican?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 03, 2024 08:52 AM (T7iTv)

242 How can someone as nasty, vicious and stupid as Joy Reid have a high paying job?
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at October 03, 2024 08:52 AM (FfSAJ)

That's like asking how someone as good at hockey as Gretzky had a job.

That is her job.

She excels at it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 03, 2024 08:53 AM (DDGz9)

243 The American experiment, lest we forget, was given life by men who patterned it on Judeo-Christian tradition and history.

Judeo-Christian?

How many of the Founding Fathers were "judeo"?

Posted by: Carnivoro-Vegan Tradition at October 03, 2024 08:53 AM (FDBcy)

244 Jewish woman from NY and self proclaimed "lifetime Zionist" - is that anything like lifelong Republican?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

That's what I said in my car when she called in hahah

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 03, 2024 08:53 AM (CIS44)

245 220 But obviously no Christian would refer to Jesus (or God) as "Nature's God"...

...Of the many attacks that the Enlightenment has successfully had on Christianity is by eliminating the recognition of a spiritual world. Today's Christianity operates from a secular "Materialistic" perspective that relegates the Paraclete and anything "spiritual" as a external expression of ecstasy and little else.

When our ancestors said "Nature's God", it was in the context of immersion in the knowledge of a spiritual world that is largely alien to us today (thanks Enlightenment for the syncretization!)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 03, 2024 08:46 AM (rHxhM)
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While you are right that Jefferson was not a Christian other than by having Christian origins, the rest is unclear. Are you arguing that Christians must be Occasionalists? (I note that the last sentence above contradicts the first.)

Posted by: Eeyore at October 03, 2024 08:53 AM (1bNHn)

246 Jack Smith's parents should be arrested, tried and convicted for crimes against humanity.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 03, 2024 08:53 AM (Zz0t1)

247 "no Joy" Reid along with her radical, mainstream media propagandists are pounding on the physical violence drum pretty hard these days.

I sort of hope they get what they're asking for themselves. In spades.

Be funny one day to see a bunch of them live, on air with black eyes, split lips, bruises and what not. All with this "deer in the headlights" look.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 03, 2024 08:53 AM (Q4IgG)

248 Helene has done significant damage to Harris and the democrats and they (and the media) don't realize it yet.
Posted by: Ordinary American at October 03, 2024 08:34 AM (NKKzB)
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The pre Elon X wouldn't have allowed this information to get out or moved swiftly to suppress and censor the information as "misinformation."
Posted by: blake

Saw someone on Facebook trying to say Zuckerberg is leaving the dem plantation and wants to become an independent. Seems he doesn't want to pay taxes on unrealized gains for Facebook.

I call BS.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 03, 2024 08:54 AM (zVeXI)

249 Good morning.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at October 03, 2024 08:54 AM (Rbu5d)

250 I think the Enlightenment had good and bad effects. Can’t paint such a large movement with one brush.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 03, 2024 08:54 AM (v6JzV)

251 That teacher that got fired for NOT using pronouns, the court said: “Absent a truly compelling reason for doing so,” Judge Kelsey continued, “no government committed to these principles can lawfully coerce its citizens into pledging verbal allegiance to ideological views that violate their sincerely held religious beliefs.”

Well I would change that at the end and either remove 'religious' or add 'secular/scientific'.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, le scuole sono diventate matte at October 03, 2024 08:54 AM (qfLjt)

252 "The latest evidence of this trend is from the bloated, yammering sub-literate bipedal knockwurst known as Joy Reid"

Hey, now.

Posted by: Knockwurst everywhere. at October 03, 2024 08:54 AM (Rbu5d)

253 It's also...
Mean Girl Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at October 03, 2024 08:11 AM (NpAcC)

That's SO fetch!
Posted by: Doof a

Shouldn't Mean Girl Day happen on a Wednesday so we can all wear pink?

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 03, 2024 08:56 AM (CIS44)

254 >How many of the Founding Fathers were "judeo"?

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and where would they even learn judo?

Posted by: Don Black at October 03, 2024 08:56 AM (/7KEl)

255 I was never called "Mr. Excitement", but have been named "America's slowest-rising comedian" since 1962!

Posted by: Ronnie Schell at October 03, 2024 08:56 AM (CV8a5)

256 Kamala will be campaigning in Fox Valley, Wisconsin today. She will be joined by Liz Cheney.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 03, 2024 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

257 I think the secret service pulled some agents from Trump in order to increase security for Carter.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 03, 2024 08:57 AM (bMV3R)

258 243 Haym Salomon is the only one I can think of. Not really a “Founder,” but he did secure financing for the Continental Army.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 03, 2024 08:58 AM (v6JzV)

259 I think my favorite take of the VP debate thus far is that Vance "MANSPLAINED" the moderators by fact checking them to their faces mid debate.

God or SMOD.

Let's get this over with.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 03, 2024 08:58 AM (Zz0t1)

260 I think the Enlightenment had good and bad effects. Can’t paint such a large movement with one brush.

True. We got John Locke (natural rights and government), Kant (human reason and individual autonomy), Newton (maths), Montesquieu (separation of powers) to counter assholes like Rousseau and Voltaire

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 03, 2024 08:58 AM (rHxhM)

261 213 https://tinyurl.com/y4pn2cnj

While not an "official" Christian nation, the roots of our nation is most certainly come from the Judeo-Christian ethic.
Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at October 03, 2024 08:45 AM (89Sog)

All that says is that the American Experiment required the People to be virtuous. It doesn't even stipulate that the People have to be Christian, or Jewish, and it says nothing about exactly what "Judeo-Christian ethic" the nation is based on. Like I said, the 1st Amendment is literally in direct opposition to the most fundamental and important rules in the Judeo-Christian: the Ten Commandments.

So this is complete nonsense, spewn by people who don't pay attention to what either our founding documents, or the Ten Commandments actually SAY. They just want to claim the unmitigated success of the American Experiment as their own, but it's just NOT.

Posted by: MrExcitement at October 03, 2024 08:58 AM (hOOi9)

262 I'm so old, I actually remember Ronnie Schell

Posted by: Don Black at October 03, 2024 08:58 AM (/7KEl)

263 Jack Smith’s book report won’t moves the needle one bit. That election was rigged and most people know it.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 03, 2024 08:58 AM (kwCuz)

264 Heh.

When your campaign hail mary is a fat scruffy nepot everyone sees a a turncoat.

The turd in the punchbowl of the uniparty.

A nonentity whose only qualification is having been sired by one of the (now) most unliked vice presidents in recent history.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 03, 2024 09:00 AM (DDGz9)

265 “no government committed to these principles can lawfully coerce its citizens into pledging verbal allegiance to ideological views ~~that violate their sincerely held religious beliefs~~.”

Fixed it. The sincerity of the person isn't an issue. The reason for their resistance isn't an issue. The government MAY NOT compel speech without prior acceptance of that restriction (military).

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 03, 2024 09:00 AM (T7iTv)

266 oh for the love of pete

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 03, 2024 09:00 AM (SfhV1)

267 How can someone as nasty, vicious and stupid as Joy Reid have a high paying job?
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at October 03, 2024 08:52 AM (FfSAJ)
++++
Because she's skilled and talented at her job. She does her job with aplomb and is renowned for it. She earns her money.

Her job is not to tell the truth. Her job is not to describe, explain, discuss or debate. Her job is not to be smart. Her job is to rabble-rouse. Her job is to promote in-group unity among the shrews who watch her. Her job is to poison her audience, so that her audience will go poison their friends and husbands.

You don't need to be smart to do her job, you just need to be pure and shift with the winds of change in the Party. Reid does that, and does it well.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 03, 2024 09:00 AM (HnUIn)

268 "Posted by: MrExcitement at October 03, 2024 08:58 AM (hOOi9)"

You have trouble reading the "not official" part mr. i have toberightallthetimescoggdoggy"

??

Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at October 03, 2024 09:00 AM (89Sog)

269 Riley Gaines: Here are 5 reasons my generation (Zoomers) are ready to vote for Trump.

https://tinyurl.com/5dpzek8n

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 03, 2024 09:01 AM (CIS44)

270 Mr. Excitement! is a 1992 Rhino Records three disc compilation album of the music of R&B singer Jackie Wilson.

According to Wiki

It's also former NASCAR driver Jimmy Spenser's moniker.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 03, 2024 09:01 AM (Q4IgG)

271 Lefty "Joy" - sitting in your pod, watching streaming Disney content, eating bugs, and wondering what did happen to your testicles after they removed them

And yes this is sort of the plot of "The Matrix"

Posted by: 18-1 at October 03, 2024 09:01 AM (oZhjI)

272 235 ...But "the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them" are certainly not the words of a Christian. Certainly the Bible doesn't have anything about how people should have an "equal station". If anything, the God of the Bible subjected people to slavery on occasion. Slavery is all over the Bible, and if there's anything in there that says it's a bad thing, I haven't heard it, and it was ignored for over a millennium.
Posted by: MrExcitement at October 03, 2024 08:51 AM (hOOi9)
_______
There's a lot wrong there. (1) Contrary to what you seem to think, natural law is a longstanding belief of Christians. It was only a late minority among Protestants who disputed that. (2) In fact, the Church started working against slavery as soon as she could. By the end of the 1st millennium most of W Europe had gotten rid of it. Most who hadn't were cheek by jowel with Muzzies or pagans. (Anglo Saxon England was one hold out.) (3) The "separate and equal station" above refers to our status as a nation among other nations.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 03, 2024 09:02 AM (1bNHn)

273 Riley Gaines: Here are 5 reasons my generation (Zoomers) are ready to vote for Trump.

https://tinyurl.com/5dpzek8n
Posted by: BruceWayne at October 03, 2024 09:01 AM (CIS44)
++++
1. Your generation barely exists. The model's broken. Natural curve variance out front should've told you.
2. That said, I expect the Zoomers to break more evenly across candidates than equivalent age cohorts have in the past. The Zoomers, such as they exist, appear so far to be less monolithic than the Millennials.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 03, 2024 09:02 AM (HnUIn)

274 By the grace of God, and only by the grace of God, I am a Christian.

Amen. Good morning TeeJ! I woke up way too early. Hope all is well with you!

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at October 03, 2024 09:02 AM (PcTds)

275 Fixed it. The sincerity of the person isn't an issue. The reason for their resistance isn't an issue. The government MAY NOT compel speech without prior acceptance of that restriction (military).

It will attempt to do so though until someone attempts to force speech of this type the other way.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 03, 2024 09:02 AM (oZhjI)

276 'spewn' is not a word

this spelling error renders the entire comment invalid, and you are awarded no points

Posted by: Don Black at October 03, 2024 09:02 AM (/7KEl)

277 2. That said, I expect the Zoomers to break more evenly across candidates than equivalent age cohorts have in the past. The Zoomers, such as they exist, appear so far to be less monolithic than the Millennials.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) a

Especially the men, they are sick and tired of being told they are evil for existing.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 03, 2024 09:03 AM (CIS44)

278 The term Judeo-Christian was invented in the 1950's.
When you cite "This is a Christian nation," you should expect to hear about some of the Sunni/Shiite religious civil war between Christians you'll see right here in these pages. Some of those majority Christians you're counting are more desirous of your rights and property than a like number of other religions, or even the dreaded Athi-est.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at October 03, 2024 09:03 AM (zdLoL)

279 Lefty "Joy" - sitting in your pod, watching streaming Disney content, eating bugs, and wondering what did happen to your testicles after they removed them

And yes this is sort of the plot of "The Matrix"
Posted by: 18-1 at October 03, 2024 09:01 AM (oZhjI)
++++
And, like the Matrix, there is still an underlying assumption of work. Still gotta go to work.

Too bad lots of people - increasingly, men in their prime growth years of 25-50 - simply ... aren't. Turns out that the world is complicated.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 03, 2024 09:03 AM (HnUIn)

280 I think the secret service pulled some agents from Trump in order to increase security for Carter.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 03, 2024 08:57 AM (bMV3R)

Like anyone could get a shot off on Carter. The way that guy moves... lightning looks slow.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 03, 2024 09:04 AM (T7iTv)

281 oh for the love of pete
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 03, 2024 09:00 AM (SfhV1)

Thank you for your support.

Posted by: Zombie Pete Rose at October 03, 2024 09:04 AM (Zz0t1)

282 262 I'm so old, I actually remember Ronnie Schell
Posted by: Don Black

Hey, I'm still alive over here. Wanna hire me? I'm only 92!

Posted by: Ronnie Schell at October 03, 2024 09:04 AM (CV8a5)

283 I'm losing track of all the nicknames for all the generations

Posted by: Don Black at October 03, 2024 09:05 AM (/7KEl)

284
*sings*

I love China
and China loves me
I go to China all the time
To prove that I'm Commie
I have a master
And his name is Xi
And he'll be your master
If you vote me V.P.!
Yay!

Posted by: Tim Walz Skipping About with Jazz Hands at October 03, 2024 09:05 AM (eDfFs)

285 It's also former NASCAR driver Jimmy Spenser's moniker.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 03, 2024 09:01 AM (Q4IgG)

It's amazing that fat bastard could fit through the window to get in a car.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 03, 2024 09:05 AM (Zz0t1)

286 > I think we all know what Ben Franklin worshipped…

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gettin' some stanky on his hang-down
Posted by: Don Black at October 03, 2024 08:49 AM

ShoeOnHead had a few on point things to say about ol' Ben the other day toward the end of this vid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuSGAVwBYiw

Skip to about 16:35.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 03, 2024 09:05 AM (Wnv9h)

287 Not dumb. A disgusting and horrendoous blood libel.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

We've had worse.

Posted by: Baby-Blood Matzah at October 03, 2024 09:05 AM (JCZqz)

288 "With Vance having this great showing as the heir apparent to Trump, i wonder if the assassination attempts start to dwindle?
Posted by: Warai-otoko"

If it starts to look like a fraud-proof Trump win I think the Deep State will change from random snipers to straight-up up hit teams. Death squads, if you will.

Posted by: Ripley at October 03, 2024 09:05 AM (GUOwU)

289 Wait, it’s not Judo Christian? Damnit! My image of the founding fathers as martial artist monks was wrong?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 03, 2024 09:06 AM (kwCuz)

290 I think the Enlightenment had good and bad effects. Can’t paint such a large movement with one brush.

True. We got John Locke (natural rights and government), Kant (human reason and individual autonomy), Newton (maths), Montesquieu (separation of powers) to counter assholes like Rousseau and Voltaire
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 03, 2024 08:58 AM (rHxhM)

Point of parliamentary procedure!

Ladies and gentlemen, I'll be brief. The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our female party guests - we did. *winks*

Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the entire Western Civilization. Gentlemen!

Posted by: Brother Otter defending the Enlightenment at October 03, 2024 09:06 AM (Aqu9a)

291 I haven’t been paying attention to senate races. Just noticed Texas. What in the fuck is going on? Cruz is barely hanging on. Yikes.

Posted by: Settled Science at October 03, 2024 09:06 AM (oajh5)

292 - @235

I guess the phrase "no respecter of persons" doesn't ring a bell with you.
God has placed each and every person in their place, their position and their time, to fulfill His perfect will, His perfect plan, for His creation and everything in it.
He is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

And as far as the founders, you might consider checking out a group called Wallbuilders. Been around a long time. Numerous letters and such written by them.
Or you can hang onto your nonsense like those who hang onto their nonsense of billions of years and we all evolved from pond scum.

Time to get productive.

Posted by: TeeJ at October 03, 2024 09:06 AM (/vvA5)

293 Thank you for your support.
Posted by: Zombie Pete Rose at October 03, 2024 09:04 AM (Zz0t1)

Maybe she meant me, Dutch Boy!

Posted by: Zombie Pete Rozelle at October 03, 2024 09:06 AM (vNIMs)

294 283 I'm losing track of all the nicknames for all the generations
Posted by: Don Black at October 03, 2024 09:05 AM (/7KEl)

1) People My Age
2) Assholes

That's all of them. And (1) is really just a subset of (2), anyway.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 03, 2024 09:06 AM (DDGz9)

295 If it starts to look like a fraud-proof Trump win I think the Deep State will change from random snipers to straight-up up hit teams. Death squads, if you will.
Posted by: Ripley

They'll activate one of their actual "House Painters"

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 03, 2024 09:07 AM (CIS44)

296 I haven’t been paying attention to senate races. Just noticed Texas. What in the fuck is going on? Cruz is barely hanging on. Yikes.
Posted by: Settled Science at October 03, 2024 09:06 AM (oajh5)

Chuck Schumer and the DNC is spending MILLIONS in TX to get rid of Cruz. They're playing the abortion game HARD.......

"It's DANGEROUS for women in Texas."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 03, 2024 09:07 AM (Zz0t1)

297 Are you arguing that Christians must be Occasionalists? (I note that the last sentence above contradicts the first.)

The best analogy that I can squeeze into a Pixy-Determined length post is:

Imagine all of Creation being a simulation in God's mind.

As I understand Occasionalists, Malebranche denied causal power to natural substances and everything required specific interaction by God.

I'm more in line with the first chapter of the book "Privileged Planet" where the authors (Intelligent Design advocates) propose a Creation where the Design is self running due to the attributes and characteristics of the inherent design.

The intervention happens in the spiritual world on the implanting of desires/temptations into the minds/hearts of men. Its the manipulation of the will and desires that give us the seemingly non deterministic outcomes.

That, and the whole process of Election/Redemption where God changes the heart of stone to flesh and brings the spiritually dead to life.

As far as Divine Intervention as in the shot missing blowing Trump's head off, I'm open to that possibility.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 03, 2024 09:08 AM (rHxhM)

298 Kamala will be campaigning in Fox Valley, Wisconsin today. She will be joined by Liz Cheney.
Posted by: redridinghood at October 03, 2024 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

That's an attractive duo.

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at October 03, 2024 09:08 AM (FfSAJ)

299 oh for the love of pete
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 03, 2024 09:00 AM (SfhV1)

Thank you for your support.
Posted by: Zombie Pete Rose at October 03, 2024 09:04 AM (Zz0t1)

I assumed she was referring to me. -- Pete Buttigieg

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 03, 2024 09:08 AM (T7iTv)

300 I haven’t been paying attention to senate races. Just noticed Texas. What in the fuck is going on? Cruz is barely hanging on. Yikes.
Posted by: Settled Science at October 03, 2024 09:06 AM (oajh5)

Chuck Schumer and the DNC is spending MILLIONS in TX to get rid of Cruz. They're playing the abortion game HARD.......

"It's DANGEROUS for women in Texas."
Posted by: Sponge - F

Yet I get 3 texts a day from ActBlue that Allred is making no money losing bigly and I must donate today to save the country. 6X match.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 03, 2024 09:09 AM (CIS44)

301 260 I think the Enlightenment had good and bad effects. Can’t paint such a large movement with one brush.

True. We got John Locke (natural rights and government), Kant (human reason and individual autonomy), Newton (maths), Montesquieu (separation of powers) to counter assholes like Rousseau and Voltaire
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 03, 2024 08:58 AM (rHxhM)
________
I'll pass on the first pair, and reject your claim about them. Locke inherited Natural Rights (not sure what "and government" means here), and IMO, emasculated them. Kant didn't give us a belief in reason, quite the opposite. ("Critique" means "criticism", not "defense".) And modern notions of autonomy were a curse, but like many such, predate the "Enlightenment". (Is there any equally question begging title?)

Posted by: Eeyore at October 03, 2024 09:09 AM (1bNHn)

302 oh for the love of pete
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 03, 2024 09:00 AM (SfhV1)

Thank you for your support.
Posted by: Zombie Pete Rose at October 03, 2024 09:04 AM

Where's Masturbatin' Pete when you need him?

*places ball neatly on T*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 03, 2024 09:09 AM (Wnv9h)

303 "It's DANGEROUS for women in Texas."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 03, 2024 09:07 AM (Zz0t1)

I can't understand why someone would send the whole country to hell purely for this one issue.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 03, 2024 09:10 AM (SfhV1)

304 "It's DANGEROUS for women in Texas."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 03, 2024 09:07 AM (Zz0t1)

Especially by that jogging trail in downtown Austin along the Colorado River.

Posted by: Roy at October 03, 2024 09:10 AM (z+ik4)

305 I'm losing track of all the nicknames for all the generations
Posted by: Don Black at October 03, 2024 09:05 AM (/7KEl)
++++
Greatest: Not a generation at all, but a colloquial descriptor for those coming of age or recently of age in the War era
Silent: a shoehorned pseudo-generation, crammed into an ill-fitting model
Boomer: the first real "generation," and a sociodemographic aberration, begotten by Greatest and Silent
X: the second real "generation," begotten by Silent and Boomer
Millennial: the final real "generation" (though the model was becoming threadbare), begotten by Boomer and X
Z: a shoehorned pseudo-generation, the last gasp of an ill-fitting model, begotten by X and the Millennials
Alpha: Not a generation at all. The model is broken. Totally irrelevant.

Posted by: It's unclear because the whole thing makes no sense at October 03, 2024 09:10 AM (HnUIn)

306 I can't understand why someone would send the whole country to hell purely for this one issue.
Posted by: grammie winger -

Killing babies en masse is THAT important.
-Karen

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 03, 2024 09:10 AM (CIS44)

307 The sentencing of Trump should be an interesting look at how far the Dems are willing to go. We know they look the other way on assassination attempts or actively support them. Sending Trump to jail for the crap that he was " convicted" of wil be an open declaration of war.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 03, 2024 09:10 AM (xH5nl)

308 283 I'm losing track of all the nicknames for all the generations
Posted by: Don Black at October 03, 2024 09:05 AM (/7KEl)

1) People My Age
2) Assholes

That's all of them. And (1) is really just a subset of (2), anyway.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 03, 2024 09:06 AM (DDGz9)

Exactly!

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 03, 2024 09:10 AM (Aqu9a)

309
Yet I get 3 texts a day from ActBlue that Allred is making no money losing bigly and I must donate today to save the country. 6X match.
Posted by: BruceWayne at October 03, 2024 09:09 AM (CIS44)

I will admit Cruz has a hard hitting ad about Allred supporting boys in girls sports with the end of the ad showing a girl getting 'blown up' on the playing field, then a large dude standing over her with a jersey on with Allred on the back.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 03, 2024 09:11 AM (Zz0t1)

310 I haven’t been paying attention to senate races. Just noticed Texas. What in the fuck is going on? Cruz is barely hanging on. Yikes.
Posted by: Settled Science at October 03, 2024 09:06 AM (oajh5)

Not my Sen, not my area, but does he ever really get anything done anymore? Seems he should, but I don't hear much about any successes he's had in changing things for the better. But, then again, trust in polling isn't that high.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 03, 2024 09:11 AM (0eaVi)

311 Kamala will be campaigning in Fox Valley, Wisconsin today. She will be joined by Liz Cheney.
Posted by: redridinghood at October 03, 2024 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

We've been getting multiple visits. I think Trump was in Milwaukee again yesterday.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 03, 2024 09:11 AM (SfhV1)

312 Where's Masturbatin' Pete when you need him?

*places ball neatly on T*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 03, 2024 09:09 AM (Wnv9h)

Premise rejected -- there are NO circumstances where he is NEEDED!

Posted by: Doof at October 03, 2024 09:11 AM (vNIMs)

313 Alpha: Not a generation at all. The model is broken. Totally irrelevant.

I totally agree with the entire "generation" assessment, especially the conclusion.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 03, 2024 09:12 AM (rHxhM)

314 "Generations" are purely a 20th-c. marketing tactic.

They can be a little bit handy in demographic modeling, but probably cause more epistemological dead ends than beneficial insights.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 03, 2024 09:12 AM (DDGz9)

315 > It's also former NASCAR driver Jimmy Spenser's moniker.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 03, 2024 09:01 AM (Q4IgG)

It's amazing that fat bastard could fit through the window to get in a car.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 03, 2024 09:05 AM (Zz0t1)
-------------
I saw and extended interview with him on YT years ago. Might have been on Dale Jr.'s podcast. Dude has zero fucks to give about anything. And doesn't care. Did the whole interview with a huge cigar, matter of fact attitude. Proper.

On a NASCAR related topic that dovetails into the devastation in NC; Greg Biffle (former driver for Rouch Racing) was in his helicopter and observed a person in distress on the ground. Proceeded to bring the man meds, water, food, etc. Said he's going to use his helicopters (plural) to deliver aid.

https://tinyurl.com/4xmz2m8d (goes to X)

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 03, 2024 09:13 AM (Q4IgG)

316 311 Kamala will be campaigning in Fox Valley, Wisconsin today. She will be joined by Liz Cheney.
Posted by: redridinghood at October 03, 2024 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

We've been getting multiple visits. I think Trump was in Milwaukee again yesterday.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 03, 2024 09:11 AM (SfhV1)

Maybe she'll visit Lambert Field.

Posted by: Roy at October 03, 2024 09:13 AM (z+ik4)

317 Europe Being Held Back by ‘Whiteness’, Claims Soros-Backed Think Tank

How about:
"Africa Being Held Back by 'Blackness', Claims..."
Or: China Being Held Back by 'Yellowness'...
Or here's a doozy:
US Inner Cities Being Held Back by 'Blackness'...

Yeah, didn't think so.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at October 03, 2024 09:13 AM (Rbu5d)

318 >>MSNBC host Joy Reid said Tuesday night during her network’s vice-presidential debate analysis that the Democratic Party base wants a “fist fight” debate with former President Donald Trump getting a “knuckle sandwich.”

Cae we please send her to her ancestral homelands of the Congo or Guyana?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 03, 2024 09:13 AM (scDBq)

319 I will admit Cruz has a hard hitting ad about Allred supporting boys in girls sports with the end of the ad showing a girl getting 'blown up' on the playing field, then a large dude standing over her with a jersey on with Allred on the back.
Posted by: Sponge

HA, that's great. hard hitting ISWYDT

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 03, 2024 09:13 AM (CIS44)

320 I can't understand why someone would send the whole country to hell purely for this one issue.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 03, 2024 09:10 AM (SfhV1)

I don't think you understand how important it is to have unprotected sex with hundreds of men while not on some form of birth control without worrying about being burdened by the entirely foreseeable consequences of those actions. Hot girl summer!

-- lefty wymmans

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 03, 2024 09:14 AM (T7iTv)

321 Newton wasn’t Enlightenment. Too early.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 03, 2024 09:15 AM (v6JzV)

322 >>Kamala will be campaigning in Fox Valley, Wisconsin today. She will be joined by Liz Cheney.

I guess she's done "helping" North Carolina - they all good?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 03, 2024 09:15 AM (scDBq)

323 Yeah, didn't think so.
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at October 03, 2024 09:13 AM (Rbu5d)

"Held back".... from what?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 03, 2024 09:15 AM (DDGz9)

324 "Generations" are purely a 20th-c. marketing tactic.

They can be a little bit handy in demographic modeling, but probably cause more epistemological dead ends than beneficial insights.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 03, 2024 09:12 AM (DDGz9)
++++
The concept and model was fit for purpose, in its context. It was aberrant. The world isn't *that* orderly when it comes to human affairs.

The Boomers were *real.* The world took a 5-10 year break from babymaking, turned on its gimbals and then restarted with gusto under entirely new assumptions and cultures. It was unprecedented in history. It had very real consequences, and a hard "generational" line was one of them. The model came out of the need to deal with the reality of what had happened.

It was just aberrant. It is abnormal. The lines aren't usually so clear, and things are getting back to their normal hodge-podge where old-fashioned "age cohorts" make much more sense than new-fangled "generational distinctions" do.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 03, 2024 09:16 AM (HnUIn)

325 322 >>Kamala will be campaigning in Fox Valley, Wisconsin today. She will be joined by Liz Cheney.

I guess she's done "helping" North Carolina - they all good?
Posted by: Lizzy at October 03, 2024 09:15 AM (scDBq)

The folks in NC paid for her trip to get her the fuck out.

Posted by: Roy at October 03, 2024 09:16 AM (z+ik4)

326 Kamala will be campaigning in Fox Valley, Wisconsin today. She will be joined by Liz Cheney.
Posted by: redridinghood at October 03, 2024 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

That's an attractive duo.
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at October 03, 2024 09:08 AM

That's a singularity of stupid evil.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 03, 2024 09:16 AM (Wnv9h)

327 The Fox Valley leans conservative.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 03, 2024 09:16 AM (SfhV1)

328 I'll pass on the first pair, and reject your claim about them. Locke inherited Natural Rights (not sure what "and government" means here)

I'm trying to be charitable. Locke is noted for ideas on the relationship of Natural Rights to government.

Its been a while since I cared about the effluvia of the Enlightenment.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 03, 2024 09:16 AM (rHxhM)

329 @323 from going full on totalitarian

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 03, 2024 09:18 AM (xH5nl)

330 effluvia

you don't see that one a lot

Posted by: Don Black at October 03, 2024 09:18 AM (/7KEl)

331 On a NASCAR related topic that dovetails into the devastation in NC; Greg Biffle (former driver for Rouch Racing) was in his helicopter and observed a person in distress on the ground. Proceeded to bring the man meds, water, food, etc. Said he's going to use his helicopters (plural) to deliver aid.

https://tinyurl.com/4xmz2m8d (goes to X)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 03, 2024 09:13 AM (Q4IgG)

And the liberal f*cktard police chief will have him arrested.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 03, 2024 09:18 AM (Zz0t1)

332 effluvia

you don't see that one a lot
Posted by: Don Black

Isn't that the hangy down thing in your throat?

/s

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 03, 2024 09:19 AM (CIS44)

333 Remember, Adam Smith was Enlightenment, too.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 03, 2024 09:19 AM (v6JzV)

334 Kamala has been practicing saying "don't cha know" in her Marge Gunderson accent.

Posted by: Roy at October 03, 2024 09:19 AM (z+ik4)

335 effluvia

you don't see that one a lot
Posted by: Don Black at October 03, 2024 09:18 AM (/7KEl)

Do not take effluvia if you are allergic to effluvia.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 03, 2024 09:19 AM (DDGz9)

336 Newton wasn’t Enlightenment. Too early.

Would we all be happier if I added: Darwin, Marx, Freud, Darby and Nietzsche or is that too late?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 03, 2024 09:19 AM (rHxhM)

337 effluvia

you don't see that one a lot
Posted by: Don Black

Isn't that the hangy down thing in your throat?

/s
Posted by: BruceWayne at October 03, 2024 09:19 AM (CIS44)

And/or a prog rock album?

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 03, 2024 09:20 AM (Aqu9a)

338 Obviously, I don't want Texas to have a Dem senator but I hope this is Cruz's last election. He's been "all hat no cattle" for years.

He's principled and a genuine conservative, especially compared to Cornyn but I don't think he's actually accomplished anything in his terms, especially not when you hold up his record bs his boisterous rhetoric.

I prefer a guy like Ron Johnson of WI, who is just as conservative but keeps his nose to the grindstone and doesn't make waves. Cruz talks too big a game for so little results.

Posted by: Shenanigans at October 03, 2024 09:20 AM (wGun1)

339 Kamala has been practicing saying "don't cha know" in her Marge Gunderson accent.

Posted by: Roy at October 03, 2024 09:19 AM (z+ik4)

I hadn't thought of that. Funny if she does.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 03, 2024 09:20 AM (SfhV1)

340 >>effluvia

>>you don't see that one a lot

You never see effluvia.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 03, 2024 09:21 AM (LkLld)

341 Do you see the light?

Posted by: Jake Blues at October 03, 2024 09:21 AM (Aqu9a)

342 You never see effluvia.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 03, 2024 09:21 AM (LkLld)
++++
Maybe *you* don't.

Posted by: Licensed Practical Nurse at October 03, 2024 09:22 AM (HnUIn)

343 This will piss you off regarding FEMA's history of fuck ups that are on purpose because of money.

https://tinyurl.com/4xjzdkwh

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 03, 2024 09:22 AM (17s+e)

344 243 The American experiment, lest we forget, was given life by men who patterned it on Judeo-Christian tradition and history.

Judeo-Christian?

How many of the Founding Fathers were "judeo"?

Posted by: Carnivoro-Vegan Tradition at October 03, 2024 08:53 AM (FDBcy)

Uh, you didn't get Christianity without the Jewish part first.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 03, 2024 09:22 AM (x0n13)

345 Isn't that the hangy down thing in your throat?

Posted by: BruceWayne

I'm considered an expert. That's not what I call them.

Posted by: Kumalot at October 03, 2024 09:22 AM (WXNFJ)

346
Isn't that the hangy down thing in your throat?

/s
Posted by: BruceWayne at October 03, 2024 09:19 AM (CIS44

Stop sign during deep throat.

Posted by: Kumswala Harris at October 03, 2024 09:22 AM (Zz0t1)

347 Baldwin trying to appeal to potential split ticket Republicans in WI says all you need to know about Trump's standing in the rust belt.

I think he's going to sweep those states.

Posted by: Shenanigans at October 03, 2024 09:22 AM (wGun1)

348 "With Vance having this great showing as the heir apparent to Trump, i wonder if the assassination attempts start to dwindle?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

I've seen several DU conspiracy theories recently about Vance being the Christo-Fascist Trojan Horse, and the plan is to 25th Amendment Trump once in office. That place is like a mirror...it looks similar to this place, just completely backwards.

And retarded.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 03, 2024 09:22 AM (JCZqz)

349 Effluvia sounds like a tiny land-locked principality somewhere in Europe

Posted by: Don Black at October 03, 2024 09:22 AM (/7KEl)

350 297 Imagine all of Creation being a simulation in God's mind.
Why?

As I understand Occasionalists, Malebranche denied causal power to natural substances and everything required specific interaction by God.
Correct, but it goes much further back. It became dominant among Mahometans after Al Gazali. Among Christians it, like most bad ideas, was largely Occamite. Locke probably was, but he's unclear. Hume fixed that with occasionalism for atheists.

I'm more in line with ... "Privileged Planet" where the authors ... propose a Creation where the Design is self running due to ... the inherent design.
The real argument is whether the design is like a car or like a tree. Classical theology rejects the watchmaker in favor of these being in the natures of things.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 03, 2024 09:08 AM (rHxhM)
_______

Posted by: Eeyore at October 03, 2024 09:23 AM (1bNHn)

351 Do you see effluvia or don't you?

Depends.

Posted by: Joe's handlers at October 03, 2024 09:23 AM (z+ik4)

352
Too bad lots of people - increasingly, men in their prime growth years of 25-50 - simply ... aren't. Turns out that the world is complicated.

Well...here is the thing about work - people do it because they want food, goods and services. If they can get those things without work why would they? The more we give to people for not working the less people as a whole will work. This is the theoretical problem with socialism/welfare.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 03, 2024 09:23 AM (oZhjI)

353 I always read "judeo Christian" to mean "old testament followers and new testament followers"

Posted by: Shenanigans at October 03, 2024 09:23 AM (wGun1)

354 Man, that's a lot of links, JJ! Please take the weekend off!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 03, 2024 09:23 AM (scDBq)

355 256 Kamala will be campaigning in Fox Valley, Wisconsin today. She will be joined by Liz Cheney.
Posted by: redridinghood

I hope they kiss on stage! That'll show the white cis-normative patriarchy. Fuck you, dad!

Posted by: Gender-Queer Dem Fangirl at October 03, 2024 09:24 AM (JCZqz)

356 Stop taking effluvia if you're allergic to effluvia.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 03, 2024 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)

357 347 Baldwin trying to appeal to potential split ticket Republicans in WI says all you need to know about Trump's standing in the rust belt.

I think he's going to sweep those states.
Posted by: Shenanigans at October 03, 2024 09:22 AM (wGun1)

Had a link maybe yesterday or the day before wherein the author is confident of this as well.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 03, 2024 09:25 AM (x0n13)

358 I've seen several DU conspiracy theories recently about Vance being the Christo-Fascist Trojan Horse, and the plan is to 25th Amendment Trump once in office. That place is like a mirror...it looks similar to this place, just completely backwards.

Now: Trump is the most Hitlerly Hitler to ever Hitler! Why can't we have reasonable Republicans like Bush or Romney?

Soon: Vance is the most Hitlerly Hitler to ever Hitler! Why can't we have reasonable Republicans like Romney or Trump?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 03, 2024 09:25 AM (oZhjI)

359 Kamala will be campaigning in Fox Valley, Wisconsin today. She will be joined by Liz Cheney.
Posted by: redridinghood

It's funny they think that will help Kumswala's chances.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 03, 2024 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)

360
Effluvia?

I think that was the group formed by members of the Cocteau Twins and the Jesus and Mary Chain.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 03, 2024 09:25 AM (eDfFs)

361 349 Effluvia sounds like a tiny land-locked principality somewhere in Europe
Posted by: Don Black

They are our neighbor on the Western frontier.

Posted by: Freedonia, Land of the Brave and Free at October 03, 2024 09:25 AM (CV8a5)

362 Ah yes, it's complex.

@zerohedge

10h
Prosecutors Seek Indefinite Delay In Trial Of Alleged Trump Assassin Over "Complex" Evidence

Posted by: JackStraw at October 03, 2024 09:25 AM (LkLld)

363 >>I hope they kiss on stage!

You hope they kiss whom? Them?

Posted by: Roy at October 03, 2024 09:25 AM (z+ik4)

364 354 Man, that's a lot of links, JJ! Please take the weekend off!
Posted by: Lizzy at October 03, 2024 09:23 AM (scDBq)

I still have tomorrow, although I should be in schul praying!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 03, 2024 09:26 AM (x0n13)

365 Does Kamala pronounce it "Wis-KONSIN" or Wi-SCONSON."

Can we call her racist if she uses the wrong pronunciation?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 03, 2024 09:26 AM (v6JzV)

366 297 Imagine all of Creation being a simulation in God's mind.

Can I buy some pot from you?

Posted by: Larry 'Pinto' Kroger at October 03, 2024 09:26 AM (Aqu9a)

367
Give credit to the Democrats for one thing; they've muzzled Jennifer Granholm pretty effectively the past couple of months.

Maybe her scolding voters constantly wasn't as effective a strategy as they thought.

Posted by: Auspex at October 03, 2024 09:26 AM (j4U/Z)

368 Well...here is the thing about work - people do it because they want food, goods and services. If they can get those things without work why would they? The more we give to people for not working the less people as a whole will work. This is the theoretical problem with socialism/welfare.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 03, 2024 09:23 AM (oZhjI)
++++
I think that's too simplistic. I've posted it before, but there's a lot of truth to this meme:
http://tiny.cc/pdiozz

Now ask yourself: how much work does this take? It isn't much. You can do it on part-time work, or "underground economy" work.

Family, respect and honor are much more powerful incentives than material comfort. If you want a man to overproduce - and you do, because that's the basis of growth over time - you need to give him something meaningful as an incentive.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 03, 2024 09:26 AM (HnUIn)

369 6 Pilot flying Helene rescue missions in NC ordered out, threatened with arrest

No longer an internet "fabrication". Legit news orgs are reporting on it.

https://tinyurl.com/5bnhj85j
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 03, 2024 07:12 AM (zVeXI)

...and the TV news decided not to name the creep who ordered the rescue to stop. [burn]

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at October 03, 2024 09:26 AM (Rbu5d)

370 362 Ah yes, it's complex.

@zerohedge

10h
Prosecutors Seek Indefinite Delay In Trial Of Alleged Trump Assassin Over "Complex" Evidence
Posted by: JackStraw at October 03, 2024 09:25 AM (LkLld)

He needs more time on the FBI gun range to practice.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 03, 2024 09:27 AM (x0n13)

371 I still have tomorrow, although I should be in schul praying!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 03, 2024 09:26 AM (x0n13)

Put up three links and go pray. We can blather on about anything. Just look at this thread.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 03, 2024 09:27 AM (SfhV1)

372 Can we call her racist if she uses the wrong pronunciation?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

You can call me racist no matter how I pronounce it. Because, I am!

Posted by: Kumalot at October 03, 2024 09:27 AM (WXNFJ)

373 321 Newton wasn’t Enlightenment. Too early.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 03, 2024 09:15 AM (v6JzV)
_______
Most would include him. Decartes is often taken as the start. While in France you can delay the start date, it's hard in England not to start with Locke, who was born 10 years before Newton.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 03, 2024 09:27 AM (1bNHn)

374 Kamala will be campaigning in Fox Valley, Wisconsin today. She will be joined by Liz Cheney.

Then: The Cheneys are genocidal maniacs that just want to murder dark skinned people!

Now: The Cheneys endorsed Kamala you rightwingers have to vote for the Coconut now!

Posted by: The left at October 03, 2024 09:27 AM (oZhjI)

375 247 "no Joy" Reid along with her radical, mainstream media propagandists are pounding on the physical violence drum pretty hard these days.

Posted by: Martini Farmer

This is just to rev up the base foe 25-Jan inaugural

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at October 03, 2024 09:27 AM (FxH7T)

376 Effluvia sounds like a tiny land-locked principality somewhere in Europe
Posted by: Don Black at October 03, 2024 09:22 AM

It's near Peruvia

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 03, 2024 09:28 AM (Wnv9h)

377 It's happening. You can't stop it!
Posted by: Doof

**********

You haven't met my puppy. Believe me, "Fetch" ain't happening. Butt licking, nutterfly chasing, barking at cars? All happening

But not "Fetch"

Posted by: Muldoon (RIP Jack G.) at October 03, 2024 09:28 AM (uCfKO)

378
>>> At the time of the American Revolution, Christianity was pushing "The Devine Right of Kings".

"Patriarcha" by Filmer was a popular Divine RoK book at the time, and at the very beginning of that book, Filmer attacks the concept of self governance put forward years earlier by Bellarmine, a catholic theologian.

Posted by: Rex B at October 03, 2024 09:28 AM (kUm8P)

379 Effluvia sounds like a tiny land-locked principality somewhere in Europe
Posted by: Don Black
*
They are our neighbor on the Western frontier.
Posted by: Freedonia, Land of the Brave and Free at October 03, 2024

***
Those parvenus!

Posted by: Duchy of Grand Fenwick at October 03, 2024 09:28 AM (J2vNu)

380 > And the liberal f*cktard police chief will have him arrested.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden
-------
I wonder about those reports. On the one hand are they factually true? On the other are they simply misunderstandings about protocols? Neither, IMO is a reason to threaten someone with arrest for trying to help.

Unless there's something you, as a person of authority and under orders from someone else (or on your on volition) have decided to enforce for "reasons."

Which is altogether likely.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 03, 2024 09:29 AM (Q4IgG)

381 363 >>I hope they kiss on stage!

You hope they kiss whom? Them?
Posted by: Roy

Each other. That will be an image worth sharing a thousand times over.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at October 03, 2024 09:29 AM (JCZqz)

382 >>He needs more time on the FBI gun range to practice.

Pretty sure the complex part is that the evidence leads right back to the CIA/FBI/ alphabet mix.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 03, 2024 09:29 AM (LkLld)

383 African Americans and Latinos shifting to Trump will beat the steal

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 03, 2024 09:29 AM (xH5nl)

384 This will piss you off regarding FEMA's history of fuck ups that are on purpose because of money.

https://tinyurl.com/4xjzdkwh
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a

This is infuriating, though not surprising, we have a place in the Keys and Irma was absolutely devastating to the area.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 03, 2024 09:29 AM (CIS44)

385 I always read "judeo Christian" to mean "old testament followers and new testament followers"

I still don't understand it. At one time it was supposed to mean something to do with the Ten Commandments, but in both Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5, it specifically says that the Ten Commandments is directed to the People taken out of Egypt.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 03, 2024 09:29 AM (rHxhM)

386 >>I've seen several DU conspiracy theories recently about Vance being the Christo-Fascist Trojan Horse, and the plan is to 25th Amendment Trump once in office.

The programming of these people is incredible.
EVERY GOP candidate is dumb, evil, bigoted, and Christo-fascist. Every single one. ANd the depth of their evil is always commensurate with their success -- the more successful, the more evil, you guyz! Of course Vance is just now being discovered to be more evil than Trump, he just demonstrated his abilities in a debate.

These are the same people who were gleefully trafficking the rumor that Trump regretted picking JD for the past 2 months. And then, Wednesday, in the early morning hours *Bzzzzzt!* new HATE VANCE MOST EVIL ONE patch applied.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 03, 2024 09:30 AM (scDBq)

387 Effluvia sounds like a tiny land-locked principality somewhere in Europe
Posted by: Don Black
*
They are our neighbor on the Western frontier.
Posted by: Freedonia, Land of the Brave and Free at October 03, 2024

***
Those parvenus!
Posted by: Duchy of Grand Fenwick at October 03, 2024 09:28 AM (J2vNu)

All are Moronika lands.

Posted by: Moe Hailstone at October 03, 2024 09:31 AM (Aqu9a)

388
...and the TV news decided not to name the creep who ordered the rescue to stop. [burn]
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at October 03, 2024 09:26 AM (Rbu5d)

Good. Then when his corpse ends up buried in the muck in the lake, nobody will miss him.

Posted by: Roy at October 03, 2024 09:31 AM (z+ik4)

389 NOOD ART

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 03, 2024 09:32 AM (HnUIn)

390 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 03, 2024 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

391 Noodus gratia artis.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 03, 2024 09:32 AM (v6JzV)

392 Prosecutors Seek Indefinite Delay In Trial Of Alleged Trump Assassin Over "Complex" Evidence

Routh's defense attorneys did not oppose the government's request

Posted by: SMOD at October 03, 2024 09:33 AM (RHGPo)

393 371 I still have tomorrow, although I should be in schul praying!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 03, 2024 09:26 AM (x0n13)

Put up three links and go pray. We can blather on about anything. Just look at this thread.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 03, 2024 09:27 AM (SfhV1)

I actually found a temple not that far away from me. The closest one is in town but they're Jews for Jesus. I'm open minded but that's too reform for my taste!!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 03, 2024 09:33 AM (x0n13)

394 At the time of the American Revolution, Christianity was pushing "The Devine Right of Kings". /i]

Kings were pushing it, certainly. And the clergy they controlled.

Though I will point out there were benefits to this idea, especially combined with relatively strict succession structures which you can see if you compare it to say the Islamic world at the same time.

If you restrict the number of people that can come to power you have more orderly transitions of power and fewer internal wars. In Islam as a contrast Allah would provide for his chosen to lead. How do you know who Allah picked? Well its the guy that won so...why not take your shot to be ruler since maybe Allah did pick you?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 03, 2024 09:33 AM (oZhjI)

395 >>Prosecutors Seek Indefinite Delay In Trial Of Alleged Trump Assassin Over "Complex" Evidence

Complexity = too much evidence of ties to CIA and FBI assisting his crazy activities overseas, then the assassination attempt

Posted by: Lizzy at October 03, 2024 09:34 AM (scDBq)

396 America Last: After Spending $640 Million On Migrants And Billions Abroad, FEMA Suddenly 'Broke'

Your tax dollars hard at work

Posted by: SMOD at October 03, 2024 09:35 AM (RHGPo)

397 Judge Finds Newsom's New California Deepfake Ban Unconstitutional

Federal Judge John A. Mendez blocked a new California law that allowed any person to sue for damages over election deepfakes

... that didn't take long

Posted by: SMOD at October 03, 2024 09:36 AM (RHGPo)

398 These are the same people who were gleefully trafficking the rumor that Trump regretted picking JD for the past 2 months. And then, Wednesday, in the early morning hours *Bzzzzzt!* new HATE VANCE MOST EVIL ONE patch applied.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 03, 2024 09:30 AM (scDBq)

I had to laugh that the Protards thought Walz flopping around like a dying bass on a boat deck was going to knock out Vance.

Vance is both a lawyer and an author. The presentation of ideas and the use of words is his metier.

The panic you're seeing is the realization that Trump isn't going to be a one-term and done lame duck. JD has all the tools to make this a 12 year dealio at the least.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 03, 2024 09:36 AM (eDfFs)

399 Jobless Claims Remain Low Despite 50%-Plus Surge In Job Cuts

.. must be some great severance packages

Posted by: SMOD at October 03, 2024 09:36 AM (RHGPo)

400 My cat eat, please do not.

Posted by: Springfield Yoda at October 03, 2024 09:37 AM (ufFY8)

401 Iran's High-Value Oil Assets In IDF Crosshairs As Israel Vows "Painful" Response

"The equivalent of almost 27 million barrels of Brent December $100 calls traded..."

... most of it would go to the Chinese

Posted by: SMOD at October 03, 2024 09:38 AM (RHGPo)

402 >>I still have tomorrow, although I should be in schul praying!

A happy Rosh Hashanah to you, JJ, and the others here who celebrate!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 03, 2024 09:38 AM (scDBq)

403 "The panic you're seeing is the realization that Trump isn't going to be a one-term and done lame duck. JD has all the tools to make this a 12 year dealio at the least."

THIS!!!

Something unexpected happened during the debate.

Posted by: pawn at October 03, 2024 09:39 AM (QB+5g)

404 Metier has entered the chat.
Metier did not kill the dinosaurs.
Don't take metier if you are allergic to metier.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 03, 2024 09:39 AM (ufFY8)

405 Industrial-Size Staffing Firms Reportedly Support Biden-Harris' Mysterious Nationwide Migrant Network

These companies are likely awarded handsome federal contracts, paid for by the US taxpayer.

Bussing and housing millions of illegal and legal aliens is big business for staffing companies and non-profits. Americans have to realize their tax dollars are paying for all of this while the migrants displace and replace blue-collar workers in small-town factories nationwide. The folks in Springfield, Ohio, and Charleroi, Pennsylvania, know firsthand just how devastating globalist open border policies can be for them.

.. who is the friend of the billionaires ?

Posted by: SMOD at October 03, 2024 09:40 AM (RHGPo)

406 Sun Burps Second-Biggest Solar Flare Of Cycle 25 As Impact Analysis Says Earthbound By Weekend

"Initial analysis says it should arrive October 5."

Posted by: SMOD at October 03, 2024 09:40 AM (RHGPo)

407 >>The panic you're seeing is the realization that Trump isn't going to be a one-term and done lame duck. JD has all the tools to make this a 12 year dealio at the least.

This!

I watched the debate with family who had not seen Vance speak before, and they were absolutely dazzled. They saw the future of the party and were thrilled. Vance is the best assassination insurance for Trump, too.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 03, 2024 09:41 AM (scDBq)

408 317 Europe Being Held Back by ‘Whiteness’, Claims Soros-Backed Think Tank

Wonder why diversity is only for one skin color? Oh wait...I figured it out.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 03, 2024 09:42 AM (jjoN6)

409 >>Europe Being Held Back by ‘Whiteness’, Claims Soros-Backed Think Tank

Held back from what?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 03, 2024 09:44 AM (scDBq)

410 That "American Cristeros" piece was quite interesting.

They never taught that in school

Posted by: SMOD at October 03, 2024 09:48 AM (RHGPo)

411 “ For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

2 Peter 1:5-8

Posted by: Marcus T at October 03, 2024 09:50 AM (LKBWf)

412 As a wee one, I used to march into Vacation Bible School behind the Christian flag, singing 'Onward Christian Soldiers'.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 03, 2024 08:25 AM (SfhV1)

My memories are singing "99 bottles of beer". Minister was not amused.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at October 03, 2024 09:50 AM (iODuv)

413 As any good doctor such as myself can tell you, the spewn is located next to the stomach usually on the right side of the abdomen, and regulates body temperature and the pH levels of the cerebro-fecal system.

Posted by: Doctor Jill at October 03, 2024 09:52 AM (056bO)

414 Posted by: Marcus T at October 03, 2024 09:50 AM (LKBWf)

Very nice passage. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 03, 2024 09:57 AM (hiv4A)

415 400 My cat eat, please do not.
Posted by: Springfield Yoda at October 03, 2024 09:37 AM (ufFY

The Horta is here!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 03, 2024 10:01 AM (x0n13)

416 413 the cerebro-fecal system.
Posted by: Doctor Jill at October 03, 2024 09:52 AM (056bO)

Shit-head?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 03, 2024 10:03 AM (x0n13)

417 Good morning, all, and thank you J.J.

To a happy, healthy New Year! 🙏

>NBC News, 'Ship queue grows at U.S. ports as dockworker strike enters third day' At least 45 container vessels that have been unable to unload had anchored up outside the strike-stricken East Coast and Gulf Coast ports by Wednesday. By Reuters, Oct. 3, 2024, 6:53 am

>The News Journal (delawareonline dot com), 10/02/2024, 'Port of Wilmington strikers shutdown Delaware Port'

I can't help wondering if the agreement noted below was still in effect, would such a strike be more or less likely?🤔 IDK, so I guess probably the same result.

See: Zawya dot com, 'LOGISTICS, Gulftainer signs 50-year, $600mln concession to Operate and Expand Port of Wilmington in Delaware, USA'

Expansion will turn Port into one of largest gateways on the US East Coast, including a new 1.2 million TEU container terminal at former DuPont Corp. facility'
Press Release, September 19, 2018

It began, "Port becomes the largest ever operation by a UAE company in the United States."

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at October 03, 2024 10:32 AM (NFX2v)

418 Cont'd - Btw, I've also wondered about 'timing' of certain other events such as per Vanity Fair (VF), Garden State, 'The Case of the Developer, the Halal Exporter, US Senator Bob Menendez, and His Wife'
The criminal proceedings against the New Jersey lawmaker, whose second corruption trial is scheduled to begin on Monday, have made national headlines and recast international relations. But they’re also a tale of a singular political ecosystem and a handful of its shrewdest inhabitants. By Dan Adler, May 9, 2024

Coincidence 🤷‍♀️
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The news from the areas hardest hit by the hurricane are worsening. Last evening, there were news reports of children drinking from a creek in one of many areas
without water. Homes & business sites on well water have no power for pumps & certain medications needing refrigerated &/or dry storage. Communications are severely limited. There's no sanitation. Coffins were filmed floating down a torrent of water in Tennessee. ALL of the states hit with flooding have to be close to, or at, the point of suffering severe mosquito outbreaks.

NBC News, 10/02/24, 'Biden visits Carolinas, Harris goes to
(continued) ...

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at October 03, 2024 10:32 AM (NFX2v)

419 ...Georgia to view Hurricane Helene damage
The president will then head to Georgia and Florida on Thursday, the White House said.'

In part, "Harris visited Augusta, a city near the South Carolina border, where she viewed the storm damage, provided updates on federal efforts to support the state, passed out food and took pictures."

And, "Biden first landed in Greenville, South Carolina, where he took off for an aerial tour of places in North Carolina, including Asheville, Swannanoa, Black Mountain, Chimney Rock and Lake Lure."

The convenient photo ops. Any mention or visiting regarding TN or is the area simply too Red to matter?!

ABC News, 'Mayorkas warns FEMA doesn't have enough funding to last through hurricane season
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says the agency tasked with helping communities recover from Hurricane Helene and other natural disasters does not have enough money to make it through the hurricane' season, By Kevin Freking & Colleen Long, Associated Press
October 2, 2024

"The agency is being stretched as it works with states to assess damage from Hurricane Helene and delivers meals, water, generators and other critical supplies."

Huh??!

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at October 03, 2024 10:32 AM (NFX2v)

420 >House Committee on Appropriations: Fiscal Year 2025 Homeland Security Appropriations Act
The Homeland Security Act provides a total discretionary allocation of $64.81 billion. The defense portion of the allocation is $3.41 billion, which is $82 million (2.41%) above the Fiscal Year 2024 enacted level. 06/24

>Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency Budget Overview, Fiscal Year 2025 Congressional Justification

"Component Budget Overview" portion of the document provides details such as, "The FY 2025 Budget includes $33.1B in total gross budget authority; 6,186 positions; and 17,328 full-time equivalents (FTE) for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). This funding level represents an increase of $2.5B above the continuing appropriations act for Fiscal Year 2024. FEMA’s mission of helping people before, during, and after disasters continues through supporting communities across the Nation when responding to natural hazards and emergencies. Effective emergency management is a shared responsibility among the whole community, where disaster operations are Federally supported, State managed, and locally executed....(Reading suggested.)

Israel 🙏

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at October 03, 2024 10:32 AM (NFX2v)

421 The media are all in a tizzy about Smith's filing, but so far all they've revealed are hearsay stories, stories of aides overhearing someone saying something. Is that truly what his filing is based upon? I have no desire to wade through 168 pages to find out, but if that truly is all they have, then this case ought to be dismissed quickly -- once the get it past their pet hack-in-black and it can be looked at in a real court.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at October 03, 2024 11:02 AM (bufu1)

422 421. You're absolutely right. SSDD, another of their trademarks

CNN, Pence and Trump’s frayed relationship leading up to Jan. 6 insurrection on full display in latest special counsel filing, Oct 3, 2024

AP, Politics
Pence fought an order to testify but now is a central figure in his former boss’s indictment, Aug. 2, 2023

The 45-page indictment is informed, in part, by contemporaneous notes that Pence kept of their conversations in the days leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, as Trump tried to pressure Pence to go along with his desperate — and prosecutors say illegal — scheme to keep the two men in power.

Among the discussions: an episode in which Trump is alleged to have told Pence that he was “too honest” for rejecting Trump’s false claims that Pence had the power to overturn the vote. “Bottom line — won every state by 100,000s of votes,” Trump said in another conversation, according to the indictment."

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at October 03, 2024 11:26 AM (NFX2v)

423 "CNN, Pence and Trump’s frayed relationship leading up to Jan. 6 insurrection on full display in latest special counsel filing, Oct 3, 2024"

Mike Pence newly reborn hero of the left. These people are so dumb.

Posted by: Ribbed at October 03, 2024 11:31 AM (iFMeW)

424 Yes, Tucker, I really believe Iran is a threat.

Sheesh.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at October 03, 2024 12:04 PM (paSBy)

425 Family, respect and honor are much more powerful incentives than material comfort. If you want a man to overproduce - and you do, because that's the basis of growth over time - you need to give him something meaningful as an incentive.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 03, 2024 09:26 AM

I think a man only needs one thing in life. He just needs someone to love. If you can't give him that, then give him something to hope for. And if you can't give him that, just give him something to do.

https://imdb.to/4dunAxz

Posted by: Flight of the Phoenix at October 03, 2024 12:21 PM (P5BPp)

426 Biden Says Israel Should Not Hit Iran’s Nuclear Program; Act ‘Proportionally’

Okay, sure. Iran has a population of 91.8M. Israel has 9.4M, just over 10% of Iran's. So proportionality would say that Israel should fund (to the tune of $100s of Billions) organizations bent on destroying the Muslim state of Iran with terrorist acts. I mean Oct. 7 killed 1,200 to 1,400 Israelis; that would be like 12,000 Iranian Muzzies. Israel should also launch a barrage of ballistic missiles that indiscriminately target the muzzie population of Iran; that would be proportional.
They don't want a "proportional" response, they want Israel to grab its knees and bend over wide.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 03, 2024 12:34 PM (ynpvh)

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