The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

I am a dedicated believer in the concept of American Exceptionalism, and I will defend the idea that Americans are the finest people on the planet.

But nowhere in our culture is there as much of a disparity between those ideas, and their practice, than our government; specifically our representatives, though generally pretty much everyone.

Ace wrote about Matt Gaetz and the House ethics report that was released yesterday, saying:

Now do all 434 other members. As long as we're getting judgy.

And he is absolutely correct. The report was a political hit job, and the House should be embarrassed. But...we SHOULD be judgy when it comes to the people who represent us, because they also represent the country and its culture.

I am under no illusions about what power does.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority.

-- John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

The current crop of reprobates (with none of the humor of that word) gleefully break their own rules, lots of laws, and then create carve-outs in those laws so that they can behave differently than the people they claim to represent. For instance, Congress may buy and sell stocks based on what is called "Material Non-Public Information" (MNPI). You can't. Nobody except Congress can. You will go to jail if you do it! The federal government's financial enforcement arm (the SEC) sends people to jail every year for that sort of stuff, and they fine a lot more. That's how a conniving mid-wit like Nancy Pelosi can be fabulously wealthy (net worth of more than $240,000,000) on a salary of $200k/year.

There is a secret slush fund used by Congress to pay off the people whom they sexually harass and sexually assault. Wouldn't you like to know where that money has gone, and for whom? My guess is that there are also plenty of auto accident injuries that were hushed up, and probably a bunch of DUIs in that mix.

And even when our representatives aren't committing felonies, they are behaving like entitled asses. They park where they want. They behave abominably at public restaurants. They sneer at their constituents. They are contemptuous of the people who pay for their obscene junkets to fascinating places. Anyone want to bet against me when I suggest that there are probably a dozen members of Congress in London or Paris or Prague on "official business," conveniently scheduled to correspond with Christmas shopping?

Let's start holding our representatives to some minimum standard of conduct. Let us demand that they behave as if they are in our business, working for us. Because that is exactly what they are doing.

I am being optimistic in the extreme when I hope for a shift away from an imperial government. It won't happen absent a fundamental upheaval in our society. But we can demand some propriety from these people. Matt Gaetz probably didn't have sex with a 17-year old girl, but does anyone doubt that he boasted of his conquests, and behaved like a high school boy?

Term limits are problematic in a free society, but I see no other way to limit -- even slightly -- the sense of entitlement and the disconnect between our representatives and us. "Throw The Bums Out" should be reflexive! Make them prove that they deserve our trust by not behaving like they are royalty!

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter]

Posted by: CBD at 10:55 AM

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1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 24, 2024 10:57 AM (Rcnd3)

2 Now to the content.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 24, 2024 10:58 AM (Rcnd3)

3 Hey! I didn't get a harrumph outta that guy.

Posted by: Gov. LePetomaine at December 24, 2024 10:59 AM (vYDwg)

4 yes

Posted by: Ciampino - see, we're hard players at December 24, 2024 11:00 AM (i0xsb)

5 As we talked about yesterday, it is ridiculous to shame Gaetz for sexual issues when the entire Dem Party is dedicated to letting their sexual freak flag round the clock. Gaetz had bad friends, apparently, but the 17 year old appears to have had an official Florida ID saying that she was 18, given her by a corrupt State official who was pimping her out to his friends. Sordid story, but not much worse than any of the rest in DC.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2024 11:00 AM (wyMQY)

6 Some animals are more equal than others.

Posted by: davidt at December 24, 2024 11:01 AM (i0F8b)

7 I hate every one of them.

Congress. Them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 24, 2024 11:02 AM (Q4IgG)

8 I'd add that making the bank, corporate, and stock accounts of all Congress critters and their extended family members and mistresses (or various side-pieces) required to be published on X on a daily basis would have a salutary effect.

You want to be a public servant, be a publicly visible public servant! You don't have to hold that office as a hereditary right!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at December 24, 2024 11:03 AM (hOUT3)

9 Well, look where Nancy's Last Junket has gotten her. Don't say there is no justice in the world.

And here I am, having Naked 2AM Hammer Time every night she is away!

Posted by: Paul Pelosi's Night Moves at December 24, 2024 11:04 AM (G5+As)

10 Their "end justifies the means" philosophy bears fruit.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 24, 2024 11:04 AM (vd6bO)

11 Term limits. Mandatory retirement age. Strict enforcement of ALL laws, including insider trading, libel and slander (ESPECIALLY those!). Congress goes into mandatory recess on election day until the next is sworn in except in extreme emergencies (I'm leaning towards strict delineation of what those would be).

That's my absolute basic position for Congress.

Do not get me started about the rest.

Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 24, 2024 11:04 AM (OUMaO)

12 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2024 11:05 AM (Zz0t1)

13 Now do all 434 other members. As long as we're getting judgy.

It exposes a whole new tactic to us. How many official, authentic, fraudulent ID's are created to blackmail people in government? As long as one of the ID's says 17, you can get away with it. Doesn't matter if she's 17 or 21, really.

Posted by: t-bird at December 24, 2024 11:05 AM (5IEcl)

14 I'll ask again.. What's best w/nog?...bourbon? spiced rum? brandy? amaretto?

Posted by: BignJames at December 24, 2024 11:05 AM (Yj6Os)

15
Sam Rayburn, long-time Texas congressman and Speaker of the House, made just one trip abroad, to see the recently-opened Panama Canal. He paid his own expenses.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2024 11:05 AM (dxSpM)

16 Merry Christmas, Dildo. Happy Hanukkah.

All the best to you and yours.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2024 11:06 AM (Zz0t1)

17 You know what would change behaviors?

Consequences.

Posted by: blaster at December 24, 2024 11:06 AM (QfvaV)

18 Sam Rayburn, long-time Texas congressman and Speaker of the House, made just one trip abroad, to see the recently-opened Panama Canal. He paid his own expenses.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

That was in, what, like 1912? Are you sure about that?

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2024 11:06 AM (v6JzV)

19 Term limits are problematic in a free society, but I see no other way to limit -- even slightly -- the sense of entitlement and the disconnect between our representatives and us. "Throw The Bums Out" should be reflexive! Make them prove that they deserve our trust by not behaving like they are royalty!

Don't forget the interns and staffers, as well. Leaving them in place is like using bug spray to get rid of termites, but leaving death-watch beetles behind.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2024 11:06 AM (Q0kLU)

20 I will defend the idea that Americans are the finest people on the planet.

You may rethink this after you see The Maple French Toast bagel now on sale at Aldi.

They're not bad but they aren't bagels.

Posted by: DaveA at December 24, 2024 11:06 AM (FhXTo)

21 I was actually a fan of the Gaetz idea of returning to his seat, releasing the 'payoff list,' then resigning again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2024 11:07 AM (Zz0t1)

22 I'll ask again.. What's best w/nog?...bourbon? spiced rum? brandy? amaretto?
Posted by: BignJames

Postum.

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2024 11:07 AM (v6JzV)

23
12 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Congratulations on that First, Sponge!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at December 24, 2024 11:07 AM (hOUT3)

24 I'll ask again.. What's best w/nog?...bourbon? spiced rum? brandy? amaretto?

A trash can. Eggnog is liquid garbage.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2024 11:07 AM (Q0kLU)

25 17 You know what would change behaviors?

Consequences.

Posted by: blaster at December 24, 2024 11:06 AM (QfvaV)
-_-_-_-_-
Exactly right.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 24, 2024 11:07 AM (vd6bO)

26 Some of 'em provide great entertainment...see Wilbur Mills.

Posted by: BignJames at December 24, 2024 11:07 AM (Yj6Os)

27 14 I'll ask again.. What's best w/nog?...bourbon? spiced rum? brandy? amaretto?
Posted by: BignJames at December 24, 2024 11:05 AM (Yj6Os)

You cannot dispute tastes and all that, but for me it's spiced rum, non spiced rum, then bourbon. Not a fan of brandy or amaretto

Posted by: blaster at December 24, 2024 11:08 AM (QfvaV)

28 A single guy wanting to bang chicks is pretty thin gruel.

Unless there is something more, which there doesn't seem to be, this is simply Uniparty/The Deep State being the dicks we have come to expect from them.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 24, 2024 11:08 AM (XV/Pl)

29 I just wish people could have a little more compassion towards their duly-elected Fort Worth representatives.

Posted by: Kay Hagen, A Place For Mom at December 24, 2024 11:08 AM (G5+As)

30 Thx CBD , great post. I hope the left is imploding. Arrogance always meets nemesis. Just watched a Nerdrotic vid where he was pointing out woke Hollywood's collapse. He showed recent trade reports, Variety etc, where the blowback is noted.
Hope it's true in government and entertainment, but the left never stops , so....

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2024 11:08 AM (DopAq)

31 Congress is in Xmas recess I presume.
All expenditures on official credit cards should be 0 zero zilch.
Audit all congressional expenditure dated Dec recess and query any that occurs, with a fine-toothed comb.

Posted by: Ciampino - see, we're can be hard players too at December 24, 2024 11:08 AM (i0xsb)

32
You don't have to hold that office as a hereditary right!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at December 24, 2024 11:03 AM (hOUT3)

________

John Dingell, Sr., congressman from 1933-1955

John Dingell, Jr., congressman from 1955-2015

Debbie Dingell, congresswoman from 2015.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2024 11:08 AM (dxSpM)

33 14 I'll ask again.. What's best w/nog?...bourbon? spiced rum? brandy? amaretto?
Posted by: BignJames at December 24, 2024 11:05 AM (Yj6Os)

Coffee...but my ratio is way different - splash of nog in coffee is the perfect all holiday drink...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 24, 2024 11:08 AM (exHjb)

34 I’m not in favor of term limits ( throwing the baby out with the bath water) but I am in favor of a mandatory retirement age for all federal offices , elected or appointed. Including the SC.

That said I am in favor of term limits within Congress for Committee heads and House and Senate leadership positions.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 24, 2024 11:08 AM (D6PGr)

35 The Rear Admiral in the cabinet is a paragon of virtue?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2024 11:09 AM (wZ2Bf)

36 Merica: we got pizza empanadas!

Posted by: blaster at December 24, 2024 11:09 AM (QfvaV)

37 17 You know what would change behaviors?

Consequences.

Posted by: blaster at December 24, 2024 11:06 AM (QfvaV)

If only that were a Constitutional option...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at December 24, 2024 11:09 AM (hOUT3)

38 And even when our representatives aren't committing felonies, they are behaving like entitled asses. They park where they want. They behave abominably at public restaurants. They sneer at their constituents.

Rep. Dan Crenshaw, ladies and gentlemen........

Anonymous coward like “catturd” talking shit without any evidence. I’m used to it. Sorry I was guy fighting the wars that little bitches like you would never dare to. One of us has actually served this country and continues to, while losers like you make money being trolls on…

— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) December 19, 2024

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2024 11:09 AM (Zz0t1)

39 You know what would change behaviors?

Consequences.

We actually consider this, every time we create the rules that govern our behavior. Surprisingly, though, we keep enriching ourselves!

Posted by: Congress at December 24, 2024 11:10 AM (pJkex)

40 Congratulations on that First, Sponge!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at December 24, 2024 11:07 AM (hOUT3)

Thank you. Thank you very much.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2024 11:10 AM (Zz0t1)

41 As we talked about yesterday, it is ridiculous to shame Gaetz for sexual issues when the entire Dem Party is dedicated to letting their sexual freak flag round the clock.

No, adults should have a moral code and live up to it. The code should be higher for the people to whom we give power. I expect restraint and dignity befitting the office from the people who represent me. What the Democrats do is not a justification for poor behavior. That's "but Bobby did it" level thinking.

And before anyone starts, this is not "we're better than that", which seems to be the all-purpose mocking excuse some use. It's saying I have expectations, and you will meet them, or I won't vote for you again.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2024 11:10 AM (xCA6C)

42 Let's start holding our representatives to some minimum standard of conduct.

We've done that. It didn't work.

Swap ours(R) for theirs(D) in that sentence and try again.

I cut, you choose is a basic tool of pie-slicing.

Posted by: DaveA at December 24, 2024 11:10 AM (FhXTo)

43 It's not just the Republicans who pounce and seize anymore!

POLITICOEurope@POLITICOEurope
Europe’s far right has seized on Friday's Magdeburg attack to hammer migration and Islam.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 24, 2024 11:10 AM (L/fGl)

44 No, adults should have a moral code and live up to it. The code should be higher for the people to whom we give power. I expect restraint and dignity befitting the office from the people who represent me.

That said, I have no idea whether Gaetz did the things of which he's accused.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2024 11:11 AM (xCA6C)

45 Term limits are probably necessary, *but* getting rid of the office staff would also be necessary. Even before the Deep State became a common concept, staffers were bragging about how *they* stayed and they controlled what the officer holder saw and heard.

As long as that remains the case we will never have true representation. Especially since most of those staffers are graduates of a *very* limited number of poli-sci programs from hard-core leftist universities.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 24, 2024 11:12 AM (lFFaq)

46 Blah Blah says that having our congress person remain in washington dc year after year is a good thing. The longer they are in office the more power they accumulate to acquire more and more federal monies to send back home to us , their constituents, who re-elect them every cycle to do just that, get us more goodies from uncle sam. Being on a fixed income, we need all the help we can get as the prices on vacation cruises will be going up next year and our social security only goes so far.

Posted by: Harriet And Blah Blah Nyborg, Democrat Boomers at December 24, 2024 11:12 AM (R/m4+)

47
That was in, what, like 1912? Are you sure about that?
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2024 11:06 AM (v6JzV)

________

Rayburn was first elected in 1912 and made the trip in 1914, I think.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2024 11:12 AM (dxSpM)

48 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2024 11:09 AM (Zz0t1)

hit a sensitive spot, huh?

Posted by: BignJames at December 24, 2024 11:12 AM (Yj6Os)

49 43 It's not just the Republicans who pounce and seize anymore!

POLITICOEurope@POLITICOEurope
Europe’s far right has seized on Friday's Magdeburg attack to hammer migration and Islam.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 24, 2024 11:10 AM (L/fGl)

And just when Europe was turning its life around!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at December 24, 2024 11:13 AM (hOUT3)

50 Breaking out of work soon

Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2024 11:13 AM (5t+P8)

51 Let's see if someone in that august body has the balls to open the files on some other people. I'm thinking MTG might...

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 24, 2024 11:13 AM (MZ+PY)

52 Rayburn was first elected in 1912 and made the trip in 1914, I think.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Wow, I had no idea he was around that long. I remember him from the Watergate hearings.

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2024 11:13 AM (v6JzV)

53 I saw Superadd open for Johnny Vegas at the Skyfall Lounge in 2002.

Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 24, 2024 11:13 AM (z3WOQ)

54
That said, I have no idea whether Gaetz did the things of which he's accused.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2024 11:11 AM (xCA6C)

He admitted to having relations with women as a single man. They've accused him of prostitution and child molestation.

The evidence proved none of that was true, however, they omitted those facts and released the report anyway.

When the Biden DOJ says that the 'witnesses' in the case were completely lacking in credibility and refuse to bring a case, you've REALLY got nothing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2024 11:14 AM (Zz0t1)

55 Breaking out of work soon
Posted by: Skip

Then who's gonna tell us when to eat lunch?

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2024 11:14 AM (v6JzV)

56
Who wants Christmas music while they read comments at the ol' HQ?

Smokey Mountain Christmas tunes:

https://is.gd/h7xfMF

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2024 11:15 AM (azvCj)

57 Coffee...but my ratio is way different - splash of nog in coffee is the perfect all holiday drink...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 24, 2024 11:08 AM (exHjb)

That's how I liked it as well.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 24, 2024 11:15 AM (lFFaq)

58 As the Z-man (the blogger, not the Ukraine clown president) mentioned, we just found out this same House of Representatives all but knew that one of their own had disappeared for up to 6 months due to rapidly declining mental capacity. But not enough to resign.. had to keep the grift going. Who was doing the tweeting, voting etc. for her? All that matters is staying in office, staying power.

Forgive me if I am less than offended by this rather unproven allegation, when the whole chamber is pretty much a house of scoundrels, if not worse..

Posted by: dev2000man at December 24, 2024 11:15 AM (vjSNN)

59 That's how a conniving mid-wit like Nancy Pelosi can be fabulously wealthy (net worth of more than $240,000,000) on a salary of $200k/year.

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That or 12,000,000 handjobs at $20/pop ...

Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 24, 2024 11:15 AM (z3WOQ)

60 hit a sensitive spot, huh?
Posted by: BignJames at December 24, 2024 11:12 AM (Yj6Os)

The fact that Crenshaw chose to have a pissing match with an internet persona called 'Catturd' and hurled insults and cuss words as his argument shows what a little man he actually is.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2024 11:15 AM (Zz0t1)

61 just wish people could have a little more compassion towards their duly-elected Fort Worth representatives.
Posted by: Kay Hagen, A Place For Mom at December 24, 2024 11:08 AM (G5+As)

I’m not intentionally trying to be a contrarian but I’m not bothered by her case as much as I have about many others. She announced she was not running for re-election. Her in person participation stopped about 6 months ago . I’m sure her family was just running out the clock since her term was almost up.

It’s no where the same as Mr. Freeze McConnell who should have resigned at least 2 years ago. And Tim Johnson who remained a Senator even after an incapacitating stroke. And RBG who spent all her time in the gym before she died .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 24, 2024 11:15 AM (D6PGr)

62 14 I'll ask again.. What's best w/nog?...bourbon? spiced rum? brandy? amaretto?

All of it. See George Washington's eggnog recipe. The father of our country can't be wrong.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 24, 2024 11:15 AM (MZ+PY)

63 The fact that Crenshaw chose to have a pissing match with an internet persona called 'Catturd' and hurled insults and cuss words as his argument shows what a little man he actually is.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2024 11:15 AM (Zz0t1)

Not just some internet guys but fellow Special Service guys .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 24, 2024 11:17 AM (D6PGr)

64 @44

>>That said, I have no idea whether Gaetz did the things of which he's accused.

We all want to live in a Ronald Reagan/Jack Kemp world, but we cannot hold our guys to a higher moral standard than the other side.

My only standard is, are you doing the sh*t I want you to do, if yes, then I don't really give a sh*t what you do in your personal time as long as it's lawful.

And apparently everything Gaetz did was lawful because if it wasn't Garlands Bully Boys would have pounded his a** into dust.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 24, 2024 11:17 AM (XV/Pl)

65 Iris Crenshaw would just go away. Call a lid, if you will.

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2024 11:17 AM (v6JzV)

66 All of it. See George Washington's eggnog recipe. The father of our country can't be wrong.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 24, 2024 11:15 AM (MZ+PY)

I've seen it..."one and done" for sure.

Posted by: BignJames at December 24, 2024 11:17 AM (Yj6Os)

67 LOL.

Netflix is going to release "Zero Day" on February 20th - where the United States suffers a major cyberattack and Robert DeNiro starts as a "former President of the United States" (huh?) who has to lead the recovery efforts.

Zero Day stars De Niro as respected former U.S. President George Mullen, who, as head of the Zero Day Commission, is charged with finding the perpetrators of a devastating cyber attack that has caused chaos around the country and thousands of fatalities

Particularly given that it's DeNiro, I'm on the edge of my seat waiting to find out who the perpetuators are!

Will the evil perpetrators of the cyberattack turn out to be:

1) Iran?

2) Left-wing terrorists?

or

3) Trump supporters?

Gosh, it's going to be a huge surprise finding out who's responsible, isn't it!

Posted by: The Transgender Pritzker! at December 24, 2024 11:18 AM (uxCna)

68 Anyone want to bet against me when I suggest that there are probably a dozen members of Congress in London or Paris or Prague on "official business," conveniently scheduled to correspond with Christmas shopping?

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Can we allow an exception for German Christmas Markets?

/Too soon?

Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 24, 2024 11:18 AM (z3WOQ)

69 The fact that Crenshaw chose to have a pissing match with an internet persona called 'Catturd' and hurled insults and cuss words as his argument shows what a little man he actually is.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2024 11:15 AM (Zz0t1)

It's time the little shit goes on notice that he works for US, not the other way around. Whiny little f**k.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 24, 2024 11:18 AM (iODuv)

70 "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority."

Coulter interviewed one of her old friends recently, and they differed on the above point. Coulter felt that men like Washington or others of his era were not so bad, not "bad men". Her friend felt the necessary level of "testosterone" for the job came with a lot of "badness".

idk, certainly there were affairs and some bad actions, but at least the founders had a bigger interest in liberty and justice, imo. They were not "bad men" of the self interest sorts that hold power today, I would guess.

Or there is the story of King David and Bathsheba, and the (arranged by David) death of her husband Uriah. That seems pretty bad, yet David was "a man after God's own heart" ... and I guess he later "repented". But being king in hard ancient times is not the government we seek.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 24, 2024 11:19 AM (Cus5s)

71
Gaetz was steele-dossier'd and most of you are believing all the bullshit in the fake "report."

If it said he let hookers piss in his bed, would you believe that, too? Would you say, well, it's not illegal?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2024 11:19 AM (azvCj)

72 I find it disgusting when these "war heroes" like McCain and Crenshaw use their military "hardships" as a political marketing ploy and a free meal ticket.

Screw them.

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2024 11:20 AM (v6JzV)

73
It's time the little shit goes on notice that he works for US, not the other way around. Whiny little f**k.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 24, 2024 11:18 AM (iODuv)

I wish someone would primary his ass and put his vile Xcrements on billboards all over his district.

"This is what Dan thinks of you, his constituents."

Dan. Thank you for your sacrifice to this nation with your service. You're tarnishing that legacy. Please, go away. You're too drunk with power and it shows.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2024 11:20 AM (Zz0t1)

74 Yes, I typically picture congressmen and senators, at their leisure, disporting themselves in the manner of Napoleon the Pig and his guests, as viewed through the window of the farm house by the oppressed animals.

Posted by: Paco at December 24, 2024 11:21 AM (mADJX)

75 If a guy with a patch gets into a pissing match, I see the makings of poetry.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2024 11:21 AM (wZ2Bf)

76 Speaking of Clinton fever . . .

Hillary Clinton: Republicans Taking Orders from the “World’s Richest Man” Elon Musk

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OK, it's more Clinton nausea but still . . .

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 24, 2024 11:21 AM (L/fGl)

77 In retrospect, I'm glad Trump didn't try to play his stubborn act with Gaetz. It would have come back to hurt us at a worse time. He might still be useful but not in a high profile slot like AG.

I used to be opposed to statutory term limits thinking that the voters could limit whomever they chose by not voting for them. I now have to admit that that was naive.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 24, 2024 11:22 AM (/y8xj)

78 Anyone want to bet against me when I suggest that there are probably a dozen members of Congress in London or Paris or Prague on "official business," conveniently scheduled to correspond with Christmas shopping?
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That's how poor Nancy broke her hip.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2024 11:22 AM (RIvkX)

79 Say... whatever came of the two homos porking each other in the ass in some congressional meeting room?

Is that OK? Something my tax $$ are worth spending on keeping on the down low?

You don't hate our politicians enough.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 24, 2024 11:22 AM (Q4IgG)

80 Hillary Clinton: Republicans Taking Orders from the “World’s Richest Man” Elon Musk

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OK, it's more Clinton nausea but still . . .
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 24, 2024 11:21 AM (L/fGl)

"Why are your billionaires better to take orders from than our billionaires?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2024 11:22 AM (Zz0t1)

81 I wish someone would primary his ass and put his vile Xcrements on billboards all over his district.

"This is what Dan thinks of you, his constituents."

Dan. Thank you for your sacrifice to this nation with your service. You're tarnishing that legacy. Please, go away. You're too drunk with power and it shows.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2024 11:20 AM (Zz0t1)

Gunther Eagle man on Twitter is looking into what it would take to primary Crenshaw. That Tweet about Capture was the motivating event.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 24, 2024 11:22 AM (lFFaq)

82 Juan McCain set more US carriers on fire than the Japs.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2024 11:22 AM (wZ2Bf)

83 Make them prove that they deserve our trust by not behaving like they are royalty!

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The argument against term limits has always been that the puppets may be term-limited, but their staffs and puppet-masters remain.

I liked TJM's idea from yesterday: they shouldn't have staffs.

As for the puppet-masters: make public corrruption/bribery/criminality/etc. a capital offense ...

Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 24, 2024 11:22 AM (z3WOQ)

84 Matt Gaetz is tame compared to a lot of those people. Let's get sunlight on all of them.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 24, 2024 11:22 AM (lXCUP)

85 The FBI’s Matt Gaetz Operation Sidelined An Effective Republican Voice At A Crucial Time. That Was The Point
By: Mollie Hemingway; September 26, 2022; 7 min read
https://tinyurl.com/2p9ydw37
article here

Mollie @MZHemingway 22h
INSANE: House Report On Matt Gaetz Relies On Witnesses Even The Corrupt DOJ Found Completely Lacked Any Credibility Whatsoever thefederalist.com/2024/11/17…
Dec 23, 2024 · 11:47 PM UTC

Mollie @MZHemingway 14h
Sometimes I feel like I was the only reporter to look into the details of the Gaetz allegations. That's how I learned the accuser is in prison for making the same false sex-with-minors accusation against someone else.

https://tinyurl.com/4tdvapdk
article link
House Probe Into Matt Gaetz Relies On Witnesses DOJ Found Lacked Credibility
By: Mollie Hemingway; November 17, 2024; 8 min read

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 24, 2024 11:23 AM (hovnC)

86 Dan Crenshaw supported Liz Cheney when she was first criticized and removed from her committee positions. That’s who Dan Crenshaw is.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 24, 2024 11:23 AM (D6PGr)

87 Or there is the story of King David and Bathsheba, and the (arranged by David) death of her husband Uriah. That seems pretty bad, yet David was "a man after God's own heart" ... and I guess he later "repented". But being king in hard ancient times is not the government we seek.
Posted by: illiniwek

I commented yesterday, when we were debating the historicity of Mohammed, referencing some scholars who claim the Biblical account of David is made up or exaggerated, that someone noted that it had to be real because "No people would invent a national hero who was so flawed."

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2024 11:23 AM (v6JzV)

88 Aaand forget the Yule Log. "No burn day" in Los Angeles.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 24, 2024 11:23 AM (YSM/8)

89 House Ethics Committee

Lying Liars Committee

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2024 11:23 AM (RIvkX)

90 Barack Owebama spent $1 bn to win the presidency.

Michael Bloomberg spent $1 bn to gain absolutely nothing.

Biden spent $1 bn to 'win' the presidency.

Kumswala Harris spent $1.2 bn to lose the presidency.

But MUSK is a problem.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2024 11:23 AM (Zz0t1)

91 Juan McCain set more US carriers on fire than the Japs.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2024 11:22 AM (wZ2Bf)

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He crash-landed aircraft more times than Harrison Ford!

Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 24, 2024 11:24 AM (z3WOQ)

92 I find it disgusting when these "war heroes" like McCain and Crenshaw use their military "hardships" as a political marketing ploy and a free meal ticket.

Screw them.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2024 11:20 AM (v6JzV)

We've got a rep here in MA, Seth Moulton, who ran for POTUS for about 5 minutes in 2020. His entire schtick was "I hate Trump and you can't criticize me because I'm an Iraq veteran!"

No surprise his little hissy fit didn't play well outside of New England.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2024 11:24 AM (Q0kLU)

93 Mollie @MZHemingway 14h
Sometimes I feel like I was the only reporter to look into the details of the Gaetz allegations. That's how I learned the accuser is in prison for making the same false sex-with-minors accusation against someone else.

You WERE the only one doing actual journalism on that claptrap bullshit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2024 11:24 AM (Zz0t1)

94 71
Gaetz was steele-dossier'd and most of you are believing all the bullshit in the fake "report."

If it said he let hookers piss in his bed, would you believe that, too? Would you say, well, it's not illegal?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2024 11:19 AM (azvCj)

He's not sunk b/c he did anything illegal.
He's sunk b/c of portion of the R voter base will never vote for abnormal sexual deviance in their candidates...and they see sleeping with multiple barely legal teens in your mid-to-late 30s as that kinda deviance.

For Dems, it's a nothing burger. But for Rs, see Alabama's Senate race from a few years ago...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 24, 2024 11:25 AM (exHjb)

95 Real high speed rail has never been tried!

California Dems Beg Transportation Sec Buttigieg to Give $536M to High-Speed Rail Before He’s Gone

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 24, 2024 11:25 AM (L/fGl)

96 Hillary Clinton: Republicans Taking Orders from the “World’s Richest Man” Elon Musk

Kinda embarrassing when Alex Soros insists on taking pictures with all of his political servants, like Hillary.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 24, 2024 11:25 AM (uxCna)

97 Sorry, gang, but until the Dems start disavowing and destroying their people who do what Gaetz is accused of, I really can't be bothered to care.

The Clinton Wars put an end to character as an issue. Really shows who the losers were, doesn't it?

Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 24, 2024 11:25 AM (OUMaO)

98
Time to make the Christmas Eve cinnamon rolls...

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2024 11:25 AM (azvCj)

99 Aaand forget the Yule Log. "No burn day" in Los Angeles.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 24, 2024 11:23 AM (YSM/

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Does Califzuela still have & celebrate my favorite day: "A Day Without Illegal Aliens?"

Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 24, 2024 11:25 AM (z3WOQ)

100 No more secret funds to pay off congressional misdeeds. The names on the fund should be exposed for the world to see. Besides, those guys and gals have money; let the do the payoffs with their own cash. Then go after them like the MSM did Trump over Sleazy Daniels...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2024 11:25 AM (ynpvh)

101 Juan McCain set more US carriers on fire than the Japs.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2024 11:22 AM (wZ2Bf)

One of the Horde who served on the Forrestal sword that incident wasn't McCain's fault. Would get pretty worked up about it. Wasn't because he was a fan of McCain either.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 24, 2024 11:25 AM (lFFaq)

102 99 Aaand forget the Yule Log. "No burn day" in Los Angeles.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 24, 2024 11:23 AM (YSM/

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Does Califzuela still have & celebrate my favorite day: "A Day Without Illegal Aliens?"

Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 24, 2024 11:25 AM (z3WOQ)

There are no illegals in Kalifornia, comrade; they're merely undocumented...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2024 11:26 AM (ynpvh)

103 I have a vague recollection of news stories from years ago reporting that numerous representatives and senators were routinely bouncing checks at some kind of Capitol hill bank (or maybe it was the equivalent of a purser's office) for elected officials.

Posted by: Paco at December 24, 2024 11:27 AM (mADJX)

104 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

How you doin', Man?

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2024 11:27 AM (v6JzV)

105 There are no illegals in Kalifornia, comrade; they're merely undocumented...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2024 11:26 AM (ynpvh)

How are you doing, sir?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2024 11:27 AM (Zz0t1)

106
California Dems Beg Transportation Sec Buttigieg to Give $536M to High-Speed Rail Before He’s Gone
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 24, 2024 11:25 AM (L/fGl)

____________

Why should the Federal government spending a dime on a project that's only in California?

Not interstate commerce? Then the Feds shouldn't be involved.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2024 11:27 AM (dxSpM)

107 Posted by: Nova Local at December 24, 2024 11:25 AM (exHjb)

Barely legal. Key word is legal . And all the church ladies on the Right are as almost as bad as the woke women on the Left.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 24, 2024 11:27 AM (D6PGr)

108 "No people would invent a national hero who was so flawed."
Posted by: Bulg

Our national heroes are beyond reproach like Clinton and Biden!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 24, 2024 11:28 AM (L/fGl)

109 I have a vague recollection of news stories from years ago reporting that numerous representatives and senators were routinely bouncing checks at some kind of Capitol hill bank (or maybe it was the equivalent of a purser's office) for elected officials.
Posted by: Paco

The House Bank Scandal? Dan Rostenkowski? Or was he the House Post Office Scandal? Hard to keep our congresscrooks and their shenanigans strait.

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2024 11:28 AM (v6JzV)

110 Mary Jo Kopechne unavailable for comment.

Posted by: Evergreen at December 24, 2024 11:28 AM (dg+HA)

111 I'm not sure who was the first to say it, but the important thing is to make it easier for bad people to do the right thing.

There's not enough good people in government. The (un-)natural selection, both as gears and cogs in the machine and in the elected front-facing roles, tend towards bad people doing bad things to get ahead. Where they continue to do bad things, like graft (among others).

So, make it easier to do the right and good thing, by making the bad thing painful. The good thing should be the short circuit, not the one of greatest resistance.

The same thing can be said about general life - Instapundit had a post about a pair of (alleged) thieves in cuffs, wondering why stealing is a felony. The other one answered "Bi!ch new laws". It's unclear whether the expelative referred to new laws or the partner-in-crime. But now there's penalties. Instead of being good, they're going to suffer for doing the wrong thing. Maybe next time will be better.

Posted by: Another Anon at December 24, 2024 11:29 AM (QNMaY)

112 Barely legal. Key word is legal . And all the church ladies on the Right are as almost as bad as the woke women on the Left.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 24, 2024 11:27 AM (D6PGr)

This seems fitting........

https://youtu.be/krB2ys59x0s

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2024 11:29 AM (Zz0t1)

113 *Swore* dang it! New Kindle. Need to find auto-cucumber and deactivate it.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 24, 2024 11:29 AM (lFFaq)

114 A president may only serve eight years; a member of congress or the senate should have a shorter term limit

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 24, 2024 11:29 AM (OLdK7)

115 One of the Horde who served on the Forrestal sword that incident wasn't McCain's fault. Would get pretty worked up about it. Wasn't because he was a fan of McCain either.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 24, 2024 11:25 AM (lFFaq

Yes McCain had enough other true incidents that it shouldn’t be necessary to hang something on him that wasn’t his fault just because he was one of the thousands on that ship.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 24, 2024 11:30 AM (D6PGr)

116 Bonk bonk on the head

Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 24, 2024 11:30 AM (rxSe+)

117 I have a vague recollection of news stories from years ago reporting that numerous representatives and senators were routinely bouncing checks at some kind of Capitol hill bank (or maybe it was the equivalent of a purser's office) for elected officials.

Yeah, the capitol bank, which made loans to Congressmen that they didn't have to pay back.

Republicans abolished it after the 1994 landslide.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 24, 2024 11:30 AM (uxCna)

118 And no congressional pensions.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 24, 2024 11:30 AM (OLdK7)

119 @94

>>That said, I have no idea whether Gaetz did the things of which he's accused.

Gaetz was reelected easily even with his constituents knowing about his peccadilloes.

My feeling is that Gaetz is out of Congress because he got tired of the bullsh*t and having to deal with the f**kheads.

I remember during the ousting of McCarthy, he was confronted by a mob of reporters haranguing him on why he was doing what he was doing, and with righteous rage stated, "I've been here for 8 years and we don't have a f**king budget!!" He seemed genuine in his disgust that congress was abdicating his duty and was compelled to act.

He's also been on Tim Cast a number of times and comes across as thoughtful, forthright and earnest in long form interviews.

So, I like the guy, and hope he pops up somewhere doing important sh*t.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 24, 2024 11:31 AM (XV/Pl)

120 Daily Beast Podcast: “Colbert Is Just Not Funny Anymore”

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"Anymore"?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 24, 2024 11:31 AM (L/fGl)

121 The Clinton Wars put an end to character as an issue. Really shows who the losers were, doesn't it?

Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 24, 2024 11:25 AM (OUMaO)

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Yep, the treasonous Clinton Scum and Dixie Mafia started the rapid descent into defining deviancy as normal.

And the treasonous GOPee (establishment eunuch) scum let them both (Bubba & Killary) get away with it -- providing an incentive to install the treasonous DogEater and his treasonous VP F. Joe Mugabe.

None dare call them treasonous!

Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 24, 2024 11:31 AM (z3WOQ)

122 "shorter term limit "

Like 42 milliseconds ?

They would still qualify for a full pension in 12 milliseconds.

Posted by: Next2Nothing at December 24, 2024 11:31 AM (tA1/w)

123 He's also been on Tim Cast a number of times and comes across as thoughtful, forthright and earnest in long form interviews.

So, I like the guy, and hope he pops up somewhere doing important sh*t.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 24, 2024 11:31 AM (XV/Pl)

Tim cashed out and sold his show to The Daily Wire.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2024 11:31 AM (Zz0t1)

124
Whoever invented the Pillsbury "pop" can was a genius.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2024 11:32 AM (azvCj)

125 And no congressional pensions.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

This, absolutely. Let 'em go back to private life and earn an honest living like everyone else.

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2024 11:32 AM (v6JzV)

126 107 Posted by: Nova Local at December 24, 2024 11:25 AM (exHjb)

Barely legal. Key word is legal . And all the church ladies on the Right are as almost as bad as the woke women on the Left.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 24, 2024 11:27 AM (D6PGr)

To be fair, there's some men who also vote the same way...

And the ick factor is the ick factor...you imagine him dating your barely legal teen daughter and just say no.

This is not a hold up for my vote...but I saw Alabama...and if the reddest state will go D b/c of the ick factor, Gaetz has no chance for any high elective office anymore...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 24, 2024 11:32 AM (exHjb)

127 Is it illegal if an illegal does something legal on the Day Without Illegals?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2024 11:32 AM (y/ZMQ)

128 -
"Anymore"?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 24, 2024 11:31 AM (L/fGl)

My question after reading that headline was "when was he ever funny?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2024 11:32 AM (Zz0t1)

129 You mean like with a cloth?

Posted by: Hillary Africanus at December 24, 2024 11:33 AM (wZ2Bf)

130 Cab Donald Trump revoke the commutation of death sentences passed by Biden? I assume the answer is no but I don't actually know.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 24, 2024 11:33 AM (kTd/k)

131 I think an even more important step than term limits would be to find a way to restrict the legislature from creating vast new bureaucracies to administer the laws that are passed. Congress creates these managerial monstrosities, and then they take on a life of their own, effectively creating their own laws through the proliferation of rules and regulations, in which Congress subsequently seems to demonstrate little or no interest with respect to effective oversight responsibilities.

Posted by: Paco at December 24, 2024 11:33 AM (mADJX)

132 Cab Donald Trump revoke the commutation of death sentences passed by Biden? I assume the answer is no but I don't actually know.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 24, 2024 11:33 AM (kTd/k)

I read that there's an actual push to show Biden not of sound mind and everything he's done over the last several months be undone.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2024 11:34 AM (Zz0t1)

133 States should appoint their Congressional representation.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2024 11:34 AM (wZ2Bf)

134 My question after reading that headline was "when was he ever funny?"
Posted by: Sponge

He could occasionally have a funny line in his opening monologue when he started out. A long, long time ago.

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2024 11:34 AM (v6JzV)

135 Whoever invented the Pillsbury "pop" can was a genius.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2024 11:32 AM (azvCj)

I consider myself a somewhat educated and clever person (shut up, he pre-empted)...

And for the life of me I could probably watch a detailed video of how they make those and still have no clue how they make those.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2024 11:34 AM (y/ZMQ)

136
Was that wrong?
Should we not have done that?

Posted by: the two homos porking each other in the ass in some congressional meeting room at December 24, 2024 11:34 AM (dg+HA)

137 Yeah, the capitol bank, which made loans to Congressmen that they didn't have to pay back.

Republicans abolished it after the 1994 landslide.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 24, 2024 11:30 AM (uxCna)

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* The Keating Five (f*ck Zombie Juan McCain!) and Congressional Post Office scandals have entered the chat *

Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 24, 2024 11:34 AM (z3WOQ)

138 And no congressional pensions.

One of the amusing parts of the current Canadian political crisis is that the leader of the New Democratic Party, Jagmeet Singh, refuses to call for new elections right now.

Apparently Singh doesn't qualify for a lucrative parliamentary pension unless he stays in office for a few more months.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 24, 2024 11:35 AM (uxCna)

139 Remember how terribly concerned folks were about gay sex on the Hill? This is typical of the Left. Anything goes unless a Republican is involved. Then they become Puritans.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 24, 2024 11:35 AM (NQtI0)

140 "Hillary Clinton: Republicans Taking Orders from the “World’s Richest Man” Elon Musk"

There is video somewhere, of Hillary sucking up to a female Rothschild family member, saying (paraphrased) "if there is ANYTHNG you need, just let me know".

Yeah, the Clinton pay to play scheme was probably much bigger than the Biden machine. They sucked up ? a couple billion through their foundation.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 24, 2024 11:35 AM (Cus5s)

141 109 The House Bank Scandal? Dan Rostenkowski? Or was he the House Post Office Scandal? Hard to keep our congresscrooks and their shenanigans strait. - Bulg

Yes, the House Bank scandal, that's what I was thinking of. But you're absolutely right; it's hard to keep track of all the scandals.

Posted by: Paco at December 24, 2024 11:35 AM (mADJX)

142
He could occasionally have a funny line in his opening monologue when he started out. A long, long time ago.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2024 11:34 AM (v6JzV)

The snippets I saw of him when he was on The Daily Show weren't funny, so I never gave his version of the late show or whatever even the slightest of chances.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2024 11:36 AM (Zz0t1)

143 for Rs, see Alabama's Senate race from a few years ago...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 24, 2024 11:25 AM (exHjb)

Don't look Ethel! Too late, she had her yearbook signed in....cursive!

Posted by: Alabama Hayseed Voters at December 24, 2024 11:36 AM (R/m4+)

144 Gaetz was all on in the Climate Change nonsense, so don't paint him as some hero he never was. He was just willing to fight, so it made him refreshing.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2024 11:36 AM (wyMQY)

145 "It worked, didn't it?"

- - - - Zombie Harry Reid

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2024 11:36 AM (Zz0t1)

146 The snippets I saw of him when he was on The Daily Show weren't funny, so I never gave his version of the late show or whatever even the slightest of chances.
Posted by: Sponge

I never watched The Daily Show, so I missed that.

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2024 11:37 AM (v6JzV)

147 ManBearPig is a holy sacrament.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2024 11:37 AM (wZ2Bf)

148 I read that there's an actual push to show Biden not of sound mind and everything he's done over the last several months be undone.

Yeah, if you want to play hardball, point out that Biden could not currently sign a valid contract due to his mental incapacity, so why is "he" allowed to pardon thousands of people.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 24, 2024 11:38 AM (uxCna)

149 One of the amusing parts of the current Canadian political crisis is that the leader of the New Democratic Party, Jagmeet Singh, refuses to call for new elections right now.

Apparently Singh doesn't qualify for a lucrative parliamentary pension unless he stays in office for a few more months.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 24, 2024 11:35 AM (uxCna)

The punchline to that joke is that Singh finally did say he will support a vote for new elections - but only on the day after Parliament was recessed, and won't be back in session until after his Pension is secure. (sometime this spring)

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2024 11:38 AM (wyMQY)

150 I read that there's an actual push to show Biden not of sound mind and everything he's done over the last several months be undone.
Posted by: Sponge

Should be over the last four years. OK made it through Sam's now headed back to Bonham.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 24, 2024 11:38 AM (YeN29)

151 Driving hard for the end zone? Backfield in motion? Illegal use of the hands? Hail Mary pass?

Ever Wondered What It’s Like on Date Night with Bill Belichick? You’re in Luck – His 24-Year-Old Girlfriend Spills the Beans

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 24, 2024 11:38 AM (L/fGl)

152

I never watched The Daily Show, so I missed that.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2024 11:37 AM (v6JzV)

I didn't either, but occasionally, a link to something he did would be posted somewhere that I would click........It was NEVER worth it.

A former friend of mine used to declare that Colbert was the "conservative yin to Stewart's liberal yang."

Uh, no......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2024 11:39 AM (Zz0t1)

153
In case you don't know...

steve colbert's rise to "fame" is due to being in oddball tv shows in the late 90's + early aughts, such as Strangers With Candy and voices on Adult Swim (Cartoon Network) shows.

As a "comedian," he's a failure. He can read a script, deliver lines, and has the "look" of an average "proper" man, which makes his lines "funny," I guess.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2024 11:39 AM (azvCj)

154 Gaetz was all on in the Climate Change nonsense, so don't paint him as some hero he never was. He was just willing to fight, so it made him refreshing.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2024 11:36 AM (wyMQY)

Donald Trump signed a letter to The NY Times along with his daughter in 2015 being all in on man made climate change. Just saying.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 24, 2024 11:39 AM (D6PGr)

155 OK made it through Sam's now headed back to Bonham.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 24, 2024 11:38 AM (YeN29)

I'm waiting for the thunder to pass, then I'll head out to find the stocking stuffer I need to get the wife.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2024 11:39 AM (Zz0t1)

156 Whoever invented the Pillsbury "pop" can was a genius.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2024 11:32 AM (azvCj)

I consider myself a somewhat educated and clever person (shut up, he pre-empted)...

And for the life of me I could probably watch a detailed video of how they make those and still have no clue how they make those.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2024 11:34 AM (y/ZMQ)

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Gotta be vacuum-induced.

Maybe taking advantage of the Ideal Gas Law (pressure proportional to temperature) by assembling them in a frigid environment?

[Maybe one day Elon Musk will make them in space ...]

Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 24, 2024 11:39 AM (z3WOQ)

157 Cab Donald Trump revoke the commutation of death sentences passed by Biden? I assume the answer is no but I don't actually know.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 24, 2024 11:33 AM (kTd/k)

If the dog-eating Kenyan crackhead can order the droning of an American citizen without repercussion, then that's all the precedent Teh Donald needs to order the immediate execution of every one of those scumbags in January 20.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2024 11:40 AM (Q0kLU)

158
Same with john oliver.

oliver is a nobody, a failure. But he's got the british accent and can read a script.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2024 11:40 AM (azvCj)

159 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 24, 2024 11:38 AM (L/fGl)

Nope; I have not wondered about that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2024 11:40 AM (sJ2CP)

160 Congress creates these managerial monstrosities, and then they take on a life of their own, effectively creating their own laws through the proliferation of rules and regulations, in which Congress subsequently seems to demonstrate little or no interest with respect to effective oversight responsibilities.
Posted by: Paco

The Chevron ruling should take care of that, though the SC ruled in a way that each unelected bureaucracy will have to be sued individually.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 24, 2024 11:40 AM (OLdK7)

161 Did they keep their pay raise in the "slimmed down" funding bill? Didn't they vote themselves an "automatic" raise a few years back?

Posted by: BignJames at December 24, 2024 11:40 AM (Yj6Os)

162 They had us watch a film on the Forrestal in Navy boot camp. IIRC, the root cause of the fire was the shoddy way they were handling the ordnance while loading them into the planes. Hard to see how that could've been McCain's, or any other pilot's fault.

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2024 11:41 AM (v6JzV)

163 Everybody behaving?

I had to shovel snow...almost 2"!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 24, 2024 11:41 AM (d9fT1)

164
If I walk in to the bedroom and Her Majesty has fallen asleep watching the news and that asshole Colbert is on, I turn the TV off while muttering, "Asshole."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2024 11:41 AM (dxSpM)

165 I had to shovel snow...almost 2"!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 24, 2024 11:41 AM (d9fT1)

Last time I had to do that, it'd been so long, I'd forgotten how exhausting that shit was.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2024 11:41 AM (Zz0t1)

166
Gotta be vacuum-induced.

Maybe taking advantage of the Ideal Gas Law (pressure proportional to temperature) by assembling them in a frigid environment?

Posted by: ShainS

Oh, okay. Sure.

Just like magnets, then.

/nods

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2024 11:41 AM (azvCj)

167 Yeah, if you want to play hardball, point out that Biden could not currently sign a valid contract due to his mental incapacity, so why is "he" allowed to pardon thousands of people.

Somebody on Hot Gas or Power Line is worried that Biden is going to pardon everyone that is in the United States illegally.

The slight problem with that is that pardons can't be forward-looking, so even if you pardoned people for being in the United States illegally up until today, they would still revert to being criminals starting tomorrow.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 24, 2024 11:41 AM (uxCna)

168 Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2024 11:36 AM (wyMQY)

And I think you may be mischaracterizing his position.

Gaetz acknowledged global warming in 2016 but said he disagrees with the scientific consensus on climate change that human activity is the primary cause.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 24, 2024 11:42 AM (D6PGr)

169 Just wait till it melts.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2024 11:42 AM (wZ2Bf)

170 Ever Wondered What It’s Like on Date Night with Bill Belichick? You’re in Luck – His 24-Year-Old Girlfriend Spills the Beans

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He's three times her age.

That's just embarrassing ...

Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 24, 2024 11:42 AM (z3WOQ)

171 I wonder if Joe Biden's trip to Italy (Rome?) is going to get him an audience with the Pope on Christmas.

Posted by: m at December 24, 2024 11:43 AM (VnUSN)

172 I had to shovel snow...almost 2"!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 24, 2024 11:41 AM (d9fT1)

Well that's not very far at all, is it? Is your front door right smack dab on the main road or something?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2024 11:43 AM (y/ZMQ)

173
That's just embarrassing ...
Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 24, 2024 11:42 AM (z3WOQ)

But, he's living his best life, so you're supposed to look past it.

She loves him for who he is, not his millions in the bank.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2024 11:43 AM (Zz0t1)

174 Cab Donald Trump...
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Uber-President??

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 24, 2024 11:44 AM (hovnC)

175 And for the life of me I could probably watch a detailed video of how they make those and still have no clue how they make those.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

I always assumed it was the dough rising further after the product was sealed in the can that provided the pressure.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 24, 2024 11:44 AM (OLdK7)

176 update (Reuters):

U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to Rome in January to meet with Pope Francis and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni....

Posted by: m at December 24, 2024 11:44 AM (VnUSN)

177
What's amazing about the Pillsbury "pop!" can is how little pressure it takes to make them explode, and, yet, they stay intact with normal handling.

You can even bang the shit outta these tubes on the kitchen counter and they will not pop! Not until you tear the paper back a little bit. Amazing!

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2024 11:44 AM (azvCj)

178 Is he going the Holy Arch of Saint Titus the Devine?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2024 11:44 AM (wZ2Bf)

179 I'm waiting for the thunder to pass, then I'll head out to find the stocking stuffer I need to get the wife.
Posted by: Sponge

Iconic Braveheart scene:

December 24th, 3:00 pm - HOLD!

December 24th, 5:00 pm - HOLD!

December 24th, 7:00 pm - BEGIN SHOPPING!

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 24, 2024 11:44 AM (YeN29)

180
Somebody on Hot Gas or Power Line is worried that Biden is going to pardon everyone that is in the United States illegally.

__________

I'd like to think that something like that would sink the Democratic party for a generation. But I would be wrong.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2024 11:45 AM (dxSpM)

181 December 24th, 7:00 pm - BEGIN SHOPPING!

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 24, 2024 11:44 AM (YeN29)

LOL.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2024 11:45 AM (Zz0t1)

182
U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to Rome in January to meet with Pope Francis and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni....
Posted by: m at December 24, 2024 11:44 AM (VnUSN)

*poop*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2024 11:46 AM (Zz0t1)

183 Looking at all of the political shenanigans makes one wish for a Thomas Crapper of governmental institutions. Perhaps we will make some headway with our current crop, but there does not seem to be a better system than the one we have.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 24, 2024 11:46 AM (vd6bO)

184 I had to shovel snow...almost 2"!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 24, 2024 11:41 AM (d9fT1)

Well that's not very far at all, is it? Is your front door right smack dab on the main road or something?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

ISWYDT.

*snort

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 24, 2024 11:46 AM (YeN29)

185 Can Donald Trump revoke the commutation of death sentences passed by Biden? I assume the answer is no but I don't actually know.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 24, 2024 11:33 AM (kTd/k)

If the dog-eating Kenyan crackhead can order the droning of an American citizen without repercussion, then that's all the precedent Teh Donald needs to order the immediate execution of every one of those scumbags in January 20.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2024 11:40 AM (Q0kLU)

----------------

I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 24, 2024 11:46 AM (z3WOQ)

186 Yeah, the Clinton pay to play scheme was probably much bigger than the Biden machine. They sucked up ? a couple billion through their foundation.
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If the Hsu fits, wear it.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 24, 2024 11:46 AM (hovnC)

187 Good Rant, thanks.

Amen.

But two years from now, most of us will still choose 'our' devils over 'theirs' because we'll be so hounded & fearful over possible ramifications to do otherwise.

We'll need more Scott Preslers and organized youth to dig us out of the many decades of Newspeak and make us get back on our feet locally - first.

Posted by: L - Rooster one day, feather duster the next at December 24, 2024 11:47 AM (NFX2v)

188 I be really embarrassed if my 24 year son was
dating some 72 year old multi millionaire woman.
I'm trusting he won't be dating Jill Biden after Biden dies.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2024 11:47 AM (d+gum)

189 Mollie Hemmingway qays the whole thing is BS, made up by a guy who is in jail for lying like this before.

Posted by: 29Victor at December 24, 2024 11:47 AM (TL7UX)

190 24 I'll ask again.. What's best w/nog?...bourbon? spiced rum? brandy? amaretto?

A trash can. Eggnog is liquid garbage.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2024 11:07 AM (Q0kLU)

Ha!

Posted by: m at December 24, 2024 11:47 AM (VnUSN)

191 That was a nice rant.

Made me feel stabby on Christmas Eve.

But I also watched 'Inside' early into the morning.

Posted by: Stateless at December 24, 2024 11:47 AM (jvJvP)

192 Bad news from Seuss land.

Residents Of Whoville Regret Defunding The Police

From the Bee.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 24, 2024 11:47 AM (L/fGl)

193 I'll ask again.. What's best w/nog?...bourbon? spiced rum? brandy? amaretto?

Wild turkey 101.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 24, 2024 11:48 AM (YeN29)

194 They should My Pillow all of the death row inmates who received a commutation of sentence.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2024 11:48 AM (wZ2Bf)

195 Anyone want to bet against me when I suggest that there are probably a dozen members of Congress in London or Paris or Prague on "official business," conveniently scheduled to correspond with Christmas shopping?

More than that I'd wager.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2024 11:48 AM (W/lyH)

196 Yeah, the Clinton pay to play scheme was probably much bigger than the Biden machine. They sucked up ? a couple billion through their foundation.

The Trump DOJ needs to identify any bribes paid as part of Biden's pardon's process, and prosecute both the briber and the bribee.

I'm sure many millions of dollars and other favors are involved.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 24, 2024 11:49 AM (uxCna)

197 162 They had us watch a film on the Forrestal in Navy boot camp. IIRC, the root cause of the fire was the shoddy way they were handling the ordnance while loading them into the planes. Hard to see how that could've been McCain's, or any other pilot's fault.
Posted by: Bulg
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McCain was such a privileged asshoe foul up that by the time of the Forrestal event things stuck to him whether he did it or not. He could walk down a hall and fires would erupt behind him.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2024 11:49 AM (7qi4l)

198 Looking at all of the political shenanigans makes one wish for a Thomas Crapper of governmental institutions. Perhaps we will make some headway with our current crop, but there does not seem to be a better system than the one we have.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 24, 2024 11:46 AM (vd6bO)

---------------

I want that "Giant Sucking Sound" Ross Perot warned us about to be The Swamp being flushed.

/And the real estate values of DC and its surrounding counties (apologies to all 'rons and 'ettes residing there) to collapse ...

Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 24, 2024 11:49 AM (z3WOQ)

199 200

Posted by: m at December 24, 2024 11:50 AM (VnUSN)

200 171 I wonder if Joe Biden's trip to Italy (Rome?) is going to get him an audience with the Pope on Christmas.
Posted by: m
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Sara Rose 🌹 @saras76 19h
.@JMilei’s reaction when Biden gets too close to the Pope 💀🤣

Sound up 😂

https://tinyurl.com/bdcr63tb
6 seconds; sound not needed IMHO

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 24, 2024 11:50 AM (hovnC)

201 200!

Posted by: m at December 24, 2024 11:51 AM (VnUSN)

202 I'll ask again.. What's best w/nog?...bourbon? spiced rum? brandy? amaretto?

A trash can. Eggnog is liquid garbage.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2024 11:07 AM (Q0kLU)

from a guy that drinks hot tea...prolly w/cream/sugar/lemon.

Posted by: BignJames at December 24, 2024 11:51 AM (Yj6Os)

203 Bringing forward:

Grazie a Elon Musk, il Pd ha finalmente scoperto il sovranismo.

https://tinyurl.com/4f2rtbaa

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2024 11:51 AM (7qi4l)

204 Bah.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2024 11:51 AM (wZ2Bf)

205 I'll ask again.. What's best w/nog?...bourbon? spiced rum? brandy? amaretto?

Fireball.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2024 11:51 AM (dg+HA)

206 200
Sara Rose 🌹 @saras76 19h
.@JMilei’s reaction when Biden gets too close to the Pope 💀🤣

Sound up 😂

https://tinyurl.com/bdcr63tb
6 seconds; sound not needed IMHO
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 24, 2024 11:50 AM (hovnC)

ewwww

Posted by: m at December 24, 2024 11:52 AM (VnUSN)

207
I thought the Hur report said Joe was mentally incompetent to stand a trial. So how can his pardons be valid? Who's making decisions for him? Why is he still President? Why doesn't the MSM ask?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2024 11:52 AM (dxSpM)

208 then I'll head out to find the stocking stuffer I need to get the wife.

The Paolo has entered the chat.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 24, 2024 11:53 AM (YSM/8)

209 I'll ask again.. What's best w/nog?...bourbon? spiced rum? brandy? amaretto?

A trash can. Eggnog is liquid garbage.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)

What is best with nog? An open steppe, a willing horse, a trained hawk on your arm and the clean breeze in your face, that is what is best with nog.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2024 11:53 AM (D7oie)

210 The Trump DOJ needs to identify any bribes paid as part of Biden's pardon's process, and prosecute both the briber and the bribee.

I'm sure many millions of dollars and other favors are involved.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

That whole "crimes they might have committed" part of the pardon is bullshit. If you can't identify them, then they shouldn't be covered.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 24, 2024 11:53 AM (YeN29)

211 Yeah, nah, sorry Popey, you ain't pay us enough to get in the middle of that mess.

Posted by: Swiss Guard at December 24, 2024 11:53 AM (y/ZMQ)

212 207
I thought the Hur report said Joe was mentally incompetent to stand a trial. So how can his pardons be valid? Who's making decisions for him? Why is he still President? Why doesn't the MSM ask?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2024 11:52 AM
_-_-_-_-_-_-

This. They definitely don't want to know, do they?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 24, 2024 11:53 AM (vd6bO)

213 Colbert was funny for about a week when he did his Bill O'Reilly parody. But, like most parodies, it got really old really fast.

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein at December 24, 2024 11:53 AM (94fm8)

214 14 What's best w/nog?
Posted by: BignJames at December 24, 2024 11:05 AM (Yj6Os)

“To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!”

Posted by: m at December 24, 2024 11:54 AM (VnUSN)

215 What is best with nog? An open steppe, a willing horse, a trained hawk on your arm and the clean breeze in your face, that is what is best with nog.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2024 11:53 AM

This man...he gets it.

Posted by: Conan at December 24, 2024 11:54 AM (kgE5c)

216 Barely legal. Key word is legal . And all the church ladies on the Right are as almost as bad as the woke women on the Left.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 24, 2024 11:27 AM (D6PGr)

Of the First Self Righteous Church:

https://tinyurl.com/39rtbjwv

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 24, 2024 11:54 AM (iODuv)

217 and to hear the lamentation of their women!”
Posted by: m at December 24, 2024 11:54 AM

Just go over to BlueSky.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 24, 2024 11:55 AM (kgE5c)

218
The Land of Nog. Wasn't that in Genesis?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2024 11:55 AM (dxSpM)

219 I'd be willing to compromise on the term limits idea.

You can run for re-election ONCE.

Can't run as a sitting office-holder again without having worked outside of government for 2 years. (And I'd include "lobbying" as part of that equation.)

Yes, it would be gamed, but it would help.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 24, 2024 11:55 AM (kAFFE)

220 Mollie Hemmingway qays the whole thing is BS, made up by a guy who is in jail for lying like this before.

Posted by: 29Victor at December 24, 2024 11:47 AM (TL7UX)

Yup...most probably a hit job.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 24, 2024 11:55 AM (d9fT1)

221 207
I thought the Hur report said Joe was mentally incompetent to stand a trial. So how can his pardons be valid? Who's making decisions for him? Why is he still President? Why doesn't the MSM ask?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Agree. Most of the trash that Biden has done since the election will be undone.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2024 11:55 AM (7qi4l)

222 My ex's uncle was a Capitol Cop and he had stories. So and so passed out in an elevator, some rep or Senator roaming the halls, just wanting to find the office, and so on. He also said that there were about 175 embassies in DC ranging from palaces to strip mall offices and every one had at least one Congresscritter on payroll.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 24, 2024 11:56 AM (gm9Sb)

223 They can be really annoying.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2024 11:56 AM (wZ2Bf)

224 The Land of Nog. Wasn't that in Genesis?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

It was east of Eden.

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2024 11:56 AM (v6JzV)

225 Yup...most probably a hit job.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 24, 2024 11:55 AM (d9fT1)

media...gullible or complicit?

Posted by: BignJames at December 24, 2024 11:56 AM (Yj6Os)

226 I'll ask again.. What's best w/nog?...bourbon? spiced rum? brandy? amaretto?
Posted by: BignJames

A second glass.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2024 11:57 AM (W/lyH)

227 105 There are no illegals in Kalifornia, comrade; they're merely undocumented...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2024 11:26 AM (ynpvh)

How are you doing, sir?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2024 11:27 AM (Zz0t1)

I'm doing okay. Have more energy, feel hunger 4 times a day, so I eat. Can't hide my farts anymore, so that CAN be a source of humor I suppose. Doc said I can drive, so that's good news. Had my staples (all 23 of them) removed yesterday, so another plus. Didn't realize the new scar intersects the old one from my transplant, so now I have a tipsy "V" on my abdomen. LOL.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2024 11:57 AM (ynpvh)

228 Considering that most of Congress doesn't read the bills they vote in favor of, you could probably get them to pass a law that requires the immediate execution of any Congresscritter who votes in favor of a measure that exempts Congresscritters from the laws Congress passes.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 24, 2024 11:57 AM (MXSed)

229 If the unitary executive is unfit to stand trial, then he's unfit to bring trial, which means no Federal crime convictions over the last 4 years can stand.

Pardon Everyone. 8 billion people. All crimes real or imagined during the shitpants debacle.

What the hell, man, let's party.

Posted by: Swiss Guard at December 24, 2024 11:57 AM (y/ZMQ)

230 Of the First Self Righteous Church:

https://tinyurl.com/39rtbjwv
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy

Bertha Better-Than-You

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 24, 2024 11:57 AM (YeN29)

231 Stripey Pokey Sock, off.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2024 11:57 AM (y/ZMQ)

232
California has term limits and I can't say the state is much better for them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2024 11:57 AM (dxSpM)

233 media...gullible or complicit?
Posted by: BignJames

Complicit in their gullibility.

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2024 11:57 AM (v6JzV)

234 And for the life of me I could probably watch a detailed video of how they make those and still have no clue how they make those.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2024 11:34 AM (y/ZMQ)

I would guess it is mixed cold with baking powder (or self rising flour), and the bicarbonate in the baking powder begins to react to the alum and moisture, the can itself is pressure sealed, so the CO2 permeates the biscuit dough in saturation like sodapop in a plastic 2 liter bottle. Keeping it cold keeps the CO2 in saturation as well, but it will "foam" when you crack the cylinder open.

If you warm it too much I am told the cylinders will crack open and may well launch themselves

Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2024 11:58 AM (D7oie)

235 I've only ever tried eggnog with spiced rum. Nutmeg is the key.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2024 11:58 AM (wZ2Bf)

236 Good morning all. Not really feeling Christmas this year...maybe some alcohol will help..

Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at December 24, 2024 11:58 AM (EmT/E)

237 Pardon Everyone. 8 billion people. All crimes real or imagined during the shitpants debacle.

What the hell, man, let's party.
Posted by: Swiss Guard

Wait. Give me four hours. I have some family business. I need to settle.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 24, 2024 11:59 AM (YeN29)

238 177 What's amazing about the Pillsbury "pop!" can is how little pressure it takes to make them explode, and, yet, they stay intact with normal handling.

You can even bang the shit outta these tubes on the kitchen counter and they will not pop! Not until you tear the paper back a little bit. Amazing! - Soothsayer

Ah, but the anticipation of the pop - nerve-wracking! Like being the guest of honor at a firing squad.

Posted by: Paco at December 24, 2024 12:00 PM (mADJX)

239 They behave abominably at public restaurants.

Now here, they might actually be getting what they deserve.
Food prep is behind closed doors.

Posted by: HEY MEATHEAD! at December 24, 2024 12:00 PM (oOc/o)

240 Wait. Give me four hours. I have some family business. I need to settle.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 24, 2024 11:59 AM (YeN29)

Yeah....me, too.

Vito.

Posted by: BignJames at December 24, 2024 12:00 PM (Yj6Os)

241 Can they pardon you for shit you haven't done yet?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2024 12:01 PM (wZ2Bf)

242 media...gullible or complicit?
-------
Oh, no. Insty's NeverTrumps assure me that the Just The News report, although allegedly including detailed denials, was good journalism.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 24, 2024 12:01 PM (hovnC)

243 media...gullible or complicit?

Posted by: BignJames at December 24, 2024 11:56 AM (Yj6Os)

First gullible, then complacent and incurious...then complicit.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 24, 2024 12:01 PM (d9fT1)

244 The Father of this country, George Washington used:

rye
cognac
rum
Madeira

in his eggnog.

Should you do any less if you're a patriot?

Posted by: naturalfake at December 24, 2024 12:01 PM (iJfKG)

245 Bertha Better-Than-You
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 24, 2024 11:57 AM (YeN29)

LOL!! Every church has one. Or more.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 24, 2024 12:01 PM (iODuv)

246 The Land of Nod, by Natalie Merchant:

https://youtu.be/YiYp_2p2xWs

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2024 12:02 PM (dg+HA)

247 Was Nod in Africa?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2024 12:02 PM (wZ2Bf)

248 CA's term limits have had zero impact on the bottom line of horrendous, delusional, ruinous "governance". As was easily predicted.

You can't overcome idiotic voters. Term limits, $ limits, blah blah blah. None of them address the problem.

Of course the idiotic voters suffer from generational decline, educational decline, and a dead system which isn't even a dead two-party system, which the entire country lives under. Dead = inertia etc making it extremely difficult to actually change elected personnel, especially *within* the GOP.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 24, 2024 12:03 PM (1m82a)

249 Nod is the least woke country that ever existed.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2024 12:03 PM (y/ZMQ)

250 The Father of this country, George Washington used:

rye
cognac
rum
Madeira

in his eggnog.

Should you do any less if you're a patriot?
Posted by: naturalfake

He didn't drink that himself. He sent it though the lines as a Christmas present for the Hessians.

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2024 12:03 PM (v6JzV)

251 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
----------
Good to hear you're making progress. I've been reading your updates throughout. Uncle went through similar and I know it is long road. Sounds like things are looking up for you. Merry Christmas and continued healing.

Posted by: scampydog at December 24, 2024 12:03 PM (2bFN5)

252 Excellent commentary. I would suggest that the voters are allowed perform light water boarding of representatives and senators at townhalls that a found lacking. Call it an active term limit carve out.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 24, 2024 12:04 PM (Q8Bj8)

253
The Land Of Nod by Robert Louis Stevenson

From breakfast on through all the day
At home among my friends I stay,
But every night I go abroad
Afar into the land of Nod.
All by myself I have to go,
With none to tell me what to do —
All alone beside the streams
And up the mountain-sides of dreams.
The strangest things are there for me,
Both things to eat and things to see,
And many frightening sights abroad
Till morning in the land of Nod.
Try as I like to find the way,
I never can get back by day,
Nor can remember plain and clear
The curious music that I hear.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 24, 2024 12:04 PM (iJfKG)

254 My ex's uncle was a Capitol Cop and he had stories. So and so passed out in an elevator, some rep or Senator roaming the halls, just wanting to find the office, and so on. He also said that there were about 175 embassies in DC ranging from palaces to strip mall offices and every one had at least one Congresscritter on payroll.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 24, 2024 11:56 AM (gm9Sb)
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Have heard from several sources that there is a private club, in a nice but unremarkable building, just a couple blocks from the White House. It is limited to 50 members at any given time. Memberships are lifetime.
Members include Presidents, Senators, rich people and others. Very exclusive and it has been around for over 150 years. The ultimate backdoor dealing.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2024 12:04 PM (W/lyH)

255 The Hessians liked it so much they became Amish.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2024 12:04 PM (wZ2Bf)

256 Was Nod in Africa?
Posted by: Boss Moss

I'll punt on answering that question.

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2024 12:04 PM (v6JzV)

257 In all seriousness, Congressional salaries should be bumped to $1 million per year. We want to attract the best and brightest for such important jobs and we want them less prone to corruption. We can then justifiably limit their stock purchases to publicly available mutual funds.

Posted by: LazyGepid at December 24, 2024 12:05 PM (oiYMF)

258 244 The Father of this country, George Washington used:

rye
cognac
rum
Madeira

in his eggnog.

Should you do any less if you're a patriot? - naturalfake

Rummages around the pantry. Hmmm...I've got a vintage bottle of Thunderbird and a half-mason jar of apple-pie whiskey (taxes, unpaid). Not sure what kind of nog that will make.

Posted by: Paco at December 24, 2024 12:05 PM (mADJX)

259 That whole "crimes they might have committed" part of the pardon is bullshit. If you can't identify them, then they shouldn't be covered.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 24, 2024 11:53 AM

ford started that with his pardon of richard nixon:

"Now, Therefore, I, Gerald R. Ford, President of the United States, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974."

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 24, 2024 12:05 PM (Rcnd3)

260 He didn't drink that himself. He sent it though the lines as a Christmas present for the Hessians.
Posted by: Bulg
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He gave Christmas present to the enemy?

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2024 12:06 PM (7qi4l)

261 @113 Need to find auto-cucumber and deactivate it.

Might I suggest that you are drunk? You'd do the same for me.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 24, 2024 12:06 PM (zdLoL)

262 Have heard from several sources that there is a private club, in a nice but unremarkable building, just a couple blocks from the White House. It is limited to 50 members at any given time. Memberships are lifetime.
Members include Presidents, Senators, rich people and others. Very exclusive and it has been around for over 150 years. The ultimate backdoor dealing.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2024 12:04 PM (W/lyH)

The Iluminatti Club?

Posted by: BignJames at December 24, 2024 12:06 PM (Yj6Os)

263 The ultimate backdoor dealing.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2024 12:04 PM (W/lyH)

It might actually just be the one place on earth where they can drink a cheap beer, fart, and play darts without anyone hassling them. Who knows.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2024 12:06 PM (y/ZMQ)

264 Lora Loomer's article in Zero Hedge seems like a great awakening. Merry Christmas.

"When the Founding Fathers put freedom of speech first, it was not by chance, it was by design. The rights that followed were in part created. to protect the First Amendment. Without it, they knew that freedom itself would perish. I am reminded today of the words spoken by the British Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Gray, in 1914, at the beginning of the First World War."

"He said, the lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime. We are once again watching the lights of freedom. They're going out here and all over the world. And it is up to us to determine if they will be lit again, ever."

https://tinyurl.com/bd95pfm9

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 24, 2024 12:06 PM (wDJaI)

265 What's amazing about the Pillsbury "pop!" can is how little pressure it takes to make them explode, and, yet, they stay intact with normal handling.

Old joke:
Woman goes shopping. Comes out, gets in car, leaves. Pulls up to stoplight. Hears a pop, feels something hit her in the back of the head. Reaches back. Feels goo. Calls 911. Says to hurry. She's been shot and is holding her brains in.
Cops get there. Pilsbury biscuit can got too warm and blew up. 😂😂😂

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 24, 2024 12:06 PM (YeN29)

266 Virginia only lets you be governor once.
So there's that.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2024 12:06 PM (dg+HA)

267 G'morn, gang.

Just off the top o' me head, could we have our reps just stay home and phone in their votes? They could debate and confer on open conference calls or Net equivalent, totally transparently to the public. Not sure what safeguards that all might require, but it would keep them from congregating in the corridors of power and rolling around in all the available D.C. graft streams. Maybe sorta?

They'd always be in ready reach of their constituents, and even have time to be with their families.

Just a thought. Coffee will kick in soon.

Posted by: mindful webworker - the light is brightly shining at December 24, 2024 12:06 PM (09AS9)

268 The Land of Nog. Wasn't that in Genesis?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2024 11:55 AM (dxSpM)

Yes, that is where the three princes, Winken, Binken and Nog came from/

Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2024 12:06 PM (D7oie)

269 He gave Christmas present to the enemy?
Posted by: Braenyard

To get them schnokered, you know.

PS -- He really didn't do that.

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2024 12:07 PM (v6JzV)

270 Cbc 'news' is all butt hurt.

Showed a meme with Trump shopping on Amazon buying Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal.

It would be horrible if Trump took over Canada, executed all of our elites and their entire bloodlines and caused every last fucking immigrant looking for free shit to flee back to their shitholes. Horrible.

Our beautiful neighbours made us great egg nog a few weeks ago. No booze.

Posted by: Stateless at December 24, 2024 12:07 PM (jvJvP)

271 256 Was Nod in Africa?
Posted by: Boss Moss

I'll punt on answering that question.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2024 12:04 PM (v6JzV)

Awwww.

He gypped us.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2024 12:07 PM (y/ZMQ)

272 "You can't overcome idiotic voters."
You said it, rhomboid. Politics is downstream from culture. This blog is a worthy example of the best solution to the problem in my opinion. We have to make ourselves better. People usually get as good a government as they deserve.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 24, 2024 12:08 PM (vd6bO)

273 In all seriousness, Congressional salaries should be bumped to $1 million per year. We want to attract the best and brightest for such important jobs and we want them less prone to corruption. We can then justifiably limit their stock purchases to publicly available mutual funds.
Posted by: LazyGepid at December 24, 2024 12:05 PM (oiYMF)

Generous salaries are immaterial to those with a lust for power. No matter how much they have, they will want *more*.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 24, 2024 12:08 PM (lFFaq)

274
Our beautiful neighbours made us great egg nog a few weeks ago. No booze.

Posted by: Stateless at December 24, 2024 12:07 PM (jvJvP)

You were swindled!!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 24, 2024 12:08 PM (iJfKG)

275 CA's term limits have had zero impact on the bottom line of horrendous, delusional, ruinous "governance". As was easily predicted.

I'm kinda surprised Sacramento is still standing.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2024 12:09 PM (W/lyH)

276 Virginia only lets you be governor once.
So there's that.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

Not really. You can't stand for reelection after your first term. But you can sit out for four years and then run again, like McAuliffe did.

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2024 12:09 PM (v6JzV)

277 In a few hours we will have guests arriving for dinner. And the downstairs bathroom toilet floater valve has decided ehh that whole stopping the water flow after the tank is filled is FOR LOSERS.

Nothing like plumbing under pressure.

Posted by: blaster at December 24, 2024 12:09 PM (QfvaV)

278
Well, well, well. Ray Stevens is still around. I thought he'd died a long time ago.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2024 12:09 PM (dxSpM)

279 Lara Logan!!!
stupido!!!

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 24, 2024 12:09 PM (wDJaI)

280 Generous salaries are immaterial to those with a lust for power. No matter how much they have, they will want *more*.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 24, 2024 12:08 PM (lFFaq)

It will piss off those giving the bribes as the price will go up.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2024 12:10 PM (W/lyH)

281 We already have term limits, and they are called elections. If the constituents want to throw the bum out that is their opportunity. However, what we should have are age limits. 75 would be a good number because it seems that they are all lucid up until that point.

Posted by: Happy at December 24, 2024 12:10 PM (F+55o)

282 OT -Over 120 retired Ad orals and Generals write an open letter supporting Pete Hegseth for confirmation:

Legal Insurrection site:

https://tinyurl.com/499rfehe

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2024 12:10 PM (sSkcu)

283 263 I was in a real dive bar in Southern Maryland, and just leaving were a couple of the Redskins, back in their 70s hay day. Mentioned it to the redneck tending bar and he said "hell, we get Congressmen, Senators, and all kinds of big shots from time to time". Maybe the smell of urine, National Bohemian and Old Bay attracts them.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 24, 2024 12:10 PM (gm9Sb)

284 Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2024 11:34 AM (y/ZMQ)

There is a calculated amount of pressure generated by the reaction within the cylinder. That pressure is offset by the thickness of the container. Peeling the wrapper of the container back reduces the thickness of the container and hoop stress exceeds the bearing property of the remaining thickness.

Kinda like a hot dog in a microwave

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 24, 2024 12:11 PM (3Ope8)

285 In a few hours we will have guests arriving for dinner. And the downstairs bathroom toilet floater valve has decided ehh that whole stopping the water flow after the tank is filled is FOR LOSERS.

Nothing like plumbing under pressure.
Posted by: blaster at December 24, 2024 12:09 PM (QfvaV)
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Better the floater valve than the basic floater.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2024 12:11 PM (W/lyH)

286 Spent quite a few years on the Hill and the visible debauchery wasn't quite as spicy as suggested above. But that was a while ago, and there are many reasons to think the entire thing has changed quite a bit. Such as politics essentially disappearing from the Senate, and it becoming a watered down version of the House (i.e. Dems at least voting as a bloc, and GOP doing so except for a few who vote with the other side when it counts).

Packwood's office was right around the corner, and the front office girls always advised newcomers/replacements about him. Of course the few who were very attractive over those years faced predation from within the office (ahemm).

There's always been the Wilbur Mills/Fannie Fox/playing drunk in a fountain stuff, over the ages, but it's the substantive disaster that is Congress and the inability of voters to change it that are important.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 24, 2024 12:11 PM (1m82a)

287 *And the downstairs bathroom toilet floater valve has decided ehh that whole stopping the water flow after the tank is filled is FOR LOSERS.

Nothing like plumbing under pressure.*

No problem Clark. The RV is parked right outside.

Posted by: Cousin Eddie at December 24, 2024 12:11 PM (dg+HA)

288 277 In a few hours we will have guests arriving for dinner. And the downstairs bathroom toilet floater valve has decided ehh that whole stopping the water flow after the tank is filled is FOR LOSERS.

Nothing like plumbing under pressure.
Posted by: blaster at December 24, 2024 12:09 PM (QfvaV)
_-_-_-_-_-_-_-

Not good for the water bill or the septic system - if'n ya got one of those.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 24, 2024 12:11 PM (vd6bO)

289 California is populated by people that recalled it's Governor because he was doing a horrible job running the state and also inexplicably, re-elected him by a landslide because they felt he was the best guy to run the state.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 24, 2024 12:12 PM (XV/Pl)

290 Might I suggest that you are drunk? You'd do the same for me.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 24, 2024 12:06 PM (zdLoL)

Lol. I have never once corrected your grammar. Although you took the opportunity of a previous typo to call me a nazi cow.

Besides, I have already agreed to take your word for it that when you are a self righteous, obnoxious, jerk you are stone cold sober.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 24, 2024 12:12 PM (lFFaq)

291 In 1768, the British seized John Hancock’s trading vessel Liberty over import duties for the 25 pipas of Madeira wine that it carried, which resulted in rioting in Boston. When the Declaration of Independence was signed less than a decade later, it was toasted by the signatories with a glass of Madeira.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2024 12:12 PM (7qi4l)

292 In a few hours we will have guests arriving for dinner. And the downstairs bathroom toilet floater valve has decided ehh that whole stopping the water flow after the tank is filled is FOR LOSERS.

Nothing like plumbing under pressure.
Posted by: blaster

Have you taken off the tank lid and fiddled with it? That usually works for me.

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2024 12:13 PM (v6JzV)

293 I used to run into John Riggins at the REI in Bailey's Crossroads fairly frequently (think was right after he retired from the Deadskins). Can't remember what he was shopping for. Very friendly and normal. I think the third or fourth time he even remembered me and laughed about it.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 24, 2024 12:14 PM (1m82a)

294 In a few hours we will have guests arriving for dinner. And the downstairs bathroom toilet floater valve has decided ehh that whole stopping the water flow after the tank is filled is FOR LOSERS.

Nothing like plumbing under pressure.

Get some cable ties and strap that bad boy down, then stand back and say "that isn't going anywhere".

Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2024 12:14 PM (xCA6C)

295 Jiggle the handle.

Posted by: Just the punchline at December 24, 2024 12:15 PM (dg+HA)

296 14 I'll ask again.. What's best w/nog?...bourbon? spiced rum? brandy? amaretto?
Posted by: BignJames at December 24, 2024 11:05 AM (Yj6Os)

Bourbon. And hold the nog

Posted by: jsg at December 24, 2024 12:15 PM (Fg0Nr)

297 I used to run into John Riggins at the REI in Bailey's Crossroads fairly frequently (think was right after he retired from the Deadskins). Can't remember what he was shopping for.
Posted by: rhomboid

Something for Sandy, Baby?

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2024 12:16 PM (v6JzV)

298 "California is populated by people that recalled it's Governor because he was doing a horrible job running the state and also inexplicably, re-elected him by a landslide because they felt he was the best guy to run the state."

No matter how corrupt and incompetent a Democrat is, California voters will always choose one over a Republican because the Republican might take gay pron out of the school library.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 24, 2024 12:16 PM (TjYZf)

299 Have you taken off the tank lid and fiddled with it? That usually works for me.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2024 12:13 PM (v6JzV)

I can get it to stop by fiddling with it. I have to lift the floater above full extension more than once and a flush in between. Weird. The shut off valve isn't shutting off.

It's pretty straightforward and it's about $15 at Lowe's I just don't want to go out in the cold and then work on a toilet.

Posted by: blaster at December 24, 2024 12:16 PM (QfvaV)

300 Here's the meme with Trump's shopping cart.
Funny.

https://tinyurl.com/2bwdxhve

Posted by: Stateless at December 24, 2024 12:17 PM (jvJvP)

301 Bend the iron rod the floter is attached to a wee bit.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2024 12:17 PM (wZ2Bf)

302 Re the toilet I have not tried slapping hot iron to it yet.

Posted by: blaster at December 24, 2024 12:17 PM (QfvaV)

303 I can get it to stop by fiddling with it. I have to lift the floater above full extension more than once and a flush in between. Weird. The shut off valve isn't shutting off.

It's pretty straightforward and it's about $15 at Lowe's I just don't want to go out in the cold and then work on a toilet.

Posted by: blaster at December 24, 2024 12:16 PM (QfvaV)

If you've got a metal float rod, bend it a little.

Posted by: BignJames at December 24, 2024 12:18 PM (Yj6Os)

304
For some reason, the idiots at the NFL thought it would be a good idea to have Christmas day games, today. On a Wednesday.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2024 12:18 PM (azvCj)

305 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2024 12:18 PM (v6JzV)

306

noood

noood

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2024 12:18 PM (azvCj)

307 New post. View cows arguing how distressed to be about Trump.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 24, 2024 12:18 PM (lFFaq)

308 Actually the Newsome recall failed, and I think the numbers were similar to his re-election numbers.

What's more astonishing, but more in a wow-how-has-the-world-changed way, is that Gray Davis was recalled (only time in state history) when the most incandescent political issues displeasing voters were 1) drivers' licenses for illegals 2) an increase in the vehicle registration fee 3) a particularly outrageous sweetheart deal with a public sector union (prison guards).

Today if you added all those up - and informed the political zombies of the state about them - it would barely elicit a reaction.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 24, 2024 12:18 PM (1m82a)

309 301 Bend the iron rod the floter is attached to a wee bit.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2024 12:17 PM (wZ2Bf)

This is the kind with plastic bobber that slides vertically on the fill pipe.

Posted by: blaster at December 24, 2024 12:19 PM (QfvaV)

310 Why not the Sudetenland?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2024 12:19 PM (wZ2Bf)

311 Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2024 12:18 PM (azvCj)

Are they Christmas or today? Today is Tuesday.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 24, 2024 12:19 PM (lFFaq)

312 In 1768, the British seized John Hancock’s trading vessel Liberty over import duties for the 25 pipas of Madeira wine that it carried, which resulted in rioting in Boston. When the Declaration of Independence was signed less than a decade later, it was toasted by the signatories with a glass of Madeira.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2024 12:12 PM (7qi4l)

Eh, the initial New Granada rebellion riots were started over an ugly vase.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2024 12:24 PM (D7oie)

313 And the downstairs bathroom toilet floater valve has decided ehh that whole stopping the water flow after the tank is filled is FOR LOSERS.

Nothing like plumbing under pressure.
Posted by: blaster

It might be a piece of gravel or something like that preventing the valve from sealing. Try working it a few times. Also check the flapper. If it is not dealing, a quick temporary fix is to smear petroleum jelly on the sealing surface.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 24, 2024 12:27 PM (OLdK7)

314 They should My Pillow all of the death row inmates who received a commutation of sentence.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2024 11:48 AM (wZ2Bf)

Just put 'em all back in Gen Pop. If some other inmate scrags them, well and good, and the scragger gets some reward. If the scrag some other inmate, oh well. Charge them with capital murder, and hang them forthwith.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2024 12:48 PM (8zz6B)

315 Congress doesn't need to be vaccinated against Covid either, and those of us who didn't either are supposed to be dead by now.

Posted by: ChrisW at December 24, 2024 12:55 PM (rG1wd)

316 I don't believe in term limits. But how about if they don't show up for work they get suspended then kicked out? I'm an officer in various organizations and if I miss meetings I can get removed.

Posted by: JerseyDevilRider at December 24, 2024 01:21 PM (VAH9K)

317 Remember how terribly concerned folks were about gay sex on the Hill? This is typical of the Left. Anything goes unless a Republican is involved. Then they become Puritans.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 24, 2024 11:35 AM

Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals #4:

"Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules."

The reason the Alinsky left never has to live up to their own book of rules is because they have no book of rules. Their one golden rule is BAMN (win by any means necessary).

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 24, 2024 01:37 PM (P5BPp)

318 "My guess is that there are also plenty of auto accident injuries that were hushed up, and probably a bunch of DUIs in that mix."

I'm sure you're right. ~40 years ago I worked with a woman who lived (had lived?) on the same block as Daniel Patrick Moynahan. Someone praised him for his politics, and she said that my be so, but he was drunk all the time and often bashed up his neighbor's cars parked on the block when he got home from a hard day governing.

Posted by: Dr. Weevil at December 24, 2024 03:13 PM (43XUo)

319 You know what would change behaviors?
Consequences.

Many of our institutions and facilities operate behavior modification programs.
The participants in these programs when graduated/released almost always quickly revert back to negative behaviors.
We should be fostering character modification programs.
Becoming a true disciple of Christ is the most efficient and enduring form of positive character modification.

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