The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 12/27/24

Good morning kids. Oh give me a freaking break, already.

Remember how Democrats were outraged — Outraged! — that some Republicans objected to the counting of the Electoral College votes back in 2021 over concerns that voter fraud tipped the election results to Joe Biden in key battleground states? The very idea of disputing the election results was seen as blasphemy and anti-democratic. Yet the left is once again pushing for Congress to block Donald Trump from taking office, despite his overwhelming victory in 2024.
Evan Davis, the former editor-in-chief of the Columbia Law Review, and David Schulte, the former editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal, argue in a joint column in The Hill that Congress not only has the power to block Trump from taking office but should.
Their column doesn’t cover much new ground. It references Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which disqualifies individuals who have engaged in insurrection from holding office, despite the fact that Trump did no such thing. Heck, he hasn’t even been charged with such an offense, and when you consider the fact that rogue left-wing prosecutors have charged him with all sorts of made-up crimes, that says something.
. . . Yet the left is once again pushing for Congress to block Donald Trump from taking office, despite his overwhelming victory in 2024. Evan Davis, the former editor-in-chief of the Columbia Law Review, and David Schulte, the former editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal, argue in a joint column in The Hill that Congress not only has the power to block Trump from taking office but should. Their column doesn’t cover much new ground. It references Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which disqualifies individuals who have engaged in insurrection from holding office, despite the fact that Trump did no such thing. Heck, he hasn’t even been charged with such an offense, and when you consider the fact that rogue left-wing prosecutors have charged him with all sorts of made-up crimes, that says something.

Funny how Trump and we are labeled as deniers, and a hell of a lot worse for objecting and protesting what we now know, with mountains of physical, statistical, forensic and eyewitness evidence that at the barest of bare minimums showed that the integrity and validity of the 2020 election was seriously compromised.

Despite none of this in 2000,2004 and in 2016 each of the Democrat candidates as well as their entire party went on for years insisting that they were robbed and that Dubya and Trump were illegitimate. Recall that in 2016, there were indeed violent protests at and near the White House that resulted in the firebombing and destruction of an historic church. This of course an extension of the wave of burning and looting and murdering that ravaged American cities and towns in the summer of 2020, in the wake of the George Floyd dying while resisting arrest, again as a pretext to try and derail the election.

That and unleashing a Chi-Com and Fauci created/US Taxpayer funded Franken-virus as the pretext to lock down the world and cancel or otherwise give cover to legalized election-rigging.

And as for labeling Trump and those who came to DC on 1/6/21 as insurrectionists and terrorists intent on overthrowing the government to prevent the Electoral college from certifying the results, it will go down as one of the most vicious libels that resulted in the perversion of the justice system as a means for the Democrat Left to persecute and silence all opposition.

We know what Democrats and Leftists are capable of when they are denied power. The attempts on Trump's life are just the latest example, as are the threats against individuals such as Justice Kavanaugh and the infamous Chuck Schumer's thinly veiled threat about how the Intel community has 9 ways to Sunday to get at Trump, and on and on and on for over 200 years.

Can they actually pull this off and you can likely guess the media's reaction to both a successful coup and a failed one.

We're on a knife edge as it is, but this garbage is murder. And yet, that is the state of play 248 years out from the American Revolution. A republic if we can keep it. And the jury is out on that one. Are we really going to make it to the 250th: "Semiquincentennial." Especially as even a shadow of what the American nation, society and government are supposed to resemble. As Trump himself would say, we'll just have to wait and see. As always, hope and pray for the best, but prepare for the worst.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

“The populist moment of 2024 was a long time coming.”
The Year of Populism
Biden has refused to hold China accountable over the origins of the pandemic.
Biden Junta Suppressed Info From Intel Agencies That Blamed ‘Lab Leak’ For COVID-19 Pandemic

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

Defense Minister Katz vows to ‘hunt down’ top Houthi leaders behind terror offensive.
Israel Conducts Retaliatory Airstrikes in Yemen, Hits Houthi-Held Airports and Ports
Media once again takes Gaza's word over Israel's
Media Claims 5 Gaza Journalists Were Killed By Israel. They Were Terrorists.

* * * * *
“While I was telling them how this movement, what it’s done to the Jewish community, how it’s reminiscent of the Holocaust, how it’s been really uncomfortable, and we’re scared… they were laughing at me.”
Jewish host fired from Australian radio station for refusing to support Hamas as 'something positive''
Everything you need to know about Birzeit University.
The Dark Relationship Between U.S. Universities And An Anti-American School Controlled By Terrorists
Here’s why.
Oren Safdie Lost His Job at a Montreal Theatre Company
Thunberg has translated her climate stardom to highlight something she cares about more than the planet these days: attacking Israel.
Animosity Against Jews Demonstrates Leftist Icon Greta Thunberg’s Extremism
ASSAD REGIME COLLAPSES"
For 'Palestinians,' Syria is a closing door and an opening window.
The Assads and the 'Palestinians'
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Welcome to the new ‘jihad hub’ for regional and global Islamic terrorist groups.
Indian Police Arrest Jihad Recruiter Trying to Flee to Bangladesh
The Gulf states are the latest foreign entities to buy up key real estate in the United States.
From The River To D.C.: How Arab Countries Bought Up Washington’s Most Elite Neighborhood
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
Last year, activists chanted “Christmas is canceled” and rioted in New York. They also shut down a key highway in Chicago leading to O’Hare International Airport, and disrupted Christmas shopping in Memphis, Tennessee.
Anti-Israel Scum Protest St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Christmas in NYC
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Congress can reject electoral votes on when they gather to certify them on Jan. 6 because Trump is disqualified from holding office under 14th Amendment, which restricts anyone who took an oath to support the Constitution and then “engaged in insurrection” from holding office, attorneys Evan Davis and David Schulte wrote in a column for The Hill.
Liberal Lawyers Urge Longshot Nuclear Option To Stop Trump From Taking Office
Illuminating the early history of globalism provides context to contemporary American politics.
Charity Foundations As the Propaganda Arm of the Globalists
And preys upon a certain type of gullible white male.
How the Left Viciously Creates Fake White Male Guilt
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
During the press conference, the police commissioner referred to the incident as “one of the most depraved crimes one person could possibly commit.”
New Allegations In Migrant’s Subway Fire Murder Case Somehow Even More Depraved
Democrat Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres got it 100% right this month when he slammed progressives for their “perversion of compassion” in allowing vagrants to haunt our transit hubs and streets.
It’s way past time to end the left’s ‘perversion of compassion’ and get help for the seriously mentally ill
"BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"We can’t lose the faith of the American people." (Everyone gets a puddin' cup, bag of fritos and bottle of water, before being ejected - jjs)
Trump’s Border Czar Says Family Deportations Will ‘Not Be Inhumane’
While bringing allegedly top talent from around the world to the United States sounds good on its face, this isn’t actually what H1B visas do.
Big Tech’s H1B Arguments Aren’t Just FALSE… They’re Also Immoral.
The Great Replacement in real-time.
Michigan won’t be Michigan for much longer
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Americans’ trust in the establishment media to report current events “fully, accurately and fairly” plummeted to a record low in 2024, Gallup polling found in October.
AP Poll: 7 in 10 Democrats Take Break from Political News After Trump’s Landslide Win
The Washington Post glowingly covered Democratic Maryland Gov. Wes Moore becoming a Bronze Star recipient Monday after having attempted to downplay the award in its coverage about President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee, Pete Hegseth.
Dem Gov Who Lied About Having Bronze Star Gets His Reward As Media Downplays ‘Meritorious Service’ Of Trump Nominee
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
To tax tips or not sounds simple: yes or no. However, if we say 'yes,' several other issues arise, such as it's not clear how many of these workers will realize any economic benefit.
Do We Tax Tips?
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
Over the course of the last four years, the Biden junta moved to shut down drilling activity on tens millions of acres of land in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), retroactively canceled lease sales and effectively blocked a major mining project in the state, often touting the administration’s commitment to protecting the environment for native communities in official statements and press releases. However, these actions were a major disappointment to some of Alaska’s natives, who told the DCNF that the administration seems to have mostly ignored their desire to allow development that generates revenues for their communities and that they are ready to work with the incoming Trump administration to strike an appropriate balance.
Biden Junta Invoked ‘Indigenous Knowledge’ To Cut Alaska Drilling, But Some Tribal Leaders Are Ready For Trump
...here are zero offshore wind turbines of the sort that California is banking on anywhere off the American coast.
Should California Go Full Steam Ahead on Offshore Wind Farms? Latest Evidence Says No
That’s not good. It’s not good morally, because the feds are taking our money to engage in this act of fascistic corporate seduction, it’s not good for the residents of Texas, who already suffered when the central-planners of the wider Texas-multi-state power grid saw their push for “green” energy utterly fail in the face of cold weather and ice circa February, 2021, and it’s not good for those who appreciate logic and the ability of consumers to drive down prices and drive up performance by being free to get the best bang for their buck. (Good essay on actual fascism-jjs)
More Federal Fascism: Feds Pay TX Coal Power Plant To Mutate Into Expensive “Green” Facility
Research that the political activists in the climate field (posing as scientists) refuse to cite is increasingly documenting two important and very encouraging facts about atmospheric carbon dioxide.
New climate research debunks CO2’s ability to warm the atmosphere, even as other research shows CO2 greens the Earth
New Yorkers, beware the law of unintended consequences.
Kathy Hochul signs law that fines energy companies $75 billion for ‘climate change’
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
California school district runs a summer course where students learn to disavow "whiteness" and embrace transgender ideology.
Inside A ‘Social Justice Academy’ Where Third Graders Learn To Be Leftist Activists
Stop the insanity. Please.
Tufts University’s Latest Course is About ‘Transcestors’
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH AND 2024 SHENANIGANS
Voters gave Republicans a mandate on a range of issues. Fixing the problems that led to the 2020 election chaos is one of them.
The Incoming Congress Should Immediately Ban Zuckbucks Across The Nation
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Robert Spencer: And leftists are ENRAGED.
Fetterman Comes Out for Common Sense Again
POLITICS
Many of the EOs will reverse policies undertaken by the Biden junta, restore Trump’s own past policies, and implement new policy goals.
Donald Trump’s Day One Executive Orders: Promises to Fulfill on January 20
Doug Schoen, a former advisor to President Bill Clinton, is sounding the alarm over the current direction of the Democratic Party, warning that the party is facing a “systemic problem” that goes far beyond the issues of “woke” culture and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Appearing on Fox News Wednesday, Schoen laid out his concerns, urging the party to return to fiscal responsibility and focus on issues that matter most to everyday Americans.
Democrats Are 'History' If They Don't Change, Says Former Clinton Advisor
Kurt Schlichter:Luckily, we’ve got opponents who refuse to learn from their mistakes.
No Circular Firing Squads This Time, Republicans
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
As usual, President Trump has a way of talking about things and walking a few steps ahead of us.
Trump is talking China, not Panama
Daniel Greenfield: The case for taking back the Panama Canal.
The case for taking back the Panama Canal.
...in 1983, Ronald Reagan wasn’t perceived as weak. Neither is Donald Trump today. Both men have the gravitas and authenticity to stand tall — even when they stand down. That’s the beauty of peace through strength.
A Tale of Two Russian Missile Attacks: Why Trump Should Follow the Reagan Example
The Embraer-190 passenger jet was flying from Azerbaijan’s capital of Baku to Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, with 67 people aboard on Christmas Day when it veered hundreds of miles off-course and went down near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan.
Azerbaijan Officials Say Russian Missile Caused Fatal Jetliner Crash
Russian air defenses were on heightened alert due to a Ukrainian drone attack, and some Russian air defense soldier with an itchy trigger finger seemed to have made a gruesome mistake. That said, Azerbaijan is correct to demand recompense, and Russia ought to pay quickly and in full.
That Russian Airliner Shoot-Down Was Even Worse Than It Looked
The most recent public figures for paid-up full members of the Conservative Party, certainly the oldest political party in the United Kingdom and possibly the oldest political party in the world, put it at 131,680 in November. Nigel Farage’s Reform UK — which he calls the youngest party in Britain — overtook that figure late Thursday morning following a Christmas Day surge in sign-ups.
‘Historic Moment’: Farage’s Reform Party is Now Larger Than the Centuries-Old UK Conservatives
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
It makes no sense for one government agency, the Department of Defense, to invest heavily in AI while another, the Department of Justice, threatens to smother it in the crib.
AI Is a National Security Imperative
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
... Thyri's death took place in California, which continues to embrace destructive policies that serve only to maintain the health and welfare of the bureaucrat class. Under the aegis of Gavin Newsom and his allies, it is likely to remain so. This is because, despite what the Left may tell you, the first priority of its members has been and always will be themselves. Lofty rhetoric aside, the compassion of the Left rarely, if ever, extends beyond its own interests. As much as we may welcome the efforts of Trump, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, Tulsi Gabbard, and Robert F. Kennedy, a wholesale change in American thinking is needed if we are to make anything great. And that will take longer than four years.
Child Dies After L.A. County Leaves Her in the Care of an 11-Year-Old
Whistleblowers are facing growing challenges. From intimidation to retaliation, the stakes have never been higher for those who speak out.
Whistleblowers: More Important Than They’ve Ever Been
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
No one knows what it looked like or even the exact place it stood.
The known history of the Colossus of Rhodes
All told, the drop from canyon rim to floor at this location is about 31,000 feet over 20 miles, a drop that is greater than climbing down from the top of Mount Everest. If I was to install a trail here I’d also build an inn or two along the way as rest stops for hikers.
Just one of many potential hiking trails down into Valles Marineris
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
The boxer made headlines this summer after Khelif was allowed to participate in the female division at the Paris Olympics despite being disqualified from the 2023 world championships over gender eligibility issues.
AP journalists vote for controversial Olympic boxer Imane Khelif as Female Athlete of the Year
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
The next administration could develop a 2026 Project to reflect the nation’s vibrant history and culture. (and dismantles the Democrat/Left's incessant blood-libeling of America as founded!-jjs)
How Trump Can Help America Celebrate 250 Years
DEI isn’t dead. But this year, we took major steps towards defeating its worst aspects.
The Year The DEI Tide Turned
Christian toto: Ex-Daily Wire pundit ends year with curious attack on Christian humor site
Candace Owens vs. The Babylon Bee
HITHER & YON
A biopic about a Christian, German, World War II hero stirs controversy.
Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin.

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1 Morning, everyone!

Posted by: NR Pax at December 27, 2024 07:30 AM (NR6c1)

2 It's Flapjack Friday!

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 27, 2024 07:31 AM (Rcnd3)

3
Willowed

An undersea power cable between Finland and Estonia has been cut.

__________

Wretchard Cat thinks it's Russian "ghost ships". Apparently there's a sizable fleet of Russian vessels that sail with dodgy registration and no transponders in order to avoid sanctions.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2024 07:32 AM (dxSpM)

4 Regarding the H1B kerfluffle:

There were a lot of folks on Twitter posting their own horror stories about trying to get into engineering schools or jobs but getting denied because white.

One man called up a school that rejected his son who had an excellent GPA and every other thing they were looking for. He broke out lawyer mode and wore down the admissions clerk to the point she admitted off the record "He's a white male. It's a crap shoot whether or not he gets in."

This fecal matter needs to come to an end now. We need to implement a program of no hiring foreigners unless it can be proven that there are no citizens who can do the job.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 27, 2024 07:33 AM (NR6c1)

5
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 27, 2024 07:34 AM (tljrc)

6 We need to implement a program of no hiring foreigners unless it can be proven that there are no citizens who can do the job.

That’s already Federal law. For decades now. Nobody in a position of authority cares. This is obviously a requirement for office. Laws mean nothing, it is of course about enforcement, and holding lawbreakers accountable

Posted by: Common Tater at December 27, 2024 07:37 AM (QPjUO)

7 The not taxing tips thing is going to be a mess. If you don't tax tips then employees do not get social security and medicare credit for those tips and that will hurt them in the long run.

Bartenders and wait staff generally make as much or sometimes more in tips than they do in hourly wages. If you take that out of the tax picture their SS checks will be drastically cut when they go to claim SS.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 27, 2024 07:37 AM (Rcnd3)

8 Let me see.. 2 punk-ass academics bloviate about how Trump could be kept from assuming office… nope not going to lose sleep over this one.

Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 07:37 AM (PCK5/)

9 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 27, 2024 07:37 AM (ExV1e)

10 That’s already Federal law

I stand corrected. I had never heard about that in this country but have read about it in others. Thank you.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 27, 2024 07:38 AM (NR6c1)

11 Thank you, JJ.

My prayers continue that normal America successfully excise the demons running amok.

Posted by: Uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not kill at December 27, 2024 07:39 AM (gxokI)

12 The CCP has decided to keep Tik Tok under their control. Thanks for playing.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 27, 2024 07:40 AM (IgeaQ)

13
Leftists crave apocalypse. It's got electrolytes!

Posted by: Auspex at December 27, 2024 07:42 AM (q5rNo)

14 Good morning and Happy Birthday to JJ.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 27, 2024 07:43 AM (Aqu9a)

15 Thank you JJ, and good morning fellow Morons

Posted by: AgathaPagatha at December 27, 2024 07:44 AM (RyKJA)

16 Mornin' All. These two Ivy League lawyers can stir up the Media, which, in turn,can stir up assassin number three. And four, and ...

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at December 27, 2024 07:45 AM (4NMFk)

17
Congress can reject electoral votes on when they gather to certify them on Jan. 6 because Trump is disqualified from holding office under 14th Amendment

____________

So then Vance assumes the office, no? He's not accused of "insurrection".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2024 07:46 AM (dxSpM)

18 Candace Owens has gone into kook territory. First she gets fired for being anti-Jew. Now she is feuding with Babylon Bee? Because they aren't telling enough Jewish jokes?

WTF happened to her?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 27, 2024 07:47 AM (JcF8R)

19 Good morning, JJ, it's SO good to see you back on a regular basis.

We'll make 250 just fine, don't forget we have met and prevailed over issues every bit as serious and the track record of success is still unbroken. We've already triumphed over the very beginning, with the election.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at December 27, 2024 07:47 AM (hKoQL)

20 18 Candace Owens has gone into kook territory. First she gets fired for being anti-Jew. Now she is feuding with Babylon Bee? Because they aren't telling enough Jewish jokes?

WTF happened to her?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 27, 2024 07:47 AM (JcF8R)

I don’t pay much attention to her but she’s supposed to be some sort of Super Christian, yes?

Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 07:49 AM (PCK5/)

21
Lord in heaven, can you imagine the 250th under a Harris administration? It would be a year-long "America Sucks" hatefest.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2024 07:49 AM (dxSpM)

22 New York passes a $75 billion “fine” on the oil companies over 25 years which at current consumption levels is about $0.60 a gallon ($25/barrel), but unlike a gas tax, this will apply to all uses including home heating, etc.

Posted by: SMOD at December 27, 2024 07:49 AM (2Yacf)

23 Good morning, J.J.
God morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at December 27, 2024 07:50 AM (M3/7y)

24 21
Lord in heaven, can you imagine the 250th under a Harris administration? It would be a year-long "America Sucks" hatefest.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2024 07:49 AM (dxSpM)

Well God had mercy on us and that won’t happen.

Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 07:50 AM (PCK5/)

25 Congress can reject electoral votes on when they gather to certify them on Jan. 6 because Trump is disqualified from holding office under 14th Amendment

____________

So then Vance assumes the office, no? He's not accused of "insurrection".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2024 07:46 AM

You forgot to consider the underpants gnomes business model:

1. Trump is disqualified by congressional vote.
2. ???
3. harris is sworn in as president.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 27, 2024 07:51 AM (Rcnd3)

26 Petroleum producers need to quit fucking around.

Stop sending any product to California or New York state.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 27, 2024 07:52 AM (QPjUO)

27 I cannot wait for Trump to show up at deep blue Lexington and Concord to celebrate American freedom in 2026! The local citizenry probably voted 100% for censorship and bigger government, so Trump's message of American exceptionalism and personal freedom will go down there like a stale Christmas fruitcake.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 27, 2024 07:52 AM (38xCr)

28 26 Petroleum producers need to quit fucking around.

Stop sending any product to California or New York state.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 27, 2024 07:52 AM (QPjUO)

They are foreign countries, charge them a premium.

Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 07:53 AM (PCK5/)

29 AP Poll: 7 in 10 Democrats Take Break from Political News After Trump’s Landslide Win

It'd be nice if some of them would open their eyes and see that the emperor has no clothes.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 27, 2024 07:54 AM (ExV1e)

30
20th Amendment, Section 3

"If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President-elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President-elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2024 07:55 AM (dxSpM)

31 Not only did the Russkies fire on the passenger plane but they apparently jammed its GPS receiver, leaving the pilots to guess their headings. Evil.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 27, 2024 07:57 AM (8sV4J)

32 31 Not only did the Russkies fire on the passenger plane but they apparently jammed its GPS receiver, leaving the pilots to guess their headings. Evil.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 27, 2024 07:57 AM (8sV4J)

Motive?

Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 07:58 AM (PCK5/)

33 4
This fecal matter needs to come to an end now. We need to implement a program of no hiring foreigners unless it can be proven that there are no citizens who can do the job.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 27, 2024 07:33 AM (NR6c1)
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This seems to be a conflation of jobs (H1b) and admission to college (White males). Vaguely related but H1b visa holders don't compete for college spaces.

Posted by: Ciampino - It was like that in the Clinton years at December 27, 2024 07:59 AM (i0xsb)

34
Evil.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 27, 2024 07:57 AM (8sV4J)

________

I'd agree, but it's not like the US has a perfect record either.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2024 07:59 AM (dxSpM)

35 My random thoughts today

1) Democrats will try to block Trump from taking office
2) I don't believe we will see the Epstein list or the JFK files, because I expect that stuff to disappear between now and Jan 20
3) The firm of Trump, Musk, Swamy & Homan are promising/threatening to do a lot of things after Jan 20. I will be surprised if they accomplish half of it.

This is all IMO. YMMV. I've been wrong before.

Posted by: Don Black at December 27, 2024 08:01 AM (/7KEl)

36
However, the Russkies have shot down - what? - three passenger planes that I know of: KAL 007, that Malaysian flight and this one.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2024 08:01 AM (dxSpM)

37 10 That’s already Federal law

I stand corrected. I had never heard about that in this country but have read about it in others. Thank you.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 27, 2024 07:38 AM (NR6c1)
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I can vouch for it from the Clinton years.

Posted by: Ciampino - It was like that in the Clinton years at December 27, 2024 08:02 AM (i0xsb)

38 Yonder Horde
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Many of here have issued so-called "black-pill" warnings about what the left might/could/will do prior to Trump actually resuming the office of President. They never quit. So it's no surprise there's talk about prohibiting him from taking office, not certifying the results, and so on.

I doubt they'll be successful, but they will try.

And there will no doubt be a slate of legal challenges to every move he makes, consuming vast amounts of political time and capital. That, hopefully is being accounted for.

We are way past any sort of reconciliation and are deep into retribution. I hope Trump's aware of that. 2026 would be a good year to remind the country that we don't put up with bullshit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 27, 2024 08:02 AM (Q4IgG)

39 An undersea power cable between Finland and Estonia has been cut.
__________
Wretchard Cat thinks it's Russian "ghost ships". Apparently there's a sizable fleet of Russian vessels that sail with dodgy registration and no transponders in order to avoid sanctions.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2024 07:32 AM (dxSpM)

You cannot be sorta, kinda at war with Russia without expecting Russia to be sorta, kinda at war back.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 27, 2024 08:03 AM (ExV1e)

40 I thought the Malaysian flight disappeared into a black hole.

Posted by: dantesed at December 27, 2024 08:03 AM (Oy/m2)

41 Congress can reject electoral votes on when they gather to certify them on Jan. 6 because Trump is disqualified from holding office under 14th Amendment
___________

As we all recall from 2020, Congress is Constitutionally required to certify Electoral College slates on a state by state basis, in order to determine the accuracy and integrity of an election.

No where does it say Congress has to overrule the election because Democrats lost bigger than the margin of fraud.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 27, 2024 08:03 AM (dtRKo)

42 Pretty negative and pessimistic vibe here this morning. Good thing we won.

Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 08:03 AM (PCK5/)

43 Your the best JJ, Happy Birthday!

Posted by: Jonah at December 27, 2024 08:04 AM (YCxFk)

44 This is all IMO. YMMV. I've been wrong before.
Posted by: Don Black

Doesn't ever seem to stop the continuing torrent of doom and gloom. Maybe Trump will appoint you to be an envoy to Greenland.

Posted by: Chicken Little at December 27, 2024 08:04 AM (G5+As)

45 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at December 27, 2024 08:05 AM (YGk8g)

46 36
However, the Russkies have shot down - what? - three passenger planes that I know of: KAL 007, that Malaysian flight and this one.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2024 08:01 AM (dxSpM

Somdo you have a theory on their motives?

Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 08:05 AM (PCK5/)

47 >Pretty negative and pessimistic vibe here this morning. Good thing we won.

Posted by: tubal
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I am a pessimist. It comes from being disappointed & betrayed by elected officials countless times over the years.

Posted by: Don Black at December 27, 2024 08:05 AM (/7KEl)

48 That’s already Federal law. For decades now. Nobody in a position of authority cares. This is obviously a requirement for office. Laws mean nothing, it is of course about enforcement, and holding lawbreakers accountable
Posted by: Common Tater at December 27, 2024 07:37 AM (QPjUO)

- Chinese H1B workers answer to the CCP, which is preferred by TPTB.
- Indian H1B workers are the vanguard of implementing a pseudo-caste system in the US, which is preferred by TPTB.
- Laws in this country exist to punish the out of favor groups and give cover to back actors within TPTB.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 27, 2024 08:06 AM (ExV1e)

49 I think it best to turn the table and change Democrats for turning the election and protests, Seems a year without trial is the usual.

Posted by: Skip at December 27, 2024 08:07 AM (YGk8g)

50 22. The only way NY ever changes its ways, is if Wall Street Decides to leave town. With the media dying, it is the only thing propping up that Sh$thole.

Posted by: Jonah at December 27, 2024 08:07 AM (YCxFk)

51 I'd agree, but it's not like the US has a perfect record either.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2024 07:59 AM (dxSpM)
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I detest "what about-ism"....

What Russia is accused of doing here is evil, plain and simple, if in fact they did it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 27, 2024 08:07 AM (dtRKo)

52
Somdo you have a theory on their motives?
Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 08:05 AM (PCK5/)

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I'm willing to attribute them all to incompetence and a predisposition to panic.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2024 08:07 AM (dxSpM)

53 Morning, folken,

20th Amendment, Section 3

"If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President-elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President-elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2024

***
I don't think the leftoids have realized blocking Trump from taking office would give them Vance. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 27, 2024 08:08 AM (omVj0)

54 The not taxing tips thing is going to be a mess. If you don't tax tips then employees do not get social security and medicare credit for those tips and that will hurt them in the long run.

Bartenders and wait staff generally make as much or sometimes more in tips than they do in hourly wages. If you take that out of the tax picture their SS checks will be drastically cut when they go to claim SS.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 27, 2024 07:37 AM (Rcnd3)

This assumes that they accurately report those numbers. Given that SS, at least, is a losing proposition, I'm not sure why I would expect them to.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 27, 2024 08:08 AM (ExV1e)

55 So who cannot be fired at the DOJ, FBI, and CIA? Are there lifetime appointees that cannot be touched?

Posted by: Jonah at December 27, 2024 08:09 AM (YCxFk)

56
The only way NY ever changes its ways, is if Wall Street Decides to leave town. With the media dying, it is the only thing propping up that Sh$thole.
Posted by: Jonah at December 27, 2024 08:07 AM (YCxFk)

___________

Don't worry, Kool Kidz in Brooklyn will rush in and save the day.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2024 08:09 AM (dxSpM)

57 Let me see.. 2 punk-ass academics bloviate about how Trump could be kept from assuming office… nope not going to lose sleep over this one.
Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 07:37 AM (PCK5/)

Didn't the Dems, in 2021, do something to hamper that ability?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 27, 2024 08:10 AM (ExV1e)

58 Tip tax issue is a big reason Trump won Nevada

Posted by: Jonah at December 27, 2024 08:10 AM (YCxFk)

59 - KAL 007
Congressman Larry McDonald
Will no one rid us of this troublesome Bircher?

Posted by: TeeJ at December 27, 2024 08:11 AM (kjZOX)

60 53 I don't think the leftoids have realized blocking Trump from taking office would give them Vance. . . .

They don't. The believe it will go like this.

"Trump can't be President. Oh no. Come on over, Madame President!"

Posted by: NR Pax at December 27, 2024 08:11 AM (NR6c1)

61 Congress can reject electoral votes on when they gather to certify them on Jan. 6 because Trump is disqualified from holding office under 14th Amendment
____________

So then Vance assumes the office, no? He's not accused of "insurrection".
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2024 07:46 AM (dxSpM)

I believe what would happen is the House would then pick the President and the Senate would pick the Vice President. Know one really knows what would happen because it's never been done. No doubt the DC courts would just rule that only "black" Indian women who cackle may be chosen to be Presidentin'.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 27, 2024 08:13 AM (ExV1e)

62
However, the Russkies have shot down - what? - three passenger planes that I know of: KAL 007, that Malaysian flight and this one.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2024 08:01 AM

Somdo you have a theory on their motives?

Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 08:05 AM

I've always assumed that there was someone on each of these flights the the soviets wanted "un-personed" with extreme prejudice, without regard to collateral damage

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 27, 2024 08:13 AM (tljrc)

63 Fuck the left. We will all watch on January 20th the inauguration of president-elect Donald J Trump become the 47th POTUS. snap snap snap!

Posted by: Cat Nip at December 27, 2024 08:13 AM (Uy/WF)

64 I love that Trump is talking about taking over the canal, buying Greenland, and mocking Castreau. The Left suddenly frets over Trump adding states to the map, which they weren't doing when the object was DC or Puerto Rico statehood. Now its "colonialism!".

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 27, 2024 08:13 AM (8sV4J)

65 No tax on tips is why our organization went whole-hog for Trump, truth be told.

Posted by: National Mohel Alliance at December 27, 2024 08:14 AM (G5+As)

66 Spurwing Plover sighting @ fake white male guilt article

Posted by: gKWVE at December 27, 2024 08:14 AM (RNQkb)

67 Bartenders and wait staff generally make as much or sometimes more in tips than they do in hourly wages. If you take that out of the tax picture their SS checks will be drastically cut when they go to claim SS.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 27, 2024 07:37 AM (Rcnd3)
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Most of the under 40 crowd probably won't get any money out of SS.

Posted by: Ciampino - It was like that at December 27, 2024 08:15 AM (i0xsb)

68 Somdo you have a theory on their motives?
Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 08:05 AM (PCK5/)

Not too difficult - Russian crews are poorly trained, badly disciplined, and trigger happy. Air defense systems have gotten too good, really - we’re at the point that some illiterate fool can push a button he doesn’t understand, and the system will precisely shoot down a moving target many miles away.

And it’s not just a Russian problem - remember that just this week the USS Gettysburg shot down one F-18 and almost shot down another, in what they’re calling battlefield confusion.

Posted by: The John Birch Society at December 27, 2024 08:16 AM (7MHHr)

69 62

I've always assumed that there was someone on each of these flights the the soviets wanted "un-personed" with extreme prejudice, without regard to collateral damage
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 27, 2024 08:13 AM (tljrc

So it is an absolute certainty that Russia shot down all of these planes including the latest, and they did them all for reasons.

Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 08:16 AM (PCK5/)

70 25 days, will Fauci get a pardon or not?

Posted by: Skip at December 27, 2024 08:16 AM (YGk8g)

71 Congratulations to Imane Khelif !

Posted by: Ike Turner at December 27, 2024 08:16 AM (RNQkb)

72 Candace Owens can't seem to endure one week without some sort of jab against the Jews. She's got it bad.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 27, 2024 08:16 AM (h/ffs)

73 Taxes on tips? Crazy talk. What you do is you get hooked up with SS disability when your in your 20's, then you work under the table waiting or bartending for cash and tips never having to worry about your SS taxes since you don't pay any but still collect. Get with it people. Rules are for suckers and rich people. You think Julio and Graciela working back in the kitchen are worried? They are already collecting some form of grift from the feds.

Posted by: Paulie at December 27, 2024 08:17 AM (rqga2)

74 Serious people aren't actually talking about this "Look Look - we're going to block Trump" crap, are they? Sounds like click bait to me.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 27, 2024 08:17 AM (SfhV1)

75 Not only did the Russkies fire on the passenger plane but they apparently jammed its GPS receiver, leaving the pilots to guess their headings. Evil.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 27, 2024 07:57 AM (8sV4J)

Motive?
Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 07:58 AM (PCK5/)

My guess would be that they thought it was a drone and didn't think twice... but Russians are always comic book villains so, I guess, they just get off on shoot down airliners.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 27, 2024 08:18 AM (ExV1e)

76 74 Serious people aren't actually talking about this "Look Look - we're going to block Trump" crap, are they? Sounds like click bait to me.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 27, 2024 08:17 AM (SfhV1)

Morning grammie… I tried earlier upthread but apparently it’s got legs now.

Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 08:18 AM (PCK5/)

77 I guess the left still hasn't taken notice of the anger out here, and hence the election of DJT instead of the cackling fool. They may need to stop poking the bear before bad stuff begins to happen. To them.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 27, 2024 08:19 AM (iODuv)

78 Very encouraging that so many more people now seem to understand who and what the Left is and what Leftism means and represents. We've come a long way in a short time. I remember talking about "the Left" 20 years ago and getting a lot of blank stares.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 27, 2024 08:19 AM (h/ffs)

79 Most of the under 40 crowd probably won't get any money out of SS.
Posted by: Ciampino

We're spending it as fast as we can!

Posted by: Manny, Moe, Jack At the Villages at December 27, 2024 08:19 AM (G5+As)

80 Good morning tubal. Sounds like desperation.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 27, 2024 08:19 AM (SfhV1)

81 About the Russians shooting down that Azerbaijan airlines plane...

Reports from the area suggest there was a "drone swarm attack" ongoing somewhere along the plane's flightpath to the intended airport. It could have been mistaken, or accidently shot at, but it looks like a surface-to-air missile got really close to it. Again, perhaps accidently.

Putin didn't have anything to do with ordering it shot down. Probably.

As an aside, we recently shot down one of our own F/A-18's while it was refueling and preparing to land on a carrier.

Mistakes were made.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 27, 2024 08:19 AM (Q4IgG)

82 This seems to be a conflation of jobs (H1b) and admission to college (White males). Vaguely related but H1b visa holders don't compete for college spaces.
Posted by: Ciampino - It was like that in the Clinton years at December 27, 2024 07:59 AM (i0xsb)

They kind of do.

People who are likely to gain an H1B have two (official) things going for them in the admissions process. First, they're likely to get a job out of college which makes a degree from that college more desirable. Second, they are foreign and, therefore, pay more in tuition.

The fact that give colleges another excuse to exclude white males is gravy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 27, 2024 08:21 AM (ExV1e)

83 Morning Grammie

Posted by: Jonah at December 27, 2024 08:21 AM (YCxFk)

84
Serious people aren't actually talking about this "Look Look - we're going to block Trump" crap, are they? Sounds like click bait to me.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 27, 2024 08:17 AM (SfhV1)

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For what my opinion is worth, there are three possibilities, all with equal chances.

1) The Left goes all-out, rioting in the streets turmoil in the House chamber.

2) There's a feeble effort among the Squad types to challenge.

3) The Democrats meekly submit to reality.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2024 08:22 AM (dxSpM)

85 Trump’s Border Czar Says Family Deportations Will ‘Not Be Inhumane’

I refuse to be lectured on what is "Inhumane" by the same people who were screaming out the punishments for people who refused to take the Kill Shot or wear the burqa-mask.

• Separate children from parents that didn't take the vaxx or parents that refused to transgender their kids.

• Somehow lose nearly a half million children into the human sex trafficking ring and tens of thousands more through CPS child trafficking.

• Pardon a "judge" deeply involved in the Cash For Kids program.

• Destroy a family's means of survival for not taking the Kill Shot.

• Lock up J6 revelers as political prisoners in torturous conditions in the DC Gulag.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 27, 2024 08:22 AM (rHxhM)

86 Face your problems sober, you retards.

Posted by: Burl Ives' Christmas Advice From Beyond at December 27, 2024 08:23 AM (fEODp)

87 Mornin’, All. Happy Friday.

Posted by: Bulg at December 27, 2024 08:23 AM (v6JzV)

88 Good morning Jonah!

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 27, 2024 08:23 AM (SfhV1)

89 Morning Horde, thx JJ.
We don't yet know the identity of the victim in the subway burning case. In a weird coincidence on the same day there was a fire about 3/4 from my house in an apartment in the uptown area of my city. One person died. Identity has also not been made public. Not saying related, but just odd

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 27, 2024 08:24 AM (URPU1)

90 Friend who works for a American bank in London, says European Corporations are drooling over the prospect of peace and the Russian markets opening back up.

McDonald's and Apple also

Posted by: Jonah at December 27, 2024 08:24 AM (YCxFk)

91 What Russia is accused of doing here is evil, plain and simple, if in fact they did it.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 27, 2024 08:07 AM (dtRKo)

Those holes peppering the tail section of the plane are the calling card of the Russian Pantsir short range missile defense system. Its warhead is basically a bunch of large ball bearings packed around a high explosive core, so that the missiles just has to get close to the target to kill it, The video of the plane trying to land showed that it had probably lost its rudder and hydraulic systems.

Posted by: The John Birch Society at December 27, 2024 08:25 AM (7MHHr)

92 We know covid was leaked from a Wuhan lab. We also know the gain of function experiment was designed by EcoHealth, and Wuhan was hired by them to do the work because it is illegal to do that same experiment in the United States. We also know funding for the experiment was provided by an NIH grant approved by Fauci.

Why are all of the people in this chain of events not in prison for life? Thats what we don't know.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 27, 2024 08:25 AM (yOauX)

93 Today is National Fruitcake Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 27, 2024 08:25 AM (NpAcC)

94 84
For what my opinion is worth, there are three possibilities, all with equal chances.

1. Probably the highest possibility until they learn that they will get stomped on hard this time around.

2. That effort will probably only go as far as a massive press conference with Donkey Chompers looking forlorn and trying to show how bad things are going to get.

3. Likely, but there will still be protests and complaints that were called insurrection during Biden's time.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 27, 2024 08:25 AM (NR6c1)

95 Serious people aren't actually talking about this "Look Look - we're going to block Trump" crap, are they? Sounds like click bait to me.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 27, 2024 08:17 AM (SfhV1)

Other than simply acting out who they are in their immutable, unalterable hatred, they're just priming the illegitimacy and resistance pump for the next four years.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 27, 2024 08:26 AM (h/ffs)

96 62
However, the Russkies have shot down - what? - three passenger planes that I know of: KAL 007, that Malaysian flight and this one.
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Two. The Malaysian plane is a mystery.
KAL007 went off course and into forbidden USSR airspace. It still shouldn't have been shot down but the US was provoking with incursions into that airspace. This is what I have read.

We shot down an Iranian airliner just taken off from its own land, and shot down over either Iranian airspace or international airspace. Not good.
I still believe TWA-800 was shot down by terrorists but covered up - Clinton, election year.

Posted by: Ciampino - It was like that with Clinton at December 27, 2024 08:26 AM (i0xsb)

97 93 Today is National Fruitcake Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 27, 2024 08:25 AM (NpAcC)

So a day ending in “Y”…

Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 08:26 AM (PCK5/)

98 Too bad about Candace Owens. I was a big fan of hers at one time.

Posted by: Bulg at December 27, 2024 08:27 AM (v6JzV)

99
One thing I've learned over this holiday season is that Key Limes make for a better Bloody Mary than regular ones.

Posted by: Auspex at December 27, 2024 08:27 AM (q5rNo)

100 The Left hasn't often, if ever, come across a Tom Homan. This will be fun.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 27, 2024 08:27 AM (h/ffs)

101 98 Too bad about Candace Owens. I was a big fan of hers at one time.
Posted by: Bulg at December 27, 2024 08:27 AM (v6JzV)

Sounds like unforced stupidity… who’s she playing to ?

Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 08:28 AM (PCK5/)

102 The pilots and crew of the doomed plan are genuine heroes.

No flight controls were operative, apparently he could only steer the aircraft by throttling the engines back and forth, for over an hour whilst the navigation system was jammed. Nightmare

Posted by: Common Tater at December 27, 2024 08:29 AM (QPjUO)

103 As an aside, we recently shot down one of our own F/A-18's while it was refueling and preparing to land on a carrier.

While it was refueling? And nothing happened to the huge gas-fuel bomb in the sky?

After hearing from KC-135 operators, they fly these things on the periphery of air combat action just so they aren't targets themselves.

Lots of gas-lighting going on from the Party Military that serves only MIC and foreign nations.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 27, 2024 08:29 AM (rHxhM)

104 Candace Owen vs. The Babylon Bee

I credit the Bee with starting a chain of events that led to winning this election. Starting with Elon Musk buying Twitter.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 27, 2024 08:30 AM (SfhV1)

105 And we happily give the Left a way to break us apart. This is not the time for the H1B discussion. We have millions of criminal and deadbeat illegals to deport first. And we could use Elon and Vivek's help. I don't know if Laura Loomer started this. I'm really starting to despise her.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 27, 2024 08:30 AM (NQtI0)

106 > Too bad about Candace Owens.
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I think she's trying way too hard to remain relevant.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 27, 2024 08:30 AM (Q4IgG)

107 This seems to be a conflation of jobs (H1b) and admission to college (White males). Vaguely related but H1b visa holders don't compete for college spaces.
Posted by: Ciampino - It was like that in the Clinton years at December 27, 2024 07:59 AM (i0xsb)
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I think H1b visas are strictly employment visas, having nothing at all to do with admission of foreign students to universities.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 27, 2024 08:31 AM (tAxfK)

108 'Jewish host fired from Australian radio station for refusing to support Hamas as 'something positive'''

The Anglosphere countries need some work.

And by work I mean demands from the US that they stop supporting terrorists and drop other anti-freedom, anti-Western policies.
Upon pain of losing military protection and trade with the US.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 27, 2024 08:31 AM (3wi/L)

109 104 Candace Owen vs. The Babylon Bee

I credit the Bee with starting a chain of events that led to winning this election. Starting with Elon Musk buying Twitter.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 27, 2024 08:30 AM (SfhV1)

I agree.. I remember that the Bee and Musk had a public rapprochement well before the election.. they times they are a changin’…

Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 08:33 AM (PCK5/)

110 Lots of coordination had to be done.

Do (for example) Life Insurance policies ordinarily have exclusions for Bioweapons?

Do they pay out for engineered viruses? (Or defective, experimental “emergency use” vaccines that have not been Approved?

Posted by: Common Tater at December 27, 2024 08:33 AM (QPjUO)

111 “I still believe TWA-800 was shot down by terrorists but covered up - Clinton, election year.
Posted by: Ciampino - It was like that with Clinton at December 27, 2024 08:26 AM (i0xsb)”

There was a live fire naval defense systems test going on in that exact area at the time - a US guided missile cruiser shot it down, and they have covered it up from the start. There were no “terrorists” , it was us.
I would love to see Trump release the files on this one, too.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 27, 2024 08:33 AM (7MHHr)

112 Yep. TWA-800 was our own military.

Posted by: Bulg at December 27, 2024 08:36 AM (v6JzV)

113 Sounds like unforced stupidity… who’s she playing to ?
Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 08:28 AM (PCK5/)

She still wants Kanye West to her baby daddy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 27, 2024 08:36 AM (7MHHr)

114 > As an aside, we recently shot down one of our own F/A-18's while it was refueling and preparing to land on a carrier.

While it was refueling? And nothing happened to the huge gas-fuel bomb in the sky?
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F/A-18's themselves can be configured to carry extra fuel tanks and be a "tanker." And I probably should have said "had refueled and was preparing to land."

IOW it wasn't on some sort of high speed intercept course with the fleet it was operating from.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 27, 2024 08:36 AM (Q4IgG)

115 Good morning good people. Thank you J.J.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 27, 2024 08:37 AM (WXNFJ)

116 "Doesn't Fit MSM Narrative": Latest Arctic Ice Data Shows 26% Larger Than 2012

"BBC News said the Arctic would be ice-free by 2013."

Posted by: SMOD at December 27, 2024 08:37 AM (RHGPo)

117 Greetings from sunny B'More.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 27, 2024 08:37 AM (oeJyF)

118 I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0
A guy who doesn’t talk about politics gives a rundown on BlueCry—and it’s exactly what you’d expect: left-wing extremism

https://tinyurl.com/4hvypzzd

Posted by: redridinghood at December 27, 2024 08:37 AM (NpAcC)

119 108 The Anglosphere countries need some work.

And by work I mean demands from the US that they stop supporting terrorists and drop other anti-freedom, anti-Western policies.
Upon pain of losing military protection and trade with the US.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 27, 2024 08:31 AM (3wi/L)

They keep talking like they don't want trade with the US, anyway. They want their own economic union, CANZUK.

Posted by: XTC at December 27, 2024 08:38 AM (UnA8+)

120 113 Candace is married and has had a couple of kids. She already has a “baby daddy,” her husband.

Posted by: Bulg at December 27, 2024 08:38 AM (v6JzV)

121 Ward Carrol has a rather in-depth video on the F/A-18 shoot-down.

https://tinyurl.com/hnv7fksh

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 27, 2024 08:40 AM (oeJyF)

122 How the Left Viciously Creates Fake White Male Guilt

I have a cartoon on my hard drive that shows a man getting berated by everyone about how he's a white male and everything is his fault. Then another white male tells him there's nothing wrong with him and that he'll never make them happy.

At the bottom is a graphic from The Daily Mail saying "More white men are turning to right wing extremism and we don't know why."

Posted by: NR Pax at December 27, 2024 08:40 AM (NR6c1)

123 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 27, 2024 08:40 AM (E7mWg)

124 There were two separate Malaysian Air disasters/mysteries, both in 2014 - leads to confusion.

MH 370 is the one that famously disappeared on March 8, 2014.

MH17 is the one shot down, apparently by the Russian backed forces, on July 17, 2014.

Posted by: dev2000man at December 27, 2024 08:41 AM (vjSNN)

125 119
'They keep talking like they don't want trade with the US, anyway. They want their own economic union, CANZUK.'

Then they can get their own military alliance too. Once the rest of the world recognizes that they're on their own life should get a lot more exciting for them.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 27, 2024 08:41 AM (3wi/L)

126 74
' Serious people aren't actually talking about this "Look Look - we're going to block Trump" crap, are they?'

It will fail and they'll look like hypocrites. Again.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 27, 2024 08:42 AM (3wi/L)

127 Also Malaysian plane shot down by Ukraine (?) not long after MH-270 (?) went missing?
For TWA-800, I liked the terrorist angle because apparently an El Al flight was supposed to have just taken off and it got shuffled in the queue.
I find it hard to believe that almost a shipload of sailors could be sworn to secrecy all this time. Not even a deathbed confession or two?

Posted by: Ciampino - It was a cover up. at December 27, 2024 08:43 AM (i0xsb)

128 And Juan Brown has a very good video on the airliner shoot-down that was out a day before major media began to discuss a shoot-down.

https://tinyurl.com/3p5x5v8h

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 27, 2024 08:43 AM (oeJyF)

129 Looks like China unveiled a new fighter jet. Probably from plans stolen from us. Link goes to The Aviationist.

https://tinyurl.com/4rneh6fj

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 27, 2024 08:43 AM (iODuv)

130 The Left as usual is lying about the 14th Amendment gambit.

The President is an office that is not covered by the 14th Amendment.

Posted by: blaster at December 27, 2024 08:43 AM (QfvaV)

131
Then they can get their own military alliance too.

_______

Negotiations over who has custody of the bullet.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2024 08:43 AM (dxSpM)

132 Too bad about Candace Owens. I was a big fan of hers at one time.
Posted by: Bulg at December 27, 2024 08:27 AM (v6JzV)

Sounds like unforced stupidity… who’s she playing to ?
Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 08:28 AM (PCK5/)

Allow me to begin with an obligatory "I don't give a damn about Candice Owens. I've never watched her not read her."

As I understand it, her original statement was concern about civilians being killed in Gaza. She had an issue with Israel (in particular), not Jews (in general). Now, you can argue that her stated position is foolish, or unreasonable, or whatever... but what actually got said was anti-Semitic. This was, apparently, on top of Ben Shapiro being his normal whiney self about her using the phrase "Christ is King".

I suspect that, at some point, when you're continually accused of hating Jews you start to give more credence to the idea that there's a Jewish conspiracy.

Now, I only know the peripherals of this whole thing because, as I've said, I don't care about Candace Owens and so I may have some of it wrong. I'm not trying to start nothing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 27, 2024 08:44 AM (ExV1e)

133 “Democrats: America! You Suck. Vote for Democrats!” …. just didn’t resonate with the Electorate, somehow. It’s a Mystery. Just need to get their message out better, I guess.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 27, 2024 08:45 AM (QPjUO)

134 The UFO Swarm Yields To A Logical Explanation

In a stern warning to the public, New Jersey's State Police and the FBI's Newark office have insisted the public stop trying to take down the state's mystery drones.

We, the unwashed, must understand there are only three options for the government stonewall. The government is duplicitous, incompetent, or genuinely blindsided.

Posted by: SMOD at December 27, 2024 08:45 AM (RHGPo)

135 92. Spot on Huck. Fauci is a criminal

Posted by: Jonah at December 27, 2024 08:46 AM (YCxFk)

136 "We also know funding for the experiment was provided by an NIH grant approved by Fauci."

Fauci was running bio-weapons research for the Deep State. Any doubt?

Was the leak from the Wuhan lab deliberate or an accident that was capitalized? I lean to deliberate.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 27, 2024 08:46 AM (Gqoy+)

137 At the bottom is a graphic from The Daily Mail saying "More white men are turning to right wing extremism and we don't know why."
Posted by: NR Pax

I have always been Right Wing Extreme.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 27, 2024 08:46 AM (E7mWg)

138 I believe that everything the Left does, both internally and internationally is done to weaken and destabilize the US, and it has been this way for 80 years. Nothing that happens surprises me anymore, and yet I believe that we will continue to fight back and Trump and Co. will prevail the round.

Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 08:46 AM (PCK5/)

139 I think H1b visas are strictly employment visas, having nothing at all to do with admission of foreign students to universities.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 27, 2024 08:31 AM (tAxfK)

If foreign students were not being HIRED out of American universities, fewer would ATTEND American universities.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 27, 2024 08:46 AM (ExV1e)

140 Most managers (non-Indian) that I know would prefer to hire a native born American, independent of their ancestry.

This is indeed tribalism and it works and has lead to our passing technical superiority.

There are folks in management that are not in our tribe.

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at December 27, 2024 08:47 AM (QB+5g)

141 124
MH17 is the one shot down, apparently by the Russian backed forces, on July 17, 2014.

Posted by: dev2000man at December 27, 2024 08:41 AM (vjSNN)
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Russian-backed? Why not say Ukrainian?
If South Korea shot down a plane would you label it US-backed forces?

Posted by: Ciampino - It was a cover up. at December 27, 2024 08:47 AM (i0xsb)

142 "We, the unwashed, must understand there are only three options for the government stonewall. The government is duplicitous, incompetent, or genuinely blindsided."

Chose all three.

They were so bad at their job (Incompetent ) that they never saw them coming ( Blindsided), and will lie to hide these facts ( Duplicitous).

How did I do?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 27, 2024 08:48 AM (oeJyF)

143 132
Now, I only know the peripherals of this whole thing because, as I've said, I don't care about Candace Owens and so I may have some of it wrong. I'm not trying to start nothing.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 27, 2024 08:44 AM (ExV1e

Thanks for the info… maybe she could just, I dunno, drop the subject and move on to some other matter.

Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 08:49 AM (PCK5/)

144 Candace is still a looker, though.

Posted by: Bulg at December 27, 2024 08:50 AM (v6JzV)

145 137 I have always been Right Wing Extreme.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices

I openly mock anyone who thinks I'm supposed to atone for my white guilt.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 27, 2024 08:50 AM (NR6c1)

146 Very encouraging that so many more people now seem to understand who and what the Left is and what Leftism means and represents. We've come a long way in a short time. I remember talking about "the Left" 20 years ago and getting a lot of blank stares.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 27, 2024

***
The left has gone bonkers, and people have noticed.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 27, 2024 08:51 AM (omVj0)

147 "We also know funding for the experiment was provided by an NIH grant approved by Fauci."

Fauci was running bio-weapons research for the Deep State. Any doubt?

Was the leak from the Wuhan lab deliberate or an accident that was capitalized? I lean to deliberate.
Posted by: Ignoramus

Deliberate. Fauci wanted to help his Chinese hosts when they needed to get their riots under control, and in true Chinese incompetent fashion, it got away from them and Fauci & the deep state capitalized on it.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 27, 2024 08:51 AM (E7mWg)

148 There were no “terrorists” , it was us.

That is the conclusion of those who investigate these things.

KAL007 was investigated to death and reported on by the New American (a John Birch Society publication) Their summary strongly questions the official narrative that the plane was shot from the skies and they believe that KAL007 landed on a USSR controlled island.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 27, 2024 08:51 AM (rHxhM)

149 There are people writing books with footnotes about ginormous scandals that have been totally ignored by Media.

Peter Schweitzer has written several.

Jack Cashill wrote TWA 800 which shows it was a naval gun exercise gone wrong.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 27, 2024 08:51 AM (Gqoy+)

150 If the government were merely incompetent then by the law of averages, now and then they would errors that were actually beneficial. That never happens

Posted by: Common Tater at December 27, 2024 08:52 AM (QPjUO)

151 What kind of appetizers do you send to a pity party? Here leftists have some soy kolaches.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 27, 2024 08:52 AM (XTmTf)

152 Candace is still a looker, though.
Posted by: Bulg

Never stick your dick in crazy.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 27, 2024 08:53 AM (E7mWg)

153 Thanks for the info… maybe she could just, I dunno, drop the subject and move on to some other matter.
Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 08:49 AM (PCK5/)

Yeah. Unfortunately, all too many people who opine for a living and choose to post on social media seem to lack the ability to engage in thoughtful introspection.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 27, 2024 08:53 AM (ExV1e)

154 >>>Serious people aren't actually talking about this "Look Look - we're going to block Trump" crap, are they? Sounds like click bait to me.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 27, 2024 08:17 AM (SfhV1)

This is simply a standard op from the Democrat Playbook. Democrat politicians use failed court cases, articles by 'constitutional law experts,' and partisan political smoke and mirrors, to assert a qualified and elected Republican politician is an illegitimate elected official. This sets-up a Democrat-Media Complex propaganda campaign to make LIVs believe the official and everything he/she does is illegitimate and should be resisted.

Posted by: Gref at December 27, 2024 08:53 AM (aBgBM)

155 146

The left has gone bonkers, and people have noticed.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 27, 2024 08:51 AM (omVj0)

Yes they have… they have a bigg big problem, caused by their hubris… they went too far too fast and turned up the heat on the frog boiling pot too soon.

Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 08:53 AM (PCK5/)

156 - Some educatin' taken from the book, With No Apologies by Barry Goldwater.
You can go back further on your own to see who started the group that is the main focus of these statements. What his background was. What major events occurred during the administration of a president he was advising. Hint - E.M. House

They've been at it a long time folks.

https://tinyurl.com/4zmtpb42

Time to check in on the elderly widow.

Posted by: TeeJ at December 27, 2024 08:55 AM (kjZOX)

157 152 Never stick your dick in crazy.

One of Jesus's finest sermons.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 27, 2024 08:55 AM (NR6c1)

158 There is a J1 or J2 visa, I forget which, for post-graduate work, typically what foreign post-docs get to work at a specific company or university department. It does not allow changing jobs.
Most H1b visas are given to people recruited elsewhere in the world. I doubt that we graduate enough 'foreign' students to fill tech requirements nationwide.

Posted by: Ciampino - It was a cover up. at December 27, 2024 08:56 AM (i0xsb)

159 I find it hard to believe that almost a shipload of sailors could be sworn to secrecy all this time. Not even a deathbed confession or two?
Posted by: Ciampino - It was a cover up. at December 27, 2024 08:43 AM (i0xsb)

Having been in the Navy, here's how this works...

1. Only a few people would have known. 10, tops.
2. Immediately after it happened, they would have been informed that the event was classified and that if they told anyone, even someone else onboard, they would spend the rest of their lives in prison.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 27, 2024 08:56 AM (ExV1e)

160 The left has gone bonkers, and people have noticed.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 27, 2024 08:51 AM (omVj0)

Oh man… I laughed.

Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 08:56 AM (PCK5/)

161 Jill starts a fight with Trump

https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/
1872412138482118822

Posted by: Don Black at December 27, 2024 08:56 AM (/7KEl)

162 Russian-backed? Why not say Ukrainian?
If South Korea shot down a plane would you label it US-backed forces?
Posted by: Ciampino - It was a cover up. at December 27, 2024 08:47 AM (i0xsb)

The bunch that shot it down were a pro-Russian separatist group in Donbas which had been supplied with top of line mobile Russian air defense systems. They thought it was a Ukrainian military craft. This has never been secret.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 27, 2024 08:58 AM (7MHHr)

163 Yes they have… they have a bigg big problem, caused by their hubris… they went too far too fast and turned up the heat on the frog boiling pot too soon.
Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 08:53 AM (PCK5/)

The algorithm. It's a problem for everyone but the left, and institutional right (BIRM), and more captured than actual normal humans. This leads them to believe that the policy preferences they espouse are more popular than they are.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 27, 2024 08:59 AM (ExV1e)

164
Here leftists have some soy kolaches.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 27, 2024 08:52 AM (XTmTf)

_________

Pray, do not sully the magnificent kolache by putting it the same sentence as soy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2024 08:59 AM (dxSpM)

165 I find it hard to believe that almost a shipload of sailors could be sworn to secrecy all this time. Not even a deathbed confession or two?

The fear of losing one's pension is real.

What is also real is that most people make for terrible witnesses and their "observations" and recollections are made up of reconstructions rather than true recall. There have been many research papers written on how memory is influenced by external sources. One of my favorites is where a guy who was never in a hot air balloon was given a photoshopped image of him in a hot air balloon and when asked to describe the experience all of a sudden had vivid memories of the event.

Mass Formation Psychosis is a real thing and not all that hard to trigger in any population, especially young impressionable people typical aboard a naval vessel.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 27, 2024 08:59 AM (rHxhM)

166 Candace Owens referred to the attacks on Palestine as genocide. She repeatedly used the trope about Jews and money. She did an entire podcast called “The Truth about Zionism” where she linked Jews to the murder of JFK, she indicated if you criticize Jews or Israel, you will be killed. She stated that Jews are occupying the US and they are after her now.

Her cheese has slid all the way off her cracker. She is an antisemite.

Posted by: Piper at December 27, 2024 09:00 AM (pRpzT)

167 Jill starts a fight with Trump

https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/
1872412138482118822
Posted by: Don Black at December 27, 2024 08:56 AM (/7KEl)

LOL!!

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 27, 2024 09:00 AM (iODuv)

168 Most H1b visas are given to people recruited elsewhere in the world. I doubt that we graduate enough 'foreign' students to fill tech requirements nationwide.
Posted by: Ciampino - It was a cover up. at December 27, 2024 08:56 AM (i0xsb)

I work at a small-ish tech company. We pay an average wage. Fully half of our tech hires are foreign AND when layoffs occurs they only hit native-born.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 27, 2024 09:01 AM (ExV1e)

169 161 Jill starts a fight with Trump

https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/
1872412138482118822
Posted by: Don Black at December 27, 2024 08:56 AM (/7KEl)

In a matter of years we will lose any understanding of an objective reality beyond ourselves. The AI world is devouring reality and spitting out artifice at a breathtaking rate.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 27, 2024 09:01 AM (h/ffs)

170 The left has gone bonkers, and people have noticed.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 27, 2024 08:51 AM (omVj0)

Yes they have… they have a bigg big problem, caused by their hubris… they went too far too fast and turned up the heat on the frog boiling pot too soon.
Posted by: tubal

They took the handcuffs off their crazies and let them run loose. Then they wonder why the crazies won't put them back on.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 27, 2024 09:01 AM (E7mWg)

171 166
Her cheese has slid all the way off her cracker. She is an antisemite.
Posted by: Piper at December 27, 2024 09:00 AM (pRpzT)

I was thinking that she is an “ out” Christian… am I correct??

Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 09:02 AM (PCK5/)

172 1. Only a few people would have known. 10, tops.
2. Immediately after it happened, they would have been informed that the event was classified and that if they told anyone, even someone else onboard, they would spend the rest of their lives in prison.

Exactly. And rumors are easily controlled by gas lighting and auto-suggestion. Create multiple plausible scenarios in the rumor chain - none of them involve shooting down civilian aircraft.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 27, 2024 09:02 AM (rHxhM)

173
As I have a 45 minute drive home from church, after Mass I stop at Kolache Factory to get two plain sausage kolaches and a large cup of pecan coffee. Both are super excellent.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2024 09:03 AM (dxSpM)

174 In a matter of years we will lose any understanding of an objective reality beyond ourselves. The AI world is devouring reality and spitting out artifice at a breathtaking rate.

Just count the fingers and make sure that the jaw is attached.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 27, 2024 09:03 AM (rHxhM)

175 168
I work at a small-ish tech company. We pay an average wage. Fully half of our tech hires are foreign AND when layoffs occurs they only hit native-born.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

You technically (pardon the pun) cannot do that. If you file a compliant with the EEOC you would win. You can’t get a visa without proving there is not an American qualified for the work.

Posted by: Piper at December 27, 2024 09:04 AM (QzINz)

176 10 people tops? I really doubt this. If they shot an airliner down for real, inadvertently damn well everybody on that ship would have known within minutes.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 27, 2024 09:04 AM (QPjUO)

177 Her cheese has slid all the way off her cracker. She is an antisemite.
Posted by: Piper at December 27, 2024 09:00 AM (pRpzT)

Yes. And her reaction to the label will soon be (if it isn't already) the very predictable -- "any criticism of Zionism is called anti-Semitism. You're the extremist, not me."

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 27, 2024 09:05 AM (h/ffs)

178 @146 the left has gone bonkers but there is no break that someone can apply. The old Dems are as useless and ineffective as the Rinos. Pelosi, Clyburn, Schumer, Durbin et al have lost control and they aren't getting it back. More likely it will eat them too. Then the rest of us will clean up the mess

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 27, 2024 09:05 AM (URPU1)

179 171 I was thinking that she is an “ out” Christian… am I correct??
Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 09:02 AM (PCK5/)

I don’t know what that is. I think she was great and now she is flat wrong and vile.

Posted by: Piper at December 27, 2024 09:06 AM (QzINz)

180 I like how these two lawyers specifically cite an impeachment in which Trumpnwas found not guilty as proof of guilt. By that measure, the Democrats certifying Biden's election was proof of fraud.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 27, 2024 09:06 AM (bIotS)

181 179 171 I was thinking that she is an “ out” Christian… am I correct??
Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 09:02 AM (PCK5/)

I don’t know what that is. I think she was great and now she is flat wrong and vile.
Posted by: Piper at December 27, 2024 09:06 AM (QzINz)

I just meant that she was openly Christian, making a point of being one publicly.

Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 09:07 AM (PCK5/)

182
However, the Russkies have shot down - what? - three passenger planes that I know of: KAL 007, that Malaysian flight and this one.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
-----
Somdo you have a theory on their motives?
Posted by: tubal

Russkie gonna Russkie. It's in their DNA, just like Donk gonna Donk.

Posted by: BifBewalski at December 27, 2024 09:08 AM (MsrgL)

183 Something it is easy to forget is how easy it has gotten to shoot down all aircraft except for the most stealthy. It used to be a hard thing to do, now any fool in charge of a modern system just has to push a button and say “oopsie!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 27, 2024 09:09 AM (7MHHr)

184 10 people tops? I really doubt this. If they shot an airliner down for real, inadvertently damn well everybody on that ship would have known within minutes.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 27, 2024 09:04 AM (QPjUO)

I don't know why you think that.

- Why would the engineering department know?
- Why would the cooks know?
- Why would the deck people know?

Weapons and command. That's pretty much it. Ships at sea have limited news and it's censored. By the time you got back into port the whole thing would be off the front page. The people who knew would have been told to shut up and they would. Many/most of them have secret, or better, security clearances. They know how to shut up.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 27, 2024 09:09 AM (ExV1e)

185 Piper, I really like “her cheese has slid all the way off her cracker.” Consider it stolen.

Posted by: Bulg at December 27, 2024 09:09 AM (v6JzV)

186 In a matter of years we will lose any understanding of an objective reality beyond ourselves. The AI world is devouring reality and spitting out artifice at a breathtaking rate.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 27, 2024 09:01 AM (h/ffs)

Whoa, DUDE!! That is SO deep. *takes another toke*

Posted by: Tommy Chong at December 27, 2024 09:09 AM (iODuv)

187 If the government were merely incompetent then by the law of averages, now and then they would errors that were actually beneficial. That never happens

That would assume a completely unbiased environment. The dice are always loaded so the incompetence always trends to the most destructive.

Under Mimetic Theory, you instill a desire for universally stupid and destructive things: DEI, status-seeking, vanity and greed. If an option comes up that doesn't harmonize with any of this four Desires, then its usually rejected. A new entrant to this Desire Chain unfortunately is Sadism. Sadism is to the Big 4 the same as MSG is to otherwise bland food.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 27, 2024 09:09 AM (rHxhM)

188
This sets-up a Democrat-Media Complex propaganda campaign to make LIVs believe the official and everything he/she does is illegitimate and should be resisted.
Posted by: Gref at December 27, 2024 08:53 AM (aBgBM)

_________

I pray that 11/5 marks an awakening from being under the thrall of Leftist hectoring. No, you're not a racist sexist homophobe. No, your country is not a hellhole. No, men are not women. No, we won't have open doors for any illegal who wants to enter.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2024 09:10 AM (dxSpM)

189 181 I just meant that she was openly Christian, making a point of being one publicly.
Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024

Oh, yes. But it’s a facade, clearly. You can’t be a true Christian and hold the views she holds.

Posted by: Piper at December 27, 2024 09:10 AM (QzINz)

190 157 152 Never stick your dick in crazy.

One of Jesus's finest sermons.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 27, 2024 08:55 AM (NR6c1)

The Sermon of WHO not to Mount?????

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 27, 2024 09:11 AM (x0n13)

191 Laura Loomer is still trending on X. She's been going after Elon.
That woman is a nut and is toxic.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 27, 2024 09:11 AM (NpAcC)

192 "You technically (pardon the pun) cannot do that. If you file a compliant with the EEOC you would win. You can’t get a visa without proving there is not an American qualified for the work."

I love it when people think that the EEOC actually enforces the law. The EEOC is mainly focused on racial reparations.

The way it really works in 95% of the other cases is after a year, the EEOC makes a determination that allows you to sue in federal court. You are on your own at that point.

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at December 27, 2024 09:12 AM (QB+5g)

193 189 181 I just meant that she was openly Christian, making a point of being one publicly.
Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024

Oh, yes. But it’s a facade, clearly. You can’t be a true Christian and hold the views she holds.
Posted by: Piper at December 27, 2024 09:10 AM (QzINz)

Amen. What really gets me is her mouthing off like she has makes the rest of us open to guilt by association.

Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 09:12 AM (PCK5/)

194 Raining here. I didn't think it was going to start until tomorrow.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 27, 2024 09:13 AM (omVj0)

195 Kolaches made by Slovak women are best kolaches.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 27, 2024 09:13 AM (jVIPs)

196 I just meant that she was openly Christian, making a point of being one publicly.
Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 09:07 AM (PCK5/)

The really stupid part is that she’s complaining that they make fun of Christian’s too much, without realizing the the site was founded as an in house Christian humor site, that then branched into political humor because they were good at it, and no one else was doing it.
As a Christian, I have always found their Christian themed humor hilarious! If you don’t think it’s funny ignore it, don’t whine about it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 27, 2024 09:13 AM (7MHHr)

197 The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it."

George Orwell

"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth."

H. L. Mencken

Posted by: Common Tater at December 27, 2024 09:13 AM (QPjUO)

198 In a matter of years we will lose any understanding of an objective reality beyond ourselves. The AI world is devouring reality and spitting out artifice at a breathtaking rate.
Posted by: Ordinary American

I am particularly interested in how these advanced tech tools are going to affect evidence allowable in court. It will be interesting.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 27, 2024 09:13 AM (WXNFJ)

199 Is a kolache a meat pie?

Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 09:13 AM (PCK5/)

200
Kolaches made by Slovak women are best kolaches.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 27, 2024 09:13 AM (jVIPs)

__________

And we have them in Texas. Hruska's Bakery in Ellinger. Mmmmmm!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2024 09:14 AM (dxSpM)

201 191 Laura Loomer is still trending on X. She's been going after Elon.
That woman is a nut and is toxic.
Posted by: redridinghood at December

My favorite is when she said you can’t think she is a nut and be MAGA. Because she IS MAGA.

Posted by: Piper at December 27, 2024 09:15 AM (p4NUW)

202 Well, Universiites are churning out thousands of comp sci and computer engineering graduates, where are they all going?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 27, 2024 09:15 AM (XV/Pl)

203 In West Virginia, kolaches identify as pepperoni rolls.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 27, 2024 09:15 AM (Q4IgG)

204 192 "You technically (pardon the pun) cannot do that. If you file a compliant with the EEOC you would win. You can’t get a visa without proving there is not an American qualified for the work."

I love it when people think that the EEOC actually enforces the law. The EEOC is mainly focused on racial reparations.

The way it really works in 95% of the other cases is after a year, the EEOC makes a determination that allows you to sue in federal court. You are on your own at that point.
Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at December 27, 2024 09:12 AM (QB+5g)

True...and if you sue, no one else will hire you b/c you likely get blackballed...

H1Bs should be curtailed hugely for a decade til American wages catch up with the inflation of the last few years...then we can talk again...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 27, 2024 09:16 AM (exHjb)

205 203 In West Virginia, kolaches identify as pepperoni rolls.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 27, 2024 09:15 AM (Q4IgG)

So kind of a pig in a blanket thing then… thanks.

Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 09:16 AM (PCK5/)

206 Darren McGavin was great as Kolach.

Posted by: Bulg at December 27, 2024 09:17 AM (v6JzV)

207 Is a kolache a meat pie?
Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 09:13 AM (PCK5/)

It can be. Or it can be a cookie. It's complicated.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 27, 2024 09:17 AM (jVIPs)

208 I am particularly interested in how these advanced tech tools are going to affect evidence allowable in court. It will be interesting.
Posted by: Tonypete

I seem to recall a Heinlein SF scenario where only testimony presented by an actual human witness was allowable in court, because all audio and video could be falsified so easily!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at December 27, 2024 09:17 AM (hOUT3)

209 We're looking forward to serving all of mephitic needs today and everyday in the future!

Posted by: Big Penguin at December 27, 2024 09:18 AM (a3Q+t)

210
Is a kolache a meat pie?
Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 09:13 AM (PCK5/)

__________

What we call a kolache in Texas is actually a klobasnek, like a pig-in-a-blanket except larger and with sweet bread and Polish sausage. A kolache in the strict sense is fruit-filled. Both are sold in the same place.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2024 09:18 AM (dxSpM)

211 >n a matter of years we will lose any understanding of an objective reality beyond ourselves. The AI world is devouring reality and spitting out artifice at a breathtaking rate.
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I just thought it was a funny clip, and others might like it too

Posted by: Don Black at December 27, 2024 09:18 AM (/7KEl)

212 Kolaches made by Slovak women are best kolaches.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 27, 2024 09:13 AM (jVIPs)

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And we have them in Texas. Hruska's Bakery in Ellinger. Mmmmmm!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Slovachek's and Czech Stop in West, Texas on 35 between Dallas & Waco.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 27, 2024 09:19 AM (E7mWg)

213 In fact in from 23-24, 112k there were 112k computer science graduates from American universities.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 27, 2024 09:19 AM (XV/Pl)

214 I don't know why you think that.

Because word travels quickly when people fuck up. “It takes 10 attaboys to make up for one “Oh Shit!”’

Everybody would know. Right away. Rumors are a big problem in the military, there is no way they could keep a lid on it.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 27, 2024 09:19 AM (QPjUO)

215 210
Is a kolache a meat pie?
Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 09:13 AM (PCK5/)

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What we call a kolache in Texas is actually a klobasnek, like a pig-in-a-blanket except larger and with sweet bread and Polish sausage. A kolache in the strict sense is fruit-filled. Both are sold in the same place.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2024 09:18 AM (dxSpM)

Hey, thanks… sounds good, maybe try one some day.

Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 09:19 AM (PCK5/)

216 Yet the left is once again pushing for Congress to block Donald Trump from taking office, despite his overwhelming victory in 2024.

Short form: It is different when we do it!

Long Form: The left has no actual values or morals outside of power. Anything that gives the left power is good, anything that takes it away is bad. Every issue of the day can be examined from this lens and the left's view of it can be explained.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 27, 2024 09:20 AM (oZhjI)

217 Hungry for apricot kolaches now.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 27, 2024 09:20 AM (jVIPs)

218 In West Virginia, kolaches identify as pepperoni rolls.

Who needs kolaches or pepperoni rolls in West Virginia when you have Tudor's Biscuit World?

Some of the largest land mammals I have seen routinely get their breakfasts there.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 27, 2024 09:20 AM (rHxhM)

219 It's Flapjack Friday!
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 27, 2024 07:31 AM

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Jen P., former Interlocutus for The Regime at December 27, 2024 09:21 AM (a3Q+t)

220 A kolach sounds like a sandwich to me.

Posted by: Bulg at December 27, 2024 09:21 AM (v6JzV)

221 Kolaches and klobasnek:

https://www.slovacekwesttexas.com/

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 27, 2024 09:21 AM (E7mWg)

222
I think there is also some sort of Hungarian pastry called Teosh Kolach. Momma is not around to inform me.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 27, 2024 09:22 AM (x0n13)

223 so a kolache is like a Hot Pocket?

Posted by: Don Black at December 27, 2024 09:22 AM (/7KEl)

224 Penguin in a Roll was a very unpopular treat at the 1939 World's Fair. Nazi backers lost their brown shirts.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at December 27, 2024 09:22 AM (vFG9F)

225 A pepperoni roll is several pieces of pepperoni, perhaps some cheese, folded into a small wad of dough and then baked. It comes out looking sort of like a flat dinner roll, but filled with the pepperoni and cheese. Typically very greasy too.

They were a staple for coal miners as once cooked they need no refrigeration, so were suitable for lunches taken into the mines. Last for about a week on the counter.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 27, 2024 09:22 AM (Q4IgG)

226 American wages catch up with the inflation of the last few years...then we can talk again...

Wages have been stagnant every year since 1974, they got a long, long, long way to go to get caught up.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 27, 2024 09:22 AM (QPjUO)

227 My favorite is when she said you can’t think she is a nut and be MAGA. Because she IS MAGA.
Posted by: Piper at December 27, 2024 09:15 AM (p4NUW)
******
She's trashing him for everything. Accusing him of hiring DeSantis supporters. Does that woman realize that a lot of Trump supporters supported both Cruz and DeSantis as their first choice, but when they dropped out put their full support and backing behind Trump.
That's how primaries work.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 27, 2024 09:23 AM (NpAcC)

228 I just thought it was a funny clip, and others might like it too
Posted by: Don Black

Embracing the power of 'and' here. It is funny, others do like it -- and it's scary as hell, too.

I'm awfully worried about the bowl game instant replays now.
You can doctor a video in milliseconds. People bet on games.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 27, 2024 09:24 AM (zdLoL)

229 West, Texas is a fine place to sample kolaches, and is conveniently located between Austin and Dallas/Ft. Worth!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 27, 2024 09:24 AM (a3Q+t)

230 Anybody else get their Social Security statement for 2025? I think Rev's went up by two dollars. That will cover the cost of nothing.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 27, 2024 09:24 AM (SfhV1)

231 226 American wages catch up with the inflation of the last few years...then we can talk again...

Wages have been stagnant every year since 1974, they got a long, long, long way to go to get caught up.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 27, 2024 09:22 AM (QPjUO)

Then I guess we're waiting a long time to discuss increasing them after a big decrease which should be coming...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 27, 2024 09:24 AM (exHjb)

232 Pepperoni rolls, done right, are quite tasty.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 27, 2024 09:24 AM (jVIPs)

233 If you want to see the positive aspects of AI, here you go...

Rubber Soul except it's Motown...

https://tinyurl.com/4jnfz653

In My Life is a banger.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 27, 2024 09:24 AM (XV/Pl)

234 Short form: It is different when we do it!

Long Form: The left has no actual values or morals outside of power. Anything that gives the left power is good, anything that takes it away is bad. Every issue of the day can be examined from this lens and the left's view of it can be explained.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 27, 2024 09:20 AM (oZhjI)

Just because you peasants made a mistake, does not mean that we elites have to accept it and act as if it were a binding or legal constraint on our own entrenched power!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at December 27, 2024 09:24 AM (hOUT3)

235 221 Kolaches and klobasnek:

https://www.slovacekwesttexas.com/
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 27, 2024 09:21 AM (E7mWg

They can put anything in a kolache!! That menu is huge!!

Posted by: tubal at December 27, 2024 09:24 AM (PCK5/)

236 Who wanted some Polish sausage?

Posted by: Ivan Putski at December 27, 2024 09:24 AM (G5+As)

237 I see Sean Hannity and Ainsley Earhardt got engaged.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 27, 2024 09:24 AM (NpAcC)

238 Who needs kolaches or pepperoni rolls in West Virginia when you have Tudor's Biscuit World?

Some of the largest land mammals I have seen routinely get their breakfasts there.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Tudor's is the only restaurant I have ever walked out of. The floor was so sticky I could barely lift my feet. I think it was along I77 somewhere.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 27, 2024 09:25 AM (WXNFJ)

239 A pepperoni roll is several pieces of pepperoni, perhaps some cheese, folded into a small wad of dough and then baked. It comes out looking sort of like a flat dinner roll, but filled with the pepperoni and cheese. Typically very greasy too.

They were a staple for coal miners as once cooked they need no refrigeration, so were suitable for lunches taken into the mines. Last for about a week on the counter.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Kinda like a calzone.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 27, 2024 09:25 AM (E7mWg)

240 In the early 2000s younger daughter took a web design course at the local community college. They were taught lots of things apparently but ..... nothing involving embedding code in a web page, how to do a retail page with user input, database querying, etc. I always considered those to be the nuts and bolts of web design. Just doing a pretty page as a splash screen is almost automatic with any web software.

Posted by: Ciampino - I was shocked at December 27, 2024 09:25 AM (i0xsb)

241 We need to implement a program of no hiring foreigners unless it can be proven that there are no citizens who can do the job.

H1B is already supposed to be this.
Employers just advertise for the "exact fit".

Guess who's never an "exact fit".

Unless you're making them pay an American to apprentice alongside the Import it's just wage suppression.

Give the topic a poke when Romeo13 is here and he'll fill your other ear.

Posted by: DaveA at December 27, 2024 09:25 AM (FhXTo)

242
Italian People's Bakery in Trenton, NJ would have Catania bread: bread with ham, cheese and gabagool in the middle. Great memories.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2024 09:26 AM (dxSpM)

243 Anybody else get their Social Security statement for 2025? I think Rev's went up by two dollars. That will cover the cost of nothing.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 27, 2024 09:24 AM (SfhV1)

Yes. About $23.

Posted by: Ghost of OrangeEnt Past at December 27, 2024 09:26 AM (0eaVi)

244 Laura Loomer is still trending on X. She's been going after Elon.
That woman is a nut and is toxic.
Posted by: redridinghood at December
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Nice boobs though.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at December 27, 2024 09:26 AM (Lo97M)

245 Speaking of food, I'm making a couple hundred Pierogi this weekend.

Go to go to Wegman's and pick up some lard and farmer cheese.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 27, 2024 09:27 AM (XV/Pl)

246 They can put anything in a kolache!! That menu is huge!!
Posted by: tubal

And it is soooo good. I went to Houston three times a year for paintball scenarios. I stopped going down every time and got lunch and stopped on the way home for kolaches for the next day.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 27, 2024 09:27 AM (E7mWg)

247 Yes. About $23.

Posted by: Ghost of OrangeEnt Past at December 27, 2024 09:26 AM (0eaVi)

So you've joined the ranks of the Elite!

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 27, 2024 09:27 AM (SfhV1)

248 Pierogies are food of the gods.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 27, 2024 09:28 AM (jVIPs)

249 So you've joined the ranks of the Elite!
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 27, 2024 09:27 AM (SfhV1)\

Not only that, my minor child gets a check too.

Posted by: Ghost of OrangeEnt Past at December 27, 2024 09:29 AM (0eaVi)

250 Anybody else get their Social Security statement for 2025? I think Rev's went up by two dollars. That will cover the cost of nothing.
Posted by: grammie winger

Yes. About $23.
Posted by: Ghost of OrangeEnt

Yeah, that was about what my increase was also. What was our COLA for '25 - 2.5%?

Yeah, that should cover it.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 27, 2024 09:29 AM (WXNFJ)

251 Everybody would know. Right away. Rumors are a big problem in the military, there is no way they could keep a lid on it.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 27, 2024 09:19 AM (QPjUO)

Don’t be so sure. Years after the incident and not long before he passed away, my uncle who worked at the SAC base in Omaha told his sons and me the backstory of the KAL shoot down when Reagan was pres. Remember how the Russians had insisted they were shooting down an American reconnaissance plane - well there really was one in the vicinity, using the KAL flight as a decoy. Then he said “how do you think we had voice transcripts of the Russian fighters cockpit transmissions?”

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 27, 2024 09:29 AM (7MHHr)

252 Biden goes on permanent vacation in 3 weeks, yet has to "vacation" this week in USVI. At our expense. With Air Force One and all the entourage that entails.

We are suckers.
Simply sheep to be shorn and fleeced.
Would be a shame if he has a medical emergency whilst there.

Posted by: Curses Upon Him And His at December 27, 2024 09:29 AM (G5+As)

253 Speaking of food, I'm making a couple hundred Pierogi this weekend.

Go to go to Wegman's and pick up some lard and farmer cheese.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Mmmmmmmm

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 27, 2024 09:29 AM (E7mWg)

254 I got fucked over pretty hard because my high school did not offer any coding classes. It turns out most of the others in my area did.

Then my father decided he wasn't letting me go to college.

This upcoming year, [X] years later, I'm finally trying to self-learn Python with no help, having never written a single line of code in my life.

I know there's no reason for anyone to care, but prayers that I can actually grasp this might be nice and would be appreciated.

Posted by: XTC at December 27, 2024 09:30 AM (UnA8+)

255 > Kinda like a calzone.
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Kind of.

But not.

The roll is typically like a dinner roll... soft, flaky and not dense. We mush them down so they're sort of flat when still warm and they'll more or less stay that way.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 27, 2024 09:30 AM (Q4IgG)

256 @248

>>Pierogies are food of the gods.

I make two kinds, potato and cheese and sauerkraut and bacon.

And I make about a hundred of each after Christmas for the New Year, usually last till March, when I make another batch.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 27, 2024 09:31 AM (XV/Pl)

257 Posted by: Ghost of OrangeEnt Past at December 27, 2024 09:26 AM

===

So you've joined the ranks of the Elite!
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 27, 2024 09:27 AM

Upgraded to Cardboard?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 27, 2024 09:31 AM (a3Q+t)

258 The roll is typically like a dinner roll... soft, flaky and not dense. We mush them down so they're sort of flat when still warm and they'll more or less stay that way.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Sounds awesome.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 27, 2024 09:31 AM (E7mWg)

259 Upgraded to Cardboard?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 27, 2024 09:31 AM (a3Q+t)

Onionskin.

Posted by: Ghost of OrangeEnt Past at December 27, 2024 09:32 AM (0eaVi)

260 Noodus gratia artis

Posted by: Bulg at December 27, 2024 09:32 AM (v6JzV)

261 Art is UP!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at December 27, 2024 09:32 AM (hOUT3)

262 232 Pepperoni rolls, done right, are quite tasty.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 27, 2024 09:24 AM (jVIPs)
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Pepperoni is artificial, pseudo-salame. A disgusting affront to Italian deli meats. It's even misnamed with a plural word that in Italian means green peppers, a vegetable/fruit.

Rant over. Carry on.

Posted by: Ciampino - Pepperone, if I want 2 of them I'll ask at December 27, 2024 09:32 AM (i0xsb)

263 This upcoming year, [X] years later, I'm finally trying to self-learn Python with no help, having never written a single line of code in my life.

I know there's no reason for anyone to care, but prayers that I can actually grasp this might be nice and would be appreciated.
Posted by: XTC
Good luck. It's always good to learn new things.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at December 27, 2024 09:33 AM (Lo97M)

264 Pierogies are food of the gods.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Working in Youngstown and having pierogi lunches at some of the local churches made me a believer. I was told the secret to exquisite pierogi was the stout women with their jangly, jangly arms hanging over the pots of boiling water. Their sweat falling into the mix was the secret ingredient.

Didn't care, even if true.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 27, 2024 09:33 AM (WXNFJ)

265 The shadowing RC-135 explains Reagan’s muted response to the KAL shoot down - both sides knew that the US had tricked the Russians into shooting it down, but the Russians couldn’t prove it and we wouldn’t admit it in public. (We thought the Russians would back off when they saw it was a passenger plane, but the fighter pilot was trigger happy)

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 27, 2024 09:33 AM (7MHHr)

266 This upcoming year, [X] years later, I'm finally trying to self-learn Python with no help, having never written a single line of code in my life.

I know there's no reason for anyone to care, but prayers that I can actually grasp this might be nice and would be appreciated.
Posted by: XTC at December 27, 2024 09:30 AM

Y'all can always ask here.

Here's a good resource for beginners:

https://learnpythonthehardway.org/

Don't be put off by "the hard way". There's a reason for it, and you'll appreciate it. Trust me.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 27, 2024 09:34 AM (a3Q+t)

267 "True...and if you sue, no one else will hire you b/c you likely get blackballed"

Oh yea, big time! If you type my name into Google search the filing shows up.

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at December 27, 2024 09:45 AM (QB+5g)

268 - Lots of ways to get labeled an anti-semite.

Don't like the privately owned, central banks?
ANTI-SEMITE!!!
Some of their owners have Jewish names you see.

I tend to think that a lot of anti-Israel views in the "christian" community comes from those who hold to the "full preterist" view on eschatology. An outgrowth of that is "replacement theology."

Both partial and full preterism are unbiblical. You have to waaay oversymbolize scripture to get there.
Replacement theology is flat out heretical. It, by extension, is calling God a promise breaking, liar.
See - the Davidic Covenant 2Samuel 7 if memory serves.

Posted by: TeeJ at December 27, 2024 09:47 AM (kjZOX)

269 Kolaches made by Slovak women are best kolaches.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 27, 2024 09:13 AM (jVIPs)

Yep, for sure. I grew up in a Hungarian/Slovak household (in the 50's) in a Eastern European neighborhood. The women, my mom as well, all made Kolaches from scratch. In my area, there are still a few churches that make and sell them on the holidays. I actually have two waiting for me, and calling my name, as we speak.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 27, 2024 09:50 AM (iODuv)

270 "fetterman comes out for fetterman" FIFY,
He's a complete fraud, right down to his tatoos memorializing Braddock citizens, overwhelming election fraud responsible for stolen senate seat for fetterman. he votes lockstep with schumer/pelosi/glogalists, including app/flights for illegals. He would felate hitler to finally win a clean election.

Posted by: rusty schaklefjord at December 27, 2024 10:21 AM (ONTlD)

271 Good morning, all, & thanks, J.J. Happy Friday!

"...argue in a joint column in The Hill that Congress not only has the power to block Trump from taking office but should. Their column doesn’t cover much new ground."

Not a lawyer but, perhaps, an "innocent" way to rile up the lunatics ^ or distract from more current matters? 🤔 Anyway:

>PBS Newshour, 'Congress approves new election certification rules in response to Jan. 6' Politics Dec 23, 2022

Wikipedia, in part, "The Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022 is a revision of the Electoral Count Act of 1887, adding to procedures set out in the Constitution of the United States for the counting of electoral votes following a presidential election. IT ALSO AMENDED THE PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION ACT (again). (Emphasis added.)

The Act was passed on 23 December 2022 by the 117th Congress, and signed into law by President Joe Biden as Division P of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023.[1]

Background: The act is intended to prevent a repeat of the January 6 United States Capitol attack following Donald Trump's refusal to concede the 2020 election."

Cont'd -

Posted by: L - Rooster one day, feather duster the next at December 27, 2024 10:52 AM (NFX2v)

272 And, of course: CRS Report, Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress - Presidential Transition Act: Provisions and Funding, Summary, R46602 May 22, 2024, Henry B. Hogue Specialist in American National Government
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>And, this too: 2025 Counting and Certification of Electoral Votes Designated a National Special Security Event, Published By U.S. Secret Service Media Relations
Published Date 2024-09-11

WASHINGTON – The 2025 Counting and Certification of Electoral Votes in Washington, DC on Jan. 6, 2025, has been designated a National Special Security Event by the Secretary of Homeland Security.

This marks the first time a National Special Security Event designation has been granted for a Certification of Electoral Votes and follows a request made by the DC Mayor to designate this event a National Special Security Event. Various reports including from the House Select January 6 Committee and the Government Accountability Office also called for the DHS Secretary to consider a National Special Security Event designation for future Certification of Electoral Votes.

(2025 Presidential Inauguration on Jan. 20 was previously designated a National Special Security Event.)

Posted by: L - Rooster one day, feather duster the next at December 27, 2024 10:52 AM (NFX2v)

273 Now, with all of that, might there be games?

>Congress counts the electoral votes and the President of the Senate then declares which persons, if any, have been elected President and Vice President of the United States, January 6, 2025.

>Majority of Congress (+families) will be at the huge tech trade show in Las Vegas, beginning January 7th, so it doesn't seem it that as a whole it intends to play around certifying the vote.
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Bringing you History: 🤣

>Obama administration can act quickly to restore openness ...

The George Washington University The National Security Archives, Nov 12, 2008 — The Obama administration can act quickly after taking office in January to reverse the secrecy trend of the last eight years and restore openness in the executive branch, according to a set of new proposals posted online today by the National Security Archive....

>PBS News, Obama administration sets new record for withholding FOIA requests, Nation Mar 18, 2015 3:43 PM EST
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Wishing all a good weekend!

Posted by: L - Rooster one day, feather duster the next at December 27, 2024 10:52 AM (NFX2v)

274 Eliminate "vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil." -- Churchill

Posted by: ShainS -- Eliminate "vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil"[/ at December 27, 2024 11:05 AM (z3WOQ)

275 Nic update

Posted by: ShainS -- Eliminate vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil at December 27, 2024 11:06 AM (z3WOQ)

276 Phone update

Posted by: ShainS -- Eliminate vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil [/b at December 27, 2024 02:57 PM (W35BD)

277 2

Posted by: ShainS -- Eliminate vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil at December 27, 2024 02:59 PM (W35BD)

278 Immediatley after Brett Kavanaugh was voted in, the libs attached the US Supreme Court building and tried to break down the doors. I remember seeing this on FOX news at the time. No one was arrested. No "protesters" were murdered by security. I don't remember anyone calling them insurrectionists. I don't remember any congressional hearings or anyone going to jail. Why is that?

Posted by: james at December 27, 2024 03:23 PM (GBXrr)

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