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The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
Although I gave up sympathy and empathy for Lent. You are still blessed to have yours truly here today.
Before we enter the Prayer Revival there are just a few housekeeping matters to take care of. (Rulz for those of you in Eagle River)
1. This is an Open Thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2. Be Kind, Be Nice! And no jumping from the furniture onto an unsuspecting creature.
3. If you are running with sharp objects, I have several trees which need to be felled.
D. Have a great weekend!!!
The following was submitted by Scampydog. I like my coffee black and bitter as my life. This just doesn't make sense!
AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo atsign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.
Prayer Requests:
1/4 – Smell the Glove asked for prayers for an 80 year old aunt. The aunt was diagnosed with colon cancer and started treatment this week.
2/22 Update – Prayers for all of the Horde and their loved ones in need. The aunt is still hanging in there. Thanks for the prayers.1/11 – Our Country is Screwed asked for prayers. He is having a double mastectomy. (He notes: Yes, male breast cancer is a thing!) He is fortunate that it appears to be localized. Another request is for an aunt (age 70+) who is facing lung cancer and having part of her lung removed. She is scared and needs prayers too.
3/1 Update – He is going to Dana Farber Cancer Institute this week. Radiation is definite, and chemo is not sure, but probably both. The cancer was caught in time and prognosis is great. It’s a lot of stress for Mrs. OCiS. Thanks to everyone for their thoughts and prayers. Prayer works. Their daughter had cancer last year, and now this – there is no way they could have gotten through all of this without prayers.1/18 – Jrgunn77 requested prayers for health, which was fine a few months ago, but recently has been his with extremely high BP spikes, anxiety attacks, constant headaches, and hernia troubles. Jrgunn is on meds for the BP and anxiety, scheduled for a colonoscopy, and has referrals for a cardiologist and neurologist. These out of the blue anxieties are the worst. Jrgunn also asked for prayers for a friend from church, Rodney, who has recently suffered lung failure and is on oxygen, to come home from the hospital, and Pastor Ben and his brother, for comfort after the passing of their little sister from drug addiction.
3/8 Update – Pneumonia has cleared, and the neurologist is treating him for Parkinsonian tremor. The CT scan showed 3 hernias. The BP, head pressure, and physical strength is better and he was able to work a couple of hours. Rodney is awake, but has intestinal bleeding. They are still waiting for test results, and if they are bad, he will be knocked off the transplant list. He’s still on 100% oxygen.
3/8 Update – Lester Fahrner posted that BP spikes and anxiety needs lab and urine tests for carcinoid tumor and pheochromocytoma.1/18 - Teresa in Fort Worth said she could use some more Horde prayers. She had a CT scan on Monday. The largest tumor has not increased, but at least 4 others have quadrupled in volume, despite 2 rounds of chemo. Her third round of chemo stats on Wednesday. So far, she’s had exceptionally light nausea which has been controlled with medication, which is a blessing.
3/4 Update – Teresa’s eyes are back to normal, so she can restart the targeted therapy treatment (at the lower dosage). This is GREAT news, as the medication seems to be working his gangbusters.1/25 – Sal asked for prayers for a couple he volunteers with. The husband, a retired pastor, has been diagnosed with congestive heart failure. They are both in their mid-80s and surgery is not an option for him.
2/15 Update – Please continue prayers for Pastor Bill, who is very discouraged with the complications from his tests and procedures, and for his wife, who is his main caregiver at home.1/25 – Grammie Winger asks for prayers that everything goes well, as Rev finally has his colostomy reversed this week.
2/19 Update – Rev is back in the hospital. At his follow-up appointment on 2/18, the surgeon sent him to ER. They said he had AFib and his blood pressure was bad, 80/39. Grammie Winger would appreciate prayers.
2/22 Rev is back home from hospitalization 2.0. They send thanks for the prayers.1/31 – Bif Bewalski gave an update on Smash. The blood work confirmed that she does not have pancreatitis. They gave her fluids, 3 types of digestive system meds via IV, and then ignored her for 8 hours. Anyway, she is home and feeling better.
3/1 Update – Smash update: still having some distressing abdominal and digestive issues. Gastro specialist appointment is the 3rd week of March, and that’s just the new patient appointment. She can eat soft, easy to digest food in small portions, but still has swelling, gas, etc. Thank you all for the prayers.2/8 – MammaB asked for prayers. She said she needs surgery, and has been preparing for it for several months, jumping through the hoops put up by the clinic and insurance. Last Wed. she was told everything was complete and she could have surgery in 8-10 weeks. On 2/7, the surgeon’s office threw up another roadblock, one that is very difficult to manage. She is feeling discouraged and asks for the Horde’s prayers.
3/1 Update – On 2/24, the surgeon agreed to her surgery. On 2/28, she received insurance authorization, and it is scheduled for 3/26. Thank you all for your prayers. She has had months of jumping through hoops.2/15 – FenelonSpoke requested prayers. She thinks that the church hierarchy is wanting her out, so they can close her church and take the money from the sale of the land (which technically belongs to the denomination anyway). They are a small congregation, but they love one another. Even if the denomination doesn’t close the church, a new pastor would not be helpful at this point.
2/15 – Cannibal Bob posted his thanks, to God and the Prayer Warriors here. He had posted under the name “Diddly Squat” about severe pain in his legs, and it was sent on to the prayer list. After several misdiagnoses, he was told he would probably lose his leg above the calf. After more research, Heidi found a genius surgeon in Albuquerque. Cannibal Bob has had surgery and will continue to have full use of his leg. He says he is convinced it is due to the Prayer Warriors here. Thank you all. God is great, and so are you.
2/15 – Ben Had asked for continued prayers for Jim Sunk New Dawn. He hasn’t been on the ONT for a while now.
2/22 Update – Doof heard from Jim SND and posted an update. Jim SND says he is doing OK and is in good spirits, all things considered. He’s just struggling to keep up with things here on the blog due to physical limitations. Doof plans to keep checking on him. Jim SND definitely appreciates our prayers and support.
3/7 Update – Jim Sunk New Dawn sent an update to Weird Dave. Jim SND sends his greetings and thanks for the prayers. He can’t reply to everyone; his 80 wpm is now about 8. He can barely type, and chewing is even tough. He says he is a walking skeleton. He is getting full benefits from the VA, so that helps with ADA mods to the house, healthcare, etc.2/15 – screaming in digital posted an update on her mother. Mom was deemed eligible for LTC benefits after 1 appeal. (Thanks again to Grateful for advice in bolstering the appeal!) She submitted the first claim a couple of weeks ago. She hasn’t received the funds yet, but the online system says it was approved. They are looking at assisted living options now. Screaming in digital realizes Mom can’t live with her indefinitely, despite her continued sweetness and (usual) cheerfulness.
2/18 – Teresa in Fort Worth asked for prayers for her husband’s niece, Amanda, who has just been put on the waiting list for another new heart. After 4 years with her first donor heart, her body is starting to reject it. She is only 40 years old, and has had heart issues her entire adult life. Please pray that Amanda’s body would stay well long enough for her to have another transplant. And also prayers for the family of this as-yet-unknown donor. Amanda knows full well what her receiving a new heart “means” to the donor family.
3/4 Update – Amanda still needs prayers. St. Luke’s cannot give her a second heart, so they have turned to Methodist in Houston, hoping that they will be able to handle her complex case.2/22 – Tonypete requested prayers for his wife’s friend. The friend’s pos husband of 30 years died 3 years ago. He was a real monster. She’s relieved he’s gone but has all sorts of feelings of inadequacy and a wasted life. Ugh.
2/22 – neverenoughcaffiene asked that we keep 3 week old Isaac in our prayers. RSV has him intubated and in the ICU. His parents and 5 sisters could use a few prayers as well.
3/1 Update – Baby Isaac is out of ICU and doing great. He and his mom will stay with relatives when he’s released since the rest of the family has the flu. Thank you all for your prayers, we all know they work miracles.2/22 – NaughtyPine requested prayers for the children that were rescued in Pontiac, Michigan, after their mother abandoned them for years. Not only do they need prayers, but also the mother (to repent) and family members who were put off by her lies and despise themselves for not doing more.
2/22 – J asked for prayers for help. He has been on probation for almost 8 years, and is very frustrated by it all. He has worked hard to improve himself and follows all the rules and restrictions, and he is tired by being demeaned and being treated as subhuman.
2/27 – Ciampino’s daughter asked for prayers for Ciampino. They are not sure what is wrong yet, but they had to call an ambulance to take him to the hospital. He was very weak and couldn’t walk or even stand up. The hospital has been giving him fluids, and he is more responsive now. Thank you for the prayers.
3/1 Update – Cysts in the kidneys, a large one to be removed with surgery so it no longer affects the GI tract.
3/7 Update – Still in the hospital. Can’t sleep, 2-3 hours max. Still unsteady on his feet, probably from the double-pneumonia.
3/8 Update – Home now. Getting stronger, but still easily winded. Finally had a long sleep. Thank you all for your prayers. Love you.2/27 – Katja requested prayers for Karla, who is in her 20s and in need of a miracle and/or a kidney donor, as hers are in stage 4 kidney failure. Her family is trying to find a donor because if she’s just added to the general list, it looks like a wait of 4-5 years, and it’s extremely questionable whether she can wait that long.
3/1 – antisocial justice beatnik would appreciate some prayers for Mom, who is continuing to suffer terribly from a botched medical procedure back in mid-Dec. Mom was rushed from her rehab facility to ER on 2/28, then back to the hospital that botched her care in Dec. Antisocial justice beatnik and Dad are doing their best to support her and each other, but Dad has his own existing medical issues to worry about, and AJB’s FMLA is running out.
3/8 Update – Mom is stable but continues to suffer with a horrific bed wound and blood clots in her legs. She will be bedridden for the foreseeable future. Dad is still having medical issues but is still mobile. AJB and Dad still take shifts to visit Mom. AJB also figures s/he will be looking for another job soon, so has found a resume and will start applying.3/1 – Madam Mayhem sent her thanks for the prayers for her niece’s husband, T, a young man in his 30s. We had prayed for him after his heart attack. He has recovered and there was only minimal damage. She also asked for prayers for Hubbymayhem, who is battling kidney stones and a UTI. The urology center did not catch it right away – they did scans for stones and bladder cancer instead of a simple urine culture. The antibiotics are underway, but he’s been suffering with it for a while.
3/8 Update – Thanks to everyone for the prayers for Hubbymayhem. He is recovered and back to his usual ornery and lecherous self! Thank God!3/1 – Jewells send an update – she had surgery on her arm. A week after that, she came down with influenza A and pneumonia. So she has been pretty sick and weak.
3/1 - thefritz requests prayers for his friend Jeff, his wife, and two children. Jeff’s pancreatic cancer has spread to his liver. They have stopped chemo and moved him to home hospice.
3/3 – Lizzy requested prayers for her father, whose health has taken a dive. They were taking him to the hospital, but it may well be that his body is exhausted, and the fight is over.
3/6 – Bulg asked for prayers. He is planning to send a conciliatory letter to his only sister, who has been estranged for 20 years. There had been a family breakup over the parents’ estate. The sister has begun communicating with Bulg’s brothers, so he is going to try and reestablish contact. Prayers that his attempt will be successful are appreciated.
3/6 – Toad-O asked for prayers for a son-in-law, his mother, and the rest of the family. The mother is in the hospital with severe lung damage and her survival is uncertain. The mother’s mother just died of a similar illness. Also, her husband is also in the hospital with a ruptured colon. All of these things hit in the same week, and the impact has been devastating. A miracle is desperately needed.
3/8 Update – The mother passed away on 3/8, on her 61st birthday. As you can imagine, the family is devastated. Prayers for comfort in this time of sorrow are requested.3/8 – Misanthropic Humanitarian offered a prayer. “Dear Father, Thank you for sparing Donald J. Trump’s life in Butler, PA. Thank you for a President who loves his country and is trying to do everything he can to improve our citizens lives. We often come to you with our troubles and not to you as often as we should when we should be thankful. We pray through Your Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.”
3/8 - Tonypete asked for prayers for K and Mr. X. K started dating Mr. X, and he is a very nice gentleman, but he mentions his late wife in every other sentence. It’s starting to wear on K.
3/8 – Ben Had asked for continued prayers for AZ deplorable as he works to get his strength back.
3/8 – Retired Buckeye Cop asked for prayers for his younger brother, J. He has been a police officer at a local Catholic university for 26 years. Due to internal politics, the police chief has informed J that his position (Captain) is being phased out as of 6/30 and he needs to seek employment elsewhere. May J find a new job soon.
3/8 – Piper asked for prayers for a close friend who has breast cancer. It’s already at stage 3 when it was discovered. She has chemo, surgery, and radiation coming up. She is a mom, with a son age 12. Her husband is being a trooper, but it’s hard.
3/8 – Cosda posted good news. Two years ago, we prayed for a sister who had colon cacner and was undergoing surgery and chemo. That was successful. On 3/7, her checkup showed that she was still cancer free. Thank you for the prayers and thank God for the healing.
For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Pete Seria at March 15, 2025 07:34 AM (7ZQe3)
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Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at March 15, 2025 07:37 AM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at March 15, 2025 07:42 AM (hjWnr)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 15, 2025 07:47 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Accomack at March 15, 2025 07:48 AM (oERdd)
"Hopefully you've been able to put up the snowmobiles and restock your liquor cabinet before the spring mowing and season sets in"
I think that wont be for another 3 months for our friend who lives on the frozen tundra.
Posted by: fd at March 15, 2025 07:49 AM (GhQvH)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 15, 2025 07:49 AM (0OIwA)
In full eclipse, which lasted what, a half hour or so, it appears to be dipped in blood, the blood thinning as you go from bottom to top, pink up there, blood red at the bottom.
He got a nice telescope a few months ago and has become an avid amateur backyard astronomer.
Posted by: Mr Gaga at March 15, 2025 07:51 AM (KiBMU)
Posted by: fd at March 15, 2025 07:49 AM (GhQvH)
Weather here says 62 today, then snow tomorrow. This coming week's going to look like a tachycardia rhythm, up, down, up, down.
Prayer offered for the list. All the best to them.
Trading my car in today. MAYBE. I consider there to be a non-zero chance I'm going to walk in there and and the guy's going to say, "Oh... Hey... It turns out we couldn't apply both of those rebates, so your actual payoff amount is going to be-- Hey, where are you going?"
Posted by: Vanya at March 15, 2025 07:53 AM (g1h/9)
Posted by: Ciampino - a plethora of prayers at March 15, 2025 07:53 AM (KjLnc)
g'mornin' again, 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at March 15, 2025 07:54 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: Savage Henry has cashed his check at March 15, 2025 07:54 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2025 07:54 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Ciampino - a plethora of prayers at March 15, 2025 07:55 AM (KjLnc)
Have a good day!
Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 15, 2025 07:55 AM (UQhFy)
Five LITERS? Holy hell man, glad you're okay.
Posted by: Vanya at March 15, 2025 07:56 AM (g1h/9)
Posted by: Ciampino - a plethora of prayers at March 15, 2025 07:56 AM (KjLnc)
Cowards die many times before their deaths.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
-Julius Caesar, Act 2, scene 2
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 15, 2025 08:00 AM (bss/y)
Power is still off for east side of town. I don't think they're going to get the power back on today. There are a fair number of power poles that have blown over (quite dangerously, too!)
They won't be able to do much real work until it's light enough to properly assess the damage from the storm.
Luckily, main roads are pretty clear and power is still on in the northwest section of town. Was able to fill my car up with gas (just in case).
I am in the office where I have food, water, power, and lots and lots of books to keep me entertained (I work in a library).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 15, 2025 08:00 AM (7fElN)
Posted by: dantesed at March 15, 2025 08:03 AM (Oy/m2)
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I'm very much as "sing while you may" and "dance while you may" type of fellow. I also recognize that in our modern internet world "free coffee" means you're probably paying for through internet clicks via advertising/marketing.
Like we just did.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at March 15, 2025 08:04 AM (NrQsF)
It's a rainy, windy day here in Tweeville.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 15, 2025 08:04 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2025 08:05 AM (bh/mF)
Posted by: Weak Geek at March 15, 2025 08:06 AM (/dnrY)
Posted by: Weak Geek at March 15, 2025 08:06 AM (/dnrY)
Congratulations!
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 15, 2025 08:06 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: dantesed at March 15, 2025 08:03 AM (Oy/m2)
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I hadn't even thought of that, but that's very appropriate considering the storm we went through last night. One of the worst I've ever seen here in my town.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 15, 2025 08:07 AM (7fElN)
My forecast here says more storms and wind will return this afternoon.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2025 08:09 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Seamus O'Toole County Cork at March 15, 2025 08:09 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Weak Geek at March 15, 2025 08:06 AM (/dnrY)
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May your first grandchild be a masculine child.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2025 08:10 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Caffeinated Carlo at March 15, 2025 08:10 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2025 08:10 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Mick at March 15, 2025 08:11 AM (gYvAB)
https://tinyurl.com/3f5nfz2b
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2025 08:15 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Ciampino - a plethora of prayers at March 15, 2025 07:55 AM (KjLnc)
You are welcome.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at March 15, 2025 08:16 AM (QXQ4l)
Silly people. But allow me to wish you nothing but success in all efforts and that there is immeasurable anguish for the leftwit fungi.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at March 15, 2025 08:16 AM (hKoQL)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2025 08:10 AM (RIvkX)
He is weak and sometimes his legs go out beneath him, but he is eating and his spirits are good. I live for the day when he can take the garbage cans out to the curb. That's how shallow I am.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 15, 2025 08:17 AM (SfhV1)
Well, I don't know about the rest of the Horde, but you're MY favorite COB, and that's all that matters!
Posted by: TecumsehTea at March 15, 2025 08:20 AM (Eo96p)
Posted by: Tonypete at March 15, 2025 08:20 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Weak Geek at March 15, 2025 08:06 AM (/dnrY)
Congrats man.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 15, 2025 08:20 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: grammie winger
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no, no. You're looking at it wrong. You're looking forward to the day when he has built up enough strength that he's once again able to do minor things around the house like taking out the trash in order to continue to build more strength and return to normal.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at March 15, 2025 08:21 AM (NrQsF)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at March 15, 2025 08:21 AM (NrQsF)
Yours sounds way better.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 15, 2025 08:22 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: Tonypete at March 15, 2025 08:24 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 15, 2025 08:25 AM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Tonypete at March 15, 2025 08:26 AM (cYBz/)
Thank you for this weekly prayer thread MisHum!
Prayers for all the Horde in need.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deporte at March 15, 2025 08:27 AM (rT96s)
Not stabbing everyone is already my expression of joy.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deporte at March 15, 2025 08:31 AM (rT96s)
Posted by: OkJohn at March 15, 2025 08:32 AM (NC/it)
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Posted by: Some Stupid W/a Flare Gun at March 15, 2025 08:32 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: OkJohn at March 15, 2025 08:34 AM (NC/it)
Posted by: Tonypete at March 15, 2025 08:26 AM (cYBz/)
That storm is supposed to hit us at 2 am. Looks like it could be bad.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 15, 2025 08:36 AM (6csQL)
I love the dance for free coffee video. Some of them aren't confident dancers, and that's fine. I like that they moved in whatever way they could. I'd do it. It's a joyful thing.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 15, 2025 08:37 AM (OX9vb)
I did manage to make tofu and rice for Boy F. and I
Well, Boy. F. made the rice.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2025 08:37 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Weak Geek at March 15, 2025 08:06 AM (/dnrY)
May God bless your daughter and her soon to be husband. Congratulations!
Posted by: REUTERS LOL at March 15, 2025 08:38 AM (nttL5)
No fast food trips? Tofu? Next you will tell me you swore off fruitcake
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 15, 2025 08:39 AM (QXQ4l)
Not stabbing everyone is already my expression of joy.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deporte at March 15, 2025 08:31 AM (rT96s)
If some cob would not have quit that could have been a comment of the week
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 15, 2025 08:40 AM (QXQ4l)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 15, 2025 08:40 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: REUTERS LOL at March 15, 2025 08:43 AM (nttL5)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 15, 2025 08:39 AM (QXQ4l)
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Mrs. F. would find the wrappers when she woke up, so...
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2025 08:44 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Weak Geek at March 15, 2025 08:45 AM (/dnrY)
Acts 4:12
Posted by: Marcus T at March 15, 2025 08:46 AM (YqiVX)
Thanks!
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 15, 2025 08:47 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 15, 2025 08:47 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2025 08:47 AM (ZOv7s)
https://tinyurl.com/yvwt6t2f
Posted by: REUTERS LOL at March 15, 2025 08:48 AM (nttL5)
Cowards die many times before their deaths.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
-Julius Caesar, Act 2, scene 2
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 15, 2025 08:00 AM (bss/y)
Thank you!
Posted by: m at March 15, 2025 08:48 AM (CQE5S)
It's overcast right now, but everything is so green that it cheery me up after the long white and brown of winter.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2025 08:50 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: REUTERS LOL at March 15, 2025 08:51 AM (nttL5)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2025 08:52 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 15, 2025 08:53 AM (OX9vb)
Them Here = There Here
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 15, 2025 08:47 AM (gbOdA)
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Disease outbreaks will be blamed on anti-vaxxers until it turns out they aren't Trumpkins but migrants.
Then they will cease being news. Trump will then bring it up and be called a racist Nazi, same as yesterday.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2025 08:53 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Stateless...60% - mental state clawing up from 10% at March 15, 2025 08:53 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Weak Geek at March 15, 2025 08:45 AM (
Sorry. Not awake yet.
Posted by: REUTERS LOL at March 15, 2025 08:53 AM (nttL5)
Posted by: TRex at March 15, 2025 08:55 AM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: REUTERS LOL at March 15, 2025 08:51 AM (nttL5)
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It being Reuters, I assume they prefer Muslim prayers?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2025 08:55 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Opened all the doors and windows yesterday and let the 75 degree wind blow through.
Snow forecast for this week.
Posted by: Auspex at March 15, 2025 08:58 AM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2025
Thanks for the reminder, That was me making fun or the rather verbose "Maga is over " who would quote. Reuters as a credible source,
I really am asking for prayers for my retired organists daughter though.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 15, 2025 08:58 AM (nttL5)
Posted by: Vanya at March 15, 2025 07:53 AM (g1h/9)
I needed a new car, because I've been taking Mom to her doctor appointments and it's very hard for her to get in and out of the truck. Didn't find anything local that fit my needs and budget, so Mr. Dmlw! started perusing Carvana. I narrowed down my choices Monday night, applied Tuesday morning, and had a car delivered Tuesday afternoon. They gave me $1700 for my 2010 Expedition, local dealer offered $500.
It could not have been easier. The payment stayed in my desired range, nobody inflating it with this thing and that. It's been a great experience.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 15, 2025 08:58 AM (OX9vb)
Posted by: JTB at March 15, 2025 08:59 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 15, 2025 09:00 AM (bVN1m)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2025 09:00 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 15, 2025 09:01 AM (bVN1m)
My visit here was slightly delayed by Pixie putting up a link to thhe Kinks Lola, below. A nice start to the morning.
Posted by: From about That Time at March 15, 2025 09:01 AM (n4GiU)
In addition to REUTERS LOL Fen could have gone with
CNN LOL
ABC NEWS LOL
MSNBC LOL
CBS NEWS LOL
WASHINGTON COMPOST LOL
NBC NEWS LOL
NYT LOL
So many choices...
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 15, 2025 09:01 AM (dg+HA)
On Ash Wednesday, I let her know there was a 9 a.m. Mass and that all of us were planning on going, and it would be nice if she could make it (my granddaughter is in the parish preschool and the whole school attends). She said she would try. We watched in vain for a long time, and were lining up to receive the Eucharist when she swept in, comforted the kids and then received the Host, which she has not done in many years.
Knowing that I tend to create my own opposition, I said nothing about it, but last night they were working on crafts in the kitchen and I noticed she had bought pizza. I had to check and she noticed and smiled. "Yeah, it's meatless. The person taking the order didn't get why I had the chicken taken off."
There is still much to be done, but these are promising signs.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2025 09:01 AM (ZOv7s)
Then they will cease being news. Trump will then bring it up and be called a racist Nazi, same as yesterday.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2025 08:53 AM (ZOv7s)
Clinton did a pretty good job controlling the border and by 2000 measles was gone in the US.
Where did it come from?
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 15, 2025 09:02 AM (gbOdA)
Snow forecast for this week.
Posted by: Auspex at March 15, 2025 08:58 AM (j4U/Z)
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Same. I turned the heat off as well, so it's a little cooler than usual, but that will pass. One of the reasons I love spring and fall is that my utility bills collapse to almost nothing.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2025 09:04 AM (ZOv7s)
wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have to be somewhere at 9:00am.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 15, 2025 09:04 AM (VofaG)
Very nice news. May the Lord continue His work on her.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 15, 2025 09:05 AM (nttL5)
And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
Posted by: TeeJ at March 15, 2025 09:05 AM (LajFB)
Where did it come from?
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 15, 2025 09:02 AM (gbOdA)
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Trump I basically tried to implement Clinton's first term.
Trump II is Pinochet's first term.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2025 09:05 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Weak Geek at March 15, 2025 08:06 AM (/dnrY)
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Congratulations!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 15, 2025 09:06 AM (7fElN)
Posted by: IYKWIMAITYD at March 15, 2025 09:08 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deporte at March 15, 2025 09:08 AM (rT96s)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 15, 2025 09:09 AM (bVN1m)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 15, 2025 09:10 AM (cPejy)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2025 09:00 AM (RIvkX)
Unlike fruitcake, hamentashen looks delicious. Alas, I live in a hamentashen desert, and will likely never have the opportunity to try it.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 15, 2025 09:11 AM (OX9vb)
Happy observed Pub St. Patrick's Day to all; a round of Guinness for the Murrays today buys me special dispensation to take cuts in line for the St. Al's fish fry next friday. Small price to pay.
Posted by: Auspex at March 15, 2025 09:11 AM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 15, 2025 09:11 AM (Tb9XS)
Where did it come from?
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 15, 2025 09:02 AM (gbOdA)
Tacos El Barrio es un bano feliz BOGO!
De nada!
Posted by: Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez at March 15, 2025 09:11 AM (R/m4+)
once when I bought my mother's car , the sales guy immediately took my offer. I must have screwed up big time in my research.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 15, 2025 09:13 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 15, 2025 09:13 AM (nttL5)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 15, 2025 09:09 AM (bVN1m)
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Putz comes to mind.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2025 09:13 AM (ZOv7s)
Yet they’re still reflexively opposed because Orangeman is for it. Trump could give these people $1M cash and they’d burn the money because resistance.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 15, 2025 09:14 AM (Tb9XS)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
"Can you fly, Bobby?"
Posted by: Pendulating Richard at March 15, 2025 09:14 AM (nfWZZ)
Posted by: Art at March 15, 2025 09:15 AM (gSnZg)
My maternal grandparents were from New York City, and my grandmother was actually of Jewish descent (though her grandmother converted to Christianity as part of her social climbing).
All of which is to say, there was lots of Yiddish terms thrown about in that German-Irish Catholic household. It stood me in good stead when I spent some time attending school in Bloomfield Hills, which was 1/3 Jewish and had all the High Holy Days off.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2025 09:16 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Vanya
I was going to sell my disabled mother's Tesla to stop supporting Msuk, but burned it instead so no Nasis could by it and keep it on the rode!!!
Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein at March 15, 2025 09:16 AM (ycI94)
Posted by: NPR listeners everywhere at March 15, 2025 09:17 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
"Can you fly, Bobby?"
Posted by: Pendulating Richard
(Gulp) Well, you guys did say my arms looked like chicken wings...
Posted by: David Hogg at March 15, 2025 09:18 AM (ycI94)
Surf's up, Moondoggie.
Posted by: one hour sober at March 15, 2025 09:19 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: With pillows at March 15, 2025 09:19 AM (dg+HA)
Yet they’re still reflexively opposed because Orangeman is for it. Trump could give these people $1M cash and they’d burn the money because resistance.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 15, 2025 09:14 AM (Tb9XS)
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It was a trap. He offered a reasonable no-frills CR and they crapped on it. So now he can offer unreasonable regular order budgets and no one will care, because they ended up voting for the eeeevil CR anyway.
The moderate (by which I mean "Non suicide cult Dems" are going to back away from this, effectively hanging the rest out to dry. It's going to be fun to watch
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2025 09:19 AM (ZOv7s)
The best part is that this time the Dems are squabbling amongst themselves, whereas usually it is "our" stalwart GOPe that are running around in circles!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 15, 2025 09:23 AM (hOUT3)
I'm back from the grocery. Urgh. I had to buy a 3-pack of Pet Armor, recommended by Miss Linda, to treat my cats for fleas. The fleas are not on me for a change, but I can tell the cats are getting bitten from the little crusts on their skin under their neck fur. A useful product, flea treatments, but $25 ???!!!??? Why can't I buy just a two-pack for $16 or so?
Eggs are still sky-high. I buy the WM brand of almost everything and still wind up with little cash in my wallet. And they didn't have a couple of things I needed; I'll need to run out to Aldi in about half an hour.
Anyway! It's Saturday, at least. I hope nobody has really bad weather today.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2025 09:23 AM (omVj0)
I've been busy the last couple of weeks, but I confess this whole business is confusing the hell out of me.
The CR is bad because it's the same pork and no spending cuts, but the Democrats oppose it reflexively, so they're going to shut the government down, which is actually good because Trump can then take a chainsaw to whatever he wants, but then the Democrats cave and vote for it, which is somehow also good, even though we're still pissing away all this funny money and now Trump can't do Trump stuff, but this is all still a win. Somehow.
Posted by: Vanya at March 15, 2025 09:24 AM (g1h/9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2025 09:24 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 15, 2025 09:25 AM (5++NP)
Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;
While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.
Posted by: Siphonaptera at March 15, 2025 09:26 AM (dg+HA)
Donald Trump launched some of his harshest attacks yet on the media on Friday, using a speech at the Department of Justice to baselessly accuse outlets including CNN of illegal and corrupt behavior.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 15, 2025 09:29 AM (5++NP)
Thanks MH. Thanks Annie. Thanks horde.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * scio te ipsum at March 15, 2025 09:31 AM (QGfD2)
Posted by: Derak at March 15, 2025 09:31 AM (5GJ8D)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 15, 2025 09:31 AM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2025 09:01 AM (ZOv7s)
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b"h
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2025 09:32 AM (RIvkX)
Prayers up for so many of the Horde, that is getting to be quite a long list.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 15, 2025 09:32 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 15, 2025 09:33 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 15, 2025 09:09 AM (bVN1m)
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This cultural appropriation is APPROVED.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2025 09:33 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at
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Hey, hey!!! No eating in the library.
Jeez, where have our standards gone?
Posted by: From about That Time at March 15, 2025 09:33 AM (n4GiU)
For a lot of people, the wife wants to spend more money than the husband. For we Mayhems that is reversed. Hubbymayhem will go buy something he needs to use right now even if he will never use it again. I always say nope! Thing One and Thing Two are less than a quarter of a mile away and have all the stuff. Borrow it! He doesn't like to do that because he worries that the borrowed item will get damaged and we will have to replace it so, just buy it. I say borrow it. This is why Hubbymayhem has the Things here. He borrowed an extension ladder from Thing Two. But then they both showed up with hammers and nails to help with the fixing.
My family is awesome!
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 15, 2025 09:34 AM (4XwPj)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2025 09:24 AM (omVj0)
Miranda Otto, who played Éowyn.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 15, 2025 09:35 AM (PiwSw)
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It could not have been easier.
Please let us know how it works out in the end. I have seen claims about Carvana being really slow about stuff like processing registrations and sending titles. That alone has been enough to keep them off of my search list even though they do tend to beat Carmax on price.
Posted by: Oddbob at March 15, 2025 09:36 AM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 15, 2025 09:37 AM (4XwPj)
Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at March 15, 2025 09:38 AM (dg+HA)
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The Democrats are sort of split between the "Olde Guard" and the more radical types like the so-called "squad." The infighting and backstabbing is a nice change of pace.
But, they'll fall back into lockstep soon enough.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2025 09:38 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Julius Caesar, some time ago at March 15, 2025 09:39 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 15, 2025 09:39 AM (y6l9B)
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I'm sorry but this book has been "flagged"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2025 09:39 AM (RIvkX)
Prayers up for all of God's children. We need them, always.
And may God continue to bless the U.S.A. and Israel.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at March 15, 2025 09:39 AM (rxCpr)
Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein at
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I had a MSM article come up on my news feed today about how people are trying to get rid of their Teslas in protest and are discovering normal people don't want them and they're not worth much of anything.
$70k cars still under warranty are seeing offers of mid 20s iirc
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - single moms, your children are a detriment, not a benefit at March 15, 2025 09:39 AM (BfpZ5)
Posted by: Kindltot at March 15, 2025 09:39 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: olddog in mo at March 15, 2025 09:41 AM (hoCmQ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 15, 2025 09:42 AM (bVN1m)
Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead!
Posted by: Chevy Chase at March 15, 2025 09:42 AM (dg+HA)
$70k cars still under warranty are seeing offers of mid 20s iirc
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - single moms, your children are a detriment, not a benefit at March 15, 2025
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Cars that explode without warning are strangely not very popular in the marketplace.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2025 09:44 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Kindltot at March 15, 2025 09:39 AM (D7oie)
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Gen. Suharto provides a far more instructive example.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2025 09:46 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2025 09:46 AM (omVj0)
Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead!
Posted by: Chevy Chase at March 15, 2025
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Whenever I hear Franco's name, I think of Franco-American spaghetti.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2025 09:47 AM (omVj0)
Where did it come from?
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 15, 2025 09:02 AM (gbOdA)
Three issues: One is that the vaccination is about 80-90% effective, meaning a large portion of the population is not immune - whereas getting the disease does give 100% immunity
Another is that the vaccination does not give sufficient antibodies for the mother to pass on inherent immunity to the child, so children don't get that protection when they are born
The final is that it appears that the majority of the recent cases are traceable to the attenuated virus itself, that children vaccinated with the MMR shot are passing the virus to other children, the ones who were not immunized, that are too young to be immunized, and of course don't have innate immunity passed from their mothers.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 15, 2025 09:47 AM (D7oie)
We are watching Trump take a chainsaw to things he doesn't like right now and being fought by the courts every step of the way. And these are Executive level actions that can be overturned by the next Democrat president.
The trick is to get things passed by Congress and that requires the government to be open. There are tools available like the Impoundment Act and budget reconciliation that can be used and only require a majority in both houses not 60 votes in the Senate.
DOGE is still identifying waste to be cut. I think this was just act 1 of a 2 act play.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2025 09:49 AM (LkLld)
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It could not have been easier.
Please let us know how it works out in the end. I have seen claims about Carvana being really slow about stuff like processing registrations and sending titles. That alone has been enough to keep them off of my search list even though they do tend to beat Carmax on price.
Posted by: Oddbob at March 15, 2025
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I think it might work well if you already know the car you're buying, have already driven one to see how it feels and fits you and drives on the roads you know. If not, is there a return window? But then, you're out your old car, right?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2025 09:50 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Franco's favorite at March 15, 2025 09:51 AM (dg+HA)
$70k cars still under warranty are seeing offers of mid 20s iirc
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - single moms, your children are a detriment, not a benefit at March 15, 2025 09:39 AM (BfpZ5)
I'm not particularly interested in an EV, but I'd probably buy a used current year Tesla for like $5K if it had low mileage.
Just doing a good deed for a libtard for Lent.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 15, 2025 09:51 AM (iJfKG)
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I'm no fan of EV's but a Tesla, with warranty for mid-$20K is tempting.... even if only to "play with" for a while.
*looks at map of EV chargers... heavy sigh*
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2025 09:52 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at March 15, 2025 09:52 AM (NuKV1)
Posted by: Oddbob at March 15, 2025 09:36 AM (/y8xj)
I already have the registration and plates! I bought it on 2/18, and received the registration and plates by mail late last week. So, less than 30 days.
I had reservations about it, but they've been in business for a while, so I figure they aren't in the habit of misrepresenting junk. You get to test drive it before you sign, and you have seven days to return for any reason.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 15, 2025 09:52 AM (OX9vb)
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik
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Oh goodness. I'm sorry.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - single moms, your children are a detriment, not a benefit at March 15, 2025 09:53 AM (BfpZ5)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2025 09:53 AM (RIvkX)
Five LITERS? Holy hell man, glad you're okay.
Posted by: Vanya at March 15, 2025 07:56 AM (g1h/9)
Five litters! Forget about him, are the kittens ok?
Posted by: BurtTC at March 15, 2025 09:56 AM (2aKiJ)
Trump came out and said pooping is actually good for your digestive health.
Democrats are now refusing to crap.
(Thank you Babylon Bee)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2025 09:56 AM (BLpWt)
This is controversial but in short, just because Congress raised the money, the Executive doesn't have to spend it. This is probably why the Dems are so mad right now.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 15, 2025 09:58 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 15, 2025 09:58 AM (xOnCy)
That's impoundment.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2025 09:59 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2025 09:59 AM (LkLld)
Thank you, the fancy words escape me, and I thought that had something to do with dams and irrigation canals.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 15, 2025 10:00 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 15, 2025 10:00 AM (DNk0j)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 15, 2025 10:00 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at March 15, 2025 09:52 AM (NuKV1)
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A prayer for complete and speedy healing.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2025 10:01 AM (RIvkX)
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 15, 2025 10:01 AM (u82oZ)
Democrats are now refusing to crap.
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LOL
But, you know, I bet there are people out there with such acute cases of TDS that they'd do the opposite of whatever he said. He should troll them to no end with this.
Like the celebrities leaving the US or "taking a break" from whatever they do because they're "exhausted battling Trump" or whatever.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2025 10:01 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Kindltot at March 15, 2025 09:39 AM (D7oie)
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I hate this reductive thinking. "He didn't solve all the problems for his nation for all time, therefore he was a failure."
Seriously?
Both crushed the Communists, averted what would have been a mass slaughter of their people followed by crushing societal destruction. They also modernized their nation in a way no Marxist could ever dream of - without work camps and mass starvation. Franco took a largly illiterate, Third World nation and turned it into a first world country with high literacy, industry, modern medicine, etc. It didn't turn to crap until a generation after his death.
That's pretty amazing.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2025 10:02 AM (ZOv7s)
Yes. Clear as mud to me as well.
Posted by: Derak at March 15, 2025 09:31 AM (5GJ8D)
Oh, and don't forget, Thomas Massie is bad, and should be primaried, for voting no to this nonsense.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 15, 2025 10:02 AM (FUQcl)
Prayers for the Americans on the front lines vs evil, and prayers for the team that is fighting the evil every day.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 15, 2025 10:03 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Vanya at March 15, 2025 07:56 AM (g1h/9)
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That's a lot of Valu-Rite.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2025 10:03 AM (RIvkX)
One of the problems with watching government work other than most of them are repressible people is there are so many arcane rules and processes that have been built up over a couple hundred years that watching from the outside can be very confusing. Obviously, Trump wants to cut spending in a massive way so why is he happy about a clean CR that doesn't cut spending?
To get to the next step where some of those rules can be implemented but only if the government is open.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2025 10:05 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: Vanya at March 15, 2025 09:24 AM (g1h/9)
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That is why it is best to view events from a distance. Every day brings a new world-threatening crisis that is usually resolved within 12 hours, just in time for the next crisis.
This is a great time of year to give up news, or at least have "fasts" from it and take time to walk, pray, and enjoy other hobbies.
The simple rule is this: if legacy media is screaming, we're winning.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2025 10:05 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: From about That Time at March 15, 2025 10:06 AM (n4GiU)
Posted by: Piper at March 15, 2025 10:06 AM (2N3ca)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2025 10:09 AM (KV6ve)
I clicked the circled i and it said Caution, Red Flag Warning.
Well, that filled in the gaps.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2025 10:11 AM (KV6ve)
Trump has said that "South Africa is confiscating land" and that "certain classes of people" are being treated "very badly."
By REUTERS, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
MARCH 14, 2025 23:00
Updated: MARCH 15, 2025 08:45
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I have a list here...
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2025 10:11 AM (RIvkX)
American schools do not teach of how Communism has failed in every culture since the Paris Commune.
If I do not drive next year, I think I will teach that at local home-school networks.
In the mean time I want punishment for tyrannical judges to only come from the list of methods used by the Left. Like in Katyn Forest in Poland by Vasily Blokhin, chief executioner for the NKVD, Winnie Mandela's necklacing in South Africa, Pol Pot's killing fields in Cambodia, and organ harvesting in Red China.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 15, 2025 10:11 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 15, 2025 10:12 AM (XzOQJ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 15, 2025 10:13 AM (u82oZ)
That's impoundment.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2025 09:59 AM (LkLld)
I see this with some organizations I belong to; the idea that an approved annual budget has already authorized and approved every expenditure within said budget.
Call me a old stick in the mud, but to me a budget is a spending and revenue plan, not spending approvals. If your Civic Association, from it's expected membership dues, budgeted $500 for the Independence Day Parade, then any and every purchase (balloons, decorations, supplies, etc.) still needs approval before undertaking that expense.
I get pushback on that from the more liberal / libertarian board members who think that the approved budget amount is a license to spend any and all up to that amount. Only spending over the budget amount needs its own approvals.
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 15, 2025 10:14 AM (Aqu9a)
We live in wild times.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 15, 2025 10:14 AM (Tb9XS)
May the rescue of the stranded astronauts, no government shutdown thanks to 10 Dems, and Spring boost your mood to joyfulness.
However, not irrational ebullience. Can't have that.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 15, 2025 10:15 AM (u82oZ)
Correct. Not much else you can do with communists except defeat them and kill enough of them until they slinker away. They always reappear though, so rinse and repeat. Like a virus, they are always around and lurking.
Posted by: Zombie Rafal Gan-Ganowicz at March 15, 2025 10:15 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 15, 2025 10:12 AM (XzOQJ)
Is it possible this "aide's" name is something like... oh, I don't know, Bunter Hiden?
Posted by: BurtTC at March 15, 2025 10:16 AM (FUQcl)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2025 09:46 AM (omVj0)
Started my first real job and got married.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 15, 2025 10:17 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 15, 2025 10:17 AM (Tb9XS)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 15, 2025 10:12 AM (XzOQJ)
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Autopens are considered legal signatures. When I worked for a state senator, one of my jobs was to gather up all the certificates and such, get a wet signature authorizing the autopen use, and then taking it over to the offices where they would run them off. It's pretty cool to watch.
They key is that there was a verification chain. We had to log in what was being signed. This notion that someone's just running the machine on their own is an actual scandal. Using autopens to grind out Eagle Scout commendations is not.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2025 10:17 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2025 10:02 AM (ZOv7s)
I am not running down Franco, I am just hoping for an exemplar who's effect lasts longer than a single generation past his death.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 15, 2025 10:18 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 15, 2025 10:14 AM (Aqu9a)
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Each expense has to be examined to be sure it is charged to the right account.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2025 10:19 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2025 09:53 AM (RIvkX)
Well that was certainly before the Leningrad Cowboys.
Posted by: Eromero at March 15, 2025 10:19 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 15, 2025 10:11 AM (u82oZ)
It's not just that schools aren't teaching that communism's bad, so don't do communism, mkay? It's that a whole generation is being raised in a country, where the older folks keep talking about how bad THOSE people are... while their own nation is going around the globe, killing people wherever it wants, overthrowing governments wherever it can... and spending gazillions of dollars it doesn't have.
If you want to convince kids THOSE people are the bad guys, you sorta have to stop being the bad guys yourself.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 15, 2025 10:19 AM (FUQcl)
Posted by: Zombie Rafal Gan-Ganowicz at March 15, 2025 10:15 AM (R/m4+)
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It is a heresy, and actual religion, which is why the fall of the Soviet Union did not end it. It is a perversion of Christian charity combined with envy and wrath to create endless oppression and strife, and you cannot use facts and reason to combat it. They can be helpful, but it's clear that its most dedicated adherents don't care.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2025 10:20 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 15, 2025 10:20 AM (dR6yv)
Posted by: Dean Martin at March 15, 2025 10:20 AM (dg+HA)
The age old problem in the federal government about who really runs the place. Congress thinks every dollar they appropriate must be spent by the Executive without question and has defeated every suggestion of a line item veto.
You get a business guy like Trump in the Oval Office and he wants to cut wasteful and moronic spending but he has to use the limited tools he has. Democrats impeached Trump in his first term claiming he paused and conditioned spending billions to Ukraine.
Democrats are having a meltdown about Schumer and handful of others caving on a clean CR. Does anyone really think those same Democrat senators would've voted for a CR with big spending cuts?
Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2025 10:21 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: Kindltot at March 15, 2025 10:18 AM (D7oie)
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That's not fair, either. He brought peace and prosperity to Spain for three generations, not just one. In fact, Spain is still in better shape than it was before he took over, and the battle there is not yet lost. It never is when God is with you.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2025 10:22 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: JackStraw
Sounds like a category on PornHub.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 15, 2025 10:17 AM (Tb9XS)
I thought it was what Lindsay Graham talks about wanting to do to brown people all over the globe.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 15, 2025 10:22 AM (FUQcl)
Posted by: BurtTC at March 15, 2025 10:22 AM (FUQcl)
Sorry. Not brown people. Brown men.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 15, 2025 10:22 AM (FUQcl)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 15, 2025 10:24 AM (Tb9XS)
Posted by: Kindltot at March 15, 2025 10:18 AM (D7oie)
Gen. Suharto provides a far more instructive example.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2025 09:46 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2025 10:24 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: That's impoundment at March 15, 2025 10:24 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2025 10:25 AM (LkLld)
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That is so well said.
Posted by: Derak at March 15, 2025 10:26 AM (5GJ8D)
this is correct. originally called Materialism.
Posted by: Black Orchid at March 15, 2025 10:28 AM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 15, 2025 10:28 AM (xOnCy)
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at March 15, 2025 10:28 AM (hKoQL)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
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Started my first real job and got married.
Posted by: rhennigantx
Me and 17 other Americans were guarding, maintaining, and controlling the release of ten nuclear air defense interceptors in a German Air Force brigade up on the North Sea.
Posted by: BifBewalski at March 15, 2025 10:29 AM (MsrgL)
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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WaPo? It's a misdirection play. It's not the Politburo making decisions it's Dufas Aide, look at him, look at them, see them scurry.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2025 10:29 AM (KV6ve)
Just because an expense was anticipated in the annual budget does not give it pre-approved spending authorization when the budget was approved in October prior year.
But, small treehouse clubhouse type organization vs leviathan federal gubmint. I get it. Scale makes a difference. That and we can't just print and tax our own script.
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 15, 2025 10:30 AM (Aqu9a)
It'd be interesting to hear his answer to that question.
As would the names of who else was using this device in the President's name.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2025 10:30 AM (Q4IgG)
Me and 17 other Americans were guarding, maintaining, and controlling the release of ten nuclear air defense interceptors in a German Air Force brigade up on the North Sea.
Posted by: BifBewalski
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Thank you for doing the job. I always read with interest your, ah, escapades up there.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2025 10:31 AM (KV6ve)
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That is so well said.
Posted by: Derak at March 15, 2025 10:26 AM (5GJ8D)
Sure sure sure, but as with ANY religion, you can go around pointing out the sins of the other guy, but if you're ignoring the redwood trees in your eyeball, and NOT giving the kids any reason to believe you're not just as bad, if not worse than the other guys, they're not going to listen to you.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 15, 2025 10:31 AM (FUQcl)
Can't drain the swamp without somewhere to put the water.
Posted by: DaveA at March 15, 2025 10:31 AM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Eromero at March 15, 2025 10:33 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 15, 2025 10:34 AM (mH6SG)
Just finished my first cup of coffee and trying to decide what to make for breakfast.
Supposed to get a call from nurse navigator this week to confirm everything in place so I can get call from scheduler to get a date for hip surgery. Charity coming to take away excess furniture this week. Starting to feel a bit more confident I can handle this except I will probably have to wait 3-4 mos so plenty of time to work up a great deal of anxiety.
Sigh. Being 29 is challenging.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 15, 2025 10:35 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
I thought we weren't going to be talking about me anymore.
Posted by: Hunter (new laptop) at March 15, 2025 10:36 AM (byeIv)
Can't drain the swamp without somewhere to put the water.
Posted by: DaveA at March 15, 2025 10:31 AM (FhXTo)
Maybe the Executive (Trump) could buy some magic beans with the appropriated but unnecessary-to-run-the-gubmint funds, if forced to spend the money.
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 15, 2025 10:36 AM (Aqu9a)
Something that frustrates me, reading; he, him, it, they and the like in an interesting response. Unless one is a speed reader it leaves on clueless. Tracing it back using keyword gives one a 50/50 chance of chasing it down and whether one is successful or not he is now behind in keeping up.
It's frustrating.
Thank you for you patience.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2025 10:37 AM (KV6ve)
Posted by: BurtTC at March 15, 2025 10:31 AM (FUQcl)
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The problem is not that orthodox Christianity was too harsh, it was that it was too nice. All these people trying to soften communism, claim that they want the same things, when in fact they are setting themselves up for destruction.
Communism was beaten back because it was forcefully confronted, both physically and rhetorically. In the 1990s, that went away and "nice" Christianity took over. And failed. All the major Protestant denominations collapsed in some form. The Catholic Church is under siege from without and within.
The path forward is to call out sin using clear language. "Sex workers" are whores. Actors are prostitutes. Women who engage in unmarried sex are sluts. Homosexuality is decadent and depraved. No one is born gay. The children of gay couples are sold into slavery.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2025 10:38 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Jordan61
Casa Sock Monkey has about 3 inches and coming down hard. Pales in comparison to some of the weather our fellow morons are dealing with.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * scio te ipsum at March 15, 2025 10:39 AM (QGfD2)
Living in Corpus Christi, TX where it set a record for the number of consecutive days of temperature over 100.
Not a single mention of global warming anywhere, though.
Posted by: one hour sober at March 15, 2025 10:39 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 15, 2025 10:39 AM (gbOdA)
Sigh. Being 29 is challenging.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)
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Waiting is the worst part.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2025 10:40 AM (KV6ve)
Nothing will happen.
Posted by: The person who always says that at March 15, 2025 10:40 AM (dg+HA)
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Remember the first week? "I don't even know what I'm signing" statement at the EO signing that was accidentally broadcast?
It's possible he was giving away the entire thing at that moment and none of the documents were real.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - single moms, your children are a detriment, not a benefit at March 15, 2025 10:40 AM (V0m8t)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 15, 2025 10:36 AM (Aqu9a)
I find it amusing that people think there isn't going to be some judge somewhere who's going to tell Trump and Elon how to spend the money, and then we're all going to be back to the "hey, let's get the Supreme Court to overrule that bad judge."
Yeah, that'll work. This time. Surely it must.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 15, 2025 10:40 AM (FUQcl)
Sigh. Being 29 is challenging.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)
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Waiting is the worst part.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2025 10:40 AM (KV6ve)
Yup, the waiting is the hardest part.
Posted by: Zombie Tom Petty at March 15, 2025 10:41 AM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2025 10:38 AM (ZOv7s)
Sure. Let's point out sin: Your government is evil, and it must STOP KILLING PEOPLE ALL OVER THE GLOBE.
Let's start there.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 15, 2025 10:42 AM (FUQcl)
Thank you for doing the job. I always read with interest your, ah, escapades up there.
Posted by: Braenyard
You're welcome! While the actual job was a lot of fun, the duty was applicable to crocodillian oral stimulation of one's nether region happy fun zone while getting a good 20cm stretching of your output canal by the Army's trademarked brand of BOHICA.
Got me from E-1 to CW-2 in eight years, paid for both my degrees, qualified me for the career i have today, and best of all...introduced me to Smash in 1983. This October will be 43, so it was all worth it.
Posted by: BifBewalski at March 15, 2025 10:42 AM (MsrgL)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 15, 2025 10:43 AM (bVN1m)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 15, 2025 10:43 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
The ONLY wet signature of Bribem's WHOLE four years is the notice that he wasn't running again.
They have no authorizations or verification chains.
Bribem can't remember signing stuff.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2025 10:44 AM (cVadK)
In the end, the failure to create something lasting is not success, it is not to be celebrated, it just needs to be reviewed for what works and what failed.
We defeated Spain and took Spain's colonies, a huge amount of the problems Spain faced was that it depended so heavily on the colonial administration of its colonies, and its vision of the world was colored by its traditions of being a world-striding empire, and the poverty and third world status was considered part of the cost of supporting the empire. When the colonies went away, so did the money and the pretext for the misery. There were two paths out, reactionary movements that turned inwards to rekindle the traditions of empire (and invade North Africa, natch) or turn outwards for a new role (and anarchism or the Comintern, natch). The first 30 years of the 20th century was about that struggle, politically. Franco's main success was being the best military leader, not the most devoted political player. Just beating an enemy doesn't work you have to win them over too. Franco and Pinochet did not manage that by and large.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 15, 2025 10:45 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2025 09:00 AM (RIvkX)
Unlike fruitcake, hamentashen looks delicious. Alas, I live in a hamentashen desert, and will likely never have the opportunity to try it.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 15, 2025 09:11 AM (OX9vb)
You can get just about anything shipped via online order these days - Zingerman's and Zabar's come to mind - although some sources will be more expensive than others. Is your birthday any time soon?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 15, 2025 10:45 AM (Vqx30)
Some damage but no fatalities here; however, two or three people were killed elsewhere in MO. Spring is officially upon us.
Posted by: Dr. T at March 15, 2025 10:46 AM (lHPJf)
Yeah, that'll work. This time. Surely it must.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 15, 2025 10:40 AM (FUQcl)
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The whole judicial thing will collapse of its own weight simply because the rulings are all over the place and completely contradictory.
You can't fire people ever. Can't cut spending ever. Can't reassign personnel. Okay, your honors, how about you just run the country for a while?
They know it, they're just throwing sand in the gears. launching spoiling attacks because that's all they have. The judge trying to "order" Hegseth to take the trannies back actually said that because Milley had a higher rank, his opinion carries more weight than the SecDef.
Oooh, apply that precedent across the whole government!
You can't and they won't. They know it. The debate within SCOTUS is whether smush it outright or let the absurdity play itself out with binding precedent. Either way we win, they lose.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2025 10:46 AM (ZOv7s)
Yeah, that'll work. This time. Surely it must.
Posted by: BurtTC at
I find it amusing that people don't notice that Trump isn't doing any of the things the black robe tyrants are ordering him to do. Other people are freaking about the judicial tyranny but Trump isn't. He's just continuing to do or do not as he pleases and let the judges shriek.
And I agree... The Supreme Court won't do jack shit.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 15, 2025 10:47 AM (4XwPj)
Posted by: Back in the day at March 15, 2025 10:48 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: BifBewalski at March 15, 2025 10:48 AM (MsrgL)
This is controversial but in short, just because Congress raised the money, the Executive doesn't have to spend it. This is probably why the Dems are so mad right now.
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But that's exactly what the judges that have ordered him to release funds have said.
That the "he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed" swallows the entirety of Article II because it mandates that the President must spend all the money exactly as the Legislative directs.
Rather than "faithfully executed" it is now "faithfully administered." That the President works for Congress.
Which has never been the interpretation, ever, in 240 years.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 15, 2025 10:48 AM (NwfFc)
I remember when Spain...and Portugal each owned half the world...some Pope said so.
Posted by: BignJames at March 15, 2025 10:49 AM (Yj6Os)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2025 10:49 AM (MqtqS)
Posted by: Kindltot at March 15, 2025 10:45 AM (D7oie)
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No victory is permanent, save that of God. Humanity constantly cycles between periods of decadence and evil, and then turns to faith. For a time. And then the old ways come back. Goes waaay back and isn't going to stop.
Each generation has to step up and do their part. Don't get pissed because grandma and grandpa didn't solve all your problems before you were born.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2025 10:50 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 15, 2025 10:50 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2025 10:38 AM (ZOv7s)
Sure. Let's point out sin: Your government is evil, and it must STOP KILLING PEOPLE ALL OVER THE GLOBE.
Let's start there.
Posted by: BurtTC
Starting with babies at home.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2025 10:50 AM (cVadK)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2025 09:53 AM (RIvkX)
On actual vinyl or bone records?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at March 15, 2025 10:51 AM (pIfcn)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2025 08:37 AM (RIvkX)
Somewhat similarly (I laugh every time):
Aelfred The Great
@aelfred_D
3 Apr 2018
The receptionist has quit and we’re about 15 minutes from the Siege of Leningrad in here.
Posted by: m at March 15, 2025 10:51 AM (CQE5S)
Without much notice the DEI lawsuit collapsed last night when an appeals court said nah, we don't have the authority to stop Trump.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2025 10:52 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2025 10:49 AM (MqtqS)
His place or yours? I'm close-ish to Mike.
Posted by: BignJames at March 15, 2025 10:52 AM (Yj6Os)
The judges have no authority over the executive, regardless what they think.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2025 10:52 AM (cVadK)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2025 10:52 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Eromero at March 15, 2025 10:33 AM (LHPAg)
dude, the commies aren't in Russia anymore, at least the ones with dachas.
The commies with dachas live here now.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 15, 2025 10:52 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: BurtTC
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It helps if the teachers aren't commie faggots.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2025 10:53 AM (KV6ve)
And I agree... The Supreme Court won't do jack shit.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 15, 2025 10:47 AM (4XwPj)
So far though, their biggest accomplishment is getting cuts on paper. Honestly, I don't know how many of the "fired" people in the federal government are no longer getting paid. That they're actually fired and gone.
Is anyone tracking that?
We know this CR basically funded all the programs that have supposedly been cut. And it remains to be seen whether they will stop spending their allocations. Including, most glaringly, USAID. Are they really no longer doing all the things they were doing before?
I'd sure like to know.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 15, 2025 10:54 AM (ie/z9)
By saying that the President must do as Congress directs via a law, they are saying, for example, Congress can pass a law that the President cannot pardon anyone.
Or that the President can only serve 2 years.
That the President be a black woman.
All of those would be mandatory--and binding on the President--if their interpretation is correct.
"But! But! That would be unconstitutional!"
Yes, and so are all the laws that are attempting to limit Trump's power and actions ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 15, 2025 10:54 AM (NwfFc)
The same fundamental problem(s) exist in the political arena too. The political issues that plague the capitol city can't be remedied with politics... run by corrupt politicians.
I think Trump kinda' sees this and is working outside the political framework with DOGE. It's pissing off all the right people, so he might be onto something.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2025 10:55 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2025 10:55 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2025 10:53 AM (KV6ve)
Sure, but your kids are seeing your government kill people all over the globe.
The teachers wouldn't be able to SELL an abstract communist idea to them, if it wasn't so damned obvious our own government are the REAL bad guys.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 15, 2025 10:56 AM (ie/z9)
DEMS IN DISARRAY: Van Jones says there’s a "volcanic eruption of outrage” from Democrats at Chuck Schumer:
"I've never seen this level of volcanic anger at a Democrat, ever."
"There's an emotional need to stop Donald Trump and Elon Musk from running over this party. And I think Chuck Schumer has radically misread the room."
Let them fight.
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And on top of that, the sumbitch is Jewish! Kind of!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 15, 2025 10:57 AM (L/fGl)
Snipers.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2025 10:58 AM (cVadK)
Posted by: BignJames at March 15, 2025 10:59 AM (Yj6Os)
I've sold my house and am buying a new place in Galveston County. I think it's got enough room for a mini mome. We'll see. Email if you're interested. Link in nic.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at March 15, 2025 10:59 AM (iZEhM)
That's hitting below the belt, Canada.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 15, 2025 10:59 AM (w29ZS)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2025 10:38 AM (ZOv7s)
Sure. Let's point out sin: Your government is evil, and it must STOP KILLING PEOPLE ALL OVER THE GLOBE.
Let's start there.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 15, 2025 10:42 AM (FUQcl)
Bluebell the hen would like to point out that these sick bastards also murdered tens of millions of her cousins in recent months.
Why do filthy commies hate birds so much?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 15, 2025 10:59 AM (Vqx30)
"I've never seen this level of volcanic anger at a Democrat, ever."
"There's an emotional need to stop Donald Trump and Elon Musk from running over this party. And I think Chuck Schumer has radically misread the room."
Let them fight.
The rest of the dims are the ones that have misread the room. This is what the country voted for.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2025 11:01 AM (cVadK)
Posted by: Jewells45fuckcancer at March 15, 2025 11:01 AM (iF0sF)
Trump isn't going to fund anything he has ended. Trump isn't GOPe. He cut it, it stays cut. So the CR funds it. So? Trump will not give those funds to those programs that he has eliminated. And show me the judge that can force the President of the United States to keep paying people who were fired. Trump is a business man and he is not going to play that game. He knows that this is for all the marbles. Demoncrats are playing to win. Trump is playing for keeps. And he is refusing to lose.
I would bet on Trump.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 15, 2025 11:01 AM (4XwPj)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2025 10:55 AM (Q4IgG)
I think it helps Trump immensely that the Democrat Party is run by idiots. It also helps that the faces of corporate media are complete imbeciles, but the real enemy is the oligarch class, and their henchmen inside the executive agencies.
So yeah, I remain skeptical that this operation is going to work. I hope it does. I'm just not an optimist by nature.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 15, 2025 11:01 AM (ie/z9)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - super straight at March 15, 2025 11:01 AM (2wadn)
Yes.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2025 10:55 AM
So because budget has passed, Trump now has the ability to stop paying out money not already spent by laying people off and closing down offices. USAID is shut down. The stupid judge was only talking about past bills for "service".Leases are being canceled. Contracts being legally canceled going forward.
Keep the faith. It is happening.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 15, 2025 11:02 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2025 11:01 AM (cVadK)
Van's talking about the 5 or 6 people in his circle.
Posted by: BignJames at March 15, 2025 11:03 AM (Yj6Os)
President Donald J. Trump@POTUS
"Today the fugitive leader of ISIS in Iraq was killed. He was relentlessly hunted down by our intrepid warfighters. His miserable life was terminated, along with another member of ISIS, in coordination with the Iraqi Government and the Kurdish Regional Government. PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH!" –President Donald J. Trump
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 15, 2025 11:03 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 15, 2025 11:05 AM (mH6SG)
Trump isn't going to fund anything he has ended. Trump isn't GOPe. He cut it, it stays cut. So the CR funds it. So? Trump will not give those funds to those programs that he has eliminated. And show me the judge that can force the President of the United States to keep paying people who were fired. Trump is a business man and he is not going to play that game. He knows that this is for all the marbles. Demoncrats are playing to win. Trump is playing for keeps. And he is refusing to lose.
I would bet on Trump.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 15, 2025 11:01 AM (4XwPj)
Last time Trump was in office he ordered people to do stuff... and they prided themselves on ignoring Trump.
So far, we've seen the cuts on paper. I'd like to see proof those cuts stay cut.
You can believe in Trump. I need to see results.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 15, 2025 11:05 AM (ie/z9)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2025 10:50 AM (ZOv7s)
OK I will concede. "We are trying as hard as we can" and that is a good enough excuse to explain why we cannot do better.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 15, 2025 11:05 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 15, 2025 11:05 AM (t/2Uw)
That only the Executive can enforce laws. To "execute" the laws is the sole province of the Executive.
And only that when the Executive does enforce the law--and he has full discretion on when--he must do so "faithfully" with said law.
Which, of course, we have seen, the interpretation of what the law says is always debated. With Presidents often issuing EOs saying, "this is how I interpret what the law directs/permits."
But no where in there did it nor does it contemplate that Congress can force the President to execute a law.
Except and only except via impeachment.
And the Courts absolutely, 100% have no fucking say at all as to whether the President must enforce or follow a law.
Impeachment is the sole Constitutional remedy for any acts or inaction of the President.
Oh, and not a one of these suing have standing to force Trump--only Congress.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 15, 2025 11:05 AM (NwfFc)
Ahh, the Emotional Need clause in the Constitution. I'd rather leave it up to watery tarts.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at March 15, 2025 11:06 AM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 15, 2025 11:06 AM (bVN1m)
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The Trump administration while fighting off the judicial overreach should also demand the receipts for the "work" that the NGO's are claiming was "performed."
Show us who, specifically, was paid, and how much, and for what "service" on what date. I'm willing to bet they can't. Or won't.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2025 11:07 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 15, 2025 11:08 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: muldoon at March 15, 2025 11:08 AM (/iMjX)
Keep the faith. It is happening.
It's a bit more complicated and requires financial jiggling and requires more steps including Congress approval but the key change is that it removes the requirement of the Senate needing 60 votes to pass, removes the filibuster and allows for a simple majority to pass bills. Republicans now have a majority in the Senate.
If you go back and look at what Trump talked about on the campaign trail this was a frequent topic.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2025 11:08 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 15, 2025 11:08 AM (6csQL)
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Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at March 15, 2025 11:10 AM (NuKV1)
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Yup. And that was two Obama judges, to boot.
I said at the beginning of last week that we have seen the high-water mark of the judicial "resistance."
The orders were becoming absurd.
Also, as to the "cuts on paper"
Can't give you proof but, have you seen any stories of these charities crowing about finally getting paid?
Any stories of the fired workers triumphantly returning to their workstation?
Nope.
And you can bet, if there were, the media would be trumpeting them.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 15, 2025 11:10 AM (NwfFc)
Show us who, specifically, was paid, and how much, and for what "service" on what date. I'm willing to bet they can't. Or won't.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2025 11:07 AM (Q4IgG)
I think they are doing that with some outright fraud especially the "gold bricks off the Titanic" ones but maybe the strategy is to pick the important battles going forward. This way, the next budget can incorporate the cuts they are making.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 15, 2025 11:12 AM (t/2Uw)
The rest of the dims are the ones that have misread the room. This is what the country voted for.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2025 11:01 AM (cVadK)
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The Dems have whittled down their base to the lunatic fringe -- women who think the "right" to kill their baby is the most sacrosanct of all rights; dudes who dress up as women; terrorist-supporters who want to kill more Jews; criminals who want to commit crimes without consequences; AWFLs who support the surgical mutilation of kids; and NGO parasites that have grown fat on the taxpayer teat.
They must be appeased.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 15, 2025 11:12 AM (hY4dx)
Posted by: BignJames at March 15, 2025 10:52 AM (Yj6Os)
Hendersonville. I am in Saluda for a few days.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2025 11:15 AM (MqtqS)
Exactly.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 15, 2025 11:16 AM (t/2Uw)
Virginia high school runner who whacked opponent over the head held a rally for her "fans" and is now being supported by the local NAACP
https://shorturl.at/gbIv5
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 15, 2025 11:16 AM (L/fGl)
The rest of the dims are the ones that have misread the room. This is what the country voted for.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2025 11:01 AM (cVadK)
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The Dems have whittled down their base to the lunatic fringe -- women who think the "right" to kill their baby is the most sacrosanct of all rights; dudes who dress up as women; terrorist-supporters who want to kill more Jews; criminals who want to commit crimes without consequences; AWFLs who support the surgical mutilation of kids; and NGO parasites that have grown fat on the taxpayer teat.
They must be appeased.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 15, 2025 11:12 AM (hY4dx)
If they blacken the sky with arrows we will fight n the shade.
Posted by: Eromero at March 15, 2025 11:18 AM (LHPAg)
https://tinyurl.com/mr4aj3t6
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2025 11:19 AM (KV6ve)
"Today the fugitive leader of ISIS in Iraq was killed. He was relentlessly hunted down by our intrepid warfighters. His miserable life was terminated, along with another member of ISIS, in coordination with the Iraqi Government and the Kurdish Regional Government. PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH!" –President Donald J. Trump
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 15, 2025 11:03 AM (L/fGl)
Remember, it's Whack-A-Mole. Whack one, and another pops up. Got to keep on whackin'.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2025 11:21 AM (MqtqS)
So far, we've seen the cuts on paper. I'd like to see proof those cuts stay cut.
You can believe in Trump. I need to see results.
Posted by: BurtTC
This isn't "last time". Trump was a political naif. He didn't have people on the inside. He had handlers. Those who were in the know and thought they could steer Trump any direction THEY wanted to go. When he set his heels and said we are going the direction he wanted to go, they stabbed him in the back and spooled up the resistance. They didn't expect Trump to recover from that. Any other politician would have scurried off to a hidey hole to lick his wounds and stay away from the scuffle. Trump isn't a politician. He's a patriot. And he does not like being forced to sit down and do as he is told. He does not like to lose especially when he was cheated. He does not like seeing his beloved country being ruined by greedy bastards who were invested, by the people, to do the peoples business but are only there to get rich.
I put my faith in God alone. But I bet on Trump.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 15, 2025 11:21 AM (4XwPj)
Posted by: BignJames at March 15, 2025 10:52 AM (Yj6Os)
Hendersonville. I am in Saluda for a few days.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2025 11:15 AM (MqtqS)
I have a Navy retiree buddy in Saluda, he and his wife survived the storm.
Posted by: Eromero at March 15, 2025 11:21 AM (LHPAg)
Keep the faith. It is happening.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)
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Clarity, thanks.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2025 11:25 AM (KV6ve)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 15, 2025 11:08 AM (6csQL)
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Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2025 09:05 AM (ZOv7s)
“Marco…get the helicopter.” — Augusto Donald Ramón Pinochet Trump
Posted by: The Osprey, sleeping with a CZ-75BD and a Surefire Flashlight on the nightstand. at March 15, 2025 11:41 AM (MqtqS)
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Dang! Glad to hear you are doing better.
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