The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival, just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Wausau)

1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind, be nice. According to SCOTUS Trolls have rights, ha.
3) No, I repeat NO running with sharp objects.
4) Before having a wonderful Memorial Day Weekendlease bow your heads in a moment of silence and thank those who have sacrificed their lives to protect the greatest country in the world.

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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:
4/12 – Ben Had sent an update on Jim SND. He had surgery to implant a feeding tube, and he hopes to go home soon.
5/6 Update – Jim SND passed away. Please pray for God’s comfort for his wife.
4/14 – Grateful – the range bag lady posted: T-Rex’s mother, MommaRex, was rushed to the hospital over the weekend and was diagnosed with Parkinsons. The family is asking for prayers for God’s strength in dealing with the disease and challenging family situation.
5/1 Update – TRex and Grateful thank the Horde for their prayers for Mamma Rex. She is doing better and is entering a lovely assisted living apartment this weekend. They thank God for His loving ways, and the Horde for all of their prayers.
4/16 – TecumsehTea requested prayers for a grandson, age 15. The grandson had been sick with a fever and headache since 4/13, and took a turn for the worse. He was taken to the ER on 4/16.
5/3 Update – Her grandson is feeling much better. It was a particularly bad spell with Lyme disease. Thank you all for the prayers.
4/22 – FenelonSpoke requested prayers for M, who sometimes fills in as the organist. He has to have vein surgery on his feet, and he needs to have his feet work well to play the organ pedals. Also, prayers for J, who is having a stent put in her heart.
5/10 Update – Thanks so much for the prayers. J’s heart surgery was successful and she is now in rehab. M’s surgery on his foot was successful, as well.
4/23 – Trudy asked for prayers for her husband, Bill, who is having persistent pain that may well be heart-related.
4/26 Update – Trudy and Bill sent their thanks for the prayers. He had suffered a moderate heart attack. He received 3 stents, and came home on 4/26. They are very thankful for their 54 years together, and are delighted that there will be more! They have been truly uplifted by the prayers.
4/25 – MkY sent thanks for the prayers for his wife Judy, and asked for continued prayers. She has stage IV renal cancer. The tumors have shrunk, but not significantly. Every ER visit has been related to pain management, and it has not been going well. Please pray for help with the pain, and for MkY – that he can be strong and steady even though he feels helpless.
5/3 Update – Thanks again for all the prayers. Judy’s tumors are shrinking. The oncologist is “encouraged”, so that bleeds over into Judy’s attitude and is encouraging. The palliative care team believes that most of the pain is not cancer-related, so they have prescribed some alternatives. She now rarely takes the oxycodone.
4/26 – Commissar Hrothgar asked for prayers for his elderly sister-in-law, Elizabeth, and her battle with a persistent foot infection, and for blessings on her church friends that are helping her in so many ways!
4/26 – Bif gave an update on Smash. Her abdominal issues are getting closer to full diagnosis. They are waiting on some specialists. She will probably need some surgery to fix what the MRI radiologists say is a necessary repair. Also, she has cataract surgery coming up.
4/26 – Oddbob requested prayers for his daughter’s MIL, Elaine, who was diagnosed with ALS this week.
4/26 – John the River asked for prayers. His girlfriend and partner of the last 10 years passed away suddenly and without warning on Easter Sunday. He went to her house with dinner and found her on the bedroom floor. Her name was Marsha.
4/26 – L asked for prayers for R, her granddaughter.
4/27 – NemoMeImpuneLacessit would appreciate prayers, for laparoscopy surgery on 4/27.
4/27 – Teresa in Fort Worth sent an update with great news – all of her tumors have shrunk by half! The plan now is to continue on this chemotherapy medication until it stops working; no idea how long that might be. When that does happen, they will look at whether or not surgery can be done. (Right now, it cannot, due to the fact that there are multiple tumors.) The surgeon did say that her response to chemo has been “dramatic”, and he is “cautiously optimistic” that surgery will be an option in the future. Her case and the good response to the medication has been extremely rare – such a blessing.
4/30 – “…” posted that she could use some prayers for her good friend Emm, who is starting five months of chemo, followed hopefully by surgery, then radiation.
5/3 – D asked for prayers for his wife, Susan, who has been having some issues. They went to the hospital on 5/1, and all the signs are pointing to pancreatic cancer. They meet with other doctors on 5/5. Any prayers would be a blessing.
5/14 Update – Susan is having less pain now. Thank you for the prayers.
5/8 - Don Draper asked for prayers for his wife. They lost their Kelpie companion on 5/7 due to complications from lymphoma. His wife is devastated.
5/8 – Backwoods Willy requested prayers for a partner church of theirs in Pakistan. One of the initial strikes by India was very close to the church and the pastor’s home. Ongoing shelling is nearby. Please pray for the Lord’s protection for Pastor S, his family, and his church.
5/10 – Cosda asked for prayers for his wife, who recently had a mole removed that came back as melanoma cancer. She is scheduled for surgery next week, and it looks like that should remove it completely.
5/11 – Ciampino sent his thanks for the prayers. He was injured by a cat scratch that caused a lot more bleeding than he realized was happening. He also ended up with sepsis and septic shock, and in critical condition. He was treated with IV antibiotics, 5 units of blood, and steroids. He also got his first helicopter ride, as he was transferred from one hospital to another for care.
5/14 – Ciampino is home.
5/16 – KT is still under the weather but is recovering slowly.
5/17 – neverenoughcaffiene asked for prayers for her sister-in-law, Jackie, who is looking at dialysis. Her kidneys have been failing for several years is she is getting close based on her numbers. Hopefully new meds will help.
5/17 – B asked for prayers for the Lord to move a bowel food constriction or “kink” out so that his bowels would function properly.
5/17 – Polliwog the ‘Ette had a physical recently, and some test results indicate a need for major changes in diet. She would appreciate prayers for wisdom and discernment in creating a food plan that works for the entire family’s various needs, and the ability to make health choices on a long-term basis.
5/17 – Brother Tim would deeply appreciate prayers. He had a growth on the side of his face for years, and it is scheduled for removal on 6/20. Depending on the biopsy results, they may also need to remove some lymph nodes. This is on top of his housing issues, other health issues, and not enough income.
5/20 – Stateless could use some prayers.

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.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian (ONT Cob Emeritus) at 08:00 AM

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Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at May 24, 2025 08:01 AM (VJc7E)

2
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 24, 2025 08:01 AM (tljrc)

3 Top 10?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2025 08:01 AM (omVj0)

4 Blessings to all the sick and afflicted of the world.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at May 24, 2025 08:02 AM (VJc7E)

5 Yo

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 24, 2025 08:03 AM (Q4IgG)

6 HA! I haven't made a top 5 or 10 in a long while.

Morning, caffeinators! I'm sipping on a 50/50 mix of Aldi Midnight Blend/Cafe Bustelo, a little sweetener, a little oat "milk" w/ caramel flavor added. How about you?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2025 08:03 AM (omVj0)

7 G'morning to you MisHum!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 24, 2025 08:03 AM (O7YUW)

8 Please bow your heads in a moment of silence and thank those who have sacrificed their lives to protect the greatest country in the world.

Amen.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at May 24, 2025 08:04 AM (SfhV1)

9 Good morning and welcome to The Big Beautiful Weekend.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 24, 2025 08:05 AM (dg+HA)

10 Good morning again dear morons with thanks to annie and mh and you for praying

Any updates from Stateless on his family turmoil?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 24, 2025 08:05 AM (RIvkX)

11 Good morning Mis Hum and Horde

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2025 08:06 AM (ypFCm)

12 I shouldn't be up yet

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2025 08:07 AM (ypFCm)

13 G'morning Skip, how are you doing on sleep these days?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 24, 2025 08:07 AM (O7YUW)

14 “ Blessed are those who have regard for the weak;
the Lord delivers them in times of trouble.
The Lord protects and preserves them—
they are counted among the blessed in the land— he does not give them over to the desire of their foes.The Lord sustains them on their sickbed
and restores them from their bed of illness.”

Psalm 41:1-3

Posted by: Marcus T at May 24, 2025 08:07 AM (Fa6e8)

15 Good morning MisHum. Are things thawed out up there yet?

This weekend is brought to you by those who made the ultimate sacrifice so that the greatest country ever may continue to thrive in freedom.

Posted by: fd at May 24, 2025 08:07 AM (vFG9F)

16 Good morning!

Posted by: gp at May 24, 2025 08:08 AM (t8CWH)

17 Films for Becoming a Better Person:

WWII U.S. Army Training Film #2,147
"How to Construct a Field Expedient Slit Trench Using Only Your Bayonet"

Posted by: muldoon at May 24, 2025 08:08 AM (/iMjX)

18 WWII U.S. Army Training Film #2,147
"How to Construct a Field Expedient Slit Trench Using Only Your Bayonet"

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Everything else in life is downstream from this.

Posted by: muldoon at May 24, 2025 08:09 AM (/iMjX)

19 Who knew MisHum would be up and about at 0800?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at May 24, 2025 08:09 AM (hOUT3)

20 Thanks Annie for including Jackie on the list. The new meds haven't helped, her score for kidney function is 16 and the trigger for dialysis is 15. She's now on a very restricted diet where she can only eat certain foods, in the past she could eat most foods in moderation only being careful with high protein items.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 24, 2025 08:09 AM (2NHgQ)

21 Pray for the happy repose of the souls of all the soldiers that died in battle or from their injuries.

The Lord is very merciful and worthy of our trust.

We have a wonderful God. He gives life to the dead.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 24, 2025 08:11 AM (ZmEVT)

22 Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2025 08:11 AM (ZOv7s)

23 3) No, I repeat NO running with sharp objects.

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Bah! I'm old enough to remember when running with a sharp object was considered cutting edge...

Posted by: muldoon at May 24, 2025 08:12 AM (/iMjX)

24 Yes I have been home since the 13th. Thank you for all the prayers and well wishes. I was severely dehydrated (my fault I don't drink fluids enough) and then lost a lot of blood from a scratch that must have hit a major vein. 3 unit of blood and lots of other aqueous stuff.

Today is my last day of oral ant

Posted by: Ciampino - into the blue at May 24, 2025 08:13 AM (sPQoU)

25 ...no matter how you slice it!

Posted by: muldoon at May 24, 2025 08:13 AM (/iMjX)

26 24
Today is my last day of oral antibiotics.

Posted by: Ciampino - into the blue at May 24, 2025 08:13 AM (sPQoU)

Posted by: Ciampino - Thank you Oscar for that glitch at May 24, 2025 08:15 AM (sPQoU)

27 3 unit of blood?

That's a lot of blood, no?

Posted by: dantesed at May 24, 2025 08:15 AM (Oy/m2)

28 3 unit of blood?

That's a lot of blood, no?
Posted by: dantesed at May 24, 2025 08:15 AM (Oy/m2)

It's only a light snack.

Posted by: Vlad Dracul at May 24, 2025 08:17 AM (0eaVi)

29 I would like to ask prayers for my friend, P, and former running mate for township committee. She has AFIB and just got out of the hospital for an overnight stay where they were monitoring her. She is supposed to go on cruise With her husband sometime next week.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 24, 2025 08:18 AM (WpuYq)

30 Questions about top click behind top pic.
Why is a Norwegian Chamber Orchestra playing Romanian music? Isn't Grieg good enough for them?
Why are there Asians in a Norwegian Chamber Orchestra?

Posted by: Keeping Score at May 24, 2025 08:18 AM (G5+As)

31 It should be a beautiful weekend for Memorial weekend festivities. Hubby nec will help sell US flags to support the Knights of Columbus, we'll spiff up the patio for a cookout on Monday after attending the Memorial Day parade in the morning.
God please watch over the souls of all those that have given their lives for our country.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 24, 2025 08:19 AM (2NHgQ)

32 I was severely dehydrated (my fault I don't drink fluids enough)

Posted by: Ciampino - into the blue at May 24, 2025 08:13 AM (sPQoU)

Don't worry, Ace has had that problem too, so we probably won't mock you as much as we do him. Probably.

Posted by: pookysgirl, chugging from a monogrammed water bottle at May 24, 2025 08:20 AM (Wt5PA)

33 I remember the beforetimes, when Memorial Day was a time of remembrance, putting out the flag, but lacked a visceral impact.

Now, it's difficult to take in. I think what makes is hard is the sting of defeat, the sense of failure in Iraq and Afghanistan. Offers for counseling rather than removals from command, followed up by a witch hunt over Covid vaccinations.

I can only imagine how much worse it ie for those who went into combat, were wounded and saw friends die. I had friends die, but at least I wasn't there at that awful moment.

Let us pray to the God of all-healing that we may all find His peace.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2025 08:21 AM (ZOv7s)

34 En mi casa toman Bustelo!

Posted by: Caffiend at May 24, 2025 08:22 AM (G5+As)

35 23
'I'm old enough to remember when running with a sharp object was considered cutting edge...'

You have a point.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 24, 2025 08:22 AM (3wi/L)

36 Yo, Prayer Thread People, on a serious note:

A very dear friend has a son (Tim) that previously successfully battled cancer with extensive chemotherapy some 20 years ago, but now has been living with kidney disease and declining kidney function for several years, which have now progressed to the point were he really needs a kidney transplant.
In a real blessing, he was just approved and placed on the eligibility list for such a transplant, a critical and non-trivial part of the process.
A living kidney donor transplant offers very substantial benefits (as it lasts longer, can be performed as soon as a donor is found, and there is no cost to the donor) over the alternative of long-term dialysis. The donor can be a non-relative located anywhere within the continental USA and donors go on to live full lives with just one kidney. What a blessing such a gift to Tim would be!
Please pray for Tim & share his need for a donor through any social networks you might have. Coordination is managed through the Inova Transplant Center (703/776-8053). More info at https://tinyurl.com/hkmm25nc
His contact email is TimNeedsaKidney01@gmail.com.
TIA-Hrothgar

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at May 24, 2025 08:23 AM (hOUT3)

37 Why are there Asians in a Norwegian Chamber Orchestra?
Posted by: Keeping Score

Same reason they are at Harvard...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at May 24, 2025 08:25 AM (hOUT3)

38 Same reason they are at Harvard...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

They're spies?

Posted by: Undercover Cellist at May 24, 2025 08:27 AM (G5+As)

39 Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at May 24, 2025 08:23 AM (hOUT3)

I hope and will pray he finds a donor. A friend of mine- a pastor- donated a kidney to a rabbi in need and through that they became dear friends, even though she didn't know him before that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 24, 2025 08:27 AM (WpuYq)

40 Got a head cold, at least sinuses are a mess

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2025 08:27 AM (ypFCm)

41 Prayers up for those who have asked us for them;
Prayers up for those who need them but haven't asked us for them;
Prayers up for those that need them but don't know it yet; and
Prayers up for those that pray alone in silence whose petitions are known only to God!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at May 24, 2025 08:27 AM (hOUT3)

42 38 Same reason they are at Harvard...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

They're spies?
Posted by: Undercover Cellist at May 24, 2025 08:27 AM (G5+As)

Come on man, that be like crazy talk...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at May 24, 2025 08:28 AM (hOUT3)

43 Same reason they are at Harvard...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

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Protesting Israel's genocidal destruction of Palestinians?

Posted by: muldoon at May 24, 2025 08:29 AM (/iMjX)

44 39: Thanks Fen!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at May 24, 2025 08:29 AM (hOUT3)

45 Questions about top click behind top pic.
Why is a Norwegian Chamber Orchestra playing Romanian music? Isn't Grieg good enough for them?
Why are there Asians in a Norwegian Chamber Orchestra?

Posted by: Keeping Score at May 24, 2025 08:18 AM (G5+As)

I thought it was a bunch of spastics whose trank kicked in, then wore off.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 24, 2025 08:30 AM (0eaVi)

46 On the positive side, I was pleased to see that the only officer to raise a fuss over the Afghanistan disaster - and who was forced out of the service for it - is now the lead on the board of inquiry into the whole affair.

I also learned that the Secdef is bringing in JAGs who were separated due to do Covid to help flesh out Trump's EO regarding reinstatement. Many of those who "voluntarily" separated did so under pain of a court martial or other threats. Hopefully something will come of it.

I think the military vaccination will be bigger than Agent Orange, because it affected the whole force, and there should in the fullness of time be a monument to those who died because Lloyd Austin wanted a green stop-light chart.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2025 08:30 AM (ZOv7s)

47 I have two Asian Norwegian relatives. My cousin and wife couldn't have children naturally. Adopted one girl from China, one from Viet Nam. They all live in Norway. It's cute to see the Asian girls speaking Norwegian, which is the Heavenly Language, BTW.

Posted by: Norseman at May 24, 2025 08:30 AM (G5+As)

48 Well, Ciampino, before you had to ruin it by explaining yourself, I was going to say I never liked ant, not even the chocolate covered Mexican ones. The ones you got from the playground were even worse!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 24, 2025 08:32 AM (ZVgZ4)

49 Protesting Israel's genocidal destruction of Palestinians?
Posted by: muldoon at May 24, 2025 08:29 AM (/iMjX)

Isn't the term of art:
"poor innocent peaceful starving Palestinian families that just want to reclaim their ancestral lands"?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at May 24, 2025 08:32 AM (hOUT3)

50 Good morning, Horde! I wish you all a blessed weekend, and offer my prayers for the above-listed intentions. Thanks as always to Mis Hum and Annie.

I'm guessing I'm not the first to repost this, but here is one of the most stirring tributes to our fallen heroes that I've ever had the pleasure to read:
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=363653

It happens to have been written by our dearly departed friend, Jim SND. May perpetual light shine upon him.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at May 24, 2025 08:34 AM (gKOeD)

51 48 Well, Ciampino, before you had to ruin it by explaining yourself, I was going to say I never liked ant, not even the chocolate covered Mexican ones. The ones you got from the playground were even worse!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

The red ants have more flavor, but they are a little spicy for some people's taste.

Posted by: Aaron The Aardvark at May 24, 2025 08:35 AM (G5+As)

52
I think the military vaccination will be bigger than Agent Orange, because it affected the whole force, and there should in the fullness of time be a monument to those who died because Lloyd Austin wanted a green stop-light chart.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

To be fair, Lloyd really, really wanted to be able to wear that mashup of a KKK hood and Conehead prosthesis that purportedly was a Coof mask.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 24, 2025 08:35 AM (Tv15w)

53 "poor innocent peaceful starving Palestinian families that just want to reclaim their ancestral lands"?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at May 24, 2025 08:32 AM (hOUT3)

You left out homicidal.

Posted by: dantesed at May 24, 2025 08:36 AM (Oy/m2)

54 32
Very weird experience. I became very weak and only got halfway to my chair (at least another 10-12 small paces) and managed to sit on a small table. Everything was going dim and white, like a mist descending and all I wanted was to lay down - but then there would be trouble getting me up. So I sat with my head on my walking stick, leaning into my daughter until EMT arrived. If she hadn't been there to support me I would have dived face first into the floor.
I actually thought I was going for good and even voiced that as I had trouble getting air. My younger is on oxygen so they put a cannula in my nose from the O2 machine and that helped.

Once a couple years ago, my BP meds kicked in when I guess my BP was a bit low and I had a blackout on my feet, in the kitchen, hanging to the oven and fridge door handles until it ameliorated, but this was a whiteout. Strange.

Posted by: Ciampino - very scary experience at May 24, 2025 08:37 AM (sPQoU)

55 Isn't the term of art:
"poor innocent peaceful starving Palestinian families that just want to reclaim their ancestral lands"?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at May 24, 2025 08:32 AM (hOUT3)
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My favorite misinformation phrase is "Arab Christians," which is a pure lie. No Arabs converted to Christianity under Arab rule. It carried the death penalty.

They are the descendants of the original converts to Christianity, i.e. Jews and Samaritans, maybe a few Romans and Greeks. Their language is a variant of Aramaic and their liturgy uses the original Aramaic language spoken by Jesus at the Last Supper.

But that's a bit inconvenient for everyone else, so we just call them Arabs.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2025 08:37 AM (ZOv7s)

56 50
Thanks for reposting that and please post it again tomorrow!

"Absent Companions and Fallen Comrades!"

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at May 24, 2025 08:38 AM (hOUT3)

57 Prayers for all the horde in need.

And prayers for the souls of all our fallen soldiers. May their sacrifice be looked on favor by the Almighty, and may His Light shine upon them forever.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 24, 2025 08:38 AM (J5RCE)

58 I mentioned reading Kendall v. Stokes from 1838. The Stokes Co. was owed some $160k (in 1838!) from the post office for work. Had to go to Congress, who specifically authorized, via legislation, payment. Jackson's Postmaster General paid like $130k.
So they got a writ of mandamus from the courts for the rest.
Where an injunction says "stop," a mandamus says "do;" both flow from equitable powers of court.
The case is the 1st on the "take care" clause, so in vogue today. The Justices would be horrified at the district court rulings today.

Bottom line: The courts' equitable powers to enforce legislation are severely and strictly limited.
Not only must there be a personal--and not general public--right to the have the act "faithfully" executed, but also there must be no discretion given to the Executive on execution.
Recall: Congress had specifically ordered payment to specific firm--and it was still a tough question whether the discretion of "when" could be infringed by courts.
The current cases are nowhere near that standard.
The injunctions are illegal.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 24, 2025 08:39 AM (9yIvr)

59 Ciampino - very scary experience at May 24, 2025 08:37 AM (sPQoU)

Prayers to you for continued recovery and strength.

Posted by: dantesed at May 24, 2025 08:40 AM (Oy/m2)

60 Ciampino maybe your BO meds need reviewing. There are so many kinds now...

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 24, 2025 08:40 AM (J5RCE)

61 Mis Hum & Annie - Thank you for putting the prayer revival going each week.

Heavenly Father, please hear the prayers of your people. Thank you for granting our petitions - for healing, help, family, friends, and for peace. Please continue to watch over us and protect us from evil.
Amen.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 24, 2025 08:41 AM (7v6oI)

62 Happy Saturday, one and all! I'm heading out in a few minutes to the local urgent care. I sprained my knee back in March and thought I was well on the mend and my body decided "Nope!" So I'm getting things looked at to see if something new is going on or this is just one of the joys of aging.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 24, 2025 08:41 AM (7xrfc)

63 60 Ciampino maybe your BO meds need reviewing. There are so many kinds now...
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport

There are no BO meds. Use my products!

Posted by: Dr. Shannon Klingman at May 24, 2025 08:42 AM (G5+As)

64 The current cases are nowhere near that standard.
The injunctions are illegal.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 24, 2025 08:39 AM (9yIvr)
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On the plus side, they are working hard to demonstrate why it should never be taken seriously again. If they had limited it to a couple of cases, that would be one thing.

But now they're basically creating a new power to micromanage every executive branch decision without even considering standing or the merits of the case. The TROs are automatic, which is unsupportable and unsustainable.

Roberts blew it bigly. His little gambit of letting things work their way through only encouraged leftist whackos and when Trump decides he's had enough, he will simply pick the most egregious, facially absurd case and force a showdown that will make the judges look like total clowns and render them neutered.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2025 08:44 AM (ZOv7s)

65 You left out homicidal.
Posted by: dantesed at May 24, 2025 08:36 AM (Oy/m2)

I hate it when I miss such an apt descriptor!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at May 24, 2025 08:45 AM (hOUT3)

66 56 - you're most welcome, Hrothgar. I will try to repost tomorrow and/or Monday if I'm able.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at May 24, 2025 08:45 AM (gKOeD)

67 Similarly, Barrett's decision to not even participate in a religious freedom appeal shows that she should resign. I'm not one of her haters, but this is egregious, and I think a lot of Catholic are rightfully outraged that she took a dive.

If you can't do the actual job of judging, quit.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2025 08:46 AM (ZOv7s)

68 60 Ciampino maybe your BO meds need reviewing.”

I didn’t know there were BO meds now. Interesting.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 24, 2025 08:47 AM (buOX2)

69 There are no BO meds. Use my products!
Posted by: Dr. Shannon Klingman at May 24, 2025 08:42 AM (G5+As)
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Sure thing- just as soon as you quit talking about your taint stank on every single cable network...

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at May 24, 2025 08:48 AM (gKOeD)

70 64
'when Trump decides he's had enough, he will simply pick the most egregious, facially absurd case and force a showdown'

He needs to do it before his own authority is permanently undermined. Maybe he is waiting until after the 2026 election but that may be too long.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 24, 2025 08:48 AM (3wi/L)

71 Never thought Generac would be a woke company but I guess they are. They fired a long term employee allegedly because he would not use the preferred pronouns of an obvious transgender worker.

I understand the No win position it puts the company but they chose their side. The obvious compromise would require the fired supervisor to just always use its name instead of pronouns. If he continued with using pronouns then it’s insubordination of a simple request. But again they chose their side. The fired guy filed a claim with the EEOC for religious discrimination.

Posted by: polynikes at May 24, 2025 08:48 AM (VofaG)

72 68 60 Ciampino maybe your BO meds need reviewing.”

I didn’t know there were BO meds now. Interesting.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 24, 2025 08:47 AM (buOX2)
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LOL
BP meds.

Posted by: Ciampino - very scary experience at May 24, 2025 08:49 AM (sPQoU)

73 66 56 - you're most welcome, Hrothgar. I will try to repost tomorrow and/or Monday if I'm able.
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at May 24, 2025 08:45 AM (gKOeD)

Thanks and I meant tomorrow and Monday!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at May 24, 2025 08:49 AM (hOUT3)

74 Today we will put up our red, white and blue buntings on the porch. There's 6 hanging ferns out there now and the buntings go on either side of them. Very... southern looking when it's all done. They'll all be up until Labor Day.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 24, 2025 08:51 AM (Q4IgG)

75 Out of all these current cases, (even the illegal Midnight Order by the Supreme Court) about all that _should_* remain after full litigation and briefing is ... maybe 24-48 hours notice--while remaining in detention--for deportation for Alien Enemies Acts removals.

But what's really going to come out of all this is, Trump will have the most powers of any Republican President to run his administration as he sees fit.
Maybe even as much as the typical Democrat President, who all enjoy a compliant and willing bureaucracy.

Had the left not gone so crazy, their judges so over-board, in fighting Trump, they might have preserved some of the old order, limited the damage.
As it flows now, they'll have nothing left to fight President Vance in 2029.

* "should" because we teeter on ACB, whether "being nice" is more important then saving the republic.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 24, 2025 08:52 AM (9yIvr)

76 He needs to do it before his own authority is permanently undermined. Maybe he is waiting until after the 2026 election but that may be too long.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 24, 2025 08:48 AM (3wi/L)
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Well, it's not even four months into his term and things are escalating to the point where we will reach that absurdity very soon.

There is also pushback within the judiciary that they now have to clog their dockets with this nonsense.

Roberts has had multiple chances and blown them, and my sense is that Trump will choose a case where the TRO is literally impossible to pick his final duel.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2025 08:53 AM (ZOv7s)

77 He needs to do it before his own authority is permanently undermined. Maybe he is waiting until after the 2026 election but that may be too long.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 24, 2025 08:48 AM (3wi/L)

He needs to wait until Hegseth has had time to really clean out all the military command ranks and get some actual American patriots in control. Otherwise they and the Democrats could use it as a pretext to stage a coup. I think that’ll take at least 6 months more.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 24, 2025 08:54 AM (buOX2)

78 I don't have any gray wolf updates this week, but there are predators of a different sort active in Colorado.

Here is a case study in how deranged groomers insinuate themselves into families, alienating teens from their parents, demonizing the parents and actually getting law enforcement to stand down when urged by parents to intervene.

https://is.gd/CXrvyr

"LGBT Activist Teacher, Trans Husband House Minor Teen Girl In Colorado Against Mom’s Wishes"

I'd wager this math teacher had been grooming the girl for several years. And family court judges in CO already side preferentially with a transing parent (almost always a mom) against an opposing parent (almost always the dad) even without the controversial new legislation.

The girl is now 18 and firmly on that roller coaster to hell that is transgenderism. Pray that she finds her way somewhere down the line.

Posted by: muldoon at May 24, 2025 08:55 AM (/iMjX)

79 It happens to have been written by our dearly departed friend, Jim SND. May perpetual light shine upon him.
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at May 24, 2025 08:34 AM (gKOeD)

Thank you for that.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 24, 2025 08:55 AM (h7ZuX)

80 Sure thing- just as soon as you quit talking about your taint stank on every single cable network...
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher

I have never used the term "taint" in my ads. Just pits, underboob, thigh folds, butt crack, and feet!

Posted by: Lume Lady at May 24, 2025 08:56 AM (G5+As)

81 I've been up since 4:45am so I need a nap.
Thank you MisHum for the thread.
I am troubled by the complete silence from Stateless. Prayers for the man.

Posted by: Ciampino - he has kitties that love him at May 24, 2025 08:56 AM (sPQoU)

82 I'll say it again.

The term "Gender Affirming Care" is a gross misnomer.. In reality is is "Delusion Validating Abuse".

Posted by: muldoon at May 24, 2025 08:56 AM (/iMjX)

83 Similarly, Barrett's decision to not even participate in a religious freedom appeal shows that she should resign. I'm not one of her haters, but this is egregious, and I think a lot of Catholic are rightfully outraged that she took a dive.

If you can't do the actual job of judging, quit.
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Ginsberg never recused herself from a single abortion case despite being the general counsel for Planned Parenthood.

Sotomeyor (or Kagan?) never recused herself from the Obamacare cases despite significant prior involvement in its passage.
Both of them, IIRC, and also Jackson, have now recently made specific, pointed attacks directed at Trump in non-judicial settings.

Under no standard of honest ethics should any of those 3 be allowed to vote on cases involving Trump.
But they will stay.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 24, 2025 08:59 AM (9yIvr)

84 Only 24 hours until the Book Thread!!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 24, 2025 09:00 AM (0eaVi)

85 79 - sure thing, Dash!

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at May 24, 2025 09:00 AM (gKOeD)

86 Black Cat Weekly e-magazine has sent me the proof of my issue, no. 95, with my short story in it. I caught one typo and let the editor know. It looks good otherwise . . . except that the illustration atop the story depicts the stereotype of a wizard with long white beard, robe, and conical hat, instead of trying for something like my description of my magician. Oh, well. The old pulp writers were probably often just as disappointed in the art work for their stuff too.

The editor said the checks will go out this week.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2025 09:01 AM (omVj0)

87 The editor said the checks will go out this week.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2025 09:01 AM (omVj0)

Suuure.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 24, 2025 09:01 AM (0eaVi)

88 Only 24 hours until the Book Thread!!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 24, 2025 09:00 AM (0eaVi)

I better read some books then.

Posted by: dantesed at May 24, 2025 09:02 AM (Oy/m2)

89 But they will stay.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 24, 2025 08:59 AM (9yIvr)

Actions taken for the "common good" are often very hard for the peasants to understand and appreciate.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at May 24, 2025 09:02 AM (hOUT3)

90 "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God."

-- 2 Corinthians 1:3-4

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 24, 2025 09:03 AM (0sNs1)

91 The editor said the checks will go out this week.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2025 09:01 AM
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Suuure.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 24, 2025

***
They told me payment would be on publication. At least the magazine is weekly and not monthly or quarterly.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2025 09:05 AM (omVj0)

92 The editor said the checks will go out this week.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2025 09:01 AM (omVj0)

Do you mean issue # 195?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at May 24, 2025 09:05 AM (hOUT3)

93 Only 24 hours until the Book Thread!!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 24, 2025 09:00 AM

Is that enough time to get pants cleaned and pressed?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 24, 2025 09:05 AM (0sNs1)

94 They told me payment would be on publication. At least the magazine is weekly and not monthly or quarterly.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2025 09:05 AM (omVj0)

Yeah, but you know it won't come until after the holiday.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 24, 2025 09:07 AM (0eaVi)

95 good morning MisHum, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at May 24, 2025 09:07 AM (rrE7W)

96 Is that enough time to get pants cleaned and pressed?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 24, 2025 09:05 AM (0sNs1)

There's a rack of pants in the corner. Sure, they look like "these pants," but at least you'll be dress code compliant.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 24, 2025 09:09 AM (0eaVi)

97 Staying hydrated Army style.
If you are thirsty, you are dehydrated. Drink water.
If you're pee is yellow, you are dehydrated. Drink water.
If the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, you are dehydrated. Drink water.

Basically you are dehydrated. Drink water.

Prayers for all asking and those needing but not aksing.
My work could use a little. Last week sucked. Sent home early Thursday and when I got there Friday.
Lot of locals work there. We need this place to stay open.
I'm not even sure what the specific issue is at this point.
I'm going to go up there today and make sure they're not tearing out the machines.

Drink water.

Posted by: Reforger at May 24, 2025 09:09 AM (xcIvR)

98 Good morning good people. Prayers out for all - those that have requested them and those whose intentions are known but to God.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 24, 2025 09:10 AM (cYBz/)

99 The editor said the checks will go out this week.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2025 09:01 AM (omVj0)
*
Do you mean issue # 195?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at May 24, 2025

***
That's it. It's not showing on the website yet: https://tinyurl.com/y4vav7af

The editor said it should be up tomorrow.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2025 09:10 AM (omVj0)

100 Morning all.
I now understand the term "unseasonably cold".
I have a different take on public funding for religious charter school case. What if it was a Islamic school? What if they wanted to prohibit girls from attending? What if they wanted to teach the Koran and it's hateful rhetoric? Would you want public funding to go to that?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 24, 2025 09:11 AM (t/2Uw)

101
64 The current cases are nowhere near that standard.
The injunctions are illegal.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 24, 2025 08:39 AM (9yIvr)

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Theme song of district judges: Take it, Groucho!

https://tinyurl.com/yc8ksw3h

Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 24, 2025 09:14 AM (umZfg)

102 Prayers up for all the Horde's intentions. Those asked and unasked.

Posted by: olddog in mo at May 24, 2025 09:14 AM (hoCmQ)

103 Roberts has had multiple chances and blown them, and my sense is that Trump will choose a case where the TRO is literally impossible to pick his final duel.
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The recent Harvard one is pretty close.
The one ordering him not to revoke security clearances is as well.
I thought the one ordering him to keep trannies in the military was going to be it, but the left lost that on appeal.
Dark horse is the student visa revocations.

Courts used to understand they had no power, even in egregious abuse cases, when the questions involved national security and foreign policy.
And severe limits, as only granted by Congress, in immigration.
I mean, how insane is it to say "Harvard has the right to, in effect, issue visas?"
Or, "law firms have a right to a security clearance against the judgment of the Commander in Chief?"

But the courts have gone insane trying to protect the left's power.
These are not close questions of Trump abusing the discretion of the Office--these are egregious usurpations of Executive power by the courts.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 24, 2025 09:14 AM (9yIvr)

104 I have a different take on public funding for religious charter school case. What if it was a Islamic school? What if they wanted to prohibit girls from attending? What if they wanted to teach the Koran and it's hateful rhetoric? Would you want public funding to go to that?

We already have laws against some of those. If you take tax money, you can't discriminate on the basis of sex, race, or religion. It's true that these laws have not been uniformly enforced, e.g. VMI vs Harvard, but we can do better.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 24, 2025 09:16 AM (s8j++)

105 Would you want public funding to go to that?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 24, 2025

I would like for public funding to go to no schools at all, and for the entire public “education” (indoctrination) system to be shut down.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 24, 2025 09:16 AM (buOX2)

106 Here's some well-settled law the courts seem to have forgotten:
If the court usurped power, ought not the President to use his constitutional power to resist it? The late Chief Justice Marshall, in the case of Jonathan Robbins, 5 Wheat. App. 16, says, that in such a case, it is the duty of the President to resist; so says general Hamilton, in Pacificus; and Judge Washington, as to the district court, in 2 Wheat.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 24, 2025 09:17 AM (9yIvr)

107 24 hours to at least crack open the book I haven't started

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2025 09:17 AM (ypFCm)

108 What if it was a Islamic school? What if they wanted to prohibit girls from attending? What if they wanted to teach the Koran and it's hateful rhetoric? Would you want public funding to go to that?

Yes.

Posted by: Abdully McAbdulface, and my 4 brides, who vote as I tell them, or else. at May 24, 2025 09:18 AM (0sNs1)

109 I would like for public funding to go to no schools at all, and for the entire public “education” (indoctrination) system to be shut down.

At which point, the poorer sorts would get no education at all, and would become even more of a drag on society.

The answer is not to get rid of public education, it's to do a better job of it. That would start with competition, i.e. charters and private schools.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 24, 2025 09:18 AM (s8j++)

110 75
'But what's really going to come out of all this is, Trump will have the most powers of any Republican President'

Really? Because I am seeing something else. The pattern is this:
1) Trump takes some action
2) some federal judge-clown declares it illegal
3) slowly the case makes it to SCOTUS and they sometimes rule in Trump's favor
4) if they do, some other judge-clown issues a TRO anyway.
5) SCOTUS ignores the illegal ruling in 4) and 3) repeats.

The outcome of all of this is Trump has to wait in a BMV line over and over for SCOTUS to give him permission to do his job.
Yes, this dissolves any remaining respect you and I have for the judicial branch but in the meantime the bad guys are getting what they want.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 24, 2025 09:19 AM (3wi/L)

111 But the courts have gone insane trying to protect the left's power.
These are not close questions of Trump abusing the discretion of the Office--these are egregious usurpations of Executive power by the courts.

Well put.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 24, 2025 09:19 AM (s8j++)

112 It is the DUTY of the Executive to "defy" the courts, when they act illegally:

We assert, therefore, that judicial encroachment is as liable to question as legislative or executive; and this power in every department to defend itself, and assert its own independence, we contend is the undoubted doctrine of the constitution. Certainly the constitution has assigned limits to the powers of all the departments; and leaves each within its sphere independent. Certainly it is silent as to any such power being vested in either, as would enable it without question, to encroach upon the powers of the others. He cited, to show not only that it was competent for the executive department of the government to resist, but that it was its duty to resist any encroachment by the judiciary: Rose v. Himely, 4 Cranch, 269; 1 Wilson, 407, 410, 411; Federalist, 51, No. 324; 2 Story on the Constitution, 22, 23, 24; 3 Story, 458, 459; Elliot's Debates, Mr. Madison's Speech, 378; Speech of Mr. Ames, 397; 2 Dallas, 410; 5 Wheat. App. 16; Patterson v. United States, 2 Wheat. 226.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 24, 2025 09:20 AM (9yIvr)

113 I see that the X platform has been having a lot of trouble - dropping in and out for 3 days now.
Musk needs to give it some attention.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 24, 2025 09:21 AM (buOX2)

114 We had a referendum on tax monies being used for private schools. My concern was if some Islamist wanted to build a madrasa and collect my tax dollars for this "private, church orientated school."

Everyone knows a madrasa isn't a church, nor a school... other than to train future terrorists.

And there was no clarification about who could use the tax monies for their "school."

It failed anyway... and probably not about the concerns I outlined above.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 24, 2025 09:21 AM (Q4IgG)

115 Please pray for Linda, who is my aunt's sister, and who is receiving treatment for cancer. Pray that she chooses the right option for her healing and recovery. Thank you.

Posted by: huerfano at May 24, 2025 09:22 AM (n2swS)

116 If you give the voucher to parents and let them choose, that is superior to direct funding of a school.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 24, 2025 09:22 AM (t/2Uw)

117 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2025 08:03 AM (omVj0)

Littlest Kidlet loves the Aldi Caramel Macchiato creamer. She's had to move completely to decaf, but the creamer does a lot to make up for the flavor difference.

Inspector actually managed to find her some caramel flavored decaf on line as well. She says it's very good, and he says it wasn't particularly expensive.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 24, 2025 09:23 AM (lFFaq)

118 I would like for public funding to go to no schools at all, and for the entire public “education” (indoctrination) system to be shut down.

Correct. Put the money towards building more prisons and pay a bonus for vasectomies for the poors. A bag of frozen peas and $300 outta do it. You can buy a lotta weed for $300. Snip it in the bud.

Win-win.

Posted by: Abolish Government Schools at May 24, 2025 09:24 AM (R/m4+)

119
Two shows today for Zeus and Rosalind. The first is the all-breed Rio Grande KC show and later in the day is the Turquoise Trail Borzoi Club specialty. Both were Winners yesterday for 3-point major wins and we're hoping that their luck continues. Her Majesty (the Field Marshal) is carefully riding herd on the grooming and presentation of both of them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 24, 2025 09:24 AM (QnmlO)

120 If you give the voucher to parents and let them choose, that is superior to direct funding of a school.

Agreed, as long as the government can prevent the parents from giving the money to loons, e.g. madrasas. Yes, you run the risk that the government will try to limit the list of acceptable schools to leftists, so you'd have to have very clear rules about what constitutes a school, and what things cannot be promulgated there, e.g. Jew hate.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 24, 2025 09:25 AM (s8j++)

121 I have a different take on public funding for religious charter school case. What if it was a Islamic school? What if they wanted to prohibit girls from attending? What if they wanted to teach the Koran and it's hateful rhetoric? Would you want public funding to go to that?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 24, 2025 09:11 AM (t/2Uw)
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The business of prohibiting tax dollars from going to religious education is based on a false premise, that of there being a clear line of separation between religion and government.

If you look at the history, "public" schools regularly provided religious instruction up until the 1940s when the Supreme Court began deconstructing the Constitution.

Part of the confusing comes from the "Blaine Amendments", pushed by James G. Blaine from Maine, which were about preventing CATHOLIC schools from getting Protestant tax dollars. It was blatantly unconstitutional and finally struck down.

But there remains a residual sense parents with true school choice might use the money in a way people disapprove of, which is kind of silly because look at the smoking, sex-pervert dumpster fire that our public schools already are!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2025 09:27 AM (ZOv7s)

122
HM was complaining about having difficulty breathing. I took a look and told her that she's gone from an elevation of 35 feet here at Schloss Hadrian to 5300 feet in Albuquerque. That may explain it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 24, 2025 09:27 AM (QnmlO)

123 I'm in a death struggle with an AI and it's nip and tuck on who will blink first.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 24, 2025 09:27 AM (XV/Pl)

124 Correct. Put the money towards building more prisons and pay a bonus for vasectomies for the poors.

Posted by: Abolish Government Schools at May 24, 2025 09:24 AM (R/m4+)
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This isn't Victorian England. We're in negative population growth already.

And your disdain for poor people is noted.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2025 09:28 AM (ZOv7s)

125 Is that enough time to get pants cleaned and pressed?
Posted by: Duncanthrax

We are pleased to offer One-Hour Martinizing, as well as emergency Hat Blocking services!

Posted by: George Jefferson-Movin' On Up at May 24, 2025 09:28 AM (G5+As)

126 Prayers for all.

Posted by: Mick at May 24, 2025 09:29 AM (HFx9z)

127
"Blaine Amendments", pushed by James G. Blaine

Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine,
Continental liar from the State of Maine.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 24, 2025 09:29 AM (QnmlO)

128 Agreed, as long as the government can prevent the parents from giving the money to loons, e.g. madrasas. Yes, you run the risk that the government will try to limit the list of acceptable schools to leftists, so you'd have to have very clear rules about what constitutes a school, and what things cannot be promulgated there, e.g. Jew hate.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 24, 2025 09:25 AM (s8j++)
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Have you seen what public schools are already teaching. A madrassa would be a significant step up. At least they could read.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2025 09:29 AM (ZOv7s)

129 X is definitely wonky.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 24, 2025 09:29 AM (t/2Uw)

130 Good morning Horde. Prayers for the Horde and their loved ones in need

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 24, 2025 09:30 AM (eDGGN)

131 BTW, the need for madrassas will decline sharply as the illegals are pushed out.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2025 09:30 AM (ZOv7s)

132 Thanks for the dandy Coffee Thread and Prayer Revival, Mis Hum and Annie!

Prayers up for all of God's children.

And may God continue to bless Donald Trump, the U.S.A. and Israel.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 24, 2025 09:30 AM (rxCpr)

133 124
'We're in negative population growth already.

And your disdain for poor people is noted.'

This isn't as clear cut as that. Why should we subsidize a culture that produces criminals and illegitimate children?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 24, 2025 09:33 AM (3wi/L)

134 Lord hear our prayers.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at May 24, 2025 09:36 AM (Uzn0I)

135 123 I'm in a death struggle with an AI and it's nip and tuck on who will blink first.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

--
Oh
Can I get dibs on your stuff?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 24, 2025 09:37 AM (0JWOm)

136 Finished the small coffee pot already, should have made big one today

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2025 09:38 AM (ypFCm)

137
Visiting grave sites Monday.

Please also remember those alive and on active service today.

Posted by: Auspex at May 24, 2025 09:38 AM (j4U/Z)

138 Happy Saturday!
Prayers for the horde.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2025 09:39 AM (F/B4x)

139 So WAPO published an article with a subhead "Jews are questioning were they belong" . It apparently never entered the writers mind that Jews shout belong wherever the want to belong. WAPO is now Storm Front

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 24, 2025 09:40 AM (eDGGN)

140 " I'm in a death struggle with an AI and it's nip and tuck on who will blink first.
Posted by: Thomas Bender"

I have generated some interesting browser history for you.

Posted by: AI at May 24, 2025 09:40 AM (vFG9F)

141 >>>The Best Part of Waking Up is Donald Trump is President

"Hello! It's your favorite President."

--PDT

Posted by: m at May 24, 2025 09:41 AM (CQE5S)

142 This isn't as clear cut as that. Why should we subsidize a culture that produces criminals and illegitimate children?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 24, 2025 09:33 AM (3wi/L)
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Well, because God commands us to, for one thing.

We can also ask why they are in such a position. The de-industrialization of America was a deliberate strategy. So too was the importation of low-wage, low-skill labor designed to break the working class and reduce them to despair.

Maybe let's fix those things before advocating forced sterilization based on income.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2025 09:41 AM (ZOv7s)

143 139
'WAPO published an article with a subhead "Jews are questioning were they belong"'

WAPO wouldn't like the place I think they belong.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 24, 2025 09:41 AM (3wi/L)

144 139 So WAPO published an article with a subhead "Jews are questioning were they belong" . It apparently never entered the writers mind that Jews shout belong wherever the want to belong. WAPO is now Storm Front
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 24, 2025 09:40 AM (eDGGN)

It's worse than that.

The killings of two Israeli Embassy staffers amplify the confusion felt since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks about where Jews belong.

https://archive.is/OC2MM

Posted by: m at May 24, 2025 09:42 AM (CQE5S)

145 "The 17-year-old girl has identified as a boy since the fall and now uses a unisex name. She has been diagnosed with autism, ADHD, an eating disorder, depression, and anxiety, according to medical records provided by her mother. At school, the teen was seeing a counselor, without her mother’s knowledge, who advised the girl to terminate parental notification and encouraged her to participate in LGBT support groups, her mother said.."

***********

By any interpretation this was a troubled, vulnerable child, with significant mental health problems who was preyed upon by a school teacher, and school counselor, adults in positions of trust, and as a result the mother is labeled as abusive for opposing this. Shame. Shame. Shame.

Posted by: muldoon at May 24, 2025 09:42 AM (/iMjX)

146 142
'Well, because God commands us to, for one thing.'

God doesn't command civilizational suicide.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 24, 2025 09:44 AM (3wi/L)

147 Agreed, as long as the government can prevent the parents from giving the money to loons, e.g. madrasas. Yes, you run the risk that the government will try to limit the list of acceptable schools to leftists, so you'd have to have very clear rules about what constitutes a school, and what things cannot be promulgated there, e.g. Jew hate.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 24, 2025 09:25 AM (s8j++)
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Have you seen what public schools are already teaching. A madrassa would be a significant step up. At least they could read.

I figured that would come up. I'm not arguing for some version of the status quo. I'm arguing for a return to the status quo ante (the 60s). Sure, there were problems; you've already cited one, but it was understood that the purpose of the schools was to raise a generation of people with the tools to develop useful skills, as well as teach a love of the country and its tenets. Neither of those currently obtain in today's public schools, but again, that's an argument to do better. I would start with a complete excision of any role for the teacher unions. No contract would be signed with them. Teachers would be free agents, and could be dismissed at will

Posted by: Archimedes at May 24, 2025 09:44 AM (s8j++)

148 Littlest Kidlet loves the Aldi Caramel Macchiato creamer. She's had to move completely to decaf, but the creamer does a lot to make up for the flavor difference.

Inspector actually managed to find her some caramel flavored decaf on line as well. She says it's very good, and he says it wasn't particularly expensive.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 24, 2025

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I'll have to try the Aldi creamer. Most flavored coffees end up tasting rather cloying to me; I'd rather have a black coffee and add some flavoring if I want to.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2025 09:45 AM (omVj0)

149 By any interpretation this was a troubled, vulnerable child, with significant mental health problems who was preyed upon by a school teacher, and school counselor, adults in positions of trust, and as a result the mother is labeled as abusive for opposing this. Shame. Shame. Shame.
Posted by: muldoon at May 24, 2025 09:42 AM (/iMjX)
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Mountains of data prove that the trans thing is the result, not the cause of, other issues such as depression and anxiety.

In my own brush with the agents of the state on this matter, I actually had one of them scream that I was just like her mother, because she never accepted her lesbianism. I said that was terrible, but not really relevant to the subject before us.

She was reassigned shortly after I got a lawyer.

Keep in mind that the "experts" and enforcement people are all clinically insane, projecting their own pathologies on to normal parents.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2025 09:46 AM (ZOv7s)

150
"The 17-year-old girl has identified as a boy since the fall and now uses a unisex name. She has been diagnosed with autism, ADHD, an eating disorder, depression, and anxiety, according to medical records provided by her mother.

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She's got a passel of syndromes.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 24, 2025 09:46 AM (QwK6F)

151 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 24, 2025 09:27 AM (QnmlO)

Yes! She needs to be very careful. Last time Inspector had to go to Albuquerque from Brazoria county he had significant altitude sickness the entire time.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 24, 2025 09:47 AM (lFFaq)

152 >>HM was complaining about having difficulty breathing. I took a look and told her that she's gone from an elevation of 35 feet here at Schloss Hadrian to 5300 feet in Albuquerque. That may explain it.

Oh my, yes! Could also cause headaches and, uh, flatulence. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2025 09:47 AM (F/B4x)

153 God doesn't command civilizational suicide.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 24, 2025 09:44 AM (3wi/L)
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How is care for the poor civilizational suicide? How is refraining from sterilizing them for the "crime" of being broke consistent with Christianity?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2025 09:47 AM (ZOv7s)

154 When I was in public elementary school, late 60s early 70s Catholic kids were let out of school and hour early on Wednesday to walk about a mile to go to a Catholic school for CCD classes. Accommodations can be reached.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 24, 2025 09:48 AM (eDGGN)

155 WAPO, along with the majority of the MSM has been reduced to nothing but shit stirring. And even at that, they suck. It's hardly even propaganda anymore.

But they're not defeated yet.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 24, 2025 09:48 AM (Q4IgG)

156 Muldoon to me it's worse than that, it's pure Cultural Marxism evil.

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2025 09:49 AM (ypFCm)

157 She's got a passel of syndromes.

I was curious about the origin of the word "passel", so looked it up. This is what it said.

a large group of people or things of indeterminate number; a pack.
"a passel of journalists"

Origin: mid 19th century: representing a pronunciation of parcel.

It amuses me that they used journalists as an example here. They are indeed a pack.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 24, 2025 09:49 AM (s8j++)

158 They probably destroyed that young woman's life for years to come if not forever.

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2025 09:50 AM (ypFCm)

159 I figured that would come up. I'm not arguing for some version of the status quo.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 24, 2025 09:44 AM (s8j++)
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The fear of madrassas is not sufficient grounds to sustain the status quo regarding funding. It's like saying we need gun control to keep the "wrong people" (determined by whom?) from obtaining firearms.

There will still be oversight, and it's a known fact that madrassas tend to have other issues besides preaching jihad, clear violations that can be punished on an individual basis. Of course, deporting the illegal migrants will also limit the demand for such places.

I see the good of freeing families to use tax dollars in an open marketplace of (accredited?) schools is better than what we have.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2025 09:50 AM (ZOv7s)

160 123 I'm in a death struggle with an AI and it's nip and tuck on who will blink first.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Static. You fight AI with static electricity. Rub a ballon on your head and zap the damn thing. Instant death.

I build the boards. Static is the biggest fear. We paint everything static proof. Wear anti-static straps. Anti-static overcoats. Have to ground ourselves at each anti-static table. I've spent the last week installing anti-static tiles. 4000 square feet of the damn things.

For all the fear installed by the Terminator franchise it was cool to fing out you only need to zap a terminator with a static charge and they die.

"Give me the ballon in the 4 milliamp range."
"This isn't party central, just what you see buddy."
"Okay. Give me the Uzi 9mm."

Posted by: Reforger at May 24, 2025 09:52 AM (xcIvR)

161 There was an excellent video this morning about how societies reach the point where they accept that it is okay to kill a segment of the population that I want to share but X is down. It is focused on the murder of Jews but the pathway is so relevant to how the Left has treated Conservatives and where we are headed with the acceptance of assassination as justified.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 24, 2025 09:52 AM (t/2Uw)

162 Muldoon to me it's worse than that, it's pure Cultural Marxism evil.
Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2025 09:49 AM (ypFCm)
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Call it by its true name: demonic.

Marxism is a demonic heresy, weaponizing pride and envy, preaching lies about justice and denying God in favor of material pursuits.

That is why the first target of Marxists everywhere and always is the Church.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2025 09:52 AM (ZOv7s)

163 Good morning Horde, prayers offered for all who need them.
I also send prayers of thanks to the wonderful men and women who have served our country.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 24, 2025 09:52 AM (0nHVk)

164 153
I think the last 60 years have established that pouring more money into 'curing' crime and poverty with welfare gets you more crime and poverty. Forcing people to pay for more of that isn't Christian.
But if is for you, use your own money. We'll agree to disagree.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 24, 2025 09:53 AM (3wi/L)

165 154 When I was in public elementary school, late 60s early 70s Catholic kids were let out of school and hour early on Wednesday to walk about a mile to go to a Catholic school for CCD classes. Accommodations can be reached.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

In Brooklyn in 1965-66, we had "Released Time" on Wednesday afternoon and walked about 8 blocks to our church for classes. This was a Norwegian Lutheran Church, and the Catholic children also walked to theirs.

Posted by: Nordisk Tidende at May 24, 2025 09:53 AM (G5+As)

166 39 years ago today I said 'I do.' I had no idea of what was in store for me. The Lord gave me someone who loved me in spite of the stubbornness, the butthead antics, the squirrel panel discussions and the ADHD. He gave me an amazing mother to our children, a wise counselor, a tireless partner who worked hard and someone who could make me laugh. I have no idea why I have been so blessed. Mrs. Sock, growing up a "good little Catholic girl", must have some egregious sin in her past that she is doing penance for. Thank you Lord for this amazing woman.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at May 24, 2025 09:54 AM (Uzn0I)

167 X came back. Here it is:

https://tinyurl.com/yc68psk7

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 24, 2025 09:54 AM (t/2Uw)

168 >>The killings of two Israeli Embassy staffers amplify the confusion felt since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks about where Jews belong.

Wasn't the young man an Christian Israeli citizen?
Whose confusing are we talking about here?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2025 09:54 AM (F/B4x)

169 I think the last 60 years have established that pouring more money into 'curing' crime and poverty with welfare gets you more crime and poverty. Forcing people to pay for more of that isn't Christian.
But if is for you, use your own money. We'll agree to disagree.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 24, 2025 09:53 AM (3wi/L)
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There are many approaches to alleviating poverty. The ones the US has chosen are counterproductive and indefensible, but they are not the only way.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2025 09:54 AM (ZOv7s)

170 A.H. Lloyd can agree with that

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2025 09:55 AM (ypFCm)

171 He needs to do it before his own authority is permanently undermined. Maybe he is waiting until after the 2026 election but that may be too long.
Posted by: Dr. Claw

You don't use it you lose it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 24, 2025 09:55 AM (/lPRQ)

172 Happy anniversary, Sock Monkey - sounds like you both picked a winner

Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2025 09:55 AM (F/B4x)

173 >>How is refraining from sterilizing them for the "crime" of being broke consistent with Christianity?

The same way your distain for the Boomer generation is consistent with Christianity.

(It isn't).

Posted by: one hour sober at May 24, 2025 09:57 AM (Y1sOo)

174 When I was in public elementary school, late 60s early 70s Catholic kids were let out of school and hour early on Wednesday to walk about a mile to go to a Catholic school for CCD classes. Accommodations can be reached.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

In Brooklyn in 1965-66, we had "Released Time" on Wednesday afternoon and walked about 8 blocks to our church for classes. This was a Norwegian Lutheran Church, and the Catholic children also walked to theirs.
Posted by: Nordisk Tidende at May 24, 2025 09:53 AM

Many parts of Utah offer release time for LDS high school students to attend 'Seminary'. The (private) building is often conveniently located next to the high school.

Posted by: Abdully McAbdulface, and my 4 brides, who vote as I tell them, or else. at May 24, 2025 09:58 AM (0sNs1)

175 Speaking of which, there is an interesting trend in Catholic social teaching regarding poverty. Instead of providing aid, the new emphasis is on vocational training, personal finance, and life skills.

That is to say more individualized assistance to help people become independent. There is also a stronger drive to emphasize faith as a tool to this end, that ministries to help the poor should attach equal weight to their salvation rather than just being another agency.

I read about this in my diocesan magazine yesterday. A welcome change.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2025 09:58 AM (ZOv7s)

176 In Brooklyn in 1965-66, we had "Released Time" on Wednesday afternoon and walked about 8 blocks to our church for classes. This was a Norwegian Lutheran Church, and the Catholic children also walked to theirs.
Posted by: Nordisk Tidende at May 24, 2025

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In grammar school I had a couple of classmates who left early on Tuesday and Thursday afternoon for something called "catechism." I had no idea what that was and thought they were getting off easy. Years later I had a look at Mrs. Wolfus No. 2's catechism book from her school days, and realized I'd had it a lot easier.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2025 09:58 AM (omVj0)

177 Lizzy yes, he is a convert

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2025 09:59 AM (ypFCm)

178 161
'It is focused on the murder of Jews but the pathway is so relevant to how the Left has treated Conservatives and where we are headed with the acceptance of assassination as justified.'

I wish the Left knew bullets can travel 2 directions.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 24, 2025 10:00 AM (3wi/L)

179 Sock, congrats to you and Mrs Sock!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 24, 2025 10:00 AM (OTdqV)

180 I find it grossly offensive that I am forced--upon threat of loss of liberty and property, by men with automatic guns--to pay for the education of someone else's child.

There is no proof or otherwise that I benefit directly or even indirectly.

Merely, the entire scheme of extortion is predicated upon some amorphous belief that, somehow, magically, in some way, a generally educated populace benefits everyone.

At best--at best!--it benefits, as to the aggregate, only the corporatist and mercantilist class, providing them docile and barely competent cogs for their voracious industrial machines.

But to praise a system that turns out barely literate drones, who--by all measures--are of at least 50% below-average, as some sort of lofty public necessity and worthy of endless defense and praise?
And for a lifetime of sapping my time and treasure?
Fuck that.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 24, 2025 10:02 AM (9yIvr)

181 169
'There are many approaches to alleviating poverty.'

We may have narrow ground for agreement here.
When charity has a good chance of helping someone, I am for it. When it enables destructive behavior, I'm against it.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 24, 2025 10:03 AM (3wi/L)

182 The same way your distain for the Boomer generation is consistent with Christianity.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 24, 2025 09:57 AM (Y1sOo)
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My discussion of Boomers are about cultural mistakes that were made and what we can learn from them. As much as people want to go back to the 1990s or 1980s, we can't and we need to start seeing those times as a period of continual change that was always moving in a certain direction.

Boomers (and everyone else, for that matter) need to objectively examine how we got where we are so that we can determine what will work better. We are in a unique moment of opportunity, one that we did not expect, and we cannot afford to fumble it away.

To give an obvious example, the old "social liberal/fiscal conservative" thing never worked. Boomer Cons were willing to tolerate social losses for financial victories, and it cost us bigly. It's interesting to see how many nominal Christians still pick on Trump for being imperfect while refusing to acknowledge that this sinning, swaggering blowhard actually did more for the Right to Live movement than any other president.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2025 10:04 AM (ZOv7s)

183 I read about this in my diocesan magazine yesterday. A welcome change.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2025 09:58 AM (ZOv7s)

Welcome indeed. Many crisis pregnancy offices also provide life skills and parenting classes. Something the PPP offices deny their victims as people making good life choices rarely "need" elective abortions.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 24, 2025 10:06 AM (lFFaq)

184 Nice deflect, but you didn't tell me how your visceral hate for an entire class of people based solely on the years they were born, which you've spewed freely here multiple times, is consistent with Christianity.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 24, 2025 10:06 AM (Y1sOo)

185 There is also the inescapable truth that many (if not most) of Trump's most implacable opponents are Boomer Cons. Why is that? It's not just a few isolated Beltway blowhards like Bill Kristol, it shows up in polling as well.

I will point out that there are people who are far more savage than I am, and people may be conflating me with them, but my purpose is to analyze, not just throw insults around.

Okay, I do throw insults around, but it's kind of required here.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2025 10:07 AM (ZOv7s)

186 182

'Trump for being imperfect while refusing to acknowledge that this sinning, swaggering blowhard actually did more for the Right to Live movement than any other president.'

Trump is a boomer. Maybe the Boomer generation is a set of good and bad people like every other.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 24, 2025 10:07 AM (3wi/L)

187 My discussion of Boomers are about cultural mistakes that were made and what we can learn from them. As much as people want to go back to the 1990s or 1980s, we can't and we need to start seeing those times as a period of continual change that was always moving in a certain direction.

Boomers (and everyone else, for that matter) need to objectively examine how we got where we are so that we can determine what will work better. We are in a unique moment of opportunity, one that we did not expect, and we cannot afford to fumble it away.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2025 10:04 AM

We got ours, screw you, buddy!

Posted by: Boomers at May 24, 2025 10:08 AM (0sNs1)

188 When I was in public elementary school, late 60s early 70s Catholic kids were let out of school and hour early on Wednesday to walk about a mile to go to a Catholic school for CCD classes. Accommodations can be reached.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

The accommodation made for me was that I got to sit the pew at mass until the rest of the class had taken communion, and then I left last.

Which I didn't mind, Mass was a pleasant quiet time and I was the only Protestant.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 24, 2025 10:08 AM (D7oie)

189 But to praise a system that turns out barely literate drones, who--by all measures--are of at least 50% below-average, as some sort of lofty public necessity and worthy of endless defense and praise?

Who here did that. Be specific.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 24, 2025 10:09 AM (s8j++)

190 185 There is also the inescapable truth that many (if not most) of Trump's most implacable opponents are Boomer Cons. Why is that? It's not just a few isolated Beltway blowhards like Bill Kristol, it shows up in polling as well.”

I think a lot of that is because Trump took a party they thought that they owned away from them. Their ego’s can never forget or forgive that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 24, 2025 10:11 AM (buOX2)

191 Nice deflect, but you didn't tell me how your visceral hate for an entire class of people based solely on the years they were born, which you've spewed freely here multiple times, is consistent with Christianity.
Posted by: one hour sober at May 24, 2025 10:06 AM (Y1sOo)
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Noting disparities between specific demographics and analyzing them is not "hate." That's like pointing out saying that noticing discrepancies between sex and ethnic groups are racist or sexist.

There is a discontinuity between Boomers and the Silent Generation. No one can deny it. The Boomers came of age in a time of unparalleled prosperity, and it is not only sensible but necessary to look at the results of the changes in culture and the economy that resulted.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2025 10:12 AM (ZOv7s)

192 I gave Mrs. Sock a cup of coffee in bed as her anniversary present. She gave me a book, Warnings Unheeded. Fairly typical of the ladt 39 years. I bought a new engine for one of my baby Stihl saws. If I don't get distracted and work hard, I can give her the rebuilt saw this evening. Here's your new chainsaw baby. Get to work.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at May 24, 2025 10:14 AM (Uzn0I)

193 “168 >>The killings of two Israeli Embassy staffers amplify the confusion felt since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks about where Jews belong.”

Where Jews belong? As Cynical Publius noted in the X platform, who wrote that article, Reinhard Heidrich?

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 24, 2025 10:15 AM (buOX2)

194 Trump is a boomer. Maybe the Boomer generation is a set of good and bad people like every other.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 24, 2025 10:07 AM (3wi/L)
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No kidding. Gen X broke heavily to Trump, but many voted against him. I'd wager a large majority of my graduating high school class certainly did.

Yet even then, generations share certain traits and assumptions, just as ethnic groups do, and we should be able to look at these without being accused of bigotry.

There are absolutely many threads within Boomer culture, but it is interesting how they stand out so sharply from what was before and what is coming now. It is also indicative to analyze politics not from pure partisan angles or policy questions, but generational culture.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2025 10:16 AM (ZOv7s)

195 I think it's screaming more like where they want Jews to belong

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2025 10:16 AM (ypFCm)

196 Trump is a boomer. Maybe the Boomer generation is a set of good and bad people like every other.
Posted by: Dr. Claw
This^^^
I am a Boomer. I think a lot of us here are. Back in the day I would have called myself a Classical liberal. I grew up in an area that was completely Democrat yet never agreed from the time I was old enough to vote. But it was really Reagan that wholly converted me. I cannot relate at all to these stupid grey haired idiots standing protesting who knows what and hate being lumped in with them.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 24, 2025 10:20 AM (t/2Uw)

197 To put it another way, if we use a generational lens, the individual scandals, policies, etc. moving from the 1980s to today take on a different look.

Gary Hart was destroyed by having an affair, but Bill Clinton managed to weather it. We can talk about media, but they do are shaped by generational demographics.

Using this lens, we see that the Boomer Hegemony began in 1992 and has now concluded. Prior to that time, the Silent Generation had the demographic upper hand and their values prevailed in terms of what was in movies, entertainment and also politics. But with their decline, Boomer values became preponderant, and it is no accident that P.J. O'Rourke's brand of conservatism - which proudly emphasized having a hot second wife, drinking and mild drug use - became acceptable.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2025 10:20 AM (ZOv7s)

198 Trump is back to being busy with EOs

Restoring Gold Standard Science
Reinvigorating the Nuclear Industrial Base
Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the Department of Energy
Ordering the Reform of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Deploying Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies for National Security

Posted by: Kindltot at May 24, 2025 10:21 AM (D7oie)

199 194
'we should be able to look at these without being accused of bigotry.'

I wouldn't accuse you of bigotry but I think you might be in danger of having a collectivist mindset. IE This set of people over here are Good, as a group.
That set of people over there? Well, they're Bad, as a group.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 24, 2025 10:21 AM (3wi/L)

200 Niid

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 24, 2025 10:21 AM (RIvkX)

201 >>>Maybe the Boomer generation is a set of good and bad people like every other.

Too practical of a concept for the fake Christian to absorb.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 24, 2025 10:21 AM (Y1sOo)

202 I mean, nood

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 24, 2025 10:21 AM (RIvkX)

203 I think a lot of that is because Trump took a party they thought that they owned away from them. Their ego’s can never forget or forgive that.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 24, 2025 10:11 AM (buOX2)
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Rage at Trump breaking their rice bowl spans all generations. Jonah Goldberg was the enfant terrible of Gen X and now he's a hip as a Victorian spinster.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2025 10:22 AM (ZOv7s)

204 I love this from Harvard:
https://tinyurl.com/3k7s86ph

Harvard administrators have challenged the government’s actions in court—arguing that the Trump administration is restricting academic freedom and First Amendment rights.

“The tradeoff put to Harvard and other universities is clear: Allow the Government to micromanage your academic institution or jeopardize the institution’s ability to pursue medical breakthroughs, scientific discoveries, and innovative solutions,” the university’s legal representatives wrote in April, according to The Harvard Crimson.

Since then, federal agencies have continued to announce that they are pausing federal funds to the university.

Translation: Sure, we hate the Joos and actively attack them, but we do some good things too.

And Mussolini made the trains run on time.

Just FYI, I first tried is.gd to shorten the url, and they said GP is "on their blacklist". What a nice way to say "we're censoring you".

Posted by: Archimedes at May 24, 2025 10:22 AM (s8j++)

205 Gen X had it best. We lived the equivalent of about a thousand years of tech advancement during our teen years.
We went from the dewey decimal system to AI so what as a kid took me months to research now I have at my fingertips.
No more long distance phone calls, I talk to my relatives in England for free, and I can see their faces.
From 3 channels of shit on the TV to hundreds of channels of shit. Not sure if that is a good thing though.

Right now is the best times. Not the 50's or 60's. Right now.
We live in awesome times and it's only going to get better.

Now. About those flying cars....

Posted by: Reforger at May 24, 2025 10:22 AM (xcIvR)

206 Posted by: Sock Monkey

**********

Congrats. It sounds like you have decided she's a keeper?

Posted by: muldoon at May 24, 2025 10:22 AM (/iMjX)

207 167 X came back. Here it is:

https://tinyurl.com/yc68psk7
Posted by: Sharon

That is powerfully said
Thank you Sharon

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 24, 2025 10:23 AM (U81Si)

208 At school, the teen was seeing a counselor, without her mother’s knowledge, who advised the girl to terminate parental notification and encouraged her to participate in LGBT support groups, her mother said.."

What I want to do to people like that would probably damn my soul to Perdition. But they'll go with me.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 24, 2025 10:23 AM (7xrfc)

209 Both my parents and my wife’s parents were silent generation. A very depression era mindset, completely different than the boomers.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 24, 2025 10:23 AM (buOX2)

210 Trump is speaking at West Point graduation. Definitely a friendly audience

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 24, 2025 10:24 AM (eDGGN)

211 The culture also produced JD Vance and Dr Ben Carson

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 24, 2025 10:27 AM (AcTAo)

212 "Recent events in Europe, such as the nationwide blackouts in Spain and Portugal, underscore the importance of my Administration’s focus on dispatchable power generation –including nuclear power — over intermittent power. Beginning today, my Administration will reform the NRC, including its structure, personnel, regulations, and basic operations. In so doing, we will produce lasting American dominance in the global nuclear energy market, create tens of thousands of high-paying jobs, and generate American-led prosperity and resilience."

- EO, Reform of the NRC

Posted by: Kindltot at May 24, 2025 10:30 AM (D7oie)

213 X came back. Here it is:

https://tinyurl.com/yc68psk7
Posted by: Sharon

That is powerfully said
Thank you Sharon
Posted by: vmom

Amen. They are God's true children, thus the world hates them. I have been adopted and grafted into that family tree and I praise our Lord's mighty name for that. Thank you Sharon.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at May 24, 2025 10:33 AM (Uzn0I)

214 Finished the second coat of stain on my new section of wood fence, time for some HEB pecan coffee. I had to get out early before the sun came out of the shadow of the house.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2025 10:35 AM (lTGtQ)

215 I had to get out early before the sun came out of the shadow of the house.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Look at you out there working hard. The rest of has have been sitting on our behinds, sipping coffee and pontificating. Enjoy your coffee!

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at May 24, 2025 10:38 AM (Uzn0I)

216 got halfway to my chair (at least another 10-12 small paces
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Ciampo, you got a really big house, or really small paces?
I got a good size house but can still cross any room in four or five paces tops.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 24, 2025 10:43 AM (n4GiU)

217 @135

>>Oh
Can I get dibs on your stuff?

I've won, I've beaten the AI and have made it bow down to my ATHORATAY!!!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 24, 2025 10:46 AM (XV/Pl)

218 @217 Thomas , the AI is just waiting for the proper moment to strike back. At least that's what sci-fi says

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 24, 2025 10:50 AM (eDGGN)

219 In Flanders fields, the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

Posted by: Beverly at May 24, 2025 11:00 AM (Epeb0)

220 Both my parents and my wife’s parents were silent generation. A very depression era mindset, completely different than the boomers.
Posted by: Tom Servo

What happened to the "Greatest Generation"?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 24, 2025 11:16 AM (/lPRQ)

221 Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at May 24, 2025 09:54 AM (Uzn0I)

Lovely tribute! Happy anniversary and God bless you both!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 24, 2025 11:20 AM (hiv4A)

222 The second best part is that Hillary! is not, never has been, and never will be President.

Posted by: iowaan at May 24, 2025 12:09 PM (gNTyC)

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