Bang

Oh,, he's "just about had it".

I guess maybe he'll do something about it that doesn't play right into the obvious con man's hands.

But nah, why start now?

~Bang

We definitely get freezing temps as normal here. 
Or, I should say we used to anyway. Winters used to be a lot colder in the DC area.
I can recall seeing the Potomac totally frozen over in the early 80s, I was working on the Washington Harbor construction, watched it freeze, stay frozen for maybe 2 months, then break up and move on. The ground used to freeze hard for the winter. Not now. 
When i first moved to Calvert the Patuxent would freeze, but not as hard as the Potomac. Ten years ago the little coves and inlets would sheet over, you can see them from the bridge over Solomons.

But not anymore. 
The last five winters or so it seems to me we have a handful of days like this, whereas we used to have PLENTY of days in the 20s during a given winter.

Now it feels like we have an avg. temp closer to 50. 
Purely anecdotal, but I hate cold. If it's under 45, I do not like to be out. I play pickleball (and used to be tennis) outdoors, and we play year round now. I play probably 3-4 times a week and the times i cancel for cold are FAR fewer than th times I go outside. 

~Bang

I'm sure everyone is aware we have two missing SEALS during the boarding of the boat carrying Iranian missile components. 
So, this I am having a hard time wrapping my head around. Not like a conspiracy theory or anything paranoid, just genuine wondering. It seems weird to me that two SEALS are missing this long. 
One fell in during the boarding, and another jumped in to rescue, as is protocol. Neither have been seen since.
SEALS are trained for long periods in the water, it's a warm sea, although they did say it was rough water. No dye packs, no flashers.. it just strikes me weird as to what could have happened to them? I'm sure it's possible they could have drowned, maybe weighed down with equipment? But both of them.. that makes it weird to me. 

Yesterday we struck them again, 4 anti-ship ballistic missiles taken out on the ground.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-targets-houthi-anti-ship-missiles-new-strike-yemen-officials-2024-01-16/

~Bang

They'll be OK. They will go down to the welfare office and suck off the tit of the working American.. er.. I mean "pull themselves up by the bootstraps".

~Bang

They'll just say she's an actor. And even SHE will believe it.
She'd go on Fox and say it, too.

~Bang

8 pizzas.

Just stunning leadership qualities.

~Bang

Neither is shame.

the constant non-stop CRYING. 

The universal terror of everything that shapes every ****ing thing they believe and say.

The entirety of the GOP is one big long episode of Emotionally Stunted Housewives of the Insane Asylum.
 

~Bang

"Say, he hates all those darkies too!"

That's how.

Education does not in any way make a person better if they're a piece of **** to begin with.

~Bang

"Oops that is Russian oil" sort of shoots down the entire pretense of disrupting trade in support of the people of Gaza.
But we will continue to give them their propaganda excuses.

Thankfully, smart people are hitting back.

~Bang

Karma is indeed a **** with a great sense of humor.

~Bang

Scientists have been 'talking' to Tuberville like I 'talk' to telemarketers.

This morning on Twitter "Sammy the Bull" is trending again, because MAGA's law loving people are enamored with a mafia hit man who says nice things about Trump.

Republicans: We must close the border to stop drugs and fentanyl!
Also Republicans: Oh, but let's idolize the mob who sells this stuff on our streets and creates the demand that comes across the border.

**** ALL these people.

~Bang

From the playlist

You know how there are bands that are so critically acclaimed you'd think it was in the Critic's Union contract that you had to praise them, but truthfully most of their stuff was crap?
Television is that for me.
But this is a good one

Excellent song. Just discordant enough.

If you can't dig Morphine, you may need to check with a doctor. If you've never heard them, it's a baritone sax, a bass and a drummer. Unique.

Kill All Hippies

Brownout seems to be nothing but a Black Sabbath cover band, but they come up with some really nifty versions, like this. This is my favorite Black Sabbath song, and they do it great. 

~Fang

Pretty sure the Argentines used Exocet anti-ship missiles in the Falklands war in the 80s, and it resulted in several large British Navy ships going to the bottom or at least severely damaged. Also, even if they were 'peacefully protesting' by attempting to board, destroy or commandeer commercial vessels, the disruption of world trade is justification to use lethal methods of ending the 'protest'.
 

~Bang

11 hours ago, Califan007 The Constipated said:

 

 

You see Comer get all pissed off when he's called out in his committee? Or Jordan stumble around trying to get his committee back on track when he's been called out?

 

The call-outs are having an effect. Plus, the best effect it may be having is invigorating the Dem base, who get really ****ing tired of seeing GOP politicians seemingly skate by with ease and next to no pushback by anyone.

They aren't the ones that need to be convinced by this stuff.
It's the people who blindly support them that can't change no matter how much truth is thrown at their leaders and how much it makes them squirm.

Does Himmler look at all like the Teutonic Aryan elite he said MUST rule the earth? He looks much more like the "weak interbred mud-blood" he tried to eradicate while pushing a doctrine of racial superiority.
The people don't give a **** if the facts aren't on their side. They have an excuse to be themselves. Savage, brutish, ignorant and ultimately murderous.

Much like then, you can sit back and let the truth show itself right to their faces. They do not give a ****. Fluster Jordan all you want. Everyone with a brain knows these "proceedings" are just persecutorial timewasting bull****, including those who support it. They ****ing LOVE IT. 

Honestly, if any of these call outs wanted to have an effect, they should be given with a baseball bat. 

Don't get me wrong, they should keep doing it. But the people who need to change aren't getting the message.. both figuratively and literally. They'll never see it. Our hope is that in November there has not been enough bull**** (crooked or otherwise) involved to sway elections to their side. Because if it does, that guy above is making a comeback.

~Bang

Hate to say it, but you get what you vote for,

And these people voted to let their kids be hungry.

And they will again, and again, and again, and again.

Too bad for the kids, but eventually they are going to have to figure it out on their own.

With any luck, these kids will remember growing up hungry.

~Bang

These call outs are nice, but to be effective the target has to have a sense of shame, an ability to self reflect.

And they don't.

~Bang

Blaire Erskine is a treasure. I am surprised she hasn't been snatched up by TV somewhere.(Has she?)
"We went to get our pit-chers taken with January 6th Santa" ...oh man. She' is GREAT.

~Bang

2 hours ago, Spaceman Spiff said:

 

Whatever happened to chomerics? 

Long ago we ran a mock election battle thread in here..in my pairing I ended up running as a Republican against Chomerics. (I useta be one long ago when i came here.)

Anyway, my entire campaign was to loudly exclaim he was a vampire and offer up all sorts of nonsense reasons as to how i knew it. every issue he tried to discuss I ran ack around to him being a vampire. I had fun. 😀

I don't remember if I won.

Burgold somehow caught himself a ban.. BURGOLD of all people, so he's mad and won't come back. He's over on Twitter now.

~Bang

Everything is transactional.
Of course they expect their stooges to ignore the Constitution.

~Bang

 More alarming that the expected 64% of Republicans believing the fat **** is a person of 'faith', the 10% of Dems and 24% of "independents" who share this idiotic fantasy.

~Bang

1 hour ago, LadySkinsFan said:

 

Asshole!

Hey, if they starve to death, at least they'll die like Americans.
maybe we can build them some camps so they can you know,, concentrate, and starve to death in peace.
we can give them some nice striped PJs or something.

~Bung

Spiff.

Come on.

That was awful. 😂

And i love it!

~Bang

We love America!
**** America!

We love it!

Except **** all of it!

~GOP

As with all of them, rulings they must pay mean absolutely nothing until they actually pay.

And so far, that isn't a good track record for even the most heinous of things.

Her "loss" means nothing until she actually loses anything.

~Bang

They want Taiwan.

Simple as that.

They will go for that and fight anyone who tries to stop them. They believe Taiwan is part of China, and treats it as a wayward child. Once China, always China, and the fact Taiwan provides the microchips that make all of our computers work to the world doesn't hurt. They control more than 60% of the global market, and that is a lot of power.

This is why we are scrambling to build microchip facilities of our own in Ohio and Arizona.

As far as our trade partner goes, if we cut trade ties with them it's we who would suffer. Either we buy from them or we rebuild industry and manufacturing here, and pay the costs for goods that manufacturing here would cost. I very much doubt that will go well, we're used to inexpensive goods, and we're comfortable turning a blind eye as to why they can be so cheap. 

China used to b content with just China. But not so much anymore, and for global dominance, we stand in their way.

~Bang