
Meanwhile, where’s our Churchill on Putin: “Butchery and desolation. The terrible military machine, which we and the rest of the civilized world so foolishly allowed the Nazi gangsters to build up year by year from almost nothing. We cannot stand idle.” – – Churchill
he’s back, unfortunately for some folk, maher that is not fearless leader beating dead horses.
Bill argues that it’s time for the Democrats to break some unwritten rules and find a way to put Barack Obama back in the White House.
as to putie, could it be he’s wagging the dog?
threatening WWIII is definitely a way to get attention.
My isolation from much of the world continues, which is contributing to my utter confusion as to why President Biden is a bad guy and nobody likes him (except me apparently). He is doing a job and getting some things done against the same firefight that President Obama had, gqp obstruction. The Congress is a mess, it deserves the mocking and hate being thrown at President Biden.
remember when the big bad bear gobbled up crimea?
from ABC in 2019:
BTW how much, if any, of our high security info did or is twice impeached disgraceful former guy still giving vlad in payment for financial or election help? remember this reuters story in 2017
BB, my thoughts exactly.
need more folk to say as you do: “The Congress is a mess, it deserves the mocking and hate being thrown at President Biden.”
‘scepting i would focus more on blaming the senate than the house and mitch in particular
Her name is Michelle Obama.
As for Biden’s favorability going down among blacks, it will go back up when he’s standing next to a racist. They’re all around, but the media isn’t spotlighting what the are, for some reason.
I love POTUS Joe
Who would Obama loudly support? There’s your Dem candidate.
Why do we care about poll numbers right now? Aren’t the polls, depending on their outcome, driving anyone’s popularity up or down?
Metaphor of the Week
The Imp of the Perverse is
a metaphor for the urge to do exactly the wrong thing in a given situation for the sole reason that it is possible for wrong to be done. The impulse is compared to an imp (a small demon) which leads an otherwise decent person into mischief.
https://www.dailyitem.com/news/update-3-monkeys-loose-following-crash-in-montour-county/article_12a9b164-7b01-11ec-8e93-b7f073436cb4.html
that monkey story has the makings of a scary “contagion” type movie
or a very funny comedy if the coen bros have anything to do with it
One of my weekend fun things is to check out the NY Times Book section. Lots of books, some more interesting to me than others. A noticeable lack of tell all books about President Biden, his family, his staff or his administration. By this time, four years prior, you could have spent a few hundred dollars in tell all books about the criminal administration, with many more books coming out each year.
speaking of mitch and the thread topic of who’s “losing Blacks”
from chicago trib:
Sturg, BB, got snow?
Well, BB, patd, BiD & Sturg you can include me in the I Like Joe club. Do we get decoder rings and pins?
Anyone else get repeated “server stopped responding” messages? I don’t get these messages on any other websites.
no snow, slight ice, just enough to be obnoxious.
no decoder rings, but great infrastructure stuff……
At last I can say, “Not my circus, not my monkeys”. Where were those damn monks going anyway……
The driver is quoted as saying, “I took ’em to the zoo……we had so much fun, I was taking them to the movies”.
Wasn’t sure how far south the snow got. I saw that Virginia Beach got 5.5 inches and Pinehurst was snow covered & looked like several inches. We got 6-8” earlier in the week and it’s 1 degree F here today. Fair to say winter’s hit the East.
The monkey pandemic movie suggested could work. Maybe get Dustin Hoffman and Renee Russo to star in it. Call it Outbreak or something.
“the truck hauling the monkeys was on its way to a laboratory when the crash occurred”
pogo, naah, more fun than a barrel of them would be for the 3 monkees to be more like the escapees in “o brother where art thou.” perhaps having specially been bred to be super smart and to solve puzzles like unlocking locks. hearing they (and the lesser intelligent with them) were on the way to a testing lab (picture some cosmetic or pain killer company bought the lot cheap – ergo cruel capitalist characters of course would be the bad guys), they employed their new skills and busted out.
ahhh yes, plot of the odyssey plus peta
there was this in 2014
Watch the full documentary on MOTHERBOARD now: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/isla… In this upcoming documentary on Motherboard, our crew goes to Liberia to discover ‘Monkey Island,’ a place solely inhabited by former lab tested chimpanzees. We talk to the locals and meet the scientists involved in the testing facility 25 years ago. Coming soon to Motherboard. This documentary is a Motherboard production, made possible by 20th Century Fox’s Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. http://www.dawnofapes.com. Watch the MOTHERBOARD Shorts ‘Before the Dawn of the Apes’: Spread of Simian Flu: Before the Dawn of the Apes (Year 1): http://bit.ly/1lPc0jY Struggling to Survive: Before the Dawn of the Apes (Year 5): http://bit.ly/1kafvx1 Story of the Gun: Before the Dawn of the Apes (Year 10): http://bit.ly/1olqeJa
pogo – I get that message all the time, which is why I post in tiny bits and then edit. I’m placing the blame on Apple.
Just came back from the grocery store. Many empty shelves, but boxes full of items on the floor. I guess there’s nobody to stock shelves, so you have to dig for what you want want these days.
Run, monkeys, run! No good will come to them at a lab.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/pages/topic/the-first-wave-documentary
Playing free for the next 48 hours, but I don’t want to watch it. I feel like we’re still living it. Maybe in 10 years, if I’m still around and the world is still a thing.
Them monkeys r-u-n o-f-t!
I guess humans have learned nothing about animals and human safety. Leave ‘em alone.
faux feeding the cult
Opinion | How Fox News smeared Biden as calling school board parents ‘domestic terrorists’ – The Washington Post
So Craig, where are they going to go, stay home? then what?
Lets start talking about the person who is really causing the problems right now.
Chuck Schumer, now there is an incompetent leader. He is the reason nothing is getting done.
Jack
Staying home is what worries me most, Jack. Housekeeping: I’m not getting that server error message, not sure how to investigate it but I’ll think on it.
One thing the sfb cult is famous for is illiteracy. From the cult top of head to the bottom of the head they could not spell or edit their way on a two word sentence. The latest is an invite to NOLA for another rant. Read carefully.
Nothing like an S-Ring retreat, and since when is Kellyanne an “Honorable”
jack, someone like amy would be a good replacement. she seems to have a knack for getting folks to work together – even those across the aisle – and that doesn’t appear to be chuck’s strong point.
Craig – got it. The use of “honorable” has been misused before for at least her and possibly a couple others in the cult. Someday we will have a book tracing the various misspellings and use of incorrect honorifics to the various “lawyers”, cult members and staff. A roadmap to idiocy, so to speak. I am sure I heard several of the stupid things which had commonalities over the several years in hell we spent. We do have a few years of Tweets to show what was put out by the head idiot and by others using that twitter id. Something I do not look forward to, but do expect to hit the top of the non-fiction book lists.
since when is Kellyanne an “Honorable” ??
craig, if restricted to distinguishing her from the others listed, perhaps the lister was making a subtle dig & personal assessment acknowledging none of the rest on the invite are honorable in the colloquial sense.
https://www.thebulwark.com/to-crack-open-the-big-2020-election-scheme-start-by-prosecuting-the-fake-electors/
“If state and federal law enforcement authorities convene grand juries to investigate the low-level GOP officials who signed and submitted phony electoral certificates in the 2020 election, the entire conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election could unravel.“
“Law enforcement officials investigating the phony documents, as distinguished from a broader conspiracy, would not have to search for a crime—they already have the smoking guns, documents that are fraudulent on their face. Nor would they need to search for the culprits. The fraudsters signed their names to the phony documents, many of them proudly recording the act on video.“
“Without having to expend any political capital by opening a sweeping investigation targeting Donald Trump or those around him, prosecutors could chip away at the broader conspiracy.“
“A total of 59 individuals from five states signed the documents. “
“Can you imagine what would happen if 59 otherwise respectable burghers were hauled before a grand jury, facing a very real prospect of going to jail? How long do you think it would take for some or all of them to seek plea deals that would keep them out of prison? How quickly will they line up to identify those who told them to do it?“
While January 6th continues to hog the spotlight, this could roll up many Republicans.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/22/politics/sinema-censured-arizona-democratic-party/index.html
“The Arizona Democratic Party’s executive board announced Saturday that it formally censured Arizona Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema for voting to maintain the Senate’s filibuster rules, effectively blocking Democrats’ voting legislation that is a key priority for the party.“
I fully expect her to switch parties and to be welcomed with open arms.
Former NATO Commander Adm. James Stavridis on Putin invasion odds: “It’s like a 60 percent chance the tanks will roll” (MSNBC)
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/22/politics/boris-epshteyn-trump-campaign-fake-electors/index.html
“Boris Epshteyn, an adviser for former President Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign, acknowledged Friday that he was part of the effort to prop up so-called “alternate electors” to support Trump in key states.“
“Epshteyn was among those working with Giuliani at the post-election Willard Hotel “command center” that sought to prevent Congress from certifying Biden’s election win on January 6, 2021. “
“Under state law, I think clearly you have forgery of a public record, which is a 14-year offense, and election law forgery, which is a five-year offense.”
They misspelled Horrible, too.
Last one i saw try that “honorable ” crap was Omarosa.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/21/opinions/joe-biden-first-year-is-not-a-failure-powers/index.html
“Ultimately, we need to remember that Biden entered the White House during one of the most difficult periods this country has ever faced. “The worst pandemic in 100 years. The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression,” he said during his campaign. “The most compelling call for racial justice since the 60’s. And the undeniable realities and accelerating threats of climate change.” We can now add to that list an attack on democracy by one of the two major political parties.”
“It seems that whatever Biden’s flaws, the country is in a better place than it was when he took office, something that was not a given considering the challenges he was up against. “
Is there anyone here who thinks Pooh-tin won’t invade? He’s a one-trick pony. He’s not looking for a way out to save his ugly face. I hope he gets his ass handed to him. It’s just sad that death and destruction will happen because of this monster wearing a human suit.
people gonna keep fuckin around and drive manchin or sinema to gop. THAT is gonna be some shit, right there.
Wow Bengals intercepted on first play of the game against Tennessee. This could get interesting. On CBS
bId – I will be careful with my words – Will sfb idol invade any country right now (I think this is a better view)?
He has never held back his determination to rebuild the Soviet Union. He is a KGB agent and knows much more about international dirty tricks than any president we have had. The Russians have been doing much more “poking” than in Ukraine. The Russian agents have been doing things in Estonia, Finland, Hungry, Poland and more. There are overflights by Russian airplanes of all these countries everyday. He is the dictator by decree and the public desire to be more like the old Soviet Union. Russia is a third world country. Production of goods was improving but the move to be militaristic has caused issues for the people.
The military is good. The quality of the air force and navy are suspect. Some of the sailors and airmen would consider any attempt to attack a U.S. plane or ship a last attack.
My answer is the longer the diplomatic talks go on, the less likely he will pull the trigger. He is not stupid. President Biden standing there saying ANY soldier stepping into the Ukraine will bring a U.S. response was a kick in the teeth because he now knows that sfb is no longer supporting him. It was sfb who said the U.S. would not back the Ukraine from being a NATO member and therefore was okay to invade. That the Ukraine is not NATO only means they are not NATO. President Biden was very clear that the U.S. was going to act as if the country was in NATO.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/21/politics/us-embassy-ukraine-nonessential-personnel/index.html
“The US Embassy in Kyiv has requested that the State Department authorize the departure of all nonessential staff and their families…”
Britain claims Putin plotting a puppet regime in Ukraine https://t.co/hIPx4jUfPd
Ugh. Amazing Cincinnati winning despite Tennessee manhandling Burrow
Poobah, INTs trump sacks.
OK now I’m rooting against Aaron Rodgers having won my hopes for Bengals. Going for two for two
I was rooting for the Titans… their coach, Mike Vrabel is one of my favorite former Patriots players. But ya have to hand it to the Bengals… that was a storybook ending!
If only the GOoPerz would retreat.
Why hasn’t Green Bay built an enclosed stadium? Playing in this snow is ridiculous.
Alriiiight! The Niners win!
Playing in snow is great!
My faves won tonight, both games. And with last minute field goals. Nice to see kickers get the glory.
Ha RR, it’s great unless you’re the one playing in the snow on icy turf. Lucky I played high school football in Florida, didn’t have that problem, altho rainy mud was an issue.
2 HOF QBs going down. Rodgers is down, Brady on the edge – we’ll see tomorrow.
The two top seeded teams lost today. Altho I must say the winners today didn’t seem like Super Bowl champions.
Tomorrow I’m rooting for Tampa and the Chiefs. (Although Buffalo looked smoking hot last weekend)
It’s the year of the tiger. Bengals
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