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December 3, 2025

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103 comments:

Peachy said...: snow! Finally. If any of you slagged on mother nature in CO - I thank you.; 12/3/25, 5:49 PM
TeaBagHag said...: Donnie Dementia is babbling nonsense every time someone sticks a mic in front of him and he’s falling asleep at meetings and press conferences on the regular.
Is his mental health a worse threat to national security than his open corruption? Discuss; 12/3/25, 5:58 PM
Aggie said...: Easier to ignore.; 12/3/25, 6:00 PM
Wa St Blogger said...: Discuss

Not until you do a full mea culpa on Biden. Really, you guys are so duplicitous.; 12/3/25, 6:10 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Nice Super moon this evening 🌕; 12/3/25, 6:21 PM
Achilles said...: TeaBagHag said...

Donnie Dementia is babbling nonsense every time someone sticks a mic in front of him and he’s falling asleep at meetings and press conferences on the regular.
Is his mental health a worse threat to national security than his open corruption? Discuss

This retard supported and voted for Joe Biden.

Discuss.; 12/3/25, 6:33 PM
Eva Marie said...: Here’s a modest proposal. Could we declare a moratorium on labels? What if we gave everyone the benefit of the doubt?
For instance, when the President of the United States comments on a group of people wreaking havoc in a state, could we assume he doesn’t mean every person in that group - but rather that a substantial number are involved in illegal activity? After all, was it racist to observe that the Mafia was composed mostly of Italians? Or was that just a factual acknowledgment of patterns without indicting an entire ethnicity?
Similarly, when people criticize Israel, can we assume it’s a legitimate critique of a country’s policies and actions, rather than jumping to accusations of anti-Semitic tropes? Don’t we want a more honest dialogue and less division?; 12/3/25, 6:43 PM
Jaq said...: I just had a shot of nostalgia, I remember when I used to read the Sunday New York Times religiously, I remember even paying $6 to get a copy in Sydney while I was working there. I slowly weened off of it because it just became less and less interesting, more and more a talking point newsletter for the Democrats, but when the book reviews became just one more arm of the propaganda war on us Americans... I just don't even miss it. I would rather watch football on Sunday afternoons.; 12/3/25, 6:45 PM
Eva Marie said...: “Can we start attributing the offense we hear to clumsiness of speech rather than malice?”; 12/3/25, 6:46 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Trump calls affordability 'a Democrat scam' as inflation concerns persist nationwide ~ Fox Business News

I’m sure he’s got Commerce Secretary Lutnick working hard on this one.

Trump saying affordability isn't an issue is just showing how out of touch he is -- especially with his base. No wonder his poll numbers are plummeting.

Not sure that even Trump can sell this level of cognitive dissonance.; 12/3/25, 6:46 PM
rhhardin said...: An affordability crisis is how you beat inflation.; 12/3/25, 6:52 PM
Hassayamper said...: I just had a shot of nostalgia, I remember when I used to read the Sunday New York Times religiously

There was once upon a time when I read the Arizona Republic and either the New York Times or the Washington Post basically cover to cover every day, disregarding only the more esoteric sports, worthless Hollywood gossip, all but a handful of comic strips, and most of the women's section, now rebranded as "home" and "fashion" sections. I even had a few classified-ad categories I never missed scanning.

That's a good many years ago now. All of them are filled with left-wing propaganda and slavish ass-kissing stenography for the unelected administrative state now, and I never open any of them, on paper or on-line. I don't even click on Althouse's free links.

Today's journalists are my enemies, and I want them destroyed.; 12/3/25, 6:55 PM
Eva Marie said...: “People, I just want to say… can we all get along? Can we get along?” lolol; 12/3/25, 6:57 PM
Old and slow said...: I really miss the newspapers. When I was a kid I read the AZ Republic everyday plus WSJ when my dad would leve it around. Later I read the Times or the Telegraph every day and both of the Sunday editions.; 12/3/25, 7:05 PM
Aggie said...: @Old and slow, @Jaq: Consider a subscription to County Highway, Walter Kirn's broadsheet newspaper. It's top-notch journalism, 6 issues yearly, reasonable price.; 12/3/25, 7:17 PM
William50 said...: TeaBagHag said...

Donnie Dementia is babbling nonsense every time someone sticks a mic in front of him and he’s falling asleep at meetings and press conferences on the regular.
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Well if that's true it sounds like he's sliding right into Biden's slot. If it didn't bother you when Biden did it why should it bother you now?; 12/3/25, 7:31 PM
narciso said...: https://t.co/JUHiWK0y1o; 12/3/25, 7:33 PM
Original Mike said...: I still read the dead tree version of the WSJ. I don't think the day is too far off, however, when they stop producing it. Already, here in Madison, they won't deliver the Monday edition on Monday; it gets delivered with the Tuesday edition. Apparently, their printer won't work on Sunday.; 12/3/25, 7:36 PM
narciso said...: https://youtu.be/e0HGEZXTy8Y?si=x0rK0qYfOGmYEXka; 12/3/25, 7:37 PM
rehajm said...: I get why our paid agitators and unpaid loons do it but why besmirch your cultivated reputation as a thinker for a cheap shot and a dopamine squirt?; 12/3/25, 7:43 PM
Humperdink said...: Affordability? The good old days of Biden’s 9% inflation. It’s bad enough that Biden had the memory of a stalk of celery, now the Commies on this site have the same affliction.; 12/3/25, 7:44 PM
narciso said...: I know right; 12/3/25, 7:49 PM
Mason G said...: "now the Commies on this site have the same affliction."

Either that, or they're just lying.

I wouldn't rule that out.; 12/3/25, 7:52 PM
rehajm said...: …as was being noted yesterday ‘affordability’ is such a nonsense word intended to imply some sort of structural economic imbalance. When nothing’s going tour way because EVERY economic indicator is working against you….well, uh…make words up!; 12/3/25, 7:58 PM
Ampersand said...: Clever to repackage "cost of living", with its annoying charts and graphs revealing the inflationary consequences of Dem rule, as the shiny new and just discovered problem of "affordability". Is the voting public really stupid enough to be deceived that easily?
I can only hope not.; 12/3/25, 8:05 PM
Sweetie said...: I remember Biden and Powell swore the double digit inflation you were seeing was just a temporary blip, like gas after a big meal. And they did this for NINE long months while even Democrat bootlicker economists were saying 'wake up'. And entertainment weighed in to let the complainers know it was just a bit of funflation. Funny how only now, with 3% inflation, is affordability on the tip of so many tongues. Like Epstein. Last week.; 12/3/25, 8:09 PM
James K said...: Housing is always going to be more expensive in dense urban areas. But it's made worse by Dem policies that make it hugely and unnecessarily costly to build new housing. Rent controls only make the problem worse, unless you happen to be one of the lucky ones who already has an apartment. Then there are all the taxes that make anything you want to buy in a store much more expensive too. If idiots like Mamdani really cared about affordability, they'd cut taxes and regulations. But there's no graft in that.; 12/3/25, 8:22 PM
Narr said...: Steve Cropper dead at 84.

R I P.; 12/3/25, 8:30 PM
gadfly said...: Did you know that Whiskey Pete had the murderboat fired upon four times on October 27, according to the WaPo's original story?

The boat in the first strike was hit a total of four times, twice to kill the crew and twice more to sink it, four people familiar with the operation said. In subsequent strikes on alleged traffickers that left no survivors, the U.S. military has also fired multiple missiles to remove boats from the waterways, several people familiar with the matter said.; 12/3/25, 8:33 PM
buwaya said...: https://www.apartments.com/rent-market-trends/
US rent index is up 0.6% yoy, way under inflation which is very moderate.; 12/3/25, 8:37 PM
buwaya said...: https://www.apartments.com/rent-market-trends/us/; 12/3/25, 8:39 PM
Kakistocracy said...: After spending his term pardoning International drug kingpins and corrupt conservative Republicans, Trump has pardoned a corrupt conservative Democrat. Where was this bipartisanship from Obama and Biden?; 12/3/25, 8:42 PM
Wince said...: Democrats think they’ll want voters agitated about “affordability” going into Election Day 2026.

Republicans want voters focused on what happens after Election Day.; 12/3/25, 8:44 PM
buwaya said...: There are fewer corrupt Republicans? That stands to reason given the sociology of Republicans (few urban political machines) and less direct connections to goverment programs, as Democrats by far are "the party of goverment".
Looking at the thing with statistical drivers.; 12/3/25, 8:48 PM
Wince said...: Kakistocracy said…
“Trump has pardoned a corrupt conservative Democrat.”

The Biden DOJ could have prosecuted any of a multitude of corrupt Democrats. Astoundingly, the “conservative (Hispanic) Democrat” they did decide to prosecute was the one who vociferously objected to the Biden border policy. Meanwhile, the ethical violations alleged against Cuellar sound like the pattern and practice of the Biden crime family, Hunter and Jim.

Trump empathized with Cuellar being targeted.; 12/3/25, 9:04 PM
rehajm said...: Since the lefties are poking around with polling again Rasmussen and NYT both discover 63 percent want all illegals deported. That’s more than Trump voters, btw…; 12/3/25, 9:10 PM
buwaya said...: https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/human-evolution/an-extreme-end-of-human-genetic-variation-ancient-humans-were-isolated-in-southern-africa-for-nearly-100-000-years-and-their-genetics-are-stunningly-different

"The prehistoric population of southern Africa contains half of all human genetic variation, while people spread throughout the rest of the world contain the other half, Jakobsson said"

I dont know about you but I find this stuff fascinating.
Highly recommended to get a start in this -
"Who we are and how we hot here" David Reich

And that book is from 2018 and is already very out of date. This stuff is moving fast.; 12/3/25, 9:18 PM
Justabill said...: I just took my wife to a professional touring company production of the Nutcracker. What a wonderful evening.; 12/3/25, 9:22 PM
bagoh20 said...: After arguing with Grok, I'm convinced one of us needs to be put down.

Grok says:
"Rank #1 = highest murder rate (worst)
Rank #193 = lowest murder rate (best)

Therefore: 125th = higher murder rate than 120th
-120th = lower (better) murder rate than 125th"

That's backwards isn't it?
Who is crazy. What am I missing?
Grok will not budge on it.; 12/3/25, 9:27 PM
Mason G said...: "That's backwards isn't it?"

Sure appears to be. At this point, I wouldn't trust much that comes from an AI inquiry that wasn't confirmed in some other fashion.; 12/3/25, 9:30 PM
buwaya said...: I suggest you pull the actual data (whatever you can find) and decide what you want to do with it. Grok and etc dont know what you have in mind.; 12/3/25, 9:33 PM
Achilles said...: The United States ranked by violent crime overall comes in at 180 something out of 190 something.

If you get rid of 4 counties we move to the top 10.

The problem isn't the United States. The problem is Democrats.; 12/3/25, 9:36 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Survivors of Boat Strike Were Actively Continuing Drug Mission, Admiral to Tell Lawmakers ~ WSJ

''Commander of September attack to provide account of his role for the first time in closed briefing"

While clinging to the side of a flaming boat…wow, sounds like a Hollywood scriptwriter’s gone way over the top. I’m sure they were trying to carry 1000kg of fentanyl while clinging to driftwood in the middle of the ocean. And rowing for the next 12 days.; 12/3/25, 9:36 PM
Peachy said...: Kak - Crook liar pile of shit Asshole Biden tried to intimidate that Democrat in Texas because he dared to speak out about Crook liar pile of shit Burisma Joe's illegal immigrants.; 12/3/25, 9:38 PM
Kakistocracy said...: We stand with President Donald J. Trump. ~ Rod Blagojevich, George Santos, Ghislaine Maxwell, Diddy, & Bob Menendez; 12/3/25, 9:39 PM
bagoh20 said...: We went back and forth with it where I asked the question many times in different ways, and it even apologized for being confusing, but still kept repeating this mistake. It's not complicated data, just ranking of murder rates by nation. Which is a safer place. Nation ranked at #125 or one at # 120?
Is this really going take over and run the world for us. No wonder Schwarzenegger kicked their ass.; 12/3/25, 9:42 PM
Peachy said...: kak - desperate liar.; 12/3/25, 9:44 PM
Inga said...: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/us/politics/trump-us-institute-peace-name.html

Trump Renames Institute of Peace for Himself

Oh brother…; 12/3/25, 9:45 PM
Prof. M. Drout said...: I do not understand why people are using AI for INFORMATION. Large Language Models work by tossing random numbers against the probabilities of Markov chains of words given a particular discourse subset. Anything you get that happens to be true is pure luck, because the system CAN'T evolve for truth, only for what words are most commonly written after words. The which is better, 120 or 125 rank thing probably has something to do that exact question being fairly rare and the closer matches being about whether its better to finish lower in some rankings in order to get higher draft picks, etc.
But using AI for facts (or copy-pasting huge walls of text and saying "Grok says _____" is) crazy.
The more this practice spreads, the worse off we are all going to be. You cannot trust anything you get from a Large Language Model, not because LLMs are bad, but because they intrinsically have nothing to do with truth.; 12/3/25, 9:54 PM
buwaya said...: An "Institute of Peace" is a rather unclear name, and so is their mission statement. Its not as if there is a formula or best prectices to bring about "peace". Its sort of an "Institute of Goodness and Light" really. "We feel therefore we are" sort of thing. Its worse than the field of development economics.
So whatever Trump wants to call it seems fair enough.; 12/3/25, 9:56 PM
Hey Skipper said...: Kak: Trump calls affordability 'a Democrat scam' as inflation concerns persist nationwide ~ Fox Business News

...

Trump saying affordability isn't an issue is just showing how out of touch he is ...

You do realize these two sentences are completely unrelated.

I don't live in California, and so am not subject to their gas and electricity prices, which are all down to Democrat scams.

Affordability isn't the issue, scams are.; 12/3/25, 10:13 PM
Hey Skipper said...: Survivors of Boat Strike Were Actively Continuing Drug Mission, Admiral to Tell Lawmakers ~ WSJ

Kak: ''Commander of September attack to provide account of his role for the first time in closed briefing"

While clinging to the side of a flaming boat…wow, sounds like a Hollywood scriptwriter’s gone way over the top.

He was making a radio call for assistance.; 12/3/25, 10:15 PM
Hassayamper said...: Did you know that Whiskey Pete had the murderboat fired upon four times on October 27, according to the WaPo's original story?

Good. Do it a hundred times if that's what it takes.; 12/3/25, 10:39 PM
Hassayamper said...: Barack Obama authorized drone strikes on American citizens whom he had labeled "terrorists", killing them and their families without trial, and boasted and bragged about it.

Fentanyl smugglers are responsible for more American deaths than terrorists, by at least 3 orders of magnitude.

Not only should we be blowing up their boats, we should be machine-gunning any survivors in the water, and blowing up their drug labs and poppy farms with MOAB bombs that kill every living thing within a half mile, and sending hit men and piloted drones after the drug kingpins and the politicians who sponsor and partner with them. We should be sending teams of Gurkha mercenaries to slit them open like fish with kukri knives, and hang them from trees and lamp-posts by their own disemboweled guts and put their severed heads on doorsteps, to the horror and shock of their cronies and families. If the boats don't stop, sink every boat in Caracas harbor and then reduce the docks and piers to rubble. Flatten every government building, during business hours so we slaughter as many government scum as possible.

We killed at least a million Japanese as revenge for the four or five thousand lost at Pearl Harbor, and at least that many Germans who didn't even attack us first. We must have lost a million of our young people to fentanyl by now. Let's get the kind of revenge on their killers that our forefathers would have approved of. Total war, with not the slightest concern for mercy or due process or the worthless opinions of the effete Eurotrash.; 12/3/25, 10:56 PM
n.n said...: The WaPo tale was handmade and already composted as WaPoo.; 12/3/25, 11:00 PM
n.n said...: George "Fentanyl" Floyd Syndrome aborts tens of thousands of American lives annually. Baby Lives Matter (BLM); 12/3/25, 11:03 PM
Big Mike said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 12/3/25, 11:07 PM
Big Mike said...: gadfly said...

Did you know that Whiskey Pete had the murderboat fired upon four times on October 27, according to the WaPo's original story?

And did you know that no less than the New York Times debunked that story?

To paraphrase Hillary Clinton, “We came, we saw, they died.”; 12/3/25, 11:09 PM
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1 million thank yous.; 12/3/25, 11:45 PM
gadfly said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 12/4/25, 2:52 AM
gadfly said...: Senator Rand Paul reported in September that a four-engine speedboat with 11 passengers was destroyed by drones (likely MQ-9 Reapers carrying five-foot long Hellfire II missiles, which cost $130K a pop to fire).

Paul noted further that: “The recent drone attack on a small speedboat over 2,000 miles from our shore without identification of the occupants or the content of the boat is in no way part of a declared war and defies our longstanding Coast Guard rules of engagement which include, warnings to halt, non-lethal force to capture, and ultimately lethal force in self-defense or in cases of resistance.”; 12/4/25, 2:55 AM
Breezy said...: Have the democrats ever done anything that actually brings the cost down for anything, rather than socialize the payment of said thing? I honestly don’t believe they have but willing to be enlightened. It doesn’t appear to me that they have standing to wave the Affordability Flag. Seems they’re just looking for the next thing to have taxpayers pay for.; 12/4/25, 4:10 AM
Big Mike said...: @gadfly, and had Senator Paul run for and been lected President he could choose to apply laws about smuggling. But he didn’t run (and would not have been elected) and now a different President applies a different body of law.; 12/4/25, 4:21 AM
rehajm said...: I don't live in California, and so am not subject to their gas and electricity prices, which are all down to Democrat scams

...the cost of energy flows the pricing of everything, good and service. When I was valuing equities daily I would see it daily. I forget the percentage but something like a third of S&P earnings are a function of energy costs. A spike in fuel prices spell death to airline earnings. The same impact flows through household wealth as well. So when states like CA and MA run schemes that inadvertently or intentionally cause energy prices to double then yes, it is a major contributor the left's nebulous 'affordability' problem...; 12/4/25, 5:15 AM
rehajm said...: ...you think affordability is a problem now wait until Democrats make stuff free....; 12/4/25, 5:16 AM
rehajm said...: ...headline at Boston.com this morning: Warning of 13% spike for homeowners, Wu renews push for contentious tax proposal. Mayor Wu is a Mamdami Socialist. She's got your affordability right here....; 12/4/25, 5:26 AM
Fritz said...: "Senator Rand Paul reported in September that a four-engine speedboat with 11 passengers was destroyed by drones (likely MQ-9 Reapers carrying five-foot long Hellfire II missiles, which cost $130K a pop to fire)."

Those four engines cost about $30k @, so it's about a wash.; 12/4/25, 5:38 AM
Ronald J. Ward said...: “Affordability” seems to have Trump and his lapdog Republicans in full blown panic mode, and with good reason.

Hey Skipper @ 10:15;

“ Affordability isn't the issue, scams are.”

You can amuse yourself with that all you like but it always has been and always will be “the economy stupid”.

Breezy @ 4:10:

“ Have the democrats ever done anything that actually brings the cost down for anything, rather than socialize the payment of said thing?”

I could get long winded on that (no, seriously, I really could) but it doesn’t matter. Fair or not, be it from their policies or not, those in power are rewarded when the economy is good and punished when it’s bad.

Now I understand many here are programmed otherwise but prices are soaring and people are pissed. Many who are pissed aren’t even seeing the job market or other economic cracks but they do notice the grocery bill. And they’ve always punished the party in charge regardless of who’s at fault.

But here’s the real kicker- Trump and his yes boy puppets are the blaring culprit. Tariffs, immigration policies, and the Big Ugly Bill are and will hit consumers hard. It’s self inflected and going to be hard to run away from.

Argue it all you want but it doesn’t matter. Voters are pissed and republicans are sitting in the chair.

It is indeed affordability stupid.; 12/4/25, 6:04 AM
Kakistocracy said...: Trump was able to thread the needle in his first term because he was a rich guy who at least seemed to have a bit of a common touch. Now he just sounds like an out-of-touch rich guy. His hardcore base of supporters will be there to the end, but Trump won power with a lot of soft support from people who foolishly assumed he would work economic magic. Now he's not only making the cost of living miserable for many of his own voters, his armed thugs are deporting family members of many of these voters too.; 12/4/25, 6:06 AM
Humperdink said...: Don’t think kaka is a liar? He blamed Trump for the skyrocketing health care costs (which occurred during the Biden administration).; 12/4/25, 6:18 AM
Mr. Forward said...: Gasoline is $2.45 a gallon in Baraboo, Wisconsin this morning. Maybe Kak needs to get out more.; 12/4/25, 6:23 AM
Breezy said...: They haven't, just as I thought. Thanks for confirming, RJW.; 12/4/25, 6:43 AM
planetgeo said...: Democrats bitching about "affordability" are like the Menendez bros bitching about being orphans.; 12/4/25, 6:48 AM
boatbuilder said...: Do the people complaining about "affordability" also complain about why we taxpayers are required to fund something called The Institute For Peace?; 12/4/25, 7:09 AM
Humperdink said...: “The Obama administration asserted a right to kill U.S. citizens without trial, without notice, and without any chance for the marked men to legally object. In November 2010, (Obama)Justice Department attorney Douglas Letter announced in federal court that no judge had legal authority to be “looking over the shoulder” of Obama’s targeted killing. Letter declared that the program involves “the very core powers of the president as commander in chief.” (Zero Hedge)

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/how-obama-paved-way-trumps-venezuelan-killings; 12/4/25, 7:10 AM
Ronald J. Ward said...: boatbuilder said...
Do the people complaining about "affordability" also complain about why we taxpayers are required to fund something called The Institute For Peace?

No, they don’t. I’d wager that very few would even know it. I’d say over 60% can’t correctly name the 3 branches of government and I once read where around 15% of college educated people thought that Judge Judy is or was a Supreme Court Justice.

But they do know the price of groceries. And around 12 million are going to know their health insurance spike in about 3 weeks.; 12/4/25, 7:23 AM
bagoh20 said...: I was told the affordability problem (inflation) was just transitory, so where do I go to get my good prices back?; 12/4/25, 7:23 AM
narciso said...: By none other than janet yellen; 12/4/25, 7:27 AM
narciso said...: Many of those casualties in the territories were civilians; 12/4/25, 7:30 AM
boatbuilder said...: The talking points are out.; 12/4/25, 7:31 AM
narciso said...: And they are very lame; 12/4/25, 7:35 AM
boatbuilder said...: Chuck--if you were really concerned you would answer the question posed by Breezy about whether the Democrats have ever done anything to bring costs down, rather than socializing it. You know the answer. Instead you dodge to--"it doesn't matter, it's bad for Trump politically." Why do you support this? (Rhetorical question. I know that you are a bad faith troll).; 12/4/25, 7:40 AM
Leland said...: On affordability: https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1996233327443931172
The national median rent for apartments fell 1% in November from October, and now stands at $1,367, according to Apartment List.; 12/4/25, 7:44 AM
boatbuilder said...: Trump/Hegseth should thank WaPo for getting the message out. "El trafico de drogas es un mala decision profesional."; 12/4/25, 7:44 AM
Marcus Bressler said...: Original Mike? Your WSJ gets delivered by mail, I assume. Which usually means 2nd class mail (former PM here): the mail volumes on Monday mornings used to mean no junk mail (bulk business mail) included, only first and second class. But I suspect one of two things: if your PO has it from the mail processing center, they are delaying it until Tuesday delivery. Or, the shipping from the WSJ drop point to your MPC delays it one day along the way.
OT question: I don't read any newspapers except online and the WSJ only occasionally shows up in my aggregator sites. What's your take on the "leanings" for its news vs its opinion pages? TIA.; 12/4/25, 7:44 AM
Marcus Bressler said...: Has anyone heard from Drago?; 12/4/25, 7:50 AM
Ronald J. Ward said...: Boatman, it’s unrealistic to blame either party for “not lowering prices”. Blaming either party misunderstands how prices work. Global markets, supply chains, and corporations set the numbers.

Now, if you want to talk about what each party has done to drive prices up and burden they average worker, that opens up a different discussion, much better than the “are you still beating your wife” questions.; 12/4/25, 8:07 AM
Ronald J. Ward said...: Poll: Trump's own voters begin blaming him for affordability crisis

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/04/poll-americans-trump-voters-affordability-crisis-00674747?nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&nname=playbook&nrid=debd2ece-ee29-4799-8096-e8d0e9b07edd; 12/4/25, 8:29 AM
boatbuilder said...: Keep dodging the question, Chuck.; 12/4/25, 8:36 AM
Ronald J. Ward said...: Boatload, that you can’t read and understand my response in itself explains you unwillingness or inability of having a productive conversation.

When you acquire some administrative authority to dictate what responses I give to who, get back with me.; 12/4/25, 8:43 AM
Original Mike said...: "Original Mike? Your WSJ gets delivered by mail, I assume. "

Nope. 60 year old paper "boy". He's great. When he retires, I'm dropping the paper completely. Scanning for articles I'm interested in doesn't work on a tablet.; 12/4/25, 9:17 AM
Original Mike said...: "What's your take on the "leanings" for its news vs its opinion pages?"

"News" is lefty, sometimes pretty blatantly. I actually don't read it for hard news; more for investing, the economy, and things I can use in my own life. I also tend to be quite behind on my readings, so the "news" can be stale by the time I get to it.; 12/4/25, 9:26 AM
Rusty said...: That's who's missing!
No. I hope he's OK.; 12/4/25, 9:27 AM
Original Mike said...: "Has anyone heard from Drago?"

I haven't seen any postings. I fear the worst.; 12/4/25, 9:27 AM
Rusty said...: Boatbuilder @ 7:40

Don't engage the flying monkey.; 12/4/25, 9:28 AM
Original Mike said...: "The talking points are out."

What happened to "Epstein!"?; 12/4/25, 9:28 AM
wendybar said...: Marcus Bressler said...
Has anyone heard from Drago?

12/4/25, 7:50 AM

Funny you should write that, as I was thinking about him today. I hope he is well.; 12/4/25, 10:30 AM
Rusty said...: It seems Venezuela is at war with us.; 12/4/25, 3:39 PM
Iman said...: HEY, LEFTWINGERS! Biden and the Dimocrats’ Inflation Reduction Act WAS the inflater; 12/4/25, 4:36 PM
narciso said...: They havent fired back so no; 12/4/25, 6:18 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: TRUMP, just another Right sided NeoCon ready for more WAR. He said we are already at WAR(wrong) He sure have the magas fooled, I remember them saying trump will quell all the wars (wrong) THE WHO=WE WONT GET FOOLED AGAIN(wrong); 12/4/25, 6:43 PM
Michael McNeil said...: The crew of the U.S.S. Reuben James—torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine (U-552) on 1941-10-31, with the loss of 100 out of 144 aboard—could testify that they (Germany) did attack us first (before 1941-12-07, that is).; 12/4/25, 7:53 PM
Rusty said...: They sent Tres de Agua? The gangs are working for V.; 12/4/25, 7:58 PM