December 13, 2021

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29 comments:

Andrew said...

Why can't Boris Johnson comb his hair? It's really not that hard to take a quick look in the mirror before appearing on television to speak to the public.

Ann Althouse said...

He deliberately messes it up. It’s a studied effect that is intended to make him more relatable.

Joe Smith said...

'He deliberately messes it up. It’s a studied effect that is intended to make him more relatable.'

It was probably 'cute' when he was a young cad in his 20s and 30s.

But the man is 57 years old and has 7 children.

Now he looks like a doofus slob.

Gilbert Pinfold said...

Bullingdon Club from Oxford. Memorialized as the Bollinger Club in Waugh's "Decline and Fall"; a parking lot for rich twits.

Sydney said...

Ha ha, Filbert Pinfold. I just finished reading both Decline and Fall and the Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold. Have you heard from the Box?

Quaestor said...

When Boris was Mayor of London (not Lord Mayor, a different office) he got notorious for biking from his Cheapside digs to the "Glass Gonad" wearing a helmet and other accoutrements de cyclisme. The bike and jostled hair look quite fit into his rebel idiom.

The Sun's southward march has eight days to go. A shot of Sol rising behind the Dome or balanced on its spire is expected.

Dave Begley said...

Just saw that jack off Jeffery Toobin on CNN Minus. How can that put that guy back on TV?

Discovery will soon own CNN. New CEO should clean house and start first with that beat off.

farmgirl said...

https://twitter.com/SebGorka/status/1470218510269878273?s=20

Governmental encroachment… step by step

walter said...

John Batchelor calls the Boris coif "exciting hair".

effinayright said...

Anyone out there play Words with Friends?

I've played for about five years, and have concluded that most people use the many cheats. I and the two guys I still play do not. We all have average game scores of about 390.

I'm disgusted by all the ads and cheesy "goals" and "rewards" offered to get you to pay for meaningless and stupid "Premiums", Badges, fancy Tokens and the like. I guess the femmes like them.

Recently, just out of curiosity, I added a new persona under a different account and started over. First level.

Some people challenged me to play, and gradually I noticed from their profiles that they seemed all to have high average scores, even though:

*they all were allegedly women

* they all showed doggies as their avatars, or whatever you call them

* they all supposedly began playing between 2010 and 2012

* they all had played fewer than 50 games total over the years

* none made Chat available, so you couldn't determine if they were human

THEREFORE I have concluded I am playing bots, not people.

Yeah, I still beat them, but yeah it's a bummer knowing I was being deceived. So I will stop and go back to my two buds.










walter said...

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Big Mike said...

Interesting. The announcement from the UK said that a person had died with the Omicron variant. But it's being reported by Reuters and by news sources here in the United States that he died from the Omicron variant or he died of the Omicron variant. But there's a difference between died "with" and died "from."

Drago said...

After being called out fpr purposefully and knowingly allowing murderers ti run wild on Philly streets, Soros-funded anti-law enforcement Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner failed to unseat lefty hack politician Adam Kinzinger in the Fake Crying In Support Of Democratical Policies And Narratives contest.

Better luck next year Larry, but its going to take alot to knock off moronic pro-dem fake republican Adam Kinzinger.

Narr said...

On the theme of Christmas music and the Christmas-music like.

I didn't find exactly what I recall hearing the other day (as much as I could listen before turning it off), but recently our NPR station has broadcast a lot of Boston Pops--"Winter Wonderland," "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town," u.s.w. It's just bad stuff, Christmas or not.

Selections from this were on the playlist but I have not heard it--maybe it's sublime:
Jeffery Reed Baker, pianist, A Composer's Christmas.

Enjoy.

Kay said...

The new Nicholas Cage movie, Pig, is a great and very different kind of story about grief, loss and friendship.

Mutaman said...

“He is destroying his legacy.”

gadfly said...

"After Republican President Donald Trump was defeated in the 2020 presidential election, Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) became known for his vocal opposition to Trump's claims of voter fraud and attempts to overturn the results. Kinzinger was one of 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump for incitement of insurrection in his second impeachment, and was one of only two Republicans to vote to create a select committee to investigate the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, to which he was subsequently appointed."

"On October 29, 2021, Kinzinger announced that he will not seek reelection to Congress in 2022."

I hope that these facts will show that honesty and a desire to preserve the American way-of-life often offends those who support our former president - the gangster.

Big Mike said...

Better luck next year Larry, but its going to take alot to knock off moronic pro-dem fake republican Adam Kinzinger.

The Illinois Democrats gerrymandered him out of his seat. Gerrymandering is only bad when Republicans do it.

tim maguire said...

Blogger Joe Smith said...Now he looks like a doofus slob.

That’s Prime Minister Doofus Slob to you. Take a lesson from sports—if it works, keep doing it. Make them stop you, don’t stop yourself.

Tina Trent said...

Toobin says that instead of masturbating on camera he is trying to be a "better person" by writing a book about Patty Hearst. As all of his crime books are sympathetic to the vile offenders, that means he's trying to be a better person by humanizing the nutcases who kept a woman in a closet for months while beating and raping her.

Sort of like the first diversity and inclusion workshop. I'd prefer he keep publicly pulling his meat.

Nichevo said...

Not a peep from you about Waukesha and the demon-haunted SUV that ran over the Christmas parade. Why not? Orders from Headquarters?

Of course that's silly. They don't need orders to control you. They have the NYT.

Joe Smith said...

'That’s Prime Minister Doofus Slob to you.'

Not for much longer if he keeps being so damned weak...

Drago said...

The Poor Man's *** ***** gadfly: "I hope that these facts will show that honesty and a desire to preserve the American way-of-life often offends those who support our former president - the gangster."

LOL

Kinzinger is failing his 2-year long "interview" to be an effective MSNBC contributor...and Kinzingers fake tears at the fake Jan 6 Committee To Cover Up What Really Happened did him no favors.

Not even a nomination for Best Supporting Actor In Another Democratical Shampeachment Hoax!

Why doesn't the Academy love Adam Kinzinger?!!

And why is gadfly commenting on Kinzinger? Isn't it gadfly's full time job to simply post one already thoroughly debunked lie about Kyle Rittenhouse after another?

Get back to work gadfly! And perhaps your parents will allow you to put a potted plant in their basement and call your small room there a "patio home".

Drago said...

Mutaman: “He is destroying his legacy.”

LOL

Mutaman has no idea what to post now that the Jan 6 hoaxers improperly released private text messages which PROVED there was no insurrection!!

So I guess its going to be one liners without links and further context.

Very reminiscent of the Russia Russia Russia and dossier hoaxes Mutaman pushed for over 5 years.

Drago said...

I will give our sad sack gadfly some credit here. At least he/she/xe is no longer lying and saying there is no inflation and its all made up.

So that's something.

I guess.

Mutaman said...

"Mutaman has no idea what to post now that the Jan 6 hoaxers improperly released private text messages which PROVED there was no insurrection!!"

Nothing fires up the Know Nothings like actual quotes.

Mutaman said...

"Very reminiscent of the Russia Russia Russia and dossier hoaxes Mutaman pushed for over 5 years."

1. Link please.

2. "Soviet propagandists during the cold war were trained in a tactic that their western interlocutors nicknamed 'whataboutism'. Any criticism of the Soviet Union (Afghanistan, martial law in Poland, imprisonment of dissidents, censorship) was met with a 'What about..."

Drago said...

Mutaman: "Nothing fires up the Know Nothings like actual quotes."

Actual quotes are kryptonite to the left.

Which is why Mutaman and the leftists hid their under oath testimonies related to the hoax russia russia russia collusion, hid the transcript of the Trump/Ukrainian President phone call, hid the transcript of the Trump/Raffensberger call, engage in "Ruparing" Trump quotes to create the "drink bleach" and "Fine People" hoaxes, etc etc etc.

Anybody seeing a pattern?

LOL

Mutaman said...

Lets sum up:
1. I post a quote
2. Drago criticizes lefties who post quotes
3. I say people like Drago hate actual quotes
4. Drago says left wingers hate to post quotes and Russia something something.

This is the mentality we're dealing with here folks.