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May 10, 2022

At the Sunrise Café...

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37 comments:

Joe Smith said...: Another day, another $40 billion to Ukraine.

I'd be OK with it if they signed something saying if they win the war they will pay us back with interest in oil, grain, etc.

Other than that, it's just a huge money-laundering operation and everyone in DC is getting rich...; 5/10/22, 8:24 PM
Leslie said...: THE SKY COLORS ARE BEAUTIFUL; 5/10/22, 8:33 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Attempt to steel-man the pro-choice argument, so you can attempt to tear it down more effectively.

👉🏽 https://youtu.be/RGPudL_GQ3Y; 5/10/22, 8:59 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: What if I told you pro-choice is a racist argument 🤯

👉🏽 https://youtu.be/-txhf3UOiyA; 5/10/22, 9:39 PM
Nice said...: I'm shocked at how ordinary Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh’s house is. It looks like any typical upper-middle class tidy neighborhood suburb to be sure, but I just would've thought something with a tad bit more grandeur to live up the stature and elite-ness of the position. If you're a Supreme Justice, shouldn't your magisterial digs live up to the gravity of your duties? Yet this house we're seeing---the ordinary-ness of it all !! I guess I always assumed, once they took office, they'd move to more cloistered or gated living conditions.

Of course, now with this absurd theater of hooligans chanting, holding vigil, I'm sure the Kavanaughs wish they had indeed moved to a much more remote compound complete with a mote and a drawbridge.; 5/10/22, 9:57 PM
stephen cooper said...: God loves crabby old people with bitterness in their heart JUST as much as GOD loves young people who live in this world as if this world had been created just for them.
Just saying. And yes I know that some people HATE IT when someone says something nice about GOD. But so many people are saying insulting things about GOD these days, I thought I would say something nice. So, one more time: GOD LOVES CRABBY OLD PEOPLE WITH BITTERNESS IN THEIR HEART JUST AS MUCH AS GOD LOVES YOUNG PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THIS WORLD AS IF THIS WORLD HAD BEEN CREATED JUST FOR THEM. As for me, I went to a Denny's yesterday for the first time in 20 years. The menu was loaded with badly presented cheap-meat meals and sugar-addled breakfasts and desserts, but it was nice to be in a Denny's again anyway. I ordered a coffee, a glass of water, and the pot roast sandwich with a side of "seasoned" (one dollar 95 cents extra, compared to the "non-seasoned") fries. None of it was anywhere near worth spending hard-earned money on, except the water, and the water was free.; 5/10/22, 10:37 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: $40B to Ukraine would be fine if our betters took it out of the petty cash they voted for their pet projects. But, they'd never do that.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon we're talking about real money. - D. Everett; 5/10/22, 11:10 PM
gadfly said...: Lem: These off-the-wall arguments are offered simply for the sake of finding some really weird reason to permit the creation of a child without taking on the responsibility for caring for this innocent being. The life inside a woman's womb did not just occur as it did for Virgin Mary.

And how can the inconvenience of nine months of gestation be more important than permitting God-forbidden murder?

Sixty million deaths and counting! Simply because the court said that murder was suddenly legal.; 5/11/22, 2:13 AM
StephenFearby said...: RealClear Investigations May 10
By John Murawski

'Here Are the 90+ 'Equity' Plans Taxpayers Are Now Funding Across the Federal Government

Under the Biden administration, more than 90 federal agencies have pledged their commitment to equity by adopting action plans that put gender, race and other such factors at the center of their governmental missions.

The Equity Action Plans, which have received little notice since they were posted online last month following a document request from RealClearInvestigations, represent a “whole of government” fight against “entrenched disparities” and the “unbearable human costs of systemic racism.”

The equity blueprints show that:

The U.S. State Department is keen on exporting American-style gender and race consciousness into foreign diplomacy and across the globe. Citing “identity” and “intersections of marginalization” as focal points, State Department officials acknowledge that promoting these Western concepts in foreign lands may clash with “societal norms” and elicit an “unwillingness to cede power by dominant groups.”

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to tap into “community science” from tribal nations and other interest groups, in addition to relying on academic peer-reviewed research. As the agency shifts its enforcement focus from responding to complaints to proactively initiating its own investigations, the EPA plans to fund “community scientists” to supply evidence of what it calls environmental racism and other corporate practices to be targeted for federal investigation.

The Smithsonian Institution is embedding diversity and equity in “everything we do” across the labs and collections that make up the world’s largest museum complex. The Smithsonian has, like other agencies, enthroned a Head Diversity Officer position to coordinate these efforts, and will refocus its energies to explore “how race has informed all our lives” and affirm “the centrality of race in America.”

The Equity Action Plans are a response to an executive order President Biden signed on his first day of office in January 2021, committing his administration to pursuing “a comprehensive approach to advancing equity for all, including people of color and others who have been historically underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected by persistent poverty and inequality.”...'

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/05/10/here_are_the_90_equity_plans_taxpayers_are_now_funding_across_the_federal_government_830643.html

The Pledge of Allegiance includes the words: "With liberty and justice For All".

The Left obviously would like to change this to: "With Equity For All"

With "Equity" meaning anything The Left says it is.

Evoking Lewis Carrol, Through the Looking Glass:

“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’

’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”; 5/11/22, 2:33 AM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: President Biden says he can taste our frustrations with higher prices.

Who knew inflation was really a covert attempt to make Covid better. 😉; 5/11/22, 5:23 AM
farmgirl said...: “President Biden says he can taste our frustrations with higher prices.”

Must be the frosting on that cake we’re all eating…; 5/11/22, 5:52 AM
farmgirl said...: Thanks, Lem! I swear I just watched that same video.

I always say, do you know the difference between the unborn and the newborn?
Time.; 5/11/22, 5:55 AM
farmgirl said...: I can see the soft green fuzz of new leaves!; 5/11/22, 5:56 AM
wendybar said...: farmgirl said...
“President Biden says he can taste our frustrations with higher prices.”

Must be the frosting on that cake we’re all eating…

5/11/22, 5:52 AM

=^..^= What farmgirl said!!!; 5/11/22, 5:58 AM
Scott Patton said...: stephan cooper at 10:37 "None of it was anywhere near worth spending hard-earned money on"
It seems the low end food industry has devised a way to create and sell stuff that looks like food, smells good and tastes somewhere between meh and good, but it's not really food in the classic sense. Especially the bread/buns. It seems that is one of the more difficult things to fake.
It's like Levi jeans that cost $30 (Amazon offering them to me today for $22!). They're not really "Levi Jeans" as commonly understood by people of a certain age, and I'll be amazed if they last a year. They are made to meet a price point. To be fair, they are worth $20-$30. Actual Levi Jeans of the past would be closer to $80+. French fries served at Denny's that don't have every penny squeezed out of them would be $6 for a 5oz serving. Denny's could sell you a meal that's worth spending hard earned money on but it would be three times as expensive.; 5/11/22, 6:14 AM
tim in vermont said...: So Biden begged the Europeans to hold off the economic embargo of Russia's oil exports until *after* the mid terms. Europeans have gone along with it, sounds like foreign meddling in our elections at the behest of the Democrats....

Naaah! Also sounds like the Democrats are playing voters for suckers.... Naaah!; 5/11/22, 6:28 AM
Andrew said...: @Nice,
I had the same reaction. It looks like a a good middle class home. My observation is that Kavanaugh is a very humble man. He has no interest in ostenstation. And now, he may have no choice but to move to a gated community. Because it's only going to get worse.; 5/11/22, 6:52 AM
Humperdink said...: > Prior to 1973, most states banned abortion. State laws, passed by legislatures.
> In 1973 Dems go to court to have state laws overturned and prevail.
> After 1973, multiple state legislatures pass restrictions on abortion.
> Dem courts overturn them with few exceptions.

Sensing a pattern? Conservative legislatures pass restrictions, lefty courts overturn them.

Fast forward to today. A conservative court finally rules in favor of the pro-life position, that is, let the states decide. To date, lefties have accepted every court decision (with glee I might add). What do the lefties do when this decision was rendered? They lose their collective minds. Nighttime protests in front of justices' homes. Wait 'til the summer violent protest season commences.; 5/11/22, 6:55 AM
Humperdink said...: I am hoping the sterling record of President Trump's endorsements of primary candidates hits a snag with his endorsement of Dr. Oz. Oz is not my guy, nor of any other PA residents I talk to. The endorsement is a complete mystery.; 5/11/22, 7:25 AM
tim in vermont said...: Good news everyone! Food prices up, real wages down! It's malarky all day long.; 5/11/22, 7:32 AM
Kai Akker said...: Non-sequiturs we have known and loved:

@@ Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates announced that he has tested positive for COVID-19.

The 66-year-old tech giant wrote in a tweet Tuesday.... "I'm fortunate to be vaccinated and boosted and have access to testing and great medical care," Gates tweeted.

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/10/1098066371/bill-gates-positive-covid

When will Bill connect 1 + 0 ?; 5/11/22, 7:44 AM
Humperdink said...: > "The consumer price index accelerated 8.3% in April, more than the 8.1% estimate and near the highest level in more than 40 years.

Core CPI, which excludes food and energy, also was higher than expected, rising 6.2%."

Just released via CNBC

Funny that food and energy are not included in the core CPI. Or how the feds lie to the American public.; 5/11/22, 8:01 AM
tim in vermont said...: Basically, the Biden plan is to wait until after the mid terms, then hammer us with $200 a barrel oil by a transport embargo on Russian oil exports.

But don't worry, he feels your pain.; 5/11/22, 8:19 AM
tim in vermont said...: Wait until heating oil goes to $10 a gallon, with the proposed oil transport embargo on Russia. That's what Biden is playing with with this war, after privately telling Zelensky that Ukraine won't be joining NATO, but refusing to make this same commitment to Russia, thereby preventing this war.

Not to mention how the momentum to WWIII is just growing daily.; 5/11/22, 8:23 AM
Joe Smith said...: 'I'm shocked at how ordinary Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh’s house is. It looks like any typical upper-middle class tidy neighborhood suburb to be sure, but I just would've thought something with a tad bit more grandeur to live up the stature and elite-ness of the position.'

I was surprised too.

But if you think about it, SC Justice is one of the few jobs in government where it's tough to get rich via the usual bribes, playing the stock market, foundations, working for Raytheon after you retire, etc.

Unless your spouse is rich, you are just an upper middle class schlub like your neighbors.

And in the DC area, a Justice's salary probably doesn't go very far.

At less than $300k they'd have a tough time living in my neighborhood : ); 5/11/22, 10:08 AM
Joe Smith said...: 'The life inside a woman's womb did not just occur as it did for Virgin Mary.'

Exactly...there are consequences.

And there is also abstinence and birth control.; 5/11/22, 10:09 AM
tim in vermont said...: So the Ukrainians are cutting off Russian gas to Europe. “Join our war or freeze.”; 5/11/22, 10:25 AM
stunned said...: As Biden's Ukrainian Games continue, what does the future look like?; 5/11/22, 11:57 AM
wendybar said...: WHO is benefiting?? Is this Joe's payback to Ukraine??
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/biden-wanted-33b-more-for-ukraine?s=r; 5/11/22, 12:22 PM
wendybar said...: When you lose Chomsky
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1520751923355398144; 5/11/22, 12:25 PM
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Rusty said...: stunned said...
"As Biden's Ukrainian Games continue, what does the future look like?"
Gloomy. Then suddenly very bright. Like the surface of the sun. And then very dark and gloomy for the rest of your life.; 5/11/22, 12:57 PM
tim in vermont said...: In retrospect, it should have been obvious that Bitcoin was inflated by all of the cheap money. That's why experience trumps intellect every time.; 5/11/22, 3:42 PM
Saint Croix said...: Let's pray for the judges who are standing up to the mob.; 5/11/22, 6:01 PM
stephen cooper said...: Joe Smith - what you do not get is that Kavanaugh's house is a 15 minute limousine ride from work. Imagine what a house like that would cost for a Wall Street banker if it were 15 minutes to the North of Wall Street, say somewhere around the 70s on the Upper West Side.

Don't kid yourself, the Supreme Court Justices are super-elites, economically.

That being said, all the male ones have physically unattractive wives and they are unable to engage in adultery even if they wanted to, for obvious reasons, and all the female ones are - I don't want to sound unkind, but none of them are the sort of women who look good in expensive clothes, or cheap clothes, or even ordinary clothes. You might think that is not a big deal, but you are probably not a woman who was in law school 25 or 35 or more years ago, so you have not thought about it from that perspective.; 5/11/22, 7:18 PM
gpm said...: >>A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon we're talking about real money. - D. Everett

Do you perhaps mean Evertt McKinley Dirksen?

--gpm; 5/11/22, 11:21 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: Do you perhaps mean Evertt McKinley Dirksen?

Yes. I realized I got his name backwards, but I was too tired to fix it. I think I've come down with the latest covid. Mild fever, sore throat and minor congestion. That's torpedoed my activities for the rest of the week.; 5/12/22, 1:53 PM