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August 23, 2022

At the Sunrise Café...

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34 comments:

FullMoon said...: Missed opportunity. Attended three day wedding event with a couple hundred strangers as well as some familiar leftists. Forgot all about the latest pro-noun thing.

Would have been fun to ask everybody. Maybe even have some nice pronoun tags printed up.; 8/23/22, 6:47 PM
farmgirl said...: Looks like the promise of a lovely day :0)

It was overcast and so muggy. Finally raining tonight and my cows should be squeaky clean tomorrow!!

Thx to narcisco for the Miller video. Very sad b/c we used to be a self- sufficient country.; 8/23/22, 7:05 PM
Jaq said...: If your country suffers a coup, fomented by a foreign power, and you are in a region who refuses to go along, and the powers that carried out the coup are supplied heavy weapons by that foreign power, and those new rulers make bloody war on your region to "pacify it" and bring it under control of the new government, legitimacy of which relies on having been immediately recognized by the foreign power who instigated the coup in the first place, does that make you a separatist, or more like those kids in Red Dawn?; 8/23/22, 7:34 PM
madAsHell said...: Attended three day wedding event

Three hours is too long!!; 8/23/22, 7:53 PM
West TX Intermediate Crude said...: Query for those knowledgeable about world history:
Has any dominant nation/society ever been so solicitous about the welfare of a people that it totally dominated and defeated as the United States is about Native Americans/Indians? American society tried hard to completely eliminate Indian culture, then had second thoughts and now fetishizes the civilization it nearly destroyed.
I know Canada has pretty much followed our lead, but Canada is America's hat so doesn't count. Australia? I'm more interested in older situations- pop history is that everyone originally killed everyone they defeated, and slavery was a later upgrade.; 8/23/22, 8:15 PM
wildswan said...: I read that FBI personnel from Crossfire Hurricane were in on the Mar-A-Lago raid along with a judge from the Jeffrey Epstein story. That pretty much finished the news for me for a long time. To see the same "news" coming back like swallows to Capistrano as another election comes round was like watching a video of car crash and then watching it run backward - and then forward. Or, as the mentally impoverished futility of this latest charade sinks in, it's like hearing that, in a cost saving measure, the NFL had decided to do replays of the previous 5 seasons in place of real games.; 8/23/22, 8:45 PM
Narr said...: West TX--I'll take a stab (I played someone knowledgeable about world history at work).

America is permeated with Native American culture--names of places and weapons (!), everyday words, Hollywood and all the permutations of the love-hate dynamic. IOW the fetishization is not new.

On the Big Question, not many smaller and weaker peoples in History have literally been genocided out of existence. They just get amalgamated-assimilated or pushed to the margins, and people are surprised to find they exist when some more powerful force runs into them.; 8/23/22, 9:25 PM
narciso said...: Wolverines

Bill ayers used the aborigine
E issue as a lever against australia; 8/23/22, 9:40 PM
narciso said...: https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2022/08/taliban-circulates-video-of-haqqanis-plotting-2010-suicide-raid-against-u-s-troops.php; 8/23/22, 9:58 PM
narciso said...: https://mobile.twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1562268528157376512?cxt=HHwWgIC-id-8pa4rAAAA; 8/23/22, 10:44 PM
gadfly said...: Basically, Judge Aileen Cannon said to Trump:
* Why did you bring this to me rather than Judge Reinhart?
* What can I do that Judge Reinhart can't?
* You know, w/o an injunction, this is useless, right?
* Why the fuck did you bring this to me?
* First you have to deliver this drivel to the DOJ!
* But don't waste too much time on this because . . . no!; 8/23/22, 10:54 PM
narciso said...: Hmm
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/20/notre-dame-cathedral-fire-rebuild-medieval-carpenters-guledon; 8/23/22, 10:57 PM
LibertarianLeisure said...: The lake, calm, the sunset, horizontal, the cloud pattern, a whoosh as a flight pattern, without planes.; 8/23/22, 11:02 PM
Drago said...: Democratical groomers and their groomer allies received quite the kick in the groin, politically speaking, in Florida tonight as 13 county school districts flipped from lefty/dem/NeverTrump pro-CRT/Grooming to conservative. Polls show increasing numbers of minority voters shifting to republican/conservative and voting out these lunatic lefties.

Howard and gadfly hardest hit.; 8/23/22, 11:05 PM
gadfly said...: So wildswan is upset because the NY Post waived Pete Strzok's name around in badmouthing the agent by claiming that "members of his team" were assigned to seize records illegally stored at MAL. The fact is that there never was any evidence that Strzok's anti-Trump texts prejudiced his work — nor that eliminating political views from the bureau’s ranks is possible or desirable. And of course, The Post didn't inform us as to how this information was obtained or why these agents are somehow incompetent. Besides, this all went down five years ago and Strzok hasn't been around.

We know that Trump has known for a long time that he was told that he possessed records to which he wasn't entitled as shown in the Chief Archivist letter published by John Solomon. How hard is it to follow your very own Trump-loving website?; 8/23/22, 11:40 PM
tim maguire said...: gadfly said...Basically, Judge Aileen Cannon said to Trump:

Does Judge Cannon have Aspergers? You make her sound like there is something really wrong with her. That seems unfair, disrespectful.; 8/24/22, 5:35 AM
Howard said...: The history of human conquest is mostly rape culture. The Neanderthal DNA that survives in non Africans today is strictly female. Same is true for Indonesia where the original indigenous tribes dominated later by Chinese diaspora the remaining native DNA is female.; 8/24/22, 6:24 AM
MadTownGuy said...: All this time it was being said that Republicans were shredding the Constitution. Now comes this:
The Constitution Is Broken and Should Not Be Reclaimed

"When liberals lose in the Supreme Court — as they increasingly have over the past half-century — they usually say that the justices got the Constitution wrong. But struggling over the Constitution has proved a dead end. The real need is not to reclaim the Constitution, as many would have it, but instead to reclaim America from constitutionalism.

The idea of constitutionalism is that there needs to be some higher law that is more difficult to change than the rest of the legal order. Having a constitution is about setting more sacrosanct rules than the ones the legislature can pass day to day. Our Constitution’s guarantee of two senators to each state is an example. And ever since the American founders were forced to add a Bill of Rights to get their handiwork passed, national constitutions have been associated with some set of basic freedoms and values that transient majorities might otherwise trample.

But constitutions — especially the broken one we have now — inevitably orient us to the past and misdirect the present into a dispute over what people agreed on once upon a time, not on what the present and future demand for and from those who live now. This aids the right, which insists on sticking with what it claims to be the original meaning of the past.

Arming for war over the Constitution concedes in advance that the left must translate its politics into something consistent with the past. But liberals have been attempting to reclaim the Constitution for 50 years — with agonizingly little to show for it. It’s time for them to radically alter the basic rules of the game.

"; 8/24/22, 6:32 AM
Humperdink said...: Senate candidate John Fetterman, aka Uncle Festerman, (D-Avowed Commie) gave a speech yesterday in my hometown of Pittsburgh, PA. Doing his Midas Touch™ impersonation, his speech was halting and fumbling. This is not surprising as he his recovering from a stroke. Shockingly (sarc), he took zero questions. He is clearly unwell. Doing their best to mirror the major media, the local media made no mention of this issue.; 8/24/22, 6:41 AM
tim maguire said...: gadfly said...The fact is that there never was any evidence that Strzok's anti-Trump texts prejudiced his work

That's not how it works. (Hint: does the phrase "appearance of impropriety" mean anything to you? How about "burden of proof"?)

Trump has known for a long time that he was told that he possessed records to which he wasn't entitled

Do you see your assumptions, or do you need them explained to you? (Hint: "was told"? Think about what you are skating by with that passive wording.); 8/24/22, 6:47 AM
Humperdink said...: More Uncle Festerman. He's trying to come off as everyman. He is mayor of a poor city (Braddock, Pa) in the 'Burgh suburbs. Looking into his background, he has never had a job (hello Bernie Sanders). His parents have financed everything in his life. Do his children attend the local schools? Of course not. The attend the tony Winchester Thurston school located in wealthy Shadyside, Pa. Tuition $25-35K depending on grade level. Paid for by his parents.

Note: In junior high school, I played basketball against Braddock on their home court. Our team "stood out" among the faithful. My mother graduated from Braddock High School in the 1940.; 8/24/22, 6:59 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Humperdink said...

"Senate candidate John Fetterman, aka Uncle Festerman, (D-Avowed Commie) gave a speech yesterday in my hometown of Pittsburgh, PA. Doing his Midas Touch™ impersonation, his speech was halting and fumbling. This is not surprising as he his recovering from a stroke. Shockingly (sarc), he took zero questions. He is clearly unwell. Doing their best to mirror the major media, the local media made no mention of this issue."

Yeah, what is it with the (D) party giving us candidates who are incapable of performing their duties? And yes, the local TV outlets pretty much parrot whatever the networks say. I saw this clearly on our local station (even though they had disaffiliated from NBC) just before the 2016 election; but their new owner (Nexstar) is pretty much aligned with the alphabet broadcast networks.; 8/24/22, 7:12 AM
Humperdink said...: "The fact is that there never was any evidence that Strzok's anti-Trump texts prejudiced his work ..."

How obtuse can a human being be?; 8/24/22, 7:13 AM
Humperdink said...: Biden: Hey let's forgive student debt.

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm: Solar Panels Can Be Financed, So You Don't Have to Have the Big Outlay at the Front.; 8/24/22, 7:46 AM
Jefferson's Revenge said...: Those Florida school board elections better wake some R's up, at least here in PA. We have two floundering candidates- Oz for Senate and Mastriano for Governor. Mastriano has no chance as I don't think he will resonate in the Philly suburbs.

The suburbs here are the battleground. Philly and Pittsburgh will vote D and the central part of the state will vote R. Whoever wins the suburbs wins the state.

The suburbs care about two things- education and crime. If I don't see ads by mid-September from both R candidates hitting the D's hard on both issues there is no chance. For god's sake, if there is anyone who should be able to connect in the suburbs it's Oz. It's a very simple message- I am an MD. I was against lockdowns and school closures. I am against crime. My opponent is the exact opposite. Plus, my opponent is a little rich boy and I got an MD degree and became successful in the competitive media world. I worked he did not. Just keep hitting those points, please.; 8/24/22, 7:49 AM
Andrew said...: I saw that Fetterman speech (it's very quick). Wow. How excruciating.

Dr. Oz, the worst candidate in the world, may actually have a chance.

Fetterman, like Biden, needs someone to tell him he should withdraw for his own health's sake. He is not a fit man, and is incapable of handling the job.; 8/24/22, 8:03 AM
Jefferson's Revenge said...: Andrew- I had hopes for Oz. I figured he would get the Trump votes and siphon off some of the suburban women/men. I think that's the winning combination. It seems like he has underperformed.

On the plus side, I have a friend who has met him and knows some of his campaign people. He's been having quiet meetings/talks with small groups and my friend expects his campaign to become more visible after Labor Day when the general public starts paying attention. I hope he is right. Fetterman would be an embarrassment - he looks like a guy from the movie Idiocracy.; 8/24/22, 8:46 AM
TickTock said...: Thanks Narciso, for the links; 8/24/22, 9:19 AM
Andrew said...: @Jefferson's Revenge,
That's good to hear. I hope so. Same with JD Vance here in Ohio. His campaign is MIA compared to his rival. I'm hoping he's holding his fire until it really matters

But Oz and Vance are very lousy candidates.; 8/24/22, 9:57 AM
Narr said...: Look up Sorbs and Wends. They are still there--some even in Texas--even though very few have heard of them.

The Krauts famously attempted to exterminate the Herero and Nama (Fat Herman's daddy was there) but there are still some around.; 8/24/22, 11:27 AM
Drago said...: Andrew: "@Jefferson's Revenge,
That's good to hear. I hope so. Same with JD Vance here in Ohio. His campaign is MIA compared to his rival. I'm hoping he's holding his fire until it really matters"

JD Vance will defeat Ryan by 6 points or more.

We've seen the same democratical/media polling BS over and over again in Ohio over the years.

And nothing is going to get Mitch McConnell and the DC nevertrump/establishment morons to develop a coherent nationwide electoral strategy and execute it.

Nothing.

They want to lose to cleanse Trumpy candidates, in the same way McConnell led the deep state charge to harass and undermine the Tea Party. That was all Mitch.

In the same way Mitch teamed up with Paul Ryan to make sure no Trump campaign promises were fulfilled despite solid republican majorities.; 8/24/22, 2:52 PM
gadfly said...: tim maguire said...
gadfly said...Basically, Judge Aileen Cannon said to Trump:

Does Judge Cannon have Aspergers? You make her sound like there is something really wrong with her. That seems unfair, disrespectful.

You are the one showing no respect and Donald Trump has never shown respect either. According to competent lawyers who know, Trump's lawyers could not write a proper lawsuit and deliberately sent it to a Trump-appointed judge hoping to get favorable love from the forever grateful appointee. But Judge Cannon knows that she must remain law-abiding to keep her job.

Next, we will come to TFG's "Rule 41(g)" lawsuit demanding a return of personal property because all those classified documents at Mar-a-Lago are his!

Preceding was the Trump Civil RICO lawsuit against Hillary and anyone else who Trump put on his enemy list which will soon be tossed by Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks without a trial.

“Notwithstanding plaintiff’s rousing, all-caps call to action, he waited four years, four months, and twenty-four days before filing suit,” wrote Clinton’s attorney David Markus, citing several 2017 tweets from Trump, which suggest he first discovered the alleged conspiracy outside the four-year limitation for civil RICO claims.; 8/24/22, 3:25 PM
gadfly said...: "Jefferson's Revenge" thinks that Fetterman would be an embarrassment because "he looks like a guy from the movie Idiocracy (whatever that was about)."

Whatever he looks like is not an issue, since all he has to do is let Oz do the talking, especially with his difficulty with the English language. He didn't know what "crudité" is and, as a result, Fetterman picked up a cool million in donations. It seems that the not-so-real Dr. Oz said (in his Wizard role from behind the curtain) "John Fetterman, would have never had a stroke had he "ever eaten a vegetable in his life." Welcome to the Keystone State, Mehmet Oz!; 8/24/22, 3:53 PM
Marc in Eugene said...: I was interested to see that the French attachment to scarves (thank you, Narciso)-- every character principal or featured in every French television serial wears at some point or another a scarf twisted around his or her neck-- has its origin in the mediaeval period, as demonstrated at Guédelon's gift shop. If rebuilding Nôtre-Dame requires the universalisation of this historical French custom, so be it.; 8/24/22, 5:13 PM