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21 మే, 2025

At the Wednesday Night Café...

... you can talk about whatever you want.

66 కామెంట్‌లు:

Iman చెప్పారు...: “He’s a bit overrated to begin with. He’s the kind of bloke who should just shut up and play.”

—— Pete Townsend, says Bruce Springsteen ruined everyone’s night when he brought politics to the stage.

https://x.com/catturd2/status/1925208626991395189?s=19; 21-05-25 6:25 PM
Jon Ericson చెప్పారు...: "He's a pretty little thing, isn't he?"; 21-05-25 6:32 PM
Kakistocracy చెప్పారు...: Republicans trying to pass a bill that balloons the already sky-high budget deficit while US credit is downgraded and US treasuries selloff again--raising borrowing costs which in turn further increase the budget deficits...

Sheer blind incompetence.; 21-05-25 6:37 PM
Big Mike చెప్పారు...: Robert Kennedy, Jr. vs Patty Murray, Marco Rubio vs Chris Van Hollen, Donsld Trump vs Cyril Ramaphosa, and Tom Homan vs people who think sex trafficking of 14 year old girls is perfectly okay, and now we have EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin calling Senator Adam Schiff “an aspiring novelist.” What a great time to be alive!

This is what “speaking truth to assholes” looks like.; 21-05-25 6:40 PM
Kakistocracy చెప్పారు...: Is the Freedom Caucus gonna tell Trump the bond market is getting "yippy" again?; 21-05-25 6:43 PM
Leland చెప్పారు...: Biden White House put political rivals on watchlist as if they were terrorists. They used intelligence agencies to spy on members of their own party that didn’t toe the line.; 21-05-25 6:44 PM
Big Mike చెప్పారు...: Sorry. Zeldin called Schiff “an aspiring fiction writer,” not “an aspiring novelist.” I regret the error.; 21-05-25 6:51 PM
320Busdriver చెప్పారు...: Landmark legal case of medical battery in Schara family v Ascension Hospital and doctors and nurses in their personal capacities begins on June 2 in Appleton WI. Daughter Grace perished in the hospital in Oct 2021fighting Covid and a diabolical staff motivated by protocols. Staff had Graces dad removed( he was her guardian), she was administered a lethal cocktail of precedex, lorazepam, and then morphine. When family asked to help her they refused as the Dr had placed a DNR on Grace without the family’s consent. Apparently that is legal in the hospital in WI..this pierces the medical malpractice protections and I expect there to be much coverage. See graceschara.com and scroll to the bottom in the yellow “what happened to Grace”; 21-05-25 6:55 PM
Iman చెప్పారు...: Return of the fruit fly 🪰 kaKAW; 21-05-25 6:56 PM
Jaq చెప్పారు...: We know from the financial crisis that the bond rating agencies are puppets. What was their first clue that the US is stretched to the limit. Was it when Biden borrowed trillions of dollars to payoff his supporters in one way or another for things that were of no actual use to Americans?

No! Spending a trillion dollars that we didn't have on electric cars nobody wants didn't bother the bond rating agencies.; 21-05-25 6:56 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: I mentioned that Paul Vidich a former exec of an electronics company, (and nephew of Frank Olsen) since we were speaking about MK Ultra the other day, has a tome, where he tries to make the Steele Dossier make sense, but this being fiction, it can't; 21-05-25 6:56 PM
Leland చెప్పారు...: What was their first clue that the US is stretched to the limit.

Following up the 2007/2008 financial crisis caused by giving out bad loans with a bailout then announcing Cash for Clunkers to get poor people to trade in good used cars for new cars they couldn’t afford further deepening the financial crisis.; 21-05-25 7:04 PM
Jim at చెప్పారు...: I'm curious as to how long it's going to take for the left to go from claiming today 'there are no white people being killed in South Africa' to 'it's a good thing white people are being killed in South Africa.'; 21-05-25 7:10 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: about six weeks; 21-05-25 7:15 PM
Big Mike చెప్పారు...: And I nearly forgot about Dr. Jay Bhattacharys speaking truth to NIH bureaucrats. NIH used to be a much-respected agency, today they are thought of as the agency that gave American medical research grant money to China to make the COVID-19 Coronavirus in their Wuhan laboratory. The bureaucrats fidn’t much like hearing it. Too bad.; 21-05-25 7:19 PM
Big Mike చెప్పారు...: @narcisvo, @Jim at, I’ll take the under on that.; 21-05-25 7:20 PM
Iman చెప్పారు...: @Grummz
- there are no farmer murders in SA, that’s a myth.
- Okay there are, but it’s not racial <- you are here.
- okay it is racial, but that’s a good thing.
The eternal msm news arc advanced one step today.”; 21-05-25 7:24 PM
Rabel చెప్పారు...: I'll try to tell a story about a recent encounter with law enforcement. It's kind of long so you probably should just scroll on.

1. The scene of the crime. My driveway is about four car lengths long and has a steep incline. There are raised beds near the house and you have to go part way down the drive to see the front lawn clearly. The grass needed cutting.

2. The accused. Lately I've been dealing with an SI joint problem and using a cane. I'm otherwise healthy but it's hard to walk upright and I wobble like a penguin.

3. Set up. I live on a cul-de-sac with six decent houses in a nearly crime free area. I seldom go out front in my lounge wear but the coast was clear and I walked half way down the drive to evaluate the situation in my jammies, a ragged t-shirt, Crocs, hatless with my hair askew and a three day gray beard.

4. Initial approach. So I'm standing there wobbling, leaning on the cane in my casual wear when a police SUV pulls up in the street right in front of me. And another pulled up behind him. Great, some action!

5. After several seconds he rolls down his window and says, "We got a report that somebody was walking around the street knocking on doors."

6. The inquisition. "You live here" he said. I answered in the affirmative and pointed back at the house. He repeated the line about a doorknocker and then asked conversationally what the zip code was here.

7. Saved by the Lord. My current zip code is one number off from my long time home town zip and I have to stop and think every time I write it down. I answered correctly without pause and was probably lucky I did.

8. What the Hell. In my naive innocence I thought he really wanted to know the zip. Then he said in a serious tone, "You haven't been walking around knocking on doors, have you?" I chuckled and said no, still not understanding the situation.

9. The disappointing finish. They drove down to the end of the street and stayed there until I wobbled back inside.

10. The final comprehension. When I got inside I finally realized that the cop though I was a confused old man wandering around knocking on random doors and, more importantly, that I looked like a confused old man who just might wander around knocking on random doors.

Crap.

I told you to just scroll.; 21-05-25 7:36 PM
guitar joe చెప్పారు...: "Pete Townsend, says Bruce Springsteen ruined everyone’s night when he brought politics to the stage." Pete never said it.; 21-05-25 7:36 PM
Leland చెప్పారు...: The officers in my neighborhood have my cellphone number and will text me if they have questions. Door knockers are a problem, because they usually come at night then I have to hear about it when trying to go to bed. Alas, it is the only action we tend to get, and I’m happy with the level or boredom.; 21-05-25 7:42 PM
FormerLawClerk చెప్పారు...: Kakistocracy wrote: "Republicans trying to pass a bill that balloons the already sky-high budget deficit ..."

This is why they've sidelined DOGE and fired Elon Musk. It's all good when you're discovering the waste, fraud and abuse in the Democrat spending bills ... but now Republicans are going to own this shit show.

So they can't very well have Elon finding all the fraud in THEIR budgets, can they?; 21-05-25 7:43 PM
Kakistocracy చెప్పారు...: The bond market has issued its verdict on the Trump tax bill. It is an irresponsible piece of legislation that is the opposite of 'beautiful.' Unless he's aiming for a 'beautiful' bankruptcy 🤣

Thank you bond vigilantes!; 21-05-25 7:53 PM
Jaq చెప్పారు...: I have kind of concluded that Kakistocracy is a bad faith commenter. He constantly hijacks threads with off topic rants he breathlessly carries over here fresh from the DNC or one of their many outlets. He is a bit of a monomaniac, to boot. It seems like his main purpose here is to disrupt the flow of conversation. I don't know if he is responding to some kind of "action alert" or he is being paid by some NGO, or whatever, but anyway, I am done wasting my time responding to him.; 21-05-25 7:59 PM
Jaq చెప్పారు...: Johnny can't read. No, this time it's really true:

Teachers rant

One teacher says that her seventh graders can't read and write at the same level as her 5th grade special ed kids used to.

But let's worry about implicit bias at the university level as our biggest problem.; 21-05-25 8:05 PM
Kakistocracy చెప్పారు...: The fundamental misunderstanding of Americans in the last year: They talk of the balance of payments as a problem. The reality is that Americans were being handed cash at low interest rates by foreigners to invest in America and to consume having a great life in America. Now Trump has decided that he doesn't want that money and would rather pay higher interest rates, make trips to Europe more expensive for Americans and have much higher inflation that is inevitable as the deficit must now be funded by money printing.; 21-05-25 8:06 PM
Michael చెప్పారు...: Here's a question I pose to my left friends: Honest question. Aren't you the least bit angry how your political allies deceived you about Biden's dementia? The Biden family, the White House staff, his campaign staff, and about 90% of the corporate media; their efforts at deflecting and denying the president's deteriorating mental state led you and others down a path to a catastrophic electoral beating. At what point do you direct your ire at the architects of this travesty and start demanding accountability?; 21-05-25 8:14 PM
Aggie చెప్పారు...: @Rabel, you shoulda just told him you're the President and sent him on his way.; 21-05-25 8:29 PM
Mark చెప్పారు...: 'I have kind of concluded that Kakistocracy is a bad faith commenter.'
Drago wins that crown here by many many times what Kak says.; 21-05-25 8:41 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit చెప్పారు...: Video: Taper's tale of the tape.

What changed?; 21-05-25 8:45 PM
Aggie చెప్పారు...: ఈ కామెంట్‌ను రచయిత తీసివేశారు.; 21-05-25 8:47 PM
Aggie చెప్పారు...: @Jaq ..."I have kind of concluded that K is a bad faith commenter...."

Who ? When I go to the beach to enjoy the surroundings, sometimes there is litter. But you step over it and move on to the water. So all I can say is: Don't let an inconsequential eyesore ruin your day at the beach.; 21-05-25 8:48 PM
Iman చెప్పారు...: ఈ కామెంట్‌ను రచయిత తీసివేశారు.; 21-05-25 8:50 PM
Mark చెప్పారు...: Kristi Noem really nailed her definition of Habeus Corpus.
There are not enough lols; 21-05-25 9:12 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit చెప్పారు...: ఈ కామెంట్‌ను రచయిత తీసివేశారు.; 21-05-25 9:39 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit చెప్పారు...: BTW... (as Biden used to say) how did Biden's dog Commander do in the book? Remember Commander?

Did Tapper leave the dog out?; 21-05-25 9:41 PM
Iman చెప్పారు...: “There are not enough lols”

You get your kicks how/when/where you can, Mark. Given what your crew is dealing with, it’s only going to get much, much worse. You fools will be a laughing stock and source of amusement for years and years to come. 😆; 21-05-25 9:53 PM
Jupiter చెప్పారు...: When I turn on captions on that video, the chorus is;
"Hey! Jetzt geht's ab.
Wir schieben sie alle ab."

Which, Google translate turns into;
"Hey! Now it's off,
We push them all off."

I suspect that "schieben" is the root of the Anglo-Saxon "shove".; 21-05-25 10:14 PM
Jupiter చెప్పారు...: "I have kind of concluded that Kakistocracy is a bad faith commenter".
Eh. Has anyone ever seen Kaki respond to another posting? I think Kaki is a bot, dispensing the glop-of-the day. It seems to be especially inclined to convoluted economic arguments. I would not be surprised if it is run by some hedge fund. I mean, do we really imagine that hedge funds don't run bots that comment on high-profile blogs?; 21-05-25 11:00 PM
Jupiter చెప్పారు...: Mark, on the other hand, is clearly not a bot.; 21-05-25 11:07 PM
Jupiter చెప్పారు...: "miscaught".; 21-05-25 11:11 PM
Jupiter చెప్పారు...: Uncaught, ill-caught, recaught, ex-caught, well-caught, noncaught, precaught, subcaught, semi-caught ...; 21-05-25 11:14 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: when you step in droppings you recognize it, speaking of, what of the amateur volkisher crowd, say about this evening; 21-05-25 11:23 PM
effinayright చెప్పారు...: You gotta love this response to a fake woman Congresscritter :

https://x.com/joma_gc/status/1924451510894649628

(and it makes you think: what if male trannies don't get routine prostate exams, and wind up with undetected Stage 4??); 21-05-25 11:42 PM
Big Mike చెప్పారు...: BREAKING: DC police ID the suspected killer of two Israeli embassy staffers outside the Jewish Museum tonight as 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez of Chicago. They say after he was in custody, he yelled “Free Palestine”, and told police where he discarded the gun. The victims were reportedly a couple, and the man had bought a ring in preparation to propose to her.

This is insane; 21-05-25 11:50 PM
wildswan చెప్పారు...: Rabel
I realized I had forgotten to put out the garbage cans so I checked the street to see if it was empty. It was and I raced out in pajamas with my hair not brushed. As I toiled up the driveway pulling the can behind me, the street suddenly filled with passersby who were walking dogs, going to school, enjoying the sun, and looking over at me with my wild gray hair and bright-checked pajamas. As I read your story, I thought to myself "at least the police weren't there though everybody else was."; 22-05-25 12:43 AM
Clyde చెప్పారు...: I took a day trip to Okeechobee, Florida, yesterday to visit the Okeechobee Battlefield Historic State Park. It was the site of the Battle of Lake Okeechobee on Christmas Day, 1837, during the Second Seminole War. It isn't the kind of place you will stumble across; you actually have to look for it, since it's on a side street of State Road 78, which runs along the north edge of Lake Okeechobee. There isn't really much at the site, other than some memorials and the frame of a chickee hut, which lost its thatching during Hurricane Milton last year. I had a nice chat with the park's volunteer ranger and she recommended visiting the nearby pier that overlooks the lake, which I did.

If you are curious about the battle, which launched Zachary Taylor to prominence and put him on the road to the Presidency in 1848, here is the Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lake_Okeechobee; 22-05-25 3:44 AM
wendybar చెప్పారు...: guitar joe said...
"Pete Townsend, says Bruce Springsteen ruined everyone’s night when he brought politics to the stage." Pete never said it.

5/21/25, 7:36 PM

I would respect him more if he did, because it is TRUE! Shut up and sing.; 22-05-25 3:52 AM
wendybar చెప్పారు...: "Democracy cannot function without informed citizens. And citizens cannot be informed when they are being systematically lied to -- by government agencies, media platforms, and political leaders who view the truth as a threat to power.

The real crisis in America isn’t Donald Trump. It’s the normalization of institutional lying, the abandonment of due process, and the transformation of journalism into narrative enforcement."
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/05/unmasking_the_real_threat_to_america_s_democracy.html; 22-05-25 4:53 AM
Jaq చెప్పారు...: "The victims were reportedly a couple, and the man had bought a ring in preparation to propose to her."

That's pretty bad, almost as bad as the Ukrainians assassinating a potential rival to Zelensky yesterday, a man who was living in exile in Spain, killed as he dropped his kids off at school. Four bullets to the body and one to the head right in front of his children, right outside of a school. Remember that NYT article about how the CIA set up those training bases in Ukraine right after the 2014 coup to train the Ukrainians in infiltration and assassination?

Wouldn't be surprised today to see news stories that purport that it was the Russians who did it, because reasons.; 22-05-25 5:43 AM
Jaq చెప్పారు...: Everything they say about Putin being a thug applies to Zelensky.; 22-05-25 5:44 AM
Drago చెప్పారు...: Dumb Lefty Mark: "I have kind of concluded that Kakistocracy is a bad faith commenter.'
Drago wins that crown here by many many times what Kak says."

LOL

Nuh huh!; 22-05-25 6:04 AM
320Busdriver చెప్పారు...: Had a wonderful trip to Germany in April. Spent time in Waiblingen, suburb of Stuttgart, Porsche factory tour 911 line, Cochem on the Moselle, and Bacharach on the Rhine.

Every English speaking person who I had a conversation with brought up Trump unsolicited. So media in Europe is apparently just as garbage as it is here. Also mentions of climate change.

Giant windmills everywhere. When I look it up interweb says Germany gets +50% of their electricity from renewables. A skeptic co-worker tells me this must be a false distortion.???; 22-05-25 6:07 AM
Jaq చెప్పారు...: Sure, Germany gets a lot of its energy from renewables. What they don't tell you is that it's not enough, and that their economy is being starved for energy and large industries are either shutting down or leaving. This is why Fred Merz needs external enemies, needs them so badly he is willing to create them where none exist.; 22-05-25 6:11 AM
Drago చెప్పారు...: Dumb Lefty Mark does not appreciate those who remember all the dumb lefty things Mark posts nor does Dumb Lefty Mark appreciste those who point out the obvious consequences of Dumb Lefty Mark's policy preferences.

Now I must return to my post surgical recovery.; 22-05-25 6:12 AM
Jaq చెప్పారు...: I did a river cruise on the Rhine, and one of the coolest, and spookiest things I saw was passing an abandoned nuclear plant at night. The only light on the whole thing was a flashing red light at the top of some tower, otherwise it was dark. Between cutting themselves off from Russian gas and shutting down nuclear, Germany has screwed themselves.; 22-05-25 6:13 AM
Jaq చెప్పారు...: Mark is a much better commenter than that other guy. I rarely agree with him, but he does usually try to engage in the subject at hand, and his stuff does sort of seem original to him, rather than just repeating some point he just heard somewhere else.

If you watch ESPN, they can always find som stat that makes last night's game, whatever day and whatever game, "totally amazing!" It's because there are so many stats, one of them is always going to be out of the norm, and yet the world doesn't seem to end. For instance last night it was the "youngest Yankee ever to hit a walk off home run." What will it be tomorrow? The first time a left handed pitcher up from the minors for a cup of coffee threw an intentional balk? There is always something.; 22-05-25 6:19 AM
320Busdriver చెప్పారు...: Looks like Porsche might be regretting its plan to convert more of its sports car offerings to all electric. They’ve delayed the changeover mostly due to battery supplier issues. Maybe they’ll come to their senses before it’s too late.; 22-05-25 6:27 AM
boatbuilder చెప్పారు...: Michael at 8:14--I tried that with the "Russian Collusion" thing and the Mueller Report. No response, other than changing the subject.; 22-05-25 6:37 AM
Jaq చెప్పారు...: Europe doesn't have a free press. The founder of Telegraph was flying over France and his plane was forced down, and he is saying that the head of French intelligence said that he should shut down conservative voiced on Telegram in Romania. Well, in Romania, the globalists won a shock victory, against all expectations. But I am sure that the election was totally on the up and up. Almost all of the mainstream press in Europe prints what their ruling parties tell them to print, as long as that ruling party is globalist. In Slovakia, it was populist, and so the press went after Fico hammer and tongs, calling him evil, Hitler, a Putin stooge, all of it, gave them the Trump treatment. And guess what? A random guy in a crowd took it upon himself to rid the world of that evil man. Well he survived, barely.; 22-05-25 7:41 AM
wendybar చెప్పారు...: THIS is so cool!! Kudos to their teachers!!

Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
·
Follow
NEW: High school graduates answer questions from their sixth-grade selves.

Graduates from McCallie School, located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, sat down to answer questions from ... themselves.

The video amassed a whopping 37 million views & 8.5 million likes on TikTok.
https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1925258860455240163; 22-05-25 8:56 AM
Rusty చెప్పారు...: Mark said...
"'I have kind of concluded that Kakistocracy is a bad faith commenter.'
Drago wins that crown here by many many times what Kak says."
Please, Mark, point out anytime Drago has been less than truthful or inaccurate in his assessments. Go into as much detail as you like.; 22-05-25 1:25 PM
Mark చెప్పారు...: Rusty, Drago misrepresents what people say all the time. Claiming that you haven't seen that is just not believable.

I think his inability to respond without personal insults also defines a clear lower standard than any other poster on this blog. Bad faith commenting and personal insults are two sodes of the same coin.; 22-05-25 1:42 PM
Drago చెప్పారు...: Dumb Left Mark: "Rusty, Drago misrepresents what people say all the time. "

Should be a simple thing then to offer up an example, eh?

Reality: Dumb Left Mark peddles nonsense, has the nonsense shoved back at him and he simply cannot deal with that.

Its no more complicated than that.; 22-05-25 1:58 PM
Iman చెప్పారు...: You should take Drago’s insults to heart, Mark. They can only improve you as a person, which would be a big step forward for you.; 22-05-25 4:42 PM
Mark చెప్పారు...: Insults. Thats the best you got?; 22-05-25 6:24 PM
Iman చెప్పారు...: No, far from it. I’d gift you with a few more, but it’s a beautiful evening out, have a good basketball game on and besides… you lefties have enough misery to deal with. It would be too cruel to pile on.; 22-05-25 9:21 PM

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