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13 జనవరి, 2026

Sunrise — 6:58, 7:21, 7:35, 7:51, 8:03.

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Yancey Ward చెప్పారు...: I really like #4- I like that cloud formation on the right.; 13-01-26 5:23 PM
hawkeyedjb చెప్పారు...: Foreboding... Dark... Cold. Brrr!; 13-01-26 5:31 PM
tcrosse చెప్పారు...: Number 4 looks like a huge wave breaking over the lake. It needs a guy on a surf board.; 13-01-26 5:34 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: Crying Woman Shaves Her Head to Protest Shooting of 'Renee Cook' – Twitchy https://share.google/XPMMJVA0kwfXdxAw8; 13-01-26 6:00 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: https://thenationalpulse.com/2026/01/13/trump-to-halt-federal-funds-to-sanctuary-cities-and-states/; 13-01-26 6:01 PM
Inga చెప్పారు...: “Food prices climbed sharply in December, providing little relief to consumers at the grocery store and adding to the political pressure on President Trump to improve affordability.

The 0.7 percent jump in food prices from a month earlier was the largest one-month increase in grocery prices since October 2022.

Compared with a year earlier, overall food prices were up 3.1 percent and grocery prices were up 2.4 percent in December.“

So much for making groceries more affordable, oh that’s right, affordability is just a “hoax”.

NYT; 13-01-26 6:08 PM
Narr చెప్పారు...: Wondrous tundraous.; 13-01-26 6:11 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: That stacked cloud formation; 13-01-26 6:12 PM
Achilles చెప్పారు...: The best part of the last week was having the Democrats try to turn Renee Good into the next George Floyd, and watching them utterly fail.; 13-01-26 6:19 PM
tcrosse చెప్పారు...: Of all the ridiculous ideas going around, none is more ridiculous than the idea that the enemy of your enemy is your friend. A close second is the idea that diversity is our strength.; 13-01-26 6:26 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: https://share.google/JFO6srvVGIKIeCqbR; 13-01-26 6:27 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: That detail is concerning; 13-01-26 6:28 PM
Original Mike చెప్పారు...: Holy crap.
"from 1966 to 1991, Danish authorities ran a systematic program to suppress Greenland’s birth rate by effectively sterilizing thousands of women and girls, some as young as 12"; 13-01-26 6:30 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: Because said enemy might have different motivation

See some elements of the mujahadeen (that became al queda); 13-01-26 6:31 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: No one remarked on the assault kangaroos; 13-01-26 6:32 PM
Inga చెప్పారు...: “Holy crap.
"from 1966 to 1991, Danish authorities ran a systematic program to suppress Greenland’s birth rate by effectively sterilizing thousands of women and girls, some as young as 12"”

https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/unwanted-sterilization-and-eugenics-programs-in-the-united-states/

“Coerced sterilization is a shameful part of America’s history, and one doesn’t have to go too far back to find examples of it. Used as a means of controlling “undesirable” populations – immigrants, people of color, poor people, unmarried mothers, the disabled, the mentally ill – federally-funded sterilization programs took place in 32 states throughout the 20th century.”; 13-01-26 6:37 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: https://t.co/J9zRDhGbGV; 13-01-26 6:38 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: Margaret sanger uber racist, patron saint of planned parenthood; 13-01-26 6:39 PM
Iman చెప్పారు...: Ayatollah’s message to the world:

https://x.com/persianjewess/status/2010981437202448740?s=20; 13-01-26 6:41 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: Secretary Marco Rubio on X: "Today, we are designating the Lebanese, Egyptian, and Jordanian chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist groups. Under President Trump's leadership, the United States will eliminate the capabilities and operations of Muslim Brotherhood chapters that threaten U.S. citizens" / X https://share.google/j8XEfbVO0K6ICBbYC; 13-01-26 6:43 PM
Jim at చెప్పారు...: Of course Inga cherry-picks some numbers from a biased source and ignores inflation stayed level at 2.7 percent. And beat expectations.

And as long as fuel costs continue to drop ...; 13-01-26 6:43 PM
Jaq చెప్పారు...: I am with Marjorie Taylor Greene. I hope Trump gets spanked in the mid-terms, not because of Minnesota, but because he has completely betrayed "America first" and has decided that he is going to be more neocon than the neocons, the best neocon you ever saw, neocon, I am sure he has told them.

I just feel utterly betrayed. I know a lot of you are happy to. follow his bright red hat everywhere he goes, but why is it that Americans can't let countries like Iran and Venezuela govern themselves?

Oh, we are making these wars to "help" them, I keep forgetting. We know better how the Iranians should live. They treat women badly! But in Afghanistan, we funded the Islamic revolution that overthrew the communists, who, say what you will, treated women equally and believed in educating them, and now, due to our tender ministrations, these women are wrapped in burkas, but in Iran? It's just the opposite!

It's almost like they lie to us about their real motives. I really thought that Trump was different, and was against this stuff, but he is more Joe Biden than Joe Biden. More George Bush than George Bush. I hope Trump gets impeached and removed.; 13-01-26 6:45 PM
Iman చెప్పారు...: Add eugenics to the long list of shameful actions and policies the Left has created and implemented for nearly two centuries.; 13-01-26 6:46 PM
Achilles చెప్పారు...: Inga said...

“Holy crap.
"from 1966 to 1991, Danish authorities ran a systematic program to suppress Greenland’s birth rate by effectively sterilizing thousands of women and girls, some as young as 12"”

https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/unwanted-sterilization-and-eugenics-programs-in-the-united-states/

“Coerced sterilization is a shameful part of America’s history, and one doesn’t have to go too far back to find examples of it. Used as a means of controlling “undesirable” populations – immigrants, people of color, poor people, unmarried mothers, the disabled, the mentally ill – federally-funded sterilization programs took place in 32 states throughout the 20th century.”

Inga is right. We should never forget about Margaret Sanger and the Eugenicists who were prominent in the United States and went on to found Planned Parenthood.

After people were repulsed by their push for Eugenics they moved on to abortion to deal with all of the unwanted babies.

Democrats have been rotten terrible people from the days they fought to keep and protect slavery.; 13-01-26 6:47 PM
Leland చెప్పారు...: Coerced sterilization is a shameful part of America’s history

History? It still seems policy in California.; 13-01-26 6:51 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: West virginia v buck, the evil holmes decision; 13-01-26 6:51 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: ఈ కామెంట్‌ను రచయిత తీసివేశారు.; 13-01-26 6:51 PM
FormerLawClerk చెప్పారు...: The best part of the last week was having the Democrats try to turn Renee Good into the next George Floyd, and watching them utterly fail.

Did they tho? - thor.jpg

Other than the one butch who died, I'd say they pulled off an excellent piece of domestic terrorism.

The second domestic terrorist, who was filming the attack and who brought the killed terrorist to the "anti-ICE" intifada, wasn't even arrested and is now a millionaire.

The Democrats have laundered $1.5 million in bribes to her via GoFundMe (same outfit they used to pay off Kristine Blasey Ford for her false testimony against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.) GoFundMe - terrorist funding agency - isn't under investigation.

I'd say over all, other than one butch lost, they did OK. The other members of the terrorist cell aren't even under investigation - including their primary funder George Soros' son.

Pretty good day's work, and only one casualty. And there's plenty more Democrat butch lesbians where they found that one.; 13-01-26 6:54 PM
Achilles చెప్పారు...: Jaq said...

I am with Marjorie Taylor Greene. I hope Trump gets spanked in the mid-terms, not because of Minnesota, but because he has completely betrayed "America first" and has decided that he is going to be more neocon than the neocons, the best neocon you ever saw, neocon, I am sure he has told them.

Your problem is you don't understand what the real problem Americans had with the Neocons. The real problem with the Neocons is that they didn't act in America's interest.

We are not anti-intervention. We are anti stupid interventions that cost money and do nothing.

What Trump did to Venezuela was risky and it was interventionist, but the rewards have already been more than worth it.

The fall of the mullahs in Iran is pure good for the US and our investment there is minuscule.

We are mostly out of Ukraine and NATO is almost over. It is the fault of Republican traitors in Congress that we are still in Ukraine at all.; 13-01-26 6:55 PM
buwaya చెప్పారు...: Jaq is, as we would say in Spanish, un maniatico. Someone whose manias have taken over his mind, and driven him up the thinnest branches of absurdity.
I would like to say this is the result of a lack of broad experience and thus perspective, but this is not always the case. A lot of people are completely incapable of perspective. Its just so, sadly.; 13-01-26 6:59 PM
buwaya చెప్పారు...: Achilles is not at the Jaq level. Yet.; 13-01-26 7:00 PM
Achilles చెప్పారు...: FormerLawClerk said...

Pretty good day's work, and only one casualty. And there's plenty more Democrat butch lesbians where they found that one.

Look at the dogs that aren't barking.

You barely see Renee Good's picture around anymore. You know that this isn't polling well for them.

You know that the smile on Renee Good's face as she hit the gas and hit that officer made a million more Trump supporters.

We didn't have X when George Floyd happened. Most people didn't learn what a scumbag Floyd was.

But everyone on X knows that Renee Good was a horrible unemployed mother who dropped her kid off at daycare to go attack ICE agents with her car. That isn't exactly martyr material.; 13-01-26 7:01 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: Verdad que si
Those who were saved from llving in a communist or islamist hellhole understand whatx at stake; 13-01-26 7:01 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: Well x was on a leash under dorsey that fat slop

And zuckerberg was falling suit; 13-01-26 7:03 PM
Achilles చెప్పారు...: buwaya said...

Achilles is not at the Jaq level. Yet.

Everything about Ukraine was stupid and was the fault of Biden and Johnson.

Ukraine would be a whole country right now with millions more men if they signed the Minsk accords like Zelensky promised to in his campaign.; 13-01-26 7:03 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: Probably putin wouldnt have tried that stupid stunt, he started the buildup as soon as the inauguration ribbons had been cleared out; 13-01-26 7:07 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: These are the tik tok dancer who showed unseemly enthusiasm at the death of charlie kirk; 13-01-26 7:13 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: And im being charitable in the characterization; 13-01-26 7:14 PM
Kakistocracy చెప్పారు...: Trump says the U.S. will take 'very strong action' against Iran if the regime starts hanging protesters ~ Fox News

Well, here's to another Republican Presidency squandered in a Middle-Eastern Regime-Change Forever War. DOGE and ICE were fun, but war always wins out in the end. Turns out it's completely true, it doesn't matter which Republican you vote for, you end up getting John McCain.

Too bad there is no help for American protesters in Minneapolis. But don't worry, regime change is coming in America too.; 13-01-26 7:18 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: Did we ever find out where she lived even spokeo was oblique about an address; 13-01-26 7:19 PM
Big Mike చెప్పారు...: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reported this week that up to 10% of the federal budget is lost to fraud annually. Frankly, I think that’s low, and it would not surprise me if the true figure was as much as twice that. Towards the end of my career I had a short gig at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). One of the things I discovered was that the entire model for handling fraud was broken. The normal pattern was unless the claim was caught by some pretty coarse screening the normal approach was to pay the claim, then check it more closely, and if it was determined to be fraudulent then claw back the money as best the gov’t could.

Problem #1, since clawbacks involve the courts, it is time-consuming and requires paying for lawyers.

Problem #2, as one might guess, some fraudulent claims are just too small to justify the resources to go after them. Individually they are not worth pursuing, but collectively they add up to a lot.

And there are many other problems besides. There’s a lot of work to be done, and it’s work thst no Democrat will do, so it’s up to Trump snd Bessent and the rest of their team. I wish them well and I wish the TDS sufferers who try to impede them in their efforts a death even slower and more painful than the cannier that killed Scott Adams.; 13-01-26 7:25 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: Only the kansaa and va addresses appear

How does that happen; 13-01-26 7:26 PM
Jersey Fled చెప్పారు...: Inga cherry picked one months data showing a 0.7% increase in food prices in December. I’m sure she doesn’t even know she did it since whatever sources she uses don’t tell her the full story.

Food prices for the full year 2025 including the outsized 0.7% increase in December were up 3.1%. And consumer prices overall as measured by the CPI were up 2.7% for the full year. Pretty much right on the ridiculously low 2.5% target that Powell claimed we should be shooting for.; 13-01-26 7:26 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: I know shocker, she would lie; 13-01-26 7:31 PM
Peachy చెప్పారు...: The worst prez-idiot in us history gave us this:

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 BREAKING: DEI Justice Ketanji Jackson is DEFENDING men in women's sports with an utter word salad at the Supreme Court

"Is treating someone transgender, but does not have, because of the medical interventions and the things that have been done, who does not have, uh, the same, uh, threat to physical competition and safety and all the reasons the state puts forward - that's actually a different class, says this individual. So you're not treating the class the same. And how do you respond to that?"

Idaho AG Hurst didn't even seem to understand what she asked, and instead responded to her second question that named specific precedent.

SCOTUS Justice Gorsuch then stepped in.; 13-01-26 7:35 PM
Aggie చెప్పారు...: Inga pronounces Greenland acquisition 'A good fit, consistent with past US policy decisions and in line with today's Democrat party principles'.; 13-01-26 7:36 PM
Lazarus చెప్పారు...: It seems more like the wife was the "butch" one, assuming that's still a thing.; 13-01-26 7:38 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: She went to harvard law, her clerk; 13-01-26 7:38 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: Maybe she was the handler,; 13-01-26 7:39 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: The one with the cell phone; 13-01-26 7:39 PM
Lazarus చెప్పారు...: Interventionism (like everything else?) is a slippery slope. It's also addictive. Easy or justified interventions tend to be followed by riskier and more reckless ones.; 13-01-26 7:40 PM
Kakistocracy చెప్పారు...: Jay Powell sent senators details on $2.5bn Fed project following testimony ~ FT
"Letter seen by FT appears to undermine claims that the chair of US central bank misled Congress over renovation, complicating the Trump administration’s claims that he misled Congress."

Why are we mincing words? Not claims. Lies. The word for what Trump does is lying. Incessantly. Endlessly. Often needlessly. About anything and everything.

I don't believe he is capable of distinguishing between reality and his own fantasies. Maybe he could once, but the dementia is well set in.; 13-01-26 7:42 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: With the thousands of words printed there has been very little light shown; 13-01-26 7:43 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: Like which targets was jonathan ross pursuing when he was interrupted; 13-01-26 7:47 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: ఈ కామెంట్‌ను రచయిత తీసివేశారు.; 13-01-26 7:47 PM
FullMoon చెప్పారు...: The 0.7 percent jump in food prices . Is that sevens cents on ten dollars?; 13-01-26 7:49 PM
FullMoon చెప్పారు...: "Jaq said...
I am with Marjorie Taylor Greene. I hope Trump gets spanked in the mid-terms, not because of Minnesota, but because he has completely betrayed "America first" and has decided that he is going to be more neocon than the neocons, the best neocon you ever saw, neocon, I am sure he has told them."

Good thinking, things bound to be better when dems win.; 13-01-26 7:52 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: What could go wrong there,; 13-01-26 7:54 PM
Jersey Fled చెప్పారు...: “ The 0.7 percent jump in food prices . Is that sevens cents on ten dollars?”

According to ChatGPT it is.; 13-01-26 7:55 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: Trump is much like Reagan grenada and libyan intervention
Support for rebels on some fronts toe to toe with the Soviets
on strategic matters yes beirut was a tragic error; 13-01-26 7:56 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: A failure of the imagination re irans proxies; 13-01-26 7:57 PM
Leora చెప్పారు...: We need to publicize the False Claims Act and make it easier to file suits on behalf of the government fraud. This is the description from Leo the AI for the Brave browser. A person could make a living from this law.

The Federal False Claims Act (FCA) is a U.S. federal law enacted in 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War to combat fraud by contractors supplying the Union Army.
It is often referred to as "Lincoln’s Law"
and remains the government’s primary tool for fighting fraud against federal programs.
The FCA allows private citizens, known as "relators," to file lawsuits on behalf of the government in what are called "qui tam" actions.
These relators can receive a portion of the recovery, ranging from 15% to 30%, depending on the government’s involvement and the relator’s contribution.

Under the FCA, liability arises when a person or entity knowingly presents, or causes to be presented, a false or fraudulent claim for payment or approval from the federal government.
This includes making or using false records or statements material to a false claim, conspiring to defraud the government, or failing to return government property.
The law also covers "reverse false claims," such as when an entity avoids or decreases an obligation to pay the government by submitting false information.
The FCA does not apply to IRS tax matters.

Penalties under the FCA include treble (triple) damages to the government and civil penalties of not less than $5,000 and not more than $10,000 per violation, adjusted for inflation.
As of 2020, the penalty range was $11,665 to $23,331 per violation.; 13-01-26 8:00 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: He did support the nicaraguan resistance against soviet proxies that operated much like venezuela today; 13-01-26 8:01 PM
Leora చెప్పారు...: The IRS has a separate bounty for tax evasion which might apply to a lot of skeevy NGOs.; 13-01-26 8:02 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: Similarly with savimbi in angola that would have prevented the cleptocracy that rules it now; 13-01-26 8:03 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: https://share.google/deG4xcRX9fHWgQ2we; 13-01-26 8:06 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: What do we have here?; 13-01-26 8:06 PM
wildswan చెప్పారు...: Left eugenics supported abortion in order to reduce the number of members in those groups which the left eugenicists claimed were inferior; right eugenics supported the idea that IQ tests could determine which groups were demonstrably inferior based on the average IQ scores for the different goups. Two claws of one evil hand were tearing at humanity.; 13-01-26 8:10 PM
Breezy చెప్పారు...: Is it really a “jump” if it’s just 7 cents for every $10? Maybe it’s a shuffle, or a slight nudge even. What did wages do in that timeframe?; 13-01-26 8:14 PM
FullMoon చెప్పారు...: Hey, remember when you were a kid, and you would pick up a penny from the sidewalk. Since Biden, kids won't pick up less than a dime.

On the other hand, copper pennies gonna be collectibles eventually.; 13-01-26 8:19 PM
Peachy చెప్పారు...: "Bill Clinton Is a No-Show At Congressional Hearing on Jeffrey Epstein; Comer Vows Contempt of Congress Criminal Charges"

Though the leftists cared about justice for Epstein's victims?; 13-01-26 8:34 PM
Peachy చెప్పారు...: Marjorie Tay tay - is she pals with the head of code pink?
Looks that way.; 13-01-26 8:36 PM
wildswan చెప్పారు...: The crucial point as I see it is that if the tires had not spun when Goode accelerated forward, she would have killed or, at least, seriously injured that agent. That brief pause gave him time to almost clear the car. It shows that she was trying to injure someone whom she knew was an officer of the law.

Why she did it, we'll never know. Maybe she thought the ICE agents didn't have real bullets in their guns and she could get away and hide out somewhere. Certainly the whole effort to impede ICE is based on the supposition that ICE is not arresting armed, dangerous gang members and murderers. But ICE is arresting dangerous criminals and goes in strength, armed, to meet them. And deluded moms and Karens have been playing about in the midst of these operations with cars and whistles, and shouting the only big-girl word they know. At any time, anyone of those deluded bimbos could have been grabbed as a hostage by a gang member or gunned down in the line of fire. This deadly lack of contact with reality comes from believing mainstream Minnesota politicians and media. Renee was an adult, unwilling to grow up and assisted in her delusions by the left. And they aren't going to make her a martyr either. Her confusions are too clear to other whites.; 13-01-26 8:39 PM
Original Mike చెప్పారు...: "This deadly lack of contact with reality comes from believing mainstream Minnesota politicians and media."

"Why did you have real bullets!?"

Incredible.; 13-01-26 8:50 PM
Peachy చెప్పారు...: The corrupt democrat party does not want any law enforcement - esp as it pertains to those here illegally.; 13-01-26 8:50 PM
Peachy చెప్పారు...: Games don't have real bullets. this is all a game to the broken.
The bonus is the pride they feel pleasing their religious zealot Islam-like cult leaders.; 13-01-26 8:51 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit చెప్పారు...: Video Admission the killed woman was "trained" to do what she did. To act as a human shield to protect minorities, POC, illegals in this case.; 13-01-26 8:54 PM
Peachy చెప్పారు...: I hope Trump can help the people of Iran.; 13-01-26 8:54 PM
Inga చెప్పారు...: 😳“…during a two-hour interview on Jan. 7 with four White House correspondents from The New York Times,Trump asked, "I did do that? When did I do that?" when reporter Katie Rogers asked about when Americans could expect the $2,000 tariff dividend checks he promised, according to the interview transcript.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2026/01/13/trump-2000-tariff-dividend-checks-update/88156869007/; 13-01-26 8:58 PM
Eva Marie చెప్పారు...: "Why did you have real bullets!?"
I really thought someone added this with AI. But the dead woman’s partner really did say that. Unfathomable stupidity. So very sad.; 13-01-26 8:58 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit చెప్పారు...: Video: "Uber-eats is destroying the country"; 13-01-26 8:58 PM
Kakistocracy చెప్పారు...: State capitalism, capital controls, central planning…what’s not to love. The Central-Planning Economy comes for housing. 🇺🇸

Trump Administration Takes Aim at Home-Builder Stock Buybacks ~ WSJ
'Housing finance chief Bill Pulte says home builders aren’t doing enough to lower housing costs'; 13-01-26 9:01 PM
Curious George చెప్పారు...: "hawkeyedjb said...
Foreboding... Dark... Cold. Brrr!"

Actually unseasonally warm in WI today. Hit 50F.; 13-01-26 9:19 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit చెప్పారు...: Video: This lady is traumatizing her cat. That cat should be rescued.; 13-01-26 9:23 PM
Achilles చెప్పారు...: Dan Bongino is back to podcasting!

Get some popcorn for this one.

The Epstein files release was a fucking disaster.; 13-01-26 9:25 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit చెప్పారు...: Video: Greg Gutfeld at the top of his game; 13-01-26 9:27 PM
Achilles చెప్పారు...: Kakistocracy said...

State capitalism, capital controls, central planning…what’s not to love. The Central-Planning Economy comes for housing. 🇺🇸

Blackrock, Statestreet, and Vanguard will own nothing and be happy.; 13-01-26 9:31 PM
Kakistocracy చెప్పారు...: From his podcast studio, Dan Bongino is now going to expose all the Deep State criminals he was unable to find when he was in charge of the FBI.

The (still) MAGA folks are not only halfwit morons they are crazier than a squirrel in a nut factory.; 13-01-26 9:31 PM
Achilles చెప్పారు...: President Trump is publicly demanding a housecleaning at the FBI, calling on Director Kash Patel to remove agents after reacting to a Just the News report detailing how a former senior bureau official helped push the Arctic Frost investigation targeting Trump, Republican organizations, and elected conservatives.

Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, and Dan Bongino are proof that not even Trump can bat 1000.

Why 2 of them have jobs still is shocking.; 13-01-26 9:35 PM
Kakistocracy చెప్పారు...: Rising grocery prices raise new questions about Joe Biden‘s economic policies.; 13-01-26 9:38 PM
Jim at చెప్పారు...: I hope Trump gets impeached and removed.

Yawn. Just another reason to keep skipping your posts.; 13-01-26 9:46 PM
Jupiter చెప్పారు...: I long ago constructed what Jethro Bodeen would call a "cement pond". It's about three feet at the deepest, with various plants, and some goldfish. I bought the goldfish at a pet store, at five-for-a-dollar, in a plastic bag. They were sold to feed other pets. But I released them in my pond, and now they -- or perhaps their descendants -- are quite large. Five or six inches long.

Last night the pond froze over, and this morning, I was watching them swim around, under the ice. I would be extremely, painfully cold, under that ice, but they don't seem to be bothered.
Now, thinking about that, it seems obvious, that it would not make any sense for them to find that cold painful, because there isn't any constructive action they could take. If they freeze, they may well die, but there isn't any way to avoid it, so there is no reason to be motivated by it. If there is no solution, then there is no problem.; 13-01-26 9:50 PM
The Cracker Emcee Refulgent చెప్పారు...: “I hope Trump gets impeached”

I hope the Democrats waste their two years of House majority on futile impeachment and shutdown theater. I don’t know a single conservative who wouldn’t find it hilarious for House Democrats to lay a couple more impotent impeachments on Trump. Hello, President Vance.; 13-01-26 9:53 PM
Jupiter చెప్పారు...: But that implies, that everything we find painful -- perhaps everything we find even unpleasant -- is something to which we have at least the possibility of effective reaction. The sea of troubles is only a sea of troubles because, by opposing, we may end them.; 13-01-26 9:54 PM
Jupiter చెప్పారు...: Otherwise, it's just pond water.; 13-01-26 9:54 PM
Jupiter చెప్పారు...: "... miscaught good stuff ..."
Isn't that redundant? If it is good, and it was caught, then it was miscaught. If it was caught, but not miscaught, then it's not good.; 13-01-26 9:59 PM
gadfly చెప్పారు...: Bill and Hillary respond to James Comer and his Commitee.

Fuck you, Comer and the Horse you rode in on.; 13-01-26 10:11 PM
Jim at చెప్పారు...: Fuck you, Comer and the Horse you rode in on.

So in other words, Bannon goes to jail for the same crime you're celebrating.

Rules for all or rules for none.
Not rules for some.

Because that's the quickest way to get rules for none.; 13-01-26 10:59 PM
Josephbleau చెప్పారు...: “ Rising grocery prices raise new questions about Joe Biden‘s economic policies.”

And after the inauguration of Trump, inflation has lowered.; 13-01-26 11:07 PM
Jupiter చెప్పారు...: "I hope Trump gets impeached and removed."
There is a fine American tradition of such hopes. My band used to perform this song;
Well, I hope that the train,
From a-Caribou Maine
Runs over your new affair.
And you walk the floor
From door to door,
And tear out your peroxide hair.
You never were my woman. No -
You never would be true. So ...
All in all, if the curtain must fall,
I hope that it falls on you.; 13-01-26 11:16 PM
Jupiter చెప్పారు...: A somewhat less hopeful song, but with roughly the same import;
May the Bird of Paradise fly up your nose.
May the elephant caress you with his toes.
May you dance with the girl with the runner in her hose.
May the Bird of Paradise fly up your nose.; 13-01-26 11:20 PM
Achilles చెప్పారు...: Who is in the bubble?; 13-01-26 11:36 PM
gadfly చెప్పారు...: ఈ కామెంట్‌ను రచయిత తీసివేశారు.; 14-01-26 12:49 AM
gadfly చెప్పారు...: Another woman attacked in Minneapolis: Why would you honk someone?; 14-01-26 12:52 AM
Saint Croix చెప్పారు...: CBS reporting that a minimum of 12,000 dead in Iran, might be as high as 20,000. Unconfirmed but those are estimates from inside the country. (The other estimates are being made by groups outside Iran).

While a complete internet shutdown in Iran remained in place for a fifth day, some Iranians were able to make phone calls out of the country on Tuesday, though it was still not possible to call into Iran from outside.

A source inside Iran who was able to call out told CBS News on Tuesday that activist groups working to compile a full death toll from the protests, based on reports from medical officials across the country, believed the toll was at least 12,000, and possibly as high as 20,000.

It looks like a war zone.; 14-01-26 2:58 AM
Saint Croix చెప్పారు...: Inside Iran's Violent Crackdown; 14-01-26 3:10 AM
wendybar చెప్పారు...: Sassafrass84
@Sassafrass_84
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5h
Democrats: Ice agents aren't real officers of the law.

Also Democrats: Trans men are real women.

You can't make this up.
https://x.com/Sassafrass_84/status/2011305395948749127?s=20; 14-01-26 4:23 AM
Eva Marie చెప్పారు...: Huge respect for these men who work for ICE
seen on X, via Instapundit
These ICE protests:
“Layer 1: you have frontline agitators who physically encroach but do nothing else aside from yell & hurl vulgarity
Layer 2: Behind layer1 you have those I call grapplers. They will swoop in and shove or pull on an agent then fall back behind layer1.
Layer 3: Noise & light obstructionists. They blow whistles, bullhorns, honk car horns, beat on drums or trash can lids.. maximum auditory infusion to make a scene appear to be chaotic. To appear to be out of control
Layer 4: The “press people”. These people have vests on and press badges but are not members of any press corps. They immediately move to capture images and video of any action by agents. They are constantly taking pictures of agents faces. Every image is scoured later for any and all ways to doxx or publicly ID law enforcement for obvious reasons.”; 14-01-26 4:28 AM
wendybar చెప్పారు...: ZUBY:
@ZubyMusic
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3h
One great man will have a bigger impact on the world than all of his detractors combined.

https://x.com/ZubyMusic/status/2011338666560668049?s=20; 14-01-26 4:34 AM
Leland చెప్పారు...: gadfly said...
Bill and Hillary respond to James Comer and his Commitee.

Steve Bannon gave a similar response. However, I’m sure The Party judges in DC will ignore the laws they applied just a couple of years ago.; 14-01-26 4:46 AM
Big Mike చెప్పారు...: Kakistocracy said...

Rising grocery prices raise new questions about Joe Biden‘s economic policies.

[shrug]. You need to move to the Shenandoah Valley. Grocery prices at the local Martin’s have fallen, and the price of gasoline is down a full dollar a gallon below what it was under Biden. The two are related, of course, since eggs and vegetables cannot walk from farm to warehouse to store. Do you perhaps live in ne of those benighted states where foolish energy policies drive up the costs of transporting food? Then you have no one to blame but yourself (and your governor).; 14-01-26 5:13 AM
wendybar చెప్పారు...: General Mike Flynn
@GenFlynn
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9h
Here’s my gut assessment of the Clintons blowing off Congress today.

They hold so much information on everyone from judges to members of Congress to business executives to world leaders.

I pray they’re held accountable, but trying to analyze why they were no shows today tells me they’re feeling pretty untouchable about now.

https://x.com/GenFlynn/status/2011245687891984730?s=20; 14-01-26 5:13 AM
Eva Marie చెప్పారు...: Referencing my comment at 4:28 about the organized ICE protests:
“And yeah, there is a network financing training that explicitly includes assaulting federal LEOs to obstruct them performing their duties. An obvious interstate criminal conspiracy. Yet not a perp walk to be seen. We're waiting...”; 14-01-26 5:22 AM
Breezy చెప్పారు...: From a 30k view, Mayorkas unleashed a disastrous invasion on the US that we will be working to undo for several years. On the bright side, this invasion exposed a depth of fraud that practically no one not involved in it knew was going on. Thanks to Mayorkas, Trump’s promises to clean up the border and deport illegal aliens became all the more imperative.

Walz, Omar, and Ellison can thank him for incentivizing more than half the country to vote for dismantling the lefts voter importation enterprise. Mayorkas is the reason ICE is in MN and elsewhere right now.; 14-01-26 5:30 AM
Eva Marie చెప్పారు...: Very good article about funding anti ICE and tactics used:
https://freebeacon.com/trump-administration/who-funds-the-groups-harassing-ice-agents-in-minnesota-the-lefts-premier-foundations-and-dark-money-networks-have-given-millions-records-show/; 14-01-26 6:33 AM
rehajm చెప్పారు...: …be skeptical of anyone claiming higher food prices. Given the magnitude of the drop in energy prices it would be unusual to see the basket of groceries get more expensive. Yes, energy prices are that pervasive. I expect it’s a manipulation or outright lies from the left’s all in election year strategy of the tight focus on the fuzzy, meaningless concept of affordability…; 14-01-26 6:37 AM
rehajm చెప్పారు...: It is easy to see the magnitude of the fraud. The magnitude of the emergency- one trillion plus in helicopter money is difficult to hide even in a global economy. Some to the war zones and the global interests but just a few tens of billions buys you more the Hawaiian judges, former Althouse law students, crooked doctors, journolist majors and Honda minivan warrior battalions than you can create. Bribe the third worlders with the rest and there’s still some left over…; 14-01-26 6:45 AM
rehajm చెప్పారు...: …and the line items used to get that money are so intentionally vague nobody gets in trouble…; 14-01-26 6:46 AM
FormerLawClerk చెప్పారు...: "CBS reporting that a minimum of 12,000 dead in Iran, might be as high as 20,000."

CBS News does not have a foreign bureau in Tehran, Iran. Or any other reporters or employees in the country of Iran.

CBS News has no idea what is occurring in Iran, nor any way to independently find out.

And in the run-up to the 2004 election, they forged some Texas Air National Guard memos to try to rig the election of John Kerry to the Presidency ... so you shouldn't believe a fucking word CBS News says or writes.; 14-01-26 6:47 AM
rehajm చెప్పారు...: AND as I’ve suspected Bondi is doing exactly what she’s been tasked to do, which is accept the referrals, puke some public puffery and nothing else…; 14-01-26 6:47 AM
Char Char Binks, Esq. చెప్పారు...: The only disgraced Dilbert cartoonist is Jake Tapper; 14-01-26 7:02 AM
Yancey Ward చెప్పారు...: So, could a Congressional committee hold a hearing in, let's say, Lubbock, Texas and have the subpoenas to appear issued from that district. Then when Democrats refuse to appear before the committee they can be charged with contempt in that district? As it stands, all charges of congressional contempt are charged and tried, when they are, in the D.C. district which means only Republicans can ever be convicted for contempt.; 14-01-26 7:02 AM
Political Junkie చెప్పారు...: FLC - to be fair to history, CBS did not forge the W Air National Guard documents. Those forged documents were brought to CBS.; 14-01-26 7:08 AM
Enigma చెప్పారు...: @Yancey Ward: As it stands, all charges of congressional contempt are charged and tried, when they are, in the D.C. district which means only Republicans can ever be convicted for contempt.

Indeed. And this is why Trump/Musk/Vought committed a tactical error in pulling federal employees back to D.C. Follow Obama's remote work initiatives and Biden's paranoid COVID nonsense, the feds were eroding away from D.C. through 2024.

As of 2025, the blue feds are guaranteed to nullify any law more aggressively than ever before. A better approach would have been to move them away from D.C. and slowly boil the frogs.; 14-01-26 7:29 AM
Rustygrommet చెప్పారు...: Second to last. Glorious!; 14-01-26 7:34 AM
Leland చెప్పారు...: I think Congress and DoJ still push ahead with contempt. Make the DC judges protect Clinton. Force Roberts to get off his ass.; 14-01-26 7:41 AM
Leland చెప్పారు...: In other civil war news… James O’Keefe has undercover video of JD Vance USSS Security detail providing security information to someone who doesn’t need to know. Also, someone in DHS released a list of personal identification of many ICE agents to BlueSky with much enjoyment in progressive circles for having a target list.; 14-01-26 7:49 AM
Howard చెప్పారు...: Fixed TosaGuy's breakfast recommendation of Borsin cheese and smoked salmon on buttered sourdough toast, not homemade unfortunately. Super yummy and very very satisfying.

Thanks dude 💪😎🤙; 14-01-26 7:56 AM
Beasts of England చెప్పారు...: Food prices rose 0.7%? An affordability crisis for realzies!! I’m headed to the grocery store in a bit and will probably spend a hundred bucks. Where the heck am I gonna find that extra seventy cents?! Help us, AOC!! You’re our only hope…; 14-01-26 7:58 AM
Howard చెప్పారు...: My guess is that the slight uptick in food prices is because the price of beef has increased significantly due to a number of factors; 14-01-26 7:58 AM
Howard చెప్పారు...: If you want to save a few pennies at the grocery store, pay in cash because they will round up your change since the bank ain't distributing them anymore.; 14-01-26 7:59 AM
Rustygrommet చెప్పారు...: Yesterday 50degree and pleasant. Shot two rounds of trap. Inside! 20&18
Right now it's cold and the snow is going sideways.; 14-01-26 8:02 AM
narciso చెప్పారు...: Yes its distressing the secret service director is focused on soutces instead of threats; 14-01-26 8:11 AM
Christopher B చెప్పారు...: Linked this morning by Ed Driscoll on Instapundit, somebody dug up a CNN ride-along with Obama's ICE from May 2016.

Quoting from the post on X

May, 2016. CNN does a segment entitled "A Day with ICE in a so-called Sanctuary City."

CNN literally rode around with ICE from the break of dawn until nighttime, watching while ICE conducted raids and arrested illegals. ICE arrested some right at their jobs.

CNN was not criticizing ICE. They were celebrating ICE. It was "exclusive access" during the Obama years and CNN considered it a privilege to get to watch ICE work.

ICE even made a "mistake" arrest. CNN had no problem with it.

Six months later Trump won the election and ICE was then labeled the gestapo.

A note on the Instapundit link. The video wouldn't imbed so you do have to follow the link to X. It appears that somebody at X 'age restricted' the posting and you have to log in to view it.; 14-01-26 8:14 AM
Leland చెప్పారు...: South Park Learing Center

Offensive but yeah, that seems what is going on. (don't know if this is actual South Park or a fans AI).; 14-01-26 8:16 AM
narciso చెప్పారు...: Yeah theyre not clever enough for that; 14-01-26 8:19 AM
Peachy చెప్పారు...: ఈ కామెంట్‌ను రచయిత తీసివేశారు.; 14-01-26 8:19 AM
Peachy చెప్పారు...: "Chicago Teachers’ Union misspells the word “Governor” on leftwing propaganda poster."; 14-01-26 8:21 AM
narciso చెప్పారు...: You cant make this up; 14-01-26 8:22 AM
Achilles చెప్పారు...: Beasts of England said...

Food prices rose 0.7%? An affordability crisis for realzies!! I’m headed to the grocery store in a bit and will probably spend a hundred bucks. Where the heck am I gonna find that extra seventy cents?! Help us, AOC!! You’re our only hope…

Our bills are much lower this year. It is telling that a very normal inflation level increase in food prices is all that they have to attack Trump this year.

Howard said...

My guess is that the slight uptick in food prices is because the price of beef has increased significantly due to a number of factors

I remember a few months ago they attacked Trump for making a deal to import beef from Argentina. This was why he did it.; 14-01-26 8:34 AM
Beasts of England చెప్పారు...: The left’s wished for ‘affordability crisis’ crashed quicker than Kak’s Tesla put options. Unexpectedly. lol; 14-01-26 8:40 AM
john mosby చెప్పారు...: Comer should use the inherent contempt power and put the Clintons in the House Jail downstairs.

Together.

Then the process really will be the punishment. CC, JSM; 14-01-26 8:46 AM
Gospace చెప్పారు...: Political Junkie said...
FLC - to be fair to history, CBS did not forge the W Air National Guard documents. Those forged documents were brought to CBS.

Where layers of fact checkers verified that falsified documents were capital T Truth. And all good thinking people immediately attacked the original truth teller as some guy sitting in his pajamas in his basement, and therefore couldn't be correct despite the evidence! There are people today who believe they had to have been factually true though falsified...; 14-01-26 8:47 AM
Ronald J. Ward చెప్పారు...: Christopher B., back in 2016, was ICE on an admitted “ Day of reckoning & retribution” mission? Were they tackling U.S. citizens, beating them, and dumping them out of their cars in a parking lot a mile away like one would see in a gangster movie? Did they have what Stephen Miller has now upgraded to “federal immunity” for their actions? Were they doing other Gestapo like things?

Beast @ 7:58, not sure what’s on you grocery list but Walmart's store-brand paper folders made in China are up 46%, swai fish fillets from Vietnam up 34%, Farberware's plastic measuring spoons made in China up 19%, Dole pineapple chunks up 25%, aluminum foil up 13% and Schwinn's infant bike helmet, which used to be made in China but is now made in Vietnam up 18%.

And Walmart & Target are both saying more’s to come while American fruit rots on the vine due to Trump’s Gestapo policies.

Maybe that’s what has so many non-turd polishers so upset over grocery prices.

And while I’m glad you’re finding your needed items at a meager .07% increase, Trump promised to LOWER those prices on day one.; 14-01-26 8:56 AM
narciso చెప్పారు...: Cabot Phillips on X: "How CNN frames 6% inflation under Joe Biden vs. 2.7% inflation under Donald Trump. https://t.co/aei8JnQEl5" / X https://share.google/VneHIvlVHrF4LXBzS; 14-01-26 9:05 AM
Kakistocracy చెప్పారు...: "Food prices rose 0.7%? An affordability crisis for realzies!!"

Yeah but we’re getting a $400 million ballroom so quit complaining.; 14-01-26 9:11 AM
Jamie చెప్పారు...: This is pure anecdote, but... as newly minted "homeless" nomads (my husband and I sold our house in September and are now living in Airbnbs for weeks to months at a time), we spent December in a couple of houses in California visiting family, then returned to Houston in January, where we'll stay for three months.

We are traveling by car at present, and carrying a minimal "kitchen box" with stuff like my good knife, my husband's omelet pan, the spices we use most, olive oil, good salt and a pepper grinder - the things we don't want to have to buy at every port of call, so to speak. Because of this limitation, I end up buying staples - rice vinegar, Sriracha, less often used spices - more often than I did when we were "homed" and I had all my stuff, so I would expect my weekly grocery bill to be a little higher than in my homeowners days (it ran around $200 a week when I was cooking every night but maybe one). We also brought with us a cooler filled with frozen steaks from a Houston butcher.

Now, during that month in CA, we didn't cook as much as I thought we would - family and friend gatherings, old favorite restaurants to hit - so my trips to the grocery store were not as extensive - not as much purchased - as they'd been in the rural Texas Airbnb that just preceded California in our travels. But even though I was buying almost no meat and quite a lot less food, in general, than I had expected, my weekly grocery bill was around $200 (this includes wine and beer).

Back here in Houston, we're out of frozen steaks so I have to buy meat again, and while we do have family and friends here too, it's a 3-month stay and we're cooking "at home" almost every night. My grocery bill this week, including ingredients for five meals, paper products we're low on, some replacement spices, and wine (because we still have beer in the fridge): $160.

A further anecdote, because this is a price point I pay attention to: that wine? Twenty percent more expensive, for the same bottle, in CA versus TX - for CA wine, and even taking into account California supermarkets' 30% discount for buying six bottles at once (TX stores only offer a 10% discount), the CA wine is still more expensive, by 10% or so.

I should have checked on what Trader Joe's "Two Buck Chuck" is up to now, in both states - a useful market, since the price used to be right there in the name.

Anyway. My personal experience is that my grocery budget is looking great right now.; 14-01-26 9:13 AM
Jamie చెప్పారు...: Also, RJW, your grocery list is looking... odd.; 14-01-26 9:15 AM
Dr Weevil చెప్పారు...: RJW’s supposed “grocery list” is not just “odd”: two-thirds of it is not groceries (food and drink), and one-third (paper folders and bike helmet) is not even kitchen-related. A totally fraudulent ‘argument’!; 14-01-26 9:26 AM
narciso చెప్పారు...: Hes a machine as i suspected; 14-01-26 9:27 AM
narciso చెప్పారు...: ఈ కామెంట్‌ను రచయిత తీసివేశారు.; 14-01-26 9:27 AM
Ronald J. Ward చెప్పారు...: Jamie, those figures came from a NRP report which were consistent with other sources. I also asked Albert Ingles (aka AI) and Albert said; “ That NRP/NPR report is real and accurate in the specifics you listed — it’s based on NPR’s year-over-year price check of 114 items at a Walmart store, and the percentage increases you quoted are exactly what NPR reported for those products.”

I, NRP and Albert might be wrong and if so, sure are a lot of people mad over nothing.; 14-01-26 9:28 AM
Sweetie చెప్పారు...: In 2016 ICE didn't have to go through Robert E Lee's team to deport illegal aliens.
Two buck chuck is 3.49 in Cali. Obama moved it to 2.50, Trump moved it back to 2.00, Biden moved it to 3.49 where it still sits.; 14-01-26 9:29 AM
Sweetie చెప్పారు...: Biden also destroyed the Dollar Store, existing only in name now. What the Biden inflation did to those on the bubble is scandalous and completely unreported. Including by FNC and MAGA media.; 14-01-26 9:33 AM
Ronald J. Ward చెప్పారు...: Dr Weevil said...
RJW’s supposed “grocery list” is not just “odd”: two-thirds of it is not groceries (food and drink), and one-third (paper folders and bike helmet) is not even kitchen-related. A totally fraudulent ‘argument’!

Interesting. So, uh, Trump’s tariffs work if it jacks up edible produce by .07% (which is misleading as it was .07% for December alone and 2.7% for 2025) but the shyrocketing cost of everything else doesn’t count?

Polish that turd!; 14-01-26 9:35 AM
Kakistocracy చెప్పారు...: Price increases are typically scheduled for the first quarter after companies purchase inventory the previous year—so we’ll start seeing the full impact of tariffs in Q1.

That said, has anyone checked what’s happening with electricity bills, insurance premiums, and home services? Those have already jumped into double-digit increases.

And don’t get me started on food prices—they’re quietly shrinking package sizes while charging the same (or more), so you’re getting less for your money. Shrinkflation in full swing.; 14-01-26 9:43 AM
Christopher B చెప్పారు...: @RJW, other than your assertions what's the evidence they are doing those things now? I will note that in 2016 ICE didn't have entitled AWFLs leading minivan caravans obstructing their activities. That might have something to do with how they are operating now.; 14-01-26 9:44 AM
Christopher B చెప్పారు...: Ronald J. Ward said...
Polish that turd!

Something RJW is quite familiar with.; 14-01-26 9:46 AM
Bushman of the Kohlrabi చెప్పారు...: So the same people who had nothing to say about Biden’s hyperinflation are exercised about historically normal inflation rates now? I’m shocked.; 14-01-26 9:53 AM
Ronald J. Ward చెప్పారు...: Christopher B, “That might have something to do with how they are operating now.”

Glad we got that admission that they are indeed operating differently.

No, I think the change comes more from that “Day of reckoning & retribution” statement, Trump’s open disdain and hatred of Waltz and ethnic groups, his campaign promise to overpower Democratic states, and his overall ruthless dictatorial fantasies and demands for worship (military parade anyone?) that he’s now living out.

Otherwise, why isn’t he brutalizing boarder red states who harbor multiple times the immigrants than blue states?

Polish that turd.; 14-01-26 9:56 AM
Ronald J. Ward చెప్పారు...: Bushman of the Kohlrabi said...
“So the same people who had nothing to say about Biden’s hyperinflation are exercised about historically normal inflation rates now? I’m shocked.”

Global inflation under Biden was due mainly to a global supply shortage. Corporate greed didn’t help.

Trump inflation is self inflicted. There’s simply no way that the consumer isn’t going to pick up the tab on tariffs. Polish it all you want but the math isn’t there.

And Brown people, citizens or not, afraid of showing up for work only contributes to higher prices.; 14-01-26 10:04 AM
Beasts of England చెప్పారు...: ’Schwinn's infant bike helmet, which used to be made in China but is now made in Vietnam up 18%.’

This is much worse than I thought!! I had intended to buy six of those this morning but could only afford five. Why hasn’t Trump set up an infant bike helmet pricing commission? I am literally shaking…; 14-01-26 10:06 AM
Jamie చెప్పారు...: Jamie, those figures came from a NRP report which were consistent with other sources.

Oh, I wasn't arguing your figures. I was wondering how often you buy paper folders and bike helmets. If the NPR report compared prices over time of 114 items, why pick the ones you did?

Anyway. My point, which I clearly called out as anecdote, is that in my experience over the past 3 months (going back to November, that is), grocery prices in California are considerably higher than they are in Texas. Given that California is a significant (to say the least) source of agricultural products, and that when I am traveling from Houston to California, the halfway point between me and Los Angeles is El Paso, TX, I would expect that lower intra-California transportation prices would offset (at least in part) the additional taxes that the poor (in every sense) denizens of California must bear. But I didn't find that to be the case. I wonder why not.

[shrug] I have been pretty much the sole shopper for my household for many years. And I talk with others who are, as well. I don't keep strict track of my grocery expenditures every week, but I do shop from a list based on menus I choose (and I don't choose them on the basis of what meat is cheapest, for instance - thankfully we haven't been in that position for 25 years or so), and I do notice when my bill jumps. It's curious that CA wine prices are so much higher, when the wine industry everywhere is in decline (yes, I do expect wine prices to drop starting this year because of lower demand - I know there will probably be a lag) and when there is so much wine that originates in California and only has to travel a couple of hours down the road to get to me in the LA area or in Sacramento. It causes me to speculate that pricing in California has other inputs than in Texas. No?

One more anecdote: my mother-in-law, sole shopper in her household for many decades, makes "semi-homemade" things a lot. Her recipes start with boxed mixes, that is. And they're all based on the boxes of the past. Starting at least ten years ago, she has lamented that she now has to do math to make her recipes work - a 14-oz brownie mix is now 11.5oz., for instance. Ten years ago, at least, since she started complaining about it. Hard to lay that at Trump's feet.; 14-01-26 10:18 AM
Bushman of the Kohlrabi చెప్పారు...: So Trump self inflicted the country with historically normal inflation rates but Biden had no choice but to inflict the country with hyperinflation? Sounds like you’re bending yourself into a big partisan pretzel.; 14-01-26 10:23 AM
Ronald J. Ward చెప్పారు...: Bushman, you seem to ignore the reality of the economy on Jan 2021 and on Jan 2025. Biden inherited an economic train wreck. Trump inherited a smooth running engine.

That’s not the first time we’ve seen this. Democrats had to fix the GWB crash and burn and Hoover’s Great Depression.

I; 14-01-26 10:33 AM
Narr చెప్పారు...: Raise your hand if you remember Biden whining about shrinkflation on primetime.

And to change the topic entirely, I'm going to relate a few incidents related to the recent death of one of my wife's brothers.

His mid-20s daughter by his second wife came across some Playboy (and other) magazines as they sorted through his apartment and is not taking it well. She's neurotic as hell, of course, but I was surprised at the strong reaction.

And the death certificate which was issued made no mention of cancer--which he was riddled with in and out and the reason he was in the hospital in the first place--but gave cause(s) of death as all heart-related.

His mid-50s daughter by his first wife apparently gave a verbal reaming to the hospital honchoes and they are issuing
a corrected document.

How does this happen?

We are SO screwed.; 14-01-26 10:39 AM
TeaBagHag చెప్పారు...: Organized resistance to kidnappings and murder is the ACTUAL fascism.
Tread on me, daddy!
-MAGAt Nation; 14-01-26 10:49 AM
Saint Croix చెప్పారు...: FLC, at least you bottled up your anti-Semitism in your comment about CBS. The world appreciates it.

This is from the NYT...

A senior Iranian health ministry official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said about 3,000 people had been killed across the country but sought to shift the blame to “terrorists” fomenting unrest. The figure included hundreds of security officers, he said.

So you can believe the NYT, and the Iranian government, if you want to. I think the numbers are substantially higher, and I appreciate CBS for doing some independent journalism.; 14-01-26 10:53 AM
Ronald J. Ward చెప్పారు...: I’m reading that TJ Sabula‘s GoFundMe has already hit $220k. And he probably won’t even lose his job and get back pay.; 14-01-26 10:56 AM
Bushman of the Kohlrabi చెప్పారు...: Well, Biden inherited challenges due to the pandemic. It’s interesting you totally blame Trump for the COVID economic challenges but then give Biden a free pass, but I guess that’s what a partisan would do.; 14-01-26 11:17 AM
Leland చెప్పారు...: Biden inherited an economic train wreck.

You keep telling that lie, but no data supports it. The US economy was recovering from Covid, but tanked a year into Biden’s term after all his EO’s and his big Infrastructure bill went into effect. It was the progressive “moonshot to save the planet from 2 degrees warming” that caused a train wreck. Well actually, no train was involved because California spent billions on stations and overpasses, but no actual train and only a few miles of track. Sorry, I said California. Biden gave California billions to deliver no train. Biden also gave billions to Iran for no reason I can discern.; 14-01-26 12:42 PM
Ronald J. Ward చెప్పారు...: Bushman of the Kohlrabi said...
“Well, Biden inherited challenges due to the pandemic. It’s interesting you totally blame Trump for the COVID economic challenges but then give Biden a free pass, but I guess that’s what a partisan would do.”

Nope, you’re arguing with someone other than me because I never assigned blame to Trump.

To be clear and while I could argue Trump’s economy was nowhere near what he claimed I do not nor have I ever blamed him for the economic collapse that which was due to Covid. I was merely pointing out that the state of the economy when he left was far from healthy.

Leland said...
Biden inherited an economic train wreck.

“You keep telling that lie, but no data supports it. The US economy was recovering from Covid, but tanked a year into Biden’s term after all his EO’s and his big Infrastructure bill went into effect. It was the progressive “moonshot to save the planet from 2 degrees warming” that caused a train wreck. Well actually, no train was involved because California spent billions on stations and overpasses, but no actual train and only a few miles of track. Sorry, I said California. Biden gave California billions to deliver no train. Biden also gave billions to Iran for no reason I can discern.”

I’m reasonably sure that you’re the one saying something that is not true. The economy was in a downward spiral when Biden took office. That’s just a fact. Inflation was an oncoming storm due mainly to a global supply shortage, just like for Trump, completely out of Biden’s control. There’s no evidence that Biden’s recovery efforts worsened inflation and every indication that it ultimately turned it around.

If what you say is true, how would Biden’s policies here at home drive up the global inflation at the time and why did the U.S. recovery faster than any country in the world.

You polishers say the most incredibly illogical and untrue things.; 14-01-26 1:21 PM
Rustygrommet చెప్పారు...: Installing a new water softener. I'm waiting for my wife to finish her shower before I turn the water off.; 14-01-26 1:48 PM
Leland చెప్పారు...: how would Biden’s policies here at home drive up the global inflation at the time

Now your argument is that the Global Economy was bad, and that is why Biden's economy was bad? The Global Economy was bad due to Covid, but the US economy was recovering under Trump. But yeah, go on and tell us about the Global Economic problems? BTW, how is the Global economy going right now compared to the US? (excluding Poland, unless you want to explain why Poland's economy is doing so much better than say Germany or the UK).; 14-01-26 2:40 PM
Rustygrommet చెప్పారు...: Water softener up and running.; 14-01-26 6:55 PM
Rustygrommet చెప్పారు...: Joseph Whitworth didn't invent accuracy. He invented consistency in measurement. Industry in Manchester was the best in the world, but measurements could vary wildly. So Joseph Whitworth invented the flat surface. Not table flat but accurate flat to the 1/1,000,000 of an inch in 1840. How did he do that? Well. If A is equal to B and is equal to C then C is equal to A and B. The to three flat castings and by filing and scraping,(using a sharpened edge of a file to remove material.) and checking one against the other continually he achieved a flat surface. Now there was a precision datum point to discover the truth of a measurement. A surface plate. I can trace my laboratory grade granite surface plate to the National Bureau of Standards. It's little stuff like this that most people never thing about that I find fascinating. It's because of Whitworth that we can measure the tiniest things and the most distant thing with accuracy.; 14-01-26 7:21 PM

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