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214 comments:
1 – 200 of 214 Newer› Newest»Worst comparison to Hitler?
My vote goes to this critique of The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan.
Really fun cartoon from my childhood, similar to Scooby-Doo or Josie and the Pussycats.
The program was sharply criticized by Katheryn Fong, Community Coordinator of the Chinese Media Committee of Chinese for Affirmative Action, an advocacy group based in San Francisco, for continuing "to isolate generations of Chinese-Americans as being 'different'" and keeping the same "detective intoning stilted, fortune-cookie English spoken in proverbs". CBS President Robert D. Wood responded by calling the show "a lighthearted escapist program for youngsters", emphasizing the stereotypical Asian-American tropes of filial piety and intelligence as positive contributions with the hope "that CBS' Chan might begin to replace some of the abrasive imagery created by the old Charlie Chan character". Fong called this attitude a "great tragedy ... convincing many people that this kowtowing caricature is acceptable" and drew an analogy with a hypothetical cartoon about Adolf Hitler: "If CBS did a cartoon called 'Hitler's Haus' along the same lines of 'respect' and German pragmatism as your interpretation of Chan's wisdom, would that begin to replace some of the abrasive imagery created by the old Hitler and make him more acceptable to Jews?" Fong went on to sue the Federal Communications Commission in January 1973.
choo choo choo
kowtowing is a great word
wow, that was a reach
Great photos. Like the last one. Very bleak.
how about hong kong fooey
The bottom image deserves a frame.
"Serial Killer: The Exhibition World Tour" is an immersive, true-crime exhibition debuting in the U.S. at Atlanta's Pullman Yards, starting in February 2026. Featuring over 2,100 authentic artifacts and crime scene reconstructions, it offers a deep dive into the psychology of infamous murderers.
If I go to this "immersive" show and I walk out alive, should I ask for my money back?
The Hayes Code forbade negative racial depictions or racial stereotypes. The Charlie Chan movies were an attempt to show Chinese-Americans in a good light. The same was true of the old "Amos and Andy" radio/TV show. "Gosh what lovable lugs those negroes are".
The first rule in breaking down negative majority views of a minority is to show them as funny and likable. Hence you get things like "The Goldbergs" or Mrs. Nussbaum on the old Fred Allen show. And who didn't love Fanny Brice, or Jack Benny or Rochester?
Probably the most racist show of the 70s was "Kung fu" starring David Carradine (who died doing what he loved). That show had little grasshopper beating up white men every weak. Usually after spouting some fortune cookie philosophy at them. And arguing for "non-violence". But y'know those rednecks and horrible whites just had it coming to them.
yeah no truth in labeling, but there's a little too much serial killer analyzing, imho
Why is there no trashcan? I notice some people deleting comments. But I have to leave all my stupid comments be. (And don’t ask me how I distinguish my stupid comments from my smart ones.) Anyone have any ideas? None of the old procedures work for me.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/curtailed-tuesday-february-17-2026
Let us not forget Algonquin J. Calhoun on Amos 'n' Andy and Jackie Chiles on Seinfeld as caricatures of Black lawyers.
i see my trashcan, I don't know about yours, usually duplicate ones,
All four pictures are superb!! We need an Althouse monthly nature photo calendar. Available on Amazon, of course… ;)
You've just run into this, Eva?
Not having a trashcan has caused me to be a little more cautious. Maybe it's a good thing.
Speaking of deep dives, for some reason, I've never taken the time to research, the topic of serial killers was a favorite of the NYC after hours dive bars of the 90's. It was a conversational mishmash of Jeopardy and Dick Cavet style banter.
the third has the greatest contrast
I'm seeing my trash can now, but I wasn't earlier today.
@Original Mike: Yes I’ve just noticed it. IPhone with the latest upgrade - maybe that has something to do with it?
Much worse than no trashcan, I now have to accept Google's cookies in order to comment. I didn't use to.
"Why is there no trashcan?"
I lost mine a while ago. I initially though it was due to an IOS or iMac upgrade but apparently not..
All four photos are keepers.
Now let us pause for a moment of silence.
Dear Lord, you've taken my favorite actor, Robert Duvall, my favorite comedian, Catherine O'Hara, and my favorite musician, Bob Weir. I just wanted to let you know that my favorite president is Donald Trump.
St Croix: ""If CBS did a cartoon called 'Hitler's Haus' "
Would make a great Robert Smigel 'toon on SNL.
"Eva, meine kleine Edelweiss, vot ist fur dinner?"
"Cream of carrot soup, liebschen."
"Ach, Eva, cream! Das ist ein Animalprodukt! I am a streng Vegetarian!"
"Oh, mein schatze, I am zo sorry!"
(trombones as Hitler shrugs his shoulders) "In zis haus, I am nicht der Fuhrer..." CC, JSM
speaking of what should be deleted,
I know the casual event which lost me my trashcan, but it's been so long ago now (maybe a year?) that I don't remember the date.
Something happened with blogger and the comments changed to threaded instead of chronological. After a few days of that, Althouse figured out how to change it back, but when she did so, I lost the ability to delete comments (not blaming Althouse, mind you, just reciting the events). As I say, I also had to start agreeing to accept google cookies.
Some say if you use Google Chrome (I use iOS Safari) the trashcan is still there. I wouldn't use Chrome if my life depended upon it, so I don't know.
there was a Python sketch about Nazis in some town, it wasn't particularly humorous, but this Chan thing, was innocuous
I’ve been missing the trash can for a while too. I’ll look into it. Meanwhile, paradoxically, it seems like the best comments come from commenters who question the quality of their own comments.
Maybe if I used Firefox?
I use chrome and the last time I looked, the trash can was there.
No problems deleting comments. weirdest thing is commentors who delete a comment, then post a one sentence comment.
“I just wanted to let you know that my favorite president is Donald Trump [and You and I both know his good work on this good earth is not yet finished. Please, Lord, continue to bless and keep President Trump and thank you, Lord, for continuing to bless our beloved country]”. Amen
I just learned today that Google's latest upgrade of Maps took away the Longitude/Latitude of dropped pins. I use that all the time.
Turns out, Apple Maps does Long/Lat. I'll have to start using it. Stupid Google.
Amen meade
https://youtu.be/c3kPFg33RVI?si=ZABnSuaGF7IlIuKT
My Dad used to watch Hong Kong Phooey with my brother and me. I'd set my alarm for that show. Scatman is the bomb.
I've never not had a trashcan. And I'm only commenting now to see if I have one. I guess I should add additional information.
I'm really enjoying the song Keith by Playlunch.
Well look at that! No trashcan. I will endeavor never to submit something I don't mean.
Another blizzard due Sunday here in the Shenandoah Valley. There’s still snow on the ground from the one two weeks ago.
Trashcan, where you at?
Oh, there you are!
Hanna barbara really had the beed on things
I see Rosie O’Donnell snuck back into the USA “to see whether it’s safe” to do so. It’s not safe, Rosie! Run! Use a rowboat to get back to Ireland if you have to.
So, what is this about a White House awash in cash?
The NYT essay is behind a paywall.
Not enough bear traps
"Heil Honey I'm Home!" [was] a Bitish sitcom, written by Geoff Atkinson and produced in 1990, which was cancelled after one episode. It centres on Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, who live next door to a Jewish couple, Arny and Rosa Goldenstein.
Eight episodes were made and you can probably find them on YouTube. That includes the likewise un-aired Christmas special. Three of the four lead actors were Jewish (everyone but Hitler himself) and the producers didn't anticipate the negative reaction, thinking that the main thing wasn't the Nazi stuff, but the satire of 1950s US sitcoms.
I see Lindsay Graham is saying that sure, some American soldiers might have to die for Israel in this coming attack, but if we don't do it, he explains, many more Americans might have to die for Israel in the future.
I am trying to remember how WWI started... It seems like the major dominant empire in Europe was angry that the heir to their throne was murdered, gave Serbia a set of demands that Serbia could never agree to, and war broke out, a free for all ensued, and millions upon uncounted millions ended up dying, and WWII was set in train.
BTW, at the end of WWI, the former hegemon of Europe, the one that issued the demand? Ended up demilitarized and carved up.
The lead actor was also one of the voices in the animated "Flushed Away," "the story of an uptown rat that gets flushed down the toilet from his penthouse apartment, ending in the sewers of London, where he has to learn a whole new and different way of life." Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, and Sir Ian McKellan's voices star.
That thin line between clever and stupid
Not as bad as Cats the movie
Just noticed missing trash can in both Safari and Opera browsers.
Probably the most racist show of the 70s was "Kung fu" starring David Carradine (who died doing what he loved). That show had little grasshopper beating up white men every weak.
Carradine got cast in that show because they would not cast an Asian in the lead. It's kind of bizarre that in the old Charlie Chan movies, he was always played by a white guy. Keye Luke, who played his number 1 son, did Chan's voice in the cartoon.
Laz: ""Heil Honey I'm Home!" [was] a Bitish sitcom"
Yeah, the Brits ridiculed the Nazis from the very beginning of WW2. Survival technique during Dunkirk and the Blitz, that then carried over for years. Private Schulz, Benny Hill, Allo Allo, all the way till Prince Harry wore that Nazi costume and suddenly it wasn't funny anymore. CC, JSM
They used to call The Green Hornet the Kato show in Hong Kong.
Tarantino has some interesting thoughts Bruce Lee getting in a fight with a stuntman.
Here is the original scene.
YouTube: "Nantucket, MA, sewer water regularly has higher than average cocaine levels."
There was a young man of Nantucket.
Who went down a well in a bucket;
The last words he spoke.
Before the rope broke,
Were, "Arsehole, you bugger, and suck it."
Austria Hungary wasnt the "major dominant empire" in Europe.
And the Serbs were a-holes, their military intelligence was running terrorist activities across the border in Bosnia, in part as a policy to control the Serbian government. The same characters had assasssinated a Serbian king earlier. Serbia was, well, not exactly the good guys.
The problem was the Russians had their backs, for romantic/ethnic reasons.
Lots of old timey 50s/60s westerns would occasionally have chinese characters. They were always shown in a postive light. Either as hard working immigrants being unfairly treated by bigoted whites, or as semi-comic hardworking, likable characters.
Richard Boone- have gun will travel - had a chinese sidekick. IRC, Bonanza had a chinese cook. No Chinese character in a TV western ever owned an opium den or did anything wrong. The only people who did bad things on TV Westerns were evil white men. And the occassional indian - who'd been pushed "too far".
Some people have said that Hogan's Heroes was shameful because it made fun of the Nazis. That's why I liked the show! It was actually the mockery and scorn of The Screwtape Letters that brought me to Christ.
Here's my defense of that sitcom...
A lot of great artists have tried to use humor against the Nazis: Chaplin, Lubitsch, Wilder. If you want to see mockery, though, real mockery and scorn, you really can't beat this TV show. Even more than Wilder's original film, Stalag 17, this show ridicules Nazis without mercy. It's a subversive and light sitcom about a bunch of POWs who operate as spies behind enemy lines.
The show manages to capture the dark side of Nazis, specifically the SS. Periodically they come in and threaten to send Col. Klink to the eastern front. Meanwhile, Sgt. Schultz knows the prisoners are up to something, but to acknowledge it would open up a huge can of worms. "I see nothing!" Klink and Schultz are caught between a rock and a hard place, between the evil SS and those damn sneaky POWs. Klink begs Hogan to cooperate and be nice. Meanwhile, instead of escaping to safety--which they could do anytime they wanted to--the POWs sacrifice their own liberty to stay in the prison camp and spy on the Germans.
Hogan's Heroes is broad to be sure. Many of us underrate it. It's not particularly funny or dramatic, but it is enjoyable in the way many TV shows are, and you can easily lose yourself in an episode. What makes it worthy of our time, I think, is that it captures perfectly the mindset we should have about Nazis. Nazis are stupid, stupid, stupid. Over and over the show relishes an attack on the intelligence of Nazis. Oh, you stupid morons, look what we are doing right under your noses. No way are you going to win this war.
You see a lot of Nazis in art. They are our default bad guy, even today, 80 years after the war. But you would be hard-pressed to find any more withering scorn for Nazis than in any random episode of Hogan's Heroes. It is perhaps one of the finest examples of pure mockery in art.
I think much of our pleasure from this show is on that simple basis. "Let's outsmart the Nazis." And yet if you think about it, Col. Klink is a fascinating creation. He's a weak man, a coward, and stupid. But he is not actually evil in the way of the SS. Klink and Schultz are not Nazis so much as nihilists, people who just want to get along in life. "I see nothing!" It's a metaphor for a type of person who wants to avoid conflict at all costs. The repression in that line fascinates. It is, perhaps, an oblique reminder of the German refusal to see what was happening to the Jews. Klink and Schultz avoid seeing what the POWs are so obviously up to, for the same reason they avoid seeing what the Nazis are up to: to see such things would cause problems for them personally. So Klink chooses, on some level, to be a buffoon, and Schultz loves his strudel. They are likable and yet in a certain way reprehensible. It is the humanity of Klink and Schultz--their weakness, their fear, their basic decency--that makes this show so interesting. We watch as they bounce back and forth between the evil of Nazi Germany and the heroism of the POWs.
While the show undoubtedly works on the cheap level of adolescent thrills--watch as we upstage authority and mock the Nazis--the show also works on a more complicated level of subversion and repression and masks. The POWs often corrupt Schultz with strudel, and then he refuses to see what he has in fact seen. The POWs go further, on occasion saving Klink from the Nazis so as to keep him as commandant. The conceit is that no Nazi can possibly be as dumb, or as complicit, as Klink. Klink in turn defends his own perfect record, how no one has ever escaped from his prison camp. Which is true enough, but only because it is headquarters of a massive spy ring.
The show works on both simple and complex levels. Nazis are mocked without mercy. And yet too the show is all about masks and self-deceit and repression and subterfuge and denial. Much of this swirls around the character of Col. Klink, the buffoon with a monocle and a riding crop. He is unable to be good and unable to be evil. He is too weak to please the Nazis and too weak to stand up to them. He is not a Nazi so much as a facade of a Nazi. His whole camp is a facade. And yet he wants to be liked by the Nazis and liked by Hogan. He wants everyone to like him and he wants all problems to disappear. It is Klink's desire to avoid all conflicts and problems and disharmony--his desire to keep his beautiful facade up at all costs--that makes Hogan's Heroes unusual and fascinating. While it is a simple, even a simple-minded sitcom, it is also one of the more layered comedies you will ever see. In fact that's exactly what it is, since half the show takes place in an underground tunnel.
I remember when I was a kid and I first heard of "the French underground." I figured they were actually under the ground, like the guys in Hogan's Heroes. Good guys in secret tunnels under bad guys is a wonderful and comic visual, a manifestation of id against ego, of rebels against tyranny and oppression. It's silly, yes, but kinda brilliant too.
Leftist LOVE to punish people. Esp toxic Islamic communist men(D)
My phone calendar says that approximately tomorrow will be the "First Night of Ramadan".
I propose an ICE Roundup Ramadan Pause in commemoration of the Holy Month. Call it a gregarious, cooling off token of Good Will from the Trump administration.
From Grok:
Robert Clary (who played Corporal LeBeau) was a French Jewish Holocaust survivor. He was imprisoned in concentration camps including Buchenwald from 1942–1945, where he lost most of his family and bore a tattoo from the camp.
Other Jewish cast members: Werner Klemperer as Col. Klink, John Banner as Sgt. Schultz, Leon Askin as Gen. Burkhalte.
Narciso: I think it was the North Minehead by-election (in which Mr. Hilter stood for election).
French Antifa Thugs beat a young man to death.
I loved Hogan's Heroes as a child. Being a child, WWII has in the long, gone past. I was startled as an adult when I realized it was produced only 20 years after.
I knew the show had Jewish cast members but I didn’t know Klink and Schultz were played by Jewish actors.
has = was
#4 and then #1
Springtime for Hitler
Werner Klemperer (Klink) was also an opera singer.
’Robert Clary’
I read that as Robert Cray, who is probably not Jewish, but he did play the bass for Otis Day & The Knights in ‘Animal House’, so that’s good enough for me…
german train conductor beaten to death by 26 y/o Greek man. Too much violence in Germany rail system due to foreigners and immigrants. Current government is too cucked to respond.
Hogan's Heroes got on the air because it was a way to give German actors who'd left Nazi Germany, most of them Jewish, a chance to make some $$.
Big Mike:
Thanks for the warning. Where in the valley are you? I'm in Staunton, next door to the Woodrow Wilson (boo! hiss!) Presidential Library.
Joyeux Mardi Gras!!
Watching it in the 70s, it seemed sorta stupid, even at 10 years old. But Bob Crane was charming and played well off "Colonel Klink". Sadly, he was murdered in 1978, and its suspected his rather odd "Friend" who engaged in sex escapades with Crane was the killer. But no arrests and no one knows who the killer really was.
I think there's going to be a cholera outbreak in one of the Blue cities.
Willem Dafoe.
@Dr. Weevil, I'm a little bit south of Winchester. As far south of me as you are, you might be just warm enough for freezing rain, lucky you.
I'm familiar with your area because my older son went to W&L so he could study Civil War history. Great place for it.
I think there's going to be a cholera outbreak in one of the Blue cities.
Or hepatitis in D.C.
Dear Lord, you've taken my favorite actor, Robert Duvall, my favorite comedian, Catherine O'Hara, and my favorite musician, Bob Weir. I just wanted to let you know that my favorite president is Donald Trump.
And my favorite commenter is lonejustice.
I read that as Robert Cray, who is probably not Jewish, but he did play the bass for Otis Day & The Knights in ‘Animal House’, so that’s good enough for me…
I saw Robert Cray play several times when sneaking in under age at the Back Forty in Tacoma/Lakewood, WA.
(and the trash can is there using the Opera browser)
"And my favorite commenter is lonejustice."
Me, too, Lord!!!
#4 stands out.
And I see the trashcan.
"I just wanted to let you know that my favorite president is Donald Trump."
You've made it clear that's not so, but you'd lie to God in order to induce him to end Trump's life?
Sounds about right.
I think there's going to be a cholera outbreak in one of the Blue cities.
Or hepatitis in D.C.
And then, there's this...
This sexually transmitted fungus causes ringworm in some very unfortunate places — and there’s an outbreak
https://nypost.com/2026/02/13/health/outbreak-of-sti-that-causes-ringworm-in-unfortunate-places/
The article reports outbreaks in NYC and Minnesota.
@Dr. Weevil, weather.com has cut my accumulation estimate down to 5”-6” of snow and a tenth of an inch of rain. Same website says you’re getting 2”-4” of snow but a half inch of rain. Either way Monday morning is gonna suck.
Here's a thought experiment. According to our leftists, Trump is worse than Hitler and Satan rolled into one person. So: would they take as President Dallin H. Oaks, the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? No question about his nationality. Former Chief Justice of the Utah Supreme Court. Former President of BYU. Clearly as moral and godfearing a man as likely exists in America today.
Would Inga, Kak, Howard, Chuck, etc trade out Trump for President Oaks?
Of course not. And why not? That's the real question, which proves their utter and shameless hypocrisy. They would rather have "ebul Trump!!! REEEE!" than a Christian man of the cloth. (Oaks, by the way, is not some far leftist freak pretending to be a Christian like most "modern" priests with blue hair and claiming god is female. He's pretty traditional).
I was just thinking, that it is certainly true, that history is written by the victors. But that doesn't necessarily mean that the history is false.
"I am trying to remember how WWI started... ".
Are you. The question isn't how it started. The question is why the United States of America got involved. So let me explain. Woodrow Wilson decided he needed to doink his neighbor's wife. Louis Brandeis, who was an ardent Zionist, got hold of the letters he wrote to her. The US got a million casualties, and the Zionists got the Balfour Declaration. Seems like a fair trade. If you're a Zionist.
Of course, before Woodrow Wilson could get us into the war, he had to become President. Which occurred because Theodore Roosevelt, a political has-been, decided to run against the Republican, Taft, who was vastly more popular than Wilson, splitting the vote. You'll never guess who funded Roosevelt's campaign. Never!
Hint; starts with a Z.
I'm up in Martinsburg. Our snow is 95% gone. I'm looking forward to some more snow. It won't be so cold this time.
Kind of strange when you think about it. Here you have Louis Brandeis, the fanatic Zionist, and he has blackmail material on Woodrow Wilson. So far, so good. But! Who is Woodrow Wilson? Well, he's the egghead southern academic who got appointed President of Princeton University. In short, he's nobody. So that blackmail material isn't good for much. Joke's on you, Louis! Unless you want an honorary doctorate from Princeton or something.
Oh, but then Roosevelt splits the Republican Party, and Wilson wins the Presidency! Huh. Who'd a thunk it? Amazing what a banker can accomplish. But the problem is, Wilson doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. Fortunately, he has a trusted advisor, Colonel House. You've heard of Colonel House, right? Who hasn't? He was ... he was ... He was Wilson's trusted advisor. Right? What more do you need to know?
I'm fairly certain that was the first and last time someone's political campaign was financed because someone else had blackmail material on him.
Big Mike:
Fortunately, I'm retired, and I can put my car in the municipal parking garage two blocks from home for the duration of the snow, so I don't have to dig it out. Just have to make sure I have enough food and drink for the duration. They don't even charge if you live in the neighborhood. Wish I'd thought of that before the first big snow after I moved here (Christmas 2009) when we got two feet.
For example, that's not how Katie Hobbes became Governor of Arizona. The Mexican cartels don't own her lock, stock and barrel, going back twenty years or more.
Earl Warren wasn't mobbed up, either. Not at all.
"Werner Klemperer (Klink) was also an opera singer."
His father was the great conductor Otto Klemperer. But Werner wasn't really Jewish. His father converted to Catholicism before Werner was born, and his mother wasn't Jewish.
President Obama and his National Security Adviser Susan Rice were so distraught after Trump won in 2016 they literally broke down and cried in front of White House staff," "After all they'd built, they feared their accomplishments were "at risk" of being torn down by a "con man" and a "clown." Ergo, Trump had to be stopped?"
These people really can't handle contrary views. They're the threat to democracy, if you ask me.
I checked with Perplexity, Grok, and Google - all list Klemperer as Jewish. And you’re right as to his heritage.
Under the Nuremberg racial laws only if a person had three or four Jewish grandparents would they be legally defined as a Jew - although persons with one or two Jewish grandparents had fewer rights than full German citizens.
However, his family fled Nazi Germany in 1935 as Jewish refugees and his dad returned to his Jewish roots. So it’s complicated.
They fled Nazi Germany because his dad certainly would be subject to harsh treatment as his religious conversion would be of no importance.
Yes we will be skipping this years SOTU. Its gonna be a real stretch claiming the State of Our Union is strong while the government is in another shutdown and the guy giving the speech is responsible under his watch, you know the Buck stops here scenario. Sounds like a jumping jack show of blaming and joyless banter, We'll read about it next day. No matter what the speech is the focus will be the shutdown yup another 1st! Beautiful show of how NOT to govern..NO EXCUSES people in charge are responsible regardless Still time to cancel, but not a lot..
The state of the union is the strongest it's been in years.
In the comments “Springtime for Hitler” video linked to 👆🏽
“Interesting Facts about the writer of this scene Mel Brooks
1. He was a soldier in WWII who fought for about a year
2. He participated in the Battle of the Bulge
3. When the war ended, he was on a recon mission in the mountains.
If There was anyone who earned the right to mock the Nazis, it was Mel Brooks. He fired bullets at them LITERALLY and Grenades!
Then he took shots at them the rest of his life in words of movie scripts and plays.”
"I think there's going to be a cholera outbreak in one of the Blue cities.
Or hepatitis in D.C."
Back when I was working, I had to get Hep A shots to work in the Anacostia River. Now they worry the Potomac is going to pollute the Anacostia.
Read DINKY DAU above to see how to say you don’t understand the American system of government without actually using those words.
Tim Young
@TimRunsHisMouth
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8h
As long as Stacey Plaskett continues to be a member of Congress and the Democrat party… not a single Democrat has the right to complain about anything Epstein related.
https://x.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/2023932579544477938?s=20
Tim Young
@TimRunsHisMouth
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8h
Democrats are more upset about Randy Fine insulting islam than one of their own taking orders from Jeffrey Epstein during a Congressional hearing.
https://x.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/2023933644096602213?s=20
Yes we will be skipping this years SOTU.
This makes me happy, and just knowing this will allow me to sleep restfully tonight.
The last SOTU I watched was Clinton in 1993.
To paraphrase the immortal words of John McClane, "Welcome to the party, jackass."
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 BREAKING: Many New Yorkers are livid after Ugandan Mayor Mamdani says he needs to RAID the RETIREE fund and raise property taxes just to help cover the budget shortfall
He'd also need to "raid our rainy day fund"
You REALLY asked for it, NYC! 🤯
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2023861868239220821?s=20
Could it really be that our love of dogs will save the West from an Islamic takeover? “Best friend” wouldn’t even begin to characterize them, if so…
Checking Zillow for waterfront property for sale along the Potomac River. Several property owners offered gas masks with the sale.
Good Morning, America.
Time for me to go to bed.
Could it really be that our love of dogs will save the West from an Islamic takeover?
Maybe.
Last time I checked, dogs weren't hijacking airplanes and flying them into our office towers ....
"Last time I checked, dogs weren't hijacking airplanes and flying them into our office towers ...."
Nor were they funding, training, and arming terrorist to take over countries like Afghanistan in order to create problems on Russia's borders, or doing the same with nazis in Ukraine, for the same exact reasons.
When the rules we set are "heads I win, tails you lose," it's not surprising that the players on the other side of the board choose different rules.
For instance compare what these CIA trained terrorist did to NYC to what Israel has done to Gaza in terms of the scale of destruction, or what the US is planning to do to Tehran this very moment.
"One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic" - Josef Stalin, and he has never been more right, has he?
Al Qaeda got out of hand, so we created ISIS, which only attacks targets that the CIA wants attacked, usually to create pretexts for US military "interventions"
Sorry about that.
The soviet had deposed two presidents before the invasion
’I saw Robert Cray play several times when sneaking in under age at the Back Forty in Tacoma/Lakewood, WA.’
Nice!! I saw him at a small festival on one of the smaller stages, less than ten feet away from him. He had a three amps: a Twin Reverb silver face in the middle, flanked by Matchless combos with masking tape labels ‘This One’ and ‘That One’. A fine player, for sure. :)
Italiacto!!
Huh…
stop!
stop evil!
oh no
Ash Wednesday zombie italics.
Straighten up!
BEGONE!
Dang Clyde, how many italic calls did you make?
Clyde, finish your coffee and then try again, buddy.
What's your over/under for nested italics commands?
I'm far too chicken shit to proffer a number, myself...
once more with feeling...
Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 on X: "NEW: Department of Transportation audit of Illinois Secretary of State's office finds major noncompliance related to the issuance of non-domiciled commercial driver's licenses and learning permits. DOT found that Illinois Secretary of State's office has issued more than 10,000 https://t.co/HNtxnXtKdT" / X https://share.google/mwOd9e2y2ZwET6GJE
Clyde is changing his name and he will be right back. Adding bold for fun.
Damn, Blogger, damn
mezzrow, I put in 3 in my previous comment and 10 now.
https://christophercook.substack.com/p/memes-morale-improves-statism
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What I do, sorry to pile on Clyde, is save my comment and delete the original. You got to chop its head off and pee on the ashes.
Etch a sketch technology
Blogger gremlin - italics cannot be shut off.
Trump won 2 elections. So did many Republicans who now control Congress. Republicans win and it’s fair. Democrats win and it’s fraud. The ridiculousness of this should be clear to anyone.
Make no mistake, this is not only about managing elections. This is about controlling election outcomes.
Fulton Co elections expert: “In all 5 areas identified by ... the [search warrant] affidavit, there are a multitude of false or misleading statements or omissions. ... Once ... corrected, the affidavit loses any basis in reality.”
The expert's full 29-page declaration, plus 149 pages of the reports & publicly available transcripts that the FBI agent failed to bring to the magistrate's attention are here:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.gand.355452/gov.uscourts.gand.355452.30.1_1.pdf
By their propaganda you shall know them:
“What the data we do have show is that Russia will fight Ukraine to its last poverty stricken middle-aged man before pushing the papered urbanites in Moscow and St. Petersburg—or the flinty TicTok warriors of Chechnya—into the trenches.”
Pure projection. Ukraine is the one that is openly press ganging men off the street and sending them into combat with almost zero training. Russia has the kinds of natural resources that Europe can only dream about, at best we can deny them certain Western luxuries.
it's like when Austin Bay accused China of "disintigrative war" and I went "bingo!" We are trying to disintegrate China, raising trouble with the Muslims on one side and Taiwan on the other. Funding ISIS terror attacks in Moscow to raise hatred of Muslims, in order to re-open the Chechnya sore, then supporting ultra-nationalist candidate in Russian politics like Navalny.
Check out the salute. All of the pictures purporting to prove that the Russians are the "real Nazis" come from Navalny rallies.
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/in-russias-far-flung-cities-navalny-inspired-average-people-to-challenge-putin-654ec495
And now we are planning to bust up the ancient civilization of Iran, which was a civilization when they met up with Alexander the Great. Bust a nation of 92 million into a collection of warlord ruled hell holes "to protect the demonstrators" who were mostly Mossad (They admitted this on Farsi radio) and ISIS, 450 ISIS "irregulars" let's call them were caught crossing into Iran, after the Turks tipped off Iran they were coming, and that was just one tiny bit of it. There is a huge CIA base right near Iran's border, in Armenia, just like the 12 CIA bases that we put there to teach propaganda, infiltration and assassination, right along Russia's border.
Any of you tools who believe that the destruction of Iran will bring peace, just wait for the Caucasus to flame up next, just like the destruction of Syria and handing it over the head choppers has opened up an air corridor to attack Iran.
One thing I like about buwaya, he doesn't buy all of this "We are doing it to help them" propaganda, which is how they fooled me into supporting the war in Iraq. He is honest about it, there is a grand strategy, and the next month will see one of its hinge points.
But hey, let loose the dogs of war, even if they are now in the form of cute propaganda puppies intended to convince you that 'it's not so bad to bomb the shit out of a country of 92 million," rather than buwaya's honest take of "we are doing it because we can."
Anthropic operating system
There so much wrong there i dont know where to begin
lonejustice said...
“All four photos are keepers.
Now let us pause for a moment of silence.
Dear Lord, you've taken my favorite actor, Robert Duvall, my favorite comedian, Catherine O'Hara, and my favorite musician, Bob Weir. I just wanted to let you know that my favorite president is Donald Trump.”
God has heard your lament, and is considering letting you keep the last one for a long, long time.
This attack on Iran is Trump getting on the wrong side of an 80-20 issue..
"There so much wrong there i dont know where to begin"
What you mean is that there is so much that counters the propaganda that you have been steeped in like a tea leaf until the essence of critical thinking has been leached away.
But why don't you just pick one?
gone?
The might of the US Navy and Air Force in service of a real estate opportunity in the Gaza Riviera, offered by a Prime Minister under indictment since 2019 for bribery, fraud and breach of trust to a convicted New York felon.
This is the global order in 2026
hi
I have given up trying to inform you
google sucks. I'm telling ya.
There are headers (if misformed) post doesnt appear
I'd like to save Iran. the people are great.
It's the Islamic males in power who need the gas chamber.
Blindered kak is wack.
I just figured out that I have to use FireFox to comment on this blog using my office computer.
There is nothing more important that your anger at the corrupt democrat Party elite. They have destroyed democracy. And they LIE, non-stop- that they did so.
Like ash in aliens its quite disturbing
Death to the Italics Demon Clyde!!!
h/t “Existenz”
eXistenZ
he tried to warn you
final test
I tried deleting the comment. Let's see if that helps.
Sometimes we get confused. I just saw that songwriter Billy Steinberg passed away yesterday and confused him with the late songwriter Jim Steinman. I originally typed the following post, then realized that the songwriters were two different people. Billy Steinberg wrote songs including Madonna's "Like A Virgin," Cyndi Lauper’s "True Colors," Heart’s "Alone," Whitney Houston’s "So Emotional," the Bangles’ "Eternal Flame," the Pretenders’ "I’ll Stand by You," the Divinyls’ "I Touch Myself" and "I Drove All Night," which was recorded by both Lauper and Roy Orbison.
Last week, my Amazon Music Discovery Mix had a bunch of classic rock songs that I already knew. One of them was Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart." As I listened to it, I realized that it reminded me of some of the songs from Meatloaf's Bat Out of Hell album. I looked up the songwriter for them, and it was Jim [Steinman]. Also on the playlist was Air Supply's "Making Love Out of Nothing At All," which was also by [Steinman], who was a prolific writer of hits for a number of musical artists.
Steinman passed away in 2021. Both of them wrote a lot of songs that I liked. May they both rest in peace.
Clyde in 2028!
Kakistocracy said...
""Why is there no trashcan?"
I lost mine a while ago. "
Now you tell us. This explains a lot.
I'd be willing to give you my trash can if you promise to use it liberally.
I use Brave browser, and I've always had a working trash can.
"I have given up trying to inform you"
So that's a no, you just assert that what I am saying is wrong.
If I bring up The Grand Chessboard, written by a man who had the power and responsibility as Jimmy Carter's national security advisor, and who is plugged into the power. structure of the US to the point that his daughter has a cable news show, says that we have a plan to crush Russia and China that involves all of these wars, and the fact that Iran is the last war on the list that Wesley Clark gave, of the ones that he said the neocons planned, just over the next few years from when he spoke.
Well, they were all wrong, even as the events they predicted, the wars future wars that they described, have come to pass.
Once Iran is destroyed, and I am not saying we can't do it. There is a lot of chatter that Iran will be able to strike back quite effectively, even Lindsay Graham has conceded this, but there is a good chance that we will succeed.
When peace doesn't come, and the Caucasus are set aflame, will you believe it then?
Costello’s “Armed Forces” is a great album.
The only race consistently portrayed in a bad light is Whites, especially Southern ones. Its so common we don't even notice it, but if you watch for it, it's glaring. That's why any time another race is shown in a bad light it's noticed, because everybody is looking for it.
I am afraid Trump really does see himself as the God Emperor of those memes, that I admit I liked, and that he will be the one that strikes the crippling blow to Russia, by contesting the Caspian and setting Central Asia aflame, and by severely limiting China's access to energy, that even if he is on the wrong side of an 80-20 issue, we will all see his wisdom in the end.
Well, it's a big gamble.
Admittedly, if we can succeed in Ukraine by getting control of the Black Sea, and in Iran, by contesting the Caspian Sea, Russia is forked. So the question is, will Russia and China stand back and let it happen? They may have no choice, and the other question is who can keep this up longer?
Just don't tell me that we are doing it because of the "poor demonstrators" in Iran.
Also, if Iran sinks a carrier, we will reach into the nuclear quiver, you can bet on it.
As I behold the vulgar turpitude of Bondi, Kennedy, Noem, Hegseth, Gabbard, et al, two thoughts come to mind: One, these really are the worst people to ever work in the executive branch. Two, we probably owe a mea culpa to the likes of Jared Kushner, Mark Meadows, and Rudy Giuliani.
All that Iran needs to do is destroy one battleship. Trump's reign will be over in the midterms.
The Houthi's chased off 2 carrier groups in the Red Sea. Judging from the hypersonic missiles fired last year, its at least possible, a carrier or other large ship could be hit.
If you think we care about Muslim women, look at pictures of Afghanistan in the '70s before we put the jihadis in charge, as has been admitted. Say what you will about the commies, who were allied with the Afghanistan government at the time, they didn't keep women home from school, and they didn't put them in burkas, and they didn't hate dogs.
Keep your fingers crossed, kak.
I tried Firefox - no trashcan. I tried Brave but I had to allow cookies and I didn’t want to do that.
the war went on for 10 years, we abandoned afghanistan, isi took charge, yadda yadda,
“As I behold the vulgar turpitude of Bondi, Kennedy, Noem, Hegseth, Gabbard, et al, two thoughts come to mind: One, these really are the worst people to ever work in the executive branch. Two, we probably owe a mea culpa to the likes of Jared Kushner, Mark Meadows, and Rudy Giuliani.“
Yes, the previous Republicans (who were Nazis at the time) are always better than the present Republicans (who really are Nazis.)
It’s too predictable. Change up your game.
Lionel Shriver has a new book. She tells you what she's thinking straight with no chaser here:
The Shocking Psychology of Liberal Women - Lionel Shriver
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