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Nothing worth doing is easy.

Ah, the different things are different argument.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

This blog will pay for itself.

Let there be snark.

Second rate reporter says what?

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

No Justins, No Peace

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

“woke” is the new caravan.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

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  5. 5.

    lamh35

    If you’re looking for a sci-fi film with some great gun/hand-to-hand combat senquences and IMHO, so pretty good acting, then check out this movie from 2002 called “Equilibrium”. It stars Batman himself, Christian Bale and Taye Diggs. I’ve seen it before, and I watched it again recently and I enjoyed it the first time and still like it. It was a very underrated movie.

    Equilibrium

  7. 7.

    smintheus

    This newly passed Senate bill requiring the military to lock up all terrorist suspects, including Americans, beggars belief.

    The Senate on Tuesday voted to keep a controversial provision regarding military detainees in a Defense spending bill, setting up a showdown with President Obama.
    The controversial language in question would require the military to detain terrorist suspects, including U.S. citizens, allowing for their indefinite detention. Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., led an effort to remove the language and provide more room for study on the issue, but his amendment was rejected by a vote of 37 in favor to 61 against.
    President Obama has promised to veto the Defense bill if it includes the controversial provision, with his administration arguing that applying the new rules within the U.S. would challenge the “fundamental American principle that our military does not patrol our streets.”

    61 Senators in favor of shredding centuries of due process. It’s as if the Constitution nowadays were nothing more than some fancypants wish list.

    ETA: The bill permits indefinite (permanent) detention (imprisonment) without trial (subject to the President’s say so).

  9. 9.

    lamh35

    Also, I saw “Moulin Rouge” for the first time from beginning to end. Ewan MacGregor was a better singer than I expected. Nicole Kidman was not so much a great singer, but she looked beautiful. The movie was ok, but I gotta say that as a Microbiologist, I was completely distracted by the fact that this hookah was coughing up blood one minute and kissing or breathing on somebody the next, spreading TB like it wasn’t nuthing! Ugh! Ruined the whole vibe of the movie for me…lol.

  18. 18.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @lamh35: I couldn’t wait for Kidman’s character to die, so that the movie could end. That is, I really hated that movie. Sorry.

  19. 19.

    MikeJ

    @karen marie: “People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.” – Adam Smith

  21. 21.

    Joseph Nobles

    No horse play? OK, I’ll leave my post about “Obama legalizing horse slaughter for human consumption” in the turkey/taco thread.

  24. 24.

    khead

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Definitely. SweetPea was in the top left corner of April last year (I think, gotta check). I’m currently taking as many photos as possible of the three of them. Bella and Gracie are chasing each other around in my office as I post this….

    SweetPea just wants to be left alone. On a lap, preferably.

  25. 25.

    RossInDetroit

    I’ve been waiting all day for an O.T. so I could unload my grievances. But I don’t really care about them any more and you all probably won’t either.

    Short version:
    Meddling interloper
    dipstick end dropped in crank case
    Unnecessary engine teardown.
    Grief and consternation.

  32. 32.

    khead

    More open thread stuff…

    My wife and her brother are gonna be on “The Chew” tomorrow. It is her B-day gift to him.

    I hope getting up 3-4 hours before I even THINK of getting out of bed will be worth it.

  34. 34.

    paramedicx

    2 folks in our county were forced into jail for 18 months so they would do their tuberculosis treatments…active TB in America in 2011…come to beautiful NC people, we rock!

  37. 37.

    MikeJ

    @karen marie: Yes, it’s terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after. – Giles from BtVS

  39. 39.

    RossInDetroit

    Oh, shit, man. My brother just emailed me really bad news. The guy I shared a locker with in high school just killed himself and his wife. Small town & everybody knows everybody.
    I gotta make phone calls….

  43. 43.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    @RossInDetroit: Here’s my favorite awful car repair story. My brother rebuilds his Spitfire tranny. It’s done, it’s in the car, and we see a needle bearing on the floor.

    Sez I: “What the hell, you’ve already got a bunch of others in there, you don’t need this one.” Sez my dad: “Take the tranny back out, take it apart, and put it back together right!”

    He listened to my dad.

    ETA: wrote this before your other news. Horrible. My condolences.

  45. 45.

    Cap'n Magic

    (1) FCC releases redacted AT&T/T-Mobile report. Does not look good for AT&T at all. DOJ gets the unredacted report. One point I saw mentioned in the report; Before the Cinglar/AT&T/Centenial/Dobson acquisitions, total employment was 70,000. Once the smoke cleared, 67,000. AT&T’s big argument was that the combined AT&T/T-Mobile would create new jobs.

    (2) Robo-signer in NV who was to be sentenced today found dead.

  46. 46.

    Amir Khalid

    @burnspbesq:
    In rather better news, Liverpool had to play again two days after drawing at home to Manchester City when they could have won, and this time they beat Chelsea 2-0.

  47. 47.

    Samara Morgan

    Have you been following the egyptian elections DougJ?
    Sandmonkey’s twitter stream is great.
    He was right there taking pics of the seals on the ballot boxes.

    Media reports indicate the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice party has secured more than 40 percent of the vote after counting so far. Ultra-conservative Salafist groups also are expected to score major gains in Egypt’s second city, Alexandria.

    i would say the US gov’s attempt to impose the Ataturk model on Egypt is another epic fail.
    That is the beauty of democracy– when you let those ungrateful brown people vote, they vote for islam instead of missionary democracy.
    bi la kayfah

  48. 48.

    Samara Morgan

    AMG Newt’s a seecrut muslim– paging Pam Gellar stat!

    “You watch him in the debates,” Steyn said. “It’s all ‘profoundly, dramatically deeply compelling. All the action is in the adverbs. One of my problems again with Newt is like he’s bursting with ideas that sound all as if they are coming from a self-help manual. If you remember back in his hay day, he had something called ‘The Triangle of American Progress.’ And that evolved into the “Four Pillars of American Civilization,’ which in turn expanded into the ‘Five Pillars of the Twenty-First Century.’”

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