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Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

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Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

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These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

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  1. 1.

    Shalimar

    On a positive note, Trump has finally gotten us out of Iraq.  All it took was openly murdering Iraqi citizens and threatening to murder more.

  2. 2.

    satby

    Good morning everyone! Our city adventure ended up taking 13 hours start to finish, easily a couple hours longer than I expected. I rode with the family, which has its hair-raising moments as dad learned about how to maneuver multilane intersections with trains running in the center of the street (welcome to Chicago’s South Side). And he’s a school bus driver, so he rigidly drove even slower than I do, and I drive like a grandma because I am.

    But the museum was a hit, the Chicago deep dish pizza a huge hit, and a good time was had by all. Plus, the kids were tutoring me in Pennsylvania Dutch on the ride home, with very limited success, but it was interesting. Mom was already asking me about which zoo is better to see ?

  3. 3.

    Baud

    @Shalimar:

    “We have a very extraordinarily expensive air base that’s there. It cost billions of dollars to build,” Trump said on Air Force One as he returned to Washington from Florida on Sunday.

     

    “We’re not leaving unless they pay us back for it,” he said, apparently in reference to Ain al-Asad, a base originally built under Saddam Hussein’s government, but later extended by the United States.

  5. 5.

    Eural Joiner

    @satby: My daughter just recently moved to Chicago and we took a first-timer trip to visit this past summer. Loooooved the city and the deep dish pizza – but I couldn’t see eating it on a regular basis, it was just so heavy. I made it through one piece and was done!

  6. 6.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @satby: When has a day at the Museum of Science and Industry ever not been good? I haven’t been since the ’60s and it is still one of my fondest memories. Happy you are able to share such a fond memory with others for whom it might never have been were it not for you.

  7. 7.

    satby

    @Eural Joiner: it’s a great city, and with a bit of advance notice I’m happy to be a tour guide to you and your family next time you visit. I love my city.

    But I’m driving, if driving will be required. No more turns into incoming traffic for me ??

  10. 10.

    satby

    @OzarkHillbilly: The mom did tell me they wouldn’t have gotten there if I hadn’t come along, which was sweet. There were a few things that jostled their worldview a bit, which is always good for people to experience.

  11. 11.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    @Baud: “Officer, I’m not leaving this apartment until she gives me the watch a prior boyfriend bought for her.”

     

    Anyways, Iraq should do what every lessor does in this situation:  turn off the power and water.

  13. 13.

    JPL

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: Every democratic candidate should show trump’s video saying that President Obama will start a war in order to win reelection.    The current president is crazy and it’s time to say it loud at every opportunity.   .

  16. 16.

    Patricia Kayden

    I spent 2019 hearing people ask how we’d pay for Medicare for All.Thus far in 2020, I have not heard any of those people ask how we would pay for a war in Iran.— Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) January 5, 2020

  18. 18.

    NotMax

    Sneaked out to do some mowing yesterday and the mower would not start. Le sigh.

    Have a gut feeling it’s just a build up of gunkage from the ethanol in the gas. My days of futzing with things like that are behind me; gonna call the service company on Monday and make an appointment for them to swing by.

  19. 19.

    debbie

    @satby:

    Oh, boy. Drivers. What can you do?

    Glad it was a fun day. We have a Center of Science and Industry here and it’s great. They moved to a larger location maybe 15 years ago and didn’t transfer some of the things I liked (Town of Yesteryear, for one) in the interest of modernization. I trust Chicago has been smarter.

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    satby

    @OzarkHillbilly: he was too worried about where he was going to look at where he was. And it’s a patriarchy, so it was hard for him to take directions from me, until I told him to just turn Google off and let me tell him the way. He did, but he still had a map on the dash to see the roads, though it didn’t give him directions. But granted, it’s easier to drive where you’re familiar with the territory. And having to turn right around a train line in the middle of the street isn’t an everyday occurrence.

  21. 21.

    satby

    @debbie: funny you should mention that. Yesterday’s Main Street at the museum was empty and my crew wasn’t interested in going down it either. I won’t be surprised if that exhibit is swapped out for something else in the next few years. Shame, really.

  23. 23.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Apparently Pompero has already blaming Obama for the attack. Sounds like it’s starting to sink it to the Trump admit what they just did.

  30. 30.

    OzarkHillbilly

    I got 502ed for awhile there.

    @evodevo: You should try driving in Mexico. The person who has right of way is the one who fucking takes it.

    ETA: Pro tip: If somebody turns their right turn signal on, it DOES NOT MEN THEY ARE TAKING A RIGHT TURN. They are preparing to turn left. If they turn their left turn signal on, they are telling you it is safe to pass them.

  31. 31.

    Ken

    @Baud: Learning from this incident, the Baud administration will blame its blunders on presidents McKinley and Polk, on the grounds that they have no defenders (and for that matter few who could identify them).

  32. 32.

    Jinchi

    The option was put in front of him by gobsmackingly stupid DoD people

    It’s hard to believe they were actually this stupid. Trump has surrounded himself with Iran war-mongers and they know how to push his buttons. Graham and Pompeo have been comparing Baghdad to Benghazi constantly over the last week.

  33. 33.

    Immanentize

    @JPL: My theory about his trip to the hospital, which would even fit the Doctors’ obviously incomplete press statement, was drug overdose/interaction issues.

  34. 34.

    chopper

    @Baud:

    so we invade their country illegally, build an airbase and demand that they pay for it. jesus, this guy can’t not be committing extortion.

  36. 36.

    JPL

    @Immanentize: hmmm   Intentional or not?    His closest aides including his daughter and son-in-law must be tempted at times.   I imagine that Melania would just use a pillow.

  38. 38.

    Ken

    @Patricia Kayden:

    how we would pay for a war in Iran.

    Tax cuts, the same way we paid for the war in Iraq.

    I would love to see one of the candidates propose paying for Medicare for All with tax cuts, but it won’t happen. There are downsides to belonging to the sane party.

  40. 40.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @JPL:

    I imagine that Melania would just use a pillow.

    Never happen. She’d have to get in bed with him first.

  44. 44.

    Immanentize

    You know what I am really going to hate?  All the insider tell-all books describing how really insane Trump was — published after he leaves office.

  45. 45.

    Ken

    @JPL: Sounds like a theme for a murder mystery party.  So many of Trump’s circle are already stock characters anyway – “You are the Son-in-Law. Your secret is that you desperately need money to pay off mob debt.”

  47. 47.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @raven: Driving in the mountains is a nightmare. The paved roads are traveled by buses who have 2 drivers, One to drive, and the other to watch the road ahead for oncoming traffic so that if they get stuck behind say a cane truck, the one can tell the other when it is safe to pass on a blind curve. They are actually pretty good at it because they are watching 3 or 4 twists in the road ahead. Every now and again tho…

    One of the scariest things one can do is get behind a bus and stay on their tail. It’s pretty safe but I would never want to be the 3rd or 4th vehicle in that crack the whip game because the really good ones are able to time the upcoming traffic they spotted a few turns back and while they have time, and the vehicle right behind them will, one is pushing the envelope 4 cars back.

    The unpaved mountain roads… Probably pretty similar to being on a goat trail in Vietnam.

  52. 52.

    satby

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: I suggest everyone take a day away from being online because it’s a real brain refresher. And you’re inspiring me to start a puzzle ?

    I’m taking today as my lazy day since yesterday was so hectic. It’s chilly, but the sun is brilliant so a good day to get outside.

  54. 54.

    Quinerly

    Poco is not doing well this AM. I don’t think he is any pain. Just seems to be confused. I have left a message for the vet.

  55. 55.

    Kattails

    @NotMax: You need something called “Ethanol Shield”, add just a bit to the gas can for your small engines.  I have a mower, snowblower, and chain saw, so definitely worth it.

  58. 58.

    Origuy

    @satby: Take them to the Field Museum to see Sue the T-Rex next. You might want to wait awhile before going to the Art Institute; there are a lot of naked ladies there. Glad it went well.

  59. 59.

    Ruckus

    @evodevo:

    My road story about Naples is riding in the front seat of a cab, driving on a 4 lane road under 4 lane overpass, with a red light at the other side. So of course he drives down the train track in the middle, with a tram coming at us on the other side of the red light and being the first in the intersection because he never slowed down and cutting in front of the rest of the traffic back into the far left lane, just before the head on with the tram. He knew the light would change because of the approaching tram. I didn’t know that the tram wouldn’t stop and that the light would change because that’s not how it works here. At least the ride was cheap.

  60. 60.

    m.j.

    I think Trump assassinated Suleimani just to have something to bludgeon Joe Biden with.

    It has been reported that Biden counseled Obama not to storm Bin laden’s compound. Biden denies this. Trump is desperate to be the tough guy who will pull the trigger and he wants to to say that if Biden was President Bin laden would still be alive.

    I think it’s just that simple and insane.

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