Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

You cannot shame the shameless.

People are weird.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

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Here’s something to get us in the Halloween spirit:

I only have one occasional squirrel visitor to my porch feeders, and I can’t see playing such a trick on poor Eloise since she’s so polite and unassuming. But damn, it’s funny! (Maybe it’s the movement of the paws that make it so hilarious?)

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  1. 1.

    Ken

    I’d worry the feeder-mask would get stuck on the poor squirrel’s head, and it would run around the neighborhood giving people heart attacks.

  3. 3.

    SFAW

    Whilst driving to work yesterday, I glimpsed a snow-white squirrel. I didn’t run off the road, but was pretty amazed, didn’t know they existed.

  4. 4.

    eclare

    For sportsball fans, UEFA match, Italy vs Spain, at 2:30 EDT.  Where I live, Memphis, it’s on ESPN2.

  5. 5.

    The Thin Black Duke

    Here’s my latest essay about my bad night in the ICU after recovering from surgery and how a loud popcorn movie brought me back from the brink.

  11. 11.

    What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

    @Betty Cracker: When I moved to East Lansing, MI for grad school was the first time I ever saw black squirrels. The Lansing State Journal did an article about them (this was back in the mid-90s)  and claimed at the time that some place in CT, Lansing, and the Washington, DC area were the only places in the country with black squirrels. I swear I’ve seen them other places since though.

  19. 19.

    JeanneT

    Olney IL has a population of white squirrels: they’re a tourist attraction.

    We do have black squirrels in west Michigan, at least in some neighborhoods in Grand Rapids, but no white squirrels!

  23. 23.

    StringOnAStick

    I saw a nearly black fox on Lookout Mountain in CO, a rare colour variant.  Silver tipped ears and muzzle, just gorgeous!

  28. 28.

    Betty Cracker

    @Wolvesvalley: Ironically, my mom, kiddo and I spent hours searching for white squirrels in Brevard without luck, and a short time after we returned home to FL, the white squirrels started showing up in my yard. We used to joke that they’d stowed away on mom’s RV.

  29. 29.

    Old School

    I wonder if that squirrel feeder gets put up in October or if it is left up year-round.

  31. 31.

    kindness

    @MattF: One of the parks in Sunnyvale Ca has a community of black squirrels.  They’re smaller like red squirrels but completely black.  Haven’t seen them anywhere else in N. Cal.

  32. 32.

    Shana

    @What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?: I saw several over the years in my hometown of Rock Island, IL.

    We put up birdfeeders for the first time this year, one clamped to the deck railing, one on a post in the yard. Over the course of the spring and summer we’ve learned to put a slinky over the posts to keep squirrels from being able to climb the posts. The slinky didn’t keep the chipmunks off though, they’d just climb up the post and use the slinky as an elevator back to the ground. They chipmunks would just hang out on the perch for the feeder and gorge themselves. We’ve started coating our feed with Flaming Squirrel hot sauce which the critters can taste but the birds can’t.

  36. 36.

    dr. bloor

    I’ve been feeding a squirrel this summer who was pretty clearly nursing earlier in the season, although she’s kind of slimmed down and lost her milk bar look at this point.  Hasn’t affected her appetite, though–when I leave the house, she’ll come up to the bottom of the porch and give me the “where have you been?” look.

  38. 38.

    Ohio Mom

    @SFAW:

    There was a clan of white squirrels behind Ohio Son’s old babysitter’s house. My eyes nearly popped out the first time I saw one — the babysitter had seen that face before. “There’s a whole family of white squirrels back there.”

    I haven’t seen any since.

  40. 40.

    germy

    The thing people don’t get about Boston is that yes: it’s wildly expensive. Yes: it’s freezing. And yes: it’s difficult to navigate and the people are unfriendly. BUT the food? Also not good.

    — Lucy Huber (@clhubes) October 2, 2021

  44. 44.

    NotMax

    Halloween?

    Recently saw this* out of the corner of an eye while randomly poking around.

    “No candy for you!” (door slams shut, sound of deadbolt being latched)

    *Omnes, do NOT click the link.

  48. 48.

    Old School

    @MattF:

    Grace Segers

    @Grace_Segers

    McConnell statement: “To protect the American people from a near-term Democrat-created crisis, we will also allow Democrats to use normal procedures to pass an emergency debt limit extension at a fixed dollar amount to cover current spending levels into December.”

  50. 50.

    gvg

    I haven’t seen white squirrels for years but 50 years ago, I saw them at Ginny Springs near Ocala.

  51. 51.

    Ken

    My lunch-time activity has been listening to my apartment complex’s groundskeepers running their leaf-blowers to clear the grounds.  It’s a windy day, so new leaves are being added about as fast as they are removed. Still, work order says “clear leaves today”, so what can you do?

  55. 55.

    JoyceH

    @JeanneT: ​
     

    Olney IL has a population of white squirrels: they’re a tourist attraction.

    I lived in Olney as a kid – “Olney, Il, home of the white squirrels”. At least back then the police force had white squirrel patches on their uniforms; that always amused me. Problem is that Olney’s squirrels are albinos and that’s a recessive trait, only passes along when white squirrels mate with other white squirrels. So I think the colony is being diminished by interbreeding with other squirrels.

  56. 56.

    What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

    Well I guess that Lansing State Journal article was less than thoroughly researched.

    @narya: I have an Oberlin story, though it doesn’t involve black squirrels. Back in the summer of roughly 1986, give or take a year, I went to a production of The Tempest on Oberlin’s campus. My eldest cousin on my mom’s side went there, and they were from Cleveland and owned a place on the Marblehead Peninsula where we used to spend a few days every summer. So we were either visiting them at Lakeside or Cleveland and decided to go to the play.

    It was a wacky production – the male characters were in Miami Vice outfits – and the guy who produced it and starred as Prospero was a visiting scholar from the Royal Shakespeare Society. I had never heard of this bald pated gentleman but was surprised when I saw him on my TV screen in the fall of 1987 when I tuned into Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was Patrick Stewart.

  57. 57.

    BC in Illinois

    End of November, 1969. US Navy Boot Camp, Great Lakes IL.

    Before dawn, as we are lined up for breakfast, waiting for people to clear out, so that our company can enter the mess hall.

    I see a black squirrel, which I had never seen in Maryland, Ohio, or anywhere else. So I say to the guy next to me, “Hey, look! A black squirrel.” And he says the same to the guy next to him, who says the same to the guy next to him.

    And that’s what I remember of my second day in Boot Camp. All the way down the line:

    “Black squirrel! Black squirrel. Blacksquirrelblacksquirrelblacksquirrelblacksquirrel.

    Blacksquirrelblasqrlblasqr . . .”

  59. 59.

    Just Chuck

    Black squirrels in the Rockies are fairly shy, I’ve found.  In the high alpine altitudes, we have the ultra-cute chipmunks that are a bit more gregarious.

  61. 61.

    The Thin Black Duke

    @Betty Cracker: I’m afraid the sequel to Avatar is going to be a while. The last I heard, it’s going to be a trilogy, so Cameron is shooting two films at the same time.

  63. 63.

    Betty Cracker

    @MattF: Well, kinda. He’s still making Democrats clean up his and Trump’s mess, but it looks like he’s giving them more time to do it. Why wouldn’t that work again? Hmmm. I don’t know. Senate rules are stupid.

  64. 64.

    Ksmiami

    @The Thin Black Duke: you’re a great writer and I agree that it’s often not the high art that makes powerful memories but the day to day family fun cultural experiences that bring us together.

    Hope you are feeling 100 percent better from that time

  67. 67.

    brendancalling

    Unrelated to squirrels, but my scummy landlord sold the house I live in and gave my neighbor and me 60 days to move out so the new owners can renovate it into employee housing.

    Sadly for my landlord and the new owners, Vermont Legal Aid tells me they don’t have a leg to stand on, that I should ignore the  notice (“I would not even engage with the LL about this, she knows (or should) that what she is asking of you is not legal/enforceable. You are under no obligation to ‘teach’ her.”), and let her try to take me to court.

    Sadly for me, I suspect my landlord won’t take any of this very well.

  75. 75.

    lowtechcyclist

    Here’s McConnell’s offer.  Basically agreeing to raise the debt limit sufficiently to cover spending into early December, through normal order rather than reconciliation.

    Anyone see a reason for the Dems to not take him up on this?  Presumably they could include a further raising of the debt limit in the reconciliation bill they’re currently negotiating, and it would give them a fair amount of time to finish their negotiations with Sinemanchin.  I’m not seeing a downside.

  77. 77.

    FlyingToaster

    @germy: Bullshit.  The food in Boston has been excellent for the past 30 years.  Before then, well, I only moved here 34 years ago…

    Otherwise, it kinda captures the essence of Boston (Crap Weather, missing signage, Half-drunk-Dunks everywhere, incessant construction).

  78. 78.

    Ruckus

    @The Thin Black Duke:

    Glad you got better. And glad you recognized why, that’s a somewhat scary feeling, knowing that your own internal safe is locked up so tight that you miss some of the scary parts, and that in the end make life worth that understanding and a bit better.

  82. 82.

    germy

    @FlyingToaster:

    I lived there in the late 1970s and I loved ordering seafood in restaurants.  Always great.  And I remember a tavern called “Frankenstein’s” where they had great food.

    I didn’t have a car there.  I walked and used public transportation.

  83. 83.

    Kent

    @lowtechcyclist: Why kick the can down the road 2 months?  Put a serious debt limit bill on the floor under regular order that will run out the whole Biden Administration, and dare them to force you to suspend the filibuster if they don’t go along.  Dems hold all the cards here.  If McConnell doesn’t want to see the filibuster tanked, all he has to do is keep his people from filibustering and let it pass on Dem votes alone.

  86. 86.

    RobertB

    I saw a black squirrel at Put-in Bay (South Bass Island) this past summer.

    A golf course I used to golf at had a white squirrel that lived by the 18th hole.

  87. 87.

    Kent

    @brendancalling: Let them buy you out.  That’s how it is done on the west coast.   All you have to do is agree on the price.  In San Francisco it usually runs into the mid 5 digits.

  88. 88.

    Geminid

    Recently I happened to read James Michener’s Creatures of the Kingdom, Stories of Animals and Nature. Most entries are passages from novels such as Centennial and Chesapeake. The last chapter, “The Colonel and Genghis Khan,”  was (I believe) a true story. “Genghis Khan” was a Texan grey squirrel who terrorized black squirrels and incessantly raided the retired Army Colonel and Wive’s bird feeders. The Colonel tries out increasingly elaborate “squirrel-proof” feeders to no avail. At her wits end, Mrs. Colonel brings out a shotgun to send Genghis Khan to the hereafter. But the Colonel is able to talk her down, and promises to send for a highly reputed squirrel-proof feeder from L.L. Bean.

    Michener’s introductory note to this entry includes a poignant story about the time a well meaning guest killed a black snake who lived in Michener’s house, and whom the author considered a friend: “Even writing these words,” Michener wrote, “brings back the pain.”

  90. 90.

    Kent

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Yes, that’s the better option.   I agree.  But probably harder to get passed.   I’m just objecting to the short-term bullshit.  Nothing will have changed in 2-months except that they will all be wanting to go on Christmas break when the next vote comes.

  91. 91.

    Lyrebird

    @Betty Cracker: OT and for another day unless I have just missed it:

    Have you weighed in here about the FL Sen race?

    I’m currently giving my pennies to Demings, Beasley, and Lamb, and the Demings campaign sends the most emails, not sure what else I can observe.

    Anyhoo, you might have already done a column on that, or you might not really enjoy doing one, just thought I would ask.

    Good afternoon BC and all!

  92. 92.

    Burnspbesq

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    I can only speculate that he found the issues related to the scope of the state secrets privilege raised in the Zubaydah case particularly interesting. Or someone in his chambers mistook crystal meth for Crystal Light.

  94. 94.

    What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

    @FlyingToaster: Yeah I’ve visited Boston several times over the years to visit friends and the food is fine. At least in comparison to where I grew up (Grand Rapids, MI – food used to suck but it’s got a pretty decent food scene these days) and where I live now (DC area, which ditto what I said about GR). Also, the weather…I miss the cold. I’d much rather a Michigan or Boston winter than a DC area summer to be honest.

    People act like anywhere the temps are likely to drop below 40 degrees for a 2-3 months give or take is some unlivable hellhole. Try 98 with 70% humidity. That’s all those sunbelt Southern States people are convinced are paradise by comparison. Well, I’d rather put on a coat and suffer through the cold than roast in shorts and a T shirt. No offense to anyone whose opinion differs.

  101. 101.

    What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

    @RobertB: That’s right off the coast from Lakeside where my cousins’ place is. I grew up in West Michigan and am partial to the Lake Michigan shore but that part of Ohio is pretty pleasant on a nice summer day.

  102. 102.

    germy

    @What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?:

    I find as I get older, I can’t tolerate the cold the way I used to.

    But at the same time, I can’t tolerate excessive heat and humidity anymore.

    I prefer the cold.  The only stress is keeping the old boiler running so the house doesn’t freeze.

  103. 103.

    What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Yeah but along the coast there you don’t deal so much with the extreme heat and it’s not humid either. I kind of get the lure of California weather (if it ever stops burning) but GeorgiaAlabama/SC/FL weather holds no attraction for me. I mean, I don’t mind going down there for a week in the winter for a break from the cold but suffering through the summers isn’t any better than dealing with winter in the Northeast and upper Midwest.

  105. 105.

    Burnspbesq

    Late in the first half, Italy is down a goal and down a man. Bonucci appropriately given a second yellow.

  106. 106.

    Betty Cracker

    @Lyrebird: I wrote a post on it when Demings first announced, I think. I think she has a shot because 1) she’s a compelling candidate, and 2) everyone hates Rubio, even Republicans. I’ve already got a Demings sticker on my car and have donated a bit. You’re right — her campaign is very aggressive with outreach!

  112. 112.

    dww44

    @What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?: While you’re generally correct, as a Georgia resident and citizen, I’m thinking we’re doing pretty well in this year of weather extremes.  We’ve had plenty of rain with no hint of drought, no excessive heat waves, and yes, plenty of humidity.  We’re actually counting our blessings.  No Floods, no Fires, and no Oil spills, and, of course, no snow to date.

  114. 114.

    What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

    @Betty Cracker: In Buffalo winters you don’t have to fend off alligators, or even biting insects for that matter.

    Speaking of Buffalo, there’s a fun movie staring Tea Leoni and Ben Kingsley set there called You Kill Me. Kingsley plays a drunken hitman for the Polish mafia whose drinking habit causes him to miss out on a hit that costs the Poles their one remaining money maker – the contract to plow the streets of Buffalo – to a rival Irish mafioso (played by Dennis Farina). I won’t go any further so as not to spoil too much but it’s a pretty amusing black comedy.

  121. 121.

    JustRuss

    @Betty Cracker: 

    @What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?: I saw a picture of a black squirrel on Twitter the other day, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen one in the wild. It was pretty!

    Friend of mine lives in Mill Valley, north of SF. Lots of black squirrels there, kind of freaked me out the first time I saw one.

    Nearly ran over a gray riding my bike to work today. How the squirrel managed to ride my bike is another story.

  123. 123.

    dww44

    @Raven: we don’t and that’s the point.  Anyways, it’s entirely possible as we do have a coastline capable of sinking pretty large container ships, No?

  124. 124.

    eclare

    @Burnspbesq:  Hoping Mbappe has a good day tomorrow.  He is so impressive when he is on fire.

    Gavi…wow.  I hope he has good people around him, seventeen is so young.

  126. 126.

    Geminid

    @dww44: I live in Virginia, but I have visited a friend in  Atlanta many times. My Atlanta friend claims they have the best weather, and I am inclined to agree. Not too hot, not too cold. Atlanta’s 1000 foot elevation makes the difference in the summertime.

  128. 128.

    Low Key Swagger

    Hive mind question:  My best girl, Cookie is a 12 yr old mix of some kind of sheppard and god knows what.  She’s been with me since nearly birth.  She’s been an incredibly active dog that sticks to me like glue.  If I make a hundred trips to the barn…she makes a hundred trips.  Lately, she’s been slow getting up and I have to sometimes help her on to the sofa.  We’ve had a little girl here as a guest for a couple of days so Cookie has been going back and forth to the swimming hole with her, and that’s a fair hike.  She couldn’t up awhile ago, and I think it’s her hips.  My question:  Have any of y’all tried CBD oil for soreness/pain with your dogs?  I will Google it but I’m guessing opinions are split.

  129. 129.

    brendancalling

    @Kent: well, that’s a problem. Vermont is in a housing crisis—very little stock, very high rents. It took me three months to find my last place. I can barely afford what I have now, and buying me out would basically push me into housing I really can’t afford.

  131. 131.

    eclare

    @Geminid:  The elevation makes a big difference in cooling off at night.  I used to live there.  Now I live at about 400 feet, it never cools off at night during the summer.

  132. 132.

    dww44

    @Geminid: My daughter lives in Atlanta, but we’re smack in the middle of the state and don’t have the benefit of the altitude they enjoy that can tap down on the high heat.  So we’re hotter than them, but not necessarily muggier, but we are cooler than the extreme southern portions of the state.  They’re flatter and just a teeny bit more tropical.  The Long Hot Summer has long been an apt description of life in the deep south.  but the mild winters can make up for that.

  133. 133.

    Kay

    John Scott-Railton
    @jsrailton
    · 1h
    INFURIATING: anti-vaxxers chasing children & parents outside elementary school.
    Again.
    Video: @SamBraslow

    Watch as the normal parents turn around and tell the Trump supporters to get away from them. There are hundreds of these videos, where Trump supporters chase normies outside of schools and harrass them. If Democrats don’t use this, they’re nuts.

  135. 135.

    Ruckus

    @dww44:

    Where do we get our oil for all the vehicles? We import billions of barrels per day. According to the government we import 7.86 million barrels of petroleum per day, both crude and refined products.

    I’d guess that not all of it comes through pipelines and realistically the only other way is ships. Now here is the other part, we export more than we import. The likely hood is that we are refining a lot of the product and exporting the finished product. So where does all the gas that we burn in our cars come from? The link above goes into a lot of detail.

  137. 137.

    germy

    I can’t believe a lot of rioters are getting less time in jail than my recovery time from two different surgeries in my attempt to protect the Capitol and the people in it. @nothugsandkisses @notatour???

    — Sergeant Gonell, Aquilino (@SergeantAqGo) October 5, 2021

  140. 140.

    Another Scott

    @Kent: I’m not seeing the benefit to putting it off, either.

    TheHill:

    But the response from Democrats so far has been mixed.

    Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) called McConnell’s offer “bull shit” while Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called it a “step forward.”

    Obama tried to get them to break their fever about never ever raising taxes. He couldn’t get them to do it. It’s hard to see why things would be different in December.

    “The only way out is through.”

    We’ll see. Schumer has put off the vote to talk about it with the team.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  141. 141.

    Stacy

    @Low Key Swagger: Lurker here- my 6 year old Brittney had difficulty moving due to arthritis from a previous Lyme infection. Did some research and put him on Adequan. Gave him shots at home on a once a week schedule(set by the vet) to renew the cartilage then backed off to maintenance of once a month. It was like a miracle drug. He went from limping so much that he couldn’t go for walks of any length to full mobility in a very short period of time.

  143. 143.

    WaterGirl

    @Stacy: @Low Key Swagger:

    I will second the recommendation for adequan injections.

    When I got those for Bailey years ago, it was 2 injections a week for 4 weeks.  Then several months after that, you could get a couple of boosters, as I recall.

    It was kind of like a miracle.  They maybe have a different regimen now – after more years of research – but I would definitely recommend adequan.

  144. 144.

    J R in WV

    @dm:

    There are a lot of black squirrels in NE rural Ohio, around Dover/New Philadelphia area. Was a surprise to me to see them.

  146. 146.

    WaterGirl

    @Old School: I don’t know what you did to deserve it :-) but I found 5 of your messages in spam.  Two or three of them just said “test” so I deleted those, but I released the rest.

    Please try commenting again right away so I can see whether you still have a problem.

  147. 147.

    What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

    @JustRuss: They are pretty freaky (sort of like demon spawn squirrels) the first time you see them. Appropriate for Halloween though.

  151. 151.

    Another Scott

    @Ksmiami: He’s stuck with 1970s thinking about economics.  Maybe that’s the only thing that keeps him in office from WV.

    He seems to like to put down markers – or things that the press takes as markers.  We’ll have to see what happens.  So far, he has been a necessary vote when we’ve needed it.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  152. 152.

    raven

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    It was a year ago today in the dark morning hours after midnight that the freighter Golden Ray headed out of the Port of Brunswick on what has long been a routinely commonplace maneuver in these local waters. Then something went wrong. Sometime after 1:30 a.m., while making a final starboard turn in the sound before heading out to sea, the massive ship listed heavily to starboard.

    Then the Golden Ray listed heavy to port — and kept rolling, capsizing in the sound directly between the resort islands of Jekyll and St. Simons. With nearly 400,000 gallons of oil in its fuel tanks, 4,200 vehicles in its cargo hull, and 24 crewmen onboard, all 656 feet of the ship pitched calamitously onto its port side.

  156. 156.

    Baud

    @Another Scott:

    I don’t understand.  Can’t the Dems easily add this to the recon bill?  I of course would prefer a filibuster carve out, but that hinges on the holdouts signing on?

  157. 157.

    Another Scott

    @Baud: I assume the same issues would hold as before – if they change the reconciliation bill, then 2-3-4 weeks have to elapse, they have to do a “vote-a-rama” thing were they try to score points on amendments that won’t pass but have to be voted on and create political fodder (like Sinema’s thumbs-down vote on the $15 minimum wage).  It invites too much mischief on the other side – people who haven’t bargained in good faith on this whole issue.

    Things are moving fast.

    TheHill:

    […]

    Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) noted that accepting McConnell’s offer to vote to raise the debt limit to a certain number high enough to cover the nation’s financial obligations until December would amount to “a temporary victory.”

    “In terms of a temporary lifting of the debt ceiling, we view that as a victory, a temporary victory with more work to do,” she told CNN’s Jake Tapper.

    Baldwin made her comments after leaving a closed-door meeting of the Senate Democratic caucus where lawmakers discussed McConnell’s offer floated earlier in the day.

    Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is expected to announce his party’s position on McConnell’s offer Wednesday afternoon.

    Baldwin noted that accepting the deal would allow Democrats to avoid having to undertake the arduous process of amending the 2022 budget resolution to set up a stand-alone reconciliation package to raise the debt ceiling. Under Senate rules, they would have to set the debt ceiling at a higher number under reconciliation and couldn’t simply vote to suspend it until after the 2022 midterm election.

    […]

    On to the RB and the BIF and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and all the rest.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  158. 158.

    J R in WV

    @Ksmiami:

    wtf is wrong with Manchin?

    Manchin is a self-centered, arrogant, crooked, greedy, manipulative, bigoted, narcissistic DINO. Oh, yeh, also pretty stupid.

  161. 161.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    A story from my sister;

    She works (remotely, in California) as a programer for a software company in Texas.  While most of the team she is on is in Texas, all of them are typical techy types, mostly male, sort of liberal,  no hang up with my sister’s gender, except for the conservative dude. She says every team meeting The Conservative Dude is trolling for a fight with the libertards, with the whole team ignoring him The Conservative Dude has a go at her, she replies with “meh” and turns the conversation back to work.

    So last month the company updated the HR policy and in the middle of  team meeting The Conservative Dude starts complaining about the all the HR mandated harassment classes everyone has to take. The manger replies “No, Joe, that’s only you who are required to take theses classes, not the team,  and this is not open to discussion”

    So even in Red Texas the boot of Liberalism oppressing the poor conservatives.

    It’s sad.

  163. 163.

    Another Scott

    St. Bernard demands that Manchin explain himself.

    Thread:

    I’ve heard Senator Manchin talk about not wanting to see our country become ‘an entitlement society.’ Well, I’m not exactly sure what that means.

    — Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) October 6, 2021

    Interesting. I hope something productive comes from it.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  164. 164.

    sab

    @What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?: Kent Ohio has black squirrels smuggled in from Ontario by a Kent State groundskeeper back in the day when that could be done. Students and alumni have little black squirrel decals for their cars. The squirrels have migrated into surrounding counties.

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