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Christian Jacobs with President Trump and Vice-President Pence at Arlington Cemetery in 2017
Tuesday Open Thread
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Great pictures.
Mornin’ Gang -
If I vote for Republicans, do I have to remain in the closet for more penance or can I come out now?
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Morning gang. 47 degrees out here this morning, and I think it’s not even supposed to get to a hunnert today. Busy day on tap. I’ve got to come out of my old prospector mode and get a shower and shave to go vote. It’s my understanding that if I get run over by a beer truck after voting, my vote will still count, so that’s a good reason to vote early. Then there are the hearings for the SCOTUS nominee which may or may not be a circus. I suspect that the hearings will go along swimmingly for a while, and at the last minute some Dem will drop a huge stinker toward the end – that seems to be the protocol developed in the Kavanaugh hearings which set the template.
Then I’ve got the water leak to deal with. The city will most likely come out and repair their meter side where the leak is and will tear up my custom connections while they are at it. We’ll have to wait and see on that.
Need some salad tomatoes for the diet. Still holding tough on it, but I messed up a little yesterday. I went all morning without eating, and then when I did eat early afternoon, I ate a little too much which made me physically uncomfortable. I think my stomach is shrinking, and the portion size that I’ve been accustomed to are too large. That just demonstrates why it is important that I not allow myself to get too hungry, and that I need to eat at fairly regular intervals.
OK, let’s get cracking. Daylight will be here before we know it, and we don’t want to waste and of it. You all have a great one, and more later.
PS – #2 – I’m afraid that you are consigned to purgatory for the remainder of the election period, and possibly thereafter depending on the number of court cases filed. Sorry, but if you want to win, you have to suffer the pain. Unless you are properly armed, then you can come out whenever you want to.
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I gots 2 arms, that’s right proper enough ain’t it?
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Squawk makes a visit to Wichita, Kansas and causes a stir. . . .
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#5 I’ve been warned before about a similar situation in a public restroom.
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#5 – Now that’s what I call a newsworthy item.
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Did any of y’all watch the Clown Show yesterday? I saw and heard small portions of it and every Republican congratulated Amy Coney Barrett and discussed matters pertaining to the law and courts. Then every single Democrat went off into left field discussing Obama Care and Murdering babies which has nothing to do with the appointment of Amy Barrett to the Supreme Court. What a bunch of pathetic fools, trying to make points to the far left-wing whack jobs in their party. Pitiful, jus Pitiful.
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Oh and if you missed Tedtam’s #38 form yesterday, you should go back and read it.
This is, after all, all about abortion. Nowhere was there any remorse for her crimes against God. Nowhere. There was not in life and now, in death, a breath of repentance for the millions of young lives she crushed and snuffed out beneath her murderous ideology and the ideology of those who celebrated her.
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Today is the anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun, witnessed by thousands, at Fatima.
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Masks are useless in combating the Wuhan Lung Rot.
HEADLINE: CDC Study Finds Overwhelming Majority Of People Getting Coronavirus Wore Masks
A Centers for Disease Control report released in September shows that masks and face coverings are not effective in preventing the spread of COVID-19, even for those people who consistently wear them.A study conducted in the United States in July found that when they compared 154 “case-patients,” who tested positive for COVID-19, to a control group of 160 participants from the same health care facility who were symptomatic but tested negative, over 70 percent of the case-patients were contaminated with the virus and fell ill despite “always” wearing a mask.
Wearing a mask to combat the WLR is like carrying water in a sieve.
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It’s been raining for 37 straight hours. It has varied between drizzle and torrential, but the water hadn’t stopped falling out of the sky the entire time. My new rain gauge showed up right before it started and I didn’t have time to put it up.
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RE: #11: Masks may actually make the problem worse and have the potential to further spread the WLR. Not to mention that masks wind up being breeding grounds for other pathogens that are then concentrated right in front of your nose and mouth. . .. . what could possibly go wrong?
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OK, I’m rolling this morning. The city sent someone out to repair the connections and fittings on the water meter and stopped the leak, so that’s done. Then I found the voting place on the second floor of the newly renovated courthouse. I had to stand outside until 1 person in front of me got checked in. I signed the sheet at number 12, got my paper ballot, sat down and marked the little ovals for each candidate I approved of, and one I did not approve of (Cornholio) and dropped it in the box on the way out. Then stopped by the grocery store for tomatoes and some on sale Owens sausage. Back home right at 9AM, so quite an outing.
I’m loving the typical Dem questioning of ACB. They continuously ask questions which they know she is unable to answer, then pontificate about her unwillingness to be open and candid with them. Then they say they are not able to support her nomination because she won’t answer their questions. Another Dem trick that is 50 years old and worn out by now. The Dems are truly despicable.
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HEADLINE: Catholic Bishop Rebukes Biden Over Abortion, Urges Him To Anticipate Divine Judgment
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“A question for Mr. Biden,” Bishop Rick Stika tweeted Sunday. “At your judgement before God, how will you explain changing your position about abortion and how will you explain promoting no limits and allowing all protections removed protecting the most innocent?”I think that question could be posed to quite a few politicians. . . . .
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How elections are stolen.
Zuckerberg gave the Democrat-dominated county a $15 million election administration grant via left-leaning nonprofit Center for Tech and Civic Life.
On Tuesday, the Dallas County Commissioners Court agreed to accept a $15 million grant from the Center for Tech and Civic Life, a left-leaning nonprofit that is redistributing $250 million from social media mogul Zuckerberg and his wife to local election administrators. The couple committed another $50 million to the Center for Election Innovation and Research.
The Chicago-based organization is run by Obama Foundation Fellow Tiana Epps-Johnson. She and CTCL’s two other co-founders worked together at the New Organizing Institute, which was once a training ground for Democrat organizers and digital campaigners. Dallas County’s controversial Elections Administrator Toni Pippins-Poole is a member of CTCL’s advisory committee.
That’s a lot of “walking around money.”
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#16: HOw did the concept of “walking around money” ever pass legal scrutiny? Why izzit that only the Ds get to engage in this and how does that pass legal scrutiny?
We have been playing against a heavily stacked deck for a long time and the GOPeeeeee EUNUCHS, have done nothing to combat it. . . . until Trump. Please G-D, may there be many more like him.
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Gropey Uncle Joe and komrade kamela want you.
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The Courthouse Annex parking lot is full and the line is out the door.
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I voted in my “Sandwich of Truth” t-shirt this morning. No problems.
I smiled bigly the whole time.
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I never have voted early, and I don’t see any reason to change my habit this year.
In fact, this year, the word early is not even in my vocabulary.
Morning, y’all — it is still morning, I think…
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I never have voted early, and I don’t see any reason to change my habit this year.
The main reason I voted early was to prevent some thieving Democrat from stealing my vote. If I get in there first, and in person, any “mail in” or falsified ballot won’t count.
I hope.
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I listened to some of the ACB hearings this morning. The troglodyte Leahy did his best to grandstand and his line of questioning was comical at best and had nothing to do with the process at hand.
Next up was Durbin. He actually seemed a little more even keeled but that fell apart at the end as he tacked hard to the port (left) side. He tried to conflate the restoration of 2nd Amendment rights to a convicted felon (non-violent mail fraud) to a hardened felon’s inability to vote. I may have said a 4 letter word out loud at that one.
Mike Lee was cordial and ended the hour on a bright note. They will resume at 11:45 am CDT and plan to go until 8pm CDT tonight with another break for dinner. So you have time to watch/listen today.
Overall I will say this is what a confirmation hearing should be like. This is not the circus Kavenaugh went through. Maybe the Dems realize they were seen quite negatively after that fiasco and are trying to keep it more professional right before the election.
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trying to keep it more professional right before the election.
I wonder just how long they can hold back the crazy before it starts showing…
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#25 Tedtam
I agree. Somebody will hurl a character assassination bomb into the room before it’s over. They can’t control themselves.
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This is not the circus Kavenaugh went through.
Only because she’s a woman. They, particularly the men, are unwilling to attack her with sexual lies like they did with Kavanaugh. Their attacks will hinge exclusively on abortion and, ironically (since abortion is 100% fatal to health), healthcare.
Mazie Hirono has become my pick for the “Stupidest person in congress” award. She will be their hyena.
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Not watching. Are the Republicans calling it Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act? Notice that the Democrats are NOT calling it Obamacare. Anybody got that clip of Obama saying that in a few years Republicans wouldn’t be calling it Obamacare because it would be so popular?
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#28 The other irony is all these Democrats over the summer have been brow beating us with All Lives Matter and now they are full court press to ensure abortion remains the law of the land.
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Hold on – all Hell may break loose: Vatican mints Mother Earth coin
I can see a real schism in the Church. This Pope’s pagan worship of Mother Earth instead of the veneration of our Blessed Mother is appalling and vomit-worthy.
Speaking to Church Militant, English columnist Dcn. Nick Donnelly slammed the Vatican for reiterating its theme of the Amazon fertility goddess Pachamama even after it outraged Catholics at the 2019 Amazon Synod.
“On the first anniversary of the worship of the demonic Pachamama, the Vatican issues a coin explicitly honoring the ‘Mother Earth’ idol!” Donnelly said.He elaborated:
This is defiant sacrilege against God. The Bible is clear that the worship of nature embodied in feminine idols is abhorrent to the holiness of God,” he noted, underscoring Sacred Scripture’s categorical repudiation of anthropomorphizing or divinizing of the earth, especially in the context of the Ancient Near Eastern worship of the fertility deity Baal.
This honoring of Pachamama during October — the month Catholics around the world have a special devotion to the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary — is an insult to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Penance, penance, penance!
Faithful Catholics were incandescent after Pope Francis hosted a pagan ceremony Oct. 4, 2019 with Pachamama statuettes in the Vatican Gardens. One of the idols was blessed and laypeople and clergy were photographed bowing to the ground before the idol, which occupied center stage during the conference.
Three days later, Francis prayed in front of Pachamama in St. Peter’s Basilica and processed with it into the synod hall.
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Pope Francis defended the use of the Pachamama idol in his apostolic exhortation Querida Amazonia, explaining that people should “not be quick to describe as superstition or paganism certain religious practices that arise spontaneously from the life of peoples.”It is “possible to take up an indigenous symbol in some way without necessarily considering it as idolatry,” Francis asserted, insisting that a “myth charged with spiritual meaning can be used to advantage and not always considered a pagan error.”
I heartily disagree with the Pope. You bow before an image, throw incense at it – the age old practice of cleansing and symbolic of our prayers rising to God – and put it on the altar upon which only the sacrifice of Jesus is to be honored – I call those acts of worship.
Wanna slap him. Over and over. Until he gets some sense in his head.
Mebbe an exorcism is in order.
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Hirono makes SJL look smart.
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#24, et al. Let’s not forget that the Kavanaugh hearings were cruising right along and than no one had laid a glove on him right up until the last minute. When it became inevitable that the vote was nearing and that he would sail, that’s when DiFi dropped her deuce right into the middle of the hearing chamber, and of course, it was a mess for a few weeks thereafter with the circus. It cowed Kavanaugh so badly that he has gone into his shell on the court and never emerged yet. They will do the same to this lady. This nicey, nicey ploy is merely to allow her to get comfortable and and lower her guard for when the SHTF. Just wait.
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#31
I heartily disagree with the Pope. You bow before an image, throw incense at it – the age old practice of cleansing and symbolic of our prayers rising to God – and put it on the altar upon which only the sacrifice of Jesus is to be honored – I call those acts of worship.
When I entered the Orthodox church, I chose Saint Barlaam of Antioch as my patron saint.
Saint Barlaam was an old man, living in Antioch during the persecution of Diocletian and Maximian. When he confessed Christ before the Governor and refused to sacrifice to the idols, he was tortured for days: his flesh was torn by iron claws and he was stretched on the rack. When these conventional tortures failed, the Governor invented a new torment: Barlaam’s hand was stretched over an altar to the idols, and a burning coal with incense was put in his palm.
The torturers reasoned that when pain forced him to drop the coal, they would be able to say that he had offered sacrifice to the gods. But the holy Barlaam held his hand steady and watched calmly as his hand was burnt up by the coal. At last his hand fell to the ground and the Martyr gave up his soul to God.
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#31 TT: How much more evidence does one need before one concludes that Frankie is the anti-pope? Couple that with the stark ravings of the sky screamers, the p-ssy hat wearers, antifablm, occupy wallstreet, the bald face lying on the LSM, etc., the fact that now the whole world has the capacity to see the 2 Witnesses lying dead in the street of Jerusalem, peace being made between Israel and the Arab world, etc. There are probably a couple more realms that could be highlighted, but I think you get the idea. The world as we know it is not going to be around much longer – everything is about to change. Hang on, it is going to be a bumpy ride.
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First time I’ve had to wait in a line outside for early voting.
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#36 – To Me THAT is a positive sign!
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50 minutes portal to portal. I feeling a bit disenfranchised. I think some sort of reparations are in order.
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#36 – To Me THAT is a positive sign!
Not sure that’s the case at Moody Park.
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I’ll be changing my route to work for a couple weeks tomorrow. The Polling station is in the Junior High School. Construction of a field house has some of the parking taken up with a job shack and construction materials. The entrance is on a two lane road (thankfully, there’s a turning lane into the school), sandwiched between the Pecan Grove levee and Harlem Road, which is a four lane with no parking. It would be as screwed up as a soup sammich even without everyone in this part of Fort Bend County trying to vote at the same time. There’s a word we used in the Army to describe the situation…….
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#40 – IIRC……………….FUBAR eh?
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#40
What could it have been?SNAFU?
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Just a few years ago it was common to see a bunch of unopposed Republicans running in any given race. I counted 13 unopposed democrat judges and my state senator, the Eastside Alley Cat, only had a goony libertarian running against her.
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My sister in Williamson County said the line was too long so she turned around and went home. Apparently that County posts estimated wait times for the polls on their website. She sent me a screen shot with 45 – 60 min wait times at several polling locations around the county.
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I’m calling voter suppression!!
My polling location is 75 yards from the end of my alley!
Oh woe is Me! 🙂
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More diet news. When I started this thing, I was having trouble getting any kind of consistent readings on my 11 year old scales. So, I put in a new battery, and since that time, the readings vary a little bit – even if I weight three times in a row. So I finally invested in a new set of scales which arrived today. I already like them because they read the same every time I step up on them; and they weigh about 1 1/2 pounds lighter than the old ones.
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The word starts with “cluster…”
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Total vote trip time from my garage to my garage – 37 minutes
10 folks in line outside when I arrived – 40 or more when I exited
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#48 – a hyphen doesn’t make 2 words into one Sarge! 🙂
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Kamala is speechifying.
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Good afternoon Hamsters.
Well voting has begun far and wide around the state and nation. Suppose it will be busy and very busy here in west Fort Bend County, though surely not as busy as Sugar Land and environs in the eastern half. The middle school Sarge went to is likely where we will go later this week, either in the middle of the morning or afternoon when attendance ought to be lighter because folks are at work or otherwise occupied.
I do not doubt the total turnout will be very high just about everywhere in the nation, as ordinary folk seem to be fired up enough to actually register to vote if they haven’t done it before and go vote.
The Dems need control themselves and mind what ugly things they say can elicit a really big negative response. 🙂
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Kamala is speechifying
That’s okay. So did Cruz. I think he asked ACB three personal questions and three softballs – total. The rest of the time he speechified wonderfully.
Don’t miss it.
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Sweet potatoes, Beef Chuck Roast, Hoppin’ John, Greek Salad, Toasted Chiabatta.
Mmmmmmmmmm.
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Well we are getting our first major snowfall today. Driving home from visiting my mom it turned into a whiteout. Temp right at freezing so there is a risk of black ice. Fire going in the fireplace, cooking dinner. As the man says, life is good.
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Flipping thru the channels and witnessed a legitimate 74 yard punt by the Buffalo Bills punter against the Titans.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a punt that long.
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#57 Texanadian: I went to work in shorts and a loose fitting shirt today, no undershirt. I was not cold. It got up to almost 88 degrees today, sunny and dry. It was an absolutely delightful day.
Snow is that cold, white, sh-t that sometimes happens at the end of January and really screws up traffic. NO thank you. Nice to visit, but I don’t want to live with it. -
#59: three inches so far, no end in sight. Sigh.
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Here’s some trivia.
Jack Nicholson made a horror movie with Boris Karloff in 1963, The Terror.
Nicholson plays a Napoleonic officer who ends up being seduced by a shapeshifting devil woman.
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Reading various real time reports and viewing clips from different websites on the judiciary hearings brings me to this conclusion. Television, particularly C-Span, and the internet provided the American people in the last two decades with absolutely shocking evidence of how incredibly ignorant and appallingly stupid our political class is, particularly members of both the lower and upper chambers of the US Congress. The public has not always realized it, but they are getting smarter.
There cannot be any credible retort to the charge the American people are being represented by a herd of idiots and the most culpable criminals in this scandal are members of the mainstream legacy media who themselves suffer from staggering terminal cases of dumbassery.
Putting Judge Amy Coney Barrett before these senators was like walking Albert Einstein in to teach a 4th grade science class. They are so moronic they don’t even understand they’ve been humiliated beyond repair.
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61 Shannon
Nicholson plays a Napoleonic officer who ends up being seduced by a shapeshifting devil woman.
I always wondered what it was that made Jack go off the deep end. It’s obvious he never recovered.
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#48
Sarge, I don’t think “cluster****” dates back that far.
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I must revise my previous statement:
Mazie Hirono has become my pick for the “Stupidest person in congress” award of all time.
I don’t think she will ever be dethroned. I’m embarrassed for the Hawaiians.
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I completely forgot to give huge props to Jack Dorsey and Twitter for creating an international platform to expose the editors and reporters of the American and European press as the cockeyed dimwits they are rather than the urbane, astute and clever fools they perceive themselves to be.
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Just in case you missed this 6 minute encounter with a PO’d mountain lion mother.
It was all over the tv today.
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When she gets up on her back feet and charges……nasty kitty.
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65 Hamous
I’ll go along with “stupidest person in the Senate of all time.”
There’s just too many more opportunities for stupid persons to slip into the House of Representatives.
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67: Cripes, I would have made such a stink in my pants the cougar would have left in disgust.
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The 2nd Amendment never looked so appealing.
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Putting Judge Amy Coney Barrett before these senators was like walking Albert Einstein in to teach a 4th grade science class. They are so moronic they don’t even understand they’ve been humiliated beyond repair.
AMEN! If you added up the collective I.Q. of all the Democrats it would not equal Amy Coney Barrett’s I.Q.
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#67 Shannon
Take-home lesson: Don’t walk in the wild unless you have a weapon with you. Even a good-sized stick would be better than nothing.
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ACB is one of the most impressive people that I have ever seen up there in front of those baboons. Very professional, never argumentative, taking the time to explain her views and the way courts look at the law, the facts, and relate the two, etc. The Dems old 1950’s playbook of trying to get her to say something she might regret or to open a door that should remain closed is wearing thin. It’s so obvious when the try to play the gotcha game.She sat there for the better part of 11 hours without a note one, no reference materials, and took on those buffoons and their entire collective staff’s best shots, and never blinked – they never got close to landing a blow. So, that proves my point that there are some good women out there to be put into positions of responsibility – she’s most assuredly not an affirmative action hire.
I had to step outside for a minute. I thought there was a racoon going through my trash, but it was merely a Dem operative looking for anything he could find on ACB. You can bet there won’t be an untouched trash can in Chicago, DC, or Notre Dame by morning. But they won’t turn up and dirt on her I think. So then they will just do what the normally do and make something up. I imagine someone will ask her if she was a virgin when she got married or something like that.
OK, you all have a great night. Warm weather has returned up here, and it’s time for another car inspection and registration. Boy, those year long registrations don’t last as long as they used to. That probably means an insurance bill in the mail shortly too. More later.
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68. The Hodge twins stuck Kamala’s head on the cougar. Made me chuckle.
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Oh, while I’m thinking about it. Linda Graham is probably going to lose her Senate seat to a Dem this time around. The reason is not that the Dem is any good, but that Linda just does not play hardball with those azz wholes. He is not generating any enthusiasm for himself by continuing to be polite to his enemies. He’s over there thanking the Dems for behaving themselves and being polite while they all call him names for holding this hearing, etc. People have gotten a taste of Trump and getting things done, and Linda is just playing business as usual. Instead of putting that poor woman through another day of this humiliating BS, he should just stand up and say “Ladies and Gentlemen, we’ve heard all we need to hear from this nominee, it’s time to vote.” Not only would that be good for the country, it would be good for his political career. If he were to do that, he would be a shoe in for re-election.
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A new poll published by I24News and conducted by the Direct Falls Research Institute on Monday found that 63.3% of Israelis prefer the reelection of incumbent US President Donald Trump, compared to 18.8% whom prefer former Vice President and Democratic challenger Joe Biden. Respondents indicated that a majority believe Trump will be a better president for the State of Israel, a minority of Israelis said the same about Biden. 10.4% of respondents said that both candidates would be equally good for the State of Israel, while 3.1% said neither.
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#72 Super Dave
Glad that the real lady in the room, the Supreme Court nominee, did so well before the animal farm of the Dem questioners. What idiots they have exposed themselves to be.
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