All the News Unfit to Print – Open Friday Commentaries

A People’s Cube Special Report

By Panem et Circenses

Washington, DCAs attacks intensify against Clarence Thomas and the other conservative Supreme Court justices for receiving gifts from his friends, Justice Thomas is reportedly wishing he had just received millions in foreign cash instead.

Propublica and the New York Times have been publishing detailed exposés recently on Justice Thomas, analyzing every gift, vacation, trip, and purchase from the last forty years.  These hard-hitting reports showed a disturbing pattern of personal friends not charging the Justice when they traveled together on yachts or personal aircraft.

Justice Thomas has mostly ignored the accusations, but veterans of the Washington political scene were critical of these concerning appearances of impropriety.

As a Political Action Committee chair stated “Most high level politicians make their own money and don’t need any help from their friends.  Why didn’t he just set up off shore shell companies, then use aliases and non-official email addresses to solicit millions from our adversaries?  That’s one way to pay for your vacations without making it look like your rich buddies are influencing you by giving you a free ride on their jet, am I right?”

He offered more ideas to the beleaguered Justice.  “There are so many options to make extra cabbage.  How about setting up a charitable foundationThat’s popular.  Or get into investing in the companies you regulate, like so many of my friends in congress do?  They’re so good at making money in the stock market, I sometimes think the ‘D’ behind their name stands for ‘Dang Good Investor‘, you know?”

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  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Justice Thomas is reportedly wishing he had just received millions in foreign cash instead.

    Ain’t that the damn truth!!! What a great O.C. Piece, tying Biden, the Clintons and Pelosi into it showing their illegal and/or unethical grifting. RTWDT! I did and it’s only 5AM.

    Oh and it’s Friday! Mornin’ Gang

  2. bsue54 Avatar

    What’s going on here???? the ramp out front is ALL WET  😉  Shortie Dawg could not possibly be responsible for all that.. G’Morning, gang

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well both chain saws and the pole saw are sharpened up, I got the long trace chain out so I can use the tractor for timber location persuasion and I’m off to murder a tall skinny cedar and a decrepit old pecan tree. 😉

    Later,…

  4. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    The O/C echos what I was alluding to last night: a flagrant 2-tier system of (in)justice.

    The prosecutors who manufacture incriminating or hide exculpatory evidence from the defense need to do the hangman’s dance.  The judges who give murderers a slap on the wrist, but give peaceful protesters (J6) multi-decade sentences need to join them.

    one system of justice with equal application; nothing else will do.  In the absence of same, there can only be anarchy and vigilantism – blood will run in the streets.

    Government officials in cahoots with tech companies to censor speech which they do not like should result in long prison sentences for both parties.

  5. Tedtam Avatar

    Man, that muscle relaxant did a number on me later last night …

    Thumbs up on the OC topic.

  6. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The High Holy Days and the Jewish New Year begin today at sundown since in Judaism each day begins at sundown, not sunup.

    The two main flavors of Judaism are Ashkenazi and Sephardi.  Ashkenazi Jews originated in Central and Eastern Europe including Ukraine and the Baltic regions.  Sephardic Jewish origins are spread across Spain, Portugal, North Africa and the Middle East from Morocco to Iraq.  The Jews of Iran and ancient Persia are known today as Mizrahi and the whole discussion gets much more complicated after that.

    Personally, I prefer the rites, liturgy, customs and traditions of the Sephardim and lastly, though certainly not least, the Sephardic foods.

    A Sephardic Jew will say in greeting over the next days:

    “tizku l’shaneem rabot”   

    (pronounced teez-KOO le-shah-NEEM rah-BOAT).  It means “may you merit many years.”

    An Ashkenazi Jew will say,

    L’shana tovah u’metukah  (Shana tovah for short) 

    (pronounced l’shah-NAH toe-VAH ooh-meh-too-KAH). It means “for a good and sweet year.”

    I’m going to be very busy today getting ready for our Rosh Hashanah dinner tonight.  Take care and have a great weekend.

  7. Tedtam Avatar

    That’s Texpat’s way of saying I need to get off my butt and put some posts up.

    May your celebrations be full of family, friends, and good times. And God. Can’t forget God.

  8. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    SHABBAT SHALOM TEXPAT!

  9. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Closing arguments are happening in the impeachment trial.

  10. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good Morning Hamsters,

    Still waiting for the rain that was promised for yesterday but did not make it over here for the evening.  Yesterday’s morning rain arrived and did its thing and left.  The sky now has the look of rain clouds, but so far nothing seems to be happening other than sunshine breaking through.  But the sidewalk to the house is wet thanks to the sprinklers overnight.  We have been led to believe that today’s rain should be an all-day off-and on affair, but that was yesterday’s outlook also.   Seems the Rain Gods are busy elsewhere or still asleep.

  11. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Texpat, wishing you a blessed holy day.

  12. Tedtam Avatar

    BEST LIFE ☙ Friday, September 15, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS

    Good morning, C&C, it’s Friday! Your roundup today includes: by popular demand, I deep-dive on the Mexican mummies story; NASA jumps on the alien bandwagon; a people’s uprising hits London’s grotesque 15-minute city plan; Republicans subpoena records on the shady Chinese warehouse bio lab; Hunter indictment;  UK Guardian asks pointed pet question; and a heartwarming Novak clip to get the last day of the work week started off right.

    News:

    Childers starts off with the Mexican aliens – the extraterrestrial kind – whose “corpses” were unveiled recently.

    To many observers, the bizarre “alien mummies” looked just like Chuck Schumer, 72, and Dianne Feinstein, 90, laying next to each other in tiny little alien coffins:

    [insert image of the two “mummies,” labed “Schumer” and “DiFi”]

    Schumer and Feinstein could not be reached for comment.

    I love this Childers guy.  He never fails to put a smile on my face, if not an outright guffaw.

    The presenter and mummies’ owner is a colorful character and we’ll look at him in a minute. But he has allowed (or sold access to) other alien researchers to take MRI’s and x-rays and DNA samples. Apparently someone even filed several of the samples with the NIH’s DNA registration database, albeit described as “Homo sapiens.”

    The various scans of the doll-sized “aliens” show exciting and provocative internal features, including eggs in one of the pair, presumable the female, although sadly, it is now too late to ask for her preferred pronouns:

    It turns this dude has had “mummies” before.  It’s kinda his side hustle, selling DNA and parts to other UFOlogists.

    But science wasn’t too interested in Jaime’s five mummies at the time. Live Science ran an article in March 2018 headlined “These ‘Alien’ Mummies Appear to Be a Mix of Looted Body Parts.” It wasn’t clear whether the two presented to Mexico’s Congress this week were part of the original five or are new ones.

    If you take a llama skull, cut it in half and turn it around, you can get an “alien” head.  Just gotta find or acquire a dead llama first.

    In fairness, the researchers were limited because all they had were CT scans, and concluded their study offering three possibilities: (1) the mummies are ancient fakes made by ancient Peruvians for an unknown reason; (2) the mummies are modern fakes made by huaqueros who often sell elaborate hoax artifacts to gullible Westerners; or (3) they allowed that the mummies could possibly be “real animal entities, unknown to science.”

    In another unfortunate comparison, online pundits have noted the close resemblance between the Mexican alien mummies and the aliens in the worst Indiana Jones movie ever, “Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull:”

    Childers uses Occam’s Razor to lean towards this being a hoax, but there is a novel joint design showing in some of the scans.

    I lean strongly toward hoax, but I freely admit, it can be exhausting trying to figure out whether the U.S. and Mexican governments are running a new alien-panic psyop, or whether the debunkers are running a UFO-hiding psyop.

    What much more interests me is the fact that another government is now “officially investigating” UFOs and aliens. And coincidentally, it happens to be a government right next to ours. So, whatever “it” is, it’s spreading, some kind of intellectual pandemic. The time for saying these silly alien stories aren’t even worth discussing has expired, since our governments are now airing them in prime time.

    /snip

    For some reason, instead of dismissing everything as a weather balloon, and gaslighting pilots and other witnesses, the government is now tripping over itself to prove our space brothers actually exist. How and why did that change?

  13. Tedtam Avatar

    London has been trying to initiate a car-less society, in so-called “ULEZ zones” (Ultra low carbon emission zones).  This involved cameras which recorded when your car hit the public pavement and then issued a fee to the car owner.  Right now the fee is $16 per event, but that will shoot up into the hundred/s dollar range soon.

    Londoners responded by vandalizing the cameras so they couldn’t be tracked.  So, the authoritarians went to moving vans with cameras.  Guess what happened to the vans – yep, vandalized.

    It seems the citizens really, really don’t like this shackling of their freedom by the tree huggers.

     Londoners are also crowd-sourcing the current whereabouts of every ULEZ van, coordinating their efforts to help uncompliant drivers avoid being recorded.

    I’d hate to be one of those van drivers.  Can you imagine the hate being directed at you from every person on the street?

    Between the start of April and the end of August, 510 crimes relating to ULEZ cameras were reported. London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan, who expanded ULEZ from an inner zone to the entire city on August 29th, has scolded people attacking cameras that “protest should be lawful, safe and peaceful”, but adding encouragingly, “It is really important to stay on the right side of the law.”

    That’s true. Just ask January 6th rally attendees.

    Londoners, keep fighting. We are with you in spirit. Viva la resistance!

  14. Tedtam Avatar

    For once, a Karen was useful:

    Remember that weird, semi-abandoned warehouse in California that turned out to be a Chinese bioweapons lab masquerading as a covid test-making operation? The unlicensed, hidden-in-plain-sight lab was discovered by a scooter-equipped low-level Reedly official, after a nosy neighbor filed a report with codes enforcement because lab workers used an outside garden hose on the wrong day.

    Yes, that’s apparently a crime in California.

    The investigation uncovered a whole slew of bioweapons materials: blood, incubators, chemicals, lab mice, and don’t forget the microscopic critters, those viruses and bacteria.  Include the WLR virus.  But no materials for creating the WLR test kits.  The State of California was paying those folks to make those test kits.  Why am I not surprised?

    One’s mind boggles with the possibilities. What was actually going into those covid tests? In my view, this story is yet another reason not to use them.

    Somehow, during all that expensive and frenetic investigating, not one person associated with the lab was ever arrested, detained, questioned, had their statement taken, or even required to sign a hose violation notice. Apparently it was an unaccountable fly-by-night operation with an unlisted phone number ringing to a random live-eel wet market stall in Wuhan or something. “Herro?”

    With no clear answers anywhere, the Republican House Committee on the CCP decided to get involved, and subpoena’d town officials.

    Unsurprisingly the review “has identified troubling gaps in safeguards that allowed the clandestine facility to operate with impunity, as well as serious deficiencies in the federal government’s response.”

    You don’t say!  I’m shocked, SHOCKED!  How could this happen??!!!

    Guess what else the Republicans found out?  The companies that ran that facility are tied to the Chinese government via “problematic” companies and Chinese nationals.

     Believe it or not, these same organizations and their named officers are also implicated in major fraud investigations and other misconduct in multiple countries.

    I guess it’s just my morning to be shocked! SHOCKED I SAY!

    All of which somehow completely escaped notice of the State of California, which was paying the lab, handsomely, for making extremely questionable covid test kits with zero oversight. Not one visit. California never even tried the phone number. Thanks, Governor Newsom!

  15. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Our cat Purrscilla sat on the desk looking out the living room window at something of interest outside.  Seems to be an anole lizard on the other side that had her complete attention for a while.  She finally gave up looking and left for something more interesting, like leftover breakfast.  She thinks that windows are tricky things.

  16. Tedtam Avatar

    Remember Childers’ story of a day or so ago, where Zelensky was requesting the extradition of Ukrainian draft dodgers?  He needs more cannon fodder, it seems.

    Well, the EU has told him to pound sand.  Or pound something.  Except Poland.

    …Russia Today reported that last month, former comedian and Ukraine President Zelensky fired all his draft commissioners, every single one, and ordered a fresh review of all previous medical exemptions to the draft, citing “widespread corruption.” Imagine that. In Ukraine of all places.

    Apparently the officials were selling medical draft exemptions or something.

    Not only that, but Zelensky tightened the rules, which now allow conscripting shirkers with mental health problems, chronic diseases, tuberculosis, and HIV.

    Nothing could go wrong with that plan.

  17. Tedtam Avatar

    Well, this one should make Mharper take notice:

    Following last week’s similar article encouraging people to stop selfishly having kids, the UK Guardian ran a mind-numbing piece Wednesday headlined, “The case against pets: is it time to give up our cats and dogs?

    Ummmmmmmmmm…..nope.  Surprisingly, the impetus isn’t climate change.  Now I am really SHOCKED! I thought everything was tied to MMGW.  Or Trump.

    Once again, their big objection is our human selfishness. Unvirtuous! Apparently, feeding them, walking them, snuggling with and petting them, de-lousing them, de-worming them, grooming them, and paying thousands of dollars for our pets’ medical care — is all TOTALLY self-centered, dummies.

    Well!  That certainly puts Ms. Harper’s activities on the “side eye” meter, doesn’t it?  It seems that loving your pets is “selfish”.  We are sucking the emotional support out of our pets.  Like there’s a meter running or something?  And the pets don’t get “emotional support” from their humans?

    Another expert, presumably also a marxist, complained about the language we use to describe our relationship with our animals. She demands that people stop rudely saying they “own” animals, like by saying “I have a dog,” which violates animal human rights, or something, undermining their furry self-confidence. Instead, said the expert, we should only say that we “care for” our pets. Not “have” them.

    Was it San Fran that said pet owners were not owners, but guardians?  And it was put into law?  I can’t remember where I heard that or how accurate I am in quoting it, but I do remember the whole “you can’t ‘own’ an animal” leftist claptrap from somewhere.

    And one of the arguments is that we are boring our pets.  We are restricting their freedom to “have their best life”.  And this includes fish.  We are boring our pets to death, including the fish.

    The unstated alternative, to leave the animals to live their best lives in the wild, would certainly cure their boredom. Being chased by a hungry hawk or a predatory bigger fish is, admittedly, much more exciting than swimming laps around the fishbowl or repeatedly croaking “I love you” in exchange for birdie treats.

    But … I’m just spitballing here … maybe we should check with the animals first, and see which lifestyle they prefer. Gilded cage? Or full-on Darwin, survival of the fastest?

    /snip

    I’m sorely tempted to treat this nonsense seriously, and point out things like how the law treats pets as property and does not recognize individual animal rights. If my dog bites someone, then I have to pay damages, not my dog. If I negligently run over someone’s cat, then I have to reimburse the crumpled cat’s owner for the veterinary expenses, not reimburse the cat.

    Childers wraps this up nicely:

    But this nonsense is not serious, and these are not serious people. They are pitiable victims of mental illness. We just need to get them some treatment and stop pretending that anything they say is rational.

    Indeed.  Some people are not happy unless they are creating friction.  Those people need help.

  18. Tedtam Avatar

    I’ve cleared Elsa of Batch #15, gotta figger out what’s next.  Handyman is busy putting more shelves together upstairs.

    I used a jar of one of my canned soups – Chicken Verde -for Hubby’s dinner last night.  I wasn’t hungry, and it was a pint jar, perfect with a sandwich.  /marking off one of my tick marks on my inventory list

  19. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Tedtam

    If you could just cover for The Weekend.  I’m good for next week until Yom Kippur.

  20. Tedtam Avatar

    I am now a heretic.

    Y’all better watch out. Hanging out with me could be dangerous!

  21. Tedtam Avatar

    I assume that Green Cousin has been sprung from her hospital prison bed by now.  I can only imagine how she’s feeling today.

  22. Tedtam Avatar

    Speaking of being sprung, I realized that I’m in my last week of using the ESSBGS belt.

     

  23. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, y’all. I was glad that I could afford to have Matsuo in the vet hospital for 3 days; he’s feeling a lot better and he’s so glad to be home. I have 2 different pills I have to give him during the day, and I’m surprised how well that is going. I guess that he’s so glad to be home that he is putting up with everything I do.

    Looks like it rained here this morning before I got up. Nice trend!

  24. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Do we have a fake fetterman too?

    that dude doesn’t even look like the original.

    the original had dumbo ears and a different shaped face.
    And where’s the hump on the back of his neck?

    https://nypost.com/2023/09/12/fetterman-pretends-to-be-petrified-over-gops-impeachment-inquiry-into-biden/

  25. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    A must read X thread from Senator Mike Lee. He be roastin’ them.

    https://twitchy.com/samj/2023/09/15/mike-lee-thread-the-firm-omnibus-bill-n2387293

  26. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #24 DARREN:

    1)  Nice to see you

    2)  Definitely a must read.

  27. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    And one of the arguments is that we are boring our pets.  We are restricting their freedom to “have their best life”.  And this includes fish.  We are boring our pets to death, including the fish.

    Max never said a word about being bored.

  28. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Back from Galveston, cloudy and rainy all week but we didn’t mind. Brought rain with us! Great trip, about 25 people came to my brother’s retirement party from Houston Fire Department.

  29. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Buddy the Dog was very enthused with our return. I was talking to him on the Ring Doorbell last night, felt really bad when I realized he thought we were inside. Still feel bad.

  30. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    It is a gratifying feeling to watch and listen to huge crowds of New York City residents who never voted for anyone but a Democrat scream and rage at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jerry Nadler and other sleazy politicos and not allow them to talk to media at a press conference about “immigration”.

    SEND THEM BACK. !!!

    CLOSE THE BORDER !!!

    WE DON”T WANT THEM !!!

    Damned MAGA Democrats.

  31. Tedtam Avatar

    We’ve been getting light rain and sprinkles this afternoon.  But we’re getting some heavier rain now.

    Nice change.

  32. Tedtam Avatar

    Damned MAGA Democrats.

    I think they’re more “NIMBY Dems”.  They were quite happy to vote for open borders as long as those borders were far, far away.  Now that the southern border extends to their back yards, it’s suddenly a problem.

    It’s good to see the elitist liberal rulers getting some pushback, but I’m not shedding a tear over the wissed off constituents.  Cry me a freakin’ river, I’ll just get a floatie and enjoy floating around with a cool drink in hand.

    Or do like Shapiro, and make coffee with their tears.

    Or, we could call them “truly woke” now.  They’ve been red pilled, at least partially.

  33. Tedtam Avatar

    We’re getting some thunder and lightning now.  Haven’t a good storm in a long, long time.

  34. Tedtam Avatar

    Lost power, but the generator kicked in.

  35. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Guess what ?  According to a news report/interview I heard this week the US Border Patrol had caught more illegals in 2023 crossing the Canadian/New York State border that made the list of suspected/certified terrorists than Texas and Arizona combined.

  36. Tedtam Avatar

    The United States:  The Swiss cheese member of the global community.

  37. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Senate jurors have been deliberating in private for four hours.

    If I recall correctly, they will be kept there until 8pm.

    If they do not finish tonight they will go from 9am until 8pm tomorrow.

    If it goes to Sunday, they will start at noon, go until 8pm, And at that point Judge Patrick threatened to sequester them at the Capitol building until they finish. he said they can sleep in their offices as he has done a number of times.

     

  38. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    RE: My @ 3:54 PM

    I am sure hundreds more jihadis and terrorists slip across the Texas and Arizona borders because the amount of “got aways” is enormously larger than anywhere along the Canadian border.  However, if I were a terrorist mastermind plotting some kind of horror, I would definitely consider the Canadian border because it is so long, so remote and easy pickings compared to the southern option.

  39. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I’ve talked here about Paramount Global’s concealed intent to dump at least CBS News if not the entire network.

    I said it would have a domino effect on the old corporate media networks.  Now it seems like Disney is trying to find somebody, anybody to buy ABC in total.

    The news media landscape is getting ready to radically change and I think it’s going to shock the average mildly engaged American viewer.

    Where’s the Today show ?  What do mean there is no more CBS ?  Where are all my stupid, brain-dead laugh track sitcoms ?!

  40. bsue54 Avatar

    We just got 1.33 inches of rain in something under 30 minutes… And decided that Shortie Dog hasn’t even seen rain before LOL

  41. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    It was raining cats and dogs at Buffalo Speedway and Westheimer just an hour and a half ago.  Nothing yet here in Glorious Copperfield, but the sky looks promising.

    Sarah, my little mutt runt, was very glad to see me.

  42. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Meet Dove Soap’s new spokeshog.

    I think she is going to try and slim down to merely morbidly obese; she’s way past that now.  I think she now qualifies for a position in the side show at the circus.

  43. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Funniest headline of the day:

    New Mexico Governor Lujan Grisham is heading to Taiwan

  44. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    39

    This generation of office holders are shameless and gutless worms.

  45. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Another funny….(after 6.5 hours of private Senate deliberations)

    I have been watching the WFAA (Dallas) streaming feed of the Impeachment trial. Their coverage during breaks is somewhat interesting.

    A couple of their Capitol reporters just appeared live and were asked what’s going on.

    They said crickets. Literally crickets. Austin got rain yesterday for the first time in forever. Which apparently caused an invasion of crickets into the Capitol building. 🙂

  46. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Yes, just a reminder.

    Abbott will be calling at least one more Special Session next month on school choice and other issues.

  47. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    24 Hey Darren!!!!

  48. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    We’re less than 50 minutes away from 8pm.

    There’s no way these folks in Austin are going to report to the Judge that they are ready to vote on the Articles of Impeachment tonight.

    Probably. Maybe. Perhaps.

    🙂

  49. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Abbott will be calling at least one more Special Session next month on school choice and other issues.

    the 7000 illegal aliens coming across the border a day won’t be mentioned.

    abboot will remembered as the governor who surrendered the Alamo and Texas.

  50. Tedtam Avatar

    My BETA just called.  They *almost* got Green Cousin home.  They stopped at Whataburger and GC fell when she got out of the car.  They got her to the dialysis center to get her signed up for tomorrow’s session – and she fell out of the car again.  Banged her head and “fractured her lower back” – I guess we’ll see what the neurosurgeon in Lufkin says.

    I guess she won’t be sleeping in her own bed tonight.

  51. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Free Willy Paxton

    impeach all bms Vampyres.

  52. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    That’s just very sad Tedtam. Prayers for GC.

  53. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Tedtam….An insane turn of events for your cousin. Prayers up.

    GjT sounds like a great celebration.
    Count your blessings that your brother is reasonably close by.

  54. Tedtam Avatar

    Just caught a punch line that I’ve missed on this show before:

    “I’d feel like I was lying and sneaking!”

    “You are lying and sneaking.  You’re working for the government.”

  55. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Shannon

    GjT sounds like a great celebration.
    Count your blessings that your brother is reasonably close by.

    Yes, both my brother and sister live this side of Tomball. If we could have ever got our dad to get out of Spring Branch we’d all be close together.

  56. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’ve decided that the Lumē Deodorant woman is the scariest woman that I have seen in a long time.

     

  57. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Yabbut at least her butt crack and underboob areas don’t stink.

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