Hambone v3.0

Very Dangerous Times Amidst Leftists’ Hypocrisy – Open Comments

The Death Cult: How a Liberal Media and a Delusional Left Will Turn an Assassin into a Hero by Scott Pinsker

Because of the hypocrisy and overreach of the left, Republicans in 2024 are utterly unfazed by legal pushback. Just a few years ago, the mere stench of a criminal charge was more than enough to deep-six a politician’s career. Now, an indictment is a badge of honor: it means you pissed off the right people.

and,

So in some ways, the December 1 pardon of Hunter Biden and the December 4 murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson were unrelated. It’s entirely coincidental that he was killed only three days later.

But the reaction from the left is directly tied to this post-legal reality, where nobody believes in the law, trusts the law, or respects the law.

And why follow what you don’t believe, trust, or respect?

Just beneath the periphery of the frontpage, there’s an active campaign on the left to mythologize the grinning assassin — and to transform this cold-blooded murderer into a modern-day Robin Hood. Consider these headlines:

[All links are in the original text.]

CBS News: UnitedHealthcare CEO death reveals wider outrage over health care system

USA Today: Health insurance CEO murder unleashes Internet vitriol aimed at industry

USA Today (again): The UnitedHealthcare CEO was killed and many had little sympathy. Why?

The Washington Post: The UnitedHealthcare CEO was killed. Why did some people celebrate?

NPR: After a shocking shooting, Americans vent feelings about health insurance

Daily Mail: UnitedHealthcare CEO’s assassination triggers outpouring of hate directed at health insurance industry

The New York Times: Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry

“And people wonder why we want these executives dead,” posted liberal journalist Taylor Lorenz. Other liberals in academia agreed with her…

and this warning

And today, after Biden broke his word (yet again) and issued a blanket, unconditional pardon of his nitwit kid, the left stopped believing as well: the law means nothing anymore. The final holdouts have stopped holding out.

So why not kill a healthcare CEO?

If you can’t trust the legal process, all that’s left is mob violence. Which is where we’re at: welcome to post-legal America.

 

Posted

in

by

Texpat

Tags:

Comments

80 responses to “Very Dangerous Times Amidst Leftists’ Hypocrisy – Open Comments”

  1. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    First!

  2. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Fire is very powerful; able to destroy, maim, and kill. It is also very productive in keeping us warm, cooking our food and generating our electricity. Uncontrolled fire, like uncontrolled power is almost always destructive. Leftists Ds in power are as dangerous as drunken teen age boys with gasoline, fireworks and lots of matches.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      If the Left had been around in prehistoric times, they would have banned fire as being too dangerous, humans would have either frozen to death or starved to death until mankind was extinct. All the while the Left would be telling everyone, “Shut up, it’s for your own good !”

  3. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is your regular public service announcement reminding everyone to never buy Samsung products.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      I’m not sure if any old time Name Brand is still any good, Maytag comes to mind with their rebranded Whirlpool washer N dryers sporting the “Maytag” name. And no, Samsung isn’t an old Name Band but it was once considered top of the line, I think? BTW; The best newer appliance that I’m really happy with is my LG Microwave Oven. It’s better than any other microwave I’ve had except of course my 1976 Amana Radar Range but the LG is much more powerful than the radar Range, 1500 watts vs 700.

  4. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Warmer here at about 60 and we may get a little rain.
    Mornin’ Gang

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I don’t think I mentioned it but my wife and SIL headed out to Tallahassee on Friday to attend a trade Show on Saturday and sight-see on Sunday. They stayed at an old antebellum home that was sort of like a boarding house with a common living and kitchen area downstairs but all the rooms had their own baths. The place was pretty big, 3 stories and they were on the second floor but one neat feature was that there was a coffee pot just outside their room so they didn’t have to go down to the kitchen. They got back to Eufaula late yesterday and my wife should be home this afternoon.

  6. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    White-head playing Baby Elephant Walk on the acoustic. Nice.

  7. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    This is old news but it is worth the watch;
    Watch Donna Brazile go from SMUG to DEVASTATED as the 2024 Election Results come in…😀

    1. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      Lol. Watched the whole delightful thing!

      1. Super Dave Avatar
        Super Dave

        It was worth it! 😀

        1. Shannon Avatar
          Shannon

          They’re all half drunk – every single one.

  8. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    We’ve been watching Yellowstone on Paramount via Showtime. The Samsung TV software refused to let us access Yellowstone last night.

    On Paramount Plus, we watch The Agency, The Diplomat and Lioness. The only thing we could access last night was Lioness since the Samsung TV programming format sucks so badly. Not only that but I could buy this same TV today for about half what I spent 3 years ago.

    1. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      Paramount’s, and Peacock for that matter, programming and access is aggravating. We still have DirecTV and watch through it, but can’t watch Landman. I did the Paramount free trial but only two shows were allowed before it expired. I guess I’ll resign and pay to finish the season but in protest!

  9. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Got one in the bucket, maybe Hal does not like the word Peaco@k? 😀

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      It is out

      1. GJT Avatar
        GJT

        Thanks!

    2. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Ms Peacock, with a candle in the library. 😉

  10. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Television streaming has yet to reach prime time. It is frustrating to keep up with passwords – did I set it up, or did you, do the forgot my password thing and no such email matches. And we get more and more commercials.

  11. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I just have one, maybe two words for streaming in general; IT SUX!!!!!!!!

  12. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Another one is the show “The Firm” on Prime. We liked the original movie and I ran across a series based on the original movie. It is older, not the best acting and plots are far fetched but it is good lazy viewing and I got hooked. Went through 22 episodes only to find out a season 2 was never offered so I got left hanging. First world problems, I tell ya

  13. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    FWIW; GJT was/is right; Hal does not like the word Peaco@k. 😉

    1. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      You can’t say that! 😀

      1. Super Dave Avatar
        Super Dave

        I know I tried to in your @8:19 AM. In the Spit Bucket.

  14. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Just one more and yes I did stumble down a Rabbit Hole.

    and don’t forget to drink too much and put on weight,……. @ about the 3:20 mark.

  15. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    We will have a high of 60 degrees here in Wednesday, December 11th. Amazing. Of course, it dives to a high of 33 on Friday, however temps rise into the 50s again next week. More global warming, please.

  16. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Back to this Kristen Welker woman. Glenn Reynolds posted this video from Meet the Press with Trump and recommended watching with the sound off. Since I refuse to watch any of these network fake news shows, I wasn’t even sure who she was. The woman is hideous. Welker has the archetypal set of crazy eyes. Run, don’t walk away because she is not only crazy, but obnoxious as well.

  17. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Peacock

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      😀

  18. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    The back is bad today. Having to lay down. I guess pain killers are next.

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      Interesting. Mine is too.

  19. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    About my @ 7:43 AM. When my wife said she was going to Tallahassee my first thought was that I’d not been there in years so I got to thinking and it’s been much longer than I thought. The last and only time I was in Tallahassee was the Summer of 61 when I was 7. We’d been fishing and camping on Lake George, on the St Johns river and were heading home. We had planned to stop off at a beach on the gulf coast before going back to Alabama but what we didn’t know at the time was the stretch of coastline from about Cedar Key up to Fish Creek just didn’t have any pretty beaches like we were used to on the upper Gulf Coast. So after driving around in the swampland along the coast we decide to just head on home even though it was getting late. After dark my mom and sister were asleep in the backseat and I was riding Shotgun up with my dad and helping to navigate. I thought I was a big boy and wasn’t going to go to sleep. Of course that didn’t last very long and about midnight I woke up to the lights of the city. I didn’t know it at the time but we came into Tallahassee from the east on US 27 and were going up the hill toward the State Capital. The wide street and the Statehouse were all lit up and we were the only car anywhere around. I thought that was the prettiest sight ever. And years later the Texas Statehouse reminded me of the one in Florida. Then I went back to sleep and woke up about 3 AM as we rolled in here. Fine memories right there.
    I sort of wondered why I never went back to Tallahassee but by the time I was making regular trips across Florida, I 10 was opened up and it completely bypassed the city.

  20. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    On SD’s rabbit trail theme.
    https://twitchy.com/samj/2024/12/09/thread-of-trumps-most-savage-moments-n2404892

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      That is pure gold!

      You’re a real tough guy Jeb. 😀

  21. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The Jones Act is now 104 years old and it’s long past time for it to die and be buried.

    The Jones Act “requires that all goods transported by water between U.S. ports be carried on ships that have been constructed in the United States and that fly the U.S. flag, are owned by U.S. citizens, and are crewed by U.S. citizens and U.S. permanent residents.” 

    It was passed over 100 years ago as part of the Merchant Marine Act of 1920 when it might have made some sense (I can’t speak to that), but it has become an expensive and nonsensical burden. Congress needs to change it ASAP, when the new congress convenes, so that when President Trump gets to work on January 20, we can forget about this problem.

    Just north of Boston in Everett, Massachusetts sits the poster child for irrational energy permitting in the United States. The Everett Marine Terminal is a facility that connects imported liquefied natural gas (LNG)—often from Trinidad, more than 2,200 miles away—to natural gas delivery networks in New England. 

    Yes, you read that right. If it seems insane, you are absolutely right. The massive natural gas reserves in Texas and the trapped natgas reserves in the enormous Marcellus Shale region are irrelevant to these blithering idiots.

    The Marcellus play is estimated to hold 410 trillion cubic feet (TCF) of gas in a play that stretches from western upstate New York through Pennsylvania, West Virginia into eastern Ohio.

    But the governments of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New England states continue to block pipeline construction to get this gas to the people who desperately need it.

    It would be a dark comedy of errors if the people of New England suffered because of inept energy policies and unnecessary barriers to energy resources even beyond predictably higher prices. As one example, fuel security has been a concern for the New England grid for several years, and many believe it is a matter of time until the region faces blackouts during a prolonged winter storm. 

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      Stupid needs to be painful. Sorry Texpat, but New England needs to get the cold, pimp-hand, of reality to slap them in the face real hard. Perhaps after this they will wake up from their woke mind virus.

  22. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Those were the days….,
    This was not long after Chrysler opened their Belvidere plant just outside Rockford Il.

  23. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    AS if we needed any more evidence that Pope Frankie is in league with the evil one, we have this:

    HEADLINE: Vatican Nativity Scene has Jesus Lying on Keffiyeh Scarf

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      I heard about this. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: I despise this Pope. My biggest concern is that he’s about to stack the College of Cardinals with his best friends so we get a Francis the Sequel.

      BTW – some folks who are into papal prophecy say that there’s this one, one more bad one, one good one, and the God turns out the lights.

  24. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Jury in New York acquits Daniel Penny.

    A Manhattan jury has cleared Daniel Penny of criminal wrongdoing in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely on a crowded subway — a caught-on-video killing that sparked fierce debate over the city’s mental health system and crime underground.

    The panelists acquitted Penny of criminally negligent homicide — which could have put him behind bars for up to four years — in Neely’s chokehold death aboard a crowded uptown F train in May 2023.

    Manslaughter, the top charge against Penny, was tossed on Friday after jurors twice said they couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict.

  25. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    All eyes are Mayor Eric Adams who already said Penny should be acquitted and blamed the situation on the whole city government of NYC for failing to maintain peace and safety.

    The BLM and Al Sharpton’s people have been threatening riots if this former Marine is acquitted. Adams and the NYPD are going to look very bad if they don’t keep a tight lid on it.

  26. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Not surprisingly Texpat beat me to the Daniel Penny Not Guilty Verdict but just after that there are now reports that they’ve caught the United Healthcare CEO’s murderer in Altoona Pa!

  27. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting latest: Man being held for questioning in Pennsylvania, sources say.

    A man in Altoona, Pennsylvania, was stopped with a fake New Jersey ID and is being held for questioning in connection with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City, law enforcement sources told ABC News.

    The man had walked into a McDonald’s where a witness recognized him from the images circulated by police, sources said.

    The man had a similar gun to the one used in Wednesday’s assassination-style killing outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel, the sources said. Altoona police also recovered a computer.

  28. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    By the way, the next time I need a legal team in Europe, I’m hiring these two.

    On Thursday, a judge in The Hague sentenced right-wing TV presenter and lawyer Raisa Blommestijn to 80 hours of community service—double the amount requested by the prosecution—over social media posts she made from her personal account in May of last year.

    In response to viral footage showing a migrant gang beating a defenseless white man before throwing him onto the train tracks, she wrote:

    Yet another white man beaten up on the street by a group of Negroid primates. How many more defenseless whites must become victims? Probably countless: the open borders elite imports these people in droves, with all the consequences that entails.

    According to the judge, Bloomestijn had incited intolerance and was guilty of group insult and had pitted “two groups of people against each other based on their different skin colors, portraying white people as victims of people with darker skin colors.” 

    It’s a mildly racist insult. It is not a crime and to be punished for it is criminal.

    Raisa and Eva Vlaardingerbroek.

  29. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I guess I’m just lucky. I haven’t had any problems with Yellowstone.
    But I purchased this entire season last year through Amazon Prime/Firestick and it comes to me that way without going through some other app like Paramount plus. I received an email at 7:48 this morning that it was available for viewing on Prime.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      The streaming companies and their chaos are one thing. Trying to deal with it through the indecipherable software of a “smart” Samsung TV is whole other level of madness.

  30. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Handyman is here and has his to-do list of stuff to move around for me while Hubby’s in Bryan tending to a tenant issue. I spent some time in the new craft room upstairs, throwing stuff into trash bags and moving things. I had to make room for the shelves that have been living in upstairs limbo for months and months. Now that the flooring is 99.9% completed, it’s time to start putting stuff where it belongs. That includes moving some of the construction items, like scaffolding parts, back to the shop. Then I can get into my closet again.

    It was hard to do because the back is in severe flare today. Pain killer hasn’t really helped much, and when Handyman arrived I was back on the couch. I hobbled upstairs, showed him his responsibilities for today, and made my way back to the kitchen for my first meal of the day. I leaned on the counter while prepping my food and I have discovered that my desk chair is the one chair I’ve managed to sit in without hurting myself.

    Yet.

    So I can at least get some work done, until I have to lay down again.

    Today is going to suck.

  31. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Since today is a sucky pain day, I can at least cheer myself up with today’s C&C:

    Good morning, C&C, it’s Monday! Time for a brand new week as the air chills and the holiday spirit overtakes the country. This morning’s roundup includes: on the very first weekday following the dramatic fall of Syria, the United States flies into the gap; I take a deep flight over the unidentified flying drone controversy which, if anything, has soared above U.S. military bases and are now invading entire states; local officials freaking out while feds are slow walking any response; deliciously ironic story of San Fran anti-cop activist’s plaintive request for help after thieves literally stole everything; and more evidence the MAHA revolution has already begun.

  32. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    There are two kinds of folks.
    Those who like living with peacocks nearby, and the other 99.9999% of us.

    I have a couple roosters that live nearby who need a syrinxectomy.

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      We have peacocks in our neighborhood. Hubby talked to one husband, whose wife kept feeding them so the birds nested all around their property, who said that he wasn’t fond of the birds.

      They may be beautiful and exotic, but they don’t have lovely vocalizations and they kept scratching the bed of his pickup as they tried to roost on it.

  33. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Mr. C. starts off with the “lightning fast” response by the Meat Puppet to the Syrian power shift, trying to take credit for any positive news that comes out of it.

    The painful comparison to the (lack of) response to the hurricane victims reared its ugly head. But back to Syria:

    MP says that we our military has begun striking “enemies” in Syria. How do they know who/where the “enemies” are? So soon? So fast? Syria is the Star Wars bar scene for terrorists.

    Biden then launched the big announcement: the United States —not the U.N., the World Bank, or for Hades’ sake, not the BRICS— would help “the Syrian people” create an independent —Joe started coughing uncontrollably right when he said “independent,” presumably to cover his laughter— an independent new government and a spanking new democratic constitution that would be just “for them,” the people. And it will be so progressive; just wait and see.

    …, he meant just the Syrians we’re not bombing into the stone age, of course. The good ones, in other words. Those other ones are dead men.

    Trump had tweeted that this isn’t our fight, but he’s not president yet. One more interesting note:

    Underscoring the significance of Syria’s sudden collapse within the larger Proxy War, the WaPo reported that deposed Syrian President Bashar Al’Assad was not, in fact, killed in a plane crash as was rumored over the weekend, but rather landed in Moscow, evidenced by videos circulating on Russian war blogs. The Times article stressed that Russia is losing regional influence, because the coup will probably sink Russia’s large naval base in Syria, and the future of Russia’s trans-Syrian national gas pipeline to Europe seems shaky. Conversely, the U.S.-backed, trans-Syrian pipeline now has a future so bright it needs to wear shades. Iran also loses, because everyone seems to expect the new Syrian government to be much more friendly to Israel.

    Speculation on how and why the overthrow of Syria happened so quickly and why now???

    I can’t shake a wild theory I came across on social media this weekend: Russia traded Syria for Ukraine. There’s zero direct evidence, but it offers lovely explanatory power. We don’t know, and we will never know. So, we shall wait and see what happens next on the Ukraine front in the Proxy War. But I sense this is bad news for Zelensky.

  34. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Texpat – do you know anything about this? These drones were flying around military bases last fall. TPTB all gave a collective “I dunno” shrug in response. They are back, now invading New York and still hovering over NJ’s sensitive sites:

    Yesterday, NorthJersey.com ran one of many bizarre unidentified flying drone stories this weekend headlined, “North Jersey mayors demand action from NJ, feds on flurry of drone sightings.” Last Tuesday, the FBI issued a joint statement with the New Jersey State Police and the State Office of Homeland Security setting up a tipline for information from the public related to “the recent sightings of possible drones flying in several areas along the Raritan River.”

    CLIP: Four grainy videos of unidentified flying objects over Brooklyn, New York (2:00).

    “U.S. officials don’t know who is behind the drones,” one WSJ article reported, “or how to stop them.” But … do they want to stop them?

    Described as ‘car-sized,’ the lighted, buzzing drones have been reported all over New Jersey, in at least a dozen counties, and are zipping over sensitive sites like a military weapons design center, Trump’s golf course, and an active reservoir. The FBI seems helplessly confounded, and the FAA keeps creating temporary “no fly” zones trying to protect commercial air assets.

    The drones are lit up. They seem to be trying to avoid collisions. And they obviously aren’t trying to hide.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      The only people who know what is going in the state and federal government are not talking or pretending it is unimportant. People are really getting fed over it. My daughter and son-in-law live in the NW portion of the state in a semi-rural area at the top of a mountain. Drones have been flying around there for several nights in a row.

  35. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    More on drones from the C&C:

    I researched drones that could fit the profile, information invisible in most of the media reports. Two categories of drones are at least as big as a small car. First, prototypes of “flying cars”… It’s unclear why flying car developers would risk huge penalties to test their prototypes like this instead of doing it legally and in the clear.

    The second possible category are the cargo drones. These are autonomous flyers, like hobby drones, except bigger. They’re operated by remote control, but unlike hobby drones, they carry a substantial payload. Amazon, for example, has been testing delivery drones in this category. But more common are military drones used to drop bombs. These drones cost from hundreds of thousands up to millions of dollars, if you can buy them, that is.

    Whatever scofflaw is flying these drones is committing felonies right and left, some serious. Commercially available drones above the $100 range are equipped with GPS, and they are all programmed not to fly near sensitive sites. So, between the size, cost, and apparent lack of software limits, they strongly suggest a military origin, not least because who else would be so unconcerned about all the potential criminal liability, should one of the drones malfunction, land, and be captured?

    Could these be foreign-owned drones? It’s obvious that Biden has no problem with our enemies flying over our country, like big floatie things that casually meandered over our country some time ago. Or do they belong to us?

    …. If the U.S. military is testing these drones, they are working outside of official channels. One possibility is the agency testing the drones doesn’t want the FAA leaking operational details, like when the tests will occur.

    And then there are all of the UFO folks who have their own theories.

    Some folks try to laser the drones: CLIP: Citizen video of lasering drones (1:34).

    The DoD is either feigning ignorance, or they truly are ignorant. (Pun intended.)

  36. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Luigi Mangione?
    Must be Irish.
    🙂 🙂 🙂

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

      He’s a white Italian.

  37. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Spotted over yonder, Rhode Island/King Ranch.

  38. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And now, from the “Karma’s a B***ch” department:

    The New York Post ran a very satisfying and ironic story this weekend headlined, “‘Defund the police’ activist goes viral after begging for help when everything she owned was stolen in San Francisco: ‘The cops didn’t do s—!’”

    Sometimes people get just what they deserve.

    San Fransisco (sic) resident and ever-masker Danice Bell, 60?, did not report to police the theft of her rented and fully loaded 26-foot Uhaul moving van, although she complained cops “didn’t do s—t.” Danice hates the police. She believes police, including black officers, are all raging racists, and it is her personal mission to extinguish hatred wherever it appears by being even more hateful than the haters. Or something like that.

    In my cleanup of my room upstairs, I found a sign that I used to have hanging over my desk: “Never complain about what you permit.” Maybe she needs one “Never complain about you promote.”

    In the wake of her “stolen Uhaul” post going viral for its delicious irony, Danice, a single white female, doubled down and posted even more pro-BLM, anti-cop comments. That will teach us! She also lashed out at Christians. For some reason, she blames Christians for being mocked online and for people being so unsympathetic about her stolen trailer, which she claimed without evidence contained her kids’ Christmas presents. Uh-huh.

    I’ll bet $10 she’s an atheist, so she probably didn’t have Christmas gifts. Maybe they were Saturnalia presents. Still, not the fault of Christians that she’s not only stupid, but doubly so. Being mockworthy is not my fault.

    It’s not clear what Danice thinks should happen, since the criminals —let us not speculate on their racial characteristics— took off with everything she owned. She complained about lack of police assistance, wrong responses to her posts for help, and about Uhaul’s failure to attach GPS to its trucks. What she thinks she would have done if she could find her truck was unclear. Maybe dispatch some government-paid mental health counselors to that location.

    I agree with Mr. C next: as a Christian, I pray that all will find some peace with Christ and rectify their ways, and de-rectify their heads:

    Anyway, as a Christian, I pray Danice will ultimately learn to see this setback as a positive experience, and that she will nevertheless enjoy a merry Christmas despite her material sufferings. Assuming, that is, she does celebrate Christmas.

  39. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I did see a photo over the weekend of two fairly low altitude drones over New Jersey in broad daylight that looked like the type militaries use, the type usually carrying armaments.

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      I was about to ask if binoculars could help identify them or if they were too far away.

  40. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    With all of the busy church stuff this past weekend, I neglected to share Dr. Malone’s funnies:

    https://www.malone.news/p/sunday-strip-dont-celebrate-yet

    https://www.malone.news/p/friday-funnies-duck-duck-goose

  41. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    😀

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      😀

  42. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Bush plane is built in Wyoming.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Beautiful, I love the Tundra tires. Oh and that thing is almost a helicopter.

    2. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      I’ve seen videos with that plane and didn’t know what it was.

  43. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    This may be the reason you can’t trust Google Maps to navigate.

    Oh and I ran into this near Mt Cheaha on a Road trip back in September of 2015, before I moved out of Texas.

  44. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Heh Heh Heh oh boy. Ya really think Trump is a good guy? Likin him teaming up with Muskatel creating yet another unelected governmental agency?

    On Thursday, Musk and his “DOGE” co-chair, Vivek Ramaswamy, went to Capitol Hill to discuss their plans. Republican lawmakers immediately announced that “everything is on the table,” including cutting Social Security and Medicare.

    During the campaign, Musk said his goal was to cut $2 trillion — or about 30 percent — of the entire federal budget. 

    There’s no way to do this without cutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Social Security alone accounts for almost a quarter of the total federal budget. 

    Ramaswamy has been even more explicit about their plan, saying in a CNBC interview that “there are hundreds of billions of dollars of savings to extract” from Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

    Let’s get something straight between us right now….. I DO NOT TRUST TRUMP. However I am for these cuts if they are done right. For our nation to survive the amount of these third rail payments have to be cut and yes it is going to hurt and hurt bad. My fear is that TrumpugMusknic knowing they have only four years with no worries about reelection that he will use a chain saw rather than pruning the programs incrementally over a long term.

    It is about 225 pages everyone needs to read Agenda 2025.

  45. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    About 5:30 I’m headed to church for Council dinner and New Council Members “orientation”.
    Wish me luck.

  46. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    There’s no way to do this without cutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

    Wrong.

  47. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Most Americans don’t realize we will spend about $1.25 trillion on interest payments on federal debt in 2025 from a $5 trillion budget or roughly 25%. You know why ? Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and her conga line of pathetic imbeciles did not refinance our long-term debt back when interest reached near zero. Nations like Iraq refied their debt for 50 years at 1 or 2 %. So did a lot of other nations in Europe for instance. China did and Russia did. We can cut billions and billions out of our budget by simply managing our debt instruments like normal, intelligent people.

  48. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    There will be mid-term elections in 23 months with every member of the House and 33 of the Senate seats up for election. Republicans have a 3 seat majority in the Senate and maybe a 3 or 4 seat margin in the House.

    I don’t trust any politician and I’m not impressed with their intelligence level, but I don’t think the Republicans are so stupid as to lose the House and Senate by scaring the daylights out of American families by slashing their SS checks. It would mean their chances of getting anything accomplished in 2027 and 2028 would be close to zero. It would also destroy any chance of getting Vance or DeSantis elected in 2028.

  49. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    There’s no way to do this without cutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

    SS Meds Mscare and interest on debt take 55% of the budget. How can you say wrong?

    ”https://hamous.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/4-14-08tax_rev7-18-24_f1.png”/

  50. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Wrong

    And that is why we will never have a balanced budget. Anyone whose ox gets gored like removing the mortgage deduction people start screaming. Politicians got us right where they want us

    1. a two party system
    2. the majority of Americans depending on the government
    3. dang near half the people do not pay any taxes
    4. etc etc etc etc
  51. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    With a special friend, I’m going to try again to pull off this sweet, simple duet arrangement this Christmas.
    I have had to back out several times due to voice problems at the last minute.

    1. bsue54 Avatar
      bsue54

      Prayers that this IS the year for it to happen… My duet partner is in Heaven now – so it goes…

  52. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    If we start cutting SS by reducing or eliminating it from being given to illegals, that would be a legitimate start, IMHO.

    It started out as a safety net for retirement, and now it’s dipped into for just about everything. Government is like mold- always wanting to grow bigger and eat what feeds it making everyone around it sick, until its supply source runs out.

    Speaking of sick, on top of the back that’s kept me horizontal for most of the day, I’m now getting a scratchy throat. Dangit.

    1. Adee Avatar
      Adee

      Take care of yourself first and rest as needed. 🙂

  53. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Not seeing a Tuesday page but it’s 70 here and raining, not much, 1.20″ since yesterday morning but we surely need it.
    Mornin’ Gang

  54. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Buenos Dias!

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.