It’s Monday Again Open Thread

Young Life by Bo Bartlett, 1994


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  1. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    In just a few hours many of the treasonous bastiges that are currently ruining our country will be out of power. Trump and Company need to be diligent and ruthless to weed out the remainders. Our 4 year long national nightmare is almost over and now it is time to clean up the mess.

  2. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is a fine looking group of people, a handsome Cabinet. It’s a huge improvement over the the prior freak show. Why is short guy Kash Patel hiding in the back ?

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Is it just me or does RFK Jr look like a G.I. Joe action figure doll? 😀
      FWIW; I like RFK Jr, his politics are a little too far left for me but he is honest and not a hypocrite. Also he is SPOT ON about the obesity and health crisis in this country.

  3. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I have a doctor’s appointment so I had to go out and clean one of the cars in order to drive. We got about 5 inches of snow, but it froze so hard last night, it is more like semi-solid ice.

  4. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    Blessedly, it’s dry here, as it’s only 25 degrees and relatively wind-free…

  5. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    There’s a red pill epidemic out there. If the quote isn’t clear, go here.

    “I started reading @PirateWires and @micsolana and I thought he was a little crazy at first because he would write these articles, and one he wrote was about how the Ukrainian soldiers had swastikas on their helmets, and the NYT photographers would ask them to take the swastikas off for photos.”

    “I said that can’t be true, and then four months later, it was in the NYT buried in the middle of the paper, and I kept seeing stories like that that he would be early on. So, I started feeling more uncomfortable and queasy with what was going on with mainstream media.”

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      I saw that. Coincidence that the color red is being used to identify truth?

  6. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    lt seems strange to hear Tilman Fertita’s name among those who will be sworn in today…

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Yeah, since I remember Tilman and his wife throwing a swanky, $4 million fund raising party in their Memorial backyard for Bill Clinton in the 1990s. The whole backyard was covered with air-conditioned tents.

      1. Super Dave Avatar
        Super Dave

        Grifter?

  7. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    27 here so I guess it could be worse. But it’ll be colder tomorrow and maybe some snow.
    All I can say is that it will be good to have ADULTS back in the White House and I don’t just mean Trump but his cabinet. Trump has selected the best he could find for the job categories at hand. Unlike Biden’s menagerie of sad losers. His cabinet was totally inept, worse than Obama’s and that is saying a lot……Oh wait! there were some carryovers.
    Mornin’ Gang

  8. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    One of the first day EOs getting signed is the revocation of the security clearances for the lying 51 intelligence operatives.
    https://nypost.com/2025/01/19/us-news/trump-to-suspend-security-clearances-of-51-former-cia-contractors-who-falsely-implied-hunter-biden-laptop-was-russian-fake/

  9. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    CIA ANALYST faced up to 20 years for leaking Israeli plans to attack Iran gets a sweetheart deal from the corrupt DOJ for a max 6.5 years.
    IMHO he should be hung by the neck until dead as the proper punishment for treason.
    https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/01/former-cia-analyst-pleads-guilty-to-leaking-secret-documents-about-israel-strike-on-iran/

  10. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    My lovely Mrs is about to be assaulted with the uranusscope; she’s getting a colonoscopy.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Thanks for sharing….. 😀

  11. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Mornin’! A Monday we can enjoy!

    Noting ever happens to anyone facing congressional grillings anyhow so I say we still have investigations into J6 committee members and Fauci.

  12. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Corrupt to the end. Not to mention incompetent to the end, too.

    In what can only be described as Joe Biden’s Last Stunt, the outgoing president has issued what appear to be the final pardons of his one-and-done term. While declaring that no one should take the pardons as an admission of guilt, Biden issued full pardons to former NIAID head Anthony Fauci, General Mark Milley, and every member of the House Select Committee on January 6. That includes Liz Cheney, whose actions on the committee had drawn some significant scrutiny in terms of potential witness tampering:

  13. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Fauci and the Jan6 Committee were all pardoned last night.
    And Milley.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Really?! I’m not surprised, but you don’t need a pardon ifin’ you’re not guilty. ~SPITS~

    1. bsue54 Avatar
      bsue54

      such a charming dealer you have there 😉

      1. Super Dave Avatar
        Super Dave

        She is a cutie, she works the front of Publix Supermarket over in Enterprise. I have to be real careful when I go there. 😀

  14. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    About Shannon’s @ 8:05 AM, Fauci and the Jan6 Committee pardon. Pardoned in the dead of night with the inauguration dominating the news cycle today……Figgers. Ran out of SPIT.

  15. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    The scumbags can still be called to testify before a congressional investigation. If they lie there, they can and likely will be charged with perjury. Bidet’s parking can not reach into the future for crimes not yet committed.

  16. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Paraphrased-

    Fauci: I committed no crimes!

    Donald Trump Jr: You don’t have to accept a pardon.

  17. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Why is Amy Klobuchar getting into the Beast with Trump and Biden? Is it her day to babysit Biden? Does she also change his diapers?

  18. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Gov. Noem looking fine in baby blue.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Yup. 😉

  19. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Somebody must’ve locked up the Fire Marshall for a couple hours. 🙂 🙂

  20. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Where Algor? Big Mike?

    Laura looking good.

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      In some manhole repairing the Internet.

      1. Shannon Avatar
        Shannon

        Al may not have any friends left in D.C.

  21. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Watching Bill Clinton walk down that long hallway earlier, he’s clearly developed a bad back.

  22. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Justice DEI with the weird necklace.

    Barron needs to play basketball.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      That would be African doncha’ know.

  23. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Interesting open comments subject. Nothing about the naugahyde of Trump? Nothing about how Trump is going to sign some 200 hundred executing odors? Nothing about the hysterical impotence of this day? Nothing about the significance this is taking place on MiLK day?

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Interesting open comments subject.

      Sorry if I didn’t live up to your standards but suffering from constant atrial fibrillation can be totally exhausting, especially in the evenings. Maybe I can have an ablation procedure next month or even get a pacemaker. I’ll try to do better next time.

      1. squawkbox Avatar
        squawkbox

        As the owner of this blog we expect nothing but your best even in the worst of conditions.

  24. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Oh joy. Drained the pipes last night the water is frozen at the inlet, Great start to the week.

  25. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Simple piano rendition of great old hymns.
    Nice.

  26. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Best dressed:
    Ivanka Trump and J.D. Vance.
    🙂

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Yup but during the whole inauguration the ladies in my family were texting back and fourth and they all agreed that Melania looked great and would single handedly bring back the Pill Box Hat. Reminiscent of Jackie O. 😀

  27. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Okay, how many jet fighters are swooping around overhead?

  28. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    So begins Klobuchar’s run for the Presidency.

  29. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The basturd’s last act is to blanket pardon his family.

    That is your legacy, you SOB.

  30. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Franklin looking like his old man.

  31. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Okay ya got what you wanted………… Trump.

  32. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I did notice that when the President said the military will no longer be a laboratory for bizarre social experiments, he turned to Hegseth and pointed, for emphasis.

    Let it be so.

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      I caught that too. There is a lot of work to be done to reverse that damage.

  33. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    HEY TEXPAT

  34. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    That helicopter looks enormous out there.

  35. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The kid in the cowboy hat….is he the one that shot the rioter in self-defense?

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      I don’t know but I don’t think it was Kyle Rittenhouse.

      1. Adee Avatar
        Adee

        This is a long way from Wisconsin.

  36. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    We interrupt this exciting post inauguration coverage to bring you Vintage Outboard Porn. Twin Towers of Power on a Magnum Marine Cat. Check out the 1:1 racing direct drive, (not reverse Or neutral). Be still my beating heart. 😉

  37. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    And so begins Greg Abbott’s run for the Presidency.

  38. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Congratulations America. May you be blessed.

    1. Adee Avatar
      Adee

      Thank you, good sir.

    2. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Thanks, we appreciate it. But could you come and get your weather? It’s drunk and stumbling around in my yard. 41 right now, bright N sunny. Downright deceiving when you first step out into it. 😉

      1. bsue54 Avatar
        bsue54

        Dave, what’s your beef – it’s 3:30 here and it’s all the way up to 36 😉

  39. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Gotta say, the coverage on YouTube from the joint congressional committee on inaugural ceremonies has been really good. The two “anchors” have not inserted one iota of opinion.

  40. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m sure she’s upset, but I get this exposition of emotion is also staged. I mean, did the holders of all those cell phones say “Wait a minute while I get the shot lined up”?

    I see headline that the El Paso border is shut down.

    ’bout damn time.

  41. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Two Bibles. That says something:

    At noon, Vice President Vance will be sworn-in first, by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Vance’s hand will rest on a Bible his great-grandmother ‘Mamaw’ Bonnie gave him in 2003 when he left for Marines basic training. After that, Chief Justice John Roberts will swear in President Trump, and not merely on one Bible, but two—twice as many as other presidents!— a Bible his mother gave him in 1955 plus President Lincoln’s, from the 1861 Lincoln Inauguration, and used in Trump’s 2017 Inauguration.

    But this time, everything is different, like Trump’s glowering presidential portrait. For another thing, Trump’s Transition Team has shown historic discipline — and nothing has leaked. Keeping the team’s offices located outside of DC must have helped, but the team worked flawlessly.

    Due to the lack of leaks, corporate media lacks any idea how many executive orders Trump will sign immediately after his Inauguration (some at the Capitol, and then more at the Capitol One Arena). Whatever the number is, he plans to sign a lot. Headlines range from predicting “more than 50” (NBC) to “over 200” (a much more enthused Fox) — but it seems pretty clear it will be a record-setting number.

  42. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    This isn’t Monday. It’s MAGADAY!

  43. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Melania looks so classy, I love her outfit. I find it despicable how she was treated by the mainstream women’s and fashion media, especially when they fawned over the tranny first lady and the meat puppet’s wife.

    I hear that some designers are bragging today about outfitting certain folks.

    My, how times have changed.

    1. wagonburner Avatar
      wagonburner

      She can really pull of that look. Especially with the lid.

  44. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Ok Mother Nature we are making chili for the third time this winter, that’s the cap.

  45. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    In Catholic news, we at Annunciation are on tenterhooks with the news that as soon as Cardinal/Archbishop DiNardo submitted the mandatory resignation letter today, his 75th birthday, it was accepted by pachapapa.

    The fact that we still have a Latin mass in this diocese prolly wisses of the heretic of the Vatican.

    IIRC, his replacement is the guy who kicked the very honorable, holy Bishop Strickland to the curb.

    This doesn’t bode well for our parish and our conservative pastor.

    1. wagonburner Avatar
      wagonburner

      A martini is made with gin, not vodka, stirred and not shaken, and the proper proportions would disappoint one’s grandfather. These days I go for two parts gin to one of vermouth; Derek favors equal parts of each.

      They like theirs even wetter than I like mine. I’ve been at 3:1 for quite some time. I’ve also come to prefer Lillet in place of dry vermouth, but I won’t turn that down.

      1. Texpat Avatar
        Texpat

        The article makes me want to go out and have a martini, but it is way too cold for that these nights. The other problem is I have no tolerance for it. If I drink one normal size martini, I’m not available to drive. They just knock me on my…

      2. Shannon Avatar
        Shannon

        I haven’t bought any gin since Fay passed.
        I figured out a long time ago that the only gins I like are the upper top shelf. Gin is too hard on my gullet any way.

        1. Texpat Avatar
          Texpat

          I love good gin, but Her Highness claims I get mean when I drink it. When I was a young man in my twenties, a fine gin and tonic was my drink of choice.

        2. Texpat Avatar
          Texpat

          By the way, there are some excellent craft, small distiller gins out there priced pretty cheap. There’s a really good one made by some young guys in Minnesota. I’ll have to find the name.

  46. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    It looks like Trump is purging the State Department.
    IMHO, the State Department has been infested with commie-loving scumbags for at least 50 years.

    1. wagonburner Avatar
      wagonburner

      I think they’re self-purging.

    2. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      I don’t think 20 senior level officials in State is near enough of a purge. They need to drive way down the totem pole in that cess pool if they want to make fundamental change happen.

  47. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Finish them off.

  48. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    If you’re interested in freebies and deals, here’s a website fer ya’.

  49. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Fr. Mike Schmitz just dropped a truth bomb: “Every sin is an attempt to be happy — apart from God.”

    Never thought of it that way, but it’s true.

  50. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    More winning: Trump notifies U.N. that the U.S. is withdrawing from the Paris climate treaty

    1. Adee Avatar
      Adee

      He said he would do it if elected, and he has done it. Yea. Our pockets are no longer open to financing huge amounts of our money for questionable U.N. projects. Thank You, President Trump.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      Time for a claw back and an investigation into corruption.

  51. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The tiniest ice pellets lightly falling here west of the Brazos.

  52. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I thought the presentation and appearance of all the people in the Capitol ceremonies today was exceptional. The men looked, mostly, tall and handsome and the women were extraordinarily beautiful and fashionable. It was a very dignified crowd of remarkable folks and the contrast from the Biden freak show was stark.

  53. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Just a comment.

    The Left and their stenographers and PR personnel, the legacy media, have had a hissy fit over Trump’s photo with half a dozen big tech billionaires – Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg et al. All of those guys opposed him, spent millions to defeat him and then he has them seated next to him like chumps. It is all about keeping your enemies closer and the powerful image of victory and alliance. Only the few get it.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Only the few get it.

      And they never will.

  54. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Another note.

    If you know the signs and have watched Elon Musk try to speak in public recently, you know he is on the autism spectrum. The high end of it, but nevertheless it’s there.

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      Specifically  Elon Musk has Asperger’s Syndrome

  55. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I thought Trump was going to all these gala balls tonight, but I think he’s still up there signing EOs.

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      He finally finished signing.

      Someone had the bright idea to have some of the press in the Oval Office asking questions while he was signing.
      Asking dumbass questions.
      He kept stopping and talking instead of signing.
      Press would ask questions while his assistant was trying to explain what each EO was about. Really annoying.

  56. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Brain cancer, just hours before the swearing in.

    Cecile Richards, a women’s rights crusader who served as president of Planned Parenthood as the nation approached a critical inflection point over reproductive freedom, has died, her family said Monday in a statement. She was 67.

    Part of me is glad this baby killer is gone, but my Christian principles hope that she found redemption before moving on.

    Because Hell is…Hell. In her version, I guess she’d be forced to see the faces and hear the cries of every “product of pregnancy” that she dismembered and sold for profit. Among other things.

  57. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    He also signed an order revoking security clearances of former intelligence officials who signed a letter warning that the Hunter Biden laptop story during the 2020 election “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation,” as well as the clearance for his former national security adviser, John Bolton.

    Hallelujah and Amen.

  58. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    One of the EOs is to say forget the fish, send water to southern California.

    That should earn him a few friends in the elite circles.

  59. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Losing those security clearances makes those scumbags less employable in certain fields and companies.
    Here’s hoping every one of them ends up on food stamps.

  60. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Tiny wet flakes that melt, over here.

  61. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Sounds like sleet outside.

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