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Wednesday’s Sonsabitches Open Season Comments

Steven Nelson at the Washington Examiner:

Former intelligence chief James Clapper is poised to avoid charges for allegedly lying to Congress after five years of apparent inaction by the Justice Department.

Clapper, director of national intelligence from 2010 to 2017, admitted giving “clearly erroneous” testimony about mass surveillance in March 2013, and offered differing explanations for why.

Two criminal statutes that cover lying to Congress have five-year statutes of limitations, establishing a Monday deadline to charge Clapper, who in retirement has emerged as a leading critic of President Trump.

The under-oath untruth was exposed by National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, who sparked national debate on surveillance policy with leaks to the press.

Many members of Congress, mostly Republicans supportive of new limits on electronic surveillance, called for Clapper to be prosecuted as the deadline neared, saying unpunished perjury jeopardizes the ability of Congress to perform oversight.

“He admitted to lying to Congress and was unremorseful and flippant about it,” Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., told the Washington Examiner. “The integrity of our federal government is at stake because his behavior sets the standard for the entire intelligence community.”

 

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75 responses to “Wednesday’s Sonsabitches Open Season Comments”

  1. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Today’s o/c meme read my mind! If we do nothing then sonething will happen as a result. We will continue to decline and erode. Chaos will ensue. Government will get bigger, giving more piwer to dangerous bureaucrats. It amzes me thst God has seen this pattern time and time again throughout history. Merciful He is to withold His justice time and time again but that won’t last.

  2. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    But look over there, a dead puppy!

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Physicist Professor Stephen Hawking died this morning at his Cambridge home. R.I.P.

    Professor Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76 – more than 50 years after he was given just two years to live.

    The world’s most celebrated scientist passed away peacefully at his home in Cambridge this morning after a long battle with motor neurone disease, his family has revealed.

    His children, Lucy, Robert and Tim said in a statement: ‘We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today. He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on for many years

    ‘He once said, ‘It would not be much of a universe if it wasn’t home to the people you love.’ We will miss him forever’.

    They also said their father’s ‘courage, persistence, brilliance and humour inspired people across the world’.

    Mornin’ Gang

  4. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I think that we know where this is going; PA race razor close; Dem Lamb claims win, GOP not conceding.
    Everyone knows where the race is close, the Democrats will prevail. Remember when Al Franken lost by about 1000 votes and they kept on counting until February and the Republican finally threw in the towel.
    That said; 641 votes is within the margin of vote stealing/dead people voting, error for the Democrats.

  5. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Again, I ponder, why didn’t Hawkings’ robot voice have an English accent?

  6. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good morning Hamsters. A chilly 42 this morning instead of 40 as yesterday. Should be a lovely day in the upper 60s to low 70s.

    Re: the PA election. Questions arise as always about illegals voting in hordes as has been the case for years in PA, as was the topic of numerous articles just before the election. The Ass Press of course ignores that and breathlessly declares Lamb the winner, it’s just a formality. When will the PA Pubbies learn from Illinois to whithhold some votes until the Dems have used all their real and fake ones and then count the real Pubbie votes kept sequestered?

  7. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    This is one of those must-read articles.

    HEADLINE: CAIR vs. Ex-Muslim Anni Cyrus

    CAIR is a racist, terrorist organization, not the ‘voice of peace’ or whatever such lies they tell.

  8. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    It’s National 3.14159 Day!

  9. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    The Letter

  10. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Again, I ponder, why didn’t Hawkings’ robot voice have an English accent?

    I just finished reading “Origin” by Dan Brown and there was a character in the book named Watson that had an English accent, but only because, since he was a computer, he thought that Langdon would be comfortable with it. FWIW; The book wasn’t as good as the Di Vinci Code, let alone Angels and Demons.

  11. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    9
    Hillbillies on meth!
    🙂

  12. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Britain seems to be experiencing an epidemic of Russian Sudden Death Syndrome.

    They’re dropping like flies over there.

  13. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    “Thanks to our Band parents for their support”…

    https://youtu.be/BG6fTqdg0LU

  14. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    In our semi-local Workers Paradise, a cup of café con leche has increased in price from 1,800 B’s to 75,000 B’s in the past year.

    This is an inflation rate of over 4,000%.

    At the official rate of exchange, 75,000 B’s = ~$7,500. For that kind of money, that cup of coffee had better treat me better than the professional tour guides at aft Sill.

    At the unofficial rate of exchange, 75,000 B’s = ~$0.50.

  15. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #14
    Is a B a bitcoin?

    aft Sill?

  16. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    13 Shannon

    The most depressing video I’ve seen this year.

  17. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    OK, so the OC describes what we know so far about the swamp. Expecting Sir Trump to come riding in on his white horse and driving the demons from the swamp is most likely a bridge too far. But, just turning over some of the muck and exposing bits of the underbelly of the swamp is a start. The escaping swamp gases corrupt and corrode the very nature and fabric of our society and threaten to undermine the historic American way of life. It will be one desperate struggle for survival, and the swamp will not go down easy. In fact, it may not go away at all. Even those who appeared to be on the outside of the swamp proved to be denizens after all. Tillerson wound up being part of the mob trying to undermine the portion of Trump’s agenda that he was brought in to support. Sessions of course showed he was dressed in cammo early on. And the beat goes on. In order to drain the swamp, we need to know its size and depth, and so far we haven’t found a bottom. People who try from time to time are identified, isolated, and crushed personally, financially, emotionally, and any other way they can think of. Trump so far seems immune due to his financial wealth and his political support from the public at large. Just think, we the voters are the only thing standing between the swamp sucking us all down and our surviving as a nation. The Dems, the Reps, and all the minor players are invested in disenfranchising the voters once and for all so that they can select their own leaders who will further their own agendas. Scary.

  18. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Insert here a toast to Daniel James.

  19. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #15 mh42
    A “B” in that instance is a Bolivar (technically a Strong Bolivar), the national currency of Venezuela. One Bolivar Fuerte = 1,000 Bolivares Tradicional.

  20. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Texpat’s boy in Trenton exhibits a deep grasp of financial management as he works to close an enormous budget shortfall.

    Has any state so far hit revenue targets from taxing the Holy Herb, Satan’s Lettuce, oregano, wheed, Mary Jane, pot, whatever?

  21. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    20 WB
    Looking at the map of States cost-of-living, I sit here and shake my head. The last two remaining people in my family chose NJ and Oregon in which to reside.

    Contemplating a possible move, I did some in-depth research on Portland, Oregon. Housing costs are absolutely insane.

  22. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #19
    Thanks. I see now I could have found that out if I had clicked your link.
    🙁

  23. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Off to Kroger!

  24. phil Avatar
    phil

    Day 300 of the Taxpayer Held Hostage by the Russian Hoax in the Bicycle Spokes Crisis.

    Millions of dollars wasted on a complete fabrication of the DNC-Slippery stairs BillHilly machine.

    Yes the elites, the oligarchs and the political class are too big to go to jail.–Nothing will ever happen.–Get used to it.

    Why would crooks ever prosecute their brothers in crime?

  25. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    btw – if you continue the B discussion, you’ll see that it would cost ~75,000,000 old B’s to buy a cup of cafe con leche in East Caracas now.

  26. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    There is one of those little Big Tent traveling circuses setting up in Sealy. It blows my mind they haven’t gone the way of the buggy whip.

  27. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    On the Last Day there will be roaches, traveling circuses, and girls at the Ft. Sill gate.

  28. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    The world is coming to an end without informed, educated discussion and we are carrying on about the price of tea in some shxxhole country somewhere nobody ever heard of except in enlightened Dem circles. I know this because I saw a roach in my storeroom, heard about a tent circus, and once drove by Ft. Sill.

  29. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    One does not “drive by” Ft. Sill. It draws you in.

  30. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #26 Shannon Yup!! 😀

  31. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    21 Shannon

    The last two remaining people in my family chose NJ and Oregon in which to reside.

    My daughter lost her mind and chose to live in Oregon.

    I, on the other hand, was kidnapped and held against my will by this crazy, little brunette in New Jersey.

  32. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The Composite Cost of Living index at WB’s link is, in reality, wider than 95 to 121 for Texas and New Jersey.

    A single person living in Bergen County, NJ next to NYC needs to make $85K minimum a year to own a small home, drive a decent vehicle and have a few dollars left over.

  33. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Just had another garage sale at MIL’s house. There are officially no more bathroom doors, so I have to be sure I’m all alone if I need to use the bathroom there.

  34. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    …so I have to be sure I’m all alone if I need to use the bathroom there.

    Alone again … naturally

  35. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    All by myself

  36. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    That’s all the smarmy cocktail music I know on the subject.

  37. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    “What I’m Doing Here”

    Rachel Price reminds me a lot of a girl in my past. But what a voice.

  38. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #33 Tedtam

    How about a curtain to pull across until the son and spouse move in and install their own more–ahem–permanent doors?

    Umm, is the absence of bathroom doors going to encourage Aunt D to hurry up packing and moving the last of her legacy home?
    Just a thought….

  39. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    In Portland, a three year old cardboard refrigerator box rents for $1000/month.
    If you want it on dry ground, add $100.

  40. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    My daughter lost her mind and chose to live in Oregon.

    I would love to live in Oregon. As long as you avoid the north half of the Willamette River Valley and the area around Ashland, it’s awesome.

  41. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Here is a typical Portland apartment rate card:

    Studios starting at $1,251
    1-Bedrooms starting at $1,286
    2-Bedrooms starting at $1,983
    2-Bedrooms + Den starting at $2,859

    You can have a den for $866/month!!!!!!!

  42. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Handsome Son and Wife are planning on renovations being completed before moving in. He is beyond thrilled that I’m de-stuffing the house for them. MIL had filled that house with stuff that I’d never thought would be desirable to anyone else.

    This morning, a lady with a jewelry business showed up to buy two very old manual typewriters. I think she’s going to yank the keys off for jewelry; I’ve seen name bracelets and such at the quilt show. Once inside, she bought: a stained glass panel, the very solid/heavy/mirrored bathroom door mentioned above, four rusty wire baskets from the garage, a couple of ring holders from the master bath, a ceramic planter, the old globe that I was wondering what to do with, and smattering of small items.

    Another lady came by for the two old wooden office chairs, the smaller of which is one that Aunt D had stuffed into Handsome Son’s El Camino as “hers”. (I had it pulled out two days ago, it was not on the “approved list” of items that she and Hubby had agreed to.) This lady is a handy woman, who refurbishes furniture all the time and had just come into need of another office chair. Both of the chairs needed some work, and as soon as she saw them, her words were “I can fix that” and then “I’ll put them in the car, here’s your money”. Loved that. She also bought: a small blue jar from the curio cabinet, a small stack of leftover wood pieces that MIL had in the garage, and some other small items. She also helped jewelry lady move the bathroom door for me. Yay! She and I had an interesting talk about death and family issues. Let’s just say she understands.

    I repeat again, I am meeting the nicest people doing this.

    This weekend Hubby and crew move a lot of the furniture to the consignment shop. That’s going to really empty the house – almost everything in the living room, an armoire from the office, and some stuff from a back bedroom. It’s going to be multiple trips with the trailer. One serving table with a removable tray insert needs some work. The veneer on the tray was splitting and coming loose. I bought some twine, ripped out the rest of the veneer, and was up until midnight gluing the twine down to cover the bottom of the tray to replace the veneer. I’m about half-finished. I thought about staining it, but trying to match the other wood would have been dang near impossible. A contrasting surface would be much better than a half-matched stain. If the consignment lady turns it down, we’ll either keep the piece or I’ll sell it.

    Heck, if I can sell a bathroom door, an old globe, a huge book containing the entire 1952 London Times newspapers, and two useless typewriters, I can sell a pretty decent serving table.

  43. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Portland is at the confluence of the Columbia and Willamette Rivers.

    I stand by my statement.

  44. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #35 Hammy

    Read the comments:

    don’t wanna be Obama’s elf anymore

    Cracked.
    Me.
    Up.

  45. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    In Grants Pass, you can buy a decent 3-bed/2-bath/~1,500 sq ft house in the 200’s.

    Renting would be ~1,500/mo

    More than Houston, but certainly not extreme.

  46. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I, on the other hand, was kidnapped and held against my will by this crazy, little brunette in New Jersey.

    He was lured.

  47. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #33 TT
    I’ve been to garage sales and estate sales, but never did I see a sale where someone bought and took the bathroom doors!

  48. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    All by mice elf I cannot ask the question “Hoof arted?”

  49. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Oregon is like California. It’d be nice … if it weren’t for the Californians.

  50. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Soylent Green?

  51. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Long pig.

  52. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore, Rin Tin Tin.

  53. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #47

    I’ve been to garage sales and estate sales, but never did I see a sale where someone bought and took the bathroom doors!

    The hallway door was a real cool ’40’s vintage cloak room door. It was solid wood with an upper half inset of frosted glass with a wire grid inset. There was actually a sign that said “CLOAK ROOM” on it, and came complete with a little bell you could ring to get the cloak room attendant’s attention.

    The master bedroom door was also a solid door with a large mirror with a decorative border around it.

    Not the usual builder spec items.

  54. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I don’t know about you, but I’m quite certain – despite grumblings indicating otherwise – that that Tedtam woman is having the time of her life being a junk peddler.

    Must be her true calling.

  55. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #53 Tedtam

    MIL’s home sounds like no ordinary place, what with all the unusual items therein when she was alive. It has to be quite a treasure trove for treasure hunters.

    The gorgeous solid mahogany chest of drawers we gave to my dear friend whose home was Harvey invaded had been in someone’s very nicely furnished home in Madison, WI. Mom went to the estate sale in the ’50s and bought it, could not resist it. Umm, with no way to get it home I might add. 🙂

    A gentleman also shopping at the sale volunteered to deliver it for her at no charge since he lived reasonably near my folks’ home. So by the time it arrived at my friend’s home I figure it was somewhere near 100 years old. It had some carving on the front legs and weighed a lot, empty. A treasure that filled a need once again.

  56. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    The most beautiful chickens in the world

  57. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Tedtam, you need to stop! You are giving me anxiety thinking about the time I have to deal my hoarder Aunt’s stuff up in Lubbock. EVERYTHING has too much history to get rid of, according to her. None of it of any value, just junk. Yes fond memories but who has room for all that? We’ve tried on a couple trips to go through it, every box has an hour long story and you’re looking at ceiling high, rows upon rows of boxes. She says, well y’all can deal with it now or deal with it later. And that’s pretty much where we’ve left it at years ago.

  58. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Finally found out why there’s no BB Pralines & Cream ice cream available.
    Blue Bell says there’s a pecan shortage and they’re too costly to use in production.

    I have discovered that Sea Salt Caramel is an adequate stand by.

  59. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Shannon, have you discovered BB’s Butter Crunch? It showed up at our local Randall’s freezer about 10 days ago. It’s vanilla ice cream with chunks of crunchy chocolate peanut butter candy thrown in. Kinda like Reese’s Pieces but likely not those exactly. Good. Spouse inhales it.

  60. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #57 GJT

    I do not envy you and your spouse’s anticipating disposing of your aunt’s accumulation of stuff. You’ve probably hit on the right way to handle it by leaving it go until after she passes on. This way you can help maintain a cordial relationship despite obviously divergent assessments of what the stuff means.

    And from Tedtam’s experience currently with what items are sought after by people who come to the sale, the saying that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure seems to be remarkably spot on.

  61. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Another piece of Americana destined for the trash heap
    https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/14/592882488/game-over-for-toys-r-us-chain-going-out-of-business

  62. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    “CLOAK ROOM” Dang, I’d not thought of that in years, to tell the truth, I forgot all about it and would not have even remembered it if not for a few unrelated events of late. So, in high school, I had a BFF and no she wasn’t and never was my girl friend and we never dated. But all through high school we shared home room, and since her name came alphabetically right after mine, she sat in back of me for four years. We became friends and were a lot like a brother sister team. Fast forward to last fall and while posting something over yonder, on the hometown thread, she saw my name and friended me, and said “you’ve not change a bit!” This was the first time I’d heard from her or thought of her in 45 years.
    So, to make a short story long, in eleventh grade I took D.O. and she took D.E. and we both worked in the afternoons. The morning classrooms were side by side separated by a cloak room and when we had any type of movie everyone would gather in our room to see it. One morning, BFF had something she wanted to show and as we went through the cloak room, by ourselves, for some reason we kissed. I still don’t know what happened and it didn’t happen again but thinking about it now was kinda’ neat.

  63. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    So what is “504 Gateway Time-out”? I’ve been getting that a lot on Hambone lately.

  64. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    For any of you Lent-ers out there, this was my solo offering tonight at church….

    https://youtu.be/kfU9T2nS0AA

  65. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #63 Super Dave

    So have I on occasion, and I have no clue what it means.

  66. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    It looks like the antique bed is coming back. They overextended on space available.

    /sigh

    They were going to take a big armoire, too. They were taking both of them because they were a set. I offered to let them keep the bed, screw the idea of keeping the set together, but no, they want the set to be kept together.

    I need to get back to Nextdoor.com and change the status. Dangit.

  67. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Those things may end up in a thrift store. Handsome doesn’t want ’em. We’re planning a garage sale in April some time and if we can’t unload ’em then, I’ll get Hubby to back up the trailer. Or we’ll call some charity with a truck and burly men and let them take ’em.

  68. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    You know, there’s always Freecycle.

    Someone will take ’em for free, if that’s what it takes.

    Yeah, then I don’t have to deal with moving them myself.

  69. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    63 SD

    SQK is bored and jacking with the whole internet.

  70. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #56 Hammy
    The most beautiful chickens in the world

    Some very nice looking birds. I have also heard that regular little egg-laying farm chickens make good pets, although most people just see them as eggs and fried chicken.

    The usual commands for wordpress edit are missing at the moment.Where I should see the markblock, italics, etc — I see: ABC, and below that, a green checkmark.

  71. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    GJT –

    Tedtam, you need to stop! You are giving me anxiety thinking about the time I have to deal my hoarder Aunt’s stuff up in Lubbock.

    This experience has encouraged me to reduce my belongings if I die in such a way that I have warning, as MIL did. I do not want to leave my kids with the dilemma of disposing of my items.

    I realize that my things may mean something to me; my memories are attached to them. But my memories do not make them more valuable to anyone else. They do not provide any emotional comfort or monetary increase to the item. When I die, my belongings become a burden, not a blessing.

    Lovely Daughter, Handsome Son, and my grandchildren will be able to pick what they want, and I’ll try to dispose of the rest of it before I go.

    Unless my demise is sudden and tragic. Then they’re stuck with all my crap.

  72. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Now the 7 commands are back, but still see ABC green checkmark.

    Do the commands work?

    crossout

  73. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Apparently the ABC-check is a spell checker…

  74. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    My Aunt lives in a time from back when, one toy or whatever was treasured to the poor farmer. She never married or had kids so she can’t relate to how much we have accumulated ourselves, attics and garages packed to the hilt.

  75. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    The 504 Gateway Timeout error is an HTTP status code that means that one server did not receive a timely response from another server that it was accessing while attempting to load the web page or fill another request by the browser.

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