HorsesAss.Org

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

by — ,

Samantha Bee: Food waste and climate change—How your leftovers can save the world

Daily Show Rewind: President Barack Obama—Post-presidential life and nurturing future leaders

Stephen: Justice Stephen Breyer addresses speculation about his retirement plans

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

The Greedy Ghouls, Greasy Goblins, Gruesome Gnomes, and Genocidal Gadflies of the Ghastly GOP:

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship

Joy Reid: First Black principal at TX school suspended after being accused of promoting CRT

LegalEagle: The Texas abortion decision is bad for everyone

Robert Reich: The $3.5T bill corporate America is terrified of

Vice News: WTF is an earmark?

This week in ТрампPlague:

WaPo: What states with restrictive abortion laws get wrong about women’s health

Bloomberg Law: How many votes? A guide to getting it done in Congress

Samantha Bee: What American citizens can do to help Afghanistan

The Late Show: Mole gets whacked every time there’s a crack in Democracy

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

Comments

  1. 1

    Chris Wallace seems to be against some vaccine and, election disinformation being spread on his show by guests. Wonder how much time he has left at Fox?

  2. 2

    It’s not just the Nuclear Submarine technology that Australia is looking to buy from the US and UK. Looks like the RAN is looking to acquire Romahawks, although that is one missile we rarely export. Right now its just the Royal Navy, as the only user outside the US Military. The RAN will be third operator, and the RCN 4th.

    https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/42408/australia-to-buy-tomahawk-cruise-missiles-will-get-at-least-eight-nuclear-submarines

    The potential sale of Tomahawks to Canada will be interesting. The outgoing Halifax Class frigates were designed for hunting Soviet subs during the Cold War. The new Canadian Surface Combatant was designed with new missions in mind. One is maintaining Canadian Sovereignty over the Northwest Passage, and a combination of Tomahawks and Naval Strike Missiles will be part of that.
    https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/37506/canadas-new-frigate-will-be-brimming-with-missiles

    Also, with France upset over the cancellation of their contract, wonder if they will change their tune when the Charles de Gaulle needs spare parts for it’s catapults. The Rafale M is a great aircraft, but it can’t get off the Flight Deck without assist from the aging steam catapult. Since the de Gualle went over budget, it became opa one-off class like our CVN-65.

  3. 3

    One of the reasons why Australia may need Tomahawks and Hypersonics when available, is a new variant of China’s DF-21 IRBM. It’s been adapted to be used in the Anti-Ship role, out ranging our Harpoon, Naval Strike Missile, and Long Range Anti-Ship Missiles.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-21?wprov=sfti1

    One counter to the DF-21 is to boost the fleets ABM Capabilities, which is being done with new variants of the Standard Missile. The Army and Marines are working on land based longer range missiles to be deployed from forward islands. It’s one of the reasons we withdrew from the INF Treaty. Just wished we negotiated the exit better. At least when we scrapped the ABM Treaty, Bush negotiated the reduction of deployed nuclear weapons. The Russians were using the Nixon-era treaty to handicap the effectiveness of the Ground Based Interceptors of the NMD System.

    https://breakingdefense.sites.breakingmedia.com/2020/11/army-picks-tomahawk-sm-6-for-mid-range-missiles/

  4. 4

    This is what happens when you encourage mass migration to hurt Trump and then don’t do anything to discourage it when your guy becomes president.

    The Associated Press
    @AP
    BREAKING: The Biden administration is planning to send a “massive” number of migrants from the Texas border to Haiti on flights starting Sunday, a U.S. official said. Plans have not been finalized, but officials are considering five to eight flights a day.
    Thousands of Haitian migrants converge on Texas border town
    DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — Thousands of Haitian migrants have assembled under and around a bridge in a small Texas border town, presenting the Biden administration with a new and chaotic challenge Friday…
    apnews.com
    5:45 PM · Sep 17, 2021

    What border?

  5. 5

    She must’ve written “Grab ’em by the pussy.’

    EXCLUSIVE: Emory newspaper edits 20-year-old article written by Biden nominee
    The student newspaper at Emory University edited a quote out of a re-published 9/11 article because it may be ‘harmful for some readers.’
    Elizabeth Barchas Prelogar, who originally wrote the article, is now President Biden’s nominee to become U.S. Solicitor General.

    Nope, it’s worse. She wrote an article quoting someone who referred to Muslims as “primitive”.

    “It’s really disappointing because we think we live in such a modern culture but there’s still so many primitive people out there who think violence is an effective way to show anger or prove a point,” then-freshman Justin Karp originally told the Emory Wheel in a now-archived version of their story after the September 11, 2001 attacks. “Were better than that.”

    Or maybe it was “We’re better than that.”.

    Must be a weak-ass nominee for this kind of crap to be done in order to help her through the process.

  6. 6

    One reason yesterday was so awful for First Vegetable Joe Biden is that his team waited until the Friday afternoon news dump time to announce that Biden droned a bunch of kids in Afghanistan.

    Almost all of us knew that more than a week ago.

    One stunning afternoon: Setbacks imperil Biden’s reset

    On Friday, the Pentagon acknowledged that a drone strike in Afghanistan killed 10 civilians, including seven children, not terrorists. A panel advising the Food and Drug Administration voted to not recommend COVID booster shots for all Americans over 16, dashing an administration hope. And France announced it was recalling its ambassador to the U.S. out of anger for being cut out of a secret nuclear submarine deal Biden had struck with the United Kingdom and Australia.

    The punishing headlines, all within an hour, underscored the perils for any president from the uncontrollable events that can define a term in office.

    Also Friday, the US closed six border patrol checkpoints in Texas. Walked away from them because the Haitian aliens overwhelmed them.

    First Vegetable Joe Biden is a senile, incompetent disaster of a president.

  7. 7

    Two of Gavin Newsom’s kids contracted The Wuhan.

    I didn’t know The French Laundry offered Happy Meals.

  8. 8

    I’d like to congratulate the Biden administration for not accusing those seven dead Afghani children of being terrorists.

    It’s bad enough that they accuse Americans still trapped in Afghanistan of being foot-dragging lollygaggers.

  9. 9

    More guests showed up to attend Jeffrey Epstein’s funeral than have made it to the GQP CIVAL WAR rally.

  13. 13

    “Rally organizer Matt Braynard, a former staffer for President Donald Trump who now runs a group called Look Ahead America, says he wants a peaceful demonstration. In his opening remarks, he asked people to think of the U.S. Capitol Police officers who died in the aftermath of the insurrection.”

    https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/justice-for-j6-dc-rally-protest/2806087/

    How quaint. The organizer of a demonstration in support of Capitol rioters wants us to remember the cops whose deaths they instigated. No worries, we will.

  14. 14

    That link has a live feed of the demonstration. You can see for yourself how many demonstrators showed up.

  15. 15

    10,
    Recall that just a few weeks before Baker’s meeting with Sussman Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushman, and Paul Manafort met with Russian spies in Trump Tower to propose sharing polling data and voter file data with the GRU to facilitate campaign assistance.

    It is the FBI’s job to investigate when shit like that is going on.
    And while it is not a legal requirement that private citizens share such information with the FBI when they discover it, “See something, say something” has never previously been called a “Dirty Trick” until now.

    If it makes Republicans uncomfortable being investigated for foreign spying, maybe they should quit fucking around with foreign spies.

  16. 16

    13,
    Their biggest challenge is controlling the media.

    Right now I think the fastest way for Capitol and DC Metro to diffuse the situation would be to hire the Laundrie fam to hold a media Q&A at the other end of the Mall.

  19. 19

    18)I can see why some want the officer to carry liability insurance. More payouts like this, they’ll notice their premiums going up.

  20. 20

    Happen to be In Rehoboth Beach this weekend. I hear the President is here too. God bless President Biden!

  21. 21

    @ 18

    That’s a gripping video. Hard not to be affected by hearing the homeowner’s shrieking as he was cuffed. I wonder if John McCain shrieked like that after five years of captivity, when his captors finally broke him.

    It’s the type of shriek that YLB makes fun of, because it was McCain. And because it’s YLB.

  23. 23

    Every week it gets louder.

    Old Row
    @OldRowViral
    ·
    Sep 13
    OFFICIAL “FUCK JOE BIDEN!”TWITTER THREAD

  25. 25

    @ 24

    Black Americans are overrepresented in the South, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

    They are 2.8 times as likely to be hospitalized with The Wuhan as white Americans, and 2.0 times as likely to die from it.

    Apparently this is because they are stupid and racist. Write that in handbill.us, you worthless, bloviating POS.

  26. 26

    @21 McCain wrecked five government airplanes, was the only pilot of his flight to get shot down and captured, and wasn’t much of a senator, either.

    Even so, what he did in captivity was heroic and fully redeemed his manifold other shortcomings, and no one should disparage it.

    By the way, WTF does McCain have to do with Seattle police brutality? Nothing. You threw that in there because you’re too weak-minded to stay on topic.

  27. 27

    @25 This stupid racist is white. Blacks had nothing to do with it. I didn’t post about southern demographics or vaccination rates. I posted about one stupid white racist who voted to repeal his town’s mask mandate and ended up in the hospital with Covid-19. You have to go to another news story, via a provided link, to find out why I called him a racist.

    You’re not a racist. You couldn’t be if you tried. You’re too intellectually feeble to figure out how to be racist. You can’t even stay on simple topics for more than one sentence. You don’t even know what an eggplant is (hint: smarter than you).

    https://homyden.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ripe-purple-eggplant.jpg

  28. 28

    Low IQ stupe says…

    Every week it gets louder.

    So fucking what? What low IQ fascist traitors like you bleat means absolutely fucking nothing.

  29. 29

    24)Was thinking about Tom Clancy’s Executive Orders, and part of the plot was a co-ordinated bio weapons attack using a weaponized mutated strain of Ebola. It was an airborne strain, spread at trade shows. What Iran didn’t count on, was at Johns Hopkins University, during an all-departments meeting about the crisis at their hospital, the head of optometry had his assistant sit in for him, First Lady Ryan. The CDC had not yet briefed President Ryan, and Mrs. Ryan had her secret service agent with Marine One on Speed Dial.

    After being briefed about the number of cases, the virus, and about an option called Curtain Call, President Ryan took action, went with Curtain Call, a hard lockdown worse than what we saw last year, with Interstate Travel shutdown, only essential truck traffic running under military escort. The former VP, who Ryan replaced as V.P. prior to the attack on the Capitol (Don’t know how to describe that part from Debt of Honor, the pilot acted alone out of grief, his brother and son were killed in the war Japan had launched), used judges he got appointed to strike down the order.

    The fatalities were lower than what would have happened if Ryan had not been told about it, but the end result was a U.S. military barely able to deploy to prevent an invasion of Saudi Arabia. V Corps HQ had a briefer get sick and both heavy divisions were quarantined in Germany.

    I miss Tom Clancy, he sure could write them. His non-fiction book Airborne had a mini-novel about a battalion of the 82nd being used to evacuate an embassy. The evacuees were non-combatants, but the operation was far from being a NEO.

  30. 30

    Every week it gets louder.

    And every day Bob has less class and more of a traitor and hater of democracy.

    Bob you are UnAmerican.

    One guy takes a knee vs a bunch of Neanderthals.

    Breeding will not save them.

  31. 31

    Some dipshit had a number sticker on his/her truck that said something to the like of this – Ok, if you think guns kill people then pencils misspell words…..

    After pencils two other analogies followed.

    I guess they don’t like the wording that guns lol people,

    Ok, then how about this – guns are tools that are used to kill people? And pencils are not.

    Breeding will not save you

  32. 32

    Critical Race Theory?

    So then don’t teach me about Nazis, you fucking Nazis.

  33. 33

    Oddly enough the rally for the terrorists who tried to overthrow the democratically elected US government to reinstall the impotent, bankrupted, twice impeached, failed reality television actor who hires prostitutes to jerk him off with rubber gloves was not highly attended.

    Republicans are going to claim fraud before every election, and “it’s a trap” before every rally now just so they have an excuse ready for their pathetic minority for every occasion. “It’s so unfair! We’re such victims!” Snowflake Party

  34. 34

    Loser party. Grand Old Pussies. Grabbed by their vaginas.

    Bob’s labia quiver.

  36. 36

    VA Dem candidate for governor Terry McAuliffe no longer supports ending qualified immunity.

    During the primary race he did. Now that he’s in a general election race he has flip-flopped.

    It’s an easier sell to end qualified immunity than it is to defund the police. If libs can’t make ending qualified immunity a mainstream goal, libs are overselling a whole lot of other shit as well.

  37. 37

    @ 28

    What low IQ fascist traitors like you bleat means absolutely fucking nothing.

    That’s what Hillary Clinton thought, too, when she made her “basket of deplorables” comment.

    #CrookedHillary soon learned otherwise.

  39. 39

    @ 30

    One guy takes a knee vs a bunch of Neanderthals.

    I see Cuomosexual G-clown is referring to First Vegetable Joe Biden kneeling before the Taliban.

    That’s what it looked like to us heteros, too.

  40. 40

    I missed this earlier this week. The Minnesota Supreme Court dismissed 2nd degree murder charges against a LEO.

    The issue before us on appeal is not whether Noor is criminally responsible for
    Ruszczyk’s death; he is, and his conviction of second-degree manslaughter stands. The
    issue before us is whether in addition to second-degree manslaughter, Noor can also be
    convicted of depraved-mind murder. Because conduct that is directed with particularity at
    the person who is killed cannot evince “a depraved mind, without regard for human life,”
    Minn. Stat. § 609.195(a), and because the only reasonable inference that can be drawn from
    the circumstances proved is that Noor directed his single shot with particularity at
    Ruszczyk, we conclude that he cannot. Accordingly, we reverse Noor’s conviction of
    depraved-mind murder and remand the case to the district court for Noor to be sentenced
    on the second-degree manslaughter conviction.

    We might hear of this action again, in another case.

  41. 41

    Vegan granola sucks! I prefer the carnivore granola that has ground beef in it.

  42. 42

    @37 Calling Republicans “deplorables” revealed her weakness. It was too gentle.

  44. 44

    @40 Do you actually know what that means?

    “609.195 MURDER IN THE THIRD DEGREE.
    (a) Whoever, without intent to effect the death of any person, causes the death of another by perpetrating an act eminently dangerous to others and evincing a depraved mind, without regard for human life, is guilty of murder in the third degree and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 25 years.

    (b) Whoever, without intent to cause death, proximately causes the death of a human being by, directly or indirectly, unlawfully selling, giving away, bartering, delivering, exchanging, distributing, or administering a controlled substance classified in Schedule I or II, is guilty of murder in the third degree and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 25 years or to payment of a fine of not more than $40,000, or both.”

  46. 46

    @45 Dino can’t win in the cities. Beto doesn’t win with the cities because they’re not allowed to vote.

  47. 47

    36,
    The “law and order mindset” is as much a “liberal” shibboleth as it is a “conservative”. You’ve seen it on display here quite often.

    Historically white Americans in general, and particularly older white Americans have regarded “more police” as producing “more law and order”. Generations of white Americans have had this idea bred into them by their communities, the media, elected officials, and the culture.

    But two big transformations are afoot that may change all that. The first is that in general white voters, and older white voters are now declining in their political influences. But this is not geographically uniform. The second is the ubiquity of small, pocket sized high definition video recording equipment and BWC equipment which now display to voters every day that “more police” generally produces “more violence and civil disorder”.

    Roger’s post at 18 is an excellent case in point. SPD, operating under an ongoing consent decree to which they continue to object and litigate, now respond to a report of “an open door and cluttered living room” with ten police, including one armed with a tactical response weapon. The effect of the consent decree has been a massive decade long expansion of SPD promoted ranks. The number of patrol and detective Sergeants, Lieutenants, Captains, and even Assistant Chiefs has exploded, in response to demands for better training and supervision. And police response managers have then responded by escalating nearly every form of response at the point of origin.

    The reason nobody is doing anything about the homeless, unmedicated schizophrenic pooping in your hot tub is because, according to your “police professionals”, it now requires a tactical response squad of ten supported by aerial reconnaissance with armored car backup. Seattle is not alone in this regard. Police in general, even with the protection of QI, are responding to public pushback against the murder of unarmed citizens by police on camera by insisting that the only way for them to “safely” avoid such murders is by escalating every encounter, no matter how benign.

    Given the history and the persistence of the “law and order” mindset it is going to take years for all people to first recognize that an alternative to policing is required.

    And you should resist your own ignorant impulse to reduce this issue exclusively to police misconduct. QI applies to all state actors. It even applies to thuggish Arizona public school officials who order the strip searching of an innocent 13-year-old girl falsely suspected of smuggling Tylenol based on an anonymous tip.

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-07-12/us-school-rebuked-for-ibuprofen-strip-search/438300

    If the day ever comes that you find yourself face down on the pavement of a ferry dock, with a 125 pound Rottweiler latched onto your partially detached scrotum, watching your best teeth float away in a heavy rain, do think of this moment right here. But also think of it when one of your beloved horses dies on the highway after being “accidentally” released through a gate left open by a county engineering inspector.

    This is the moment that you learned that you can’t sue over any of that.

  48. 48

    For the Dumbfucks that argue guns don’t kill people – guns are manufactured by people and tools used by people to kill people. Is that better for you?

    Heroin doesn’t kill people. People kill people.

  51. 51

    That’s what Hillary Clinton thought, too, when she made her “basket of deplorables” comment.

    Not sure it cost her the election. But it had to be said, sooner or later. And I think the fact that she said it when she did has made a big difference in terms of how far we’ve come since she said it.

    Let us recall with precision, shall we?

    “You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? They’re racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic – you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people – now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks – they are irredeemable, but thankfully, they are not America.

    But the “other” basket – the other basket – and I know because I look at this crowd I see friends from all over America here: I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas and – as well as, you know, New York and California – but that “other” basket of people are people who feel the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures; and they’re just desperate for change. It doesn’t really even matter where it comes from. They don’t buy everything he says, but – he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won’t wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they’re in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well.”

    The people in the second basket, after four years of consistent Trump failure and corruption were given a stark choice by the GOP: either you join with the deplorables in the other basket, embrace The Big Lie, reject the vaccine, live your hate, and engage the fight to end democracy… or get the fuck out.

    The result has been that the first basket has grown. But the second basket has shrunk. And at least in every election so far, the shrinking of the second basket has outpaced the growth of the first. Which though it may not have been guaranteed, was probable given the demographics. There just aren’t that many old, angry, ignorant white people left to be “energized” by Trump.

    In the immediate aftermath of the election the phrase “basket of deplorables” did appear politically unwise. However, when viewed from 2021 it appears at least prescient. Once the voter file data from the 2020 elections became available, and the average 8 point shift in every state could be revealed and analyzed, the unavoidable conclusion is that a significant and decisive percentage of voters in the second basket left the GOP. And that transformation is ongoing and being accelerated by the Coup Cux Clan, pipe bombs, Proud Boys vandalizing churches, Delta surge, Abbott Uterus Bounty Hunters, and House and Senate Republicans falling in behind Trump.

    The “deplorable” extremism of the GOP base is no longer a point of debate among serious people. It’s a given.

  52. 52

    @51 “There just aren’t that many old, angry, ignorant white people left to be “energized” by Trump.”

    Especially unvaccinated ones.

  53. 53

    “but that ‘other’ basket of people are people who feel the government has let them down …”

    Wait a minute. That’s what they wanted, wasn’t it? I thought government was the “enemy,” “in the way,” etc. And now they’re complaining because government got out of the way and let these rugged individualists make it (or not) on their own?

  54. 54

    53,
    Apparently government “has let them down” by helping too many of the wrong kind of people.

    It isn’t generations of overt discrimination in housing and employment that have created “dependency”.

    It’s state bureaucrats making $2200 a month catering to “Welfare Queens with Obama Phones driving Cadillacs and eating lobster”.

  55. 55

    @54 A lot of those welfare queens are under the age of 10, and their moms still have the bruises inflicted by the former breadwinners now in hiding to avoid paying child support. State bureaucrats who process welfare applications and hunt down absconding fathers make slightly better than $2200 a month, but at last report many of those jobs were unfilled causing delays in the performance of those functions.

  56. 56

    That’s what Hillary Clinton thought, too, when she made her “basket of deplorables” comment.

    “Basket of deplorable traitors who will use any means necessary to end our democracy, including violence” would have been more prescient.

    #CrookedHillary soon learned otherwise.

    As we all did on 1/6 when we saw your “basket of deplorable traitors who will use any means necessary to end our democracy, including violence” attempt to violently overthrow our government.

  58. 58

    @56 I’d challenge Doctor Dumbfuck to come up with a Republican who isn’t a deplorable. There are a few, but he isn’t one of them.

  59. 59

    58,
    They’ve all quit the party.

    As far as I can tell the party is now just Kurt Schlichter, Jared Kushner, Stephen Miller, and Poor Bobby.

    Oh, and
    Gorsuch
    Kavanaugh
    Coney Barrett

    All definitely deplorable.

  60. 60

    @45. Donno if Beto stands a chance, but the laws republicans are passing in Texas are making Beto more and more attractive. If not him, anyone who is not a republican.
    Kind of like the impotent, bankrupted, twice impeached, failed reality television actor who hired prostitutes to jerk him off with rubber gloves, was so corrupt that, as the greed racist incel describe it, a brain dead zombie being piloted by a rat hidden under his hat, got more votes in a fair election.
    This is why republicans have to cheat.

  62. 62

    @60 You’re forgetting that Americans and Texicans aren’t allowed to vote in Texas, only Texans are.

  63. 63

    Missing girl found dead in Wyoming campground, boyfriend disappears into Florida swamp. Looks suspicious.

  65. 65

    A couple of threads back, or maybe a few, QoS McHillbilly suggested that Texas is the state that is, demographically, the greatest risk to the GOP.

    Maybe so, although every biennial election so far seems to disprove that. We’re supposed to see Hispanics overwhelm the white voters, I guess.

    2022 may turn out to be a disappointment to QoS McHillbilly in this regard. It seems that First Vegetable Joe Biden is 19 points underwater with Texas Hispanics.

    35-54. Ouch.

    Also underwater: Kamala Harris and Robert O’Rourke.

  66. 66

    I wonder if Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit would have posted @ 64 had he been aware of who did the shooting.

    My guess is he checked the town’s demographics and figured he was safe.

    Family means different things to different people. To me, family is what you’re stuck with until you’re 18, after which it is optional. To my wife, family is something that means every member hugs every other member both hello and good-bye, and Hallmark cards are an absolute necessity at least three times per year.

  68. 68

    Biden & Co. are really racking up the losses.

    CONGRESS
    Democrats blocked from including immigration reform in party-line spending bill

    In the decision, a copy of which was obtained by POLITICO, the parliamentarian determined that the Democrats’ proposal is “by any standard a broad, new immigration policy” and that the policy change “substantially outweighs the budgetary impact of that change.”

    A stronger president would not have to be so dishonest in everything he tries to get through Congress.

  70. 70

    There’s nothing the Fight for $15 might gain that Biden can’t quickly fuck up. – Barack Obama, sorta.

    Inflation Has Turned $15 an Hour Wages Into a Setback

    Many Americans have been delighted to see wages rising since the end of the pandemic. But whether they realize it yet, inflation has already eaten up all of those gains — which highlights the fact that the U.S. economy has no system for making sure that wages keep up with inflation.

    That’s not quite true. A system for doing that is electing Republicans instead of Democrats.

  72. 72

    Don’t forget Nancy promised a House vote on the bill passed by the Senate on September 27.

    Axios:

    Driving the news: Back home in West Virginia last week, Manchin told a group of employees at a Procter & Gamble facility in Martinsburg he wanted to pause all the talk about the $3.5 trillion bill until 2022, Axios was told.

    See @ 68

  73. 73

    63)Gators will take care of him. Although if found alive, where would the trial be? Please not Florida.

  74. 74

    64)I remember a family fight costing my EWU Eagles a National Championship. It was just a player and his brother getting into a fight at the Cheney Zips. The younger brother had to go to the ER, and the player got a night in the Spokane County jail, and a suspension.

  75. 75

    Love learning about my EWU Eagle opponents, including the bus systems if I can find any info online about them, Unitrans in Davis, CA is my favorite. Except for a few managers, most of the staff, whether drivers, cleaners, bus conductors (interesting reason why the have them), are students at U.C. Davis, as it is a service of the ASUCD.

    The opponents we played yesterday, Western Illinois University, loved their mascot. It’s the only public school in the US to have permission from the Department of the Navy(and by extension DoD) to use the Marine Corps nickname, Leathernecks. It’s an homage to their coach and AD in the mid-20s, who served at Belleau Wood and Chateau-Thierry in WWI.

    We almost let the, come back, key first down from our injured QB(I think it turned out to be a leg cramp), with a minute left saved the day.

  76. 76

    @70 Larry Elder’s cure for inflation is to cut the minimum wage to $0.00 and pay reparations to the owner, er, I mean employer. Doctor Dumbfuck probably is fine with that.

  77. 77

    @71 Well, I have no fucking idea what they’re doing, and they probably don’t, either. But I wouldn’t recommend jump-starting an airplane that way, especially in flight.

  79. 79

    66,
    You’ll get yourself into trouble fast mixing up racial and ethnic demographics in Texas like your poll does. Down there it’s absolutely fundamental that “white” and “Latino” often coincide. In other words, for a huge number of Texans (and Floridians) it is not “either/or”. It’s both.

    So if you are phone polling and you don’t bother to differentiate, and instead you demand respondents choose, you get weird numbers (like your poll) and possibly weird, outlier results.

    In Texas right now (pending Census final numbers) It’s believed that non-Hispanic whites are about 40% of the population, skewed older and with fewer children. It’s believed that African Americans are about 13%.

    And Hispanic or Latin Americans of any race are also about 40% of the population. However average age is much younger with a much larger percentage under 18 and heretofore much lower rates of both registration and turnout. Every year those black and brown kids turn another year older.

    Now, if you care to you can go back and compare the same poll results with your Orange Daddy from last year right before the election. Or even from February before the Trump Clap broke out and started the body pile growing.

    You might learn a thing or two. And most of all what makes Texas such a vulnerability for Republicans is its size: 38 House seats and 40 EVs in a state where all the demographic trend lines have been slowly but steadily moving against angry, white Boomers for more than a decade. Can you name a Biden/Obama state that you believe you can flip next year? In three years? In seven? Texas is not a question of if. Just when.

    Maybe not next year? Mkay.

  80. 80

    Interesting story about the process around mail in ballots for tomorrow’s Federal Election in Canada. Elections Canada won’t even start counting them until they verified they didn’t vote in person and that doesn’t happen until Tuesday.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/vote-counting-elections-canada-2021-1.6179742

    Calling an election in the Pandemic was risky for Trudeau. Polls showed the Liberals in majority territory in the lead up to the Election being announced, but have tightened, and Conservatives leading at one point in the National vote, but it’s the seat count that determines who will form the government. The Conservatives are leading in the West, and the Prairies, Liberals in Ontario and Atlantic Canada. The Conservatives have the NDP giving them a race in B.C, the Bloc is expected to do well in Quebec, but the Pandemic has made the right of Center Peoples Party a spoiler, gaining ground in opposition to the lockdowns and vaccine requirements.

  81. 81

    Poll tracker on tomorrow’s Federal Election in Canada.

    https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/poll-tracker/canada/

    I’m a fan of the CFL, always liked the different rules for gridiron football in Canada. They even have a Six-man version for small high schools in some provinces. Like the CFL even more, because in the 9 team league, 3 of the QB’s come from a traditionally teachers college outside of Spokane. The QBs in Calgary, Ottawa, and Montreal went to EWU. Although the feeds the SiriusXM Canada Talks channel gets for the games are the hometown teams radio station, only heard one election ad during the games I’ve heard, and it could not be helped, Toronto vs Hamilton, and Greater Toronto is the electoral battleground. It was interesting, the Tories railing against reckless spending, and promising to balance the budget, in 10 years.

  82. 82

    Meanwhile in the German Federal Election, with less than a week to go, a Public Prosecutor has had the police raid the Finance Ministry over the Ministry’s Finance Intelligence Unit failing to inform police about banks laundering money. The Finance Minister is the Social Democrats Candidate to replace Merkel, and the SPD has overtaken the Union Bloc in the polls.

    https://www.dw.com/en/german-election-is-spd-vice-chancellor-olaf-scholz-facing-a-smear-campaign/a-59231801

  83. 83

    More “police don’t do what you think they do”:

    https://midhudsonnews.com/2021/09/19/nypd-cop-arrested-for-vandalizing-jewish-camp-on-rosh-hashanah/

    Even if Americans eventually figure out the pressing need for major alternatives to modern policing and the pressing need for reform of qualified immunity doctrine, there will still remain the pressing need to rid our nation’s police agencies of Nazis, Klansmen, mercenary gun-humpers, and radical extremists.

    They will not do it on their own. That’s just not how police agencies work. Remember, had they been allowed to, the Minneapolis Police Department would have protected and exonerated Derek Chauvin and his accomplices.

Can’t Bring Yourself to Type the Word “Ass”?

Eager to share our brilliant political commentary and blunt media criticism, but too genteel to link to horsesass.org? Well, good news, ladies: we also answer to HASeattle.com, because, you know, whatever. You're welcome!

Follow Goldy

[iire_social_icons]

HA Commenting Policy

It may be hard to believe from the vile nature of the threads, but yes, we have a commenting policy. Comments containing libel, copyright violations, spam, blatant sock puppetry, and deliberate off-topic trolling are all strictly prohibited, and may be deleted on an entirely arbitrary, sporadic, and selective basis. And repeat offenders may be banned! This is my blog. Life isn’t fair.