vxbush 7/20/2023 6:58:19 AM

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Stephen Kruiser makes a really good point today about the media after IRS whistleblower Joseph Ziegler testified yesterday:

Thinking back to the Trump presidency — which feels like a lifetime ago — we were forever reading disparaging news from “a source who wishes to remain anonymous.” On rare occasions, there might be multiple anonymous sources, but it was usually just the one. A single anonymous source isn’t really a source, it’s gossip. Our “enemy of the people” journalist class kept disrupting a presidency with unverifiable hearsay.

President LOLEightyonemillion, on the other hand, has live human beings who work for agencies under his charge risking everything to say that things just aren’t right in House Biden.

But Trump’s still the bad guy, according to the slow-kid leftist half of the country.

Occasional Reader 7/20/2023 6:58:30 AM

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Howdy.  Busy day here.  I hope you're all well.

I'd like to see the pro-Putin crowd (at Insty and elsewhere) try to justify THIS. 

Occasional Reader 7/20/2023 7:00:15 AM

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vxbush 7/20/2023 7:00:44 AM

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vxbush 7/20/2023 7:01:32 AM

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Levels in the SPR in a handy chart:

vxbush 7/20/2023 7:03:35 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 4:

Note the key comment about the oil being stored in salt caverns that were only rated to last for 25 years. We're well past that.

vxbush 7/20/2023 7:05:05 AM

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Today's environmentalist in a nutshell: 

Scotland Cuts Down Forest to Make Room for Windmills

vxbush 7/20/2023 7:06:05 AM

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vxbush 7/20/2023 7:07:10 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 8: Reply to vxbush in 8: 

Forgot the quotes around illegal billeting. It's voluntary now, but I would expect it to become a law in some areas at some point. 

Occasional Reader 7/20/2023 7:08:53 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 5:

Obviously Trump's fault... 

vxbush 7/20/2023 7:11:19 AM

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Occasional Reader 7/20/2023 8:16:33 AM

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Grim reporting about the effect of Russia's copious use of mines on the Ukrianian counter-offensive.

And, as usual, the West (US in particular) has been slow to follow through on promises of demining equipment. 

This is on you, Joe.  

buzzsawmonkey 7/20/2023 8:38:44 AM

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New York City is trying to discourage "migrants" illegal aliens from coming/staying here.  In further news, the words on the plaque at the Statue of Liberty will be revised:

"Give me your liars, your whores

Your welfare cheats who're yearning to live free

Fentanyl-pushers looking for their scores---

Send this most undesirable citizenry;

But---oops---we cannot take any more."

JCM 7/20/2023 10:56:14 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 7:

More evidence, as if we needed more, enviros are watermelons, red on the inside.

JCM 7/20/2023 11:01:03 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 5:

Add up everything we know.

China has bought a move on Taiwan without US intervention.

Occasional Reader 7/20/2023 11:54:02 AM

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(Middle aged) Happiness is:

when the dermatologist confirms that that little bump on your face you had been worried about is… 

… just a pimple.

I feel like a teenager.

vxbush 7/20/2023 12:16:35 PM

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In #16 Occasional Reader said: when the dermatologist confirms that that little bump on your face you had been worried about is…  … just a pimple. I feel like a teenager.

I had something on my back at the beginning of the year that was driving me crazy, and they said it was nothing. But it felt horrible when I would sit in uncushioned chairs, so I had to get it removed despite being nothing. 

The comfy chair of the Spanish Inquisition, however, was not an issue....

JCM 7/20/2023 12:30:16 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 16:

Be home by 10:00!

vxbush 7/20/2023 2:15:51 PM

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Reply to JCM in 18:

Have fun storming the castle!

Kosh's Shadow 7/20/2023 5:34:09 PM

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How many people get to live to be 100? I wonder if she did because she is a strong supporter of Israel.

I don't expect anyone here to be close enough to go

But here is the link