The Daily Broadside

Monday, April 28

Posted on 04/28/2025 5.32 AM

vxbush 4/28/2025 5:33:40 AM


Posted by: vxbush

vxbush 4/28/2025 5:34:03 AM
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JCM didn't make the daily thread, so you're going to get chocolate for breakfast and you're going to like it. 
vxbush 4/28/2025 5:34:54 AM
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Buzz--saw your post this weekend that you're back to using two hands. Most excellent. 
vxbush 4/28/2025 5:41:18 AM
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Wait--why is there a mask on this page of Lincoln? It looks photoshopped, so ....why? 

vxbush 4/28/2025 5:46:35 AM
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Sometimes the drama around the first-round draft picks for the NFL are bittersweet
vxbush 4/28/2025 5:53:51 AM
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The state of Washington has decided that minorities need help putting together a down payments on houses, but of course whites would never need this. How much is a down payment in the state? $120,000. 

vxbush 4/28/2025 5:56:26 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 5:

In other Washington state news, they want to tax the process of, well, living: 


vxbush 4/28/2025 5:59:31 AM
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 Mexico's Sending More Sewage Across the Border, and It's Becoming a Big U.S. National Security Issue

This is  a few days old; does anyone have any later news on this topic?

JCM 4/28/2025 7:11:08 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 1:

*sigh* Asleep at the switch again. Another letter in my permanent file.

JCM 4/28/2025 7:17:25 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 5: Reply to vxbush in 6:

The WA Legislature is out of control this year. Tax increases everywhere, no budget restraint. What not on the list is the lifting of lid on property tax increases and property levy tax lid lift. Property taxes will know skyrocket. The also passed a rent control bill which is increase the cost of housing. The last on in that list is particularly pernicious. Everyone will have to file a tax report on assets held the tax will be on those assets.


JCM 4/28/2025 7:22:54 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 7:

Not really but it is a Mexican infrastructure problem. Poor water and sanitation systems. No easy or cheap fix. Especially with the levels of corruption in Mexico.

vxbush 4/28/2025 7:57:24 AM
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In #8 JCM said: *sigh* Asleep at the switch again. Another letter in my permanent file.

We're going to have to adjust your chocolate ration, you know. 

vxbush 4/28/2025 7:59:05 AM
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In #9 JCM said: The WA Legislature is out of control this year. Tax increases everywhere, no budget restraint. What not on the list is the lifting of lid on property tax increases and property levy tax lid lift. Property taxes will know skyrocket. The also passed a rent control bill which is increase the cost of housing. The last on in that list is particularly pernicious. Everyone will have to file a tax report on assets held the tax will be on those assets.

I take it that right now, none of these bills has passed the respective bodies where they sit. There needs to be some kind of campaign to send tea bags to both chambers from everyone possible to get them realize what they are doing in their attempts to emulate and exceed California. 

JCM 4/28/2025 8:04:32 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 11:

Please don't increase my chocolate ration form 25 grams to 20 grams!

JCM 4/28/2025 8:10:40 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 12:

Sideshow Bob the new governor declared in his inaugural speech he would veto this type of thing.

I doubt it.

He used weasel words.

But let me start by stating that the era of assuming unrealistic growth in revenue is over. To be specific, I will not sign a budget that requires unrealistic revenue growth to balance.

Moreover, I will veto policy bills that defer major spending obligations more than 4 years after the legislation is adopted. These bills violate the spirit of Washington’s requirement that state budgets be balanced over a 4-year period.

This budget is perfectly reasonsable.

vxbush 4/28/2025 8:16:05 AM
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In #13 JCM said: Please don't increase my chocolate ration form 25 grams to 20 grams!

I would never do that. However, I do need to be compensated for my work here most days. ////

JCM 4/28/2025 8:16:32 AM
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China’s billion-dollar footprint near Florida coast poses US national security risk, expert warns

"The People's Republic of China has been making diplomatic, economic and even military and quasi-military inroads into the Caribbean, South and Central America for the past couple of decades," retired Rear Adm. Peter Brown, former Homeland Security advisor to President Donald Trump, told Fox News Digital.

Brown pointed to the rise in dual-use infrastructure projects along the Bahamas coastline, which is located just 50 miles off the coast of Florida. 

We don' need no stinkin' Monroe Doctrine.


vxbush 4/28/2025 8:18:06 AM
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BREAKING: Chaos Sweeps Iberia: Mass Blackouts in Spain, Portugal, and France Spark Fears of Cyber Attack

Belgium is also mentioned as being affected. 

vxbush 4/28/2025 8:20:49 AM
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JCM, while we're beating up on Washington, what about this? Are Jewish holidays also respected? Somehow I doubt it.

Creeping Sharia? Washington Becomes 1st State To Recognize Islamic Holidays As State Holidays

vxbush 4/28/2025 8:23:43 AM
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How many other so-called nonprofit organizations who claim to be apolitical really aren't in this day and age? US Attorney for the District of Columbia, Ed Martin, Calls Out Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia) of Violating 501(c)(3) Status by Allowing Propagandists to Flood Platform – Gives Them Til May 15th to Turn Over Documents
vxbush 4/28/2025 8:25:31 AM
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And JB Pritzker just confirmed his Democrat bona fides with an empty gesture: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker Announces Punitive Actions Against El Salvador in Defense of Deported MS-13 Illegal Alien – “The State of Illinois will Stand Up for the Rule of Law”
buzzsawmonkey 4/28/2025 8:28:24 AM
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In #10 JCM said: Especially with the levels of corruption in Mexico.

"Hold my pomade jar."

---Gavin Newsom, discussing corruption with Mexican leaders

JCM 4/28/2025 8:31:23 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 18:

Are you kidding of course not.

JCM 4/28/2025 8:34:04 AM
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Sideshow Bob's raison d'être is to fight Trump.

Governor Bob Ferguson signs bill restricting armed forces from entering Washington

NG units come to WA all the time. Naval units up to the Navy bases, Army and Marine units come up to the Yakima Training center. Airforce units come in and out of McChord and Fairchild bases all the time.

Occasional Reader 4/28/2025 9:40:51 AM
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Howdy!


This app that I just saw at Instapundit is kind of hilarious.



Occasional Reader 4/28/2025 9:41:43 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 24:


Gah. AD, not app.


freaking voice to text.

Occasional Reader 4/28/2025 9:42:26 AM
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Reply to JCM in 23:


gosh, that seems like some sort of, I don’t know, what’s the word?


Insurrection.

Occasional Reader 4/28/2025 9:45:17 AM
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Reply to JCM in 9:


“The Beast & The Whore rule without control.”


-William Blake

JCM 4/28/2025 9:55:51 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 26:

Yeah, I'm looking forward to Bob running out onto the runway when a New York ANG C-17 lands at McChord AFB.

He has no idea how stupid it makes him look.

vxbush 4/28/2025 10:43:52 AM
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Reply to JCM in 28:

I don't suppose we could get him to wear a clown suit while he does it? 

Occasional Reader 4/28/2025 2:27:30 PM
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Brazilian woman receives 20 year prison sentence for writing two words of pro-Bolsonaro graffiti on statue



JCM 4/28/2025 3:15:09 PM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 30:

Lipstick? Wipe it off....

Seattle has a plague of graffiti. The sentence should be cleaning graffiti.


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