I recently rewatched Manhattan, and had to turn it off - the pedophilia aspect of it was just too overwhelming.
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I recently rewatched Manhattan, and had to turn it off - the pedophilia aspect of it was just too overwhelming.
This is chilling. Its a judicial embodiment of might makes right and moves the SCOTUS and the entire judiciary away from its trad role of interpreting laws and instead, just ceding power to what is perceived as being what people want. edition.cnn.com/2025/09/02/p...
Open the best bottle of wine I have in the house.
Is that him?!? That face is even bigger than normal for him.
Will I be so pithy as to celebrate if the rumors are true?!?
If he wasn't deathly ill, or dead, he would have made an appearance by now. Cue the Kool: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gwj...
Something is def up - either extremely ill, or already heard the fat lady sing.
All elections for public office need to be void of any private funding.
It’s not going to happen. You need enough Dems, a Dem POTUS, and a different SCoTUS to see it happen.
Bye, Felicia
Great song!
Its what Seville, Spain has been doing for decades. There are trees everywhere, plus fabric awnings that stretch above areas which have heavy pedestrian traffic. We typically have summer temps that get above 40, and its bearable with these features.
Yeah….,thankfully the new grinder arrived today so I’m all set for tomorrow morning.
If I’m one of the presiding judges, my contempt ruling would be to put that bald headed, corpulent, pos in jail.
My damn coffee grinder broke so I have been doing without for the past 3 days while waiting for the new one to arrive. I’m a caffeine junkie!
He’s such a disgrace. Should be in jail for payroll fraud- he was a teacher at the LSU school of medicine while also a US Senator. Apparently, he was too cheap to pay for his med mal ins and that was a perk of being a med school prof at LSU. He “taught” one student why coincidentally was in DC.
Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.
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That’s a real newspaper!
Funny how they kinda waited for the start of football season for the most violent mass atrocities to start.
Hey Ny Times- you fucking got it?!?
NY Times has the story below the fold on page A 45.
Jovenes!
Posted this in the wrong place before: "The sound of one hand clapping."
Same.
"The sound of one hand clapping."
Did not know that! What show (I think it was also used as a humorous line in Get Smart)?
Was the Timex advertising tag line.
G L O V E S
I just don't understand the point of arguing whether what is happening in Gaza is genocide?!? Unless you are trying to make it appear as being less heinous than what has been reported. Ok Tom, its not- its just an intentional tactic to starve/shoot as many people to death as possible. Happy, now?!?
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I get that Tom Nichols is a smart guy, but he’s also an insufferable horses’ ass. I blocked him- his word game bullshit in the face of the horrors in Gaza is indefensible and omelet serves to give cover to inhumanity.
Yikes- had one of those discussions over 35 years ago and told I had no more than 6 mos. 30 years later and still playing like I’m a Timex. Congrats!
I would have thought the old unused filets for Putin would be served.
For all of the people in the US who are waiting to see a big red fascist flag raised at the capital, you are getting it today. The total disrespect being shown to former allies and the lack of any pushback on Putin is it. So, what are you going to do?!?
I hope the EU is ready to collectively tell Trump no more trade commerce if he eases on Russia. It’s time to cut ties.
Bela ciao?!?
The lower humidity is the key. It hit 110 yesterday, but we still were outside during the height of it, attending a great party at a friend's place.
Its pretty trivial stuff in the grand scheme of things. She is a horrible mayor and human being, but other elected officials have skated on much more.
The EU needs to tell Trump that unless he ceases being Putin's stooge, all purchases of any US made product will be canceled. No need for tariffs- nothing allowed in. China can easily fill the void and, amazingly, is now a more reliable trade partner.
This summer has been bad, but its very livable. They have trees planted everywhere that are heat/drought resistant and also have canvas sails spred across the more foot traveled streets. Due to climate change, Seville is a model as to how to survive in extreme hot temps
Its only controversial, because its true.
Once, in reality, was more than enough for me, too. My heart goes out to anyone still suffering from that event.
These two a friends. Period. End of story. I’ve covered a variety of summits. And I know what admiration looks like. That’s the end of the world order as we knew it. A sad day for everyone.
Even Melania hasn’t seen that big of a smile
How I know there is no hod is that the Mfer hasn’t stroked out
Fuck the New York Times.
Maybe think about gun control. left the us 4.5 years ago and now live in a country where gun control is a given. City much bigger than NO and it avgs than 10 murders a year. We walk home often at 2-3 am and never once fear for anything. US will never get where it wants so long as guns are everywhere
Look at the ytd comparisons from 2023 till now. Its two fat white guys with no connection to DC bloviating to rile up the white folks on the northshore. In the words of your favorite 1st lady: be better. mpdc.dc.gov/dailycrime
I get the feeling it’s going to run the old Disney flick Song of the South on a 24 hour reel.
How many more gold bars will the ceos grift to Trump?!?
Too fing expensive to waste.
66 years in this planet, and it’s beyond my wildest imagination that I would live in a time when both the US and Israel were considered pariahs by the vast majority of democratic governments.
Cassidy will lose his re-election. And, not because his constituents are aghast over his support of RFK. But, its because during the Trump 1st term, Cassidy voted in favor of impeachment. That's how far beyond normalcy the US (and, especially La.) has become.
No lies there
Outside of the deep south, most states are somewhat evenly divided between those that support this insanity and those supporting democracy. Even in the DS, you have cities like NO, Atl, and Houston that are still on the liberal side. Its going to take generations to overcome.
JBE turned down the Dems- he had a list of things he wanted from the national party and they would not agree to all of it. I like Wendell but think that you need someone who actually knows how govt operates.
They go hand in hand. Can’t keep doing ethnic cleaning unless you control Congress.
There is no credible Dem running so little impact this time. You have nothing but sad/bad choices. How the Dem party is so mis-managing this is another abomination. They pour millions into Tx and get nowhere. La was an opportunity now lost.
The real sad thing about this, is that he will not win re-election, but its only because he will get defeated by someone even worse than him.
and reference to the revelation that scores of FBI agents were assigned to redact Trump's name from the Epstein files?!? The criticism is, if anything, understated. What a cesspool of journalistic malpractice. edition.cnn.com/2025/08/06/p...
Living in the EU now and reading all the criticism that CNN has garnered, and sometimes I wonder if its piling on the station. Then I read this story and 2 things stand out: 1. what is all the winning that Trump has accomplished this summer and how do you write this story and 1/2
Apropos of the current state of the US m.youtube.com/watch?v=
Nationwide strike. Its the only thing that has a chance of being successful.
And a country that statistically is getting older and has a declining birth rate. Yeah, that’s going to work out great.
I wonder how many “emergency donation” email requests get sent off of this performance?!?
I believe that something good will ultimately come out of this. But, it will probably take 1 or 2 generations. It’s more than just Trump. It’s a sizable part of the population that is either supportive or apathetic to the suffering of others.
Thank you. I think people are expecting some sort of breaking news emergency broadcast, ala the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Not to make light of it, but this is Pogo: we have met the enemy and it is us.
So, apparently pedophilia wasn’t the Rubicon. I wish you guys well in the US. It was a nice 249 years (for the most part, and if you were a white make).
Don’t think people understand (or maybe they do which is even worse) that it’s going to take a nationwide strike, at a minimum, to save democracy.
When this is over, no matter how it ends, I think the biggest take away will be how did the US change so dramatically in such a relatively short period of time. And I’m not talking about the 6 mos of his 2nd term. More like the last 2 decades.
How do you know this?!? Do you fact check any fing thing he says?!? What a colossal, abysmal, journalistic abortion you have become.
Is this now owned by The Onion?!? Enjoy the block.
Mandatory contributions will remain in place. What happens to the money after its taken from your paycheck will change, as will the guarantee by the feds that you will get it back.
The plan all along has been for hedge funds to get ahold of the SS money. When that happens, game over and retirement except for the upper 1% is a pipe dream.
That woman has done more to save democracy in the US than has sitting senate Dem leader Schumer.
Hogg was absolutely correct in calling for sitting Dems to be primaried. Dem senators did nothing to stall and cause a huge pr effort about this completely unqualified human being, yet alone a sitting judge. Jeffries and Schumer ae both feckless and solely worried about their own power and jobs.
Also, for the last 30 years, has had one fantastic solo career. All of the streaming services will have her solo work and The Staples Singers. Better yet, buy some of the music.
There’s people against what is happening. But there are way too many who either support it or just don’t give a damn because they think it’s not impacting them. And, the opposition lacks coherent leadership.
I don't think that people in the US understand, or care, how the rest of the world is viewing what is happening. It will take decades, if not longer, for the US to overcome the lack of trust that these inhumane actions have engendered.
Good!!!!
I truly intended this just as an email and not a public thing but fuck it we ball. The New York Times is not alone in its culpability but it is deeply culpable and its near-monopoly status in our blighted American media ecosystem allows it to do what it does.
"Hulk Hogan should be remembered as a living expression of our national decay: a hero exposed as a fraud, a fraud exposed as a coward, and finally a coward who cried with joy upon finding an authoritarian monster to tell him that his sins were in fact virtues." www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Now, this is why you should hold a presser. Not because some steroid addled, racist, died.
"Why?"
There are some that do see it - and they are still ok with it. Some are deluded by Fox. Some simply are "in"human beings.
One of the lesser covered stories in the daily lunacy, is how debased the NYT has become. And WaPo is not far behind.
For such a small state, La has inflicted massive cruelty on the US courtesy of Johnson and Scalise. Two pathetic human beings, worthy of nothing but scorn and derision.
This is what concerns me. Its not just the 1% though. I grew up thinking the US was a beacon of freedom/equality. I get that Trump/GOP have lied, and undermined the pillars of society. But, isn't there a real concern that there still is a sizable portion of the US populace that is ok with all this?
M. Ward has recorded some beautiful tunes that should be heard by a lot more people.
Great company. I bought things from there years ago, and never had an issue.
Raised on the Cronkite newscasts. Glad I no longer have access to CNS.
The problem I have with your position, is that you already sold your soul to the Kochs.
Wrong word - try evil instead.
The embodiment of the pen is mightier. Thank you for your service in reading that babble and then so eloquently skewering the subject.
We all know how the Epstein "list" controversy ends. Trump will pull out his sharpie and create the "list" that mysteriously only contain the names of Dems, Bondi will release it, and the Maga (de)base will eat it up.