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Feb 15 2019
Losing With A Stiff Upper Lip
Apparently Theresa May’s strategy is to let the clock go “tick, tick, tick” until the Parliament is forced either to accept her terrible plan, which has been shot down yet again by an embarrassing margin in a vote last night, or accept a “No Deal” Brexit. What’s really just as, if not more, likely to …
Feb 15 2019
Even More Losing
So last night we had alarms and excursions (Ok, you may not be familiar with that expression, it’s Elizabethan Theater stage direction, an alarm is just that, excursion in this sense means everyone leaves the Stage and “goes on a trip” to the Wings. I use excursion here in it’s secondary meaning of launching into …
Feb 14 2019
Sam’s Valentine
Destination Wedding With Gritty Fat Shaming Doctors Stock Footage Featuring Herr Doktor Professor
Feb 14 2019
My Las Vegas Convention- A Happy Story
(originally in orange Sat Jun 17, 2006 at 07:01 PM PDT) I repeat it annually because there are lessons I don’t want to forget. Can you handle the truth? How about a good story? If you are a regular reader you may know that I was State Co-ordinator of my meatspace club. You may not …
Feb 13 2019
The August 2nd Meeting
One of the things I like to do is point out seminal pieces. This one from WaPo has been the subject of pretty constant comment and reports a meeting on August 2nd, 2016 between Rick Gates, Paul Manafort, and Konstantin Kilimnik, Manafort’s partner in his Ukrainian Political Consulting operation in a Cigar Club named the …
Feb 13 2019
Some More Socialism! (And News)
And a Green New Deal! And Billionaires! Cody’s Showdy Hi. In today’s episode, we discuss how billionaires react to something the majority of Americans want, and how other billionaires react to being extorted via photographs that zero Americans want. And a baby’s arm holding an apple.
Feb 12 2019
143rd Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show (Day 2)
Tonight we have the Sporting Group, the Working Group, and the Terrier Group as well as Best In Show, after which every broadcast Morning Show will invite the winner to visit them on set. The Breeds that won last night were Longhaired Dachshund GCHP DC Walmar-Solo’s OMG SL JE in the Hound Group, Havanese GCHG …
Feb 12 2019
So Much Losing
I imagine that Unidicted Co-conspirator Bottomless Pinocchio is tired of it by now. There is no doubt that the Government Shutdown/Vanity Project Penis Wall O’ Racism has turned out badly. Unidicted Co-conspirator Bottomless Pinocchio shed many points off his already abysmally low Approval Ratings and is likely to go even lower as his core of …
Feb 12 2019
Debt And Deficit Doublespeak
From Republicans I mean, not Herr Doktor Professor. Democrats, Debt and Double Standards By Paul Krugman, The New York Times Feb. 11, 2019 Republicans spent the entire Obama administration inveighing constantly about the dangers of debt, warning that America faced a looming crisis unless deficits were drastically reduced. Now that they’re in power, however — …