177 thoughts on “Oh What Fun It Is To…”

  1. PASS A DAMNED BUDGET
    entire article
    On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” House Minority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) stated that the appropriations process needs to change so that government funding bills are passed by the House before summer and the Senate can’t “wait until Christmas Eve, throw something together in this big omnibus bill where they have everything under the sun that nobody can read.”

    Scalise said, “One of the things we’ve talked about is actually changing the way the entire appropriations process works. And as majority leader, I’ve already laid out a schedule, working with Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX), who’s going to be Chair of the Appropriations Committee, so that we can actually pass all of the bills through the House before summer, get them over to the Senate. But we need to lay down a marker early that the Senate has to do their job and not wait until the midnight hour. This has become a problem that’s gone on for years now, where the Senate waits until September 30, they just do CR after CR, short-term funding bills because they know they can wait until Christmas Eve, throw something together in this big omnibus bill where they have everything under the sun that nobody can read. We have to change that way of doing business and we have to lay that marker down early.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/12/21/scalise-we-need-to-change-budget-process-so-senate-cant-delay-to-ram-through-omnibus-nobody-can-read-at-last-minute/

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  4. so the list has ballooned to 31 reps who promised to oppose any repub senate bills
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    Thirty-one House Republicans signed onto a letter Wednesday vowing to block legislation from any GOP senator who votes for the massive $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package

    On Tuesday, 13 House Republicans signed a letter promising to block the legislative priorities of any Republican senator who votes for the omnibus deal with Democrats just days before Congress leaves town for Christmas. Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) joined them via a tweet. Just one day later, 14 members vowing to combat GOP senators voting for the bill grew to 31 after McCarthy joined the effort.

    “This 4,155-page bill spends $1.7 trillion to further empower the Biden administration’s tyrannical attack on the liberty and security of our constituents, and it must be opposed with any fiber of political fortitude Senate Republicans still have,” the conservative House members wrote.

    The conservatives oppose the bill because the package maintains the status quo in Washington, DC, by spending money the nation does not have. America’s debt stands at over $31 trillion.

    “It will add to our $31 trillion national debt, digging a deeper hole for our children and grandchildren to crawl out of,” the letter continued. “And because almost every Senate Republican has bloviated about inflation and the national debt at some point in the past two years, a vote for this bill should be viewed as a blatant display of hypocrisy.

    “As such, we reiterate that if any omnibus passes in the remaining days of this Congress, we will oppose and whip opposition to any legislative priority of those senators who vote for its passage – including the Republican leader,” the letter detailed. “We will oppose any rule, any consent request, suspension voice vote, or roll call vote of any such Senate bill, and will otherwise do everything in our power to thwart even the smallest legislative and policy efforts of those senators.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/12/22/more-republican-house-members-sign-promise-block-legislation-gop-senator-who-vote-omnibus/

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      1. butterfly (below) said they managed to tank the title 42 amendment, so this lame ass thing will pass the senate and with the current house majority, them too

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  6. DAMN!

    bflyjesusgrl 🍊 😎MEGA MAGA GAME ON😎(@bflyjesusgrl)Online
    Coyote
    December 22, 2022 12:29

    They just shafted Mike Lee’s ammendment. Dems were losing and time was running out. Manchin and Sinema were a Yes on Title 42. Crying stopped the clock, came back 10min later and those 2 had changed their vote to No. Ammendment defeated. 🤬 🤬 🤬

    DisasterBus goes to House Dems who will surely approve.

    Mike Lee says still call Senators, email, tweet. Won’t help, but sets the record.

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  8. I decided to uncover one door onto the patio so I could see what’s happening with the snow/wind. This frost is on the INSIDE of the glass!

    If I only really knew how to use this camera, I could record a short video of the snow blowing….plus it’s taken from inside – the wind isn’t stopping any of the birds at all! The squirrels are still eating, too. Neither of the cobs had much corn gone yesterday – now, one is gone and they’ve started on the other one. Sorry, dudes – I don’t like you well enough to go all the way out to your feeder in this shit! The birds, ok, they’re right outside the patio.

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      1. Good thing I put my feet up on a chair – I can feel the cold air moving along the floor. I nailed up a water proof table cloth – the kind with a fuzzy back – over the exterior door in the utility room behind my chest freezer. But there are still drafts.

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        1. do you have some sort of steamer?
          we have a nice kettle on our wood stove that heats up and puts steam in the air. plus when we really start using the wood stove full bore all day long we have a room size humidifier…otherwise it gets soooo dry in the house

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          1. Oh, I have a supposedly whole-home (it isn’t really) humidifer but I haven’t needed to use it the last 2 winters. I bought a new filter for it just under a year ago and never even used it.

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  9. Oh shit! Fox just reported that judge released SBF on $250K bond and he can live in his parents home…SMDH – “….I guess the judge believes that the $250K bond posting will be a little more an anchor around his ankles than if he were in the Bahamas with no jail.”

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  16. Nearly 14K delays on flights and over 4K cancellations….well, duh! Sorry, I know it’s Xmas and all but seriously??? I don’t think the world will end if you don’t make it home this year – anyone who would even try to fly in this is, IMO, certifiable!

    ‘Course, you won’t find my butt on a plane except in a dire emergency! Even then, I’d have to have an unjabbed pilot before I step foot on that plane!

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  18. “How The GOP’s Civil War Turned Hot — Everybody is shooting at everybody else in the largest Mexican standoff in modern Republican history!”
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    ENTIRE ARTICLE (sans Tweets): “In the last few weeks, Andy Biggs and a group of GOP conservative representatives (including Matt Gaetz, Bob Goode, Matt Rosendale and Ralph Norman) have been providing a master class in leverage. In order to become House Speaker, Kevin McCarthy needs their votes — and so, by threatening to withhold their votes, they have managed to drag Kevin McCarthy to the right in previously unimaginable ways. McCarthy has been forced to make at least 6 pledges so far — ranging from removing Democrats from committee assignments to rolling back IRS funding — that he had never previously supported.

    Do I think Kevin McCarthy was going to keep these promises? I do not. There’s plenty of GOP politicians who share that skepticism. Getting McCarthy to make promises is one thing — getting him to keep those promises is another thing entirely. As Matt Gaetz has explained: “Kevin McCarthy knows he will end up failing Republicans and caving to liberals. That’s why he opposes reinstating the motion to vacate, which was in place from 1801 to 2018. He wants to make sure conservatives can’t fix the problem once it’s too late.” Gaetz has made the case for rejecting McCarthy out of hand better than anyone.

    McCarthy probably made those promises to prevent the revolt of House Freedom Caucus members from growing bigger. Still it was good to see McCarthy being forced to promise conservative members some policy victories — in between his nursing visits to the Frank Luntz Day Camp for OxyContin Lobbyists. Marjorie Taylor Greene, for example, is now supporting McCarthy for House Speaker — which has required extensive explanations on Twitter for people who remember MTG’s previous thoughts on McCarthy.

    When Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert declined to share MTG’s new enthusiasm for McCarthy — well, let’s just say the knives came out. (Tweet) In fact, MTG is now such an enthusiastic McCarthy supporter that she’s told some whoppers that you could frame in the Louvre.

    Kevin McCarthy’s bid for House Speaker was a tense situation, and volatile. What nobody managed to anticipate was that Mitch McConnell and GOP Senate leadership would help to rush through the Democrats’ omnibus bill in the middle of this tense and volatile situation. The omnibus bill would ham-string the GOP House for more than a year — a political disaster that has now created a much bigger fight between GOP House members and GOP Senate members.

    Chip Roy took the lead in threatening the GOP Senate with blanket opposition if they voted along with Democrats to pass the omnibus bill: “…we are obliged to inform you that if any omnibus passes in the remaining days of this Congress, we will oppose and whip opposition to any legislative priority of those senators who vote for this bill…” Kevin McCarthy was forced to back Chip Roy’s move: “Agreed. Except no need to whip—when I’m Speaker, their bills will be dead on arrival in the House if this nearly $2T monstrosity is allowed to move forward over our objections and the will of the American people.”

    So, then, a total war in Congress — if GOP Senate leadership passed the omnibus bill. That was two days ago. Yesterday, Mitch McConnell and 20 other GOP senators voted to move ahead with the omnibus anyway. A few GOP senators are disgusted with the bill — too few, of course.
    (Tweet)
    Now compare that level of honesty with this greasy response by Sen. Kevin Cramer of South Dakota.

    You see how this works? When GOP House Republicans use “that kind of rhetoric” (i.e. point out correctly that GOP Senate Republicans are collaborating with Democrats to neuter the incoming GOP House majority) then “statements like that are the very reason that some Senate Republicans feel they should probably spare them from the burden of having to govern.” Our Republican senators are adults — don’t you know! — while our Republican congressmen are children. This is a politician’s version of “heads, we win and tails, you lose.” Now you know why Kevin Cramer avoids doing TV interviews generally.

    Where does the rest of the GOP stand in this civil war? Well, as far as I can tell, President Trump is still whipping votes for McCarthy. Donald Trump Jr. is still whipping votes for McCarthy. MTG is still whipping votes for McCarthy. Steve Bannon, meanwhile, is telling Trump to whip against the omnibus bill.

    Everyone’s mad at Ronna McDaniel too — except RNC members, and they’re the only ones who get to vote in that election. Sure, the Florida GOP is holding a no-confidence vote on Ronna right now but, hey, who needs the grassroots? Sure, Ronna climbed onto Fox News and attacked Turning Point last night but, hey, who needs young conservative voters? Sure, Ronna took the job in 2017, and has lost every election cycle since 2017 — but who needs to win?

    Everyone’s turned on Mitch McConnell as well — except the GOP senate which just voted for him to continue to lead them. He’s repaid that faith by tapping the 88 year old Richard Shelby to negotiate a spending bill with Democrats that delivers a hiking trail named after Michelle Obama as well as a federal building named after Nancy Pelosi. (Richard Shelby surrendered so much that he should legally change his name to Bruce Jenner-Kardashian.) Then McConnell wobbled out in front of the TV cameras, and told American voters that the omnibus bill was a great deal for the GOP because the top priority of Republicans was “funding Ukraine.”
    (Tweet)
    So, the GOP gets to fund Ukraine as their “win” while the Democrats get $250,000 to support Wisconsin’s “First-In-The-Nation Gay Rights Law Book and Archive” and $663,250 for the New York Historical Society’s LGBTQ+ Museum Partnership Project and $523,345 for Compass LGBTQ Youth and Family Services in Lake Worth Beach, Florida and $1,200,000 for “centers to support LGBT students” in the San Diego Community College District and, well, I could go on and on and on.

    In other words, Shelby and McConnell funded Ukraine — and the Democrats funded the transformation of America into Sodom and Gomorrah. Well done, everybody.”

    https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/how-the-gops-civil-war-turned-hot

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  28. Marine recruiters in the mall take down 2 (out of 4) smash and grab thieves in a jewelry store. both were minors…
    FTA
    As they were fleeing, two suspects escaped. The other two were taken to the floor by Marine recruiters who worked in the mall and some bystanders. 

    “[It was] the Marines. The Marine Corps… They stepped up, they tackled them down,” a person who captured the robbery on video told the news outlet. “Two got away, two got tackled down, and they stepped it up. That’s enough. Time to fight back.”

    The recruiting station is next to where the robbery took place. 

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    The two suspects, both minors, were taken into police custody. 

    Authorities told the news outlet they recovered a large amount of the stolen jewelry from the scene. 

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-marine-recruiters-help-take-down-smash-grab-suspects-los-angeles-area-mall

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  29. show of hands…who’s surprised???
    the welfare state (unemployment and healthcare subsidies) has created lucrative reasons to stay OUT of the workforce…
    FTA
    A massive labor shortage continues to hamstring the economy, with millions more empty jobs than unemployed job-seekers. All the while, millions of people remain on the sidelines, with the labor force participation rate significantly below the pre-pandemic norm. Why are so many potential workers sitting idle while jobs need to be filled?

    Well, the astoundingly bloated nature of America’s welfare state offers one explanation, according to a new study . Conservative economists Stephen Moore, E.J. Antoni, and Casey Mulligan of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity analyzed what a typical four-person family, with two nonworking adults, could receive in welfare benefits, including both unemployment and healthcare subsidies, across the 50 states.

    They found that in three states, Washington, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, this typical family can earn the equivalent of more than $100,000 annually without working, thanks to various government programs.

    Meanwhile, in 14 states the benefits are equivalent to an $80,000 annual salary or more. In these states, welfare pays better than the typical job of a secondary school teacher or electrician, according to the study. In 24 states, languishing on welfare pays better than the typical salary earned by a firefighter, truck driver, or machinist.

    Does that sound like a system incentivizing the right things?

    There are undoubtedly multiple factors driving the labor shortage, but this simply has to be one of them. The most basic lesson of economics is that people respond to incentives. And when pathways exist to receive above-average incomes without working, many people will choose that over toiling and working hard to earn less. The inevitable result is lower employment, slower economic growth, and a dearth of dignity among those who’ve been incentivized out of work.

    You don’t have to take my word for it.

    “A key policy question these days that has befuddled federal lawmakers is why so many millions of Americans have not returned to the workplace in the post-Covid era,” the study’s authors conclude. “The U.S. is ‘missing’ more than three million workers of working age that could be working and were working prior to Covid but are not today. This study shows that one factor contributing to the dearth of workers is the generous benefits paid to families without workers.”

    The takeaway here is clear. If we want our economy to recover fully from the COVID-19 pandemic and get roaring again, we have to reform our social spending programs so that we once again incentivize work, not welfare.

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/the-welfare-state-is-out-of-control-study-shows

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  30. Well, LM had his first taste of indoor life and now he is obsessed with getting back in….shoulda known! I mean, really…who can blame him??? Of course, I first gathered up Jake and deposited him in the hallway before closing the door and opening my BR door. I figured since LM was really thirsty, he would follow me and that’s exactly what he did – he hovered while I thawed out the dish in the sink by the shower and re-filled it, and followed me back out. I had to go in and out a couple of times and each time, he almost fought to get in. Sorry, but you’re time has come to learn the lesson of water bottles, LM!

    He was stubborn about it, I’ll give him that – instead of running from a quick squirt to the face, he just ducked his head….another couple of squirts, followed by a couple of body squirts, and he shifted his weight away from me but didn’t budge. He knew he was within striking distance still of getting in that door! I knew there wasn’t much actual water in each quirt but this was getting out of hand. He finally ran around 6 inches to my left under the lower shelf of wooden shelves, still within striking distance.

    As I’m backing in, keeping my eye on him, my left arm is reaching behind me for the handle, while in my right hand I’ve got the water bottle and the scoop…..and I’m wearing flip-flops! I’ll give you one guess what happened…..I figured he’d take his shot at it but he just sat there staring at me dumbfounded! Ugh……LOL

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  31. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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  36. G’night! Be careful, you hear??? If you disappear, I’ll figure it’s the storm but if you can get on and just say hey, we’re alive, that would be great! It seems to be calming down some here….still windy but not nearly as bad. Sleep well!

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