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Who is this Michelle Obama??

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elce's avatar

She is a political bio-mort that we keep breathing oxygen into, so she occasionally resembles some form of viable human life.

She and hubby playing 11th hour games with the Aramark Yosemite Valley concessions led to the loss of all Yosemite historic names for years - a great cost to taxpayers for replacement names, until their contractual oversight was finally settled.

Aramark sponsored MO's "Let's Move" program, so shall one consider there was some sort of misguided quid pro quo in that "scandal free" Obama administration after all?

For that attack on the history of Yosemite Valley of course, I can never forgive her. Even though all's well that finally ended well and the Ahwanhee and Wawona yet again reign supreme. Let the fire fall.

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Earl Brown's avatar

Love your rant JL. Did you ever see the fire fall? I worked in Yosemite one summer in college.

Michelle Obama - he's a jerk!

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Every summer family camping at Camp Curry, the rangers would get us all to yell Let the fire fall. And by golly, it did. Magical. Of course that is no longer PC, but love my own memories of this shared camper experience.

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Earl Brown's avatar

Happy that you got a chance to see it - it ended in 1968.

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Aha 1968, the start of the "environmental movement". Kill joys.

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DLDawson's avatar

My family also camped at Yosemite every summer back in the late 50s, early 60s…nothing quite so spectacular for kids as the fire falls! Also cool to watch the bears feed on the garbage put out by the rangers

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Earl Brown's avatar

So, you've decided on no more comments?

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elce's avatar

Walks like a Nancy. Talks like a Nancy, Shouts like a Nancy. Reacts like a Nancy. Insults like a Nancy. Could be a Nancy.

Nancy=NAZI. OMG, they are now amongst us.

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Pat Fish's avatar

Michael.

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Bill Russell's avatar

She's the wife of an ex-President that YouTube's interesting, post-dieting stuff like "How to Climb In and Out of An Ant Hole."

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Oh, he voted for Biden? I'll be darned.

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Bill Russell's avatar

Worse yet, he voted for Harris, lol.

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Bill Russell's avatar

Sorry for the verb omission, Harvey; it wasn't done purposely to inflame your mind. I was recently amusing myself with the realization Trump wants to stop all the "Made in China" stuff, such as plumbing parts. Why? Because city-slicker dudes like yourself will eventually go without water because there won't be any plumbing parts available till US manufacturing get on board making stuff again. But we country boys just brush off the metal chips on our lathes and hog out a new water valve out of stock brass laying around the shop. Water flows again; the cost is nothing.

It's difficult for us wood chopping country boys to say "Obama" because he admitted not to be able to fix stuff, making the guy worthless, IMO. Ask my wife why she married me, and she'll say it's because I can fix stuff.

I know it's ok to end a sentence with a preposition such as "for," but I think you can do better than that, Harvey. Are you a fine-tuned, political conversation person, Harvey? Do you carry a degree in political BS?

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You are a humorless guy, Harvey. I'm assuming you do know what humor is, Harvey. And you just don't have any. You better stay out of the locker rooms, or you'll spend time in a Trump Insane Asylum for Democrats. I can see you spinning around in circles, drool exiting your mouth, spitting saliva, beating your fist on the table ... thinking how bad you want a Tesla, but you can't have one because it isn't politically correct.

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LT's avatar

Who JB? A over educated, ideologue who resents her country.

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Bruh, you’re obviously off your meds again. Piss off!

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BTW, dumb shit I have 3 Degrees, YOU on the 5 year plan at SBCC?

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Really emphasizing that humility as a Catholic, LT - how pious of you.

And this coming from a conservative, someome skeptical of higher education and dismissive of the "authority" of those with degrees especially as se saw with COVID. Ironic.

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Oh come on Teko, why be so butt hurt? I actually thought you made some great points today on Russian/Ukrainian relations.

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I know Teko, I can be a real pious a-hole. BTW, you still working the night shift at Budget Inn?

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My suggestion Pecker, I mean Becker, have your Doc up the Cymbalta.

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Earl Brown's avatar

He's a fool who was married to the 2nd worse president the country has ever been infected with.

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Wow, anyone else remember when Nancy F. was selling the exact same song and dance about.... decent, kind, gracious, and intelligent Joe Biden? The similarities are eerie.

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I'm eating Ukrainian sour cream on my kimchi duck egg omelette while reading Eringer bash Putin yet again. Ukrainian sour cream is the best - you can get it at the Euro Market on Hollister near Modoc. It has magical microbiological cultures which we could all use more of instead of the crap coming out of the biolabs we helped install there. And all I can think as I enjoy the sour cream's delicious tang is: why didn't the Obama and Biden administrations leave Ukraine's gut health alone? Those microbiological cultures were doing just fine before our government's installation of a cokehead whose own gut health is bombed every hour by his inhalations. And while you're buying Ukrainian sour cream, treat yourself to some affordable gut bliss at Pang Zi Noodles across the street.

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Bill Russell's avatar

Thanks for the post-tariff business concept of producing America's first Ukrainian Sour Cream. I believe it's not where it's made matters, but what a product is called. I like sour cream and butter, bacon bits and chives on microwaved baked potatoes. Sour cream is the home of the baked potato.

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Polly Frost's avatar

I second that, although I do like my potatoes roasted in duck fat.

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Tom Fitzgerald's avatar

Ah. We have not met. Potatoes in duck fat. Oh be mine. Here I am sipping my well deserved weekday Martini terrified that the Brits will find a way to cause a massive price rise in decent gin. I was intending to engage the current twit Harvey in a battle of wits; but, in the style of Oscar Wilde, I refuse to do such battle with an unarmed man (or whatever the pronouns would be preferred). Cheers.

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Cheers!

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Harvey, since you are not presently on the Ukrainian front lines yourself, be glad Ukrainian products are getting introduced into the US. They will need the cash flow. Everyone doing their part.

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The man who was one of the engineers of Russiagate, Strobe Talbott, stayed in my family's house when he was still a college student who translated Kruschev's Memoirs. I was a teen but could see he definitely saw himself as one of the anointed, to use Thomas Sowell's term. I didn't believe Russiagate at all when it came out.

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If you can't run with the Big Dogs, Harvey. Stay on the porch.

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Bill Russell's avatar

Ever consider selling yourself as a pinata (sorry Harvey, I lost the tilde)? You could fill yourself up with all kinds of sweet stuff and then let the kids bang the heck out of you to get at the sweet stuff. Give it a try and maybe you'll discover something about yourself.

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You seem to be my best friend right now because you like chatting with me, Harvey. I'm sorry Kamala isn't running things the way you would want them to be. Maybe within this century another Democrat will surface when the long line of Trump and Musk inheritors to the Presidency is completely exhausted. In the meantime, checkout in Ireland and make friends with "happy" Rosie O'Donnell. They like the bottled stuff in Ireland, too.

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Too bad many in the West don’t have a better understanding (or do they?) of events in the lead up to the Russian Federation’s decision to confront Ukraine as a result of NATO and Western powers’ moves. Sad to read another example of ‘Mad Vlad’ this morning.

https://www.kanekoa.news/p/how-obama-and-biden-installed-neo

I realize that’s it difficult for people to wrap the heads around the possibility that Our Great Nation is a participant in pushing for the destruction of the Russian Federation, via Ukraine as a proxy with NATO running the operation. Why? Anyone else wonder why NAZI generals went on to populate NATO positions of control after the end of WWII?

https://x.com/i/grok/share/CpQo9YnPEaKVYb0nhMJ3pimEV

we have been trained to believe that Russia is the boogeyman…sad to watch the emasculation of Ukraine…who benefits? Fact: UKRAINE was the single largest Clinton Foundation donor. Coincidence?

Why was POTUS Trump framed re: Russia collusion?

Protect truth re: Hillary/DNC Russia collusion?

Why was POTUS Trump impeached re: Ukraine?

Protect truth re: Biden/[CLAS 1-99] UKRAINE collusion?

Blame 'opponent' for what they themselves are guilty of? [DNC media push echo _submitted 'talking points' _generate false narrative].

The Hole runs deep…

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LT's avatar

No so fast DL, we had former Nazis running our space program at NASA. Operation “Paperclip.”

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DLDawson's avatar

Yes we did…and people don't realize that most of the goal of project paperclip was not the rocket scientist. The number one goal was chemist and, specifically, vaccine chemist. They brought these guys over & filled up our pharmaceutical industry, but they also went to the food industry and the chemical industry and all sorts of forms.

Here’s a book pdf that tells more… https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Annie%20Jacobsen%20-%20Operation%20Paperclip.pdf

Also look up Operation Gladio (aka Operation Condor when applied in the Americas…

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There is no reason for Russia to invade Ukraine, security concerns wouldn't lead someone (Putin) to endorse the kidnapping of Ukranian children and state sponsored adoptions to "Russify" them. Russia has no reason to bully the small mountain Republic of Georgia, yet it did just that in 2008. Russia also has little reason to care for Transnistria, a tiny, largely worthless piece of land - you see what I'm getting at. Russia is simply a revanchist state, it wants land simply to claim it, because of even the smallest historical ties, it doesn't matter if people die, it doesn't matter if the land they want is literally worthless and insignificant, so long as Putin can have "more Russia" it's worth it.

"Autocrat of all the Russia's"... yet unlike the Tsars he is beither pious, traditional, or a noble man.

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Theo, since you are repeating the narratives, you have no idea of the reasons leading up to Russia’s military incursion in Ukraine…ponder this one, what would be your feeling if a foreign adversary, say China, decided to install missiles & rockets in Canada and/or Mexico with US major cities as targets?

Can you give me the two primary goals for Putin’s military incursion? Hint: your MSM sources will never tell…

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elce's avatar

Cuban missile crisis, redux.

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Bill Russell's avatar

I lived in Florida during that period, unforgettable.

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Tom Fitzgerald's avatar

I was a freshman in ROTC given a full combat kit, an M2 Carbine and an "MP" arm badge and stuck in the armory of a major 'land grant university'. It was confusing.

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I don't watch the news, the "MSM" as you call it, I'm a traditional monarchist, which is more conservative than your own position, and I wouldn't care if China stationed misslies in Mexico or Canada, you know why? Because the strategic balance wouldn't change, it makes no difference if we get nuked from Moscow or Toronto - Kennedy and Excomm admitted as much during the Cuban Missile crisis, which was about optics mind you - if you get nuked the world ends, period.

Your condescension would work... if you knew more about history.

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Hmmm…you sound so worldly, but naive…do you know of the lead up to the Cuban missile crisis? FYI, it’s all the same people behind the scenes (CIA-Mossad +++) running both sides of the equations. WHO are the puppet masters?

JFK was on to them and, as you may know, wanted to break them into a 1,000 pieces & scatter them to the winds…thus his murder.

listen carefully, every word is true… imagine the growth of power and influence over the past 60 years by this dark side of the world?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwMl79xrTKI

Cuban missile crisis: Here's a more detailed explanation:

US Jupiter Missiles in Turkey:

In 1961, the United States deployed PGM-19 Jupiter missiles, capable of carrying nuclear warheads, to Turkey, a NATO base located 130 miles from the Soviet border.

Soviet Grievance:

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev saw the US missile deployment in Turkey as a direct threat and a violation of the balance of power.

Cuban Missile Crisis:

In response, Khrushchev initiated the secret deployment of medium- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles to Cuba, aiming to create a similar threat to the United States.

Negotiations:

The US discovery of the Soviet missiles in Cuba led to the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tense standoff that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.

Resolution:

Ultimately, Kennedy and Khrushchev negotiated a resolution, with the Soviets agreeing to remove their missiles from Cuba in exchange for a US pledge not to invade Cuba and a US agreement to remove its Jupiter missiles from Turkey, though this removal was done later to avoid appearing as a direct concession.

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The issue wasn't about a nuclear war, it's that neither Kennedy nor Khrushchev wanted to appear weak, the missiles could have remaimed in Turkey and Cuba, but for Kennedy missiles in Cuba was politically unnaceptable. Tje strategic balance was unaltered, America still had missiles in Turkey and it doesn't matter where you launch nukes from, MAD ensure even if you fire first you will rule over an irradiated land.

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LT's avatar

Who specifically are the “puppet masters,” DL?

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Hmmm…hard to imagine the time & effort to carry hate for more than half of your fellow Americans…I’ll put you along with the 17% of lost minds…

one of my favorites…

WATCH YOUR THOUGHTS THEY BECOME WORDS

WATCH YOUR WORDS THEY BECOME ACTIONS

WATCH YOUR ACTIONS THEY BECOME HABITS

WATCH YOUR HABITS THEY BEGOME CHARACTER

WATCH YOUR CHARACTER IT BECOMES YOUR DESTINY

— LAO TZU

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Bill Russell's avatar

Perhaps a surprise all-out nuclear bombing of Russia is being considered. "He who nuclear bombs first wins." Japan learned that one.

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My studies into Japanese war history and recent in-depth visitation proposed it was the threat of the third bomb and not the first nor second ones that finally brought Japan to the table.

That one was *rumored* to strike the most sacred shine of all Japanese ancient heritage outside Osaka, where the three most sacred objects were housed and believed to prove the link of the birth arising from the Sun Goddess, thousand of years prior.

This alleged attack rumor was proposed to be the moment the Emperor finally capitulated. Apparently there never were attack plans for this site, and the second most sacred site - Kyoto - was intentionally spared by US forces. Was this an intentional disinformation campaign? Or just fanciful musing decades later.

The Japanese soul is very different from our western ones, so this is not outside the realm of possibility. .

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Interesting history. Today's hydrogen bomb is about 1000 times more energy than the atomic bomb Japan experienced. It would take several megaton bombs to do serious damage to Moscow (Grok performed a five minute "DeepSearch"). Interestingly, if a simultaneous event occurred, there probably would not be anybody to direct any pre-planned Russian war event. My hunch is that Trump is discussing this approach with the Pentagon. It is so important to be the first to attack. Talk about something that has to be Top Top Secret.

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DLDawson's avatar

hmmm…didn’t make it past your first paragraph, no substance diatribe…you sound delusional & angry

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Jeff barton's avatar

I'm looking down at my spam and eggs and wondering why this just tastes so darn good when deep down I know that it couldn't rightly be called food? Is it the culinary analogue to the main stream media for Democrats?

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Polly Frost's avatar

You can order spam at Live Oak. Great restaurant. The couple who own it are wonderful, too. https://order.toasttab.com/online/live-oak-cafe

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I grew up on SPAM when I was a kid and liked it. I haven't had it since. I grew up on American Cheese and now hate the stuff. I hated asparagus when I was a kid because my mother made it "stringy." But if asparagus is cooked properly, I love it. I loved egg salad sandwiches when I was a kid, and I still do. I loved hot chocolate in a red plaid patterned Thermos on a cold New England school lunch day when I was a kid, and my thought is I would love it now. The Thermos carried in a Roy Rogers or Hopalong Cassidy lunch box. A red plaid patterned lunch box, even better filled with chocolate chip cookies from the apple jar.

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I don't think spam is evil. This country has produced real non food and turned our good food into bad. And speaking of which, Joel Salatin posted on that subject amd MAHA this morning. https://www.thelunaticfarmer.com/blog/4/8/2025/nutrition-vs-toxins

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As kids we loved Spam Night. Mother would bake it with a yellow mustard and pancake syrup glaze. Good eating in the 1950's. Betty Crocker would have been proud.

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Polly, I need to introduce you to Hunza Valley, Pakistan yogurt made from yak milk, for a real fermented face off. But it must be fresh. Our small tour group plotted how we could introduce this into US market - we settled on "Asian dairy animal" thinking yak yogurt just might need some marketing fluffing. Goodness, it was good stuff.

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Polly Frost's avatar

Can you buy it here? I do love Bulgarian yoghurt (spelled with an h) which I have every morning. At the Euro Market along with Bulgarian Feta.

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I am currently into Icelandic Skyr - not as unctuous as Yak yogurt but I like the promise of the "ancient Viking" bacterial count. Very versatile - from salad dressings, to tartar sauce, to just plain blueberries and walnuts.

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Here's a dialogue between my husband and ChatGPT about yogurt:

RAY: I think Fage’s plain yogurt is pretty good but my wife finds it OK-but-lame. At the moment she’s wildly into Bulgarian yogurt that we pick up from nearby Euro Market. Is today’s Fage plain yogurt still what it once was? And how do real yogurt buffs view it these days?

CHATGPT: As for FAGE, your sense is spot-on. It’s still one of the better mass-market yogurts in the U.S., especially compared to most big-brand “Greek-style” offerings, but among purists and longtime yogurt nerds, it’s often seen as:

• A gateway yogurt. Good enough to be taken seriously, but not quite as bold or alive as the small-batch, tangy, traditional stuff.

• In decline, maybe. There’s some anecdotal grumbling among yogurt heads that FAGE changed after shifting some U.S. production to upstate New York around 2008–2010. The claim is that it got a little milder, a little more consistent, a little less Balkan. Nothing drastic, but enough for sensitive palates to notice.

What sets FAGE apart (still):

• It’s genuinely strained, not thickened with gums or starches like some imitators.

• No added sugar in the plain version.

• Texture is smooth and dense, not goopy or gelatinous.

But…

• It’s not as tangy or assertive as Bulgarian or some Lebanese or Persian yogurts.

• The cultures are active, but there’s a kind of domesticated feel to it now—like the wildness has been bred out.

If your wife is loving Bulgarian yogurt, I get it. That stuff tends to be livelier, with a sharper tang and often a looser, almost drinkable texture depending on the brand. Real Bulgarian yogurt (with Lactobacillus bulgaricus) hits the palate differently—there’s a kind of clean, sour snap to it that FAGE just doesn’t quite replicate. Would you say her ideal yogurt is thinner and zingier, or thick and mouth-coating but still tart? And do you ever cook with it, or is this strictly a spoon-and-sigh situation? Because if you’re both deep in the yogurt life, there’s a whole rabbit hole of styles and methods to explore—even raw milk cultures if you’re feeling frontier-ish.

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I like Skyr ok, but it says it's from nonfat milk - that I don't like.

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Polly, I use the whole milk version of Skyr. The non-fat Skyr is too thin and sharp for my own everyday tastes. No fulsome mouth appeal either. Plus, I bet it is made in a Wisconsin factory, and not in downtown Rjekjavik. Please ask your remarkable ChatGPT for me in you get a chance.. ChatGPT has some rather human characteristic in how it answers, reading where it thinks the reader wants to go?.

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Earl Brown's avatar

Ladies! Are all the gourmet goodies you're talking about as good as hamburgers and french fries? :)

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elce's avatar

Gary Laird's butcher shop in Santa Paula for great ground beef.

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Polly Frost's avatar

I love a good hamburger and fries, Mr. Brown.

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elce's avatar

Now Polly tell us where you get your duck fat, if we are talking potatoes.

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Polly Frost's avatar

Gelson's sells duck fat. I also buy it from D'Artagnan.

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I read this article by "Intelligence Person" Mr. Eringer titled

"Cory Booker Rants! Mad Vlad's War Dance! Sir Elton's Thunderpants! Einstein Supplants!"

and I have a new title "US Crossed Russian Red Line to Possible WWIII"

I quote from Mr Eringer his Key Statements below "“Moscow orders another 160,000 servicemen to be conscripted – Russia's largest increase since war began in Ukraine – as Putin continues to delay ceasefire” (Daily Mail) AND This sounds neither like a dictator interested in peace nor a tyrant who has any intention of agreeing to a ceasefire in Ukraine. AND On the contrary, Mad Vlad is a brutal Stalinist/imperialist who desires to redraw the map with a blood-soaked bayonet"

The US Foreign Policy, since 1950s, has been Regime Change VIA Military/Intelligence Coups>

https://x.com/amuse/status/1903018522801820088/video/1

The US again has funded another War, the Ukraine War with 100's of Billions to basically Kill

hundreds of thousands of Russian's & Ukraine's. But the US is not messing with

a weak country like Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Iran, Iraq, Columbia, Cuba or even Puru but a

Major Superpower Russia.

Eringer makes this Burden Shifting and Shapeshifting Statement "Putin’s real script: Keep killing until Ukraine is either bled into submission or divided into manageable pieces."

The US Regime Change Program = Buy-Out the most Corrupt Dictators to DESTABLIZE the entire Region until EVEYTHING CRASHES & STEAL THE "MANAGEABOE PIECES" like World-Stock-Markets-Crash in the last few days THANK-YOU the Elite Globalist Like SOROS et al.

Here is How-It-Is-Done REGIME CHANGE weblink below>

https://x.com/PatReactsonX/status/1890504599343186272

"President Does Not Want to Formally Sign Off On It In Case It GOES WRONG ......"

JFK Assassination??? Trumps Two Assassination Attempts which are all very Chilling ...............

Howard Walther, Member of a Military Family

PS 1- Give Ukraine Billions for WAR then TAKE UKRAINE WEALTH - X weblinks>

https://x.com/DeshiProfessor_/status/1906647669927514622

https://x.com/amuse/status/1906646973949649072

PS 2- ELON & ROGAN - $$$ GOTO Giant Propaganda Machine, Giant Regime Change Machine>

https://x.com/ToscaAusten/status/1908502642055135557

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Cory “Spartacus” Booker is somewhat of a dichotomy. Highly educated, Stanford, Oxford and Yale, but chooses to live in a hell hole like Newark, NJ. I give him credit for putting his money where his mouth is, for living in a classic example of a Democratic run basket case ie, crime, despair, destruction, mayhem and debauchery.

Yes, his recent record breaking filibuster on the floor of the Senate lasted over 25 hours. What did he say? I have no idea. Not sure he does either. He obviously wants so bad to be the leader of his own party. A party which resembles his hometown…both being unmitigated disasters!

Too bad his Senate colleague is no longer by his side in the Garden State. Why? Because Bob “Gold Bar” Menendez is in a Federal Penitentiary for accepting bribes.

Time will tell if “Spartacus” can lead a rag-tag army against the Roman Legion, but clearly Cory Booker is no Kirk Douglas.

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Cory could make such a good Republican with that talent package. Hope DOGE recruits him to the cause.

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I believe Cory Booker's intent was to simply replace the name of Strom Thurmond's filibuster of the Civil Right Act as the previously longest speech in Congress.

That was a sly and deft touch on Booker's part. Therefore, what he said did not even matter. Just taking that old segregationist's name out of the Congressional record book was good enough. Volume, not content was Booker' goal. Which is probably why Booker is now getting new attention in the Democrat sweepstakes - infotainment and symbolism, counting as much as substance.

Just like Nancy Pelosi admitted she wanted two impeachments on the record against POTUS Donald J. Trump. In the interest of 22nd Century trivia games: Who was the most impeached President?

Overlooking the fact she is now in the record book for her two failed and bogus impeachment attempts. Which House Speaker had the most failed presidential impeachments on purely partisan lines? Why that would be none other than our own San Fran Nan.

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Your fans LOVE your revues. Those that don’t, but read them anyway, have jealousy - and other - issues. Carry on. 👍🇺🇸

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Harvey: Your blood pressure appears to be running high. Possibly too much caffeine. Recommendation: a Xanax to calm your nerves.

To set you straight, assuming you’re not stuck in a curved position (I hope you don’t suffer spinal stenosis or I’d feel bad about using this metaphor): I watched Trump speak about dealing with Covid in real-time. Not sure you understood (maybe you were watching MSNBC). Trump did not push disinfectants as a remedy but merely pointed out the absurdities of the situation. The mainstream news media, suffering derangement (all the rage back then), twisted Trump’s words into an inaccurate poisonous narrative.

Harvey, you then descend into an incessant stream of profanity and name-calling. Sorry to point out something F. Scott Fitzgerald once said ( I think): Only those who cannot express themselves intelligently resort to low language.

Elevate yourself, Harvey, you can do better.

Polly : Don’t know why you think so highly of Putin. His energy is very dark and he will likely suffer the same fate as Libya’s Gaddafi Duck and Romania’s Ceausescu, both executed by those they purported to lead. (This is a Russian tradition and will likely turn out as yet another case of history repeating itself.)

Nancy, Nancy, Nancy Freeman: The rant was Cory’s (all 25 hours). But to answer your question: Nothing makes me think anyone cares what I write. Until, that is, you came along. Thank you for caring. As for truth and sanity: Truth exists only in the moment and thereafter becomes subjective i.e., subject to interpretation. As for sanity? I look to Mark Twain for an explanation: “In all matters of sanity our adversaries are insane.” That said, I do not look upon Americans with opinions different to my own as adversaries (or insane). I look at them as Americans who are entitled to their opinions and should freely express them in this forum and elsewhere. That is the beauty of our democracy.

As for “lies and disinformation”: Methinks, Nancy, that before casting a stone elsewhere, you should address what went on inside Joe Biden’s White House.

My best advice: Broaden your news sources. Enlightenment is possible, open your mind.

To LT: It’s probably not fair to blame or pick on anyone’s possible addictions. We’re all human with foibles, flaws and weaknesses. With a little encouragement, Nance may come around, please give her a chance, fat as it may be (and, again, if Nance is fat, I regret the metaphor).

But Harvey? Not so sure. He may need therapy.

To Earl, J. Livingston & DL Dawson: OMG—I was there! Summer of ‘63. Camp Curry, fire fall, bears feeding at the dump, saw it all—an American childhood I treasure.

Cate Wilkins: You’re the best, love you.

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Robert, I don't think highly of Putin, so please don't frame my remarks about your weekly Putin bashing in that way. I am critical of the US interference in Ukraine, of the Biden family using it for their own gain, of NATO, the EU, of putting biolabs there. What I don't think highly of is the US continuing to spend money on a pointless war in Ukraine. As for Gaddafi, Hillary bragged about killing him - disgusting. He was killed because he threatened globalist banking, not because he was a terrible person. And as Gaddfi warned, his death meant millions flooding into Europe. Do you really think this has been an advance? I don't.

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Robert Eringer's avatar

Polly, thanks for clarifying. I agree with you. Much to be uncovered about Biden family corruption in Ukraine, and I am supportive of Trump's stance on Zelensky.

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Polly Frost's avatar

Well, I also love your column.

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Don Vogt's avatar

Perhaps Emmanuel Macron is continuously being "Hoist on His Own Petard"? Check it out.

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elce's avatar

"Divide Ukraine into manageable pieces" get my vote. Just like the break-up of Yugoslavia and the forced marriage of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Many of the hasty lines drawn at end of the Soviet Union created territorial mismatches.

It would have been much better to have carved out the Russian heritage portion of "Ukraine", as peacefully as did the Czechs and Slovaks. And not follow the long carnage model of the Yugoslavia break up. Too late for do-overs now. However, dividing Ukraine into manageable pieces needs to still be on the table.

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TheotokosAppreciator's avatar

Absolutely disgraceful, Ukraine was literally given the land under it's pre-2014 borders by the former Soviets, Crimea was literally given in 1954. Ukraine is under no obligation to give up it's rightful territory.

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Julia Gonzales's avatar

Robert,

You start out ranting about Cory Booker’s rant. Actually, it seems like that’s what a filibuster is a long, long rant. So it seems you have been filibustering at least once a week, or so. It might seem like nonsense to you, but Cory Booker came prepared. He brought 15 binders with 1,164 pages of prepared material. Filibuster material doesn’t have to make sense. People have read from “Green Eggs and Ham”, just to fill in time. Speaking of time, Congratulations to Cory Booker for breaking Strom Thurmond’s 24 hr filibuster racist rant to try to stop The Civil Rights Act.

Don’t hold your breath waiting for the Jeffrey Epstein files. They’ll have as much information as the JFK Files did. As for Pam Bondi, her title may be AG, but she is in fact trump‘s personal lawyer. He has her going after everyone that ever hurt his feelings.

I don’t remember if you even mention tariffs in your filibuster, it was so long. Are you aware that Russia was not on the tariff list? The reason given was because they were in the middle of peace negotiations. Why then was Ukraine on the tariff list? Aren’t they in the middle of peace negotiations, too?

The actual “Liberation Day” will be noon on trumps last day in office. Someone needs to start Articles of Impeachment.

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elce's avatar

Notice to SB Currents readers: The "block" feature has been added back to this discussion forum - click the small grey dots on the right side of any post. Then choose to report or block any posters who you might find interfere with the flow of normal conversation.

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Geoff Riddle's avatar

Anybody posturing this early for 2028 will be gone way before the primaries. As to Michelle Obama, she is just another in a long line of liberals with a failed radio program/podcast. Please go away, you are and have always been boring!

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Nancy Freeman's avatar

R. Eringer: what makes you think anyone cares about YOUR rant? Or the rest of the bunch who spew lies and misinformation every effin day? Try some truth and sanity for a. Hange

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LT's avatar

Really Freeman, hitting the Early Times again before noon?

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Earl Brown's avatar

'Early Times'? Hippie chicks like gummies!

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TheotokosAppreciator's avatar

"“Poll: AOC leads Schumer in head-to-head New York primary matchup by double digits” (Politico)

Shouty socialism versus bland bluster is more proof that the Democrat Party is doomed for the foreseeable future."

Then what should the democrat party look like and promote then, what would be its values according to you or the "common sense crowd" on this platform? What is your alternative vision or even party to replace the democrats now? "No liberal lunacy" okay cool, that still doesn't answer what you want it to be. If it is no different than MAGA or the Republican Party, well now you just have an illusion of choice, and why have an illusion of choice when you can have a non-partisan regime, Royal Dictarorship, eh?

"Deus Salve O Rei!"

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elce's avatar

Democrats need to stick with what they do best: Big Government; Big Government Unions; Big Debt; Big Lies; and Big Brother. There is still a market for a lot of that.

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TheotokosAppreciator's avatar

This doesn't answer my question J, your comment is obviously just mockery of the democrat party from your own conservative values - but I ask what people like you *want them* to promote, what are the values you *wished* they embodied, and what a "common sense alternative" direction you want the democrat party to take.

I obviously care for neither parties as a Carlist, but I am interested to see if people like you want genuine opposition even if not "leftist lunacy", or if you want the parties to be mere identitical except in name.

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