The Frankish Reich

Hey, look, I found QAnon! And he's the Republican candidate for Governor of the Tar Heel State. NCBillsFan's dream come true!! And you just know that (*^*&%^$^#voted for him.

So I guess life doesn't necessarily begin at conception, Mr. Speaker, provided that enough of your kind of voters would like to have an IVF baby?

Republicans now believe in killing babies too, from the little persons in the test tubes straight up to the 15 week olds!

I don't know that I'd call it a "national security" vulnerability, but it is a security vulnerability in general. TSA puts a huge emphasis on "knowing who the passenger is," which means that there is a biometric record establishing that you are who you say you are and not someone on the various no-travel lists. I've seen this at the airport - recent arrivals trying to figure out what they're supposed to show at TSA. And the answer is ... basically the CBP One app registration, which has no meaningful biometric info. This may be someone who traveled without a passport or who had a passport stolen, or who claims that he had a passport stolen. Compare that to the hoops we have to go through to travel - I'm still waiting for my Global Entry appointment after doing the preregistration about 9 months ago ...

The video you posted - really a powerpoint of key grabs from the NYT deep reporting - is wrong or deceptive on key points, such as suggesting that CIA operatives were actually on Russian soil. Again - GO TO THE SOURCE. It is a very well sourced and reported story in (gasp!) the NYT. You are free to argue your own conclusions after reading it, including whether the US has a key strategic interest in Ukraine and, if not, whether we should just let Russia have it. But at least that would be based on real reporting, not something called "The Crux."

All I can say is: RTFA. I mean the original NYT article, not someone else's take on it. Here it is. If it's paywalled, well, there's workarounds posted all over the place. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/europe/cia-ukraine-intelligence-russia-war.html bottom line: Ukraine (with USA and UK critical assistance) did provoke a tantrum in Putin because they thwarted his plan to install a Russian puppet government there. So the noninterventionists may have a point, but if so, the point is this: we should cede the Soviet Union's historical sphere of influence to Putin in a kind of eastern European Russian Monroe Doctrine.

Implying that Putin's invasion was at least somewhat justified and a little bit provoked. Oh, please tell: what were these provocations? I see. We must be more sensitive to a dictator's "litany of grievances" and make sure our allegiances kowtow to him. We must not assist an ally in gathering intelligence about a possible invasion of it's own territory, lest the dictator's behemoth next door takes offense and launches a full-scale bombing campaign against its civilians.

A friend and his family adopted a shelter pit bull mix. Friendly, happy dog. That's what they said. So as a dog lover I started petting him in a normal way and two of them in unison say something like, "I wouldn't do that." He'd bit the last person who did the same thing. No serious injury, but drew blood. (They no longer have the dog.) My question: why don't people file down their teeth? After all, a lot of dogs nip and even bite. The problem is the "pittie" (kind of an attempt to cutify them) can seriously hurt or kill you when they do it. When I suggested this, people acted like I was Dr. Mengele. But really ... why not go all Hermie in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer on them, de-toothifying the Abominable Snowman? Isn't a live/happy/relatively harmless pittie better than no pittie at all?

Holy crap, Batman ... did you put that together yourself?

Yeah, Bush 43 destroyed him.

Good point. I've been thinking along the same lines. It's a difficult comparison because we're talking about a densely populated sliver of land, not the wide of expanse of theoretical attacker Canada/Mexico. But isn't it important that we didn't try to bomb Afghanistan into an uninhabitable place? We attacked Taliban strongholds and training camps, and then embarked on an ill-advised nation-building operation. I'm not sure there is anything comparable.

The "I'm gonna make $86 million more in Walmart Bucks just by sitting on my ass" dance

Cornell's own (but just Ag school) Keith Olbermann is still around?

So since literally nobody in the USA knows who this is, I had to look it up. Some trans performer in Spain, retained to do some PR for Spanish Doritos, owned by Frito-Lay, in turn owned by Pepsi. Please continue to Streisand Effect this bizarre personality, and let me know the list of which products I cannot buy or consume. I assume it will go beyond Spanish Doritos? This one gonna hit Bills fans hard. (Why does Spain even have Doritos? Buy those wickedly good Jamon flavored potato chips instead!)

I have a feeling Sean Payton is going to leave the Broncos in exactly the same shape he left the Saints in ...

Here we go again. Frito-Lay this time?

The Jets haven't fired him ... yet.

It's kind of like Black Lives Matter. What nonracist can disagree with the sentiment behind the name? But then there's the reality of the grifters and political hacks who co-opted the name for their self-serving purposes.

And here I was thinking that was EJ Manuel. Knowing the charmed life Nate Hackett has lived, I fully expect he'll get yet another life.

I think you're right. I think that a lot of gay/trans material gets a pass because it is considered under the rubric of making kids feel like they're not alone, even if it crosses the line into what is definitely age-inappropriate. I have no problem with parents (moms, if you will) getting involved and trying to influence what school libraries have on the shelves, or at least making sure that those materials are age appropriate. But as for this specific group - Moms for Liberty - yes, I believe at least at the start it was a classic astro-turf (not grassroots) group, and that it's primary purpose is to publicize liberal overreach (and as such, to try to swing those all-important suburban moms toward Republicans) rather than to improve true education for kids.

It wasn't the trade. It was the contract extension. That's what really crippled the Broncos. Until Deshaun. Records are made to be broken!

Challenge to do what? I am saying that there is an underlying belief here, and that without that belief many of these comments make zero sense. 10% of home schoolers: incredibly devoted parents who have the intellectual ability and discipline to provide a top-notch education to their children. 90% of home schoolers: the opposite. That's why some standards are necessary, but the home school lawyer-zealots fight ANY standard tooth and nail.

Every man hates what he has to deny.

Nate Silver is right.

Then why does everyone recite the mantra "gay porn" like @Westside just did?