Breakthrough Health Advice...

Here's my breakthrough insight - Don't get the flu!

I am limping along the comeback trail but wow - that was a wipeout. I'd gotten the shot - I wonder if that helped at all.

And now that I am actually able to sit in front of a computer I see Drudge is headlining the same news.

Comments

[Outlandrr]

Uno...now back to Mexico, I go

[Clarice Feldman]

Glad you are on the mend,TM..By all accounts this flu strain is a doozy--Use Purell and sani wipes a lot every time you are out of the house. Be scrupulous about it.

[Beestet]

Another great "Pieces', Clarice. TM, maybe baking soda will help. :)

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/01/mark-sircus/natural-allopathic-emergency-medicine-for-flu/

[hoyden]

Happy to hear you are on the mend, Mr Maguire.

[hoyden]

Regarding Fitzgerald as MSU hired lawyer, looks like he's engaging in a modified limited hangout. I had to look up the term after seeing it used on Instapundit to describe the FBI's withholding most of the Strzok and Page lost texts. We need a Raiders of the Lost Texts adventure.

[Jim Eagle]

Good morning, jongerens!

Marvelous encaptulation of where we are and where we (may?) are headed, Clarice.

Went to bed with a big smile on my heart from GUS'S JOM Juke Box last night.

If you read Beestet's link a 7:28 there is a lot of flu avoidance and treatment advice that will be familar to anyone who has read this blog the last year. I do D3, Magnesium, Iodine and Selenium. Now I am thinking about using a large glass of bicarbonate of soda to wash it all down with:)

So far, very lucky to not catch it but have caught a cold earlier in the season. Nothing debilitating but it sucked.

[anonamom]

Thanks TM!

Cathy f--condolences, and thanks to you for reminding us to cherish this day; each other.

from Insty:

“It takes time for the economy to recover the costs of excessive regulatory compliance and to redirect capital to productive uses, so the gains seen during Trump’s first year are likely attributable in significant part to the expectations generated by his slashing the red tape. The full impact of the deregulation is still to be felt.”

https://www.lifezette.com/polizette/trump-economy-is-heading-upward-and-reversing-the-obama-era/

[James D.]

Wonderful Pieces - as usual, Clarice!

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Glad you are on the mend, Mr. McGuire!

I didn't get a flu shot, but as I understand it, this year's strain is not stopped by it much, maybe 10%.

I posted a map on the last thread saying 11 states had closed schools because of the flu epidemic.

My [;a is avoiding public places as much as possible (not hard when you aren't driving), washing my hands constantly, and taking lots of vitamins.

I still remember getting the swine flu when I was finishing finals while in college. My son was about 5 and had to fend for himself most of the day, because I was as sick as I have ever been. I still remember how much my body ached.

[Jim Eagle]

Clarice's Pieces so you don't have to navigate back to the previous thread:

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/01/toilets_the_fbi_department_of_justice_and_the_guggenheim.html

Nancy Spector, another doofus to remember when you visit NYC, and want to see the Guggenheim, ask at the reception desk if you can use her toliet.

[Extraneus]

Media Blackout As Democrats Publicly Struggle With Benefits Of GOP Tax Cut

[Jim Eagle]

As a favor to all who may be tempted to follow Drudge's link to the article in the Slimes about Trump's SOTU speech, just read the first paragraph and you can imagine where the rest of the story is headed:

"President Trump has spent his first year in office breaking every rule of presidential communication, conducting policymaking and diplomacy by Twitter and eschewing the careful, subdued tones of most presidents in favor of no-holds-barred attacks on his adversaries and allies alike."

Unlike Clarice's Pieces, I stopped right there.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Video of Flying Tigers reporting home after a 7 month deployment. Very glad for the families and the men:

https://twitter.com/DeptofDefense/status/957599150463320064

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
12m12 minutes ago

Somebody please inform Jay-Z that because of my policies, Black Unemployment has just been reported to be at the LOWEST RATE EVER RECORDED!

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
13m13 minutes ago

Our economy is better than it has been in many decades. Businesses are coming back to America like never before. Chrysler, as an example, is leaving Mexico and coming back to the USA. Unemployment is nearing record lows. We are on the right track!

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

http://www.wibc.com/news/local-news/2-dead-2-critically-injured-1-stable-after-sawmill-saloon-shooting

You guys don't know Indy, but this neighborhood and a place named "Sawmill Saloon" should have had a constant police presence.

[Catsmeat]

I'm so sorry you were so sick, TM, and apologize for my doggerel of yesterday, which went

Tom, Tom, give us bread--
In lieu of that, another thread!
We like to eat, we like to post--
Remember, man, you are our host.

Keep getting better!

[Buckeye]

Purell is very effective with bacteria, not so much with viruses. Soap and water.

[anonamom]

Leftists hate war movies:

http://victorygirlsblog.com/leftist-writer-says-patriotic-war-movies-just-masculine-nonsense-video/

However, the good news is that patriotic films about brave men facing long odds are pretty popular among American audiences. I guess it’s because they’re just knuckle-dragging rubes who aren’t fully woke. Or perhaps Americans know that they “sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” And they’re thankful for them.

Isn't there a Jewish prayer "Thank you for not making me a woman, slave, Gentile" ??

Thank you Lord, for not making me a Leftist.
Such a miserable people!

[hoyden]

Instapundit links to this bit of inconvenient truth: "... in 1975, leftist Dems went to great lengths to keep Vietnamese refugees (even orphans) out of the United States. The Democrat complaints in 1975 appeared to center on the fact that the refugees were escaping communism, an ideology, analysts say, liberals did not find that objectionable."

http://www.worldtribune.com/flashback-jerry-brown-biden-and-other-dems-refused-to-accept-vietnamese-refugees/

[anonamom]

Flying Tiger video at 8:24 needs a kleenex warning.

More gratitude!
Truly--thank you, your families, your friends for your service.

(And am I an awful person to say as hard it is to think of these kiddos without their daddies for months, it absolute seems against nature to deploy mothers of small children???
I know, their choice, equality, rah rah rah---

Is it just me???)

[Captain Hate]

Nancy Spector, another doofus to remember when you visit NYC, and want to see the Guggenheim, ask at the reception desk if you can use her toliet.

The Goog is permanently off my list unless they grow a brain, fire that whore and issue a groveling apology along with the Van Gogh. Who do those poseurs think they are, insulting a refined First Lady who made a perfectly appropriate request of those snotty parvenus. It's not like fatassed Mooch asked, excuse me, aksed for some tapestries to make another upholstery gown from.

Good luck drawing flies to finance your snobbery. Lefties are as tight as a dead heat so you may as well start the budget tightening now.

[Clarice Feldman]

Thanks.

[Catsmeat]

JiB--I'll send you the book electronically and thus free if you want--that's how sbw read it. Offer open to other JOMers as well. A proviso: it will come in chapters as files and it won't have an index. Otherwise it will be as published.

[Captain Hate]

Is it just me???

No.

Btw, I forgot to mention this yesterday but the latest baby killing billboard I saw, in as black an area as Saint Margaret Sanger would deem appropriate, was "Abortion is a conversation". Like the conversations the ghouls don't want doctors to have with their prospective accessories to murder about dealing with the physiological things which will happen to produce feelings of guilt and depression? Because science? That conversation?

[JimNorCal]

Deplorable Don Surber is upbeat about the midterms, because of the tax cut.
http://donsurber.blogspot.com/2018/01/democrats-get-crumbs-in-november.html
"The Democratic Party’s plan to retake Congress was simple: trash Trump and don’t give him a single Democratic vote ... Democrats had chosen to die on the wrong hill."

[rse]

Catsmeat-I would love to read your book, especially as I am stuck in the ultimate flu avoidance technique of not leaving the house.

You can send it to my blog email of robin at reformforgrowth dot com.

So sad to read cathy f's post about will and what he went through.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Abortion is a conversation between a judge, an executioner and an innocent, and mute, defendant.

[-peter]

great pieces, Clarice.

Feel better soon, Tom.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

It is not just you, anonamom.
Are there a few women who can serve ably in combat roles? Yes.
Does having women in combat roles make for our most effective military? No.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Hope RG shows up later to report. He retweted President Trump's tweet about Jay Z this morning with this comment:

J.B. White
‏ @RattlerGator
13m13 minutes ago

J.B. White Retweeted Donald J. Trump

Taking a quick look around Twitter -- just like a boss, you've triggered the hell out of their azz.

Thank you, sir.

[anonamom]

Re: flu---sad news.
It's spread by aerosols, not just droplets---which means you BREATHE IT IN! And aerosols persist for hours or something awful. Kinda explains why it's everywhere.

You can wash your hands til the cows come home, not touch your face (Ie pick your nose or rub your eyes), but unless you can hold your breath, unless you don't have any contact with any other humans---
well, stay healthy.

Try this. It won't hurt:

https://greensmoothiegirl.com/recipes/75940/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3682679/

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Memorandum sidebar with another whopper: Trump wants May to ban protests as a condition of him visiting UK.
Did Switzerland or any of the other many countries he's visited as POTUS ban protests for him?
They are approaching the point at which they have zero credibility left to lose.
I'm sure I'll be reminded they passed that point long ago. :)

[anonamom]

oops! those are two separate links

https://greensmoothiegirl.com/recipes/75940/

separate, I say!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3682679/

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Has anyone seen anything about this? I ran across this comment on Twitter:

Verdad Teller‏ @Truthteller1349
Replying to @TruthinGov2016

Not surprised. The Hammer, the spy supercomputer started by Brennan and Mueller, illegally spied on 100s of Judges all over the country, including SCOTUS. We urgently need an independent special prosecutor or grand jury to investigate these crimes. Our nation is in danger.

[henry]

Must be the flu. Dems in Connecticut want to limit public union bargaining.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/connecticuts-s-o-s-1517009390

[Catsmeat]

Catching up (that last was a thread for the ages, dance party and all!)--

jimmyk--damn straight about Bastille Day being celebrated. May as well celebrate Kristallnacht.

narciso--thank you for the Babbage link. I tried daddy's trick and found that Babbage and Whewell (a new interest of mine because of his confirmation of global tides using global confirmations) were, along with Herschel and Richard Jones, best buds and compatriots at Cambridge and did philosophical inquiries together. And Carroll once visited Babbage to see his Analytical Machine but the thing was in bits and not much to see.

GUS--thank you for the PIPES! (and the dance party)!

Cathyf--will pray for Will and his family--so very sad.

MM--thank you for your string of animal posts, including those "very good boys" at LaGuardia.

Robin--book will come today, and actually in one reading file. The illustrations are there, just not the index. I hope you like it! Jack, I'm sending you the same.

[Jim Eagle]

MM,

The 74th is an A-10 Warthog squadron out of Moody AFB in Georgia. Still can't get rid of the Thunderbolt aka Warthog:) no matter how hard they try.

One of great survival stories in military ordinance.

[Captain Hate]

The Hammer, the spy supercomputer started by Brennan and Mueller,

Boom! Good to see Mullah Brennan's name brought up as a major antagonist. The obese carcass of Clapper exerts a huge gravitational pull on accusations of treason and want to make sure that this diminutive creep doesn't escape his share.

[joan]

In trying to scan previous thread and catch up I saw Senator Lankford's name a couple of times.

I am so disappointed in him. I emailed him several times last summer asking him to support President Trump and demand this Russian probe be axed, a new healthcare initiative, and stand up to Dem's obstruction.

I received email telling me it was disturbing that Russians had interfered in our election and it must be investigated. I WAS FLOORED.

I keep receiving emails from him. Last one was about his immigration scheme. I AM SO DISAPPOINTED in his representation of voters. (Though there are large groups of liberals in Tulsa and Oklahoma City. Wouldn't be surprised if there are several blue counties in next election. Some silly woman went to that "pussy" march last year from our small suburb and the local paper ran a big piece on it applauding her activism -- though, they never mentioned the "pussy" part. Idiots!!)

[Extraneus]

They both have punchable faces, Captain, but I'd prefer to take Brennan if we divvied them up.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

anonamom,

Thanks for the information. I need to go to the grocery today so will stay far away from people as much as possible.

It can't be avoided as we are low on everything. Will get the ingredients for the immuno-tea while there.

Other than the grocery, I am following rse's "do not leave the house" prescription.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

The way Trump negotiates with the toddlers in congress like Schumer is the way a parent deals with a petulant child.
Pop says "get ready for bed in a half hour, sonny" whereupon sonny, believing he is participating in a relationship of equals opens negotiations by petitioning for an hour instead.
At which point pop lowers his paper, looks at sonny and says "ok, 15 minutes instead".
By the time sonny-boy has negotiated himself into zero time AND being grounded he might realize he doesn’t really have any power in the relationship, but I'm doubtful Schmucky is as self aware as our hypothetical sonny.

[sbw]

Try this. It won't hurt

So you say.

[Connjob]

"Dems in Connecticut want to limit public union bargaining."

They finally ran out of other people's money.

[Janet 🚬]

Some silly woman went to that "pussy" march last year from our small suburb and the local paper ran a big piece on it applauding her activism -- though, they never mentioned the "pussy" part. Idiots!!)

Newspapers are always applauding & amplifying leftists.
It is sickening.

They do it with "awards" too. Leftist groups give a leftist an award & the press write it up as some great thing.

Awards or any recognition from our side of the aisle are ignored.

This was posted yesterday - President Trump Wins 'Medal of Life' From Int'l Human Rights Group (But Fake News Media Blacks Out News)
https://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2018/01/27/president-trump-wins-medal-of-life-from-an-intl-human-rights-group-but-fake-news-media-blacks-out-news-n2440203

The MFM don't recognize the group, the award, or the recipient.
Planned Parenthood gives an award & it is all over the MFM.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Here's another teary video: people regaining their hearing (or hearing for the first time) due to modern science:

https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/957292917529497600

[Janet 🚬]

I remember some small, pitiful Code Pink event being written up by Milbank in the WaPo (with big pictures) & commenting that my CHURCH had way more people come to the youth group every Wednesday night.
Where was that write up?

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Leaving for grocery and errands. Back in a couple of hours.

[anonamom]

I loaded up on that immune lemonade stuff (used stevia to sweeten it, not honey) before we were locked up in airplanes for a total of 12 hours this past week, and we are not sick (yet).

We also did zinc lozenges when boarding--a favorite preventative/abortant for viruses here.

We REALLY loved the nasal zinc Zicam used to sell, before those stupid people who didn't follow directions snorted it and burned out their olfactory nerves and ruined it for the rest of us. Have some custom made stuff in the fridge, but it doesn't travel.

[jimmyk on iPhone]

Same here anonamom about that Zicam spray. The orange lozenges they make seem to be somewhat effective.

[anonamom]

It was a miracle, was it not jimmyk? Honestly, two treatments of that at the first sign of a cold, and POW! it was gone.

None of that yucky minerally taste / distorted taste buds after the lozenges either.

oh well...it was good while it lasted

[JimNorCal]

As mentioned above, Dems in the state of CONN have run low on OPM. So, stick it to the cities and tell them to increase property taxes.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/connecticuts-s-o-s-1517009390

Gov. Dannel Malloy, after multiple tax increases, last year tried to close the state’s $3.5 billion deficit by shifting teacher pension costs to municipalities.

[Buckeye]

Got some flying to do this week, think I will pick up some Zinc lozenges.

[Extraneus]

Lindsey Graham: If Trump tries to fire Robert Mueller 'it would be the end of his presidency'

[Extraneus]

"I'm sure that there'll be an investigation around whether or not President Trump did try to fire Mr. Mueller. We know that he didn't fire Mr. Mueller. We know that if he tried to, it would be the end of his presidency," Graham said. "So at the end of the day, let Mr. Mueller do his job."

[jimmyk]

Maybe there should be an investigation around whether or not Graham did try to bugger Jerry Nadler. Apparently there now have to be investigations about whatever someone may have thought about doing.

[Buckeye]

Wanted to puke when Gowdy was telling us how standup Mueller is on Little Chrissy's show this morning.

Part of the Fed Prosecutor/FBI mutual admiration society, so it appears.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

The #meetoos are on the rampage with their claims of toxic masculinity.The dean of UC Irvine came out defending snowflakismo yesterday. Remember, UCI is also one of the most anti-Semitic campuses in the country.
Notice the correlation between snowflakismo and hard core Marxism. Revolutionary violence meets butthurt.

And how anyone could portray the Chabadniks as conspirators is beyond me.

As to the phony at the Guggenheim, the art world today is probably the most perverted, evil bunch of bloodsuckers in history. Must have been coincidence, but Charlton Heston was on in The Agony & the Ecstasy last night. Towards the very end, the actor playing Raphael says something along the lines that artists are whore who have to suck up to the rich and powerful to feed their addiction to creating art.

Now we have a subgroup of curators, dealers, and hangers on who determine what is art and what is not, mainly paid for by foundations that are completely removed from the founders original intent. Spending OPM on golden toilets is not, I think, what Peggy Guggenheim had in mind.

A friend of mine was represented by Larry Gagosian back in the early 80's, and noted that Gagosian was Basquiat's heroin connection, trading H for art. That's about the level of the whole bunch.

[Momto2]

catsmeat - I would love to read your book! Thank you for the offer!

I hoarded those Zicam nasal things as long as I could. They worked really well!

Another great animal story from my broken neck survivor board. His dog kept him alive for 20 hours after he fell in the snow and broke his neck....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3rBCiyTRyM

[Wake up South Carolina]

“it would be the end of his presidency," Graham said. "So at the end of the day, let Mr. Mueller do his job”

I guess now that Trump booted Ms Graham from the illegal immigrant negotions he had to find something else to talk about....like a 7 month old non event.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Hmmm...does Mueller get to investigate whether Trump tried to fire Mueller?
Pretty sure DC's new ethics would not find even the suggestion of a conflict of interest there.

[Jane]

LOL Jimmy.

[Janet 🚬]

"Contacted on Saturday, Sabo told THR he targeted the music industry because of what he considers misogynistic lyrics in rap and hip-hop music.

"How can anyone be upset with me putting these up when no one seems upset about what the music industry pushes to our kids?" he asked."

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/miley-cyrus-lady-gaga-targeted-by-la-street-artist-grammys-1079075

[Momto2]

Guess who announced she will NOT be attending the SOTU address?

Awwww - big loss!

[Janet 🚬]

Street Artist Sabo savages Cyrus and Gaga ahead of the Grammys

https://tinyurl.com/yb9dfuqf

[Another Bob]

Feminist insanity proceeds apace.

Warning on the photo. (I won't embed it.)

http://i.magaimg.net/img/2hap.jpg

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I note at least seven guys in that pic clearly guilty of reverse-rape*.

*I hate even having to ask this but is "reverse-rape" a real feminNazi term or satire?

[Dave (in MA)]

One of great survival stories in military ordinance.

B-52 thinks that's adorable.

[Another Bob]

For those who don't want to get it from the photo...

How about the concept of men not having sex with ugly women ("women of the wrong body types") as "reverse rape" and just as horrific as rape.

[Another Bob]

Ig, I'm hoping it's satire. It's mental illness otherwise.

But that we can't be sure makes its own statement, no?

[Dave (in MA)]

Ingvar Kamprad, the IKEA founder who turned a small-scale mail order business into a global furniture empire, has died at 91, the company said Sunday.

[does not cmpute]

Not firing someone is as bad as obstructing someone.

Not raping someone is as bad as raping someone.

Your mind has to be pretty messed up to think that way.

[anonamom]

I hoarded those Zicam nasal things as long as I could. They worked really well!

When my dad died, I got his two boxed Zicams. And his rosary. (Which maybe nobody else knows I have. Hey, that's what Confession is for!)
(I am a huge advocate of "better to beg forgiveness than ask permission.")

We're down the last one. It's for true emergencies.

Don't think the nasal Zicams they sell now are the real deal--read the label. No zinc.

[anonamom]

Let's say a person happens to be POTUS, finds out that the Special Counsel is severely compromised, maybe even crooked, perhaps is involved in sedition, and that POTUS has taken an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution---

wouldn't inquiring as to whether firing said SC, to keep the country from being dragged through what any reasonable person would envision, be that POTUS's obligation?

Are we supposed to think that saying "I'd like to fire him. Can I fire him?" is obstructing justice?

Lord, they think we are all as stupid as the people who vote for the Ds.

[Clarice Feldman]

Anonamom, I'm not the one to ask--I still think not raping is not the same as raping. I think they stole this idea from the Palestinians who claimed Israeli soldiers didn't rape their women because of racism.
I feel like I've dropped into some upside down Lewis Carroll world.

[maryrose]

Momto2:
RBG would just fall asleep if she attended the SOTU.

[maryrose]

Clarice :
Wonderful article.
You really understand and explain all of it so that regular people get the true knowledge of what is happening, and how we move forward.

[Janet 🚬]

I'm even tired of SEEING the word "Dreamers". That is a marketing word made up by the Dem party to get amnesty for illegals.
No "Dreamer Law" has ever been passed in Congress.

The Hill - "“DREAM Act,” ... is an acronym for “Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act.”
The Democrats have been trying unsuccessfully to get a DREAM Act passed for 16 years."

USA Today - "DREAMers got their name from the DREAM Act, a bill that has been proposed in Congress since 2001, but never passed,"

Even when the Dems had the House, the Senate (with 60 votes so they could win a filibuster) & the Presidency....they did not pass a "Dreamer Law". They could have done ANYTHING they wanted then (2008-2010).

DACA was just an illegal EO signed in 2012. An unconstitutional temporary bandaid measure.

When the word DREAMer is used, that is just playing along with Democrat propaganda.

[jimmyk on iPhone]

"Not firing someone is as bad as obstructing someone."

Once you've decided someone is guilty before you've found a crime, this is where it goes.

[DebinGA]

Hillary won CT by 15 pts. An R hasn't won CT since 1988.

If I read it right, anon's link indicated humidity deters the flu, which is great as it's muggy here in NW GA. Suggested using humidifiers (to add moisture I suppose), which most of us probably have.

[anonamom]

"... was anybody else at the meeting? Who knows? Who cares? Davos belonged to Trump. He gave an excellent, thoughtful, and concise explanation of The New Nationalism that he so ably represents."

http://www.thediplomad.com/2018/01/the-arc-de-trump-presidents-new.html#comment-form

[anonamom]

Sultan Knish at SC Tea Party--final stages of the non-violent Civil War:

https://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2018/01/this-civil-war-my-south-carolina-tea.html

The prose is NOT a transcript---
Excellent summation of volunteer v. professional (invariably Leftist) government.
(Paul Ryan's problem. He needs to go back to Janesville, and get a real job.)

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Hime! Whew! Groceries are unloaded and put away and I am taking a break!

It's sunny and almost 50 so Maggie is going to spend some time outside.

We had 2 carts but somehow I got all the heavy stuff like potatoes, cat litter, the big bag of dog food, etc.

Now I am going to sit for a while.

[anonamom]

Well, Andrew McCarthy agrees with me:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455841/trump-mueller-interview-president-refuse-request

...What's more, while it would not have been wise to fire Mueller, it would have been bonkers to not consider doing so...
A president under a cloud of suspicion is compromised in his relation with foreign leaders, his interactions with Congress, and his overall capacity to lead. The presidency is important, which is why a special counsel should never be appointed to probe a president absent concrete evidence of serious criminal wrongdoing.

[Captain Hate]

The presidency is important, which is why a special counsel should never be appointed to probe a president absent concrete evidence of serious criminal wrongdoing.

Which is why Rosenstein is hip deep on the coup. I don't know why Goober Graham doesn't see this except like Levin says, he's really dumb. Which explains his dumb and dumber friendship with McRINO.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/shadows-from-the-walls-of-death-book

How a library handles a rare and deadly book.

[anonamom]

State Department employees are unhappy and hiring attorneys because they don't like their new work assignments. Absolutely hilarious:

www.cnn.com/2018/01/26/politics/state-department-employees-hire-attorneys-political-retribution/index.html

[Captain Hate]

(Paul Ryan's problem. He needs to go back to Janesville, and get a real job.)

I don't know why this is such a difficult concept to grasp. Politicians lose perspective by being in office too long; it applies across the board and not just Ryan. Both parties are guilty of it; after Newt engineered the 1994 Republican congressional takeover with the Contract With America, the first bit of backsliding was on term limits by the usual suspects. This is why people don't trust politicians and the skepticism is well founded.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

anonamom,

UK textile artist makes crochet works which resemble Petri dishes! Great paperweight for a desk if they aren't too pricey!

https://twitter.com/womensart1/status/957528490701676544

[Beasts of England]

Would you please add me to the list, Catsmeat?

batcanalytic at yahoo dot com

[Thomas Collins]

CH, speaking of long time politicians, had Crazy Dennis Bern vindicated in his refusal to sell Cleveland Light to Alan Buchmann's favorite client? Does Cleveland still have a publicly owned electric utility? I always wondered how that would turn out. If I remember correctly, George Forbes favored the sale to CEI.

[James D.]

I don't know why this is such a difficult concept to grasp. Politicians lose perspective by being in office too long; it applies across the board

It's not just politicians. It happens in the private sector, too. The difference is that there is external pressure in the private sector, and companies lose customers when their employees and executives lose perspective, and if they don't self-correct, the generally go out of business.

[Thomas Collins]

Crazy Dennis K, that is. I have no idea why autocorrect changed K to Bern.

[Kevlar Kid]

FWIW as the flu influences JOM thread sizes.

i've been closing tabs between appearances on JOM. The latest large comment thread had me typing in the "last page" number when I re-opened a JOM tab.

Someone informed us that the 999 trick didn't take us to the last page anymore due to some typhuspad "innovation." So I had to rely on my memory to log the last page read.

Then, and if you already know this please SOB, on page one I'd hit , click the >> to advance to page 2, then type in the last page I'd read in the url where "2" appears. VOILA! Last page read (not last page of thread).

[Jim Eagle]

Without catching up: LAST BOTTLE ALERT!!!

They just posted a Gallimard Champagne at $27 a bottle. We know the Cru, down around Les Piceys from our Billecart-Salmon property (investors). Grand bargain if still available, especially for Mimosas and Bellinis:)

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I wonder if it has occurred to the Dems they screwed the perro on this Dreamy tack Barry put them on.
With Reagan they got a fairly general amnesty.
This time, by trying to tug on the heartstrings regarding these tiny little 35 year old tots, they have essentially tossed every other illegal under the bus.
They have made 500-1,500,000 bearded tikes the moral hill upon which they'll die, which leaves all those other things, like chain migration, the lottery and the millions of other non-dreamy illegals already here, that matter far more as bargaining chips they essentially have to give up to rescue the moral dilemma of our times.
I think they're starting to get it but...it's kinda too late at this point.

[Ralph L]

Which book is Catsmeat peddling?

B-52 thinks that's adorable.
When I was an Air Farce contractor, the zoomies were trying to kill--in the 80's.

Buzz-dead stinks up the room.

[Clarice Feldman]

I agree, Ig--It's time to tag the other party "the stupid party".

[Buckeye]

Coulter calls the "dreamers", "nightmares".

Sounds about right to me.

I'm not a fan of the "path to citizenship" provision, but like Trump, I suspect that most of these people will blow the opportunity.

Net result, amnesty, but no flood of voters for the progs.

Whole thing will probably yield nothing more than fodder for the press. 2018 will probably be the year of monthly CRs.