Green With... Laughter?

Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez launches her Intersectional Environmentalism proposal to de-carbonize the US economy and solve every social problem within ten years.

Megan Mcardle, David Harsanyi and Jon Chait wack the pinata. I'll give Megan props for the best headline:

‘We’re nuts!’ isn’t a great pitch for a Green New Deal

But this proposal, and especially the accompanying (and withdrawn) fact sheet isn't merely ludicrously ambitious and devoid of common sense (Eliminate air travel?!? Retrofit "every" building in America?!?). It also reveals a stunning absence of basic knowledge of history and public finance.

One wonders whether Ms. AOC actually has the time and temperament to collaborate with experts and study an issue (yet another reason she is the Trump of the left!). Or did Democratic leadership cut her loose and send the real Washington hands off on other projects? Let her primary herself!

On to specifics. This passage on how the extreme environmental makeover might be financed may have sounded great in a college dorm. A freshman dorm. But this is a frightening level of ignorance about the structure, legal authorities, independence and role of the Federal Reserve when it comes from a Congressperson as part of a legislative package (my emphasis):

How will you pay for it?

The same way we paid for the New Deal, the 2008 bank bailout and extended quantitative easing programs. The same way we paid for World War II and all our current wars. The Federal Reserve can extend credit to power these projects and investments and new public banks can be created to extend credit. There is also space for the government to take an equity stake in projects to get a return on investment. At the end of the day, this is an investment in our economy that should grow our wealth as a nation, so the question isn’t how will we pay for it, but what will we do with our new shared prosperity.

Ah, well, what? The Federal Reserve is an independent entity - it won't be financing this green agenda just because AOC thinks it ought to. As to their legal authority, well, it is widely agreed the Fed can purchase government backed debt. They crept beyond that during the 2008 financial meltdown and used their lending authority to finance parts of the AIG bailout in what was widely perceived as an dire, backs against the wall, emergency meltdown scenario. But it is not at all obvious why an independent Fed would choose to finance these green projects or whether it would be within their legal scope.

Back on the history front, this JFK/Ike/FDR nostalgia is ahistorical nonsense:

Americans love a challenge. This is our moonshot.

When JFK said we’d go to the by the end of the decade, people said impossible.

If Eisenhower wanted to build the interstate highway system today, people would ask how we’d pay for it.

When FDR called on America to build 185,000 planes to fight World War 2, every business leader, CEO, and general laughed at him... At the time, the U.S. had produced 3,000 planes in the last year. By the end of the war, we produced 300,000 planes. That’s what we are capable of if we have real leadership.

One at a time: Kennedy first laid out the man-on-the-moon vision in May 1961. The US was losing the space race to the Soviet Union, which had the first satellite and the first man in space (their legacy rocket program from WWII gave them a head start).

Did people say "impossible"? The relevant Senate Committee unanimously approved funding a few weeks later. Polling was scattered: per Forbes, in 1959 52% thought a man on the moon was doable within 20 years; in early 1961, 65% approved of the attempt. Well, until the price tag was announced: per Wikipedia, 58% opposed the use of funds for that purpose. But "impossible"? Not seeing it.

And Ike? Well, he didn't wait for people to ask how we'd pay for the highway program - he asked Congress to extend the gasoline tax in his original proposal. No, fiscal conservatism wasn't invented last weekend to thwart Green Dreams.

As to FDR, my goodness: his speech calling for a massive rearmament effort was delivered on May 15, 1940, five days after Germany began their invasion of France. The French collapse along the Meuse was well underway, although the public (and possibly Allied military leadership) may not have been fully aware. The Times front page, with the Roosevelt speech in the upper left:

Although AOC is surely hearing laughter today, people were not laughing in May of 1940 (Geez, did she see "Churchill"? "Dunkirk"? How about "Avengers - Infinity War"?). In fact, FDR pressed into service William Knudsen, the head of General Motors, to dial up America's industrial base. Here is how historian Arthur Herman described Knudsen's approach:

“I’m no soldier,” Knudsen told Roosevelt when he got to Washington that May, “But I know if we get into war, the winning of it will be purely a question of material production.” He persuaded FDR that three steps were needed to get America’s businesses and factories ready for getting back to work, and getting ready for war.

The first was to rethink Roosevelt’s own anti-business instincts, and to bring industry leaders into the administration to deal with the production crisis.

The second was to scrap many of the New Deal’s anti-business regulations and tax policies, in order to give businesses an incentive to switch to wartime production and hire workers, retool, and expand their plants.

The third was to take control of the war mobilization process away from Washington bureaucrats and give it to America’s most innovative and productive companies.

That sounds sort of the opposite of the AOC plan to put the government in charge of everything.

Well. Other than showing no grasp of common sense, history or public finance I would say AOC is good to go.

Comments

[henry]

MissM, if Trump is behind the timing on this I am impressed.

[henry]

Daddy, Uncle Tom Chapter 2:

http://thefederalist.com/2019/02/08/second-accuser-comes-forward-against-virginia-democrat-justin-fairfax/

[Narciso79]

More journalistic malfeasance exception:

https://mobile.twitter.com/RobElgasABC7/status/1093997828966359042

[Narciso79]

So it was known that this ex regime official had been for nearly 7 years, again trump is the only regime to take action,

[Captain Hate]

Now Shifty Schiff? Best week evarrrrrr.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/02/08/bold-predictions-and-forecast-heres-why-trumps-tech-guru-campaign-manager-has-dems-terrified-72214

This article includes a 12-minute interview with Brad Parscale by Martha McCallum.

[The Infamous Ignatz]

Drink in the disgusting irony;
Dude murders his five months pregnant girlfriend in Queens.
Gets charged with murder, tampering with physical evidence, criminal possession of a weapon and abortion.
Dad kills a five month old fetus and its a crime. Mom kills a nine month old one and it's a celebration.
Come on brimstone.

[Pinandpuller]

Don't need Politifact to weigh in on MM's 5:00.

Mostly False.

[Captain Hate]

I think that Schiff story is a year old.

[MissMarple2]

henry,

These past few days are why I have confidence in Trump.

Either he is using his "executive time" wisely or his rumored (by Q people) allies in military intelligence are doing a bang up job.

It's quite satisfying, isn't it?

[Rocco]

I don't think that Schiff story is real.

[Dave (in MA)]

It's probably truthy, but fake.

[MissMarple2]

Nick Gillespie
‏Verified account @nickgillespie

"I have seen the future of journalism, and it involves writing lots of checks for libel damages with many zeroes attached" must-read by @Heminator @FDRLST http://thefederalist.com/2019/02/08/the-biggest-threat-to-press-freedom-is-the-media-itself/#.XF2CpkI_RQ0.twitter … @lnstapundit @Popehat

[The Infamous Ignatz]

--I think the concept of checks and balances was one of the wisest decisions the Founding Fathers made. How exactly do you think the SCOTUS would have a check against the power of the other two branches without the ability to rule a law unconstitutional?--

Excellent answer if the question was "does the Constitution contain checks and balances between the three branches of government".

However the challenge posed was actually;
"And there is no such thing as equal branches of government. Show me in the Constitution where it says that."

Congress is by far the most powerful of the three branches. It can remove judges including SCOTUS ones. It has to approve them in the first place. It can drastically restrict Federal court jurisdictions and even eliminate entire Federal court districts up to and including all of them, except SCOTUS. It can remove the President. It declares war. It originates all legislation and can override the President's veto of it. It can, along with the states, amend the Constitution.
Now it's true it has abdicated some of its powers and others have been arrogated by the other two branches, but that unconstitutional behavior is part of why we're in a mess.

[Captain Hate]

The Reverend Queasy Appreciation Thread:

http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=379699

[henry]

If the Schiff story were true, that would be something. Did Schiff’s people rerun it because he got caught with his pants down with the Fusion GPS dude Simpson and a distraction was needed? Is it possible for a baptism scene to run for a year?

[The Infamous Ignatz]

I think Adam Schiff is cisgendered and straight; and there's everything wrong with that.

[Narciso79]

The dog that doesn't seem to bark was about the Schiff Simpson collusion in Aspen, did any of our side push Whitaker on that.

[Jane]

The bigger news on Adam Schiff is his secret meeting with the Fusion GPS guy. Remember what they did to Nunes including taking him off thr committee.

[henry]

Trump;

My representatives have just left North Korea after a very productive meeting and an agreed upon time and date for the second Summit with Kim Jong Un. It will take place in Hanoi, Vietnam, on February 27 & 28. I look forward to seeing Chairman Kim & advancing the cause of peace!

North Korea, under the leadership of Kim Jong Un, will become a great Economic Powerhouse. He may surprise some but he won’t surprise me, because I have gotten to know him & fully understand how capable he is. North Korea will become a different kind of Rocket - an Economic one!

[Account Deleted]

BREAKING: Del. Patrick Hope is preparing articles of impeachment against Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax. He will file them Monday unless the LG resigns on his own before then.

Meanwhile Gov. Northam's punishment will be a homework assignment:
" ... his advisers have assigned the governor homework: He’s begun to read Alex Haley’s “Roots”, and “The Case for Reparations,” the seminal essay in The Atlantic by Ta-Nehisi Coates." - Darren Sands at Buzzfeed

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/darrensands/virginia-gov-ralph-northam-survival-plan

[henry]

Even the Onion is funny today:

https://twitter.com/theonion/status/1093965462260588545?s=21

[MissMarple2]

New border wall about to be built in south Texas https://t.co/r8zcdMEcHp @FoxNews #AAG

— All American Girl (@AIIAmericanGirI) February 9, 2019

Link goes to video.

[Narciso79]

There is a continuation:

https://quillette.com/2019/02/06/understanding-modern-african-horrors-by-way-of-the-indian-ocean-slave-trade/?fbclid=IwAR2USSSTSc_gin-lu_qxhbT6JUkdLpfrh4sQiOanVw4sxVnPGLXI31RIqMg

[Pinandpuller]

daddy

There's a Chapter 11 as well. That's why he got to keep the cabin.

[Captain Hate]

You can't parody what Janet printed about Northam. What a state of idiots.

[MissMarple2]

pic.twitter.com/KnzpWNRpTG

— VA House Democrats (@VAHouseDems) February 9, 2019

Link to joint statement of Virginia House and Senate Democrats. They are throwing Fairfax overboard.

[Account Deleted]

from the earlier Ace link - http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=379705

"Democrats, Five Days Ago: Blackface is a racist hate-crime for which we must have zero tolerance

Democrats in Five Minutes: Blackface is good-natured, frisky fun for the whole family!!!

Northam: I'm Not Resigning. And the Democrats who demanded he resigned will now start arguing he shouldn't resign.

OMG: Northam is gonna read "Roots" and Ta-Naheshi's books to redeem himself, guys.

And re-orient his governorship to be all about race."

[Narciso79]

So he will be even more insufferable, why isn't there a boycott of Virginia (present company excepted) like they force on north Carolina or georgia.

If the voters had known about Fairfax last year, isn't it possible that might have influenced the mid terms.

[daddy]

BREAKING: Another woman has now come forward, accusing Virginia Lt. Gov @FairfaxJustin of raping her while both were students at Duke University.

Henry,

you didn't mention that Lt Governor Ike Fairfax Turner was from DOOK!

There's Chapter 3😂

[Buckeye]

Seen more of Bezos in one day than the rest of his life.

Good that he is the richest man in the world because that dude is seriously fugly.

[Narciso79]

Oh I mentioned. It daddy, dragon lady tran also had a credential from them.

[Pinandpuller]

Do you mean Alex Haley's Roots-feat. Harold Courlander?

[pagar]

I'll report probably tomorrow on PDFescape. I am totally wore out and going to bed.

[MissMarple2]

https://twitter.com/STUinSD/status/1094049240878407682

Stu writes a good thread on democrat rationalization and shallow thinking.

[Account Deleted]

((So he will be even more insufferable, why isn't there a boycott of Virginia (present company excepted) like they force on north Carolina or georgia.))

Excellent point, narciso!!

[Pinandpuller]

What's Trump got to do, got to do with it?

Tina Turner-Steamy Windows

https://youtu.be/e04pzNwIqU8

[Pinandpuller]

Is Virginia still for Lovers?

[MissMarple2]

https://www.theepochtimes.com/democrats-are-showing-us-all-who-they-really-are-lets-believe-them_2794888.html

Part One: Very Late Term Abortions & Infanticide

[Narciso79]

Sometimes I really think trump has the mindstone they are going to dump thr African American gent and keep the two white, in February of all things?

[MissMarple2]

https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2019/02/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-scores-an-invite-to-chrissy-teigens-grammys-party/

See? Star treatment.

[Pinandpuller]

Where be the White Women?

[Pinandpuller]

No, sorry.

Hey, where the White Women at?

[Narciso79]

Since immolAtion is the order of the day:

https://biblereadingarcheology.com/2016/05/13/did-the-canaanites-sacrifice-their-children/

[Account Deleted]

Will Northam have to read a book about why murdering babies is evil?

[Narciso79]

NO I think the Bible is offlimits, in this instance.

[Narciso79]

So Ginsburg dutifully beeped her concurrence like captain pike?

[Account Deleted]

h/t narciso

Where are the leftist entertainers & organizations calling for a boycott of Virginia, like they did to North Carolina?
Is blackface okay? Where's the NBA?
- North Carolina: Let men into women's facilities or we will boycott your state!
- Virginia: Democrat politicians in blackface is no big deal. Just have them read a book.

Where is the NBA? NCAA, ACC, Cirque du Soleil, Deutsche Bank, PayPal, Bruce Springsteen, Apple, Nike, Pearl Jam,...

https://www.newsweek.com/north-carolina-hb2-bathroom-bill-timeline-498052

https://www.recode.net/2016/7/8/12128698/apple-cisco-intel-salesforce-68-companies-north-carolina-anti-lgbt-law-hb2

[Jane]

I can't figure out whether democrats have lost their minds exhibiting that they are complete morons, or if we have a New Democrat cult who have brought moronic behavior to the forefront.

Not sure there is a difference.

I've disagreed with democrats for a long time, but I've never witnessed this party before where Hank Johnson was the brightest bulb.

[Narciso79]

Embrace the word 'and'

As daddy noted there was no attention to the Bezos Weiner rehearsal until the narrative could be baked in, was gavin de Becker in on it, like crowdstrike and fire eye with ths dnc and Equifax, who knows but security seems abysmal.

A well respected firm debunks the key khashoggi narrative and yet Carlos slims and Bezos again regurgitate the same bullet points

[Narciso79]

Because the sin is to acknowledge man and woman, right and wrong, it is the likes of the 'fundamental option' values dilution that is the order of the day.

[MissMarple2]

Never forget they all loved him. pic.twitter.com/DzlwhhacAA

— Space 🚀 Force (@Bud_Doggin) February 9, 2019

Photos at link.

The question is WHY they changed.

[daddy]

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam Plans To Survive By Changing His Agenda To Focus On Race

If I didn't know better I'd almost think his latest moves are self serving.

[daddy]

Besides Rich Lowry, have any of the rest of the usual suspects spoken out in favor of Uncle Tom's Cabinet?

[Narciso79]

That's just crazy talk, daddy.

So everyone seemed to cry over this ovoid mogul perhaps because they know the bells can and will tell for them

[Catsmeat]

sbw, many congrats for the larger attention to your faithful and tireless efforts to redeem the time (in a necessarily narrow but important way).

[Narciso79]

The bulwinkle is pretending it's not happening

[Catsmeat]

Oh, and that Traveller survived the war and retired with Lee to Washington College (now W & L in Lee's honor, where Lee is buried)--really amazing. There's a novel somewhere written from Traveller's point of view (following off Black Beauty, the first novel to take a horse as the teller) in which Traveller after the war assumes they won it because Lee is cheered everywhere he goes! At W&L they have Traveller's stall still there and daily it is filled with hay. It is to weep (I certainly did).

[Dave (in MA)]

Tom Maguire@Tom_Maguire
The worst version of the worst DH argument is
having a Mets fan lecture a Yankees fan on the joys
of watching a losing team of losers find yet another
way to lose.

[MissMarple2]

Dr. Mildred Fay Jefferson was the first black woman to attend and graduate from Harvard Medical School and was a founder of Massachusetts Citizens for Life and National Right to Life. She is even credited with influencing Ronald Reagan’s conversion from pro-abortion to pro-life. pic.twitter.com/cyYdxNhjbE

— PolishPatriot™️ (@PolishPatriotTM) February 9, 2019

Video of Dr. Jefferson at the link.

[Pinandpuller]

Why didn't Tina Turner redo Anita Ward?

https://youtu.be/1gd67VF8CaE

[The Infamous Ignatz]

I didn't know Tom was such a sadist.
That hurt me and I couldn't care less about the Mets.

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

**JOKE TIME**

A bakery owner hires a young female clerk
who likes to wear very short skirts and thong
panties...
One day a young man enters the store, glances
at the clerk and at the loaves of bread behind
the counter. Noticing her short skirt and the
location of the raisin bread, he has a brilliant idea...
"I'd like some raisin bread please"...
The man says...
The clerk nods and climbs up a ladder to reach
the raisin bread located on the very top shelf...
The man standing almost directly beneath her,
is provided with an excellent view, just as
he thought.
When she descends the ladder, he decides that he
had better get two loaves, as he is "having company
for dinner"...
As the clerk retrieves the second loaf of bread, one of
the other male customers notices what's going on and
requests his own loaf of raisin bread.
After many trips, she is tired,
irritated and begins to wonder "why the unusual
interest in the raisin bread"...?
Atop the ladder one more time, she looks down
and glares at the men standing below...
Then, she notices an elderly man standing amongst
the crowd. Thinking that she can save herself a trip,
she yells at the elderly man, "Is it raisin for you too"...?
"No," stammers the old man, "but it's quivering a little".

[MissMarple2]

https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2019/02/08/report-former-cardinal-theodore-mccarrick-to-be-defrocked/

[The Infamous Ignatz]

Welp, another five feet of snow in the Sierra over the weekend, with low snow levels again.
Then most of next week through next weekend looks wet and possibly pretty darn wet, but with higher snow levels.
Once again, coming your way, but certainly preferable to the ol Solar Plexus or whatever it is you guys wimp out over. :)

It was in the 20s here two nights in row!

[Narciso79]

He was like Voldemort no one dared say his name:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/02/08/sir-philip-green-claims-revealed/

[MissMarple2]

https://gop.com/leaders/states/

How to find your GOP leadership in each state.

[Narciso79]

A ginned up two minute hate:

https://www.pscp.tv/w/1MnxnNZoyBwxO

[daddy]

Chapter 4: "I hold my beers with my Left hand, just like Al Jolson!"

From the Buzzfeed story above:

...Northam is still struggling to convince those around him that he should be able to complete his term in office, and that he was not in fact in the yearbook picture.

His chief argument as he has huddled with advisers and staff that he was not: The people in the picture were holding beers in their right hands...

That stuck Northam as odd, a source close to his office said. In medical school, Northam told advisers, he’d been so awkward with his right hand that he had to force himself to hold the scalpel with it. His left hand was his dominant hand, and indeed, the hand with which he was holding a beer in the picture of him alone in a cowboy hat — next to one that could yet alter the course of his political career.

That convinces me the Coonman is innocent.

How 'bout you guys.

[clarice]

MM, I cannot see this story anywhere on the LATimes page or on google except for Garrett. I think it's phony.

[Account Deleted]

MM's video link at 10:08 is really good.

[MissMarple2]

claricee,

I will trust your judgement. It is so hard to know who has a scoop and who is making up phony stiff.

Mark Dice said he had created that urine story this morning to see how many media types picked it up. That is irresponsible, if you ask me.

[Pinandpuller]

Is Eric Garcetti running for president? He's telling LAPD to cut back on traffic stops. I'm sure that's will add to the quality of life there.

https://youtu.be/lvPnRNaA_-Q

[Dave (in MA)]

Daddy,

[Narciso79]

I found that a dodgy story without much significance. Its striking how few went beyond the surface re Private maytags jihad perhaps because they knew where it led.

[MissMarple2]

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/429151-mccabe-accuses-trump-of-acting-like-mob-boss-in-new-book-report?__twitter_impression=true

1. I don't believe anything McCabe has to say.

2. The Hill characterizing Trump as a mob boss is not going to scare anyone but the soyboys. Most Americans have been conditioned to have a grudging respect and fascination with the Mafia. See Kurt Schlichter's columns where he calls the Rinos Fredocons..

[mike in houston]

Cat this is the book. The author also wrote Watership Down.

https://smile.amazon.com/Traveller-Richard-Adams-ebook/dp/B00Q8KXQUM/ref=sr_1_9?keywords=Traveller&qid=1549683137&s=Books&sr=1-9

[The Infamous Ignatz]

--How to find your GOP leadership in each state.-

Sounds like a Wild Kingdom episode;
We now join Marlin and Jim deep in the Columbia Swamp in search of the elusive, cowardly but deadly oxymoron.
They bait the trap with a TV camera and bank of microphones and wait patiently in the blind.
In minutes they are overrun by a rampaging herd of bull oxymorons in full rut.
As usual Marlin puts up a feeble defense gets canned in the filthy water and bails into the waiting chopper leaving Jim to gather the furious specimen on his own.

Annnnd...cut to Mutual of Omaha commercial with worst segue ever.

[Dave (in MA)]

The GOP leadership for MA includes Ron Kaufman, the guy who Mike Dukakis told a Logan Airport USAir agent was carrying a bomb in his luggage and they'd better check it.

[The Infamous Ignatz]

Image obviously reversed, Dave.

[The Infamous Ignatz]

By Putin!

[Narciso79]

Well as debnc notes they dont update governor Luthor is now senator desantis took his spot, ileana and curbelo are now longer around.

[Dave (in MA)]

Well, then he's wearing a womens' suit jacket.

[clarice]

I really love, Iggy.

[daddy]

Oh, and that Traveller survived the war and retired with Lee to Washington College (now W & L in Lee's honor, where Lee is buried)--really amazing. There's a novel somewhere

Catsmeat,

Re: Robert E Lee and Traveler, From "The Sneads Of Fluvanna," one of my great great great Aunt's published diaries of the War Years she witnessed as a young lady, page 84:

...Philip Benjamin, one of the twenty-one, lost his life in
reconnoitering, a few days before the raid, expecting to
obtain the correct information as to where Sheridan*s army
was. In company with another soldier, he rode some dis-
tance from home, and in attempting to cross the River James
on his return with the information, the river being much
swollen by rains, his boat was upset and both of the young
men were drowned.

It looked as if the words of the poet, "Misfortunes never
come singly, but always in battalions,** were being verified,
for a few days afterwards, the sister of Captain Snead*s
wife, Jeannette Broaddus, was returning from the wedding,
and was drowned in a river near her home. The writer,
returning to her home in Richmond, Manchester side, about
this time, reached there in time to see a pageant the world
has seldom equalledi — ^that of Lee*s Army of Miserables
going south to their surrender, with Richmond in flames, and
a few days later, Grant*s army, also Sherman's, coming in
with their gaily caparisoned steeds, soldiers with glittering
uniforms, bands playing wildly all the airs of conquering
heroes, that, if one had been in sympathy with itwould have
sent the blood a-tinghng with rapture unspeakable;
but instead, the Southerner, who had not dreamed of defeat
or dared to mention it, was face to face with the sorrowful
moment. Never can the picture presented in the days after
the Surrender, of General Lee's return to Richmond be
effaced from memory. The rain was falling; some one
called that General Lee was coming. It was on the south
side of the James River. A rush to the door, and there,
sure enough, was General Lee, the great, good man, on
"Traveller'* with an aide on either side. He wore a water-
proof cape. It was the only sight of General Lee ever given
the writer. The Richmond Dispatch^ in writing of this
return to his home, says that *'A small group of horsemen
appeared in the morning on the further side of the Richmond
pontoon across the James. By some strange intuition, it
became known that General Lee was of the party, and,
silent and uncovered, a crowd of Virginians all gathered
along the route the horsemen would take. There was no
excitement, no hurrahing; but as the great chief passed, a
deep, loving murmur greater than these rose from the very
hearts of the crowd. Taking off his hat, and simply bow-
ing his head, the man, great in adversity, passed silently to
his own door; it closed upon him, and his people had seen
him for the last time in battle harness."

[clarice]

MM, when you see a tweet claiming something really sensational with no link, run a google check, it's most likely fake.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

I liked Marlin. Blam!!!

"This is our moonshot" - AOC

"This is our moonbat" - matt

And the Jazz Singer TV series now enters its second week with no sighs yet of cancellation.Next week's episode "I am Kunta Kinte" starring Ted Danson.

[Narciso79]

Am I wrong in guessing American intelligence gets a case of the obvious but not much use:

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/losing-grip-power-venezuelas-maduro-leans-cuban-security/story?id=60911203

You can't impeach a public official for events that happened 15 or 18 years,ago

[The Infamous Ignatz]

I loved Marlin, Matt. Grew up on it.
But it was pretty corny and repetitive.

[MissMarple2]

I think I will head to bed. Everything popping up on Twitter now seems to be conspiracy theorist stuff.

Good night, everyone!

[Narciso79]

Oh yes that and jacques cocteau when I was in my zoological phase

https://mobile.twitter.com/wretchardthecat/status/1094081501719781378?s=04&fbclid=IwAR1MaKbgMkzrUToG07AvgFAnJ3bhZLC3LJquARaBWd70JM4apqxwDnsiJSo

Fernandez is correct, in less than a generation the nicaraguans returned Ortega even after the invasion of Panama there were Noriega partisans in less than 10 years

[daddy]

Ha! Dave. Sometimes I love catch-up😎

today I did the Tower of Sydney and had that marvelous view, stretching from Botany Bay, to the Blue mountains, and all the area of the Prammata River stretching from the mountains past Sydney and on out to the ocean. Magnificent.

Then I went out hunting for Kangaroo and Crocodile jerky for my nephews back in Eagle River Alaska, and also a surprise jar of Vegemite. If the koreans don't confiscate it when we pass thru their idiotic bag security checks, I hope i'm there when they get their first taste of Vegemite!

[Dave (in MA)]

Wow, Marlin Perkins has been dead since the Virginia government were all running around in minstrel show attire.

Time flies.

[Narciso79]

Someone went back with the delorean at some point,

[Dave (in MA)]

Ha!

Check out this Twitter banner that I ran across.

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_banners/1045524086573559809/1549093866/1500x500

[Pinandpuller]

Blackpilled-Are You Prepared for a Civil War?

TL;DW Those who are unprepared WILL fight for The System

https://youtu.be/e4pfkiW58OM

[The Infamous Ignatz]

Marlin watching the onscreen commotion on the monitor;
"OH, POOR JIM!
Turns to the camera stiffly;
"Just as we witnessed the herd of coatimundis gnawing off Jim's head, so too might you face a determined shrew or stoat that devours your cranium while you sleep. Mutual of Omaha has many affordable plans to provide for your loved ones in the likely event small rodents or mustelines eat your brain.
"Join us next week as Jim, now immune to indigenous headhuters, wanders aimlessly in the New guinea jungle until he falls into an active volcano."

[jimmyk]

Daddy, don't forget while you're in Sydney to pick up a kangaroo scrotum change purse. They make lovely souvenirs for your ladies.

[Jim,SunnyvaleCA,USA]

"joint statement of Virginia House and Senate Democrats. They are throwing Fairfax overboard."

So ... they dump the black guy overboard while the white guy walks free?
Dems are OK with that?

[Narciso79]

Yes at the start of black history month, and according to the rules, you can only impeach for acts conducted while in office, so we'll see how that works out.