Sunday Action

Apropos of nothing:

Overheard in a Starbucks:

Disgruntled Biden backer nostalgic for a past than never was: Can you remind me what 'venti' means?

Warren-backing barista: It means my degree in Fine Arts landed me this gig.

Comments

[MissMarple3]

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump · 3m3 minutes ago

The Failing New York Times, in one of the most devastating portrayals of bad journalism in history, got caught by a leaker that they are shifting from their Phony Russian Collusion Narrative (the Mueller Report & his testimony were a total disaster), to a Racism Witch Hunt.....

.....”Journalism” has reached a new low in the history of our Country. It is nothing more than an evil propaganda machine for the Democrat Party. The reporting is so false, biased and evil that it has now become a very sick joke...But the public is aware! #CROOKEDJOURNALISM

[MissMarple3]

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump · 2m2 minutes ago

With all that this Administration has accomplished, think what my Poll Numbers would be if we had an honest Media, which we do not!

[MissMarple3]

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump · 29s29 seconds ago

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

[MissMarple3]

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/457827-lewandowski-on-potential-nh-senate-run-if-i-run-im-going-to-win

[Thomas Collins]

I once ordered a short blonde at Starbucks (for those who wouldn't be caught dead in a Starbucks, blonde is the lightest Starbucks roast, and short is the smallest cup of coffee one can get at a Starbucks). The barista asked me what was wrong with a short brunette? She was a short brunette. With my usual sense of political correctitude, I said there was no short brunette on the menu, or I would have ordered a cup of it. We both had a good laugh.

[MissMarple3]

Thomas Collins,

LOL! Thank you for explaining, as I have never been I a Starbucks in my life.

[MissMarple3]

https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2019/08/17/report-china-employs-fake-news-to-smear-hong-kong-protesters/

MY question is if our reporters went to seminars in Beijing.

[Marlene]

Good Morning! TC,have you read the speculation about Joe Joe Joe challenging Ed Markey for the Senate. Ha,poor Mr. Frosty.

[Narciso]

Ah thats the guy who pretends to know spanish?

[Thomas Collins]

Short (8 oz.), tall (12 oz.), grande (16 oz.), and venti (24 oz.), MM3. At one point the company was thinking about introducing a larger size, but I don't know whether they did. Oddly enough, if you ask for the sizes, short is not mentioned, even though it was the original Starbucks size. In addition, those bookstore and highway rest stop coffee shops operating under the Starbucks name typically don't serve a short size.

I think I have just locked up the 2019 JOM Gold Medal for Purveyor of Useless Coffee Shop Information!

[Narciso]

Like a cortadito, which is mostly milk with a shot of expresso.

[Thomas Collins]

Yes, Marlene, I have. Joe Cubed is pining to bring a new general of statist nonsense to the Senate! Let's drink a short blonde to that!

[Thomas Collins]

Make that a new generation of statist nonsense.

[Narciso]

I was soeculating how huawei operates a littlr like itt operated in the 30s and 40s, even though behn was an independent actor,

[Bela1]

Good morning!
Great Pieces today, Clarice.
Have a good one everybody.

[Thomas Collins]

Here is one of the articles on Joe Cubed's itch to send Markey into retirement.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/457825-joseph-kennedy-mulling-primary-challenge-to-markey-in-massachusetts

[Narciso]

Speculating, the typos seem to be growing exponentially

[MissMarple3]

https://www.post-gazette.com/business/powersource/2019/08/16/Trump-speech-union-crowd-Shell-ethane-plant-natural-gas-beaver-county-pennsylvania-attendance-pay-overtime/stories/201908160113

This breaks down the pay for those who attended and those who did not. Unmentioned in the story is that a fair number of these guys wouldn't have jobs if it weren't for the President.

[henry]

iPhone contacts list hack (Apple issued a fix already):

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/your-iphone-contacts-list-could-be-a-vulnerable-target-2019-08-10

[Marlene]

Bela,you are in Massachusetts? What do you think about Joe Joe Joe running for Senate?
The media is so predictable,going into a swoon over a Kennedy.

[Old Lurker]

To A-mom's point in chief: Make a list of attributes associated with Banana Republics and 'splain to me why we are not already there.

[MissMarple3]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-says-french-wine-may-face-100-percent-tariff-in-response-to-tax-on-us-tech-firms

lyle won't like this. Wish he would come back!

[Old Lurker]

MM, that 100% tariff just doubled the value of Lyle's wine cellar.

[Old Lurker]

Marlene, the scary thing is MA has to decide between yet another Kennedy and Markey and that is a tough tough call.

[MissMarple3]

https://www.liveaction.org/news/ohio-senate-cuts-planned-parenthood-pregnancy-centers/

"As Planned Parenthood is being defunded of $1.5 million in annual state funds this year, pro-life pregnancy centers are being allocated $7.5 million in Ohio’s state budget. Taken together, these two changes represent a bold stride for protecting unborn lives and supporting women’s well-being at the state level…."

[Narciso]

Scylla or charybdis?

[MissMarple3]

Short thread by RG:

https://twitter.com/RattlerGator/status/1163075028944076801

[Thomas Collins]

That's a good reference from ancient mythology, narciso, as to what Massachusetts election choices are usually like. S and C indeed!

[MissMarple3]

https://twitter.com/chbstone2/status/1163074981510766595

This is an 11-tweet thread on separation of powers.

[Narciso]

If it were actually a banana republuc they would be gunning down political opponents openly, a littlr likr thr lambrakis hit thar inspired z.

[clarice]

Nobody knows banana republics better than Narciso and babalu.

[clarice]

The last time my AT column got so many dissenting comments there was when I early predicted Trump would win.

[Jim Eagle]

OL,

My wine cellar (actually a special enviroment/room at 56 degrees F) is stocked with mainly French (Bordeaux) wines. Includes 12 unopened cases of pre-2000 and 2000 (great year). They were already in the multi-thousand range but thanks to Trump my investment has doubled:)

Lately, I have been drinking "open house" wines neighbors bring over when you have them for dinner.

Today, Mrs. JiB sat outside with our covfefe's and it was the first time this summer we had a nice cool breeze and it is was off the SW. Pretty early for mid 70 level temps here. Wonder if that means 'Cane season to soon start?

[Narciso]

Its been a bit of a research project in cuba in the 40s, which aspired to a green nude deal of sorts with the 1940 constitution, the student activists that deposed the previous president became a power on to themselves, fidel and sone of his rivals arose out of thar atmosphere.

[MissMarple3]

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/08/cnn_discovers_that_combining_trump_derangement_syndrome_with_ignorant_reporters_leads_to_embarrassing_corrections.html

Since I never watch CNN (didn't even when I had cable) I missed this howler.

Cillizza proves that Georgetown's degrees do not confer particular expertise in history.

[Narciso]

Cilizza is journolist, but hes also an idiot, there are overlapping circles.

[MissMarple3]

https://www.tmz.com/2019/08/17/giani-russo-godfather-chris-cuomo-fredo/

Russo says Cuomo made a fool of himself.

[clarice]

t's like Teen Vogue now with some Sharpton mixed in. Front page story in Wa Po today about the struggles of a tranny (woman to man) who just gave birth to a baby boy.

[hrtshpdbox]

Lately, I have been drinking "open house" wines neighbors bring over when you have them for dinner.

Other People's is some of the most satisfying wines I've had. Jack, just noticed your comment from the other day - thanks.

[Melinda]

Scott Adams has been keeping a list:

https://twitter.com/scottadamssays/status/1163073563722543109?s=21

[GUS]

Hey!!! Does anyone know if Starbucks sells a SHORT BLONDE??

[Bela1]

Hi there Marlene,
Yes, I'm in MA and I was just trying to figure out who this Joe is that may run against that leech, Markey. My first thought when I learned it was Joe K is "oh dear Lord, help us all!".

I can't stand Markey, Warren, Biden or any other Dem running.

I like Lewandowski & do hope he runs in NH because I think he'd make a great Senator. Trump, I think will take NH this time but I still worry deeply about what Soros plans to do. We're in for some trying times until the next election...

Off to the dump with my son. TTYL.

[Jim Eagle]

Perhaps, Chris Cuomo is having some career anxiety since his Southampton home on Corrigan Street is for sale. I think for $2.75 million.

He does have a screw loose if you count drag-racing in Southampton:)

https://pagesix.com/2016/06/26/chris-cuomo-was-in-full-blown-drag-race-before-car-crash/

[GUS]

There is nothing that Georgetown teaches that can't be learned at ANY STATE SCHOOL.

[Thomas Collins]

How about a Blonde Espresso, GUS?

https://www.bustle.com/p/what-is-starbucks-blonde-espresso-its-perfect-for-people-who-dont-like-bitter-coffee-7822184

[MissMarple3]

GUS,

I learned about Seward's Folly in HIGH SCHOOL.

[GUS]

Chris Cuomo is a fucking stooge. Calling him a douche bag would be unfair to douche bags.
I think someone should call him FREDO. It fits.

[Rocco]

Thanks for the hat tip clarice. I can see this conspiracy snowballing forever.

I'm still laughing at meme someone (i think hoyden) posted about a customer being asked his name. The customer yelled out, "may the Lord be with you." To which all the customers responded, "and also with you." (which was changed a few years ago)

I love Lewandowski and he's one of the few I trust around the president. It's a Lowell thing!

[GUS]

Lovely Miss M. I learned about Sewards Folly in grade school. I doubt todays recent college grads know what Sewards folly is. But they prolllly know about ALASKAN BUSH PEOPLE.

Tom C. Thanks, can I borrow $20 for a cup o'starbucks???

[Jim Eagle]

In Vienna, the locals order their coffee as “melange”. Strong espresso and hot milk. Perfect for a European breakfast of breads, butter, charcuterie and cheeses.

I wonder if there is a Starbucks in the Cafe Capital of the world.

[hoyden]

This link by henry in the last thread seems to implicate high fat diets as a contributing factor.

Leaky gut, IGA, and diabetes:

https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2019/08/13/Obesity-linked-to-loss-of-gut-antibody-increased-insulin-resistance/8431565709495/

Posted by: henry | August 18, 2019 at 08:48 AM

[Narciso]

Jo jo is the one who did the democratic response, with an autoshop class.

[Thomas Collins]

If Brewers win World Series this year, GUS, I'll send you are Starbucks gift card! Your side of the bet is this: If Brewers don't win World Series and Packers fall short of a .500 winning percentage this year, you send me a pound of fine Wisconsin cheese!

[Melinda]

Ebola vaccine might be working:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-17/success-clear-we-finally-have-cure-ebola

[GUS]

What kind of cheese am I sending you!!!?

[Melinda]

TC-

Hold out for a pound of Garlic Dill Cheese Curds.

Trust me.

[Another Bob]

Re. the king of Jordan in Sioux Falls and Fargo, yeah that seems odd.

The Jordanian Air Force is heavy on F16s, and both places are F16 bases for US air national guards? The king is a pilot himself? Training thing?

Seem to be odd places for Arab royalty to vacation.

[GUS]

I went to the Packers game last week. Not pretty.

The Brewers are in their 50th season.
One World Series. 7 game loss to St Louis in 82.
Now they are in the same division with St Louis.

[GUS]

Mel lives just south of the CHEESE CURTAIN.

He has to pass MAR CHEESE CASTLE on his way to M'waukee.

[Thomas Collins]

Thanks for the tip, Melinda!

[GUS]

A-Bob, my brother knows the King. Flew with him several times to Petra. King Abdullah flies a helicopter.

[Jane]

Finally! A gorgeous day in Florida. Sheesh! I went to the pool and counted my blessings. That's not a bad thing to do. I was shocked at how many I have.

[GUS]

Tom, it doesn't seem possible, but the PACKERS missed the playoffs the last 2 years.

[henry]

Rogers got woke, Packers went broke.

[Thomas Collins]

OK, it's Garlic Dill Cheese Curds versus Starbucks Gift Card. At first glance, it looks as if I have the better side of the bet. On closer inspection, however, GUS has the better play. It's more likely that Brewers will win WS this year than both Packers falling under .500 and Brewers falling short. Most, likely, it will be a push.

[Melinda]

henry-

It’s The Munn Curse.

[Jane]

So why aren't my posts showing up? Harrumph!

[Thomas Collins]

Your Harrumph post showed up, Jane!

[Melinda]

Gus-

King Abdullah attended a “High School” that Peter and I are very familiar with in the Pioneer Valley.

[MissMarple3]

OMG. @HillaryClinton wants others “to stay quiet” about Epstein? Why in God’s name would she say that? She doesn’t want justice for those poor abused children? She just doesn’t want those around her to be exposed???? This, folks, is pure evil speak. pic.twitter.com/stsJonFT3F

— 🇺🇸 Deplorable Pet Lover 🇺🇸🐾 (@petluvers4Trump) August 17, 2019

Link goes to a screen cap of an excerpt from a Hillary op ed in the New York Times. Trump supporters are accused of being wild-eyed conspiracy theorists, but she writes stuff like this for publication.

[henry]

Parody account Miss M.

[Jane]

Ooops! Dumb me.

Clarice, fabulous Pieces, even if I disagree.

When I was in my third year of college at CU, my best friend was a Chinese girl from Hong Kong. She invited me to Hong Kong for the summer. I had a bank account, opened when I was born, with $800.00 in it. I asked my mother if I could use that money to go, and she agreed.

My friend's father owned the Hong Kong stock exchange, and her mother (in a very fun story) was the #1 trader in China. I was very excited. What an opportunity to learn so much!

That spring the Chinese came in and threatened to take Hong Kong over (it was under the control of the UK at the time) and my friend's family picked up and moved to Canada. End of trip. I'm still mad at the Chinese for that!

[Robin, eff 'em all]

What year was that, Jane? My husband grew up in HK and I want to see what he remembers.

[Robin, eff 'em all]

That NYT town hall is still bothering me/ They traded in the original 3 R's - Reading, wRiting and ARythmatic - for Russia, Recession and Racism.

Posted by: jim nj | August 18, 2019 at 12:56 AM

Funny, I was just thinking about this when you posted. The new rules of journalism.

[Jane]

Robin,

Sometime in the '70's, 74 or 75 I'd guess. BTW China backed off, but it was too late for me.

[MissMarple3]

henry

Well, rats. Sorry!

Time for me to get in the shower.

[Comanche Voter]

Gus, count your blessings that the Brewers got to 7 games in the only World Series they played in.

My team is the San Diego Padres--also an expansion franchise that's 50 years old or thereabouts.

The Padres went to the World Series twice--lost to the Detroit Tigers 4-1 in either 83 or 84; then got swept 4-0 by the Yankees in 97 or 98. Those things hurt so much that the dates are fuzzy in my mind.

[Robin, eff 'em all]

Heart (Is that a good way to address you?),

I am an infrequent poster too, so often feel a little out of the loop despite reading almost every thread through. It's like real life in a way - there are the people you interact with daily, and therefore their absence is striking. Then there are those who you see occasionally and wonder what they're up to over a long absence.

My extended family is not very close, so the JOM folks are kind of stand-ins for the extended family I don't have. I mostly observe, appreciate, and, if I'm caught up (which isn't very often), chime in. But mostly, I enjoy the personalities and the differing points of view. Yours is a voice I enjoy, so I hope you'll be around more often.

That said, if anyone is still with me, my husband was telling me about a woman in, I think, Michigan who knows everything there is to know about bearings for old machines, primarily woodworking. And I wondered randomly if anyone here knows about her. She sounds like quite a character.

[Robin, eff 'em all]

Thanks Jane! He was ten at the time. I'll ask him if he remembers anything.

[GUS]

Funny how the media wants nothing to do with Bill Clinton going to Pedo Island. Absolute silence.
The notion that Bill Clinton wouldn't be part of this perversion is laughable.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--How do we cover America, that's become so divided by Donald Trump?--

That's a quote from Clarice's pieces from the NYT dolt.

Before Trump the left was calling us racist pigs and shoving homosexual marriage and every other perversion they could think of down our throats. It wasn't Trump who promised to fundamentally transform the US. It wasn't Trump who launched his career from a radical leftist terrorist's house, a left wing terrorist embraced by the educational establishment of this country. It wasn't Trump who put his financial interests before middle America's and transferred our industry and wealth overseas so they could cut their skim off the top. It wasn't Trump who called us deplorable and irredeemable or told us we're a bunch of dumb hicks clinging to our guns and religion like Linus's blanket.
Trump hasn't divided America. Trump is just the first Republican to point out the leftist sharks and their attendant, ruling class, globalist remora have already divided the nation. And he is also the first to point out they seek to unify us in the same way an amoeba seeks to unify with its next meal.
They're not mad he's dividing America. They're mad he's not another mealy-mouthed sycophantic GOPe creep pocketing his share of the cream while patronizing the people who elected them.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

The left is mad at Trump and the deplorables for exactly the same reason Xi and the PRC commies are mad at the people of HK.

[GUS]

Gooolag is filled with stories about TRUMP and "UNFOUNDED" Conspiracy theories.

That is fucking rich. Russia Russia Russia was unfounded and investigate at $40 million for 2 years. They still haven't gotten over it.

[jimmyk]

Cilizza is journolist, but hes also an idiot, there are overlapping circles.

More like concentric than overlapping. All journolisters are idiots, but not all idiots are journolisters. Biden, for example.

[Captain Hate]

Willowed

I have noticed some of the lefties on Twitter pushing the idea of shoving the blame for this up to Barr, which indicates to me they want to get rid of him or discredit him through endless investigation.

Barr hasn't distinguished himself in this clusterfuck. It's gotten me off his bandwagon; not that I'm anyone important but I doubt I'm alone.

[MissMarple3]

Well said, Iggy!

I got the feeling the other day that Trump was giving Xi some advice and hinting at it in his tweets.

I don't know a thing about the PRC commie party structure, but you have to admit that if anyone has a good track record of taking over a party, it's Trump.

I am watching this Hong Kong thing with fascination.

[MissMarple3]

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2019/08/18/thank-you-next-john-brennan-lectures-americans-on-who-we-need-to-elect-in-2020-and-whoa-nelly-thats-some-backfire/

Is there ANYONE who goes around with a more exaggerated frowny face than John Brennan? Did he become a commie because he was so unhappy, or did becoming a commie MAKE him unhappy? Hard to decide!

[MissMarple3]

I have got to get my daughter's older dog trained not to sleep under this desk. She hits wires and loosens them - just spent 1- minutes getting things hooked back up!

[Captain Hate]

Water is wet Rupert Gazette version

Local prosecutors in Manhattan labeled Jeffrey Epstein a low-level sex offender nearly a decade ago, against the recommendation of a state panel of experts and to the shock of a New York judge.

Documents obtained through a public-records request provide new insight into how Mr. Epstein wielded influence within the criminal-justice system, as his lawyers tried to prevent the financier from having to report to New York City police regularly or appear in a public sex-offender database.

[MissMarple3]

https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/457866-sunday-shows-recession-fears-dominate

Of course recession talk dominates. It's the next hoax that the media hopes voters will believe.

[MissMarple3]

Shocking video of domestic terror group ANTIFA (shorthand for anti-First Amendment) hunting down and aggressively confronting a 10 year old girl. More proof that ANTIFA is a violent, anti-civil liberties group committed to aggression and speech suppression. 👇🏻 https://t.co/iG86aCIQ1e

— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) August 18, 2019

Link goes to an Andy Ngo tweet with video.

[Captain Hate]

Of course recession talk dominates. It's the next hoax that the media hopes voters will believe.

After eight year's of Gaylord's boot on the neck of the economy (following GWB's GOPe non voodoo idiocy) and they coined terms like funemployment, staycation and job lock? That chicken never gets unfucked.

[clarice]

Thanks, Jane,
Thumbs up, Iggy.

[clarice]

Press which describes the Antifa thugs as "antifascists" should have their press credentials confiscated

[Narciso]

Well whenever possible i call them black bloc, because anything else encourages us, it was rhe left who coined contra neocon antichoice; those are tags they apply to us.

[Captain Hate]

Re Bongino's tweet

That guy shouldn't have taken his kid to that shit show. Yes he should be able to but Portland is completely off limits to sane people. Rule #1 in good parenting is don't endanger your child.

[MissMarple3]

clarice,

Apparently these Antifa thugs and these young whippersnapper reporters are too young to remember the Chicago 69 democrat convention and the backlash from it.

My dad, a staunch union democrat, was fit to be tied, and although he wouldn't admit it, I think he voted for Wallace. I don't think my mom voted. I was living in West Berlin so didn't quite know everything going on, but I got letters from my sister and saw some stuff on the Armed Forces Networok at friends' homes.

[MissMarple3]

Chicago 68. Typo.

[Rocco]

Might be explosive...Mueller lied

According to Mr. Mifsud’s attorneys their client was working for the CIA and was NOT a Russian operative as reported by the Mueller witch hunt team of liars.

Maria Bartiromo: We know that there were informants thrown at certain Trump campaign people, like George Papadopoulos. George Papadopoulos was on this show and he told me directly on this show that Mifsud was the guy they wanted him to meet in Italy… That is the individual who told him that Russia has emails on Hillary Clinton. Why is that important, John?

John Solomon: Well, I interviewed Mr. Mifsud’s lawyer the other day, Stefan Rowe, and he told me and also provided me some deposition evidence to both Congress and myself that his client was being directed and long worked with Western intelligence. And he was being directed specifically, he was asked to connect George Papadopoulos to Russia, meaning it was an operation, some form of intelligence operation. That was the lawyer’s own words for this. If that’s the case that means the flash point the started the whole investigation was in fact manufactured from the beginning.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/08/huge-mueller-team-lied-attorney-for-joseph-mifsud-confirms-he-is-western-intelligence-operative-and-not-a-russian-operative-video/

[Narciso]

Kulak gusano (worm) is another auch appelation.

How can you talk of recession if there hasnt been one quarter of negative growth much less two, words have no telation to reality. Now in china they may be closer to that precipice.