Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day all!

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[JimNorCal]

Who says TM is not reading our comments :) :)

[JimNorCal]

"Cuomo Killed my Mom"
http://bejohngalt.com/2020/05/cuomo-killed-my-mom/

The image of the banner hung from the overpass is chilling.

"New York, New Jersey and Michigan have a lot in common these days.They are among the states with the highest confirmed COVID-19 cases and the highest rate of deaths per million residents. All three states have despotic, Democratic tyrants for governors who have badly mismanaged the pandemic. All three have instituted policies that have required nursing homes to accept seniors even if they were COVID-19 positive, resulting in thousands of unnecessary deaths"

[Narciso]

Willowed

https://mobile.twitter.com/RichHiggins_DC/status/1259573140415528962

[JimNorCal]

Willowed: "OMG, we're out of Rigatoni!!!"

This week is the first time I've seen pasta in stores since the TP shortage.

[Narciso]

Carrying over i worked on my manuscript wirking a little demonstration as well as wxposition

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

It's pretty stressful auctioning guns in this economy.

[Narciso]

Soecially if they are sowing panic about ghost guns

[JimNorCal]

btw
"Who says TM is not reading our comments"
is because I asked if there would be a Mother's Day thread and said "TM, it's not too late!" in the prev thread.
I don't know if this new thread arose independently or if TM saw the comment .... I would say, however, that Certain People should straighten up and fly right. You know who you are :) :)

[Narciso]

Insanity on parade

https://www.redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2020/05/10/never-trumper-bill-kristol-posts-ghoulish-fantasy-of-pelosi-become-president-this-year-it-does-not-go-well/

Its time for pappa kristol to do a jacob marley

[MissMarple2]

Flynn’s Lawyer Says Obama Was Part Of Conspiracy To Entrap Former National Security Advisor https://t.co/j6plzMUFiq

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) May 11, 2020

Sidney Powell is NOT backing down! There may be a video at the link.

[KevlarKid]

A lovin Mothers Day to all who took that dare.

Forget Me Nots

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Go long Kools.

[MissMarple2]

ATTENTION ALL AMERICANS: A new $100B Bill has been introduced to House of Representatives calling for the establishment of a massive army of medical spies & controllers in society to forcefully test, track & quarantine people in their homes for #COVID19:https://t.co/PjGpYI7mFt pic.twitter.com/wOlDOred18

— Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. (@NikolovScience) May 10, 2020

Screen Cap H.R. 6666 at the link. It's Pelosi's tracking bill.

[KevlarKid]

The Rat stands alone outside one of his multi- million dollar Rat Bunkers. "Daddy, why does Mama got hives?"

i.am.fucking.loving.this.

[cindyk]

Lyle:

My pick: - Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, widow of Elijah Cummings!

[Narciso]

This may have been what you wondering about another bob

https://news.grabien.com/wire-us-deploys-b-1bs-warships-south-china-sea-china-nationalists

[MissMarple2]

https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/05/08/what-happened-to-general-flynn-is-worse-than-a-disgrace/

This is not the entire show, but it has the section about General Flynn, both transcript and audio.

[sbwaters]

Screen Cap H.R. 6666

Pelosi's bill more likely is H.R. 666.

[Threadkiller]

Trey Gowdy appears purple-tied on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo to discuss the ongoing DOJ/FBI revelations from document releases related to the Michael Flynn prosecution.

After numerous appearances in 2018 and 2019 proclaiming the integrity of Robert Mueller, IG Horowitz and FBI leadership, Trey Gowdy now holds a divergent perspective. Perhaps because he is now a paid Fox contributor, Ms. Bartiromo never asks Gowdy to reconcile previous assertions against current information. Additionally, Gowdy says there’s no reason to take the investigation to former President Obama because the current spotlight reaches high enough. WATCH:

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

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/05/10/sunday-talks-trey-gowdy-discusses-doj-and-fbi-misconduct-in-flynn-case-it-doesnt-have-to-go-all-the-way-up-to-the-president/#more-191369

[sbwaters]

Gowdy says there’s no reason to take the investigation to former President Obama because the current spotlight reaches high enough.

That's no reason to stop. High enough is as high as took place.

[Narciso]

They did this on their own, trey. Is that what youre telling me

[MissMarple2]

Ken Oda
@Ken_Oda
·
4h
Hard hitting journalism right here...

===========================================
CNN
@CNN

· 4h
Has wearing a mask during the coronavirus pandemic made you suddenly realize you have bad breath? You're not alone. https://cnn.it/2YUz9eP

[Buford Gooch]

Gowdy is a locker room athlete. All big talk in the locker room, but nothing to give once on the field.
In other words, all hat and no cattle.

[sbwaters]

Buford, clearly there isn't even a hat.

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

While we're being sentimental, let's not forget those who get to buy their Dad a dress for Mother's Day.

[MissMarple2]

sbwaters, TK,

Exactly right. Who appointed him the arbiter of how high?

More importantly, how much did the Democrats pay him?

[MissMarple2]

Video at the link - my pool selection!

"We can't afford to wait for the world to be equal in order to be seen."

What a gem of a moment from @MichelleObama at @SpelmanCollege ❤️ #BECOMING is NOW SHOWING on @netflix! pic.twitter.com/kr9N2eNwnD

— Strong Black Lead (@strongblacklead) May 6, 2020

[Dave (in MA)]

Couple of days late, celebrating VE Day...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te0qfJUidHQ

[MissMarple2]

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/05/10/cotton-publicly-available-cell-phone-data-suggests-roads-around-wuhan-lab-were-closed-in-mid-october/

[Narciso]

Cases didnt manifest till december though thats arwfully long incubation period if we go by records.

[Narciso]

Why did larry johnson delete his entire blog after march 2017

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/larry-c-johnson-two-important-transcripts-light-fbi-two-informants/

[Catsmeat]

I've been struck over the years with how the pundits on both sides fixate on the also-rans of the presidential nominating contest and then so often the pick has nothing to do with any of the former rivals--Pence and Palin for recent examples on the R side, Biden on the D. I think there are loads of reasons to not pick someone who has run against you--first and foremost, they've called you names (like GHW's "voodoo economics" for Reagan or Kamala's blasts at Biden), but also you want a fresh face for the publicity and the freshness--your other rivals were already rejected.

[Threadkiller]

https://twitter.com/shipwreckedcrew/status/1259653133459812352

Patterico is reading this right now.

[Narciso]

How about the virginia twit (name escapes now i called him clem kaddiddlehopper)

[Dave (in MA)]

Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump · 4m He got caught, OBAMAGATE!

[MissMarple2]

'Do as I say, not as I do': Virus exposes two standards of justice

https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/496671-do-as-i-say-not-as-i-do-virus-exposes-two-standards-of-justice#.XriwPNIxFrU.twitter

This is a good piece by Sharyl Atkisson.

[CCGirl]

Ha! Youngest just told us that Roger Goodall had an auction to watch a Monday Night Football game in his study with him - apparently she and my husband watched this offer during the draft. The winner? The Bar Stool sports guy who has been making fun of him all along. Pretty funny. (If it’s actually true).

I guess I stopped lurking. Back to lurking.

[jimmyk]

catsmeat, I agree, but who then? Hilligula? Clarie McCaskill? It's a pretty thin field.

[Dave (in MA)]

ccgirl,
https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1259642396293369861

[Threadkiller]

Excellent link at 10:08, narciso. Those were the same two transcripts I focused on the night they were released.

His only unfortunate remark is at the end when he gives the “it takes more than two weeks” snark.

[CCGirl]

Very good, Dave in Ma! Let’s take our fun where we can. With luck there will be more “getting even” in that vein in the near future - politically and otherwise.

[MissMarple2]

Retweeted by the President:

Michael Nöthem
@mikandynothem
·
2h
Remember the picture of @BarackObama
holding an American flag like @realDonaldTrump

is doing here?

Me neither...

[Narciso]

How can they get away with not naming the handler, how about azra turk; did she even exist or was she a figment of papadops lurid imagination

[Catsmeat]

Super thin, jimmyk--but that's just fine from our end. And it was thin at the start--for all those D contenders months ago, none of them seemed to me as if they could possibly beat Trump (including Biden, of course)--none were even within shouting distance. They have no bench--and this is mostly O's fault, as he depleted all the governors and state reps on his side.

[Narciso]

You cant stop the signal

https://mobile.twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1259659423976431626

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

You know the past week has had some real bombshells.
But I'm still having a hard time thinking anything is more important in the long run than German Intelligence, not the US or UK, but the Krauts letting us know that effing pig Xi was still asking the WHO to deny human-to-human transmission on January 21st! And to not name it a pandemic.
By then, even the WHO had to balk at the former.

How does that not indicate the infection of the rest of the world was anything but accidental?

Wait, I'm not sure that means what I wanted it to mean.

Hmmm...

The CCP infected us on purpose. There.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.dailywire.com/news/attorney-general-barrs-office-shreds-nbcs-chuck-todd-for-deceptive-editing-of-barrs-comments

He deceptively edited Catherine Herridge's comments!

[Narciso]

Funny hoe der spiegel whuch was all the rage with the snowden matter is now fake news, you add that to miottis piece in gatestone and you have enemt action

[MissMarple2]

Ignatz,

They just don't care. It's why they get along with the Democrats: all either cares about is power.

[Dave (in MA)]

Testing

[Threadkiller]

Trump’s Twitter has him betting pretty big on Obamagate. Lots of retweets.

#BirthersUnitte!

[Narciso]

I even included a teference to the departed to show the homage by the corresponding matt damon character.

[Threadkiller]

...Unite..

I am disabling the spelling mangler on my gadget right now.

[Threadkiller]

Dave has made it to 3D. Who will be 4D?

[Narciso]

Ah tk burtherism was just rampant gainsaying this is provable fact.

[MissMarple2]

Hi, D!!!

I found this video, which I thought some might enjoy. It's the President and First Lady somewhere Far North in the Winter. One thing you have to say, is that he travels a lot and visits the troops!

Wow! This video is one of the most patriotic videos I have ever seen. Gives me chills to see our amazing @POTUS and @FLOTUS surprise the heroes in uniform.

RT if @realDonaldTrump makes you proud to be an American

pic.twitter.com/Ey3B8P4MXB

— Andrew (@smalltownandrew) December 27, 2018

[Captain Hate]

TK, I haven't regretted gelding that POS one iota. I can still hit it if I want it to fill in words like I've done for most of this sentence, but it won't substitute its illiterate nonsense on its own.

[Dave (in MA)]

I'll put it back; I just wanted to see how easy it was to swap handles.

[Threadkiller]

Huh?

[Captain Hate]

Who will be 4D?

Too easy.

[Captain Hate]

Autocorrect.

[Narciso]

The unprompted discussion at the horde about the soanish civil war, i was attempting a comparison between framco and trump, perhaps using burleighs distorted lense.

[Threadkiller]

I feel as though it plays tricks on my eyes, CH. I see it written correctly and then, a moment later, it is gibberish.

[Threadkiller]

Too easy.

:-)

[KevlarKid]

framco...dint they make oil filters back in the 60s?

[Threadkiller]

My “Huh?” was for narciso, CH.

[Dave (in MA)]

CH, you could always just paste in some Pommy Ipsum:

Blimey it's cracking flags a total jessie on a stag do one would like and we all like figgy pudding it's me peepers.

[Captain Hate]

You got pretty deep in the weeds on that one. After reading Orwell's account, in no way do I claim to understand the Spanish Civil War. Except the Soviets were manipulative pricks, which is a global default setting.

[Captain Hate]

My “Huh?” was for narciso, CH.

Another global default setting.

[Narciso]

They were rank incompetents at basic tasks of governance but their soviet advisors pushed them to just purge those they considered unpeople like trotskyites and anarchistd sound familiar their strategists were hot garbage their soldiers were cannon fodder like the useful idiots of the lincoln brigade

[Threadkiller]

Shipwreckedcrew promises to rake Mary McCord over the coals tomorrow at Redstate.

I would have never guessed that I would have a desire to frequent that site so regularly.

[Threadkiller]

LOL, CH.

Nytol.

[Narciso]

I was referring to this

https://origins.osu.edu/review/breaking-point-hemingway-dos-passos-and-murder-jose-robles

[Captain Hate]

That's a pretty good summary statement, narc.

[MissMarple2]

Dave, I am afraid I answered D instead of you. My apologies. My eyes are getting blurry and it's time for me to head to bed.

Good night, everyone!

[Narciso]

Thanks stephen hunter before he wrote the bob swagger series wrote the soanish cambit a standalone set in that period there is a thinly disguised philby and orwell in that one.

[Narciso]

Its mostly standalone except there in one character a soviet who carries over to his havana book and day after midnight which is set anout 50 years later.

[Dave (in MA)]

Heh

[Dave (in MA)]

Mollie@MZHemingway · 57m
NBC admits Chuck Todd's 'Meet the Press' deceptively edited Barr remarks on Flynn https://fxn.ws/2WlNoaN #FoxNews

[KevlarKid]

Big Mike is a disgusting charlatan.

Becoming... a complete wannabe. You'll never make the big leagues, Mike.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Not sure if this ZH story is true but it's too good not to link;
"We Sent Them Samples Of A Goat, A Papaya & A Pheasant": Tanzanian President Catches WHO In Epic Lie
All supposedly tested positive and he kicked the WHO guy out of the country.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I find, like most, Elon Musk is a jerk and a not too stable one. I also find Tesla to be problematic as a business venture. On top of that his dependence on government assistance is aggravating.
But, I not only agree with his threats to take Tesla HQ out of CA I find myself warming up to a guy who now has all sorts of enemies on the left because he wants to make cars rather than be put out of business because of this stupid-ass shutdown.

[Dave (in MA)]

clicky biggie
.

[Another Bob]

“I also find Tesla to be problematic”

+1

It’s product is marginal, it’s business practices are highly questionable, and it still loses money on every sale. It’s losing EV share in Europe, which will eventually be reflected here.

It’s been “successful” only because Musk has convinced enough people that owning Tesla is a status symbol and a massive virtue signal.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Albinoni; Complete Oboe Concertos.

[Another Bob]

I’d love to know what that discussion consisted of Dave.

[JimNorCal]

ABob: "It’s been “successful” only because Musk has convinced enough people that owning Tesla is a status symbol and a massive virtue signal."

Also, gov't subsidies! 4 and even low 5 digit rebates on an expensive car.
Mrs NorCal got her's just on the cusp of a program that offered free SuperCharge for life. We have a SuperCharge station, like, 3 blocks away.
On the other hand, she wrinkled a body panel. Only one shop in the 3 county area could do the repair. There was a 3 week wait and it cost an arm and a leg.

[clarice]

Just tried to explain to a poster that US law on sedition and treason require force and treachery isn't enough. He countered with Benedict Arnold , and I reminded him that was before the present federal code of criminal law was enacted.

Oh well. I try.

Adios amigos de mi vida por esta noche.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--It’s been “successful” only because Musk has convinced enough people that owning Tesla is a status symbol and a massive virtue signal.--

Well, also they're very good cars.
A lot of guys I respect and who are dyed in the wool petrolheads have given remarkably positive reviews of them.

--Also, gov't subsidies! --

I'm sure CA is still forkin em over, but I think the Model 3 pushed Tesla past the Fed subsidy threshold some time ago.

[Another Bob]

Yeah Jim, there’s that. But the big three have, for a while, been selling certain vehicles for four- and five-figure discounts too. IMO you still have to want to buy into the “Tesla” “concept”.

And congratulations (sarc) on learning one of the primary practical disadvantages of buying Tesla.

[JimNorCal]

Love that Al B. Noni.
I have no particular taste in classical music, but I love this wholeheartedly. My copy has Heinz Holliger as the soloist.

My favorite is the 2nd track: Concerto a cinque, Op. 9/2: D Minor for Solo Oboe and Strings: Adagio.
The sustained initial note takes my breath away. It says to me: "Some days we have somewhere to go. Some days we might cut corners. But today ... slow down. Just slow down. Because today we take as long as needed to get it exactly right. No matter how long it takes."

[JimNorCal]

Tesla also downloads new software from time to time. Mrs NorCal had a friend working at Tesla at the time and made sure that she got a version which has a lot of necessary underlying hardware. So she continues (as I understand it) to get new features as software is rolled out. If you had older hardware the new software couldn't deliver the new features.

But things go south from time to time. One morning it just wouldn't go. We had to call Support and they taught us equivalent to "control/alt/delete" to reboot the car. I kid you not.

[Another Bob]

“ they're very good cars”

They look distinctive and go fast, I’ll give them that. Otherwise, to each his own.

I’ve read too many stories and saw too many photos of bad frame welds, broken suspension pieces, mismatched paint colors, bad gaps, poor driver assist performance, etc. Add to that a generally unfriendly customer support experience. Not something I’d recommend.

[Melinda]

narciso-

Where’s your Overton Window now? Same place it was 3 months ago? 6 months ago? A year ago?

How much further down the road can it go?

Hah!

[Narciso]

Heck if i know, it should have snapped back already.

[Another Bob]

“ reboot the car”

I completely believe you Jim. I’ve read of many examples, for many reasons.

And many Tesla customers who thought they were buying that later hardware rev, but didn’t get it in the car as-delivered.

[JimNorCal]

A version of kk's "Forget Me Nots" that brings the bass forward.
There's a cute geeky girl doing the bass work and having fun showing us what it's all about. A wonderful tribute.
https://youtu.be/BWiTwYBPInQ

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

From the sublime to the ridiculous;
David Bowie/Marianne Faithful; I Got You Babe.

[JimNorCal]

My goodness! Turns out there's a whole cottage industry of daughter-like young girls who play a bass cover of the song.
I think I like the first one more. But the energy is ... really, really good. On both.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRusbYIyRNI

[JimNorCal]

Just to prove that "cottage industry" is more than two ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cunX5Ce0jPk