Dialing Back March Madness

For the first time in decades I had already sent in most of my tax stuff. Why bother?

IRS to Delay Tax Deadline to Mid-May After Chaotic Year

 

 

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[Narciso]

Sorry AMC, kinzinget seems to reaping carmic arrows he will next be reaped in thr illinois leg

[Narciso]

Always helpful

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tedmahan/2021/03/17/exclusive-biden-admin-halts-navy-operations-orders-soldiers-to-undergo-chilling-stand-down-training-n1433257

[Dave (in MA)]

Puritan just happened to become famous. They used to known for making wooden tongue depressors and toothpicks and popsicle sticks.

Unrelated, but in the 80s my next door neighbors were the owners of Puritan Ice Cream in Boston. They're a wholesaler, but they have a retail store where the public can buy... 3 gallon tubs.

[Dave (in MA)]

Great choice in Bongino IMO, and here's hoping he gets and remains healthy for many years.

[Dave (in MA)]

Today’s ‘Daily Intel Brief’ brings the story of Kinzinger, who requested nude photos from a young Russian beauty queen

RUSSIA!!!

[MissMarple2]

Kevin Sorbo
@ksorbs
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Were the mean tweets really that bad?

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I assume this is California, since the street sign says "Alameda."

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--American Airlines launches investigation into MASKLESS John Kerry who claims it was 'momentary'...--

Does it look momentary? He's sitting there reading and it's hanging off of one ears. He has his reading glasses on so obviously he removed it to keep his glasses from fogging up while he read. And it doesn't look like the Sunday comics so I'm pretty sure genius Johnny wasn't plowing through that book in his lap in mere moments.

[MissMarple2]

Chuck Ross
@ChuckRossDC
· 12h
The entire premise of this WHO junket made no sense anyway. A bunch of lab nerds (no offense) aren't equipped to properly investigate a political juggernaut like the Chinese Communist Party.
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Hans Mahncke
@HansMahncke

It's much worse than that. Peter Daszak is not a lab nerd. He's a deeply compromised operator who funded the reckless bat experiments. To put him in charge of investigating himself is a testament to the depths of corruption at WHO, in DC, in science circles, and everywhere else.

[Narciso]

Yes and hes now researching bats in singapore for his next trick.

[Pinandpuller]

At first I thought they meant like a “Drag Queen Pageant Judge” but they mean like a “Judge Who Singlehandedly Overturns Proposition 8” type of judge:

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/milwaukee-judge-and-president-of-drag-queen-story-hour-group-arrested-charged-with-child-pornography/

[Narciso]

I'm surprised they published it

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Fallout/John-Solomon/9781642935714

[Narciso]

I second the bongino choice,

[Narciso]

There were sime details he wasnt able to rekease through the column, the odni missive is utter carp

[Neo]

JUST IN: Vladimir Putin wishes Biden “good health” in response to Biden calling him a “killer”

[Jim Eagle]

Who is Biden taking advice from, Chauncey Gardiner?

[Pinandpuller]

Saint Patrick’s Day is just for people who don’t know how to drink irresponsibly the other 364 days of the year.

[Narciso]

He was a stooge for the soviets going back to the 70s, dont think putin doesnt knoe this.

[Neo]

As far back as June 2020 progressive AGs already banded together to make sure promiscuous claims of a so-called COVID “emergency” didn’t unleash projects that were actually “shovel ready”. Could lead to economic recovery.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/03/16/dem-ags-whoa-there-on-the-infrastructure-projects-easy-does-it-on-the-economic-recovery/

[Melinda]

That's actually not that surprising, given what's known now:

Here for Truth 🗣
@patrick69658750
FBI Admits to ‘Accidentally’ Destroying Hunter’s Laptop. Big Oooooops🤬 usmagspress.com/fbi-admits-to-…

https://twitter.com/patrick69658750/status/1372348118948270083

[And implies, to me at least, that all those pics. texts, and emails came from someone else's image of the HD.]

[Melinda]

Also makes the TSA totally obsolete, while they're at it.

Chuck Callesto
@ChuckCallesto
BREAKING REPORT: Illegal Immigrants Given Sheet of Paper with Instructions to Appear in Court are ALLOWED TO FLY DOMESTIC Using the Sheet of Paper as an ID...

This is UNSAFE..

🚨THIS WILL MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR TSA TO VERIFY IDENTIFICATION..

https://twitter.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1372588438424289285

[Melinda]

If you want to see what a REAL Illinois Nazi looks like, he'll be just like Hodgkinson and this guy:

Jon Seidel
@SeidelContent
#BREAKING A Peoria man has been indicted for allegedly threatening former President Donald Trump, a federal judge and the former U.S. Attorney for Illinois' central district: bit.ly/30ShFQ2

https://twitter.com/SeidelContent/status/1372587505241968641

[Narciso]

So they went zoolander (or is it hamsel)

[Dave (in MA)]

I guess Trumpism didn't play in Peoria.

[Narciso]

Or he was just their village idiot.

[Melinda]

I'm going to have to go with Union Stooge, since it's Peoria.

[Pinandpuller]

Ellen Page picked the wrong week to become a White man.

[Pinandpuller]

Funny you should say that, Melinda. Back in the day the head of the Philadelphia JDL booked a Nazi Rally under a pseudonym.

Really makes me want to buy some Head and Shoulders.

[Dave (in MA)]

I just got back from taking the Mrs. to get her 1st Pfizer jab. Her HMO is using the big, mostly empty TripAdvisor HQ for the vaccine clinic. TripAdvisor let 900-something employees go last year due to the shutdown, 11 days after Forbes dubbed them the country's "Best Midsize Employer".

[Pinandpuller]

“New York is the city of privilege. Here is the seat of the Invisible Power represented by the allied forces of finance and industry. This Invisible Government is reactionary, sinister, unscrupulous, mercenary, and sordid. It is wanting in national ideals and devoid of conscience . . . This kind of government must be scourged and destroyed.”

-William Jennings Bryant

[Melinda]

Philly is not in IL, last I checked, so you can keep your blanket folded.

[Narciso]

I noted yesterday the cabello stooge in podemos, has decided to step down from the party to run for mayor in madrid

[Narciso]

That would be pablo iglesias

[Melinda]

Washington Examiner
@dcexaminer
"What proof is there that there are significant reinfections with hospitalizations and death from the variants?

None in our country. Zero...

You're making a policy based on conjecture!"

@RandPaul accuses Fauci of "defying" the science on immunity.

https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1372589804240596992

[Dave (in MA)]

Nice front page.

[Neo]

CAMMACK: I’m from a small town out West, and the month before I was supposed to graduate high school, which was 2006, one of my classmates was kidnapped by an illegal who had been deported multiple times. And I think when you have policies that incentivize folks to come over illegally, and we don’t have the proper mechanisms in place to protect our borders … that kind of impact has resounding effects. So my question to you, her name was Amber Scott — the young lady who was kidnapped by this illegal criminal — how many more Ambers have to be kidnapped across America before you will take action?

MAYORKAS: Congresswoman, I find that question to be extraordinarily disrespectful. Disrespectful not only to me, but disrespectful to the men and women of Homeland Security and to all the frontline personnel throughout this country who dedicate themselves to the safety and security of the American people.

The poor Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas must be treated as a ‘victim’ too

[matt - deplore me if you must]

I think Kerry is reading a bootleg copy of McEligot's Pool.

Thank goodness the computer store owner cloned Hunter's laptops. I wonder why the RNC hasn't requested copies?

[Dave (in MA)]

.

[henry]

Hey, Mayorkas, you deserve no respect. STFU. Do your job.

[Narciso]

Hes a crook but how many republicans voted for him

[matt - deplore me if you must]

Biden and Mayorkas personally created the border crisis. It was well planned. Just the way they are allowing it to spiral out control is clear evidence that they are accomplishing their goals.

We are into the hundreds of thousands of border crashers within 60 days of his inauguration and they are doing nothing but catch & release. This is a clear dereliction of duty.

[Neo]

Joe Biden is lying about his 2011 dealings with Vladimir Putin in Moscow, and the Russian president isn’t putting up with it. I know this because I was an eyewitness to the events of that day. Events that Washington, D.C.’s media have failed to press Biden on – and that give an extraordinary insight into how our now-president was humiliated by his Russian counterparts.
https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis/putin-humiliated-biden-in-moscow-meeting/

[Dave (in MA)]

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jethro-tull-ian-anderson-zealot-gene-1143216/

“It’s about getting your knickers in a twist, we would say. Getting hot and bothered and agitated. I’m not a Twitter guy at all, but ‘we know who’ is the arch Twitterer of recent years, which was both a success and ultimately his downfall. It’s that kind of vehemence or zealotry, which comes with a point of view and wanting to indoctrinate people with a very polarized and divisive view. There’s a little bit of that in all of us. We all have that capability.”

I started to get annoyed but then he got into splungeyness towards the end.

[Dave (in MA)]

Dr. Scarf Lady continues to perpetuate the Trump Says to Chug Clorox hoax...

The other hoax that never dies. https://t.co/040qwl0yfX

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) March 18, 2021

[matt - deplore me if you must]

The scarf lady is just another DC cocktail party drunk who thinks the law iis for the little people.

They don;'t get drink tickets until they bash Trump 3 times and when they do it's bottom shelf rotgut.

Imagine spending your whole career in the shadows and then the exact crisis comes along where you get to be on TV every day and people hang on your every word.

You know that people have the attention spans of hamsters and can get away with any old thing you want. her and Fauci are cut from the same bureaucratic cloth. No accountability and sudden guru status.

Having recently been officially anointed an electronics industry guru, that a approximately $3.50 will get a cup of crazy coffee at Starbucks, and I value the monicker accordingly.

[Dave (in MA)]

Hi-yooo

Donald Trump Jr. liked
Jesse Kelly@JesseKellyDC·
You can almost hear @ProjectLincoln moving their headquarters to Dallas.

The Patriots Gazette@ThePatsGazette
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Biden Administration Will Move 3,000 Teenage Migrant Boys Into Dallas Convention Center http://patriotsgazette.com/politics/biden-administration-will-move-3000-teenage-illegal-immigrant-boys-into-dallas-convention-center

[matt - deplore me if you must]

Other than terrible punctuation and spelling, autofascist turned the word crappy into crazy.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

And you know where the next NAMBLA convention is going to be held.

[Dave (in MA)]

Bongino's not taking over Limbaugh's timeslot. He's launching a show through another syndicator that will run in the 12-3 PM slot. https://www.theblaze.com/news/rush-limbaugh-time-slot-dan-bongino?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter#toggle-gdpr

[Jane]

What the hell was “disrespectful about that comment?”

[Narciso]

The truth.

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

Jane, whatcha up to this afternoon?

[Neo]

Sen. Rand Paul: "Welcome to day 367 of 15 days to slow the spread."
https://mobile.twitter.com/thehill/status/1372552369028882440

[Jane]

Not much. Waiting for my refrigerator repair guy to finish. Expecting some people foe happy hour, come on over!

[Pinandpuller]

The neighbors are breaching the peace with a new dirt bike.

Suitable revenge would be $2,800 worth of Tannerite or a Marshall Stack:

Fast Acting or Long Lasting?

[Pinandpuller]

Melinda

Any ‘Nazi’ touted by the media is either controlled opposition or a Fed. You can keep that in a binder full of gold certificates.

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

Time??

[Davod]

"Jailed Canadian minister James Coates to be released, all but one charge dropped"

"The legal firm representing the Canadian minister who has been imprisoned since February 16 after refusing to close his church to in-person services announced Wednesday that the pastor is being released.

Justice Centre said that Crown Prosecutors were dropping all but one charge against Pastor James Coates and that he will be released without any conditions pending his trial in early May..."

https://disrn.com/news/jailed-canadian-minister-james-coates-to-be-released-all-but-one-charge-dropped

[Jim Eagle]

You guys in the Port Chalotte area, know the Tamp Bay Rays do theiir Spring training there. Nothing like a spring game in the sunlight:)

[clarice]

We drove from the Orlando airport to Daytona where we visited my brother, and then from there down to LBK. Traffic around Tampa and Orlando was terrible..slow moving. All along the route we saw massive construction projects..Florida is booming!

[henry]

Marshall Stack. A bit of Spinal Tap sustain will fix anyone.

[Jim Eagle]

Clarice,

Always is. With CoVid we are seeing many more sunburns in Publix:)

[MissMarple2]

Neo,

Thanks for posting that article from The National Pulse by an eyewitness. Raheem said it was coming out today with an actual named writer, not some anonymous source, when he was on Bannon's show.

It was, unfortunately, just as I feared. Biden embarrassed not only himself but the United States.

[Old Lurker]

Gruber is back. This time whispering sweet nothings so Biden can borrow trillions more for "infrastructure":

“What matters is not the debt but the size of interest payments relative to GDP. Since interest rates are so low, any investment that raises GDP significantly is worth it. Investing in infrastructure has a high rate of return and so it should be done,” Jonathan Gruber, a former technical consultant to the Obama Administration and an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said."

He should have left MIT for an MBA from Harvard.

Then he might appreciate the folly of borrowing when floating rates are at all time lows. And he might reflect on just why that is (hint, it ain't the market), and how long he might count on rates staying low, and what happens to his math when the curves cross each other.

After that, he might contemplate what other borrowers might not be able to borrow for real investments if the Feds have taken all the debt available out of the trough.

LUNACY.

[Melinda]

Pin-

My usage and my usage, alone. No media involved.

[Narciso]

What was the name of the conmen in the sting again?

[MissMarple2]

New York Post
@nypost
·
1m
White House shuts down Putin invite to public video chat, says Biden is 'quite busy' https://trib.al/OSsWq0R
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Sure he is. More likely he doesn't want to be revealed as a senile plagiarizing liar and humiliated. (Actually, I think it is probably his handlers who made the decision.)

[Melinda]

I'm going to have to go with "It's a bit more than just "Cowledge"."

Cara TXZEAL
@Cara_TXZEAL
Teen Vogue editor resigns amid uproar over offensive tweets from college days nypost.com/2021/03/18/tee… via @nypost

https://twitter.com/Cara_TXZEAL/status/1372638548139024389

[MissMarple2]

I went out with my sister and we went through a drive-thru and grabbed burgers, and then I watched "Iron Man" with her . I have never seen any of the Marvel movies, so she wanted to get me started on them.

She and my niece are Marvel fans (not so funny with my niece, but to know a retired schoolteacher is, my daughter finds hilarious)

Actually, she and I were Marvel comics fans when they first came out, and I was pleased with the movie because it was full of great wisecracks and special effects and no politics.

For all of you people luxuriating in the warmth of Florida, we have cold rain and wind, and we might get a touch of snow tonight. ICK!

[Jim Eagle]

Vlad knows a mark when he sees one. Poor Joe, can't even stand up to a Putin or Xi. But he can to The Little Sisters or the Poor.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Gruber is back.--

Hans?

As for the rest, what could go wrong in taking out a variable rate mortgage on the whole country with interest rates at 5,000 year lows? Only a true intellectual can understand the genius of that.
And you're ignoring the magical properties of MMT. If debt goes up that is perfectly fine because we just print more money. If we print so much that inflation occurs that is also perfectly fine because that is an indicator taxes are too low so you raise taxes and inflation goes away and you start spending and borrowing again.
It was certainly a lifesaver when this ironclad theory was discovered which just happens to coincide with and enable every damned dumbass idea progs ever had.

[Neo]

Once you have gained immunity, you’d think the best way to keep the immunity is to throw away your mask and take in small “loads” of SARS-COv2 naturally so to keep your immune system reactive to the virus. Assuming a mask actually affords any protection, wearing it would only keep your immune system from recharging itself which makes wearing a mask worse than theater.

[MissMarple2]

WHOA....Biden just called Harris President ..Democrats must be so proud of their leader pic.twitter.com/85T30O3cJx

— Ruthann (@TeaBoots) March 18, 2021

Video at the link.

[Marlene]

Jack, the Atlanta Braves also have a brand new stadium in South Venice/North Port. We went to a game last spring before the shutdown. This spring they are at 20% capacity. :(

[henry]

Neo, you gonna believe science? Or Muh Ahthoritay? No travel papers for you.

[Marlene]

Narciso @ 3:58... Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid? :)

[MissMarple2]

https://www.the-sun.com/lifestyle/tech/2537213/three-lifeforms-unknown-science-discovered-iss/

Three forms of bacteria, previously unknown, but most likely of terrestrial origin.

[Melinda]

Add Evers to that Nursing Home list:

Mary Spicuzza
@MSpicuzzaMJS
Wisconsin reclassifies 1,000 past COVID-19 deaths; now reports 45% of all deaths were in long-term care facilities jsonline.com/story/news/202… via @SarahVolp

https://twitter.com/MSpicuzzaMJS/status/1372652080901537794

[Pinandpuller]

It’s hard to call a debate between Biden and Putin: they both speak broken English.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Biden practices soft headed diplomacy.

[Jim Eagle]

All you SW Florida people remember Capt. Eric can take you inshore or off-shore fishing without masks👍

[jimmyk]

As for the rest, what could go wrong in taking out a variable rate mortgage on the whole country with interest rates at 5,000 year lows?

Some of the borrowing is fixed rate, but I'm trying to imagine what kind of fool locks in 1.5% for 10 years, or 2.5% for 30 years. Look at the money supply:

Off the charts doesn't begin to describe it. $4T to $18T in one year? The QEs of 2008-15 don't even register.

[jimmyk]

Thought I made it small enough, but you'll have to right-click the above to see the real madness.

[Jim Eagle]

jimmyk,

You forget we have Manifest Destiny on our side. Trouble is no one ever said where it would end up.

[jimmyk]

I would add that the only reason we haven't had double-digit inflation is that with zero interest rates (and not much good investment or even spending opportunities) people and banks are ok with holding on to all that cash. But ZIRP won't be sustainable once things really reopen and there are opportunities to earn much higher rates of return in the real world. Let me try again with that graphic:

[Jane]

I just got to have cocktails with Mrs a n mr Stephanie! How fun! Marlene we’ll have to all get together -] hopefully next week.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate-confirms-william-burns-as-cia-director-after-ted-cruz-lifts-hold

[MissMarple2]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/indiana-counts-more-on-federal-tax-dollars-than-most-states

Speaking as a local, I see no evidence of this.

[Melinda]

Monetary Policy, as proscribed by Mr. Tiny Bradshaw::

"I'm going to have myself a ball!" Tiny Bradshaw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoXawZ1VBps

[MissMarple2]

Rosie memos Retweeted
BenjaminT
@BenjaminT0001
·
2h
Rep. Judy Chu was honorary chair of China Council for "Peaceful" National Reunification, founded by the United Front Work Dept, the CCP's overseas espionage & influence peddling org.

Chu was BFF of Swalwell's Fang Fang.

[MissMarple2]

The Associated Press
@AP
·
4m
The US House has voted to open a gateway to citizenship for millions of young Dreamers and immigrants fleeing war or natural disasters. The bill now faces a tough battle in the Senate, where Republicans are demanding stronger border security measures.

[Davod]

Re CIA Director Burns. Is this the same state department Burns who went to NK during the Bush administration, and negotiated completely differently than the Bush instructions?

[MissMarple2]

Politics1.com
@Politics1com
·
6h
ALABAMA. Cong Mo Brooks (R) will launch a run for the open US Senate seat on Monday. Brooks - who is one of the trio of congressmen who were in regular communications with the organizers of the Jan 6 insurrection - is being advised by former Trump WH aide Stephen Miller.
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Bolding is mine. I don't think Alabamans will find that particularly disqualifying, the way Politics1 hopes.

[MissMarple2]

Davod,

I honestly don't know.

[Melinda]

No, that's the other Nick Burns.

This one: https://2009-2017.state.gov/s/p/fapb/185577.htm

[jim nj]

jimmyk,

The first thing I thought when I saw that M1 Money Stock graph was that money velocity must be falling off a cliff.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1V

It is.

[lurkersusie]

Collins stated he is bipartisan

Burgess Everett
@burgessev
Becerra confirmed 50-49 to HHS. Due to Hirono’s absence, Collins put him over the top

[CCGirl]

It’s Mr. Burns from The Simpsons. May as well be.

[Jane]

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/vladimir-putin-ups-ante-challenges-joe-biden-live-public-debate-without-delays/

Everyone knows!

[Neo]

Former President Trump’s net worth plummeted $700 million while he was in office, falling from $3 billion to $2.3 billion according to an analysis done by Bloomberg News.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/03/18/trumps-net-worth-dropped-by-700-million-while-he-took-no-salary-as-president-1044604/

[Narciso]

Next question

https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/biden-cia-director-ccp/