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Teen Laqueefa's avatar

KAKE news says Kari Newell won't speak with them, SAD!

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LadyLaz's avatar

Good morning - hope everyone has a good day :)

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘂𝘁 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆: 𝗨𝗦 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘀

Market pundits mostly shrugged off Fitch's recent downgrade of U.S. debt. Fitch, one of the three primary rating services, downgraded U.S. credit ratings to AA+ from its highest rating of AAA, citing two decades of poor financial decision-making and political dysfunction as significant factors contributing to the downgrade. Only Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, Luxembourg, Singapore and Australia are awarded Fitch's AAA rating. Interestingly, "beer-drinking" European countries tend to have higher ratings overseas, while "wine-drinking" countries like France, Spain and Italy lag.

https://www.greenwichtime.com/opinion/article/connecticut-money-us-debt-downgraded-amid-record-18291350.php?src=gthpbusiness

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Thatsit Fortheotherwon's avatar

Did the raters avert their eyes when they drove by Deutsche Bank?

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eppe's avatar

Insert Sergeant Shultz gif here.

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High Agency Jen's avatar

citing two decades of poor financial decision-making and political dysfunction

Once again, why NOW? Why not two decades ago? Or a decade ago? Or five years ago?

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High Agency Jen's avatar

edit: and why only "two decades"? Bush the lesser goes back further than that and did somemondo disasterous financial decision making

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Mal Speranza's avatar

So that the weight of blame for 2008 can fall on Obama.

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eppe's avatar

Tuesday, November 4, 1980, Reagan's election day is when it started in my frame of reference. Ya gotta start somewhere.

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Thatsit Fortheotherwon's avatar

He fucked up the country for half of his time in office. Half of Obama's too.

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eppe's avatar

And as Yogi said, "The third half was nothing to write home about either."

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Stulexington's avatar

And the morons in the house who dropped the last bundle of straw will shout that it's all the Democrats' fault, all the while indulging in the political dysfunction that contributed to the downgrade.

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Sojourner Truth's avatar

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

And there's one stop light blinking on and off

Everyone knows when the neighbors cough

They roll up the streets when the sun goes down

I'm a midnight girl in a sunset town

I'm a midnight girl in a sunset town

I've seen places on the TV where they stay up all night long

Around here it's early to bed and they rise before the dawn

They say the old ways are still the best, I cannot deny it

But I can't get no rest cause it's just too quiet

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Linda1961 is woke and proud's avatar

I'm wondering if the police chief cooked the whole thing up, and used the restaurant owner's troubles as an excuse to raid the newspaper and the home of the owner. What he really wanted was to keep the newspaper from investigating why he left the Kansas CIty police department.

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eppe's avatar

True. I suspect that the police chief didn't cotton to the local newspaper looking too closely at his admittedly shady past doings.

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Stulexington's avatar

From what I've seen it's even worse, they actually admitted in public that the reason for the raid was they were sure the paper was about to print an inflammatory story. So they did it over thought crimes.

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Stulexington's avatar

Oh, here's my source, who has his own sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZLy5oi_0lQ&t=416s

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Definitely. There's more to this story than what's written. Who is the judge? What are they caught up in, also too?

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Teen Laqueefa's avatar

All kinds of ugly things scurrying around when you peel back the veneer.

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Stulexington's avatar

Magistrate iirc.

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High Agency Jen's avatar

Might be just old fashioned good ol boyism. Or girlism in her case.

Which would indicate they're all as straight laced as a cork screw

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LadyLaz's avatar

Popehat Ken White made sure to push it up

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mvario's avatar

CNN, NYTimes, WaPo, Guardian, are all over this. I'm waiting for a DOJ announcement now.

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eppe's avatar

Yeah. Hang the judge, the cops and the drunk-driving restaurant owner out to dry FFS.

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High Agency Jen's avatar

heh

Something tells me that restaurant owner would flip flip flip like a pancake

Go to it, DoJ! I know you guys is busy but...

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Schmannity's avatar

Pennsylvania GOP slow learners.

David McCormick is gearing up for a Senate run in Pennsylvania. But he lives in Connecticut

https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-mccormick-residency-mansion-connecticut-oz-e84500b848f0be7efb9f9b3c495dd066

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mvario's avatar

Yeah, no. Casey could be a little more left for my taste, but he isn't bad and he's got my vote. Some of the right wing nutters I know here don't like him, but they can't say why, so I suppose Fox has defamed him occasionally.

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Stulexington's avatar

I didn't think they even made carpet bags anymore.

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eppe's avatar

But what is his position on the affordability of crudités?

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Sojourner Truth's avatar

Better crudite is available in Conneticut.

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eppe's avatar

His first task upon taking office will be to improve the quality of crudités in Pennsylvania to something approaching that of the crudités in Connecticut. Some say it is impossible but Davy boy is up to the challenge.

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JustPixelz's avatar

Ratpublicans like to keep some distance from their constituents.

Tuberville lives in Florida

Ted Cruz lives in Cancun (many people are saying)

Crooked Donnie lives in his own world

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Schmannity's avatar

BOYS! BOYS! PLAY NICE!

Peter Navarro responds to McCarthy's latest statement that the US needs to restrict Chinese investments in the US.

“This asshole singlehandedly nixed a bill when I was in the White House that would have prevented Communist China from building our rail and subway systems because he had a China bus plant in his district. HYPOCRITE BLOWDRIED CCP B*TCH,”

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Sojourner Truth's avatar

let them fight

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High Agency Jen's avatar

also and it might be my brain is just not switched to the on position, but precisely what does "building our rail and subway (which are on rails) system" got to do with stopping investments?

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JustPixelz's avatar

"Mass transit has always been our enemy." --Stupid Donnie

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Schmannity's avatar

Fauci conspired with the Chicoms to release busses.

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High Agency Jen's avatar

China Bus Plant?

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The Wanderer's avatar

It's in the garden next to the Ahegao Flowers and the Little Turkish Rude Bushes.

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Appalachian in Thailand's avatar

In the white house? When we're you elected Peter.

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Morning all. ☕

#Worldle #570 2/6 (100%)

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉

https://worldle.teuteuf.fr

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JustPixelz's avatar

Good morning fellow Wonkettonianites. Remember to start the day with a a well-balanced cup of coffee.

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Meccalopolis's avatar

Already there.

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The Wanderer's avatar

Got my one a day.

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PrimerGray's avatar

Thank you for not slurping.

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LadyLaz's avatar

Love non sequitur

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Teen Laqueefa's avatar

It's 62 degrees! this morning and in a few hours will be taking the kayak to a nearby creek to mark elderberry plants for harvesting cuttings early next spring. One of the plants had huge umbels of fruit that were too big to easily put into a 5 gallon bucket without cramming them in.

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LadyLaz's avatar

Jealous

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asmallmacropod 🐨's avatar

That's about what it is here in the upside down. We don't have elderberries here. Will you make cordial?

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Martini Glambassador's avatar

What do you do with them? We have tons and tons that grow wild here and I’m always tempted to pick the berries but I’m not sure what I’d use them for.

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UncleTravelingMatt's avatar

Add one teaspoon of arsenic, half a teaspoon of strychnine, and just a pinch of cyanide.

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Martini Glambassador's avatar

My understanding is that the raw berries do indeed contain toxic substances, so you’ve gotta cook em. Unless you are a wicked stepmother.

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UncleTravelingMatt's avatar

I'd like to help you out, but everything I know about elderberries, and the wine derived therefrom, comes from Arsenic & Old Lace.

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Chicken ate my Ballot's avatar

I used to make jelly and syrup with the berries and fritters with the blossoms.

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eppe's avatar

Now I have a craving for fritters. Thanks, I think.

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Chicken ate my Ballot's avatar

Me too damnit. And where I used to get Elderberries doesn't

have them anymore. There was a great spot in the river bottom

around ASU...but it also was a place that had a lot of unhoused.

The city went in and just ....well.

*Edit that last wee bit.

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Teen Laqueefa's avatar

I make jelly and some people make wine, bad thing about the wine is it has to age for years before it's drinkable. Made jelly a few days ago and of course it didn't jell so I need to readjust the recipe to fix it, what a PITA.

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Thatsit Fortheotherwon's avatar

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries...

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eppe's avatar

Now I have a craving for boysenberries. Thanks, I think.

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Larry Schmitt's avatar

Do they smell like your father?

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The Wanderer's avatar

79 feels like 83 outside right now. Did my morning walk a half hour ago, and the air was soupy.

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High Agency Jen's avatar

I gotta work in this.

I wonder how obvious it would be if I called out sick again XD

Unfortunately, tomorrow looks just as great.

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Now we know where the French soldiers got their insult from ...

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Linda1961 is woke and proud's avatar

62 sounds like heaven. It's 73 here, and will get up to the high 90s, but we may get some rain this afternoon and some relief.

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Teen Laqueefa's avatar

Had a cold front move in overnight and the low tonight will be around 55, however back to seasonal by the weekend. Gotta take it while we get it I guess.

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Linda1961 is woke and proud's avatar

That is from 2021, but if she flips, those three could be in trouble.

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High Agency Jen's avatar

lol in this one it would be ol Sid I would not trust. Alito is a bit of a surprise, but Scalise and McCarthy have angered the MAGA and while I'd love to believe they were totally in on it, I doubt it

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tek's avatar

I hope they are shitting their pants.

Especially Rudy Bar Sinister.

Shown here with his son and Roger Stone: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ6Hr_uXgoVJGEstpAZQSOP6Ync8kOb7nxXP7y9Wtzt801wJfp3LwEaW8mjy_hHBY9JWzQ&usqp=CAU

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Bobathonic's avatar

BTW, nobody is getting any rides in that MiG-23 I mentioned the other day. From the video, it looks like some aircrew did not approve of the aircraft's performance.

https://youtu.be/UAEWIxlIOwM

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UncleTravelingMatt's avatar

[F-15 meme here]

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Thatsit Fortheotherwon's avatar

One swing in the chute... they were fucking lucky.

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Bobathonic's avatar

I have heard no follow up, I hope they're ok.

I knew one Naval aviator who had ejected. He was B/N on an A-6, which had trouble on taking off from an air base. It started rolling as soon as they got airborne. His back injury ruined him for flight.

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Thatsit Fortheotherwon's avatar

I knew a Marine who punched out when his jet over-rotated (think it was an A-4) and got no chute and lived to tell the tale. Apparently the ejection seat had about the same speed as the jet (~140 knots) but to the rear, and he plopped on the runway. He was beat up pretty bad but managed to get back on flying status. Dude's last name was Luck.

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High Agency Jen's avatar

Some are born lucky indeed

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Linda1961 is woke and proud's avatar

Happy Monday!#Worldle #570 3/6 (100%)

🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛➡️

🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛↗️

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉

https://worldle.teuteuf.fr

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eppe's avatar

Good work Linda. You win an all-paid 2 week vacation to the capital city (airfare not included). Details to follow. Say "Hi!" to Kim for me.

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Linda1961 is woke and proud's avatar

I'm sending trump in my place.

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eppe's avatar

You're too kind.

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UncleTravelingMatt's avatar

*sigh*

Just opened what is probably the last bottle of Anchor Steam I will ever drink. Fuck you, Sapporo.

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Whale Chowder's avatar

Truly a shame that there's only 500 or so other amber beer choices available.

;-)

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mvario's avatar

Would you like to swing on a star? Or would you rather be a fish?

https://youtu.be/Sy0mLLKJ0DU

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Mysterysurf's avatar

Little Lulu! It's weird that I've had that song playing in my head off and on for a couple of weeks at least now.

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UncleTravelingMatt's avatar

Scary times today. I took my kid fishing and my parents joined us. After about an hour, Mom said she felt light-headed, and walked from the dock to the parking lot. Dad and I started packing up to leave. When I got to the parking lot, Mom was semi-conscious, half-in/half-out of their vehicle. We got her into the vehicle, got some cool towels and whatnot on her neck, under her arms, etc., and within 15 minutes or so (by the time she was home) she was ambulatory.

Heat ain't to be trifled with.

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Linda1961 is woke and proud's avatar

Scary indeed - glad that your mom is better.

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Sunhead's avatar

Nope.

The old suffer the most.

The small and young next.

Heat kills. Death rates rise when temperatures rise above 36°C or so.

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The Wanderer's avatar

No, it's not.

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