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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
His first task upon taking office will be to improve the quality of cruditรฉs in Pennsylvania to something approaching that of the cruditรฉs in Connecticut. Some say it is impossible but Davy boy is up to the challenge.
Peter Navarro responds to McCarthy's latest statement that the US needs to restrict Chinese investments in the US.
โThis 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,โ
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?
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.
What do you do with them? We have tons and tons that grow wild here and Iโm always tempted to pick the berries but Iโm not sure what Iโd use them for.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
KAKE news says Kari Newell won't speak with them, SAD!
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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
Did the raters avert their eyes when they drove by Deutsche Bank?
Insert Sergeant Shultz gif here.
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?
edit: and why only "two decades"? Bush the lesser goes back further than that and did somemondo disasterous financial decision making
So that the weight of blame for 2008 can fall on Obama.
Tuesday, November 4, 1980, Reagan's election day is when it started in my frame of reference. Ya gotta start somewhere.
He fucked up the country for half of his time in office. Half of Obama's too.
And as Yogi said, "The third half was nothing to write home about either."
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.
BTW, Marion is a wide spot in the road for those who don't know, they roll up the sidewalk at 7 or 8 PM.
https://www.kake.com/story/49412759/dozens-of-news-organizations-condemn-police-raid-on-kansas-newspaper-and-call-for-seized-materials-to-be-returned
The first interview I saw was from Marisa Kabas on Saturday
https://thehandbasket.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-the-newspaper?utm_source=%2Finbox&utm_medium=reader2
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
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.
True. I suspect that the police chief didn't cotton to the local newspaper looking too closely at his admittedly shady past doings.
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.
Oh, here's my source, who has his own sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZLy5oi_0lQ&t=416s
Definitely. There's more to this story than what's written. Who is the judge? What are they caught up in, also too?
All kinds of ugly things scurrying around when you peel back the veneer.
Magistrate iirc.
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
Popehat Ken White made sure to push it up
CNN, NYTimes, WaPo, Guardian, are all over this. I'm waiting for a DOJ announcement now.
Yeah. Hang the judge, the cops and the drunk-driving restaurant owner out to dry FFS.
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...
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
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.
I didn't think they even made carpet bags anymore.
But what is his position on the affordability of cruditรฉs?
Better crudite is available in Conneticut.
His first task upon taking office will be to improve the quality of cruditรฉs in Pennsylvania to something approaching that of the cruditรฉs in Connecticut. Some say it is impossible but Davy boy is up to the challenge.
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
BOYS! BOYS! PLAY NICE!
Peter Navarro responds to McCarthy's latest statement that the US needs to restrict Chinese investments in the US.
โThis 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,โ
let them fight
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?
"Mass transit has always been our enemy." --Stupid Donnie
Fauci conspired with the Chicoms to release busses.
China Bus Plant?
It's in the garden next to the Ahegao Flowers and the Little Turkish Rude Bushes.
In the white house? When we're you elected Peter.
Morning all. โ
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Good morning!
Good morning fellow Wonkettonianites. Remember to start the day with a a well-balanced cup of coffee.
Already there.
Got my one a day.
*sip*
Thank you for not slurping.
Good morning!
Sounds about right ... (Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller)
https://substack.com/profile/155702845-land-shark/note/c-22333892
Love non sequitur
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.
Jealous
That's about what it is here in the upside down. We don't have elderberries here. Will you make cordial?
What do you do with them? We have tons and tons that grow wild here and Iโm always tempted to pick the berries but Iโm not sure what Iโd use them for.
Add one teaspoon of arsenic, half a teaspoon of strychnine, and just a pinch of cyanide.
My understanding is that the raw berries do indeed contain toxic substances, so youโve gotta cook em. Unless you are a wicked stepmother.
I'd like to help you out, but everything I know about elderberries, and the wine derived therefrom, comes from Arsenic & Old Lace.
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.
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries...
Now I have a craving for boysenberries. Thanks, I think.
Now I have a craving for fritters. Thanks, I think.
Do they smell like your father?
79 feels like 83 outside right now. Did my morning walk a half hour ago, and the air was soupy.
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.
Now we know where the French soldiers got their insult from ...
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.
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.
Remember kids, whoever flips first gets the best deal.
https://www.politicususa.com/2023/08/13/jack-smith-already-has-trumps-1-6-co-conspirators-turning-on-each-other.html
This one was right below the above article. Powell implicates Alito! While I don't trust POLITICS USA, whoa if true!
https://www.politicususa.com/2021/09/26/sidney-powell-implicates-kevin-mccarthy-steve-scalise-and-justice-alito-in-plot-to-overturn-the-election.html?dicbo=v2-Bhl68IE
That is from 2021, but if she flips, those three could be in trouble.
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
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
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
[F-15 meme here]
One swing in the chute... they were fucking lucky.
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.
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.
Some are born lucky indeed
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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.
I'm sending trump in my place.
You're too kind.
*sigh*
Just opened what is probably the last bottle of Anchor Steam I will ever drink. Fuck you, Sapporo.
Truly a shame that there's only 500 or so other amber beer choices available.
;-)
Would you like to swing on a star? Or would you rather be a fish?
https://youtu.be/Sy0mLLKJ0DU
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.
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.
Scary indeed - glad that your mom is better.
Nope.
The old suffer the most.
The small and young next.
Heat kills. Death rates rise when temperatures rise above 36ยฐC or so.
No, it's not.