Day: February 16, 2024

DEAR MAGA: TGIF Open Thread 20240216

French 75

INGREDIENTS

  • 1/2 ounce lemon juice
  • 1 ounce gin
  • 1 small sugar cube
  • 2 -3 ounces Chilled Champagne

INSTRUCTIONS

  • Add the lemon juice, gin and sugar cube in a shaker with ice
  • Shake for 20 seconds so the sugar cube can dissolve
  • Strain into a Champagne flute
  • Top with Champagne
  • Garnish with a lemon twist

Badlands News Brief – February 16, 2024

George Soros To Take Control Of America’s Second-Largest Chain Of Radio Stations

Here’s what he bought.

Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show

One exorcist is warning against AI. Personally, I’m avoiding it like the plague and the NFL.

Sudden Deaths of Vaxxed Athletes, Students, Pilots, Military, but Why No Politicians?

Because they got saline – if anything – if they had a press conference showing that they got their shot.

AMERICA: A Regime of Government For Government

The WHO Overplays its Hand and Watches Support Drain Away

More Draino and a plunger, please.

Authority Isn’t What It Used to Be

Tweets & Stuff From X

Are we sure this isn’t a distraction?

Memes & Other Fun Stuff

Cats – and I am not a cat person – jump in my lap.

Guilty as charged.

YEAH!

Karma is a female dog.

And now for the business portion of the post borrowed from Tuesday:

Guidelines for posting and discussion on this site were outlined by our host, WolfM00n. Please, review them from time to time.

The discourse on this site is to be CIVIL – no name calling, baiting, or threatening others here is allowed. Those who are so inclined may visit Wolf’s other sanctuary, the U-Tree, to slog it out. There is also a “rescue” thread there for members of the Tree to rendezvous if the main site goes kablooey. A third site has been added for site outages of longer duration.

This site is a celebration of the natural rights endowed to humans by our Creator as well as those enshrined in the Bill of Rights adopted in the founding documents of the United States of America. Within the limits of law, how we exercise these rights is part of the freedom of our discussion. In that spirit, though, threats of violence real or hypothetical are out of bounds.

Fellow tree dweller the late Wheatie gave us some good reminders on the basics of civility in political discourse:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

And Auntie DePat’s requests:

If you see something has not been posted, do us all a favor, and post it. Please, do not complain that it has not been done yet.

The scroll wheel on your mouse can be your friend. As mature adults, please use it here in the same manner you would in avoiding online porn.

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ISAIAH 58:1-9

1“Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet; declare to my people their transgression, to the house of Jacob their sins. 2Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the ordinance of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments, they delight to draw near to God. 3`Why have we fasted, and thou seest it not? Why have we humbled ourselves, and thou takest no knowledge of it?’ Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and oppress all your workers. 4Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to hit with wicked fist. Fasting like yours this day will not make your voice to be heard on high. 5Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a man to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head like a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the LORD? 6“Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? 7Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh? 8Then shall your light break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up speedily; your righteousness shall go before you, the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard. 9Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, Here I am. “If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness,

SATIRE!

Have a good weekend!