Friday again, my heart is broke
and if I die before I wake
who's the lucky one ?
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RevPudDudley
Agnostic, scholar & gentleman, language fiend.
Tao / Stoicism
Formerly catholic, quasihindu, paralegal, overgrown teenager, Constitutional law fan
Favorite Movies - Saddest Music in the World, Barton Fink, Romeo is Bleeding, Don't Tempt Me, Orlando, Ridicule, Brand New Testament.
Authors: Donald Barthelme, Flann O'Brien, Kafka, Greene, Joyce, Waugh, Orwell
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Tranloads, shiploads of $, billions spent on campaign nonsense, growing exponentially each time. Who goes home with all that, what's it all good for?
More to the point, never forget who exactly was party to certain of these inexcusable ads
this is too good
Can't steal image--
Keith Knight cartoon;
Epstein, bubbling in a cauldron in Hell:
VOTE LIKE I'M ON THE BALLOT
Here's a man who would like Trump to appreciate his ass
(with the "little mushroom" ?)
GOP candidate, a certain Mitchell, gives El Disgusto an award he pulled out of his ass -- only appropriate--
"Man of the Century", wow
People Who Don't Think Things Through ...
This century has a long way to go, and we may confront bigger problems (oh god), and hope for someone who will have any idea what to do about them, not scare them away with his hateful face
Shows what they think of their voters?
WSJ -- WASHINGTON—"President Trump said he asked the Justice Department to sue Alaska to prevent certification of the state’s Senate results if the Republican candidate loses, an extraordinary move by his administration to intervene legally in the 2026 midterm elections."
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Sometimes the Dept. of Obstructing Justice floats something that (I want to say) no lawyer would ever, ever...
only the biggest fool would dream of ...
And this is where it comes from.
DoJ files suit to throw out Alaska results if Dan Sullivan loses because I guess a Democrat Dan Sullivan is running too. Whether that is almost too cute...
"I love the poorly-educated!" said The Man With Two Anuses (one on his face). Yes, he did (2016?).
Making America Grotesque Again
One more thing about J Edgar Hoover
(if you were paying attention)
When he finally died, outlasting I can't think how many Presidents *...
the personal files he kept on many, many people were getting burned out in his yard...
only up to the letter 'C', if I remember right.
A truck arrived from Headquarters & took the rest.
You who are under 60, I suppose, don't have to worry about those...
*as for potential scandal of his own -- possibly the Mob knew some things; he never much cared to go after them
October traditions:
Leaves changing
Halowe'en
Stock market crashes
but not time change; all my life it was before trick-or-treat
Comparing USA’s mortal danger to the Titanic again —
as VP Boy Wonder did —
as we hear the vaunted watertight compartments flooding …
Ship’s Captain, it’s not the Captain’s ship - no selling/destroying parts;
it only exists for benefit of the Owners (us);
His word is law, not like here; also be as good as his word [ehhh…]’
must have clear, unalterable objectives & no excuses;
II he is running it on the rocks, 1st Officer *must* take over, explain later;
Expected to be last one off the ship if it goes down —
even better, go down with it for the shame
if everything in the Bible is true --
God made two humans; where did the rest come from ?
Noah's daughters had their fun with him (passed out) so that's how the human race started the 2nd time ...
Have you got something to say about Rep. Ilhan-Omar's marriage ?
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They will say to the mountains, Fall on us, hide us
Bluesky SocialHumor Satire Memes (@funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social)
COUNT ON AMERICA to do the right thing, after trying everything else
Churchill said that.
The are days when I don’t hear “Justice Matters”, Mr Kirschner’s podcast (30 yrs Federal prosecutor). Yesterday ? Twice, taking notes. FBI agents work on the cases they are put on, no volunteering.
The White House just said that. FBI personnel who even touched Trump invrstigations ?
We “cleaned house”, they’re all gone … said the Abominable Blanche.
FACTS ARE CARVED IN STONE about the Mar-a-Lake-of-Shit documents, espionage, obstruction of justice,
indictments …
2-4-6-8, now we can relitigate ! A very junior Judge threw it all out, in the most bogus way.
NOW 9 fired FBI agents mean to drag it all out in court.
Naked Lunchtime - we have to “see what’s on the end of the fork”
**If our system lasts 1000 years, scholars will still argue which was the most transparently filthy moment, 2017 et seq.**
Churchill didn’t say that.
glennkirschner.comJustice Matters
FROM DEMOCRACY DOCKET
and faithful fighterr for our freedoms, Marc Elias:
Vance tried to defend administration's handling of economy, telling supporters, you “don’t turn the Titanic around overnight”. He knows the Titanic sank, right?
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Let's ride that just a little farther:
The ship was going too fast, for PR purposes, in spite of warnings that icebergs were around, on a very dark night
Dark, dark night
But the Titanic did have a competent captain, in general terms, as we certainly do not.
After the lamentable Tuberville pronounced upon the "coming home from school with different gender" fantasy:
A FOOTBALL COACH in US Senate ? At least he isn't Herschel Walker.
WHY should those who **write the laws** be attorneys ?
1) Knows how legal language can be inadequate, deceptive, fatally flawed, slyly contrived to not do what it seems to do --
how's that Epstein Transparency Act doing [signed into law, like new Russia sanctions] ?
2) Not thrown by the word "Notwithstanding" or the incompatible meanings of "sanction"; functional in English if not with Latin;
3) could name you some of the most popular fallacies in logic;
4) considers **maybe we missed something** e.g. no penalties under the Hatch Act, which is daily, flagrantly, flouted in the present putrid regime;
AND all of this applies right down to the level of part-time state legislators -- like in Texas, see what Molly Ivins had to say.
"Coach", they call him !
What is the Ass-Clown-in-Chief good for ?
The renascence of many good old terms of abuse.
Just ran across "churlish": [Old English 'ceorl, a free man of the lowest rank" Related, I have to think, to the German 'scheisskerl'].
Well, he's free today, all right.
How about 'fatuous' 'imbecilic', 'asinine' ? Synonyms: boorish, vulgar, oafish, classless, uncouth, cloddish, others.
Sent me back to my 1978 Am Heritage 3-pounder because? Sites purporting to be "Cambridge Univ" and 'Merriam Webster" offer no etymologies !?
What kind of world is this now?
**It has been observed that the half-a-man in question, n the 1980s, was able to talk like someone who was on campus a couple of years, whoever sat for his SATs**
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For fuss-budgets only:
Many semiliterate writers in news & opinion like to use "decimated".
When the damage is much over 10%, that just makes one look like a fool [comes from severe measures taken in the Roman army for unit cowardice]
We were not on History just then— I guess it the was the unit on alcohol/driving — but social science teacher told us why Japan … struck on Dec. 7, 1941 (before we had time to argue the matter in Congress: preparedness, getting ready for trouble, or not)
but anyway—
*early Sunday morning* because, you know, traditional Saturday night.
My [eventual adoptive] father was already there, in the MPs. He never did have a head for alcohol.
I had a vision last night, of FDR addressing the nation:
“Treacherous & underhanded, yes, they failed to declare war first, that’s true,
but Pearl Harbor was not well-defended because everybody was at church, or band practice, or couldn’t see straight with the hangovers.”
**Look at the leadership today**, by the way.
I will have my little jokes, after 5 years without a drink, on account of the liver failure
More blood, sweat & tears in some families than others, I have to believe …
Once when the children were little — on the possibiity of running out of toilet paper, their mother jocularly said, “Our butts will be out of business”,
and I thought, that’s just sad, to make a child contemplate that
"Priest Killed in Freak Crucifix Accident During Livestreamed Mass"
Oh, honestly now.
If you talk to God, how are we to interpret that? 1 Priest's individual failings? Dislikes the Catholic church?
If God knows the future (many problems with that), well-- after the Flood, considering all that we've done since then, why give us another chance anyway ?
Noah *and his daughters* had to restart the human race
"Oh it's the Devil who runs this world"
Well, if you can believe in that sort of thing...
Just saying.