The “Government Shutdown” is now starting to pinch people, Government workers are now actually missing paychecks. Some “Entitlements” are about to stop.

I am all for standing firm and getting change. If you actually get change.

Anyone wanna bet that the Republicans fold like they always do?  Thus making the “shutdown” a waste of time and need less pain go a lot of people with no real gain?

Were it legal, I’d put real cash on the line—9:2 that the Republicans give up before Thanksgiving and thus gain nothing for the pain they have already helped cause.

Put your dates as to when they fold in comments.

“A person whose heart carries poison yet wears a mask of kindness is more dangerous than one who walks with a sword”

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do”

“The best way to get ahead is to get started”

“Endeavour to live such that even the undertaker will feel sorrow”

“Don’t leave a lover or a friend to teach them a lesson…. rather, leave because you have learned yours”

“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters”

They got the shit smacked out of them by Hurricane Melissa. Cleanup is gonna be a real bitch.

When I was there many years ago, most people had family shelters for such weather, for both people and possessions, but still the damage appears to be HUGE.

Seems that there is some evidence that Biden did not actually do the last minute pardons of folks like Anthony Fauci (why did he need a pardon???) and all the others..

Biden aides used autopen to pardon Fauci and president’s family without his approval, House report says

It would seem to me that the use of the autopen should be reserved for instances, rare instances, where the President is travelling and needs to sign emergency authorizations in instances like war or terrorism or sudden natural disasters.

The rest is like “normal” voting: do it in person  or it isn’t valid. Handwritten signatures.

and I cannot see where it is a Bad Thing.

Plus-size model claims United Airlines flight attendant fat-shamed her mid-flight

That isn’t “Plus sized” that is hugely obese  Fat.

Not “Big boned” not “Rubenesque”

Fat. Grotesquely, Jabba the Hut, disgustingly fat.

So fat she can’t fit down the aisle of an airplane.

And if it bothers her, what others think, then that’s too bad.

Can George Zinn be charged with Murder?

He’s the idiot who falsely claimed that he was the one who shot Charlie Kirk…and admitted he did so to help the Real shooter.

This makes him as far as I can tell, “Accessory After the Fact”, which in most jurisdictions is the same as if he had committed the crime itself…

Just asking, ’cause if they can charge him, it would seem to me they SHOULD do so, if only to discourage such behavior in the future.

enquiring minds nd all that

“If there were really life in other star systems, the DNC and the diplomats would have sent them money for a USAID scam by now”

“It’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it,”

Odd, innit. The White House is “Our” house… Locked behind gates and a fence (but “fences don’t work”)..

Yet thousands of people were prosecuted and punished for entering the Capitol, also “The people’s House”.

So which is it? Does the White House and other government buildings actually belong to us, or not?

If so, why are we barred from entering it/them?

Please, pick one or the other, this constant changing of rules is giving me a headache…

Our “government” has been “shut down” for 3 weeks.  Has anyone (besides those folks whose paycheck depends on the funding of our government) noticed?  What “Government Services” have you needed and not gotten? Passports and such maybe? I haven’t (yet) been affected and no one that I know has been bothered in any way by the lack of “Non-Essential” Federal government…

We have “essential workers” who are forced to work without being paid….

and we have  “non-essential” worker who aren’t being paid right now but are also not working but who will be paid for not working once our Senators get over their spitegasm and sober up enough to work together and start to find a way to fund our government.

The question for the day is “why we are spending any money at all employing people who are not “essential”. “?? Not just during the “shutdown”, but at any time? If they aren’t “Essential” they why are we employing them at all? If after 3 weeks ho one noticed that they are not there, why are we giving them jobs?

Why do we have people wo are not essential to our lives, to our government, who can be laid off for weeks at a time with out anyone noticing? Why are we employing people doing jobs that we don’t need ….People and jobs that can be stopped at a whim without consequences for anyone….departments and workers whose entire job is meaningless and not “essential”? I

If they are “non-essential”, then why do we have them at all?