Voltaire

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/02/28/san-francisco-reparations-apology-black-residents/72775247007/?tbref=hp On Tuesday, the 11-member San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution apologizing “to all African Americans and their descendants who came to San Francisco and were victims of systemic and structural discrimination, institutional racism, targeted acts of violence, and atrocities.” San Francisco has been and remains an egregiously horribly, racist place. Hopefully the Board of Supervisors finds the wisdom in paying each black person $5 million lump sum plus $100,000 per year for the rest of their lives. I hope they also pay any illegal immigrants that showed up another $5 million lump sum and $100,000 for the rest of their lives too.

Wordle 985 4/6 🟨 🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 My brain didn't like processing this one. I had three letters that, at first, I'd thought would generate plenty of options. Too many options. That wasn't the case. I soon realized I didn't know how to put them together to even form a single guess. Nothing was coming to me, which normally signals I'm close and is the sense I get just before I solve it. But it was juxtaposed with this feeling that I wasn't close at all. Finall, when I did find a word that fit ... it was wrong. And the green and two off limits yellows were useless so I just kept staring into the void again. Then I found a second word... but it didn't fit because of three so I tossed it. Then I found a third word... finally.

Here's Ernie Harwell calling the last out in 1984.

San Francisco should put these in every alley and under every bridge. I mean, since so many residents there prefer to poop outside anyway, at least this way they'd have a more sanitary option.

Hey! Look everybody! Macron said something sensible! Get off your ass Europe, stop being freeloaders.

Russia isn't going to storm across Europe because watch, like magic, how the ding dong slackers are going to start actually paying their 2% pledge. Since asking "please" doesn't seem to work, maybe insisting they get off their ass does. It's the same 'get off your ass and work" tough love prescription applied to free-riding welfare mooches in the US except done at a larger scale.

To clarify Tim, as I recall, you quite vociferously took both of these positions. A lot of us find them both beyond absurd. Then, when placed side-by-side, it really highlights the stark/deep divergence of opinions we have with liberals.

Wordle 984 3/6 🟩🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Thought it'd go four but 2nd guess led me straight there. I only saw one word. I love getting green in the one spot.

This is why Captain Poopypants' puppetmasters and the other bad guys in their party voted no: Cliff's Notes: The usual gripes. Cuts too much spending in other programs (nutrition services, law enforcement, consumer safety, education, and healthcare) , doesn't protect clean energy, and doesn't enshrine trannies to their rightful place as gods on earth. ------ STATEMENT OF ADMINISTRATION POLICY H.R. 4366 — Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024 (Rep. Granger, R-TX) The Administration strongly opposes House passage of H.R. 4366, making appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year (FY) ending September 30, 2024 and for other purposes. In May, the Administration negotiated in good faith with the Speaker on bipartisan legislation to avoid a first-ever default and protect the Nation’s hard-earned and historic economic recovery. This negotiation resulted in the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA) of 2023, which passed with overwhelming bipartisan support and set spending levels for FYs 2024 and 2025. The agreement held spending for non-defense programs roughly flat with FY 2023 levels, a compromise that protected vital programs Americans rely on from draconian cuts House Republicans proposed. The agreement also protected historic legislative accomplishments from the past two years, including the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Honoring our PACT Act of 2022, CHIPS and Science Act, and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law). House Republicans had an opportunity to engage in a productive, bipartisan appropriations process, but instead, with just over two months before the end of the fiscal year, are wasting time with partisan bills that cut domestic spending to levels well below the FRA agreement and endanger critical services for the American people. These levels would result in deep cuts to climate change and clean energy programs, essential nutrition services, law enforcement, consumer safety, education, and healthcare. These bills include billions in additional rescissions from the IRA and other vital legislation that would result in unacceptable harm to clean energy and to energy efficiency initiatives that lower energy costs and critical investments in rural America. The draft bills also include numerous new, partisan policy provisions with devastating consequences including harming access to reproductive healthcare, threatening the health and safety of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI+) Americans, endangering marriage equality, hindering critical climate change initiatives, and preventing the Administration from promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion. The Administration stands ready to engage with both chambers of the Congress in a bipartisan appropriations process to enact responsible spending bills that fully fund Federal agencies in a timely manner. If the President were presented with H.R. 4366, he would veto it. https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/SAP-H.R.-4366.pdf

Gutterboy allegedly isn't in favor of pedophilia. He does see nothing wrong with taking kids to the pedophile's lair and telling the rescuers to go fock themselves. "lair" = gay night club where twerking drag queens dancing to stripper music in front of a sign that reads "It's Not Going To Lick Itself", where they get tipped by five year olds. That thread is deleted but he went on for pages and pages attacking anyone who disagreed with him. We were discussing this. If I misrepresented his position, he's free to clairify.

It's leftoids that are stupid. The globalist corporate-government-education-media-tech insiders that run everything and tolerate leftoids aren't stupid. They're just incompetent and too frequently let leftoids walk all over them. They're also getting increasingly being co-opted by the leftoids but still have the staying power to run everything. I use to think they were well intentioned but delusional. I'm not sure if I believe that any more. They certainly have hijacked / twisted all the institutions, so those of us that actually love and respect the country we grew up in have to play defense all the time.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/state-universities-are-teaching-students-to-blow-up-oil-pipelines-records-show University courses in public schools across the country are teaching/encouraging students to blow up oil pipelines.

Wordle 983 3/6 🟨 🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Had two consonants and no vowels. This was a bit of a longshot but I've been doing those lately.

Me 4th. I wasn't around for some of these other bands mentioned but that album landed as a musical earthquake like no other in my lifetime.

Did she get fired on the end? I'd stopped paying attention after a few weeks and was under the assumption she only got demoted.

He's hideous looking, dresses like a hooker, can't spell, and endorses Joe Biden for obvious reasons. If pimping himself doesn't pay the bills, and I don't know how it could, perhaps California could get him a change of clothes and a job as a schoolteacher.

An illegal who supports criminals, mooches off the system, outright refuses to work, and that has a 'partner' rather than a wife ... the perfect Democrat.

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Stay in California

I was talking about the losers.

Wordle 981 4/6 🟨🟨 🟩 🟩🟨🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Took a shot at three, failed, got it in four

Rusty, this is disgusting, please stop.

They're playing the Orlando Magic.

In before Scarlet Blake isn't a tranny for... (reasons).

Tim, the first entry is some Galli eunichs (which I didn't even know what that was) and the next one is a Muslim slur and a lot of these are (intentionally?) confused with being gay men. Men who get their balls cut off because harem women need male servants isn't the same thing. And the delineation of sexual deviants between gay men and trannies gets obscured. And you have to get really really nit-picky with searching obscure belief systems nobody has ever heard of to maybe get somewhere since nobody knows who the Galli et al. are or what they believed.