DW is doing other things this weekend so you get me. Deal with it.
New Book:
 | GOP | DEM |
| Democrat +15 | 210 | 225 |
Here is where Schumer and Jeffries get their orders….
Open Weekend Thread. Accept it.
81 responses to “Open Weekend Thread. Accept it.”
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First!
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Reposting from the tail end of the now dead thread;
“If this was a case of a transmission going haywire yet again, I’d like to know if it was a manual (pushed by a crazy white mom with possible NPD and/or MSBP ie Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome), or an automatic (legit diagnosis awaiting treatment).”
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Rare morning flight for me, en route to a funeral back home, so I had to change to the 0720 departure from NOLA to LAX vice afternoon as I was intending. At least I got the upgrade to 1st as it’s not that full.
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GF – I am sorry to hear that you have to attend a funeral. At least it will give you a way to fill your free time since the Dodgers flamed out.
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CENTCOM Chief: Strait of Hormuz ‘Open for Business,’ While Desperate Iran Can’t Even Pay Own Troops”
And the free passers said Hormuzzle was closed!
Tina is busy this morning so I volunteered to help her out.
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Uh oh. Jason to post that there is nothing wrong with buying a gun for a special needs 16 year old in 3…2…1…”
Bingo!
Nothing wrong with 16 year olds owning shotguns, there are probably millions of teenagers that have shotguns all over America, maybe that is news for the Radnor wine sippers.
And as Walt says, “define special needs”.
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GF – I am sorry to hear that you have to attend a funeral. At least it will give you a way to fill your free time since the Dodgers flamed out.”
Maybe the funeral IS for the Dodgers?
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The upside of MKE moving on is that the rest of the month opens for me, and I won’t have to sneak the little transistor radio in the kitchen on low volume during my wife’s birthday like I did last year.
All jokes aside, too many, even amongst the sports broadcasters, assumed that this was the same LA team as last year (same for the Brewers). Perhaps most of the players were the same, but between injuries and experience, it was two different crews overall from 2025.
That said, I’m still pulling for Cleveland; they’ve waited a LOT longer than Milwaukee, both leagues are using the DH now, so there isn’t much to differentiate them anymore.
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Funeral is for my aunt’s mother, she was 101. The lady was a close friend of my grandmother and always a fixture in our family. When abuelita had her fatal stroke back in 1984, it was this woman who came to the house and helped us kids out as my father was working graveyard shifts at the time, and my mother was in Meridien, MS, on Reseve duty. Just an all round wonderful person.
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Superintendent of Washington State schools.
“If your daughter was running against a boy—an athlete who raced as a boy and was 76th, and then had to race against that same athlete on your team—does that seem like a fair situation to you?” asked [host Jake] Skorheim.”
Answered Reykdal: “I don’t see it that way, Jake. I just don’t. These are young, developing people whose brains aren’t going to fully develop until they’re 25.”
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Sorry ladies, you will have to compete with biological men because your brain is not fully developed.
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Jon Ralston Purina is too upset to crunch numbers in Nv
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Lombardo will do well in Clark county. He was the sheriff there. Party registration has been horrible for the drats
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Jon “Dems will always win” Ralston is a joke.
“Jon Ralston, the CEO and editor of The Nevada Independent, predicted in a Monday article that the vice president will garner 48.5 percent of the vote and former President Trump will garner 48.2 percent in Tuesday’s election.
“The key to this election has always been which way the non-major-party voters break because they have become the plurality in the state,” Ralston wrote, as highlighted by Mediaite. “They are going to make up 30 percent or so of the electorate, and if they swing enough towards Harris, she will win Nevada.”
Ralston said that those voters are going to choose Harris, adding that he will “tell you why: Many people assume that with the GOP catching up to the Democrats in voter registration that the automatic voter registration plan pushed by Democrats that auto-registers people as nonpartisans (unless they choose a party) at the DMV had been a failure for the party.”
“But I don’t think so. There are a lot of nonpartisans who are closet Democrats who were purposely registered by Democrat-aligned groups as nonpartisans. The machine knows who they are and will get them to vote,” he continued.
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thanks for starting the thread Bitter…I did just add the weekly chart showing the major pollsters and their current numbers. More red than last week.
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Final results NV, just to show how far Ralston was off…
Donald J. TrumpJ. D. VanceRepublican 751,205 50.59%6
Kamala D. HarrisTim WalzDemocratic 705,197 47.49%
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There are a lot of nonpartisans who are closet Democrats who were purposely registered by Democrat-aligned groups as nonpartisans. The machine knows who they are and will get them to vote,” he continued.
Wait. Why would the “machine” want closet Dems to register as non-partisans?
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This probably complete BS, do the Dems have people outside the DMV saying hey are you a closet Dem, register “non-partisan”?
Yet if Kamala had won, the MSM would deem the theory correct and laud Ralston as a genius.
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Trump won Nevada by 3
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In Morgantown wv, to see the WVU football game with son.
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Watched a lecture about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. Conclusion – DNA tests prove he fathered her children. The Thomas Jefferson was a Saint Deadender Society denies it.
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On CSpan-3, you can watch debates of this year’s candidates all day. Have fun.
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Evidently the mom bought the kid the shotgun for his bday. Pictures are deceiving, but looking at his picture, he seems “dark” and his eyes are foreboding.
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GOP having another strong day in Florida early ballots returned.
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Watched a lecture about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. Conclusion – DNA tests prove he fathered her children”
Zzzzz…. so what? From all accounts, they had a long term love relationship. Hemings could have remained “free” in France had she wanted, but she chose to return with Jefferson to the US.
Does that in any way diminish his legacy? Not in my view, sorry revisionists.
Plus, I doubt “saint” would describe any of the founding fathers or any politician ever since.
The attempt to export modern social mores to condemn historical figures is rampant in revisionist circles, yet is Bill Clinton getting bjs from an intern in the Oval Office “better” than Jeffersons 40 years relationship with a slave?
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Hemings could have remained “free” in France had she wanted and probably starved as a teen with no family, education or skills.
Fixed it.
I think of Jefferson as a slaveowning child rapist (she was 14 when their “loving” relationship started. It’s called grooming now.). Jefferson has a more romanticized view.
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Zzzzz……
(she was 14 when their “loving” relationship started. It’s called grooming now.).
In the 1700’s the legal age of consent was 12 for women and 14 for men.
Key Details of 18th-Century Law
- The Age of 10 vs. 12: Under a 1576 English statute, sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of 10 was classified as a felony, while sexual offenses against girls aged 10 to 12 were treated as a misdemeanour. Meanwhile, general common law traditions often treated 12 as the age of discretion or marriageable age.
- Rape and Force: In the 1700s, common law defined rape as carnal knowledge of a woman against her will (requiring proof of both force and lack of consent), except in cases involving girls under the age of consent, where the law deemed the child legally incapable of consenting.
- Marriage Age vs. Consent: The minimum legal age for marriage was 12 for females and 14 for males, though actual average marriage ages for the general populace were typically much higher (around the mid-20s).
- Colonial Adoption: The American colonies inherited these English common law frameworks, and early U.S. states maintained ages of consent at 10 or 12 well into the 19th century before reform movements raised them.
So the “child rapist” BS is an another revisionist attempt to export modern laws to besmirch the character of historical figures.
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as a slaveowning”
Yes, a lot of the founding fathers owned slaves which was legal and common practice during that era.
Does that tarnish their legacy?
No.
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In WWII there were 3,500 officers and crew who manned our navy’s submarines who lost their lives (many in a horrific manner). 22% of all who volunteered for this duty lost their lives. 52 subs total were lost.
These are referred to as being on “eternal patrol,” given how many of these ships simply never returned to port.
Imagine the recruiting today if the recruits were told that 1 out of 5 will never return.
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Hemings could have remained “free” in France had she wanted and probably starved as a teen with no family, education or skills”
Facts not in evidence. No one knows if she had friends and no one knows if she couldn’t have gotten a job as a maid or something else. There were other expatriate families who could have taken her in.
In fact, she negotiated her return, which implies she had a choice.
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Imagine the recruiting today if the recruits were told that 1 out of 5 will never return.”
Actually, I doubt they were told that at the time either.
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I don’t think that they had to be told the number jason, as our Navy only took volunteers and told the recruits that it was extremely dangerous.
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and the number wasn’t tabulated until the war’s end…but throughout the war is was well known how many subs were lost.
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The woke revisionist campaign to denigrate the founding fathers and thus foment the effort to view the Constitution as an “archaic instrument by slave owning colonialist old men” is alive and well.
The long term objective is to rewrite the Constitution according to the views of the socialists.
Out with the 2nd amendment, the 1st amendment, the right to private property, etc.
Bring in equality for 168 genders, reparations for every aggrieved minority, return of land to “rightful owners”, government control of the media, abolition of the senate, “peoples courts”, and scores of other Marxist wish list items.
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Does that tarnish their legacy?
Owning people does not tarnish somebody’s legacy? Hi Ghost of Wes.
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#TexasSenate KERA: George W. Bush’s daughter Barbara Bush donated to a Super PAC that is supporting James Talarico.
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Owning people does not tarnish somebody’s legacy? Hi Ghost of Wes.”
Correct.
The legacy of the founding fathers is the country of America and its Constitution.
If in your view their legacy is that they owned slaves, that is on you.
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Out with the 2nd amendment NO
the 1st amendment NO the right to private property, etc. NONever advocated any of that.
The Founders were great at Founding. Not so great at being people. In fact, many sucked just the same as us.
That is why I always respected John Adams more than Thomas Jefferson.
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Twelve of the 18 presidents who held office between 1789 and 1877 owned slaves in various capacities: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James Polk, Zachary Taylor, Andrew Johnson, and Ulysses Grant.”
Lets hold them all to the 2026 concept of “owning people” and define their contributions to America on that basis.
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Out with the 2nd amendment NO
the 1st amendment NO the right to private property, etc. NONever advocated any of that.”
I didn’t say you advocated for it.
I said the people who want to do away with the Constitution advocate for that.
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Fauxcahontas is worried.
Hellmann’s mayo McCormick spices Cholula hot sauce Frank’s RedHot What do these products have in common? One company could soon control them all.
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I am very worried Cholula and Frank’s could be owned by the same company.
There could be cross contamination.
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Ben Franklin is my favorite Founding Father. He sucked as a dad and husband. Both can be true.
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https://acwm.org/blog/myths-misunderstandings-grant-slaveholder/
Correction. Grant had one slave. He freed him. His wife came from an evil slaveowning family.
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So admirable of Jefferson to free his own children. What a great guy!
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I am surprised Jason didn’t say “slave owners were men of their time” while justifying their actions. Of course, he would then have to say Stalin and Hitler were men of their time and cut them some slack.
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So admirable of Jefferson to free his own children. What a great guy!”
Zzzzzz…..
“Thomas Jefferson’s key accomplishments include authoring the Declaration of Independence, serving as the third President of the United States (1801–1809), and founding the University of Virginia.
Major Writings and Laws
- Declaration of Independence: Served as the principal author of the 1776 document declaring America’s separation from Great Britain.
- Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom: Authored the 1786 law establishing freedom of conscience and separating church and state in Virginia.
Presidency (1801–1809)
- Louisiana Purchase (1803): Acquired 828,000 square miles of western territory from France for $15 million, doubling the size of the United States.
- Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806): Commissioned Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore and map the newly acquired western lands.
- Barbary War (1801–1805): Sent U.S. naval ships to combat Barbary pirates and protect American shipping in the Mediterranean.
- Abolition of Slave Importation (1808): Signed the act prohibiting the importation of new enslaved persons into the United States as soon as it was constitutionally permitted.
Other Contributions
Inventions & Architecture: Designed his historic estate, Monticello, and created or improved practical devices like the swivel chair, polygraph copy machine, and iron moldboard plow
First Secretary of State: Served under President George Washington from 1789 to 1793.
University of Virginia: Designed the campus architecture, curated the library, and founded the institution in Charlottesville, Virginia.”
vs.
Oh, but he owned slaves at at time when most wealthy landowners owned slaves and had a 40 year relationship with a slave.
I think I will go with “great guy” myself.
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I am surprised Jason didn’t say “slave owners were men of their time”
I do think slave owners were men of their time. It doesn’t mean I condone slavery. I reject exporting current social norms to besmirch the charater of historical figures.
George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were great men. In my view their legacy is completely untarnished by the fact they, like many landowners of the time, owned slaves, as well as 12 of the first 18 Presidents of the United States.
The analogy to Hitler and Stalin who in the 20th century killed millions of people is intellectual dishonesty at its worst.
Genghis Khan? Alexander the Great? Attila the Hun?
Men of their time.
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in PA-10 Susquehanna polling has Perry down 46-49, but sample was only 300 LV
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Plantations were death camps. The only way out was escape, being sold somewhere worse, or death. Extremely few were manumitted.
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https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16215109/Ryan-Hanafin-mom-murder-cats-Massachusetts.html
There are 2 cats in our house. Both rescues. My daughter has one. I have one. Just 82 more to go until it’s a problem.
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At some point there will be a woman President. If she says that she had 3 abortions in her 40th week, Jason won’t judge.
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in PA-10 Susquehanna polling has Perry down 46-49, but sample was only 300 LV”
I am pessimistic. Let’s see.
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CBS calls the French riots “scuffles”
“Scuffles broke out Saturday in Paris between police and small groups of protesters joining a march as part of nationwide demonstrations against rising living costs and in support of high school students’ grievances.”
Reminds me of the “mostly peaceful George Floyd riots”
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Yes, scuffles involving ,mostly peaceful protesters.
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I wonder if there are any French officials enjoying the smell of things burning in the air, like Doltz and his spouse.
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BTW, is Macaroni in hiding? What a POS.
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Did John Brown commit offenses that 170 years ago warranted the death penalty?
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Would someone doing very similar thing today warrant the death penalty?What if the person had a high moral purpose for committing the capital offences? Should a deeply pro life adherent who bombed an abortion clinic killing doctors and nurses be treated with more compassion at sentencing?
What about an assassin who believes (like 51% of the country) that DJT is ruining the country… and did DJT in?
What about a Sharia law killing of a daughter by Muslim father who in his 100% muslim enclave in Deerborn MI is “doing the right thing”.
Should we cancel culture all descendants of those who killed ‘witches’ in new England in the 1600s?
Rule of law…?
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Trafalgar also has Flanagan over Tafoya in MN 48/45
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My point Jason on the Susquehanna poll is that they are not a pro-GOP pollster….they had brutal numbers for Trump two years ago and then repented at the end showing a tie.
But if the national mood is a generic ballot of Dem +10 then I would expect Susquehanna to show Perry down at least 7.
I think some of the generic ballot is people saying that they would vote for a generic Dem, but not necessarily the one on the ballot they will fill out
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Drug overdose deaths down 40% under Trump …while fish overdose deaths have jumped
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Should a deeply pro life adherent who bombed an abortion clinic killing doctors and nurses be treated with more compassion at sentencing?
No. Next.
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What about a Sharia law killing of a daughter by Muslim father who in his 100% muslim enclave in Deerborn MI is “doing the right thing”.
Execute him, too.
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What about an assassin who believes (like 51% of the country) that DJT is ruining the country… and did DJT in?
Execute. Any hard questions?
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Washington Post generic ballot poll just dropped….Dem+8
Sort of makes one question the ones worse than that
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2 dead, 11 injured after Kansas mother drives onto soccer field during game: Police”
We really have to ban SUVs.
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Should a deeply pro life adherent who bombed an abortion clinic killing doctors and nurses be treated with more compassion at sentencing?”
Not automatically but actually these type of questions factor into sentencing all the time.
That’s why they have the victim’s families/friends and the accused families/friends make statement prior to sentencing.
Sometimes the accused also gets to make statements, supposedly to see if they show remorse, etc.
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But if the national mood is a generic ballot of Dem +10 then I would expect Susquehanna to show Perry down at least 7.”
Perry is being vastly outspent.
Every electronic billboard in the district has “Stelson witll protect Medicaid” Stelson will protect SS’ Stelson will bring down grocery and gas prices”.
TV ads are like 3-1 against Perry.
If these type of ads work he is screwed.
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Here are the results for 2024. Perry won by 5k but Dauphin (includes Harrisburg was bad for him). He did well in York Co. but only squeaked by in Cumberland.
I think his only hope is that the Harrisburg turnout without Harris on the ballot might lower and can be offset by a strong win in York.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/pennsylvania-us-house-district-10-results
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Worse than the NFL….
SAN FRANCISCO – The Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries both left the court before the national anthem ahead of Game 1 of the WNBA Finals on Saturday at Chase Center.”
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