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Shaenah Batterson's avatar

Nancy Pelosi is a vile old hag. I remember when at the beginning of covid she was promoting lockdowns standing in front of her massive refrigerator filled with pints of ice cream. What a way to flaunt your class privilege. An entire fridge for ice cream isn’t cheap, and besides how insulting to the people who were essential workers. “Your majesty will be protecting herself in her ice cream palace while you ‘risk your lives’ working during the ‘pandemic’” Sorry, I got a little carried away...

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Ohio Barbarian's avatar

OMGs. My wife mentions that several times a year. She went ballistic when she saw those refrigerators, plural. The insider trading vampire had TWO of the things. Top of the line, of course.

Yeah. Nancy's Mr. Burns from the Simpsons level evil.

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Shaenah Batterson's avatar

😆 Yes, definitely

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Pam2's avatar

Somehow the Michigan woodchuck supposedly saw a shadow. The sun wasn't out this morning though so I doubt it. Yikes, looks like CIA Slotkin was at the event. (see video) Maybe that's what scared the critter.

https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2024/02/there-you-have-it-michigans-official-groundhog-says-were-stuck-with-winter.html

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Ohio Barbarian's avatar

Eeek! I can't blame Woody one bit.

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jbnw's avatar

I'll just go with good news today - Stumptown Fil, the Portland Zoo beaver, agreed in his furcast that there's an early end to winter!

And I finally bought you a well-deserved beer, but that link needs to be updated to ko-fi.com (yes, too many years as a computer programmer :-) )

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Ohio Barbarian's avatar

Thank you! Fixed it. And I'm drinking a Stella right now. Just started the process for setting up my retirement this summer.

I wonder who will be retired first? Me or Zelensky?

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djean111's avatar

Considering that Zelensky needed Nuland to fly over and fire that disobedient commander or whatever, I am guessing he will be retiring very soon. Also, I am just now opening a nice cold bottle of Pinot Grigio.

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jbnw's avatar

Nice choice! And I think you will have a later, but much happier retirement. There's a very recent picture with Zaluzhny with a Right Sector commander, an OUN flag and a photo of Bandera. I suspect Zelensky needs an early retirement in Miami!

https://x.com/kimdotcom/status/1753474199921070358?s=46

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Jeanie McEachern's avatar

what risible wits you are, commenters included. tnx for the chortles!

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djean111's avatar

I think that either the US is Israel's Golem, or the US and Israel are both Golems for somebody/something we don't see clearly. Murderous and destructive.

I read somewhere that the mayor of East Palestine said that Biden should just stop by there in 2025 - on his book tour. Also read that Biden would be gone already, except for the fact that Kamala as prez is unthinkable. The Dems have quite an act to choreograph for the next election, methinks.

Many years ago, I was running full system testing on a big initial software release, by myself, worked from about 3 pm until 1 or 2 am every night. For a while, nothing worked right, I always had to start over with Day One, and I had to leave a detailed phone message for a long list of folks before I left the building every night. And people would spend the day fixing programs and whatever. So there was a big meeting I had to come in early for, and someone asked me how the Portugal system testing was going. One of the guys on the phone list said - "Have you ever watched Groundhog Day?" I was so tired I could not stop laughing; I scared some people, I think.

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Nathan Keller's avatar

I am honest to Pete writing my Stacks with a crt screen mac running OS 9.1 because I write and fed wine to one laptop and tobacced a 2007 Imac . Irrational exuberance! Writers sympathize since crashing a document, you see I have no autosave- it is like the worldsmallest heartbreak. You lose a 20 page thought stream and on the adrenaline of t small trauma recreate the whole thing before themorning sun overwrites ...World smallest.

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MrMickeysMom's avatar

Hey, Buckeye Chuck looks like one mean motor scooter...

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

I love the photo of the Dalek, but why post a picture of the most evil being that has ever existed in the universe? That is, Andrew Jackson. Native Americans spit on him. Pfttt!!!

Happy "early" Spring, Puxatawny Phil and Buckeye Chuck.

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Ohio Barbarian's avatar

At least Jackson had personal courage. Native Americans never spit on that aspect of Crazy Andy.

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

Yeah, he had the courage to become a slave owner and to kill millions along the Trail of Tears. We're still spitting on Crazy Andy. He's no hero.

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Nathan Keller's avatar

Here is hoping I bite my lip while saying: East Palestine , what a sage G Issue Joe is, going for the votes of the news junkies to remember on election day vaguely that he visited Palestine. Going for the swing vote of newly sentient chat GT, Yes, Biden viewed the sight of the catastrophe in Palestine , where he said 'Jesus' and also verifiably Wld ya look at this place? I have come to see us Ohiomen, like Skinny Joe and like the Ground Chuck vote and like the Party of Trump we'all are ready for one more balloon ride of irrational exuberance. Toledo's living blues master Dooley Wilson if you look him up he runs down the crimes of our gov'ment in audio posts on facebk, but he maintains his practise schedule, keeps trying new wordless Mssssppi blues despite everything. It is dark in Re'ale politics, shiit, send out for that old novelty dog'do' , maybe there is a preverbal way to communicate with the gerontocrats. Ugh.

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Gilgamech's avatar

Thank you again Barbarian for bringing laughter in the middle of this madness and horror.

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Mark Taylor's avatar

But did you hear about this groundhog...

"Kentucky Groundhog Dies On Groundhog Day: 'He Will Forever Be In Our Hearts'"

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kentucky-groundhog-dies-groundhog-day_n_65bdf7ffe4b0a3aad5a5264a

Given the accelerating climate crisis, 'Genocide' Joe's rush to Middle East war and stirring up war with China, I think this little guy was probably better read and showing us a bigger, long term future prediction.

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Ohio Barbarian's avatar

I did indeed, and you're probably right, but I figured this post was already dark enough.

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Mark Taylor's avatar

There's probably an Old Testament passage about the day of groundhogs passing from this silly realm to the heavens above to sit nibbling at the right foot of God, or some other hallucinogenic sock puppet.

In the meantime, bless and bring onto us all, our bretheren groundhogs to great the rising final day.

You know, typically cheery evangelical stuff!!!

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