THEOLOGY LESSON

I'll bet the graveyards of heaven are really beautiful.

WHORE OF BABYLON

It's Amy Coney Barrett.  Considering that the left is going to lose influence in the Supreme Court for at least a generation, we can expect anti-Catholicism to once again become intellectually respectable.  And since these are Democrats, the same party that has no civilization, decency or honor left, we can expect the left to pretend to be "concerned" about Ms. Barrett's two Haitian adoptee children.

After all, if you're entirely willing to enthusiastically lie through your teeth in order to publicly destroy a man, using someone's children against them should be the easiest thing in the world for you.  As far as I'm concerned, the Democratic Party now has the same reputation as its former militia, the Ku Klux Klan.  And I'm not sure which direction the Democrats are headed.

JAYWALKING

Lately, it has become the fashion for much of our protesting class to block traffic in the public streets while harassing and/or threatening individual drivers.  Stupidity like this hits WAY too close to home for Jim Treacher.

 

Over the last few weeks, I’ve seen several instances of “peaceful protesters” (AKA rioters) testing the laws of physics by using their fragile human bodies to challenge moving motor vehicles. The vehicles always win, because that’s how reality works.

 

I don’t know why some people think it’s a good idea to do this. Okay, so you hate the police. That’s your right. This is America, and you can hate anybody you want. But your hatred and anger isn’t some kind of mystical force field. Your belief that you’re right isn’t going to stop a moving car. The matchup isn’t David vs. Goliath, it’s Bug vs. Windshield.

 

This is personal to me because I know what it’s like to get hit by a car. It happened to me 10 years ago. I was crossing a street, with the Walk signal and inside the crosswalk, when a driver made an illegal left turn into the intersection and hit me. (This was in Washington, D.C., and the vehicle was a State Department security SUV, which is a whole other story.) It shattered my knee and I needed two surgeries and 18 months of physical therapy before I could walk unaided again. I still deal with the injury every day. Every time I take a step with my left leg, I’m reminded of it. I know what happens when a moving vehicle meets a human body, and I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. I wouldn’t even wish it on Brian Stelter.

SOCIOPATH SAYS WHAT?

Everyone who saw the disgraceful performance of the Democrats at the Kavanaugh hearings to Delaware Senator Chris Coons.  Bite me.

KNOW WHAT WOULD BE NICE?

If journalistic organizations like Reuters would employ some actual Christian since that would hopefully mean that I wouldn't have to see nearly as many useless, worthless, ignorant, and bigoted pieces like this one as I do now.

DEAR PALESTINIANS

Is it sinking in yet? Nobody is ever going to give you a state. Particularly you. 

There are many explanations for this dramatic change in the Middle East balance of power and the evolving alliance between most of the Arab-Sunni states and Israel. One could cite the end of the Cold War, the collapse of Pan Arabism, the rise of Sunni and Shiite Islamism, the growing “cold war” between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and America’s energy independence. That person might also note the impact of the strategic depreciation of the “oil weapon,” the loss of centrality of the Palestinian issue in regional and global politics. and the rising fear—shared by Arabs and Israelis—of a strategic threat posed by Iran.

From here.

GASP

JOE?

STOP. TALKING.

CRAP JUST GOT REAL

 

Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died.  And if you think the left is batcrap now...if you think the American news media are all insufferable Democratic stenographers now.

UPDATE: Looks like the left will be playing this religious bigot garbage again.

 

"ALL THE PEOPLE" JOE?

Joe Biden says stuff.

CAN I BE HONEST HERE?

Donald Trump has done more for world peace in four years than Barack Obama EVER did in his entire worthless presidential career. And it's not even close. Damn straight Trump's earned a Nobel Peace Prize.

First, it was the United Arab Emirates and Israel making peace. Then it was Serbia and Kosovo agreeing to set aside political disputes to sign an economic deal. And now Bahrain and ­Israel are set to sign a peace treaty. The last month has been a remarkable one for the Biblical injunction to turn swords into plowshares. Most dramatically, the number of Arab countries recognizing Israel’s right to exist has doubled, from two to four, a leap that is reshaping 75 years of Middle East politics before our eyes. These breakthroughs were brokered by President Trump and his administration. It is an extraordinary record of peacemaking, yet in too many circles, it is being treated as a sideshow without significance.

UPDATE:  If this actually happens and Donald Trump doesn't win a Nobel Peace Prize, then there's absolutely no point in having a Nobel Peace Prize anymore.

HOW TO KNOW WHEN YOUR ASS HAS BEEN HANDED TO YOU

When you'd rather destroy the league you play in rather than see your hated rival win.

Trolls are a Scandinavian invention, straight from the frigid sagas of Norse mythology, but Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a Norwegian parliamentarian, swears that he is not one. Observers of his antics this week could be forgiven for thinking otherwise. On Wednesday, he announced that he had nominated Donald J. Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. “Can you name a person who has done more for peace than President Trump?” Tybring-Gjedde asked me, insisting that the question was a serious one. Kayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary, agreed. ”This is a hard-earned and well-deserved honor for the president,” she said. Tybring-Gjedde defended his nomination on Fox News remotely, and to me in person at a café in Oslo. “Do we give the prize to Greta Thunberg, for screaming about the environment?” he asked. “The agreement he made between Israel and the United Arab Emirates could mean peace between Israel and the Arab world. That is like the [Berlin] Wall falling down.” Today the White House reportedly will announce that Bahrain, another Gulf monarchy, will recognize Israel.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S MORE SURPRISING

That Quin Snyder still has a job coaching basketball (the guy accomplished nothing here in Missouri). Or that job is coaching in the NBA.

TELL YOU WHAT

If Tulsi Gabbard had managed to take down this pot and consigned Joe to an old folks home, Donald Trump would be seriously sweating right about now. UPDATE: Seems kiddie porn isn't as big of a deal in Cali as it once may have been. Oh well.

END GAME

Jenny Poo? I get you being bitter about the Republican base no longer being willing to mindlessly accept instruction from people like you. Thing is, sweetheart, if you follow John McCain, who didn't much care for the Republican base with Mitt Romney and try to pass him off as a jen-yoo-wine conservative, Donald Trump basically becomes inevitable. But this shit crosses a line.

UPDATE: Get help, Larry.

WANT A REASON TO VOTE FOR TRUMP?

Here's a pretty good one. Trump's Supreme Court list. While I love the idea of Ted Cruz and/or Tom Cotton on the Court for several generations to come, I'm still not sure about Josh Hawley joining them. The kid had been Missouri attorney general for all of two years before he took on @clairecmc McKaskill for the Senate and dismissed her to MSNBC and I was dubious about him doing that. I'm not sure if I want him on the Court or still in the Senate.

MENTAL PICTURE

Is this going to happen?

President Donald Trump has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for helping to broker peace between Israel and the United Arab Emirates - and immediately went on a Twitter spree of self-congratulation Wednesday.

 

He was nominated by Christian Tybring-Gjedde, an ultra-conservative member of the Norwegian Parliament, who praised Trump for brokering a deal in which the UAE and Israel agreed to establish diplomatic ties and trade links and allow free travel between their countries for the first time.

 

Probably not, although Trump's done more for world peace than his predecessor ever did and all his predecessor ever did for world peace was get elected.  Although if it did actually happen, it's fun to envisage the heads of people like Bill Kristol, Rick Wilson and Mandy Carpenter exploding.

WHO'S WARGAMING THE SECOND AMERICAN CIVIL WAR?

Quick hint: it ain't the right.

“It is very obvious that Trump is laying the groundwork for claiming victory no matter what,” said Rahna Epting, executive director of MoveOn, and a participant in the FBT call. “Progressive groups at the end of the day believe in our democracy and, while it is not perfect, believe in building upon it and strengthening it. And we will fight to protect it from what we truly see as a president who has gone off the rails and taking this country down an authoritarian fascist path.”

Below the surface, it was even more harrowing. In the simulations, the Trump campaign was “consistently more ruthless than Team Biden,” the authors wrote. The options that Team Trump had to use or misuse included manipulating classified information, selectively releasing “classified documents for political purposes, fueling manufactured rumors,” freezing “assets of individuals and groups the president determines to be a threat,” and restricting “internet communications in the name of national security.” 

But the Transition Integrity Project noted that there would be immense pressure on Biden to fight it out if, for the third time in 20 years, the Democratic candidate won the popular vote but didn’t take office. In a simulation they ran, Team Biden “encouraged Western states, particularly California but also Oregon and Washington, and collectively known as ‘Cascadia,’ to secede from the Union” unless structural reforms were made. In exchange for Trump getting the presidency, for instance, Republicans would need to agree to abolish the Electoral College, give Puerto Rico and D.C. statehood, and divide California into five states for better Senate representation.

WHERE WE ARE

This is the situation, folks.

CALLING THEM HOME

One of the first memories of St. Louis professional sports I ever had was in 1964.  I was a little kid and dumber than a bag of hammers but I couldn't believe that my Cardinals traded one of their best pitchers, Ernie Broglio, to the Chicago Cubs for some guy called Lou Brock.

Hall of Famer Lou Brock, who died at age 81 at a local hospital Sunday afternoon after being in ill health, will be remembered for many accomplishments. He was the National League’s all-time leader in stolen bases with 938. He had 3,023 hits. He was a first-ballot electee into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. He was the “Base Burglar,” who came to the Cardinals in 1964 via a trade in which the Cardinals ripped off the Chicago Cubs.

If I remember correctly, Broglio's career basically died after he left here while Brock became an institution in this town.  I'm going to miss you, Lou.

NOTHING PERSONAL, LYDA

But this is kind of why those of us out here in Farm Country* would prefer to keep you at arm's length.  Well, completely separate for all time, basically.

[St. Louis] Mayor Lyda Krewson has temporarily relocated after a string of protests at her Central West End home.

The mayor on Wednesday confirmed that she and her husband, former television reporter Mike Owens, have been living at an apartment, also in the Central West End.

“We have not lived at home for 2 months,” Krewson said in a text message to a reporter. “We did it to deescalate the situation, to save police resources, and importantly because our neighbors were being disturbed and threatened.”
 

The mayor said “for me it comes with the territory.”
 

“I ran for this job — my neighbors did not,” Krewson said.

*So designated because while the only things even vaguely "agricultural" that are still out here in St. Louis County, Missouri are the odd horse ranch or weirdo who raises chickens or something, the device on the seal of St. Louis County consists of a plow.  A long time ago, that pissed off the St. Louis Post-Dispatch enough to try to change it but they couldn't pull it off.

NOT AS I DO

Sit this one out, Joe.

THOSE WERE THE DAYS

Remember when people actually had to accomplish something to win Nobel Peace Prizes and not just get elected to office?  Because I sure do.

Israel and Kosovo have agreed to establish diplomatic ties and Kosovo, along with Serbia, will open embassies in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday.

Netanyahu's statement came shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump made a similar announcement in Washington, where he met with leaders of Serbia and Kosovo as they agreed to normalize economic ties between them.

POCKET ACES

Nailed it.

FAKE NEWS

"Sources" say that, do they, Jake?  You do know that you work for CNN, right?  Either slap a name on those "sources" or figure out some other way to get Nanner McBotox out of the headlines.  Because nobody's buying your crap anymore.

BEAR ANY BURDEN

Jim Martin is determined that the Roman Catholic Church goes Episcopalian.

ALL-IN

Nobody's buying this "public health" crap anymore, Gav.

Grace Community Church and its pastor, John MacArthur, have chosen to defy an unconstitutional order banning indoor church services in the name of fighting the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. Los Angeles County has engaged in ridiculous court shenanigans to force the church to shut its doors but to no avail. So on Friday, the county’s Department of Public Works unilaterally decided to cancel the church’s lease agreement for a large portion of the church’s parking lot.

“Los Angeles County is retaliating against Grace Community Church for simply exercising their constitutionally protected right to hold church and challenging an unreasonable, unlawful health order,” Jenna Ellis, who is representing MacArthur and the church, and is a personal lawyer for President Donald Trump, said in a statement. “In America, we have a judicial system to ensure that the executive branch does not abuse its power, and Grace Community Church has every right to be heard without fear of reprisal.”

“The Democrats’ message to Americans is clear—if you don’t bow to every whim of tyranny, the government will come after you,” Ellis added. “The Church has peacefully held this lease for 45 years and the only reason the County is attempting eviction is because John MacArthur stood up to their unconstitutional power grab. This is harassment, abusive, and unconscionable.”

What with this.

And Nanner McBotox.

UPDATE: Yeah, Nanner. Senility. Run with that.

UPDATE: Stop digging, Nanner.

UPDATE: Seriously, Nanner.  Just stop.

UPDATE: Don't even try it, Dyl-Dyl.

@jack?

I got run off Twitter a while back.  Never did discover the reason why but I can sort of figure it out as long as the platform keeps letting crap like this slide.