Chrstmas Eve morning
Well here it is, another Christmas Eve morning. What have I forgotten that I have to run out and take care of or buy? I think I've done everything that involves driving somewhere. What is left to do is moving 20 folding chairs and a couple of folding tables from the storage shed and start getting them warmed up. Nothing worse than sitting on ice cold steel chairs for Brunch.
We are foregoing dinner this year because so many of the family have to work Thursday. So Brunch it is with baked ham, scrambled eggs, sausage, biscuits and gravy, and tater tot casserole. For the lunch crowd , home made Christmas tamales, baked ham sandwiches on home made bread. Buttermilk pie, home made banana bread, and cake for dessert.
Oh, and croissants with a Spirited Apricot-Cranberry Sauce topping ( H/T usefewersyllables, and thank your wife for me).
Finish the afternoon off with a spirited White Elephant gift bonanza. Should be about 30 of us.
Everyone should be home by dark, but a heavy rainstorm is forecast for most of the day.
Here's wishing everyone here at Caucus 99% a happy yuletide celebration and safe time.
I will host intermittently throughout the day if you want to post something, anything you want.
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Comments
Biden’s catholic conscience stirs….
.
After 50 years in congress, 8 years as the veep and 4 years as president he has decided that the death penalty bothers his soul?
I gotta wonder if the tens of thousands of dead Palestinian children bothers his soul even a smidgen? Or the 500,000 dead Iraqi children? Or any of the millions of dead children in the other wars that he gleefully voted for?
He left 3 death row inmates to be killed by the government. Their crimes were not more horrific than the others that he commuted. Fcking hypocrite!
But since Biden didn’t actually do this who did and why?
Perhaps the puppets pulling his strings
have their own pet vendettas to settle?
A demented tool is all they got to play with.
question everything
Have to agree
I think he's trying to smooth over his legacy with a can of primer.
All the deaths in Ukraine can be laid at his feet also.
I remember Delaware was the very beginning of the credit card takeover of Americans debt slavery.
Thanks for the post and happy holidays.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Here one recalls --
-- that in late Roman days people used to be baptized at the end of their lives, in hopes that God would change His mind at the very last moment and let them into Heaven.
I have to think that these sentence commutations serve much the same purpose for Joe Biden.
The ruling classes need an extra party to make the rest of us feel as if we participate in democracy. That's what the Democrats are for. They make the US more durable than the Soviet Union was.
I think the Gaza genocide will
cancel out the heavenly pardon.
Not long ago he denied that it was happening.
Heya E1
sounds like a busy one for you.
Your menu sounds scrumptious.
Good luck and thanks for the OT!
Kiddie Boogie ~
question everything
Was that Peanuts
doing a Russian jig on the piano?
Happy holidays, Cap'n.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
lol….
That’s my ringtone and when it rings Sam leaves the room.
I clicked play on this and Sam left the room. She is such a card.
Thanks for posting it. How can it not lighten your heart and put a smile in your day?
More laughing. Sam was outside and saw me in the kitchen and came in while it was playing and turned right around and went back outside. She must hate the song. Either that or she is jealous of Snoopy.
Yeah,. it is a happy little rift
seems to pry out the spirit a bit.
always think of you whenever snoopy comes up.
Didn't realize he was doing a Cossack kick on the piano (h/t e1)
question everything
My exciting day
will be sweeping, mopping, commode scrubbing, dusting ceiling fan blades. Sounds exciting, doesn't it?
Oh, well, it is the goal I set for myself.
Lots of rest breaks, and I can bird watch, and a lizard is sunning right beside me, so I have pleasant company.
Like e1, I have gone over in my mind anything I need for tomorrow. We shop for Xmas, not on Xmas, after all.
The brunch menu sounds perfect! I hope it doesn't get rained out!
Anybody think Clinton being hospitalized for a fever is really weird besides me?
Thanks for the OT, friend.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
How many rooms
do you have left to do?
Have a great vacation and New Year.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
The goal was 6 rooms.
I think I can finish the 3 smallest rooms today.
Going better than I had expected.
I have to give my lower back frequent breaks when swing that wet mop.
I am reminding myself not to quit my day job.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Yes, I think it's really weird too..
Clinton being hospitalized. Got no idea what any of it means though.
If you're poor now, my friend, then you'll stay poor.
These days, only the rich get given more. -- Martial book 5:81, c. AD 100 or so
Nothing ever changes -- Sima, c. AD 2020 or so
Some media source said
that he was pack in ice, 105 deg. temp, but then he was released the next day. hmmmm...
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Sheez...
I guess they are keeping him alive until it's 'convenient' or something?
If you're poor now, my friend, then you'll stay poor.
These days, only the rich get given more. -- Martial book 5:81, c. AD 100 or so
Nothing ever changes -- Sima, c. AD 2020 or so
Matt Gaetz was setup
.
Jimmy delves into how the whole thing started and whether Matt actually had sex with an underage girl.
Spoiler alert: the guy who is slimier than slime gave her a real Florida drivers license saying that she was 18. Bottom Line is that Gaetz is innocent according to this sordid tale.
Doesn't surprise me
Politics is a filthy business that only the slime tend to survive the vote.
Yeah, the girl was probably a setup. But the extensive wine, women, drugs, and song, are not unusual in the halls of power.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
That’s true
The question is why Matt was singled out when the Congress has a slush fund to pay off sexual escapades and someone said that it’s paid out over 53,000 thousand dollars to people who have been wronged. Might be much more.
I would posit
$53 million.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Yeah you’re right
Ahh well it was morning and you know how my brain works during it.
I would posit
because he is not a Zionist.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Good morning e1, soounds like a heckuva feas, and a ton of work.
Yesterday evening, in the grey low hanging rain threatening dusk, cresting a hill that separates our little "valley" from the bay I saw a light --- it was the low fuel light, so I will go out today, in the rain, to go fill up. (Always keep your vehicle well fueled in case all hell breaks loose, ya know.) Just finished a large breakfast of sourdough pancakes, so will skimp on lunch and await whatever special meal my wife has planned for thi special evening and indulge in the mulled wine she plans to make. Mulled wine is one of the world's two best uses for merlot, the other being sangria, (once we weren't paying attention we wound up with a couple bottles of reserve merlot from one of our wine clubs). W00t, one down!
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Love homemade Sangria
So many tweeks to each recipe.
Unfortunately, my doctor says I have to give up alcohol along with caffeine.
I gotta find a more fun doctor.
Happy holidays.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
This is insane
Greenland
Maybe a bit sane
the empire is still trying
to build its world dominion base
buying small countries is not a stretch
till the money runs out
question everything
Full Spectrum Dominance
is alive and well, no matter who is living in the White House.
Trump, just another puppet with someone else's hand up his ass.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Good news on Cuba
They are joining BRICS next month. That’s gotta help their economy.
I can't wait
till they start trading in Oreshniks with Russia.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
This is next level
This is American imperialism that we haven't seen since a century ago. This is colonialism.
Remember that this is the same guy that Republicans tried to sell us as being for peace.
Yeah, It does sound like
" I'll make you an offer you can't refuse."
Or.
"Nice little sparsely populated subcontinent ya got there, be a shame if some heavily armed homeless people moved in there".
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
What a pity…..
Neither have we the people. The minimum wage hasn’t been raised since 2009 either, but Congress offered something much less than 40% that eyepatch McCain wanted for Congress. And if we do insider trading we get in trouble.
Crenshaw is truly
taking care of his constituents in Texas, because he KNOWS we want our Reps to get rich!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Posting another video I haven't watched.
This is Judge Nap and Aaron Mate. The descriptor is an announcement by the Pentagon that they just learned they had deployed 1,000 more soldiers to Syria than originally thought.
That right there is some First World Bullshit!
The 3-room Deep Clean is done but for giving some proper attention to the inside of the microwave oven. I am treating my accomplishment with some honorable cold beer, since I do not have any medals around.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
It would not surprise me
if the Pentagon accidentally left off a zero.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Deep Clean is DONE!
At least for the day.
3 rooms down, 3 to go!
The microwave was tougher to clean than anticipated, so I now must relax, drink a few cold beers, and let the fulfillment of reaching a goal set in.
It's the little things, people.
About those death penalty pardons...
Living out every remaining day in prison is the penalty of death in prison. 24/7 confinement, restrictions on movement, food, heat, cooling, access to friends and family, entertainment, information, and lack of privacy and safety. Prison for all your life is a punishment every split second of every day.
All Biden did was eliminate the dread of the injection. Now, the dread every moment they are still alive.
I am anti-death penalty. Period. If a person was wrongfully convicted, they can remain alive and overturn their conviction. Life without parole gives them a chance, and for the guilty fucks, just punishment. Nobody should kill except in self-defense. A malfunctioning government has no business righteously killing anybody, neither in prison, nor in war.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981