The Hall of Fire

Was it organic, raised outdoors, and sung to as it died or something? Or is he including some fancy single-malt he bought with the turkey? Kinda like the guy who complained about the price of his airport lunch...that included a glass of single-malt whiskey.

I guess the difference between owning a mistake and trying to lie your way out of a problem of your own making is too subtle for some to appreciate. I wonder how many of the people buying into Trump's schtick on this one also make a habit of trying to shift/evade responsibility for their own decisio...

I am not a fan of Netanyahu and what he's turned Israel into in his desperate quest to cling to power and avoid jail. That said, the more I look at Hamas, the less I understand how anyone with a firing synapse could possibly sympathize with this particular organization. With Palestinian people, yes,...

So when you first mentioned it I was intimidated but then, watching the video, I've decided it looks like tons of fun and a great exercise in spatial reasoning. Which I happen to be good at (even by the standards of my peers). As for the quiz itself, eh. I can force myself into pretty much any type ...

The Israeli and Egyptian blockade of the Gaza Strip includes sea access. Israel maintains the current naval blockade that has been in place since Hamas took power over Gaza and the blockade is supported by the Palestinian Authority ( source , the bit about the PA was news to me). The ICRC considers ...

To be fair, it would be suicidal for the new Speaker of the House to make any move that looked like he was interfering with Comer et al's passion project.

And Turkey is finally in the process of approving Sweden's NATO membership (which came about as a result of Russian's invasion). Seeing as invading Ukraine utterly failed to stop NATO expansion, maybe Russia can just stop already? :P NATO controls the Adriatic, Aegean, Ionian, and North Sea. NATO a...

Yes, it did have the flavor of "I was at a shawarma shop eating hummus, and overhead a group of liberal naturalized Arab Americans..." Like they used to publish about mythical inner city, or university town, Starbucks where apparent liberals proclaimed their love of Trump. And then, when ...

You're being careful about claims and I'm still stuck at the babies... Again, what is Hamas's end game here? This looks like an organizational version of suicide-by-cop. And all these civilians are being taken along for the ride.

Gaza's under siege now. Honestly, it makes me queasy. I have a feeling that it's all going to end with Gaza in rubble. What was Hamas even thinking? I've seen a lot of chatter that it was about disrupting the budding relationship between Israel and Saudi Arabia but something about that isn't adding ...

This won't end well for the people of Gaza.

His impeachment was for insurrection. That's not what he's being charged with, so I'm not sure how that claim even works.

Trump did successfully get one case dismissed. But it was the lawsuit that he himself filed against Michael Cohen. Wow. I was writing but abandoned a post in the other thread in which I was arguing that guilty people have a moral duty to plead guilty. And then Trump goes and does the right thing he...

It's not the demotion that people are pissed about. It's the fact that now that Kariko played a leading role in saving the world Penn is claiming her as one of theirs...and she saved the world with the exact same research they demoted her over. In other words, Penn appears to be taking credit for re...

When it comes to Trump, the dumbest, most self-serving explanation for anything he does is probably the right one. So I wouldn't be surprised at all if that is, in fact, the rationale behind his orders to elements of the House GOP. Now why they're taking said orders when they were actually elected t...

Boebert went door to door in her district and successfully primaried the incumbent. She has a pretty face, a full figure, and wouldn't shut up about the gun on her hip. That, plus the overall redness of her district, took her to victory in the general. The district lines were redrawn during her last...

I wonder what was in her vape pen. Not that it matters for the pregnant lady behind her but I am old enough to get a giggle out of a social conservative indulging in recreational pot. My favorite bit of that whole sordid mess at the Buell theater was the part where she adjusts her skin-tight dress. ...

N.E. Brigand wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 9:59 pm "Through the travail of the ages,
Midst the pomp and toil of war,
I have fought and strove and perished
Countless times upon this star."

Quoted because of this.

It's like he's just looking for excuses at this point.

Also, wasn't Biden just in Florida looking at hurricane damage?

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is upset that, thanks to President Biden's economic policies (and she does blame him), new companies are moving into her and paying her constituents higher wages than they were earning from the companies already in her district. Yeah, I'm not sure I'm following what she'...

Voronwë the Faithful wrote: ↑Sun Sep 03, 2023 11:44 pm I have no idea if this true. But I want it to be!

I guess it will come down to who owns the mugshot, the law enforcement agency that took the picture or the person who got themselves arrested...