Is there a greater representative of the Swamp scum that infects DC than Kevin McCarthy? Good riddance to the pathetic, bitter POS. And kudos to Matt Gaetz for exposing how the sausage is made.
Of course not. The voters might want things like honest government, lower taxes, and no illegal immigration, and how would the congress critters be able to afford their maids, yard workers, and sex toys?
Item 34: Sunday marks the 120th anniversary of the first flight of the Wright Brothers.
I love the story of the Wright brothers and encourage all to visit their Kitty Hawk museum in the Outer Banks. It was simply grass-roots commitment and hard work to figure out man-controlled flight. Some historians say the brothers took several sets of spare parts each day to the sand dunes at Kitty Hawk because that's how many times they would crash before dinner. It took many trials before they perfected their plane. Ultimately, success came down to figuring out the profile of the wing.
The period from about 1890 to 1920 was the greatest time in our history for productive invention which set up the next many decades of growth and better quality of life. What a story of achievement.
It was also the time a secret meeting took place to create the Federal Reserve. The milestone creations of good versus evil seem to coincide. The Fed Reserve - a private bank, not a government agency - has stolen the wealth created by the good.
While great people were inventing great things, the taproot of the deep state started in 1910 on Jekyll Island, Georgia.
Was there a couple of summers ago. Agree it’s worth the drive. Hard to believe what they accomplished doing hundreds of math computations by hand. No calculators no computers.
I’m a Chicago transplant living in North Carolina. Went to Kitty Hawk/Kill Devil Hills in April. To think each time they flew a test run that lasted a few seconds and must have taken hours to climb that hill with plane in tow. Thank God some of the locals helped & didn’t think Orville & Wilbur were crazy.
Great movie. Such a shame Bruce Willis suffering one of the worst ways of dying a slow death. Over six years later my spouse is in the last stages of this horrendous illness. Godspeed to Mr. Willis and his family.
My condolences. Yes, Covid was especially draining. Any why I was basically required to take the damn "vaccine" in order to see her. Was in the hospital for three days right after I took the first shot. One of my biggest regrets of my life. I'll bet an awful lot of us would agree.
My wife is suffering from frontal temporal dementia. She is in the late early to mid stage. We too had to take the vaccine in 2020 and she took a booster but I refused. We both caught covid this fall and both of us were hospitalized. I kick myself for getting the shot and I believe the shot damaged her system. She suffers from chronic fatigue now and we can't find a doctor that can fix it. The future is a little gloomy....
p.s. I always enjoy the highlights on Saturday. Great writing Don..
Exactly what I am suffering from. Chronic fatigue. Frustrating. Especially all my doctors poo-pooing the idea this is linked to the shot. But there is no doubt in my mind. Godspeed to you and your wife.
My wife had the Pfizer regimen and I had the Moderna shots through the VA. I feel fine but she's in bad shape. There might be a problem with the Pfizer vaccine.
she was in assisted living since July 2019, probably should have got her there sooner as the last several weeks at home were really rough. any way the local public hell (not a typo) department's "visiting" restrictions were that we had to be outdoors, at least 20 feet away from each other, and i had to wear mask and gloves. now i've got long arms, but gloves at 20 feet? of course she didn't recognize me at that distance with a mask and really couldn't even figure out to turn her head to look toward me. even before the lockdowns, she was scared by the phone, removing that as an option.
the last four months we transferred to a facility in a different county where the restrictions weren't quite as insane.
Yeah, my wife’s facility try to limit my access but I knew my rights. They can’t. And I threatened to take her home. Then they changed their. Sad that just about everything comes down to money these days!
Blind commitment, overcoming human stubbornness, with a dose of resurrected love and marriage so good could overcome evil on Christmas Eve. To me, it is a modern day "It's a Wonderful Life" where the male protagonist realizes that what he has in life is better than what he thought was best and returns to it having learned to appreciate it with new eyes.
I miss the late Alan Rickman and the dementia-affected Bruce Willis.
Me too. One of my all time favorite television shows from back when I actually watched was “Moonlighting”. Alan Rickman was wonderful in “Bottle Shock” and absolutely perfect as Snape.
Kevin McCarthy. I feel like I’m missing something. I know it’s embarrassing to be fired but I don’t understand why he is childishly engrossed in trying to get others fired. I thought he wanted the Republican Party to come together and win for a change. It feels like he’s the child who takes the ball and says if I can’t play no one can.
re: Item 13 - Claudine Gay, plagiarist and erstwhile president of Hahhhhhhhhhvahhhhhd. We can't POSSIBLY give her up; after all, she has the triple-threat: Lots of melanin, the right genitals, and the best surname imaginable for an affirmative-action position - Gay. She's really pretty harmless, though. I've seen first-hand what AA surgeons can do, and I fly in national airspace now staffed by Affirmative-Action air traffic controllers and many of the pilots. Be afraid; be very afraid. Surgeons only kill them one at a time. The Boeing 747 carries 467 passengers and 7 crew. Next time you fly, check the cockpit (now called the "box office"). If it don't look right, it probably ain't right, and you should pick up the next flight.
Domestic airline safety has enjoyed a couple decades of success. With Sec. Buttboy in charge with his woke hiring policies, look for that to come to an abrupt end soon.
I wish airlines had to show pictures and experience/history of the pilots for every flight, a brief resume if you will. I just flew on a 737-700. The cockpit door was open during boarding but for me to make any visual assessment of the pilot, etc, I’d have to stick my head in the doorway which would probably get me a quick introduction to TSA and law enforcement. And then there’s the challenge of knowing who is in the air traffic controller’s seat(s).
Radio host Chris Plante did a bit of research and discovered that you don’t even have to speak English to be an air traffic controller in the USA. Do you feel better now?
After I got out of Navy, I found out that a Mess cook needs a 65 asvab score and a Hospital Corpsman only needed a 30. It broke my brain. Talked to my Dad, he said it was because the Cook could sicken/kill the whole ship crew and a Corpsman could only kill one at a time.
I’m glad I sold my Boeing stock in Feb 2019 after a run up from the $70 I bought at. It’s never fully recovered but is coming back slowly. If a plane goes down in the future due to DEI pilot or ATC, Boeing will get the blame first. Hopefully it never happens.
I look at it this way: if the pilots are white men, you know that absolutely they had to meet the strictest standards. There are no "legs up" for them. If they are anything else, you are never sure. 45,000 feet is a long way to fall, and I ain't up to it, so if I can get a glimpse of the crew and it is not option number 1, I'll come back later.
What you can do about the air traffic controllers, I'm not sure. I guess it will take an airline disaster. A couple of weeks ago an alert airliner crew noticed the controller had them and another plane landing on the same runway at the same time and went around. At some point that's not going to happen.....
I’d like to buy Matt Gaetz a Dorito martini for pushing Kevin McCarthy out of the speakership.
The new guy is likely not much better, but it was a punch in the nose to the Uniparty running the country.
“Wu Klux Klan” 😂
It is interesting that America’s government and media don’t really seem to care much about American hostages held by Hamas. Gee, I wonder why that could be. Better ask President Obama. You can call him at one of his numerous operations centers if you can get the phone number.
Tanto … “The new guy [Speaker Mike Johnson] is likely not much better.” We understand what RINOs are and McCarthy obviously belongs in this category. Then there are RWaB, which you appear to be. It’s unthinking comments such as yours that doom the GOP just as much as crooked commie Democrats. I apologize for being demeaning. I’m making a point to those wanting a Republican majority: Don’t put down the home team bc some of the players are numskulls. Every team has some bad apples. But Mike Johnson is a breath of fresh air.
What is RWaB? I’m assuming it’s something derogatory. I gave the GOP a lot of money and a lot of time in the last 3 election cycles. I’ll say whatever I want, thank you very much. They aren’t the home team. That’s the point. They are the less overtly objectionable side of the Uniparty. You end up in the same place with them. They vote for the stuff they run against. This is known as lying. They capitulate constantly. 10% of the GOP is good, the other 90% are not and unless you are the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, they hate you. Just like the Democrats. The salvation of America will not come from the people causing the problems. You’re a cuck. Sorry to be derogatory. You just don’t know it.
for millenia the caste system was the social structure in India. the efforts of European Christians to eliminate it likely only scratched the surface. wouldn't surprise me a bit if there were a double-secret list of just WHICH Asian applicants pass Krishna's muster.
For instance there are still Brahmins and Dalits. The Dalits are the "untouchables" and appear to be completely outside the caste system. Their persecution denies them citizenship, safety and ordinary human rights.
"If [comedian Morey] Amsterdam's humor seems low camp by today's standards [1996], he was certainly no toady to sponsors. His brashness cost him several on his radio shows in the 1940s.
"One sponsor. a used-car dealer, lasted one day. 'Get these cars while they're hot,' Mr. Amsterdam told his listeners. 'And they probably are.' "
Yes. What a shame that (the as-told-to) "Hold The Roses" (below) didn't make the grade (American university presses have a near-perfect "Horrible" grade in this household). Rose had two good stories to tell and all the rest was repugnant and insincere name-dropping (producing "sing-song").
If you can get a it-costs-next-to-nothing copy of HTR, I recommend it; otherwise, pass.
Hold The Roses, Rose Marie [Curley, nee Mazzetta; 1923-2017; an autobiography]; The University Press of Kentucky (2002 hardcover).
Heartbreaking: Rose and Morey made one last appearence when they were far too old to be able to do it, on I think it was Dharma & Greg, about 20 years ago.
This is what the writers thought would be funny: The two of them staggering into the living room where they literally collapsed on a coach and started arguing with each other.
Very sad. As was the contrast between the Dick Van Dyck Show (early 1960s) and D&G (American TV by 2002 was diving joyously into the Satan's sewer that it is today).
As for a good book recommendation, I just finished the superb "The Log of The Skipper's Wife" [Dorothea Moulton Balano, 1882-?], James Balano [1915-?], editor; Down East Books (paperback 1979).
It's impossible to exaggerate how good it is. You'll see.
Well done Poca-Man with allowing me to enjoy the recap of msm puffery and not spit coffee.I feel the Turkish politician met karma in the method so many of ours need [looking at you Raskin , Pelosi ,Mc Connell,Biden and Talaib'.Drinking nachos has as much appeal as the chardonay queen/0.The NBC story on the GIRLS getting a day in court was quite twisted and tortured as they refused to use the word s women or girls except to cite the trans-women.Such a joke the msm has become that every day I thank God for your sane and rational posts assuring me other people actually feel as I do.Thank you Mr.Surber,please carry forth with a MAGA Merry Christmas and FJB.
Orville won the coin flip. Don, you are a treasure and your compositions are eagerly awaited by this subscriber! I pray you maintain your current level of energy, insight, and wit for dozens of years to come!
Is there a greater representative of the Swamp scum that infects DC than Kevin McCarthy? Good riddance to the pathetic, bitter POS. And kudos to Matt Gaetz for exposing how the sausage is made.
You have to admit. Nancy Pelosi is more of a man than Kevin McCarthy will ever be.
The videotaped gay Senate staffer (fired) is more of a man than McCarthy...
All that crap about "good for the party" and then, a flounce. Sadly the lying POS gets government retirement.
Gaetz did one thing right, at least.
"good for the party" does not correlate at all with "good for the voters"
Of course not. The voters might want things like honest government, lower taxes, and no illegal immigration, and how would the congress critters be able to afford their maids, yard workers, and sex toys?
And trips to Epstein Island.
And seven figure jobs from the worthless MSM
We emptied out all of our insane asylums into the Fox board of directors corral.
Yup. Exposed right down to the panties, bra and stilettos.
?🤔
Was in reference to the obvious blackmail that is so prevalent in DC.
Frank Luntz will have more time with his ????
Poor Frank.
"Wu Klux Klan". Very adroit turn of a phrase and exactly accurate.
I think if you stay in this writing business you've got a great future!
Danny Huckabee
This is why I enjoy reading Don. Not only is he extremely thorough and informative but entertaining as well. A rare talent with gifted writers.
A writer without a sense a humor is a glass of wine without alcohol.
Excellent point.
One of Don’s best phrases of the year!
Item 34: Sunday marks the 120th anniversary of the first flight of the Wright Brothers.
I love the story of the Wright brothers and encourage all to visit their Kitty Hawk museum in the Outer Banks. It was simply grass-roots commitment and hard work to figure out man-controlled flight. Some historians say the brothers took several sets of spare parts each day to the sand dunes at Kitty Hawk because that's how many times they would crash before dinner. It took many trials before they perfected their plane. Ultimately, success came down to figuring out the profile of the wing.
The period from about 1890 to 1920 was the greatest time in our history for productive invention which set up the next many decades of growth and better quality of life. What a story of achievement.
It was also the time a secret meeting took place to create the Federal Reserve. The milestone creations of good versus evil seem to coincide. The Fed Reserve - a private bank, not a government agency - has stolen the wealth created by the good.
While great people were inventing great things, the taproot of the deep state started in 1910 on Jekyll Island, Georgia.
Was there a couple of summers ago. Agree it’s worth the drive. Hard to believe what they accomplished doing hundreds of math computations by hand. No calculators no computers.
I’m a Chicago transplant living in North Carolina. Went to Kitty Hawk/Kill Devil Hills in April. To think each time they flew a test run that lasted a few seconds and must have taken hours to climb that hill with plane in tow. Thank God some of the locals helped & didn’t think Orville & Wilbur were crazy.
For the record, DIE HARD is a Christmas movie. Yippee-Ki-Yay, yadda yadda ;~)
Great movie. Such a shame Bruce Willis suffering one of the worst ways of dying a slow death. Over six years later my spouse is in the last stages of this horrendous illness. Godspeed to Mr. Willis and his family.
Prayers for you. My late wife had early-onset ALZ from at least 2016 until her passing in 2021. the covid lockdowns were especially rough on her.
My condolences. Yes, Covid was especially draining. Any why I was basically required to take the damn "vaccine" in order to see her. Was in the hospital for three days right after I took the first shot. One of my biggest regrets of my life. I'll bet an awful lot of us would agree.
My wife is suffering from frontal temporal dementia. She is in the late early to mid stage. We too had to take the vaccine in 2020 and she took a booster but I refused. We both caught covid this fall and both of us were hospitalized. I kick myself for getting the shot and I believe the shot damaged her system. She suffers from chronic fatigue now and we can't find a doctor that can fix it. The future is a little gloomy....
p.s. I always enjoy the highlights on Saturday. Great writing Don..
Exactly what I am suffering from. Chronic fatigue. Frustrating. Especially all my doctors poo-pooing the idea this is linked to the shot. But there is no doubt in my mind. Godspeed to you and your wife.
My wife had the Pfizer regimen and I had the Moderna shots through the VA. I feel fine but she's in bad shape. There might be a problem with the Pfizer vaccine.
May I ask which subtype of the disease your wife is suffering from?
she was in assisted living since July 2019, probably should have got her there sooner as the last several weeks at home were really rough. any way the local public hell (not a typo) department's "visiting" restrictions were that we had to be outdoors, at least 20 feet away from each other, and i had to wear mask and gloves. now i've got long arms, but gloves at 20 feet? of course she didn't recognize me at that distance with a mask and really couldn't even figure out to turn her head to look toward me. even before the lockdowns, she was scared by the phone, removing that as an option.
the last four months we transferred to a facility in a different county where the restrictions weren't quite as insane.
Yeah, my wife’s facility try to limit my access but I knew my rights. They can’t. And I threatened to take her home. Then they changed their. Sad that just about everything comes down to money these days!
One of the best.
Blind commitment, overcoming human stubbornness, with a dose of resurrected love and marriage so good could overcome evil on Christmas Eve. To me, it is a modern day "It's a Wonderful Life" where the male protagonist realizes that what he has in life is better than what he thought was best and returns to it having learned to appreciate it with new eyes.
I miss the late Alan Rickman and the dementia-affected Bruce Willis.
Me too. One of my all time favorite television shows from back when I actually watched was “Moonlighting”. Alan Rickman was wonderful in “Bottle Shock” and absolutely perfect as Snape.
Rick man was superb in Die Hard. Overall the acting was fabulous and well cast.
My two favorites today:
1. Wu Klux Klan
2. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria would like to have a word with Biden.
The last one about the Wright Bros reminds me of the slogan found at the bottom of invoices I used to get from a foundry I dealt with:
BUSINESS BUILT BY HARD WORK
AND LONG HOURS
NOT BY THE GOVERNMENT
Kevin McCarthy. I feel like I’m missing something. I know it’s embarrassing to be fired but I don’t understand why he is childishly engrossed in trying to get others fired. I thought he wanted the Republican Party to come together and win for a change. It feels like he’s the child who takes the ball and says if I can’t play no one can.
It is bitterness, sour grapes, envy, and probably protecting his blackmailers.
The republicans have never wanted to win.
Item 9: Don think there was a typo it is not bored housewives but rather “Beards” as housewives.
LOL
re: Item 13 - Claudine Gay, plagiarist and erstwhile president of Hahhhhhhhhhvahhhhhd. We can't POSSIBLY give her up; after all, she has the triple-threat: Lots of melanin, the right genitals, and the best surname imaginable for an affirmative-action position - Gay. She's really pretty harmless, though. I've seen first-hand what AA surgeons can do, and I fly in national airspace now staffed by Affirmative-Action air traffic controllers and many of the pilots. Be afraid; be very afraid. Surgeons only kill them one at a time. The Boeing 747 carries 467 passengers and 7 crew. Next time you fly, check the cockpit (now called the "box office"). If it don't look right, it probably ain't right, and you should pick up the next flight.
Domestic airline safety has enjoyed a couple decades of success. With Sec. Buttboy in charge with his woke hiring policies, look for that to come to an abrupt end soon.
I wish airlines had to show pictures and experience/history of the pilots for every flight, a brief resume if you will. I just flew on a 737-700. The cockpit door was open during boarding but for me to make any visual assessment of the pilot, etc, I’d have to stick my head in the doorway which would probably get me a quick introduction to TSA and law enforcement. And then there’s the challenge of knowing who is in the air traffic controller’s seat(s).
Radio host Chris Plante did a bit of research and discovered that you don’t even have to speak English to be an air traffic controller in the USA. Do you feel better now?
Ignorance is bliss.
After I got out of Navy, I found out that a Mess cook needs a 65 asvab score and a Hospital Corpsman only needed a 30. It broke my brain. Talked to my Dad, he said it was because the Cook could sicken/kill the whole ship crew and a Corpsman could only kill one at a time.
I’m glad I sold my Boeing stock in Feb 2019 after a run up from the $70 I bought at. It’s never fully recovered but is coming back slowly. If a plane goes down in the future due to DEI pilot or ATC, Boeing will get the blame first. Hopefully it never happens.
Switching out my bumper stickers from, "Stop The Climate Hoax" to the Musk-inspired, "DEI must DIE."
You couldn't get me into an airport now if, in return, we could publish the unredacted Epstein flight list logs.
I look at it this way: if the pilots are white men, you know that absolutely they had to meet the strictest standards. There are no "legs up" for them. If they are anything else, you are never sure. 45,000 feet is a long way to fall, and I ain't up to it, so if I can get a glimpse of the crew and it is not option number 1, I'll come back later.
What you can do about the air traffic controllers, I'm not sure. I guess it will take an airline disaster. A couple of weeks ago an alert airliner crew noticed the controller had them and another plane landing on the same runway at the same time and went around. At some point that's not going to happen.....
Re Item 11: regardless of how you feel about Matt Gaetz, he got rid of that backstabbing RINO POS McCarthy.
I’d like to buy Matt Gaetz a Dorito martini for pushing Kevin McCarthy out of the speakership.
The new guy is likely not much better, but it was a punch in the nose to the Uniparty running the country.
“Wu Klux Klan” 😂
It is interesting that America’s government and media don’t really seem to care much about American hostages held by Hamas. Gee, I wonder why that could be. Better ask President Obama. You can call him at one of his numerous operations centers if you can get the phone number.
Maybe we can get the Israeli ambassador to hold it up in the next session of the UN
https://open.substack.com/pub/andmagazine/p/the-dirty-little-secret-of-americas?r=1lnuf2&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
V Jarrett S Rice and their puppet masters: faceless feckless men. Obama just a pawn.
Tanto … “The new guy [Speaker Mike Johnson] is likely not much better.” We understand what RINOs are and McCarthy obviously belongs in this category. Then there are RWaB, which you appear to be. It’s unthinking comments such as yours that doom the GOP just as much as crooked commie Democrats. I apologize for being demeaning. I’m making a point to those wanting a Republican majority: Don’t put down the home team bc some of the players are numskulls. Every team has some bad apples. But Mike Johnson is a breath of fresh air.
What is RWaB? I’m assuming it’s something derogatory. I gave the GOP a lot of money and a lot of time in the last 3 election cycles. I’ll say whatever I want, thank you very much. They aren’t the home team. That’s the point. They are the less overtly objectionable side of the Uniparty. You end up in the same place with them. They vote for the stuff they run against. This is known as lying. They capitulate constantly. 10% of the GOP is good, the other 90% are not and unless you are the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, they hate you. Just like the Democrats. The salvation of America will not come from the people causing the problems. You’re a cuck. Sorry to be derogatory. You just don’t know it.
Wake up.
Item 3 seems to imply Asian Indians can't be racist against other Indians. Racists don't care about facts only their perverse views of humanity.
for millenia the caste system was the social structure in India. the efforts of European Christians to eliminate it likely only scratched the surface. wouldn't surprise me a bit if there were a double-secret list of just WHICH Asian applicants pass Krishna's muster.
For instance there are still Brahmins and Dalits. The Dalits are the "untouchables" and appear to be completely outside the caste system. Their persecution denies them citizenship, safety and ordinary human rights.
Item 6: Glad to know God has a sense of humor, or maybe he has Morey Amsterdam subbing for the day. Maybe we can have Hillary give the same speech?
"If [comedian Morey] Amsterdam's humor seems low camp by today's standards [1996], he was certainly no toady to sponsors. His brashness cost him several on his radio shows in the 1940s.
"One sponsor. a used-car dealer, lasted one day. 'Get these cars while they're hot,' Mr. Amsterdam told his listeners. 'And they probably are.' "
(NY Times obit, Davis Stout, 10/30/96)
Thank you Don. Morey, like Rose Marie was a genius.
Yes. What a shame that (the as-told-to) "Hold The Roses" (below) didn't make the grade (American university presses have a near-perfect "Horrible" grade in this household). Rose had two good stories to tell and all the rest was repugnant and insincere name-dropping (producing "sing-song").
If you can get a it-costs-next-to-nothing copy of HTR, I recommend it; otherwise, pass.
Hold The Roses, Rose Marie [Curley, nee Mazzetta; 1923-2017; an autobiography]; The University Press of Kentucky (2002 hardcover).
Heartbreaking: Rose and Morey made one last appearence when they were far too old to be able to do it, on I think it was Dharma & Greg, about 20 years ago.
This is what the writers thought would be funny: The two of them staggering into the living room where they literally collapsed on a coach and started arguing with each other.
Very sad. As was the contrast between the Dick Van Dyck Show (early 1960s) and D&G (American TV by 2002 was diving joyously into the Satan's sewer that it is today).
As for a good book recommendation, I just finished the superb "The Log of The Skipper's Wife" [Dorothea Moulton Balano, 1882-?], James Balano [1915-?], editor; Down East Books (paperback 1979).
It's impossible to exaggerate how good it is. You'll see.
I want that Christmas sweater
Well done Poca-Man with allowing me to enjoy the recap of msm puffery and not spit coffee.I feel the Turkish politician met karma in the method so many of ours need [looking at you Raskin , Pelosi ,Mc Connell,Biden and Talaib'.Drinking nachos has as much appeal as the chardonay queen/0.The NBC story on the GIRLS getting a day in court was quite twisted and tortured as they refused to use the word s women or girls except to cite the trans-women.Such a joke the msm has become that every day I thank God for your sane and rational posts assuring me other people actually feel as I do.Thank you Mr.Surber,please carry forth with a MAGA Merry Christmas and FJB.
Doritos liquor and a Mountain Dew chaser. Breakfast of Champions
Orville won the coin flip. Don, you are a treasure and your compositions are eagerly awaited by this subscriber! I pray you maintain your current level of energy, insight, and wit for dozens of years to come!