Posted on 10/24/2022 7:31:01 AM PDT by Red Badger
"It has become so partisan and so divided that I would have to say it's almost two states."
Former Gov. Tommy Thompson (R-WI) on the political polarization taking place in the Badger State.
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“This is from my hometown. This is from Johnson County, from the sheriff from Johnson County, which is a legit badge.”
Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker explains where he got his "prop" police badge from.
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“He eats a lot of ice cream.”
Walker is asked if he agrees with anything that Joe Biden has done as president.
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"There are many rivers that are feeding the sea of rodents in this city, and today, we're damming one of them."
New York Mayor Eric Adams announces plans to tackle the city’s rat problem.
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"Yes, we need generational change. Of course, we do. But, in some cases, there's no substitute for experience."
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggests she might not be done in her leadership role.
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“I almost look at a football season like I’m going away on deployment for the military. And it’s like: ‘Man, here I go again.’”
Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady compares the rigors of the NFL season to going to war.
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“James Corden is a hugely gifted comedian, but a tiny cretin of a man, and the most abusive customer to my Balthazar servers since the restaurant opened 25 years ago. I don't often 86 a customer. today I 86'd Corden. It did not make me laugh.”
Balthazar restaurant owner Keith McInally reveals he banned comedian James Corden from his restaurant for his behavior to staff. He subsequently retracted the ban after Corden apologized.
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"Overall the Lt. Governor is recovering well from his stroke and his health has continued to improve.”
John Fetterman’s physician releases a letter on his physical condition.
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“He wouldn’t have had the courage to come to the Hill. It’s all talk.”
Pelosi reaffirms her statement that she would have punched former President Donald Trump if he went to the Capitol on Jan. 6.
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"Kevin has decided to make his bed and is prepared to lie down with the lice, the fleas and the blood-sucking ticks."
Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele warns House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy about getting into bed with MAGA supporters.
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“Having children is why you’re worried about your price for gas … [and] how much food costs. For women, this is not a reductive issue. You can’t divorce being forced to carry out an unwanted pregnancy from the economic realities of having a child.”
Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams says that abortion is an economic issue as much as it is a cultural one amid inflation fears.
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"Look, it makes sense. I’ve been doing this for how long now? It’s not politically motivated at all. It’s motivated to make sure that I continue to push on what I’ve been pushing on. And that is making sure there’s enough oil that’s being pumped by the companies so that we have the ability to be able to produce enough gas that we need here at home, oil we need here at home, and the same time, keep moving in the direction of providing for alternative energy.
Biden bristles at the idea that his decision to tap into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve was politically motivated to benefit the Democrats ahead of the midterm elections.
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“I cannot deliver on the mandate. ... I will remain as PM until a successor has been chosen.”
Liz Truss resigns as British prime minister after a disastrous six weeks in office.
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“The suggestion by any federal bureaucracy that we take action to make the border easier to cross is completely unacceptable.”
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s office pushes back at the Biden administration wanting the state to take down shipping containers as a makeshift border wall.
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“COVID-19 mandates should be in our rearview mirror. The decision to vaccinate a child against COVID-19 is for Virginia parents to make about what’s best for them and their family. We will not adhere to these @CDCgov mandates.”
Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) says the decision to vaccinate children against COVID-19 should be left to parents.
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"It's mega, MAGA trickle down. The kind of policies that have failed the country before, and it'll fail again and will mean more wealth to the very wealthy, higher inflation for the middle class. That's the choice we're facing."
Biden says MAGA Republicans will crash the economy if they win in November.
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“I have disagreed more with him than with any other justice. Which means we don’t come together on many cases. And yet I can tell you that I spend time with him, understanding that he is one of the few justices who knows practically everybody in our building. He knows their name, he knows the things about their life, what their family is suffering. ... There’s no other justice who does that. I try, but he does it better. He cares about people."
Justice Sonia Sotomayor lauds her conservative bench mate Clarence Thomas for his compassion.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor lauds her conservative bench mate Clarence Thomas for his compassion. -— She did not have to say that.
New York Mayor Eric Adams announces plans to tackle the city’s rat problem.
My, my. Would that the goode mayor have studied history just a bit before announcing his plans ...
To you, Senior Hubris, I present ....
I think that I will post this today.
Great!..........
“Whatever you Subsidize, you get more of. Whatever you Tax, you get less of.” - Ronald Reagan..................
The justices tend to have an admiration for each other, if for no other reason than they’ve survived the hazing of the initiation process.
The SCOTUS building itself is like a Roman Catholic church was decades ago.... you don’t talk loud, you are reverent and remembering that you are at the seat of justice.
Good post. Similar to “Voting Democrat is like giving a teenager alcohol and the keys to a car”.
As the French authorities found that the extermination process wasn't going fast enough they proceeded to Plan B, offering any enterprising local the opportunity to get in on the hunt for rats. To incentivise this the French set a bounty of 1 cent per rat. To not be overrun with rat corpses the civilians only had to submit a rat's tail to the municipal offices. The French thought that this was a good idea because they had a policy of trying to encourage entrepreneurialism in Vietnam. Initially the new plan appeared to be working as devised as large numbers of tails were being brought in. But then an unintended consequence emerged. The enterprising Vietnamese that were hired to kill the rats soon realised that killing a rat would only make future rewards less likely. After all, they needed the rats to breed more rats with tails as these would become a future source of income.
The French soon started noticing living and healthy rats running around without their tails. The rat hunters amputated their tails and then let them escape so they could breed and create more offspring with tails to then repeat the process. Furthermore, there were also reports that some Vietnamese people were deliberately smuggling in rats from outside Hanoi into the city. The final straw for this plan was when French health inspectors discovered rat farming operations popping up in the countryside on the outskirts of Hanoi, that were breeding rats solely for their tails as some sort of "tail creation factories".
As the French policies had failed to accomplish its objectives, in fact having made the rat problem even worse in Hanoi, they cancelled the bounty programme.
My prediction - there will be a sanitation workers strike, which will bury the trash cans in uncollected trash.
Question - did the winner of the trash can bid for NYC donate to the mayor's election campaign, or are they just relatives?
That’s a misquote of Walker. What he actually said was “He eat a lot of ice cream.”
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