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On June 20 federal agents picked up a longtime parishioner of Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Montclair on church property, according to the National Catholic Reporter.

Which is worse, a group of random protesters or the federal government invading a church?

Can't wait till we start hanging ICE members.

#5 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-01-19 01:15 PM | Reply | Flag

Hi Clownshack:

In A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens) we read Madame Defarge is constantly knitting something into a large embroidery.

We learn that she has been assiduously recording the vile crimes and abuses of the Ancien Regime into her tapestry.

Like Madame Defarge, we must all do our part in recording the crimes and abuses committed by the nefarious Trumpf junta and their vicious Sturmabteilung.

cartonvsdefarge.weebly.com

The next non-Republican POTUS candidate in 2028 might consider selecting a retired US military general as his/her VPOTUS running mate whose sole mission will be organizing a Suid-Afrika-style Truth and Reconciliation Commission to expose all of the crimes from 2025 to 2029 and fire all the perpetrators.

Sadly, this next administration will have a ton of work to do with less money in the coffers to work with because of all the wealth siphoned off by the oligarchs these past several years. Raising taxes on working Americans in 2029 to fix all this would be a travesty.

#20

Because like most Republicans, they are barely educated, many barely educable.

Which is why Republicans hate education... people with more than a high school education tend to vote Dem, and they hate that.

;;

This is one of the best short talks I've seen in recent years, and from someone whom I never knew was either funny nor this perceptive:

How the Elite rigged Society (and why it's falling apart)

www.youtube.com

by
age 12 children American children of
affluent kids are four grade levels
above everybody else

by University the
age rich kids are 77 times more likely
to go to university or to ivy league
university than kids from poor schools

in adulthood 54% of the people at Elite
workplaces went to the same 34 Elite
colleges

so we ended up creating a cast
system

people with high school degrees
die nine years sooner than people with
college degrees

people with high school
degrees are five times more likely to
have kids out of wedlock

people with
high school degrees are 2.4 times more
likely to say they have no friends

so we
created a cast system even though we
pretend to be egalitarian

excerpt

22 Bible Verses on Welcoming Immigrants

sojo.net

DHS is likely to have their own special place in the bigly MAGA section of Hell.

Our NATO allies are already retaliating against us with new tariffs in response to Trump's Greenland threats.

He wrote a scathing letter to Norway's prime minister that could have been written by a child:

Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a "right of ownership" anyway? There are no written documents, it's only a boat that landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless
we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT

www.theatlantic.com

BTW, even the Wall Street Journal is calling out Trump for his tariff nonsense:
Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs, Study Finds

Research contradicts President Trump's claim that foreigners are footing the bill, and could weaken his hand in the dispute over Greenland

FRANKFURT"Americans, not foreigners, are bearing almost the entire cost of U.S. tariffs, according to new research that contradicts a key claim by President Trump and suggests he might have a weaker hand in a reemerging trade war with Europe.

www.wsj.com

Trump is ruining America and destroying NATO and our image around the world.

@#3 ... Storming a church service is just despicable. ...

Church Leaders Shaken After a Man Was Detained in Their Parking Lot (June 2025)
www.nytimes.com

... A group of armed men in face coverings detained a Latino man outside a church in the Los Angeles suburb of Downey and took him away on Wednesday, in what pastors believed was a federal immigration raid.

The Rev. Tanya Lopez, senior pastor of Downey Memorial Christian Church, said she was in her office on Wednesday when three SUVs with tinted windows pulled up to her church. Then, Ms. Lopez said, five men, some wearing badges and tan bulletproof vests that said "POLICE," rushed out of the vehicles and detained a man in the parking lot.

The men, Ms. Lopez said, refused to identify which agency they worked for, and they did not share their names or badge numbers when asked. Their vehicles had out-of-state license plates. They also did not provide a warrant, she said.

They took the man into a black SUV. And, Ms. Lopez said that as she shouted instructions in Spanish to the man inside the vehicle, an agent drew a rifle at her. ...



War On Drugs - Thinking Of A Place (2017)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
[Verse 1]
It was back in Little Bend that I saw you
Light was changing on the water
Where birds above had flown
There was pain in your eyes, so you vanished in the night
Missouri River in the distance
So I lied upon the lawn

[Verse 2]
I remember walking against the darkness of the beach
Love is like a ghost in the distance, out of reach
Travel through the night, 'cause there is no fear
Alone but right behind, 'til I watch you disappear

[Chorus]
I'm movin' through the dark of a long black night
Just movin' with the moon and the light it shines
And I'm thinking of a place and it feels so very real
Just movin' through the dark

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 3]
Once I had a dream I was fallin' from the sky
Comin' down like running water
Passin' by myself alight
In the morning, I would wake to the sound of someone's voice
Like little whispers through the silence
...


... I used to believe that if all I did was read Page One of the New York Times, I'd be well-informed. Brainwashed is more like it. ...

Let's see ...

New York Times -- Bias and Credibility
mediabiasfactcheck.com

... Overall, we rate the New York Times Left-Center biased based on wording and story selection that moderately favors the left. They are considered one of the most reliable sources for news information due to proper sourcing and well-respected journalists/editors. The failed fact checks were on Op-Eds and not straight news reporting. ...

Yeah, just a "high" rating for factual reporting.

And for comparison ...

Fox News (foxnews.com) -- Bias and Credibility
mediabiasfactcheck.com

... Overall, we rate Fox News right-biased based on editorial positions that align with the right and Questionable due to the promotion of state propaganda, conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, the use of poor sources, and numerous false claims and failed fact checks. While straight news reporting from beat reporters is generally fact-based and accurate, it is typically overshadowed by propagandistic opinions, which earns them a Low factual rating. ...

A "low" rating for factual reporting? Who could have known?

And just for grins ...

Drudge Retort -- Bias and Credibility
mediabiasfactcheck.com

... Overall, we rate the Drudge Retort Left Biased based on the use of mostly left or left-center sources. We also rate them Mixed for factual reporting due to the use of some sources that have failed fact checks as well as a lack of transparency. ...

Wait, what??? drudge.com has a higher factual rating than foxnews.com?


"We are all [of us] in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
#28 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2026-01-18 03:44 PM | Reply | Flag:
And lifted from Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan, sung by Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders.
Top five female voice supported by Martin Chambers' excellent percussion.
www.youtube.com
Chrissie Hynde was at Kent State University on 4 May 1970 when poorly-led soldiers of the Ohio National Guard opened fired on unarmed college students.
No one was ever punished for that massacre.
#32 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-18 04:24 PM

:] Neil Tennant is educated and well-read, writing pop songs with wit often lifted from the shoulders of giants.

Pet Shop Boys - I Get Excited - they make a lot of songs that aren't on their albums, mostly b-sides like this one have the more political and queer cultural references.

We're both in the gutter, that's no surprise
What does it matter, when I look in your eyes?
We've lost all our money, we're thrown out of bars
We're lying in the gutter, but we're looking at the stars

I get excited, you get excited too
I get excited, you get excited too

I hear the sound of the subway, the sigh of the heat
The click of the visitors' heels on the street
The rattle of the taxi, the scream of the cars
The clatter of the dustbin and the beat of my heart

I get excited, you get excited too
I get excited, you get excited too

I don't know why, I don't know why
I don't know why, I don't know why

You're in my soul
My body moves to your control
Baby, I've been thinking about you
All night long, and the neighbours are talking

I don't know why, I don't know why
I don't know why, I don't know why

We're both in the gutter, that's no surprise
What does it matter, when I look in your eyes?
We've lost all our money, we're thrown out of bars
We're lying in the gutter, but we're looking at the stars

I get excited, you get excited too
I get excited, you get excited too

I don't know why, I don't know why
I don't know why, I don't know why

Related ...

Treasury secretary defends Greenland tariffs: 'The national emergency is avoiding the national emergency'
www.nbcnews.com

... Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended proposed tariffs targeting eight European countries that oppose President Donald Trump's push to acquire Greenland, telling NBC News' "Meet the Press" that the goal is to avoid a future national emergency. ...

Asked by moderator Kristen Welker what national emergency justifies tariffs against countries that oppose Trump's Greenland ambitions, Bessent argued that "the national emergency is avoiding a national emergency." ...



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