Hey, Clownshack!

@60 I always find it funny when people don't realize how conservative California really is.

And "Dixie" was written by a Northerner from Ohio, while the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" was originally a Southern song. A musical transmigration had occurred.

After the Confederates finally surrendered on 9 April 1965, a happy throng amassed in Washington DC and America's greatest president addressed the jubilant crowd:

"I have always thought `Dixie' one of the best tunes I have ever heard. Our adversaries over the way attempted to appropriate it, but I insisted yesterday that we fairly captured it.

[Applause.]

I presented the question to the Attorney General, and he gave it as his legal opinion that it is our lawful prize.

[Laughter and applause.]

I now request the [US Army] band to favor me with its performance.'"

*** Republican Gov. Tate Reeves Proclaims April 2026 as Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi ***

*** Another Blow to Amerikkka's Fragile Healthcare System: CIGNA Withdraws from ACA Marketplace ***

"Cigna is pulling out of the Affordable Care Act's individual marketplaces in 2027 to focus on more profitable parts of its business, another exit from what's become a tumultuous piece of the inhuman for-profit health insurance industry which bankrupts thousands of poor Americans every year.

Overpaid executives announced the decision on Cigna's first quarter earnings call on Thursday, in which the company unveiled better-than-expected financial results, including $1.7 billion in profit, and a bumped-up earnings forecast for the year. Cigna currently has 369,000 ACA members across 11 states, a small portion of its 18.3 million total members."

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Just wait until the draconian effects of the "BBB' kick in right after Tuesday 3 Nov 2026, as crafted by the sinister Republicans and the selfish mega-oligarchs.

If you're against spending, but silent on tax giveaways, you shouldn't be allowed to sit at the adults' table.

Posted by Danforth at 2026-04-30 02:24 PM |

Dr. Nicole B. Saphier is reportedly a practitioner of witchcraft or "New Age" medical treatments, is against women's reproductive rights, adheres to "herd immunity," and bleated that preventable illness is running rampant across the US. But Dr. Saphier is telegenic, which appeals to Dummkopf Trumpf. This quack, alongside RFK Jr and Dr Mehmet Oz, will send America down the drain while the for-profit health insurance industry makes a mint off of our misery.

And China is secretly sending Iran missiles and establishing space tracking stations in South America.

Since 2000, China suffered less than one hundred military casualties-- all from border skirmishes with Indian soldiers in the Himalayans where Beijing tested directed-energy weapons (DEW).

Chinese peacekeepers for the UN are spreading goodwill in the Third World and collecting intelligence while Americans are now treated as pariahs.

Meanwhile, the US lost thousands of soldiers killing Muslims all over the Middle East and SW Asia, costing the US trillions of dollars. The PTSD and caring for returning soldiers further drained our coffers.

Instead of helping Ukraine against Vladimir Putin, we are again wasting a fortune and our ammunition stores in a costly Islamophobic misadventure against Iran for the benefit of wealthy Israel which offers top notch universal healthcare for its residents while we suffer with the BBB.

Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest ally?

The wealthy didn't suffer during the economic messes preceding the French or Russian Revolutions.

Oligarchic fortunes immunized them from inflation and austerity measures; there were no income taxes or laws to claw back their ill-gotten pelf either.

But oligarchs finally did suffer in 1789 and 1917 when people had enough of them and their corrupt regimes.

When is it America's turn for its second revolution?

And Bill Donohue didn't condemn Dummkopf Trumpf's blasphemies.

He called them "problematic."

Another phony Catholic like JD Vance and Brett Kavanaugh.

LDS folks use the term "inactive" instead of "lapsed."

Arrogant Brits call Indians "jolliwogs."

"Why, Charles, dear. How dare that jolliwog not want to meet you in person. Hmph."

"Good. He may have asked me about Diana or my disgraced brother."

Genuine progressives know ICE needs to be abolished, the way Germany's Gestapo was dismantled after the Second World War; status quo politicians and AIPAC recipients want to "reform" or "fix" ICE because they want the USG to maintain the ability to deport undesirable aliens without a warrant or having to see an immigration judge. ICE has ruthlessly targeted Palestinians and other Muslims for daring to speak out against Israel's genocidal policies, and now ICE has turned its guns on Cubans.

Every eleven minutes, someone in the US is killed with a firearm, either by an assailant, suicide, or by accident. The highest number of firearm deaths in the US in a single year was 48,830 in 2021. As of 2 April, there were 3,135 gun deaths in the US, so, 2026 gun casualties are mercifully lower than average for the US.

Congressman Pat Harrigan (R) has a net worth of $8.1m

Established in 2017 by EUROPOL, the Stop Child Abuse " Trace an Object initiative has yielded the following results:
Almost 28,000 tips have been sent in via the general public;
Investigators were able to narrow down a country in 131 instances;
34 children, victims of child sexual abuse, have been identified and removed from harm;
Eight offenders have been identified and prosecuted.

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*** Catholic League: "Zohran Mamdani Wants to Rape the Rich" ***

Funny choice of the verb "rape" from arch-Catholic Bill Donohue (78).

This hatemonger gave himself a $480,000-plus raise over two years, boosting his salary to more than a million dollars a year.

Excerpt:

"Besides an insatiable appetite for control, what defines the Left is an equally insatiable appetite for envy. No one epitomizes these vices today better than New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a young Muslim man born to privilege who has never had a real job."

This phony Christian just described Dummkopf Trumpf.

Nota Bene: The Mayor's team was quite specific before the royal entourage came to NYC: "The mayor will not meet privately with King Charles. But the mayor will be at the wreath laying ceremony."

Since this royal visit to the 9/11 Memorial site had nothing to do with improving the lives of everyday New Yorkers, the NYC.gov/Mayor webpage did not post any entry about this event.

Quagmire!

Guardian of the status quo Nancy Pelosi net worth: $250 million

"Nancy Pelosi is not shy to let her constituents know her family has a legacy of being bought out by Israeli lobbyists."

*** IDF Double-Tap Strikes Kills Three Lebanese Paramedics ***

"Two successive Israeli air strikes on a building in southern Lebanon killed nine people, including three emergency workers in what the country's prime minister described as a 'war crime.'

"At least 16 people were killed in the past 24 hours in various Israeli strikes, including a Lebanese soldier and a family of five."

"Stuff like this is why neither side is in the right in that conflict."

*** IDF Airstrike Kills Unarmed Palestinian Paramedic in Gaza ***

"Our boats were approached by military speedboats, self-identified as Israel', pointing lasers and semi-automatic assault weapons ordering participants to the front of the boats and to get on their hands and knees," the Global Sumud Flotilla aid mission reported.

"Boat communications are being jammed and a SOS was issued."

Israel Army Radio reported that the IDF had begun seizing control of aid ships heading towards Gaza well before they reached Israeli territorial waters.