The Groomers.

The report could have suggested expelling all the Jesuits. There are precedents for that when the forces of Counter Reformation, Ultramontanism and the papal legions start getting out of hand. That or, in the time honoured tradition, just sacking Rome again.

Look up in the engine cover and you'll see The Flying Tiger.

I can't tell, but the Tiger should be where the decal is, behind the pilot on the fuselage.

@Jolly (moderately-expensive) Scotch all over my keyboard.

Mixed with a modicum of gastric contents.

I watched with glee
While your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the gods they made

Zesus.

This is Disney!? Yikes.

My mom really liked him.

@89th said in Luke is Gay:

@Doctor-Phibes said in Luke is Gay:

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It's only gay if you make eye contact

Mother F that made me LOL

Lol made me remember this old clip

Porch pirates are getting pretty brazen.

D4 had a couple of items stolen, so she's put up a dummy camera (with blinking red LED) on the porch. One time, somebody stole a package of books for toddlers. DIdn't want it, so they returned it the next day. I shit you not.

Amazon (and Fed Ex) have a one-time passkey to the inner lobby of our condo. They (usually) bring it in, set it on a shelf by the elevators.

Fun indeed.
Kinda hoped for an Easter egg after the credit starts rolling, Marvel style. 😁

@George-K said in McCarthy: A subpoena is not a "request.":

@Jolly well, there's the problem. We've seen the likes of Bannon get perp-walked, while people like Holder and Lerner skate away while defying supboenas.

More from the article:

The Justice Department and FBI have no excuse for temporizing at this point. They’ve known for well over a year that this probe was coming in the likely event that Republicans took control of the House. They should be fully cooperating with the Judiciary Committee’s investigation, not bucking it.

Comparison to law enforcement’s response to the House January 6 committee’s demands is instructive. The panel was in a hurry because it knew it had a short lease on life. If it wanted to get its ducks in a row to make the partisan impact it was planning to make in the 2022 midterms, it didn’t have time for such passé niceties as deferential interbranch collaboration, negotiations, resort to judicial intervention in hashing out disagreements, etc. When Democrats decide something is opportune, immediate compliance is required. The committee thus issued subpoenas on tight time frames. Witnesses were held in contempt if they didn’t comply. They were castigated publicly if they dared rely on legal privileges to resist — the kind of demagogy that would result in a mistrial if a prosecutor pulled it in front of a jury.

The outrageous omnibus budget bill for fiscal year 2023, enacted before the lame-duck Congress slipped out of town for the holidays, contained a mind-blowing $38 billion for the Justice Department, including $11.3 billion for the FBI. That is an increase of about $3 billion over last year’s budget, and of $6 billion over the DOJ’s budget when Biden took office. The administration claimed the steep raise was necessary for pursuit of such priorities as domestic extremism — you know, America’s parents. This is your government in action: The DOJ inspector general issues reports of scandal after humiliating scandal, and the political class annually responds by adding billions upon billions to DOJ’s war chest.

Then let's get some of that money back. Congress controls the purse strings.

What I've seen more down here, are junkies hanging around the grocery stores in the poorer part of town. Guys (or gals) will hand them a shopping list in the parking lot, after the cash is agreed upon. The usual cut is about 50%. The junkie buys the groceries, pushes their cart out to the parking lot and exchanges the groceries for the cash.

Many of these guys have "regulars", so after a time or two, the buyer knows how much he can spend and what he can buy at a predetermined rate. The junkie knows his customer and rate, so the there is an element of trust and it's a smooth transaction.