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New York witches aim hex at Supreme Court’s Brett Kavanaugh despite death threats

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Melissa Madara was not surprised to receive death threats on Friday as her Brooklyn witchcraft store prepared to host a public hexing of newly confirmed U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh this weekend.

The planned casting of an anti-Kavanaugh spell, one of the more striking instances of politically disgruntled Americans turning to the supernatural when frustrated by democracy, has drawn backlash from some Christian groups but support from like-minded witch covens.

“It gives the people who are seeking agency a little bit of chance to have that back,” Madara said. The ritual was scheduled to be livestreamed on Facebook and Instagram at 8 p.m. EDT on Saturday (1200 GMT Sunday).

Seated at a desk phone among bird skulls and crystal balls at Catland Books, the occult shop she co-owns, Madara said the Kavanaugh hex is expected to be the most popular event the store has hosted since its 2013 opening, including spells aimed at President Donald Trump. Madara declined to provide details of what the latest ritual will entail.

More than 15,000 people who have seen Catland Books promotions on Facebook have expressed interest in attending the event, vastly exceeding the shop’s 60-person capacity.

Not everyone is a witchcraft fan. Madara said she had fielded numerous irate calls from critics, with at least one threatening violence. “Every time we host something like this there’s always people who like to call in with death threats or read us scripture,” she said.

As far as supporters go, some are sexual assault survivors still angry that the U.S. Senate confirmed Kavanaugh’s lifetime appointment to the nation’s highest court despite accusations that he had sexually assaulted multiple women.

 

Not to worry, counter hexes are planned across the country.

 

Read the full story here: Reuters

 

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  3. They should worry about finding spells to: lose some weight, find a razor for their pits, and to attract a man.
    …maybe a potion for a real job…
    FFS.

    1. Also, this is what happens when you’re raised on Harry Potter instead of John Wayne movies.
      FFS.

    2. “…and to attract a man…”

      Probably about 80% of these witches are dykes and they like their hairy pits as it attracts other witch dykes with hairy pits…

    3. This whole “hex” thing might bother me if I believed in witchcraft. But I don’t. They’re retarded. Dennis Haysbert’s character in “Major League” would be easier to take seriously.

      “Pedro Serrano. Cuban. Says he came here for religious freedom.”

      “What’s his religion?”

      “Voodoo.”

        2. Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me
          A Mercedes Benz
          My friends all have Porsches
          I must make amends
          I worked hard all my life
          With no help from my friends
          Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me
          A Mercedes Benz

    4. By odd coincidence, just finished watching The Ugly Truth, wherein Gerard Butler’s characters’ first scene featured him exclaiming “It’s a STAIRMASTER! USE it!!”

  4. If I were to live close enough, I wouldn’t be posting death threats, I’d be posting laugh threats. Very disruptive of the hexing spirits. (Unless they’re high proof spirits)

  5. Pitiful palookas attempt to use “mystical” “powers” to hex supreme court justice.

    Hex fails because it is, well, bull shit, and only serves to piss SCOTUS off leading to ruling against pathetic palookas in the next religious freedom case they bring.

    Genius!

  7. Oh, gosh. And I thought that people who practice witchcraft knew the rules better than that.

    It’s that ‘as above, so below’ thing that Melissa Madara has forgotten. You put a hex on someone? It comes right back to bite you in the ass.

    Good luck with that, you moron. What goes around, comes around and you just targeted your own ass all by your lonesome.

    What a BIMBO!! She knows better than to do something like this, but she does it anyway? Fine.

    Anyone besides me ever listen to Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ version of ‘I Put a Spell On You’? He did it in one take and he was completely skunked before he got started.

    And it isn’t even Hallowe’en yet.

    1. Screaming Jay was the man…there’d be none of the showmanship associated with hard rock and heavy metal without that dude. Unfortunately, he had a real hard time keeping it in his pants, as he was alleged to have fathered over 75 children.

    2. I put a spell on you on the Okeh label (1956). The DJ played the song followed by the Dead Man’s Stroll at our club house Hallowean party. We are talking the over 60-80+ crowd so we all had a great time.

  9. Thought for a moment this was an article about the final former ex Mrs. The I realized it was spelled with a W not a B. Scared hell out of myself.

  10. As I recall, a witch all ready tried to put a hex on Justice Kavanaugh’s nomination and that didn’t work out. Another witch and a warlock did their best to derail the appointment and that didn’t work out either. If this witches- -in-force effort does not work, I will have to conclude either that Justice Kavanaugh is one of God’s favorites or that that this latest effort was merely the handiwork of a bunch of natural bitches, not supernatural witches.

    2. Well, the problem with those silly bitches is that they forgot the basic karmic law: Everything that you do goes out into the universe and comes back to you nine (9) times over.

      So, the minute this idjit Melissa announced it, she boloxed herself because a whole bunch of “others” countered it. And there’s no such thing as instant results, anyway. It just doesn’t work that way.

      Best thing to do is pray for a peaceful resolution to the insanity that is going on now with the Dems.

  12. I see they invoked the “received death threats” claim. I have to wonder how many of these claims are true when comming from the left. It almost seems like a boy who cried wolf.

      1. 20 cords?!! Cripes, man. Are you serious? Even with a chainsaw and log splitter, that’s a helluva lot of fuel.

          1. hmm… did about a half cord yesterday and wound up with some stacked wood and several bug bites. Guess the brown recluse laddies took a day off.

            1. At least this time of year the stumpfuckers are going into hibernation. At least the California stumpfuckers are. I understand the term applies to different biting bugs in different parts of the country.

              1. Beetle Barkers.
                Aka Pine borers.
                They land on your back and bite like visegrips. Can’t reach them so you back into a tree and squash them.
                Leaves a nstay tat.

        1. Thanks. Now I have an ear-worm of Tennessee Ernie Ford’s 16 Tons going on. Probably take me all day to get rid of it!

          1. I was born one mornin, it was drizzlin rain

            Stirrin up trouble is my favorite game….

    2. Nobody got burned at Salem. That would’ve made a mess. The alleged witches at Salem were hanged. Much easier cleanup, reusable, environmentally conscious!

      1. In January 1692, a group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts became consumed by disturbing “fits” accompanied by seizures, violent contortions and bloodcurdling screams. A doctor diagnosed the children as being victims of black magic, and over the next several months, allegations of witchcraft spread like a virus through the small Puritan settlement. Twenty people were eventually executed as witches, but contrary to popular belief, none of the condemned was burned at the stake. In accordance with English law, 19 of the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were instead taken to the infamous Gallows Hill to die by hanging. The elderly Giles Corey, meanwhile, was pressed to death with heavy stones after he refused to enter an innocent or guilty plea. Still more accused sorcerers died in jail while awaiting trial.

        The myth of burnings at the stake in Salem is most likely inspired by European witch trials, where execution by fire was a disturbingly common practice. Medieval law codes such as the Holy Roman Empire’s “Constitutio Criminalis Carolina” stipulated that malevolent witchcraft should be punished by fire, and church leaders and local governments oversaw the burning of witches across parts of modern day Germany, Italy, Scotland, France and Scandinavia. Historians have since estimated that the witch-hunt hysteria that peaked between the 15th and 18th centuries saw some 50,000 people executed as witches in Europe. Many of these victims were hanged or beheaded first, but their bodies were typically incinerated afterwards to protect against postmortem sorcery. Other condemned witches were still alive when they faced the flames, and were left to endure an excruciating death by burning and inhalation of toxic fumes.

        1. And all the while, the official policy of the Catholic Church was that witchcraft was a myth (a policy based on science, no less! ), any self-proclaimed witch was insane at worst, and the job of the Inquisition (when it wasn’t politicized and corrupted, as in Spain, for instance) was to disprove accusations of witchcraft on those grounds and tell accusers to cut the superstitious bullshit. Not sure exactly when the Church took that stance, obviously some time after Saint Joan of Arc. But it was well-established by 1692.

        2. “young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts became consumed by disturbing “fits” accompanied by seizures, violent contortions and bloodcurdling screams”

          I dated a girl from Salem in my high school days. It’s true.

      2. My great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather got burned at Salem. The over/under on the number of witch killings was 20 and he bet the log cabin on the over.

  14. All the talent out there and I have to rely on overweight, hirsute lesbians and their beta male sidekicks…

  16. Gender sanity may be making a return to a gov’t office near you. The Trump administration is prepared to scrap the pick-a-gender, any gender policy of his immediate predecessor in office. The new standard will be science based. Well, the Left just loves them some science, so the Left must be in favor of this. Not. The new standard that sticks will be the gender of an individual at or before birth. Imagine that.

    Note: I lifted the cmt from the WOT, where I had placed it this a.m. and stuck it here. Happy to see another ROT!

      1. One article said that in NYC you can choose claiming between 31 genders, and change as often as you feel like. “Oh, it’s 3PM, guess I am a furry now”. And they say they aren’t sick mofos…

        1. Wow, in NYC it is just like Baskin-Robbins, 31 flavors of gender/identity. Does that mean one can get “furry” as one’s gender/sex on a NYC driver’s license?

  17. In honor of the ROT, here’s a column from the past … the week of April 9, 2018, to be precise. Hope you enjoy it!

    DID YOU KNOW…?
    How many of the original eight National League teams from 1876 are still playing baseball today?
    By Commissioner Wretched

    Baseball season is underway!
    That has little to do with trivia, I know, but it’s my favorite season of the year, and it’s my column, so humor me.
    The first Major League game I ever saw was at Wrigley Field in Chicago, in 1966. My father took my brother and me to see the Cubs play the Atlanta Braves, during that team’s first season in the South. (Dad originally hailed from LaGrange, so he was a Braves fan. And a White Sox fan, which I could never figure out.)
    What stands out most in my memory of that summer day wasn’t the game, or the players, or even that majestically beautiful ballpark.
    It was a Frosty Malt.
    If you’ve never had a Frosty Malt, you’re missing something wonderful. It’s a lot like a frozen Wendy’s Frosty, but with a definite malted milk flavoring, and if you try one, your mouth will love you for the rest of your life.
    On my most recent visit to Wrigley last summer, I again had a Frosty Malt, and they taste just as wonderful as I remember them.
    Okay, enough reminiscing. Let’s get on with the business at hand … and if you want to comment to me, send a note to didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com and I’ll be sure to answer.
    On to trivia … and pass me another Frosty Malt, please.
    Did you know …
    … cigarette smoke contains 4,800 different chemicals? Of those, 69 are known to cause cancer. (That makes 4,800 more good reasons to quit smoking!)
    … famed composer Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) wrote his classic overture, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” when he was seventeen years old? (Quite the dreamer, wasn’t he?)
    … physicists at Michigan Technical University have come up with a practical method to find time travelers through the Internet? (They’ll explain this at their next meeting two weeks ago.)
    … adult mice are able to squeeze their bodies through openings the size of a dime? (Neat trick, if you ask me. Now I know how they get into the house!)
    … scientists still don’t know what causes hiccups? They know that hiccups are involuntary contractions of the diaphragm, the muscle that separates your chest and abdomen, but they don’t understand why it goes through those involuntary contractions. (One thing I never understood is why some people spell hiccup “hiccough”. But that’s just me.)
    … the letter “R” is on the left side of a standard keyboard, and “L” is on the right side? (They did that on purpose, you know, just so I could say something about it here.)
    … dolphins do not chew? Their teeth are used for grasping prey. They have no jaw muscles for chewing.
    … until the time of the Caesars, all Romans were vegetarians?  (How do they know that, I wonder?)
    … elephants love to swim? In fact, there have been many reports of elephants swimming miles from shore in the Indian Ocean.
    … the costume of the Cowardly Lion in the movie, “The Wizard of Oz,” was made partly from real lions? (If I were king of the forest…)
    … salmon can jump as high as six feet? (And when they’re trying to get away from a bear looking for lunch, they can jump even higher than that!)
    … more than half of the world’s rabbits live in North America? (Bugs Bunny provided that particular fact.)
    … during the War of 1812, the British fired more than 1,500 cannonballs at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, but the fort suffered very little damage? (Apparently, the British were very poor shots. Kind of explains the way that war ended, eh?)
    … about 115 tons of ocean spray enters the atmosphere each second? (I’m assuming most of it comes from the ocean, but what do I know?)
    … whispering is more wearing on your voice than speaking in a normal tone?
    … some people in parts of western China put salt in their tea? Those who do say it balances the flavor. (I would imagine you could achieve the same effect by making tea with sea water.)
    … only two baseball teams remain from the original National League, founded in 1876? The “original eight” were the Chicago White Stockings, the Philadelphia Athletics, the Boston Red Stockings, the Hartford Dark Blues, Mutual of New York, the St. Louis Brown Stockings, the Cincinnati Red Stockings, and the Louisville Grays. Of those, only Chicago and Boston can claim unbroken lineage – though now, they’re called the Chicago Cubs and the Atlanta Braves, respectively. (The Philadelphia and New York teams were expelled in 1877, and the Hartford, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Louisville teams folded between 1877 and 1879. The current White Sox, Red Sox and Athletics are part of the American League, formed in 1901.)
    … about 40% of all of the meals eaten daily in the United States are eaten outside the home? (And the restaurant industry is mighty glad of that, too!)
    … the most famous song in “The Wizard Of Oz” was almost cut from the film? MGM head Louis B. Mayer (1884-1957) wanted to remove Judy Garland’s (1922-1969) song “Over the Rainbow,” feeling the song hurt the flow of the story. It took the effort of Assistant Producer Arthur Freed (1894-1973) to persuade Mayer to keep the now-classic song in the final cut. (Now that song is stuck in my head. Thanks a lot, Arthur Freed!)
    Now … you know!

    1. “only Chicago and Boston can claim unbroken lineage – though now, they’re called the Chicago Cubs and the Atlanta Braves” – want to rethink that one a little? Espeially since the Braves not only relocated once, but twice?

      1. When I say “unbroken lineage” I’m referring to the fact that the team continued to play each year. Cincinnati had a few years’ break in play, as did Philadelphia. The Braves have not missed a year, though they have changed cities.

    1. Rommel’s only child, Manfred, did okay for himself, too. I just read at your Wiki link that he and George IV became friends. That’s wild.

        1. When, in the movie, that ass kissing boot licker tells Patton that even though Rommel wasn’t at the battle, it was his plan so it was just the same as beating him, I always want to reach into the TV, grab him by the nose and run him around the house.

        2. In “Patton”, the Germans used M-48 Pattons, Americans used M-41 Walker Bulldogs, and the Brits used M-24 Chaffees. Everytime I see this movie, I think I’m watching documentary footage of NATO tank exercises from the early 1960s…

          1. Best they could do in those days. Still an amazing movie. Way, way better than “Battle of the Bulge”—I love Telly Savalas and Robert Shaw, but it was still a shitshow.

            1. Seeing “Battle of the Bulge” is like watching documentary footage of NATO tank exercises in the early 1960’s, except replete with terrible dialogue and plot…

          2. In the movie, Patton was riding around in a Willy’s CJ3B, which didn’t exist until 1952. Military version was the M606.

  19. I’m doing a Band of Bros marathon this week since Mrs SJ is dog sitting elsewhere. Only seen it about a dozen times.

    3. Find that I need to hit Class VI before doing this. But I’m a geezer. One of the more moving parts are where they interview Dick Winters and others. (RIP gents)

      Geeze out.

      1. Given the recent surge of upgrades, I see absolutely no reason now that Winter’s DSC couldn’t be upgraded to the MOH.

        That policy that existed (only one to a customer/Division) back then was pure malarkey. (See what I did there?/smile)

        As far as I know, his method of attacking the German 105 Battery at Briecourt Manor is a class still being taught at the USMA.

        The last attempt for an upgrade was in 2012, but with a new boss in town, it may be worth another shot.

        1. The credits mention it being taught at WP. Saw something I missed before: we’re huge Blue Bloods fans. Saw a familiar face in Easy last night and sure enough it is Danny the Detective in the series (Donnie Wahlberg).

  20. Well, since this is an OT, I’m doing a slow-cooker beef roast. The recipe for it is from this “Thursdays are for cooking”

    https://www.azuse.cloud/?p=82255

    I will enjoy it, with boiled red potatoes, flaky biscuits and some long green beans sauteed with bacon and a small amount of red wine.

    I need my counter space back! (whine)

    1. be glad you do not live with my wife… she considers every horizontal space as available storage. After MANY years my place at the breakfast table and the end table where I sit on the couch are off limits. For someone who was such a neatnik in the service… but then who among us hasn’t had that “who the hell are you and what did you do with the person I married?” moment. Or decade.

    2. I do not know where the clutter comes from. I had the table all cleared off, and it’s now awash in STUFF! Has to be the kitchen gnomes that did it! That’s it! I can blame them!

        1. A perfectly fine three bay auto-barn with overhead space was turned into a three stall horse barn, with center aisle and tack room. And a hay loft, of course.

      2. I hear you, and I weep for you and for your car.
        I think I will find solace in buying a cookbook full of recipes from Cornwall, and a kitchen cart for my CToven, which needs its own space, too. ##OVENS LIVES MATTER!!!

  21. So this year I got back into building model aircraft. Started with a prewar yellow-wings PBY for my oldest daughter, then a P-40E for my son. Currently almost done with a Spitfire Mk.I for one of my nieces and just started an F-4E for another niece. Got an F-100 still in the box that will end up in late-50s/early-60s silver finish for my youngest daughter.

    Also recently found an alternate history blog called “Red Dawn +20” that establishes a timeline for WWIII from the movie (1985-89), with contributors telling their “war stories” from various perspectives, including F-4 and FA-18 pilots, M-60 crewman who upgraded to an Abrams, Army Intelligence guy, OGA operator, Navy surgeon with a Marine unit, etc. There’s also some Russians and collaborators thrown in for good measure. The war starts with simultaneous Soviet invasions of Alaska and Canada, Soviet/Cuban/Nicaraguan/Mexican communist invasion of Texas and New Mexico, and Soviet/Cuban airborne drops in the Rockies in an attempt to cut the US in half, which fails when a joint US/Canadian defense halts the northern prong at the border while the Army stops the southern prong in a massive tank battle in Wyoming (as exposited by the late, great Powers Booth). 1986 is a stalemate, and the tide turns in the summer of ‘87 when Schwarzkopf leads a massive counteroffensive that finally starts rolling the commies back. By ‘89 they barely maintain a foothold in Texas (the Brownsville Pocket) and the Soviet Union collapses into civil war, with the remnant of the Red Army surrendering shortly after. Of course, the Russkies in real life never had the logistics to pull that off, and Mexico never had a communist coup, but it still makes more sense than 99% of movies.

    Among the stories are descriptions of total mobilization, everything in the Davis-Monthan boneyard that can still fly is reactivated, collectors and VFW posts donate their WWII/Korea vehicles, and production is established to make ammo for unretired weapon systems. A few National Guard units end up fighting the war with M4 Shermans, and militia units sworn into the NG often get the hand-me-downs.

    This gave me an idea for a “what the hell” project: a diorama scene of such a unit in ‘88 or ‘89, with maybe an M3 halftrack retrofitted with a TOW launcher, troops armed with M1 Garands and M1 Carbines wearing Vietnam-surplus gear, and a Huey touching down to one side.

    Like I said, it’s a “what the hell” project, motivated entirely by a wild hair up my ass

        1. Love the display idea.

          My giant scale Guillows B-17G remains in the box, unbuilt, on top of the fridge. Eighteen years and two fridges later, it’s still there.

          Dreams of building it to match my dads
          warbird and nose art. Gonna be a while.

          1. Got two B-17s and two B-24s unbuilt in the garage. Once I learn how to make my own decals, I want to put my wife’s name on one of them, hang it in the living room. Still trying to convince her to do a pinup photo. She doesn’t think she can pull it off, but she tends to underestimate her hotness.

              1. Been learning how to do some weathering effects, which is why my son’s P-40 has sun fading, a couple of small oil leaks, a fuel spill, and soot streaking blown back from the .50-cal muzzles.

                Let me know if you need more ideas.

    2. Lea Thompson makes it back to American lines and is immediately drafted into the Regular Army. She goes through the modified Q-course and becomes an SFOD-A commander and leads a detachment back into the Colorado wilderness to prepare for the eventual American relief of the Siege of Denver. Her team motto: “AVENGE THE WOLVERINE!!!”…

      1. According to the blog, she and Danny finally got those Green Beret advisers they were promised (the OGA poster says that General Bratchenko has been on his “to do” list), reinserted into occupied Colorado, and re-formed the Wolverines. She survives and later becomes a Senator and writes a war memoir.

        COL Bella defects shortly after the movie. His testimony is pivotal in multiple war crimes trials, including Fidel’s (in absentia, fucker is the commie Houdini).

        Bella’s aide who got on the wrong side of the RPG went on from the backblast-to-the-face incident to run a POW camp in Cuba, where he spent his weekends raping downed female USAF personnel. Bella testifies at his trial, and he gets a noose.

      2. Also from the blog: instead of “Blackhawk Down,” there’s “Mile-High MOUT,” Mark Bowden’s account of his time embedded with the 7th Light Infantry, the first Army unit to break the Siege of Denver.

        Schwarzkopf kicks ass, as in real life. More so, in fact, as the Soviet invasion means he has more asses available for kicking. It’s also noted as fitting that he commands 3rd Army.

        1. No 82d Airborne? In my imaginings, I always thought a brigade-sized drop by the 82d Abn Div would play a big role in the eventual relief of Denver…

          1. I believe the 82nd had a hand in it, but it was a very large operation. Plenty to go around.

            There’s some funny parts as well.

            NASA clears out Johnson Space Center in Houston just hours ahead of the advancing reds. “Clears out” in this case meaning *to the bare walls,* with a wiseass mission controller leaving a note on the front door that says “Catch us if you can, Ivan!”

            During the drive back into Texas, USS Massachusetts (every battleship was reactivated for the war, except Texas, which was towed to Florida and spent the war putting around the Gulf with an NG HAWK battery embarked that gets multiple kills) is supporting the Marine landings downriver from the Port of Houston. One 16” shell overshoots and lands in an LNG storage complex. The captain initially thinks they fired a tactical nuclear round by mistake.

            There’s a female B-52 pilot with the callsign “Buffy.” Her postwar memoir is titled “BUFFy the Commie Slayer.”

            The Soviets attempt a major air strike against the Port of Long Beach while USS Norton Sound, testing the AEGIS VLS system is tied up there. “Missiles flew, every plane died.”

    2. Gender reassignment? That’s funny in itself.
      “Click. crackle–sshhh–crackle…Ahem…Is this on?….Attention! The following personnel have been reassigned to the opposite gender: Manning,Bradley….Click.”

    3. I looked at the photo of h/im/er/it from the chin up. Still looks like a wimpy boy. I’m betting that in 10 years, without the notoriety or “newness” of this idiocy being the vogue any more, IT will still be looking for work and find none.

      And because I’m happy being me, Nancy Kwan distinctly conveys my sentiments.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjWn-ueeeLw

      1. I’m betting that Ms Bradley won’t make it 10 years. His sand will run out just after his notoriety ends.

        1. I’d make it 2.75 years, at the outside. At some point, s/he still won’t find work, has no real skills, job offers don’t turn up and gift/donation cash dries up.

      2. Many transgenders end in suicides, sadly. Since he’s already tried (and failed), twice now?

        1. Damn! Forgot to add “ing” after “think”!

          Is that a dangling participle?
          If it is, it would have more dangling than Manning has now.

  24. I am wondering what the ROE will be if the military is sent to the border to stop the caravan of miscreants.

    1. They should have privates out rolling lane after lane of concertina wire already.

      Don’t want to build a “wall”? Then we’ll build the next best thing. A series of torturous obstructions. You make it past the razor wire, the rattle snake pits, and the moat of flaming motor oil, then you can stay.

      You could even subsidize it by broadcasting it. It’d be a short leap from a Japanese game show.

      1. No time for half measures. Foo gas and claymores. Maybe a few Predators/Golden Hawks loaded up with flechette rounds in a Hellfire Platform. Call in Puff and Spooky. Turn everything from Brownsville to San Diego into a bigger NTC. If that don’t work, then we can get serious.

    1. Found this remark in a comments section about Manning.

      “No matter how you ‘slice it’, you’re still a dude Brad.”

        1. He was kind of a dickless wonder, personality-wise, long before his/its surgery. If a fellow likes cock as much as Brad, one has to wonder why the need to remove his own.

          1. So, when it learns that it is as messed up after the slice and dice as it was before the slice and dice, does it finally really take the high dive?

            1. I would say, let’s hope, but that would be cruel. So, we’ll just be patient. All things come to he who waits.

  26. You all know it’s election time, right?

    You are going to love this. I went out to get the mail and found a booklet from the Republican party in my mailbox. Among other things, there are two heinous proposals by JBPritzker, a wealthy, spoiled brat member of the billionaire Pritzker family (they own Marriott Hotels, among other things), and Dan Madigan, he who has the chokehold on the state legislature.

    Proposal #1 – a state property tax of 3% of the value of your home for the next 30 years. That means that if your home is assessed at $300,000, which is the average here thanks to the McMansion dwellers, you will pay the state a sum of $90,000 in addition to the county property tax which is usually reasonable.

    I guess the assumption by those two demented assholes is that anyone who owns a decent house is stinking rich and can spare the change for the good of the state, right?

    Proposal #2 – put a tracking device on your vehicle(s) so that the state can tax the miles you drive and know where you go, as if they have a right to know where you go.

    This brilliant idea was cobbled together by some financial geniuses at the Chicago Fed. I think they should be horsewhipped for even bringing it up.

    And the Democrats wonder why working people despise them so much.

    1. Here’s some backup for this from September this year:

      https://www.wcia.com/news/local-news/rauner-ad-warns-against-government-tracking-devices/1421773695

      “Pritzker floated an idea months ago to explore a Vehicle Mileage Tax (or VMT) during a newspaper editorial board interview.

      “They have done tests recently for a VMT tax because we have more and more electric cars on the road, more and more hybrids, and because gas mileage is rising,” Pritzker told the Daily Herald in January.

      Now the governor’s campaign is taking Pritzker’s statements a step further, hammering him in an ominous attack ad.

      “J.B. Pritzker wants to raise our income taxes, but worse yet, he wants a car tax that will also come with a tracking device,” a woman reads in the ad, which is running on television statewide.

      In a statement, Pritzker campaign spokeswoman Jordan Abudayyeh responded, “This is yet another lie from a desperate, failed governor. JB never proposed a vehicle mileage tax.”

      “He’s absolutely said it. He proposed it,” Rauner insisted during a campaign stop in Springfield on Wednesday.

      “He said, ‘what we ought to do is impose a mileage tax.’ The way they do that is to install a box in everybody’s car. That’s the technology,” Rauner said.

      There is no record of Pritzker ever saying publicly that he would support a tracking device, but every state that has tested it out has incorporated some form of GPS monitoring, even if only in voluntary testing phases.”

      There is some issue with a 4th Amendment violation in this proposal, anyway, but even so, it is not to be taken lightly.

      And people who are facing the proposed rise in homeowner’s property taxes are beginning to consider ditching their property and moving out of state to places like Indiana and Wisconsin.

      This is what happens when you have a state that cannot manage its tax revenues properly, and jumps on every idiotic idea on the planet to spend money. It’s only going to get worse it things like this are allowed to come into existence because people are lackadaisical about voting.

      1. Hopefully EX-Ph2, we (Wisconsinites) can keep Republican Gov. Walker as our Governor.

        This clown, democrat Tony Evers, is proposing a gas tax increase as high as an additional $1.00 more to be added on to the present tax.

        Also Evers wants to:
        1) Pledge Wisconsin’s support of the Paris Climate Change Accords

        2) For prisons;
        Eliminating mandatory minimums, Ending the use of solitary confinement

        3) Reverse Scott Walker’s decision to defund Planned Parenthood and thus ensure that thousands of Wisconsin residents are still able to access important health services like breast and cervical cancer screenings, physical exams, birth control and sexually transmitted infections (STI) testing

        4) Tony opposes Act 10, Right-to-Work and changes made by the GOP to Wisconsin’s prevailing wage laws.

        5)Supports raising the minimum wage to $15/hour and indexing to inflation.

        6) Tony believes it’s time for Wisconsin to join nearly 30 other states and the District of Columbia in legalizing medical marijuana.

        1. In re: Planned Parenthood, they do not provide any of those services. They do nothing but referrals, for which they charge a fee. If they charge a fee for that, they are not a non-profit organization and should not expect taxpayers to be their source of cash.

    2. Sorry, brain cramp re: the state tax proposal.

      That is 1% for 30 years, NOT 3%. My bad!

      It is still untenable for most homeowners who have enough to pay for as it is. And the proposed tax is supposed to repair the financial bleed from the state’s pension fund, which has been sorely mismanaged for a very long time.

    3. I think you have an extra 0 in you tax example. A 3 percent tax on $300K would be $9000.00 per annum. It would generate $270K in revenue over 30 years.

    4. They already have a tax based on how many miles you drive, it’s called the gas tax!

      Of course now that people are buying fuel efficient cars and buying in to electric vehicles, is gas going to be the new tobacco and alcohol? That is to say, will it be the new easy thing to tax to “discourage” use?

      1. See below, Mason, and the ‘new’ tobacco/alcholo thing? Of course, it is! And marijuana will be legit soon, so the state can tax the hell out of that, too.

    5. Might want to check your math, PH2.

      3% of 300k = $9k/yr * 30 years = $270,000.

      An even bigger shit show.

      1. Yes, I had a brain cramp when I typed that in. The proposed STATE tax is 1% on top of the county tax, which is a shade over 2%, so yes, the total tax would be $9,000/yr, of which $3,000 is supposed to go to the state.
        My bad. Apologies all around. Couldn’t go back in and edit the copy, but the effect is the same, in addition to the state sales tax at the cash register and the gasoline tax that doesn’t show up at the pump, but is added in, even so.

        Basically, since this is Pritzker’s and yes, Madigan’s, idea, along with the tracking device to tax the miles you drive (already in the gas tax, as Mason says) the blind stupidity of this entire thing becomes a tax on top of another tax, which means that taxpayers may have to make choices, such as live in Chicago and pay exorbitant condo/apt rent, or live in Wisconsin or Indiana and pay reasonable taxes and home prices.

        People are so fed up with Chicago and the idjit maire that they’ve moved out of the city and are overcrowding the commuter lines now, which requires adding more cars and trains and scheduled trips.

  29. Cori LeCinda Pierce – the turd who defrauds with a dog!

    “They will eventually get it out of their systems”
    She doesn’t know us very well.

  30. I have checked the definition of caravan because I have seen it and heard it used frequently describe the thousands of people making their way through Mehico toward our border with that shit hole. The word doesn’t fit. Mob? Marauders? Would-be illegal aliens? Gang? But caravan? No.

      1. No matter what they call it, an invasion is exactly what it is. Yep.

        Lefty heads explode when we call it that, of course. Is there better reason to continue to do so?? 😉

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