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Michael Wetzel

Jim, I hope you had a great, healthy, and happy Birthday my Friend !

DeWitt Bacon

There would never be another government shutdown if the first people to lose their paychecks were the members of Congress.

Jim Coats

Thanks for the birthday wishes!  On to 79.  79!!  WTF??!!

Brad Musil

You just might be the youngest of us all James... welcome to club 78.  Happy Birthday... and many more!

DeWitt Bacon

Just think, guys and gals, in two more years, we'll all be octogenarians. Did any of us ever think we would make it this far? A solemn tear and hats off to those who won't make it with us.

Michael Kelly

Happy Birthday Jim Coats, 78 aint so bad because you get the option of forgetting about all the ones that went before. The Strip of sand along both sides of Highway 1 here in S. Calif. that used to be called Malibu, high priced Parcels, are now just bare dirt because one of the towns or vullages has decided to make the homeowners whose houses were destroyed by the Newsom Fire, now have to get their new House Plans approved by local building inspectors, and they have to be erected at least a certain amount of footage off the ground, like your local Mobile Home Park, and the forward looking City Councilpersons are deciding that these houses must be interspersed with Low Income Housing to balance things out.

The next Beer Summit I plan to attend Oct. 30, 430 at the Vig, 40th Street.  

Jim Coats

Lefty:  Thanks for the birthday wishes.  Looking forward to shaking your hand at the Beer Summit

Lester Cox

Happy Birthday belated wishes Jim. Hope you had a great day. 78 is not too bad. 

Jim Coats

Thank you, Lester.  Are you planning to come to the Beer Summit?

Randy Edwards

A late, but no less sinsere Happy Birthday! Sorry I'm late, was out of town. 

Many more healthy ones. Young fella.

Lester Cox

Jim, if I am back in town, I will be there. Just not sure on our timing yet. Lot's of work going on at our mountain home. 

Lester Cox

I can’t help but laugh—and groan—at the absurdity of it. A “clean” continuing resolution, they tell us. Keeps the government open until November. Simple, right? But instead of a one-paragraph memo, Congress gifts us 24 pages of legal spaghetti. Honestly, you could boil the whole thing down to: “Keep spending what we’ve been spending until November. Signed, Congress.” That’s maybe 50 words. Tops.

Meanwhile, our troops—who actually are essential—get the privilege of working without pay. Congress, of course, keeps its paychecks rolling in right on schedule. Nothing like leading by example, huh?

Then there’s the furloughed worker routine. We send people home, tell them they’re “non-essential,” and then when it’s over, cut them a check for not working. Voilà—an extra week or two of taxpayer-funded vacation. In the private sector, that would get you fired. In government? It’s tradition.

And let’s not forget the “non-essential” label itself. If they’re truly non-essential, why are they on the payroll at all? And if they are essential, why are they sent home? Only in Washington can words mean everything and nothing at the same time.

At the end of the day, this is how government operates: if any business ran like this, they’d be bankrupt. Of course, the government is bankrupt—except for that handy little printing press they keep running.

So here we sit, watching the same old play. Shutdowns, CRs, 24-page nothing-burgers, politicians who never miss a paycheck, and taxpayers left holding the bag. Same circus. Same clowns. Different year.

Jim Coats

Michael Kelly

Jim and Les  The Legislation necessary to continue running things the way they have been running would Nullify the Big Beautuful Bill because it would necessarily, but illegally (Dems dont give a Rip about That) continue giving our Taxpayer Monues away to Illegal Alien Healthcare, the package Biden's Docusign Signature gave them by "Executive order" in the first  place. Democrats, Liars ALL OF THEM, love doing their little Capers as now, because they think they can win either way. So Les, we need a 24 page Extension of Time Bill just to keep things Running as close as it can be to the provisions of the Big Beautiful Bill. Gone are the days of being able to address one Issue at a time Directly. 

I have thought of setting up a Service avialable to everyone, no matter what side of the Fence you are on, that takes every proposed Bill in Congress, and any on the  table to be affirmed by Sentate, and do a Daily Analysis in an Internet Format so that us Regular Folks that went to work after High School instead of stuffing the Coffers of numerous HighBrow Universities, in everyday Terms we could all understand how passing such Bills, Amendments, and Exec. orders were going to affect our daily lives. I know there must be some kind of outfit that pushes the Idea that they already do this, but if they are a quasi-governmental outfit, they have probably been subsumed because they are funded by the danged government.

This is something  that Elon Musk might like to take on as a Project, and offer it inexpensively, and have it eligible for a Tax Deduction on State and Federal Returns, for subscribing to, and it would bring We The People closer to a Constitutional Form of Government which limits Authority of the Government. I remember Justice Scalia laughing at the Government Attorneys when ObamaCare was first contested in the Supreme Court, because it was 2500 plus pages long Bill, and he laughed at the Attorney tellimg him, "You don't really expect me to  read all of this do you?"  

Frank Wiley

Well said Gentlemen!  And remember when Nasty Nancy said after Obamacare passed, "We'll have to read it to see what's in it!"

DeWitt Bacon

Jim. I agree, to a certain point, about MONEY AND POWER. That can be said of politicians on both sides of the aisle. However, I do see that Trump is not about the money. He already has more money than most previous Presidents. In his first term, he donated his Presidential salary to charity. I haven't heard if he is doing that this time. But with his current holdings and retirement funds, a Presidential salary is peanuts to him.  He is about power, though, and using his power to make America free and great again. However, he is up against another powerful force. A power that seeks to destroy America. Sure, Trump may brag on himself or 'blosviate' as some have put it, but I feel he has earned the right to do that. It's his way of telling the left where to 'stick it'. Most presidents have bragged about their accomplishments, including Reagan.

Michael Kelly

I sometimes get fed up with Trump's  excesses, but now he has done someting that although many of you may consider it offensive, or worse, it is funnier than anything I have seen lately. First, Hakeem Jeffrees or whatever his name is, is waxing all eloquent on how Trump is ruining Medicare with his Big Beautiful Bill, blah blah blah, when he is really Miffed because Trump is cutting off Medicare for Illegal Aliens, because Medicare is for Americans, Legal Americans. Trump has inserted himself in the background as four members of a Mariachi Band, playing the Guitar, the Fiddle, playing the Drums, and the Trumpet, wearing a Sombrero and with a Big Black Musrtache, and he has placed on Hakeem's head a Sombrero and on his face a Big Black Mustache. It is very very very Funny, I don't care how much it allegedly offends anyone's Sensibilites, the Democrats are about to Give Birth and Filling up the Maternity Wards all over the USA after seeing this.

This Morhing, A Woman who is a Blogger and has imitated Kamala Harris in the past, was on Facebook, and she was playing a Trump Rock and Roll Song, which goes along with a Song that I think was called "Time" and Trump is hititing a kind of Bell, and JD Vance is playing the Drums behind him, and I think it goes Time   Time    Time  and I believe it is Trump letting  those who are IDed on the Docs About the False Declaration about Trump being a Russian Spy, and released by Tulsi Gabbard that their TIME HAS COME. You cannot help but Laugh because it is SO TRUMP. AND IT IS UNDENIABLY FUNNY. I hope James Comey gets to view it, it will be better than Rocks on the Beach. I suspicion that Trump's son, Barron, has something to do with these shenanigans.If so, the young man has a very good Sense of Humor.

Jim Coats

Communist Chinese flags flying at Philadelphia City Hall.  THIS IS DEMENTED!

ONE FLAG.  THE AMERICAN FLAG!

ONE LANGUAGE.  THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE!

ONE LOYALTY.  LOYALTY TO THE UNITED STATES!

ONE NATIONAL ANTHEM!  THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER!

AMERICA FIRST!!!

Michael Kelly

What I see and it is my opinion that the Leftist Arm of the Democratic Party are seriously dedicated to destroying the United States of America. In the last two weeks they have gone to Traitorous lengths to reverse the Authority given in the Constitution of the United States to the President, to keep Order in the Country, and they think it is cleverly Couched in the effort to somedhow protect the Due Process Rights of Illegal Aliens. Problem is for the Democrats is that in order for Illegal Aliens to get their full serving of Due Process Rights, they have to show up at a hearing, where if they are claiming Asylum they get to pony up with a Federal Magistrate or Judge, why certain Facts support the Illegals claim for Asylum. You can look that up if you are so inclined to do so. Right now, the behavior of so called people interested in protecting the Due Process Rights of Illegal Aliens, is to spirit them away from being Rounded Up and Identified. Biden the AutoPenner just left the Border open so that they could grab a fiight on our Tax Dollars, and go anywhere they damned well pleased, No ID, No Enforcement of Law to even ID them, and this was done ON PURPOSE, AND i BELIEVE NOW MORE THAN EVER IT WAS DONE WITH THE GOAL OF THROWING OUR COUNTRY INTO TURMOIL THAT CANNOT BE RECOVEED FROM. REMEMBER BIDEN BLEATING ABOUT HIS INABILITY TO ENFORCE THE BORDER "BECAUSE HE NEEDED NEW IMMIGRATION LAWS TO BE PASSED" BULL PUCKY, IT WAS HIS INTENT AND HIS PEN SIGNERS, TO DESTROY ANY ORDER IN THIS COUNTRY. THINK ABOUT IT, TRUMP HAS CLOSED THE BORDER WITH JUST DILIGENT ENFORCEMENT OF EXISTING LAW, BUT THESE BLUE STATE GOVERNORS AND MAYORS ARE NOW ENCOURAGING RIOTS TO COMMEMORATE THEIR OH SO RIGHTEOUS ENTHUSIASM TO AFFORD DUE PROCESS TO PEOPLE WHO DON'T EVEN BELONG HERE, BUT THEY ARE SO IGNORANT OF THE LAW THEY DON'T KNOW OR REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IN ORDER FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS TO  GET DUE PROCESS, THEY MUST HAVE A HEARING.

Frank Wiley

Now it's come out that the Justice Departments Jack Smith tracked multiple Senators communications after January 6th.  Remember, that was before Trump left office.  So, Chris Ray was the FBI director and Bill Barr had resigned from the Attorney General position and Chris had to know about it.  Kash Patel is starting to uncover all this.  The corruption in the upper levels of our government was unbelievable.  John Kennedy says that 90% of Washington D.C. are Democrats.  Doesn't sound like Representative Government to me?

DeWitt Bacon

Jim and Michael, 100%

Michael Kelly

Early this morning I watched Tulsi Gabbard systematically Destroy Maxine Watters entire Career and clearly show Evidence of Watters Fraud, and Demanding Preferential Treatment of her husband's Bank during the  Financial Meltdown in 2008 by demanding that His Bank received Federal Funds to bail out his Bank from going Bankrupt, and she did this Exposure of Watters corruption by playing a recording of  Watters speaking with a Member of Congress about making sure Federal Funds went to hter husband's Bank. Gabbafrd also demonstrated with similar Evidence that Watters had actually undermined the  protection of our Troops overseas by communicating sensitive information to Foreign Enemies, and this resulting in multiple deaths of our Troops. Gabbard has referred Watters to the AG Bondi for potential Prosectuion for Aiding and Abetting our Enemies. Perhaps this is one individual who we may see arrested in the  next month for possible Violation of Federal Statutes.

I watched Senator John Kennedy (R=La) today make the case for Removing Ilhan Omar from her Committee Seats in several Committees in the  House of  Representatives, and at the end of  it, even the Democrats voted against her. Ilhan Omar may soon no longer be a Member of the House or Representatives. The evidence that Kennedy had against her was very devastating, and even her constituents from Somalia testified against her and gave statements that indicated she did not represent them. 

Finally, Kennedy was questionned by a FOX News commentator about what he thinks is the reason that Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Leader, Democrat, has shut down the Government on the Budget Vote. Kennedy said that Schumer is very fearful about losing his Senate Seat, and so he is as Nervous "as a Pregnant Nun" around the Leftist Constituency of his own Party. Kennedy has written a Book called "How to be Negative without looking Stupid" or perhaps it is the other way around. Anyway, its a great Wednesday Omar may be headed for Federal Prison,and then Deportation. 

Frank Wiley

John Kennedy's new book, "How to Test Negative For Stupid".  It's on its way to the Wiley Home.

Jim Coats

Lefty.

If that's legit about Maxine Waters, why haven't I seen it at least on FOX?  Have you got a "source of info" you can give me??

Lester Cox

I started listening to Kennedy's new book last night. I bought on Audible and it's actually being read by Kennedy.  Not too far into it and already laughing out loud at times. He's a refreshing bit of honesty. 

On another note, I'm trying to imagine what problems the dems will have with the peace negotiated by Trump and his team between Gaza and Israel. TDS mandates that you are not allowed to give praise or credit to anything Trump does.