One of my favorite "Ebenezer Scrooge" portrayals is his performance.

This is fine, but the question I have is if these bills were "ready" why didn't you bring them up for votes earlier? www.axios.com/2025/10/08/s...

Gumbo is life www.goodnewsnetwork.org/gumbo-cook-w...

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"We passed a bill, we are taking our toys and going home until the other chamber passes it" has NEVER been the way either chamber of Congress has operated, until now. The Speaker Johnson and the House could be working on the fully year appropriarion bills but instead are throwing a temper tantrum.

"Leader" Thune tries to characterize the failed CR as having "united support" and then goes on to explain how it is supported by republicans in the house, the senate, and the president. That's not united support, that's partisan support.

Real 80's vibe at McAlister's for lunch today, complete with DuranDuran for background music

"There is nothing to negotiate" is the slogan of every authoritarian and fascist regime.

Where are the warrants indicating probable cause and signed by a judge? This is straight up fascist gang crap. They are probably really lucky some of the legal residents didn't have firearms ready to defend themselves.

The republican leadership keeps saying the democrats can end the shutdown immediately, they simply have to pass the unacceptable CR. The republicans also refuse to negotiate and didn't include the democrats in drafting the CR.

Stephen King's "The Running Man" was set in fictional 2019. Sadly, it's beginning to look like he was prescient, but a few years off. m.imdb.com/title/tt0093...

Deep thoughts on day 2 of the shutdown: substack.com/@patrickouel...

Happy Feast of St. Therese of Lisieux, the Carmelite nun known as the "Little Flower." Here's a meditation on my favorite saint--and maybe yours too. www.americamagazine.org/faith/2010/1...

The government shutdown is not simply about healthcare premium subsidies. That was the non-negotiable requirement for the continuing resolution. The shutdown is really about beginning to reclaim the American dream so beautifully stated on the Statue of Liberty.

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Hegseth's multi-million dollar meeting could have been an email (or a teams call).

US cities are not "training grounds" for US military.

The blame game on who is responsible if the government shuts down is pathetic. Congress had from March, when they passed the last funding bill, until today to work this out. They failed to do so. We all know who is in charge of both houses of Congress. There is the group to blame.

What did you hear at Mass today? World Day of Migrant and Refugees or something else? (The parish I went to had something else) www.usccb.org/cabrinipledge

Remember, the president has ordered mass layoffs if there is a shutdown. Not Congress, not the democrats, the president. His party is enabling this.

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Speaker Johnson's attempt to use the democrats previous rhetoric about who a shutdown hurts misses one point - those same groups will be hurt even worse if the republican spending plan goes through.

So the first thing JD says after today's attack at an ICE facility is he was “pretty confident this was a motivated, left-wing political attack” You want to turn down the temperature, stop with these comments. Wait for actual evidence to be collected and let law enforcement do their job.

If they don't want to be called facists or nazis, they need to stop doing facist and nazi things. If "the rhetoric has to stop" (it does) they need to quit treating people as less than human, and respect EVERYONE'S basic human dignity.

For those looking to cast blame for a US government shutdown, always remember it is Congress who is responsible. Not one party or the other, Congress as a whole. Representatives and Senators know they have to pass funding and instead they don't.

Moving suprises Back in the mists of time, I worked for a computer store. Rediscovered this old bag from a promo Compaq did. Bag is still in great shape, I wonder if the same could be said of the computers it advertised.

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Well, at least Mango Mussolini removed all doubt about any shred of Christian values people could claim he held by his "speach" at the memorial. "I hate my opponents and I don't want the best for them"

Might need to add Roku to the boycott list

My new neighbor brought dinner

If Jimmy Kimmel's monolog is the standard, every Fox "news" show needs suspended indefinitely, not to mention OAN, Newsmax...

Apparently people are complaining about their Facebook privacy settlement payments. They range from about $5 to $30. This is the fundamental problem with these class action settlements, they protect the corporation by limiting liability while continuing to exploit the consumer.

"The Posse Comitatus Act bars federal troops from participating in civilian law enforcement except when expressly authorized by law." The DoD and Mango Mussolini both call the National Guard deployments "law enforcement activities." While the DC situation may be a bit murky, the situation in

Mango Mussolini said he "doesn't need democrats votes" so I suggest no democrat in either the House or the Senate should vote for any bill supported by him. He doesn't want the support so show him he needs it.

How many "close friends" do you have? Has remote work hurt adult friendships? What does it mean to be a friend? Can men and women be friends? These questions are raised in this new episode of our podcast @deaconspod.bsky.social about "the friendship recession":

We are in the process of moving from a 3 floor townhouse to a ranch with a finished basement. The movers, who loaded from the townhouse this morning all had the same reaction when they saw the stairway in the new house - a look of dread. Lucky for them it is a walk out basement with a sliding door.

What is wrong with people? There is vast fallout from one outspoken activist being murdered and it stays in the news cycle while the murder of children who's only offense seems to be they went to school hardly gets a mention.

If Congress really believed it was "important to keep the government running" they would have enacted legislation to fund the government. They could easily have passed a perpetual continuing resolution that would keep them lights on if Congress failed to pass spending bills.

Senate democrats need to have a backbone and shut it down, until the military is off the streets, and ICE is unmasked and accountable at a minimum. No use appropriating funds if TACO man refuses to spend them as Congress voted.

When a new subdivision or large factory is being planned, one of the steps is to evaluate the availability of water to address emergencies like fires and capacity of sewer systems to handle the waste. If this infrastructure is inadequate, the project needs to remedy the issue.

Trum toadie on Face the Nation who should know exactly how labor statistics are gathered just said he "thinks" they are sending surveys in the mail and the majority are not returned. Then claimed we need to modernize the process to get "good data." The incompetence is staggering.

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"That sounds plausible" or "that fits my preferred narrative" are not reasons to endorse/post/repost (especially memes). Fact check yourself or you are part of the problem. It won't eliminate all misinformation posts, humans make mistakes, but it will help your own mental health a lot.

So, hear me out on this - people are willing to paint all clergy as pedophiles after the various abuse scandals. We should be treating all billionaires and politicians as serial sexual predators given their reluctance be transparent on the Epstein abuses.

People need to wake up to the fact that historically, the USA has not been some kind of saint of a country. Historically those in power in the USA have exploited the poor and vulnerable, took what they wanted, and told the rest of the world to "butt out."

So the USA is now executing people without a trial on the high seas. www.bbc.com/news/live/c2...

A new episode of @deaconspod.bsky.social just dropped! The Paulist Press book “Women Responding to the Spirit: Selections from the Madeleva Lectures” is the topic! Deacon @pmrtv.bsky.social interviews the book’s editors, Jessica Coblentz and Dan Horan. Listen here or at your podcast player: