Morning all, let’s get this party started.
Helena Bonham Carter (1-4-0 Pts. 451) vs Kate Winslet (0-5-0 Pts. 424)
Poll closes on Sunday January 31st at 9:00 am.
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Archive of entries posted on January 2021
Babesleaga Week 5 : Results and Standings
Two more weeks to go and the race is still up for grabs.
Results
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Standings
| Contestants | Record | Total Points |
|---|---|---|
| Michelle Pfeiffer | 5 – 0 – 0 | 755 |
| Kim Basinger | 4 – 1 – 0 | 712 |
| Uma Thurman | 4 – 1 – 0 | 692 |
| Gwyneth Paltrow | 2 – 3 – 0 | 817 |
| Andie MacDowell | 2 – 3 – 0 | 635 |
| Jamie Lee Curtis | 2 – 3 – 0 | 519 |
| Helena Bonham Carter | 1 – 4 – 0 | 451 |
| Kate Winslet | 0 -5 – 0 | 424 |
This week’s matches will all polls closing on Sunday January 31st at 9:00 am.
- 10:00 am Helena Bonham Carter vs Kate Winslet
- 2:00 pm Kim Basinger vs Uma Thurman
- 6:00 pm Andie MacDowell vs Jamie Lee Curtis
- 8:00 pm Gwyneth Paltrow vs Michelle Pfeiffer
Saturday Night Hootenanny
Hello all, welcome to the show. We have our first two time winner of the OGE. Les is thus the recipient of the first Oak Leaf cluster for the OGE service ribbon. Good work Les!
The answer, if you haven’t read the comments, was that all the songs were about prostitutes. No blow involved.
We have another question this week. Best of luck.
On to the music.
If You Ain’t at the Hootenanny Tonight, Well, It Rhymes With…
Night of the Long Knaves
Or, Low-Hanging Fruits
Big Tech Expose Themselves With Crackdown on Antifa Accounts
Red State | January 21, 2021 | BonchieAntifa are bad again, you guys. That’s the message being sent by the big tech companies tonight. After years of ignoring the threat and allowing these domestic terrorists to operate freely, Twitter has started banning prominent Antifa accounts, including the account for a bookstore that operates as a training center for the group.
What changed? I bet you know exactly what changed.
Joe Biden is a miracle worker. All he had to do was take office, thereby setting up a situation where Antifa was embarrassing for the wrong side, and poof, they are cancelled. Of course, they’ve been running wild for years, burning cities, setting up “autonomous zones,” committing violent attacks, and generally acting like fascistic freaks. The left and their big tech allies could not have cared less. Why? Because they saw Antifa as a way to make Trump look bad. They were attacking the “right” target, and that made them acceptable for the time being. Trump is gone now, though, and Antifa attacking Biden is a bridge too far. Therefore, they must be cast aside finally.
In a vacuum, that’s not a bad thing, but man is the timing absolutely disgusting. The media and big tech sad idly by, watching as businesses were destroyed and people were killed, because they thought letting such carnage happen was a way to hurt the bad orange man. There’s being cynical, and then there’s whatever the heck that’s called.
Bon-Bon Voyage
Gretchen Whitmer Travels To D.C. For Inauguration After Telling Michiganders To Stay Home
The Daily Wire | Jan. 22, 2021 | Jon BrownDemocratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer traveled to Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to attend President Joe Biden’s inauguration, despite having urged her own constituents to stay home amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The country is ready for a leader who listens to medical experts to lead our country’s COVID-19 response and works on behalf of hardworking Americans,” Whitmer said in a
Mad Libs-like
press release before the inauguration, according to local Fox 2 Detroit. “I am honored to attend the inauguration of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and ready to begin working closely with each of them to fight this virus, save lives, and put the country back on track.”
“I wanted to be present,”
She told her subjects, who were not allowed to visit their dying parents in nursing homes,
“so it was something that was important to me.”
“Whitmer has generally discouraged Michiganders from traveling and attending gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic,” according to the Detroit Free Press.
“Her spokeswoman could not immediately say whether Whitmer was taking any special precautions or whether she was flying commercial or in a state plane.”
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If 2021 Already Seems Like Too Much, There’s a Hotline That Urges People To Call in and Scream
KSBW | Jan 19, 2021 | Lauren M. JohnsonThose exhausted by 2021 — and well, all of 2020 — can get some relief by calling a hotline and screaming. Yes, really.
Just Scream!, a hotline created by elementary school teacher Chris Gollmar, aims to reduce tension for those needing an outlet. All you have to do is call the hotline and scream as loud as you want, and for as long as you want — and then hang up.
“I wanted to find a prompt that people would respond to and screaming seemed to be a good fit!” Gollmar told CNN of his creative project, which he came up with in September 2020 and launched just before Election Day in November.
Gollmar, who said he’s been an artist and coder since he was a kid, spends his free time working on participatory art projects that invite people to call a phone number and leave a voicemail for others to hear.
This time, he said he “thought it would be funny and unique to create a phone line just for screaming.”
Hey, Walrus: I Now Have an Explanation for 2021
Straight Line of the Day: By the Way, Is There an Official Drink of the Biden Administration?
Thanks to windbag
Straight Line of the Day: By the way, is there an official drink of the Biden administration?
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Democrats Pledge To Fight Trump Rule Ensuring Doctors Won’t Refuse Service To Conservatives
Reality just keeps trying to out-Babylon the Bee:
Democrats Pledge To Fight Trump Rule Ensuring Banks Won’t Refuse Service To Conservatives
The Federalist | 01/19/21 | John HirschauerIn its final days, the Trump administration [sought] to disrupt the way progressive activists increasingly impose their will on big business: through banks controlling the loan lifelines to the economy.
A regulation [finalized on January 19, 2021] aims to prevent lenders from blackballing businesses in industries opposed by the left by requiring banks to demonstrate that their loan decisions are “based on quantitative, impartial risk-based standards,” rather than political or reputational concerns.
The proposed Fair Access to Financial Services Rule (FAFSR) is a response to successful pressure campaigns waged by environmental groups and congressional Democrats, which culminated in every major American bank refusing to finance drilling projects in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), despite such drilling being authorized by President Trump in 2017.
Firearms dealers, oil producers, payday lenders, and workers in other controversial industries have had their access to capital stunted by these campaigns, which are often aimed at the circulatory system of the economy – the banking industry.
By Dec. 1 [2020], every major American bank had announced its refusal to finance drilling in the region, despite it having been authorized for development by Congress.
“Unfortunately, while [Operation Choke Point] is no longer in place under President Trump,” Lipsey wrote, “the financial institutions continue to discriminate against [firearms dealers] and systemically attempt to pick and choose the types of legal products they will tolerate their customers’s manufacturing and selling to law-abiding Americans. “Operation Choke Point has effectively been privatized, away from the purview of elected officials and the voters they represent.”
Coming next week:
Customer at ATM Asked To Cast Vote in Upcoming Election Before Cash Withdrawl Transaction Can Be Processed
And already here:
Morgan Lewis Ordered To Turn Over Trump Docs in Tax Probe; Firm Will End Representation
ABA Journal | January 21, 2021 | Debra Cassens WeissMorgan, Lewis & Bockius announced Wednesday that it will be dropping former President Donald Trump and the Trump Organization as tax clients.
Hey, Lie Down With Dogs
Thousands Of National Guardsmen Banished To Parking Garage
CNN | January 22, 2021
CNN?? What’s going on here?
Just get a load of all those unsecured weapons:
. . . or have I just described the Harris / * administration?
Photos Emerge Of National Guard Living In Parking Garage In Democrat-Run D.C.: ‘We Feel Incredibly Betrayed’
The Daily Wire | Jan. 22, 2021 | Ryan SaavedraThousands of National Guardsmen were forced to vacate congressional grounds on Thursday and have been photographed having to sleep in parking garages while temperatures in the nation’s capital were set to dip down to near-freezing temperatures.
The photos of the living conditions that the National Guardsmen were forced to endure come after Democrats took complete control of the federal government this week following Joe Biden being sworn in as the nation’s 46th president.
“Yesterday dozens of senators and congressmen walked down our lines taking photos, shaking our hands and thanking us for our service,” a National Guardsmen told Politico. “Within 24 hours, they had no further use for us and banished us to the corner of a parking garage. We feel incredibly betrayed.”
“All National Guard troops were told to vacate the Capitol and nearby congressional buildings on Thursday, and to set up mobile command centers outside or in nearby hotels, another Guardsman confirmed,” Politico reported. “They were told to take their rest breaks during their 12-hour shifts outside and in parking garages, the person said.”
“Speaker Pelosi personally met with the Secretary of the Army to demand 14,000 National Guard troops be deployed to the Capitol,” a source familiar with the security discussions at the Capitol told The Daily Wire in a statement. “But there was no logistical plan provided by the Speaker’s office on where the service members would sleep.”
And if you want to use the bathroom, well . . .
MILITARY SOURCE IN DC: “For the last week my battalion has been sleeping on the floor in the Senate cafeteria. Today the Senate kicked us out & moved us to a cold parking garage. 5,000 soldiers. 1 power outlet. One bathroom. This is how Joe Biden’s America treats solders.”