My wife hates hates hates glass too stoves. She was a pastry chef and is a master cook of everything. Gas only for her.

I know Loren. I met him when I was up in MInneapolis on business.

From memory, Loren was an attorney and flight instructor. He left the law profession to become an airline pilot, which he did successfully.

I believe he just got checked out as a 737 Sim instructor.

He built and flew his gyrocopter to Oshkosh, and I think he may have won an award for it. 

Dear God, before last week I knew no one who died in a GA aircraft. Now I’ve lost two in two weeks. Loren and Richard McSpadden.

Rest in peace to both of them.

You must watch today’s Ben Shapiro show on The Daily Wire. Even if you aren’t a subscriber (I am) you should be able to see this. He is showing unaltered videos of what is happening in Israel, mostly from Hamas’ own videos. He wants Americans to see exactly what evil looks like. It will turn your stomach. But you must see it.

The best thing we could do to limit the violence over there is to stop spending Trillions on  Middle East Oil.  If we have to continue using fossil fuels, then spend the money we give to Israel on exploiting our own resources while we build up our Nuclear, solar and wind resources.

You’re kidding, right? 

If the Palestinians were universally disarmed, there might be peace.

If Israel was disarmed, there WILL be genocide.

I’m going to Israel in February. This will be interesting.

I was on a long weekend this weekend up near the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior so I’ve been out of touch and am just catching up.

Yea, fuck this. I’m canceling our Israel trip. My wife has really been getting into the scriptures, and she really wanted to walk where Jesus walked. Our church has a trip scheduled. We paid our deposits 2 months ago, and the first meeting is on Wednesday.

This is horrific, and I sense it’s going to get much, much worse.

the mcconnell response is EXACTLY why we cannot stand, (I think nddons really means kneel abd beg) at the altar of newt, ryan, mccarthy, romney and the rest.

The scumbag contingent in government wouldn't speak to, or with conservatives excwept to tell us to contribute money and then shut the fuck up.

Falling for sound bite instructions from swamp dwellers is a losers bet and embraced by losers, liars, and cowards alike.

Fuck off. I don’t need to prove my conservative bonafides to a guy who argues like a teenage girl.

Most people seem to be missing Styx’s take, which is spot on as usual.  It is ideologically correct to remove him, but strategically very risky.

There is no “right” or “wrong” here. No solutions, only trade offs in the words of Thomas Sowell. My opinion is it’s better to do something rather than nothing which would continue the status quo, but I am desperately hoping it leads to a better, not worse, speaker, from the standpoint of the reform we desperately need.

I disagree that there is no right or wrong. Gaetz may have won the battle, but put Republicans at serious risk of losing the war, with the war being the November 2024 election. The squishy middle will see Republicans unable to govern, while the Marxists on the left side of the aisle sit and look like the sane ones.

You fight this battle when you have the numbers; you don’t fight the battle by needing to side with the Marxist wing of the House of Representatives.

Have you asked yourself why all the Democrats were willing to side with the Gaetz 8?  What’s in it for them?  Maybe McCarthy was better for conservatives than they thought. 

I’ll side with Mark Levin, Jim Jordan, Thomas Massie, Wisconsin conservatives in the House and other conservatives over Matt Gaetz.

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Let's cut to the chase

Gaetz is a POS demagogue who repeatedly lied during the House floor debate yesterday, and then, of course, simultaneously was fundraising and collecting email lists on behalf of the people.  He insisted that the House failed to bring up 12 separate appropriations bills.  The fact is they could not get them out of committee because Democrats wanted to spend a great deal more, which would have blown up the budget further, and conservatives opposed the bills.  It had nothing to do with a refusal by McCarthy to oppose regular order.  McCarthy refused to go along with a CR that essentially adopted the Senate omnibus spending agreed to, yet again, by McConnell and Schumer.  Yet, Gaetz kept insisting otherwise.  Gaetz said he's sick and tired of deficit spending and pointed to the $33 trillion debt.   I know of few conservatives who disagree.  But what has he done about it?  He didn't go to the House floor, certainly not on a regular and sustained basis, and hammer away on the outrageous, massive spending for COVID funds, which were used for every imaginable purpose other than COVID and drove the debt through the roof.  Gaetz demanded that the former speaker intervene in his ethics investigation and kill it, and despite text messages to the contrary, denied it.  During his ramblings yesterday, Gaetz blamed House Republicans, who passed the most aggressive bill to secure the border from the ongoing invasion orchestrated by Biden and the Democrats, for not securing the border.  And the worst, to me, is Gaetz working with the Marxists in the Democrat Party, who are literally destroying our country politically, culturally, and every other way, then denying it, while accusing the former speaker of being the Democrats' speaker, trashing Jim Jordan and Jamie Comer's investigations, accusing Chip Roy of being a RINO, and not uttering one word against Hakeem Jeffries, AOC, or the rest of the reprobates.  At the same time, he was frantically fundraising off his anarchy, on behalf of the people and the republic, of course, positioning himself as the David taking on Goliath.  Gaetz and the others wound up killing the greatest effort to slash domestic spending in our lifetimes (30%), worked out with the Senate conservatives who wanted to use the House bill as leverage against McConnell, and now the Democrats control it all.  This had nothing to do with saving the country, regular order, the debt, etc.  This was an unprincipled, personal, political attack led by a demagogue who repeatedly lies to conservatives and the public generally, and who is the favorite Republican of the Democrat Party and their media.
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