What the hell is the problem in Congress now?

 I'll be damned if I can figure it out beyond the fact that  the words 'republican' and 'united' don't go together in a sentence...  

 

Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) bid to become the next House Speaker fell short on Tuesday in a string of three consecutive votes, marking a chaotic opening to a new Congress — and dampening the Republicans’ celebration as they took control of the House for the first time since 2018.

The GOP standoff - pitting McCarthy and his allies against a small but persistent group of so-called 'conservative firebrands' - led to a bizarre day of commotion and confusion on the House floor, where frustrated Republicans sniped internally, amused Democrats reveled in the GOP’s struggles and lawmakers of both parties were forced to consider multiple speaker ballots for the first time in nearly a century.

 

Ain't this the sad truth... If this party has any hope of doing anything meaningful to stem the tide of stupidity coming from the White House, they damn sure better get their shit together and get in line AGAINST the fuckin' Democrates, not against each other. It's that fuckin' simple.

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This is Clenaghan’s Pub in Soldierstown, Craigavon, No. Ireland. There used to be a lot of little tiny bars like this in this country, too, but I guess between the lawyers and the landlords, they just weren't able to survive. Too bad, because beers somehow always taste better in tiny little taverns, at least as far as I'm concerned. Juss' sayin', ya know?
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Is she waving at somebody or trying to hail a cab?
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On one side of the Capitol, GOP senators congratulated Mitch McConnell for officially becoming the longest-serving party leader in Senate history. At that exact moment on the other side of the building, Republicans voted down Kevin McCarthy’s bid for the House gavel - the first initial ballot defeat in a speaker’s race in nearly 100 years.

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Led Zeppelin performed at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco, California - June 3, 1973, and I was there.

The lineup for the show was awesome - The Tubes (who were just a local SanFran band that Bill Graham was promoting at the time so he threw them in to the mix), Lee Michaels, Ten Years After, and finally the headliners -Led Zep. The show was supposed to start at around 1:00 but Haight-Ashbury being what it was, it ended up starting around 4:00 and ending after midnight.

Rooftop seating across the street on the roof of my cousin's apartment building, so the show was free for us and 30-odd others we invited up.

I had hitch-hiked from New Jersey to Cali with my then-girlfriend Nancy Martinez. We had a full sheet of Mr. Natural blotter acid that we happily cut up and shared with the crowd. Drink du jour was Pagan Pink Ripple and suffice to say there was more than a little bit of weed. Without going in to details Nancy and I missed the whole Ten Years After set getting busy downstairs for a bit.

It was a delighful, fun, interesting, very long day and night.

What great memories...

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Walter Cunningham, a retired NASA astronaut and pilot of the first crewed flight in the space agency’s famed Apollo program, died early Tuesday morning at the age of 90, NASA said. Cunningham was one of the earliest members of NASA’s human spaceflight program as a member of its third astronaut class, joining the space agency in 1963. He was selected to pilot Apollo 7, the first crewed mission of the NASA program that went on to land humans on the moon for the first time.

I seriously doubt that people today will ever feel the same excitement we did back in the day with our race to the moon. It was such an event that the always showed the lift-offs live on TV in our classrooms.
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Each chimney stack represents a fireplace within the building. That was the original version of central heating.
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Don't get too excited. A million yen is only about $ 7,500.00 US.
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The Chinese government has has been bitching about the travel restrictions imposed by several countries on Chinese arrivals, saying that they are politically motivated - and has warned that it may retaliate. The US, India and the UK are among the nations that have introduced mandatory testing for arrivals from China.

Bear in mind the country doing the bitching about these restrictions is the same country that was welding it's citizens in to their apartments to prevent them from going out in to public.

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