Woo Woo
So, happy Thanksgiving morning. Since I did dressing, fresh string beans with mushrooms and bacon, and cranberry sauce yesterday, somebody else is doing the turkey, Brussel sprouts, and pecan pie today so I have some free time which I’m spending perusing the Washington Post. This story caught my eye.
“Consequences” and they put it in quotation marks because they knew that every single person reading it – but especially Russian spies – were laugh/snorting out their noses. Woo woo – threatening me with “consequences.”
I’m real scared of consequences and, yes, sarcasm is just another of the free, friendly services we offer here at The World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon. We just went through four years of something a jillion times worse than a Havana Syndrome and there were no consequences whatsoever. None. Not even one damn slap on the hand.
What are we threatening them with? We will go to a secret lab and develop the dreaded Florida Man Syndrome?
Hell, they don’t even know what Havana Syndrome is! I mean, it sounds like it ought to be “cigars give you hangovers” or some damn thing like that.
Y’all, I gotta quit reading the newspaper.
Perhaps take away their PlayStation(r) games for a week?
Seriously, this sounds like a “for internal use only” comment, aimed at the right wingnuts. Until they know what causes it, it’s silly to make threats.
1A few Vogans trying to sound touch. Maybe if they tried some of their poetry they could make their faces melt!
2Consequences, eh? It’s not enough that Halloween, Thanks Giving and Christmas have all been WalMartized or mashed into a Black Friday credit card smash day of spending. OK then. Consequences. Why not. Throw Easter into the mix, too, with visions of Merrick Garland on the White House lawn hunting for a pair of huevos.
Lordy I think I am ready to negotiate with terrorists, the home grown variety aka the QOP. For all the infrastructure spending needed, let’s throw them a pay for it bone. There have already been calls for disbanding ‘Homeland Security,’ so let’s make it a twofer and include the CIA. BTW When did WaPo become a supermarket tabloid or the Moonie Times?
3Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours, Ms JJ!
4Happy Thanksgiving JJ, and everybody in the salon.
5https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-kevin-strickland-after-wrongful-conviction?
Here’s a way to give thanks today for all the blessings we have. He’s out of prison after 43 years serving for a crime he didn’t do. He has nothing but the wheelchair he left in. This GoFundMe page is changing all that.
6Happy Thanksgiving all.
7In the paper today is a section called “on this date in history”. 35 years ago today the Iran Contra scandal shit hit the fan in the Reagan historic administration (I say that in an flattering way). It started when a CIA plane crashed trying to deliver weapons to a Nicaragua. Not sure what consequences the CIA can deliver to Russian spies/trumpf allies. Maybe they’ve gotten better.
Meant in a non flattering way. Sorry, need to proofread before submitting not after.
8I read that article this morning also and I wondered why the CIA chief had to go all the way to Russia to say that. The Russians only slight inconvenience is that the Old Pretender is no longer President, but they have plenty of GOP in their pockets, so consequences? Hahahaha!
9Get Burpy, JJ!
10I think the CIA head is talking about what Dr. Harriet Hall over at Science Based Medicine calls “Tooth-fairy Science”. You can investigate the behaviour of the tooth-fairy, for example how much is paid for a tooth, even if the tooth-fairy does not exist.
@ Grandma Ada
The CIA chief was in Russia when he said this? Why go to a country and threaten your hosts (as well as sounding like a ninny)?
I sometimes have a problem grasping US diplomacy.
11Unless Newton was wrong about the Inverse Square Law (he wasn’t), the Havana Syndrome is a figment.
The CIA is far more of a threat than even a real Havana Syndrome.
12@12 Harry Eagar
Unless Newton was wrong about the Inverse Square Law (he wasn’t), the Havana Syndrome is a figment.
Let’s not let common sense and science intrude on a good conspiracy theory. Personally I am blaming Putin for the floods in the US Pacific North West and British Columbia. /s
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