2023 Arrives In The 24/680 – With Bangs And Sirens
Our brand spanking New Year arrived, rain-washed and crystalline – but not completely untarnished as we humans set about doing what we do: screwing up, mightily.
We broke tradition and did not party until our heads pounded, eschewing even our traditional birthday toast to our New Year’s Eve-born ancestor, and ended up working through it as our dedicated corps of correspondents and image makers fed us tips and tidbits through the evening.
We chased a drive-by shotgun shooting (leg wounds – not fun) out in Bay Point for subscribers there, as well as a Ginzu knife demonstration gone wrong in Martinez (two stabbed), a whole bunch of celebratory gunfire and playful pyrotechnics punctuating much of the evening and on into the morning.
Throw in some citizens irate over our storm-damaged infrastructure, unreliable power grids and undermined roadways and January 1 was less a celebration than it was a day at the complaint department. And then we went and broke the cardinal newsroom maxim: i.e. never make a prediction about a news event while working a shift – and BAMMO, that 4.9 Magnitude shaker we mentioned hit the North Coast (Rio Dell). Sigh. We’ll just never learn to keep our big mouths shut.
Made a quick recon of our immediate area and played in our local waterfall, eyed those sodden, “weeping” hillsides and realized that some of the unfortunates we saw ping-ponging off the supermarket wine displays are actually just still-wasted celebrants looking for more party fuel – and their cars.
Far-off friends checking in on us and we liked that until we realized that most of them were just seeing if we were still alive, so, yep – we’re good, shaking the rainwater out of our boots and moving forward. Come along for the ride, newbies. It’s a brand new year and there’s a lot happening.
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were in Martinez were the people stabbed????
C Street.
Anything in Lafayette? We were awakened by flashes and noise.
Nothing specifically, SW, though we have had folks from Lafayette check in with similar reports…
Can’t be any worse than the last one.
Yee haw pardners……………Happy 2023.
Firestone 11R
My to do list for 2023: Indict Orange Boy and the rest of the crime family; send Mike Pence back home to mommy; send Ginni “The Rules Don’t Apply to Us” Thomas back to remedial writing and critical thinking classes and GUARANTEE her “best friend” is not allowed to hear cases relating to Jan. 6 or anything pertaining to women’s rights; Court martial (or, marshall – for our uneducated elected representatives) Gen. Flynn; enroll Bo Bo “Wonton” Boebert in community college; buy Gym Jordan an iron and memory enhancement vitamins for Margie “I Can’t Recall” Greene; put Steve Bannon in jail and clean him up while he’s in there; come up with a list of things Jared did for his two billion dollars; expedite Russian citizenship applications for Huckster Cartoon and the rest of the Fox News communards and provide anti-Conservative therapy to the Republican inclined. This will do for a start. And then it will be a Happy New Year!
What, you don’t want to see Hunter Biden in jail? He lied on his application to purchase a gun.
Firestone 11R
Fine. But pales in comparison to sedition, insurrection and treason.
Plus: Tax the Mega-Churches!
to be fair Ginni said she was sorry – sorry her emails were found and she got caught!!!! Good thing she has a best friend to share her problems with
Hope Hicks wasn’t right about much during her tenure at the Blight House but she was right about one thing – they did all come out of it looking like domestic terrorists.
Get ready — we’re about to find out how strange the GOP has become.
Second the motion..
@Lucille Fortier…Still DRUNK ehh? LIBERAL! TDS!
@Ray – sober as a judge. But I do have a bottle of champagne I plan to share with friends when the handcuffs go on. You can call me what you want and use your cute little abbreviations all day long, it doesn’t matter to me.
It’s going to be a party!
May I come?
I just love watching Republicans trying to own other Republicans.
Pretty much a total meltdown by people who gloated about their ability to “own” the opposition. There’s a great deal of poetic justice in that.
Bad scene during the Bills-Bengals game and we’re keeping our fingers crossed for this young man. Awful thing for all to see.
Beat me! Spank me! Make me write bad checks! I wanna be Speaker. !%#
Hmmm. There is something rotten in the state of Gobbler’s Knob.
@ Iron Man: Something bad happens to combatants in EVERY game. This is not news. Football celebrates violence. You might just have to avert your eyes from football or admit that something bad happens every time you tune in. Every time I tune in.
As George Carlin so eloquently pointed out, football is played in a coliseum whereas baseball is played in a park.
In football you wear a helmet.
In baseball you wear a cap.
Football is concerned with downs – what down is it?
Baseball is concerned with ups – who’s up?
In football you receive a penalty.
In baseball you make an error.
In football the specialist comes in to kick.
In baseball the specialist comes in to relieve somebody.
Football has hitting, clipping, spearing, piling on, personal fouls, late hitting and unnecessary roughness.
Baseball has the sacrifice.
Football is played in any kind of weather: rain, snow, sleet, hail, fog…
In baseball, if it rains, we don’t go out to play.
Baseball has the seventh inning stretch.
Football has the two minute warning.
We may not purge ourselves of the violence, but somehow I think we would do better with less of it.
This hasn’t been a serious political party since 2016.
Free C-span!
C-SPAN is creaming 90 Day Fiancé tonight!
Crowning moment came when Sean Handittome asked BoBo “what the hell is going on? Is this some kind of game show?” The answer is yes and the American people are just too stupid to know how to say ‘your fired.’ You got what you voted for — way to own the libs.