Rouen, Haute-Normandie, France
This is a small precious gem of The West. They want to destroy every dream, idea, thought and skill that enabled this beautiful creation to ever come into existence. Do not let them. Fight them fiercely because when nothing is worth dying for, life is not worth living.
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I’m always amused at the latest and greatest drug that is advertised on TV that cures all sorts of imaginary ailments from Hebbie Jebbies (restless leg syndrome) to adult acne and then at the end they list all the side effects and if you really listened to that part you’d NEVER EVER take their miracle drug. So, this is basically a visual of the “Side Effects” Open at your peril. 😉
Katfish, 336D “IIRC 3.5 yards +/-” That sounds right, I figured that it had to be more than 2 but less than 5 but I’m not an expert, just judging by the size of the bucket.
The attempt from the Washington Post to silence the account now appears to have backfired spectacularly, as Libs of TikTok has gained over 300,000 followers since the Lorenz hit piece was released. It is now just 60,000 followers short of one million.
Ron Coleman, who is giving legal counsel to the account creator, has aggressively pushed back on falsehoods spread about the account creator in the aftermath of the story. After a fake tweet falsely attributed to Libs of TikTok was circulated by left-wing influencer account, Coleman threatened legal action if it was not removed. The tweet, which falsely accused the creator of defending pedophilia, was promptly deleted by all sizable accounts who had posted it.
I’m glad this woman hired Ron Coleman. He is basically the inventor of internet law or blog law, if you will. His office is conveniently located about 10 minutes from here if I ever need him.
Hmmm…
Jerusalem Post:
National Security Adviser Eyal Hulata met with his American counterpart, Jake Sullivan, in Washington this week to discuss alternative ways to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon in the event – which Jerusalem views as likely – that the Iran deal is not revived.
Multiple diplomatic sources in Jerusalem shared the assessment that the US is close to abandoning the revival of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear deal in light of Iran’s demand that Washington removes the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from its list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) and its refusal to take reciprocal steps.
The chances of the US and Iran returning to the JCPOA are “slim to none,” a senior diplomatic source said, adding that as time passes, the less the likelihood of sealing a deal.
New Neo:
I agree with her completely.
If this is true – and I’m starting to think it is – what accounts for it? I don’t for a moment buy the assertion that the Biden administration really wouldn’t have removed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from its list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, and that this was the reason for the deal’s collapse. However, I think it was an indirect cause, in that political opposition to the deal and that part of it as well as general objections to the deal – very significant Congressional bipartisan objections – were the real reason. Congress actually seemed serious about blocking the deal in any way possible, and the administration would have had egg on its face if that had happened and even Democrats supported the block.
Beaver gets a registered letter.
Gilbert says; Gee my brother got a registered letter and the next thing you know that towed his car away.
Beaver; Dear Mr Theodor Cleaver,…
Gilbert; They called my brother Mr too.
😀
If only this could come true.
Russia Hoax: Durham Staffer Accidentally Reveals Emails Showing Coordination Between Fusion GPS And Media
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The privilege controversy itself seemingly entraps Michael Sussmann. How can Sussmann claim attorney-client privilege when his defense is to say he wasn’t working on behalf of any client when he brought the information to the FBI? Whoopsie daisy.All of that said, there’s another interesting aspect to this specific filing if you stand back away from the granular legal details and look at the arc of the prosecution within it. It appears to me that Michael Sussmann is not the REAL target of this prosecution, Marc Elias is.
It looks like John Durham is using the prosecution of Sussmann, and all the details within the case, to box in a very easy prosecution of Michael Sussmann’s boss, the infamous Democrat lawyer, Marc Elias. Read the filing and you see how Perkins Coie and Marc Elias are clearly and purposefully outlined as having the major role in the activity of Sussmann. All prosecutorial roads against Sussmann are leading to Elias.
That risk would certainly explain why Marc Elias left Perkins Coie immediately after the Alfa Bank lawsuit against Fusion GPS revealed the connective tissue, and then John Durham start focusing on Perkins Coie and Michael Sussmann.
Given the ideological and political nature of the DOJ under AG Merrick Garland and Deputy AG Lisa Monaco, it makes sense that John Durham would not and importantly, could not, go directly at Marc Elias.
Marc Elias is the biggest Lawfare fish in the world of Democrats. He is the primary legal mind and legal entity around the entire Democrat apparatus from elections to electoral maps. Elias is the leftists modern legal Moses.
#5
Wow. A glimpse of sanity??
Alec Baldwin appears to have depressed the trigger on his gun in the lead up to the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office released a trove of evidence in the case on Monday, which provided deeper insight into how the tragedy unfolded. Video from the release shows Baldwin rehearsing the scene where he shot Hutchins. The office told The Reload the footage does not include the fatal shot.
However, it does provide critical information on how the negligent discharge likely happened. The video shows Baldwin repeatedly drawing his gun while rehearsing a scene. It shows Baldwin clearly had his finger on the revolver’s trigger as he practiced the draw. In the last take of the video, he can be seen pulling the hammer back and releasing it while he has his finger on the trigger. The hammer clearly falls forward after being released.
Mortgage applications have fallen 50% and refi apps are down 70%.
Selfishly I’m glad to see the housing market cool. I’m tired of my home appraisal skyrocketing and damn lumber prices, I need to get a front porch built!
But I wasn’t going to believe mortgage rates going up was going to have that big of an effect until I saw it. There has been nothing that makes sense in the housing market the past few years, in a pandemic the market soared?
Somewhere during the week I lost a day. Yesterday I woke up thinking it was Thursday. I had to ask Hubby if today was Thursday or Friday, because it felt like a Friday for some reason.
If y’all find my lost day, I’d like to have it back.
#9 Texpat I saw that on Tucker a few days ago and his finger was certainly on the trigger in the rehearsal and that doesn’t prove that it was during the shooting. Shooting? Yes figuratively.
BUT I do think applies;
However, it does provide critical information on how the negligent discharge likely happened. The video shows Baldwin repeatedly drawing his gun while rehearsing a scene. It shows Baldwin clearly had his finger on the revolver’s trigger as he practiced the draw. In the last take of the video, he can be seen pulling the hammer back and releasing it while he has his finger on the trigger. The hammer clearly falls forward after being released.
After all that is what a rehearsal is all about, not hard to connect the dots.
Coffee & Covid ☙ Thursday, April 28, 2022 ☙ SMUG YAPPERS
Good morning C&C Army! I have a great roundup for you today including: Mad Maxine tests positive; Operation Multiplier updates; a new op; odd congressional covid stats; Elon gently pushes back; thoughts on student loan forgiveness; New York’s high court strikes Dem maps; Fauci says its over but its not over; great news from OK; and a grand jury forms in Loudon County.
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*THE C&C ARMY POST*
OPERATION MULTIPLIER Update: I had a delightful call yesterday morning with Leslie Manookian, the founder of the Health Freedom Defense Fund. She was incredibly grateful for our multiplier, moved to tears at one point during the call. Like our previous ally Joe Harding, HFDF’s office has been BURIED in hate mail, their email system is under cyberattack, and criminals are flooding them disgusting porn.
All this hate, just for freeing Americans from an unlawful mask order, using the legal, lawful process of taking it to court, which took most of a year to accomplish. Who ARE these nutjobs?
Anyway, Leslie doesn’t have final numbers for us yet but she’s working on it. She did write a delightful thank-you letter to us though. Here’s a snippet:
“I and the entire Health Freedom Defense Fund (HFDF) team would like to extend our deepest gratitude to Jeff Childers of Coffee and Covid (C&C) and all his wonderfully generous followers! … Operation Multiplier [] has yielded an incredible result. … Thank you to each and every one of you that answered the call[!] … We are fighting a leviathan and we simply cannot do this without the support of all of you. … We also have several other major lawsuits in the works so now more than ever we are grateful for your support and encouragement as we continue our work to defend our health freedoms.”
Our encouraging Operation landed JUST when they needed the support most. I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating: none of us could have done this alone, no matter how grateful we felt about their mask lawsuit. But working together we moved a mountain. Imagine if we could encourage 100 more HFDF’s to stand up.
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(FYI, I know about RON JOHNSON. He’s on the list. Stand by for orders.)
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New Operation: We have a brand new operation for all C&C Army soldiers. We have an opportunity created by the Twitter-Musk controversy, which appears to have caused the social media companies to turn the censorship dials way down for the moment, giving us a chance to message without being throttled as much. The new assignment is OPERATION BALLOON. I’m asking every C&C follower to take two or three minutes to blast out the http://www.coffeeandcovid.com link (or the Facebook page) to as many folks in your list as possible, taking advantage of this incredible chance to expand the army.
I reckon that between Facebook and Substack we currently have about 100,000 readers. Imagine what our multipliers could do if we can get to 1,000,000 readers. Let’s blow it out. To help, I’ll commit to doing my very best snarky optimistic work. We can do this!
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*COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY*
Masked, shielded, and quadruple-vaxxed democrat congresswoman “Mad Maxine” Waters tested positive for covid yesterday.
Don’t worry, she said the words though! In a press release about her positive test, the silly lawmaker recited that “I am grateful to be fully vaccinated and to have received two booster shots. Thankfully, I am feeling fine and recommend everyone to get vaccinated if you have not done so already.”
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A fascinating bit of numbers coincidence: In April and May 2022, 94% of covid cases in Congress were among Democrats:
— March: 1 R, 17 D
— April: 1 R, 16 D
Odd, no? I could make a variety of guesses. Dems might be more likely to take the test. Maybe it’s some kind of political strategy. Maybe Omicron likes dems better. Or, maybe they are more likely to have been boosted than Republicans; some data suggests boosting may increase the risk of a covid infection.
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Twitter has continued to evolve this week, even though Musk has not yet completed his purchase. Conservative accounts appear freed from some kind of gulag, with follower numbers increasing faster than probably any time before the 2020 elections. Lefty pushback is ramping up, with dour articles in the New York Times and other heavyweights predicting the acquisition will turn the U.S. into Nazi Germany overnight, or something.
Then yesterday the Biden Administration announced it would take steps to combat misinformation on social media by forming a new department called the “Ministry of Truth,” sorry, I mean the “Disinformation Governance Board.” It’s going to govern misinformation or something.
This is where it really gets interesting and shows why Elon Musk is perhaps the most successful entrepreneur in history. He tweeted “For Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally.”
Boom. One million lefty heads exploded in terrified awe.
What Musk’s saying is fine, if he has to censor people, he’s going to censor BOTH SIDES. Leftists were like, what? Can he DO that? But of course, that’s ONLY FAIR. And the leftists minds were blown, just like that. They see it now, for a brief moment, why it’s a bad idea to let unknown, untransparent, recently-graduated fact-checkers decide what gets online and what doesn’t.
I don’t know if it’s checkmate but it should sure slow down all the blah blah blah.
For the record, I’m not advocating for Elon Musk to be in charge of anything he doesn’t own. I’m just as skeptical of the whole brain interface stuff as anybody else. But you have to admit he’s moving the needle in lots of interesting ways. Plus he makes a great car.
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There’s been a lot of talk about Biden forgiving student loans somehow, to score points with young people for the midterms. It’s a political stunt, but there’s ALREADY a very simple existing potential solution for folks mired in un-payable student debt: bankruptcy.
The only current challenge is that bankruptcy courts came up with a hardship standard called the Brunner ‘certainty of hopelessness standard’ that makes it incredibly difficult to discharge student loans in bankruptcy. I have litigated this issue. In one case where we tried to convince a bankruptcy court to provide a discharge for an un-payable student loan, I wrote this in my conclusion:
It is not any exaggeration to observe that nondischargeable student loans are literally destroying lives. Destroying them, in thousands and tens of thousands. Entire generations of productivity are being lost, wasted. There is not a single shred of evidence that the made-up ‘certainty of hopelessness’ standard has done anything but backfire, badly. There is no legitimate moral defense for this crippling, inhumane system. It is terrifying to imagine the harvest if the Courts do not repair what they have broken. [The borrower] begs this Court to help turn the tide only by applying basic rules of linguistic interpretation to Brunner and discarding layers of ‘retributive dicta.’ It has to start somewhere. Let it start here.
[Tomorrow’s post deals with student debt issue, fyi.]
In that 2020 case, the court unfortunately ruled by avoiding the hardship issue, denying the request to discharge the borrower’s student loans, and saying that the borrower must first complete five years of attempted repayment under a Chapter 13 bankruptcy case, and only then could he come back and ask for a hardship discharge.
We don’t need a new statute or act or an executive order to solve the student loan problem. All we need is for the courts to announce they’re relaxing the hardship standard. That’s it. It would solve all the most difficult student loan problems instantly. If Biden issues some kind of blanket forgiveness, it will punish the people who saved and sacrificed and skimped and worked hard to pay off their loans.
Even more important, relaxing the bankruptcy standard would help all students going forward, because lenders would have to rein in the wild-west market for student credit, because they’d know that students with bad loans could get bankruptcy discharges if they get underwater. Loans should be tailored to the degree earned. There’s no reason for a kid getting a marketing degree to borrow $100K. They’ll never earn enough to pay it back.
[Hubby and I were fortunate/responsible: I worked hard in school and earned a full-ride scholarship, and kept working hard to keep my grades up and remain eligible. I also was frugal with my money and reasonable in the estimates I turned in each semester to my scholarship trustee. I also took on part-time jobs to fill in any shortfalls. All of my money went to real expenses of housing, food, tuition, books, etc. None of it went to fund a trip to Europe or a car. Hubby received financial support from his folks, acquired student loans for part of his needs, and took off a couple of semesters to work and earn enough money to finish paying for his education. When did self-reliance and responsibility become such a rare commodity? Granted – and read tomorrow’s post – tuition rates have gone through the roof, but that’s in large part because the government entered the student loan market.]
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Fox News ran a surprising article yesterday headlined, “New York’s Highest Court Strikes Down Dems’ ‘Partisan’ Redistricting In ‘Big Time’ Defeat.” The decision affirmed a lower court that had found the same thing, that the dem’s proposed redistricting map was unconstitutional because the district boundaries had been unconstitutionally gerrymandered and the Legislature hadn’t followed proper procedure in passing the maps.
The GOP’s lawsuit against the new district lines was supported by computer simulations from an alert elections analyst who’d discovered the maps were gerrymandered. Great work.
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Welp, it’s official now, I guess. Or maybe not. According to NPR, yesterday the public health team’s top insect Anthony Fauci spoke from one bodily orifice saying the country is now OUT of the pandemic phase, but on the SAME DAY he also emitted the exact opposite opinion. I know you can’t believe it, since Fauci’s been an icon of consistency so far. Anyway, the little weasel said it’s OVER on PBS NewsHour yesterday:
“We are certainly right now in this country out of the pandemic phase,” Fauci said in an interview with PBS NewsHour. “Namely, we don’t have 900,000 new infections a day and tens and tens and tens of thousands of hospitalizations and thousands of deaths. We are at a low level right now. So if you’re saying, ‘Are we out of the pandemic phase in this country?’ — we are,” he said.
Fauci actually gassed on about how over the pandemic is for almost a full minute, in fact.
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But then — on the SAME DAY — Fauci told an Associated Press reporter the EXACT OPPOSITE:
“We are in a different moment of the pandemic,” he said. After a brutal winter surge, Fauci added, “we’ve now decelerated and transitioned into more of a controlled phase. By no means does that mean the pandemic is over.”
So which is it? That right there is a mighty fine example of same-day narrative shifting. But what most amazes me is that a lot of people in this country will accept both Fauci’s statements, that “we are … out of the pandemic phase in this country” and also that “by no means does this mean the pandemic is over.” Somehow, some people can hold both thoughts in their minds simultaneously and be perfectly satisfied with that.
It seems like George Orwell had some ideas about this mystical double-brain power, but I can’t remember it right now.
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The Oklahoma legislature just passed a bill to ban abortions immediately if Roe v. Wade is overturned. So you can add one more.
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A special grand jury has been convened in Loudon County, Virginia, to consider criminal charges related to that school board’s mishandling and cover-ups of sexual assault cases in its schools. On January 15, newly-elected Governor Younkin issued an executive order authorizing the state’s Attorney General to investigate certain incidents at Stone Bridge and Broad Run High Schools.
As a reminder, the story originally broke because a father angrily and tearfully confronted the school board about covering for a boy who’d raped his daughter, a predator who the school had authorized to freely enter girl’s bathrooms whenever he wanted. The school board handled the understandably upset father by promptly having him arrested and thrown out of the meeting. How dare he.
The school board members who authorized the rapist and then covered up the assault, along with a SECOND rape, still sit smugly in office. They might be a little less smug now though, since Younkin entered another order approving a special election in November for the whole board, which would be super helpful if they are all in jail by then, since they can’t attend school board meetings from prison. Maybe Younkin’s thinking ahead?
Now, I know it’s not the grand jury you all REALLY want to see, but it’s a start!
My prediction: they’ll all resign soon, they’ll quit yapping like dogs — on advice of counsel — and, they WON’T sue over the special election in November like they have been threatening to do.
So.
Libs of Tik Tok reaches one million subscribers.
Conservatives on Twitter gain new subscribers in huge percentages while Liberals lose them (AOC lost 10,000 subscribers overnight).
Disney is having a brand crisis.
Biden is 31/69 approval among young voters.
Go back to bed Eeyore Brigade. We’ll wake you up when things don’t look as good as they do now.
And true Catholics cry as a now, a bishop gets canceled.
The Coalition for Canceled Priests is in the process of acquiring a former friary, as a place for those priests to continue their priestly vocation, have a place to live, and provide support for each other. I believe it’s in Indiana. For all those priests who’ve been kicked to the curb, without financial or spiritual support from their bishops, this will be a godsend.
And hopefully, when we get a real Catholic Pope, they will again be able to function fully as priests again.
I pray for my Church every day. Every. Day.
from the C&C post:
tuition rates have gone through the roof, but that’s in large part because the government entered the student loan market.]
The gov’t didn’t just ‘enter’ the market, they took it over. If we want to fix the problem, a huge part would be putting the universities on the hook for at least 60% of the loan. This would have the eventual effect of eliminating all the Gender/Black history/Basket Weaving Studies that provide no useful, real world, employer demanded skill sets. The over-paid administration would have to start cutting back in all areas to keep the overhead as low as possible and they would be forced to only provide courses that actually have the possibility to produce employable graduates. To phrase a bit differently, the entire higher education industry needs to be B!tC# slapped by the hand of reality. They have been living in the ivory towers for far too long.
Good morning troubadours. Another nice morning out here with some high overcast skies, moderate temps, and no winds to speak of yet. Expect winds to pick up as the day goes on. I decided that I’m through messing with what’s left of my portion of stump left in the ground for now. It needs another year to rot a little more, and I may be able to just cover it up with dirt and let the grass grow over it and forget about it. Besides, my arms, shoulders and back are sore this morning from swinging that idiot stick the past two days.
I’ve got to do some work on my agenda for the day now, so you all have a good one. I’ll return with more reports later as well as news of interest. More later.
If you can dig out the middle of your stump, you can fill it with dirt and put a plant in it.
Beautifying and will accelerate the decomp of the stump.
Get your 3/8ths wood bit and drill a bunch of holes in it.
Just got back from radiology and having an MRI done on my neck. What a strange, weird experience it is. It always reminds for some reason of 2001: Space Odyssey.
One constructive thing this pandemic did do was expose a lot of frauds and phony jackasses.
Dr. Risa Hoshino was hailed on many top physician influencer lists, and was dubbed ‘a veteran of using social media to debunk scientific falsehoods’ by the Scientist magazine.
But she has now been accused of lying about working 12-hour hospital shifts and taking care of children suffering from long-COVID in an investigation by Substack blogger Sarah Beth Burwick.
Hoshino tweeted about long shifts in full PPE while treating children suffering from long COVID and handing out injections.
But Burwick has called her out, saying the job Hoshino does involves no such work. She also flagged social media photos of the medic enjoying herself which didn’t tally with Hoshino’s claims of back-breaking shifts.
Hoshino, whose LinkedIn claims she works for Mount Sinai, was found out to be a city-employed school pediatrician who mostly worked a remote job for around $170,000 a year during the pandemic.
#22 TP
Wow, where did those 50 years go?
Obama has lost 300,000 followers on Twitter this week.
Texpat
Awwww yes 2001 a space Odyssey. That movie has possibly the best space themed special effects ever created. To this day it still holds up well, possibly surpasses the CGI effects of today.
Sarge
Obama has lost 300,000 followers on Twitter this week.
Do ya reckon the 300000 followers were “bots” rather than people? Bots are why I stayed away from Twitter
#20, 21 – Did that last year. The remaining portion can be just covered with dirt and the grass should take over. If you can’t see it, it must be gone – right?
#26 – the gnomes at Twitter are trying to straighten out the books before the new boss comes in and asks to take a look at them. Adding a few real people here and deleting a few bots there, and you never know what you might wind up with. Musk has stated that he intends to eliminate the bots and make certain that all posts are created by real human people,.
I’d do the tannerite thing is I wasn’t 3 ‘ from my neighbor’s car port where she parks her car. Just for the fun of it if nothing else.
And then there is the problem of Thor’s hammer in today’s social environment. https://babylonbee.com/news/adorable-jane-foster-keeps-picking-up-thors-wrench-instead-of-hammer-and-asking-is-this-it
El Gordo
I’d do the tannerite thing is I wasn’t 3 ‘ from my neighbor’s car port where she parks her car.
Yeah you are prolly right. She might forgive ya for the BIG BOOMS but damage to the carport/car not so much.
Go back to bed Eeyore Brigade. We’ll wake you up when things don’t look as good as they do now.
It’s a long way until November.
Never underestimate the ability of the Kentucky Swamp Turtle and the rest of the sans a belt slack goopeecon brigade to purposefully hose things up and demotivate the Trump wing of the party right before the midterms.
They don’t really want to win anyhoo because the deal they have going now is too good.
Lots of blood money to be made and they’re raking it in.
Ok.
Now back to bed.
#29
Yeah I have about a 3” root from a sycamore tree that runs across my asphalt sidewalk that decided to rise to the top and bust up the walkway. Last spring I cut off each end and drilled a bunch of holes in it to hopefully rot away. This spring it is still as strong as ever. Now if it were some firewood I was trying to save it’d been rotted for months now.
33 billion blood money request.
Gonna need lots of laundry detergent for that amount.
Better request another 30 billion for detergent.
Meanwhile the wooden dummy, Kenyan, goopeecon sponsored invasion at our southern border continues unabated with the exception of a few stacked matchbox cars.
Like she says, she’s not a fan of McCarthy, but she did get the transcripts of the recordings released by Liz Cheney and listened closely to them. She’s a serious reporter and I trust what she writes there at Legal Insurrection.
I’m kind of agnostic about McCarthy, but he’s getting a bad deal here. Unless there is more to drop, it doesn’t sound like he did anything more than say he would offer advice to the president based on his informed sense that a measure to remove Trump from office via the 25th was likely to pass at least the House, as indeed it did.
I’m not even sure that would be bad advice from the House minority leader given the stigma attached to the 25th and the historical implications of such a removal. It never came to that, but in those days immediately following J6, it was not some wild, out of this world proposition . . . as it had been every other time the Democrats and NeverTrumpers tossed it out there.
I was opposed to McCarthy becoming speaker after Boehner quit. He’s too much of a squish. I was a supporter of Jim Jordan and I remain one. Anyone who has ever lived through being publicly and falsely accused of something they did not do knows how it feels. Right now, McCarthy is being accused of saying something he did not say. It’s dishonest and people should come to his defense on that subject. Context means everything here.
McCarthy is talking about a specific situation that many believed at the time would arise—and that did arise, that the anti-Trump “resistance” would move on a 25th Amendment resolution in the House. And that it would pass with just enough spineless America Last NeverTrumpers in the GOP casting their lot with Nancy Pelosi.
In that case, and only in that case according to the “gotcha” audio that’s been leaked so far, McCarthy says he would recommend to Trump that he resign rather than face the humiliation of his Cabinet and Congress deeming him unfit to serve and removing him without his consent. In what world is that bad advice? Sure, it may not be the advice I or you would give, but it is certainly reasonable. It’s also worth noting that McCarthy is very clear to Liz Let’s Find a Country to Bomb Cheney that he does not believe Trump would take his advice.
She has filed suit against her local school district.
What happened? Last August, I was casually browsing social media and stumbled upon a teacher’s post, which featured reference materials for a new “Ethnic and Gender Studies” class at the local high schools. The books immediately raised questions, but I didn’t want to jump to conclusions. So, I reached out to get more information. While my kids are years away from being able to take this class, I wanted to learn more about what’s coming their way.
The teacher instructed me to contact the district’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Director, who was in charge of training the teachers in charge of the class. I did so, but she evaded my questions. The Secondary Director of Education offered to share material with me, but all I received was a one-page course outline, a teacher training PowerPoint, and a lesson plan filled with “ice breakers” for the first two weeks of school. I also wrote to our school board and superintendent, but heard nothing back. And I repeatedly asked administrators for information that should have been readily available, such as course materials and student assignments. But after several weeks of trying to get answers, I received nothing of substance.
I can’t imagine any thing remotely like this kind of secrecy and lying in the schools I attended growing up.
I made a major trip to Kroger and got a few good buys. I was surprised to see the deli still had lunchtime fish sammiches on the Hot-To-Go rack. During the Easter season, I get 1 or 2 of those every time I’m at the store at lunch time. Which means usually every trip, cuz getting up at 9 a.m. means it will be 11:30 or 12.00 before I can make it to the store. I never go grocery shopping when I’m hungry, and breakfast takes a while when I have 7 cats scarfing down their own food then wanting some of mine. I expect that, but I don’t expect to see fish to-go after Lent.
Got my 760 Crosman BB gun disassembled, cleaned and lubricated, and finally put all back together today. Guy on the YT video did it in 10 minutes – took me three or four days. But it is pumping good, holding pressure, and that really seemed to make a difference. Look out birds, dove season is open here in my back yard for white wings attacking my bird feeder. Happy meals for the varmits coming right up.
Did I tell you about the possum attacking the skunk the other night while skunk was feeding at the cat dish? Surprised me, but the skunk took off running and the possum cleaned up the cat bowl and licked it shiny. Skunk is also afraid of one of the feral cats. Fortunately it did not deploy it primary defensive weapon.
Fixed a sous vide pork roast yesterday. I decided to make my version of a tuna salad except with pork rather than tuna, and it turned out pretty good. I didn’t have a cerrano pepper so I used a little salsa for seasoning. Something cold for lunch on warmer days is refreshing.
OK, more later.
#38 El Gordo you do know that petroleum based oils can damage an air rifle? The oil combined with the high pressure can case dieseling and asplode the barrel.
Dang, I’m tarred but I came in and got my shower then put together a couple of Hobo’s with chicken, corn on the cob and string beans. my wife loves these things and so do I but what I like most is after “some assembly required” you just pop them in the oven and eat hem out of the foil. I’ll burn a few slices of Texas Toast and we be eating like royalty. 😀
Stuck again.
I had to run some errands today, one of them being a deposit at my bank, which is across from Forgotten Angels, my fave thrift shop. That’s where I’ve been going to find my cheap canning jars and the occasional tote – when they deign to sell any of the hundred or so that they use around the store. Every time I ask, it’s “No, we use those, they’re not for sale.” When they are being sold, it’s for the $3-$7 range, depending on size. That is still half or less than store prices, so I buy them.
Since I have all of those recently acquired jars, I wasn’t really in the market, but thought I’d stop in and see if maybe they had shelves for sale.
I walk in the door and it’s as if the storage tote angels started singing. There was a PILE of them there, and all marked at 99 cents each, even the big ones. Fortunately, I stopped at 6 totes, which is all I could get into my car. Almost as cheap as trash picking them. Almost. And the little bit I paid goes for a good cause, so – even better.
Hubby joked about not having to mow the grass soon, as my garden continues to grow. I said that some of my gardening videos are just that – a back yard full of garden. I don’t know that I’ll go that far, but if I want to produce enough for storage, it’ll take more than I have right now.
And I discovered a caterpillar eating my broccoli. He was hiding on the backside of a leaf. I didn’t see any damage yesterday, and he seemed awfully big for just one day…either way, he was dismissed with extreme prejudice, being flung out into the grass for some bird to find. I then began to put diatomaceous earth in all of my totes, because slugs have been a problem lately, too.
Now, to dinner and Latin class.
Maybe you could hide some tannerite in the bird feeder. More birds per round.
#41
I can’t imagine how often that would occur with the roads back then, better’n walking I guess.
My mom’s family were dirt poor, share cropping and anything else my grandpa could find. Had kids for the purpose of having field hands, they got lucky and had five boys and my mom. They all got pulled out of school by sixth grade to go work in the fields. All in the Hico area. They tell stories of grandpa trying to save gas, all the boys would get out and push up the hills and coast downhills. I’m sure there were many times they’d get stuck.
Probably wasn’t a lot of rain to make mud though.
Well my wife has been showing properties for her brother out of Austin area just about all over East Texas off and on for over a year now. He was dead set he could low ball anything he liked and wanted to make an offer on, while everyone else has been offering more than list. She kept saying this is the last time and I’m firing him, then she’d go do it again. Well they found a place outside of Jacksonville today, offer accepted. Hallelujah!
She’s just now coming thru Buffalo tho, and I here I got chicken wings breaded and ready to throw in the fryer, salad made and fixins all ready. Karma I suppose for all my late nights thru the years. That’s ok I got beer.
#39 – I used that lithium grease stuff. No machine oil or anything like that. And I cleaned it with electronic component cleaner since that’s all I could find right here handy. Seemed to work fine.
Guy is standing out there in the street again on the “X” marks the spot with his laser thing on a tripod. He’s by hisself now, guess they don’t pay overtime for all three.
Nothing to see here, move along:
A reputed federal informant and whistleblower who went missing after he was reported to have turned over a trove of secret files about Deutsche Bank was found dead at a Los Angeles school this week, a police official said Wednesday.
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According to The Times, Broeksmit supplied the documents to journalists and others, including Fusion GPS, the research firm linked to an unverified dossier about Trump, and investigators with the FBI’s New York office.
49 Gjt
So how close is this new highway interchange from you?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>scram>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
#51
Well, through my living room I guess lol.
All kinda build up around here, they are making FM1488 into a four lane road with a center turn lane from Magnolia proper almost to the Waller line where we are, several subdivisions going up nearby, one of them 700 homes. New HEB going up in front of Magnolia High Skrewl, across from there starting up this year is a Town Center type thing. I maybe packing up and moving your way, this development stuff keeps chasing us.
Magnolia Place – scroll down a bit
https://theretailconnection.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Magnolia-TX-Magnolia-Place-7.16.19.pdf
50 sarge
Cause of sudden deadness syndrome was “three self-inflicted shotgun wounds to the back of the head”.
So did the Trump mafia or the Deep State mafia take the guy out?
Clintons
Shannon says:
APRIL 28, 2022 AT 7:59 PMSo did the Trump mafia or the Deep State mafia take the guy out?
Given that Fusion GPS is at the center of Russiagate that targeted Trump, and this guy supposedly provided info damaging enough to Trump that a guy wrote a hit piece book on it using information he got from the dead dude (that was gathered after HIS dad committed suicide):
Soon, the bank was manipulating markets, violating international sanctions to aid terrorist regimes, scamming investors, defrauding regulators, and laundering money for Russian oligarchs. Ever desperate for an American foothold, Deutsche also started doing business with a self-promoting real estate magnate nearly every other bank in the world deemed too dangerous to touch: Donald Trump. Over the next twenty years, Deutsche executives loaned billions to Trump, the Kushner family, and an array of scandal-tarred clients, including convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
I know where my money is going.
This guy dealt directly with Fusion GPS and if he met with anyone else mentioned but not yet indicted by Durham—somebody like Mark Elias—who can be directly connected with Hildebeast and Bubba, there would be an ever increasing chance of Arkancide with prejudice.
Bill Broeksmit’s suicide (that’s the newly dead dude’s Dad who “hung himself”) was one of a number of deaths involving Deutsche Bank workers over a five-year period and occurred months after David Rossi, director at Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the world’s oldest bank, died in an apparent suicide in Italy in October 2013.
There have long been suspicions that Rossi’s death was not a suicide, although no conclusive evidence of foul play has emerged.
There is no suggestion the deaths of any of the former Deutsche Bank workers were suspicious.
Yah. Nothing spooky there. Just another casualty of the Drug War……
I blame the Lutherans.
I learned a new Latin word today: eruca (eruca, ae) Caterpillar
Now I have a name for my nemesis.
Vermes is “worm”. I’ll save that for members of the Biden, Clinton, and Obama families.
And by family, I mean genetically connected folks, not crime family folks.
Deutsche Bank has been operating in the back alleys and shadows for a long time. They’re no different than the French. The Germans would do business with the thug who murdered their own mother.
Check out time out here folks. You all have a great night now. Nite nite.
Back from three days in Fredericksburg. Thoroughly a pleasant time. More tomorrow.
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