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There you are! Texpat saved the day. It seems I missed the whole dang weekend, I’ve been kinda’ busy but I’ll try to do better, as if y’all missed me. 😀
Love the Texas flag and it’s one on the better designs if that matters.
Not sure what I’m up to today I was going to get the tractor out and use my Lane Shark to work the edges of the fields but we got .62″ of rain about dark last night so it’s wet again. I did finally finish up my mowing in front of the barn on Saturday but that area is pretty forgiving after a rain.
SO! Mornin’ Gang
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Here in Alabama we have a special session of the State Legislature to redraw the election maps, it seem that they’re not inclusive enough. But I have a question, if it is wrong to Gerrymander a map to exclude black districts why is it OK to Gerrymander a map to guarantee that a black representative is elected? Two wrongs???
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Today’s OC Thread
This OC was an emergency post because the post I uploaded last night didn’t publish as scheduled at 01:00 AM. There is something glitchy on the WordPress dashboard right now and I’m not sure why.
It also will not allow me to insert any images from the Hambone 3.0 media library. I had to copy and paste today’s flag image to the dashboard.
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It also will not allow me to insert any images from the Hambone 3.0 media library.
I guess that A.I. is showing Texpat a thing or two. 😀
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The worst thing about voting districts gerrymandered for black voters is it actually segregates them from the normal political process. America has always been full of immigrants, even though it has ebbed and flowed, and we didn’t think it necessary to devise electoral pockets for each and every one.
Granted, we didn’t enslave anybody but forced immigrants from Africa and while that warrants special consideration, consigning black Americans to racially assigned voting precincts is a distorted application of the old segregationist excuse of Separate but Equal. It is, in any moral sense, horsesh*t.
The system as it exists creates mass complacency and inertia among the black constituencies as they often believe because someone of their race is representing them they assume their interests are served. This isn’t to say white people don’t make the same mistakes, but it seems to be a much greater problem in black districts. The shyster grifters like Maxine Waters, Keith Ellison, Frederica Wilson and Alcee Hastings are immune to challengers and guarantee of lifetime reign as incumbents seems to be the rule in black districts. When was the last time we heard about a relative unknown newcomer upsetting an old office holder in one of those districts ?
If, like other minorities, black Americans were forced to participate in the process and cultivate networks and connections with people of other races in their respective districts across America, they would be far better off. I am not oblivious to the fact the US Congress is held in lower esteem than thieves and burglars today. I am trying to make the case isolating black Americans from the rest of the voting population does not help them and, moreover, actually dilutes their political power. Ask any seasoned political consultant. Other negative reasons include the perpetuation of political ghettoes by encouraging the separatism of black residents from the rest of America. I could go on, but I have things I need to do.
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Thanks for opening the Couch, Texpat. I meant to put something up last night but ended up laying on my couch with a cold pack on my jaw. By the end of the day, what with drawing air over those teeth and eating…well, ice packs are always kept in the freezer.
Jaw feels better this morning, but I’m still not eating on that side. I’ve been laying layers of teeth sensitivity toothpaste on those baby teeth, since it appears that whatever I did has exposed new areas that have been kept treated over the years. The bump on the jawbone is smaller and I can now actually touch those teeth together.
Progress! Whatever I did, I’m not doing that again!
Anyway, coffee in hand…
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Texpat @ 8:03 AM, that was an excellent critique about Gerrymandering, Spot On. Our country is a Melting Pot, we have people that came from all over the world and assimilated into our country bringing their customs but adopting our culture so why do we always exclude the blacks? Most of them have been here for hundreds of years and yes, segregation kept them out of the picture until about 60 years but now that we need to treat them as equals means no Affirmative action or Gerrymandering.
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Texpat makes a lot of sense with the segregation discussion.
I remember a conversation that Hubby and I had years ago. Being a plumber, he’s been in every neighborhood, from the slums where the bed legs are in coffee cans filled with water (to keep the cockroaches away from the bed, hopefully) to mansions in River Oaks.
“The rent the blacks are paying for their homes would get them a nicer place,” he said, “but they choose to live there because they want to be around people like them.”
I wondered why we don’t have more “better” neighborhoods of them, but that’s what they choose. Maybe there are criminal histories that keep some of them in the slums. Who knows?
I forgot who it was, but there was a celebrity who was paying for weddings for black couples who were having children out of wedlock. That one thing will help those kids do better in life. But when welfare paid for the fathers to leave the home, it left a void in the family structure that has rippled down and out that group.
I’ve always said that social classes are not the result of pigment, but of culture.
And that’s why Asians as a group do so well. They aren’t white, and many of those families have their own rags-to-riches stories to tell. In general, the self-segregating neighborhoods are filled with rags-to-rags stories.
I remember reading an article. For the life of me I can’t remember who wrote it or where it was published, but it starts out with the scenario of one black welfare mom at the welfare office, talking to her daughter. The author writes that the saddest thing he ever heard was the mother telling her daughter “some day you’ll have your own case worker”.
I agree.
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KNOWN FACTS ☙ Monday, July 17, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS
Good morning, C&C, it’s Monday! We’re halfway through July and things are heating up again, and I don’t just mean climate change mania. Your roundup today includes: newly-undredacted email blows open what could be the greatest scandal in human history; Kamala says the quiet part out loud and Joe tries to eat a baby; a primer on the SV40 cancer-causing gene found in the shots; three weird celebrity mystery illnesses LAST WEEK; another SADS bodybuilder; another SADS coach; another terrorist attack on Russia’s super-long Kerch bridge; and all the evidence you need to know why we love Tucker so much.
News:
This first story is a re-post from Sunday’s Subscriber Edition. Several loyal subscribers requested that, due to the important subject matter, it be included again in today’s roundup. Here at C&C, we aim to please.
The repeated story deals with the WLR investigation. An email retrieved via FOIA was highly redacted. Except for the first few words and the last few words, it was a big black redaction block. Useless. But the exception rule used to redact the text doesn’t apply to the House Oversight Committee, and they got the full Monty email.
It immediately became perfectly obvious what they were hiding. There’s a key sentence in the middle of the document that, had it been disclosed instead of buried under a planet-sized pile of bureaucratic bovine excrement, might have changed everything: [insert image of email]
…Anyway, here’s the highlighted sentence from above. Remember, this is Fauci talking to a bunch of other top, important people in our government’s health apparatus:
The suspicion was heightened by the fact that scientists in Wuhan University are known to have been working on gain-of-function experiments to determine the molecular mechanisms associated with bat viruses adapting to human infection, and the outbreak originated in Wuhan.
Got that? “The FACT” that scientists in Wuhan “ARE known” — known, not “suspected” — and HOW did they know? — known to be working on gain-of-function research … on what? BAT VIRUSES, that’s what. That sentence proves Fauci and the rest of that colorful group of mobsters knew BEFORE FEBRUARY 1ST 2020 about the gain-of-function bat work in Wuhan, yet they spent three years denying that…
So, Fauci’s pants should be going up in flames. Liar, liar, pants on fire.
…they decided to lie about it, and so began what might be the biggest, most-destructive coverup in human history. It was a conspiracy of massive proportions. And I wouldn’t be surprised if the government’s massive censorship operation didn’t begin life specifically to protect THIS particular whopper.
As Mr. C. points out: How many deaths could have been avoided? How many dollars saved? And since most bioweapons are created with a cure, could this cure not have been made available early on? The least we could have done would have been to force the Chinese to give up their data. All of it.
If you depended on corporate media for information, you wouldn’t even know about this story.
True dat.
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About the Texas Flag, we have this rustic, Texas Flag over the mantel in the Den. My wife kinda’ made the den our Texas Room. There is a Longhorn painting on the north wall along with a republic of Texas map and Alamo diagram from Copano Bay Press. Oh and the Chili Queens of San Antonio on the east wall beside the mantel. John Wayne is on the other side and my wife’s Model 94, John Wayne commemorative is above the window on the south wall. FWIW; the west wall is all bookcases. 😉
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Section on Kamala having her Freudian slip about “reducing the population” where she meant to say “pollution”.
Saying the quiet part out loud.
Next up: Simian viruses and the jab. I believe I mentioned this some weeks ago.
Another jab injury puzzle piece is dropping into place. Let’s begin with a 2019 study titled, “Association Between Simian Virus 40 and Human Tumors.” The study explained how a small segment of cancer-promoting monkey DNA first entered the human population in the 1950’s through the safe and effective — but regretfully contaminated — polio vaccines:
Simian virus 40 (SV40) is a small DNA tumor virus of monkey origin. This polyomavirus was administered to human populations mainly through contaminated polio vaccines, which were produced in naturally infected SV40 monkey cells. Previous molecular biology and recent immunological assays have indicated that SV40 is spreading in human populations, independently from earlier SV40-contaminated vaccines. SV40 DNA sequences have been detected at a higher prevalence in specific human cancer specimens, such as the brain and bone tumors, malignant pleural mesotheliomas, and lymphoproliferative disorders, compared to the corresponding normal tissues/specimens.
The Simian virus story appears to be generally accepted as fact. And it’s been found in the jab.
Award-winning biogeneticist Kevin McKernan made independent news earlier this year by sequencing ten vials of Pfizer and ten vials of Moderna and reporting on the unexpected contents. Among other genetic contaminants, he discovered SV40 DNA in the vaccines:
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This weekend Dr. McCullough explained the significance of SV40 contamination to Alex Jones. The presence of SV40, as with the polio experience, could explain the rising rates of turbo cancers that we are seeing everywhere the shots have been deployed.
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SV40 causes cancer (“oncogenesis”) in two ways. First, SV40 promotes cancer cells. Second, it suppresses the body’s natural defenses to cancer. Here’s the McCullough clip where he explains some of the details: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34062721-13e8-481d-aea7-6433acf312af_1116x484.png
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From the “Suddenly & Unexpectedly” Department, there’s a new list of events: sudden strange illnesses and the death of another bodybuilder, the cause of which isn’t being released.
And never will.
Prayers for the recovery of stricken, and for the peaceful repose of souls.
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Childers ends with a quick slip of Tucker at the candidates’ exposure event. I wish I could have watched more of it, having seen only a few clips.
But from what I’ve heard, he did not disappoint.
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Here’s Tucker talking about debating Pence.
https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1680342977682767874
The only thing I find off putting about Tucker is his laugh, but I’m willing to overlook that because the rest of his speech is so good.
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It has been the rule around here to not answer any calls from numbers we don’t recognize. It became apparent a long time ago the more you answer the phone, the more frequent the robocalls become. Their algorithms move your number up in call priority depending on live responses.
Our daughter said she has received several spam calls trying to bait her into repeating certain phrases. These are calls from creeps trying to steal and replicate her voice with AI technology. I’ve told her to stop even answering these calls, but who knows whether she listens or not.
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A lot of times I’ll answer the phone without immediately saying hello. If it’s a live person, they’ll say something first. If it’s a robocall, they usually hang up.
Spam numbers go immediately on my block list, along with allllllll of those “wanna sell your property?” text messages.
I must have quite a database of those numbers by now.
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I just finished harvesting and watering my garden. Those asparagus beans are sneaky. I thought I left two or three for harvesting today – I had ten. And there are two that got by me so long that I’m letting them finish going to seed and I’ll use those for my next planting.
I remember looking up and thinking “How the heckfahr did I miss YOU? You’re humongous!”
My eggplant is finally getting over being transplanted. Flowers all over and a couple fruit coming along.
As for food prepping, I took out yesterday’s eggs from Fred and reloaded with more eggs. I also took my avocados, which were in their “15 minutes of ripe” time frame this morning. They are sliced up and in the freezer, where they’ll stay until I’m ready to run Elsa again.
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I must have quite a database of those numbers by now.
The most galling thing about it is that the number that shows up is meaningless; caller ID spoofing. The phone companies could do something about it but absent any force from the US govt, they won’t.
DHS knows who the main culprits are but they won’t admit it. DHS could shut down 90% of it inside of a week – but then they would have to admit that they are monitoring all the metadata at a minimum of every call made within the USA and all calls going in or out of the USA.
WE are being lied to by a bunch of lying liars who refuse to do their jobs.
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Sotomayor makes millions while a Justice.
Not just her, but her ethics problems are front and center. I think it sucks that her people “encourage” institutions to buy a minimum number of her books before she’ll agree to a speaking engagement.
Frankly, if someone was shaking me down for an appearance, I’d go find someone else. But that’s just me.
“Justices should not be invested in individual stocks,” said Painter. “It presents big problems. “You have to recuse yourself if a case involves the company. And there are major problems with trying to sell the stock.”
He also noted the connection between book deals and investments, as more money from advancements and royalties could lead to more money being invested.
The AP’s story came out amid a flurry of media coverage from prominent outlets detailing the financials of and gifts received by Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices, especially Clarence Thomas. Many of these publications haven’t reported on Sotomayor’s royalties or broader increase in wealth.
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Morning, chickadees.
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Hmmm, I typed the above and then zoned out, about 2 hours ago. NO, I can’t point to anything useful I did during that time.
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Good Afternoon Hamsters,
The weather folks seem to have nothing to offer but continued heat advisories for hot and hotter temps for the next several weeks. Rain seems to be rationed around here and much of the SW, but Louisiana and points east get a lot of rain. Today’s moisture is again another morning mist that gradually fades away as the temperature rises, and what lands on the ground is quickly slurped up. It is better than nothing and seems to keep our pasture grass reasonably green and suitable for grazing.
Our deer mother and child are hanging out in the back pasture today and taking advantage of the shade under the big trees as good places to rest and only a short walk to the water tank. We’ve seen momma deer at rest grabbing some grass around her, and the little one parked a short distance away tries to do the same. Baby see, baby do better and better. And it is growing steadily if slowly and no longer looks like a newborn.
They also seem to stay with us all night, as spouse was looking at the back pasture with a flashlight around 10 last night and sees a pair of eyes in the pasture looking back at him, mom on the lookout.
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What if Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche is correct? The Dutch virologist said at the outset of the Covid-19 episode in 2020 that vaccinating the world in the midst of an epidemic was insane because it would train the virus to evolve more dangerously while disabling human immune systems.
Last week he issued a warning that the world was within weeks of just such a new and deadly immune escape variant outbreak that would bring on a shocking wave of sickness and death among people who received multiple Covid-19 vaccinations. This would happen on top of an already accelerating rise in latent vaccine adverse reactions manifesting as aggressive cancers, blood disorders, cardiac injury, neurological disease, and much, much more.
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So, if these populations were driven crazy by authorities ginning up their fear and preying on it, what will happen if that fear turns to anger instead? Because that’s exactly what will happen when Americans, and perhaps even Europeans, realize they’ve been subject to history’s biggest homicidal fraud. That anger is going to seek targets, and they are going to find them very easily in their own government officials and also — get this — in the medical establishment that has betrayed its patients so unconscionably.
It’s just impossible to say exactly how that will play out on-the-ground….Our country has no such procedures for changing authority in a time of crisis. Instead, we have a president up to his neck in bribery scandal and executive agency thuggery, and political parties sunk in corruption, and no way to get rid of them except elections many months away — elections which at least half the people don’t believe are honest.
This crisis of bad faith and sickness is happening at the same time that Western Civ enters an equally vicious crisis of economy and finance. America and Europe are broke. All are playing games with their conjoined banking systems and their currencies. All are de-industrializing economies strictly based on industrial production of goods no longer being produced, and pretending to replace them with economies of computer vapor-ware. That can’t work and can only end badly in collapsing standards of living.
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… Some kind of monumental correction will be in order. The people will need some way to regain credible self-governance,… For now, there is little faith that our institutions can manage either of those options. Better maintain situational awareness as we creep into the unknown.
/looking nervously at my shelves
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Adee – your talk of the water tank reminds me that my tub of water has gone unnoticed and ignored for weeks. The bluejays and squirrels usually don’t take long to find the water, at least not in the past. I like to watch the bluejays. They really, really enjoy bathing.
I don’t think it’s too close to the house. It does sit in the sunshine for part of the day, so perhaps it’s too warm for the birds to enjoy.
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According to Dan Bongino, who was a Secret Service agent, his former colleagues in the Secret Service are furious, and they know exactly who brought the cocaine into the White House.
“So there’s probably less than 200 people who could have left this cocaine, by the way, in a bag which is plastic, which is non-porous, meaning it’s probably not that hard to pull a latent print. They’ve got to know who did it. The question is, who’s pressuring them to not find out who did it? And it’s gotta be coming from this White House. This is terrible. Don’t destroy this agency like the FBI. It’s really unbecoming,” Bongino said. “A lot of my former colleagues at the Secret Service who retired, they are absolutely furious about this. Oh yeah, yeah, I can tell you, I got 50 emails, communications, texts from people. ‘This is embarrassing, humiliating.’ These are good guys, man, guys who worked for Obama and Bush, non-partisan guys, most of them aren’t even political. This is embarrassing. They know exactly who it was.”
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It is priests like Bishop Strickland that give me hope for the Church.
I still have plans to move into the Tyler area, if Hubby goes before me and before I get too old. I would love to live in a Catholic community such as the one that is developing in that area. They may feel the hard boot of the Vatican when Strickland is removed, but I believe that the faith of the community will prevail and keep the faith alive.
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Hello everyone. Just a quick drive by. It has been hot – by our standards – here a week or so. Cooler today but unfortunately rain, which is needed just not by me.
The Sound of Freedom has come to our little town much to my surprise. TW and I are going tonight. When I first checked it was here for the weekend and Monday, Tuesday. I checked again today and it has been extended until next weekend. They must be doing well with it as that is an unusual length of time in this one horse, 27 liquor stores town.
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24 texanadian
It’s obvious why y’all need so many liquor stores up there. Since it is now easier to get suicide assistance than medical care in Canada, having plenty of liquid painkiller around helps.
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One of the more subtle scams perpetrated on the human race has been the ruse that we would be moving to a paperless society and ALL DATA would be stored on electronic devices.
Her Highness refuses to listen and wants to print out everything she receives. It’s become much worse with the computerization of medical records and the personal portal to obtain even the most obscure test online. She prints out everything, from every lab and doctor, and puts it in a file folder as if the online records are going to vanish tomorrow. The same goes for virtually all other categories.
Frankly, with personal printers there is now more paper in the world than we ever dreamed would exist.
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Man, stepping outside to check the mail absolutely makes my shower null and void.
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It’s obvious why y’all need so many liquor stores up there. Since it is now easier to get suicide assistance than medical care in Canada, having plenty of liquid painkiller around helps.
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That is true. If you arrive at the hospital by ambulance you might have a chance. The numbers of people without a personal GP are astounding. I have one but it is a month if I want an appointment but I don’t go often so it is not a problem. Some waits in emergency room is 12 hours or more, even if you bleeding like a stuck pig.
And they have changed the laws so that now if you have a favourite park or beach they can do it there. Mentally handicapped? No problem. Depressed? No problem. Just about any reason and they will stick a needle in your arm. Slippery slope my friends.
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These are good guys, man, guys who worked for Obama and Bush, non-partisan guys, most of them aren’t even political.
pfffffttttttt
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the only person who doesn’t know whose coke it was is the man who officially said Epstein did commit suicide.
bill jelly roll 2 barrf.
id like to see a jelly donut eating contest between b barrf and the jersey jelly roll.I bet they’d stuff and gorge em down until their reptilian swamp eyes glazed over in ecstasy.
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On another note, TW’s personal doctor is the doctor of death in Rocky.
She, TW, has cancer. Correlation?
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#25 Tedtam,
Yes, it is indeed hot fetching the mail, no matter if it is just opening the front door to reach for the mailbox while your front side is already hot and the behind side is still in the AC. Do not tarry in getting all of you back inside. Our country mailbox sits on a post at the edge of the road and is in full sunshine almost all day. We have to be careful in opening its door because the metal the box is made of can really get hot. I’ve seriously considered wearing gloves to fetch the mail these days. 🙂
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#25 TT
By “checking the mail”, do you mean going outside to the mailbox to see if you have any? Are you using the Post Office Informed Delivery online feature? While it isn’t superbly accurate — it’s guberment, after all! — it at least usually lets me know that I’ll probably be receiving some mail — or none — 6 days a week.
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Going out to the mailbox is a good reason to get my ever so ample butt out of my chair in the afternoon.
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30 texanadian
Your wife has cancer ? Sorry to hear that, man.
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It’s patently ridiculous that a plastic packet of cocaine could magically appear in one of the most secure, highly monitored facilities in the world.
If that had been anthrax spores or something similar, it would have taken about 20 minutes to figure out a very short list of suspects and a few hours to round all of them up.
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Texanadian…I wanted to make sure I saw that correctly. Putting your wife on my prayer list.
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I don’t want to get anyone’s hopes up unnecessarily, but this is a valid and compelling argument in my opinion. Let us hope at least five Justices agree.
But the danger of overreach is that a judge may want to smack a prosecutor down for bringing unnecessary charges. Such is the case in the January 6 prosecutions.
One of the rioters, Edward Lang, is facing 11 charges and pleaded not guilty to all of them. But a district court judge threw out the charges relating to “obstruction of an official proceeding” concerning Lang and two others accused of violence at the Capitol.
The law in question sentences a guilty party to up to 20 years in prison for anyone who “corruptly alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document,” or “otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so.” Lang is questioning whether the Sarbanes-Oxley statute fits the behavior of hundreds of rioters.
Sarbanes-Oxley was passed in response to financial malfeasance in the 2002 bankruptcies of telecom giant Worldcom and Enron, an energy company based in Houston. Lang argues that the obstruction defined in Sarbanes-Oxley bears no relationship to the violence that occurred on January 6, 2021.
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The evening breeze is up as the sun drifts westward, but the ground-level haze is getting stronger in the pastures and large yards. Of course the Sun is not going anywhere, it is the Earth rotating in its daily orbit around it that moves. Weather folk say the Sahara dust is not here yet but is on the way. Then shall we have some red sunsets and sunrises as long as it keeps coming this way. And probably some red grit on things left outside.
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