I think this says it all..
We supposedly have "full employment" and a record number of jobs, but 1 in 8 families won't be able to make minimum payments on things like credit cards in the next three months.
If it's this bad right now, what happens when a recession hits and people get laid off. https://t.co/i4jEuz5NuP
— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) April 8, 2024
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BSue is all prepped for knee replacement. She looks funny up on the car lift
Prayers for a smooth operation.
What he said.
Oh yeah Firsticus
Barry Texas photo belongs to S. Haas
Great picture.
That is magnificent. Maybe the best I’ve seen yet.
Well that storm is headed this way should be here by about 3 PM. I do hope we get the 2″-3″ of rain predicted but it’ll be moving fast so we’ll see.
Mornin” Gang
NFL Refs prep for next season by staring at the eclipse. ~Babylon Bee
😀
WASHINGTON — Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) stunned attendees at a high school solar eclipse event Monday by claiming the rock-solid moon is a “planet” that is “made up mostly of gases” — before adding she still wants to be “first in line” to learn how to live there.
The former top Democrat on the House Science Committee’s space subcommittee badly botched elementary lunar facts while speaking during the gathering at Booker T. Washington High School in Houston.
“You’ve heard the word ‘full moon.’ Sometimes you need to take the opportunity just to come out and see a full moon is that complete rounded circle, which is made up mostly of gases,” Jackson Lee, 74, told teenage pupils who gathered on a sports field ahead of the rare celestial event.
I guess you missed my post yesterday. But her idiocy is week with a second look.
I’ve been writing about Samantha Power now for about 17 years. I wrote several biographical columns about her and her BFF, Robert Malley, recently fired as special envoy for Middle Eastern affairs.
She is a despicable, duplicitous Jew and Israel hating creep. The Deep State and the International Coalition of War-Mongers love Power as she writes books about the horror of genocide while it swirls around her.
She held the Ambassador to the UN position under Obama and now runs the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for Biden, treating it like her personal bank account to reward jihadis everywhere.
A Gaza-based nonprofit tied to the son of a Hamas leader received nearly $1 million in aid from the US government — with one grant arriving less than a week before the Oct. 7 terrorist strikes on Israel, according to a report.
Bayader for Environment and Development Association has secured $900,000 from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) over seven years.
The most recent grant, for $15,219, was paid out on Oct,.1, 2023, six days before the Hamas attacks on Israel which left 1,200 Israelis dead.
Bayader, which works to help children and rehabilitate polluted areas in Gaza, according to its website, is associated with Abdul Salam Haniyeh — a son of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who organized the terror attack on Israel, according to a report last week from Middle East Forum, a Philadelphia-based think tank.
I am now the liaison between my Catholic Daughter’s group and Father’s rosary apostolate center. I have my first meeting with them on Friday. I have no idea what’s going to be required of me, but it’s all for the Lord so it’s all good.
I’m seeing reports of storm damage in y’all’s area Katy specifically, did anyone get wind damage?
In the 20th century, the United States vied with the Soviet Union for space supremacy. Now, in the new century, America has a different rival — China — and a key battle is already brewing in the critical area of satellite navigation (satnav). Right now, the U.S. is falling behind.
While GPS was once the undisputed king of satnav (and a key instrument of American soft power), it now has a growing list of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) competitors – from China’s BeiDou to the European Union’s Galileo, Russia’s GLONASS and even India’s regional system, NavIC.
plus,
While China and the EU have been investing heavily in their GNSS systems, the U.S. military is only making modest improvements to GPS.
The U.S. is currently replacing 1990s-era GPS satellites with newer GPS 3 satellites. However, GPS 3 is not a trailblazing technology. Originally intended to launch in 2014, these satellites offer only moderate improvements to GPS 2, such as an upgraded accuracy of 1 to 3 meters.
NYC mayor Eric Adams and friends went berserk over this ad.
Rep. Beth Van Duyne, who represents the Irving, Texas area of North Texas, is running an ad in the New York Post. The full-page ad encourages New York City police to come to North Texas.
The headline reads, “Ladies and Gentlemen of Law Enforcement It’s Time to Escape New York and Move To Texas!.” There is a list of 15 North Texas law enforcement agencies where New York officers can apply.
I agree with Stephen Green about Tucker Carlson’s lame interviewing skills. As impressive as some of his monologues have been, he falls flat on the interview scale.
But his interview on Tuesday with Reverend Munther Isaac was so much worse than merely glib or incurious.
Carlson chose to interview Isaac to find out how the Jewish State of Israel treats Christians. Isaac is a priest who neither lives nor works in Israel and who uses the loaded phrase “Occupied Palestine” as his location on his Twitter/X profile. He is a Palestinian Christian from Palestinian-controlled Bethlehem, where Christian ministers serve at the mercy of the Palestinian Authority.
These things would have been nice to know before, during, or after the interview. Barring providing context, Carlson could have conducted a second interview with a Christian priest who actually does live and work in Israel. Or he could have spoken to them both at the same time in a discussion/debate format. Or maybe Carlson could have at least asked Isaac more pointed and revealing questions.
But he did none of these things. Why not?
Breitbart’s Joel Pollack wrote that Carlson “says he is concerned about Christians; I’ll accept that. But there’s no excuse for this.”
Boom and there it is. Only twenty though ???
An undercover video from Sound Investigations reveals former FBI employee and contracting CIA officer, Gavin O’Blennis claiming that there were at least 20 FBI agents in the J6 crowd. O’Blennis also revealed that the agency was behind the lawsuit brought by Sandy Hook families against Alex Jones. In the end, he said, the agency got what it wanted: to “take all his money.”
The new report from Sound Investigations is with O’Blennis was recorded on March 15, 22, and 28. O’Blennis told the undercover journalist that he had been an employee with the FBI and that he is a contracting officer for the CIA. His LinkedIn profile says he has been with DHS since December 2022.
I tried to watch the Tucker interview but couldn’t finish it.
Just getting to the blog, so forgive me if someone else already posted this:
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/argentina-demands-right-to-inspect-chinese-antenna-facility/
The more I read about this Millei guy, the head of Argentina, the more I like him.
Russia getting frisky, probably because with a meat puppet as president, there are no consequences. According to the C&C, Russia accuses Burisma of being behind terrorism and further strengthens its friendship and alliance with China.
Also, the mRNA ghouls are now pushing a “personalized cancer vaccine”. Well, they got away with it once already….
Speaking of mRNA, new studies regarding the “excess mortality” and “unexpected (turbo) cancers” among the young are not the only worry. There’s also premature aging to worry about:
I’m sure it was completely unrelated, but the New York Post also ran a cancer story yesterday, this one headlined “Cancer rates rising in young people due to ‘accelerated aging,’ according to ‘highly troubling’ new study.” Whoops.
/snip
But now, adding insult to young people’s many injuries, in addition to significant issues of cancer, young people are dealing with significant issues of aging, which is sort of an oxymoron, if you think about it. I mean, in one sense we are all dealing with ‘significant issues of aging,’ but that’s beside the point, since that’s not the sense they are talking about.
If there is one thing from which young people deserve to be free, it’s significant issues of aging. Those should be reserved for the elderly, who’ve already enjoyed their carefree salad years during which they get to believe they’ll never get old, not like all those relics clogging up the care homes. Young people get to believe science will sooner or later come up with a drug that stops aging, or at least slows it down.
/snip
Young people do not deserve this. They deserve to enjoy their youth and not worry about cancer and strokes and chronic disease. This is an indescribable tragedy of incalculable proportions. But the problem isn’t limited to young people. If an “environmental factor” is accelerating aging for young people under 55, that same “environmental factor” — whatever it is — is almost certainly accelerating aging in people over 55, too.
The “accelerated aging” label itself is deceptive. Remember, when they say “accelerating aging,” they really mean blood pollution. Young, old, we’re all in the same sinking mRNA boat.
/knock, knock/
“Who’s there?”
“We’re here from the government, and we’re here to help.”
They leave off the last words: “you die”.
Heads should roll. ™
I’ve been on and off the crutch patrol these last few weeks, and this morning had me using the walker. After about 10-15 minutes, though, things get better. I’m still on the NSAIDS, and that’s probably helping. I needed to exercise, so onto the treadmill while I felt pretty good, got in 1 3/4 miles before I decided to stop before I hurt myself. That was about 30 minutes, which was my goal this morning. So, hearing Bonecrusher’s voice in my head, I’m at the computer with a cold pack strapped on my back.
I did make a tour of my very damp garden this morning, kicked out about four more caterpillars. I guess I need to get the bT out and start spraying.
Speaking of spraying, I think my eggshell concoction is about ready, after two weeks of processing. Cook the shells, grind ’em down, extract the powder, mix the powder to vinegar 1:10 ratio, and then cover and let sit for two weeks, covered. This is supposed to convert the shell calcium into a form that can be used by my plants; eggshells actually take decades to break down. The mixture needs to be highly diluted because of the vinegar, and I can side dress or spray it onto my plants. So…that’s on my to-do list for later.
The unpowdered shell pieces are getting spread on top of the garden soil as a deterrent to slugs and other soft-bodied bugs.
Where would diatomaceous earth come into play?
Soil surface. One advantage of the small, almost powder shell pieces have over DE is that they won’t cake together or dissolve into the soil. I don’t know if DE provides usable calcium or not. The vinegar solution is supposed to provide calcium acetate, not calcium carbonate (eggshell content), IIRC.
Is it affordable and effective?
Eggshells come with my eggs. DE is a common garden product, I think it’s affordable. BTW – it’s also used as a flea control inside the house. An old baby sitter used to sift it into her wooden floors (she also used salt), getting it into the cracks and the crevices among the baseboards. Let it sit there for a while, then gently swept up the excess.
The internal Democrap memo on abortion initiatives in the upcoming election cycle. h/t CFP
I find the term “reproductive rights” to be totally cringeworthy. There’s no “reproduction” involved, since the reproductive process is interrupted.
It’s ‘murder rights’.
The Ds have to feed their god molech.
I was following this local Houston story with some confusion because the reporting was so poorly presented.
Finally, the New York Post picked it up and explained the situation.
It’s crazy! A local thug gets shot and killed by a bystander who witnesses him robbing a gas station customer at the gas pump.
But it turns out to be a Fake Robbery! What is a fake robbery, you ask?
Well, the U.S. Government has a special visa program for illegal immigrants who are victims of certain crimes and who also suffer mental stress from the crime.
So, these so-called victims stage a crime and apply for a special U-Nonimmigrant visa.
Here is the NYPost story:
Here is the government explanation of the special visa:
https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/victims-of-criminal-activity-u-nonimmigrant-status
Note: I saw last night that the convenience store worker was in on the scam and has also been arrested.
After reading Texpat’s commentary and not even bothering to follow the links, I think that I can conclude that our entire government is more screwed up than a football bat.
These illegal aliens are mostly not stupid. Even if they are, the NGOs like the Catholic Charities, Lutherans, Baptists and Red Cross will teach them how to game the system.
I’m watching Michael Knowles, and he’s reporting Bukele (El Salvador) is offering 5,000 free passports, 0% taxes and tariffs on moving business assets into the country – to businessmen, scientists, doctors, artists, and philosophers. The kind of people that will positively impact their society, but in such a small number that they can afford to allow them in for free and help them set up shop. In numbers that won’t dilute their culture.
Smart. Smart, smart, smart. Focus on the national interest and advance the common good of the host country. Unlike our open gate policy.
OMG strikes again:
BREAKING, INSIDE THE FEDERAL RESERVE: Hidden Camera captures Principal Economist @federalreserve
talking about Jerome Powell’s legacy as “somebody who held the line against like, Trump.” The influential agency responsible for maintaining a stable monetary system appears to not just be establishing interest rates, but to be setting policies for desired social outcomes.
https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1778157381907513802
Great stuff. The Jerome Powell/Janet Yellen team is hellbent on destroying everything. Not that they intend to, it’s just that they’re that ignorant, self-absorbed and stupid.
Shejack is claiming that Republicans are “lusting after stupid” because of course! she merely misspoke on her incoherent scientific explanation. That she really meant to say “sun” instead of “moon”.
Still ridiculously, guffaw-inducing, wrong. And there’s more than just the viral clip. Her stupidity was paraded for about five whole minutes. You’ve gotta see Matt Walsh dissect her statements, hope this link works:
https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1344-member-of-the-party-of-science-doesn-t-know-what-the-moon-is
When you read this at Post Millennial, there is no other conclusion than to throw out every goddamned member of Congress and try, for once, to get decent people in that rathole.
Former President Donald Trump has urged for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to be killed, coming as legislation to reauthorize the controversial act that allows for the warrantless spying on Americans is moving to the House floor for a final vote this week, including a carve-out in the bill for members of Congress.
and,
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who posted the relevant section on X, wrote, “Congress gives itself a carve out in the reauthorization of FISA 702 warrantless spying on Americans. The bill requires the FBI to notify and seek consent from Congress before violating the privacy of Congressmen.”
There is no “carve out” for the American people. These jackasses are beyond all belief. Fire every single one of them.
I agree, wholeheartedly. Interestingly enough, fire has many connotations, and a lot of those look good too.
The lovely BSue is home with me. She has officially joined MHarper and Ms Adee in the bionic knee(s) club. She is doing as well as can be expected. Thas all the news I got.
Her Highness has been a lot less bitchy in a better mood since she got her hip joint replaced.
Careful there! 😀
I really hope Bsue has an easy recuperation. Everybody I have ever talked to after knee replacement seemed to fall into two categories of recovery…really easy and quick or miserable and long.
Texpat I have heard that too. We shall see won’t we.
Please read to BSue.
Do the therapy. Let the pain be the referee. Do the therapy.
It takes about 8 weeks for a bone to heal in a healthy, sub-30 year old person in the USA; add time from there. 9 – 18 months for the neurology to finally calm down.
Do the therapy.
Prayers up.
Please get well so you can keep the Squawkster in line.
Squawk,
Great for her to be back home and learning how to best navigate throughout the house. Lots of rest time is needed at first in between moving around times with the walker. It takes a while to learn how to best command the walker, slowly while doing that.
The physical therapist will be a really big help at this stage.
As for you, Squawk, you will be busy helping her while she regains her strength. It comes slowly at first, so not to be discouraged. 🙂
Thanks Ms Adee, you dear lady are a font of wisdom and encouragement.
Welcome home, sweet BSue.
Praying for smooth recovery BSue!
Does the Squawkster have good running shoes? Because he’ll be running for two for a while. Here’s hoping that BSue has a swift, complete, and relatively painless recovery.
Good to hear that Bsue is home recovering. I hope the rehab goes good, from what I understand if you do it right it’s not too but but if not it takes forever to get back on your feet.
Still raining here but it’s just about over. We managed 2.49″ as of right now with the last half inch coming in about 3 hours, slow and steady a good rain. It was breezy before the rain but when it started the wind just died and hasn’t been back. Odd!
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