Riley Gaines, Defender of girls’ and women’s athletics in America
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Riley’s Friday Open Comments
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Good morning, Hamsters.
A bit chilly in the house this morning.
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Why are you up so early, didja get a puppy or something?
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At this age, you never know when you’re going to wake up.
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The Times reports that Austin County had a 70.33% turnout of registered voters in the recent election, even though there was only one contested local election.
President-Elect Trump garnered 80.8% of the vote in his race. And Sen. Ted Cruz captured 78.4% in his race.
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That is dang good!
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Riley Gaines, I approve. Well @ 55 degrees it’s a bit chilly here on the farm but it’ll hit the low 70’s by noon. We’re packing up to head up to Oxford Alabama and stay in a cabin for the weekend. Wife has tickets for a Clay Walker concert so I may go for the first time since the Rodeo days.
Life is Good.
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I am starting to get a bit giddy at the thought of Matt Gaetz as AG. As bad as Grandma Garland was with his dirty, illegal, BS I think that Gaetz will be more extreme on the other end of the spectrum and fully within the letter of the law. I expect much wailing, moaning, and gnashing of teeth. I wish I could get a recording of said vocalizations to use as happy music for the holidays:>)
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I posted this yesterday and forgot to embed a link. I am reposting it with a link because I think it is important people know exactly who Gaetz is. It’s a surprising profile of Matt Gaetz by the leftist writer, Lee Fang. The headline for the article is…
Gaetz may be known as a bombastic MAGA supporter in the eyes of the media. He livestreams, he podcasts, he trades barbs with political enemies with acidic bluster.
But for those who have closely followed his legislative career, the Florida lawmaker represents a sharp break from the corporate-friendly orthodoxy of the modern Republican Party.
Indeed, Gaetz’s elevation will provide sprawling prosecutorial powers for continuing his push against special interest influence and corporate malfeasance.
His record speaks for itself. From his perch on the House Judiciary Committee, Gaetz has promoted a surprisingly consumer-friendly agenda, routinely breaking with his GOP colleagues on crucial votes. He previously supported legislative measures to break up Silicon Valley monopolies, sharply regulate the online data broker industry, ban noncompete employment contracts, and an end to the practice of forced arbitration, among other corporate accountability votes. He has also taken maverick positions on reducing FBI surveillance powers, cutting certain arms supplies to Saudi Arabia and legalizing marijuana.
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Someone may have posted this, but I did not see it. Tim “Sarah” McBride was elected into the US House from Delaware, the first so called transgender to congress. I saw the question raised, how will GOP leadership address the bathroom issue? Not want to get bogged down and acquiesce, or stand to make a point? I say put put an outhouse on the front steps for it.
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Oh no!
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LOL!
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$120 less $66 discount equals $54. Such a deal.
The boots I’ve always bought at Red Wing are now so expensive I took a chance on these. I have never ordered any kind of footwear online unless it’s a repeat of something I purchased in person like Sperry topsider boat shoes. I finally gambled and ordered a pair of casual or work boots the other day from Land’s End.
They arrived and I like them. I have a high instep and narrow heel so use a cushioned arch support in everything I wear. They are slightly wide which works for most guys and I use a crew sock also.
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I’ve been agonizing over having to replace my Red Wings at today’s prices.
So, I just ordered a pair of these.
Thanks for the tip.
I just wish shoe and boot makers would get over this love affair with white soles.-
White soles look fine on athletic shoes – everything else not. I checked on the Red Wing factory restoration price and it is now $150 to re-sole and restore a pair of boots.
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I’ve had two different pairs of Red Wing Boots refurbished by the company at about $150 a pop, free shipping both ways (they sent a box). Very happy with the results. Oh and these boots are in the $300 bucks range now.
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Fifty year wedding anniversaries are for our old great grandmas and grandpas right? Tomorrow we go to a big fiftieth for my wife’s cousin, who she grew up and went to school with! Make it stop!
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Bragging on Land’s End. I’ve tried a dozen different brands of t-shirts, both short and long sleeved. I was disappointed in all of them because of fit and shrinkage. I finally went into a Land’s End store this summer and bought 1 shirt and tried it out. Anyway, I ended up buying a couple of short sleeve and 5 long sleeve t-shirts from them and I am very pleased. If you are tall and long-waisted like I am you should order the “tall” version of your size.
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I bought a water-resistant parka from them last month, deeply discounted. Insulated, it will be a bit warm for me, but on those cold, wet, nasty-howling-wind days, it’ll be a real nice alternative to my ancient Carhartt jacket.
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Lands’ End has been a very fine Wisconsin company for decades that never fails to please customers with their products. We have numerous items that have been with us for several decades and are still in good condition. Winter wear is especially good up there and down here for those rare nasty winter days thanks to the Canadians leaving the door open…. 🙂
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Shelley Luther, Dallas salon owner who defied COVID-19 shutdown order, wins election.
I suppose this was expected but great news.
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/politics/elections/shelley-luther-texas-election-house-covid-shutdown-salon-owner/287-fdd8c0a7-0f3a-4cec-868e-a03f27bc172d -
This sort of thing needs to happen much more frequently.
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I absolutely love that!
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Too good.
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Just my first instinct, but seems Matt Gaetz would be right up libertarian’s alley? Is Reason not still a libertarian leaning publication? This guy quotes Cornyn, Murkowski and Collin’s as reasons to oppose him as AG. I’m confused.
https://reason.com/2024/11/14/matt-gaetzs-personality-irked-his-gop-colleagues-there-are-better-reasons-to-oppose-his-nomination/?comments=true#comments-
The author is a progressive leftist who pretty much hates Republicans, but likes Gaetz’s position a number of issues, including pot legalization. The thing is many or most Republicans like those same issues and Fang falls into stereotyping the Right like almost everyone else in his camp.
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I’m not a subscriber so I don’t think I see all of Fang’s article. This guy Sullum at Reason just confused me. I get there are reasons to be wary of Gaetz as AG, but most of those concerns tend to be the more traditional high brow, usually, Reason would normally champion opposition to that.
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Bull loose on Joseph Rd near Robin Hood.
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Apparently it is a season for deer and bulls to search for mates. A young buck visited our pastures last week, antlers just starting to grow, and seemed to be tracking an adult doe in a neighbor’s pasture. She was not interested and kicked at him…. He got the message.
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About clothes, I get most of my pants N shirts from Duluth but I Often purchase from Lands End both are high quality but Lands End is a little fancier.
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Duluth makes nice work clothes, but they’re pretty pricey. I never could find a pair of their pants to fit me correctly.
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Remember when Elon bought Twitter and all the geniuses said it would go broke because all the advertisers would leave.
X’s former top advertisers including Comcast, IBM, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Lionsgate Entertainment, have resumed ad spending on the platform this year, albeit at much lower rates than before.
From January to September 2024, marketing intelligence platform MediaRadar found that these brands collectively spent less than $3.3 million on X. This is a 98% year-over-year drop from the $170 million spent during the same period in 2023.
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Twitter has also shed around 80% of its workforce. Does X now make a profit?
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ALABAMA: Leland Whaley doesn’t think much of Senator Katie Britt. Whaley has the largest talk radio audience in Alabama.
I’ve never been impressed by U.S. Senator Katie Britt. It’s not personal. We’ve never met. I did meet her mama at an event where I was a speaker. I found Mrs. Boyd to be a lovely and kind woman. People who know her personally will speak highly of her drive and ambition. Even my wife Jessica, who was briefly a candidate against Senator Britt, speaks highly of her and some of her initiatives. Yet, I remain unconvinced that Britt is anything other than a creature of an insidious, money-driven and deeply corrupt pay-to-play political system.
She was mostly known to political insiders in Montgomery and Washington, D.C. when her former boss, Senator Richard Shelby, hand-picked her to replace him in the Senate. What followed was, by some estimates, $22.5 million of D.C. PAC money. It came from the Shelby-McConnell money machine and a handful of individuals. She and her associated PACs used that money to assassinate the character of a military hero in Mike Durant. Likewise, they flung some very expensive poo at the head of rock-solid conservative and erstwhile former Congressman Mo Brooks. They used that same establishment money to market Britt as a young, fresh face. Hey, Republicans can play identity politics, too. The old boys raised their money and purchased a Senate seat for a woman they groomed to play on the men’s team.
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I agree. I E-Mailed her this morning expressing my displeasure that the Spineless, Liberal John Thune was elected to be Senate Leader. This was the third E-Mail I’ve sent to her this week with NO response!
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I find it pretty strange Britt has never been on Whaley’s show even if she knows he’s not a supporter. The fact he has the largest radio audience in the state would seem to demand it. It takes guts to go into enemy territory.
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GJT: my opinion of Reason.com
I check Reason all the time because they regularly print informative, investigative articles not found elsewhere. I think editors-at-large Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch are arrogant jackasses who will only quit bitchin’ when we legalize all drugs, have totally open borders and make the age of consent 14 years old to expand their, uh…intern program.
I do like Jacob Sullum even if I disagree with him much of the time. He has defended conservatives in the past when no one else did and seems to be more of a gentleman than Welch or Gillespie.
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Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch are arrogant jackasses who will only quit bitchin’ when we legalize all drugs
Nawwwww they will find something else
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My 10 month old granddaughter just crawled from the far end of the house to my desk chair in the study to see what I am doing. Money cannot buy it.
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The beginning of independence…. 🙂
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Amen!
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True dat!
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As mentioned by GJT, Jacob Sullum has posted an opinion column explaining why he opposes Matt Gaetz for AG. It is worth reading and while you may not agree with everything, Sullum does make some good, valid points.
Going down the list of attorneys general before Barr, you will see people with extensive legal experience, including former prosecutors, Justice Department officials, judges, and state attorneys general. Gaetz, by contrast, is a 42-year-old graduate of William & Mary Law School who briefly worked for a law firm in Fort Walton Beach before entering state politics in 2010, two years after he was admitted to the Florida bar. He served in Florida’s legislature for six years before he was elected to represent the state’s 1st Congressional District in 2016.
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To be sure, politicians can be “reviled” for good or bad reasons. A legislator who shakes things up by standing on principle and resisting business as usual in Congress, which is how Gaetz is apt to portray himself, is bound to antagonize the establishment. But in Gaetz’s case, the main source of intraparty hostility is the perception that he is a lightweight showboat who is desperate for attention, fond of political stunts, inclined toward intemperate rhetoric, vindictive, and eager to start fires just to see stuff burn.
It’s undeniable Gaetz has a mean streak as demonstrated by this episode in which his sole objective is to humiliate a fellow Republican state legislative member.
As a state representative in 2015, Gaetz opposed a “revenge porn” bill that made it a first-degree misdemeanor to post sexually explicit photos on a website without the subject’s consent. Understandably, the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Tom Goodson (R–Titusville), was not happy about that. But there was an additional element to their dispute.
“There is personal animosity between Goodson, a 64-year-old road contractor with a drawl who sometimes becomes tongue-tied during debates, and Gaetz, a 33-year-old lawyer with a sharp wit but an often-condescending manner,” Florida Trend reported. “During a session on the House floor last year, Gaetz peppered Goodson with questions about an arcane piece of legislation dealing with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission. The interrogation appeared to be an attempt to make Goodson appear unprepared or foolish.” During that exchange, a microphone caught Goodson calling Gaetz an “asshole.”
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So darn nice out. Feel like a frisky calf jumping around with the first norther.
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Another thing about Twitter aka X. Back when Jack Dorsey ran the place, it had plenty of Jew haters, Israel haters, unspecified haters, nuts, imbeciles and lunatics. Nobody on the Left mentioned or complained about them. I won’t even mention the rampant porn on Twitter.
Everyone on the Right, though, was a target for censorship.
The minute Elon Musk bought the company, all those purified left wingers suddenly discovered all these bad people. Shazam, look at all these evil anti-semites and potential terrorists ! Elon Musk is the most evil of all !
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Dang, Tommy Tuberville has a very large set of ears. In other news, Tommy isn’t interested in winning friends in the US Senate.
U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) is sending a stark warning to Republican senators who vote against former U.S. Sen. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) as the potential next U.S. Attorney General after being selected by President-elect Donald Trump.
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“I don’t know,” Tuberville said. “You’re finding all the swamp creatures coming out right now. Everybody’s got an opinion up here, but at the end of the day, President Trump was elected by an enormous vote, and he deserves a team around him that he wants. It’s not us to determine that.”
“We’ve got 53 votes in the Senate. We can confirm with 51. I’ve already seen where a couple of them say, ‘I’m not voting for him.’ Wait a minute. You are not the United States of America. You have one vote in the U.S. Senate. You did not get elected president. Vote with President Trump. This is the last chance we’re going to have of saving this country. And if you want to get in the way, fine. But we’re going to try to get you out of the Senate, too, if you try to do that,” he added.
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On the Road Again,…..Later, Gang 😉
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So you think Florida is the craziest ? Think again.
SACRAMENTO, California — Four Californians allegedly used a bear costume to damage their luxury vehicles and claim insurance payouts, California officials announced Wednesday.
State Insurance Department officials said they had investigated claims that a bear clawed its way into a 2010 Rolls Royce Ghost, a 2015 Mercedes G63 AMG and a 2022 Mercedes E350 on Jan. 28 in the forested resort town of Lake Arrowhead, causing interior damage. The suspects’ insurance company, which officials did not name, sought an investigation after reviewing the attached grainy black-and-white video footage.
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Ben Domenech has strong opinion on Matt Gaetz.
“I realize that we are occasionally given to hyperbole about the untoward nature of politicians, but let me be clear: Matt Gaetz is a sex trafficking drug addicted piece of sh(t. He is abhorrent. His eyes are permanently rimmed with the red rings of chemical boosters. In person, he smells like overexposed Axe Body Spray and stale Astroglide. The fact that he boasted on the floor to multiple colleagues in the House of Representatives of his methods of crushing Viagra and high test Red Bull to maintain his erection through his orgiastic evenings is perhaps the least offensive of his many crimes against womanhood and Christian faith. The man has less principles than your average fentanyl addicted hobo. He likes them underage and he’s not ashamed about it. Matt Gaetz isn’t just your average extreme Florida MAGA Man, he’s a hypocritical ass with the worst Botox money can buy, pursuing an ever-thinner nose and higher cheekbones at every opportunity like a Real Housewife gone mad for fillers. Every Republican in Washington has an opinion about Matt Gaetz, and 99 percent of those opinions are “Keep Matt Gaetz away from my wife/daughter/friend and anyone I care about.” He is a walking genital, warts included as a bonus. If I was merely attempting to count the number of women I know who have had bad experiences with Matt Gaetz, I would run out of fingers and toes. If you vote for him to be the Attorney General of the United States, you don’t just need your head examined, you need to be committed to a mental institution. The man is absolutely vile. There are pools of vomit with more to offer the earth than this STD-riddled testament to the failure of fallen masculinity.
Let’s just deal with the facts. Did Matt Gaetz transport an underage woman across state lines with the stated intent of her having sex with him and his friends? Yes. Did he later claim to Tucker Carlson that this woman did not exist? Yes. Does this conflict with the fact that one of his closest friends was convicted of having sex with this underage woman for pay? Yes. Are Gaetz and his orgy friends attempting to destroy the records — images, videos, etc. — from this sex party to protect his political future? Yes. Does this matter to Republicans? Who can say? Donald J. Trump has the best judgment in politics, of course he would never name a sex trafficking drug addled lying philandering piece of shi(t to be the Attorney General of the United States simply to avoid investigation. Or would he?”- from Ben’s newsletter/Substack
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Wow !
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I don’t think Ben like Matt very much. Maybe he’s jealous . . . .methinks he doth protest to much.
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I must be feeling better. I was able to eat last night, with the stent in place. Not comfortable, but bearable. Slept with the dang thing on.
Took it off this morning and started my day. Was able to drink my lukewarm coffee (can’t have it really hot until the stitches are out) without the stent. Since I was able to eat last night, I guess it gave me more energy today. After I completed my rosary time, I let myself have about ten minutes of target practice with my new slingshot. I need to practice, but at least I figured out how best to hold the ammo in the sling, so progress there. I really enjoyed it – being outside, grounding in my bare feet, and trying to accomplish something new. Yay me!
Then I came inside and felt a white tornado mood coming on (how many of our children and grandchildren will even know what that means?). I had a big pile of stuff by my back door that has been really irritating me every time I walked by it. Today was the day- over half of the items are gone, either trashed, in the back of my car to donate at the thrift shop, or put back in their rightful places. That cleared some floor, so those rugs are being washed and the bare floor now damp mopped and cleaner. Hubby’s laundry is hanging to dry and those dirty rugs will be done soon, ready for drying. I did some other picking up/decluttering around the house and now our trash can is full, and will be picked up some time today.
Next up was getting something to eat – and that task I dreaded worse than anything else I’ve done this morning. Today is a no-meat day for me, and since that “mayo” recipe that I pulled from over yonder did not turn out nearly the way the video showed it, I’m using it as egg salad on top of my chaffles (one egg + 1/4 c. shred cheese + seasongs, cooked in a mini waffle iron). This makes a relatively soft food, and I’m eating it without the stent, but it is definitely uncomfortable. I may put that stent back on – and it’s not that comfortable, either – to give that healing space on my palate a break.
So, now , with the windows open, I’m ready to join my friends.
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Today, the C&C focuses on RFK and his nomination:
Good morning, C&C, it’s Friday! And today’s Coffee & Covid is a special edition about the most exciting development since Trump’s re-election: the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to the post of Secretary of Health and Human Services. You’ve already seen the news, let’s mute all the noise and the hot takes and dig deep into what this miraculous development really means for America. You won’t be disappointed.
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This was delightful to read. I do love how he turns a phrase!
We had no right to receive such a blessing, especially after President Trump’s definitive victory. But it’s actually happened, and we are profoundly grateful. Also amusing is watching the Establishment freak out worse than a mask zealot at a country music festival. But however hard they are currently freaking out, they haven’t even scratched the surface. Just wait till they figure out what Kennedy’s confirmation would really mean.
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While DC was distracted, distressedly leaping around frantically trying to get the Gaetz-grenade out of its back pocket, the news of Kennedy’s nomination for Secretary of HHS fell out of the Mar-a-Lago-colored sky like an entire crate of Acme Gaetz-grenades and squashed CDC headquarters.
A few second later, a little cloud of black smoke exploded out from under the Kennedy-crate, along with a blackened arm holding a little sign that said, “boom.”
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In 2018, the Republican Jewish Coalition and the Anti-Defamation League both criticized Gaetz, then in his first term, for inviting a Holocaust denier as his guest at the State of the Union address. The guest, Charles Johnson, had publicly doubted that 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust and suggested falsely that only 250,000 had died of illness.
“This organization is deeply troubled by the comments from Charles C. Johnson, and it is incredibly important for the congressman to acknowledge he is a Holocaust denier and has extensive writings that attest to that and that it was wrong to bring him to the State of the Union,” RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks told BuzzFeed at the time.
And this is an indefensible lie by Matt Gaetz:
Gaetz denied that Johnson was a Holocaust denier. He told BuzzFeed that Johnson “is not a Holocaust denier and he’s not an anti-Semite. He’s a provoker, I should’ve vetted him better before inviting him to the State of the Union, I regret that I didn’t. That’s my fault. I take responsibility for it. But he is not a Holocaust denier.”
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Sounds like another task for the DOGE – reduce the HHS umbrella. I think RFK would cooperate:
Progressives don’t want to debate vaccine safety and efficacy. They don’t want to question it. It must not even be discussed. But … how can they avoid the debate if RFK takes charge of HHS, which in turn oversees the CDC, FDA, NIH, and so many other sub-agencies that nobody is really sure how many there are, and I am not making that up.
Literally. Nobody knows. Even ChatGPT agreed:
How many slush fund dollars are funneled through those bureaucratic capillaries? They can’t even count how many functionaries are in the HHS? I don’t know whether to be dumbfounded, disgusted, or blood boiling angry.
Including, but not limited to, military bioweapons engineering under the sinister rubric of gain-of-function research for predictive vaccine development. Just saying.
It is literally impossible for Congress to oversee the byzantine labyrinth of agencies, grants, foreign and domestic cooperative initiatives, and NGOs that all feed off HHS’s trillion-dollar annual budget. But there might be one man who could make a dent. That man is Robert Kennedy, who has spent decades digging through HHS’s trash and knows, maybe better than anybody, “where the bodies are buried.”
I hope that RFK has good personal security in place. I’m sure there’s a literal target on his back.
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But the prospect of Kennedy digging around in the CDC skunkworks is not even the Establishment’s biggest anxiety. Over time, sneakily, gradually, bit-by-bit, the nation’s health laws have handed over vast swathes of power to one unelected official: the Secretary of HHS.
Remember the power that the SecHHS had during the plandemic?
Imagine that huge Thor’s Hammer in the control of one who would wield it responsibly….and THAT is why the Dems and their minions are quaking in their boots. For starters:
… Kennedy could also, in his new declaration, order the PREP office to start recognizing automatically a whole slew of injuries related to covid countermeasures, and he could even direct the office to stop rejecting untimely claims. That single declaration could blow the lid off the whole covid scam and immediately aid millions.
To be crystal clear: the HHS Secretary has been given so much power that Kennedy, if confirmed, won’t need Congress.
Dang, I wish I was able to eat popcorn. Maybe I can make myself some cheese chips instead.
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And then Mr. C. ponders – is Matt Gaetz a foil to soften the blow of the RFK appointment? Kinda like the teenager telling Mom that she’s dating the head of the local biker gang, is dropping out of school, and is pregnant. When Mom wakes up from her faint, the daughter says it’s not true but her report card is less than stellar.
Gaetz is the pregnancy from the biker, and RFK is the report card:
Here’s the point: Is Matt Gaetz the 2024 version of Harriet Miers? Is he just a provocative political sacrifice, to ease confirmation of the real target, RFK?
The Senate cannot politically afford to refuse many of Trump’s picks. RINOs must pick their battles wisely. I don’t claim to enjoy even a shadowy fraction of the political genius that re-elected President Trump against all odds in a modern-era landslide.
But from up here in the cheap seats, Matt’s questionable nomination appears to be brilliant, and offers hope for RFK’s confirmation. At minimum, it might give the Senate cover; by refusing to confirm Gaetz, the Senate shows backbone, shows it’s not just a rubber stamp but a separate-and-equal branch, thereby saving face while confirming Trump’s other nominations.
Still, don’t count Matt out. Yesterday, Politico ran a surprising story headlined, “Why Matt Gaetz Might Actually Become Attorney General.” The story makes the affirmative case for the unlikely, combative Florida Congressman. In short, Politico explained Matt Gaetz is scrappy and principled, doesn’t care what people think, and he has a proven record as a long-shot winner, just like President Trump. Read the whole thing.
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I cannot stand bleach blondes.
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I’m not fond of them either. You had better stay out of New Jersey though. There are way too many Italian and Jewish brunettes running around this state with bad fake blond hair.
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And Mr. C. nails it with this reminder – the left waaaaay overreached during the plandemic, and this whole Trump movement is the rubber band reaction:
Corporate media’s talking heads can analyze the data all they want. But there is a simple explanation for why Trump was elected. He was elected because America is pissed off. It’s no more complicated than that. Corporate media keeps crying about how President Trump wants revenge. They’re missing the real story, maybe intentionally.
It’s not that President Trump wants revenge. A furious America wants revenge.
We don’t have pitchforks and pine torches, we have votes. And Trump. And his friends.
Nothing about this is new. Nothing about this was unpredictable. As has been true since the dawn of time, revenge’s terrifying aspect is Nemesis. Nemesis is now taking its form, the form of Trump appointing to the top of executive federal agencies people who hate those agencies the most.
Dear CDC and FDA: prepare to drain the bitter cup filled with the tainted wine of your arrogance and hubris.
It’s not just Gaetz and Kennedy freaking out the Establishment. It’s the whole slate…
The Ancient Greeks believed that Nemesis was the goddess of retribution and vengeance. Nemesis hates hubris, or excessive pride. Nemesis balances the cosmic scales of justice by suddenly and unexpectedly appearing to punish mortals and gods alike just when they think they have won the day.
Drink of the cup you brewed. Lie in the bed you made.
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In theaters next week, from Angel Studios,
Bonhoeffer: Pastor.Spy.Assassin.
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I’ve seen those trailers, and am very excited about seeing it. I missed “Cabrini,” so I guess I need to go to Angel Studios and see about getting it there.
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I noticed this and several podcasters did, too:
Biden meeting Trump seemed to be genuinely happy during their meeting.
Yeah, he voted for Trump. The last turn of the knife.
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Domenech’s Transom newsletter on Gaetz gets national exposure via the New York Post. The Trump transition team must be worried how this will play out. Remember that Bill Clinton had to go through 3 or 4 Attorney General nominees before he could get someone confirmed.
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I just enjoy watching this hospice nurse over yonder. She’s written this book about her experiences with her patients – how they gave her comfort, what she learned from them, and how her beliefs were changed with their experiences.
She is so young, so cute, and as she works with her patients, so wise. It takes a special person to do what she does, and she loves her job.
She has started a non-profit hospice house, for patients and their caregivers. She wants to create a place where death is not feared, even to the point of having something like a ‘living funeral’ where the eulogies can be shared over a nice dinner while the living can share their loving stories with the patient while they are still alive.
Here’s her book, in case you are interested in supporting her:
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Went into town to get a haircut, the AM radio does not work in my runaround car, and it is way too old for Bluetooth stuff so I’m stuck with NPR for my political fix. Oh my goodness, so very serious, sooo very concerned with these appointments and agenda coming. It is delicious.
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My memory is a little fuzzy on this, kinda like the dizzy Crawford dunce’s fuzzy math, but did we ever find out who the house members were that used 17 million taxpayer dollars to settle sexual harassment charges over the past 15 years or longer?
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I can just picture the Jersey Boss Man sitting in front of a blackboard, munching on a saltine, with a giant water heater drawn on it while cutting his deal with the couple in Jersey.
we got his side of the story but I think it went more like this…
you’all know me
Know how I earn a livin’
I’ll install that water heater fer ya
But it ain’t gonna be easy
tough install.It’s not like going down to the Lowe”s
And buying lawn sprinklers and hose clampsThis water heater
It’ll scald you whole
A little knee stoopin,
a little back-wrenching’
Down the stairway you gobut we gotta do it quick
Bring your hot water back on a daily basisand it’s not gonna be pleasant
I value my back for more than 675 bucks, chief
I’ll find you one for 6,
But I’ll haul it and install it for 3-thousandSo you gotta make up your minds.
You gonna stay alive and ante up?
or you gonna play it cheap and take cold showers all winter?Now I don’t want no volunteers and I don’t want no mates
Too many hosers around this neighborhood3 thousand bucks for me by myself
For that you get the pipes,
the fittings,
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Thanks, I always wanted to be famous. LOL.
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Stop it. You know I can’t get up off the floor anymore.
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You can’t say Jews don’t vote conservative anymore. It’s not just Orthodox neighborhoods either. Forget unreliable exit polls. This is an analysis by precincts. I just heard the CEO of Trafalgar polling and he said the Jewish vote was stronger for Trump than anyone realizes.
Trump won the largest Jewish county in the country, the only entirely Jewish town and village, and some of the densest, fastest growing and most Jewish neighborhoods in America.
Borough Park, Brooklyn is the densest Jewish neighborhood in the country. Its two square miles contain nearly 100,000 Jewish people in 23,000 households. 83% are married and only 2% are divorced. 96% are members of synagogues. This was where large crowds protested pandemic lockdowns, tearing down playground fences and burning masks.
Trump won over 90% of the vote in most Borough Park districts. On 14th Avenue and Rabbi Weissmandl Way, Trump won 96% of the vote in one very Jewish district.
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Trump won the Pico Robertson community. He also won the adjoining communities of Beverly Hills and the Orthodox Jewish community in the Fairfax area near the Holocaust museum, and which had suffered a BLM pogrom that vandalized synagogues and businesses in 2020. Down in the valley, he also won Valley Village as well as some Jewish areas in Encino and Tarzana.
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I’m in love with Natalie Winters.
shes hosting Bannon’s war room show and did so for the 4 months the satanic deep state put him in prison.not only is she very pretty she has a great mind.
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Natalie is a very bright cute girl, but she is way too young for you.
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But Mick Jagger:)
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No excuse. He’s an old pervert.
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Lol
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No 20th or 21st Century politics tomorrow. I’m weary of it and we need a break.
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GJT
Re: Haircut
I haven’t had a haircut in a long, long time. Old widowers can get away with doing crazy stuff like letting their hair grow out just for fun.
It’s too high-maintenance. I cannot afford the glue to keep it under control. Too many curls from Mom and Dad. A real PITB.
So, come Wednesday, it’s all all coming off.I just can’t pull off the look that I hoped for.
🙂 🙂 🙂
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For at least 40 years…I get out of shower, run a comb thru it, and never give it another thought for the rest of the day.
I want that back!!!!
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The terrifying scarecrow that I saw in the mirror the other morning was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
TT knows what I’m talking about. 🙂
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I’ve got the silver hair going on and have thought about growing it long (again), but then it starts to tickle the back of my ears driving me crazy so I get it cut. I don’t do the close sides like my brother and sons do but I like it above my ears.
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My hair didn’t go snow white like my brother’s did 10 years ago. However, when I go into a place like Lowes or Home Depot and reach to pick up something mildly heavy and one or two younger guys run up and say, “That’s okay, let me give you a hand”, you know you look older than you think.
It happened to me twice in the last week.
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Same for me! I do struggle to get around with my RA, but in my mind I’m doing ok. Doing something I feel I’m having no trouble with someone will jump in to assist. Better than the opposite though, “Hey! Can I get a hand here!”
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Yep.
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It’s getting really difficult to refuse the offer of help to get my groceries to the van from these really precious brown eyed cuties at HEB.
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I’ve looked at guys like this in magazines and on the internet for decades thinking my hair could look that cool. Then I finally realized these men are models with hair and makeup people standing around to put everything in place at a moment’s notice. What do you think they really look the rest of the week or month without a crew to make them look suave ? Maybe like Steve Bannon with that giant squirrels’ nest on his head.
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If I knew this, I do not remember. Michael Berry went off on a side track and mentioned Outlaw Josey Wales was based on a real man. The true story is almost as interesting as the movie.
After dissolution of his political dreams, Asa Earl Carter receded into the background, changed his name after a famous Confederate General, moved to Texas, and under an alias, posed as the Cherokee writer, Forrest Carter. In 1972, he wrote “The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales.” Carter sent the book to Clint Eastwood’s office as an unsolicited submission. Eastwood’s partner read it and suggested buying the rights…
https://www.notesfromthefrontier.com/post/the-real-josey-wales
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Great stories. I love historical back pages like this. It would fit in with tomorrow’s headline feature.
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Sorry I missed it.
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Do read the story at the link.
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Berry didn’t go off on it, his mention just triggered me to look it up.
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I have been exposed to Karoline Leavitt on Fox News since Her Highness decided to keep the TV on in the kitchen area all day long after October 7, 2023. For a long time it was back and forth between Fox and I-24 in Israel.
Anyhow, I have been very impressed with Ms. Leavitt after seeing her interviewed for the last year as Trump’s campaign press secretary. She is extremely smart and a fearless extemporaneous speaker. Karoline will make an exceptional press secretary in the White House in spite of the fact anyone, including Gomer Pyle, would look good following Karine Jean-Pierre.
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Sounds like Mike Tyson is making a comeback at age 58, I knew George Foreman was pretty old in his last fight so I had to look it up. Fireman was 45. Neither had/has silver/white hair.
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Correction, looks like Foreman was 48 his last fight.
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A gay man’s NDE story and how he learned from Jesus how his lifestyle, and his promotion of the gay lifestyle, separated him from his Lord.
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If Tyson has the gas in his tank I think he will whip Jake Paul like a red headed stepchild. Old age and treachery always overcomes youth and skill every time.
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It says so on the button
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It’s getting really difficult to refuse the offer of help to get my groceries to the van from these really precious brown eyed cuties at HEB.
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You just don’t want them to see you drive a van. 😀 😀
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That’s pretty damn funny, son.
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Now that my hair has grown to past the middle of my back and beard down to my belly button ………
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You clean shaven neatly groomed old farts make me nervous. Oh wait I am near your age thus an old fart too.
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Right now i got that William Lee Golden thing going on. Not quite as white hair yet.
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Not interested so I haven’t tried to watch, apparently, Netflix is having issues with the demand.
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What’s the big damn deal about bleach blondes?
At least half of the finest women I have ever known took a shot at being a blonde.
And a bunch of them tried to be a redhead at some time in their life.Good grief. What’s the damn deal with women’s hair color?
I’m outta here.
This pool is a bit shallow tonight.
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Emmanuel
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You clean shaven neatly groomed old farts make me nervous.
Sorry, not sorry. The girls seem to like it.
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