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It looks like SuperDave is gonna get a whole lot of rain today. Thank you ABBA for the rain.
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We got .35″ last night and IF we get any rain it’ll be this afternoon. One computer model shows rain down here but the other one shows it petering out here but raining to the north of us. But we’re keeping fingers crossed. We sure need the rain.
FWIW; This has been the rain pattern here for 2 months. Rain north and south of us but none here.
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The very best thing that can happen with an interaction with a cop is nothing and it goes downhill fast from there.
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Checking in – the weather seems to have calmed down somewhat here in Cut’n Shoot… power’s been off since about midnight (thankful, as always, for our whole-house generator)… I did manage to drag the short-dawgie out for a morning walk and didn’t need an umbrella… but everything out there is pretty soggy… Prayers everyone else survived unscathed continue.
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As I mentioned to Bones’ we’re hoping for a little rain today but not sure we’ll get enough to keep the grass going.
Mornin’ Gang
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Trump announces full pardon for Virginia sheriff convicted of bribery.
President Trump issued a full pardon Monday to a former Virginia sheriff who had been convicted of bribery, alleging that he was a victim of a “weaponized” Justice Department under the Biden administration.
Trump announced his pardon of Scott Jenkins, who was convicted in December of accepting more than $70,000 in bribes in exchange for appointing local businessmen as auxiliary deputy sheriffs in the office.
“Sheriff Scott Jenkins, his wife Patricia, and their family have been dragged through HELL by a Corrupt and Weaponized Biden DOJ,” Trump said in a Monday post on Truth Social announcing the pardon.Jenkins, who served as the sheriff of Culpeper County in Northern Virginia for more than a decade until he lost his reelection bid in 2023, was convicted on one count of conspiracy, four counts of honest services mail and wire fraud, and seven counts of bribery concerning programs receiving public funds.
Prosecutors alleged that Jenkins accepted cash bribes and bribes in the form of campaign contributions from various individuals, including two who were undercover FBI agents. He offered them badges and credentials despite not being trained or vetted and not offering any services to the sheriff’s office, they argued.
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From old school Chicago reporter John Kass.
I take Tom Bevan seriously so if he says the media is broken…it’s completely broken.
Last week on the Chicago Way podcast, co-host Jeff Carlin and I interviewed our friend Tom Bevan, co-founder and president of Real Clear Politics.
We talked about Biden, the media, Deep State operative James Comey and more. You might want to listen here.
I asked him about whether the media can survive this.
No, he said.
“The media’s broken,” Bevan said. “There is no putting it back together. It is Humpty Dumpty for sure.”
And all the king’s horses, and all the king’s men…
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“The media’s broken,” Bevan said. “There is no putting it back together. It is Humpty Dumpty for sure.”
I do hope that is true but they’ll hang on as long as they can. I do have a question though, would any other business have survived as long as the Lamestream Media, considering their atrocious ratings in the last several years?
I will say that the alternate media has severely dented their share of news and that is of course, a good thing.
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This is a Fox video about the US Army Caisson Platoon at Arlington and how it was neglected to a point where 4 horses died. They finally renovated and overhauled the program recently.
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Hoping that all four horses mentioned died of old age.
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If I were running up and down I-45 like the old days, I would have to schedule my travel around lunch or supper around the Leona General Store. You can order a ribeye or a ribeye.
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Chumbolone
Noun.
Pronounced: “chum’-buh-loan”
1) term originally used primarily in and around the Chicago area to describe a person who is easily tricked into doing something directly counter to their own personal self-interest;
2) since the 2008 presidential election, also applied to anyone outside the Chicago area who exhibits similar incapacity for sound judgment;
3) a person so devoid of common sense that they can be manipulated in any number of ways without having the slightest clue as to how ignorant and/or stupid they are.
Application: Originally applied to lesser-educated Caucasians of lower intelligence who tend to believe anything that government officials and the news media tell them; since the 2008 election, now also applied to better-educated and intelligent Caucasians of all ages and genders who are totally devoid of any street smarts whatsoever, as well as to members of all other races, age groups and genders who also continue to believe whatever is told to them by government and media representatives evidence to the contrary notwithstanding.
Synonym: chump, dupe, stooge, imbecile, sucker, idiot, hick, hayseed, moron, roundhead, ignoramus, dumb-ass, dip s**t.
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I’ve been writing here since early last year that CBS is going to collapse and disappear. Once federal approval of the buyout of Paramount by Skydance was approved, it was absolutely inevitable. The fact Donald Trump is in the middle of this with his $50 million claim against 60 Minutes makes it all delicious.
Scott Pelley made a complete fool of himself over the weekend with his histrionic TDS commencement address at Wake Forest.
Word on the street is Pelley and Gayle King are on the chopping block.
One assumes SkyDance is demanding that CBS slash this half-billion in costs before the merger because CBS is dying and doesn’t bring in much money.
So just to survive as a corporate entity, they have to fire a half-billion dollars’ worth of incompetence.
The propagandists at 60 Minutes are aghast that CBS might agree to pay Trump $50 million to settle his “election interference” lawsuit.
and,
“This stunt should have never been greenlit by CBS News to begin with,” the source said. “Gayle tries to be this relatable morning show anchor who claims she’s down to earth and then not only takes this gazillion-dollar flight but then attacks people for getting mad at her? It’s a complete crock.”
King has turned out to be one of the most outspoken members of the six-woman crew, claiming she is now “an astronaut” who followed in the footsteps of Alan Shepard (a.k.a. the first American in space) and accusing critics of sexism.
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Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal shows up in the news frequently mouthing off about something. Don’t forget this…
Just a reminder… Here’s is a video of Richard Blumenthal talking about serving in Vietnam.
The only problem is he never served in Vietnam.
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Skydance, run by the son of Oracle founder Larry Ellison, has apparently demanded Paramount slash $500 million in overhead from CBS before they will close the deal to buy the vast Paramount conglomerate. All those nauseating, overbearing jackasses at CBS will go down like Dan Rather 19 years ago.
I have waited a long time for this.
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OpenAI refuses to shut down on command.
Well, that’s a little worrisome. It actually changed its own code to avoid a shutdown.
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Pull the plug.
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I mentioned Carl Higbie’s opening monologue yesterday, but I don’t know if any of y’all watched it. I found a link for it today, and it’s worth watching.
Again, his last statement: the best way to thank a vet is to be someone worth dying for. That just gets to me.
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Reminds me of the ending of Saving Private Ryan.
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This is Tampon Tim Walz’s world.
Come July, common keys for houses, cars, boats, and motorcycles will be illegal in Minnesota, save for uncertain intervention from the state Legislature.
That’s when the state’s ban on the manufacture, sale, or import of keys, toys, dishes, and other common items containing more than a tiny percentage of lead or cadmium goes into effect.
The purpose of that law was to remove dangerous heavy metals from products that come into contact with children. The trouble is that almost all keys sold today have more lead than the new law’s 0.09 percent limit on lead content.
but,
So, should you end up locked out of your house or car in Minnesota’s frigid winter, you can rest easy knowing that the legislature is saving you from incidental lead exposure.
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But, but what about the children? SMDH
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That’s why you see California Prop. 64(?) warnings on everything now.
Manufacturers have to tell consumers if their product contains one or more of a large number of chemicals/substances. While they tried to eliminate all those substances from their products, they couldn’t guarantee that some trace id something was not there. So now, everything gets the label, rendering it meaningless.
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Texpat – I saw that story, and I made myself dizzy smh.
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Good morning, C&C, it’s Tuesday! I hope everyone enjoyed a thoughtful but rewarding Memorial Day yesterday. Today’s stellar roundup includes: trio of tariff goodness; Japan antes up behemoth bailouts to stay in the tariff negotiating game; EU caves under a whiff of pressure and agrees to fast-track trade talks; corporate media starts retconning brave China talk and begins to admit that Trump pressure is peaking over the Asian giant’s economy; WaPo hysterically reports democracy is dying in the darkness of non-free covid shots; nation’s top liberal paper blamed women’s rising cancer rates on the climate, with a straight corporate media fact; and SCOTUS enters an unsigned order that terrifies the deep state— even more.
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For crying out loud…really.
Two female Secret Service Uniformed Division officers got into a physical fight outside former President Obama’s D.C. residence while guarding it. The fracas occurred at roughly 2:30 a.m. early Wednesday morning, according to two sources in the Secret Service community. The lack of professionalism was on display during the fight and in a call one of the women made on a recorded Secret Service line to request a supervisor to come to the scene “immediately before I whoop this girl’s ass.”
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The audio sounds very diverse, equal, and inclusive.
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First off, the tariffs are affecting Japan. A lot. I’ll leave you to read Mr. C’s take for yourself, but it seems the word “panic” is becoming a major part of the conversations over there. Remember – we have a lot of cars that are Japan based. Add that to their demographic problems (remember the discussion about the falling/failing birth rate?):
Japan’s wider economy, already pressured by declining demographics, massive debt (over 250% of GDP), and a sagging yen, now faces “overall growth that could be more than halved.” In other words, Trump’s negotiators have found Japan’s pressure point, and are bearing down on it hard.
Certain countries in Europe are making concessions and changes rapidly:
And, again defying all expert predictions, things are moving at the speed of business, not politics. “While Japan has yet to secure concessions,” the Times blandly reported, “Mr. Akazawa expressed optimism that an agreement could be ironed out during a Japan-U.S. meeting in mid-June.” Meaning, in two weeks.
Trump is winning. He’s crushing it. And he’s doing it without a treaty, without years of State Department dickering, without Congress, and without a war. It’s unbelievable.
Media bust a gut laughing when Trump said, “you won’t believe how fast we can make a deal.” Yet here we are.
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China trade news: the tariffs are causing severe stress on the Chinese government, too, despite their attempt to save face by blustering angrily:
Last month, China stopped publishing all employment figures. (Nothing shows confidence like hiding the scoreboard.) China’s growing unemployment disaster is a political powder keg. Even though the Chinese meekly submitted to lockdowns, they become much more restless when their jobs disappear. The Chinese Communist Party’s whole social contract depends on a simple, unspoken bargain: You stay out of politics. We’ll deliver economic growth and stable employment.
The last time mass unemployment and inflation combined in China was 1989. The result was Tiananmen Square. The CCP hasn’t forgotten. Which is why it is directing factory owners to lay off workers “quietly,” and explains why the government is fudging unemployment stats to calm the crowds.
How much longer can they bail themselves out?
And they are also facing a bleak future, demographically. Their one child policy has worked too well, and their population problem is now reversed: too few children.
Because centralized economies always work so well…./spits
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And all of those new turbo-cancers? What could possibly be the cause?
All together now….CLIMATE CHANGE!
/laughing hysterically/
The white-coated lab prostitutes speculated that hotter weather might increase UV exposure,… Nor did the study even try to explain why Washington state has 10% higher age-adjusted cancer rates per capita than does the Sunshine State— even though Florida’s population is much older and much hotter.
Anyway, there you have it. Climate change is causing all these turbo cancers, not jabs, stupid. It’s so obvious … to experts.
You aren’t, but … don’t be fooled. This is no genuine inquiry. It’s a post-hoc alibi. The public’s not blind— people can see for themselves the post-2021 rise in aggressive, fast-growing turbo cancers. Rather than investigate what changed recently (like mRNA rollouts, immune dysregulation, or novel environmental exposures), we get this kind of stupid science: it’s the weather.
/more hysterical laughter/
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Experts ? The problem here, I believe, is Harvard was so embarrassed by the fact this went on for years and they never caught it in-house.
A renowned Harvard University professor was stripped of her tenure and fired after an investigation found she fabricated data on multiple studies focused on dishonesty.
Francesca Gino, a celebrated behavioral scientist at Harvard Business School, was let go after the school’s top governing board determined she tweaked observations in four studies so that their findings boosted her hypotheses, GHB reported.
Harvard administrators notified business faculty that Gino was out of a job in a closed-door meeting this past week, the outlet reported.
plus,
No professors have had their tenure revoked at Harvard since the 1940s, when the American Association of University Professors formalized termination rules, according to The Harvard Crimson.
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And Mr. C. puts on his lawyer hat to discuss the latest SCOTUS news: SCOTUS is allowing Trump to removed agency heads without having to show cause – the NLRB and MSPB (Merit Systems Protection Board) have traditionally been protected by a required “show cause” before being removed. These agencies are able to protect other federal employees from being fired – and pre-Trump, Democrats headed up those agencies. Guess how compliant they were under the DOGE/Trump era?
The three liberal Justices —Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson— howled in dissent, excreting an 8-page stinker that called the majority’s two-page ruling “extraordinary.” Justice Kagan,… gloomily warned that the majority is letting independent agencies —in her view designed to be “bipartisan” and “expertise-driven”— be gutted like fish even before the full case can be heard.
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This isn’t chipping though… Instead, they reached right past their precedent toward the chainsaw.
The majority’s order letting Trump proceed with the two firings seems to signal the Court is ready to overturn or at least further modify Humprey’s. If upheld, it will cut deeply into the modern administrative state, letting the president fire anyone at will, even if Congress tried to prevent the president from doing exactly that. So-called “independent agencies” include the NLRB, MSPB, FTC, FCC, the SEC, and more.
Mr. C. emphasizes that this isn’t a shift of power to the Executive, but a body blow to the Deep State. The President should had this power, before Congress and the courts chipped away at his authority. This is a reversion to the Constitutional standard – a good explanation for why the liberal justices are so butt hurt.
In other words, Presidential power isn’t expanding— it’s being restored to where it was originally placed in the Constitution: at the top of the executive pyramid. Congress’ attempt to protect federal agencies from their own boss was the original usurpation of Constitutional order. The Founders gave us three branches, not four. They vested executive power in a single person for a reason: so voters can hold someone accountable.
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Bought some milk today.
pam blondie session’s picture was on the carton.
Rest easy mayorkas and dr frankenfraudchi.
You have nothing to fear with the apple dumping gang in charge led by blondie and the Barr brothers Bill and Bill.
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The Zapruder film from the JFK assassination was manipulated with “special effects” ?
What the hell ? Am I reading this right ? How is that even done ?
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The one bullet, one shooter hoax was bad from the beginning, but for an easily manipulated press it would have been too stupid to float from the beginning. My speculation is that JFK was about to expose elements within the CIA for numerous crimes and those powers that be could not let that happen. It would have likely killed the CIA.
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I thought there was/were magic bullet(s) involved.
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This guy always seemed a little sleazy to me.
What Happened: In an effort to keep President Donald J. Trump out of the 2026 U.S. Senate primary in Texas, a SuperPAC backing incumbent Senator John Cornyn has hired former Trump campaign chief and Republican National Committee (RNC) Chief Operating Officer (COO) Chris LaCivita as a senior advisor.
BIG QUESTION:
Why would the SuperPac that backed pro-Paxton legislature candidates hire LaCivita when I assume they are backing Paxton for the US Senate and not Cornyn ? Does Raheem Kassam have this wrong ?
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We got rain yesterday, a whole 2.5,” so all the greenies are happy. It came on the wings of our friend and neighbor Canada. Hope we get more of that in a month or so as we go deeper into the Summer months. Everything that is supposed to be green certainly is.
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Return of the screw worm. Big, big, bad juju heading our way.
At my graduation, the younger Bush was the speaker. (I still remember those Secret Service guys, in suits and sunglasses, standing at every entrance, watching the crowd.) I don’t know why I remember this part of his speech and little else, but Bush described how important research at universities was, and the screw worm was his main example. Because of research at A&M, it was discovered that the sex life of the worm involved one mating in the life of each fly. That was how the sterile fly method of eradicating the screw worm came about.
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This is a pretty good report even if it is from the evil Atlantic magazine.
I’ve been raising the alarm about this since last spring. If we had not let our beef industry become so distorted and screwed up, we wouldn’t be importing cattle from overseas. It’s insane. At least Trump froze the imports.
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No Taxes… let’s just tip the government 15% if they do a good job.
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Do a good job?! They’d go broke in a few months. 😉
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You assume they’d quit stealing. I doubt they’d go broke, they’d just go for broke.
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He said to give them 15% IF they did a good job so they wouldn’t collect much.
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I never liked the “no tax on tips”. It’s income. If my income gets taxed, so does theirs. Maybe give them a floor, like the first 15% of tips isn’t taxed. That gives service workers a break but not that much.
I have a feeling that a lot of those tips aren’t getting taxed anyway. I used to work with a lady who had a habit of putting my tip jar money in her pocket while I was serving customers.
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Here’s a Florida man story for you. Question: Is the alligator high after his snack?
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I am livid over the whole retail level medical system. It is absolutely infuriating.
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Empower Pharmacy’s no good, very bad week.
Compounded medicines fill an important niche role in our drug supply, but the NECC scandal and GLP-1 compounding concerns are flashpoints that draw attention to the potential safety risks of compounding and raise questions about whether regulators have the tools to address those risks effectively.
After months of rumors, two articles from Endpoints News by Shelby Livingston and the Houston Chronicle by Julian Gill have finally laid out concerns about Empower Pharmacy, a 503B compounding facility, that have been swirling around for a while now. The allegations include…
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BREAKING: A map has been released of the locations across the United States who are cooperating with ICE to enact mass deportations, and the form of that cooperation. Would you look at FLORIDA!!!
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The west coast is vacant.
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