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Had to re-stock POPCORN last night.
Watched some Trump rally, watched internet blow up, watched some more rally, watched internet continue to blow up.
Think I'll lay in a stock of peanuts, also.
Peanuts and popcorn. YUM
SMH, initially, at Trump tweets re "Squad" but then ran across this article. At the end, Trump is responding to "racism" accusations.
Sen. Rand Paul ‘Dumbfounded’ by Rep. Omar’s Criticism of United States
BY JACK PHILLIPS
July 16, 2019
Trump response at the end of the article:
In addition, he added, Omar has abysmally low poll numbers. Her freshman Democrat ally, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), fared about the same, Trump continued.
“Get a list of the HORRIBLE things they have said. Omar is polling at 8 percent, Cortez at 21 percent,” he wrote.
Next, Trump appeared to shine light on their true intentions in his recent tweets, saying that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) “tried to push them away, but now they are forever wedded to the Democrat Party. See you in 2020!”
Hey, FM. Gimme credit on one thing: I did say sir90 might be leaning toward reality.
Hello, everyone. Just trying to do my part here.
I see sir90 may be leaning toward reality now. His last post commented on how long it is taking RAj&Co to accomplish anything.
Yes, it has been a long time.
Wake up on wrong side of the bed?
or did you spill your coffee this morning?
EXtremely harsh sentiments on both posts.
You could have gone your whole life without saying any of that.
CRISIS? What crisis?
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/crisis-what-crisis/
For the Progressive Democratic “Resistance” (PDR), post-Modernism is in full flower. They have ruled objective reality inadmissible. There are only stories — his story, her story, they’s story, zhe’s story, and you must believe them because they come out of lived experience — for instance the lived experience of having lost a sure-thing presidential election to a cartoon character with zero political experience, and then having lost the grand inquisition to oust him. For the PDRs, the metaphysical concept of reality refers to some land of dark make-believe over a distant horizon where numbers supposedly add up (ha!) and the actions of persons are said to entail a strange cosmic condition known as consequence.
Now that the Mueller Investigation has concluded empty of charges — despite two-plus-years of sedulous effort by fiercely dedicated antagonists of its target — everything about it, including the sacred Mueller Report, begins to emit odious vapors like unto a rump roast that has laid uncovered in a pantry for three weeks, attracting the attention of flies. The PDRs might think twice about a closer examination of all that festering material. What they’re liable to find is evidence of how slovenly and dishonest it was and how the revered legal maestro in charge of composing it may well be subject to charges himself of obstructing justice and malicious prosecution.
Information emerged over the weeks since the Mueller Report’s release that Mr. Mueller and his team knew unequivocally that the Special Counsel’s mission and the FBI operations that preceded it were based on concocted political bullshit supplied by Mrs. Clinton and her network of flunkies and fixers, ranging throughout the permanent DC bureacuracy (a.k.a. the Swamp), to outposts in foreign intel services and the political kitty-litter box known as Ukraine. Mr. Mueller must have suspected this from the outset, but knew for sure by the summer of 2017, and omitted to advise the American public that he had uncovered a fraud. Rather, he rode on the back of that fraud for two years, as if touring a political landfill on a donkey, leaving the public to stew in anxious hallucinations.
What else did Mr. Mueller do, or omit to do? He never engaged US government forensic computer analysts to examine the DNC servers at the heart of RussiaGate story. Rather, he allowed the conclusions to stand of a company called CrowdStrike, hired by the DNC itself to supposedly investigate the theft of emails, especially those of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. (See Craig Murray’s commentary on all this.) Mr. Mueller never bothered to interview the one person who might have known exactly who supplied the purloined emails to Wikileaks, namely Julian Assange. Mr. Mueller also did not bother to interview several dozen retired Intel Community computer experts, led by William Binney, former Technical Director of the NSA, who determined that the hack was accomplished by direct download by an insider onto a flash drive.
What could possibly be the explanation for these blunders. Well, we’re going to find out in the months ahead. The DPR chairs of various House committees have threatened to ask Mr. Mueller to testify. Bring it on, I say. He sure has some ‘splainin’ to do, if not in those venues, then in a more than a few grand juries that will be convened to assess the actions of his confederates-at-law from every hummock and gator pool in the Swamp. These various parties may also seek to understand why Mr. Mueller omitted to mention the now reeking Steele Dossier in his 444-page report, and why in his 20-plus page recounting of the oh-so-crucial Trump Tower meeting he never disclosed that the two Russians present were on the payroll of Hillary contractor FusionGPS, and met with its principal, Glenn Simpson before and after the meeting. It does give off a scent of “colluding with Russians,” except obviously the odor came from the wrong direction.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared yesterday that we are in a constitutional crisis. You’re darn tootin’ we are, but it’s not coming from the flaccid threats of legal imbecile Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), who wants to prosecute the Attorney General, Mr. Barr, for refusing to make public grand jury records in the Mueller report — since the law requires Mr. Barr to not disclose the material. The crisis she mis-identifies is the coming indictment of so many supposedly untouchable and hallowed public figures, up to and including the former president, Mr. Obama, and the former head of CIA, Mr. Brennan, and Director of National Security, Mr. Clapper, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, the sainted Mr. Mueller, a whole posse of former Intel Community subalterns, and an unholy host of creeping, crawling, and flying swamp creatures from Glenn Simpson to the shyster lawyers at DNC law firm Perkins Coie, to the errand boys at the Cable News Networks, Wash-Po and The New York Times who trafficked in leaked perfidious documents — that the cumulative institutional damage will destroy public confidence in constitutional government per se.
One can only hope and pray.
The House Judiciary Committee today also voted on party lines, 26 to 14, to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress. Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., had previously subpoenaed Barr for a full, unredacted version of the Mueller report.
Robert Ray, former Whitewater Independent Counsel, said it’s notable that Barr is already facing contempt proceedings.
WOW Who woulda thunk it?
You reckon any that stuff is true?
(SARC)
Mukasey Slams CNN, Cuomo: You’re ‘Misleading a Lot of People’ with Russia Collusion Theories
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The following is the excerpt that caught my attention. I'll give odds Mukasey won't be interviewed by Cuomo again, anytime soon.
"inhaling their own exhaust and getting high on it" LOL
MUKASEY: Congress doesn’t indict. Congress can impeach.
CUOMO: I’m using it as just a metaphor here.
MUKASEY: But you’re misleading a lot of people. You have a big audience. … Getting smaller by the minute now, but it’s bigger.
He added, “[Y]our network were devoting days of people sitting around and talking about a report that they didn’t — whose content they didn’t know, that they hadn’t seen, in essence, panels of people sitting around a table inhaling their own exhaust and getting high on it.”
Now, for everyone asking Why? Why? Why isn't the price higher?
Amazon reportedly set to launch a free music streaming tier
Yay !!!
Say, that's a good idea.
Set up a concession stand at the train station and they might have a profitable enterprise going.
Maybe they could set up some of those "pay when you go" restroom stalls, too.
MONEY MAKER !!!
Maybe, finally, DOJ will take action.
I can only hope and pray.
Are we there, yet?
because they surely know how dishonest it is, even through the fog of self-deception
I think you are correct on all points.
Nuclear technology is a matter of standards and procedures. Build in safety and nuclear power will be safe. The spent rods are a storage problem but even those are standards and procedures. As a technology, nuclear is already mature but, I'm sure we will learn and improve.
Plus,eventually, fusion technology will be developed and replace all the fission based reactors. JMHO.
Of course, it's a good sign. What else could it be?
We be just bending and rainbowing and unicorning all over the place, all the time. It be raining skittles right now.
And, in all seriousness, give thanks for blessings, large and small.
Have a good weekend, all.
The end of America predicted nearly 200 years ago
Alexis de Tocqueville predicted how Americans would lose their freedom. It would happen a little at a time, as he wrote in “Democracy in America” (Vol. 2, 1840, The Second Part, Bk 4, Ch. VI): “I had noted in my stay in the United States that a democratic state of society similar to the American model could lay itself open to the establishment of despotism with unusual ease. … It would debase men without tormenting them … Men, all alike and equal, turned in upon themselves in a restless search for those petty, vulgar pleasures with which they fill their souls. … Above these men stands an immense and protective power. … It prefers its citizens to enjoy themselves provided they have only enjoyment in mind. It restricts the activity of free will within a narrower range and gradually removes autonomy itself from each citizen. …”
https://www.wnd.com/2019/03/the-end-of-america-predicted-nearly-200-years-ago/?cat_orig=education
The shame of all the "Russian collusion" farce, IMO, is there does not seem to be a prosecutor, with jurisdiction, willing to bring charges for the real collusion that did happen.
Gee, I wonder why that is?
Yeah, it's terrible. The stuff we husbands have to put up with ... SMH
Oh, well, what else you gonna do?
If we were left on our own, we might buy more shares of some slimey little penny stocks.
Happy y'all had a good time.
Look on the bright side, three weeks in Vega$
Sounds like you are a really good husband to do that for your wife
Oh, day dreaming again
Gee, there must be a land line down somewhere.
Board has been dead for over a month.
Not even once
Gave all my children firearms training as soon as they could hold a BB gun.
One daughter has never fired a real firearm, never wanted to. The other children carry as needed.
1> Respect it for what it can do.
2> It is loaded, no question.
3> Practice.
Kudos, I'll second that.
My son would use his "trophies" for BB gun target practice.
(Oh, horrors *sarc*)
As is the problem with most Democratic "solutions", they don't look passed the end of their nose.
Ahhh, timing.
We all seem to understand the motivation.
I would be surprised if they got involved, also. But, from the Democrats perspective, (trouble is) they don't need to be involved, all they need to do is vote for Democrats.
There is a list with the article.
CNN is number 3 after the NY Times
Sic 'em!!
Nick Sandmann’s Lawyers File Giant Lawsuit Against The Washington Post
BY JACK PHILLIPS
February 19, 2019 Updated: February 20, 2019
Personally, all I want to say is "Sic 'em!"
Nick Sandmann, the Covington Catholic High School student, is suing The Washington Post for $250 million in damages.
“Lin Wood and Todd McMurtry filed their first lawsuit on behalf of Nicholas Sandmann against The Washington Post,” the statement of claim announced on Feb. 19.
“The lawsuit filed is included below. The suit seeks $250 million in both compensatory and punitive damages. Lin and Todd will continue to bring wrongdoers before the court to seek damages in compensation for the harm so many have done to the Sandmann family.”
Lin Wood
@LLinWood
Nick Sandmann is 16-years of age, 5’9” in height and weighs 115 pounds. The school field trip to the Nation’s capital was the first out-of-state trip Nick had ever taken without being with his family. He did nothing to deserve being attacked, vilified & bullied. Nothing.
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Hemmer DeFrank Wessels Defamation Attorney Lin Wood and Trial Lawyer Todd McMurtry are accusing The Post of wrongfully pursuing and bullying Sandmann because he was white, Catholic, and wearing a “MAGA” baseball cap during a trip in Washington D.C. on Jan. 18.
Wood also claimed in a Twitter post the newspaper engaged in a modern form of McCarthyism that triggered large groups of social media users to threaten and attack Sandmann.
“The Post ignored basic journalist standards because it wanted to advance its well-known and easily documented, biased agenda against President Donald J. Trump (‘the President’) by impugning individuals perceived to be supporters of the President,” the law firm said.
Lin Wood
@LLinWood
In this country, our society is dedicated to protecting children regardless of the color of their skin, their religious beliefs, or the caps they wear. Washington Post did not care about protecting Nick Sandmann. The Post just cared about being the first & loudest media bully.
READ MORE
https://www.theepochtimes.com/nick-sandmanns-lawyers-file-giant-lawsuit-against-the-washington-post_2807708.html
History repeating/teaching:
Wynne McLaughlin
“Maybe history wouldn't have to repeat itself if we listened once in awhile.”
? Wynne McLaughlin
“. . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But nothing is inherently over there or here. In that sense, the past has no content. The past -- or more accurately, pastness -- is a position. Thus, in no way can we identify the past as past." p. 15
". . . But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does not belong only to its narrators, professional or amateur. While some of us debate what history is or was, others take it into their own hands." p. 153
Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995)”
? Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past
“I have seen a stunning amount of death and destruction. Creation yes, but more death than birth. Mankind has learned nothing from their forefathers. Their ancestors. It is true what they say: history does repeat itself, Delacroix, and those after history are left to make it, but how can they,” he removed his hand from the globe, waving it thoughtfully through the air, “when it has already been made?”
? S.C. Parris, The Dark World
“One thing people wonder is why the Jews did not defend themselves, why we were like lambs led to the slaughter. In truth, many Jews fought back bravely. But the Holocaust was so well planned that we were overwhelmed. It started with little acts of racism and discrimination and eventually led to the murder of millions of innocents. We must never think the Holocaust cannot happen again.”
? Jack Mandelbaum
“Tomorrow was created yesterday.......And by the day before yesterday, too. TO IGNORE HISTORY IS TO IGNORE THE WOLF AT THE DOOR.”
? John le Carré, A Most Wanted Man
“It's easy to write the history. All the eyewitnesses are dead.”
? Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
For more on the history repeating/teaching:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/history-repeating-itself
To be good Democrats, we must remember to tow the line.
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
George Orwell, 1984
“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
George Orwell, 1984
Gotta hand it to the Swiss.
They are very good at implementing a plan.
So-o-o-o, as long as the government only prints enough money to pay for all the free stuff BUT not enough to cause inflation, we're all good.
Right, SMH
Wonder if they've done any computer modeling based on those assumptions?
How'd that go?
Thanks, BD, that was interesting.
most of those in the Wall Street in crowd are liberal democrats
Neither did I but rules are rules. Provide a link.
This, if true, would not surprise me. I've half expected some "serious" Democrat to propose this for some time now.
SMH
PappaJohn, thank you. Same for me and I hope it continues that effect.
PappaJohn, thanks for that post.
I'd like to snip your signature, if that's OK. I have a couple grandchildren (and children) who need to see that.
"I'm from Missouri", if you know what I mean.
Oh, yeah, locked and loaded!!!
Already locked and loaded, years ago. Now, what?