It’s June already? Where does the time go.
Badlands News Brief – May 31, 2023
Silenced
You Asked for a Rebuttal, Dad
No, a ‘Fair Tax’ is not a good idea
10% flat tax. It’s Biblical. Anything more is theft.
Making QAnon scary again
The normies still don’t get it.
This Is How You Do It: Christian Pitcher Blake Treinen Speaks Out Against LA Dodgers Empowering Blasphemy
That’s at least three MLB players piping up.
Return to the Story
We have to reclaim the idea of the present moment. By nature, man is impatient and distracted but this doesn’t have to be the beginning and the end of one’s existence. Stories are our way back into the possibilities of individual and collective imagination, no matter what happens.
America and the Future of Globalism
Sorcery or Nihilism, Part III
Toward a Youthful Republican Party
There’s more to attracting young people than a coherent message, but it would be a good place to start. Republicans, in general, really do not have good communication skills.
‘Back to Basics’ in Education Is Not Enough
Agreed. Build morals and values into the lessons kids learn. Like Voyages in English does in grammar drill.
Matt Gaetz Crushes CNN, Beats Network’s Viewer Numbers While Guest-Hosting on Newsmax
Why Are Democrats Trying to Pigeon-hole MAGA Women?
Target may have ‘lost control of narrative’ after Pride backlash: consumer research expert
Gee, ya think?
Is Jamie Dimon a Prophet?
Republicans 2024
Project Veritas Sues James O’Keefe Because He Left After They Fired Him – Demand Injunction to Stop O’Keefe From Working
TWEETS:
MEMES:
Some things the world just does not need to see.
He’s the only one I’ve ever heard didn’t or doesn’t remember.
The masks killed more people than the flu did.
Guilty.
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SIRACH 42:15-25
15I will now call to mind the works of the Lord, and will declare what I have seen. By the words of the Lord his works are done. 16The sun looks down on everything with its light, and the work of the Lord is full of his glory. 17The Lord has not enabled his holy ones to recount all his marvelous works, which the Lord the Almighty has established that the universe may stand firm in his glory. 18He searches out the abyss, and the hearts of men, and considers their crafty devices. For the Most High knows all that may be known, and he looks into the signs of the age. 19He declares what has been and what is to be, and he reveals the tracks of hidden things. 20No thought escapes him, and not one word is hidden from him. 21He has ordained the splendors of his wisdom, and he is from everlasting and to everlasting. Nothing can be added or taken away, and he needs no one to be his counselor. 22How greatly to be desired are all his works, and how sparkling they are to see! 23All these things live and remain for ever for every need, and are all obedient. 24All things are twofold, one opposite the other, and he has made nothing incomplete. 25One confirms the good things of the other, and who can have enough of beholding his glory?
PSALMS 33:2-9
2Praise the LORD with the lyre, make melody to him with the harp of ten strings! 3Sing to him a new song, play skilfully on the strings, with loud shouts. 4For the word of the LORD is upright; and all his work is done in faithfulness. 5He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the LORD. 6By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all their host by the breath of his mouth. 7He gathered the waters of the sea as in a bottle; he put the deeps in storehouses. 8Let all the earth fear the LORD, let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him! 9For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood forth.
MARK 10:46-52
46And they came to Jericho; and as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great multitude, Bartimae’us, a blind beggar, the son of Timae’us, was sitting by the roadside. 47And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” 48And many rebuked him, telling him to be silent; but he cried out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!” 49And Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.” And they called the blind man, saying to him, “Take heart; rise, he is calling you.” 50And throwing off his mantle he sprang up and came to Jesus. 51And Jesus said to him, “What do you want me to do for you?” And the blind man said to him, “Master, let me receive my sight.” 52And Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your faith has made you well.” And immediately he received his sight and followed him on the way.
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SATIRE
Not satire, but…..
Sorry, this video is hosted on TikTok . . . can’t control everything
“A false education”
This video will make you see things differently, speaker – Alan watts. #alanwatts #philosophy #deepthoughts #education #reality #motivation #mindset #fyp
No more of these, please. They have to be manually shut off every page refresh.
Don’t worry – no more deadly TikTok videos.
They are not supposed to work here. I had them turned off. Apparently some recent update turned them back on. That is now fixed, and they don’t show up.
Well, they can’t be that deadly – most of us are still here. 😂
BUT CHINA ISN’T!!! 😉
Coconut Oil and MCT Oil: Ketones as Alternative Fuel for the Brain in Alzheimer’s and Other Disorders
Slides from a medical conference. Same doctor.
This one is interesting and may explain why hubby is doing so much better on a diet with a lot more beef.
Ketogenic Diet was also used to treat epilepsy
Ketones are Neuroprotective in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s – 2000
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Foods with Medium Chain Triglycerides
Well I have been using heavy cream instead of sugar in my tea for decades. We also switched to butter.
Sugary Drinks and Brain Aging
(Think Mike Obama’s drinks in schools…)
THANK YOU Gail… you are a treasure!
^^^ This. Thank you for posting, Gail.
Almost as soon as I completely shifted to Ketogenic on Feb. 1 of this year my age related malaise and fatigue ended. Reduced sugar (even natural food produced) related intake, eat almost no carbs from processed foods, increased protein from red meat while still eating fish and poultry (mixing it up), consuming less starchy/high carb veggies and fruits – all of it helped greatly. I will have an increased natural (non-processed) carb day every week or two.
Could care less about calories and how much fat I eat. Switched to butter long ago. Eat eggs nearly everyday.
I abandoned soft drinks and sweet tea decades ago. Now I am off chips and processed food snacks. If craving a sweet snack, I eat a couple of small pieces of dark chocolate.
Still losing 5-6 lbs. per month and will hit my goal weight in July, a weight I have not seen in 25 years. Full mental focus is back and stamina has strongly increased combined with the chiro adjustments while doing no additional exercise program to help it. Do some stretching in the morning and still able to do about anything physically I want or need to do.
Sleeping better and becoming an even bigger irritant (a–hole) to woketards and traitors. Never going back.
I tossed bread/wheat a couple decades ago and my nightly acid reflux completely cleared up.
I wish I could get hubby off of bread.
At least rice is not nearly as bad for you as wheat and sugar. Supposedly it is absorbed more slowly and further down the intestinal track.
I am VERY sensitive to sugar/carbs. They will put me to sleep without fail but rice does not although I eat it with meat, onions, mushrooms, and fat.
😂
Great stuff!
Damn! I changed the settings and got rid of this TikTok video, and it came back somehow! Had to remove it manually! WTF!!!
Speaking of peculiar website behavior, Qtree tabs don’t have the little icon thingie on them any more. You know, the brownish widget that shows up to the left of the truncated title with circular writing….
Hmmmm. The icon shows up fine for me! If you want to give me any specifics about the browser, I can try that, too. I’m using Brave when seeing no problem.
My “normal” browser is Firefox with all scripts blocked, except for theqtree.com. And about a thousand open tabs. And Privacy Badger, Canvas Blocker, ABP, and maybe some other things. Weird thing is not that it isn’t working, but that it worked before. I also went back into my still-open qtree tabs and the icon thing is there until I touch it and refresh the tab.
In Brave, http://www.theqtree.com gets the normal brown circle with a figure and writing circled around, but an open tab (like DEAR MAGA: Open Thread) has a little black circle with a stylized white S inside.
Yeah, something is being blocked now. For this site, have you turned off “Enhanced Tracking Protection” (the shield), or is that still running? If it’s not that, then it could be one of the other added extensions.
I’m running a comparatively vanilla Brave, relying on Brendan Eich. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if my Firefox installation has a modification that implemented “Enhanced Tracking Protection”. In neither case would I trade it for little tab decorations……but it’s just odd that it used to work and doesn’t now.
Thank you, DePat, for showing there is life after Wednesday.
Thank you Coothie … for your thoughtfulness and … your exceptional wit …
Catturd:
MTG also said this in that thread:
…which answers no questions.
What is the reason the public is not getting the tapes? To protect people from “Antifa internet trolls”? To protect the people from FIB raids and persecution? Why don’t you release the tapes and defund the FIB so they can’t act lawlessly against the people? Why aren’t you persecuting the FIB?
You ask such annoying questions. Picking on poor congresscritters.
/s
Just when they’re sick, too. 🤢😅
One of these things is just like the other, really creepy .. shudder 😖
Agree
I have more respect for people who do not pretend to be MEGA than a person like MTG. I have met people like her more times than I can count. They are the worse.
It’s a little obvious that the FIB has already been poring through every frame of the tapes with facial recognition software already. Is she suggesting that Antifa has better software than the FIB has?
Good point. I find her comments patronizing and her arguments ineffective. It’s disappointing.
Competence?
If that’s what she means, she should just say it.
One of the reply’s correctly says that the FBI had this footage for a long time already and ran it through face recognition software anyway.
When ANTIFA gets the hands on the footage so can we and identify the FED’s and ANITFY, who supposedly weren’t there.
The problem with given this to a limited number of journalists like Julie Kellie and Solomon, is the Left, DemonRATS, the RINOS and Propaganda Media (MSM) will use this limitation as an excuse and accuse those journalists of selective editing (as they have done with Tucker) even if they have made an incredible objective effort to present the evidence.
I am sure the FIB has already run facial recognition on everyone there. She’s deflecting again, what a putz she’s turning into. Remember her big 50 cal give away, I wonder how many of those entries she gave to the FIB?
and round up the domestic terrorist group antifa?
What is the third outlet? Is it going to operate in the shadows, with Solomon and Kelly being the public faces of the release? If that’s the case, why reveal its existence at all?
If the third outlet is going to be public like Solomon and Kelly, then why the secrecy?
I don’t think people in Washington have any idea how tired so many of us are of being spoon-fed.
What if the third outlet is some outfit being started by Tucker Carlson? Since he is still “negotiating” with Fox, he probably can’t be public yet.
I had thought of Tucker too. This is very nitpicky on my part, but the announcement could have just said “other investigators” or “experts” or “cooperative journalists who will work with Kelly and Solomon.” But no, it has to be obvious that there’s a “third outlet” that we the people can’t know about. I’m just tired of Washington doling out what we are allowed to know.
If it’s Tucker, great, but we need a thorough, complete job that holds nothing back this time.
I agree.
MTG is…
I can’t capture how full of delusional bullshit MTG has become.
Or MTG always was always full of delusional bullshit.
Pathetic..
By The Way. WHO IS THE THIRD OUTLET. There IS a reason, no name given.
I’m guessing it ain’t because it’s Tucker Carlson.
I’m guessing it’s because it IS.
[quiet giggle]
Amen
DJT?
A clone of Charlie Brown you be … always expecting ‘Lucy’ to ‘change’ …
you’ll do it again before the day is out 😉
You’re starting to sound like Scott.
That’s a good thing.
😁
I think we have been given reason to trust MTG and some others to enact change and to be the change.
The day I stop expecting change is the day I give up on America. That’s not going to happen. 😊 So line up the football, Lucy. One day she will find that it’s covered in glue or oil or something gross.
Sooner or later, They might figure out that in order to defeat the bitch…. Aim for her head instead of the football.
“The day I stop expecting change is the day I give up on America.”
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Why?
The political-class isn’t America.
If anything, the political-class is the enemy of America.
And that’s not going to change, at least not on its own. The criminal political-class is not going to reform or punish or purge itself. Not in this lifetime, or infinity after it.
Who said anything about the political class? Or the criminal political class, for that matter?
Yes, MTG is a politician, but I’m not only talking about them. Lots of others are causing changes that are positive, and some in Washington are doing the same. Sometimes the people cause politicians to do the right thing. Change is possible and does happen.
Preach it, brother!
Or sister! 😁
As was suggested in a comment by K1tt7-fzn in yesterday’s daily, this is Groomers Month.
The month of GROOM.
Groom and doom.
Mao would be proud the way they target children
Oh. I love Hillary as the vulture who cannot wait for senile Joe to perish.
Thank God the Cackler isn’t in this one.
They always say “my pleasure.”
America First Legal is Stephen Miller’s group.
GOOD!!!
I have gotten at least two similar requests via mail recently so why not use Twatter??
It is not as if it is a NEW strategy for law firms, just a new vehicle.
“You may be entitled to compensation under a class action lawsuit”
Oh wow, the delicious irony!
And all the ambivalence-chaser lawyers 😀
Julie Kelly on the J6 tapes:
https: //twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1664027859675930626
I go back and forth:
I understand the concerns about “the wrong hands” getting hold of the tapes. But the wrong hands are already prosecuting and persecuting people. See: J6 prisoners.
I understand that “Flooding the zone with random clips without proper context minimizes the impact.” I’m also tired of being spoon-fed only what others think I should be able to see while the 3-letter agencies run roughshod over our rights without consequences.
Maybe this is the best way, especially when I think of people we know of who might have been there and whose lives have a chance of being impacted by the release. At the same time, promises made to us are almost never kept (except by Trump), vital information is kept from us, we are lied to and patronized and treated like second-class citizens, “national security” and our own safety are used as excuses for withholding information that could shine the light on corruption, and almost nothing happens to cause real change (again, except Trump).
I can only imagine what a daunting task it must be to comb through so many hours of tape that include so many people. If the tapes were released to us tomorrow, there’s no way I could go through them all, and I probably would not be able to discern much from them. I would be relying on reports from autists and pedes and conservative media. So now we are in the same position we were in with the Twitter files: waiting for journalists to put together reports and show us what THEY think is important and safe for us to see. I guess time will tell whether this will be effective.
I look at this as being similar to the old rules about sources in journalism — if the source is providing useful information, a reporter would fight like hell not to disclose his identity; but if the source provided some dreck that made the reporter look bad, the reporter would burn the source by releasing all information.
In my mind, the Feds at all levels — Capitol Police, January 6 Commission, FBI, FISA Courts, instigators, and everyone else — have misbehaved to such an extent that everything should be released and any organizations facing collateral damage should quit whining.
You don’t get anonymity if you fire tear gas at your own citizens. You don’t get anonymity if you beat one protester to death and shoot another. You don’t get anonymity if you instigated violence in a peaceful protest. You don’t get to hide if you’ve been frantically spinning ridiculous narratives.
Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.
Yes, in addition to innocent people’s identities being revealed on those tapes, the misbehavior of authorities would be, too. We need to know about that. I hope these journalists will have the courage to show it.
Nonsense….RELEASE IT ALL…
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100% of the tapes should be GIVEN to every J6 Political Prisoner.
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The CHOSEN Three, do NOT represent the interests of, 300+ Million Americans?
Them three, damn sure don’t represent my interests.
The whole “hide the tapes” BULLSHIT is based on the premise that the citizens legally protesting have something to hide and that the authorities, out of the kindness of their hearts, are looking out for their best interests.
If EVERY SINGLE CITIZEN at J6 were identified, it would be obvious that it was all protected by the First Amendment and the thousands of people were there legally. The government couldn’t cut out a few people and “make an example of them”. But it would also show that blatant illegality of the government’s actions on that day.
But if you are one of those citizens, currently anonymous, would you be ok with being identified so Antifa could surround your house every day and terrorize your family? Or your leftist employer could find an excuse to fire you?
These are dangerous times. The current White House squatter refused to protect conservative SUPREME COURT JUSTICES from the mob. What would they do for an average citizen?
We need to think this through.
A lady I know, a retired marine, who was on the school board was doxed as having been at Jan 6th. She was thrown off the school board and the town news made her life a living hell.
I can no longer contact her because she had to change her phone number and e mail.
She was living with her elderly Mom.
And ^^^THIS^^^ is exactly what I am talking about.
Horrible.
MAYBE.
Releasing ALL the tapes will further prove, J6 was a set up.
This is what we need to get past the J6 lies.
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Whatever Solomon, Kelly and unknown release will have faces.
Are they gonna blur out Feds? YES. Blur out every other face, also? I guess.
All seems far to convenient. “Chosen Few”, decide what everyday folks get to see.
Wonder what agreements Solomon, Kelly and unknown have signed. AND unwritten, verbal agreements.
Did nobody stand with her? Did nobody say, “I couldn’t make it, but she was there representing me?”
I think, at least for conservative journalists, it’s also based on the premise that the authorities would persecute citizens unjustly, as is already happening.
Exactly – we did not vote for the chosen 3. We voted for Congressmen and women.
Release the effing tapes. Those tapes our owned by We the People.
Solomon and Kelly will provide access to the defense attorneys. Tucker did and that’s how the ‘Qanon shaman’ got released.
RELEASE IT ALL…STOP CENSORSHIP.
I think we need to think about the consequences to average Americans who might have their lives upended by Antifa goon squads surrounding their homes, leftist employers, and others, before we condemn how this is being done.
It’s easy to say you would do it, but some people may not be in a situation where being doxxed is ok. Would you want your young children to have to run a gauntlet of Antifa crazies outside your house every day on their way to school? Remember, these people are insane; they have no jobs, no life, no anything, except hatred for us. And there will be NO HELP forthcoming from the feds.
I also think the feds could easily bring bogus charges against innocent people and lock them up. We’ve already seen it.
But we can’t hide in fear, because that only empowers them more. We need to take the power back. The fact that we aren’t in control is what’s making me a little hesitant.
I’m hoping there’s a way to navigate through this where government misdeeds are revealed, innocent people aren’t harmed, and the truth about that day is shown to all.
Feds AND their misdeeds will NEVER be exposed by Soloman, Kelly and the third mystery goof.
^^^ FIB will ensure Feds are NOT exposed.
^^^ 100%, any and everything Solomon, Kelly and third goof releases WILL BE SCRUBBED of Feds, including Feds doing bad things.
We’ve been fed a shiny object.
Your anti-depressant drugs aren’t working real well. 🤔
Thanks. My comments remain spot on.
Truth, can at times appear to be depressing, to the reader. 😮
Me, too.
I am thinking of what Naomi wolf did with the Daily Clout and the Pfizer documents.
Slow release is not a bad tactic IF ALL THE CRITICAL INFO IS RELEASED>
The fact that Tucker was fired shows just how scared the Deep State is of this info in the hands of honest journalists. I just wish Tucker could have continued.
Some day, Tucker will tell us why it all stopped, abruptly, after night one.
Yea, prolly Faux dictated it. The Rest Of The Story, is what I, we want to know.
I am seeing a critical difference between the Pfizer document and these tapes.
the Pfizer document was written and that made it easier for the non-professionals to extract the info and the publish it and spread it around.
Video is going to be a bit harder.
At this point I am in the ‘wait and see’ mode before I flip my lid.
My lid has been flipped on most everything.
Yes, there is a huge difference in media.
IF the videos are ever made available, geeks will figure them out quickly.
We always must remember that we are the most moral and the smartest people in American society.
While we could properly deal with a total dump, lots of other people cannot.
It is those people who need to be treated somewhat differently.
What I think the problem is with releasing all the tapes publicly is that she is correct; people will be doxxed just for being there. That wouldn’t cause them problems with the feds, necessarily, but what about with leftist employers? What about the “underground” conservative living in New York or Los Angeles? What would happen to them?
This needs to be done selectively by people we can trust. Julie Kelly is a WARRIOR for January 6. Let’s see what she does.
Yes. And the implications of that flow from the false narrative that it was an insurrection against the government instead of a protest and a call for Congress to do the right thing.
Giving access to @jsolomonReports and me (and another solid reporter)…
Solomon has been among those who have been telling us for years that something big is going to drop in just a couple of years.
Only to leave us with nothing.
Another damn internet charlatan.
PSA: Michael Obama launched a children’s food product company. Rumor going around that the Obama juice is soon to be added to school lunches. I wouldn’t trust these Deep State creeps not to add who-knows-what extras to the children’s food, either. h/t Neon Revolt.
https://www.kcra.com/article/michelle-obama-launches-plezi-company-with-healthier-foods-and-drinks/43788059
Is this healthy like the COVID shots? Is this healthy like remdesivir? Is this healthy like paxlovid, the rebound drug?
Is it healthier like mRNA contaminated food?
Assuredly, Safe AND Effective. <<< At what, I dunno.
Slow poisoning???
Remember High Fructose corn syrup is made from CORN…
USDA funded Spermicidal Corn: http://biotech.indymedia.org/en/2010/06/10871.shtml
Ingredients here:
https://plezi.com/pages/our-ingredients
Sweetness from stevia and monk fruit.
Color from vegetable and fruit juice.
2g fiber in each bottle.
35 (mostly empty) calories per bottle.
There’s a study that just came out showing Stevia and monk fruit are riskier that they thought, including hormone, heart, and stroke issues…
Here’s an article that I found on a quick look-up; there are others…
https://www.realsimple.com/study-links-stevia-and-monk-fruit-sweeteners-with-heart-disease-7152629
(more at the link above and [paywalled]
Witkowski M, Nemet I, Alamri H, et al. The artificial sweetener erythritol and cardiovascular event risk. Nat Med. 2023. doi:10.1038/s41591-023-02223-9
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02223-9 )
Fascinating.
It looks as if the danger comes from erythritol, not pure stevia or monk fruit. Erythritol is not “found in” stevia or monk fruit, as the title of that article suggests. They can be used in their pure forms. It can be hard to find pure monk fruit on the shelves, and sometimes it has to be ordered, but pure stevia leaf powder is more readily available.
Many years ago I tried eating some sugar-free sweets that contained erythritol. I had a weird sensation of my insides being completely chilled. I could not get warm, even directly in front of a heater. I tried it one more time after that with the same result.
Some people also have bad gastrointestinal symptoms when they eat erythritol and other sugar alcohols. I have avoided them like the plague for many years. Unfortunately, you have to read every label carefully because they will use “sugar-free” or “keto” or ‘low-carb” as selling points.
Amazon.com: NOW Foods, Certified Organic Monk Fruit Extract Powder, Zero Calorie Sweetener, Large Bottle for Serving Scoop, Certified Non-GMO, 0.7-Ounce : Grocery & Gourmet Food
“No additional ingredients.” Thanks!
From the article:
This might not be relevant, but diabetes can lead to heart attacks and strokes, and diabetics comprise a segment of the population that uses sugar substitutes. Examining evidence about erythritol in relation to whether stroke and heart attack sufferers are diabetic might be something to look into.
Does it contain additives that turn Michaels into Michelles?
Estrogens! That’s it!!! Bet it’s loaded with SOY!
Well it says on the front that it contains REAL FRUIT JUICE 😀
Is that fruit as in queer?
Someone should get a lab analysis.
Is it healthy like hemlock? Asking for a friend of Socrates.
LOL!!!
So, about a week and a half ago, our city had its annual “cleanup week”. You dump all your unwanted stuff at the curb and they come by with tractors and semis and haul it away. It’s a great opportunity to get rid of dead trees, broken patio furniture, light fixtures you can no longer get bulbs for, and the like — stuff that doesn’t really fit in a normal trash bin. It went fine.
Then, about a week late, some assholes dumped about a yard of sod and mulch and crud on our side street about six inches to our side of the property line with our neighbor. It’s been a busy week with the holiday and all, so we were slowly considering what to do about it.
Then, today, we got a citation from the city. I tried calling to find out what we were supposed to do about it being that we were the wronged party, but they’d all left for the day.
Then the Fiancee got home and popped her top. It had to be dealt with NOW. Her idea of dealing with it involved shoving it in our normal greenwaste recycle bins, since tomorrow is trash day.
My understanding is that sod, because (a) it weighs a ton and (b) is mostly dirt, is not supposed to go in greenwaste bins, except for a de minimis amount. OTOH, the code inspector used the word “greenwaste” in his write-up and the Fiancee was spittin’ nails.
So she and I duly loaded greenwaste bins with the stuff and I rolled ’em around to our main street next to all the other containers. Hopefully the weight doesn’t rip the robot arm off the truck.
This really could be a much nicer state if you could just shoot illegal dumpers if you caught them. That and people who steal out of cars or shoplift….I wouldn’t even mind clearing the corpses out of the street half as much as I minded shoveling all that sod.
California justice! Keep it away!
Since we have 1000 ft road frontage and two dirt roads we get all sorts of ‘nice presents’ like aspestos roofing tiles, old 1/2 filled paint cans, tires, and everything else the dump WILL NOT TAKE.
Can you shoot people for that in NC?
Well you can certainly shoot a dog that is ‘threatening livestock’
Then there is S,S&S…
From your neck of the woods I’m going to assume that’s Sight and Shoot & Scoot. 😮🙄🧐🤔😏😁😆😉
Shoot shovel & shut-up …
Hopefully, fingers crossed 😂😂😂
If it does, it’s because the inspector dude called it greenwaste. It wouldn’t have occurred to me to put it in the greenwaste container had he not done so.
Update — they took it.
👍
good grief he makes me feel THIN!
I am surprise he has not dropped dead for m all that weight. He is 61.
Hell, Chris Christie makes Nads Nadler, look thin. 
It is a photoshopped pic.
I was wondering about that. but it is not too far off. (these are 2011 -2012)
2011
2012
2012
I could be wrong. It’s rare but it does happen. 😆
Well at least you are willing to admit it.🤓
Could be significant but the connections seem a bit vague…
“They write that after the blow to the building of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine, a new star appeared on the board of honor for the dead CIA employees, the 140th in a row (for the entire existence of the CIA – at the beginning of May there were 139).”
https://t.me/intelslava/48257
FAFO.
Dying for KlauSS SSchwab instead of the American people and Constitution is a sad way to go.
Darwin Award
The ultimate exercise in futility, doing the same thing ….. no wait it’s the dark putz thing, that’s it.
An attempt to break through to Shebekino — what is known by 11.00 on June 1 , 2023
The Belgorod region has surpassed the Donetsk agglomeration in terms of the intensity of shelling over the past couple of days — we gave sad figures yesterday. Shebekino gets the most: intense strikes are being inflicted on the city, the evacuation of women, the elderly and children has been announced.
Early in the morning, Ukrainian formations attempted to break through the Russian border. According to Two Majors, 20 border guards and 20 conscripts joined the battle in the area of the Shebekino automatic transmission. One of the tanks came in close proximity to the state border and was eventually destroyed. Later, artillery and aviation worked out — the sortie was repelled.
On another site, already by the forces of the company from Ogurtsovo, an attempt was made to sortie to the New Tavolzhanka. Russian troops repulsed the offensive attempt, fire damage was inflicted on landings in the Ogurtsovo area, where enemy equipment was concentrated.
>>>As during the events of May 22-23, Ukrainian formations were advancing under the flag of the “Russian Volunteer Corps” and the “Freedom of Russia Legion” — simulacra created by the British, which should “legalize” the use of Western technology on the internationally recognized territory of Russia. And of course, the second goal is to promote the separatist project and the rise of Russian Nazism, which is being promoted simultaneously with the theses on the decolonization of Russia.<<<
(Me: the scheming bastards are trying to make it look like a color revolution, same with the wests special forces doing attacks from within the RF.)
In military terms, such sorties are aimed at shifting the focus of attention from the Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions and forcing Russian troops to react on another sector of the front.
https://t.me/rybar/47860
Remember yesterday Col Macgregor gave the bit of information that the recent UAV attacks on Moscow were launched from within the RF.
My husband loves Van Morrison, his music was played when we traveled.
Here are the 149 Republicans Who Voted with Democrats in Passing the Uniparty Bill
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/here-are-149-republicans-who-voted-democrats-passing/
OH reps betrayed the voters in OH. Mine will be in trouble not going to vote for him again. My husband tells me the hair cutter and people who go to him are upset about the way republicans voted. We are rep country and they will be in trouble. People here do not forget.
Presstitute did good serving this one up to Professional Liar, John Kirby.
GWP
“Wow!” Stunned John Kirby Stammers Out a Denial and Leaves Podium after White House Reporter Details Joe Biden Bribe Allegations and Whistleblower Charges, Asks About Majority of Americans Believing Biden is Corrupt
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/wow-stunned-john-kirby-stammers-denial-leaves-podium/
Posted in the replies:
His eloquence is magnificent …. 🫢🙄🫤😂😂😂😣🤚 …
EVERYTHING is AWESOME…..
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/southwest-pilot-climbs-through-airplane-windshield-after-being-locked-out-cockpit
More excellent news… Hope it falls into an abyss…
GWP
Bud Light Bloodbath Drops Anheuser-Busch Stock Into Bear Market Territory
https://dailycaller.com/2023/05/31/bud-light-anheuser-busch-stock-bear-market/
Yesterday, michaelh linked to https://doomberg.substack.com/p/in-praise-of-corn-ethanol during a discussion of Federal farm policy, with a “what do you think?” — probably for Gail.
So, I’ll throw in my two cents.
There shouldn’t be any Federal meddling regarding ethanol. Everything about this situation is government creating a problem, mandating a solution that causes more problems, then requiring more government to deal with the problems originally caused by government.
If left to private industry, where participants have skin in the game, some vehicles would require better fuel; others would run different combustion cycles; others would embrace MTBE as an additive while others embraced ethanol and others used something else. Farmers would grow what they thought would yield a good profit. Over time, the various approaches and regional resources would tend to produce optimal results. Maybe they use ethanol to avoid knock in Iowa, where Texas uses better fuels and Utah will burn anything.
The second that government lays their heavy hand upon the situation, it will get FUBAR’d. No mandate will be optimal across the entire nation and regulations will be subject to the whims of lobbyists.
My comment, then, is that there may be a case for corn ethanol as a component of motor fuel in some places at some times — but there is no way that the Federal Government can appropriately assess this or properly regulate it.
Oh, I agree we need to do away with many laws and most regulation.
For example the Farm Bill ONLY FUNDS GRAIN. That tax payer funded grain then means it is CHEAPER for big Ag to use confinement operation for chickens, hogs, and cattle instead of PASTURE.
Get rid of the subsidies (and tariffs on sugar) and High fructose corn syrup goes away. So do confinement operations that foster disease. So does corn ethanol…
It also means bread and other grain products are artificially lower in price shifting food dollars AWAY FROM fruits & veggies which are NOT SUBSIDIZED.
I guess we need to go back in time. All people in Germany that had a house had fruit trees grew vegetables. Here we grow grass I never could figure out. They made us dependent to buy instead growing. I still want to turn my front lawn into a garden bu I am married to an American who is so entrenched into having a lawn. His parents immigrants had a garden and fruit trees and fruit bushes.
At least I grow some vegetables in the back yard. We need to go back the way our parents grandparents grew their food supply.
In some towns it is ILLEGAL to grow veggies in the front yard.
FWIW, I am seeing a lot more raised gardens at the birthday parties I go to.
Part of the reason why fruits and veggies are limited – at least here – has to do with local wild life. Almost everyone I know with any fruit or veggie garden in the back yard (even tall grass is illegal in the front. 18″ limit) has them raised AND surrounded with chicken wire or some other barrier. The rabbits, in particular, are famous for making a mess and eating what they want. Squirrels use tomatoes as water sources.
Then there are the real pests. As it is, hawk and large owl populations are flourishing with the increased food supplies of late, there’s so many critters around compared to when I was a kid.
And, yes, I sit ten blocks from the city limits.
We do not have restrictions where I live. Not jet .
Good to hear people are gardening 🙂
Over here they’re monitoring who grows what, when, and where. So far no-one’s getting called on it, but I doubt the GangGreens and the Gubmint will let things go un-taxed…
They have to pay for all those wasted COVIDIOT vaccines somehow; not to mention the Mozzie refauxgees and the black hole money sink known as Ukraine, with its klown transident…
It is not the Germany of 60 years ago for sure. Germans seem to be so easy influenced by charlatans.
If only…..
#20 – TOP TWENTY TWEETS – https://directorblue.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-top-20-tweets-tonight-best-deal-is.html
UNSPOKEN by Chip Roy, THERE IS A REASON MTG SUPPORTS THIS.
~Six months ago, Boebert was spot on. MTG was out to lunch, Then AND Now.
Buy hey, three “approved” journalists, get access to J6 tapes.
He forgot there is a reason why the other Republicans supported this.
Steve Bannon: Jim Jordan and MTG “Should Both Face Primary Challenges from Real MAGA” For Voting with Democrats on Uniparty Spending Bill
“I’m Ready to Turf You Out!” – More… Steve Bannon Fires Warning Shot at 149 Republicans Who Voted for Uniparty Bill (VIDEO)
I don’t understand what’s going on with Jim Jordan. It’s as if he’s drinking the MTG Koolaid that this bill will enable the House to do good things regarding spending cuts.
Jim Jordan is more and more like, The Return Of Rooster Head.
the “good things” are too far down the road to be considered real by anyone. Foolish not to have gone back in and said no can do, then stand firm or get a better deal. They have nothing to show but a measly 1% spending cut and between now and when the good things are supposed to happen we’ll likely see a whole host of supplemental spending bills with the first being Ukraine, the second being Ukraine, the third being Ukraine as well as the 4th, 5th, and 6th, but at least we got the magic beans!
Heck, Ms Lindsay is already out there banging the pots and pans for more money for…. you guessed it… Ukraine!
Lindsey Graham threatens to block Deal over funding for Ukraine…
They must have something on them or family. The opposition is ruthless. MTG I read is now divorced because she had an affair. I do not know about the affair if it is true but she got divorced. I think be in DC long enough a person gets dirty and then they use it against them for control. One has to be strong to not be let astray. A strong faith helps and supports character.
We don’t need a balanced budget in five years, we need a balanced budget in five minutes — and we need an elimination of the National Debt within 30 years.
Alas none of those is going to happen (absent a catastrophe).
Catastrophe for who? It sounds like blessed relief for American citizens (and taxpayers), but possibly extinction of the political class.
A collapse of the government would be a bad thing for everyone, honestly. And that’s what it would take to wipe out the debt and deficit…basically have the debtor disappear. Because the debtor is clearly unable/unwilling to control itself.
Yes, it would give us a chance to replace it with a proper government, but that’s probably not what we’d actually get.
The only thing worse than bad government is no government (which is paradoxical, because the optimum would be a very limited government, which seems like ti should be very close to no government).
The alternative is to try to regain control of the government and force it to stick to principles, but that means we’re stuck with a debt that’s much too huge to pay off.
Secondary disaster would be hyperinflation reducing the debt to the value of a (June 2023) quarter, but we’d have to first stop spending or the debt would simply increase to match. And if we stop spending, we won’t get the hyperinflation.
Kevin needs to be shit canned.
Whether this is true or not, shit can Kevin.
Motion to Vacate: Four Democrats Claim Kevin McCarthy Cut a Deal With Hakeem Jeffries to Get Debt Deal Done
Kevin McCarthy denies it. Hakeem Jeffries denies it. But everyone in Washington DC knows that McCarthy and Jeffries cut a secret deal to secure enough Democrat support to pass the debt ceiling deal Wednesday night.
https://jdrucker.com/motion-to-vacate-four-democrats-claim-kevin-mccarthy-cut-a-deal-with-hakeem-jeffries-to-get-debt-deal-done/
All of Republican rebs from OH voted yes. I will not vote for Winstrop from Cincinnati again. There is no difference between Dems and Repups. They do not get another penny from me. This vote was a betrayal of major proportion. They do not deserve the MEGA support.
Grapple with REALITY…
Just Human (Kyle) brings a lot more info to this McCarthy -Wray back and forth.
It is only 10 minutes but loaded with detail. Kyle is a real bulldog when it comes to digging out the deets.
Think, Rudy G., Ukraine, Podesta, Hunter, Grassely… Lots of info you will not find in the Fake News.
49:45 to 60 min
https://rumble.com/v2r4wym-devolution-power-hour-149-featuring-burning-bright-and-just-human-1030-pm-e.html
Very interesting.
Thanks for giving the times, they’re long vids.
Yes, they are very long videos. That is why I try to give times so people can see the really important stuff with out a slog through stuff they do not want to waste time hearing.
Time marks huge help. Thanks.
You are very welcome.
They are bantering about why part of the investigation to PA?
Maybe, Biden docs.
Timing is everything…
Oh hell. They just stated PA – Biden documents, including classified. <<<
Currently at hour twelve plus…
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/rfk-jr-calls-mature-conversation-ukraine-us-lying-us
“2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has once again blasted the United States government for lying to the public and to the world about Ukraine, while calling out the Military Industrial Complex in particular.
It’s not the first time. Earlier this month an avalanche of mainstream media headlines condemned his take when he told UnHerd the following: “We should have listened to Putin over many years. We made a commitment to Russia, to Gorbachev, that we would not move NATO one inch to the east. Then we went in, and we lied.”
More recent speaking engagements wherein he utters unpopular truths on Ukraine have gone viral this week. In one of them, he tells an audience at a campaign event, “Our government is lying to us about it. The media is going on with the lie…It’s a laundering operation for the Military Industrial Complex.”
Snip … “Well as it turns out, opposing Vladmir Putin has been for 20 years the principle focal aspiration of the neocons who were thrown out after the debacle in Iraq. And we thought they were all gone for good, but now they’ve all reemerged in the Biden White House… it’s the opposite of a humanitarian mission.”
He further described Ukraine as a small country which is now tragically being “ground into dust by the geopolitical ambitions of the neocons in the White House.” Ultimately the Ukrainians find themselves stuck in the middle of a proxy war between two