Day: June 29, 2023

DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20230629

Without further ado…..

Ulysses’s Odyssey.

No need to apologize to Joyce. He was just as much of a degenerate commie as the rest of the pack of 20th century writers the publishing houses pushed on the populace.

Badlands News Brief – June 28, 2023

Jack Nicholson, Donald Trump, And The Ugly Work That Needs To Be Done

A New America: Only After Liberals Break Everything

After crafting their COVID giveaways and losing $200 billion, Democrats blame Trump

The end of the American Experiment?

It’s Time to Go for Woke Hollywood’s Jugular

The Trump Distraction

This author, IMO, starts out with a faulty premise. He claims Trump’s brand is forever tarnished. Yeah, no. The style over substance neocons jumped ship, but the rest of us didn’t. Fair weather fans at best, they are.

Looking for the Deep State

Seriously, people: WAKE UP! Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. It’s called the SES. That literally IS the deep state, the permanent bueracracy. ARGH!

‘Phooey on FOIA’

In 1966, Congress passed the Freedom of Information Act. It was meant to open up the records of federal agencies to the public. The law came about because of public unhappiness with the way the federal government had been handling things since the end of World War II. With the Nazis and the Imperial Japanese vanquished, Americans might have imagined that the country would return to older norms of governmental openness. The days of “loose lips sink ships” were behind us.

But by then the Cold War had made its chilly entrance, and in 1946 Congress passed the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), which created the postwar template for how our vastly larger collection of federal agencies would go about their business. This meant the galaxy of new agencies created under the New Deal as well the expanded powers of the wartime government now had their own rule of law, crafted to keep them within Constitutional bounds. I am no expert on these matters, but the APA included in Section 3 a license for federal agencies to exercise their own discretion over the information they disclosed.

Kash Patel Asks Why Republican State AGs Aren’t Going After the Biden Crime Family

House Oversight Committee Just Went Nuclear on ‘the Bidens’

‘Shockingly Callous’: Fox News Fires Remaining Tucker Staffers In Show’s Final Stroke

The Truth About Transanity From an Insider

Thank you John Dewey.

Laid Low by the COVID Vaccine, Now They’ve Got a Bad Case of Federal Unresponsiveness

Waking up on this topic is not fun or easy. But it is necessary.

TARGET ON THEIR BACKS: Moms for Liberty Invests in Extra Security Ahead of Summit After Receiving Threats

“It’s About the Children!”

TWEETS!

ICYMI:

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1673858773457281026
https://twitter.com/KarliBonnita/status/1673842109021863938
https://twitter.com/leslibless/status/1673872161964949505
https://twitter.com/KarliBonnita/status/1673871606651781122

If she didn’t dress like she lived in a trailer park….

Is the material girl out of adrenochrome?

MEMES and FUN STUFF:

I miss the bay….

The a-hat with wings is a yellow jacket.

Mastiffs…such wonderful pooches…and they outweigh me.

Just a reminder of what the Detroit…woman… was all about back in the day:

IDK…I kind of prefer the original.

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And now for the business portion.

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The discourse on this site is to be CIVIL – no name calling, baiting, or threatening others here is allowed. Company manners are appreciated. Those who are so inclined may visit Wolf’s other sanctuary, the U-Tree, to slog out discussions best saved for a wrestling mat. If, for some reason, this site is not available, head over to the UTree and visit the post at the top of the list or the closest rescue thread.

This site is a celebration of the natural rights endowed to humans by our Creator as well as those enshrined in the Bill of Rights adopted in the founding documents of the United States of America. Within the limits of law, how we exercise these rights is part of the freedom of our discussion.

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All opinions here are valued for the diversity they bring to the issues, and the shaping of understanding regarding topics for which many of us do not have all information. Correcting the record on any one topic is appreciated.

Be careful in expressing thoughts as we would all like to think well of the rest of the group, and ill-thought out comments have a way of wrecking that for everyone.

Fellow tree dweller, the late Wheatie, gave us some good reminders on the basics of civility in political discourse:

  1. No food fights
  2. No running with scissors
  3. If you bring snacks, be sure they are made with bacon

Auntie DePat’s requests as we are all supposedly adults and don’t just play them on TV like the body doubles pretending to be the squatter in chief:

If you see something has not been posted, do us all a favor, and post it. Please, do not complain that it has not been done yet.

The scroll wheel on your mouse can be your friend. As mature adults, please use it here in the same manner you would in avoiding online porn.

Thank you so much for any and all attention to such details. It is GREATLY appreciated by more than one party here.

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ACTS 12:1-11

1About that time Herod the king laid violent hands upon some who belonged to the church. 2He killed James the brother of John with the sword; 3and when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. This was during the days of Unleavened Bread. 4And when he had seized him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending after the Passover to bring him out to the people. 5So Peter was kept in prison; but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church. 6The very night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries before the door were guarding the prison; 7and behold, an angel of the Lord appeared, and a light shone in the cell; and he struck Peter on the side and woke him, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his hands. 8And the angel said to him, “Dress yourself and put on your sandals.” And he did so. And he said to him, “Wrap your mantle around you and follow me.” 9And he went out and followed him; he did not know that what was done by the angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision. 10When they had passed the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate leading into the city. It opened to them of its own accord, and they went out and passed on through one street; and immediately the angel left him. 11And Peter came to himself, and said, “Now I am sure that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting.”

PSALMS 34:2-9

1I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth. 2My soul makes its boast in the LORD; let the afflicted hear and be glad. 3O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together! 4I sought the LORD, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears. 5Look to him, and be radiant; so your faces shall never be ashamed. 6This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. 7The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them. 8O taste and see that the LORD is good! Happy is the man who takes refuge in him!

2 TIMOTHY 4:6-8, 17-18

6For I am already on the point of being sacrificed; the time of my departure has come. 7I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing. 17But the Lord stood by me and gave me strength to proclaim the message fully, that all the Gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion’s mouth. 18The Lord will rescue me from every evil and save me for his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.

MATTHEW 16:13-19

13Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesare’a Philip’pi, he asked his disciples, “Who do men say that the Son of man is?” 14And they said, “Some say John the Baptist, others say Eli’jah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” 15He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” 16Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” 17And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jona! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. 18And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it. 19I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”

Remembering Sts. Peter and Paul today.

There’s another song from the Psalm selection I can hear in my head, but Heaven help me if I remember the title.

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SATIRE