Dear KAG: 20230921 Open Thread & TGIF!!!

Since I do not drink, you are going to get MY use of alcohol, Coq au Vin or chicken in wine. Since I am on a rather limited budget I buy a (cheap on sale) 10 lb bag of chicken legs quarters (leg & thigh).

After years as an analytical chemist/quality engineer, I have had my fill of precise measurements so I REFUSE to do precise measurement in my kitchen unless it is for cooking rice.

So here is my recipe for chicken in wine.

1. Preheat your oven to 400F, you will be turning it down to 325F but this means it will not cool off drastically when you add the chicken.

2. Place the spices you wished to use such as salt, pepper, onion powder, thyme, rosemary, sage, garlic powder…. In a small bowl and mix well. By doing this you do not have to repeatedly wash and dry your hands.

3. Wash each leg well and place into a Pyrex casserole (with lid.) I find that I usually need three. (Do not pat dry since you are moist cooking the legs.)

4. Layer the leg quarters coating each layer liberally with the spice mix. Do not over fill making sure that the lid will fit snugly.

5. Once the casserole is full, carefully pour ¼ to 1/3 cup of your favorite wine down the side of the casserole. I use a nice white Riesling. Many people use a red wine.

6. Place the lid on the casserole, place in the oven and turn down to 325 F. Cook for between 1 hour and 1 ½ hours. Since the wine will keep the chicken from drying out I ‘over cook’ until the chicken is close to falling off the bone.

7. Sliced, onions, carrots, potatoes, whole mushrooms can be added as you wish but I never bother.

This recipe will leave you with lots of left-overs. The chicken can be de-boned and the bones used to make soup. Some of the meat can be used in salads as well as sandwiches and of course the soup. The broth gets saved and frozen to be added to soups.

Oh, and enjoy a glass of wine from the opened bottle with your dinner.

If you want a more traditional recipe…

Julia Child’s Coq au Vin – The Endless Meal®

Coq au vin might sound fancy but it is really just a simple chicken dish that anyone can master. Don’t be intimidated, this recipe is very easy to follow.

Again I am going to rely on Q tree commenters to bring the breaking news. We can start with Burning Bright’s Badlands news brief headlines. (The comments unless other wise stated are mine.)

Badlands News Brief: Trump Skips Debates, FED Paralyzed & Garland Grilled

HEADLINES

Trump to Woo Striking Union Members in Detroit, Skipping 2nd G.O.P. Debate

Smart move on POTUS Trump’s part. I imagine the Union members are NOT happy with the last three years of Biden given they are striking for better wages.

FOMC Leaves Rates Unchanged, Signals Much More Hawkish 2024

Rates unchanged (in target range of 5.25%-5.5%, a 22-year high) but hawkish-er than expected forecast for rates… but at the same time signaled a ‘soft landing’ with higher growth forecasts.

Dot plot’ of rate projections shows policymakers still foresee one more hike this year, but 2024 and 2025 rate projections each rose by a half-percentage point, a signal the Fed expects rates to stay higher for longer…

I agree with Justin’s take on this.

Our Take: “Rates stayed the same, which, if you recall, the hike caused significant bank failures earlier this year. The goal? Controlled implosion of the economy for political needs—2024 elections—and preamble to the great reset.

If you know how to ride a falling economy and capture certain assets on the flip side, you’ll weather this storm rather well. That said, if the great reset happens, no one will be unaffected.

Pray that Trump’s vengeance is swift and full.” —  Justin Deschamps

I will add that this is all part of the Cabal’s shift to a digital bank currency aka FULL ENSLAVEMENT.

I will remind people of this from North Carolina and other states Medical groups (Think UNC and Ralph Baric)

 Hospitals to begin monitoring your credit card purchases to flag ‘unhealthy’ habits

What you buy at the grocery store, where you live, and even your membership status at the local gym are all subject to a new data collection scheme by the American medical system. Reports indicate that hospitals and doctors’ offices all across the country are now collecting this and other personal information in order to target individuals deemed to have “unhealthy” lifestyle habits that put them at high risk of disease.

Bloomberg reports that hospital systems in both North and South Carolina as well as Pennsylvania have already begun tracking people’s food-purchasing habits by spying on them through public records and credit card transactions. Carolinas HealthCare System (CHS), which operates some 900 care centers throughout the Carolinas, has teamed up with a data-mining company to compile and track this information for the later purpose of calling “high-risk” folks and urging them to make a change.

What we are looking to find are people before they end up in trouble,” stated Michael Dulin, chief clinical officer for analytics and outcomes at CHS, to Bloomberg. “The idea is to use big data and predictive models to think about population health and drill down to the individual levels to find someone running into trouble that we can reach out to and try to help out.”….

Also

July 27, 2004 Under-the-skin ID chips move toward U.S. hospitals

VeriChip, maker of subcutaneous RFID tags used to unlock doors or identify people, gets preliminary nod from FDA.

Back to Badlands Headlines.

Garland grilled by House Republicans on Hunter Biden, Trump investigations

What a piece of Dog vomit slime mold Garland is. I hope they find something to indict the guy on so HE can experience what the J6ers and POTUS Trump are going through.

Burning Bright says “Listening to Garland speak raises my blood pressure…” I whole heartily agree!

The ‘Kitchen Sink’ Is McCarthy’s Only Path To Avoid Shutdown, And It Probably Won’t Work

…On Tuesday, House Republicans were forced to cancel a procedural vote for a 30-day stopgap funding measure (Continuing Resolution) to keep the government’s lights on beyond Sept. 30. Hours later, five GOP lawmakers crossed the aisle to vote with Democrats to bring down the rule for the Pentagon’s spending bill.

As Punchbowl News puts it: “Tuesday was a bad day for McCarthy and House Republicans.”

The problem for Kevin is that he needs votes from members of the Freedom Caucus, who are demanding that the CR be spliced up so that it doesn’t fund ‘the election interference of Jack Smith,’…

McCarthy can also throw a Hail Mary and pander to Democrats for the votes he needs to pass the CR, however doing so would likely seal his fate over a looming threat by Gaetz and others to remove him from his post.

Burning Bright has a very interesting take on the situation. I certainly hope McCarthy does cave to the Freedom Caucus this time around.

“Kevin McCarthy, rightly or wrongly is seen by both disillusioned Democrats and Republicans as representative of the Uniparty in the current American political zeitgeist.

As such, Matt Gaetz and the Freedom Caucus, who are largely seen as those ostensibly doing Trump’s will in the people’s house, have him bent over a barrel when it comes to both the Actuals and Narratives of funding the US government.

If McCarthy caves to Dem demands to fund the War in Ukraine, he continues to draw a line between America First and the Uniparty. If he caves to the Freedom Caucus, it represents a marked shift in Establishment deal-making in favor of sovereign nationalism, proving the movement has real power, even without Trump IN power.

When you combine that with the knowledge that Trump de facto installed McCarthy as Speaker, you begin to see the game, which is a story.”

Badlands Media Special Coverage: Court Hearing – We The People AZ vs. Runbeck

2 hours and 46 minutes. — Runbeck is trying to say the American People have no right to see their records (NOT subject to public records requests.) Runbeck’s problem is they are a SOLE SPECIALTY provider/contractor. Ashe does a nice synopsis and ends with the fact the judge will rule later.

This is a very important case.

As a side note, thanks to Reagan’s attempt to shrink government, the Cabal just moved government work to contractors and are NOW trying to say since they are PRIVATE companies, they are not subject to public record requests. This allows the Cabal to hide criminal activity by shunting it off to private companies. We saw this in the Russia Hoax. That is why I said this is a very important case.

Former NZ PM Ardern Urges United Nations To ‘Crack Down On Free Speech As A Weapon Of War’

Again I am going to crib from badlands because this is too important NOT to spread.

Jacinda Ardern may no longer be Prime Minister of New Zealand, but she was back at the United Nations continuing her call for international censorship.

Ardern is now one of the leading anti-free speech figures in the world and continues to draw support from political and academic establishments.

In her latest attack on free speech, Ardern declared free speech as a virtual weapon of war.

She is demanding that the world join her in battling free speech as part of its own war against “misinformation” and “disinformation.”

Her views, of course, were not only enthusiastically embraced by authoritarian countries, but the government and academic elite. — Jonathan Turley

Burning Brights commentary on this is worth the read.

I am going to add an old comment I made on New Zealand for background.

Will Zoll wrote a three part series that starts with NEW ZEALAND. It is about the EuroDollar = US Dollars that are NOT in the USA. He starts with a section about New Zealand and the fact it is a MAJOR TAX HAVEN… HMMMMmmmm

He also mentions several billionaires headed there when Covid started.  

Havens, Horse Heads and Hermann – Part I

[Jacinda Ardern ]… While she is most-certainly 

not the focus of this article, we must review the highlights of her career as one of the most unashamed modern-day globalists ever to lead a nation:

In 2005, at 25 years of age, she worked for 2 ½ years for British Prime Minister, Tony Blair.In 2007, she was elected president of the International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY).She is a member of the ReichsWEF and one of Klaus Schwab’s favorite Young Global Leaders.In 2017, she formed a minority government and became Prime Minister of New Zealand; a position she recently resigned from.Jacinda and Hillary Clinton have a very close relationship.

.People generally think of tax havens as being in the Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Luxembourg and a host of publicly promoted jurisdictions. In the past, Switzerland was renowned for its private banking secrecy, where dubious deposits flowed freely into Suisse bank accounts.

How many people knew about where the ultimate tax haven was located…

HMMmmmmm…

The rest of the series:

Havens, Horse Heads and Hermann – Part II
Havens, Horse Heads and Hermann – Part III
As usual the entire series is well worth the read.

>>>>>

I will end with asking for continuing prayers for DePat, her Mom and her family as they go through this most trying time.

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TheseTruths

Thank you, Gail!

I will end with asking for continuing prayers for DePat, her Mom and her family as they go through this most trying time.

🙏

cthulhu

I have been present at the passing of two “unresponsive” people in a hospital setting — the Fiancee’s mother and my grandfather. In both cases, it was evident that the patient was in some distress — despite not speaking or showing consciousness.

In both cases, the subject was surrounded by loved ones who spoke gently of their continued love, laying their hands upon the subject and wishing for peace and calm. Reassurance that all worldly duties were settled were given by all present.

While it was granted that the subject would be sorely missed, it was also noted that they would be long remembered.

And shortly after these touches and words, the stresses of this world faded away from them — and they were gone.

Admittedly, this is from a sample size of two — but it is something you notice when it happens……and it doesn’t fit into the neat classifications of medicine.

TradeBait2

Exactly what happened with my mother-in-law. She waited in her coma-like state, dementia had completely taken over, until the one adult child of her five who had been in denial came to her bedside where our entire family stayed. Once he held her and talked to her, she passed quietly and peacefully.

Aubergine

I am certain my grandmother, who died in a morphine induced coma-state (to manage pain from cancer) waited for me to come say goodbye before she died. I was her unabashed favorite. Essentially, she was my mother. I miss her every day. It’s been 37 years.

Aubergine

Truly we do not.

TradeBait2

The love you shared came through your post.

Aubergine

Thanks, TB. That makes me smile.

TheseTruths

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scott467

Incandescent light bulbs are the ones that the sicko climate cult religionists are trying to eliminate. Didn’t know about fluorescent too.

Cuppa Covfefe

I think the curly ones have been banned; at least they are over here, what all bad things seem to originate 🙁

And LED light is bad for the eyes… so those of us who haven’t gotten the clot shot have the “privilege” of being slowly blinded by the LEDs, or sent into seizures by them (has happened to some gamers and those sensitive to high-frequency flickering)…

Chiefio has a number of articles on LED and other non-incandescent light, as well as all the radio waves invading our spaces… this one has a number of links which dig deeper… (would like to dig very deep and dump the GangGreens in the pit):
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2018/09/17/review-feit-electric-enhance-led-bulb-60-w-equiv-for-9-w

TheseTruths

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scott467

Or…

We could just eliminate a few dozen eco-fascists and their silly entourages, and everything would be great again.

TheseTruths

Their influence and power being halted is what humanity needs.

pat frederick

let’s look at things realistically–the planet was here how long before these asswipes were even born?
it will still be here when they are long gone.

pgroup2

Truth is … these asswipes are megalomaniacs. They believe that their brilliance is unappreciated by the inferiors; ergo the inferiors must be forced to kneel.

See e.g., John ‘Ketchup’ Kerry.

mollypitcher5

The eco terrorists are pawns. They’re suckers, used by the Globos to get complete control of societies

singingsoul1

That is so true.
Gail thank you for stepping in and doing a good job. Love the chicken recipe. 😀

TheseTruths

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TheseTruths

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scott467

Also have FIB investigate DHS, have DHS investigate DEA, and have DEA investigate FIB, and have DoJ prosecute all three, while the military investigates and prosecutes the DoJ and everyone in military leadership over the past 8 years.

Whatever it takes to get the rogue agencies OFF the BACKS of the People. Let them chase each other around instead, let them go to war with each other until they’re all destroyed.

TheseTruths

Except I don’t think they would honestly investigate each other because they’re all part of the swamp.

RAC

He missed out make it illegal to give aid and comfort to illegal aliens, and arrest those doing it.

TheseTruths

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pgroup2

We love ya GC, but the date in the url is incorrect. Today is the 22nd.  😍 

cthulhu

I think those are Wolf-level fixes.

pat frederick

were you on the debate team in high school?

itswoot

Have you ever read “West With the Night” by Beryl Markham? She led quite a remarkable life. One thing she did was rehabilitate a race horse, and then went on to win some major races in Kenya.

Read what Ernest Hemingway had to say about her writing.

pgroup2

Time Zones for the win!!!

cthulhu

Thank you, Gail, for helping us through this tough patch. It is appreciated.

Alison

Prayers up for DPat and your dear family. Grief is such a powerful emotion, and it comes at both expected and unexpected times. I truly believe God will guide you through not only today and tomorrow, but always. You are His beloved child.

TheseTruths

Remarkable, if true.

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pgroup2

Coming together. Tyrants should be worried.

scott467

Tyrants should be dead.

Aubergine

They all will die, eventually. Everyone does.

Aubergine

Yes ma’am.

Alison

Gail, thank you 💖 You make the coq au vin sound so simple … and delicious. I just need to remember the chicken gets the wine before I pour my own !

cthulhu

One of the subtle points about coq au vin is that it is best prepared from older chickens. The standard supermarket fryer chickens are usually too young and the result will not be as flavorful or have the right texture.

TheseTruths

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scott467

Except Trump isn’t a jerk, not even a little bit.

And he’s not an egomaniac either.

Those are both bogus narratives which are proven false over and over again by his real actions.

He’s not crude, certainly not publicly.

Anyone who takes 5 minutes to UNDERSTAND what he’s doing recognizes that he is controlling the narrative by what he does with so-called ‘insults’, controlling the focus of what the media talks about and therefore what the public thinks about, and the so-called ‘insults’ are always in response to attack, never initiating the attack, so they are self-defensive in nature.

And what’s wrong with his hair? For his age, he still has LOTS of it 😂

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Aubergine

You are very intelligent, and thus are able to “see” Trump and his strategy. Most people are not as smart, and can’t see it. They only see the surface level. But most of Trump, like an iceberg, is beneath the surface.

TheseTruths

I get tired of there (almost) always having to be a litany of negatives when someone praises Trump. I’m guessing it’s a way to show his detractors that they are heard, but I don’t think we should coddle them. Just unabashedly say how great Trump’s leadership has been, and is.

para59r

And point out to them that Trump has never attacked someone that was not attacking him or America first, no matter the sex, race or what have ya.

kalbokalbs

Smiling here.

Yesterday. Some dude says.

– Like your hat, but not his mouth.

Look at the dude, asked him, Trump’s mouth?

Dude, yea.

My reply, some have difficulty hearing truths.

Walked away.

Alison

Excellent comback 👍👍👍

TheseTruths

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pgroup2

Yeah. Look what that gave us for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs – a DEI CRT racist/cultist extraordinaire.

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TheseTruths

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pgroup2

I wish he had not said anything about the law. Now the thugs will earmark a repeal into one of the appropriations bills.

scott467

I was thinking along similar lines, no point in letting the enemy know ahead of time what you’re going to do, because you just give them time to FUBAR the whole process.

Hopefully DJT is aware of that, and it’s a red herring for them to go chase and waste time and resources on, while his actual plan is better and unrelated.

pgroup2

Amen.

TheseTruths

Trump seems to be going full force ahead with the talk of “extremes” to save this country. No gentle political rhetoric of “moving forward”; he’s light-years ahead of the other candidates in what he sees and plans to do. He’s saying HOW he will Make America Great Again, and he seems to think that enough people are fed up that it will resonate with them.

Robert Baker

You make a point worthy of thoughtful consideration. What comes to mind when I consider Trump’s solution is that the law he spoke of is quite old. Since the internment of the Japanese, a literal lifetime (approx 80 years) has passed. Considering all the bad commentary about the internment I would have expected someone to attempt repeal of that law. The fact that it hasn’t happened leads me to a conclusion that it may be harder to repeal than by a simple legislative earmark. That is just a first pass, so it is a general conclusion based on what has not happened as opposed to facts about the law’s actual history.

pgroup2

ThanQ for your thoughtful reply.

Barb Meier

When I was a little girl in the 50s, I remember a small group of wood cabins where POWs had been interned during WWII. It was near my aunt and uncle’s home, at the edge of our little town in rural Missouri. That is the only reason I learned anything about it since we sometimes drove past it to visit family. I thought they had been Japanese Americans but I did a little research and learned they were POWs. I was unsure after all these years of what might be true.

My hometown is mentioned in the next to last sentence of this local article. https://khqa.com/news/local/hannibal-mo-forever-linked-to-world-war-ii-with-pow-camp-on-clemens-field The cabins would have been nicer than the Army tents provided in Hannibal MO.

When in use, I believe it was surrounded by fencing. Today, I think it was much more compassionate than what the government has done to citizens in Maui and East Palestine PA. By staying in those small camps, the people were kept safe from each other. It turns out the POWs in Hannibal were helping to match over 2 million pairs of military boots. I don’t know what the additional POWs in Louisiana, MO were doing. Hannibal is about 30 miles north of Louisiana, both on the west side of the Mississippi River.

The cabins were small houses, but not prison cells, and almost as good as those some Americans lived in then. Many still did not have indoor plumbing, relied on outhouses, and used wells or cisterns. After the war, the fencing was gone and I believe people still lived in those little cabins. By the time I was in HS in the 60s, the homes were gone.

Robert Baker

I lived for a time in Powell, Wyoming which is about 20 miles from where a Japanese internment camp was situated.

Heart Mountain Relocation Camp was built in a dry desert environment that was hot in the summer and cold and windy in the winter. It was the fourth largest incarceration center in the U.S., and at its peak was the third largest city in Wyoming. (National Archives at College Park, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Many of the buildings are still there but I never visited in the time I was in Powell. I would imagine there was not much sympathy for those Americans incarcerated during the war but time has a way of molding second opinions. It may be similar for the Jan 6 prisoners in 50 years. Their plights are similar in some way. Both were incarcerated for nothing more specific than some elites’ opinion that they might be dangerous.

pgroup2

A wise comment. We are fortunate to have you here.

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Barb Meier

I agree, the Japanese Americans were incarcerated because of fear they might be spies or saboteurs. The POWs from Germany and Italy were a different matter.

cthulhu

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TheseTruths

SMOKING GUN DOCS: America First Legal Confirms Utah Gender Clinic Knew of Deadly Side-Effects and Risks of Permanent Damage Resulting from “Transgender” Drugs Given to Children

Last week, AFL obtained consent forms for the “gender-affirming” care services being offered to adolescents in Utah. See some of the shocking findings below:

The University of Utah’s “feminizing therapy options” admits that when biological males take estrogen, it can “cause some permanent” changes to the body, including chest growth and listing multiple “variable” lasting changes that remain unknown. Despite not knowing the reversibility of these drugs – this Utah gender clinic continues to administer them. 

Much more at the link. It shows consent forms, etc. I’m tired of this issue and can hardly bear to see the mutilation that is being done. I’m glad some people are pursuing justice.

Aubergine

This is among the issues I have had to give up to God. I just can’t see a way that I myself can impact it. The same with the spending on the war in Ukraine, Kari Lake’s fight in AZ, and a few others.

I read about this stuff, so I am aware of what is going on, then I let it go and ask God to do His will.

I was slowly losing what is left of my mind, and expending too much precious life energy better spent on my family, worrying about things I have no control over. So I stopped. I feel SO much better.

kalbokalbs

Which is why, many things, I don’t go beyond the headline.

Sanity, priorities and limited time.

Aubergine

🙂

Alison

Great comment, Aubergine.

My understanding is that God wants us living each day and not obsessed about tomorrow, especially with things we cannot control. That is what ‘daily bread’ is all about … he gives us enough each day to cope with today.

Like you, I read enough to be aware, but I turn it over to God asking Him what he wants of me. I’m convinced He wants me loving and befriending my husband, my grandchildren and my siblings above all else. I cannot do that if I let all the world worries constantly beat at my door.

Aubergine

Thank you, Alison. I’m glad you are able to let go, and focus on what really matters.

scott467

“The idea is to use big data and predictive models to think about population health and drill down to the individual levels to find someone running into trouble that we can reach out to and try to help out.”….

___________

That’s NOT the ‘idea’, that’s the excuse, because they need to appear virtuous, don’tcha know.

Most people who have health problems which could be solved by better eating habits and exercise have those problems for a reason, and that reason is psychological (depression), and ultimately the reason for depression is most often LACK OF MONEY.

Money can’t buy you love, but it does solve a lot of life’s problems, it gives you freedom to make choices, to remove stress (a significant cause of health problems), to fulfill life goals, etc. Money gives you the ability to do what you WANT to do (freedom) instead of what you HAVE to do (slavery).

So if hospitals really wanted to ‘help’ the world become more healthy, they would:

A) embrace radical reforms to reduce the cost of health care, making people’s health care dollars spent go at least ten times farther, the kinds of simple solutions Karl at Market-Ticker talks about all the time, which of course they will never do, because everyone in medicine benefits from the current system

and

B) find a way to help everyone have more money, and not by selling get rich quick schemes, I mean solving the big problem of how to make everyone in the world wealthy to the point that money is no longer an issue in their lives

Hospitals won’t even be pretending to address either issue, not even a little, they can’t and wouldn’t even if they could, so it’s all just more of the big lie.

The rich get rich, and the poor stay poor.

That’s how it goes.

kalbokalbs

IF hospitals AND health care system gave a rats damn about folks health, they’d,

  • NOT Jab folks with Covidiot Injections.
  • NOT give patients Remdisivir AND Paxlovid.
  • WOULD push Covid Prevention like nutrition, vitamins and supplements.
  • WOULD push Quecertin and IVM to prevent Covid.
  • WOULD give patients IVM AND HCQ.

Hospitals, Health Care Systems & Big Pharma FOCUS IS Job Security AND Profits.

pgroup2

WOULD give patients nicotine patches.

Alison

If governmental and ‘health’ institutions simply focused on, and promoted, maintaining healthy immune systems, they would benefit society. There still, years after the annual flu and the covid fiasco, is not one word about how immune systems work, or things like adequate Vit D supplements to maintain them.

i know … it’s not profitable to keep people healthy … it’s also deeply corrupt not to try.

pgroup2

Your closing sentence perfectly restates Christ’s observation that one cannot serve two masters. Either God or mammon.

TheseTruths
pgroup2

God bless Texas.

kalbokalbs
scott467

So how is this not going to result in a stand off between the National Guard and whoever Brandon ordered to remove the razor wire yesterday?

pgroup2

Well … I sure don’t care about anybody’s hurt feelz.

Texas Rangers drive the bus; they don’t ride in the back. Civilian special ops.

scott467

I don’t know what any of that means 😂

Unless Abbott was acting as his own foil, using state forces (police, border patrol, National Guard, the Pot Growers Union, etc.), SOMEBODY was facilitating the invasion at the border for the past 3 years, including removing the razor wire yesterday.

If Abbott was pretending to be powerless to stop whoever is acting on behalf of the Feds the past 3 years, and now he is using the Natonal Guard to stop whoever that is, who is it?

Someone is in conflict with somebody.

It wasn’t ghosts that were facilitating the border invasion before yesterday, it was corporeal people acting at the behest of the federal gov’t.

Who was it?

Whoever it was, why isn’t there now a standoff between them and the National Guard?

cthulhu

Another fun observation is that the back melody for “Scarborough Fair” is actually a recipe — “parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme” is a nice seasoning for a stew.

When stewing with herbs, it is often a good idea to use them in a less-processed state — full-leaf thyme and parsley, coarse-minced sage and rosemary. If the plated version is to feature a “brighter” version of the flavor, powdered herbs can be added for the last 10 minutes.

scott467

I was just gonna say that!

😁

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RAC

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/zelenskys-terrible-horrible-no-good

RAC

This report from 2022 appears to show how just one part of the system was messed with, the detection systems.
Perhaps the Su-30 was using the interception as a reason to try out some gadget to see how it worked in real life, being as he did it more than once, then departed.

https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2023/06/02/su-30-has-used-khibiny-ew-system-while-intercepting-the-f-35/

pgroup2

Should have installed the security updates.

pat frederick

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TheseTruths

And sometimes the door keeps you out because it’s locked or there’s a sign that says “autorized personnel only,” or you have to meet certain criteria before it will open.

pgroup2

“What’s the password?”

“I fear for my life in my home country, senor.”

pat frederick

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scott467

Why is that even legal?

Because there is no rule of law.

Because they will do WHATEVER THEY WANT until someone stops them.

That is why it’s ‘legal’.

RAC

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pgroup2

Sniffing?

RAC

I messed up the post, it was meant to be titled…
“Mmmmmm that 10% of your take smells really good”

pgroup2

Great minds ‘see’ alike.  😆 

GA/GL

Our lawmakers are obviously complicit in the money laundering, human/child trafficking and Nazi crimes in Ukraine!

May it all be exposed and punished.

kalbokalbs

Feds CAN and DO whatever they want.

Aubergine

Photo caption:

Three mental midgets manage to bilk Americans out of millions.

TheseTruths

How does the Pentagon have the power when Congress is in charge of spending?

pgroup2

The same way your kid does if you give him/her one of your credit cards.

pat frederick

I have not yet seen any plan about the anchor babies being dropped by the illegals. granting them citizenship would only continue the problem.

pat frederick

thanks Gail

PAVACA

Gail Combs
What about the children of illegal aliens who give birth in the United States, then LATER ON get naturalized citizenship in the United States?
Like this Vivek Ramaswamy. His mother, from India, was NOT a naturalized American citizen when she gave birth to him in 1985. She became naturalized AFTER he was born. His father, also from India, NEVER became a naturalized American citizen, but is still a citizen of India. Ramaswamy talked about this recently.

Barb Meier

I thought I had read that Vivek has dual citizenship. India and U.S.

pgroup2

I believe the current legal view is that the baby is a US citizen IF one of the parents was a citizen or a permanent resident alien [interim stage of getting citizenship].

pat frederick

and THIS needs to be addressed–the grifting going on.

para59r

This guy may be on to something here…

Sarcastic AF

@ElenaTh5

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7h

When somebody spends money like there is no tomorrow, it could be a sign of “ no tomorrow “.

Well, it has long been theorized that they may need to crash the economy in order to usher in CBDCs

RAC

I came across this the other day. Tried to read it, in case it was important, but it sent me into a coma, I have no head for financial stuff.

https://thegreattaking.com/

scott467

They deserve to be treated like enemy collaborators in France after WWII.

Deplorable Patriot

Thank you, Gail.

Last night after talking to a number of relatives, and texting, and emailing, and my dad making a nuisance of himself when I was trying to talk to my sister about stuff we don’t want him involved with, I was just done. I couldn’t do it. I have links, tweets, and memes ready and just couldn’t. I finally crashed. I’m sure I will crash more later.

Thanks to all the people here for your prayers, kind words and support. They mean a lot.

DePat

pat frederick

with all you have to do right now, make sure to take time to care for yourself.
good thoughts and prayers continuing for you and your family.

Deplorable Patriot

We’re being invaded this afternoon, too, and it may be too early. The latest is that if she is still breathing by the end of the day, there is no brain swelling, and the fever developed yesterday is not an issue, we are going to move her to another facility. That search is on now. Telling my dad, no, they are not kicking her out of the hospital, just suggesting that it would be a better place for her for the duration.

The man is going to drive us all insane.

pat frederick

I admire your strength DePat.
I would be falling to pieces.

Deplorable Patriot

At least, the invasion is off for now. It’s coming, though.

Aubergine

And again, the Rock Star rises. Bless you, Gail.

mollypitcher5

Youre amazing and humble too ! Pretty impressive for a science whiz, master researcher brainiac turned NC farm gal 👋 ( if that’s not a clapping hands..pretend like it is ).

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pat frederick

my son in law is a farmer. one thing i noticed and admire about farm folk? they don’t hesitate to jump in to get things done, lend a hand, help a friend.

Aubergine

And you succeed!

Deplorable Patriot

Thank you. I do need to clean the house, and get some stuff organized.

itswoot

Take extra care with Ying. Major stresses coming at her too.

Deplorable Patriot

Oh, she knows. Her bed is right behind Mom’s chair, and that’s where it happened.

PAVACA

DePat
Perhaps your father is starting to come to terms with the fact that he will be losing his wife of many years, the mother of their children, and all the memories that this brings up?
Please take the best care of yourself that you can.

Deplorable Patriot

Mom did the finances – for a reason. He’s itching to get a look at all of that. I have the password and am not giving it to him. In addition, he wants to control a number of things that I was given direct instructions.

Missing her? I’m expecting that to escalate. She was the only one he really confided in.

PAVACA

DePat
IMO, sticking to your instructions is the way to go regarding the finances.

TheseTruths

“Coming to terms” is so true. I’ve seen this before. The surviving spouse is affected in ways that their children are not, and they can feel that suddenly they have no control over their life. Helping them through that takes patience and a delicate balance that is so hard when one is dealing with grief and new responsibilities of their own.

PAVACA

I think the hardest part is when it’s time to tell the loved one that it’s OK for them to go. I believe that even if a person can’t respond or communicate, they can still hear and process at some level all the way to the end. I believe they can also still feel their hands being held, getting a kiss on the cheek, or even being hugged if that’s possible.

Linda

I think you’re right. When my dad was on his deathbed, he was really worried about 2 things that needed to be taken care of. One of them was getting the taxes done, which I took care of, and a sister took care of the other matter. We all took turns sitting with him toward the end. My sister told him that those 2 things he had been worrying about were taken care of and he passed almost immediately. I think he was holding on until he knew that mom wouldn’t be burdened by what he hadn’t been able to finish.

Alison

Do you think Dad is open to hearing someone on the hospital staff discussing the difference between hospice and hospital? After going through the hospital/hospice/deaths of both Dad & Mom a couple years ago, it’s much clearer to me that those two entities are regulated much differently with hospitals geared to staying alive and hospice making the final days as comfortable as possible. It’s what you told him about ‘better place’ but maybe he’d hear it from an ‘expert’ … and of course he needs to recognize there’s no hope. He might not be there yet.

my experience was once all food/fluids are stopped, it’s about three days unless another stroke or heart attack hastens the process.

God be with you, DPat 💖

mollypitcher5

Kind words Alison. These decisions are so difficult.
My experience (father) with comfort care was hard.

Wishes of strength and courage to DP and family.

Barb Meier

I suspect your Dad will always believe caring for your Mom is his job. How could he stop now? 

Brave and Free

🙏

Aubergine

Make sure you eat, and stay hydrated. And get enough sleep. You can’t take care of everybody else if you don’t take care of yourself.

Cuppa Covfefe

May GOD Bless and comfort you, DePat. It’s good that you have your family there either physically or electronically present, and that you all are on the same page.

Prayers also for your family… and the family of your schoolmate who passed. And take care of yourself… Take care…

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duchess01

Verse of the Day for Friday, September 22, 2023

“For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.” 

Mark 10:45 (KJV)

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Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered !!!

duchess01

PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD

Father God, I now follow your command to put on the full armor of God, because my battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the unseen world.

I first pray on the Belt of Truth that it may be buckled around my waist, may I be centered and encircled by your truth dear Lord. Hem me inside all that is true and right, and may I be protected and held up by the truth of your living word, in my Lord Jesus name.

I pray on the Breastplate of righteousness, please protect my vital organs and my inner man, cover my integrity, my spirit, and my soul. Guard my heart for it is the wellspring of life, please strengthen and guard the most vulnerable places in my life with that which is right, good, and noble that I might not receive a fatal blow from the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.

I pray on the Gospel Shoes of Peace. I choose to stand in the shoes of your good news, and on the firm foundation of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the solid eternal rock. All other ground is sinking sand, I pray that I will not slip or fall, but that my feet would be firmly fitted on your lordship, my Lord Jesus. I choose to stand on you, so that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus, the eternal Rock of Ages. I receive your holy peace now my Lord, from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head, in my Lord Jesus name.

I pray the Shield of Faith into my hand now. As I take up the shield of faith, I ask that you might extinguish every dart and arrow that is launched from the enemy to take me down spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and every attempt of the enemy to destroy my joy. I ask that my faith in you would make it flame out. Extinguish every flaming arrow that would come against me, my life, my family, my home, or my ministry. May my faith always be out in front of me like a shield. Give me the courage to “faith my fears” by choosing to walk by faith and not by sight, in my Lord Jesus name.

I pray on the Helmet of Salvation, that you might protect my mind from the thoughts that can lead me astray. I choose to take every thought captive, and arrest all intentioned ideas and motives that would harm others, or distract me from your holy will for me. I submit every captured thought to the Lordship of my Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you would imprison those thoughts that are not of you my Lord. Transform my mind and renew my thinking that I may think God thoughts, and have a sober mind that is focused on your glory. Please protect me from being double minded that I may allow my mind, I reject to live an earthly life, because I choose to live a holy one, governed by you My Lord Jesus, the prince of peace, please have my mind to be saturated with the holy mind of Christ, in my Lord Jesus name.

Finally, I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the holy word of God, I pray this powerful offensive weapon into my hand, and ask that your holy word would be fitting for every encounter I face. As the enemy gets close to me, please give me the insight, wisdom, and skill to wield the word of God to drive away the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.

May the enemy and his team flee from me, upon hearing the word of God spoken by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Give me the sword of the spirit to cut through the wiles of the devil, so that I may discern the schemes of the enemy when he is near.

With all kinds of prayers, supplication, and intercession I pray to you my Lord God as the one who fights my battles. Now that I’m in your holy powerful armor, I walk away covered and ready to face my day as you go before me, and please protect me in the midst of the spiritual warfare in this unseen world, in my Lord Jesus name.

Thank you my Lord, for the spiritual weapons of armor and prayer that you have given me. It is written no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses me. 

Thank you Father God, my Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I am more than a conqueror in my Lord Jesus. I pray all of this in the mighty name of my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, Amen.

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duchess01

BE MY VOICE

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JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN

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CHILD NOT CHOICE

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duchess01

PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER

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FOR DEPAT

BE WITH ME, JESUS

Be with me – take not – Your presence from me;
Let Your Spirit dwell – in me – let Him be;
My strength and solace – in turmoil of heart;
From me, Oh Lord – let Him never depart!

Without You, Lord – there is no breath of life;
Without You, Lord – the sorrow – it is rife;
Happiness eludes me – from my soul – it is gone;
Your peace in me – is vacant – totally withdrawn!

Hide not Your face from me – show me Your love;
Touch my heart with Your grace – sent from above;
Abandon me not – in my hour of need;
In Your great love, Lord – I am blessed indeed!

Fill me with your Spirit – right to the brim;
Let not hopelessness enter – faith be dim
Renew me – redo me – all over again;
Today – tomorrow – forever – Amen!

Infuse me – use me – for Your Glory, Lord;
Let me not forget – the truth in Your Word;
Raise me up, Lord – both steadfast and strong;
Be with me, Lord – where You only belong!

Strengthen me – Lord – oh, please hear my cry;
I don’t need to know the what, where or why;
I trust in Your judgment – Your mercy, Lord;
I trust in the truth revealed in Your Word!

I trust in Your Love poured out on the Tree;
I trust in Your Promise to always be;
Faithful and true for eyes that can see;
There for us all – who trust in Thee!

Be with me – Lord – refresh me – renew me;
This pain and discomfort – really threw me;
Jesus, come quickly – come quickly, I pray;
Let this doubt not take hold – unravel – fray!

Oh, precious, incorruptible Blood of the Lamb;
Encompass me – protect me – the sinner I am;
Enthrall me – befall me – change me within;
Blot my sin – from Thy sight – let it begin!

Wherein and where out – let the demon flee;
Far away – to the dry place – let it be;
Confined in the spaces – to do no harm;
To cause no distress – disruption – alarm!

Wash me – and cleanse me – pure white as snow;
Be near me – cheer me – wherever I go;
Lift my distress – give me some rest – I pray;
Be with me, Jesus – and love me Your Way!

D01:  7/14/2013

PAVACA

duchess01
Thank you SO MUCH for the poem, and, as always, for the inspirational verses and prayers that you post. Our good DePat is having a hard time, along with her family.
Hoping that you yourself are well.

GA/FL
Aubergine

Yeah, something weird is happening there (with Obammy, I mean).

I personally think Obammy and Co. would be tickled pink to have Kamala as President, as she is another easy-to-control moron. I think they may have withdrawn control of Biden to allow him to crash and burn, and see Kamel installed. Then they will move back in, and be in control again.

I guess we’ll see what happens.

kalbokalbs

Which dunce do you see Hoe hussein, nominate for VP?

Newsome prolly not controllable. Nanzi? hildabeast? ???

Then, the 24 nominee. Hoe is BOTH unlikable AND unelectable.

itswoot

Which dunce do you see Hoe hussein, nominate for VP?”

Knuckle dragging Fetterman.

(sarcasm)

Cuppa Covfefe

Yep. For being controlled by Øbløwhøle, there’s no better man than Fetterman…

pgroup2

Put him in a dress and he’ll be a formidable candidate.

Fetterwoman for VPOTUS.

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Cuppa Covfefe

Like that red dress with matching lipstick that suitcase-stealing twinkie of a Bye,Done hired hand… light in the loafers, empty in the head…..

TheseTruths

Just my opinion because I don’t have a read into what the Left thinks:
IMO Pelosi is too old for people to support her. I see her as ruthless and somewhat effective for the Left but not necessarily popular. Hillary used to have some clout, but she also is getting old and seems too inactive. She doesn’t give the impression of a dynamic leader; rather, a couch potato yelling orders. She also has TONS of baggage and is definitely not likable.

It’s remarkable that there isn’t a rising star in the Dem Party who would be the obvious choice.

Tulsi Gabbard just came to mind, but I don’t think she’s on board with JB enough to accept.

mollypitcher5

It takes decades to finesse the money making scams they pull. It takes decades of pay offs to keep secrets hidden, pesky investigative reporters need to be set up/killed or otherwise shut up. It takes decades to network with fellow dirty pols here and abroad.

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pgroup2

OMG! ‘A couch potato yelling orders’ is so perfect.

scott467

“It’s remarkable that there isn’t a rising star in the Dem Party who would be the obvious choice.”

_________

Emblematic of much of their generation.

They care about no one but themselves, not even about the future of their own families.

They have no intention of ever giving up power or passing the torch to the next generation. They withhold nothing from themselves, and spend us into $33+ trillion in debt and counting, because they will never have to deal with the consequences.

They don’t give a *&^% what happens to the country after they die, because they never gave a *&^% about the country when they were alive.

That explains why they have neither groomed nor mentored anyone to replace themselves. We just get another retelling of their favorite story, ‘Bootstraps‘, a.k.a. ‘Suck on It‘, a.k.a. ‘Tough Shit‘.

They are never retiring, they’re not going anywhere until they’re dead, and they don’t give a ^$%# what happens to the rest of us after they’re dead.

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Aubergine

Newsome, like all the rest, is probably controlled via blackmail. And 2024 depends not on who they nominate, but how successfully they can cheat. Just like last time.

Barb Meier

FTA “OUTCOME: Susan Rice was installed in the White House as the Lightbringer’s gatekeeper. Lisa Monaco was installed at DOJ as the Lightbringer’s gatekeeper. Avril Haines was installed as DNI, again as the Lightbringer’s gatekeeper. Samantha Power, etcetera, etcetera. Remember, The One weaponized the DNI, FBI, DOJ, NSC, so those systems had to be protected and maintained. It really is that simple.”

mollypitcher5

Vegas teen told cops ‘I’ll be out in 30 days’ after he was nabbed in killing of retired top cop chief in hit-and-run: report
Story by Nicholas McEntyre •
3h

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/vegas-teen-told-cops-i-ll-be-out-in-30-days-after-he-was-nabbed-in-killing-of-retired-top-cop-chief-in-hit-and-run-report/

pat frederick

he assumed he’d be tried as a juvenile

mollypitcher5

The attitude of a thug raised in a criminal culture. By the time this gets anywhere the narrative builders will tell us how they were hopeless chidren growing up in a oppressed environment….blah blah

pat frederick

they are entitled spoiled brats who could have used a father figure at home providing a good example.

mollypitcher5

Yep.
I did read that the hispanic kid’s mother was remorseful and worried that he wouldn’t be forgiven (presumably by God) so he probably had some moral instruction in his life.

pat frederick

the “boys”
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Cuppa Covfefe

That smirk needs to get slapped off his face….

scott467

Amazed they showed the photos.

Lots of confusing comments in the story, as to be expected of current MSM.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/vegas-teen-told-cops-i-ll-be-out-in-30-days-after-he-was-nabbed-in-killing-of-retired-top-cop-chief-in-hit-and-run-report/ar-AA1h6njs

“The teen driver who allegedly mowed down a retired police chief in a fatal hit-and-run told Las Vegas police he would be back on the streets in under a month, according to a report.Jesus Ayala is accused of driving a stolen Hyundai Elantra on Aug. 14 along with Jzamir Keys, 16, and deliberately crashing and killing Andreas “Andy” Probst, 64, who had been riding his bike, a disturbing video showed.

Ayala, who just turned 18, was arrested hours after Probst was killed and told the police while in custody, he wouldn’t be locked up for long.

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We don’t know WHEN he turned 18. Did he turn 18 before the murder, or did he turn 18 after the murder? Good work, reporter.

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“You think this juvenile [expletive] is gonna do some [expletive]? I’ll be out in 30 days, I’ll bet you,” Ayala told the cops, according to KLAS.

“It’s just ah, [expletive] ah, hit-and-run — slap on the wrist.”

Police had not yet told Ayala about any hit-and-run charges, and was only arrested for a warrant and obstructing a peace officer, the outlet reported.”

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So in essence, Ayala confessed to the murder.

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“Ayala is being held at Clark County Detention Center without bail and was handed 18 charges including murder, attempted murder, and grand larceny.

Ayala, who just turned 18 (when?!?), was arrested hours after Probst was killed and told the police while in custody, he wouldn’t be locked up for long.”

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So did he turn 18 hours after the murder, or did he turn 18 before the murder? It’s a pretty IMPORTANT POINT, reporter.

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“Under Nevada law, if they are convicted in adult court of murder committed before they were 18, the most severe sentence they can receive is 20 years to life in state prison.”

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And THAT is why it matters how old Ayala was at the time of the murder.

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The death penalty will not be sought in either case because under Nevada law.
They face 20 years to life in prison if they are convicted before they turn 18 years old.”

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So now the law is not if the murder happened before they turn 18, but whether they are convicted before they turn 18?

This is Pulitzer Prize level reporting.

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The two teens’ mothers have both spoken out about their sons’ heinous actions but they don’t share the same views.

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Take a wild guess which one is making excuses, and which one isn’t.

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“I don’t know why he did this,” Ayala’s mother told KLAS Wednesday. “I don’t know if God can forgive this.”

“My son’s side of the story will be told, ‘the truth,’ not the inaccuracies the media will try to portray,” Keys’ mother said in a text to the station.”

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Here is some truth for you about your son, Mrs. Keys.

• The two teens are accused of going on a crime spree throughout the day of Aug. 14

• they allegedly hit a 72-year-old bicyclist while in a stolen Hyundai sedan

• drove away, crashed into a Toyota Corolla

• and again drove away before murdering Probst

• They later apparently stole two more cars before crashing them into each other

itswoot

Attitude adjustment time.

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para59r

Teen Murderers in Las Vegas Identified, Ending Racial SpeculationBy J.D. Rucker • Sep. 22, 2023

https://thelibertydaily.com/teen-murderers-las-vegas-identified-ending-racial-speculation/

yahoo news story is linked. has 7 separate stories under one link for the incident.
(Comments for each story don’t show for me, though each story has a comment bubble showing many comments made for each story. Wonders if anyone can read the comments or yahoo comments in general. )

Issue. Stories say “ending racial speculation” for me that’s not been the issue. Finds this to be leading readers in one direction. The issue has always been was it “a hit?”. Hispanics and black together indicates it could be. None of the stories mention the possibility. J.D. Rucker always brings interesting stories but his stories often lead with a premise. Of course he’s not the only one that does this, but I always find it mildly suspect when I come across it.

The stories do point out a small crime spree prior to running over the police chief that involve two more stolen cars that were crashed into each other and another attempt on a separate bicyclist that appears to have failed (points to Scott as this being random unless one wishes to entertain the theory that it was added into the hit to make it look random, but that would make it a bit dangerous to start off your hit with other acts they could of gotten pinched for). Also discovery of the vid was through someone at a school showing it so it did not actually have wide dissemination.

Anyway, seems clear the police don’t want us thinking more on this and for them the case is closed. Kids will get twenty years in jail once tried as adults and be out on probation well before that.

https://news.yahoo.com/las-vegas-teens-accused-killing-210250111.html

Cuppa Covfefe

Sad to say, that police chief will still be dead…..

pgroup2

The Beltway snipers whacked several people before they went after the intended target – Muhammad’s ex-wife. That plan worked quite well, except that Malvo didn’t know what the ex-wife looked like so he shot the person who answered the door knock – ex-wife’s friend.

The stupid part that unraveled the scheme was that the doorway shooting was not a sniper killing like all the rest. A blunder of tremendous consequence for which many people breathed a huge sign of relief once they were IDed.

scott467

“The stupid part that unraveled the scheme was that the doorway shooting was not a sniper killing like all the rest.”

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Lots of stupid with those two idiots.

Reminds of me Mickey Rourke’s character, an ex-con in the movie Body Heat (1981, great film btw), explaining to his attorney Ned Racine (William Hurt) that an arson/murder Ned intends to commit isn’t as simple as it sounds.

…………………………….
Rourke: “Hey, now I want to ask you something. Are you listening to me, asshole? Because I like you. I got a serious question for you. What the f@$& are you doing? This is not shit for you to be messing with. 
 
You ready to hear something? I want you to see if this sounds familiar.
 
Any time you try a decent crime, you’ve got 50 ways you can f#@% up.
 
If you think of 25 of them, then you’re a genius. And you ain’t no genius.
 
You remember who told me that?”
…………………………….

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phoenixrising

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/democrat-sen-bob-menendez-indicted-over-gold-bar-bribery-scheme

also:

via https://t.me/VA_Nikonov/16262

The head of the international committee of the US Senate, the author of anti-Russian sanctions, Menendez, has been charged with corruption.

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Robert Baker

Two questions to consider: 1) What year will the trial actually take place (assuming it is not not a plea deal)? 2) What would the sentence be if a conviction results?

A third question: Will the press cover the trial?

There could be several things in play here. This is the senator’s second indictment as a senator. Both have been for bribery. The Dems may have a new WEF acolyte they wish to place in the Senate. Menendez has been a reliable Dem from a policy perspective. We all know what that means. He has to stand for office again next year. I would look for a sign that Dem support is faltering for the guy. If so the ‘tell’ will be an announcement to retire at the end of his term to spend time with his family.

pgroup2

Using the acronym K.I.S.S., this is a ‘look squirrel’ moment that goes nowhere.

They should start saying how this proves there’s no double standard.

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TheseTruths

Seems like every few years there’s another Menendez scandal. He probably should have been barred from Congress long ago.

phoenixrising

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelensky-leaves-washington-mostly-empty-handed-amid-mood-shift-west

However, Pentagon announces Ukraine support to be exempt in government shutdown scenario

Cuppa Covfefe

Erm…. the House controls appropriations, not the Pentagon… (despite what they think)…

Thilley Milley has been sniffing his nail polish again….

scott467

The Pentagram has trillions stashed away in accounts all over the world.

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phoenixrising

Larry’s latest:

DON’T MISTAKE CRACKS IN THE BIDEN FACADE FOR IMPENDING SURRENDER ON UKRAINE
21 September 2023 by Larry Johnson 

We are seeing the classic signs of the growing discontent within some key sectors of the military and intelligence bureaucracy over the Biden policy towards Ukraine (I will touch on those in a minute), but the Biden national security team continues to stridently insist insist it will back Ukraine to the bitter end. However, despite the tough talk, Biden continues to balk on sending some weapon systems that could transform the Special Military Operation into a full blown war with Russia.

I am posting the video of Jake Sullivan’s press conference today on Biden’s meeting with Zelensky to illustrate this point. It lasts about 30 minutes and is worth listening to both for what is said and what is not.

Let me start by explaining what I meant by “classic signs” that there no longer is consensus within the U.S. national security agencies about what to do in Ukraine. Last week I wrote about the briefing DIA’s Director of Analysis provided to some key media outlets. He presented the Administration line dressed up as “DIA intelligence.” Today we have Sy Hersh’s latest report — Zelensky’s Bad Moment — that reveals there are important contrarian voices in the ranks of the CIA:

con’t reading https://sonar21.com/dont-mistake-cracks-in-the-biden-facade-for-impending-surrender-on-ukraine/

pat frederick

of course it is…unvetted, unscreened, UNWELCOME!

from tcth

cheering4America
September 22, 2023 11:46 am

Tuberculosis cropping up at the border. Of course:
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BREAKING: CBP sources confirm to FOX News that there are ** three confirmed cases of Tuberculosis ** among migrants in the El Paso sector… further complicating the already daunting task of managing an overwhelming number arriving daily @FoxNews
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mollypitcher5

But let’s fast track those work permits

pat frederick

RIGHT?????

pat frederick

so lemme get this straight…our gov’t funded $1.5 BILLION for planting trees…and yet gatesofhell is planning to eliminate hundreds out acres of trees because of CO2?

What the hell?

FTA

When the Senate debated the Inflation Reduction Act on Aug. 6, 2022, two Republican senators drew attention to an obscure provision buried in it.
“Their so-called Inflation Reduction Act is chock-full of Green New Deal spending; things like $1.5 billion — billion dollars — for a grant program to plant trees,” said Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.).
“This is a good one because I know a lot of people are worried about this —$1.5 billion to plant more trees — whatever,” said Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.).
The overall bill equally divided the Senate. Fifty senators voted for it and fifty voted against. Vice President Kamala Harris then decided the issue — casting her tie-breaking vote for it.
When President Joe Biden signed the 274-page bill into law on Aug. 16, 2022, it included this language on page 210: “$1,500,000,000 to provide multiyear, programmatic, competitive grants to a State agency, a local governmental entity, an agency or governmental entity of an insular area … an Indian Tribe, or a nonprofit organization through the Urban and Community Forestry Assistance program … for tree planting and related activities.”
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi put out a statement last week bragging about how some of this money was being spent in San Francisco.
“Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi announced that San Francisco will soon receive $14 million in new federal funding to plant and maintain trees, combat extreme heat and climate change, and improve access to nature,” said the statement. “This funding was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service under Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act — the largest climate investment in history.”
“The San Francisco Bureau of Urban Forestry will receive $12 million to plant and establish thousands of street trees in low-canopy communities,” said Pelosi’s statement. “This will mitigate extreme heat and establish climate-ready neighborhoods.”

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/22/opinion-nancy-pelosi-finds-14-million-growing-on-trees-terence-p-jeffrey/

mollypitcher5

It’s all a game. $$$$$$$$$

Cuppa Covfefe

In the case of Nan Francisco, there’s plenty of fertilizer on the streets there with which to fertilize the trees… though the needles, drug paraphernalia, and sex-work detritus might present a problem…..

pat frederick

and of course, all the bullshit nanzi spews

Cuppa Covfefe

Hmmm.

That would be CO² and a lot of hot air, too…. duct tape her up; she’s a major cause of Gore-Bull warming!

Call her mummy dearest…  🤖  🗿 

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pat frederick

Mummy Drunkest

Cuppa Covfefe

Hope she doesn’t smoke…

Oh, wait…

Maybe that would be a good thing…

Foom….  🍸  🚬  🔥 

pat frederick

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Cuppa Covfefe

Garland’s (de)mentor…

scott467

The old Crypt Keeper.

Could be so many members of Congress today.

singingsoul1

Gore was an opportunist a grifter who lied to the right people and made himself relevant and rich.
I never understood the whole warming dreck they foist on the populations. Anyone who had anthropology ( I loved) would have learned how weather changes just so little and that there is a circle. “God created all and it was good”.
Faith is a good guide and those who made climate change their god wedded themselves to lies.

pgroup2

You sure are a breath of fresh air, instead of hot air.  😀  😍  😆 

singingsoul1

Thank you pgroup2

phoenixrising

Comment lifted from Larry’s blog:

The other problem is that none of this so-called front-line, state-of-the-art, advanced technology, being sent to Ukraine is real. It’s all been teched down, out of fear (correctly so), of it falling into the hands of the Russians and being paraded down Red Square.

It needs to be made absolutely clear. NATO is nothing but a collection of vassal states cowering behind the United States. There is no NATO. Just a bunch of vassal states. The United States is NATO. It’s like hearing the United States go on about how they are saving the world for democracy. Nobody has a democracy. The United States has a Constitutional Republic with some — SOME — democratic privileges that have all been revoked. Just ask Russell Brand, YouTube and Google. Ask all of them. Guilty until proven innocent. The United States is saving the world for something that does not exist. Same thing with NATO. NATO does not exist.

These burning Leopard 2s and Bradleys were a PR disaster for the United States. Even with their less teched gear the United States is losing, again. This time in Europe. The United States watches as everything they send over to the Ukraine gets destroyed. In contrast, even with their less teched gear Russia is winning, and winning big. The Russians are keeping their best tech and best trained forces in reserve for what they (correctly) believe will eventually be a direct Russo/US war in Europe. (It has always been a direct Russo/US war. Since 1945.) The United States has nothing to justify expecting anything different by sending in their best tech. Nothing. At this point, nothing will “save the day” or “turn things around.”

Profits have never won a war. Printed digital debt has never paid for anything. One more Continuing Resolution (CR) will not pay the real bills. The United States hasn’t passed a budget since 2001. And the real bills for this misadventure will come due. And soon.

Regardless of the facts, the United States is going to go all in on a Russo/US war. They have to. Putin has already stated that the United States cannot expect to simply walk into Europe, start a war in Europe, proxy or otherwise, and expect to retreat back across the security of two oceans when things go south. Those days are over. As another commentator correctly stated: “This isn’t 1940.”

Quite frankly, I am amazed at the steadfastness, patience, and reserve the Russians have shown in the face of having Moscow bombed so many times by the United States. It makes me believe that the Russians are in this for the grand prize.

Yes. The United States did it. The United States is behind everything these days. The United States always does it. The United States is the global hegemon. For now.

TheseTruths

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TheseTruths

Why the Electoral College is so important. (I haven’t verified the statistics.)

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phoenixrising

via https://t.me/VA_Nikonov/16266

But the news of the day arrived in the channel in the evening. Germany will transfer the first batch of 45 Taurus missiles to Ukraine in the near future. The second batch of Taurus will consist of 50 missiles and will be transferred to the Ukrainian Armed Forces by November 10.

The Pentagon will supply the Ukrainian Armed Forces with 30 ATACMS missiles and three transport-loading vehicles for them by October.

M1A1 Abrams tanks are already in Rzeszow. The transfer to Ukrainian territory will take place at night, starting Saturday night.

pgroup2

Then the Saturday night fireworks show will be awesome.

phoenixrising

More on indicted Sen Menendez via https://t.me/VA_Nikonov/16265 – click for image

.. Not only incompetent Wikipedians, but also corrupt officials: the author of American anti-Russian sanctions and US Senator Menendez is accused of corruption

Robert Menendez, the author of American sanctions against Russia, the head of the international committee of the US Senate and an ardent supporter of “sovereign” Ukraine, as well as his wife are accused of corruption, follows from a statement by the prosecutor’s office for the Southern District of New York. During the searches, over $500 thousand in cash was seized from them – some of it was wrapped in clothes and hidden in closets, gold bars, luxury cars and decorative items.

The author of the “mother of all sanctions” against Russia, who put forward a bill of the same name in 2022, as well as a supporter of Armenia in the conflict with Azerbaijan, had corrupt relationships with three businessmen from his home state of New Jersey. Today, behind the anti-Russian restrictions are not only odious European officials who use Wikipedia materials to select sanctions targets, but also corrupt officials. In the Western world everything goes as usual.

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We are not ‘governed’… we are RULED by Mafia – type thugs/ phoenix

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mollypitcher5

I Totally Agree. Like the mafia they punish only those that somehow offend them, cheat them or if an example needs to be set. All others are free to do whatever they want.

phoenixrising

Somewhere in the emergence of railroad barons and oil barons Americans lost control to Oligarchs and their servant class – the lawyers

RAC

Sen Mendacious.

para59r

Apparently not idle words those “mother of all sanctions” bill thing, nor the credit given to Menendez for bringing it all together. Multiple stories on this. Makes you wonder how many of these gold bars are from this one effort alone and whom else may of gotten their share. It’s clear being at the very top of such an effort has it’s awards and all the do good talk are so much fiddle sticks to these people. Its the gathering of the gold and other assorted wealth’s and powers that matter to these people. All his monies need be traced back to their source. Every last red cent and a good place to start looking for moar are with the nefarious gang of eight.

Senate negotiations on “mother of all sanctions” bill against Russia …

Feb 11, 2022Negotiations on Senator Robert Menendez’s “mother of all sanctions ” bill are still going on in the Gang of 8 bipartisan senators from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, but time is…

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para59r

The entire Gang of 8 needs a full exam. We’ve known they’ve all been corrupt since the earliest Trump days. Everyone of them is tainted by this.

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phoenixrising

YES!

pat frederick

from tcth
Ron B
September 22, 2023 2:35 pm

Dallas mayor leaves Democratic Party, switches to GOP: ‘American cities need Republicans’
Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson was elected in 2019 and has been a vocal supporter of law enforcement.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dallas-mayor-leaves-democratic-party-switches-to-gop-american-cities-need-republicans
What is worrying for Democrats is that he is a black mayor, and there are many other black Democrat mayors in the big cities. This at a time when President Trump according to the Washington Compost has 20% of the black vote now.

TheseTruths

Excellent news!

scott467

“Dallas mayor leaves Democratic Party, switches to GOP: ‘American cities need Republicans’”

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Why does he have to be so dramatic?

He’s just switching UniParty jerseys, he’s still on the same Team UniParty.

He’s not changing teams.

It’s more like switching from playing offense to playing throw-in-the-towel (what RINOs call defense).

mollypitcher5

More boots on the ground soon.

On Wednesday the Army announced that about 3,400 soldiers with the 101st Airborne Division’s 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team will head to Eastern Europe this fall, as will 200 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division Headquarters.

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-deployments-eastern-europe/

mollypitcher5

The 82nd Airborne Division is an airborne infantry division of the United States Army specializing in parachute assault operations into denied areas with a U.S. Wikipedia

The 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) (“Screaming Eagles”) [1] is a light infantry division of the United States Army that specializes in air assault operations. [2] It can plan, coordinate, and execute multiple battalion -size air assault operations to seize terrain.

litenmaus

Evening mollypitcher….

“specializing in parachute assault operations”

1954: Dien Bien Phu…the French sent 1,000’s of paratroopers into a little valley in Cambodia…. 

Today American soldiers are already on the ground in Moldova & there is the possibility that these paratroopers could be airlifted from Romania for a short flight and dropped to begin assault operations on Transnistria.

Just a thought…

mollypitcher5

Gee, that sounds so much like we’re in a war …guess they’re all advising. Yeah, that’s it

litenmaus

“Advising” is the alternate for “We’re not a part of the conflict”…

para59r

Yep, moar boots on the ground. Stories start out saying they are going to rotate out other units already there, but further reading says those other units will just be fanning out to other locations in the area of operations.

scott467

It’s their funeral.

Never thought I’d see the 82nd Airborne fight for the Nazis.

barkerjim
Robert Baker

From my reading today. Does Augustine have a valid argument?

What is the difference between a pirate and an emperor if an emperor does not operate in a just manner? What is the difference between a terrorist and a democratically elected president if the latter strikes justice out of their foreign policy? Augustine reflects on this theme in the City of God. He suggests that kingdoms without justice are “but gangs of criminals on a large scale,” that is, “a group of men under the command of a leader, bound by a compact of association, in which plunder is divided according to an agreed convention.” Augustine continues:

 If this villainy wins so many recruits from the ranks of the demoralized that it acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues peoples, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom, which is conferred on it in the eyes of the world, not by renouncing of aggression but by the attainment of impunity. For it is a witty and truthful rejoinder which was given by a captured pirate to Alexander the Great. The king asked the fellow, “What is your idea, in infesting the sea?” And the pirate answered, with uninhibited insolence, “The same as yours, in infesting the earth! But because I do it with a tiny craft, I’m called a pirate: because you have a mighty navy, you’re called an emperor.”

Paul Louis Metzger, More than Things: A Personalist Ethics for a Throwaway Culture (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic: An Imprint of InterVarsity Press, 2023), 317.

TheseTruths

Virtue, morality, character, fair dealing, and the like are what separate those who govern rightly from tyrants.

John Adams:
“Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

Ben Franklin, on the signing of the Constitution in 1787:
“In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a general government necessary for us, and there is no form of government but may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe further that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. I doubt too whether any other convention we can obtain may be able to make a better Constitution. …”

The people have to safeguard their freedoms and deal with the tyrants and traitors.

para59r

I keep a car book. Or you can call it a book in the car. Something I can read while the wife shops. Currently and likely to be in the car for some time is THE HISTORY OF THE RENAISSANCE WORLD: FROM THE REDISCOVERY OF ARISTOTLE TO THE CONQUEST OF CONSTANTINOPLE by Susan Wise Bauer. Third in her series of short stories that tells world history through short essays by drawing together the events of water shed moments in history and explains them in interesting snippets of several pages. Yes, has mentioned such before.
Anyway. Last chapter covered the saying behind “Kill them all and let God Sort them out.” an expression that came from the south of France 1000 years ago. While I can’t drag a copy of her chapter here, I casted about for a good explainer and thought this short video best. While her account captures many more of the details, this account is at least complete.

This Cathar rebellion in a nut shell is about standing up against what is wrong and being mercilessly crushed.

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mollypitcher5

Thanks Para. So interesting

TheseTruths

“Light” reading that you keep in the car! 😅 My take-away from that is to be prepared. The exposing of the wrongs is just the first step. Then you have to be ready for the onslaught to come of smears, lies, firings, intimidation, and worse. It helps if people are united, as has happened with some boycotts. But on the whole we need to get on the same page and get stronger, IMO.

pgroup2

Bullseye!

pat frederick

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Cuppa Covfefe

Interesting pic. Look at the woman on the left; not the sort that would be wanting a Christmas Tree, I rather expect… and what’s in those watering cans???

The Princess and Princess Sparkley-Socks…

scott467

“Interesting pic. Look at the woman on the left; not the sort that would be wanting a Christmas Tree, I rather expect…”

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Shame on you for assuming the person in the red dress is a woman… with that crowd, it could be anything… 😂

pat frederick

Troublemaker10
September 22, 2023 4:45 pm

Jack Smith’s Gag Order Request Is Unconstitutional and Un-American
https://townhall.com/columnists/mikedavis/2023/09/22/jack-smiths-gag-order-request-is-unconstitutional-and-un-american-n2628772

Deplorable Patriot

Mom update:

You all re privileged characters, as my Grandma used to say. You get to hear this before the rest of the family.

My sister and I met for lunch. We hashed out funeral details. I knew the music, she had thoughts about lectors, etc. We agreed on details of time, place and celebrant. If the men in the family don’t like it, too bad. We are talking about live streaming for family and friends who cannot be there for various reasons as being housebound, new mom, kid getting married, etc.

Then my sister went back to the hospital and talked to the palliative care doctor and mom is in stage one of dying, starting stage two. Moving her is up in the air, as it doesn’t happen over the weekend, and our first choice for end of life care said no. I just had a long talk with an old, old family friend who knows about the end of life places in town, and she agrees with me: moving Mom at this point is dicey. We’re less than a week out, according to the palliative care physician.

Also, stopped in to see the hair dresser to tell him and cancel appointments. He was in tears. The neighbor on the corner who I have known since before I could walk just happened to drive up while I was outside. I let her know. She lost a sister recently, like, less than a month ago, to cancer found at stage four, and dead two weeks later. My sister contacted another old friend who offered email addresses of more old friends.

The next two weeks are going to be wild. Please, keep us in your prayers.

para59r

Defiantly keeping you and your full family in our prayers. Knows this will be a stressful time, but one rewarded with the coming together of family and friends in a way that strengthens ties. Such being the nature of events like this, trusting you’ll stay focused and strong.

Deplorable Patriot

She kept everything on the computer and phone. That’s one of my projects.

Deplorable Patriot

I’ve got it down to an elevator pitch at this point. I’m starting to be numb to it all.

barkerjim

Hugs!!!

pat frederick

praying for you DePat and your family.

Linda

You and your family are in my prayers. I know how stressful this can be, DePat, so be sure to take some time for yourself as well. Grief alone can be very draining, to say nothing of all the things you need to do right now.

Brave and Free

Definitely in our prayers DP, the reality of life is difficult at times. Sounds like family is depending on you, stay strong sister.
God Bless.

Deplorable Patriot

Oh, they aren’t depending on me. We’ve been through this enough times, we all know what to do. My brothers and sister know our Dad isn’t totally helpless, but I do need help talking to him about stuff like getting his suit dry cleaned.

I’m the communications point person. My sister is the medical point person. That’s the bottom line for the extended family.

Falling apart and all that will happen after it all goes down. My mom and her cousins were so close. One side was the “dirty dozen.” The other, anytime we had a party, the seven of them would end up at a table together. After us kids, they are the first priority.

Thanks to all for your prayers. Headed to my sister’s place t celebrate her birthday.

D

Aubergine

Praying for you all. Thank you for the update. I DO feel privileged! And I am a worrier, so it is very much appreciated.

litenmaus

Prayers for your strength & measured thoughts in the days to come DPat.

PAVACA

DePat
You and all your family are held in prayers and meditations for Deep Courage and Deep Wisdom. May the Almighty God be with you all, and may He hold your mother in His Hands.
If the palliative care doctor is saying it’s less than a week, my opinion is that moving your mother is probably too risky for her. Especially since one place has already said no.
Please take the best care of yourself that you can.

cthulhu

I’m taking this as an indication of how long DePat will likely be busy. Gail has done a super job at jumping in for the last two days and has expressed a willingness to do more, but it seems like a lot.

Any other authors willing to do a day or two? TradeBait, Steve, Valerie? Are Sylvia and Alison authors here?

phoenixrising

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/mccarthy-throws-fit-accuses-gop-hardliners-wanting-burn-whole-place-down-shutdown-looms

… House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has sent the House home for the week without a resolution on the looming government shutdown, after members of the Freedom Caucus refused to play ball, scuttling plans to pass a Continuing Resolution (a 30-day band-aid to avoid government shutdown), and putting 11 appropriations bills in jeopardy which McCarthy is hoping to pass in the next nine days.

But wait, there’s more!
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), meanwhile, has a bill lined up that could form the framework for the Continuing Resolution designed to keep the government operating beyond Sept. 30, according to Punchbowl News.

While House Republicans are pointlessly grinding through their version of FY2024 spending bills next week, Schumer and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will likely send the House a bipartisan CR. And yes, it’ll probably include billions of dollars in Ukraine aid as well as disaster relief funding and plenty of provisions that conservatives abhor.

At that point, McCarthy will have a choice to make. Will he bring up the Senate-approved CR and pass it with a mix of Democratic and Republican votes? Will he try to amend it and see if the Senate will bite? (They probably won’t.) Or will he ignore it and shut the government down?

This is a decision that could define McCarthy’s speakership.

On Friday, the House Rules Committee is slated to mark up four spending bills, Homeland Security, State-Foreign Operations, Defense and Agriculture, as part of the GOP leadership’s plan to get the 11 appropriations bills through the chamber. The four amount to $1.52 trillion in total spending – tens of billions less than what the Senate will accept.
After that, House members will return on Tuesday evening according to GOP leadership aides.

Punchbowl suggests that a Senate-led CR may have always been in the cards – as any bill to fund the government must be bipartisan, and McCarthy has been unwilling to put a bipartisan solution on the floor out of fear of an open war with his hardline conservatives.
When lawmakers return Tuesday, they’ll have just five days left to avoid a shutdown.

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This was published FRIDAY, SEP 22, 2023 – 10:45 AM
He sent them home this morning!

kalbokalbs

Good with shutting it down.

No CR. No money for Ukraine.

Vote all eleven appropriation bills separately.

Monday will be calling my Congress critter again.

scott467

“This is a whole new concept of individuals that just want to burn the whole place down.”

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Not buying one second of your bad theater, until or unless you actually burn the whole place down.

pgroup2

Well, the govt is now shut down, albeit for two days. Did anybody notice?

phoenixrising

via https://thefloutist.substack.com/p/ukraine-before-and-after

SCOTT RITTER

1 SEPTEMBER—It’s an honor and a privilege to be here to have an opportunity to talk to you. I wish we could talk about better subjects. I wish we were in a time we could talk about moving forward with a confidence the world would move forward with us, but we live in difficult times. 

Today I’ve been asked to address “global geopolitics in the context of the Ukrainian conflict.” I think when historians look back on the events that are transpiring today you’re going to be speaking of “BU” and “AU” the same way we speak of “BC” and “AD.” “BU” is “before Ukraine,” “AU” is “after Ukraine.” The Ukrainian war, ladies and gentlemen, has changed everything. 

The world that exists today is a fundamentally different world than existed before the conflict in Ukraine began. And when I say “the conflict in Ukraine” let’s just be clear: In reality, the conflict in Ukraine has been going on for decades. But the conflict I speak of is the conflict that has transpired since the decision by Vladimir Putin to send Russian troops into Ukraine on the 24th of February 2022. 

I have the honor and privilege twice a year to advise a board of some of the world’s most powerful and influential people, and those, of course, are people who operate in the oil and gas industry They make a lot of money and money equals power. 

I was brought in to talk geopolitics, and for several years now I’ve been hammering away at two things trying to convince these leaders of global industry that the world is evolving, that you need to evolve with it or you are going to be left behind. I spoke of the fact that the world is evolving away from an American singularity to a multipolarity, where America is no longer viewed by the world as the global hegemony—where, instead, America will have to learn to participate in a global community of equals. They have said, “No. Because that would require America to depart from the rules-based international order.” Which, of course, are rules that the United States wrote in the aftermath of the Second Word War to continue to empower ourselves. 

The rules-based international order is a sharp deviation from the principles, for instance, of the United Nation’s Charter, which speaks of multipolarity, global equality, and all that kind of nonsense. When I say “nonsense,” I mean from an American perspective because we don’t believe in any of that, we believe in the sole empowerment of the United States.

Many of these leaders of industry are American. They lead multinational corporations, but the multinational corporations don’t enrich multi-nations. They enrich the United States. Therefore, they need the rules-based international order to continue to exist, to maintain the system of enrichment that they have put in place over the course of the past 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 years. 

The other thing I brought up to them is that for those who believe that America can impose its will on the world no matter what. Even if we run into an economic hiccup, we will be able to resolve this hiccup in our favor by projecting military power, which is unmatched: There is nobody in the world that can match the Americans in terms of military power. I said, “Those days are over, too.” 

They did not want to hear this. But I brought up the reality that twenty years of endless war in the so-called global war on terror had fundamentally transformed the lethality of the American military. No longer were we trained, armed, equipped, or prepared to fight a land-based war in Europe or a large-scale conflict in the Pacific. We, instead, had broken our military in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Syria—we no longer had the skill set. They didn’t want to hear that, either. They said, “No. America has aircraft carriers, America has armored brigades, America is America and the world will never be able to defeat America.”

That was “before Ukraine.” After Ukraine, a new reality has set in. Before Ukraine, the United States was able to convince Europe that Russia could be sanctioned into submission. I know we laugh about it today, when we reflect on the ludicrous nature of the overconfidence of those who thought so. But those who have memories that can go back simply two years remember, in the leadup to the conflict, how the United States said over and over and over again, “We will bring Russia to its knees.” That, “Together with the West, we will sanction Russia, we will break the will of Russia. Russia will fold. Even if Russia were to go into Ukraine militarily they could not sustain this attack because their economy will fail.”

Ladies and gentlemen, the Russian economy today is stronger than it has ever been largely because of the economic sanctions: “before Ukraine,” “after Ukraine.” But it’s more than simply the empowerment of the Russian economy. It’s how the world thinks about America: The American singularity is over. 

Just the other week there was a meeting in South Africa of the BRICS organization—five “developing nations,” we call them. Is China a developing nation? Is India a developing nation? These are developed nations. Now, they haven’t been able to come together before Ukraine. There were internal squabbles: India and China didn’t get along, the Russian economy wasn’t so hot. Who knew about Brazil? Was the African continent ready for development? These are questions that were thrown out there. There is no longer talk about that. BRICS prior to last week was a concept that had promise. BRICS today is a reality that has changed the world. Notice that I didn’t say “changing” the world. I said “changed the world.” 

Let me tell you what happened when BRICS came together and expanded. America went from being number one to being number two. The day of the American singularity is over. It’s past, it’s done, it’s finished, it’s gone. We haven’t, maybe, realized it yet. Americans might believe that we’re still number one, but we’re not. We’ve been bypassed by BRICS. Well, you’ll say, “Wait a minute Scott, that’s many nations.” What do you think multipolarity means, ladies and gentlemen? It means many nations working together. And multipolarity is no longer a theory: It’s a reality. 

The reality of BRICS is such that America is number two. It will forever be number two because it will not have the economic strength to surpass the multipolar organization known as BRICS, which is expanding as we speak. And an interesting thing about BRICS is that we tried to keep Russia off the agenda. We tried to keep Vladimir Putin away from that meeting. He attended by proxy with his foreign minister, [Sergei] Lavrov. He attended by video. He dominated the proceedings, ladies and gentlemen. Russia will be the chair of BRICS starting in January 2024. When BRICS expands from its current membership of five, adding six, Vladimir Putin will be the head of BRICS. And when BRICS meets again next summer and they talk about brining ten nations in, Vladimir Putin will be the head of BRICS. 

It’s backfired. Everything we do has backfired. And it’s not just economically. Militarily: Prior to Ukraine, before Ukraine, BU—I’m trying to inject this concept into people’s minds—before Ukraine, people did fear the American military. With good cause. We go to war a lot. There is lethality associated with what we do. In Europe, NATO believed that it was a powerful military alliance. NATO believed that when NATO flexed its muscle people listened—before Ukraine. After Ukraine, NATO has been exposed as a paper tiger. A paper tiger. 

There is no military strength in NATO. NATO has no capacity to project meaningful military power beyond the borders of Europe. NATO cannot fight a war along the lines of the war that’s being fought in Ukraine today. Don’t believe me, believe General Christopher Cavoli, four-star American general, commander of U.S. forces, supreme allied commander. He said in a Swedish defense forum last January (2022), that NATO could not imagine the scope and scale of the violence taking place in Ukraine today. Think about that. 

What do military people do? We prepare for the future. We prepare for the future based upon what we imagine. We imagine something, we create capabilities to meet that which we imagine. If we have not imagined the scope and scale of the violence taking place in Ukraine today, that means we’re not ready for it. We haven’t trained for it, we haven’t equipped for it, we haven’t organized for it. We can’t fight it. And this is a fact. 

Right now there’s a counteroffensive taking place in Ukraine. The Ukrainian army has three brigades trying to take the town, the village, of Robotyne. Three brigades. That’s 15,00 men. Imagine NATO putting three brigades on the line right now. They can’t. NATO cannot put three brigades on the line. But imagine if they did: They’ve assaulted the village, they’ve been repulsed by the Russians. So three brigades are now being pulled out, three more are being brought in, in a complex passage of lines. NATO has not done a six-brigade passage of lines ever. And Ukraine is doing it under fire. They’re failing, but they are doing it. [Editor’s note: As of 8 September, Moscow acknowledged withdrawing forces from Robotyne.] 

That war that’s taking place right now in Zaporizhzhia, in Kherson, in Luhansk, in Donetsk: It’s a war that NATO cannot fight. And now the world knows it. NATO is a paper tiger. The world knows it’s a paper tiger. They know the United States cannot meet its stated desire to reinforce Europe in a fashion. Ukraine has lost 400,000 men in battle, 40,000 to 50,000 in the last several weeks. It took America ten years to lose 58,000 in Vietnam and that broke our back. Can you imagine a situation where the United States military was asked to sacrifice 40,000 men in two weeks? Can you imagine a situation when any European army was asked to sacrifice 40,000 men in two weeks? The fact of the matter is: We can’t win a war today in Europe. We’re not number one anymore. We’re not number two anymore. We might be number three. 

But this is a reality. It’s not just in Europe that we can’t prevail. It’s in the Pacific. Don’t believe me, believe Lieutenant General Samuel Clinton Hinote. He was the deputy chief of staff of the United States Air Force. He just recently retired. But his job was strategy. And what he did for the last four years is war-game every potential scenario of conflict between the United Sates and China in the Pacific. And he recently, before his retirement, went to the Pentagon and went to the White House, and said the following: Cease and desist your policies that push us to a potential military confrontation with China. Because if it does become a kinetic fight between the United States and China, there is no scenario in which we win. We lose every single time. And there is nothing we can do in the immediate future to change that outcome. We have to change the way we interface with China. 

That’s why Tony Blinken went to China in July. You remember that trip? He went—he had to go through thirty Chinese officials before he got to Xi Jinping—for a thirty-minute lesson in humility. The reason why he had to go there is because the United States had to hit pause on its China policy: Stop the path towards confrontation. We had just had a situation in the Strait of Taiwan where an American ship was almost rammed by a Chinese ship. And the Pentagon said, “If they do hit us, what do we do? Sink them?” And now the scenarios begin: If we sink them they retaliate, we retaliate, how does it end? Well, General Samuel Clinton Hinote said that it ends only one way every time: America loses. 

This is the reality today. We lose because we don’t have the capacity. But before Ukraine nobody understood that. Nobody believed that. Everybody believed that America was the supreme military power in the world. Today, the blinders have come off. Economically, we’re number two. Maybe we can maintain that position, maybe not. Militarily, we’re number three. And who knows where we’ll go with that. Because our military is a broken system. We spent hundreds of billions of dollars on a system that produces nothing beneficial to the defense of the United State. Let alone the defense of its allies. How can you spend $900 billion a year and say we can’t fight and prevail in a land war in Europe against the Russian army that spends $68 billion a year? It’s because our system is broken. But that’s another question. 

Ukraine has changed everything. Before Ukraine, America was number one, at least perception-wise. After Ukraine, American is number two economically, number three militarily, and this is a reality that the world is accepting. It’s not Scott Ritter saying this in a closed community to oil and gas executives. It’s Scott Ritter saying this while the rest of the world acknowledges this. Russia knows this. Russia no longer fears the American military. It’s not that they want to go to war against the America military, but Russia knows its capabilities. It’s been tested. China knows this, as well. 

When will Europe know it? When will Europe realize that NATO is a false prophet? When will Europe realize that the money you put into NATO is wasted money? When will Europe realize that instead of pursuing war you should be pursuing peace? It’s time for Europe to wake up. Because if you don’t, if you continue to believe in the myth of American hegemony, the myth of American supremacy—because it is a myth, it isn’t real anymore, it exists in the minds of American politicians, but it doesn’t exist in the way the world operates today. Europe has to decide: Do you want to become a prisoner in a cage of your own construct? Because that’s what’s happening. The world is bypassing America. The world is moving on with their collective life. And the American singularity is in the rearview mirror going backwards. 

Thank you very much.

kalbokalbs

Excellent speech by Scott Ritter.

I am relieved, some in the US military KNOW, the us can NOT prevail against China. AND, that message has been delivered to the WH, that blithering idiot Blinken.

scott467

“I think when historians look back on the events that are transpiring today you’re going to be speaking of “BU” and “AU” the same way we speak of “BC” and “AD.” “BU” is “before Ukraine,” “AU” is “after Ukraine.” The Ukrainian war, ladies and gentlemen, has changed everything. ”

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I think when historians look back on events that are transpiring today, they’ll be speaking of “BC” and “AC”.

Before Covid, and After Covid.

And prior to that, Before 9/11 and After 9/11.

Brave and Free

I think when historians look back they’ll see before Obama and after Biden/Obama with a hiccup of PDJT in the middle.
And hopefully the return of PDJT.

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

BU = Brilliant Uncirculated
AU = About Uncirculated.

Given the amount of effort some people put into trying to make coins appear better than they are…and how coins may be ugly-looking though technically uncirculated, we also have “BU = Butt Ugly” and “BU = Buffed Up”

Cuppa Covfefe

And they’ll see, and wonder why we didn’t see, that it was all BS

kalbokalbs

Off the wall ground report.

Six weeks ago, sent Trump 2024 donation by snail mail. Has not cleared.

I know, mail will to an off site for screening. Toss in some administrivia, opening, sorting… But dang, six weeks and counting.

mollypitcher5

That is a long time.

My ground report is that I think the RNC is getting the message loud and clear that MAGA isn’t playing with them anymore. For months my phone gets blown up by texts and calls, dozens a day. Curiously though in the last few days the number of of them is drastically down. I don’t engage. I hang up on the calls, then block the number The messages from every slimeball rino gets spam and block.

phoenixrising

Now that the US is paying $1trillion on the interest alone on its $31trillion debt – the international banks have got the US exactly where they want it.

Now all they do is turn the screws.

I’ve been wondering for quite some time how the Cabal was going to do it to an economy as large as the USA.

Check out how insider Catherine Austin Fitts explains it: the Cabal will hollow out the government-held assets, leaving only the liabilities (sorry, I haven’t got a link).
… and voila!

pgroup2

I don’t think the interest payments total 1 trillion yet.

Getting close. we’re at about 750 billion currently AFAIK.

phoenixrising

Debt total was $31 T recently… Biden’s budget is $1.3T iirc and there will be more debt projected over the next decade if Biden signs a MOU (memorandum of understanding) with Ukraine as USG has with Israel… a trillion here a trillion there, pretty soon we may have to cut off ALL of Fauci’s ‘perks’ … 😉

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/14/politics/interest-payments-federal-debt/index.html

Even if the Federal Reserve slows or stops raising rates this year, as many economists expect, the nation’s borrowing costs will continue to increase. That’s because as the existing debt matures, the government issues new debt with the higher prevailing interest rates.

The higher rates could increase the net interest cost on the national debt to about $9 trillion over the next decade, according to estimates by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, a nonpartisan organization that seeks to raise awareness of America’s long-term fiscal challenges. That’s up from the record $8.1 trillion that the CBO projected in May 2022 and the $5.4 trillion it projected in July 2021.

By 2032, interest costs will triple to more than $3 billion per day and to at least $9,400 per household, on average, according to the foundation. They are on track to become the largest federal budget item, surpassing Social Security and Medicare by the middle of the century.

“Having rapidly growing interest makes it much more difficult for government to fund all the things that are important to our society,” said Michael Peterson, the foundation’s CEO.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/19/united-states-national-debt-tops-33-trillion-for-first-time.html

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phoenixrising

… gives a brand new meaning to “I love ya to the moon and back!”

pgroup2

Yes it does.  😢 

scott467

From OT:

Friday Afternoon Statistic Dump – Border Patrol Reports Over 7.5 million Illegal Aliens Released into U.S. During Biden Term, 5.18 Million are Single Adult Males
September 22, 2023

“The Dept of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) waiting until Friday afternoon to drop the latest statistics on illegal alien apprehensions at the U.S. southern border. [DATA HERE] As a current surge is underway, the August apprehension rate was 304,162, the highest of any month so far on record.

Since Joe Biden took office over 7.5 million illegal aliens have been encountered and released into the United States. Of that number 5.18 million were single adult males. This is a wholesale invasion of illegal aliens on a scale never before fathomed. Joe Biden has created this crisis, and it is getting worse.”

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Thanks military, nice job.

First you let domestic traitors and foreign adversaries steal the government.

Then for an encore, you let 5+ million enemy soldiers invade the homeland, unopposed.

You guys are the tits.

pgroup2

Those tits are on bulls.

IOW — useless.

kalbokalbs

SD

~3 minute video at the link.

Russell Brand Issues Statement After British Govt Target Him for Removal from Social Media Platforms

The Sunday Times, a Rupert Murdoch publication in the U.K, published a hit piece against Russell Brand accusing him of rape and sexual assault 20-years ago. It did not take long before the accusations triggered the cancel culture and YouTube demonetized the actor and pundit. Russell Brand has vehemently denied the allegations.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/09/22/russell-brand-issues-statement-after-british-govt-target-him-for-removal-from-social-media-platforms/#more-251127

kalbokalbs

Ed Dowd, delivering great information.

~30 minute interview at the link.

Ed Dowd Makes Chilling Prediction on How the COVID Conspirators Will Cover Up Their Crimes

https://vigilantnews.com/post/ed-dowd-makes-chilling-prediction-on-how-the-covid-conspirators-will-cover-up-their-crimes

para59r

Hold on to your chairs!!! 😮😬🫣

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/zelensky-asks-marina-abramovic-to-be-ambassador-for-ukraine/ar-AA1h6Bf8

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mollypitcher5

dayum…the old clintoon gang getting together again.

Rebuilding schools ? Step right up kids it’s Spirit Cooking Friday !!

mollypitcher5

Clinton Global Initiative announces new proposal to help rebuild Ukraine, provide humanitarian support
Story by Lawrence Richard •
4d

Cuppa Covfefe

So, they finally brought back home ec? Hate to see what they’re gonna cook up in shop class 😮  👺  👹  😵 

(ducks and runs from questionable tools and insufferable fools)….

cthulhu

Lots of blood for rituals….

pgroup2

This can’t be real.

TheseTruths

She should have nothing to do with children. And we should not be sending one dime to people who sanction her work, even though she also carries it out here.

Cuppa Covfefe

At the rate it’s going, and with “two ys but not wise” threatening to enlist EVERYBODY in Ukraine for his meatgrinder effort, there won’t be anyone left to go to their schools.

And those the grinder doesn’t get, the clot-shot will…

It’s pretty obvious that Satan himself is running the WEFfenSS show…

kalbokalbs

There is hope…

Matt Gaetz: “Break the Fever”

1:33 video at the link.

https://rumble.com/v3jz52m-matt-gaetz-break-the-fever.html

kalbokalbs

More cities, counties and states ought to do this.

  • Preemptively, Say NO To ALL THINGS Covidiocy.

Queen Creek prohibits COVID mask, vaccine mandates with new ordinance

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/pinal/2023/09/22/what-we-know-about-queen-creek-new-rules-on-mask-vaccine-mandates/70934701007/

Tomorrow, I’ll be sending an email to our County Commissioners.