“That was one in a million, and through the power of God, it went in,” Franks said.
“The first three, I thought he has some basketball talent, but the last shot, really, I think was maybe more a gift from God than it was some natural talent,” said his mother, Marie.
Franks is a player for the K-12 school’s junior-high team. He said the cash is going straight to his college fund.
Backyard Critters:
She has a name for each one of them, but they all pretty much look alike to me…
My younger sister and I were scolded by forest rangers in The Blue Ridge Mountains when we were little for feeding the wild deer (Ritz Crackers!) and they sternly informed us that the deer will become lazy about foraging their own food if they get used to humans hand-feeding them … “and they’re starve to death in the winter!” My sister was brought to tears.
By the way, any of you other ladies jealous of these naturally lush eyelashes?? “Doe-eyed” indeed! This was sweet…
Canadian wildlife enthusiast Derek Keith Burgoyne was in New Brunswick, Canada, when his drone camera caught a moose shedding both of its antlers. “Once-in-a-lifetime moment,” he said…
Rather than replacing Russell Crowe’s Maximus, Mescal will portray a different character. In the sequel, he will act as Lucius, son of Lucilla (played by Connie Nielsen), and the nephew of Joaquin Phoenix’s Commodus, the son of Roman leader Marcus Aurelius. As the original film showed, Maximus saved Lucius and his mother while avenging his own family, a lasting influence on the boy…
A little too late, Brandon. A. Whole. Week.
The CCP and Xi got everything they wanted and needed.
So now that the balloon has completed it's mission, we're going to make some sort of ridiculous and expensive military show to prove what? Then Biden will take a victory lap? https://t.co/XDuKobuWsj
While the balloon was off the coast of South Carolina, the balloon was shot down by the U.S. military on Saturday afternoon, according to Fox News sources.
When you watch the video you can see the payload machinery free-falling toward the water below the limp deflated massive balloon. That valuable technology might well be lost to our military and intel exploitation.
The dithering and dissembling of the Biden administration over the Chinese surveillance balloon is reminiscent of the dithering and dissembling over the botched Afghan withdrawal. It’s at these times you need a commander in chief who is on the ball and a VP who isn’t an idiot https://t.co/YGlWhRaSdo
I’m hoping our military/intel tech hackers were atleast early-on able to not only grab any/all data off the damn thing while it was cruising freely above us, but halted its ability to collect and transmit any further data/info back to China. *sigh* I have my doubts.
How do you say, “Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!”, in Martian??
❄️💨❄️This is EXTREME WEATHER! Right now Mount Washington is living up to the reputation of having the worse weather in the world. INSANE conditions Temp -42° F, Wind Chill -101° F, Wind Gusts 127 mph! https://t.co/vr4pGu9p7G From the summit cam 230-240pm. #OHwx#PAwxpic.twitter.com/6N30euV9oL
These last couple of weeks I’ve been binge-watching the two season (1963-1965) “The Outer Limits” TV series I loved as a child. While then the alien episodes scared the heck out of me. Re-watching now I’ve noticed the show production was limited to basically 3-4 alien costumes that they would attach whatever clump of hair or slimy trim on in hopes of you not noticing it’s pretty much the same ‘alien’ from a previous episode a few weeks back. But the special effects (which also were reused again and again) weren’t too bad with what the series crew had to work with back in the day, and for a television series with limited network funding to go around (hence, only 2 seasons). Still, the story writing and telling was ahead of its time during that black and white Cold War era … and yes, a lot of storylines depended on Cold War fears and mentality.
When I had completed that original series binge-watch I moved onto the re-vamped “The Outer Limits” (1995-2002) that originally aired on Showtime and Syfy and went out in syndication. I’m watching on my ROKU Channel archives. This era’s series did bring back a few original episodes with remakes, but most of the episodes are newer subject matter mentality and fears, the Cold War over and not so influential. There is more of a science-based sci-fi element, a lot of mind-harnessing, DNA-manipulation and computer/AI interference and future post-apocalyptic mankind as struggling ‘primitives’ at the enslaved mercy of overlords. The ‘alien’ related episodes are less surprising with the humans because we are to perceive mankind is experienced at space travel and open to non-human life possibilities. So, the alien-related stories don’t really have the same effect as when I was a kid. No, the episodes that tug at my peace-of-mind are those that involve the natural threat/destruction of Earth, or the colonized planet humans find themselves on. I’ve seen 2-3 episodes so far in the nearly 4 completed seasons out of 7 seasons involving solar/star major events as the mode of destruction and helplessness involving the/a sun/star and solar activity. This kind of goes back to last week’s “Space” post where I recommended the movie “Knowing”. I think it was about 30 years ago I became awed by the power of the sun and how while it is so unique in our universe and life-giving, it will eventually, with little to no warning, be the end of this world and those we share the Sol System with.
And the classic episode of The Twilight Zone: S3 E10 “The Midnight Sun” remains one of my most chilling watches since childhood, all the way to the twist and turn end. I know The Twilight Zone has a new remake TV show since 2019. I’ll have to check those episodes for a redux of that classic episode.
Which brings me to another movie involving the sun, and its diminishing power threatening Earth, “Sunshine” (2007).
A second crew must make the long travel to the sun to try to ‘refuel’ its fissionable status because it is burning out and getting colder, putting Earth in a dim light and a very cold state. They are the second mission crew because the first mission became MIA. And this ship is carrying the last of Earth’s natural resources needed to build the ship, and the fissionable materials to jump-start the sun. It is my recommended movie this week. Although, I may have done so in a past SPACE post. *shrug* Dealing with the Arctic freeze my area is having this weekend I guess I’m gravitating to the sun’s light and warmth. I mean, getting out and trying to get a firsthand glimpse of the ‘green comet’ is already hit or miss with the clouds, let alone dealing with the frigid night air.
Anyhow, I do also recommend the original and the remade “The Outer Limits” TV series offerings. You can find season-episode guides on Wiki pages for the two versions of the series.
And while we’re on the topic of a unique and rare arrival of a comet into our Sol System and passing closely by Earth, another movie to seek out streaming for is “Lifeforce” (1985). It’s quite a remarkable and rare twist of sci-fi and horror. Right now, this movie is streaming on Freevee, which is ‘free’ and all you need do is download the app. If you subscribe to Amazon Prime it’s already streaming on there.
Meanwhile, a salute to the Biden administration’s approach to China’s illegal spy balloon invading our airspace…
Our southern and northern borders are unprotected, wide open and are being invaded. And now our airspace is defenseless … by deliberate choice on all three flanks.
REPORTER: "Does the public not have the right to know…?"
PENTAGON: "The public certainly has the ability to look up in the sky and see where the balloon is." pic.twitter.com/3mLU3BQTRQ
Perhaps one of THE most arrogant dismissive things I've ever heard from the military/federal government that lives off our hard-earned tax $. https://t.co/z3fy2tguMj
“This is entirely an unexpected situation caused by force majeure and the facts are very clear. China always acts in strict accordance with international law and respects the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries. We have no intention to violate and has never violated the territory or airspace of any sovereign country.”
^^THIS^^ from the same country that plagued the global air with their bio-weapon three years ago, killing millions worldwide.
Beginning to think zero consequences for a global pandemic is starting to have some repercussions.
So, the Chinese spy balloon is coincidentally hovering at the necessary altitude for an EMP attack. I doubt that's what it is. But it's gathering some very disturbing intelligence: China can fly something like this over America and Biden will do NOTHING.
Thank you! I've been saying that since this broke last night. Or how about dispersal of bioweapons from the air or in water sources, livestock/poultry farms.
Stuckenberg, founder and chairman of the American Leadership & Policy Foundation, wrote in a 2015 paper that high-altitude balloons would be the easiest to resource, equip, and launch a nuclear device in the atmosphere that would act as an EMP and dismantle the U.S. power grid.
Specifically, an EMP is a brief burst of electromagnetic energy causing interference that can disrupt communications, fry electronics, and, at higher outputs, even damage such things as planes and buildings.
“Using a balloon as a [weapon of mass destruction/weapon of mass effect] platform could provide adversaries with a pallet of altitudes and payload options with which to maximize offensive effects against the U.S.,” Stuckenberg wrote.
I’d go one further. China never does anything small. A duel attack of EMPs to cripple us and in tandem with balloons loaded with bio-weapons to disperse over the populations with deadly viruses via airborne and water/food contaminations. With these current balloons invading Canada’s airspace and also Latin America it would be a huge attack.
New @bpolitics report would be funny were it not so painfully true. Says Biden WH did not want to upset the Chinese over the balloon. But WH worried balloon, now public, would be 'fodder for Republicans who believed the administration is weak on China.' https://t.co/Ex5WMU2MLxpic.twitter.com/wt8s4YIGIL
These willful idiots are mentally and intellectually unable to think outside the tactical box on anything serious.
Until they wake one morning with no electricity, no broadcasting. No security/alarms. No transportation. No radio capability for police and other first responders to the inevitable civil unrest and anarchy that would ensue. Still, they wouldn’t be pissed and worried if their local high-end coffee shop was unable to make them their ‘regular’.
Digging real real deep to try to get myself to care about the Chinese spy balloon and coming up empty.
Next time some Pentagon general tells you balloons pose no threat because they're too low tech… pic.twitter.com/kIsRHyDHA8
— Generalissimo Illegal Neanderthal 🇺🇲✝️ (@rayrothfe) February 4, 2023
Just a chapter of ‘history refresher course’ for those poo-pooing the current ‘balloons’ issue. Note: Japan was also considering using balloons to deliver their planned A-bomb(s) to our west coast in WWII. Today’s EMP payload would be far easier…
No, worse. A Chinese high altitude spy balloon that is currently navigating over the northern states. It apparently came in over Alaska, flew into Canada and then came down over the north midwestern states. The above photo is a photo taken by a citizen of Billings, Montana. He says in the video it’s not the moon because the moon is at his opposite side.
Allegedly Biden said to shoot it down but the military brass advised against it … “overruled by generals”. It’s supposedly flying higher than air lanes in “international air space”. Hmmm? Doesn’t look that high up to me. Pentagon was worried about debris falling to the ground if we intercepted it. Montana. It’s friggin’ Montana. Loads of open spaces.
The balloon has been flying over our military bases and silos…
Chinese spy balloon flying over Montana is home to Malmstrom Air Force Base, one of three bases in the U.S. with Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs)
There’s no damn way this thing is just aimlessly floating around out there. If we can manipulate and navigate drones remotely from many miles away so can the CCP’s military.
This is a picture of a couple of our military jets circling the spy balloon…
Let me just point out that all it would take to fuck up our country is just an EMP detonation over a key area of our power grid. That, or maybe another bio-weapon dispersion over a big city or into farmlands or into the water supply. Don’t scoff. The Japanese in WWII considered using such a balloon delivery system for the atom bomb they were working on while we were working on ours. They did manage to deliver conventional bombs with a balloon, killing an adult woman and five children in Oregon in May 1945.
God, help us…
The Pentagon said the quiet part out loud
The CCP can send spy balloons over our nuclear silos and we will do nothing
Jesse Watters: "What's up with Trudeau? Is he spaced out? He didn't give us a little warning that the Chinese were flying spy balloons across his territory?"
Lt. Col. Danny Davis: "A little surprised by that too. I hope it's that they did, and that wasn't reported." pic.twitter.com/XRIQVt0nuK
And word early this morning is Canada is reporting they’ve spotted a second balloon.
Anyhow, pretty sure they publicly addressed this yesterday so that some civilian would take it down with a drone so that the military under Biden won’t have to. Second thought, I wonder if the military/CIA are looking for somebody (Chinese spy/operative) that might be navigating this and any other such crafts inside our country or in Canada, and want it to continue in order to pinpoint that person(s)? China has not officially claimed responsibility for the balloon(s). However, China is calling the balloon a “civilian airship” used for “research” … uh-huh. Yeah, I guess that’s one way to cover your ass.
Mission accomplished but apparently it’s only “elections have consequences” when dems win and punish republicans. In this case, these three ‘made their own beds’ negating their validity and viability on the committee seats.
It is an outrage that every Republican voted to remove @IlhanMN – a third term Muslim American woman – from the Foreign Affairs committee. Our job is to unite the American people, not divide them based on their race and religion. What a disgraceful day for the House.
Are you serious? Your party spent the last 6 years doing irreparable damage to America and driving gigantic wedges between people all because you don't like the guy who got elected in 2016.
By late afternoon yesterday the Hunter lawyers were clumsily walking back their obvious admission of the laptop and contents were their client’s. But the threats still continued…
The laptop’s legal status is also key. To all appearances, Hunter abandoned the laptop at John Paul Mac Isaac’s Wilmington, Del., computer repair shop. That’s different from the claims of Hunter’s sister, Ashley, who triggered a nationwide FBI investigation into the theft of her diary. While she left her diary at a third party’s home, she insists she did not abandon or forget it. Under standard terms of the agreement, an item left beyond a certain number of days at a business or rental housing becomes abandoned property. It can generally then be left on the curb, sold, or given away.
What’s most striking about the Hunter Biden claim is the delay. For more than two years, Hunter has refused to admit the laptop is genuine despite email recipients confirming the content of the communications. The laptop also shows Hunter engaged in potential crimes from drug use to prostitution offenses. Yet he insisted it might all be those pesky Russians again.
Now the laptop is his, and he is fighting mad. Indeed, he’s shocked that anyone would treat his property in this fashion — a property he left at a computer shop and failed to claim for years.
In the effort to target Marco Polo, the Biden team insists it “has operated as little more than a thinly disguised political operation to attack the Biden administration and the Biden family.” That sounds more vindictive than virtuous. Indeed, if the Biden administration started yanking the tax-exempt status of Biden critics, it would trigger an outcry over weaponizing the IRS. (A similar controversy during the Obama-Biden administration involving IRS official Lois Lerner led to a financial settlement with targeted conservative groups.)…
Tucker (who’s a target for the Hunter lawyers) has got it in a nutshell…
Greg Byenes: Pfizer Director of mRNA Research Raises Fertility Worries Over COVID-19 Vaccine … Sure is looking more and more like the China COVID plague was a two tier means to an end of world population growth. Death by virus and/or depleted fertility for future generations. It’s not a ‘funny comeback line’ to say how valuable the sperm and ovum of unvaxxed males and females (and that of their clean blood off-spring) will be in the future.
We’re never really given an exact measure of time the newsman in “Groundhog Day” spends waking up over and over again and again to the same exact day. We do know that after spending the beginning of that timeframe farting around and even trying to kill himself, he does widen his learned wisdom on several topics, becomes a Hell of a pianist and wins the girl of his dreams and it’s a new day!!!
Well, we’re into two years of Brandon Demcom-hog’s Day with no end in site.
So much for Biden’s 2020 vow to be a “uniter”, eh…
Inland border patrol checkpoints vital for stemming the tide of drugs and illegal migrants into the country have been closed for months as officers are diverted to admin duties, sources told The Post.
“You’re keeping the agents from doing their job; that’s how drugs fan out to other places,” Arizona’s Yuma County Supervisor Martin Porchas told The Post noting how three roadside checkpoints in the area are shuttered.
“That has an impact on the whole United States because drugs, once they pass the checkpoints, that’s it.”
The checkpoints are stationed 25 to 100 miles north of the US-Mexico border and act as a second line of defense. Sources explained how once people smugglers or drug runners make it past the international border they start to let their guard slip and an extra checkpoint can often catch them out…
But the demcoms had their talking-points memo ready with racism and “Fentanyl ain’t a thing” at the top…
.@RepJerryNadler claimed the border crisis hearing will expose the "racist tendencies of the extreme MAGA Republican wing of the party" because the GOP wants the border to be secured.
Adds it "almost makes me miss the usual obsession with conspiracy theories and the FBI." pic.twitter.com/sUqWsNL69o
Julio has a few more dems on the committee reciting similar bullshit comments on “racism” and “there’s no problems with the immigrants who are crossing the border” in his Twitter thread. SHOW THE DATA GRAPH NUMBERS, JIM! And border city sheriffs, bring the crime data numbers.
Sheriff Mark Dannels of Cochise County, Arizona warns @JudiciaryGOP that our southern border is the "largest crime scene in the country.” pic.twitter.com/6wu1vSIDhJ
Wait, we've been told for 2 yrs that the border is secured…so that must mean Mayorkas is a racist? Or, Nadler is just a jerkwagon race baiter? Which one?
Last time I checked, I’ve been black for a long time. I’ve been a minority for a long time. Am I racist for calling what’s happening at the southern border, an invasion? No. I’m a Congressman who is tired of this administration using racism as a scapegoat for everything. -WPH pic.twitter.com/HbTkEMw5Ks
— Rep. Wesley Hunt Press Office (@RepWesleyHunt) February 1, 2023
Since about the last half of the 20th century the left has always treated illegal immigrants as some monolithic racial minority and anyone that objects to the blatant breaking of this country’s immigration laws as racists. And democrats have then used that to manipulate and retain a segment of their voting base for decades. Not anymore, as that party is increasingly losing the percentage of Hispanic votes who are fed-up with the dem party’s socialism push and their embracing of illegal aliens over immigrants who did it legally (or are currently waiting) and are now hardworking taxpaying patriotic Americans that demand it be done the right way…
“It’s bulls–t,” Bonfilio Solis, 43, fumed Wednesday. “These migrants expect benefits from the government and aren’t appreciating what they’re being given. They’re being very disrespectful.” …
“I’ve been here 30 years. I never got nothing from the government but I busted my ass and now I own my own construction company,” he said. “My first job in America was washing dishes in a restaurant, then a waiter, then I got a job in construction and worked my way up to foreman.”
Solis added: “To see these guys sitting here, expecting everything to be given to them with no effort — it’s not fair to other migrants that are willing to work and are working for a better future.”
“They’ve been given shelter in Brooklyn but they won’t take it because they expect an expensive hotel room. It’s not right,” he said. “It gives migrants a bad name.”
Seriously, it’s kind of like a jewelry store smash-and-grab thief complaining the diamonds and gold he stole aren’t of a higher quality. And by the way, I thought these illegals’ defense for coming here illegally was to escape poor living conditions in their own country. The facility they’re to move to is doubtless of higher quality than what was left behind in their own country… unless it was the prison their governments quite possibly/probably released them from to come here. Yeah, I said it.
Meanwhile, the NGO’s that have been enabling this Biden wide open border invasion these last couple of years have apparently been joined by activists who’ve been instigating these men to stay on the sidewalk at the hotel and refuse to move to the facility that’s been set up for them. The hotel was cleared of these able bodied single male illegals so that other immigrants, women and children families, could be set up in the hotel rooms…
Why do the adult male migrants now refusing to give up on their luxury accommodations at the Watson Hotel in Hell’s Kitchen act and sound suspiciously like American activists on the same issue?
Like Sergio Tupac Uzurin, an activist with NYC ICE Watch who’s been front and center protesting the migrant move. He claims that some migrants who saw the Brooklyn facility they’re being moved to called it a “refugee camp.”
Wow, that’s the exact same term used by lefty critics of Adams’ other migrant facilities. What a coincidence!
And though the only rent-payers on the hook for migrant accommodations are New York’s taxpayers, a “cancel rent” banner — a motto of progressive groups like Housing Justice for All — somehow hung at the protest site…
Hey, NYC Mayor Adams, this is what a “sanctuary city” is, plain and simple, as intended by the activists inside this country.
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Growin’ that ‘police state’, Comrades! That additional 87K new IRS thugs just ain’t enough! The overgrowth and overreach of the feds is getting worse and the two-tier justice system and political bias is as palpable as a double-decker crap sandwich on a moldy bun…
I’m reminded of the scene from Full Metal Jacket where a general, seeing the words “Born To Kill” right next to a peace sign on Private Joker’s helmet says, “Is that some kind of sick joke?!” Welcome to the government of the former United States of America in 2023. It is both fundamentally unserious while simultaneously as serious as a heart attack, insofar as the existential threat it poses to the people. As in “WE THE.” You remember? The People. The ones who are supposed to have ultimate political power and only vest that which is absolutely necessary to elected representatives in order to ensure the functioning of something called the civil society. You don’t remember? Well, you must have had a shitty education, like an advanced degree from Harvard, Yale or Stanford…
Which, oddly enough, leads to the diapered puddin’-head king’s foreign agent princely whoring crack-smokin’ son…
The latest search of a Biden residence occurred on the first day at the office for Robert Hur as Special Counsel. He may find that any potential criminal case has already been made more difficult by decisions by the FBI. https://t.co/U5kpUukZck
Hunter Biden accidentally admitted the laptop is real by accusing Trump allies of sharing its ‘stolen’ data after he refused to pick it up from the computer shop.
Hunter Biden admits infamous laptop is his. Not Russian disinformation, not a “plant” as his father and 51 dishonest former intel officials pretended https://t.co/PezVHgUPlW
You broke the story 3 y ago and all this time Biden, Dems, the media and former intel officials claimed that information on Hunter’s laptop was Russian disinformation but now Hunter is asking for criminal probe into Trump allies for ‘stealing’ the data from the laptop. Insanity!
…The call for a criminal investigation follows a reported meeting of a Legion of Doom, Biden operatives who discussed attacking key witnesses and going on offensive. https://t.co/UYmDcFIarN
Remember when folks warned the COVID lockdowns were basically a dry-run for “climate change” lockdowns and were laughed at? Yeah… Come on, man. Not a joke— They know people cannot afford EVs or the additional cost to their energy bill to recharge them, or the power grid to support a complete transfer-over to only electricity in this country. This will be enforced, and we will be fully monitored to make certain we are complying with federal mandates regarding travel and all other levels of our private/personal daily life…
The University of Utah School of Medicine implemented a series of programs to recruit and retain diverse students and faculty after its accrediting organization said its diversity efforts were unsatisfactory, according to emails obtained by a medical watchdog group and shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The school, in response, filed a status report outlining its progress in increasing its diversity on campus.
“This further promotes ideology ahead of quality medical education and race/ethnicity or sex over hiring the most qualified faculty and staff,” Laura Morgan, Do No Harm’s program manager, told the DCNF.
The photo is Memphis, Tennessee. We’re not seeing that kind of ice here in NEOhio, rather, any ‘melt’ is not slip-slide-fall ice on surfaces in the extreme cold temps. More coming through the weekend.
Meanwhile, I am hoping to be able to bundle-up and head outside tonight after sunset, turn north and see if I can spot the “green comet” on its first night of closest proximity to Earth.
US @Surgeon_General Vivek Murthy says he believes 13 is too young for children to be on social media platforms, because although sites allow children of that age to join, kids are still “developing their identity.”
WTF? “The consensus among younger journalists is that we got it all wrong,” Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, editor in chief of the San Francisco Chronicle, told us. “Objectivity has got to go.” https://t.co/eWNspZmD1X
Michael Goodwin: It’s the land of the freebies for NYC’s ‘entitled’ migrants … And as these elitist illegal aliens throw away and snub the food and shelter set up for them with the city’s tax dollars, the indigenous low income and homeless NYers are denied/refused that food and shelter.
The dems and Biden are trying their damnedest too. When you hear them bitching that the GOP refuses to “fix” immigration it’s because the GOP knows full-well the demcoms’ “fix” is the same-old “let everyone in unvetted and give them blanket amnesty”. Always has been, always will be…
And do NOT let the demcoms and MSM try to sell this as a ‘successful border security’ win for the administration. When you look at the numbers of terror list border crossers encountered at Biden’s broken open border it has risen in these last two years because the terrorists are emboldened, and God knows how many went undetected gotaways…
NEW w/@BillFOXLA: Texas law enforcement arrested an Iranian illegal immigrant at the southern border whose name and date of birth subsequently turned out to be a match on the FBI’s terror watch list, Fox News has learned.https://t.co/RE7o8UjREP
I’m told his name & DOB both matched the watchlist. I first reached out to DHS & ICE requesting comment on this last Thursday. After 5 days, and multiple requests for comment, I was referred to the FBI. The FBI tells me they “decline to comment”. ARTICLE: https://t.co/4SCaFYY32F
David Strom: Randomized controlled trials: masks do nothing … Neither do ‘lockdowns’ to any degree, but they persist. Oh, and F-YOU for holding up the CCP China government as fantastic examples of how to handle anything, let alone the China plague…
It’s just astonishing. These people will argue, “no one ever advocated adopting China’s lockdowns,” then the very next day publish a long article urging everyone to adopt China’s lockdowns. I mean, it’s right there, the article literally uses the word “lockdown” 35 times.
Thanks for reminding us why your organization is a failure, about to go bankrupt, and has lost any shred of credibility. Go lock yourself down if you love lockdowns so much.
Yet the beat (and beat-down) goes on. Three years since the world was turned upside down when a virus now confirmed to have emanated from a Chi-Com bioweapons facility either intentionally, or accidentally-on-purpose, was unleashed upon the world. The other “happy accident” was the crisis that the junta controlling the nation could not let go to waste by using the virus as cover to derail the presidency and virtually 100% certain re-election of Donald Trump. You see, the crisis was not our crisis, it was their’s. The MAGA agenda posed an existential threat to the power and control of the Deep State bureaucracy, illegitimately accrued over the course of a century.
So, the now GOP-led House has voted to officially call an end to the Chinese COVID state of emergency, that was supposed to be temporary, but as the great Milton Friedman once stated, “There is nothing so permanent as a temporary government program.”…
Read the whole thing.
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More of that liberal “It MUST be done … but NOT in MY backyard” hypocrisy…
The classic part is where a guy who makes $40M/yr thinks it should be the city's job to pay to build a taller fence around his mansion.
The would-be cock-of-the-walk in the White House is completely failing to guard and protect the hen house that is this nation. Not only has he destroyed everything from his desk but he has allowed … and encouraged … several million foxes to invade the yard to roam free and do what they want pretty much unfettered while aiding and abetting their invasion, and at our cost on every level.
Just what “We THE People” needed in this country, another entitlement class living off the hardworking American dime.
These are all single … military age and abled … males. No children or women. They refuse to move from this once elaborate $500 a night hotel to the facility furnished for them with tax dollars— Oh, by the way, these guys have been pretty much trashing this hotel, literally trashing the food and supplies that they’ve been given, have been intoxicated and even reportedly having sex in the hallways (I suppose with local prostitutes or whatever). So, after finally being booted out the doors of The Watson Hotel, they have defiantly made their own homeless encampment near the entranceway.
Their reason for refusing to go to the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Red Hook? The illegal alien men say ‘it is too much like a prison’ … which tells me something about the background(s) of these guys that broke our immigration laws to enter our sovereign country, and quite possibly/probably have broken more since getting here. And, apparently, those oh-so-helpful NGOs that continue to encourage all of this broken open border invasion are telling these guys not to go to the facility in Brooklyn Cruise Terminal. These NGOs seriously need investigating. These facilities and accommodations, free of charge from these illegals, are meant to be temporary until they get their legal status in-order and then get a damn job and start paying their own way. Obviously this is not the goal of these invading squatters.
These illegals need a damn plane ticket back to where they came from with more than one Air Marshal on board the flights. Go the f**k home!
The government is telling us that the egg shortage is due to avian influenza – is it possible it’s the chicken feed instead?
@Storm4Congress All Tractor Supply stores near me in East Texas have pulled all the chicken feed from the shelf. Manager said something irregular has happened and couldn't give any details.
Today I’ve spoken with over 25 families in 6 states who have had their egg production completely cease, w/the exception of four. All four switched their feed in the last month. I shared my findings w/the other 21. I believe this isn’t an accident, just another “coincidence”.
— Jason “Storm Chaser” Nelson (@Storm4Congress) January 26, 2023
Newsmax: Mexico, US Still Far Apart over Corn Import Ban … We have little choice but import their illegal alien trafficking exports coming through their country, but they refuse our livestock feed. Priceless.
Meanwhile, “The economy is deteriorating” – Larry Kudlow…
Needs to go to court ASAP and those pushing this bullshit investigated for ‘ties’…
All the complainers are funded by fossil fuel; all the complaints about “wokeness” and “ESG” boil down to fossil fuel emissions risk reporting. It’s a political maneuver, a performance, just as fake as the climate denial it serves.
All the complaints about ESG are because it's a woke scam that assigns a higher environmental grade to Exxon than to Tesla
Americans who complain about the deliberate destruction of domestic energy production to support Chinese solar panel manufacturers are patriots. https://t.co/c4nfV7kJ6D
It's deeper than just energy Smug, companies are jeopardizing shareholder value, in the name of social initiatives. They are accepting lower profits, for higher ESG scores, which is not why we invest in the market. This is a class action waiting to happen.
Monsters like @SenWhitehouse want to shut people up if they bring up that ESG hurts retirees because it forces their retirement account managers to pick woke companies over what just gets them the best returns https://t.co/3Fs5AjV0ui
We used to have a MSM that would look under the rugs to ‘follow the money’ on these stories. No more, as Tucker points out. The bought and sold MSM…
VIDEO: Tucker Carlson: Politico doesn’t want to answer this … Politico has a Hell of a lot to answer for, not the least of which is their direct involvement in last spring’s SCOTUS Dobbs leak that is yet unnamed.
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The clueless dumb-cluck…
On my watch, the great American road trip is going to be fully electrified.
And now, through a tax credit, you can get up to $7,500 on a new electric vehicle. pic.twitter.com/n3iZ9etL4A
BIDEN: "I can say it now since there's different leadership. I used to about 15% of the time ride with the engineers. For real. And I'm the only guy that I'm aware of, when I stopped riding Amtrak that had a key to get in the back." pic.twitter.com/mhfUeg0kki
He’s insecure. He’s not a bright man, but he is bright enough to know that he is a mediocrity. He’s just not bright enough to stop the childish lying and over-compensating.
Apparently, “think tanks” on CBD gummies and Red Bull **shrug**.
Docu-Brandons:
1850 boxes of “documents” were donated and sent to the University of Delaware. The University of Delaware has, for these last 3-4 years, snubbed FOIA requests and refused access to anything Biden has donated to them over the years.
Column’s up: A curiously well-informed email about Ukraine, Russia and the UK on Hunter Biden’s laptop is a thread that links the President’s classified documents scandal to the Delaware federal investigation into his son’s foreign business dealings. https://t.co/8hu5x5e6RU
There has been much discussion of a classified document being found in his personal library in Wilmington, but there is a huge library of Biden documents sitting in the University of Delaware. The university is sitting on Biden documents due to a cynical 2012 arrangement made by Biden when he was vice president and contemplating a run for the presidency.
The president effectively locked away his records by giving them to the university, which has claimed for a decade that it is still working to organize and catalog the documents. He has refused to allow the public or the press to see the documents. With the recent reports that Biden may have included classified information in notebooks found at his residence, the status of the University of Delaware documents is becoming more and more untenable for the White House.
University ‘lockbox’
The University of Delaware has been used for years to shield potentially embarrassing documents from public review for the Biden family, including allegations that the president engaged in sexual harassment or assault as a member of the Senate. The university effectively agreed to serve as a type of lock box for the Bidens to prevent a review of his senatorial records as he ran for higher office.
At great public cost, the university has fought efforts by the media and the public to allow access to the documents. It is a troubling position for any institution of higher education to fight access to historical materials . . . for years.
Now, however, there is growing concern that the files may not only include incriminating information on past sexual-assault allegations but actual classified information. There is already confirmation that Biden removed classified information from the Senate more than 14 years ago. It now appears he also may have transferred classified information from briefings and documents to his notebooks. That raises the question of whether such information is contained in the notebooks and papers housed at the university.
If President Biden is ready to embrace transparency, he can start by finally dropping his opposition to any review of his senatorial documents. At a minimum, the FBI should request access to determine if his violation of classified rules extends to this mountain of material given to the university…
Chicago’s Magnificent Mile of businesses is disappearing as businesses and companies pull out because of crime in Chi-town, and year over year the crime wave grows unchecked from this manorial re-election candidate flaunts in the street…
That’s what @elonmusk called Twitter. As they fix the code more problems arise. A delicate balance he likened to a Jenga tower. One wrong move the whole thing collapses. They’re working nonstop, and both times I met him were after midnight. pic.twitter.com/ZwETEarvgp
Stop telling black children that they are inferior to white people because of "white privilege". Tell them they are capable of achieving anything they want in life through smart, consistent work and putting God first.
Oh, hunny, do YOU really want to 'go there'??? I mean, we do have the video(s) evidence of your side, ya know… https://t.co/K3ZHwVOadk via @BreitbartNews
The effort to separate the officers who murdered Tyre Nichols from the system of policing that produced them is palpable.
Police killings in the US reached a record high in 2022. That has only been rewarded with more funding at the expense of schools, hospitals, housing, & more.
The rise in police killings in the U.S. along with the rise in homicides is a direct result of anti-police politicians like you who demonized the police, drove them out of their jobs, and pushed many of the best ones into more affluent and whiter neighborhoods. https://t.co/cjSiwXq4qm
I also heard on Glenn Beck’s radio show this morning how, after the George Floyd anti-police activism, Memphis PD was having a hard time with recruitment because of retirements and resignations … so, they did things like lowering the education requirements, allowed former felons to apply, and gave $15K signing bonuses. I would sure like to hear the backgrounds and education of these 5-6 “Scorpion Unit” guys.
Keep persisting-in-resisting…
Novak Djokovic took home his 10th Australian Open win, just one year after being deported for choosing not to receive a COVID vaccine. https://t.co/V7yPZ0G7ef
“Figure skating is a very conservative sport with various strict rules. In international competitions, same-sex skating pairs are not allowed, and there is no category for non-binary skaters. I hope that every country will start working for equality and diversity in the field”, Wuorenheimo exclaimed.
(This artist’s impression shows how the rings might look from close to the surface of Chariklo. NASA/JPL
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