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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Ex-USDA official blasts 'mind-boggling' Biden regulations on farming, menthol: 'Doesn't seem very American'
[FoxNews] Ray Starling previously advised President Trump as chief of staff to then-Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/21/2024 05:38 || Comments || Link || [24 views] Top|| File under:



#3  #2.1 Analysis reveals nearly 500 rural hospitals that serve millions of Americans are at risk of closing

#2.2 War and Theft: The Takeover of Ukraine’s Agricultural Land
One year into the war, a new report reveals how oligarchs and financial interests are expanding control over Ukraine’s agricultural land with help and financing from Western financial institutions.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 02/21/2024 5:53 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ Bill Gates needs that farmland, oil, and minerals. Those people must move elsewhere.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/21/2024 6:06 Comments || Top||

#5  As ignoring flyover country has become more difficult, the solution is to eliminate flyover country.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/21/2024 6:23 Comments || Top||

#6  WSJ-"It’s Been 30 Years Since Food Ate Up This Much of Your Income"

"Ongoing high costs lead food manufacturers and restaurants to keep prices elevated"



https://archive.is/L3Ii8#selection-5781.0-5785.82
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/21/2024 15:15 Comments || Top||

#7  America is a food exporter. If Bill Gates is able to throttle back production, the result will be starvation in the third world where fertility rates are higher. That probably sounds like a conspiracy, but it matches everything Bill has said publicly over the years.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/21/2024 15:17 Comments || Top||

#8  Bread and circuses

Guns and butter.

Fasten your seatbelts...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/21/2024 15:20 Comments || Top||

#9  #7 What if USA will have to buy wheat from Russia (cause I remember it being the other way around)?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 02/21/2024 15:23 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Liberal pundits, urging Biden to withdraw, pushing convention scenario
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/21/2024 05:34 || Comments || Link || [35 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats


#2  Something to do with IC and FBI "sources and methods?"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/21/2024 6:25 Comments || Top||

#3  I think that they would like to do the convention swap. Biden is not viable without a steal so massive that everyone would know. Near the end of his career, I saw famous spitballerGaylord Perry get tossed from a Mariners game for throwing a strike out curve that dropped like a whiffle ball. Gaylord didn’t protest and there was no protest from the dugout. The 2020 theft was at the hairy edge of what the gen pop of the US would accept peacefully. The Dems have a real problem.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/21/2024 10:53 Comments || Top||

#4  The actual problem is "Dr" Jill is dug in talons and toenails. She has made it to the top of the status heap.
Posted by: ed in texas || 02/21/2024 11:26 Comments || Top||

#5  # 3 reminds me of Casey Stengel's comment "I don't know if he throws a spitball, but I do know he spits on the ball."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/21/2024 11:34 Comments || Top||

#6  The biggest problem may be that they have no viable candidates with a better chance to win than Biden. Manchin might get votes in the Midwest but not enough to carry any state against Trump. Manchin is too moderate to fire up the radical Dem base. Newsom, Michelle or Hillary have extremely negative favorability statistics in Ohio and Florida. Newsom probably has the fewest states that he could carry. Their overall plan of putting Trump in a slepper hold appears not to have worked.
They will certainly cheat, but the cheating is limited to the number of absentee ballots they can issue to people that don’t vote in the states that they are targeting. That is why they are attacking True The Vote in Georgia.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/21/2024 15:13 Comments || Top||

#7  They would not be panicking unless their internal numbers showed they can't cheat enough this time.

Which just means "by any other means" will be in play...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/21/2024 15:16 Comments || Top||

#8  I think they will push the cheating past all reason and use the Dominion systems to literally count whatever is needed. In past years, I would have felt confident that they would rightfully fear the explosive reaction of the American public to such outright theft. Now, I am not sure they fear it as much as they fear losing power and the deserved Inquisition-level investigations that would follow. We are at a tinder-box moment already and the summer ANTIFA/BLM/AlphabetSoupGroup conflagrations have not even begun. I have begun to fear that far too many of the under 40 Americans are more cowardly, cowed and frankly stupid than I imagined, not angry patriots but whining patsies, who might just let it happen.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/21/2024 15:30 Comments || Top||

#9  Too many districts coming in with more than 100% of the believable vote will be a biiiiig stretch.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/21/2024 16:22 Comments || Top||

#10  Thinking outside the box - Haley's big donors have a say in the process as well. Dark horse run as the Uniparty candidate with all the usual Anyone-but-Trump crowd against Trump.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/21/2024 17:24 Comments || Top||

#11  Exactly! And remember (she will not let us forget), she will still be in the race regardless of what befalls the Orange Man.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/21/2024 17:26 Comments || Top||

#12  She will be in the race based on cash flow not based on her possibility of success. She will bank the residuals as a retirement fund as her political prospects are nil beyond 2024.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/21/2024 17:32 Comments || Top||

#13  Just watched a YouTube a few minutes ago where Luntz gave her a huge tongue bath and then said she will be out after Saturday.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/21/2024 17:53 Comments || Top||

#14  A Luntz tongue-bath? Was Kevin McCarty jealous?
Posted by: Frank G || 02/21/2024 18:49 Comments || Top||

#15  #8 We do have KC.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 02/21/2024 19:13 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
DOJ Fails To Meet Congressional Deadline To Hand Over Biden-Hur Interview Transcript
[DAILYCALLER] The Department of Justice (DOJ) failed to turn over the transcript of President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family...
’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur after the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees requested it, the Daily Caller has learned.

The House Oversight Committee requested the transcript via letter on Feb. 12, giving the DOJ until Monday, Feb. 19 at 5 p.m. to respond. The DOJ did not turn over the transcript or other documents in the report that were requested, sources with both committees told the Daily Caller.

"We haven’t received what we requested and everything is on the table as to what is next," a Judiciary committee spokesperson told the Daily Caller.

"The DOJ has not provided the materials requested and the committees will soon follow up about the chairmen’s request," an Oversight committee spokesperson told the Daily Caller.

The DOJ did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller’s request for comment.

Hur released his special counsel report on Feb. 8 detailing Biden’s handling of classified documents. While Hur decided not to pursue charges against the president, the special counsel made note of Biden’s declining mental state.

In a five-hour interview with the president on Oct. 8-9, Hur noted that Biden seemed to forget when his vice presidency began and ended as well as when his late son, Beau Biden, died.
Posted by: Fred || 02/21/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [34 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
BIG IF & WHEN , they finally get around to issuing and using the 25th Amendment, they need to do it on a 25th Day a month.

Let's then make it a National Holiday and give it a fitting name.

Any suggestions.


BTW: We also need the 25th to apply to Congress. Giving the recent growing list of congress with aging mental illnesses.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/21/2024 6:59 Comments || Top||

#2  It was said that in the last days of the USSR the KGB ruled the Kremlin.
Posted by: Huputle Cherelet4131 || 02/21/2024 8:59 Comments || Top||

#3  And they will continue to do so
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/21/2024 9:22 Comments || Top||

#4  everything is on the table as to what is next


Get it off the f******g table and get the perps in the slammer.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/21/2024 10:27 Comments || Top||

#5  The DOJ wasn’t investigating Biden. It was a coverup. Releasing the transcript is the exact opposite of a coverup.
Judicial Watch seems more effective in this type of situation as opposed to Congress. Constitutionally that reality is problematic. Regardless, we can all judge Joe’s mental capacity on March 7th unless they can figure out a scam.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/21/2024 10:42 Comments || Top||

#6  Every scrap of paper, tape recording phone log, etc. that the gummint generates is the property of the taxpayers. I can see limiting access to, say, strategic weapons blueprints, research and data, but the everyday output of pols, bureaucrats and contractors is all rightfully subject to inspection by the public upon demand. No exceptions, no waffling, lawfare, hoohaw or slow-walking.

Period.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/21/2024 11:43 Comments || Top||


#8  The House control's the purse strings, right? So stop whining and defund the bastards.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/21/2024 15:30 Comments || Top||

#9  ^Remember how John Edgar Hoover controlled politicians?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 02/21/2024 15:32 Comments || Top||

#10  ...about those pedophiles...
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/21/2024 17:26 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
California budget crisis worse than Newsom projected, as state watchdog warns deficit could reach record $73B
[FoxNews] California's budget crisis is projected to expand more than previously thought and could hit a record deficit of $73 billion, according to a new report from the state's nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO).

The LAO laid out the grim forecast in a Tuesday report that cautions that a $24 billion "erosion in revenues" corresponds to a $15 billion increase in the state's budget problem. Due to this, the budget deficit, which last month was estimated to hit $58 billion, could now go as high as $73 billion.

"The actual increase in the state's budget problem will depend on a number of factors, including formula-driven spending changes, most notably Proposition 98 spending requirements for schools and community colleges," the report said.

H.D. Palmer, the deputy director of California's Department of Finance and Newsom's spokesperson on budget matters, responded to the new LAO report by telling Fox News Digital that their budget shortfall differs from the $38 billion they estimate.

"From now through April, more than $51 billion in income and corporate tax receipts are forecast to come in," Palmer said. "No one can say today with certainty how those numbers may change the budget estimate of a $38 billion shortfall."

"A responsible step would be for the Legislature to act now on the early action budget measures needed for $8 billion in solutions to help close this gap," he added.

The projected bad news comes as Newsom has worked to increase his profile nationwide. It also occurred as California experienced a mass exodus.

California saw its first-ever population decline in 2020 when the state imposed rigid lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic. From January 2020 to July 2022, the state lost well over half a million people, with the number of residents leaving surpassing those moving in by almost 700,000.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/21/2024 05:13 || Comments || Link || [27 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule


#2  California will need someone like Hair Gel as prexident to get the colossal bail out they need.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/21/2024 6:37 Comments || Top||

#3 

Cala-BROKEN in more ways than one.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/21/2024 7:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Gavin is not a serious replacement candidate for the presidency. The Pelosi connection alone will doom him in the swing states.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/21/2024 10:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Go Woke.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/21/2024 11:56 Comments || Top||

#6  I just saw an announcement Newsom got $3B from The Brandon Boys for his high-speed railroad.
Posted by: Bobby || 02/21/2024 13:57 Comments || Top||

#7  What's 73 billion compared to 30 trillion?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 02/21/2024 14:46 Comments || Top||

#8  Not to long ago, in the 1990s, Californians recalled Governor Gray Davis because of a $26 billion debt. Then we had Arnold Schwarzenegger leading the charge against him. Too bad we don't have anybody like that now. Newsom can do whatever he wants...and he does.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/21/2024 15:33 Comments || Top||

#9  That will be good ticket to run on towards November. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/21/2024 17:25 Comments || Top||

#10  RIP governor candidate Gary Coleman who made Rubio look tall.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/21/2024 17:28 Comments || Top||

#11  No state has tried to declare bankruptcy yet. There's been lots of legal discussion over the years if it would even be allowed.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/21/2024 17:51 Comments || Top||


NORTH LAS VEGAS MAYOR: White-owned businesses not welcome at upcoming community fair
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Posted by: DooDahMan || 02/21/2024 05:06 || Comments || Link || [24 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
In a real world such a Mayor would be charged with racial discrimination.

But in the "NEW Normal" LSD world he'll probability get a DC Position as Sec. Of Black Commerce along with a few $$ Million.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/21/2024 6:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Scott Adams Dilbert rule applies. 'Depart from it.'
(paraphrase)
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/21/2024 7:01 Comments || Top||

#3 
Yes maybe we need a new way of applying the
Dilbert principle.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/21/2024 7:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Nothing will happen until he is sued.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/21/2024 10:44 Comments || Top||

#5  ^She (woc)
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 02/21/2024 10:54 Comments || Top||

#6  George Wallace would so proud, MLK, not so much!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/21/2024 13:36 Comments || Top||

#7  The famous Clark County.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/21/2024 14:43 Comments || Top||

#8  White-owned businesses not welcome at upcoming community fair

Are latinos qualify as non-white? Asking for a cartel friend.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 02/21/2024 14:45 Comments || Top||



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  14 people injured in Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon
Tue 2024-02-20
  Israel threatens invasion of Rafah before Ramadan if hostages not released
Mon 2024-02-19
  Hamas scrambles to replace flailing, radio-silent Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar, Israel says
Sun 2024-02-18
  Special forces searching Khan Younis hospital detain over 100 terror suspects, IDF says
Sat 2024-02-17
  Navalny dies in prison
Fri 2024-02-16
  Senior Hezbollah commander and deputy killed in targeted IDF strike in south Lebanon
Thu 2024-02-15
  UNRWA has 'absolutely zero say' in how Israel responds: official
Wed 2024-02-14
  Senior Hamas official involved in West Bank attacks nabbed in Jenin raid
Tue 2024-02-13
  Lazzarini: UNRWA did not know what is under its headquarters in Gaza
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  Israel carries out fresh air raids in Rafah, Khan Younis
Sun 2024-02-11
  IDF, Shin Bet say earlier strike in Rafah killed senior Hamas official, two operatives
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  Hezbollah fires large rocket salvo at Israeli-occupied Golan
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  Israel bombs southern Gaza as alarm grows over looming ground invasion of Rafah
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  U.S. airstrike killed senior Kataib al-Hezbollah leader
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