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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Joe Biden Falls Asleep During Meeting With Israeli Leader
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 08/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Thank you for resolving the non-appearance of the video at first publish. The video appeared in the Preview Panel before the Submit button was selected and then it no longer appeared until you did something to fix it.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 08/30/2021 0:22 Comments || Top||

#2  You did nothing wrong, my dear. I didn’t change anything, just opened and closed it — the moderator form of whacking it sharply with a wrench
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/30/2021 0:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Thank you TW. Sounds like Fred's logic behind the moderator buttons are mysterious, magical and fills one with emotions of wonder.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 08/30/2021 0:44 Comments || Top||

#4  It’s all a black box to me, Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589. I have two younger siblings professing on the subject, but I turned out not to be suited for it.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/30/2021 1:00 Comments || Top||

#5  Bennett should've offered him 50 tons of Ben & Jerry (Israel has a huge surplus).
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 08/30/2021 2:54 Comments || Top||

#6  He missed his nap.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/30/2021 5:40 Comments || Top||

#7  ..well, he missed his ice cream break and was annoyed. "Remind me again why I had to stand here for the photo opportunity?"
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/30/2021 6:54 Comments || Top||

#8  The world is safer when Biden's asleep.
It's when he wakes up that the screw ups happen.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/30/2021 11:37 Comments || Top||

#9  Always fun to imagine the lefts reaction if this sort of thing happened with Trump.
Posted by: ruprecht || 08/30/2021 13:06 Comments || Top||

#10  The White House is
FACILITY
Posted by: Sloluper Munster6900 || 08/30/2021 15:23 Comments || Top||

#11  https://rumble.com/embed/vj7jjm/?pub=4
Posted by: Spase Jamble6328 || 08/30/2021 15:40 Comments || Top||

#12  For the above an
Easy Link
Posted by: Spase Jamble6328 || 08/30/2021 15:41 Comments || Top||

#13  Spock also closes his eyes during a mind meld, so I don't see the problem.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/30/2021 15:57 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Biden slammed for appearing to look at his watch during ceremony for dead Marines
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/30/2021 05:38 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mom can dress you up, but she still can't take you out in public.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/30/2021 7:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Probably trying to figure out the time for his next nap.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/30/2021 9:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Wondering why his Tapioca is late...
Posted by: Warthog || 08/30/2021 9:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Biden knows how to tell time? You mean Jill doesn't take care of that for him?
Posted by: warthogswife || 08/30/2021 11:02 Comments || Top||

#5  Wow. The whole Pantheon of The Woke Forces.

I thought at first it was just a weird spasm when changing poses, but yeah, like that kid who picks his nose, then coyly looks around to see if anyone is watching, then neatly puts the booger into his mouth.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/30/2021 14:55 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ Bidet did that a couple weeks ago on TV.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/30/2021 15:11 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Roughly 43,000 absentee ballot counted in DeKalb County, GA in 2020 violated chain of custody rule
[Just The News] More than 70% of the 61,731 absentee ballots put in drop boxes in the November 2020 presidential election in DeKalb County, Georgia, were counted and certified by officials, despite violating chain of custody requirements.

The exact number of ballots was 43,907, according to the Georgia State News. The ballots were counted and certified by county and state officials, the news outlet says.

The chain of custody requirements are set forth in Georgia Emergency Rule 183-1-14-1.8-.14, put into effect by the Georgia State Election Board in July 2020.

The rule states absentee ballots placed in drop boxes "shall be immediately transported to the county registrar" by the two-person collection team. The team is required to sign a ballot-transfer form indicating the number of ballots picked up, the time the ballots were picked up and the location of the drop box.

The rule also states the county registrar or a designee "thereof shall sign the ballot transfer form upon receipt of the ballots from the collection team."

The Georgia Star News obtained from the DeKalb County law department 725 absentee ballot dropbox transfer forms used in the election in the county to document the chain of custody of the 61,731 absentee ballots, in response to an open records request.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/30/2021 12:34 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  One or two of those 43,000 could have been for Trump. This is an absolute outrage !
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/30/2021 12:39 Comments || Top||

#2 
Honestly, at this point
Posted by: Sloluper Munster6900 || 08/30/2021 15:05 Comments || Top||


Veritas Whistleblower: DHS Officials Given Bonuses for Importing Contract Workers
[Breitbart] Government employees are given bonuses for rubber-stamping corporate requests to replace American graduates with imported contract workers, an inside source told the Veritas Project.

“We’re supposed to be there to protect American jobs, and if you are getting a bonus because you are approving someone coming to the country … that to me, is unforgivable,” said the man, who Veritas described as a “Department of Homeland Security [DHS] insider.”

The man said he reviews corporate applications to import contract workers via the L-1A and L-1B visa program, likely at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency within DHS. The agency is now run by a pro-migrant political activist, Ur Jaddou.

These L-1 contract workers are similar — but cheaper — to the mid-skill H-1B contract workers who have been imported in very large numbers to deliberately displace American graduates.

Many American graduates have been denied careers at Facebook, Microsoft, Intel, and other technology companies because executives prefer to fill starter jobs with many thousands of foreign contract workers. The contract workers are cheap, compliant, and controllable — and they minimize the number of American professionals who can quit to create competing companies.

Under President Joe Biden, the USCIS dropped quality control rules set by President Donald Trump. The agency now directs officials to defer to companies’ claims that they cannot find American workers for the jobs, even if the claims were initially approved several years ago. The whistleblower said:

When they [companies] ask for an [L-1 visa] extension under the deference policy, we’re supposed to accept the fact that the first approval was valid, and therefore, we just approve it … [DHS managers] want us to approve as many [applicants] as possible.

DHS managers reward officials to rubber-stamp corporate claims, even though each stamp denies another job to American graduates, he said:

Officers get a bonus at the end of the year, depending on how many files have been processed. [The] process includes denial[s], but the chances are that the vast majority of them are approvals … It’s a bad thing because it incentivizes [work visa] approvals. If they denied 90 percent [of corporate visa requests], there would be a far less amount of cases processed because it takes so much longer. [But] if you approve a bunch of cases, then you are going to obtain a higher [compensation] bonus because the processing numbers are higher.

If an official investigates or denies too many visa requests, they will get penalized, he said. Once penalized, he said, “you’re not entitled to overtime, not entitled to telework, you’re not entitled to go detail, not entitled to a lateral transfer, not entitled to a promotion.”

Agency officials face intense pressure to approve high-priority requests, dubbed “premium processing” applications. These applications come with a $2,500 check to the agency’s overall budget. “We’re required to complete 15 of those a week,” he said, and added that if an official misses a premium processing deadline, “you get called in and disciplined for that.”
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Project Veritas does very good work. The problem is that there are so many serious scandals nowadays that their work disappears in the pile.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/30/2021 18:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Yep, "expanding the field" has its advantages.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 08/30/2021 18:50 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
CDC to Spend Millions of Taxpayer Dollars on Gun ‘Health Threat'
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/30/2021 06:29 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Cause we can't do the job we were created for.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/30/2021 9:23 Comments || Top||

#2  "I'm not here about gun control. I'm here about preventing gun violence and gun death,..."

How odd... my guns have never once said they plan to commit violence and since I can detect no respiration or heartrate, I assume they have have already expired. Hence..no problem.
Posted by: Warthog || 08/30/2021 9:30 Comments || Top||

#3  "Wear a mask.."
Posted by: Frank G || 08/30/2021 9:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Put a mask on your Glock?

Probably more effective than putting a mask on your kids.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/30/2021 11:02 Comments || Top||

#5  Obama did this. Weaponized all Fed Agencies against his political opponents. Obama must be executing his third term behind the curtains while Biden sleeps all day which means Obama can be a lot more ruthless with inept Biden taking all the spears.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 08/30/2021 14:58 Comments || Top||

#6  All the alphabet agencies need to be disbanded. All Government employees G-13 or above need to be fired and barred from employment with the federal government.

Then start rebuilding.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/30/2021 15:19 Comments || Top||

#7  When Joke is “retired” O’bumma will be chosen as VP.
Posted by: Grampaw Cooky || 08/30/2021 15:42 Comments || Top||

#8  “ By its terms, the Twenty-Second Amendment bars only the election of two-term Presidents, and this prohibition would not prevent someone who had twice been elected President from succeeding to the office after having been elected or appointed Vice President.”
Posted by: Grampaw Cooky || 08/30/2021 15:44 Comments || Top||

#9  The United States should send one ordinary citizen to a town meeting (57 States & Territories) to elect a Vice President to the vacant position and do what Duxbury, Vermont does to elect their dog catcher.

Duxbury has a town meeting every year, and the dog catcher is chosen by citizen vote. In the most recent town meeting, “dog catcher Zeb Towne, who was nominated almost unanimously for re-election, despite a “no” vote from his wife that cause laughter to erupt in the room.

Her issue - “She’s mad about the late nights I have to go out on those calls,” Towne said.

“No, It’s because you’re out there rounding up them bitches,” said another resident of Duxbury

Source
Posted by: Glereter Shusolet3252 || 08/30/2021 16:00 Comments || Top||

#10  Aren't they specifically barred from this?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 08/30/2021 16:41 Comments || Top||

#11  CDC rules that when writing. you must now switch the rolls of the comma and period,
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/30/2021 16:43 Comments || Top||

#12  Carcinogenic gun oils?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/30/2021 16:44 Comments || Top||

#13  CDC also rules that you have to place the rolls of toilet paper so the paper drops from the back of the roll, not the front.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/30/2021 16:54 Comments || Top||


Rev. Al Sharpton is not running for Governor of New York
[PAGESIX] Sharpton’s going to be blunt: he isn’t interested in going to Albany.

Rev. Al told us he won’t be dipping his toes into the 2022 gubernatorial race now that impeached Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo
...Dem dynastic governor of Noo Yawk, the son and heir of the late Mario Cuoma and formerly married to a Kennedy. Acclaimed for his leadership during the COVID epidemic, he managed the nation's highest corpse count while successfully hiding the returns and writing a book praising himself. Among the nation's horniest politicians, he has about a dozen allegations of sexual harrassment and groping against him. Noo Yawk's politix being what they are, he is still hanging tough, waiting to ride it out....
is officially donzo.

"I am not interested in running for office, but I am certainly going to be interested in trying to deal with whoever is governor. They can expect that I will be running for the microphone to be loud and clear on what policies I think they oughta be dealing with," the Rev. told Page Six.

Sharpton, who ran for president in 2004, added that he doubts he’ll ever run for leader of the free world again. "I wouldn’t’ rule it out, but I doubt it," he said.
Posted by: Fred || 08/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Der Juden have long memories?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 08/30/2021 5:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Sharpton figured NY was not ready (gullible) for another de Blasio, Schumer or Cuomo.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/30/2021 9:17 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ Interlopers, all
Posted by: Frank G || 08/30/2021 9:46 Comments || Top||

#4  They can expect that I will be running for the microphone

yes, yes we are familiar with this.

the most dangerous place in the world is between Al Sharpton and a microphone
Posted by: Retard Strength || 08/30/2021 10:06 Comments || Top||

#5  RS - Schumer gives Al a run
Posted by: Frank G || 08/30/2021 10:11 Comments || Top||

#6  Did Sharpton ever pay his outstanding tax bill?
Posted by: warthogswife || 08/30/2021 11:04 Comments || Top||

#7  Al Sharpton would never obligate himself to try to do something constructive. It's not his business model.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/30/2021 11:40 Comments || Top||

#8  Actual work? He doesn’t do actual work. It’s much easier to scam those who control the money.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/30/2021 12:34 Comments || Top||


Kamala Harris Poses In Front Of Communist Ho Chi Minh Bust
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] While in Vietnam last week, Kámala Harris
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California, and then a former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful. She dropped out because she was polling in negative numbers because of racism or misogyny or something like that. Her father is a Marxist professor emeritus at Stanford and her mother is an Indian of the Hindoo tribe. She is reputedly the proud descendant of a long line of women. Joe Biden picked her for her skin tone, feeling she could also bring in the Native American, women's, and bimbo votes. She's an outstanding exemplar of the Peter Principle, proudly displaying her level of competence in her handling of the Biden Border Surge
posed with Vietnamese Communist leaders in front of the Ho Chi Minh sculptures.

Ho Chi Minh was a brutal dictator and the founder of the Vietnamese Communist Party. His regime carried out a class genocide against wealthy farmers and landowners, killing hundreds of thousands in Vietnam.

Who is she appealing to in this photo?

Kamala Harris bailed on the United States when catastrophe struck in Afghanistan, traveling to Singapore and Vietnam.

Fox News and The Gateway Pundit reported,

This week’s scenes of crowds gathering at Kabul’s airport and U.S. military helicopters arriving to pick up passengers at the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan’s capital revived grim memories of desperate Vietnamese people trying to board U.S. helicopters as they left the embassy in Saigon more than four decades ago.

The prospect of Harris visiting Vietnam at this particular moment raised the possibility of the worst photo op for an American in that country since Jane Fonda donned a helmet there in 1972.

Posted by: Fred || 08/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Just pray for Biden to live for ever.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/30/2021 1:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Too bad she was too young to ever meet Ho Chi Minh. I'm sure he would have enjoyed her.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/30/2021 11:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Next stop Lenin's Tomb?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/30/2021 12:14 Comments || Top||

#4 
A busted ho and a bust of Ho
meeting only so you'd know,
east, west it's always same.
Commie-nism's this dirty game,
and Hos are the ones who make it so.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/30/2021 13:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Bravo!
Posted by: Classical_Liberal || 08/30/2021 14:28 Comments || Top||

#6  Not the pose I was expecting.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/30/2021 15:47 Comments || Top||

#7  Ho, ho, ho, Dron!
Posted by: SteveS || 08/30/2021 15:58 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2021-08-30
  US Airstrike Hits Suicide Bombers Targeting Kabul Airport
Sun 2021-08-29
  Last British flight evacuating civilians from Afghanistan leaves Kabul
Sat 2021-08-28
  Biden Pledges to 'Hunt Down' Those Behind Airport Attack
Fri 2021-08-27
  Karzai, Abdullah house-arrested by Taliban in Kabul
Thu 2021-08-26
  Bomb explodes in northern gate of Kabul airport
Wed 2021-08-25
  Taliban Vows to Help Fight Climate Change
Tue 2021-08-24
  Firefight at Kabul airport kills Afghan guard
16,000 more leave Afghanistan
Mon 2021-08-23
  US Embassy Tells Americans: Do Not Go to Kabul Airport
Sun 2021-08-22
  9 Talbanis surrender to Resistance Forces in Andarab; 6 of them Paks
Sat 2021-08-21
  U.S. charges man who made bomb threat near U.S. Capitol
Fri 2021-08-20
  IMF suspends Afghanistan's access to funds
Thu 2021-08-19
  US freezes assets of Afghanistan central banks as Taliban takeover
Wed 2021-08-18
  Former Vice PR and Now President Of Islamic Republic Of Afghanistan 🇦🇫 Amrullah Saleh In Panjishir
Tue 2021-08-17
  Reports say Ghani in Oman to escape to US
Mon 2021-08-16
  Taliban Declares Victory and Announces ‘Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan' From Presidential Palace


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