[FoxNews] House Republicans have called on Hunter Biden to testify before Congress later this week, according to a letter from a senior House Republican.
"House Committee on Oversight and Reform Republicans request the attendance and testimony of Hunter Biden," Ranking Member James Comer said in a letter to House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney.
The committee hearing, titled "It’s Electric: Developing the Postal Service Fleet of the Future," is scheduled for Tuesday, April 5.
Comer went on to cite Biden’s supposed expertise in cobalt mining, which secured him a negotiating position with Chinese officials, he suggested.
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I think they are more interested in showing how ignorant Hunter Biden is on cobalt mining or EV batteries. Basically to show he is totally unqualified for the positions he's taken - and by extension his 'pay' was simply a bribe to his father.
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#4 Come on, guys, get real. He's too busy in the art studio a hooker
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Still amazes me that this scum bucket Hunter can pork his dead brother's wife (doesn't say much for her, either), but this Biden family...my f'n gawd!
#7
An epic troll. I expected to see Lauren Boebert on the committee but that is not the case. Nancy Mace obviously was not the perp. Only Jim Jordan seems capable in my opinion.
Not a chance he shows, I am sure his security details will take him on a tour of the Smithsonian basement if he tries.
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Epic troll, indeed. The Democratic chair won’t let it happen on her watch.
[NYPOST] Organizers of the second effort to recall embattled Los Angeles County DA George Gascón
...one of the Soros stable of criminal-protecting DAs. Soros prosecutors refuse to enforce laws against shoplifting, drug trafficking, and entire categories of felonies and misdemeanors. LA DA Gascon even stopped enforcing laws against disturbing the peace, resisting arrest, and making criminal threats, which eventually annoyed many of the law-abiding portion of the residents...
said they have gained momentum after collecting more than 200,000 signatures— with plenty of time to still hit their goal to get on the November ballot.
Campaign officials said they also have raised more than $4 million — already four times the money raised compared to last year’s recall efforts, which fizzled in September after failing to secure less than half of the approximately 500,000 signatures needed from LA County voters.
"We are continuing to deploy our resources, and we are definitely going in the right trajectory," recall spokesperson Tim Lineberger told The Post. "There is just a lot more support this time around since people are more aware that what’s been happening in Los Angeles County, especially crime increasing, is tied to George Gascón’s policies."
While last year’s campaign garnered just 200,000 votes by the October 2021 deadline, the campaign this year has already collected more votes with still three months left before the deadline.
To get on the ballot, a total of 566,857 signatures — 10 percent of total Los Angeles County registered voters
...yes, but how many of LA’s registered voters are living, legal, and unduplicated? There has been some clean up of California’s voter roles, but there’s also been plenty of time to sign up new duplicate imaginary-Americans.
— must be submitted to the LA County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s Office by July 6.
[JustTheNews] With midterms elections in North Carolina starting in about six weeks, more than 60,000 registered voters in the state are dead, registered in another state or registered twice under variations of their name, according to a new watchdog report.
The report released Tuesday by the Public Interest Legal Foundation, a nonprofit law firm focused on election integrity, in one example found 7,933 North Carolinians are still registered to vote after having died in 2020.
"North Carolina officials need to use the time they still have to prepare voter rolls for the midterm elections," foundation President J. Christian Adams said. "Time is running out. Silly, obvious errors in the voter roll can create opportunities for voter fraud and chaos in a close election. Correcting deceased and duplicate records now will help to preemptively address those risks."
Primary balloting in the state begins May 17.
The foundation's audit began in late 2019 with the tracking of a sample of registered voters that matched the Social Security Death Index – to see how long it usually took the state's Board of Elections to remove them from the voter roll after they were listed as deceased.
About 12,940 deceased registrants were found in spring 2020. And according to the index, 95% of them died before 2020. The 7,933 deceased voters still on the roll show that some of the registrants, but not all, have been removed.
The foundation found two instances in which registered voters were dead for about 20 years but not removed from the voter roll until 2021.
A total of 42,984 registered voters in North Carolina left the state and established or renewed their out-of-state voter registration before the 2020 Election.
The foundation used the U.S. Postal Service's National Change of Address system and the organization's national voter database to track voters who moved from North Carolina to another state and determine if they registered there before November 2020.
In North Carolina, a residents loses residential status if they take steps to vote in another state. Thus, while it isn't illegal under state or federal law to be registered to vote in two different places, North Carolina considers "a subsequent registration a disqualifying action," according to the foundation.
To be sure, the names of dead people not being purged from voter rolls and people being registered in two states has always been a challenge for election officials. But numerous statewide audits after the 2020 elections have shed new light on challenges related to voter roll integrity.
About 87% of "interstate duplicate residents cast ballots outside of North Carolina in 2020," whereas just 8% cast ballots in North Carolina, and the rest didn't vote in 2020, the foundation also found.
While election officials are in charge of tracking residents who fail to fix their registration status, North Carolina is not part of any state-sharing agreements or interstate compacts to "track voters" who move to or die in other states, the report states.
There are also 13,525 North Carolina voters who were registered twice at the same address but sometimes with different variations of their names.
In 60% of these cases, age, residence and name were exactly the same.
Eighteen percent of the time, both age and residence matched, but the one name just had the middle initial, whereas the other registration spelled out the middle name. In 15% of cases, the age and residence were the same, but the confusion of maiden and married last names allowed for two different registrations.
Other duplicate registrations with the same age and address included spelling or punctuation errors.
The foundation learned from county officials that the faulty copies can occur when a person registers to vote through different avenues, such as the Department of Motor Vehicles vs. a third-party voter drive "and omits personal identifying information," like the optional last four digits of their Social Security number.
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...You would think that a voter roll accurate to about 95-98% (it's doable) would be a point of pride with a state.
You'd think.
Mike
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Insisting on picture ID, like a local driver's license would also cut down on fraud. It should cut down on dead people voting in most cases.
Of course, y brother is a junior. Our dad passed away about 16 years ago. I would not put it past my brother to vote for him, at least for the first few years.
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Simple.
Make it a CRIME punishable by X years of mandatory jail time and a $$,$$$ fine. When found to have multiple registrations to vote in 1 or more locations during a State or Federal election.
What was I thinking??? Many states already have such laws they just don't use or enforce them.
‘[T]he total number of inactive registrations reported by North Carolina dropped from about 1.2 million in 2019, to about 765,000 in 2021 (a 36% drop).’
In June 2019, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) released data showing that voter registration rates in a significant proportion of North Carolina’s 100 counties were close to, at or above 100% of their age-eligible citizenry – statistics considered by the courts to be a strong indication that a jurisdiction is not taking the steps required by law to remove ineligible registrants. Judicial Watch’s analysis also showed that at the time of the EAC report the entire State of North Carolina had a registration rate close to 100% of its age-eligible citizenry.
In the settlement, Judicial Watch told the court:
[T]he total number of inactive registrations reported by North Carolina dropped from about 1.2 million in 2019, to about 765,000 in 2021 (a 36% drop). The statewide percentage of inactive registrations dropped from 17% in 2019, which the complaint alleged to be a national outlier, to 10% in 2021, which is close to the median state inactive rate. The number of registrations removed for failure to respond to an address confirmation notice and vote in two consecutive elections has increased, from about 220,000 for the period reported in 2019, to about 590,000 for the period reported in 2021 (a 168% increase).
With respect to the two North Carolina counties, Judicial told the court:
Data for Mecklenburg County and Guilford County also showed improvement. From 2019 to 2021, the percentage of inactive registrations reported in Mecklenburg County dropped from 15.5% to 13%, and in Guilford County from 19% to 11%. The number of registrations removed for failure to respond to an address confirmation notice and vote in two elections increased during that same period, from roughly 21,000 to 51,000 in Mecklenburg County, and from 7,000 to 33,000 in Guilford County (a 142% and 372% increase, respectively).
(In 2020, Judicial Watch also sued Pennsylvania, and Colorado for failing to clean their voter rolls.)
“This is a win for the voters of North Carolina – because clean voter rolls help pave the way to cleaner elections,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “North Carolina follows Judicial Watch voter roll clean-up successes in California, Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana. And we are right now prepping lawsuits against other states to force them to clean up their rolls.”
In November 2021, Judicial Watch sent letters to election officials in 14 counties and five states—Arkansas, California, Illinois, New York, and Oregon—notifying them of evident violations of the NVRA.
[Bus Insider] Putin was frequently visited by a vast team of doctors, Russian investigative news outlet Proekt said. There has been much speculation about the Russian president's health. Putin bathes in blood extracts from severed deer antlers as a form of alternative medicine, the report says.
#5
/\ In Chinese medicine, deer velvet has been used to treat impotence, female disorders, urinary problems, skin ailments, word salad, and knee weakness. It also is employed as a tonic in children with learning disabilities.....
#7
Come on. How is Putin sure that the blood is legitimately deer antler blood? How much blood can an antler hold? How many deer would you have to kill for their antler blood to fill a bathtub? What if it is some kind of scam blood from a cow that was stirred with a deer antler? Does that fit the criteria? Is their 3rd party labeling on deer antler blood to ensure that it is legitimate?
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I hear Putin kills the deer himself, with his own hands and teeth. You really don't want to know how he drains the blood and grinds the antlers believe me.
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Lightning flashes in the sky above Moscow. A murder of crows flaps overhead. In the streets men pull their trench coats desperately about themselves and shiver, while women clutch their children in fear. Spring rain falls in frozen sheets, turning everything grey - though, oddly, this is also what Moscow is like in Summer as well.
Deep, deep in the bowels of the Kremlin, below the chambers where Comrade Koba used his wives for target practice and Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria used other men's wives for other things, in a stone room lies a rectangular bathing pool filled with deer antler blood. The Lazarus Pit.
Aleksandr Dugin enters, wearing a long, hooded black robe with the symbol of the fourth ideology emblazoned upon its chest in red, the grey of his Rasputin beard clashing with its stoner metal color scheme. He is quickly intersected by a teenage gymnast with a shaved head, also wearing a robe.
"The Czar is not done with his treatment yet," she whispers pleadingly.
"Wake him." orders Dugin dismissively with a wave of his hand. The gymnast retreats with a bow. There is a clanking of metal as ancient chains begin to turn, raising the naked body of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin from the depths of his artiodactylian bath. Oddly, his is somehow still riding a horse. Which is also naked.
Dugin raises his hands into the air and in a desiccated, necromancer voice commands-
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#14 - Nicely done "He is quickly intersected by a teenage gymnast with a shaved head, also wearing a robe." made me snort
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Lord Melville spilled tea once, at Pemberly.
On hearing one speak -- you remember? --
He shrieked, "Don't be dense!
Sure, a queen of good sense
Should say, sweetly, 'Armenian ambergris!'"
[Breitbart] Appearing Thursday on NBC News, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) called for the United States government to create a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), which some longtime crypto proponents warn could be used to surveil citizens.
A transcript is as follows:
CHUCK TODD: Are you there [on creating a Central Bank Digital Currency]?
SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN: Oh, for a Central Bank Digital Currency? Yes. I think it’s time for us to move in that direction.
TODD: Whenever you look at every piece of paper currency we issue, not with coins, but paper, has its own identity. So essentially, we’re prepared for the blockchain now. Should that be how we build this?
SEN. WARREN: I think of it was what’s the problem we’re trying to solve and if the problem you’re trying to solve is fast, almost frictionless ability to send money across country and the world, a Central Bank Digital Currency does that. You don’t need a stablecoin for that.
#1
The dollar conversion will be painful at first, that is if you have any remaining dollars to convert. It really is for the greater global good. In this particular case, a more equitable solution really does justify the means. You'll see.
#2
They have lot's of brilliant plans, mostly centered on taking everything you have. Don't worry if you are a billionaire though. None of these plans apply to their donors. Bernie is a liar if he says the uniparty will attack their donors.
#3
And let’s put in safe guards like having the encryption keys and passwords stored in Humper Biden’s laptop, put the congressional Pakistani Brothers in charge of cyber security and whomever is the world leader in charge of the central digital currency let us ensure they are selected based on Race, Sexuality, and ideology.
#5
Once digital, then DC can turn ON or OFF a person's wealth/income... based on whatever issues they decide or deem.
Some have asked ...What if we went back to a Gold Standard backed dollar, plus other such rare metals?
At the last audit, the US Treasury claimed 261,498,926.241 Troy OZ of Gold in its vaults.
Gold, which was selling for about $1,928.00 per troy oz at COB yesterday.
If the USA went back to a Gold Standard?
The US dollar would be backed by only about $504.1 +/- Billion in Gold Reserves.
Notes:
DC has a purposed Federal budget of about 10 times that for 2023.
DC has run up a national debt of about 60 times our Gold worth and 5 times the annual collected tax revenues.
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The Godverment in charge of your assets and you say what can go wrong? OK, my sister's gay friend (who has a black partner) owns several VRBOs as his livelihood. The max occupancy on the posting is 4 people. VRBO rents it and 10 people check in which the owner sees this on the outside video and calls the renter, who lies about it. He tells them to leave. They eventually do, but immediately complain to VRBO that they were told to leave because they are black. VRBO shuts down all of his account pending an investigation. How does one prove they are not racist. It took weeks to resolve. Thousands of dollars lost.
Do you really believe this can't happen with the leftists in Washington if they had the keys to your assets? Look what the little tyrant in Canada did to protesters.
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Do you really want the likes of Elizabeth Warren, Adam "the liar" Schiff, Mitch, Pelosi, and the others controlling *all* of your financing. It's bad enough they can freeze your bank accounts and leave you to starve on a whim as they did on Canada.
"Oh your retirement's too big so we'll going to take 80% of what you worked your ass off for and sacrificed for and give it to some poor slobs who wasted their lives on hookers and booze".
#9
The globalists have a lot of great ideas for everyone but themselves (sarc). You don't want to give up dollar dominance. It will not make for a better country or world. Warning! Morons, crazy people and crooks at the helm.
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I prefer to store my wealth as ammunition. It's always needed, it can get you what you need and best of all, you can recycle it and make NEW ammo from the cases.
[Guardian] Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney has addressed the vexing question of how the US copes with its ageing population, suggesting that retirement benefits may have to be cut for younger Americans.
In comments to the Senate budget committee on Wednesday, the Republican senator from Utah said that the spiraling costs of retirement programs had to be tackled to bring national debt under control. Romney raised the politically controversial idea of cutting benefits, but only for younger generations before they reach retirement age.
"For younger people coming along, we got to be able to find a way to balance these programs or we’re gonna find ourselves in a heap of trouble," he said. He added that he was not in favour of raising taxes as a way of balancing the books, but was open to adjusting "long-term benefits not for current retirees".
Romney’s remarks, first reported by Business Insider, open a can of worms often avoided by members of Congress given its intense political sensitivities. The programs in question include two of the most popular benefits in the country — social security and Medicare, which make up more than 40% of government spending.
The backdrop to the issue is America’s ageing population. By 2034 projections suggest there will be 77 million Americans aged 65 and older — more than the projected 76.5 million under 18s.
That means that for the first time in US history older people will outnumber children.
That same year, 2034, the trust fund for social security is expected to run out, leaving the US government struggling to make full benefit payments. That looming deadline is a reflection of the intense and rising pressure on social security and Medicare given long-term funding shortfalls.
Conservatives have consistently tried to chip away at the programs. Most recently, House Republicans proposed raising the eligibility age for Medicare from 65 to 69 and social security from 67 to 69.
But in his Build Back Better plan, Joe Biden sought to protect and even extend the programs, adding hearing coverage to Medicare. The bill passed the House but was stalled in the US Senate.
Quoting part of the informative article. " Congressional members are eligible for their own unique pension plans under the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS), though there are other retirement benefits available, ranging from Social Security and the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS). Currently, members of Congress are eligible for a pension dependent on the member's age at retirement, length of service, and salary. The pension value can be up to 80% of the member's final salary. Since 2009 Congressional pay has been $174,000 per year, which, at an 80% rate, equates to a lifelong pension benefit of $139,200. All benefits are taxpayer-funded.
...
Because members of Congress earn far more than the average American citizen, their initial Social Security benefits average just under $26,000 per year compared to $17,652 for the average retired worker in 2019."
#5
Covid was supposed to address this issue, right?
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..iirc they got like 6 more months in the system. They didn't kill enough of us with the bug. I suppose the experimental vaccine will take care of that.
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/\ Me as well. Can I help it if I have lived this long ?
Abortions, BC pills, opioids, fentanyl, suicides, COVID jabs, and the Northern migration of severely reduced life expectancy migrants will eventually solve the problem.
No one outside the beltway should live more than 45-50 years. Bill & Melinda and other Central Planners will see to it.
#13
^ How long do you think it will be before the gummint decides people on the dole need taxpayer funded retirement plans too?
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they already have them. That's still a part of welfare. Do you realize how many people inand after 2008 applied for disability with nothing wrong with them. If they got it they essentially retired. Not to mention the lifelong welfare kings and queens who stay on it for life.
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As much as I dislike Peppermint Pattie’s condescending attitude toward the press, can’t blame her for jumping ship when there is a lifeboat nearby. Think maybe her bullsh!t filter finally got clogged.
#5
She's going to MSLSD's streaming property on Peacock network. You'd think the recent news that CNN+, where Chrithhy Wallathe went, is almost underwater already would be a warning sign. Of course, when any media property crashes and burns, the high priced talent gets paid while the drones get cut loose, so she either doesn't know or doesn't care.
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Not Surprise!!!
George Stephanopoulos's salary is $15M? a year.
MSM has always paid DC talking heads and deceviers very well it seems.
Dozens of residents lined up in South L.A to apply for the 'Breathe: LA County's Guaranteed Income Program'- the state's latest Universal Basic Income program
The program will provide $1,000 to 1,000 Los Angeles residents every month for three calendar years through a debit card provided by the County
To qualify residents must be at least 18, have a household income below $56,000 for a single person or $96,000 for a family of four
Researchers are using these these pilot programs to see what happens when a range of people are sent payments that guarantee a basic living
But critics warn of a possible downside, people relying on fixed income can become discouraged of joining the workforce
#4
I was, and remain a member of the US Government's Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine "Trial Program." Advance Directives really are recommended. I believe it was in the smaller print.
I may also soon be a member of the US Government's Capital Gains 401K seizure "Trial Program." Equitable quarterly tax payments for everyone really are the way ahead. If you have no greedy big business investment profits or selfish racist gains you have nothing to be concerned about.
#10
Thing, this is just a trial run. Eventually they will extend it to everyone who "qualifies".
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Universal Basic Income (UBI) has been tried in other places usually on a limited basis such as in L.A. Finland tried UBI on a limited basis in 2017 but stopped the program in 2018. A government that can give you everything can also take it away. Give-away programs may provide money for people at the cost of economic slavery for another group of working people.
It is likely the money's made available to taxpayers during COVID 19 got people to thinking about UNI again. One might note that California is not in very good economic shape. The government is too free with other people's money. The accrued debt will enslave future generations.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
House Republicans have called on Hunter Biden to testify before Congress later this week, according to a letter from a senior House Republican.
[NYPOST] Organizers of the second effort to recall embattled Los Angeles County DA 
[JustTheNews] With midterms elections in North Carolina starting in about six weeks, more than 60,000 registered voters in the state are dead, registered in another state or registered twice under variations of their name, according to a new watchdog report.
[Breitbart] Appearing Thursday on NBC News, Sen. 
/\ Me as well. Can I help it if I have lived this long ?
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
