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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Dem Maryland Mayor and Pal of Pete Buttigieg Arrested on 56 Child Porn-Related Charges
More on this story from yesterday.
[BREITBART] The mayor of College Park, Maryland, Patrick Wojahn, was arrested Thursday on 56 child pornography possession and distribution charges.

The 47-year gay Democrat
...two facts not mentioned in yesterday’s article on the subject...
faces 40 counts of possession of exploitative child material and 16 counts of distribution of exploitative child material, a blurb from the Prince George’s County Police Department (PGPD) said.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children first alerted the department that a social media account operating within the county was distributing "suspected child pornography" on February 17, according to the PGPD.

Through an investigation, authorities determined that the account belonged to the sitting mayor. On February 28, the PGPD executed a search warrant at his home in College Park, seizing "multiple cell phones, a storage device, a tablet and a computer."

Posted by: Fred || 03/04/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I am demanding that the judge and jury of the Alex Murdaugh case be held-over for the Wojahn trial.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/04/2023 7:26 Comments || Top||

#2  When he gets to Baltimore City jail, he will have the opportunity to interact with his constituents in new and exciting ways.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/04/2023 9:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Fudgecicle for dessert every night...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 9:25 Comments || Top||

#4  College Park...where Univ. of MD is, IIRC. Somehow, that is no surprise.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/04/2023 9:31 Comments || Top||

#5  BUTT----GIG!
Posted by: Cholutle Thrans9751 || 03/04/2023 9:49 Comments || Top||

#6  Now he gets to tend the salad bar.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 03/04/2023 15:09 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Kellyanne Conway and her husband split after 22 years after admitting in her 2022 memoir that her husband's criticism of Trump was a betrayal
[DM] George and the daughter were assholes. The MSM encouraged it
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/04/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Her husband was not very supportive of her success. Her daughter was turned against her. It is a shame he was not a decent human being.
Posted by: Airandee || 03/04/2023 6:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Foto taken as Geo was on his way to a Whopper eating contest.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/04/2023 7:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Alternate headline,

"Kellyanne Conway loses 225 pounds of ugly fat overnight!"
Posted by: Too Old To Work || 03/04/2023 7:40 Comments || Top||

#4  The media will still let him trade on his connection to his ex-wife.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 7:42 Comments || Top||

#5  They're done with him. He served his purpose
Posted by: Frank G || 03/04/2023 7:44 Comments || Top||

#6  Fatso might get a book deal out of this, tops.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/04/2023 8:25 Comments || Top||

#7  She has returned Great Value Chris Christie to Customer Service and can now pursue seasonal St Patrick’s Day offerings in blessed silence.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/04/2023 8:58 Comments || Top||

#8  So she's available now?
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 03/04/2023 12:07 Comments || Top||

#9  I'm surprised the marriage lasted 22 years.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/04/2023 21:23 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Arizona school board member says district should reject hiring teachers with Christian values: 'Not...safe'
[FOXNEWS] An Arizona school board member wearing cat ears
So you know she's serious.
during a meeting said she would oppose having a contract with a Christian university over the religious and Biblical beliefs they espouse, Fox News Digital found.
What kind of contract?
The Washington Elementary School District, which serves students in the Phoenix and Glendale areas, had an ongoing contract with Arizona Christian University for five years, enabling their student teachers to be placed in its schools for field experience. The contract opened up opportunities for recruitment and hiring.
And they converted all the innocent Arizona students and now they're all speaking in tongues?
On Feb. 23, the board agreed on a motion to dissolve the partnership with the Christian university. They did not immediately respond to a request for comment on whether they have a bias against Christian beliefs.
No! No! Certainly not!
During the meeting, school board member Tamillia Valenzuela blasted the university over its Christian beliefs and said she was "disheartened" to learn about the contract that had been ongoing for five years.
How were the results?
Valenzuela describes herself as "a bilingual, disabled, neurodivergent Queer Black Latina... who loves a good hot wing (but only with the right ranch)
Buffalo wings? But in Buffalo we only eat those with blue cheese dressing.
and things that sparkle."
And that has precisely what to do with 22 year old student teachers?
Posted by: Fred || 03/04/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Can someone tell me what's wrong with learning things like "Love your neighbor as yourself" or "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven" or "I have come that they might have life and have it abundantly" or any number of other things Jesus said?

I guess those things are not so important as good hot wings with the right ranch? Not only is this woman evil, she is breathtakingly trivial and frivolous.
Posted by: Tom || 03/04/2023 6:47 Comments || Top||

#2  School board is the realm of political losers.

See how much they care about your kids' educations?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 7:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Are Taxpayers with Christian values exempt from paying school taxes? I would take the 81% reduction in property taxes.
Posted by: Airandee || 03/04/2023 8:38 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ Amen...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 8:38 Comments || Top||

#5  $3,906.68 in unpaid apartment rent resulted in Tamillia Valenzuela being sued by her apartment complex (see 17th Ave Phoenix LLC VS Tamillia Valenzuela) on 8/29/2022 resulting in her eviction on 9/6/2022.
Posted by: Mad Eye Omeretch7959 || 03/04/2023 8:51 Comments || Top||

#6  Strange, Obama made sure every gummint docs did not contain the terms "Islamic terrorism"/ "Islamic extremism", because bigotry n racism. Now we have the gummint citing weekly the dangers of White Christian Extremists. I'm picking up the putrid stench waffles n broccoli. Retards like this Tumblr ton just repeat what they hear from their controllers in the media.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 03/04/2023 8:52 Comments || Top||

#7  Tamilla
Tamale
Tortilla
She eats too much
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 8:59 Comments || Top||

#8  Man, isn't she a babe? It's hard to tell, but it looks like she has an earring in her nose, too.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/04/2023 9:02 Comments || Top||

#9  There is absolutely no reason to vote for anybody without checking them on your phone first. Did the people in that school district in Arizona really decide to elect a rep who thinks their meetings are a cosplay where she can vogue plus sized Lee Merryweather? No, they were lazy and thought Valenzuela meant Latina mom. Instead of Christian student teachers they will end up with indoctrinated woke bozos.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/04/2023 9:17 Comments || Top||

#10  Call me when the word "queer" disqualifies you from even accidentally being near any school activity.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 9:22 Comments || Top||

#11  Those who show no tolerance deserve no tolerance in return.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/04/2023 11:04 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Liz Cheney Lands Position at UVA
[NYPost, hat tip Epoch Times] Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) has accepted an appointment to serve as a professor at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, the school announced on Wednesday.

"I look forward to working with students and colleagues at the Center to advance the important work they and others at the University of Virginia are doing to improve the health of democracy here and around the world," Cheney said in a press release.

"There are many threats facing our system of government and I hope my work with the Center for Politics and the broader community at the University of Virginia will contribute to finding lasting solutions that not only preserve but strengthen our democracy," she added.

Her duties as "Professor of Practice" at the Charlottesville, Va., institution will include giving university-wide lectures, serving as a guest lecturer in student seminars and participating in research.

"Our students will have an incredible opportunity to learn from Liz Cheney, who has fiercely defended democracy as part of a distinguished career. I’m delighted that she has chosen the University of Virginia and the Center for Politics as a next step, and I very much look forward to working with her," UVA President Jim Ryan said in a statement.
Posted by: Bobby || 03/04/2023 08:19 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Another money laundering gig. Will she show up to teach as much as Biden, Clinton…. Did?
Posted by: Airandee || 03/04/2023 8:36 Comments || Top||

#2  She's still a Republican (nominally) in a progressive hellhole. She will get the no longer useful treatment.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 8:37 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Yes, the trail appears to lead to the usual MO.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/04/2023 8:39 Comments || Top||

#4  That is a big change from her Wyoming cowboyish lifestyle. Rural Virginia will likely feel claustrophobic after all the time living her rugged pioneer existence that epitomized American individualism. Maybe she needed a more centralized HQ for her upcoming presidential bid, but what a sacrifice.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/04/2023 8:54 Comments || Top||

#5  That this louse is back in Virginia is no coincidence.

In any case, shame on Univ. of VA.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/04/2023 8:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Acadamy Deepstate Industrial complex / conveyor belt.
Posted by: AlanC || 03/04/2023 10:11 Comments || Top||

#7  Look at it this way, with her leaving Wyoming, the average IQ will go up a few tenths of a percentage point and the air will be cleaner. As for Virginia, they are no longer considered a southern state and are welcome to keep things such as Liz 'Super RINO' Cheney.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 03/04/2023 10:13 Comments || Top||

#8  /\ Lee attempted to prevent the conversion. In the end however, his farm was turned into a cemetery and he lost nearly everything. He ended up having to go back to work at a college.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/04/2023 10:17 Comments || Top||

#9  Lee lost. He got what losers get. He got off easy actually.

That, there, is a case how stating the truth infuriates people.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 10:24 Comments || Top||

#10  /\ True, but some might say we all "lost". Again, some might say that. Something of an early "state's rights" advocate I suppose. It was a popular movement in what we know today as.... Red States.

Yes, that would be where today's great American migration appears to be headed. Could be the warmer weather and longer golf season. I suppose we'll have to draw our own conclusions.

Digression ended.


Posted by: Besoeker || 03/04/2023 10:36 Comments || Top||

#11 
That, there, is a case how stating the truth infuriates people.

Son, when they dump your ashes in a cement mixer and make a parking lot for the Eunuchs they're making their new future out of they're going to say you're a loser who shouldn't have lost if he didn't like this. If Orwell couldn't get any mercy from the communists in _Homage to Catalonia_ you're not going to get any mercy from The Science.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 03/04/2023 10:37 Comments || Top||

#12  He was an honorable man who fought for his cause. I have only respect for him, and for a long gone country that respected him enough to not execute him.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 10:38 Comments || Top||

#13  Nice, Snowy. Glad you have no control over my life. Maybe you should have waited for my follow-up comment.

Fuck off.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 10:40 Comments || Top||

#14  And don't address me as "son." I came from better than you.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 10:48 Comments || Top||

#15  Me? You're the one, out of one side of your mouth, worshipping The Establishment that's going to destroy you, even as you try to balance out the other side of it.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 03/04/2023 10:49 Comments || Top||

#16  Well. You sure read a lot into what I said.

Enjoy.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 10:53 Comments || Top||

#17  Lee should be honored because of what he did in the post-Civil War period. The situation could have degenerated into generational long active guerilla war. Lee however set the example by his action of 'enough is enough'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/04/2023 11:02 Comments || Top||

#18  Liz appears to have poisoned the air this morning!
Posted by: Bobby || 03/04/2023 11:07 Comments || Top||

#19  The traitorous bureaucrat rulers of this country have killed a lot more people than the whole Civil War did in the last three years, _and they're not done_.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 03/04/2023 11:10 Comments || Top||

#20  No, the bad feelings floating around this thread predate Liz Cheney by more than a century and a half.

Some people need some perspective at this point.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 11:11 Comments || Top||

#21  I'd recommend a welfare check but it's none of my business.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 11:12 Comments || Top||

#22  #17, lots of people militantly ignored Lee's example.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 11:13 Comments || Top||

#23  This is where "conservativism" is these days. If you think Ron DeSantis is OK, you are an "establishment shill."

So, why would I want to be party to your "discussion?"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 11:31 Comments || Top||

#24  That "son" thing chaps my ass. I get why black men don't like being called "boy."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 11:46 Comments || Top||

#25  I don't think anyone knew it at the time, but the Confederate States lost at Shiloh, but only due to The Union's superior navy.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/04/2023 12:11 Comments || Top||

#26  I came to make fun of the fact that Liz was finally having to buy VA plates, but instead I witnessed a Waffle House fistfight about the Civil War. It reminds me of melee on the Band of Brothers transport ship that was touched off by an opinion on Capt Sobel that everybody hated.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/04/2023 12:25 Comments || Top||

#27  Amazing how many people still wish the USA ended up a super-sized South Africa.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 12:32 Comments || Top||

#28  Attention people still flying the Confederate Flag. Comment #11 is how you lose people.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 12:39 Comments || Top||

#29  It reminds me of melee on the Band of Brothers transport ship that was touched off by an opinion on Capt Sobel that everybody hated.

Just watched that series recently; amazing how well it has held up over the years. I'd even say improved with age.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/04/2023 12:50 Comments || Top||

#30  Arguments change over time. Doctors loved leeches until they didn't. Today we see the mask and vaxx orthodoxy change in a flash.

If you're still fighting "the war between the states" you maybe need a new context.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 12:52 Comments || Top||

#31  And the next person calls me "son" better listen for the helicopter.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 12:56 Comments || Top||

#32  "Crossroads" is a textbook gem of cinema.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/04/2023 12:56 Comments || Top||

#33  Stranix when they flooded the fo'castle of the Missouri where all the sailors were trapped: "Well, I'd say discipline is just out the window here."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 13:01 Comments || Top||

#34  Years ago my grandfather told me two solid pieces of advice: ..."never mistake good manners as synonymous for castration" and "don't pick a fight if all you are going to do is talk". Some how it came to mind reading all this.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/04/2023 13:13 Comments || Top||

#35  Great advice.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/04/2023 13:35 Comments || Top||

#36  Amen
Posted by: Frank G || 03/04/2023 13:37 Comments || Top||

#37  Lets big talkers off the hook.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 13:54 Comments || Top||

#38  Lots of "southern manners" are about getting to talk shit and avoid a duel.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 14:04 Comments || Top||

#39  Try being a "human being" and an "honest person." Turns out neither are tied to a spot on a map.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 14:14 Comments || Top||

#40  You still don’t get it.

This isn’t about the Confederacy. Or Lee. Any more than it’s about Trotsky or Goldstein.

The totalitarians are here. They’ve racked up a multi million body count since Jan 2020. They’re not going to give a fuck who you denounced , whether it’s Lee or Goldstein or Trump or etc.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 03/04/2023 14:53 Comments || Top||

#41  Yeah, yeah. The neocon sales pitch.

Get some help.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 14:59 Comments || Top||

#42  The episode where the West Point kid wants to go on patrol reminds me of the surgery scene from Blackhawk Down where they couldn’t clamp the artery. It is traumatic to watch.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/04/2023 15:00 Comments || Top||

#43  Know what. Everything happening now is what the majority wants, or doesn't not want enough to stop it.

Talk to them.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 15:01 Comments || Top||

#44  I'm disappointed in myself that I cared you insulted me, Snowy.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 15:03 Comments || Top||

#45  Whatever we have right now is what most people want. Some want it actively, most just don't care. It's not the careful effort of a small cabal.

But you want my remans desecrated because i don't agree with you.

F O A D
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 15:18 Comments || Top||

#46  OK, child. You have all the answers. Why is the world such a mess?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 15:31 Comments || Top||

#47  The episode where the West Point kid wants to go on patrol reminds me of the surgery scene from Blackhawk Down where they couldn’t clamp the artery. It is traumatic to watch.

"The Last Patrol", I believe it is, is absolutely maddening.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/04/2023 15:54 Comments || Top||

#48  "I saw a teevee show. It made me specops."

Fuckin goddam ow...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 15:59 Comments || Top||

#49  That scene in Blackhawk Down makes me smell things.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/04/2023 15:59 Comments || Top||

#50  Agh. Beer me.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/04/2023 16:04 Comments || Top||

#51  The loss of Johnston was devastating, but I'm not sure even his leadership would have overcome The Unionist's navy's ability to maneuver. Navy and control of water just gives too many options.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/04/2023 16:15 Comments || Top||

#52  Excellent cmnt string. Ima taking #40 for the touchdown.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/04/2023 16:29 Comments || Top||

#53  Oh, for Gawd's sake...

Say it with me: The graveyards are full of indespensibe men.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 16:29 Comments || Top||

#54  /\ Three to five years after you're gone, the flowers stop. Ten years after that, no one remembers you. Ten years after that you're in the old section of the cemetery.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/04/2023 16:32 Comments || Top||

#55  Please, please, B, do better than that babble at #40. That's idiocy.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 16:36 Comments || Top||

#56  A retard saying stuff you want to hear is still a retard.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 16:38 Comments || Top||

#57  Zeihan must be right because you want him to be. Meacham must be right because you want him to be.

See the problem?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 16:52 Comments || Top||

#58  People who like the world's most overrated blogger still high on Walter Russell Mead?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 16:55 Comments || Top||

#59  World's most overrated blogger thought Jake Tapper was the real deal too.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 17:00 Comments || Top||

#60  #40 isn't wrong.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/04/2023 17:00 Comments || Top||

#61  He's still fellating Jamie Pethoukoukis and giving Mickey Kaus a reach around too.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 17:05 Comments || Top||

#62  #40 isn't wrong.

What you doing about it?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 17:08 Comments || Top||

#63  Big man on campus says big things.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 17:09 Comments || Top||

#64  Properly, Big Man on Campus, if you could communicate grammatically.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/04/2023 17:55 Comments || Top||

#65  Selective capitalization isn't grammar, ace.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 17:58 Comments || Top||

#66  Everyone done?
Posted by: Frank G || 03/04/2023 18:01 Comments || Top||

#67  Never. Somebody on the internet is always wrong.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 18:06 Comments || Top||

#68  This site deserves better. Maybe i should leave.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 18:08 Comments || Top||

#69  Instapundit's a no-go, right? Perhaps...reflect?
Posted by: Frank G || 03/04/2023 18:16 Comments || Top||

#70  It'd be all glass houses if I compared early Frank G comments (Ca: 2001- til I got a bit smarter) to anybody else's
Posted by: Frank G || 03/04/2023 18:19 Comments || Top||

#71  Coming from the guy who deletes his own comments (and others).
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 03/04/2023 18:32 Comments || Top||

#72  Boss said knock it off.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/04/2023 18:37 Comments || Top||

#73  I keep checking back to see if anyone said something funny about Cheney.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/04/2023 19:02 Comments || Top||

#74  "But I don't want to think I'm a slut!"
/Kung Pow
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/04/2023 19:19 Comments || Top||

#75  That, there, is a case how stating the truth infuriates people.

M. dear, you know I adore you, but you started this deliberately.

My personal preference is for a big tent here. “No True Conservatives” is an endlessly shrinking set. We all come from different backgrounds and by different pathways, and sometimes draw different conclusions as a result.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/04/2023 22:16 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Biden admin makes stunning admission on climate agenda in leaked internal memo
[FoxNews] Internal Biden admin memo rejects proposal it admits would produce 'greater energy security,' citing climate considerations.

The Biden administration acknowledged in a memo, accidentally leaked on Friday, that charging fossil fuel companies less to drill would provide "greater energy security" despite its plans to hike royalty fees.

Former Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Amanda Lefton recommended late last year that, as part of its climate agenda, the Department of the Interior (DOI) move forward with higher royalty fees for an oil and gas lease sale spanning 958,202 acres in the Cook Inlet off the coast of Alaska, according to the memo obtained by Fox News Digital. DOI Assistant Secretary Laura Daniel-Davis ultimately signed off on the recommendation.

"If a Cook Inlet prospect would be developed, there would be additional government revenues and greater energy security for the State of Alaska, especially if development of natural gas resources in the Cook Inlet ameliorated the long-term supply challenges facing the Anchorage area," Lefton wrote in the memo.

Lefton's specifically recommended the federal government charge drillers with a royalty fee of 18.75% as opposed to an alternative of 16.67% which she said would attract more bids and "be more likely to facilitate expeditious and orderly development of [offshore] resources."

Daniel-Davis stated in her record of decision — published in November after she signed off on Lefton's recommendation — that she selected a fee of 18.75% "because this rate constitutes the most reasonable balancing of environmental and economic factors for the American public." She didn't mention the alternative would produce greater energy security as highlighted in the memo.

BOEM ultimately held the auction, known as Lease Sale 258, on Dec. 30. The sale garnered just one bid worth $63,983 for a single 2,304-acre tract, according to federal records.

In May, the White House canceled Lease Sale 258, which had been proposed under the Trump administration, in an unexpected decision that was promptly criticized by the fossil fuel industry and Republican lawmakers. However, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) mandated that the administration reverse the decision and hold the sale by the end of 2022.

"Nevertheless, because of the serious challenges facing the Nation from climate change and the impact of [greenhouse gasses] from fossil fuels, BOEM is not recommending this option since it would not include an appropriate surcharge to account for those impacts," she continued.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/04/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This ought to stun only the stupid people.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/04/2023 9:25 Comments || Top||

#2  We are going to need camps for the climate zealots. Somewhere south of McMurdo.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 9:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Now Murcek, if you ship climatistas to Antarctica, you gonna contribute to melting the ice cap. Cause there's a lot of 'em and they produce a lot of hot gas.
Posted by: ed in texas || 03/04/2023 10:11 Comments || Top||

#4  You got a point, ed...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 10:13 Comments || Top||

#5  I suspect they won't produce gas much once they freeze. Though I pity future generations who might find them. Not sure what sort of horrid brew they might turn into...perhaps it's best to be guided by the thing and after they are frozen, break out the thermite.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 03/04/2023 15:20 Comments || Top||

#6  The trick to emptying your freezer is to do it in the morning on garbage day...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 15:23 Comments || Top||


Dianne Feinstein's Hospitalization Leaves Senate Democrats Without Outright Majority
[Breitbart] Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) announced that she was hospitalized on Thursday and is receiving treatment for shingles, leaving Senate Democrats without an outright majority this week as two other senators are also away from the Capitol.

Feinstein confirmed her hospitalization on Thursday after her spokesperson announced she was leaving D.C. for California to focus on a “health matter.”

“I was diagnosed over the February recess with a case of shingles. I have been hospitalized and am receiving treatment in San Francisco and expect to make a full recovery. I hope to return to the Senate later this month,” the 89-year-old California senator said.

Feinstein has missed numerous votes and committee hearings since she began feeling unwell, according to her spokesperson Adam Russell. Feinstein, who has nearly two years left in her term, announced last month that she will not seek reelection in 2024.

Feinstein is not the only Democrat senator currently absent from the upper chamber.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has been hospitalized since mid-February, with no expected return date, as he is receiving treatment for “clinical depression.”

Further, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) flew to his home state after his mother died earlier in the week.

However, Senate Republicans are also down one member as Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID) is out due to contracting the coronavirus.

Although Senate Democrats started the new congress with a 51-49 advantage, control of the Senate, this week has functionally become a 48-48 majority, forcing Vice President Kamala Harris to step up and cast multiple tie-breaking votes.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/04/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
But if an elected official can't be on the floor to vote due to medical or mental impairment issues, should they be allowed to vote of how the DC Swamp controls our lives?

Either way., maybe Mental /Physical Health and the Vaxccident will slowly change the Federal Elected and Political landscape.

BTW: California sets the records for old age.
The oldest House Representative is Grace Napolitano, D-Calif. at 86. In the Senate, Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., at 89 is the oldest
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/04/2023 6:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Shingles is not a long term illness. Not sure what shingles treatment you could get at the hospital other than an IV.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/04/2023 9:32 Comments || Top||

#3  It's very painful and other than strong pain meds, you just have to wait it out.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 9:34 Comments || Top||

#4  So this likely means she did not get the common and tested SAFE shingles shot?

So, I wonder if she actually got the publically administered Clot-Shot also?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/04/2023 10:51 Comments || Top||

#5  Going to bet mRNA is problematic when in the bloodstream with other viruses.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 10:54 Comments || Top||

#6  Herpes zoster, which is the virus that causes shingles, is bad news if it gets to the brain.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 10:55 Comments || Top||

#7  I had shingles, got the shingles vax because shingles sucks. I will wait on all further vaccines until trust is restored. I may be waiting a while.

With regard to Feinstein, I am not a fan, but I wish her good health. I don’t think she will retire. Gavin Newsom would probably send a hench person or thing to fill the spot if Feinstein cannot continue. Appointing a potential contender would touch off a melee that would be fun to watch, but I don’t think that they are that stupid. Whoever ends up in that role long term will be under the CCP thumb.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/04/2023 11:10 Comments || Top||

#8  Super Hose I've had shingles for 8 months. My Doctors and internet searches tell me I may have pain for the rest of my life. The rash and blisters went away after about 4 weeks but I still can't wear a shirt for very long. I hope she doesn't suffer as I have.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 03/04/2023 12:19 Comments || Top||

#9  Ouch. I will pray for you and her.

I suspect that she has she may have a third issue going on other than the dementia and shingles.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/04/2023 12:30 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
LTG Flynn Sues for $50 Million
[USSA News] Retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, former National Security Advisor for the first 22 days of the Trump administration, has taken legal action against the US government. In a bold move, Flynn is suing the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the US government for $50 million, citing malicious prosecution and gross abuse of power.
Similar stories in the NYT and Western Journal, behind paywalls, I imagine.
The case against Flynn was dropped by the DOJ but was pursued by Judge Emmet Sullivan for months. Flynn was eventually pardoned by President Trump after facing persecution by the government.

Recently, the American public learned through court proceedings that the charges against Flynn should never have been filed in the first place. And now, Flynn is seeking accountability and damages from the government for the wrongs committed against him through its agents and agencies.

The lawsuit, which was filed in US federal court, seeks relief for Flynn’s violated constitutional and legal rights. It specifically highlights the unjustified and illegal actions taken by the government’s agents and agencies, which resulted in the malicious prosecution and gross abuse of power against Flynn.
I wonder where it'll be tried? Will he get a DC jury?
Posted by: Bobby || 03/04/2023 10:50 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  I guess it is worth a try. If he draws a Biden appointed, McConnell endorsed judge, he needs to shut it down quick.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/04/2023 11:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Lottery tickets are a better bet.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 11:22 Comments || Top||

#3  I read elsewhere its a federal court in Florida.
"Defendant maliciously investigated and prosecuted General Flynn by initiating and continuing a baseless counterintelligence investigation and by filing a criminal information lacking probable cause,” says the suit, filed on March 3 with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida (pdf)." Epoch Times

https://www.theepochtimes.com/flynn-sues-doj-fbi-for-malicious-prosecution-wants-50-million_5098740.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=BonginoReport
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/04/2023 13:03 Comments || Top||

#4  I do wish him well.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 03/04/2023 17:13 Comments || Top||

#5  He (along with many others) got railroaded by Obama and the Deep State. He was an 18 hour-per-day guy while in uniform, I can tell you that. Whatever he can squeeze outta those bastids, he and his family deserves.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/04/2023 17:26 Comments || Top||

#6  As long as one is fantasizing, I'd to see every last cent squeezed out of the jackasses who caused the harm. In other words there should be personal accountabilty.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/04/2023 21:16 Comments || Top||


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Joe Biden skipping King Charles coronation due to Queen Consort Camilla?
[GEO.TV] US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. An incredibly corrupt version of Jar-Jar Binks, only well into his dotage. The dumbass who abandoned Afghanistan....
is not expected to attend King Charles coronation on May 6, said a report in TIME.

"That does not feel like an event Joe Biden will attend," a ⁦White House⁩ official—who requested anonymity to discuss Biden's⁩ plans for King Charles’ coronation.

Journalist Omid Scobie took to Twitter to share a screenshot of an Independent story on Cop26 climate conference published in November 2021 and wrote, "Wonder if it has anything to do with it."

The story headlined "Shocked Camilla hasn't stopped talked about hearing 'Joe Biden break wind' at Cop26 Glasgow", suggested that the then Duchess of Cornwall was critical of the US president.

The story said, "Boris Johnson
...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies....
may have hailed Joe Biden as "a big breath of fresh air" — but it appears that events at the Cop26 climate conference in Glasgow may have given the Duchess of Cornwall, on some level, grounds to disagree."

It said the US president met with Camilla and various other members of the royal family during a reception at Kelvingrove Art Gallery to mark the summit’s opening night, attended by world leaders.

Posted by: Fred || 03/04/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is the kind of function you send the VP. That and funerals.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/04/2023 7:21 Comments || Top||

#2  One of his more coherent statements.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 7:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Perhaps the SOB wasn't invited to attend.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/04/2023 8:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Barry Soetoro instructed him to NOT attend? Barry and the Mrs. have no use for POMs.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/04/2023 8:25 Comments || Top||

#5  Surprising in a way as King Chuck and Barry have mutual friends in Davos, as does Joe.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/04/2023 8:27 Comments || Top||

#6  The fart heard 'round the world.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 03/04/2023 8:55 Comments || Top||

#7  Well, actually, can you blame him for not going? I'm not so sure he's finished cleaning out his garage and attic and going through some things.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/04/2023 8:59 Comments || Top||

#8  Send Megan and Harry to represent our country.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/04/2023 9:01 Comments || Top||

#9  Send Megan and Harry to honor the festivities with truly American dysfunction.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/04/2023 9:19 Comments || Top||

#10  Send them. One way.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 9:20 Comments || Top||

#11  Good, 1 less event for him to make us all look like fools.
Posted by: Chris || 03/04/2023 9:45 Comments || Top||

#12  Well, I hear they're having trouble hiring entertainment for the event, so it's maybe like saying you didn't go because you need to work.
Posted by: ed in texas || 03/04/2023 10:07 Comments || Top||

#13  He -barely- made the funeral, with some accusations that the ceremony had to fluff for time.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/04/2023 10:59 Comments || Top||

#14  The current Presidential Handshake:

Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 03/04/2023 13:33 Comments || Top||

#15  Biden must like Taco Bell. That may be why he gets confused when people ask him about when he will be visiting the border.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/04/2023 15:06 Comments || Top||

#16  He may very well not have been invited.

Or, he may not want to go anywhere where he is not the center of attention.
Posted by: Tom || 03/04/2023 16:10 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
FBI Shielded Identities Of Undercover Assets Who May Have Been Inside Capitol On Jan. 6, Whistleblower Says
BLUF:
[Daily Caller] When another SSA asked to see where they were inside the Capitol, the WFO declined to show the footage unless they knew "the exact time and place those individuals were inside the Capitol."

"Why can’t you [give us access] to the 11,000 hours of video that’s available?" the SSA asked.

The WFO responded that there "may be" undercover officers or confidential human sources "on those videos whose identity we need to protect," according to Hill, who said he heard the conversation firsthand.

Many have speculated FBI agents were among the crowd on Jan. 6. In November, FBI Director Christopher Wray refusedto say whether or not the bureau had confidential human sources among Jan. 6 protestors when asked by Republican Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins. Executive Assistant Director of the FBI National Security Branch, Jill Sanborn, similarly dodged the question when it was posed by Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz at a Jan. 11, 2023 Senate hearing.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/04/2023 06:43 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They do not want the public to know the size in personnel, or duration of planning involved in the 6 Jan operation.

Does anyone think the nearby FBI Headquarters would NOT have been conducting a play-by-play ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/04/2023 6:50 Comments || Top||

#2  They haven't done too well with the 'bombs' planted the evening before either.
Posted by: Cesare || 03/04/2023 9:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Ban "unspecified gummint agency" from all financial documents. Come out in the open or live off the grid.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 9:26 Comments || Top||


Biden's FAA Nominee Can't Answer a Single Question About Aviation
[Townhall] Phil Washington, President Joe Biden's nominee to serve as administrator of the FAA, continues to face questions about his qualifications to serve in the role, and his testimony before Congress isn't dispelling doubts about his ability to run America's civil aviation system and keep its citizens safe when they fly.

Already, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) has raised concerns about Washington's experience and resume, suggesting President Biden is "playing politics" rather than prioritizing the safety and efficiency of America's air transportation system. Washington's previous gigs have also seen accusations of wasteful spending and mismanagement of resources, as Townhall reported previously. And, while he served honorably in the military, lawmakers pointed out that Washington has no experience or qualifications related to aviation safety.

That was abundantly clear this week as Washington testified before the Senate Commerce Committee when Senator Ted Budd (R-NC) asked Biden's FAA nominee questions that an FAA administrator would need to know. Not only did Washington fail to impress senators with his answers, he had no answers. In fact, it was absolutely brutal.

First, Washington was asked a basic question about what airspace designation requires pilots to have an ADS-B transponder.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/04/2023 06:02 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Evidently, he was in charge of Denver International Airport, but knows nothing about aviation. Unfortunately, that sounds credible based on Buttigieg. Give him Buttigieg’s job to satisfy the principle of addiction by subtraction and The Peter Principle simultaneously.

Also if he picked the artwork at DIA issue him a white cane.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/04/2023 12:43 Comments || Top||

#2  But he cheks the ghey box, I'll bet.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 12:44 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Some Democrats Furious Joe Biden Says He Will Sign GOP Proposal Overturning D.C. Soft on Crime Law
[BREITBART] Some Democrats are reportedly furious President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier. Of course Corn Pop is a real person....
would sign congressional Republicans’ resolution to terminate the controversial Washington, DC, soft-on-crime law if the Senate passes it in coming weeks.

"The White House f***** this up royally," one House Democrat told the Hill via text message, claiming the White House had previously promised to veto the resolution.

After meeting Thursday with Democrats on Capitol Hill, Biden’s Twitter account indicated he would sign the resolution to block a D.C. law that reduces punishments for criminals.

Biden’s promise to sign is at odds with many in his party as the 2024 election cycle ramps up.

The district’s criminal law, which reduces punishments for a variety of serious criminal offenses, was enacted by D.C.’s city council that overrode the mayor’s veto while crime soared at the beginning of 2023.
Posted by: Fred || 03/04/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It’s posturing. The Dems want nice DC dinners without getting mugged just like everyone else.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/04/2023 9:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Assign Larry Hogan to manage the criminals who move to Maryland.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/04/2023 9:29 Comments || Top||



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