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Thai troops kill six Bad Guys near Myanmar border
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Moment Biden confuses a uniformed member of the Salvation Army for the Secret Service during his visit to El Paso migrant center telling him: 'I spent some time with the Secret Service in Poland and Ukraine'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Biden was on his first diplomatic trip to the Mexican border in El Paso on Sunday

  • He was introduced to a member of the Salvation Army standing in a uniform

  • The President leaned in and told him he'd spent time with the Secret Service
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/11/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Damn! Joe just blew my cover!". Sez secret service agent disguised as a bell ringer...
Posted by: Mad Eye Omeretch7959 || 01/11/2023 0:14 Comments || Top||

#2  I thought that most of the Secret Service was Mormon? I also thought that Biden worked with the Secret Service on a daily basis. I know he probably has worked with foreign operatives but my understanding is that most of them are CCP. It seems like the Chicoms will be mad to learn that Biden is divulging other foreign contacts to the Salvation Army. Maybe Joe was trying to make small talk as a way to reduce his penance.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/11/2023 12:26 Comments || Top||

#3  You wonder if this MSM display of dementia and utter cognitive decline moment might have been a trigger for the classified documents story? The Puppet Show Ring-Master Rice approving the story release to squelch the mutinous Biden family plan to announce a re-election bid?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 01/11/2023 12:31 Comments || Top||

#4  I would think his re-election bid is a fantasy, but I thought the same about his original election.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/11/2023 16:09 Comments || Top||

#5  Fox just reported a "second batch" of classified documents found. It would seem the plug is being pulled on Jojo's future?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 01/11/2023 16:12 Comments || Top||

#6  Reminds me of a Groucho Marx story about when he left a hotel and seeing someone in a uniform assumed he was the hotel employee and asked him to call a cab. Yhe uniformed person indignantly proclaimed, "Sir, I am an Admiral in the United States Navy". Groucho then said, "OK, call me a battleship".
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 01/11/2023 17:30 Comments || Top||

#7  “Pull the plug on plugs.” Or “Pull the final plug.”
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/11/2023 19:30 Comments || Top||

#8  #6

Did the admiral laugh?

Reminds me of a Fluffy (El Comedian) story about getting pulled over by a cop. Fluffy had just bought a box of donuts at Krispy Kreme. Cop: Do you know why I pulled you over, sir? Fluffy: Because you could smell these?

The cop let him go.

Posted by: JHH || 01/11/2023 20:03 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
No Oil For You!
[HotAir] Roughly one month ago, the White House answered one question we’ve been hammering them about for more than a year. Joe Biden drained nearly 200 million barrels of oil out of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in a failed effort to keep gas prices low ahead of the midterm elections. Was he ever planning on replacing that oil? And how much would it cost if he does?

At the time, Biden was saying that he would place the first order for three million barrels of oil for the SPR in February. That doesn’t happen overnight, so they opened up the process to take bids from the oil companies. As you would expect, the oil and gas industry responded, sending in their bids quickly. Those bids were turned over to the Department of Energy (which oversees the SPR), but the process remained under the watchful eye of the White House. This weekend we received our answer. Nobody’s bid was accepted. The DOE rejected all of them. Where we go from here remains a mystery. (Yahoo News)

The U.S. Department of Energy has rejected the first batch of bids from oil companies to resupply a small amount of oil to the nation’s emergency crude oil stockpile in February, according to a DOE spokesperson.

The DOE last month had said it would purchase up to 3 million barrels for delivery to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in February, the first buy since last year’s record 180-million-barrel release to tame U.S. pump prices.

"Following review of the initial submission, DOE will not be making any award selections for the February delivery window," the spokesperson said in an emailed statement.

The DOE did not release the actual bids for the media to review, so we’re just taking them at their word here. (I know...) But an Energy Department spokesperson released a statement saying that the government will only accept bids "that meet the required crude specifications and that are at a price that is a good deal for taxpayers."
In other words the oil companies will lose money if they sell at a price lower than what it costs. More at the link
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 01/11/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It might have been cheaper, had the Keystone Pipeline been built. As it is, this is all part of "The Plan".
Posted by: Bobby || 01/11/2023 8:35 Comments || Top||

#2  In other words the oil companies will lose money if they sell at a price lower than what it costs.

Economics be hard.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 01/11/2023 9:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Gas powered vehicles, appliances/tools, heating will be banned entirely within 15 yrs. The pipeline is irrelevant - like it or not.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 01/11/2023 11:47 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ Or, the people who want that will be totally out of power around the world in 15 years.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/11/2023 11:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Gas powered vehicles does not include ships unless we are going sailing, reverting to coal or are projecting nuclear tug boats. The gas ban will fail due to reality. Oil will remain relevant for the foreseeable future. As for holding all the dumb politicians accountable, I think they will weasel out of their failure after a bunch of innocent third world people starve. They will likely just move on to new dumbness.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/11/2023 12:35 Comments || Top||

#6  "Mrs. No-supper-for-you from Norwood in Lancashire..."

Monty Python
Posted by: DooDahMan || 01/11/2023 20:28 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
House Republicans adopt rules package following Speaker fight
[TheHill] House Republicans on Monday adopted a rules package that will govern how the chamber operates for the next two years in a closely watched vote that came on the heels of last week’s drawn-out Speaker fight.

The vote was the first legislative battle for newly elected Speaker Kevin McCarthy
...the GOP house majority whip. He replaces Eric Cantor, who got whupped because his politix are like Kevin McCarthy's...
(R-Calif.) and his House Republican conference.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 01/11/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "hardliners"

"backroom deals"

"extreme right"

Propaganda is so easy to spot when you know how. It's deliberately loaded language designed to elicit an emotional reaction. The same method is used to silence critics of the Biden crime family's corruption in Ukraine, up to and including pointing out Nazi collaboration.
Posted by: Spike the Hairy6811 || 01/11/2023 1:20 Comments || Top||

#2  As a possible official starting point.
See 118th House rules

Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/11/2023 7:30 Comments || Top||

#3  It's deliberately loaded language

It’s The Hill, the newspaper of the Washington, DC establishment. We expect nothing less.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/11/2023 10:02 Comments || Top||

#4  At this point it looks like the holdouts have won. I suspected such when I saw the one dude have to be choked out to keep him off of Gaetz. The pressure of all the Uniparty will be on McCarthy to resist, neutralize and end all of the investigations. He seems ill-suited to the position that he wanted so badly. There is evidence that Gaetz is much smarter than McCarthy. They both need to hire food tasters.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/11/2023 12:44 Comments || Top||

#5  Gaetz is vastly smarter and more cunning than McCarthy!
Posted by: Lampedusa Creans7915 || 01/11/2023 16:55 Comments || Top||


Pfizer Gives $1 Million to Kentucky GOP to Expand Its Headquarters — The 'Mitch McConnell Building'
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Pfizer donated $1 million to the Kentucky Republican Party in 2021 in what is being called the highest donation to a political party in state history.

The donation will be used to expand the Frankfort Mitch McConnell Building in the state capital.

The donation seems like a perfect fit.

Mitch McConnell has been a staunch supporter of the COVID vaccine and COVID legislation.
Posted by: Fred || 01/11/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [22 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Shocking !
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/11/2023 3:24 Comments || Top||


#3  I think Pfizer will soon discover that turtle soup has a shelf life.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/11/2023 12:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Sanders should be more concerned with injuries and death from the gene therapies vaccines than the price.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 01/11/2023 20:30 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Wed 2023-01-11
  Thai troops kill six Bad Guys near Myanmar border
Tue 2023-01-10
  McCarthy confirms Swalwell, Schiff & Omar will be off committees
Mon 2023-01-09
  Indian Army foils Rajouri-type attack; 2 terrorists killed in Poonch
Sun 2023-01-08
  Cop martyred in Bannu; four ‘militants’ dead in CTD operation
Sat 2023-01-07
  Ron DeSantis activates National Guard amid migrant surge in Florida Keys
Fri 2023-01-06
   Iranian sentenced to death for leading crowd during Mahsa Amini protests
Thu 2023-01-05
  Man who attacked cops in Times Square allegedly motivated by US support of Israel
Wed 2023-01-04
  French Minister: Only 690 Cars Torched and 490 Arrests Over New Year's
Tue 2023-01-03
  Four tons of drugs seized by French navy in the Arabian Sea
Mon 2023-01-02
  Blast Outside Military Airport in Kabul; Casualties Reported
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  Calling Off Ceasefire, TTP to Launch Attacks Across Pakistan
Fri 2022-12-30
  $1.7 trillion government funding package flown to St. Croix for Biden signature
Thu 2022-12-29
  Barbed wires, armed guards outside Kabul universities to keep women out
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