History of the Bath Tub

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Search the web, and you’re sure to read that America’s first bathtub was installed in 1842—December 20, to be exact. It would be nice if such a mercurial vessel had so neat a beginning—even H.L. Mencken, the newspaperman who concocted this hoax as an uplifting wartime news story, would agree. What is true is that no accessory embodies the metamorphosis of bathing equipment (from moveable furniture to plumbed-in-place fixtures) or helps define the use and look of a bathroom in any era as much as the bathtub.

Antebellum Scrubs

Before indoor plumbing, bathtubs—like chamber pots and washbowls—were moveable accessories: large but relatively light containers that bathers pulled out of storage for temporary use. The typical mid-19th-century bathtub was a product of the tinsmith’s craft, a shell of sheet copper or zinc.

“Late 1800’s Zinc and Cast Iron Bath Tub With Oak Trim”

In progressive houses equipped with early water-heating devices, a large bathtub might be site-made of sheet lead and anchored in a coffin-like wooden box.

Later, there were ingenious (though ultimately impractical) hideaway alternatives, like the portable canvas tub (similar to a pot-bellied cot), or the Mosely folding bath tub—an armoire-like contraption with a hinged door that pulled down like a Murphy bed to reveal a bathing saucer.

The Mosely Folding Bath Tub pulled down like a Murphy bed.

However, for decades, the bathtub most Americans knew best was the one available in a 1909 hardware catalog: a tinware plunge bath with wood-covered bottom painted in Japan green (a type of pre-1940 enamel paint).

As running water became more common in the latter 19th century, bathtubs became more prevalent and less portable. Though copper was still used for wood-enclosed tubs as late as the 1910s, it more commonly appeared as a liner for steel-cased tubs, rimmed in oak or cherry, that stood on bronzed iron legs.

This wood-encased period galvanized tin tub is in Astoria, Oregon’s 1885 Flavel House museum.

Cast iron—the all-purpose material of the Victorian era—had been poured into sinks and lavatories since the late 1850s, and by 1867 the famous J.L. Mott Iron Works was finding a ferrous niche in the bathtub market as well.

However, the big catch with all of these conveniences was corrosion. Copper and zinc discolored readily around water and soap, and the seams of sheet metal were hard to keep clean at all. Iron and steel, of course, rusted eventually, even under the most meticulous coat of paint.

Glaze Crusades

A china-like glaze seemed to be the ideal, obvious solution, but producing a vitreous skin on an object the scale of a tub was not so simple. Though cast iron sinks were porcelain enameled, iron bathtubs were a far more complex shape, and when filled with hot water, they could expand more than the coating, risking delamination.

In the 1850s, British artisans cracked the tub-coating code by taking a different tack: all-ceramic tubs with a glazed surface. Because the tubs were both fragile and heavy, they were iffy for export, but the idea found a market on English shores, and by the 1890s, solid porcelain tubs were being fired up by manufacturers like Trenton Potteries.

An ordinary-style tub—sloped at the head, flat and plumbed at the foot—was the most common, and affordable, early porcelain model.

The solid porcelain tub scratched many itches. Besides satisfying the need for a seamless, smooth, washable surface that wouldn’t rust, it provided a continuous, roll-over edge around the perimeter of the basin. Indeed, one of the subtle attractions of the porcelain tub was its sensuous, smooth curves and zaftig proportions. Whether it stood on bulbous ceramic legs or muscular sides that ran to the floor (thereby eliminating unsanitary hidden spaces), the porcelain tub was a study in robust modeling. Ads from the 1910s asked, “Why shouldn’t the bathtub be part of the architecture of the house?”

Seemingly the ultra-modern bathing, solid porcelain had its downside. For one thing, such tubs were dauntingly heavy and equally pricey. In 1909, prices ran from $180 for a 4 1/2′-long model to $255 for a massive 6 1/2-footer—this at a time when a steel-cased footed tub could be had for around $25. Plus, some bathers felt the pottery mass absorbed too much heat from the water, making it expensive to use.

High-Tech Tubs

Drawbacks aside, the solid porcelain tub remained the Cadillac of the bath industry into the 1920s and the hallmark of a high-end bathroom. Indeed, before 1910, bathrooms in and of themselves were often status symbols. In an era when houses with running water and waste piping were new and modern, a single bathroom with lavatory, flushing toilet, and fixed tub was a sign of progressive thinking and an essential step in the march toward better hygiene. What’s more, the bathrooms of the wealthy were not so much places of daily cleanup and dressing, but therapeutic laboratories akin to personal spas. The shower we now associate with a daily spritz was frequently a stand-alone cage of multiple sprays designed for skin or kidney stimulation, while tubs were dispersed around the room for soaking one or more parts of the body.

Roman tubs with nearly vertical, sloping round ends were thought to look more balanced and elegant in bathrooms, and usually came with faucets mounted on a long side.

As multiple-fixture, high-tech bathrooms started to evaporate after World War I (along with the large houses that made them possible), the new paradigm for up-to-date ablution became the porcelain-enameled, cast-iron, footed tub—the ubiquitous clawfoot type still at work for thousands of bathers today.

The Cast-Iron Tub

The J.L. Mott Iron Works was among the first to solve the porcelain-on-iron puzzle in the late 1880s with better techniques for preparing the iron and firing the coating, and when production improvements reduced costs in the 1920s, the cast-iron tub soon took over the bathroom. The typical tub style was the ordinary, a round-bottomed trough with a sloping head and a vertical foot holding water inlets and outlets. The other common style was the Roman, with flat sides and bottom, and identical (nearly vertical) sloping, rounded ends.

Antique Cast Iron Tub

Fancy, upscale lavatories could include both a sitz (at left) and foot bath (at right) to complement the bathtub and state-of-the-art ribcage shower, per a 1912 Standard Sanitary catalog.

The Built-In Tub

For a new century increasingly on the alert for germs, the only thing better than a tiled-in recess tub was one shipped this way straight from the factory. Casting one-piece tubs with a rim that extended down to the floor in an apron wasn’t easy, but by 1911, the Kohler Company, followed swiftly by its competitors, introduced the built-in tub—still a bathroom standard today. Made with one enclosed side (or one side and an end), the built-in tub was not only efficient in its own right, but as a 5′-long model that spanned the walls of the typical 5′ square bathroom, it became the cornerstone of the modern, functional Jazz Age bathroom trinity: wall-hung lavatory, water closet, and tub-and-shower combo.

Color Craze

Like Henry Ford, who promised auto buyers any color they wanted so long as it was black, sanitary ware manufacturers were at first color-blind to anything but white. White was not only the color of sanitation, making it easy to spot grime and therefore clean, it was also the optimal color to produce reliably from item to item.

Just like with the auto industry, however, all that began to change in the late 1920s. Once the bathroom reached a plateau as an efficient, hygienic cleansing hospital, it began to be viewed as a vehicle for design and household beauty, and around 1929, color came into the bathroom in a big way.

This inviting bathroom suite, featuring tan vitrolite walls and colorful Spring Green fixtures—including a separate, petite dental sink—appeared in a 1939 Kohler brochure.

Pigmenting the vitreous finish in fixtures—at first in light pastels, then in deeper hues like royal blue, Ming green, and Chinese red—brought color to the bathroom in solid swaths far more dramatic and permanent than any paint or tile.

Always key bathroom players by dint of their sheer size and function, bathtubs became ever more pivotal when they moved away from white. As color put a design spin on fixtures in the 1930s and ’40s, they began to look—once again—like furniture, with lavatories resembling tables and toilets approximating chairs. In this light, tubs might stand in for beds, especially when detailed with the rectangular outlines popular in the Art Moderne era and in velvety colors of rich maroon or black. It was a long way from the tin tub that had been hauled out of a closet only a generation or two before.

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  1. Morning All!
    great open Filly!
    I love a hot soaking bath!!!
    fixture colors are so tricky though! white is basically white no matter who does it–but blues and other colors are difficult to match if you have to replace a sink or tub. then you have the mix/match nightmare going on in your bathtub! who can relax then? LOL

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    1. Good point! My fixtures are all white. I got the idea from one of the history channels and when they opened up the discussion, he claimed that the REAL first bathtub was when Kohler attached some legs to a livestock tank.

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    2. Our tub is currently home for an asian spinach bed. Removed it when I renovated the bathroom several years ago and went with just a shower. Will probably have both next time I move and renovate again. Miss the tub now that I have a cold…

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      1. I never, ever take baths so the only time my guest BR tub has been used were by others. I installed a handicap-accessible shower in my BR. All of my renovations were done with accessibility in my old age in mind. The only thing left to make it 100% accessible is a ramp since there are 2 steps up at all 3 entrances.

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      1. Random Thoughts of the Day

        I have a question for the Democrats now that they’re back on the “free speech” bandwagon when it concerns their hired minions harassing Supreme Court justices at their homes: How would you feel if parents who oppose Covid mandates, CRT, and gender/sex ed for kindergarteners camping out at the homes of teachers & school officials, shouting & “protesting” around the clock where their spouses & children live? I seem to remember parents being labeled “domestic terrorists,” with Homeland Security mobilized, for parents simply expressing their views at school board meetings. 🤔

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  4. no sauce for this…but

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  5. ooooooooohhhhhhhhhh…another piece of the puzzle…IF she said this about REALPOTUS, he might not endorse her (copied from wolf’s)

    Troublemaker10
    Troublemaker10
    May 11, 2022 12:41 am

    2015 tweets are a problem for Kathy Barnette.

    Kathy Barnette
    @Kathy4Truth

    #Trump2016 moral character is questionable!

    Braggadocious+constant jabs+4 bankrup+brags bending rules.

    http://live365.com/play/waynedupreeshow #WAARadio

    9:45 PM · Sep 28, 2015

    Kathy Barnette :gay marriage

    @terriveganmom @WayneDupreeShow @smithkarl393 Gay marriage rights IS NO WHERE in the 14th Amendment. D 5 “gods” on d SCOTUS made it up…

    — Kathy Barnette (@Kathy4Truth) July 2, 2015

    @terriveganmom @WayneDupreeShow @smithkarl393 States & local gvn’t should not deny LIFE, LIBERTY, PROPERTY….NOTHING ABOUT GAY RIGHTS

    — Kathy Barnette (@Kathy4Truth) July 2, 2015

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    1. I don’t believe that was his main issue – JD Vance did pretty much the same, badmouthing Trump, and yet he endorsed him. BTW, he had his first loss here in NE – Jim Pillen won the primary – Ricketts had endorsed him. But in the last month, a number of women came forward (I don’t believe them for a second!) claiming sexual harassment by Herbster.

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        1. She is doing well. Gets her stitches out in close to 2 weeks. Her E-Collar was driving her nuts last night when she couldn’t get to her spots.

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  8. this people are evil asswipes! “environmentalists” (who, as my mother would say, don’t know their ass from a hole in the ground) convinced farmers in Sri Lanka, who were coming into their own and producing enough for their country to EXPORT, to switch to natural fertilizer and now they have to IMPORT food!
    FTA

    What turned Sri Lanka’s economic situation from difficult to catastrophic was the decision by the Rajapaksa government to implement a nationwide ban on synthetic fertiliser. It was made not at the behest of neoliberal economists doing the bidding of global capital, but rather on the advice of environmentalists in the name of sustainable agriculture.

    [snip]

    [T]hat strategy backfired in spectacular fashion. Domestic rice production fell by 14 per cent from 2021 to 2022, forcing the nation, long self-sufficient in rice production, to import hundreds of millions of dollars of rice and more than eroding all of the savings from ceasing fertiliser imports. On top of that, the ban decimated tea production, leading to a $425 million economic loss to the industry in its first six months of implementation. Tea, one of the nation’s primary crops, is a key source of its total export income, making a bad foreign exchange situation far worse.

    snip

    Biden official Samantha Power celebrates fertilizer shortages that will force farmers to “hasten transitions” to “natural solutions, like manure and compost.”

    “Never let a crisis go to waste.” pic.twitter.com/rZ5uMy0K5U
    — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 1, 2022

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/05/sri_lanka_shows_what_happens_when_we_follow_radical_environmentalist_principles.html

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    1. IDK – I’m conflicted on this one. I don’t like the synthetic fertilizers either – I want fewer chemicals in our food. But the change-over would have to be incremental, over time. At the same time, if every country doesn’t do it, those who do would be at a disadvantage……it’s a conundrum. Same with GMO seed – I despise it!

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          1. they do…and here’s another thing…greenies screaming about cows and such…don’t cows make the “natural” fertilizer they want? and yet we can’t eat the cows…make up their minds…
            my SIL talks about fertilizer and about manuring the fields…

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          1. We need to fire every single one of them and start over with the changes necessary to get back to the Founders’ intent. 17th Amendment is one of those things. Spread ’em out around the country!

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              1. With video conferencing and remote voting – which they have used generously during the plandemic – can be used as well. Let them stay in their home states most of the time.

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  11. Good morning y’all! Head cold has returned…can’t seem to shake it all the way. Normally never get sick, but when I do…Lot’s of vitamins to help keep it mild though.

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    1. Good morning, CM! Sorry to hear you are under the weather.
      What has helped me the most thru the years is (1) blow, blow, blow until there is nothing left to blow to keep it from moving to a sinus infection; and (2) triple up on the Vitamin C – my Mom advocates Zinc for colds – I take both now every day. I haven’t had a “cold” for many years. I’m sure you probably know this but still…..and I’m sure there are many other good suggestions out there.

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  14. Another FFS!!! Our military is in terrible shape!!! GTFO of Iraq!!!!!

    EXCERPT: “U.S. military forces stationed at Al-Harir Air Base in northern Iraq’s Kurdistan Region “mistakenly” fired on at least 11 civilian homes and one civilian car on Monday night in the nearby town of Shaqlawa, the Kurdish news website Rudaw reported.

    “At 10:00 PM [on May 9], the [U.S.] force was conducting practice specialized for shooting down drones, and that is why the bullets landed in the center of Basrma district and the security forces arrived at the scene of the incident,” Jangawar Azhgayi, the director of Shaqlawa’s Basrma district, told Rudaw.

    Projectiles reportedly fired by the U.S. military penetrated at least 11 houses and one motor vehicle in the middle of Basrma, Azhgayi revealed, while adding that no casualties were reported in connection with the incident.

    “The bullets hit my house, my brother’s house, windows, doors, everything. We were all at home but thanks to God, we’re safe,” Rudaw quoted an unnamed eyewitness as saying.

    The U.S. Army and Air Force jointly manage Al-Harir Air Base as part of “Operation Inherent Resolve,” which is the U.S. military’s effort to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terror group “with and through regional partners” in Iraq and Syria, according to the U.S Department of Defense. The airfield is located 13 miles northeast of Shaqlawa, which itself lies 20 miles northeast of Erbil city. The city of Erbil is the capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region.

    Rudaw’s English news service reported on May 10 that it had “repeatedly reached out to Operation Inherent Resolve’s press desk and the US Department of Defense for comment on the [May 9 Shaqlawa] incident, but as yet has had no response.”

    “Despite Rudaw English submitting a question, [U.S.] Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby did not address the event during his Tuesday [May 10] briefing at the Pentagon,” the news outlet noted.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2022/05/10/u-s-troops-mistakenly-fire-iraqi-kurdish-neighborhood/

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  15. EXCERPT: “Newly released notes taken by high-level Department of Justice (DOJ) officials during a March 6, 2017, meeting with FBI leadership expose some of the lengths the FBI engaged in to cover up its spying on the 2016 campaign of President Donald Trump.

    The notes were released on May 8 by lawyers representing former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann as part of an effort to clear him on charges of having lied to the FBI. The notes, in reality, appear to do little to exonerate Sussmann but do provide quite a bit of information on the FBI.

    The meeting at which the notes were taken took place just two days after Trump’s March 4, 2017, tweet in which he accused former President Barack Obama of having wiretapped Trump Tower. Trump’s tweet panicked FBI leadership, who were unsure exactly how much Trump knew about their efforts to tie him up with Russia collusion allegations.

    What the notes reveal is that in response to the tweet, they tried to cover their tracks.

    By March 2017, FBI leadership already knew with near-certainty that the Trump–Russia collusion claims were a hoax. They knew that Clinton’s campaign had a plan to vilify Trump by portraying him as a puppet of Putin. The FBI also knew that not a single claim in the so-called Steele dossier—which was the primary source of allegations of Trump–Russia collusion—had checked out.”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/new-doj-notes-reveal-fbi-panic-after-trump-tweeted-he-knew-he-was-being-spied

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  17. Dadgum it! Pillen on Newsmax – “…we need to make sure our kids are ready for the 21st century to stop the out-flow and grow the state.” Oh, hell, no! We do just fine and do NOT need to grow our state!!!!! Fuck!!! “We feed the world and take care of the planet while we’re doing it!” Geez!!! Shit, shit, shit – that means I’ll have to vote for him in November – the dem would be FAR worse!!!

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  18. EXCERPT: “Not every road leads to Rome. Some paths appear to be headed to the center of the ocean — like one recently spotted by scientists in the Pacific that they dubbed the “road to Atlantis.”

    Late last month, oceanographers aboard the EV Nautilus vessel were out exploring the floor of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, a submarine range of volcanic mountains off the coast of Hawaii, when they came across what looked like a well-preserved brick road at the bottom of the sea.

    On April 29, the researchers were amazed to see such a structure 3,376 feet underwater, near the top of Nootka Seamount. The discovery, as part of the Luʻuaeaahikiikekumu expedition, was captured on video during the group’s 24/7 livestream on YouTube. “It’s the road to Atlantis,” one scientist is heard saying in the background of the footage.

    “That’s a really unique structure,” another added. “This is the yellow brick road,” a third researcher chimed. “Are you kidding me? This is crazy,” an additional voice exclaimed.

    Only about 3% of the 583,000 square miles within the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument area has been recorded, although its peaks are known to rise over 16,000 feet from the seabed and summit just 200 feet below the surface of the water.”

    https://nypost.com/2022/05/10/has-an-undersea-road-to-the-lost-city-of-atlantis-been-found/

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  19. Oooh! I found something else to do a post on – watching Beyond the Unknown and they covered something that I think is fascinating. Another way, besides Tesla, that the big electric companies are screwing over The People!

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  20. EXCERPT: “West Virginia Rep. Alex Mooney defeated fellow Republican Rep. David McKinley on Tuesday in a member-versus-member primary brought on by reapportionment following the 2020 census.

    The West Virginia state legislature placed Mooney and McKinley in the newly-drawn Second District, covering the northern half of the state, and Republican Rep. Carol Miller in the southern First District. Former President Donald Trump endorsed Mooney in November, while McKinley unveiled endorsements from Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin and Republican Gov. Jim Justice in the last weeks of the race.

    Several elections forecasters called the race with only 20% of precincts reporting. Mooney ran up vote totals in the state’s eastern panhandle, which constituted the core of his old Second District. Mooney has represented the area since 2015, and more than 70% of voters in his home Jefferson County supported him. In contrast, McKinley failed to rack up larger margins in the northern panhandle, which was formerly a part of his old First District.”

    https://dailycaller.com/2022/05/10/trump-backed-west-virginia-rep-alex-mooney-hard-fought-member-versus-member-primary/

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  21. Whoa! Pillen (no doubt with Ricketts family $$$) launched $500K in negative ads against Herbster alone, plus the sexual accusations 10 days before the primary. That’s what beat him but only by 5%.

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  22. EXCERPT: “The Treasury Secretary was later pressed on the pro-abortion comments by Republican South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott. “Some of your comments in response to Bob’s question, I found troubling. Just for clarity’s sake, did you say that ending the life of a child is good for the labor force participation rate?”

    “I think people can disagree on the issue of being pro-life or pro-abortion, but in the end, I think framing it in the context of labor force participation, it just feels callous to me,” Scott added.
    ——————
    “One aspect of a satisfying life is being able to feel that you have the financial resources to raise a child, that the children you bring into the world are wanted, and that you have the ability to take care of them,” Yellen continued. “In many cases abortions are of teenage women, particularly low-income and often black, who aren’t in a position to be able to care for children, have unexpected pregnancies, and it deprives them of the ability often to continue their education, to later participate in the workforce.”

    “I’ll just simply say that as a guy raised by a black woman in abject poverty, I am thankful to be here as a United States Senator,” Scott replied.”

    Video: https://dailycaller.com/2022/05/10/janet-yellen-abortion-economy-labor-force-tim-scott/

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  23. About those accusations against Herbster – I think I commented about this before – the first woman to come forward was Julie Slama, who is currently in our legislature. I used to follow her on FB – she is very good! I would believe HER before Herbster any day of the week!

    EXCERPT: “Republican State sen. Julie Slama told the outlet in April that Herbster reached up her skirt and touched her inappropriately at a 2019 event. Slama was initially the only woman to publicly come forward, but a second woman, 23-year-old Elizabeth Todsen, who used to work for Nebraska Republican state Sen. Dave Murman, later provided her name at the end of April, the Nebraska Examiner reported.”
    ————————
    Two of the women who asked their identities be withheld are still considering filing a police report, the Nebraska Examiner reported.” (NOTE: I’ll bet they file it now that he’s lost!)

    https://dailycaller.com/2022/05/10/charles-herbster-donald-trump-primary-sexual-assault-lose/

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    1. From the DC article: “Favre allegedly sought to use MDHS grant funding to invest in the pharmaceutical start-up company Prevacus, of which he was major a stockholder. Favre asked his business partner and Prevacus founder Jake VanLandingham to “solicit” the use of “MDHS grant proceeds to invest in the stock of Prevacus,” the lawsuit alleges, according to Mississippi Today.

      Attorney Brad Pigott, who wrote the lawsuit, said, “What kind of person would decide that money the law required to be spent helping the poorest people in the poorest state would be better spent being doled out by them to their own families, their own pet projects, and their own favorite celebrities?” according to Mississippi Today.

      None of the defendants, including Favre, are facing criminal charges in the case, according to Mississippi Today.”

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  25. EXCERPT: “The Senate narrowly confirmed Lisa Cook, President Joe Biden’s nominee for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, on Tuesday despite reports of her being unqualified. The vote reached a 50-50 tie which Vice President Kamala Harris broke by voting in favor of Cook, the Hill reported. All 50 Democrats voted to confirm the Michigan State University economics professor and former Obama staffer, while all Republicans voted against her.

    Cook was nominated on Jan. 14 to serve on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

    Critics told the The Daily Caller News Foundation Cook is not qualified to serve on the board and has misidentified her economic experience. A senior Republican Senate aide previously told the DNCF that she is one of the least qualified Fed nominees in history and that her background has no connection to monetary economics. Cook has claimed she is a macroeconomist, though her published work shows no indication of that, according to the DNCF.
    ———————-
    Before being nominated, the Wayback Machine digital archive stated that her research has been in “peer-reviewed journals as the American Economic Review,” then once she was nominated it had been updated to say “her research has appeared in such journals as the American Economic Review,” the DNCF reported.

    Cook has also publicly supported economic reparations for black Americans and other “race-specific” financial payments.”

    https://dailycaller.com/2022/05/10/senate-narrowly-confirms-biden-fed-nominee-lisa-cook/

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  26. Another GOP resignation…..alcoholism….just an excuse, IMO.

    EXCERPT: “Republican New York Rep. Tom Reed resigned Tuesday from the House of Representative, more than a year after announcing that he would retire at the end of the 117th Congress.

    Reed previously considered a run for governor, but announced that he would retire in March 2021 after a lobbyist accused him of sexual harassment. The congressman initially denied the allegations, but later apologized and revealed that he was battling alcoholism at the time. Reed explained that he would spend his post-congressional career “dedicat[ing] my time and attention to making amends for my past actions.”
    —————–
    Reed will be the ninth representative to leave the House before the completion of his term. Fellow New York Rep. Antonio Delgado announced May 3 that he would leave Congress to serve as the state’s lieutenant governor. Their departures will leave Democrats with 220 votes and Republicans with 208.”

    https://dailycaller.com/2022/05/10/tom-reed-resigns-twelve-year-career-new-york/

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      1. And it should be used FAR more often. If someone gets life in prison w/no chance of parole, why???? Why should we, The People, be forced to pay for his/her subsistence for the rest of his/her life????

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  28. LOL – that would be a shocker, for sure!!!

    EXCERPT @ DC: “A woman in Tennessee found a stranger’s dog in her bed when she woke up according to a viral Facebook post early last week. When Julie and Jimmy Johnson of Polk County, Tennessee woke up in the morning, they believed one of their three dogs was laying in bed with them. However, when the sun rose and light-filled their bedroom, they realized the dog lying in their bed was not theirs.

    “It is absolutely normal to wake up in our house with one of OUR dogs in the bed with us. One small problem, THIS IS NOT OUR DOG, nor do we know how she got in our house,” said Johnson in a Facebook post. “This is the weirdest post I have ever had to make. Is this your dog? Please share.” Johnson continued in her post in an effort to find the dog’s owner via social media.”
    —————-
    Hawkins confirmed the dog, who she informed was named Nala, did in fact belong to her by providing photo proof. Nala reportedly traveled about two miles from Hawkins’ house before entering the Johnsons’ residence through the back door that was reportedly left open.

    “Thank you Julie Thornton Johnson for keeping her safe, treating Nala like your own, and making sure you got the word out for us to find her!” said Hawkins in a separate Facebook post.”

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  31. I gotta say – these Orioles are some pretty stupid birds!!!! They ignore the orange Oriole feeder in favor of the red Hummer feeder less than 6 feet away, in spite of the ports being so small. They apparently figured it out, tho, ’cause they keep going back to it! Sheesh! Sometimes I’ve got 5 or 6 flying around and chasing each other! Fun to watch.

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  35. Of course my long-serving (forever it seems!) POS Adrian Smith voted Yes!!!!! Phone call is now in order!!!! Done! That poor aide – bet his eardrums are hurting about now!!! When I asked “What in the HELL was he thinking???” the answer was “He wanted to show support for the Ukrainian people and…..” I interrupted him and went into a rant about it being the money-laundering capitol of the world, it is corrupt top-to-bottom, Obama instigated a coup in 2014, they have failed to follow the Minsk Agreement from the gitgo, and NATO repeatedly lied when they agreed not to expand toward Russia’s border and we shouldn’t even BE there!!! What about the taxpayer – inflation, gas and food prices, no baby formula – THAT IS OUR MONEY – THE TAXPAYER’S MONEY!! HOW DARE HE!!??!!

    Gee, think he’ll remember me???

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    2. I just e-mailed the pic of those who voted no to my sister and asked her to call Bacon’s office to ream him for voting yes – won’t do any good – he so far on the RINO side, he might as well be a dem!!!! Still, she should let him know.

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  37. EXCERPT: “The Biden Pentagon recently alerted retired Army Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn it plans to recoup from him nearly $40,000 he received for attending a dinner in Moscow in 2015, claiming he didn’t clear the speaking fee in advance and therefore violated the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause. But documents from Russia special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s investigation tell a far different story.

    The documents, reviewed by Just the News, show Flynn in fact alerted his former agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, ahead of the dinner and got approval to use the trip to spy on Russia’s leadership and specifically its GRU military intelligence unit.

    The operation was blessed in advance by senior DIA officials, including Vincent Stewart, the Marine general who had succeeded Flynn as DIA chief. The former Trump administration national security adviser was even given tasking orders and a counterintelligence briefing before he departed for Moscow in December 2015.

    “The first week of December 2015, General Flynn asked if I was still in the European Center and told me he planned on traveling to Moscow to speak at an RT event and might meet the Director of the GRU,” former senior DIA executive David Becker wrote in a sworn declaration that was submitted during the Mueller probe but has never been made public.

    You can read that memo here: <<>>>

    “We discussed potential topics of interest for the US intelligence community,” Becker explained. “I told him I would arrange a briefing for him to include a Counterintelligence briefing before he departed to Moscow. We agreed that I would call him once it was arranged at DIA HQ.

    “I next contacted my supervisor the Director of the Europe Eurasia Regional Center John Sadler, to begin the process. Mr. Sadler immediately contacted the Director of DIA LTG Stewart by email requesting permission to develop this briefing for [LTG] Flynn.”

    Stewart approved the operation, including telling Flynn what U.S. spy agencies wanted as “current collection requirements for Russia,” as well as a defensive briefing to help prepare Flynn not to get tripped up by the Russians at the dinner, Becker wrote in the affidavit.”

    More: https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/feds-still-pursuing-mike-flynn-repay-speech-fee-even

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    1. Sorry – I tried to post the link to the pdf……you can also watch the video of the interview: “Just The News’ John Solomon and Amanda Head discuss the latest on the Biden Administrations attempt to politically persecute General Flynn.

      This time, it’s the Biden DOD who are forcing General Flynn to fork over a speech fee (from his trip to Russia in December 2015) even though he helped DIA spy on Russians.”

      https://www.generalflynn.com/biden-dod-demands-speech-fee-from-general-flynn/

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  38. I sent an e-mail to Keith Kube – when I looked on Ballotpedia, his race hadn’t been marked yet. He just replied – he did make it and is on to the General Election in November. I offered to help with LTE’s, like I did for Todd, as well as research.

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    1. Hi Kea! I expect I’ll have to turn my a/c on either today or tomorrow – calling for temps close to 90, with thunderstorms – some may have up to 60 mph winds but it just depends on where they hit. Grrrr….I am soooo sick of this wind!!!! We’ve had a bit of a break for a couple of days – what a relief!

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  43. EXCERPT: “President Biden’s DHS disinformation chief Nina Jankowicz defended Hunter Biden’s corrupt dealings with Burisma Holdings during a July 2020 book interview — calling the Biden scion, known for crack addiction and selling influence, a “foreign expert.”
    ——————-
    She spoke to BuzzFeed News reporter Jane Lytvynenk. Comments begin at the 42:23 mark in the video below:

    ‘The accusation is that Hunter Biden, in serving on the board of a Ukrainian company, which you know he is allowed to do, he was not the only foreign expert serving on the board of a Ukrainian company, was involved in some corrupt behavior of that company. This company has been investigated for a long time. Burisma is the name of the company. There’s never been any indication that Hunter Biden was involved in anything untoward. There are questions about whether he should have taken that board appointment given his father’s role as, you know, the Obama administration’s main emissary to Ukraine, but that’s not necessarily something that Joe Biden has control over. It certainly has nothing to do with Joe Biden’s policies toward Ukraine.

    And this has, you know, spun into a whole other host of nonsense basically that Joe Biden withheld aid to Ukraine in order to get a resolution to this investigation into Burisma and get his son out of the limelight. It’s just, it’s a load of nonsense. The investigation that is in question was closed at the time that Biden was kind of doing a carrot and stick routine which many diplomats do related to Ukraine in order to get some some financial reforms through and anti-corruption reforms. And there’s a whole host of other allegations that just don’t even bear repeating.’

    Video @ link: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/11/disinformation-chief-jankowicz-defended-hunters-corrupt-burisma-deals/

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  45. EXCERPT: “Hunter Biden is trying to settle the Justice Department’s probe into potential tax fraud, money laundering, and violation of lobbying laws, the New York Times reported Tuesday.

    Trump-appointed U.S. prosecutor David Weiss has been weighing for months whether there is sufficient evidence to indict Hunter. But time is running short. The probe is wrapping up after years of investigation. Hunter is hoping to settle the investigation without criminal or civil charges, the Times outlined :

    The criminal investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes and international work appears to be coming to a head. Justice Department prosecutors have met in recent weeks to discuss whether to move forward with the case. In the coming months, the department is expected to make a final decision about whether to bring criminal or civil charges, or to reach some sort of settlement that could include a significant fine.

    […]

    The allies prefer that the president’s son continue to keep a low profile and follow exactly what his primary defense lawyer, Chris Clark, tells him to do. They want Hunter Biden to do whatever he can to settle the matter with the Justice Department if prosecutors decide they want to charge him, according to the person familiar with their thinking.

    David Weiss, the 20-year federal prosecutor, will have to weigh if there is enough evidence to seek a federal grand jury indictment against Hunter in an investigation that may end up including other members of the Biden family, such as Joe Biden’s brother, James Biden, and potentially the president himself.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/11/nyt-report-hunter-biden-tries-to-settle-justice-department-probe-into-tax-fraud-money-laundering/

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  46. EXCERPT: “Hunter Biden’s lawyer Kevin Morris flew to Serbia, infiltrated, and spied on the My Son Hunter movie set, the Daily Mail reported Tuesday.

    Kevin Morris, a high-powered Hollywood attorney who has been retained by Hunter to “craft legal and media strategy,” flew to Serbia on a private jet to film interviews for the documentary that plans to expose Hunter’s corruption. However, Morris reportedly failed to disclose he was legally representing Hunter.

    “Now that I know of his representation of Hunter Biden, his questions while they were filming suddenly make a lot of sense. I thought he was just making a documentary but now it appears he was deceptively spying for his client Hunter Biden,” producer Phelim McAleer told the Mail.

    When Morris was asked why he was interested in collaborating with the documentary, Morris said, “Well of course it is but corruption is corruption,” according to an audio recording from the publication.

    Morris and two of his colleagues, “under this false guise, were given full access to My Son Hunter set over the course of several days, conducting interviews with producers and actors for the film and taping hours of footage for Morris’s supposed documentary,” according to the Mail.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/11/report-hunter-bidens-lawyer-flew-to-serbia-infiltrated-spied-on-my-son-hunter-movie-set/

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  47. EXCERPT: “Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) asked the Fairfax County board of supervisors to order the local police department to establish an “expanded security perimeter” around the homes of three U.S. Supreme Court Justices who call the county home in a letter obtained by Breitbart News shows.

    “I am writing to respectfully request that the Fairfax County Police Department establish an expanded security perimeter around the homes of the three current Supreme Court Justices who reside in Fairfax County,” Youngkin wrote in part in the Wednesday letter to board members and chairman Jeff McKay.

    The Fairfax County board of supervisors controls the Fairfax County Police Department. Youngkin, as Breitbart News has already reported, has ordered the Virginia State Police — who report to him as governor — to monitor and assist in any way possible, something he reiterates in this letter.

    The letter continues by noting that Youngkin and the state police have obtained credible intelligence of serious threats to the safety and lives of the three Justices, Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, and Clarence Thomas.

    “This request is based on credible and specific information received about upcoming activities planned at or involving the homes of the Justices in Fairfax County,” Youngkin wrote to the board members. “We believe for the safety of the Justices and their families, their neighbors, and the law enforcement heroes dedicated to preserving peace and order in our communities, that an expanded security perimeter should be established. Establishing a perimeter will ensure both the safety of the Justices, their neighbors and the demonstrators.”

    Youngkin next notes that Virginia State Police, at his order, are ready to assist local law enforcement in this directive. “The Virginia State Police have offered and stand ready to provide their assistance to Fairfax County Police,” Youngkin wrote. “We are prepared to provide the manpower and resources necessary to ensure a safe perimeter, which should include limiting unauthorized vehicle and pedestrian access, and be established prior to planned events on Wednesday, May 11, 2022.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/11/gov-glenn-youngkin-requests-local-police-establish-expanded-security-perimeter-around-scotus-justices-homes/

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    1. if anything happens to any of them…impeach shit-for-brains and psucky for insurrection…promoting violence against another branch of gov’t

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  48. TBH, this doesn’t surprise me!

    EXCERPT: “A recent research report claims that thousands of popular websites see what users type into forms before they hit submit. The researchers even found 52 websites where third parties had access to users’ password data before submission.

    Wired reports that according to a study by European researchers from KU Leuven, Radboud University, and the University of Lausanne, many websites track the information that users type into forms even before they hit submit. Researchers analyzed the top 100,000 websites and looked at different scenarios such as users visiting a site while in the European Union and visiting while in the United States.

    The researchers found that 1,844 websites gathered EU users’ email addresses without their consent, while 2,950 logged U.S. users’ emails. Many sites reportedly incorporate third-party marketing and analytics software that automatically collects this information.

    Researchers crawled websites for password leaks in May 2021 and found 52 websites in which third parties were incidentally collecting password data before submission. The group disclosed their findings to these sites and all 52 instances have reportedly since been resolved.

    Güneş Acar, a professor and researcher in Radboud University’s digital security group and one of the leaders of the study, commented:

    ‘If there’s a Submit button on a form, the reasonable expectation is that it does something—that it will submit your data when you click it. We were super surprised by these results. We thought maybe we were going to find a few hundred websites where your email is collected before you submit, but this exceeded our expectations by far.’

    The researchers plan to present their findings at the Usenix security conference in August and said they were inspired to investigate the issue due to media reports about third parties collecting form data regardless of whether they had been submitted.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/05/11/theyre-always-watching-thousands-of-popular-websites-see-what-you-type-before-you-submit/

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  49. Sheesh! Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face!!!

    EXCERPT @ BB: “NBA owners have resorted to hiking ticket prices during one of the worst inflation crises in U.S. history to make up for dismal attendance numbers, according to a report.

    The league is reporting that the average “gate” earnings per team have risen 10.2 percent this season over the pre-pandemic season of 2018-19. Though, that profit isn’t because fans are flocking to arenas. Instead, it is because the league has hiked ticket prices by double the rate of inflation, the New York Post reported.

    Ticket prices have been inflated 18.6 percent this season, the paper adds. But there are fewer fans than ever in the seats.

    “However, the number of paid fans at arenas plummeted 7.1% to 13,603 per game, the exclusive data also shows,” the Post reports. “The Post calculated average ticket prices by dividing gate receipts by paid attendance.”

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  50. i liked Grenell…wonder what this is all about…selective editing of tweets and videos? copied from tcth

    Troublemaker10
    May 11, 2022 3:20 pm

    Oh boy, the attacks on Kathy Barnette by Greg Kelly is false. They chopped the video to make it appear like she said something she did not.

    Both tweets are shown here. Gregg Kelly showed a deceptive, chopped up video and tweeted out:

    “Greg Kelly
    @gregkellyusa
    KATHY BARNETTE is NOT ready. Here she is saying how GREAT Black Live Matter Summer was. And how she feels COPS just want to SHOOT AND KILL black people. Kathy needs to do more THINKING and less Speaking. TOTALLY SILLY AND UNINFORMED !
    (Video linked)

    👇👇👇

    Here’s the unedited video:

    Jeff Charles
    @JeffOnTheRight
    Here are @Kathy4Truth’s full comments in context so you can see the part
    @GregKellyUsa’s and
    @RichardGrenell’s tweets left out of the video clip.

    She clearly says she does NOT believe police officers are waiting on every corner to murder black men.

    They are lying to you.

    (Video linked in tweet…)

    Here are @Kathy4Truth’s full comments in context so you can see the part @GregKellyUsa’s and @RichardGrenell’s tweets left out of the video clip.

    She clearly says she does NOT believe police officers are waiting on every corner to murder black men.

    They are lying to you. https://t.co/cx7uyNVkJM pic.twitter.com/ptyNDlaqR2

    — Jeff Charles (@JeffOnTheRight) May 11, 2022

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