Pennsylvania Black Bears

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This is the time of the year we normally see the first black bears of the season. The forest is reviving itself after the long, snowy winter and everything is finally green again. The air is filled with the sweet, sweet smell of blossoming honeysuckle bushes…and the woods surrounding the house are filled with them. And that sweet smell will be tempting the bears to leave the higher ground and come visit our house.

honeysuckle

From the PA Game Commission’s website:

Ursus americanus is the black bear’s scientific name; it means “American bear.” Although three species of bears inhabit North America, only the black bear is found in Pennsylvania. A population estimate in 2015 showed approximately 20,000 bears living in the commonwealth. Black bears appear heavy, but are surprisingly agile; they can run up to 35 miles per hour, climb trees and swim well. They may live up to 25 years in the wild.

Black bears are intelligent and curious. Studies show that bears can see colors, recognize human forms, and notice even the slightest movement. Bears usually rely on their acute sense of smell and, to a lesser degree, hearing, to locate food and danger. Despite their common name, black bears are not always black. They may be cinnamon or, even rarer, blond. Many bears have a white blaze or “V” on their chest.

Adults usually weigh around 200 pounds, with males being heavier than females, often more than twice as much. Some weigh up to 600 or more pounds and rare individuals up to 900. Males are called boars; females, sows. Black bears measure about three feet high when on all fours or about five to seven feet tall when standing upright.

In Pennsylvania, bears mate primarily from early June to mid-July. Males are very aggressive towards each other at this time. Sows give birth in January to litters of one to five. The newborn cubs are blind, toothless, and covered with short, fine hair that seems to inadequately cover their pink skin. Cubs begin nursing immediately after birth, and are groomed and cared for daily by the sow. Nurtured with the sow’s rich milk, they grow from as light as 10 ounces at birth to as much as 10 pounds by the time they leave the den in early April. Males do not help rear young.

Most cubs stay with the sow for a little more than a year. They watch her every move and learn by imitating her. Cubs are playful, regularly romping and wrestling with their littermates. The sows are very protective of cubs, sending them up trees if danger threatens. Adult males occasionally kill cubs. The family group disbands when the cubs are about a year and a half old and the sow is again ready to breed.

We saw a lot more bears when we were first building our home. I believe the new smells and sounds piqued their curiosity. They’ve balanced precariously on the rim of our burn barrel–butt in the air–reaching down inside the barrel to nab any edible bit left there. They’ve ruined our hummingbird feeders (lesson learned there–we take them in nightly now) and even left muddy prints on the logs on the side of our home.

But they are such fun to watch, safely inside the house. Hopefully we won’t have to wait too much longer this year!

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  1. Good morning from windy NE! Bears…..I am quite happy watching them from a distance, thank you! If they aren’t all black, then why do they call them “black” bears? Hmmm…..things that don’t make sense! A LOT of that these days!

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  2. EXCERPT: “The issues ranged from a failure by the VA to recover more than $200 million in reimbursements from private medical providers to audacious criminal plots by employees and contractors ranging from stealing furnishings donated to homeless veterans to massive kickbacks. Investigations resulted in 104 arrests and more than 500 administrative actions in the first half of 2022.

    Just before Memorial Day, for instance, Alisa Catoggio of Boca Raton, Fla., a former pharmacy technician and high-level executive assistant, pled guilty to taking part in a multimillion-dollar kickback scheme that went on for years undetected. Catoggio admitted she participated in a scheme that paid approximately $40 million in kickbacks to patient recruiters in exchange for their referring prescriptions issued to a compounding pharmacy in Florida.

    While inspections of individual medical centers showed some improvements in patient care, the inspector general still uncovered examples of egregious and deadly care of patients. The VA hospital in Augusta, Ga., for instance, failed to detect the declining condition of a veteran after surgery, including malnutrition and alcohol withdrawal, before he died recently.

    “Prior to the patient’s surgery, primary care staff failed to provide sufficient care coordination and treatment,” the report said. “A provider failed to address the patient’s abnormal chest images and poor nutrition, and failed to communicate test results to the patient as required.

    “A primary care nurse failed to respond to the patient’s secure message request for assistance two days before surgery. Additionally, a barium swallow test was not scheduled. The surgical team completed a preoperative assessment but failed to detect the patient’s overall poor health. During the patient’s hospital stay after surgery, medical-surgical nurses did not consistently assess alcohol withdrawal symptoms or administer medications as required.”
    ———————-
    Peter O’Rourke, a former acting VA secretary under President Trump, said the slippage in wait times has “been a really sad thing to watch,” after years of progress.

    He said bureaucrats feel more emboldened under President Biden to revert back to old ways after years of pressure to innovate and meet performance standards.

    “We’re just seeing over and over again decisions being made, programs being reversed and really just the same kind of disappointing trajectory,” he told the John Solomon Reports podcast.”

    https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/letting-vets-down-va-backslides-wait-times-and-employee-fraud

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    1. this is the most egregious governmental behavior imo…Vets enlist and serve our country and they get mistreated, ripped off and spit on…pisses me off!!!

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  3. Morning All!
    I cleaned and refilled all the hummer feeders this morning and when i took the side feeders out, I found a “present” on the ramp…hubby said there was one there yesterday when we got home…
    the raccoons are mad i guess that there’s nothing for them to eat…
    disgusting little buggers…

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  5. Good morning y’all! Sorry I wasn’t around yesterday. Was outside at sun rise weed eating and mowing around the garden. Got a lot of outside work done and still managed to make some ma aroni salad and grill some burgers! My mom came by and stayed all afternoon. Hope you guys had a good weekend. I liked the Gjengis Khan story. Did not know about the secretive burial! Pat, we also get black bears around here as well. Mostly they stay up on the ridges, but occassionally travel out in public when going from one place to another.

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    1. Morning Cm!
      sounds like you had a productive day!
      we see them mostly in spring–when they’re hungry and the honeysuckles are blooming and then maybe in summer when the berries are plentiful and then late fall before they hibernate…they’re not a constant sight for sure…

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          1. We would occassionally see mountain lions when I lived in Md. I didn’t live near the mountains either. Was outside of Annapolis on the bay.

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              2. when we tried composting our food scraps when we first moved here, we had a lot more of them…I had pictures of bears lying on the ground with a watermelon rind between his front paws, chewing it razor thin.
                we stopped that and now we still get them–they smell the grill occasionally…but they are not so frequent

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  10. EXCERPT: “A massive hailstorm pounded parts of Nebraska on Sunday. There’s video below showing hail measuring more than 6 inches in diameter. The Omaha newspaper reports hail as big as softballs and grapefruit. There’s no word of injuries or damage. Watch:

    I live about an hour east of O’Neill – no hail here!

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  12. EXCERPT: “The Border Patrol agents who killed the school shooter in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday entered the school on their own accord after local law enforcement requested that they hold back, two senior federal law enforcement sources told NBC News on Friday.

    The agents from BORTAC, Border Patrol’s tactical unit, arrived at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde from a location about 40 miles away, according to the New York Times. Agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arrived around the same time, the federal sources told NBC.

    Local law enforcement asked the two teams to wait, and then tasked HSI agents with pulling schoolchildren out of classroom windows. BORTAC agents waited about 30 minutes and then decided to ignore local law enforcement’s request to remain outside, entering the school and neutralizing the gunman.”

    https://www.nationalreview.com/news/border-patrol-agents-defied-uvalde-police-orders-to-remain-outside-school/

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  13. EXCERPT: “Former White House adviser Peter Navarro said on Monday that he was served with a federal grand jury subpoena related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

    The former trade adviser to President Donald Trump said he received the subpoena from the FBI agents on Thursday of last week seeking to compel his testimony in front of a federal grand jury on Thursday, June 2. Federal prosecutors are seeking records from Navarro related to the Jan. 6 Capitol last year, including “any communications” with Trump. Navarro disclosed the existence of the subpoena in a draft lawsuit that he intends to file against members of the House Jan. 6 select committee, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves.

    “On May 26, 2022, two FBI special agents banged loudly on my door in the early morning hours to present me with a fruit of the poisonous tree,” Navarro said in the draft lawsuit, describing the moment he says he was served with the subpoena.

    Navarro, 72, said the grand jury subpoena is “commanding me to comply with the original ultra vires, illegal and unenforceable subpoena issued to me by the Committee dated February 9, 10 2022.”

    The former Trump aide said the grand jury subpoena was signed by Graves and ignores “all claims of executive privilege and testimonial immunity while commanding me to testify before” the grand jury in D.C. on Thursday.”

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/former-trump-adviser-peter-navarro-slapped-with-grand-jury-subpoena-related-to-jan-6-capitol-riot

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    1. here’s my favorite part…
      “If, in this case, the Committee and Joe Biden are able to effectively establish the principle that an incumbent can strip his predecessor of both executive privilege and testimonial immunity, just imagine what will happen to Joe Biden and his advisers if Republicans win both the White House and House in 2024,” he wrote. “In fact, I don’t need to imagine this repeat of the strategic game. If I’m not dead or in prison, I will lead the charge.”

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  15. EXCERPT: “Lurid assertions about Putin’s health appear to be part of a black propaganda campaign to deflate the ‘masculine’ image Putin tries to portray, given that they appear to be backed by no actual evidence whatsoever. Indeed, the much vaunted ‘fact-checkers’ seem to be AWOL on this one. The claims, which are almost always made by anonymous intelligence officials, include;

    – Putin has Parkinson’s disease.
    – Putin has dementia.
    – Putin has blood cancer.
    – Putin is suffering from “chemo brain”, a cognitive impairment caused by cancer treatment.
    – Putin recently underwent major surgery.
    – Putin is taking steroids to hide his symptoms.
    – Putin is “constantly” being followed around by doctors.
    – Putin is fooling the word by using “pre-recorded appearances.”
    – Putin is using “body doubles” and “actors” to fulfil his public appearances.
    – Putin’s health woes have weakened his grip on power, which is now tenuous.
    – Putin may even be dead already but that it won’t be admitted for “months” to avoid a Kremlin coup.

    Of course, no one knows the true state of Putin’s health because NATO-aligned spies and corporate media outlets will always seek to play up the most dire speculation in an effort to undermine the Russian president. One insight into the veracity of such reports is that the claims are being amplified by British spy Christopher Steele, who infamously authored the dubious Trump dossier which has been roundly debunked.”

    https://summit.news/2022/05/31/kremlin-responds-to-claims-putin-is-terminally-ill/

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    1. seems to mirror what is being noticed about shit-for-brains isn’t it?
      so we notice FACTS, they counter with trumped up stories about putin–to make it seem like the shit-for-brains stories aren’t factual either…

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  16. EXCERPT: “Smith is not a journalist —she’s pretending to be one on TV. She’s never done any investigative reporting in her life. She was a stock trader who briefly worked at Bloomberg News before moving to the Fox Business channel — and she did not distinguish herself in any of these roles. This was self-evident when Fox’s top airhead conducted an interview with Rep. Mo Brooks this weekend that went viral on Twitter because Mo Brooks essentially ended her career on air.

    Sandra Smith felt the need to make one of those idiotic “there was no cheating in the 2020 election” statements probably written by Paul Ryan himself. She then pushed back on Mo Brooks because she “had been reading the Wall Street Journal” — another Rupert Murdoch media property! — which she wanted to be very clear she was quoting from verbate! That really sums up the TV career of Sandra Smith in one word: verbate!

    She means verbatim, of course, but what do you want from a woman whose reporting experience in the world of politics is so thin that it might as well be a starving model? (Could she pass a 5th grade civics exam? I have my doubts. Mo Brooks has to explain to her that Congress is in charge of federal election law!) Sandra is also the only human being who thinks that the old British propaganda outfit Reuters is some kind of international fact-checking NGO! She’s a wacky liberal who probably declined to vote for Joe Biden in 2020 because, at the last minute, she filled out her ballot with the name of the more deserving candidate: her hairdresser.

    This leads to my final point: the only reason to watch Sandra Smith is because you want to get your information from someone who knows less than you do. The rest of the interview was just as disgraceful: Smith harassed Brooks about so-called “red flag” gun laws, about the NRA’s endorsement of Brooks, and about calling for a return to traditional moral values.

    Now you would think that a call for returning to traditional moral values would be uncontroversial at Fox News — but you would be wrong. You forgot that you’re dealing with Sandra Smith who manages to twists the words of Mo Brooks into an insult of single parents!

    Just watch the entire interview.”

    https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/fox-news-sandra-smith-bites-the-dust

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  18. EXCERPT: “The shooter in Uvalde was cutting his face, killing cats, having domestic disputes with his mother, and shooting bystanders with a BB gun. He was also reported for making death threats by someone online. If CPS ever should have removed a child from a home (he was under-18 until weeks prior to the shooting) and put them into a facility, it should have been this time, yet nothing was done. If that’s not what Democrats and Republicans mean by mental health resources, it’s not going to be effective.

    Moving past the areas of possible effective compromise, though, there is no chance Democrats walk away without getting their way on something that directly violates the rights of Americans. In this case, Murphy mentions universal background checks, which again, would not have stopped this shooter like almost every shooter before him. Now, you might be saying to yourself, “we already have background checks,” and you’d be correct. In fact, I can’t think of a single mass shooting (i.e. high-profile, school shootings, etc.) where the gun was purchased privately, ducking an FFL-background check. In almost all cases, shooters either pass a background check or steal their guns from family members.

    But the point of universal background checks is really to create a federal gun registry. That way the government knows who has the guns and where. When you recognize that, it’s easy to understand why Democrats love the idea so much despite its obvious ineffectiveness.

    Lastly, it appears “red flag” laws will be the major concession by Republicans going forward. Yet, putting aside the constitutional issues at play (due process), my primary aversion to the idea is simply that they don’t seem to work, at least in regards to mass shooters. New York has an extremely broad red flag law. It didn’t stop the Buffalo grocery store shooter just a few weeks ago. From my view, it seems like trying to stop an army of ants with a magnifying glass. And while I’ll concede red flag laws might be effective in regards to suicide prevention, that’s not the discussion here, right?”

    https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/05/30/republicans-line-up-to-violate-your-rights-in-order-to-please-democrats-n572152

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    1. agreed–so when they KNOW where the guns are…they will not confiscate them–expect to see a rise in thefts of said guns…
      like the unexplained and univestigated arson of food storage or processing plants, chicken farms etc…

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  24. EXCERPT: “University of Pennsylvania professor Anthea Butler is at the center of another controversy after going on Twitter to suggest that the delay in rescuing the children in the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas was due to racism. She asked if the police “didn’t give a damn” about the children because they were “predominantly brown kids.” While she later deleted the Tweet, Professor Butler has a long history of offensive racial statements. While some have previously called for her termination, these comments (including this disgraceful tweet) should be protected under principles of free speech and academic freedom. However, this is another example of the double standard often applied at universities, which are quick to investigate, discipline, or fire conservative, libertarian, or dissenting faculty members in such controversies.

    As the rest of the country was still mourning the massacre, Butler took to Twitter to re-cast the tragedy in racial terms. She wrote: “Since no one else will ask, I will. Did those children die because most of them were Mexican American and the police didn’t give a damn about a school w predominately brown kids? I mean, because it’s Texas … and if you think everyone who isn’t white is illegal …”

    Critics have pointed out that Uvalde Police Chief Daniel Rodríguez is Latino as is Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Chief Pedro Arredondo. Many of the officers at the scene were Latino. Butler’s suggestion of racism was even more offensive given the stories of officers with children at the school and among the dead.

    Last year, Butler publicly condemned what she called “colorblind racism” of people who insist that they do not judge on the basis of a person’s skin: “When people say to you, ‘I don’t see color, I see what Jesus sees in you,’ that really actually means that they just see white.” She lashed out at evangelical Christians who, she claimed, “may end up killing us all” due to their “racism, sexism, homophobia, lack of belief in science, lack of belief and common sense.”

    This weekend, we discussed the different treatment given liberal and conservative speakers at Boston University after students passed a resolution calling a conservative speaker a danger to their safety. They further declared that “intentionally incendiary speech and rhetoric” is unprotected by free speech principles. Yet, Boston University Professor Saida Grundy the same week made incendiary comments to justify criminal acts, including looting, as racial justice. Grundy has a history of racial statements against white students and faculty. As I noted, both speakers should be protected by the same free speech values.”

    https://jonathanturley.org/2022/05/29/i-mean-because-its-texas-penn-professor-alleges-police-may-have-delayed-rescue-in-uvalde-due-to-racism/

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    1. both of my kids have those robo vacs…both are too “busy” or lazy (imo) to vacuum. they both have multiple pets–guess where those vacs don’t go? in the corners…guess where the pet hair accumulates? in the corners!

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          1. Well, so much for that idea! Jake would be far too scared to ever consider riding on one anyway! Speaking of expensive shit…..I looked into one of those automatic, electronic litter boxes? Over $600!!!! Yeah, no, not going there!!!! I’ll just keep scooping, thank you!

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              3. Now that I think about it, it was around $300, I think – still, even that’s too much to pay for an electronic litter box! I think the one you had may have been the precursor to the new, fancy one. There was a kind of rake that came down and scooped it into a pan, right? This one is Wi-Fi enabled and programmable!!! Insane!

                Whisker Litter-Robot WiFi Enabled Automatic Self-Cleaning Cat Litter Box – $549!!!!

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  27. I’m working on another jimmy-rigged project…..Mom gave me a cute bird feeder – hard plastic, looks like a pale yellow farm house, with windows on 2 sides, and fake doors on the ends, black pitched roof. The sides are open at the bottom and the seed is poured thru a square opening on the top, with a cap for it that makes it look like a chimney. There is a black bottom piece that extends around the whole thing.

    The problems are: (1) I can’t leave it out in the rain – the water would accumulate in the bottom, which would cause all of the seeds to get moldy – and that sucker holds a LOT of seeds; and (2) I had it out front on my front porch so I could grab it real quick if it started to rain. But that meant the birds knocked all that seed into my garden bed and I end up spending hours pulling all the tiny weeds that pop up.

    So, what to do with it? I got to wondering if I could use it as a planter. I took my handy-dandy screwdriver and popped the windows out, then tried to do the same with the doors. Drat! Just a fake cover! But there are some holes in the plastic that was underneath so, hopefully, some tendrils of the plant will find their way thru them.

    Then I realized the dirt would spill out thru the windows – I already covered the bottom opening with white stones. So I took a black landscape edging piece, snapped it in half, and put them inside to cover the bottom of both windows, leaving room for plants to send out their tendrils. There is a big hump in the bottom, so I will need to find some really small plants to get into the corners, with my fingers thru the windows. That’ll be fun! Good thing I have small fingers, too!

    Now, to figure out what kind of small plant will do what I want it to but is also small enough to get them into the danged thing! Something that will send out vines……

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  28. an update on Tammy…she’s doing well first of all…but she related some confusing hospital things…
    when she had breast cancer, the first drug they tried ( very widely used) make her incredibly sick–so she went down the list apparently till they found the one she tolerated well. after the brain tumor was removed, they put her back on that drug–now it is scarce…she’s gotten no answer to why. she is the only cancer patient at that hospital to receive it anymore and she had to fight her butt off to stay on it.

    initially they told her NEVER skip a treatment–now they are telling her–sure, you can skip one if you want to…

    she was scheduled for a dye/mri scan this past week. they did the scan without the dye because they had none! this is not a rinky dink hospital…this is Lehigh Valley Hospital system–it’s large and well known in that area. for them NOT to have dye for this is extremely weird.

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    1. There was an article that came out recently about that very issue!!! Yet another reason we need to make this stuff HERE!!!!

      EXCERPT: “CHICAGO (CBS) — Growing concern about common medical screenings that can catch things like cancer or heart problems. A nationwide shortage of imaging solution is putting some of those tests on hold. CBS 2’s Charlie De Mar with the impact it’s having on major hospitals in our area.

      “Do you know the worst place to be during a pandemic? The hospital” Lucy Cantley is battling colon cancer and being treated in North Carolina. “So, I have no idea that there was a shortage happening scans are very anxiety-inducing for any cancer patient.” And to add to the anxiety of her regular CT scans on her most recent hospital visit — Cantley was given less contrast solution than normal due to a nationwide shortage. “Knowing that the scan isn’t being done like it normally would be just creates more anxiety,” she said.

      GE, a major supplier of the contrast dye, was forced to close its Shanghai manufacturing facility for several weeks due to COVID — contributing to the shortage now impacting health care systems and patients around the country. They have reopened and utilized global plants wherever they can.”

      https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/nationwide-contrast-shortage-affecting-healthcare-systems-across-the-country/

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    2. Don’t skip treatments. My dad fell through the cracks during the Christmas season at Johns Hopkins and his cancer ended up spreading like crazy. Doctors forgot to schedule him or hand him off to others while they too long holiday vacations. He died 4 months later.

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      2. oh, I’m so sorry CM!
        they wanted to take “one last” long trip together–to see the west–yellowstone and other national parks–a 2 week trip…

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  29. who’s surprised?????

    Verdict just announced: Sussmann NOT GUILTY. More coming at @EpochTimes

    — John Haughey (@JFHaughey58) May 31, 2022

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    3. Look at the Judge alone, not to mention the connections of some of the members of the jury!

      “Christopher Cooper, the U.S. district court judge who presided over the Sussmann case, has said he was “professional acquaintances” at the Justice Department with Sussmann in the 1990s. The judge’s wife has represented former FBI lawyer Lisa Page since at least 2018. Page was having an affair with and exchanging anti-Trump texts with since-fired FBI agent Peter Strzok during the 2016 election.”

      and this: “Cooper was appointed by President Barack Obama following unanimous Senate confirmation. He and his wife were married in 1999, and Merrick Garland, now the attorney general, officiated their wedding.”

      https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/sussmann-found-not-guilty-in-blow-to-john-durhams-investigation

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      1. reading some reports that durham is still smiling—meaning this outcome was not unexpected and perhaps just getting the testimonies on record for things to come…we’ll see

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  31. theranos chick asks judge to overturn jurors’ findings of guilt…her lawyers claimed they weren’t rational jurors…listen pal, you had your chance to challenge them BEFORE they were seated on the jury…now that you lost, you want another chance? (and did you know, she’s pregnant and doesn’t have to report to prison till she gives birth—who gets that consideration?)
    FTA
    “No rational fact finder could find that the government proved conspiracy to commit wire fraud beyond a reasonable doubt,” Friday’s document further argues. It later adds: “No rational juror could find beyond a reasonable doubt that Ms. Holmes and Mr. [Ramesh “Sunny”] Balwani conspired to defraud Theranos investors through the false representations alleged in the Indictment.”

    https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/disgraced-theranos-founder-elizabeth-holmes-judge-overturn-convictions

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  32. copied from the q tree

    trumpismineOnline
    Coyote
    May 31, 2022 14:04

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    Donald J. Trump

    @realDonaldTrump
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    56m
    Our Legal System is CORRUPT, our Judges (and Justices!) are highly partisan, compromised or just plain scared, our Borders are OPEN, our Elections are Rigged, Inflation is RAMPANT, gas prices and food costs are “through the roof,” our Military “Leadership” is Woke, our Country is going to HELL, and Michael Sussmann is not guilty. How’s everything else doing? Enjoy your day!!!

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  33. I’ve always thought open primaries were stupid!

    EXCERPT: “According to new reports, there are allegedly thousands of Democratic voters in key swing states casting their votes in Republican primaries in a deliberate effort to block candidates who have been endorsed by President Donald J. Trump. As reported by the Associated Press, voting records from the data firm L2 show that approximately 37,000 Democratic voters in Georgia cast votes in last week’s Republican primaries.

    Although a sizable number, this total was not enough to make the difference in the two key statewide races for governor and secretary of state. Incumbent Brian Kemp (R-Ga.) won his primary by over 620,000 votes, nearly 74 percent of all votes cast. Incumbent Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R-Ga.) won by over 220,000 votes. Both Kemp and Raffensperger were targeted by Trump-backed challengers David Perdue and Jody Hice, respectively, over their failure to stop voter fraud in the 2020 election.

    This new tactic, while not necessarily illegal, may nevertheless constitute a new form of voter fraud that involves artificially changing the results of primaries from the will of most Republican voters. Although President Trump’s endorsed candidates have been successful far more often than not, some Democrats and NeverTrump Republicans are nevertheless attempting to coordinate similar efforts in a handful of upcoming races, most prominently the primary for Wyoming’s at-large congressional district, with unpopular incumbent Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.)

    President Trump referenced this tactic while campaigning in Wyoming on Saturday for his preferred candidate against Cheney, former Republican National Committee member Harriet Hageman. “Don’t let the Democrats do what they did in another state last week,” Trump said, pointing out that this is what happens “when you allow Democrats to vote in a Republican primary.”

    https://amgreatness.com/2022/05/31/some-democrats-voting-in-republican-primaries-to-spoil-trump-backed-candidates/

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  37. EXCERPT: “Liberal Constitutional attorney Jonathan Turley provided one of the best ‘fact checks’ on this matter in light of Biden’s most recent version of this claim.

    “The statement that the Second Amendment is not absolute is certainly true,” Turley said. “There are laws that can be crafted within the confines set out under controlling Supreme Court precedent. However, as discussed in a column, President Biden continues to ignore those constitutional limitations in blaming the gun lobby and political opponents for these deaths.”

    “President Biden also has repeated his claim that certain weapons were banned at the time of the ratification of the Second Amendment,” he noted. “Previously, Biden declared”: ‘And I might add: The Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own. You couldn’t buy a cannon.’

    “I have received calls from media for years about this claim and it does not improve by repetition,” Turley went on. “Even the Washington Post has declared Biden’s understanding of the Second Amendment to be false.”

    “Once again, there were no federal laws barring cannon ownership when the Second Amendment was enacted,” Turley said. “Gun laws remained local matters and I do not know of any bans on cannons or other gun types until much later in our history. Early local laws did control concealed weapons, though concealed cannons were not part of those ordinances. Indeed, the Constitution itself supports private cannon ownership in the case of privateers. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11 allows Congress to ‘grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal.’ That allowed private parties to privateer on the high seas with . . . cannons.

    Furthermore, arguing that civilians don’t need firearms to protect themselves anymore because the U.S. government has fighter jets and tanks isn’t as persuasive an argument as Biden might think, especially in light of what happened in Afghanistan and what is now going on in Ukraine.

    Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) perhaps put it best:”

    https://beckernews.com/biden-argues-2nd-amendment-was-never-absolute-falsely-claims-you-couldnt-buy-a-cannon-45173/

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  38. Definitely need to wait until this one shakes out but…..I see riots in KC’s future!!!! I do have to say, tho – shot 5 times and she is in stable condition? Apparently, KC cops need more weapons training!

    The link at the very bottom will show you where this is going….”Defender News Briefing, America’s #1 newsletter for Black politics, culture tech and world news. Smart, brief, and straight to your inbox”

    Entire Article @ NYPost: “Missouri cops allegedly shot a woman five times as she tried to flee her arrest for a suspected armed carjacking — but on Tuesday denied initial reports that she had been unarmed and pregnant. Leonna Hale, 26, had been filmed laying in a pool of blood Friday night after being shot in Kansas City by officers responding to reports of an armed carjacking, officials confirmed to KCTV

    “They shot her! Oh my God, they shot her!” a woman repeatedly cried out in footage she filmed and shared on Facebook. “What the f–k!” she gasped as she filmed the shot woman on the ground. “Oh my God, they shot her and they still putting her in handcuffs!” The witness, who only gave the name Shédanja, told the Kansas City Star that the shot woman had shouted out to cops that she was pregnant — and had held her hands in the air to prove she was unarmed. “She did not pull out a weapon on them,” Shédanja insisted to The Star. “She did not even have a stick in her hand.”

    Amid escalating outrage, the local paper demanded answers to a flurry of unanswered questions in the case as Hale still recovered in a hospital, where she was listed in stable condition Tuesday. “When officers under your command shoot a woman under questionable circumstances, we need more substance and less cop speak,” opinion writer Toriano Porter wrote.

    Later Tuesday — nearly four full days after the shooting — investigators started denying the most troubling claims, that she had been pregnant and unarmed. “Yes, she was armed with a handgun, holding the gun in her hand,” Sgt. Andy Bell of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the agency investigating the officer-involved shooting, told The Star.
    However, the force was unable to confirm if she had pointed the gun at officers before the shooting, which was captured on more than one body cam, Bell told the paper.

    Later, a spokesperson for the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office, which is also investigating, also stressed to The Post that they “don’t believe she was pregnant.” However, investigators are still awaiting confirmation, and it was not immediately clear if Hale had made the claim, as the witness said, the spokesperson said. The Kansas City Police Department’s interim police chief, Joseph Mabin, told KCTV that his officers “never want to be in these type of situations.” “This is a holiday weekend. It’s time for friends. Not a time for violence,” he had told the outlet Friday.

    The male driver who allegedly fled was not immediately identified. He was busted after a chase and also taken to a hospital for an unrelated medical issue, the local reports said.”

    https://www.kansascitydefender.com/justice/kcpd-shoot-unarmed-woman-five-times/

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  39. EXCERPT: “The jury in the Michael Sussmann criminal case resumes deliberations today after the long Memorial Day weekend. While prosecutors presented overwhelming evidence over the last two weeks that Sussmann lied to then-FBI General Counsel James Baker in 2016, an acquittal by the D.C. jury still seems likely.

    Update: Jurors did acquit Sussmann, on May 31.

    Judging the success of Special Counsel John Durham’s probe into the investigation of President Trump and those associated with the Trump campaign and administration should not rest on the outcome of the Sussmann prosecution, however. In fact, even if the special counsel’s office scores a conviction in its false statement case against Sussmann, that would do little to right the scales of justice unbalanced by more than five years of the politically motivated abuse of power that began as Crossfire Hurricane and continued even after Special Counsel Robert Mueller issued his final report.

    So, measuring Durham’s performance by the outcome in United States v. Sussmann would be a mistake. Also, especially in the case of an acquittal, it would ignore the valuable information exposed related to the broader Spygate scandal. Using that gauge as a measure, the special counsel’s office succeeded wildly.
    ———–
    As with Sussmann, whether Joffe ever faces charges or a conviction says nothing of the success of the Durham investigation. To date, the special counsel has succeeded in exposing Hillary Clinton’s role in the hoax—and that the Alfa Bank hoax was real and spectacularly scandalous.”

    https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/31/even-if-the-jury-doesnt-convict-michael-sussmann-the-special-counsel-has-won/

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  40. SMDH – as usual, something that should be used only for good is bastardized by the deviants!!!!

    EXCERPT: “A Facebook sperm donor fathered 15 children but never told the mothers he has an inheritable condition that causes learning disabilities. James MacDougall, 37, fathered children with lesbian women through private donations advertised on social media despite knowing he had incurable Fragile X syndrome, a genetic disorder that leads to low IQ and developmental delay.

    MacDougall’s identity came out in a family court battle in Derby, United Kingdom, after he applied for parental responsibility and child arrangement orders for four of his children — even though he originally signed an agreement saying he didn’t want contact with some of his children. The mothers of the children were opposed to the applications.

    Derby Court Judge Justice Nathalie Lieven named MacDougall to stop other women from using him as a sperm donor and ruled he should not have any responsibility for the children as it would cause them harm. The judge also forbade MacDougall from applying for a court order for the next three years due to his lack of insight into his conduct and because it would traumatize the mothers.

    The court heard from one woman only identified as SW, 25, who got into contact with MacDougall after seeing his advertisement. Her children are now 3 and 2 years old. SW’s 3-year-old child is nonverbal and has challenging behavior due to Fragile X syndrome.”

    https://nypost.com/2022/05/31/sperm-donor-fathered-15-never-shared-he-has-genetic-disease/

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  41. Executive Summary

    If you, or anyone you know, is vaccine injured or you believe has died from the COVID vaccines, please report the injury or death here in my new worldwide master survey. Please do this even if you’ve reported a death in my previous surveys because this survey collects more extensive information about the injury/death. Shining light on the number and severity of COVID vaccine injuries and deaths may well be the best way to get people throughout the world to wake up and realize that they’ve been duped.

    I am writing this on May 30, 2022, Memorial Day. This holiday is reserved for honoring those who have died in service to our country. But there are others who have sacrificed their health or in some cases, their lives, because they were asked to do so by the US government to help end the pandemic in America. Many of these people have made the ultimate sacrifice as well, but they are not being recognized. Their injuries and/or deaths have been ignored. It is time for that to change. Today.

    It takes only a few minutes to fill out the survey. If you don’t know anyone who died or injured, please do one thing for me: share this article on your social media accounts. You can view the injury/death reports as they come in, in real time here (with personally identifying information redacted) here. The comments there are fascinating reading.

    This is a survey that the US government should be doing, but they don’t want anyone to know the information so they won’t do it. This is why it is so critical that we collect it. Here is a document showing the comments from the first 95 people to respond. It should be required reading before anyone can consent to getting the shot. That would be real informed consent.

    Please share this article widely. It is very important to reach as many vaccine injured as possible so we can publicly expose the true extent of the problem. Due to censorship/shadow banning on mainstream social media, you may need to refer people “in code” to the currently pinned article on my Substack.

    If you use a censorship-free platform such as Gab, GETTR, Truth Social, or Telegram account, you can post the link to this article directly. If you don’t have an account on these platforms yet, consider making one now (it could be many months before Elon Musk fixes Twitter).”

    https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/organizing-the-vaccine-injured-may?s=r

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  42. EXCERPT: “Jessie Rodriguez, whose 10-year-old daughter Annabell was killed in the attack, told The Independent that “more likely many children probably still were there just bleeding out, but yet they didn’t try to rescue nobody.”

    “It’s wrong to just think, ‘They’re all dead anyways.’ You don’t think negative like that; you enter and put down that man, find out if there’s still survivors – not just wait til they bleed out,” he said. “It took one hour before they could put a stop to this man … but it’s a little bit too late.”
    —————–
    “He walked in unobstructed initially,” Victor Escalon, a regional director with the Texas Department of Public Safety, said during a press conference from Uvalde on 26 May, two days after the massacre. “He was not confronted by anybody.” Within the hour that Ramos entered the school and his death, parents and bystanders began to surround the school, urging police on the scene to enter and save their children.

    Officers on the scene believed the active shooting stage of the incident was over, believing instead that the gunman “barricaded” from police, despite at least nine desperate 911 calls from children and people inside the school demanding help within that time.

    At one point, at least 19 officers were in a hallway, though none of them engaged the gunman, according to police.”

    (I was going to bring The Independent article but it is subscription only)

    https://theworldnews.net/gb-news/our-children-were-crying-for-somebody-uvalde-victim-s-father-condemns-police-who-left-kids-to-bleed-out

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  43. EXCERPT: “Corporations trying to straddle the line between woke politics and respecting their customers, employees and investors are facing new scrutiny, courtesy of a firm that advises clients on “biblically responsible investing” and one of America’s most successful Supreme Court litigants.

    Inspire Insight and the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) collaborated on a “Viewpoint Diversity Score” business index that ranks corporations based on their product and service offerings, human resources and employee giving, and political engagement and charitable giving. The purpose is evaluating to what extent “companies respect their stakeholders’ freedom of expression and freedom of religion or belief as a standard part of doing business,” their website says.

    Their advisory council includes conservative intellectual Robert George at Princeton University and Andrew Abela, dean of the business school at Catholic University of America, who had his own free-speech controversy two years ago. The inaugural rankings may surprise some observers who associate intolerance and bias with social media and search engines. Neither Facebook parent Meta nor Google parent Alphabet is in the bottom 10 companies out of 50 ranked for the first annual edition of the index.

    “Powerful companies — particularly in the tech and financial services industries — have emerged as de facto gatekeepers of essential services,” wrote Jeremy Tedesco, ADF senior vice president of corporate engagement. “Relying on politically derived and ideologically motivated goals, these companies are, perhaps inadvertently, undermining trust and the institutions of democratic self-government.”

    The two organizations limited their first review to the Fortune 1000 and specifically industries with “the greatest potential to impact free speech and religious freedom … essential banking, payment processing, and cloud services, or that serve as platforms for third-party expression in the digital space.”

    Netflix, recently known for rebuking employees who demand it remove allegedly discriminatory content such as the Dave Chappelle comedy special “The Closer,” was not evaluated. Neither was Disney, which first refused to criticize Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill and then swung hard the other way, drawing a legislative rebuke that ended its special tax and administrative status.

    In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Tedesco and Inspire CEO Robert Netzley said the index sources data from responses to Inspire’s 17-question survey, “company websites, reports, news releases, terms of service and political donations,” then uses a scoring rubric with 42 questions, each worth three points.

    The worst company among the 50 is domain registrar and web hosting company GoDaddy, once known for racy Super Bowl advertising, with a 2% score. The next three — software makers Adobe and Microsoft and home rental platform Airbnb — scored 5%. Amazon and Twitter scored 6%, eBay and PayPal 7%, and Apple and Citigroup 8%. Only Microsoft responded to Just the News among the 10 worst-scoring companies, declining to comment on its ranking.

    Meta and Alphabet fell just outside the lowest 10 with scores of 9%, and more than half of rated companies ranked between 10-20%. The overall average was 12%, with computer software (6%), internet services and retailing (8%) and financial and data services (11%) with the lowest averages by industry.

    Tedesco said only two companies, Paychex and Truist, “provided substantive responses” to the survey Inspire sent the 50 last fall. That transparency helped them achieve the top two spots on the list with scores of 35% and 24%. Neither company responded to queries from Just the News.”

    More: https://justthenews.com/accountability/watchdogs/facebook-google-evade-worst-rankings-viewpoint-diversity-business-index

    “Each company is scored based on its policies, practices, and activities in three areas:

    Market: Product and service offerings.
    Workplace: Human resources and employee giving.
    Public Square: Political engagement and charitable giving.

    Data pertaining to each of these three categories is analyzed consistent with our scoring methodology (available below). Data is acquired through voluntary corporate disclosures, and open-source research, using publicly available information.

    Download Methodology here →Source Data download

    https://viewpointdiversityscore.org/company/capital-one-financial

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  45. Entire Article: “Dutch state energy company GasTerra failed to make a required payment in rubles to Russia for their gas supplies, so Russia cut off the Netherlands. The Netherlands has become the fourth country to stop receiving Russian natural gas, following its decision not to pay for deliveries in rubles.

    Russia’s energy giant Gazprom announced on Tuesday that it had “completely stopped gas supplies” to the Dutch state energy wholesaler GasTerra. “As of the end of the business day on May 30, Gazprom Export had not received payment for gas supplies in April from GasTerra B.V.,” the Russian company explained in a statement.

    According to a report by RT, GasTerra has already made arrangements to make up for the “shortfall” in natural gas. “The cessation of supply by Gazprom means that until October 1, 2022, the date on which the contract ends, approximately 2 bcm of contracted gas will not be supplied. GasTerra has anticipated this by purchasing gas elsewhere,” the Dutch company outlined in a statement.

    In late April, Gazprom suspended gas exports to Bulgaria and Poland, and in May, Finland was cut off. Denmark also faces a supply freeze after refusing Russia’s ruble payment demand. Russia’s assistance in paying in rubles has come about to ward off sanctions placed on the country by the West.

    Earlier this month Germany and Italy reportedly allowed national companies to open ruble accounts with Russia’s Gazprombank to comply with the new natural gas payment scheme and avoid a supply cut-off. In total, two dozen European companies have so far opened ruble accounts, according to the Russian Energy Ministry.

    It looks like Russia is going to continue to balk at Western sanctions and make plans to get around them. Moscow’s new payment idea requires gas buyers from “unfriendly” countries that have placed sanctions on Russia to open accounts in Gazprombank. They can then deposit funds in their currency of choice, which the bank converts to rubles and transfers to the supplier.

    This is going on while economies in the West are on the verge of crumbling due to crippling inflation and devastating food supply chain issues.”

    Image by Evgeny GoTown.ru from Pixabay. Article cross-posted from SHTF Plan.

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  46. Ready to shake your head so hard it almost falls off????

    Entire Article @ NYP: “A woman in love with a plane insists her desire is not a flight of fancy. Sarah Rodo, 23, even refers to the Boeing 737 as her boyfriend. She flies on the aircraft as often as possible and has 50 replica models of the plane at home. Sarah calls the Boeing Dicki and hopes to wed one day, even though it is illegal in Germany. The Dortmund resident identifies as an Objectum Sexual, meaning that she is sexually attracted to inanimate objects.

    She said past romances with men didn’t get her flying high. She has also been in love with a train. Sarah said: “My plane is called Dicki. I love everything about him, but particularly his face, wings and engine — they’re so sexy to me. Some people don’t understand my love but my friends took my coming-out very well and encouraged me.”

    “This story originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced here with permission.”

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  48. Actually, no – the cops were probably waiting to give the blood alcohol level time to drop a bit first…..then again, the article doesn’t say when, exactly, they tested him so……maybe they did it in the field, there at the accident?

    EXCERPT: “As we’ve already reported, Pelosi, 82, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), was arrested on Saturday night shortly before midnight, at 11:44 PM, when he had an accident with another car. Fortunately, there were no injuries, but Pelosi was then charged with two misdemeanors: driving under the influence and driving with a blood-alcohol level at or above 0.08.

    For some reason that hasn’t been fully explained yet, it took law enforcement officers more than four hours to book him after he was arrested. He wasn’t booked until 4:13 a.m. Was he resisting a breathalyzer? Causing a problem? Were they debating whether or not to charge him? It’s not clear. And if he was still blowing more than 0.08 after that time, what was he like at the time of the crash? He was released about three hours after he was booked on $5000 bail.

    But now there’s more information on the accident. Pelosi was allegedly driving drunk when he piloted a 2021 Porsche through a stop sign while crossing State Route 29 and drove right into the path of an oncoming car driven by Jesus Lopez, 48, at about 10:26 p.m. So based on the report, Pelosi allegedly caused the crash. Notice he wasn’t driving an electric vehicle, but a nice gas-guzzling new Porsche.

    This happened about five miles south of the Pelosi vineyard in St. Helena. This is just one of their many estates. Nancy Pelosi claimed she wasn’t with her husband but was in Rhode Island because she was going to be delivering a commencement address at Brown University.”

    https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/05/31/more-shoes-drop-in-the-paul-pelosi-arrest-story-n572594

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  50. Dang! Didn’t take HIM long!!!!

    Entire Article @ 100%FedUp: “Back in 2017, a North Carolina man won a $10 million dollar lottery prize. Just three years later, the same man was arrested for the murder of a 23-year-old woman and, on Friday, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Michael Todd Hill, 54, was convicted of first-degree murder for the killing of Keonna Graham, 23.

    Graham worked for a program that helped people with intellectual disabilities, and later worked as a correctional officer in Burgaw, North Carolina. Graham was living in Navassa, North Carolina at the time of her death with her mother and 10-year-old sister with whom she was incredibly close.

    Graham was reported missing on July 20, 2020, and later found dead in a hotel room with a gunshot wound to the back of the head. Hill was arrested the following day. Authorities recovered surveillance footage from the hotel where Graham was killed that showed Hill being the only person in the room with the victim. Hill also confessed to the crime, claiming that Graham had been texting other men while she was at the hotel, which prompted him to shoot her.

    WECT-TV reported that Hill had won the $10 million from a scratch-off ticket in August 2017.”

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