What Shall We Bake Today?

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Today we’re going to make carrot cake! I like this recipe because it uses a cake mix, genuine carrots and chopped nuts!

Carrot Cake

1 package yellow cake mix (I like Duncan Hines Moist Deluxe)

4 eggs

1/2 cup crisco oil

3 cups grated carrots

1 cup finely chopped walnuts (pecans also work in this recipe)

2 tsp ground cinnamon

Preheat oven to 350*. Grease and flour 2 8-inch cake pans. Combine cake mix, eggs, oil, carrots, nuts and cinnamon in a large bowl. Beat at low speed until moistened, then for 2 minutes beat on medium speed. Pour into pans. Bake at 350* for 35-40 minutes. Cool in pans for 10 minutes, then turn out onto wax paper lined plates. When completely cooled, frost. I have included a recipe for cream cheese frosting which I do not use because I don’t like cream cheese frosting…LOL

Cream Cheese Frosting

1 8-ounce package cream cheese, softened

1/4 cup butter, softened

2 tsp vanilla

4 cups confectioners sugar

Place cream cheese, butter and vanilla in a large bowl. Beat at low speed until smooth and creamy. Add confectioners sugar gradually, beating until smooth. (If the frosting needs to be thickened, add more confectoners sugar. If it needs to be thinned, add a little milk. ) Fill and frost the cooled cake. Garnish with additional chopped nuts if desired. Enjoy!

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  1. Good morning y’all! Thanks for posting the recipe. Carrot is my favorite cake and we usually get one from the grocery store when we have it. Will have to make one once we move.

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      1. Good morning Pat! Ms Mama is doing a bit better today. Her swelling had gone down by half by the time I got home yesterday. She has had it iced off and on and elevated. I have to go by CVS after work to get some ace bandages. She was out in the garden last night.

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  2. Morning All!
    well, it’s summer and it’s hot…so ultra maggot wants to declare a climate change emergency…these people think we’re stupid

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  4. CM, I just watched the hummer video!

    I disagree with some of the comments that hummers don’t land for long…
    we have a “little general” we call him…he sits on the deck railing guarding “his feeder” a lot during the day…or he will fly and sit on a dead branch in the tree where he can watch all the feeders.
    I think the video is sweet! thanks for bringing it!

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        1. Amen Pat… Qtree went crazy… I’ll never forget when Wheatie, Duchess and I were holding down the main thread while everyone else was on the “Covid” thread !

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          1. I remember…and the “protocols”…bags over their shoes when they went shoppings and then taking them off before getting into their cars…then putting the groceries somewher for so many hours…
            I bit my tongue…and then i left the qtree…tooooo much frantic panicking

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            1. It’s happening again! the focus on the shiny balls …

              I’m in the same ‘head’ place I was when JFK was assassinated. I don’t see the smoke and mirrors others do… and I don’t know how to wake ’em up! People ‘think’ they are redpilled!

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              2. I believe too many Americans are too tied to their ego – and the need to prove themselves right. Who gives a damn what makes up the molecular structure of a “bug” … pay attention to the authoritarians who want to “herd” you!

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  13. Morning! Nice and cool here this morning – the jet stream has allegedly changed course and we are looking at much cooler days ahead, as well as a lot of good chances for rain. Now, if only that all pans out…..SMH

    EXCERPT: “VoterGA Uncovers Massive Election Fraud in Georgia—the stolen 2020 election data is still hiding in plain sight”

    The election integrity group VoterGA has produced a new video on Georgia’s 2020 election, and the video shows obvious and massive voter fraud. This is one of the best videos that I’ve ever seen on how our elections are corrupted by using electronic voting machines. It covers the deceptive practices used in the election night vote, and the “risk-limiting” audit, and the machine recount. It’s the best use of 56 minutes of your life right now — especially before the 2022 midterms.

    Here are my favorite seven slides from the video.

    1) VoterGA is being blocked from reviewing Georgia’s original ballots because every county in Georgia has been told to deny VoterGA’s open records requests by the Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

    So much for transparency in our public elections!

    2) Let’s discuss the scale of the 2020 election fraud. There are 159 counties in Georgia. VoterGA made open records requests from all of them, and found that 74 counties cannot even produce the complete ballot images — as required by law. That’s nearly half of Georgia’s counties that are running illegal elections.

    3) Georgia’s SOS Brad Raffensperger appeared on TV on November 4th, 2020 to tell the world that Georgia had 4.7 million total votes to count.

    More: https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/voterga-uncovers-massive-election

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              1. it’s heat pump being repaired… gas pak still an issue. BUT we can survive just fine without air or heat downstairs … even if it is months!

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              3. Yes… I was concerned we wouldn’t be able to get the part. I had even suggested to vendor that they take the part from my studio heat pump… a few fans in studio would work fine w/o a/c.

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              5. true … but we have been w/out a/c downstairs before … maybe 3 summers ago? and fans and open doors to porch worked. The difference has been we have had HIGH temps here since April… and I had them come out twice! the last month to check the “noise” in outside unit … told me working fine. I finally threw the breaker when I realized fan was not turning. 3rd time I got their genius tech! I’m rattlin’ on … sorry. Just too much in my head this a.m.

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  14. Entire Article @ TheBlaze: “Left-wing billionaire George Soros donated $1 million to the political campaign of Beto O’Rourke, who is running to unseat Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott. The admission was contained in the latest finance report from the O’Rourke campaign.

    Abbott is ahead in the polls for his third term as governor of Texas, but the O’Rourke campaign recently reported record-breaking campaign donations. In the financial report from late February to June, the O’Rourke campaign said it had garnered $27.6 million, a sum $2.7 million greater than that reported by the Abbott campaign. Overall, Abbott holds the advantage with $45.7 million in cash on hand, while O’Rourke has only $23.9 million to spend on the election.

    The former congressman from El Paso, Texas, gained prominence when he tried and failed to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz in 2018. Despite losing the election, O’Rourke performed better than expected and was constantly featured on national news outlets.

    O’Rourke was mocked by many on the right when he claimed that he would not maintain his previous campaign policy of mandatory gun confiscation after passionately and vehemently speaking in favor of it.

    Abbott holds an 8% lead over O’Rourke in the a recent CBS News YouGov poll, 49% to 41%. Despite holding the advantage, Abbott garnered a 46% approval rating in the poll and a 53% disapproval rate.

    Soros, meanwhile, has seen the political winds recently blow against the politicians and causes he has endorsed and financed. In San Francisco, voters ousted Chesa Boudin from the district attorney’s office while a growing recall campaign is being mounted by Los Angeles residents against district attorney George Gascón, both backed by a Soros-funded political group.

    The gubernatorial election will be decided on November 8.”

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  15. EXCERPT: “When our inefficient meat regulation process collides with a crisis, “Where’s the beef?” stops being a metaphorical question. How can it be that with so much cattle in America, we sometimes can’t buy meat? At the beginning of the pandemic, Costco, Wegmans and Kroger limited purchases of beef. Hundreds of Wendy’s outlets ran out of hamburgers. “How the hell can this be?” says Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., in my new video. “They (Wendy’s) were out of hamburger, yet you could see cattle from the drive-thru!”

    It happens because of stupid government rules. Massie owns a small farm in Kentucky. “I’d rather deal with cattle than congressmen,” he jokes. “At least (cattle) exhibit learned behavior.” But politicians often don’t. “You’re born with the right to eat what you want,” says Massie. “Why is the government getting in the middle and saying, ‘No, you can’t buy that’?”

    “To keep you safe,” I push back. “They’re not keeping you safe,” Massie responds. “They’re keeping you away from good, healthy food.”

    American meat regulation began after activist Upton Sinclair worked undercover at a meatpacking plant and then wrote the book The Jungle. It became a huge bestseller. Sinclair’s goal was to advance socialism. But his book became famous for exposing unsanitary conditions, like rat infestations and rotting meat carcasses, at packing plants. The outcry over that led Congress in 1906 to declare that any meat sold must get a stamp of approval from the United States Department of Agriculture.

    What did the inspection entail? An absurd technique called “poke and sniff.” To find tainted meat, federal bureaucrats stuck little spikes into carcasses and then smelled the spikes. If they smelled something spoiled, they ordered that meat discarded. The process was ridiculous. The inspectors used the same spikes over and over, plunging them into multiple animals. Poking and sniffing sometimes made things worse by spreading disease from one carcass to the next.

    Of course, governments often do ridiculous things, and regulators, once they start doing them, keep doing them. The feds didn’t stop “poke and sniff” until the late 1990s. Today, USDA inspectors do a better job. They test for bacteria. But the inspection process is so cumbersome and expensive, many small companies can’t afford it.”

    More: https://heartlanddailynews.com/2022/07/stossel-the-absurdities-of-federal-meat-regulation/

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  16. “underground moms” leak video of area hospital meeting where they say things are okay with the cv crap–less than 10% of people coming in get hospitalized at all–most are just experiencing bad colds…BECAUSE LA public health director wants to reinstate mask mandates…so the moms go on the offensive…LOL

    https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2022/07/19/exclusive-underground-moms-group-exposes-ferrers-plan-to-return-to-mandates-in-opposition-to-medical-data-n597770

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  17. former clinton advisor thinks hiltery will run in 2024…LOL
    entire article–it’s a trnscript and some of the words are wrong…chuckle

    Former Bill Clinton adviser Dick Morris predicted Tuesday on Newsmax TV’s “National Report” that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would run against former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential race.

    When asked if Trump will run in 2024, Morris said, “Yes, and he’ll be the Republican nominee. He will probably get it by acclamation. I don’t think there’ll be a primary. He will win the election. And his opponent is going to be Hillary Clinton.”

    He continued, “Let me explain that. Already the Democrats are pressuring by not to run because they see what a disaster he would be. And Harris is no better. The line of possible alternatives is queuing up. You have Gavin Newsom, governor of California, Jared Polis, the Governor of Colorado, Pete Buttigieg, the transportation secretary.”

    Morris added, “But ultimately the left is going to have their candidates, and they’ll probably run Sanders or maybe AOC, and that will trigger Hillary into the race in order to save the Democratic Party from the left rerunning the Hillary Sanders race of 16. And I think Hillary will win that contest. I think she and Trump will face it off, and I think Trump is going to win handily.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/07/19/dick-morris-hillary-clinton-will-run-against-trump-in-2024/

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    1. bwahahahaha…
      aoc is getting roasted on that stunt…
      i forget who–but he said and we’re paying her $174,000 to play act???
      she doesn’t have enough to do!!

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  20. these people are seriously stupid–paying &1000-$20000 for A trash can??? San Francisco…smh
    entire article

    SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS RADIO) – Remember San Francisco’s $20,000 trash can prototypes which made national headlines last year? They’re now hitting the city’s streets.

    San Francisco Public Works is launching their new trash can testing program throughout the city for the rest of the summer. The department this week will finish dispersing 26 sleekly designed cans across San Francisco for residents and visitors to use and evaluate over a 60-day period.

    The bins feature five of each new custom-designed prototype and three to four off-the-shelf models. The cans will be installed at an initial set of locations for 30 days before being moved to more sites for another 30 days.

    You can view a map of where the cans are located by clicking here.

    People will be able to scan a QR code on the bins, which will direct them to an online survey where they can give their feedback and vote on which variety they like best. Following the two-month test run, the agency will choose a winning design that will be mass-produced to create over 3,000 new trash cans at $2,000 to $3,000 per bin and used across San Francisco.

    According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the city paid a combined $536,000 to both an Oakland and San Francisco manufacturer to custom-make the cans. Each prototype cost no less than $10,000, with the most expensive billed at $20,900, a price tag which garnered local and national backlash, including from San Francisco Supervisor Matt Haney, who called it “ridiculous.” Following the criticism, city officials said they would try to only spend $12,000 per bin.

    The off-shelf-models are reportedly much cheaper, priced at $630, $1,950 and $2,850.

    The new trash bins are an effort by the city to clean up its notoriously dirty streets. Officials said the current cans were designed 20 years ago when street conditions were different and the city’s population and number of visitors were “considerably” lower.

    “Why so expensive? It’s not the cans, it’s people,” KCBS Radio insider Phil Matier said on Monday. “They’re looking for cans that. first of all, are easy to empty. Two, they want them to look good. But the real challenge is that people trash them. They trash the trash cans. They go through them. If they can go into a trash can on a public street they often tear through it looking for recyclable bottles and they leave the mess with everything they’ve pulled out all around the can.”

    “The big issue for San Francisco is that even after they put these in, there’s no guarantee that it’s going to keep the streets any cleaner, because people then have to use them,” he added.

    http://www.capoliticalreview.com/capoliticalnewsandviews/sfs-20k-trash-cans-hit-the-streets-when-and-where-to-find-them/

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      1. they wanted trash cans that couldn’t be emptied easily. apparently folks dig thru the trash for stuff they can use–and throw the trash on the ground. BUT they can’t say that WON’T happen with these…waste of $$$$$$

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  25. article lays out what emergency powers are.
    FTA
    First, let’s look at emergency powers in the United States. There are 123 statutory powers that might be available to a president when he declares a national emergency. An additional thirteen would require a declaration from Congress. The most recent emergency power law is the National Emergencies Act, enacted in 1976, which ended all previous national emergencies and formalized the powers of the president. Under this law, repealing an emergency power would take two thirds of both houses of Congress.

    When you take a look at the emergency powers laws, the top 16 powers are as follows:

    Bank accounts can be frozen.
    Bans on biological or chemical agents can be lifted.
    Civil liberties, such as the right to a peaceful assembly, can be halted.
    The president can order incarcerations.
    Elections can be postponed indefinitely.
    Federal leases can be suspended when the country faces dangers.
    Foreign individuals can be ordered to leave the nation, and the borders can be closed.
    National resources can be ushered into play to confront a natural disaster.
    Sanctions pertaining to property and finances can be removed or initiated.
    Soldiers and naval vessels may be ordered to engage in combat during a crisis.
    The government can take control of the internet, radio, and TV because of a perilous matter, and production and distribution of goods can be seized.
    The military can be mobilized domestically in a crisis, and martial law can be declared by the president.
    The leader of the Executive Branch can launch a nuclear strike if necessary.
    The president may order an assassination resulting from an emergency.
    The right of habeas corpus can be suspended as a consequence of crises.
    Transportation networks can be taken over by the government.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/07/presidential_emergency_powers_are_a_serious_problem.html

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  27. EXCERPT: “During the July 17 emergency transmission of “InfoWars,” Alex Jones exposed that amendment to HR 4350, or the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), will let President Joe Biden become a dictator who can launch land, sea and air operations against the American people.

    Jones laid out the “hands-down most powerful and horrible information” his team has ever covered in 28 years. “And if they are able to execute it, it is 1,000 times worse than anything we’ve ever covered. It is HR 4350, in which Biden [or] whoever else the president is will be the dictator,” he said.

    He noted that the Democrat leadership has the votes in the House and Senate. And when turned into law, HR 4350 will allow the president to use the military for domestic operations, which Jones described as unbelievably illegal.

    “It says the president will have the sole power over the military domestically and Congress will have no oversight. It also says in section 529A, this is absolutely the key, countering extremism in the armed forces – a purge of the military – of anybody that supports populism or America,” Jones commented while reading the bill’s amendment printout.

    “The big takeaway is that there will be no congressional oversight of what the military does. Anything that violates our rights or basic freedoms or the 10th Amendment is null and void.”

    The said legislation has been added to the new spending bill last week by Representative Adam B. Schiff, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The amendment is set to be added to the act, which the House plans to take up this week.
    —————–
    “This un-American amendment will fundamentally and irreparably erode Congress’ constitutional oversight responsibility,” said New York Representative Elise Stefanik, a member of the Armed Services Committee and chairwoman of the House Republican Conference. She added that House Democrats led by Schiff are attempting to cover up for the national security crises of the weakest commander-in-chief in U.S. history.

    “Schiff got no attention until over the weekend. The Democratic Party controls the House and Senate to say no oversight over the U.S. military and domestic operations. But more importantly, only the president is in charge of the military. So that’s martial law, that is dictatorial powers right there,” Jones stated.”

    https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-07-19-jones-exposes-bill-giving-biden-dictatorial-powers.html

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    1. okay…hopium here…okay downright delusional here.
      IF, and it’s a big frickin’ IF this passes AND the 2020 election is declared invalid…REALPOTUS would have those powers, no???
      and could purge the fru fru crowd out of the military…
      so we just need a miracle is all…
      I now return you to reality

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      1. I have to say….that’s a nice thought….I simply can’t imagine any Repub short of Cheney and Cryin’ Kinzinger, would ever vote for this, including Joe Manchin and perhaps Sinema.

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  28. copied from tcth…so the solar panels don’t work as well when they are needed the most?

    Texas midget
    July 20, 2022 8:51 am

    Article in Fortune.

    Solar panels optimal operating temperature is 77 F.

    Operation range is 59-95 F.

    Beyond the range electric production goes down up to 25%.

    Like windmills, when you need it, it doesn’t work.
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    thedoc00
    July 20, 2022 9:00 am
    Reply to Texas midget

    Yep … This is Electrical Engineering 101.

    Heat and cold have adverse effect on electron flows in any device one cares to name, by impacting the resistivity of the materials carrying the electrons as well as the efficiency of the materials in those panels generating the electrons.

    It is all in the materials used to construct the panels.the designs have to balance cost, generation capability, environmental survivability, life span and maintainability.

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  29. EXCERPT: “Now there is a new story that will test Biden’s denials once again. What follows is based on reporting by Jon Levine and Joshua Rhett Miller in the New York Post:

    Among his many other foreign business interests, in 2011 and 2012, Hunter Biden pursued a possible lucrative deal in Colombia. He was actually trying to get in with a Brazilian construction company called OAS. An article in Reuters described OAS as “one of many Brazilian engineering and construction groups accused of paying bribes and rigging public contracts in Brazil’s biggest-ever corruption scandal.”
    —————
    How could Hunter and his business partners get a piece of it? By using Hunter’s father’s connections, of course. Joe Biden, then the vice president of the United States, had a longtime relationship with Andres Pastrana, who was president of Colombia from 1998 to 2002. During that period, Biden was a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and had dealings with Pastrana. The relationship was a long one; on Nov. 7, 2020, the night Biden was declared winner of the U.S. presidential election, Pastrana tweeted congratulations with a picture of himself, Sen. Biden and another Foreign Relations Committee stalwart, Republican Sen. Jesse Helms. Pastrana called Biden a “great friend” of Colombia. And former President Pastrana remained an influential man in Colombia — the kind who could help a well-connected friend get a big contract.

    According to documents found on the Hunter Biden laptop, Hunter and his partners began corresponding about the OAS/Colombia business in February 2011. They planned to pitch OAS — $20,000 a month, plus a 5% “success fee” — for Hunter’s help in getting the Colombia projects.
    —————
    Soon it would be time to bring Vice President Biden into the deal personally. In February 2012, according to the Post, Hunter wrote a note to Pastrana: “Dear Mr. President, I look forward to seeing you when you are in Washington. I was hoping we could meet for lunch or coffee depending upon your schedule … I’d like to discuss an opportunity that I think you have already been initially briefed regarding OAS. I am checking on my dad’s schedule.”

    “I am checking on my dad’s schedule.” Sure enough, Pastrana visited Washington and met with Joe Biden the next month, on March 2, 2012. Hunter Biden’s calendar shows that Eric Schwerin, a business partner of Hunter’s, was invited to “Meet with Pres. Pastrana and Dad at NavObs,” according to Hunter’s calendar on the laptop. “NavObs” was a reference to the Naval Observatory, which is the vice president’s official residence. After the meeting, Hunter scheduled a lunch with Pastrana at Washington’s Cafe Milano, according to the Post.”

    More: https://townhall.com/columnists/byronyork/2022/07/20/joe-biden-hunter-biden-and-the-colombia-connection-n2610479

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  30. Entire Article @ NationalFile:

    “The World Economic Forum (WEF) is promoting a plan to block the Sun using “space bubbles,” supposedly to combat “climate change.” Blocking the sun is a major globalist plot that Bill Gates has been involved in. If the globalists manage to block or dim the Sun’s rays, how will humanity be affected? This is the question that America’s empty-suit quisling political leaders do not seem to be asking with any kind of urgency. Meanwhile, Klaus Schwab’s WEF and other globalist entities seem determined to block the Sun, which cartoon villain Mr. Burns unsuccessfully tried to do on The Simpsons.

    A disturbing video shared by WEF states that “MIT scientists say ‘space bubbles’ could help reverse climate change by reflecting the Sun’s heat away from Earth.” The video refers to this process as “geoengineering.” The video explains that “The bubbles would be manufactured in space by robots” and “They would form a ‘raft’ about the size of Brazil.”

    Clearly, the Sun is an important part of our human experience. All through history, humans have basked in the benevolent rays of the Sun. However, the globalist New World Order (NWO) seems to want to shut down the experiences that give human beings health, warmth, and joy. How will future generations regard us if we simply allow malevolent oligarchs to block our beautiful Sun?

    @worldeconomicforum
    Could a Brazil-sized space raft help reverse global warming? Read more by tapping the link in our bio #nature #globalwarming #climatechange

    ♬ original sound – World Economic Forum

    Previously, Mr. Burns wanted to block the Sun on The Simpsons:”

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        1. maybe that was his plan all along…be in a position to do something…
          i mean gates has been discussing doing something to block the sun for years

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  31. Entire Article @ WesternJournal:

    “Elon Musk has lost a fight to delay Twitter’s lawsuit against him as a Delaware judge on Tuesday set an October trial, citing the “cloud of uncertainty” over the social media company after the billionaire backed out of a deal to buy it. “Delay threatens irreparable harm,” Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick, the head judge of Delaware’s Court of Chancery, said. “The longer the delay, the greater the risk.”

    Twitter had asked for an expedited trial in September, while Musk’s team called for waiting until early next year because of the complexity of the case. McCormick said Musk’s team underestimated the Delaware court’s ability to “quickly process complex litigation.”

    An epic legal fight between Elon Musk and Twitter began in earnest in a Delaware court on Tuesday as lawyers for both sides fought over how soon the trial should begin. Twitter is trying to force the billionaire to make good on his April promise to buy the social media giant for $44 billion — and the company wants it to happen quickly because it says the ongoing dispute is harming its business. Musk pledged to pay $54.20 a share for Twitter, but now wants to back out of the agreement.

    “It’s attempted sabotage. He’s doing his best to run Twitter down,” attorney William Savitt said, representing Twitter in Delaware’s Court of Chancery before the court’s Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick. The hearing was held virtually after McCormick said she tested positive for COVID-19.

    Musk has claimed the company has failed to provide adequate information about the number of fake, or “spam bot,” Twitter accounts and that it has breached its obligations under the deal by firing top managers and laying off a significant number of employees.

    But the idea the Tesla CEO is trying to damage Twitter is “preposterous. He has no interest in damaging the company,” Musk’s attorney Andrew Rossman said — noting he is Twitter’s second-largest shareholder with a far larger stake than the entire board.

    Savitt emphasized the importance of an expedited trial starting in September for Twitter to be able to make important business decisions affecting everything from employee retention to relationships with suppliers and customers.

    Rossman said more time is needed because it is “one of the largest take-private deals in history” involving a “company that has a massive amount of data that has to be analyzed. Billions of actions on their platform have to be analyzed.”

    (The Western Journal has reviewed this Associated Press story and may have altered it prior to publication to ensure that it meets our editorial standards.)

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      2. Delay will harm Twitter … continue to expose it.

        The number of bot accounts is MUCH higher than anyone imagines. Like all social media platforms it is run by CIA, not the ‘figureheads’ they put out front, like Zuckerbrg …

        and the amount of censoring is ridiculous etc.

        Twitter is going down. Musk can afford to lose all his stockholdings in Twitter and not even blink

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  32. Entire Article @ TheBlaze (video at link): “Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky unloaded on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) over a “secret deal” he made with Democrats to nominate a conservative federal judge. The reported deal would have put Chad Meredith on a vacant district court position in Kentucky, but Paul used a well-known Senate rule to kill the nomination.

    On Monday, Paul spoke to reporters about his decision and blasted McConnell in the process. “This was McConnell doing a secret deal behind the scenes to get something he wanted, without any consultation,” said Paul to NBC News. Paul said that McConnell never talked to him about the nomination of Meredith and that the first he’d heard about it was when the FBI called him about it for a background check.

    “Senator McConnell — he thought it was beneath himself to actually talk to me,” Paul continued. “Senator McConnell sabotaged this by doing it in secret.” Paul went on to say he didn’t have any objection to the nomination, but that he objected to McConnell’s tactics. Paul also presumed that McConnell would blame him after McConnell realized that liberal objections to Meredith were going to tank the nomination. Paul reiterated his comments in a tweet from his official social media.

    (Text of Tweet)

    Critics on the left were outraged at the report that President Joe Biden had agreed to a deal to nominate a conservative judge hostile to the abortion rights movement. “It’s an unimaginable betrayal!” said MSNBC guest Imani Gandy.

    Here’s more about the Meredith deal collapsing:”

    https://www.theblaze.com/news/rand-paul-mcconnell-meredith-deal

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    1. so if the turtle got THIS in the secret deal, what did he GIVE UP to get it?
      I want to hear how the turtle betrayed “repubs”…cuz it’s not a one sided deal

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  33. EXCERPT: “The globalists in the World Health Organization (WHO) are preparing to unleash the next infectious disease to keep the world under control until at least 2030.

    This is according to Marion Koopmans, a Dutch virologist who works with the WHO. She admitted during an interview that the organization has a 10-year plan, supposedly to deal with the current Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and an expected second pandemic. “This has been in the WHO’s 10-year plan for some time,” said Koopmans. “That plan says that there will be a major infectious disease crisis.”

    “Why does the WHO have a 10-year plan announcing 10 years of pandemics? How can they know?” asked David Sorensen in a video detailing evidence that the WHO is planning to keep the pandemic going until 2030.

    For context, Koopmans is a former member of the WHO’s first team to go to China to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. She was removed from the group following reports revealing her extensive ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Independent news site the National Pulse exposed Koopmans’ role on a scientific advisory board for the Centers for Disease Control of Guangdong, China.

    “She has advised on the building of the laboratory capacity for emerging infectious disease detection in this region, and has ongoing research collaborations trying to unravel emergence and spread of viruses through the animal production chain in this region,” read a summary of her work with the Chinese-run body.

    Bill Gates heavily involved in planning the next pandemic

    Bill Gates, who has accumulated an additional $50 billion in wealth simply by distributing vaccines, is part of the effort preparing the world to accept that the next pandemic is on its way. During an interview with liberal comedian Stephen Colbert, Gates admitted that there will be a “pandemic two” once the world is no longer willing to go along with the restrictions put in place for the COVID-19 pandemic, which he calls “pandemic one.”

    More: https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-07-18-who-planning-to-keep-global-pandemic-going.html

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  34. EXCERPTS: “Last Wednesday, hundreds of truckers protested at the Los Angeles-Long Beach port, some trucks slowed down traffic on the 110 while others took part by refusing to take on loads. Their message was timed not just for Los Angeles County voters who backed the leftists threatening to put them out of work, but for retired general Stephen Lyons.

    The former general who had served as the Commander of the U.S. Transportation Command had been picked by the Biden administration as its Port and Supply Chain Envoy and was there to see the ports through which much of the country’s international cargoes flow. Or don’t.

    The truckers had a simple message for Lyons and his boss, they shouted it and waved it on signs, “No to AB5.” But Lyons had little to offer the independent truckers fighting mandatory unionization by California Democrats and their union allies except, “We need to retain drivers because they’re critical to our economy.”

    With 70,000 California owner-operator truckers trying to figure out if they can even work, that’s not likely. The economic apocalypse arrived some years ago with AB5. Widely hated by freelancers, but championed by unions and their corrupt political allies who run California, the measure effectively made it impossible for many freelancers to continue working in the state.

    Assembly Bill 5, originally aimed at Uber and Lyft, missed the two companies when voters agreed to exempt the ride sharing companies from it (however a Democrat judiciary once again decided to attack democracy and illegally overrule the will of the voters) but hit a variety of independent workers. And what happens in California rarely stays in the pyrite state.

    While it may make no great difference to the country where freelance programmers or writers live (although California lost a House seat for the first time ever due to its population exodus), the same cannot be said of California truckers who are a crucial part of the supply chain. Whether your store shelves have anything on them may have been decided by the Supreme Court at the end of June. Overshadowed by more famous rulings on abortion and the EPA, the supply chain may have given up the ghost when the Supreme Court refused to take up AB5.
    ———————
    Protests at the Port of Long Beach have now been going on for two days and are spreading. Cindy Perez, a 28-year-old who drives a truck, created a Facebook group to organize the protests. Along with her husband, she printed up t-shirts and put up signs. In interviews, she clearly laid out what’s at stake for drivers should Democrats succeed in crushing them.

    When she and her husband worked for a company, they got “paid peanuts, didn’t get to choose our loads, and instead of owning the whole pizza, we only got a slice,” Perez told FreightWaves. “Instead, we worked hard to save our money to become owner-operators and purchase our own trucks.”

    That’s not the only time that the American Dream was crushed out of existence in California, but this time it might have consequences for the entire country. Combined with coming railroad strikes by unions and the railroad bottlenecks in the ports quickly becoming disastrous, the already empty shelves and high prices are likely to get even worse. Transporting goods depends on tens of thousands of owner-operators in the trucking industry.

    Bloomberg notes that “more than 70% of truckers serving some of the country’s largest ports — including Los Angeles, Long Beach and Oakland — are owner-operators” and that “the law comes into effect for truckers in the busiest months of the year as retailers stock up on back-to-school and holiday goods.”

    Even before the Supreme Court’s failure to take up the case put the state and the country on the path to more supply chain apocalypses, truckers had been voting with their wheels and relocating out of California. In a tight labor market, they have options, the state doesn’t. Neither does the country.

    After port delays outraged the nation, Biden put on a show of threatened fines and claimed that the problem had been solved, but it’s now almost as bad as it was before. And with the evaporation of the independent owner-operator model, what comes next may be much worse.”

    More: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/07/california-trucker-convoy-fights-ex-communist-daniel-greenfield/

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  35. THAT is NOT “marriage,” thank you very much!!! SMDH

    Entire Article @ Todd Starnes: “The House of Representatives voted Tuesday to pass the “Respect for Marriage Act.” It would codify same-sex marriage into law.It’s a free-for-all at the altar these days in America — for better or for worse. The legislation passed with a 267-157 vote. 47 House Republicans voted in favor of the bill.

    House Freedom Caucus chairman Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) and GOP Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) are counted among those who defied the base of their party and sided with Democrats. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) both voted “no.”

    “The tide is shifting on culture war issues within the Republican Party,” said nationally-syndicated talk show host Todd Starnes. “Inside the Beltway, it’s pretty much an open secret that the GOP is liberalizing itself on some key issues.” The New York Times noted that the Republican support for the bill was “remarkable.” “They’ve made the calculated decision that Evangelicals will never abandon the Republican Party,” Starnes said. “But if the Establishment is wrong and the Evangelicals bolt, they will never win a national election.”

    If passed by the Senate and signed into law by President Biden, the bill would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and would enshrine marriage equality for federal law purposes. The legislation had the backing from a number of radical leftist hate groups including the Human Rights Campaign, GLAD, and the ACLU.

    Following is a list of all the Republicans who sided with Democrats:

    Reps. Kelly Armstrong (N.D.), Don Bacon (Neb.), Cliff Bentz (Ore.), Ken Calvert (Calif.), Kat Cammack (Fla.), Mike Carey (Ohio), Liz Cheney (Wyo.), John Curtis (Utah), Rodney Davis (Ill.), Mario Diaz-Balart (Fla.), Tom Emmer (Minn.), Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.), Andrew Garbarino (N.Y.), Mike Garcia (Calif.), Carlos Gimenez (Fla.), Tony Gonzales (Texas), Anthony Gonzalez (Ohio), Ashley Hinson (Iowa), Darrell Issa (Calif.), Chris Jacobs (N.Y.), David Joyce (Ohio), John Katko (N.Y.), Adam Kinzinger (Ill.), Nancy Mace (S.C.), Nicole Malliotakis (N.Y.), Brian Mast (Fla.), Peter Meijer (Mich.), Dan Meuser (Pa.), Mariannette Miller-Meeks (Iowa), Blake Moore (Utah), Dan Newhouse (Wash.), Jay Obernolte (Calif.), Burgess Owens (Utah), Scott Perry (Pa.), Tom Rice (S.C.), Maria Elvira Salazar (Fla.), Mike Simpson (Idaho), Elise Stefanik (N.Y.), Bryan Steil (Wis.), Chris Stewart (Utah), Mike Turner (Ohio), Fred Upton (Mich.), David Valadao (Calif.), Jefferson Van Drew (N.J.), Ann Wagner (Mo.), Michael Waltz (Fla.) and Lee Zeldin (N.Y.).”

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  36. Oh, FFS!!! STOP WITH THE CRAZY ALREADY!!!!

    EXCERPT: “Was Julius Caesar male or female? Be careful not to assume, or you might offend the dead emperor. These are the new rules being thrust upon academics, as chronicled by the conservative education-based publication The College Fix on Monday. “Gender activists push to bar anthropologists from identifying human remains as ‘male’ or ‘female,’” the headline reads.

    The paper outlines a movement in anthropology to adopt the left’s new orthodoxy on sex, by which it already dishes out retribution against those who refuse to play along. “As soon as ancient human remains are excavated, archaeologists begin the work of determining a number of traits about the individual, including age, race and gender,” The College Fix reported. “But gender activists argue scientists cannot know how an ancient individual identified themselves.”

    A group called the “Trans Doe Task Force” has begun the process of exploring “ways in which current standards in forensic human identification do a disservice to people who do not clearly fit the gender binary.” “We propose a gender-expansive approach to human identification by combing missing and unidentified databases looking for contextual clues such as decedents wearing clothing culturally coded to a gender other than their assigned sex,” reads the mission statement.

    In other words, occasional cross-dressing, which is common among children and adolescents today as it was hundreds of years ago, might be code for transgenderism. Thus a snapshot into the life of an ancient person for whom evidence suggests engagement in the practice must mean that individual was transgender and should be identified as such.

    That instant identification conforms with today’s knee-jerk approach, which is enshrined by “gender-affirming care,” leaving people’s questions about their own identity without scrutiny. Never mind that 70 percent of children today eventually outgrow their gender dysphoria. That number is likely far higher for children who exhibited signs of gender dysphoria more than 100 years ago in the absence of peer influences breeding what journalist Abigail Shrier explains in her investigative book “Irreversible Damage” as a “social contagion.”

    Shrier’s findings undermine the premise of this movement to redefine the sexual boundaries of the ancients by modern left-wing standards. While the existence of trans-identified people might not be unique to the 20th and 21st centuries, (the Roman Emperor Elagabalus reportedly sought so-called sex-reassignment surgery), the sudden spike in those claiming alternate identities is. Even The New York Times has finally admitted that much.”

    https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/19/the-lefts-latest-frontier-in-the-trans-craze-ban-misgendering-skeletons/

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    1. this is what i have been saying all along. i don’t care if you bury uncle rick in a dress and call him a woman, if they dig him up years from now, they will be wondering why a DUDE was wearing a dress…DNA DOES NOT CHANGE TO SUIT YOUR FANTASY

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  37. EXCERPTS: “On July 6, in an act of vandalism for which the culprits are still at large, one of the four “Georgia Guidestones” was blown apart. The damage was so severe that the entire monument was rendered too unstable to leave standing. For safety reasons, state officials almost immediately demolished the rest of the monument.
    ————–
    Clearly some of these guidelines are more controversial than others. “Avoid petty laws and useless officials” is probably a sentiment to which even the Georgia Guidestones’ critics would not object. But the first inscription, calling for a reduction in global population from 8 billion to a half-billion, along with “unite humanity with a living new language,” and “be not a cancer on the earth,” left too much to the imagination.

    For those of us who have in just the last few years had to watch hundreds of cherished monuments end up defaced or destroyed by leftist mobs, or removed by cowards unwilling to protect them, it’s hard to summon much regret over the loss of the Georgia Guidestones.
    —————
    Catherine Austin Fitts, an investment banker and former high-ranking official with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, in a December 2020 interview that was censored by YouTube but continues to reappear online, attempted to make sense of this darker theory of what globalist billionaires have in store for humanity. In her analysis, the economic model for modern globalism began to take shape shortly after the end of the Cold War.

    According to Fitts, in 1995, as neoliberal ideology took hold in both political parties in the United States, the decision was made to transfer most of the wealth out of the country. This is the hollowing out that Trump’s populism attempted to reverse. But now, with the process nearly complete, Pitt alleges the pandemic is the cover whereby this unsustainable financial situation—afflicting the United States and all other interdependent nations—will now be “reset.”

    Fitts claimed there are five sectors working in tandem to reset the world order:

    1) Technology industry building clouds.
    2) Military doing space development.
    3) Big pharma developing injections to modify human DNA.
    4) Media providing propaganda.
    5) Central bankers engineering a new crypto system of global currency.

    What Fitts describes accentuates the negative, but after several years of Western governments and their surrogates spreading nonstop and escalating fear propaganda, demonizing and persecuting populist skeptics, and engineering politically contrived scarcity, her perspective gets more attention and credibility than it might otherwise attract. Enabling new technology in communications, security, medicine, media, and finance, have all made it much easier for an elite group of multibillionaires to orchestrate public policy on a global scale. And what they’re doing is not designed to improve the lot of most people in the world. For the first time since the 1940s, human prosperity and freedom everywhere are being systematically reduced.

    But why? Fitts offers a logical answer: “If technology can make it possible for people to live 150 years, and it isn’t possible to keep this a secret, then why not downsize the population, integrate robots, and you can have a very wealthy and luxurious life without the management headaches?”

    In one particularly chilling quote, Fitts says, “I was having a conversation with a venture capitalist, billionaire type, and he looked at me with these amazingly dead eyes and said ‘I can take every company and completely automate it with software and robotics and fire all the humans. We don’t need them anymore.’”

    If you view the intentions of globalists through these lenses, every inscription on the Georgia Stones is of concern. For those hoping to find good intentions behind the establishment narrative, it doesn’t help that America’s institutions have repeatedly proven themselves to be agenda-driven and dishonest. To cite just one current example of this, why is it that virtually nothing is reported in America’s news media today about the farmer rebellion in the Netherlands, which is spreading to Poland and elsewhere in Europe? And who elected the bureaucrats who imposed these crippling restrictions on how they can farm? Why is it we have to turn to online “conspiracy theorist” websites in order to view video clips of the riots convulsing the Netherlands?”

    More: https://amgreatness.com/2022/07/19/globalism-and-the-georgia-stones/

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  38. does this sound familiar to anyone?
    I needed to repair a nose on one of my Frankenstein crafts…and I know just where that bin is, (with the Frankie supplies). However, in the process of pulling the bin off the shelf, I see a bin BEHIND that, that i haven’t looked in for a long time. So, of course, i gotta open it and up and reminisce about what i was going use this stuff for…
    before you know a half an hour has gone by…LOL

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    1. Are you kidding? I fricking do that all the time. I’ll start off doing something, then see something else out of wack and divert to that, frequently forgetting what I was doing in the first place! Something – anything – catches my interest and I’m off and running…..LOL

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  46. This is background on Lavrov’s message NOT to con’t

    via Bernhad @ MoA

    July 20, 2022

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    Lavrov – Extended Range Weapons In Ukraine Will Lead To More Loss Of Its Land
    Today the foreign minister of the Russian Federation, Sergei Lavrov, announced the extension of the land in Ukraine that Russia intends to capture.

    It will depend on the maximum weapon range of the systems the Ukraine will have under its control.

    Via RIA Novosti (machine translation):

    Lavrov: deliveries of long-range weapons to Kyiv will expand the geography of the special operation

    MOSCOW, July 20 – RIA Novosti. If Ukraine receives long-range weapons from Western countries, then the geographical tasks of the special operation of the Russian troops will change, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of RT and the Rossiya Segodnya media group.
    “The President said very clearly, as you quoted him – denazification, demilitarization in the sense that there are no threats to our security, military threats from the territory of Ukraine, this task remains,” the minister stressed.

    At the same time, he recalled that during the meeting of the negotiators in Istanbul at the end of March, the situation on this issue was significantly different.

    “Now the geography is different. It is far from being only the DPR and LPR, it is also the Kherson region, the Zaporozhye region and a number of other territories, and this process continues, and continues consistently and persistently,” the head of Russian diplomacy added.

    He pointed out that as the West, in impotent rage or in a desire to make the situation as bad as possible, pumps more and more long-range weapons into Ukraine, for example, HIMARS, the geographical objectives of the special operation will move even further from the current line.

    “Because we cannot allow the part of Ukraine that Zelensky will control or whoever replaces him to have weapons that will pose a direct threat to our territory and the territory of those republics that have declared their independence, those who want their future decide for yourself,” he concluded.

    Note to Washington: If you deliver HIMARS missile to Ukraine with an extended (300km instead of 80km) range, Russia will have to move further into Ukraine to secure its own and the Donbas republics borders.

    Cont. reading: Lavrov – Extended Range Weapons In Ukraine Will Lead To More Loss Of Its Land

    Posted by b at 13:18 UTC | Comments (61)

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  47. what an effed up regime…health security for ILLEGALS
    FTA
    The creation of the Health Security Office comes while the Biden administration continues releasing tens of thousands of border crossers into the United States interior every month without testing them for the Chinese coronavirus.

    Even when border crossers are COVID-19 tested, they are released into the United States interior regardless of their test results, sources close to Breitbart News say. Meanwhile, DHS personnel have been required to get vaccinated or be subjected to weekly COVID-19 testing.

    For much of last year, Biden’s DHS continuously released COVID-positive border crossers into American communities with the help of left-wing non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

    The operation was expanded so greatly that Biden eventually began flying border crossers into American communities without requiring COVID-19 testing or photo IDs to board flights.

    Coronavirus cases got so high along the southern border that in August 2021, Biden’s DHS admitted the number of COVID-positive border crossers arriving in the United States every day had “increased significantly.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/19/bidens-dhs-creates-office-health-security-illegal-aliens-custody/

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