The Responsibility of Choice

Opinion 2 Minutes

It seems we are bombarded daily with choices to make–cash or charge? fries or onion rings? red or white? And while most decisions might have minimal impact on the rest of our lives, some, of course, do. Nothing brings this home more than home itself–what state you live in.

States have different laws which totally makes sense to me. Citizens in southeastern coastal states have vastly different concerns than a northeastern or heartland state. If you’re deciding to visit or relocate to another state, it’s prudent to research that state’s laws–laws which will affect money, recreation, freedom and life.

In Pennsylvania, our state sales tax is 6%. So every time I buy groceries, I have to remember to take extra money for sales tax. However, in New York, a brief 15 minutes away, their state sales tax is 8%! So every shopping trip to New York will cost me more money. Something to consider if one contemplates moving to that state.

10% sales tax in Alambama

Recreational marijuana is another good example of different laws for different states. This is not something that is important to me, but if it’s important to you, the laws governing it should be researched before you visit or move there.

Hubby and I enjoy the freedom riding our Harley provides and we’ve traveled to many, many states on it. We always wear our helmets, even though our home state, PA, does not require it. It is a choice we make. Many choose to go without helmets here and that’s their choice; however, because the law varies from state to state, most riders keep their helmets stashed in their saddlebags or simply strapped to the back of the bike. It is ALWAYS the rider’s responsibility to know the laws regarding helmets in the states they travel through.

Which brings me to laws about life–or more appropriately the taking of a life. It seems to me that a lot of states that disallow the death penalty for heinous crimes committed by criminals, have no problem allowing life-ending procedures for innocents-via abortion. Admittedly, I cannot say for certain if every state that bans the death penalty also allow abortions, but hypocrisy is usually on full display in most liberal states. And if liberals stayed in “their lane” and left “our lanes” alone, I might respect that. Their state, their assinine laws. But when these people try to force those views nationwide, then we have a problem.

The Supreme Court stated that abortion is a state issue. If your state does not allow abortions, you are free to travel to a place that does. What you are not allowed to do, is demand those states change to suit you.

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  3. Sliding down to say – OUTSTANDING open, Pat! We make our choices, we live with the consequences. Probably get more rain today, slight chance of severe storm. Fall is on it’s way – no more 90’s in the predictions.

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    1. Morning Filly!
      thank you…I get tired of liberals making unreasonable demands. I live in the mountains,–it’d be like me demanding the gov’t truck in sand and a beach because I deserve that! insanity!! for now, we are all free to choose to live where things suit us.

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  5. at wolf’s, butterfly brings REALPOTUS’S truths

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    August 18, 2022 02:16

    Donald J. Trump

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    So, let me get this straight! In the Great State of Georgia, if you want to challenge or protest Election results in any way, shape, or form (despite the fact that in Atlanta, murders and crime are the highest in the Nation, with many people dying each month – at numbers never seen before), they will charge you and put you in jail. But if you kill people, you will quickly be set free to murder again. Isn’t there something “slightly” wrong with this scenario? A PERFECT PHONE CALL!

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    Aug 17, 2022, 23:54

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    The WAPO story that “Trump is scrambling to add seasoned lawyers” to the Mar-a-Lago Raid case is, as usual, FAKE NEWS. I already have excellent and experienced lawyers – am very happy with them. This is highly political prosecutorial misconduct, I have not been charged with anything and, most importantly, I did nothing wrong. Thank you!

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  8. EXCERPT: “Hunter Biden has been under investigation by the FBI since at least 2018. In October of 2020 — a month before the presidential election — his laptop with incriminating evidence became public knowledge. Bill Barr knew for the last three months of his time at the DOJ who the next president was going to be. He knew that graft and corruption had surrounded Biden throughout his 49 years of government “service.” Vice President Biden even bragged about strong-arming the Ukrainians into dropping an investigation into the company Hunter worked for. Did he really think Joe Biden wouldn’t come to his son’s rescue again? Yet Barr didn’t bother to appoint a special counsel when he could have.

    While Bill Barr was in charge, nobody faced prosecution. Nobody was publicly shamed. Nobody even lost half a month’s pay. What did he expect his department to learn from his time at the DOJ? What has an emboldened DOJ done since Bill Barr handed it off to the Biden administration?

    – Merrick Garland cleared Andrew McCabe, reinstated his pension, and gave him a half a million bucks for his trouble.

    – The DOJ has targeted and tracked protesting parents as domestic terrorists.

    – Merrick Garland has challenged redistricting and voter integrity laws — in red states only.

    – The FBI raided the home of a journalist, seized confidential legal papers, and leaked them to the press.

    – The DOJ has threatened to sue any state that attempts to protect children from sexual grooming.

    – The FBI has raided the home of a former president for no reason that makes any sense.

    – That is the level of rot that has resulted from Barr’s failure to take action.

    Now, when he’s not supporting the Democrat’s “big lie” narrative, Bill Barr is calling for Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel. He’s asking an attorney general who is uninterested in justice to pursue justice. Does he not see the flaw in that reasoning? Has it occurred to him that politely asking evil to be righteous is an exercise in silliness?

    I have some advice for Bill Barr. If he really cares about justice, stop asking Merrick Garland to do the right thing, and start calling for his resignation. Lacking that, perhaps he should spend a bit less time criticizing Donald Trump and bit more brainpower reflecting on his own failures.”

    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/08/bill_barr_had_his_chance__and_blew_it.html

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  9. Entire Article @ BB: “Green Beret veteran Joe Kent, fresh from his Republican primary win against pro-impeachment Rep. Jaime Herrera-Beutler (R-WA), applauded Republicans unifying after the FBI’s raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News.

    “After Trump’s house got raided, you saw a lot of the more establishment type of Republicans who said, ‘OK, this is it.’ … Hey, if that was their Road to Damascus moment, OK, that’s great. Let’s capitalize on that because it’s good that the establishment is waking up and finally realized that, ‘Hey, this isn’t 20 years ago when we’re just trying to get some corporate tax cuts done,” he said.

    “We have huge systemic problems in our country that are actually going to require us to go on the offensive and potentially use the full scope of power that we have access to in Congress, you know, threaten with the budget, use the appropriations process, and really fight for the country,” he said.

    He said if he is elected to Congress this November — a likely prospect given his district’s Republican-bent — he wants to have a congressional inquiry into the 2020 elections.

    “I think we need to lay it out. Finally put the issue of ‘was there fraud in 2020’ to bed once and for all,” he said. “Let’s get back to voting in person. Something we could push for at the federal level is coming with a national standard for voter ID that indicates whether or not you’re a U.S. citizen. We have a national standard for ID to go buy a beer … . But yet our elections, it’s just like, well, we send out these ballots, it’s complete insanity.”

    Kent said if elected he plans to work with Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Troy Nehls (R-TX), who both endorsed him. He said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has also “done a great job” showing how to be effective while not being popular in Washington, D.C. “I might need to take a page out of her playbook here,” he said. He cited Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) as another model. “I’m talking to the folks on the Freedom Caucus. A lot of them have been really good, especially with policy issues,” he said.

    He said he is excited about the incoming freshman class, which could include America First candidates John Gibbs (R-MI) and Max Miller (R-OH). “We’ve got some strong folks there and I think we’re going to have a powerful voice,” he said. Kent also intends to advance an America First agenda, which to him means bringing manufacturing back home, not getting involved in needless foreign wars, and limiting immigration. He told Breitbart News:

    It is on a national level, having a policy that brings back our manufacturing that basically takes everything that America is blessed with here naturally. Now, whether that’s energy, fossil fuels, or the timber industry here in the Pacific Northwest, that we’re blessed with here. We effectively use it and we use it to benefit our own people. Um, and as far as national defense goes, we stay out of [a] lot of allegiances and treaties that are not going to do us any good. We don’t go looking – and I’m looking – for more needless foreign wars. We have a very limited approach to immigration. We only bring in people into this country that are going to benefit the nation and not compete with American workers, and secure our Southern border.

    You have a lot of traditional Republicans who are very deferential to Wall Street and very deferential to this notion of free trade or the free market, where they will say, ‘Hey, what’s good for the market is overall going to be good for the economy’, but that’s been a complete and total lie. As we shipped our manufacturing base overseas, we’ve seen the hollowing out of our middle class, of our working class. This is something that Trump did a really great job of explaining as a candidate, but then putting into practice, even though he was fighting tooth and nail putting it into practice as the president.

    Kent said he also opposes the Biden administration’s purge of conservatives via a hunt for “extremism” and the military vaccine mandate. “I think it’s all about purging people. And they started this with the extremist standdown, going through people’s profiles and saying like, ‘Hey, we disagree with your personal political beliefs about the last commander in chief,’ and starting to really target them.”

    “It takes a lot of time to go through someone’s social media profile to see if they’re conservative or not, but it’s much, it’s much easier just to stick the vaccine in their face and say, ‘You take this or you get tossed out,’” he said.

    “They just fought 20 years of war. Here’s the way [the Biden administration is] going to say thank you to them and take care of them: I’m going to call half of them, probably more than half of them, potential extremists. And then before the vaccine is even relatively tested, he forces the vaccine on the military,” he said.

    Kent also wants to rein in the national security state and Big Tech. “I want our intelligence community looking outward, protecting Americans, but the way that it’s just ran off the rails these last 10 years or so, where it’s become a pretorian guard for the left. I mean, we, we’ve got to reign that in. Otherwise we’re simply just not going to have a country anymore,” he said.

    He believes the January 6th Committee should stay open and Republicans be appointed to it to press for answers. “There was a riot. Got it. Let’s answer some really key questions. Let’s figure out exactly for once and for all, how many operatives, or agents — the federal government, the FBI, any other agency — how many did they have on the ground that day? I mean, because for me, there’s a lot of dots that just don’t connect.”

    Kent said he’s glad there are competing social media platforms, but that the architecture of the Internet is still really controlled by a handful of technocrats. “The Internet writ large has basically become a public utility. Social media has become a public utility. So I think we need to treat it in that way. [that you] It basically needs to be broken up using antitrust, anti-monopoly laws and then treated as a public utility so everybody truly has access to it. The free speech implications are huge. Social media is the new modern public square, but also people need the Internet nowadays to survive,” he said.

    “We have the tools to do it. And so I think now that, now is the time for us to take action before Big Tech just gets even more control. And that’s, to me, the digital vaccine passport, and the centralized digital cryptocurrency,” he said. “As the Biden administration attempts to crash the U.S. dollar completely, like we’re heading in this direction. So before it gets completely off the rails, I think we got to kind of break it up and treat it as a public utility.”

    In the next few months before the election in November, Kent wants to reach out to those who did not vote for him to see if common ground can be reached. “My goal is to really just unify the Republican movement, and then really go after independents and Democrats, because I think we can bring so many of them over to our side,” he said.”

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      1. I got into a back-and-forth with someone – I think it was at QTree – way back when he first announced he was running – about the fact that he also worked for the CIA for a period of time. IDR who it was but they said they would never vote for anyone who worked for the CIA. What nonsense!

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              1. It would be like painting me with the same brush because I worked for so many years in the defense contracting industry. So I’m corrupt because I worked for companies that were corrupt? I am tarred even tho I wasn’t even aware of that corruption? Lower level staffers do NOT have the knowledge.

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              2. maybe…but that feeds into the whole “good people–the rank and file of the fib” bullshit. then why aren’t they coming forth in DROVES to protest the tainting of the fine agencies?
                and you, my dear, are the exception to most rules.

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  10. wow! i don’t get this at all. PRIVATE PROPERTY! the illegals have NO RIGHT to be there and the US gov’t has no right to allow trespasser on private property.

    NEW: For the first time, we witnessed the TX National Guard close & lock a gate on private property at a major crossing area in Eagle Pass, denying entry to migrants who just crossed illegally & expected to be let in. Border Patrol then came w/ a key & let them in for processing. pic.twitter.com/S1fZaTJnEi

    — Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) August 17, 2022

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  11. Entire Article @ BB: “Tuesday’s Wyoming election was the largest primary turnout in the state’s history, according to the Wyoming Election Division. The massive turnout fueled Rep. Liz Cheney’s (R-WY) ouster from Congress. Trump-endorsed candidate Harriet Hageman crushed Cheney by 37 percent with 95 percent reporting. Voters seemed to be energized by Cheney’s feud with former President Donald Trump, causing them to show up to the polls in record numbers.

    According to the state’s data, a total 182,142 of voters turned out to vote in Tuesday’s primary, with 171,964 Republican votes, 8,194 Democrat votes, and 1,984 nonpartisan votes. In the 2020 primary, only 140,042 voters showed up to the polls. The number was similar in 2018 with 139,809. In the 2016 election cycle, when Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) first won her Wyoming seat, only 114,437 residents voted in the primary. The lowest turnout on record since 1978 was in 2008 when just 108,238 voters were cast in the primary.

    The data comes as Cheney was the eighth out of ten pro-impeachment House Republicans to exit Congress. The 2021 House impeachment vote of Trump was one of the most career-wrecking show of hands in congressional history.

    In the Senate, five pro-impeachment senators remain. Just one is up for reelection in 2022 — establishment Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), who is being challenged by Trump-endorsed Kelly Tshibaka.

    With partial results reporting, the Alaska primary race may also have a huge turnout. With 68 percent reporting, nearly 142,000 votes have been cast. In 2016, when Murkowski last ran for reelection in a presidential year, 310,735 votes were cast in the primary race.

    Election cycles in presidential years typically receive larger turnouts than non-presidential years. For instance, 109,750 votes were cast in the 2010 non-presidential primary cycle in the race between Murkowski and Joe Miller, who won the primary by 6 votes but lost the general election. The state had 487,456 registered voters in 2010, which grew to 586,318 in 2022.

    In Tuesday’s primary in Alaska, Murkowski bested Tshibaka by a small margin. Both candidates advanced to the general election under the Alaskan election rules that benefit the incumbent.”

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  12. Mastriano wants the new state therapist (in PA) to be removed for her views that pedophiles are being unfairly classified–she says they are MAP–(BULLSHIT)
    FTA
    “She argues the term ‘pedophile’ is ‘a judgmental, hurtful insult’ meant to slander ‘minor-attracted persons,’ who – not unlike heterosexual and homosexual adults – don’t get to choose their sexual preferences. She has the nerve to suggest using the word ‘pedophile … causes harm’ to those convicted of sexual crimes against children. This revolting rhetoric prioritizes the humanity of child abusers over the protection and healing of their victims.”

    “Galbreath’s reprehensible views have no place in our state prisons, let alone our society. I demand her professional relationship with our state end immediately and request a response regarding her involvement in counseling inmates at state correctional institutions and the extent to which this extremist ideology has infiltrated the department.”

    Galbreath of Erie, who could not immediately be reached for comment, locked the videos from YouTube that Mastriano linked to in his Senate newsletter. However, his office provided a link.

    Mike McDonnell, the spokesperson for the Pennsylvania chapter of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), opposes softening the language to protect the feelings of convicted pedophiles.

    “The perpetrators who commit these crimes chose the attraction, and children were their target,” said McDonnell. “Any other term used is minimizing the crime and once again slaps the face of innocence. This appears to be an attempt to tidy up the word pedophile. It is not a natural sex preference, and there is no scientific tool known to predict or diagnose pedophilia or hebephilia. We have a large concern about what this therapist, working directly with offenders, is really coaching. Let the offenders discern who was truly harmed.”

    Mastriano said, “Galbreath has the nerve to suggest using the word ‘pedophile … causes harm’ to those convicted of sexual crimes against children. This revolting rhetoric prioritizes the humanity of child abusers over the protection and healing of their victims. The department must address this now.”
    https://delawarevalleyjournal.com/state-hired-therapist-wants-to-stop-use-of-the-word-pedophile/

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  14. really long excerpt from just the news–involving president clinton’s audio tapes and the ensuing leagl case–and decision made about them. The ruling has NEVER been appealed and could turn the Mar-a-lago raid on its ass…
    FTA
    For pop culture, the case is most memorable for the revelation that the 42nd president for a time stored the audio tapes in his sock drawer at the White House. The tapes became the focal point of a 2009 book that Branch wrote.

    U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington D.C. ultimately rejected Judicial Watch’s suit by concluding there was no provision in the Presidential Records Act to force the National Archives to seize records from a former president.

    But Jackson’s ruling — along with the Justice Department’s arguments that preceded it — made some other sweeping declarations that have more direct relevance to the FBI’s decision to seize handwritten notes and files Trump took with him to Mar-a-Lago. The most relevant is that a president’s discretion on what are personal vs. official records is far-reaching and solely his, as is his ability to declassify or destroy records at will.

    “Under the statutory scheme established by the PRA, the decision to segregate personal materials from Presidential records is made by the President, during the President’s term and in his sole discretion,” Jackson wrote in her March 2012 decision, which was never appealed.

    “Since the President is completely entrusted with the management and even the disposal of Presidential records during his time in office, it would be difficult for this Court to conclude that Congress intended that he would have less authority to do what he pleases with what he considers to be his personal records,” she added.

    The judge noted a president could destroy any record he wanted during his tenure and his only responsibility was to inform the Archives.

    As to whether records a president concluded were personal can be forcibly seized after he leaves office, the court concluded it was unreasonable to force NARA to go get the tapes

    “Because the audiotapes are not physically in the government’s possession, defendant submits that it would be required to seize them directly from President Clinton in order to assume custody and control over them,” Jackson noted. “Defendant considers this to be an ‘extraordinary request’ that is unfounded, contrary to the PRA’s express terms, and contrary to traditional principles of administrative law. The Court agrees.”

    That defendant was the same Justice Department that authorized the raid on Trump’s estate.

    Jackson also concluded that a decision to challenge a president’s decision lies solely with the National Archives and can’t be reviewed by a court. If the Archives wants to challenge a decision, that agency and the attorney general can initiate an enforcement mechanism under the law, but it is a civil procedure and has no criminal penalty, she noted.

    The search warrant the FBI enforced sought two types of records: classified materials and records created during the Trump presidency. Trump has been adamant the records he took to Mar-a-Lago were both declassified and deemed personal by him.

    Some government lawyers reached out privately to Just the News in recent days questioning the use of the FBI to collect presidential records, citing Jackson’s ruling and suggesting it was a civil and not criminal matter where deference to Trump is required by law.

    On the classification issue, both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama signed executive orders — which remain in force to this day — declaring that presidents have sweeping authority to declassify secrets and do not have to follow the mandatory declassification procedures all other government officials do.

    The Jackson ruling and the declassification powers have left some experts worried the FBI raid was heavy-handed under the current laws.

    Kevin Brock, former assistant FBI director for intelligence, told Just the News the bureau’s search warrant was overly broad and went beyond what the FBI manual for agents recommended. “Specificity is important in order to protect fourth amendment rights from exuberant government overreach designed to find whatever they can,” he told Just the News.

    Brock added he did not believe DOJ and FBI had authority to criminalize the retention of presidential records.

    The warrant “apparently makes a novel legal assertion that any presidential record kept by a former president is against the law,” Brock said. “You have to wonder what the other living former presidents think about that. They have the right and, apparently, clear desire to remain silent.”

    Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch who was on the losing end of the Clinton sock drawer case, said he believes Jackson’s ruling could have a profound impact on the coming legal battles over the Trump search.

    “The government, the lawyer for the Archives, said, ‘You know what? If documents are in the former President’s hands, where they’re presumptively personal, we just, you know, we presume they’re personal,'” Fitton said.

    “The Justice Department previously had told us in response to a question about Bill Clinton: ‘Tough luck, it’s his.’ But they changed their mind for Donald Trump?” he asked. “… The law and court decision suggests that Trump is right. And frankly, based on this analysis, Trump should get every single document they took from him back. It’s all personal records.”

    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/old-case-over-audio-tapes-bill-clintons-sock-drawer-could-impact

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      1. it happened in FLA. i would think it might be easy to find an impartial judge to argue the return of every document based on precedent and since the doj themselves argued for clinton, they will have a hard time arguing against trump.
        but what do i know?

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          1. well amy berman was (is?) a federal judge. her decision set the precedence and it has been unchallenged. he claims everything was a personal record and demand it back…shrug…see where it goes from there

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              1. maybe–but i don’t think they have to. unless REALPOTUS loses and appeals up to them…
                the presidential records act is NOT a criminal statue and there are no criminal penalties attached to it.
                did you notice that doj substituted itself in REALPOTUS’s CIVIL lawsuit against comey and others? that preceeded the raid…

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  15. amtrak funds (supposedly for rebuilding infrastructure) being used instead to bring illegals INTO the country????
    FTA
    “If Title 42 were to end and cause another migrant surge at the southern border, we are deeply concerned that Amtrak’s resources – especially those supporting the Sunset Limited route – will be used to transport illegal migrants,” the letter said. “Such a situation would cause disruptions for Amtrak customers as well as interrupt freight traffic on the Union Pacific-owned track that could further exacerbate the supply chain crisis. Such actions would also constitute an unconscionable use of significant amounts of taxpayer funds and resources to aid in the movement of illegal migrants.”

    The lawmakers fear that recently appropriated funds in the bipartisan infrastructure bill will be used to transport illegal immigrants instead of for railway improvements.

    They argue that Amtrak “should focus on rebuilding its existing network by developing sustainable ridership on this line to rebound from this devastating financial loss largely compensated by taxpayer funds.”

    https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/lawmakers-raise-alarm-about-taxpayer-funded-amtrak-potentially-being

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  16. show up to work? dems don’t want the gov’t workers to have to do that. then how do they justify their increasing salaries? the commute is gone. the wardrobe is gone. they wanna stay home (and NOT work apparently) let them take IMMEDIATE pay cuts!
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    While some remote work makes sense, the pandemic push to have federal government workers stay at home proved disastrous.

    25% of Department of Health and Human Services personnel didn’t even bother logging in.

    A Functional Government Initiative report revealed that HHS had discovered that, “on any given day from March-December 2020, between 20-30 percent of HHS employees did not appear to be working”. The report had to be leaked because of the partisan political pressure to push telework without any regard for the consequences to citizen services or national security.

    Senior citizens and disabled people calling social security hotlines were unable to get through because the SSA had put workers who couldn’t take calls at home on leave. The IRS proved even more dysfunctional with offices overwhelmed and hotline calls going unanswered.

    National defense, which has already been compromised by multiple Chinese and Russian hacks, has new vulnerabilities being introduced in order to accomodate online work for people handling classified materials. Despite that, Biden’s Defense Department people are pushing telework because national security isn’t a Democrat priority, but catering to federal unions is.

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/08/democrats-dont-want-federal-employees-have-come-daniel-greenfield/

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  17. Yesterday, I couldn’t get my pics from my camera to upload for HOURS! This morning – zipped right thru!!! I spent some time on the phone with my ISP while I was trying to upload them to Imgur and he had no explanation as to the super slow upload time. Hopefully, he will find an answer!

    A few pics I just took…..

    Sunrise looking towards the SE:

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  23. this would be good for our congress/gov’t as well…

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  26. EXCERPT: “Streaming service Disney+ has hired a prominent Chicago Area drag queen to appear in a new superhero show aimed at youngsters. 33-year-old Jaren Kyei Merrell, known better by his stage name Shea Couleé, will be a part of the new show Ironheart, a part of Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), with the show set to begin streaming next year. Ironheart will focus on a teenage superhero who creates a suit similar to the one in Ironman.

    Couleé is a former winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race, a reality show featuring men dressed as oversexualized women competing for money and prizes such as cosmetics. The new hire would seem to be a part of Disney’s new “woke” agenda and what Disney executive producer Latoya Raveneau referred to as a “not-at-all-secret gay agenda” committed to “adding queerness” to programming intended for children.

    “Everyone at Marvel has been so unbelievably open and receptive to my experiences and my expertise about drag,” Merrell told E! News. “And they’ve allowed me to really come in to the MCU and put my very specific Shea Coulee print on the Marvel Universe.”

    “It’s really so humbling to be able to crossover into a much more mainstream avenue, and push the needle forward as far as drag is concerned, in the way that it’s consumed and in pop culture,” Merrell said. “I’m so deeply excited for everyone to see what this role is, what it entails and everything it is.”

    Merrell doesn’t appear to see the show as strictly entertainment for children, but as a means of cultural change, as well. “It’s going to be really impactful,” he said. “It’s going to be so smart and creative and clever and funny, and sexy. And so, so, so, so Chicago.”

    At least Merrell is honest. He freely admits that “sexy” is being peddled to children via the series.”

    https://thenewamerican.com/disney-set-to-push-more-lgbtq-propaganda-on-children/

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  28. copied from tcth…interesting take…

    bara.ex.nihilo
    bara.ex.nihilo
    August 18, 2022 9:59 am

    Bill Gates sold a bridge in the desert to Senator Manchin.

    “…he met with Manchin and his wife, Gayle Conelly Manchin, at a DC restaurant, where they talked about what West Virginia needed. Manchin understandably wanted to preserve jobs at the center of the US coal industry, while Gates suggested that coal plant workers could simply swap over to nuclear plants – such as those from Gates’ TerraPower.”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/joe-bidens-inflation-reduction-act-secretly-brought-you-bill-gates

    Emphasis mine:

    HALEU – high assay low enriched uranium

    “A major hurdle for the development and commercialization of advanced nuclear reactors, however, is that there is currently no domestic supply chain of HALEU that can provide fuel at commercial levels. A full and viable fuel supply chain for advanced nuclear energy includes the mining, conversion and enrichment of uranium, deconversion of HALEU into a metal and the fabrication of fuel rods that ultimately power the reactors. ”

    https://www.terrapower.com/nuclear-energy-needs-a-domestic-haleu-supply-chain/

    Just recently Terrapower raised $750 million in private funds after receiving $8.5 million earlier this year from the DOE :

    “Through the grant, TerraPower will research an experimental method for the recovery of uranium from used nuclear fuel with integrated safeguards that harness the volatility of chloride salts at high temperatures.” https://www.terrapower.com/arpa-e-terrapower-funding-waste/

    Manchin agrees to build back better for an unproven technology that doesn’t have a viable supply chain and would take years to build a plant in WV – if ever.

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      1. I adjusted the clarity quite a bit to try to make up for the screen. But, yeah, it is a great camera! Bought it new in 2008 and all the different possible settings will make your head spin!

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              1. It’s a Fuji digital, made in Japan, and is very small. I appreciated that then but now, it’s almost too small for my old hands! LOL – I’ve got an SD card in it that will hold close to 800 pics; problem is, I didn’t pay attention when I bought this laptop and discovered after-the-fact that it doesn’t have a slot for an SD card! Which means I have to use the physical cable and attach the camera to the laptop directly, which is a PITA!!! I kicked myself over that one!

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      1. we’ll see…maybe why j6 committee is going after clarence thomas’s wife…hoping to gain leverage in case this decision makes it to him. (i have to figure the lawfare bullshit artists gamed this 6 ways to sunday and tried to figure every angle)

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  33. Entire Article @ ZeroHedge: “Under a recent court order, Twitter is now required to provide Elon Musk with access to documents compiled by a former executive that Musk says is a key figure in calculating the number of fake accounts that permeate the platform.

    The executive, former General Manager of Consumer Product Kayvon Beykpour, quickly disappeared from the halls of Twitter in April of this year when it was announced that Musk would be seeking to purchase the company. Beykpour was described in Musk’s court filings as one of the executives “most intimately involved with” determining the amount of spam and bot accounts on Twitter. Though the court denied Musk access to 21 other people involved in the company, it would appear that the battle over the social media giant is just beginning.

    Musk has accused Twitter of misrepresenting their user numbers, which they claimed only made up around 5% of their total traffic. Musk asserted that the amount of bots was much higher, and noted that Twitter seemed to be stalling access to vital data while trying to rush litigation in a bid to force a sale before the company had to relinquish all the required information.

    Suspicions on Twitter’s user numbers have been growing for some time. Twitter changed the way it manages and calculates such numbers in 2019 as their users began to decline. The company has suffered ongoing profit losses in recent years – In 2020 the company faced a net income loss of over $1.14 billion. In 2021 there was an income loss of $221 million. Twitter still claims it earns a profit, but this is primarily derived from stock buybacks and state and federal government subsidies.

    It is possible that the amount of data that Musk has received is enough to support claims that the company is built on a foundation of sand and that it has a high rate of fake accounts? If true, shares in Twitter could suffer a precipitous decline. Could the company be trying to compel Musk to finish his buyout before fake user numbers are fully exposed? Stay tuned…”

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  38. Entire Article from CHD: “Dear Friend,

    On Wednesday, Aug. 17, without warning, Facebook informed Children’s Health Defense (CHD) that our page was deplatformed (unpublished). Simultaneously, our Instagram account was deplatformed (suspended). Each of these platforms had hundreds of thousands of followers. Collectively, more than half a million followers have been denied access to truthful information. We received the following notifications from both platforms:

    Fighting Big Tech + Big Pharma

    Despite not posting content on Facebook for the past 21 days due to an existing 30-day ban, and constantly self-censoring our content in an attempt to avoid continual shadow-banning and censorship, both pages were abruptly deplatformed. Removing CHD accounts is evidence of a clearly orchestrated attempt to stop the impact we have during a time of heightened criticism of our public health institutions.

    Deplatforming by the tech giants came days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) quietly walked back many of their previous COVID-19 policies that CHD has criticized since the beginning of the pandemic. Within hours of CHD deplatforming, CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky shared her plans for overhauling how the agency works while admitting to a flawed response to the COVID-19 and pandemic missteps.

    There’s no clear indication of why Facebook and Instagram chose to deplatform us at this time, but the timing dovetails with our ongoing censorship lawsuit against Facebook. CHD filed a lawsuit against Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, in August, 2020. Recently, in its Ninth Circuit Court appeal filed on July 29, CHD provided the court with CDC-produced documents the agency shared with Facebook. These documents, provided to Facebook on a regular basis, contained what the CDC considered misinformation. Titled “COVID Vaccine Misinformation: Hot Topics,” the CDC documents asked tech giants to “be on the lookout” (BOLO) for various topics they consider to be misinformation including: COVID-19 vaccine shedding, VAERS reports, spike protein data and more. The CHD case is currently pending in a Ninth Circuit decision.

    Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said: “Facebook is acting here as a surrogate for the Federal government’s crusade to silence all criticism of draconian government policies. Our constitutional framers recognized this peril of government censorship. We don’t need a First Amendment to protect popular or government approved speech. They incorporated the First Amendment specifically to protect free expression of dissenting opinions. They understood that a government that can silence its critics has license for every atrocity.”

    Roger Teich, CHD legal counsel for the Meta lawsuit, added, “Censorship is not only unconstitutional, it’s un-American.”

    Big Tech Wants Us Silenced … Don’t Let Them Stop Us!

    Despite attempts to censor CHD, we will continue our important mission. Many people only followed us on these large social media platforms so it is important that we let them know we have been deplatformed. Please share all or parts of this email with your friends and family so they can sign up for our free newsletter, “the Defender,” and watch our censorship-free shows streaming live daily on CHD.TV. Right now, email is the most reliable way to stay in touch.

    If You Followed Us on Facebook and Instagram, You Can Find CHD’s Same Great Content on Other Social Media Channels – Don’t miss our critical information and content! Children’s Health Defense can also be found on Twitter, Telegram, Rumble, MeWe, Parler, Gab, Gettr, Reddit, Bitchute, TikTok and Sovren. Follow us on these platforms and spread the word with others to do the same.

    Help CHD Fight Censorship!

    Our Meta lawsuit that aims to preserve First Amendment rights for all is more important than ever. Stakes are high. With your support, we can conquer censorship from social media platforms that have ruthlessly censored, suppressed and distorted our information. Please consider donating to support CHD’s litigation against Facebook and our 50+ active lawsuits, so we can continue to defend freedom of speech, medical freedom, truth, bodily autonomy and children’s health.

    Thank you,

    The Children’s Health Defense Team”

    https://childrenshealthdefense.salsalabs.org/chd-censorship-attack

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    1. all this mea culpa bullshit and reorganizing crap is window dressing in hopes of keeping the voters loyal to the dems.
      lies–just the lies schumer fed manchin to vote for the stick-it-up-your-ass-america bill…

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          1. Well, technically, yeah, but good luck with that! It is exceedingly rare that any bills are clawed back in their totality. They may amend the shit out of it but to repeal it is another matter entirely. By then, the $$$$ will have been flowing and people will be used to it…..they won’t want to shut off that spigot. JMO from past history….

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  39. this made me chuckle. it is wrong…no doubt…but still.
    copied from tcth

    sync
    August 18, 2022 11:23 am

    Sure only rich people can afford a $70k EV but there is something new that has visited the U.S. that the davos elites did not count on. Instead of free market capitalism where those at the top inspire and lift those at the lower class to succeed, the davos marxist doctrine works in the reverse. In their world we’re all poor. They oppress the middle class to be the lower class and the upper middle to be lower class.

    Now in the US people who need money are cutting off cables from charge stations and selling the copper wire inside. Thats for starters. They are jacking EVs and stripping them. The battery is worth up to $20k and the electric motors $5k. Steal two EVs and strip them in a day and thats like $50k!

    The Ultimate netzero, EV killer

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  42. “Liz Cheney gearing up for a Presidential run….”

    “Resist by any means necessary!”

    PAT – YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS!!! ROFL

    “Laughing in his grave….”

    “This is getting to be a golden oldie…” [But ever so prescient!]

    “And people still use this….”

    [It’s called the Federal Reserve!]

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  46. Beyotch Ann running her mouth again….he supported the real Republicans, just not the RINOs she loves!!!!

    EXCERPTS: “Republicans, can you stop screaming like hyenas at every little indignity suffered by our former president? Donald Trump wouldn’t lift a finger to help you.

    Yes, it was asinine for the FBI to stage a raid on Mar-a-Lago when we all know the only documents Trump wanted were his letters and photos with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. (North Korea has nukes. See? “Nuclear documents.”) Trump needs those for his scrapbook, to accompany the photos of him with Kim Kardashian, Mark Zuckerberg and Sean Hannity.

    Still, the raid isn’t going to affect your life. It barely affected Trump’s. He was golfing in New Jersey at the time. You want to be mad at the FBI? This is why you should be angry. Rather than fight crime, the agency has turned itself into the wingman for “Defund the Police.” That could get you and your family killed.
    ——————-
    Right-wingers, save your breath defending the most disloyal man alive. Do something useful and get a job at the FBI. Just be sure to put “BLM” on your resume! The next Republican president (Ron DeSantis) is going to need a lot of help.”

    https://www.theburningplatform.com/2022/08/18/the-fbi-wing-of-blm/

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  48. Entire Article @ BB: “Sales of existing homes in the United States fell by more than expected in July as high borrowing costs, fading demand, and tight inventories weighed down the housing market. Sales of previously owned homes fell to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.81 million, a 5.9 percent decline from the prior month, the National Association of Realtors said Thursday. The June figure was revised down to a 5.11 million rate from 5.12 million. Compared with a year ago, sales are down 20.2 percent.

    “The ongoing sales decline reflects the impact of the mortgage rate peak of 6% in early June,” said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun. “Home sales may soon stabilize since mortgage rates have fallen to near 5%, thereby giving an additional boost of purchasing power to home buyers.”

    This was the slowest pace of sales since May of 2020, when much of the economy was shuttered and concerns over infection were extremely high. Excluding the pandemic-related decline, this was the slowest pace of sales since November 2015.”

    Sales have now declined for six straight months, the longest streak of declines since 2014. The inventory of unsold existing homes rose to 1.31 million, or the equivalent of 3.3 months at the current monthly sales pace. That is considered a tight supply.

    The median existing-home price was $403,800, up 10.8 percent from July 202 as prices increased in all regions. This marks 125 consecutive months of year-over-year increases, the longest-running streak on record. The pace of home price increases, however, has slowed. The median price declined in July from the previous month’s record 413,800 but the median sales price typically falls in the July.

    “We’re witnessing a housing recession in terms of declining home sales and home building,” Yun added. “However, it’s not a recession in home prices. Inventory remains tight and prices continue to rise nationally with nearly 40% of homes still commanding the full list price.”

    Houses typically remained on the market for 14 days in July, the same as in June and down from 17 days in July 2021. Fourteen days is the lowest average time on the market since the NAR began tracking it in 2011.

    Single-family home sales declined to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.31 million in July, a 5.5 percent decline from June. Compared with a year ago, sales of single family homes are down 19 percent. The median existing single-family home price was $410,600 in July, up 10.6 percent from a year earlier but below June’s $423,300.”

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  49. EXCERPT: “Trump’s 5-1 score in one night puts his overall record in statewide and federal races at 189-12 this election cycle. Such races are comprised of gubernatorial, U.S. Senate, U.S. House, and statewide executive contests. In governor’s races this year, Trump’s record stands at 15-3, while Tshibaka’s advancement grows his U.S. Senate endorsement record to a perfect 19-0. In Congressional races, he has fared very well, with an overall primary record of 137-5.

    While Trump has had great success in picking candidates for federal races, the majority of his losses this cycle have come in lower statewide executive and state legislature races. In statewide executive contests, his candidates are 16-4, and in county and state legislature primaries, his record sits at 21-5. Moreover, two of his candidates – former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Rep. Connie Conway (R-CA) – have taken home a special primary and special election victory, respectively.

    The midterm primaries are beginning to wind down as candidates who have advanced prepare for general election races. However, a few primaries remain, including Florida and New York congressional primaries on August 23.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/08/18/trump-2022-endorsement-record-grows-209-17/

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