Wile E. Coyote

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Although the Road Runner always got the best of Wile E Coyote, coyotes are pretty amazing animals. They can run up to 43 mph, control how many pups they have in a litter based on food availability, and use 11 different ways of communicating. There are 19 subspecies of coyotes that live in every state except for Hawaii, and they can even mate with wolves and dogs. And apparently, they have ACME on speed dial…LOL.

Coyotes are most active at dusk and dawn. Why?  Their favorite prey—deer—are also most active at this time. Coyotes will hunt deer, but they will also be perfectly happy with roadkill as well.  Coyotes are not picky eaters by any means—they’ll eat whatever is available—rabbits, rodents, berries, fruits and vegetables and grasses.  They will even eat rattlesnakes if they wander too close to their den.

Coyotes go by many, many different names. Some pronounce the name KIGH-oh-tee and some say it KIGH-oat.  They are also known as prairie wolves, brush wolves and American jackals.  The original name for the coyote derived from the Aztec name ‘coyotl’ which was corrupted somewhat by the Spanish language and became ‘coyote.’  The character ‘Coyote’ is an important cultural phenomenon in many indigenous people’s cultures. This character is described as a trickster and is often portrayed as being greedy or dishonest.   Still, in some Native American cultures, Coyote is revered as teaching children important life lessons about survival and life in general.

Physically, coyotes are also amazing!  Coyotes are very comfortable in the dark. Their powerful night vision comes from the abundance of rod receptors in their eyes. These respond to low levels of light, as opposed to cones which respond to high levels of light. They also have a mirror beneath their retinas called a tapetum lucidum. It reflects the observed light twice, giving the eye a better chance of seeing even in low-light conditions.

And their hearing is tremendous!  The shape of their ears is meant to capture even the smallest of movement.  They can hear up to a quarter mile away! During the wintertime, a coyote can hear a mouse moving beneath 7 inches of snow!

To thrive as well as the coyotes have, they must be equipped with top-notch sight, hearing, and smell. Luckily for coyotes, they have all three.  Coyotes have been known to be weirded out by even the subtlest of scents. Their natural instinct to avoid danger makes their sense of smell that much more important, especially when it comes to smelling people or hunters.  Coyotes also use smell, more than sight, to identify pack members.  While sight is only used to detect movement, coyotes depend more on hearing and smell to find their prey.

Which brings us to sound.  Coyotes don’t just make noise to make noise. Each sound has a different purpose. The two most distinct sounds a coyote can make are barks and howls. Howls seem to be more for communicating information to other pack members, or to warn outsider coyotes not to enter a pack’s territory. Barks and yips seem to be more related to assessing how far away other pack members are or to attract the attention of other pack members.

The fur of a coyote can be gray, red or yellow-brown mixed with black.  Many coyotes will even change fur colors throughout the seasons. Regional environments can also influence a coyote’s fur color. Typically, the color on the back is darker than the color on the stomach and legs.

A pack of coyotes is called a band even though coyotes rarely hunt in larger units unless they’re taking down a larger prey like a deer. They stay active during the winter too, forgoing a cozy den.  And speaking of dens, when picking a den location, coyotes will often find a hollow between rocks or build a burrow in the soil. When they decide to go the burrow route, they’ll often find abandoned fox or badger burrows and expand on those instead of making their own.  Coyotes, however, will create dens to raise their pups in. Once the rearing season is over, coyotes often move aboveground. They sleep in densely wooded areas where they won’t be observed by humans or bigger predators.

Coyotes can jump fences—as high as 3 feet, but cannot climb trees.  While this may not sound impressive, coyotes have been known to scale fences as high as 14 feet and can jump just as far across if they have momentum built up. Not the cartoon characters we assume them to be at all.

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  1. Morning All!
    dreary again this morning. maybe rain?
    since we saw the 3 coyotes a few days ago, we haven’t seen or heard from them since. Hubby suspects they found the dead raccoons and that’s what got them so excited.
    deer were out yesterday so i suspect they have moved on for now.

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    1. Good morning, Pat! Never knew all that about coyotes! Nature is amazing! I got 90% of my peaches picked last night. I set up my 6 foot ladder, then used a tilling tool on a long handle to pull the branches down so I could reach them. The others I pulled off with the tilling tool and picked them up from the ground. I’ve got 2 HUGE bags full of peaches! I’m going to lay them all out and pick out the biggest ones for Mom to make my ice cream – she said about 15 of the medium size for 1 gallon – I should get at least 2 gallons, maybe more. I’ll keep the rest to snack on. Wednesday, when I do my monthly shopping, I’ll go to her apartment and help her peel the peaches, then bring my ice cream home and into the freezer. Success! Yeah! I’m going to do some more research and try to prune that tree this winter to keep it going.

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  6. running out the clock is their signature MO…FOIA requries a response in 20 days…long past that already
    FTA
    “The Biden Administration may have violated the Hatch Act and these records should provide the answer,” Citizens United President David N. Bossie told The Federalist.

    As previously reported by The Federalist, Biden’s executive order directs all 600 federal agencies to become voter registration agencies and organize voter outreach efforts. It allows such agencies — including ones that dole out federal benefits —to work with leftwing get-out-the-vote groups.

    Government watchdogs and Congressional Republicans are worried Biden’s EO is a scheme to mobilize the federal bureaucracy to drive Democratic voter registration and turnout, swinging elections in favor of Democrats — particularly as the 2022 midterms loom.

    “Citizens United filed these FOIA lawsuits against the Interior & State Departments because Joe Biden’s executive order on voting amounts to a Democrat turnout effort that politicizes the federal workforce and is a blatant abuse of power,” Bossie said. “This issue deserves far more transparency and that’s why we’re demanding these records be released to the American people.”

    In addition to Citizens United, the Foundation for Government Accountability, the American Accountability Foundation, and the Center for Renewing America have all filed lawsuits against the Biden administration for failing to comply with FOIA requests surrounding the executive order. A federal judge ruled in July that the Biden DOJ must comply with the Foundation for Government Accountability’s FOIA request before the 2022 midterms.

    Citizens United’s lawsuits come after 15 secretaries of state wrote a letter to Biden urging him to rescind the executive order on grounds of unconstitutionality.

    https://thefederalist.com/2022/08/20/citizens-united-sues-biden-administration-over-election-takeover-documents/

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      1. thanks Carl!
        I hope you are feeling well!!
        I just posted another meme–this time from a different poster…I will direct readers to see your comment.

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      2. Hmmmm….the site itself doesn’t look like satire and I could find no statement to that effect. They only list 4 news sources: GP, Rebel News, Western Journal, and Zero Hedge. https://newsthatmatters.net/

        I can’t speak for the Tweets, some of which do, indeed, appear to be satire. Found this comment on another site that is passing this Tweet on as fact:

        Originally Posted By AZNetEng:
        I’m going to pronounce this fake and vote troll.

        Sadly the premise is believable because Congress has in the past…

        1. Exempted themselves from laws passed for citizens
        2. Exempted themselves from other govt mandated actions
        3. Voted themselves raises in the same year they refused to raise minimum wage
        4. Voted themselves a generous retirement
        5. Have taken advantage of information access to increase personal wealth
        6. Resisted efforts to control spending and stay within budget
        7. Conducted repeated attempts to subvert the will of the American people

        They are no longer our representatives conducting business for the benefit of the nation and its citizens. They are enriching themselves in rather blatant fashion.

        While this is not going to be found true, it is believable based on prior conduct.

        It is time to replace them and send citizens back to Congress. It is time to place term limits on Congress.

        This “ruling class” mentality should be removed.”

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  12. interesting story. the fib got a magistrate to sign off on a warrant to “inventory” safety deposit boxes a private company in CA offered. JUST INVENTORY according to the warrant the judge signed. But the fib intended to SEIZE the property therein. Some might have had illegal substances–some did not, but everyone HAS TO PROVE the items were not illegally gotten–violating all kinds of laws…
    FTA
    The Institute for Justice has filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of box renters whose property has been seized. Some have already recovered their property, but others must prove that they received the finds through legal means in order to recover their property.

    I think that it is fair to say at this point that the FBI does not deserve the benefit of the doubt for any serach warrant applications they have issued, and that full disclosure of affidavits they have filed is mandatory, given the proven, calculated misbehavior the Bureau has engaged in.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/08/fbi_affidavit_misled_a_magistrate_judge_on_a_search_warrant_in_plot_to_seize_and_forfeit_contents_of_safety_deposit_boxes.html

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      1. B.S. From 2019 to 2020, the SIDS rate increased 15.3%, from a 2019 SIDS rate of 33.3 SIDS deaths per 100,000 in 2019 to the 2020 SIDS rate of 38.4 SIDS deaths per 100,000.

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  19. Filly and I were discussing WHY desantis was in pittsburgh the other day endorsing republican candidates…and it got me to wondering. is this the GOPe’s attempt to start bolstering desantis’s “endorsement” record? REALPOTUS has an amazing record…something like 209 to 17 or something like that. he can claim to be the head of the party–so desantis piggybacks on that. if he’s really a controlled rino in MAGA clothing, at some point, he will endorse someone REALPOTUS does not…(perhaps then the turtle will open the purse strings to get that person elected) so the dethowning of REALPOTUS can begin…
    just another conspiracy theory…lol
    but I’m not liking the ME FIRST desantis that is currently touring the country

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  21. Entire CTH Article: “The Darndest Thing, Alex Jones Endorses Ron DeSantis

    Alex Jones and David Frum are now on the same team. Isn’t that weird?

    In the aftermath of the tragic death of Andrew Breitbart, there was a financial opening. Billionaire Robert Mercer stepped in and soon (’14) Breitbart advocated for Ted Cruz. Over at The Washington Free Beacon, billionaire Paul Singer stepped in, Fusion GPS was contracted and WFB advocated for Marco Rubio.

    Over at the Blaze financial trouble swirled, Glenn Beck leaned on Keep the Promise and advocated for Cruz. Then, post Cruz implosion, financial trouble swirled again and suddenly Trump was a lifeline. The March ’16 Sea Island summit was unsuccessful, anxiety ruled. Following the 2016 RNC convention the Mercer’s (Robert and Rebekah) switched allegiances and aligned with Trump. Kellyanne Conway, formerly with Cruz, joined team Trump. Parler was created as Rebekah Mercer funded.

    These are the moves of the billionaire class members within the club who utilize influence to advance objectives and self-interest. Nothing about this is surprising. Recently, in the aftermath of a $49.3 million award, Alex Jones is on the financial ropes. The perfect position for the purchase of influence and guess what…

    ‘(Daily Mail) InfoWars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has jettisoned his support for Donald Trump and is backing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for the 2024 presidential race.

    Jones, who was recently ordered to pay $49.3 million to parents of a Sandy Hook school shooting victim in a defamation case, admitted he’s ‘pigheadedly’ supported Trump throughout the years. But, he said on his InfoWars podcast, he’s now backing DeSantis, who is ‘way better than Trump.’ (read more)

    The billionaire donor board members of the RNC club have an agenda. Remember, it’s a private club and there are billions -if not trillions- at stake. A sudden surge in contributions for 2015/2016 coinciding with the Transpacific Partnership (TPP) push.

    Where did the money come from? Club for Growth:

    DeSantis votes to approve TPP, the biggest multinational trade sellout program, surpassing even NAFTA in consequence. What did Club for Growth do next:

    So, on the issue of international trade, multinational corporate influence, U.S. economic policy and Wall Street -vs- Main Street, we can clearly see why the billionaires in the club would be pushing tens-of-millions into the financing of Ron DeSantis as a Trump alternative. There are trillions at stake. It’s DeJa’Vu all over again…

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      1. yup…hubby liked pino more (red) till our future daughter in law introduced him to Riesling. now he makes both. i can’t be in the same room while the stuff is fermenting tho…bothers my sinuses alot!

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            1. I have no idea! LOL – I just know I like it! Found this:

              “White Zinfandel, often abbreviated as White Zin, is an off-dry to sweet, pink-colored rosé wine. White Zinfandel is made from the Zinfandel wine grape, which would otherwise produce a bold and spicy red wine. As such, it is not a grape variety but a method of processing Zinfandel grapes. Zinfandel was first made into a rosé wine in 1869 by the El Pinal Winery in Lodi, California. The resulting wine was thought of highly enough that California viticultural commissioner Charles Wetmore, the later founder of Cresta Blanca Winery, advocated Zinfandel’s use as a white wine grape. The demand for White Zinfandel resulted in extended commercial viability of old vine Zinfandel vineyards. White Zinfandel is sweet, soft, and low in alcohol, making it a popular choice with those who would not otherwise drink wine. The sugar content can make White Zinfandel taste almost like a fruit punch, although some examples have crisp acids and are balanced in their own way. White Zinfandel is typically manufactured for immediate consumption rather than for aging.”

              https://www.wines.com/encyclopedia/white-zinfandel/

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              1. we grow catawba grapes…which are pink. we grow concord which are purple and niagara which are green. beyond that i know nothing about grapes–dry, sweet? shrug?

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  24. Entire Article @ FB: “Sometimes a book’s mere existence has an eminently greater cultural significance than its content. Such is the case of Dr. Fauci: A Little Golden Book Biography. The 24-page illustrated work, billed as “an inspiring read-aloud for young children,” does not exist to entertain America’s toddlers, but rather to soothe the secular souls of Millennial parents whose mental and emotional well-being have steadily deteriorated since November 8, 2016. It belongs in the adult “self care” section with a disclaimer urging prospective buyers to seek help.

    Dr. Anthony Fauci, a career bureaucrat who rose to national prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic, is merely the latest liberal icon to be featured in a Little Golden Book. The children’s series dates back to 1942 but has only recently started targeting the aforementioned demographic of #Resistance nerds. Recent subjects include Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2020), Kamala Harris (2021), Betty White (2021), Sonia Sotomayor (2022), and Beyoncé (due out in 2023). Other titles are dedicated to more conventional religious figures such as God, Jesus, and Barack Obama.

    This is the second children’s book published about the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The authors of Dr. Fauci: How a Boy from Brooklyn Became America’s Doctor got their product to market in June 2021, when President Joe Biden’s approval rating was still comfortably above 50 percent. Theirs is “the definitive picture book biography” of Fauci, who contributed a section outlining his “five tips for future scientists.” Tip number one—”Keep an open mind. Science is discovery, which means that from the beginning, you don’t know what the answer is. Leave open all the possibilities of what you might find”—is arguably more honest and sensible than anything he’s ever told American adults about COVID-19.

    The biography itself is not particularly offensive. The illustrations are fine. But seriously, what kind of lunatic would subject a child to the details of Fauci’s conventional childhood in postwar Brooklyn, or his crippling work addiction? “He worked fourteen hours a day, as well as on weekends,” the author writes of Fauci. “His family waited until he got home at nine p.m. to eat dinner together. After his daughters went to sleep, Tony worked more.” It would take a special kind of psychopath to be able to hold a two-year-old child in one’s lap and read to them about AIDS, SARS, swine flu, Ebola, and COVID-19.

    The book concludes with an astonishing pronouncement: “The world is a healthier place because of Dr. Anthony Fauci!” No one who buys this book would disagree, just as they would never admit that buying this book is a cry for help, that they aren’t any less deranged than Robert Kennedy Jr., author of The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health. Reasonable people might argue that Fauci and his fellow “experts” have put our health at risk by setting their credibility on fire.

    Fauci’s so-called leadership during the pandemic enabled a cult of hysterical doomsayers whose greatest legacy will be the generation of children who suffered greatly from having their educations put on hold for the better part of two years. Throughout the pandemic, Fauci and other experts gave wildly conflicting opinions about the virus while maintaining an air of righteous certainty. Democratic politicians who claimed to “follow the science” were routinely exposed for violating their own safety guidelines. (Fauci himself was also busted.) At times, the scientific community shed all pretensions to objectivity by embracing left-wing activism. Not surprisingly, the federal response to the ongoing monkeypox outbreak has been disastrous, marred by “identity politics” and a reluctance to speak the truth for fear of promoting “stigma.”

    Just last month, Fauci said he regrets that the government did not impose “much, much more stringent restrictions” to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Good luck with that in the next pandemic. It will be his own damn fault when Americans completely disregard what government “experts” are telling them. Then again, Fauci’s response to his improbable rise to elite liberal celebrity suggests he has no regrets. Last week, for example, Fauci accepted an award typically reserved for active Major League Baseball players and joked about creating COVID-19 in his kitchen.

    While the past several years may have irreparably damaged the American public’s confidence in the scientific establishment, Fauci’s confidence in his own greatness and capacity for self-aggrandizement has not wavered. He’s appeared on the cover of countless magazines. “With all due modesty, I think I’m pretty effective,” he told In Style. Sick freaks are reading books about him to their kids. Last week, while being interviewed after accepting MLB’s Hutch Award in Seattle, the doctor discussed the “Fauci Effect,” explaining how he had come to symbolize “consistency,” “integrity,” and “truth” in this crazy world of ours.

    Fauci, who turns 82 in December, refuses to set a date for his retirement. When that day comes, he will not be missed.

    Dr. Fauci: A Little Golden Book Biography
    by Suzanne Slade
    Golden Books, 24 pp., $5.99

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  27. That was a quick about-face!!!!

    Entire Article @ DC: “New York City announced Friday that will send at least 1,000 migrant children into the city’s school system to meet their educational needs under a new project. The new program, titled “Project Open Arms,” is expected to provide academic, language access, and social-emotional resources to children in migrant families in anticipation of the fall school semester, according to a press release from officials.

    “Under the plan, the city is prioritizing strong interagency collaboration to provide families with a broad range of resources,” according to a press release. “Our city has been, and will always be, a city of immigrants that welcomes newcomers with open arms,” New York City mayor Eric Adams said in the release. “‘Project Open Arms’ ensures we are well-prepared to assist asylum-seekers as the school year begins and that we are offering wraparound services to students and families.”

    The announcement comes after Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott began busing migrants to New York City after Adams criticized Abbott for sending busloads of migrants to Washington D.C.

    “In addition to Washington, D.C., New York City is the ideal destination for these migrants, who can receive the abundance of city services and housing that Mayor Eric Adams has boasted about within the sanctuary city,” Abbott said in a statement announcing the plan.

    The release notes that, since May of this year, approximately 6,000 migrants and asylum-seekers that arrived from border states have gone through the city’s intake process, with some being reticketed to destinations outside of the city.”

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  28. Entire Article @ DC: “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a study Friday suggesting that people wear masks to protect themselves from monkeypox despite growing evidence the virus is transmitted sexually.

    The CDC’s Friday Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), its internal journal, included research on the spread of monkeypox via contaminated surfaces. Researchers in Utah sampled 30 different samples from the home of two monkeypox patients, and found that 21 of the surfaces yielded positive real-time PCR results, but none tested positive for viral cultures.

    Still, despite the lack of live virus found in the samples, the paper still warns that monkeypox can spread through surface contact. The agency also recommends wearing masks at the bottom of the paper, even though little evidence has emerged that monkeypox is an airborne virus.

    “Monkeypox virus primarily spreads through close, personal, often skin-to-skin contact with the rash, scabs, lesions, body fluids, or respiratory secretions of a person with monkeypox; transmission via contaminated objects or surfaces (i.e., fomites) is also possible,” the paper reads. “Persons living in or visiting the home of someone with monkeypox should follow appropriate precautions against indirect exposure and transmission by wearing a well-fitting mask, avoiding touching possibly contaminated surfaces, maintaining appropriate hand hygiene, avoiding sharing eating utensils, clothing, bedding, or towels, and following home disinfection recommendations.”

    The CDC’s own website doesn’t list airborne transmission as a way monkeypox spreads. The Santa Clara County, California, Health Department is telling the public that monkeypox isn’t airborne. Reuters has fact-checked claims that the CDC believes monkeypox is airborne as false.

    “Monkeypox does not spread through airborne particles or droplets, therefore, is not considered to be an airborne virus,” Dr. Rafael E. Pérez-Figueroa, associate dean of Community Engagement and Public Health Practice at the Rutgers School of Public Health, told Prevention.com. “Airborne transmission occurs when small virus particles become suspended in the air and can stay there for periods of time. These particles can spread on air currents and infect people in far distances. That is not the case with the monkeypox virus.”

    More and more evidence is emerging that suggests the virus is spread primarily through homosexual male sex, although women and heterosexuals can still be infected. Several studies have found that sex itself, not close skin-to-skin contact, is causing the spread, and that the virus is carried in semen.”

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  29. sorry I couldn’t find a thread reader app…so I copied it from the liberty daily
    This thread from Twitchy favorite Dr. Strangetweet does an excellent job of saying what we want to say (and in a much better way):

    There was a red wave coming.

    Then the GOP got involved.

    — Dr Strangetweet or How I Learned to Love the RT (@lone_rides) August 20, 2022

    Yup.

    I don’t think they could have done any worse if they were trying to let the Dems win.

    Wait a minute…

    — Dr Strangetweet or How I Learned to Love the RT (@lone_rides) August 20, 2022

    It certainly feels like Mitch and his merry band of GOPe’rs don’t want to actually win.

    Seriously, the Democrats need to get on their knees and thank the God they don’t believe in that there isn’t a viable Conservative party other than the GOP.

    Because if there was, the wave would be whatever color that is.

    — Dr Strangetweet or How I Learned to Love the RT (@lone_rides) August 20, 2022

    And thank the God they don’t believe in …

    Bingo.

    “It’s a chartreuse wave!!”

    — Dr Strangetweet or How I Learned to Love the RT (@lone_rides) August 20, 2022

    Trending

    Brian Stelter uses his last arrogant, hate-filled show to remind everyone why he DESERVES to be canceled (watch)
    Super privileged Lefty blue-check white dude tries blaming ALL white dudes for HIS privilege and HOO BOY that’s a lotta backfire

    Dude, chartreuse is way too hard to spell.

    Forget elephants and donkeys. The missing 3rd party would be monkeys.

    Because we’re tired of this crap and we’re gonna start flinging it back at you.

    — Dr Strangetweet or How I Learned to Love the RT (@lone_rides) August 20, 2022

    THIS THIS THIS!

    Man, I’d love to defend democracy but it sure looks like democracy is two groups of fat cats that belong to the same club fighting over who is gonna screw the mouse over the hardest.

    — Dr Strangetweet or How I Learned to Love the RT (@lone_rides) August 20, 2022

    Two groups of wolves sitting around figuring out who is going to eat the sheep the fastest.

    That works too.

    I didn’t not realize democracy meant two groups in power and no one else is allowed to play.

    — Dr Strangetweet or How I Learned to Love the RT (@lone_rides) August 20, 2022

    We didn’t either.

    This is the GOP we all know and wanted to burn to the ground with Trump.

    — Dr Strangetweet or How I Learned to Love the RT (@lone_rides) August 20, 2022

    Trump was a symptom of the problem, they still haven’t figured that out yet.

    “I have an idea. Let’s recruit Dr Oz to run.”
    Why?
    “Because the base apparently wants TV stars as politicians.”

    No, you idiots. You simpletons. You malodorous baboons.

    — Dr Strangetweet or How I Learned to Love the RT (@lone_rides) August 20, 2022

    Malodorous is also a word we do not hear or use often enough.

    The only consolation is that on some multiverse Earth, the GOP is being nuked en masse right now to be replaced with citizens who give a damn.

    — Dr Strangetweet or How I Learned to Love the RT (@lone_rides) August 20, 2022

    Imagine that.

    “Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity.”

    After watching this routine for 40 years, it’s malice. Definitely malice.

    — Dr Strangetweet or How I Learned to Love the RT (@lone_rides) August 20, 2022

    It’s laziness.

    It’s a desire for power.

    It’s certainly not about leading this country.

    It would be nice if the GOP didn’t actively hate their base.

    I mean the Democrats at least kinda like some of their base.

    — Dr Strangetweet or How I Learned to Love the RT (@lone_rides) August 20, 2022

    They at least like them enough to lie to them. That’s true.

    Anyway, as the GOO either loses winnable elections or somehow wins and are an ineffective and feckless party, just remember…

    At least they’re not Democrats.

    Which, ironically, seems to be the only message the GOP wants to run on.

    — Dr Strangetweet or How I Learned to Love the RT (@lone_rides) August 20, 2022

    This says SO much about how awful Democrats are right now – but that’s not the point. Wouldn’t it be amazing to vote FOR someone instead of AGAINST someone else? To be fair, we had that opportunity here in Virginia, to vote FOR Youngkin. Maybe the GOP should look at what he did and said while campaigning.

    Seems he GETS it.

    “Maybe we should appeal to voters.”
    “No”
    “We’ll maybe we should talk nice about the voters”
    “LOL no”
    “Maybe we could do some outreach in black communities.”
    “Don’t be stupid.”
    “What about policies?”
    “Ew. No.”
    “So…”
    “Yep. ‘We’re not Democrats’ it is! Run with it!”

    — Dr Strangetweet or How I Learned to Love the RT (@lone_rides) August 20, 2022

    Anyway part 2, the moral of the story is a scorpion does what a scorpion does and we’re stupid for believing otherwise.

    — Dr Strangetweet or How I Learned to Love the RT (@lone_rides) August 20, 2022

    *sigh*

    Unfortunately, he’s right.

    https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/08/21/were-tired-of-this-crap-epic-thread-drags-tf-out-of-mcconnell-and-other-useless-invertebrates-unwilling-to-fight-in-the-gop/

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  31. copied from tcth

    Bubby
    Bubby
    August 21, 2022 12:53 pm

    https://www.bizpacreview.com/2022/08/20/its-insanity-rep-jim-banks-identifies-a-whopping-52-radical-items-in-inflation-reduction-act-1275680/

    FTA “Among the 52 separate items included in the memo from the RSC are that it “idiotically” boosts taxes during a recession, builds “Biden’s IRS army,” expands Obamacare, contains payoffs to union bosses, provides rich people with tax breaks to buy green appliances, subsidizes electric vehicles for the wealthy and raises energy costs.

    Additionally, there is $3 billion for the Department of Transportation to “undertake projects to address its claim that infrastructure is racist,” $3 billion for a fleet of electric postal trucks, and a backdoor Climate Corps of the type championed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez which will allocate $87 billion “to launch a propaganda campaign to ‘educate’ communities on reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.”

    One of the more ridiculous aspects of the bill is that “Cow Farts are BACK!” in that it “would require the Secretary of Agriculture to prioritize new funding for certain farm grants that ‘utilize diet and feed management to reduce enteric methane emissions from ruminant.’ Translation = taxpayer money to feed cows food that that won’t make them fart,” according to the RSC memo.”

    What I want to know is who actually wrote the bill? I know no Democrat did but who did it for them? I want names, organizations involved in writing the bill that was handed to Chuckie Schumer and Pelosi??? ““It’s insanity,”(Rep. Jim) Banks said. “Again, it’s the policies of the Democrat Party, no matter what they call it, it’s their policies, their massive spending agenda, their radical climate change, Green New Deal agenda that’s caused inflation.”

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  33. so judas pence now is walking back his willingness to testify at th ejan6 committee
    FTA
    Recently, the former vice president said he would consider offering his testimony in front of the Democrat-led committee investigating the Capitol breach on Jan. 6, 2021. Meanwhile, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), considered the face of the panel, recently told news outlets that Pence is in talks with the committee to testify.

    But during an interview with The Washington Times over the weekend, Pence had a more cautious tone and described the committee as “very partisan.”

    “If the committee wanted to extend a formal invitation I would consider it, but we would reflect very carefully on my obligations to preserve the separation of powers and the constitutional framework that I served in,” he said.

    Pence, a former Republican governor from Indiana before becoming vice president, told the paper that he has “real concerns about the partisan nature of the Jan. 6 committee.”

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/pence-dials-back-willingness-to-testify-to-jan-6-house-committee_4678624.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=cfp

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  34. evs saving the world is unraveling quickly as a pipe dream…
    entire article
    An auto club in Germany that claims 21 million members ran some controlled charging test electric vehicles to see how efficient that process was. The results put another nail in the value coffin. Not only are they expensive to buy and own, but the average charge also wastes up to 13% of the electricity.

    Put another way, the consumer is charged for all the electricity required to fully charge the battery, which is as much as 13% more than the battery can hold.

    So, imagine pouring two gallons of gasoline on the ground every time you filled a 20-gallon tank. People would lose their collective minds. But that will be standard for every charge of every vehicle in the utopian electric fleet of the future.

    ADAC’s Ecotest calculated the kWh needed to fully charge a range of electric vehicle batteries.

    The result of the test under the same conditions for all electric car models: E-car drivers have to plan for a particularly large amount of power loss for some models – but everyone has to pay extra. According to the ADAC Ecotest, a 100 kWh battery in a Tesla Model X100D actually needs 108.3 kWh. The Kia e-Niro Spirit has 72.3 kWh for a 64 kWh battery. The Jaguar I-PACE EV400 also needs at least 10 kWh more for a 90 kWh battery.

    With electricity prices scheduled to double in New Hampshire (as an example) and with the cost of EVs still out of the range of most middle and lower-income families, throwing money out the window with every charge might just as well be another tax.

    Line loss or transformer loss is baked into the infrastructure. There is no way to transmit electricity without waste (primarily) in the form of heat. Anywhere from 8-15% or more of the electricity generated by power stations is lost before it gets to you. A carbon footprint problem we’re supposed to ignore.

    But not in the ADAC tests. The consumer pays immediately for the loss of every kWh that exceeded the actual electricity needed to charge the battery.

    https://thebluestateconservative.com/2022/08/21/the-electric-vehicles-will-save-the-planet-farce-is-unraveling-quickly/

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  35. the documents REALPOTUS wanted decalssify include texts between the “lovers”…it violates their privacy doj suggests. tough shit imo might shed more info on the insurance plan
    FTA
    A cache of Russiagate documents President Donald Trump wanted released during his final days in office contained information about a pair of former leading FBI officials infamous for their private exchanges disparaging Trump, according to a new report.

    Never-before-seen text messages between ex-FBI special agent Peter Strzok and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, as well as unreleased information about the FBI’s investigative steps, were part of this binder of Crossfire Hurricane investigation materials, the New York Times reported on Saturday.

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/russiagate-binder-messages-peter-strzok-lisa-page

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  37. i admit i knew nothing of desantis while he was in congress.
    from tcth

    GumboPot
    August 21, 2022 1:56 pm

    DeSantis has a record on trade and it’s bad. He voted for FTA for TPP.

    FTA means Fast Track Authority (FTA) for the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). Giving the executive branch, Obama, Fast Track Authority is/was tantamount to approving a treaty before it was signed.

    The Trans Pacific Partnership was potentially a major trade giveaway to Asian counties and an abrogation of U.S. sovereignty over corporate environmental regulations. That is, TPP partners were slated to make and enforce environmental regulations on U.S. companies by foreign nations…not the U.S. congress.

    TPP was so bad for U.S. workers that in order to get U.S. senate Democrats on board and vote for it they were given TAA, Trade Adjustment Assistance to offset some of the harm done by TPP to U.S. workers.

    Obama was eventually not given FTA on TPP because the House at the time voted for TPP and against TAA. FTA for TPP was not going to move forward in the Senate without TAA. So the bill stalled and the 2016 election was looming.

    DeSantis voted with the communist greenies and the GOPe on these measures to fast track TPP.

    DeSantis is great on local and state issues but he is a major concern on trade, borders and war.

    Thank God there was major disagreement between Senate Dems and House Republicans on TAA to stall the FTA on TPP long enough for Trump to win in 2016 and kill TPP.

    Link to communist “Green America” showing how our congressional representatives voted on TPP and TAA: [link=(https://www.greenamerica.org/show-ga-blog?nid=7327)%5DGreenAmerica%5B/link%5D

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    1. Most of the GOP voted for TPA – as usual, they pulled some shenanigans – moving the TPA into a different bill that hid their actions!

      EXCERPT: “The TPA initially passed the House 219-to-211. As in the Senate, the House vote was predominantly along party lines, with Republicans supporting the President’s trade deal.

      The TPA was only “Title 1,” meaning the first part, of the Trade Act. Because the House did not pass the remainder of the bill (Title 2, which is the TAA, see below), this bill could not move forward.

      The House voted on, and passed, TPA again on June 18 in a stand-alone bill without TAA. The vote was virtually identical to the previous week’s TPA vote with one exception: Rep. Ted Yoho (R, FL-3), who spoke harshly against the TPA in a statement last week, voted in favor of it this second time. (See our coverage of the second vote.)

      House leaders separated the TPA from the TAA by moving TPA into H.R. 2146, a bill about the retirement funds of federal law enforcement officers and firefighters. The old provisions of the bill were retained when TPA was added to the end of this bill. This combined bill went to the Senate (see above).

      (In fact, it went back to the Senate. H.R. 2146 had previous passed the House and the Senate, but the Senate passed it with a technical change — see our summary. Rather than concurring in the Senate’s technical change, the House added TPA.)”

      https://govtrackinsider.com/how-congress-voted-on-trade-afb8b4438823

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  38. school counselor arrested twice for solicitation of a minor…remained working
    entire article
    Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Michelle Reid sent a letter out on Thursday, confirming the firing of Counselor Darren Thornton, 50, from Glasgow Middle School in Lincolnia. He was arrested once in 2020, and another time in June 2022 for solicitation of prostitution from a minor, both which the school knew about, the Chesterfield County Police Department told DCNF.
    While Reid insisted that she and the school board “took immediate steps” to fire Thornton as soon as they were of the situation, a CCPD spokesperson said that they had notified Fairfax County Public Schools of Thornton’s first arrest on Nov. 20, 2020, and again after Thornton’s second arrest on June 9, 2022. At the time of the first arrest, Reid was not the superintendent of the school district.

    “Our records indicate the superintendent of Fairfax County Public Schools was notified of Mr. Thornton’s Nov. 19, 2020, arrest via email on Nov. 20, 2020. So, FCPS was notified about the arrest via email the day after the arrest,” Elizabeth Caroon, CCPD’s media and messaging manager said. “FCPS was notified again when Mr. Thornton was arrested again on June 9, 2022.”

    Thornton was still employed when he was added to the National Sex Offender Registry on June 21, 2022.

    Now, the school district is petitioning to get Thornton’s teaching license revoked, according to the letter.

    “In operationalizing this expectation, I have initiated a comprehensive, independent investigation by outside counsel into the circumstances surrounding this situation,” Reid said.

    “This is being carried out by an independent third party who has complete visibility into all internal processes. While I am not able to speak to the specifics of the investigation at this time, I can confirm that it covers both internal and external processes.”

    “I want to be very clear, there is nothing about this situation that is acceptable,” FCPS Reid told ABC 7 on Friday.

    https://thepostmillennial.com/school-counselor-arrested-twice-for-soliciting-child-prostitute-finally-fired

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  41. Entire Article from Don Surber:

    “Move over, Liz Cheney. You may be getting company in the unemployment line in January. Voters may give the pink slip to a Democrat who has been in Congress for 40 years. Screaming about J6 seems to backfire in Ohio as well as Wyoming. The New York Times ran a story today, “Marcy Kaptur, a Veteran Democrat, Breaks with Biden in New TV Ad.” Suddenly she “works with Republicans.” Just last month, Kaptur attacked her Republican opponent, J.R. Majewski, for being in Washington on January 6, 2021.

    The Toledo Blade reported, “The issue has become a talking point for the Kaptur campaign in its advertising and on social media, including labeling the candidate as an ‘extremist’ and ‘dangerous.’ One ad also claims Mr. Majewski broke police barricades during the riot, which he has publicly denied.”

    He was one of 200,000 people who attended Trump’s rally on the National Mall. Attending a Trump rally is considered an insurrection by the elitists. The attack on Majewski did not work because she is still in an election that the Cook Political Report ranks as a tossup.

    NYT reported, “Representative Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, the second-most tenured woman in congressional history, has released a new television ad explicitly breaking with President Biden, the most prominent Democrat to do so, as she seeks re-election in a Toledo-area seat that was redrawn to be sharply more Republican.

    “Ms. Kaptur, who was first elected in 1982, criticized Mr. Biden in the ad over ‘letting Ohio solar manufacturers be undercut by China’ and ended it with an attempt to cast her identity as independent from his.” The advertisement ends, “Marcy Kaptur: She doesn’t work for Joe Biden; she works for you.”

    She is in trouble because Ohio has swung Republican. Trump carried Ohio by 8 points two years ago. A new poll by Emerson Polling showed him ahead by 14 in a rematch with Biden. 51% of Ohioans prefer being represented in Congress by a Republican. Only 41% want a Democrat. January 6 hysteria won’t change that and likely helps Majewski.

    She has quit sucking up to Biden. Now it is Joe who? NYT said, “the ad from Ms. Kaptur is a relative surprise. She appeared with Mr. Biden only a few weeks ago, greeting him at an airport in Cleveland where photos appear to show the president kissing her hand on the tarmac.

    “In response to her new ad, Republicans were already recirculating video of Ms. Kaptur campaigning for Mr. Biden in 2020 and declaring, ‘It will be my honor to not just vote for Joe Biden but to work for him.'”

    Maybe she can work with him as his new press secretary come January because she talks out of both sides of her mouth so easily.”

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  42. Entire Article – Surber:

    “John McCain’s funeral drew three DC dynasties together. George and Laura represented the House of Bush. Bill and Hillary represented the House of Clinton. Dick and Lynne represented the House of Cheney. Donald Trump brought them all down.

    The Bushes were the first to go. They ran Jeb! (please clap) for president. Jeb! spent $50 million of other people’s money and campaigned for 485 days. His reward was 3 delegates to the Republican National Convention. Hillary blew through a billion bucks to be the runner-up in the 2016 presidential election. This week, Liz Cheney received her four-month notice from Wyomingites that her services as a congresswoman will no longer be needed as of January 3.

    For 28 years, from 1981 to 2009, a Bush, Clinton or Cheney was either a president or vice president. Under the second President Bush, they held both offices. Obama held off Hillary from extending that streak. But he appointed her secretary of state under the axiom of keeping your enemies closer.

    Don’t get me wrong. I liked both Bush presidents and I liked Dick Cheney’s grumpiness. I could tolerate Bill but Hillary was a hair-on-fire radical with a high IQ and no wisdom. The problem with them was they all were beholden to the deep state. The first Bush president once headed the CIA. The deep state saved Clinton by turning over dossiers on key congressmen. When they dragged out impeachment chairman Henry Hyde’s affair from 31 years ago, the Senate received the warning. He was acquitted.

    Ridding the country of the Bushes, Clintons and Cheneys is a monumental achievement because Trump beat the odds time and time again. The 2016 race was supposed to be a Bush-Clinton rematch. When Trump entered the race, the media in New York and Washington blew him off. A year later, he was nominated. Hillary was supposed to win in a cakewalk. He came. He saw. Her political career died.

    Taking on Liz Cheney was supposed to be a fool’s mission. She won Wyoming with 68% of the vote. This week she got 29% of the Republican vote.

    To be sure, Trump’s been bloodied. He had to fight a seditious resistance led by Obama for four years. They spied. They lied. They implied. They investigated. They even impeached. Twice. He beat them each time.

    They got desperate. Red China unleashed the Fauci-financed (with taxpayer money) covid virus. This triggered an economic downturn. Trump survived that. The deep state then went on a mail-in mania spree, harvesting 15 million ballots to defeat him. (Voter participation magically hit a 100-year high of 67%. That was 10 points higher than the 57% rate in 2016.) Even then they had to fudge the counting.

    Not being president sucked but Donald Trump has bounced back. His primarying of opponents has worked. Trump endorsed candidates win around 94% of the time. In March, he filed a RICO lawsuit against Hillary and the Democrat Party in Florida, where he will get a fair jury. The FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago sent the public opinion of the FBI in a tailspin. The raid backfired so loudly that I wonder if the mole at the resort wasn’t John Barron.

    Liz “Lincoln” Cheney says she will run for president. There is plenty of money on the table for her to scoop up. There aren’t many votes but if she tries to primary Trump, the press will fawn over her, she will get to travel and she will get a book deal after her defeat.

    But the Days of Dynasties have passed. Thank you, Donald Trump. You drained the swamp more than the pundits give you credit.”

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  46. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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