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    1. Morning, Pat! Well, we made it…..-17 on the thermometer this morning and the wind continues. Drifts everywhere and it’s headed your way. I kept the fireplace going into the wee hours so I’m definitely sleep deprived today. LM weathered it quite well. He was meowing at the door when I went back to my bedroom. Shuffled Jake out and shut the hallway door, then gathered some warm water, food and litter scoop and opened the door.

      LM sashayed right on in and actually walked into the room instead of stopping at the door. I scooped him up real quick, trying not to spill the water (I did spill some on the garage floor – instant flash freeze!) and back into the garage. He continues to use the litter box. Duties done, I sat down on the step and he promptly climbed into my lap for his loving. I had to shove him away with my foot as I re-entered the BR. When the time comes, after Jake, it won’t be difficult for LM to become an indoor/outdoor cat.

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      1. Morning!!
        I just drove the jeep down the driveway and left it there (hubby followed in the truck to get us back up). if this gets wicked with the ice and we need to get out we have a vehicle at the bottom and will ride the tractor down. not optimal, but it’s a plan.
        is it over for you??
        we are going to be in this mess for at least 2 days

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              1. it’s really been only the last 5 years or so that the weather has been so spastic…if it would get cold and stay cold and we got all snow it would be a lot easier. hubby would plow it open as needed and the truck or the jeep would be fine with 4 wheel drive. but the interspersing of warmer air, rain which then freezes is the big problem

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        1. Oh, he knows – he can smell him and hear him – I can tell by the way he’s been slinking around, hunkering down in odd places where he doesn’t usually sit – and avoiding the bedroom. It’s clear that he is off-kilter. I think I’ll go ahead and move his feed station up front for now. No reason to cause him any more distress than necessary. Yes, a fight would be VERY bad!!! LM may be half Jake’s size but he would tear Jake up, no doubt about that!

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    2. The extended warranties aren’t that big an issue for me – but the Medicare calls! Sheesh! I’ve told them 3 times to put me on the do-not-call list – I don’t think that even exists any more!

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  24. from tcth
    Citizen 817
    Citizen 817
    December 22, 2022 12:24 am

    @realDonaldTrump

    9h
    NO AMNESTY! Our border is open because Joe Biden has ordered it to be open and because Biden has broken the law and torn it into shreds. He has shredded our system, and he is destroying our Country. We need a total ban on Biden using taxpayer dollars to free illegal aliens — and criminal penalties for administrative noncompliance, which happens every single minute of every single day.

    https://rumble.com/v21ss1e-12.21.22-president-trumps-statement-on-bidens-open-border-crimes.html

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  25. Citizen 817
    December 22, 2022 12:27 am

    @DonaldJTrumpJr

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    The FBI has the bandwidth to have an 80 person task force to police memes & conservative accounts on Twitter but not enough bandwidth to do anything about skyrocketing crime. If those agents stopped policing free speech & did real work we wouldn’t always have to hear “he was on our radar” after it’s too late.

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  27. anybody ever heard of this before? could just be a troll…just asking…

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    KAF
    December 22, 2022 3:53 am
    Reply to Halley

    Candace is a well paid ‘actor’

    She is from Explore Talent, easy to verify.

    Be careful who you trust / follow.

    DeSantis is another failed actor, and not MAGA.

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        1. Yes, she did – Brave browser couldn’t seem to find this….hmmmm….the only articles that came up were traditional, leftist sources. I had to go to Iseek to find this….

          “In a shocking new video “The Brains Behind AOC” it is revealed that New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is “essentially an actress.” The video was shared on YouTube by a user named “Mr. Reagan,” and shared again on Twitter by Fox New host Sean Hannity.

          “Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is not really the congresswoman of New York’s 14th congressional district,” Reagan said.

          “In 2017, a group called the Justice Democrats held auditions for potential congressional candidates that would run on their platform for various congressional seats throughout the country,” Reagan said. “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’ brother Gabriel submitted her for the role. Now I’ve auditioned for many acting roles in my day. I’ve also cast many of my own projects. I know how this works,” he said.

          “If you find somebody with star power, even if they don’t 100 percent fit the part, you go with it,” he said in the video. “Obviously AOC has star power. Just look at her. She’s a superstar. The most famous person in congress, maybe ever,” he said.”

          https://thefederalistpapers.org/opinion/video-shows-ocasio-cortez-actress-auditioned-congresswoman-dem-group

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  29. they want the population reduced? why aren’t THEY leading the way by jumping off the planet FIRST?

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        1. Just a waiting game now…snow set to begin @ 1pm…bottom begins to fall out of temperature from today’s high of 30° To overnight low of -8°…plus forecast high winds with gusts up to 50mph overnight & all day tomorrow. 🥶
          Not planning on going out but today is one of DW’s twice a week shifts at Trader Joe’s, so any last minute needs can be addressed before returning home!

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          1. it just started snowing here…gonna get 1-3 today…then maybe freezing rain for a while, then freeze and temps drop dramatically. 1-3 expected tomorrow too…
            wild ride coming!

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              1. whoa!
                if it were all snow, hubby would plow with the tractor–might take time, but it wouldn’t be an issue. it’s the ice! the half mile driveway goes pretty much straight down till the middle where it makes a hair pin turn…that’s the tricky spot

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  32. from cfp

    Josh Hawley:

    “The FBI deliberately interfered not one, but two separate presidential elections… There have got to be repercussions for that.”pic.twitter.com/g2lcEbbGLV

    — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) December 21, 2022

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  33. whistleblowers hang the blame on piglosi for 1/6
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    A month after the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi deflected any suggestion she or her staff could have influenced the security that failed that day when the Capitol building was breached. “I have no power over the Capitol Police,” she declared.

    Two years later, that claim is directly challenged by contemporaneous text and email messages made public by five House Republicans showing her staff had direct contact with the officials who planned the security and even edited some of the plans and notifications in the fateful days before tragedy struck.

    The revelations, released Wednesday in a House GOP report obtained by Just the News, are prompting serious questions about whether the Jan. 6 Capitol breach could have been prevented while creating a new push for Republicans to summon Pelosi for testimony after they take over the House next month

    “January 6 should have never happened,” Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas), one of the authors of the report, told Just the News on Wednesday night.

    “The reason there wasn’t a proper security presence on that day goes right to the Speaker’s staff and the Speaker’s office,” added Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the soon-to-be-chairman of the House Judiciary Committee:

    The Republican report — which also included the work of Reps. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) and Kelly Armstrong — provided a meticulous, fact-based recounting of how Pelosi’s staff began meeting and communicating with security planners in the House Sergeant at Arms office in early December 2020, continuing all the way through the final 48 hours before the attacks.

    Those communications were occurring as Capitol Police began receiving detailed intelligence that extremist groups were discussing storming the Capitol, attacking lawmakers, targeting the tunnels beneath the complex and blocking the planned certification of the 2020 election results.

    Capitol Police whistleblowers told the congressmen there were ample and detailed warnings that violence would occur on Jan. 6, but the leadership of the Capitol Police failed to adjust the security plan to address the threat while the political leadership in Congress repeatedly refused to provide resources to secure the building.

    One officer discussed how he went to the Capitol unaware of the threat assessment with only a police cap as his equipment. Others revealed that congressional security leaders turned down resources like armed officers or National Guard troops ahead of the tragedy because of concerns about the political optics.

    The $600 million-a-year Capitol Police “was set up to fail, and there have been scant signs of progress toward addressing these weaknesses” since the attack, the lawmakers warned.

    While the mainstream news media and Democrats have suggested Pelosi and congressional leaders were not to blame for the security failures, internal messages of House security planners pointedly slammed Pelosi and her congressional appropriators for failing to provide the resources needed to secure the building.

    After Pelosi forced House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving to resign following the devastating events of Jan. 6, for instance, a staffer in the House Sergeant at Arms office sent a stinging email suggesting the Democratic leadership had made Irving and Capitol Police Chief Steve Sund the fall guys to cover up the failure of lawmakers to provided adequate security resources.

    “For the Speaker’s knee-jerk reaction to yesterday’s unprecedented event (and God knows how Congress lives for its knee-jerk reactions and to hell with future consequences … ). to immediately call for your resignation … after you have been denied again and again by Appropriations for proper security outfitting of the Capitol (and I WROTE several of those testimonies, dangit) … and to blame you personally because our department was doing the best they could with what they had and our comparatively small department size and limited officer resources … and because other agencies stepped in to assist just a fraction too late … again, for Congress to demand your resignation is spectacularly unjust, unfair, and unwarranted,” the staffer wrote Irving, according to the email included in the report.

    “This is not your fault,” the staffer added. “Or Sund’s fault. If anything, Appropriations should be hung out to dry.”

    https://justthenews.com/government/congress/pelosis-jan-6-story-unravels-evidence-mounts-capitol-breach-was-preventable

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  34. Rep Roy explains why turtle is doing what he’s doing…because he doesn’t give a shit and because he can
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    As Townhall reported on Tuesday, Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said in a press conference that the “number one priority” for the United States was providing more aid to Ukraine amid its onslaught by Russian troops. McConnell also said he was “proud” to work with Democrats on the $1.7 trillion omnibus bill that will mean the new GOP majority in the House has little leverage over Biden and his party until next fall. 

    In a lengthy Twitter thread posted Wednesday morning, Rep. Roy did not hold back on those Republicans in the Senate who are playing nice with Democrats and President Biden in order to screw over House Republicans set to take majority control of the lower chamber on January 3. 

    “21 Senators voted to proceed to the $1.7 trillion omnibus – & to spend billions we do not have, empower Biden bureaucrats with no fixes, & block us from securing the border for at least 9 mos,” Roy tweeted. “Some are friends, one my former boss.. but unless they change their vote on final passage, I don’t care & will oppose their bills/priorities – & not for revenge, but b/c it’s the only tool I have to pressure them to stop doing this to us,” he said. 

    “This vote is indefensible, & damaging to Texas. It takes away our leverage to force Biden to secure the border & in fact specifically says new DHS money can only be used to process MORE people – which will lead to more fentanyl, violence, & death,” Roy noted of the funding restrictions in the 4,155-page bill that gives billions to foreign nations for border security but disallows the use of some funds to secure the U.S. border.

    “For Texans, this alone is reason enough to oppose this terrible bill (cc: John Cornyn) but the Chamber has always carried the day on border & immigration for the GOP, hasn’t it?” Roy noted. 

    “And now we face a deadly crisis, and they STILL can’t act. They just say ‘well, it’s the best we’re going to do.’ What do they mean by that? Well, Leader McConnell told you it’s about getting $47BB more for Ukraine & 10% more ‘defense’ spending,” Roy explained. “You think it’s an accident that Zelensky is coming to Congress TODAY? Meanwhile, he & other Senate GOP claim it’s because House conservatives won’t ‘govern,'” he added. 

    “To be clear – what that really means is ‘defense spending – for us & Ukraine – trumps Americans’ concerns about mounting debt, out-of-control bureaucrats, and wide open borders,'” Roy noted. 

    “It means ‘we’re the adults in the room, so sit down while we continue the status quo & cut big $ deals with Democrats rather than even sit down with a new GOP majority & work it out among Republicans.'” But of course the swampy establishment Senate GOPers would rather talk with Democrats about passing the omnibus than talk to Republicans who are about to have a majority in the House about how to address Biden’s many crises.

    “The Senate GOP failed to get a majority in November with both pathetic messaging & some bad candidates, & now want to blame the new House GOP for being ‘unable to govern’ when they just don’t like the priorities we would debate & struggle with because they represent the tired old #SwampGOP,” Roy continued. 

    “They are who they are: war-first Republicans who give lip service to securing the border & stopping deficit spending during campaigns, yet are voting right now to support (fund) the opposite,” Roy said. 

    However, “it needn’t be this way,” Roy added. “The House GOP majority, if allowed, could set a new tone in which we rebuild our military, project strength, & help our allies – but not at the expense of fiscal strength & protecting our own freedom & sovereignty at home.”

    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2022/12/21/chip-roy-slams-swamp-gop-in-the-senate-for-working-with-dems-on-omnibus-n2617407

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  35. Todd W
    Todd W
    December 22, 2022 8:35 am

    Mollie Hemingway made just a brilliant point last night on Fox News. All these programs that would not pass the House and Senate are now all pilled into the omnibus bill. Climate, Ukraine, Trans rights etc. I know most people here already know that.

    The smarter point is that they never have to display an outright vote for or against any of these issues. This is why Republicans are more than happy not placed against the wall to actually show how these bastards will vote. It is a great way to screw the country by people who voted for them and never have to display and unwanted vote to the Republican base.

    I never really thought about it that much. Bravo Uniparty…………

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      1. i think they voted it out of committee…but then the amendment process started…i dunno..,’
        there was some talk of doing a CR until february …who knows.
        if they’re telling folks to go home, does that mean they can still vote on the dang thing–only using a quorum of REMAINING senators?

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        1. Some are still doing remote voting – one of the reasons they don’t want to end the COVID “emergency.” But I don’t know if they will allow that with an Omnibus….depends on the in-house rules, I guess.

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  39. roomba captures picture of woman on the toilet…her photos are seen in chat rooms…
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    “It’s not expected that human beings are going to be reviewing the raw footage,” emphasizes Justin Brookman, director of tech policy at Consumer Reports and former policy director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Technology Research and Investigation. iRobot would not say whether data collectors were aware that humans, in particular, would be viewing these images, though the company said the consent form made clear that “service providers” would be.

    “It’s not expected that human beings are going to be reviewing the raw footage.”

    “We literally treat machines differently than we treat humans,” adds Jessica Vitak, an information scientist and professor at the University of Maryland’s communication department and its College of Information Studies. “It’s much easier for me to accept a cute little vacuum, you know, moving around my space [than] somebody walking around my house with a camera.” 

    And yet, that’s essentially what is happening. It’s not just a robot vacuum watching you on the toilet—a person may be looking too. 

    https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/19/1065306/roomba-irobot-robot-vacuums-artificial-intelligence-training-data-privacy/

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        1. I love the patriotism, grit and courage of that man, hands down! However…..his prices are outrageous and the way he talks is just irritating to me. Every single commercial break, here he comes again. I get it – really. He should absolutely be applauded every minute of every day for his accomplishments and dedication…having said that, I am just tired of listening to him. My mute button should be worn out by now!!! LOL

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  42. “DECEMBER 21, 2022|
    JUDICIAL WATCH

    “Hackers Tied to China’s Govt. Steal $20 Mil in U.S. COVID Relief Funds”

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Nearly a year after Judicial Watch launched an investigation into the theft of U.S. COVID relief funds by foreign hackers, the Secret Service confirms that cyber criminals connected to China’s government stole $20 million in benefits. This includes Small Business Administration (SBA) loans and unemployment insurance money in multiple states, according to a national news story that identifies the perpetrators as a APT41, a hacking group based in Chengdu. The report cites U.S. law enforcement officials and cybersecurity experts who believe the multi-million-dollar theft of government pandemic funds by the Chinese faction “may just be the tip of the iceberg.”

    Back in February Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the SBA as part of an ongoing investigation into the pervasive fraud associated with the government’s COVID-19 cash giveaway. Specifically, Judicial Watch requested memoranda, reports, email communications, investigative reports, and other communications or data concerning the following: COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) deposits originating from a foreign Internet Protocol (IP) address, account holders attempting to transfer funds to foreign accounts of any type and loans approved utilizing a fraudulent social security number. On February 23, the SBA acknowledged via electronic mail that it received Judicial Watch’s FOIA request and issued an official tracking number. So far no records have been provided to Judicial Watch and the SBA is in violation of the federal deadline—20 working days—to produce the information.

    Most government agencies practice similar stonewalling tactics and Judicial Watch has repeatedly been forced to file lawsuits to compel the release of records. Our goal as a nonpartisan educational foundation is to promote transparency, accountability and integrity in government, politics, and the law. Pandemic relief has been a colossal multi-billion-dollar debacle rife with fraud and corruption. The problem is so bad that the Department of Justice (DOJ) created a COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task Force to “enhance efforts to combat and prevent pandemic-related fraud.” The special unit has been quite busy prosecuting a multitude of scams, false statements, and money laundering related to pandemic relief. Earlier this year House Republicans issued a report documenting 500 days of massive waste, fraud, and abuse in the American Rescue Plan. It includes more than $783 million in stimulus checks for convicted prisoners including the Boston Marathon bomber, $40 million to expand libraries in Delaware, $2 million for a Florida golf course and $16 million for electric vehicle charging stations in Maine and $20 million to modernize the state’s fish hatcheries. The list goes on and on.

    The SBA got on Judicial Watch’s radar because it has disbursed approximately $390 billion to nearly four million small businesses and nonprofits under its COVID-19 EIDL. The program provides up to $2 million in financial assistance to help small businesses recover from the economic impacts of the pandemic. Like many of the other COVID relief initiatives, the government made it way too easy to obtain cash and failed miserably to implement adequate vetting protocols. Officials cited in the recent news article confirm that other federal investigations of pandemic fraud also seem to point back to foreign state-affiliated hackers. The Secret Service admits there are over 1,000 ongoing investigations involving transnational and domestic criminals defrauding public benefits programs and Chinese hackers are key among them. As if it were not serious enough that Chinese hacks are stealing American taxpayer funds, one senior Justice Department official points out the cybercrimes also have serious national security implications.

    Besides the SBA’s EIDL, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, passed by Congress to provide over $2 trillion in “fast and direct economic aid” to Americans negatively impacted by the pandemic, also launched another fraud-infested initiative known as the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). In addition to the DOJ’s special task force, federal prosecutors across the nation have charged dozens of individuals with crimes associated with PPP scams. A recent example includes a father and son convicted of illegally obtaining $1.7 in loans. A federal jury in North Carolina convicted the men of money laundering and other offenses with the father sentenced to four years in prison and the son three years. This month the top federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia revealed that in 2022 her office has charged more than 50 defendants in 26 cases of fraud schemes connected to COVID relief that defrauded the government out of nearly $125 million.”

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    1. Ah, man! What I have might last the day and I’ll have to go outside and bring more onto the patio. At least most of the snow blew right past the wood pile. I honestly don’t know if I could do that again today….

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          1. It will come…..if it’s anything like we’ve had, considering where you live amongst all those trees…..man, I gotta say….I would not want to be in your position! I mean, no offense – I would love your place any other time! LOL

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  49. Sununu attacks ron the rescuer over “private companies” in precursor to his own announcement for presidency?
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    When asked about how DeSantis has clashed with some companies in Florida over social issues, Sununu said he has a “very different approach” to dealing with private companies.

    “Private businesses are private businesses,” Sununu said. “We have the live-free’or-die attitude when it comes to things like that… I don’t believe in battling corporations at all. I believe in empowering them because they hire America. They drive the economy.”

    Earlier this year, DeSantis sparred with Walt Disney Co. over Disney executives’ concerns about DeSantis’ policies affecting education and LGBTQ protections. That confrontation included DeSantis’ opposition to Disney’s special tax status in the state and its classification as an “independent special district.”

    “Having [culture] war battles, I’ll just say, is definitely something we don’t do here in New Hampshire,” he said. “I don’t think it should be done. And I don’t think it’s a very Republican value.”

    https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/12/22/another-2024-prospect-attacks-ron-desantis-and-shows-the-establishment-has-learned-zero-lessons-n677221

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