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This month’s offering for Weird Wednesday is the Oklahoma Prairie House.  This article was an interview in The Guardian of the home’s designer Herb Greene by Rowan Moore.  The piece appeared February 2020.

It starts – for me, and for others intrigued by the work of Herb Greene – with a house shaped like a chicken. On the windblown plains of Oklahoma, as framed in a small number of photographs, this strange creature stands, feathered with wood, huddled but proud, both of its place and alien, the repeating slanted lines of its planks echoing those of the tall grasses around it. Odd wattles hang from its head. A jaunty steel and aluminum car port, like something from a 1950s motel, takes a running jump at its flank, then morphs into an angular peak that surmounts the whole composition.

The Prairie House, built for Greene and his young family in 1961, pops up from time to time in architecture books, usually presented as a diverting proposition, an image of a future not chosen. Clearly something is going on, but what, exactly? With a book, Renegades, about the school of which Greene was part, coming out this month, it seemed like a good occasion to ask him.

“I was trying to make it poignant,” says Greene, now 90 and living in California, via Skype. “I was reading Alfred North Whitehead, a genius philosopher, who showed how some ‘event’ like your shoelace could relate to another, like the moon. I wanted to refer to diverse feelings.” And so the house is intensely personal and individual while also connecting to the extra-human. “I wanted it to look like it really came from Oklahoma,” he says. “I wanted to make it like a creature that hung over the prairie.” It’s not supposed to look like poultry, exactly, more some non-specific beast: “I don’t much like it being called a chicken, but I’ll take it.”

You can’t talk to Greene, or about him, without also talking about the dazzlingly original Bruce Goff, an omnivore of crosscultural inspirations – he loved Gaudí, Debussy, Japanese prints, Balinese music – a man who could collage boulders and oil rig parts into architecture that felt both archaic and futuristic. From 1943 to 55, Goff ran the School of Architecture at the University of Oklahoma, in accordance with his belief that “education should be a matter of bringing something creative and individual out of the student”. He also wanted to draw on American sources – the landscape, Native American art, the pioneer spirit – more than imitate European models.

Greene, on first learning about Goff in an architectural journal, immediately upped and left his architectural studies in Syracuse, New York, and headed off to Oklahoma. “I met my very first genius,” he says. “When he moved his eyes, it was special.” Greene hated the way that, on the east coast, architecture schools had to follow one or another modernist master. “Harvard followed Gropius,” he says. The Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago “followed Mies. But Goff said everyone was different.” Greene would go on to work and teach with Goff.

Greene, like Goff, cross-fertilizes architecture with other art forms. Paintings – in which he likes to riff on a detail from (for example) Vermeer or Cartier-Bresson – have long been central to his work. He also learned from Goff the idea of taking individual clients’ “existential qualities” and making them “into a meaningful composition of architecture”. It might be, as it was in Greene’s Joyce Residence of 1959, his client’s collection of antique furniture and stained glass. It might be some quirk of their character, or something as simple as their favorite color. Whatever the clue or cue, the design would in some way incorporate it, reflect it and be spun from it.

Since human emotions are complicated, so too would be the architectural expression. The Prairie House seeks to communicate vulnerability and even pain, as well as shelter and wonder. It is timber inside as well as out, with shingles roughly installed by Greene’s students, which, as he later wrote, “speak of human scale, warmth, softness and vibratory activity”. It is a wooden nest or cave traversed by vertiginous metal stairs. The house both wards off and embraces the weather, turning its narrower end westward to deflect the prevailing wind, but also offering a generous semicircular window towards the sunset.

Once, says Greene, someone got off a tour bus and asked in all seriousness if a tornado had hit the house. Some female visitors, by contrast, “came out with tears in their eyes”. Goff gave what might have been, for Greene, the ultimate accolade: standing on one of the internal galleries, he looked down and said: “It looks like pure feeling.”

Greene, as it turned out, only lived for a year and a half in his most famous creation. He has done much else in his long career, designing other remarkable buildings, teaching, painting and writing. His 1981 book Building to Last: Architecture As Ongoing Art proposes a public architecture of “armatures”, which would be decorated by the carvings, glasswork, tiles or other artefacts of non-professional members of the public, “citizen artists” and “citizen craftspeople”. He now thinks this is his most important idea.

With the benefit of some decades of hindsight, Greene’s work looks pioneering. His lo-tech responses to the climate have been seen as an early version of sustainable design, and its freeform shapes have become fashionable in the hands of Frank Gehry and others. Greene demurs. “I just did things because they were obvious,” he says. “Gehry,” he adds, “is a genius, but I don’t like the work. He has all the curves but they don’t serve the structure of the building.”

Whatever his place in the unfolding history of architecture, Greene is a singular soul, a rare combination of creative courage and intellectual reflection. Younger architects have yet to find all the answers to questions about environmental design and the relation of buildings to the people who use them. Despite Greene’s modesty, his projects still have plenty to teach.

SOURCE: The Guardian

Sat 29 Feb 2020 12.00 ESTLast modified on Wed 23 Sep 2020 10.26 EDT

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  1. Morning All!
    the chicken house would not make me cry…lol…okay maybe from laughter.
    we had torrential rains last night and i realized i hadn’t brought in the feeders, so out i went. i got soaked but brought them in. of course the feeders were soaked and dripping water, so i quickly toweled up the little bit on the floor. This morning i discovered it wasn’t just wet. the feeders were overwhelmed apparently and SUGAR water was dripping from them. so i had to wash my sticky floors this morning…sigh. and then when i took the cleaned feeders out, i realized they dripped on the deck too and the front deck is covered so that sticky stuff was still out there too…double sigh!

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    1. Morning, Pat! I’m with you – that thing is just fugly, IMO! Yuck! The rain will wash off your deck. Got a good bit of rain here, too, and the power went out briefly – not long enough for the MW clock to re-set but enough that I had to reset the clock on the stove and in my BR. 5:45 and GT was ready for his breakfast; jelly feeder was full of water. At least I won’t have to water today but I sure hope Jerry gets that tire back to me soon – it’s becoming a jungle!!! More rain possible today. The LT forecast claims it may be close to 100 several days next week! The dog days of summer are coming!

      Posted this last night at M’s – heard the birds going off and saw them all lined up and I figured GT was out there – sure enough – he wanted dinner!

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      1. Morning Filly!
        the side deck got washed off–it’s open, but the front deck has a roof…I had to do that myself.
        so you feed him twice a day? he’s a lucky cat!
        AND THAT PHOTO??? that’s sooo cool!!!!
        I’m so jealous–I can’t tell–what kinds of birds are those???

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        1. He doesn’t always show up in the afternoon/evening but it is becoming more frequent. They are a combo of finches, sparrows, etc., with at least one Oriole in there somewhere – I could hear the distinct screeching. They like to scrounge for seeds in the garden beds that fall from the feeder but they don’t want to be that close to the ground with a cat in the vicinity. I’ve also seen him hunkered down among the poppies stalking birds before.

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            1. When he sees him thru the BR window….but that’s not often. I have this routine…the latch on my outside patio door is busted so I keep it closed with a bungee. That’s the only time I will let Jake onto the patio – when I’m feeding GT, I leave the bungee off and keep the interior door closed. I don’t want Jake jumping up on the door and accidentally pushing the door open, possibly leading to a nose-to-nose confrontation. Jake is at least twice his size but he is NOT a fighter by any means. And I don’t need the vet bill! LOL

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    2. Not the proper start to the day!
      Better than the hummer revolt that might have ensued or an invasion of 🐜 😳
      Good Morning ☀️

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      1. Morning Bill!
        the ants worried me the most tbh!
        the hummers were hovering in front of the glass doors–we have glass doors covering the entire front of the house–looking in for their feeders…LOL

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        1. Sounds like fun when the hummers are around…we have an occasional visit from one.
          The ducks make up for it…the eight ducklings are @ a month old now & come right up to the sliding glass door. A couple of them hop up on the step & tap on the glass looking for their meal. We’ve had an adult do that but never little ones.
          That mother has done a remarkable job in keeping all eight alive, what with coyotes, owls, hawks, snapping turtles and dogs & cats frequenting the area. Another mother as seen her brood of 5 whittled down to one…

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          1. oh how sweet!!!!
            the first year we were here, a mother turkey had 17 ! little ones. that number dwindled to 3 i think within a few weeks. the woods here are full of hawks, owls, foxes, coyotes and bear. the turkey we saw a week ago had only 4 babies with her and it was the first time we saw her.
            I’m so jealous of your ducks!
            our wood ducks come to the pond in early spring but then they disappear and we have as yet seen any babies at all!

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  3. Brian Cates – Political Columnist & Pundit
    @drawandstrike
    Understand what happened there?

    9-11 wasn’t really about a small Middle East terror group cleverly pulling off a surprise attack.

    It was the MIC covering its ass after patriots forced this reluctant disclosure to the US Congress.

    They’ll crash a passenger jet with 190 on board to kill ONE PARTICULAR PERSON.

    They’ll engineer a 9-11 and take down the Twin Towers and crash a plane into a field in PA to hide the fact they needed to destroy evidence of a staggering fraud stealing trillions from the taxpayers.

    Stop telling yourself this same Satan-worshipping cult that runs much of the Western World with their trillions in combined and stolen wealth would not try to reduce the population with a fake pandemic to trick millions of people into taking a very harmful experimental gene-therapy disguised as a vaccine.

    And stop telling yourself they don’t rig and steal elections to keep their nefarious agenda moving forward.

    And that they’re not currently embarked on a very rapid program of sexualizing young children.

    WAKE

    UP.

    When you realize the truth about what they lied to you about in the past, shaping your world view from inside an illusionary Matrix of false propaganda, you’ll begin to see the truth about what they are lying to you about TODAY.

    Like their new Forever War in Ukraine.

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  4. Troublemaker10
    July 18, 2023 11:30 pm

    Mark R. Levin
    @marklevinshow

    The seriousness of what is being done to Donald Trump by local and federal Democrat prosecutors cannot be overstated. It is alarming. It is shocking. And this republic is teetering. Trump will have to defend himself against bogus criminal charges in Manhattan, bogus civil charges in Albany, bogus criminal charges in the “documents” case, bogus criminal charges in the Jan. 6 matter, and most likely the shoe will soon drop in Atlanta. All the while, he is running for re-election as president. It is extremely difficult to fight all these prosecutors, and fight for your freedom, and run for president at the same time. And these prosecutors know it. They are also involved in something that has only two prior times in our history — that is, a concerted effort to knowingly and actively interfere in a presidential election. The two prior times were also against Trump (the Durham Report provides overwhelming details of this effort in the 2016 campaign).

    And let’s be clear, the DOJ and FBI have demonstrated in the recent past that they will use illegal means to try to take out Trump — the Hillary Clinton/Democrat Party/FBI/DOJ orchestrated “Russia Collusion” scam that lasted years — and they are doing the same thing now, but on a unimaginable scale. There have been no substantive reforms at the FBI. Chris Wray’s testimony last week made that abundantly clear, given all the abuses and corruption that have occurred while he has been FBI director.

    Merrick Garland and his extremely radical top-level staff are unquestionably involved in all these decisions. As for Jack Smith, chosen by Garland to go after Trump, he is no “special counsel.” He physically looks like what he is — a maniacal, seek-and-destroy hatchet man who has a long record of abusing and targeting individuals who have no chance of escaping his fascistic, Beria-like tactics. He destroyed a former Virginia governor, even though that conviction was unanimously overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. He destroyed what was left of John Edwards’s career, with a series of felony charges that were rejected by the trial jury. As head of the Criminal Division’s Public Integrity Section, he authorized the unconstitutional IRS attack on the Tea Party, which was intended to cripple that movement. Later, DOJ paid several millions of dollars to settle complaints against it. And there’s more. Obviously, Garland found all of this to be a resume enhancement when he chose Smith to target Trump. Yet, because Smith triggers these criminal investigations, he creates his own immunity from congressional oversight, where the rogue prosecutor asserts that he can ignore any questions from Congress because he is in the middle of prosecutions of his own making. This, despite that fact that his actions have thrown the election and the nation into turmoil.

    And, of course, the Democrat Party media is ecstatic today. They crave the unraveling of our country, regurgitate whatever the Biden regime feeds them via DOJ and the FBI (as they did when the Obama regime was in charge), they use so-called experts to provide opinions on Trump’s fate — who almost always are carefully chosen Trump-haters and NeverTrumpers, or Democrat-aligned lawyers — to give “legal analysis,” aka propaganda.

    The Biden regime, the Democrat Party and their prosecutors, and the Democrat Party media understand that this next election may well be the make-or-break election of our time, or all time, for our country. Four more years on top of the remaining two years of this American-Marxist revolution (Bernie Sanders is thrilled with the direction of the country and, of course, early on endorsed Biden for re-election, as has AOC) could well mean that there is no way to claw out of the abyss. The “fundamental transformation of America” they are constantly talking about will have been enshrined, with more to come. The Democrat Party and its surrogates are playing for keeps — a one-party, state-party that monopolizes elections, the government, and the culture, with no effective competition, supported by the state-media, which is largely made up of Democrat Party members or personnel aligned with the Democrat Party agenda. This is tyranny. This is autocracy. And it is looking you directly in the eye.

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    1. Yeah, well, John Edwards deserved what he got – he was a scumbag of the first order!!!! Paying hush money under the table to the mother of his illegitimate child! Sheesh! Levin, as usual, just can’t get it straight!!! The jury wasn’t given ALL of the pertinent info!

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            1. It’s the oddest thing that I can remember stuff like that but I’m the same as you – I get distracted on my way to do something and off I go on a tangent, forgetting what I was headed to do in the first place!

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              1. this subject must have resonated with you on some level. there are some things that i can recall with great detail and yet others? POOF it’s gone…till you remind me!

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              2. Well, back then, I read The Enquirer religiously after finding out about Bendectin from them and they had a huge expose about him paying off the mother of his love-child and the origins of that funding.

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  5. Deplorable Patriot(@depat)Offline
    Coyote
    July 19, 2023 02:49

    This is Jesse Watters unpacked.

    ONLY ON PRIMETIME: After months of rumors, Primetime has cracked the case. We filed a FOIA and we can now reveal that taxpayers are funding Fauci’s security detail.

    The U.S. Marshals are taking him around in limousines and giving him around-the-clock security. @RandPaul says… pic.twitter.com/FBGn2hwVCC

    — Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) July 18, 2023

    Talk about an outrage

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  8. Feisty Hayseed
    July 19, 2023 12:31 am

    Insurrection!!!

    Jan6 is staged outrage from the Left about the Capitol 3-hour demonstration -ushered in by Capitol Police who opened the door & were ordered to stand down, likely incited by our FBI, & Trump’s extra security was denied by Pelosi. 2 people killed where unarmed women murdered. pic.twitter.com/khSKz6xawq

    — Wayne Dunlap (@wdunlap) July 15, 2023

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  10. Feisty Hayseed
    July 19, 2023 12:39 am

    MMGW (Manmade Global Warming) Hoax taken up by stupider and stupider people
    

    Ilhan Omar said Earth broke a heat record last set in 117,977 BC.

    Greta Thunberg predicted climate change would wipe out humanity by June 2023.

    John Kerry claimed the Arctic would be ice-free by the summer of 2013.

    I say we stop listening to these idiots.

    — Daniel Turner (@DanielTurnerPTF) July 18, 2023

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      1. well, when you get tot he story below, someone is listening. did you ever hear about the Global Methane Hub? I don’t remember seeing it. but apparently someone in this f’d up administration signed us up

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  11. Feisty Hayseed
    July 19, 2023 12:50 am

    Michigan attorney general charges ‘false electors’ over efforts to overturn the 2020 election

    Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Tuesday that she has filed charges against 16 people who signed paperwork falsely claiming that President Donald Trump had won the 2020 election as part of a scheme to overturn the results.

    Nessel said the “false electors” are being charged with eight felony counts each, including forgery.

    The 16 people include state GOP co-chair Meshawn Maddock and state Republican National Committeewoman Kathy Berden. Michele Lundgren, who was also charged, has told NBC affiliate WDIV of Detroit that she thought she was signing an attendance sheet for a meeting.

    “I didn’t even know what an elector was, let alone a fake elector,” she told the station.

    When reached for comment, Maddock called the charges “political persecution,” saying the country and judges would “put a stop to this to restore our judicial system.”

    “The democrats know they can’t beat Trump in 24 so they have to use lawfare to try to imprison their opponents,” Maddock wrote in an email to NBC News.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/michigan-attorney-general-charges-false-electors-over-efforts-to-overturn-the-2020-election/ar-AA1e2lB2

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  15. lies, more lies and damn lies
    entire article
    In his recent address, President Joe Biden claimed that “wind and solar are already significantly cheaper than coal and oil.” This is flat-out wrong. There are many arguments that can be made for Biden’s claim. However, not only can they all be refuted, but they have all already been refuted.

    Alex Epstein, in his book Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas—Not Less, explains that two facts are ignored when pretending that wind and solar are cheaper. The first is that

    solar and wind exist in large quantities exclusively in places where they are given massive government preferences. When you look at where solar and wind are used, you will invariably find subsidies—that is, the government forcing taxpayers to give money to solar and wind companies. Often, governments actually mandate a certain percentage of solar and wind by law.

    These “significantly cheaper” sources only manage to be so when we’re paying indirectly for subsidies to make them cheaper. On top of that, this fact merely discusses the ways in which the prices of energy are otherwise distorted through various laws and incentives. The United States Department of Energy lists 1,854 different laws and incentives currently on the books. There are so many various government interruptions in the market that when I first attempted to download the dataset to look at the laws currently in place, it crashed my computer. Energy is one of the most highly regulated markets in existence, all to create the appearance that wind and solar energy are cheaper than fossil fuels.

    From here, Epstein answers the question: Why do supposed alternative energies need so much subsidization if they are so much cheaper? This leads to the second fact that is often ignored in this discourse: “Contrary to claims of lower costs, the places that use the most solar and wind on their grid tend to have the highest electricity costs.”

    This is the case because even if one were to concede that wind and solar are cheaper than coal and oil (they are not) and if one were to concede that this is happening on a free market (it is not), it would still be missing part of the picture. Even if wind and solar somehow were to have lower money costs, they make up for it in the cost of their diluteness and their intermittency.

    Epstein explains the flaws in the diluteness of solar and wind by showing that they require more land per unit of energy than fossil fuels do, more mining-intensive resources (ten times more mined materials needed than when building the infrastructure for fossil fuels electricity generation), and long-distance-transmission infrastructure costs. Diluteness, he states, poses a major threat to the cost-effectiveness of wind and solar.

    However, the costs do not stop there. They are intensified by the even-worse cost of intermittency. One of the most important elements of any energy is being able to control it, and solar and wind do not offer that. In order to address these two types of costs, Epstein shows that there are three possible approaches:

    Relying on some controllable source of energy, such as fossil fuels
    Relying on a diverse, distant, and enormous network of solar panels and wind turbines—so there is always sufficient electricity from somewhere
    Relying on a man-made storage system to store enough intermittent energy to always be able to meet demand

    The current reality of solar and wind is that none of these approaches has yet proven cost-effective, and only the first approach—relying on some controllable source of energy, such as fossil fuels—has been implemented at any cost.

    President Biden and other adversaries of fossil fuels will always try to make claims such as “wind and solar are significantly cheaper than coal and oil,” but the reality is that it is simply not true. Wind and solar are not cheaper than coal and oil. They require massive subsidization to even compete, and on the back of that massive subsidization, they are still too diluted and require the support of fossil fuels in order to remain reliable.

    https://mises.org/wire/wind-and-solar-are-not-cheaper-coal-and-oil

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  16. i have never heard of this Global Methane Hub—I WANNA KNOW WHO VOTED FOR THIS? I know we as a country DID NOT!
    FTA
    We are now being told that producing food is bad for the planet. To “save” the planet, globalists insist, farms must be shut down across the globe.

    Under the guise of reducing “methane emissions,” thirteen nations have signed a pledge to engineer global famine by gutting agricultural production and shutting down farms. Announced earlier this year by the Global Methane Hub — a cabal of crisis engineers who exploit public panic to destroy the world food supply — those thirteen nations are:

    Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Chile, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Germany, Panama, Peru, Spain, the United States, and Uruguay.

    Imagine no meat production from Australia, Brazil and the USA. This is the goal of the globalists. And they admit it’s all part of the climate fraud which has been thoroughly exposed as a quack science hoax, by the way. As Luis Planas, Spain’s Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food says, “I am glad to see the shared commitment by the international community to mitigate methane emissions from agriculture as a means to achieve the goals we signed for in the Paris Agreement on climate.”

    “Food systems are responsible for 60% of methane emissions,” warns Marcelo Mena, CEO of the Global Methane Hub. She is saying that farming is destroying the planet. Hence, their demand to shut down farms. Without farms, you have no food. And without food, you get exactly what Kamala Harris called for over the weekend: “Reduced population.”

    The depopulation agenda is no longer even a secret. They are bragging about it.

    https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-07-18-nations-engineer-global-famine-destroying-agriculture.html

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  18. which the little fascist claimed we did not fund…

    Winston
    July 19, 2023 7:52 am

    US Finally Cancels Funding To Wuhan Lab
    JUL 19, 2023

    https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/us-finally-cancels-funding-wuhan-lab

    The US government has finally pulled funding from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where the Obama administration offshored banned gain-of-function research, including projects to make bat covid more transmissible to humans, before a highly evolved, human-infecting bat coronavirus broke out in the same town and killed millions of people worldwide.

    Then the US put the same guy involved in said research, Peter Daszak, in charge of a highly conflicted lab-leak denial.

    The stated reason for the funding halt? The lab failed to provide documents concerning safety and security measures, according to a memo obtained by Bloomberg.

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    1. Oh, BS! They will slip it in thru the back door. Here’s a thought! How about we stop funding it RIGHT HERE IN THE US??!!?? North Carolina – I’m looking at YOU!!!!

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  20. These people make me want to puke!!! They appear on the surface to be thorough and “telling it like it is” and yet, they leave VERY important details out – is that intentional here? Who can say??? BTW, has anyone else ever heard of the “Kennedy Beacon?”

    EXCERPT: “January 28, 2014. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt plot regime change in Ukraine in a call that is intercepted and posted on YouTube on February 7, in which Nuland notes that “[Vice President] Biden’s willing” to help close the deal.

    February 21, 2014. Governments of Ukraine, Poland, France, and Germany reach an Agreement on settlement of political crisis in Ukraine, calling for new elections later in the year. The far-right Right Sector and other armed groups instead demand Yanukovych’s immediate resignation, and take over government buildings. Yanukovych flees. The Parliament immediately strips the President of his powers without an impeachment process.

    February 22, 2014. The US immediately endorses the regime change.”

    The problem here is that among those “…other armed groups…” were CIA agents, possibly FBI even, fomenting the assaults and they whitewash that fact!!!! They called for “new elections” because they didn’t like the result of the previous election, which showed that the Ukrainian people wanted to stay WITH Russia!!!!

    https://thekennedybeacon.substack.com/p/the-real-history-of-the-war-in-ukraine

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      2. I just posted a comment there asking why they would leave out those fine details….wanna bet I get banned???? LOL

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  21. M just said that she had written up a short open for today but forgot to schedule it! Understandable considering what’s going on there.

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  22. HE WAS PRESIDENT!!! he’s already seen ALL the documents!!! they just want to hobble the defense

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    1. Mike Robinson
      July 19, 2023 9:01 am
      Reply to sync

      And Former President Donald Trump retains the highest level of security classification forever. Furthermore, if he now says, “I declassified these documents when I took them out of the building,” his mere statement has the legal effect of doing this. There are no “procedures” which apply to the President. (SCOTUS: Navy v. Eagan, et seq.)

      Funny how they want “evidence” put into a SCIF so that the accused cannot obtain “benefit of counsel,” but they absolutely do not care about thousands of documents in Biden’s Garage which he had no legal authority whatsoever to possess at all.

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  26. WND EXCLUSIVE
    “The dark, unnerving truth behind the persecution of Donald Trump–Powerful report illuminates why the ruling elites loathe – and fear – the 45th president”
    By WND Staff
    Published July 18, 2023 at 1:19pm

    EXCERPT: “First, let’s set the stage: Two and a half centuries after being founded by visionary, God-fearing patriots, the United States of America is currently being seduced, betrayed, robbed and ruined by an elite ruling class consisting largely of power-addicted sociopaths.

    The current U.S. president, Joe Biden, is a criminal – in fact, the patriarch (“big guy”) of an entire crime family. Their influence-peddling operations, through which many family members have raked in millions of dollars selling access to Biden to foreign actors – including major adversaries China and Russia – are now well-documented and indisputable. Biden’s perverse border policies, which have served to intentionally engineer a massive foreign invasion of America, have led some members of Congress to actually accuse Biden of the crime of treason. And the election process by which Biden became president in 2020 was rigged – a fact every politically aware American now knows to be true, thanks to recent revelations confirming epic collusion between the FBI and Big Tech in suppressing extremely negative news about Biden shortly before the election.

    The Democrats’ previous presidential contender in 2016, Hillary Clinton, is likewise epically corrupt and criminal. “No one has even come close in recent years to enriching themselves on the scale of the Clintons while they or a spouse continued to serve in public office,” reveals respected author-journalist Peter Schweitzer in “Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Business Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich.”

    Before Biden and Clinton, America had to endure eight years of Barack Obama, a quintessentially amoral, “end-justifies-the means” Marxist radical. Propelled to the White House on promises that “America’s first black president” would heal any remaining racial tensions in America, Obama did precisely the opposite, continually fomenting, exacerbating and flat-out manufacturing racial hatreds where few or none existed. Obama inflicted more genuine, lasting harm on America than any president in the history of the republic – at least, until Biden became the puppet head of what many call “Obama’s third term.”

    So, into this boiling cauldron of revolutionary, elitist, globalist and criminal forces dared to step billionaire businessman and television celebrity Donald J. Trump.
    ————-
    Nevertheless, to the everlasting shock and horror of the elites, Trump won the 2016 election. That was not supposed to happen. Even the New York Times on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2016, was still publicly predicting the odds that Hillary Clinton would become the 45th president at 85%.

    Ever since, the same pattern of hysterical and breathtakingly dishonest attacks on Trump has continued and enlarged, year after year, into the present.

    Why? Very simply, Donald Trump represents a true threat to the Deep State, which considers it irrelevant that the former president’s agenda and ideas resonate powerfully with the American public. It doesn’t matter that he is a smart, experienced, savvy negotiator who can deftly manage foreign leaders, even the most psychopathic, like North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. It doesn’t matter that Trump demonstrates abundant common sense, capacity for hard work, and is genuinely courageous. Or that he possesses an authentic love and respect for America, its people, its military, its key institutions. Trump truly believes America is the greatest nation on earth, and has pledged to help make it great again.”

    https://www.wnd.com/2023/07/dark-unnerving-reasons-behind-persecution-donald-trump/

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  30. I’m going to make a quick run to Norfolk – more storms predicted so I want to get there and back before that happens….BBL…

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      1. Quick trip with few delays – not all that many people at WM at this hour. Steely gray clouds, humid as all get out, suppressive, no wind…yucky day! More storms off and on into the week-end supposedly. I’m just thankful we’re not getting the storms like you’ve been getting!!! Just saw more Orioles on the feeder, a pair.

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  31. G-Pol
    July 19, 2023 10:06 am

    DeSantis campaign ad uses AI to generate fake audio of Trump saying one of his Truth Social posts out loud.

    This is so freaking unethical.

    https://www.breitbart.com/t/assets/html/disqus-20.html?udca=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fpolitics%2F2023%2F07%2F18%2Fpro-desantis-super-pac-uses-artificial-intelligence-to-generate-trumps-voice-in-attack-ad%2F|24511662|Pro-DeSantis%20Super%20PAC%20Uses%20Artificial%20Intelligence%20to%20Generate%20Trump%26%238217%3Bs%20Voice%20in%20Attack%20Ad|

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  33. KanekoaTheGreat
    @KanekoaTheGreat
    THREAD: In 2016, Democrats, Hollywood celebrities, and corporate news outlets urged electors to vote against President-elect Donald Trump.

    Lawrence Lessig’s article in The Washington Post on November 26, 2016, argued that Republican electors had the constitutional right and duty to switch their votes from Trump to Hillary Clinton.

    This sparked a movement supported by figures like Michael Moore, John Podesta, Keith Olbermann, Rosie O’Donnell, and several Hollywood celebrities.

    While they only convinced a few electors, it’s important to recognize the double standard of justice in the treatment of Democrats and Republicans when objecting to elections.

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    1. Don’t forget that Mike Lee tried to flip electors from Trump to Lyin’ Canadian Ted, too!!! IDR for sure if Massie participated but I think he joined him. Of course, I can’t find jack shit about it on-line now, even using the WaybackMachine! I did run across an article from Politico about why he hadn’t endorsed Trump….”….he accused the father of my best friend of having a hand in JFK’s assassination….” regarding Lyin’ Ted’s Father.

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  34. America First Legal
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    Mar 2 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
    🚨THREAD — America First Legal released the first set of records obtained from our lawsuit against the National Archives regarding Hunter Biden and his foreign business dealings and records from Joe Biden’s time as Vice President.

    BREAKING: America First Legal Releases First Set of Joe Biden’s Vice-Presidential Records from National Archives
    WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) released the first production of records obtained from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in our lawsuit against the National Archives and …
    https://aflegal.org/breaking-america-first-legal-releases-first-set-of-joe-bidens-vice-presidential-records-from-national-archives/
    /2 The documents confirm the long-suspected fact that Joe Biden used a personal email address for at least some official government business (robinware456@gmail.com).
    /3 This email address was used to receive sensitive information about his son, Hunter Biden, from his then-Assistant for Communications Shailagh Murray:
    /4 NARA provided the following for withholding the rest of the email:

    “P5 Release would disclose confidential advice between the President and his advisors, or between such advisors.”

    This definitively establishes that the email address in question belonged to then VP Biden.
    /5 Hunter was both a board member of Burisma, a “foreign principal” under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), and an attorney at the law firm representing it:
    /6 Hunter Biden was arguably Burisma’s agent and subject to FARA registration because he was an officer of Burisma and appears to have represented Burisma’s interests to the Office of the Vice President.
    /7 State Department staff alerted Vice President Biden’s staff that Burisma controlled “rights to hydrocarbon reserves in Ukraine” to explain why Russian political elites viewed Hunter Biden’s appointment at Busima as a threat:
    /8 Current Biden-appointed Deputy to the U.S. Representative to the United Nations Jeffrey Prescott was then-Vice President Biden’s Deputy National Security Advisor.

    Prescott was being alerted about the conflict of interest by the Obama NSC and Biden’s own lawyers:
    /9 Biden’s Chief of Staff, Counsel, and other high-level officials were alerted to allegations that Hunter Biden’s appointment to Burisma raised conflict of interest issues:
    /10 Biden’s Counsel had sufficient concerns that led her to reach out directly to National Security Advisor Jeffrey Prescott asking, “Do you have a minute to talk about this?”
    /11 Additionally, emails reveal that Hunter had a close relationship with his father’s Vice Presidential staff (OVP) and advised them on how to respond to the media.

    There appeared to be no separation between the official business of OVP and Hunter’s private business dealings:
    /12 Vice-President Biden’s Press Secretary Kenda Barkoff directly emailed Hunter statements that OVP was giving to the press:
    /13 Find the full production below and let us know what you find and what stands out to you by emailing us at info@aflegal.org.

    aflegal.org/wp-content/upl…
    /14 Read more here:
    BREAKING: America First Legal Releases First Set of Joe Biden’s Vice-Presidential Records from National Archives
    WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) released the first production of records obtained from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in our lawsuit against the National Archives and …
    https://aflegal.org/breaking-america-first-legal-releases-first-set-of-joe-bidens-vice-presidential-records-f

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  35. RDS (@guest_1126782)Offline
    July 19, 2023 11:11

    Rep. James Comer: “I wouldn’t be surprised if they indict Donald Trump right before I hit the gavel for this committee hearing today.

    Every time we break big news… here comes somebody to indict Donald Trump to try to steal the headlines.” 💯

    Their playbook is so obvious. pic.twitter.com/yfRocdEqIl

    — TheStormHasArrived (@TheStormRedux) July 19, 2023

    Bets are now open on Jack Smith / Merrick Garland having Donald Trump arrested and/or indicted today during the committee meeting or shortly thereafter.

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  36. clarion
    clarion
    July 19, 2023 10:54 am

    Indicting the guy who is 50/50 to win the next election because he says he won the last election will backfire even worse than all the other indictments – if that’s possible.

    But what else do you expect from the administration that supposedly got 81 million votes?

    If they truly got all those votes legitimately, they wouldn’t be worried about what Trump says. They would simply say “We beat you like a rug once and we’ll do it even easier next time”.

    — Dale (@DBCopa) July 18, 2023

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  37. Colkitto
    Colkitto
    July 19, 2023 11:11 am

    2 of them were Council on Foreign Relations members. All four administrations were full of Council On Foreign Relations members. Under these 4 “Free Trade” was pushed intensely which was the “New World Order” transferring American manufacturing infrastructure & technologies to China to build up China and demolish America. This is one of the main reasons why the CFR also known as “Globalists” to most people, despises PDJT & MAGA and seeks to destroy him, and the movement, which is US/America.

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  38. didn’t bring the video, but scott adams (?) suggested this:

    He also suggests that in a Trump/Biden debate (which unfortunately will never happen), Trump should reintroduce himself to Biden every 10 minutes to mock his dementia.

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            1. Well, don’t forget – I’m not fond of listening to him speak in the first place – and yes, I mean Trump. I can’t stand the repetitive statements, over and over and over and over and over…..it never stops!

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        1. Yep but that’s the way the game is played. Unfortunately, there’s not a lot of choice…which is why I will never participate in politics! You must have that skill to duck and dodge and I ain’t got it! LOL

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  41. myfairlady53
    myfairlady53
    July 19, 2023 12:02 pm

    This is interesting about ole Bill Clinton

    Collin Rugg

    @CollinRugg

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    NEW: Joe Rogan suggests that Bill Clinton was blackmailed by Jeffrey Epstein who hung a painting of the former president in a dress at his home.

    “That that painting is like: ‘I got you bitch.’”

    Clinton, who flew on Epstein’s jet at least 26 times & who went to ‘orgy island’ has yet to be questioned about his involvement with Epstein.

    “Imagine if I knew some horrible dark secrets about you and you came over to my house and I have a giant painting of you. Right when you walk into the front door of you in a dress and I’m like, ‘Hey buddy.’”

    The biggest sex trafficking story of our generation and we still have no answers.

    Just more proof that the ‘justice’ system solely exists to protect the elites.

    twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1681681174010421250

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    1. Should have said Killary was blackmailed…..Slick Willy was a non-entity in that relationship. She kept him supplied with pussy and kept him happy…and heaven knows what deviancy that involved!

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  43. Ginsburg accepted a $1million prize (which was above the $2000 limit) and said she would disperse the funds to her pet charities. however, she swore the awarding foundation to secrecy ON WHICH charities got the funds.
    FTA
    When the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg accepted a $1 million prize from a liberal billionaire’s foundation, she pledged to pass the money to a list of designated charities. Four years later, it is unclear where Ginsburg sent that money—an ambiguity that experts say raises conflict of interest concerns.

    The Berggruen Institute, a private foundation founded by billionaire investor Nicolas Berggruen, awarded Ginsburg its annual $1 million Philosophy & Culture award during a swanky star-studded event in December 2019. At the time, ethics experts raised red flags over Ginsburg’s acceptance of the prize, noting that the bounty far exceeded the $2,000 limit placed on honoraria by Judicial Conference regulations. But Ginsburg temporarily assuaged those concerns when she pledged to donate the prize money to more than 60 charities that reflected her personal causes, including the American Bar Foundation, the American Cancer Society, and the Metropolitan Opera.

    What Ginsburg failed to mention was that she also directed the Berggruen Institute to conceal the full list of her designated charities from the public, a spokeswoman for the institute told the Washington Free Beacon. The Berggruen Institute even engaged in some creative accounting in its Form 990 tax return to ensure the recipients remain shrouded in secrecy.

    “That list, per her wishes, is not for publication,” Berggruen Institute spokeswoman Rachel Bauch told the Free Beacon.

    Experts say the lack of transparency surrounding Ginsburg’s $1 million prize raises the possibility that some of the recipients could have had business before the court prior to Ginsburg’s death. One of the few known recipients, the American Bar Foundation, is affiliated with the American Bar Association, which filed several amicus briefs before the Supreme Court in 2020 before Ginsburg’s death. There is no evidence that Ginsburg recused herself from those cases.

    The Berggruen Institute’s refusal to disclose which groups profited from Ginsburg’s $1 million prize comes as mainstream media outlets such as ProPublica have worked to instill a crisis of confidence in the Supreme Court over alleged ethical transgressions from conservative justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. Democrats such as Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.) and Sen. Dick Durbin (D., Ill.) have seized on the reports to push a Supreme Court ethics law that Republicans say would overstep congressional authority. The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on the bill Thursday.

    But experts told the Free Beacon that the left’s lack of interest in potential ethical lapses from Ginsburg betrays the partisan motivation behind their attacks.

    “Ginsburg required that her list of entities she showered with funds be confidential and we don’t know how many of them appeared before the Court when Justice Ginsburg was serving,” said former Office of Management and Budget general counsel Mark Paoletta, a longtime friend of Justice Clarence Thomas. “With all of the Left’s wailing about transparency, this is the antithesis—but crickets from the Left. They don’t care about ethics. They just want to attack the Court because it is no longer acting like a super legislature to enact unpopular progressive policies like affirmative action.”

    Nonprofit groups are typically required to disclose the names of groups they provided grants to in their public Form 990 tax returns. The Berggruen Institute evaded this disclosure by reporting Ginsburg’s prize on its 2019 Form 990 financial disclosure as an expense.

    Former IRS tax law specialist Patrick Sternal described the institute’s accounting maneuver as a “workaround to the disclosure of the ultimate recipients of the funds.”

    “There is some legal gray area here, but the foundation should probably have treated the prize as a grant, not a line-item other expense,” Sternal told the Free Beacon. “It’s strange that [Ginsburg] didn’t want to make the recipients’ names public.”

    Paul Kamenar, an attorney with the National Legal and Policy Center watchdog group, also said the Berggruen Institute should have disclosed the identity of the charities designated by Ginsburg in its financial disclosure.

    Nicolas Berggruen, the institute’s founder, told the New York Times in 2022 he had a “very left-wing” upbringing. But the billionaire investor claimed he wasn’t involved in awarding Ginsburg the philosophy prize in 2019. That decision was left to the Berggruen Prize Jury, which in 2019 included former University of Pennsylvania president Amy Gutmann. The year prior, Gutmann helped Hunter Biden’s academically subpar daughter secure a ticket to the prestigious university at the behest of President Joe Biden, the Free Beacon reported. Gutmann became Biden’s ambassador to Germany in January 2022.

    Ginsburg’s acceptance of the Berggruen Institute prize is hardly the only ethical lapse from the late justice, according to the liberal group Fix the Court. In 2018, Ginsburg embarked on a private tour of Israel paid for by billionaire Morris Khan just one year after the Supreme Court issued a ruling in favor of his company Amdocs. Ginsburg did not recuse herself from that case.

    Ginsburg also attacked former President Donald Trump during a CNN interview in the lead up to his 2016 victory, saying she couldn’t “imagine what the country would be with Donald Trump as our president.” She later apologized for her remarks, but did not recuse herself from any case that the former president was a party to.

    Other liberal justices have come under fire in recent weeks.

    Supreme Court justice Sonya Sotomayor earned $3.7 million in book sales since joining the Court in 2009, thanks in no small part to using her taxpayer-funded staff to push colleges and other institutions to buy her books when she speaks at events, the Associated Press reported.

    “The utter lack of curiosity from Senators Whitehouse and Durbin about liberal justices’ behavior only underscores their real motive,” Judicial Crisis Network president Carrie Severino told the Free Beacon. “Their sham charges against conservative justices aren’t about ethics but are instituting a new McCarthyism attacking their political enemies.”

    https://freebeacon.com/courts/ruth-bader-ginsburgs-mysterious-1-million-prize/

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    1. OH MY GOD FILLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
      I AM ROARING!!!! THESE ARE AWESOME!
      the first one? I never knew that’s what the hole is for…

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    2. “When the terrorist organization that you are supporting is laundering drug money through used car lots in America, what do they need the most? More used cars to purchase, right? What better way to massively increase the size of Hezbollah’s Laundromat, than to offer $2 billion in tax payer money as an incentive to trade in your used car for a new one?

      But there was a big problem. If Hezbollah is purchasing $200 million dollars worth of used cars a month and shipping them to Africa to sell so they can launder drug money, how do you hide the huge shortage of used cars available for purchase in America?

      Blame it on ‘Cash for Clunkers.’ — Do you remember the gimmick requirement to qualify for the rebate? The used car that was traded in had to be destroyed to reduce emissions. Do you really think all those used cars got destroyed? I’m willing to bet that about 300 used car dealerships with connections to Hezbollah were busy buying as many of those vehicles they could get their hands on.

      The perfect distraction. Now you know the real purpose behind ‘Cash for Clunkers’.”

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        2. You really want to read that entire thing, Pat! Touches on sooooo many different aspects that we hadn’t connected before!

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            1. Ah, yes! I have my main list going for next week….today was just a couple of things – cigs, creamer and bug juice for the windshield of my truck.

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              2. Yeah, I buy a minimum here – just the BF mini’s at Family Dollar and the case of grape jelly. I didn’t need gas today but I noticed it was $3.39/gal in Pierce but only $3.09/gal at one of the cheaper places near Norfolk.

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