What Shall We Make Today?

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Today’s offering is another no-bake recipe…Peanut Butter Pretzel Bars!

Ingredients

1 package (16 ounces) miniature pretzels, divided

1-1/2 cups butter, melted

1-1/2 cups peanut butter

3 cups confectioners’ sugar

2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

1 tablespoon shortening

Directions

Line a 13×9-in. baking pan with foil, letting ends extend up sides. Set aside 1-1/2 cups pretzels for topping. In a food processor, pulse remaining pretzels until fine crumbs form. In a large bowl, mix butter, peanut butter, confectioners’ sugar and pretzel crumbs.

Press mixture into prepared pan. In a microwave, melt chocolate chips and shortening; stir until smooth. Spread over peanut butter layer. Break reserved pretzels and sprinkle over top; press down gently. Refrigerate, covered, until set, about 1 hour. Lifting with foil, remove from pan. Cut into bars.

ENJOY!

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Published by pat frederick

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129 thoughts on “What Shall We Make Today?”

  1. Morning All!
    cloudy again with temps about 60*.
    it struck me this morning if the repubs do not vote to inherently hold garland in contempt and jail him immediately BEFORE they leave for their holiday break (did they do so already?) then that gives the dems time to intimidate their asses on vacay…watch for treachery.

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    1. Morning, Pat. 62 here this morning but at least the skies cleared over night. More storms are predicted for later in the day again. Wheezer was chowing down when I got up. She shows pure disdain towards Jake! He approached the door and meowed as she was eating – she looked up at him, then turned away, casually stretched and yawned, then sauntered out the doggie door.

      The House will be in session 7/8 – 7/11, then not return to session until 7/22 – according to the schedule on their official website.

      BTW, I called my neighbor’s daughter because I wanted to make sure they knew I wasn’t upset about the balls coming into my yard. Turns out, it isn’t family staying there – the new science teacher in town and his family couldn’t find a house that was right for them so they decided to buy a lot and build. Dorothy, the daughter, is a teacher and her parents offered to let the family use the house here until their house is built.

      He came back outside later and I went over and introduced myself. He thanked me for opening the gate for the kids. Super nice guy. He didn’t know who owned the Huskies but I asked if he found out for him to make sure they knew about the dog ordinance here since I didn’t want to see them confiscated by the city. The people I know around here wouldn’t report them (except maybe one person) but new people have moved into the area recently and if anyone from the City office happened to drive thru and see them…..

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      1. Morning Filly!
        darned good neighbor you are!!
        and thanks for the info about the sessions! i think they need to go full steam with this stuff instead of giving the left a chance to recoup and replan and re threaten members on their vote.

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        1. They have always been really nice to me and at one point, she asked me to keep an eye on the place for them – just following up on my promise to do so. I also call them (I usually call Dorothy) if I see that one or more of their sprinklers aren’t functioning properly.

          Of course they should….but they won’t. You know this!

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          1. we do the same for our 2 neighbors who do not live here full time.
            one time when hubby was still working at the office, i saw black smoke rising in the sky. i got in my jeep and drove down the driveway and saw it was coming from the neighbor on the right’s property so i drove off that way…ready to call 911 when i saw a bunch of trucks there. they were burning some collected branches and had a water truck on standby. the guy who now owns the property (and brings the cub scouts out there) thanked me for coming down and checking on things.

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            1. It’s just the right thing to do! That was one thing that surprised me when I was living in VA. Everyone is so much more insular and self-contained, especially in the cities. The last couple of years we lived in Manassas, we never even knew the names of any of our neighbors – not one of them!

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              1. i agree. the neighbors around my mom (well one IS her brother) but they watch out for mom. the guy who lives catty corner to her will shovel her driveway and walk in the winter most times–and she sends over baked goods. (he won’t take money) the biggest surprise? as a teenager, he was a complete jackass–burning out in his parents’ driveway–loud, swearing mess. now that he’s there with his wife (after his parents passed) he’s totally different.

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  3. from Clandestine

    The Dems/MSM are framing this whole thing incorrectly.

    The Supreme Court did not “grant” Trump immunity.

    Presidents have always had immunity, the Supreme Court just had to overrule the corrupt Biden regime’s unprecedented lawfare against a political opponent.

    The Dems/MSM are making it seem like the Supreme Court just made this up out of nowhere, when in reality, it was the Biden regime who crossed the line and have been violating the law, by weaponizing the DOJ for political means and election interference. The Supreme Court merely did their jobs, and put the Biden regime in check.

    The Dems never cared about the “rule of law”. They are just throwing a fit, because their Gestapo-like election interference operation has been shut down. Their entire campaign strategy revolved around Trump being behind bars, and now it’s blowing up in their faces.

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  4. more from him
    Clandestine
    @WarClandestine
    How can we rationalize letting the Democrats hold power ever again?

    I don’t know how this situation gets resolved, but coexisting doesn’t appear to be a viable option.

    The Dems have proven that nothing is too extreme. The ends always justify the means. They will advance their agenda regardless of the will of the People.

    If we don’t hold them accountable, they will continue to infringe on our liberties until we have none left. They will not stop until they have complete and total hegemonic domination over all humanity.

    Unprecedented evil requires unprecedented solutions.

    We need a reckoning and rebirth.

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  5. MJTruthUltra

    @MJTruthUltra

    This is why Rudy Giuliani was Disbarred He Exposed the mail-in ballot fraud at a 2020 Hearing in front of PA Legislatures “You have two major gaps — you have the 672,770 votes that were not inspected by anyone secretly put into the ballot box and then you have this gap that I don’t understand between the mail-in ballots. You’ve sent out: 1.8 million and the number you counted: 2.5 million! That’s totally impossible to explain other than what some of the other witnesses were suggesting that they were basically stuffing the ballot box. I believe what happened was that they never expected to be behind by 700,000 or 800,000 votes on election night. They expected to be behind by a couple hundred thousand — in Philadelphia to steal a couple hundred thousand votes, they do it every year, that’s not going to be tough. Now you have a real big problem so you had to create mail-in ballots, you had to stretch it out for a while…” Thank you for everything

    @RudyGiuliani

    !

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    1. Fund-raising by WinRed – “By ‘clicking add your name’ I accept WinRed’s terms of use and privacy policy.”

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  11. ff Clark

    @JeffClarkUS

    It’s now dawning on the Left that the argument I’ve long been making re the Mar-a-Lago documents case is correct — whatever else is true, Trump declassified the documents *by course of conduct.* Turns out that now that it’s been confirmed Trump has immunity for official acts in Trump v U.S., him taking the documents with him to MAL means no criminal liability can attach for that official set of acts.

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  12. CopilotingTheNews

    July 3, 2024 2:57 am

    THE LEGAL CONSEQUENCES FOR THREATENING A FORMER PRESIDENT ARE SIMILAR TO THOSE FOR THREATENING A SITTING PRESIDENT. UNDER 18 U.S.C. § 879, IT IS INDEED A FEDERAL CRIME TO THREATEN A FORMER PRESIDENT, AND SUCH THREATS CAN LEAD TO SERIOUS LEGAL REPERCUSSIONS, INCLUDING FINES AND IMPRISONMENT.

    THE PENALTIES FOR THREATENING A FORMER PRESIDENT CAN INCLUDE IMPRISONMENT FOR UP TO 5 YEARS. IT’S ALSO IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT WHILE THE FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTS FREEDOM OF SPEECH, IT DOES NOT PROTECT THREATS OF VIOLENCE OR INCITEMENT TO VIOLENCE.

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    1. Threats of violence is NOT violence! We either have free speech or we don’t!!! Clearly these days, we don’t!

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      1. inciting violence and inciting murder are not free speech imo because they are calls to infringe on the rights of others. everyone has the right to life. calls for murder infringe on that. that’s not free speech. inciting violence can lead to loss of property–again infringement of someone else’s rights.
        jmo

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        1. Well, if we want to move into making everything illegal that MIGHT lead to violence….that could cover literally anything and everything!!! It’s a pretty sorry state we find ourselves in!!!

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            1. It is still up to each individual in the crowd whether to take action or not so yes, I don’t think you should be charged.

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              3. nope. not owning that. those are your words…it’s just a word.
                we have to agree to disagree on this. like other subjects. lol
                if we agreed on everything, we’d be democrats

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              4. Too true! Yep – one of those times. It happens between free-thinking people and it’s a good thing, IMO.

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  14. this proves it is not about justice–it is a vendetta–obummer’s vendetta–because he KNOWS President Trump will pursue his sorry ass for what he put this country thru.

    garland and smith vow to pursue cases against President Trump past election day right up to inauguration day.

    https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/07/02/justice-dept-trump-prosecute-after-election/

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  15. wow these 2 cases alone prove the corruption of the gov’t. they created tons of self important dictators in their endless gov’t agencies.

    FTA

    Foster v. U.S. Department of Agriculture concerns a case where melting snow drifts created a puddle on a section of property owned by South Dakotan farmer Arlen Foster in 2011, according to a court filing. The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), a part of the Department of Agriculture, declared that portion of Foster’s property to be a wetland and barred him from farming on it, even after the water had dried.

    Foster requested that NRCS reevaluate their wetland designation and sued in 2023 when they repeatedly refused to do so. The lower courts, however, adhered to the doctrine established under Chevronand sided with the NRCS.

    “Chevron is overruled,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote. “Courts must exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority, as the [Administrative Procedure Act] requires.”@DailyCaller https://t.co/xVnEjDV2Xm

    — Katelynn Richardson (@katesrichardson) June 28, 2024

    Critics of Chevron argued that the precedent enabled bureaucrats to push their interpretation of the law without a meaningful check from the judicial branch, thereby giving the administrative state an automatic upper hand in court. Proponents of Chevron, meanwhile, believe that the expertise available at federal agencies made them better suited for making policy choices than judges.

    In KC Transport v. Secretary of Labor, a federal Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) inspector determined that the trucks and repair shop owned by KC Transport constituted a mine under the Mine Act and issued the company two citations, according to a court filing. The company’s trucks were occasionally used to haul coal and the nearest mines were miles away.

    A D.C. Circuit Court ultimately deferred to the MHSA finding that KC Transport was operating a mine when the company sued.

    https://thelibertydaily.com/americans-are-already-sticking-it-permanent-bureaucracy-just/

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  16. same old names–these asswipes never quit!

    GGGGGggggrrrrrrrrrrr
    July 3, 2024 7:24 am

    Look out Jack… James Baker’s new gig is meddling in our elections:

    Ex-FBI Counsel Behind Russiagate, Biden Laptop Censorship Now Part Of Left-Wing Election Network
    “The former FBI general counsel who pushed Twitter to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story is now working with a left-wing election influencers’ group.

    James Baker, also prominent for his role in pushing the FBI’s political persecution of former President Donald Trump for the “Russiagate” hoax, is listed as a member of the National Task Force on Election Crises. The group is a subsidiary of the left-wing Protect Democracy Project, a litigation group formed to oppose Trump’s policies, according to InfluenceWatch.” …

    https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/02/ex-fbi-counsel-behind-russiagate-biden-laptop-censorship-now-part-of-left-wing-election-network/

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  17. GGGGGggggrrrrrrrrrrr

    GGGGGggggrrrrrrrrrrr

    July 3, 2024 7:35 am

    Russia Hoaxer Marc Elias’ Firm Sues To Let Foreign Billionaires Buy Ohio Elections

    “Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine signed House Bill 1 on June 2, banning foreign nationals from spending money on state ballot measures. Elias Law Group, founded by Russia hoaxer Marc Elias, challenged the bill in court on June 27, according to The Associated Press…

    All noncitizens are now threatened with investigation, criminal prosecution, and mandatory fines if they even indicate they intend to engage in any election-related spending or contributions — including to support or oppose ballot questions in virtually any capacity,” the lawsuit reads, according to the AP.

    The Ohio law prohibits foreign nationals including green card holders, foreign political parties, foreign governments, and foreign businesses from contributing funding for “ballot issues or candidates.” 

    So perhaps Elias’ real issue with Ohio’s ban on foreign campaign funding is that it keeps Democrats from doing what he falsely accused Trump of doing. The law simply bans foreign funders from interfering in Ohio elections to boost partisan turnout. 

    https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/03/russia-hoaxer-marc-elias-firm-sues-to-let-foreign-billionaires-buy-ohio-elections/

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  18. I totally disagree with the author on this point: just because the maggot claims an open border is in our best interest does NOT make it immune.
    FTA
    Similarly, the Biden administration could be held accountable by the families of American citizens who have died due to the open border policy. The tragic deaths and suffering caused by the lack of border security are a direct result of Biden’s policy. However, he claims these actions are in America’s best interest, thus falling under presidential immunity.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/07/biden_vs_presidential_immunity.html

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    1. i think THIS author has a better grasp on it:

      FTA

      For example, if a short-order cook undercooks meat, giving customers deadly salmonella, the employer is liable because that employee acted within the scope of his duty. However, if a short-order cook sneaks out of the restaurant during a quiet moment to rob a bank, the employer is not liable because that employee was acting outside the scope of the duty.

      In the president’s case, it’s the same scope of duty analysis, with only the liability portion being different. If a president orders the Border Patrol to abide by the immigration laws of the United States of America to prevent illegal aliens from entering the country, he is acting within the scope of his constitutional duties, both to carry out duly passed legislation and to protect America’s national security. However, if that same president orders the Border Patrol to ignore the immigration laws of the United States of America, he has violated both duties under the Constitution. That’s an unofficial act for which he can be liable.

      https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/07/according_to_democrats_biden_has_immunity_to_kill_trump_and_conservative_supreme_court_justices.html

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  19. These are the states that have filed lawsuits – from May….but not PA: “The lawsuits hail from Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming.”

    Just The News: “A federal court in Kansas on Tuesday blocked the Biden administration’s Title IX regulations from taking effect in four states, becoming the latest court to stop the new controversial rules from taking effect in August. 

    The Department of Education’s new rules expanded the definition of sex discrimination to include gender identity and pregnancy, and included a ban on single-sex bathroom and locker rooms. It also required schools to use pronouns based on a student’s preferred gender identity. The new rules have now been stopped in 14 states as of Tuesday.

    Federal judge John Broomes ruled on the side of attorneys general in Kansas, Alaska, Utah, and Wyoming, claiming that Title IX was meant to protect biological women from discrimination in education.

    “The legislative history [of Title IX] supports a finding that the term ‘sex’ referred to biological sex,” Broomes wrote in his ruling. “One of the principal purposes of the statute was to root out discrimination against women in education. The legislative history shows that Congress was concerned about the unequal treatment between men and women for admissions opportunities, scholarships, and sports.”

    The lawsuit seeking the injunction was also filed on behalf of three private organizations: Moms for Liberty, Young America’s Foundation, and Female Athletes United. The injunction will also prohibit the new rules in schools that are attended by members of Young America’s Foundation and the children of Moms for Liberty members, across all 50 states.

    “Gender ideology does not belong in public schools and we are glad the courts made the correct call to support parental rights,” Moms for Liberty founders Tiffany Justice and Tina Descovich said in a statement shared with Just The News. “We will always stand up for the rights of parents and the protection of children.

    “All parents must have their voices heard and their right to raise their own children is part of the very fabric of a free America. The federal government has no right to claim our children as their own or to push parents out of the classroom.”

    Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach also celebrated the legal victory in a statement, according to the NBC News affiliate KSNT. 

    “We have had many wins in court, but to me, this is the biggest one yet,” Kobach said. “[This] protects girls and women across the country from having their privacy rights and safety violated in bathrooms and locker rooms and from having their freedom of speech violated if they say there are only two sexes.”

    The rules have also been blocked in Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, and Idaho so far, among others.”

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  20. BREAKING: Who is Running America? 565 Staffers At The White House Cost Taxpayers $61 Million. However, since 2021, only 127 of President Joe Biden’s initial 560 White House employees remain – a stunning 77-percent turnover rate.

    ADAM ANDRZEJEWSKI, JUL 02, 2024

    The White House payroll reaches historic highs not seen since President Richard Nixon in 1971.

    BIG NUMBERS

    During President Joe Biden’s four years, he spent $225 million on the largest White House payroll since at least 1971, based on headcount. White House staff for FY2024 cost $60.8 million.

    Biden has a total turnover since his first year of 77-percent. A stunning 435 out of his initial 560 White House staffers left.

    No White House since the Richard Nixon administration ever employed 500 staffers until Biden became president. The Biden White House employed 560 in FY2021; 474 in FY2022; 524 in FY2023; and the headcount increased by 41, to 565 this year.  

    Biden employs 152 more staffers than Trump (413) (FY2020) and 97 more than Obama (468) (FY2012) at the same point in their respective presidencies. 

    Between 2023 and 2024, 225 people left, a 43 percent turnover rate, only slightly lower than the 46 percent turnover rate between 2022 and 2023. 

    Jill Biden’s staff increased by four employees, to 24 this year. Dr. Biden’s staff now equals Michelle Obama’s staff (FY2009) – a headcount that was controversial – and far exceeds Melania Trump staff of 11 (FY2020).

    TOP PAID

    The most highly compensated White House Biden staffer?  

    The top paid is Michelle Barrans ($251,258), Associate Counsel, and is “on detail” from the Security and Exchange Commission. The second most highly paid is Farah Ahmad ($191,900), Special Advisor for Economic Development, and is “on detail” as the previous Under Secretary for Rural Development at the Ag Department.

    The two top-paid employees from last year are not with the administration any longer: Demetre C. Daskalakis ($260,718), Deputy Coordinator for the Monkeypox Response — and Anand H. Das ($216,414), Senior Deputy Associate Counsel…..”

    https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/breaking-who-is-running-america-565

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  21. “What SCOTUS’ Chevron Deference decision means for gun owners and the ATF — The Chevron Deference doctrine put a thumb on the scale in favor of the ATF.”

    LEE WILLIAMS, JUL 03, 2024

    (Photo courtesy United States Supreme Court.)

    EXCERPT: “Much of the coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn the Chevron Deference doctrine suffers from one of two problems: Either it’s written by lawyers for lawyers and is therefore unintelligible for anyone without a juris doctor, or it’s written by the corporate media and is chock-full of errors, omissions and untruths.

    Bill Sack, director of legal operations for the Second Amendment Foundation, agreed to help clarify this landmark Supreme Court decision, which it turns out is good for gun owners and bad for the ATF…..”

    https://thegunwriter.substack.com/p/what-supcos-chevron-deference-decision

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  22. Just The News: “The presidential campaign of independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is reportedly facing increasing financial struggles as the expensive legal effort to gain ballot access continues to drain cash and force additional layoffs.

    Five staffers who were laid off told the New York Times that they were informed the decision was due to financial struggles. Campaign staffers still on the payroll in Kennedy’s long-shot bid to become president told the news outlet the same, according to the report.

    Kennedy’s running mate, Nicole Shanahan, gave the campaign $2.5 million last month alone. “My goal is to make sure we are on the ballots,” she said.”

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  23. DANG IT! i was at the window doing breakfast dishes and saw a little chipmunk run across the driveway and we hadn’t seen them in a while. then i watched it run up the bank and straight into the garden–so i ran out of the house to the garden and the little thief has stolen 2 of my zucchini! the 2 that are left are bigger than he is and they don’t have bites in them or anything yet. but the 2 smaller ones? completely off the plant!

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    1. None of my ground squirrels ever got into any of my garden beds. The only thing I have to worry about is the rabbits in that regard.

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            1. Mom’s having issues with them on her feeder, too. She has one of those with 2 arms but both are attached, whereas one of mine is removable. That made it relatively easy to thread the slinky onto it. I told her I’d pick one up and, when I come down to p/u the wood trellis, I’ll see if I can figure out how to put it on her feeder pole.

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              1. i often thought it would be so nice to have a bird feeder with seeds but the bears would climb it and wreck it in a heartbeat. so far, knock on wood, they haven’t touched the 2 side hummers feeders we leave out every night. (raccoons can’t touch them). the bears have gone after them before. we have trail cams pix of a mama and 2 cubs up on the deck. she ripped the feeders down and the little ones were trying to suck the liquid out

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  24. “Puppetmasters and Persistent Blunders — With Biden’s competency in question: Who’s really pulling strings?”

    SHARYL ATTKISSON, JUL 02, 2024

    EXCERPT: “With so many of all political stripes now questioning President Joe Biden’s competency, it makes more sense than ever to critically examine the competency of his closest advisers.

    These are the people acting as a filter and funnel for information that reaches the president. They can largely deteremine what Biden does and doesn’t find out about. They are responsible for translating and implementing any of Biden’s resulting directives, when he may not be able to clearly communicate his true intentions—whatever they may be.

    A week before the October 7 Islamic extremist terrorist attacks on Israel, Biden National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan was publicly bragging that the Mideast was quieter than it had been in two decades, and that he’d had to spend less time managing trouble in the region than any of his recent predecessors.

    “Although the Middle East remains beset with perennial challenges, the region is quieter than it has been for decades…we have de-escalated crises in Gaza,” he stated.

    It’s difficult to imagine a more out of touch assessment of one’s own work and progress.

    Read on for details.…..”

    https://sharylattkisson.substack.com/p/puppetmasters-and-persistent-blunders

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  25. sync

    July 3, 2024 9:42 am

    Third Federal Court Puts Preliminary Injunction on Biden’s Title IX Rule“After review, the court finds that the unambiguous plain language of the statutory provisions and the legislative history make clear that the term ‘sex’ means the traditional concept of biological sex in which there are only two sexes, male and female.”

    https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/07/third-federal-court-puts-prelimary-injunction-on-bidens-title-ix-rule/

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  26. https://apnews.com/article/biden-debate-doggett-election-2024-pelosi-970ac9eca4cf397faea9306a0e4e7442

    “The White House announced Tuesday that President Joe Biden will meet with congressional leaders and Democratic governors, sit for a network TV interview and hold a press conference in the coming days, a blitz designed to push back against growing pressure for the 81-year-old president to step aside in the 2024 race after his disastrous performance in last week’s debate with Republican Donald Trump.

    “We really want to turn the page on this,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said of the intensifying calls for Biden to bow out of the race. She added that the president had no intention of stepping aside, characterizing his debate failings as simply evidence of “a bad night” when he had a cold.

    During a campaign event later Tuesday, Biden blamed it on jet lag after two back-to-back European trips. “I wasn’t very smart. I decided to travel around the world a couple of times,” he said. The president added that he “didn’t listen to my staff” about travel and joked that he “fell asleep on stage” during the debate.

    But Democratic leaders were increasingly signaling that they were not buying White House attempts to brush off Biden’s performance in the face-off as a momentary lapse, after he gave halting and nonsensical answers and trailed off at times. — AP News

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  27. WeThePeople2016
    July 3, 2024 10:33 am

    According to Charlie Kirk:

    Been checking with sources who cover the Biden campaign. According to them, there was a distinct shift yesterday in the tone from morning to evening. The Biden camp started yesterday defiant that Joe Biden would not be dropping out. By evening, that had shifted. Kamala Harris is seriously being considered to have her “moment” at the top of the ticket. She’s also the only one who can keep the campaign’s money. A lot will hinge on this George Stephanopoulos interview on July 5. If Biden performs poorly, they don’t see how he survives. Nothing will happen either way until then.

    https://t.me/CharlieKirk/15520

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      1. they claim the leader (whoever that is) failed to do or submit something properly thereby corrupting the slate of electors and they gave him time to resubmit a new slate but he failed to do that as well. don’t remember all the details tbh–just that he messed things up and didn’t fix it in the given time frame

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        1. All these secret rules multiplied by 50 states…..but it’s still better than the federal government running elections!

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            1. I don’t see why not – I guess they have to repeat the process now? Once again, too convoluted for my feeble mind!

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  32. Just did a walkabout – still no rebate check….sigh….had to refill the jelly feeder again and I did some trimming on the Trumpet vines. I was able to remove the shields from all but 1 of my cantaloupe plants – yeah! I’ve got the other vines started up the trellis but that one’s not quite big enough yet – it was the latest replant so I expected that. It’s really a good thing – then all the lopes won’t be ripe at the same time.

    From cold, windy and dreary to bright sun, nice breeze and temp already up to 78! Ya’ just never know what you’re gonna get in NE!!!

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  33. booger 71
    July 3, 2024 11:29 am

    U.S. Fish and Wildlife is just one of many agencies I would like to see gone

    (AP) – To save the imperiled spotted owl from potential extinction, U.S. wildlife officials are embracing a contentious plan to deploy trained shooters into dense West Coast forests to kill almost a half-million barred owls that are crowding out their smaller cousins.
    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service strategy released Wednesday is meant to prop up declining spotted owl populations in Oregon, Washington state and California. The Associated Press obtained details in advance.

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  35. I don’t know if i told this before…a couple of days ago, a mama doe encountered the dog behind the woodshed. she chased his butt down the hill, across the driveway and into the woods. we haven’t seen either of them since. i figure she had to be HS mama to scare him that much.

    we miss the dog…lol

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    1. I think the bucks are subservient for the most part until breeding season – then it’s Katy, bar the door! LOL

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    1. Duh! Now THAT is a blatant display of disingenuous!!! You KNOW they have all seen it first-hand for quite some time now!

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  37. “Of Death Squads, Dementia, and Desperation — Fueled by the duncery of liberal female judges, Democrats and the media have their newest talking point: Thanks to the Supreme Court, a president can now kill his enemies with impunity.”

    JULIE KELLY, JUL 03, 2024

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “It all started with what might be the dumbest hypothetical ever presented during any court proceeding in the history of ever.

    Barely a minute into oral arguments last January related to the question of presidential immunity from criminal prosecution, a judge on the D.C. federal appellate court interrupted the lawyer representing Donald Trump to ask if such immunity would cover an attempt to kill an opponent. “Could a president order Seal Team Six to assassinate a political rival?” Judge Florence Pan, appointed to the court by Joe Biden in 2021, inquired.

    As Trump’s attorney attempted to answer, Pan again cut him off. “I asked you a yes or no question. Could a president who ordered Seal Team Six assassinate a political rival who was not impeached, would he be subject to criminal prosecution?”

    The answer, of course, was irrelevant; Pan wasn’t looking for a legitimate response. The wife of longtime Democratic Party activist Max Stier, who is working with Joe Biden’s White House to thwart Trump’s plans to reform the civil service if he’s elected in November, Pan was doing the bidding of the regime and Trump-hating media. Her gotcha question resulted in wall-to-wall headlines and praise from all the people she was eager to please.

    But that wasn’t the end of her clickbait hypothetical’s usefulness. Even though Justice Samuel Alito directly challenged the veracity of the Seal Team Six scenario during oral arguments before the Supreme Court on April 25, Pan’s imaginary execution order made it into the court’s landmark opinion that significantly narrows a former president’s exposure for criminal prosecution.

    The Insufferable Stupidity of Sonia Sotomayor

    In a 6-3 decision issued Monday in Trump v US, the immunity question that originated out of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s four-count indictment against Trump related to the events of January 6 and 2020 election, the court concluded a former president cannot be held criminally liable for “official acts” in office. 

    The court further held that “presumptive immunity” applies to acts outside of established executive and Constitutional authority but still falls within the purview of presidential privileges. But, the court continued, “[As] for a President’s unofficial acts, there is no immunity. The separation of powers does not bar a prosecution predicated on the President’s unofficial acts.”

    The 119-page opinion sounded reasonable enough and represented what many court observers had expected. And far from how the perpetually-perturbed cabal of cable news legal experts have described the matter—anywhere from a “no brainer” to “a slam dunk” to “black and white” that no such immunity exists—the court never before has contemplated whether a former president can be criminally charged.

    That’s because prior to June 2023, when Smith handed down his first of three indictments against Trump, no former president had faced criminal charges for any conduct let alone for what he did in the Oval Office. 

    The majority understood not just the nuances of the existing case but the detrimental impact on the country’s future. “This case is the first criminal prosecution in our Nation’s history of a former President for actions taken during his Presidency,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote. “We are called upon to consider whether and under what circumstances such a prosecution may proceed. Doing so requires careful assessment of the scope of Presidential power under the Constitution. We undertake that responsibility conscious that we must not confuse ‘the issue of a power’s validity with the cause it is invoked to promote,’ but must instead focus on the ‘enduring consequences upon the balanced power structure of our Republic.’”

    But that degree of caution and circumspection evaded the puerile minds of the three liberal harpies on the highest court. Joined by Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan, Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke for the minority.

    In reading Sotomayor’s frenzied, angst-ridden, and petulant prose, one can easily envision the full-blown tantrum she almost certainly had in her chambers while authoring the dissent. (The 70-year-old Obama appointee recently admitted she sometimes “cries” over court decisions that don’t go her way and how “every loss truly traumatizes me in my stomach and in my heart.”)

    Claiming the opinion “effectively creates a law-free zone around the President”—Sotomayor obviously unaware the leader of the free world and commander-in-chief of the military enjoys certain rights denied to every other American—she presented her own list of what she called “nightmare scenarios.”

    “When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority’s reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution,” she wrote. “Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune.”

    It’s unclear whether Sotomayor threw her cookie from her highchair after that.

    But just as one crying toddler quickly leads to a roomful of copycats, Democrats and their media enablers compliantly followed Sotomayor’s lead by insisting the decision paved the way for a president to murder his enemies with impunity.

    Death Squads??? Seriously??

    Moments after the opinion posted on the court’s website, MSNBC host Chris Hayes tweeted, “SCOTUS answered the Seal Team Six hypo with…yeah that’s fine?” ABC News Supreme Court contributor Kate Shaw told the network’s audience Monday morning that if a president ordered an assassination in his official capacity, he would be protected from prosecution. “I think the dissent is right on this opinion’s own logic. It would be immune, and that is a genuinely chilling implication of this case.”

    Democrats in Congress also wasted no time in making their own outlandish claims. Serial liar Adam Schiff issued a typically deceitful statement: “Under this ruling, a president can order the assassination or jailing of their political rival, and be immune. They can take a bribe in exchange for an official act, and still be immune. They can organize a military coup to hold onto power and still be immune.”

    Rep. Zoe Lofgren, wearing a smile, claimed Biden would be immune from “dispatch[ing] the military to take out the conservative justices on the court.”

    Some called for Biden to kill his 2024 GOP presidential opponent. GenZ Democratic influencer Harry Sisson got himself reported to the Secret Service by tweeting that Biden “could send in the military to take out Trump.” A BBC reporter ended up deleting a tweet that implored Biden to “hurry up and have Trump murdered on the basis that he is a threat to America’s security.”

    But perhaps no one jumped the shark more than Rachel Maddow. “Given that the hypotheticals given over the course of these arguments…included things like, ‘can the president assassinate a rival,’ I think we have to look at the Supreme Court’s affirmative answer to that: ‘yes you can,’” she said on July 1. 

    “I mean, this is a death squad ruling.”

    Referring to the nonviolent Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, Maddow went on the say that Trump “activated pro-Trump para-military groups that wear insignia and t-shirts and hold placards celebrating literally right-wing death squads.”

    WTAF?

    There is simply no way to address that level of insanity. And none of that actually happened; there is no version of Maddow’s account that comes close to the truth.

    But she doesn’t care. Maddow knows that millions of braindead Democrats will believe her so no need for further explanation on her part. “ZOMG the Supreme Court just said a president can start using a firing squad!” Chardonnay-fueled cul-de-sac Karens will lament over the Bunco table.

    But this is all the Democrat have right now. Saddled with an obstinate dementia patient for president, the best the Left can do is warn the Donald Trump will start offing his enemies if he’s re-elected in November.

    The approach is not just cynical but sinister. At a time of heightened fears over the potential for political violence—Supreme Court justices have been harassed at home and in public and at least one has been the target of an assassination attempt—the Democrats continue to enflame the body politic while at the same time insisting Trump and the MAGA movement pose the greatest danger.

    Joe Biden’s boosters are as detached from reality as he is.”

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    1. here’s the rub…while they are claiming this all applies to President Trump, they are INFERRING it also applies to the maggot. and by extension obummer–and all his nasty deeds.
      so if anyone does come after President Trump, they should be liable.

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  43. Michael called me, all excited about the trellis he engineered for his cantaloupe plants. He wasn’t in to gardening before! He used an old 8′ oblong water tank filled with potting soil and found an metal headboard for a twin bed, with curlicues all over it, and an antique green finish. He bolted it to both ends of the tank so it’s steady and can’t be blown over. I’ve created a monster! ROFL – but that’s another way he and I are alike – most of his family is autistic at some level.

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  46. “White House Installs Touch And Learn Activity Desk In Oval Office So Biden Can Feel Like He’s Working While Jill Is Running The Country”

    POLITICS · Jul 3, 2024 · BabylonBee.com

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    WASHINGTON, D.C. — In order to let President Biden feel like he is still working, the White House has installed a “Touch-And-Learn” activity desk for Biden to play at while First Lady Jill Biden runs the country.

    “He just loves feeling like he’s still a part of things,” said Chief of Staff Ron Klain, watching the President spin a wheel. “Ope! Ring-ring, Mr. President! I think someone’s calling on your little yellow phone!”

    According to sources, Biden had become progressively more agitated as family members took over more of his previous roles. “Old people want to know they still have something to give, something to contribute,” said aide Reyna Hensley. “Aw, look at the big boy doing his letters over there. Way to go, Mr. President! You’re such a big help!”

    White House aides report Biden has been much happier since the installation of the “Touch-And-Learn,” with fewer temper tantrums. “He’s screaming a lot less these days. It’s really helped to keep his mind occupied, punching numbers on the little calculator,” said Ms. Biden. “We were still letting him play with the actual Oval Office phones, but he started chewing on the cords. Plus, he called President Xi one day and asked if he would bring him a Lunchable. It was time.”

    At publishing time, the White House had bought a red and yellow “Cozy Coupe” so Biden could pretend he was still able to get around the White House by himself.

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  47. “Report: Kamala About To Unburden Herself From What Has Been”

    POLITICS · Jul 3, 2024 · BabylonBee.com

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    WASHINGTON D.C. — Reports from high-level sources in Washington indicate Vice President Kamala Harris is just about to unburden herself from what has been.

    “I’m out here on these streets, getting ready to unburden myself — you know what I mean? HAHA!” said Harris. “I’m starting to see what can be, not what has been, right girl! HAHAHA!!!”

    After years of repeatedly envisioning what can be, unburdened from what has been, Harris reportedly feels like her vision is about to come to fruition. “I watched the debate last week, and I immediately started to feel like maybe, just maybe, what has been was about to be unburdened,” said Harris. “It’s like a yellow school bus – who doesn’t love a yellow school bus? It’s like a yellow school bus going to space, which is so big. No one could imagine that because they are burdened by what has been, which is yellow school buses that don’t go to space. HAHAHAHA!!!!”

    As Democrat strategists continue to discuss the possibility of replacing Biden, they too have begun to imagine what could be, unburdened by what has been. “We are so screwed,” said strategist Mick Rawls. “It’s dementia or psychosis. Ah, the proverbial rock and a hard place. I mean we can still win the election, but at what cost? Have you listened to this woman speak? We are, in a much larger sense, very screwed.”

    At publishing time, what has been had reportedly denied all reports that it would be unburdening itself from Harris any time soon.

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