Maybe the point is that God doesn’t promise we will be free from hard times. We know this though. And trust He will be with us through it all…He does promise that!
What? He did get to drive up in a car though to the internment service at Windsor. Most had to get on a bus. But maybe he deliberately missed the bus. He’s excellent at “missing the bus” on so many crucial issues. Deliberately or otherwise.
Joe was at the bar singing show tunes with Justin Trudeau. Ever the perfectionist, Fidelito became frustrated with Joe's out-of-key singing and wrong lyrics so he and and his entourage split while Joe was in the Men's Room, leaving Joe without a ride. An embarrassed Joe summoned his security detail which commandeered a double-decker allowing Joe to make it to the funeral, albeit late. Thus, the seat in the back.
That was my understanding as well, he took his own car as he couldn’t ride the bus and then got stuck in traffic and was late. He was on time for George Floyd’s funeral.
NO - seating arrangements are complex as first there is the family and then other royalty (e.g. Queen of Denmark as Europe's next longest reigning queen who I am sure descends from Victoria as well but I think she was also some how a much closer relation to Prince Philip as the Greek and Danish-Russian royals are also closely related) and then commonwealth country heads... I suppose British politicians also get seated closer.... WE ARE NOT SO IMPORTANT FOR EVERYTHING...
I noticed no masks in the funeral picture. Yet in Oklahoma USA yesterday at a PT appt, the “security guard” was waiting for me **when I came out of the restroom** to hand me a mask. I had gotten on the empty elevator, gotten off in the empty hallway, and entered the empty restroom. He told me to make sure I wear my mask in the hallways. After my appointment I told him he didn’t need to chase me down to the bathroom next time and not to be ridiculous.
I would say “really??”, take the mask and keep walking. If they double down and I really wanted the PT I would then put it on my chin. If they persist I would find a new PT that doesn’t require masks. I’ve been done with masks for anything for a very long time. In fact the only place I ever complied was on airlines if I sensed I’d be kicked off if I didn’t wear one.
When I checked in and the receptionist tried to give me one, I said “I have one.” Which I did, in my hand, with no intention of putting it on. Funny thing is that it is a very thin cloth mask that I cut two layers out of. A tech at a different appointment asked me to pull it up, said she was being careful because of being 6 months pregnant. I guess critical thinking and science are no longer required subjects in med tech programs, nursing school, or medical school. So many things I wish I would have said!
You obviously don't live in a blue state. In WA for example, you cannot be in any medical facility of any sort without a mask. No exceptions. Good for you for living somewhere where you have a choice; not everyone else has that right.
I’m in a blue state too. It’s going to last forever. I’m sure of that. I do have an unmask that allows breathing but that doesn’t deal with the tyranny aspect. I’ll play it by ear. I could feel just a bit dizzy? Just enough to plead full breath.
I’ve learned that some buildings say “we ask that you wear a mask” and some even have removed the mask signs completely. I also don’t put one on even if it says it’s required just to see what happens. My sister in Missouri said at the hospital the admin told employees it’s up to them whether they wear a mask or not.
I think it all depends upon the health care conglomerate that each facility is tied to. St. Lukes and St. Al's in Idaho all require masks and are militant.
My system doesn’t require masks as hospital patients. Which I was for 2 nights a week ago. Staff does of course. I didn’t wear one as I left I think. I wasn’t really sure I even had a face right then from the painkillers. 🥴🥴😱.
Yes...now, it could be just for show in the front areas, as that is where I was waiting for Hubs to have ortho surgery. He said that in the back nobody said boo about a mask.
I had PT for several weeks here in Commiefornia. Masks Required signs all over the place, and all the little sheep complied. Not me! Walked right in and did my PT. No one said a word. I clearly had my "don't mess with me" game face on.
In Cali also. . . Had an appt with my primary, went to pharmacy and med records in same building. Harassed everywhere but didn't wear one. . . Subsequently got a letter threatening termination of care if I caused any more trouble in the future. . . She's getting a subpoena from me.
Good. Just make them feel ridiculous. I’m using crutches at the moment. I’ve already used them to keep a dog at bay. 🤔. I have used “I know your boss requires you to do this but tell the boss I refused the request and will confirm that”. What can he do then really? They have backed down. But why in the hell I need to do that p1sses me off.
Too much! I want to rejoin Twitter just to comment on that Newsom Fella. We have lost a dozen families in the last 12 months and it’s all about the covid vaccine mandates. AB 2098 (that’s the misinformation crap law) goes into law and we are out. Newsom is pure evil. He’s the ultimate villain straight outa central casting. Just a better looking version of Trudeau operating from the same set of instructions.
Everyone - Keep a list of all the things Gov Newt is doing to California. He wants to do to the same to the rest of the US.
Don’t infect the rest of the country with California’s stupidity.
The Newt is a silver tongued devil like Bill Clinton and Obama, the privileged nephew of Nancy Pelosi. She paving the way for him.
Voters have short attention spans. When he throws his hat in for 2024, remind everyone what would be in store.
Some of Newt’s damaging actions:
Banned gas powered engines of any kind:
not only lawn mowers, but also emergency generators, cars, trucks, and diesel- trucks, trains.
All electric.
Eliminating natural gas for heat and cooking.
Electricity grid is fragile, cannot sustain current usage even with non electric cars and trucks.
Withholding Covid relief felines from people who needed them.
Destroying small businesses, 40% of which were black owned. But preserving Hollywood from lockdowns because anything connected with Hollyweird is an “essential service.”
Dines out with lobbyists while state was locked down. Travelled outside the country during his travel ban.
Exempted a union from mask mandates bc of their donations.
CA lost population and major businesses for the first time under Newt.
Abortions allowed by non doctors. With no doctor supervision.
Legalized taking license away from any doctors who disagree with party line in medicine.
...So much more...feel free to add to this.
We need the reminders as ammunition against his Build Big Burdens plans.
I can’t see him as good looking because the evil in him supersedes any handsomeness that might be there. He is ugly on the outside because he’s ugly on the inside.
One thing I have noticed about a standard Trump strategy is to not reveal things even if revealing them could improve his situation in the short term. He seems to like to let his opponent drag out their, um, "error" (I won't use another word that rhymes with cupidity) because they like to do so loudly and in public - because it's "Orange man bad". He eventually relents and corrects their, um, "error" after they have looked "error prone" long enough.
This may or may not be the case here, but it wouldn't surprise me.
Trump discusses this with Hannity. Listening to Hannity is not my favorite thing, but it was worth it to hear Trump agree with Jeff that Presidents only have to think it and it is declassified. 😉
My Vanderbilt nugget I wanted to write yesterday: Exactly a year ago, my son and I attended one of their university tours. We sat down in a room with everyone else and a Powerpoint presentation was rolled out by one of the young admissions officers. The very first slide was about their absolute, 100% support for BLM. The very first slide! We all know that colleges are crazy left... but my son and I were not at all expecting that. We found a way to exit the tour shortly thereafter. Over my dead body was I going to pay for that place.
We ended up visiting around ten schools last fall, and most had tamped down the crazy left proclamations. Except for Vanderbilt. As a side note, everyone needs to know that the admissions offices at the schools are overwhelmingly populated with 20 somethings (mostly girls) with purple hair and in all likelihood woke up that morning identifying as their cat. Remember this when your son or daughter is writing their college essay. The "aggrieved" admissions kids love victimhood, so play to it in any way you can. They love it - and it will greatly boost your application. My son played along (with mom's instruction) and he is at a top ten. Probably not learning as much as he would've there twenty years ago, but that's another matter :)
I’m not so sure that playing along is such a good strategy. That’s why we’re in this mess today. I wouldn’t want my child in a university like that because he will be playing along throughout the very expensive process of getting a degree instead of getting a quality education that teaches truth and prepares students to be productive, contributing members of society instead of woke, unthinking robots for the left. It’s past time to get a spine and stand up to this woke crap!! Playing to get along is allowing this sick ideology to flourish.
I agree with you Julie Ann. If there was a mass exodus from the universities and they started to lose tons of money, that might just change their minds about the woke ideology that they are pushing. Plus degrees are so overrated now. We need more plumbers, small machine repairmen, heating and air conditioning workers, etc .......we need to start sending our kids to trade schools. They make excellent money and there is no wokery pushed there that I know of. When everything crashes, these will be the people to keep society going. Education is not what it used to be. Simply my opinion.
These universities are highly HIGHLY overrated. My son went to UC Davis in California. They've hired a lot of well known professors in his field, but in general they don't teach their classes....nooooo, they're too busy. Graduate assistants teach rather a lot of classes there, so that's what you are paying the big tuition for. One quarter he had a grad assistant emergency hire who was teaching an important math class and he had never taught it before. My son says he got better teachers who taught their own classes in our local community college. Also, several of his UC classes had as many as 700 students in them. Same class in community college would have a max of 30.
We can't let them push us out, either. Taking the high road and removing ourselves means we lose any chance of influence and we just essentially hand everything over to them.
I just wouldn’t even be interested in a school like that for my child. If the admissions office is full of purple haired woke dummies the rest of the school is as well. I’d send my kids to Hillsdale College or other colleges who truly educate rather than indoctrinate.
Yup, same thing here. The idea that one has to pretend they are a crazy leftist to fit in seems like a terrible life lesson, particularly for someone so young. I get the idea that sometimes you have to work the system, but if the system demands you spout delusional nonsense then maybe it's time for a hard break.
I'm not saying tell your kid to be a crazy leftist. I'm simply pointing out that, as most writers know... know your audience. The college admissions office is not a particularly bright lot, so it is easy to tell them what they want to hear. That is what I mean by "play the game".
Fair enough but I wonder how many kids have the maturity to make the nuance you describe. Play the game but don't end up selling your soul is difficult enough for most middle-aged adults.
Agree with you. We have to quit capitulating! At some point, we have to stand up and fight against the tyranny and for many that means making a sacrifice!
This seems like a “playing with the devil” strategy. A conservative friend’s daughter who spent much money to send her daughter to a local Christian school through 12th grade, decided to go to a state college in Tennessee. After three years of college, this beautiful young lady now streaks her hair blood red, has one of those cow nose rings and wears pentagrams on her ears and neck. The indoctrination is insidious, even if hidden.
Sounds promising! My grandson tells me the same. He got into a little bit of trouble last year (his senior year) when one of his teachers demanded everyone choose new pronouns. He came up with Norm/AL and as any living being would have predicted, she was mad. I snickered about that for days and was completely impressed with his smart assery skills. He graduated in May and his chosen field is Firefighter/EMS. Incredibly proud of him!
That is great! Kudos to him! I have heard a lot of snickering from young people about the pronouns and the 56 or whatever genders. A lot of them see through the BS, which is encouraging.
From your lips to God’s ears! May it be so. The pendulum is so high now, it either has has to come over the top, or swing us back to the Victorian age.
I think some of it is just the pendulum swinging back. A friend of a friend who is very democrat left diehard woke has a daughter who “rebelled” against her parents by becoming a conservative Christian. At some point, people see that what is promised by the left and the scaremongering warning are really baseless.
Some young people are seeing those around them engaging in all of the supposedly “liberating” activities and discovering that they aren’t any happier or more fulfilled or better off—quite the contrary in fact. So they are putting two and two together and deciding that they aren’t buying what that ideology is selling.
Eventually, and we have reached this point, that these Woke Crazies just look too unbelievably dumb unbelievable. And thanks for the word 'cringe!' Love it!
Unnatural hair color is a pretty good indicator for mental instability in my experience, not foolproof of course, but helpful. It's like a poison symbol on a container of household cleaning chemicals. Be wary and interact at your own risk.
Agree with Julie Ann B's comment below that playing up to their insanity really rubs me the wrong way. If that's what it takes to get in then I'd question if my family belongs there in the first place. Not a hypothetical as I have a son in twelfth grade and we need to make some decisions soon. No need to flaunt ones conservativism but pretending one is an insane leftist to get favored status seems almost certain to be counterproductive in the long run. I don't have a good alternative yet and need to get this figured out ASAP.
My nieces attend Pensacola Christian College. Christian school, zero wokeism. The girls are very happy with the school and their experiences there. Just an option to consider....
Thanks for the suggestion. We're on the west coast and hoping he stays local and are currently looking at Cal Baptist and Concordia University (LCMS), at least for the first two years.
There is zero chance we'll send him off to some Ivy-covered wall indoctrination center for four years just so we can brag to others about the prestigious university he's at. I get the impression from talking to other parents in our area that's their primary motivator. Hope they don't live to regret it.
May I suggest the honors programs at the big southern schools? Our kids have fared well there. No need for a ‘woke’ application. Ole Miss, Bama, South Carolina etc. Then again, they all graduated at least a year ago. It would still be my strategy today for a lack of other options. Florida schools churn out a different breed unfortunately. I’m glad we still have time with our little ones.
Maybe lower key Woke Conservative given that the area overall, save a few cities, is Red.
One JMU guy there told me he was studying Sustainable Engineering (maybe mechanical?) And a county supervisor who taught there was really a Woke Globalist type, although he was posing as a 'conservative' Republican. Woke Marxists are very good at 'toning it down' when they have to give due to prevailing conservative attitudes wguke still working their stick.
JMU, while not Harvard or Yale, I'd still say that appearances can be deceiving.
Having conservatives "stay true" and send their kids to third tier schools - which may or not be all that normal anyway - and watching the left fill the top level is taking an L for our side.
I respectfully disagree. Taking the "L" is losing our kids to this evil - which is the result of putting them where they are marinated in leftist propaganda and encouraged to conform. Your child may end up with a piece of paper from a Top Ten in a few years, but then will be rejected from any Big Tech, Big Media, Big Corporate, Big Pharma or Big Law job he or she desires unless he or she CONTINUES to "play the game" right through his or her 20s and 30s. At some point it's not a game anymore and he or she is part of the problem. Honesty and honest living requires courage to be different and demand integrity. No piece of paper from a university or job opportunity is worth your integrity.
We have to start leading the way for our kids and encouraging them to build their own way forward. The faster we do this en masse, the better our kids' opportunities will become. Oh... and they won't be destroyed from the inside out.
You’re making the assumption that conservative or Christian parents who send their children to lesser known schools that give a traditional classic education are “third tier” schools and that is wrong. They may not be as well known or historically “elite” but that doesn’t make it a school that won’t provide a quality education. What the “elite” schools do is indoctrinate students with leftist propaganda at a huge cost both economically and morally. Honestly, it’s past time to stand up against this evil!
This isn't aimed at SiM as I don't know his (her) motivation, but I get the distinct impression a big reason people send their kids to "top tier" universities is so they can tell their friends their kid is at a top tier university. It's almost always the first thing out of their mouths when you ask how their kids are doing, if they don't bring it up first.
Honestly, if I had been there the MINUTE he said the comment about supporting BLM I would have stood up and walked out of the presentation. Whenever I see a store with a "support BLM" sign in the window I refuse to go inside and patronize them. I'm beyond sick of all this, and BLM is a fraudulent organization.
Yeah those supporting an organization that has only enriched its leaders and done NOTHING for ordinary black people are beyond stupid and are only virtue signaling to other people like themselves.
I can appreciate the old desire to have a kid at a school like that, but not any more. By the time your son is out of there, the value of that diploma may be much much less. And as well, what kind of connections is he making while there - meaning what kind of people is he ‘swimming’ with? I’m just wondering what a parent things about these days. What is the actual value of that school?
I pray she finds her way back home to you 🙏🏻 These are the stories we hear that allow us to understand that the college years are still very formative for young people… and parents need to be aware of what they are learning and thinking even during this time when they are pulling away from you and developing their own sense of self
Be consistent in your messaging to her. Slow and steady frequently wins the race with the developing brain.
states (Louisiana, Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming). Add Texas and you have a pretty good starting list for a “Free States Coalition.
I posted the Putin comment below late last night. We already have an organized platform for pushing back that has authority as well. This platform is each of our States. This is the genius of our Founding Fathers and the built-in means to push back against tyranny. They knew we may need it. Secession, the "Free States Coalition", is a very real power they built into America.
Re: Putin
We need to stay the f*** out of his business
Not our fight
Leave him alone and stay in our lane
I'm sick of USG world domination bullshit
Lead by senile woke wannabe Bolsheviks
It's just money and power trying to be world dictator
Haha..you think you are sneaky, but they find you anyway. I agree. Not just with Russia, but the world. If we spent all that air money on the USA we would be in excellent shape. Can you imagine the admin announcing that they are sending 60 billion dollars to local municipalities to clean up their areas and enforce the laws and take care of the homeless? Take care of the border and hunt down all the law-breakers that are here now? Imagine the outrage!
Oh My God, what a world that would be! And how simply that could be done. And the world would thank us for leaving them alone. Keep saying it SadieJay!! Maybe - just maybe - if we get a real red wave and get someone in there who will put everything on the line and take no prisoners, it could be done. But it's gonna require a HUGE push back.
I'm learning more legal lingo from this blog than I have ever learned from watching all those "crime dramas". One of my favourite crime series is Goliath on "prime" T.V. - the bad guys go down and the good guys win. My favourite season was # 4, if I'm not mistaken, where "big pharma" goes down. The cast of characters was awesome, much like the cast of characters in the C&C army. Have an awesome day y'all. Cheers!
I loved the series, it's actually very accurate except that they vastly accelerated the normal pace of litigation (for dramatic purposes). I heard they have real lawyers advising the show runners.
So Hollywood made season 4 before 2020 tyranny, crazy that the truth was allowed to come out. Best episode was #5. The ‘kids show’ marketing opening was exactly what happened with covid. Re-watch that first 10 minutes
I loved the season 4 finale. Not sure how realistic some of the courtroom drama was, but it was a very entertaining show. It's too bad they ended the series.
If anyone takes that and runs with it on alternative media, I want my cut for the brilliant idea. And....I could probably do a little script writing too
Melanie, thanks for the suggestion. I've been looking for something positive "out there" instead of all the dark crap pouring out of the "entertainment" industry. Yay!!! Time for Good Guys to win!! :)
Newsom is such a... well, I'll refrain from getting into that, because it would only lower me.
To continue with his sportsball analogy, however, the 'plan' in California is not only NOT attracting many first round draft picks, but costing the state their own players, while bringing in a pile of UFAs that nobody else in the world is even looking at.
Brilliant!
The cold reality is that California, like the US, is such a big financial entity that it is really hard to completely destroy it with any real speed. What we are seeing with both, however, is a long slide into economic ruin, while the sheep cheer and the politicians and other elites pillage openly and freely in order to feather their nest while there is still the opportunity...
California's economy is basically government transferring money generated from inflated asset transactions e.g. stocks, tech IPOs, property etc + the usual services (fast food, Wal-marts etc) needed for 40 million people. There is NO real economy beyond agriculture which they are targeting for destruction... Mfg is, for the most part, long gone along with anything remotely to do with resource extraction like timber or oil-gas...
Let's not forget the infusion of covidcash that is also helping to prop them up.
There was a time when they had an incredible economy, back when I was growing up there. Affordable housing, a primary education system that was a model for the country, a solid secondary education system that was respected, decent taxes, a tremendous and diverse (in a good way) economy, and it even ran in the black, with hundreds of millions of dollars in reserve.
Now, it's a craphole, a joke. I left a long time ago, and you couldn't pay me to live there now. There are still good people there, but the mega-nutjobs are in the cities, and they overrule everyone else...
Unless someone remaining in CA is benefitting from the upside down CA policies or...they're mega rich and can afford to hold out for a while longer, I can't understand why anyone would remain there.
Same reasons people stay anywhere, I suppose; friends, family, roots, memories, businesses, maybe they don't have the means, and sometimes it's as simple as 'the devil you know vs the one you don't'.
I cut bait and left without looking in the rearview mirror, but that's just me...
On my way out of CA now. Leaving behind good friends, fantastic weather and beautiful scenery, but none of that is worth the tyranny and I’m still a free American, to be able to pick up and go elsewhere.
Well, that's just one of the ways they cement permanence to what has already occured. Mail in voting is just a result of a long-term slide towards the bottom, not a cause of the same. It didn't take mail-in voting to wreck Prop 13, for instance; this has been ongoing since the 70s...
They are always having propositions on the ballot to weaken Prop 13... Look at the recent Kansas proposition on abortion that even had lawyers confused as to what it mean't.... Combine that with a failed education system and many low information or non-English speaking voters...........
The woke Blue states will continue to sink further and further into the financial red ink and Gov's like Newsome will simply go hat-in-hand to the Fed Gov't to support them. This means taking the resources from the successful Free States to support the broke-ass woke states. At some point, the "Free States Coalition" will have to separate themselves from this arrangement. This is the same scenario that caused the secession in 1860.
Biden sitting in the back at the Queen's funeral was because Commonwealth countries come first, followed by other countries. There's a standing protocol around these things.
Perhaps Trump has some explanation for not addressing the ugly fact but people need to realize, he has a history of acting upon bad legal advice. His recommended special master was a deep state operative, FFS! He doesn't always take the best advice and will trust people he's known despite their bad advice.
Love the man but I get the distinct impression Trump takes advice from those who flatter him in the moment rather than a longstanding track record. I don't see him changing much at his age.
I think Trump is a Master at the game; cards, 4D chess. He only had to "Decide" what to declassify. He didn't have to inform anyone. He's getting the other side to show their cards. Brilliant. You should know that he would never have classified docs that he wasn't covered for having access.
I agree- he is trying to force the FBI and DOJ to show the world some piece or pieces of evidence- like Hilary's lost emails or proof of the election steal.
Biden was seated in the 14th row because he arrived late. He refused to take the bus provided and was in his motorcade with his beast, and his limo, stuck in traffic.
Not really. He's made some terrible mistakes choosing personnel. People that have been close to him have said how he'll take bad advice if it comes from someone he trusts. I don't think he's a dumby, he just puts his trust in people when he should otherwise seek a second opinion.
Did not know you practiced before the 11th circuit and the fine judges down yonder. Your analysis is rife with speculation and it's all very good. I took the news yesterday quite bad and was a bit stunned the panel ruled so decisively against President Trump.
As we know, judges however don't like being placed in a pickle. If they attribute one party as being "cute" in placing them there, they will be happy to relieve that party of their self-anointed cuteness.
IMHO, the Trump Team has made a strategic commitment to a long game. They know that no matter what President Trump does, the Dept of Just Us will not be "convinced" even if the law is clearly leaning or on the side of 45. So, they are playing a long game but it's a painful process as they may not have seen the immediate damage that arrived in this order.
Your quick turn on the limited mobilization by Putin completely bypassed him as is so often the case of the "Blame NATO" first and last team. Putin is not anticipating any great gain by making the move so much as preparing Russians who have become largely apolitical that the ramparts are being built and their bodies will soon be tossed into the fire. It's not going well.
Yesterday, a number of spontaneous public demonstrations took place. People started sending their sons out of the country at a record clip after the Putin "I'll nuke you all if I don't get the empire I crave" speech driving up the cost of flights to Turkey and elsewhere to $5,000 - one way!
Even Putin's inner circle were scared when he started making serious noises about actually invading Ukraine. But Putin has his grandiose sense of self-importance undoing the "catastrophe" he calls it of the Soviet Union's downfall. He's serious about trying to revive an empire under the ChiCom-Russia Alliance. It's not going well.
His first meeting with Xi since Beijing's Olympics where they hugged it out, agreed no invasion until the games were over and declared their eternal mutual love is over. ChiComs don't like their squads in the minors screwing up things for them. The failed invasion of Ukraine is causing the ChiComs grief and they have a contradiction with Russia pissing on international law re: sovereignty when they hold a claim under same with Taiwan. Well, at least that's how they see it. ChiComs rewarded Putin by making a play for taking Kazakhstan and placing it firmly in their orbit. Putin went home after that humiliation in tears.
So, now the nuclear saber rattling is a regular feature of the Putin dictatorship. That's how it's going to be so get used to it. As one journalist asked me early into the invasion, "Will Putin stop now?" I replied Putin had no reason to stop and would not.
Now Putin sees the dangers of defeat squarely in front of him. Think Argentina's military junta in 78 when the Argyle army was routed in the Falklands by the Brits. Bye bye military junta. Same goes for Russia here. Except in Russia, this is a long term norm and Putin is well aware of it.
The "partial" mobilization is more a desperate play to change the dynamics of defeat as the armed forces of Ukraine have once again shocked the world routing the Russian army and a reconfigured corp. expected to stabilized the situation in the northeast. Didn't work out that way and 7,000 square miles and counting have been liberated. It's not stopping; there's now a beachead in Luhansk, an area Putin is now seeking to hold a 48 hour election in among other occupied areas.
It's just like the good old Soviet election days, or the Iraq election days or maybe a kiss to Election Theft 2020. But it all tolls quite badly for the KGB thug dictator, Putin.
Thanks again for the 11th circuit analysis, Mr. Childers. I needed that.
"The armed forces of Ukraine have once again shocked the world" = U.S. Special Operations teams and/or former SOF, now private military contractors, operating out of uniform, have shocked the world...."
You're simply wrong Fla Mom. There is no army consisting of foreign elements running their liberation operation against Putin's invasion. There are some small volunteer groups invited who are out there like from the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, now an independent country and even some American volunteers. There's one American from NYC I followed.
The US would not put Special Forces teams into such a perilous situation. Even a single captured US servicemen or KIA would be used to support the false narrative Putin is already using for his domestic propaganda that Russia is fighting "NATO forces."
As one NATO senior military leader said, "After this war, it will be the armed forces Of Ukraine teaching us." The creativeness and agility of Ukraine's armed forces impressed military analyst all around the world and this was prior to the rout of the Russian invaders in the Kharkiv area.
I might be wrong, but former SEAL Matt Bracken might know some folks and be right (or possibly wrong, too). Scott Ritter, who may also be wrong, said in a recent interview that it's now a NATO army doing the fighting, not the Ukraine Army.
"Oh BTW, did you know that American troops [sheepdipped, wink wink as "contractors" wink wink] are currently engaged in ground battles against Russians in Eastern Ukraine?
Funny, I don't remember voting to go to war with Russia, or even having useless congressional hearings.
WW3 against Russia might get kinda serious, just saying.
Good thing we have a wise and steady hand running the White House. /sarc
Clear and explicit "Yep, those are damn-sure American soldiers" [sheepdipped as PMCs] video at link."
And, here's an official U.S. Army video showing soldiers and equipment from the 1st Armored Division Combat Aviation Brigade deploying to Europe, including all the way to Poland, for 'multinational exercises.' Even if true, do you think Russia will see that as provocative, at all, right on its border, at a time like this?
And I remembered, after writing my earlier comment, that a friend was a Special Operator in Laos, back when the U.S. "wasn't in Laos." That came after the U.S. "wasn't in Vietnam," during the time when there were only Special Operations "advisors."
For the Lord will not abandon His people,
Nor will He forsake His inheritance.
For judgment will again be righteous,
And all the upright in heart will follow it.
— Psalm 94:14-15 NASB1995
Psalm 90
R. (1) In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.
You turn man back to dust,
saying, “Return, O children of men.”
For a thousand years in your sight
are as yesterday, now that it is past,
or as a watch of the night.
R. In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.
You make an end of them in their sleep;
the next morning they are like the changing grass,
Which at dawn springs up anew,
but by evening wilts and fades.
R. In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.
Teach us to number our days aright,
that we may gain wisdom of heart.
Return, O LORD! How long?
Have pity on your servants!
R. In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.
Fill us at daybreak with your kindness,
that we may shout for joy and gladness all our days.
Prosper the work of our hands for us!
Prosper the work of our hands!
R. In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.
Janice- I love that scriptures that you find. They are perfect!
It could be a long while in the cold or the the sand dunes. The Lord doesn't say it won't.
What's your point?
Maybe the point is that God doesn’t promise we will be free from hard times. We know this though. And trust He will be with us through it all…He does promise that!
He doesn’t promise weapons will not be formed against us; he promises they will not prosper.
I have a pretty good understanding of it. I was just asking a particular commenter.
Yeah I know. Just trying to inject a little truth. 😀
I was wondering as well. I guess I missed the point. Janice I understand. : )
Maybe the point is that we should just ignore Professional Disrupters, as being, er ... pointless.
Well played
Maybe the fact that Joe showed up 30 minutes late for the funeral had something to do with his seating. Total lack of respect, but what’s new?
He arrived in the UK with a 15 car motorcade - trip probably costs taxpayers 8 figures and then there are the carbon emissions - paging Greta!
Sickening excess. I expect it of the monarchy but disgusts me with our pseudo monarchy.
Actually the monarchy, i.e. King Charles was who requested dignitaries use buses where possible rather than private transport.
No, not Biden, he was not going to use a bus. He did his own motorcade, came late… 30 minutes. He did it his way.
It was all that oil on his windshield. That could make anyone late 🤣
Maybe the traffic ham from the 15 car motorcade created a traffic jam? Only kidding, being a smart aleck.
Were these vehicles shipped over from the US? If so, how were they transported ?
On one of the USAF's windmill-powered C5A aircraft.
😂
YES - POTUS travels with his own convoy... Either in the body of air force one or in a second plane....
What? He did get to drive up in a car though to the internment service at Windsor. Most had to get on a bus. But maybe he deliberately missed the bus. He’s excellent at “missing the bus” on so many crucial issues. Deliberately or otherwise.
he kept looking for the short bus...
He insisted on taking Amtrak.
Of course he did!
🤣🤣.
He had ‘the beast’ flown over there. He never had any intention of riding with other foreign leaders on a bus.
Maybe he was afraid of getting covid again. Since the jabs work so well.
the "hair sniffing" risk was just too great to put him on a bus with others... :-)
Joe was at the bar singing show tunes with Justin Trudeau. Ever the perfectionist, Fidelito became frustrated with Joe's out-of-key singing and wrong lyrics so he and and his entourage split while Joe was in the Men's Room, leaving Joe without a ride. An embarrassed Joe summoned his security detail which commandeered a double-decker allowing Joe to make it to the funeral, albeit late. Thus, the seat in the back.
🤣🤣🤣. Took him awhile to find the door out of the women's room as well.
Sniffing hair takes a bit of time, give him a break.
❤️so many foreign heads of hair….
....so little time. 😎
🥴. Indeed.
Great point. Joe's all about DEI.
😂😂
That was my understanding as well, he took his own car as he couldn’t ride the bus and then got stuck in traffic and was late. He was on time for George Floyd’s funeral.
He lost his pants.
NO - seating arrangements are complex as first there is the family and then other royalty (e.g. Queen of Denmark as Europe's next longest reigning queen who I am sure descends from Victoria as well but I think she was also some how a much closer relation to Prince Philip as the Greek and Danish-Russian royals are also closely related) and then commonwealth country heads... I suppose British politicians also get seated closer.... WE ARE NOT SO IMPORTANT FOR EVERYTHING...
He already late
I thought the same thing. No violence intended.
.......thought he had already missed it.
❤️
I noticed no masks in the funeral picture. Yet in Oklahoma USA yesterday at a PT appt, the “security guard” was waiting for me **when I came out of the restroom** to hand me a mask. I had gotten on the empty elevator, gotten off in the empty hallway, and entered the empty restroom. He told me to make sure I wear my mask in the hallways. After my appointment I told him he didn’t need to chase me down to the bathroom next time and not to be ridiculous.
I would say “really??”, take the mask and keep walking. If they double down and I really wanted the PT I would then put it on my chin. If they persist I would find a new PT that doesn’t require masks. I’ve been done with masks for anything for a very long time. In fact the only place I ever complied was on airlines if I sensed I’d be kicked off if I didn’t wear one.
When I checked in and the receptionist tried to give me one, I said “I have one.” Which I did, in my hand, with no intention of putting it on. Funny thing is that it is a very thin cloth mask that I cut two layers out of. A tech at a different appointment asked me to pull it up, said she was being careful because of being 6 months pregnant. I guess critical thinking and science are no longer required subjects in med tech programs, nursing school, or medical school. So many things I wish I would have said!
You obviously don't live in a blue state. In WA for example, you cannot be in any medical facility of any sort without a mask. No exceptions. Good for you for living somewhere where you have a choice; not everyone else has that right.
I’m in a blue state too. It’s going to last forever. I’m sure of that. I do have an unmask that allows breathing but that doesn’t deal with the tyranny aspect. I’ll play it by ear. I could feel just a bit dizzy? Just enough to plead full breath.
I’ve learned that some buildings say “we ask that you wear a mask” and some even have removed the mask signs completely. I also don’t put one on even if it says it’s required just to see what happens. My sister in Missouri said at the hospital the admin told employees it’s up to them whether they wear a mask or not.
I think it all depends upon the health care conglomerate that each facility is tied to. St. Lukes and St. Al's in Idaho all require masks and are militant.
My system doesn’t require masks as hospital patients. Which I was for 2 nights a week ago. Staff does of course. I didn’t wear one as I left I think. I wasn’t really sure I even had a face right then from the painkillers. 🥴🥴😱.
Boise area?
Yes...now, it could be just for show in the front areas, as that is where I was waiting for Hubs to have ortho surgery. He said that in the back nobody said boo about a mask.
They all require it here. I will be starting PT next week. I forgot about that. Ugh.
I had PT for several weeks here in Commiefornia. Masks Required signs all over the place, and all the little sheep complied. Not me! Walked right in and did my PT. No one said a word. I clearly had my "don't mess with me" game face on.
Might try that. I can do the face.
In Cali also. . . Had an appt with my primary, went to pharmacy and med records in same building. Harassed everywhere but didn't wear one. . . Subsequently got a letter threatening termination of care if I caused any more trouble in the future. . . She's getting a subpoena from me.
Go for it. Time to push back with legal papers.
Ooh will you keep us posted on what happens?? I am so sick of this coercion and overreach, I love seeing people push back!
Excellent. That’s what we need!
But, but, but...Joe declared C0v1d over.
I guess they didn’t get the memo.
Good. Just make them feel ridiculous. I’m using crutches at the moment. I’ve already used them to keep a dog at bay. 🤔. I have used “I know your boss requires you to do this but tell the boss I refused the request and will confirm that”. What can he do then really? They have backed down. But why in the hell I need to do that p1sses me off.
Too much! I want to rejoin Twitter just to comment on that Newsom Fella. We have lost a dozen families in the last 12 months and it’s all about the covid vaccine mandates. AB 2098 (that’s the misinformation crap law) goes into law and we are out. Newsom is pure evil. He’s the ultimate villain straight outa central casting. Just a better looking version of Trudeau operating from the same set of instructions.
Everyone - Keep a list of all the things Gov Newt is doing to California. He wants to do to the same to the rest of the US.
Don’t infect the rest of the country with California’s stupidity.
The Newt is a silver tongued devil like Bill Clinton and Obama, the privileged nephew of Nancy Pelosi. She paving the way for him.
Voters have short attention spans. When he throws his hat in for 2024, remind everyone what would be in store.
Some of Newt’s damaging actions:
Banned gas powered engines of any kind:
not only lawn mowers, but also emergency generators, cars, trucks, and diesel- trucks, trains.
All electric.
Eliminating natural gas for heat and cooking.
Electricity grid is fragile, cannot sustain current usage even with non electric cars and trucks.
Withholding Covid relief felines from people who needed them.
Destroying small businesses, 40% of which were black owned. But preserving Hollywood from lockdowns because anything connected with Hollyweird is an “essential service.”
Dines out with lobbyists while state was locked down. Travelled outside the country during his travel ban.
Exempted a union from mask mandates bc of their donations.
CA lost population and major businesses for the first time under Newt.
Abortions allowed by non doctors. With no doctor supervision.
Legalized taking license away from any doctors who disagree with party line in medicine.
...So much more...feel free to add to this.
We need the reminders as ammunition against his Build Big Burdens plans.
Pretty boy Newsom is a political animal, but he's seriously stupid and has the intellect of a snail.
Yep. We left last fall for the freedom of breathing unmasked in NV.
I can’t see him as good looking because the evil in him supersedes any handsomeness that might be there. He is ugly on the outside because he’s ugly on the inside.
One thing I have noticed about a standard Trump strategy is to not reveal things even if revealing them could improve his situation in the short term. He seems to like to let his opponent drag out their, um, "error" (I won't use another word that rhymes with cupidity) because they like to do so loudly and in public - because it's "Orange man bad". He eventually relents and corrects their, um, "error" after they have looked "error prone" long enough.
This may or may not be the case here, but it wouldn't surprise me.
Trump discusses this with Hannity. Listening to Hannity is not my favorite thing, but it was worth it to hear Trump agree with Jeff that Presidents only have to think it and it is declassified. 😉
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/09/21/president-trump-discusses-the-mar-a-lago-raid-with-sean-hannity/
Saw that. I don’t usually watch it either but Trump’s conversation was interesting.
Much better than a headline or 1 minute click bait “news flash.”
Is this the same interview that Trump tells Hannity "I declassified everything"?
Not sure, probably
My Vanderbilt nugget I wanted to write yesterday: Exactly a year ago, my son and I attended one of their university tours. We sat down in a room with everyone else and a Powerpoint presentation was rolled out by one of the young admissions officers. The very first slide was about their absolute, 100% support for BLM. The very first slide! We all know that colleges are crazy left... but my son and I were not at all expecting that. We found a way to exit the tour shortly thereafter. Over my dead body was I going to pay for that place.
We ended up visiting around ten schools last fall, and most had tamped down the crazy left proclamations. Except for Vanderbilt. As a side note, everyone needs to know that the admissions offices at the schools are overwhelmingly populated with 20 somethings (mostly girls) with purple hair and in all likelihood woke up that morning identifying as their cat. Remember this when your son or daughter is writing their college essay. The "aggrieved" admissions kids love victimhood, so play to it in any way you can. They love it - and it will greatly boost your application. My son played along (with mom's instruction) and he is at a top ten. Probably not learning as much as he would've there twenty years ago, but that's another matter :)
I’m not so sure that playing along is such a good strategy. That’s why we’re in this mess today. I wouldn’t want my child in a university like that because he will be playing along throughout the very expensive process of getting a degree instead of getting a quality education that teaches truth and prepares students to be productive, contributing members of society instead of woke, unthinking robots for the left. It’s past time to get a spine and stand up to this woke crap!! Playing to get along is allowing this sick ideology to flourish.
I agree with you Julie Ann. If there was a mass exodus from the universities and they started to lose tons of money, that might just change their minds about the woke ideology that they are pushing. Plus degrees are so overrated now. We need more plumbers, small machine repairmen, heating and air conditioning workers, etc .......we need to start sending our kids to trade schools. They make excellent money and there is no wokery pushed there that I know of. When everything crashes, these will be the people to keep society going. Education is not what it used to be. Simply my opinion.
I concur. Why do we continue to pay them outrageous sums to destroy the minds of our children? Why?😥
Because the parents continue to pay for it because they want the status of the university name and degree for their children.
I agree
I told my daughter when she applied
If you wanna a school with a label you’ll have to pander to the wokensess of the admissions board
And her reply was-
Screw that. I’m not doing it.
And as a result… she landed EXACTLY where she should be… she’s not subjected to all that BLM, CRT -BS in every class….
In fact, she was in a Justice and civics change class the other day and said mom you’d love this quote …
the professor just said, ‘The right to dissent without penalty is one of the most fundamental tenets of a free and open society’
That’s the education I’m going to pay for…
Oh that’s awesome! Now there is a professor I can respect 🙂
These universities are highly HIGHLY overrated. My son went to UC Davis in California. They've hired a lot of well known professors in his field, but in general they don't teach their classes....nooooo, they're too busy. Graduate assistants teach rather a lot of classes there, so that's what you are paying the big tuition for. One quarter he had a grad assistant emergency hire who was teaching an important math class and he had never taught it before. My son says he got better teachers who taught their own classes in our local community college. Also, several of his UC classes had as many as 700 students in them. Same class in community college would have a max of 30.
Bet you won’t see woke leftist crap in trade schools 🙄😉
We can't let them push us out, either. Taking the high road and removing ourselves means we lose any chance of influence and we just essentially hand everything over to them.
I just wouldn’t even be interested in a school like that for my child. If the admissions office is full of purple haired woke dummies the rest of the school is as well. I’d send my kids to Hillsdale College or other colleges who truly educate rather than indoctrinate.
Yup, same thing here. The idea that one has to pretend they are a crazy leftist to fit in seems like a terrible life lesson, particularly for someone so young. I get the idea that sometimes you have to work the system, but if the system demands you spout delusional nonsense then maybe it's time for a hard break.
I'm not saying tell your kid to be a crazy leftist. I'm simply pointing out that, as most writers know... know your audience. The college admissions office is not a particularly bright lot, so it is easy to tell them what they want to hear. That is what I mean by "play the game".
Fair enough but I wonder how many kids have the maturity to make the nuance you describe. Play the game but don't end up selling your soul is difficult enough for most middle-aged adults.
We will have to agree to disagree on this. God’s Word says “reject every kind of evil” 1Thess 5:22
Agree with you. We have to quit capitulating! At some point, we have to stand up and fight against the tyranny and for many that means making a sacrifice!
You dance with the devil,
the devil don't change,
the devil changes you!
That’s a good point.
But at the same time, the other comments make me feel better about letting those schools rot out.
I’ve been waiting 50 years now to see your influence appear.
This seems like a “playing with the devil” strategy. A conservative friend’s daughter who spent much money to send her daughter to a local Christian school through 12th grade, decided to go to a state college in Tennessee. After three years of college, this beautiful young lady now streaks her hair blood red, has one of those cow nose rings and wears pentagrams on her ears and neck. The indoctrination is insidious, even if hidden.
Sounds promising! My grandson tells me the same. He got into a little bit of trouble last year (his senior year) when one of his teachers demanded everyone choose new pronouns. He came up with Norm/AL and as any living being would have predicted, she was mad. I snickered about that for days and was completely impressed with his smart assery skills. He graduated in May and his chosen field is Firefighter/EMS. Incredibly proud of him!
I love that! I guess she wasn’t powerful enough to cause him serious harm or she would have.
That is great! Kudos to him! I have heard a lot of snickering from young people about the pronouns and the 56 or whatever genders. A lot of them see through the BS, which is encouraging.
From your lips to God’s ears! May it be so. The pendulum is so high now, it either has has to come over the top, or swing us back to the Victorian age.
I think some of it is just the pendulum swinging back. A friend of a friend who is very democrat left diehard woke has a daughter who “rebelled” against her parents by becoming a conservative Christian. At some point, people see that what is promised by the left and the scaremongering warning are really baseless.
Some young people are seeing those around them engaging in all of the supposedly “liberating” activities and discovering that they aren’t any happier or more fulfilled or better off—quite the contrary in fact. So they are putting two and two together and deciding that they aren’t buying what that ideology is selling.
Eventually, and we have reached this point, that these Woke Crazies just look too unbelievably dumb unbelievable. And thanks for the word 'cringe!' Love it!
Great point. There’s hope
Unnatural hair color is a pretty good indicator for mental instability in my experience, not foolproof of course, but helpful. It's like a poison symbol on a container of household cleaning chemicals. Be wary and interact at your own risk.
Agree with Julie Ann B's comment below that playing up to their insanity really rubs me the wrong way. If that's what it takes to get in then I'd question if my family belongs there in the first place. Not a hypothetical as I have a son in twelfth grade and we need to make some decisions soon. No need to flaunt ones conservativism but pretending one is an insane leftist to get favored status seems almost certain to be counterproductive in the long run. I don't have a good alternative yet and need to get this figured out ASAP.
My nieces attend Pensacola Christian College. Christian school, zero wokeism. The girls are very happy with the school and their experiences there. Just an option to consider....
Thanks for the suggestion. We're on the west coast and hoping he stays local and are currently looking at Cal Baptist and Concordia University (LCMS), at least for the first two years.
There is zero chance we'll send him off to some Ivy-covered wall indoctrination center for four years just so we can brag to others about the prestigious university he's at. I get the impression from talking to other parents in our area that's their primary motivator. Hope they don't live to regret it.
The Fire website has a free speech rating of colleges and universities, that might help you make a decision.
Have you considered Grand Canyon U?
May I suggest the honors programs at the big southern schools? Our kids have fared well there. No need for a ‘woke’ application. Ole Miss, Bama, South Carolina etc. Then again, they all graduated at least a year ago. It would still be my strategy today for a lack of other options. Florida schools churn out a different breed unfortunately. I’m glad we still have time with our little ones.
James Madison University seems pretty normal.
Maybe lower key Woke Conservative given that the area overall, save a few cities, is Red.
One JMU guy there told me he was studying Sustainable Engineering (maybe mechanical?) And a county supervisor who taught there was really a Woke Globalist type, although he was posing as a 'conservative' Republican. Woke Marxists are very good at 'toning it down' when they have to give due to prevailing conservative attitudes wguke still working their stick.
JMU, while not Harvard or Yale, I'd still say that appearances can be deceiving.
Having conservatives "stay true" and send their kids to third tier schools - which may or not be all that normal anyway - and watching the left fill the top level is taking an L for our side.
I respectfully disagree. Taking the "L" is losing our kids to this evil - which is the result of putting them where they are marinated in leftist propaganda and encouraged to conform. Your child may end up with a piece of paper from a Top Ten in a few years, but then will be rejected from any Big Tech, Big Media, Big Corporate, Big Pharma or Big Law job he or she desires unless he or she CONTINUES to "play the game" right through his or her 20s and 30s. At some point it's not a game anymore and he or she is part of the problem. Honesty and honest living requires courage to be different and demand integrity. No piece of paper from a university or job opportunity is worth your integrity.
We have to start leading the way for our kids and encouraging them to build their own way forward. The faster we do this en masse, the better our kids' opportunities will become. Oh... and they won't be destroyed from the inside out.
Good point. The going along to get along formula for success does not end with a diploma. It continues in all career fields.
You’re making the assumption that conservative or Christian parents who send their children to lesser known schools that give a traditional classic education are “third tier” schools and that is wrong. They may not be as well known or historically “elite” but that doesn’t make it a school that won’t provide a quality education. What the “elite” schools do is indoctrinate students with leftist propaganda at a huge cost both economically and morally. Honestly, it’s past time to stand up against this evil!
Not a good argument, SiM. Who is defining "tier"? Top level? What is the purpose of attending university anyway? Think deeper.
This isn't aimed at SiM as I don't know his (her) motivation, but I get the distinct impression a big reason people send their kids to "top tier" universities is so they can tell their friends their kid is at a top tier university. It's almost always the first thing out of their mouths when you ask how their kids are doing, if they don't bring it up first.
There is also the networking and prestige aspect for job applications and starting salaries. Not my thing but I know some find it important.
Honestly, if I had been there the MINUTE he said the comment about supporting BLM I would have stood up and walked out of the presentation. Whenever I see a store with a "support BLM" sign in the window I refuse to go inside and patronize them. I'm beyond sick of all this, and BLM is a fraudulent organization.
Yeah those supporting an organization that has only enriched its leaders and done NOTHING for ordinary black people are beyond stupid and are only virtue signaling to other people like themselves.
I can appreciate the old desire to have a kid at a school like that, but not any more. By the time your son is out of there, the value of that diploma may be much much less. And as well, what kind of connections is he making while there - meaning what kind of people is he ‘swimming’ with? I’m just wondering what a parent things about these days. What is the actual value of that school?
She'll be back. Y'all are great parents.
I pray she finds her way back home to you 🙏🏻 These are the stories we hear that allow us to understand that the college years are still very formative for young people… and parents need to be aware of what they are learning and thinking even during this time when they are pulling away from you and developing their own sense of self
Be consistent in your messaging to her. Slow and steady frequently wins the race with the developing brain.
I pray she will wake up and return to the fold. Remember the story of The Prodigal son.
Heartbreaking.
💔🙏
Did you hear that DeSantis........Newsom needs a few plane loads too.
Make sure to drop em in Malibu and Newsom's gated hood!
And, just like that, Madison quotes began flowing from all three branches! Hallelujah! :-)
#LoveTheSmellOfC&CInTheMorning!
states (Louisiana, Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming). Add Texas and you have a pretty good starting list for a “Free States Coalition.
I posted the Putin comment below late last night. We already have an organized platform for pushing back that has authority as well. This platform is each of our States. This is the genius of our Founding Fathers and the built-in means to push back against tyranny. They knew we may need it. Secession, the "Free States Coalition", is a very real power they built into America.
Re: Putin
We need to stay the f*** out of his business
Not our fight
Leave him alone and stay in our lane
I'm sick of USG world domination bullshit
Lead by senile woke wannabe Bolsheviks
It's just money and power trying to be world dictator
And it'll end up in WWIII
That's what I'm saying
Haha..you think you are sneaky, but they find you anyway. I agree. Not just with Russia, but the world. If we spent all that air money on the USA we would be in excellent shape. Can you imagine the admin announcing that they are sending 60 billion dollars to local municipalities to clean up their areas and enforce the laws and take care of the homeless? Take care of the border and hunt down all the law-breakers that are here now? Imagine the outrage!
Oh My God, what a world that would be! And how simply that could be done. And the world would thank us for leaving them alone. Keep saying it SadieJay!! Maybe - just maybe - if we get a real red wave and get someone in there who will put everything on the line and take no prisoners, it could be done. But it's gonna require a HUGE push back.
I never was any good at being sneaky lol
Except if the bureaucrats get their hands on the money, the problems will still never be solved and will just keep asking for more 😕
He needs to stay out of business
That doesn’t concern him.
Like Ukraine.
We don’t have a right to rule Mexico. Neither does he.
In terms of the permanent injunction, what about the other 26 states?
My state is on there. I’m proud of texas.
This is my morning treat. I love C&C. Sundays are sad without it.
I'm learning more legal lingo from this blog than I have ever learned from watching all those "crime dramas". One of my favourite crime series is Goliath on "prime" T.V. - the bad guys go down and the good guys win. My favourite season was # 4, if I'm not mistaken, where "big pharma" goes down. The cast of characters was awesome, much like the cast of characters in the C&C army. Have an awesome day y'all. Cheers!
I loved the series, it's actually very accurate except that they vastly accelerated the normal pace of litigation (for dramatic purposes). I heard they have real lawyers advising the show runners.
So Hollywood made season 4 before 2020 tyranny, crazy that the truth was allowed to come out. Best episode was #5. The ‘kids show’ marketing opening was exactly what happened with covid. Re-watch that first 10 minutes
I loved the season 4 finale. Not sure how realistic some of the courtroom drama was, but it was a very entertaining show. It's too bad they ended the series.
Yes, I want more, I found all four seasons very interesting - I really liked the characters and I thought the acting was great.
I am looking forward to "House: The Cov!d Reboot". Can you imagine THAT show??!!!
You mean like the old show "House"? If so..... no!!!! LOL!!!
OMG, that would be amazing!
If anyone takes that and runs with it on alternative media, I want my cut for the brilliant idea. And....I could probably do a little script writing too
Melanie, thanks for the suggestion. I've been looking for something positive "out there" instead of all the dark crap pouring out of the "entertainment" industry. Yay!!! Time for Good Guys to win!! :)
There is a super show called The Detectorists if you like British. Hubs and I loved it.
Just a warning that this show got pretty dark especially the 2nd season.
Thanks for the warning.... so noted. :)
I will have to check it out. I ditched my cable awhile back, and always looking for something good to watch via streaming services.
For what it's worth, Tom Brady was drafted in the sixth round. So much for the first round having the best picks.
Newsom is such a... well, I'll refrain from getting into that, because it would only lower me.
To continue with his sportsball analogy, however, the 'plan' in California is not only NOT attracting many first round draft picks, but costing the state their own players, while bringing in a pile of UFAs that nobody else in the world is even looking at.
Brilliant!
The cold reality is that California, like the US, is such a big financial entity that it is really hard to completely destroy it with any real speed. What we are seeing with both, however, is a long slide into economic ruin, while the sheep cheer and the politicians and other elites pillage openly and freely in order to feather their nest while there is still the opportunity...
California's economy is basically government transferring money generated from inflated asset transactions e.g. stocks, tech IPOs, property etc + the usual services (fast food, Wal-marts etc) needed for 40 million people. There is NO real economy beyond agriculture which they are targeting for destruction... Mfg is, for the most part, long gone along with anything remotely to do with resource extraction like timber or oil-gas...
Let's not forget the infusion of covidcash that is also helping to prop them up.
There was a time when they had an incredible economy, back when I was growing up there. Affordable housing, a primary education system that was a model for the country, a solid secondary education system that was respected, decent taxes, a tremendous and diverse (in a good way) economy, and it even ran in the black, with hundreds of millions of dollars in reserve.
Now, it's a craphole, a joke. I left a long time ago, and you couldn't pay me to live there now. There are still good people there, but the mega-nutjobs are in the cities, and they overrule everyone else...
Unless someone remaining in CA is benefitting from the upside down CA policies or...they're mega rich and can afford to hold out for a while longer, I can't understand why anyone would remain there.
Same reasons people stay anywhere, I suppose; friends, family, roots, memories, businesses, maybe they don't have the means, and sometimes it's as simple as 'the devil you know vs the one you don't'.
I cut bait and left without looking in the rearview mirror, but that's just me...
On my way out of CA now. Leaving behind good friends, fantastic weather and beautiful scenery, but none of that is worth the tyranny and I’m still a free American, to be able to pick up and go elsewhere.
Sadly true. I use to live there also. A beautiful state - ruined.
You also forgot mail in voting.....................
And Dominion voting machines. We are so screwed in this state. Born and raised here- and can't wait to jump ship.
Well, that's just one of the ways they cement permanence to what has already occured. Mail in voting is just a result of a long-term slide towards the bottom, not a cause of the same. It didn't take mail-in voting to wreck Prop 13, for instance; this has been ongoing since the 70s...
They are always having propositions on the ballot to weaken Prop 13... Look at the recent Kansas proposition on abortion that even had lawyers confused as to what it mean't.... Combine that with a failed education system and many low information or non-English speaking voters...........
The woke Blue states will continue to sink further and further into the financial red ink and Gov's like Newsome will simply go hat-in-hand to the Fed Gov't to support them. This means taking the resources from the successful Free States to support the broke-ass woke states. At some point, the "Free States Coalition" will have to separate themselves from this arrangement. This is the same scenario that caused the secession in 1860.
Let me complete that sentence: "tool".
Biden sitting in the back at the Queen's funeral was because Commonwealth countries come first, followed by other countries. There's a standing protocol around these things.
Perhaps Trump has some explanation for not addressing the ugly fact but people need to realize, he has a history of acting upon bad legal advice. His recommended special master was a deep state operative, FFS! He doesn't always take the best advice and will trust people he's known despite their bad advice.
Love the man but I get the distinct impression Trump takes advice from those who flatter him in the moment rather than a longstanding track record. I don't see him changing much at his age.
I think Trump is a Master at the game; cards, 4D chess. He only had to "Decide" what to declassify. He didn't have to inform anyone. He's getting the other side to show their cards. Brilliant. You should know that he would never have classified docs that he wasn't covered for having access.
I agree- he is trying to force the FBI and DOJ to show the world some piece or pieces of evidence- like Hilary's lost emails or proof of the election steal.
Biden was seated in the 14th row because he arrived late. He refused to take the bus provided and was in his motorcade with his beast, and his limo, stuck in traffic.
Maybe arriving late pushed him back a few seats but he was in the back because Commonwealth countries go upfront, of which there are 56.
Trump is dumb like a fox- he knows exactly what he is doing.
Not really. He's made some terrible mistakes choosing personnel. People that have been close to him have said how he'll take bad advice if it comes from someone he trusts. I don't think he's a dumby, he just puts his trust in people when he should otherwise seek a second opinion.
Maybe there was purpose in having those You say were bad choices around for a while.
You submit opinion that you aren't privy to knowing if it's based in reality.
Orange man bad swims like a feather and floats like a rock, but he’s still the champ🤷🏻♀️
The best first round draft choices go to the teams that performed the worst. Is Newsome admitting something?
Did not know you practiced before the 11th circuit and the fine judges down yonder. Your analysis is rife with speculation and it's all very good. I took the news yesterday quite bad and was a bit stunned the panel ruled so decisively against President Trump.
As we know, judges however don't like being placed in a pickle. If they attribute one party as being "cute" in placing them there, they will be happy to relieve that party of their self-anointed cuteness.
IMHO, the Trump Team has made a strategic commitment to a long game. They know that no matter what President Trump does, the Dept of Just Us will not be "convinced" even if the law is clearly leaning or on the side of 45. So, they are playing a long game but it's a painful process as they may not have seen the immediate damage that arrived in this order.
Your quick turn on the limited mobilization by Putin completely bypassed him as is so often the case of the "Blame NATO" first and last team. Putin is not anticipating any great gain by making the move so much as preparing Russians who have become largely apolitical that the ramparts are being built and their bodies will soon be tossed into the fire. It's not going well.
Yesterday, a number of spontaneous public demonstrations took place. People started sending their sons out of the country at a record clip after the Putin "I'll nuke you all if I don't get the empire I crave" speech driving up the cost of flights to Turkey and elsewhere to $5,000 - one way!
Even Putin's inner circle were scared when he started making serious noises about actually invading Ukraine. But Putin has his grandiose sense of self-importance undoing the "catastrophe" he calls it of the Soviet Union's downfall. He's serious about trying to revive an empire under the ChiCom-Russia Alliance. It's not going well.
His first meeting with Xi since Beijing's Olympics where they hugged it out, agreed no invasion until the games were over and declared their eternal mutual love is over. ChiComs don't like their squads in the minors screwing up things for them. The failed invasion of Ukraine is causing the ChiComs grief and they have a contradiction with Russia pissing on international law re: sovereignty when they hold a claim under same with Taiwan. Well, at least that's how they see it. ChiComs rewarded Putin by making a play for taking Kazakhstan and placing it firmly in their orbit. Putin went home after that humiliation in tears.
So, now the nuclear saber rattling is a regular feature of the Putin dictatorship. That's how it's going to be so get used to it. As one journalist asked me early into the invasion, "Will Putin stop now?" I replied Putin had no reason to stop and would not.
Now Putin sees the dangers of defeat squarely in front of him. Think Argentina's military junta in 78 when the Argyle army was routed in the Falklands by the Brits. Bye bye military junta. Same goes for Russia here. Except in Russia, this is a long term norm and Putin is well aware of it.
The "partial" mobilization is more a desperate play to change the dynamics of defeat as the armed forces of Ukraine have once again shocked the world routing the Russian army and a reconfigured corp. expected to stabilized the situation in the northeast. Didn't work out that way and 7,000 square miles and counting have been liberated. It's not stopping; there's now a beachead in Luhansk, an area Putin is now seeking to hold a 48 hour election in among other occupied areas.
It's just like the good old Soviet election days, or the Iraq election days or maybe a kiss to Election Theft 2020. But it all tolls quite badly for the KGB thug dictator, Putin.
Thanks again for the 11th circuit analysis, Mr. Childers. I needed that.
- Horsey Legal
Fair counterpoints.
"The armed forces of Ukraine have once again shocked the world" = U.S. Special Operations teams and/or former SOF, now private military contractors, operating out of uniform, have shocked the world...."
Are you saying the Ukrainians aren’t Able to do things on their own?
The Russians failed to take Kyiv because of their tenacity.
There are no SOF teams operating for Ukraine. None.
Do we have a large volunteer element? Yes. They are a huge boom to their capabilities.
The other night they all took a photo outside energodar and whispered “Slava ukraini”.
They’re going to be teaching us here soon.
You're simply wrong Fla Mom. There is no army consisting of foreign elements running their liberation operation against Putin's invasion. There are some small volunteer groups invited who are out there like from the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, now an independent country and even some American volunteers. There's one American from NYC I followed.
The US would not put Special Forces teams into such a perilous situation. Even a single captured US servicemen or KIA would be used to support the false narrative Putin is already using for his domestic propaganda that Russia is fighting "NATO forces."
As one NATO senior military leader said, "After this war, it will be the armed forces Of Ukraine teaching us." The creativeness and agility of Ukraine's armed forces impressed military analyst all around the world and this was prior to the rout of the Russian invaders in the Kharkiv area.
I might be wrong, but former SEAL Matt Bracken might know some folks and be right (or possibly wrong, too). Scott Ritter, who may also be wrong, said in a recent interview that it's now a NATO army doing the fighting, not the Ukraine Army.
(that interview is at https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VPl2RZNEgAU&t=1s&pp=2AEBkAIB)
Matthew Bracken @Matt_Bracken Sep 15
"Oh BTW, did you know that American troops [sheepdipped, wink wink as "contractors" wink wink] are currently engaged in ground battles against Russians in Eastern Ukraine?
Funny, I don't remember voting to go to war with Russia, or even having useless congressional hearings.
WW3 against Russia might get kinda serious, just saying.
Good thing we have a wise and steady hand running the White House. /sarc
Clear and explicit "Yep, those are damn-sure American soldiers" [sheepdipped as PMCs] video at link."
https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1570141395498962944
And, here's an official U.S. Army video showing soldiers and equipment from the 1st Armored Division Combat Aviation Brigade deploying to Europe, including all the way to Poland, for 'multinational exercises.' Even if true, do you think Russia will see that as provocative, at all, right on its border, at a time like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voat13IOWIQ
And I remembered, after writing my earlier comment, that a friend was a Special Operator in Laos, back when the U.S. "wasn't in Laos." That came after the U.S. "wasn't in Vietnam," during the time when there were only Special Operations "advisors."