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I shared it here in September 2024, but I came to it again last night as I finished up journaling through Isaiah. Such beautiful and powerful words . . .
"And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians; and they shall fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against their neighbor: city shall fight against city, and kingdom against kingdom." Isaiah XlX:2
The program of the World Order remains the same; Divide and Conquer.
I believe that Martin Luther wrote the words to this hymn based on this passage. This musical rendition expresses well both the longing and the hope. Written and performed by a friend of mine.
Instead of hijacking Jeff Childers site to print your own daily substack why don’t you pay for your own publishing space. Like Jeff does. Rude, inconsiderate, narcissistic, self centered behavior is no way to go thru life. Amen.
Her scriptures aren’t the point. Her using someone else’s publication rather than pay for her own is the point. Self righteousness doesn’t excuse stealing other people’s space.
I understand you, and do not disagree, per se. I also think, though, that you are perhaps missing the point, yourself ~ the larger point. It has seemed to me, over the years, that the passages chosen are, indeed, appropriate comments on the very content Jeff has included in that day's "C & C Essential News and Commentary." They are comments made by long-ago commenters on the news of their day, and are offered here as response to the impressively similar news of ours ~ and as always-appropriate reminders of the larger and longer-lasting (indeed, eternal) backdrop to the manically-morphing foreground of our 21st century. I also do not believe that the diagnosis of self-righteousness has adequate supporting evidence to justify its application here. Just my second opinion.
“Self righteousness doesn’t excuse stealing other people’s space.”
That assumes she’s doing it for self righteous reasons. And that sharing what comes to mind after reading is considered stealing someone’s space. 🙄😆
It’s understandable that someone who doesn’t read God’s Word daily and use it to guide their own life can’t possibly understand or see the connections to the day’s news, and then attack someone else who does.
When you’re exposed to God’s word every day, quite often when reading or conversing, something reminds you of something God said - and you share it. It’s part of our life. Who’s to say the thoughts triggered in YOUR mind after reading Jeff are any more worthy or applicable than the thoughts triggered in Janice’s mind? You have the freedom to share how Jeff’s article inspired your thoughts, whatever they may be, and she has that same right. She thinks in God’s Word because she is in it multiple times a day. She draws amazing parallels.
Stop being a heinous bully trying to control what others do. You will fail. Especially here.
One day you both will stand before God and He will ask “how did you share my Word? Did you seek to suppress it and keep others from hearing it?” And Janice will be celebrated with “well done my good and faithful servant” because she obeyed God and did NOT seek to stop others from hearing His Word.
The appropriate time to hear it is everywhere, every minute of the day, when you lie down and when you get up, when you walk and when you sit down, wherever you go. That’s in the Bible too. Look it up.
Jeff provides a comment section, as he has repeatedly said, to see people’s comments on his articles. I don’t recall him inviting folks to just print whatever you want whether it is relevant or not. As for Satan contacting me today to point out the selfishness and larcenous effect of hijacking space intended for other uses, I think some mental health is in order.
Jeff has never, in all of the years Janice has been posting, objected to her comments or asked her to stop. He quite frequently “likes” them, in fact. So if the author of this Substack clearly doesn’t see her posts as a problem, then she has every right to post. And unlike some other posts here, whether they’re relevant or not, she isn’t insulting people or name calling.
Chuck Schumer warned in January 2017 that confronting the U.S. intelligence community could provoke retaliation: “Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday to get back at you."
Re: the constitution violating investigations of Trump, et al, and the rampant blue state fraud.
So lets be as clear as possible, none of this would have occurred if our elections hadn't been hijacked years ago. And we have that motherF***** rino thune and several more (I will try to find and post the list of "republican" senators who have STILL NOT signed on to passing it) NOT doing his/their job, NOT ending the bullshit silent filibuster, and NOT getting the SAVE America Act passed. So, I hope everyone will call thune and your Senator and tell them to get the ACT passed. And then pray deeply that the massive attacks on our country by these criminals finally gets the reckoning we have all been praying and waiting for. Please take action today.
As I read about the exodus of money from these blue states, I was thinking of the discussion in the comments yesterday about the SAVE act and how Oregon literally only has mail in ballot elections. You are correct. You can see the results of fixed elections from mail-in ballots and how those fixed elections result in below sub-standard(aka corrupt) governments. It is essential to pass that SAVE act and eliminate the mail in ballots except for military and those that truly cannot make the trip to the polls(I can see that being a issue of providing proof) and stopping illegal non-citizens from voting. Why should this even be a contested issue??
There is one part of SAVE which I am unhappy with. In our state (the corrupt state of AZ), -and likely yours too - we already have a law on the books which requires the creation of "Mobile Election Boards". A mobile election board is a team of at least three people, (leader, and a dem and a republican) who must go to the homes, etc of those people who are disabled or unable to go to the polls. That team is responsible for checking ID, verifying the person is who they say they are, and then issuing a ballot and allowing the person to complete their vote, then the board watches them sign the ballot envelope, and takes the ballot back to the County for continued processing. Of course this would negate nearly all mail in ballots (except for military and those not in state at election time) and so the state and counties do not advertise this capability (because they are both corrupt and lazy) and instead have initiated the awful mail in ballot which is used to conduct wholesale election theft.
Why is it a contested issue? 90% of Americans want it, so it is not contested, except by those who want to stay in office and in power over us until forever.
And one other thing. I want to be completely clear. Mail in ballots were not created to improve voter turnout. They were created to enable election theft. Why/how do I know this? Because if they were created for legit citizen/voter turnout, they would have procedures to ensure voter Identity, full chain of custody, and method to keep them out of the hands of the USPS. They have none of these critical features.
I'm going to take your comment at face value instead of thinking it might be sarcasm.
Ballot harvesting is not a Mobile Election Board. A mobile election board is a trained team who does ID verification, maintains full chain of custody of each and every ballot, and delivers all ballots directly to the county for processing - instead of to the USPS for continued election fraud.
Washington also has mail-in ballots only, and the results show it. Part of the reason for staying in Washington, beyond family obligations, was that it had no income tax, which is part of the state constitution. However, our feckless legislature and even more feckless governor are ramming this through, against the WA State constitution and citizen protest.
Pretty much all the rinos and never trumpers we have come to know and loathe: Britt, Murkowski, Sullivan, Boozeman, Riche, Young, Grassley (WTF?), Moran, McConnell, Paul, Cassidy, Collins, Danes, Fischer, Ricketts, Rounds, Thune, Barraso
The Texas Moran voted for it in the House. The Senate from Kansas Moran is a co-sponsor of the bill. Why all the false information here? Your list is so inaccurate now I have to go check each one you named.
Time to crack the swamp code. What turns the oath of office into loyalty to the dark side rather than constituents. I remember days when members of Congress slept in offices because they couldn’t afford apartments in DC. Now they own homes, fly private and are millionaires.
You are right Jo Ann. The problem is they are truly above the law in a country where that is not supposed to be possible... and they have ensured it by not passing a term limits constitutional amendment. They've implemented a fail safe election engineering scam which keeps them in office for decades, virtually until they are carried out in a body bag. They are drunk with power, what was supposed to be a difficult job has turned into cocktail parties, quid pro quos and massive kickbacks from their corrupt legislation to foreigners who are unaccountable to the American legal system. Not to mention insider stock market trading. The truth is that they dont give a damn about the USA or we Citizens. They are corrupt to the core and absolutely despicable. How is it that scum bags like AOC and Omar are now incredibly wealthy, I am told both with net worth in the millions? WTF?!?!?
Thanks, I got called out for not having an up to the second correct list... but as you will see below, the list is slowly getting better, meaning more accurate to the second.
Its really disgusting we can only count on the republicans and rinos to do the job, knowing that the rotten to the core crimeocrats will never vote for it because it would mean they can no longer cheat. I wonder what forever flip-flopping fetterman will do?
Don't feel bad, I have two who are in office and violently oppose anything which is good for the USA. That would be seditionist Mark Kelly and anti-USA everything, retard and reprobate, cartel connected ruben gallego. Both of these oxygen thieves were s_Elected by wholesale mail in ballot fraud.
He clearly committed sedition and he and that worthless cartel employee gallego was put into office by a stolen election. Pernicious? Okay, sure. But I would prefer to call him a corrupt criminal.
And he will probably avoid the loss of rank which Sec DOW Hegseth gave him for his seditious acts. I loathe senator gargoyle. I cannot think of one good thing to say about that evil .....
Dan, there is only one reason they are not on board. And it's always the same: MONEY. They are making money from somewhere for not supporting this. And that is a giant finger in the eye to We the People. Keep 'em locked and loaded, brother. If this is gonna get fixed, it's going to be by We the People.
Yes, of course you are 100% correct. I - and probably everyone else reading this - am a daily recipient of these scumbags continuous stream of texts asking for money so they can pass the SAVE Act. They are corrupt and criminal to the core of their being.
And lets not forget many of them hate Trump because he is undoing their unlimited power.
Hi Dan - I think this is where I come in again. The number for the CAPITOL HILL OPERATOR is (202) 224-3121.
If I’m not mistaken, at least three of the Republicans who currently have said they refuse to vote for the Save Act are - Murkowski (Alaska), Tillis (NC), McConnell (KY).
Their TDS is overtaking all rational thought. It’s disgusting.
Three dedicated RINOs and antiTrump vermin. TDS causes that. Murkowski got back in by the utterly ridiculous Rank Choice Voting, yet another way they have forced on us, against our will, to ensure our voices are not heard as the CItizens of this country.
You are correct, it is absolutely disgusting. May they rot and burn in hell.
I agree. It’s so infuriating for all of us to see what needs to be done for voting (and so much else) to function properly and yet to have personal agendas get in the way of what is best for the country. (Agree that rank choice voting is a disaster, and particularly in the red state of Alaska. ugh)
And of course on the number! It’s a bit embarrassing (perhaps - LOL) that I know these numbers by heart. If anyone also wants to leave a positive message for Trump, the
WHITE HOUSE COMMENTS LINE is (202) 456-1111.
I say positive message because Trump doesn’t need any negative pushback right now. He’s not only trying to save the country, he’s trying to help the entire world and too many of the fools can’t/won’t see it. 🇺🇸
So yes. I did call Thune"s office. I had to leave a message since you wont ever get a live human being.
Anyhow, my message started with, "hello Senator Thune, Im not going to call you a MF'ing RINO, even though that's what you appear to be. Instead, Im going to encourage you to do your job and support our Great USA by stopping the silent filibuster and getting the SAVE America Act passed. It is critical as we all know now that our elections are completely rigged by massive wholesale mail in ballot fraud and programmable machines. So please stop playing games with our lives and get this done. We do NOT have verifiable, certifiable elections. The House has passed, the Senate now needs to do the same and quickly. Thank you.
I doubt I will get invited to his Christmas party but hopefully my message will help?
I wanted to say I'd be watching him through my ACOG (Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight), but then I thought that might not be helpful, so I didn't! And I forgot to add that almost 90% of all Americans want it passed, damnit!
I feel your frustration and raise you about 1,000. My first thought was to chuckle and think you’d probably do better not to start off your comment with an insult - just a thought. LOL. On the other hand, you probably got an aide’s attention and that’s at least a positive. You made me laugh.
In all seriousness, between the calls and Paxton’s clever political move on Cornyn/Save Act/endorsement, Thune is certainly more focused on this. We’ll see.
Scott Pressler’s correct on the Save Act. It could mean the difference between winning and losing the midterms. The base demands it and so does election integrity. Enough already!!!
It's interesting that Tillis and McConnell are done after 2026, so they're lame ducks and don't care at this point. And I think Murkowski may have a formidable challenger in 2028 when she is up.
Fabes55 - Yes, which makes it all the more hateful on their part. It’s pure Trump Derangement Syndrome and shows better than just about anything that their personal paybacks (or whatever it is) are more important than the country.
Murkowski is awful - spiteful - sour. She needs to have a formidable challenger - and Alaska needs to rid itself of rank choice voting!
I have no idea if thun was blowing smoke or being accurate when he said he didn't have enough votes to end the silent filibuster and replace with a standing filibuster.
Call your senator, tell them you want a vote yes on the SAVE act. I don't care which party they belong to! Call them every day until they vote in the SAVE act. And if they don't, they will be primaried.
Problem with it is they can hold Mullin's appointment to Homeland security as well as judges etc, as well as funding foe dhs. The tsa and travelers will be led to blame Trump and Republicans not dems. Who for the record, want an amendment to , I guess the funding bill for discussion, that no ICE officers can be located outside polling places. Now why do you think democrats don't want ICE around polling places, especially in CA where it is ILLEGAL to ask if someone is a citizen at a polling location.
Hmmm, the same people who launched a major hissy fit when Texas redistricting but are fine with California and Virginia doing the same. Pot meet kettle.
No on Mullin appointment being held up, unless you mean they would do it out of spite? The President has made the nomination, now the Senate only need confirm.
And amen on preventing ICE officers from locating outside polling locations. American elections are supposed to be for American Citizens only. Period. Full Stop!
Every single one of those POSs from the FBI involved with the spying on Trump for 10 years and spying on all the rest need a firing squad asap. Add Obama and the the dead man walking Biden. Every staffer, every man and woman involved, DOA. Have targets on their backs. They are the enemies of the US and need to be 6 feet under and then we have a place to go to piss on their graves.
"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater."
Is there a cure for the equally dangerous Trump Deification Syndrome?
Israel is getting hammered. The oil refining capacity in the region has been crippled. This is not going as we were told and as we are being told, but the deification sufferers cannot see it.
Your slip is showing, Zero. You are obviously paid political opposition working this site and probably others on a daily basis for years now. But your bosses don’t spring for a subscription? Guess that would be supporting Jeff and hence Trump as well.
You just always coincidentally have the same talking point perspective as the enemy and use this site to link them to a group of Jeff supporters that doesn’t believe the lying mainstream media anymore and hence aren’t going to see these sabotaging narratives otherwise.
In whatever nasty snake like form you actually exist in reality; you are the enemy of America.
100%, Spot on, WS. Thanks so much for pointing this out for those who may fall victim of his BS. This is the very nonsense Jeff has been teaching us to be on the look out for. Take a hike, Johnny Boy.
The lack of any high level officials going to prison would be comical if it were not so dangerous. Trump has had the epstein files for YEARS. Congress had to force his justice dept to release them (which they haven't fully done yet - a violation of law). Who are the comedians in this situation? Orwell must be enjoying this circus you all are participating in. Any day, I'm sure! I've been hearing this for over 5 years from you guys.
And Emmel, I predicted when the whole Comey thing happened last year, that nothing would happen, and I was excoriated by folks like you. How many high level people have gone to jail for things like Epstein, Covid, 911? I'll wait for your answer.
Really? Maybe you'll wait for the legal process of grand juries, indictments, and then actionable prosecutions? Or do you want to go all Sovietski, like a good fascist? We'll wait for your answer...but not really.
Blah blah blah, thank goodness we have you, enlightened self, to *explain* to us why disagreeing with your abnormally geopolitically uninformed commentary, makes us *idiots*. Such a relief.
I'm sure Bill will appreciate your elevated enlightenment in being able to singlehandedly share your psychic divination of *knowledge* with us lowly, mouth-breathing rubes.
Figures you get your news from Reuters and whoever the hell Danny Haiphong is. Explains a lot.
"Danny Haiphong is a socialist activist, writer, and political analyst. For the last five years, Haiphong has been a weekly contributor to Black Agenda Report, where his articles come from. His articles have also appeared in publications such as MintPressNews, Counterpunch, The American Herald Tribune, The Center for Global Research (Canada) and The Herald (Zimbabwe). "
But thank goodness, lol, that we have such enlightened souls like him to condescendingly inform the rest of us that only he can *see* what we can't, lol. Pomposity like that cracks me up! lol
Hey Tori, I've been clamoring about the Strait of Hormuz for days, while the likes of you belittled me, literally telling me that ships were going through, and the navy will escort ships, not to worry! That is false, even admittedly by our own navy, which I posted above. Wake up.
Hahahaha...I admire your persistence in validating the accuracy of my original comment. The ships that are still insured ARE going through. Do you really not understand how maritime insurance works?
And you are blatantly lying. Or are you claiming the footage is fake? If that is the case, please provide some footage. It is hard to find because of censorship. If the war were going so well, we would be seeing footage verifying that.
Imagine that...claiming that fabricated or miscontextualized footage is fake. How DARE he? Who is doing the *censoring*? Which you were somehow magically able to evade...? lol
Not that it matters, but you probably haven't read Jeff's posts from the past couple of days. That may explain things that even Portlanders understand.
and we, the people, have too numerous ways to count to get back at all of them. they best watch their backs or we can make them extinct like the ayatollah in iran.
Of course that corrupt, steaming POS Schumer was "correct", he was a major player (both Majority and Minority leader at various points) of the senate which helped legislate and fund the "institutional democracy" which gave them nearly unlimited power - to walk on the constitution and with their boots on our necks - and with no accountability.
I've disliked(being polite) Schumer since he appeared years ago at a congressional hearing to lead the defense for the slaughter at Waco. I saw him for the slimey creature he is.
The SOB is rotten and evil. He and pelosisaurus are probably more guilty than anyone else, except for maybe mcconnell, of destroying our Constitutional Republic.
And we the people can also take over and have our boots on their necks. If they push us to that point we will. lock and loaded and taking no prisoners. they have no right to abuse we the people and one day, this will happen, especially if the dems get in again. then we will have to take them out as they are too dangerous. we will make them ghosts like the ayatollah. And that will be their accountabililty as a gift from we the people.
Facts. I shot a deer once, a female, a doe. I felt like complete shit afterwards, I haven't shot one since. On the other hand, shooting these satanic, evil POS would not be a chore, nor would it be problematic.
Their six ways from Sunday was on full display in Butler. How is it that the shooter could be clearly seen by the secret service in order for them to make the kill shot on him but only right after he nearly took out DJT? They had to have seen him before he started firing but were either told he was one of the good guys by one of their superiors so they should just ignore him or they knew what his mission was and needed to let him do it before they silenced him forever in Oswald/Ruby fashion.
Yeah, except 400 agents couldn’t get Trump. The cleanest President ever. I suspect two agents nearing retirement could find dirt on Schumer in about two weeks.
I've bookmarked the link with Mike Rowe so I can finish C&C (has to be FIRST PRIORITY). Can't wait to attend to my 2nd priority for the day).
Exciting to know even more readers will get the know Jeff's humor BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, his insight into the sociopolitical mayhem of the 74th month and counting of 2020.
Happy 6th Anniversary to the Awake Critical Thinkers.
The World Health Organization (WHO) made the announcement on Wednesday, March 11, 2020, that the Coronavirus is a “pandemic” which is actually not as bad as an Epidemic which is a term that describes any problem that has grown out of control. An epidemic is therefore defined as “an outbreak of a disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects an exceptionally high proportion of the population.”
“The WHO has a financial incentive in declaring this a pandemic. It issued Pandemic Bonds paying 7% interest which now the WHO does not have to repay.”
And a new article says the virus was NOT made in the lab. Still lying to this day.
Recent zoonotic viruses didn't need special adaptations to infect humans
A study published in the journal Cell found that most zoonotic viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, did not need special adaptations to infect humans, challenging the belief that animal viruses must mutate before jumping to people. The researchers analyzed diverse viruses and found that selection pressures before zoonotic emergence were similar to those during animal circulation. "What matters most is human exposure to a diverse array of animal viruses," said researcher Joel Wertheim. The findings also suggest that SARS-CoV-2 did not emerge from a lab.
Full Story: University of California, San Diego (3/9)
Janice posted the Apple Podcasts link to Jeff’s interview in yesterday’s comments. Here it is again, for anyone who doesn’t have a Spotify account but does have an Apple account. I rarely listen to podcasts, but I really enjoyed this one! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I listened to it yesterday and it was such a joy! Jeff writes pretty much the way he talks, and now I'm going to "hear" C&C in his voice every time I read. 😁
Had no idea he spends more time on this blog than he does at his "real" (other?) job, but I sure appreciate him doing it.
**Beginning in the summer of 2016, at the precise moment Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination, Obama’s FBI launched a counterintelligence operation against him**
The democrats "Our democracy!" in action... Sounds like a 3rd world dictator's action doesn't it?
The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.
What's interesting is that the building in Van Nuys that supposedly hosted all these fake hospice centers, is literally 3 blocks from where a major IRS office resides. I guess all these grifting operations weren't auditable to the IRS. Not to mention that any other state or federal healthcare/grant auditor would feel at home visiting the hospice mall building with a federal building being so closely located (easy to catch lunch with other feddies).
They say the new leader of Iran, Mojtaba Khamenei has been struggling with impotence (ED). How’s that all work when any day now he meets his 72 virgins?
According to the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Vogon poetry is the third worst in the Universe. The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria, and the worst is by Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Sussex, who perished along with her poetry during the destruction of Earth, ironically caused by the Vogons themselves. Vogon poetry is seen as mild by comparison.
"We are not worried about the expiration date," repeated the barman, satisfied that he now had Ford Prefect's full attention. "We are worried about the entire piece of plastic."
"What?" said Ford. He seemed a little taken aback.
"This," said the barman, holding out the card as if it was a small fish whose soul had three weeks earlier winged its way to the Land Where Fish are Eternally Blessed, "we don't accept it."
Ford wondered briefly whether to raise the fact that he didn't have any other means of payment on him, but decided for the moment to soldier on. The disembodied hand was now grasping his shoulder lightly but firmly between its finger and thumb.
"But you don't understand," said Ford, his expression slowly ripening from a little taken abackness into rank incredulity. "This is the American Express Card. It is the finest way of settling bills known to man. Haven't you read their junk mail?"
The cheery quality of Ford's voice was beginning to grate on the barman's ears. It sounded like someone relentlessly playing the kazoo during one of the more sombre passages of a War Requiem.
One of the bones in Ford's shoulder began to crack…
😂 I think there was a typo in the original manual.
It actually said 72 VIRGINIANS— old school, constitutional ones like George Washington, Abe Lincoln, Alexander Hamilton and their like, with baseball bats wrapped in barbed wire. ED won’t be an issue.
There’s a meme floating around out there with this very scenario.
"Construction of the historic facility begins next month. Get this: India not only invested up front in building the plant, but has also agreed to buy long-term production for twenty years. In other words, the capital is surging back into the United States, for once. TAW."
As excited as I am to see oil production ramping back up domestically, that paragraph gives me pause. Is there a catch to this investment deal, something along the lines of H1-B visas and hiring preferences given to Indian applicants over American citizens?
4-6 years. Given Trump’s reputation for pushing faster approvals and deadlines on large projects, especially through executive actions aimed at cutting permitting timelines, it will probably happen sooner. Maybe 2-3 years? But not tomorrow.
The permitting, contracting, engineering, funding, right of ways and long lead item procurement alone will take 2-3 years. Trump can influence the permitting side of things but the other items are at the whim of market forces and the competency of the team managing the project.
Realistically, 5-6 years at a minimum before the refinery starts production.
Manpower alone will be a hurdle, finding 3000-4000 skilled tradesmen and luring them to Brownsville will itself be a big challenge.
Tradesmen shouldn't be a problem, since California is finishing shutting down their last refinery - those guys would love a job and Houston finished shutting down their plant in 2025.
Yep, more fantasy land thinking from the trump cult. They think we can start mining and refining the rare earths we get from china in just a couple of years too. Utter idiocy.
This is completely off topic, but I have wanted to let you know that, after all the talk of frozen mini marshmallows, I decided to put some in the freezer and see what they were like. The Mr. thought they were like Peeps after you let them get stale. I think he is going to put his Easter Peeps in the freezer this year, just to see how they turn out! 😂😂
Haha. Great. Stale, frozen mini marshmallows at the best. Peeps are too big and sweet for me. For additional variety, try them from different manufacturers. Also, minis made with gelatin seem to have less flavor than those fashioned from tapioca. Bon appétit!
And yet in Commiefornia, the refineries are shutting down. Thanks to Newscum and the Dem stronghold. CARB (California Air Resources Board) keeps pushing costly mandates that raise gas and electricity prices.
That was my first thought: Why isn't America building their own refinery? That is a really sad commentary on the state of American education and the American workforce. Over the last 50 years, everything has been off-shored. Americans don't know how to build anything anymore.
Seriously! To build a new oil refinery, America has to contract it out TO INDIA?????
I wanted to jump on and tell Jeff, I listened to the Mike Rowe interview yesterday. I like Mike Rowe, especially for what he has done supporting the trades, and the last year he has broadened his interviews to people and subjects I would not have expected even a few short years ago.
Much of the interview was events, as a long time C&C reader, I knew. One of the reasons I loved C&C was the optimism of Jeff in the worst of times, but also his Christian faith which he always admitted, but never tried to overpower the reader. It seemed Mike tried to avoid this integral part of who you are as much as possible. Knowing how that faith came about made it even more meaningful to me. While Jeff often uses words that require a dictionary, I can do it at my leisure and appreciate the broadening vocabulary, on the other hand, Mike too often uses $5 word’s when $1 ones would suffice just as well. My one problem listening to Mike Rowe interviews. However, it was an excellent morning listen and hopefully, will bring many more to C&C.
LMWC - I noticed that too when Mike didn’t add anything to Jeff’s profession of faith.
I pray that Mike goes back and listens to what Jeff had to say about how Christians have the comfort of trusting God’s word - when there is little else we can trust.
It was a great explanation for the difference between us and non-Christians. We have a powerful plumb line for life that never fails us and that we can trust is true. Mike should know no house is built well without a plumb line. Maybe he needs that analogy?
The heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that — a parent’s heart bared, beating forever outside its chest. ―Debra Ginsberg
I'm a mom of 5 precious souls, and it's both an intense joy and intense suffering to have ones heart so exposed to a sometimes treacherous and perilous world.
**Governor Bob Ferguson (D) gushed that the vote was “historic” and pointed out the tax would apply to less than one-half of one percent of people in the state. **
A friend from WA state wrote to me and said "the WA millionaire income tax will really be starting at 176k joint income".
Washington state doesn't get nearly enough national coverage for the outrageous things going on here. Our fraud problem is probably smaller in actual dollar amounts, but potentially larger per capita than other blue states.
I left WA in 1987 before anybody knew Seattle existed. (Well, Northern Californians had somehow discovered it but that’s another story, told in these comments previously.) my point is that 40 years of progressively damaging policy may finally have put Washington on the map.
I wonder what my very-well-off family members will do. Roots are deep in that state, back to 1800s.
Hubby and I left OR & WA for CA so long ago, and now looking to leave west coast altogether. Just can’t afford anymore and besides we just want to be left alone!
It was so beautiful when we first came here, but it seems most of the culture has gone down hill since Kate Brown. Also we live in area where the Almeda fire was. We are stuck here for now.
Don't move to Oklahoma. It is filled with many poisonous rattlesnakes. The roads are rarely repaired, but when they are, it takes years, while the traffic backs up for weeks at a time. "Tornado Alley," it's called, because frequently large swaths of land are attacked from the sky by spinning black clouds. All the structures are carried away and deposited on someone else's new house in the next town. The newspapers are so liberal they won't even mention Trump. The state fish is the catfish, which looks like a shark with whisker-like protrusions. The 100-mph wind will send trees crashing through your roof, followed by blinding rain to soak your furniture, and often includes catfish. Try Texas instead.
How about Idaho? It's close geographically to WA, but remote in terms of personal freedom. As a small example, when you cross over from Oregon, the speed limit jumps from 70 to 85 mph.
You are very fortunate that you can entertain the notion of so many moves to escape the lunacy.
This has been misrepresented as a "millionaire's" tax. WA constitution doesn't allow for discrimination based on income, meaning that if the leftist state supreme court okays this tax, which is expected, that it will have to apply to everyone.
I shouldn’t read this at my office like I do. My laughter often gets too loud and today it definitely was a bit disruptive when I read “which sound like names for dollar store scented candles. “
Unless and until at least 100 FBI people, and the FISA judges, are jailed for life, I won't believe there is any sort of reckoning.
Trillions of our dollars wasted on fraud. Every single government program is a sham. The FBI now works for the Democrat Party which is hell bent on destroying everything good about the country.
Are we there yet? "There" being things I should not say but we all know.
The absolute least I want is to see the Clintons and Obama busting rocks in orange jumpsuits! That would be a good start.
I'll bet Michelle swings the 9 pound hammer better than his husband!
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Oh, that You would rend the heavens and come down,
That the mountains might quake at Your presence—
As fire kindles the brushwood, as fire causes water to boil—
To make Your name known to Your adversaries,
That the nations may tremble at Your presence!
When You did awesome things for which we did not hope,
You came down; the mountains quaked at Your presence.
For from ancient times they have not heard or given ear,
Nor has the eye seen a God besides You,
Who acts in behalf of the one who waits for Him.
— Isaiah 64:1-4 LSB
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Oh how I love this Scripture!!!!
I shared it here in September 2024, but I came to it again last night as I finished up journaling through Isaiah. Such beautiful and powerful words . . .
Those Words are altogether lovely, Janice.
"And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians; and they shall fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against their neighbor: city shall fight against city, and kingdom against kingdom." Isaiah XlX:2
The program of the World Order remains the same; Divide and Conquer.
“What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.”
Ecclesiastes 1:9
I have been praying that the demons would turn on each other. I see they are doing so.
Praise YEHOVAH for HIS FAITHFULNESS.
https://nathanpartain.bandcamp.com/track/o-savior-rend-the-heavens-wide
I believe that Martin Luther wrote the words to this hymn based on this passage. This musical rendition expresses well both the longing and the hope. Written and performed by a friend of mine.
Absolutely beautiful! Thank you for the link!
I love it! thank you for the introduction.
Maranatha!
Janice, so applicable for today! After Jeff's revelations today I am so incensed, I hope Our Lord God does just what you revealed in the Scripture!
Instead of hijacking Jeff Childers site to print your own daily substack why don’t you pay for your own publishing space. Like Jeff does. Rude, inconsiderate, narcissistic, self centered behavior is no way to go thru life. Amen.
We love Janice and her scriptures here. You don’t have to read it, just scroll on by.
Jeff likes her posts too, I might add.
Her scriptures aren’t the point. Her using someone else’s publication rather than pay for her own is the point. Self righteousness doesn’t excuse stealing other people’s space.
I understand you, and do not disagree, per se. I also think, though, that you are perhaps missing the point, yourself ~ the larger point. It has seemed to me, over the years, that the passages chosen are, indeed, appropriate comments on the very content Jeff has included in that day's "C & C Essential News and Commentary." They are comments made by long-ago commenters on the news of their day, and are offered here as response to the impressively similar news of ours ~ and as always-appropriate reminders of the larger and longer-lasting (indeed, eternal) backdrop to the manically-morphing foreground of our 21st century. I also do not believe that the diagnosis of self-righteousness has adequate supporting evidence to justify its application here. Just my second opinion.
“Self righteousness doesn’t excuse stealing other people’s space.”
That assumes she’s doing it for self righteous reasons. And that sharing what comes to mind after reading is considered stealing someone’s space. 🙄😆
It’s understandable that someone who doesn’t read God’s Word daily and use it to guide their own life can’t possibly understand or see the connections to the day’s news, and then attack someone else who does.
When you’re exposed to God’s word every day, quite often when reading or conversing, something reminds you of something God said - and you share it. It’s part of our life. Who’s to say the thoughts triggered in YOUR mind after reading Jeff are any more worthy or applicable than the thoughts triggered in Janice’s mind? You have the freedom to share how Jeff’s article inspired your thoughts, whatever they may be, and she has that same right. She thinks in God’s Word because she is in it multiple times a day. She draws amazing parallels.
Stop being a heinous bully trying to control what others do. You will fail. Especially here.
One day you both will stand before God and He will ask “how did you share my Word? Did you seek to suppress it and keep others from hearing it?” And Janice will be celebrated with “well done my good and faithful servant” because she obeyed God and did NOT seek to stop others from hearing His Word.
The appropriate time to hear it is everywhere, every minute of the day, when you lie down and when you get up, when you walk and when you sit down, wherever you go. That’s in the Bible too. Look it up.
I shudder at His response to your behavior.
She does already 🤣🤣🤣 And we and Jeff like her sharing here too. Jeff has shown appreciation for her presence.
But Satan’s minions show themselves, spitting from the sidelines about it.
A "truth seeker" by any other name is still annoying . . .
Interesting. I’ve been accused of being annoying my whole life, at every stage. 🤣👍
Those people don’t know what they’re talking about!
Jeff provides a comment section, as he has repeatedly said, to see people’s comments on his articles. I don’t recall him inviting folks to just print whatever you want whether it is relevant or not. As for Satan contacting me today to point out the selfishness and larcenous effect of hijacking space intended for other uses, I think some mental health is in order.
Jeff has never, in all of the years Janice has been posting, objected to her comments or asked her to stop. He quite frequently “likes” them, in fact. So if the author of this Substack clearly doesn’t see her posts as a problem, then she has every right to post. And unlike some other posts here, whether they’re relevant or not, she isn’t insulting people or name calling.
Jeff has often complained about, criticized, or exposed those in comments who deserve being called out. Janice has never been one of them.
This isn’t your space, it’s his. You aren’t his keeper. Get over yourself 🤣🤣
Bro. This ain't it. You shot and missed. Move on.
I love this song 🎵‼️😺💥💥💥
Chuck Schumer warned in January 2017 that confronting the U.S. intelligence community could provoke retaliation: “Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday to get back at you."
Ol' Chuckles was - for once- correct.
Re: the constitution violating investigations of Trump, et al, and the rampant blue state fraud.
So lets be as clear as possible, none of this would have occurred if our elections hadn't been hijacked years ago. And we have that motherF***** rino thune and several more (I will try to find and post the list of "republican" senators who have STILL NOT signed on to passing it) NOT doing his/their job, NOT ending the bullshit silent filibuster, and NOT getting the SAVE America Act passed. So, I hope everyone will call thune and your Senator and tell them to get the ACT passed. And then pray deeply that the massive attacks on our country by these criminals finally gets the reckoning we have all been praying and waiting for. Please take action today.
As I read about the exodus of money from these blue states, I was thinking of the discussion in the comments yesterday about the SAVE act and how Oregon literally only has mail in ballot elections. You are correct. You can see the results of fixed elections from mail-in ballots and how those fixed elections result in below sub-standard(aka corrupt) governments. It is essential to pass that SAVE act and eliminate the mail in ballots except for military and those that truly cannot make the trip to the polls(I can see that being a issue of providing proof) and stopping illegal non-citizens from voting. Why should this even be a contested issue??
There is one part of SAVE which I am unhappy with. In our state (the corrupt state of AZ), -and likely yours too - we already have a law on the books which requires the creation of "Mobile Election Boards". A mobile election board is a team of at least three people, (leader, and a dem and a republican) who must go to the homes, etc of those people who are disabled or unable to go to the polls. That team is responsible for checking ID, verifying the person is who they say they are, and then issuing a ballot and allowing the person to complete their vote, then the board watches them sign the ballot envelope, and takes the ballot back to the County for continued processing. Of course this would negate nearly all mail in ballots (except for military and those not in state at election time) and so the state and counties do not advertise this capability (because they are both corrupt and lazy) and instead have initiated the awful mail in ballot which is used to conduct wholesale election theft.
Why is it a contested issue? 90% of Americans want it, so it is not contested, except by those who want to stay in office and in power over us until forever.
And one other thing. I want to be completely clear. Mail in ballots were not created to improve voter turnout. They were created to enable election theft. Why/how do I know this? Because if they were created for legit citizen/voter turnout, they would have procedures to ensure voter Identity, full chain of custody, and method to keep them out of the hands of the USPS. They have none of these critical features.
We don't need Mobile Election Boards in Washington state. Ballot harvesting is already legal.
I'm going to take your comment at face value instead of thinking it might be sarcasm.
Ballot harvesting is not a Mobile Election Board. A mobile election board is a trained team who does ID verification, maintains full chain of custody of each and every ballot, and delivers all ballots directly to the county for processing - instead of to the USPS for continued election fraud.
Sorry, I misunderstood.
There and many many other States
Washington also has mail-in ballots only, and the results show it. Part of the reason for staying in Washington, beyond family obligations, was that it had no income tax, which is part of the state constitution. However, our feckless legislature and even more feckless governor are ramming this through, against the WA State constitution and citizen protest.
Mrs. "the Knife"
Pretty much all the rinos and never trumpers we have come to know and loathe: Britt, Murkowski, Sullivan, Boozeman, Riche, Young, Grassley (WTF?), Moran, McConnell, Paul, Cassidy, Collins, Danes, Fischer, Ricketts, Rounds, Thune, Barraso
All but four were supposedly on board a few weeks ago to get it passed? So, they lied once again to all of us….Surprise, surprise! Not surprised!
AL Sen Britt was one of the co-sponsors and is still working with Sen Mike Lee on the Save Act. Fox News has already issued a correction.
Thank you for that update Beckadee.
Same with Young, I thought?
The Texas Moran voted for it in the House. The Senate from Kansas Moran is a co-sponsor of the bill. Why all the false information here? Your list is so inaccurate now I have to go check each one you named.
The list is changing on the fly, sorry. Mine was a copy of the list put up by Gunther Eagleman on X: https://x.com/GuntherEagleman/status/2010795627719114801 (also I just looked at his post and it was created on 12 Jan 2026, so it is old data. The one I was looking for was one posted below and I will re-post again here: https://www.independentsentinel.com/the-gop-senators-who-will-not-vote-for-the-save-act/
His information is generally pretty reliable.
So, maybe ol' Gunther isn't such a reliable source. Have you back checked the rest of them?
No, go ahead, be helpful. He's pretty reliable but like every other human being, including you Lydia and me, not infallible.
thanks.
Maybe an old list?
Time to crack the swamp code. What turns the oath of office into loyalty to the dark side rather than constituents. I remember days when members of Congress slept in offices because they couldn’t afford apartments in DC. Now they own homes, fly private and are millionaires.
You are right Jo Ann. The problem is they are truly above the law in a country where that is not supposed to be possible... and they have ensured it by not passing a term limits constitutional amendment. They've implemented a fail safe election engineering scam which keeps them in office for decades, virtually until they are carried out in a body bag. They are drunk with power, what was supposed to be a difficult job has turned into cocktail parties, quid pro quos and massive kickbacks from their corrupt legislation to foreigners who are unaccountable to the American legal system. Not to mention insider stock market trading. The truth is that they dont give a damn about the USA or we Citizens. They are corrupt to the core and absolutely despicable. How is it that scum bags like AOC and Omar are now incredibly wealthy, I am told both with net worth in the millions? WTF?!?!?
Important to itemize the goon squad
Thanks, I got called out for not having an up to the second correct list... but as you will see below, the list is slowly getting better, meaning more accurate to the second.
Its really disgusting we can only count on the republicans and rinos to do the job, knowing that the rotten to the core crimeocrats will never vote for it because it would mean they can no longer cheat. I wonder what forever flip-flopping fetterman will do?
Realize that the squad morphs. Calling them out consistently is useful.
And I bet Lady G is silently against it also.
I'm sorry to say Moran is one of ours. 🤬
Don't feel bad, I have two who are in office and violently oppose anything which is good for the USA. That would be seditionist Mark Kelly and anti-USA everything, retard and reprobate, cartel connected ruben gallego. Both of these oxygen thieves were s_Elected by wholesale mail in ballot fraud.
Or you could live in Oregon where they are all useless
The Bond villain and a commie. Great!
Put into office by election theft and wholesale mail in ballot fraud. And doing extreme damage to the country as a result.
It's so frustrating, Dan. And that Mark Kelly is pernicious. I'm sorry you have two. Our other guy is pretty good.
He clearly committed sedition and he and that worthless cartel employee gallego was put into office by a stolen election. Pernicious? Okay, sure. But I would prefer to call him a corrupt criminal.
And he will probably avoid the loss of rank which Sec DOW Hegseth gave him for his seditious acts. I loathe senator gargoyle. I cannot think of one good thing to say about that evil .....
The Kansas Moran is a co-sponsor in the Senate. The Texas Moran voted for it in the House. Which one are you talking about?
Kansas. I haven't liked him for a long time. And I voted for him.
Dan, there is only one reason they are not on board. And it's always the same: MONEY. They are making money from somewhere for not supporting this. And that is a giant finger in the eye to We the People. Keep 'em locked and loaded, brother. If this is gonna get fixed, it's going to be by We the People.
Yes, of course you are 100% correct. I - and probably everyone else reading this - am a daily recipient of these scumbags continuous stream of texts asking for money so they can pass the SAVE Act. They are corrupt and criminal to the core of their being.
And lets not forget many of them hate Trump because he is undoing their unlimited power.
Since they are all whores couldn’t we just offer more?
Interesting today. Thune’s local office is avoiding calls. Not the usual response for leaving a message as directed by a recorded Thune.
Washington # seems to be working as usual.
Afraid I lost it and yelled. All I can see is pitchforks.
That's ok, WS. What the hell has being civil gotten us?
Hi Dan - I think this is where I come in again. The number for the CAPITOL HILL OPERATOR is (202) 224-3121.
If I’m not mistaken, at least three of the Republicans who currently have said they refuse to vote for the Save Act are - Murkowski (Alaska), Tillis (NC), McConnell (KY).
Their TDS is overtaking all rational thought. It’s disgusting.
Hi Free,
Excellent, thanks for posting the number.
Three dedicated RINOs and antiTrump vermin. TDS causes that. Murkowski got back in by the utterly ridiculous Rank Choice Voting, yet another way they have forced on us, against our will, to ensure our voices are not heard as the CItizens of this country.
You are correct, it is absolutely disgusting. May they rot and burn in hell.
Dan - Strong message to follow, eh? 🤣
I agree. It’s so infuriating for all of us to see what needs to be done for voting (and so much else) to function properly and yet to have personal agendas get in the way of what is best for the country. (Agree that rank choice voting is a disaster, and particularly in the red state of Alaska. ugh)
And of course on the number! It’s a bit embarrassing (perhaps - LOL) that I know these numbers by heart. If anyone also wants to leave a positive message for Trump, the
WHITE HOUSE COMMENTS LINE is (202) 456-1111.
I say positive message because Trump doesn’t need any negative pushback right now. He’s not only trying to save the country, he’s trying to help the entire world and too many of the fools can’t/won’t see it. 🇺🇸
So yes. I did call Thune"s office. I had to leave a message since you wont ever get a live human being.
Anyhow, my message started with, "hello Senator Thune, Im not going to call you a MF'ing RINO, even though that's what you appear to be. Instead, Im going to encourage you to do your job and support our Great USA by stopping the silent filibuster and getting the SAVE America Act passed. It is critical as we all know now that our elections are completely rigged by massive wholesale mail in ballot fraud and programmable machines. So please stop playing games with our lives and get this done. We do NOT have verifiable, certifiable elections. The House has passed, the Senate now needs to do the same and quickly. Thank you.
I doubt I will get invited to his Christmas party but hopefully my message will help?
I wanted to say I'd be watching him through my ACOG (Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight), but then I thought that might not be helpful, so I didn't! And I forgot to add that almost 90% of all Americans want it passed, damnit!
I feel your frustration and raise you about 1,000. My first thought was to chuckle and think you’d probably do better not to start off your comment with an insult - just a thought. LOL. On the other hand, you probably got an aide’s attention and that’s at least a positive. You made me laugh.
In all seriousness, between the calls and Paxton’s clever political move on Cornyn/Save Act/endorsement, Thune is certainly more focused on this. We’ll see.
Scott Pressler’s correct on the Save Act. It could mean the difference between winning and losing the midterms. The base demands it and so does election integrity. Enough already!!!
It's interesting that Tillis and McConnell are done after 2026, so they're lame ducks and don't care at this point. And I think Murkowski may have a formidable challenger in 2028 when she is up.
Fabes55 - Yes, which makes it all the more hateful on their part. It’s pure Trump Derangement Syndrome and shows better than just about anything that their personal paybacks (or whatever it is) are more important than the country.
Murkowski is awful - spiteful - sour. She needs to have a formidable challenger - and Alaska needs to rid itself of rank choice voting!
I have no idea if thun was blowing smoke or being accurate when he said he didn't have enough votes to end the silent filibuster and replace with a standing filibuster.
Call your senator, tell them you want a vote yes on the SAVE act. I don't care which party they belong to! Call them every day until they vote in the SAVE act. And if they don't, they will be primaried.
Perfect! Thanks for stating it.
President Trump has also stated he will not sign another piece of legislation until SAVE gets done. Now we need to have his back.
Problem with it is they can hold Mullin's appointment to Homeland security as well as judges etc, as well as funding foe dhs. The tsa and travelers will be led to blame Trump and Republicans not dems. Who for the record, want an amendment to , I guess the funding bill for discussion, that no ICE officers can be located outside polling places. Now why do you think democrats don't want ICE around polling places, especially in CA where it is ILLEGAL to ask if someone is a citizen at a polling location.
Hmmm, the same people who launched a major hissy fit when Texas redistricting but are fine with California and Virginia doing the same. Pot meet kettle.
No on Mullin appointment being held up, unless you mean they would do it out of spite? The President has made the nomination, now the Senate only need confirm.
And amen on preventing ICE officers from locating outside polling locations. American elections are supposed to be for American Citizens only. Period. Full Stop!
Here's the latest list I saw
https://bigleaguepolitics.substack.com/p/heres-the-list-mark-meadows-names
Yeah, thanks SHug, thats the article I was looking for, appreciate the post.
Todd Young said a while ago that he’d be a cosponsor. So he’s either changed his mind since or the list is inaccurate.
RL,
Great news, can you provide a link?
https://x.com/ToddYoungIN/status/2019794859083649100
Had to use a different search engine to find something other than Facebook or organizations critical of the Act 😕
Unfortunately I live in NM and both my Senators are low IQ human piles of💩
Oh yeah, you are right, highly stacked POS.
Yes, yes, yes! Please post that list. I will add their names to the list I am already calling every day .
easy enough to remove Thune, pressure may or may not be the way forward
The terror cells have been activated, the attacks escalated
Many are failing
I wonder how many TDS staffers are still employed at the FBI and DOJ? Is there a mRNA vaccine for TDS?
Yes. It contains at least 50 grains of lead
Injected twice, mid forehead.
Every single one of those POSs from the FBI involved with the spying on Trump for 10 years and spying on all the rest need a firing squad asap. Add Obama and the the dead man walking Biden. Every staffer, every man and woman involved, DOA. Have targets on their backs. They are the enemies of the US and need to be 6 feet under and then we have a place to go to piss on their graves.
Precisely correct. Its really the only way to ENSURE it NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN.
Best I can do is 46 at 1800fps. It’ll work.
That will work if properly placed
I picked up two of the pr57’s from Keltec. What an interesting tool. Check it out.
When they were the hottest item out there, a friend who works in a gun store gave me a Keltec 22 magnum 30 shot pistol. Good luck loading them.
well my 540 grain slug should do just fine, but only 1300 f/s, sigh.
Still, that should work "pretty" well.
I think he said TDS staffers, yep, that's what he said, TDS staffers, go look again Daniel.
Thanks and I apologies for my previous comment!
Thanks for the quick deletes.
"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater."
Frank Zappa
Is there a cure for the equally dangerous Trump Deification Syndrome?
Israel is getting hammered. The oil refining capacity in the region has been crippled. This is not going as we were told and as we are being told, but the deification sufferers cannot see it.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-navy-tells-shipping-industry-hormuz-escorts-not-possible-now-2026-03-10/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wUVxShgooo&t=1446s
Your slip is showing, Zero. You are obviously paid political opposition working this site and probably others on a daily basis for years now. But your bosses don’t spring for a subscription? Guess that would be supporting Jeff and hence Trump as well.
You just always coincidentally have the same talking point perspective as the enemy and use this site to link them to a group of Jeff supporters that doesn’t believe the lying mainstream media anymore and hence aren’t going to see these sabotaging narratives otherwise.
In whatever nasty snake like form you actually exist in reality; you are the enemy of America.
100%, Spot on, WS. Thanks so much for pointing this out for those who may fall victim of his BS. This is the very nonsense Jeff has been teaching us to be on the look out for. Take a hike, Johnny Boy.
That guy is a paid commie troll.
They should demand a refund.
Ha ha ha!
Johnny-O reminds me of Rachel Maddox- “THE WALLS ARE CLOSING IN !”
Just like the walls are closing in on the deep state for 5+ years right? How is that deep state war with Iran going? You guys are utterly clueless.
Again, relentlessly proving the validity of your inadvertent comedic talents. Thank you.
The lack of any high level officials going to prison would be comical if it were not so dangerous. Trump has had the epstein files for YEARS. Congress had to force his justice dept to release them (which they haven't fully done yet - a violation of law). Who are the comedians in this situation? Orwell must be enjoying this circus you all are participating in. Any day, I'm sure! I've been hearing this for over 5 years from you guys.
And Emmel, I predicted when the whole Comey thing happened last year, that nothing would happen, and I was excoriated by folks like you. How many high level people have gone to jail for things like Epstein, Covid, 911? I'll wait for your answer.
Really? Maybe you'll wait for the legal process of grand juries, indictments, and then actionable prosecutions? Or do you want to go all Sovietski, like a good fascist? We'll wait for your answer...but not really.
Uh, in my example I gave, Trump's justice dept (which is a joke, led by idiot bimbo bondi) did try to prosecute Comey. It WENT NOWHERE.
This is such nonsense that it is downright comical.
This conflict is nonsense, and it isn't going how you all are being told.
The ships that have been hit include:
Sanctioned ship Skylight, near Kumzar, Oman
MT MKD VYOM, near Muscat, Oman
MT Hercules Star, near Mina Saqr, UAE
MV Ocean Electra, near Sharjah, UAE
MT Stena Imperative, in port in Bahrain
MV Gold Oak, near Fujairah, UAE
MT Libra Trader, near Fujairah
MV Pelagia, in the Gulf of Oman
MV Safeen Prestige, near Oman while transiting the strait
MT Sonangol Namibe, near Mubarak Al Kabeer, Kuwait
Tug Mussafah 2, assisting Safeen Prestige, near Oman
Oil rig Arabia III near Al Jubayl, Saudi Arabia
MV GH Kahlo, near Abu Dhabi
https://news.usni.org/2026/03/10/operation-epic-escort
Blah blah blah, thank goodness we have you, enlightened self, to *explain* to us why disagreeing with your abnormally geopolitically uninformed commentary, makes us *idiots*. Such a relief.
Johnny-O’s commie handlers give him obscure links to send.
Look at the source and then ask who the uninformed one is.
You, sport, are a jack ass of the first order, Scram
Jackass would be more of the sort who ignores the blatant reality around them, and blindly believes governments and media who are known liars.
I'm sure Bill will appreciate your elevated enlightenment in being able to singlehandedly share your psychic divination of *knowledge* with us lowly, mouth-breathing rubes.
Figures you get your news from Reuters and whoever the hell Danny Haiphong is. Explains a lot.
"Danny Haiphong is a socialist activist, writer, and political analyst. For the last five years, Haiphong has been a weekly contributor to Black Agenda Report, where his articles come from. His articles have also appeared in publications such as MintPressNews, Counterpunch, The American Herald Tribune, The Center for Global Research (Canada) and The Herald (Zimbabwe). "
The ships that have been hit include:
Sanctioned ship Skylight, near Kumzar, Oman
MT MKD VYOM, near Muscat, Oman
MT Hercules Star, near Mina Saqr, UAE
MV Ocean Electra, near Sharjah, UAE
MT Stena Imperative, in port in Bahrain
MV Gold Oak, near Fujairah, UAE
MT Libra Trader, near Fujairah
MV Pelagia, in the Gulf of Oman
MV Safeen Prestige, near Oman while transiting the strait
MT Sonangol Namibe, near Mubarak Al Kabeer, Kuwait
Tug Mussafah 2, assisting Safeen Prestige, near Oman
Oil rig Arabia III near Al Jubayl, Saudi Arabia
MV GH Kahlo, near Abu Dhabi
https://news.usni.org/2026/03/10/operation-epic-escort
And you are getting your "news" from big brother. Clown.
Go away.
But thank goodness, lol, that we have such enlightened souls like him to condescendingly inform the rest of us that only he can *see* what we can't, lol. Pomposity like that cracks me up! lol
Hey Tori, I've been clamoring about the Strait of Hormuz for days, while the likes of you belittled me, literally telling me that ships were going through, and the navy will escort ships, not to worry! That is false, even admittedly by our own navy, which I posted above. Wake up.
Hahahaha...I admire your persistence in validating the accuracy of my original comment. The ships that are still insured ARE going through. Do you really not understand how maritime insurance works?
your links show NOTHING of what you describe.
TROLL.
And you are blatantly lying. Or are you claiming the footage is fake? If that is the case, please provide some footage. It is hard to find because of censorship. If the war were going so well, we would be seeing footage verifying that.
Imagine that...claiming that fabricated or miscontextualized footage is fake. How DARE he? Who is doing the *censoring*? Which you were somehow magically able to evade...? lol
You and the other blind zealots here are going to have a very rude awakening if you ever allow yourselves to see the truth.
3 cargo ships have been hit in Hormuz
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/03/11/iran-war-latest-news-trump-israel-strait-of-hormuz
Not that it matters, but you probably haven't read Jeff's posts from the past couple of days. That may explain things that even Portlanders understand.
Chuck Schumer: You Take on the Intelligence Agencies they Have 6 Ways from Sunday to Get Back at You: https://old.bitchute.com/video/QNCLBtNZygJY [97seconds]
and we, the people, have too numerous ways to count to get back at all of them. they best watch their backs or we can make them extinct like the ayatollah in iran.
Of course that corrupt, steaming POS Schumer was "correct", he was a major player (both Majority and Minority leader at various points) of the senate which helped legislate and fund the "institutional democracy" which gave them nearly unlimited power - to walk on the constitution and with their boots on our necks - and with no accountability.
I've disliked(being polite) Schumer since he appeared years ago at a congressional hearing to lead the defense for the slaughter at Waco. I saw him for the slimey creature he is.
The SOB is rotten and evil. He and pelosisaurus are probably more guilty than anyone else, except for maybe mcconnell, of destroying our Constitutional Republic.
schumer is a sick twist. the sooner he is 6 feet under the better.
And we the people can also take over and have our boots on their necks. If they push us to that point we will. lock and loaded and taking no prisoners. they have no right to abuse we the people and one day, this will happen, especially if the dems get in again. then we will have to take them out as they are too dangerous. we will make them ghosts like the ayatollah. And that will be their accountabililty as a gift from we the people.
Truly, this is why we have the 2nd Amendment... it is not for hunting deer.
Indeed. Deer are beautiful and innocent creatures. The ones we talk about are Satanic and need to be destroyed utterly and completely.
Facts. I shot a deer once, a female, a doe. I felt like complete shit afterwards, I haven't shot one since. On the other hand, shooting these satanic, evil POS would not be a chore, nor would it be problematic.
I feel the exact same way. Haven't shot a deer in 50 years. But there are many of these career asshole politicians I wouldn't hesitate to terminate.
Their six ways from Sunday was on full display in Butler. How is it that the shooter could be clearly seen by the secret service in order for them to make the kill shot on him but only right after he nearly took out DJT? They had to have seen him before he started firing but were either told he was one of the good guys by one of their superiors so they should just ignore him or they knew what his mission was and needed to let him do it before they silenced him forever in Oswald/Ruby fashion.
Dollars to donuts, if the FBI(DOJ?) did this - you can imagine what elements of the CIA and the rest of the I/C (the “deepest state”) probably did.
I listened to the Rowe podcast, yesterday, don’t miss it!
but I would guess he had REASON to "know" what was up with an ongoing "op".
So was Schumer stating a warning or was he bragging? Cowards and narcissists love to brag.
Yeah, except 400 agents couldn’t get Trump. The cleanest President ever. I suspect two agents nearing retirement could find dirt on Schumer in about two weeks.
To be fair, he wasn't just correct. He was providing direction and live commentary, NOT a prediction.
I cannot add to that.
But would like to share that I cannot get enough of these Trump Memes ENJOY: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eR11bP0bzEU
PS: Proof that moderate Democrats are far-left Marxist progressives in disguise. https://shorturl.at/D8zhT
I remember thinking at the time Chuck first said this amazing statement, "he seems to be telegraphing right now."
Jeff: "...Then someone buried those files in an illegal filing system to ensure nobody could ever find them..."
I have a simple question. Why didn't they just destroy the files?... Hello? What criminal hides evidence rather than simply destroying it?
Jeff, I hope you had a wonderful birthday yesterday.
Yes! Happy birthday, Jeff! Thanks for the reminder, Dr. Linda!
I've bookmarked the link with Mike Rowe so I can finish C&C (has to be FIRST PRIORITY). Can't wait to attend to my 2nd priority for the day).
Exciting to know even more readers will get the know Jeff's humor BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, his insight into the sociopolitical mayhem of the 74th month and counting of 2020.
Happy 6th Anniversary to the Awake Critical Thinkers.
We didn't die, as projected.
Yep, sixth Happy Anniversary!
One thing that happened six years ago:
The World Health Organization (WHO) made the announcement on Wednesday, March 11, 2020, that the Coronavirus is a “pandemic” which is actually not as bad as an Epidemic which is a term that describes any problem that has grown out of control. An epidemic is therefore defined as “an outbreak of a disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects an exceptionally high proportion of the population.”
“The WHO has a financial incentive in declaring this a pandemic. It issued Pandemic Bonds paying 7% interest which now the WHO does not have to repay.”
And a new article says the virus was NOT made in the lab. Still lying to this day.
Recent zoonotic viruses didn't need special adaptations to infect humans
A study published in the journal Cell found that most zoonotic viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, did not need special adaptations to infect humans, challenging the belief that animal viruses must mutate before jumping to people. The researchers analyzed diverse viruses and found that selection pressures before zoonotic emergence were similar to those during animal circulation. "What matters most is human exposure to a diverse array of animal viruses," said researcher Joel Wertheim. The findings also suggest that SARS-CoV-2 did not emerge from a lab.
Full Story: University of California, San Diego (3/9)
Who bought WHO bonds? Seriously!
Maybe the folks down in Whoville? 🤣
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Janice posted the Apple Podcasts link to Jeff’s interview in yesterday’s comments. Here it is again, for anyone who doesn’t have a Spotify account but does have an Apple account. I rarely listen to podcasts, but I really enjoyed this one! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-way-i-heard-it-with-mike-rowe/id1087110764
I listened to it yesterday and it was such a joy! Jeff writes pretty much the way he talks, and now I'm going to "hear" C&C in his voice every time I read. 😁
Had no idea he spends more time on this blog than he does at his "real" (other?) job, but I sure appreciate him doing it.
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I listened to it yesterday on the Apple Podcasts actually. Learned I could do that for free! It was really good. So glad he loves Jeff and C&C!
Then I listened to Rowe’s interviews with James Woods. There are two. They are really good too! I highly recommend them. Fascinating stories.
Love having a new source to listen to.
Reading about the treacherous FBI had me feeling like the movie “The Truman Show”, except the American public is Truman.
I am disgusted and angry. I pray we get to the bottom of this. Every person must be exposed or it will happen again.
I have lofty goals.
"Lock er up." DJT
**Beginning in the summer of 2016, at the precise moment Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination, Obama’s FBI launched a counterintelligence operation against him**
The democrats "Our democracy!" in action... Sounds like a 3rd world dictator's action doesn't it?
The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.
Frank Zappa
What's interesting is that the building in Van Nuys that supposedly hosted all these fake hospice centers, is literally 3 blocks from where a major IRS office resides. I guess all these grifting operations weren't auditable to the IRS. Not to mention that any other state or federal healthcare/grant auditor would feel at home visiting the hospice mall building with a federal building being so closely located (easy to catch lunch with other feddies).
**It was one ten-year operation, code-named “Spy on Republicans.”**
Today, in reality it's Trump vs the Uniparty/cabal.
🎯
A bit off topic. Question.
They say the new leader of Iran, Mojtaba Khamenei has been struggling with impotence (ED). How’s that all work when any day now he meets his 72 virgins?
I heard it was 72 Vogons. He has to endure awful poetry for eternity.
According to the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Vogon poetry is the third worst in the Universe. The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria, and the worst is by Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Sussex, who perished along with her poetry during the destruction of Earth, ironically caused by the Vogons themselves. Vogon poetry is seen as mild by comparison.
Thanks for that elaboration! And thank you for the fish!
Ford Prefect sat still.
"We are not worried about the expiration date," repeated the barman, satisfied that he now had Ford Prefect's full attention. "We are worried about the entire piece of plastic."
"What?" said Ford. He seemed a little taken aback.
"This," said the barman, holding out the card as if it was a small fish whose soul had three weeks earlier winged its way to the Land Where Fish are Eternally Blessed, "we don't accept it."
Ford wondered briefly whether to raise the fact that he didn't have any other means of payment on him, but decided for the moment to soldier on. The disembodied hand was now grasping his shoulder lightly but firmly between its finger and thumb.
"But you don't understand," said Ford, his expression slowly ripening from a little taken abackness into rank incredulity. "This is the American Express Card. It is the finest way of settling bills known to man. Haven't you read their junk mail?"
The cheery quality of Ford's voice was beginning to grate on the barman's ears. It sounded like someone relentlessly playing the kazoo during one of the more sombre passages of a War Requiem.
One of the bones in Ford's shoulder began to crack…
This your work?
It is from Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Or vegans. He may be stuck with tofu turkey for eternity.
He'll have to hear about how they're vegan every time he sees them.
You know it!
Now, there’s some hell!
or maybe tofu bacon
Tofu bacon? Blasphemy!
Yuck!
lol
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Haha...I have to re-read Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy again! Read it many years ago and it was so delightful!
The catch is that the 72 virgins are all from the blue hair crowd. He won't need to worry about an ED, he'll need to worry about avoiding them. 😉😁
It's raisins, not virgins. Seventy-two raisins. No problemo.
"...Imagine the surprise of the terrorist who expected something completely different..."
https://youtu.be/VTIZezQEZcQ
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This is way beyond hilarious!
72 raisins!!!!
I dunno the California Raisins might be kind of cool 😁😛
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vcDGbaCsatQ
I’m sure 72 raisins will provide a similar degree of satisfaction as 72 virgins. 😂😂
🎵THAT's the way, uh-huh, uh-huh..!🎵
LMAO!!!
lol
😂😂😂😂😂
Well it could be he meets 72 Virginians. (G Washington et al)
And they each give them their 72 raisins?😂😂
Inquiring minds want to know…
😂 I think there was a typo in the original manual.
It actually said 72 VIRGINIANS— old school, constitutional ones like George Washington, Abe Lincoln, Alexander Hamilton and their like, with baseball bats wrapped in barbed wire. ED won’t be an issue.
There’s a meme floating around out there with this very scenario.
They remain virgins?
They remain raisins…..😂😂😂😂
"Construction of the historic facility begins next month. Get this: India not only invested up front in building the plant, but has also agreed to buy long-term production for twenty years. In other words, the capital is surging back into the United States, for once. TAW."
As excited as I am to see oil production ramping back up domestically, that paragraph gives me pause. Is there a catch to this investment deal, something along the lines of H1-B visas and hiring preferences given to Indian applicants over American citizens?
Indeed. Part of ExxonMobil's price to escape New Jersey should be a mandated investment in that new US refinery.
To process the stolen Venezuela oil.
How long does it take to build an oil refinery?
4-6 years. Given Trump’s reputation for pushing faster approvals and deadlines on large projects, especially through executive actions aimed at cutting permitting timelines, it will probably happen sooner. Maybe 2-3 years? But not tomorrow.
The permitting, contracting, engineering, funding, right of ways and long lead item procurement alone will take 2-3 years. Trump can influence the permitting side of things but the other items are at the whim of market forces and the competency of the team managing the project.
Realistically, 5-6 years at a minimum before the refinery starts production.
Manpower alone will be a hurdle, finding 3000-4000 skilled tradesmen and luring them to Brownsville will itself be a big challenge.
"Manpower alone will be a hurdle, finding 3000-4000 skilled tradesmen and luring them to Brownsville will itself be a big challenge."
Job Listing: "Fellows, did you watch Landman and fall in Straight Bro love with Billy Bob Thornton? Well, we have the job opportunity for you ...."
Tradesmen shouldn't be a problem, since California is finishing shutting down their last refinery - those guys would love a job and Houston finished shutting down their plant in 2025.
Yep, more fantasy land thinking from the trump cult. They think we can start mining and refining the rare earths we get from china in just a couple of years too. Utter idiocy.
Great planning from our government to start a war with a country who controls 20% of daily oil shipments.
As long as it takes a New Yorker to screw in a light bulb: none of your effing business! Haha.
Good morning, Jeff S,
This is completely off topic, but I have wanted to let you know that, after all the talk of frozen mini marshmallows, I decided to put some in the freezer and see what they were like. The Mr. thought they were like Peeps after you let them get stale. I think he is going to put his Easter Peeps in the freezer this year, just to see how they turn out! 😂😂
Mrs. "the Knife"
Haha. Great. Stale, frozen mini marshmallows at the best. Peeps are too big and sweet for me. For additional variety, try them from different manufacturers. Also, minis made with gelatin seem to have less flavor than those fashioned from tapioca. Bon appétit!
I love this lol 😂😁
And yet in Commiefornia, the refineries are shutting down. Thanks to Newscum and the Dem stronghold. CARB (California Air Resources Board) keeps pushing costly mandates that raise gas and electricity prices.
I can image lawsuits over environmental impact etc. of any new refinery delaying construction
Yeah, I'm not comfortable that this investment isn't by US company.
That was my first thought: Why isn't America building their own refinery? That is a really sad commentary on the state of American education and the American workforce. Over the last 50 years, everything has been off-shored. Americans don't know how to build anything anymore.
Seriously! To build a new oil refinery, America has to contract it out TO INDIA?????
I'm sorry but this is not good news to me.
"Somewhere, an economist is banging his head against a Laffer Curve."
That kind of writing is why I come here every morning.
I have to go look up what a Laffer curve is. 😆
I appreciated that comment also!
I wanted to jump on and tell Jeff, I listened to the Mike Rowe interview yesterday. I like Mike Rowe, especially for what he has done supporting the trades, and the last year he has broadened his interviews to people and subjects I would not have expected even a few short years ago.
Much of the interview was events, as a long time C&C reader, I knew. One of the reasons I loved C&C was the optimism of Jeff in the worst of times, but also his Christian faith which he always admitted, but never tried to overpower the reader. It seemed Mike tried to avoid this integral part of who you are as much as possible. Knowing how that faith came about made it even more meaningful to me. While Jeff often uses words that require a dictionary, I can do it at my leisure and appreciate the broadening vocabulary, on the other hand, Mike too often uses $5 word’s when $1 ones would suffice just as well. My one problem listening to Mike Rowe interviews. However, it was an excellent morning listen and hopefully, will bring many more to C&C.
LMWC - I noticed that too when Mike didn’t add anything to Jeff’s profession of faith.
I pray that Mike goes back and listens to what Jeff had to say about how Christians have the comfort of trusting God’s word - when there is little else we can trust.
It was a great explanation for the difference between us and non-Christians. We have a powerful plumb line for life that never fails us and that we can trust is true. Mike should know no house is built well without a plumb line. Maybe he needs that analogy?
That’s what I love about Jeff he explains those words to us from Portland 🤣🤣
Not that they understand him. (Just kiddin,' Barbara)
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Barbara is the most fun Portlander. If only the rest were like her, what a nice place it would be.
If you like to learn new and often obscure words, try Lionel Nation. He's a NY lawyer/ex-prosecutor.
https://lionelmedia.com/
The heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that — a parent’s heart bared, beating forever outside its chest. ―Debra Ginsberg
I'm a mom of 5 precious souls, and it's both an intense joy and intense suffering to have ones heart so exposed to a sometimes treacherous and perilous world.
As a father, you hit the nail squarely on the head, AM
**Governor Bob Ferguson (D) gushed that the vote was “historic” and pointed out the tax would apply to less than one-half of one percent of people in the state. **
A friend from WA state wrote to me and said "the WA millionaire income tax will really be starting at 176k joint income".
Washington state doesn't get nearly enough national coverage for the outrageous things going on here. Our fraud problem is probably smaller in actual dollar amounts, but potentially larger per capita than other blue states.
I agree. Covid lockdown and masking mandates lasted about as long as they did in CA--maybe longer. It was dystopian.
I left WA in 1987 before anybody knew Seattle existed. (Well, Northern Californians had somehow discovered it but that’s another story, told in these comments previously.) my point is that 40 years of progressively damaging policy may finally have put Washington on the map.
I wonder what my very-well-off family members will do. Roots are deep in that state, back to 1800s.
Hubby and I left OR & WA for CA so long ago, and now looking to leave west coast altogether. Just can’t afford anymore and besides we just want to be left alone!
I moved from NY to CA, then CA to WA. Now where am I gonna move?
Don't do Oregon. This is literally where people come to die. Signed "regretful in Oregon".
Sigh
It was so beautiful when we first came here, but it seems most of the culture has gone down hill since Kate Brown. Also we live in area where the Almeda fire was. We are stuck here for now.
Not VA….new governor will be destroying the state any second now…..😤
Not VA, either!
We could use you in Florida
I may have to move to the West Coast of FLA. I like sunsets.
Oklahoma! Especially if you like crazy weather that changes rapidly 🤗
Don't move to Oklahoma. It is filled with many poisonous rattlesnakes. The roads are rarely repaired, but when they are, it takes years, while the traffic backs up for weeks at a time. "Tornado Alley," it's called, because frequently large swaths of land are attacked from the sky by spinning black clouds. All the structures are carried away and deposited on someone else's new house in the next town. The newspapers are so liberal they won't even mention Trump. The state fish is the catfish, which looks like a shark with whisker-like protrusions. The 100-mph wind will send trees crashing through your roof, followed by blinding rain to soak your furniture, and often includes catfish. Try Texas instead.
ROFL! Nooooo!
Will in South Texas
Texas coast? Maybe.
Yes, the chemical odors wafting from refineries can be pleasant on a Spring evening. Most everyone wears gas masks outdoors.
See below.
South Dakota is pretty nice.
Too far from the coast, and sunsets.
How about Idaho? It's close geographically to WA, but remote in terms of personal freedom. As a small example, when you cross over from Oregon, the speed limit jumps from 70 to 85 mph.
You are very fortunate that you can entertain the notion of so many moves to escape the lunacy.
That’s a tax right on the middle class.
This has been misrepresented as a "millionaire's" tax. WA constitution doesn't allow for discrimination based on income, meaning that if the leftist state supreme court okays this tax, which is expected, that it will have to apply to everyone.
I shouldn’t read this at my office like I do. My laughter often gets too loud and today it definitely was a bit disruptive when I read “which sound like names for dollar store scented candles. “
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Right?? That one got me too 😁
Me too!
"... this time, people aren’t fleeing a virus. They’re fleeing Democrats."
Uh, Democrats ARE a virus.
Unless and until at least 100 FBI people, and the FISA judges, are jailed for life, I won't believe there is any sort of reckoning.
Trillions of our dollars wasted on fraud. Every single government program is a sham. The FBI now works for the Democrat Party which is hell bent on destroying everything good about the country.
Are we there yet? "There" being things I should not say but we all know.
The absolute least I want is to see the Clintons and Obama busting rocks in orange jumpsuits! That would be a good start.
I'll bet Michelle swings the 9 pound hammer better than his husband!