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April 4, 2022

At the Sunrise Cafe…

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38 comments:

Bender said...: Everything Ukraine media tells us is BS propaganda. Remember that. Especially crap like this obvious lie tweeted out by Kiev Independent:

⚡️Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoly Antonov said reports of Russian atrocities in Bucha are “false accusations.”

Antonov claims that Ukrainian forces launched artillery fire on Bucha following the withdrawal of Russian forces, Russian state-run news agency TASS reports.

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1510799759749136393; 4/4/22, 8:33 PM
Bender said...: Satellite images show bodies lay in Bucha for weeks, despite Russian claims: a review of videos and satellite imagery by The Times shows that many of the civilians were killed more than three weeks ago, when Russia’s military was in control of the town.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/04/world/europe/bucha-ukraine-bodies.html

So much for the Russian-government narrative pushed by the dupes and collaborators here. Or is it another CIA plot???; 4/4/22, 8:39 PM
Bender said...: The New York Times @nytimes· 6h
Breaking News: Satellite images refute Russia’s claim that the killing of civilians in Bucha, a suburb of Ukraine's capital, occurred after its soldiers had left town, a New York Times analysis found.; 4/4/22, 8:45 PM
Bender said...: VIDEO of Zelensky "in Bucha." Don't worry. We've been reliably told here that he's not even in Ukraine. It's all green screen.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says that the deaths of dozens of people in the town of Bucha outside the capital of Kyiv reclaimed from Russian forces will be deemed as "genocide" by international leaders

https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1511141729076146180; 4/4/22, 8:52 PM
Bender said...: So it looks like the Senate is going to confirm Brown Jackson for a position on the Supreme Court that does not even exist.

What is she going to do? Sit on Breyer's lap on the bench?; 4/4/22, 9:12 PM
Narr said...: Last week I got a Federal jury summons in the mail. It has been 25 or 30 years since I was last called--so long ago that one had to drag one's self downtown and appear in person before the court and await its pleasure.

Now I call every evening after 5PM to receive instructions for the next day. My wife did this a few years ago, and after two weeks of calling was told she had fulfilled her obligation until next time.

My theory is that they take the earliest N of callers, with N being enough to fill the current roster and then some. So, I've been waiting a few hours to make the call. 2 for 2. (Bets that I get snagged tomorrow?)

The period of obligation is the month of April. The worst case scenario is that I get tagged at the end of the month, get sequestered, and miss a few days out of town with old wargaming friends.; 4/4/22, 9:30 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: Joe is a liar and a crook.

"Witnesses testifying before the Delaware grand jury are believed to have been asked if they know who is the “Big Guy” referred to in coded fashion in emails on Hunter’s abandoned laptop and in WhatsApp messages his former business partner Tony Bobulinski handed to the FBI in October 2020.

Bobulinski asserts that the “Big Guy” is Joe Biden.

The identity of the “Big Guy” is relevant because he was to be allocated 10% equity in a joint venture Hunter and partners were cooking up with Chinese company CEFC, according to an email on the laptop."; 4/4/22, 9:47 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: In other news.... I just found this. It came out in 2016 and i missed it.
but I am enjoying now for the first time.; 4/4/22, 9:53 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: more... on the Crooked Biden family deals... that go unchecked by our Soviet press.

"“Hunter Biden called his dad ‘the Big Guy’ or ‘my Chairman,’ and frequently referenced asking him for his sign-off or advice on various potential deals that we were discussing,” Bobulinski wrote in a letter to The Post in October 2020. “I’ve seen VP Biden saying he never talked to Hunter about his business. I’ve seen firsthand that that’s not true, because it wasn’t just Hunter’s business, they said they were putting the Biden family name and its legacy on the line.”

There is evidence on the laptop that Joe Biden profited from Hunter’s overseas business dealings, indicating mingled finances, shared bank accounts and household bills Hunter was expected to pay for his father.
see also
Joe Biden flying too close to the son

Hunter complained about having to give “half” his salary to his father and “pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years.” "; 4/4/22, 9:55 PM
Drago said...: Bender: "So much for the Russian-government narrative pushed by the dupes and collaborators here."

Speaking of dupes, is Bender still looking for those Iraqi WMD's? How about those Gaddhafi rape rooms? Any luck with that debunked Assad gas attack? Are you still clutching your hoax dossier close to the vest? Hunter Biden laptop?...pure russki disinformation, eh Bender?

Yes, our intel agencies backed up by NYT reporters pretty much make every issue "case closed", right Bender?

The only thing missing is a breathless link to a maddow report.

Btw, it is my understanding the Ukrainian army will accept volunteers of all ages and the openly pro-nazi Azov brigade will as well!

Thats great news for the big talkers on Althouse!

Get on it Bender! And take one of the Cheney/Romney/Bush/Pelosi/Biden clans with you.; 4/4/22, 10:21 PM
Drago said...: Any updates on LCol Vindman ("Bearclaw") or his brother heading out to fight the good fight?

Or are they, like Greg and Bender, simply aching to go directly to tactical nuke exchanges as the next step?; 4/4/22, 10:24 PM
narciso said...: https://thefederalist.com/2022/04/04/heres-some-of-the-garbage-democrats-funded-as-covid-relief/; 4/4/22, 10:26 PM
Narayanan said...: ice 'tectonics' in Death Valley

mystery solved; 4/4/22, 11:11 PM
wildswan said...: See, there's a working supply chain sending bad news about the Biden crime family in a steady supply BUT there's also a working supply chain sending a steady supply of Dem votes from nursing homes and such. So we'll see.; 4/4/22, 11:11 PM
wildswan said...: What happened to the "lost convoy" that was on its way to Kiev last month. Remember the pictures of a 40 mile long Russian resupply convoy? It has "disappeared", according to the Pentagon. 40 miles of resupply vanishes?; 4/4/22, 11:18 PM
gadfly said...: From the NYT story by pro-Trump reporter Ken Vogel says:

People familiar with the investigation said prosecutors had examined emails between Mr. Biden, Mr. Archer and others about Burisma and other foreign business activity. Those emails were obtained by The New York Times from a cache of files that appears to have come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop. The email and others in the cache were authenticated by people familiar with them and with the investigation.

Restated, the FBI investigated the emails between Hunter Biden and Archer and others and made no charges. Further the NYT assumed the cache of files came from a laptop that Biden had dropped off at legally blind Mac Isaac's repair shop. And all these facts were verified by Trump Republicans - Rudy Giuliani, Steve Bannon, their lawyer Robert Costello, and Mac Isaac.

Lest we forget: In early May 2019, Giuliani planned a trip to Ukraine to dig up information that might damage Joe Biden — a plan that was covered in the press. After broad outcry, he scrapped the trip. But the signal was sent - Giuliani was seeking information deleterious to Biden. Later that month, someone in Kyiv was approached about buying Hunter Biden’s emails. This was not reported until Oct. 21, 2020, a week after the NY Post’s first story about the laptop.

All we know for sure about Hunter Biden is that he owed back taxes, but that investigation began way back in the Obama Administration.; 4/4/22, 11:21 PM
Drago said...: "Ukraine isn’t sticking. Neither is the “climate emergency.” They’re going to try Rona again."

Yep.; 4/4/22, 11:24 PM
Gahrie said...: How's this for a political Supreme Court:

In a period lasting a little over a year from January 1844 to February 1845, President Tyler nominated five men a total of nine times, and only one, Samuel Nelson, was confirmed.?; 4/5/22, 12:18 AM
Gahrie said...: So it looks like the Senate is going to confirm Brown Jackson for a position on the Supreme Court that does not even exist.

Kind of happened before:

Henry Stanberry, was nominated as an Associate Justice by President Andrew Johnson in April 1866. The Senate never officially acted on the nomination. However they did eliminate the seat on the Supreme Court he was nominated for.

also:

Homer Thornberry, was nominated as an Associate Justice by President Lyndon Johnson in June 1968. The senate never acted, because the seat he was nominated for was not vacated by Associate Justice Fortas.; 4/5/22, 12:24 AM
Gospace said...: My hopefully last fuel oil drop of the season- 178.7 gallons at $5.10 gallon, $911.37

I'd like to give my personal thanks to every one of you that voted for Biden, the living and the dead, the non-existent and absentee voters who didn't know they voted, and the extra votes tallied by voting machines connected to the internet. Each and every one of you is personally for rising home heating bills. I'm one of the few in my area who can afford to actually pay such a bill.

At about 1,000 gallons a year, given that fuel oil under a Demoncratic administration is going to go nowhere but up, I'm probably looking at over $7,000 from now until next April for heat and hot water. Last time fuel oil was over $4.00/gal was when Biden was VP. He's broken Obama's record for highest recorded fuel oil cost.; 4/5/22, 12:44 AM
gadfly said...: After examining text messages provided by Tony Bobulinski, the Wall Street Journal reported that “the venture (Sinohawk Holdings)"— set up in 2017 after Mr. Biden left the vice presidency and before his presidential campaign — never received proposed funds from the Chinese company or completed any deals, according to people familiar with the matter. Corporate records…show no role for Joe Biden.”

Official documents filed with the State of Delaware show that Tony Bobulinski received $100,000 when the limited liability company was dissolved in October 2018. The LLC was owned by an LLC whose owner is listed as Anthony Bobulinski and co-owned by an LLC owned by an individual named Dong Gongwen. Somehow, Hunter Biden is listed as a Manager of Sinohawk LLC along with Bobulinski but that is not possible under LLC rules — where managers have to be members (owners). So there was no known legal partnership arrangement between Hunter or Jim Biden with Bobulinski — let alone a Chinese Oil Company — but Tony certainly partnered with the Chinese to form Sinohawk.; 4/5/22, 3:36 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Even though I'm not an NYT subscriber, they deign to send me articles by email. Most of them are forgettable, but I found this one interesting. No link as it takes you to a paywall site.

"The Morning

By German Lopez

Good morning. We have reason for hope on climate change.

Among the headline-grabbing wildfires, droughts and floods, it is easy to feel disheartened about climate change.

I felt this myself when a United Nations panel released the latest major report on global warming. It said that humanity was running out of time to avert some of the worst effects of a warming planet. Another report is coming tomorrow. So I called experts to find out whether my sense of doom was warranted.

To my relief, they pushed back against the notion of despair. The world, they argued, has made real progress on climate change and still has time to act. They said that any declaration of inevitable doom would be a barrier to action, alongside the denialism that Republican lawmakers have historically used to stall climate legislation. Such pushback is part of a budding movement: Activists who challenge climate dread recently took off on TikTok, my colleague Cara Buckley reported.

“Fear is useful to wake us up and make us pay attention,” Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University, told me. “But if we don’t know what to do, it paralyzes us.”

In a climate change-focused survey of young people in 10 countries last year, 75 percent of respondents said the future was frightening. Some people now use therapy to calm their climate anxieties. Some have drastically changed their lives out of fear of a warming planet — even deciding not to have kids.

Climate change of course presents a huge challenge, threatening the world with more of the extreme weather we have seen over the past few years. And the situation is urgent: To meet President Biden’s climate goals, experts argue, Congress must pass the climate provisions of the Build Back Better Act this year.

But rather than seeing the climate challenge as overwhelming or hopeless, experts said, we should treat it as a call to action." (to be continued); 4/5/22, 4:52 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Article continues:

"Reasons for hope
The world has made genuine progress in slowing climate change in recent years. In much of the world, solar and wind power are now cheaper than coal and gas. The cost of batteries has plummeted over the past few decades, making electric vehicles much more accessible. Governments and businesses are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into clean energy.

Before 2015, the world was expected to warm by about four degrees Celsius by 2100. Today, the world is on track for three degrees Celsius. And if the world’s leaders meet their current commitments, the planet would warm by around two degrees Celsius.

That is not enough to declare victory. The standard goal world leaders have embraced to avoid the worst consequences of climate change is to keep warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2100. Unfortunately, that does look increasingly unreachable, experts said.

But every drop in degrees matters. One-tenth of a degree may sound like very little, but it could save lives — by preventing more wildfires, droughts, floods and conflicts over dwindling resources.

And while the best outcome now seems doubtful, so does the worst. Scientists have long worried about runaway warming that generates out-of-control weather, leaves regions uninhabitable and wrecks ecosystems. But projections right now suggest that scenario is unlikely, said Michael Mann, a climate scientist at Pennsylvania State.

Channeling despair
Experts and advocates want to capture legitimate concerns and funnel them into action. The world’s governments and biggest businesses have set goals to reduce greenhouse emissions in the coming decades, but they will need the public’s help and support.

One model for this is road safety. Drivers can reduce their chances of crashes by driving carefully, but even the safest can be hit. The U.S. reduced car-crash deaths over several decades by passing sweeping laws and rules that required seatbelts, airbags and collapsible steering wheels; punished drunken driving; built safer roads and more — a collective approach.

The same type of path can work for climate change, experts said. Cutting individual carbon footprints is less important than systemic changes that governments and companies enact to help people live more sustainably. While individual action helps, it is no match for the impact of entire civilizations that have built their economies around burning carbon sources for energy.

The need for a sweeping solution can make the problem feel too big and individuals too small, again feeding into despair.

But experts said that individuals could still make a difference, by playing into a collective approach. You can convince friends and family to take the issue seriously, changing what politicians and policies they support. You can become involved in politics (including at the local level, where many climate policies are carried out). You can actively post about global warming on social media. You can donate money to climate causes.

The bottom line, experts repeatedly told me: Don’t give up on the future. Look for productive ways to prevent impending doom."; 4/5/22, 4:55 AM
Breezy said...: @Bender - I’ve been wondering the same thing about this prefetched confirmation! How does this work actually, and why isn’t Sen Mitchell raising this as a procedural misstep? Will they force Beyer out early because this is “historic”? If they do, what happens to the current stack of decisions? If they don’t, will we have 10 on the SC? Will this be the new baseline? Is this how they intend to stack the Court? Just confirm more without a Congressional Act?

So bizarre….; 4/5/22, 6:12 AM
Breezy said...: Republicans could all vote no based on the lack of a vacancy, no?; 4/5/22, 6:13 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Scott Ritter checks in... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFpKmbjhuk0
He's not wrong.; 4/5/22, 6:13 AM
Humperdink said...: @Bender. Am I Russian collaborator for not trusting the CIA, FBI, DOJ, DOD, 50 former intelligence officials, vote counters in 5 swing states, Twitter, Fakebook, WaPoo fact checkers, Mueller, Rosenstein, Barr, Intelligence chair Adam Schiff, the lyin' Big Guy, Winken, Blinken and Nod ... ad nauseam?; 4/5/22, 6:48 AM
iowan2 said...: Gadfly, blindly soldiering on by quoting corporate documents filed with the State. This must by why leftist are sooooo stupid. They accept sop like this as determinate.; 4/5/22, 6:52 AM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: Gadfly rushes in to protect his Potemkin Crook.
No sale.; 4/5/22, 7:10 AM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: Gadfly confirms - It's illegal to dig up anything info on corrupt democrats.

Perfectly fine to manufacture (Steele/Hillary) false information on anyone not a democrat.; 4/5/22, 7:15 AM
Jersey Fled said...: Uh-oh

https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/hunter-biden-sought-cash-oligarchs-during-first-russian; 4/5/22, 7:20 AM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: Hunter Biden sought to cash in with oligarchs during first Russian war on Ukraine, records show; 4/5/22, 7:47 AM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: "President Joe Biden's son and his associates targeted Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina — who eventually was sanctioned by the U.S. a few years later in 2018 — for as much as $200 million after helping her get a bank account set up in America, the emails show.

Hunter Biden and his associates even arranged for Baturina and her husband, an ex-Moscow mayor, to meet with then-Vice President Joe Biden at an intimate dinner in Washington in 2015.

At the same time he and his team courted Baturina, Hunter Biden was securing lucrative board positions and consulting deals with Ukrainian oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky, a man whose company, Burisma Holdings, the United States and Great Britain wanted investigated for corruption."

I'm sure that is all on the up and up.; 4/5/22, 7:53 AM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: more...
The delicate balancing act of cashing in on both the Russian and Ukrainian sides of the conflict left the younger Biden and his partners acutely aware that Moscow's military annexation of Ukraine's Crimean region in 2014 was a wild card that could scuttle the success of their business pursuits, the memos show.

"Just spent two hours on the phone with Kiev. I am confident at this point that this is a good if not life changing deal if the Uk [Ukraine] doesn't collapse in the meantime," now-convicted Biden business partner Devon Archer wrote Hunter Biden in one particularly candid assessment of their strategy in mid-April 2014.; 4/5/22, 7:54 AM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: more...
Eventually, another of Hunter Biden's convicted business associates, John Galanis, would declare in a sworn affidavit to a federal court that he and his son Jason became aware of a strategy by Hunter Biden-related companies of promising oligarchs "quid pro quo" access to Washington in return for their dollars.

"Jason Galanis gave his interest in Burnham/Wealth Assurance to Archer on the prospect that Archer and Hunter Biden would continue to attract foreign oligarchs on the promise of high level political contacts," John Galanis swore in a January 2020 affidavit that unequivocally referred to the scheme as "political influence peddling."

You can read the Galanis affidavit here:; 4/5/22, 7:56 AM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: more..
The Galanis father-son team and Archer have all been convicted in a fraud scheme that fleeced a Native American Indian tribe. Hunter Biden was not charged in that case.

Hunter Biden's lawyers have repeatedly declined to answer questions or requests for comment from Just the News. Hunter Biden has acknowledged he is under criminal investigation by the U.S. Attorney's office in Delaware but denied committing any wrongdoing.

hmmm - we shall wait for Gadfly to report on the pro-Biden side.; 4/5/22, 7:58 AM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: btw - with Spooks like Steele - is it any wonder the world's "intelligence" organizations have no power to do anything about Putin?; 4/5/22, 8:11 AM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: Gadfly stands shoulder to shoulder not only with skin headed leftist child rapists... but also stripper f**king drug using Malibu-mansion living sons of VIP crooks.; 4/5/22, 9:51 AM