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December 15, 2024
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Since beiden is going to sell off all the border wall steel cheap some well off repub should buy it all at the auction. Then the Trump admin can go out for steel bids, and buy it back at the auction sale price from the only guy in the country who has it. Plus expenses of course.
And then dock the dei budget of whichever department got the credit memo for the sale to cover the cost.
Clyde's Top 15 Favorite "New" Songs of 2024 - Part 5 of 5 - Honorable Mentions
Apple Jam - "Child of Nature" - Off the White Album - 2018
You may remember Apple Jam from last year, when they had another song get an honorable mention on my list from their earlier album "Off the Beatle Path." They are a Beatles tribute band from Seattle, with a twist: They have recorded songs that the Beatles wrote but that were never released on a Beatles album or single during their career. Many of the songs were either recorded by other artists or were songs that were Beatles demos or home recordings that later appeared on deluxe 50th anniversary albums or on individual solo recordings. Apple Jam does a great job of capturing the Beatles' sound.
"Child of Nature' was written by John Lennon in 1968 during the Beatles' meditation sojourn in India. The song was recorded on the Esher demos but never released by the Beatles. Lennon later reworked the song into "Jealous Guy" for his Imagine album.
This is another one that got a lot of play this year (along with the rest of the album) but that undoubtedly got a listen last year, so it can't go into the Top 15.
Apple Jam - Child of Nature
Why is no one asking President Biden about the drone activity?
Biden is the last person one would ask.
Because psyop is not in the coloring books.
"Why is no one asking Biden/Biden is the last person one would ask:"
This episode really encapsulates the fragmentation of the D Party and Biden Admin in its last days.
It's almost obvious that it's some agency's classified or at least FOUO program, poorly thought out because it involves stuff flying in plain sight with lights on.
In a properly functioning admin, the WH chief of staff or someone like that would just grab all the agency heads and get the responsible agency to own up, then decide what can be told to the public and put that out.
Instead, the normal workarounds for the POTATUS Problem no longer work, because of people resigning for their wilderness jobs, intra-party fighting, career employees worried about losing their clearances, etc. All the usual friction, which sometimes is even beneficial, but without any central authority to cut across the silos.
Even if you buy the theory that the drones are deliberately being disavowed in order to sell the drone-control bill, the operation is still very uncoordinated. No one seems to have approved it in advance or asked basic questions like "how long can we hide the fact these are US model drones?"
Maybe that's why Trump is relatively silent on this one. Never interrupt your opponent when he is doing a great job of defeating himself for you.
JSM
"Since beiden is going to sell off all the border wall steel cheap some well off repub should buy it all at the auction."
Texas says they're going to buy it and give it to Trump.
Biden really is a prick.
Texas Lt. Gov Vows: We Will Buy Every Piece Of Border Wall Biden’s Selling And Give It To Trump
Fight! Fight! Fight!
Nice. It's been raining here too.
For those who remember commenter sippicancottage
@Tina Trent: that’s funny!
The drones are training. For a coming war.
why not Trump delegate wall building to border states that accept??
I never heard this song before this morning, I like it.
"Nearly 1,600 American citizens were arrested for exercising their First Amendment rights on January 6, and roughly half of them have been incarcerated. Save for the insurrectionists among them — if there were any — the rest deserve not just commutation of their sentences, but a full pardon. Many may deserve compensation. And all deserve the truth."
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/12/20_or_so_obvious_questions_about_january_6.html
Thanks for the info about the blogs I follow. There is a glitch in the matrix.
John Mosby - "Even if you buy the theory that the drones are deliberately being disavowed in order to sell the drone-control bill..."
More likely this completely private activity, maybe the drone equivalent of flash mobs, and reports have been coming to agencies for a while but since they now have legislation they want to pass, they are telling their friends in the press to publicize it.
I have no idea what is going on in Syria, except that Ukraine has to be drooling over all of those Soviet style weapons that Israel is destroying, the weapons Ukrainians know how to use. The map has been redrawn for sure. It looks like Assad's senior officers sold him out, and maybe they had been pointing out the location of Senior Iranian officers within Syria to allow Israel to kill them with air strikes in recent times.
Israel has never given Ukraine "lethal aid" just a highly advanced radar system that has, according to the Russians, allowed Ukraine to shoot down about 10% of its hypersonic missiles. Of course Ukrainians claim to have shot down almost all incoming missiles, but we know that this is simply not true. Ukraine fired one Ukrainian Air Force spokesman because he became embarrassed at repeating the lies about the "fantastic success" of their air defenses.
I am coming around to the idea that this was a coup, the number of Jihadis coming into the country was actually very small compared to the Syrian Army, which just abandoned the fight. Russia did some air strikes and inflicted the vast majority of the casualties on the Jihadis, but when they saw that the Syrians had simply laid down their arms, well, they stopped fighting, and Iran never bothered to get involved in a fight that the Syrians didn't want to make.
It's funny how the chemical weapons that Assad was supposed to have never showed up, though. I guess that we will claim that they were in these sites that Israel is blowing up, and with Assad gone, it won't be worth it to them to fake up "proof" of their existence.
Fifty-fifty chance that Russia keeps those bases, supposedly the new govt is asking them to stay. But that could just be some guy without real power, or simply disinformation. For sure though, the Jihadis allowing the Russians to travel unimpeded. But this was a PR disaster for Russia, for sure, even if they keep the bases.
Anyway, Syria was a country that FA and FO, by annoying its powerful neighbors, Israel and Turkey, and it's funny that while Syria is Ukraine in this scenario, and Israel is Russia, the Ukrainians were cheering on the invading "rebels". It's almost as if all of this stuff they preach about the inviolability of international borders was just convenient blather.
It will be months, at least, before we see how this really shakes out, but this is a huge strategic defeat for Iran. I will be curious if Israel goes after Iran now that they have an air corridor to get close, and if it chooses to go up against manned air defenses in Iran, rather than the abandoned ones they are destroying in Syria. Air defense that Ukraine must be crying over the destruction.
But wow. Israel has pulled off a major coup, no doubt, and the Russians and the Iranians have been humiliated in the Arab Middle East, and Erdogan seems to be trying to rebuild the Ottoman Empire that Britain and France carved up like a sheet cake after WWI.
Here's one article - the original article by Cory Doctorow is not found, though I'll quote it in part, but this is a follow up in which one bad actor was called to account for her malfeasance. The link here is to a December 2019 update to the investigation:
Breaking Down the Law: Elder abuse and the case of April Parks
It relates to this report from August 2019 which I quote:
"Last March, a Nevada court indicted April Parks, proprietor of A Private Professional Guardian, which had secured court guardianship over four hundred elderly Nevadans, working with crooked doctors and social
workers to find the identities of old people who had considerable assets, then using a streamlined court process with no checks and balances to have those people declared to be unable to care for themselves.
Parks's victims were then dragged out of their homes under threat of arrest. All their possessions were sold off and used to pay Park's sky-high fees (for example, she'd charge her victims' estates hundreds of dollars for
a few minutes' worth of conversation with the victims' distraught children who were trying to find out where their parents had been taken), while the victims themselves were given assessments of dementia on the basis
of an 11-question quiz administered by a "medical practitioner" whose training had consisted of watching a few hours' worth of video lectures. Thereafter the victims were medicated into oblivion while Parks's fees
gobbled up their estates, until the money ran out and the victims would be dumped in paupers' wards where the medication regimes were upped and any pretense of care was removed.
Parks paid social workers and others to tip her off to the existence of rich, vulnerable old people. In at least one case she cold-called rehab centers looking for a woman said to have $700K in savings and no children;
she then doctor-shopped until she found a friendly MD that would declare her victim to be incapable of caring for herself, and swooped in and had the woman kidnapped, stealing all her stuff."
I elevated Biden to the top of my list of worst Presidents of my lifetime months ago.
He’s now working on a whole new category.
I was thinking of putting together a list like this but someone beat me to it.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1868523997216051510?s=61
" Government is the name for those things we do together."
5% of all deaths in Canada are from government assisted suicide. Per capita, that exceeds gun deaths in the US.
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This coming from an elected government official is hilarious.
Bro, if we're gonna start talking about anger and death at the hands of the powerful, you're not gonna like that conversation, Mr. Government.
Chris Murphy 🟧
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I know it's uncomfortable for political leaders to wade into the conversation that's happening in this country in the aftermath of the murder of the United Health CEO. But we need to listen to what people are feeling. And act.
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Now apply your “uncomfortable listening” schtick to abortion.
If someone pulled a Luigi on the president of Planned Parenthood, would you say we need to listen and act?
11:43 PM · Dec 15, 2024
Well now Assad has spoken, and he says that Turkey bought off his senior officers with Qatari cash. This fits very well with how the whole thing has unfolded.
MadTown Guy, ref the crooked elder guardians:
Ssh! You're giving them ideas for what to do to Trump next!
(Or if it reads better to you that way, Nancy and Paulie P.)
JSM
One more addition: Nevada Senator Catherine Cortez Masto was tied in to another Clark County case involving Jared Shafer, while she was NV Attorney General, running for US Senate.
"Families of Abused Nevada Seniors Blame Politics for Senate Hopeful’s Inaction
Family members of senior citizens at the center of a controversy surrounding the Nevada guardianship system say their pleas for help to then-attorney general Catherine Cortez Masto, now a U.S. Senate candidate, were ignored for political reasons.
The family members accuse Jared Shafer, a former Clark County, Nev., official who runs a private guardianship firm, of bilking family members’ estates of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Shafer brushed off threats of legal action by invoking his connection to Masto, the Democratic candidate hoping to replace Harry Reid.
"Jared Shafer knew that Masto would never take a report" due to her family’s ties to Shafer, said Charles Pascal, whose mother-in-law died under Shafer’s care, in a Tuesday interview. "Why can these guardians do these things? They can do these things because they believe that no action will be taken."
Nevada’s guardianship program has sparked controversy over allegations by the families of state wards that court-appointed guardians, who assume control over the estates of the elderly and indigent, extract excessive fees without providing basic levels of care.
The issue was thrust into the Nevada Senate race last month when the Freedom Partners Action Fund, a Super PAC that supports Masto’s opponent, Republican Rep. Joe Heck, highlighted the controversy in a television ad charging that Masto "let Nevada seniors down."
More at the link, originally published by the Free Beacon.
@John Mosby, isn't that what the cabal has been doing to Joe Biden?
Kathy Hochul did, but I think it was a rhetorical question as she wants the Congress to pass a law.
MadTownGuy: " isn't that what the cabal has been doing to Joe Biden?"
True dat. Maybe that's why there's been an explosion in the phenomenon - people think if you can do it to the President, regular people would be easy pickings.
On the more serious side, I wonder if there is a way to pre-hire a lawyer for the sole job of fighting against actions like this? In about 20 years, I will be in the prime victim population for this sort of thing. Someone scouring public records would be able to figure out my age, lack of family, and net worth. I guess I could give a retainer to a lawyer to do a search every so often of family court actions, or just to send me a wellness-check text every few weeks, then go on offense?
(It would be simpler to just pre-designate a lawyer as a guardian, with full power of attorney over my finances etc, but I don't want to do that, because with my luck she would turn out to be one of the evil ones!)
Prof and Meade, what are you doing to protect yourselves from this scam?
JSM
What's this I'm hearing? Somebody has shot up a Madison Christian School and left 5 dead?
Did he give his word as an Assad?
The death-toll went from two, to three, to five in the half-hour that I watched the coverage.
I was forced to become the conservator for my Oma after discovering how much my older brother had been ripping her off. It was an interesting experience, dealing with banks and companies that were by-the-book when I showed up, but had let brother Chuck run wild.
The hardest thing most of us will ever do is care for sickly, contrary old relatives.
As of right now, 3 confirmed dead, 1 was shooter. Police not saying if staff or students. Shooter said to be 17 year old, sex not confirmed and I won't speculate as to whether this is a Tennessee copycat.
MPD Chief is doing presser right now, 1 teacher, 1 student dead in addition to the shooter. Others are in surgery with life threatening injuries.
Student was shooter. Adult and a student dead as well.
It's funny how some people go on about things they know nothing about. HTS were not "invading 'rebels'", they were Syrians who were already in Syria, holding on to Idlib and the surrounding area in the northwest, despite years of bombing from Assad.
Israel had nothing to do with overthrowing Assad: it was all HTS with help from Turkey and Ukraine.
"Russia did some air strikes" - that much is true - "and inflicted the vast majority of the casualties on the Jihadis" - no, they didn't. They bombed 5 hospitals in Idlib and civilian neighborhoods in Aleppo. Whether they killed any HTS soldiers is an open question: I've seen no evidence they did.
There was certainly some fighting early on, but the drones Ukraine provided had a devastating effect. Six Syrian generals and one Iranian were killed in the first day or two. It's hard for soldiers to fight competently when their headquarters have all been decapitated. And the fact that the people of Syria were all against them destroyed their morale even further.
As for the bases, the Russians have been given 75 days (I think that's the number) to get out. To repeat, they were bombing hospitals just a couple of weeks ago. The only way the new government is going to let the Russians stay is if they get something huge in return, e.g. if they hand over Assad and his henchmen for trial, along with the two tons of hard currency ($250,000,000) he took to Moscow with him. We shall see.
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