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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Dem Dame Drops Out After Dissing Sleepover Girls
[ET] An Oklahoma Democrat running for a U.S. House of Representatives seat announced March 24 she is ending her campaign after getting drunk and berating middle school girls at a sleepover.
and throwing up in a hamper and a girl's shoe and denying she was there and...
Abby Broyles had been accused of berating young girls during a slumber party. Broyles eventually confirmed the events, though she has also said she can’t remember what she said after drinking wine and using a medication "that helps you relax."

"I want to say sorry from the bottom of my heart, I apologize for any hurt or damage or trauma that my behavior, when I didn’t know what I was doing, caused. I’m deeply sorry," Broyles previously told KFOR-TV.

In her announcement, Broyles said she received a bombardment of calls from people after the incident, including calls to kill herself. She said she later "drank heavily" and took sleeping pills in a suicide attempt that was unsuccessful.

Rep. Stephanie Bice (R-Okla.), who currently holds the seat, is running for re-election.
Posted by: Bobby || 03/26/2022 08:44 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Thanks, Mods, for the addition of the photo.
Posted by: Bobby || 03/26/2022 9:25 Comments || Top||

#2  ;-)
Posted by: Frank G || 03/26/2022 9:26 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Conflicts of Interest in HB 1013, the Georgia Mental Health Parity Act
[Georgia Patriot] Regardless how many times politicians tell you they want to fight corruption, or that they are in politics for the right reasons, time has proven over and over, in the end those same politicians will not resist enriching themselves, given access to the public cash box. And it's always the one's you trust the most who break your heart.

On May 5, 2020, registered agent Justin Hawkins filed the paperwork necessary to incorporate Talitrix, LLC. The product Talitrix would soon market to law enforcement and criminal justice agencies around the country is a sort of high-tech ankle monitor, but in the form of an attractive sports watch, which comes to life when Bluetoothed to a smartphone. The purpose of the Talitrix watch is to communicate continuous bio-metric and GPS data concerning the general state of being and whereabouts of various individuals released "outside the wire" from detention centers associated with agencies purchasing the system. To be clear, there is nothing wrong with that. Under the right circumstances, it might be an idea worth considering.

The patent application for the Talitrix monitoring system is in the name of Mr. Hawkins, but also in the names of Robert Todd Jones and Eric Brice Bennett. Of the three, Mr. Jones is the Georgia House Representative for the 25th District located in a southern part of Forsyth County.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/26/2022 09:57 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Made in China. Surprised, no, not at all.

Although the gentlemen referred above are listed as the system’s inventors, and hold the potential patent rights to the Talitrix system, the system itself is designed and produced by a foreign entity, Thundercomm Technology Co., Ltd. Located in Chongqing, in the heart of communist China. But again, that’s all legal and I doubt those facts really shock anyone, at least not these days.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/26/2022 10:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Not shocked. Just disappointed.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/26/2022 12:30 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Biden declares Putin 'cannot remain in power' during address in Poland
[Yahoo] In a sweeping and forceful speech concluding a four-day trip to Europe, President Joe Biden cast the war in Ukraine on Saturday as part of an ongoing battle for freedom and ended with a blunt call for Russian President Vladimir Putin to be stopped.

"For God's sake, this man cannot remain in power," Biden said during a visit to Warsaw, Poland, in his strongest comments to date about his desire to see Putin gone.

Shortly after the speech, a White House official speaking on the condition of anonymity said Biden was not calling for Putin to be removed from office.

"The president’s point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region," the official said. "He was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change."

Biden’s remarks came just a few hours after he bluntly described the Russian leader as "a butcher" while meeting with Ukrainian refugees who had fled to Poland to escape the war in their homeland.

Biden appealed to ordinary Russians, first telling them — "if you’re able to listen" — that "you...are not our enemy."

Biden spoke in the packed courtyard of the Royal Castle in Warsaw where American and Polish flags fluttered in the background and the building was bathed in white, red, blue and yellow lights, the colors of Poland and Ukraine.

He said what they experienced at the hands of invaders in World War II is exactly what is happening to Ukrainians by the Russian military.

"These are not the actions of a great nation," Biden said of the bombings of hospitals, schools and maternity wards. "This war is not worthy of you, the Russian people."
Or what? This isn't Iraq where you could bully Saddam out of power. Russia has nukes and WILL use them if they feel they have no more choices or be a rump and subservient power to the West. God we have fucking morons in DC.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/26/2022 15:07 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I believe Obama said the same thing about Assad.

"I'll huff. I'll puff. I'll blow your house down."
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/26/2022 15:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Whitehouse staff are already walking this back like crazy.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/26/2022 17:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Some of the NeverTrumpers who worked overtime to get Joey in there are freaking out now. It would be fun to watch except for the suffering that's being caused here at home.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/26/2022 17:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Despite what WH spokesholes say, it's beginning to sound like this was part part of official transcript and not a one of gaffe by Pudding Head, and is most likely official Junta policy.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 03/26/2022 18:09 Comments || Top||

#5  As moronic President Harris and Biden are, I don't think these "off-the-cuff" utterances are coincidences.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/26/2022 18:43 Comments || Top||


Biden tells US troops they'll be in Ukraine in war gaffe
[NYPOST] President Biden told US troops in Poland Friday that they will witness the bravery of Ukrainians fighting off Russia’s invasion "when you’re there" — making a significant gaffe after he previously said the US must stay out of the European conflict to avoid triggering "World War III."

Biden made the remark while addressing members of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division after lunching on pizza and posing for selfies with dozens of paratroopers at a mess hall in Rzeszow, southeastern Poland.

"You’re going to see when you’re there, and some of you have been there, you’re gonna see — you’re gonna see women, young people standing in the middle in front of a damned tank just saying, ’I’m not leaving, I’m holding my ground,’" Biden said.

A White House official quickly clarified that Biden wasn’t changing his stance on deploying the military into Ukraine.

"The president has been clear we are not sending US troops to Ukraine and there is no change in that position," a Biden front man told The Post.

Posted by: Fred || 03/26/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Here we go, dragged into a pointless war by a stammering fool over a shithole country against a nuclear-armed fascist country that can blow us to smithereens. What insanity. Fuck this idiot. Fuck his warmongers.

Fuck Joe Biden
Posted by: Angeaper Munster9884 || 03/26/2022 0:10 Comments || Top||


#4  Did Joe reveal that Hunter called himself "RHEast" to hide his name?

Hunter photographed and filmed himself, often with two prostitutes at a time, in explicit videos that he then posted on adult website P0rnhub under the username 'RHEast'.
Posted by: Angeaper Munster9884 || 03/26/2022 0:37 Comments || Top||

#5  The Russians used +44 to geolocate the UK mercenaries. "RHEast" uses country code +1... just sayin'
Posted by: Angeaper Munster9884 || 03/26/2022 0:40 Comments || Top||

#6  Damned old fool is stumbling from one gaffe to another.

Sullivan clarifies Biden 'in kind' comment, says US has 'no intention' of using chemical weapons
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/26/2022 1:24 Comments || Top||

#7  Perhaps it's just me, but I find the stance and positioning of the Secret Service detail in this foto a bit intimidating.

Additionally, Why do US Army paratroopers need to be seated like inmates in a prison dining facility ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/26/2022 2:15 Comments || Top||

#8  I’ve noticed, Biden’s gaffes are his desires.
Posted by: Xyz || 03/26/2022 9:49 Comments || Top||


#10  Why do US Army paratroopers need to be seated like inmates in a prison dining facility ?

Mandatory attendance. W could work a crowd of troops and Trump could work a crowd of troops. Brandon needs to have a captive audience.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/26/2022 10:32 Comments || Top||

#11  I'd love to have a quiet word with the Secret Service agent with the skinny trousers and combat stance.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/26/2022 10:39 Comments || Top||

#12  @#7 - Probably was mandatory attendance, but it probably wouldn't be the first time Harris-Biden used trickery to make it looked like there was a strong showing.

I guess Harris was too busy conducting job interviews to fill all of those vacancies on her staff to make the trip.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/26/2022 11:34 Comments || Top||

#13  ^ her staff turns over faster than the crew at Taco Bell.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/26/2022 12:36 Comments || Top||

#14  "End of Quote"
-Biden
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/26/2022 13:26 Comments || Top||

#15  I'd love to have a quiet word with the Secret Service agent with the skinny trousers and combat stance

Careful, B. The one in the brown slacks maybe his bodyguard!
Posted by: Dron66046 || 03/26/2022 13:29 Comments || Top||

#16 
"You’re going to see when you’re there, and some of you have been there, you’re gonna see — you’re gonna see women..."


"Wha... Yeah!"

"Ooorah!"

"About goddamn time..."

"Yaayyy!"

"Wooohooo!"
Posted by: Dron66046 || 03/26/2022 14:13 Comments || Top||


Europe
French ‘far-right’ presidential hopeful sued for denying Nazis rounded up gaysl
Scare quotes mine.
[IsraelTimes] Legal complaint alleges Eric Zemmour ’distorted history to support his homophobic positions’ by claiming in manifesto that deportations of homosexuals to camps were a ’legend’

French “far-right” presidential candidate Eric Zemmour
...the eminent, contrary Le Figaro columnist and nationalist, anti-migrant public intellectual whose Jewish Berber parents left Algeria for la belle France in the 1950s. He wants to reduce immigration to almost zero, tighten the naturalization process, and expel failed asylum-seekers and illegal immigrants colonists. His big concern is the Great Replacement...
is being targeted with legal action by gay rights groups, who say he denied that homosexuals were rounded up and deported during the Nazi occupation of La Belle La Belle France in World War II.

Six gay rights associations told AFP on Wednesday that their criminal complaint for "denial of crimes against humanity" stemmed from Zemmour’s campaign manifesto, "La Belle La Belle France has not said its final word," published in September.

In it, Zemmour agreed with another politician who claimed that deportations of homosexuals to concentration camps were a "legend."

Zemmour "distorted history to support his homophobic positions," the associations alleged in their complaint.

People close to the candidate retorted that "it is not Zemmour’s words that are cited in the book," and called the legal move a smear attempt ahead of the first round of voting in the presidential election on April 10.
Typical move against those of the non-Left persuasion.
REMIGRATION
Zemmour, 63, has for his part cited past declarations from Jewish associations that deported homosexuals were actually targeted as members of other persecuted categories, like Jews or members of the anti-Nazi resistance.

The candidate has in the past escaped conviction for another complaint of denying crimes against humanity, after he said that Marshal Petain, head of the Nazi vassal state based in Vichy during World War II, had "saved" French Jews.

An appeals court is set to render a new judgment in that case after the presidential vote.

Also Wednesday, Zemmour presented an outline of his budget plans if he were elected, claiming that he could find 20 billion euros ($22 billion) of savings by removing state aid to foreigners from outside the EU.

But the authority responsible for such payouts has said that the total for Europeans and non-Europeans combined was less than half the figure in 2019.

Zemmour’s spending priorities would include defense, internal security, the legal system and health — though his calculations did not include plans announced this week for a "remigration ministry" that he vowed would deport a million people within five years.

The idea of "remigration" is borrowed from white nationalist thinking, in line with Zemmour’s belief in the conspiracy theory of a "great replacement" of white Europeans by immigrants colonists from Africa and the Middle East.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/26/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Dron66046 || 03/26/2022 6:15 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Zero retraction of lies.
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 03/26/2022 05:20 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  If they all committed to total honesty going forward and publicly executed 3/4 of their staff to show they are serious, I still would not resume any consumption of their product.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/26/2022 8:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Do you believe anything these liars say about Ukraine?
Posted by: Spanky Bourbon3519 || 03/26/2022 8:29 Comments || Top||

#3  I don't consume any MSM news product at all. It's impossible not to see it as you move about the intertubes, but I see it only as a source of cynical amusement, myself.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/26/2022 8:36 Comments || Top||

#4  It work didn't it - Harry Reid
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/26/2022 10:35 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Utah legislature votes to override Gov. Cox's veto of transgender sports ban
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/26/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Someone isn't getting re-elected next cycle.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/26/2022 2:44 Comments || Top||

#2 
IT IS SCIENTIFICALLY SIMPLE
Just test for XX or XY.
Because there is no YY or TY or TX Chromosome

It is a FACT a person either has XX (FEMALE)or XY (MALE) chromosomes, which are determined at the time of conception.

Also, It is accepted in the Main Stream Mental Health Profession that TRANSGENDERISM is a Mental condition, NOT a Physical condition.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/26/2022 7:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Call me when they dump Willard Pierre.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/26/2022 8:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Because there is no YY or TY or TX Chromosome

Now, some folks were bred to be here.
In TX.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/26/2022 9:55 Comments || Top||

#5  All My XX's Live In Texas
Posted by: Maggie Ulereng9993 || 03/26/2022 10:13 Comments || Top||

#6  dos equis?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/26/2022 12:35 Comments || Top||

#7  Or look in their pants.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 03/26/2022 17:00 Comments || Top||

#8  Or look in their pants.

Or Adam's apple
Posted by: Slappy || 03/26/2022 17:54 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ there's an operation for that. Stick to shoulders and hands, or look in the pants.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/26/2022 18:48 Comments || Top||

#10 
Congrats to Skidmark for being the 1st at spotting my hidden TX joke.☺☺☺☺
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/26/2022 19:59 Comments || Top||

#11  Mormorons.
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/26/2022 21:32 Comments || Top||


Joe Manchin to back Ketanji Brown Jackson for SCOTUS
[NYPOST] Moderate Democratic Sen Joe Manchin announced Friday that he intended to vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, all but ensuring Senate Democrats have the votes to elevate the first black woman to the nation’s highest court.

"Senators have a constitutional obligation to advise and consent on a nominee to fill a Supreme Court vacancy and this is a responsibility I take very seriously," Manchin (D-WV) announced via Twitter.

"Just as I have with previous Supreme Court nominees, I met with Judge Jackson and evaluated her qualifications to be a Supreme Court Justice. After meeting with her, considering her record, and closely monitoring her testimony and questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, I have determined I intend to vote for her nomination to serve on the Supreme Court."

Jackson can be confirmed without a single Republican vote in the 50-50 Senate, since Vice President Kámala Harris
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, now a senatrix from California former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, and Joe Biden's wing nut...
would be able to break a tie in the nominee’s favor. But a single Democratic defection coupled with united GOP opposition would doom the nomination..
Posted by: Fred || 03/26/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The destruction of our former institutions continues on. Talk about destroying the credibility of government, do it Joe. "What's a woman?"
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/26/2022 8:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Makes you wonder why he cares about the national debt at all.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/26/2022 8:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Hello "Justice Asterisk"
Posted by: Frank G || 03/26/2022 9:01 Comments || Top||

#4  "Affirmative Action Jackson" - the damage this ideologue will do is just unimaginable.

BTW_ those who thought Manchin was principled never read the comments of West Virginians who said he was just negotiating his price.
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/26/2022 9:21 Comments || Top||

#5  The bar was set so low with the "wise Latina" that his position is logical
Posted by: magpie || 03/26/2022 12:24 Comments || Top||

#6  Just finishing the job Chief Justice Roberts started....won't notice a thing.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/26/2022 12:29 Comments || Top||

#7  #2. The ability of individuals to pick and choose when to be rational is a source of continual amazement to me.
Posted by: Crusader || 03/26/2022 14:36 Comments || Top||



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Sat 2022-03-26
  Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu had a heart attack
Fri 2022-03-25
  United States is expected to announce plans to welcome up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees.
Thu 2022-03-24
  Ukraine destroys Russian landing ship
Wed 2022-03-23
  Russian refineries reducing production runs as they are out of storage
Tue 2022-03-22
  Ukraine rejects Russia's demand to surrender Mariupol.
Mon 2022-03-21
  Russia tells US all diplomatic ties to be severed soon.
Sun 2022-03-20
  Elon Musk's satellites help Zelensky dominate the skies
Sat 2022-03-19
  Commander of 8th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District: Lieutenant General Andrey Mordvichev is no more
Fri 2022-03-18
  ISIS ‘lover’ blows up aunt’s house in Baghdad for refusing his marriage proposal
Thu 2022-03-17
  Tens of thousands of Syrians enlisting to fight alongside Russia in Ukraine war
Wed 2022-03-16
  Amphibious Assault On Odesa Could Be Imminent According To Satellite Imagery
Tue 2022-03-15
  Over 500 'Repentant' Boko Haram Terrorists Graduate From Rehabilitation Camp In Gombe
Mon 2022-03-14
  War Crime of the first order. Russia burns Mariupol to the ground!
Sun 2022-03-13
  Missiles fired from Iran fall near US consulate in Erbil, Iraq
Sat 2022-03-12
  Mosque of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent shelled by Russians in Mariupol. Turkish citizens hiding inside.
Fri 2022-03-11
  Putin Places Spies Under House Arrest - CEPA


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