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-Short Attention Span Theater-
SNL mocks doddery Joe Biden's anger at reporters for shouting questions at him by joking they were actually DOCTORS concerned about 79 year-old president's health
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Left behind, by the Left.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/09/2022 05:54 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats



#3  I actually watched a minute of the opening segment; it was painfully unfunny.
Posted by: Raj || 10/09/2022 9:19 Comments || Top||

#4  Lauren Boebert’s epic response to Biden’s latest brain freeze:

“Two Words: Let’s Go Brandon!”
Posted by: Billy B || 10/09/2022 21:16 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Florida Surgeon General Issues C-19 Vaccine Warning of Cardiac Failure
[FloridaHealthCovid19] Quoting
Based on currently available data, patients should be informed of the possible cardiac complications that can arise after receiving a mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. With a high level of global immunity to COVID-19, the benefit of vaccination is likely outweighed by this abnormally high risk of cardiac-related death among men in this age group.

The State Surgeon General now recommends against the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines for males ages 18-39 years old.

Individuals and health care providers should also be aware that this analysis1 found:

• Males over the age of 60 had a 10% increased risk of cardiac-related death within 28 days of mRNA vaccination.

• Non-mRNA vaccines were not found to have these increased risks among any population.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1 
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/09/2022 9:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Told ya!
Yep immediately after getting my third Covid shot I started have elevated pulse rates I excess of 160 migraines fatigue dizziness

The episodes were daily but have reduced in frequency to random events

Mrs. Puppet took her fourth shot as she is a healthcare provider about a month ago and has been experiencing the same problems
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 10/09/2022 10:22 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
FBI Team Involved In Censorship Of Hunter Biden Laptop Story Identified
[ZERO] Meta, Facebook’s parent company, identified the team as the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), according to an updated complaint entered late on Oct. 6.

Meta named the team after receiving a subpoena in a case alleging the federal government pressured Big Tech firms to censor users.

"Pursuant to the third-party subpoena, Meta has identified the FBI’s FITF, as supervised by Laura Dehmlow, and Elvis Chan as involved in the communications between the FBI and Meta that led to Facebook’s suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story," the updated complaint states.

Mark Zuckberg, Meta’s CEO, said in August that Facebook reduced the reach of posts about Hunter Biden’s laptop in response to advice from the FBI.
"The background here is the FBI I think basically came to some folks on our team [and] were like, ’Hey, just so you know, you should be on high alert. We thought that there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election, we have it on notice that basically there’s about to be some kind of dump similar to that, so just be vigilant,'" Zuckerberg said on Joe Rogan’s podcast. He made similar comments before the Senate in 2020.

"One of the threats that the FBI has alerted our company and the public to was the possibility of a hack and leak operation in the days or weeks leading up to this election," Zuckerberg said then. Those alerts "suggested we be on high alert and sensitivity if a trove of documents appeared that we should view that with suspicion that it might be part of a foreign manipulation attempt," he added.

The FBI did not respond to a request for comment on the updated lawsuit, which now names the FBI as a defendant. The bureau said previously that it is routinely in touch with U.S. companies but "cannot ask, or direct, companies to take action on information received."
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/09/2022 06:21 || Comments || Link || [33 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Elements of the D.C. based 'Anti-MAGA team' when not on assignment at Mar-a-Lago ?

Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) translation - Anything outside the beltway.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/09/2022 6:28 Comments || Top||

#2  You can see Ms Dehmlow speak:
https://www.americanconference.com/fara/speakers/
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 10/09/2022 7:54 Comments || Top||

#3  https://www.americanconference.com/fara/speakers/
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/09/2022 8:15 Comments || Top||

#4  There was no "hack". They knew this. Hunter Biden took his laptop in for repair and abandoned it. After not paying the bill for 90 days according to state law it and its hard drive contents became the property of the shop owner.

The real reason is because the FBI were protecting their own side. If we knew how corrupt the Biden crime family was, specifically in relation to Ukraine, we might have had second thoughts about voting. And that must never be allowed.

Remember in Orwell' 1984, the government department that told only lies was called the Ministry of Truth?
Posted by: Spike the Hairy6811 || 10/09/2022 8:32 Comments || Top||

#5  Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) -- Providing Foreign, Hostile Governments with free access to our elections and government secrets since [at least] 2008.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/09/2022 8:54 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ Yes, Obama in 2008. My guess as well.

The District of Columbia. It really isn't a "District" but rather a separate country.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/09/2022 8:58 Comments || Top||


#8  Laura Dehmlow
Section Chief, Foreign Influence Task Force, FBI

https://www.tcbconference.com/?pgid=l77v3f1x-4f0c7ca3-7768-4440-8aba-bdb8f8c57874
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/09/2022 13:18 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: 3dc || 10/09/2022 23:52 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: 3dc || 10/09/2022 23:56 Comments || Top||


Biden administration pays $265,000 a year in salaries of staff whose job is to deflect Hunter stories and Republican probes
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Must be using unpaid interns.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/09/2022 5:49 Comments || Top||


Delaware Supreme Court rules vote-by-mail, same-day registration laws unconstitutional
Whoa!
[NYPOST] Delaware’s Supreme Court on Friday ruled that recently passed laws allowing universal vote by mail and same-day registration are unconstitutional, marking a win for state Republicans who had rallied against the legislation.
Only in Delaware though. You can still cheat under the other 49 states' constitutions.
The court found that the two moves conflict with the registration and absentee voter categories outlined in the First State’s constitution. It upheld a prior ruling by the state’s vice chancellor, which rejected the vote-by-mail law, while overturning his upholding of the Election Day registration law.

The bills were passed in the final days of the state’s recent General Assembly, which ended in June. Democrats had previously tried to amend the state’s constitution but had not managed to secure the two-thirds support needed.

The constitution allows absentee voting in certain situations, such as an inability to go to the polls due to public services, occupation or disability. The Democratic attorney general had argued that mail-in voting was not absentee voting. Meanwhile,
...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio had his hands full of angry bleached blonde...
Delaware’s constitution says that registration cannot end less than 10 days before the election.
Posted by: Fred || 10/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


NYC Schools Chancellor David Banks, Eric Adams put each other's girlfriends in top posts
[NYPOST] Schools Chancellor David Banks quietly promoted Mayor Adams’ girlfriend to a top job at the Department of Education, just months after Adams hired Banks’ girlfriend as a deputy mayor, The Post has learned.

Banks named Tracey Collins — Adams’ longtime partner and NYC’s unofficial First Lady — the DOE’s "senior advisor to the deputy chancellor of school leadership," Desmond Blackburn. She started the new job in July, and got a giant, 23% raise to $221,597 a year, records show.

Hizzoner named Banks’ girlfriend, Sheena Wright, and four other women deputy mayors last Dec. 21. Deputy mayors made $251,982 in FY 21.

Both women’s advancement underscores the tight inner circle of the Adams administration.

Wright, 52, previously CEO of United Way of NYC, helped lead Adams’ transition team. Banks and Wright live together in Harlem. Banks and Adams took office on Jan. 1.

A Queens teacher was stunned to learn of the quid pro beau.
Posted by: Fred || 10/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This title could go wrong in so many ways.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/09/2022 8:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Awesome! Meritocracy in action!
Posted by: Percy Flotle3938 || 10/09/2022 14:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Political power is about rewarding your friends and punishing your enemies. So he's getting the first part covered.
Posted by: Secret Master || 10/09/2022 16:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Just following the tradition of DeBlasio and who knows how many others.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 10/09/2022 17:34 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
The Stock Market Made Nancy Pelosi Rich -- House speaker's fortune has grown $140 million since 2008


[Wash Free Beacon] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) has seen her net worth increase by $140 million since the 2008 financial crisis thanks in no small part to her husband’s fortuitous trades in companies she has worked to subsidize. Now, she's trying to pull up the ladder behind her: In what may be her final months as a member of Congress, she’s backing a proposal that would prohibit her colleagues from buying or selling individual stocks.

Pelosi scoffed at the idea of banning lawmakers from trading individual stocks as recently as December, saying that she and her colleagues should be able to fully participate in the free market economy. After rejecting similar proposals, Pelosi is throwing her weight behind legislation that would ban stock trading among members of Congress and other senior government officials. House Democratic leaders introduced the Combating Financial Conflicts of Interest in Government Act last Tuesday but failed to bring the measure to a vote before adjourning for the midterm elections.

Pelosi has been dogged by allegations that her husband, Paul Pelosi, trades stocks on inside information gleaned from her position in Congress. In March, Paul Pelosi exercised options to buy up to $5 million worth of Tesla stock as the speaker pushed for electric vehicle subsidies, the Washington Free Beacon reported. And in June, Paul Pelosi exercised call options to buy up to $5 million in the graphics card manufacturer Nvidia just weeks before the House considered a bill to provide more than $50 billion in subsidies to domestic semiconductor manufacturers.

Pelosi said in November 2020 after being nominated for a fourth term as speaker that she would relinquish the gavel at the end of 2022. And while she announced in January that she would run for reelection in 2022, there is rampant speculation that she will depart Congress should Republicans retake the House in the upcoming midterm elections.

Even Pelosi’s late-stage about-face is not enough to pacify her progressive critics. Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D., Va.) says the speaker and Democratic leadership only put the bill forward because they knew it would fail.

The bill "was written to create confusion surrounding reform efforts and complicate a straightforward reform priority," Spanberger said in a statement on Friday, "all while creating the appearance that House Leadership wanted to take action."

Pelosi’s portfolio has performed remarkably well during periods of financial turmoil, her financial disclosures show. Her estimated net worth skyrocketed at the onset of the Great Recession, going from $31.4 million in 2008 to $101.1 million in 2010, a 220 percent increase in a window where the S&P 500 decreased by 13 percent. The speaker also reaped a significant return during the COVID-19 pandemic, seeing her estimated net worth jump from $106 million in 2019 to $171.4 million in 2021, an increase of 60 percent.

Government ethics watchdogs noted glaring loopholes in the Pelosi-backed stock trading bill they say will create new avenues for lawmakers to secretly profit from their positions in Congress.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 10/09/2022 15:23 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Pelosi is throwing her weight behind legislation that would ban stock trading among members of Congress and other senior government officials

That's a steaming pile. She's done her best to stretch it past the mid-terms
Posted by: Frank G || 10/09/2022 18:25 Comments || Top||

#2  I often quote Harry Truman "You can't get rich in politics. Unless you're a crook."
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 10/09/2022 19:39 Comments || Top||

#3  I believe that bill got killed in the house a few days ago.
Posted by: Chris || 10/09/2022 20:52 Comments || Top||


Forgetting something, Kamala? VP Harris slams 'immoral' Texas abortion ban in Austin - but makes NO mention of ongoing migrant crisis engulfing Lone Star State
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


#2  It's no surprise that her sense of morality is hopelessly warped.
Posted by: Tom || 10/09/2022 12:55 Comments || Top||

#3  "Morality requires" a degree of cognition.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/09/2022 14:05 Comments || Top||

#4  When a BJ Queen calls somebody immoral she can shove it sideways where the sun don't shine!
Posted by: 3dc || 10/09/2022 23:31 Comments || Top||


Vulnerable New York Dems keep their distance from Gov. Hochul ahead of Election Day
*Snicker*
[NYPOST] Democrats in tough races across the state are steering clear of Gov. Hochul.

At least five Dems running for Congress who have been endorsed by party colleague Hochul have not only declined to effusively return the favor but even left the governor’s stamp of approval off their own campaign website’s list of endorsements.

"A lot of people have been endorsing me," said Matt Castelli, a Democrat running in a sprawling district upstate, when asked if he supported Hochul’s endorsement. "I’m excited to have a lot of endorsements from Democrats, Republicans and independents."

While Hochul has lauded Castelli’s "strong commitment to delivering results," Castelli, who is fighting an uphill battle to oust GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik, makes no mention of Hochul’s endorsement on his campaign website.

Castelli’s situation is far from unique. In tough races across Long Island and upstate New York, candidates are keeping their distance from Hochul — who is locked in a race with Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin that some polls now say is neck and neck.
Posted by: Fred || 10/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:



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  Russian man named as owner of truck in Crimea bridge blast
Sat 2022-10-08
  Somali troops kill 19 militants in repelled Al-Shabaab attack
Fri 2022-10-07
  Texas sheriff's deputies find 84 migrants getting out of tractor trailer in Hidalgo County
Thu 2022-10-06
  US special forces conduct midnight raid deep in government-held area of Syria killing 'ISIS leader' and taking several others captive
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  Peruvian drug kingpin Leandro 'El Patrón' Norero, dead again
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  Senior Al-Shabaab leader with $3 million U.S. bounty killed in Somalia
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  Russian lines at the Dnieper River completely collapsed
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  Russia Vetoes A Security Council Res Condemning Annexation Of 4 Ukraine Regions
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  Donbass referendums' results revealed, blank ballots seen counted: Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, Zaporozhye all choose Russia
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  Hundreds of Russian vehicles, weapon systems seized during Kharkiv counterattack
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  Head of Russian Orthodox Church says sacrificing life in war against Ukraine ‘washes away sins.’
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  Russian authorities detain more than 700 people at protests against partial mobilization


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