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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Bidens' dog Major involved in another biting incident
[CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
] The Bidens' dog Major has been involved in another biting incident that required medical attention, two people with knowledge of the incident tell CNN.

The incident, which involved a National Park Service employee, took place on the White House South Lawn on Monday afternoon. The employee was working at the time and needed to stop in order to receive treatment from the White House medical unit.

First lady Jill Biden's press secretary Michael LaRosa told CNN that Major is "still adjusting to his new surroundings."

"Yes, Major nipped someone on a walk. Out of an abundance of caution, the individual was seen by WHMU and then returned to work without injury."

The National Park Service did not immediately respond to a CNN request for comment.
Posted by: Fred || 03/31/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
A barking mad recidivist criminal, if there ever were one.
Animals usually reflect the personality traits of their owners, well Joe, you wanted him back... another bad decision in a lifetime of bad decisions... Aye Joe.
Posted by: Elmaising Fillmore8266 || 03/31/2021 1:27 Comments || Top||

#2  "I'm the President's dog. I can do whatever I want."?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/31/2021 3:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Master is a perv and a sick liar
So it makes perfect sense that the Animal is aggressive and out if control
Posted by: Pancho Bucket6297 || 03/31/2021 5:34 Comments || Top||

#4  If you were surrounded by the PINO's* minions, wouldn't you start biting, too?

*President In Name Only
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/31/2021 6:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Love it. Our own PINOchetRegime
Posted by: Chesney White7926 || 03/31/2021 6:44 Comments || Top||

#6  Given Hunter's behavior, what would you expect from the owners.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/31/2021 7:33 Comments || Top||

#7  Dawg isn't doing anything the Big Guy isn't doing.
Posted by: badanov || 03/31/2021 8:50 Comments || Top||

#8  /\ Both are tail sniffers.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/31/2021 8:53 Comments || Top||

#9  Give him Cymbalta.
It stopped me.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/31/2021 10:15 Comments || Top||

#10  Dogs. Probably trying to protect his master.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/31/2021 10:46 Comments || Top||

#11  Biden dog poops on White House floor
Posted by: Butch McCoy1608 || 03/31/2021 16:44 Comments || Top||

#12  I've been a volunteer at a rescue/shelter for dogs for more then 6 years. Most rescues bring at least some baggage from their life prior to being rescued and a part of me wonders if this isn't fear biting by a dog who is in a strange place and surrounded by lots of strangers, many of whom are not necessarily dog savvy in general, much less with a rescue dog.
Posted by: Chantry || 03/31/2021 18:58 Comments || Top||

#13  "One night, Hunter was lonely..."
Posted by: Frank G || 03/31/2021 19:09 Comments || Top||

#14  Major is clearly on our side.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 03/31/2021 20:33 Comments || Top||

#15 
Dr. Jill Biden says " I can't stand having Major in this White House, Joe make a decision, send him back to Delaware or send him to obedience school, his behavior can't be good for any of us. I'm going out to the White House Cabaña for some air and relaxation"

A few hous later, the sun is setting and Dr Jill heads back to the White House.....

Posted by: Silvered Forkbeard1476 || 03/31/2021 22:21 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
$1 trillion? Why not $5 trillion! For progressives, the sky is no longer the limit on spending
[NYPOST] $200 billion, $2.2 trillion, $900 billion, $1.9 trillion. Over a year, Congress has passed $5.2 trillion in extraordinary spending — and President Joe Biden
...... 46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run.......
wants another $3-4 trillion, split between infrastructure and social spending.

When a "normal" federal budget, pre-COVID, was $4.4 trillion, and with borrowing, not taxes, funding nearly half of federal spending, it’s not crazy to ask how much is too much, before we risk huge inflation.

"Modern monetary theory" is a trendy philosophy — AOC is a fan — that holds that the government can spend as much money as it wants. Drinks all around! Even if bondholders don’t feel like lending to us to make up the difference in spending and revenues, the Federal Reserve can create new money through "keystrokes," argues the first-ever MMT textbook, published in 2019.

The Fed has been doing that. In early 2008, the amount of money available in the U.S. economy was $7.5 trillion. By 2012, it had risen to more than $10 trillion. Much of this was the Fed printing electronic dollars, to encourage people to spend after the economy crashed: the Fed "grew" its own holdings from less than $1 trillion to more than $3 trillion.

(This may sound confusing, but it is no different than if you received a bank statement listing the amount of money in your checking account, didn’t like it, and so took a pen and added some zeroes.)

That didn’t cause inflation (sort of), so why should this?
Posted by: Fred || 03/31/2021 00:47 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Modern Monetary Theory reminds me of the old joke about the guy who confidently jumps off a 50-story building, and as he's passing the 25th floor yells "Okay so far!".
Posted by: Matt || 03/31/2021 10:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Yeah, but don't worry. He's only gonna tax corporations and rich people. Right? Right?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/31/2021 12:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Who knows? The bill will be 15,000 pages long. There could be a provision in there appointing Obama Emperor of the Universe (in the section titled "Laundry Regulation") and no one would notice.
Posted by: Matt || 03/31/2021 15:37 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
NY State Supreme Court lets Trump accuser’s defamation suit to proceed again
[IsraelTimes] Former US president called ’Apprentice’ contestant Summer Zervos a liar and her accusation ’a hoax’ after she claimed he groped her twice in 2007.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/31/2021 00:29 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:


New Andrew Cuomo accuser Sherry Vill speaks out alongside Gloria Allred
[NYPOST] A woman described in detail Monday how Gov. Andrew Cuomo grabbed her face, “manhandled” her and forcibly kissed her while touring her flood-damaged home in 2017 — saying he did so in a “highly sexual manner.”

“The whole thing was so strange and inappropriate and still makes me nervous and afraid because of his power and position,” said Sherry Vill, a 55-year-old married mother of three, as she spoke out in an afternoon briefing alongside lawyer Gloria Allred. “I am still afraid of him, but I am no longer willing to remain silent.”

The alleged encounter occurred in May 2017, while Cuomo was touring Greece, NY, which had recently been ravaged by floods.

Vill, whose house was among those damaged, invited Cuomo into her home and expressed dismay at its condition.

“That’s when the governor looked at me, approached me, took my hand and pulled me to him,” Vill said. “He leaned down over me and kissed my cheek. I was holding my small dog in my arms and I thought he was going to pet my dog. But instead he went to squeeze between the dog and mine and kiss me on the other cheek in what I felt was a highly sexual manner.”

Cuomo tried to explain the inappropriate contact as a cultural norm.

“He said, ‘That’s what Italians do, kiss both cheeks,'” recalled Vill.

“I felt shocked and didn’t understand what had just happened,” said Vill. “But I knew I felt embarrassed and weird about his kissing me. I am Italian, and in my family, family members kiss. Strangers do not kiss, especially upon meeting someone for the first time.”
Posted by: Fred || 03/31/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Interesting that none of the accussers claims actual rape.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 03/31/2021 3:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Is Sherry VIII the VIIIth-generation descendant of the VIIIth wife of Henry VIII?
Posted by: Fester Hatrack3117 || 03/31/2021 6:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Kabuki theater. Cuomo will leave like the governor of Virginia.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/31/2021 9:54 Comments || Top||

#4  " “I am still afraid of him, but I am no longer willing to remain silent.”

The alleged encounter occurred in May 2017"

I was wondering when they were going to bring in Gloria Allred.
Posted by: Clem || 03/31/2021 11:07 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Legislators Override Kentucky Governor's Veto of School Choice Bill
[Reason] Kentucky is now the 28th state with some form of school choice.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/31/2021 03:32 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:


South Dakota Governor Bans Transgender Girls From Sports Teams By Executive Order
[NPR]
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/31/2021 03:29 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  OK, so why are conservatives so upset with Kristi Noem?
This sounds like common sense:
"Only girls should play girls' sports," Noem tweeted Monday evening.

What's wrong with this logic?
"Given the legislature's failure to accept my proposed revisions to HB 1217, I am immediately signing two executive orders to address this issue: one to protect fairness in K-12 athletics, and another to do so in college athletics."
Posted by: Uneash Noodleman8495 || 03/31/2021 5:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Cut the chase - make it Cervix and Prostate separation. I want to be entertained by the crazies claiming its not a distinction and identify the Marxist judges sitting on the bench.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/31/2021 7:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Noodle, Noem's initial changes to the law would have left college women completely unprotected, apparently bowing to NCAA and local business pressure.
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/31/2021 8:06 Comments || Top||

#4  She's done. All the extra flopping around she does now just cements it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/31/2021 9:11 Comments || Top||

#5  I can't figure this one out. Too many twists and turns. Perhaps someone could do a short executive summary.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/31/2021 9:13 Comments || Top||

#6  Same here.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/31/2021 10:26 Comments || Top||

#7  #5,6 La Noem panders to businesses but responds to public outrage.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/31/2021 10:34 Comments || Top||

#8  ^Wants to eat her cake & eat it.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/31/2021 10:35 Comments || Top||

#9  Your one-liners, and your known opinion of Noem, don't address the initial reports of the draft's wording being incomplete way before the outrageous outrage.

There is a curiosity that, if she did back down because of corporate interests, she so hated by the covidians that she still stood against the world propaganda machine Sturgis will Kill 10 million crown, then what is that lever of power, that part of the machine which should be the topic of conversation.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/31/2021 11:19 Comments || Top||

#10  ^Just keep watching her.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/31/2021 11:21 Comments || Top||

#11  Noem is suspect now. Better than many out there in governor land, but, still....
Posted by: Clem || 03/31/2021 11:24 Comments || Top||

#12  And no, I don't like executive orders.

Even when I agree with them, they are technically legally only a suggestion. Maybe a suggestion with force behind hit, but a suggestion nonetheless.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/31/2021 11:25 Comments || Top||

#13  The main problem with executive orders is they can be ervoked by a strok of the next executive's pen. They provide an easy target for any executive's opponent in an election campaign: "On day one, I will revoke that..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/31/2021 11:37 Comments || Top||

#14  Exactly.

Or, like last year when our governor took the podium and banned Easter, a joint State House/Senate statement told her to shove her XO up her cat loving ass. Law enforcement said har you come lock the doors. She came back, nah not a dictate just a suggestion.

Now this type of activity outside the setting of nifty referee uniforms and a well funded advertising campaign complete with woke baubles is, actually technically, criminal. Peeping Tom, Fraud, Sexual Assault, Battery, all have to be accepted in order to validate men playing in the women's bracket. Sexual discrimination, lying under oath, racketeering, complacency in a criminal enterprise are secondary charges after the first grouping.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/31/2021 11:53 Comments || Top||

#15  Peoples' minds seem to be made up. I was just looking for an after action report.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/31/2021 11:56 Comments || Top||

#16  Just keep watching her.

We will.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/31/2021 12:51 Comments || Top||

#17  i send her an aauuummm each night at bedtime.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 03/31/2021 13:15 Comments || Top||

#18  She's done - Gov is as far she goes. Whatever her plan/thinking was, she completely botched her explanation, then flip flopped out of nowhere. Next!
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 03/31/2021 18:31 Comments || Top||

#19  All of you dissing Noem on this are basically full of shit. The initial bill was badly worded, flawed legally, and would have been likely blocked instantly, and eventually ruled against. You're whining about her for symoblism, and ignoring substance.

The orders she put out are separated FOR A GOOD REASON. The high school protections are much more likely to stay in state courts and be upheld. The College part is going to run afoul of legal challenges instantly under Title IX FEDERAL law, and run into all kinds of obstacles in FEDERAL (more liberal) court.

Stop thinking like progressives and leading with your emotions and a very shallow abount of intelligence, and instead look at ALL the facts and context, and see which one is more effective in the end: hint -- its not the crap bill the legislature drew up knowing it would be toseed.

You, purists, are idiots if you think otherwise.
Posted by: These Forkbeard7574 || 03/31/2021 19:15 Comments || Top||

#20  One addition: the Legislature needs to do its job: draw up an iron tight law for state use and subject only to state law, and another one for colleges and universities that are subject to federal laws.

If Noem doesn't sign those better bills, THEN tear her up. Republicans, and notably, conservatives lately, are stupid far too frequently. Its like not realizing the difference between Collins and Murkowski in terms of ability to actually elect a more conservative Senator, and going after both, when Murkowski should be the one targeted, and Collins tolerated.
Posted by: These Forkbeard7574 || 03/31/2021 19:20 Comments || Top||

#21  From the National Public Radio (so we know which way it leans before reading) article:

After signaling support — even excitement — for the bill, Noem declined to sign it over concerns the law would not survive legal challenges.

At a time when feelings are running white hot on both sides, creating robust legislation that will survive the gauntlet of unfriendly judges on the way to an uncertain US Supreme Court is important. Quickly getting weak laws on the books will result in Supreme Court precedents that will make it much harder to defend any other attempts. But yes, the way she handled it will make any play for the presidency harder, should she go for it in 2024. But I would prefer she had more than one term as governor under her belt before running for another office; she has spent all her previous political career in first the South Dakota House of Representatives and then in the U.S. House of Representatives, and it’s clear all those political campaigns and two years as governor have not prepared her to handle this kind of hostile scrutiny. She needs seasoning, which may or may not be enough when the time comes.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/31/2021 19:40 Comments || Top||

#22  As I understand it:
1) fake-girls on girl's high school teams: NO
2) fake-girls on girl's college teams: YES

The rationale for the difference being that college athletic associations would ban championship bowl games in the state and the chamber of commerce crowd would lose money.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/31/2021 20:32 Comments || Top||


Plugs Or Somebody Picks Obama's Top Liar to Quarterback National Vote-by-Mail Effort
[Townhall] The most corrupt people just have a knack for surviving. Like a virus, it mutates, and they live forever while never having to face the consequences of their past actions. It’s just another day in the swamp that is Washington DC, the parasitic lifeform that’s killing this country with every passing day. Take Susan Rice, Obama’s former national security adviser, who has a new task to perform with the Biden administration: being the starting quarterback for its national vote-by-mail effort. The Washington Free Beacon has more:

President Joe Biden put controversial former national security adviser Susan Rice in charge of directing hundreds of federal agencies and departments to expand access to mail-in voting.

Biden signed an executive order in March that put Rice, now the assistant to the president for domestic policy, in charge of soliciting strategies from federal agencies to produce "relevant information" on expanded voting registration procedures. Federal agencies must submit to Rice "a strategic plan outlining the ways identified under this review that the agency can promote voter registration and voter participation" within 200 days under the terms of the order.

"Agencies shall consider ways to expand citizens' opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process," the order states. "The head of each agency shall evaluate ways in which the agency can, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, promote voter registration and voter participation."

It requires agencies to distribute registration and vote-by-mail ballot application forms, as well as to assist any applicants in completing the forms. It also pushes agencies to allow "approved, nonpartisan third-party organizations and State officials to provide voter registration services on agency premises."

We all know the fraud concerns from vote-by-mail. The Democrat’s blasé attitude towards voter verification concerning signatures. And now they want to nationalize this effort through this massive overhaul of our election system that places the federal government in the driver’s seat. It’s horrifying, but that’s how liberals govern. They want all the control, hence this crazy COVID passport idea that tracks who has been vaccinated. This system appears to bar anyone from returning to normal life without carrying this document, which is Soviet-esque to the nth degree. And it’s fitting that a professional liar like Rice is in charge of this effort to further delegitimize our election system. She lied to the country when she said Benghazi terrorist attack was due to a YouTube video. She lied when she said there was no unmasking of Trump officials who were caught on recordings conducted by our intelligence services.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/31/2021 01:22 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Can't make this stuff up.
Susan Effing Rice. That Susan.
Posted by: Marilyn Jones9794 || 03/31/2021 21:43 Comments || Top||


Biden to nominate groundbreaking first slate of federal judges
[AXIOS] President Joe Biden
...... 46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass.......
on Tuesday announced plans to nominate 11 judges to the federal courts, including D.C. District Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace former D.C. Circuit Court Judge Merrick Garland, who is now U.S. attorney general.

Why it matters: The nominees include three Black women and, if confirmed, could result in the first Moslem federal judge in the country's history, the first AAPI woman to serve on the D.C. District Court, and the first woman of color as a federal judge in Maryland, according to the White House.

The selections "reflect the president’s deeply held conviction that the federal bench should reflect the full diversity of the American people," the White House wrote in a news release.

Between the lines: The nomination of Jackson will likely spur discussion about a potential nomination for the Supreme Court.

Biden has said he will nominate the country's first Black female justice, and the D.C. Circuit Court to which Jackson is nominated is often viewed as a stepping stone for the highest court.

Jackson was once a clerk for Justice Stephen Breyer, the oldest justice on the Supreme Court.
Posted by: Fred || 03/31/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The nominees include three Black women and, if confirmed, could result in the first Moslem federal judge in the country's history, the first AAPI woman to serve on the D.C. District Court, and the first woman of color as a federal judge in Maryland, according to the White House.

Nice to hear what are the primary qualification criteria.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/31/2021 5:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Sharia? Pshaw! We can top that.
We have SEVEN different justice systems:
1. Black Justice
2. Deep State Justice
3. Democrat Justice
4. Antifa-BLM-Peaceful Protestor Catch & Release
5. Woke Justice
6. PostOp-T Justice
7. TransitioningT Justice
Posted by: Gromons Tharong3837 || 03/31/2021 6:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Biden is too incompetent to do this. All along others pull the strings. "What am I signing?".
Posted by: Dale || 03/31/2021 11:10 Comments || Top||


Biden will not throw first pitch at Nationals opening day
[WASHINGTONTIMES] President Joe Biden
...... 46th president of the U.S., who gives the geriatric a bad name......
will not throw the ceremonial first pitch on Thursday’s opening day at Nationals Park, a team spokesperson confirmed.

"We look forward to welcoming President Biden to Nationals Park in the future," a team spokesperson told The Washington Post, which first reported the news. A reason for why Biden will not throw the first pitch wasn’t provided.
"Wait..there's a mound? We can't have that"
A team spokesperson told the Washington Times a decision on who will throw Thursday’s first pitch will be released at a later time.
Posted by: Fred || 03/31/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Subject in question has difficulty, walking, talking, reading, and defining his place at a venue.

Throw a baseball, he no longer has the coordination stand, and throw a pitch...

Next time (?), next year, Shirley you jest.
Posted by: Chish Sputing6467 || 03/31/2021 1:07 Comments || Top||

#2  That would been a Boobtube video.

Serious given the weak mind leadership we have now. The question is WHO IS ACTUALLY RUNNING THE SHOW?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/31/2021 5:13 Comments || Top||

#3  ... because they won't allow him to do it buck-nekkid?
Posted by: Woozle Thinerong4697 || 03/31/2021 5:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Tell'em he'd be throwing a 8ball and watch him go.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/31/2021 10:32 Comments || Top||

#5  obama's first pitch was a wild blooper, Fauci's first pitch was wild and in the dirt

a long history of awful first pitches that now live forever on the internet
Posted by: Lord Garth || 03/31/2021 11:32 Comments || Top||

#6  Wanna watch Harris.
Posted by: KBK || 03/31/2021 14:53 Comments || Top||

#7  Fauci could hold him up and give him some pointers.
Posted by: Bobby || 03/31/2021 15:04 Comments || Top||

#8  Harris only catches things. And usually they are liquid.
Posted by: Blossom Wittlesbach3196 || 03/31/2021 15:35 Comments || Top||

#9  Tell'em it will be for The Washington Senators. Perhaps that will ring a bell.

"Sir, you could be Joe Coleman!"

"Yeah, but I'm a little bit older than him. Aren't I?"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/31/2021 19:34 Comments || Top||

#10  Throwing a ball would be too much work for Joe. Very exhausting.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 03/31/2021 20:37 Comments || Top||

#11  "What press conference?"
Posted by: Clem || 03/31/2021 21:03 Comments || Top||

#12  My only reason to watch the only game of the season...gone.....
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 03/31/2021 21:10 Comments || Top||

#13  "We look forward to welcoming President Biden to Nationals Park in the future...."

Which doesn't mean he'll throw out the first pitch.

This clown can't even walk up stairs, but they really truly seriously thought he might throw a baseball from 60 feet away and from a mound?

These people are making North Korean "news" items sound plausible.

Will he attend Army v Navy in the autumn? Will he still be....aw, never mind. Joey said he's running again in 2024. These jokes are not even funny.
Posted by: Clem || 03/31/2021 21:16 Comments || Top||


Biden to announce up to $4 trillion infrastructure plan with massive tax hikes
If you voted for him, you deserve him, dumbass.
[NYPOST] President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing...

will outline his massive $3 to 4 trillion infrastructure plan Wednesday, which will create four tax increases worth around $1.8 trillion, the White House revealed.
The commander-in-chief’s "Build Back Better" proposal, a centerpiece of his post-COVID campaign message, will be split into two packages for Congress to pass.

The first, the White House said, will focus on infrastructure investments specifically.

The second will focus on funding domestic policy areas of Democratic concern, such as providing universal pre-kindergarten and tuition-free community college, as well as health care.


Posted by: Fred || 03/31/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I thought Barry fixed all of it; can we have a bunch of stupid road signs too?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/31/2021 16:47 Comments || Top||


Comparing Georgia's new voting law to Jim Crow is a disgusting smear
[NYPOST] President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run....
is so committed to bipartisan cooperation and fact-based governance that he has launched an ignorant and incendiary attack on the new Georgia voting law. Biden says the legislation is "Jim Crow in the 21st century" and an "un-American law to deny people the right to vote."

It is now practically mandatory for Democrats to launch this kind of unhinged broadside. Sen. Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren
...The Great White Squaw, Lizzie is the Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts. She traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. She has high cheekbones that stretch all the way to the top of her head. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless...
, accusing Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp of having stolen his 2018 election victory over Democratic activist Stacey Abrams
...sour grapes lo-o-o-o-o-ser (Loser! Loser! Loser!) of the 2018 Georgia governor's race. Now she wants to be somebody's vice president so she can sour grape about that too...
(a poisonous myth), tweeted, "The Republican who is sitting in Stacey Abrams’ chair just signed a despicable voter-suppression bill into law to take Georgia back to Jim Crow."

Anyone making this charge in good faith either doesn’t understand the hideousness of the Jim Crow regime or the provisions of the Georgia law.

The old Jim Crow was billy clubs and firehoses; the alleged new Jim Crow is asking people to write a driver’s-license number on their absentee-ballot envelopes.

The old Jim Crow was poll taxes; the new Jim Crow is expanding weekend voting.

The old Jim Crow was disenfranchising voters en masse based on their race; the new Jim Crow is limiting ballot drop boxes to places they can’t be tampered with.

It is hard to believe that one real voter is going to be kept from voting by the new rules.

To better ensure the security of absentee ballots, the law requires that voters provide a driver’s-license or state-ID number to apply for a ballot and one of those numbers (or the last four digits of a Social Security number) when returning the ballot.

The law narrows the window for requesting absentee ballots, although it still allows plenty of time. A voter can request a ballot as early as 11 weeks before and as late as 11 days before an election; any later risks the ballot not being delivered in time.

Ballot drop boxes were a pandemic-era innovation in Georgia. The law keeps them, while limiting their location to early-voting sites.

After getting blowback over proposed limits on weekend early voting, when black churches run their "souls-to-the-polls" events, Georgia politicians expanded the potential for weekend voting.

The law gives the state election board more authority to take over local election operations, but there is no doubt that election officials in Fulton County, where metro Atlanta is located and long lines at the polls are common, have been incompetent.

Perhaps most controversially, it bans people from distributing food or drink to voters standing in line, an effort to keep partisans from trying to sway voters near polling places. But poll workers can provide food and drink for general use.

The deeper point is that in the contemporary United States, with such wide and ready access to the ballot, changes in the rules or process around the edges don’t disenfranchise people.

Posted by: Fred || 03/31/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Clearly the last GA election demanded serious
STEPS BE TAKEN.

The vote must protected from politicians and Anti-USA GROUPS.

In GA we have prohibited zone for politicking.
The liberals hit on handing water and etc. While clearly engaging polictical discussions. Nothing keeps walk up refreshment stands outside that zone from operating.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/31/2021 8:55 Comments || Top||

#2  The problem is, people who know the actual history already know that, and the rest, the vast ignorant majority, don't care.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/31/2021 9:20 Comments || Top||

#3  The teams have long departed the field and the game is clearly over. Arguing about 'bad calls' will achieve nothing.

If Dominion isn't tossed out and paper ballots are not reintroduced, the 'house' will continue to win just like Vegas.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/31/2021 9:34 Comments || Top||


Jimmy Carter: Democrats Should Abandon Pro-Abortion Position
[BIZPACREVIEW] Appearing on the radio talk show of conservative radio host Laura Ingraham today, former President Jimmy Malaise Carter
...only the second worst president ever...
said he believes the Democratic Party
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
should moderate its position on child sacrifice abortion, which it currently supports without limits and funded at taxpayer expense.

Carter said toning down the stridently pro-child sacrifice abortion position would help win back Republicans who abandoned the Democrats because of child sacrifice abortion and other liberal social issue positions.

Carter said:

"I never have believed that Jesus Christ would approve of child sacrifice abortions and that was one of the problems I had when I was president having to uphold Roe v. Wade and I did everything I could to minimize the need for child sacrifice abortions. I made it easy to adopt children for instance who were unwanted and also initiated the program called Women and Infant Children or WIC program that’s still in existence now. But except for the times when a mother’s life is in danger or when a pregnancy is caused by rape or incest I would certainly not or never have approved of any child sacrifice abortions."
Posted by: Fred || 03/31/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
At 95 years old, Jimmy is closer to the after life than most people, so yeah he sees the light and the error of his ways, and that of his political party, abortion is a multi billion dollar industry in the USA and more $$$ globally.

End it by the democrats, not in Jimmy's lifetime, and likely, maybe never. Abortion is a tragedy, from which there is no redemption.
Posted by: Sherens Ebbolutle9201 || 03/31/2021 1:18 Comments || Top||

#2  I view it as self elimination. Gene pool reduction. Currently fewer of the left every year. Sad but fewer of the wrong sort in the future. Errors self correcting. Fewer of the Maxine types a pleasant thought. I fully expected Ginsburg to live on as wheel chaired DAVROS Dialect. EXTERMINATE!!, EXTERMINATE!!.
Posted by: Dale || 03/31/2021 6:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Whoa! Dud Jimmuh really say that?

Is today April 1st?
Posted by: Eohippus Slease7172 || 03/31/2021 6:30 Comments || Top||

#4  I view it as self elimination.

..which they then counter by importing more voters through open borders.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/31/2021 7:31 Comments || Top||

#5  #4 Yes, I understand that but that is no future guarantee. They are running from leadership similar to Biden. They will say and do anything to get beyond their grasp. They want freedom. They want family. They want a better future. Biden can never deliver on that bag of hopes. Democrats fail at everything. They just throw money and expect people will do as they do. Always on the take. Soon the money will stop flowing. The economic bubble has burst. Print and spend and it all goes to nothing fixing anything. June is the date mentioned. We will see.
Posted by: Dale || 03/31/2021 11:20 Comments || Top||

#6  What, IMO, democrats don't seem to realize is that "Hispanics" are different from "African-Americans". Once they're a significant voting block, the non-Hispanic whites can kiss their leadership roles goodbye.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/31/2021 11:24 Comments || Top||

#7  Carter is a saint compared to the bozos now. In a day and age when "one term and out" is rare (sorry, Donald), yeah, he was a mess. But I think I'd take him back in a heartbeat if I had to pick a Dem. At least he only lusted in his heart, not like Slick Willy, the Bidens, Cuomo, etc., etc., et al.
Posted by: Clem || 03/31/2021 16:39 Comments || Top||

#8  Abortion keeps the younger females on the Democrat plantation. it's really all they've got. it's the open door to no responsibility for your actions and the Dems can't give it up.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/31/2021 18:42 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Netanyahu's post-election silence has the opposition imploding - analysis
[JPost] - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu surprised many by remaining almost completely silent for a full week after the March 23 election.

Until a tweet attacking Blue and White leader Benny Gantz on Tuesday afternoon, Netanyahu made no public appearances and posted nothing political, to the point that Gantz had accused him of entering a bunker.

It was a palpable contrast, following three months of intense campaigning and weeks of daily interviews with countless media outlets.

But just like Netanyahu's decision to talk so much during the campaign was strategic, so have been his sounds of silence.

The less Netanyahu talks, the less the camp trying to replace him is reminded of the urgency of their task at hand.

If that is Netanyahu's strategy, it certainly appears to be working.

While he quietly calculates his moves for the fateful days ahead, the anti-Netanyahu camp is talking way too much and imploding at the worst possible time.
The advantage of "winner takes all" is stability - there is always a winner. The advantage of proportional representation (besides the fact that marginal groups form their own party instead of taking over a major one) is (since nobody gets majority of votes - modern societies are heterogeneous with spectrum of interests) there has to be coalition negotiations. That is, you can fool 51% of the voters - but you can't fool fellow professional politicians.
I shudder to think: if we had American style "winner takes all", we could've gotten a monkey like Yair Lapid, or Gideon Sa'ar as a PM.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/31/2021 10:55 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  g(r)omgoru, yes indeed. Interesting perspective.
Posted by: Dale || 03/31/2021 12:11 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
GOP Blasts ‘Outrageous' Biden Admin Offer to Roll Back Iran Sanctions
[Free Beacon] Congressional Republicans are calling the Biden administration’s reported plan to roll back sanctions on Iran before it commits to renewed diplomatic talks an unacceptable concession that will only embolden the hardline regime and reward its bad behavior.

As Iran continues to balk at U.S. proposals for direct negotiations on a deal, the Biden administration is becoming desperate. American officials are now said to be offering Iran immediate relief from tough economic sanctions in exchange for commitments to scale back portions of its nuclear program and halt enriching uranium to levels needed for a weapon, according to Politico. That proposal, Republican foreign policy leaders told the Washington Free Beacon, breaks multiple promises from Secretary of State Antony Blinken to not lift sanctions until Tehran agrees to sit down with the United States and other world powers. Republicans also are learning of the proposal via media reports, highlighting the administration’s continued efforts to conceal its diplomatic pursuits from critics in Congress.

Iran also quickly slapped down the Biden administration’s offer, which is said to include a promise to remove sanctions if Tehran stops enriching uranium to the 20-percent threshold, according to Tuesday reports in the country’s state-controlled press. Iranian leaders maintain that they will not agree to any negotiations until America unwinds all of its sanctions on the country and returns to full compliance with the original 2015 deal, which former president Donald Trump abandoned in 2018.

Iran’s hardline stance—accompanied with a major increase in its nuclear weapons work—is a sign that the regime believes the Biden administration will blink first and agree to full-scale sanctions relief in order to cajole it into talks. The administration has already taken several steps in this direction, including removing United Nations sanctions on Tehran, delisting the Iranian-armed Houthi rebels from terror lists, and rolling back restrictions on Iranian diplomats.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/31/2021 00:59 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Hey - as far as Biden goes - anything for Barry and his evil Rasputin Jarrett
Posted by: Warthog || 03/31/2021 10:43 Comments || Top||



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