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-Great Cultural Revolution
When MORONS are allowed to rule....
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 11/07/2021 01:36 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
NASA has a Space Mission, NOT Climate mission.

If it has run out of things to waste $$$$$ on in space.

Then turn Space exploration over to Private Businesses, Change its mission to Space Traffic Controller and save the US Taxpayers some big bucks.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/07/2021 5:26 Comments || Top||

#2  In my opinion in order to maintain control Biden people will invite UN in to manage population here. Troops from countries like China, and others wanting to limit America. Nuclear, military,news medias and political. They will use the tools we have now like the DOJ, FBI, CIA and other three letter operations.
Posted by: Dale || 11/07/2021 6:02 Comments || Top||

#3  NASA has some space cleanup to do before counting Maple trees. There is space debris ready to cause disruption and the floating space garbage grows daily.
Posted by: Airandee || 11/07/2021 6:53 Comments || Top||

#4  In my opinion in order to maintain control Biden people will invite UN in to manage population here.

And that is when the butchery will start, wholesale. At that point there will be nothing left to lose, it will be all or nothing.
Posted by: Hupailing Clavilet1952 || 11/07/2021 7:04 Comments || Top||

#5  I doubt Kamala knows that there are more trees west of the Mississippi today than were when the first settlers arrived. It was the Great Plains for a reason. Today there's a national reserve of what it did look like back then and trees are minimal. Man planted a heck of a lot of trees. Everywhere there was a settlement there are trees planted by humans.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/07/2021 7:25 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ You could even say she's a vacuous hole of knowledge.

But at least she's addressing the border invasion by going to Paris.
Posted by: Frank G || 11/07/2021 7:34 Comments || Top||

#7  Perhaps it is all just a pipe dream of liberals "Even if national capitals wanted to lunge for a common army, there are so many technical, legal, and administrative differences between their militaries that it would take decades to produce a smoothly functioning force.... Conclusion: any talk of creating a fully-fledged common army, even within the next generation, is just that: jaw-jaw and not real-real." — Brooks Tigner, analyst, Atlantic Council.">pipe dream of liberals.
Posted by: Dale || 11/07/2021 8:01 Comments || Top||

#8  Like the Pentagon, NASA wants only imaginary missions defined by them. They aren't up to any real-world problem solving anymore.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/07/2021 8:10 Comments || Top||

#9  WARByM
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/07/2021 8:47 Comments || Top||

#10  Well, Gail, by now the hostages should be going through the early stages of Helsinki Syndrome.

Harris: As in, Helsinki, Sweden.

Finland.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/07/2021 18:19 Comments || Top||

#11  Actually 600 rockers sung their praise to Connie. I haven't heard one customer sing praises about Harris.
Posted by: 3dc || 11/07/2021 19:39 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Congresswoman MTG allowed into J6 jail, meets prisoners
[WashingtonExaminer] After months of trying, conservative Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was given access last night to the jail housing up to 120 alleged Jan. 6 rioters and watched as they sang the national anthem, a nightly ritual.

In a statement, Greene said that D.C. Corrections Department officials allowed her in to check on the conditions which some of the inmates complained about.

She dubbed it the “Patriot Wing.”

In a series of tweets, she showed the pretrial defendants dressed in orange while singing the anthem.

“I just left the Patriot wing of the DC jail where I visited with pretrial J6 defendants in person. I asked questions and heard their stories. We must do everything we can to remain a Free America where justice is colorblind, doesn’t see political lines, and truth prevails,” she tweeted.

For months she and other conservatives eager to defend the Jan. 6 rioters have been denied access to their jail. The inmate complaints of conditions led the U.S. Marshals Service to move about 400 prisoners out of another facility but not the alleged rioters.

Greene and some judges have decried the holding of the alleged rioters for so long. This week, federal Judge Royce Lamberth ordered one inmate released from the D.C. jail after “deplorable” conditions were described to him.

The government has charged about 600 in Jan. 6 crimes related to the riot inside the U.S. Capitol that interfered with Congress' certification of the 2020 election. Many of the rioters were hopeful of stopping or delaying the certification. One rioter, Ashli Babbitt, was shot dead by a U.S. Capitol Police officer, and several officers later died or committed suicide in cases linked to the riot.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 11/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
The Socialcrat Junta has Political Prisoners being held in isolation without bail or trial.

So, why is Amnesty International and the ACLU so quiet on these, Mistreated Political Prisoners, that being held in clear direct violation of the US Constitution and their civil rights as US Citizens?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/07/2021 5:41 Comments || Top||


Economy
To Deal w Oil Shortage Biden Looks to Shut Down A Key Pipeline
[DailyWire] Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration is reportedly gathering data on an oil pipeline in Michigan to determine if shutting it down would further increase fuel prices in the region.

"Revoking the permits for the [Line 5] pipeline that delivers oil from western Canada across Wisconsin, the Great Lakes and Michigan and into Ontario, would please environmentalists who have urged the White House to block fossil fuel infrastructure, but it would aggravate a rift with Canada and could exacerbate a spike in energy prices that Republicans are already using as a political weapon," Politico Pro reported. "Killing a pipeline while U.S. gasoline prices are the highest in years could be political poison for Biden, who has seen his approval rating crash in recent months."

The administration has not yet made a decision about the pipeline, which comes after the Canadian government invoked an old international treaty to stop the state of Michigan from shutting down the pipeline.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wsj "Gretchen Whitmer’s Border War"
THE EDITORIAL BOARD OCTOBER 10, 2021:
Ottawa last week formally invoked the dispute-resolution article of a 1977 treaty governing transit pipelines between the two nations. The treaty states that, except in an emergency, natural disaster or pressing safety concern, “no public authority in the territory of either” the U.S. or Canada may take measures “which are intended to, or which would have the effect of, impeding, diverting, redirecting or interfering with in any way the transmission of hydrocarbon in transit.”
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 11/07/2021 1:38 Comments || Top||

#2  "except in an emergency"

OK, we'll just make up some emergency and then do whatever we please!
Posted by: Tom || 11/07/2021 7:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Climate change is an emergency, right?
That's what Al Gore, St Greta of Thunberg and others have been telling us for years.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 11/07/2021 10:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Washington shuts down a pipeline to MI. TX shuts down a pipeline to DC and NY. Reciprocity.
Posted by: Hupusolet Smith5796 || 11/07/2021 14:00 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Federal Court Blocks Biden Administration's Private Business COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
[ET] A federal appeals court on Saturday blocked the Biden administration’s private employer COVID-19 vaccine mandate, asserting there may be constitutional issues with the requirement.

"Because the petitions give cause to believe there are grave statutory and constitutional issues with the mandate, the mandate is hereby STAYED pending further action by this court," a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said in the brief order.

The halt of the mandate, which was unveiled this week, is temporary as the case moves forward.

The case was brought by multiple businesses, including the American Family Association; multiple individuals; and several states, including Texas, Utah, and Mississippi.

Petitioners said the mandate, promulgated as an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) by the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), should be struck down because it exceeds OSHA’s authority under the Occupational Safety and Health Act.

They said that the authority is limited to workplace-related hazards while the risk from COVID-19 is "a society-wide danger." They also said the mandate doesn’t make sense because determining whether COVID-19 is a workplace hazard depends on employees’ age and health, not how many co-workers they have.

"In an attempt to impose a nationwide vaccination mandate without approval from Congress, the executive branch has couched its COVID-19 vaccine mandate as an emergency workplace rule affecting nearly 100 million Americans. But the ETS is neither a workplace rule nor responsive to an emergency," lawyers for the petitioners wrote in an emergency motion asking the court to impose a stay.
Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 gave us the Reuters article on the subject, and Lord Garth gave us the Daily Wire’s ditto, commenting:
Court: You said there are constitutional issues

Petitioner: Yes

Court: Grave constitutional issues

Petitioner: Is there another kind
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
But, too many Big Businesses are already on the Biden VAX train.

Next, look for $1,000+/- Tax Incentives for Businesses that mandate VAX'ing of staff and employee's.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/07/2021 5:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Apparently, "L'etat, ce n'est pas Biden"...at least not yet.
Posted by: Tom || 11/07/2021 7:38 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Joe Biden Starts Wildly Screaming at a Reporter After He Gets Caught Lying
[RedState] He's losing it
Some days ago, The Wall Street Journal reported on settlements being reached with illegal immigrants that could pay as much as $450,000 a person. That is being ostensibly done as restitution for families that were separated under the Donald Trump presidency.

When Joe Biden was asked about the report, though, he called it "garbage," claiming that it was not going to happen. A day later, his own White House contradicted him, saying that settlements are being negotiated that could reach that amount.

You’d think, at that point, that the president would understand he got caught with his pants down, having no idea what his own administration is doing. Instead, when asked again about it today, Biden doubled down on lying and began to — bizarrely — start screaming at the reporter.

A fair warning, this is really uncomfortable to watch.

Biden has become notorious for being unable to control his emotions when confronted about just about anything. That’s especially true when he knows he’s caught in a lie. Perhaps it’s just his personality, or more likely his senility, but it’s completely unbecoming of a president. Does he think screaming at reporters dictates some kind of moral authority?

In this case, Biden starts wildly yelling about people losing their children, while pointing in a threatening manner.

But attempting to make an anger-fueled moral case is simply a deflection here. Biden knows he’s caught in a lie, and then doubles down with another lie. At the beginning of the clip, he claims that "he didn’t say that," when asked about him dismissing the reports about the payments as "garbage." Except, he absolutely did say that.

Here, listen for yourself.

Doocy asks Biden about reports that his administration was in talks to give $450,000 to individuals separated at the border under Trump

Biden: "That's not going to happen." pic.twitter.com/dZIJkkuHZe

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) November 3, 2021

Posted by: Frank G || 11/07/2021 06:53 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  A fair warning, this is really uncomfortable to watch.

As is nearly everything coming out of Washington.


Posted by: Besoeker || 11/07/2021 7:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Translation: A different faction of the bureaucracy won the turf wars last night. And so now we have their policies, not the policies of their predecessors who had won the turf wars the preceding night.
Posted by: Tom || 11/07/2021 7:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Any specialized caregiver will tell you, there are two broad categories of dementia patients: passive and belligerent.

Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/07/2021 8:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Straitjacket time.

Edith Wilson to the white courtesy phone please
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/07/2021 8:45 Comments || Top||

#5  Electroshock. Pay per view.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/07/2021 8:47 Comments || Top||

#6  He's losing it

He's never had it.

Biden has become notorious for being unable to control his emotions when confronted about just about anything.

A lot of Democrats act like that when they're caught lying.
Posted by: Raj || 11/07/2021 8:54 Comments || Top||

#7  Also likely that Magoo's rage was triggered by fear that the formerly friendly press will soon be all over his and his family's corruption.

His tantrums are one helluva tell
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/07/2021 8:57 Comments || Top||

#8  Possible scenario: the rancid skank VP gets pushed out of her job that she's manifestly unwilling and unable to do -- appointed the new Ambassador to France let's say -- and Magoo appoints a new VP for whom he'll step aside a la Nixon and Jerry Ford.

Who will Magoo pass the cup to?

Big Mike?
Oprah?
RuPaul?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/07/2021 9:02 Comments || Top||

#9  ..cause their last VP pick was such a winner.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/07/2021 9:56 Comments || Top||

#10  These assholes can't help themselves. They will almost certainly push for a black woman to replace Magoo. Only q. left is which Wakandan Warrior Princess they will choose
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/07/2021 12:02 Comments || Top||

#11  All of the above comments are valid...
Joe is an invalid, this will only get worse,
less than 10 months in office he has snapped,
watch out he has the 'football', one of these days,
an artificial sun could rise in the North, South or West. Atomic Bomb can do that....
Posted by: Heriberto Sproing5813 || 11/07/2021 13:25 Comments || Top||

#12  But what if it wasn't really you're child? What if you were smuggling a child that some deadbeat dad sold to you for the purpose of sex trafficking? Or what if the Border Patrol put that child with you in a detention facility for men and another prisoner raped the child?

Oh! You think an adult with a child, neither of whom can prove their identity, should be turned loose in the United States of America after illegally crossing our border?

#FJB
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/07/2021 16:02 Comments || Top||

#13  I think the GOP must demand DNA test proof that the child involved was related to the adult involved. And let's have documentation of the alleged "separation" event. We will suddenly be told that virtually all children coming across the border are adopted. And the usual suspects will uncritically lap it up. Meanwhile the GOPe types will recoil in horror that such cruel requirements might be suggested.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/07/2021 16:08 Comments || Top||

#14  I read somewhere that this settlement, as a single class action, might cost upwards of one BILLION dollars, to illegal aliens who chose to remain incarcerated when their child was released because of existing law regarding pretrial confinement for minors, or for illegal alien children sent across the border without parents or with people who rented then to appear as a family to avoid immediate return. This cannot stand. Even senile Bidet thought it was "garbage" when first told. Then the Kalorama White House sent word that it was policy, and poof, JoJo "knew" all about it and showed anger when questioned. This cannot continue...
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 11/07/2021 16:46 Comments || Top||

#15  Fox, controlled opposition, will not point out that 10x as many children have been "lost" under brandon's so called administration. They let him get away with attacking the outrageous behavior of Trump, while he is doing the same thing with a worse outcome. They let him skate. That wasn't Chris Wallace, either.
Posted by: Helmuth, Speaking for Thromons3612 || 11/07/2021 22:16 Comments || Top||


House passes Infrastructure Bill, a.k.a., BIF with help from 13 Republicans
Here’s hoping the honourable — and angry — Mitch McConnell kills it in the Senate.
[PostMillennial] The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday has approved President Joe Biden's $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill with the support of a dozen (plus one) Republicans. Six progressive Democrats voted "no" on the bill.
AOC's "Squad"
Biden is expected to sign the bill as soon as it lands on his desk, scoring a massive victory for his administration after months of negotiations between the Democratic Party's moderate and progressive sides and their Republican counterparts.

The core part of Biden's infrastructure bill, which is a key component of the administration's "Build Back Better" agenda, includes massive investments in roads, bridges and waterways, and other "hard infrastructure" provisions agreed upon by both Democrat and Republican parties.
The Republicans who voted 'yes' may have been persuaded by the US Chamber of Commerce that vigorously promoted this bill. The CBO and the U of PA Warton analysis concludes that the bill will add to the deficit while doing almost nothing for the economy. I don't know how they do analysis on something like this as a lot of the funds in the bill are for earmarked projects, the scope of which are incompletely known.
Courtesy of Hupusolet Smith5796 yesterday in comments,
the Republican Congresscritters who voted for the thing:

Katko
Van Drew
Upton
Young
Kinzinger
Gonzolaz
Smith
Fitzpatrick
Reed
Garbarino
Malliatokis
Bacon
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

A lot of places to hide skimmed $$$$ in infrastructure structure repair spending.

DC Swamp families will be rolling in $$$$ come 2022.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/07/2021 5:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Nothing but pouring more gasoline on the inflation fire.
Posted by: Tom || 11/07/2021 7:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Clear evidence that 13 of the Uniparty checks have cleared.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/07/2021 7:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Sleeper agents activated for one last suicide mission.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/07/2021 19:16 Comments || Top||



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