Posts on Sunday, February 13, 2022
Producer-director Ivan Reitman, whose wildly successful comedies of the ‘70s and ‘80s included the blockbuster spookfest “Ghostbusters,” died in his sleep on Feb. 12, his family confirmed to the Associated Press. He was 75. The cause of death was not released.
“Our family is grieving the unexpected loss of a husband, father, and grandfather who taught us to always seek the magic in life,” his children, director Jason Reitman, Catherine Reitman and Caroline Reitman said via a joint statement. “We take comfort that his work as a filmmaker brought laughter and happiness to countless others around the world.
Biden Spoke to Putin About Ukraine And
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Does Joe Biden simply not get it? The Russians are not scared of you. They see everything. They see your mind is oatmeal. They see Jill holding your hand because you don’t know where you are anymore. They see you simply cannot do the job. Everyone saw the shambolic exit out of Afghanistan. Now, Biden’s people say that an invasion is imminent. They’ve been saying this for weeks. Are they right or not? I don’t know, but with the endless stream of bad news and no accomplishments that have marked this Biden presidency, I bet they’re hoping for a war. What a distraction that would be, right?
In this episode of “The Neverending Story: COVID-Style”…
“Shockingly,” as fears of the rational among us continue to subside over the yuugely-overhyped Omicron variant — not that we were all that fearful in the first place — “leading UK scientists” are now warning that new COVID strains could be “much more dangerous and cause far higher numbers of deaths and cases of serious illness than Omicron.” Joe Biden was last seen furiously nodding in agreement.
Yep, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson prepares to lift the final COVID restrictions in England, next week, as reported by The Guardian, “leading UK scientists” are (no doubt frantically) once again ringing the never-ending COVID alarm bells
The Rams went ahead in the closing minutes of the Super Bowl shortly after an iffy penalty called against the Bengals.Cincinnati linebacker Logan Wilson was flagged for defensive holding against Cooper Kupp on 3rd-and-goal from the 8-yard line with 1:47 remaining, and the Rams went ahead three plays later on a 1-yard touchdown pass from Matthew Stafford to Kupp for a 23-20 victory.Wilson didn’t appear to commit a penalty on the third-down play, breaking up the pass just inside the 5-yard line.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson decided to take the field before Super Bowl LVI to fire up the crowd for the game. It did not have its intended effect. Moments before the Rams and Bengals got set to do battle a cranberry-clad Dwayne Johnson appeared with a microphone and proceeded to let fly with a dozen different cliche big game event opening lines.(Tweet/Video) Twitter did not take kindly to “The Rock’s” best Bruce Buffer impersonation. (Tweets.....)
So there you have it. Russiagate, the collective delusion that Donald Trump was secretly a Russian agent aided and abetted by the Kremlin, the topic of uncountable inches of Washington Post and New York Times copy and the entire prime-time lineup of MSNBC, was a dirty trick by the Hillary Clinton campaign. Not just part of it. All of it. One of the most diabolical, successful misinformation campaigns ever concocted. We already knew that the Steele dossier was garbage. Christopher Steele was paid indirectly by the Clinton campaign to dig up dirt, which he did by turning to other Clinton operatives, laundering every outlandish rumor
Gibson's Bakery Owner Dies
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OBERLIN — Allyn W. Gibson, owner of Gibson’s Bakery in Oberlin, passed on Saturday, according to a statement to the business’ Facebook page.(Snip)The statement announced Gibson’s passing “with a heavy heart,” and said Gibson, 93, died during "bakers hours." “Mr. Gibson was one of the most kind and genuine individuals we have ever known. He will be greatly missed,” the statement added. In operation since 1885, Gibson’s has been a staple of downtown Oberlin and is a fifth-generation family-owned business. Condolences immediately began pouring in on Sunday afternoon, where Gibson was remembered for his kindness, penchant for being a storyteller and the values
The Super Bowl half time show was for the first time a celebration of West Coast hip hop, with veteran rappers and performers thrilling with their classic hits. Los Angeles-born Dr Dre opened the show, and was supported by his fellow Angelenos Snoop Dogg and Kendrick Lamar.The Californian trio were accompanied by Mary J. Blige, Eminem and 50 Cent. The six have a combined age of 286, making this year's Super Bowl show one of the 'oldest' - and yet also one of the best received. They also have a combined wealth of $983 million
A surprisingly large share of Democrats wants to see Hillary Clinton investigated over her possible role in manufacturing dirt to try to tie Donald Trump to the Kremlin, a new poll shows.
The survey, conducted by TechnoMetrica Institute of Policy and Politics in New Jersey last month, polled 1,308 Americans about the mushrooming investigation by Special Counsel John Durham into the FBI’s probe of Trump’s alleged links to Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Nearly three out of four of those polled who are following the story said they think it’s important prosecutors investigate Clinton for her role in the Russiagate scandal along with her top campaign advisers.
Former White House adviser and Donald Trump son-in-law Jared Kusher has been nominated for the Nobel Prize for his work as a leading negotiator of the Abraham Accords.
The accords — a series of groundbreaking normalization agreements between Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Morocco and Bahrain — were among former President Trump’s most significant foreign-policy achievements.
The nomination was submitted by Long Island GOP Rep. Lee Zeldin — who also nominated Kushner’s deputy Avi Berkowitz.
“The Abraham Accords, signed in 2020, represent the most significant diplomatic breakthrough between Israel and Arab nations in decades,” Zeldin wrote in his nomination, a copy of which was obtained by The Post.
How sweet it is. Short, too.I’m referring to the 30-second campaign ad from Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dave McCormick that airs during Sunday’s Super Bowl game (between two teams and a league I no longer follow, but I digress).As reported by Fox News, McCormick’s ad, which contains the “Let’s Go Brandon!” chant, is expected to air across all NBC platforms in Pennsylvania during the Super Bowl.Needless to say, the folks who put the ad together had more than enough material from which to draw, after just one year of Joe Biden’s occupation of the Oval Office — from the Biden Border Crisis™ to the Biden Oil Crisis™ and runaway gas prices,
Unearthed campaign trail tweets from 2016
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Unearthed tweets from the 2016 presidential campaign show how Hillary Clinton promoted unproven reports that Donald Trump conspired with the Russians.The tweets resurfaced Sunday after special counsel John Durham released a bombshell report that Clinton's team tried to spy on Trump's White House servers in an attempt to tie him to Russia.While running for the nation's highest office, Clinton pushed the narrative that Trump was secretly communicating with Russians via the country's Alfa Bank.'Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank,' she tweeted on October 31, 2016
Rapper, Snoop Dogg produced a rap video ‘BadBadNotGood’ back in 2017.Imagine if an ‘entertainer’ made a video like this about Obama? The outcry would be heard around the world and the Secret Service would have investigated. He depicts President Trump as a clown smoking a joint and ends up pointing a gun at his head. When he shoots the gun, a flash fires at Trump’s head and a ‘BANG’ flag pops out.Snoop Dogg has rapped about drugs and sexually abusing women for decades yet he depicts President Trump as a pot-smoking clown. FYI, Donald Trump doesn’t even drink alcohol…
Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan said that Donald Trump was 'right on target' to suggest Hillary Clinton's operatives should be executed after the former president accused her campaign of treason. Trump unleashed a furious broadside on Clinton on Saturday after special counsel John Durham claimed that her team had tried to spy on his White House servers in a bid to find ties to Russia to smear him with.The one-term president claimed Durham's report was bigger than Watergate and said everyone involved should be prosecuted and preferably, executed. 'In a stronger period of time in our country,
The Biden administration is planning to throw Americans’ tax dollars at the Taliban without knowing how the money will be used, according to a watchdog group.
“The Biden administration has laid out plans through the U.S. Treasury to open up the U.S. taxpayer dollars spigot back into Afghanistan,” Adam Andrzejewski of the group Open The Books said in a video on the organization’s website.
“We run the risk of funding the world’s most dangerous foreign terrorist organization if we open up the U.S. taxpayer spigot through the Department of Treasury,” he said. On Friday, President Joe Biden signed an executive order that freed up $7 billion in funds that
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Sunday that "defund the police" is not a position held by the Democratic Party after progressive Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) recently reiterated her support for the controversial slogan. Asked by host George Stephanopoulos during an interview on ABC's "This Week" about what the Democrats' response to crime should be, Pelosi said she disagrees with Bush's statement that calling for police to be defunded.
The Media Blackout of Durham's Bombshell
Report Alleging Clinton Campaign 'Infiltrated'
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A filing by special counsel John Durham — alleging Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign paid a technology company to establish an “inference” that the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia so she could win an election — has not generated much excitement in the mainstream media.
Perhaps because the story is somewhat complex, the media has decided not to report on it? Indeed, naming all the players and their actions is a chore, if you read the few media outlets on the right that are covering it.
It’s sort of boring — until you realize the staggering implications of what’s being alleged.
Durham is saying that the Democratic candidate
From the perspective of freedom-loving citizens in this country, the trucker convoys and blockades protesting mask and vaccine mandates are a stirring spectacle of patriotism, civic responsibility, and true grit. They represent the offset to heavy-handed and arrogant government that is using everything in its power to suppress their efforts: threats, fines, police coercion, theft of property, and the manifestly illegal sequestering of funds donated to the truckers by private individuals. A conflict of this nature is often framed as the state versus the nation, the authorities versus the people. Whether it applies to the current situation, as we will see, is problematic.
The NFL’s dismal number of black head coaches shows a lack of “generic decency” from a league that hasn’t kept its promises, President Biden said in an interview airing Super Bowl Sunday.
“They haven’t lived up to what they committed to and lived up to being open about hiring more minorities to run teams,” Biden told NBC News, referencing the football league’s purported commitments to diversifying leadership. “The whole idea that a league that is made up of so many athletes of color as well as so diverse, that there’s not enough African American qualified coaches to manage these NFL teams, it just seems to me that it’s a standard
The NYPD is searching for a shoplifter who allegedly brutally attacked a woman pharmacy worker on Friday in Manhattan after being confronted about the theft. The alleged thief walked into a Duane Reade in Morningside Heights about 10:30 a.m. Friday and began pilfering products from a freezer and putting them in his bag, police said. When he was approached by a 21-year-old woman store employee who directed him to put the items back, the man allegedly punched the worker in the face, grabbed her hair and threw her to the ground, according to the NYPD. The man—described by police as about 40 years old, 6-feet tall
As Argentina signs up to China's belt
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Argentina's entry into the Belt and Road Initiative is a significant advance in Beijing's bid to strengthen ties with Latin America, according to experts.
During a high-profile visit to Beijing last week for the opening of the Winter Olympics, Argentinian President Alberto Fernandez signed his country up for China's sweeping infrastructure programme, paving the way for investments worth more than US$23 billion.
Before quarterbacks Matthew Stafford and Joe Burrow take to the air in Super Bowl 56, a historic flyover will honor the 75th anniversary of the United States Air Force. The Air Force Heritage Flight will be a first-of-its-kind flyover at the end of the national anthem at SoFi Stadium. The flyover will feature a formation of five iconic aircraft to recognize the Air Force’s evolution since 1947. The five aircraft that will be flown are the P-51 Mustang, A-10C Thunderbolt II, F-16 Fighting Falcon, F-22 Raptor and F-35 A Lightning II. The P-51 Mustang was first flown during World War II
Rosario Dawson and Sen. Cory Booker have called it quits on their relationship of more than two years, PEOPLE confirms. A source close to the New Jersey lawmaker says the former couple aren't dating anymore but remain good friends (A Booker rep had no comment; reps for Dawson did not respond to a request). Dawson and Booker first crossed paths at a political fundraiser for a mutual friend in summer 2018. Though sparks didn't fly right away, months later, the two reconnected. "I mean, gosh, that night we talked for hours and hours," Booker, 52, told The Washington Post in
nearthed Hillary Clinton tweets from days before the 2016 presidential election show the candidate pushing now-debunked information that Donald Trump was using a "covert sever" linking him to Russia. Just a day after Fox News first reported that Special Counsel John Durham alleged that lawyers from her campaign had paid to "infiltrate" servers belonging to Trump Tower, and later the White House, in order to establish an "inference" and "narrative" to bring to government agencies linking Trump to Russia.
MEXICO CITY—Mexico has acknowledged that the U.S. government has suspended all imports of Mexican avocados after a U.S. plant safety inspector in Mexico received a threat.The surprise suspension was confirmed late Saturday on the eve of the Super Bowl, the biggest sales opportunity of the year for Mexican avocado growers — though it would not affect game-day consumption since those avocados had already been shipped.Avocado exports are the latest victim of the drug cartel turf battles and extortion of avocado growers in the western state of Michoacan, the only state in Mexico fully authorized to export to the U.S. market.
Hillary Clinton will receive the Forbes International Women’s Day Lifetime Achievement Award at the March inaugural "Forbes 30/50 Summit" in Abu Dhabi, Mika Brzezinski announced Tuesday on Morning Joe. The award is in recognition of Clinton's "leadership and influential voice on the global stage in advancing the cause of women and fighting for gender equity.""I am thrilled to announce former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will headline the next month's 30/50 summit in Abu Dhabi," said Brzezinski. "I will interview Secretary Clinton as she receives the Forbes International Women's Day Lifetime Achievement Award."
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hit the campaign trail in Texas this weekend where she told the crowd that the Lone Star State flipping blue is 'inevitable' while endorsing two Democratic candidates there.'Texas turning blue. Inevitable. Inevitable! It will happen. The only question is when,' the New York progressive representative said on Saturday.
'We are going to fight for a living wage. We're going to make sure we unionize the hell out of this state,' she continued,
Special Counsel Durham has found the Clinton campaign team paid a tech firm to hack into Donald Trump’s private and office communications, even after he became President of the United States. This is the definitive vindication of his claim that he was spied on.Donald Trump exploded at further vindication of his claim that he was spied on.“The latest pleading from Special Counsel Robert Durham provides indisputable evidence that my campaign and presidency were spied on by operatives paid by the Hillary Clinton Campaign in an effort to develop a completely fabricated connection to Russia,” Donald Trump said in a statement. “This is a scandal far greater in scope
The Republican National Committee (RNC) is suing Bucks County, Pennsylvania, to push for more transparency when it comes to the county’s processes for counting absentee ballots, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.The lawsuit represents an escalation by the GOP in an effort to establish uniformity in the Keystone State when it comes to the process of absentee ballot counting, with several counties in the state still resisting transparency and reform efforts.“The RNC is suing the Bucks County Board of Elections because Pennsylvanians deserve transparent elections,” RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel told Breitbart News.
For more than a year, former President Donald Trump has berated Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona, savaging him for refusing to overturn the state’s presidential results and vowing to oppose him should he run for the Senate this year.
In early December, though, Ducey received a far friendlier message from another former Republican president. At a golf tournament luncheon, George W. Bush encouraged him to run against Sen. Mark Kelly, a Democrat, suggesting the Republican Party needs more figures like Ducey to step forward.
“It’s something you have to feel a certain sense of humility about,” the governor said this month of Bush’s appeal. “You listen respectfully, and that’s what I did.”
According to a motion filed Friday by Special Counsel John Durham, lawyers for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign paid a technology company to “infiltrate” servers that belonged to Trump Tower and, later, the Trump White House “for the purpose of gathering derogatory information about Donald Trump.”
Indicted Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussman, who was the subject of the aforementioned filing, has already been accused of making a false statement to the FBI by telling them he wasn’t representing any client when he presented evidence to them alleging a link between Donald Trump and Russian bank Alfa Bank.
A homeless man in Utah allegedly slit a woman’s throat after she let him into her home to shower, cops said. Officers responded to a call of a woman heavily bleeding from the neck around 5 p.m. last Sunday at her home in Salt Lake City, according to cops. She was transported to a local hospital in critical condition and underwent emergency surgery. Her condition was later upgraded to stable, but her current condition is unknown, cops said. The woman told investigators she let the man, later identified by police as 30-year-old Eric Jones, into her home to bathe. Jones was located by city police around 1 a.m.
He had no teeth.
As with many shelter residents, the little white dog had a skimpy known past that could only be imagined. The woman surrendering him said he belonged to her boyfriend, who abandoned them both. Not the dog’s fault he’d become an unwanted furry reminder. Somebody once spent several hundred dollars to have his rotting teeth removed. But someone else let them get that way. He’d been abandoned for unknown reasons to several shelters, awaiting his furever family. I had yet to realize I was to become his future, the last six years of it anyway
The Durham investigators uncovered evidence that shows Hillary Clinton’s team paid operatives to “infiltrate” the Trump Tower and then President Trump’s White House servers to link Trump to Russia.On Saturday it was reported at FOX News and on Twitter: (Tweet) The Durham team found evidence lawyers paid tech specialists, including university personnel to infiltrate Trump servers. This is not surprising. TGP reported on this in April 2019 based on our expert review.Back in 2019, The Gateway Pundit reported — A review of the data pertaining to the accusations in the phony Steele dossier about a Trump-Russia Bank connection
Friends of Prince Harry have warned his no-holds barred book will lay bare his true feelings towards his step-mother Camilla and is likely to 'shake the monarchy to its core'. The Duke of Sussex, 37, is set to publicly spill all on his relationship with his estranged family in an explosive £14.7million ($20million) memoir due to be published later this year. The Royal Family has been left deeply concerned by Harry's decision to secretly collaborate with Pulitzer-winning ghostwriter JR Moehringer on what his publishers described as 'the definitive account of the experiences, adventures, losses, and life lessons that have helped shape him'.
Bob Saget’s autopsy report has appeared to raise more questions that offer answers about the cause of the 65-year-old comedian and actor’s sudden death on January 9. Saget’s family revealed last week that he died of a brain bleed after hitting his head and going to sleep unaware of the severity of his injuries.Though an autopsy report released Thursday painted a grimmer picture about such injuries, noting that he fractured his skull in multiple places and sustained bleeding across both sides of his brain.
A woman was stabbed to death inside her Chinatown apartment early Sunday after she was unknowingly stalked by a random man following a night out, police and sources said. A neighbor across the hallway on the top floor of 111 Chrystie Street called 911 about 4:30 a.m. Sunday after hearing the 35-year-old victim screaming, law-enforcement sources said. NYPD cops arrived at the scene and found a man inside the apartment who tried to flee via the fire escape, before barricading himself inside the apartment, according to law-enforcement sources.(Snip)Though the victim was an Asian woman, cops do not suspect the incident was a hate crime
They’re going to try and ‘Nixon tape’ Trump. They couldn’t get him on Russian collusion. They couldn’t get him on quid pro quo in Ukraine. They can’t nail him for January 6. So, the Hail Mary toss here is…missing records? Really? Trump’s enemies are just throwing all the things against the wall to stop this man from running again. Trump commands one of the most efficiently dispersed political coalitions in recent memory. They dismissed him in 2016. They’re not going to do the same in the future. In fact, they don’t even want to play. Indict him on something, anything, and prohibit him from running ever again.
Freedom Convoy truckers have returned to the site of the six-day standoff and have continued to 'hold the line' on the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor in order to block access on the Canadian side after being cleared away earlier by police following a lengthy demonstration.
Demonstrations across Canadian cities have been implemented in response to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's order for the country's truckers to be vaccinated or quarantine after returning from the US. The tense standoff at the Ambassador Bridge linking Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, eased somewhat early in the day when Canadian police persuaded demonstrators to move the trucks they had used to barricade the entrance
Many Minnesota ambulance services are struggling to respond to emergency calls as workers leave the field in pursuit of better pay and working conditions. The exodus comes as demand for emergency medical services is increasing statewide, not only from heart attacks, strokes and car accidents but also patient transfers from hospital to hospital because of crowded conditions caused by COVID-19. "I've never seen so many workers leave the EMS field," said Buck McAlpin a lobbyist for the Minnesota Ambulance Association. "It is alarming." Nearly 60% of the state's 10,465 certified emergency medical technicians did not provide patient care in 2021, suggesting they left the workforce altogether, according to state data.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu was lit up with criticism during an Instagram live video over the city’s vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 restrictions. Wu started up her Instagram live question-and-answer session this week addressing several coronavirus mandates in Beantown. The stream did not go as Wu had planned. Angry Bostonians unleashed a torrent of criticism at Wu over the COVID mandates. "Why do you hate kids? Teachers? Cops? Firemen?" one of the commenters said, while another accused Wu of "ruining" Boston.(Snip)Wu appeared stunned by the onslaught of messages, her smile dropping as the comments rolled in. The video quickly went viral, with thousands piling on
US officials warned that Russia could begin cyberattacks against America as it prepares for a possible invasion of Ukraine that a congressman called 'inevitable.' The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a 'Shields Up' alert on Friday night, warning all organizations in the US, regardless of size, to 'adopt a heightened posture when it comes to cybersecurity and protecting their most critical assets.' 'While there are not currently any specific credible threats to the U.S. homeland, we are mindful of the potential for the Russian government to consider escalating its destabilizing actions in ways that may impact others outside of Ukraine,' the agency said in a statement.
Two teen brothers with a raft of prior arrests were ordered held without bail Saturday in the shooting of an off-duty police officer who was attending a memorial service in West Harlem. Paris Francis, 17, and Prince Francis, 16, of Manhattanville, were in Manhattan Criminal Court to face the music following their Thursday arrests.(Snip)Manley, an off-duty NYPD housing cop, was shot in the foot about 4:30 p.m. after he attended a memorial service for a community member at the Manhattanville Houses in West Harlem.(Snip)Prince Francis is a robbery recidivist whose rap sheet goes back to 2019 and includes at least four arrests,
Chicago Prosecutors say a 16-year-old on an electronic monitor carjacked a Lyft and then murdered 15-year-old boy walking home from school only hours after appearing before judge on weapons charge.
On Tuesday, 16-year-old Anthony Brown went on a crime spree after appearing before a judge for a December weapons charge while wearing a GPS monitoring bracelet as part of his release on a pending juvenile charge, the Cook County State's Attorney's office said.
After leaving the virtual hearing Brown ordered a Lyft and was picked up at 2:15 pm and after only being driven several blocks, he pulled a gun and held it
A Freedom protester in Canberra has filmed an act of road rage as a local driver runs into their car and shouts abuse through her window.
The two vehicles were parked at a set of traffic lights when, after a small incident, the protester got out of their car to ask the woman behind for her licence – as is standard practice after an accident.
“What are you doing?” asks the protester, filming the incident.
London police have released a photo of a man they want to talk to about an attack on a woman whose hair was torn from her scalp in what they say was a racially aggravated attack. The assault took place outside a railway station in south London on Dec. 18, The Guardian reported. The incident happened after the 31-year-old victim got off a Route 119 bus. Police said the suspect pulled at her hair, ripping a portion from her scalp. He then hit her at the back of the head and she fell. The victim also had facial injuries, the cops said.(Snip)“This was an entirely unprovoked assault
Joe Biden's dithering withdrawal from Afghanistan has been blamed for worsening the chaos on the ground and putting American lives at risk by a newly-declassified US intelligence report. Newly-released papers compiled in the aftermath of the August withdrawal found that deadly chaos was only made worse due to indecisiveness among officials with the Biden administration officials in Washington D.C.
Their reluctance to close down the U.S. embassy in Kabul only added to the confusion and made the mission even more dangerous, according to the damning documents.(Snip)Biden and his team had anticipated Kabul would take weeks or even months to fall, but the Taliban wrested back control
Putin is not afraid of Joe Biden, the newly-woke U.S. military, the Keystone Kops at the NSA, CIA or sundry other alphabet organizations right down to BIPOC and LGBTQ, or his speechwriter “doctor” Jill, or the yes-men (er, persons) in the White House. The Kamala Kackle gives him pause, but he has people to handle her.
No, Putin is not afraid of any of them. In fact, it’s that collection of nitwits that tempts him.
Here’s what he’s afraid of, for good reasons.
In this installment of their weekly Sunday Six conversation, PF Whalen and Parker Beauregard of The Blue State Conservative break down six major news stories from the turbulent past week.
#6: Cancel culture sharks smell Joe Rogan’s blood in the water.
PF: If the old saying “any publicity is good publicity” is true, then Joe Rogan is on a roll. Two weeks ago he was making headlines due to the ultimatum issued by has-been rocker Neil Young to Spotify, demanding the streaming service either remove Rogan’s podcasts or Young’s music from their catalog. Spotify held their ground and let go of Young’s tunes, but made a dreadful mistake in the process,
As talks over a return to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal continue, Congress is upping scrutiny of President Joe Biden’s efforts to forge an agreement with Tehran that some argue needs provisions that extend for longer and stronger terms to contain the regime’s malign regional activity.
Twice last week, Biden’s envoy on Iran appeared in private hearings before Congress, a ratcheting up of pressure that points to fissures inside the Democratic Party over the policy.
The Canadian capital of Ottawa is bracing for a third straight weekend of protests against a vaccine mandate by truckers in the so-called Freedom Convoy as a state of emergency takes effect in the city. Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly promised "more boots on the ground" in remarks and Friday and urged protesters not to come to Ottawa but he did not share details about potential police deployments. Ontario Premier Doug Ford declared a state of emergency in the Canadian province on Friday and both he and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warned of "consequences" for protesters.
Bob Saget’s death in January was a very tragic thing, especially for someone who was still relatively young, was beloved by so many people, and who had contributed so much to the entertainment industry.
But now, there are folks raising questions about the serious head trauma he suffered.
His death was attributed to head trauma in an autopsy report released on Thursday, and it was assessed to be an accident, i.e. maybe he fell and then went to sleep, and then died.
Now, the description of the head trauma is much more extensive than initially suggested, according to the NY Times.
Anthony Weiner Is Back
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So, former congressman and convicted sex offender Anthony Weiner is making something of a comeback. No, this isn’t the springboard for a return to public life. That is forever closed, but the man needs something to do, I guess. I don’t know why he feels that way. Any man slapped with such charges would rightfully stay away…forever. Instead, Carlos Danger will be featured on a radio show with former Republican mayoral candidate and Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa. Could this be the start of Weiner’s radio career?
Hamid Karzai, the former president of Afghanistan, urged President Biden on Sunday to reverse his decision to unfreeze $3.5 billion in Aghan assets held in the U.S. for families of 9/11 victims.Karzai, who served as the country’s president for 13 years after the Taliban were first ousted after the 9/11 attacks, told reporters in Kabul that the Afghan people are also victims of terrorism. Biden’s order targets a total of $7 billion in Afghan assets and calls for banks to provide $3.5 billion of the frozen amount to a trust fund for distribution through humanitarian groups for Afghan relief and basic needs.
A retired lieutenant general bluntly assessed that President Joe Biden’s phone call with President Vladimir Putin will have no effect on the Russian leader since he does not respect the U.S. president.Retired Army Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg commented on “Fox & Friends” Saturday concerning the volatile situation with Ukraine, noting how Putin does not understand the West but that understanding the Russian president is key to navigating the coming days. The former national security adviser to Vice President Mike Pence also recounted how differently former President Trump handled understanding political adversaries than Biden does now.The Biden administration is warning Americans to leave Ukraine as soon as possible
Now that the 2022 midterms are approaching, Democrats are shifting their messaging on COVID. Some Democrat governors are lifting vaccine and mask mandates and others are bragging about the efforts of the Biden administration. No one is buying it, including Greg Gutfeld, who made this the focus of a recent monologue. FOX News provides a partial transcript: So I saw something weird last night, and for once it wasn’t in the mirror above my bed after a night of heavy drinking.I turned on CNN and there I saw John King going through some pretty bad numbers for the president,
In case you missed it, the Biden administration has set aside $30 million in funding for a program that includes ‘safe smoking kits’ with paraphernalia that critics have referred to as ‘crack pipes.’The mainstream media hath decreed that this is a bastardization of the program’s intent and thus it is sacrosanct to refer to such ‘drug equity’ paraphernalia as ‘crack pipes.’ The Washington Beacon broke the story, as pointed out by Fox News.“The Health and Human Services (HHS) Department is rolling out a $30 million grant program that will fund the distribution of items, like crack pipes, for smoking illicit substances, according to a new report,” Fox News reported.
The State Department Gives Instructions
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After Joe Biden spoke to Vladimir Putin Saturday, it doesn’t appear we are any closer to having any clear picture of what’s going to happen between Russia and Ukraine. Is it all one big ruse, where Putin gets concessions on NATO and his energy demands, while Biden gets to claim he saved Europe? Or is an invasion truly imminent, as the White House has repeatedly stated? What we do know is that Americans are being urged to flee Ukraine, and the U.S. State Department has released instructions on where to go. The problem is that they make no sense. (Tweet)
Sometimes a Not-Great Notion
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Remember the song “Goodnight Irene”? It goes:
“Sometimes I lives in the country
Sometimes I lives in the town
Sometimes I haves a great notion
To jump into the river an' drown .”
The not-so-great notion in recent years, in my view, has been that of the ruling elites of the western nations now heading for political suicide.
As I write, Canadian police, many dressed in military garb and supported by armored vehicles and snipers(!), are moving in to enforce several court orders and demands of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, and others that the “Freedom Convoy” of Canadian truckers stop blocking the Ambassador Bridge, the major artery between the United States and Canada, and disperse. Some of the protestors are leaving while many others are standing their ground.
Will the heavy hand of the state succeed in crushing the protest? In the short term, perhaps.
Inflation is soaring and so is murder, swarms of migrants are illegally crossing the border and with Russia ready to invade Ukraine, the best President Biden can do is tell Americans there to run for their lives. Even our Olympic athletes are in a medal funk.The bad news piles up by the day, prompting a growing chorus to conclude Biden is the worst president ever. Rest easy, Jimmy Carter!The White House is a bubble, but even it can’t escape the national mood of fear and loathing. So you have to wonder how Biden himself stomachs the daily drumbeat of decline and despair. Ask and you shall receive.
Donald Trump has furiously accused Hillary Clinton's election campaign of treason after a special counsel said her team had tried to spy on his White House servers in a bid to find ties to Russia to smear him with.The former president unleashed a furious broadside on Saturday, claiming that Team Clinton's behavior would once have merited execution, after Special Counsel John Durham made a court filing explaining the alleged hack.Trump said: 'The latest pleading from Special Counsel (John) Durham proves indisputable evidence that my campaign and presidency were spied on by operatives paid by the Hillary Clinton campaign in an effort to develop a completely fabricated connection to Russia.
Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign paid an internet company to “infiltrate” servers at Trump Tower and the White House in order to link Donald Trump to Russia, a bombshell new legal filing alleges.
The Friday filing from a Department of Justice prosecutor tasked with investigating the origins of the FBI’s Russian probe served to throw cold water on Democrats’ longstanding allegations of collusion.
Special Counsel John Durham filed a motion related to potential conflicts of interests in connection with the case of Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, who is charged with lying to the feds
On Friday, Special Counsel John Durham filed with the D.C. Federal District Court a what should have been a boring conflict of interest motion, but it hid a surprise: The Clinton campaign, through Perkins Coie, spied on Trump both before and after he was president. (snip) Durham alleges that Joffe was accessing internet traffic for “a particular healthcare provider” (speculated to be Spectrum Health), Trump Tower, Donald Trumps Central Park West apartment building, and “the Executive Office of the President of the United States (‘EOP’).”
Two healthy middle-aged females returned to almost their normal daily activities after taking daily antihistamines for long COVID, according to a recently published case report.
The researchers noted long COVID is a chronic condition when patients who are infected with the virus have persistent symptoms that extend beyond the typical time frame for the infection to resolve, but the illness currently doesn’t have any evidence-based treatments to guide how to manage it.
"Most patients tell us that providers have not recommended anything that has helped," said co-author Melissa Pinto, associate professor at the University of California, Irvine Sue and Bill Gross School of Nursing.
A Queens man has been busted for the horrifying November attack on an aspiring Thai model on a Herald Square subway platform, police said Saturday. Kevin Douglas, 40, was charged Thursday with second-degree robbery, third-degree robbery and second-degree assault, according to the NYPD.(Snip)Surveillance footage showed a man yanking her back several feet before throwing her to the ground and punching her. While she was down, the mugger allegedly touched her private parts and fled with her purse, police said. “I’m just glad that I’m still alive,” Jirajariyawetch told The Post after the brutal mugging.(Snip)He’s been arrested 44 times and faced charges for drugs, assault,