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Henry Cuellar has narrow lead over Jessica
Cisneros as early votes are tallied in
South Texas Democratic primary runoff
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Posted by NorthernDog 5/24/2022 11:11:54 PM Post Reply
As early votes rolled in, U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar was in a tight race against his progressive Democratic primary challenger, attorney Jessica Cisneros. In this race for the 28th congressional district, Cuellar, an anti-abortion moderate, held a 52-48% lead over Cisneros as results rolled in. As expected, she dominated the vote in Bexar County, while their mutual home of Webb County returned ballots heavily in favor of the incumbent. This race could become competitive in the fall. On the Republican side, former Senate staffer Cassy Garcia captured a 64-36% lead over activist Sandra Whitten in the Republican primary.
Betsy DeVos alleges ‘gross’ Biden
harassment and face-touching
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Posted by Dreadnought 5/24/2022 10:59:43 PM Post Reply
Ex-Vice President Joe Biden, who has a well-established practice of close encounters with women many describe as creepy, allegedly attempted to “intimidate” former Trump-era Education Secretary Betsy DeVos when she was stuck in a wheelchair following a bicycle accident in late 2018. In her new book, DeVos claimed that Biden bent over, put his hands on her shoulders, pressed his forehead to hers, and “lingered” as she tried to roll back. “It was gross, and it was also a feeble attempt to intimidate me,”
Biden Had a Chance to Say the Right Thing
on the Uvalde Shooting - but He Didn't
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Posted by Dreadnought 5/24/2022 10:57:26 PM Post Reply
Joe Biden delivered remarks on the shooting on Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. At least 21 have died at the hands of the shooter, including 18 children and one teacher. The shooter has been identified as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos. A border patrol agent was shot responding to the incident. He was just trying to help out; there was no immigration nexus to the matter. Ramos allegedly shot his grandmother earlier in the day, drove to the school, and began shooting up the school. Biden ordered the flags on the White House to be flown at half-mast as a “mark of respect for the victims of senseless
Biden still slidin': Harvard-Harris job
approval 41%, underwater on all issues
-- but one
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Posted by Dreadnought 5/24/2022 10:14:17 PM Post Reply
The most remarkable aspect about today’s Harvard-Harris poll? It’s actually good news for Joe Biden. For the second month in a row, The Hill reports, Biden’s overall job approval comes in at 41/54. The problem isn’t so much overall approval as it is on the issues that will matter most to voters in the midterms: Biden’s overall approval rating sits at 41 percent in the survey, and the numbers are not much better when broken down by each issue. Only 35 percent of registered voters approve of Biden’s handling of the economy, 44 percent approve of his efforts to stimulate job growth and just 33 percent approve of his handling of inflation.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders Wins Arkansas Governor
GOP Primary
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Posted by Dreadnought 5/24/2022 10:10:44 PM Post Reply
Former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be the Republican nominee for the Arkansas gubernatorial race, Decision Desk HQ projects. As of 8:13 p.m. Central Time, Huckabee-Sanders is leading with 80.67 percent with 26 percent of the vote in. As Arkansas leans heavily red, the former Trump administration official will likely end up victorious in the general election in November. A March poll from the Remington Research Group shows her at 58 percent support, compared to 28 percent for her presumed Democratic opponent Chris Jones. This is unsurprising, especially when one also considers the wide unpopularity of Democrats in Washington at the moment trickling down to the state level.
Top FBI Brass Were “Fired Up” About
Destroying Trump
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Posted by Dreadnought 5/24/2022 10:07:52 PM Post Reply
I was skeptical that the Sussman prosecution would tell us much that is new, but some significant nuggets have come out. Like this one: “FBI brass were ‘fired up’ about now-debunked Trump-Russia ties.” FBI leaders, including then-Director James Comey, were “fired up” about a potential connection between the Trump campaign and Russia — which ultimately was proven false, text messages and court testimony revealed Tuesday. On Sept. 21, 2016, two days after Hillary Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann gave then-FBI General Counsel James Baker info about a supposed digital back channel
Breaking: President Biden Responds to
Tragic School Shooting in Uvalde, Texas
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Posted by Dreadnought 5/24/2022 10:05:40 PM Post Reply
On Tuesday evening, President Joe Biden delivered remarks on the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. As of the time of Biden’s comments, 18 children in grades 2-4 are confirmed dead. In addition, a teacher at the school is deceased, along with the shooter and possibly his grandmother. Details are still emerging, with CBS News reporting that the suspect began shooting at random when he entered Robb Elementary School with a long rifle and also shot at responding officers. Biden spoke at the White House podium, after his return from Japan, and appeared somber and soft-spoken with first lady Jill Biden at his side. He began by offering condolences and speaking
'Elite' Border Patrol agent credited with
killing Texas school mass shooter
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Posted by NorthernDog 5/24/2022 10:04:45 PM Post Reply
A Border Patrol agent is being credited with killing the gunman in a deadly mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday. An anonymous law enforcement official told the Associated Press that an agent rushed into Robb Elementary School without waiting for backup. The Border Patrol agent shot and killed the gunman, who was hiding behind a barricade, this source said. The as-yet-unidentified agent was wounded but able to walk out of the school, the source added. Border Patrol sources told Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin that the agent believed to have shot and killed the gunman
Texas AG Ken Paxton defeats George P.
Bush in GOP primary in bid for re-election
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Posted by Dreadnought 5/24/2022 10:01:49 PM Post Reply
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a close ally of former President Donald Trump, fended off a primary challenge from Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush in Tuesday’s runoff election. With 36 percent of the expected vote counted, Paxton held a 31-point lead over Bush. Bush — the son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and nephew of former President George W. Bush — is the first member of his family to lose a statewide election in Texas since his grandfather George H.W. Bush, the former president, lost the state’s 1980 Republican presidential primary to Ronald Reagan. “There’s Bush burnout,” Derek Ryan, a Texas Republican data guru, said in an interview
Stacey Abrams Officially Wins Democrat
Primary Race for Governor
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Posted by Dreadnought 5/24/2022 9:57:52 PM Post Reply
Democrat Stacey Abrams officially won Georgia’s Democrat gubernatorial primary race, bringing a long-awaited rematch against incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp (R), who also won his race on Tuesday. The former Georgia state representative officially secured her nomination Tuesday night: Abrams long maintained that she defeated Kemp in the last governor’s race, ultimately deeming the system as “not fair.” In a 2019 interview with the New York Times, a reporter presented the failed gubernatorial candidate with the following: “I saw that recently you said something like you’d won your election but you just didn’t get to have the job.” Abram’s responded with a resounding, “Yes.” “I believe we have reached a place
Herschel Walker Clinches Georgia's U.S.
Senate Republican Primary
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Posted by Dreadnought 5/24/2022 9:54:24 PM Post Reply
Trump-backed Georgia Republican Herschel Walker, a former NFL running back and Heisman Trophy winner, won his party primary for the U.S. Senate according to the Associated Press, which called the race at 7:56 p.m. E.T. Walker, who led in every public poll against his closest challenger Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black, was expected to easily win his party’s primary, with little chance that he would not breeze past 50 percent Tuesday night. The Republican Senate nominee, whom former President Donald Trump has endorsed since last year, has been a household name in the Peach State since his time playing football for the University of Georgia and winning the Heisman Trophy before going on
Outside study finds ‘critical flaws’
in MTA’s $90M bus command boondoggle
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Posted by Ribicon 5/24/2022 9:40:01 PM Post Reply
The MTA’s $90 million boondoggle bus dispatch war-room has “critical design and execution flaws” that could render it useless in the event of an emergency power outage, The Post has learned. An outside engineering assessment obtained by The Post found several “single points of failure” in the back-up power system of the NASA-like command center, which has sat mostly empty for three years since former Transit President Andy Byford and other bigwigs held a celebratory ribbon-cutting there in June 2019.(Snip)The consultants said the router that failed was not supported by any back-up power source, and was housed in an overheated room “wholly unsuited
Firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
handily wins GOP primary in Georgia
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Posted by Ribicon 5/24/2022 9:30:18 PM Post Reply
Far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene easily won a crowded Republican primary in Georgia on Tuesday, fending off five challengers and surviving ongoing backlash over her controversial statements and behavior. The 47-year-old political lightning rod leaned in to her national notoriety to raise millions for her first reelection bid and will now run in the general election to represent the safely Republican 11th Congressional District in the Peach State. The incumbent held 70.4% of the vote when the race was called with 44% of precincts reporting, according to the Associated Press. Greene, a Donald Trump loyalist who has peddled conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election
Rob Reiner: Blood of Every Child that
Dies of Gun Violence Is on the Hands of Republicans
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Posted by Imright 5/24/2022 9:19:01 PM Post Reply
Director and actor Rob Reiner issued an extreme statement in response to the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, blaming Republicans for the horrific act that left 18 students and three adults dead. “The blood of every child that dies of gun violence in this country is on the hands of the Republican Party,” the All in the Family star exclaimed on Tuesday. (Tweet) Reiner also retweeted a statement from his daughter, Romy Reiner, who said in all-caps: “YOU CAN KILL CHILDREN IN SCHOOL IN TEXAS BUT CAN’T GET AN ABORTION.”
Georgia Governor Kemp Defeats Perdue in
GOP Primary, Setting Up Rematch against
Stacey Abrams
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Posted by Dreadnought 5/24/2022 8:48:52 PM Post Reply
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has successfully fended off a challenge from former Senator David Perdue in the state’s Republican gubernatorial primary, the Associated Press has projected. The victory sets up a rematch between the governor and Democrat Stacey Abrams, whom he defeated in the 2018 general election. Kemp bested Abrams by 55,000 votes in November 2018, though Abrams contested the race and has made repeated claims that the election was stolen from her. She has, to this day, never conceded to Kemp and said as recently as October, “Just because you win, doesn’t mean you won.” Abrams peddled disinformation about Georgia’s new election law
‘Typo’ concealed Clinton lawyer’s
connection to Trump-Russia allegations,
FBI agent testifies
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Posted by Ribicon 5/24/2022 8:08:09 PM Post Reply
An FBI agent testified in court Tuesday that a “typo” in an email led investigators in 2016 to believe that false allegations linking former President Trump to Russia’s Alfa Bank originated with the Department of Justice, when in fact they came from Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann. FBI Agent Curtis Heide, who along with agent Allison Sands authored the internal communication, said the inaccuracy, sent out just weeks before the 2016 election, was simply a mistake. “We may have conflated the Office of the General Counsel and the Justice Department,” Mr. Heide said on the witness stand. “I don’t know how that information got in there.”
Fox News: John Roberts Breaks The Silence
About Vaccine Injuries
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Posted by Judy W. 5/24/2022 7:51:48 PM Post Reply
Two months ago, I helped to publicize the story (375,000 page views and counting!) that Fox News took money from the Biden regime to push COVID vaccine propaganda on their network relentlessly. Fox News (like almost all the other corporate media outlets) did not reveal this crucial fact to its audience — an astonishing breach of journalistic ethics that should never be forgiven or forgotten. (Snip) How long would it take for a prominent employee to be injured by the COVID vaccines? And who would dare to publicly disclose that injury in the face of Fox News’ ongoing campaign to push Big Pharma’s diabolical shots? And the answer is: John Roberts.
Biden's public approval falls to 36%,
lowest of his presidency -Reuters/Ipsos
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Posted by NorthernDog 5/24/2022 7:50:45 PM Post Reply
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Joe Biden's public approval rating fell this week to 36%, the lowest level of his presidency, as Americans suffered from rising inflation, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll completed on Tuesday. The two-day national poll found that 59% of Americans disapprove of Biden's job performance. His overall approval was down six percentage points from 42% last week. Biden's approval rating has been below 50% since August, raising alarms that his Democratic Party is on track to lose control of at least one chamber of Congress in the Nov. 8 midterm election. In a sign of weakening
Texas Leaves National School Boards Association
After White House Collusion Revealed
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Posted by Imright 5/24/2022 6:11:44 PM Post Reply
The Texas affiliate of the National School Boards Association (NSBA) cut ties with the national organization Monday after an investigation showed the group colluded with the Biden administration to investigate concerned parents as “domestic terrorists.” The Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) is the twenty-third state school board association to sever its affiliation with the NSBA after it sent a letter to Biden asking the administration to treat parents speaking at school board meetings as “domestic terrorists.” (Tweet)
Ronald Reagan's campaign chair launches
committee to 'draft' Ron DeSantis to jump
into 2024 presidential race before Trump does
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Posted by Imright 5/24/2022 6:03:48 PM Post Reply
A new political action committee has launched to call on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to run for president in 2024. The 'Ready for Ron' PAC is led by Ed Rollins, Ronald Reagan's campaign chairman in in 1984, the year he won a landslide victory and cinched 49 states, and Lilian Rodriguez-Baz, an appellate attorney and conservative activist. The draft committee is unaffiliated with DeSantis himself, and now is working to amass an army of supporters to convince him to run for president. The group avoided badmouthing former President Trump, who has consistently teased a 2024 race, but says they are moving in on DeSantis since Trump has not
Texas gunman, 18, shoots dead 14 elementary
schoolkids, one teacher, and seriously
injures 13 - including his grandmother:
Worst elementary school massacre since
Sandy Hook in 2012
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Posted by Imright 5/24/2022 5:54:48 PM Post Reply
Fourteen children and a teacher have been killed at a Texas elementary school by an 18-year-old gunman who was then shot dead by police. Governor Greg Abbott named 18-year-old Salvador Roma, a student at Uvalde High School, as the gunman who shot and killed 14 Robb elementary school students and one teacher on Tuesday afternoon.The name was later clarified to Salvador Ramos. 'He shot and killed horrifically and incomprehensibly 14 students and killed a teacher,' Abbott said at a press briefing.
Fourteen Students, Teacher Killed in Texas
Elementary School Shooting
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Posted by Dreadnought 5/24/2022 5:14:20 PM Post Reply
Fourteen students and one teacher were killed in a shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, Governor Greg Abbott announced. A spokesman for the Uvalde County Sheriff’s Office told National Review that a single gunman, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, entered the school and began firing. Texas Governor Greg Abbott, in a press conference a few hours after the incident, claimed that Ramos used a handgun, and may have possessed a rifle. Ramos, a student at Uvalde High School, killed his grandmother before the incident. Other law enforcement sources indicated that he may have been involved in a pursuit with police shortly before entering the school,
Tesla Bursts Into Flames at Stoplight,
Driver Forced to Kick Out Window to Escape
Electric Car Fire
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Posted by DVC 5/24/2022 4:47:16 PM Post Reply
One minute, Jamil Jutha was driving his 2021 Tesla Model Y through North Vancouver. The next, he was battling to escape its smoke-filled interior. The incident took place Friday when the eight-month-old vehicle suddenly shut down, cutting power to all of its electronic parts, according to CTV News. “The doors wouldn’t open. The windows wouldn’t go down,” Jutha said. Smoke began to fill the interior. Although Teslas have a mechanical release for emergencies, Jutha said it was not easy to use, particularly amid the panic of a potentially life-threatening incident.
Appeals court rejects most of Florida’s
social media censorship law
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Posted by Beardo 5/24/2022 4:44:04 PM Post Reply
Most of a Florida law that sought to stop social media companies from restricting users’ political speech violates the companies’ free speech rights and cannot be enforced, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday, agreeing with a lower court. However, a three-judge panel of the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals revived a part of the law requiring companies like Meta Platforms’ Facebook, Alphabet Google and Twitter to disclose the standards they use to moderate content on their platforms. The unanimous decision was authored by Circuit Judge Kevin Newsom, who was appointed by Republican former President Donald Trump.
Sale of long-lost 'Wizard of Oz' dress
put on hold by judge
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Posted by Beardo 5/24/2022 4:21:21 PM Post Reply
Judy Garland's iconic blue-and-white gingham dress from the "Wizard of Oz" was expected to sell at auction before the sale was blocked by a U.S. district judge Monday after a Wisconsin woman filed a lawsuit claiming she was the rightful owner of the dress. The dress originally had a presale estimate of $800,000 to $1.2 million, set by auctioneer Bonhams. It was put up for sale in Los Angeles by the Catholic University of America as part of an auction specifically for Hollywood memorabilia. The dress had been rediscovered in a shoebox by a university lecturer and operations manager after having been assumed lost for decades,
Sussmann trial reveals FBI internal investigation
of Crossfire Hurricane agents
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Posted by Beardo 5/24/2022 3:46:29 PM Post Reply
Curtis Heide was the lead agent in the FBI’s Chicago field office back in 2016. Today he testified at Michael Sussmann’s trial and mentioned that he is currently under internal investigation by the FBI for possibly withholding exculpatory evidence in portions of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. Heide said he was under investigation for “not identifying exculpatory information as it pertained to one of the Crossfire Hurricane investigations,” referring to the FBI codename for the early phases of the Trump-Russia probe, before special counsel Robert Mueller took over in 2017. He said he was specifically being investigated for potentially withholding material from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which oversees wiretaps against Americans.
Nancy Pelosi slams San Francisco Archbishop
for banning her from communion over abortion
while still giving sacrament to politicians
who back the death penalty, and being
'vehemently' against LGBTQ rights
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Posted by zephyrgirl 5/24/2022 3:40:15 PM Post Reply
House speaker Nancy Pelosi questioned whether Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone was holding a double standard for banning her from Communion for her position on abortion while keeping quiet about Republicans who support the death penalty. 'I wonder about the death penalty, which I am opposed to. So is the church but they take no action against people who may not share their view,' the California Democrat said Tuesday on MSNBC's Morning Joe.
Angry migrants protest for their 'right'
to be in the US illegally
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Posted by Hazymac 5/24/2022 3:37:45 PM Post Reply
Apparently, being illegally present in the U.S. is now a "right" rather than a criminal act, and not even a "privilege" when done legally. For some 60,000 would-be illegal border-crossers amassed at the U.S. border, it's now a "right." This is why we're seeing would-be illegal border-crossers now holding protests in cities such as Tijuana as a judge's order on Title 42 forces the Border Patrol to turn back tens of thousands of unvetted entries into the States. (Snip) Let's just unpack this a little and note how the ironies abound. Number one: Notice how they are waving the flags of the countries
Dances with lions; the internet can eat
us alive
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Posted by Big Bopper 5/24/2022 3:29:18 PM Post Reply
Imagine two creatures a few hundred thousand years ago. One is a human that is casually observing the other, a 750-pound Eurasian cave lion. The beast (the lion, that is) lunges at the human (who is not a beast at all – the cranium of humans at that time was about the same as ours, and the cranium of Neanderthals was bigger). The lion shreds our would-be ancestor like so much pulled pork. What happened? Why did this human with as much grey matter as you or I, or more, fail to see this coming? For the first few million years of our evolution,
FBI Leaders, Including Comey, Were ‘Fired
Up’ About Trump–Alfa Bank Claims: Agent
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Posted by earlybird 5/24/2022 3:28:19 PM Post Reply
Then-FBI Director James Comey and other bureau leaders were “fired up” in 2016 about allegations that Donald Trump’s business was secretly communicating with a Russian bank, according to internal FBI messages revealed in court on May 23. “People on the 7th floor to include director are fired up about this server,” Joseph Pientka, an agent based in Washington, told Curtis Heide, a colleague working from the bureau’s Chicago office, in a message dated Sept. 21, 2016. “Reachout [sic] and put tools on,” Pientka added. “Its [sic] not an option—we must do it.” The message was sent just days after Michael Sussmann, a lawyer representing the campaign of Hillary Clinton(snip)met with
Over a Dozen U.S. Bishops Rush to Support
SF Archbishop Blocking Nancy Pelosi from Communion
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Posted by Beardo 5/24/2022 3:15:29 PM Post Reply
ROME — A flurry of U.S. bishops have rallied behind San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, who has barred Nancy Pelosi from receiving Holy Communion because of her aggressive abortion advocacy. As of May 23, at least 13 U.S. bishops have made public statements praising and thanking Archbishop Cordileone for the move, which was variously described as “courageous,” “heroic,” and “compassionate.” Lincoln Bishop James Conley, for instance, said he supports Archbishop Cordileone “in his courageous pastoral outreach to a member of his flock. His actions are made as a shepherd with the heart of Christ.”
Prankster with an impressive shot springs
a leak in Johnny Cash mural near ‘sensitive’ spot
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Posted by ladydawgfan 5/24/2022 3:03:31 PM Post Reply
When you gotta go, you gotta go. And this is something the people of Kingsland, Arkansas, are learning the hard way after a mural of Johnny Cash adorning the water tower in his hometown received the unwelcome attention of a prankster with excellent aim. Now the mural has a bullet hole in a, er, “sensitive” area, and the high-pressure leak spewing from the tower makes it look like the “Man in Black” is relieving himself in the most indecent way possible. “Somebody shot our water tower, shot the silhouette of Johnny Cash in a very sensitive area,”
‘She was McMad’: Cops nab pregnant
McDonald’s customer with anger issues
and a need to twerk
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Posted by ladydawgfan 5/24/2022 2:48:02 PM Post Reply
A pregnant Florida woman found herself in “McTrouble” Thursday after a messed up fast food order drove her to become a twerking “hamburglar.” Tiannis Jones, 22 of Lakeland, FL, had arrived at a local McDonald’s drive-thru Thursday to pick up an order placed online when she learned an error had occurred. Though the staff asked her to pull up to the next window while they corrected the mistake, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd explained that wasn’t acceptable to Jones who instead parked her car and entered the restaurant to complain face-to-face. “She didn’t get her Happy Meal or her fish sandwich or her chocolate shake, or her sweet tea,
Biden Takes Blind Sheikh’s Terror Group
Off Terror List
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Posted by Hazymac 5/24/2022 2:43:56 PM Post Reply
In 1993, the United States finally arrested Omar Abdel-Rahman, popularly known as the Blind Sheikh, the religious leader of the Egyptian Jihadist group Gamaat Islamiya after three years during which his followers bombed the World Trade Center and plotted to bomb the Statue of Liberty and a range of targets all across New York City. The Biden administration has now announced that it’s taking Gamaat Islamiya off the terror list. During the original Jihad in New York, an undercover informant described meetings to case potential targets in which a member of the terror cell told him, “Stand here, brother, let me take your picture with the Statue of Liberty
$1.9T COVID-19 relief advanced equity,
boosted Black people and Hispanic people,
report finds
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Posted by Ribicon 5/24/2022 2:37:51 PM Post Reply
The White House released a report Tuesday to show that President Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic relief measure of 2021, which is now being blamed for record-high inflation, has succeeded—especially by helping Black people and Hispanic people get jobs and keep their homes. The review of 32 major programs in the American Rescue Plan, which received no Republican votes in Congress last year, found that the law so far has produced an equitable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, said two senior White House officials who spoke for about 20 minutes without mentioning inflation. “This is the most equitable recovery in terms of jobs and employment that we have
Biden's shocking betrayal of veterans
in the name of managing his border fiasco
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Posted by ladydawgfan 5/24/2022 2:26:52 PM Post Reply
The Biden administration’s handling of the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border is an ongoing disgrace, and recent reports suggest this White House still hasn’t reached rock bottom. The White House is considering diverting doctors and other personnel from the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) to the border once Title 42 ends (at whatever point that may be), in order to help handle the expected influx of migrants. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas confirmed this possibility during testimony before the House Appropriations Committee late last month. "The resources that the medical personnel from the Veterans Administration would allocate to this effort is under the judgment of the secretary of Veterans Affairs,
2000 Mules: Fact Or Fiction? replies
Posted by robgarley32 5/24/2022 2:19:44 PM Post Reply
The movie 2000 Mules, a documentary by filmmaker and author Dinesh D’Souza has become the “most successful political documentary in a decade,” according to its distributor, Salem Media Group. D’Souza is getting mixed reviews from conservatives as well as the mainstream left with his latest cinematic effort. It is unlikely he anticipated a backlash of sorts from his own side of the political aisle, which begs the question: Why is the movie generating such a wide range of reactions?
Canadian Multinational Executive Outlines
Tech Initiative to Create Consumer Carbon
Footprint Tracker
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Posted by earlybird 5/24/2022 1:43:39 PM Post Reply
It is important to remember the ultimate goal of the ‘climate change’ promotors (World Economic Forum) is not an energy system that changes the global climate. The goal of the ‘climate change’ group is to create a carbon trading system; a new financial mechanism (a global tax program) to control human activity on a world-wide basis. (snip) You cannot tax, or trade, things you cannot track. As a result, there was always going to be a need for an individual tracking and monitoring system that would connect to the global digital identity(snip) Alibaba Group president J. Michael Evans boasts at the 2022 World Economic Forum about the development of
Nuclear deterrence at risk from aging
strategic forces and warheads
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Posted by Ribicon 5/24/2022 1:35:07 PM Post Reply
U.S. strategic missiles, bombers and submarines are old and operating beyond their technical life expectancies, and replacements and upgraded warheads are needed urgently to deter growing nuclear threats from China, Russia and North Korea, according to military and defense officials. “We don’t have any margin left to delay programs,” Air Force Lt. Gen. James C. Dawkins Jr., the deputy chief of staff for Strategic Deterrence and Nuclear Integration at the Pentagon, said in a recent congressional hearing. Gen. Dawkins and other nuclear officials told lawmakers reviewing a Pentagon request for $634 billion over 10 years for weapon and warhead system upgrades that any delays in overdue strategic modernization
Bronx nonprofit head who stole from homeless
New Yorkers gets 27 months prison time
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Posted by Ribicon 5/24/2022 1:29:40 PM Post Reply
The head of one of New York City’s largest homeless housing providers was sentenced Monday to 27 months in federal prison for pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars earmarked for the city’s neediest residents. Bronx Parent Housing Network CEO Victor Rivera collected the cash through bribes and kickbacks on top of his $453,000 salary during a surge of homelessness between 2013 and 2020, authorities said. The charity head handpicked and overpaid contractors at construction, security and real estate firms for projects at soup kitchens, shelters and affordable-housing facilities—in exchange for some of the city cash he used to pay them.
In key Wisconsin battleground, law and
order becomes Achilles heel for Democrat incumbents
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Posted by Garnet 5/24/2022 1:05:25 PM Post Reply
Nearly two dozen shot outside an NBA playoff game. A notorious murderer almost released on parole. A Christmas massacre carried out by a repeat felon released on low bail. Record car thefts and drug overdoses.While most of the country braces for a pocketbook election driven by runaway inflation, record gas prices and baby formula shortages, the key battleground state of Wisconsin is seething over a crime wave driven by policies that are shaping up to be an Achilles heel for Democrats running the state, like incumbent Gov. Tony Evers and Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm.
A New Kind of Child Abuse replies
Posted by ladydawgfan 5/24/2022 11:46:58 AM Post Reply
Until only a few years ago, child abuse was thought primarily to be hitting a child, starving a child, confining a child in a closet, not properly feeding a child, or engaging in sexual practices with a child. Now child abuse has taken a quantum leap. Child abuse now includes poisoning and mutilating a child to make him look like a member of the opposite sex, often by taking advantage of the child's trust in a parent. Stealing a child's childhood should be a crime punishable by grievous measures. Every human being has normal stages of growth. Generally speaking, those stages are infancy,
Trump Clout Versus Bush Dynasty Plays
Out in Texas AG Primary Runoff
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Posted by earlybird 5/24/2022 11:32:16 AM Post Reply
The headline race in Texas’s primary runoffs on May 24 is the Ken Paxton versus George P. Bush showdown for Republican attorney general candidate. For Texas Republicans, it’s representative of a Trump versus Bush dynasty duel. “It’s a very interesting state of affairs, and I think it indicative of a sea change that’s occurring in Texas politics and politics generally,” Kenneth Grasso, professor of political science at Texas State University, told The Epoch Times. “There’s historically been tension, you might say, in the Republican Party in Texas, between the more social conservative/populist wing, and the more mainstream business Republicans, that predates, I think, Donald Trump, but … the ascendancy of Trump certainly has
British warships could be sent in to protect
freighters carrying crucial Ukrainian
grain and break Putin's blockade of Black
Sea ports that is threatening to cause
a world food crisis
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Posted by Ribicon 5/24/2022 11:01:45 AM Post Reply
Britain is co-ordinating with its allies on a potential plan to send warships to the Black Sea port of Odesa to offer a protective escort to ships exporting Ukrainian grain. Lithuanian foreign minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said yesterday he had discussed the creation of such a 'protective corridor' from Odesa with British foreign secretary Liz Truss. He also said a 'coalition of the willing', made up of NATO countries and other nations reliant on the grain such as Egypt, may be willing to commit military resources to bolster the protection and avert widespread food shortages. The plan would see allied navies clear the area around the southern port of Russian
Walmart pulls Juneteenth ice cream after
backlash: ‘We sincerely apologize’
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Posted by Ribicon 5/24/2022 10:58:38 AM Post Reply
Fayetteville, Ark.—Walmart will remove its ice cream, commemorating Juneteenth amid growing backlash. Photos of the product recently surfaced on social media. "Share and celebrate African-American culture, emancipation and enduring hope," the label read. The ice cream consisted of a swirl of red velvet and cheesecake flavors. "Juneteenth holiday marks a celebration of freedom and independence," the company said in a statement to FOX Television Stations. "However, we received feedback that a few items caused concern for some of our customers and we sincerely apologize. We are reviewing our assortment and will remove items as appropriate." Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers
Joe Biden pretends to leave meeting when
Australian PM mentions NRA
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Posted by Imright 5/24/2022 10:56:20 AM Post Reply
President Biden staged a mock walk-out of a meeting with newly elected Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese Tuesday when the man from Down Under recalled a trip to the US and a visit with the National Rifle Association more than three decades ago. During a bilateral sitdown on the sidelines of the Quad Leaders’ Summit in Tokyo, Albanese — who led the Australian Labor Party to victory in Saturday’s general election — regaled the president with a story about coming to America for five weeks as a guest of the State Department.“You could design a theme [for the program], and mine was — I wanted to see the interaction
Google Maps workers in WA say they can’t
afford the trip back to the office
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Posted by Ron_lfp 5/24/2022 10:56:15 AM Post Reply
Google Maps contract employees who are required to return to their office in Washington state recently circulated a petition to keep working from home since some cannot afford their commutes, presenting another challenge to Google’s plan to refill offices and restore campus life. The issue affects more than 200 workers who are employed by outsourcing firm Cognizant Technology Solutions, which mandated that they work in an office in Bothell five days a week starting June 6. The workers play an essential role updating routes and destinations on Google Maps, a service used by more than 1 billion people a month.
Ex-White House press secretary Jen Psaki
hired by MSNBC
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Posted by NorthernDog 5/24/2022 10:55:12 AM Post Reply
NEW YORK — Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki has officially landed at MSNBC, where she is expected to make appearances on the network's cable and streaming programs as well as host a new original show. The program, set to debut in the first quarter of 2023, will “bring together her unique perspective from behind the podium and her deep experience in the highest levels of government and presidential politics,” the network said in a statement Tuesday. Psaki will also appear on NBC and during MSNBC’s primetime special election programming throughout the midterms and 2024 presidential election. Psaki most
Breaking Big: Michigan Board of Elections
Tosses Top Republican Candidates from
Governor’s Race Including James Craig
and Perry Johnson – Claim They Did Not
Turn in Enough Valid Signatures…Update:
Much More Coming
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Posted by Imright 5/24/2022 10:49:20 AM Post Reply
If you can’t beat them — Toss them.The Michigan Bureau of Elections, a corrupt group that allowed the 2020 state election to be stolen by hundreds of ballot traffickers and tens of thousands of illegal ballots, disqualified the two leading Republican candidates for the upcoming gubernatorial election.Former Detroit police Chief James Craig and billionaire businessman Perry Johnson were knocked out of the race today by the leftist election group. The Michigan Bureau of Elections claims they do not have enough legitimate signatures on their petitions to enter the race.
Man Who Was Working On A Car That Runs
On Water Was One Of The Victims Killed
By Buffalo Mass Shooter (Video)
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Posted by Black Conservative Voice 5/24/2022 10:48:45 AM Post Reply
A retired Buffalo police officer who was working security at the supermarket where a gunman opened fire Saturday is being hailed as a hero for confronting and firing upon the suspect before being fatally shot. Aaron Salter Jr. was among the 10 people killed in the attack. Salter was a retired Buffalo police officer who was working at Tops as a security guard. Officials say the 55-year-old security guard fired his gun multiple times at the attacker and struck his body armour at least once. The gunman was unharmed and returned fire, killing Salter, according to police. “He’s a true hero,” Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said Sunday.
Washington Dem socialist congressional
candidate Rebecca Parson calls for breaking
into empty homes
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Posted by Ribicon 5/24/2022 10:00:51 AM Post Reply
Washington Democratic congressional candidate Rebecca Parson has a bold idea to get Congress to pass housing legislation: have a million people break into empty houses. Parson, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, is running to represent Washington’s 6th Congressional District. In a video ad, she outlined what she and her followers can do if she wins. “Imagine I proposed a Housing for All Bill in Congress, Then imagine you, me, and a million of our friends took action and occupied empty houses nationwide.(Snip)Occupying buildings is nothing new for Parson. In 2020, she was a spokesperson for the group Tacoma Housing Now, which organized a group
Florida Officials Issue Emergency Order
to Temporarily Close Abortion Clinic after
Three Women Hospitalized
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Posted by ladydawgfan 5/24/2022 9:29:17 AM Post Reply
The state of Florida recently issued an emergency order to suspend operations at a Pensacola abortion clinic after a pro-life watchdog group uncovered three incidents in the last nine months in which patients had to be hospitalized with serious injuries. Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) issued an order on Friday closing American Family Planning until an administrative hearing can be held. The order came after Reprotection, a nonprofit dedicated to catching abortion providers breaking laws and using local authorities to bring them to justice, began investigating the clinic. In all three cases, the abortionist and clinic staff failed to report patient hospitalizations within the ten days required,
Zelensky pitches Western leaders at Davos
on the business opportunities that would
come from giving Ukraine $5 billion a month
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Posted by Ribicon 5/24/2022 9:16:18 AM Post Reply
The World Economic Forum annual meeting opened in Davos, Switzerland on Monday morning, with as grim a message as the elite gathering has heard in many years. In the three-day summit’s opening address, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky, dressed in his trademark wartime olive-green T-shirt, and projected on monitors from Kyiv, told about 1,000 CEOs and government officials that Ukraine needs $5 billion a month, beginning immediately, in order to stave off full-blown economic collapse—a collapse that would have deep global ramifications. “The amount of work is enormous,” he said.(Snip)Yet rather than describing the dire situation as a crisis,
HSBC suspends exec who slammed ‘nut
job’ climate change risk warnings
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Posted by Dreadnought 5/24/2022 8:46:57 AM Post Reply
British banking giant HSBC has suspended a top executive who argued during a recent public presentation that the financial risks of climate change were overblown and exaggerated by central bank officials and other policymakers. The suspended employee, Stuart Kirk, is global head of responsible investment at HSBC’s asset management division. He made the remarks during a presentation titled, “Why investors need not worry about climate risk.” Kirk stated his view that warnings about climate change have “become so hyberbolic that no one really knows how to get anyone’s attention at all.” “I wouldn’t normally mind that. Twenty-five years in the finance industry, there’s always some nutjob telling
State Farm Abandons LGBTQ Children’s-Book
Program after Whistleblower Email Leak
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Posted by Corndoggies 5/24/2022 8:39:48 AM Post Reply
State Farm, the household-name insurance company, has abandoned its program to distribute LGBTQ-themed books to teachers, community centers, and libraries, explicitly targeting children as young as kindergartners, after a media exposé based on a whistleblower email caught the company by surprise on Monday.
Shhh! Democrats Don’t Want You To Know
What’s Really Happening With Arctic
Sea Ice
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Posted by AmericaFirstAlways 5/24/2022 8:04:26 AM Post Reply
Temperatures in New Hampshire are expected to hit close to 100 degrees this weekend before tailing off to more seasonal weather. The Warmists will be all aflutter, so this seems like a good time to point out this little fact: Arctic sea ice is growing above the 30-year average. I know, it’s not even supposed to be there. All the Cruise Companies are supposed to be booked solid with fully vaccinated tourists drifting across the open water on top of the world. Algore promised, as did all his knee-pad-wearing doe-eyed acolytes.
Roger Marshall: ‘War Zone’ at U.S.-Mexico
Border ‘Worse’ than What I Saw at
Poland-Ukraine Border
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Posted by LoveYourCountry 5/24/2022 7:45:33 AM Post Reply
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS), one of only 11 Senate Republicans who voted against a $40 billion aid package for Ukraine, says the “war zone” at the United States-Mexico border is “much worse” than what he witnessed at the Poland-Ukraine border. While visiting the U.S.-Mexico border over the last few days, Marshall exclusively told SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Daily in an interview that the “human tragedy” he has seen from human smuggling to drug trafficking is “the most threatening situation” facing Americans, not the war in Ukraine.
Democrats' Georgia Lies Are Being Laid Bare replies
Posted by Hazymac 5/24/2022 7:29:43 AM Post Reply
Happy Tuesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Sherwood takes offense to anyone who casts aspersions upon his seemingly obsessive love of Nepalese yaks. The state of Georgia has been in the hot mess political spotlight since its gubernatorial election in 2018 when the thoroughly execrable Stacey Abrams lost to Brian Kemp. Abrams was then released into the national political conversation, like poison into a city’s water supply. Abrams is a toxic person who can’t open her mouth without lying. She lies about the 2018 election she lost. She lies about Georgia’s efforts to address the glaring irregularities that plagued the state in the 2020 presidential election. CORRECTION*
How Stupid Is Whoopi Goldberg, Really? replies
Posted by DW626 5/24/2022 7:14:22 AM Post Reply
That’s not a rhetorical question, by the way. Seriously, it’s hard not to wonder how it’s possible that Whoopi Goldberg fancies herself to be an authoritative voice on current events. Quite frankly, I can’t understand how that happened. She says a lot of dumb things. Like on Monday, she went into hysterics about the archbishop of San Francisco banning Nancy Pelosi from Holy Communion in his diocese over her pro-abortion views. “The archbishop of San Francisco is calling for speaker Nancy Pelosi to be denied receiving Communion because of her pro-choice stance,” Goldberg noted. “This is not your job, dude.
‘Republicans For Biden’ Owe The Nation
— Heck, The World — An Apology
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Posted by RockyTCB 5/24/2022 6:37:55 AM Post Reply
In the run-up to the 2020 election, the Biden campaign was gleeful about the flood of prominent Republicans who’d crossed the aisle to support Joe’s candidacy. These Never-Trumpers weren’t just expressing their disdain for President Donald Trump, they were heartily, lovingly, making the case for Joe Biden. Back then, they were lauded as heroes by the establishment. Today, everyone knows the truth. These Biden-supporting Republicans were utterly, embarrassingly, dangerously wrong about the man they were touting for president. And we are all now paying an enormous and rapidly increasing price for their arrogant stupidity.
Kamala does it again! replies
Posted by DW626 5/24/2022 6:16:44 AM Post Reply
Is Kamal Harris trying to sound stupid? I suppose the theory would be that she is trying to get people to underestimate her. But I have a different theory: that she is really stupid, and having grown up as a hot chick, she suffers from hot chick syndrome. That is, she’s just not received an adequate level of negative feedback from male authority figures necessary to correct her behavior. I think that she doesn’t think in complete sentences, and when she begins a sentence during a speech or interview That would account for this level of ungrammatical inanity: “You know, when we talk about our children, I know for this group
World’s 50 richest people have lost
half a trillion dollars this year
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Posted by Imright 5/24/2022 6:16:14 AM Post Reply
The 50 wealthiest people in the world have lost more than half a trillion dollars this year due to the tanking stock market, according to the latest figures compiled by Bloomberg Billionaires Index.The top 50 richest, which includes Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and French luxury goods magnate Bernard Arnault, have lost a combined $563 billion in net worth through May 22, according to Bloomberg.Musk, the world’s richest man who has temporarily put on hold his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, has lost $69.1 billion — the most of any mogul on the list.
Trump warns of 'greatest danger ever'
for nuclear war
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Posted by Imright 5/24/2022 12:21:25 AM Post Reply
Former President Donald Trump said he believes the United States is now facing an unprecedented threat of nuclear war.The explosive observation was made Monday during a phone interview with conservative radio talk show host John Fredericks during a discussion about this year's midterm primary contests, in particular those set to take place Tuesday in Georgia, the 2024 presidential election, and the state of the country under President Joe Biden."Our country has probably never been worse than it is right now. I think we’re in the greatest danger ever of a nuclear war," Trump said on Outside the Beltway.
Biden kowtows to China by flirting with
ending tariffs
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Posted by Imright 5/24/2022 12:17:45 AM Post Reply
President Joe Biden implied Monday that he may soon cut tariffs on imports from China, noting, "We did not impose any of those tariffs — they were imposed by the last administration." Reducing tariffs now would be a mistake because of timing and because cutting them does not simply return things to the way they were before the duties were imposed. The signal it sends is different from that. Most economists believe cutting tariffs would provide a negligible benefit in reducing inflation. Supply chain shortages in China, some due to its COVID lockdown policies, reinforce this fact.
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