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Sandbox – 15nov2

[With today’s signing of the trillion plus ‘infrastructure bill’ the Democrat perfidy is made visible.  The bill contain1s so little (about $100B) for actually fixing roads, bridges, etc that municipalities are not prepared to issue massive new amounts of municipal bonds – usually a jurisdiction’s ‘matching funds’ to garner federal subsidies.  Therefore, the outstanding tax-free municipal bond prices are rising and their yields falling.  The infrastructure bill is yet another Biden travesty that misses the mark as the feds (the Fed) continue printing new money.  So the question stands – name ONE thing that Bumblebrain has done right.  gjr]

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  1. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘DOJ whistleblower challenges Garland testimony, says FBI counterterrorism tool used on parents’
    “A Justice Department whistleblower has provided Congress evidence that FBI counterterrorism assets were involved in the investigation of parents protesting school policies, prompting a key GOP lawmaker to question the “accuracy and completeness” of Attorney General Merrick Garland’s recent testimony.
    Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio.), the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, released an unclassified internal FBI email from last month showing that the bureau’s counterterrorism chief, Timothy R. Langan Jr., through a deputy, jointly sent instructions with the criminal division chief to FBI officials to use a “threat tag” to track any complaints involving parents and school officials.
    “We ask that your offices apply the threat tag to investigations and assessments of threats specifically directed against school board administrators, board members, teachers, and staff,” the email stated. “The purpose of the threat tag is to help scope this threat on a national level and provide an opportunity for comprehensive analysis of the threat picture for effective engagement with law enforcement partners at all levels.”
    https://justthenews.com/government/security/doj-whistleblower-challenges-garland-testimony-says-fbi-counterterrorism-tool

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    Clip o’ the Day.
    https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1460454844297211904

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  3. The Estonian Fox Avatar
    The Estonian Fox

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TUQ7yhOKCs
    Sky News interview with Tim Blair, of The (Sydney) Daily Telegraph.
    Tim’s comment at 1:38 – “The media in America covers all of the big stories… with a pillow, until they stop moving.”

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    Apropos of nothing.
    I was checking out Mr. Boardman’s column concerning CRT in schools with the normal outbreak in the comments section. ‘CRT’ gets redefined to mean what you want, but it really all boils down to ‘how to indoctrinate the children’. It’s not a trivial problem as social glue is a reasonable side effect of K-12.
    I got to thinking again about writing an accurate US history book and what that would really include. If you used good physical evidence, there’s plenty to outrage everyone. Imagine taking this paper and inserting a summary of it.
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259513322_Violence_among_foragers_The_bioarchaeological_record_from_central_California
    Those acorn cultures seem like a tough ol’ row to hoe, except there’s no row to hoe.

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  5. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    OSHA Suspends Enforcement of Biden’s Vaccine Mandate
    https://www.nationalreview.com/news/osha-suspends-enforcement-of-bidens-vaccine-mandate/

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    “OSHA Suspends Enforcement of Biden’s Vaccine Mandate”
    I wonder how the legal underpinnings of that differ from helmet or seat belt laws.

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  7. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Talk about buyers remorse –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/11/17/poll-majority-of-voters-believe-joe-biden-is-untrustworthy-dishonest-incapable/
    😉

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  8. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    And the beat goes on –
    An endorsement from former President Obama and House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn in reliably blue Columbia, South Carolina was not enough to push the city’s Democratic mayoral candidate over the finish line.
    Republican mayoral candidate Daniel Rickenmann, a businessman and Columbia city council member, defeated Democrat Tameika Isaac Devine by a margin of 52% to 48% on Tuesday night in Columbia which sits in a county that President Biden carried by almost 40 points in 2020.
    Columbia has been so reliably blue over the last several years that Republicans didn’t put forth a challenger to Rickenmann’s Democratic predecessor Mayor Stephen Benjamin.
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-defeats-obama-endorsed-candidate-in-deep-blue-city-that-biden-won-handily-in-2020/ar-AAQPa24?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531
    😉

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  9. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    A DEFEAT FOR THE LOUDOUN COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD [UPDATED]
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/11/a-defeat-for-the-loudoun-county-school-board.php
    ———————————-
    Enemies of the School Board
    Parents in some school districts find their input suppressed—and their dissent criminalized.
    https://www.city-journal.org/public-school-boards-against-parents
    ————————————
    All the dismissing of parents’ concerns and school boards’ elitist condensation at the parents and citizens who dare even question the policies/curriculum bring about what we saw in the Virginnie’s governors race.
    Any Democrat running for Governor in Virginnie has to be really really bad and work really really hard at being really awful to lose the Governorship seat in Virginia. Dismiss ‘the people’ at your own political suicide.
    ‘Democrats are stuck in their own echo chamber’
    For a party concerned about the health of our democracy, ignoring the growing concerns of voters is a foolhardy thing to do.
    https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/715683/democrats-are-stuck-in-their-own-echo-chamber/?

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  10. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    I’m not sure how many folks have heard the recording of the NJUHSD meeting that had the CRT presentation… I finally have, from start to finish.
    https://vimeo.com/644650613
    What I found truly bizarre was the defense of CRT by Trustees individually, after the presentatio.. we need to get a better balance on the Board.

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  11. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Tru dat –
    Ai disagreed, however, when asked if he thought Trump was authoritarian. He stated that the U.S. is already behaving like an authoritarian state, and much of it has to do with efforts for people to be “unified in a certain political correctness.”
    “In many ways, you’re already in the authoritarian state. You just don’t know it,” Ai told “Firing Line” host Margaret Hoover, who asked him to elaborate.
    Ai explained that with today’s technology, we know so much more than we actually understand. “The information [has] become jammed, but we don’t really … have the knowledge, because you don’t work. You don’t have to act on anything. You just think you’re purified by certain ideas that you agree with. That is posing dangers to society, to an extremely divided society,” he said.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/already-authoritarian-state-chinese-dissident-220013942.html
    😉

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  12. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    We haven’t even got a verdict yet and there’s already trouble.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/11/17/arrests-kenosha-blm-protesters-clash-kyle-rittenhouse-supporters/
    Best quote:
    “Floral shop owner Lyna Postuchow said that businesses should be prepared to face the worst.
    “No matter which way the verdict goes, somebody is going to be upset,” said Postuchow. “You always have to be ready because you don’t know what’s going to happen, but we hope cooler minds prevail.””
    “- No matter which way it goes…”
    Yeah, if Kyle is found guilty on just one single charge you know the MAGA grandpas will be down there in their bedroom slippers burning and looting.
    Right.

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    re: Scotto@7:01
    Maybe the flower shop owner can protect her place from the mob?
    Probably not.
    That’s what this case is all about after all. Team Blue has found an effective tool in using what is essentially state-sponsored terrorism. Lack of prosecution, far-left district attorneys in some cities, full media backing of the ‘mostly peaceful’ burnings. It’ll only be stopped by either a change in government to quite a deep level or the application of self-defense. Neither one will be allowed.
    Welcome to Year Zero. You can’t even check out any time you like, much less leave.

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  14. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Those mutha mullahs have no fear of creepy grampa joe –
    https://freebeacon.com/national-security/iranian-hackers-hit-former-us-ambassador-in-attack-targeting-trump-admin-officials/
    😉

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    These should make everyone feel better.
    “FDA Asks Federal Judge to Grant it Until the Year 2076 to Fully Release Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine Data”
    https://aaronsiri.substack.com/p/fda-asks-federal-judge-to-grant-it
    “After formal demand, the CDC concedes it does not have proof of a single instance of a naturally immune individual spreading the virus.”
    https://aaronsiri.substack.com/p/cdc-admits-crushing-rights-of-naturally
    “Federal Health Authorities Ignore Pleas of the COVID-19 Vaccine Injured”
    https://aaronsiri.substack.com/p/federal-health-authorities-ignore
    etc.
    https://aaronsiri.substack.com/

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  16. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    I wish he would do even less! LOL –
    Great deal/Good amount 35%
    Not much/nothing 63%
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/11/17/poll-majority-say-joe-biden-has-done-not-much-or-nothing-since-taking-office/
    😉

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  17. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Don @ 8 52 pm
    Thus the search continues for one good thing Biden has done.
    re: Intro into this episode of Days of our Lives, aka, The Sandbox.
    “So the question stands – name ONE thing that Bumblebrain has done right.” gjr]

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  18. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Did no one in sac see this one coming or was it just denial –
    The suit, which was filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Corrections Secretary Kathleen Allison, and wardens Michael Pallares and Mona Houston, says the law “cannot be applied in any manner that avoids violating the federal and state constitutional rights” of the plaintiffs.
    Plaintiff Krystal Gonzalez says she was sexually assaulted by a biological male who was transferred to Central California Women’s Facility under the law. According to the suit, when Gonzalez filed a complaint and requested to be housed away from men the prison’s response called her alleged attacker a “transgender woman with a penis.”
    “Krystal does not believe that women have penises and the psychological distress caused by her assault is exacerbated by the prison’s refusal to acknowledge the sex of her perpetrator,” the lawsuit says.
    California governor Gavin Newsom signed the bill into law in September 2020. It requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to “house transgender, gender-nonconforming and intersex (TGI) individuals in a manner that matches their gender identity while supporting health and safety.”
    The measure requires the department to ask all individuals entering its custody to state their personal pronouns, their gender identity and whether they identify as transgender, nonbinary or intersex. It prohibits the department from disciplining a prisoner who refuses to answer the questions and also allows the information to be updated at a later date.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/lawsuit-accuses-california-endangering-female-223614041.html?.tsrc=fp_deeplink
    😉

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  19. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Trump vindicated? Trump was warning the nation that the lockdowns would lead to a rise in overdoses/deaths in early 2020. He has been proven correct. Of course, there are other factors involved besides the lockdowns which gave us a surge of minors being HOSPITALIZED for mental health issues and more teen suicides.
    One can point the finger at Biden’s open border policy which has been masterfully exploited by drug cartels bringing in massive amounts of fentanyl. One can point the finger at the mandated lockdowns and closures of rehab centers right in the middle of the patient’s efforts to kick their demon habits that have them by the gonads. One can blame isolation. We are social beings, after all, with some exceptions that include Dr. Ted Kaczynski from UC Berkerly and the fool on the hill.
    Anyway…..
    ‘More Than 100,000 Americans Died From Drug Overdoses In A Single Year: Report’
    “The CDC reported about 93,000 overdose deaths in 2020, according to the AP. That number was the highest recorded in a calendar year, but Robert Anderson, the CDC’s chief of mortality statistics, said calendar year 2021 would end with over 100,000 deaths. “2021 is going to be terrible,” Dr. Daniel Ciccarone, a drug policy expert at the University of California, San Francisco, told the AP.
    Deaths from drug overdoses have been steadily rising for more than 20 years, but they have accelerated in the past two years and jumped nearly 30% in the last year, according to new CDC data. Drug overdoses now account for more annual deaths than car accidents, gun violence, and even respiratory illnesses like pneumonia and influenza. The never-before-seen number is also rapidly approaching the number of deaths from diabetes, currently the seventh-most prevalent cause of death in the country.“
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-than-100000-americans-died-from-drug-overdoses-in-a-single-year-report

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  20. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Figures.
    ‘There’s a major update on ‘whipgate’ and it’s pretty embarrassing for DHS’
    https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2021/11/16/theres-a-major-update-on-whipgate-and-its-pretty-embarrassing-for-dhs/
    But, but, but Biden promised to investigate the shocking footage of the Border Patrol agents on dangerous horses charging into the peaceful crowd of sojourners.

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Looks more like a Three Stooges routine or comedy of errors to me than not. Where’s the beef?
    “Two go back and forth regarding the “cm dumpster” comment, with the man ultimately throwing his sign in her direction, and stating “get the fck outta here.”
    Another woman standing off to the side then attempts to grab the woman’s sign from her hands, knocking her to the ground. The man attempts to jump in, only to turn and assault a nearby journalist.
    The journalist was knocked to the ground, with the crowd attempting to separate the two. The crowd checks on the journalist, and another man attempts to talk to the man in the “fck Kyle” shirt. He then pushes the man who attempts to talk to him, and the man tells him to get out of the area.
    Police attempting to get a hold on the situation later arrest the man in the “f    ck Kyle” shirt, as well as at least one other protestor, who had claimed that an officer hit them and began walking into an area the police were securing to yell at the officer.”
    ‘Protester assaults Kyle Rittenhouse supporter at Kenosha courthouse’
    As the nation awaits the verdict of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, protestors outside have clashed, resulting in arrests.
    https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-protester-assaults-kyle-rittenhouse-supporter-at-kenosha-courthouse?
    I thoroughly enjoy framing one side as ‘pro-rioters” in Year Zero.

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  22. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    BT @ 1037 –
    I have spent a lot of time on substance abuse issues over the years, took the heat for it and guess what, we have been right again and again.
    Weak governments beget massive crime especially drugs, when the US started legalizing weed the cartels grew poppies there for the higher profit per back pack and grew weed here. Then the chi coms flooded the world with all kinds of substances to stay one step ahead of the legal definitions for spice drugs and now fentanyl.
    That empowers every gangs of every race!
    The union says the price of weed is down yet we have 4k illegal grows here that are ignored just like the policies of the social justice warriors deleterious effects on every community in the state.
    People of color across the state have lost access to reasonably priced goods because the virtue signaling politicians policies chase out all the businesses.
    https://www.samhsa.gov/
    😉
    .

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    donb@10:31
    ‘“transgender woman with a penis.”’
    also known as a ‘twap’.

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    “Weak governments beget massive crime especially drugs,”
    Drug law would be a good RR topic as there are likely a few viewpoints here.
    Year Zero outrage can get a bit tiresome, but people are filled with various theories on drugs.
    (dunno why marijuana simply doesn’t clone liquor law, at least in terms of off-sale licenses. Real-deal commercial growing results in health & safety standards, taxes are imposed, it’s likely that the small scale farms largely disappear as they require a certain amount of illegality to be profitable. Existing public smoking and public intoxication laws apply. There…done.).

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  25. eggplantniglio Avatar
    eggplantniglio

    Just file this in the “I’m really not surprised” folder!

    Biden’s Pick For Top Bank Regulator Has A Troubling Shoplifting Record

    So many progressives seem to have difficulty playing by the rules that they want everybody else to play by.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bidens-pick-top-bank-regulator-has-troubling-retail-theft-record

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    re: niglioniglio@8:32AM
    Damn, I was just going to post that.
    You know, I think that makes her a better candidate.
    Better a thief than a true believer who wants to destroy your life for your own good. It sort of humanizes her.

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  27. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president-biden-job-approval-7320.html
    Biden over 12% under water…
    https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/generic_congressional_ballot_nov16
    Democrats in Congress over 13% under water…
    And it is going to get worse after today, as the communists destroy Kenosha again.

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  28. broccoliniglio Avatar
    broccoliniglio

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 17 November 2021 at 10:13 PM
    “So the question stands – name ONE thing that Bumblebrain has done right.” gjr]
    I don’t think we can discount that possibility that Joe Biden’s sole purpose on this earth is to fuck things up. A recent former president certainly thought so!

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    Wow, a pretty big deal.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/disastrous-flooding-cuts-vancouver-rail-road-service
    I just mention it because (a)it’s interesting/serious and (b)MSM could give a shit.
    Looking at CNN. 4 articles on Trump, 0 on Vancouver
    DrudgeReport. 1 on Trump, 0 on Vancouver
    MSNBC. 6 on Trump, 0 on Vancouver
    Fox. 1 on Trump, 0 on Vancouver
    No wonder Paul sounds like he does. GIGO.

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  30. beanniglio Avatar
    beanniglio

    I don’t think we can discount that possibility that Joe Biden’s sole purpose on this earth is to fuck things up. A recent former president certainly thought so!
    Case in point!

    In a Hypocritical Letter to the FTC, Biden Accuses Oil Companies of Illegal Price Gouging

    Always good to go with the classics……keep the progressive rubes spun up! Of course Biden might actually believe this……we all recognize his Punchy like mental state!
    And hey…..speaking of Punchy…..where has that rascal been? Biden numbers looking weak…..Punchy AWOL……..??
    https://mishtalk.com/economics/in-a-hypocritical-letter-to-the-ftc-biden-accuses-oil-companies-of-illegal-price-gouging

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    Just to add to the trifecta of super villains in the Kyle Rittenhouse case.
    https://www.wisconsinrightnow.com/2021/11/16/maurice-freeland-jump-kick-man/

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    re: very recent posts above.
    A word of caution all ye gentlemen, vegetables, and carrot tops:
    “And hey…..speaking of Punchy…..where has that rascal been? Biden numbers looking weak…..Punchy AWOL……..??”
    Punchy is like Beetlejuice. Say his name three times and he will come out and appear. Just stating the fax, Jax.. It’s not like he has gone any where. He probably scours this site daily to see if the topic is about him, him, him.
    You have been thus warned.

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  33. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Eating their own is the only possible outcome when it comes to the purity test.
    ‘College Democrats In Disarray: Accusations Of Bigotry Fly, DNC Considering Disaffiliation‘
    “…..As Politico reported, CDC members insisted the internal strife was part of a necessary dismantling of systemic racism, but other Democratic officials told the outlet it looks like a bunch of woke kids playing politics in a destructive way.
    “They are caught up in their own drama and playing ‘Boys State’ government,” the Democrat official told Politico. “They think they’re the hottest s— on Earth.”
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/college-democrats-in-disarray-accusations-of-bigotry-fly-dnc-considering-disaffiliation

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    lol. Nice.
    “KENOSHA, Wis. — The judge overseeing the Kyle Rittenhouse trial said on Thursday that a producer for MSNBC had followed a bus carrying jurors home from the courthouse the previous night. Judge Bruce Schroeder called it an “extremely serious matter” and said he was banning anyone affiliated with the cable network from the courthouse.
    During a brief hearing on Thursday morning, Judge Schroeder said Kenosha Police officers had noticed a car following the bus by about a block. At one point, it ran a red light. When the officers pulled the car over, Judge Schroeder said, the man driving said he was a producer working with MSNBC and that someone who worked for the network in New York had instructed him to follow the jurors.”
    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/18/us/msnbc-kyle-rittenhouse-trial.html

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  35. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    LOL!! MSNBC gets busted. Their contract reporter gets caught following the jury bus.. Sure.. he had no intention of photographing or contacting the jury.
    What’s a little jury intimidation by a hateful proggy?

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  36. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Its not going to get better for creepy grampa joe and the rats are fleeing the sinking ship –
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-ratings-down-voters-focused-wrong-things
    😉

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  37. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    I have lost count. How many DEMS have said they ain’t running for re-election? Seven or eight?
    And still a year to go.
    So how many more are going to flee the DEM dumpster fire?

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  38. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    WOW!! The FBI and DOJ leak like pecker with the clap!
    https://redstate.com/scotthounsell/2021/11/18/breaking-judge-demands-answers-from-new-york-times-over-publishing-project-veritas-privileged-docs-n478186
    “The judge in the defamation suit filed by Project Veritas against the New York Times has ordered the paper to provide justification for their publishing of privileged documents that the New York Times allegedly received from either the FBI or Department of Justice. These documents were allegedly acquired by federal law enforcement officials in several pre-dawn raids on the homes of Project Veritas reporters just last week. ”
    Having to out the source within the FBI or DOJ would be the real kicker.
    Then we might know who was leaking the fake crap about Trump.

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  39. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Another SF woke play gets slapped down in court –
    The Court is not directly ordering the District to reinstate its prior admissions policy; rather, it is finding the Resolution null and void. It is up to the Board how it wishes to process, which may include the option of re-noticing the Resolution for a public hearing in compliance with the Brown Act,” the court said in its decision.
    The lawsuit, brought by the Lowell Alumni Association, the Friends of Lowell Foundation and the Asian American Legal Foundation, argued the Board of Education violated the Brown Act by “failing to post an agenda containing a minimally adequate description of the resolution.” The court agreed.
    “Neither the vague title of the Resolution nor the Background text provided any description of the item of business to be transacted or discussed by the Board — i.e., the elimination of Lowell’s merit-based admissions process,” the court ruled.
    https://www.sfgate.com/education/article/SF-Lowell-admissions-policy-overturned-16632580.php
    😉

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  40. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The socialist dems green new deal is already bleeding pocket books and will leave people having to chose between food or fuel for a bad winter. Meanwhile creepy grampa joe has ZERO credibility with the citizens and continuing to lie will not help in any way! –
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/finance/news/3-warning-signs-for-bidens-green-energy-revolution-201013359.html
    😉

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  41. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Another reason to kill the bill –
    https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/11/18/cbo-amnesty-migration-rise-costs-122-billion-over-10-years/
    😉

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  42. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    So they loved to make bank off all her work but now she is woke canceled and they will party solo as if she never happened –
    WarnerMedia on Tuesday announced that the special will feature the franchise’s central trio of Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson as well as director Columbus. They will be joined by other franchise alums including Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Ralph Fiennes, Jason Isaacs, Gary Oldman, Imelda Staunton, Tom Felton, James Phelps, Oliver Phelps, Mark Williams, Bonnie Wright, Alfred Enoch, Matthew Lewis, Evanna Lynch and Ian Hart.
    Of course, everyone’s invited … except … for … the… woman … who … created … it … all.
    https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/11/18/nolte-j-k-rowling-blacklisted-from-harry-potter-reunion/
    😉

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  43. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Note to comrade bernie and the littlest congressional commie from NY and creepy grampa joe capitalism works –
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/venezuela-turns-to-flashy-casinos-suvs-and-u-s-dollars-for-an-economic-boost-11637247602
    😉

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    from a Breitbart article about Jump Kick Man in the Rittenhouse trial
    “They also apparently withheld his (Jump Kick Man) name from the defense, preventing Rittenhouse’s attorneys from calling him as a witness. That could prompt the defense to file a new motion for a mistrial, in addition to the two that are already pending with the judge.
    Prosecutors have also faced criticism for charging Joshua Ziminski with arson. Ziminski allegedly fired the first shots that night, before Rittenhouse fired at his first assailant, but his pending testimony in his arson trial means that he could not be compelled to testify in the Rittenhouse trial because that might violate his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination.”
    Ooh, that last move is clever. One of the most valuable parts of this trial is showing Conservatives how ‘just-us’ actually works. A cold dash of realism is not such a bad thing.

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    JHK appears to be on a roll this fine morning.
    “Tripping over the doorsill into “Joe Biden’s” dark winter, what do you see out in the gathering gloom? That old Shining City on a Hill is looking more like Detroit in a sleet-storm, with dumpster fires sputtering here and there in the broken streets. The darkness descending is something more ominous than any ordinary night. In the shadows, an insectile legion seems to be stealing away with what remains of your country….”
    https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/onward-into-darkness/

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    re: Rittenhouse, from substack:
    “A note on Kenosha in light of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial: Until quite recently, the mainstream liberal argument was that burning down businesses for racial justice was both good and healthy. Burnings allowed for the expression of righteous rage, and the businesses all had insurance to rebuild.
    When I was at the New York Times, I went to Kenosha to see about this, and it turned out to be not true. The part of Kenosha that people burned in the riots was the poor, multi-racial commercial district, full of small, underinsured cell phone shops and car lots. It was very sad to see and to hear from people who had suffered. Beyond the financial loss, small storefronts are quite meaningful to their owners and communities, which continuously baffles the Zoom-class.
    Something odd happened with that story after I filed it. It didn’t run. It sat and sat.
    Now it could be that the piece was just bad. I’ve sent in bad ones before, and I’ll do it again. A few weeks after I filed, an editor told me: The Times wouldn’t be able to run my Kenosha insurance debacle piece until after the 2020 election, so sorry.
    There were a variety of reasons given—space, timing, tweaks here or there.
    Eventually the election passed. Biden was in the White House. And my Kenosha story ran. Whatever the reason for holding the piece, covering the suffering after the riots was not a priority. The reality that brought Kyle Rittenhouse into the streets was one we reporters were meant to ignore. The old man who tried to put out a blaze at a Kenosha store had his jaw broken. The top editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer had to resign in June 2020 amid staff outcry for publishing a piece with the headline, “Buildings Matter, Too.”
    If you lived in those neighborhoods on fire, you were not supposed to get an extinguisher. The proper response — the only acceptable response — was to see the brick and mortar torn down, to watch the fires burn and to say: thank you.”
    https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/tgif-inflation-rises-russiagate-falls
    To our local Blue Mob who post now and again, and in the interest of keeping our homes unburnt, ‘thank you’.

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    Walt

    Doo Doo Doo,,, Another one bites the dust,,,
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/texas-democrat-rep-johnson-retire-2022-midterms
    “Squeek squeek,,!! The ship is going down!! I’m outa here!!
    Every DemoRAT for him/herself!!”

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    Walt

    Look who doesn’t want their dirty tricks exposed.
    https://www.theepochtimes.com/biden-administration-urges-court-not-to-appoint-special-master-in-project-veritas-case_4115123.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=whatfinger
    “A federal judge should not accept a proposal by Project Veritas to appoint a special master after FBI agents raided homes linked to the journalism group, U.S. government lawyers argued in a court filing on Friday.
    After agents executed search warrants on several homes linked to Project Veritas, including a residence of founder James O’Keefe, the group’s lawyers asked a judge to appoint a special master, or a retired judge, to sift through material seized by federal agents and separate out certain files.”

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    scenes

    “EXCLUSIVE: Virginia cop who was fired for anonymously donating $25 to Kyle Rittenhouse’s defense fund after being outed by hackers demands his job back from woke police chief as jury acquits on ALL counts”
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10222207/Virginia-cop-fired-anonymously-donating-25-Kyle-Rittenhouse-fund-demands-job-back.html

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    Walt

    DAMN,, Scenes,, his Boss cop, attended a BLM rally in uniform.
    But that was just fine.
    That’s messed up on so many levels.

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