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2 hours ago, Joe Bauer said:
I still can't understand Texans letting CANCUN CRUZ off the hook for deserting them in the middle of that record breaking freeze a couple of years ago
Joe,
In the most recent election, Beto O'Rourke ran on a gun safety platform.
In Uvalde, Texas, Greg Abbott won 60% of the vote.
It's incomprehensible.
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Texas is bracing for a major snow storm.
Ted Cruz has been deemed a flight risk.
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Arizona spring: far-right planning Black Friday protests to demand revote after GOP loses
by Bob Brigham
https://www.rawstory.com/arizona-spring-far-right-planning-black-friday-protests-to-demand-a-revote-after-gop-loses/,
Jen Fifield, who covers Arizona election for the nonprofit newsroom Votebeat, reported, "There's a call circulating on far-right channels today for a 9 a.m. Friday protest for a 'revote' at the Arizona Capitol. One commentator on Gettr is calling it an 'Arizona spring,' telling people to bring guns so that if 'FBI informants' start to shoot they can shoot back."
"Be there. Will be wild!"
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Are they are going to have a Jumbotron and sell popcorn?
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- Florida Governor, Ron DeSantis -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J223nglXql8
“When you stand up for what’s right, when you show people you’re willing to fight for them, they will walk over broken glass barefoot to come vote for you, and that’s exactly what they did for me in record numbers,” the Republican governor said to a standing ovation. “We’ve got a lot more to do, and I have only begun to fight.”
Fifth Avenue shooting, anyone?
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2 hours ago, Gerry Down said:
In "No More Silence" page 206, Harkness admits he simply assumed they were Secret Service but actually saw no ID:
Testimony of D.V. Harkness. Warren Commission Hearings and Exhibits, April 9, 1964 volume VI, p. 312, as cited in the History Matters Archive, http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk..._Vol6_0161b.htm
After hearing what Euins had to say about seeing a rifle in a window, Harkness put him on the back of his motorcycle and delivered him to Inspector Sawyer’s car. He then went around to the back of the TSBD. Warren Commission Belin asked him if there was anyone else in the back of the building. Harkness answered, “There were some Secret Service agents there. I didn't get them identified. They told me they were Secret Service.”
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- Donald Trump 11/18/22 -
"I've proven to be one of the most honest and innocent people ever in our country."
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On 11/17/2022 at 3:16 PM, Ron Ege said:
I find it suspicious that there is no official record of a list of names of SS agents, other than that of presidential security, assigned to the Dallas area.
Ron,
There are reports from some of the Dallas Field Agents in Vol. XVIII of the WC Hearings and Exhibits egin ing on p. 793
https://maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1135#relPageId=1&tab=toc
and in Vol XXV on page 786
https://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh25/html/WC_Vol25_0408b.htm
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Federal Judge Compares U.S. Capitol Rioters To Those In Thrall To Germany's Nazis
By Mary Papenfuss Nov 18, 2022
“A federal judge on Friday raised the specter of poopoo Germany and Adolf Hitler as he noted similarities in the mindset of U.S. Capitol rioters mesmerized by a “demagogue.”
Senior U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton pointed to the chilling comparisons as he handed down a three-year sentence in his District of Columbia courtroom to rioter Dustin Thompson of Ohio, who had blamed Donald Trump for his involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol in the former president’s waning days in office.
Walton said he was struck that the college-educated Thompson fell into the “rabbit hole” of conspiracy theories and embraced lies spread by Trump that the 2020 presidential election had been rigged against him.
“We saw it happen in poopoo Germany. A very educated, intelligent population was able to be swayed to engage in the atrocities that took place in Germany based upon a demagogue,” Walton noted, according to Business Insider. “It seems to me you bought into that same type of mentality,” he added.
Walton called it “utterly scary that we still have millions of people ... still buying a lie that’s not based on anything other than someone who’s unhappy because they didn’t get what they want.” He was apparently referring to Trump, who was incensed over his loss of the popular vote and the Electoral College count.
"I think our democracy is in trouble because, unfortunately, we have charlatans like our former president, who doesn't, in my view, really care about democracy but only about power," Walton said. "And as a result of that, it's tearing this country apart."
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2 hours ago, Steve Thomas said:
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I don’t think things are going well at the World Cup.
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Steve Thomas
Forget the World Cup. Here's what's really important.
https://apnews.com/article/sports-europe-georgia-rugby-wales-cbc0346032e835a736796041207b32c8
CARDIFF, Wales (AP) — Georgia upset Wales 13-12 for the first time in rugby history on Saturday in Cardiff, only the Lelos’ second win against a tier one nation.
The one guy who I would never want to meet in a dark alley is a rugby player.
Those guys are the toughest people on the planet.
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A lot of people are leaving Twitter and joining Mastadon.
Mastodon is not a single website. To use it, you need to make an account with a provider—we call them servers—that lets you connect with other people across Mastodon.Servers
Mastadon Servers
https://joinmastodon.org/servers
One such server:
home.social
home.social provides a fediverse home to all people who are committed to being excellent to each other.
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Fans paid to attend World Cup by Qatar have daily allowance cancelled
“Fans who have travelled to Qatar as part of a controversial paid-for supporters programme have been told by Qatari authorities that their cash has been cut.
The Fan Leader Network is a scheme run by the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, the Qatari agency responsible for the World Cup. It has recruited supporters from around the globe, offering travel and accommodation and a place at the World Cup opening ceremony in return for enthusiasm and positive social media content. But the Guardian can reveal that a per diem payment for food and drink, upon which some supporters were depending, was cancelled just as fans were packing to travel to the Gulf.
Members of the Fan Leader Network from two European countries said their payments had been cancelled three days ago and that authorities had blamed the decision on the bad press which followed the revelation that fans were being paid.
Fans were told in a message, seen by the Guardian: “Due to the recent developments in the media, we are keen to protect our visiting fans from the erroneous misinformed statements regarding ‘fans receiving payment for the trip’. Accordingly, the daily allowance will unfortunately no longer be issued. The allowance was intended as a small uplift on your own personal funds to assist with refreshments during your stay.”
The news comes two days before the opening ceremony and follows an announcement by Fifa that it would no longer be possible to buy alcohol at World Cup stadiums”
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I don’t think things are going well at the World Cup.
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Definition of Class.
"This girl, Miss Alcoholic that she is, this panty dropper after two shots, okay?" Fiore said Tuesday night at a GOP event. "This girl, if you want a piece of Amy, give her two shots. She'll give it to y'all, okay?"
https://www.rawstory.com/michele-fiore-nevada/
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Mar-a-Lago Model Prosecution Memo
By Andrew Weissmann, Ryan Goodman, Joyce Vance, Norman L. Eisen, Fred Wertheimer, E. Danya Perry, Siven Watt, Joshua Stanton, Donald Simon and Alexander K. Parachini
November, 2022
127 pp
Mar-a-Lago Model Prosecution Memo
Executive Summary
This model prosecution memorandum (or “pros memo”) assesses the potential charges against former President Donald Trump emanating from his handling of classified documents and other government records since leaving office on January 20, 2021. It includes crimes related to the removal and retention of national security information and obstruction of the investigation into his handling of these documents. The authors have decades of experience as federal prosecutors
and defense lawyers, as well as other legal expertise. Based upon this experience and the analysis that follows, we conclude that there is a strong basis to charge Trump.Mar-a-Lago Model Prosecution Memo
Table of Contents
Executive Summary 1
Methodology 2
Substance 2
Part I. Known and Reported Facts 3
Part II. The Law - Relevant Federal Offenses 4
Part III. Application of the Facts to the Law 4
Part IV. Department of Justice Precedents 5
Part V. Defenses 6
Acknowledgements 8Steve Thomas
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On 11/15/2022 at 7:00 PM, Paul Cummings said:
Sketch drawing based upon Summers description.
There is strong evidence that there was a Secret Service Agent present during Oswald’s first interrogation at a time when no known Secret Service Agent was in the Police Headquarters. If that is the case, who could this person have been?
Sims, Boyd, Fritz, Curry and Stevenson all testified, or wrote later, that a Secret Service man (who was not Sorrells) had been present during Oswald's interrogation.
I believe that a better candidate for the alleged Secret Service Agent who participated in Oswald’s first interrogation beginning at 2:20PM is Charles E. Kunkel.
hmmmm...
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26 minutes ago, Ron Ege said:
Steve, has it ever been determined what the exact number of "agents" were at those two locations? If they were imposters, more than two each would seem to have been a bit of a hindrance to maintaining secrecy.
Ron,
Not to my knowledge, and if they were, I never ran across it.
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Far-Right Republican Who Called For 'More Gallows' Wonders If GOP Had A Messaging Problem
By Matt Shuham Nov 15, 2022
“As updated vote tallies began to cement a loss for Trump-backed Arizona governor candidate Kari Lake on Monday, a far-right state lawmaker who told a gathering of white nationalists that “we need to build more gallows” started to have second thoughts about her party’s pitch to voters.
“We wonder now if we were in an echo chamber,” said state Sen. Wendy Rogers (R), who has also suggested throwing county officials in solitary confinement and spent years lying about the 2020 election.
“I don’t know, I’m just beginning to get some perspective,” added Rogers.”
Ya think?
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19 hours ago, W. Niederhut said:
Never have, but I may try a dose or two now that it's legal.
I'm curious about the therapeutic potential of psilocybin, especially in relation to musical creativity.
W.,
I always found psilocycbin a little less jarring than LSD.
It didn't jangle the nerve endings as much.
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1 hour ago, Steve Thomas said:
Last night we heard the death knell of Donald Trumps political future.
I say that because about a half an hour into Trumps speech, I noticed that a number of people were getting up and walking out, and I thought to myself, "Oh my God, if even his own supporters..."
Trump noticed it too. He stopped his speech and said, "Please" and paused.
I thought, "He's going to pull a Jeb Bush and beg people to please applaud."
He asked the audience to sit down and said he felt guilty about asking them to stand for so long, but the exodus for the exits stopped.
I thought, "That's it. That's the end."
Steve Thomas
See, I told you.
ABC’s Jonathan Karl called the speech “incredibly low energy” and said he saw people leaving in the middle of it ― until they were blocked from departing:
.@jonkarl: After seeing people exit early, Trump staff started preventing people from leaving the event pic.twitter.com/17VcgSNXik
— Brennan Murphy (@brenonade) November 16, 2022ABC’s Olivia Rubin filmed a crowd forming near the doors, waiting for a chance to leave as Trump rambled in the background:
A crowd has formed by the exit of the ballroom as some try to leave Trump’s announcement speech before he has finished…. But security won’t let them. pic.twitter.com/O7C6QJfYgK
— Olivia Rubin (@OliviaRubinABC) November 16, 2022Steve Thomas
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Donal Trump unveiled a new Campaign Slogan, "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AND GLORIOUS AGAIN". MAGAGA.
Historian, Lawrence Tribe said that if that makes you want to gag, you're not alone.
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17 hours ago, Gerry Down said:
Could this be an off duty secret service agent who afterwards never told the secret service or media he had been up there? You could see why an off duty secret service agent might want to hide he had been there in light of the assassination that then occured -
Gerry,
I once wrote an essay on this very subject that you can read here, if you are interested:
Secret Service: On the Knoll and Beyond
© by Steve Thomas
January 21, 2008
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/12084-secret-service-on-the-knoll-and-beyond/
The incidents of Dallas Policemen and Deputy Sheriffs encountering someone whom they identified, or were identified to them as being members of the U.S. Secret Service at a time and place where no members of the Secret Service are known to be present, is more extensive than is commonly known. There are at least twelve accounts (if you count the identification of Jack Puterbaugh as a Secret Service agent in the pilot car by Detectives Senkel and Turner), and eighteen if you count the six policemen who say there was a Secret Service Agent present during Oswald’s first interrogation beginning at 2:20PM."
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"Were these agents imposters?
I believe that some were and some were not. I think that the agent on the sixth floor of the TSBD is genuine; the agent on the knoll is not. The agent needing a ride from the airport at 12:38 is probably genuine; the agents encountered at the library probably were not. The agents encountered at the back of the TSBD by David Harkness were probably imposters; the agent in the Dallas Police Headquarters was probably genuine. In either case, the implications are disturbing. It would be evidence of conspiracy if bogus agents were impersonating U.S. Secret Service officials that day; and if there were real Secret Service Agents in and around Dealey Plaza and this fact has been withheld from the American people for close to 40 years, then we have not been told the truth about what really happened one sunny November afternoon in Dallas, TX. in 1963."
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Last night we heard the death knell of Donald Trumps political future.
I say that because about a half an hour into Trumps speech, I noticed that a number of people were getting up and walking out, and I thought to myself, "Oh my God, if even his own supporters..."
Trump noticed it too. He stopped his speech and said, "Please" and paused.
I thought, "He's going to pull a Jeb Bush and beg people to please applaud."
He asked the audience to sit down and said he felt guilty about asking them to stand for so long, but the exodus for the exits stopped.
I thought, "That's it. That's the end."
Steve Thomas
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8 hours ago, Ron Bulman said:
Ron,
Former President Donald Trump officially filed paperwork to declare his 2024 presidential campaign.
Trump's filing for a third presidential campaign listed a post office box in Virginia, instead of his Mar-a-Lago, Bedminster, or Trump Tower residences.
I'm sure that there are valid legal and tax reasons for doing this, but it still feels creepy to me. It's like some big television ad for a product that says at the end, "If you want your money back, write to P.O. Box..."
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On 11/13/2022 at 5:57 PM, Gerry Down said:
If this plainclothes detective ran from the area of the triple underpass to the picket fence (as Officer Foster testified he himself did along with Sam Holland and others) and Officer Smith ran from the Elm Street/Huston Street junction to the picket fence, then it is a fair inference that the infamous “secret service” agent that Officer Smith met at the picket fence was none other than the plainclothes detective from the triple underpass.
Gerry,
That would be a fair inference except that Officer Smith told the Warren Commission that the man showed him identification, and he told author, Anthony Summers that he had seen Secret Service Credentials before.
“I pulled my pistol from my holster, and I thought, this is silly, I don't know who I am looking for, and I put it back. Just as I did, he showed me that he was a Secret Service agent”
Testimony of Joe Marshall Smith. Warren Commission Hearings and Exhibits, volume VII, p. 535, as cited in the History Matters Archive, http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk..._Vol7_0272a.htm
The question arises, had Officer Smith ever seen Secret Service credentials? As a matter of fact, Smith told author Anthony Summers that he had. As he said to Summers, “The man, this character produced credentials from his hip pocket which showed him to be Secret Service. I have seen those credentials before, and they satisfied me and the deputy sheriff.”
Summers, Anthony. Conspiracy, as cited in North, Mark. Act of Treason. New York: Carroll and Graf, 1991. p. 386.
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The inevitable end result of our last 56 years
in Political Discussions
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Right-wing pastor celebrates Club Q massacre as 'good thing' in hate-filled sermon
by Travis Gettys
https://www.rawstory.com/sure-foundation-baptist-church/
“A Washington state pastor celebrated the mass shooting last weekend at an LGBTQ nightclub that left five people dead.”
“Aaron Thompson, of Sure Foundation Baptist Church in Vancouver, said the massacre was a "good thing"”
“"Am I sad that five homos got shot?" Thompson said Tuesday in a sermon. "No, I’m not sad at all. As a matter of fact, I think it’s a good thing that they’re not here anymore to molest kids."”
“"I’m not condoning anybody to do anything like that," Thompson said. "I don’t believe it’s right to take the law into our own hands, and I’ve said that so many times. But here’s what I won’t be upset about: I’m not going to be upset when someone that hates God and actively is promoting against God, and hates His guts, and molests children, even if it is just their eyeballs, to have to see these freaks writhing around and, and, and, you know doing all these crazy dances in front of children and then afterwards reading them a book or something."”
Ah yes. We can’t have people writhing.
Whatever you do, don’t go withing.
And absolutely no eyeballs.
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