Steve Thomas
-
Posts
6,479 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Events
Store
Posts posted by Steve Thomas
-
-
Report from Charles Batchelor to Chief J. E. Curry, November 30, 1963. Page: 41 of 70. Page 20 of this Report.
The Portal to Texas History.
https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth338584/m1/41/?q=Lumpkin
Lumpkin must have missed this incident by just a couple minutes. I wonder if any of the officers he spoke to at the corner of Houston and Elm mentioned it to him.
Steve Thomas
-
Fed-up Arizona Republican erupts at Trump fans who claim their ballots were fed to chickens
by Brad Reed May 18, 2021
https://www.rawstory.com/arizona-election-conspiracies/
“Stephen Richer, the Republican Maricopa County Recorder, said that he and his fellow state GOP officials are tired of being falsely accused of plotting to install President Joe Biden in the White House by assorted methods of trickery and subterfuge.
"It was one thing with the audit when they were looking at UV lights and looking for bamboo fibers in the paper," he said. "But when they just accused us too many times of breaking the law, they defamed our good employees too many times, they've defamed the hard-working people here. We're all humans, and we have our limits!"
Berman noted that some Trump fans have even claimed that state elections officials shredded their ballots, fed them to chickens, and then had the chickens incinerated to cover up the evidence.”
Dirty commie Democrats. Whad'd the little chickens ever do to them?
Steve Thomas
-
An Entire County Just Paid Thousands to Join a Far-Right Group
‘IT CAN GET RIDICULOUS’
Whether they like it or not, residents of an entire county are effectively paying to join an extremist group hyped by alleged participants in the Jan. 6 riot.
By Kelly Weill May. 14, 2021
“Lander County, Nevada, is shelling out $2,500 for lifetime membership to a controversial, far-right law-enforcement group, The Daily Beast has learned. For their money, residents will get some lapel pins, a plaque, and a big party featuring an alleged participant in the Jan. 6 attack on the United States Capitol.”
Steve Thomas
-
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1393168815677218818?s=20
Everything that Trump touches dies.
Steve Thomas
-
The dirty little secret behind the Liz Cheney purge
by Joe Conason
May 14, 2021
https://www.rawstory.com/liz-cheney-trump-2652984174/
“Immediately after the caucus vote, Cheney told NBC's Savannah Guthrie what she believes is provoking "real concern" among her colleagues: the prospect of a full and independent investigation into the January 6 insurrection, like the 9/11 Commission Report. "I've been very public that that commission needs to be bipartisan. It needs to look only at Jan. 6 and the events leading up to it, not at the BLM" — Black Lives Matter — "and antifa riots last summer," Cheney said on the Today show. "I think that that kind of intense, narrow focus threatens people in my party who may have been playing a role they should not have been playing."
That makes a whole lot more sense.
Steve Thomas
-
6 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:
Michael Marcades has done a revised edition of his book about his mother, Rose Cherami: Gathering Fallen Petals.
https://kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-reviews/the-woman-who-predicted-jfk-s-assassination
Jim,
It was kind of eye opening to me to look at Rose Cherami's story against the backdrop of the AGVA (the American Guild of Variety Artists) and what was going on the fall of 1962.
These girls were being run up and down along the circuit, shuttled from town to town.
Steve Thomas
-
Murder Suspect Who Let His Tiger Prowl Around Houston Suburb Is Captured, Police Say
By Jamie Ross May. 11, 2021
“Victor Hugo Cuevas, 26, was out on bond for a murder charge when the Bengal tiger, which he reportedly keeps in his backyard, somehow got out. Cuevas fled the scene with the tiger when police responded to calls from justifiably terrified neighbors who filmed the cat from their windows. On Tuesday night, Houston police tweeted that Cuevas was in custody, but added, somewhat ominously: “The whereabouts of the tiger are not yet known.””
Well, alrighty then.
Steve Thomas
-
The strange saga of the IRS' plague of broken printers
By BRIAN FALER 05/07/2021
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/07/irs-tax-returns-broken-printers-485749
“The IRS is struggling to catch up with a backlog of work, and a new report fingers a surprising culprit: broken printers.
A plague of non-functioning printers and copiers is making it difficult for the agency to process tax returns and provide other types of assistance, an independent agency watchdog said Friday.
“A major concern that surfaced during these walkthroughs [of IRS offices] was a lack of working printers and copiers,” the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration said.
Forty-two percent of printers for those involved in processing returns were unusable at the end of March. In the agency’s Kansas City outpost, officials are down to three working printers and “the employees we spoke with were concerned that they would have a work stoppage if these remaining devices became unfunctional.”
Some of the printers didn’t have ink and, in other cases, “the waste cartridge container is full,” the report said, noting the agency uses printers for everything from making copies of tax returns to preparing training packages for new hires.”
So there. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Steve Thomas
-
Massive rally at the Matt Gaetz/Marjorie Taylor-Greene religious revival tent meeting.
Steve Thomas
-
Um...
Do you want to tell him, or should I?
Steve Thomas
-
Need to take a ship back from pirates who have overtaken it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suHOLFhbwsM
Steve Thomas
-
War is coming to the Republican Party.
'Trump has never actually been wrong': Supporters of ex-president attempting to purge Republican Party of non-believers
by Tom Boggioni May 02, 2021
https://www.rawstory.com/trumps-big-lie/
“According to a report from the Washington Post, while the GOP leadership is split over pushing Rep. Lynne Cheney (R-WY) out of her leadership role for speaking ill of Donald Trump, grassroots activists are looking at taking over local Republican Party organizations and purging those who refuse to say the 2020 presidential election was stolen.”
“With the report stating, "Nearly six months after Trump lost to Biden, rejection of the 2020 election results — dubbed the 'Big Lie' by many Democrats — has increasingly become an unofficial litmus test for acceptance in the Republican Party," one GOP activist made the case that Trump has never led his party --and the country -- astray.
"I think I speak for many people in that Trump has never actually been wrong, and so we've learned to trust when he says something, that he's not just going to spew something out there that's wrong and not verified," Debra Ell of Michigan explained when talking about the November election that saw Trump lose to former Vice President Joe Biden.
Ell added that she working hard to get rid of Michigan Republican Party executive director Jason Roe for telling Politico he didn't believe the election was stolen.”
“According to Whitney Phillips, an assistant professor of communication and rhetorical studies at Syracuse University, mainstream Republicans should have seen this coming.
"It feels like this has been happening in the Republican Party for a really long time. If you allow an entire contingent of your caucus to be steeped in conspiratorial thinking, what … do you think is going to happen? They're going to turn on you," Phillips explained.”
Yesterday, Mitt Romney was booed and called a traitor and a communist at the Utah State Republican Party Convention.
"According to a report from Politico, pro-Trump attorney Lin Wood -- who had a hand in Georgia Republicans losing two seats in the U.S. Senate -- has jumped into Republican Party politics in South Carolina and local GOP leaders there don't know what to do about him.
Wood, who has latched onto QAnon conspiracies in his attempts to prove Donald Trump had the 2020 presidential election stolen from him, is attempting to be elected as the chair of the South Carolina Republican Party and he is using his army of rabid followers to make his move."https://www.rawstory.com/lin-wood-2652850571/
War is coming.
Steve Thomas
-
Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene mocked for forming joint fundraising agreement: 'Does it accept Venmo?'
by Brad Reed April 30, 2021
https://www.rawstory.com/matt-gaetz-and-marjorie-taylor-greene/
"Scandal-plagued Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is teaming up with QAnon-loving Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for a national tour in which they target fellow Republicans who don't support their purported "America first" agenda -- but that's not the full extent of their partnership.
Gaetz and Greene this week filed paperwork with the Federal Elections Commission this week to create the Put America First Joint Fundraising Committee, which will raise campaign cash for both Republican representatives.”
So, a Q-Anon conspiracy theorist teams up with a guy who likes young girls. Wonder how that’s going to work out? Can you imagine what their rallies are going to look like?
Steve Thomas
-
On a lighter note...
Christianburg, Virginia Sign Wars.
Steve Thomas
-
Steve Thomas
-
2 hours ago, Tony Krome said:
Pena: When Oswald was transferred to Dallas, de Brueys was transferred to Dallas at the same time.
Tony,
I think Debrueys was sent to Dallas on a TDY after the assassination to help out with the investigation because of his work with the FPCC.
TESTIMONY OF WARREN C. DEBRUEYS, 8 JAN 1976 Before the Church Committee
page 55
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1421#relPageId=55&search=Debrueys
On page 64 he refers again to going to Dallas on November 23rd.
I think Pena was a little loose on the facts. Pena used an interesting choice of words though, when he talks about Oswald being "transferred" to Dallas.
Steve Thomas
-
7 hours ago, Steve Thomas said:
Today also marks the one-year anniversary of injecting bleach into your body to kill Covid.
Let's celebrate.
Steve Thomas
It's National Disinfectant Day.
https://twitter.com/sarahcpr/status/1253474772702429189
Steve Thomas
-
Trump turned over to debt collectors.
Trump campaign sent to collections by City of Albuquerque over unpaid bills: report
By Tom Boggioni April 23, 2021
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-finances-2652754135/
“According to a report from KOB4, the city of Albuquerque is sending former president Donald Trump to collection over unpaid bills dating back to a rally he held in the city in 2019.
At issue is close to $200,000 in security costs the city incurred after Trump spent the night in local hotel as well as the costs of "blocking off parts of downtown, paying police officers overtime and covering the paid time off expenses of city workers who had to stay home.," the report states.
According to Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller, "We actually treated it like any other debt, and so it goes through a somewhat process where you send a bunch of letters out. We got no response from those letters. And then automatically, it does go to an agency that helps try and collect debts, and so that's those annoying phone calls you get that say, you know, you owe money to so-and-so like now, Trump is getting those."”"Given what else has happened, I mean in terms of, even his own campaign owing money to donors and lots of shady stuff there, so unfortunately I don't really expect us to get paid. But it's important that we do, and you know, we would do it for anyone else, so he's no different," he added.”
Today also marks the one-year anniversary of injecting bleach into your body to kill Covid.
Let's celebrate.
Steve Thomas
-
Legendary burlesque performer Tempest Storm dies age 93
“She was born Annie Blanche Banks in Eastman, Georgia before she set out for Hollywood at the age of 16”
“The busty beauty became a Las Vegas legend, dubbed 'the Queen of Erotic Dancers'. She boasted famous friends including Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis and Marilyn Monroe.
Storm also had a short-lived romance with Elvis Presley and even claimed to have had an affair with President John F. Kennedy.”
Tempest Storm also danced in the Carousel Club.
Steve Thomas
-
A new way to pay at Whole Foods: Scan your palm
By Chris Isidore, CNN Business April 21, 2021
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/21/tech/amazon-whole-foods-palm-scan-payments/index.html
“Amazon will let customers at some Whole Foods stores pay with simple wave of their hands.
The company announced Wednesday it is bringing palm scanners to one of its Whole Foods stores in Seattle, with plans to roll out the new payment system to eight stores in the Seattle area in the coming months. Customers will hold their hands above the scanner for a contact-free payment method.
The scanners are already available at one of those Seattle stores -- its Madison Broadway location. Amazon plans to expand availability further after this initial test run.”
It had to come.
Steve Thomas
-
The Creator of NYPD’s Horrifying Robot Police Dog Linked to Saudi Crown Prince MBS
“MATCH MADE IN DYSTOPIA”
by Noor Ibrahim Apr. 19, 2021
“The man behind the company who created the NYPD’s $75,000 robot police dog, which was spotted in action in New York last week, was recruited to serve as an adviser to despotic Saudi crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman’s futuristic city-state project.
Dubbed “Digidog” by the NYPD, the robot assisted in a Manhattan arrest at a public housing building last Monday, sparking outcry from citizens and lawmakers who viewed it as a wasteful and invasive slap in the face as waves of anti-police brutality protests grip the country.
“We got another killing of Daunte Wright, we got the murder of Goerge Floyd, we got Breonna Taylor and so many others that we can’t comprehend,” said New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman in a video after clips of the robot dog went viral. “And now we got damn robot police dogs walking down the street. What the hell do we need robot police dogs? This is some RoboCop dooky. This is crazy.””
This is slightly terrifying.
Steve Thomas
-
Need to rent a car in Florida? US shortage of vehicles means you could pay up to $500 a day
Orlando Sentinel 2021/4/19
https://this.kiji.is/756804677656363008?c=592622757532812385
“Battered by the COVID-19 pandemic, rental car companies are facing a national car shortage, causing availability for travelers to plummet and daily rental rates to spike to as high as nearly $500 a day in Tampa.
“I think madhouse is probably a good way to describe it,” said Jonathan Weinberg, CEO of AutoSlash.com, a website that aggregates discounts for car rentals. “We are benefiting in some ways from the madness. The problem is that in many cases we just can’t find cars for people.”
As the pandemic got underway in March of last year, car rentals plummeted by 90%, according to Weinberg. Over the year, rentals gradually returned, but not before rental companies made the decision to sell off thousands of vehicles in order to stay afloat.”
This. Is. Insane.
Steve Thomas
-
America First Caucus Policy Platform
pages 1 - 7
https://punchbowl.news/wp-content/uploads/America-First-Caucus-Policy-Platform-FINAL-2.pdf
If you ever wanted to know what xenophobia means, read this document.
Steve Thomas
-
Trumpy, Trump, Trumpism to its logical conclusion:
by Brad Reed April 15, 2021
https://www.rawstory.com/amanda-chase-2652591837/
“Chase, a Republican candidate for Virginia governor who in the past has been forced to work from inside a plexiglass box over her refusal to obey the state legislature's mask rules, told her followers that the Virginia GOP will not deliver the "proper" results of its own upcoming gubernatorial convention, where she's pitted against six other Republican candidates.
"DO NOT TRUST THE PARTY TO DELIVER ACCURATE RESULTS!" reads the email, which was posted on Twitter by The Virginia Mercury's Graham Moomaw. "Who should you go to for the proper results? Me and my campaign!"
Chase also said her followers would know that the election was fixed if one of her rivals defeated her.”
Thank you former Guy Mr. MAGA Man.
Steve Thomas
The inevitable end result of our last 56 years
in Political Discussions
Posted · Edited by Steve Thomas
The people of Arizona are going to be on the hook for millions of dollars.
From Arizona Secretary of State, Hobbs:
Way to go guys!
Steve Thomas