Me amid Massachusetts lefties ….
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Aka, Grandpa’s blog … An emotional purgative for our world's cultural excesses.
Me amid Massachusetts lefties ….
STAND UP AND DOWN TO LEFTIES!
Trump on his high court hearing: ‘A president has to have immunity’
China’s Xi says the US needs to accept Beijing's rise for bilateral relations to improve
Biden endorses $2 trillion tax hike
Hush trial erupts in shouting …
Gaza-based militants attack Israeli forces preparing for U.S. pier
Exxon’s earnings miss, hit by lower natural gas prices and squeezed refining margins
Trump attorneys clash with Justice Kagan on Trump presidential immunity
The Big Delay: Supreme Court poised to allow Trump sedition trial, but not immediately …
UK, U.S. and Canada impose new sanctions on Iran after Israel attack
NATO chief chides China; Pentagon says weapons will reach Ukraine ‘within days’
Stocks plunge after disasterous second quarter GDP report
No Sale: TikTok prefers shutdown if legal options fail, sources say …
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Advice to God when designing humans: “Don’t put the reproductive organs too close to the excretory organs.” — Woody Allen
STAND UP FOR GOOD DESIGN!
Two big court dates for Donald Trump, but he can attend only one
GNP growth slows to 1,6% rate in second quarter, well below expectations
George Soros trying to fast track acquisition of radio giant Audacy through FCC
Biden swings: Mocks Trump’s hair! ‘Don’t inject bleach’
Arizona grand jury indicts Meadows, Giuliani, other Trump allies for 2020 election interference
Russian strikes hit critical Ukraine infrastructure; UK finance minister visits Kyiv
Speaker Johnson reportedly apologizes to Joe Biden for rolling his eyes at SOTU
Israel says it’s poised to move on Rafah …
Macron’s Olympics terror nightmare
Meta looses $200M in value as Zuckerberg focuses on all the ways company burns cash
Biden considers amnesty for over 1 million illegals married to U.S. citizens
Arizona House passes repeal of 1864 [abortion] kaw …
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Tennessee lawmakers pass bill allowing teachers to be armed
Tesla shares jump after Musk says company aims to start producing affordable EV by early 2025
SCOTUS to hear arguments in emergency abortion case
National Guard to protect Jews?
UK wants NATO defense target raised to 2.5 percent
Biden issues new rules for airlines to require automatic cash refunds, prohibit surprise fees
Judge dismisses riot charges for over 100 illegals who rushed border
Tesla to let go 20% staff …
Bird flu virus fragments detected in milk in the US
Relief in Kyiv as Biden set to sign US aid package; Russian defense official arrested on bribery charges
Media Research Center: Facebook meddled with US elections almost 40 times since 2008
Janie Dimon declares economy is booming …
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Forgive me Pilgrim if the following sounds like an episode of the Perry Mason TV show.
This script centers around Matthew Colangelo … the former number three attorney at Biden’s Justice Department … who is “on loan” to Alvin Bragg’s ManhattanDA’s office to prosecute Donald Trump’s so-called hush money trial.
If I were a lawyer on the Trump defense team, I would call Prosecutor Colangelo to the witness stand … (I asked a lawyer friend if this can be done and he said it would be very unusual, but was do-able) …abd pursue the following line of questioning:
* When he was at the Justice Department, how come neither it … nor the Federal Election Commission … didn’t pursue such charges against Trump … but you are now doing so under a county DA, 8 years after the fact, despite overriding the statue of limitations?
* He should be also asked if he had given up his job at the DOJ or expects to return there after this trial is over… and if he was still being paid by the DOJ.? If either answer is yes, then it becomes a clear case of election interference by the DOJ … a violation of the Hatch Act.
Therefore this would be an illegal prosecution and must be dismissed immediately.
STAND UP FOR THE HATCH ACT!
If I were young and daring, I would love to pick up a bull horn and lead the following echo chant:
ME: FROM THE RIVER TO THE LEVEE!
CROWD: FROM THE RIVER TO THE LEVEE!
ME : WE WANT MONEY FOR FREE!
CROWD: WE WANT MONEY FOR FREE!
ME: WE’RE AN ECHO CHAMBER … I AGREE!
CROWD: WE’RE AN ECHO CHAMBER … I AGREE!
Repeat over and over …
STAND UP TO ECHO CHANTS!
Patriots owner Robert Kraft pulls support for Columbia amid ‘virulent hate’ on campus
General Motors to raise 2024 guidance after big first-quarter earnings beat
Trump’s $175 million bond allowed to stand despite attacks from Letitia James
Anti-Israel protesters arrested at NYU
Dems to Biden: Go big on IVF
World’s largest wealth fund says there is clearly a lot of froth in tech sector righr now
House rejects another border security bill
Musk slams Australia ban on church stabbing videos … PM calls out ‘arrogant billionaire’ …
Supreme Court to take up Buden crackdown on ‘gun rights’
Russia warns its ready to retaliate if the West seizes frozen assets, says Europe wil be hurt worst
New York Stock Exchange polls market participants on 24/7 stock trading
Silent and brooding, Trump enters courtroom ordeal … Has to be ‘jolted awake’ again …
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With its subsidies, tariffs, contracts, regulations and taxing system, the federal government has the ability to jerk U.S. companies in directions they might prefer not going … and the oppressive Biden administration has a disturbing talent to do so … over and over and over.
“Please, just get out of the way!”
STAND UP TO BIG BROTHER!
Pilgrim, sorry but I can’t help but to draw this rude comparison to Joe Biden’s Uncle Bosey being eaten by a New Guinea cannibal:
Donald Trump being put in the cook pot by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.
STAND UP FOR UNCLE BOSEY!
Prosecutors say Trump’s hush money was ‘election interference:’ Will jurors - and voters - believe it?
Pro-China party wins big in the Maldives accelerating its drift away from India
In historic first, Biden admin to announce first sanctions against an IDF unit over actions in West Bank
Voter interest in election re-run hits 20-year low …
Conservative Brazilians laud Elon Musk at rally in support of ex-president
Ukraine is given a reprieve by the U.S., but faces a race against the clock over weapons supplies
Florida Rep. to introduce bill prohibiting foreign flags on House floor after Democrats wave Ukraine flag
Biden now commanding lead in online betting …
‘National security suicide’: Alaska senator slams Biden admin’s restrictions on drilling and mining
China is years behind the U.S. despite Huawei’s breakthrough chiips, Raimondo tells ‘60 Minutes’
U.S. House passes landmark TikTok ban
Musk scrambles to save Tesla … Inventory glut … Robotaxi to rescue?
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The founder of today’s Earth Day, Ira Einhorn, is celebrating this day in prison … serving a life sentence for killing and composting his girlfriend.
STAND UP FOR COMPOSTING!
Man who set himself afire outside Trump’s trial dies of injuries, police say
Tesla cuts prices nearly $2000 in China, in line with U.S. cuts
RNC and Trump campaign to hire 100,000 Election Integrity operatives for election day
Iran downplays Israel’s latest attack as one done by ‘toys’ …
Green groups call on voters to oppose RFK Jr.
Russia says deeper U.S. hybrid war using Ukraine will end in Vietnam-style humiliation
KJP has no comment on any developments about Iran’s attack on Israel
Netanyahu asks USA for more ammunition …
After stormy week in court, storm cancels Trump’s North Carolina rally
Taiwan to discuss new funding with U.S. as Chinese warplanes get close to island
Matt Gaetz files amendment to fund border wall construction with Ukraine loan repayments
Volcano blows gold!
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Pilgrim, did you see Bill Barr’s endorsement for president?
STAND UP TO DUPLICITY!
Assembling evidence to justify climate-change hysteria is not hard because … ta-daa!… climate changes … and has for milenia.
Afterward: It’s a lot less foolish … and cheaper … to adjust to climate change than to try stopping it from happening.
After afterward: Climate change is not swift and necessarily malignant … it is glacial and can be benign.
STAND UP TO HYSTERIA!
Biden to deliver abortion-focused speech in Florida
The Bitcoin network completes the fourth-ever ‘halving’ of rewards to miners
Senate passes renewal of Section 702 of serveillance authority in 60-34 vote
Bibi has done what the world warned him not to … War cabinet splinters as minister calls response ‘lame’ …
Trump’s New York trial is knocking him off balance
VW workers in Tennessee overwhelmingly vote to join UAW in historic win for Detroit union
Shocker: Protesters who shut down Golden Gate bridge may actually face consequences
Pentagon parades 12 nuclear bombers …
Appeals court upholds conviction of GOP operative who steered Russian money to Trump’s campaign
Nasdaq falls more than 2% to post sixth straight loosing day as Nvidia craters 20%
Trump trial opening arguments starting next week after full jury selected
Dems at war with RFK Jr. … Fears in Michigan …
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American elections are like a game of Monopoly with the Democrats stacking the Chance and Community Chest decks, loading the dice and acting as banker dispensing Zuckerbucks.
STAND UP FOR PUSHBACK!
The slim majority of Republicans in the House … with their power of the purse and impeachment prerogatives … have as much leverage as Ilhan Omar would sway in the Freedom Caucus.
STAND UP FIR LEVERAGE!
King Midas had the “Midas Toich” where everything he handled turned to gold. President Biden, similarly, has the “Biden Touch” wherein everything he decrees turns to cow pies.
STAND UP TO THE BUDEN TOUCH!
Trump is misleading with COVID-era statistics. So is Biden.
Israel carries out limited strike against Iran, sources say
Biden weighs national climate emergency
Iran and Israel’s open warfare …
How Johnson and Biden locked arms on Ukraine
Mortgage rates are now at the highest level of the year, and could still climb
Alleged Israeli strikes reported on Iran, Syria and Iraq
Iran threatens strike on Israeli nuke sites if attacked …
Iran fires air defense batteries in provinces as sound of explosions heard near Isfahan
Ukraine says it downed Tu-22m3 bomber for the first time; 8 killed in major attack by Russia
18-year-old female trans student charged with plotting two Maryland school shootings
Pentagon speeding up work on first new nuclear warhead in 40 years …
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Why was the day off in the Trump improper business booking entry trial in New York set as Wednesday … when it is traditionally designated as Friday?
The answer Pilgrim is as insidious as the trial itself … and it is twofold:
1) A Friday break would give Trump a long weekend to campaign in … so it is now cut short
2) A Friday break would better allow Hasidic Jews to serve as jurors … who likely would be more sympathetic to Trump. This way they are discouraged.
Afterward: Notice I didn’t use the lefty smear “hush money” … pre-assuming guilt!
STAND UP TO INSIDIOUS!
The fact that the internet allows you to communicate around the world … even with live images … for no extra charge … suggests that long-distance charges back when AT&T was a monopoly were an extremely profitable ripoff.
It also suggests to me that monopolies are not the innovators.
Afterward; Do we have any Ma Bell equivalents today?
STAND UP fOR TRUST BUSTING!
2 of Trump’s jurors are lawyers. Would they acquit on a technicality?
World’s largest sovereign wealth fund posts $100 billion firsts-quarter profits as tech stocks soar
Senate kills Mayorkas impeachment articles
Some Biden aides refer to Trump as ‘Hitler pig’
UK signals potential curbs on Chinese investment amid ‘de-risking’ push
TMSC beats first quarter revenue and profit expectations on strong AI chip demand
Lindsey Graham: DHS says Laken Riley’s alleged murderer was paroled into US illegally
Iran taunts Israel: You want more?
Russia is bombing Ukraine into darkness — and leaving Europe short of power
China slams U.S. probe into its shipbuilding industry, says move is ‘a mistake on top of a mistake’
Attorneys struggle to find jurors without opinions on Trump for hush money trial
Foreign holdings of U.S. Treasuries hit record high …
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Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize. Or as KJP prefers … the Noble Prize. The committee that awards this very prestigious prize is seriously considering Joe Biden for this award … instead of a repeat to Obama.
Why?
Because of his one word … “don’t.”
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🗝️ Ferreting out the relevant data
🗝️ Verifying this data’s veracity
🗝️ Analyzing data in all standard ways
🗝️ Forming conclusions
🗝️ Testing conclusions
🗝️ Finalizing conclusions
🗝️ Effectively communicating conclusions
🗝️ Monitoring results
Pilgrim … can you itemize how seekers of artifice thwart this effort at each step?
Afterward: Do AI chatbots follow this script?
STAND UP FOR PATH TO TRUTH!
The Obama/Biden policy of kowtowing to Iran has an inertia that defies physics!
You can throw Kerry in there too.
STAND UP TO KOWTOWING!
The White House is monitoring Mayorkas impeachment — but not actively working the trial
Biden wants to triple tariffs on China steel, aluminum imports
At least 90% of TV news fails to identify Trump prosecutors as Democrats
Don in hell … Opening statements Monday … Melania to testify?
Senate leaders haggle over Mayorkas impeachment deal as trial begins
Bitcoin halving is likely this week — here’s what you need to know
DHS monitoring 677k illegals with criminal records … but not deporting them
Storm dumps heaviest rain ever recorded in desert nation of UAE
Tax debt shadows Steve Garvey as he runs for Senate
Kremlin won’t say if it was forewarned of Iran’s attack; Russia closing in on battlefield target
Soros-backed NGO is distributing flyers in Mexico telling illegals to vote for Biden
Kari Lake suggests supporters ‘strap on Glocks’ to be ready for ‘24 …
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Has China provided the Biden family with W-2 forms for the $25 million it has paid them? No? Maybe this is why there has been no taxes paid on these moneys?
STAND UP FOR PAYING FAIR SHARE!
Senate Democrats plan $79M advertising onslaught to hold on in November
Fire engulfs Denmark’s historic stock exchange building, iconic spire collapses
Revealed: Biden gave Iran the go-ahead to strike Israel
Iran threatens 1,500 missiles … Was strike DECOY?
A tax mystery: Why are fewer people getting refunds?
Oil prices fall for second day as U.S. expects limited Israel response to Iran attack
Trump’s hush money payment trial gets underway
Tehran’s growing partnership with Moscow …
Johnson plans separate House votes on Israel and Ukraine this week
Russia steps up offense in East Ukraine as forces look to take key town by May 9, Ukraine says
Biden expands supposed temporary amnesty to 1.2 million foreign nationals
Drowsy Donald falls asleep in courtroom …
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For Elon Musk: Do you believe global warming is an existential threat to humanity?
Afterward: Difficult answer due to Tesla.
STAND UP TO HYPE!
Generative AI is a parlor game played by high-tech shysters on internet rubes. — Fletcher
STAND UP TO SHYSTERS!
AI chatbots spread false information about the EU elections, report finds
Apple CEO Tim Cook visits Viet Nam — one of the iPhone giant’s most important manufacturing hubs
Israel: 99% of Iran’s attack was shot down
World holds breath … Israel vows revenge … USA warns …
U.S. warns Iran, calls on Security Council to condemn attack on Israel
Israel vows to ‘extract a price’ after Iran’s attack.
Shareholders approve nearly $15 billion acquisition of U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel
Russia deploys supersonic missiles …
India’s Modi vows to increase social spending, make country into manufacturing hub
Biden administration agrees to provide $6.4 billion to Samsung for making computer chips in Texas
How Trump is looking to win Pennsylvania
Trump’s first criminal trial is historic and solemn moment for America
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I’m at 6s and 7s … why do so many meatheads want to “fundamentally change” America? It seems that we have been doing pretty well since our founding … with a few exceptions, mostly already remedied … and have molded the United States into an economical, military, technological and moral powerhouse … an example of the purchase of free-market capitalism’s superiority.
So, you dolts ,who think that we need a new formula, must not like America very much … and letting people who don’t love America run America makes no sense whatsoever.
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
Suspected terrorist stabs, kills seven at Sydney shopping mall … wounding many others … causing Australia to ban all knives sharper than a butter knife.
STAND UP TO TYRANNY!
Suspected terrorist stabs, kills seven at Sydney shopping mall … wounding many others … causing Australia to ban all knives sharper than a...