Trump shuts down Mar-a-Largo for the summer … every summer, and relocates to his golf club in Bedminster, NJ. Does anyone honestly believe he would leave secret documents, for three months, scattered (carefully placed?) on the rug there?
Seems suspicious to me Pilgrim. How about you?
STAND UP TO FRAME UPS!
I’ve made this point before — our spy agencies, both domestic and international, are staffed with clever people who have few compunctions keeping them from stretching legal and moral codes in order to protect our country. This seems necessary given the threats involved.
However, it is but a short hop from this intrigue to viewing political foes in the same light as our country’s actual enemies. And since these spooks have “six ways from Sunday” to neutralize foes ... it is not surprising that they cross the line into KGB-type behavior …unfortunately.
So, how do we have an effective set of spy agencies without the threat of them turning inward. In my opinion Pilgrim, it all depends on leadership … leadership that makes sure that politics are anathema in any form or substance. President Obama’s picks for these agencies … Comey, Brennen, Hayden and Clapper … were exactly the wrong choices under this stricture. And even Trump’s replacements … Wray and Hasper … were slightly better, but still creatures of the swamp.
I think he has learned his lesson.
STAND UP FOR TRUSTWORTHY SPOOKS!
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The Answer: Foxhole
The Question; Who was Chris Wallace before he jumped to the sinking ship CNN+?
STAND UP FOR FOX NEWS!
Europe’s path to hit Russia dwindle as countries split on visas ban
Elon Musk files another notice to terminate Twitter acquisition, citing additional reasons
Crooked DOJ says it already reviewed Trumps docs seized from Mar-a-Largo
Exclusive — Lee Smith says people I trust say FBI raid was search for Russiagate documents
Australia demands tech firms show they are stopping on-line child exploration
Kyiv says some Russian forces are retreating: ‘We will chase them to the border,’ Zelensky says
Biden taps Hunter Biden laptop denier for Presidential Intelligence Board
BBD: Only 39% of Biden voters say we’re in a recession
Biden headed for key midterm states for Labor Day
Steve Hanke says we’re going to have one ‘whopper’ of a recession in 2023
Joe Rogan tells audience to vote Republican after previously supporting Bernie Sanders
Hurricane season quietest in quarter century …
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
Do you ever get the feeling that Biden and his Dem posse create problems … like defund the police … only to rude to the rescue right before the next election? See: Washington Examiner story.
What is that called … clever politics? … no, Pilgrim … hypocrisy!
What next … close the Mexican border?
STAND UP FOR THE POLICE!
Pilgrim, use this Propublica PPP bailout Website to search for Planned Parenthood. It’s a real eye opener. Dems always have backdoor handouts to their friends.
Thanks for reader contribution from George.
STAND UP TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD!
I may be just a naive old fool … but I often feel that many politicians really don’t want to make things better! — Fletcher
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
Beto O’Rourke postpones events after being hospitalized
The rent crisis on Main Street just took a turn for the worse
Red state AGs plot legal strategy to overturn Biden’s massive student debt bailout
Biden recession: NBC may cut 33% of prime-time broadcasts to save money
Republicans poised for smaller gains in House, poll suggests
Biden administration to stop sending free at-home COVID-19 tests Friday
Congressional Budget Office: IRS is mostly increasing audits on the middle class
Gun control group asks credit card companies to flag gun purchases
Russia, Ukraine trade claims of nuclear plant attacks
UN nuclear inspection team headed for Zaporizhzzhia plant: Ukraine to face coldest winter in decades
VA Gov. Youngkin vows to stop ‘ridiculous’ state ban on gas-powered cars
New COvID boosters not even tested …
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
Attorney General Bill Barr under Trump was my hero when he correctly asserted that the FBI fad spied on The Donald and his campaign. However, after Comey was gone and it was evident that Russiagate was continuing … which evidence was boosted by the Inspector General Horowitz’s report … and Barr didn’t fire FBI Director Christopher Wray … or at least make him clean up the Bureau.
And then we see the obvious efforts by the FBI to keep Trump from being re-elected … including a refusal to investigate Hunter Biden’s laptop and obvious voter fraud indications … tells my simple mind that my erstwhile hero Barr was part and parcel of this conspiracy. — Fletcher
See also: FOX News story.
Afterward; Every day it become more evident what a swamp creature this turncoat really was.
STAND UP TO DUPLICITY!
Every so often Pilgrim we need to remind ourselves the lessons that Donald Trump taught us, some 76 million deplorable supporters, in his four short years as president:
- The importance for Europe to stop depending on Russia for energy
- How easily elections can be corrupted with mail-in ballots
- The Islamic State was easily destroyed with resolve
- The evident Biden family corruption
- A requirement to recast unfair trade agreements
- The perfidy in our intelligence agencies
- The need to preserve our strategic steel and aluminum industries
- A war on COVID … using treatments as well as vaccinations
- The importance of federalism instead of overweening government
- Middle-east peace is possible (Abraham Accords) and
- Islamic terrorists can be neutered with drones
Pilgrim, the DOJ and FBI leadership have not been trying for 7 years to annialate Trump because of his sandpaper personality … it is because he threatens their very existence … and the Democrats protect the Deep State because that’s who they are … and they allow the RINOs to win from time to time to keep up appearances … and most of the media support the Left because that’s who they are ... and many Americans support the media because that’s all they know … it’s all pure and simple. — Fletcher
Sorry for the run-on sentence Pilgrim.
STAND UP TO THE SWAMP!
U.S. sails warships through Taiwan Straits
NASA set to launch the Artemis 1 mission on its most powerful rocket
Washington and Massachusets follow California’s ban on gas-powered cars
Trudeau: ‘Climate change’ makes Canada easier for Russia to attack
Ukraine war ‘could last for years,’ German foreign minister says
Cash is king for EV makers as soaring battery prices drive up vehicle production costs
14 NYC hotels used for housing as migrants continue to pour in from Texas
Bill Barr: FBI did nothing wrong, ‘tired of’ Right’s continued outrage
A Putin critic fell from a building in Washington. Was it really suicide?
Judge plans to appoint a ‘special master’ to review documents in Trump records case
Biden DHS still knowingly releasing COVID-positive cases into the U.S.
Trump indictment watch …
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
Carbon dioxide represents 0.04% of our atmosphere … up from 0.03% before the Industrial Age began. The rest of the air we breathe is nitrogen, argon, oxygen, water molecules, CO2, etc. … and as indicated only 0.04% of these molecules would be carbon dioxide … which we add to when we exhale.
In order to visualize the mixture, imagine you have a football stadium of 50,000 fans representing these gasses. And scattered among these molecule hoards are 20 carbon dioxide molecules … up from 15 at the start of the Industrial Age.
So now you get the picture Pilgrim. Yet these 5 additional CO2 fans are causing all our problems! Seriously?
STAND UP FOR CO2!
President Biden said the other day that he had “no prior notice” of the FBI raid on Mar-a-Largo. I have continuously heard this reported … even on FOX News … as “no prior knowledge.” Pilgrim, you and I both know these two statements do not mean the same!
STAND UP FOR PRECISE REPORTING!
Crist to pick Miami teachers union head as his running mate
Powell warns of ‘some pain’ ahead as the Fed fights to bring down inflation
Mar-a-Largo affidavit reads as if they were confiscating Russiagate evidence
Democrat Warnock boasts of leading charge to cancel student debt
RNC fires national spokesperson
DOJ reveals redacted affidavit justifying Mar-a-Largo raid
FBI under fire again over Hunter Biden laptop coverup after admission by Mark Zuckerberg
Maher: College is ‘a scam’ where people don’t get educated
U.S. strikes deal to keep China stocks from being booted off exchanges
Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of shelling around Europe’s largest nuclear plant
Gubentorial race in deep-blue Oregon now a toss-up
Dow down 1,000!
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
Pilgrim, I know that climatology is a ragtag science, but to my simple mind, if our planet is getting hotter, wouldn’t that mean increased evaporation from our rivers, lakes and oceans … and thus more rain, not less … fewer droughts, not more? — Fletcher
(I’m sure there is a pretzel-logic explanation for this logical inconsistency.)
STAND UP FOR SIMPLE MINDS!
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Women’s reward for producing our children is that they generally live longer … and win all the arguments. — Fletcher
STAND UP FOR WOMEN!
Two plead guilty in trafficking Ashley Biden’s diary, property
Powell is not likely to tell investors what they want to hear in his Jackson Hole speech
Former Jeffery Epstein associate Steven Hoffenberg found dead
FBI forbid agents from probing Hunter’s laptop until after election
Arkansas can’t ban treatment of transgender kids, court says
UK energy bills to rise by 80% in October as regulator announces hike
Kamala Harris loses another top aide as exodus continues
Biden has pulse, approval at 44% … slams MAGA ‘semi-fascism’ …
U.S. strikes back at Iran-backed groups in Syria as skirmishes intensify
Zelensky says world narrowly avoided nuclear catastrophe; Putin to boost size of Russian military
Biden student loan amnesty specially benefits D.C. staffers
Google Maps labels clinics that provide [term-pregnency] services …
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
Don’t look now Pilgrim but there is a Battle Royale going on between competing truths … truths backed by science and those backed by pseudo-science … truths that have legions of believers and financial backing. Trouble is … differentiating between them.
Each captures the headlines daily. They infect social media and blogs like this one. They are asserted by pundents on cable television and podcasts. They are diametrically opposed … yet both seeem convincing. But can they both be correct?
Fortunately, not. Only one can prevail in each contest of ideas. And, if the truth does not out in the short term, things can be punishing. In the long run it always wins … or so they say.
The truth is most often dressed in overalls and a ratty tee shirt … not a tuxedo. It speaks in whispers and not with a megaphone. Secreted in the 23rd paragraph of a news item. Hidden behind the dumpster of a posh restaurant. Sometimes even uttered by one with orange hair.
And the truth is not always pretty.
So Pilgrim, do your homework. It’s very important.
STAND UP FOR THE TRUTH!
The DOJ has proffered a redacted version of the affidavit used to get the warrant to raid Trump’s Mar-a-Largo home. It is very key … we’ll likely learn more about what is in this document from what the DOJ execs leak to the New York Times than from this ersatz process.
STAND UP TO LEAKERS!
Biden’s recent extra-Constitutional diktat involving student debt forgiveness is true to the tenets of socialism … wealth redistribution. Only in this case it is as much as $600 billion from the working class to the professional class!!
Shhhh!
Yet, strangely enough, Bernie Sanders is not unhappy about this transfer …
Afterward: Will the receivers of this largess have to pay taxes on this debt forgiveness?
STAND UP FOR THE WEALTHY?
A Tesla EV is a painful and expensive boast that you are a made-member of Al Gore’s exclusive, but dead-ended cult of the pseudo-science. — Fletcher
STAND UP FOR DENYING!
Crist raises $1M in the first day as Democrat nominee
Sky-high rents hit aircraft market as Boeing jets top $300,000 a month
Trump calls for McConnell to be removed ‘immediently’ as GOP ‘pawn for the Democrats’
Joe Biden insists he had ‘zero’ prior notice of Mar-a-Largo raid
3 U.S. service members injured in Iran-backed rocket attacks in Syria
Amazon is shutting down its telehealth service, Amazoncare
Budget watchdog warns Biden’s student loan debt bailout could cost up to $600 billion
California to block sales of new gas cars … All electric in next decade …
Uvalde school board fires police chief after mass shooting
25 dead after Russian attack on Ukraine Independence Day; UK to send Ukraine new drones package
Ex-Obama economist rips Biden’s ‘reckless’ student loan bailout
[Republivan] Prospects narrow in House … Dem reluctance to campaign with Biden …
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
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Biden announces $2.98B Ukrainian security assistance package
Home prices fell for the first time in three years last month — and it was the biggest drop since 2011
Biden to announce $300 billion student loan forgiveness bailout
GA drops charges against cops who shot Rayshard Brooks
U.S. air strikes target militia-controlled area in East Syria
Ukraine celebrates its 31st year of independence; Kyiv on high alert as war hits six-month mark
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene swatted at her home in Georgia at 1 AM
Paul Pelosi pleads guilty to DUI, gets no additional jail time
Russia eyes Iran as sanctions-busting back door for oil sales
As layoffs loom, unemployment benefits look different from last year. Here’s what to know
DeSantis-backed candidates flip Florida school boards
False accusations of fraud cause mass resignations of poll workers
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
The default opinion of much of our main-stream media and many Americans is that our government is invariably in the right. This is exactly what our forefathers didn’t want and tried to construct a government that could not exact this upon its citizens.
STAND UP FOR OUR FOREFATHERS!
New York takes center stage in fight for control of the House
Euro trades at two-decade low against the dollar. And some think it could slide much further
Hallelujah: Dr. Fauci to step down in December
Report: Documents show Biden White House involved in Trump criminal probe
Newsome vetoes bill to allow supervised drug use in 3 California cities
State Department urges Americans to leave Ukraine; UN says the world is at a moment of ‘maximum danger’
Newspeak fail: 97% of executives say U.S. is in recession despite Biden’s attempt to redefine word
Sources: GSA packed documents Trump brought to Mar-a-Largo
Trump’s PAC will fund his Smithsonian portrait in an unusual move
Trump sues to block DOJ from receiving materials FBI seized at Mar-a-Largo until watchdog appointed
Truth Social sees 550% increase in downloads after Mar-a-Largo raid
NYT: Trump had more than 300 classified documents hidden in Florida …
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
Boat garages in Norway.
Apparently these fishermen are not too concerned with the impending sea level rising …
STAND UP TO NEIGHBORING GRETA!
‘We got rolled’: How the conservative grassroots lost the fight with Biden because it was focused on Trump
European gas prices surge as Russian pipeline maintenance stokes fears of a total shutdown
Biden admin pushes forward with plan to return billions in frozen funds to Afghanistan despite Taliban refusal to cooperate
NYT op-ed, Throw out the ‘broken Constitution’
Stelter on CNN: ‘I’m going to be rooting for this place for the rest of my life’
Elon Musk says Tesla will hike the price of premium driver assistance software by 25% in September
74% say country on wrong track under Biden
Ukraine kids play on captured Russian tanks …
Dennis Rodman plans to go to Russia for Brittney Griner
Citi projects UK inflation to breach 18% in January as energy prices skyrocket
Judge who rules on immigration cases arrested of alleged human smuggling of illegals
Putin circle on high alert after guru daughter blown up … Vlad behind bombing?
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
I can’t help myself … I’ve posted this before … a few years ago. But if you grew up with the Everly Brothers tight ear-balm harmonizing … sit back and savor their 1983 reunion concert at Royal Albert Hall in London. Since then, both have passed … so this is their legacy.
WAKE UP FOR LITTLE SUZY!
Many “green” world leaders declare war on fossil fuels … and then seem surprised when energy prices skyrocket. — Fletcher
What was that old response to such folly? … DUH!
STAND UP TO GREENIES!
When I was a Dartmouth freshman (in the late 1950’s) and lived in Wheeler Hall facing the Green. I greatly enjoyed, through an opened window, the fraternities rehearsing for “Hums” on the steps of Dartmouth Hall on those ever-warming spring evenings. And finally, during Green Key weekend, would come the full-blown Hums competition with every available member of each fraternity dressed in black shoes, black chinos and white shirts singing their hearts out just for the honor of winning this age-old competition.
And there were some spine-tingling performances as well-harmonized groups sang a capella many of the old-time pop classics, Dartmouth favorites, and an occasional new composition. As I remember it, the judging was based on percentage participation, song selection, group appearance, and quality of performance.
Then, when I was a member of a fraternity, I too became part of this tradition and savored it immensely. Even though I was most often a “sandbag” – someone who had to learn the songs but, because of poor vocal quality, was not allowed to actually sing – I had to just lip-sync the words. (This was a nod to the percentage participation judging factor.) I still recall most of the words to “All the Things You Are” (even though I never uttered a sound) which was one of the highlights of Sigma Nu’s 1959 performance led by Mike Melvoin, now dead but once a music industry poobah in Hollywood (also played piano at the wedding reception at my first wife’s home.) I’m not exactly clear why this beautiful custom has disappeared under the waves but this may be a clue.
Apparently, home-grown songs became the norm at Hums in the early 1980’s and eventually they became too raunchy to tolerate. So … another sweet tradition obsoleted itself due to lack of monitoring and attention to its original purpose.
STAND UP FOR TRADITIONS!
Trump’s throw-everything-against-the-wall response to the Mas-a-Largo search
Powell’s Jackson Hole speech comes with the Fed and market on different pages
Bidenvasion: Nearly 5 million illegals have entered U.S. since Biden took office
60% of Democrats favor Liz Cheney amid presidential ambitions
Daughter of Putin ally killed in car explosion
Zelensky warns of ‘particularly cruel Russian attacks’ as Ukraine prepares for Independence Day
Trump rips ‘broken down political hack’ McConnell
Drone strikes Moscow’s Black Sea fleet …
U.S. to announce $800M weapons package for Ukraine
How China’s strict COVID policies led to supply chain disruptions
Report: Russiagate binder confirms unreleased messages between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page
Japan mulls long-range missiles to counter China …
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
Homo sapiens have gotten so successful at species propagation that they have had to invent myriad ways to cut back on this accomplishment … not all of which are very pretty. — Fletcher
What really is the limit of our human population? I see lots of empty space. Perhaps we are constrained by the rationality of our collective leadership?
(Malthus thought it was 1.5 billion. We are now at 8 billion!)
STAND UP FOR HUMANITY!
Baron Trump, Donald Trump’s youngest son is six feet, seven inches tall. STAND UP FOR A LONG DRINK OF WATER!
