Licking His Chops

Although he will never be caught showing it on camera, Barack Hussein Obama is gleefully licking his clops over what is happening on college campuses across the nation … can we call it “fundamental change?”

Afterward: Obama, a Columbia graduate, has still not criticized what is happening at his alma mater.

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Contempt

Former President Trump has just been held in nine counts of Contempt of Court … costing him $9,000.  Should the court also not be held in contempt of Trump?

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Today’s Poser

Pilgrim, does it say something to you … like it does to me … that it took unto our 46th president … for the issue of presidential immunity to reach the Supreme Court? This must mean that other mantle transfers were quite a bit more civil than Biden’s?

It might also be that this is because Biden’s DOJ is the first to charge … directly or indirectly … its precursor president with 88 imagined crimes?

How nice …

Afterward: Depending on where SCOTUS might draw the line on immunity may decide if Biden himself wears orange.

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Headlines

 

Ukraines’s army chief reports tactical retreat in east

Tesla jumps 8% in premarket trade after passing key hurdle to roll out full self-driving in China

Biden tries to downplay age issue at White House Correspondents Dinner

Tornadoes kill 4 in Oklahoma …

Congress is killing Biden’s cancer moonshot

Japanese yen strengthens sharply after hitting 160 against the dollar for the first time since 1990

Pro-Hamas protesters seek amnesty

Desperate Don meets Ron seeking donor connections …

Biden keeps up pressure on Netanyahu as possible Rafah invasion looms

Ukraine pulls back in east as frontline situation worsens; Kyiv desperate for US weapons supplies

Philadelphia-based Republic First Bank collapses in first bank failure of 2024

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More Cute Animals

From Woodsterman blog

No! not a fish dog … you’re a BIRD dog …

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Interesting Factoid

Columbia University received over $1 billion in federal funding in 2023.

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Biden’s Routine

 

What would Biden do if he wasn’t president?

Watch “Hazel,” eat ice cream and sniff little girls.

Actually, that’s pretty much what he does as our prexy, except now and then he takes a pill and reads from a large Teleprompter.

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Obvious Truth

The Democrat party under Biden is the closest thing to a “full employment guarantee for federal judges.”

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Headlines

 

Court testimony indicates Jim Biden was in business with ‘members of the Qatari government’

Digital ad market is finally on the mend, bouncing back from the ‘dark days’ of 2022

Revealed: Soros-backed DA George Gascon illegally dropped charges against CEO of China-linked election software firm

Another severe tornado outbreak from Texas to Missouri …

Thousands of former Wagner fighters are now answering to Moscow

Trump trial second week concludes with testimony from former secretary and banker

Radical anti-Israel protests spread across America’s college campuses

Biden roasts ‘Sleepy Don’ … ‘My VP actually endorses me’ … ‘Stormy weather’ …

Top Qatari official urges Israel and Hamas to do more to reach cease-fire deal

Putin likely did not directly order Navalny’s killing, US intelligence agencies conclude

Maine plans to counteract Nebraska scheme to make state ‘winner-take-all’ Electoral College

Protesters storm White House Correspondences dinner …

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The Old Man

I was sleeping in my grandparents’ sewing room. It was a small room at the head of the stairs and beside their only bathroom. My grandmother had moved her old treadle Singer sewing machine away from the back window which overlooked her flower-laden back yard and installed a fold-out bed for me in its stead. My sister and mother shared the front bedroom as we had recently moved in with my mother’s parents. 

My mother had left my stepfather, Sarsfield (Sarge) Burns, after about three years of marriage. I, at the age of twelve, wasn’t entirely unhappy about this development despite my new cramped quarters. Sarge (I never called him Dad) was not a good father or even a mediocre stepfather. He adored my mother and older sister. But he treated me with total indifference other than to use me as a gofer and a grunt. This included lugging bushel baskets of dirt around to fill in holes in the front lawn and fetching his Corona-Corona cigars from the drugstore about a half mile away. No, I didn’t really miss my life with him.

My new bedroom had, to the right of the entry door, two large built-in closets containing my grandparents’ mothballed clothes. Above them were two smaller built-in storage cabinets holding, among many sewing notions, at least a dozen large tin containers of A&P black pepper. I was curious about this hoard until my grandmother told me that, during the war, black pepper was hard to come by. I assumed that she was referring to World War II. This room also had a side window which looked out onto the next-store house across a small dark walkway. It couldn’t have been more that ten feet to this modest home of the Trouts and I could see into its back bedroom like it was an ell of off my own little room. Since their house was shorter than my grandparents’, I looked into this room from behind and above at a slight angle.

My mother, my sister and I stayed with my grandparents for about six months and, throughout I had a clear view into the Trout’s lighted back bedroom. And for this entire period it seemed that nothing went on in this room other than an old man sitting on the edge of his sagging bed that had been pushed against the back wall. I assumed that this sad sack was the father of either Mr. or Mrs. Trout, but since I never saw him outside in their company, I could not be sure. He was a rather gaunt soul with a bit of a paunch, an angular face, and usually, a stubble of whiskers. He sat on the edge of this bed, generally in his gray wool pants, suspenders down, and an old-fashioned armless undershirt, staring at the wall. That’s all I really ever saw him do there -- stare, with a haunting hollow gaze, at that floral wallpaper on the opposite wall. Actually, this is not quite true. He did from time to time hack up some phlegm and spit it a dirty old rag that he held on his knee. Then he went diligently back to his task of trying to stare the budding flowers into bloom ... or the perched birds into flight.

This scene repeated itself over and over -- early morning, late night, or even if I was in my room in the afternoon. He just sat there, staring ... hardly ever moving. Often I would force myself to stay awake late into the night to see something happen. But it never did. A few times I did see him go out of the room presumably to the bathroom, but that seemed the range of his physical activity. He sat there staring ... staring until I thought that he must be mad. Of course, there was no way to know what he was thinking, but I would imagine that he was reliving his life in the foreground of that wallpaper ... dancing, going to war, getting married, playing baseball, harvesting wheat, whatever. He just sat and stared until my grandma’s backyard garden had faded and we had moved away.

And so, while still quite young, I had learned a serious lot about getting old.

Originally published in my Purple Prose blog in 2020.

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Interesting Factoid

The cost of attending college has inflated over four times faster than the rate of base-line inflation in our economy since 1980.

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Powerline Piic

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Woodsterman Pic

Funded by George Soros …

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Headlines

 

New Mexico governor criticizes Homeland Security secretary over cannabis seizures in secret recording

All the data so far shows inflation isn’t going away, and is making things tough on the Fed 

Knives out: Report exposes failed White House plot to oust Karine Jean-Pierre

Catastrophic destruction in wake of massive tornadoes in Nebraska, Iowa …

Judge sentences Jan 6 ‘chaos agent’ to 6 years in jail

Federal regulator finds Tesla’s Autopilot has ‘critical safety gap’ linked to hundreds of collisions

Majority support Trump’s mass deportation policy amid Biden border crisis

Biden taunts ‘loser’ Trump … Joe does Howard Stern …

Israel rebukes U.S. calls for investigation into mass graves in Gaza

Intel used to dominate the U.S. chip industry. Now it’s struggling to stay relevant.

Trump advisers considering plans to revamp the Federal Reserve

Regulators set to seize Philly bank Republic First …

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Babylon Wasp

 

California Rep. Adam Schiff had his car broken into while parked in San Francisco … and his suitcase was stolen with all his changes of clothes  Police quickly tracked down the culprit when he tried to sell these clothes on the internet including three large shirts with a size 12 collar.

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Mysticism

Pilgrim, something struck me this morning — how mysticism …. religious or otherwise … seems to be involved in most major social changes and changers … Mao, Gandhi, Moses, Hitler, Lenin, Christ, the Masons … even Obama, Ronald Reagan and Trump had or have a smattering of mysticism. 

Why is this? Well as best I can decipher, those who believe that they are somehow predestined to “fundamentally change” things … are the most likely actually to do so. This confidence in their destiny keeps them going when others would quit the game.

But, Pilgrim, also notice that there are very many mystics who never achieve what they view as their destiny … and trend up in the recycling bin of the enigmatic.

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Apt Analogy

(Found on Diogenes’ Middle Finger blog)

Me amid Massachusetts lefties  ….

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Headlines

 

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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Have You Noticed?

 

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Many old people don’t look old anymore!

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Mostly Cajun Pic

 

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Quotable Quote

Advice to God when designing humans: “Don’t put the reproductive organs too close to the excretory organs.” — Woody Allen 

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Headlines

 

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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Today’s Poser

 

The MAGA crowd

In what world would Biden and Mayorkas actually implement any border security package that the MAGA Republicans might have succeed in getting passed in the recent spate of foreign-aid bills in the House … have they learned nothing over the last 3 1/2 years?

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Democrat Party

Today’s Democrat party is populated primarily with Socialists, anti-semites and useful idiots.

Afterward: And greenie weenies …

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Sad but True

A few of the worst antisemites are Jewish.

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Headlines

 

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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Violating the Hatch Act

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.

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Echo Chant

 

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 …

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Headlines

 

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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Big Brother

 

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!”

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Uncle Bosey

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.

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Headlines

 

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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Earth Day

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.

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More Cute Animals

From daily timewaster blog

Gotta be a female …

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Interesting Irony

 

Pack of pampered pukes

The Left calls Donald Trump Hitler while chanting “We are Hamas!”

Afterward: I looked hard but could find no MAGA caps among these radicals …

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Fractured Definition

Mandate, singular noun — In a normal world, a woman.

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Headlines

 

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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Barr’s Backhanded Endorsement

Pilgrim, did you see Bill Barr’s endorsement for president?

Donald Trump … yes, DJT!! See above …

He was like cool … but an endorsement nonetheless.

Said he liked his policies … but didn’t like his contesting the election. Come on … over the last three years, has been revealed multiple instances where Barr’s direct reports engaged in duplicitous insubordination to this man he now supports … kinda.

Barr’s endorsement shows some fast footwork … but he didn’t actually hold his nose.

Perhaps another book?

Afterward: Can I assume former-AG Barr does not deem Trump guilty of inciting an insurrection?

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Climate Change

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.

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Feral Irishman Pic

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Headlines

 

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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Apt Analogy

 

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.

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Apt Analogy

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.

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Powerline Pic

 

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Mostly Cajun Pic

 

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The Biden Touch

 

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.

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Headlines

 

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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Wednesday Break?

 

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!

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Somewhat Obvioues Truth

 

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?

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