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A Delaware judge rejected Fox News' request to throw out Dominion Voting Systems' defamation lawsuit against the conservative media giant on Thursday. https://t.co/nxVZjJRFwM
Many defamation claims don’t survive this phase. Not looking good for FOX, and Dominion has vowed no interest in settling.
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back in 2018 after the midterm elections, SNL parodied faux’s reaction – almost like a rehearsal for their real thing 2 years later.
Fox News’ Laura Ingraham (Kate McKinnon) talks to Judge Jeanine Pirro (Cecily Strong), Mark Zuckerberg (Alex Moffat) and Marcia Fudge (Leslie Jones) about voter fraud and election interference.
perhaps dominion by not settling is also thinking of what happened last year in one of faux’s many previous settlements. bet the wily beast tries it again for the upcoming election. here’s the story published this last january:
On Oct. 12, 2020, Fox News agreed to pay millions of dollars to the family of a murdered Democratic National Committee staff member, implicitly acknowledging what saner minds knew long ago: that the network had repeatedly hyped a false claim that the young staff member, Seth Rich, was involved in leaking D.N.C. emails during the 2016 presidential campaign. (Russian intelligence officers, in fact, had hacked and leaked the emails.)
Fox’s decision to settle with the Rich family came just before its marquee hosts, Lou Dobbs and Sean Hannity, were set to be questioned under oath in the case, a potentially embarrassing moment. And Fox paid so much that the network didn’t have to apologize for the May 2017 story on FoxNews.com.
But there was one curious provision that Fox insisted on: The settlement had to be kept secret for a month — until after the Nov. 3 election. The exhausted plaintiffs agreed.
Why did Fox care about keeping the Rich settlement secret for the final month of the Trump re-election campaign? Why was it important to the company, which calls itself a news organization, that one of the biggest lies of the Trump era remain unresolved for that period? Was Fox afraid that admitting it was wrong would incite the president’s wrath? Did network executives fear backlash from their increasingly radicalized audience, which has been gravitating to other conservative outlets?
Fox News and its lawyer, Joe Terry, declined to answer that question when I asked last week. And two people close to the case, who shared details of the settlement with me, were puzzled by that provision, too.
The unusual arrangement underscores how deeply entwined Fox has become in the Trump camp’s disinformation efforts and the dangerous paranoia they set off, culminating in the fatal attack on the Capitol 11 days ago. The network parroted lies from Trump and his more sinister allies for years, ultimately amplifying the president’s enormous deceptions about the election’s outcome, further radicalizing many of Mr. Trump’s supporters.
The man arrested after rampaging through the Capitol with zip-tie handcuffs had proudly posted to Facebook a photograph with his shotgun and Fox Business on a giant screen in the background. The woman fatally shot as she pushed her way inside the House chamber had engaged Fox contributors dozens of times on Twitter, NPR reported.
High profile Fox voices, with occasional exceptions, not only fed the baseless belief that the election had been stolen, but they helped frame Jan. 6 as a decisive day of reckoning, when their audience’s dreams of overturning the election could be realized. And the network’s role in fueling pro-Trump extremism is nothing new: Fox has long been the favorite channel of pro-Trump militants. The man who mailed pipe bombs to CNN in 2018 watched Fox News “religiously,” according to his lawyers’ sentencing memorandum, and believed Mr. Hannity’s claim that Democrats were “encouraging mob violence” against people like him.
And yet, as we in the media reckon with our role in the present catastrophe, Fox often gets left out of the story. You can see why. Dog bites man is never news. Fox’s vitriol and distortions are simply viewed as part of the landscape now ….
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Might ‘swell
Will Faux pay a price large enough to make it change in any way? I’m skeptical.
something for the old gopers who so laud the patriots of yore and deplore what is called “war on christmas” being foist upon all us god-fearing RED blooded ‘muricuns, this from historyofmassachusettsorg:
When the puritans came to the New World, they brought with them their strict ways, their religious views and their distaste for Christmas.
Although Christmas was widely celebrated in Europe as a Christian holiday marking the birth of Jesus Christ, puritans saw it as a false holiday with stronger ties to paganism than Christianity, and they were correct, according to the book The Battle for Christmas:
“It was only in the fourth century that the Church officially decided to observe Christmas on December 25. And this date was chosen not for religious reasons but simply because it happened to mark the approximate arrival of the winter solstice, an event that was celebrated long before the advent of Christianity. The puritans were correct when they pointed out – and they pointed it out often – that Christmas was nothing but a pagan festival covered with a Christian veneer. The Reverend Increase Mather of Boston, for example, accurately observed in 1687 that the early Christians who first observed the Nativity on December 25 did not do so ‘thinking that Christ was born in that month, but because the Heathens Saturnalia was at that time kept in Rome, and they were willing to have those Pagan holidays metamorphosed into Christian ones.’”
As pious and reserved Christians, puritans also took a dislike to the drinking, dancing and gluttony associated with the holiday at the time. Christmas in Europe back then marked the end of a long year of hard work and coincided with the time of year when there was plenty of freshly fermented beer or wine and lots of freshly slaughtered meat that had to be consumed before it spoiled.
As a result, the Christmas season was often celebrated with rowdy behavior, binge eating and drinking, public drunkenness and aggressive begging (in the form of wassailing, which was the custom of going door to door singing carols in exchange for food or drink.
On some occasions the carolers would become rowdy and invade wealthy homes demanding food and drink and would vandalize the home if the owner refused.)
After the puritans left Europe, they decided to leave these holiday traditions behind. Instead of feasting and giving gifts, puritans commemorated Christmas by praying, reflecting on sin and working instead of resting.
The puritans even forced non-puritan colonists, such as the Anglicans, to work on Christmas day.
[…]
The ban remained in place for 22 years until it was repealed in 1681 after a new surge of European immigrants brought a demand for the holiday.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/15/politics/biden-james-comer-kentucky/index.html
“Kentucky’s entire congressional delegation, which has only one Democrat, was invited to travel with the President, according to the White House.“
“A single Kentucky Republican travels with Biden to survey tornado and storm damage”
Republicans are serving some weak, damned tea.
Do you suppose Mark Meadows is banking on Orange Adolf getting elected in 2024, so that he can get a pardon? Is that why he’s not doing himself any favors? He’s waiting for a big favor down the road?
Pogo, isn’t the biggest threat to FOX that this ruling opens discovery floodgates? Tucker et al under oath would be sweet
Ex-Fox News Pundit Says ‘Screw It’ And Pens Scathing Essay About Network
Jonah Goldberg, one of two conservative commentators who resigned from Fox News last month in protest of prime-time personality Tucker Carlson’s “dangerous” rhetoric, published a scathing critique of his former employer on Thursday.
In an essay for The Dispatch, Goldberg said he’d shown “a good deal of restraint” by not commenting on the network since his departure with fellow pundit Stephen Hayes.
According to emails obtained by the panel, former White House coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx described it as “a fringe group.”
“I can’t be part of this with these people who believe in herd immunity,” Birx wrote in an email to then-Chief of Staff to the Vice President Marc Short. “These are people who believe that all the curves are predetermined and mitigation is irrelevant — they are a fringe group without grounding in epidemics, public health or on the ground common sense experience. I am happy to go out of town or whatever gives the WH cover,” she wrote.
Other details released by the panel Friday showed the Trump White House intentionally “softened” the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s public health guidance for faith communities.
So much for “Pro-Life”.
New documents show Kanye West’s doomed White House campaign—styled as an “independent” third-party effort—appears to have disguised potentially millions of dollars in services it received from a secretive network of Republican Party operatives, including advisers to the GOP elite and a managing partner at one of the top conservative political firms in the country.
Potentially even more alarming? The Kanye 2020 campaign committee did not even report paying some of these advisers, and used an odd abbreviation for another—moves which campaign finance experts say appear designed to mask the association between known GOP operatives and the campaign, and could constitute a violation of federal laws.
Poobah, open discovery is absolutely what likely worries Faux the most about this. Tucker under oath asking questions asked by someone a whole lot smarter than him – Laura would be fun too. She’s a lawyer or was one, and lawyers are widely known among lawyers to be the worst witnesses.
College Student Who Pinched Sign During Capitol Riot Weeps as She
After the riot, Courtright bragged online about her newfound fame. “Infamy is just as good as fame. Either way I end up more known,” she wrote in one post. In an Instagram message, she joked, “idk what treason is.” But she broke down so severely in court on Friday that she had to be seen by a nurse, HuffPost reported. “I have so much shame from this,” she told the judge. “I will never be the same girl again, this has changed me completely.” She claimed she just “followed the crowd” on Jan. 6 and hadn’t even voted in the 2020 election. Instead, she claimed she just wanted to hear former President Donald Trump speak.
BiD I think Meadows is banking on a Repub takeover of the house on 1/1/23, disband the committee and a letter from the Speaker to drop all the cases that come out of the 1/6 committee against folks like Meadows who decline to testify. And if that happens I expect Garland and his prosecutors who are handling those cases to give ol’ Kev a middle finger salute and remind him that DOJ is part of the executive branch.
“I am happy to go out of town or whatever gives the WH cover,” she wrote.
Giving the WH cover. Complicity.
wonkette has its usual take on the current faux scene. here’s a sample from
Fox News is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week, as CNN’s Brian Stelter pointed out in his newsletter.
It started with Chris Wallace noping out for CNN+, the network’s streaming service. After 18 years, the only Fox host with any real journalistic credibility announced on his Sunday show that he was abandoning Rupert Murdoch’s House That Fear Built.
“I want to try something new, to go beyond politics, to all the things I’m interested in,” Wallace said, announcing his decision. Translation: Fuck this shit, I’m out.
And if anyone needed clarity on the burning issue of “Is Fox a real news outlet?” — did you fall down go boom and hit your head? — on Monday Rep. Liz Cheney read out texts to Mark Meadows from the entire goon squad demanding that Trump call off the Capitol rioters on January 6. Because those maniacs attacking the seat of government and attempting to overturn a lawful election were Trump’s guys and also Fox’s guys, and they all knew it.
[…]
Hannity and Ingraham spent the rest of the week complaining about Cheney and doing that weird handoff thing where they pretend to be normal human beings who actually like each other and hang out in the break room. Hello, fellow colleagues!
During last night’s handoff, Hannity announced that he was leaving for vacation with Jesus, and the two of them would spend the rest of the year in holy communion discussing the midterms.
“On vacation, I try to center myself, find God, and then get my creative juices flowing, and I already know where I’m headed,” he vowed. “I know next year is the biggest most important midterm election year in our lives and I’m going to be focused like a laser beam.”
Sorry for making you think about Sean Hannity’s juices.
But the bad news wasn’t over for Fox, because Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis denied the network’s motion to dismiss a $1.7 billion defamation suit filed by Dominion Voting Systems. It was a really, really bad order for Fox, and not just because they lost this round. Judge Davis laid out the evidence in spectacularly damning fashion.
Here he is pointing to “actual malice,” i.e. the standard a public figure like Dominion would have to meet to establish that Fox defamed it.
Contrary to Fox’s contentions, the Complaint’s allegations are not conclusory. The Complaint supports the reasonable inference that Fox either (i) knew its statements about Dominion’s role in election fraud were false or (ii) had a high degree of awareness that the statements were false. ….
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pogo – That must be Roger Stone’s plan, too, although that dude just seems bat crap crazy.
LP’s latest
As i’ve said, before, Mr. S:
If dipshit represents Didius Julianus, that would mean Septimus Severus is en route 😬
Is it DuhSantis? Maybe. Guy has elite military training, a rolodex full of connections, and zero shame.
I hope, beyond all hopes, that none of you are into the 5G causes anything beyond expanded communication. BBC reports that morans are buying “anti-5G” crap, with possible very nasty results. The hardest thing to report is that I was asked about is could 5G cause COVID, or X or Y or you name it. Some of the deepest, reddist, far right freakin’ nuts, asked that question.
I thought the vaccine was supposed to link you to 5G tracking or something. Anyway, I got booster this afternoon, so here I am.
The Dominion cases show one thing , these folks are not about to “settle out of court” . If they do , they are toast. They have to go all the way with this, and let’s face it they are in the drivers seat now.
This reminds me of the Southern Poverty Law Center bankrupting the Klan .
One other thing about this , we’ve seen our fair share of bad judges in this country . But these fights the last 14 months have shown that their are some sane people sitting on the bench.
Palmer pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement officers with a dangerous weapon, and his original plea agreement called for a sentencing range of 46 to 57 months.
However, after pleading guilty, the prosecutors said Palmer attempted to lie in an online fundraiser and said he did “go on the defense and throw a fire extinguisher at the police” after being shot with rubber bullets and tear gas, per the Post.
The U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan agreed with the prosecution that his lie implied a failure to accept responsibility for his actions, and imposed a 63-month sentence, the report added.
5G is th’ bomb. I doubt it can cause harm to us humans (other than enabling FB and other stupid media sites to confuse the gullible) but I do hear it interferes with airplane altimeters, like the ones that tell how close to the runway passenger planes are, if the signal strength is high enough around airports. FAA and FCC better fucking figure THAT shit out.
Palmer told Chutkan in court on Friday he was “really, really ashamed of what I did” and that he would “never, ever, ever” go to a political rally again, according to the Huffington Post.
The DOJ said in October that Palmer was at “the front line of rioters confronting the officers.”
Funny how all these “True Americans” turn into whining jellyfish in a Federal Court room.
The Orlando Sentinel reported Thursday that former president Trump and former Fox News host O’Reilly’s event at the Amway Center sold 5,406 tickets, according to city records.
“The listed capacity for the event of 8,700 didn’t include vast swaths of the upper bowl covered with a tarp before the event started… despite tickets for those seats being listed as available all the way until Sunday morning,” the newspaper reported.
“People are stupid.”
That subject line, in an email Wednesday from Donald Trump, grabbed my attention more than other fundraising messages I get several times a day from the ever-grifting former president.
Stupid people, the email said, are those who don’t believe there was “massive Election Fraud” in 2020. To “solve” that fraud, Trump needed $45 from patriots like me “desperately.”
The man is desperate all right.
Listen to the mesmerising isolated vocals of The Beach Boys on ‘In My Room’
Dopes shoulda been more worried about lead pipes and asbestos floors instead of 5G, as they post about online with their handheld tracking device
“The government is tracking me, read about it on my blog”
That dome connector idea of mine would be a great thing to have right now in Kentucky . Very mobile , and cheap places to store and organize relief efforts. Out of the weather.
Boy do I hate being a tottering, hairless, toothless old man.
“HERE’s an AGRESSIVE (sic) STRATEGY: Why can t (sic) the states of GA NC PENN and other R controlled state houses declare this is BS (where conflicts and election not called that night) and just send their own electors to vote and have it go to the SCOTUS.”
Once we were citizens , now we are consumers
Once we had individual rights , now we have share holder rights
Once we were G.I.s , now we are warriors
Once we all had to serve , now we hire out to the poor
What ever is comin’ , we deserve it and right smartly
We have sold our souls for a handful of hot ashes
What it is to be human for a blinking bar on a screen
The really crazy thing is the MAGA folks and I have seen the same things
And neither of us knows what it means
If we think we we can solve it with bullets and mean
The only the we kill is all of our dreams
Low turnout at Orange Adolf rallies…yep, they don’t need him anymore. The zit that started with the Teabaggerz is now a nasty case of acne. It’s bigger than him. Of course, the infection has always been bubbling beneath the surface. All we ever do is drive it underground.
I wonder how Craig is feeling?
So far, I just have a headache (which is normal for me) and I can’t sleep.
That candle factory seems to be a perfect way for us to change .
To light a candle there . If not now , then when ?
I was pleased that Biden did not toss paper towels into a crowd this week.
Remember that FEMA law , we can’t build back better .
It would be a great thing if we built back smarter.
Now for something completely different –
Ice cores from Greenland show this in great detail , that is the mining of the Romans for silver and lead .
Discovering sources of Roman silver coinage from the Iberian Peninsula
The smelting of this ore gave off large amounts of lead which fell on the ice sheet. All of this was know before this work, which is about where the Romans were digging this ore up.
Members of Congress investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol believe that Rick Perry, former Texas governor and U.S. energy secretary, authored a text message encouraging the Trump administration to direct three GOP-led state legislatures to ignore 2020 election results and deliver their state’s electoral votes to Donald Trump, according to a report from CNN,which cited three sources familiar with the investigation but did not name them.
Time to bring on the RICO ACT , the GOP is a criminal gang.
American irony 101 ……………
Adams and Jefferson both died on the same day 50 years after signing the Declaration .
The first man to die building Hoover dam , lost his son as the last man building Hoover dam.
Liz Cheney is the only GOP member of congress with a set of balls.
‘This is a warning to all of you: We are in trouble,’ Kansas hospital leader says as COVID surges Jason Tidd
Topeka Capital-Journal
I am Pro Covid now , time to thin the herd , time to brush away old fools like me, but mainly time to kill off fools who never heard of “germ theory” , and Pasture .
Their shelf centered thinking has given every nurse in America PTSD .
Nice job . Fuck You, try getting into an ER now.
The only freedom you have up held is death .
To die while others try to save your sorry ass.
This bullshit about the next election , and who’s ahead may change fast.
We are clearly sailing near the edge of our world .
back in 2018 after the midterm elections, SNL parodied faux’s reaction – almost like a rehearsal for their real thing 2 years later.
Fox News’ Laura Ingraham (Kate McKinnon) talks to Judge Jeanine Pirro (Cecily Strong), Mark Zuckerberg (Alex Moffat) and Marcia Fudge (Leslie Jones) about voter fraud and election interference.
perhaps dominion by not settling is also thinking of what happened last year in one of faux’s many previous settlements. bet the wily beast tries it again for the upcoming election. here’s the story published this last january:
Fox Settled a Lawsuit Over Its Lies. But It Insisted on One Unusual Condition. – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Might ‘swell
Will Faux pay a price large enough to make it change in any way? I’m skeptical.
something for the old gopers who so laud the patriots of yore and deplore what is called “war on christmas” being foist upon all us god-fearing RED blooded ‘muricuns, this from historyofmassachusettsorg:
and here’s an updated discussion if you want to hear more about When Boston Banned Christmas | Harvard Divinity School (HDS)
December 16, 2021 at 6:59 pm
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/15/politics/biden-james-comer-kentucky/index.html
“Kentucky’s entire congressional delegation, which has only one Democrat, was invited to travel with the President, according to the White House.“
“A single Kentucky Republican travels with Biden to survey tornado and storm damage”
Republicans are serving some weak, damned tea.
Do you suppose Mark Meadows is banking on Orange Adolf getting elected in 2024, so that he can get a pardon? Is that why he’s not doing himself any favors? He’s waiting for a big favor down the road?
Pogo, isn’t the biggest threat to FOX that this ruling opens discovery floodgates? Tucker et al under oath would be sweet
Jonah Goldberg, one of two conservative commentators who resigned from Fox News last month in protest of prime-time personality Tucker Carlson’s “dangerous” rhetoric, published a scathing critique of his former employer on Thursday.
In an essay for The Dispatch, Goldberg said he’d shown “a good deal of restraint” by not commenting on the network since his departure with fellow pundit Stephen Hayes.
https://news.yahoo.com/ex-fox-news-pundit-says-105215532.html
Speaking of other good legal news , the Sackler Family ain’t gonna skate away from their opioid habit .
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/16/1065047471/judge-rejects-purdue-pharmas-opioid-settlement-that-would-protect-the-sackler-fa
I hope they take every nickle.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/586287-house-oversight-report-trump-administration-sought-to-undermine-covid
According to emails obtained by the panel, former White House coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx described it as “a fringe group.”
“I can’t be part of this with these people who believe in herd immunity,” Birx wrote in an email to then-Chief of Staff to the Vice President Marc Short. “These are people who believe that all the curves are predetermined and mitigation is irrelevant — they are a fringe group without grounding in epidemics, public health or on the ground common sense experience. I am happy to go out of town or whatever gives the WH cover,” she wrote.
Other details released by the panel Friday showed the Trump White House intentionally “softened” the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s public health guidance for faith communities.
So much for “Pro-Life”.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/kanye-wests-independent-campaign-was-secretly-run-by-gop-elites
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/17/1065134885/roger-stone-appears-before-jan-6-panel-and-pleads-the-fifth
Poobah, open discovery is absolutely what likely worries Faux the most about this. Tucker under oath asking questions asked by someone a whole lot smarter than him – Laura would be fun too. She’s a lawyer or was one, and lawyers are widely known among lawyers to be the worst witnesses.
After the riot, Courtright bragged online about her newfound fame. “Infamy is just as good as fame. Either way I end up more known,” she wrote in one post. In an Instagram message, she joked, “idk what treason is.” But she broke down so severely in court on Friday that she had to be seen by a nurse, HuffPost reported. “I have so much shame from this,” she told the judge. “I will never be the same girl again, this has changed me completely.” She claimed she just “followed the crowd” on Jan. 6 and hadn’t even voted in the 2020 election. Instead, she claimed she just wanted to hear former President Donald Trump speak.
Read it at HuffPost
BiD I think Meadows is banking on a Repub takeover of the house on 1/1/23, disband the committee and a letter from the Speaker to drop all the cases that come out of the 1/6 committee against folks like Meadows who decline to testify. And if that happens I expect Garland and his prosecutors who are handling those cases to give ol’ Kev a middle finger salute and remind him that DOJ is part of the executive branch.
“I am happy to go out of town or whatever gives the WH cover,” she wrote.
Giving the WH cover. Complicity.
wonkette has its usual take on the current faux scene. here’s a sample from
Fox News Hell Week Ends With Judicial D*ck Kicking – Wonkette
pogo – That must be Roger Stone’s plan, too, although that dude just seems bat crap crazy.
LP’s latest
As i’ve said, before, Mr. S:
If dipshit represents Didius Julianus, that would mean Septimus Severus is en route 😬
Is it DuhSantis? Maybe. Guy has elite military training, a rolodex full of connections, and zero shame.
I hope, beyond all hopes, that none of you are into the 5G causes anything beyond expanded communication. BBC reports that morans are buying “anti-5G” crap, with possible very nasty results. The hardest thing to report is that I was asked about is could 5G cause COVID, or X or Y or you name it. Some of the deepest, reddist, far right freakin’ nuts, asked that question.
I thought the vaccine was supposed to link you to 5G tracking or something. Anyway, I got booster this afternoon, so here I am.
The Dominion cases show one thing , these folks are not about to “settle out of court” . If they do , they are toast. They have to go all the way with this, and let’s face it they are in the drivers seat now.
This reminds me of the Southern Poverty Law Center bankrupting the Klan .
One other thing about this , we’ve seen our fair share of bad judges in this country . But these fights the last 14 months have shown that their are some sane people sitting on the bench.
Palmer pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement officers with a dangerous weapon, and his original plea agreement called for a sentencing range of 46 to 57 months.
However, after pleading guilty, the prosecutors said Palmer attempted to lie in an online fundraiser and said he did “go on the defense and throw a fire extinguisher at the police” after being shot with rubber bullets and tear gas, per the Post.
The U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan agreed with the prosecution that his lie implied a failure to accept responsibility for his actions, and imposed a 63-month sentence, the report added.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/586345-jan-6-rioter-dubbed-florida-flag-jacket-handed-longest-sentence
5G is th’ bomb. I doubt it can cause harm to us humans (other than enabling FB and other stupid media sites to confuse the gullible) but I do hear it interferes with airplane altimeters, like the ones that tell how close to the runway passenger planes are, if the signal strength is high enough around airports. FAA and FCC better fucking figure THAT shit out.
In a letter to Chutkan ahead of his sentencing, Palmer claimed that he recognized that “Trump supporters were lied to” by former President Trump and people acting on his behalf.
Palmer told Chutkan in court on Friday he was “really, really ashamed of what I did” and that he would “never, ever, ever” go to a political rally again, according to the Huffington Post.
The DOJ said in October that Palmer was at “the front line of rioters confronting the officers.”
Funny how all these “True Americans” turn into whining jellyfish in a Federal Court room.
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-2656055855/
https://news.yahoo.com/calmes-bigger-holes-keep-appearing-110017697.html
Listen to the mesmerising isolated vocals of The Beach Boys on ‘In My Room’
Dopes shoulda been more worried about lead pipes and asbestos floors instead of 5G, as they post about online with their handheld tracking device
“The government is tracking me, read about it on my blog”
That dome connector idea of mine would be a great thing to have right now in Kentucky . Very mobile , and cheap places to store and organize relief efforts. Out of the weather.
Boy do I hate being a tottering, hairless, toothless old man.
Little Big Man “Those Stars Twinkle In A Void”
What goes up must come down
More Cowbell –
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/17/politics/rick-perry-jan-6-text-mark-meadows-nov-4/index.html
Well, if it isn’t old “helmet hair” Rick.
“HERE’s an AGRESSIVE (sic) STRATEGY: Why can t (sic) the states of GA NC PENN and other R controlled state houses declare this is BS (where conflicts and election not called that night) and just send their own electors to vote and have it go to the SCOTUS.”
Once we were citizens , now we are consumers
Once we had individual rights , now we have share holder rights
Once we were G.I.s , now we are warriors
Once we all had to serve , now we hire out to the poor
What ever is comin’ , we deserve it and right smartly
We have sold our souls for a handful of hot ashes
What it is to be human for a blinking bar on a screen
The really crazy thing is the MAGA folks and I have seen the same things
And neither of us knows what it means
If we think we we can solve it with bullets and mean
The only the we kill is all of our dreams
Low turnout at Orange Adolf rallies…yep, they don’t need him anymore. The zit that started with the Teabaggerz is now a nasty case of acne. It’s bigger than him. Of course, the infection has always been bubbling beneath the surface. All we ever do is drive it underground.
I wonder how Craig is feeling?
So far, I just have a headache (which is normal for me) and I can’t sleep.
That candle factory seems to be a perfect way for us to change .
To light a candle there . If not now , then when ?
I was pleased that Biden did not toss paper towels into a crowd this week.
Remember that FEMA law , we can’t build back better .
It would be a great thing if we built back smarter.
Now for something completely different –
Ice cores from Greenland show this in great detail , that is the mining of the Romans for silver and lead .
Discovering sources of Roman silver coinage from the Iberian Peninsula
https://phys.org/news/2021-12-sources-roman-silver-coinage-iberian.html
The smelting of this ore gave off large amounts of lead which fell on the ice sheet. All of this was know before this work, which is about where the Romans were digging this ore up.
Time to bring on the RICO ACT , the GOP is a criminal gang.
American irony 101 ……………
Adams and Jefferson both died on the same day 50 years after signing the Declaration .
The first man to die building Hoover dam , lost his son as the last man building Hoover dam.
Liz Cheney is the only GOP member of congress with a set of balls.
‘This is a warning to all of you: We are in trouble,’ Kansas hospital leader says as COVID surges
Jason Tidd
Topeka Capital-Journal
https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/coronavirus/2021/12/17/covid-surges-kansas-hospitals-fill-up-beds-staff-limited/8932098002/
I am Pro Covid now , time to thin the herd , time to brush away old fools like me, but mainly time to kill off fools who never heard of “germ theory” , and Pasture .
Their shelf centered thinking has given every nurse in America PTSD .
Nice job . Fuck You, try getting into an ER now.
The only freedom you have up held is death .
To die while others try to save your sorry ass.
This bullshit about the next election , and who’s ahead may change fast.
We are clearly sailing near the edge of our world .
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