Why has DOJ taken so long to charge Mark Meadows with contempt of Congress? Could they be thinking about something bigger?
In other words why bother with misdemeanor contempt if a felony conspiracy charge is possible?
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like the tango, to charge conspiracy takes two (or more)
wiki:
Barbara McQuade, “One reason they may have refrained from charging Mark Meadows with contempt is because they’re thinking of him not as a witness but as a defendant. It could very well be that they’re looking at him as a bigger fish.”
patd – that cartoon is why political cartoonists are needed in this world.
BB, yep. in this short span concentration world, they’re sorely needed to get serious points across in the shortest way possible.
about those mother truckers
Neo-Nazis and QAnon: how Canadian truckers’ anti-vaccine protest was steered by extremists | Canada | The Guardian
We’ve got gubernatorial candidates in Texas who propose secession from Joe Biden’s America. Loons.
more on them and their friends in the usa:
Ottawa protesters turn to Christian crowdfunding site after GoFundMe snub | Canada | The Guardian
Well all righty then.
milbank’s op ed today is a worthy read. here’re just some excerpts
Opinion | The RNC is calling Jan. 6 ‘legitimate political discourse.’ So what isn’t? – The Washington Post
WV Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is not a beacon in the legal world, even in WV.
Of one thing you may be sure
America is chock full of loons.
What Mertle has wrought in the Court.
Voting rights to ensure that minority votes are not diluted through partisan gerrymandering are now dying a quick death.
Mertle has over wrought.
just whose freedom are they protesting for?
Protesters in Canada block Ambassador Bridge (freep.com)
‘Freedom’ protest closes bridge from Detroit to Canada | TheHill
as to fearless leader’s thread topic and what’s next for meadows and the conspiracy tango
randy needs to add mark to his sequel of “cell block tango.” here’s part one produced back in 2019
Book of the Day:
King Rat, by James Clavell
Remember the end of King Rat? I think same kind of thing is coming up for a lot of folks…….
Well the great Ford of July, the wonder truck, is headed for the Automobile Graveyard. Old Whitey Ford.’96 He done real good and peacefully died in his own garage from natural causes.
Yeah, he was one of those guys you could actually look under the hood and get an idea about something or other you might want to fool with, instead of its looking like you were staring into the guts of a great big computer.
It just dawned on me that this is the last time I’ll ever see anything like that under a hood.
Losing another set of glacier brakes ………….
Larsen B Embayment Breaks Up
The breakup is the latest in a series of notable events in the Larsen B embayment over the past 20 years. Prior to 2002, glacial ice on the Antarctic Peninsula flowed toward the sea and fed into a vast floating ice shelf known as Larsen B. The shelf helped buttress inland tributary glaciers, pushing back against them and slowing their seaward flow. But in early 2002, the shelf abruptly fractured. With 3,250 square kilometers (1,250 square miles) of ice suddenly gone, glaciers thinned and flowed more quickly into the open water.
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/149410/larsen-b-embayment-breaks-up
Comes with one of those nifty sliders, before and after.
Adios Whitey .
RIP ‘96 F150, in the sky hauling next to my ‘91 😭
From what i’ve been reading, it sure seems like the Chinese government is essentially torturing athletes for their power and prestige, and your entertainment, so maybe don’t watch?
Stop the Steal’ Organizer Scored Big Payout at Curious Time
https://www.thedailybeast.com/stop-the-steal-organizer-ali-alexander-scored-big-payout-at-curious-time
Whole Lotta Griftin’ Goin’ On
Just so.
The Ghost Haulers in the Sky.
Something stinks around this whole Canadian trucker thing.
Like it’s a dress rehearsal for something else on the way.
Strug –
Given the price of used cars now , he should bring a good price .
You guys have Wrench-A-Part ?
dress rehearsal for new play based on an updated version of the book “it could happen here.”
a few well-placed semis cloggin up the nation’s air and sea ports and major city squares would do it.
The next big bug , and it’s coming, is really going to thin the herd. Given this foundation of foolishness we have around us now.
Patd –
Bingo !
Talk about “Cancel Culture”.
But to what end ? Who does this serve ?
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/08/malicious-poison-ron-johnson-antisemitism-envoy-jan6-00006702
haha
Rep. Troy Nehls is on twitter crying about the capitol police intelligene investigating his office without his knowledge or permission etc etc whine whine whine…….finally Keith Olberrman tweets him……”You’re a suspect in a crime, moron.”
food to feed future ford trucks
the hill:
Deborah Lipstadt, the Emory University professor
Has more guts and brains than Ron Johnson , who rates near the amoeba family in both categories.
Bring back Keith Olberrman, and Craig Crawford.
Huh? Didn’t entire Tennessee congressional delegation vote against the bill? Why reward them? @WhiteHouse Tweeted:
Today, @POTUS and Tritium will announce a new Electric Vehicle charger manufacturing facility in Tennessee.
https://t.co/cTQ0UopVkf
Canadian Truckers may be done with this virus, but it ain’t done with us.
It’s in white tail deer in New York state. etc. etc.
This info makes me think that it did indeed jump out of bats into humans.
This ability to move from mammal to mammal is not good. Not good at all.
Craig –
At least it ain’t goin’ to Kentucky.
Craig –
How far is that new plant from the Fed-Ex hub ?
More scientific voo-doo.
cbob, big battery factories are in the works for KY according to announcements this past september
Ford to build three electric-vehicle battery factories and an auto assembly plant | PBS NewsHour
Beshear: Kentucky to Become Electric Vehicle Leader | Manufacturing.net
…because Biden isn’t a vindictive prick like dipshit and his cult
Along with all that has fallin’ in the Party of Lincoln there is this insane need to eat each other …..
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-republican-knives-are-out-for-south-dakota-gov-kristi-noem
RNC defends cop killers. McCarthy and GOP voted against $350m in new police funding, refused to honor Jan 6 heroes, and supports Trump who pledges to pardon cop killers.
Sickening to give Marsha Blackburn bragging rights for something she nastily voted against.. https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/2021/8/blackburn-s-statement-on-infrastructure-legislation
Time to que the old Jefferson Airplane –
I’m doing things that haven’t got a name yet.
…too early for music, chokes-out the discussion
i dig it after dinner-time though, just sayin’
A parliament of pimps and whores .
Blink –
I was going for that line ……
Doing things etc. etc., but you are correct.
Youtube got wise about the wordpress embed-workarounds on mobile devices for its adverts and background-playing, which is why i stopped posting music, on here, because i can’t do anything else on my phone without the embedded music stopping
…was fun while it lasted😭
I think under all this hurricane of madness , is that people sense this entire world we have made for ourselves is at an end.
By that I mean , buy more , buy more now.
There is a terrible unease that the balloon is about to pop.
When there was no toilet paper on the shelves in March 2020.
I wish I had a dime for every mile I drove hauling toilet paper into Vegas from Lewiston .
Back then , every 3rd semi on the big road was hauling kitty litter out of one mine in Wyoming , paper towels , and toilet paper.
i figure Putin wants to invade after the Olympics end, but his hand gets weaker by the day as NATO allies use that time to plan and prepare. He needs to be given an opportunity save face if war is to be averted- not an easy prospect for the firm-hand crowd, maybe like KY infrastructure funding, but better than the alternative
Bink –
I have no idea what that means.
Jack does.
ok✌️
I’m not Jack.
I’m the Orginal Colorado Bob , I picked my teeth with blasting caps, and slammed steel on Crazy Woman Creek with a Failine 1250 Holemaster. And charmed the Mormon girls .
My unvaxxed coworker was on a zoom with another coworker in Canada. Oh, the whining about how the unvaccinated are just getting blamed for everything and their rights are getting trampled on, but they aren’t even allowed to protest anymore. It seems that the jackassery spans the northern border.
WASHINGTON — A Jan. 6 rioter who stormed the Capitol while he was out on bail on an attempted first-degree murder charge was arrested by the FBI on Tuesday, more than 10 months after he was first identified by online sleuths.
Matthew Jason Beddingfield, of North Carolina, faces felony charges of assaulting officers, impeding officers during a civil disorder and carrying a deadly or dangerous weapon on restricted Capitol grounds, as well as several misdemeanors, according to court records.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/fbi-arrests-trump-fan-stormed-capitol-bail-attempted-murder-rcna15169
So much for that “civil discourse” thing.
What happened to the party of law and order? What happened to hacking the blue? GOP BS
I don’t dismiss the issues being raised about the conditions in Beijing, but complaints about bad conditions in Olympic Villages are nothing new. Most of the current complaints about Beijing I’ve read about are either about the Covid-19 quarantine hotels and lack of clear information regarding them, the weather or the food. If you’re reading the NY Post article, it’s the NY Post. One thing I noticed about coverage from NPR and The Hill is that the bulk of the problems are related to the Covid quarantine hotels and weather, and the complaints are not coming from American athletes, which I find odd. Regardless, I’m watching alpine skiing events and the bobsled/luge/skeleton events. The other stuff, not really interested.
OM – I saw, somewhere this morning, that the Canadian convoy was not liked by Canadians. And, the organizers were the same anti-American group that was behind the idiocy here for the last five years. And (I know shame on me for stacking) they are working on organizing a truckers convoy to D.C. Considering how touchy many are around here after the insurrection attempt I would not want to be in that convoy and bust across the Mall. Some of those police and national guard have real bullets in their pea shooters.
Blue –
It’s Whiney Party , the me, me, me, party.
The no solutions party it’s not a parliament of pimps and whores, it’s parliament of cry babies with AR-15’s .
The cry babies will run on CRIME !
Check out my home town the ruby red of Texas , Lubbock .
Look at our murder rate, it’s floating on a sea of guns.
Law and order to goopers is letting cops shoot black folks and beat up hippies protesting for peace, love, civil rights and the environment.
So that Beddingfield fellow probably wishes he’d thought twice about showing his face on 1/6. Hope his trial is a long way off and he gets to cool it in jail for a bail bond violation while he waits for his attempted 1st degree murder trial to begin.
And Bob, nope, like the bottle wasn’t done with Gregg, Covid ain’t done with us yet. Wapo.
And as Sturg said, “America is chock full of loons.” … to say nothing of morons (or is that redundant?)
Time to come to Jesus –
Utah’s Shrinking Great Salt Lake Could Be Headed for Ecological Disaster
https://www.newsweek.com/utahs-shrinking-great-salt-lake-could-headed-ecological-disaster-1676065
This is that end of that buy more thing , which goes with our take more thing.
When this lake dies it will kill the state of Utah . There is some seriously nasty stuff in that lake bed. and it will blow into their cities.
Watch this one play out , they are just now waking up to their peril.
Our dreams are crashing into our limits .
A very Un-American idea.
We have made a man walk again , and wait on our eyes to cool enough to see deep into the past . Our finger tips are touching the future.
There is so much we have to hope –
Nite all –
So much for deep thinking –
That is George Washington with Marline Monroe in a Lincoln .
Clips talk even when we don’t click. The art that Airplane album cover , priceless.
lol, a family member just made the mistake of asking me, “Are you watching the Olympics?”
20 minutes, later, they were like “it was a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ question”
Ordinarily I don’t miss it much but that help from my friends song struck a missing it nerve……
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/08/politics/january-6-capitol-attack-first-trial-witnesses-guy-reffitt/index.html
“Reffitt allegedly drove to Washington with guns in his car in the days before January 6, 2021, with another member of the Three Percenters militia. Prosecutors allege that Reffitt took a gun to the Capitol, where he engaged in a prolonged battle with police.”
“Afterward, prosecutors say, Reffitt returned to Texas and told his daughter and son that if they turned him in to authorities, they were traitors, and “traitors get shot.”
“Prosecutors elaborated on their plans to question Reffitt’s children about his mindset after the riot and to introduce recordings that Reffitt’s 18-year-old son secretly took of his father in the days after the riot.”
“Prosecutors plan to put Reffitt’s fellow Three Percenter on the stand to discuss the weapons and tactical gear Reffitt allgedly brought to DC as well as the conversations and plans the two had during the trip. He would also discuss Reffitt’s actions at the Capitol. The man, identified in court records only as “R.H.,” is the first person revealed to have immunity in the sprawling January 6 investigation.”
“Reffitt wore a camera strapped to his helmet during the riot, and prosecutors plan to play at least some of that video during the trial.”
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A loon is someone who storms the Capitol to overturn an election.
A moron is someone who films himself doing it.
Bink,
No problem with my laptop, can still play the whole list with no commercials and have it playing in the background
I rarely use my phone but have done some while traveling.
As to Russia/Ukraine, I’m of the mind that Putin was seeing how far he could push Biden. The longer he waits the more expensive an invasion gets. We just shipped them a bunch of Javelin antitank missiles. Kinda curious who is doing the training on them. I suspect CIA contactors.
Jack
…point and click, not complicated
Hi, btw🤝
i laugh at people mocking Russia’s military might and entreat them to go lay in front of one of those 200+ tanks that look plenty operational to my untrained eye
400+?
600+??
2-5 miles interior to the Ukrainian border, and with the sovereign Ukrainian government’s permission, we could preemptively carpet-bomb a ditch that would potentially neutralize the advantage of Russia’s tanks, just spitballin’
We would be bombing an ally with their permission, not an adversary, how elegant🤓
They are admitting to sending 300.
Here is a video about the Javelin. From the Task and Purpose military news site.
Jack
lol @ the ‘Javelin mullet’: “a little bit of ‘tactical unit’ the front, a little bit of ‘war crime’ in the back”😆
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