You can bet your ass that when you hear an NGO has been set up with a name like “The Election Integrity Project” that the actual aim and effort of the actual group is to do the exact opposite. It is to skew the election in one direction as its sole aim and focus, and to meddle and become involved to an extent that is criminal.
The Left has become masterful at this. Creating a “Lincoln Project”, invoking the name of one of our most sacredly held Presidents, and creating a non-profit that sounds as if it has noble intent, only to find out that this is a group of DC insiders benefitting from the current bloat and corruption of Washington and who wish to maintain the status quo that is making them rich beyond measure. They will say anything and do anything to prevent a Trump from disrupting business in Washington, DC.
When you hear about a group created by DC insiders to do anything with a noble name title, immediately assume these are the worst partisan activists possible, and they are working overtime to subvert the law of the land. Absolutely. Full stop.
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We need new laws for air travel and we need them now. There is a very good reason for airport meltdowns. And alcohol service nearby every gate isn’t helping.
Let’s take the way we board airplanes. The way we currently board airplanes makes absolutely no sense. We board wheelchairs first, the slowest part of the process. We board first class in the front of the plane which. should be last on. We board and reward frequently flyers whose seats are scattered all over the plane.
There is only one sensible way to board a plane. Last row first, then by the next row of seats, and on, and on until those in row one are last on board. Then wheelchairs.
This “zone” boarding is freaking ridiculous, rewarding those who over-spent for their tickets. You get onto the plane, stop for someone to load bags in the over-head. You walk five steps, stop for someone to load into the overhead, lather, rinse, repeat. Until finally you get to row 38. Having stopped eight times.
Back to front loading eliminates stops. Fuck first class, isn’t it enough they have a double-wide seat?
And that is the other law that we need immediately, stop shrinking the seats. This week I swear to God I got into an aisle seat with a guy in the middle seat that hung over each edge 8” or more.. I’ve only got 22” or so, now I’m down to 16” in the seat? Yeah I’m only 5 foot 6 inches. But Jesus, I was hanging so far out into the aisle the beverage cart almost took my should off, twice.
The seat shrinking has to stop.. And some sanity needs to come into the loading process. Take the process away from the airlines, they reward “spenders”. Look, it isn’t my fault you put a $ 237 round trip on Expedia. Everyone arrives in the same plane. The guy who paid $ $650 up in first class gets to get there more comfortably, but not any sooner. At least let me get to my seat in the back unencumbered by a fifteen minute walk down the aisle because you’ve decided to board haphazardly.
Planes could board and take off quicker, they’d make more money by having more flights. And who is in charge of all this? Peter Buttigieg. Does he look like he gives a flying F about travel meltdowns and the fact flying in an airplane anywhere has become Hell on earth?
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I really do hate myself. I tell myself I am principled. I tell myself that I try to live life according to the ideas that I believe in, and work toward being honest and forthright.
There I was cruising along, boycotting Gillette products since they went “Woke” in commercials and decided to define “masculinity” for us all, when I walked into CVS and was hit with a dilemma.
The usual Barbasol shaving cream was less expensive, but oh, no, Gillette shaving cream is just a dollar more, but a buy one, get one.
What does one do?
In this economy full of inflation I caved. I bought the less expensive Gillette option. Save two bucks plus an extra can.
Now every time I shave I have trouble looking at myself in the mirror. I see a guy who caved on his principles on the cheap. For another four months until the second can runs out, I’ll be reminded of what a sell-out I am each and every morning.
Damn inflation. It’s driving me to sell-out on the cheap.
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Need to get cataract surgery on the second eye. Close one eye right now, it’s all a blur. Night driving can be more of a challenge than it used to be.
Don’t get old kids. Stay young. Every month it feels like some other part goes bad. Problem is I feel like I’m running out of parts.
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I really, really, really do not understand the average golfer. They swoon and slobber over The Masters and just go insane. And this for a course and group of members who wouldn’t let them through the gates to play a round ever. Ever, ever.
I am actually attempting to be nice when I say that this Fred Ridley who is the current chairman, well, with all due respect hearing him interviewed the guy is an absolute horse’s ass. If that is an example of membership I’d never want to hang with anyone like him. The ultimate soft-spoken stuffed shirt. “The game” should never rest in the hands of men like him.
What is wrong with these people they almost cry over a place that would exclude them from ever being able to play there? Even if they hit the lottery for half-a-billion it wouldn't matter, their middle class humble beginnings would still keep them from entering the gates as a participant.
When people treat me like they don’t want me it doesn’t make me want to slobber over them and praise what they do, it makes me loathe them and want to bring them down out of their lofty lair.
Am I wrong about that? Because it seems the more exclusive Augusta becomes the more the fanboys slobber over the place. I don’t get it. At all.
To a man have they stopped to wonder, oh yeah, if he is chairman this Fred Ridley must be the “ultimate member” guy at that place. Uh, do I really wanna hang out with Fred and his style of friends?
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O.J. Simpson is gone. His trial should be studied in schools as so many aspects of that trial show problems we still deal with today. The tremendous difference in how the race of a jury can cause a preconceived bias that makes the actual guilt or innocence inconsequential. How a judge can be starstruck by the publicity and interest in the case and allow the proceedings to get out-of-control. And law schools should study how a prosecutorial team can be so incredibly incompetent.
A guilty man walked free the day of that verdict.
Blacks cheered, whites were aghast. Our divide had not been shown in such stark reality since the riots of the 1960’s which were beginning to seem as if from another lifetime. We were shocked back into the underlying reality of our tenuous relationship with people of a different race. Whites who thought that the “Great Society” had healed wounds were suddenly made well aware of the scars that still ran deep. And black Americans cheered what they saw as a rare instance of one of their own beating a racist system.
With DEI, CRT, and so many other racial measures being put into place today we can see our shock over the OJ trial wasn’t shared by POC. They still feel a great deal more has to be done in an America that at the time of the OJ trial so many white people had felt was behind us all.
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Matt Taibbi uncovered that Twitter was just over-run with Feds prior to Elon Musk buying it and renaming it X. And everyone shrugged.
So let’s get this straight, they created a platform for national discourse, an open platform for thought, discussion, dialogue, and communication, and our government agencies immediately stepped in and began to manipulate the process. Retarding speech they disagreed with, amplifying speech they agreed with, removing a President from the platform an in effect nullifying his political speech and candidacy, and in general censoring speech in this country ham-handedly. With a far Left political bent.
And everyone said “ho, hum” and turned to the sports pages.
At what point did our Federal bureaucracy become so large and unwieldy that the FBI, CIA, NSA and other agencies just naturally produced people that not only matriculated into positions of control at major speech platforms, but then demand fealty to the agencies with minute-by-minute monitoring and communication to disrupt the natural flow to diminish comment they found unacceptable, and to promote narratives they preferred?
And how is this possible in America.
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Speaking of which where is the “deep dive” into the Zuckerbucks political machine that took over Wisconsin elections four years ago and working overtime to make sure the state went Blue?
It has been widely reported that Zuckerberg spent four hundred million dollars through a cut-out as they are known, or NGO, non-governmental agency, to actually take over the board of elections in Wisconsin and to work to ballot harvest, change voting habits and laws, to ensure that they could make sure the Democrats prevailed.
When we speak of “election fraud” the work of Zuckerbucks in Wisconsin is exhibit “A” writ large. We know of it, we don’t know what was it. And we need to know.
Once again the mainstream acts as if what happened was completely normal. It wasn’t. Otherwise Zuckerberg wouldn’t have had to put up four hundred million.
Our vote has been stolen from us. Completely. Yet we sit idly by watching the Masters and drinking inflation priced beer as if all is well.
We are all Kevin Bacon at the end of “Animal House”, yelling “all is well” amidst the chaos all around us. When everything around us is nothing even close to well.
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Haiti was in the news weeks back. A total shit-show. Now gone from the daily news. I’m beginning to believe that US meddling is the cause for all ills there, although the people don’t seem to be able to help themselves. Look it is all one island. They drew an imaginary line. One side, the DR is prosperous. The other side, Haiti is a shit show. Same island.
There has to be extenuating circumstances for the vast difference.
What are they?
And before we go getting involved and spending another penny, can someone with a history and knowledge get involved before we do anything?
Either we, the US, have raped all their natural resources leaving them bereft, or somehow they are just incapable of self-governance because of tribal factions.
Something is clearly amiss.
Yet I’d bet our state department is right there spending US dollars and meddling.
Before Florida gets over-run with Haitians could we get some sanity there?
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Just visited Houston again. Whoever has the concrete contract is making billions. The ribbons of highway go on forever. The place is one big sprawl. The highway to Galveston is lined with bodega, transmission shop, pawn store, taqueria, vape shop, and another taqueria. For miles and miles. If there is an upscale side to Houston I’ve yet to see it, and I’ve been to the Galleria area where I’m told George Bush lived. So far the best restaurant I’ve seen in Houston is some “Pappadita” chain that could only make sense in Houston. People positively flocked to the place and there was a sister restaurant across the lot. And what gives, does half the population of Houston come from New Orleans?
You just don’t feel like you are in Texas when in Houston. Dallas is Texas, San Antonio is Texas. I have no idea what Houston is. Sprawl. Just Sprawl. How can you live in the same city and yet have it take you an hour just to drive to the local ballpark for a pro game? If you have to drive an hour to watch a ballgame you don’t live in the same city claiming the pro team. You live near that city, but not in the same city.
An hour away is no longer Houston no matter what the signs say.
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Where are all the intrepid reporters doing some deep dive into Portland re-criminalizing drug laws, or looking at Denver to see the downsides to legal pot?
How many 14-15 year olds went from A students to drop outs from daily pot use? How many former Portland residents are dead due to easy drug access?
Don’t tell me pot is a harmless drug, less harmful than alcohol. I saw it destroy the ambition of many. Future stars all, who just lost all interest in everything but daily use, morning, noon, and night.
My bet is there are absolute horror stories in both Portland and Denver. But they don’t fit the narrative. Oh well, ignore it all. Can’t admit our side was wrong. They’ll start looking at what else we are doing is wrong.
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Hey look at that, Iran rattling swords and threatening retaliatory action against Israel. Get ready, could be WWIII in the works. Are you sending your boy to die in the sand? For what exactly? How is the US involved here? Oil? All we need to do is crank production back up here, under Trump we were a net exporter.
If Iran fires get ready for the talking heads and their “Merica, dagnubbit” pitch. You fall for it, no blood from this family will spill for the Mid-East.
And make no mistake, it won’t be “Iran started it”, any strike is retaliatory.
Isolationism has a bad name. Undeserved. Let the world come to us. We are the world’s economic driver and engine.
Isolationism. Israel can defend itself. We’ve sent them enough weapons to do so.
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In America we involve cheese way too much in meals. It has taken over everything. “Big Cheese” has some clout. They’ve managed to convince every chef, every cook, even most Americans that as you make a dish, any dish, that “just add cheese” makes everything better.
No, no it doesn’t. Cheese can do a great job masking the pure and perfect original flavor. Until all you taste is just cheese.
Please Dear God America, get a grip on your cheese consumption. Cheese has it’s place, say when I order nachos, but in general we have somehow been convinced to add a layer of cheese to everything. Scallops are delicious. Why do we need to add a thick layer of cheese of one? Now it is a cheese dish with a hint of scallop.
Pizza, nachos, a burger. No need for cheese to invade every meal.
Somebody begin to loosen the grip of “big cheese” over all of America. For the good of us all.
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When Snowden made his revelations -- sacrificing a nice comfy life as a government contractor in Hawaii to do so -- the nation said "Ho-Hum". As an ordinary citizen, if you take this stuff to heart and become justifiably outraged, you only accomplish making yourself miserable.
I was so hopeful when John Durham was appointed to investigate the origins of the FBI probe into Russian Election Interference. Turns out, my millennial son was correct when he predicted it would result in a big fat goose egg.
In his series Tucker Today, Tucker did an interview of Michael Gableman, a former WI Supreme Court Justice, who investigated irregularities in the 2020 election, including how Zuckerbucks influenced it. When I did a search for details of his report, I found a huge pile of articles attacking Gableman and the investigation.
I could not find a text of Gableman's report, but I did find the PowerPoint he used in his report to the WI Assembly.
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What Gableman found was jaw-dropping, and I paid close attention to his interview with Tucker. Now I can't remember the details. That's a major problem. We just can't remember all the details
And let's be honest. This stuff is boring. I'm more interested than most and I simply don't have the time and bandwidth needed to really know. Even those of us paying attention wind up relying on the media to read or watch and summarize.