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What is this world coming to?

You know where you go for lying.

Saying they might be Fishing for a 165.

I suppose a mirror can be useful, but when people stop singing their fantasies, the mirror exposes them to the truth, again. A reminder that no matter what someone may say, there is a reality, a truth, that cannot be changed. It is good for people to understand that some things are beyond their control, that they aren’t God. As for indoctrination, I believe most of us here understand it well enough, though there is some indecision as to whether you didn’t sit for the entire lecture or simply don’t have the quotient to express it sufficiently.

Ionel for sixteen minute edits?

Sure it is, propane too.

SMH. Arizona could use better representation.

I’m beginning to believe you don’t live in AZ either.

Say It Ain’t So, Joe: The House Formally Invites President Biden to Testify in Impeachment Inquiry House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer has sent a seven-page letter (below) to invite President Joe Biden to testify in the Republican impeachment inquiry. The letter is the latest, and best, reduction of the glaring contradictions in the President’s past statements on his family’s well-documented influence peddling operation. President Biden is not expected to testify. However, the media should be interested in his answering the questions presented by the Committee. It is now clear that the President lied during his campaign and during his presidency on his lack of knowledge of his son’s business activities as well as his denial of any money gained from China. Yet, the White House responded, again, with mockery — a sense of impunity that only exists due to an enabling media. Chairman Comer reduces the past testimony and evidence acquired by the Committee in the corruption scandal. In the last hearing, Democratic members simply refused to acknowledge that evidence. There was a bizarre disconnect as members mocked the witnesses for not supplying evidence of the President’s knowledge or involvement. They then did so and the members declared that there was no evidence. Various members also misrepresented my earlier testimony during the hearing on the basis for the impeachment inquiry. Members like Rep. Jamie Raskin (D., Md.) stated that I joined other witnesses in stating there was nothing that could remotely be impeachable in these allegations. That is demonstrably untrue. My testimony stated the opposite. I refused to pre-judge the evidence, but stated that there was ample basis for the inquiry and laid out various impeachable offenses that could be brought if ultimately supported by evidence. I also discussed those potential offenses in columns. The purpose of the hearing was not to declare an impeachment on the first day of the inquiry. Unlike the two prior impeachments by many of these same Democratic members, this impeachment inquiry sought to create a record of evidence and testimony to support any action that the House might take. Now, the Committee has laid out the considerable evidence showing that the President had lied, knowingly and repeatedly. Interspersed with specific evidentiary findings, the Committee presents ten questions that the President should be able to answer directly and unequivocally: In response, the White House Counsel’s office again responded with mockery and taunting. I have previously discussed (including in my testimony in the Biden hearing) how the role of the White House staff in these denials can raise serious questions under the impeachment inquiry. That has not deterred White House Counsel spokesperson Ian Sams, who has been previously accused of misrepresenting facts and engaging in heavy-handed treatment of the media. Sams responded to the letter: The involvement of a member of the White House Counsel’s staff issuing such a disrespectful and taunting message would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. Yet, the media has enabled such denial and deflection by showing no interest in the answers to any of these questions. It is part of the genius of the Biden management of this scandal. The White House quickly got reporters to buy into the illusion, making any later recognition impossible for these reporters. It is Houdini’s disappearing elephant trick applied to politics. Even if most of the media refuses to demand answers, the public has a right to hear directly from the President on these specific questions. President Biden can still deny all of this countervailing evidence and “say it ain’t so,” but he should say something. Here is the letter: 2024-03-28-CJC-letter-to-JRB https://jonathanturley.org/2024/03/29/say-it-aint-so-joe-the-house-formally-invites-president-biden-to-testify-in-impeachment-inquiry/

We’ll be going with traditional here.

FTFY

Not to mention Biden showering with his daughter, stripping naked in front of female Secret Service, and Tara Reid.

That’s rich, coming from the one who won’t waste his time to inform his objectivity. While you’ve got your eyes closed and your ears covered, does it make you feel better to stamp your feet and squeal?

Happy Easter

You make some of the best posts. You think evangelicals are going to complain about people buying a bible? Evangelical atheists, maybe.

POSTED ON MARCH 26, 2024 BY STEVEN HAYWARD IN THE DAILY CHART THE DAILY CHART: THE U.S. NUCLEAR DEFICIT I once asked a French acquaintance how it was that France managed to build over 5o nuclear power plants over the same time period that the U.S. built virtually none, and his answer was basically that France didn’t pay any attention to Jane Fonda. Actually his explanation was more colorful (and accurate). Read this with a French accent in your mind: True: French labor unions, where Communists have some presence, like nuclear power because it meant lots of union jobs. U.S. progressives say they like labor unions—but they hate construction and electrical unions. But my follow up question to my French interlocutor is equally pertinent: How did France manage to build nuclear plants so much more cheaply than the U.S.? In any case, this figure shows how the U.S. abandoned nuclear power. Imagine how much lower our carbon footprint would be if we had kept up the pace of the 1950-1990 period. (Keep in mind that the plants that came online in the mid-1980s were begun 10 to 15 years before.) Chaser—Even The Guardian gets it: New York was warned that this would be the outcome, but climate cultists are immune to facts.

This needs a smiley face?

Trump made a phone call to the family to offer his condolences. Biden didn’t. The family asked Trump to attend the funeral and told Kathy Hochul to leave when she showed up uninvited.

You and Laurie must have missed the part where a fellow borrowed a pen from the State’s attorney and used it to not only change the votes on a dominion machine that he had not had prior access to, but did so without leaving evidence of his manipulation. Here’s a video for you: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/let-my-people-go-fights-back-against-censorship/

I had almost forgotten that.