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Politics is the art of compromise, and politics first begins in the home, because no one always gets their own way all the time. Sometimes, Daddy gets his way, sometimes Mama gets hers. And by mutual consent, on occasion, the children get theirs. But NOBODY gets their way all the time!
In her piece for The Atlantic, titled “Hamas Must Go,” Secretary emeritus Clinton described helping to negotiate a ceasefire in 2012, which was violated by Hamas in 2014 when the terrorist group “started another war by abducting Israeli hostages and launching rocket attacks against civilians.”
She wrote: “That is why I am convinced Hamas must go. On October 7, these terrorists killed babies, raped women, and kidnapped innocent civilians. They continue to hold more than 200 hostages. They have proved again and again that they will not abide by ceasefires, will sabotage any efforts to forge a lasting peace, and will never stop attacking Israel.”
Civilians get killed in war. That’s a very sad, inescapable fact that will probably never change.
All Hamas are Palestinian, but not all Palestinians are Hamas.
Hamas is funded & supplied by the Houthis, which are funded & supplied by Iran — a globally hostile nation known for such activity.
For the sake of argument, let’s imagine that a foreign terrorist entity attacked the West Virginia State Legislature, killing and raping legislators, Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Tuesday, April 30, 2024
“A lot would have to go wrong for Biden to lose.”
It’s Election Year!
You know what that means.
It happens every 2 years.
Civic-minded citizens will be exercising their right to vote, and will be setting a host of political wanna’bees in office… or, turning them out — depending upon how well-satisfied constituents are with the politician’s performance in office, and turning them out if they’re not. NOTE: “Wanna’bees” are differentiated from honey bees. Ed.
And the BIG KAHUNA of them all, is the Presidency.
Naturally, most all of us want to know if there’s a way, a method, a tool, a process, that could accurately and correctly forecast who the next President will be.
It’s not hocus-pocus, it’s not soothsaying, it neither involves crystal balls, nor tea leaves, and has been subjected to peer review. And that’s because Dr. Lichtman collaborated with renowned mathematician Dr. Vladimir Keilis-Borok, PhD (1921-2013), a now-late Russian mathematical geophysicist and seismologist with an interest in developing an earthquake predicting tool, and published their findings in a scientific journal in order to be scrutinized.
“I first developed the Keys to the White House in 1981,
in collaboration with mathematician Vladimir Keilis-Borok.
Retrospectively, we found that
the Keys correctly accounted for the results of
American presidential elections from 1860 to 1980,
ranging from the horse and buggy days of American politics to the era of jet planes, polls, and television.” — Dr. Alan Lichtman, 2012, in “The Keys to the White House,” in Social Education 76(5), pp 233–235
Dr. Lichtman developed the 13-key forecasting system initially in 1981, and later subjected the work to Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Saturday, April 27, 2024
If it weren’t illegal to be a Negro in Alabama, the state’s Law Enforcement Officers wouldn’t arrest Negroes for being Negro.
But, they do.
In at least 2 events in less than the same number of years, local LEOs have arrested individuals in Alabama charging them with fabricated, trumped up “crimes,” when no crime had been, nor was in the process of being, committed.
In both cases, the lowest common denominator was… that the people arrested had darker skin tone (more of the pigment melanin) than the “average” person, and more than the arresting officer(s). In other words, they were “Black.”
What is such sickness, and why does it seem so common in Alabama, and why… oh WHY do people in the state continue to put up with such outlandishly egregious behavior from public officials, particularly those sworn to uphold the law?
It may have something to do with the state’s Constitution.
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Friday, April 12, 2024
Free thought association…
On the third day of the eighth month in the fifth year of our LORD Ich’bin-Ein Berliner, came the jelly doughnut, a minute triceratops of a man, swimming freely in the oceans’ waters, basking in every bubble from the aerator around which the goldfish swam, as he peered outside its cavernous steel bars into the cat lounging on the spaghetti Bolognese, seeing clearly into its heart, lungs, and digestive system, while fueling the top fuel dragster from which he was born.
🤠
I don’t have opposable thumbs.
Both my thumbs have always worked in conjunction with all my other fingers, and with each other. And, they are in harmonious union with the palms… which should in no wise be conflated with date palms, Palme d’Or, iron ore, wooden oars, Cannes, Campbell’s soup cans, Andy Warhol, or else.
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The food we eat (that is to say, the food proffered to us in supermarkets, brands often advertised on teevee, print, and radio, in turn owned by mega-globally-traded behemoth transnational corporations) is largely factory-processed, made nutrient-deficient, hyper-preserved, sodium-laden — for additive preservative purpose — which nether creatively increases flavor, nor improves taste, is shelf-stable practically into perpetuity, and is all done so for one motive exclusively: Profit – to get more money.
Their interests and loyalties are NOT to you, nor to their customers, neither to your family, friends, and loved ones, but rather, are beholden to their corporate shareholders upon whom they openly ingratiate themselves, and to whom they, first and foremost, through a strong sense of obligation via stock ownership or other requirement, owe a substantial share of the profit, and in some cases, the “first fruits.”
And therefore, they work to achieve, or exceed, the expectations of the financial prognosticators and market soothsayers by obeying the edicts of the corporate overlords and executives in all details of business operation. So, when employees of the company’s various stores in select locales complain about employee mistreatment, and low wages combined with decreased hours — EVEN THOUGH the company made $24.6 BILLION in PROFITS for 2023, which in turn, effectively meant that all of its 400,000 employees could have been given an $11,000 raise and STILL have at least $20 BILLION in profit. Instead, the employees must rely upon tips for survival. That company is Read the rest of this entry »
Fox News Fact-Checks Donald Trump’s Bond Claim: “Actually Not True”
By Rachel Dobkin
Published Mar 24, 2024 at 3:42 PM EDT
Updated Mar 25, 2024 at 6:21 AM EDT
During a Sunday interview with former Federal prosecutor Alex Little on Fox News Live, host Eric Shawn said, “We’ve also heard there’s a lot of talk about ‘this is unprecedented amount of money… this has never happened before.’ But that’s actually not true. This is from Letitia James, the Attorney General’s own court papers — I’m gonna show it to you right now.”
An on-screen chart graphic then appeared listing court cases with bonds at or over $1 billion, including:
• Sony Music Entertainment v. Cox Communications — $1.2 billion;
• Apple v. Samsung Electronics — $1 billion;
• Oracle USA v. SAP AG — $1.3 billion, and;
• Carnegie Mellon University v. Marvell Technology Group — $1.5 billion.
In February, New York State Supreme Court Justice Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Donald Trump to pay a $355 million bond by Monday, 25 March 2024, plus daily interest — which grand total is now $454 million — and barred him from doing business in New York for 3 years.
Trump and his crime family members have falsely claimed that the bond amount is “unprecedented.”
Obviously, it is not.
Eric Shawn, host of Fox News
In a September 2023 lawsuit brought by New York State Attorney General Letitia James’ office, Trump was found liable for financial fraud. Trump has claimed that he has done nothing wrong and that the case is politically motivated, and has appealed Judge Engoron’s ruling against him.
Trump was given until Monday to come up with a $454 million bond in order to prevent NY State Attorney General James from seizing his assets in order to pay Judge Engoron’s judgment.
Trump has repeatedly criticized the ruling and disparaged Judge Engoron and Attorney General James, on his social media platform Truth Social. In a post last Monday, Trump wrote, Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Wednesday, March 6, 2024
First, she quit the Democratic Party — just like Sarah Palin quit Alaska.
Now, she quit Arizona… and America.
Bad Little Doggie — this one’s for you, babe.
Come in with the sunrise, who knows where you go Smellin’ like something, I don’t want to know
Your sister can’t save you, she don’t know what to do Your bad behavior has finally caught up to you Bad little doggie
Soul all tweeked out, life line thin Loose little school girl, what a shape you’re in
Blue violence, red rosaries Roots of evil growing into trees I’m through messin’, time to learn your lesson Bad little doggie
I’m through messin’, time to learn your lesson Bad little doggie
Goodbye, and good riddance. Perhaps somebody on K Street will take you in. After all, that’s where politicians go after Congressional stints, isn’t it — to become lobbyists.
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Come Tuesday, November 5, 2024, American voters coast-to-coast, north, south, east, west, and all points in between, including the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands and the United States Virgin Islands, will cast ballots for the candidate of their choice to be the next President of the United States (POTUS).
The incumbent 46th POTUS, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., a Democrat, will face the Republican party’s nominee, who, as events are shaping up, now appears it will most likely will be the former and 45th POTUS, Donald John Trump.
Often monikered as “POS45” (Piece Of Shit 45), the former POTUS has practically single-handedly created a radicalized “MAGA” movement (Make America Great Again) within the Republican party consisting of often disaffected, mostly White, primarily rural voters which has taken hold in Deep South, formerly Confederate/slave states, some Rust Belt states, and others where voters over age 65 comprise the single largest segment of his supporters, including those of whom he said in Nevada 2016 after winning the Silver State’s Republican caucus, “I love the poorly educated!” In context, he said, “We won the evangelicals. We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated!,” while USA Today wrote, “Trump did well across the board in Nevada, garnering 45.9% of the vote, but he did even better among voters with a high school education or less. Fifty-seven percent of those voters supported him, according to entrance polls.”
Rarely-to-never in the history of our nation have partisans ever cast ballots for the candidate of the opposite party, that is, Republicans voting for Democrats, but POS45 has motivated many of those of sound mind to do so, leaving the obsequious, toady, and sycophants to their object of worship. But a rehash is a rehash, and 2024 is a rehash of 2020. And in 2020, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. defeated Donald John Trump.
The San Francisco Call began life on December 1, 1856, as the Daily Morning Call. Staunchly Republican in political outlook, the Call was popular with the working classes, and it was the city’s leading morning newspaper for several decades. By the summer of 1864, the Call was boasting the highest daily circulation in the city, and its readership continued to rise, going from 10,750 in 1865 to 41,066 in 1880. In 1884 it boasted a circulation double that of any other daily. Originally a four page daily, the Call also put out a weekly, published on Tuesdays, and a Sunday edition. One of the paper’s early writers was Mark Twain, who served as Nevada correspondent in 1863 and as reporter after he moved to San Francisco the following year. In just over four months as full time beat reporter, Twain produced some 200 articles on crime and the courts, theater and the opera, and politics. Vol. 77, no. 85 (Mar. 5, 1895)-v. 115, no. 7 (Dec. 8, 1913).
And yet, polls are wishy-washy things, ever fluctuating according to which way the wind blows, and are neither stable, consistent, nor reliable. And with the miserably miasmatic state of affairs in news-gathering/reporting/news-telling/journalism/media these days, we have re-entered the era of so-called “Yellow Journalism,” which is today monikered as “click bait” online, because in broadcast media (radio & television) it’s all about “eyes on the set” which directly relates to the entity’s income gathering ability, insofar as it is tied directly to their advertising rates. More viewers/listeners=more money per spot/ad. Cynical, perhaps, but it’s just that simple.
While one looks to the past to predict the future — something which the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and others say should Read the rest of this entry »
In the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen fertilized eggs, aka embryos, are “children” — the combined cases of LePage & Fonde v. Center for Reproductive Medicine & Mobile Infirmary, and Aysenne v. Center for Reproductive Medicine & Mobile Infirmary — the word “God,” or its derivatives, i.e., “godliness,” etc., are mentioned 41 times.
NOTE: The Twitter-X post linked above, which depicts an obviously-edited (cropped) ocean-going vessel sinking, was deliberately falsely identified as a British vessel in the Red Sea, and the person posting the Tweet deliberately falsely claimed that Houthis sank it.
The post read as follows: “Documentation of the British ship sinking after being hit and attacked by Yemenis earlier today.
The crew abandoned the ship before it sank Yemen 🇾🇪 💪🏼
2:25 PM · Feb 19, 2024″
That is 100% TOTALLY FALSE and ENTIRELY INCORRECT.
The vessel depicted in the Tweet is MV Stellar Banner, a very large ore carrier (VLOC), which was deliberately scuttled off the Brazilian coast three months after she ran aground, having been filled with iron ore, approximately 145,000 tons of which was successfully removed by salvors, to allow the vessel to refloat, and assess the ship’s structure, which was deemed a total loss, and therefore, a decision was made to scuttle her. The MV Stellar Banner was owned and operated by Polaris shipping of South Korea, was chartered to Vale, a Brazilian mining giant, to transport iron ore from Brazil to China. The Stellar Banner was registered in the Marshall Islands, was damaged after departing a Vale loading terminal in Maranhão, Brazil, and ran aground approximately 100km from the coast of São Luís on February 24, 2020. The vessel was carrying 306,000 tons of iron ore and headed for Qingdao, China.
We are pleased to expose the lie, and set the record straight. Ed.
Regardless of the deliberate falsity of the Twitter-X post, claiming that the dramatic sinking of the vessel Stellar Banner was a different vessel than the one WHICH WAS ATTACKED BY HOUTHIS — that one being the MV Rubymar — even though the Stellar Banner was deliberately falsely identified as a the Rubymar, the point is, that Houthis are actively engaged in piracy on the open seas, and are making attacks upon trade vessels.
THAT is why our military is intervening in the Red Sea. To aid our friends… fellow NATO member nations.
Houthis (aka Ansar Allah, meaning Partisans of God) are the terrorist cartel in Yemen funding & arming Hamas terrorists in Gaza.
To be certain, NOT all Palestinians are Hamas, but all Hamas are Palestinian.
So what’s at the bottom of it all, what’s the root cause?
Disputes over sectarian Islamic religious doctrine.
Houthis are Shia Islamists, so named for the Houthi tribe in Yemen from which they come, and are predominantly Zaidi Shias. The Houthis originated “in the 1990s as a youth-orientated revivalist movement” that sought to defend Zaidi religious traditions, which is a sect of Shia Islam.
Zaidism is one of three sects of Shia Islam, and considered the most closely resembling the Sunni.
Shia Islam is the second-largest Islamic denomination.
Sunni Islam is the largest Islamic denomination, and practiced by about 85–90% of Muslims worldwide.
Differences between Sunni and Shia Muslims originated from a disagreement over who would succeed Muhammad after his death, and later Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Friday, February 16, 2024
One way to “make America great again” is to:
1.) Stop the lies, and the lying liars who tell them, and;
2.) Stop the hypocrisy.
“Above all, do not lie to yourself.
A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others.
Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and having no love, he gives himself up to the passions and coarse pleasures, in order to occupy and amuse himself, and in his vices reaches complete bestiality, and it all comes from lying continually to others and to himself.”
— excerpt from “The Brothers Karamazov,” by Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), published 1879-80, his final work, considered his masterpiece, and among the world’s finest examples of literature, in which the character Zosima speaks to Fyodor Pavlovich, found in Book II, Chapter 2. Many of Zosima’s remarks in this section are foundational in developing the main ideas in the book.
Then-U.S. President Donald Trump responds to a question from a reporter during a discussion with business owners and their families in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., December 5, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque – RC1B3AFA5400
“The former President, who dodged the draft, who has mocked Gold Star families, who just recently mocked Nikki Haley, asking where Major Michael Haley, her (deployed) husband, was… the level of disconnect is staggering.”
— Dr. Nadine Hubbs, PhD, Musicologist, and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies & Music, Faculty Associate of American Culture, University of Michigan School of Music, says there’s immense irony, even hypocrisy, in Trump playing late country music artist Toby Keith’s pro-military song “Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue (The Angry American),” at MAGA rallies. She authored the 2014 award-winning book “Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music,” and focuses upon popular and classical music of the twentieth century to the present, including Leonard Bernstein and the Copland-Thomson circle, 1970s disco, Morrissey, Radiohead, Bruce Springsteen, and postwar country music artists including Dolly Parton, Gretchen Wilson, and David Allan Coe. Toby Keith’s politics were complicated having praised Republicans and Democrats. Further, he also criticized Trump and played at a Trump inauguration celebration.
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Voters Dissatisfied
Party in Disarray
Never Trump Republicans sent a clear message.
The only question remaining is, “How badly will Republicans lose nationwide in November?”
Trump Chose to Lose
Loser Fairy dumped boatloads of Loser Dust on Federally-indicted convicted sex abuser Florida Loser-Man.
Nikki Haley Defeats Trump in Nevada’s GOP Primary/Caucus
Former President CHOSE to became a Loser by Default by failing to participate in NV’s Presidential Preference Primary/caucus.
Former US Ambassador to the United Nations cum-South Carolina Governess Nikki Haley defeated GOP rival Donald Trump in the Silver State’s GOP Presidential Preference Primary/Caucus Tuesday, February 6, 2024.
Then-former South Carolina Governor, later Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley waves to attendees and delegates at the 2020 Republican National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.
She is now the former President’s only competitor in the race to become the party’s nominee for President; all other contenders — Vivek Ramaswamy, former VP Mike Pence, SC Senator Tim Scott, FL Governor Ron DeSantis, former NJ Governor Chris Christie, former DEA Administrator/AR Governor Asa Hutchinson, and a spattering of others — all dropped out around the time of the NH primaries, or very shortly thereafter.
Notably, Nevada GOP primary/caucus voters also failed to write-in the former President’s name. Some critics have noted an unjustified sense of overconfidence betrayed him, mistakenly thinking that he would somehow magically win, even though he chose not to campaign in the state, and failed to initiate a write-in campaign.
In stark contrast, President Joe Biden, who is campaigning for re-election, did not appear on New Hampshire’s ballot, but won that state’s Democratic primary when voters wrote in his name, with 63.8% of all 123,996 votes cast.
Like Silver State Republicans, Granite State Republicans were not thrilled by their choices, and Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Monday, January 29, 2024
Feelings, whoa, oh, oh, feelings Whoa, oh, oh, feel it Whoa, oh, again
— from the 1974 song “Feelings” popularized by Morris Albert
Louis Gasté (1908-1995), a French composer, in 1988 sued Morris Albert (b.1951) claiming that the song “Feelings” was plagiarized from his 1957 song “Pour Toi.” (French, meaning “For You”) He won the case and is now listed as co-creator.
Touchy-Feely vs Facts & Science
Very nearly 1000 books on a 16-page list could possibly, “contain material that might make students feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress because of their race or sex… whether consciously or unconsciously.”
When I read that passage quoted above — which was directly related to a recent news item about political officials banning books in public schools, and which was excerpted from a very high level government official’s letter — it struck me as being THE VERY THING that We The People had been warned about some time ago, that so-called touchy-feely nonsense, instead of genuinely thoughtful, even provocative civil discourse, would replace and substitute for education efforts, that an inordinate concern and worry for students’ FEELINGS — not facts — would lead to a substantial decline in the quality of education.
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Sunday, January 28, 2024
Like it, or not, politics often thrives on fear — for the Republicans, especially, and particularly — but truth be told, the Democrats do their fair share of fear-mongering, as well, just not to the extent that GOPers do it. There are a variety of tricks — yes, tricks — that both party’s politicians do to ingratiate themselves to the electorate, and fear-baiting is but one.
And whether, or not, one considers the following fear-baiting, is up to the reader to decide.
But suffice it to say, rarely in the history of American politics has there ever been a time in which Democrats and so many Republicans have coalesced against a candidate, presumptive, or not, of their own party. The former, 45th POTUS is that man.
Many have said that, he is a danger to this nation, to its founding principles, and to liberty itself. The list goes on, and on, and on, and on.
There are numerous reasons why I count myself in that camp, though none of them are based upon fear, and rather, are based upon what he did during his term in office. Never before in the history of our nation has one man attempted to overthrow it. Never before in the history of our nation has any man (or woman) elected to the highest office in the land had utterly ZERO experience in elected office, public or military service, or volunteer service in any capacity, in any organization, whatsoever. And try as one might, there is little-to-nothing good which can be said about him.
When someone tells you who they are, believe them. That man has not only done so, but demonstrated as much. And based upon what he has done, and what he has said, it seems evident enough that he could do, and quite possibly would do, many, most, or worse, even all of the following.
Hey, I “get it,” which is to say that, I understand why and what it is that people see in that man. They like his bull-in-a-china-shop style, his take-no-prisoners approach, his my-way-or-the-highway manner, his bluff, bluster and false bravado, and they believe every word that drips from his lips, as if he were some type of prophet, some type of übermensch, or super-man, as Nietzsche called his concocted idyllic mythical character. It is all interpreted by his followers as “strength,” and “resolve.”
Yet… it is anything but.
But, FEAR NOT!
These words are worth remembering, and repeating, as you cast your ballot in November:
“This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.”
— Opening paragraph of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1st Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933
NOTE: The following is a hypothetical scenario, HOWEVER….
[Every incident mentioned in this article is based on an actual statement or action by Donald Trump, the people closely surrounding him, or something Trump has praised about his role model Victor Orbán.]
It was a hell of a year, 2025: the first year of the First Reich (as those formerly called Democrats referred to it) or The New America as the GOP now refers to our nation. One people, one nation, one leader: America, President-for-life Trump tells us, is now “truly great.”
It started with the election of November 2024, when the No Labels candidacy of Larry Hogan and Joe Manchin pulled enough electoral votes away from Biden — who was more than 10 million popular votes ahead of Trump — that none of the three tickets hit the necessary 270 Electoral College votes to win the White House.
It was a scenario similar to 1824 when John Quincy Adams lost the popular vote to Andrew Jackson but, because William Crawford and Henry Clay were also running for president, neither Adams or Jackson hit the threshold with the Electoral College and the vote went to the House of Representatives, which made Adams president in a series of backroom deals known to historians as the “Corrupt Bargain.”
In a similar way, the election of 2024 was thrown into the House of Representatives, per the 12th Amendment, with each state having one single vote. Since 26 states had Republican-controlled congressional delegations and only 23 had Democratic-controlled delegations (Pennsylvania is evenly split), the House voted 26-24 for Donald Trump to become the next president. He didn’t even need to threaten his vice president or invoke a mob.
At his swearing-in, Trump announced that he was going to fulfill his “dictator for a day” promise and pardoned himself, all Republicans who were in Congress in January 2021 and helped organize or support the attack on the Capitol, and all the January 6th seditionists.
He then announced that the 24 Democrats leading their congressional delegations who’d voted against him in the House were “guilty of sedition against the United States.” As he spoke, each was arrested and taken into custody.
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Monday, January 22, 2024
Nikki Haley recently said,
“We had plenty of racism that we had to deal with, but…”
“We’re not a racist country, Brian.”
“We’ve never been a racist country.”
“I know, I faced racism when I was growing up.”
Tim Scott recently said,
“America is not a racist country.”
“No, America is not racist.”
How should those statements be interpreted?
That America was not
The Three Fifths Compromise, numerous Indian Wars, Trail of Tears, Civil War, Jim Crow laws, suffrage for women, and the still-ongoing struggle for equal Civil Rights resonate so very loudly from their myriad volumes over the years that it practically drowns out all claims otherwise.
Germany wasn’t founded upon Nazism, and yet, Adolph Hitler rose to power, and started World War II.
We know how that ended.
And then, when she was in a GOP campaign town hall event in North Conway, New Hampshire, an attendee asked her, “What was the cause of the United States civil war?”
Haley paused momentarily, huffed and puffed, and said in an irritated manner and tone, “Well, don’t come with an easy question.”
Nikki Haley waves to RNC attendees
She then paused, and continued, saying “I think the cause of the civil war was basically how government was going to run, the freedoms and what people could and couldn’t do.”
Even with the most casual and cursory observation, one can plainly see that, when Nikki Haley speaks about herself, and her experiences with discrimination as a brown-skinned woman in the United States, a child of Sikh Indian émigrés, and the discrimination she faced, then has the unmitigated audacity and gall to say some of the preposterously absurd, and blatantly wrong things that she has, she does so with a forked tongue, from both sides of her mouth.
Is she a “good” woman? Ethical, honest, fair, and just?
Most likely, yes. But there’s another problem to factor into that calculus, one now common in the Formerly-Grand Old Party.
It’s certainly understandable that such ignominies in our nation’s history would like to be forgotten by some, which is exactly why Florida MAGAt Man in Chief Ron DeSantis and his henchmen in the State of Florida’s MAGAt-infested legislature are doing everything they possibly can to Read the rest of this entry »
If you’re making a recipe, or dish, use what you want — within reason, of course — because there are very few dishes, recipes, etc., that rely upon a specific ingredient to determine the outcome or character of the dish. Some exception to that general principle, or guide, would be gluten-free, sugar-free, and/or “paleo” type low-carbohydrate recipes. There are, perhaps others, but those are 3 handy-dandy examples to illustrate the case in point.
But sodium, aka plain ol’ table salt — and fat — have been long demonized by some as having deleterious effects upon our health and well-being, and are (it would seem) useless and worse. As a corollary, or a minor matter aside, formerly, the word “welfare,” defined as the condition of one’s being, was used, but Repugnicunts hijacked and then demonized that word during the Reagan administration à la so-called “welfare mothers” who were almost always Negroes — rarely ever White folks. (Is it socially acceptable, de rigueur, or passé to use that proper term to name a people group? Yes. The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington and countless others all used it.) However, as it turned out, White folks were the greatest recipients of such government “largess” both as a percent, and as raw numbers. Ssshhh! Don’t tell anyone. We mustn’t confuse, nor conflate, history with facts.
Yet fat and sodium are but two critically important constituents of a proper dietary regimen, being defined as one that substantially promotes homeostasis, through which the organism thrives. Fat is necessary for our bodies to utilize vitamins A,D,E, and K — all the fat-soluble vitamins — while sodium is a fundamental component of cardiac and other cellular function. Furthermore, our brains are the points at which our desire, or drive, for salt exists, and is a homeostatic mechanism.
“Sodium (Na) is frequently considered antagonistic to health, given that a high-salt (NaCl) diet is harmful. However, the appetite for NaCl appears to be an innate mechanism, and an elevated NaCl intake may serve to protect against dehydration [1,2,3]. Maintenance of this ion within appropriate levels (Na balance) is not only an adaptive process necessary for survival but also an essential component of hydromineral homeostasis (Na and fluid balances).
“Na is the primary cation in extracellular fluid (ECF) and, along with associated anions, constitutes 90% of ECF osmolality [4,5]. ECF, which contains slightly more than one-third of total body fluid, has a Na concentration of around 144 mOsm/L. Almost all the remaining body fluid is contained in intracellular fluid (ICF), which has a lower concentration of Na (10 mOsm/L) [6]. Given that the maintenance of these water and Na levels is essential for adequate cell functioning and because the cell membrane has low permeability to solutes, water moves by osmosis from areas of lower to higher solute concentration to equalize osmotic ECF and ICF concentrations [7,8]. Hence, Na is essential to maintain electrolyte and water balances (hydromineral regulation).”
What word can be (and is) an adjective -and- a verb?
If you guessed “consummate,” you would be correct.
Etymology of the word is circa mid-15th century, and 1500s, from Latin…
c. 1500, “complete, perfect, carried to the utmost extent or degree,” from Latin consummatus “perfected, complete,” past participle of consummare “sum up, complete,” from assimilated form of com “together, with” (see con-) + summa “sum, total,” from summus “highest” (see sum (n.)). Of persons, “accomplished, very qualified,” from 1640s. Related: Consummately.
Dear Nimarata Nikki Randhawa Haley,
America’s Civil War was about slavery.
Or as some have said, it was about so-called “states’ rights” to have slavery.
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Friday, December 1, 2023
Others Remain At Large
It’s not always illegal to lie.
Of course, that depends upon the context — the circumstance, situation, and setting in which the lie is told.
And, believe it, or not, it’s not even always totally illegal to kill another human being, because again, the context — conditions, circumstance and situation in which the death occurs — are all taken into consideration by law enforcement authorities, in determining whether, or not, charges will be filed against the responsible party. In many circles it’s called “justifiable homicide,” with one example of justifiable homicide being a scenario in which someone, or group of people, is being threatened by at least one gun-wielding assailant, one of whom is then killed by a party who was among those threatened by a gun-wielding assailant.
There are exceptions to rules. Just about all rules, in fact. For the baseball fans among us, the Infield Fly Rule is one such example of a scenario in which human judgment reigns supreme. There is no “hard and fast” with the IFR. It’s an altogether subjective matter that relies exclusively upon the umpire to call it… or not. One ump would call it one way, and another would call it another.
But there is one crime that is ALWAYS, in every circumstance, situation, and scenario 100% illegal, at ALL TIMES, in every place.
And that crime is theft.
It is 100% illegal at all times, and in all places, to steal anything, at any time, from anyone. No matter how small, no matter how “justified” the perpetrator may feel or think about their actions, it is still always 100% illegal to steal, and always has been. There are NO exceptions to theft laws. NONE.
Theft, of course, is ultimately a type of dishonesty, because most thieves won’t, or don’t, tell others of their misdeeds — particularly and especially Law Enforcement Authorities. And it is the secrecy, the deliberate cover-up, the deception, and duplicity that often accompany theft which is so infuriating to many, if not most, or, even all victims of theft, because the crime is discovered only after the fact. To know that one was betrayed by one so close is an artful deception, if it could be so described, because it is deliberate.
While most crimes may be discovered after the fact, the making of plans to commit a crime — if it is done in conjunction with another person, regardless of whether that other person is the actual “bag man,” or not — is crime of conspiracy. In fact, conspiracy is THE single most prosecuted crime by the Federal government.
That it is a criminal act to plan a crime with another speaks volumes about how important fundamental honesty is to daily life, and the great value attached to honesty by Americans.
Russia is NOT like that.
Not even one iota.
As partial evidence of that fact, consider that the Russians lied about a dog which they sacrificed in their Sputnik 2 space capsule in 1957, gave numerous lies about it over the years, and only finally came clean with the truth in 2002 — some 45 years later. see:
https://warmsouthernbreeze.wordpress.com/2017/05/15/Dying-Laika-Russian-Dog/
Russia is a fundamentally dishonest, and inherently corrupt nation, which has been corrupt since its ancient developments and into its modern foundings. Corrupt trees bear bad fruit grown from corrupt roots. Such corruption is plainly seen in modernity in abuses by Russia’s military service members by the almost-open brazen theft from the various supply stocks that are stolen and resold by those who are tasked with its distribution to their military by their government.
And that’s just one example, of many more, all of which undeniably, and unambiguously demonstrate an inherent mentality of thievery among Russia’s military. Is such activity considered criminal in Russia? Yes, it is. Such cravenly wholesale disregard for fundamental honesty by Russian military service members is but one sign of the extensively thorough rot that has infected the entirety of the Russian army. And in many cases, we’ve seen that the materials themselves are flawed, faulty, aged, and show significantly excessive signs of shop wear.
George Santos (R-NY3) is a mirror image of what commonly happens in Russia, and the ISC report Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Thursday, November 30, 2023
Of the many news reporting outlets that published stories about Henry Kissinger’s death aged 100, there was ONLY ONE that got it right.
Only one.
Rolling Stone published this headline about Kissinger’s death:
Good Riddance
Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies
The infamy of Nixon’s foreign-policy architect sits, eternally, beside that of history’s worst mass murderers. A deeper shame attaches to the country that celebrates him.
It was a truthful headline, if ever there was one.
With some people, you’re glad they’re dead.
He is one such person.
He was as cruel & despicably wicked as Pol Pot.
Maybe even worse.
But let me be more succinctly explicit about Henry Kissinger:
Kissinger was the kind of guy who makes you wish you could say to Hitler, “You missed one!”
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Monday, November 27, 2023
Pharmaceutical manufacturers were making cannabis medicines long before it was declared illegal by the United States government.
“Congress has removed hemp from schedule I and removed it entirely from the CSA (Controlled Substances Act).
“…hemp is no longer a controlled substance.
“Congress has likewise removed THC in hemp from the CSA.” This is perhaps the most significant federal recognition that THC is no longer a controlled substance.
“This is perhaps the most significant federal recognition that THC is no longer a controlled substance.”
— excerpts from a USDA bulletin by the Office of General Counsel, issued May 28, 2019, as a legal opinion, on hemp
Naturally, the $64 Question arises: Is Cannabis Now TOTALLY Legal?
Within the cannabis industry in the United States, there is discussion about the DEA’s most recent recommendation to re-schedule cannabis (as marijuana) to Schedule III from Schedule I, which some say would continue perpetuating, and possibly worsen, the can of worms that has developed surrounding cannabis, primarily as “marijuana,” while yet others say that the only reasonably rational way to effectively handle the matter of cannabis, in order to cease perpetuating the numerous problems created by its prohibition, is to fully de-schedule it, in order to tax and regulate it, in much the same way as beverage alcohol was re-legalized following its Prohibition.
Yet the DEA, as a law enforcement agency, is loathe to relinquish any control over the plant, and has thus far, refused to cede any ground to hemp farmers, and all others involved in that aspect of the greater, overall cannabis industry. However, when challenged in Federal court over their stance upon, and actions in the matter, the DEA has lost.
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Sunday, November 26, 2023
Gaslighting & Psychological Projection: Pot Calls Kettle Black
Hardly a day goes by that we don’t hear some news about the former, 45th POTUS and the myriad legal troubles in which he has mired himself, Federal and State, and his numerous co-conspirators. Naturally, he denies all culpability, and continues telling “THE BIG LIE” — spinning a hypothetical yarn, hoping the too-tall tale of fantastical fiction grousing his 2020 electoral loss to Joe Biden will knit some kind of loosely-fitting garment… albeit one with numerous irreparable holes. It’s a modern version of “The Emperor’s New Clothes.”
“If you say it enough and keep saying it, they’ll start to believe you.” — Donald Trump, July 3, 2021 speech in Sarasota, FL
“I play to people’s fantasies. People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole.”
— Donald Trump, as written in his 1987 book “The Art of the Deal”
“Stick with us. Don’t believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news. … What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening.”
— Donald Trump, speech to VFW annual convention in Kansas City, Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Faced with the very real possibility of incarceration in a Federal prison, or State prison, loss of reputation, loss of business license, professional censure, fines, and numerous other penalties, the hard, cold, stark reality has begun to set in for the bad-dream-weaver, and his minions. One by one, the dominoes are falling.
The 45th and immediately former President, a known pathological liar, cheat, and narcissist, recently wrote on his social media website, on Saturday, 25 November 2023, that,“Bob Vander Plaats, the former High School Accountant from Iowa, will do anything to win, something which he hasn’t done in many years. He’s more known for scamming Candidates than he is for Victory, but now he’s going around using Disinformation from the Champions of that Art, the Democrats. I don’t believe anything Bob Vander Plaats says. Anyone who would take $95,000, and then endorse a Candidate who is going nowhere, is not what Elections are all about!”
As others and I continue maintaining, the formerly-Grand Old Party has perfected psychological projection, a manipulative distraction technique designed to draw attention away from themselves (the accuser as guilty party), and place it upon an innocent party (an opponent), by accusing the innocent party of doing the very thing which the accuser/guilty party is doing.
When he tells the “snake story” — the Aesop’s Fable aka “The Farmer and the Snake,” an allegorical tale about a freezing-cold viper that begged to be picked up and warmed inside a coat, the gullible “rescuer,” against better judgement, picked it up, whereupon when sufficiently warmed, the viper bit the rescuer, who loudly exclaimed, asking, “Why did you do that!?!” The viper replied, “You knew what I was before you picked me up.” — he’s talking about himself. And he is the snake. The general public long knew what kind of man he was before he ever campaigned for President. We saw how utterly unscrupulous he was. We saw how grotesquely crass, how utterly without morals, how absent all semblance of good bearing, and wholly devoid of ethics, that he was, and remains. We knew full well who he was before we voted for him.
Psychological Projection (aka “projection”) is somewhat akin to “gaslighting,” insofar as it too, is designed & purposed by the claimant to manipulate & persuade malleable others that something is true, when it is false. Singer-songwriter Phil Collins sang about that in his 1999 hit “That’s All”:
“Just as I thought it was goin’ alright, “I found out I’m wrong when I thought I was right; “It’s always the same it’s just a shame that’s all. “I could say day, and you’d say night; “Tell me it’s black when I know thats it’s white; “It’s always the same it’s just a shame that’s all.”
Analogously, to illustrate Psychological Projection, imagine if Charles Manson accused the Los Angeles County California Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi of masterminding murder by virtue of the fact that he would be facing the death penalty for his crimes.
How perversely bizarre is that?
A SPECIAL NOTE is particularly applicable here:
In this greater ordeal & situation, that being the indictment of the 45th and immediately former POTUS upon numerous Federal -and- State charges, most particularly and especially the whole schema of events leading to the insurrection of January 6, 2021, including its precursors, it should be borne in mind that, just as Charles Manson exercised control over his “family” members (adherents), primarily obliquely, so too does Donald Trump exercise control over his followers (adherents) primarily obliquely. And just as Charles Manson did NOT directly commit the Tate-LaBianca murders, nor order them, his influence upon his “family” of followers was so great and significantly influential, to the extent that he was found guilty of the murders. Donald Trump did the exact same thing with the Proud Boys and other white supremacist militant radicals directly leading to the insurrection of January 6, 2021.
“Proud Boys, stand back and stand by!”
— POTUS Donald Trump, during the first Presidential Debate with Democratic Presidential nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden on September 29, 2020, at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, OH.
In response, Proud Boys leader-organizer Joe Biggs (a now-6-times convicted Federal felon) wrote on the now-defunct far-right-wing social media platform Parler, “Trump basically said to go fuck them up! This makes me so happy!”
“Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!”
— POTUS Donald Trump, tweet December 19, 2020, 1:42AM
Just as Charles Manson preyed upon weak, young abused women to coerce them into his fold and further manipulate them as a means to his end, so too does Trump prey upon the weak, the marginalized, and unsuspecting, and warmly embraces them into his feign flock in order to manipulate them for his own self interests.
“I love the poorly educated!”
— Donald Trump, after victory in the February 2016 Nevada Republican caucuses
In response, respected political observer and polling analyst Nate Silver on his website FiveThirtyEight dot com noted that Trump’s victory in the November General Election was primarily innervated and predicted by “education, not income,” and noted that “educational levels are the critical factor in predicting shifts in the vote between 2012 and 2016. You can come to that conclusion with a relatively simple analysis, like the one I’ve conducted above, or by using fancier methods.”
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Friday, November 10, 2023
It’s painfully obvious that Putin is controlling Tuberville, playing him like a foolball. Yes, FOOLball.
The worthless hot steaming pile of filthy, stinking pig excrement from Alabama known as “Tommy Tuberville” is a FRIEND OF VLADIMIR PUTIN, DOING HIS BIDDING.
Yes, Alabama Repugnicunt Senator Tommy Tuberville is doing Putin’s bidding.
Traitor Tuberville’s actions are an important part of Putin’s Master Plan to weaken America militarily by striking at its center of operations — senior level career military officers — and to demoralize those same members, and others, to weaken their will to fight.
It’s classical psychological warfare tactics.
Welcome to the “modern” Repugnicunt party!
Make America Weak Again
Helping America become a “shithole country.”
Putin elected him.
Americans did not.
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Senators Try To Get Around Traitor Tuberville’s Blockade Of Military Promotions
Traitor Tommy Tuberville, a Repugnicunt Alabama Senator, is 9 months into his one-man blockade of several hundreds of military promotions — which he says he is doing to protest Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Let’s talk about American National Security for just a moment.
And like it, or not, national security is inextricably intertwined with politics — on BOTH sides.
So yes, it WILL involve some DIRECT discussion of politics.
Hamas is a terrorist organization, pure and simple, and MUST be destroyed — there’s NO question about it.
But there’s an even greater question which has arisen from Hamas’ brutal savagery and recent massacre:
How did Hamas manage to escape detection by Israel’s “Iron Dome” air defense system?
Read on.
On Wednesday, October 12, 2023, at an annual meeting of Club 47 USA, a group of Trump re-election supporters, who met at the Palm Beach County Convention Center, in West Palm Beach, FL, Donald Trump aired a list of seemingly disparate grievances, which all apparently point to Trump’s meeting with Russians in the White House, and said in part:
“But I’ll never forget… I’ll never forget that Bibi Netanyahu let us down. That was a very terrible thing. I will say that. And ah, so I see, sometimes, the intelligence — you talk about the intelligence, and you talk about some of the things that went wrong over the last week — eh, they gotta’ straighten it out, because they’re fighting — potentially a very big force, they’re fighting potentially Iran — and when they have people saying the wrong things, everything they say is being digested by these people, because they’re vicious and they’re smart — and boy are they vicious, because nobody’s ever seen the kind of sight that we’ve seen, nobody’s ever seen it — but they cannot play games. So we were disappointed by that, very disappointed, but we did the job ourself [sic] and it was absolute precision, magnificent, [a] beautiful job, then Bibi tried to take credit for it, so THAT didn’t make me feel too good, but that’s alright, but they gotta’ straighten themselves out.”
“You know, Hezbollah is very smart. They’re all very smart.”
Judging from how Hamas’ attack occurred, apparently, Hamas knew how to get around Israel’s Iron Dome defenses — because they did so successfully, by using motorcycles, civilian automobiles, and most notably, motorized paragliders — which typically fly slow and low enough to avoid radar detection, unlike missiles. It wasn’t the first time paragliders have been used to infiltrate Israel. On 25 November 1987, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command launched 2 paragliders from southern Lebanon, 1 of which landed in Israel, as reported by the Washington Post, while another terrorist then attacked an Israeli military base near Kiryat Shmona, killed 6 Israeli soldiers and wounded another 7 before being shot and killed.
Video screenshot of a Hamas terrorist infiltrating Israel using a powered paraglider October 7, 2023 during their attack.
However, it wasn’t as if Israel and the world — especially and particularly the intelligence community — didn’t have any idea, for they did.
In addition, on May 6, 2015, 9:40 PM (GMT+3), the Israel National News – Arutz Sheva media group, reported in a story headlined:
“Hamas is recruiting Palestinian students in Malaysia to carry out attacks on Israel using paragliding equipment, a report said.“
They wrote in part:
“Hamas is developing an air attack capability – by recruiting Palestinian students in Malaysia to carry out attacks on Israel using paragliding equipment, [stated] a report by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center. The report reveals two incidents in which Hamas was found to be conducting training of Palestinian students for such attacks in that country.”
Futher, it’s not beyond the scope of the pale to imagine that Hamas “probably“ learned how to avoid detection by Israel’s air defense system courtesy of Iran. And how did Iran get that information? Why, they almost certainly got that information came from Russia. And from where or who, pray tell, did Russia get it? Sadly, for all the world, it very much looks like it was none other than Donald Trump, and at the request or suggestion of Putin.
Of course, it is knowledge of some not-widely-known fact, and simply obtaining, or having details of plans, that such highly sensitive information on terrorist activities would be something only a “deep insider,” or close personal friend of, would possibly know, so one would imagine that its sharing wouldn’t be so brazen.
Or, could it?
It was 6 years ago, on May 10, 2017, that then-President Donald Trump met at the White House with Read the rest of this entry »
“It’s probably arising from a deeper-felt feeling that society is changing too fast, and not in a direction that people appreciate — and, also these new measures that probably have to be implemented to protect the environment are also being enforced upon us for no good reasons by outside forces.”
Wouter van der Brug is Professor of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. His research interests focus on comparative research in collective political behavior, in particular electoral behavior, right-wing populism and political parties. He published monographs, edited volumes and more than 80 scientific articles in various international journals, such as the European Journal of Political Research, the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, West European Politics, etc.
“People in Holland have the feeling that the government’s needs are more important than the needs of the citizens. A lot of people are worried about their future. They’re worried about, ‘can my children buy a house in the coming years?’ They’re worried about all the costs that are soaring, the costs of food and gas. People can’t pay their bills anymore because everything is getting so expensive and they find in us a party that they trust.”
— Caroline van der Plas, Member of Parliament, Founder of the Farmer-Citizen Movement party, in Dutch, the BoerBurgerBeweging, and acronym, BBB
Dutch farmer Wilbert van der Post is worried that the Dutch government’s new nitrogen reduction rules will force him, a fourth-generation farmer, out of business. He plans to vote for the Farmer-Citizens Movement, known in the Netherlands by its acronym, BBB, on election day in November. – Rob Schmitz/NPR
The Netherlands is one of the world’s Top 5 greatest food exporting nations (several reliably authoritative sources place it 2nd in value and volume), and for a country with over 17 million inhabitants (over 10 million more than Maryland), and about the same square area of Maryland (which is 16,000²miles+/-), that’s a significant accomplishment. The United States, of course, leads the world in food exports, far and away eclipsing the Netherlands value and volume, by at least 3.5 times. Comparatively, New York State, with 19.6 million, and Pennsylvania with 12.9 million residents, are the 2 states whose populations are nearest the Netherlands.
The Netherlands government states that “the Dutch agricultural sector exports some € 65 billion of agricultural produce annually,” which comprises 17.5% of all Dutch exports, and fully 10% of the Dutch economy’s GDP and employment is derived from its horticultural and agricultural sector, while 25% of its exports are shipped to Germany, its greatest trade partner.
Since the 1600s the Dutch have long been known for their trading and shipping prowess, and in 2017, estimates were that the agricultural sector of the nation’s economy comprised about 1.6% of GDP, while services and industry comprised 70.2% and 17.9%, respectively. Last year (2022), Dutch food exports increased 9.4%, which was valued at over €100 billion. The year prior (2021), Germany imported the most Dutch food, valued at €26.3 billion, followed by Belgium €12.1 billion, France €8.6 billion, and the UK with €8.6 billion.
The Dutch share the Germans’ appreciation of efficiency, and increased efficiencies in agriculture have contributed significantly to increased production and profitability, with reliance upon greenhouses — one company has 24,000 acres under canopy (an area roughly 2x the size of Manhattan) — to supply enough vegetables to feed the nation, and to export, much of which is bound for Western European nations. In fact, on average, Dutch farms typically use only ½ gallon of water to grow around a pound of tomatoes, while the global average is over 28 gallons. The greenhouses use less fertilizer and significantly less water than traditional outdoor farming in soil, and can grow in an area of 1 acre what would take at least 10 acres of traditional farming to produce.
Wageningen Economic Research and Statistics Netherlands, on behalf of the Netherlands Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, found that in 2021, Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Thursday, August 17, 2023
Politico:
In Federal court, Alabama Republicans again defend not creating a 2nd majority Black district.
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Alabama is ALWAYS “itching for a fight” because residents feel as if someone is forcing them to do something against their self-interest, or will, or that they’re going to suffer some kind of loss.
In order to motivate Alabamans, they must feel like they’re against something, that something, or someone, is going to take something away from them. It matters not what — it could be their household garbage — but they will no longer be in control of it, because someone is going to take it away from them, and therefore, they must oppose that oppressive, governmental edict-by-force issued from upon high by an alien enemy power, that they must “draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny.”
The astute will recognize, no doubt, the line uttered by the now-late former Governor George C. Wallace in his infamous “stand in the schoolhouse door” speech at Foster Auditorium in June 1963, on the campus of the University of Alabama, in Tuscaloosa.
Harmony and peace are “adults-only beverages” and Alabama cannot yet drink to the fullest from that wellspring, that fountain of life, a refreshingly cool, bubbling artesian well, and with all its other infantile behaviors, still suckles the teat of insecurity, demanding to be diapered and fed, to have attention given to it regardless, still incapable of sleeping through the night.
Mike Rogers-R,AL3 is restrained by Richard Hudson-R,NC8 from attacking Matt Gaetz-R,FL1 after Mike Rogers confronted Matt Gaetz because Gaetz voted “PRESENT” in the 14th round of balloting for Speaker of the House (SOTH), late Friday night, January 6, 2023. Kevin McCarthy-R,CA20 was finally elected as Speaker of the House (SOTH) on the 15th round of voting.
Alabama loved George Wallace.
They loved him so very much, that they elected him as Governor an unprecedented 4 times… not counting the time he was the puppet master, pulling the strings of his wife Lurleen’s campaign and her brief time in office as Governess.
Wallace was the state’s 45th individual to have served as Governor, and was elected as Governor in 1962, 1970, 1974, and 1982.
Later in life, after suffering near death following Arthur Bremer’s assassination attempt upon him while campaigning for the Office of President, Wallace had been paralyzed from the waist down by a bullet which had lodged in his spinal cord, and claimed to have changed afteerward, to have had a Christian religious conversion experience before he won election to an unprecedented nonconsecutive 4th term in office as Governor. As part of that conversion experience, he expressed contrition for his wicked deeds towards the Negro/Black community in Alabama — which were most notably expressed as bigotry, racism and segregation — directly to the Black community in Birmingham, Montgomery, and elsewhere, from the pulpits of their churches.
They believed him.
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham examined polling data, voter turnout, and other official records from the 1982 General Election, found a level of support for Wallace among the Black community so very great, so that without it, Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Thursday, August 17, 2023
IN YOUR OPINION…
What are we, as a nation, a government… what HAVE we been doing WRONG, so that, in the space of the past 50, or 60 years, instead of minimizing substance abuse and associated problems, INSTEAD, we have spawned and cultivated global narcotrafficking terrorist cartels, which have proliferated exceedingly abundantly and are now a root cause of many crimes overall?
Isn’t 50, or 60 years long enough to get a clue as to EXACTLY WHAT we’re doing WRONG — AND CHANGE!?!
The LIES that’ve been peddled and foisted upon us are blatantly contradicted by the government’s own research findings (via the NSDUH, SAMHSA, et al):
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Saturday, July 22, 2023
“Your Cadillac Has got a wheel in the ditch And a wheel on the track.”
Despite the fact that an adult human being may be in the form of a 70+ year old body, that is neither proof, nor evidence of, maturity.
The presupposition, however, is that emotional/psychological development parallels physical development, that it is unified, or integrated in the person.
However, that’s not always the case.
Some individuals are still developmentally stuck at the age of 10. Their behavior tells any observer everything they truly need to know. Their selfish insecurities are always on full display, and even the most casual of observers can easily and readily note that something is grossly awry.
Alabama was the 22nd state to have been admitted to the union, which occurred in 1819, having been first separated from the Mississippi Territory 2 years earlier, when Mississippi obtained statehood. One would imagine, nay hope, that after 209 years, the people would have figured out a few things. Sadly, that is not the case in Alabama. Even their 1901 bloated state constitution — by far, the lengthiest of any in the world, and which voters rescinded and replaced in 2022 — is evidence of that fact. The new constitution has 11 amendments.
While Alabama’s official state motto is “Audemus jura nostra defendere” (Latin, “we dare defend our rights”), its unofficial state motto is “Thank God for Mississippi,” for even though it was separated from the Mississippi Territory in 1817 by Congressional action, it could be thought of as a somewhat unsuccessful separation of conjoined twins. Not all surgeries are successful, nor achieve the desired or intended results.
Alabama’s 45th Governor of Alabama, having served two nonconsecutive terms and two consecutive terms as a Democrat may be best known for saying, “I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”
Alabama is one such example.
For many, there are 2 things that immediately come to mind when hearing the word “Alabama”: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Sunday, July 9, 2023
Republicans, at least those of a sound mind, are whistling past the graveyard because of what now seems to be a lack of support by the unwashed masses (i.e., being those who supported his candidacy the first, and second times), for Mr. Mar-a-Lago MAGA Man’s third run at the Oval Office. Some of them, at least.
As with any candidate, particularly those who have ever held any public office, as he has, support is often an ever-changing thing. You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.* And the Carnival Barker in Chief knows, understands, and realizes that quite well… which is why, in part, he chose to have a campaign rally in a teeny-tiny town in South Carolina — Pickens, a town encompassing a mere 3 square miles (that’s not a typo — THREE POINT ZERO FIVE), with 3388 population. Pickens is the county seat of Pickens County, South Carolina — population, 131,404 — and is situated in the state’s western horn, which northern border abuts North Carolina for approximately 8.5 miles.
There is, of course, a Wal-Mart Super Center and a Tractor Supply store in town.
Things just LOOK better, as in appearing as if there are massive numbers of people, much like pouring one gallon of water into a pint-sized container; the cup runneth over. On the other hand, pouring a pint into a gallon container is hardly impressive, especially if the containers depicted appear “equal” in size (though they’re not).
But those who have their heads screwed on straight know better than to lend their support to a Federally-indicted candidate for public office — one who undoubtedly will be facing MORE Federal charges, including some from the State of Georgia.
But the Prevaricator in Chief knows full well that what things LOOK like, i.e., what they appear to be, are often NOT what they are in Trump World. And that is why he loves the charade of appearances. It is a form of manipulation — he is the corrupt potter, and you are the malleable manipulated clay.
Think of it like a magician’s show — it’s all sleight of hand.
So, Faux Newz recently put a spin onto the greater matter, that being the question of who the 2024 GOP Presidential candidate nominee will be, and interviewed at least TWO people in South Carolina Republican politics. That, after Marquette University Law School published their 75th Wisconsin survey, which revealed VERY unfavorable findings for Badger State Republicans — the worst being the discovery that a significant number of GOP voters would vote FOR the incumbent POTUS, Joseph R. Biden, Jr., rather than for either The Florida Man, or his rival, Chief Wanna’ Be Again.
When asked “Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of Donald Trump or haven’t you heard enough about them yet?” an astounding 65% of respondents replied Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Tuesday, June 20, 2023
A: Nixon’s “War on Drugs.”
In my lifetime, on the matter of illicit substances, I have “flipped & flopped” from one side to the other so many times, that it made me dizzy.
It all began in earnest with Richard Nixon’s “War on Drugs,” and ~everyone~ knows how successful that has been. It was, and remains, the original game of “Whac-A-Mole.”
Prohibition was equally successful. The only difference is, that Nixon’s version bred & cultivated international global terrorist–narcotrafficking criminal cartels, has co$t at lea$t $1 TRILLION (and counting), and claimed millions of lives, directly & indirectly, primarily in gang wars, and enforcement attempts – much less so in OD deaths. The CDC states that, in the past 20 years, there have been very nearly 1 million OverDose deaths in the United States.
Simply put, to continue what we’re doing and expecting different results, is the very definition of insanity.
Worse yet, is to know that it was introduced as a political election & re-election tool.
“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: The antiwar left and Black people.
“You understand what I’m saying?
“We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.
“We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.
“Did we know we were lying about the drugs?
“Of course we did.”
Credit: REUTERS/Katrina Manson
Mr. Baum opined, writing that, “Nixon’s invention of the war on drugs as a political tool was cynical, but every president since — Democrat and Republican alike — has found it equally useful for one reason or another. Addiction is a hideous condition, but it’s rare. Most of what we hate and fear about drugs — the violence, the overdoses, the criminality — derives from prohibition, not drugs. And there will be no victory in this war either; even the Drug Enforcement Administration concedes that the drugs it fights are becoming cheaper and more easily available.”
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Mary Trump, whom is Donald’s niece, relates a story from their childhood in which Donald was mercilessly despising his brother — her father, Fred Trump Jr., and would not stop. “Yes. Yeah. That’s one of our favorite family stories. They were really young kids, and I think Donald was maybe 7. And one of his favorite things to do was torment my Uncle Rob, who was a couple years younger. And it was, you know, my grandmother’s cooking dinner, and getting the table ready, and Donald was just being merciless. And Maryanne and my dad could not get him to stop.” “And finally, my dad had no other option but to pick up a bowl of mashed potatoes and just dump it on his little brother’s head. And it ended the — it ended the fight. But I think it also started something, because Donald was humiliated by it, as evidenced by the way he reacts to the story now, is no sense of humor about it whatsoever.” “Yeah. And we know that he doesn’t like the story, so I think it was a bit of a dig. It’s also a way to remember my dad in a way that’s not charged. ‘Cause all of us except Donald think it’s funny and sweet. But he did not — he doesn’t like that story.”
Here’s a thought that few, if any, are discussing:
Before Trump goes to trial, his lawyers settle for a plea deal to lesser, misdemeanor offenses, IN ADDITION TO an agreement to:
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Monday, June 12, 2023
Mister “Grab ’em by the pussy” is now being grabbed by his pussy and apparently, doesn’t like it so well.
“I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful—I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.”
Maybe it’s because Special Prosecutor Jack Smith didn’t use some Tic Tacs.
TRUMP’s Public Statements on Classified Information
As a candidate for President of the United States, TRUMP made the following public statements, among others, about classified information:
a. On August 18, 2016, TRUMP stated, “In my administration I’m going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information. No one will be above the law.”
b. On September 6, 2016, TRUMP stated, “We also need to fight this battle by collecting intelligence and then protecting, protecting our classified secrets. … We can’t have someone in the Oval Office who doesn’t understand the meaning of the word confidential or classified.”
c. On September 7, 2016, TRUMP stated, “[O]ne of the first things we must do is to enforce all classification rules and to enforce all laws relating to the handling of classified information.”
TOP SECRET government documents in “storage” in Trump’s bathroom in Mar-a-Lago — maybe he needed some reading material, eh?
d. On September 19, 2016, TRUMP stated, “We also need the best protection of classified information.”
[EDITOR’S NOTE: Trump made that remark at a campaign event in Fort Meyers, Florida, and more fully said, “We also need the best protection of classified information. That is the worst situation. Hillary’s private email scandal, which put our classified information in the reach of our enemies, disqualifies her from the presidency. Totally.”]
e. On November 3, 2016, TRUMP stated, “Service members here in North Carolina have risked their lives to acquire classified intelligence to protect our country.”
As President of the United States, on July 26, 2018, TRUMP issued the following statement about classified information:
As the head of the executive branch and Commander in Chief, have a unique, Constitutional responsibility to protect the Nation’s classified information, including by controlling access to it. . . . More broadly, the issue of [a former executive branch official’s] security clearance raises larger questions about the practice of former officials maintaining access to our Nation’s most sensitive secrets long after their time in Government has ended. Such access is particularly inappropriate when former officials have transitioned into highly partisan positions and seek to use real or perceived access to sensitive information to validate their political attacks. Any access granted to our Nation’s secrets should be in furtherance of national, not personal, interests.
“In July 2021, at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey (“The Bedminster Club”), during an audio-recorded meeting with a writer, a publisher, and two members of his staff, none of whom possessed a security clearance, TRUMP showed and described a “plan of attack” that TRUMP said was prepared for him by the Department of Defense and a senior military official. TRUMP told the individuals that the plan was “highly confidential” and “secret.” TRUMP also said,“as president I could have declassified it,”and, “Now I can’t, you know, but this is still a secret.””
What else has Trump said about national security and classified information?
“Crooked Hillary Clinton and her team ‘were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.’ Not fit!”
— July 6, 2016, Trump tweet
“We’ve seen a former secretary of state lie to Congress about her illegal email scheme, risk innocent American lives and bring dishonor onto our government, great, great dishonor. In my administration, I’m going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information.”
— August 16, 2016, campaign event in West Bend, Wisconsin
“On political corruption, we are going to restore honor to our government. In my administration, I’m going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information. No one will be above the law.”
— August 18, 2016, campaign event in Charlotte, North Carolina
“One of the first things we must do is to enforce all classification rules and to enforce all laws relating to the handling of classified information. Hillary Clinton put her emails on a secret server nobody knew about except for the man that was giving the Fifth, remember? What ever happened to him? Where is he? What happened to him? Where did he go? He pled the Fifth. Never heard – that’s the end of him…She put her emails on a secret server to cover up her pay-for- play scandal in the State Department. Nothing threatens the integrity of our democracy more than when government officials put their public office up for sale.”
— September 7, 2016, campaign event in Philadelphia
“We also need the best protection of classified information. That is the worst situation. Hillary’s private email scandal, which put our classified information in the reach of our enemies, disqualifies her from the presidency. Totally.”
— September 19, 2016, campaign event in Fort Meyers, Florida
“Wikileaks proves even the Clinton campaign knew Crooked, mishandled classified info, but no one gets charged? RIGGED!”
— October 17, 2016, tweet
Trump is a good carnival barker; he toes the banner line.
A Texas House panel adopted 20 articles of impeachment against Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday.
The decision by the House General Investigating Committee comes a day after the panel heard from investigators who shared a long list of Paxton’s alleged illegal acts aimed at protecting a political donor.
“After a period of time for your review and reflections, I intend to call up the resolution adopting the articles of impeachment,” Chairman Andrew Murr, R-Junction, told House members Thursday evening.
It’s unclear when the full House might vote on the impeachment resolution. The final day of the legislative session is Monday.
If the House votes to impeach, the Republican attorney general would be suspended from his role pending action from the Texas Senate.
The articles of impeachment include disregard of official duty, misapplication of public resources, constitutional bribery and obstruction of justice.
The panel’s decision to move to impeach comes after four House-hired investigators revealed on Wednesday they uncovered evidence of multiple violations of the law and Paxton’s oath of office, including abuse of official capacity, misuse of official information, and retaliation and official oppression.
Many of the allegations were previously known, but Wednesday was the first time they were discussed publicly and in such detail.
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Tuesday, May 16, 2023
By now, unless you’ve been living in a cave in Tora Bora, or some other remote locale with little-to-no contact with the outside world…
Such as, for example, at ADX Florence, aka United States Penitentiary, Administrative Maximum Facility (USP Florence ADMAX), in Fremont County, near Florence, Colorado, where, as of April 17, 2023, 326 male inmates reside, among them:
Unabomber/domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski (now aged 80, transferred to Federal Medical Center, Butner (FMC Butner) near Research Triangle area of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill,) etc. [NOTE: Ted Kaczynski died in custody June 10, 2023, 26 calendar days after this was written. ed.]
Following is an excerpted portion of the transcript from the PBS investigative journalism program Frontline — the portion in which is demonstrated that CLARENCE THOMAS COMMITTED PERJURY — while under oath — when he denied allegations made against him by Anita Hill before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which was then Chaired by Joe Biden of Delaware.
The “picture painted” of Clarence Thomas in the program is first, as an abused child, ostracized because of the very dark pigment of his skin, abandoned first by his father, then by his mother, and later lived with his grandfather, who paid for him to attend a Catholic school, followed by seminary matriculation, then dropped out because of the verbal abuse he received from his fellow seminarians because of his dark skin pigment, and his speech (Gullah Geechee), etc., and when he dropped out because of such abuse, his grandfather kicked him out of his house for it; and along the way, he was becoming an angry young man who idolized Malcolm X (memorizing many of his speeches, etc.), participated in the militaristic Black Panther movement, rioted, etc.
Clarence Thomas married his first wife because she was the first woman to show him kindness. His life has been one lengthy series of rejection, after rejection, after rejection, until he was named to the Supreme Court, where he is still an Angry Black Man.
Transcript Clarence and Ginni Thomas: Politics, Power and the Supreme Court
Some of the key people in the following excerpts are:
• Clarence Thomas — Yale Law ’74 • Anita Hill — Attorney-adviser to Clarence Thomas who was Assistant Secretary, Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education, and later his Assistant at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 1982; Yale Law ’80
• Joe Biden — Senator, Delaware-D, 1973-2009, Syracuse Law ’68 • Linda Greenhouse — The New York Times, 1978-2008
• Marc Fisher — The Washington Post • Jane Mayer — Investigative Journalist, New Yorker
• Senator Alan Simpson (R-WY), 1979-97 • Senator John “Jack” Danforth (R-MO), 1976-1995 — Yale Law & Divinity grad ’63
• Jill Abramson — Former Executive Editor, The New York Times • Michael Fletcher — Co-author, Supreme Discomfort
• Orion Douglass, Sr. — friend, born Savannah, GA, (former Holy Cross classmate, similar academic journey as Clarence Thomas, scholarship to HC, law school, eventually becoming a judge) • Gordon Davis — Holy Cross classmate
• Glenn Loury — Friend, Professor of Economics, Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences • Lester Johnson — Holy Cross student & friend
• Lillian McEwen — dated Clarence Thomas during his time at the EEOC • John Bolton — Yale Law classmate
• Angela Wright — Former Director of Communications, EEOC • Randall Kennedy — Professor, Harvard Law School
MALE VOICE [reading news article]:
You’ve heard about Clarence Thomas, but not by name. He is one of the Black people now on center stage in American politics: He is a Republican.
NARRATOR:
Thomas would put himself in the spotlight, making controversial comments in The Washington Post.
MALE VOICE [reading news article]:
Thomas is also a man who has a sister on welfare back in his home state of Georgia, but he feels that he must be opposed to welfare because of the dependency it can breed in a person. “She [his sister] gets mad when the mailman is late with her welfare check,” he says. “That is how dependent she is. What’s worse is that now her kids feel entitled to the check too. They have no motivation for doing better or getting out of that situation.”
LESTER JOHNSON:
It hit pretty hard. Folks in Savannah, their first reaction was, “Why would you talk about your sister in public?” You know, we don’t do that. That’s not Black Savannah. If you’ve got something to say about your sister, you don’t like what she did or whatever, you don’t publicize that. You keep that in the family.
NARRATOR:
But in Reagan’s Washington, the article propelled Thomas.
JILL ABRAMSON, Co-author, Strange Justice:
Ronald Reagan was famous for denouncing welfare queens. So, wow, here is a Yale Law School graduate who’s African American and who’s talking about how terrible it is that his sister was on welfare. That was like manna from heaven for Ronald Reagan.
NARRATOR:
Reagan elevated Thomas to run the EEOC—the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
GLENN LOURY, Professor, Brown University:
This is a real journey that Clarence Thomas makes, from modest, humble origins to the top of one’s profession and, ultimately, to a leading position in American government.
NARRATOR:
Now, for the first time in his life, Clarence Thomas was in charge. But people who knew him then saw disturbing changes.
LILLIAN McEWEN:
His personality, his aggressiveness, sexually, everything changed. He became a different person after he got that job. He stopped drinking alcohol, so he was not self-medicating anymore, and his mood swings were quite obvious.
ANGELA WRIGHT, Director of Communications, EEOC:
He never really seemed to be anyone who took any particular joy in anything, unless it was Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Thursday, May 11, 2023
New York State’s Republican U.S. Representative for the Empire State’s 3rd Congressional District, GEORGE ANTHONY DEVOLDER SANTOS, also known as “George Santos,” Defendant.
There is, I dare say, no one who “likes” him. To be more succinct, people (his constituents especially and particularly) do not appreciate who he is, and what he has done, which is to consistently lie, i.e., fabricate falsehoods, exclusively about himself.
And the way they got him was to NOT VOTE.
Literally.
The sheer number of people who DID NOT VOTE in the 2022 midterm election in New York’s 3rd Congressional District is the EXCLUSIVE reason why George Santos was elected. Period. It’s THEIR fault, by omission.
Percent of households with incomes of $200,000 or more: 30.4%
At the time of Forbes’ writing (10/21/22, linked above), it was represented by Tom Suozzi, a Democrat, who opted to campaign for governor of the Empire State instead of for Congressional reelection. George Santos, who had campaigned for that same office in the election immediately prior, i.e., 2020, was elected in the November 8, 2022 General Election, and took the Oath of Office January 3, 2023.
After 2020 redistricting, the district includes northern Long Island from Great Neck in the west, to Dix Hills and Kings Park in the east.
In the 2020 General Election, George Santos campaigned against Tom Suozzi, who campaigned as a Democrat / Working Families Party / Independence Party. Tom Suozzi won, 208,412 to 161,907. In the 2022 mid-term election, Republican George Santos won against Democrat Robert Zimmerman, who campaigned under the banner of the Democrat / Working Families Party, by 142,017 to 120,060. Put another way, Santos won the 2022 election with FEWER VOTES (12.2%) than he received in 2020.
Again, there’s ONLY one reason why Santos won in 2022: People did NOT vote. Altogether, a little over 101,000 FEWER people voted in the Zimmerman v Santos race in CD3 in 2022, than in the 2020 Suozzi v Santos race.
Defendant George Santos, a now-Federally-indited Republican U.S. Representative of NY CD-3. This is NOT a mugshot, but rather, is a U.S. Passport-style photograph, which does NOT allow the subject to wear glasses, caps, or uniforms when the image is made.
Of course, there was is another chronically habitual liar, who became the 45th POTUS for essentially the same reason — people didn’t vote. Though there were more popular votes for the losing candidate than for the winning candidate, Electoral College votes decide the ultimate winner — NOT the popular vote. Again, Presidential candidates are NOT elected by popular vote, but that’s a discussion for another day. And it’s NOT the first time it’s ever happened, either.
More to the point, George Santos now has an OFFICIAL new name:
Defendant.
He seems to enjoy changing his name, and practically every other aspect about his life which he has fraudulently fabricated. Some news outlets have generously used the term “fabulist” to describe him, which is, in my considered estimation, not merely inaccurate, but entirely too kind.
Here’s why:
The term “fabulist,” is defined as: 1. A composer of fables.
The 2nd definition, which is not the preferred, or primary usage, is “A teller of tales; a liar.” The word “fabulist” stems from the French word “fabuliste,” which was further derived from the Latin word “fābula,” meaning fable — and a fable is defined as follows: 1. A usually short narrative making an edifying or cautionary point and often employing as characters animals that speak and act like humans.
2. A story about legendary persons and exploits.
3. A falsehood; a lie.
Clearly, we see that a “fabulist” is not primarily, nor necessarily, a bad person. Jack and the Beanstalk, The Three Little Pigs, Little Red Ridinghood, and “The Boy Who Cried ‘WOLF!'” (properly “The Shepherd Boy & the Wolf“) are all “tall tales,” allegorical stories that teach a moral. And hopefully, most everyone knows that “The Shepherd Boy & the Wolf” is an Aesop’s fable, and the moral it teaches: DO NOT LIE.
So fables, and the associated related term fabulist, as one who tells fables, are much too generous terms to characterize the Defendant, which is the name the United States Government has given to him, and is the term we’ll use from here, forward. Of course, the more blunted “goddamn liar” is exceedingly more succinct, though unofficial, so we’ll use the OFFICIAL term — DEFENDANT.
Defendant has been charged with violating the following laws:
SANTOS, also known as “George Santos” did transmit and cause to be transmitted, by means of wire communication in interstate and foreign commerce, one or more writings, signs, signals, pictures and sounds, as st forth below:
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Sunday, May 7, 2023
One of Texas’ most recent laws — Senate Bill 8, signed into law 19 May 2021 — which essentially turns the general public into vigilantes, and establishes a subjective quid pro quo, presuming — without evidence — that a woman is: 1.) Pregnant, and; 2.) That she’s undergone a legal, private, medical procedure – an abortion — is so bizarre that it defies imagination.
The Lone Star State’s Banana Republican Governor, a wheelchair-bound crippled hypocrite named Greg Abbott, also most recently deflected in a most bizarre manner when asked a question by a reporter September 7, 2021:
“Why force a rape or incest victim to carry a pregnancy to term?”
The Governor replied, saying:
“Aaah… it doesn’t require that at all, because it, obviously, it provides at least six weeks… aaah, for a person, aaah… to be able to, aaah… get an abortion. So for one, it doesn’t provide that. That said, however, let’s make something very clear: Rape… is a crime. And Texas will work tirelessly to make sure that we eliminate all rapists from the streets of Texas, by aggressively going out and… ah… arresting them, and prosecuting them, and, and getting them off the streets. So, goal number one in the state of Texas, is to eliminate rape, so there’s no woman, no person, will be a victim of rape.”
The also-crippled-in-the-head Guvnah Greggy-poo gives a good straw man argument defense. The reporter should have followed up by asking how the law reduces rape.
And just to remind readers what a “straw man argument” is, it goes like this:
A ‘straw man’ — an effigy, a fictitious, make-believe, person-like character — is established, and then, verbally pummeled as being the responsible party for whatever ails or problems exist. The ‘straw man’ needn’t be a person, of course, but it helps. A ‘straw man’ could be sharks, such as “sharks are the cause of death in oceans, not only because they eat fish and other animals like seals, but are known to kill and eat humans, as well. Therefore, sharks are evil, and because sharks will eat your babies, and your pregnant women, sharks must be killed… because sharks kill and eat babies and pregnant women… and the elderly. You don’t want your granny eaten by a shark, do you? Save your babies! Save your pregnant women! Save your granny! KILL ALL SHARKS!” The speaker establishes an effigy, and verbally pummels it, INSTEAD OF directly addressing the question.
While that example of a straw man argument should suffice to demonstrate the speciousness of such rhetorical devices, it should also be borne in mind that Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Saturday, April 29, 2023
Texas Sheriff on small town massacre:
Dead Mothers “were actually trying to take care of the babies, and keep them babies alive.”
It wasn’t on a dark desert highway, there was no cool wind in anyone’s hair, and there was no sweet smell of colitas rising up through the air. Instead, it was after 11:30 at night, in a quaint, middle-class Texas neighborhood in a small, quiet town under 7500, and the stench of burnt gunpowder, blood, and death permeated the house.
Law enforcement officials remove bodies from a house in Cleveland, TX, the scene of grisly mass murder where 5 people were shot Friday night, April 28, 2023, in San Jacinto County.
By the time San Jacinto County Texas Sheriff Greg Capers was called by a frantic resident to the 1500-1800 square foot house at 171 Walter Drive, in a “regular country neighborhood” ironically named Trails End Subdivision, 5 people — 3 women, 1 man, and an 8-year-old boy — had been slaughtered in their residence by a next-door neighbor, all shot in the head, execution style.
This is 8-year-old Daniel Enrique Laso and his mother Sonia Argentina Guzman, age 25, who were both shot and killed execution-style by Francisco Oropesa in Cleveland, Texas, late Friday night, April 28, 2023, in San Jacinto County.
Deceased are: Sonia Argentina Guzman, 25; Diana Velazquez Alvarado, 21; Julisa Molina Rivera, 31; Jose Jonathan Casarez, 18; and Daniel Enrique Laso, 8.
The 5 sole survivors included 3 children.
Though it had been a fairly common occurrence for many men in the neighborhood to party and whoop it up with guns while drunk on the weekends, 38-year-old Francisco Oropeza was celebrating early, and neighbors, weary of hearing gunshots late into the night, had complained to Francisco that their family had a baby trying to sleep.
Sheriff Capers said it all started out whenvictimized family members walked up to the fence and asked Francisco to stop shooting in his front yard, followed by a call to 911 about harassment just after 11:30PM on Friday night. “Deputies have come over and Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Sunday, April 23, 2023
What do Vanna White, and Pat Sajak of the television gameshow Wheel of Fortune, a gay British Scientist, an American science educator-turned author/publisher, and World War II have in common?
You’re about to find out.
HEADLINE:
The U.S. has evacuated diplomats in Sudan amid fierce fighting : NPR
Gripe the First 1.):
WTF?!? Evacuate 70 diplomats FIRST, and totally screw the 16,000 Americans resident in the nation because it’s “too dangerous,” and merely tell them to “shelter in place”? GODDAMN! THAT IS NOT HOW WE AMERICANS DO THINGS! Whose cockamamie, harebrained off-kilter idea was THAT? Ambassador to Sudan John Godfrey? Secretary of State Anthony Blinken? Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III? U.S. Army General Mark A. Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff? POTUS BIDEN? EXACTLY WHO gave the go ahead for such a cowardly act?
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Thursday, April 13, 2023
Believe it, or else, cannabis is among the least governmentally-regulated consumer items. Over-the-counter/non-prescription medications like aspirin, beverage alcohol, and gasoline, are far more regulated.
The lack of regulation is, at least when it comes to THC, the ostensible primary reason why it’s sold and consumed… as it has been for tens of thousands of years — long before POTUS Richard Nixon came along with his “War on Drugs.”
Anecdotally, various news stories in states where it is legal, in one form, or another (medical, and/or recreational), have found that significant discrepancies exist in the reported, or claimed, concentration of THC, versus the levels found when independent analyses were performed.
Despite “seed-to-sale” tracking systems, which are typically for taxation accounting purposes, some states have seemed to have unofficially adopted a laissez-faire approach toward the sale of cannabis, meaning that while there are some laws on the books regulating cannabis, some of them largely go unenforced, except for the ones concerning taxation. Spirituous beverage is more highly monitored and taxed at the federal, state, and local levels.
A recently published, peer-reviewed scientific analysis found that, in samples obtained in three cities in the State of Colorado, the claimed, or purported levels of THC on the packaging labels were significantly inflated.
In a recent research article published in the peer-reviewed analytical scientific journal PLOS One (an Open Access, i.e., accessible without charge, science venue covering 200+ subjects published by the Public Library Of Science), 23 samples of 12 differently-named cannabis flower types from 10 dispensaries in 3 Colorado cities, found that the THC levels claimed on labels differed from 2% to 56.5% from the observed levels as tested using High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) when performed by a third-party lab. Only 3 samples fell within the reported range stated on the packaging.
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Friday, April 7, 2023
Becky Pepper-Jackson has presented as a girl since fourth grade. The 12-year-old is at the center of a legal dispute that is at the Supreme Court. Credit: ACLU of West Virginia
Hey, I’m ALL FOR transgender & LGBTQIA folks, indeed, for ALL people — I don’t give a shit about how anybody gets freaky with it, how they present themselves to be, whether they stand, or sit, to pee, or any such nonsense. That’s their axe to grind, not mine… live and let live, you know. If Warren Buffett wants to wear a floral kimono, muumuu, or hot pink mini-skirt, more power to him.
BUT, I DO have a suggestion which I think is meritorious, and most WORTHY of consideration when the topic of gender — NOT SEX — enters the picture when determining whether Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Thursday, April 6, 2023
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who has been on the bench of the nation’s highest court since 1991, has been found, for the past 20 years, to have been receiving gifts worth several millions of dollars from a Texas real estate billionarie, and has failed to report any of them, as required by law.
THIS is an item which, I think, is BIGGER news than the troubles the former, 45th President, finds himself mired in, all of which are messes of his own making. We’ll see how those cakes cook up.
However, with this matter — which I think is a far more serious one for the integrity of our republic — which is the impartiality of equal justice under law — I smell an imminent impeachment of a SCOTUS Justice on the horizon, perhaps even calls to vacate orders in which his vote was a deciding factor. The ties and the links are present which more than lend themselves to the idea that his rulings demonstrated partiality in favor of certain parties with business before the court.
The quick-n-easy answer is “most likely not,” but a more detailed response, which increases ones understanding of the matter, follows. Published 04/05/23 at 8:00 AM ET, author Steven Lubet — the Williams Memorial Professor Emeritus at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and coauthor of “Judicial Conduct and Ethics” (5th edition) and many other books — quoted another legal authority on the matter of Justice Thomas’ deliberate failure to report gifts for 20 years, and wrote in part that when asked to whom the Judicial Conference Committee on Financial Disclosures applies, replied by writing that, “the “Ethics in Government Act is the ultimate source of these reporting requirements,” and that it applies to “all judicial officers” including “the Chief Justice of the United States” [and] the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court.””
However, Chief Justice John Roberts has consistently rejected that idea, i.e., the law, including the authority of the Judicial Conference, by writing in his 2011 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary that its “committees have no mandate to prescribe rules or standards” for the Supreme Court. In other words, he wrote that he, and other Supreme Court Justices are above the law, that the law does NOT apply to them.
There are numerous instances in which SCOTUS Justices have flouted the law with regard to gifts, and Justice Clarence Thomas is by no means the only one, though he may be the most egregious example, who also, for a period of 6 consecutive years failed to list his wife “Ginny,” Virginia’s employment on his disclosure forms, and explained it away by claiming that it was “inadvertently omitted due to a misunderstanding of the filing instructions.” For a Supreme Court Justice, a individual well-versed in numerous intricacies of law, to make such a claim is so incredulous, that it borders on preposterous absurdity.
During his last 10 years on the SCOTUS, late Justice Antonin Scalia took over 250 subsidized trips, some of which were related to speeches he made, while others were vacations, and included frequent private jet travel, numerous luxury resorts and lodges stays, many of which he exempted from disclosure under previous, less explicit disclosure and reporting rules. The former Justice Stephen Breyer was similarly a recipient of such largess, and disclosed 185 subsidized trips during the same time period — although both figures may be significantly under-reported.
This problem is directly related to the impartiality that ALL judges, again, as impartial arbiters, are supposed to have, because not only is the lackadaisical attitude toward money and gifts from wealthy donors demonstrative of corruption, so too is the lack of any standard for recusal. The Supreme Court is, quite literally, another example of “the fox watching the hen house,” i.e., that they make up their own rules as they go, all in the name of either autonomy, or self-governance, and essentially think themselves exempt from the law, by refusing to submit to the law’s authority.
There are other observers of the SCOTUS who are also hawks, or watchdogs, on the subject of ethics and accountability on the nation’s highest court, among them, Fix the Court, a website that advocates for reforms to be made to the court to improve integrity and demonstrate unquestionable impartiality, and has a page linking to each Justice’s financial disclosures, for several years back. Sadly, it is painfully obvious, and exceedingly clear that the SCOTUS will not fix their own problems, so external measures must be taken, i.e., laws must be enacted mandating full financial disclosure and compliance, and establishing recusal standards.
This matter, however, is a subset of an even greater national problem, from which both political parties suffer, and that matter is best analogized by acknowledging that football teams don’t get to write their own game play rules, no matter which team is national champion, or not. The Alabama Crimson Tide has not, by virtue of their numerous National Championships, been able to change game rules to suit them, nor has any NFL team ever been able to do so, regardless of how many Super Bowl wins they’ve had, or which team is current champion. So, when politicians select their voters by gerrymandering, they do so in order to give themselves an unfair advantage, and it’s not merely “politics,” per se, it is a matter of corruption, by pretending to be impartial, or just, but instead are openly partisan and denying people of someone who would represent their interests. Politics and law are indeed about being just and impartial, every bit as much as any court should be, including the Supreme Court. Voters are supposed to elect their politicians, not politicians select their voters.
To further aid a direct, grass-roots process, there should be recall and direct petition laws which empower voters to recall politicians who are not representing their constituents’ wishes, as well as establishing a viable legal pathway for citizens to introduce legislation independently of the legislature, when legislators refuse to heed their constituents’ wishes to introduce legislation.
Money in politics is another obviously corrupting influence and power, and the best way to manage it, is to put all donors’ money into one common pot for each office, and divvy it up equally among the candidates, thereby enabling all candidates to campaign on their ability to persuade voters of their ideas, and the value of their candidacy, instead of seeming to purchase the office by the amount of money raised. Such a law which would enable “common pool contributions” AND be equally divided among the candidates for a particular office, would also satisfy the so-called “money is free speech” Supreme Court ruling, and conceivably, could allow more money to be put into the electoral PROCESS, NOT the candidate, i.e., contribution limits could be increased. Conceivably also, because such donations to the PROCESS would be impartial in effect, they could perhaps also be made fully tax deductible.
Ranked Choice Voting would further empower citizen voters to select among numerous candidates for any office, would immediately end costly primary elections paid for by the state, and perhaps even — in conjunction with “common pool contributions” — contribute to a broadening of political parties representing the peoples’ interests, instead of the “either/or” 2-party system which has dominated for so long. Voters should not be forced to choose from a bad or worse candidate.
And when a citizen registers to vote, that individual should immediately, i.e., on-the-spot, be issued a photographic Voter ID. By so doing, it would put to rest the ridiculously asinine and outrageously false claims made primarily by one political party which asserts that voter fraud is rampant. As well, each voter would be issued a number, much like a driver license number, or U.S. passport number, which would then be required to be affixed to, or included with, any absentee, or mail-in ballot, and so done to further reduce any possibility of voter fraud. It would also eliminate the discrimination inherent with, and absurdity of, so-called “exact match” signature laws, because signatures do change over time. As well, by requiring the government to issue a photographic Voter ID -and- a corresponding number, mail-in balloting could be expanded, relatively risk-free, and trouble-free.
Election Day should be made a National Holiday, and employees should get paid for that time off, and Early In-Person Voting should be at least two weeks duration.
To know of SCOTUS Justice Thomas’ corruption is an EXCEEDINGLY stronger, wretch-inducing effluvium — worse even, than the infected, rotting stench of hypocrisy cooking.
Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From GOP Donor
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Official Supreme Court group photo — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, October 2022
Texas billionaire, GOP super-donor, Harlan Crow in October 201
In late June 2019, right after the U.S. Supreme Court released its final opinion of the term, Justice Clarence Thomas boarded a large private jet headed to Indonesia. He and his wife were going on vacation: nine days of island-hopping in a volcanic archipelago on a superyacht staffed by a coterie of attendants and a private chef.
Clarence Thomas (tan vest & camera) and his wife, Ginni (in red), front left, with Harlan Crow, back right, and others in Flores, Indonesia, in July 2019. Credit: via Instagram
If Thomas had chartered the plane and the 162-foot yacht himself, the total cost of the trip could have exceeded $500,000. Fortunately for him, that wasn’t necessary: He was on vacation with real estate magnate and Republican megadonor Harlan Crow, who owned the jet — and the yacht, too.
For more than two decades, Thomas has accepted luxury trips virtually every year from the Dallas businessman without disclosing them, documents and interviews show. A public servant who has a salary of $285,000, he has vacationed on Crow’s superyacht around the globe. He flies on Crow’s Bombardier Global 5000 jet. He has gone with Crow to the Bohemian Grove, the exclusive California all-male retreat, and to Crow’s sprawling ranch in East Texas. And Thomas typically spends about a week every summer at Crow’s private resort in the Adirondacks.
The extent and frequency of Crow’s apparent gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the U.S. Supreme Court.
These trips appeared nowhere on Thomas’ financial disclosures. His failure to report the flights Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Tuesday, April 4, 2023
In response to The Covenant School schooting, and immense public outcry for legislators to “do something!,” White Republican Tennessee legislators will be considering a bill to lower the minimum age the right to openly publicly carry firearms from 18, to 9.
The move is fortuitous.
Former student and High Priestess Audrey Hale of the AR-15 faith — a government-established god worshiped by White Republicans — recently sacrificed three 9-year old students at the private Christian School in Nashville’s Green Hills community.
The 3 dead adults were collateral damage.
The very same day as the juvenile sacrificial lambs were slaughtered, a Federal judge cleared the way for state legislators to lower from 21 to 18 the minimum age requirement for Tennesseans to openly publicly carry handguns without a permit — just two years after they wrote a new law setting the age at 21.
White Republican State Representative Chris Todd of Madison County wrote and sponsored HB 1735, and said Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Monday, April 3, 2023
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin & wife Louise Linton hold sheets of money at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, November 14, 2017 show first run of bills featuring his signature.
First healthcare, eliminate personal privacy rights, women’s healthcare, then come children, and oil.
What Next for Oil After Surprise OPEC+ Cuts? Try $100 a Barrel.
• Cartel removes more than 1 million barrels a day from market
• Analysts say the decline in oil inventories will accelerate
Before the announcement, the cartel’s own numbers suggested the group would need to pump more oil, not less, in the second half. With the International Energy Agency expecting a demand surge later this year, there’s now renewed risk of global inflation.
————— US Gasoline Prices Could Hit $4 a Gallon Thanks to Surprise OPEC+ Oil Cut
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabia and other major oil producers on Sunday announced surprise cuts totaling up to 1.15 million barrels per day from May until the end of the year, a move that could raise prices worldwide.
Higher oil prices would help fill Russian President Vladimir Putin’s coffers as his country wages war on Ukraine and force Americans and others to pay even more at the pump amid worldwide inflation.
It was also likely to further strain ties with the United States, which has called on Saudi Arabia and other allies to increase production as it tries to bring prices down and squeeze Russia’s finances.
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Saudi Arabia has NEVER been America’s ally or friend, and does NOT give a shit about us, what we think, need, or want.
Their OPEC oil cartel is THE SINGLE GREATEST REASON WHY America should become 100% energy independent.
American BIG OIL companies have long been in cahoots with the Saudis and other OPEC member nations, contrary to American national security interests, and the EXCLU$IVE rea$on why, is avarice, “greed gone wild,” as evidenced by rapacious Wall$treet corporate profits.
Beginning in earnest with Reagan & his administration, when he removed solar panels from atop the White House (a powerful, though largely symbolic move), Republicans have eschewed research & development of hydrogen fuel cells as abundant, clean, powerful, renewable energy sources for Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Thursday, March 30, 2023
Senate Chaplain: Senators suffer “from the paralysis of analysis that waits for the miraculous.”
More True Words Are Rarely Spoken
United States Senate Chaplain Barry C. Black, official photo On June 27, 2003, Rear Admiral Barry C. Black (Ret.) was elected the 62nd Chaplain of the United States Senate. He began working in the Senate on July 7, 2003. Prior to coming to Capitol Hill, Chaplain Black served in the U.S. Navy for over twenty-seven years, ending his distinguished career as the Chief of Navy Chaplains. The Senate elected its first chaplain in 1789.
“Eternal God, we stand in awe of You.
“LORD, when babies die at a church school, it is time for us to move beyond ‘thoughts and prayers.’
“Remind our lawmakers of the words of the British statesman Edmund Burke: All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good people to do nothing.
“LORD, deliver our Senators from the paralysis of analysis that waits for the miraculous.
“Use them to battle the demonic forces that seek to engulf us.
“We pray in Your powerful name.
“Amen.”
— Opening prayer, United States Senate, Tuesday, 28 March 2023
By now, you’ve heard the sad, bad new of the mass shooting at a private religious elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee in which 6 individuals were killed — 3 – 9 year old children, and 3 adults.
Nashville Metro Police Department is to be HIGHLY COMMENDED for their heroism, and rapid response — only 15 minutes after the first call came in, the shooter was killed on site.
In fact, the whole world now knows how brave Nashville’s police officers are, because unlike the Coward of Broward, and the fearful Uvalde, Texas police, even the Babylon Bee, an online satire magazine website, stood up and took notice, by recently publishing this tweet:
Putin Immediately Surrenders After U.S. Airdrops Nashville Police Officers Into Battlefield https://t.co/ZUb9rf0EaW
And so, when I shared with a friend the Senate Chaplain’s actions, there were only two questions asked, and one emphatic expression in response.
Did he propose any ideas? (Yes.)
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What were his thoughts? We do need to take action!
Here is how I responded.
Not to be sarcastic, of course, but his suggestion was that good men (and women) take action.
My longstanding suggestion — since being published Thursday, August 27, 2015 in “A Simple Solution to America’s Gun & Mass Shooting Problems” — continues to be, that ALL such firearms as the AR-15, AK-47, etc., should be placed under the auspices of the National Firearms Act of 1934, which was enacted to limit access to automatic weapons used by criminals like Bonnie & Clyde, Ma Barker, Pretty Boy Floyd, John Dillinger, Al Capone, et al, to ameliorate the ease with which they committed crimes.
The act permits citizens to exercise their 2nd Amendment rights through ownership, yet places a VERY HIGH BAR to ownership by mandating fingerprinting, thorough & intensive background investigations by FBI, State & Local police/Sheriffs, etc., payment of a $200 tax to the U.S. Treasury Dept., and perhaps a few more things, such as character & mental fitness.
IF for any reason there is any problem with the findings, the application is DENIED, and the tax returned.
That process ensures that ONLY the MOST upstanding & law-abiding citizens can possess such firearms. Included in the NFA are: Silencers (now called “suppressors”), short barreled shotguns & rifles, and automatic firearms (defined as any firearm that discharges more than one bullet with one tigger pull).
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Saturday, March 25, 2023
Homosexual prisoners at the Nazi concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, Germany, wearing pink triangles on their uniforms to identify them as such, on December 19, 1938.
Southern Slave States (you know the ones) where legislators have a “trifecta” control over state government — meaning that Repugnicunts control all three branches of government:
1.) Executive;
2.) Legislative, and;
3.) Judicial
— that have:
• banned books,
• enacted so-called “don’t say ‘gay’ laws,
• banned drag shows,
• forbidden teaching about slavery & institutionalized, government-enforced racial discrimination,
• outlawed abortion,
• made illegal gender-affirming healthcare, etc.,
share significant common denominators with Adolph Hitler and Nazism.
Hitler did the same things.
That is NOT exaggeration, it is NOT hyperbole.
One more time:
They’re doing the
EXACT SAME THING
that Nazi Führer Adolph Hitler did.
In this current day and era, amidst the actions of rebellious Confederate Southern Slave States, and a handful of select others led by Repugnicunts, to ban, or outlaw, anything which they:
1.) Don’t understand, or;
2.) Disagree with — including abortion, books, drag, gender affirming healthcare, etc.;
it’s vitally important to remember THAT ONE THING.
So did Hitler.
Nazi Concentration Camp Armband Identification Chart Star of David=Jew; Inverted Triangle with Bar Atop=Repeaters Pink Triangle=Homosexual Male; Black=Roma & Sinti; P=Poles, T=Czech (German word begins with ‘T’); Star of David with Pink triangle=Gay Jew; Purple=Jehovah’s Witnesses; Red=Political Enemies; Green=Habitual Criminals; Blue=Immigrants; Black Bulls-Eye=Inmates of Penal Battalions; Red Bulls-Eye=Escape Suspect; Brown Arm Band=Special Inmate;
Again, that is NOT exaggeration, it is NOT hyperbole.
IT IS HISTORY:
Hitler’s Nazis destroyed the first Gender clinic.
Together, we must ensure such atrocities never happen again.
Such actions by those states’ governments are essentially the wholesale removal of personal liberties, the repeal, an denial of personal freedoms guaranteed by our nation’s founding documents.
People on the right are the biggest snowflakes on the face of the planet.
And you guys got me fucked up.
Not only do you lack the critical thinking skills to understand the difference between social cancellation and government cancellation, you lack the self awareness to understand that all you’re doing is projecting.
Every time you point your finger at a liberal for something, there are four more fingers pointing back at you.
You people claim to be “anti-censorship,” “anti-cancel culture,” and yet, you people are voting for politicians that are doing just that!
And I’m done with saying you’re incompetent — ’cause you understand exactly what the fuck is going on.
Your accuse liberals of needing “safe spaces,” but in places like Tennessee, laws have been passed making it illegal for someone to> Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Thursday, March 23, 2023
But Sergeant Pepper didn’t teach the band to play, nor did he have a Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Things Not Worth Fighting For -or- One Giant Fucking Mistake Based Upon A Lie,
And How It Gave Us A Black Eye At Home And Abroad
“All of our experiences were different. It was such a long war. Every year of the war or every phase of the war was very different. We learned that it wasn’t necessarily a just war. But then, we broke it, so then we had to fix it. Navigating wartime service in the Iraq War, especially if you served more than one tour, it’s more about just doing what you are called to do and making sure that you’ve got the men and women to your left and right all home from that war. Focusing more on that than the policy or the why of why we’re there. Because that can be a dark place.”
— Allison Jaslow, former Army Lieutenant, served 2 tours of duty in Iraq during the most violently intense period, now CEO of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA)
“We all felt [that], maybe there was a way to make things better, [but we] then recognized that we hadn’t made things better… it didn’t turn out as we’d hoped. A lot of my fellow Americans don’t even rank it as important. They say, Read the rest of this entry »
Former Hawaii Congressional Representative Tulsi Gabbard made some salient points in her address yesterday (3/18) at the Vision ’24 National Conservative Forum, an event held by the South Carolina Conservative Conference at the North Charleston Convention Center, which was co-sponsored by the Heritage Foundation. However, in the approximately 2-minute video excerpt which she tweeted, what she failed to mention (because it is automatically understood, and is the law) on the topic of hiring, is that the hiring ABSOLUTELY IS considering the qualifications of individuals/applicants, and hiring decisions ARE NOT being made EXCLUSIVELY based upon immutable characteristics, such as race, ethnicity, identity, etc.
As Thomas Jefferson said, "God who gave us life gave us Liberty." Any political party that tries to erase God from every facet of our public life can’t be trusted to protect those inalienable God-given rights enshrined in the Constitution. pic.twitter.com/l86Y30oR2f
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Thursday, March 16, 2023
The road out of My Lai littered with bodies.
On March 16, 1968, 55 years ago today, approximately 350-500 unarmed civilian men, women, children, and infants were slaughtered by U.S. Army soldiers from Company C, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, and Company B, 4th Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division (aka the “Americal Division”), in what quickly became known as the “My Lai Massacre.”
Initially reported by the US Army as a “day-long battle” against Communists, many women, and children as young as 12, were brutally gang-raped before being murdered, and their corpses mutilated. The massacre occurred in two hamlets of the Son My village in Quảng Ngãi Province, marked on U.S. Army maps as Mỹ Lai and Mỹ Khê in South Vietnam.
A woman and her child lie dead on the ground.
The crime scene and event was later called “the most shocking episode of the Vietnam War.”
A total of 26 American soldiers were charged with various criminal offenses, but only Lieutenant William Calley, Jr., a platoon leader in C Company, was convicted of any crimes.
In a general court martial, he was found guilty of murdering 22 villagers, and sentenced to life in prison with hard labor at Fort Leavenworth, KS, the DOD’s maximum security prison, but 3 days after his conviction, POTUS Richard M. Nixon ordered him released, and commuted the sentence to 3.5 years of house arrest at Fort Benning, GA.
Though Army officials were aware of it, they had initially covered up the massacre, and had it not been for Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Wednesday, March 15, 2023
I’ve long known that New Mexico was the ONLY state in the union whose lawmakers did NOT receive any salary, only a very modest per diem payment, and certainly NOTHING LIKE the princely “per diem” sum that Ala-goddamn-bama’s corrupt lawmakers pay themselves from the pockets of the honest, tax paying public.
And if you break down and calculate the entirety of what those f🤬ing bastards pay themselves, you, or ANYONE would find that they are — WITHOUT QUESTION — THE VERY HIGHEST PAID legislators in the nation, who get paid LITERALLY for only THREE DAYS OF WORK PER WEEK (Tu,W,Th — the ONLY days they meet), for a GRAND TOTAL of 30 days per year, more if called into Special Session by the Governor.
The Alabama State Legislature’s website states that “the length of the regular session is limited to 30 meeting days within a period of 105 calendar days. There are usually two meeting or “legislative” days per week, with other days devoted to committee meetings. Special sessions of the Legislature may be called by the Governor, with the Proclamation listing the subjects which the Governor wishes considered. These sessions are limited to 12 legislative days within a 30 calendar day span.”
It’s the VERY best goddamn less-than part-time job in ALL of America — hands down.
Here’s a ROUGH approximation of how MUCH, and the tune to which they pick Alabama taxpayers’ pockets:
But the Prevaricator in Chief knows full well that what things LOOK like, i.e., what they 
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