"The Global Consciousness Project, also known as the EGG Project, is an international multidisciplinary collaboration of scientists, engineers, artists and others continuously collecting data from a global network of physical random number generators located in 65 host sites worldwide. The archive contains over 10 years of random data in parallel sequences of synchronized 200-bit trials every second."
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 Thursday, March 28, 2024
Everyone walked away from…
A Six Ranch Shootout
6 Brands, 8 Questions, 1 Answer:
Which is Best?
While taste and flavor are highly subjective terms, there are uniform, concrete facts and standards, which can be independently and casually observed by anyone.
Six Ranch Shootout
Item
Brand
Size
Cost
1
Yo Mama’s
13oz/368g
$4.48
2
Great Value
8fl oz/236mL
$1.43
3
Ken’s Steak House
16oz/473mL
$2.98
4
Wish-Bone
15fl oz/444mL
$2.67
5
Kraft
16fl oz/473mL
$2.48
6
Hidden Valley
16fl oz (1pt)/473mL
$3.98
Which brand(s):
Q1. Contained NO “artificial” ingredients, i.e., had only all-natural ingredients?
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.
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.
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Monday, February 26, 2024
For the answer to that question — Who would God kill? — let’s turn to Genesis chapter 38.
We’ll use the New International Version (NIV).
Genesis 38:
8Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to raise up offspring for your brother.” 9But Onan knew that the child would not be his; so whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from providing offspring for his brother. 10What he did was wicked in the Lord’s sight; so the Lord put him to death also.
Those krazee Jews!
Let’s put a modern touch to that passage.
GOD: Go fuck your widowed sister-in-law, and impregnate her.
Man: Okay.
(fucks widowed sister-in-law)
God: You didn’t cum inside her!
Man: How’d you know?
God: I’m a voyeur. And now, I’m gonna’ kill you.
Don’t you long for the good old days?
For those who claim to be Xian, or otherwise religious, such “modernizing” of that passage may rile them up. Although, I don’t know why. It’s the Bible. It’s just simply put into modern terms.
Let’s examine that passage line by line.
Verse 8 states: Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to raise up offspring for your brother.”
We all know that the term “sleep with” is a euphemism for “have sex with.” So, in other words, to fuck.
And when, in the modern rephrasing, it says God, as indicating the one whom was speaking, that is actually a command found in Deuteronomy 25:5, which states:
If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother shall take her and marry her and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her.
A little bit of background almost always aids our understanding, so we’ll turn to an expert for some background in this instance.
Deuteronomy is the “new and improved second edition” of God’s law, the 5th book of the Torah, which is the holy writ for Jews and is collectively called the “Books of Moses,” which in Christendom, in their holy writ called the “Bible,” are called the Pentateuch, the Greek prefix “penta” meaning 5, and “teukhos,” meaning to implement, a vessel, or scroll case; in other words, a book. The Greek translation of the Torah/Pentateuch, is called the Septuagint, hence the use of the Greek prefix and name Pentateuch. The books, in order, are: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
Dr. Thomas B. Dozeman, PhD, Professor of Old Testament, United Theological Seminary, writing in Oxford Research Encyclopedia and Oxford Bibliographies, stated that the book of Deuteronomy “repeats the revelation of law to the second generation [of Israelites] on the plains of Moab (Deuteronomy). The authorship of the Pentateuch is central to its interpretation in Jewish and Christian tradition. The Mosaic authorship characterized the interpretation of the Pentateuch Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Saturday, February 24, 2024
As I was reading a daily devotional, I came across a word which I had never before seen.
I write like that sometimes — placing the preposition before the verb. Although, I sometimes also do the inverse, i.e., “never seen before,” because that’s how most Americans talk. Or, speak. Or, communicate. Or, write.
But in Engrish, we have homonyms — words that sound the same, but are spelled differently, and have different meanings; synonyms — words that describe things that religion says are bad; and in the the South, Mama’nems. Her sister would be your antonym.
But, as I started… as I was reading a daily devotional, I came across a word which I had never before seen.
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 Monday, February 19, 2024
Fact: Most folks will not even bother to read the ruling (available from the official site here: https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/decisions/trump-decision.pdf), much less download it from any site, anywhere, and will simply swallow — hook, line, and sinker — whatever the talking heads they watch/listen to tell them, and whatever their favorite blathering pundits and prognosticators write on their websites, right, center, or left.
They do themselves, and the nation, a disservice to be so blithely insincere, and casually cavalier.
So here, for your pablum-puking pleasure, are selected outtakes, copied & pasted, of the most egregiously stunning highlights from Judge Engoron’s ruling in:
PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Plaintiff, vs. DONALD J. TRUMP, DONALD TRUMP JR., ERIC TRUMP, ALLEN WEISSELBERG, JEFFREY MCCONNEY, THE DONALD J. TRUMP REVOCABLE TRUST, THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION, INC., TRUMP ORGANIZATION LLC, DJT HOLDINGS LLC, DJT HOLDINGS MANAGING MEMBER, TRUMP ENDEAVOR 12 LLC, 401 NORTH WABASH VENTURE LLC, TRUMP OLD POST OFFICE LLC, 40 WALL STREET LLC, SEVEN SPRINGS LLC, Defendants.
Trump Organization’s History of Corporate Malfeasance
“The frauds found here leap off the page and shock the conscience.”
“…this Court is mindful that this action is not the first time the Trump Organization or its related entities has been found to have engaged in corpora malfeasance.”
“…the more evidence there is of defendants’ ongoing propensity to engage in fraud, the more need there is for the Court to impose stricter injunctive relief. This is not defendants’ first rodeo.”
“Defendants’ refusal to admit error—indeed, to continue it, according to the Independent Monitor—constrains this Court to conclude that they will engage in it going forward unless judicially restrained.”
“…the Trump Organization does not have the ability to operate with a functional financial reporting structure that would protect against fraud in the future. The fact that there are virtually no internal controls in place at the Trump Organization, “creates an atmosphere conducive to fraud.”
“…the Trump Organization has refused to prepare SFCs, even though various loan covenants obligate them to do so, ever since the monitor was appointed, leads the Court to conclude that the Trump Organization cannot, or will not, prepare an accurate SFC that is GAAP compliant and that values assets at their estimated current values. That the Trump Organization has taken to manufacturing its own version of its assets, one that fails to include any valuations, is a telling admission that it simply cannot, or will not, prepare an SFC without committing fraud.”
“…Donald Trump testified that, even today, he does not believe the Trump Organization needed to make any changes based on the facts that came out during this trial.”
“… “To err is human, to forgive is divine.” Defendants apparently are of a different mind. After some four years of investigation and litigation, the only error (“inadvertent,” of course) that they acknowledge is the tripling of the size of the Trump Tower Penthouse, which cannot be gainsaid.”
“…defendants are incapable of admitting the error of their ways.”
“Their complete lack of contrition and remorse borders on pathological.”
“In August 2013, OAG sued Donald Trump, the Trump Organization, and affiliated entities doing business as “Trump University” for fraud in the marketing and operation of Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Sunday, February 18, 2024
“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 that section are foundational in developing the main ideas in the book.
Friends, let me wholeheartedly encourage you to read Judge Arthur F. Engoron’s decision in the Trump case in New York State. It’s straightforward, easy-to-understand, not filled with legal mumbo jumbo, arcane words, and often-bizarre machinations to reach a decision. (We often see that in SCOTUS cases.)
Judge Engoron writes in a concisely clear manner, lays out the case, what the charges are, why there wasn’t a jury trial (and the rules behind that, plus, neither party sought one), the rationale, the defenses used by the defendant (Trump, et al), why they fail, and so on, and so forth.
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 Saturday, November 18, 2023
ELON MUSK IS A SICK CUNT
Screenshot of statistics of a Tweet from a child pornographer’s account on X-Twitter-X
Elon Musk is a sick CUNT.
Elon Musk is a sick CUNT.
Elon Musk is a sick CUNT.
Why is Elon Muskrat a sick CUNT?
Besides the kiddie porn he allows on Twitter-X?
Yeah. Kiddie porn.
Only Elon Muskrat could take $44 BILLION and literally burn down the House of Twitter.
[SEE: Explainer: How Elon Musk Funded The $44 Billion Twitter Deal, By Hyunjoo Jin and Chibuike Oguh / Friday, October 28, 2022 8:25 AM CDT / https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/how-will-elon-musk-pay-twitter-2022-10-07/ —— Oct 28 (Reuters) – Elon Musk on Thursday closed the $44 billion deal announced in April to take Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) private and took ownership of the influential social media platform by firing top executives immediately.] —MORE—
Elon “CUNT” Muskrat’s jackassery is driving away advertisers and potential patrons like wildfire, thereby starving the business of income.
He’s fucking around and is about to find out.
He has “threatened” to file a “thermonuclear lawsuit” (whatever that is) on Monday, 20 November 2023 in response to the investigative findings published by Media Matters.
Oh yes… he’s also a joke. And a pathetic one, at that.
Here’s how it’ll all go down:
Muskrat CUNT’s for-hire mouthpieces (aka attorneys) will cry and whine to the court that the information published by Media Matters is false and scurrilous. (Hardly.) When MM shows the court the goods, the Feds (via the FBI) will step in, since X-Twitter-X is engaged in business that crosses state lines (electronically, etc.), and then, the shit will hit the ever-lovin’ fan, and Twitter will collapse/implode… from within — which it has been doing since his misguiding hand took over. And then, the folks that lent him their money to buy Twitter will sue him to get their money back and point to his violation of numerous Federal laws as proof/evidence, and he’ll lose his ass, and maybe Tesla and SpaceX, as well.
So, FUCK YOU -and- the horse you rode in on.
Buh-bye Elon CUNT Muskrat.
And good riddance.
Here’s hoping.
Elon Musk Welcomes Child Sex Abuse Imagery Poster Back to Twitter
Twitter says it has “a zero-tolerance child sexual exploitation policy.”
Musk apparently doesn’t.
July 27, 2023, 9:12AM, by David Gilbert
Elon Musk reinstated a QAnon-promoting far-right Twitter account that posted child abuse imagery, even though his company’s policy explicitly says that’s not allowed.
On Wednesday, Musk tweeted that the company would reinstate the account of the notorious far-right troll known as “Dom Lucre.” Lucre’s account was banned on Wednesday after he had posted child exploitation images four days previously.
“For now, we will delete those posts and reinstate the account,” Musk tweeted in response to another account questioning why Twitter had deleted the account.
“I’m told that this account was suspended for posting child exploitation pictures associated with the criminal conviction of an Australian man in the Philippines,” Musk tweeted.
The offending post referenced an assistant to Peter Scully, the Australian man who was sentenced last year to 129 years in prison for sexually abusing children as young as 18 months.
Along with the link to an article about the assistant, the account posted two screenshots from a video Scully created on the dark web, which Lucre said showed a “one-year-old named Daisy.” —MORE—
SEE ALSO:
Musk Pledged to Cleanse Twitter of Child Abuse Content. It’s Been Rough Going.
Child sexual abuse imagery spreads on Twitter even after the company is notified: One video drew 120,000 views. “Sewer rats,” as one regulator described bad actors, remain.
Over 120,000 views of a video showing a boy being sexually assaulted. A recommendation engine suggesting that a user follow content related to exploited children. Users continually posting abusive material, delays in taking it down when it is detected and friction with organizations that police it.
All since Elon Musk declared that “removing child exploitation is priority #1” in a tweet in late November.
Under Mr. Musk’s ownership, Twitter’s head of safety, Ella Irwin, said she had been moving rapidly to combat child sexual abuse material, which was prevalent on the site — as it is on most tech platforms — under the previous owners. “Twitter 2.0” will be different, the company promised.
But a review by The New York Times found that the imagery, commonly known as child pornography, persisted on the platform, including widely circulated material that the authorities consider the easiest to detect and eliminate.
After Mr. Musk took the reins in late October, Twitter largely eliminated or lost staff experienced with the problem and failed to prevent the spread of abusive images previously identified by the authorities, the review shows. Twitter also stopped paying for some detection software considered key to its efforts.
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
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):
Let’s headline this story with a MORE ACCURATE one:
Police Break Up Unofficial, Unsanctioned San Francisco Skateboard Event, Melee Ensues
Such an ill-fitting cheap suit looks unbecoming on the SFPD.
INSTEAD, organizers SHOULD -and- could collaborate WITH the city to make it a competitive skateboard-body sanctioned event, such as by the World Skateboarding Commission, and attraction. And goodness knows, Frisco SURE NEEDS some good press these days.
It’s reassuring to know that public officials in the Bay City have their priorities in order, and that all the city’s problems — homelessness, unemployment, crime (including robbery, vandalism, murder, assault, rape), illicit drug abuse, lack of healthcare, wealth inequality, etc. — are a thing of the past.
Which one is criminal, a genuine threat to society, public health, safety, morals, and good order?
A woman in a wheelchair injects illicit drugs at San Francisco’s infamous open-air drugs market.
Video footage from the event shows large crowds cheering as children and adults furiously rolled down the steep descent — some flying off their boards and hitting the pavement only to get back up to do it again.
Video footage from the event shows large crowds cheering as children and adults furiously rolled down the steep descent — some flying off their boards and hitting the pavement only to get back up to do it again.
More than 100 are charged, including 81 children, as SF skateboarding event erupts into massive melee with minors destroying a light-rail vehicle and yelling ‘F*** the police’ as riot cops crackdown on annual gathering
• San Francisco police shut down an annual skateboarding event that erupted into chaos — arresting 32 adults and citing 81 minors in the Mission District July 8
• Hundreds gathered near Dolores Street to take part in the “Dolores Hill Bomb” — a popular annual skateboarding event where people ride down a large hill
• Officers issued a mass arrest of the crowd at 8.35PM the majority were minors — cops seized multiple firearms, unignited fireworks and narcotics paraphernalia
Published: 02:16 EDT, 10 July 2023 | Updated: 03:45 EDT, 10 July 2023
By Aneeta Bhole for Dailymail.Com
“San Francisco Mayor London Breed appeared quiet in the wake of the incident as many pointed the finger at her poor sense of what is important for the city.
“Many took to Twitter to condemn the Mayor saying the same crackdown seen at the hill should be implemented when fighting the rampant crime and explosion of drug use in the city.
“Last week, a gang of teenagers in ski masks has been attacking mothers and nannies in broad daylight in one of San Francisco’s wealthiest neighborhoods, and stealing their cell phones.
“The group is believed to be behind 11 thefts in one week at the end of June, said Thomas Harvey, captain of the San Francisco Police Department’s Mission District police station.
“The attacks are mainly in the Noe Valley area of the city, where the average house is valued at $1.7 million.
“One suspect has been arrested, and police are hunting for the others, as robberies city-wide surge 11.9 percent, year on year.”
S.F. Police Chief Defends Mass Arrests At Mission Skateboard Event
Dr. Gino, who has authored dozens of fascinating studies in the field of behavioral science — has consulted for some of the world’s most prominent and largest companies such as Goldman Sachs, and Google, and has proffered advice in respected news outlets like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and NPR.
However, over the past weeks, several people, including a colleague, have claimed that Dr. Gino fraudulently falsified and Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Monday, June 26, 2023
Today (Monday, 26 June 2023), Cable News Network, aka CNN, on the “Anderson Cooper 360” program, aired a portion of “the Trump tapes,” recordings made with the former President’s knowledge and permission at his Bedminster, NJ golfing club in July 2021 as he shuffled through an assortment of documents — many of which were classified national secrets, and marked as such — which he purloined from his time in office, and openly discussed with individuals present, none of whom had clearances, nor were authorized to see them.
Excerpt of a July 2021 conversation at former President Donald Trump’s Bedminster, NJ golfing club in which he acknowledged that he kept a classified TOP SECRET Department of Defense document about a possible attack upon Iran. “Milley” refers to U.S. Army General Mark A. Milley, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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.”
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 Friday, May 12, 2023
Bacon is not my thing, per se, at least insofar as, once you’ve had the AUTHENTIC product, it’s difficult to return to the imposter.
By AUTHENTIC, I mean to refer to what some folks call “slab” bacon, which is smoked, and dried, so that the uncooked slab of bacon needs NO REFRIGERATION, and is often found hanging in the open in the grocer’s meat section.
This product is what some call “streaky bacon,” which is what the English call this type of American-produced bacon.
Now, remember… before refrigeration came along, the preservation of meats was done primarily by smoking, and curing — and THAT was a technique learnt from the Native Americans in the earliest days of American history, i.e., by the colonists at Jamestown, Plymouth, etc.
That is also why, when the first enduring “snap” of winter, i.e., COLD weather, came along, it was called “hog killing weather,” because the cool, even cold temperatures largely delayed (retarded), if not temporarily prevented, spoilage (as rancidness, referring to an oxidized, deteriorated state of fat), and deterioration (rotting) of the uncooked flesh. Lard would be rendered (changed in character) from fat, which is accomplished by heating it, most typically in a large cauldron suspended over an open fire, to melt it.
EVERY PART of the hog would be used, which how the phrase “everything but the squeal” originated. The fat, the jowl, the hock, the ham, the loin, the back strap, the trotters (feet), the ears, the liver, the heart, stomach, snout, skin, and even the intestines (chitlins, or chitterlings), were ALL used as some sort of food item.
Nowadays, the meat is processed wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am with numerous godforsaken chemicals, soaked in brine, injected with water and chemicals that make it soak up water (that’s bordering on fraud, to pump water into meat, or use chemicals to cause it to absorb water to increase its weight), injected with preservatives, nitrates (often as celery powder), nitrites (agents that interact with the hemoglobin naturally present in pork (blood in the flesh) that cause it to have an unnaturally red, or pink appearance and which eventually become nitrosamines, known carcinogenic compounds causative of stomach, bladder, colorectal, and breast cancers, vacuum packed, thrown in a refrigerator, and rushed to market.
Just read the labels sometimes, and look up things like sodium erythorbate (an anti-oxidant, color fixative, cure accelerator and synthetic variation of ascorbic acid, aka vitamin C), sodium phosphate — used to help meat retain moisture, and prevent development of rancid odor from the fat (which is deteriorating, or else it wouldn’t be added), HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) which is metabolized differently than sucrose (table sugar) and known to cause weight gain and Type II diabetes, sodium tripolyphosphate (STPP) which is an inorganic hydrophilic (attracts & retains water) emulsifier, and is even used in detergents, etc.
When cooked or broken down in the stomach, nitrites form nitrosamines (aka N-Nitroso Compound), which are known carcinogens, particularly among young children and pregnant women.
The USDA limits addition of nitrites (as sodium nitrite) in food to 200 parts per million. The thinking, or hope, is, that by adding ascorbic acid (aka sodium erythorbate, the synthetic form of vitamin C) to the processed food, it allegedly reduces formation of nitrosamines, though there is no conclusive scientific evidence proving it.
The addition of sodium nitrate is limited, whereas the addition of celery powder is unlimited, and is considered “organic.” Neither celery powder nor celery salt is regulated by the USDA, but chemically processed sodium nitrate is.
Nitrate residue on processed foods using “natural” sources of nitrates (such as celery powder), is often at least 10 times HIGHER than that found on traditionally cured products.
Essentially, it’s a bait-and-switch shell game — a culinary con game, and the consumer is the mark.
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 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.)
-and-
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 Monday, March 27, 2023
True -or- False?
Things that are not living cannot change.
“There’s a feeling I get when I look to the west, and my spirit is crying for leaving. In my thoughts, I have seen rings of smoke through the trees, and the voices of those who stand looking. It makes me wonder… it really makes me wonder.”
Your mother is hurting.
I guess I was lucky that I didn’t fall tumbling down an almost sheer granite cliff like a rag doll after climbing up nearly to the top in leather-soled cowboy boots en route to Sonora Pass in the Sierras along CA 108 in October ’08. Mom & Dad would’ve been very saddened. Instead, I got to see them die. Well, almost. They were both “on their death bed” when I last kissed them both — Daddy died a few years before Mother. I saw to it that Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Sunday, March 26, 2023
My name is Viktoria Perry and I love cooking. Whether I’m whipping up a quick and easy stir-fry or baking a delicious cake, cooking is one of my favorite hobbies. I love to try new recipes and create my own dishes, and I’m always up for a challenge. Whether I’m in the kitchen or out and about, I always enjoy spending time with my family and friends.
AI, or Artificial Intelligence, is all the rage at the moment. It’s the “In Thing,” the proverbial hot potato of the moment, the “cool kid on the block.”
But folks are quickly finding out that it’s not what it’s all cracked up to be.
I mean, seriously… AI can’t kiss you goodnight, say ‘hello’ in the morning, prepare your breakfast, and so many, many more things that it’s impractical to enumerate them.
You know, one would think, or hope, that if an individual was going to write something, and ostensibly speak with an authoritative voice, that person would first check to ensure that what they thought, was correct, and if not, hasten to correct it BEFORE writing. Otherwise, anything written would be just pure useless blather.
Opinions — purely subjective beliefs, i.e., a “conclusion held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof” — are one thing — although sometimes, opinions have some basis in fact or rationale, such as, for example, folks that hate cilantro, often do so because many of them say it tastes soapy, or worse.
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.
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:
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Friday, March 10, 2023
Most everybody, it seems, is all for the use of plain language. That is to say, being plainspoken is often seen as a virtue, whereas flowery language is, or can often be, seen as obfuscatory, i.e., attempting to confuse, or hide something by the use of arcane language.
So, would it be “appropriate” to have in a school library a book that openly talked about a young woman having her nipples rubbed, and breasts squeezed by her numerous, seemingly countless lovers? A young woman who was so horny that she wanted men with big penises to stretch out her vagina? To have it filled to overflowing with their semen? To be an orgiastic “cum slut,” or “bukkake babe”?
If the colloquial language used to describe such acts shocks your sensibilities, perhaps the idea of the underlying acts would similarly be shocking: A super horny young girl who just wants to fuck… all day long, day and night, day in, day out, with as many men as she possibly can, who revels in the orgasmic sensuality of the entire experience.
If that shocks, or, even disgusts you, and you think that such descriptions are “inappropriate” for young children, or even older teens, to read such material, perhaps it might be wise to consider banning the book, or books, that contain such sexually graphically depictive language, and ideas.
Interestingly, that book which contains such graphical literary depictions of sexual activity in REAL LIFE is in Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Wednesday, February 8, 2023
If we forbid the preparation and serving of fried chicken and waffles, watermelon — or any other dish remotely historically associated with Black Southern culture — from being served as a dignifying celebratory moment and honorific during Black History Month, we will be unwittingly playing into the hands of racists, to help them accomplish their ultimate objective — exterminating the people they hate, and erasing the associated culture.
That MUST NOT HAPPEN.
Fried Chicken ‘n Waffles with Watermelon, a traditional Southern dish
It was with scornful disdain that I read a few news items about Nyack Middle School in Rockland County, New York, nearby NYC, where food vendor, Aramark, served fried chicken and waffles with watermelon on February 1, the first day of Black History Month. Writing for The Hill, Stephen Neukam wrote that “chicken and waffles with watermelon [are] foods stereotypically associated with Black people,” and that unidentified school administrators had said that Aramark “changed the menu items without telling the school.” The menu had earlier been posted online as being Philly cheese steak, with broccoli, and fresh fruit.
Apparently, some folks got up in arms about that substitution, even after Aramark had apparently asked students if they’d prefer those items. Student Honore Santiago said, “They were asking people if they want watermelon, and I remember being confused because it’s not in season.”
And the now-global 24/7/365 mass media, being what they are — gluttons who thrive on strife and dissention, ever searching for reportage of anything bad or controversial, including inane he-said-she-said tripe, often as so-and-so-Tweeted this, that, or the other, which has no genuine news value, while simultaneously blowing almost all things out of proportion, regardless of their, or the organization’s ideological bent — took that fumbled ball and ran with it.
It doesn’t yet appear that they scored a touchdown, however.
The school’s Principal, David A. Johnson, a Black gentleman, wrote a letter to parents, which stated in part that,
“The offering of chicken & waffles as an entree with watermelon as a dessert on the first day of Black History Month was inexcusably insensitive and reflected a lack of understanding of our district’s vision to address racial bias.
“Nyack Public Schools administrators contacted Aramark officials to insist on a mechanism to avoid a repeat of yesterday’s mistake. The vendor has agreed to plan future menu offerings to align with our values and our long-standing commitment to diversity and inclusion.
“We are extremely disappointed by this regrettable situation and apologize to the entire Nyack community for the cultural insensitivity displayed by our food service provider.”
Perhaps that now means when National Heritage Week comes again for Jamaicans — who state that “heritage is one of the most crucial parts of our identity as Jamaicans. Heritage celebrations help to preserve this identity and our culture, which sets us apart from all other countries” — Jamaica Jerk Chicken with Beans and Rice cannot be served.
And when Chinese New Year arrives again, Wonton Soup, Kung Pao Chicken, Szechwan Shrimp, Spicy Crispy Beef, Sweet and Sour Pork, and Chinese Fried Rice are all out of the question.
And heaven forbid that, a few days from now, on February 11, when National Foundation Day (kenkoku kinenbi) is celebrated — which, according to the earliest Japanese historical records, was on that day in 660 BC that the first Japanese emperor was crowned — meaning that no sushi, no sashimi, no soy sauce, no chopsticks, no soba noodles, no miso soup with rice, and no sukiyaki may be served.
Which also means no kimchi for our Korean brothers and sisters… no matter how much they may protest, and regardless of the fact that it’s their national dish.
Hopping John is a simple, traditional Southern dish which is made with rice, black-eyed peas, and greens. The first known recipe of Hopping John appeared in an early cookbook entitled “The Carolina housewife, or House and home: by a lady of Charleston” was first published in 1847 and was authored by Sarah Rutledge, who was the daughter of Edward Rutledge, a fellow who signed the Declaration of Independence, though little else is known about her. While the book is widely lauded, even today, and can be downloaded from various sites free of charge, one can expect significant differences in culinary style, from then to now. Regarding the name of the dish – “Hopping John” – there’s no known etymology for the origin, or derivation of the name, although there’s no shortage of speculation, however absurd. And finally… the original recipe calls for red beans – which are NOT kidney beans. But as any cook worth their salt knows, innovation and change are the name of the game when it comes to the creative aspects of cooking, and over the years, black-eyed peas have become the preferred pea/bean for the dish.
Nope, NO ONE can have any of that.
And HELL TO THE NO for tacos, burritos, salsa, guacamole, margaritas, fajitas, Chili Rellenos, carne asada, quesadillas, Red Pork Pozole, or Enchilada Sauce on Cinco de Mayo.
Do you see how asinine that is?
None of those people groups get up in arms about their culture’s foods, though at one time, or another, they’ve all been subjected to vile racist tropes.
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Thursday, February 2, 2023
One thing you can’t hide, is when you’re crippled inside. Texas Governor Greg Abbott leaves the podium after speaking at the 11th annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast May 7, 2015 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Washington, D.C. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)
Texas Guvnah Greg Abbot is a goddamn moron, a cruelly incompetent, and corruptly selfish son-of-a-bitch, fucking liar and idiot, whose brain is apparently as crippled as his withered, useless legs.
Cow turds have some nutrient fertilization value for soil, and when dried, can even be burned; whereas on the other hand, he has no value whatsoever.
Texans will have to burn more cow turds to keep warm, since your sorry-ass governor can’t even keep the goddamn lights turned on. But, that’s what you wanted, because you voted for more of it. So, enjoy your fill until January 19, 2027.
And be certain to thank the Electric (Un)Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), a “membership-based 501(c)(4) nonprofit corporation, governed by a board of directors and subject to oversight by the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Texas Legislature.” They’re similarly corrupt, inept, and in the pockets of the Repugnicunt state legislature, and executive office.
Frustrated Texans Endure Winter Storm With No Power, No Heat
Thursday, 02 February 2023
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Thousands of frustrated Texans shivered in homes without power for a second day Thursday, most of them around booming Austin, and fading hopes of a quick fix stirred grim memories of a deadly 2021 blackout after an icy winter storm across the southwestern U.S.
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Thursday, February 2, 2023
You DARE question MY POWER?!?
I’ll show YOU who’s the boss, you little pissants!
Mitch McConnell
Senate Repugnicunt Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of KY has removed Senators Rick Scott of FL, and Mike Lee of UT from the powerful Commerce Committee in apparent retaliation for Scott’s challenge to McConnell’s leadership, and for Lee’s support of Scott’s effort.
The Commerce Committee has broad jurisdiction over numerous federal agencies, is considered a prestigious assignment, and McConnell had exclusive power to decide whether Scott and Lee would remain on the Committee because it was the third so-called “A-list” committee assignment both held.
Scott is also a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, while Lee is a member of the prestigious Judiciary Committee, and the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Scott had more seniority on the Commerce Committee than Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, who also serves on two other “A-list” committees — Banking, and Environment and Public Works committees — and Lee had more seniority than Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, who also sits on the Appropriations Committee and is the ranking Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee.
McConnell replaced Scott, Lee, and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin — who left the Commerce Committee to take a coveted seat on the Finance Committee — with Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Wednesday, February 1, 2023
Q: How many bullets does it take for Nashville, TN cops to kill a man?
A: ALL of them.
“On the call recording, Jerome acknowledges the presence of police a few seconds before a flurry of gunshots. He continues to repeat, “Don’t shoot him! Don’t shoot him!” through sobs after shots have been fired. The footage from Slim & Husky’s shows the man turning and tossing something toward Ramos, at which point Ramos fires 14 shots and the man falls to the ground. The man reportedly died shortly after.”
That officer, “Metro Nashville Police Officer Dylan Ramos shot and killed a 47-year-old Black man on Buchanan Street just before 7 p.m. on Sunday,” just emptied the fucking magazine on that man.
Just TOTALLY EMPTIED IT.
12345, 12345, 1234
ALL 14 rounds.
Even big game hunters DO NOT shoot that many bullets into their game.
Goddamn!
In-car camera footage shows Nashville Metro Police Department officer Dylan Ramos approach a man on Buchanan Street on Sunday night.
Police Kill 47-Year-Old Black Man on Buchanan Street
Officer Dylan Ramos fired 14 shots in the second MNPD shooting of 2023
Metro Nashville Police Officer Dylan Ramos shot and killed a 47-year-old Black man on Buchanan Street just before 7 p.m. on Sunday.
A video from MNPD stitches together two 911 calls with footage from Ramos’ body cam and squad car. It also includes an angle from Slim & Husky’s patio camera, which shows the man — whose identity the police have not yet released — tossing something toward Ramos moments before Ramos fires 14 shots toward him and the man falls to the ground.
The first 911 call came from an individual identified as Jerome at Willie B’s Kitchen and Lounge, a restaurant across the street from Slim & Husky’s.
“He’s playing with this gun, pointing it at people,” Jerome tells the 911 operator. “He needs to Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Sunday, January 22, 2023
The lying Republican elected to represent New York’s 3rd Congressional District (Queens/Nassau) is not just any old run-of-the-mill liar, he is a pathological liar.
His life, or rather, what he has presented as his life, is just one blatant falsehood after another. And that the good people of that portion of Long Island which he represents have elected him, speaks more to THEIR laziness and THEIR ineptness than to anything else.
The people of that district have stained THEIR own name, THEY have soiled their own shorts.
One of their local newspapers, The North Shore Leader, broke the story on The Fabulist, and did an at-lenght exposé of him BEFORE the election, and BEFORE the New York Times.
In a story published 20 January 2023 and headlined “The Leader Told You So: US Rep-Elect George Santos Is a Fraud — and Wanted Criminal,” they detailed how, at least four months earlier, they had broken the story, and wanting to endorse a Republican candidate, they could not, because of his wholesale lies about himself, which again, they discovered and reported BEFORE the New York Times.
The Veteran’s Service Animal died because George Santos/Anthony Devolder diverted the money raised for his own selfish use.
It is almost a pointless exercise to detail the hideous lies he has told about himself, each one more fantastic than the next, and with the discovery that they were all a pack of lies, he merely brushed them all off saying they were “embellishments” of his résumé.
Seemingly countless people have come forward, individuals who knew, or have known him personally, and without exception, they every one have essentially said the same thing: George Santos/Anthony Devolder is a liar.
Wikipedia page for user Anthonydevolder, who is, more likely than not, George Santos. Devolder is his late mother’s surname.
In the mean time, others who have been around him over the years have found evidence from a few years earlier when he was a drag queen.
While he has claimed to be openly gay, he was once married to a woman, and purports to have changed. Exactly how, he has not made clear, and refuses to speak to news outlets.
When news and video of his drag queen days made the national news, he denied it all.
When news of George Santos’ Wikipedia User ID page under the name of “Anthonydevolder” in the category of Drag Queen was made known, “edit wars” started upon it almost immediately, and the page was “blanked,” which raises several unsettling questions: “Why?,” and “who?” most notable among them.
HOWEVER… HuffPost recently published at least one news article about the recent discovery of an item which was Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Monday, January 9, 2023
Representative Jim Jordan-R,OH4
Have you recently read any crap on Twitter?
It’s much too easy to read plenty of phony baloney malarkey on Twitter.
Of course, that’s not very difficult to do now that Elon Muskrat is actively burning down that house, and welcoming Neo-Nazis, White Supremacists, Big Lie promoters, QAnon conspiracy theorists, and other such ilk on board… again.
Here’s but one statement which I recently read on that social media dumpster fire:
“Incoming House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan has not authored, sponsored, nor passed one piece of legislation in his 17 years in Congress.”
Of course, there were other surrounding contextual words and remarks, some of which were opinion, others fact (sounds vaguely familiar, eh?), and it was quite obvious that the author had no love lost for Ohio’s 4th Congressional District Republican Representative.
And frankly, neither have I lost any love for that lunatic.
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Monday, January 9, 2023
Abigail “Abby” Zwerner
We’ve already started off the 2023 New Year with a BANG!
That’s right, a BANG!
A BIG BANG!
“Big Bang” as in a school shooting — this time, by a 6-year-old boy in Newport News, VA at Richneck Elementary School who opened fire with a handgun in the classroom upon his 25-year-old first-grade teacher Abigail “Abby” Zwerner, shooting her in the abdomen, after the little bastard got into what was officially described by Newport News Police Chief Steve R. Drew as an “altercation” with her.
In his official press conference, the Chief said in part, that, “The altercation was between a 6 year old, the student who did have the firearm, and then the teacher, and then a round was fired. Like I said, she suffered a gunshot wound and was transferred to the hospital.”
Abby was immediately rushed to Riverside Regional Medical Center where her life-threatening injuries were treated, and she is now, expected to recover… exactly to what extent and how much, however, has not been made clear.
School Principal Briana Foster Newton issued a statement Monday, January 9, 2023 which, in part, read: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Sunday, January 8, 2023
The 118th Congress will be pockmarked by confusion, an inability to pass legislation for the people’s benefit, and the Repugnants will attempt to cut Social Security, Medicare, and literally, every program that helps the American people. Kevin McCarthy will not last a year as Speaker of the House, and will be ousted most likely, no later than July 2023. His term in office will be abbreviated, interrupted with a motion to Vacate the Chair, and quickly forgotten. His consistent inability to gather support from among the majority party, causing a meltdown on the opening day of the 118th Congress that led to 15 consecutive votes over a period of 5 days, will be the highlight of his utter failure.
I’m One of the Last Holdouts Against Kevin McCarthy — and I Won’t Back Down
Guest Essay by Bob Good
January 6, 2023
Mr. Good, a Republican, represents Virginia’s Fifth Congressional District in the House of Representatives.
Back in the summer, a group of conservatives put together a proposal with extensive changes to the rules and processes that govern how Republicans run the House of Representatives. For example, we wanted regular, rank-and-file members to have more power to amend bills on the House floor. We wanted at least three days to read and consider bills before we were asked to vote on them. And we wanted to limit the scope of bills to a single subject, so we wouldn’t be asked to vote on legislative “Christmas trees” passed on a tight deadline. We made those demands because the people we represent have told us time and again that Washington is broken, and we knew they wanted to see a change in the status quo.
Representative Bob Good, wearing a taupe-colored suit and maroon tie, stands before a black microphone that rises from the center of a polished wooden table in front of a row of brown leather chairs in the House chamber in the Capitol.
What the American people have tuned in to watch this week is a healthy democratic process, working as it was designed to: with members in the same place, engaging in debate, and having face-to-face conversations. Important negotiations often take months or even years in a legislative body. Yet this is the one and only opportunity we have to debate how the House is run every two years, both with the election of a speaker and with the passage of the new House rules.
While some have accused us of acting in our own personal interests, we are standing strong because we believe the United States House of Representatives was designed to be the People’s House where the will of every American would be represented. That is why the selection of a speaker requires the votes of a majority of the House. A majority of the people’s representatives must trust that person to lead us.
Throughout the past few months of negotiation and debate, we have been very clear with Republican leadership that we want changes that empower regular members of Congress, who each represent a district of more than half a million people, to have more meaningful input into how legislation is considered. And some of those procedural changes have been accepted.
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Sunday, January 8, 2023
Richard Hudson-R,NC8 physically retrained Mike Rogers-R,AL3 from attacking Matt Gaetz-R,FL1 after he verbally accosted Matt Gaetz following Gaetz’ “PRESENT” vote in the 14th round of balloting for Speaker of the House (SOTH), causing Kevin McCarthy-R,CA20 to lose, late Friday night, January 6, 2023
“Matt, you’re FINISHED!
I’m not gonna forget this!”
Ever wonder what barnyard animals
— pigs —
behave like?
Wonder no more.
Mike “Rugrat” Rogers, a Redneck Repugnicant from Not-So-Sweet-Home Alabama, a slave state, the asshole of Dixie, who misrepresents the state’s 3rd Congressional largely poor, uneducated and easy-to-command mostly-White District was drunk and disorderly, under the influence of intoxicating/spirituous beverage, according to at least one observer who was close enough to smell his breath, when “Rugrat” Rogers accosted Matt Gaetz-R,FL1 and attempted to start a fight with him on late Friday night, January 6th, 2023, after the 14th failed round of balloting for Speaker of the House.
No, Mister Mike “Rugrat” Rogers, YOU’RE the one who’s finished.
You’ve now made your Alabama shit stain mark
to a national television audience,
a global audience via the Internet,
and yourself a permanently indelible pock mark
upon your wretchedly failed party,
and sadly, upon American history.
Richard Hudson-R,NC8 physically retrained Mike Rogers-R,AL3 from attacking Matt Gaetz-R,FL1 after he screamed at and verbally accosted Matt Gaetz following Gaetz’ “PRESENT” vote in the 14th round of balloting for Speaker of the House (SOTH), causing Kevin McCarthy-R,CA20 to lose, late Friday night, January 6, 2023.
Congratulations, Mr. Asshole Weasel Drunk Redneck Mike Rugrat Rogers.
You shouldn’t have been on the House floor under the influence, and you sure as hell didn’t represent Alabama — or, maybe you did!
Alabama is full of assholes like him.
They’re called “weasels,” and are generally considered pests everywhere they’re found. Interestingly, a group of weasels is called Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Sunday, January 8, 2023
Mike Rogers-R,AL3 is physically restrained from attacking Matt Gaetz by Richard Hudson-R,NC8 after he confronted Matt Gaetz following Gaetz’ “PRESENT” vote in the 14th round of balloting for Speaker of the House (SOTH), late Friday night, January 6, 2023
“Matt, you’re FINISHED!
I’m not gonna forget this!”
— Mike Rogers-R,AL3 screamed at Matt Gaetz-R,FL1 after Gaetz voted “PRESENT” instead of “McCarthy” in the 14th round of balloting for Speaker of the House of Representatives (SOTH), late Friday night, January 6, 2023, which was the 14th consecutive failure in 4 consecutive days by members of that party to elect a SOTH. Gaetz, and 19 other members of the Freedom Caucus, refused to vote for McCarthy for several legitimate reasons, though Kevin McCarthy-R,CA20 used coercive threats, and other unethical and authoritarian-type behaviors to have some of them acquiesce, under pressure from him, to change their votes to FOR him, instead of someone else, or “PRESENT.” Matt Gaetz never did.
No, Mister Mike “Rugrat” Rogers, YOU’RE the one who’s finished.
And you’ve now made your shit stain mark to an national television audience,
and to global international audience via the Internet,
and yourself a permanently indelible pock mark upon your failed party,
and in American history.
Congratulations, Mr. Asshole Rugrat Weasel Drunk Redneck Mike Rogers.
You shouldn’t have been on the House floor under the influence, and you sure as hell didn’t represent Alabama — or, maybe you did! Alabama is full of assholes like him. They’re called “weasels,” and are generally considered pests everywhere they’re found. Interestingly, a group of weasels is known as a “sneak,” a “boogle,” a “gang,” or a “confusion.” And in the Repugnants’ case, it’s confusion. And, that’s exactly what Rogers did — he sneaked up from behind amidst the confusion.
Mike Rogers-R,AL3 is physically restrained from attacking Matt Gaetz-R,FL1 by Richard Hudson-R,NC8 when Rogers confronted Gaetz after Gaetz voted “PRESENT” in the 14th round of balloting for Speaker of the House (SOTH), late Friday night, January 6, 2023
Matt Gaetz was 100% correct when he stated this before the 12th vote:
My colleague from California, Mr. Garcia, knows the incredibly high regard I hold for him. He is a patriot; I deeply, deeply admire him, but I must take some exception to some of the comments he made in his nomination of Mr. McCarthy.
First, he said that Mr. McCarthy has “earned” the position.
You only earn the position of Speaker of the House if you can get the votes. Mr. McCarthy doesn’t have the votes today, he will not have the votes tomorrow, and he will not have the votes next week, next month, next year.
And so, one must wonder, Madam Clerk, is this an exercise in vanity for someone who has done the math, taken the counts, and is putting this institution through something that absolutely is avoidable?
My colleague Mr. Garcia did not say this, but many of my other Republican colleagues have. They believe Mr. McCarthy has earned the position of Speaker of the House because he raised half a billion dollars to get Republicans elected.
Several believe that one earns the position of Speaker by raising enormous sums of money, and there is no doubt that the individual that was nominated by Mr. Garcia is the Lebron James of special interest fundraising in this town. There’s nobody better.
[NOTE: In a Newsweek OpEd entitled “McCarthy Has Earned the House Speakership” by former SOTH Newt Gingrich published 12/16/22 at 6:00 AM EST, he not only confirmed McCarthy’s mammoth fundraising machine of $500 million, but also that fundraising massive amounts of money IS a qualification for the office, and wrote: “Set aside the $500 million McCarthy and his allies raised during the 2022 campaign cycle. Some of his critics seem to think that effort doesn’t count (it should) because he had the power of the conference (and they don’t).”]
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Wednesday, January 4, 2023
Mitt Romney’s remark made at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines in 2011, that ‟Corporations are people, my friend,” was then, and remains even now, painfully accurate.
His explanation, however was an abysmal failure, and came nowhere close to explaining why ‟Corporations are people, my friend.”
Essentially, ‟Corporations are people, my friend,〞because their articles of incorporation state something to the effect that they can “… to wit, to do any thing a natural person could do…” That is known as “artificial personhood.”
Cornell University writes the following about artificial personhood, which may sometimes also be referred to as legal personhood, though the two are not always interchangeable — a Natural Person is also always Legal Person, but a Legal Person is not always a Natural Person — which is why there is a differentiation made with Natural Person, and the term “Artificial Person” is much more simple, and descriptive:
“An artificial person is also known as a juridical person; it has a legal name and has certain rights, protections, privileges, responsibilities, and liabilities in law, similar to those of a natural person. In other words, an artificial person is a non-human legal entity that is not a single natural person but an organization recognized by law as a fictitious person. In the United States, an artificial person usually refers to “any entities established under the law of the United States, any foreign country, or a state, province, territory, possession, commonwealth, or dependency of the United States or any foreign country, and as to which the government, state, province, territory, possession, commonwealth or dependency must maintain a record showing the entity to have been established.” Specifically, in a business sense, an artificial person is any form of business association and any other non-governmental legal organization, including a profitable or non-profitable corporation, partnership, limited liability company, association, trust, or unincorporated organization.”
The United States Supreme Court has reinforced that sense of personhood by and through their decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission which was issued January 2010, which supported the notion of artificial personhood, and granted additional rights to corporations, but few, if any, of the responsibilities.
Some rightfully call it the “money is free speech” ruling, and the primary problem with such a belief, ruling, or ideology, is that, if it is true that money is free speech (it is not), then the poor man has none, and the Constitution was written for all, equally, and so, in that sense, at the very least, the ruling violates the Equal Protection Clause, and the First Amendment.
Holding: Political spending is a form of protected speech under the First Amendment, and the government may not keep corporations or unions from spending money to support or denounce individual candidates in elections. While corporations or unions may not give money directly to campaigns, they may seek to persuade the voting public through other means, including ads, especially where these ads were not broadcast.
Judgment: Reversed, 5-4, in an opinion by Justice Anthony Kennedy on January 21, 2010. in a 5-4 decision with an opinion written by Justice Kennedy. Justice Stevens dissented, joined by Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, and Sotomayor.
There are other cases, of course, and this one didn’t just suddenly appear out of nowhere. There were other precedents which prepared the way for it, among which were:
But, to be absolutely certain, the problem can be traced back even further, to the Civil War era, when before that time, corporations were held to account by focusing upon the Chief Executive who was responsible, and accountable for all aspects of operations, and any failures fell squarely on their shoulders alone. Power and responsibility were natural complements of each other. After changes in laws were made, power and responsibility were separated, and power was concentrated at the top, but responsibility was diffused throughout the organization, so that no one person could be held to account — all the power, and all the perks that came along for the ride, but all the responsibilities were left at the train station.
That all came to a metaphorical head with the collapse of Enron, a once-high-flying Ponzi scheme bankruptcy of an energy company based in Houston, Texas which was founded and headed by the now-late Ken Lay (1942-2005). That firm’s collapse and subsequent bankruptcy was one of the largest instances of corporate fraud then to have occurred in America, and illustrated how the divorcement of power from responsibility was a formula for disaster. Healthsouth, another firm caught up in such a scheme, in which “cooking the books,” i.e., purposely, deceptively, and fraudulently making falsified entries in the firm’s accounting, most often for the purpose of driving up (artificially inflating) the company’s stock prices, which in turn benefited the executives, primarily, but others who may, or may not, have been somewhat privy to the acts… which, at that time, were not in and of themselves illegal, per se, though they were most certainly frowned upon by reputable accounting firms, Wall Street, and others.
Congress put a screeching halt to such abuses by writing legislation requiring the CEO to personally sign for the authenticity and accuracy of all corporate accounting and reports. And that was just a scratch up upon the surface of corporate greed and corruption, which remains prevalent today, more so now in the form of avarice (greed gone wild), than anything else.
Corporate avarice is also the single greatest problem in our nation’s economy, with one very minor example being the difference between the CEO’s pay, and their average employee’s pay — who, on average, made over 350 times the average employee’s pay. In 1989, the average differential was 61 to 1.
In fact, research performed by the Economic Policy Institute found that from 1978 to 2020, increases in CEO compensation far outstripped growth of either the Standard & Poor’s stock market index – 817%, exceeded by 6 times the increases in top income earners’ gains, and grew, on average, 1322%.
Meanwhile, in that same period, the typical employee’s annual compensation only grew a paltry 18%.
When it comes to Wall Street and BIG BUSINESS, it’s more for them, less for you.
‟Corporations are people, my friend.〞
by Mark LeVine, Director of the Program in Global Middle East Studies at UC Irvine
12 August 2011
Mitt Romney’s friendliness to corporations excuses them from bearing the responsibilities endowed upon them by the rights they are given as ‘persons’ under US law [AFP]
Thank God for Mitt Romney.
In a moment of candour he likely thought would win him much needed support from the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party, the presidential candidate explained his thinking to a heckler – who asked why Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Tuesday, December 27, 2022
If you enjoy your electrical power from TVA, and all the other associated benefits that have come along for that ride, such as regional economic development, improved health, care & quality of life, etc., you can thank a Republican.
That man would be Nebraska Republican U.S. Senator George W. Norris (1861-1944), who served 5 terms in the House (10 years), and 5 terms in the Senate (30 years), the last term of which he became an Independent, and was defeated for re-election in 1942.
George W. Norris as a newly elected U.S. Senator, 1912.
Senator Norris was also a member of a somewhat contrarian group in the House of Representatives that, in 1910, brought reform to its practices, by reducing the autocratic control which the Speaker of the House then had.
He also authored the 20th Amendment, which abolished so-called “lame duck” Congressional sessions, fought for presidential primaries, and direct election of Senators.
He also saved TVA from being sold — more accurately, prevented Wilson Dam in the Muscle Shoals area of Northwest Alabama from being sold — to one of the wealthiest industrialists of his era, which POTUSes Coolidge and Hoover (especially), both GOPers, wanted to sell to private enterprise, bidding in which Alabama Power (part of Atlanta, GA HQ’d Southern Company) was a strong contender.
That man was Henry Ford.
In the May 22, 1920 edition of The Dearborn Independent, a Henry Ford publication also known as The Ford International Weekly, Henry authored a front-page article entitled “The International Jew: The World’s Foremost Problem” that was later translated into several languages and distributed widely.
Interestingly enough, Henry Ford was a rabid anti-Semite Nazi sympathizer, of whom Adolph Hitler spoke fondly in a March 1923 interview with the Chicago Tribune, who said, Read the rest of this entry »
People are wearing their goddamn feelings on their sleeves, waiting for ANY opportunity to pronounce their faux dismay and disgust at some inane remark made by anyone about anything for any reason.
The chancellor referred to a portion of the commencement speaker’s remarks which may be found beginning around the :52 mark, which in context, was his statement of a silly little game he played with his grandchildren, in which he used gibberish as a concocted foreign language — and indeed, demonstrated the same numerous times throughout his address, speaking to his family, who were in attendance on the front row, and to the greater audience.
Commencement speaker: James E. “Jack” Dedelow, WJOB Radio and Founder, JEDTV
“I wanna’ first thank my family that gets to sit in the front row here, and I’ll just mention them, because when you give a speech, you gotta’ always do that, and sometimes you forget.
My wife Alexis — gave the commencement four years ago, my daughter Jackie and Tommy… my dad who went here in the late ’50s.
My son Steve, my granddaughter Lois is there.
Genie Viegal… yes, there she is.
We have a special thing, I’m supposed to play this straight, but ah… I have a thing on the air, if you ever listen.
I sometimes just roll off into a made up language, and I’ve taught it to my granddaughter, so if she starts crying, or this baby over here [gestures to his RIGHT] starts crying, I have something for them. It’s the ishgamaloofka language, and hopefully I don’t have to use it.
[continues remarks… looks to his LEFT — interrupts his remarks 58:53 with gibberish, gestures with LEFT hand as exclaiming]
Adama noris mo adis mor nisti!
[asks his family w grandchild]
Is the kid gonna’ stop? See? Did you see that? Just try that!
[points with LEFT index finger to grandchild]
Just go in the shower and make up a fake language and use it on your kids. It works great.
[continues remarks, turns to LEFT and addresses his father]
My dad here, in 1959, 1960 — he’s right here. He looks… well, ah… I can say this:
[points with LEFT finger, breaks out in gibberish exclaiming]
Hadama mañyerist nor amnisti! See? Did you see that? My dad here played basketball and baseball at PNW. And he still does it today at the age of 83.
[remarks continue, and he again utters gibberish]
[upon conclusion of his remarks, he seats himself, chancellor returns to podium]
Well.. all I can say is ‘homja yayiyom, [turns to commencement speaker] bye arr. That’s my Asian version of his… his ah…
Here’s the odd, even perverse thing about NPR’s reporting on that particular story — and it speaks, in my opinion — about fundamental hypocrisy.
But, there’s an even greater, even grotesquely bitter irony, one that many may have overlooked, including the author of the article — who, in that piece, injected her opinion — a CARDINAL sin in reporting. It was, in fact, an article wholly written about HER OPINION of one minuscule, picayune, so infinitesimally minute, and inconsequential thing, that, had it not been for the HEADLINE BLASTING HER OPINION, few, if any, would have read it.
Salacious garbage sells. In broadcast lingo, viewership and audience is colloquially termed “eyes on the set.” And today, in the online Internet realm, it’s called “clickbait.”
What’s saddening, is that the author most definitely has an impressive professional journalistic resume, and a first-class education, having “graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media, where she was a fully funded Roy H. Park Fellow,” as her brief biography on NPR reads. So, she most DEFINITELY knows better.
Naturally, there’ll always be people who are looking for something negative to write about, and this was no exception. The university’s Associate Vice Chancellor, Kris Falzone, spoke with the Chronicle of Higher Education and said that media outlets had blown out of proportion the Chancellor’s brief utterance by saying that, “Chancellor Keon was reacting to something that the speaker had said, and it was taken out of context.”
The United States Census Bureau states that Indiana’s demographic profile consists of 3.7% AAPI individuals who are broken down into subgroups as follows:
American Indian and Alaska Native alone, percent 0.4%
Asian alone, percent 2.7%
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone, percent 0.1%
So, a 2.7% student body population, and a 3.7% state population are statistically insignificant, insofar as there’s only 1% difference between the two figures. But, if one genuinely wants to split hairs, that’s a 31.25% difference between the two figures. But again, as a reflection of that segment of the state’s demographics, it’s insignificant — de minimis.
If the NPR article’s author, Giulia Heyward, had bothered to watch the entire video (I do not know if she did, or did not), she would have heard Mr. Dedelow explain the reason why he does what he does — having given up a lucrative job and seats on the Chicago Board of Trade, to buy a radio station, change his cell phone number, and begin a new career path. His remarks in full, in that context, begin at the 1:04:54 mark:
“This is the part where I tell you guys something meaningful. And I’m 60 years old, I lived in a commune, I traded at the Board of Trade for 18 years. I’ve been on the radio and built a media network. And I’ve lived a life, quite frankly, of debauchery at just about all of those levels.
But I do wanna’ tell you why I sit there every day.
That is also why, when the first enduring “snap” of winter, i.e., COLD weather, came along, it was called “hog killing weather,” because the cool, even cold temperatures largely delayed (retarded), if not temporarily prevented, spoilage (as rancidness, referring to an oxidized, deteriorated state of fat), and deterioration (rotting) of the uncooked flesh. Lard would be rendered (changed in character) from fat, which is accomplished by heating it, most typically in a large cauldron suspended over an open fire, to melt it.
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