Sorry James You were handed the black spot
What a big week for news and info.
Tough week for FR to be down so much.
But, IMHO I think Jim/Rob does an excellent job of beating back the forces of evil who attack this website 24/7. He has to have a truly difficult job keeping this site online as much as he does with some of the most viscous left wingers in the world after us 24/7.
Thanks again Jim for providing us a stellar website which to post our views,it is much appreciated! A dollar a day is little enough to pay to keep this place going.
April 18, 2017 - Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger called on President Donald Trump to release his tax returns ...
MTP is the best today.
Will Tillerson and McPain be on at same time?
The others are useless.
Did anyone read Peggy Nullnan(Noonan) yesterday?...link on Drudge works to bypass the Journal’s subscription...the edit shows she blames Trump for the MSM circus...she truly is an idiot of special status. She is a swamp maid.
Read some of the 2500 comments which will assure you we here at Freep represent the majority. 70% of them call her out as an idiot!
In our America, Bray replaces her edits with his!
HUGE storms everywhere in Alabama starting yesterday around 3:00 PM. We had a small tornado or straight line mega wind come through. Trees down everywhere. The power poles arcoss from my place had trees falling into them. Live wires down on the highway, the police had to come block the road.
So, there I was in Fortress Babylon without electricity. Wondering if I needed to go out in the pouring rain and lightning and go through the laborious process of getting the generator out.
Kudos to Alabama Power! We got about 8 inches of rain—constant from 4:00 pm - midnight and these guys worked throughout the downpour cutting trees with chain saws, going up in buckets trucks in massive lightning and finally getting the job done. We had power back at midnight.
Slept like a baby instead of a hot, sweaty mess!
NBC finally found something of substance to put on in that time slot. Kudos to NBC.....even though I hate soccer.
Jeez, how do we get Soccer on ALL the channels???
As dumba** as the sport is, it’s a vast improvement in programming.
McNuts needs to take a dirt nap! Worthless POS!
Morning AB, All. As always, thank you AB for doing this thread so reliably and keeping the peace with gentle thread policing. Thank you Bray for weekly written wisdom, Thank all yon contributors for excellent commentary to flesh it all out.
I am very happy FreeRepublic is up today, thank you site owners and workers, you were missed. I suggest if you haven’t contributed to the Freepathon perhaps consider doing so.
Below is my daily journal of political events. If too long please scroll by but do stay around to add you political commentary.
Tuesday-date- 5/16/17 Daily Update
Best I can figure out President Trump let slip the name of some city involved with the attacks on ISIS.
At least that’s what the Washington Post says happened during a meeting recently between some Russian diplomat and Trump.
Man they are determined to bring Trump down so much they make up lies.
I am so sick of hearing about the Russians and so is much of America.
And everywhere we hear about this “special prosecutor”. But to get a prosecutor you need a crime….YOU NEED A CRIME!!!!
These Democrats want to get the prosecutor to go and FIND THE CRIME!
This morning I saw, guess who?
Remember Ken Starr?
I remember him well, how the news media tried to make up things about him being a pervert, how they followed him as he emptied his trash.
AND that awful Fitzgerald guy who put poor Scooter Libby in jail although everyone knew who let is slip that Valeria Plame was a night time janitor at the NSA.
A special prosecutor does not guarantee justice in any manner. A special prosecutor guarantees a political showboat and that’s all.
Wednesday-date-5/17/17
Daily Update
Trump takes off for G7, grand tour around the world. Seth Rich
So President Trump is taking a trip around the world and the liberals/left does not like it. They do not, under any circumstances, want Trump to succeed or look good.
We’ll be watching that trip with eagle eyes.
The biggest story of yesterday was a new look into the death of DNC operative, Seth Rich.
Rich was shot in the back at 4 in the morning. He was left for dead. His wallet and cell phone were still on his person.
Now it comes out that Rich was involved with the Wikileaks release of information.
So somehow he ended up dead?
I’ve spent a lifetime casting glances at the many unusual deaths around the Clintons. So have many of us, I suspect.
People kill themselves, get in unusual airplane crashes, die strange and weird deaths. There has been compiled a list of these strange deaths and it’s way up there, in the 60’s or some such.
Could the Clintons be behind the death of Seth Rich?
Thursday-date-5/18/17
Daily Update
Independent Counsel Appointed. Democrats win. Stick market begins to sink.
They’re going to win, people. Indeed, they’ve already won.
Because every damn one of you out there reading this who think your vote means a damn thing to the powerful bureaucrats and appointed elites…..you are wrong.
It’s Robert Mueller, who all the pundits this morn tell us is a wonderful, great and wonderful guy, is the appointee.
They said the same thing about Comey.
James Comey, who controlled EVERYBODY in D.C. as we learn it.
Why aren’t the Republicans appointing someone to investigate that meeting between Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch? Why isn’t there a counsel to look into Hillary’s emails?
The Republicans are a majority, they have no power?
Even Trump tweeted everything I wrote above just this morning.
This is just so wrong but I worry no more.
I give up.
They have won.
Friday-date5/19/17
-Daily Update
Rush Limbaugh Annoys
FreeRepublic, one of my favorite web sites is down. Has been all week. Please don’t ask me how a web site can be down all week. I don’t know.
The day before-Weds of this past week-a special prosecutor was named to study the Russians, who my dogs told me pooped in our hallway.
I was anxious for news. I’m a news junkee. FreeRepublic, Facebook even, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin…..I get a news/political fix hourly.
Except yesterday when Rush Limbaugh decided Roger Ailes needed almost his entire first hour for adulation.
Now I have nothing against Roger Ailes and may he rest in peace. And for sure Rush should pay homage who helped him so much. BUT FOR ALMOST AN HOUR?!?!?!? Plays sound bytes and quotes from speeches and on and on and on and on.
Then, when Rush finally talks about the news he get a freaking phone call…this in the second hour, with another question about Ailes…and that took up another fifteen minutes of time, these in the second hour.
I’m over it. I was anxious and was looking forward to Rush’s take on the special counsel and I got to hear about Roger Ailes.
Who, by the way, had some pretty dastardly things said about him toward the end….Fox all day praising this man as if Jesus.
Saturday-date-5/20/17 Daily Update
Rush Limbaugh was right!
Yesterday I said some angry things about Rush Limbaugh, mostly because I was mad at him for spending the entire first hour or his program boring me about Roger Ailes.
Time to give Rush his due because he’s seldom, if ever, wrong.
But when Rush made this assertion I was flummoxed. I thought he was nuts.
“It’s not the Democrat party leading all this resistance and attempt to destroy Trump,” Rush told us. “IT’S THE MEDIA!”
First, when I see a reference to this nameless, invisible “media” my eyes glaze over. I know there was once, or maybe still is, some kind of group email known as Journolist” or some such. But beyond that how does this monster invisible “media” hold meetings? Do they vote on what to say? Where are those tapes?
However I am aware that there is a big media conglomerate out there and while I don’t understand where and how they get their talking points, they do all seem to have a daily meme that seems to be mutual.
The notion that this invisible group of nobodies somehow is controlling our country flabbergasts me. I thought Rush lost his mind.
AND YET HE’S RIGHT!
The media is running this show and what a powerful position to be in.
I do know that Valerie Jarrett’s daughter is a bigwig at CNN. There are other gubmint people inside of national news organizations. The media is also one of the most nepotistic organizations on the planet. There’s hardly anyone with a position of any reknown that doesn’t have a parent in the news world. I would include Cooper Anderson, Chris Wallace, Steve Deucy and many others in this group.
And now, with the Democrats all the hell over the place, the media steps up to the plate and is running the show.
This is scary, people.
On a personal note
Big story coming up on HBO called “Fatal Family Secrets”. Article this week in People magazine, which a neighbor who knows my daughter, walked straight to my door.
She killed her mother, this Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who it is claimed was the victim of Munchausen by proxy by that same mother, Dee Dee Blanchard.
It’s all a lie.
The wonderful Gypsy Rose had her boyfriend kill her mother. She got ten years for second degree murder.
She was 23 years old and in all those years, school and hospitals, there was no one she could tell her mother was abusing her?
I bring this up because I am terrified my daughter will do the same thing to me. I am discovering that this is a big deal with these people. They spend their lives abusing and disfiguring themselves then when they grow up they say their mothers did it. I posted right here on this forum an excerpt from my daughter’s GOFUNDME page where she claims that I had Munchausen by Proxy and this is why she needs money. I also posted a story about a woman who lied about being kidnapped, said it was a Mexican woman took her. She too said her mother abused her and that’s why she’s nuts.
And note please that this crazy woman, Gypsy Lee, got her boyfriend to kill her mother Because they can sell ice to an Eskimo, coal to a coal miner, sex to a prostitute. There is nothing a Munchausen person can’t do. They would be great successes in life if they used their talents sanely.
This is not to say that there is no such thing as Munchausen by Proxy and mothers who abuse their own children for sympathetic attention. They are not normally in their 20’s, 40 in the case of my daughter, 30 in case of the kidnapped nutjob. At some point you think they could have told someone…a health caregiver, a teacher, a relative. Munchausen by Proxy victims are almost always discovered before age 10.
But hey, it’s a good lie.
This illness is starting to get a lot of attention, as well it should. Because my argument is that it’s part and parcel of the society of snowflakes we have. We all have a need for attention, but in this nut job society, sympathy is free and there are many who do bad things to get it.
If anything should ever happen to me all I ask is that yon reader not let her get away with it. SHE will never do anything but note please the above examples of how these people get others to do their evil deeds. My daughter makes a career out of bilking the mentally ill.
I have been in contact with the producer of this series and several others. I am fighting back.
Meet the Press is being pre-emptive by soccer? If it was F1, Indy, Nascar, hydroplane or snowmobile races...ok..I’d watch it, but soccer, no thanks.
Now the wench at FNC headquarters gets rid of Newt immediately after he made that comment!!
Wow this is huge!!!
We need more of this soccer coverage, especially on Sunday morning.
Sorry James You were handed the black spot