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Tuesday 10/29/19
BIGGEST NEWS OF WEEKEND…ABU BAKR al-BAGHDADi DEAD
It was all a big surprise and a bit confusing. On Saturday night, 10/26/19, President Trump sent out a Tweet stating that something big happened. Via various venues listeners heard this message and the fact that the President would be giving a statement at 9am on the following Sunday, 10/27/19.
Which he did.
To the shock, and a blossoming joy , of America, we learn that this al-Baghadi fellow, a fine, fine human, was caught by the Kurds and Americans working together. Trapped in an escape-less tunnel , El-Baghadi set off his suicide vest, killing himself and his three children.
Frankly, even though I call myself a news junkee, I didn’t know anybody was even looking for the guy. But oh boy, since then, I sure have learned a lot.
Now back for a moment to this notice by Trump. Seems he didn’t tell but a few people about the plan. One of which was NOT Nancy Pelosi.
I also learned that this fellow had been released by President Obama when he released all the prisoners in Iraqi prisons as America pulled out.
This El Baghdadi guy cut off people’s heads, set them on fire in small cages, captured a young, naïve American girl, kept her prisoner and raped her repeatedly, ripping off her fingernails and eventually causing her death.
He wasn’t a nice guy is what I learned.
As of this writing it’s been a subject on the news all day, as would be expected.
The Democrats received no notification but plans are afoot to impeach Trump for being mean to prisoners.
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Katie Hill, D, California, CHOOSES TO RESIGN
First, I never heard of Katie Hill, but like Baghdadi before her, suddenly she is all over the news.
No she wasn’t trapped in a tunnel to kill herself. But evidently she had some sort of romantic relationship with a member of staff.
BUT IT GETS WORSE!
Turns out she and her husband were involved in some sort of weird threesome. Hill is bisexual and her “other” romantic partner is a woman.
Do any of these people live normal lives?
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Last week, the House Ethics Committee opened an investigation into allegations that Hill was romantically involved with her legislative director, Graham Kelly, a relationship that would violate House ethics rules.
Hill was seen as a rising star in the Democratic Party, a 32-year-old lawmaker who flipped a Republican-held seat in a district northeast of Los Angeles.
Her departure came swiftly after allegations surfaced about a week ago in an article on the conservative website RedState.org. The article alleged that Hill and her husband were in a consensual three-person relationship with a woman on her campaign team. The article included text messages it said were between Hill and the woman as well as intimate photos of them together. Hill is openly bisexual. The article also alleged that Hill was involved romantically with Kelly.
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60 MINUTES, THE BIDEN INTERVIEW
I chanced to watch the interview of Joe Biden on “60 Minutes”, 10/28/19.
Couple of things stick out in my mind.
One was when the interviewer asked Biden what President Trump should do to earn the respect of the American people. We must suppose that the conversation before this query involved President Trump and how everyone hates him.
Biden squints an eye and says the one thing Trump needed to do that we all prayed about for days on end: “He could release his tax returns.”
THAT’S THE TICKET!!!
We’ve all been praying to Trump to release his tax returns.
That’s the best Biden could come up with.
Ole Joe went on to declare his son Hunter never discussed the Ukraine Burisma deal with him and he never said he would deny Ukraine American money if they didn’t get prosecutors off of Burisma’s case.
Heh. Even though we’ve all heard him say so with our lying ears.
Finally, the interviewer asked why President Obama would not endorse him.
“Because I want to do this on my own,” ole Joe declared.
Man I got a bridge to sell anyone who believes this.
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THE CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES
I feel great concern for those poor California home owners who are being forced to evacuate as fire rages around them.
I try to imagine how heart-broken I would be if a fire threatened to burn up my home, my property, my memories, maybe my pets.
But I get confused. If you live on a hill known far and wide for its voracious winds, filled with trees that burn easily….why would you build a house there?
Okay, I will shut up for now. There is probably much I do not know.
But to always be afraid a spark might fly, a breeze might blow?
Wouldn’t do it to begin with.
Weds 10/30/19
She’s a Belgian Malinois. She’s America’s Hero for the day. Her name is Conan, as in “Barbarian”.
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Though no U.S. forces were killed in the Saturday evening raid that led to the death of an ISIS leader, one military working dog suffered severe injuries in the line of duty.
The dog, whose name and breed remain unknown, chased Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi into a tunnel and cornered him. With no place to go, the terrorist leader blew himself up along with three of his children, who he was using as human shields.
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She’s been the subject of much admiration across the fruity plains. Because Americans love their dogs.
The Muslims? Not so much.
So Conan chased the fabulous, per the Washington Post, Al-Baghdadi into a tunnel where he set off his vest to blow himself, and his three innocent children, to smithereens. For a while it was being reported that the military dog died in the scuffle but now we hear she is alive and proud of her canine self.
I once had a Belgian Malinois. Had her for 13 years. Loved her to bits.
A Malinois is not for the meek. DO NOT GET ONE OF THESE DOGS UNLESS YOU CAN CONTROL HURRICANES AND FOREST FIRES!
My but she was wonderful. My but how I miss her.
She never captured a terrorist but one time she did stop a dog about to attack me viciously. Goodness knows what would have happened had she not been with me.
Congrats to Conan. WE LOVE YOU SWEETHEART!!!
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Political cartoon of week
10/31/19-Thurs
DEMOCRAT TO NOT VOTE FOR IMPEACHMENT
As of this writing it is the day before the House’s great impeachment vote. Already one Democrat has vowed not to vote in favor or removing the President.
Turns out it’s a fellow from New Jersey who won his election by a hair in 2016 and doesn’t want to risk losing it.
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Rep. Jeff Van Drew (D-NJ) said Tuesday that he will likely vote against a resolution by House Democrats to formalize their secret impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, prompting more uncertainly around whether Thursday’s expected vote will go on as planned.
Asked by NBC News reporter Alex Moe if he supports the measure, Van Drew replied: “I would imagine that I’m not voting for it.” Van Drew, whose district President Trump won in 2016, is among roughly a dozen House Democrats who oppose the impeachment inquiry. “I have long maintained the position that the impeachment or potential impeachment would not be good for Democrats or Republicans,” the lawmaker told Fox News in September.
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FORMER VP JOE BIDEN DENIED HOLY COMMUNION
The Catholic church is against abortion and always has been.
And nearby we have a plethora of allegedly Catholic politicos who promote and proclaim the miracle of murdering a baby in womb, and, of late, even after birth.
I’ve had non-Catholics often ask me why does the church keep giving the likes of Biden and yes, Nancy Pelosi (who attended St. Leo’s, near me in Baltimore, all her life), are given communion when every priest knows they promote something the church so dislikes.
So it would turn out that one brave church denied Biden communion.
Good for them!
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"I'm not going to discuss that," Biden told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell in an on-air phone interview on Tuesday.
Biden and his wife attended Mass at the St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence during a campaign stop, but he was reportedly denied Holy Communion, the practice of imbibing bread and wine (which Catholics believe represent the body and blood of Jesus Christ), after the pastor took issue with Biden's support of women's right to an abortion. (snip)
Biden, who earlier this year condemned state legislation across the country that barred women from having the procedure, said: "I'm a practicing Catholic. I practice my faith, but I've never let my religious beliefs, which I accept based on Church doctrine ... impose ... on other people."
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NOT politics by pat
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Came across this graphic of the 5 best sentences and liked it so much decided to include it in the weekly NOT Politics….
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The Cat and Falling leaves
For about two weeks now I note my cat sitting by the sliding glass door and watching the outside intently. Now these are indoor cats but like all cats, they love sitting at the window and watching the world without.
One of my especial vigilant cats would get all excited and do that cat crouch they do when watching something floating in the air, running on the land, or movement around their cat selves.
At first I thought it was bugs. She loves to stalk bugs that crawl upon the window but, of course, she cannot catch the creature on the outside. Then I thought it might be birds flying about looking for bird seed I sometimes put out.
IT WAS A FALLING LEAF!!
In fact, it was MANY fallen leaves. She would see a leaf floating gently down from a tree, after all it IS October, and stalk it as it fell, then assume the crouch/attack position.
She’s going to be busy for the next couple of months I must assume.
DANCING WITH THE STARS
It is one of my favorite competitive reality TV shows. And this year has a special humor in that former White House press Secretary Sean Spicer is a contender.
Yes he is an awful dancer. It would seem, however, that President Trump threw out a cheer for Sean and asked Americans to vote for him.
Which Americans have, evidently, been doing.
First, quick summary of the most recent show:
Scores out of 30
-Hannah Brown/Alan Bersten-she is bachelorette-25
-Kel Mitchell/Witney Carson-something about "good burger-27, quick step
-Kate Flannery/Pasha-Actress "Good Office", rumba,24
-Lauren Alain/Gleb Savchenko-singer-argentine tango,27
-Karamo/Jenna-"Queer Eye", paso doble, 25
-Ally Brooke/Sasha Farber, Pop singer, tango-27
-Sean Spicer/Lindsay, former press secretary, jive,18
-James Van Der Beek/Emma Slater, TV icon, -27-waltz
There are four ties above, for 27 points, to include Ally Brooke, James Van Der Beek, Kel Mitchell, and Lauren Alain.
The bottom two this week were:
Kate/tasha
Kamaro/jenna
Note Spicer was not one of the bottom two although his scores have been consistently low. This week his score, doing the Jive dressed as Frankenstein, was 18.
Sent home…
…..Kamaro/Jenna
For now I predict the winner will be James Van Der Beek. And I think Sean will be going home very soon but God bless, he did his best, he smiled, he had a pleasant disposition.
Heh.
Fri 11/1/19
WHISTLE BLOWER IDENTIFIED
As I am to understand I might well be the only human on planet earth to not know the identity of this so-called Whistle Blower.
He is Eric Ciaramella and, well he’s a big lying spy leftover from the Obama administration.
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Wednesday, October 30, 2019 New developments are surfacing in the impeachment inquiry. Media company RealClear Politics claimed Wednesday there’s strong evidence that the alleged whistleblower could be Eric Ciaramella.
Ciaramella is a registered Democrat who previously worked with former Vice President Joe Biden and former CIA Director John Brennan. His name has been tossed around on social media platforms for weeks and is known by many on Capitol Hill.
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HOUSE IMPEACHMENT NONSENSE
Why yes I did tune in to the impeachment show put on by the House of Representatives. As of this writing, one Nancy Pelosi is telling the world how nobody there wants to impeach the President.
Yet we know that’s all every ruling class Democrat wants more than diamonds for Christmas.
Republicans doing a pretty good job of expressing their ire.
I’m sure, in due course, President Trump will express his opinions.
He is the one with the biggest bully pulpit.
Heh.
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POLITICAL MISCELLANY
Some snippets of the culture not necessarily totally political and mostly just my opinion.
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That hero dog, Conan I think was her name although they say they can’t release the dog’s name. But I read Conan somewhere so for now I’m sticking to it.
Love that picture of her, straight and proud and happy.
She is a Belgian Malinois. I once had a Malinois. These dogs are not for the meek. Had her for twelve years. Loved her dearly. Miss her even more now that she’s part of a heroic breed.
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I been thinking about that little girl on the cruise ship. She was playing, along with other kids, around a row of tall windows. One of the windows was open and the child fell through it to her death below.
Her grandfather was watching her at the time and he didn’t notice the window was open.
Lookit, God bless that little girl who is now in Jesus’ arms in heaven I’ve no doubt. But that setup was an accident waiting to happen.
A line of windows that a child could easily fall out of before realizing the window was open. All of the other windows were very clean I must suppose. Her watchful grandfather didn’t know that window was open. Obviously, or he would have pulled the toddler to safety.
Now we hear that Puerto Rico has charged that poor heart-broken man with negligent homicide.
Folks, this is a money thing and nothing less.
See, if the grandfather is charged with a crime, well it will help the cruise lines avoid the huge payments they will have to pay out from the civil lawsuit.
The window was open. Someone could walk through it. Children were playing all about.
The dumbest setup in town but to save money they are charging the grandfather with a non-existent crime.
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We hear that Catherine Herridge is leaving Fox and going to CBS.
By me, Catherine Herridge is one of the best investigative journalists around today. Lord I hope she doesn’t turn into another CBS fake news reporter.
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So the Jeffrey Epstein death is considered a homicide by a world reknown medical examiner?
Three broken hyoid bones are the major reasons Epstein’s death is considered such. A person committing suicide would likely not break so many of their own neck bones.
Guards taking a nap. Cameras strangely turned off.
Somebody killed this guy, provider of young women to the famous.
Already I suspect the Clintons’ hand in this.
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Sat 11/2/19
FORMER CIA DIRECTOR THANKS GOD FOR “DEEP STATE”
First, I didn’t know that some guy with a last name of McLaughlin was ever Director of the CIA.
That name means a lot to me. First, it was MY last name for 21 years. Second, how well I remember “The McLaughlin Group”, a respected forum to discuss politics a few years ago.
But besides the name jolt, the former head of the CIA thanks God for this Deep State? What, he thinks a bunch of bureaucrats and folks with no loyalty to the citizenry or the country of the United States are a good thing?
The CIA, FBI, DNI…..insert alphabet spy/police agency of your choice….they are all behind this Russia Collusion, the Ukraine nonsense, the constant attempt to take down the president we duly elected.
And now we know that these agencies THANKS GOD FOR THE DEEP STATE.
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BRENNAN: “But there is something unique you have to agree, that now the impeachment inquiry is underway, sparked by complaint from someone within the intelligence community. It feeds the President’s concern and often used term about a ‘deep state’ being there to take him out.”
MCLAUGHLIN: “Thank God for the deep state."
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Tells you all you need to know.
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GIGGLE TO END THE WEEK
