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Calls for Termination of Biden-Harris Financial Agent Agreement and Return of Entire Fund Balance to the U.S. Treasury February 13, 2025 Contact Information EPA Press Office (press@epa.gov) WASHINGTON – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the agency has found billions of taxpayer dollars parked at a financial institution by the Biden-Harris Administration. Administrator Zeldin is calling for termination of the financial agent agreement, and for the immediate return of the entire fund balance to the United States Treasury to ensure EPA oversight. Administrator Zeldin also announced that he will be referring this matter to the Office of...

A Twitter account for a podcast run by former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon was permanently suspended by the social media company after he suggested beheading Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray. Bannon, speaking on his “War Room” podcast, said Trump shouldn’t just fire Wray and Fauci, he should dismember the government officials “as a warning to federal bureaucrats.” “I’d actually like to go back to the old times of Tudor England,” Bannon said in the bizarre rant. “I’d put the heads on pikes. I’d put them at the two corners of the White House as a...

Andrew Cuomo, the governor of the state with the most deaths from coronavirus due to his incompetent policies, at the Democratic National Convention on Monday night minimized COVID-19 and urged voters to look at the virus as a metaphor for our fractured times while praising himself for reducing the New York infection rate. “Our way worked, and it was beautiful,” Cuomo said. It didn’t, and it wasn’t.

Imagine you are the Judicial Committee (the non-leftists) driving in The Great Big Red, White, and Blue 1973 Buick LeSabre of Judicial Candidate Sanity, driven by President Donald Trump and the car is packed with Grassley, Graham, and Kavanaugh snugly in the front seat along with the President, and the spacious back seat holds the rest of them. There are no Democrats in the car. There is, however, one other occupant of the car, and that is Jeff Flake, whose muffled protests and thumps from the trunk can be faintly heard above the laughter of everyone else in the car....

Nine Brief Examples of the Power of Metaphor Msgr. Charles Pope • May 19, 2016 • Words, while an important part of our toolset, can also get in the way of reality. But how can we live without them? On some level we must allow a deep level of language to help us in sorting out reality; words are something that help us to form a mental picture. In particular, we sometimes turn to metaphors and extended metaphors (parables, allegories, stories, etc.).A metaphor is a figure of speech in which two different things are equated for rhetorical effect. It...

The perfect metaphor for today's America: Read more at http://www.grindtv.com/wildlife/rare-photo-shows-crow-riding-atop-a-flying-bald-eagle/#dCjTEpcIbMKXPsWL.99

Why the disconnect between conservative electoral wins these last thirty-five years, and how leftward American culture and law has slithered? How did it come to this? Thought being the father of action, ineffective efforts spring from flawed worldviews. Our ballot box wins having proven at best delaying actions against the Left’s Borg-like assimilation of the United States, it is time for conservatives to take a hard look at how conservatism views itself and the Left. Ultimately, much of the problem results from certain conceptual metaphors inherent in modern conservatism. Change those metaphors, and different, more effective actions will result. [skip]...

When someone is so good at something that they're in another universe much less another league they're considered the Michael Jordan of that particular thing...I thought this application of it worked well :-)

As part of X-Men: Days of Future Past's target demographic — straight, white, male nerds, each with $10 to dispose of — I have about as much firsthand experience with oppression as I do fighting crime with big red lasers that shoot out of my fking eyeballs. But for years, oppression has been central to the way fans read — and watch — X-Men. Particularly during the '70s and '80s Chris Claremont-penned era of X-Men comics, the adventures of James "Logan" Howlett and co. were seen as analogous to the saga of those discriminated in the real world. Whole debates...

Liberals always mock conservative criticism of their policies because they don't ruin the country overnight. In many/most instances it takes decades of build up (like the incremental bloating of the entitlement/welfare system).Here's another really awesome way to put it...

“For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God?” 1 Peter 4:17 “See, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears my Name, and will you indeed go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword upon all who live on the earth, declares the Lord Almighty.” Jeremiah 25:29

So Obama attends a Sestak fundraiser and he uses his secret weapon, "Democrats are trying to pull the car out of the ditch while the GOP is just sitting back and sipping on a Slurpee"...again. (Michelle is now proposing to ban Slurpees, especially GOP ones.) How many times does the TOTUS have to tell Obama to say this before he realizes the TOTUS is a Tea Party member? And how many times do reporters have to ask Who gets the car?So now I ask you to give me your best analogies and metaphors about Obama's policies. I'm sure you can...

Obama got the big pretentious names like Yo Yo Ma, Anthony McGill, Gabriela Montero, and Itzhak Perlman to perform for him. But the performance was for his ears only; everyone else got the "canned music" piped to them in a show of deception that makes one reminisce to Communist China's false presentations during the Olympics. Live' Inauguration Performance Used Canned Music Written by Sunrise on KGMB9 - sunrise@kgmb9.com Remember that amazing quartet that played that beautiful "live" performance at the inauguration? Turns out it wasn't live at all. The frigid temperatures apparently made it impossible for the four renowned musicians...

Several months ago, my opponent was talking about pie. Apparently he likes pie very much because in one speech he mentioned it something like 25 times in the space of a minute and a half. It's taken me some time, but I think he really hit on the perfect metaphor for the difference in our two approaches towards the economy...

by Mark Finkelstein February 17, 2006 - 07:46 "They say that all good things must end, someday, "Autumn leaves must fall, "But don't you know, that it hurts me so, "To say goodbye to you "Wish you didn't have to go "No no no no." - A Summer Song, Chad & Jeremy Yes, it was so beautiful for the MSM while it lasted. Seemingly endless days beneath sunny South Texas skies, filled with breathless stories of possible White House cover-ups, press secretaries under the gun, earnest doctors displaying models of damaged hearts, why, even talk of the Vice-President having to...

I am glad that Ronald Reagan has died. Yes, I really am. I am glad that he has died without pain and suffering, that he has died among his dear wife, his children, and at home. He said good-bye (which origins from "God be with you") to us with the age of 93, and I´m glad that he has lived that long. Who has ever met Alzheimer patients (my Grandma was one) knows, that it´s a horrible disease, but the pain comes with loneliness. President Reagan was not alone during "the journey which lead him to the sunset of life"....

In his recent American Prospect Online article, "Attack of the Metaphors," Matthew Nisbet lucidly explains why even though it shouldn't, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones will inevitably come to shape this nation's ongoing political debate about cloning. George Lucas's take on this technology, Nisbet argues, resonates with themes from Brave New World, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and other influential texts concerned with misuses of science, from The Island of Dr. Moreau to Jurassic Park. Besides Star Wars itself, perhaps the most recent work in this genre is Spider Man, yet another tale of hubris, science run amok, and...

Secluded Lake, CA - Saying that "the very survival of prom is at stake," Secluded Lake High School junior class president Chad Blackthorne vowed a clampdown on local Zombie militant factions that have claimed nearly one third of the student body in recent suicide forays on area lakeside cabins. The international press and diplomatic community were quick to condemn Blackthorne’s new hardline anti-Zombie position, warning that armed reprisals risked long-term peace prospects in the heavily-wooded region. “Blackthorne’s continued bellicosity will only conclude in more deaths, re-deaths and re-re-deaths,” said an editorial in London’s Guardian Thursday. “If the weekend dismemberment of...