Two birdsBYRDS of a feather. The Morepork and Manchin (Joe Manchin on left). Plumage, eyes and beak similar, both now advocates of eating insects.*
Well we should have known — group shaming and trash talk by fellow Democrats was not the reason for Manchin supposedly caving, nor was it the appeals to the big Demonrat grand social scheme in the inflationary Inflation Reduction Act they have put forth. It was the taste offers to gorge on pork. At Gateway Pundit quoting a Politio report:
Bill Gates was among those who lobbied U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin—a frequent key Democratic holdout—to support an economic package focusing on climate and health care, after more than a year of negotiations.
The push for the conservative Democrat to support what is now the Inflation Reduction Act—but was, until recently, the Build Back Better Act—included more than 20 leaders of clean energy manufacturing companies with plans to put down roots in Manchin’s West Virginia. They included Bill Gates, who owns a venture capital firm that has backed a battery start-up there, Politico reports.
Now we have been to West Virginia and seen the Byrd this and the Byrd that on roads and buildings — some of the many things named after the Robert Byrd political dynasty there. Manchin must have developed a little jealousy . . . or the pork thing is just a matter of his nature. The latter becomes more evident when you look closer at Manchin and notice the yellowish eyes. They are characteristic of a bird, an owl called the Morepork.* Manchin must be related to this yellow-eyed meat-eater (insects and rodents like the climate crazies at the UN and the WEF want us to eat) as grub loving, flighty and opportunistic as he is. The attached photo is proof that if Manchin is not related to the Morepork he has adopted it as his mascot and inspiration (and perhaps it ought to be the state bird of West Virginia politics)*
*Who says the Morepork is not native to West Virginia. They just call it something different — the Manchin.
We suppose Pelosi could come down with COVID and save the world from nuclear war . . .
We were right in our more serious moment but offered the wrong reason
Surely Gen. Miley would have soon enough
Says Tom Cotton it was the big guy leaker — (referring to Biden’s running off at the mouth not his other incontinence problem)
In our post yesterday which included a little pasquinade about Democrats we certainly were not intending to start some sort of fake pee tape story about “leaks” that would set the media into a frenzy — although our little farce had certain common apt elements — “leaks” and whores.
In our more serious part we were in the ballpark – Biden being responsible – but we were way to assuming that he had any strategy other than running off at the mouth.
Cottons revelations still points to the ever serious danger we are in with this Resident in the White House. The article was posted after ours.
Cotton said it’s common knowledge on Capitol Hill that Pelosi’s plans to visit Taiwan were leaked to the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing by none other than President Joe Biden himself. . . .
We cannot back down in the face of these Chinese threats,” Cotton reiterated, saying if Biden “prevents Nancy Pelosi or any other member of Congress from traveling to Taiwan, it will create a major foreign policy crisis — imagine what it will signal to the Chinese Communists if they think they can threaten us into merely not traveling to Taiwan,” Cotton warned. “It might in fact incite them and tempt them to go for the jugular in Taiwan.”
Reading comments to the article at Townhall there were some entertaining if dark ideas set forth as to who ought to make the trip.
One that we found ironic was to the effect that it wasn’t necessary for Biden to leak the matter — wouldn’t have CJCS General Milley
Not doubt the Dems are in a quandry as to how to play this latest shit-his-pants again moment by Resident Joe. Do they try to turn it into a tough guy moment for their administration and issue some warnings and have China backdown – (probably for the price of us removing Navy ships from international waters, missiles from South Korea or something) all in service to reelection efforts as we suggested OR will Nancy simply catch COVID, cancel and have the matter blow over — as their media branch will surely help with. One thing is for sure — we should be worried — Democrats have denigrated military readiness and given freedom’s adversaries all manner of reasons to doubt American will.
It was a treacherous act by Schemer as well (link and excerpt below) but Republican McConnell et al complicit in other boondoggle — the CHIP bill.
In the tightly split Senate (as far as organizational power) Chuck Schemer has no power without ol’ Joe Machination. As we have insisted before, in today’s Washington all threats to Red West Virginia are enabled by Manchin because of his caucusing with Democrats to give them the potential to do their worst. He is not a savior he is an enabler. He is the family member who buys the alcoholic a smaller bottle of booze, repeatedly.
These comments are in response to the latest development regarding the negotiations between Chuck Schumer’s Schemer and Joe Manchin’s Machination’s plan to further screw up the US economy. Read the first link – it is breathless report on the bill as saving the planet. The second one relates to how Manchin has redeemed himself and the third is what it took to get him back in the fold — nothing — just a stroke or two and a whisper from a buddy
Joe Manchin has of course been enabling most of the worst from that demonic party from the first day he was elected to the Senate. Now he has agreed to a spending and regulatory bill, a level that if it gets final approval they will live with until the next ratcheting regulations and inflationary strangulation of the economy on the way to destroying it in service to the creation of the Marxist utopia hellhole they envision.
It could be thwarted if Republicans in the Senate hold ranks and Arizona Democrat Sinema can find the cahones that Manchin has lost again. Maybe Sinema wants to tag in and play Manchin for the good of her state and the country. It is not likely but we can pray for vision. Perhaps the notion of Republicans holding ranks is more far-fetched. So passage of it given the Democrat Party’s must-do emphasis behind it going into the mid-terms seems likely.
The proposal is fraught with tax increases that if they raise revenue will do so at the expense of the private investment that is the engine of an efficient economy. It is possessed of irresponsible inflationary spending (along with the tax increases) focused on environmental doctrine that will create more boondoggles and more energy vulnerability.
Here are some links explaining the effects of the bill.
Few people in America were following the passage of the $280 billion handout for huge chip manufactures and the 5G industry, but the politics surrounding the bill, as well as the bill itself, perfectly exemplify the “uniparty” dynamic. To begin with, GOP leadership had no problem with this corporate welfare bill and worked together to craft it. However, McConnell promised to hold up the bill unless the Democrats committed to forgoing budget reconciliation, a process through which they can pass liberal priorities without the need for 60 votes. Well, McConnell and 17 other Republican senators eagerly provided the votes for the “chips-plus bill,” and Schumer responded by announcing his plans to pass budget reconciliation to remake our economy! Full story at link.
Octogenarian Leahy who hails from the county of state of Vermont is President pro tempore of the Senate and as such third in line of succession to the current residency. Speaker of the House Pelosi and fellow octogenarian is second. Both born in March of 1940 Pelosi is five days older and thus more experienced than Leahy. Unfortunately for them Vice-Resident Harris is first in line. We all figure Joe is not very likely to make it through his residential term, well other than in an actual Weekend at Bernie’s scenario.
That of course is probably the best alternative for Democrats given their back-up bench. But hear me out:
Her Cackleship as resident according to recent polls even among Democrats is just too much to bear. So if they are both told to go bye bye by Barry “Barack” Obama as per instructions from Georgie Soros in consultation with Xi Jinping, that leaves Pelosi.
But this would be Leahy’s last shot at being resident. He could be Senator forever (just looking at his older brother/colleague Chuck Grassley) but Leahy figures given the Biden experience that he would have less to do as resident and so that job is very appealing — you get to babble, have outbursts, forget everything, lie about anything that strikes your fancy, and have someone change your diapers ( with his hip problems that is particularly appealing).
Anyway we figure he is behind pushing Pelosi to make the trip to Taiwan in spite of Red China’s threats. Just saying. But that is only one level of analysis regarding the matter.
For the record China’s threats official and semi-official against the Speaker of the House are absolutely unacceptable and ought to result in kicking their embassy personnel out of the country. They can revise and extend their remarks from out of the country.
That said could the matter be a posturing ruse cooked up by Biden’s handlers giving him the opportunity to appear tough, with China’s cooperation. They will take a PR hit for the purpose of helping Democrats in 2022 and 2024.
Except so far that does not seem to be the scenario.
Perhaps worse is the possibility the Biden residency is perceived as being so weak and does not know what to do.
Protest at Davenport Library over ‘Teen Summer Brunch: Drag Queens & Kings” — which included a story hour for 11-year-old children through teen-aged at which parents were not admitted. From what protest participants could determine protestors outnumbered supporters and participants. Protestors were split between the main entrance and the street entrance — combined there were about 30 people present to protest.
False story in QC Times debunked
There was an incredible story in the QC Times on Friday. Not incredible as in awesome but as in a story without credibility because the author and publisher are so oblivious at best. That in itself is not unusual at the Quad Cities’ daily newspaper publisher of record. Here is what they wrote, oblivious as they were to what actually transpired. It is factually wrong and inept journalism at best.
The quoted material below is from the story at the QCT. The photographic evidence to the contrary is attached. The lede to the story is about complaints directed at the Bettendorf Library for distribution of “LGBTQ+ materials”. The story goes on to falsely generalize.
The Moline, Davenport, and East Moline public libraries have received no complaints from patrons about LGBTQ+ materials. Other than one phone call, the Rock Island Public Library hasn’t fielded formal requests for reconsideration of materials. . . .
The Davenport Public Library has so far “dodged a bullet” with complaints against programming and information pertaining to the LGBTQ+ community, Community Outreach Supervisor Brittany Peacock said. The library didn’t receive any backlash for its Pride displays in June. . . .
The truth is complaints were lodged with the mayor of Davenport who appoints the Library Board of Trustees. The personnel working that day at the Davenport Fairmount Library were aware of the demonstration outside which focused on Christian witness particularly from Grace Fellowship Church. Several protestors (including yours truly) were along the street focused on the cultural absurdities of the degenerate event. Someone called the police as one patrolman and squad car was present for the duration (a second also made an appearance).
Perhaps if QC Times assignment editors had a police scanner or had any inclination to take a break from the leftist echo chamber they operate in they might have not written such ignorant bilge. It likely still would have been bilge but not as vulnerable to unassailable facts.
As for the mayor’s involvement, according to one report he returned a missed call to abruptly say he supported the event. Had a QCT reporter been doing journalism at the time rather than serving on the propaganda front for the cause, he or she might have interviewed people present who had objected, on the record, not anonomously. According to Kathleen Kelly, present at the library in protest the mayor in the phone conversation indicated the Library Board of Trustees was fully supportive, or words to that effect. The mayor’s words may or may not be the truth because the mayor cannot be trusted. However we must grant that the Board of Trustees seems to be well populated with the usual suspects for such support — Democrats.
By the way, the Board of Trustees also includes Craig Cooper who is running for the Iowa Legislature. A retired spokes-hole from Genesis Health Systems and a QC Times alum, both places embedded with toxic liberalism, if as the mayor intimates he OK’d this it should be exposed, if not, it is still his responsibility to answer to it and see to it that such assaults on culture and parent rights do not happen in what ought to be a culturally safe and protective environment.
Here is more of what the QC Times missed: All related to the event including pictures of signs we produced that a few of us held up to passing motorists and library patrons as they entered the driveway. The links are to articles at BigLeaguePolitics.com indicating what some of these story hours can be like in other venues.
On Manchin stopping some aspects of the Democrat agenda
Actually he is a big-time enabler of some of the worst of the Democrat agenda
Politically, as to surviving in his state, he has done nothing brave. He has not stood up to or bucked the real people who put him in the Senate, rather he has taken a few key positions in order to survive politically in his state. He knows he is not actually beholden to Chuck Schumer but for whatever reason he thinks being a Democrat is a better ride on the gravy train.
What the people of West Virginia need to realize is that given the tightness of the Senate Joe Manchin as a Democrat enables the threat to their state from Democrats as he puts Democrats in control of the Senate.
Arguably knowing better, he is at least as culpable as any other Democrat for the situation we are in and the particular threats to their way of life.
Two Republican Iowa congress”persons” Miller-Meeks and Hinson were among the 47 Republicans in the House who voted in favor of a bill codifying same-sex “marriage” in federal law.
It seems inescapable that the two are either in favor of the cultural, familial, progenitive, psychological degeneration reflected and aggravated by same-sex marriage legalization/enshrinement inherent in the bill OR they are obliviousness to the bill’s Constitutional and other implications as to federalism OR they are pathetically fearful of bucking trendiness and are just as pathetically incapable of at least honoring the 2022 Iowa Republican platform which states:
We believe that traditional, two parent (one male (XY) and one female (XX)), marriage based families are the foundation to a stable, enduring, and healthy civilization. We encourage the repeal of any laws allowing any marriage that is not between one natural man and one natural woman.
On second thought I suppose they can be emotional dunderheads AND constitutional ignoramuses AND pathetic little political pushovers at the same time even in the face of the strength of Republican core values in the face of Democrat assaults on culture.
Alternatively . . .
They might have simply said NO we will not accept the Democrat narrative of fear-mongering and lying and distorting about what the Supreme Court majority ruled and enunciated in Dobbs nor will we be railroaded or submit to the particulars of the bill . . .
Or they might have simply said NO — this is where I stand — and proceeded to articulate the many assaults the Democrats have made on the necessary cultural and psychological underpinnings of normal family — including Democrat assaults on parental rights, their exploitation of children, and maybe even plead a belief that their constituency will by and large appreciate a principled position instead of Democrat pandering, scaremongering, and Democrat incapability at moderation when they are not undermining the nation.
They might have just taken a walk which would have been comparatively more astute than removing doubt about their trustworthiness or in a principled way stated to the effect – I ain’t voting FOR that crap.
But it seems . . .
They voted the way they did because they actually believe same-sex marriage is just fine, culturally sound without implication, totally equivalent to the dominant cross-cultural understanding of marriage since the beginning of time and that the nation ought not protect any cultural understanding to the contrary. In which case WE might have been better informed and elected someone in the primary who has more Republican competence. Maybe next time.
To our great chagrin, we got the information on the honorarium for Megan Thee Stallion wrong. “according to our sources” we had the right mountain range just the wrong monument. Megan of White Ass Pu**y fame . . . will either supplant Crazy Horse or his steed at that nearby monument and not be on Rushmore.* We regret the error.
The other face on Rushmore is still up in the air but rumors are for economy sake it will honor Assistant Health Secretary Rachel Levine —- nothing says new America like trans America. The economy in his/her selection is obvious (the Democrats are all about economy) as some simple modifications will satisfy appearances.
The hairline and nose are in place and all that is needed is some lipstick and maybe some pearls. Levine won’t give up the chic glasses so they are there. As Washington was first to be completed Levine will be the first new First American on Rushmore — also to be renamed as calling it after a white male New York lawyer is just wrong. Proposals include “Mount Hillary Clinton” but a focus group study concluded there would be no takers, err visitors. Anyway there is no need to be dead to be on Rushmore as Democrats are also all about breaking rules in service to posturing. The others we mentioned in the earlier post will appear in due course.
We are working up a sketch for the Megan Thee Stallion inclusionary monument.
Here is another satirical depiction from the Babylon Bee this one of the FBI and as usual at Babylon its subject deserves the attention. The skit was no doubt triggered inspired by events and revelations in the last two years. Following this inspired treatment we set forth excerpts and links from relevant articles and commentaries.
This January of 2022 article at American Greatness by investigative reporter Julie Kelly a brave soul in the spirit of Sheryl Attkisson. Kelly has been relentless on the topic of FBI operative corruption during the supposed Michigan Governor kidnapping trial reporting and uncovering facts.
Referring to the group of men arrested on October 7 of this year on federal and state charges for planning to kidnap Whitmer from her Michigan vacation cottage,
“Team Biden and Whitmer herself made the most of the timely political gift. “There is a through line from President Trump’s dog whistles and tolerance of hate, vengeance, and lawlessness to plots such as this one,” Biden said in an October 9 statement. “He is giving oxygen to the bigotry and hate we see on the march in our country.” . . .
Far from the FBI thwarting the operation, the FBI itself enlisted participants, organized and funded training and surveillance trips, and used paid informants working with FBI agents to lure unsuspecting “militia” members into attempting to execute the plot. . . .
In the early 1990s, the FBI accelerated its focus on the white Christian Right. After the events at Waco, Texas, and Ruby Ridge, the FBI launched PATCON, short for Patriot Conspiracy, an alleged movement of Christian extremists. In one case, the FBI created a fictional right-wing militia group to collect information about other suspected militia members. A 2011 study done by Rutgers University raised serious concerns: “The tactics of FBI agents infiltrating militias, as well as paid informants being coerced into spying on these groups, and, in some instances, even providing the means and encouragement to carry out violent plots before being arrested, have been criticized as constituting entrapment by using agent provocateurs—agents posing as criminals to justify the financial and social expenses of counter-terrorism.” . . .
Was this the case with January 6?
A small handful of journalists resisting the groupthink of January 6 have raised several red flags. In June, Revolver News, a new website founded by Darren Beattie, a former aide to Donald Trump, published a lengthy report raising questions about the number of unindicted co-conspirators in the Oath Keepers case
If it turns out that an extraordinary percentage of the members of these groups involved in planning and executing the Capitol Siege were federal informants or undercover operatives, the implications would be nothing short of staggering. This would be far worse than the already bad situation of the government knowing about the possibility of violence and doing nothing. Instead, this would imply that elements of the federal government were active instigators in the most egregious and spectacular aspects of 1/6, amounting to a monumental entrapment scheme used as a pretext to imprison otherwise harmless protestors at the Capitol—and in a much larger sense used to frame the entire MAGA movement as potential domestic terrorists. . . .
The FBI and Big Tech Join Forces
“A geofence warrant initially seeks an anonymized list of devices tracked within a specific area at a specific time,” Wired reporter Mark Harris wrote on September 30. “Investigators then use that list to focus on tracks that look suspicious, and can ask Google to widen the time or geofence boundaries on only those devices. Finally, investigators can go back to Google to unmask the real name, email, phone number, and other information of just a few account holders. But where a typical geofence fishing expedition might catch only one or two suspects, the January 6 investigation appears to have landed a netful.”
Since the Justice Department had categorized the Capitol complex as a “crime scene” and Wray designated the four-hour event an act of “domestic terrorism,” private corporations from Verizon to Facebook presumably felt it was their duty to comply.
“The collection effort has been met with little resistance from telecom providers asked to turn over voluminous data on the activity that day. ‘No one wants to be on the wrong side of the insurrection,’ a source involved in the collection effort told The Intercept. ‘This is now the scene of the crime.’”
Ed Note methodology similar to what is described above using commercially available geolocating data was used to uncover the election fraud exposed in the documentary 2000 Mules.
About a year ago a FOX news journalist named Ivory Hecker went off script in her Texas affiliate and got terminated. She then struck out on her own doing some real old-fashioned journalism.
In one story she interviewed a Steve Baker who has done a deep dive research into the January 6 Capitol protest crowd. Democrat detractors will say her story is a nothing burger but those of us still able to think for ourselves can see there is something to this story.
How do we know this?
The FBI showed up to ransack Steve Baker’s home!
You always know you are onto something when you do not fall in line with the narrative and the Gestapo arm of the DNC shows up to toss your home pretending to look for “evidence of criminal activity”.
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Baker was at the Capitol shooting hours of video as an independent journalist much like Hecker herself.
Hecker notes the most interesting aspect of his investigation is what Baker jokingly calls the “Passover Beanie”. It is a specific designed Trump beanie hat that the FBI seems to repeatedly “passover” when it comes to investigating those wearing them. Even though Baker identifies these people as agent provocateurs all wearing the same beanies as a seeming uniform for those actively stirring up the crowd, the FBI both showed no interest in investigating them or identifying them.
.. . . The logical conclusion is Ray Epps was an FBI plant much the same as the FBI plants used in a plot they concocted to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Adam Fox, Barry Croft, Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta faced federal charges for allegedly conspiring to kidnap the Democratic governor with others and try her for acting as a tyrant during the Covid-19 pandemic.
But the others who were actually acting as the inciters were never charged as they were all (apparently) working for the FBI. This practice of entrapment by law enforcement is illegal. Two of the men were found not guilty and two were granted a mistrial. Harris and Caserta were found not guilty in the kidnapping conspiracy. That same jury also found Harris not guilty on other charges. The jury could not reach a verdict on the charges against Fox and Croft, and thereafter US District Judge Robert Jonker declared a mistrial for them.
Paul Jacob Common Sense
That Other October Surprise?
Harken back to those heady days leading up to Election 2020, when six men were arrested for a scheme to snatch Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer from her home.
“The Whitmer kidnapping plot,” Reason’s Robby Soave explained months ago, “was extensively directed and encouraged by agents of the government.”
This was not just a bungled prosecution.* This was the result of a wrongheaded and dangerous policy that, instead of lawfully monitoring suspected criminals to prevent violence, actively nurtures and encourages crimes.
And breaks the story in early October of an election year.
Sure, I know the government is here to help — but even “domestic terrorists”?
Ryan Kelley, a Republican candidate for governor in Michigan, was arrested Thursday morning for his role in participating in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capito…
Observation mentioned by Timothy P. Griffin, Esq. Associate at The Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society
FBI Arrests GOP Frontrunner for Governor. The FBI is alleging that Michigan GOP gubernatorial frontrunner, Ryan Kelley entered the Capitol grounds on January 6, 2021. It waited to bring charges until he was leading in the polls and the televised Committee meetings began.
The new coin of the realm sports Fidel Castro fan girl
Look for the new half-dollar to be officially renamed 50 Cent
See 2021 quarter compared to 2022 quarter in these pics
Commentary below
Shown here are the front and back of the new 2022 quarter. I only noticed them as I recently received one in change. At first I noticed that George Washington was facing the other way as compared to our experience for decades. I turned it over and at a glance thought it was a depiction of Columbia, it was only when I got home and looked closer that I realized it was Maya Angelou, Poet Laureate of the left. I somehow doubt that this is going to be a series depicting the many poet laureates. Now debasing the currency is a mission off the Democrats in more ways than one.
Here is the previous year quarter with Washington facing the way he has been depicted since 1932 through 2021. The reverse side never changed until 1998, I read, except for the 1976 bicentennial edition. We have been treated to the fifty state quarters and a variety of national parks, territories and more recently events from American history and some personages and events of historical significance (all using the long established Washington profile) . The “crossing the Delaware” 2021 reverse I thought ought to be the permanent version.
Any of the nameless soldiers in the boats across the Delaware, now removed from backing George Washington on the current US quarter, had more courage and more important impact on America than self-absorbed Maya Angelou whose glorification is now on the back of the 2022 coin. Her claim to fame is made up of SEVEN apocryphal autobiographies and leftist party invites. Who writes seven autobiographies? Who the hell reads them?
After Maya Angelou why not Cardi B?
Like Maya, Cardi B is also an influencer (reaching more millions than pages in Angelou’s many “autobiographies”), accomplished lyricist, also like Maya a former sex worker, big time leftist party goer and fave of deified Barry and Michelle. Speaking of whom the only reason to pass them up for the quarter is a grander numismatic plan — replacing Washington with them on everything — which has some logic given how their policies and ilk have debased the dollar — why not recognize it officially? It can be fondly referred to as the BM for all its worth.
But of course the pièce de résistance given the reasoning behind Maya Angelou selection ought to be the redoing of Mount Rushmore. Look for Megan Thee Stallion, Nicki Minaj, Saweetie and Rico Nasty, mountains of talent that they are, to replace Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and T. Roosevelt.
Other photographic comparisons below:
Head to head. We have no problem with the change in profile, but we do wonder why?
The hairline and nose are in place and all that is needed is some lipstick and maybe some pearls. Levine won’t give up the chic glasses so they are there. As Washington was first to be completed Levine will be the first new First American on Rushmore — also to be renamed as calling it after a white male New York lawyer is just wrong. Proposals include “Mount Hillary Clinton” but a focus group study concluded there would be no takers, err visitors. Anyway there is no need to be dead to be on Rushmore as Democrats are also all about breaking rules in service to posturing. The others we mentioned in the earlier post will appear in due course.
