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Best description yet of Janet Yellen - "Government finance's version of Anthony Fauci"

So what POTUS is saying is "look like you want to try to enforce the ALREADY EXISTING LAWS ON THE BOOKS!!!!" There is no new "law" coming from the Executive Branch, (since it doesn't create laws) this is merely an attempt to make the underinformed think the administration is marching out a bunch of new gun control restrictions/rules. But Kudos to POTUS for calling on his AG to maybe try enforcing laws....... https://nypost.com/2023/03/14/biden-to-beef-up-background-checks-on-gun-sales/ President Biden will issue an executive order Tuesday increasing the number of background checks before gun purchases and strengthening the use of “red flag” laws — in what the White House has touted as the most comprehensive policy the president can enact without Congress. The president will unveil the beefed-up policy in an afternoon speech from Monterey Park, Calif., where a man armed with an assault-style rifle opened fire during a Lunar New Year celebration in January, killing 11 people. Despite the passage of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act last June, the White House said the administration’s calls for banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, requiring universal background checks and repealing gun makers’ immunity from liability have been stymied by Congress. Biden’s executive order, marshaling a cabinet-level response, will move the US as close to universal background checks as possible under existing laws without requiring Congress to pass additional legislation. It will direct Attorney General Merrick Garland “to do everything he can to ensure that firearms sellers who do not realize they are required to run background checks under existing law, or who are willfully violating existing law, become compliant with background check requirements,” the White House said in a fact sheet released Tuesday. Biden will also ask Garland to carry out a plan to stop firearms dealers whose federal licenses have been revoked or surrendered from selling guns. The order will also raise public awareness of “red flag” orders, which allow a judge to remove a firearm from someone deemed likely to hurt themselves or others, and calling on members of the cabinet, law enforcement agencies, educators, health care providers and community leaders to encourage their use. Biden will ask the Federal Trade Commission to issue a public report on how gun makers market firearms to minors and how the manufacturers use military imagery to advertise weapons to the general public. Federal law enforcement agencies will also be directed to develop regulations mandating that state and local authorities better report ballistics data to the federal clearinghouse. The National Integrated Ballistics Information Network allows federal, state and local law enforcement agencies to match shell casings to guns. As part of the executive order, Biden is calling on every federal agency involved in implementing the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act to “maximize the benefits of the law” and increase public awareness of the resources it makes available.

Today he works for a plumbing company and takes night classes at a Nashville union. The pay is modest, Williams said, but eventually he expects to earn far more than friends who took quick jobs after high school. He even thinks he’s better off than some who went to college — he knows too many who dropped out or took on debt for degrees they never used. “In the long run, I’m going to be way more set than any of them,” he said. Good on him!!

Why is anyone surprised by this? Read the fine print of any point of purchase online or wireless before your purchase and you would see that your right to privacy is freely forfeited by none other than yourself and they can sell it to whomever they wish. (Even the FBI) This includes the location data acquired by your cell phone. (No surprise)

SMH...... Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, R-Ark., said, "It’s International Women’s Day – a good time to remember that Democrats can’t even tell you what a woman is." https://www.foxnews.com/media/twitter-laughs-groans-jill-biden-gives-biological-male-women-courage-award-game-ladies First lady Jill Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken were slammed Wednesday for presenting a biological male from Argentina with an award for women on International Women's Day. This year's annual International Women of Courage Awards ceremony at the White House honored "11 extraordinary women from around the world who are working to build a brighter future for all," according to a State Department press release. Argentinian Alba Rueda was introduced at the ceremony as a "transgender woman who was kicked out of classrooms, barred for sitting for exams, refused job opportunities, subjected to violence, and rejected by her family. But in the face of these challenges, she worked to end violence and discrimination against the LGBTQ plus community in Argentina."

Sounds incredible - With or without nuts? WTF is "vegan" chocolate and why?

Hershey's has some competition. Fricking brilliant! Hershey's is utilizing a trans woman as their face on National Women's Day. (Featuring the Her-She bar) Jeremy's answers with the He/Him (with nuts) She/Her (Nutless) bars.

Wait a tick..........Trump was right about a "Wuhan lab leak" after all? Nooooo - can't be.......He was a conspiracy theorist and a racist to suggest the Chinese could be behind this.....Censorship is king! (IMHO) It appears the White House is trying to get ahead of this "classified intelligence report" that will be forthcoming as the Republican committee(s) in the House get going. https://nypost.com/2023/02/26/covid-lab-leak-is-a-scandal-of-media-and-government-censorship/ The Wall Street Journal reports that the Energy Department has concluded that the COVID pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak. The conclusion is reportedly based on a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress. Many will be exploring why the scientific evidence of a lab leak was so slow to emerge from intelligence agencies. However, for my part, the most alarming aspect was the censorship, not the science. There will continue to be a debate over the origins of COVID-19, but now there will be an actual debate. For years, the media and government allied to treat anyone raising a lab theory as one of three possibilities: conspiracy theorist or racists or racist conspiracy theorists. Academics joined this chorus in marginalizing anyone raising the theory. One study cited the theory as an example of “anti-Chinese racism” and “toxic white masculinity.” As late as May 2021, the New York Times’ Science and Health reporter Apoorva Mandavilli was calling any mention of the lab theory as “racist.” She embodies the model of the new “advocacy journalism” at the Times. Reporters who remained wedded to the dated view of objective journalism were purged from the ranks of The Times long ago. Mandavilli and others made clear that reporters covering the theory were COVID’s little Bull Connors. She tweeted wistfully “someday we will stop talking about the lab leak theory and maybe even admit its racist roots. But alas, that day is not yet here.” However, one former New York Times science editor Nicholas Wade chastised his former colleagues for ignoring the obvious evidence supporting a lab theory as well as Chinese efforts to arrest scientists and destroy evidence that could establish the origin. Others in academia quickly joined the bandwagon to assure the public that there is no scientific basis for their theory, leaving only racist or politics as the motivation behind the theory. In early 2020, with little available evidence, two op-eds in The Lancet in February and Nature Medicine went all-in on the denial front. The Lancet op-ed stated, “We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that Covid-19 does not have a natural origin.” We were also supposed to forget about massive payments from the Chinese government to American universities and grants of some of these writers to both Chinese interests or even the specific Wuhan lab. No reference to the lab theory was to be tolerated. When Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) merely mentioned the possibility in 2020, he was set upon by the usual flash media mob. The Washington Post ridiculed him of repeating a “debunked” coronavirus “conspiracy theory.” In September 2020, Dr. Li-Meng Yan, a virologist and former postdoctoral fellow at the University of Hong Kong, dared to repeat the theory on Fox News, saying, “I can present solid scientific evidence . . . [that] it is a man-made virus created in the lab.” The left-leaning PolitiFact slammed her and gave her a “pants on fire rating.” President Joe Biden accused Trump of fanning racism in his criticism of the Chinese government over the pandemic and his Administration reportedly shutdown the State Department investigation into the possible lab origins of the virus. When Biden later revived an investigation into the origins, he was denounced as “sugar-coating Trump’s racism.” The categorical rejection of the lab theory is only the latest media narrative proven to be false. The Russian collusion scandal, the Hunter Biden “Russian Disinformation,” the Lafayette Park “Photo Op” conspiracy, the Nick Sandmann controversy, the Jussie Smollett case, the Migrant Whipping scandal. On the lab theory, media like the Washington Post piled on senators like Cruz and Cotton for mentioning the lab theory only later to admit that it could be legitimate. All of those experts and writers who were called racists or suspended by social media were simply forgotten in media coverage. That is why this is really about censorship. The media guaranteed that we did not have a full debate over the origins of the virus and attacked those who had the temerity to state the obvious that there was a plausible basis for suspecting the Wuhan lab. None of this has diminished demands for more censorship. Even after Twitter admitted that it wrongly blocked The New York Post story before the 2020 election, Democratic senators responded by warning the company not to cut back on censorship and even demanded more censorship. Recently, the Twitter Files revealed an extensive and secret FBI effort to censor citizens on social media. This included undisclosed efforts by members like Rep. Adam Schiff (D., Cal.) to get Twitter to ban a columnist and target critics. In a House hearing, democratic leaders like Rep. Jamie Raskin (D., Md). called for more censorship and opposed investigations into the censorship efforts. These same figures in politics and media are just moving on to the next approved narrative. President Biden previously called for more censorship and accused Big Tech of “killing people” by not censoring more views deemed “COVID misinformation.” The opposite is true. By suppressing alternative scientific and policy views, the public was denied a full debate over mask efficacy, vaccine side effects, COVID origins and other important issues. Many of those questions are only being recognized as legitimate and worthy of debate. Censorship does not, as President Biden claims, save lives. It is more likely to cost lives by protecting approved views from challenge. It does not foster the truth any more than it fosters free speech. Whatever the origin of COVID-19 may be in China, the origins of our censorship scandal is closer to home.

Start watching for a change in Bobref's dialogue......😁

Enjoy your time sir! I love my vacations.

This story won't die.....Apparently this guy/gal/it has hit more bags than were reported.... https://nypost.com/2023/02/22/fashion-designer-claims-sam-brinton-wore-her-stolen-clothes/ Fashion designer claims Sam Brinton wore her clothes that were stolen from DC airport in 2018 A fashion designer from Houston claimed that disgraced former Department of Energy official Sam Brinton wore the custom-made clothes that she had reported missing from a Washington, DC, airport in 2018. Asya Khamsin, a Tanzanian fashion designer who has made her own clothing for years, shared the shocking connection in a Monday tweet that has since gone viral. Khamsin said she found photos of Brinton wearing her custom clothing that she had packed in the missing bag after learning that Brinton had been charged with stealing multiple pieces of luggage from two US airports. The fashion designer tweeted photos showing some of the clothes she lost and then Brinton — who identifies as nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns — wearing the same outfits. “I saw the images. Those were my custom designs, which were lost in that bag in 2018,” she told Fox News. “He wore my clothes, which was stolen.”

https://nypost.com/2023/02/21/biden-says-he-wanted-to-add-ski-to-end-of-his-name/ Biden, 80, who was in Warsaw to mark the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, talked after his bilateral meeting with Poland President Andrzej Duda about his family’s big move. “As a young man, I was born in a coal town of Scranton, Pa., in northeastern Pennsylvania, in an Irish Catholic neighborhood. Then when coal died, we moved down to Delaware, to a town called Claymont, Del., which was a working-class town,” Biden recalled. “But everyone in town was either Polish or Italian. I grew up feeling self-conscious my name didn’t end in an ‘s-k-i’ or an ‘o.'” I got nothing......smh.....

Of course it is. A sympathetic prosecutor made a plea deal instead of trying the case in 2019. But it's not his fault, we need more gun laws. When are we going to learn? ENFORCE THE EXISTING LAWS AND PROSECUTE THE LAWBREAKERS. https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/15/us/michigan-state-university-mass-shooting-wednesday/index.html The Michigan State University killer was previously charged with a felony but was still able to buy guns. Here’s why CNN — Years before Anthony Dwayne McRae killed three Michigan State University students and critically wounded five others, he was charged with carrying a concealed weapon – a felony count that would have prevented him from being able to buy a gun if he were convicted. That felony case never went to trial. Instead, a 2019 deal allowed McRae to plead guilty to a misdemeanor – possession of a loaded firearm in or upon a vehicle, the Ingham County prosecutor’s office said Tuesday. McRae spent a year and a half on probation. Now, questions abound over whether the slaughter at Michigan State on Monday evening could have been prevented.

I know, he isn't in the dead pool yet, but he is getting things ready to jump in soon. Jimmy Carter, 98 years old - He certainly wasn't a good POTUS, (IMHO - kind of a toss-up between he and our current POTUS as to who was/is worse) but his life before and afterwards has certainly been incredible. A former military man, returned home to run the family business. A staunch, humble humanitarian person who gave so much of his time and efforts to so many, especially his work with Habitat for Humanity even up to a few years ago. I will give credit where credit is due. A man who has earned my deep respect - may he pass peacefully and rest in peace. https://apnews.com/article/politics-united-states-government-gerald-ford-ronald-reagan-hospice-care-f4e26c10a7b366f14e62f690da403b0a

We will never know for sure......

The purest definition of "overkill" - Those dang kids and their science projects anyway...... https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cruz-responds-biden-authorized-200-million-fighter-jet-shoot-science-project?fbclid=IwAR0Y6fkIvgY-alF7T8NneE3wfVpSwGR7f7w-o8Phckbetmkw5Fe200mRNBE Sen. Ted Cruz took to Twitter Thursday to criticize President Joe Biden for ordering an F-22 fighter jet to shoot down what may have been a hobby club’s science project off the coast of Alaska earlier last week. Cruz, R-Texas, joked that Biden’s decision to authorize the $200 million fighter jet to use a $400,000 missile to shoot down what may have been a $12 balloon serves as a "powerful deterrence" to high school students interested in creating their own at-home science balloons. The comment came after the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade’s (NIBBB), an Illinois-based hobbyist club, said their pico balloon that was floating off the west coast of Alaska went missing the same day a Lockheed Martin jet shot down an unidentified object matching its description. "To be fair, Biden is providing is powerful deterrence for any high school science clubs that might try to invade America…." Cruz wrote on Twitter. "President Biden needs to tell the American people whether this is true," Cruz added in a separate tweet. The club’s globe-trotting balloon, which was last reported to be hovering at 38,910 ft. on Feb. 10, may have been one of three unidentified aerial objects the U.S. Air Force shot out of the sky via the president’s authorization between Feb. 10-12. The group said that its trajectory put it directly over the central Yukon Territory on Feb. 11, where an object was shot out of the sky. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby also said the objects shot down Feb. 10-12 may not have been from China or another foreign country but "could just be balloons." "I can confirm that the Department of Defense was tracking a high-altitude object over Alaska airspace in the last 24 hours. The object was flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet and posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight. Out of an abundance of caution and the recommendation of the Pentagon, President Biden ordered the military to down the object. And they did. And it came in inside our territorial waters," Kirby added during Friday's White House press briefing.

FIFY.....

A diversity event that is not "Diverse"? https://www.foxnews.com/media/high-school-asks-employees-avoid-inviting-white-peers-event-people-of-color-due-mistrust High school asks employees to 'avoid inviting' White peers to event for people of color due to 'mistrust' A California school district hosted an event for employees of color but warned their White peers were not invited to participate A California school district held an event for employees of color but warned educators that they should not invite their White peers because of "feelings of uneasiness and mistrust." The Acalanes Union High School District (AUHSD), in the Bay Area, hosted an event for all employees of color on February 8, but Dr. Lynnā McPhatter-Harris, the director of Student Support Equity & Inclusion for the district reminded employees their non-White peers should not be invited to participate, according to an email shared exclusively by Libs of TikTok with Fox News Digital. "Hello POCC staff, we are ready for out first coming together in 2023," McPhatter-Harris' email read. "We are looking forward to seeing our people of color in the district. Please invite any employee of color to this event."

Flying out of South Bend for work all these years, I had various opportunities to fly with "Mayor Pete" especially when his focus turned to getting out of SB and moving more into Federal politics. I told him once to stick to his own convictions (he is a smart guy), and to not let the Democrat Party pigeon-hole him into a corner just to keep him where they want him to be. (A gay guy to illustrate diversity) It appears that he didn't take my advice and finds himself in a position he is ill-equipped for and is simply floundering while carrying the Democrat fallback position for everything. (It's Trump's fault) This dude would have been fired in the public sector by now. (Rail strike, Air traffic issues, ports issues - all during which he is noticeably absent from until afterwards https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ohio-residents-erupt-town-hall-wheres-pete-buttigieg) We’re constrained by law on some areas of rail regulation (like the braking rule withdrawn by the Trump administration in 2018 because of a law passed by Congress in 2015), but we are using the powers we do have to keep people safe. https://www.foxnews.com/media/complete-embarrassment-buttigieg-blasted-touting-rail-safety-blaming-trump-ohio-train-derailment 'Complete embarrassment:' Buttigieg blasted for touting 'rail safety,' blaming Trump for Ohio train derailment