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A Clinton advisor found hanging from a tree with a shotgun blast to the chest. "I don't hang myself often, but when I do, I shoot myself in the chest first." https://www.analyzingamerica.org/2022/06/658721/?fbclid=IwAR2UQybMOGxDVNVxR2CETeoWnr9I0TgEqreV8FS5UhtdTD82lQ3ibTysxnM It’s rumored that Middleton played a key role in strengthening the friendship between Clinton and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Originally from Little Rock, Arkansas, Middleton was found dead about 30 miles away from his home. In the 1990s, he served as a special assistant to former President Bill Clinton. Middleton reportedly helped admit Epstein into the White House on at least seven of the 17 occasions Epstein visited during Clinton’s tenure.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/02/us/tulsa-hospital-shooting-thursday/index.html SF noticed how the MSM hasn't been focusing on this latest shooting. Turns out it was just a guy with back pain blaming his surgeon for either giving him the pain or not helping him get rid of it (IDK). Or maybe this just falls under "black on black" crime, which is largely ignored by the MSM......(again, IDK)

https://nypost.com/2022/05/31/jurors-ignored-evidence-to-acquit-ex-clinton-lawyer-of-lying-to-the-shameful-fbi/?dicbo=v2-124c7eca689465bbc4dd2ed5f0642bcc The media will treat this as vindication for treating special counsel John Durham’s probe as a nothingburger. But Sussmann’s defense — and the fact that the jury bought it — makes this scandal even worse. Sussmann argued that no matter what he actually said, the FBI knew he was a partisan actor. Everyone was aware he was working for the Clintons, and that this wasn’t an unbiased tip-off. And indeed his legal team introduced evidence that showed the FBI obscuring Sussmann’s involvement. Higher-ups told agents that the tip had come from an anonymous informant, or even the Department of Justice, giving it far more credence than it deserved. Why? Because they were frantic to tar Trump. FBI Director James Comey and others “cheered” on the investigation, the trial revealed. So by professing his innocence, Sussmann proved the FBI’s guilt. The nation’s highest investigative agency acted as a partisan weapon during the 2016 campaign, using the flimsiest of dirty tricks from the Clinton campaign — the Steele dossier and the server story — to conduct wiretaps, interview Trump campaign staff and, most importantly, leak it all to the press. So the defense says "Yeah he lied, but it doesn't matter what he said, because the FBI already knew it".......Amazing.......Did we just witness the death of Justice? SF Did not see this one coming. I mean, I thought the evidence was pretty clear......But....Oh well...... SF is not sure which is worse the indictment of the FBI or the jury buying the "the FBI already knew it" defense to acquit Sussmann ..... Or maybe that was the point that Durham wanted to make? The FBI is culpable in this one as well? If so, what's next?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/05/27/uvalde-shooting-police-gunman-shot-olivarez/ Hearing the LEO spokesman last week utter "They could've been shot" as a justification for not entering the classroom as soon as they arrived and engaging the idiot perp really struck SF as dead wrong. THAT'S WHAT WE THE CITIZENS PAY YOU TO DO!!!! Speaking with our local Police Chief, the policy in Elkhart County is "get in there and engage" which means if your the only cop on scene (after you get over the "sucks to be you right now" attitude), use your training and try to end the situation as quickly as possible, and history shows that to be the case. https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/3-dead-including-gunman-indiana-supermarket-shooting-article-1.1581555 Officials praised the officers for acting quickly and preventing more deaths.

Covid patients have slightly higher RISK of developing the acute pulmonary embolism than Influenza A or B.......Neither virus "causes" blood clots, the conditions resulting from your bodies resistance to a virus (such as pneumonia) are what causes them. (Calling Covid the Flu on steroids does not mean SF doesn't take it seriously) https://www.medicinenet.com/covid-19_vs_flu_blood_clots_in_lungs-news.htm Left wing or Right wing, either way, POTUS donning a mask while descending the steps (alone) from AF1 only to pop it off while in the immediate vicinity of the dignitaries he was meeting with was pretty silly whether you want to admit it or not.......

Isn't a law breaker.......that? .......a law breaker? Look at the City of Chicago and the States of California and New York.......Strictest gun LAWS in the country - highest gun criminal activity. BR is right - Good people with guns are not the problem, bad people with guns are. You have to keep guns from the hands of bad people. So what is the right answer? BOTH sides WILL have to compromise. YOU can't take my guns or keep me from getting more if I want to, but I (and my side) have to be willing to let the government (shudder, shudder) control a little more.......

Too sad....

Improvements are looking good for the school system - SF is wishing they would have had the new gym when my kids graduated......That gym was a furnace during the ceremony.....

SF isn't advocating arming all teachers, especially if there is no desire on a teacher's part, or if they are opposed to firearms, but allowing staff to be armed if they so desired and went through specialized training if it were available. More palatable perhaps would be to allow schools to have retired LEO's or military volunteers to be present and armed. New York is floating a law to make long guns illegal to own until 21 yo. I can buy into that, but I think the problem isn't guns - it's people. Guns have always been around. I wonder where that kid, a senior in HS, working at a fast-food restaurant living on his grandmother's floor got the money to purchase the weapons he had. One he used was identified as a DDM4 (about $1,800 https://www.cabelas.com/shop/en/daniel-defense-ddm4-v7-semi-auto-rifle ) with a $700 sight on it. The other one that hasn't been identified I would assume would be about the same cost. Combined with 375 rounds of ammunition ( https://www.cabelas.com/shop/en/federal-american-eagle-military-grade-brass-centerfire-rifle-cartridges ) and this kid would have needed about $5,000 to get his guns and ammo. I guess it's not impossible, but wouldn't someone in his immediate family throw up a red flag? Probably not - because Grandpa had a criminal background and "would have reported it" had he known his Grandson bought those weapons since he is not allowed to have guns in the house. ( https://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-school-shooting-suspects-grandfather-speaks/story?id=84966002 ) Young Sal was living with his grandparents since he had a falling out with his mother. His argument that morning with his Grandma was over an unpaid phone bill. Again - guns have always been around, and they don't fire by themselves......

True enough BR. 🤣

Starting to buy into the "Arm the teachers" idea.....

So - comparing the coverage of the Texas school shooting to the Buffalo shooting of last week. We knew the identity, the foul racist leanings and had pictures of the Buffalo shooter plastered all over every news source the next morning, we knew where he got his guns, even that he had wore a Haz-mat suit to school one day. It was all him and his racist views that killed those people. Yes - he deserves death penalty as brutally as it can be administered. This morning, it was all about the guns. And how we need more gun control, "how many more kids must die" Yada-yada. It's the gun's fault, not the shooter's. Nothing about how the gunman breached the security (or if there even was any).

Yes, one would assume that a higher number of (legal) voters means that, regardless of the party......

Wondering if MLB and/or Stacey Abrams is gonna apologize for moving the All-Star game from Atlanta last season to protest this new law "designed to suppress" voter turnout this election.......probably not...... https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/21/voting-is-surging-georgia-despite-controversial-new-election-law/

Can we just admit Covid is the Flu on steroids, and Biden is a geriatric hazard to himself and everyone else at this point?

Wondering if Senator Schumer is going to hold a presser demanding the current President Biden lower gas prices like he did the former President Trump?

https://nypost.com/2022/05/23/biden-praises-gas-prices-as-part-of-incredible-transition/ Biden praises high gas prices as part of ‘incredible transition’ Out of touch as ever, President Biden celebrated record-high gas prices Monday, gushing that the pump pain was part of “an incredible transition” of the US economy away from fossil fuels. “[When] it comes to the gas prices, we’re going through an incredible transition that is taking place that, God willing, when it’s over, we’ll be stronger and the world will be stronger and less reliant on fossil fuels when this is over,” Biden said during a press conference in Japan following his meeting with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. The president then insisted that his administration’s actions, rather than increasing the price of gas, had actually been able to “keep it from getting worse — and it’s bad.” Only then did Biden pay lip service to millions of Americans who have found themselves spending thousands of extra dollars to fuel up their vehicles. Nobody seen this one coming?