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Anyone else notice the MSM coverage of mass shootings shift this spring coinciding with Congress looking at new gun control laws?

It appears "they" know better than to try this at any of the Islamic/Muslim Universities in the US.......

And THIS thinking is why the Constitution exists. The Constitution is meant to limit the power of the Government.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/23/politics/biden-gun-control-colorado-atlanta/index.html The President seems adamant the gun control bills just out of Congress will save our Country from any more mass shootings. Which is FALSE. Neither of the laws would have stopped either the Atlanta or Boulder shooters. While I can agree in principle to the Universal Background Checks, I am still waiting on an official "Assault Weapons" definition before I can have any support for a ban.

Snowpiercer......

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9392641/Bill-Gates-wants-spray-millions-tonnes-CHALK-stratosphere.html Could dimming the sun help to cool the Earth? Bill Gates wants to spray millions of tonnes of CHALK into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight and slow global warming - but critics fear it could be disastrous The project will see a test balloon launch this summer from the town of Kiruna It will send 2kg of chalk into the stratosphere 12 miles above the Earth's surface Scientists will then monitor who the dust particles interact with the atmosphere This will be fed into computer models to predict how a larger plume would work The idea is to 'block out' some of the sun's energy to cool down the Earth Come on Bill - stick to computers buddy.

Yep - Trump's fault....

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9366411/Washington-Post-issues-correction-report-Trump-call-Georgia-elections-investigator.html The Washington Post has been slammed after it admitted it misquoted Donald Trump in his call to a Georgia elections investigator and issued a correction to its January story. The Post issued a lengthy correction on Monday after audio of the December call between the then president and Frances Watson was released. At the time, the outlet published a bombshell report claiming Trump urged Watson to 'find the fraud' and told her she would be 'a national hero' if she did. The Post has now said they misquoted him after the Georgia Secretary of State's Office released the December 23 recording. It was located it in a trash folder on the investigator's device as the office responded to a public records request, a source told CNN. The original Post story now has a prominent correction, reading: 'The recording revealed that The Post misquoted Trump's comments on the call, based on information provided by a source. 'Trump did not tell the investigator to "find the fraud" or say she would be "a national hero" if she did so. Instead, Trump urged the investigator to scrutinize ballots in Fulton County, Ga., asserting she would find "dishonesty" there. He also told her that she had "the most important job in the country right now."' So a trusted media source actually believed made up Trump quotes? Only now that the actual recording was found in a trash folder on someone's computer......

Yes - we all know the legal gun owners are the problem in the US..... Wondering how many shootings happened in Chicago over the weekend? (BTW - Chicago has just about the strictest gun control laws in the country)

After hearing excerpts from Cuomo's "Press Briefing" today, I don't think he realizes his usefulness to the Democrat party is over. (COVID is over, Trump is gone) They aren't even trying to circle the wagons like they normally do around their guy. (IMHO) I think he thinks he can fight this and come out of it, but the reality is that the more he fights it the more he stays overtly exposed to the "Granny-Gate" investigation on top of his harassments allegations. I have to think he may be going down, but he's certainly going down swinging. The question in my mind becomes - If/when he realizes he has been abandoned by his cronies, who is he gonna bring down with him? Or how much will they pay for his silence and cooperation? Or will he get suicided?

https://apnews.com/article/dozens-democrats-demand-andrew-cuomo-resignation-71adbd6f2420a4dc71856428f3663857 ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s grip on power appeared increasingly threatened Thursday as a majority of state legislators called for his resignation, Democrats launched an impeachment investigation and police in the state capital said they stood ready to investigate a groping allegation. The firestorm around the Democrat grew a day after the Times Union of Albany reported that an unidentified aide had claimed Cuomo reached under her shirt and fondled her at his official residence late last year. The woman hasn’t filed a criminal complaint, but a lawyer for the governor said Thursday that the state had reported the allegation to the Albany Police Department after the woman involved declined to do so herself. “In this case the person is represented by counsel and when counsel confirmed the client did not want to make a report, the state notified the police department and gave them the attorney’s information,” said Beth Garvey, the governor’s acting counsel. An Albany Police Department spokesperson, Steve Smith, didn’t immediately return a message from The Associated Press, but told The New York Times police had reached out to a representative for the woman. The possible involvement of police comes as more lawmakers called on Cuomo to resign over alleged misconduct with women and allegations that his administration concealed how many nursing home residents died of COVID-19. At least 121 members of the state Assembly and Senate have said publicly they believe Cuomo should quit office now, according to a tally by The Associated Press. The count includes 65 Democrats and 56 Republicans. The top Democrat in the state Assembly, Speaker Carl Heastie, on Thursday backed a plan for its judiciary committee to launch an impeachment investigation. The committee can interview witnesses and subpoena documents and its inquiry could be wide-ranging: from alleged sexual misconduct to COVID-19 outbreaks at nursing homes. It won’t interfere with a separate inquiry of sexual harassment allegations being conducted by state Attorney General Letitia James, according to Heastie and James. “The legislature needs to determine for itself what the facts are,” a member of the committee, Assemblyman Tom Abinanti, said. “For the people who want immediate impeachment, I think we say please be patient. The process is slow. This could be the next step.” In New York, the Assembly is the legislative house that could move to impeach Cuomo, who faces multiple allegations that he made the workplace an uncomfortable place for young women with sexually suggestive remarks and behavior, including unwanted touching and a kiss. One aide claimed the governor’s aides publicly smeared her after she accused him of sexual harassment. “All of us are extremely disappointed,” Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther, a Democrat representing Orange and Sullivan counties, told The Associated Press. “I think there’s no room in the world right now for that kind of behavior. He should have known better.” Gunther on Thursday became the ninth Assembly Democrat saying they’d vote for impeachment, alongside at least 37 Republicans. Cuomo’s support in the state Senate was especially thin. Roughly two-thirds of its members have called for the Democrat’s resignation, including Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins. A group of 59 Democrats, including 19 senators and 40 Assembly members said in a letter Thursday that it’s time for Cuomo to go. “In light of the governor’s admission of inappropriate behavior and the findings of altered data on nursing home COVID-19 deaths he has lost the confidence of the public and the state legislature, rendering him ineffective in this time of most urgent need,” the letter said. “It is time for Gov. Cuomo to resign.” Cuomo has repeatedly said he won’t resign and urged the public to await the outcome of the attorney general’s investigation. Asked for comment Thursday, Cuomo’s office referred reporters to previous statements in which the governor denied inappropriately touching anyone, but apologized for some comments he made to female staffers. He’s said he was trying to engage in playful banter and didn’t intend to make people uncomfortable. In the newest allegation against Cuomo, the Times Union of Albany reported that the governor had summoned the aide to his Albany mansion, saying he needed help with his cellphone. After she arrived, Cuomo closed the door, reached under her shirt and fondled her, the newspaper reported. The newspaper’s reporting was based on an unidentified source with knowledge of the woman’s accusation, who said she first told the story to someone on Cuomo’s staff in recent days. The newspaper hadn’t spoken to the woman and didn’t identify her. “I have never done anything like this,” Cuomo said through a spokesperson Wednesday evening. According to the Times Union account, one of the woman’s supervisors told an attorney in the governor’s office about her account Monday. The report to Albany police was made Wednesday, after the newspaper had posted its story. Federal investigators are also scrutinizing how the Cuomo administration has handled data about how many nursing home residents have died of COVID-19. The governor and his aides argued for months that it couldn’t release full figures on deaths because it had yet to verify the data. The state Assembly has 150 members. It could convene an impeachment trial against Cuomo with a simple majority vote. The state Senate, which would join with members of the state’s top appeals court to hold an impeachment trial, has 63 members. It appears he may pull this off. He will have succeeded in becoming known as "Cuomo the Creeper" instead of the "Cuomo the Granny Killer" pretty efficiently...... (pretty much only one sentence about that investigation in this whole story)

https://nypost.com/2021/03/11/more-than-55-ny-democrats-call-on-andrew-cuomo-to-resign/ More than 55 Democratic state legislators called Thursday for Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign — and the Assembly speaker said he would hold a meeting later in the day “on potential paths forward.” The statement from Cuomo’s fellow Democrats cited both the spiraling sexual harassment allegations against him and the cover-up of the total nursing home death toll and said that “he has lost the confidence of the public and the state legislature, rendering him ineffective in this time of most urgent need.” “We have a Lieutenant Governor who can step in and lead for the remainder of the term, and this is what is best for New Yorkers in this critical time,” the statement added.” “It is time for Governor Cuomo to resign.” In response, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) said, “In light of the allegations concerning the Governor over the last several weeks, I will be meeting with members in conference today on potential paths forward.” Cuomo has faced mounting calls to resign or face impeachment as the twin scandals have intensified amid a seemingly endless parade of new revelations and allegations. The latest bombshell landed Wednesday when a report alleged that a female Cuomo staffer claims Cuomo put his hands under her blouse and groped her late last year in the Executive Mansion in Albany. Gov. Cuomo reportedly reached under aide’s blouse and groped her That report led Mayor Bill de Blasio to say on Thursday that Cuomo “can no longer serve as governor anymore,” after having previously ducked repeated questions about whether he thought Cuomo should resign. “It’s not one, it’s not two, it’s not three, it’s not four, it’s not five. It’s six women coming forward,” de Blasio told reporters during his daily City Hall news conference. The incident reported Wednesday by the Albany Times Union allegedly took place after the woman was summoned to Cuomo’s heavily guarded, official residence to help him fix a problem with his cellphone. The incident allegedly took place after the woman was summoned to Cuomo’s heavily guarded official residence to help him fix a problem with his cellphone, the Albany Times Union reported. The paper said it was withholding the woman’s name but described her as much younger than the 63-year-old governor. The sexual misconduct allegations are the most serious to emerge since a former Cuomo aide, Lindsey Boylan, 36, accused him of sexual harassment in December. Boylan, now a Democratic candidate for Manhattan borough president, didn’t initially detail her claims but last month published an online essay that alleged Cuomo unexpectedly kissed her “on the lips” during a 2018 meeting in his Manhattan office. That led four other women — including three former aides — to publicly accuse him of sexual harassment and other inappropriate behavior dating to 2000, when he was President Bill Clinton’s housing secretary. The sexual harassment and related allegations against Cuomo are under investigation by a team of outside lawyers — including former acting Manhattan US Attorney Joon Kim — who were hired Monday by state Attorney General Letitia James. The FBI and the Brooklyn US Attorney’s Office have also launched a probe into the Cuomo administration’s handling of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities during the coronavirus pandemic, sources familiar with the matter have told The Post. Under the New York Constitution, impeaching Cuomo would require a simple majority vote of the 150-member state Assembly, which is composed of 106 Democrats, 43 Republicans and one independent. A resolution to impeach Cuomo was introduced earlier this week by Republican members of the Assembly, with Minority Leader Will Barclay (R-Oswego) saying that “we believe the time has come” to oust the three-term governor. Cuomo’s office didn’t immediately return a request for comment on Thursday, but on Wednesday evening the governor — who has repeatedly insisted that “I never touched anyone inappropriately” — issued a statement denying the groping allegations. “As I said yesterday, I have never done anything like this. The details of this report are gut-wrenching,” Cuomo said. “I am not going to speak to the specifics of this or any other allegation given the ongoing review, but I am confident in the result of the Attorney General’s report.” Cuomo has pledged to cooperate with the probe and urged New Yorkers to withhold judgment pending its findings. Oh come on - It's not like he said something like - you could grab a girl by the pussy if your rich......He only did it.....

I can't help but think - This has got to be a joke......

Our President referring to the 4- Star Army General who is now the Secretary of Defense and the Pentagon (his office): "The guy that runs that outfit over there" (SMH) Yeah......Just wondering (not "if", but "when")........ SF noticed the first rumblings of a President Harris in the MSM back in January..... https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/532213-are-we-allowed-to-whisper-about-the-transition-to-president-harris And now today: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/03/08/daily-202-kamala-harris-is-playing-an-unusually-large-role-shaping-bidens-foreign-policy/