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I really wish there was a video.........Hilarious....

Executive Privilege - The Democrats certainly could have went to court and argued for those important witnesses to be forced to testify. (Would not have worked, IMHO but....) They just didn't want to wait since their main goal was to put this in front of the public prior to the 2020 election......

It is becoming a thing. A big thing now is a handmade straw caddy so people can store and carry their straw(s) (some people carry more than one) conveniently. For real.......You need to get out more Gonzo......I'm like you, though - I will not buy a straw...... https://www.etsy.com/listing/535440028/padded-straw-sleeve-single-pocket?gpla=1&gao=1&utm_campaign=shopping_us_McGarryDesigns_sfc_osa&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_custom1=0&utm_content=6509558&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-f7yuuiZ5wIVEJ6fCh3uLgP3EAQYAyABEgKBFPD_BwE

Thoughts from a hipster coffee shop - by Alyssa Ahlgren “I’m sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of Democratic candidates calling for policies to “fix” the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around. I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook’s, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we’ve become completely blind to it. Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose. These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don’t give them a second thought. We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty. One. Times. Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, “An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity.” Never saw American prosperity. Let that sink in. When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I’ve ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Now, I’m not attributing Miss Ocasio-Cortez’s words to outright dishonesty. I do think she whole-heartedly believes the words she said to be true. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided. My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let’s just say I didn’t have the popular opinion, but I digress. Let me lay down some universal truths really quick. The United States of America has lifted more people out of abject poverty, spread more freedom and democracy, and has created more innovation in technology and medicine than any other nation in human history. Not only that but our citizenry continually breaks world records with charitable donations, the rags to riches story is not only possible in America but not uncommon, we have the strongest purchasing power on earth, and we encompass 25% of the world’s GDP. The list goes on. However, these universal truths don’t matter. We are told that income inequality is an existential crisis (even though this is not an indicator of prosperity, some of the poorest countries in the world have low-income inequality), we are told that we are oppressed by capitalism (even though it’s brought about more freedom and wealth to the most people than any other system in world history), we are told that the only way we will acquire the benefits of true prosperity is through socialism and centralization of federal power (even though history has proven time and again this only brings tyranny and suffering). Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they’ve never seen prosperity, and as a result, elect politicians dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism. Why? The answer is this, my generation has ONLY seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn’t live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, or see the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don’t know what it’s like not to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don’t have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it’s spreading like a plague. With the current political climate giving rise to the misguided idea of a socialist utopia, will we see the light? Or will we have to lose it all to realize that what we have now is true prosperity? Destroying the free market will undo what millions of people have died to achieve. My generation is becoming the largest voting bloc in the country. We have an opportunity to continue to propel us forward with the gifts capitalism and democracy has given us. The other option is that we can fall into the trap of entitlement and relapse into restrictive socialist destitution. The choice doesn’t seem too hard, does it?” Amen and Amen Alyssa Ahlgren Cheers........

Still not buying a steel straw........

Watching Representatives Schiff and Nadler cry "unfair trial" after their performance in the House is frickin hilarious........Pure Pot calling the Kettle black moment......

Amen......but alas, it still exists.......

Yeah - anti-capitalist types always get upset, but still want the best......

Fox - You are such a nerd........OK, SF is not a mathematics phenom by any stretch.....apologies to the BO for improperly dissing him/her/it........ However - estimated 88 to 242 million pounds/year of plastic marine debris. "estimated" 88 to 242 is quite large for a window..... But - you do realize that the US is dead last with regards to plastic pollution on all of those fancy charts I found........Still gonna use plastic straws......

Misleading at best.......

Swing and a miss - Throwing the BS flag.....(of course, it is BO, so what else would you expect) https://www.statista.com/chart/12211/the-countries-polluting-the-oceans-the-most/ A team of researchers in the United States and Australia led by Jenna Jambeck, an environmental engineer at the University of Georgia, analyzed plastic waste levels in the world's oceans. They found that China and Indonesia are the top sources of plastic bottles, bags and other rubbish clogging up global sea lanes. Together, both nations account for more than a third of plastic detritus in global waters, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The original source data can be found here. In 2010, 8.8 million metric tons of mismanaged plastic waste came from China with an estimated 3.53 million metric tons of it ending up in the ocean. A total of 3.2 million metric tons of mismanaged plastic waste came from Indonesia and it is estimated that 1.29 million metric tons became plastic marine debris. The United States is also guilty of polluting oceans with plastic, but at a much lower level than China. Annually, 0.11 million metric tons of waterborne plastic garbage comes from the United States. https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution SF is still insisting on plastic straws.......

https://100percentfedup.com/trump-blasts-teen-climate-actress-she-should-focus-on-other-countries-who-are-sending-tons-of-garbage-across-pacific-ocean-to-u-s/ Yesterday, at the Davos World Summit, a reporter asked President Trump about allegedly saying teen climate actress, Greta Thunberg “needs to work on her anger.” Trump clarified, ” I didn’t say anger I said, ‘anger management.'” Trump called out other countries for not doing enough to protect the environment from pollution, “We have to do something about other continents, we have to do something about other countries. When we’re clean and beautiful and everything’s good, but you have another continent where the fumes are rising at levels that you can’t believe.’ President Trump suggested the teen climate actress’s time would be better spent focusing on other countries, saying, “I mean, I think Greta ought to focus on those places, but we are doing better than we ever had in terms of cleanliness, in terms of numbers.” Trump slammed the pollution in the Pacific Ocean that ends up in the United States thanks to other countries, “We have a beautiful ocean called the Pacific Ocean, with thousands and thousands of tons of garbage flows toward us—and that’s put there by other countries.” He added, “So, I think Greta has to start working on those other countries.” Finally someone not afraid to call a spade a spade........

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/article239497583.html Puerto Rican officials continued to distance themselves from a growing scandal involving tons of emergency supplies that were never distributed in the wake of a powerful series of earthquakes. Speaking to reporters Tuesday, government officials said they had been blindsided by the revelation on Saturday that there was a warehouse packed with aid in the southern city of Ponce — near the epicenter of the quakes. Osvaldo Soto, the secretary of public affairs, singled out the head of the Bureau of Emergency Management, Carlos Acevedo, for dropping the ball. He said Acevedo, who was fired over the weekend, never took an inventory at the warehouse and never informed other officials that the aid was available. “The issue here is the mismanagement of these goods and food that could have been taken to people who needed them,” Soto told reporters. “The fact that these goods existed and were stored in that place — that was never brought up during our daily [emergency management] meetings.” “The system didn’t fail us, an individual failed us,” he added. Officials also confirmed that the warehouse — along with another one in Guaynabo — was under the control of the island’s emergency management agency, known as the NMEAD. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) controls seven other warehouses on the island designed to respond to disasters in the U.S. territory and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In a statement, FEMA said it was continuing to work with local authorities in their efforts to recover from the earthquakes and the 2017 hurricane season but safeguards were needed. “Given Puerto Rico’s significant history of fiscal irregularities and mismanagement, the federal government will continue to impose stringent fiscal oversight and risk management measures to ensure all disaster relief funding and resources are expended in a manner that directly assists the disaster survivors who need them most while protecting the U.S. taxpayers’ investment against the potential for waste, fraud, and abuse,” the agency said. Not only did funds disappear, so did supplies......Until now.....

The new "Extended Range" option for the Tesla motor cars.....

A perfect way to launder funnel money into the Railroad Union?

Was in Pittsburgh over the weekend. PA has the same ads with Lincoln and Franklin......with Lincoln wearing his flat-brim hat......Jeez....

Absolutely!! Protesting the Governor maybe?