I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
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Needs a lax. The beans are not working for him.
Goya CEO Calls Trump "The Legitimate, And The Still Actual President Of The United States" In Front Of Applauding CPAC Crowd
Go back to selling beans, dude.
by Conover Kennard42 mins ago56 seconds ago
617ShareTweetWe'll give Donald Trump this: The former president did accomplish a lot during his one term in office by giving Democrats the House, the Senate, and the White House. And because of that, his toxicity, divisiveness, failure to lead us out of the coronavirus pandemic, and the fact that he was impeached, it's not too surprising that he was soundly defeated by now-President Joe Biden in both the electoral and popular vote. Trump still hasn't conceded even though he propagated his big lie that led to the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection, and that, in turn, led to his second impeachment. However, if you're one of Trump's election truthers, Biden couldn't have possibly won, even though he garnered over 81 million votes.
Goya Foods CEO Robert Unanue repeated that dangerous big lie at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Saturday to a cheering crowd, saying that Trump is the "legitimate" president of the United States.
"My biggest honor today is going to be that, I think, we're going to be on the same stage as, in my opinion, the real, the legitimate, and the still actual president of the United States, Donald J. Trump," he said.
Unanue then suggested that widespread voter fraud took place during the election, saying, "I received, I think as many people I know and maybe many of you, unsolicited ballots. So, I mean, as a citizen of the United States, I think I'm allowed to vote once. once — not twice. "
That is some dangerous rhetoric. It was just last month that Trump supporters stormed our nation's Capitol because they believed Donald J. Trump's big lie of widespread voter fraud that doesn't exist. In late January, Goya Foods voted to silence its pro-Trump CEO following his television appearances in which he questioned the results of the presidential election.
"Independently, I've made the decision to lower the temperature and walk away from speaking about politics and religion," he said last month. "I realize it's important because of the diverse views of the company and our market." And then he did it again. This man is 67-years-old and should know better.
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And we all hope it turns out exactly this way:
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This is also not political:
ruthbru,
I thought of you when I read this article about a 105-year-old lady who partially credits gin-soaked raisins for her longevity. We did get that recipe from you, right?
https://www.today.com/food/105-year-old-who-survived-covid-19-credits-gin-soaked-t210056
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Yes, my aunt & mom swore by the raisins soaked in gin as an arthritis cure! For anyone interested:
'Drunken Raisins'-a natural arthritis remedy.
To prepare gin-soaked raisin, first empty one box of dried white raisin in a shallow container. Only white or golden raisin should be used for this recipe. Then pour enough gin into the container to cover the raisins.
Cover the container ( but not with plastic, a kitchen towel is good) and keep it covered for 7 – 10 days on the to allow the raisin to steep in the gin (sitting out, not in fridge).
Allow all the gin to evaporate to leave gin-soaked raisins in the container. These raisins keep well when refrigerated. The popular advice is to take nine of these "drunken raisins" every day. Most users report improvements in arthritis symptoms between 1 – 8 weeks of using this remedy.
Why it works:
1. Golden raisins- the ONLY type of raisins worthy of the recipe- require sulfur or sulfides in their processing to make them golden. Sulfur is an active ingredient in 2 effective natural arthritis supplenents: glucosamine sulfate and chondroitin sulfate. Golden raisins come from sultana grapes and are cultivated under the name Thompson seedless grapes in the United States.
2. Sultana grapes contain proanthocyanidins which are thought to help fight infections and reduce inflammation. Grapes also contain resveratrol, a powerful anti-oxidant that is being studied for many of it's disease fighting properties.
3. Gin is flavored with juniper berries and juniper berries contain Terpinen. Terpinen has anti inflammatory properties. The essential oil that is in juniper berries contains more than 100 compounds including myrcene (an anti oxidant), catechins (anti-oxidant), and flavanoids (anti oxidant). Test tube studies have shown that juniper berries can inhibit prostaglandin synthesis. Prostaglandins help mediate an inflammatory response and increase the sensitivity of nerve endings to pain. By inhibiting their production, a reduction in pain can occur.To prepare gin-soaked raisin, first empty one box of dried white raisin in a shallow container. Only white or golden raisin should be used for this recipe. Then pour enough gin into the container to cover the raisin.0 -
Thank you Ruth!
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I used to hide in the coat closet. The phone cord stretched half-way down the hall from the table at the front and disappeared under the closet door. I'm surprised no one tripped over it.
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We had our phone ( there were still operators and party lines and rotary dial phones then ) on a desk in the corner of the living room. Funny thing was we never would have had it, but my Dad was elected Secretary ( mainly because he was a great speller and had excellent handwriting ) of our tiny little town. It was decreed ( by whom and when I'll never know ) that the Secretary must allow the city desk to be in the home and there must be a telephone which the town paid for.
The kicker was my dad could not talk on a phone. He was hard of hearing with one of the old fashioned hearing aids. The theory was that anyone else in the house could answer the phone and relay the message to my Dad. So we had the pleasure of forever after having a phone. Even though my dad was not the town Secretary after his term, all of us refused to give up the phone. Once you are spoiled to certain things they are hard to give up.
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My grandparents lived on a farm several miles from town. They had a party line. If the phone rang, you had to listen for your particular ring combo. Drove me crazy, I always wanted to answer on the first ring.
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This is so true and I am always a little worried/squeamish just how he is going to vote.
Who Made Joe Manchin 'The Decider'?
When Every Senate Vote Counts, the West Virginia Democrat May as Well Be a Republican
By Terry H. Schwadron, DCReport Opinion Editor
Terry H. Schwadron
We spent hundreds of millions, talked endlessly, suffered generally insulting campaigns to elect a president, withstood months afterward of one side denying results and endured an attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Where in all this was the decision to elect the winner to be Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.)?
Forget competing personalities, ideologies, even skills. What we effectively have wrought is that the decisions about whether we extend unemployment or try to save restaurants or pay to widen federal research into coronavirus mutations don't sit in the White House or in the leading majority leaders of Congress. It is with Manchin. He is the self-described centrist, so moderate a Democrat that he is always a threat to vote for Republican policies. He hails from a state that he sees as unready to embrace climate change or big investment in recovery. And, as we found out this week, a Biden Cabinet-level nominee.
Manchin says he is opposing Neera Tanden for the Office of Management and Budget because she tweeted too harshly about political opponents.
Maybe now he opposes the nomination of Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) as secretary of Interior, who thinks drilling for oil on public lands is a bad idea. Manchin headed the committee holding this hearing.
As an aside, when compared with colleagues in the Congress who have tweeted and worked hard to ignore years of public insult tweets of Donald Trump, the argument against Tanden seems pretty limp.
Still, among Tanden's tweet targets was Manchin's daughter, Heather Bresch, former CEO of Mylan, a company that made EpiPens and raised its price substantially over 10 years. Bresch defended the higher prices as less than that of others and said she also raised financial assistance for patients.
The Key Vote?
It's not so much that we may find ourselves agreeing or disagreeing with Manchin. But rather, we have given the car keys to a single individual who may be voting only to support the local interests of a 93% white state. It is a state still waiting for coal mining to come back, that votes Republican, that has the nation's worst record on opiate usage and whose small business owners mostly reject raising the minimum wage.
With the U.S. Senate split down the middle, Manchin's vote has become The Vote for a Democratic agenda, followed closely by the support of sorta Democrat Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and one or two others. Indeed, one hears Manchin's vote more linked to that of Susan Collins (R-Maine) than to the Democratic majority.
Would an LBJ or even a Harry Reid have allowed the Senate majority to have allowed a critical vote like Manchin to run free from issue to issue, from more liberal to more conservative, but outside the party attitudes? No, they would have found a way to pressure his votes with something that West Virginia needs, like energy jobs, or found a threat that worked. A weaker Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) just seems to believe that repetition of arguments alone will win the day.
One friend proposes that Democrats offer a trade of Manchin to the Republicans, baseball style, for their Collins or Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), though I doubt that Joe Biden or Schumer would count on that outcome as any more dependable.
Manchin is insisting that calling yourself a Democrat does not necessarily mean anything.Most Valuable Target
Manchin has become the most sought-after target for lobbyists, reports TheHill.com because he is seen as the swing vote in the 50-50 Senate on many bills and nominees. And he has to watch his own political back in a Republican-leaning state.
Actually, only a small group of former staffers and ex-senators-turned-lobbyist have a chance to influence Manchin, who prefers to listen to groups that have established direct interests in West Virginia. That has included more liberal groups like the Poor People's Campaign and unions, or those with ties to local businesses.
It's also true that Manchin voted with the Trump administration half the time.
Manchin, fully aware of his sudden celebrity status, talks a lot about the need for bipartisanship and listening to the other side, no matter what it is, before coming out with what he sees as his more common-sense solutions. It all must come as a bit of upbraiding for Biden, who considers himself a centrist, and float the question of what it is that makes Manchin want to identify as Democrat in the first place.
"He's kind of the Democratic version of John McCain," said Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) told Politico. "I say that partially in jest. But partially it's true: Joe's a hard guy to figure out how to lead. He dances to his own music."
Actually, Manchin favors raising the minimum wage, but more slowly and as not part of a coronavirus aid bill. He generally favors gun rights, though backs "sensible" registration efforts, and he opposes killing the Senate's filibuster rules to make decision-making into simple majority votes. He sleeps on a houseboat, occasionally swigs moonshine from a jar, was a college football quarterback and ran a coal brokerage before running for governor.
As The Washington Post noted, Manchin is a coal country native come to power as Biden is proposing vast climate changes. As governor, he sued the Environmental Protection Agency. He has scuttled efforts to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, criticized the Paris climate agreement and famously shot a copy of a cap-and-trade carbon proposal full of lead. "There's nobody I know in my state that wants to drink dirty water, to breathe dirty air, I can assure you," Manchin told the Post. "I'm as environmental as anyone else. I'm pretty rational, practical about it, too."
The Decider?
Based on reports from his Senate colleagues, Manchin often does succeed at changing minds, including getting Republicans Steve Daines of Montana and James Lankford of Oklahoma to stand down from their election challenges in the hours following the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Manchin is the ultimate gradualist, making Biden look as if he is speeding toward some progressive goals in immigration, race relations, environment and economic policies aiming to re-set built-in inequalities. Manchin's support—and those middle position on every sizeable issue brings with him—is the reason behind the agonizingly slow response from Congress on coronavirus and economy alike.
At least with the main body of Republicans in the Senate, we know there is straight opposition to virtually any Biden policy, and we expect the tight majority to work around whatever those limitations set. So, expect to see Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the new head of the Budget Committee, for example, maneuvering to use the more arcane rules of reconciliation to move Democratic bills through the process.
But it is annoying to me to see a single individual, Democrat or Republican, insisting that he or she is the center of the political universe. It's more annoying when I thought I have voted for the program of a party that I favored. I didn't like it when Trump insisted that he was the sole voice to hear, even from the White House, I didn't like it with chief obstructor Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) deciding to forgo Senate votes on more than 300 House-passed bills.
We didn't vote for Joe Manchin to be The Decider.
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Good grief....trump just won't shut up and go away will he?
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No he won't cm and he is always the victim too -- he has two lines, patting himself on the back way, way too much for things a great deal of the time he didn't even do, or crying about whomever is wronging him now. He is a vile, evil, horrid disgusting worthless human. He does sure as a great bad example though, I guess.
As He Faces Possible Criminal Indictment, Trump Attacks The Supreme Court
Trump, who is potentially facing multiple criminal indictments, attacked the Supreme Court for not overturning the election.
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I refuse to watch any of that dribble. I am listening to Classic Rock from the '70s, reading a book, and making rhubarb muffins (I found a bag of cut up rhubarb at the bottom of the freezer). A two minute recap on the local news will be all I can handle.
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Not sure if I'll look for the whole speech or not or someplace where there are more highlights, but I looked at the picture of him from this piece and oh wow !! He is un-believably orange in the picture and once again he has make-up on one ear. I've seen this same thing in another picture or two. I take it which ever hand he uses to smear that crap on and plus the mirror much really be off in some way.
Trump's Big Comeback Flops As TV Networks Ignore CPAC Speech
Trump thought that his speech at CPAC would be his big comeback, but outside of Fox News, other major networks have not shown the speech.
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POSTED ONSUN, FEB 28TH, 2021 BY JASON EASLEY
A CNN Anchor Just Called Out CPAC For Worshipping Losing
FacebookTwitterWhatsappPinterestRedditPrintMailFlipboardCNN anchor Ana Cabrera laid out that Republicans at CPAC are celebrating a loser with their worship of Donald Trump.
Cabrera said, "Let's be clear about who Republicans at CPAC are celebrating. A man who lost them the House, the Senate, and the presidency and then incited a mob to attack the capitol because he didn't like the election results."
The CNN anchor was correct. Trump doesn't have some glorious legacy that deserves to be admired and looked back on. Donald Trump was a failure. His trade war failed. He destroyed the economy and got more than half of a million Americans killed by intentionally mismanaging a pandemic. He was impeached twice and betrayed his country numerous times while in office.
CPAC is celebrating a loser. Trump lost the House, the Senate, and the presidency. Trump is a one-term failure, and if he is the Republican nominee in 2024, he will lose again.Losing is what Donald Trump does best.
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It's even better getting news from an actual newspaper or reading on line. That way I can close the page or click away immediately whenever one of those idiots come on.
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What we are talking about is learning how to live in the present moment, in the now. When you aren't distracted by your own negative thinking, when you don't allow yourself to get lost in moments that are gone or yet to come, you are left with this moment. This moment—now—truly is the only moment you have. It is beautiful and special. Life is simply a series of such moments to be experienced one right after another. If you attend to the moment you are in and stay connected to your soul and remain happy, you will find that your heart is filled with positive feelings. -Sydney Banks
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So, I think the verdict is in -- all those people at CPAC celebrating and paying homage to the person who nearly single-handedly lost the presidency, the Senate, and the House for them. They had no grand vision to offer and most only offered more suppression while they filled their selfish agenda of power and control -- for what?? Not for any of us and that has so much to do for them having lost it all. They are the party of losers -- who have gone off the edge. I really don't think they are coming back. When you hitch yourself to such a BIG ( golden or not ) loser what is really left. People want to know how they are going to get better -- not how you are. Some real waking up ( seems very doubtful ) needs to happen.
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They use the word news rather freely here -- propaganda program might be closer.
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Boy some things don't change much. Mad Magazine# 129 from Sept 1969
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Today's Republican Party.
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Just a thought !!
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