I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
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DISCLAIMER
No dis-respect meant for Lisa Marie what-so-ever.
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To find the gold of truth often means getting a more universal viewpoint
of life, of yourself, of everything that comprises your world. The
greatness and power of many souls of the past resulted in their seeing
in a higher context than perhaps the average person. They knew
where to look to find the golden nuggets of truth. Time does not
prevent us from knowing these higher truths; our stage
of consciousness makes the difference.
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This just in: Santos admits, "I was once married to a woman, my wife...uh, Morgan Fairchild...yeah, that's the ticket..."
(Classic '90s SNL reference).
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Gulp !! I have no words except, sorry for ya Arkansas
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This while doing their best to find ways to deny you Insurance, taking away social security Medicare and making you work till you die -- and they are willing to help with their secondhand smoke. Heathenly (made up word) hypocrites. Hope they all turn up the crud and not be able to rid themselves of it.
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If they get the rule passed to allow smoking in the Capitol, just give everyone a case of febreeze to spray all over anyone who lights up. And if they object to "breathing in that junk", just say, "Do you hear yourself talking?"
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Thank goodness I have been very busy so haven't had much time to watch the news.....because when I do, it makes me sick!
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I suspect that the happiest people you know are the ones who work at being kind, helpful, and reliable—and happiness sneaks into their lives while they are busy doing those things. It is a by-product, never a primary goal. - Harold S. Kushner
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HCR:
Today the bill for the elevation of Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to House speaker began to come due. McCarthy promised the far-right members of his conference committee seats and far more power in Congress to persuade them to vote for him.
Now they are collecting.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who was removed from committee assignments in the last Congress for her racist and antisemitic conspiracy theories as well as her encouragement of violence against Democrats, has a spot on the Homeland Security Committee. Such spots are usually filled by those with experience in either the military or intelligence, neither of which she has. And security is an odd fit for her: voters in her district tried to get her disqualified from running in 2022 because of her participation in the attempt to overthrow the results of the 2020 election.
Greene has not just that plum assignment, but another on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee. That committee manages investigations and has emerged as a coveted spot for the far right as its members prepare to go after figures in the Biden administration. It now includes right-wing figures Greene, Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Scott Perry (R-PA), Byron Donalds (R-FL), and Gary Palmer (R-AL), all of whom refused to acknowledge President Joe Biden's 2020 election.
Representative Paul Gosar (R-AZ), who was removed from committees two years ago after threatening Democratic lawmakers on social media, is now back on the Natural Resources committee. He also is now on the Oversight Committee.
The elevation of newer representatives over their more senior colleagues caused hard feelings. Tara Palmeri of Puck reported today that Vern Buchanan (R-FL), who was in line to become the chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, confronted McCarthy for putting McCarthy ally Jason Smith (R-MO) in the spot instead. "You f*cked me, I know it was you, you whipped against me," Buchanan told McCarthy.
There were rumors that Buchanan would consider resigning over the slight, and McCarthy cannot afford to lose any Republicans. His desperation is clear in his embrace of George Santos (R-NY), whom McCarthy appointed to two committees: the House Committee on Small Business and the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. Santos is facing pressure to resign as his campaign lies appear to include shady financing.
But in an op-ed today at NBC News, Santos's fellow New York representative Democrat Ritchie Torres noted: The presence of this man in Congress is a danger to our democracy and national security, a disgrace to this institution, and a major distraction from the pressing problems that are far more worthy of our time, energy and attention," but the Republican Party will not disavow him because "House Speaker Kevin McCarthy needs every vote he can get, and he needs George Santos to remain in power."
House Republicans also appear to be prepared to move forward with an impeachment of Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. This is part of the Republican focus on applications for asylum at the southern border despite their recent refusal to consider updating legislation, as Mayorkas has repeatedly asked them to. Only once before has a Cabinet secretary been impeached—in 1876—and he was acquitted by the Senate. Two others resigned before impeachment votes were taken, the most recent in 1932.
Greene has her sights set even higher. She called today for the impeachment of President Biden, advising him on Twitter to "resign now."
McCarthy also agreed that he would not agree to raise the debt ceiling unless Congress cuts $130 billion in spending for next year, a demand that amounts to taking the nation and the world economy hostage to overturn measures that Congress has already agreed to. Once again, the debt ceiling is not about future spending, it is about paying the debts Congress has already incurred. Refusing to raise the debt ceiling means the United States will default, wreaking havoc on international markets and our own global standing.
But the right wing appears willing to burn down the global economy and to destroy our place in it to impose their will on the country.
Emboldened, the far right is already insisting it will not raise the debt ceiling. Today, Andy Biggs (R-AZ), who was involved in the planning for January 6, tweeted, "We cannot raise the debt ceiling. Democrats have carelessly spent our taxpayer money and devalued our currency. They've made their bed, so they must lie in it."
In fact, the national debt skyrocketed under Republican president Donald Trump even before the pandemic, thanks to the big tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy that the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated would increase deficits by almost $2 trillion over eleven years. In 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic hit, the debt had grown to $22 trillion. Trump called it a crisis, but his budget that year increased the debt to $23.2 trillion. The CBO warned that the U.S. had never seen deficits so large in a time of high employment.
And then the coronavirus hit, and the debt jumped to $27.75 trillion.
At 5.2% of GDP, the growth of the deficit under Trump was third largest in our history, behind only that under Presidents George W. Bush—who launched two unfunded wars after passing a tax cut and thus presided over deficit growth of 11.7%—and Abraham Lincoln, whose Treasury had to invent a way to pay for a civil war out of whole cloth, resulting in the deficit growing by 9.4% of GDP.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the Treasury will hit the debt ceiling on Thursday but can extend extraordinary measures to keep functioning until June. McCarthy has called for Democrats to talk with him about a plan that will permit an increase in the debt limit while cutting Medicare, Social Security, and federal agencies.
Biden and administration officials say they will not negotiate with the right-wing Republicans who are trying to get their way not through normal legislative channels, but by holding the government—and the global economy—hostage.
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So, no surprise now that McCarthy puts on committees the extremist bunch who will do just that.
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Looks like we can expect everything that was promised compliments of a SOTH without a bone in his back anywhere. Listening to some political ideas last night and this morning sounded like some of the best ideas for our side. That was to put on the powerful and strategic committees, (the ones Gosar and Greene now have) people like Jaime Raskin who will SEE he destruction and push back mightily. I think the hope as well is that some of the 'reasonable', and they are there, Reps. will be VERY upset and may come over to our side to get the things down which just must be done.
These extremists are jut into breaking things and vengeance and I do think there are Reps. who actually see that has sooo damaging for the longevity of their party. I so hope they will be able to stand up because the weakling SOTH gave his soull for a title and position and is now damaged and worthless.
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I know talk is cheap and there has been from before the get-go so much that needed addressing, but I would have wanted to have something like this happen as soon as possible. I do realize after many yrs. of the Reps. party going downhill and then letting someone like the Loon take over -- it was likely hard to prioritize with many things looking as though they should be first.
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What's really bad when you vote Reps. now.
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Banging my head against the wall!
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Breaking promises is such an on-brand Reps move. SotH could have just told his extremists, "Yeah, I know I promised you appointments, but you know how it is with campaign promises. I'm not going to put you anywhere important."
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As always -- coming up with yet another as he sees it, great sounding like to try and save himself.
>Former President Donald Trump has spent much of Wednesday ranting about his scandalinvolving the White House documents and classified materials that were found at his Mar-a-Lago resort. One of the claims being questioned by experts is the idea that Trump kept the folders with classified information on them as a "keepsake."
"Remember, these were just ordinary, inexpensive folders with various words printed on them, but they were a 'cool' keepsake," Trump said on his social media site.
"When I was in the Oval Office, or elsewhere, & 'papers' were distributed to groups of people & me, they would often be in a striped paper folder with 'Classified' or 'Confidential' or another word on them. When the session was over, they would collect the paper(s), but not the folders, & I saved hundreds of them..." the former president added in a subsequent post.
But experts say that isn't the way it works.
According to those with higher levels of security clearance, the documents don't tend to leave their folders. Sometimes they're even stapled into the folders, but not always. Each page is typically marked clearly so that even if the documents leave the folders it has the clearance levels on them.
Things marked with "top secret" are watermarked so if it is copied the watermark will be darker as a way of proving that it was copied, which is against the rules.
Marine fighter pilot Amy McGrath explained, "Like almost everything else he says, this claim is false. This is not how classified briefings work. The folders are there to protect the material while it is in transit. You are not given the folders as keepsakes after the briefing is completed."
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What the hell is wrong with these people?
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