I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!

A little faith goes a long way in clearing my mind, in restoring inner peace, in allowing me to function as a person who is capable of great things, for indeed I am. Faith in God in me and in others develops courage, patience, understanding, hope, and so much more. It strengthens me and every aspect of my life. Each thought or act of faith is like a single fiber that, when woven together with others, creates a lifeline that connects me to health, peace, prosperity, and great opportunities.    -unattributed

Interesting !!

Story by Travis Gettys • Yesterday 12:43 PM

Judge Brett Kavanaugh on Fox News.© Raw Story

The U.S. Supreme Court has a clear intellectual liability in Justice Brett Kavanaugh, according to a legal analyst, and the other justices are sick of "lightweight" opinions.

Patience is wearing thin for the Donald Trump appointee, who rarely writes important or noteworthy opinions – in fact, he wrote the fewer words than any justice in the most recent term -- and his colleagues keep calling out his lack of rigor in their own opinions, reported Slate.

"[Clarence] Thomas, [Amy Coney] Barrett, and [Neil] Gorsuch aren’t the only members of the court who are losing patience with Kavanaugh," wrote senior writer Mark Joseph Stern. "Justice Elena Kagan memorably castigated him for treating 'judging as scorekeeping,' whining about 'how unfair it is' when he loses, and repeating the same bad arguments 'at a higher volume.' Justice Sonia Sotomayor has repeatedly accused him of outright dishonesty by misrepresenting precedent and dangling false promises. In a fed-up dissent in just her first term, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson compared a Kavanaugh majority opinion to the children’s book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. [Samul] Alito’s rebuttal to Kavanaugh’s dissent in Sackett v. EPAconsisted of exactly one sentence: Kavanaugh’s argument, Alito wrote, 'cannot be taken seriously.'"

The only justice who hasn't blasted his opinions is chief Justice John Roberts, with whom Kavanaugh has voted the same in 98 percent of cases, but Stern found the few opinions he does author tend to sound more like backlash management than legal analysis.

"It wasn’t supposed to be like this," Stern wrote. "During his 12 years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Kavanaugh styled himself as a brainy operator who combined intellectual firepower with affable moderation, in rhetoric if not in substance. He wanted to be the conservative whom liberals could respect — Justice Antonin Scalia without the volcanic temper — and the high-minded jurist who could sell right-wing legal theories to the public as common-sense constitutional principles."

"Over the past five years, that version of Brett Kavanaugh has receded from view," Stern added. "In its place has emerged a man with seemingly few fixed convictions and even fewer interesting things to say. To the extent that his colleagues think about him at all, they seem to view him as a fixer who can cobble together five votes for a diaphanous majority opinion that decides almost nothing."

I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation.  We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right.  Riches would do us no good.  We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches.  We want peace and love.

Red Cloud

And whether you did or didn't — who woulda listened.

Inquiring minds want to know.

Really

Speaks.

I hate to in any way defend RFK Jr, who is an absolute discredit to the legacy of his family, but his weird voice is due to a medical condition called dysphonia; which is caused by an abnormality with one's vocal cords. So I don't fault him for the tone of his voice, but for the stupid words that come out through his vocal cords!

Oh, I had no idea. Thanks for the info. In a related note to my previous post, I mentioned Mary Hart, former host of Entertainment Tonight. It made me wonder what ever happened to her, so I looked her up. For those like me who didn’t know, it turns out (ew) she’s a big time Trump supporter, hosting his 2020 fourth of July celebration at which she was accused of making a white power sign which she denied. Her son worked as a special assistant for Trump. Hart converted to Judaism when she married her film producer husband in 1989. All this leaves me shakin my head.

Buried deep in the maze of commonplace, the pearl of
true happiness lies.  And those who rejoice in little things,
find the pathway that leads to the prize.

Lucy M. Thompson

Trump likes Kennedy because he's nuts AND might take votes away from Biden. Speaking of horrible & crazy people:

A lawyer for the president's son filed the complaint after the Georgia
Republican displayed nude pictures of him at a House committee hearing.

By Ben Blanchet July 22, 2023, 01:30 AM
Hunter Biden’s attorney Abbe David Lowell filed an ethics complaint against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Friday, just days after the right-wing congresswoman showed poster-sized nude images of the president’s son at a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing.

Lowell, in the letter to the Office of Congressional Ethics, wrote that it previously
contacted the office over Greene’s defamatory statements and “bizarre
dissemination of conspiracy theories” toward Hunter Biden, adding that
she “lowered herself and by extension the entire House ... to a new
level of abhorrent behavior” with her actions at Wednesday’s hearing

Greene displayed the sexually explicit images at a hearing where Internal Revenue Service whistleblowers made claims that the Justice Department interfered in an investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes. Biden
recently reached a deal to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges.

Several Democrats have since taken aim at Greene for showing the series of nude photos, including Reps. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) and Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a ranking Democrat on the oversight committee who told The Washington Post that the display was “completely irrelevant” to the hearing.

The attorney claimed that Greene violated House ethics rules along with
standards of official conduct at the hearing, calling for the office to
“promptly and decisively condemn and discipline” Greene.

“While the faces of other individuals in the photographs were blocked with
black boxes, Ms. Greene (or her staff) took great care to ensure Mr.
Biden’s face was not blurred for the American public,” argued Lowell,
who noted that Greene suggested without evidence that her posters showed
Biden “making pornography.”

“None of heactions or statements could possibly be deemed to be part of any
legitimate legislative activity, as is clear from both the content of
her statements and her conduct and the forums she uses to spew her
unhinged rhetoric.”

Lowell also slammed Greene’s posts on social media in the days since the
hearing, noting that she’s shared clips of herself holding the naked
pictures and distributed a link to a video with the images through her
fundraising email.

The attorney also suggested that Greene’s actions may have violated federal, District of Columbia and Georgia laws, as well.

Smut and filth =Reps. Someone recently opined that the Reps. party (though still operating) isn't a real viable party anymore. With people like Gaetz, MTG and Bobert, just to name a few that sure seems to be the case. They seem hell bent for going totally over the edge.

Definitely a mouthful of truth.

Didn't know what was going on here but apparently Mr. Aldean did a recording about how people that are not liked are treated in a small town — with violence. This is definitely something I'm not interested in hearing since I am definitely from a small town — and we aren't ugly to others here either.