Revealed: Christopher Steele's Primary Subsource Was Branded a National Security Threat in 2009 and Was Subject of a Counterintelligence Investigation

And the Crossfire Hurricane Team Knew This —Ace And of course -- they failed to inform the FISA court (or note it in any intelligence assessment) that Steele's primary source for his Pee Pee Prostitutes story and various other claims was a man arrested on multiple occasions for public drunkenness and disorderly behavior, and on top of all that -- just might have been a RUSSIAN ASSET HIMSELF. They knew all this. They concealed all this. They are criminals and should be in prison. Question: Did Andrew Weissman know this and choose to keep it out of the "Mueller" report...? Continue reading

#Durham BREAKING: The primary sub-source for the Steele dossier was deemed a possible �national security threat� + the subject of 2009 FBI counter-intel probe. According to new records, those facts were known to Crossfire Hurricane team in December 2016. @LindseyGrahamSC pic.twitter.com/I6Gp4fv98C — Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) September 24, 2020 So it was actually Hillary Clinton, FusionGPS, and the DNC who were colluding with Russian spies to subvert an election? Boy, I bet that will get some media play! Spoiler alert: Nope. Blackout on broadcast news as well � pic.twitter.com/eDJ9vc7ND2 — Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 25, 2020 Looks like we have another story about Russian interference in US politics for the media to pretend is no big deal: And now people who talked about nothing but Russia for the past 3 1/2 years will tell us why this doesn't matter. https://t.co/ZtIA33mKe5 — Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 23, 2020 Close it up Comments Posted by Ace at 12:47 PM

Burn Loot Murder Pursues and Then Attacks a Driver Who Just Wanted to Get Home —Ace Remember Reginald Denny being pulled out of his truck and being beaten unmercifully until he sustained permanent brain damage? I can't help notice that this lawful driver got caught by the mob precisely because he was reluctant to just ram his vehicle into thugs trying to drag him out of his car. I think we should all remember his aversion to responding with violence equal to the mob's resulted in him being beaten. And Ron DeSantis' push to make drivers immune from any liability if they run down a "protester" while fleeing a mob is now shown to be critical. In the meantime, citizens can do their part by simply refusing to convict anyone, or refusing to vote for a monetary judgement against anyone, brought into court for running down "protesters" acting like lawless bandits.

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BLM rioters in Los Angeles (Hollywood) attack a driver on the road tonight. pic.twitter.com/5XkbAHEbs2 — Andy Ng� (@MrAndyNgo) September 25, 2020 This BLM "protester" got a dose of instant karma: Graphic: A BLM protester in Los Angeles who shut down the road with a large mob got hit by a truck. pic.twitter.com/tqF14CN4WP — Andy Ng� (@MrAndyNgo) September 25, 2020 Meanwhile: No big deal, just BLM moving to the Violence-Imposed Apartheid part of their racial pogrom program: White people have just been threatened with assault and kicked out of the church sanctuary grounds. Almost all press were demanded to leave as well #Louisville #LouisvilleProtests #BreonnaTaylor pic.twitter.com/NK1cJVnBU8 — Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) September 25, 2020 By the way: YouTube has banned Steve Inman. I suppose that's because his videos are claimed to be celebrating violence. Meanwhile, YouTube and its parent company, Google, continues to celebrate the people actually making violence -- BLM and antifa. Update from zombie: 10 Standard Operating Procedure. Antifa consciously and purposely surrounds any vehicle that get caught in their cordon, then position volunteer martyrs in front of the vehicle and then smash on the windshield and threaten to kill the driver, hoping that the driver will panic and try to get out of there. Then the "martyrs" in front get run over, and the media collaborates by inevitably reporting that the driver "plowed through the crowd." They've been doing this for 10 or 15 years, at every single protest.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread —CBD

Reconciliation

Tom Roberts Comments Posted by CBD at 09:30 AM

Tonight's ONT Has A Guest Author! —WeirdDave Well, we've moved, but things still aren't settled down. The moving truck with our stuff was supposed to be here Monday, but our driver got subpoenaed as a witness in a court case late Friday afternoon, so all our stuff spent Monday and Tuesday chilling in an 18 wheeler in Indiana. They got here last night, but didn't start delivering stuff until this morning. The 18 wheeler won't fit down our street, so it's parked about a mile away and they are loading a box truck for delivery to our house. We got 2 loads today, 2 more tomorrow should finish it. Good news is that my grill was in one of the loads, so I was able to grill a nice steak dinner. I invited the movers to eat with us and they couldn't get over it. Said nobody's ever cooked them dinner before. I find that hard to believe, but whatever. So it's been a crazy day, and I kept telling Gingy “I don't see when I'm going to have time to write the ONT”. She said “I've seen those picture dumps you sometimes do, why don't I do one”? So tonight's ONT is courtesy of Gingy. It's not that long, but I hope you enjoy it. I'll try to have more traditional ONT tomorrow night. Continue reading















Tonight's ONT brought to you by a cartoon that Hank (ibguy) would have liked:

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Newly Released Texts Show That FBI Agents and Analysts Were So Distressed by Likely-Illegal Handling of Trump Investigation They Bought Liability Insurance to Protect Themselves From Subsequent Lawsuits —Ace This is normal, right? These are the precious MuhNorms that Charlie "3-Wives" Sykes is trying to preserve, right? Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents tasked by fired former Director James Comey to take down Donald Trump during and after the 2016 election were so concerned about the agency�s potentially illegal behavior that they purchased liability insurance to protect themselves less than two weeks before Trump was inaugurated president, previously hidden FBI text messages show. The explosive new communications and internal FBI notes were disclosed in federal court filings today from Sidney Powell, the attorney who heads Michael Flynn's legal defense team. "[W]e all went and purchased professional liability insurance," one agent texted on Jan. 10, 2017, the same day CNN leaked details that then-President-elect Trump had been briefed by Comey about the bogus Christopher Steele dossier. That briefing of Trump was used as a pretext to legitimize the debunked dossier, which was funded by the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign and compiled by a foreign intelligence officer who was working for a sanctioned Russian oligarch.

"Holy crap," an agent responded. "All the analysts too?" "Yep," the first agent said. "All the folks at the Agency as well." ... The FBI agents also discussed how the investigation's leadership was consumed with conspiracy theories rather than evidence.

"I'm tellying [sic] man, if this thing ever gets FOIA'd, there are going to be some tough questions asked," one agent wrote. "[A]nd a great deal of those will be related to Brian having a scope way outside the boundaries of logic[.]" "[REDACTED] is one of the worst offenders of the rabbit holes and conspiracy theories," an agent texted. "This guy traveled with that guy, who put down 3rd guy as his visa sponsor. 3rd guy lives near a navy base, therefore�[.]"

Who's Brian? I don't know who that is referring to. And who do you imagine is the conspiracy-theorist whose name is REDACTED here? Chris Steele? There was a recent story disclosing that Steele's FBI handler stated that Christopher Steele's behavior was "crazy." "Crazy" was the term the FBI agent used to describe the behavior of Christopher Steele, author of the now-debunked Trump-Russia dossier. "I've seen crazy source-related stuff in 20 years in New York and this was one of the craziest," the veteran agent testified to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. ... Nevertheless, the FBI continued to rely on Steele's allegations -- that Donald Trump and his team were conspiring with Russians who possessed compromising information � to justify its surveillance of the Trump campaign. Without evidence to verify Steele�s claims, the FBI fell back on its assertion that the former British intelligence agent was reliable. Steele went rogue, leaking crazy conspiracy theory bullshit to the media. When his handler confronted Steele about this, Steele admitted -- he did it because he was angry that Comey had opened (supposedly) an investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails. The handling agent was shocked: "I had no idea what he was talking about." Before Gaeta could inquire further, Steele started railing about ''your Director" and his "reopening of the investigation." This was an apparent reference to former FBI Director James Comey�s decision to reopen the probe into Hillary Clinton�s private email server after 340,000 copies of State Department emails between Clinton and her close personal aide, Huma Abedin, were discovered on a laptop used by Abedin and her husband, Anthony Weiner. ... At which point it all became clear to the handling agent: "I'm now understanding that he did this because he was upset that the Director's reopening of the investigation was going to negatively affect the election for Hillary Clinton." And yet the FBI continued to claim he was a "reliable" and "dependable" witness, and refused to admit his absurd bias to the FISA court. The handling agent described his reaction to Steele�s behavior as "surprise and disbelief." Gaeta told the Senate that Steele�s actions and attitude weren't just "crazy source-related stuff," but "one of the craziest" the veteran agent had seen in two decades of handling sources. The words are significant: Steele's behavior with the FBI has been characterized as a sort of professional disagreement, uncomfortable perhaps but not unreasonable. Gaeta's blunt assessment casts things in a much harsher light and undercuts subsequent efforts by the FBI's top officials to rehabilitate Steele in order to justify using his "reporting." Although it has been downplayed until now, Steele's acting out � and his overtly declared partisan motivations -- constituted a crisis for the bureau, so much so that the handling agent describes it in violent terms: "After that point � after everybody digests what happened," Gaeta told the Senate committee, "[p]hones were ringing at that point; people's ears were bleeding." But Comey didn't know, huh? But Rosenstein didn't know, huh? So yeah: this checks out. It's almost certainly Steele who's being accused of conspiracy theories and bizarre crap with his bullshit sources, who can in fact be said to be "this guy knows this guy who once filled out a visa application for another guy..." "Iggy" Dancheck's drunk Russian pals at the local gin-mill, I mean. (BTW, I didn't read that article until now. But damn, it's is powerful stuff.) Back to the Federalist article. ...

The explosive new text messages also show agents believed the investigation was being run by FBI officials who were in the tank for Hillary Clinton. "[D]oing all this election research -- I think some of these guys want a [C]linton presidency," one agent wrote on Aug. 11, shortly after the FBI opened the Crossfire Hurricane investigation against Trump. In one series of texts sent the same day as the infamous Jan. 5 Oval Office meeting between Obama, Biden, Comey, Sally Yates, and Susan Rice, one agent admits that "Trump was right" when he tweeted that the FBI was delaying his briefings as incoming president so they could cook up evidence against him. As The Federalist first reported last May, that Jan. 5 meeting was the key to understanding the entire anti-Trump operation run out of Obama's FBI.

I think this is what Mollie Hemingway was getting at earlier-- that Trump had tweeted the "Intelligence" briefing, which was supposedly for the purposes of informing him, had been delayed to cook up a case against him.

Read the whole thing. And if you have any tips for stories, please post them. It would be particularly helpful if you posted them in the previous post, linked here.

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The Leftwing Unveils Its Plan: They Want Lockdowns Forever, to Fight "Global Warming" —Ace The paranoids out there who said that this was always the left's gameplan? That the whole "covid lockdown" gambit was just a trial run for a permanent police state lockdown of the population?

(A lockdown for all but the high officials of the Inner Party, that is.) Those who said the game was always to free prisoners and imprison free men? Collect your winnings. You were 100% right. Also, Open Thread. Also also: Blegging thread. So, I'd like to "call a lid" on the day tomorrow by around 1pm tomorrow. I can do that if I quickly write a three posts about the day's headlines, and then spend the rest of tomorrow posting things I actually wrote today. That's where you come in. If you can think of/remember a story that will keep for one day -- something not closely connected to the news cycle, not breaking news of limited useful life -- please let me know about the story in the comments, and provide a link for me if you have it. If I can dash off five or six such "will keep for 24 hours" posts, I can attempt to emulate the vital, vigorous, mentally-sharp Joe Biden and start Sundowning in the early afternoon. BTW, even if you've already posted tips in earlier threads, please repost here. Bonus open thread content: Continue reading

What to call the lake that is in Kosovo and Serbia has been a serious sticking point despite the U.S. forged compromise to launch a feasibility study to create jobs and more energy for the region....so both sides have agreed to a new name: Lake Trump. https://t.co/AgeDNZ4aBd — Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) September 24, 2020 Thanks to SMOD. Close it up Comments Posted by Ace at 04:53 PM

Is a Major Announcement by Durham Coming Soon? —Ace Mollie Hemingway seems to know something: Continue reading

You're going to want to remember this tweet. https://t.co/OBPXgGFJ76 — Mollie (@MZHemingway) September 24, 2020 Is the heads up related to this? You can�t hide from the truth.



Durham is coming.https://t.co/f0gZi9V6cU — Rep. Doug Collins (@RepDougCollins) September 24, 2020 Hmmm... Aspects of U.S. Attorney John Huber�s investigation into the Clinton Foundation have been assumed by U.S. Attorney John Durham as part of his review into the origins of the Russia probe, Fox News has learned.

A source familiar with Durham�s investigation told Fox News on Thursday that parts of what Huber was investigating in 2017 -- involving the Clinton Foundation -- have been incorporated in Durham�s investigation.

In November 2017, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions directed Huber, the U.S. attorney for Utah, and other senior prosecutors to evaluate "certain issues" involving the sale of Uranium One, and other dealings related to the Clinton Foundation. Sessions tapped Huber after requests by congressional Republicans, who had been calling for the appointment of a special counsel to review the matters. Huber was also tasked with reviewing the FBI's handling of the Clinton email probe, including allegations that the Justice Department and FBI "policies or procedures" were not followed. That's what I assume the heads-up is about: Durham's been investigating not just the efforts to frame Trump but the efforts to falsely exonerate Hillary, and cover up, for example, the emails found on Anthony Weiner's laptop. The same people -- Strzok, Page, McCabe, Preistap, Comey -- who worked so hard to falsely exonerate Hillary Clinton also worked diligently to falsely incriminate Trump. Maybe we've got something? ... The New York Times on Thursday first reported that Durham has focused attention on the Clintons, and said that Durham has sought documents and interviews about how federal law enforcement officials handled an investigation into allegations of political corruption at the Clinton Foundation. ... Speculation over the status of Durham's review into the origins of the Russia probe has only intensified amid the resignation of a top aide earlier this month, Norah Dannehy, and comments from congressional Republicans suggesting developments could soon be announced. ... Earlier this month, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., hinted that developments in Durham�s investigation were on the horizon. This was after newly released Justice Department records showed numerous phones belonging to members of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team were wiped of information because of forgotten passcodes, irreparable screen damage, loss of the device, intentional deletion or other reasons--all before the Justice Department inspector general�s office could review the devices. Adam Housely -- who doesn't always deliver -- seems to think it's about the deliberate suppression/hiding of the Clinton Emails before the 2016 election.



It all ties together. As I have reporter...Clinton Foundation info was found on the Weiner laptop that was purposely held by FBI headquarters with the intention to hold until after the 2016 election. https://t.co/tXgACAWleF — Adam Housley (@adamhousley) September 24, 2020

Remember, Comey ordered the emails to not be examined for a month and a half, and then, when he did allow an examination, he engineered the search parameters to be so narrow that they almost seem designed to not discover any new confidential information in them. Is there any news on that story that's broken recently? Well, Yes, as a matter of fact. This piece from Saturday. The biggest bit of new news? An FBI agent who was "uncomfortable" with the FBI covering up these emails was told that if he "whistleblew" about it, he would be prosecuted. Presumably for violating the same disclosure-of-confidential-information statue about which that the FBI was working to falsely exonerate Hillary Clinton. Not all whistleblowers are precious, I guess. New details have emerged about 2016;s "October Surprise," during which the FBI found emails belonging to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on disgraced New York Rep. Anthony Weiner's laptop, with the FBI official who found the emails revealed for the first time. FBI agent John Robertson, who worked in its New York office�s child sex crimes unit and was later cited (though not named) in Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz�s 2018 report on the handling of the investigation of Clinton's unauthorized private email server, was quoted by the Washington Post's Devlin Barrett for his upcoming book, October Surprise: How the FBI Tried to Save Itself and Crashed an Election. ...

"The crickets I was hearing was really making me uncomfortable because something was going to come down," Robertson reportedly later told Justice Department investigators. "Why isn't anybody here? Like, if I'm the supervisor of any [counterintelligence] squad... and I hear about this, I'm getting on with headquarters and saying, 'Hey, some agent working child porn here may have [Hillary Clinton] emails. Get your ass on the phone, call [the case agent], and get a copy of that drive,' because that�s how it should be. And that nobody reached out to me within, like, that night, I still to this day don't understand what the hell went wrong." Robertson wrote a "Letter to Self" in late October after an Oct. 19, 2016, meeting, during which he implored Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda Kramer of the Southern District of New York to push FBI leadership to look at the thousands of emails he had unearthed. "I have very deep misgivings about the institutional response of the FBI to the congressional investigation into the Hillary Clinton email matter. ...Put simply: I don't believe the handling of the material I have by the FBI is ethically or morally right. But my lawyer's advice -- that I simply put my SSA on notice should cover me -- is that I have completed CYA [Cover Your Ass], and I have done so," Robertson wrote. "Further, I was told by [Kramer] that should I 'whistleblow,' I will be prosecuted." Robertson continued: "I possess -- the FBI possesses -- 20 times more emails than Comey testified to. ... While Comey did not know at the time about what I have, people in the FBI do now, and as far as I know, we are being silent.... If I say or do nothing more, I am falling short ethically and morally. And later, I may be accused of being a Hillary Clinton hack because of the timing of all this. .... But if I say something (i.e., whistleblow), I will lose my reputation, my career, and risk prosecution. I will also be accused of being a Donald Trump hack." He wrote that "nothing could be further from the truth" because "I am apolitical." McCabe, Strzok, and Preistap are all known to have texted each other to game out how to handle the October Surprise. Text messages show McCabe, Strzok, and Priestap discussed the Weiner laptop on Sept. 28, 2016, and Strzok said he initially planned to send a team to New York to review the emails, but a call with the FBI�s New York office was scheduled for the next day instead. Horowitz wrote that "after October 4, we found no evidence that anyone associated with the Midyear investigation, including the entire leadership team at FBI Headquarters, took any action on the Weiner laptop issue until the week of October 24, and then did so only after the Weiner case agent expressed concerns to SDNY, prompting SDNY to contact the Office of the Deputy Attorney General on October 21 to raise concerns." And was threatened with prosecution if he whistle-blew about it. Horowitz said that the FBI's explanations were "unpersuasive justifications for not acting sooner" and "the fact that Strzok and several other FBI members of the Midyear team had been assigned to the Russia investigation ... was not an excuse for failing to take any action."

Is interesting, I think.



More from artisinal 'ette: Techno Fog @Techno_Fog 27m The @adamgoldmanNYT report on Durham reviewing Clinton Foundation investigation: 1) Agents/FBI managers seek subpoena of CF [Clinton Foundation]

2) Top DOJ criminal division officials deny request Did Andrew Weissmann deny the subpoena? In 2016 he led the Fraud Section. @adamgoldmanNYT -any idea? Techno Fog Retweeted TheLastRefuge @TheLastRefuge2 31m Remember this?.... Quote Tweet TheLastRefuge @TheLastRefuge2

Sep 21 Something in the background is happening with an investigation of Andrew Weissmann for his work while on the special counsel.... I don't know what it pertains to, but there is an investigation (formal or not... not sure). And from Blonde Morticia: Yesterday, Sharyl Attkisson tweeted "It's about to begin." Hundreds of tweeters asking "WHAT??" but she didn't answer. Posted by: Blonde Morticia There seems to be a lot of chatter... Close it up Comments Posted by Ace at 03:57 PM

Is Biden Really Ahead at All? —Ace A couple of days ago, the New York Times ran an opinion/analysis piece noting the five danger signs for Biden. Here is what Democrat strategists are warning him about: A Democratic strategist -- who requested anonymity because his employer does not want him publicly identified talking about the election -- analyzed the implications of the most recent voter registration trends for me.

In Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, he said, overall registration is up by 6 points through August compared to the 2016 cycle, but net Democratic registrations are down by 38 percent. That's about 150,000 fewer additional Democrats than were added in 2016. In addition, he continued, registration among whites without college degrees

is up by 46 percent while registration by people of color is up by only 4 percent.

... The pattern was more pronounced in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin than it was in Michigan. On its own, increased registration among non-college whites would have only a negligible effect on total state voting, my source pointed out, but it becomes troubling if it reflects greater interest more generally for these voters in those states. And there are good reasons to believe that if that is the case, those additionally energized voters are very underrepresented in surveys now. I enjoy this finding greatly: Trump says things which are true and which need public/governmental attention. Things like: "We need to capture and deport illegal alien criminals, especially gang members, so they can't harm actual Americans." Because this is so obviously true and so motivating a point, the Democrats and the media try to discredit it by labeling it a "racial dog whistle." How is that strategy of labeling true and important policy goals "racial dog whistles?" Let's check the tape: Another data point they found "even more sobering": Llpez and Gavito asked eligible voters how "convincing" they found a dog-whistle message lifted from Republican talking points. Among other elements, the message condemned "illegal immigration from places overrun with drugs and criminal gangs" and called for "fully funding the police, so our communities are not threatened by people who refuse to follow our laws." As they expected, "almost three out of five white respondents judged that message convincing."

More disconcerting to Lopez and Gavito, both liberals, was that "exactly the same percentage of African-Americans agreed, as did an even higher percentage of Latinos. !!!! Wow, it's a "racial dog whistle" that appeals to literally all races. Is that what "racial dog whistle" means? A whistle that unites all races behind a single unassailable point? Let's look at some data points that support the suggestion that Biden is in a much weaker position than is being claimed: Republicans have shrank the Democrats' longstanding voter registration edge in Florida to the smallest ever -- and they're still registering people, of course: The article notes that the pace of GOP registrations is quickening: "FL GOP had a record August, registering c 58k new voters -- 91% more than in August 2016. The # of new Rs added in Aug. is 41% more than new Ds, whose totals were 6% lower than voters they registered in Aug. 2016"

Trump is supposedly five points behind in Virginia -- which is a smaller margin than Hillary won by in actual votes in 2016.



Look at the arrows, which indicate whether Biden's gaining or losing support. All down blue arrows.

Via "Ha," the highly accurate Trafalgar Group puts Trump ahead in Michigan, albeit not even by a full point and obviously well inside the margin of error: MI poll

Trump 46.7 Biden 46 Trafalgar Group Yahoo ran a national poll and finds Biden up by 5-- which is basically in-line with how other pollsters claim the race now stands. (The days of 13 and 10 point national leads are well and gone, aren't they?) But here's something interesting -- to get Biden to a 5 point lead, they had to give Democrats a 12.5 point edge in the sample. The sample was 42% Democrats, 29.5% Republicans. Not even 30%! In 2012, Democrats had an edge of merely +6 in actual voters who went to the polls. In 2016, Democrats had a mere +4 edge -- in a year when Trump, supposedly a racist xenophobic homophobic p#ssy-grabber had only a 1.4% chance of winning -- and of course Trump won that year. In 2008, a Democrat wave year in which Democrats won the presidency, the House, and the Senate, the Democrat edge was... seven points. D+7. But now it's grown to a 12.5% edge? I don't think so. And did I mention that that's a poll of... registered voters? In a poll of likely voters, Trump would probably be ahead, even with the ridiculous sample of 42% Democrat 29.5% Republican 28% Independent. A friend (who is pretty much writing this post, I don't know why he doesn't just come aboard as a coblogger) points out that for all the talk about NeverTrump, there were actually more Democrat-to-Republican defectors in 2016 than Republican-to-Democrat. Yet not a single Democrat Trump Voter has been given a cushy writing assignment anywhere.



"NeverTrump" is the most relentlessly promoted, lavishly funded fringe political movement in all of human history. Comments Posted by Ace at 02:46 PM

Catholics are Abandoning Trump! [TheJamesMadison] —Open Blogger That's what a EWTN News/RealClear Opinion poll wants you to believe, but their numbers...well...they're suspect at best. "In a poll of 1,212 likely Catholic voters that 53 percent favor Biden, compared to 41 percent who prefer Trump." Wow, that sounds bad, huh? Especially when you remember that Trump won the Catholic vote 52-45 in 2016 versus Hillary. That's quite a drop. Continue reading

But then you read further and find this nugget: "The poll found that 50 percent of respondents voted for 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton while 45 percent voted for Trump, a sign that Biden has widened the gap among Catholic voters." Wait...what? Their poll doesn't reflect the 2016 election in the least. The last time Republicans only got 45 percent of the Catholic vote was 2008. Is that at all likely to happen this year? It's an assumption that seems...dubious to me. They're operating on the assumption that their polling was truly random of the Catholic vote and that it accurately reflects the overall makeup of the 70,000,000 Catholics in America. Considering the problems that polling firms have with response rates, it seems doubtful to me that they didn't apply any weighting. In fact, it seems like they weighted the poll to greatly favor Biden. Now, you can't just unskew a poll (it increases the margin of error on every data point instead of correcting anything), but I can look at this and say, "This poll was designed to be garbage." They weighted the poll to favor Biden and, lo and behold!, Biden has a lead! Another point: "Trump leads among white Catholic voters by 5 percentage points, the poll found. Among Hispanic Catholics, Biden has a commanding 63-31 lead." That Hispanic number is very close to the 2016 results of 67-26 for Hillary, but the white Catholic number is way, way different. Trump won that cohort 60-37, by 23 points, and it's evaporated to 5? That's either a massive white flight from Trump (right after the Access Hollywood tape in 2016, by the way), or the result of a faulty assumption about how whites are abandoning Trump in droves. My theory is that polling firms are simply oversampling white Democrats. This whole poll lends itself more credence to my belief that polling firms have built in a white flight factor for the election that works against Trump into their models. It's always seemed like a dubious assumption, but they're running with it into September. Close it up Comments Posted by Open Blogger at 01:50 PM

Biden Calls It Quits for the Day -- at 9:26am —Ace Zeke Miller

@ZekeJMiller

Biden has called a lid for the day.

9:26 AM � Sep 24, 2020 Charles C.W. Cooke considers a theory that a friend of mine had suggested -- that Biden's events are suspiciously small and unpublicized to make it very easy for him to cancel them if his brain is having a not-so-fresh feeling. As of late, Biden's team has regularly put a "lid" on his day by noon -- or even earlier. And, when it does not, the events that Biden attends seem to have been designed to be either easily cancelable or easily replaceable. Were President Trump to cancel a rally, he would be unable to hide it. This is not true of the events on Biden's schedule, which, the New York Times's Mark Leibovich observes, are "quiet, eerie and almost entirely fan-free." There is scant physical evidence that the former vice president and Democratic nominee is in town. His visits are scarcely publicized beforehand, logistical details are closely held and his event venues serve as much as video studios as places of gathering. Barely anyone is allowed near the candidate. Those with suspicious minds have started to wonder if there is something wrong with Biden. Perhaps he is unable to work every day? Perhaps his schedule needs to be set up in such a way as it can be amended without notice? I already thought my friend's theory was plausible, but now there's proof that key prerequisites for his theory (that the events are kept secret, so that if he cancels them, no one's the wiser) is true. So: Did Biden actually have an event planned for later, but sundowned, so he cancelled it? Biden can disprove this "conspiracy theory" rather simply: He can begin announcing his schedule of appearances days in advance, so we can see if he's actually making the appearances he plans, or if he's cancelling some and suddenly deciding to have others when he's having a "good day." But I bet you: He won't. Because it's true. Even Baseball C#ck can see this is a sign of dementia: @baseballcrank

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When my dad was in a home for dementia, he didn't have this many bad days before noon. Other NeverTrumpers are busy tweet tweet tweeting that it's completely normal for a presidential candidate to routinely call "lids" before 10 am and take many days completely off -- in September, with 40 days remaining until the election. Quin Hillyer

@QuinHillyer

Replying to @ZekeJMiller

This is outrageous. Biden's "lids" should lead every newscast. He is clearly not fit for office. That is lisped sarcastically. Andrew McCarthy also lisps that this is just some fine strategery by Biden, capitalizing on the statement Trump made about a contested election, which all the neocons/neoliberals are having their 100th coordinated group Twitter freakout about: @AndrewCMcCarthy

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I don't get why this is mystifying. Trump says crazy stuff that can't be defended other than to dismiss as 'he didn't mean it the way it sounded'; media spends day talking about a coup; Biden decides to lay low, keep quiet, and reap the benefit. Moral: Don't say crazy stuff. Biden decides to make his constant absences, and constant "lid" calling before 10 am, the story? Yes, that's probably the strategery he's going for, Andy. Oh, and tell me more about the Incorruptibles of the Justice Department while you're at it. Apparently Biden has announced that he's starting debate prep today, and is floating the spin that he's taking the day off for debate prep -- isn't the debate on Tuesday? And does that explain him taking off one third of all days in September? When he just announced he was starting debate prep today? No, it doesn't. But that's the "explanation" being floated by Biden's puppethandlers, and all of the leftwing and NeverTrump media types (but I repeat myself, as usual) are dutifully claiming this to be a plausible excuse for being consistently unable, as Julie Kelly put it, "for more than seven hours per week." @davereaboi

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Look, there's not a single Democrat campaign staffer who'd prefer their candidate taking many days off right now. They'd rather have him out there. Any other excuses are just excuses for Biden's deteriorating mental state. Nah Dave, it's all Crafty Strategery by a brilliant man clearly in full possession of his faculties.

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You are all making jokes now but you're going to look foolish when Biden's 38 days of debate prep in the place of campaigning really pay off with a stellar debate performance. pic.twitter.com/JOsqrPMWGH — Mollie (@MZHemingway) September 24, 2020 Close it up Comments Posted by Ace at 12:56 PM

The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition —CBD I can rant and rave all day and all night about the many systemic problems we have with law enforcement in America. Too militarized; too isolated from the the people they are supposed "to protect and serve;" far too willing to protect their authority over absolutely harmless people...up to the point of shooting them; part of the disgusting schemes of most municipalities to use policing to increase their revenues via ticketing; and about a million other reasons. But when people riot? All bets are off. I want the cops to swing those batons and bowl people over and shoot them with pepper spray, non-lethal rounds, and lethal rounds if the lives of the police or innocents are at any risk. I want them to use snipers to shoot anyone throwing incendiaries. I want them to arrest everybody, including the media stoking the fires of insurrection, the hilariously misnamed Antifa and BLM "medics," who claim some sort of immunity, and then toss them in wagons and drive them out to some remote county jail for a few days of bliss in the general population. There is a huge, qualitative difference between the actions of most Americans and the looters, arsonists, murderers and destroyers of everything. The police should act accordingly. And in spite of the sick and amoral behavior of the leftist mayors of America, cops are not bait for Antifa and BLM to snap at and beat and shoot. Regardless of their professional behavior in times of peace (which we are most assuredly not in currently), they have every right to defend themselves with whatever appropriate means is available to them. Maybe A10s are out, but everything else is on the table. It is incumbent upon them to treat the average citizen with respect, courtesy and deference, and until policing in America is reformed, we will continue to have the huge gulf between police and the people. But the gloves should come off during insurrection, and I am confident that outside of the blue cities that have borne the brunt of the riots that the police would have the support of large majorities if they acted quickly, vigorously and violently to end the rioting. How many of the rioters who receive a slap on the wrist or in most cases no penalty at all would show up for next week's riot if they had caught several swings of a policeman's baton strike and spent several days in jail? What is unfortunate is that these riots have delayed any meaningful reform of American policing, possibly for years. And while that is unfortunate, I would prefer a robust and aggressive response from our nation's police to the provocations of a mob, because that protects the rule of law at least as much as reforms would. Comments Posted by CBD at 10:50 AM

Mid-Morning Art Thread —CBD North Shore, Lake Superior

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COLLUSION: Senate Report Finds That Hunter Biden Took Money from Wife of Former Moscow Mayor, Paid Off Women Connected to Human Trafficking, Had Contacts With the Chinese Military —Ace Read the whole thing, but here are a couple of snippets pulled from the Daily Wire report: In early 2015 the former Acting Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, George Kent, raised concerns to officials in Vice President Joe Biden's office about the perception of a conflict of interest with respect to Hunter Biden's role on Burisma's board. Kent's concerns went unaddressed, and in September 2016, he emphasized in an email to his colleagues, "Furthermore, the presence of Hunter Biden on the Burisma board was very awkward for all U.S. officials pushing an anticorruption agenda in Ukraine." ... Former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland testified that confronting oligarchs would send an anticorruption message in Ukraine. Kent told the Committees that [Burisma owner] Zlochevsky was an "odious oligarch." However, in December 2015, instead of following U.S. objectives of confronting oligarchs, Vice President Biden's staff advised him to avoid commenting on Zlochevsky and recommended he say, "I'm not going to get into naming names or accusing individuals." Hunter Biden was serving on Burisma's board (supposedly consulting on corporate governance and transparency) when Zlochevsky allegedly paid a $7 million bribe to officials serving under Ukraine's prosecutor general, Vitaly Yarema, to "shut the case against Zlochevsky." Kent testified that this bribe occurred in December 2014 (seven months after Hunter joined Burisma's board), and, after learning about it, he and the Resident Legal Advisor reported this allegation to the FBI. Remember, this is about the firing of the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating Zlochevsky -- who, again, owned Burisma, and was paying Hunter Biden a lot of money to do very little besides whisper in his dad's ear. In 2016, Ukraine�s top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, had an active and ongoing investigation into Burisma and its owner, Mykola Zlochevsky. At the time, Archer and Hunter Biden continued to serve on Burisma's board of directors. According to news reports, then-Vice President Biden "threatened to withhold $1 billion in United States loan guarantees if Ukraine's leaders did not dismiss [Shokin]." After that threat, Ukraine's Parliament fired Shokin.

More from the report:

... Hunter Biden received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow. Hunter Biden opened a bank account with Gongwen Dong to fund a $100,000 global spending spree with James Biden and Sara Biden. Hunter Biden had business associations with Ye Jianming, Gongwen Dong, and other Chinese nationals linked to the Communist government and the People's Liberation Army. Those associations resulted in millions of dollars in cash flow.

Hunter Biden paid nonresident women who were nationals of Russia or other Eastern European countries and who appear to be linked to an "Eastern European prostitution or human trafficking ring." Who are these women "connected to human trafficking rings" that Hunter Biden's been paying off? Prostitutes, right? I don't know but this sounds like he's paying prostitutes who are the slaves of a human trafficking ring. The full report is here.

Sundown Joe Biden claimed the report was just a smear to "jump-start" the Trump campaign, and then called a lid on his day. I don't know if he really called a lid early but I have to think he knocked off from work by Pre-Noon. Also: Trump press conference, now. Comments Posted by Ace at 06:19 PM

TWITTER, WHICH CENSORS TRUMP FOR TWEETING WE NEED LAW AND ORDER AS "GLORIFYING VIOLENCE," ALLOWS HASHTAG "BURN LOUISVILLE" TO TREND FOR HOURS IN MIDDLE OF RIOT SITUATION —Ace It's still up. I'm getting tired of having to live under monopolistic censorship just because Jim Fucking Jordan likes getting paid off by Google.

And they do. Jim Jordan takes a lot of Google money, and a lot more Google money indirectly through the various groups Google funds. And I'm tired of having a party leadership dominated by traitors in the pay of the enemy. And if takes voting Jim Jordan out of fucking office -- well, I'm sure we'll do just fine without him. Twitter should be subject to lawsuit for any damages caused by their incitements.



They've left up this incitement from a leftwing professor to murder former Trump NSA spokesman Michael Anton for nearly a week, despite being repeatedly warned about it. What would be the argument against that, apart from "Google Money has made Jim Jordan Gay4Pay"? And no, Jimmy Boy -- I don't want another Failure Theater hearing where you talk tough to google and facebook for the cameras while distributing talking points behind-the-scenes about how to forestall any action against your Cash Money Johns. A memorandum leaked ahead of a Wednesday antitrust hearing suggests Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee drafted talking points to help them defend tech companies against claims they have become too monopolistic. The 37-page memo was prepared in advance of an antitrust subcommittee's hearing with tech CEOs including Amazon�s Jeff Bezos, Apple�s Tim Cook, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, and Google�s Sundar Pichai. Marked "confidential," the document threatened to undermine Republican efforts to appear tough on the companies amid claims they have not only engaged in anti-competitive practices, but have also sought to censor conservatives online. Four themes summarized on the first page began with a brief acknowledgment of conservatives� concerns, calling "political bias in Big Tech" a "problem that must be highlighted � so that consumers are aware, the market can respond, and lawmakers can evaluate options." The final three themes emphasized the need to defend "Big Tech" from regulation, stating, "Antitrust law should be used to promote freedom, competition, and the American dream, not to punish success or attack companies." Part of antitrust law is about stopping monopolies from using their monopoly position to squelch businesses in other fields. You know, like conservatives' access to advertising revenue from third parties. But Jim Jordan's okay with Google using its power to destroy conservatives, conservative think tanks, and conservative citizens. Because Google pays him to be okay with it. ...

Some conservatives on Wednesday expressed their displeasure with the news, and especially with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), after the memo widely circulated on social media. "He needs to give an explanation for why his office put out a memo for this hearing that might as well have been written by Google's lobbyists," Human Events publisher Will Chamberlain wrote on Twitter. Breitbart News reporter Allum Bokhari wrote in another message directed at Jordan, "Big tech has faced billion-euro antitrust fines in Europe and taken it on the chin. Has GOP ever proposed any punishment close to as severe for political bias?" And no Jim, I don't want to hear you grandstand and yell at Google on camera again -- I already know you've worked out a Joint Defense Agreement with your co-conspirator behind-the-scenes. Do you guys work out the exact script -- the exact pretend-angry question you'll ask, and the exact rebuttal offered by Google, Twitter, and FaceBook -- or do you allow some light improvisation in your Failure Theater performances? Do you find that some light improvisation makes your performances feel more "organic"?

Contact Google's Capitol Hill shill Jim Jordan here. Meanwhile -- Twitter's getting the riots it's inciting. Comments Posted by Ace at 05:26 PM

Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Granddaughter: Ginsburg Didn't Retire Under Obama Because She Wanted a Woman (Hillary) to Name Her Successor —Ace lolololol The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg held off on retirement in part because she thought former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would win the 2016 presidential election, Ginsburg�s daughter says. Ginsburg died on Friday from pancreatic cancer at the age of 87. Many have questioned why she did not step down under former President Barack Obama, especially prior to 2015 when Obama was working with a Democrat-controlled Senate. ... Ginsburg continued to sit on the court through 2016 in part because she did not believe President Trump would win the election, Jane told The New York Times. "I think that Mother, like many others, expected that Hillary Clinton would win the nomination and the presidency, and she wanted the first female president to name her successor," she said in an email. Jane also said her mother never voiced regret over her decision to stay on the court after Trump won. I'd like to thank the leftwing media and the shill pollsters they hire for delivering this Supreme Court seat to us! The Huffington Post, with its "98.4% chance of Hillary winning," deserves an MVP award.

Thanks to commenter, aka artisinal 'ette. By the way: Why are people saying I called filbert "Commenter"? The last post always said "Thanks to filbert," from the first moment it was published. Meanwhile, while the plebians aren't permitted to arrange funeral ceremonies for their dead, another leftwinger gets a week long of funerals with lots of people in close contact because FUCK YOU SERF. More: Blonde Morticia notes this, from later in the article: >>"I was struck by how many people I spoke with, including friends, acquaintances and former clerks, felt she should have resigned at the time and that her staying on was terribly self-centered -- a view I share," Samuels told The New York Times. "I was also struck that normally forceful advocates I spoke with would not express their dismay on the record while she was alive." Comments Posted by Ace at 03:07 PM

Update: Antifa/BLM Unload Mobile Riot Center, Start Taking Over Intersections —Ace This is a violent insurrection. Deal with them as you'd deal with allege "right wing" insurrectionists. Arrest them using as much force as necessary to subdue them. If they offer violence in return: Shoot them.

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A parked U-Haul was waiting for the crowd up the street. It contains supplies such as signs, shields, water etc. I�m not sure how people knew what it contained. Police are up ahead pic.twitter.com/qObHK3E83y — Shelby Talcott (@ShelbyTalcott) September 23, 2020 Thanks to filbert. Close it up Comments Posted by Ace at 02:29 PM

Kentucky AG: "Mob Justice is Not Justice"

Burn Loot Murder Is Already Pulling Out Their Guns in Louisville —Ace One (former) cop was indicted for multiple counts of "wanton endangerment." The two (former) detectives were not indicted. That wasn't enough for the Burn Loot Murder mob. They're getting an early start on terrorist violence -- they're starting before Sundown Joe Biden has even called a lid on the day! (Content warning for use of the n-word in the below clip. Sorry, I didn't know -- I watched with no sound.) Continue reading

A man just nearly pulled his gun in reaction. Crowd had to stop him. Louisville is on edge pic.twitter.com/R0WxTQQ8EO — Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) September 23, 2020 The AG speaks: 189 173 @Breaking911 1m BREAKING: Kentucky Attorney General says search warrant executed in #BreonnaTaylor killing was NOT a "no-knock" warrant & officers announced their presence

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........... Jeezuz gawd can our media get anything right.

Posted by: Greange Close it up Comments Posted by Ace at 01:44 PM

Seems Like Old Times: Getty Images Publishes Photo of Joe Biden... With a Halo —Ace Deb Heine tells me she was looking for a single Getty image -- just one -- which showed Biden looking sleepy or out of it, but strangely enough -- despite him looking like that all the time -- she couldn't find such an image in Getty. But she did find this Obama-esqe halo picture. And then she found that a lot of DC photographers decided to try for the Halo effect:

Meanwhile, someone else sent me this picture, of Gropy Joe comin' all up on Ruth Bader Ginsburg from behind, at her confirmation hearings twenty seven years ago. In his prime R@pin' Days. (Tara Reade credibly accused Biden of sexually assaulting her in 1993.) Continue reading

This picture. pic.twitter.com/M9fJUn2nIu — Lyndsey Fifield (@lyndseyfifield) September 22, 2020 Close it up Comments Posted by Ace at 12:55 PM

LOL: WaPo Poll Puts Trump Up 4 in Florida, 1 in Arizona —Ace And Martha McSally is only one point behind the Democrat Kelly. Good poll! In Florida, likely voters split 51 percent for Trump to 47 percent for Biden, while registered voters split 47 percent for Trump to 48 percent for Biden. In Arizona, Trump’s margin is even smaller at 49 percent to Biden’s 48 percent among likely voters. Among Arizona’s registered voters, Trump is at 47 percent and Biden at 49 percent. All these differences are within the polls’ margins of sampling error.

But the Washington Post immediately announces: Don't trust our dirty, Russia-colluding poll. The findings in the two surveys are better for the president than other polls conducted in the two states recently by other organizations. The Post's average of polls this month shows Biden with a two-point advantage in Florida and a six-point margin in Arizona. Oh definitely be sure to tell me about older polls by other people! Biden's problem with Florida Hispanics is confirmed yet again. He's leading, supposedly, 52 to 39, but he needs to do better. Hillary Clinton won Hispanics 62 to 35, and still lost. One big problem for Trump is his relative weakness with over-65 voters -- which is why Biden's real running mate is Covid-19, and the reason Democrats are performing Epidemic Crisis Theater. In Florida, Trump has a slight advantage over Biden (52 percent to 44 percent) among likely voters 65 and older, but that is not as large as his 17-point margin against Clinton in 2016. Meanwhile, in Arizona, Trump edges Biden 54 percent to 44 percent among seniors, about the same as his margin over Clinton in the state. McSally is within striking range -- and maybe ahead, given the skew of these polls. The poll also shows a close Senate race in Arizona, with Democratic nominee Mark Kelly at 49 percent to Republican Sen. Martha McSally's 48 percent among likely voters. Kelly has a five-point edge among registered voters, 50 percent 45 percent. There appear to be few crossover voters, with only 4 percent of likely voters who back Trump or Biden indicating they would flip to the opposite party in the Senate race.

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The Morning Rant - Misanthropic Edition —Misanthropic Humanitarian ***

Unfortunately, I'm not 29 any more. I'm old enough to begin stories, "When I was a youngster." And so goes the story. Early on in life I was attracted to politics and current events. I haven't changed over the years. I learned early on the politics was a "combat sport". See Burr vs. Hamilton or just ask Zombie Barry Goldwater. When I was a kid the only danger in the political arena were the combatants. Average Joe and Jane Citizen were not in danger of rooting for one team over the other. As a kid it was safe to display campaign yard signs and bumper stickers. Continue reading

The first election I could participate in was Reagan vs. Carter. I'm proud to say I voted for Reagan. Hell, I even had a Reagan bumper sticker on my car. I've had Reagan, Bush, Dole, Bush, Romney and Trump stickers over the years. But not this year. Probably never again. The Friday leading into the Labor Day weekend the Fabulous Mrs. Mis Hum came home for lunch and asked me the following question, "When did you put up the Trump yard sign?" My response, "I didn't do that." "Oh come on," she jested, "when did you get the sign and when did you put it up?" Someone came and put the sign up near our mailbox. I live on a dead end street. I have a lengthy driveway where you can't see our house. We were headed away for the weekend. I took the sign down. Although I live in a Red area, the thoughts of a deranged leftist vandalizing our home was a little too much for me. My rant? I still can't believe the tenets of political choice and free expression places one's life and property in peril. Even in rural flyover country one now fears his or her choices regarding political advocacy. I don't see it improving in my lifetime. I wonder just how long before the United States of America makes the Balkan Wars look like a playground spat? Have you altered your political lifestyle in the age of Trump? If you have what have you done?

Just another day at the beach if you wear a MAGA hat.

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The "Defund The Police" movement continues to make one laugh out loud. On one hand you have Princess of White Privilege Alyssa Milano calling the cops on somebody shooting tree rats squirrels with a pellet gun.

We gained a little bit of respect for anti-NRA activist Alyssa Milano when she admitted to Sen. Ted Cruz that she lives in a two-gun household — good for her for having the means to perforate some criminal who would break into her home and harm her family. But when she heard what she believed to be gunshots the other day, she dialed 911 right away, sparking a massive emergency response at her home. While we have a small business owner in Minneapolis being told he's on his own. When you basically hear from the Police to "suck it up Buttercup" you know you are on thin ice.

I’m certain most of you are sick and tired about hearing the plight of the citizens in Minneapolis, but when I saw this post, I wanted to comment on it. A business owner sent an email to the commander of the city’s 3rd Precinct, claiming his employees are too frightened to come to work. The business owner – Craig Paulson – received this reply. The owner of Pedego Electric Bikes sent an email to the local Police Chief saying that his employees are too frightened to come to work now. The answer he received was none too reassuring. “As far as a long-term plan I don’t have one. I have lost 30% of my street officers since the end of May. Budget cuts from COVID-19 and an additional 1.5 million from the council in August we have let go 17 CSO’s and canceled a recruit class of 29. A potential Cadet class slated for January of 2021 was also eliminated. It takes about a year to get a police Officer onto the streets with hiring, backgrounds and field training so reinforcements aren’t coming anytime soon. We are doing everything we can with what we have. I hate to see great businesses like yours and the rest of your corridor being victimized and feeling unsafe. Please let me know if you have any more questions.”

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No who this. No scrumptious food pics with accompanying recipes. Only a Feel Good Story.

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AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo atsign hotmail dot com. Prayer Requests:

8/26 - grammie winger requests prayers for her city, Kenosha.

9/13 – Blanco Basura and his family need prayers. His son passed away after an epileptic seizure. He had been dealing with seizures for almost 10 years, and was on medication to control them, but did didn’t always work. He says “Please remember to tell your kids you that you love them every chance you get. You may not get another.” He also thanks God for his family and friends and The Horde. For Healing:

8/24 - Cheriebebe asks for prayers for her Dad, who is in ICU and on a ventilator. Things do not look good. She asks for prayers of healing and comfort for her dad, mom, and the rest of the family.

9/6 Update – Cheriebebe sends an update and thanks the horde for prayers. Her father passed peacefully on Saturday.

9/2 – Ghost of Hallelujah requests prayers for his wife who was recently diagnosed with nodular melanoma.

9/2 – Katya the designated driver requests prayers for her stage 3 triple negative breast cancer. She is 2 chemo treatments in. She is doing well with side effects. For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com

If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after five weeks or so unless we receive an update. Please remember the Prayer of St. Francis

Keep calm and pray on!

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Mid-Morning Art Thread —CBD Fox Hunt

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Sundown Joe Biden Has Called an Early End of the Working Day -- Calling a "Lid" Before Noon -- On One Third of Every Day in September —Ace Another early day for Sundown today: @jacobkschneider Annnnd there it is: at 9:22 a.m., 42 days before the election, a lid has been called by the Biden campaign 9:31 AM -- Sep 22, 2020--Twitter Web App A friend of mine has a theory: the reason Sundown Joe only schedules small events with few people is because his dementia can flare up at any time, and he can cancel a small event with few people knowing about it, but he has to provide an excuse when he has a Sundown Event and must cancel a big event. His theory goes further, that anytime Biden calls a "lid," an end to any work, early in the day, that means he's getting fuzzy and "sundowning." Biden has called a "lid" on events before noon in one third of all days in the September before the election. Sundown's coming earlier and earlier -- now it routinely comes before noon. That friend also informs me of this #FunFact: Jill Biden has held more events in September than Joe has. Continue reading

This is every day so far in the month of September that the Biden Campaign has called a full lid before Noon pic.twitter.com/dqdJlqdjMc — Alec Sears (@alec_sears) September 22, 2020 This is not a mentally sharp man: Joe Biden completely botches the Pledge of Allegiance:



"I pledge allegiance to the United States of America, one nation, indivisible, under God, for real." pic.twitter.com/Gct4AEVWog — Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) September 21, 2020 Update: Juanita Broaddrick is suggesting, I think, that Biden wears a flesh-colored radio receiver in his ear. Someone needs to check Biden�s ears before the first debate. pic.twitter.com/TELKbyHfKN — Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) September 21, 2020 I can't tell if that's a receiver or just a weird looking ear (possibly weird-looking because he's had multiple face-lifts, which tug down on the ear). But yes, Trump should insist on ears being checked. Close it up Comments Posted by Ace at 06:40 PM