vxbush 2/13/2024 5:46:12 AM

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Quoting Matt Margolis:

"Back in 2019, Democrats articulated a novel theory of impeachment, based on Trump’s refusal to spend money from the USAI—Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative," Vance wrote in a piece for The American Conservative. "Five years after impeaching Trump for refusing to spend money on Ukraine, they have drafted a new law that again requires Trump to spend money on Ukraine. If he negotiates an end to the war, as he has promised to do, they will undoubtedly argue that he has broken the law. We are nearly a year away from an election that could give Trump the presidency, and Ukraine-obsessive Republicans have already given the Democrats a predicate to impeach him."

In a memo addressed to his fellow Republican senators, Vance highlighted what he referred to as "an impeachment time bomb" hidden within the text of the bill, which Republican Senate leaders support.

Nothing like members of your own party pulling a Brutus on you. 

vxbush 2/13/2024 5:55:54 AM

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Murder in the Cathedral: The Church of England Desecrates Itself

Quoting Lincoln Brown: "who in the hell thought that Canterbury Cathedral would be a good spot for a rave? What dim-witted, secular-minded nincompoop thought this would be an excellent venue for what people are calling "The Rave in the Nave," complete with a cash bar?"

vxbush 2/13/2024 6:04:29 AM

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So, That’s Where Hamas Kept All Its Data

vxbush 2/13/2024 6:08:23 AM

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Occasional Reader 2/13/2024 7:56:55 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 2:

And this sort of thing was why the idea expressed in V for Vendetta of a CofE-based theocratic fascism was so inadvertently, hysterically funny. 

It also explains one of the reasons (besides, of course, immigration) why the UK is turning Muslim; because people in search of religious meaning while choose a something over a nothing, even if the something has bloody hands. 

Occasional Reader 2/13/2024 7:57:36 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 3:

I think those cables run data, not power?  But, same idea. 

Occasional Reader 2/13/2024 7:58:28 AM

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In #5 Occasional Reader said: while choose

= will choose

buzzsawmonkey 2/13/2024 8:19:44 AM

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In #7 Occasional Reader said: will choose

I remember Will Choose.  Nice guy.

vxbush 2/13/2024 8:25:52 AM

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In #6 Occasional Reader said: I think those cables run data, not power?  But, same idea. 

I think both types are there. 

Occasional Reader 2/13/2024 8:28:22 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 8:

[quoting from memory from Mel Brooks "2,000 year old man" sketch:]

Interviewer:  Sir, to what do you owe your extraordinary longevity? 

2000YOM: [thinks for a bit] Will to live.

Interviewer:  That is extraordinary!  You mean, just the sheer force of your desire to continue living..

2000YOM: No, no.. Will Tolive, Dr. William Tolive, my physician. 

buzzsawmonkey 2/13/2024 8:28:26 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 7:

Dad used to say that when he was a young and arrogant scientist, he and his colleagues used to think that "rationality would vanquish non-rationalism."  But, he said, "We were wrong" (something he rarely said, but then, rarely had to say). 

He said that there is no getting rid of the non-rational side of the human makeup, and that if you try, all you get is bad science, because the non-rational seeps into the rational functioning of the brain, and corrupts it.  Human non-rationalism, he said, was like a universal solvent---something which dissolves everything it touches---and the question with a universal solvent is, what is the vessel that can contain it so that it may be safely handled, and possibly even harnessed for beneficent purposes?   

His conclusion was that religion was the only vessel that could safely save and contain the non-rational element of the human makeup, separating it from the rational element so that it could properly function.  Yes, there are accidents, lab spills, etc.,  of the non-rational human element contained and controlled in the vessel of religion---but religion still remain(s)(ed) the best vessel, and the only proven vessel, for being able to contain the non-rational human element and enabling it to be utilized for good.

vxbush 2/13/2024 8:43:57 AM

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Atlantic City Ballot-Stuffer Reportedly Worked for the Feds- “Does the FBI have ‘Ballot Stuffers’ on the Payroll?”

Well, this is interesting.....

Last week, The Gateway Pundit reported on Craig Callaway’s recent indictment in Atlantic City, NJ for “procuring, casting, and tabulating fraudulent ballots.”  The former Atlantic City council president was caught allegedly paying New Jersey residents $30 to $50 to “act as authorized messengers and request mail-in ballots for voters whom they’d never met.”

The alleged crime took place during the 2022 mid-term election when Callaway was paid $65,500 by Rep. Jeff Van Drew’s (R-02) campaign for “strategic consulting”.  Rep. Van Drew had paid Callaway’s firm $110,000 for services in the 2020 campaign as well.

Callaway faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 if convicted.  And it wouldn’t be his first conviction either:  in 2006 he admitted to accepting $36,000 in bribes from a contractor whom he helped win city contracts and again, in 2008, when he admitted guilt in a blackmail scheme targeting Atlantic City councilman, as reported by New York Times.

Oh, but it gets better.

Then, Watters dropped a bomb.  According to Watters, Callaway has been working for the FBI for 25 years.

Watters reported:

“Craig’s not tired at all.  He’s a busy man.  He’s so busy, that he’s been working for the FBI for 25 years.  That’s right.  Craig the Ballot-Stuffer wears wires for the Feds to catch people bribing government officials.  But Craig the Stuffer messed up and got caught taking bribes in an FBI sting.

But don’t worry!  He cut a deal with the Feds who just wired him back up for more stings.  But then Craig got caught sexually blackmailing a minister in another sting.  So Craig’s a snitch and a stuffer.  Does the FBI have ballot-stuffers on the payroll?”

Occasional Reader 2/13/2024 9:04:05 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 11:

I thought the best vessels for containing human makeup were more like this? 

buzzsawmonkey 2/13/2024 9:17:05 AM

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In #13 Occasional Reader said: I thought the best vessels for containing human makeup were more like this? 

I blush to confess that was not the "makeup" I had in mind.   I had something more in keeping with the mask era.

buzzsawmonkey 2/13/2024 3:35:37 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 2/13/2024 3:49:30 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 11:

I cannot find the article now, but at some point, philosophers started to ask why basing life on rationality did not work. One result was Kant's "A Critique of Pure Reason" - and, like all secular attempts, it produced crap and more suffering.

That is the ancestor of all "critical" theories - including Critical Race Theory

buzzsawmonkey 2/13/2024 4:27:10 PM

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In #16 Kosh's Shadow said: One result was Kant's "A Critique of Pure Reason"

I read that in high school.. if I recollect aright---and thought it garbage at the time.  I recall no word of it now,

Kosh's Shadow 2/13/2024 5:31:56 PM

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In #17 buzzsawmonkey said: I read that in high school.. if I recollect aright---and thought it garbage at the time.  I recall no word of it now,

And with time, it stinks even more.