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but the playoffs are fun. Hoping Philly and Chicago win tonight

The entire clan from top to bottom is certifiable and as anti-America as it gets!!

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As House Republicans battle amongst themselves over spending bills and aid packages for Israel and Ukraine, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) contributed several amendments that, while they’re highly unlikely to become law, did at least provide some amusement for congressional news junkies.


Greene’s tenure in Congress thus far is marked by an abundance of outrageous headlines but bereft of any significant legislative accomplishments. A search of the legislation she has sponsored brings up only two bills that even passed the House — one to rename a federal courthouse in Georgia after a judge who died in 2022 and one to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas — but neither has passed the Senate to become law, with the latter coming to a swift and embarrassing end for Republicans when the Democrat-controlled Senate voted down the Mayorkas impeachment articles within hours of House Republicans walking them through the Senate doors.


That hasn’t stopped Greene from filing all sorts of resolutions and amendments, and among her latest is an appropriation for a Jewish Space Laser.



Yes really.


In 2021, one of Greene’s Facebook posts from 2018 was found that blamed the California wildfires on “lasers of blue beams of light” directed by a corporate entity connected to the Rothschild family, who are Jewish. Hey, if she’s going to peddle an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, at least she’s making up a unique one.



At the time, Greene had complained that she hadn’t ever said “Jewish Space Lasers,” which is true, she didn’t actually use that exact phrase, but it’s 2024 now and she seems fine running with it.


As several sharp-eyed observers noted, Greene filed an amendment to the Israel funding bill that included “such sums as necessary shall be used for the development of space laser technology on the southwest border.”


“This is not parody,” wrote Ari Rabin-Havt, the former deputy campaign manager for Bernie Sanders. “Yes let me repeat, MTG literally wants to appropriate money for a Jewish Space Laser.”





“This is real, not made up,” commented congressional staffer Aaron Fritschner. Both he and Rabin-Havt included links to the official House website page showing the Greene amendment was, in fact, an actual amendment filed to an actual bill by an actual member of Congress.






The Jewish Space Lasers weren’t Greene’s only contributions to a future D.C. bar trivia game; she also filed an amendment to the Ukraine bill that requires “[a]ny Member of Congress who votes in favor of this Act” to “conscript in the Ukraine military.”





This was just the latest in a long string of amendments Greene has filed for the Ukraine bill that have an extremely dubious chance of passage, including placing conditions like requiring Ukraine to provide assistance “to build a wall on the United States southern border,” demanding President Volodymr Zelensky resign, paying for any funding from the salaries of any member of Congress who voted for the bill, demanding President Joe Biden withdraw the U.S. from NATO, and demanding Ukraine ban abortion.



Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) reacted to Greene’s latest amendments by tweeting that he had “[j]ust submitted an amendment…appointing MTG as Putin’s Special Envoy to the United States Congress.”





The text of Moskowitz’s amendment reads as follows:

Whereas Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA-14) has repeatedly attempted to block aid to Ukraine, empowering Vladimir Putin’s unlawful violation of Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Whereas Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA-14) has reposted information from the Strategic Culture Foundation, a Russian based disinformation and propaganda channel that has been sanctioned by OFAC.
It is the sense of Congress that Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA-14) should be appointed Vladimir Putin’s Special Envoy to the United States Congress.

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Moskowitz filed another amendment to the Ukraine bill to rename 403 Cannon House Office Building the “Neville Chamberlain Room,” after the British prime minister who infamously attempted to appease Adolf Hitler (spoiler alert: letting the Nazis have the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia did not bring peace for our time).


403 Cannon is the location of Greene’s congressional offices.

Read it all....these are democrats.......

This is great news!:

For decades, the federal government has prioritized oil and gas drilling, hardrock mining and livestock grazing on public lands across the country. That could soon change under a far-reaching Interior Department rule that puts conservation, recreation and renewable energy development on equal footing with resource extraction.

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The final rule released Thursday represents a seismic shift in the management of roughly 245 million acres of public property — about one-tenth of the nation’s land mass. It is expected to draw praise from conservationists and legal challenges from fossil fuel industry groups and Republican officials, some of whom have lambasted the move as a “land grab.”

Interior’s Bureau of Land Management, known as the nation’s largest landlord, has long offered leases to oil and gas companies, mining firms and ranchers. Now, for the first time, the nearly 80-year-old agency will auction off “restoration leases” and “mitigation leases” to entities with plans to restore or conserve public lands.


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“Today’s final rule helps restore balance to our public lands as we continue using the best-available science to restore habitats, guide strategic and responsible development, and sustain our public lands for generations to come,” Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said in a statement.
Under President Biden, the BLM has put a greater emphasis on protecting public lands from the twin threats of climate change and development. Tracy Stone-Manning, the bureau’s director, has warned that hotter, drier climates are driving longer and more intense wildfires and drought across the American West. At the same time, development has fragmented and destroyed wildlife habitat and migratory corridors.
“We oversee 245 million acres, and every land manager will tell you that climate change is already happening. It’s already impacting our public lands,” Stone-Manning said during a Washington Post Live event last year. “We see it in pretty obvious ways, through unprecedented wildfires.”



The fossil fuel industry, a frequent foe of the Biden administration, has chaffed at the BLM’s approach. It has called the public lands rule an example of regulatory overreach that will stifle domestic energy production, even as the United States pumps more oil than any nation in history.
Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Western Energy Alliance, which represents oil and gas companies, said the group plans to challenge the BLM rule in court. She said the policy appears to violate the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, the 1976 law that tasked the bureau with overseeing “multiple uses” of public lands for current and future generations.

“We have no choice but to litigate,” Sgamma said. “These conservation leases seem to be designed to preclude energy development on federal lands.”

The BLM’s proposed rule released last year sparked especially intense outrage in Wyoming, an energy powerhouse that accounts for nearly one-tenth of U.S. fossil fuel production. Some Wyoming Republicans have claimed that the BLM is colluding with liberal environmental groups to put millions of acres off-limits to development.


Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) said Thursday he plans to introduce legislation to repeal the BLM rule using the Congressional Review Act, which allows lawmakers to overturn regulations by a simple majority vote. “With this rule, President Biden is allowing federal bureaucrats to destroy our way of life,” Barrasso said in a statement.
Aaron Weiss, deputy director of the Center for Western Priorities, an advocacy group, said some Republican officials have spread “disinformation and the conspiracy theories” about the rule. He noted that during a House Natural Resources Committee hearing last year, South Dakota Gov. Kristi L. Noem (R) claimed the draft rule would allow Chinese citizens to purchase leases on U.S. lands.

Unlike the proposed rule, the final rule clarifies that “leases cannot be held by foreign persons.” It also offers “restoration leases” and “mitigation leases” rather than “conservation leases” — a linguistic tweak that seems designed to skirt the politicization of the word “conservation,” Weiss said.


Mitigation leases will allow lease holders to offset the impact of their activities. For example, a rancher whose cattle grazing is degrading the land could be required to purchase a mitigation lease during the permitting process. The rancher could then work with a local conservation group to restore nearby habitat for the greater sage grouse, an imperiled bird of the West.
Renewable energy developers won’t be immune from the rule. They could be required to buy mitigation leases if their wind or solar farms are affecting wildlife or watersheds, said Danielle Murray, vice president of conservation policy at the Conservation Lands Foundation.

The final rule also directs the BLM to prioritize landscape health for the first time and to incorporate Indigenous knowledge into its decision-making. The latter is a top priority of Haaland, the first Native American to serve as a Cabinet secretary and lead a department that once oversaw the removal of Indigenous people from their land.


The Trump administration took a vastly different approach to managing public lands than Biden officials. President Donald Trump briefly moved the BLM’s headquarters from Washington to Grand Junction, Colo., a hot spot for natural gas production. More than 87 percent of the affected employees either resigned or retired rather than move to Colorado, depriving the agency of expertise and disrupting its operations.
To lead the BLM, Trump tapped William Perry Pendley, a conservative lawyer who had previously advocated for selling off public lands across the country. Pendley, who was never confirmed by the Senate, pushed the bureau to maximize oil, gas and mineral development.
Should Trump return to office, “the priority has to be oil and gas,” Pendley said in a recent interview.

My wife wants to get a doorbell cam, but the two-part problem is (1) our front door faces diagonal, and (2) the frame containing the doorbell is too narrow to accommodate a Ring/Nest/Eufy-type cam.

My question is, anyone know of any reasonably-priced camera system that will do what the doorbells will do but without the doorbell functionality?

Or lack thereof. I only listen to AM radio all day, so far Glenn Beck, then clay and buck , I am sure all the big hitters are going to talk about it. Basically saying the WNBA has never made money in 25 yrs.

Got my first and only speeding ticket a few years back. Took almost 30 years to get one.
Anyone on here have over 5 tickets.

The far-right House Republican group Thursday appeared to be plotting a defensive tactic against moderate counterparts and has assembled to assist them in this effort a Floor Action Response Team, or as Politico's Congress reporter Olivia Beavers dubbed it in acronym, a FART.

"House Freedom Caucus members are signing up to take shifts to guard the House floor in order to prevent resolutions they’d consider unsavory from slipping through that could curb their power," Beavers reported on X.

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A second seated juror was dismissed after prosecutors raised concerns that he may not have been honest in answering a jury selection question by saying that he had never been accused or convicted of a crime.

The IT professional was summoned to court to answer questions after prosecutors said they found an article about a person with the same name who had been arrested in the 1990s for tearing down political posters pertaining to the political right in suburban Westchester County.


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Arrested and fired. And why are they wearing masks?

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JFC…stop watering this plant already so it’s out of its misery! 😂🤡💩

Delta women think the world of me …

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I was talking to a buddy about this recently. We've both had friends pass away in the last few months, and I told him I have messages in my phone from friends and relatives that passed away years ago. I was thinking about this again last night as I struggled through an extra innings Cubs loss, and looked at the old messages from one of my friends who was a huge Cubs fan.
I guess I feel like if I clean the phone out part of our shared lives and the memories disappear.