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In paying victims' families for the Sandy Hook massacre, the liability door is opened wide. https://patriotpost.us/articles/86292-remingtons-%2473m-settlement-sets-bad-precedent-2022-02-16?mailing_id=6485&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.6485&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body OOOPS! Did not see the other thread.

"True national debt, including unfunded entitlements, is at least $60 trillion — roughly three times the size of the entire US economy. Something has got to give." —Elon Musk

How can the press be so disinterested in such stunningly banana-republican revelations? For two years, the media disgraced itself by reporting endlessly and breathlessly about the phony Mueller investigation into Trump. And yet on the homepage of the New York Times, there's a story about Russia's Ukrainian border brinkmanship, a story about the Canadian truckers, a story about Trump's accounting firm, an opinion piece about how Trump is now "a clear and present danger," a charming piece about 24 new recipes to "change your kitchen game," and another about what would happen if we "respected toddlers as whole people." But nothing, nada, about an American president being spied upon by his political opponents. Isn't there a single intrepid scribe out there who wants to know what Barack Obama knew and when he knew it? Who wants to know what Obama's FBI, his CIA, and his State Department were doing during all this?

The teacher gave her fifth grade class an assignment: Get their parents to tell them a story with a moral at the end of it. The next day, the kids came back and, one by one, began to tell their stories. There were all the regular types of stuff: Spilled milk and pennies saved. But then the teacher realized, much to her dismay, that only Janie was left. "Janie, do you have a story to share?" 'Yes ma'am. My daddy told me a story about my Mommy. She was a pilot in Desert Storm, and her plane got hit. She had to bail out over enemy territory, and all she had was a flask of whiskey, a pistol, and a survival knife. She drank the whiskey on the way down so the bottle wouldn't break, and then she parachuted right into the middle of 20 Iraqi troops. She shot 15 of them with the pistol, until she ran out of bullets, killed four more with the knife, till the blade broke, and then she killed the last Iraqi with her bare hands." ''Good Heavens” said the horrified teacher. What did your Daddy tell you was the moral to this horrible story'?" "Don't mess with Mommy when she's been drinking.

Killed in Montgomery County, PA which is just outside of Philadelphia. How the land has changed in a half century.

The impressive buck had sat in a hunter's garage for decades before it was officially scored https://www.fieldandstream.com/hunting/pa-record-whitetail-deer-killed-decades-ago/?utm_campaign=trueanthem_AI&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR0edTubr12bS0Vf1vQEufFBAy6wRmmmVvtViQZPy0jUVutTaOOQwaVBjdI

And even now the leftist main stream media and the leftist useful idiots in the country, will do their best to misdirect and distract the public's attention from it as much as possible, as if it never happened. That proves they support this Soviet style crap.

Consumers felt the price squeeze in everyday routines. Over the past year, prices rose 41% for used cars and trucks, 40% for gasoline, 18% for bacon, 14% for bedroom furniture, 11% for women's dresses. The Federal Reserve didn't anticipate an inflation wave this severe or this persistent. In December 2020, the Fed's policymakers had forecast that consumer inflation would stay below their 2% annual target and end 2021 at around 1.8%. But after having been an economic afterthought for decades, high inflation reasserted itself last year with brutal speed. In February 2021, the government’s consumer price index was running just 1.7% ahead of its level a year earlier. From there, the year-over-year price increases accelerated steadily — 2.7% in March, 4.2% in April, 4.9% in May, 5.3% in June. By October, the figure was 6.2%, by November 6.8%, by December 7.1%. For months, Fed Chair Jerome Powell and others characterized higher consumer prices as merely a “transitory” problem — the result, mainly, of shipping delays and temporary shortages of supplies and workers as the economy rebounded from the pandemic recession much faster than anyone had anticipated. Now, many economists expect consumer inflation to remain elevated well into this year, with demand outstripping supplies in numerous areas of the economy. So the Fed has radically changed course. Last month, the central bank signaled that it will begin a series of rate hikes in March. By doing so, the Fed is moving away from the super-low rates that helped revive the economy from 2020's devastating pandemic recession but that also helped fuel surging consumer prices. When the pandemic paralyzed the economy in the spring of 2020 and lockdowns kicked in, businesses closed or cut hours and consumers stayed home as a health precaution, employers slashed a breathtaking 22 million jobs. Economic output plunged at a record-shattering 31% annual rate in 2020's April-June quarter. Everyone braced for more misery. Companies cut investment and postponed restocking. A brutal recession ensued. But instead of sinking into a prolonged downturn, the economy staged an unexpectedly rousing recovery, fueled by vast infusions of government aid and emergency intervention by the Fed, which slashed interest rates, among other things. By spring of last year, the rollout of vaccines had emboldened consumers to return to restaurants, bars, shops and airports. Suddenly, businesses had to scramble to meet demand. They couldn’t hire fast enough to fill job openings — a near record 10.9 million in December — or buy enough supplies to meet customer orders. As business roared back, ports and freight yards couldn’t handle the traffic. Global supply chains became seized up. With demand up and supplies down, costs rose. And companies found that they could pass along those higher costs in the form of higher prices to consumers, many of whom had managed to sock away a ton of savings during the pandemic. Elevated consumer price inflation will likely endure as long as companies struggle to keep up with consumers’ demand for goods and services. A recovering job market — employers added a record 6.7 million jobs last year and tacked on 467,000 more in January — means that many Americans can continue to splurge on everything from lawn furniture to electronics.

When it comes to investigations, a prosecutor can be confident he's over the target when the subjects of his probe start complaining about how long it's taken and how costly it's become. Of course, Robert Mueller's investigation of the Trump campaign's ties to Russia took two years and cost nearly $32 million, while the Durham probe, as CNN recently complained, has so far cost just $3.8 million. As far as I'm concerned, the sanctimonious bean counters on the Left can pound sand. Unlike Mueller, Durham is investigating real and serious crimes that strike at the heart of our Republic. He should dig until every last question is answered. And he should spare no expense whatsoever to get to the truth.

Of course the main stream media, a.k.a. Democrat propaganda machine, is not reporting any of this to the public. Watergate was nothing compared to this. 5 Things to Know About Special Counsel’s Finding That Clinton Campaign Spied on Trump, White House The cybersecurity company accessed computer servers for information to establish an “inference” and “narrative” of a plot between the 2016 Trump presidential campaign and the Russian government, in order to spark a federal investigation. The recent court filing by special counsel John Durham alleges that Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign hired a technology company to access information from computer servers used by Donald Trump’s business headquarters at Trump Tower in New York City and then, perhaps more seriously, to access servers inside the White House after Trump assumed the presidency in January 2017. What to Know About Durham’s Finding That Clinton Camp Spied on Trump (dailysignal.com)

Considering Biden is a virtual gaffe machine and flubs the English language every damn day, can't seem to complete a sentence or make a lucid point, when one of his supporters wants to make an issue of this, I can only shake my head.

Woods are selectively logged every 8 years here and the farms are still the same. You wouldn't be able to tell any difference in the habitat from 20 years ago.

A classic video of Fred in the Yukon.

From what I have been reading, most new EV's are leased, not purchased. For the consumer, this is wise, as it avoids most possible issues with the cars. But, what happens to all the used EV's after that? Who picks up the tab when the repairs come up? What is done with them when they are worn out and junked?

The real pandemic in this country is one of growing fascism from our so-called political Left. The far-Left Democratic Party doesn’t care about your essential freedoms—from speech and the free flow of ideas to freedom of assembly—particularly when those freedoms stand in the way of their pursuit of power. The Real Pandemic Is the Fascist Left › American Greatness (amgreatness.com) The majority of Americans have come to accept that COVID is endemic, that it will be part of everyday life long into the future, and that it’s time to get back to normal. We can only hope that those that are fighting a return to normalcy will be beaten into submission and freedom as common sense wins out. Once that is achieved we can then turn our attention towards eradicating the real pandemic of fascists among us and making sure they never come anywhere near political power for a very long time, from school boards to Congress.

Racial wokeism posits that the race and gender of the vice president and the next Supreme Court justice subordinate all other considerations. But will the current vice president and next Supreme Court justice commensurately select their own future surgeons, or their upcoming airline pilots, on the same predetermined race and sex criteria? What—other than ideology—explains why rejecting nominations of African-American judge Janice Rogers Brown in 2003 and 2005 was not racist and sexist, but blocking Joe Biden’s upcoming nomination of a preselected African-American female would be? Why were most Antifa and Black Lives Matter criminals who looted, destroyed, and assaulted during the 120 days of summer 2020 not charged, much less tried? Why, in contrast, were the January 6 rioters or the current Canadian truckers treated disproportionately harshly by the media? Had the same rioters on January 6 been waving pride flags and BLM banners, would some of them have been sitting for a year in solitary confinement and still uncharged? Had the criminal protestors and looters of summer 2020 been wearing red MAGA hats, would they also have mostly gotten off without charges? What would have happened had conservative demonstrators cut out a police-free “MAGA Zone” in Seattle rather than the exempted Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone? Would police have similarly left it alone, and the media similarly romanticized such illegality? One of the reasons the COVID-19 lockdown and mask policies lost public confidence was their utter corruption by ideology. When thousands in June 2020 brazenly defied quarantines—and yet were excused by over 1,000 healthcare professionals claiming that woke agendas justified violating quarantine laws—then millions of Americans concluded government policy was as much about identity politics as saving lives. Which politicians in 2020 trashed the vaccine programs and declared they would likely not get inoculations—if they were endorsed by then-President Donald Trump? If Trump is demonized as a destroyer of election legitimacy, what then are we to say of the beatified Stacey Abrams? She lost the Georgia gubernatorial race by more than 50,000 votes. Yet for years, she has maintained the voting was rigged and the elected governor is illegitimate. In 2000, who challenged for weeks the vote count, despite numerous public and private audits confirming George W. Bush’s popular vote victory in Florida? Who in 2004-2005—for only the second time in history—challenged in Congress the Electoral College vote? In whose party were the 31 House members and one senator who forced a congressional vote in a failed effort to overturn the election? Who in 2016 ran ads for weeks after the election, beseeching the chosen electors to violate their constitutional duties, ignore their state vote tallies, and instead vote for Hillary Clinton? And who in 2016 claimed her victorious opponent was elected president illegitimately? Who bragged she was joining the “resistance” to undermine his presidency? Who advised Joe Biden in 2020 not to accept the election result if he lost? If conservative zealots were ransacking American stores, carjacking innocents in the major cities, and spiking murder rates to historical highs, would the Biden Administration be mobilizing law enforcement to ensure arrests, prosecutions, and incarceration? Would current city and county prosecutors continue to turn a blind eye? If anti-communist Cubans by the millions were illegally crashing the southern border, would they be welcomed in as are those from Mexico and Central Americans? If, by 2024, a Republican president enjoys a Republican Congress, what would be the reaction to conservatives who advocated ending the filibuster? Ensuring a national voting law requiring IDs at all the polls? Voting to increase the Supreme Court to 15 justices to guarantee at least six new nominations for the Republican-controlled presidency and Congress? When ideology in places like Castroite Cuba, the old Soviet Union, and Venezuela warped the application of the law, destroyed the role of merit in assessing qualifications, silenced speech, and unequally applied the law, then society unwound. In such ideological dystopias, eventually even the shelves empty, the currency becomes worthless, and the nation regresses into poverty and chaos. Is that the future we await? Scarier still, ideology ensures that such chaos is heralded as success. Critics are demonized and hounded. And the obsequious state media assures the public that things are going just great. (C)2022 Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

Not China. They made it in a lab. Leftist Trump haters in bed with China saw to it.

Enviro fascists shut down drilling and pipelines now. They aren't going to accept massive open strip mining to get lithium. Neither will anti slavery and worker safety factions. This will have a major impact on the lithium supply and it's cost. Click on the link I posted to learn more.