Odd timing.
Remember when the unmarked plane landing in Houston and a bunch of guys got off carrying rucks? Was last week. https://t.co/wq9WHnHM0M— Rangermonk (@rangermonk1) January 31, 2024
Plane without tail number made quick stop in #Houston pic.twitter.com/If2SU9Pkmd
— Houston Air Watch đđ°ď¸ (@houstonairw) January 27, 2024
If you canât supply enough energy during mildly cold weather, how are you going to supply energy for all EVs in the future? https://t.co/ZxFZ8O2ZFl
— vladđŠ¸đşđŚ (@dovgvlad) January 17, 2024
Meet the new FISA, same as the old FISA
Question O’ The Day
Wonder what dirt does the DOJ have on him?
Speaker Mike Johson (R-LA) backtracked and caved to the deep state and Democrats, moving to slip a deep state authorization into the defense bill.
Reports say that congressional leaders, including Johnson, agreed to put an extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The bill would extend Section 702 until April 19.
Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) released a video statement after she said that leadership asked conferees, which includes herself, to agree to the 3000-plus page NDAA, which is âbeing released behind closed doors without even getting time to read it!â
The Peach State conservative blamed Johnson for negotiating with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to âcut a dealâ that would contain prohibitions against funding for abortion and âtrans surgery prohibitionsâ that were in the House-passed NDAA under former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
She explained:
It also would pass a CLEAN FISA extension. Not to mention, more of your taxpayer dollars sent to Ukraine to fund the proxy war. No member of the NDAA conference had any influence on this process. It was done in secret meetings with no input from conferees. Now, weâre supposed to just grin and take it with no say in the final bill. Is the GOP really going to fund abortion vacations and trans surgeries, fund the Ukraine war, all with a CLEAN FISA extension under Speaker Johnson?
This was a total sell-out of conservative principles and a huge win for Democrats.
Congratulations to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, you should all be excited to vote for this!
Iâm a HELL NO! [Emphasis added]
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene / X
The news comes as a shock to many of those who were most intimately involved in crafting solutions to reform Section 702, a controversial surveillance law that Republicans and Democrats, progressives and conservatives, want to reform.
‘only minor injuries’ (because it looks like a purposeful, but hasty, natural gas explosion to me) but what will happen when one day someone decided to use HE & Shrapnel?
Home explosion rocks Arlington neighborhood after suspect fires flare gun during police search
ARLINGTON, Va. – Community members in an Arlington neighborhood were told to shelter in place Monday night after police say a flare gun was fired inside a home, causing a massive explosion.
Arlington County police put out the alert just after 8:15 p.m., saying the incident occurred in the 800 block of N. Burlington Street in the Bluemont neighborhood.
Police say as officers were attempting to execute a search warrant at the residence, a suspect fired several rounds inside the home, which led to the explosion.
Neighbor Alex Wilson spoke exclusively with FOX 5, saying this came after an hours-long standoff with the suspect. He said he took notice of what was happening around 4 p.m. when police rolled up to his neighbor’s home. Wilson said as time went on, it was clear the situation was only getting worse.
“Three hours later, at least, we saw the SWAT truck arrive and when the SWAT trucks arrive you know, youâre like, âoh things are getting escalated at that point,'” Wilson said. “I thought it was a sonic boom”
The guy had been released on bond from another burglary charge the day before? You literally can’t make this up
And incidentally, Florida has the Baker act where a person can be held for 72 hours for mental evaluation. The Police can do this on their own, but from the article apparently had no info the guy was ‘mental’ and yet, all the family had to do was let the authorities know he was having “problems” …but they didn’t…So it brings up the Question O’ The Day: Why not?
Port Orange man shot by homeowner identified, girlfriend said he struggled with mental issues
An intruder shot dead by a Port Orange homeowner last Thursday while trying to break into the home was released from jail the day before the shooting where he had been locked up for a previous burglary arrest, court records show.
On Tuesday, Port Orange police identified the intruder as Justin Alvaro Dematos, 46, of Port Orange.
But Dematos’s fiancĂŠe said Tuesday that he recently started struggling with mental illness and would get disoriented and lost when he went out for walks and show up at strangers’ homes not knowing where he was.
“I just wanted to clarify that he was having mental problems and his mother was coming from Boston this week to take him to a psychiatrist, but we could not get him help in time,” a tearful Maria Alvaro said in a telephone interview.
Warned twice
Police said that on Nov. 16, Dematos approached a home in the 5900 block of Pelham Drive at approximately 12:05 a.m., and tried to break in.
Barking dogs at the home woke up the residents, who heard Dematos ringing their doorbell, police said.
The homeowner, while inside, verbally confronted Dematos who walked away. He then went to the side of the home and reportedly removed the screen to a bedroom window that had been left slightly open, said Port Orange police detective Michael Wallace.
The homeowner verbally confronted Dematos again, asking him what he was doing on his property but Dematos did not respond Wallace said.
Police said Dematos then attempted to enter the home through the open bedroom window and was shot one time by the homeowner, police said.
Dematos died at the scene.
BLUF
Was that an intentional campaign to rid the military of critical thinkers?
The U.S. Army is ‘Begging’ Unvaccinated Soldiers to Return
Army forced to reverse course, as people refuse to enlist
Oh, how much the times have changed!
The United States Army is now begging COVID unvaccinated soldiers, who underwent involuntary discharge for their refusal to take the vaccine, to return to service and also permits them to correct their military records!
Just two years ago, in a shameful campaign, the Pentagon was gleefully discharging soldiers who refused to take Covid vaccines:
We were assured that these discharges would ânot affect military readiness.â
âI can tell you there are no operational impacts across the force for readiness,â Marine Corps Lt. Gen. David Ottignon told lawmakers. âThereâs no one community that has signaled an instance where a [leader], an NCO or another enlisted Marine is not present because of that.â
The Marine Corps has, by far, kicked out the most service members: 1,968 total, 20% of whom received an honorable discharge. That amounts to just under 1% of the total force, which stands at about 215,000.
However, the readiness suffered: thousands of service members were dismissed, and potential recruits declined to enlist in the Armed Services, because, guess what, young healthy men loath COVID vaccines.
More than 17,000 service members balked at taking the shots, citing safety fears linked to the vaccineâs speedy development and spurred by misinformation about messenger ribonucleic acid technology, as well as concern over fetal cell lines used in formulation and testing. The more the controversy raged in the news, the more troops asked to skip the shots, Military Times reporting found.
Thousands were given career-destroying reprimands:
Lt. Col. Terry Kelley, a spokesman for the Army, said that 2,767 soldiers have received âgeneral officer written reprimandsâ â killing their opportunities for promotions or transfers within the military â and that two battalion commanders as well as four other officers have been relieved of their duties but remain enlisted in the military.
The leadership, sadly, stayed silent. (pictured here is Lloyd Austin)
As a result, the military is missing its recruitment goals by 25%:
Media in Panic Mode Over Questions About Whether They Knew in Advance About Hamas Attack on Israel
On October 7, four photojournalists who provide reporting and photos for the likes of the Associated Press (AP), CNN, the New York Times, Reuters, and other outlets were allegedly at the Israeli border with Hamas terrorists who committed acts of atrocities against innocent Israeli civilians that shocked the world. Since an Israel-supporting news watchdog website reported the claim, everyone wants to know if these Gaza-based reporters knew in advance about the attack and, more importantly, if they could have saved lives by alerting the world about it. The question arises: Did the AP, CNN, the New York Times, and Reuters know about the Hamas terror attack in advance?Â
The allegations have sent major media into panic mode and generated even more mistrust in the corporate press.
The website HonestReporting, which chronicles coverage of Israel by an increasingly one-sided press to contrast the “Pallywood” and crisis actor coverage by Hamas and its agents, asks: “Is it conceivable to assume that ‘journalists’ just happened to appear early in the morning at the border without prior coordination with the terrorists? Or were they part of the plan?”Â
Hamas terrorists paraglided and drove into the civilian populations that day and committed acts of horrific brutality. They wanted their murders and acts of terror chronicled for the world, which is why they wore GoPro cameras and apparently arranged for these traditional media photographers to go in with them.
HonestReporting reported that “four names appear on APâs photo credits from the Israel-Gaza border area on October 7: Hassan Eslaiah, Yousef Masoud, Ali Mahmud, and Hatem Ali.” The news watchdog took a close look at Elsaiah, a “freelancer who also works for CNN, crossed into Israel, took photos of a burning Israeli tank, and then captured infiltrators entering Kibbutz Kfar Azza.”
Elsaiah “did not wear a press vest or a helmet,” the website reported. He posted a video of himself on Twitter/X saying that âeveryone who were inside this tank were kidnapped, everyone who were inside the tank were kidnapped a short while ago by al-Qassam Brigades [Hamasâ armed wing], as we have seen with our own eyes.â
The website later featured an older photo of Elsaiah with the Hamas leader who planned the attack.
In war reporting, journalists are often given a heads-up and allowed to chronicle American troops heading into battle, for example. But this wasn’t an act of war — it was terror. It was murder for murder’s sake. There hadn’t been an Israeli offensive to which the Gaza terror organization was responding. Indeed, if Hamas had been wearing uniforms and acting as an “army” they would be accused of war crimes. As it is, they’re accused of crimes against humanity.
Question O’The Day:
Given the headlines since October 7th, why are our schools churning out armies of angry racist and anti-Semitic kids these days? – Ed Driscol
The vast majority of mass shooters are male, and male biochemistry helps to explain why. Yet the person who opened fire at Nashvilleâs Covenant School was biologically female.
Higher amounts of the hormone testosterone give men larger muscles, more significant skeletal muscle, and a higher percentage of red blood cells. Testosterone also tends to give men unwarranted self-confidence and aggression, a dangerous cocktail for unmoored youth.
According to the Justice Departmentâs research, published in February 2022, 97.7% of mass shooters in the U.S. have been male. Thankfully, the Justice Department seems to have acknowledged the biological truthâat least for nowâdespite President Joe Bidenâs radical advocacy of transgender ideology.
On March 27, however, a 28-year-old female by the name of Audrey Elizabeth Hale opened fire at The Covenant School, a Presbyterian school in Nashville. Before police shot and killed her, Hale killed three children and three adultsâEvelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney, all 9; Cynthia Peak, 61; Katherine Koonce, 60; and Mike Hill, 61, according to Fox News.
What explains this female mass shooter? News reports give some indication, although three pages of her manifesto, recently revealed, also shine a light on the situation.
Although Hale was female, she reportedly identified as male and went by the name Aiden.
Police discovered a manifesto at the scene of the shooting, but unlike in so many other mass shootings where authorities publish a shooterâs white nationalist screeds almost immediately, authorities sought to keep Haleâs manifesto secret.
Nashville Police Chief John Drake begrudgingly confirmed that the three pages published Monday by commentator Stephen Crowder did indeed come from Haleâs manifesto.
âI am greatly disturbed by todayâs unauthorized release of three pages of writings from the Covenant shooter,â Drake wrote. The police chief announced an investigation into the leak, noting that the court system has control of the shooterâs journals due to pending litigation.
The police department has suspended seven detectives in relation to the leak.
The three pages revealed the sick mind of a mass shooter. In them, Hale expresses hatred for white people, whom she refers to as âcrackers.â
If Biden is against antisemitism, why does he continue to fund it?
Late last month, President Joe Biden declared that he was âveryâ concerned about the rise of antisemitism . If he were sincere, he would direct his administration to stop funding it.
Consider his longtime staffer, Antony Blinken. The secretary of state often speaks about his stepfather Samuel Pisar, who lost his entire family in the Holocaust. Blinken related Pisarâs escape from the Nazis at his confirmation hearing, and he has spoken about Pisar more than a dozen times since, often to establish his bona fides in the fight against antisemitism.
âWe live in a time where antisemitism is again on the rise, in America and around the world,â Blinken told the U.S. Holocaust Museum. âWhen hateful ideology rises, violence is never far behind.â As secretary, he has promised to call out antisemitism and declared the United States would be âresolute in the fight against antisemitism.â
How sad, then, that Blinken pursues policies that reward antisemitism. Consider Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas: Blinken restored funding to Abbas, a man who denies the Holocaust, promotes antisemitic blood libel, and pensions terrorists who kill Jewish children. Blinkenâs silence during his visits to Ramallah suggests his rhetoric about Pisar is cynical, meant only for gullible Americans.
Abbas, after all, wrote a doctoral dissertation arguing that Zionists supported the Holocaust. Over subsequent years, he downplayed and denied the Holocaust. In September, he speculated that Hitler targeted the Jews not from antisemitism, but because they were moneylenders. With a 40-year track record of Holocaust denial and diminishment, is there any question that Abbas promotes antisemitism? If so, how does funding him send a message about being âresolute in the fight against anti-Semitismâ?
Or consider Yemen : One of the first actions Blinken undertook as secretary was to lift sanctions on the Houthis, a group that goes even beyond Iranâs âdeath to America, death to Israelâ chants to add âdamn the Jewsâ in its motto. Five years ago, a Washington think tank delegation queried Houthi representatives about their slogan. The Houthi spokesman was blunt: âThatâs our program.â That Houthis now launch ballistic missiles at the Jewish state should surprise no one. That the United States allowed them a windfall should.
National security adviser Jake Sullivan bases his Iran approach on the idea that money and diplomatic outreach can put Iranâs reformers in the driverâs seat. But it was Mohammed Khatami, Iranâs reformist president famous for his âDialogue of Civilizationsâ call, who gave asylum to Wolfgang Frohlick and Jurgen Graf, two of the worldâs most vociferous Holocaust deniers.
The same holds true with Lebanon and Turkey . Amos Hochstein, the Biden administrationâs unconfirmed energy envoy, has pushed to empower both Turkey and Hezbollah through energy deals and endorsement. By supporting the trans-Turkey energy route over that of democratic Cyprus and Greece, Hochstein has primed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the worldâs most antisemitic head of state after Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, to receive tens of billions of dollars, some of which Erdogan now promises to Hamas. Hochstein likewise justified Lebanese maritime claims in a scheme that risks pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into Hezbollah coffers, never mind that Hezbollahâs secretary general once quipped he would be happy if all the Jews returned to Israel, as it would save the trouble of hunting them down in other countries.
Then there is Somalia , a country seldom in the headlines but the recipient of billions of dollars under Biden and Blinkenâs watch. Less than six weeks after Blinken met Somali Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, Barre declared Hamas was not a terrorist group and suggested Jews were the âchildren of pigs and dogs.â The Biden administrationâs response? Crickets. The money still flows to Somalia.
Antisemitism is at its highest level worldwide since World War II. Biden is right to be very concerned, and Blinken is right to condemn it. If only the leader of the free world and his top diplomat had some control over whether antisemites overseas would have access to billions of extra dollars.
To ask the question is to answer it………
Quote O’ The Day:
“…, the current politicians who are in office are gutless.”
BLUF
America Is a Christian nation, founded on Christian beliefs and values. I urge you all to understand that, and I urge all of the gutless politicians nationwide to acknowledge it as well.
These values were earned and defended through the toughest of circumstances. They will not be forgotten, dismissed, or cast aside for the appeasement of the delusional left.
Why Can Everyone Celebrate Who They Are Except Christians?
It seems like every time you turn around thereâs a new âmonthâ being celebrated. In case you canât keep track of them, hereâs a list:
El Dorado County, California, wanted to celebrate Christian Heritage Month starting in July of 2024. In July of this year, the resolution passed by a vote of 4-1. However, in September it was rescinded because a group of liberals, atheists, and some in the Jewish community protested the proposed celebration. More on that later.
The month is celebrated by other communities across the nation in July, but it isnât recognized as a national holiday. Â Why not?
As you look at the list of nationally celebrated months, itâs clear that not everyone agrees with the values that are being celebrated, yet still they are recognized. So why is it that so many sub-groups, as far as population numbers are concerned, get the approval, but the actual religion that the nation was founded on is cast aside?
A great argument for a national celebration can be found in the âDeclaration of American Christian Heritage Month,â which was adopted by the Constitution Party of Pennsylvania (CPPA) on October 16, 2021.
The problem, in my opinion, is twofold. First, the current politicians who are in office are gutless. There is no reasonable explanation for why an American Christian Heritage Month isnât on the national calendar. The second reason ties directly into the first. Every time the subject is brought up, itâs always attacked. Instead of pointing out the obvious and sticking to their guns, the politicians fold like a cheap suit.
Is this an insurrection? https://t.co/7wQFWGOISf
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) November 5, 2023
Another citizen who always voted for demoncraps asks the Question O’ The Day
âIf silence is the answer, why should I ever vote for a Democrat again?â
Thanks, to a Politician Who Did His Job
When the IRS visited my home, Jim Jordan actually did something about it. Why couldn’t I call a Democrat?
A new report about IRS home visits has just been released by the House Weaponization of Government Committee, chaired by Ohio congressman Jim Jordan. It outlines disturbing issues, including confirmation that IRS agents making home visits may come without warning, using aliases, and without informing local enforcement agencies of their presence.
One of the cases outlined is my own. My home was visited by the IRS while I was testifying before Jordanâs Committee about the Twitter Files on March 9th. Sincere thanks are due to Chairman Jordan, whose staff not only demanded and got answers in my case, but achieved a concrete policy change, as IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel announced in July new procedures that would âend mostâ home visits.
Anticipating criticism for expressing public thanks to a Republican congressman, Iâd like to ask Democratic Party partisans: to which elected Democrat should I have appealed for help in this matter? The one who called me a âso-called journalistâ on the House floor? The one who told me to take off my âtinfoil hatâ and put greater trust in intelligence services? The ones in leadership who threatened me with jail time? I gave votes to the party for thirty years. Which elected Democrat would have performed basic constituent services in my case? Feel free to raise a hand.
If silence is the answer, why should I ever vote for a Democrat again?
And that trigger finger laid right along side the receiver…….Classic.
“Is there honor in being a Poe’s Law Criminal?”
Poe’s Law:
Poe’s law is an adage of internet culture which says that, without a clear indicator of the author’s intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views.
I know people who can use sarcasm like Michelangelo used a chisel
Question O’ The Day
"Can you explain why the president interacted with so many of his son's foreign business associates?!"
JEAN-PIERRE: "Have a great day!"
"More than half of voters told CNN that the president was involved and he lied! You can't have a response to that, Karine?!" pic.twitter.com/LjwsTQQJNY
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 13, 2023
Because she isnât working for Biden – she works for the shadow govt that is running things so she doesnât care
— jwayne411 (@jwayne411) September 13, 2023
Very, I’d say.
Gadsden flag: How ignorant are the folks running the schools?
One of the biggest takeaways from the viral Colorado story of the school booting a 12-year-old out of class for having a Gadsden flag patch on his backpack is that the folks in charge are ignorant not just of free-speech basics, but fundamentals of US history.
How can they teach when theyâre wrong about simple facts?
A top administrator at the Vanguard charter school is on tape lecturing that the flag has âslavery and the slave tradeâ origins, making the palm-sized patch was âdisruptive to the classroom environment.â
A 10-second Google reveals the truth; the flagâs not about slavery at all.
Known for its rattlesnake and âDonât tread on meâ slogan, it originated during the American Revolution â a topic the school spends a year on in history class.
Remarkably, young Jaiden Rodriguezâs teacher toed the administration line in pulling him out of the classroom. That is, she supported ignorance, not her student being victimized by it.
The schoolâs fallback was to retroactively make an issue of his many semiautomatic-gun patches on the same backpack; theyâre gone, and heâs back in class.
Known for its rattlesnake and âDonât tread on meâ slogan, the flag originated during the American Revolution.
And Vanguard has eaten its words on the flag (wise, as even Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat called out the mistake).
So far, though, it hasnât explained its institutional idiocy. Chances are itâs intentional. Progressives have been pushing a distorted view of American history for years, demonizing everything from the National Anthem to the flag to the Constitution. To them, the truth doesnât matter.
Aside from the constitution, why are citizens allowed to purchase semi automatic rifles?
Because there is no “aside from the Constitution”. You have appreciated the American system opposite to how things work here.
You ask why we’re ‘allowed’ to do something? It doesn’t work that way. We Americans can say, do, own, buy, sell, possess whatever we want. We’re not ‘allowed’ anything. We need no ‘permission’. Read the whole Constitution, including the Bill of Rights and you’ll find nothing among the powers given to government, by the people, saying we must first seek to be allowed to do something.
This is the main difference of the American way where we are free citizens not government subjects. America has the ethos that anything not explicitly banned is allowed. Not that anything not explicitly allowed is banned.
To stop, ban, or restrict this freedom, a law, eventually found to be ‘constitutional’ if someone thinks it isn’t and takes it to court in our judicial system, must be passed in the legislative political process. Not the other way around.
Why do IRS agents need guns? https://t.co/afmFoNpQXM
— Catturd ⢠(@catturd2) August 18, 2023
“Why do you need AR-15s?”
Home invaders pretended to be Gwinnett police, tossed grenades into homes, police say
After a series of home invasions involving suspects impersonating police officers, Gwinnett County police arrested one of potentially several suspects connected to the crime spree.
Three families were victimized by multiple masked men armed with guns and body armor during home invasions in Lilburn and Norcross from June 9 to June 12, according to police. In the first case, the suspects threw a practice grenade through a window to enter the home and ransack the house.
âWhatever they were looking for,â the victim, who asked to remain anonymous, told Channel 2 Gwinnett County Bureau Chief Matt Johnson. âI hope they find prison time for their trouble.â
The victim shared a video of a man with a mask, a shotgun and body armor at his doorstep in Lilburn off Burns Road on June 9 just after 3:30 a.m. He said the man identified himself as police but threw the inert grenade through the window when the victim didnât answer the door. From there, police say the suspect, working with others, stole electronics when they couldnât find any money or drugs.
âThey actually sprayed mace around the perimeter of the door and underneath it to try and get me out or prevent me from coming out,â said the victim.
On Tuesday, Gwinnett police arrested Jeron Hernandez-Massa, 23, and charged him with 10 felonies, including three counts of home invasion. However, investigators say he didnât act alone.
At a home in Norcross, a pregnant mother and her family were held at gunpoint by Hernandez-Massa and as many as four other suspects claiming to be D.E.A. agents, according to police. There were 8-year-old, 4-year-old, and 10-year-old boys home at the time and police say Hernandez-Massa and the suspects threaten to harm the children if the family didnât give them money and drugs.
âMy stepdad is a construction worker,â said one of the family members held at gunpoint. âMy mom was just a pregnant lady. They left with nothing, and they hurt us.â
The family says they told the robbers they had the wrong house and that there werenât drugs or money around. It only made them more upset, they say.
âI ran into the garage and thatâs when they hit me,â said the victim, adding she was left bruised from being pistol-whipped.
Police havenât said how many more suspects they may be looking for or how they believe the homes were targeted. Hernandez-Massa remains in jail without bond.
