She sets a new record for ignorance and nastiness...
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Posted:Aug 28, 2023 3:15 pm
Last Updated:Sep 29, 2023 10:32 am 44751 Views
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She posted :
My Blog
by SummerBreeze23 67F
THE BEAUTIFUL PICTURE OF DANS MOTHER BALDY THOUGHt IT WAS ME-OMG HOW STUPID
That was in reply to me suggesting I post a picture of her (aka SummerBreeze23) , NOT anyone else.
I replied to her inane blog , pointing out the picture I was referring to was readily found on the web.
So, lest anyone think I was/am as stupid as she suggests, here's a picture of her that I was referring to......
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She did it again!
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Posted:Aug 19, 2023 10:34 am
Last Updated:Aug 20, 2023 10:30 am 40159 Views
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I posted a comment on her blog titled "THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL INHERIT THE LAND"...that refuted a claim she made in the blog.
She can't handle the truth...so, she deleted my comment and then blocked me from any further comment...
Is anyone at all surprised?
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crazyhorse's gang....
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Posted:Aug 16, 2023 4:23 pm
Last Updated:Aug 18, 2023 5:15 pm 39497 Views
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From today's newspaper...
"Trump still enjoys tremendous sway, able to turn what would have been career-destroying news for other politicians into a rallying call. Trump’s resilience seems like a super power but it’s not. He’s like a comic book villain enlisting a gang of half-witted henchmen."
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An update for the crazedequine...
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Posted:Aug 14, 2023 9:29 pm
Last Updated:Aug 15, 2023 7:10 am 31625 Views
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Trump and 18 allies indicted on RICO charges in Georgia election case: ‘The law is completely nonpartisan’
Story by Andrew Feinberg
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
A Georgia grand jury has returned indictments against former president Donald Trump and a wide swath of his confidantes and allies who prosecutors allege to have participated in a criminal enterprise with the goal of overturning the disgraced ex-president’s 2020 election loss to Joe Biden.
Grand jurors returned indictments against Mr Trump and 18 other defendants late Monday after hearing from a number of key witnesses in the long-running Georgia election probe, including Gabe Sterling, who served as a top manager in the Georgia Secretary of State’s office in late 2020, and Geoff Duncan, the state’s former Republican lieutenant governor.
Although the courthouse closes normally around 5pm ET, authorities reportedly asked grand jurors to stay until approximately 9pm to finish voting on what a cover sheet delivered to Judge Robert McBurney indicated to be 10 separate indictments.
But the 98-page document unsealed later Monday evening was the only set of charges pertaining to Mr Trump and his co-defendants, a group which includes his former White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows; ex-New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani; attorneys Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powel; ex-law professor John Eastman; Trump campaign lawyer Ken Cheseboro; and former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark.
Mr Trump himself faces 13 criminal counts, including one he shares with every other defendant: A violation of Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RIC statute, which charges those who take actions in service of a criminal enterprise.
He also faces 12 other charges, including: Conspiracy to impersonate a public officer, two counts of conspiracy to commit forgery, two counts of conspiracy to make false statements under oath, two counts of conspiracy to file false documents, two counts of solicitation of a public officer, filing false documents, conspiracy to solicit false statements, and making false statements.
At a late-night press conference to announce the charges, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis appeared before reporters flanked by the prosecutors who have worked on the two-year-long election probe.
“Today ... a Fulton County grand jury returned a true bill of indictment, charging 19 individuals with violations of Georgia Law arising from a criminal conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in this state,” she said before listing the names and stating that each was charged with violating the state’s wide-ranging Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations (RIC statute, which is itself patterned after a Nixon-era federal law passed to combat the Italian-American Mafia crime syndicates.
Ms Willis added that each defendant’s RICO charge accused them of “participation in a criminal enterprise in Fulton County, Georgia, and elsewhere, to accomplish the illegal goal of allowing Donald J. Trump to seize the presidential term of office, beginning on January 20, 2021”.
“Specifically, the participants ... took various actions in Georgia and elsewhere to block the counting of the votes of the presidential electors who were certified as the winners of Georgia’s 2020 general election. As you examine the indictment, you will see acts that are identified as overt acts and those that are identified as predicate acts, sometimes called acts of racketeering activity. overt acts are not necessarily crimes under Georgia law in isolation, but are alleged to be acts taken in furtherance of the conspiracy. Many occurred in Georgia, and some occurred in other jurisdictions and are included, because the grand jury believes they were part of the illegal effort to overturn the results of Georgia’s 2020 presidential election,” she said.
Ms Willis, who said each defendant has until 12.00 pm on Friday 25 August to voluntarily surrender to Georgia authorities and told reporters she would like to try the defendants “within the next six months,” had long been understood to be intending to bring a RICO prosecution against the former president.
“I make decisions in this office based on the facts and the law. The law is completely nonpartisan. That's how decisions are made in every case,” Ms Willis said.
In the indictment, she follows through on that intention by stating that Mr Trump and his co-defendants “while associated with ane enterprise, unlawfully conspired and endeavored to conduct and participate in, directly and indirectly, such enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity in violation of” the RICO law.
“Trump and the other defendants charged in this Indictment refused to accept that Trump lost, and they knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump. That conspiracy contained a common plan and purpose to commit two or more acts of racketeering activity in Fulton County, Georgia, elsewhere in the state of Georgia, and in other states,” prosecutors said.
They further allege that Mr Trump and co-defendants “constituted a criminal organization whose members and associates engaged in various related criminal activities including, but not limited to, false statements and writings, impersonating a public officer, forgery, filing false documents, influencing witnesses, computer theft, computer trespass, computer invasion of privacy, conspiracy to defraud the state, acts involving theft, and perjury.”
The former president is charged with violating Georgia’s Rico law, Solicitation of Violation of Oath by Public Officer, Conspiracy To Commit Impersonating a Public Officer, Conspiracy To Commit Forgery in the First Degree, Conspiracy To Commit False Statements and Writings, Filing False Documents and other charges stemming from his efforts to pressure Georgia officials into fraudulently reversing his loss and his role in a scheme which purported to submit what were forged electoral college certificates to the National Archives.
Other charges referenced in the charging document include Impersonating a Public Officer and Criminal Attempt to Commit Influencing Witnesses.
The grand jury which returned the indictments against Mr Trump and his co-defendants was the second to hear evidence against the ex-president as part of a long-running probe which Ms Willis first announced in early 2021, not long after a recording emerged of Mr Trump pressuring Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” enough non-existent votes in his favour to justify decertifying the state’s presidential election results.
She subsequently asked the Fulton County District Court to empanel a special grand jury to investigate Mr Trump’s efforts to overturn the election. That investigation, which wrapped up late last year, saw witnesses from all over the country summoned to give evidence behind closed doors in the Fulton County courthouse. Because special grand juries are not permitted to issue indictments under Georgia law, Ms Willis had to present that grand jury’s findings to a second, regular grand jury which began to meet in July.
Mr Trump, who is also facing criminal charges from a local district attorney in his former home state of New York and set to be tried on Espionage Act and obstruction of justice charges in a Florida federal court next May, had unsuccessfully sought to have Ms Willis blocked from prosecuting him and has asked two Georgia courts to throw out the entire special grand jury proceeding, citing alleged deficiencies in the law providing for special grand juries and Ms Willis’ attendance at Democratic political fundraisers.
Judge McBurney, the Fulton County Superior Court jurist who has been overseeing the proceedings for the last two years, wrote in a ruling issued last month that Mr Trump and a co-plaintiff who was one of the fake electors under investigation had lacked any standing to challenge the investigation in a pre-indictment phase.
“The movants’ asserted ‘injuries’ that would open the doors of the courthouse to their claims are either insufficient or else speculative and unrealized,” he said.
“They are insufficient because, while being subject (or even target) of a highly publicized criminal investigation is likely an unwelcome and unpleasant experience, no court ever has held that that status alone provides a basis for the courts to interfere with or halt the investigation.”
Judge McBurney also called Mr Trump and his co-plantiff’s “professed injuries” from being targets of the investigation “speculative and unrealized” because neither has been indicted as of yet, and the mere possibility of an indictment “not enough to create a controversy, cause an injury, or confer standing”.
Now, with charges against him having been officially approved by a grand jury, Mr Trump could seek to renew the litigation.
But unlike in the two federal cases pending against him, the former president cannot count on regaining the power of the presidency or help from a Republican ally in the Georgia governor’s mansion to protect him.
Unlike many US states, the Peach State does not grand its’ chief executive the authority to issue pardons for crimes committed against the state.
Instead, pardon power is delegated to a nonpartisan board, and it can only be invoked to grant a pardon after a criminal has completed his or her sentence.
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This is for the crazedequine...
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Posted:Aug 14, 2023 10:01 am
Last Updated:Aug 15, 2023 9:11 pm 29875 Views
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From the New York Magazine, 9/14/2023
(Many, not all) Republicans have many complaints about the various indictments of Donald Trump. They think the prosecutors are too liberal or (if they are Ron DeSantis supporters) that the charges are designed to help Trump win the nomination or that it will foment violence or that Joe Biden and/or Hillary Clinton are just as bad. What you rarely hear them say is that Trump is innocent.
This rather gaping hole in their line of defenses was exposed yet again Monday morning when Trump urged a witness in his pending prosecution in Georgia not to testify:
Georgia law prohibits intimidating potential witnesses. This message is probably not witness intimidation as it does not contain any threats. It may be witness tampering, but we can leave that to the lawyers.
What can certainly be ascertained, without any legal training, is that this is not the behavior of an innocent man. If Trump did not commit any crimes in the course of attempting to overturn the election and secure an unelected second term, wouldn’t he be in favor of securing testimony from relevant witnesses? What theory supports the assumption that Jeff Duncan, a Republican, would fabricate incriminating evidence against him?
Obviously, in a court of law, any defendant, including Trump, enjoys the presumption of innocence and has no legal requirement to rebut the case made by prosecutors. But doesn’t it seem just a tad suspicious that he is trying to keep relevant witnesses from testifying?
And for that matter, doesn’t it raise some red flags in the Republican mind that Trump attacks “rats” for flipping on bosses as the worst people in the world, that he worked with mobsters and personally retained a mob lawyer, is known to berate his own lawyers and aides for taking notes of their conversations, and that an unusually large number of his associates have been convicted of or admitted to crimes?
Maybe, just maybe, the reason Trump keeps getting indicted for crimes is not that the criminal justice system is in the grips of a vast liberal conspiracy but that he is, in fact, a criminal?
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We should start again today...
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Posted:Aug 7, 2023 8:38 pm
Last Updated:Aug 15, 2023 5:45 pm 9210 Views
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President Clinton angrily shakes his finger as he denies any improper behavior with an intern during a care event Monday, Jan. 26, 1998, in the White House Roosevelt Room. “I did not have sexual relations with that woman,” Clinton said. “I never told anybody to lie.”
Political morality is in a downward spiral. Decades ago, evangelical leader James Dobson saw this coming, before his own fall from grace. America should have listened.
But when looking at how we got to this dismal place, a useful starting point is what happened 49 years ago.
On Aug. 8, 1974, President Richard M. Nixon resigned from office in disgrace, facing obstruction of justice and other charges related to events surrounding the Watergate break-in.
Nixon’s stated reason for resigning was that he no longer had a large enough base in Congress. This was a euphemism for the fact that he’d lost his own party. Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona, his party’s presidential nominee in 1964, came to the White House to tell Nixon his support among Republicans had cratered, and Goldwater made it clear he’d personally vote to convict.
The Nixon resignation was hardly a moral high point, but the depths of the downturn since then is striking, as evidenced by former President Donald Trump’s indictment last week for a litany of crimes related to his attempt to unlawfully overturn his loss to President Joe Biden, which led to the events of Jan. 6, 2021. Days earlier, Trump had additional counts added to a previous indictment for illegally possessing classified documents after leaving office, and for obstructing justice.
We are thus entering a presidential election cycle where Republicans are seriously entertaining renominating a man who is facing at least three, and maybe four, felony prosecutions. These are just the big-ticket items. Lower-level abuses that might have sunk other politicians are too numerous to bring up.
While there is no moral equivalence, it is also worth mentioning that Trump’s likely opponent in 2024, President Joe Biden, is under the shadow of allegations that his family, and maybe himself personally, benefited from influence peddling.
What happened?
Simply put, former President Bill Clinton.
Americans want moral leaders more than practical outcomes
Do Americans’ assumptions about morality make us unique?
For those who are not old enough to remember, or have chosen to forget, Clinton was a serial adulterer who abused his power to have a fling with a young intern. Then, according to Congress, he obstructed justice and perjured himself to cover it up. No reasonably informed person denies the essence of this now.
Clinton’s narrative was that, in the words of his wife, he was a victim of a “vast right-wing conspiracy” (although he has more recently said that he was “managing my anxieties.”) Clinton was not the first president to have an affair, nor was he the first to take sexual advantage of a subordinate, nor the first to obstruct justice and lie to cover up misdeeds.
He was, however, the first to get caught red-handed, and then use every tool at his disposal to bend the public’s moral compass to fit his needs.
The strategy worked masterfully. Clinton’s approval went up, not down, during his impeachment. This rallied his defenders in the Senate, who stood by him. There would be no Goldwater moment like Nixon had.
Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family, saw the consequences of this clearly, writing a public letter in 1998 that crystalized the view of most conservative Christians at the time.
“Although sexual affairs have occurred often in high places, the public has never approved of such misconduct. But today, the rules by which behavior is governed appear to have been rewritten,” Dobson wrote.
He went on to declare that it is “foolish” to believe that a man who lacked honesty and moral integrity could successfully lead a nation, deeming such a person “fundamentally incompatible” with the good of the nation.
Dobson further explained the real stakes were not about Clinton, but about the effect of his behavior on the people. “What has alarmed me throughout this episode has been the willingness of my fellow citizens to rationalize the President’s behavior. … We are facing a profound moral crisis — not only because one man has disgraced us — but because our people no longer recognize the nature of evil.”
Dobson, for all his own failings, has been thoroughly vindicated. One could cite many examples of public corruption that have received nowhere near the backlash they once would have: Senators who use secret information to push financial loss onto others, state attorneys general who use their public office to profit and attempt to spend millions of public dollars to cover it up, party leaders who inexplicably get rich during their time in office. But none demonstrate it better than Trump.
Trump perfected Clinton’s playbook. His partisans dismiss any charge leveled at him, no matter how serious or overwhelming the evidence, as a political witch hunt. The “vast right-wing conspiracy” has been replaced by the “deep state” or “establishment,” but the idea is the same. The disfigurement of the movement that once housed the “moral majority” is striking.
Much of this support is mired in rank tribalism. But even those who see the hypocrisy, at least in private, argue that they should not unilaterally disarm. Clinton got away with it. So why should “our side” act differently?
This argument was implicit in Dobson’s endorsement of Trump shortly before the 2020 election, when he deemed Trump’s sins as “frivolous personality characteristics.”
In case anyone missed the point, he said, “This is not a junior high or high school popularity/personality contest,” and then listed a list of policy and political positions he believed Trump could deliver on.
The hypocrisy would be galling if it weren’t so tragic. Dobson’s prophecy was so accurate that he himself fell victim to it. Gauging things only in short-term political interests, he no longer recognized that which he once called immoral.
Trump’s enduring popularity with Republicans can be laid, in significant part, at Clinton’s feet. Dobson was correct in 1998. Clinton’s brazen lies in defense of his own misdeeds were the catalyst to create a political dynamic where too many are incapable of seeing wrong when they prefer not to see it. The fact that Dobson fell victim to his own prophecy only emphasizes the point.
Stopping this vicious circle will only be solved when pastors, party leaders and people around the water cooler — on both sides — hold their own accountable.
Goldwater and his allies did this 49 years ago. We should start again today.
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Posted:Aug 4, 2023 2:21 pm
Last Updated:Aug 5, 2023 7:56 pm 7854 Views
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Trump Trash: The Forgotten People of The Redneck Republic
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Posted:Jul 28, 2023 1:35 pm
Last Updated:Aug 6, 2023 10:35 am 7164 Views
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Redneck Republic is a hybrid of Clair Connor’s “Wrapped in the Flag” and the movie, “Idiocracy”.
D.L. Free’s description of the mindset associated with neo-conservatism, could, with only the alteration of a few nouns, be the description of ISIS or the Taliban. It is a frightening portrait of a movement where the ends justify the means, and where hate groups flourish. The author spares no effort in exposing this body in all its maggoty decomposition, but at least, I think, a decomposing body that cannot survive, even with seemingly Zombie-like superpowers.
The author is a now-reformed, self-described Redneck, who grew up in Georgia. His views are the views from an insider. The first-hand description of his background is where I really became engaged as he encounters racism and corruption in his home town. His descriptions of NASCAR, a fake sport that takes no skill, along with cheer leading, beauty pageants, and pro-wrestling, or “raslin’” left me chuckling and nodding my head.
The author shows how religion, and politicians, tap into this enormous social dynamic to build their gullible base of followers: those who lack critical thinking skills and who need to be led by an authoritarian figure.
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