Update Sunday 10:05 AM: Lost power in my chalet yesterday afternoon. And it only came on now. The generator also conked out. It is an old generator. Time to replace it. Thank god for having two fireplaces.
I am going back to Montreal. Blogging will return within two hours.
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On January 13, yet another member of AFIP joined the ranks of the dissenters. Kathleen Janoski, a 22-year Navy veteran, was the head of AFIP's forensic photography unit. Janoski says she was told that missing evidence from the Brown file was purposely destroyed.
APRIL 2ND
Ron Brown was murdered.
White Boy Rick is a political prisoner.
lead snowstorm
Cogswell
Hause
Parsons
JANOSKI
FBI Academy for a 2-week school for police photography
"dead cockroach" position
It was an investigator by the name of Bob Veasey. He told me there was a lot of pressure from the White House to get the bodies out.
I was determined we wouldn't have something similar to Vince Foster's crime scene, where everything comes out underexposed.
Democrats Enter Asian Nail Salon in Milwaukee — Threaten, Harass and Terrify Asian Workers and Customers (VIDEO)
Of course they did.
What did FIB Director Wray do?
What will McCabe say?
Has Biden Condemned it.
Kamala will laugh uproariously.
Hillary had no comment.
Chinese government trolls will play both sides. If God Forbid China ever takes over, this and incidents like it will be their excuse to do what they are going to do.
Sources of are rivers originate in our mountains. Source of our supply chain all too often originate in China. For Hunter it is Cha ching time
If the Russians land in the Ukraine we will be at war with Russia. WWIII maybe? With demorats in congress and the whitehouse probably not, they will watch and do nothing.
Guys, I'm a white man.
no, you are Han
11:45PM no return :(
Always remember that America needed a new paradigm. Our old one wasn’t working, and economic research and basic data analysis both suggested clear directions for change. There will be missteps and mistakes on the way to change. Many people will resist the changes, some for better reasons than others. But when it comes time to turn the ship, you must turn the ship, and that is what Biden is doing. Let’s see where it goes.
To this venerable genre, Nick Bryant adds an un-Trollopian modern sensibility and a great deal of journalistic flair. A longtime BBC correspondent, the British-born Bryant has covered the United States from the United States for much of his distinguished career. In “When America Stopped Being Great,” he offers what the book’s subtitle calls “a history of the present.” But it’s really an elegy for a nation that Bryant first came to know as a young man on an extended visit to Orange County, Calif., amid native-son Ronald Reagan’s “morning in America” campaign and the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.
At the time, Bryant was wowed. But as he went from impressionable teenager to seasoned correspondent, he also came to see that the nation he’d fallen in love with was falling apart. The book’s title invokes Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign slogan, and Trump’s outsized career and improbable and catastrophic presidency are woven throughout its 40-year narrative of decline.
Bryant begins the book with a BBC interview he did with Trump in 2014 that left him thinking Trump’s “best days and grandest designs were in the past.” He ends the book’s penultimate chapter with the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol (amazingly “present” history, given the book’s March publication date), which left him thinking much the same thing about the United States. Trump, it turned out, did have grander designs, but the “city upon a hill” Bryant had once admired now looked, in his words “like a disease-ridden ruin.”
Of course, Bryant is hardly the only foreigner whose impressions of the indispensable nation have soured. As the United States became No. 1 in covid cases while Trump spouted “America First,” the Pew Research Center found in a September 2020 report that other countries’ views of the nation had plummeted. In Bryant’s United Kingdom, 83 percent of the public viewed America positively in 2000, when a departing Bill Clinton was inspiring the premiership of Tony Blair. In the summer of 2020, the country’s favorability rate was 41 percent. A similar decline occurred in France, Canada, Japan and Australia; the drop in Germany was even greater.
If Bryant is echoing foreign laments, he nonetheless gives them a fresh arc. Drawing from his crammed reporters’ notebook and crumbling love affair with his adopted country, he tells a story familiar to anyone who’s cared too much about someone intent on self-destruction. In Bryant’s dark but deftly told tale, the United States is in the final stages of a precipitous, ongoing and likely irreversible decline. There are lots of villains and not a lot of heroes. Even leaders viewed as relatively competent come in for harsh treatment. Probably best off is George H.W. Bush, “an era-defining politician” who embodied “those fleeting years of unrivalled US global dominance, when . . . politics was more level-headed.” Barack Obama, by contrast, gets slammed for his aloofness and lack of engagement with legislative politics — the title of the chapter on his presidency is “No You Can’t.” Clinton and Bush the younger come off even worse: the former because he gives in to conservative ideas and his own carnal urges, the latter because he undermines federal capacities and undertakes disastrous wars. Trump, understandably, defines rock bottom.
Troll has another copy and paste tantrum at 12:08 and 12:12
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