- In 2021, Manistee County, Michigan, took the title on Chelsea Koetter's home in response to a small debt she owed on her 2018 property taxes...
- Her situation instead only grew more absurd. Four months after seizing her home, which she shared with her two sons, the government auctioned it off for $106,500. Then it kept the profit.
- All told, Koetter owed the government $3,863.40, which included her initial tax debt, as well as penalties, interest, and fees. She does not contest she was obligated to pay that. At issue is whether or not the county acted lawfully when it pocketed the remaining $102,636 after selling her house, in a practice known as home equity theft...
Tuesday, August 06, 2024
Manistee County Sold a Michigan Woman's Home Over Unpaid Taxes and Kept the Profit
She Underpaid a Property Tax Bill. So the Government Seized Her Home, Sold It—and Kept the $102,636 Profit. - Billy Binion
U.S. Senate now putting Secret Service 'culture' under magnifying glass * WorldNetDaily * by Susan Crabtree, Real Clear Wire
U.S. Senate now putting Secret Service 'culture' under magnifying glass * WorldNetDaily * by Susan Crabtree, Real Clear Wire:
A Secret Service counter sniper who called for the firing or resignations of all top agency leaders in a scathing email confirmed to colleagues Monday night that he meant to send the missive to every employee in the agency's Uniform Division.
The sniper told his colleagues in two emails Monday night that he no longer could contain his anger after enduring a "CYA culture" for years at the agency and after two weeks of obfuscation and out-right lies by Secret Service leaders in the wake of the July 13 assassination attempt against President Trump that killed firefighter Corey Comperatore and critically injured two others.
History for August 6
History for August 6 - On-This-Day.com 
Lucille Ball 1911
- 1806 - The Holy Roman Empire went out of existence as Emperor Francis II abdicated.
- 1945 - The American B-29 bomber, known as the Enola Gay, dropped the first atomic bomb on an inhabited area. The bomb named "Little Boy" was dropped over the center of Hiroshima, Japan. An estimated 140,000 people were killed. (8:16am Japanese time)
- 1960 - Nationalization of U.S. and foreign-owned property in Cuba began.
- 1965 - The Voting Rights Act was signed by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
- 1998 - Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky spent 8 1/2 hours testifying before a grand jury about her relationship with U.S. President Clinton.
Monday, August 05, 2024
DEI recruiting nightmare: 'We spent $1 million to get 1 kid in the Army' * WorldNetDaily * by J.M. Phelps
DEI recruiting nightmare: 'We spent $1 million to get 1 kid in the Army' * WorldNetDaily * by J.M. Phelps:
Nearly two million dollars spent by one of the nation's Army recruiting brigades could not overcome the alienation of potential service members caused by the military's embrace of radical "diversity, equity and inclusion" policies under the Biden-Harris administration.
After more than two decades of service, Col. Nicholas Braun (a pseudonym) recently retired from the U.S. Army. He spoke to WorldNetDaily on the condition of anonymity, concerned over likely reprisals he would face from the U.S. government for the information he shared with WND.
Let's review this in a month-----And Suddenly Things Change - by James Howard Kunstler
“The global economy is becoming unburdened by what has been.” - Jordan Schachtel on “X” - by James Howard KunstlerThat two-by-four upside our country’s head you’ve been waiting to get whomped with?
Looks like it’s landing now.
- We got a banger in 2008, but it didn’t make a much of an impression...Hank Paulson and Fed Chair Ben Bernanke came in like a code blue squad and hooked up the banks to an IV-drip speedball of cocaine and heroin, i.e., “money” that didn’t actually exist (a.k.a. “liquidity,” hallucinated capital), and that crew kept it coming for years.
- And then Janet Yellen and her posse kept it coming with never-ending zero interest rate policy (ZIRP) until the national debt canceled America’s future.
- And that left Jerome Powell pretending there was a way out of this doom-loop.
- Then came the repo market spasm in September 2019 that freaked out the blob so badly they shut down the whole world with Covid and locked-down economies.
And everything since then has been a waiting game.
The financial world was in hospice...
- You understand this can’t play out like it did in 2008-9.
- The authorities are out of tricks and out of fake money...
Customers and workers will pay the price of cutting tipped wages, Michigan restaurant owners say - mlive.com
Those changes, they say, will result in higher prices for customers and risk jobs for workers...
- GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Michigan restaurant owners are warning that recent changes to the state’s tipped wage laws will have a “devastating” effect on local businesses.
- Under the new regulations, the lower wage for tipped workers would increase from $3.93 to about $6 next year, and it would be eventually eliminated altogether by 2029.
- Proponents of the changes say eliminating tipped wages will offer more stable earnings to the 125,000 tipped workers in Michigan’s hospitality industry...
Local Officer Shouted 'Long Gun' Into Radio 30 Seconds Before Trump Was Shot
Local Officer Shouted 'Long Gun' Into Radio 30 Seconds Before Trump Was Shot:
There seems to be no end to the Secret Service’s incompetence.
Just when you think the July 13 shooting of former President Donald Trump couldn’t have gone any worse, a new detail proves that it did.
A Thursday report from The New York Times offered another one of those details.
American hurdler jogs the entire way during Olympic race and bizarrely explains why in interview
An American hurdler has explained why he jogged an entire race at the Olympic Games in Paris. - Alex Brotherton 
- That includes using event rules to your advantage, as American hurdler Freddie Crittenden did on Sunday morning.
- The Paris Games is the first Olympics to have repechage rounds in some track events...
- However, in 2022 World Athletics - the governing body of athletics - introduced repechage rounds in some events, which are essentially second chances for athletes who fail to qualify for the semi-finals though their performance in the heats...
Lunch video-----Renewables causing unbelievable amount of ‘environmental destruction’ fo...
- “Yet basically unseen by all the inner city loveys who are calling for even greater extension of renewable energy,” Ms Sloan told Sky News Australia.
- “I actually reckon we should be saying sorry today and stopping it.
Kamala blames Trump for horrible jobs report during Biden-Harris economy * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh
Kamala blames Trump for horrible jobs report during Biden-Harris economy * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh:
It continued, "Inflation has raised prices by more than 20% since President Joe Biden first took office in January 2021. The combination of high inflation and the increased borrowing costs from elevated interest rates have weighed on American wallets, with the percentage of credit card balances more than 60 days overdue reaching 2.59% in the first quarter, the highest rate of delinquency since records began in 2012."
Vice President Harris has reversed her position on fracking, signaling a move to the center on the issue.
GREAT MOMENTS IN “CALIBRATING HER POLICY PITCHES:” Kamala and Fracking — Can She Successfully Pull Off The “Trust Me, I’m Lying” Gambit?
Unfortunately, Pennsylvania is a must-win state for Kamala, and it has an oil boom going on. Promising to kill off all those high-paying, blue collar, oilfield jobs is a winning message in San Franciso and Boston, but it doesn’t play so well in western Pennsylvania. So Kamala is trying the always difficult “Trust me, I’m lying” approach, hoping she can fool the blue-collar voters in Pennsylvania, while also hoping her radical left-wing base knows she is just lying to get elected, and that they’ll still vote for her despite Kamala now being on the record as pro-fracking.
“Harris courts swing voters with fracking reversal” [The Hill – 8/01/2024]
Vice President Harris has reversed her position on fracking, signaling a move to the center on the issue. The rightward shift comes as she tries to court swing voters in states like Pennsylvania.
As with all of her flip-flops, the media will be eager to let proceed forward, unburdened by what has been. -
Instapundit - WRAP YOUR HEAD AROUND THIS
the present government debt equals 93 percent of all the wealth generated in this country since the Constitution was ratified - Mark Tapscott
- Take all of the wealth — $152 Trillion — generated by every American since the first day this nation existed under the U.S. Constitution.
- Now compare that with the total federal debt, including all debts, liabilities and unfunded obligations — $142 Trillion.
- In other words, the present government debt equals 93 percent of all the wealth generated in this country since the Constitution was ratified by the requisite number of states in 1778, according to Just Facts’ James Agresti.
The Etch A Sketch Nominee and the Mullahs’ Nightmare By Clarice Feldman
The Democrats think they will pitch a fast one, less than 100 days before the election, coronating a radical, not very smart candidate as a substitute for a clearly demented president. 
They plan to avoid any unscripted remarks by her and any interviews or debates.
- The wisdom of keeping her mouth shut is evident...
This is just an extraordinary testament to the importance of having a president who understands the power of diplomacy and understands the strength that rests in understanding the significance of diplomacy and strengthening alliances...
'Zuckbucks' Group To Dump More Cash Into Election Offices
The Center for Tech and Civic Life, which influenced the 2020 election with “Zuckbucks,” announced another round of grants before November. - Logan Washburn 
- The grants target 2024 battleground states Michigan, Nevada, and New Hampshire. Other eligible states are Alaska, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Vermont, Washington, and Wyoming...
- CTCL claims to provide “nonpartisan” funding, but its history suggests otherwise...
- CTCL shuttled $328 million from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to public election agencies in 2020.
- The grants, which later became known as “Zuckbucks,” largely targeted areas with left-leaning voting blocs and boosted Democratic turnout in the already close presidential election.
- According to the Capital Research Center (CRC), 28 states have banned “Zuckbuck”-style election funding due to integrity concerns..
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