Monday, February 10, 2025

This one made me tear up...and cheer!-----An Inexhaustible Voice, a Soul, a Spirit

The remarkable story of a song, a singer, and triumph over unthinkable adversity - Robert F. Graboyes
  • Sometimes, a mind-bending story writes itself in reverse...
 The video that sparked this essay has been viewed 80 million times over several years, so perhaps you already know all or part of the story. 
But here’s how it unfurled for me.
  • Someone in my X/Twitter stream posted a video of a delicate-looking 16-year-old girl singing at a gigantic music festival and captioned the video with spare, cryptic, powerful praise. 
The caption made it impossible for me not to click on the video, and the praise proved understated...
But then Rieu’s introduction tells the eye-opening portion of the story.
Enzo has a little sister, Emma. Unfortunately, Emma has a rare, but terrible disease. Her stomach is paralyzed. She cannot eat. All the food goes through a little tube directly into her stomach. But Emma is a brave girl. She wants to live a normal life. And Emma has a dream. She has a beautiful voice. She wants to be a singer. She did ‘The Voice Kids’ here in Holland, and immediately, she won.”
Emma’s bio says she has been on that feeding tube since she was nine months old and has endured bullying over her gastroparesis and slight stature...



AM Fruitcake

 

History for February 10

History for February 10 - On-This-Day.com 
Boris Pasternak 1890
  • 1763 - The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War. In the treaty France ceded Canada to England.
  • 1897 - "The New York Times" began printing "All the news that's fit to print" on their front page.
  • 1949 - "Death of a Salesman" opened at the Morocco Theatre in New York City.
  • 1962 - The Soviet Union exchanged capture American U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for the Soviet spy Rudolph Ivanovich Abel being held by the U.S.
  • 1967 - The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment required the appointment of a vice-president when that office became vacant and instituted new measures in the event of presidential disability.
  • 2005 - North Korea publicly announced for the first time that it had nuclear arms. The country also rejected attempts to restart disarmament talks in the near future saying that it needed the weapons as protection against an increasingly hostile United States.

Sunday, February 09, 2025

Pam Bondi's First Day Is Over: Liberals Are in for a Total Nightmare

Pam Bondi's First Day Is Over: Liberals Are in for a Total Nightmare

In a memo Wednesday, Bondi said draining the DOJ swamp was necessary because “as President Trump pointed out following his second inauguration, ‘[t]he prior administration and allies throughout the country engaged in an unprecedented, third-world weaponization of prosecutorial power to upend the democratic process.'”

She continued: “[T]he American people have witnessed the previous administration engage in a systematic campaign against its perceived political opponents, weaponizing the legal force of numerous Federal law enforcement agencies and the Intelligence Community against those perceived political opponents in the form of investigations, prosecutions, civil enforcement actions, and other related actions.”

The way we were-----The American Revolutionary War in the Mediterranean: Menorca 1781

DOGE WIN: USA Not Paying for George Soros’ Pet Projects Anymore

Elon Musk: "To be clear, what the @DOGE team and @USTreasury have jointly agreed makes sense is the following:

Elon Musk on X: "Require that all outgoing government payments have a payment categorization code, which is necessary in order to pass financial audits. / X - Elon
This is frequently left blank, making audits almost impossible. 
  • - All payments must also include a rationale for the payment in the comment field, which is currently left blank. Importantly, we are not yet applying ANY judgment to this rationale, but simply requiring that SOME attempt be made to explain the payment more than NOTHING! 
  • - The DO-NOT-PAY list of entities known to be fraudulent or people who are dead or are probable fronts for terrorist organizations or do not match Congressional appropriations must actually be implemented and not ignored. Also, it can currently take up to a year to get on this list, which is far too long. This list should be updated at least weekly, if not daily. 
The above super obvious and necessary changes are being implemented by existing, long-time career government employees, not anyone from @DOGE
It is ridiculous that these changes didn’t exist already! 
Yesterday, I was told that there are currently over $100B/year of entitlements payments to individuals with no SSN or even a temporary ID number. 
If accurate, this is extremely suspicious. 
When I asked if anyone at Treasury had a rough guess for what percentage of that number is unequivocal and obvious fraud, the consensus in the room was about half, so $50B/year or $1B/week!! 
This is utterly insane and must be addressed immediately.

Year 2024 NOAA Measured Sea level Rise Data Show Climate Alarmists CO2 Driven Sea Level Rise Acceleration Claims Have Spectacularly Failed

NOAA year 2024 measured U.S. Station Sea Level rise data outcomes establish that alarmists 4 decades long hyped claims of high rates of accelerating sea level rise due to increasing man-made CO2 emissions have clearly failed. - Larry Hamlin
At the Democrats Senate 1988 hearing so called “experts” were paraded forward and provided testimony claiming that rising global CO2 emissions experienced to date (1988) would result in
  • “Global mean temperature will likely rise at about 0.6 degrees F per decade and sea level at about 2.5 inches per decade.”
“These rates are about six times recent history.”...

Leak ICE raid details? Find yourself in handcuffs! * WorldNetDaily * by Harold Hutchison, Daily Caller News Foundation

Leak ICE raid details? Find yourself in handcuffs! * WorldNetDaily * by Harold Hutchison, Daily Caller News Foundation

"I'm working very close starting this morning with the Department of Justice in where do they cross the line of impediment? So they may find themselves in a pair handcuffs soon. So, working with DOJ on that, get some legal guidance on that, I'm not an attorney I know what … crossing that line is, but getting DOJ back up on that, so something we're looking at, Harris," Homan told Faulkner. "We're not going to tolerate it anymore. This is not a game. When we show up at these sites, this is a dangerous job for the men of women of ICE and Border Patrol and all the DOJ agencies."

FLABBERGASTED: The American People Are Shocked to See What USAID Was Funding

A billion dollar Obama grant project. Bird incinerator.

Never generated any power.  - Lynn Chu
Sovereign wealth investment fund is the only way "investments" in the future should be made by politicians. 
Real investment restrains waste, fraud and abuse. 
  • "Grants" throwing Other People's Money at your buddies is a freaking disaster. - Glen Hartley..

wsj.com - Opinion | ‘A Prolific Executioner of Wildlife’
An Obama-era monument to green delusions finally faces extinction.

"So many birds have been victims of the plant’s concentrated sun rays that workers referred to them as “streamers,” for the smoke plume that comes from birds that ignite in midair...

Lunch video-----Defective Memories

"People's belief that the climate is changing is usually due to "defective memory."  
This video shows how to quickly get past that superstition using app.visitech.ai

Noon-toon

 

Students are trapped in mandatory DEI disguised as coursework | Blaze Media

Students are trapped in mandatory DEI disguised as coursework | Blaze Media

In 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the use of race in university admissions in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. Harvard and SFFA v. University of North Carolina. In response, universities like ASU insisted they were unaffected. The ruling applied to institutions that follow an elitist model with limited admissions slots, they argued, while ASU prides itself on welcoming as many students as possible — conveniently sidestepping the legal issue.

"Race based theft"!

 

Want to pay 3X what you're currently paying for electricity?-----Scientists Skeptical of Anthropogenic Global Warming | Facebook

But cramming in more solar and wind just makes power more and more costly - Theodore Lichacz

Bjørn Lomborg - rtSnsoedpoFuahbl55ml a uru270ff1132ffA7ifM5:afc5t3f1 eyur6a ·
You are told that solar and wind are cheap
  • But cramming in more solar and wind just makes power more and more costly
because solar and wind are worthless when not sunny and windy
https://iea.org/data-and.../data-product/energy-prices
https://x.com/i/web/status/1874787199767728205
https://x.com/BjornLomborg/status/1883272150624391439

And elected democrats are DEFENDING this!

 

It's an agent of the ENEMIES of America!-----Defunding USAID Isn’t About Reducing The Deficit, It’s About Shutting Down Left-Wing Propaganda

USAID isn’t just a ridiculous scam on U.S. taxpayers, it funds leftist causes that erode western civilization and destroy traditional values. - John Daniel Davidson
But trimming the federal budget and reducing the deficit aren’t really the point of this exercise. 
The point is to expose USAID for the left-wing propaganda and regime change operation that it has become, and to shut it down. 
In the six decades since it was established, USAID has gone from fighting poverty, spreading American ideals, and undercutting Soviet propaganda, to becoming a woke propaganda operation of its own that actively undermines the pillars of western civilization. 
It’s gone from exporting democracy to exporting deviancy, and now we can all see it...

#1 This day 1948-----1948 HITS ARCHIVE: Ballerina - Vaughn Monroe (his original #1 version)

Must read!-----"The House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump on December 18, 2019, after a White House whistleblower went public with evidence that Trump abused his powers by withholding military aid to Ukraine in order to dig up dirt on his rival, Joe Biden.

...the CIA analyst relied on reporting by a supposedly independent investigative news organization called the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), which appears to have effectively operated as an arm of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) - Michael Shellenberger@shellenberger 
In the complaint, the whistleblower claimed to have heard from White House staff that Trump had, on a phone call, directed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to work with his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, to investigate Joe Biden and Hunter Biden...
Reporting by Drop Site News last year revealed that the CIA analyst relied on reporting by a supposedly independent investigative news organization called the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), which appears to have effectively operated as an arm of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)...
The OCCRP story was crucial to the House Democrats’ impeachment claim, which is that Trump dispatched Giuliani as part of a coordinated effort to pressure a foreign country to interfere in the 2020 presidential election, which is why the whistleblower cited it four times...

REMINDER: THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE HAS SPENT **$20 TRILLION** OF U.S. TAXPAYER MONEY THAT IS UNDOCUMENTED AND UNACCOUNTED FOR

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has done the same with $1 trillion of taxpayer money.


Democrat tries to blame Trump for weak jobs report and gets a brutal wake-up call | Blaze Media

Democrat tries to blame Trump for weak jobs report and gets a brutal wake-up call | Blaze Media

She apparently didn't read the article she posted, because it said the statistics came from December until January, most of which fell squarely on the shoulders of former President Joe Biden and not on Trump. The community note on the X platform also undermined her criticism. Crockett was brutally mocked for the bizarre claim.

Hey... where is the outrage over all this?

 Bob GloverMuskegon County Informed***NATIONAL, International, Intergalactic!

Borrowed from a very wise friend
Hey... where is the outrage over all this?
Crickets!
“When millions of illegals were ushered in through the southern border, you said nothing!
When they abandoned millions of dollars worth of military equipment in Afghanistan, you said nothing!
When they flaunted a two tier justice system, one for them and one for everyone else, you said nothing!
When they covered up the Hunter Biden laptop, you said nothing!
When they passed a trillion dollar infrastructure bill that failed miserably, you said nothing!
When they forced Americans to take an untested vaccine, or lose your job, you said nothing!
When inflation crushed the middle class, you said nothing!
When they sent billions to Ukraine, you said nothing!
When chemicals polluted the water in East Palestine, Ohio and they ignored it, you said nothing!
When Americans were raped, robbed and murdered by illegals, you said nothing!
When they implanted Kamala as the presidential nominee without getting a single vote, you said nothing!
When billionaire and anti American George Soros funded dozens of AG elections, you said nothing!
When they turned our classrooms into liberal indoctrination camps, you said nothing!
When they spent our tax dollars on inmates transition surgeries, you said nothing!
When they gave the citizens of Hawaii $700 after losing their entire city, you said nothing!
When they gave free money, food and 5 star hotel lodging to illegals, you said nothing!
When they came for our free speech, you said nothing!
When DEI weakened the military and put our national security at risk, you said nothing!
When they colluded with the media to push false reports, you said nothing!
When it was open season on law enforcement and criminals reigned, you said nothing!
When they weaponized the justice system to take down their political opponents, you said nothing!
When the bureaucrats took over the White House and ran the government, you said nothing!
When they covered up Biden's rapidly declining mental state, you said nothing!
When they groomed our kids in school and hid it from the parents, you said nothing!
When the drug epidemic exploded and 1000s died annually, you said nothing!
When they accosted the jews on their campuses, you said nothing!
When they weaponized the intelligence agencies against Americans, you said nothing!
When they spent $45 million dollars on "Diversity and Inclusion" scholarships in Burma, you said nothing!
When they let men play women's sports, you said nothing!
When they chanted "Death to America" and burned our flag, you said nothing!
When they shutdown our energy production, and emboldened Russia, you said nothing!
When the crime rates in American cities increased, you said nothing!
While thousands of veterans were left to sleep out on the streets, you said nothing!
When 300,000 migrant children went missing and no one had a clue, you said nothing!
When Joe Biden pardoned his friends and family, you said nothing!
When they sent billions to Iran and inadvertently funded Hamas, you said nothing!
When men were celebrated for pretending to be women, you said nothing!
When they let a Chinese spy ballon sail across America, you said nothing!
When 50 intelligence agents all lied to bury the Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation, you said nothing!
When American citizens were taken hostage and held for a year in Gaza, you said nothing!
When Facebook admitted, they conspired with the Biden administration to censor the truth, you said nothing!
When they cleaned the streets of San Francisco for the communist Chinese President Xi Jinping, you said nothing!
When Fauci and the WHO peddled Covid 19 virus lies and covered up the origins, you said nothing!
When they sealed the January 6th commission files or "lost them", you said nothing!
When they closed schools in NY to house illegals, you said nothing!
You saw the corruption, the lies, the bad policy, the anti American agenda and said nothing, so please spare us your crocodile tears and all your fake hysteria now. For 4 years you watched this country get run into the ground on all fronts, and you said NOTHING!”’

AM Fruitcake