Supreme Court hearing appeal of Trump’s Colorado case TODAY
Imagine how thinly Trump’s attorneys must be stretched this week.
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The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
Psalm 34:18
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UPDATE:
We are deeply saddened to learn that the five Marines we reported on yesterday whose helicopter went missing during a flight from Nevada to California have been confirmed dead. Heavy rain delayed search efforts in the woods in San Diego County, but their crashed copter was found late Wednesday and their bodies recovered early Thursday morning. They were from the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing and the "Flying Tigers."
https://www.foxnews.com/us/5-us-marines-confirmed-dead-helicopter-went-missing-california
A spokesman for the Marines issued a statement reading, "These pilots and crew members were serving a calling greater than self and were proud to do so. We will forever be grateful for their call to duty and selfless service. To the families of our fallen Marines, we send our deepest condolences and commit to ensuring your support and care during this incredibly difficult time."
We offer our condolences and prayers for their families as well.
White Robots
Just when you think the woke left’s sick obsession with racial division can’t possibly get any more ridiculous, along comes a professor to warn (“Danger, Will Robinson!”) that black children might be harmed by interacting with white robots.
Williamson suspends her campaign
Who saw this coming in their crystal ball? Self-help guru and spiritual adviser Marianne Williamson has suspended her campaign to challenge Joe Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination.
https://www.westernjournal.com/ap-dem-challenger-biden-marianne-williamson-ended-campaign/
Maybe he could give her a job in his Administration, setting up meetings for him with dead people.
JOBS NUMBER UPDATE:
The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported that a staggering 353,000 jobs were created in January, a shocking number considering the general state of the economy under Biden and that it was nearly double what economists predicted. It also seemed odd compared to a different metric, the Household Survey, which estimated a net loss of 35,000 jobs. So how is this possible?
As Steven Green at PJ Media reports, it isn’t possible, unless you make a lot of “assumptions” about job creation, and you know what the word “assume” means (Hint: ass+u+me.)
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2024/02/05/january-jobs-data-actually-sucked-n4926132
Warning
Warning: This story includes a photo of the frightening face of the latest alleged “insurrectionist” who nearly toppled the government by violence on January 6, 2021! She’s a 70-year-old Houston grandmother. The Biden Department of “Justice” spent countless hours and piles of our tax money to track her down so that they could hit her with multiple federal charges for stepping through the open Capitol door, walking around, and taking photos of a building her taxes have maintained for over half a century.
It’s too bad for her that she isn’t an illegal alien who sells fentanyl and beats up cops, or an Antifa member who burns down police stations, or a blue state thief who strips store shelves bare. Then she would’ve been able to walk away scot-free.
Back in the News
Young green activist Greta Thunberg is back in the news. Thunberg was dubbed the “Doom Pixie” for scowling at her elders at the UN and demanding of them, “How DARE you?” for daring to provide her with a safe, warm and comfortable life thanks to capitalism and abundant cheap energy. Last week, she and some fellow protesters were in a London courtroom, facing charges for a protest in which they blocked people’s entrance to an oil energy conference. Naturally, the judge dropped all the charges because how DARE anyone ever hold a leftist accountable for his/her/xir behavior?
Note from our pop culture guru, Pat Reeder:
Incidentally, if you’ve been wondering who Greta Thunberg reminds you of, I think I’ve figured it out.
Last week was the birthday of 1960s child actor Billy Mumy of “Lost In Space” fame. His other most famous role was as the terrifying godlike spoiled child on “The Twilight Zone” who banished people to the cornfield forever if they did anything to displease him. See if these two photos strike you as spookily similar in more ways than one.
https://media.townhall.com/cdn/hodl/2023/66/e7906b32-e97a-400f-a58c-1eecf71b01f6-1052x615.png
If that doesn’t creep you out enough, here’s Billy’s daughter Liliana, playing the daughter of that character in a 2003 sequel to the episode on UPN’s “Twilight Zone” reboot. Scary resemblance, isn’t it?
https://cdnmetv.metv.com/n5WAe-1572283332-13872-list_items-lilianamumy_copy.jpg
Follow the Money
The federal government used the pandemic as an excuse to load up cannons with borrowed money and blast it in all directions (particularly to Democrat cronies and voting blocs), but here’s one place where a big bundle of it landed that you might not know about:
$340 million was taken out of the federally-funded Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund and distributed in the form of $1,000 checks to illegal immigrants. They were supposedly ineligible to receive federal COVID aid, but wherever there’s Democratic leadership, there’s a way to get around the rules that everyone else is expected to follow. Just take the federal funds, put them in a state fund, and distribute it to illegal aliens out of that.
Yes, they did get the Biden Administration to approve the transfer, which the Economic Policy Innovation Center says means that “the Biden Administration directly subsidized ‘undocumented’ immigration under the guise of COVID-19 pandemic relief.” Another shocking but unsurprising story.
James Biden got paid for doing nothing, according to congressional testimony
Evidence keeps mounting that the title of the 1980s Dire Straits song “Money For Nothing” could just as easily describe the Biden family business.
It seems the only “work” they did for anyone was to provide access to the Biden name and big promises of what it could do. According to newly released testimony from the House Impeachment Inquiry, that’s the way it “worked.”
And in the case of their arrangement with Americore Health LLC, when James got paid, brother Joe got paid.
The closed-door interview with Carol Fox, trustee of bankruptcy proceedings for Americore, was held in December 2023, but the transcript wasn’t made public until Wednesday of this week. “What he [James] actually did, I don’t know,” she testified to members of the Oversight and Judiciary Committees, later adding that she “did not think he provided services to the debtors.”
She couldn’t find any records of any work being performed, but she did find the notation on a payment to James that it was a “loan.” Still, there was nothing in the paperwork about any collateral for any loans. (I guess they had James’ word as a Biden, and that was good enough!)
And these “loans” were quite large. Ms. Fox sued James in 2022, accusing him of failure to repay them, which apparently had been made on the promise that “his last name, ‘Biden,’ could ‘open doors’ and that he could obtain a large investment from the Middle East based on his political connections.” According to the settlement agreement James signed, he had received $600,000 in wire payments from Americore in 2018. His firm, Lion Hall, had received several additional payments. In the settlement, James admitted no liability but agreed to pay back $350,000. He said he’d provided “financial and consulting services to Americore and that Americore received reasonably equivalent value for the work and services provided by Biden/Lion Hall.”
Again, WHAT work? Court documents show that not only did James NOT “open doors” to Middle Eastern investors as he’d said he would but that he instead helped them obtain “an ill-advised bridge loan from a hedge fund” that they said pushed them over the edge to bankruptcy (apparently, bad judgement and destroying everything they touch runs in the family.)
On March 1, 2018, the same day that Americore wired $200,000 to James, he turned around and wrote a $200,000 check to Joe. James and the White House have said this money was a….(drum roll, please!)….loan repayment. Seems these family members were always “loaning” money to each other with no records of what the loans were for or any other details at all. Similarly, wealthy benefactor/“sugar brother” Kevin Morris “loaned” Hunter millions, apparently with no expectation of being paid back. In Biden World, there appears to be no difference between a loan and a gift.
The money ended up in Joe’s pocket after his time as Vice President was over and before he was President. But according to testimony from former Biden business partner Rob Walker, Hunter started working for Chinese company CEFC in 2015 and payments didn’t come until after Joe Biden left the vice presidency in January 2017. To use a word sometimes employed by the FBI, the money was “earmarked” for him.
So, what did these guys actually DO for all that money? Some testimony coming up soon might be revealing, though we probably won’t see the transcripts right away. Hunter Biden is still negotiating the timing of his closed-door deposition before Congress, having perhaps thought the better of continuing his strange combination of subpoena-dodging and political performance art. Most likely, James will be going first; he’s scheduled to appear on February 21.