MSNBC last week reported that the possible
extradition of Julian Assange to the United States would reveal a lot about the
connection of the former president with Russia that the Muller probe never
fully confirmed. It’s by former FBI
Ass’t. Director Frank Figliuzzi who is never wrong! CLICK HERE TO READ IT or just visit:
The other, from the New York Times, is
about why the former president’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, since cited for
contempt of Congress, clammed up. What
he knows could focus on sedition among members of Congress. CLICK HERE TO READ IT or just visit:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/us/politics/trump-meadows-republicans-congress-jan-6.html
JL
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Gov. DeSantis, Dr. Fauci, Moms for Liberty and God's Possible Involvement
Locally, (which means Florida) in a Palm
Beach Post “Your Turn” column
(12-16), a reader commented on Floriduh governor Ron DeSantis who has
launched a personal attack on Dr. Fauci. Quoting from the column: “The savaging of Dr. Fauci is a rallying
point for DeSantis … Like (the former president), DeSantis has a cruel method
to his madness. Assault character. Propagate
lies. Assail the truth. All under some
warped concept of patriotism and freedom”
DeSantis recently attacked Fauci at a rally at
“the Villages,” an enormous retirement community near Ocala, which always votes
Republican, and will forever, no matter who their candidates are, even “Howdy
Doody,” whom all of them are old enough to remember, but who are not quite so
intelligent as was he, even though he was just a puppet.
Elsewhere in the paper was an article on “Moms
for Liberty,” a group dedicated to being free from having to vaccinate, and
wear masks, and working to remove certain books from schools along with the
parts of American history to which they close their eyes. I used to refer to such people as ignorant
and gullible (both of which can be remedied) but it appears they are just plain
stupid or considerably worse. There were
plenty like them in Germany in the 1930’s.
I read somewhere that there is a greater
increase of Covid19 infections in the parts of the United States that support
the Republican Party than in areas which lean toward the Democrats and that
this might be an ‘act of God’ directed at them.
I do not believe this, but it bothers me that the lesson it teaches is
being ignored by those opposing vaccinations and masking. Their stupidity can have serious consequences
for them, and unfortunately, for others as well because it permits the
continued existence and spread of the coronavirus in all of its variants for
all of us. We need everyone’s help in
dealing with Covid19, even God’s, if he or she or whatever wants to get
involved.
JL
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Law Enforcement Patriots
Commenting on a recent posting on Professor
Heather Cox Richardson’s “Letters From an American,” blog on Substack, a
follower mentioned the kid-glove treatment Palm Beach law enforcement gave to
the late Jeffrey Epstein while under arrest.
I added the following to her comments:
“This problem
extends beyond Palm Beach. Too many in law enforcement don't understand that
their mission, to protect the public and maintain civil order, must take
precedence over their personal politics. Give someone a law enforcement job
which entitles them to wear an American Flag on their shirt sleeve, and this
includes related jobs such as corrections personnel, and they identify
themselves as personal protectors of that flag, letting their politics
influence them. Look at all the flag wavers on January 6 at the Capitol.”
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Getting Rid of the Filibuster
An editorial in
today’s Palm Beach Post supported the need for the continuance of the Senate
filibuster as a means of protecting a minority from being steamrolled over in
that chamber. But it endorsed making
further exceptions to it (some today exist such as the confirmation of SCOTUS
Justices and bills affecting the budget) in regard to voters’ rights. After citing the failure of bipartisan
efforts to accomplish that, it concluded:
“Democrats in
the Senate are working to reform the filibuster to pass vital pieces of
election reform. This must be done. The alternative – that America would suffer
through a chaotic, divisive and disputed election outcome in the not-too-distant
future – is unthinkable.”
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Finally, Let’s Get to Important Stuff - BAGELS!
The branded bagels one buy in the supermarkets,
either frozen or not, are baked months before and preserved with
chemicals. Otherwise they would be
stale. So the first lesson in Bagelry
101 is “Never a Lender nor a Thomas eat.”
Next up the scale are the ones coming from the supermarket chain’s own
bakeries. But these are not real bagel
bakeries, which are special places. The
also bake cupcakes and cookies and bread and that isn’t the kind of bakery from
which real bagels come. And they usually
carry an expiry date of a week or so off on their label, which means one thing:
chemical preservatives! There are many
places around (I am in Florida) which claim to be bagel bakeries. Some try hard and come close, but in some
manner, almost all of them fall short.
They apologize saying it’s the water. Maybe it is.
Up north, we had truly great bagel bakeries in
Newark, one of which was Watson’s and the several other bagel bakeries
derivative from their operation. You
know, the water in Newark was always pretty good, which historically drew many
breweries there (*Budweiser, Ballentine, Kreuger, Hensler, Feigenspan, Pabst,
etc.). Maybe that applied to bagels as
well. There were similar bagel bakeries
to Watson’s throughout the New York metropolitan area.
All other sources of bagels were inferior, as
are most of the bagel places here in Florida.
The closest to a real Newark bagel that I have encountered are those
produced at the outlets of the Brooklyn Water Bagel Bakery here in the Sunshine
State. They do something with their
water to simulate New York (or N.J.) water. Their product captures the
chewiness which all the others mentioned here lack. That’s the name of the
game. Chewiness. But they’re pricy at
$7.50 for a half dozen.
Please pass the cream cheese.
*Only Budweiser still brews in
Newark, or possibly right over the city line in Elizabeth, N.J.
JL
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