The Frankish Reich

That would make sense if we weren't talking about $4.5 million. I know Ohtani's interpreter must be one of the best paid interpreters in the world, but this is way beyond any interpreter's resources. If the bookie extended credit, well, that was no doubt with the expectation that Ohtani himself was good for it ... whether Ohtani was in the loop or not.

Chinese group, so I'm guessing knockoff counterfeit Canada Goose. But still ... folks I know who work in this field tell me every single new arrival has a smartphone.

Same state so how could their governor complain? And here I was thinking that the Hunt family seemed like the rare wholesome, decent type of owners. Let them go to Oakland.

Well maybe the response would've been just as bad. Who knows. But not as comically bad. That was a Trump Special.

The red heifers are ready to ascend to the sacrificial platform. Two religions trying like hell to out-primitive each other? https://allisrael.com/blog/what-do-five-red-heifers-have-to-do-with-the-oct-7-massacre Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount is controversial even within the religious community. The ritual impurity of a population void of the sacrificial system, paired with not knowing exactly where the Temple would have stood, could allow for an accidental desecration of the site. To avoid this possibility, visiting the site – let alone praying on Temple Mount – is discouraged by many Rabbis; however, if the heifer ceremony is successfully completed this spring, that could change things. According to the Book of Numbers, chapter’ 19, the heifer ceremony results in the creation of an ‘ash and water’ mixture used for cleansing the nation of Israel from the ritual impurity of coming in contact with the dead. The ceremony also requires some of the blood to be sprinkled at the front of the Tabernacle and, in later history, the Temple. The ceremony, which traditionally took place on the Mt. of Olives, outside the camp, is essential for all other aspects of Temple worship to take place. "Adam, Cain and Noah find God punitive but soothed by the smell of burnt flesh, mostly animal." - Alasdair Gray

Right ... vacillation and weakness with respect to Russia. It's the Ironclad Rule of Trump Cult Projection.

I'm not denying that re: travel from China. All I'm saying is that Trump's overall score for his pre-election handling of the pandemic: D And the only reason he doesn't fail is Operation Warp Speed, which he seems uncomfortable about touting.

Folks, it's gonna be another nail-biter: https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/biden-leads-in-6-new-polls-the-booming https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/ The country is fundamentally divided. On a national basis, I see nothing that would convince me that there's any change in the roughly Biden +5 (closer to +7 in 2020) advantage. On the electoral college basis: Once again, every state but 7 is irrelevant/a foregone conclusion. PA, MI, WI, GA, AZ, NV, NC. Latest polls (mostly Feb, before a recent tightening) show Trump leading in all of them, albeit within the margin of error in most. So when Biden tries to curry favor with the UAW (Michigan!) or Trump tries to curry favor with "his" blue collar base (100% tariff!), remember, that's what we'll be seeing the rest of the year.

Hah. I've always been kind of a centrist on the whole COVID response thing. It's fair to say that Biden (and a lot of governors) kept distancing/masking/remote schooling/whatever rules in place far too long. But it's also fair to say that Trump's initial response to COVID was comically bad, ending in the perfect comeuppance: he gets COVID himself and has to be airlifted to Bethesda.

Standard Trumpie Response #1: I didn't really say that! You took me out of context! No, he didn't say he wanted to redevelop Gaza as an Israeli resort. And that's not what the report that I linked (from The Guardian) said. But what he did say was jarringly stupid and inappropriate. Sometimes that's bad enough, no?

Awesome campaign ad.

You mean God DIDN'T make Trump as America's savior? I've been deceived!

TRIGGER WARNING: TARHEELS BY BIRTH OR CHOICE PLEASE IGNORE. DO NOT EXPAND OR SCROLL. ADDITIONAL SPACING ADDED TO AVOID INADVERTENT TRIGGERING. One would think that a delicate snowflake who needs a trigger warning for my posts ("I don't even want to SEE them! Put them on permanent IGNORE!!") would not be tempted to read those posts just because they are quoted by someone else. I mean, sometimes you even have to hit "expand!" I assume our favorite Tarheel-by-way-of-Buffalo must enjoy being triggered. A kind of neuvo Internet Masochist.

I like how it needs captions because Mike is in full brain damaged mumbling stage. In other words: what an endorsement!

At first I thought it was a story about the interpreter using some petty cash (when you sign a $700 million contract "petty cash" can be a few thousand) to place his own bets. When I saw that it was $4.5 million, I thought the same thing - really? He's not a financial advisor, he's an interpreter. I have no idea how he would be draining Ohtani's accounts unless Ohtani authorized it. More to come. Bad for the Dodgers = Good for Baseball! Unfortunately, this is true too.

Re: Kushner. First, it never occurred to him that it is jarringly inappropriate at this time to be talking about development possibilities on the Gaza waterfront? Second, even if he doesn't mean it, it provides fodder for the belief that Israel is now trying to permanently eradicate or displace the Gaza population. Some kind of refugee camp in the Negev (yeah, that won't engender another century of animosity), couple with the Trump Resort/Gaza Strip?

Nope. You're right. That's why it fizzled away when the bogus informant was revealed.

This is awesome. Good insight into how the fake news machine operates.

And it's official: no one cares. https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4544660-newsmax-host-jim-jordan-biden-impeachment/

May we all take note of the ultra-defensive poster. I have written many posts that include my own legal analysis. You can check them against other sources, or with lawyers you may happen to know. They may disagree with my conclusions, but they would have no doubt they're written by a lawyer. Meanwhile, the Resident Ignorer When He's Not Surreptitiously Reading My Posts has shown us zero when it comes to advanced training in biology, biochemistry, whatever. In fact, he's made tons of jaw-droppingly stupid statements in relation to COVID treatments and vaccines. Hence: Lab Tech until further proof.

Aha! Busted. You've been reading all my post on the down low. Now you can stop the silliness about "ignoring" people. And yeah, he caught you hook, line, and sinker on that Q Analysis ... are there some"pedo rings?" I'm sure there are. Is there a cabal that includes all the rich and powerful who engage in these things AND then use the blood of their victims to gain additional power? Umm, no.

He blew up at me on that famous "Q Analysis" thread (sadly deleted), no doubt part of why he was banned. It was interesting though. In his anger/frustration, he exposed what he really meant by all this coded talk, posting photos of artist Abramovich (she of the Q obsession about "spirit eating"), Podesta, Hillary, all kinds of so-called pedo grooming symbolism (including on sheriff's dept badges), you name it. Deeply embarrassing today (know that we know it was an elaborate hoax that only the gullible and/or mentally unstable bought into) but that's how this particular poster "found Q." And learned how to find a Q accent in other, later comments by other people here and in other places. And you see it now in how certain posters who were previously fascinated at "analyzing Q" alongside their master now try to mock people who find Q hiding in plain sight. Hell, I would be embarrassed too if I'd fallen for such a lamebrained sham.

Oh, I'm sure he'd ban me. Nothing but a little cult over there from what I hear.

Really not so relevant here, but I stumbled across this while looking for that WP article on Trump's father, and it seems to be based on fact. Just interesting although it doesn't support any argument one way or the other. https://doctorzebra.com/prez/z_x45_trump_family_medical_history_g.htm Trump's father, a real estate developer, died with Alzheimer disease at age 93 in 1998 3. (Obituary: 4) His mental status began deteriorating before his hip replacement in 1991; during that hospitalization he had clear sundowning 1b. By contrast, in connection with his father's will, Trump testified in a deposition that his father had been "sharp as a tack" until just before he died 1c. Trump contradicted his testimony in 2019 by saying that in his father's "last few years he developed -- we probably think it was Alzheimer's" 5. Comment: Trump had ample motivation to lie about the amount of time that his father had Alzheimer disease. Trump stood to inherit more money from a late-life contested will of his father's -- if he could prove his father was mentally intact when he signed it 1d. Trump's mother died at age 88 3, having endured a lifetime of health challenges. In 1944 (circa age 32) she had a miscarriage and was warned against further pregnancies 1h. In 1949, at age 37, nine months after delivering her final child, she was found unconscious at home, amid blood on the floor. She underwent emergency hysterectomy (with oophorectomy -- removal of the ovaries) after "doctors found that serious postpartum complications had gone undiagnosed." This led to an abdominal infection and further complications. At one point physicians said she would not live a day. She underwent two more operations over the next week and was in and out of the hospital over the next six months. 1i Removing her ovaries at this young age led to osteoporosis and painful spontaneous fractures 1j 6. In addition to her osteoporotic fractures, she broke more bones when mugged in 1991 (age 79) 7 8. Her head was driven into her Rolls Royce, causing brain hemorrhage and partial loss of sight and hearing. "When she hit the pavement, her pelvis fractured in several places, and ribs broke" 1k. She was admitted to an ICU with concerns for her life. "It was weeks... before her pain became bearable" 1k. For weeks afterwards at home, she slept on a hospital bed 1l. Trump's mother was an insomniac wanderer who could be found in the morning in unexpected places in the home. "More than once, she ended up having to go to the hospital." For this problem she never received psychiatric help. 1m Biden's medical history from the same site is also interesting. https://doctorzebra.com/prez/g46 On Feb. 10, 1988, in his hotel room after a campaign appearance in Rochester, NY, Biden suffered a classic "thunderclap headache:" the sudden onset of indescribably severe pain. He lost consciousness (for 5 hours 8), but recovered and went to the bathroom where he again experienced dry heaving before falling asleep for the night. Returning home to Delaware with difficulty the next day, he continued to have pain, but believed he could catch his scheduled afternoon flight. He was convinced to go to the hospital (St. Francis, Wilmington, DE), where a spinal tap disclosed blood in his spinal fluid -- a clear sign of a bleeding in the brain. 1h Too fragile for a helicopter ride (plus it was too snowy), he was driven by ambulance to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, though not without getting lost. By dawn the next day he was in the ICU. An angiogram showed an aneurysm in the left side of the brain -- the side that controls speech. Given a 50-50 chance of survival, and the last rights, Dr. Eugene George then operated on him for nine hours. The aneurysm ruptured "the moment they cut into Biden's head." Luckily, the blood jeted toward the wall of his skull, not into his brain. By the next morning, Biden told a staffer, "I'm gonna be all right" 1i. However, his post-operative course was complicated by serious blood clots. The left side of the brain also controls almost all movements of the right side of the body. After the operation, Biden's right upper eyelid drooped and the right side of his forehead was immobile. Six weeks after the operation, "the muscles in his forehead and cheek began to work again." 9 Biden was away from work (the Senate) for seven months 8. Biden had ended his presidential campaign in September 1987. Family members believed that he would have died had he still been a candidate on the following Feb. 10 -- because he would have undoubtedly refused to leave the campaign trail and get medical attention 1i.

So, if Joe committed crimes AFTER he was VP but BEFORE he was POTUS ... I guess he should be prosecuted as soon as he leaves office. But the Republicans can't say that! That would be conceding that Trump can be prosecuted, even for crimes committed before or after he was POTUS. So we have to have this dog and pony show.