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Trouble In Kremlin Gulag: Spy Boss Reportedly Arrested As Putin Fumes Over Ukraine Invasion A top commander of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) intelligence agency has been placed under house arrest amid upheaval and infighting among officials as President Vladimir Putin fumes over the botched Ukraine invasion, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. Russian commander Col. Gen. Sergei Beseda was in charge of the FSB’s Ukraine operation, according to the Journal, citing a U.S. official. The unidentified American official also told the newspaper that “bickering had broken out” between the FSB and the Russian Ministry of Defense, which were the key government agencies planning the invasion. Citing Russian news sources, The New York Times reported that a second FSB official was also under house arrest. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/spy-arrested-putin-anger-ukraine-invasion-trouble_n_623691cde4b046c938dca2e9

If you think of Batman/Bruce Wayne as a goth, its for you.

California MAGA candidate says she’s running because Jesus spoke to her son in a closet California Republican Rachel Hamm is running for Secretary of State in the June primary. Like many candidates, she is speaking about her motivation for running. Like many GOP candidates, she is claiming God was involved in her decision. Unlike any other candidate, Hamm says Jesus spoke to her son in a closet and told her to declare her candidacy. “I’ve been a prophetic dreamer so I had spent a lot of 2019 and 20 having a lot of political dreams that I was in office. And because our youngest son, Ezekiel is a seer I went and got him and I said, ‘Hey, can you look around and see what you’re seeing?’ Because I just really, I get a kick out of hearing him describe, you know, what he sees?” “And so, he said, you know, let me know if you see anything. And so he looked at my bedroom and my bathroom. He said, ‘There’s nothing there.’ And then he goes into the closet – which is where I had been when I was praying – and he said, ‘Whoa,’ and his eyes got like, big as saucers, and he kind of like started backing away, and then started bending down and he said, ‘You’ve got a really big guy in your closet, and his power is pushing me to the ground,’ and we had never had he’d never had that reaction ever, to an angel. And so I’m like, is he’s for us, not against us, right?” https://www.alternet.org/2022/03/jesus/ (And many of the GOPers know a lot about closets)

The international price for sweet crude returned to pre-Ukrainian war levels. Lets see if/when out pump prices return to the old prices.

To add a note of levity (and politics), a couple of weeks ago, Trump held a rally with attendees paying several hundred dollars to be in The Presence. They were fed......McDonald's hamburgers, fries and cola. That summed up Trump's GOP perfectly.

Right after he said that, he stated that his immediate plans were to learn to walk on water, become a world-class rap performer and marry Scarlet Johanson.

Why not reduce the number of players on the filed by one as well and rename the CFL to "NFL Tier Two"?

Sounds about normal- for Alberta, the Alabama wannabe.

"No such thing as bad publicity"

Can't believe how many accolades McDonalds is getting here. I guess sometimes calories are more important than standards. Fatburger for me.

Hard work often pays off.

You bet I have.

The scary thing is that this is legal- the only hitch would be the Biden cabinet revolting and impeaching Harris. Not likely, but who would have thought that a racist, misogynistic criminal like Trump would have been elected in the first place?

Stupid is as stupid does. It seems to me that a political party can become so insular that the only voices they hear are their own and become totally divorced from reality. I was in Saskatchewan (don't judge me) for the last year or so of the Grant Devine regime, and, in the opinion of a writer for the Regina Leader-Post, they governed like an army of occupation because they knew that they had no chance of returning to any significant number of seats in the pending election, let alone power. I see the current provincial PCs in the same position. They will try to hang all of the pas faux on Stefanson without saying it out loud and pray earnestly that voters have a short memory. After the election, they may be so ravaged that they change their name, as did the Saskatchewan PCs.

The whole point of being a dictator is to have no accountability, is it not?

Roger Stone unveils a doozy of a plan to install Donald Trump as president Longtime right-wing political henchman Roger Stone on Thursday revealed his new plan to install Donald Trump into the presidency. Speaking to the Republican Accountability Project, Stone shared his blueprint for, as he sees it, rectifying the crime of Trump's defeat to President Joe Biden in the 2020 election. The three-point plan goes as follows: First, Stone expects the House of Representatives to elect Trump as its Speaker if they retake control of the lower congressional chamber in this year's midterm elections. This is permitted in the United States Constitution. Literally, anybody whom a majority of the House chooses can hold the gavel as long as they meet the basic qualifications for getting elected, which in the House is any citizen 25 years of age and up. Next, Stone predicts that Biden's Cabinet will invoke the 25th Amendment to remove him from office. Over what, he did not say. In the final stage, according to Stone, Congress will impeach and remove Vice President Kamala Harris for refusing to promote ivermectin, a deworming medication used in horses, as an effective treatment against COVID-19. It is not. At that point, with Biden and Harris out of office, Trump would ascend to the presidency via the line of succession. https://www.alternet.org/2022/03/roger-stone-install-donald-trump/

In my view, there is. Our Creator is not portrayed and as detached, vengeful deity condemning for even minor transgressions, but as endlessly patient parent who does not need intermediaries, but is capable and willing to connect to and guide us. This view diminishes the roles of clergy and organized religion and places the responsibility for our choices on us. Little wonder that many churches discount this gospel as heretical.

"Christianity" as it is practiced in many places all around the world bears little to no resemblance to what it started out as. There is only one gospel book the gospel of Thomas which has not gone through multiple translations and editing. Thomas was the disciple whom Jesus who became the Christ spoke often with in private and so often that several of the other disciples were jealous. The book, "Beyond Belief- The Gospel of Thomas" was translated directly from Aramaic after it was found in a Coptic Church in Egypt in 1948. The theologian who wrote it was motivated by the pain and grief following the loss of her son and sought comfort from scripture that was not shaped by rich angry old men. It is a wonderful, enlightening read and paints a dramatically different picture of the teachings of the Christ.

Not allowed in most US states, and I would bet that the states with the most restrictive abortion laws all have banned it. America has not been a sane place for several decades now.

Idaho's Proposed Abortion Ban Lets Rapists' Families Profit Off Bounties “If I have an abortion, it is no business of my brother, my brother-in-law, his wife or anyone else in my family,” a Democratic state lawmaker said. An Idaho bill that would allow a pregnant woman’s family members to sue abortion providers also includes a controversial twist. It would allow a rapist’s family members to sue the victim’s doctor under the same proposal, the legislation’s Republican sponsor confirmed this week. The Idaho bill, S.B. 1309, is modeled after Texas’ 6-week abortion ban that went into effect in September. It’s different, however, in that it limits who can sue once a woman obtains an abortion. Under the Idaho law, abortion providers can be sued by the patient, the father of a fetus or their family members. The bill does include an exception for rape or incest, although it forces women to file a police report and provide it to a physician. If a woman fails to do so before an abortion, the rapist’s family members could sue and collect damages. Damages start at $20,000, raising concerns a patient’s abortion could allow others to greatly profit off the bounties. The bill is broad enough that abortion advocates worry it will effectively ban abortion in the state at around 6 weeks when many women don’t yet know they’re pregnant. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/idaho-texas-abortion-ban-rapists_n_6232b8bae4b046c938d6ac96

Idaho County GOP Tried to Infiltrate Dems, Steal Their Cash & Install ‘F-list Antisemitic Troll’ to Lead Them Republicans in Kootenai County, Idaho are changing their party affiliations—not because they’re fed up with the GOP but because they’re trying to infiltrate a local Democratic party and carry out a hostile takeover. The plot, first reported by the Coeur d’Alene Press last week, is only the latest bizarre stunt by one of the nation’s most off-the-rails Republican committees. This week on Fever Dreams, hosts Asawin Suebsaeng and Kelly Weill take a virtual road trip to Kootenai County, where local Republicans have recently passed resolutions endorsing the far-right John Birch Society and immigrations privileges for a leader of Austria’s white nationalist scene. A new recorded phone call from a Kootenai County GOP leader appears to reveal a plot to, in the leader’s own words, “take over the Democrat Party” by installing covert Republicans in uncontested Democratic leadership races. If successful, Kootenai Republicans allegedly planned to redirect Democratic funds to conservative causes, and to install the antisemitic troll Dave Reilly as the new Democratic leader. “Reilly is sort of this F-list antisemitic troll,” Weill says. “He recently ran for school board in the area, despite saying he would never enroll children in public schools.” Reilly appeared to confirm the plot on Thursday, tweeting that “today, I registered as a Democrat and filed to become a Precinct Captain.” The tweet, which included a picture of Reilly’s apparent voter registration, went on to accuse Democrats of “Left Wing Extremism.” It’s a bizarre plot—one that could just as easily be achieved, Suebsaeng says, “by winning over more people there so they’re voting for you, thus depriving the Democratic party of any actual power in the area.” https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/idaho-county-gop-tried-infiltrate-081309933.html

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.