That is a jaw-dropping statement. Aspects of "gender-affirming care" range from sterilization through the use of drugs to outright mutilation with surgeries. There is no comparison between the physical and mental risks associated with those things and popping an aspirin. For a justice to make that comparison shows not only their supreme politicization of the issue but a level of disregard for children that strikes me as simply evil.
If you thought that was stupid, though, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson decided to enter the competition. //
How is banning medical treatments that don't treat children and instead permanently damage their bodies while setting them up for grave emotional harm short and long-term the same thing as banning interracial marriage? What an insulting and disgusting comparison to make. //
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Ketanji Brown Jackson with a hypothetical that supposedly helps SG Prelogar show discrimination: a boy who identifies as a boy but takes puberty blockers because he wants to lower his voice (rather than change gender).
A good reminder that Justice Jackson is "not a biologist."
11:12 AM · Dec 4, 2024 //
The U.S. government readily admits that "gender-affirming care" does nothing to reduce suicide rates among "transgender" children, but claims it reduces the rate of "suicidality." So it supposedly lowers the risk of suicide but doesn't lower the actual number of suicides? I don't think I need to explain how little sense that makes. //
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We need to start being very clear on this point; if a child is being “transitioned” they don’t suffer from gender dysphoria, they are suffering from munchausen by proxy.
The Falcon 9 rocket is truly delivering on the promise of rapid, reusable launch.
SpaceX recently hit some notable milestones with its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket, and even in the full context of history, the performance of the vehicle is pretty incredible.
Last Tuesday, the company launched a batch of Starlink v2-mini satellites from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a Falcon 9 rocket, marking the 400th successful mission by the Falcon 9 rocket. Additionally, it was the Falcon program's 375th booster recovery, according to SpaceX. Finally, with this mission, the company shattered its record for turnaround time from the landing of a booster to its launch to 13 days and 12 hours, down from 21 days.
But even though it was mere hours before the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States, SpaceX was not done for the month. On Saturday, November 30, the company launched twice more in a little more than three hours. The payloads were more Starlink Internet satellites in addition to two Starshield satellites—a custom version of Starlink for the US Department of Defense—for the US military. //
So far this year, SpaceX has launched a total of 119 Falcon 9 rockets, for an average of a launch every 2.3 days. The company has already superseded its previous record total for annual Falcon 9 launches, 92, completed last year. If SpaceX achieves its goal of 15 additional Falcon 9 launches this month, it would bring the company's total this year to 134 flights. If you add two Falcon Heavy missions to that, it brings the total to 136 launches.
That is a meaningful number, because over the course of the three decades it flew into orbit, NASA's Space Shuttle flew 135 missions.
The space shuttle was a significantly more complex vehicle, and unlike the Falcon 9 rocket, humans flew aboard it during every mission. However, there is some historical significance in the fact that the Falcon rocket may fly as many missions in a single year as the space shuttle did during its lifetime. //
The principal goal of the Falcon program was to demonstrate rapid, low-cost reusability. By one estimate, it cost NASA about $1.5 billion to fly a single space shuttle mission. (Like the Falcon 9, the shuttle was mostly but not completely reusable.) SpaceX's internal costs for a Falcon 9 launch are estimated to be as low as $15 million. So SpaceX has achieved a flight rate about 30 times higher than the shuttle at one-hundredth the cost.
Space enthusiast Ryan Caton also crunched the numbers on the number of SpaceX launches this year compared to some of its competitors. So far this year, SpaceX has launched as many rockets as Roscosmos has since 2013, United Launch Alliance since 2010, and Arianespace since 2009. This year alone, the Falcon 9 has launched more times than the Ariane 4, Ariane 5, or Atlas V rockets each did during their entire careers. //
Booster no. 1067 completed its 23rd flight by launching the Koreasat 62 mission into geostationary transfer orbit. Maybe we'll see it go for two dozen before 2024 is out? //
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Missing another really important point. SX is going to build over 100 2nd stages this year and they have build over 400. Yes, reusing the 1st stage is great but that is some impressive production from SX to kick out that many 2nd stages. //
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Goes to show what a cul-de-sac manned space flight was.
The Shuttle's flight rate was not limited to what it was because it was manned.
By the time it retires, Atlas V will have flown about 115 flights in 24 years. That's a worse cadence than the Shuttles maintained. By your logic, it's an example of what a cul-de-sac unmanned flight was. //
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That shuttle comparison isn't apples to apples. First, Crew Dragon missions cost a lot more than a normal Falcon 9 launch. SpaceX is paid $350 million per mission, and OIG has estimated Space X's internal cost to be around $220 million per mission. In addition the Shuttle was able to launch both crew and cargo at once, and usually did so with ISS missions. The shuttle cargo capacity was roughly double a reusable Falcon 9 or half a reusable Falcon Heavy. Published Falcon Heavy mission prices vary a lot (from $117-330 million), but lets take a WAG and say $100 million internal cost. So depending on mission needs the comparison would range from:
Crew Dragon + Falcon Heavy Cargo $330M ~= 1/4.5 Shuttle
Crew Dragon + Falcon 9 Cargo $235M ~= 1/6 Shuttle
Falcon Heavy Only $100M ~= 1/15 Shuttle
Falcon 9 Only $15M ~= 1/100 Shuttle
So for the most common ISS case the Shuttle was about 5 times more expensive than Space X, and that is internal cost - it would be closer comparing the actual price NASA pays. That is still a big multiplier, but it was only when the humans weren't a mission requirement and were only along for the ride that it was stupid expensive. //
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SpaceX is amazing, world beating even, but this comparison is misleading. The shuttle was human rated and a generic falcon 9 is not. The human rated versions of falcon 9 have performed extremely well, but they don't launch them over and over for human use, just once afaik.
all F9s flying today are human rated, they just don't put people on them after their 5th flight
According to a report from The Register today, Beeks Group, a cloud operator headquartered in the United Kingdom, has moved most of its 20,000-plus virtual machines (VMs) off VMware and to OpenNebula, an open source cloud and edge computing platform. Beeks Group sells virtual private servers and bare metal servers to financial service providers. It still has some VMware VMs, but “the majority” of its machines are currently on OpenNebula, The Register reported. //
According to Beeks, OpenNebula has enabled the company to dedicate more of its 3,000 bare metal server fleet to client loads instead of to VM management, as it had to with VMware. With OpenNebula purportedly requiring less management overhead, Beeks is reporting a 200 percent increase in VM efficiency since it now has more VMs on each server.
The CDC notes that small children can have up to 10 grams of stool stuck to their butts at any point, according to some crack scientific modeling. That's about 10 standard paperclips worth of excrement. And small children tend to stand directly over jets, allowing any fecal matter stuck on their bums to wash out of their swim diapers—which do not trap poop. Some splash pads recirculate water. And among the kids who aren't standing on the jets, there are others putting their open mouths over them.
Once infectious material gets into the water, disinfection systems that aren't working properly or are inadequate can allow pathogens to gush from every nozzle. Splash pads aren't unique in having to handle sick children in poopy swim diapers—but they are unique in how they are regulated. That is, in some places, they're not regulated at all. Splash pads are designed to not have standing water, therefore reducing the risk of young children drowning. But, because they lack standing water, they are sometimes deemed exempt from local health regulations. //
The primary method for keeping recreational water free of infectious viruses and bacteria is chlorinating it. However, maintaining germ-killing chlorine concentration is especially difficult for splash pads because the jets and sprays aerosolize chlorine, lowering the concentration.
Still, in most splash-pad linked outbreaks, standard chlorine concentrations aren't enough anyway. The most common pathogen to cause an outbreak at splash pads is the parasite Cryptosporidium, aka Crypto. The parasite's hardy spores, called oocysts, are extremely tolerant of chlorine, surviving in water with the standard chlorine concentration (1 ppm free chlorine) for over seven days. (Other germs die in minutes.) In splash pads that might not even have that standard chlorine concentration, Crypto flourishes and can cause massive outbreaks.
In 2023, the CDC recommended new health codes that call for "secondary disinfection" methods to keep Crypto at bay, including disinfection systems using ozone or ultraviolet light. Another possible solution is to have "single-pass" splash pads that don't recirculate water. //
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Ah, as gross as this is (thank you Beth), if you kinda think through the numbers - 25 years of data, 60 outbreaks (2.4/year) - with most likely tens of millions of children playing in those splash pools in that 25 year period. 10k vs 10's of millions. Then looking at hospital visits - ~150 & 99 ER visits; yet there are over 200,000 ER visits from playground accidents each year by comparison.
Not a significant risk at all.
Look, any parent will tell you - kids are basically little petri dishes. They bring home colds & such from school & other venues, etc; germs from playing in playgrounds, pools, sandboxes. It's a thing, and the only recourse for the germophobes would be to raise the kid in a bubble with no contact to anything. Which might bring its own health problems.
That being said, I probably wouldn't have let my kid play in water where other kids with diapers were playing, that is kinda gross. If you got a kid in diapers perhaps be considerate of others and let your kid play in a home kiddie pool, not in a public space. But many people aren't considerate of others, look at a movie theater floor sometime after the lights come on.
Whoever these detractors and actors might be who are attempting to tank the Hegseth nomination, know that there is a wizard behind the curtain pulling their strings. Voices like The Federalist Sean Davis and others are naming and shaming South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham (R) as one of the puppet masters, along with the aforementioned Sen. Joni Ernst. According to Davis, they are tag-teaming to bring about the demise of Hegseth's nomination. When Sen. Graham last spoke to the press, he appeared to express concern over the recent allegations of Hegseth's past behaviors. //
In the meantime, it's Kavanaugh 2.0, except this time, it is Trump's Secretary of Defense nominee instead of the Supreme Court. //
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GOP senators CANNOT fold to these cheap anonymous attacks on @PeteHegseth.
If they do, they’ll just invite more and more Kavanaugh style attacks, for every potential disruptor. Everyone who represents REAL CHANGE.
And they’ll lose one hell of a SecDef in @PeteHegseth.
10:54 PM · Dec 3, 2024
In 1941, the United States suddenly found itself in a war that would span a third of the Earth's surface - the Pacific Ocean. They faced an implacable enemy with imperial ambitions, and the Pacific Fleet - or at least, what wasn't on the muddy bottom of Pearl Harbor - was built in part on Great War relics.
Four years later, the United States Pacific Fleet had more modern combat ships than all the other navies of the world combined. The United States, as Admiral Yamamoto warned, had fired up its enormous industrial base to a war footing faster than anyone thought possible, and we drowned the Empire of Japan in steel - and atomic flame.
Today there is another Asian power with Pacific Ocean ambitions, and we have some problems that didn't exist in 1941. //
The primary problem, according to Eaglen, is that China may well win dominance in the Pacific without firing a shot. And, as is always the case, the problem has a lot to do with logistics.
“If they know if this ever got beyond competition to something with the use of violence, we don’t have that capacity to rapidly repair and resupply forward in Asia, and it’s a really long way home to sail and fly things. You see how Beijing’s starting to win without fighting,” she concluded. //
America does have some advantages in the Pacific. Our undersea fleet is the most advanced in the world, and as the Germans learned as early as the Great War, submarines are a great force multiplier.
There is no Constitutional argument to be made for allowing activists to push these treatments on children. Nobody, oddly, is arguing before the Supreme Court that children should be allowed to get tattoos, buy booze or a firearm, join the military, sign a contract, or get married. Yes, they wink at the idea of parental consent in some places (not in others), but that doesn't count for much when parents are lied to and browbeaten into giving this consent. //
Stay away, especially, from other people's kids. There's a reason we call them "minors." There's a reason we don't allow them to make permanent, life-changing decisions. That should apply to this as to anything else. End of story.
Democrats and their media allies have never played nice. They do not have the moral high ground. These are the exact reasons why Trump plays hardball and it is the primary reason why he has endeared himself to a good chunk of the Republican base.
If Democrats think the answer to Trump playing hardball is to take it up another notch, they are going to be sorely disappointed at how spectacularly they will fail, something they should have learned on Election Day but sadly haven't.
Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Issues Final Report: ‘Likely Emerged’ From Wuhan Lab
Among the conclusions: Pandemic began with the lab leak, Biden’s HHS obstructed investigation, and NIH’s procedures for “overseeing potentially dangerous research are deficient, unreliable, and pose a serious threat to both public health and national security.”.
https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/12.04.2024-SSCP-FINAL-REPORT.pdf
During a Monday night panel on Fox News’ Hannity, investigative journalist John Solomon, editor of Just the News, and Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett discussed the ongoing risks facing Hunter and the Biden family. //
Solomon said, “You can’t bring criminal charges against Hunter Biden, but there’s nothing that prevents the Trump Justice Department from filing a fraud case and seeking civil remedy and taking money from him and other members of the family on allegations that they reported false information. They committed fraud. Those are things that are still on the table. A pardon doesn’t protect you from civil actions.”
“He no longer will be able to deny or say ‘I don’t want to testify in any proceedings because I invoke my Fifth Amendment right against incrimination.’ The president took that away from him, so he’s going to have to testify if he’s compelled.”. //
The panel unanimously agreed that the pardon was more than just a selfless gesture from a loving father. Its broad immunity, covering the period from January 2014 to December 2024, revealed its true intent. As I mentioned yesterday, 2014 marked the beginning of Hunter’s tenure on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings. This was the year the family’s influence-peddling operation ramped up, and the flow of money began.
It wasn't publicly revealed until July that Cassidy had been suing the Georgia Department of Corrections to receive a "sex change" operation as part of his "gender-affirming care" routine, which already includes taxpayer-funded hormone treatments. That's because the lawsuit he filed was under the name "Jane Doe." Yes, the guy with multiple forgery convictions is a man who wants to "become" a woman."
That's where things get even crazier. The same DOJ that charged Cassidy in April for trying to bomb the DOJ, filed an amicus brief in support of Cassidy's lawsuit to receive a taxpayer-funded "sex change" surgery" in January. So the DOJ was investigating Cassidy as a man (eventually charging him as one in court documents) while another sector of the DOJ was filing an amicus brief claiming Cassidy is a woman who should receive "gender-affirming care" in prison. You can't make this stuff up.
Now, Cassidy is set to receive the operation after the "Gender Dysphoria Committee" recommended it. //
In this case, the DOJ charged a man with federal crimes while the activists within the agency were fighting to treat him as a "woman" complete with a taxpayer-funded "sex change" surgery. Normal people see this type of stuff, and they are sick of it. They don't want to pay for "gender-affirming care" for violent criminals (or anyone for that matter).
This story is yet another reason why the DOJ needs a complete overhaul, and I don't just mean firing a few agency heads. The rank-and-file are just as guilty of perpetuating these woke policies. Hopefully, Pam Bondi understands what she's walking into and that she's ready to do what it takes.
There is an objective approach that DOGE could apply that would substantially reduce the footprint of the federal government called CPI-X: A Novel Method to Decrease Spending and the National Debt.
In short, CPI-X (CPI minus X) would tether federal spending to the Consumer Price Index (CPI), using the CPI as a baseline, and accomplishing actual spending cuts via the “X” in the equation. The X-factors in CPI-X are derived from benchmarking the spending of the U.S. federal government, states, and other countries along 10 basic policy areas, such as defense, health, education, etc.
CPI-X was originally developed in the early 1980s and used to reduce spending under UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s privatization plan. In the 1990s, it was also utilized in Australia to regulate the pricing of public utilities. In both instances, CPI-X was successful.
Revolutionary reform concerning how the U.S. government functions and spends taxpayer dollars is long overdue. //
For instance, did you know the federal government does not even know precisely how many agencies and departments currently exist? According to the National Archives, the number stands at 435, whereas the Office of Personnel Management lists 646. //
C-K
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I was in the Federal government or a contractor for 23 of my 40 working years. The biggest problem I saw was an agency has to spend all the money it was allocated in a fiscal year otherwise their budget would be cut by the amount of underspend the next year. When large pieces of capitol equipment needs replacing or facilities need to be built or renovated, a separate appropriation over and above the annual operating budget must be approved.
Why not change the laws to allow agencies to “bank” underspend for X number of years in interest bearing instruments? This accumulated underspend plus interest could then be used to help offset future capitol expenditures.
Agencies having to spend all their allocated funds in one fiscal year is insane and leads to wasteful spending. //
Vahn Geo
3 hours ago
This is a smoke and mirrors plan. And its bullshit. A chainsaw and an axe are what is required. Period. //
S'Naut Right
3 hours ago
Formulaic paths to cuts are rife with opportunities for finagling. I dont like this idea, at all. Just straight with the broad axe, please. //
anon-umsv
4 hours ago
This is just another over-thought proposal of incrementalism along the same vein as the ridiculous Penny Plan. Slowly attempt to starve the swamp over 20 years to bring the budget down to $6 TRILLION, while the country is suffering from government bloat. No, Trump only has four years. He needs to ruthlessly attack the beast. Fight! Fight! Fight! //
surfcat50
4 hours ago
This would be a great idea IN ADDITION TO using the chainsaw during Trump’s term. ///
Also switch from baseline budgeting to zero based budgeting. Don't start with last year's budget, start from zero and justify each line item.
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🚨 This opinion from the judge overseeing the tax prosecution of Hunter Biden is worth reading every word…
Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸
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U.S. district court judge takes issue with Biden’s claim in his pardon that no reasonable person looking at the case could reach any conclusion other than that Hunter was targeted because he is the POTUS’s son, noting that federal judges & Biden’s own DOJ rejected that argument.
8:40 PM · Dec 3, 2024
The net effect of Scarsi's order is that the California case against Hunter is now also terminated. But after first noting that Hunter's team botched things by merely providing a hyperlink to the White House press release regarding the pardon rather than filing an accurate copy of the pardon, Scarsi included some delicious parting shots on the matter (emphasis added, citations omitted):
The President’s statement illustrates the reasons for the Court’s disapproval, as representations contained therein stand in tension with the case record.
For example, the President asserts that Mr. Biden “was treated differently” from others “who were late paying their taxes because of serious addictions,” implying that Mr. Biden was among those individuals who untimely paid taxes due to addiction. But he is not. In his pretrial filings, Mr. Biden represented that he “was severely addicted to alcohol and drugs” “through May 2019.”...Upon pleading guilty to the charges in this case, Mr. Biden admitted that he engaged in tax evasion after this period of addiction by wrongfully deducting as business expenses items he knew were personal expenses, including luxury clothing, escort services, and his daughter’s law school tuition.
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According to the President, “[n]o reasonable person who looks at the facts of [Mr. Biden’s] cases can reach any other conclusion than [Mr. Biden] was singled out only because he is [the President’s] son.” But two federal judges expressly rejected Mr. Biden’s arguments that the Government prosecuted Mr. Biden because of his familial relation to the President...And the President’s own Attorney General and Department of Justice personnel oversaw the investigation leading to the charges. In the President’s estimation, this legion of federal civil servants, the undersigned included, are unreasonable people.
In short, a press release is not a pardon. The Constitution provides the President with broad authority to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, U.S. Const. art. II, § 2, cl. 1, but nowhere does the Constitution give the President the authority to rewrite history.
Is that what's happening here? I can't say for sure, but I wouldn't put it past the corrupt hangers-on at the FBI to "protect the shield" in such a way. They certainly don't want Patel coming in and providing real reform and accountability. They've still got more pro-lifers to raid at gunpoint and Catholics to treat as domestic terrorists. For now, though, we'll call the above theory a hypothesis.
We'll see if the communications reportedly taken are leaked. I would assume they will be, and if they are, Republican senators should pretend they don't exist and confirm anyway, no matter what they contain. There is zero reason to trust anything at this point that would benefit the FBI.
Out of all the nominees that one might call "controversial," Patel getting through is the most important. The only way to stop the weaponization of federal law enforcement is to bring sweeping changes to the FBI, and that's only because there's no realistic way to shut it down. Patel is the right man for that job, and these last-minute games, whatever they amount to, should not stop his nomination. //
Deplorable Extraordinarius
32 minutes ago
Sounds like the FBI has wised up to how anything labeled Russia Russia Russia is no longer seen as credible. So some genius has just swapped in Iran, Iran, Iran. The Deep State is busy doing its black ops in pursuit of its survival. //
anon-rda0
27 minutes ago
I hope Patel kept absolutely quiet during the “briefing”. There’s a dang good chance the purpose of the briefing was to trap him in a lie.
anon-isiz anon-rda0
23 minutes ago
No one should receive an FBI briefing without an attorney present. //
EMCM(SS)
4 minutes ago
Everyone knows this is all hogwash, so why are they doing it?
Cover!
This is all cover for Collins, Murkowski, Thune and the rest of Mitch’s tufthunters to scuttle the nomination. Same as the lies about Hegseth. Not even the Democrats believe this stuff. It’s just a fig leaf for the coming failure theater.
The Susu club is a universal feature of the Liberian workplace. Hardly any agency, trading firm, or NGO is without a Susu Club. The Susu club comes in two variety, the non-profit and the commercial. The non-profit is the more benign of the two. It is normally organized rather informally. The employees of a company, or even a section of a company agree to form a Susu club and will pay a certain amount of their salary to the club cashier every month. In an non-profit Susu, the percentage of the salary pledged tends to be higher than in a commercial Susu. The drivers of one NGO operating in Liberia pay 70 USD, about one third of their salary, into their Susu account every month. But every month one of them is the lucky one. He will receive the combined input of the other Susu members. In this particular Susu club the payout is 700 USD. The next month it is another persons term to collect the 700 USD. So, the Susu club is in effect, a revolving loan given by the paying members to the receiving member. The advantage for the member is that, once or twice a year, depending on the structure of the Susu club he gets paid 700USD instead of his regular salary of 250 USD.
The tallest structure of Africa is still located close to Monrovia. One of the three remaining antennas of the defunct Omega Navigation system is located in Paynesville, in the greater Monrovia area. Omega was a US – Navigation system operating in the Very Low Frequency (VLF) band, between 10 and 14 kHz. It was used both for navigation as well as for submarine communication. Omega was operated from 1970 until 1997 when GPS proved more accurate.
Due to the extreme wavelength, Omega needed very long antennas. The transmitter in Paynesville used a umbrella antenna suspended on a 417m high mast.
Until the new Elysian Airline, whose fate is far from certain, started to operate, the only way to fly anywhere in Liberia was by using the United Nations choppers. True, the Mi-8 were old and badly in need of paint, but nevertheless they offered the only way around. Most of the Mi-8 used in service of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) are operated by UT Air, a firm whose safety record is not the best. When UT Air runs short of men and machines, choppers from the Ukrainian aviation unit are also used. The way to tell the difference is by looking at the hips of the crew. If they wear big ugly holsters with automatics in it, they are from the Ukrainian Aviation.
Ugly, lout and ungainly as the choppers might be, they were still the only game in town. But access to the flights was restricted.
Neither the great plans that William R. Tolbert had for the transformation of Liberia, nor his plans for Bensonville, which he renamed Benton, came to fruit. The mansions of the presidential clan have been reduced to rubble, and Benton is again called Bensonville.
The only building which has survived intact up to this day is the Mt.Zion Praise Church, where Tolbert frequently took the pulpit. //
Yak Dorzon on January 8, 2009 at 7:44 pm
Tolbert renamed it Bentol, not Benton, Mr Foreigner. There was a logic to his megalomania – the “Ben” was for Bensonville and the “tol” was for Tolbert. Not satisfied, he went further and made Bentol the capital of Montserrado county.
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., criticized the pair of "partisan Democrat district judges" after they announced plans to "unretire" after "the American people voted to fire Democrats last month."
"Looking to history, only two judges have ever unretired after a presidential election. One Democrat in 2004 and one Republican in 2009. But now, in just a matter of weeks, Democrats have already met that all-time record. It's hard to conclude that this is anything other than open partisanship," McConnell said in remarks delivered on the Senate floor.
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So what happens to the $300k+ in back pay rent that Hunter Biden owes my family from 2019-2020?
Is that pardoned now?
Thanks Joe
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11:37 PM · Dec 1, 2024
But what was truly funny was what Maguire said next about how Hunter allegedly proposed to pay what he owed.
"Hunter was our tenant in Venice, CA. Didn't pay rent for over a year. Tried to pay w/ art made from his own feces. Absolute s– bag," Maguire wrote, adding in a follow up post that the rent was $25,000 a month for the house, which is located on the canals in Venice, California.
He added that Hunter "changed the locks and used secret service to enforce. We had no access to the property."
When he was asked about the possibility of evicting him, Maguire replied they were "kind of a scary family to go after."