Most people think of Make America Great Again when they see the acronym MAGA.
The 65 Project may rewrite all that, as the new acronym for MAGA is Making Attorneys Get Attorneys.
Basically the project states that after the 2020 election, Trump's lawyers filed bogus lawsuits in attempt to overturn the election results. The website lists their ethics complaint filings against those attorneys.
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Steve Bannon is in New York court today facing multiple charges that include conspiracy & money laundering for his work with a non-profit 'Build the Wall' that raised $25 million to build a wall on the Southern US border.
I clicked one of the links that describes construction will be on privately owned land and work started without a permit.
Sounds like an interesting event and I've got to say that Steve is a busy guy!
I had a boss who inverted the can/can't statement. I'm sure he learned it from someone.
To me, it always sounded like a statement of failure. Why would you 'not' want something to work?
"Let's see if we can't get that to work..."
No boss, let's see if we CAN get that to work!
In condo life, if you don't arrange for your trash to be removed, it must remain near the dumpster for normal garbage collection. Someone dies and 40 years of furniture and bedding gets stacked along side of a dumpster. Sometimes, items that are in fair to good condition get recycled. It's there in the morning and an hour later it's gone, before the garbage truck passes by.
I've watched the sanitation crew load a sofa into the back and the arm comes down splitting the sofa into pieces to be consumed by the steel arm and not seen again. They usually do a quick check under cushions to see if there's cash under there... One worker said only coins... he's waiting for surprise payoff of a wad of 100's
During the night, a statue was placed in front of a dumpster near the community entrance. Badly weathered, it was obviously on display in someones back patio. When it's time to go, it's time to go and by noon, the statue disappeared!
I figured the new owner painted it with polyurethane and the statue 'lives again'
I don't know what religion/culture worshiped him, but it was important for one man's trash to become another man's treasure.
Laura Loomer who was backed by Trump has lost her Florida party nomination for reelection to Congress 11th district. It's reported that Daniel Webster with 42,316 votes 'narrowly' beat Laura Loomer with 37,098 votes.
The 51% to 44% and 5% to Gavriel Soriano.
Naturally, claims of election fraud... so she's not conceding. This couldn't have happened... could it?
I like the term narrowly beat.
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Last month, my car had some damage from a de-laminated truck tire recap on the highway that a car along side of me hit and it flew into my path.
The insurance company arranged a rental and body shop for the repairs.
Everyone did what they were supposed to do.
I returned the rental and received texts and emails asking: How did we do?
The insurance company sent a few emails asking: How did we do?
The body shop sent a few texts and emails asking: How did we do?
You all did good... but I don't respond to surveys and 'back patting' reviews.
It's reported Donald Trump pleaded the fifth more than 440 times yesterday during his New York deposition. The only question he answered was his name.
Maybe he knows 'The Mob'
Always the comments are more entertaining than the news link:
"But would about Hillary's emails?" Well she was deposed for many hours around 11, answered every single question and never pleaded the 5th once.
But somehow she is still considered guilty by the republicans while saying Trump is innocent and being picked on.
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When you were a kid and your parents found out you did something they forbid you to do, what was your excuse?
It could have been smoking in the alley with your buddies and your neighbor caught you and told your mother. Did you use the lame (peer pressure) excuse "All my friends were doing it. I didn't want them to call me a sissy for not joining them"
That made it right...right?
What about the one where your parents don't want you to do something your older brother is allowed to do? "Well, you let Jimmy do it, why can't I do it too?"
Ignoring that your brother is 8 years older.
Different situation and different rules that apply.
I think kids that resort to 'permission by association' as a way of increasing the envelop of what they are allowed to do. So if you were bad and have to 'go to your room and miss dinner' it's a tiny punishment, because you know you can sneak downstairs at 2am and help yourself a slice of pie and a glass of milk and no one will notice the next morning.
Do things like that for twenty years and it becomes habitual... the percentage of getting caught is rather low and overall the gain is much less than the pain.
Cheaters and pathological liars fall into the same category.
When caught, any excuse to pass the blame to someone else...
Some people are good about throwing smoke screens to 'squeak out' of a tight spot and not getting hurt.
I shouldn't laugh but a ribbon-cutting ceremony was cut short.
In Kinshasa, the capital city of Democratic Republic of Congo, a footbridge was built and the moment the ribbon was cut the bridge collapsed. It appears 8 people was more than the structure could hold.
Edit: It now appears on YouTube
The event was video taped and also appears on Twitter.
I always go to the comments for insight:
"The contract was awarded to a relative of the politician in charge of the area. The relative used shell companies owned by the politician. The actual construction cost of the bridge was a fraction of the bid submitted. The excess revenue above the actual cost is in the politician's and relative's overseas banks.
The politician is in the process of requesting bids to repair the bridge."(maybe not true, but funny)
Time travel has always been an interest of mine. The 1960 movie The Time Machine being a favorite, except H.G. Wells went forward so nothing in the present was affected.
The 1985 movie Back to the Future always had the element of 'fixing things' that were disturbed from their time travel visits.
Yesterday while returning home I was doing the speed limit and went through an intersection under a yellow light. Could I have stopped? Probably, but I had model helicopters and gear in the back, so I carried on. Cross traffic still had a red light. However, a car leaving a gated community was charging the intersection ignoring the 'right turn on red law' that states AFTER a full stop. Realizing if he didn't brake, my car would be struck on the right side, I leaned on my horn and pressed the accelerator hoping to clear the intersection a second sooner.
It worked, Obviously, the driver wasn't paying attention, but I got him to brake and actually turn away from my path. Good thing or he would have struck my car directly and I would have spent the afternoon in the hospital, go through months of physical therapy and weeks of car repairs.
I was watching some LED ZEPPELIN videos and as many remember, when John Bonham died in 1980, so did Zeppelin. Sure, each of them continued musically, but their collective careers stopped.
What if I could change history... What if I was there and hired a body guard to follow John's every move and keep him from drinking excessively... the reason for his death.
John would have survived, history would have changed, Zeppelin would have released 6 more albums, etc, etc, etc... the repercussions would be immense.
On a smaller scale, 20 years ago, while driving to work one morning where highway traffic slowed, if I would have been in a different lane, I would have missed the woman on her cellphone that caused a 4 car pileup sending me to the hospital causing years of back pain.
That's a good start. I could think of other personal events I would like to have changed along the way!
A woman in Thailand decides to have her eyebrows tattooed.
I've heard of this before. Asian women often do this because their eyebrows have thin hair. The tattoo is to darken the natural lines so they don't require daily cosmetics.
She went to a budget tattoo artist and didn't get the expected results.
The 2nd set of eyebrows were above the real ones having the appearance of 4 eyebrows. The woman complained to the artist who said he would remove them, but that didn't happen as the next day the clinic had closed down.
It's reported the woman hid away for a year until she could find another artist to fix her eyebrows... for free.
Video in Thai, but you can get the gist of what's happening.
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It looks like Groucho Marx!
Somewhere in the 1960's VOX (Jennings Musical Instruments) created a rocking style foot activated effects pedal. It had a controllable tone circuit that allowed a guitarist emulate the sound of a muted trumpet. As you press the pedal like a car accelerator, it made a 'wah' sound rocking forward and back. Thus the Wah-Wah pedal was born.
Innovation leads to copy and many other companies followed with their versions of the wah pedal. I'm not sure of the patent rights, but I know each company had to be different enough to avoid lawsuits. A lot has happened over the years and one of the most famous wah pedals are manufactured by Dunlop. Their precise circuit tuning can make a guitar sound like it's crying... because of this, it's called the CRY BABY.
Demo of the pedal:
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