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I accept e-transfers.

Its a good thing, your punctuation was spot-on or that would have been a sexual advance.

Trump calls for wild education overhaul by 'certifying' patriotic teachers and allowing parents to elect school principals Former President Donald Trump has launched a new attack on education with his proposed plan of action to revise how public school administrators and faculty members are put in place. In a new presidential campaign ad, Trump expressed a need for more "patriotic teachers" as he called for the termination of school faculty members he described as “radicals.” According to Trump, there should also be a “direct election” process for school principals. Under that election system, students’ parents would have the right to appoint principals. Trump is also pushing for the defunding of schools that follow a curriculum that includes “critical race theory, gender ideology or other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content.” "Our public schools have been taken over by the radical left maniacs," Trump said in the clip, as he went on to share his proposed plan. "Here is my plan to save American education restore power to American parents," he began. "First, we will cut federal funding for any school or program pushing critical race theory, gender ideology, or other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political critical content onto our children. We're not going to allow it to happen. Next, I will direct the Department of Justice and Education to open civil rights investigations into any school district that has engaged in race-based discrimination." He continued, "That includes discrimination against Asian Americans. The Marxism being preached in our schools is also totally hostile to Judeo-Christian teachings, and in many ways it's resembling an established new religion. Can't let that happen. For this reason, my administration will aggressively pursue potential violations of the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause of the Constitution. That's very simple." Although Trump has expressed concern about discrimination, he has actually made repeated discriminatory remarks, namely anti-Asian slurs that have been leveled at Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) wife, Elaine Chao, who also served as former U.S. secretary of transportation under his administration.

Even a blind squirrel will find the occasional acorn.

It has been said that people get the government they deserve. If Albertans are stoopid enough to re-elect her and her government, they will have established themselves as Alabama north- Albertabama.

Sadly, it has worked for them all too often.

The Cons have used this tactic since the Filmon government saw that it was going to lose the pending election: throw money away left and right while cutting tax revenue. That way the incoming NDP had to raise taxes and delay social initiatives while the PCs cried out in anguish that they tried to warn people about the reckless, irresponsible socialists ruining the province.

I think you are giving Stefansson and Co. too much credit.

Former County GOP Chairman Faces Child Pornography Charges -KELOLAND News Rocky Hayes, who previously served as chairman of the GOP in Jones County, South Dakota, has been charged with three counts of child pornography possession, The Argus Leader reported Thursday. The 47-year-old is facing accusations of have child sexual assault material in his Dropbox account, and he will have an initial court hearing on Feb. 9, according to court documents. Hayes was listed as the Jones County GOP chairman as recently as 2020 but his name has since been removed from the South Dakota Republican Party website. It’s unclear when he was removed as chairman. Hayes runs a graphic design and communications firm; a spokesperson for the South Dakota GOP told the Leader that the party’s relationship with both Hayes and his business were “terminated.” (And he didn't even have a pizza restaurant)

Putin’s Pre-Emptive Strike Plan Exposed in Satellite Photos An analysis of satellite imagery shared exclusively with The Daily Beast provides a snapshot of Moscow’s “worried” response to a major offensive expected this year. Russia is building up a network of fortifications and trenches along the front in Ukraine, in apparent anticipation of a new round of heavy fighting, according to satellite imagery analysis shared exclusively with The Daily Beast. The analysis from Brady Africk, an open-source intelligence analyst, shows that Russia is building up fortifications all along the front in Luhansk, from the Russian border down to Donetsk, and throughout Zaporizhzhia and Kherson. The satellite imagery indicates that Moscow may be on edge about a Ukrainian counteroffensive in the coming weeks—or may even be preparing its own offensive to try to seize more Ukrainian land, nearly one year into the war. “They’re trying to basically consolidate their gains and keep the parts that they’ve held on to thus far,” Africk, who works at the American Enterprise Institute, told The Daily Beast. “I think it’s definitely both a message to soldiers in Ukraine, and to everyone who might be watching, that they’re going to at least try and stay.” The recent buildup of fortifications—depicted in an interactive map created by Africk—could indicate Russian forces are worried about losing their hold in those regions, according to William Courtney, a former special assistant to the president for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia. “They are expecting counteroffensives, and they know that the West is going to be providing more and better equipment. They know that the West has already provided a lot of artillery which can be used to, if you will, blast away through fortifications,” Courtney told The Daily Beast. “The Russian purpose is to slow Ukraine down and try to stop it where it can,” said Courtney, now an adjunct senior fellow at the nonprofit RAND Corporation. An analysis from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) suggests Russia is preparing to be on defense as well. “Russian forces are clearly concerned to some degree about Ukrainian advances and they want to be able to secure these lines in case of Ukrainian advances,” Karolina Hird, Russia Analyst at the ISW, told The Daily Beast. “The type of defensive fortifications we’re seeing do suggest defensive intent.” Russia is currently using the cold winter months to regroup, retrain, re-equip, and prepare for next steps in the war after a series of losses to Ukrainian forces last year, according to a White House National Security Council assessment shared with reporters this week. The United States, meanwhile, is helping Ukraine prepare to go on the counteroffensive against Russia, according to White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby.

Simplifies my Christmas shopping!

If anyone wants an insight into the US conspiracy movement, watch "Shadowland" on the history channel.

The thralls in the party. What was a borderline bearable provincial party is now wholly under the sway of the nutball Wild Rose loonies.

Smith should be encouraged to file suit against the CBC for such egregious lies. But wait- the trial would mean the airing of all the research that the CBC accumulated and any rebuttal. Don't think the UPC would want that made public.

Or the funds designated for COVID relief.

Trump made 'secret' $1M donation to failed Arizona election 'grift disguised as an audit': report Former President Donald Trump made a “secret” $1 million donation to the election audit conducted in Arizona following his false claims that the election was stolen from him, the Guardian reports. The audit was requested by Arizona GOP senators, and doubted by many of their colleagues due to the “wild conspiracy theories” it mirrored. An assertion “that bamboo fibers found in ballot sheets proved they had been printed in Asia” even caused some local GOP members to deem the probe a “grift disguised as an audit.” But nevertheless, the audit persisted. Although eventually proven baseless and unsuccessful, The Guardian reports that “one of the largest benefactors” behind this attempt to counter the 2020 election results remained a secret for nearly two years. But watchdog group “Documented” was able to track funding for the failed assessment and eventually landed on Trump’s super PAC, Save America. First, the group discovered that Cyber Ninjas, the Florida company that conducted the audit, was provided $5.7 million by far-right groups, and then given an additional $1 million from former Trump advisor and attorney Cleta Mitchell. Still, questions around the origin of the $1 million remained unanswered. The New York Times reports that in September of 2021, “unnamed ‘officials,’” as well as Arizona GOP senators who requested the election audit, adamantly denied Trump’s contribution. However, with its research on many corporate, tax and campaign finance filings, as well as emails and text messages between Trump allies that were obtained by nonpartisan accountability group American Oversight, "Documented" managed to counter those claims. https://www.alternet.org/trump-secret-donation-arizona-election/

Trump 2020 Attorney John Eastman Faces Disbarment in California California State bar regulators filed disciplinary actions against conservative lawyer John Eastman due to his efforts in trying to overturn the 2020 election for Donald Trump. The state seeks to disbar Eastman, who once clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas. “The Office of Chief Trial Counsel (OCTC) intends to seek Eastman’s disbarment before the State Bar Court,” the state bar of California wrote in a news release about the filing. The filing contains 11 charges arising from allegations that “Eastman engaged in a course of conduct to plan, promote, and assist then-President Trump in executing a strategy, unsupported by facts or law, to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election by obstructing the count of electoral votes of certain states.” They specifically cited Eastman’s “false and misleading statements regarding purported election fraud, including statements on January 6, 2020, at a rally in Washington, D.C., that contributed to provoking a crowd to assault and breach the Capitol to intimidate then-Vice President Pence and prevent the electoral count from proceeding.” They add, “Eastman now faces multiple charges that he violated Business and Professions Code section 6106 by making false and misleading statements that constitute acts of ‘moral turpitude, dishonesty, and corruption.’” “There is nothing more sacrosanct to our American democracy than free and fair elections and the peaceful transfer of power,” the State Bar of California’s Chief Trial Counsel George Cardona said. “For California attorneys, adherence to the U.S. and California Constitutions is their highest legal duty. The Notice of Disciplinary Charges alleges that Mr. Eastman violated this duty in furtherance of an attempt to usurp the will of the American people and overturn election results for the highest office in the land—an egregious and unprecedented attack on our democracy—for which he must be held accountable.” https://www.politicususa.com/2023/01/26/trump-2020-attorney-john-eastman-faces-disbarment-in-california.html

But not at any price.

Special Counsel John Durham tried to use Russian intelligence memos that were suspected of containing disinformation in his investigation of Russiagate. The New York Times reported: In Mr. Durham’s case, the dubious sources were memos, whose credibility the intelligence community doubted, written by Russian intelligence analysts and discussing purported conversations involving American victims of Russian hacking, according to people familiar with the matter. The memos were part of a trove provided to the C.I.A. by a Dutch spy agency, which had infiltrated the servers of its Russian counterpart. The memos were said to make demonstrably inconsistent, inaccurate or exaggerated claims, and some U.S. analysts believed Russia may have deliberately seeded them with disinformation. Mr. Durham wanted to use the memos, which included descriptions of Americans discussing a purported plan by Mrs. Clinton to attack Mr. Trump by linking him to Russia’s hacking and releasing in 2016 of Democratic emails, to pursue the theory that the Clinton campaign conspired to frame Mr. Trump. And in doing so, Mr. Durham sought to use the memos as justification to get access to the private communications of an American citizen.

“Would make Alex Jones blush”: GOPer says land conservation is a plot to “control” and “kill” people Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., spewed conspiracy theories about an environmental plan to conserve 30% of US land and waters by 2030 ahead of her election last year. Speaking at R-CALF, a convention for independent cattle producers, Hageman in August 2021 and 2022 baselessly claimed that conservation plans like the global initiative 30x30 are a government plot led by President Joe Biden to control Americans through starvation. The congresswoman likened the environmental plans to African dictators starving their people to stay in power. "Anytime their dictator needed to control the masses and needed to make sure that there would be no uprising, he just starves his people," Hageman said in the previously unreported video. "You can look at Somalia, you can look at the Congo, you can look at country after country after country after country, and what they've done is they control their people with food. That's what 30 x 30 is about. That's what the Green New Deal is about." https://www.salon.com/2023/01/26/would-make-alex-jones-blush-goper-says-land-conservation-is-a-plot-to-control-and-kill-people/

I was disappointed by Keion Adams' performance. He showed very little and IMO, he will not be a priority.

Well, it is up to the government to protect the hapless, is it not?

Proud Boys members 'intend to subpoena' Donald Trump at their seditious conspiracy trial Members of the Proud Boys are reportedly telling former President Donald Trump to stand back and stand by for a subpoena. According to New York Times reported Alan Feuer, members of the Proud Boys who have been accused by the government of engaging in a seditious conspiracy are saying they "intend to subpoena Donald Trump as a witness at the trial." Although it's not clear why members of the gang would want Trump to testify on their behalf, many other January 6th defendants have argued that broke into the Capitol and violently clashed with police officers because it was what the former president wanted them to do. Feuer, however, expresses skepticism that the defendants will really be able to compel Trump's testimony. "That hasn’t flown with judges in other J6 cases so we’ll see where it goes," he said of past efforts to score Trump as a witness. "An Ohio exterminator tried to subpoena Trump at his own trial last year. The judge shut it down." The Proud Boys members are under increased pressure after the government earlier this week won seditious conspiracy convictions against four more members of the Oath Keepers militia, whom prosecutors argued engaged in a plot to block the peaceful transition of power to keep Trump in the White House. https://www.alternet.org/proud-boys-subpoena-donald-trump/