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On the CBC One radio program that I like very much, "Tapestry" they explored the phenomena of overloading one's sensorium with excessive inputs to the point where our attention gets dramatically reduced and fractured.

There is every reason to believe that Sweden and Finland will join NATO in weeks, not months. Putin can huff and puff all he wants, but he has lost about 20% of his army so far in Ukraine, and there is a maxim that if a military loses even 10% of its personnel or materiel, its confidence takes a massive hit. And More Bad News For Putin:

Trump admits he wanted Barr to take the fall for election scheme: 'I said look — get impeached' Former President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he pressured then-Attorney General Bill Barr to pursue bogus voter fraud claims after his election loss even if it meant being impeached. Trump claimed in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity that Barr did not want to investigate his baseless voter fraud claims because he was worried about being impeached even though Barr has repeatedly said the Justice Department did not pursue the claims because there was no evidence of any widespread fraud that could have affected the election outcome. "Look, we also had a chance, but Bill Barr, the attorney general, didn't want to be impeached," Trump said. "How do you not get impeached? You sit back and relax and wait out for your term to end. That's what he did. And it was a sad thing and a sad day for our country." Trump also lashed out at Barr for writing what he called a "crummy book" that was "so false." Barr in his book rejected Trump's debunked fraud claims and blamed him for the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot, arguing that Trump was not fit for office. "Had Bill Barr had the courage, a lot of this could've been taken care of," Trump said. "The U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia said Bill Barr told him not to investigate the fraud in the elections, and he said 'Don't do it.' And he wrote a letter to that effect and you know, had Bill Barr had the courage to do what he should've done instead of being worried about being impeached. "I said, 'Look, get impeached. I went up a lot in the polls when I got impeached. You have to get impeached, maybe,'" Trump added. "But he was so afraid of being impeached that he refused to do his job." https://www.alternet.org/2022/04/barr-trump/

Despite the almost-hysteria from the media, we are still better safe than sorry.

Trump told Mitch McConnell about his coup to flip election results in Georgia, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, but McConnell stayed silent. CNN reported: In the weeks after he lost the 2020 election, then-President Donald Trump had a plan to stay in office — and he wanted Mitch McConnell to know about it. If Trump could successfully pressure Republican Gov. Brian Kemp to de-certify Biden’s narrow win in Georgia, that would lead to a domino effect: Officials in Pennsylvania and Michigan would follow suit and overturn Biden’s electoral victory, Trump believed, a stunning reversal that could keep him in the White House for a second term. And Trump was certain he could subvert the election outcome, telling McConnell, then the Senate majority leader, and other top Republicans that he had personally been on the phone with officials in Pennsylvania and Michigan — and they told him they would move to keep him in power, despite the results showing Biden had won their states. The new book from Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns reports that McConnell knew about the plot but stayed silent because he didn’t want Trump to sabotage the Georgia Senate runoff elections. (Trump sabotaged the Georgia runoff elections anyway because that is what Donald Trump does). Mitch McConnell knew about the coup plot, and he did nothing because keeping Trump in power would benefit him and hopefully give him the Senate majority. McConnell has betrayed his country on too many occasions to count, but his most telling betrayal might be his decision not to try and stop Trump. If McConnell had spoken up, 1/6 might have been prevented. The Big Lie would not have taken hold, and lives would have been saved.

This was sent to me by an acquaintance and did not fact-check it. My apologies to all.

There seems to be inconsistency among the forecasters as of 17:43H. Some are saying we are due for another dump and winds almost as bad as be have had in the last 12 hours, and others are saying 2-8 CMs of snow with "some" wind. Right now, I am leaning towards believing the more optimistic forecasts.

Ukrainian News who also posted today: Ukraine has hit Russian missile cruiser "Moskva" in the Black Sea, Odesa regional governor Maksym Marchenko said. 'Russian ship is severely damaged', he claimed

Reports are coming that Russian troops are not being paid and entire battalions are refusing to engage their targets.

I forgot to mention that McDonald's puts Xylitol in their dairy products to make them thicker and more ice cream like, but even a small amount is fatal to dogs.

Something To Be Aware Of Tomorrow:

Finland is not all that worried about Russia. Finland spends more on military per capita than anyone else in Europe. One Finnish politician said, "We're not worried about Russian soldiers coming into Finland. We already have thousands here just inside our border, about six feet underground."

One of the ever- changing reasons for attacking Ukraine that Putin has given is to prevent nuclear weapons from being installed at Russia's border, but Poland abuts Russia and has been NATO for a while. All of this is a sham for Putin to try to restore the Russian empire as a monument to himself. There have been persistent rumours that he has thyroid cancer, which can be treated with palliative measures but not cured.

Many of the Cons are already there.

Gilbert Gottfried Dead At 67 'After A Long Illness' Gottfried's family said they wanted everyone to "keep laughing as loud as possible" in the comedian's honor.

And the Donner party didn't even have Hamburger Helper.

Not sure- it was sent to me.

'This is incredibly dangerous': white nationalism is poisoning the military 'to break the chain of command' . I don’t follow what every Democrat says. No one can. There’s no way for me to know whether the tenor and tone of their collective rhetoric changed last week. But it felt like it got stronger, sharper and angrier. Consider Brian Schatz. The Hawaii Senator took to the Senate floor to scorch his colleague Josh Hawley of Missouri, who’s been holding up appointments to the Department of Defense that are necessary to America’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Before he signs off, he said, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin must resign for his “failures” in Afghanistan. Schatz said that’s rich coming from a guy who raised his fist in solidarity with the J6 insurrectionists and who voted to acquit the former president for the high crime of extorting Ukraine’s president. “This comes from a guy who before the Russian invasion suggested that maybe it would be wise for [Volodymyr] Zelenskyy to make a few concessions about Ukraine and their willingness to join NATO.” He added: “They withheld lethal aid until, unless Zelenskyy released false smears against Joe Biden's son. Then [Hawley] voted to exonerate President Trump for this. So spare me the new solidarity with the Ukrainians and with the free world, because this man's record is exactly the opposite.” His tirade amazed those of us longing for the Democrats to take a strong stand against the Republican Party’s lies and bad faith. Perhaps we’ll see more now that Greg Sargent put a brighter light on it. The Post columnist interviewed Brian Schatz on Friday. “Democrats need to make more noise,” the Senator conceded. “We have to scream from the rooftops because this is a battle for the free world now.” Let’s not forget what Schatz said, however. He said Hawley is “doing a very specific thing. He is damaging the Department of Defense.” So far, Schatz is the only Democrat seeing what needs seeing. Though he says he’s outraged by the US pullout from Afghanistan, Josh Hawley is also attacking, directly, the military leadership itself. (He won’t move on appointments until the secretary of defense resigns.) Demanding Austin’s resignation is not a “reasonable request,” Schatz said. It can’t be. The point is sabotaging civilian control of the military. You read that right. The point is cleaving the ranks. The point is to create conditions in which military personnel feel inspired to take action that’s favorable to the Republicans’ (perhaps the former president’s) return to power. They are picking up where the J6 insurrection left off. But next time, it won’t be a mob of schlubs. It will be an army of highly-trained insurgents bent on restoring whiteness to the center of the republic. At gunpoint. Everyone should see what Schatz sees. https://www.alternet.org/2022/04/white-nationalism-poisoning-military-command/

FIFY

He was pretty much a flop in the CFL. Those who can, do. Those who cannot, teach.

Extremists have a long history of saying or doing really stupid things, so all the Liberals need do is bide their time.