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The Life of the Original Little Girl on the Prairie: Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Washington State Abolishes Residency Requirement for Voter Registration

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Stuart's Saturday Miscellany

'The President Has Lost All Independence'

Americans Want to Know Who is Really in Charge in the White House

" It is worth noting that Biden has spent more than 40 percent of his presidency on vacation and his days are similar to someone who works a cushiony 9-5."

Good News: Dementia Joe Finally Has A Plan For Food Inflation

Carville to Donors: Cut Off Anyone Supporting Biden -- And Maybe Kamala Too

Let the great Democratic civil war begin.

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Theodore Dalrymple: Labour’s Unfortunate Winning Recipe - With the wealthy fleeing Britain, eternal electoral victory for the party beckons.

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'Doing My Goodest Job' To Beat Trump - Warner Rounds Up Senate Dems Against Biden After Disastrous 'Redemption' Interview

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Biden spent the day in the battleground state of Wisconsin, which he officially won in the last election by only 20,682 votes. At a rally at a middle school gymnasium in Madison, Biden added to his ever-growing stack of gaffes, confidently predicting he'd beat Donald Trump "again in 2020":

Proving again that not even a teleprompter can assure Biden's reasonably error-free delivery of a speech, he also said, "We're gonna protect our children from getting weapons of war off our streets!"

Friday's main event was Biden's sit-down interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos.

. . . . Stephanopoulos, who's demonstrated all the worst tendencies of big-media leftists, played this interview relatively straight.

. . . One of Biden's worst moments of the interview came in response to what may have been the simplest question. Asked if he'd watched the debate afterwards, Biden said, "I don't think I did, no." Stephanopoulos's follow-up question about when Biden realized the debate wasn't going well triggered a particularly incoherent reply:

“The whole way I prepared, nobody’s fault mine. Nobody’s fault, mine. I, uh, prepared what I usually would do, sitting down as I did, come back with foreign leaders or National Security Council for explicit detail.

And I realized about partway through that, you know, I quoted The New York Times had me down 10 points before the debate, 9 now or whatever the hell it is. The fact of the matter is that what I looked at is that he also lied 28 times. I couldn’t, I mean, the way the debate ran, not — my fault, no one else’s fault — no one else’s fault.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/warner-organizing-senate-dems-against-biden-primetime-interview-fails-move-needle

#1 feeblemind on 2024-07-06 09:38 (Reply)

Does anyone listen to podcasts? I find them too tedious and weak in terms of information transfer. Without exception you could skip the first 3-5 minutes of every podcast and miss nothing. After that it drones on for god knows how long. Imagine you have a 75 inch TV and you want to watch the baseball game but instead you get a black screen and sound only. Back in the 30's radio used to broadcast a "live" play by play of baseball games. But it was all pure BS. Someone at the actual game would send a telegram about plays and scores and the announcer would "act" out the game as though he was watching it including excitement over a hit or a stolen base. And of course the sports fans didn't know or have any other technology to compare it with so they were glued to the speaker of their radio enjoying the fake action. That is what a podcast is like but so much worse. We sit there tediously waiting for something, anything to be said of interest while observing a blank screen that COULD have been used to give you more content. It is about as exciting as listening to someone using sign language over the telephone.

#2 OneGuy on 2024-07-06 11:05 (Reply)

I don't listen to podcasts. I would rather read a transcript as it is faster.

Furthermore, I find the off-topic banter between the different voices boring, tiresome and a waste of time.

Having said that, I gather they are indeed popular.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly my wife hates the noise.

#2.1 feeblemind on 2024-07-06 11:23 (Reply)

Since the death of Rush Limbaugh, talk radio is dead, so I listen to a few podcasts: Victor Davis Hanson, Mike Roe - The Way I Heard It, The History of Americans. I listen to my favorite priest, Fr. Robert McTeigue. Occasionally I’ll listen to Megyn Kelly, but rarely the whole podcast. After listening to the interview of the Vietnam soldier found on this website, I tried a few Jocko podcasts. Jocko and his companion, Echo Charles, spend way too much time talking about jujitsu, and other topics that I have no interest in.

The first 150 or so Mike Roe were fantastic. Eight or so minutes long, stories similar to how Paul Harvey did his The Rest of the Story. Now they are nearly an hour interviews with various celebrities. I’ve tried others, but mostly they don’t hold my attention. I think VDH is the best that I’ve found.

#2.2 B. Hammer on 2024-07-06 11:45 (Reply)

I queue up short ones for listening in the gym. Otherwise, no. I agree that they are a poor medium for information transfer.

#2.3 John Fisher on 2024-07-06 11:54 (Reply)

I queue up short ones for listening

I would agree that the 5-10 minute broadcasts are much more palatable.

Furthermore there is the time factor. Who has time to listen to an hour podcast?

#2.3.1 feeblemind on 2024-07-06 13:31 (Reply)

John Bachelor show (a podcast of sorts) is excellent. Try it.

#2.4 Louie Miller on 2024-07-07 21:44 (Reply)

With the democrat media caterwauling for the end of Joe Biden, several Senators now in the same camp, along with the vocal Representatives, Joe’s days seem to be numbered. If it wasn’t for Harris, who no one seems to like, Joe would have resigned already. It will be interesting to see how the democrats pull this off, it’s not laws or rules that are holding them back from yanking Joe out of the way. Kamala Harris, who identifies as a woman, and her skin color, are major hurdles to overcome. They’re not afraid to cheat, it’s just the calculation of how many fake ballots can they actually get away with. People barely believed the 81 million. Can they get away with 90 million? The Wisconsin Supreme Court did their part.

#3 B. Hammer on 2024-07-06 11:59 (Reply)

The Light Worker to the Rescue?

In a Fair Election, There Is but One Way Biden Can Win

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There is only one way Joe could win, by selecting a heretofore unmentioned VP who would unify Democrats behind him. It would involve Barack Obama running as Biden’s vice president. The 22nd Amendment, passed in 1951, states, “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice. …” The key word is “elected.” Thus Obama could legally be elected vice president, paving the way for Biden to resign soon after his inauguration and for Obama to occupy the Oval Office, completing his term.

A scholarly article suggests “A twice-before-elected President may become a Vice-President either through appointment or through election and – like any other Vice-President – may thereafter succeed to the Presidency for the full remainder of the pending term.” It finds the 12th Amendment’s mandate, “… no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States” does not bar this.

https://basedunderground.com/2024/07/06/in-a-fair-election-there-is-but-one-way-biden-can-win/

#3.1 feeblemind on 2024-07-06 13:11 (Reply)

I still think Biden won't be the candidate and that on Jan 20th somehow even if it requires an assassination Trump won't be president. The deep state is too big and has too much to lose to allow someone to have presidential power and is not under their control. I think Trump in 2017 when he took office had no idea how bad it was and how bad the advice given to him was and the deep state quickly tied his hands on the things most important to them. This time he knows what he is facing and I suspect he would appoint cabinet members who would immediately clean house and make all the illegal and anti-American stuff public. The deep state believes this too so somehow, some way, he will not be president.

#3.1.1 OneGuy on 2024-07-06 13:25 (Reply)

China is building four high tech spy sites in Cuba. The U.S. is under attack. This is just one example of China's continuing military buildup inside and near the U.S. Who ever is actually in charge of the presidency knows all of this of course but either does not care or is in favor of it. For a few millions of dollars our politicians and bureaucrats are being bought by the Chinese. Everything we do with the Chinese puts us at risk. Allowing them to manufacture our medicines, essential goods and raw materials is a terrible mistake that no sane and honest person would have allowed. And yet that is exactly what many in our government has done and they have become rich doing it. We, American voters, may be too stupid to survive.

#4 Anon on 2024-07-06 14:19 (Reply)

Who is running the country?
Soros.
Zuckerberg.
Xi.

#5 Mark Matis on 2024-07-06 14:36 (Reply)

Right now I think it is the devil.

#5.1 JC on 2024-07-06 16:01 (Reply)

Washington state abandons residency... once again, that is the job of the legislature per the US Constitution. Those two are NOT legislators, just pretenders to the throne.

#6 indyjonesouthere on 2024-07-06 15:16 (Reply)

Rose Wilder Lane was a good writer and an interesting political thinker. I excerpted some of her thoughts here:

https://ricochet.com/530704/rose-wilder-lane/

#7 David Foster (Link) on 2024-07-07 11:14 (Reply)

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