I understand your point. It's hard to believe he's *really* upset at the deaths of the elderly and defenseless, as in pursuit of his crime empire I'm sure he would have killed someone elderly and defenseless if they were in his way. Probably what it is is that he's seeing it from a "humanitarian" pov and not a mafia pov. For example, if Cuomo went up to him and said, "look amico, my business is the State, and these people were making it hard for me to run my business. They had to go, capiche?" Gravano probably would have understood his actions, but when seeing it from a citizen's pov it was incomprehensible (sort of what one of Gravano's victims must have thought about his criminal actions).

It's all perspective, I suppose.

 

It sounds like he and Cuomo are "sympatico", then. Well, except for Cuomo's relationship troubles. It's hard to think of a hardened gangster saying, "I'm SO lonely" as a pickup line... but then I don't know any mobsters, so maybe I'm wrong.

 

So former Gov. Northram is out in Virginia, and his successor is Gov. Younkin.



Seeing his pic, the first thing I thought was, "this man needs a new hairstyle, it looks like Virginia got rid of Governor Blackface and replaced him with Governor Hitler. I was going to post a pic of H to demonstrate the same, but came across this while looking. Apparently Amazon was going to change it's smile logo to this smile-and-tape logo but had to retract it as people said it looked like... Hitler! I suppose even though that part of history is behind us, echoes of the terror of his regime still continue.

 

Talk about wacky. This guy is running for the US Senate representing Louisiana, and his campaign ad? Is a video of himself sitting in a suit in a big leather chair (like a Senator would have) smoking pot. So he's concerned with legalization of marijuana as a campaign platform - fine. However, who shows up to a job interview high (or drunk)? Hopefully, the good people of Louisiana will vote for someone else for Senator, I can't imagine putting someone in office whose main interest in the office seems to be that he'll be able to be high at work rather than doing his job.



https://www.foxnews.com/politics/louisiana-senate-candidate-smokes-marijuana-campaign

 

So six people have been arrested for buying guns that were intended to be sold to Mexican drug cartels. Sounds reasonable. It *does* make one wonder why Obama and Biden weren't ALSO arrested for doing the same thing on a much larger scale.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/smuggling0weapons-ammo-mexican-drug-cartel

https://www.newsmax.com/FastFeatures/barack-obama-scandal-atf-fast-and-furious/2014/12/28/id/613434/

 

Justice Breyer is retiring in June, so look for Biden's handlers to put forward a black woman to replace him. She'll definitely be hard-left wing, but as long as it isn't Garland they could nominate Simone Missick for all I care. Best of luck to her, whoever it ends up being!

"https://www.foxnews.com/politics/breyer-retire-supreme-court

 

Nah, but I bet there's more than one Repub senator that's hoping by some "miracle" one of their Dem colleagues keels over, LOL!

I'm pretty sure people are squeezing Breyer HARD to retire now, as if he was still in office beyond the midterm election the Repubs may indeed have the numbers to push the nomination approval back beyond the 24 election. I wouldn't put it past Mitch, at least.

 

In a developing story, 30 Million dollars of our tax money might be being spent to purchase crack pipes for drug addicts. I hope not.

" Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra on Tuesday expressing her "grave concerns" about the department's program that could reportedly use taxpayer money to distribute crack pipes to drug addicts.

The Washington Free Beacon initially reported on the program, noting that the department would prioritize applicants in "underserved communities" as defined under one of President Biden's executive orders. An HHS spokesperson reportedly told the Beacon that the grants would fund smoking kits with pipes for users to smoke crystal methamphetamine, crack cocaine and "any illicit substances."

The grant document references Biden's executive order 13985, titled "Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government."

"Government-funded drug paraphernalia is a slap in the face to the communities and first responders fighting against drugs flowing into our country from a wide-open southern border," Blackburn wrote. "If this is the president's plan to address drug abuse, our nation is in serious trouble."

Blackburn gave HHS until March 1 to clarify whether the Biden administration is, in fact, authorizing the distribution of drug paraphernalia, which is in violation of the U.S. Code. The senator also demanded to know which entities applied to the grant program and how such entities are deemed eligible.

An HHS spokesperson described the Beacon's report to Fox News as "blatant misinformation," but did not explicitly deny the report.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bl...idens-taxpayer-funded-crack-pipe-distribution

 

House Republicans are asking Biden to take the same cognitive test Trump took, which he probably won't for obvious reasons. It would likely be tough for him to pass, given the sample questions from the exam reposted below:

24. The role of the US president is to be:
a. the man in charge of the US hair sniffing department
b. 头号行贿者
c. winner of a pushup contest
d. chief (no racism implied) of the executive branch.

25. "Corn Pop" is:
a. a tasty sugared breakfast cereal
b. an urban thug with a bicycle chain
c. a campaign prop
d. the man who's constantly shouting in my ear telling me to burn things


https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republicans-urge-biden-cognitive-test-assume-worst


oh, and for those of you without your morning cup of coffee, these aren't real test questions -yet.

 

Fredo is trying to blackmail CNN.

"
Page Six cites multiple anonymous sources who assert Cuomo is demanding upwards of $60 million from his former network on the heels of his one-time boss, Jeff Zucker, resigning from CNN. The probe into Cuomo’s tenure uncovered that Zucker had a consensual relationship with another employee, Executive VP and Chief Marketing Officer of CNN Worldwide, Allison Gollust.

So what does Zucker’s resignation have to do with Cuomo’s desire for a hefty payout? Cuomo reportedly claims that Zucker not only knew about his involvement with his brother’s sexual harassment investigation, but that Zucker himself also had “his own dealings” with Andrew, which included coaching him on “what to say in his press conferences” and generally advising him on “when, and where, and what to say.”

“What he believes happened is WarnerMedia found something in their investigation into Chris, perhaps internal memos or documents which revealed more about Zucker’s involvement with Andrew Cuomo,” per one of Page Six's sources. “Gollust was just a convenient excuse.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertain...llion-after-cnn-fallout/ar-AATF12x?li=BBnb7Kz

 

You'd be surprised. Someone tells you even 3 words and asks you to remember them, then asks you a bunch of other questions and later asks you to state what the words were. It's not that easy.

 

Then Biden should have no problem with taking it.

 

Putin has moved some troops in to Ukraine.

"
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered troops into two rebel-held regions in eastern Ukraine, after recognising them as independent states.

Footage released overnight appeared to show Russian military vehicles heading towards the Ukrainian border.

Russia said the troops would be "peacekeeping" in the breakaway regions, which it has backed since 2014.

"

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60468237

 

Germany really shocked me this morning. They have stopped certification of the Nordstream 2 natural gas pipeline that would supply half Germany's energy needs with Russian gas, all over Russia's actions in Ukraine.

I figured Germany would bow out of this fight as they need that pipeline. I was wrong.

"
The West showed Tuesday it was ready to target Russia's huge energy industry — even at the risk of hurting itself — after Moscow ordered troops into parts of eastern Ukraine.

Germany said it was halting certification of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline following Moscow's actions in eastern Ukraine on Monday.

"With regard to the latest developments, we need to reassess the situation also with regard to Nord Stream 2. It sounds very technocratic but it is the necessary administrative step in order to stop certification of the pipeline," Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in Berlin.

The 750-mile pipeline was completed in September but has not yet received final certification from German regulators. Without that, natural gas cannot flow through the Baltic Sea pipeline from Russia to Germany.

The United States, the United Kingdom, Ukraine and several EU countries have opposed the pipeline since it was announced in 2015, warning the project would increase Moscow's influence in Europe.

Nord Stream 2 could deliver 55 billion cubic meters of gas per year. That's more than 50% of Germany's annual consumption and could be worth as much as $15 billion to Gazprom, the Russian state owned company that controls the pipeline."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...ion-of-russian-pipeline/ar-AAUa3ai?li=BBnb7Kz