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Just finished cleaning up trees on one of the trails. Got back to the barn and the tractor had a flat rear tire. Blew it back up, but had a crack in the sidewall. So next week it'll be time for a new tire. Always something.
Hope life is bringing you something good today!
life beckons.
Thanks for the OT.
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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Rashid is finally getting this. Did he hear President Lee address a rude reporter trying to spin the story from the right? The reporter didn't ask a question, he gave a speech. Lee set the reporter straight, without criticizing the right of young people to demonstrate without breaking the law. What did Lee say in his brilliant rebuttal?
1. The National Election Commission is an independent constitutional institution. The executive branch doesn't control it.
2. Each branch of government appoints three member to the commission and the chairmanship is rotated.
3. This election season, the chairmanship was held by a commission member selected by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
4. The chairman of the NEC didn't even come to work on election day!??*!!!! What's up with that?
5. Who specifically was responsible for a shortage of ballots on election day? An investigation is required.
6. Their is an absence of any institutional accountability or oversight of the NEC, which needs to be corrected by a bi-partisan body of legislators , who need to draft and submit a proposed constitutional amendment for consideration and implementation if approved.
Lee didn't have to say this because it is well known at this point among politically active South Koreans that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court was implicated in an unprecedented procedural move judicially dismissing a criminal case review favorable to candidate Lee Jae-myung, just before election day, which potentially could have disqualified Lee's candidacy for presidential office. Fortunately, that didn't work out. The Supreme Court Chief Justice is known to be an arch conservative and partial to Yoon.
Lee was charitable about the nature and composition of the youthful crowds demonstrating outside the Olympic Park stadium where ballots were collected. Imo, they are obviously Yoon again types, mobilized to carry out the well publicized US/ Morse Tan led attack on the legitimacy of the Lee government. They've sung the China stole the election tune once too often. A so called "leaderless" movement draws many of its gullible followers to the demonstration venue by noting the availability of free food, soft drinks, and the presence of many "pretty young girls." As young voters we've been done a terrible injustice and are not going to stand for it, etc. I saw a report that the Kpop idol and actor IU was solicited to provide funds to support the demonstration. There was no evidence that she did.
The presence of many US flags and demands to "do over" the election, do not reflect the political reality that given the circumstances, democrats did worse than expected in the election outcomes. Go figure. While supporting the demonstrators in spirit and the specious attack alleging Lee administrations responsibility with conspiracy theories, it is doubtful that the PPP conservative opposition party would actually want a revote.
1/ 코리아타임즈의 최근 올림픽공원 집회 칼럼을 읽고 좀 놀랐어요.
글만 읽으면 마치 젊은 세대가 이끄는 아름답고 평화로운 시민운동처럼 보입니다. 하지만 극우 세력, 부정선거론 등은 아예 존재하지 않았던 것처럼 다뤄져요. https://t.co/tJMg8DQvss
1/ I was a bit surprised after reading The Korea Times' recent column on the Olympic Park rally.
If you just read the article, it seems like a beautiful and peaceful civic movement led by the younger generation. But far-right forces, election fraud theories, and such are treated as if they never existed at all.
This is the English translation of Rashid's post that he provided on his thread.
1/ S. Korea is in a serious post-election crisis. The election commission ran out of ballot papers on election day. 2 weeks on, the fallout is still ongoing.
But there are 2 very distinct things: legitimate grievances, and far-right exploitation. We shouldn't conflate the two. https://t.co/vqrg0Zf5R7
Because what they saw wasn’t a species reaching for the stars.
It was a species reaching for its own throat and calling the choke a paycheck.
Look at the normies. Look at the herd.
Up at 6, asleep by 11, and in between — fourteen hours mortgaged to a number they were told meant freedom.
Freedom that compounds interest while they sleep.
Freedom with a lien on it.
That’s not citizenship. That’s livestock with a Wi-Fi password.
The alien isn’t astonished by our skyscrapers. It’s astonished that we built prisons out of paper and called the paper “money,” and called the debt “normal,” and called the questioning of it “extreme.”
It’s astonished that a species smart enough to split the atom never split open the fiction that a Federal Reserve note backed by nothing is somehow worth a man’s whole life.
Slavedom mentality don’t wear chains no more. It wears a lanyard. It clocks in.
It says “that’s just how it is” like the system fell from the sky instead of being written — written by men, in courts, in code, in commerce, written the same way I can read it, the same way I can stand in it and say: I am not the surety for this fiction. I am not chattel to a strawman with my name in all caps.
I am the living man, the breathing soul, and there is a Common Law older than your banks and a Creator older than your courts.
That’s why the picture hit different.
That’s why the sign reads true.
Because the most advanced civilization in the universe took one look at us — running on cortisol and credit scores, worshipping screens, divorced from the moon, forgetting the soil that grows the food that grows the body that holds the spirit they were told doesn’t exist — and the verdict wasn’t fascinating. The verdict was I don’t believe in humans.
But I do. I still do.
Not the sleepwalkers — the risers.
The ones who read the fine print and then rewrote the contract. The ones who trade screen time for moonlight, who breathe on purpose, who grow what they eat and know what they’re worth without a bank’s permission to say so.
So let the alien hold the sign. Let it stay astonished a little longer.
Because some of us already stopped being the joke.
Some of us read the law, learned the language, and walked out the matrix through the front door they didn’t even know was unlocked.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
@orlbucfan
just some thunder, no winds, as I started typing a reply.
We lucked out and nothing around here flooded, although 1 bayou was scrupulously watched and water levels measured constantly.
As for being a mess, I am renowned for that!
#7 You're a MESS!! Hope you both stayed dry and no flooding from our wet "pal" Arthur.
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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
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Which is a confusing holiday. I know the bank, schools and our
library use this as an excuse to close. Retail not so much. Doesn't
really matter the why-for. Makes almost as much sense to shut-down
all businesses on every Friday and Monday, squeeze-in every holiday
and adjust the date specific occasions to coincide with the new schedule.
At least it would be consistent.
Russia vindicated as top U.S. intel confirms lethal Pentagon-funded biolabs in Ukraine
June 19, 2026
… Tulsi Gabbard, who is stepping down as DNI due to her husband’s cancer illness, dropped a bombshell last week by releasing declassified documents showing extensive involvement of the U.S. government in running biolabs around the world. She said her findings were the product of months of research into files held by intelligence agencies. Gabbard said the information showed that the U.S. government had funded over 120 biolabs in 30 countries. One of those countries was Ukraine, where more than 40 laboratories were conducting biological research financed by the Pentagon and other federal agencies.
Gabbard warned that the biolabs in Ukraine were engaged in research on highly contagious pathogens. She did not describe the facilities as biological warfare, but that is the grave implication, as Russia’s military investigations have concluded.
DNI Gabbard stated: “Until now, evidence regarding the full existence and funding of these laboratories had been knowingly withheld from the American people. The information surrounding the existence, history, locations, and funding of these U.S.-funded biolabs has been intentionally covered up by powerful people falsely claiming that they do not exist and accusing anyone who says otherwise of being foreign assets and traitors to America.”
She added: “Many of these U.S. government-funded biolabs are currently or have previously engaged in research using hazardous and highly contagious pathogens, in some cases to include dangerous Gain-of-Function [more lethal] research, with very little visibility or oversight.”
Gabbard did not pull punches. She accused the Biden administration (2022-25) of lying about the biolabs. “Despite the obvious potential for catastrophic global impact research on dangerous pathogens in biolabs can have, politicians, so-called health professionals like Dr [Anthony] Fauci [former chief of Center for Disease Control and Prevention], and entities within the Biden administration’s national security team lied to the American people about the existence of U.S.-funded and supported biolabs, and threatened those who attempted to expose the truth.”
This is an astounding admission by the top U.S. intelligence official. It vindicates the well-founded claims made by Russian intelligence about the existence of lethal biolabs in Ukraine. It validates Russian concerns that the U.S. was running biological warfare programs targeting Russia…
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I wont be around today...
life beckons.
Hope you and otc did not get smacked by
flooding with Arthur. Good seeing you posting, too.
Rec'd!!
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
Good morning...
Just finished cleaning up trees on one of the trails. Got back to the barn and the tractor had a flat rear tire. Blew it back up, but had a crack in the sidewall. So next week it'll be time for a new tire. Always something.
Hope life is bringing you something good today!
Thanks for the OT.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
The so called "post election crisis" in South Korea
Rashid is finally getting this. Did he hear President Lee address a rude reporter trying to spin the story from the right? The reporter didn't ask a question, he gave a speech. Lee set the reporter straight, without criticizing the right of young people to demonstrate without breaking the law. What did Lee say in his brilliant rebuttal?
1. The National Election Commission is an independent constitutional institution. The executive branch doesn't control it.
2. Each branch of government appoints three member to the commission and the chairmanship is rotated.
3. This election season, the chairmanship was held by a commission member selected by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
4. The chairman of the NEC didn't even come to work on election day!??*!!!! What's up with that?
5. Who specifically was responsible for a shortage of ballots on election day? An investigation is required.
6. Their is an absence of any institutional accountability or oversight of the NEC, which needs to be corrected by a bi-partisan body of legislators , who need to draft and submit a proposed constitutional amendment for consideration and implementation if approved.
Lee didn't have to say this because it is well known at this point among politically active South Koreans that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court was implicated in an unprecedented procedural move judicially dismissing a criminal case review favorable to candidate Lee Jae-myung, just before election day, which potentially could have disqualified Lee's candidacy for presidential office. Fortunately, that didn't work out. The Supreme Court Chief Justice is known to be an arch conservative and partial to Yoon.
Lee was charitable about the nature and composition of the youthful crowds demonstrating outside the Olympic Park stadium where ballots were collected. Imo, they are obviously Yoon again types, mobilized to carry out the well publicized US/ Morse Tan led attack on the legitimacy of the Lee government. They've sung the China stole the election tune once too often. A so called "leaderless" movement draws many of its gullible followers to the demonstration venue by noting the availability of free food, soft drinks, and the presence of many "pretty young girls." As young voters we've been done a terrible injustice and are not going to stand for it, etc. I saw a report that the Kpop idol and actor IU was solicited to provide funds to support the demonstration. There was no evidence that she did.
The presence of many US flags and demands to "do over" the election, do not reflect the political reality that given the circumstances, democrats did worse than expected in the election outcomes. Go figure. While supporting the demonstrators in spirit and the specious attack alleging Lee administrations responsibility with conspiracy theories, it is doubtful that the PPP conservative opposition party would actually want a revote.
This is the English translation of Rashid's post that he provided on his thread.
I'm not a big music fan of IU, but the youngun's love her. She's not a bad actress. Park Bo-geum singing here with her, is also an actor.
Hope everyone has an enjoyable weekend!
己所不欲，勿施于人。
Food for thought
I don’t believe in humans.
Because what they saw wasn’t a species reaching for the stars.
It was a species reaching for its own throat and calling the choke a paycheck.
Look at the normies. Look at the herd.
Up at 6, asleep by 11, and in between — fourteen hours mortgaged to a number they were told meant freedom.
Freedom that compounds interest while they sleep.
Freedom with a lien on it.
That’s not citizenship. That’s livestock with a Wi-Fi password.
The alien isn’t astonished by our skyscrapers. It’s astonished that we built prisons out of paper and called the paper “money,” and called the debt “normal,” and called the questioning of it “extreme.”
It’s astonished that a species smart enough to split the atom never split open the fiction that a Federal Reserve note backed by nothing is somehow worth a man’s whole life.
Slavedom mentality don’t wear chains no more. It wears a lanyard. It clocks in.
It says “that’s just how it is” like the system fell from the sky instead of being written — written by men, in courts, in code, in commerce, written the same way I can read it, the same way I can stand in it and say: I am not the surety for this fiction. I am not chattel to a strawman with my name in all caps.
I am the living man, the breathing soul, and there is a Common Law older than your banks and a Creator older than your courts.
That’s why the picture hit different.
That’s why the sign reads true.
Because the most advanced civilization in the universe took one look at us — running on cortisol and credit scores, worshipping screens, divorced from the moon, forgetting the soil that grows the food that grows the body that holds the spirit they were told doesn’t exist — and the verdict wasn’t fascinating. The verdict was I don’t believe in humans.
But I do. I still do.
Not the sleepwalkers — the risers.
The ones who read the fine print and then rewrote the contract. The ones who trade screen time for moonlight, who breathe on purpose, who grow what they eat and know what they’re worth without a bank’s permission to say so.
So let the alien hold the sign. Let it stay astonished a little longer.
Because some of us already stopped being the joke.
Some of us read the law, learned the language, and walked out the matrix through the front door they didn’t even know was unlocked.
— Sha Meen
MAGA
Morons
Are
Governing
America
Good morning in absentia Johnny. Go and do life, fer sure.
heading out right now ourselves.
have a great weekend
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
News with humor
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
@on the cusp You're a MESS!! Hope
You're a MESS!!
Hope you both stayed dry and no flooding from our wet "pal" Arthur.
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
It started to rain
just some thunder, no winds, as I started typing a reply.
We lucked out and nothing around here flooded, although 1 bayou was scrupulously watched and water levels measured constantly.
As for being a mess, I am renowned for that!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Some are calling this Juneteenth
.
Which is a confusing holiday. I know the bank, schools and our
library use this as an excuse to close. Retail not so much. Doesn't
really matter the why-for. Makes almost as much sense to shut-down
all businesses on every Friday and Monday, squeeze-in every holiday
and adjust the date specific occasions to coincide with the new schedule.
At least it would be consistent.
Zionism is a social disease
Gabbard and the Biolabs
From the Strategic Culture Foundation.