[BEE] NEW YORK, NY — Former President Donald Trump continues to find himself on the receiving end of serious legal charges after being indicted in New York for eating pizza cooked in a wood-burning oven.
"He must face justice for this heinous act," said New York City Mayor Eric Adams. "Everyone knows wood-burning pizza ovens are a danger to public safety and pose the most immediate threat to our democracy. President Trump must learn he is not above the law."
In recordings leaked to CNN, Trump can be heard talking about how much he's enjoying the authentic, New York pizza he's eating. Audible gasps could be heard in the CNN studio as the audio was played. "This is one of the more disturbing things I've ever heard," said news anchor Jake Tapper. "And that's saying something because I hear Anderson Cooper's voice every day."
Trump was officially indicted for the crime and was expected to arrive back in New York for arraignment next week. The former president defiantly addressed the indictment in a post to his Truth Social account. "THE DEEP STATE AND THE RADICAL LEFT ARE AT IT AGAIN," he said. "FIRST IT WAS RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA, THEN IMPEACHMENT HOAX #1, THEN IMPEACHMENT HOAX #2, NOW THIS! REMEMBER, THEY'RE COMING AFTER YOUR PIZZA, I'M JUST STANDING IN THEIR WAY! WITCH HUNT!"
At publishing time, federal prosecutors had reportedly intensified their investigation after it was learned Trump was in possession of a wood-burning pizza oven at his home in Trump Tower.
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It's like the charcoal / propane grilling debate. It's heat. The item being cooked can't tell the difference, and if you claim you can, you are full of it.
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Then why is there an industry selling Hickory Smoke flavoring, MM? Depends on your taste buds so ...YMMV.
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The Twelve Schools of BBQ are going to disagree with that as well as the restaurant owners I worked for who built their entire enterprise around wood burning pizza ovens. Not once have I ever heard the bragging of smoking a brisket done with pine.
The restaurant I worked at was purpose built around wood fired pizza ovens. We do our corned beef and pastrami in the smoker.
There is also the application of heat which is important.
[BEE] SEATTLE, WA — A man sitting in state prison for exposing himself to kids at a local playground is kicking himself that he didn't just wait and do it at a pride parade instead.
"Man, I'm so mad at myself!" convicted sex offender Lester Carlyle said in an interview with reporters earlier this week. "I'm sitting here serving time for lewd conduct toward minors; I should have just waited until June and then I could have exposed myself in front of tons of kids with absolutely zero consequences and their parents would have cheered me on!"
Carlyle said he didn't realize all he needed to do to escape legal trouble was throw on a feather boa and whip out his genitals in public in a pride parade.
"Dagnabit, I'm such a newb. Look at those other guys, waving their bait and tackle around in front of kids without a care in the world! If only I'd grabbed a pride flag that day I went to the park I might be eating lunch on the front lawn of the White House instead of in this dank jail cell!"
Carlyle said he plans on coming out as gay as soon as he gets out of jail and will be attending as many family-friendly pride events as possible. State leaders in Washington declined to comment on the matter, directing reporters instead to the state's "It's not criminal pedophilia if it happens during the month of June and the person doing it is queer" policy.
BLUF:
[The Pipeline] "Leftists tend to hate anything that has an image of being strong, good and successful. They hate America, they hate Western civilization, they hate white males, they hate rationality. The reasons that leftists give for hating the West, etc. clearly do not correspond with their real motives. They SAY they hate the West because it is warlike, imperialistic, sexist, ethnocentric and so forth, but where these same faults appear in socialist countries or in primitive cultures, the leftist finds excuses for them, or at best he GRUDGINGLY admits that they exist; whereas he ENTHUSIASTICALLY points out (and often greatly exaggerates) these faults where they appear in Western civilization. Thus it is clear that these faults are not the leftist’s real motive for hating America and the West. He hates America and the West because they are strong and successful."
[DISCERN Report] The term "color/colour revolution" is often associated with covert efforts among US and European interests to foment civil unrest within enemy nations (and sometimes allied nations) as a means to destabilize their societies and governments. It is essentially 4th generation warfare, a concept expanded on by Lieutenant Colonel Michael Aquino (a self professed satanist) in a white paper titled ’From Psyop To Mindwar.’ The goal is straightforward — To go to war against a foreign country (or one’s own country) by attacking the citizenry rather than its armies. Or, to exploit the target population as a weapon to trigger instability.
Color revolutions have been instigated for decades around the world. One such psy-op led to the Euromaidan Revolution in Ukraine in 2014 which caused the overthrow of pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych. This singular event was the primary trigger for the eventual Russian invasion of Ukraine this past year, as Vladimir Putin declared he would no longer tolerate color revolutions among Russian allies.
One can debate the wider implications of that war and who it actually benefits in the long run, but the fact remains that Euromaidan was a NATO supported color revolution that initiated a powderkeg event that brings us closer to world war. If chaos was the purpose, then the purpose has been achieved.
I would suggest, however, that even Euromaidan and its effects pale in comparison to a much larger and more destructive color revolution now underway in western nations in the form of the "Pride" movement. In fact, it has become clear in the past several years that Pride is a definite color revolution; a political destabilization effort.
In the past the Pride movement was seen as a separate and broad and leaderless entity focused on LGBT issues. But this is changing rapidly. Now, the Pride flag is being used as a symbol to encompass all woke concepts into a single organization, including everything from Antifa to BLM to trans trenders. The flag no longer represents a civil rights effort. Rather, it is a purely political emblem and a totem of cult worship.
#4
It went from inclusion to mandatory in a decade.
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Re #1: Biden's token trans has already suggested that we have a "summer of pride".
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Absolute f'ing freaks they are. It's almost as if they are provoking a backlash, to which the freaks can say, "see, look at these intolerant MAGA fascists" or something like that.
[The Federalist] Church attendance is declining in America, and it spells disastrous implications for a nation that is already spiritually on edge.
According to new data from Gallup, U.S. church attendance remains below pre-lockdown levels. Just 31 percent of adults surveyed this year told Gallup they had attended a church, synagogue, mosque, or temple in the last seven days. Gallup conducted the poll between May 1-24.
"In the four years before the pandemic, 2016 through 2019, an average of 34% of U.S. adults said they had attended church, synagogue, mosque or temple in the past seven days," the polling firm reported. "From 2020 to the present, the average has been 30%."
The last time church attendance reached 40 percent was in 2012.
Not only are Americans attending religious services less in the aftermath of pandemic lockdowns, but they’re reporting religion as far less important.
The Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) published a new study in May highlighting a decline in religious importance to Americans’ lives. In a survey of more than 6,600 U.S. adults across all 50 states interviewed last summer, just 16 percent said, "religion is the most important thing in their life," down from 20 percent who said the same in 2013. Last summer, 36 percent said "religion is one among many important things," down from 43 percent who said the same in 2013.
#4
Outside the seminary (I've never been inside one) peak insanity is often found on church council (That experience I happily escaped relatively untraumatized)
I left before the first announcement that the church I went to was going to host "Syrian immigrants."
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A Sunday morning pulpit 4 person panel on "institutional racism" drove me out of one church. I never went back.
#6
How many of these congregations have become so 'Woke' that the older members can't recognize them as even being Christian?
You are welcome to go church shopping to try to find a congregation that suits you. A lot of churches these days have websites and some are even live streaming their services on the internet so you can see before you go.
But, ultimately, if you don't attend and participate, you can't complain.
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It's not my mission to "save" the congregation. My mission is to "get saved" myself..."
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#1 That right there. When national office of FUMC signed on to BDS - the writing was on the wall. Then the clergy at my church were replaced by members of the alphabet tribe. Attendance was crushed and has not recovered.
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Decline in attendance at leftist congregations and denominations is a good thing.
But if you do want serious worship of God and Bible study, there are vibrant alternatives. I can recommend that you start with almost (almost!) any church affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in America (NOT the PCUSA.)
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Re #9.
Our diocese is combining urban and rural parishes into "families" of parishes. It is reminiscent of rural school consolidation that happened here back when Bob Kerry was governor.
Some priests, as pastors, will be in charge of many parishes; one on the list at the link will have 11 of them. Busy beaver, he!
#12
Up until about four years ago the Catholic priest shortage was on the rebound as many seminaries had been emptied or closed until things turned about 20 years ago when JPII embraced the youth. The seminaries filled, but the actuarial result of so many down years is still being felt. Also most of the new priests that he inspired are very devout in comparison to the ones that are retiring or dying.
Things look to have dipped again after COVID. There seems to now be an issue at the Diocesan level where the Catholic Church seems to have synched up with the Dem platform other than Strickland and a few others. It seems to have happened during COVID.
On the Protestant side the churches are growing that are not acting as a propaganda arm of the national government and liberalism. Woke people don’t go to Church.the Bud Lite lesson applies. Pandering to people that have no interest in your product doesn’t work in marketing or evangelization.
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[ColonelCassad] A new video of the "Indigenous Council of Workers" has been released, dedicated to the actions of American special forces in the initial period of the Afghan war in Afghanistan.
Video is translatable
00:00 - Introduction
02:46 - Bin Laden clan
10:29 - Birth of Islamism
30:52 - Al Qaeda
50:49 - Taliban
01:03:03 - How Clinton saved Bin Laden
01:11:02 - Why Clinton saved Bin Laden
01:13:04 - September 11 attacks
01:25:34 - How the US overthrew the Taliban
01:46:51 - Tora Bora
01:52:08 - Operation Anaconda
02:53:45 - some Metallica
[Eurasia Review] The government is goosestepping all over our freedoms.
Case in point: America’s founders did not want a military government ruled by force. Rather, they opted for a republic bound by the rule of law: the U.S. Constitution.
Yet sometime over the course of the past 240-plus years that constitutional republic has been transformed into a military dictatorship disguised as a democracy.
Continued on Page 49
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Leftist definition of democracy: "Whatever I want..."
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Oligarchy -OR- Republic. There was a video that argued that the choice for a governmental system boils down to a Republic "All Equal under the Law" and an Oligarchy "The Few ARE the Law" -- Democracy is just a temporary state before Oligarchy.
#1
Gives a lot of credit to Pelosi. Not sure about that. But does explain why the CP were opening doors for protestors who were delivered by bus in front of the Capitol (despite roads being barricaded).
The pipe bomber videos were edited prior to release to the public. I'm sure there were more camera locations not released.
[PJMEDIA] The Condescender-in-Chief is at it again. Just weeks after Barack Obama I inhaled. That was the point... — the descendent of Africans and white people — dared to criticize Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) — the descendent of actual slaves and a son of the state where the Civil War started — for being optimistic about the state of race in America today, the former president weighed in on what he thinks spurs on "right-wing populism."
In an interview with Ace newshound Christiane Amanpour on CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... , Obama said, "It’s very hard to sustain a democracy when you have such massive concentrations of wealth." He went on to blather about "ladders of opportunity" and a "stronger safety net" before concluding that "if we don’t take care of that, that’s also going to fuel the kind of mostly far-right populism, but it can also potentially come from the left, that is undermining democracy because it makes people angry and resentful and scared."
First off, with all due respect to the Condescender-in-Chief — which is none as far as I’m concerned — we’re a republic, not a democracy. Second, it’s an awfully Marxist argument to pin the problem and solution solely on economics.
But what I want to focus on is Obama’s utter lack of self-awareness. After all, if anybody should know about "massive concentrations of wealth," it’s Barry. As Jim Geraghty points out at National Review:
Obama and his wife signed the largest book deal in history, $65 million, for their memoirs. The Obamas signed a separate production deal with Netflix worth an estimated $50 million. The Obamas’ production company, Higher Ground, signed a $25 million deal with Spotify that lasted three years. Barack Obama reportedly makes as much as $400,000 per speech, but reportedly made almost $600,000 for speaking at a conference in Colombia. Michelle Obama makes $200,000 per appearance.
The Obamas rent a mansion in Kalorama (a neighborhood in Washington, D.C.); bought a mansion and estate in Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.; bought another house in Rancho Mirage, Calif.; and still have their old home in the Hyde Park neighborhood of reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... In April 2010, then-president Obama declared, "At a certain point, you’ve made enough money." Apparently, Obama hasn’t reached that point yet.
Ouch. Barack might need some ointment for that burn.
The other area where Obama is showing a painful lack of self-awareness is in his estimation of the roots of populism on the right. Naturally, as someone who sat at the feet of socialists for much of his formative years, Obama defaults to the economic reasons, with big government and the redistribution of wealth (someone else’s, not his own) as the solution, but what he either ignores or doesn’t realize is that one of the main catalysts for right-leaning populism is people’s belief that their government is against them. And we have Barack Obama to thank for laying that foundation.
President Gun-to-a-Knife-Fight is the Godfather of the division and weaponized government that Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. S I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass.... turned into an ugly art form, and he did so without any pretense of being a man of the people like Lunchbucket Joe. This is the man who, in his first campaign for the White House, decried the peons who "get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
This is the president who sicced the IRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... and other federal agencies on conservatives with abandon. Joe Biden merely told his old boss, "Hold my, um, well, you know, the drink thing." We mustn’t forget that this current strain of populism on the right came about largely as a result of Barack Obama and his policies. He lacks enough self-awareness to realize it himself.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[The Federalist] 
[PJMEDIA] The Condescender-in-Chief is at it again. Just weeks after 
