June 24, 2025

Nobel Peace Prize nominations: One door closes and another opens all within mere hours. Hope they hit him on the ass.

Two paragraphs from the article:

Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.) has nominated President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for the president’s role in brokering this week’s ceasefire agreement between Iran and Israel.

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A senior Ukrainian lawmaker who nominated U.S. President Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize has withdrawn it, as peace talks between Kyiv and Moscow slip under the radar and the president keeps his sights fixed on the Middle East.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-gains-loses-nobel-peace-prize-nomination.html

June 19, 2025

In talking about what TSF will do regarding Iran Leavitt said Trump will use his great instincts.

I can’t name an American President who relied on his instincts rather than intel, logic, experience, understanding of history and foreign policy and their own rational intelligence to make critical decisions.

‘Instincts’ is all TSF has and they aren’t very good instincts or he wouldn’t have had so many bankruptcies, failed businesses and marriages.

June 15, 2025

This request for help fro a DUer didn't get much attention, so I'm reposting it. Please help if you can.

It’s a request for help on medical expenses.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/struggling-with-medical-costs-for-my-wife?attribution_id=sl:605850f4-7a90-4a56-a734-2b7aabf81116&lang=en_US&ts=1749948089&utm_campaign=man_sharesheet_dash&utm_content=amp13_t1-amp14_t2-amp15_t1&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link&v=amp14_t2

June 15, 2025

Reuters et al need to correct their reporting about the program/budget cuts.

The below is snippet from a recent Reuters article:

‘The Trump administration gutted a program that aimed to prevent targeted violence as part of its sweeping bid to downsize the federal government, a move that could come und ... (Reuters)’

** The part I bolded above needs to be changed to ‘sweeping desire to maintain tax cuts for billionaires’. Everytime the cuts are mentioned they need to say it’s to fund billionaire tax cuts. **

May 14, 2025

Would this be enough to make TSF turn down the Qatari jet?

Remind him all presidential gifts are the property of the US and by all means accept it because AOC and Bernie will look great in it.

April 30, 2025

A German friend of a friend sent this. Caption reads Conclave cancelled, successor found. No disrespect to Pope Francis

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April 25, 2025

Trump pardons grifter who stole from memorial fund for fallen officer

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-pardons-republican-who-spent-officer-memorial-fund-plastic-surgery-2063848


Nevada politician who was found guilty of using money intended for a memorial to honor a fallen officer on personal expenses including plastic surgery, has received a pardon from President Donald Trump.

Michele Fiore, former Las Vegas City councilwoman and Republican justice of the peace in Nye County, last year was convicted of six counts of federal wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

She was scheduled to be sentenced next month and was facing up to 20 years in prison for each count until she was granted the full and unconditional pardon on Wednesday.

Newsweek reached out to the White House via email for comment.

***My comment: It takes one to pardon one.***

April 24, 2025

Service for Pope Francis expected to last 2.5 hours. TSF can't go that long without being sucked up to.

So will he disrupt the service by leaving early, sleep through it, or back out at the last minute and miss the media coverage of him entering the Vatican? I’d say it’s a crap shoot

April 9, 2025

It took 45 mins, but just saved 64% on my home insurance. If, like me, you haven't shopped your insurance...do so.

I’ve had a lot going on the last few years caring for my wonderful husband. I also have all our bills set up for autopay. It just hit me that our home insurance had more than doubled just in the last few years. I printed our current policy and then went to another, frequently advertised insurance company and in minutes I had a quote. I’d been with my current company for 10 years without a single claim. I do not live in a flood risk or Forrest fire risk area. I live in a desert. The online quote was about 45% less for the same or very nearly same coverage. My next step was to contact the current company to see if they wanted to compete or be cancelled. I called the number on my policy. After going through all the automated choices and provided the 11 digit policy number and being offered to be given their wonderful website I waited for a live agent. One came on just a few minutes later. They informed me I had the wrong number and gave me the correct number then transferred me. Again, the automated choices and providing the 11 digit policy number, the kind offer to push me to the website and another short wait, that person said, again, I was in the wrong place and gave me yet another and transferred me. I’m on number three now who said yet again they did not service my policy and gave me another number and I said that is the very first number I started with. She kindly went on to do a little google investigating and ultimately suggested I call a local authorized insurance agent. I reached a very kind man who said he had a number for the companies headquarters and he would call and try and find someone for me. He put me on hold and finally, the right representative came online. She could not explain why her departments number was not on my policy or the website. Insurance companies have relationships with other insurance comapnies and depending on who sells the policy and what type home it is (an agent, online sales or their call center, a single family home, condo or mobile home) who services it becomes complicated. Turns out while the policy is from Liberty Mutual but sold to me by Geico via their call center. Bottom line after finally reaching the right group, they ran a search and found a policy from a reputable company with the same coverage for 64% less. Damn, that’s a huge savings and damn there seem to be insidious relationships between insurance companies. I’m delighted with the savings but disgusted that I paid so much more than I needed to for so long.

If you haven’t done so lately go home insurance shopping. My next shopping expedition will be for car insurance which has also been increasing despite not a single claim in my 45 years of driving.

March 28, 2025

Here's my support for Canada and Ukraine.

My neighbor complained to the HOA that I still had a Harris/Waltz sign up despite me checking her mail when she travelled and several times driving her to an airport shuttle. It was within her right per my state's HOA laws that require political signs be removed within 17 days after an election. Her complaint came not long after she asked how I was doing and I said terrible since we now had a convicted felon and rapist for a president.

Here’s what I replaced the one Harris/Waltz sign with (I’ve since added 3 small Ukrainian flags to keep the Canadian ones company). I suspect the flags may continue to multiply.