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This is masterfully written, and I think it's an accurate expression of what's going on and what we're feeling. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Debate at the Kitchen Table ABC staged a debate this week. A presidential debate. Ostensibly between former president Donald J. Trump and former senator Kamala Harris, but in actuality between Trump and the partnership of Harris and ABC. There is always media bias. To some extent, unconscious media bias is unavoidable. But we don't expect it to be blatant; the viewer doesn't expect antics like we saw this week, when the ABC moderators repeatedly declared Mr. Trump's statements lies, and never called out Ms. Harris's blatant lies. We call it "fact-checking" today, a term coined in social media for when our high-tech overlords punish a writer for stating something with which the gurus disagree. But it's not really fact-checking, is it? It's an invasion of a conversation, a denial of free speech, a thumb on the scale. In the case of a presidential debate, it's electioneering. And it virtually invalidates the value of our constitutionally protected free press in this process. ABC's refusal even to try to act as an impartial host rendered this debate useless. So let's look instead at the other debates — millions of them — going on in America, both that day and every day in 2024. [...] https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/09/the_debate_at_the_kitchen_table.html

Welcome to the forum. One possible solution is for her to renew her passport now, so she'd have her fresh one in hand when the interview occurred.

Scintillating Saturday repartee, yawn man. ----- Thrilling Saturday report, see man: We did not leave the casa all day, second recent Saturday for that man. We and Mini-B. lazed in bed, laze Two Guys man. Lunch (at half-past 2 p.m.) was PB&J sandwiches, ingest Two Guys man. Some college football was watched, watch Two Guys man. Two bowls of Costco popcorn were consumed, ingest Two Guys man. That makes Many (2x2x2 +2+2+1) for the week, running tally man. Perfect evening weather, Texas weather Many man. We & Mini-B. threw a football in back yard, exercise Two Guys man. Din-din was weenies & beans, ingest Two Guys man. The beverage was r'br, imbibe Two Guys man. Mini-B. actually got embedded on time, zzz wee man man. Visit to Mama T-B. on Sunday, visit Two Guys senior she man man. Party with the rubias imminent, cavort we man. And that was/is our thrilling Saturday, report we man.

This was unexpected. A step in the right direction. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BREAKING: Pennsylvania Court Ruling a Massive Election Integrity Win on Mail-In Ballots Remember during the 2020 elections, when several blue states (including the commonwealth of Pennsylvania) rewrote on the fly the laws about how, when, and where mail-in ballots (AKA vote by mail) would be counted? It led to many voters becoming jaded and distrustful of a system that had been considered one of the most honest and free to hold elections in the world. Courts ended up striking down those revised laws, and now we have news of a massive win for election integrity on mail-in ballots by the state Supreme Court in one of those states--the Keystone state of Pennsylvania: [...] https://redstate.com/beccalower/2024/09/13/new-court-ruling-a-big-election-integrity-win-on-mail-in-ballots-in-pennsylvania-n2179302

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Look what the Disney-owned ABC affiliate in Phila. did with Kommie's interview. The differences are stark. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NEW: ABC News Caught Grossly Deceptively Editing Kamala Harris' Disastrous Solo Interview [...] The above exchange can be seen online by going directly to ABC 6's website. Guess who didn't see it? That would be the network's television audience. According to Tom Elliott, who runs Grabien, a media service that archives news coverage, ABC 6 and Taff made an astonishingly dishonest edit to the interview before playing it on the nightly news. Specifically, the above word salad was completely cut out of the interview, and instead, a later portion was spliced in. In the recording of the live broadcast, you can hear Taff ask the question posed in the above excerpt, yet the answer Harris is shown giving was not her actual answer in the interview. [...] https://redstate.com/bonchie/2024/09/14/new-abc-news-caught-grossly-deceptively-editing-kamala-harris-disastrous-solo-interview-n2179326

Harris' Train Wreck 'Interview' Proves One Thing: She's Unfit for Office We've all seen, or at least seen portions of, Vice President and current Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris' utter train wreck of a (scripted, pre-recorded, carefully planned, and still she screwed it up) interview with Philadelphia's 6 ABC anchor Brian Taff. To call this a disaster was an unforgivable understatement; not even a carefully planned pre-recorded interview format could produce a win for the Queen of the Word Salad. What. A. Mess. The result? A lot of media types and pundits are pointing out, correctly, that this is just one more indicator that Kamala Harris is unfit for office. [...] https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/09/14/harriss-train-wreck-interview-proves-one-thing-shes-unfit-for-office-n2179335

PA Cookie Poll Reveals Sweet Lead for Trump, but What People Are Telling the Bakery Drives It Home Lochel's Bakery in Hatboro, Pennsylvania, had some big news in their big cookie poll as of Friday morning. Every four years, they hold a poll where people can buy red cookies or blue cookies--with the candidates' names on them and the election year--to indicate their choice for president. And the current count in the poll, based on how many have been bought for each candidate, is not looking good for Kamala Harris. [...] https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/09/14/pa-cookie-poll-is-looking-good-for-trump-but-what-buyers-are-saying-really-drives-it-home-n2179336

Awful! ~~~~~~ Kamala's First Solo Interview Was a Total Train Wreck On Friday, Kamala Harris finally gave her first solo interview since Joe Biden was forced out of the presidential race. It's hard to believe it took her nearly two months finally do an interview on her own. And yet, the interview proved exactly why she hasn't. Taking a page out of Barack Obama's playbook, Kamala didn't do an interview with a major news network, but with an ABC News affiliate in Philadelphia. Barack Obama employed this strategy in order to have more leverage over the terms of the interview, and it seems the Obama people who have joined her campaign have advised her to do the same. So, obviously, you know that she was given a bunch of softball questions from reporter Brian Taft, and yet the short interview was a complete trainwreck. [...] https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/09/14/kamalas-first-solo-interview-was-a-total-train-wreck-n4932514

Australia Codifies 'Misinformation' Ban in Anti-Free Speech Law Australia’s citizenry, one step further on the road to complete capture, is now subject to a codified new "misinformation" moratorium on social media. [...] https://pjmedia.com/benbartee/2024/09/14/australia-codifies-misinformation-ban-in-anti-free-speech-law-n4932517

If any of these "students" are receiving Federal aid, it seems that we'd have cause to formally object. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ New York City's Laboratory for Hate On Tuesday night, Sept. 3, Ilya Bratman—U.S. Army veteran, CUNY English teacher, and Hillel executive director at eight CUNY and SUNY schools—hosted a welcome-back dinner for Hillel students at a kosher restaurant near Baruch College. Soon after their entrance into Mr. Broadway, guests were surrounded by a chanting, braying, mob. "CUNY, CUNY, You can't hide. You support genocide!" "Terrorist! Terrorist! Terrorist!" "All Zionists are racist!" They blocked the doorway, preventing students and other diners from leaving, held photos of murdered babies in the students' faces, and even hit a Hillel staffer. One of the male protesters, his face concealed by a mask, shoulders draped in a kaffiyeh, creepily formed his fingers in the shape of a triangle—Hamas' symbol for a military target. Then the slurs got personal. To a clearly Jewish-looking couple walking down the street, "You ugly ### ! Go back to Brooklyn!" And, then, the kicker: "Where's Hersh?" For an hour. When the cops arrived after 30 minutes of the melee, they moved the protesters "5 feet away" from the entrance, according to Bratman, placing them close to the restaurant windows, which they then hammered with their hands. There was nothing they wouldn't say, from "You ain't going home tonight," to "Dogs off campus." [...] https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/cuny-antisemitic-violence

Has it truly been 50 years? Gosh... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Push the Button: Remembering Evel Knievel and his Snake River Canyon jump 50 years ago Over Labor Day weekend, Twin Falls, Idaho, held a 50th anniversary celebration of the September day in 1974 when Evel Knievel tried to jump the Snake River Canyon in a steam-powered rocket. Twin Falls is a city of about 50,000 people in southern Idaho, but in 1974 it was less than half that size, and it was bracing for—and dreading—the arrival of tens of thousands to witness Knievel's long-deferred attempt, which had been promoted in the manner of a heavyweight championship fight. "Heck," a waitress said, hearing the speculation about invading hordes, "I ain't never seen more than a thousand in one place. It's scary." In the end, a much smaller number, about 15,000 people, crowded into the space where the canyon sits, a remotely located gorge in the Earth not user-friendly for travel, lodging, public gatherings, or much of anything else. Thousands of others around the country watched at theaters over closed-circuit television, the preferred technology in those pre-cable, pre-pay-per-view days for showing big events, usually championship boxing matches, that priced themselves off free TV. For the star of the show, it was the culmination of a career spent daring, and cheating, death. This time, it looked like death would have its say. [...] https://www.city-journal.org/article/remembering-evel-knievel-and-his-snake-river-canyon-jump?skip=1

Except for a maybe twice-yearly Whataburger visit (to remind myself of why I don't go more frequently), my worst item is no higher than #14. Comments about this list? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Who has the healthiest, unhealthiest fast food? The answers may surprise you [...] PlushCare, a telehealth platform providing virtual primary care appointments through their browser and mobile app, researched the nutritional value of typical fast-food items – collecting the calories, sugar, saturated fat, and sodium values for the available products – then used the Department of Health's nutrient profiling method to score the relative unhealthiness of each item on the list. While customers don't hit the drive-thru at fast-food joints for healthy options, some restaurants are better than others. Here's a look at their results. [...] https://www.delawareonline.com/story/life/food/2024/09/14/healthy-unhealthy-fast-food-options-delaware/75176030007/

The OP has received the advice that can be offered here, and tension among participants is increasing, so this thread is now closed (topic is not to be restarted or resumed elsewhere). The OP is welcome to consult attorneys, many of whom might offer initial consultations for free or cheap. Thanks to everyone for their participation. VJ Moderation

Congratulations on escaping a situation in which you were vulnerable. We need more threads with happy endings.

RFK Jr. Really Really Hoping Nobody Asks Him Point Blank If He's Ever Eaten A Cat [...] "They taste delicious," one anonymous source claimed to have heard RFK Jr. say. "Unfortunately, there are things from my wild youth that I don't want to get out." [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/rfk-jr-really-really-hoping-nobody-asks-him-point-blank-if-hes-ever-eaten-a-cat

After you read this article by a former liberal Democrat, please comment. It all makes sense, or at least better sense, I think. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Trump's Surprising Secret Weapon: Sympathy [...] I, too, thought Kamala Harris had won the debate. By the end, I was so demoralized, so sad, and so full of despair that I just went to bed and hoped it would be gone by morning. I knew it wasn't just a debate. It's much bigger than that. It's a TIME magazine cover. It's Frank Luntz and the Spectator declaring the debate will cost Trump the election. It's a thousand points of light on Twitter, a once-great coalition undone by ugliness for ten long years. It's a Stephen Colbert monologue. It's a Taylor Swift endorsement. It's the center of Bill Maher's entire universe on Friday night. It will be Saturday Night Live. It's too big. Too insurmountable. It's everything, everywhere, all at once. Or is it? When I woke up, scrolled through TikTok, and read the post-debate polls, I found headline after headline declaring voters' choice for president unmoved. It made no difference whatsoever, and, if anything, sympathy tipped in Trump's direction, and Harris suddenly became as unlikable or "likable enough" as Hillary Clinton. Why? [...] https://sashastone.substack.com/p/trumps-surprising-secret-weapon-sympathy

Lawfare Collapsing Amidst Harris' Vow To Prosecute Trump Largely shedding Joe Biden's canard that Trump must be defeated to save democracy, Kamala Harris' conceit is that she prosecutes criminals and Donald Trump is one. "I know Donald Trump's type," she sneers. As San Francisco district attorney and then California attorney general, Harris supported jailing parents of truants, suppressed evidence, keeping an innocent man on death row, repeatedly covered up misconduct, leading to the dismissal of more than 600 cases, incarcerated prisoners beyond their sentences, violated Federal laws that protect donor privacy, and failed to disclose conflicts of interest arising from her personal relationships. Her record of abusing prosecutorial power fits perfectly with Democrat lawfare against Trump and his advisers. Now, following setbacks for prosecutors, Trump will have a reprieve in further substantive proceedings until after the election. [...] https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/09/13/lawfare_collapsing_amidst_harris_vow_to_prosecute_trump_151609.html

And, we can bet our life's savings that the whistleblower and his attorney will be discredited (Democrats "pounce").

The bright spot to all that was learning which skools and teechurs promulgated leftist or psychotic garbage.

Wonder if he had time to suffer. Hope so.

Thrilling Friday non-GS/ES/MS report, see man: After delivering Mini-B. to skool, we mowed the front lawn, in great need man. Two sweatbands were consumed, one job one recovery man. After recovery + shower, lunch was sliced turkey on hot-dog buns, ingest we man. We hit the GS/ES/MS road at half + half-of-half an hour before noon, oh well man. We returned at half-past 2 pm, just enough time for siesta after servicing demanding miu man. Of course, Mama T-B. called exactly at midpoint with a question, man. Mini-B. was not happy spending half of day doing pep-rallies, Band is consuming entire life man. He couldn't even bring his stinky P.E. clothes home, timing man. This is not right and has been continuous since skool started, no and so man. Din-din was Costco angusburgers, ingest traditional Friday fare Two Guys man. Movie night was several more Everybody Hates Chris episodes, watch Two Guys man. Many (2+2) bowls of Costco popcorn were consumed, ingest Two Guys man. This tallies to Many (2x2x2 +2+1) for the week, official already man. Ex-Mrs.-T-B. and the Rojo are in San Francisco for the Rojo's hyskool reunion, absent they man. No party with the rubias tonight, no cavort we man. Only one average-looking ES is proximal for Saturday, almost totally unenthusiastic we man. Mini-B. wants nearby amigo to come over, gonna be raucous man. Therefore, we have no plans (beyond interviewing rubias) for Saturday, no man. And that was/is our thrilling Friday, report we man.

Friday GS/ES/MS report, see man: We had actually itineraried Many (2+1) GSs, not 2 GSs, we man. We skipped more than one GS, good move because of late start man. Each of the Many (2+2+1) stops yielded part of the take, see man: -- desk fan = $Many ($2+1), deal man -- Many (2+1) din-din forks, tablespoon = $1, steal man -- handful of disposable plates, NIP shaving-cream = $1, steal man -- door sign "Restroom" = $1, deal man -- folder full of printer paper = $2, OK man Total = $Many ($2x2x2)

~~~~~~~~ 5 Weeks Into Homeschooling, Parents Google 'Military Boarding Schools' CEDAR RAPIDS, IA — A local couple reached an important milestone in the homeschool education of their children today as they found themselves Googling 'military boarding schools.' Barely more than a month after excitedly embarking on what they expected to be a challenging but rewarding experience of homeschooling their four kids, Gary and Becky Starnes had been met with a cold dose of harsh reality, leading them to search the internet for military boarding schools nearby. "It's this, or we go mouth-frothingly insane," Gary whispered to his wife as they scanned the Google results. [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/5-weeks-into-homeschooling-parents-google-military-boarding-schools

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