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Special Counsel in Biden Classified Documents Case Will Not Seek Charges - The New York Times

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The inquiry found that the president had willfully retained material after finishing his term as vice president and had shared sensitive information with a ghostwriter.

Republican Special Counsel turned the report into a case for the 25th Amendment. 

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“Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview with him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” Mr. Hur wrote.

 

“He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (‘if it was 2013 — when did I stop being Vice President?’), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (‘in 2009, am I still Vice President?’),” the report said.

 

The report recounts that Biden did not remember “even within several years” when his son Beau died. It says his memory appeared “hazy” in recounting even the debate over Afghanistan that “was once so important to him.”

5 minutes ago, Bataar said:

Damn, I must have missed that. When was he found guilty of insurrection?

Constitution doesn't require it and Congress not enacting a mechanism would be a defacto back door repeal to the 14th Amendment. 

Why are Russian Su-27s over Manhattan? 

1:00 mark

Animated documentary on the raid in episode 3 

As more or less the target audience for this as a disabled person with something similar to ALS: not interested in the slightest.

1 hour ago, Ghost_MH said:

A lot of this stuff is really unintuitive

The system was built in the 1960s and has only had bandaide solutions layered on top of other bandaide solutions (such as ABLE and the waiver system). Most important thing, verify everything a caseworker tells you, they'll lie with a smile on their face. 

53 minutes ago, CayceG said:

The Connies need to hurry up and get built. They're perfect for this. 

About that.... 

First Constellation Frigate Delayed At Least a Year, Schedule Assessment ‘Ongoing’ - USNI News

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This post has been updated with a statement from the Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro. ARLINGTON, Va. – The first Constellation-class guided-missile frigate will deliver at least a year late due in large part to workforce shortfalls at the Wisconsin yard where it’s built, USNI News has learned. The service has briefed Congress that the future USS Constellation (FFG-62) could deliver in 2027 and that shipyard Fincantieri Marinette Marine has undergone an...

This spat with the Houthis has also convinced me the Block 2 Frigates should have 48 VLS. 

2 hours ago, CayceG said:

This is what the LCS was built for with its optional Hellfire missile launcher. 

 

 

 

Oh well  

Yet is defenseless against lawnmowers with wings. 

2 hours ago, Ghost_MH said:

 

My middle child is autistic and these are the stories that both enrage and frighten me. She's 6, the size of a 10yo, gentle and sweet as can be, but prone to random screams. I'm happy I live in Massachusetts and have the kids in a school system that can get her help. Right now, I'm just hoping she learns to use a toilet and maybe handle some yes/no questions. Unfortunately, public schools don't last forever and I have no idea where she'll be when she's 19.

As early as possible get her on Social Security SSI (then open an ABLE Account, that you could actually do now, it's basically a 529 Savings account, and draft a 3rd Party Special Needs Trust and have your Wills direct her inheritance to the Trust), SSI will get her a small income (she get full Social Security Disability when you retire) and most importantly Medicaid under federal eligibility. With Medicaid you'll want to get her on whatever the developmental disability waiver Mass has, that'll get her Day Supports, Supported Employment, and Direct Support Professionals in your home. Done the road you can look into Group Homes. Some of this stuff she might be eligible for now. Mass currently doesn't have a waiting list, but that can change. 

And now the Houthis have more or less the same unmanned suicide drone boats that have caused the Russian Black Sea Fleet so much grief..... 

CENTCOM Update to Events in the Red Sea

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TAMPA, Fla. - On Feb. 1, at approximately 5:00 a.m. (Sanaa time), U.S. Central Command forces engaged and shot down one UAV over the Gulf of Aden. There were no injuries or damage reported.Later the

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Later the same day, at approximately 10:30 a.m. (Sanaa time), U.S. Central Command forces conducted strikes and destroyed an Iranian-backed Houthi explosive uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) in the Red Sea. U.S. forces identified the USV heading toward the international shipping lane and determined it presented an imminent threat to merchant vessels and the U.S. Navy ships in the region. U.S. Forces subsequently struck and destroyed the USV in self-defense resulting in significant secondary explosions. There were no injuries or damage reported.

I suspect the navy will be ordering large quantities of machine guns shortly to bolt onto ships soon. 

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article284539860.html?ac_cid=DM907178&ac_bid=919316226

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It had been less than five days since Greg Cockrell dropped off his autistic son, Sam, at a treatment center when staff informed him the 19-year-old was in jail. “Didn’t anyone tell you about the incident?” a staff member asked. The Ranch, a private mental health treatment center hundreds of miles away in Tennessee, was not the family’s first choice for their son’s psychiatric treatment. They had tried to get him admitted at North Carolina’s foremost hospitals, but his aggression was “too severe to be safely managed,” according to documents from UNC’s flagship hospital, reviewed by the N&O. The three state-run facilities that specialize in treating people with complex developmental disabilities, like Sam, had waitlists that stretched on for months or years.

 

By the time Cockrell arrived in Tennessee to bail him out, Sam had been in a cell and unmedicated for more than 17 hours.

2 minutes ago, SuperSpreader said:

but dems have the majority?

Filibuster and some dems are against it because of the credit not going far enough and the tax cuts. 

NYT article I saw yesterday said it was basically DOA in the Senate. 

Edit- WaPo

Child tax credit expansion passes House - The Washington Post

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Efforts to advance the bill are part of a rush to get it to President Biden’s desk before tax filing season ends in April.

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Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) criticized the measure, which nonpartisan estimates say could lift 400,000 children out of poverty, because it could help Biden’s reelection campaign. He said he would evaluate the bill after the House vote.

 

“I think passing a tax bill that makes the president look good — may allow checks before the election — means that he can be reelected and then we won’t extend the 2017 tax cuts,” Grassley said.

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), who supported previous child-tax-credit expansions, called the new legislation “excessive” and said it would turn into “another entitlement program which is massively expensive.”

 

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), another conservative whom Democrats hoped to win over, said he hated elements of the bill, including the way authors Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rep. Jason T. Smith (R-Mo.) proposed to pay for the tax cuts, the structure of credits for families, the bill’s timing at the start of tax season and that it left out other corporate tax cuts the GOP hopes to include in legislation in 2025.

 

The bill also risks losing steam on the left. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), a major child tax credit booster, voted against the legislation, saying it did not go far enough to balance families’ interests with corporate tax relief.

 

Some liberal lawmakers say the legislation would give Democrats leverage to expand the child tax credit again in future debates, but DeLauro said Wednesday’s bill was a missed opportunity.

 

“Don’t tell me next year that you’re going to do this,” she said. “You had a chance to do it now. That’s the way the place works.”

A Houthi missile got so close to a US destroyer the warship turned to a last resort gun system to shoot it down: report

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A Houthi cruise missile came close to a US warship but was shot down by a last line of defense, the ship's Close-In Weapon System, CNN reported.

Well, that's reassuring for the Taiwan scenario...

1 hour ago, brucoe said:

I find it amazing  how people forget how we demolished the Iranian Navy and several oil platforms over the period of 8 hours when Reagan was president because they attacked one of our destroyers.

3 minutes ago, Reputator said:

 

Yeah but she said it's ok to be gay.

No no, she made Kelce gay because he leaned in to kiss her. 

Swift panic on Twitter is my new favorite content. They've all decided she's ruining football, running for President, a slut, ugly, is using Travis Kelce for his money, has no eggs left, no one likes her, a Pentagon asset, and this was all planned probably by the Jews.

Inglorious Bastard, but British?

That money would have gotten 33 people off the criminally large Texas Medicaid home care waiver waiting list which is north of 318,750 people waiting. 33 isn't a lot but it is still 33 people now receiving services. 

9 minutes ago, mclumber1 said:

I'm a big proponent of UBI.  It's probably going to be necessary when/if AI and other technology advances make large swaths of the workforce unemployed.

Maybe, but the work force in other sectors, like long term care, is going to need to double in the next 10 years. Not to mention heavy industry we're going to need to bring back to the US soon. If AI can free up the work force for other uses, great. 

Oil tanker on fire after Houthi missile attack, firm says

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Vessel hit 60 nautical miles off the coast of Yemen in the latest reported attack by movement.

Lovely 

I'm really starting to worry this is going to end up another J6 FAFO moment. The reaction on conservative social media is unhinged regarding Abbot's statement. There is the technical response some conservatives are using to justify their statements (technically SCOTUS didn't order Texas to do anything) and others like Tim Pool saying this is the rise of the neo confederacy. 

10 minutes ago, chakoo said:

There is more stuff, I just didn’t want to post X links and that was the first thing I could find on the issue.

Yeah, totally, just annoying since there are better ways to show this is an L on Abbot's part, like that the quote in the statement is a dissenting opinion and not what the Constitution actually says. 

2 hours ago, chakoo said:

Texas is Texasing again. We getting a Texit if biden comes down on them for ignoring the SC?

 

I'd post links but so far it's just X post from the Governor and Texas national guard.

 

 

Greg Abbott uses "supreme law" of Texas to give soldiers power over Biden

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Abbott and the Justice Department have been duking it out in court over a number of migrant deterrent tactics.

 

That headline and article is extremely misleading. He isn't citing 'Supreme Law of Texas', he citing (wrongly) the US Constitution's part about States being able to repel invasion.

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No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.

13 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

Just in time for the Houthis to really choke off Red Sea access to the Suez Canal and for Iran to blockade the Strait of Hormuz! 

Tanker War II!