Tornado Watch now from TX to OH: For awarness

I'm in SE IL and some really impressive updrafts going on. Even though an outbreak is not expected this the type of setup and time of year a big F3 or F4 long tracker can jump out anywhere and devastate and area. Everybody remembers big outbreaks, smart people remember it only takes one.

Tornado watch issued from TX to IN. That's a rather large watch area for one watch so be aware

I wonder if Orban is bringing a briefcase with a half billion dollars to Merry Legoround Friday

and leaving with a briefcase holding a binder? I hope the FBI has that place bugged like the roach nest it is. Especially if fat ass suddenly has cash Monday.

Can anyone tell me why in no one involved in J6th has been charged with insurrection?

4 Oath Keepers got seditious conspiracy, that's the worst charge I know of. All we've been hearing for over 3 years from pundits, media, politicians is insurrection or insurrectionists yet no one has actually been charged with such a crime. There is a federal law on the books they could've been specifically charged with insurrection. I can see someone found guilty of that then 3rd of the 14th self executes. But how does it self execute like poof your guilty? I think that's the problem. I could be wrong but I've struggled with something self executing without something to self execute.

This is Moore V Harper at the federal level as far as I can see

They are basically trying to move the court system out of the way. Everybody figured they would deny the ballot issue. Insinuating the founders part deux intended for federally elected officials who commit insurrection can only be found that they did by federally elected officials is bullshit. We gotta vote these fuckers into hell.

(AP) Massachusetts Air National Guard member accused of leaking highly classified military documents to plea

This took a little less than a year and this kids probably gonna get 15 years or so. And it's the biggest security leak in YEARS! and he's been behind bars since they snagged him last April. That's less than a year since he was arrested and the only thing in his bathroom was toilet paper and a toothbrush.......

https://www.abc27.com/news/us-world/politics/ap-pentagon-leak-suspect-jack-teixeira-is-expected-to-plead-guilty-in-federal-court/

BOSTON (AP) — Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guard member accused of leaking highly classified military documents about Russia’s war in Ukraine and other national security secrets, is expected to plead guilty on Monday in federal court.

The 22-year-old is due to appear in Boston’s federal courthouse for a change of plea hearing nearly a year after he was arrested in the case stemming from the most consequential national security leak in years.

Teixeira, of North Dighton, Massachusetts, has been behind bars since his April arrest in the case that raised alarm over America’s ability to protect its most closely guarded secrets and forced the Biden administration to scramble to try to contain diplomatic and military fallout.

Happy B-Day to the late, the great Lou Reed!!

Still relevant as ever! From his New York album, in my top 10 of all time rock records. And we need his inspiration now more than ever!!

I vote we put a 300 ft tall statue of AG Letitia James on Ellis Island right next to Miss Liberty

she's definitely got the justice for all thing down!

Why age doesen't bother me (and a bit of a Valentine thank you to my elders)

Many of us here our grandparents, great grandparents and some maybe even parents happened to have lived through some of the hardest conditions this country had seen and it's those memories and lessons that are important if one is lucky enough to realize them.
I had a pretty close relationship with my elders beyond my parents, and a lucky one I guess. I never really looked at them as old either, I don't know why. All of my grandparents along with my Grand Aunts and Uncles and also their friends they spent their grade school years through high school during the Depression. Most of my family members were rural, either in very small towns or farmers,and like most pretty poor. Many went straight from the Depression into serving either at home or in the military during WWII. When I was young say from around 6 or 7 to my teens my grand parents were just retiring or getting close to retiring and boy did all of them have amazing stories to tell. That was their youth, their life for many from grade school into their 20's. My goodness I was always entranced by the stories of their time. It was like they were aliens from another planet!

But, that's only part of the reason a persons age doesn't bother me. You see I'm only human therefore I need attention, especially when I was a young yard ape. I was a bit of an Air force brat and we were constantly moving for about the first twelve, thirteen years of my life. Sometimes I would only be in a school for 1 semester, sometimes joining a new school in the middle of the year. There were a couple of times we stayed in one place long enough for me to kind of make some yard ape friends which always made leaving harder. I also have a multi-ethnic background which could make things even more difficult depending on the learned prejudices of wherever we were at any one moment.

There was one constant through all of that moving. Summer! No matter where we were every summer my mom made sure she took me and my little pain in the butt yard ape brother back to my parents little teeny hometown to spend the summer with our grandparents. All of my grandparents, great grandparents and grand aunts and uncles (we just called them aunts and uncles)lived within 50 miles of that little teeny Indiana town. If we were in Northern Plains or Canada or the somewhere near the East Coast it was a bus ride, which always sucked. But if we were out west it was round trip on the Super Chief my favorite. To this day the smell of certain diesel fumes instantly triggers memory's of Union Station in Chicago and seeing a big 'ol grin on my grandfathers face while waving his beige fedora over his head.

Now my grandfather had a small (3 acres!) vegetable farm that he my grandmother and their best friends and neighbors tended to every year to help with money. My grandfathers brother had an even bigger farm about 25 miles away where they raised mostly livestock and tilled fields for grain and grass to feed the livestock. As you could imagine being a little yard ape on "vacation" there was always plenty of trouble for us to get into, but also plenty of hard work to do to help. My great grandfather had a little workshop in an out building behind their house where he did wood and metal working. He had a wood lathe and a metal lathe, some foot presses, drill presses, lots of hand tools (I swear the Caractacus Potts character was based on my great grandfather). My great grandmother was the secretary for, well everybody, at the local newspaper. Their daughter my grandmother was a child psychologist.

As I said only being human I needed attention. The amount of stuff I learned from all of my elders was priceless. Maybe I paid more attention because they weren't always there, only in the summer. They were all great story tellers (something I obviously didn't inherit) and as I said they had some stories. Their stories were also invaluable as a coping mechanism for me having to move from school to school all the time. I had a fresh batch of stories and experiences to add to my collection I could share that helped me ward off those evil learned prejudices I encountered. And there were many life lessons learned because my grandparents and great grandparents lived lives even my parents could barely relate to. And here's the biggest reason peoples age doesn't bother me....


My grandfather farmed those 3 acres with his wife until she passed at age 82 without ever getting a drivers license lol. He continued to help run his brothers farm after his brother lost a limb in a farming accident, until his death at 92. He died working because he loved the work he was doing, simple as that.

My grandmother worked for the State of Indiana and many other states that brought her techniques online on ways to include children with disabilities whether they be physical or mental in the mainstream public education systems until she retired at 86 years old. She got to accomplish her dream which was traveling around the world until dimentia tragically took her at 99.

My Great grandmother, the local papers secretary, retired at 82 when the local paper closed and became just a housewife for the first time since she married my great grandfather in 1896. Dementia caught up with her in her very late 90's and she passed at age 105.

My crazy great grandfather continued to make things (and occasionally blow things up) in his little shop. His specialty was little replicas of WW1 horse drawn cannons, about 6 inches long, made out of brass (which he did on the lathe), wooden wheels and all, that he sold at fairs and flea markets. In the early 60's he had to stop including powder and little ball bearing cannon balls. (Yes they really worked lol). The last time I spoke with him he had just been put into the hospital with some heart issues. He grabbed my arm and pulled me close and said "dont tell your grandma but when shes not here there is the nicest cutest little blond nurse that gives me a bath" and giggled in his devil laugh as my great grandmother called it. You see, my great grandfather was blind, had been since he was 13 years old. He died in a Catholic hospital full of nuns lol. I laugh because that was him, always the trickster married to a strict Pentecostal woman. He was 103.

These people who saved me as a kid. These people that did amazing things well into their 90's. Sure I'm lucky to have had such people in my life but we all have such people in our lives and should cherish them. There's a reason the elderly are cherished and honored in other cultures and it's because of the story I crudely wrote above. While certainly age brings wisdom, it brings experience and more importantly I think, mistakes. Decades of mistakes to be learned from. Most all of my elders, the most important stories or examples or lessons handed down were the mistakes and how to fix them. 100% how to fix them because after all, even when I was 40 I was still a little damn yard ape struggling with the same things they struggled with inside and they hoped, and I accepted all they had and loved every damn one of them for it.

Joe Biden isn't too old, he's just right for this time because he's made the mistakes along with everyone else, that got us here and he knows how to fix them. He's holding the baton of a tool to fix the rusty mistakes in this democracy and is ready to hand it off to the next generation who are so, so ready to continue to fix, secure and move democracy forward far into the future.



*If I could I'd give all of the hearts on this board to my relatives from the past. I don't know, for some reason this year at valentines I was really missing them. And Yard Apes was what my grandfather always called us kids flying around the yard like a bunch of monkeys at the zoo. There was never any prejudice in my family.
Happy life to all

Hey, guess what happened 48 hours ago?

A huge unanimous decision was handed down by the DC circuit that in the case of United States of America v Donald J Trump the defendant has no inferred immunity just because he was president! He is merely citizen trump!! The repuke house proves it can't count!!

I have heard nary a peep about any of that today, not just here but anywhere really. The live SCOTUS hearing on a case that had just a little snow balls chance, Tucker Carlson Interviews Putin, a fairly prejudice laced release statement from a special counsel on the Biden doc's case. Alll at once and our little victories are forgotten. This is how good the repuke messaging machine is folks. They will slam you to the ground with no mercy or care.

Eyes on the prize we must keep!!!