Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Courtney's Choice Quality Totally Unexpected Quotes of the Week

Courtney is Now Judging You

"I have no desire to sugarcoat this one - it’s been difficult in this new role to stay relatively quiet while certain elements of the media continue to entirely fabricate stories about what we’re doing at the FBI. But that’s part of the job as a public servant. I don’t work for myself anymore, I work for the public. And while I can’t address all of the nonsense in this one post, I will address the repeated attacks on Director Patel. The Director’s office is attached to mine. I am in most of the briefings he is in. He spends anywhere between 10-12 hours in the office attending meetings with everyone from foreign heads of law enforcement to our counter-terror teams, and more. 
Any assertion otherwise is a verifiable lie designed to stop our reforms and fracture your trust. I will die on this hill. You are being clearly lied to by people with an agenda, and it’s not your agenda." - Dan Bongino, Deputy Director FBI

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White South Africans say they’ve faced violence and economic exclusion due to their race, but their expedited relocation to the U.S. is drawing sharp criticism from humanitarian groups and South African officials:  
"Whether they are White or Black makes no difference to me, but white farmers are being brutally killed, and their land is being confiscated in South Africa.  The newspapers and the media, television media, doesn’t even talk about it. If it were the other way round, they’d talk about it, that would be the only story they talk about.  I don’t care who they are. I don’t care about their race, their color, I don’t care about their height, their weight, I don’t care about anything, I just know that what is happening is terrible.” - The 47th President of the United States

Someone please explain why a humanitarian group would see fault in fleeing racial oppression and genocidal threat.

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“Mr. Camus, 78, is author of “Le Grand Remplacement” (2011), which describes how decades of mass migration have altered his native France. He warns that Europe’s current trajectory will, within a couple of generations, lead to the eclipse of its native peoples, their cultures and even Christianity. 
All this looks less like diversity in action than a symbolic—sometimes real—battle over public space and cultural norms. Mr. Camus has committed the error of noticing all this. 
If that makes him an enemy of the British state, it is because the state created the disaster.” - Wall Street Journal

Whoa. Sounds like someone spiked the water cooler with Red Pills.

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"I would say to viewers of this program, the efforts that Trump is making generally are positive. Trump has the ambition to be a peacemaker. He has this big ambition that the United States will play a decisive role in forging peace around the world. The amazing agenda of Trump's peace efforts around the world says there was something to the notion of Trump winning the Peace Prize. - David Ignatius, Editor Washington Post on MSNBC 😲
Holy Shit! This coming from David Ignatius!? Heads would explode all over liberal land if Orange Man Bad were to someday make the journey to that Nobel award ceremony in Oslo!

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“Backed by hundreds of thousands of Americans demanding impeachment, Congress must fulfill its constitutional duty and impeach and remove Trump for his multiple high crimes." - Alexandra Flores-Quilty, Free Speech For People’s Campaign Director. 
Translation: We Hate Trump And You Should Too.

Sunday, May 11, 2025

Sunday Soothingness

This goes out to all who no longer have Mothers to put arms around. A simple song of remembrance that has become very dear to me. I apologize in advance for any possible goosebumps or moist eyes that may occur. 

Little did I know when I met these young ladies many years ago at a recording studio in Huntington Cal. that they would become such stars of their generation. These are the sister known as 'Haim'.

Saturday, May 10, 2025

Without Further Ado, Your Official Almost Semi-World Famous Irredeemable Weekend Big Ass Open Thread

Your Beloved Blog Editrix, Who Loves Each and Everyone of You, opens up the floor for your important, but in the big picture irrelevant, opinions and views as we hurl through the universe on our little blue firecracker, with fools and their matches. So, you got something to tell? Now is the time. 

Dawn your blogger thongs and let it rip, the floor is yours. Regular house rules apply. And as I have warned before: No liquor for the sasquatch!


Thursday, May 8, 2025

Highways For Fishes and the Nation's Air Travel Safety

Much is being said about the disturbing condition of the nation air travel and it's safety. Unlike when the media during the Biden Administration, the strongest words of criticism and concern was of flight delays early in the term.  Accidents and close calls of which there were many were slighted for much more important news like anything and everything "Trump the Criminal".

And now, after less than 3 months time in office, the new Secretary of Transportation is taking heat for others' asparations, incompetence and misplaced priorities, and why we can't have nice things.  

In October of 2022, half way through his term as Secretary of Transportation, Mayor Pete Buttgig was in high demand as a surrogate for Democratic candidates campaigning for midterm elections,  mainly because no one wanted to be within a mile of Joe Biden.  And while only 14th in the line of succession, just below HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge, He/Him received more campaign surrogate requests than VP Kamala Harris, also for obvious reasons.

With billions from the 'Build Back Better' slush funds at his disposal, Pete needed to show America of the promised progress he would make on the nation's infrastructure.

Let's see.  Pushed forward the important unfinished interstate highway exchanges?  Nope.  Expanded port facilities?  Nope.  Long needed Upgraded Air Traffic Control System?  Nope.
Highways for Fishes.  Check!! 
    
From the DMF archives of Oct 20,2022:
A few days ago, Secretary Mayor Pete visited King County Washington on the dems midterm campaign outreach and toured a 'culvert replacement project' near Issaquah.  So excited He/Him wanted to tell you about how it will help move us ahead in our nation's Great Leap Forward.

Pete sounds like the host of an edutainment series for kids of all ages. "Secretary Mayor Pete’s World.” He's a master at breaking down complex issues, like holes under roads, and his enthusiasm for this remarkable feat of engineering is infectious. 

Here Secretary Mayor Pete explains to the overtaxed great unwashed what a culvert is and why we should care.
They actually used some of this footage for campaign commercials.

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

On WaPo Winning a Pulitzer Downplaying DJT Assassination Attempt

On Monday WaPo announced that it won a Pulitzer Prize in the breaking news category for its coverage of the July 13, 2024 attempt on the life of Donald Trump.

 
According to the Post's self-congratulatory write-up on its award, WaPo's 'live-updates file', from which the aforementioned headline came, earned the paper what was once journalism's "top honor." 

If journalism is supposed to be the first rough draft of history, the Pulitzer just gave its stamp of approval to one of the most dishonest lines ever written. And if soft-pedaling political violence earns the highest award in American journalism, then the Pulitzer is no longer a mark of excellence — it’s a trophy for narrative loyalty.

But this is just the cherry on top of a Turd Sundae after the media guardians of all truth and democracy, the members of the self-important White House Correspondents Association, awarded the photo below as the coveted 'Photo of the Year' last week at it's annual pat ourselves on the the back 'Journalism Awards'. 
 

The winning photo was taken by NYT photographer Doug Mills depicts Joe Biden as he shuffles away from a podium looking for a door while ignoring reporters questions.