Day THIRTEEN of Presidential recovery.
President Trump, visiting Los Angeles on Friday, received disaster briefings and surveyed fire damage in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood.
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Have a simply superb Saturday at the Emerald Lodge, Emerald Lake, Yoho National Park, British Columbia…
Or Saskatoon, Saskatchewan…
How about Quebec City, Quebec…
And…Winter At The Forks – Winnipeg, Manitoba…
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Good morning, Lucille!
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Good morning, Stella!
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BREAKING: Trump Envoy Richard Grenell Secures Release of Americans Held in Venezuela Amid Tense Relations
MARIA HERRERA MELLADO January 31, 2025 @ 7:35 PM
https://gatewayhispanic.com/2025/01/breaking-trump-envoy-richard-grenell-secures-release-of-americans-held-in-venezuela-amid-tense-relations/
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Mornin’ Lucille!
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Good mornin’, Miz Wee!
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I am a fan of Ric Grenell.
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Good mornin’, and happy Saturday. Seems to be quite a bit of house-cleaning going on in Swamp Town! Hopefully they’ll be cleaning the carpets and replacing the drapes while they’re at it. A little different them this morning as I found this Royal Doulton model and I’m sharing it because it’s something classy to make us feel special. Keep your head on a swivel and carpe’ your coffee!
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Mornin’ T! A very pretty pot!
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Good mornin’, Miss Wee! I hate it when that happpens! Let’s enjoy some more WINNING today!
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Quite lovely!
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Good mornin’, czarina. It is rather purdy, isn’t it?
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Thanks T, now I have to go find one of my fancy Belleek coffee cups my daughter in gave me, to suit the occasion.
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Good mornin’, Menage! That’s one of those fancy cups you have to put your pinky finger out, isn’t it?
😉
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Lovely pot. Good mornin’ Tex!
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Good day, Texan! Couldn’t find the specific pattern of your coffee pot among the hundreds of offerings. But as long as we’re being classy, here’s another pattern cup and saucer from the 1920s….
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Good evening Lucille,
The pattern is “Hampshire” by Royal Doulton
Your improvisation is a great choice.
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Hope you had a lovely day, Reflection! Glad you found the charming cup and saucer to match Texan’s “Hampshire” coffee pot.
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Mornin’ sports fans!
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Morning Wee, I’m not worried. Surely President Trump will end winter soon! He’s done all the other good stuff.
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From yer lips!! Mornin’ Menage!
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Morning Menagerie! I’m not sure even Trump can do that, although he certainly has surprised this past couple of weeks.
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LOL
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Afternoon Mom!
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Mornin’ Wee! Let’s hope the groundhog cooperates.
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Love it – go Elon! 😀
TerriFrog on Gab: ‘your tax dollars’
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Hopefully the rest of the Country will soon be as disgusted as we’ve been for much of the last 16+ years.
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Elon Musk’s Team Locks Government Workers Out of Federal Agency Computer Systems Responsible for Hiring and Payroll as Trump Overhauls Government Bureaucracy: Report
By Jim Hᴏft Feb. 1, 2025 12:40 pm
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/elon-musks-team-locks-government-workers-federal-agency/
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National Dark Chocolate Day – improved with the addition of milk and sugar…
National Get Up Day – like from a fall or error…
National Texas Day – know anyone living there?!?!?
Ice Cream for Breakfast Day – this should be an option everyday
National Serpent Day – only for special people. Not everyone has good feelings for snakes.
National Baked Alaska Day – a fancy dessert, but I never cared for meringue
National Play Outside Day – first Saturday of every month
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I may have to take a nap after all of the celebrations I will have to partake in today!
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Mornin’ Czarina!
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Morning czarina! I’ll stick with the dark chocolate (with milk and sugar.)
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I like everything on this list, except for the serpent day. I will skip that. Ice cream for breakfast sounds really good.
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Good day, Czarina! In celebration and honor of Texas to which a few paternal family members moved after the War Between the States, I’ll have some dark chocolate baked Alaska…
…and large chunks of dark chocolate in a baggie to carry from room to room satisfying my addiction throughout the day…
An absolute NO to serpents and those who use Saturday Play Day to take them to a park to scare folks who then fall down as they are fleeing and have a hard time getting back up.
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OMG. I felt faint when I saw that chocolate baked Alaska. Wish I had some right now. 😯
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Yes, yes, yes, as an afternoon snack it would hit the spot.
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Especially the Baked Alaska…
I’m with Czarina in that I might just taste the meringue, but why miss the middle?
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A “like’ on the Baked Alaska and the chocolate squares. Must remember to keep them out of my pockets, though.
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Sec. Hegseth is shaking things up at the Pentagon. They are beginning a press rotation where new media are given some office space and legacy media are having to make other arrangements. Out for ’25 – NBC, NPR, NY Times and Politico. In – OANN, Breitbart, NY Post and HuffPost.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/31/media/pentagon-press-rotation-defense-department/index.html
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Makes sense to me. After all, old media is falling by the wayside.
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I’m wondering why ANY news outlet has offices in the Pentagon.
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I think it has been that way for a long time. Whether it’s wise or not is a matter of opinion. Remember Donald Rumsfeld’s frequent press briefings? I rather welcome their return.
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To me, Donald Rumsfeld was one of those persons that you don’t have to agree with in order to like. Charming, magnetic, intelligent, knowledgeable, confident, great conversationalist and writer, too.
I love his famous saying…
“There are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.
There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that we now know we don’t know.
But there are also unknown unknowns–there are things we do not know we don’t know.”
He was just riffing on sayings by Socrates and Confucius, yet a lot of folks gave him immense flack. Apparently they didn’t know what they didn’t know.
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I always enjoyed hearing from Rumsfeld, politics aside.
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Of course CNN labels the replacement organizations as “pro Trump”, but neglects to mention that NBC etc. are anti-Trump.
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Afternoon All. Never did get any snow. It just got too warm and stayed too warm. It was raining very lightly when we went to bed last night and there are puddles everywhere. The sun is peeking out of the clouds and I can see the lake through the trees now. Actually a beautiful picture. It appears that that winter storm went slightly to the south of us and we just got the edge of it.
Well, hope you weekend weather is nice.
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Hi mom! We got a dusting of snow/sleet last night, but our temps are above freezing now.
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Good day, aus! It was 40 degrees during the night but right now with the sun shining it’s 38. I don’t understand weather.
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RFK’s MAHA Army Descends On DC — From Left, Right And Center
https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/31/rfk-supporters-dc-senate-confirmation-hearing-maha/
Scores of green beanies lined the halls of the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Thursday.
The forest green hats with white lettering adorned the heads of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s impassioned supporters, there to lend their energy to his bid to become the U.S.’s next Health and Human Services Secretary.
The caps read “Make America Healthy Again,” a slogan coined by Kennedy Jr. that has quickly become a rallying cry for a wildly diverse and unlikely political coalition.
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Great! Finally a positive demonstration.
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That is awesome!
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https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/02/01/this-top-senate-democrat-is-under-federal-investigation-n4936581
Interim D.C. U.S. Attorney Edward R. Martin, Jr. has made a bold move, dismissing about 30 federal prosecutors involved in the Capitol riot cases. This decision, announced on Friday, signals a significant housecleaning of the top prosecutor’s office in Washington, D.C., as Martin gears up to purge partisans who weaponized the Justice Department against Joe Biden’s political enemies, including Trump, pro-life activists, and others.
But he’s also taken another bold step, effectively launching an investigation into Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer over comments he made back in March 2020 during a #MyRightMyDecision rally outside the Supreme Court. During the rally, Schumer blatantly threatened Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch over their potential votes in the first abortion case before the Supreme Court with the new conservative majority.
“I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh: You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price,” Schumer said to a chorus of cheers. “You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”
https://twitter.com/MarkMeadows/status/1235276076684840961
According to 18 U.S. Code § 115, whoever threatens a federal official, “with intent to impede, intimidate, or interfere with such official, judge, or law enforcement officer while engaged in the performance of official duties, or with intent to retaliate against such official, judge, or law enforcement officer on account of the performance of official duties, shall be punished” by a fine or imprisonment of as much as ten years.
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I hope something come of this about Schumer. His blatant lies, and leaking information out of closed hearings infuriated me.
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Pete, Tulsi, Kash, and RFK: The Sum of All Democratic Fears
The left has good reason to be very afraid of this quick-witted quartet.
by Tim Donner | Feb 1, 2025
Once upon a time, Senate scrutiny of a president’s Cabinet appointments was essentially pro forma. The advice and consent of the upper chamber of Congress was necessary, but despite whether the incoming president was a Republican or Democrat, it was largely a formality. Senators from both parties mostly agreed with the basic premise that a president deserves to surround himself with whomever he desires. But that was in normal times. And as we well know, the second Trump presidency, like the first, is anything but normal.
https://www.libertynation.com/pete-tulsi-kash-and-rfk-the-sum-of-all-democrat-fears/
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Top Treasury Official Announces Resignation — Comes at the Same Time Elon Musk and DOGE Team Discover Treasury Is Funding Terrorist Groups
By Jim Hoft Feb. 1, 2025 11:20 am
David Lebryk, the top-ranking career U.S. Treasury Department official, will leave his post where he has been a top official for years.
Elon Musk and the DOGE team are currently examining the treasury payment systems.
Lebryk clashed with Musk over access to a “sensitive system” used to pay over $6 trillion a year in Social Security and Medicare benefits.
The results of the audit may not bode well for David Lebryk.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/top-treasury-official-announces-resignation-comes-same-time/?
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Don’t let the door hit ya…….
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Finally found a more balanced reportage on this. Many “new agencies” just echoed one another nearly word for word. Major panic in the Office of Personnel Management.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/elon-musks-team-locks-government-workers-federal-agency/
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It’s a busy night.
From across the pond:
Identity of female pilot finally revealed.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14350659/Black-Hawk-helicopter-Rebecca-Lobach-identified-DC-plane-crash.html
And,
Yet another facet to the crash.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/wayne-root-here-is-best-explanation-ive-heard/
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I’m glad that they finally released the name of the third pilot. I will say that they waited until after her body was recovered. That’s fair enough.
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This Mexican-American young woman explains why she voted for Trump and his policies. She explains all of the lavish benefits that an illegal received in California for free that she has to pay for.
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