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Hunter Cover-Up

7/31/2022

FBI analyst Brian Auten, who labeled negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation in August 2020, shutting down a probe into Hunter's financial and foreign business activities, was referred for disciplinary action months before doing so, according to whistleblowers. The bottom line is that he shouldn't have been involved in Hunter's investigation, but this didn't happen showing once again that all it takes to keep your job these days in the CIA and FBI is to protect the Democratic Party.

"If these allegations are true and accurate, the Justice Department and FBI are — and have been — institutionally corrupted to their very core to the point in which the United States Congress and the American people will have no confidence in the equal application of the law," Grassley wrote in the letter.

I find the survey results below a little scary. As you know, I'm leery of surveys because they're so easily manipulated to give the people paying for the surveys what they need to push their agendas. But in this case, this survey comes from an outstanding source that doesn't take sides and this is what they came up with when they asked people taking the surveys whether Hunter Biden should be investigated by an independent council and 58.97% agreed while 41.03% doesn't want the DOJ to appoint a special council. I find this number scary.

Let's use an integrity litmus test. Do you think those 41.03% would feel the same way if it were one of Trump's children? Not a chance. Thus, they don't have integrity. Pretty simple.

The Archies

7/31/2022

I used to love watching the cartoon called: The Archie Show, which featured six friends who played in a band (i.e. Betty, Veronica, Archie, Jughead, etc.) and attended the fictious Riverdale High School. It was a huge hit between 1968 – 1973 and was a great revenue stream for all the merchandise (like clothes and lunch pails), that they were selling because of the popularity of the show.

But what really took people by surprise is when the real band behind the show, called The Archies, hit it big with their song: Sugar, Sugar that the animated characters sang on the show. The song went Gold and usually ranks in the Top 100 of most rankings for songs in the 60’s.

Beautiful Words

7/29/2022

A Cute Picture

7/29/2022

While taking photos of wildlife, one cute fox decided to play with the photographer's hat.

Recession

7/29/2022

Once again democrats are telling us to believe what they're saying and not what the truth actually is. Months ago, the Biden Administration was saying that the economy is in good shape and that a recession was not going to happen. Now a few months later, the economic forum which has been determining recessions for decades, has stated that we are in a recession and democrats are saying the agency is wrong. Let's see, who should we believe?

By definition, an economy is considered in recession when it experiences two straight quarters of declining GDP. According to new data Thursday, the U.S. economy shrank two quarters in a row. This along with inflation and reduced discretionary household income, means we're not getting out of this anytime soon especially since democrats are saying it's a non-issue. We all know you can't solve a problem until you admit you have one. The Biden Administration is hiding so many issues that it's dangerous.

Hedy Lamarr (1914 - 2000)

7/29/2022

Hedy Lamarr, was often proclaimed “one of the most beautiful actresses in the world.” The 26-yr-old Lamarr was thriving in Hollywood when, in September 1940, Nazi U-boats hunted down and sank a cruise ship trying to evacuate 90 British schoolchildren to Canada. A total of 77 drowned that day in the cold north Atlantic waters.

Lamarr, a Jewish immigrant from Nazi-occupied Austria, was outraged. She fought back by applying her engineering skills to develop a sonar sub-locator used in the Atlantic for the benefit of Allied forces. The principles of her work are now incorporated into modern Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technology, work that led to her being posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014. By the way, when I worked on submarines for the Navy in the 1980's, we were still using her inventions. What an amazing woman!

What Were We Thinking? ?

7/20/2022

The Disinformation Board

7/20/2022

Well, surprise, surprise, the Department of Homeland Security has decided that a Disinformation Board is unnecessary, this after the Biden Administration getting slammed for creating an agency which would decide what is and what isn't true before U.S. citizens can hear about it; needless to say, completely against the U.S. Constitution when it comes to freedom of speech.

Then of course they chose one of the most WOKE people in the country to run it and she resigned before it even got off the ground. This whole move by Biden scared even some democrats who helped shut down the new entity. Thanks to all involved in stopping this monstrous move by the Biden Administration.

More Laptop Woes

7/18/2022

The gift (Hunter's laptop), that keeps on giving is still cranking out the goods. The FBI has revealed that they found dozens of business meetings with foreign businesspeople and politicians, that VP Joe Biden attended that involved Hunter. This means that he's been caught in yet another lie since he said he had nothing to do with Hunter's foreign business dealings and he's said this numerous times yet now we know he met directly with these foreigners to help Hunter secure deals.

According to the report, materials gleaned from Hunter Biden’s laptop show more than 30 meetings between then-Vice President Biden and his son, Hunter, from 2008 to 2016, usually taking place shortly after Hunter returned from traveling abroad on business. Coincidence? I think not.

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890)

7/13/2022

I’m not a huge art fan but I like a lot of Vincent's works and just attended an art exhibit of his that was extraordinary. Now I'm even more of a fan. His painting called The Potato Eaters is astonishing in the way he captured the pain on peoples’ faces as they dealt with extremely hard times.

This will take about four minutes to read but it will be worth it. I posted it before but felt compelled to put his story out again because it's amazing.

Vincent was born in the Netherlands to a father who was a minister and a mother who came from money. He had five siblings but lost touch over the years with all but one brother. His father didn’t make much money as a minister, but the church supplied them with a home, cook, gardener, and a horse and carriage. This along with his mother’s money made for a pretty good lifestyle.

What was difficult for Vincent and his siblings is that it was a strict household. Both his mom and dad were very religious, and education was a serious issue. Vincent spent two years being home schooled then he went to a regular school for four years and then was sent to a boarding school when he was 11. He hated it and constantly lobbied his parents to allow him to come home, but they refused.

Vincent loved to draw at an early age but lost some of his passion when he was sent away to attend school. Against his parent’s orders, he left school when he was 16 and went home. He didn’t have any skills or interests for that matter beyond art, so his uncle got him an internship with a popular art dealer while he attended art school.

After four years in school, he finished his training and at the age of 20 took a job in London working at an art museum. He was enjoying living on his own in a nice apartment. Vincent fell in love for the first time with the landlady’s daughter and when he told her she shot him down because she was already engaged to someone else. It was during this time where mental illness started manifesting itself and he became depressed and withdrawn which negatively impacted his work to where he was eventually fired.

Vincent threw himself into religion and eventually became an assistant to a Methodist minister. Not enjoying the work, he returned home when he was 23 and took a job at a bookstore which he hated except for the opportunity to draw. He also spent time translating passages from the Bible into English, French and German. According to what few friends he had; he became a religious fanatic for a while.

He decided to become a pastor but failed an entrance exam to get into the University of Amsterdam. Instead, he decided to do missionary work and was given a congregation, but it didn’t last long, and he went home again. While at home his mental condition got worse to a point where his parents were considering sending him to an insane asylum.

Knowing what his parents were going to do, he took off for Brussels. His brother Theo always loved Vincent’s drawings and talked him into going full speed ahead in trying to become an artist; so at the age of 27 he took it on as a career but couldn’t keep himself afloat financially (although Theo pitched in), so he once again went home to live with his parents.

Then he had a bad taste of love again. He had a cousin who lost her husband, and she had an eight-year-old son. She was visiting his mom and Vincent fell in love with her and when he told her he loved her she firmly said she wasn’t interested. When she returned home, he sent her a love letter and asked to see her, but she declined. Her father got involved in the situation and wrote Vincent a letter saying that he was penniless and couldn’t support his daughter which was a point he couldn’t argue.

He became troubled again and stopped leaving the house which caused a lot of fights with his parents because there was never a good excuse to not attend church. He got tired of their hounding him, so he left for The Hague which was considered the place to be in the Netherlands (kind of like NYC). He caught a venereal disease and was in the hospital for three weeks. When he got out, his brother gave him a little money to live on and continue pursuing his art. This is when he began painting with oil on canvas and realized he had natural talent.

Not having a lot of money, he moved in with a prostitute by the name of Sien and her two children. Word got to his parents about his living situation, and they demanded he move out which he eventually did. Vincent found out later that Sien had killed herself.

At the age of 31, he moved back in with his parents. There was a woman next door who fell in love with Vincent, but he wasn’t that interested and when he broke up with her, she tried to kill herself with strychnine, but Vincent got her to the hospital in time and she lived. His father died of a heart attack the next year.

By this point Vincent had painted hundreds of different paintings. Theo showed one of them to an art dealer in Paris and he loved it and wanted to know if Vincent had enough quality paintings for an art show. His first big hit was the painting: Potato Eaters but the problem was that a lot of Vincent’s works were dark, and the Impressionist Period was in high gear with its brilliant colors.

He was also able to get an art exhibit in The Hague but ran into problems. One of the young girls who modeled for him became pregnant and Vincent was accused. He ended up not getting charged but he took a bit of a public relations hit.

As his career was taking off at the age of 33, he became worse both mentally and physically; he was barely eating and began losing his teeth. If it weren’t for his brother selling Vincent’s artworks, his name would’ve never have gotten out. Theo knew Vincent was a time bomb and that his mom wanted to have him committed to a mental hospital, but Vincent wouldn’t budge and instead stayed in his small studio and kept painting.

How he cut part of his ear off is still a mystery but what isn’t a mystery is that he bandaged his head and dropped the ear off at a brothel for some strange reason. He went outside and passed out and a policeman got him to the hospital. He was out of it and didn’t give anyone an explanation as to what happened. Around this time period Vincent was hearing voices and his mental state was getting worse.

He began having delusions and hallucinations and his neighbors thought he had gone mad and told the police to remove him from their neighborhood. He voluntarily went to a mental hospital. On a funny note, Vincent gave his doctor a painting, but the doctor didn’t like it and gave it away. That painting sold for $50 million dollars in 2016.

In 1890 and at the age of 37, Vincent shot himself in the chest, but it didn’t immediately kill him. The doctors couldn’t take the bullet out, so they had to wait it out. He laid in bed smoking cigarettes while his brother tended to him. It took 30 hours before he passed away. He had no wife or known children when he died.

Like many great artists, it wasn’t until he died that his paintings skyrocketed in price. Like I said in the beginning, I’m not a big fan of art but Van Gogh has about 20 paintings that I think are as great as anything I’ve ever seen. By the way I checked, and these 20 paintings are worth a combined $800 million dollars.

Note: The painting below is Vincent's: The Potato Eaters, which he painted in 1885.

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