Saturday Passel of Fun and Mayhem 10/5

Let’s see what mischief our fellow earthlings have gotten themselves into this week.  Satire, Memes and Mayhem. Nonsense and animals as well. Time to take a break from the madness. 

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Good Morning!

We will start off with our usual “Deep Thoughts”

Deep Thoughts by Kamala Harris – 32

Deep Thoughts by Tim Walz

 

 

 

The Best of the Bee

Bunks Prime

I will close out the post with a visit to our underwater neighbors.

A nautilus swims using jet propulsion! it expels water from its mantle cavity through a siphon located near its head, adjusting the direction of the siphon to swim forward, backward or sideways. To control its buoyancy, a nautilus pumps fluids in and out its shell chambers, which are connected by tubes called “siphuncles.”

That’s all she wrote. Have a wonderful day.

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Liz Cheney Campaigns With Kamala Harris or How to Make a Total Fool of Oneself

Talk about sour grapes. Liz Cheney, in one last effort to appear relevant, joins Harris in wishing her a win on the campaign trail. Dutifully CNN and MSNBC carried the full screed live. War is her calling card lest we forget.

Let us enjoy the moment of Liz making a total whatever of herself. Sometimes good things happen to the GOP. Wyoming got this one right when they sent her on her way out of Congress. I never could figure what floats her boat. Was it worth her career in D.C over the ousting of Trump? Anyhow, enjoy a bit of a review on a Friday.

Wind up the Cheney’s one more time. Trump endorsements: RFK, Tulsi Gabbard and Elon Musk.

Harris endorsements: Cheney’s, Bush’s and Clinton’s. For Decades the Democrats hated the Cheneys. See how upside down things are now?

Liz. Talk about stepping in it.

Tulsi Gabbard sits down with Tucker Carlson and straightens out the story.

“I have a very simple message for my Democrat friends, my independent friends, and those who may not be sure about who they’re voting for in this election. Dick Cheney has just made the choice very clear.

A vote for Kamala Harris is a vote for Dick Cheney, the architect of everything that has gone wrong in the Middle East for the last few decades.”

“Her response to the Dick Cheney announcement today was that she was honored to have his endorsement, and we got military veterans in the house, got a lot of you who probably served in the Middle East like I did, and so it sickened me, Tucker, to read those words today from Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, and Kamala Harris because we have people who we care very much about who were killed in those wars because of Dick Cheney.

The finishing touch.

For those who need more of a refresher on how much of a war monger she is, check out this earlier post Bunk did in 2013: She and her “Institute for the Study of War.” Never was there a war she didn’t like.

Liz Cheney, Elizabeth O’Bagy, Military contractors- a toxic brew

 

Other than that, all is well in the swamp.

FEMA spent over $1 BILLION on funding illegal aliens, Now out of Money

Over the last 4 years the Biden-Harris admin has steadily transformed FEMA — the agency responsible for responding to natural disasters like Hurricane Helene — into an illegal alien resettlement agency that emphasizes DEI over public safety.

America First put this together :

“In summary, the Biden-Harris FEMA views disaster response as an opportunity to propel their radical “equity” agenda and further resettle and support millions of illegal aliens within the U.S. The American people are paying for all of it.”

Now we are told FEMA is out of money for hurricane relief.

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Here it is broken down:

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The Shelter and Services Program is designed to exclusively provide shelter and services to illegal aliens.  Over $1 BILLION in taxpayer dollars have been allocated between FY2023 and FY2024.

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For example, of that $1 billion, FEMA gave over $38 million to NYC – a sanctuary city overrun by illegal aliens. NYC, in turn, is handing out gift cards and hotels to illegal aliens.

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Beyond allocating billions of taxpayer dollars on illegal aliens, the agency has been entirely captured by the “equity” agenda – a euphemism for discrimination. The #1 goal of their strategic plan is to “Instill Equity as a Foundation of Emergency Management.”
 
 
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For example, one of their initiatives to address “equity” is “Prioritizing casework and evaluation for direct housing eligibility for vulnerable populations to include those with access and functional needs or those who have a primary language other than English.”
 
They even went so far as to publish a “Post-Disaster Guide for Local Officials and Leaders” in November 2023 for “Achieving Equitable Recovery.” In other words, they are pushing their equity agenda on states and locals as a way of reshaping communities affected by disasters.
 
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In the “Summary of Eight Equity Goals” within the guide, they advocate for “equitable outcomes” and “rebuilt community ‘with justice for all.’” Effectively, FEMA is factoring race, sex, and sexual preferences into who should receive disaster relief first.

The guide outlines how to “Track and Evaluate Equity Outcomes,” including asking officials to consider if people are receiving “recovery resources” based on “distributive justice.” “Distributive justice” is just the radical way of saying discrimination based on race and sex.

One of the guide’s goals outlines how to “Overcome Barriers and Ensure Fair Recovery Outcomes” and includes a chart of “barriers to equity,” including: -Burnout  -Hate crimes -Political polarization -Power disparities -Bias

FEMA also identified “People of color,” “Women,” and “The LGBTQ+ community” as “disproportionately impacted by disaster.” According to the Biden-Harris administration, natural disasters don’t have the same impact on white straight men.
 
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So far this year, the United States has given: – $24,400,000,000 to Ukraine. – $11,300,000,000 to Israel. – $1,950,000,000 to Ethiopia. – $1,600,000,000 to Jordan. – $1,400,000,000 to Egypt. – $1,100,000,000 to Afghanistan. – $1,100,000,000 to Somalia. – $1,000,000,000 to Yemen. – $987,000,000 to Congo. – $896,000,000 to Syria. – $9,000 per illegal immigrant that has entered the U.S.

And Americans who have lost everything to Hurricane Helene will be getting $750, courtesy of FEMA.

The best of the swamp.

Walz: ‘I Learned How to Govern From the Chinese’

I’m picking out my high point of the night’s debate between Walz and Vance. Hand’s down it had to be Walz.

Considering the moderators, I think JD did the best he could and all and all got the job done for our side. I would have preferred more attacks on Harris, but what can you do when the deck is stacked against you with the moderators. So here is my “Golden Moment.” Worth the time spent watching the whole debacle of Walz.

The best of the swamp.

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Congress Border Bill Deal Failed Over a ‘Dirty Dozen’ Reasons – A Refresher

No doubt tonight during the Vice Presidential debate, the bromide about the border and Trump behind the border bill not passing will be resurrected. The well known reason used often by GOP is the allowance of at least 5000 illegals to cross before anything happens to stop it. There never is discussed the GOP House Bill HR 1 that previously did pass regarding immigration.

But that is not the half of it nor the worst of it.  A short hand list was out on “X”

Why the Senate Border Deal FAILED:

1–Codify Catch/Release

2–Let in 1.8M Illegals

3–Fund Sanctuary Cities

4–Fund NGOs Moving Illegals

5–Lawyers to Illegals

6–Work Permits to Illegals

7–Nothing to Deport Illegals

8–No Immediate Wall Funds

9–Weak Asylum Screening

10–$60B to Ukraine

Donalds gave a refresher at a hearing last week. He covers the border bill topic in the first minute or so before going on to other things.

This section alone in the bill, letting Mayorkas decide what evidence would be sufficient to approve asylum requests and remove judicial oversight from asylum claims, putting illegal immigrants on a fast track to citizenship, is sufficient reason to nuke that bill into orbit.

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Mike Lee put together “The dirty dozen” reasons the bill didn’t pass with a much better analysis.

Senator Lee Releases “Dirty Dozen” Disasters in So-Called “Border Deal”

Here is the link to the list.

The Epoch Times points out a few of the flaws as well:
 
Mr. Lee said the bill contained a “dirty dozen” fatal flaws. The most serious “codifies catch-and-release,” the process whereby an illegal immigrant is detained and interviewed by U.S. immigration officials, given a date to appear in immigration court, and then released into the country.

Former President Donald Trump effectively ended catch-and-release when he implemented the Remain in Mexico program, requiring illegal immigrants to wait in Mexico until their immigration cases had been adjudicated. President Biden halted the program the day he took office in 2021.

Pointing to the bill’s Section 235B, Mr. Lee explained that catch-and-release would be codified because the bill gives the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) “unchecked authority to release an alien into the United States under ineffective ‘alternatives to detention.’”

The second flaw highlighted by Mr. Lee involves the authority of the Secretary of Homeland Security and the president.

“The Secretary of Homeland Security is only required to shut down the border if there are 5,000 average illegal crossings over a consecutive seven-day period or 8,500 in a single day,” Mr. Lee said.

A caveat to that is that the president can “reopen the border any time it is in the ‘national interest to temporarily suspend the border emergency authority’ for up to 45 days.”

Further, the bill “creates a dangerous expansion of parole by saying it can now be granted for anyone the DHS secretary determines has an ‘urgent humanitarian reason,’” Mr. Lee said. The bill doesn’t require the DHS secretary or president to deport anyone.

The bill allows illegal immigrants to be given work permits as soon as they pass an initial screening by immigration authorities.

The number of available green cards is increased by 50,000 annually under the new bill.

The bill also includes a budgeting gimmick whereby $650 million of the funding for continuing to build the border wall begun by President Trump is rescinded, then restored in 2028. Not a single foot of new wall would be built as a result.

 

From Epoch times link here

For Senator Lee’s list including more and highly recommended Here 

Breathtaking…….

The very best of the swamp.

Hillary Clinton says ‘The Press Needs a Consistent Narrative About the Danger that Trump Poses’

 

I’m wheeling out the old gal one more time.  Something is planned in October, obviously.

Russia, Russia, Russia the lady says. Like the fake Russian dossier that she helped author.

Talk about a whopper of a story. This as the banner behind her for her “Clinton Global Initiative” that has gobbled up millions of dollars no less similar to the corruption of Hunter Biden.

 

 

I wandered through my “vault” recalling I said that I would never ever do another Hillary post but…. she just never ever goes away with her corruption. I wandered through the store here is what I found. Here is her Foundation.

Clinton’s E-mails Won’t be released until 2025? That’s what they say in the post without explanation. Justin Cooper and Doug Band are two names that pop up in the story. Back in 2016 I did numerous posts on these two fellows and I believed that they were the ones likely to sing. 

If you read nothing else, do read a story at New Republic a wonderfully written piece that reads like a novel, done in 2013. Titled Scandal at Clinton Inc. This sets the stage for what happens over the next years. From:

Thousands of Docs discovered showing ‘pay to play’ between State Dept and Clinton Foundation

There was no firewall between the State Department and the Clinton Foundation as Hillary previously claimed to the public.

Via the ACLJ:

As part of our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Deep State Department, we have been informed that the State Department has located – and will be forced to turn over to the ACLJ – literally thousands of documents to and about the Clinton Foundation, its subsidiaries, and its senior operatives during the duration of Hillary Clinton’s time as Secretary of State.

The shear volume alone – some 30,000 emails – debunks the specious assertion that there was any kind of firewall whatsoever between Clinton’s State Department and the Clinton Foundation.

These documents, only now being uncovered through our FOIA request and subsequent litigation, show extensive communications exchanged between Clinton or her senior staff at State Department and Doug Band – a senior aid at the Clinton Foundation and creatorof the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI).

Let’s just have a little refresher today. Before Hilary starts her next spin of all of the “good works” of the Clinton foundation, take a look at reality.   I will give you a few of my links to the Foundation posts. Yes. Just 5.7 percent in 2014 went to charitable grants. Later year report got it to 15 percent. Here are the earliest years below. The other point?

For Hillary, Charity begins with the Clinton Foundation 

A number of Clinton Foundation Board of Directors charged or convicted of crime 

In fact, the Clinton Foundation is so unlike a real charity that even charity watchdog group Charity Navigator refuses to rate the Clinton Foundation because of its “atypical business model.”

One of those problems is the fact that the Clintons put big donors and close pals on the board for reasons that are hard to fathom. In fact, at least four of these “board members” have either been charged or convicted of serious financial irregularities, crimes including bribery and fraud.

Just 5.7 percent of the Clinton Foundation’s massive 2014 budget actually went to charitable grants, according to the tax-exempt organization’s IRS filings. The rest went to salaries and employee benefits, fundraising and “other expenses.”

The Clinton Foundation spent a hair under $91.3 million in 2014, the organization’s IRS filings show. But less than $5.2 million of that went to charitable grants.

That number pales in comparison to the $34.8 million the foundation spent on salaries,

compensation and employee benefits.

Another $50.4 million was marked as “other expenses,” while the remaining almost $851K was marked as “professional fundraising expenses.”Daily Caller

(RELATED: Clinton Foundation Deceived IRS On Tax Exemption From The Start)

Doug Band reveals Clinton Foundation Inc ‘For Profit’ activity  

Clinton Foundation affiliated charities failed to file financial information 

Clinton Foundation refiling its tax returns, look for other ‘errors 

Haitian President ‘Clinton tried to bribe me,’ reveals the Clinton Foundation  

FBI US Attorney investigation underway of Clinton Foundation 

Clinton Foundation placed on charity ‘Watch list’ 

Clinton Foundation spends only 15 percent giving grants 

 

Yes, she is baaaack and with it all of her swamp activities. She apparently has reignited her connections enough that she thinks she can put her hand out again. Maybe she thinks Harris will have an offering?

 

That’s all she wrote…… not the worst nor the best of the swamp on a Monday.

Sunday Respite – Whispers of the Violin

Fall hasn’t reached us here in my neck of the woods. But the fall season is short so let’s enjoy the color of fall via this music of: DJ Artur -Whispers Of The Violin.

Here is a second chance to catch yesterday’s post of general nonsense.

You may prefer to watch this in full screen….

A few links of fellow bloggers who toil in the swamp for us.

Pirate’s Cove – Oops indeed….

Oops: New Hezbollah Leader Wacked Before Even Getting His New Pager From HR

Vermont Folk Troth. –  A good miss.

New Ireland: How Northern Maine almost became part of Canada at the end of the War of 1812 | National Post

Tacky Raccoons – Just like a box of chocolates… A Passel as well..

Saturday Matinee – Lurrie Bell & Billy Branch, Omar & The Howlers, The Andreas Diehlmann Band, and Playing For Change

That is all she wrote. Have yourself a great day.

Saturday Passel of Fun and Mayhem 9/28

Let’s see what mischief our fellow earthlings have gotten themselves into this week.  Satire, Memes and Mayhem. Nonsense and animals as well. Time to take a break from the madness. 

Enjoy! If you only see tweet links and not graphics go to Bunkerville’s home page.

Page may take a few seconds to load.  For politics page down and/or check top posts at the right side of the page.   

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Good Morning!

We will start off with our usual “Deep Thoughts”

Deep Thoughts by Kamala Harris

Deep Thoughts by Tim Walz

Deep Thoughts by Joe Biden

The week in review

The Best of the Bee

Bunks Prime

A visit with our neighbors….

This month, an extraordinary and rare encounter with a Magnapinna / Bigfin squid took place in Oceania’s Tonga Trench, providing us with the first newly published footage of a Magnapinna yet released in 2024.

That’s all she wrote. Have a wonderful day.

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US Navy Oiler Runs Aground Off Oman Coast, Carrier Strike Group Forced To Scramble For Fuel

Just a note to the Dems who are ready to start WWIII. The Abraham Lincoln carrier group looks good on paper but the Navy needs a fueling ship, and apparently the USN Big Horn is out of commission. Houston we have a problem.

We just gave Zelensky more of our bucks while we don’t take care of business here and maintain our stuff. Well done Democrats.

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The US Navy oiler USNS Big Horn ran aground and partially flooded off the coast of Oman, leaving the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group without its primary fuel source.

First reported on the gCaptain forum and by maritime historian Sal Mercogliano, a leaked video and photos show damage to the ship’s rudder post and water flooding into a mechanical space.

The Broader Navy Tanker Crisis and Strategic Implications

The grounding of USNS Big Horn is a stark reminder of the broader tanker crisis facing the U.S. military, as highlighted by Captain Steve Carmel, a former vice president at Maersk, in an editorial for gCaptain last year. The Department of Defense is projected to need more than one hundred tankers of various sizes in the event of a serious conflict in the Pacific. However, current estimates indicate that the DoD has assured access to fewer than ten, a dangerously low number that threatens to cripple U.S. military operations. Without sufficient tanker capacity, even the most advanced naval capabilities—including nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, which still rely on aviation fuel—will be rendered ineffective.

This problem became significantly more accute with the closing of the Navy’s massive Pacific fuel depot – Red Hill – after poor maintence resulted in fuel leaking into the local water supply, poisoning thousands including children, in Hawaii.

The shortage of both oilers and tankers demands urgent action. The United States must build a larger U.S.-flagged fleet capable of replenishing aircraft carriers and support joint wartime operations. Expanding the Tanker Security Program, enforcing cargo preference, and prepositioning fuel-laden tankers are potential solutions, but they require immediate implementation. With the looming threat of conflict in the Pacific, securing a robust tanker fleet is not just a logistical necessity—it’s a strategic imperative.

This crisis—coupled with the equally troubling US Merchant Marine crewing crisis—poses a significant challenge for the US Navy. Encouragingly, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro has called for a bold new Maritime Statecraft. Moreover, with the leadershipof RepresentativeMichael Waltz and Senator Mark Kelly, Congress is working on a bill to address our maritime dilemmas—a bill this incident makes more compelling than ever. However, major obstacles remain. These solutions take time, and other federal agencies—including the US Coast Guard but most notably the US Maritime Administration under Secretary Pete Buttigieg—are under-resourced and lack motivation to do the heavy lifting required to solve these problems.

Read more Zero Hedge

https://www.zerohedge.com/military/us-navy-oiler-runs-aground-forcing-carrier-strike-group-scramble-fuel

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New York City Mayor Adams Indicted in Federal Corruption Probe

We first got news that there was trouble in Gotham City back on September 6. Now the fickle finger of fate of the FBI turns directly on Adams. Earlier

NEW YORK (WABC) — The FBI came to the homes of two of New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ closest aides, sources told ABC News, and subpoenaed the cellphones of at least seven people in the NYPD, including one belonging to Commissioner Edward Caban.

The FBI came to the Hamilton Heights home of First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright and the Hollis, Queens home of Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Phil Banks, where agents asked them to surrender their phones, the sources said.

This was from Bunk back on September:

F.B.I. Raids Homes of 2 of Mayor Adams’ top aides, NYPD phones subpoenaed

Now Eric Adams looks like he is in for a storm of a problem,

The New York Post reports:

NYC Mayor Eric Adams indicted by grand jury in historic federal probe: sources

Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted by a grand jury on charges connected to a federal probe that has shaken his administration, sources told The Post.

The historic indictment of the first sitting mayor of New York City is expected to be unsealed Thursday by US Attorney Damian Williams, according to the sources. The news was first reported by The New York Times.

Adams will surrender to authorities early next week, sources said.

“I always knew that If I stood my ground for New Yorkers that I would be a target—and a target I became,” Mayor Eric Adams said in a statement to The Post. “If I am charged, I am innocent and I will fight this with every ounce of my strength and spirit.”

Details about the exact accusations remained unclear, but are believed to be connected to allegations of the Turkish government illegally funneling money into his mayoral campaign, according to sources.

The Gateway Pundit reported on Tuesday that the FBI is now expanding its investigation into possible illegal foreign donations, focusing on Adams’ suspicious connections with at least six foreign countries, including Turkey, Israel, China, Qatar, South Korea, and Uzbekistan.

This revelation follows the July grand jury subpoenas issued to members of Adams’ inner circle and the dramatic November 2022 seizure of his electronic devices by FBI agents.

Investigators are particularly focused on whether the Adams administration was involved in pushing through a new high-rise Turkish consulate in New York despite glaring fire safety concerns.

Then we have NYC Schools Chancellor David Banks announced his retirement, according to a letter obtained by FOX 5 NY. He’s now the fourth high-ranking official to step down from New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ administration in recent weeks. FOX 5 NY’s Lissette Nuñez has the latest.

As I included in my earlier post:

Mayor Eric Adams shows off his diverse administration: “Have you ever seen this much chocolate leading the city of New York??!! This is why they hating on me!” He then compares himself to Jesus for assembling such a non-White team.

Imagine a white mayor saying, “Have you seen this much vanilla leading the city of NY?” While going on to compare himself to Jesus

And that is the very best of the swamp. It’s always about the money it seems.