Stories & Opinions Worth Knowing but Maybe Not Quite Threadworthy 7/8

[SVPete]

Tucker Reveals What Former Capitol Police Chief Told Him About Feds During J6

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/juliorosas/2023/07/07/tucker-reveals-what-former-capitol-police-chief-told-him-about-feds-in-j6-crowd-n2625436

Tucker Carlson told podcast host and actor Russel Brand during an interview that aired on Rumble that former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund told him the rioting crowd on January 6, 2021 was filled with federal agents.

Carlson said he disapproved of the violence that took place during the riot, noting his son was in the Capitol during the chaos, but he said it never crossed his mind that law enforcement agencies could have played a role in the events that unfolded that day.

"I never thought it was a false flag or anything like that. I'm not a conspiracist by temperament. I never thought that," Carlson explained.

1. How many LIHOP, and how many provocateurs? That Federal agents were present, of itself, does not mean many or any were provocateurs. More, real, investigation is needed on this point.

2. That Sund knew the crowd included many Federal agents means Miss Nancy and her shamvestigation committee knew and concealed this fact.

[SVPete]

Church of England Archbishop Says the Lord's Prayer is 'Problematic'

https://pjmedia.com/columns/chris-queen/2023/07/08/church-of-england-archbishop-says-the-lords-prayer-is-problematic-n1709062

Arguably the best-known prayer in the world is what we call “the Lord’s Prayer.” Even people who aren’t otherwise familiar with the Bible tend to know it, and often on movies and television, when we see someone praying, it’s the Lord’s Prayer.
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“The archbishop of York has suggested that opening words of the Lord’s Prayer, recited by Christians all over the world for 2,000 years, may be ‘problematic’ because of their patriarchal association,” the Guardian reports.

“I know the word ‘father’ is problematic for those whose experience of earthly fathers has been destructive and abusive, and for all of us who have laboured rather too much from an oppressively patriarchal grip on life,” Stephen Cottrell said in his opening address to a meeting of the Church of England’s General Synod.

I have low expectations for the Anglican Church (and much lower for the US Episcopalian church), but calling the prayer composed by Jesus "problematic"? Why not be honest and stop pretending to be Christian?!

[SVPete]

He survived the Taliban, but not DC's soft-on-crime policies

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/he-survived-the-taliban-but-not-dcs-soft-on-crime-policies

A man who risked his life in Afghanistan serving as a translator for the Army was brutally slain — not by the Taliban in the streets of Kabul, but by young criminals in the streets of Washington who have been coddled by the district's Democratic leadership.

Nasrat Ahmad Yar was driving for Lyft to help provide for his wife and four children. Ahmad Yar had worked for the U.S. government for nearly 20 years, starting at age 10 and working his way up to becoming an interpreter for U.S. forces. He survived the collapse of the Afghan government at the hands of the Taliban, fleeing to the United States in 2021.

He was killed just after midnight on Monday after dropping off passengers. He was surrounded by four males who appeared to be teenagers. One of them shot and killed Ahmad Yar, with surveillance video showing one of the suspects saying, “He was reaching,” in response to another saying, “You just killed him.”

How many Progs would be honest enough to say what many of them think, "He deserved it for supporting Bush's war," out loud?

[SVPete]

Swamp life: Biden’s staff biggest ever, Jill’s nearly twice Melania’s

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/swamp-life-bidens-staff-biggest-ever-jills-nearly-twice-melanias

A White House payroll and staffing review by the group OpenTheBooks found that the White House staff under Biden is the biggest and most expensive in history.

“During President Joe Biden’s first three years, he spent $158.8 million on the largest White House payroll in American history, based on headcount. White House staff for FY2023 collectively cost $52,775,234,” said the report from OpenTheBooks CEO Adam Andrzejewski.

“No White House ever employed 500 staffers until Biden became president. The Biden White House employed 560 in FY2021 and 474 in FY2022. In 2023, the headcount increased by 50, to 524,” he added.

... Trump, at this point of his presidency, had 108 less and Obama 70 fewer.

Not only did Trump operate with fewer aides, but so did former first lady Melania Trump. She averaged between five to 12 aides.

... first lady Jill Biden’s staff count is at least 20 and rivals the sizable and much-criticized group that surrounded former first lady Michelle Obama. She had 24 assistants, said the report.

LIEden needs keepers.

And I can understand Mooch-chelle and Dr. Jill needing more staff than Melania. Meowr!

[SVPete]

West Coast, Messed Coast™ — 9th Circuit Judges Promise More Tent Cities for Everyone!

West Coast, Messed Coast™ — 9th Circuit Judges Promise More Tent Cities for Everyone!

Welcome to the West Coast, Messed Coast™ homeless drug camp, where you can still smoke your rent and live in a tent without the cops bothering you for the foreseeable future. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has doubled down on that “fanciful” and “egregious” Boise decision made in 2018 that put the onus on cities to find beds for homeless, drug-addicted urban campers before they could give them “the bum’s rush.”

Whose streets? Our streets!
The court’s liberal wing voted not to rehear the case en banc and left standing a previous ruling denouncing Grants Pass, Oregon’s, recent ordinances to outlaw urban tent cities as unconstitutional. The city sought to have a larger panel of judges to hear its appeal. Leftists on the court said no way, and conservative judges on the court asked, in so many words, the crazy judges if they’d bothered to look out the window lately to see what they’d done.

Reagan appointee Diarmuid O’Scannlain issued a dissenting statement calling the original ruling “a dubious holding premised on a fanciful interpretation of the 8th Amendment,” which “now effectively guarantees a personal federal constitutional ‘right’ for individuals to camp or to sleep on sidewalks and in parks, playgrounds, and other public places in defiance of traditional health, safety, and welfare laws.” His statement was signed by 13 conservative justices.

Emphasis in the original. The not well known Boise decision hamstrings cities' efforts to deal with the Sacred Homeless. Since the USSC let the decision stand, it will take the USSC to overturn its insanity.

[Old n Grumpy]

I have low expectations for the Anglican Church (and much lower for the US Episcopalian church), but calling the prayer composed by Jesus "problematic"? Why not be honest and stop pretending to be Christian?!

Amen to that, I think to many churches are straying from basic Christian values just to either appease some of their followers or to attract new ones.

[Old n Grumpy]

If some of the city’s wanted to clean up this mess they could declare it a public health emergency like they did with covid and go ahead and clean up the mess or tell the 9th circuit to go pound sand and clean it up anyway.