Incredibly, the birds spent just 1% of their time aloft flapping their wings, mostly during takeoff. One bird flew more than five hours, covering more than 100 miles (160km), without flapping its wings.
Nancy Pelosi say Congress Should be able to Trade on Insider Information
Nancy Pelosis said that Congress people should be able to trade on insider information because this is a free market in people we are free market economy they should be able to participate in that
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Cut off one’s nose to spite one’s face
Have you every wondered the origin of the phrase: “cut off one’s nose to spite one’s face“?
Here’s the historical background:
Viking conquerors led by the sons of Ragner Lothbroc, King of Sjaelland and Uppsala (parts of modern Sweden and Denmark), conquered Norway and landed in East Anglia, sailed to the mouth of Tweed River, and sacked and burnt Coldingham in 870. As the army approached, Æbbe persuaded her nuns to disfigure themselves by cutting off their noses and upper lips to avoid rape.
Ken Klippenstein: White House Falsely Declared it Warned Iraq of Impending Airstrikes
In the speech, Biden decried chaos
and declared that order must prevail
. He repeatedly condemned threats of violence, again failing to address the substantive demands of the protesters, reducing the problem to antisemitism and threats to ‘national security.’
In 1995, Saddam’s Son-in-law said weapons programs had been been destroyed
How can you get a bigger story than the head of the chemical biological nuclear and strategic missile program in Iraq? Saddam Hussein’s son-in-law who is in charge of all that tells us what he defected in 95 that those weapons (there were no nuclear weapons) but the others were all destroyed at his order?
Love is weaker than vs Fear (short-term)
in Jewish theology, there are two ways of serving God. There’s yirah and ahavah. There’s fear and love, and fear in many ways is more immediately effective. When you’re driving over the speed limit, is it love for your fellow drivers or the presence of a police car that will get you to slow down faster? Fear is in some ways more immediate and effective than love, but love is more enduring.
New York Swagger
In the American Masters series, Anthony Fauci says:
President Trump and I were both born and raised in New York City. You know he has that New York Swagger about him that I can relate to I feel comfortable with that kind of bravado that he has went a long way to having us develop a reasonable relationship.
Very conducive to armor operations
In Racket News, Matt Taibbi described a “Gentlemen’s Agreement” in which “TV News Won’t Identify Defense Lobbyists” who are identified by their former government titles.
In the Ukraine War, former General Jack Keane went on Fox News, “applauding $800 million” in spending, “saying areas like the Donbass are very conducive to armor operations
, which surely has nothing to do with the fact that he served for years as chair of armored vehicle maker AM General.”
very conducive to armor operations
https://youtu.be/PQzFgqval8M?t=184
Nancy Pelosi suggests Joe Biden deserves to be on Mount Rushmore
When Leslie Stahl interviewed Nancy Pelosi, Pelosi suggested Biden belongs up the on Mount Rushmore:
In Joe Biden and did you think he needed to step aside no my whole point was whatever he decides but we have to have a more aggressive campaign she mentioned his many accomplishments including his forceful leadership of the NATO Summit with other Western heads of state so he was in a good place to make whatever decision top of his game such a consequential president of the United States a Mount Rushmore kind of President of the United States want know what comes next that he belongs up there on Mount Rushmore Lincoln and Joe Biden but you got Teddy Roosevelt up there and he’s wonderful I don’t say take him down but you can add Biden
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