First Amendment ...

 FOR all ya'll MAGA  yelling about protecting the American Flag - - please just go read the Executive order that Fat Nixon signed,.... NOWHERE and I mean NOWHERE in that order does it say  anything about a one year sentence for Burning a flag.,...  Let's say a few things about this ... and we can remember that I ain't the smartest guy in the world... 

1st - the Supreme court (before it was corrupted ) ruled that Buring a flag was protected by the First amendment - now I know that the Felon in the Whitehouse does not like the Constituton or the rule of law. Be that as it may ...  The U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed that burning the American flag is a form of symbolic speech protected by the First Amendment, particularly in the 1989 case Texas v. Johnson. The Court ruled that the government cannot prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds it offensive. While the ruling is controversial and has faced multiple challenges, including subsequent federal laws and attempts at constitutional amendments, the Supreme Court's interpretation remains that flag burning as a form of protest is protected expression.

2nd - If we (you) are so offended by the desecration of the FLAG why limit it to burning??  How about putting someones image on it?  and that persons image with Machine guns or riding a velociraptor ??  or replacing the stars with the Confederate flag ??? all that ok ?!??!  I'm betting yes. If fat nixon does it ,,  it's ok...

3rd - IMHO - this BS executive action is the start of the attack on the First Amendment.  look - just read the order ...  it talks about "shall refer the matter to the appropriate State or local authority for potential action."  and I think that is exactly what they are after - they want court cases to get to the Supreme court and challenge the legality of burning the flag - challenge the First Amendment. in that way eliminate the other Rights the Amendment affords us... and sets up Fat Nixon as the Fascist Authoritarian defining what is lawful  and what is not -  I believe that this is Step #1...   so look for a Court case to get to the new (Corrupt) court and get DUMPO's Cronies to go along with the dismantling of the Bill of Rights...

 We have lived in South Carolina for going on 4 years now - not a long time....   moving here from NY to escape the COLD WINTERS and the Snow ....  we looked around the SC and NC area for a few trips and settled on Conway, South Carolina - taken by the Beautiful city - and the Waccamaw River (nowhere near as big as the Hudson )...  

You find things different here in the South- There seems to be DOLLAR stores on every corner - Family Dollar, Dollar General,  Dollar Tree,,,,,,    and not be out done - there are more Churches than Dollar stores,,,, they are in Strip malls - Small venues  maybe once  used to be shops or restaurants and large Stand- alone structures - all that are packed on Sunday mornings...Some are recognizable = Baptists, Methodists, but many many  are not - "The Church of the Blessed Bible" , The church Of the Seacoast, The Rock, The Pentecostal church,  Jamestown Church - I have seen ONE Catholic church and one Jewish temple - SO yea - lots and lots of Churches....   We have Golf-Cars - aka Golf Carts ,,.. these are legally driven on side roads and can cross main roads - they don't seem to require seatbelts or helmets, or anything ... I see children riding on parents laps, and sitting in the back seats of these things by themselves - and unfortunately - there are accidents with them that do not turn out well for the occupants of the Golf-car.

And it's odd to see people riding in the back of pick-up trucks just asking to get tossed out if there is a wreck.....   Nearly every main or sorts main road - has a center lane that is used as a Merge and turn lane...  and oh - did I mention that no one uses turn signals ..... 

There are no Auto inspections,,, none - not for safety items, not for emissions,,, NADA=  now there are requirements that the vehicle has to meet - Lights, tires, brakes etc,, but no one ever checks to make sure that they work....   and at least on the main 501 route between here and the Beach / Myrtle Beach - there is Traffic - now not L.I.E. traffic but traffic,,, and if there is (and there always seems  to be ) an accident - there is no way around the main route - two bridges / 3 lanes  enter and leave Conway on 501 (two lanes)  and Business 501(one lane) - both of these cross the Waccamaw river ,, and to the south of all this is that river - and to date there are no plans to build another way across the Wet land,,,,,  hence - when the accidents occur - you are stuck waiting until it clears as the Traffic just backs up for miles ........

Even though there is a new law - regulating the SQUAT trucks - these are pickup trucks with the Front end raised and back lowered (squatting)  this new law states thtat the front cannot be more than 4 inches higher than the back - frankly when you see these - you have to wonder how they see over the hood !!

Everyone or near everyone calls you Mr or Miss then first name - so MR Mark... 

and I have told folks I go to that its just Mark - and they have said - OH NO = 

"My Momma  would whoop me if I did not call you that ".

There are - as least it seems to me - more folks here that need assistance - with clothes, with food , with housing,   and the good news (if it is good news)  Every one of those churches has a food pantry, a clothes bin, and there are stand alone organizations, and thrift shops that support the same - some actually have refrigerated storage - so you can donate milk and eggs  - dairy products....  and yes - like I'd dare say every southern town and city - there are homeless folks....  It is easier to be homeless where its warm, than where its cold... 

One of the things here is that the population has exploded in the past decades - there are many many housing developments.  and more planned.,....   now - I believe that the influx of people always comes before the gains in infrastructure .   so we are always needing more schools, more/ larger roads, more services, garbage, police, fire, etc...  and let me say that it is rare - at least in the folks I know - that anyone is from here,.....  the Northeast is the main contributor ... with a few folks from other locales,,,  I know one - maybe 2 that are born and raised Southerners -   however - let me tell you that (if you read and believe the posts and comments on the Book of Faces)  those from here have a hatred or maybe its distain for those that have moved here....   Each post on car accident, flooding, housing development, etc - you can't get past 1/2 dozen comments before its all the fault of those who - like us - moved here from elsewhere - and god forbid a person asks "where are the best Bagels". Or Pizza or Chinese food. ???  that is met with many GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM comments .....  I would only hope that those making these comments about who they consider foreigners -  do not use any of the services or businesses that came with the development of the towns and cities,, that they do not have an income that is dependant on that population - builder, electrician , plumber, HVAC,  - that would seem to my hypocritical. 

Disgraceful - just disgraceful....

 Vlad gets red carpet, and Trump gets Epstein off the front pages. A submissive, groveling, obsequious Donald Trump was humiliated yesterday afternoon by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. The American president, accused by multiple women and teenage girls of raping or sexually assaulting them, joined the indicted war criminal and Russian president who has kidnapped over 100,000 children from Ukraine and sold most of them into God-only-knows-what in Russia. It was a disgusting, pathetic display of the moral collapse that is Donald Trump. As Senator Richard Blumenthal said: “[M]y stomach turned when I heard the president of the United States characterize Vladimir Putin as his fabulously good friend. Vladimir Putin is a war criminal. He has directed soldiers to kill women and children and bury them in mass graves. He’s kidnapped children as we speak. The reality on the ground is that people are bleeding and dying all around Ukraine because Putin is continuing to bomb them. And at the front, he’s continuing to pummel the brave Ukrainian soldiers who are defending the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, the town of Pokrovsk.” But Trump did succeed in getting Jeffrey Epstein off the front pages for several days. Will a discussion of the possibility that Trump was joining Epstein in raping young girls return to media prominence? Or has Trump succeeded in making it “old news”? Meanwhile, Putin gets a status boost all around the world as America is once again placed in the gutter by Donald Trump.

One pedo - to another

 So - we as , the United States.  just gave the most notable war criminal in the World, Center stage with the President (see also Putin's lapdog) of the United States - 

Embarrassingly rolled out a red carpet for him (literally) -  had a military fly by with a B1 Bomber - and gave him a platform hat he could not get ANYWHERE  else in the world with ANY  other leader  of ANY other Free Country in the world but the Mango Mussolini met with him.... oh yea,..  and I'm guessing that part of Putin's message to his favorite whipping boy was that he (Putin) still had the receipts for all the money laundering , and/or  Loans that Russia gave Dumpo - and/or the video of Dumpo with young girls in Russia.  So one pedofile meets with another.  

so ,,,, Donnie's   much-hyped Alaska summit with Vladimir Putin was a dud. No peace deal was announced. No press conference was held. It was all flattery, no real progress, and a big win for the Kremlin. Even Fox News gave it bad reviews.  The Alaska summit was a monumental failure, with even Fox News reporting that Putin "steamrolled" Donald Trump and then left. This was after Trump forced members of the U.S. military to roll out a red carpet for war criminal Putin after his arrival in Anchorage. Despite being humiliated and failing to achieve literally anything in the meeting, Trump called his diplomatic performance a 10 on a scale of 1 to 10.

Lest we forget. Putin can be arrested for War Crimes in nearly 125 other countries - but finds safe haven here in the USA ...from the International Criminal Court - back in 2023...

   - Mr Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, born on 7 October 1952, President of the Russian Federation, is allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population (children) and that of unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation (under articles 8(2)(a)(vii) and 8(2)(b)(viii) of the Rome Statute). The crimes were allegedly committed in Ukrainian occupied territory at least from 24 February 2022. There are reasonable grounds to believe that Mr Putin bears individual criminal responsibility for the aforementioned crimes, (i) for having committed the acts directly, jointly with others and/or through others (article 25(3)(a) of the Rome Statute), and (ii) for his failure to exercise control properly over civilian and military subordinates who committed the acts, or allowed for their commission, and who were under his effective authority and control, pursuant to superior responsibility (article 28(b) of the Rome Statute).

You know you're a FASCIST WHEN :

 You know you're a Fascist when :

You chant "Freedom !!" and "AMERICA!! "  when cheering mass deportations of people - Citizens and immigrants  without Due Process.

You think banning books and gutting Universities is "Saving America"

You believe that Soldiers should be loyal to a person but not to the Constitution

You Demand Law and Order - unless the law is investigating your Favorite politicians

You want to Lock up your political opponents , but pardon your own criminals

You think elections are rigged......  unless your guy wins

You call yourself a "patriot" while rooting for a third term like we live in a Third world dictatorship.

You call the press "The Enemy" because they told the truth

You think Human rights are optional for people you don't like.

You think religion should run the Government - so long as it's YOUR Religion

You cheer when peaceful protesters are being beaten , jailed or silenced.

You wrap yourself in the flag, while dismantling the Democracy it stands for.

You believe one man's power is more important than everyone's freedom. 

But sure - tell me how me liptards are destroying this country...

How to know my day is off tot a good start..

 There are a few things that need to happen to start my day right......

Ok - First - Coffee is involved...

Then successfully complete all the following : Frankly (unfortunately)  - this is a RARE FEAT !!

First is the   WORDL  - 

Then the QUORDL -

The the SEQUENCE :

Then CONNECTIONS : No misses today - however this is a ONE DAY streak...

And then the CRYPTO-QUOTE :

What the Actual F ?!?!?!?

 a 90,000  that is correct Ninety Thousand square foot ballroom addition to the Whitehouse...

let's pretend for a minute  that what they are saying is true - and I really think that although they can't find money to feed  children in this country or provide healthcare or housing or support vaccines or .......... that - that is MAGA -  thinks that a 90,000 sqft ball room is good cause to donate aka Send a Bribe to Dumpo - and his Oligarchy will do it to win favor with the Orange Jesus / Mango Mussolini .

90,000 sqft that will seat  650 people -  - let that one sink in....  the Current Dining room holds about 140 people - and I believe that there has been near 180 + at one event....   and btw - that room is about 2500 sqft..    so those paying a Grift to Dumpo will be funding a 90,000 / 650 people dining room for $200 million dollars...  hummmm.  let's look at some math.

2500 sqft = 200 people  -  90,000 sqft = 650 people - yall are increasing the space by near 40 times - but the people it can hold will be increased by 3 times  ok - let's say it's 5 times more people as I know MAGA has math troubles ....   WTF - and even if ya say - well the 90,000 wont be all dining room - and thats true - even of we take 1/2 of the 90,000 that is sill increasing the size TWENTY TIMES and the Capacity by 3-5 times...  and mind you that it is expected that this will take until the END of Dumpos term in office,.. or longer -   so he as the POTUS will never (unless he deletes the Constitution - and that is possible by then) he will never host a dinner there....   

AND let's look at Building costs ...   the Most Luxurious Mansion construction costs in 2025 ranges between $300 per sqft to $1000 per sqft......   and what is this great ballroom gonna cost ??!?  over $2,200 per sqft.... I think we all know where the overage money is gonna go - right into Dumpo's pockets - hey he grifted monies from a Foundation that was to support  the Army Emergency Relief, the Children’s Aid Society, Citymeals-on-Wheels, Martha’s Table, and paid a $2 million dollar fine for it - do you really think he would even think twice about stealing money froma construction project - If Im a contractor on this project - I'd get my Money up front, 

crazy ending

 I live to watch the little league world series and the Regional tournaments..

The craziest ending so far this year - was yesterday in the Southeast Region final. the Team from Florida .vs the Team from South Carolina- the St Mary's Florida team  from same place that was the one that won the whole thing last year defeating Taipei 2-1 ...   

This  game went into the bottom of the 6th - with Florida up 4-0  - Three outs and you go back to Williams port to try to defend your title -  so up by 4 runs ,  and  BTW florida  had outscored their opponents  26-1 in this regional tournament, and  and had defeated this same SC team 14-0 on Sunday.....  so a comeback of 4 runs was highly unlikely...  but the pitcher for Florida started the inning off with 2 walks,,, then got one out when he reached the 85 pitch limit. the relief  pitcher walked another - then he got the 2nd out -  making it 4-1 - the SC teams best hitter was coming up and the Florida coach decided to show him the Barry Bonds treatment - and walked him with the Bases loaded scoring the 2nd run for South Carolina. - then  the SC pitcher -  Brady Westbrooks  came up and with  a 2-2 count - delivered a Double over the head of the Left fielder and cleared the bases - scoring all three of the runs, and walking off the St Mary's florida team - with IRMO South Carolina winning  5-4 and heading to Williamsport PA ... ... 

ITs the Coverup

 Lest we forget - this is what Ghislane Maxwell was convicted of and is serving a sentence in Prison for...

- Conspiracy to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, 

- Conspiracy to transport minors to participate in illegal sex acts, 

- Transporting a minor to participate in illegal sex acts, 

- Sex trafficking conspiracy, and sex trafficking of a minor.

Some of these Girls were as young as 14 years old  ...

NOW - maybe - just MAYBE the US Deputy  Attorney General - Todd Blanche ( who was Dumpo's lawyer ) should be interviewing and talking to the GIRLS that she and Jeffery Epstein   and Donald Trump  Abused and Trafficked instead of wasting time with another CONVICTED FELON .... 

From Thom Hartmann :

There’s a tape.

Not a metaphor, not a rumor, not some fuzzy third-hand whisper passed from burner phone to basement podcast. A real audio recording. Two full days of Ghislaine Maxwell, the trafficker-in-chief of Jeffrey Epstein’s underage empire, speaking directly to Deputy Attorney General and Trump former criminal lawyer Todd Blanche. The Justice Department has it. Transcribed, digitized, real. Senior officials have confirmed it exists. And they’re sitting on it.

Why?

The answer, as always, is simple: because the truth is radioactive and most suspect that there’s no way she told the truth. And this time, it may not be the crime that blows the doors off. It’ll be the coverup.