Day: August 4, 2025

This Is Why I Love Dogs

Most of my regulars know that I am a dog person….I have head canine companions since my early years and that has never changed…..there are many feel good stories about the loyalty of dogs…..and this just illustrates their commitment to their friends….

A Utah man is recovering after surviving a harrowing ordeal in the Uinta Mountains, where his off-road vehicle tumbled off a cliff, flipping an estimated 15 to 20 times. Jacob “Jake” Schmitt, a native of Buffalo, New York, who now lives in Ogden, was hunting with his dog, Buddy, when the accident occurred, leaving him with a broken leg, fractured ankles, broken ribs, and numerous bruises, reports People. With his phone lost and only a small light on Buddy’s collar for illumination, Schmitt splinted his leg using debris and duct tape, then crawled and dragged himself for miles over the course of 11 hours through the night.

Buddy, who escaped the wreck unscathed, stayed by Schmitt’s side, providing companionship and, with the collar light, enough visibility to navigate the rugged terrain. By daybreak, Schmitt managed to reach his truck and drive to a nearby diner, where he asked staff to call 911, per FOX 13. After being transported to Park City Hospital, Schmitt was reunited with Buddy. “I couldn’t have done it without him,” Schmitt tells KSL, crediting his 6-year-old German shorthaired pointer as a motivating presence throughout the ordeal. He described the experience as a constant mental struggle: “Either I die here, or I figure out how to keep going.” A GoFundMe campaign launched to help cover Schmitt’s medical expenses has raised $20,000.

His companion stayed with him for no other reason than friendship and concern….too bad humans do not know this type of loyalty.

Stories like this just reinforces my feelings about canine companions.

Anyone have a story to share?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Stock Trades

From time to time, I hate to admit it) a GOPer has a good idea that deserves consideration….and Sen. Hawley has provided me one of these times.

A proposal to bar members of Congress from buying or holding individual stocks cleared a Senate panel Wednesday, with Republican Sen. Josh Hawley crossing the aisle to join Democrats in an 8-7 committee vote. Hawley, who introduced the bill, said, “I practice what I preach,” noting he doesn’t own stocks and isn’t a billionaire—a not-so-subtle jab at some colleagues.

  • The measure would bar lawmakers and their spouses from trading or owning individual stocks, giving them 180 days to divest, CBS News reports Annual compliance certifications and periodic audits would be required. Lawmakers would still be allowed to invest in diversified mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, or Treasury bonds, reports Fox News.
  • The measure was originally called the Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments (PELOSI) Act—after former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She has been under scrutiny for her husband’s stock trades, but there is no evidence he used inside information, Politico reports. It was renamed the Honest Act following negotiations. “While I appreciate the creativity of my Republican colleagues in drafting legislative acronyms, I welcome any serious effort to raise ethical standards in public service,” Pelosi said in a statement.
  • All the other Republicans on the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs voted against the legislation. Sen. Rick Scott, himself worth hundreds of millions, argued there’s nothing wrong with being wealthy and called attacks on the rich “disgusting.” He said: “Anybody want to be poor? I don’t.” Some GOP senators pushed for blind trusts as an alternative, but Hawley dismissed those as “loopholes.”
  • In negotiations with Democrats, Hawley agreed to extend the ban to presidents and vice presidents, but only in future administrations, meaning President Trump and Vice President JD Vance are exempt, Axios reports.
  • During a press conference Wednesday, Trump said he liked the idea “conceptually,” claiming Pelosi “became rich” by having inside information.
  • Trump changed his tune later in the day. In a post on Truth Social, he blasted Hawley, accusing him of playing into Democratic hands and questioning why he “would pass a Bill that Nancy Pelosi is in absolute love with.” “It’s a great Bill for her, and her ‘husband,’ but so bad for our Country!” Trump wrote. “I don’t think real Republicans want to see their President, who has had unprecedented success, TARGETED, because of the ‘whims’ of a second-tier Senator named Josh Hawley!”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/senate-stock-trading-ban

I am not particularly fond of Hawley for his war mongering politics is abhorrent to me, but in this case I am with him on this….Congress as well as the president and his thugs should not be allowed to profit from insider information.

These do-nothing hacks in Congress are getting richer from their knowledge of events to come…..this should stop and stop NOW!

Thoughts?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Providing Cover Again

Many Americans and especially some of the toads in Donny’s Merry Band of Thugs give as much cover as possible for the genocide and other atrocities that Israel commits almost daily.

Little Donny has once again puked up a lie to get people to stop talking about the food crisis in Gaza.

“I have a plan”

Earlier this week, President Trump said “there is real starvation in Gaza,” contradicting remarks from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. On Friday, Trump told Axios that he’s planning to do more about it. “We want to help people. We want to help them live. We want to get people fed. It is something that should have happened a long time ago,” he said. The leading international authority on food crises said Tuesday that the “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out” in Gaza.

  • Steve Witkoff, Trump’s Middle East envoy, visited a controversial aid distribution site in Gaza on Friday, the BBC reports. In a post on X, he said he visited the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation site at Trump’s direction to give the president “a clear understanding of the humanitarian situation and help craft a plan to deliver food and medical aid to the people of Gaza.”
  • Sites run by the US and Israeli-backed GHF replaced United Nations sites in May, but the UN and health officials say hundreds of people have been killed by Israeli fire while heading to the sites, the AP reports. On Friday, Human Rights Watch said the GHF was the central part of a “flawed, militarized aid distribution system that has turned aid distributions into regular bloodbaths.”
  • Witkoff was joined by Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, who said the GHF sites were delivering more than a million meals a day in an “incredible feat.”
  • It’s not clear whether Trump’s plan will involve more backing for the GHF or a different aid delivery system. He told Axios that while he is concerned about starvation, he blames Hamas for stealing aid. In a post on Truth Social Thursday, he said, “The fastest way to end the Humanitarian Crises in Gaza is for Hamas to SURRENDER AND RELEASE THE HOSTAGES!!!”
  • Sources tell the Atlantic that Trump is starting to believe “what many in Washington have thought for months: Netanyahu is looking to prolong the conflict in Gaza, in open defiance of Trump’s wish for the war to end.” The sources say Trump and some of his aides believe Israel accomplished its military goals in Gaza some time ago and Netanyahu is seeking “to maintain his own political power.”

Ambassador Huckabee goes to Gaza and reports back that everything is A-ok…..

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee met with the U.S.-backed aid organization that’s been setting death traps for starving Palestinians.

Huckabee said Friday morning that he and special envoy Steve Witkoff visited Gaza to “learn the truth” about the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, or GHF, whose aid sites have become the locus of mass casualty events on a near-daily basis

The United Nations reported Thursday that at least 859 Palestinians have been killed while attempting to receive aid at GHF sites between May 27 and July 31, mostly by the Israeli military.

Huckabee seemed pleased after receiving a briefing from the Israeli military and meeting with GHF workers on the ground. “GHF delivers more than one million meals a day, an incredible feat!” Huckabee wrote in a post on X.

But GHF has now been implicated in hundreds of Palestinians deaths, as the widespread famine in Gaza worsens.

https://newrepublic.com/post/198711/mike-huckabee-goes-gaza-ghf-israel

Why would anyone listen to this fake Christian asshole?

Anyone nay everyone can see that everything is NOT okay in Gaza….people are starving….this douche bag gives Christians a bad name.

For instance the lack of food distribution by an US and Israeli backed group, GHF…..the one the Huckabutt says if doing a good job…

Lt. Col. Anthony Aguilar, a retired US Army Green Beret who worked in Gaza at aid distribution sites run by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), has blown the whistle on the operation and is speaking out about war crimes he witnessed the IDF commit.

Today, Tucker Carlson published an interview with Aguilar and he also appeared on Breaking Points with Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti.

For coming forward, Aguilar is being smeared by the GHF as a liar, and he addresses those claims in the Breaking Points interview. Carlson said he would have the former Green Beret back on his show next week for an in depth response to the allegations.

Both interviews can be found here:

https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2025/07/31/ghf-whistleblower-who-witnessed-war-crimes-in-gaza-interviewed-by-tucker-carlson/

Huckabutt is a goddamn disgrace to his religion and to all of humanity…..someone help this ‘person’ (and I use the term lightly) retire and soon.

There is more about the criminals in GHF….the use of American mercenaries….

Americans working for a little known U.S.-based private military contractor have begun to come forward to media and members of Congress with charges that their work has involved using live ammunition for crowd control and other abusive measures against unarmed civilians seeking food at controversial food distribution sites run by the Global Humanitarian Fund (GHF) in Gaza.

UG Solutions was hired by the GHF to secure and deliver food into Gaza. The GHF, with the help of the PMCs claims to have provided nearly 100 million meals to Gaza. Israel put GHF in control of what used to be the UN-led aid mission.

The UN, however, has called the new model an “abomination” which “provides nothing but starvation and gunfire to the people of Gaza,” referring to the 1000 Gazans who have been killed near or at the GHF centers since May. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have been accused of shooting and shelling unarmed civilians. The American contractors say they have witnessed it and have been told to use live ammunition in their own crowd control efforts.

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/us-contractors-gaza-food-2673791401/

US actions around the world and especially in Gaza illustrates that the US is NO longer a beacon of hope….it has become a cancer on the planet.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”