Sober 20 years now and still not thirsty.
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Alcohol Recovery Blog... Well, not so much any more. I've lost all of my support over the last several years obviously. Nobody wants to go head to head with the Anti/XAers anymore. Seems that most have jumped off of the A.A. "bandwagon" all together. I've lost my resolve as well. Still sober 20+ years though. So there is that.
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Saturday, September 24, 2022
Biden’s work, 100 things that need to be looked into
1. Promised unity but has only pushed for a partisan, progressive agenda
2. Signed more executive orders in his first week than any past president, ignoring the role
of the legislative branch
3. Failed to reopen schools – 50% of schools are still not meeting fully in-person
4. Pledged to follow the science and listen to medical experts, but is following the teachers’
unions instead of Drs. Walensky and Fauci on reopening schools who have
said there is no medical reason for schools to remain closed
5. Created the Biden Border Crisis
6. Has no plan to address the Biden Border Crisis
7. Providing limited, censored media access to overcrowded facilities housing migrants
8. Assigned Vice President Kamala Harris, who once compared ICE to the KKK, as border
czar
9. President Biden and Vice President Harris have failed to visit the southern border
10. Proposes sending $4 billion to corrupt Northern Triangle countries to prevent illegal
immigration
11. Ended cooperative asylum agreements
12. Opened the door for individuals who threaten America’s national security by revoking
President Trump’s travel restrictions
13. Terminated the “National Emergency” at the southern border
14. Unraveled the Migrant Protection Protocols
15. Not fully utilizing Title 42 at the border
16. Ceased border wall construction despite congressional appropriations
17. Released thousands of recently apprehended illegal border crossers from custody withouteven
issuing them a Notice to Appear in Immigration Court
18. Proposed amnesty
19. Halted deportations
20. Allowing criminal aliens to be released into American communities
21. Allowing federal funding to be sent to sanctuary cities
22. Prohibiting federal immigration law enforcement officers from using correct statutory
terms such as “alien”
23. Scrapped fines for illegal immigrants who fail to leave the U.S.24. Violating CDC guidance at the border
25. Releasing COVID-positive aliens into Texas
26. Nominated Chris Magnus to head U.S.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP), even though he
opposes deterrence-focused immigration policies
27. Increasing numbers of illegal immigrants evading apprehension by Border Patrol
28. 400% increase in migrants apprehended in March 2021 compared to March 2020
29. 486% increase in unaccompanied alien children (UACs) arriving at the border in March2021
compared to March 2020
30. 1056% increase in families arriving at the border in March 2021 compared to March 2020
31. Over 5,000 migrants with criminal convictions apprehended by CBP in Fiscal Year 2021,
including homicide, assault, and sexual offenses
32. A record number of UACs in government custody33. Deploying federal workforce who have little to no training to care for UACs
34. Awarded a massive, sole source contract to a nonprofit run by a former Biden-Harris
Transition Team official to help manage the surge of UACs
35. Opened 12 new temporary shelters to hold UACs
36. Spending $60 million a week to house UACs
37. Ceased conducting FBI fingerprint checks of other adult household members of sponsors
for UACs
38. Providing vaccines to illegal immigrants
39. Ceased the accurate apportionment of the 2020 census to include illegal aliens
40. Reverted back to an outdated civics test for individuals seeking citizenship
41. Rescinded President Trump’s “public charge” rule requiring immigrants to beself-sufficient
and not rely on public welfare programs
42. Cancelled the Keystone Pipeline, killing thousands of good paying jobs
43. Reentered the Paris Agreement, disadvantaging the United States and leaving Americans
to shoulder the costs of higher energy bills, lower wages, fewer jobs, less
energy production
44. Halted oil and gas leasing on federal lands
45. Rising gas prices
46. Added more bureaucracy to the regulatory process by requiring the head of each
federal agency to review any regulation, policy, and guidance document issued
during President Trump’s term that the Biden Administration deems inconsistent
with their climate agenda
47. Allowing California to set stricter fuel standards and dictate vehicle emissions regulations
across the country
48. Reversed efforts by the Trump Administration to reduce regulatory burdens that required
two regulations to be rescinded before creating a new one
49. Rescinded a good government executive order requiring agencies to post guidance
online in a searchable database
50. Rolled back the Trump Administration’s “rules on rules” at the Department of
Transportation, reducing the information available for rulemaking,
enabling the abuse of guidance documents, and eliminating due process
in adjudications
51. Cancelled President Trump’s plan to let more physicians prescribe an opioid-treatment
drug
52. Rejoined the World Health Organization without it undergoing needed reforms
53. Appointed Xavier Becerra as HHS Secretary, despite having no health care experience,
suing Little Sisters of the Poor, and locking down churches in California
during the pandemic
54. Appointed the former Pennsylvania Department of Health Secretary, Rachel Levine, to
a top HHS post, even though she issued an order sending COVID-positive
patients to nursing homes
55. Refuses to hold Governor Cuomo accountable for his deadly nursing home order and
cover-up
56. Failed to establish a national COVID-19 testing strategy
57. Falsely claimed he had a vaccine distribution plan when he in fact relied on President
Trump’s plan
58. Signed an executive order mandating masks on federal property but then hours later was
spotted without a mask on federal property
59. Issued executive order allowing critical race theory in the federal workplace
60. Rescinded federal workforce reforms to empower the federal bureaucracy and allow
massive bureaucratic power to go unchecked
61. Rescinded federal workforce reforms to reduce the time federal employees spend on
union activities instead of their jobs
62. Revoked President Trump’s efforts to expand access to apprenticeships across America
63. Won’t enforce an Office of Labor-Management Standards rule that requires labor unions
to disclose certain financial records
64. Supports $15 minimum wage, which is estimated to kill 1.4 million jobs
65. Signed a $2 trillion spending package into law under the guise of “COVID relief”—even
though an estimated $1 trillion in previous spending remains unspent
66. Spending only 5% of funding provided in the Democrats’ spending package to reopen
schools in 2021
67. Spending $1 billion in taxpayer dollars for a COVID-19 vaccine PR campaign afterundermining
its safety and efficacy during the 2020 election
68. Bailed out locked-down, poorly managed states with $350 billion dollars with no strings
attached
69. Prevents states receiving recovery relief funds from cutting taxes for residents within their
borders
70. Provided $570 million for additional paid leave to federal employees so they can watchtheir
kids Zoom into school
71. Enacted the largest expansion to Obamacare since its creation in 2010
72. Removed NLRB General Counsel and Deputy Counsel in an unprecedented move
73. Purged the EPA’s science advisory boards of members who don’t share Democrats’
radical environmental beliefs
74. Removed a respected scientist who was overseeing the U.S.
National Climate Assessment
75. Instructed the Attorney General to make it easier for prison inmates to have materials
about gaining access to the ballot box
76. Nominated David Chipman to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and
Explosives, despite having a long record of seeking to limit Americans’
Second Amendment rights
77. Pushed the Department of Justice to pursue substantial gun reforms that attack the
Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens
78. Advocated for packing the Supreme Court
79. Advocating for changing the Senate filibuster, which he defended for years while in the
U.S. Senate
80. Supports H.R. 1 to send money to Democrat politicians
81. Supports an unconstitutional bill to grant D.C. statehood
82. Withdrew common sense rules requiring U.S. universities and K-12 schools with foreign
exchange programs to disclose financial ties or other connection to Chinese
state-run Confucius institutes, which seeks to sway students and
adults into believing CCP propaganda
83. Proposed a rule to establish priorities for grants in American History and Civics Education
programs, specifically to “projects that incorporate racially, ethnically,
culturally, and linguistically diverse perspectives” such as Critical Race
Theory and the 1619 Project
84. Rescinded regulations put into place by former Secretary Betsy DeVos to protect collegestudents
in Title IX hearings
85. Issued an executive order denying funding to schools unless they allow biological males infemale
bathrooms, locker rooms, and sports teams
86. Rescinded President Trump’s order prohibiting federal funds from being spent overseas
to fund abortions
87. Rescinded President Trump’s pro-life policy of preventing federal funds from being
provided to organization that make abortion referrals
88. Froze Trump Administration rule aimed at lowering Insulin and EpiPen prices
89. Returned the U.S. to engaging with the unreformed U.N. Human Rights Council
90. Appointed Linda Thomas-Greenfield as U.N. Ambassador, despite giving a speech at a
Confucius Institute and who has since said “white supremacy is weaved into our founding
documents and principles”
91. Reconsidering lifting sanctions on Iran in order to rejoin the flawed Iran Nuclear Deal
92. Released his Fiscal Year 2022 budget nearly 70 days after the statutory deadline
93. Proposes to raise non-defense spending by 16% in Fiscal Year 2022, despite already signing
into law a $2 trillion spending bill
94. Proposed a 43.4% capital gains tax
95. Proposed a tax hike, which could hit families, not just individuals, making $400,000 a year
,breaking a promise to the American people
96. Proposed a $2 trillion so-called “infrastructure” plan, and only 6% of the spending is
for roads and bridges
97. Proposes to spend $600 billion of spending on radical Green New Deal provisions in the
“infrastructure” package
98. Peddled false talking points about the Georgia voting law and encouraged the MLB tomove
the All-Star Game, which is hurting local Atlanta-area small businesses
99. Supported Speaker Pelosi’s efforts to overturn the results of an Iowa congressional race
despite the results being certified by bipartisan state election officials
Monday, March 21, 2022
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Monday, October 19, 2020
Hunter
How Hunter Biden became the unkempt man who left his laptop in a nondescript computer store in a Delaware shopping mall - and never returned
Unkempt and unshaven, the man stumbled into the nondescript computer store at a Delaware shopping mall.
Entering The Mac Shop carrying three water-damaged computers, he approached owner John Paul MacIsaac, who later claimed that he smelled alcohol on the customer's breath.
Mr MacIsaac was able to fix two of the machines, but the third was beyond repair. Then the customer gave his name: Hunter Biden.
The seemingly innocuous encounter on April 12, 2019, has now become a global news story reaching the White House via Silicon Valley and inhabited by a colourful cast of characters.
As well as the albino shop owner, there's Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, a burly wrestler turned US Navy officer, a nerdy tech wizard and the President himself.
Mr MacIsaac, 44, completed a one-page form with Hunter's name, address and mobile phone details – all of which have been verified – and a bill for $85 due on completion of the work.
He told his customer he would need to copy the contents of the MacBook on to an external hard drive to recover them and the process would take a few days.
The man left – but never returned. Under US law, when 90 days had passed, the uncollected laptop legally became Mr MacIsaac's property.
He decided to look at the recovered material on the laptop – which is now in the hands of the FBI as part of an investigation in which Mr MacIsaac is a material witness – and says a chill ran down his spine.
The Mail on Sunday today reveals some of that material for the first time – exposing how the son of the man tipped to be America's next President left himself wide open to blackmail.
Mr MacIsaac fears repercussions. 'I have everything documented. I have everything saved. But the shop is over. I won't be able to sustain my business… too many people are angry.'
He eventually alerted the FBI who collected the laptop on December 9, 2019. An agent left a 'receipt for property' and a Grand Jury subpoena ordering Mr MacIsaac to testify about its contents.
At this point, the story becomes murkier. Mr MacIsaac began emailing various senators about what he had found. After getting no reply, he contacted Mr Giuliani who put him in touch with his lawyer, Robert Costello.
On October 14, the New York Post ran a front-page story with the headline: BIDEN SECRET EMAILS. Inside they published a few emails relating to Hunter's business dealings in the Ukraine and alleged links to his father. Joe and Hunter Biden have denied any impropriety.
Hunter's laptop contains 11 gigabytes of material and covers the period from when Mr Biden served as Vice President under Mr Obama to when Hunter dropped it at the Mac Store in Wilmington. His driving license is pictured
Hunter's Amex card. IT experts said grave consequences could have followed 'If a hostile state or individual had managed to hack into Hunter's computer –and it wouldn't have been difficult considering the lack of security on it'
Strangely, the story got little traction in the US media. Stranger still, Twitter blocked the New York Post's account while Facebook and Google censored any mention of the article. Under pressure, they relented.
Even when Tony Bobulinski, a former US Navy serviceman and ex-wrestling champion who was Hunter's business partner, went on Trump-supporting Fox News to confirm he had emails verifying those on the laptop, the story was largely ignored.
Meanwhile, a cyber-security expert hired by a freelance journalist drove to Mr Costello's home on October 19 to copy the hard drive.
He then spent 'hundreds of hours' verifying the information and satisfying himself that the data had not been interfered with.
Finally, as Mr Trump fumed about the absence of media coverage for the Biden Files, the material was offered to The Mail on Sunday and MailOnline.
Twitter boss berated for censoring story
In an act of 'politically motivated censorship', Twitter deliberately prevented users from sharing a link to a front-page newspaper article about Hunter Biden's private life and his controversial business ties to Ukraine.
It included the claim that he arranged a meeting between his father Joe and a Ukrainian energy company on whose board Hunter served.
Both men have denied any impropriety but normally an accusation alone of this nature involving a US presidential nominee would set the news agenda alight.
But with Facebook also imposing restrictions pending 'independent verification' by 'fact checkers', the article published by the New York Post fizzled out.
In what became a curious case of a disappearing story, Republicans claimed it had been suppressed to avoid helping President Trump's re-election campaign.
Twitter boss Jack Dorsey (pictured) Twitter was criticised after the site prevented users from sharing a link to a front-page newspaper article about Hunter Biden's private life and his controversial business ties to Ukraine
Quizzing Twitter's chief executive Jack Dorsey during a virtual Senate hearing last week, Texas senator Ted Cruz asked: 'Who the hell elected you and put you in charge of what the media are allowed to report and what the American people are allowed to hear?' Mr Dorsey has apologised for Twitter's action and said its treatment of the New York Post story was 'unacceptable'.
Republicans have long accused the bosses of technology companies of double standards for editing, deleting or fact-checking Mr Trump's posts while allowing harmful hate speech to remain on their services.
But anger over the Hunter Biden story has not been confined to the Right.
Last week investigative Left-wing journalist Glenn Greenwald resigned from The Intercept, the news website he co-founded, after claiming he was silenced over an article critical of Joe Biden.
'The Intercept's editors, in violation of my contractual right of editorial freedom, censored an article I wrote this week, refusing to publish it unless I remove all sections critical of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, the candidate vehemently supported by all New-York-based Intercept editors involved in this effort at suppression,' he wrote.