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The following report was forwarded to me by Butch Witkowski several years ago, not long before he and I started investigating together."In June 1976 my sister and I were living in Seattle, WA in an apartment on Beacon Hill. Our apartment faced east (front door) and south (kitchen/living room) and I was doing dishes with a view of Mount Rainier (slightly southeast) with the bay to the right. As I stood there washing dishes, talking to my sister, I looked out and saw something flying toward our location. I yelled to my sister, “Come here and tell me what I’m seeing!” She stood next to me looking out the window and said, “I don’t know what that is!”A large disc-shaped object silently approached, when it got near it began to hover over the neighbors house (a three story Victorian, the bottom story was the garage area) and began to signal using light panels underneath the elliptical edge of the saucer. Then a light shined down on the house, it was then I noticed two jets coming from the military base at full throttle, suddenly all the lights on the saucer were lit up (underneath) and a low level humming began (which was mixed with the roar of the jets by then), it began to move so fast the jets swung out and around (before the turn was executed the ship was over Mount Rainier), the object was shooting straight up into the air and the jets lost it.At the same time this was going on the radio announcer said, “Please don’t call in about a flying saucer, we know it’s a plane that’s been flying around with advertisements.” Then the plane was flying just to the west of us near the bay at the same time my sister and I were watching these events unfold.This is a similar shaped craft. There were light panels under the outer edge that lit up singularly or in combination. Each panel was approximately 10 feet square. The craft was approximately 40 feet in height, 120 feet in diameter. It was silent until it started to accelerate away from us, then it emitted a loud humming noise.(UFORCOP) The closest report I could find is from an incident that happened in the area which I’ve enclosed:Gathered from: http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/067/S67707.htmlOccurred : 6/1/1976 04:00 (Entered as : 1976 4:00)Reported: 12/29/2008 3:28:44 PM 15:28Posted: 1/10/2009Location: Federal Way, WAShape: CircleDuration:1 minuteLarge Round Aircraft seen in Federal Way, Washington Approximately 1976I am now 43 and I was 11 at the time this happened. I will never forget the event and wish to this day I could draw because I can remember it like it was yesturday.My parents and I were sitting in our living room in Federal Way, Washington on Star Lake Road. We had a house that had two huge windows. When out of the blue a very large round object appeared right in front of our windows. It was about the size of 1/2 of football field. There were rectangular lights that flashed in a circular motion. There were to windshields that were the same size as the lights. It was grey in color and made no noise what so ever. My dad said" Must be some new boeing project" It just sat there for at least a minute. My mom said ya right, I have never seen anything that that. In a instant it shot straight up into the air and took off heading South towards Portland. We called my aunt and she was like, I see nothing. The strangest thing of all is the next day at breakfast my parents remembered seeing something but they both said it was a dream. Then said, how can we all have the same dream. I try now to talk to my parents about it, my mom is eager to tell it but my dad is dead silent and wont say a word. I wish I could see it again.((NUFORC Note: Source of report indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD))P.S. After we saw this event a car pulled up directly across the street (black sedan) and four individuals, three male and one female, went into the house that the craft hovered over. The next day they came to our building and knocked on our door, my sister (who was 17 years old at the time) didn’t answer the door. She came to me and whispered that strange looking people were at the door, should she answer it? I whispered let me look and I saw it was the same group from across the street the day before.I motioned to my sister to back up into the kitchen and I followed her there and mouthed “be quiet”. The group was interrupted by our upstairs neighbor who asked, “What the *bleep* are you doing here?” They got into a heated discussion and then left. I felt someone thinking to me that I shouldn’t talk to anyone about this and for almost 40 years I haven’t.NOTE: Mt. Rainier is an active volcano, in fact, it is considered one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world. 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Addressing the Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting Sept. 10, 2022, in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, Vice President Kamala Harris boasted about how, as president of the Senate, she had broken “John Adams’s record of casting the most tiebreaking votes in a single term.” Harris was reliving how, a month earlier on Aug. 7, she had broken a tie vote in support of the $739 billion Inflation Reduction Act, a boondoggle spending bill—which actually had the opposite effect, further fueling runaway inflation. Harris also cast the tiebreaker for an even more expensive boondoggle, the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, on Feb. 5, 2021—a scant two weeks after taking office. Harris went on to exult: “I cannot wait to cast the deciding vote to break the filibuster on voting rights and reproductive rights. I cannot wait!” Two years and two weeks later, in a Sept. 24 interview during her unsuccessful bid for elevation to the presidency, Harris doubled down, averring that the Senate should do away outright with the filibuster, which requires a 60-vote threshold for most controversial bills to pass. “I’ve been very clear. I think we should eliminate the filibuster for [Roe v. Wade], and get us to the point where 51 votes would be what we need to actually put back in law the protections for reproductive freedom and for the ability of every person [sic] and every woman to make decisions about their own body and not have their government tell them what to do,” Harris told Wisconsin Public Radio. (Never mind that Harris raised no similar objections to not letting “every person” make the decision about his or her own bodies with respect to COVID-19 vaccinations.) If voters on Nov. 5 had handed Democrats unitary control of the House, Senate, and presidency, they almost certainly would have felt empowered to resurrect the euphemistically named Women’s Health Protection Act, which would go far beyond just “codifying Roe v. Wade” into federal law. According to liberal Vox, the radical Women’s Health Protection Act “would not only restore the pre-Dobbs status quo, but dismantle a slew of state restrictions on abortion.” (So much for the notion of federalism as envisioned by the Founders.) The Women’s Health Protection Act twice passed a Democrat-controlled House, but was thwarted by a filibuster. But Harris’ remarks on codifying Roe were predicated on the premise that not only would she win the presidency, but that her fellow Democrats would retain control of the Senate and retake the House of Representatives, and that a Vice President Tim Walz would assume her role as tiebreaker if necessary. In August, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., had likewise hinted of plans to do away with the filibuster in a presumptive Democrat-controlled 119th Congress if outgoing Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, who wisely opposed the filibuster’s abolition, had both been replaced by Democrats who would march in lockstep with Schumer’s scheme. According to NBC News, Schumer told Politico on Aug. 19 that two bills he would try to pass in the absence of the filibuster were the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would strip virtually all election-related authority from the states, handing it to unelected federal bureaucrats. (Again, so much for federalism.) Schumer was quoted as saying there would be “consensus in my caucus to try and do that,” calling the two measures “very, very important.” Of course they are: They want nothing less than one-party, antidemocratic Democratic Party rule in perpetuity. To that same end, abolishing the filibuster also would have enabled Democrats to grant amnesty and a path to citizenship—along with voting rights, which is all they really care about there—to an estimated 20 million immigrants in the country illegally. Then there’s the equally radical Equality Act, which would have added sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes under federal civil rights law. It would have given the back of the hand to Americans who hold traditional beliefs about biological sex and marriage and would have kicked Title IX and girls and women’s athletics to the curb. But as we know, Harris—now a lame duck—lost in a landslide, the House remained in Republican hands, and Senate Democrats lost four seats and, with them, the majority. Schumer will be demoted to minority leader in the 119thCongress, and all of the loathsome bills on Democrats’ wish list are on ice for at least the next four years. So now, with the script flipped, Schumer and fellow Senate Democrats have a sudden, newfound respect for the filibuster. It’s worth noting here that when Schumer & Co. themselves were most recently in the minority, they unashamedly—albeit hypocritically—embraced the use of the filibuster to block the Republicans’ agenda 327 times in 2020 alone, according to one tally. What they’re now saying amounts to: “That was then, and this is now.” If there were a Mount Rushmore for chutzpah, Schumer’s face would be on it. He is now shamelessly urging Republicans not to do to Democrats what they were planning to do to Republicans. Then-President Donald Trump arrives on July 3, 2020, for Independence Day events at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, South Dakota. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images) “To my Republican colleagues, I offer a word of caution in good faith,” Schumer said on the Senate floor Nov. 12, presumably with a straight face. “Take care not to misread the will of the people, and do not abandon the need for bipartisanship. After winning an election, the temptation may be to go to the extreme. We’ve seen that happen over the decades, and it has consistently backfired on the party in power.” “So, instead of going to the extremes, I remind my colleagues that this body is most effective when it’s bipartisan,” Schumer said. “If we want the next four years in the Senate to be as productive as the last four, the only way that will happen is through bipartisan cooperation.” Of course, Republicans won’t attempt to repeal the filibuster, because they are well aware that Senate majorities are fleeting and they will need it again when they are back in the minority. That’s because the filibuster is the only real procedural tool the minority party has at its disposal to thwart legislation it opposes. But the first time Senate Democrats filibuster legislation pushed by returning President Donald Trump, the new majority Senate Republicans should not just call them out on their brazen hypocrisy. Instead, perhaps, the GOP should call Democrats’ bluff with a proposal to repeal the filibuster and get them on record defending it and opposing its abolition. Originally published by The Washington Times The post Democrats’ Brazen Hypocrisy on Senate Filibuster appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Illinois Supreme Court Tosses Smollett Hate-Crime-Hoax Conviction on Technicality

I pull the following directly from the summary of the 2024 annual reports of the Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees: “The Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) Trust Fund (that is, Social Security) will be able to pay 100 percent of total scheduled benefits until 2033, unchanged from last year’s report. At that time, the fund’s reserves will become depleted and continuing program income will be sufficient to pay 79 percent of scheduled benefits.” Our Social Security system is broke. Now if you own stock in a company, and you read a report that the prospects for that company are not good, that the cash dividend that the company is expected to pay to stockholders is in jeopardy, you can get out. You can sell the stock and invest somewhere else. Per the Social Security Administration, there are 184 million Americans now working and paying Social Security taxes. Per the above notice from the Social Security Trustees, all those 184 million ages 57 and below will get only 79% of their entitled benefits at retirement (assuming they choose to start collecting benefits at age 67). Does any one of the 184 million have an option to say, “No, thanks, I don’t want to be part of this,” and get out? Certainly not. The government forces you to participate, allegedly for your own good. They decide; you obey. It’s a reminder of what President Ronald Reagan called “the most terrifying words in the English language: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” Payroll taxes will continue to be deducted from 184 million paychecks -- taxes based on assumption of delivery of full promised benefits, not 79% -- and no one can opt out. We just had an election in which a message was sent, particularly from young Americans and non-white Americans, that many are tired of this. Pollster Patrick Ruffini, writing in The Wall Street Journal, calls the dramatic shift in demographics voting Republican “The GOP’s New Rising Electorate.” Young Americans, Latino Americans and Black Americans surged to the right. Kamala Harris’ advantage among voters 18-29, a group Democrats have always captured by double digit margins, was only 4 points. Ruffini describes the new dynamic as the “politics of aspiration” as opposed to the politics of government dependency. Even if the Social Security system was not broken, if there was no question that the system could pay full benefits, these young Americans, if given the option, would still opt to get out. Several years ago, the Committee to Unleash Prosperity did an analysis comparing what Americans of different income and marital status would earn over a 45-year working life if given the option to invest the funds they are forced to pay as payroll tax to Social Security. Private investment in stocks and bonds over a full working life would accumulate savings that could purchase an annuity at retirement around double what can be expected from Social Security. Data show that over the long run, stocks are by far the highest performing asset. Yet lower-income Americans, because they are forced into the Social Security government tax program, are deprived of the opportunity to put their retirement into high-performing assets. Per the most recent study of consumer finances by the Federal Reserve Board, in 2022 median wealth of white households was $285,000, Black households $44,900, Hispanic households $61,600. Per the same study, 65.6 % of white households owned stocks, compared to 39.2% of Black households and 28.3% of Hispanic households. Many in our political class will use this opportunity to step up and tell us they will “save the system.” But we don’t need the system saved. We need our personal lives and personal liberty saved. Let’s start making America great again by opening the door to our oldest and largest entitlement system -- Social Security -- and liberating our working Americans.

Earlier this week, “The View’s” Sunny Hostin, who Dave Rubin believes is “the most racist person on mainstream TV,” went on “a somewhat unhinged rant about Matt Gaetz” — Trump’s pick for attorney general before he withdrew from his nomination. “How could you nominate someone with allegations of child trafficking across state lines and having sex with a 17-year-old? My understanding further on in the interview, they discussed the fact that once he finds out that she’s 17, he stops having sex with her,” Hostin told the panel. Two days later, Hostin was forced by the show’s legal team to correct this libelous smear against Matt Gaetz live on the air. Dave plays the clip of Hostin “eating crow,” and the look on her face is priceless. “Sunny, you have a legal note,” Whoopi Goldberg said to Hostin. “I do have a legal note. Thank you, Whoopi,” Hostin retorted with venom before she began reading off the teleprompter. “Matt Gaetz has long denied all allegations, calling the claims ‘invented’ and saying in a statement to ABC News that this false smear following a three-year criminal investigation should be viewed with great skepticism. That DOJ investigation was closed with no charges being brought,” she recited robotically with deadness in her eyes. Although Dave doesn’t usually “revel in people’s misery,” in this case, he is absolutely “reveling in [Hostin’s] misery.” “The stone-cold look and the crow that she had to eat on live television” makes him smile. “Of course, what we know is this is purely political because if she liked him, she would never be saying these things,” says Dave. “It’s just a perfect moment.” To watch Hostin’s pretty face twist in the bitterest sneer you’ve ever seen as she’s forced to backtrack her statements about Matt Gaetz, watch the episode above. Want more from Dave Rubin?To enjoy more honest conversations, free speech, and big ideas with Dave Rubin, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

The fallout is still being sorted from former Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida withdrawing his bid for U.S. attorney general Thursday, but one CNN analyst says both he and the president-elect won the round. Many recoiled when President-elect Donald Trump announced the nomination of Gaetz to the highest law enforcement office last week, especially after allegations involving underage sex trafficking. On Wednesday, members of the House Ethics Committee said they could not reach an agreement to publicly release a report about the claims. 'Either way, he gets the support now of the MAGA community who thinks that Democrats and haters of Donald Trump are just trying to take down Matt Gaetz.' After Gaetz issued his withdrawal announcement, CNN political analyst Mark Preston reiterated his claim that Trump and the Florida congressman would win no matter what the outcome of his nomination. "I'm of the conspiratorial class on this one," said Preston while his fellow CNN panelists laughed. "No, I really am! So this is how I think it plays out," he continued. "I think Matt Gaetz is on the airplane, this idea's hatched for him to become nominee for attorney general. He knows within a few days that this House report is going to get released, OK? Either way, he gets the support now of the MAGA community who thinks that Democrats and haters of Donald Trump are just trying to take down Matt Gaetz. "Now if they're successful in doing so, Matt Gaetz becomes a pariah within a community when that report's gonna get released anyway, but yet he has already established support [of the MAGA community]. Or if he gets through, then Donald Trump gets what he wants, right?" Preston says. He went on to say that it really didn't matter who Trump installs into the Department of Justice as long as that person does what Trump wants them to do. "It doesn't have to be Matt Gaetz. It could be Matt Thompson, or Matt Barnes. It could be any Matt!" he joked. Preston posted the video of his comments about the Gaetz stratagem on his social media account. He also had a warning about Republican senators who rejected the nomination. "Trump -- let alone his supporters -- keep scorecards ... there is only so many times the @GOP Senators will be able to defy Trump before he turns the firehose on them," Preston wrote. Gaetz has vehemently denied all of the allegations leveled against him. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!