I’ve been there and through the house. It was all restored after his son, who lived there, died.
Anyone keeping a running tally of the outrageous lies and slanders that Democrats have been peddling the last few days?
Can anyone cite a liberal who has commented, tweeted, posted, or written on the Court cases from last week in a way that is honest, accurate and consistent with the actual constitution? I have looked hard and haven’t found one yet. Of course, not even the liberal justices could manage to be honest in their opinions.
jonathan turley, but hes been excommunicated, lying is what they do, when its not outright burying a story,
@stan— The CBS “Sunday Morning” show mentioned the decision, in the context of excluding blacks (“persons of color”) and then digressed to personal attacks on some of the conservative justices as to they chose to have personal contacts with. All very predictable.
We too have been there. Very pretty. While we were there we started talking with one of the garden workers. Turns out she was from Chicago, volunteer working for the Summer. What a job!
Anatomy of a psychopath:
“OceanGate CEO used college interns to design sub’s electrical system: report”— https://nypost.com/2023/07/03/oceangate-ceo-used-college-interns-to-work-on-sub-report/
Key grafs:
‘…The New Yorker [Magazine] also reported about David Lochridge, who was fired as OceanGate’s head of marine operations after he raised concerns about the company’s testing methods….
‘ In 2018, deep-sea exploration specialist Rob McCallum contacted Lochridge after his ouster….
‘Lochridge reportedly replied: “I think you are going to [be] even more taken aback when I tell you what’s happening,”…
‘ “That sub is Not safe to dive,” Lochridge wrote, according to The New Yorker.
‘ “Do you think the sub could be made safe to dive, or is it a complete lemon?” McCallum reportedly replied….
‘ Lochridge responded: “It’s a lemon.”…
‘ In 2018, Lochridge found “several critical aspects to be defective or unproven” with the Titan and wrote a detailed report outlining his concerns, including about the craft’s carbon-fiber hull, which experts now believe could have led to the implosion.
‘ “Until suitable corrective actions are in place and closed out, Cyclops 2 (Titan) should not be manned during any of the upcoming trials,” he reportedly wrote.
‘ Rush, who was “furious” with Lochridge’s report, called a meeting in which OceanGate leadership insisted that no hull testing was necessary…. [Emphasis mine; Barry M.]
‘ Instead, an acoustic monitoring system would reportedly be used to detect fraying fibers to alert the pilot to the possibility of catastrophic failure “with enough time to arrest the descent and safely return to surface.”
‘ But Lochridge’s lawyer wrote in a court filing that “this type of acoustic analysis would only show when a component is about to fail — often milliseconds before an implosion — and would not detect any existing flaws prior to putting pressure onto the hull,” The New Yorker reported.
‘ OceanGate’s lawyer wrote that “the parties found themselves at an impasse….”…
‘ Lochridge was then fired….’
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Ah, not a gardener but certainly a garden appreciator, we visited Giverny many years ago and enjoyed it thoroughly… despite the day-long rainstorm!
And a liberal relative told me she hated the anti-black sentiment of the SCOTUS AA ruling. Weary of many fruitless attempts to actually converse with this individual over the years, I changed tack and observed “Oh my, I had no idea that you were prejudiced against Orientals.”
When she huffed “I am not prejudiced against Orientals!”, I merely retorted “Yes, you are” and walked away. I’m not sure it convinced her of anything, but it convinced me that this approach felt better!
Le Mot Juste–
huxley will soon be getting a lesson in French firefighting . . . I wonder whether he knows that the Brigade des sapeurs-pompiers de Paris or BSPP is actually a unit of the French Army; it was militarized by order of Napoleon in 1810, and the firefighters carry guns in the annual Bastille Day parade because they receive military training as part of their preparation to join the brigade. Similarly, the fire brigade of Marseille is a unit of the French Navy.
Looks like the BSPP will need all the guns they have over the next few days– and it’s anyone’s guess whether this year’s Bastille Day parade will take place as scheduled or be canceled.
Nasal therapy after recent White House state dinner:
@Barry Meislin:what are the islands’ connection to the Scandinavian country?
LOL. About as justified as Wisconsin joining France, or New York joining the Netherlands. 600 years is a long time. I vote we do this after we return Crete to the Venetians.
Wikipedia says about 25% of Orkney Islands inhabitants are of Norwegian ancestry, so it’s not quite as far-fetched an idea as it might have seemed.
I don’t know why Orcadians want to leave Scotland, but if it’s because they don’t want Scottish socialism, it makes sense.
The armed firefighters — news to me, thanks. Ominous news, in light of the hair trigger first responders have clearly reached — or rather, been pushed to.
We look in on the news channel France 24, and those intractable woke folk treat the deadly uprising as righteous. Knock me over with a wet baguette.
Le Mot Juste–
If you’re up for it, there is a 4-minute video in French (with legible French closed captions) about the origins of the BSPP in a fire that broke out during a ball at the Austrian Embassy. Napoleon was there with his new Austrian wife, and when the fire started, he rushed her away as fast as possible. But because what passed for the Paris fire service in 1810 was poorly trained (Napoleon noted that six of the firefighters were drunk), about 14 guests died in the fire. The Emperor then issued a decree that militarized the firefighters of Paris and placed them under the Prefect of Police and the Ministry of the Interior. If you watch the video closely, you’ll see a brief shot of the current BSPP marching in the Bastille Day parade (at about 0:10), and they are obviously carrying guns as well as fire axes.
It has a lot of interesting little tidbits in it, about longest and shortest songs to hit #1, about the Rich Girl song itself, and who the “Sarah” was in another hit of theirs, “Sarah Smile”, who was also relevant to the genesis of the song “Rich Girl” (not her, but an ex-boyfriend), oh, and a once-much-larger pancake house chain.
sapeurs-pompiers
PA+Cat:
I knew pompiers for firemen from watching Truffaut’s “Fahrenheit 451” with the French subtitles on.
I guess sapeur is sapper, though I’ve never been clear what a sapper is beyond it’s a military term. Some kind of special forces?
sappers plant mines as far as I recall, the GIGN are the special forces,
huxley–
Since you ask, a sapper is what the U.S. Army calls a combat engineer– a soldier trained to repair bridges, lay or remove mines, blow up stuff that needs blowing up, and breaching fortifications. The English word “sapper” comes from the French sapeur (no mystery there), a noun derived from the verb saper, which means to undermine or tunnel under a wall or building to cause it to collapse. Sappers in the army of Louis XIV were trained to dig ditches in a zig-zag pattern around the walls of the fort they were besieging in order to allow the regular infantry to come closer and closer to the walls without being hit by the defenders’ artillery.
Combat engineers do have to be trained for their particular tasks, but they aren’t “special forces” as that term is usually understood.
Bad news, good news….
“Indiana Jones 5: The Dial of Destiny” is as bad as most of us feared.
Harrison Ford, as Indiana Jones, is given the Luke Skywalker treatment — turned into a bitter, lost old man who is brought back into the game by a younger, female relation — who is perfect at everything and upstages him constantly.
She’s the “You go, girl!” replacement for another toxic white male movie icon. Just dance on Indy’s grave and Move On! “The Force is Female.”
The good news part is that “IJ 5” flopped on its holiday weekend. It did worse than “IJ 4: The Crystal Skull.”
There are even rumors that Kathleen Kennedy, the Disney exec who has moved like a wrecking ball through all the Disney Intellectual Property, may be fired.
Fingers crossed.
___________________________
Disney’s Lucasfilm chief Kathleen Kennedy has spent the last decade destroying everything she touches and has done so deliberately. She obviously hates what made Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Willow so iconic, and so, she used her shallow, divisive reactionary politics to express that hatred by defiling all three into something unrecognizable.
she started as a very junior executive back all the way with raiders, and has been biding her time, like al molina in the first film, she has not gotten spiked yet,
huxley–
Maybe Kathleen Kennedy can take over the Bud Light advertising account!
Re: Sapper
PA+Cat, miguel cervantes
Several years ago I was admiring Barbour jackets and noticed this nifty item:
we admit that battlestar galactica ended in 1979, the reboot was not canon
I suppose I shouldn’t be, but I am disappointed that Harrison Ford allowed his ultimate signature character to be flushed down the toilet in the farewell appearance.
Ford had already seen what happened to Mark Hamill/Luke Skywalker portrayed as a loser in “The Last Jedi.” Hamill was given a cameo in “The Mandalorian.” He thanked the director:
_____________________________
I am so grateful to have been given the unexpected opportunity to revisit my character when he was still a symbol of hope & optimism.
–Mark Hammill
_____________________________
Obviously Hamill’s left-handed slam at “The Last Jedi.”
Is Ford woke? Is it just a last paycheck? Do they have something on him?
well he got a light saber through him, in force awakens, but he had a cameo in the last film,
lucas own short lived series, had a aged harrison wiling away his days, waller bridge deepsixed bond, so naturally,…
PA+Cat –
I like that story. You’re educating me. Fighting fire with firearms, as it were. How prescient that has turned out!
From what I read, Canada le perdu, so mindlessly keen to cite climate fairytales over arson (and lax forestry) for its air-fogging fires, might borrow a page.
I have not seen this mentioned before, and it’s a wrinkle I had never considered, because it’s so blatant, as the post points out.
United States Attorney for the District of Delaware David Weiss’ top lieutenant is Derek Hines, who serves as the Assistant United States Attorney in the same office. According to the report, Hines signed off on the charging Documents that ended up being such a boon for the president’s son.
That’s where the conflict of interest comes in. Hines once worked directly for Louis Freeh. Who is Freeh? He’s a former FBI director that was in business with Hunter Biden to the tune of a $3 million deal. Hines wasn’t just some random FBI employee either. He served as special counsel to Freeh, meaning that would have had a very close professional relationship.
This story is just astonishing to me. Even if one is to assume that Hines’ connections to Hunter Biden didn’t influence the deal, is there really any excuse for the federal government to be this incestuous? Am I really to believe that the DOJ couldn’t manage to put a full team of prosecutors on such a contentious case without one of them having a connection to Hunter Biden’s business dealings? AG Merrick Garland could have appointed a special counsel years ago to ensure none of this was an issue, and for that matter, so could both of Donald Trump’s attorneys general.
No one did, though, because this is all seen as normal in Washington. Backslaps, winks, and nods are the name of the game. Everyone knows everyone and has worked with everyone, and in some cases, that includes the people they are supposed to be prosecuting. Meanwhile, the rest of us are left to just “trust” that nothing untoward is going on as these social circles continually cross paths. Perhaps something should be done about that, regardless of what the aforementioned conflict of interest may or may not have amounted to.
I searched for some stories about the Freeh-Biden connection that predated this recent revelation, and found several, although I don’t remember reading any of them at the time they were published. The connection was well known; it’s impossible to believe that Weiss didn’t know that Hines had worked for Freeh; also implausible that Hines was not influenced by that relationship.
No wonder Hunter was able to get 51 spooks to write a letter of recommendation for him.
https://nypost.com/2021/05/20/ex-fbi-chief-gave-100k-to-biden-grandkid-trust-as-he-sought-future-work-hunter-emails/
“Former FBI Director Louis Freeh gave $100,000 to a trust for two of President Biden’s grandchildren as he sought to pursue “some very good and profitable matters” with him, newly surfaced emails revealed Thursday.
Freeh apparently made the gift in April 2016 — when Biden was the outgoing vice president — and shortly before he told Biden’s son Hunter, “I would be delighted to do future work with you,” according to the emails.”
https://nypost.com/2021/06/07/romanian-tycoon-hired-hunter-biden-ex-fbi-chief-to-avoid-jail-emails/
“Hunter Biden and his colleagues at a high-powered law firm tried to leverage their government connections in the final months of the Obama administration in a failed bid to help a Romanian real estate tycoon avoid a conviction on bribery charges.
Emails obtained from Hunter’s abandoned laptop show the younger Biden — then working as a counsel at Boies Schiller Flexner LLP — reached out to former FBI Director Louis Freeh in June 2016 about the case of Gabriel Popoviciu, who was accused of acquiring land to build a Bucharest mall at a below-market price, the Daily Mail reported.”
https://nypost.com/2022/08/13/hunter-biden-met-with-dad-immediately-after-romanian-business-meetings/
“A person familiar with the arrangements told The Post the president’s son had a side pocket agreement directly with Popoviciu that raked in “millions” for himself and associates.
Popoviciu also hired former FBI director Louis Freeh to help the embattled businessman avoid jail time. Freeh called Hunter Biden directly in July 2015, just two hours before Hunter was scheduled to meet with his dad at the Naval Observatory — the vice-president’s official residence — emails from the laptop show. It’s unclear what was discussed on the call.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/hunter-biden-is-now-in-some-serious-trouble/ar-AA19kztC
2023-03-31
“Some have speculated that “One Eye” is former Clinton FBI Director Louis Freeh, who had a business relationship with Hunter Biden and received a seat on the board of the Beau Biden Foundation after giving a $100,000 donation to Joe Biden’s grandchildren. Freeh only has one eye, but no confirmation of this speculation has emerged.”
@ David Foster on July 3, 2023 at 11:13 am said:
Recent post: Society, Social Media, and Human Nature
An interesting account – obviously human nature remains the same, regardless of the technology available.
NOTE: your second Roth quote, about his reaction to photography, is the same as the one about radio.
I’ve been there and through the house. It was all restored after his son, who lived there, died.
Anyone keeping a running tally of the outrageous lies and slanders that Democrats have been peddling the last few days?
Can anyone cite a liberal who has commented, tweeted, posted, or written on the Court cases from last week in a way that is honest, accurate and consistent with the actual constitution? I have looked hard and haven’t found one yet. Of course, not even the liberal justices could manage to be honest in their opinions.
jonathan turley, but hes been excommunicated, lying is what they do, when its not outright burying a story,
@stan— The CBS “Sunday Morning” show mentioned the decision, in the context of excluding blacks (“persons of color”) and then digressed to personal attacks on some of the conservative justices as to they chose to have personal contacts with. All very predictable.
We too have been there. Very pretty. While we were there we started talking with one of the garden workers. Turns out she was from Chicago, volunteer working for the Summer. What a job!
Anatomy of a psychopath:
“OceanGate CEO used college interns to design sub’s electrical system: report”—
https://nypost.com/2023/07/03/oceangate-ceo-used-college-interns-to-work-on-sub-report/
Key grafs:
‘…The New Yorker [Magazine] also reported about David Lochridge, who was fired as OceanGate’s head of marine operations after he raised concerns about the company’s testing methods….
‘ In 2018, deep-sea exploration specialist Rob McCallum contacted Lochridge after his ouster….
‘Lochridge reportedly replied: “I think you are going to [be] even more taken aback when I tell you what’s happening,”…
‘ “That sub is Not safe to dive,” Lochridge wrote, according to The New Yorker.
‘ “Do you think the sub could be made safe to dive, or is it a complete lemon?” McCallum reportedly replied….
‘ Lochridge responded: “It’s a lemon.”…
‘ In 2018, Lochridge found “several critical aspects to be defective or unproven” with the Titan and wrote a detailed report outlining his concerns, including about the craft’s carbon-fiber hull, which experts now believe could have led to the implosion.
‘ “Until suitable corrective actions are in place and closed out, Cyclops 2 (Titan) should not be manned during any of the upcoming trials,” he reportedly wrote.
‘ Rush, who was “furious” with Lochridge’s report, called a meeting in which OceanGate leadership insisted that no hull testing was necessary…. [Emphasis mine; Barry M.]
‘ Instead, an acoustic monitoring system would reportedly be used to detect fraying fibers to alert the pilot to the possibility of catastrophic failure “with enough time to arrest the descent and safely return to surface.”
‘ But Lochridge’s lawyer wrote in a court filing that “this type of acoustic analysis would only show when a component is about to fail — often milliseconds before an implosion — and would not detect any existing flaws prior to putting pressure onto the hull,” The New Yorker reported.
‘ OceanGate’s lawyer wrote that “the parties found themselves at an impasse….”…
‘ Lochridge was then fired….’
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https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/69708.html
“Is Paris Burning?”
Wonderful 2000 visit with wife and daughter to Paris and the delightful Dordogne department, including a stop at Monet’s lily-podful pad.
To state the obvious: Grace a Dieu we went when we went!
Get ready for Orkxit….
“…As Orkney explores whether to break away from the UK to join Norway, what are the islands’ connection to the Scandinavian country?”—
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12258195/The-history-Orkney-Islands-deep-connection-Norway.html
Another feature of “Biden” ‘s Bogus Bogus Bogus!
“How Bidenomics Generates More Debt And Inflation”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/how-bidenomics-generates-more-debt-and-inflation
Ah, not a gardener but certainly a garden appreciator, we visited Giverny many years ago and enjoyed it thoroughly… despite the day-long rainstorm!
And a liberal relative told me she hated the anti-black sentiment of the SCOTUS AA ruling. Weary of many fruitless attempts to actually converse with this individual over the years, I changed tack and observed “Oh my, I had no idea that you were prejudiced against Orientals.”
When she huffed “I am not prejudiced against Orientals!”, I merely retorted “Yes, you are” and walked away. I’m not sure it convinced her of anything, but it convinced me that this approach felt better!
Le Mot Juste–
huxley will soon be getting a lesson in French firefighting . . . I wonder whether he knows that the Brigade des sapeurs-pompiers de Paris or BSPP is actually a unit of the French Army; it was militarized by order of Napoleon in 1810, and the firefighters carry guns in the annual Bastille Day parade because they receive military training as part of their preparation to join the brigade. Similarly, the fire brigade of Marseille is a unit of the French Navy.
Looks like the BSPP will need all the guns they have over the next few days– and it’s anyone’s guess whether this year’s Bastille Day parade will take place as scheduled or be canceled.
Nasal therapy after recent White House state dinner:
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/07/03/wheres-hunter-white-house-evacuated-after-cocaine-found-n1707971
@Barry Meislin:what are the islands’ connection to the Scandinavian country?
LOL. About as justified as Wisconsin joining France, or New York joining the Netherlands. 600 years is a long time. I vote we do this after we return Crete to the Venetians.
Wikipedia says about 25% of Orkney Islands inhabitants are of Norwegian ancestry, so it’s not quite as far-fetched an idea as it might have seemed.
I don’t know why Orcadians want to leave Scotland, but if it’s because they don’t want Scottish socialism, it makes sense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkney
PA+Cat –
The armed firefighters — news to me, thanks. Ominous news, in light of the hair trigger first responders have clearly reached — or rather, been pushed to.
We look in on the news channel France 24, and those intractable woke folk treat the deadly uprising as righteous. Knock me over with a wet baguette.
Le Mot Juste–
If you’re up for it, there is a 4-minute video in French (with legible French closed captions) about the origins of the BSPP in a fire that broke out during a ball at the Austrian Embassy. Napoleon was there with his new Austrian wife, and when the fire started, he rushed her away as fast as possible. But because what passed for the Paris fire service in 1810 was poorly trained (Napoleon noted that six of the firefighters were drunk), about 14 guests died in the fire. The Emperor then issued a decree that militarized the firefighters of Paris and placed them under the Prefect of Police and the Ministry of the Interior. If you watch the video closely, you’ll see a brief shot of the current BSPP marching in the Bastille Day parade (at about 0:10), and they are obviously carrying guns as well as fire axes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vewR_g0DGY4&ab_channel=PompiersdeParis
It doesn’t surprise me that the firefighters always receive cheers from the crowd watching the annual parade– they and the French Foreign Legion.
NEO, you seem to like Professor of Rock somewhat.
This one is about Hall and Oates, particularly “Rich Girl”, which is another of their fun, silly, repeto-music songs that hit #1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNFARzxcFqA
It has a lot of interesting little tidbits in it, about longest and shortest songs to hit #1, about the Rich Girl song itself, and who the “Sarah” was in another hit of theirs, “Sarah Smile”, who was also relevant to the genesis of the song “Rich Girl” (not her, but an ex-boyfriend), oh, and a once-much-larger pancake house chain.
sapeurs-pompiers
PA+Cat:
I knew pompiers for firemen from watching Truffaut’s “Fahrenheit 451” with the French subtitles on.
I guess sapeur is sapper, though I’ve never been clear what a sapper is beyond it’s a military term. Some kind of special forces?
https://twitter.com/AlbertoMiguelF5/status/1675863310279876610?cxt=HBwWhIC91aaz7sEuAAAA&cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&refsrc=email
sappers plant mines as far as I recall, the GIGN are the special forces,
huxley–
Since you ask, a sapper is what the U.S. Army calls a combat engineer– a soldier trained to repair bridges, lay or remove mines, blow up stuff that needs blowing up, and breaching fortifications. The English word “sapper” comes from the French sapeur (no mystery there), a noun derived from the verb saper, which means to undermine or tunnel under a wall or building to cause it to collapse. Sappers in the army of Louis XIV were trained to dig ditches in a zig-zag pattern around the walls of the fort they were besieging in order to allow the regular infantry to come closer and closer to the walls without being hit by the defenders’ artillery.
Combat engineers do have to be trained for their particular tasks, but they aren’t “special forces” as that term is usually understood.
Bad news, good news….
“Indiana Jones 5: The Dial of Destiny” is as bad as most of us feared.
Harrison Ford, as Indiana Jones, is given the Luke Skywalker treatment — turned into a bitter, lost old man who is brought back into the game by a younger, female relation — who is perfect at everything and upstages him constantly.
She’s the “You go, girl!” replacement for another toxic white male movie icon. Just dance on Indy’s grave and Move On! “The Force is Female.”
The good news part is that “IJ 5” flopped on its holiday weekend. It did worse than “IJ 4: The Crystal Skull.”
There are even rumors that Kathleen Kennedy, the Disney exec who has moved like a wrecking ball through all the Disney Intellectual Property, may be fired.
Fingers crossed.
___________________________
Disney’s Lucasfilm chief Kathleen Kennedy has spent the last decade destroying everything she touches and has done so deliberately. She obviously hates what made Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Willow so iconic, and so, she used her shallow, divisive reactionary politics to express that hatred by defiling all three into something unrecognizable.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/07/01/nolte-add-indiana-jones-to-this-list-of-kathleen-kennedys-stunning-failures/
she started as a very junior executive back all the way with raiders, and has been biding her time, like al molina in the first film, she has not gotten spiked yet,
huxley–
Maybe Kathleen Kennedy can take over the Bud Light advertising account!
Re: Sapper
PA+Cat, miguel cervantes
Several years ago I was admiring Barbour jackets and noticed this nifty item:
–“Barbour Men’s Sapper Waxed Jacket”
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71QEPhEJFGL._AC_UY606_.jpg
Yes, that’s what I would wear to dig a tunnel to undermine the enemy!
she is the alison hamersheid, thirty years later,
huxley:
The CriticalDrinker on you tube has an assessment of Indana Jones V
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8KG-SfghRJE&pp=ygUQY3JpdGljYWwgZHJpbmtlcg%3D%3D
He also has an assessment on the Kennedy (godzilla-like) destruction of the StarWars and Lucas Films franchise/legacy.
likewise from the emerald isle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe-tUr5jwaM&t=216s
we admit that battlestar galactica ended in 1979, the reboot was not canon
I suppose I shouldn’t be, but I am disappointed that Harrison Ford allowed his ultimate signature character to be flushed down the toilet in the farewell appearance.
Ford had already seen what happened to Mark Hamill/Luke Skywalker portrayed as a loser in “The Last Jedi.” Hamill was given a cameo in “The Mandalorian.” He thanked the director:
_____________________________
I am so grateful to have been given the unexpected opportunity to revisit my character when he was still a symbol of hope & optimism.
–Mark Hammill
_____________________________
Obviously Hamill’s left-handed slam at “The Last Jedi.”
Is Ford woke? Is it just a last paycheck? Do they have something on him?
well he got a light saber through him, in force awakens, but he had a cameo in the last film,
lucas own short lived series, had a aged harrison wiling away his days, waller bridge deepsixed bond, so naturally,…
PA+Cat –
I like that story. You’re educating me. Fighting fire with firearms, as it were. How prescient that has turned out!
From what I read, Canada le perdu, so mindlessly keen to cite climate fairytales over arson (and lax forestry) for its air-fogging fires, might borrow a page.
I have not seen this mentioned before, and it’s a wrinkle I had never considered, because it’s so blatant, as the post points out.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/07/03/new-hunter-biden-prosecutor-has-staggering-conflict-of-interest-n770833
I searched for some stories about the Freeh-Biden connection that predated this recent revelation, and found several, although I don’t remember reading any of them at the time they were published. The connection was well known; it’s impossible to believe that Weiss didn’t know that Hines had worked for Freeh; also implausible that Hines was not influenced by that relationship.
No wonder Hunter was able to get 51 spooks to write a letter of recommendation for him.
https://nypost.com/2021/05/20/ex-fbi-chief-gave-100k-to-biden-grandkid-trust-as-he-sought-future-work-hunter-emails/
“Former FBI Director Louis Freeh gave $100,000 to a trust for two of President Biden’s grandchildren as he sought to pursue “some very good and profitable matters” with him, newly surfaced emails revealed Thursday.
Freeh apparently made the gift in April 2016 — when Biden was the outgoing vice president — and shortly before he told Biden’s son Hunter, “I would be delighted to do future work with you,” according to the emails.”
https://nypost.com/2021/06/07/romanian-tycoon-hired-hunter-biden-ex-fbi-chief-to-avoid-jail-emails/
“Hunter Biden and his colleagues at a high-powered law firm tried to leverage their government connections in the final months of the Obama administration in a failed bid to help a Romanian real estate tycoon avoid a conviction on bribery charges.
Emails obtained from Hunter’s abandoned laptop show the younger Biden — then working as a counsel at Boies Schiller Flexner LLP — reached out to former FBI Director Louis Freeh in June 2016 about the case of Gabriel Popoviciu, who was accused of acquiring land to build a Bucharest mall at a below-market price, the Daily Mail reported.”
https://nypost.com/2022/08/13/hunter-biden-met-with-dad-immediately-after-romanian-business-meetings/
“A person familiar with the arrangements told The Post the president’s son had a side pocket agreement directly with Popoviciu that raked in “millions” for himself and associates.
Popoviciu also hired former FBI director Louis Freeh to help the embattled businessman avoid jail time. Freeh called Hunter Biden directly in July 2015, just two hours before Hunter was scheduled to meet with his dad at the Naval Observatory — the vice-president’s official residence — emails from the laptop show. It’s unclear what was discussed on the call.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/hunter-biden-is-now-in-some-serious-trouble/ar-AA19kztC
2023-03-31
“Some have speculated that “One Eye” is former Clinton FBI Director Louis Freeh, who had a business relationship with Hunter Biden and received a seat on the board of the Beau Biden Foundation after giving a $100,000 donation to Joe Biden’s grandchildren. Freeh only has one eye, but no confirmation of this speculation has emerged.”
@ David Foster on July 3, 2023 at 11:13 am said:
Recent post: Society, Social Media, and Human Nature
An interesting account – obviously human nature remains the same, regardless of the technology available.
NOTE: your second Roth quote, about his reaction to photography, is the same as the one about radio.
Even when the Paper of Record takes a break from reporting the really important stuff, it’s still right on target!
“People astonished to learn what SPAM actually stands for after decades”—
https://nypost.com/2023/07/03/people-astonished-to-learn-what-spam-actually-stands-for/