Mrleft8
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I'm sure dey vere Brattwurst, or Knackwurst.... Nicht Wienerwurst.
Who is Rep-elect George Santos? His resume may be largely fiction
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House Democrat: George Santos getting access to 'America's secrets' was 'final straw' for expulsion
U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) says that Speaker Kevin McCarthy‘s decision to allow U.S. Rep. George Santos access to classified intelligence on Thursday was the “final straw” that moved him and two other freshmen LGBTQ Democratic lawmakers to file a resolution to expel the New York Republican from Congress. The Pentagon on Thursday briefed members of the House and Senate on the China spy balloon that traversed the U.S. last week.
“As an openly gay person, as an immigrant, as a Latino, I look at Mr. Santos as someone who’s actually very similar to me,” Rep.Garcia said at a press conference Thursday afternoon, “except that he lies about everything. And so within our own LGBTQ community, there’s like major disgust in what he’s doing and his representation of our community.”
Garcia told reporters that “the final straw” was Santos “being given access to classified information. You’re literally give someone who’s a fraud and a liar access to America’s secrets.”
U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) said: “Enough is enough: My colleagues and I are introducing legislation to expel George Santos from the United States Congress. If Kevin McCarthy refuses to hold George Santos accountable, then we will.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...-final-straw-for-expulsion-effort/ar-AA17j9xM
Especially If he bought puppies from low end Amish puppy mills with rubber checks, then ‘sold’ them as rescues for an adoption fee to cover his likely fictional care (vaccines, medical evaluation, etc) like a real rescue would do.Fuck me sideways! Amish dog breeders?!?!?! I am beginning to admire this guy's creativity!!!
justsomeguy!
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A real rescue op wouldn't sell the animals. They'd give them away to vetted homes.
No. Most have to charge an adoption fee of some kind to cover the care they provide, the building, outside specialists, etc. Donations don’t go far enough. Volunteer labor means a dozen volunteer chiefs each making their own policy, with nobody scraping shit.
justsomeguy!
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Perhaps the rescue folks in your ken aren't as well off as the ones I'm familiar with.
Likely not. They do good work but seldom have an endowment. Key people may put in horrendous hours for little payment but aren’t independently wealthy and do draw a salary. People get bit, sometimes badly. Chevrolet never donates a van and the retired volunteer with basic handyman skills only goes so far when the HVAC has a fried circuit board.
Mrleft8
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We got a puppy from a "reputable" rescue outfit in Tennessee, about 12 years ago. Theoretically all shots, vax, neutered, and double checked.
This was a theoretical Labrador/Rottweiler/Hound dog mix. He and his litter mates were "found on a dirt road near a pond in the woods in Western Tennessee.
He arrived on a trailer with about 30 other dogs in a rest stop on I-80 in CT.
We picked him up. Cute as a bug in a rug, and crawling with fleas.
We took him to the vet. He had no indication of any vax. He had a serious immune disease, and was very malnutritioned. The vet said we could try to save him with massive IVIG innoculations, and all sorts of pills and etc.
We did. He survived. He was a great little buddy for 8 years. He traveled half way around the world with us, and his best buddy cat Hercules. He was never much larger than a big Beagle, but we told him he was a "BeaGuiler".... Half Beagle, half Rottweiler. He loved everyone. Even the UPS man.
Poor Aldo died a few years ago from very rapid, and incurable cancer in the back of his mouth.
What a way to go, for a little dog that lived to be given treats. His last meals were sliced ham, that he could swallow whole w/o hurting....
I'm in tears just typing this....
Anyone who abuses, or takes advantage of dogs, or cats, deserves to die a horrible painful death.
This was a theoretical Labrador/Rottweiler/Hound dog mix. He and his litter mates were "found on a dirt road near a pond in the woods in Western Tennessee.
He arrived on a trailer with about 30 other dogs in a rest stop on I-80 in CT.
We picked him up. Cute as a bug in a rug, and crawling with fleas.
We took him to the vet. He had no indication of any vax. He had a serious immune disease, and was very malnutritioned. The vet said we could try to save him with massive IVIG innoculations, and all sorts of pills and etc.
We did. He survived. He was a great little buddy for 8 years. He traveled half way around the world with us, and his best buddy cat Hercules. He was never much larger than a big Beagle, but we told him he was a "BeaGuiler".... Half Beagle, half Rottweiler. He loved everyone. Even the UPS man.
Poor Aldo died a few years ago from very rapid, and incurable cancer in the back of his mouth.
What a way to go, for a little dog that lived to be given treats. His last meals were sliced ham, that he could swallow whole w/o hurting....
I'm in tears just typing this....
Anyone who abuses, or takes advantage of dogs, or cats, deserves to die a horrible painful death.
The rescues are likely to get better as you head north and toward the coasts. There’s an underground railroad moving dogs from the south, where spaying is rare, to more civilized parts of the country. Shelter survival rates very significantly by location.
I do a bit of volunteering. County shelters in Tennessee and Kentucky routinely take the more adoptable dogs on death row and arrange for them to be driven to Ohio or the northeast. They often come up with heartworm or tickborn disease, or incubating a virus. Unlike MrLeft8, most people don’t want an expensive dog. They love a dog missing an eye or having had an amputation, since somebody else payed the bill but they get to walk the dog in the park and feel like a hero. The dog gets a home.
I do a bit of volunteering. County shelters in Tennessee and Kentucky routinely take the more adoptable dogs on death row and arrange for them to be driven to Ohio or the northeast. They often come up with heartworm or tickborn disease, or incubating a virus. Unlike MrLeft8, most people don’t want an expensive dog. They love a dog missing an eye or having had an amputation, since somebody else payed the bill but they get to walk the dog in the park and feel like a hero. The dog gets a home.
badlatitude
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"Ken" is a word you don't hear often. Are you Scottish?
Mrleft8
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Excuse me, but FUCK YOU!
We didn't want an expensive dog. We were adopting an abandoned puppy.
If we wanted an "Expensive dog we could have bought a designer "Labradoodle" or "Goldenpoo"
Or whatever.
This was the first, and only dog I've ever had (And I've had dogs my whole life) that didn't come from a neighbors yard, or the local pound.
Just fuck off LARK! I've had about enough of your shit.
Chill. I meant it as a compliment, that you went the extra mile when many wouldn’t.
Mrleft8
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My deepest apologies Lark. I mis-read your post in a moment of haste.
I thought about it as I was trying to fall asleep, and realized that I'd got it backwards.
Please accept my sincere apology. It's been a rough few days here, and my nerves are on edge, but that's no reason to take it out on you.
I thought about it as I was trying to fall asleep, and realized that I'd got it backwards.
Please accept my sincere apology. It's been a rough few days here, and my nerves are on edge, but that's no reason to take it out on you.
justsomeguy!
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On my mother's side, yes.
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Puppies and shitassed breeders is a serious problem
We should not let ourselves be distracted from the effort to expel the scum from the Congress of the United States of America.
We should not let ourselves be distracted from the effort to expel the scum from the Congress of the United States of America.
In the Pennsylvania case, in Amish Country, $15,125 in bad checks were made out for “puppies”, Politico reported.
Days later, Santos held an adoption event at a Staten Island pet store. Citing court records and a lawyer who helped Santos, Politico said the theft charge was dropped and Santos’s record expunged, after Santos said someone had stolen his checkbook.
It is not Santos’s first case involving a checkbook. Prosecutors in Brazil have reopened a case involving the alleged use of a stolen checkbook.
Santos denies all alleged wrongdoing and says he will not resign. He did not comment about the Amish Country case. The lawyer, Tiffany Bogosian, told Politico “she now doesn’t believe” his story, given subsequent developments.
Bogosian told the New York Times: “I should have never got involved. He should have went to jail. And I wish nothing but bad things for him.”
Days later, Santos held an adoption event at a Staten Island pet store. Citing court records and a lawyer who helped Santos, Politico said the theft charge was dropped and Santos’s record expunged, after Santos said someone had stolen his checkbook.
It is not Santos’s first case involving a checkbook. Prosecutors in Brazil have reopened a case involving the alleged use of a stolen checkbook.
Santos denies all alleged wrongdoing and says he will not resign. He did not comment about the Amish Country case. The lawyer, Tiffany Bogosian, told Politico “she now doesn’t believe” his story, given subsequent developments.
Bogosian told the New York Times: “I should have never got involved. He should have went to jail. And I wish nothing but bad things for him.”
Gone Drinking
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Lies, lies, lies...sounds like a perfect politician. Why is no blame put on journalists or his opponent for not checking him out BEFORE the election.
Santos says Sinema offered him words of encouragement. Sinema’s office says they never spoke.
Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) claimed in a television interview Thursday that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) offered him words of encouragement shortly after he was rebuked by Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) for seeking out a prominent place on the House floor ahead of President Biden’s State of the Union address on Tuesday.
On Friday, a spokeswoman for Sinema said the episode never happened.
“I know this is *shocking* but he is lying,” Sinema spokeswoman Hannah Hurley said in an email. “Kyrsten did not speak to him.”
Appearing on Newsmax on Thursday, Santos, who has admitted to fabricating key parts of his biography and is facing multiple investigations, recounted the alleged interaction in detail.
Around the time Romney reportedly said, “You don’t belong here,” Sinema passed by him, Santos claimed.
“She said something to the effects of, ‘Hang in there, buddy,’ or something like that,” Santos said. “I said, ‘Thank you, thank you, Madam Senator.’ She was very polite, very kindhearted as I’ve learned to see her. She’s a good person, unlike Mr. Romney, who thinks he’s above it all and is an all-mighty white horse trying to talk to us down on morality.”
Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) claimed in a television interview Thursday that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) offered him words of encouragement shortly after he was rebuked by Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) for seeking out a prominent place on the House floor ahead of President Biden’s State of the Union address on Tuesday.
On Friday, a spokeswoman for Sinema said the episode never happened.
“I know this is *shocking* but he is lying,” Sinema spokeswoman Hannah Hurley said in an email. “Kyrsten did not speak to him.”
Appearing on Newsmax on Thursday, Santos, who has admitted to fabricating key parts of his biography and is facing multiple investigations, recounted the alleged interaction in detail.
Around the time Romney reportedly said, “You don’t belong here,” Sinema passed by him, Santos claimed.
“She said something to the effects of, ‘Hang in there, buddy,’ or something like that,” Santos said. “I said, ‘Thank you, thank you, Madam Senator.’ She was very polite, very kindhearted as I’ve learned to see her. She’s a good person, unlike Mr. Romney, who thinks he’s above it all and is an all-mighty white horse trying to talk to us down on morality.”
Olsonist
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Fucking cringe. Her spokeswoman didn't say Senator Sinema.
