Woden’s Day set – Bidens twice

Anyone want to put any money on Alec Baldwin being reindicted? The news reports say the FBI broke some parts on the gun, installed new parts, then pronounced the gun in good working order. My thought is that any of his defense attorneys will look at that as a toothsome chum treat and the prosecutor as bait. Hope the DA comes up with something better – I wouldn’t put money on Alec going to the pokey soon. Hope I’m wrong.

Anyway… a quick update on Hunter Biden which will surprise absolutely no one:

Special counsel David Weiss appeared to be willing to end the Hunter Biden probe earlier this year without any charges for the president’s son, but seems to have changed his mind around the time two IRS whistleblowers accused the Justice Department of stonewalling the case and giving Hunter Biden special treatment, The New York Times reported on Saturday.

The newspaper cited sources from both sides who were involved in the case, and hundreds of pages of non-public emails between Weiss’ prosecutors and Hunter Biden’s attorneys.

Weiss concluded by late 2022 that he did not have sufficient grounds to charge Hunter Biden with felony tax crimes, the Times reported.  NY Times

So it came near as dammit to no charges being filed…followed by the sweetheart deal the judge questioned (she must have remembered Wesley Snipes doing three years in the greybar hotel for similar charges). And only when light was shone on all the cockroaches involved did the plea-bargains break down… why are we not all shocked.

And some more Biden – this will not shock anyone that his administration will claim to be fiscally responsible and then piss away ALL the money if they can.

Remember when he gutted the Strategic Petroleum Reserves? They sold a goodly chunk of it (it is now lower than at any time since the ’80s, I believe) to reduce our exorbitant gas prices – I remember reading that his brilliant move cut the price of a gallon by thirteen whole cents – can anyone corroborate? And of course replaced it as soon as – well, actually they haven’t replaced jack. Something about any replacement needing to cost close as little as the original deposits and be tested… this is almost a generation later and what we had in there wasn’t tested according to their new terms, either.  So we’re not going to blow money on new petroleum reserves, probably until pigs fly. But we’re fiscally responsible! But:

Steel “square structural tubes” photographed in a storage lot in Arizona were listed for sale on GovPlanet, an online auction marketplace run by publicly traded Canadian company Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, this month. Those 28-foot-tall hollow beams are “excess border wall materials that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers turned over to the DLA for disposition and are now for sale,” the Department of Defense’s logistics agency first confirmed to the Daily Upside and later the New York Post.

GovPlanet, which specializes in military surplus, has sold 81 lots of those beams for about $2 million, according to the Post.

The beams, intended as vertical bollards in the border wall’s 30-foot-tall panels, were sold in five separate lots on average of $212 each. GovPlanet netted $154,200 for 729 of them.

“USACE has already transferred approximately $154 million worth of the roughly $260 million of bollard panels and other materials in accordance with standard excess property disposition procedures.

Fox News

So we have auctioned off $154,000,000 for almost $2 million.  But the Strategic Reserve isn’t being filled because of money…. right. I remember a Flogging Molly dedication in which Dave King thanked the Catholic Church for providing  him so much material to write songs about…kind of the way I feel about the Bidens.

 

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