April 27, 2023

Amazing! Parrots "jump start" a windmill so they can have a drink of water.

https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1651591033090613248?s=20

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April 18, 2023

Thoughts and prayers.

https://twitter.com/JayeJaybird54/status/1648135057486360581?t=E_TPzi7ulGYgCt1tpGgdPg&s=19

https://twitter.com/JayeJaybird54/status/1648135057486360581/photo/1?

April 15, 2023

Well, here's a novel idea.

https://twitter.com/ThatEricAlper/status/1647064746791714820?t=nN1frBAI9W9IMLUxV0d80Q&s=19

https://twitter.com/ThatEricAlper/status/1647064746791714820/photo/1

April 13, 2023

Billionaire Harlan Crow Bought Property From Clarence Thomas. The Justice Didn't Disclose the Deal.

In 2014, one of Texas billionaire Harlan Crow’s companies purchased a string of properties on a quiet residential street in Savannah, Georgia. It wasn’t a marquee acquisition for the real estate magnate, just an old single-story home and two vacant lots down the road. What made it noteworthy were the people on the other side of the deal: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his relatives.

The transaction marks the first known instance of money flowing from the Republican megadonor to the Supreme Court justice. The Crow company bought the properties for $133,363 from three co-owners — Thomas, his mother and the family of Thomas’ late brother, according to a state tax document and a deed dated Oct. 15, 2014, filed at the Chatham County courthouse.

The purchase put Crow in an unusual position: He now owned the house where the justice’s elderly mother was living. Soon after the sale was completed, contractors began work on tens of thousands of dollars of improvements on the two-bedroom, one-bathroom home, which looks out onto a patch of orange trees. The renovations included a carport, a repaired roof and a new fence and gates, according to city permit records and blueprints.

A federal disclosure law passed after Watergate requires justices and other officials to disclose the details of most real estate sales over $1,000. Thomas never disclosed his sale of the Savannah properties. That appears to be a violation of the law, four ethics law experts told ProPublica.

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-real-estate-scotus

April 10, 2023

Brother Jones sworn in on Capitol steps

https://twitter.com/Justinjpearson/status/1645551283703619593?t=5uJk9fNFihGCwyhX3DThLQ&s=19

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April 9, 2023

How cool is this?

https://twitter.com/VoteGloriaJ/status/1645149657767583745?t=RCGzpdJ_I_fkI1Ucf-ZR6w&s=19

https://twitter.com/VoteGloriaJ/status/1645149657767583745/photo/1

April 9, 2023

What's wrong with this picture?

https://twitter.com/Sommiel/status/1645057202565296129?t=A6MbSupvJlawTXgOJvUevg&s=19

https://twitter.com/Sommiel/status/1645057202565296129/photo/1?

April 6, 2023

Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=feature

IN LATE JUNE 2019, right after the U.S. Supreme Court released its final opinion of the term, Justice Clarence Thomas boarded a large private jet headed to Indonesia. He and his wife were going on vacation: nine days of island-hopping in a volcanic archipelago on a superyacht staffed by a coterie of attendants and a private chef.

If Thomas had chartered the plane and the 162-foot yacht himself, the total cost of the trip could have exceeded $500,000. Fortunately for him, that wasn’t necessary: He was on vacation with real estate magnate and Republican megadonor Harlan Crow, who owned the jet — and the yacht, too.


Clarence Thomas and his wife, Ginni, front left, with Harlan Crow, back right, and others in Flores, Indonesia, in July 2019. Credit:via Instagram
For more than two decades, Thomas has accepted luxury trips virtually every year from the Dallas businessman without disclosing them, documents and interviews show. A public servant who has a salary of $285,000, he has vacationed on Crow’s superyacht around the globe. He flies on Crow’s Bombardier Global 5000 jet. He has gone with Crow to the Bohemian Grove, the exclusive California all-male retreat, and to Crow’s sprawling ranch in East Texas. And Thomas typically spends about a week every summer at Crow’s private resort in the Adirondacks.

The extent and frequency of Crow’s apparent gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the U.S. Supreme Court.

April 2, 2023

A question for those with some medical knowledge. My grandson was involved

in an accident a few days ago and broke his pelvis. He is scheduled for surgery on Tuesday, which is nearly a week after the accident. Is it customary to wait this long? Also, what can be done to repair a broken pelvis?

He also suffered a skull fracture, but it is apparently not severe. He is in his mid 30s with no underlying health issues.

The accident happened in Zurich, Switzerland. My daughter has flown over to be with him, but has not had all her questions answered clearly due to the language barrier.

March 30, 2023

Are you ready to lighten up your mood? Watch this baby laughing at a mirror.

https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1641460170168344577?s=20

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