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Barry Markson

Barry Markson's Journal
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May 13, 2024

Stormy Daniels was NOT UNDER OATH on the Bill Maher show in 2018!

That interview is NOT the gotcha the magats think it is.

It is not at all like trump's Access Hollywood "grab 'em by the pussy" tape and it must not be allowed to be seen by the jury!

That's the post.

May 12, 2024

For all the MAGATS whining about President Biden's student debt relief program.

"When does he pay for my mortgage?"
Blah Blah Blah

Here, the President has something for you now too!

https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1789052799130509325

Happy now?

May 9, 2024

Summer storm damages worlds largest floating solar plant at Omkaresh.

https://www.lokmattimes.com/national/madhya-pradesh-summer-storm-damages-worlds-largest-floating-solar-plant-at-omkareshwar-dam-watch-video-a514/

Indore: A summer storm on Tuesday damaged a floating solar plant at Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar dam. The floating solar plant, situated in the backwater of the dam, is the biggest of its kind in the world. A joint venture between Madhya Pradesh Govt and National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC), the project was nearly completed and ready for its launch. A part of the project became operational last week.

The project near the village of Kelwa Khurd, aimed at generating 100 MW of electricity, with additional capacities of 88MW at Indawadi and 90 MW at Ekhand village. However, on Tuesday, summer storms with the speed of 50kmph hit the project and threw the solar panels all around the place. No employee was fortunately injured.




Seems a bad placement for a solar farm.

Reminds me of a big solar farm south of Phoenix that was hit by a haboob that etched the panels a few years ago.


May 7, 2024

59 years ago, Friday May 7th 1965, Fridley Mn tornadoes.

I was 17 years old and obviously survived the storms but members of my high school athletic teams were literally called on to help go through the rubble looking for those who might not have, many of whom would have been our classmates.
I still have dreams about those days, I woke up this morning to one, it happens almost every year.

On the night of May 6, 1965, two F4 tornadoes cut through the northwest Twin Cities metro area. Known collectively as the Fridley tornado, these twisters were the worst cyclonic disaster to hit the Twin Cities to date.

On the evening of May 6, 1965, Twin Cities residents knew that there was going to be a storm. They just didn’t know how devastating it would turn out to be. When Fridley residents saw the sky turning dark green and spotted baseball-sized hail raining down around 7:00 pm, they called their kids inside. Eyewitness accounts describe the air smelling of sulfur. Many who were children at the time later remembered putting large pieces of hail in their refrigerators.

At 7:06 pm, the first tornado touched down in southwestern Fridley. Over the next fifteen minutes, it cut a 6.8-mile path to the northeast and dissipated in Blaine. This tornado was an F4 classification—the second-most powerful category of storm on the Fujita scale. The most common shared experience that people later remembered was hearing the deafening, train-like noise that accompanied the tornadoes.

By the end of the storm, there were three fatalities and 175 injuries. People emerged from their destroyed homes and helped others who were trapped in rubble or injured. However, they did not have much time to do so before a second tornado appeared.

This second tornado touched down in Golden Valley at 8:14 pm. It travelled for 17.3 miles from there through Fridley and Mounds View before dissipating west of Centerville at 9:02 pm. The second tornado was also an F4 storm; this time, there were six fatalities and 158 injuries. Although many homes were mostly destroyed, that night people gathered together with their neighbors and slept in basements and cars that were still intact.




https://www.mnopedia.org/event/fridley-tornado-1965



April 29, 2024

Prosecutors won't retry Arizona border rancher on murder charge after hung jury

Source: Arizona Daily Star

A Nogales rancher who was accused of killing an unarmed Mexican man on his property is now a free man, after prosecutors declined Monday to retry the case that ended in a mistrial last week.

"Because of the unique circumstances and challenges surrounding this case, the Santa Cruz County Attorney's Office has decided not to seek a retrial," said prosecutor Kim Hunley, Santa Cruz county attorney, during a status hearing in Santa Cruz County Superior Court on Monday afternoon.

Jurors were unable to reach a unanimous verdict in the closely watched trial and deadlocked 7-1, in favor of acquittal, according to Kelly's defense team.

After asking jurors to keep trying to reach a verdict, Superior Court Judge Thomas Fink declared a mistrial on April 22.

Read more: https://tucson.com/news/local/border/arizona-border-rancher-mistrial-hung-jury-murder-charge-dismissed/article_d8c5eedc-0653-11ef-be51-a74a35b43877.html



It is now open season on climate migrants seeking asylum on our Southern border.
April 29, 2024

President Biden's humane Title IX changes take effect in early August.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said Thursday his state “will not comply” with recently unveiled changes to Title IX by the Biden administration.

“Florida rejects [President Biden’s] attempt to rewrite Title IX,” DeSantis said in a video posted to the social platform X. “We will not comply, and we will fight back.”

“We are not gonna let Joe Biden try to inject men into women’s activities,” DeSantis continued. “We are not gonna let Joe Biden undermine the rights of parents, and we are not gonna let Joe Biden abuse his constitutional authority to try to impose these policies on us here in Florida.”


Will the President send Federal agents or troops to enforce the mandates as has been done before?
It could be a Ruby Bridges moment and the images will be just in time for the convention.


https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/4621642-desantis-florida-will-not-comply-with-new-biden-title-ix-rules/



April 28, 2024

It has been said that one reason the Beatles quit touring was because

They felt their music couldn't be produced live on stage.
Well, the Dutch group The Analogues does it.

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April 26, 2024

Being a lifeguard is now controversial?

Raygun was claimed to have saved 77 people from drowning!

Here he is as governor supposedly saving a kid, and a Black kid at that!
Nancy probably pushed the kid in.
Does it get any more disingenuous?


April 25, 2024

With regards to events of the day

There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
It's time we stop
Hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look, what's going down]


If you know, you know.

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