THE RATS START TO SCURRY

This is what I get for not finishing what I start on Thursday.

One thing you can always be sure of and that's when a ship begins to take on water, the rats are the first ones to find a way out and this adage also applies to humans involved in a criminal conspiracy such as the election fraud case in Georgia.

Attorney SIDNEY POWELL accepted a plea bargain in which she pleaded guilty to six counts of election interference in exchange for six years of probation AND TESTIFYING TRUTHFULLY in the case against Donald Trump. She will also testify to a meeting she attended at the white house after the election in which the main topics were how to manipulate the outcome of the election held a month earlier.

Apparently Powell decided that at the age of 68, she wanted no part of prison time and found it easier to testify against trump in return for probation and now we'll see if the second attorney charged will also see the light.

Co-defendant KEN CHESEBRO recently lost in a bid to have his indictment dismissed and is scheduled for trial soon. Any bets that Chesebro decides that he'd rather live with his wife in their new home in Puerto Rico rather than checking into the federal prison up in freaking Minnesota? Me thinks I smell ANOTHER plea bargain soon.

Chesebro accepted a plea Friday morning, similar to his cohort, Sidney Powell.

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I need to revise my position on Palestine. I was angry when I wrote that every Palestinian male should be killed when I should have stipulated that it should be limited to adult males who live in GAZA. Again, it's a harsh position but HAMAS long ago was designated a terrorist organization and it's members need to be put down and remember that adult males  who chose to live there ALWAYS had a choice to move out of Gaza but they made their choice to live in an area governed by a terrorist group. Now live with it. Or die. 

GAZA is 5 miles wide and 25 miles long, about the size of Philadelphia, and continued bombing should bring most, if not all, of the buildings to the ground and then it's the job of the 350,000 foot soldiers to ferret out the cowards hiding in the tunnels and light them up with phosphorus grenades and melt them in place.

My one fear is as the good citizens of Gaza are moving to the south, what's to prevent Hamas members from blending in with the others and escaping, only to continue their hatred in the future?

And the hostages are now numbered at 203. Hamas will have a choice to make very soon:

1) Release all the hostages

2) Release some as a show of good faith

3) Start killing them on a live video feed

The mother/daughter from Illinois were released Friday afternoon.

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Moving along, as the nights get colder and colder and winter sets in, any volunteers to sleep in the city's 'winterized' tents they're setting up for the migrants? Just curious. There are currently 26 abandoned schools in Chicago and two things need to happen: 1) Convert them to livable space for families and 2) Get those residents WORK VISAS as soon as possible and maybe we wouldn't have as many HELP WANTED signs in commercial windows.

Do the buildings need work? Of course they do but get them off the streets and back to work and eventually, they'll be renting their own apartment or home. WIN WIN. Do you think they'd rather be in a converted school or a tent? 

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But neighborhoods are now rebelling at their lands/ buildings being used to house the migrants. Yesterday a brawl broke out in BRIGHTON PARK as residents protested the 'tent city' that is being erected there. I was wondering when that would start.

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Ohio congressman JIM JORDAN lost again on Friday, his third attempt at being SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE and despite getting less votes each time, says he will keep on trying.......which ties up congress on both sides of the aisle and nothing gets done. Two weeks and counting.......

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A very special and sad good-bye to BURT YOUNG, the actor who played in all the ROCKY movies as his brother-in-law Paulie and received an Oscar nomination for his performance in the original film. Young was also a prolific painter and author. He was 83. 

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Another summer has passed and STILL no one has taken me fishing. I have never caught a fresh water fish bigger than a dinky perch. Once again, I will put away my ZEBCO and my RON POPIEL POCKET FISHERMAN for the winter.

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Hey, if you see a bat on the outside of your house, just leave him be because he's just trying to get warm on these cold nights and rest up for the rest of his journey down south. Remember these mammals eat mosquitos, cockroaches and garden pests all summer long. Those who don't migrate will settle into old mines and inside of older trees and hibernate for the winter. AND NO, all bats don't have rabies.

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Meteor shower this weekend around 0200 hrs Sunday morning. If you can get to a dark area, settle into a lawn chair and look southeast.

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Hey, at least one of the airlines is listening! Starting next week, United will let people holding window seats board first, followed by middles and finally aisle seats boarding last.

That should eliminate most of the up & down of boarding. (families in the same row will still board together)

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That's all I have. Don't forget the forecast says low 70's this coming Tuesday so maybe take a sick day and enjoy summer one more time. Stay out of Chicago and stay safe.