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and other drugs, he was half way a goner before that drunk night. He had blimped out and was on a fast road to nowhere. The drugs even convinced him it was time to take his act solo, that he was done with Chicago. I imagine it was heroin like everyone else. That drug can give the user such a sad outlook of their life to the point of suicide, although people say Kath wasn't there yet. They all adamantly aver he was just blind drunk that night.
Such a sad thing. I was all of 14 and had just started listening to rock/pop music and Chicago XI was one of the first 4 albums I bought. I think the others were Led Zepelin IV Steve Miller Book of Dreams and my favorite band for the next 2 years Kiss Alive 2.
Chicago XI was Kath's last album and i dug his voice and guitar chops. Jimi Hendrix called him the best guitar player he had ever seen. Here's a couple tracks from that album with Kath singing. Such a nice contrast from the high tenor Pete Cetera. Robert Lamm sang alot of their hits, his voice was in the middle.

@Horace said in FBI Director's Enemies List:

@NobodySock It's interesting how you're more seamlessly fitting in here now.

If I don't have "interesting", I have nothing at all. I always felt like I never fit in here. I am trying to do better to get along.

@Jolly said in FBI Director's Enemies List:

@jon-nyc said in FBI Director's Enemies List:

You believe in magat projection. Call an election stolen so you can try to steal an election. Call legit prosecutions lawfare so you can justify lawfare.

The pattern couldn’t be more clear.

And you can fuck off.

Have a nice day.

Looks like Jon hit a truth nerve. Nice response to a very real accusation. I would expect nothing more from a disciple.

And anyone who believes that Trump intends to step down after 4 years (if he lives that long), is not paying attention very well. The only reason he ran for president was his knowledge that this was his only exit ramp from being convicted of the highest felonies and sent to prison for the rest of his life. Notice how he applied shortly after the indictments came rolling in. Many many months earlier that the norm for any presidential candidtate. Notice how this man who proclaimed his innocence did all in his power, with the assistance of "delay tactic" attornies, avoided his days in court to proclaim his innocence. Certainly not the acts of an innocent man who would certainly want his day in court as soon as possible.
Trump knows that if he ever leaves the Oval office, that Justice will be waiting for him outside the WH grounds to reindict and send him to prison. He does have another option of course and I am certain that they have already made a Plan B for if he has to step down. His lapdog Vance will simply take over and his first act will be to pardon a traitor.

Of all the unqualified people now occupying high seats of power due to spineless GOP congressmen, Patel disturbed me the most. Even though he committed more perjury than one could think possible under the grilling of Democrat congressmen, and now states he has no interest in pursuing lawfare against these names, it is shameful that this man could weasel his way into a position that really has more power than the Cabinet members. The only one with more power is his new boss, who has this incredible talent of speaking out of two sides of her mouth. This one is going to perform more acts of supporting the Big Lie and rewrite history. He will fail in the end, of this I am confident, and will be put in FBI handcuffs one day for his deceit. There are going to be many many more handcuffs needed when this whole plot of consolidating eternal power over this country. Notice, that this appendix to his book, with the enemies list includes Republicans as well. Only Republicans who had the audacity of answering questions under oath of their knowledge of what happened during the plot to overthrow the 2020 election. Bill Barr? Pat Cippilone? Cassidy Hutchinson? etc. We have let criminals into office to support the biggest criminal of our times. Traitor.

Michael Atkinson – Former inspector general of the intelligence community
Lloyd Austin – Secretary of Defense under President Joe Biden
Brian Auten – Supervisory intelligence analyst, FBI
James Baker – Former general counsel for the FBI and Twitter executive
Bill Barr – Former attorney general under Trump
John Bolton – Former national security adviser under Trump
Stephen Boyd – Former chief of legislative affairs, FBI
Joe Biden – President of the United States
John Brennan – Former CIA director under President Obama
John Carlin – Former DOJ national security division head under Trump
Eric Ciaramella – Former National Security Council staffer
Pat Cipollone – Former White House counsel under Trump
James Clapper – Former director of national intelligence under Obama
Hillary Clinton – Former Secretary of State and presidential candidate
James Comey – Former FBI director
Elizabeth Dibble – Former deputy chief of mission, U.S. embassy, London
Mark Esper – Former Secretary of Defense under Trump
Alyssa Farah – Former strategic communications director under Trump
Evelyn Farkas – Former Pentagon official under Obama
Sarah Isgur Flores – Former DOJ communications head under Trump
Merrick Garland – Attorney General under Biden
Stephanie Grisham – Former White House press secretary under Trump
Kamala Harris – Vice President and former presidential candidate
Gina Haspel – Former CIA director under Trump
Fiona Hill – Former National Security Council staffer
Curtis Heide – FBI agent
Eric Holder – Former attorney general under Obama
Robert Hur – Special counsel for Biden document investigation
Cassidy Hutchinson – Former assistant to Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows
Nina Jankowicz – Former head of Biden’s Disinformation Governance Board
Lois Lerner – Former IRS official under Obama
Loretta Lynch – Former attorney general under Obama
Charles Kupperman – Former deputy national security adviser under Trump
Gen. Kenneth McKenzie (Ret.) – Former CENTCOM commander
Andrew McCabe – Former FBI deputy director
Ryan McCarthy – Former Secretary of the Army under Trump
Mary McCord – Former DOJ national security division head
Denis McDonough – Former Obama chief of staff, current VA secretary
Gen. Mark Milley (Ret.) – Former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Lisa Monaco – Deputy attorney general under Biden
Robert Mueller – Former FBI director and Russiagate special counsel
Bruce Ohr – Former DOJ official under Obama and Trump
Nellie Ohr – Former CIA employee
Lisa Page – Former FBI counsel
Pat Philbin – Former deputy White House counsel under Trump
John Podesta – Former Obama adviser, current Biden climate adviser
Samantha Power – Former U.N. ambassador under Obama, current USAID administrator
Bill Priestap – Former FBI counterintelligence chief
Susan Rice – Former Obama national security adviser
Rod Rosenstein – Former deputy attorney general under Trump
Peter Strzok – Former FBI counterintelligence agent
Jake Sullivan – National Security Adviser under Biden
Michael Sussman – Former DNC lawyer
Miles Taylor – Former DHS official under Trump
Timothy Thibault – Former FBI agent
Andrew Weissman – Mueller’s Russiagate deputy
Alexander Vindman – Former National Security Council official
Christopher Wray – Current FBI director under Trump and Biden
Sally Yates – Former deputy attorney general under Obama
Adam Schiff – Senator-elect and former House Intelligence Committee chairman

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/these-feds-took-trump-s-fork-deal-then-they-got-fired-creating-a-government-mess/ar-AA1zqQpV?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=IERDSP&cvid=14a65dc0b62a4db7a6d9b5039777f705&ei=28

Some comments mention how the right hand is not speaking to the left hand. When truly, it's the right hand not speaking to itself.

What, me worry?

@Jolly said in Elon sez...:

Didn't address a damn thing did you?

nope, he lost me long ago with all those condoms dropped on Gaza.

Got to love hockey. I've long stopped watching the charade of an All Star game played by the big three sports. Baseball has some credibility though still.

@Doctor-Phibes said in Co-Evolution of Sheep and Human across 11,000 years:

@NobodySock said in Co-Evolution of Sheep and Human across 11,000 years:

One of the enticements of living in Sardinia are the 4 million sheep that live there on an island of only 1.5 million people. I think only someone like D'oh could understand where I'm coming from. D'oh!

I'm afraid that Mr. D'Oh is currently residing inside a secure facility at an undisclosed location, and so could not possibly comment.

@Jolly said in And y'all bitched about the pardons...:

Joe could cry foul, if they could have woke him up to do so.

Trump still thinks the 2020 election was rigged. I, and many millions besides me, think so, too.

I believe the last election helped prove that.

and I think that Santa Claus is real, and millions support my notion. I believe the presents under my Christmas tree helped prove that too!

@Jolly said in And y'all bitched about the pardons...:

@NobodySock said in And y'all bitched about the pardons...:

Now if this poor man could afford the best attornies like his dear leader, he wouldn't have seen 1 day in jail.

Thank you for making a great point!

Regardless of where one landed on the January 6 scale, the Just-us Department threw unlimited resources at people who could not afford to defend themselves effectively against a legal tsunami. Many of the convictions were not based on simple justice - after all, who gets months or years in jail for trespass? - but on vengeance and a burning desire to teach those ruffians who is actually in charge. Sign the plea deal or we'll bankrupt you, take your home away and turn your family out into the street.

My point was the lack of justice on both ends of the spectrum. I am not discounting your post nor its validity, only pointing out something just as bad if not worse. Let's put the shoe on the other foot for a second. If Joe Biden had stayed in and lost the election but cried foul, that it was rigged, then staged a rally on January 6, 2025, telling his minions you have to fight if you want to keep your country, thus creating a bullrush to the Capitol where mayhem ensued. Then, deciding to carry off hundreds of this country's most classified documents home with him upon leaving the White House, how do you think you personally would have felt about his actions? And then seeing how his attornies use the system to delay delay delay justice?

Chicago has always been in my personal top ten bands of all time. Most people didn't know that Terry Kath was a very accomplished bass player as well. You may wonder who is that guy playing guitar with them. That's Chicago's producer James Guercio. Peter Cetera wrote this song and finally realized that the verses were too low for him to sing so Kath took them, giving Cetera the bridge. Cool crooning by some Beach Boys here.

Musk has already proven that he backs up the reason for his efforts with rhetorical lies and no proof to back them. Just feeding the base their juicy bones to chew on while nodding their heads and thanking God for this savior.

Now if this poor man could afford the best attornies like his dear leader, he wouldn't have seen 1 day in jail.

One of the enticements of living in Sardinia are the 4 million sheep that live there on an island of only 1.5 million people. I think only someone like D'oh could understand where I'm coming from. D'oh!

If he makes it through 4 years, I believe he will break his own record for hours spent on the golf course. But he is smart, he has his donor minding the fort while his hand is in the till. Could you imagine the cry that would be heard throughout the country if Biden were reeelected and decided to let his buddy George Soros come in and call the shots? It would be much louder than the one today because both Democrats as well as Republicans would be crying foul, unlike in this case.
Today is also a federal holiday and stupid me woke up and logged in like any normal Monday, d'oh!

@Horace said in This number surprised me:

I've never been able to quite swallow the notion that joining the military constitutes a selfless personal sacrifice. I think the decision makes sense as a pure economic one, and I think that's why the majority do it. Which is fine, just don't expect me to stand and clap at airports for the people in the gratuitous fatigues.

Yes, that was my reason. Had nothing to do with patriotic duty at the time, purely economical. The patriotism grew slowly after: I joke to people who give me the standard line when learning I am a vet “thank you for your service”. By telling them that this gratuitous phrase has been replaced with something more meaningful. It is now officially, “can I buy you dinner sir?”

Not all vets get any priority when it comes to filling a federal job. There is a one point veterans preference as well as a 5 point disabled vet prefereance when it comes totaling up the point scores of all the applications. But a guy like myself who served during a period of non conflict, 1984-88; I get 0 preference points in my application. Now if I had been serving during let’s say the iraq war around 1990, I would indeed have that 1 point, regardless if I was a grunt on the line,or a paperpusher with shore duty stateside. Not a perfect system but there it is.

The only real benefit I receive as a vet is having those four years added to my federal service retirement but only if I pay for it. It comes out to something like 3% of my enlisted pay over those four years which was not really that much. I think my bill was around 1200buckswhich is a no brainer to pay for if one is making a career out of federal work. Unfortunately I have yet to buy back this time and until I do, those 4 years will not be added to my total time served. The bill is no longer 1200 dollars today though, there is accumulated interest and today that bill is over 6000 dollars. As long as I pay for it prior to retiring I am good

awww, my kingdom for a booosie! There sails off into the Tyrrhenian Sea one cabin cruiser, one brand sparkling new motor bike, a fine hybrid suv to take me pets to the beach every morn. Me castle on the hill overlooking the same sparkling sea. All for a boosie in a flat. I dunno, methnks only Jon could live like that.