HAPPY HALLOWEEN

An original Jack O'Lantern c.1850. Exhibited at the Museum of Country Life in Mayo.


The History of the Jack O'Lantern.

According to Irish folklore, a man called Stingy Jack was sentenced to roam the earth for eternity by the devil. A ghostly figure of the night, Jack walks with a burning coal inside of a carved out turnip to light his way. Irish folklore began to refer to this spooky figure as 'Jack of the Lantern' which then became 'Jack O’Lantern.'

We all know that Halloween started with the Irish festival of Samhain or 'All Hallows Eve', which then became known as Halloween. This was a time of year when the veil between this world and the next was at its weakest and spirits roamed the world. This legend is why people in Ireland began to make their own versions of Jack’s lantern by carving grotesque faces into turnips, potatoes and beets, placing them by their homes to frighten away Stingy Jack and other wandering evil spirits and travelers.

Irish migrants in the 19th century brought this legend across the Atlantic where they discovered that Pumpkins were easier to carve than Turnips. So it’s to an Irish character called Stingy Jack that we owe the origins of the modern Jack O'Lanterns.

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GOP Rep Matt Gaetz Files Ethics Complaint Against Schiff 2019-10-30 by: TTN Staff 

Pro-Trump Representative Matt Gaetz has filed a formal ethics complaint against impeachment inquiry leader Adam Schiff.

According to Town Hall:

Rep. Matt Gaetz

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I just filed an ethics complaint against @RepAdamSchiff over his handling of the impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
Schiff has lied to the American people and abused his power.
We won't allow him to continue trampling the Constitution.

Florida GOP Congressman Matt Gaetz has filed an ethics complaint against House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff for the way he has been handling the impeachment inquiry into President Donald J. Trump. Specifically, Rep. Gaetz says that Schiff has been "distorting  @POTUS ’s call with President Zelensky, Lying to the public about 'Russian collusion', and blocking members of Congress from attending impeachment depositions." 

"Nancy Pelosi's impeachment resolution gives unprecedented power to the Intelligence Committee Chairman, Adam Schiff," Gaetz told reporters ahead of filing his complaint. "That's deeply troubling to me for a few reasons. First, Adam Schiff has proven in this process that he cannot adhere to the fundamental principles of fairness. Second, and I would say most important for my work today, is that Adam Schiff has violated the ethical rules of the House of Representatives."

Citing a series of rules that Gaetz alleges Schiff broke, the congressman adds that "Schiff has lied to the American people and abused his power. We won't allow him to continue trampling the Constitution."

This complaint comes a day after Rep. Jim Jordan Ohio said that Rep. Schiff would not let Republicans on the Intelligence Committee question Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a key witness in the probe. "When we asked [Vindman] who he spoke to after important events in July, Adam Schiff says, 'no, no, no, we're not going to let him answer that question,'" Jordan said.

Gaetz has long been an ardent defender of President Trump and this latest move against Adam Schiff shows he is completely in his corner. 

Ukraine Breaks Dem’s Hearts by Confirming Its Officials Won’t Testify  Oct. 29th 2019

Ukraine officials have informed the House Democrats that they will not participate or give testimony in the Trump impeachment inquiry.

According to The Hill:

Ukrainian officials will not testify in the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump, the nation’s foreign minister said Tuesday.

“We don’t have anything to do with this at all,” Vadym Prystaiko told reporters, according to Reuters. “We won’t go there, we won’t comment.”

Prystaiko also said the relationship between Kiev and Washington has not changed since the start of the impeachment probe, according to Reuters.

A call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is at the center of the inquiry.

The Democrats will likely use this as an opportunity to attack President Trump for a foreign country’s cooperation with Trump.

40 conservative groups sign ethics complaint against Pelosi John Bowden "The Hill"

A coalition of conservative groups have filed an ethics complaint against Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), arguing among other charges that she has usurped authority from the executive branch by "weaponiz[ing]" the impeachment process.

In a complaint to the Office of Congressional Ethics, 40 conservative groups led by Jenny Beth Martin of Tea Party Patriots Action wrote to board chairman David Skaggs arguing that a vote scheduled for this week on the House's impeachment inquiry was "insufficient" to dispel notions of partisanship from the process, which they argued had been undertaken unilaterally by the Speaker.

"Speaker Pelosi's latest impeachment gambit - at last, a vote of the full House! -- is merely a continuation of her ongoing roughshod-running," said Martin.

"The genie cannot be put back in the bottle. All that 'evidence' that has been gathered before the casting of a single vote is tainted by the corrupt, secret process in which it was gathered. It is poisoned, and must be discarded for the sake of fairness," Martin added.

Pelosi's office did not immediately return a request for comment.

Allies of President Trump have argued that the impeachment process is being conducted in an insufficiently bipartisan manner as Democrats have brought in a steady stream of witnesses to argue that quid pro quo existed between Trump and Ukraine's president over U.S. military aide and plans for Ukraine's government to launch investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden (D) and the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

This video is from Sep 17, 2019. I hope that Nadler, by now at least knows why HE wants Trump impeached.......RIDICULOUS...!!!

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Adam Schiff Caught In Impeachment Setup – Weeks Before Whistleblower, His Own Staffer Flew To Ukrain

Oct 20, 2019

Adam Schiff Caught In Impeachment Setup – Weeks Before Whistleblower, His Own Staffer Flew To Ukraine, Met With Impeachment Witness

Nancy Pelosi’s Shifty Scheme to Change Impeachment Laws Is About to Destroy Her BLACK EYE POLITICS

Nancy Pelosi’s Shifty Scheme to Change Impeachment Laws Is About to Destroy Her     BLACK EYE POLITICS

Nancy Pelosi thought that she could get away with breaking the rules.

She has gotten so caught up in impeachment that she can’t think straight.

Nancy Pelosi’s shifty scheme to change impeachment laws is about to destroy her.

Never before has an impeachment inquiry been started over such a minor matter.

The Democrat quickly found a new witch hunt to jump on once the Mueller report had been thoroughly debunked.

Nancy Pelosi has decided to play dirty and go for low personal attacks rather than debate on ideas.

Democrats now seem to think that people who don’t believe what they do don’t deserve rights.

It’s why Beto O’Rourke thinks that every church, school, and charity should not be able to function as a nonprofit unless they agree with his view of gay marriage.

The Left doesn’t have any tolerance of people who have different views than they do.

The real crime that Trump has committed is that he’s not willing to bow the knee to Nancy Pelosi and her squad of henchmen.

Obama had the FBI investigating Trump with Ukraine’s help during the 2020 election and Democrats didn’t have any problem with it.

They have huge double standards.

Since the Mueller report failed to be the knockout blow that they were hoping for,
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Trump Calls out Chicago Leadership Amid Increasing Violence  October 29, 2019

President Trump called out Chicago’s police chief and leadership while speaking at an event there on Monday over the increasing violence in the city.

According to The Hill:

President Trump on Monday used his first trip to Chicago as president to tear into the city and its leadership, comparing its violence to Afghanistan and blasting officials as inept and disloyal to the U.S.

The president addressed the annual conference of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, where he criticized the city’s crime rate and its policies protecting undocumented immigrants. He wasted little time blaming those issues on the city’s superintendent of police, Eddie Johnson, who boycotted the event.

“Here’s a man that could not bother to show up for a meeting of police chiefs … in his hometown and with the president of the United States. And you know why? It’s because he’s not doing his job,” Trump told the gathering of law enforcement officials.

Trump also hit Chicago over its “sanctuary city” policies, accusing Johnson of harboring undocumented immigrants at the expense of the safety of U.S. citizens and betraying his oath of duty.

The Chicago police chief did not attend the conference due to Trump’s values not aligning with his or the city’s.

There is no way to spin this as anything but a Democratic attempt to overturn the results of the 2016 election with an even shoddier cause that Russian collusion, which turned out to be a myth.

Former Bush Press Secretary Suggests Why Pelosi Is Holding An Impeachment Vote   Matt Vespa   Oct 29, 2019

Source: AP Photo/Andrew Harnik

Maybe deep down House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wanted this, but she also knew the political ramifications. It would be an earthquake and one in which Democrats could have reaped total destruction. It would galvanize the Trump base and give the president all the ammunition he needed to rip apart the Democratic Party for what is arguably one of the most explicitly partisan witch hunts in recent memory. The impeachment proceedings of President Trump are not yet official, but as Cortney wrote yesterday, a Thursday vote is going to be held. 

Former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer was on Fox News’ Special Report with Bret Baier where he suggested that Pelosi is doing a retroactive makeup with this vote. Why? Well, the optics can’t be polished, especially on something as serious as impeachment (via RCP):

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Dems Release Impeachment Resolution That Puts Adam Schiff in the 'Driver's Seat'   Cortney O'Brien  Oct 29, 2019

Source: AP Photo/Patrick Semansky

Democrats have just met their deadline to provide the text of their impeachment resolution against President Trump. It outlines the new authorities Democrats will have during the impeachment inquiry. For instance, it will grant House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff the power to call public hearings.

As Politico's Andrew Desiderio put it, this will put Schiff "in the driver's seat."

You can read the entire resolution here.

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243 Angry Passengers Grounded In Iowa After Nancy Pelosi’s Drunken Rampage  Flagg Eagleton Hot Potato, Pelosi's Satirical Bout with Alcoholism

Nancy Pelosi is drunk again, but this time she can’t simply go home. First, she caused such a disturbance on a commercial flight from Denver to Southern California that the pilots had to divert and land in Iowa. Then, she managed to get herself lost.

Secret Service was completely flummoxed. The Speaker of the House had just…vanished…at 30K feet. As soon as the plane landed, the area was locked down so the plane could be searched, leaving more than 200 people sitting on a hot runway in Dubuque. After about an hour, Pelosi was found below deck in the luggage compartment, asleep with somebody’s golden retriever.

Supervisory Special Agent in Charge of Agents, Art Tubolls, tells the story as it happened:

“First, I followed a trail of spilled vodka and jelly beans to the staff elevator. I took it down to the galley level, where I found that someone had raided the fridge and sucked all the nitrous from the whipped cream cans.

From there I proceeded into the pressurized luggage compartment, where sensitive and live cargo are shipped, and that’s where I found her. At first I thought…awww…that’s cute. Then I realized the dog wasn’t licking her, it was eating the vomited french fries she grabbed at the Airport Carl’s Jr. in Denver.

She was toast. I secured our HVT and we left the premises. Until she wakes up and confirms nobody drugged her and dragged her down there, those folks will have to sit tight.”

The agents have been nice to the passengers, offering them walks outside and as much to eat and drink as they like, but they still have to endure a late arrival, missed work or time with family, and a whole lot of unnecessary hassle because of Nancy Pelosi’s drinking. It’s about time someone did something.