It is not clear what is more chilling: the menacing role played by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Twitter’s censorship program or its mendacious response to the disclosure of that role. This week saw another FBI “nothing-to-see-here” statement to the release of files detailing how it actively sought to suppress the Hunter Biden story before the 2020 election, gave millions to Twitter, and targeted even satire or tiny posts that did not conform with its guidelines.
The releases document what some of us have long alleged: a system of censorship by surrogate or proxy. The FBI has largely shrugged and said that there is nothing concerning about over 80 agents working on the censoring of posters, including many American citizens.
In the latest statement, the FBI stated it did not command Twitter to take any specific action when flagging accounts to be censored:
“We are providing it so that they can take whatever action they deem appropriate under their terms of service to protect their platform and protect their customers, but we never direct or ask them to take action.”
The files shows a previously undisclosed back channel of contacts where the FBI nudged Twitter to censor posters and Twitter proceeded to do so. Many are like the Nov. 10th email saying “Hello Twitter contacts, FBI San Francisco is notifying you of the below accounts which may potentially constitute violations of Twitter’s Terms of Service for any action or inaction deemed appropriate within Twitter policy.”
Notably, when four such accounts were given such purely discretionary, not-threatening-in-the-slightest flags, Twitter suspended three of the four accounts were suspended, and called for a review the fourth account flagged by the FBI for “possible civic misinformation.”
It is all just friendly chit chat from the “Public Sector Engagement Squad” at FBI’s San Francisco office.
The files also reveal a message to the former Deputy General Counsel (and former FBI General Counsel) Jim Baker revealed that Twitter collected $3,415,323 from the FBI.
“Jim, FYI, in 2019 SCALE instituted a reimbursement program for our legal process response from the FBI. Prior to the start of the program, Twitter chose not to collect under this statutory right of reimbursement for the time spent processing requests from the FBI. I am happy to report we have collected $3,415,323 since October 2019! This money is used by LP for things like the TTR and other LE-related projects (LE training, tooling, etc.).”
The FBI spokesperson said,
“The correspondence between the FBI and Twitter show nothing more than examples of our traditional, longstanding and ongoing federal government and private sector engagements, which involve numerous companies over multiple sectors and industries. As evidenced in the correspondence, the FBI provides critical information to the private sector in an effort to allow them to protect themselves and their customers.”
“The men and women of the FBI work every day to protect the American public. It is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency.”
What is striking about this statement is that the FBI is now adopting the language of pundits on the left that any objections to its role in censorship is a “conspiracy theory.” Rather than acknowledge the concerns and pledge to work with Congress to guarantee transparency, it is attacking free speech advocates who are raising the concern that Twitter had become an agent of the government in censorship. Notably, Twitter itself now believes that such an agency relationship existed.
The statement shows an agency that is still engaged in framing public opinion and echoing the narrative being advanced by the White House. There are some who would question whether “working every day to protect the American public” should include censoring the public to protect it against errant or misleading ideas. There was a time when that was not a “conspiracy theory.”
A fable is a fable….until it is not. A conspiracy theory is a theory….until it is not! The Dimunist Party: Leftists fighting hard to save censorship and corruption!
Good comments. Seeing right through the contradictions.
God forbid that the FBI flag accounts that may have violated Twitter’s TOS and then leave it to Twitter to decide whether/how to act on it.
A reminder that Turley repeatedly THANKS “our regular readers who alert me to typos or any violations of the civility or copyright policies on the blog.” He removes many of the comments that are flagged, and just as the final decision is up to him, the final decision for flagged tweets was up to Twitter. I wonder what percentage of comments that are flagged by readers end up being removed by Turley — could it be 75%, like the percentage in the example he gave?
“. . . our regular readers . . .”
Yet another attempt to deceive via switching the context.
Do you not understand how analogies work?
That is rich. You are complaining that JT has a history of removing Svelaz’s 🍆 pics
Next you will be invoking God’s name.
oh wait
Anonymous says: December 22, 2022 at 10:29 AM
God forbid that….
Get yourself a tutor.
“Do you not understand how analogies work?”
Your “analogy” equivocates between government action and private action. Thus it is a *false* analogy. (Two things are not analogous simply because you wish them to be so.) That dropping of the context is one of your favorite tools of deceit.
Notice that he does not ask the FBI for help. Of course, the FBI is probably monitoring this site, as well.
What? Like jokes? Ones that even the Twitter employees thought were dumb to censor?
Can you provide evidence of the good professor removing comments? And if so, were they in violation of the Civility and Decorum Policy?
I responded, but my response hasn’t posted after several minutes, so I’ll break it up into parts, in case I didn’t trim the URLs properly.
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[part 1 of 3]
First, Turley himself writes “I will delete abusive comments when I see them or when they are raised to me.”
Second, here are a couple examples:
a) https://web.archive.org/web/20210430154145/https://jonathanturley.org/2021/04/30/georgetown-professor-under-fire-for-reading-the-n-word-in-a-class-on-free-speech-and-racism/ — the April 30, 2021 at 10:18 AM comment from Squeeky (and you’ll have to compare it to the current page here — jonathanturley.org/2021/04/30/georgetown-professor-under-fire-for-reading-the-n-word-in-a-class-on-free-speech-and-racism — to see that that comment is no longer on the website here; the Internet Archive’s copy was a snapshot in time before it was removed, and it depends on someone having chosen to archive it)
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A blog with <100 unique posters a day is not analogous to twitter.
I can teach you how to grow 600 bushels of corn per acre. On a single acre. But what I teach cant be scaled to a 10,000 acre operation that spans 50 miles from north to south.
And?
She used an offensive word that violated the Civility and Decorum Policy.
I would of done the same.
You literally asked me “Can you provide evidence of the good professor removing comments?,” and I provided evidence — along with evidence about how inconsistent the moderation is — so why are you now asking “So?”
“She used an offensive word that violated the Civility and Decorum Policy.”
Didn’t you notice that others ALSO used that word (e.g., May 1, 2021 at 4:55 AM, April 30, 2021 at 10:08 AM, April 30, 2021 at 7:43 PM) and those comments were NOT deleted?
If you are talking about the same incident, she repeated a portion of the original post multiple times. You do not know if that word was the cause.
ATS, you have worked that report every time the discussion comes up. That means it is the one and only meaningful deletion you know of. Do you think bloggers will be convinced based on one posting with hundreds of posts every day over many years? You have no proof and are flat out wrong yet you continue to libel Turley and the moderators
I’ve monitored this blog for awhile. That is how I know your pasts are deleted because of your email address, and that you do that as a spiteful act against other bloggers (that has been proven). I know EB was banned but I saw four letter words repeatedly even after warnings. I know a few that were banned for various reasons.This is another BS argument of yours. There is no censorship of political speech.
[part 2 of 3, second of the 2 exmples]
b) web.archive.org/web/20221216043450/https://jonathanturley.org/2022/12/12/from-shadow-bans-to-black-lists-musk-forces-a-free-speech-reckoning-for-politicians-and-pundits/comment-page-1/ — the anonymous December 12, 2022 at 10:39 AM comment, again you’ll need to compare it to the current version of the page, where it has been deleted
ATS, provide the text so we can review it. I searched for 10:39. Not found.
Sorry, I gave the wrong Archive snapshot. Here’s the one with the 10:39 comment that was later deleted:
https://web.archive.org/web/20221212162300/https://jonathanturley.org/2022/12/12/from-shadow-bans-to-black-lists-musk-forces-a-free-speech-reckoning-for-politicians-and-pundits/comment-page-1/
(For the record, that’s a different Anonymous commenter than me.)
It doesn’t sound like you. It sounds like Bug and you know he is banned. Are you missing the four letter words? When a person is banned one doesn’t expect to see their posts remaining on the blog.
You are proving that your complaint has no merit.
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Here’s an example of Darren saying that he removed comments by Jeff Silberman and then banned him:
jonathanturley.org/2022/07/28/ive-delivered-new-disclosures-demolish-president-bidens-denials-on-hunter-dealings/comment-page-2/#comment-2207940
Apparently it’s OK for people to encourage Jeff to commit sui cide (like this comment: jonathanturley.org/2022/04/07/applebaums-apathy-pulitzer-prize-winner-declares-the-legitimacy-of-the-hunter-biden-laptop-to-be-totally-irrelevant/comment-page-1/#comment-2172601 ) but not OK for Jeff to defend himself.
You should also be able to ask a number of other people who comment here and have seen comments be deleted.
Ah, yeah, Silberman was abusive towards Darren, implying hostile threats.
And how about the person who literally told Jeff to commit suicide. You don’t find that hostile? Yet Darren left it.
“You gave an implied threat and ultimatum to a website administrator that if we did not perform a task that you demanded, an administrator would be sanctioned by you. The language you posted included, “This is your final warning.”
Darren’s words provide a good reason to ban Jeff. If you want to argue suspension, one might listen but remember the words, “This is your final warning.”.
Moderators have a difficult job, and their words must be heeded for a blog not to have chaos. Jeff could have taken up the issue politely in private or public and explained his position, He abused the blog and was thrown off for threats and ultimatums.
ATS, your proof is lacking.
Show us proof of political censorship. You can’t, because it isn’t done.
For a person who supports government censorship, calling parents terrorists, hoaxes proved wrong, and virtually every destructive thing imaginable, suddenly you are all about freedom. Turley provides it even to a fascist who provides fascist ideas, like yourself.
How is that their job? How is that a proper use of my tax dollars? Why would anyone think that the FBI should be acting as a private company’s hall monitor/cleanup crew?
Do you meant to tell me that the FBI has so little to do and is so overstaffed that they are spending their spare time subcontracting themselves out on private contracts?
God forbid that the FBI flag accounts that may have violated Twitter’s TOS and then leave it to Twitter to decide whether/how to act on it
I notice you inserted “may” have violated TOS. Exacty why is the FBI telling a private company how to enforce their own standards? Because taking people off the streets that are serial rapists of Olympic level gymnast, is below their mission statement?
You just ignore all the communication from twitter execs pushing back against the FBI? Specifically citing they saw no violations of terms of service. Stating clearly that banning Trump was a stretch because he did nothing wrong.
Ignoring the evidence is exactly why you come across as so ignorant.But now that its been pointed out, if you keep repeating it, you slide to the stupid column.
Ignorant is just being not knowing something. Stupid is unable to learn something.
The FBI wasn’t telling Twitter how to enforce its standard, just like I wasn’t telling Turley how to enforce *his* standard when I flagged some comments for him where some creep told Jeff Silbermann to commit suicide.
Turley thanks readers for flagging abusive comments to him. He relies on readers to flag comments, just like Twitter.
“You just ignore all the communication from twitter execs pushing back against the FBI”
Which goes to show that Twitter didn’t feel like they had to obey the FBI’s suggestions! You don’t even understand the evidence you’re presenting.
Which goes to show that Twitter didn’t feel like they had to obey the FBI’s suggestions!
And….sliding into the stupid column.
Twitter was paid by the FBI for the labor of censoring posts. Agencies with armed agents are coercive. Accepting money to censor people
Accepting money to censor people s violating the Constitutions 1st amendment freedom of the press.
You’re misrepresenting what the payment was for: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/20/no-the-fbi-is-not-paying-twitter-to-censor/
Put that blog in a hot air balloon and it will rise high in the sky.
The key difference that you’re conveniently forgetting is that the FBI is a Federal Agency, not a private entity. So when they suggest pulling any tweet or tweeter, that is cheeky way to back door the 1st Amendment.
Someone with standing is free to file suit and see whether the courts agree with you.
Fascists like you always rely on the courts as long as they agree with you, When they don’t, fascists like you rely on force.
Sue for what???? Twitter can remove anyone they like…today.
The crime is the FBI being a proxy to censor. This is a job for Congress to clean up. But half of congress is just fine, because the FBI is the Democrat party secret police.Garland is Democrat Party puppet. Abusing DoJ power to harass political opponents.
Sue the government, not Twitter idiot.
Professor Turley is not the government. The FBI is, which means its actions are governed by the Constitution, which means your argument fails.
Turley does not censor political speech. Fascists like this one will lie about Turley, so that the discussion focusses on Turley rather than Twitter. Such deflection is the fascist’s bread and butter.
There is nothing that’s private in this country.
From the seventies.
That’s how horribly our rights are/have been violated.
If a criminal brags about a crime in a bar and police overhear, can they investigate? If a criminal brags about a crime in public SM post and the police see it, can they investigate?
nothing on the internet, in an email, in a text message, or in a DM is private. Even if you use an app like Signal, the receiver can always make it public. Behave accordingly.
By only partially discussing what Speak up said, you are promoting things that should never be done in a free nation. If it wasn’t an error on your part, you proved your fascist links.
“[T]here is nothing concerning about over 80 agents working on the censoring of posters . . .”
Apologists for censorship have a knack for evasion. They keep flogging the delusion that the FBI is a suggestion box, a debate club — with a bunch of friendly folks spitballing their “concerns.”
The FBI by its nature is a *coercive* agency, you know — men with guns. An FBI “suggestion” comes with the postscript: “Remember, we have the guns.”
Remember this is the same FBI that issued a “Shoot On Sight” Order during the Ruby Ridge Fiasco….where an FBI HRT Sniper did shoot and killed Randy Weaver’s Wife while she was holding a newborn infant in her arms. She was not the intended target. The FBI never determined exactly who it was that issued the Order. So you think they are fussed about doing this latest abuse of power?
Doubt me….read the official Report on the Ruby Ridge Fiasco and also read Gerry Sence’s Letter explaining why he took Randy Weaver’s Case and won it in Federal Court.
Folks….if they think they can shoot you dead, issue that Order ahead of time……then NOT KNOW WHO ISSUED THE ORDER…..that is a very scary situation.
We are supposed to believe they could not determine which Senior FBI Official issued the Order….yeah right!
For the record….I was a Federal Special Agent….and know a cover up when I smell one.
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/weaver/dojruby1.html
https://famous-trials.com/rubyridge/1143-spenceletter
Alas for my country
“Alas for my country”
The “mortal diseases under which popular governments have everywhere perished.” (Madison, FP #10)
In this case, that “mortal disease” is paternalism and unlimited government.
Let us face the fact that “The People’s House” is infested – much like an ordinary house infested with termites that are destroying that structure from the inside – and we must, (if there are enough true Americans remaining who think our Constitution is a good document with which to run a government of, by, and for a free people), take the necessary steps to disinfect our various governments of these infestations at all levels and start anew – just as our founding fathers forsaw. We have the tools, yet, to accomplish this but the question is; do we have enough individuals remaining to accomplish this to overrule the wants of the parasites now in charge o, or living off of, our tax dollars.
Laughing out loud that you think the FBI, or any other intelligence agency, weren’t entirely grateful for the advent of social media such that it made their surveillance lives easier…’hey look, here’s a place people will go put up all their intimate details and all we have to do is be on a computer to find out!!!’
And yet again, you even addressing the topic of censorship is hilarious.
note to readers:
the barrista here at the Starbucks where I use their WiFi placed some crack in my coffee, making me delirious. my apologies. time to find a new SB!
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“It is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists . . .” (FBI)
That is a disgusting, base attempt to intimidate people into silence. “You don’t want people to believe that you’re a nutcase, conspiracy theorist, do you? No? Then shut up. And obey.”
What one would expect from the criminal FBI—-the Fascist Bureaucracy of Intimidation. This miscreant band of thieves and censors must be dissolved!
The FBI is throwing up a smokescreen so that it can eventually bring this to a conclusion by disciplining a few “overzealous” agents.
by disciplining a few “overzealous” agents…
By promoting them to a position of more power with a raise and more perks. Look how will the Michigan kidnapping architects are doing now.
The FBI made such an offensive comment simply because it knows that its fellow conspirators in the media will dutifully parrot the “conspiracy theorists” claim. Like Goebbels’ lies, it will be repeated so often that it will become the truth.
The FBI has crossed the line a number of times in its history but as best I recall, even in the Hoover/ MLK days it was done because of a wrong-headed belief in something like King was a communist subversive. Perhaps I am wrong, but I do not recall any time when the FBI covered for a scum like Hunter Biden to try and affect the outcome of an election or used its awesome powers to promote two years worth of Trump/ Russia lies to destroy a Presidency. Because of what Biden’s and Garland’s FBI has become, if I am ever in a position to help the FBI, it will take a powerful lot of convincing to make me do it. Compared to an institution dedicated to destroying those who do not follow the party line, bank robbers don’t seem so bad.
hlm:
“… if I am ever in a position to help the FBI, it will take a powerful lot of convincing to make me do it.”
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Being of Italian extraction, I’ve known for years that the feds are never to be trusted. They are just more out in the open these days about their duplicity. Too many snots trying to make a name for themselves. BTW a few years back, I had a friend who retired from the FBI and I was asked at the very, very, very last minute to say a few words. The crowd was full of FBIers including then Director, Jim Comey, who also happened to be my neighbor. I opened the remarks by saying this was “truly a momentous occasion not only because my good friend is retiring after years of distinguished government service but also because it was the first time in recorded history that an Italian voluntaily talked to the FBI.” The non-feds smiled, the G-men frowned and somewhere in Heaven both my dago grandfathers were laughing their arses off.
Good one, Mespo! What a moment!
cassidy:
I seem to attact these “moments.” Go figure.
Mespo– Excellent. Your comment did take me down memory lane (OT). A number of years ago I was asked to speak to a large gathering of medical professionals. I began my remarks by observing, “200 years ago when my forebearers were drafting a Constitution, yours were drilling holes in people’s heads for headaches.” I was not invited back.
hlm:
That is so good! And it was their loss.
honestlawyermostly, you were hitting too close to home for your audience. I would have loved to have watched their faces. When I worked for Big Pharma, I spoke to physician audiences large and small, including key opinion leaders hosted at national meetings. I tell my attorney friend, now a Judge, that his peers know how to live life large. Attorneys have a delicious sense of humor; lawyer blogs are oceans of clever snark, which is why I read this blog. Physician audiences (and blogs) can be dry, stuffy and difficult to move, unless if you present freshly published research data with a few power point slides, that challenges their obsolete medical practices. Then they get very argumentative and defensive. Pure gold. lawyers are a lot more fun.
mespo—That’s a scream! LOL
My brother was with the Bureau in the 1960’s, back when the agents were hired fresh out of law school (some were hired out of law enforcement). The agents were dedicated and competent, and most couldn’t stand Hoover. My brother would sit in shrubs/ bushes for hours, surveilling residences of SDS members. He also became friends with “radicals” like Rap Brown, because he had to attend their meetings. After 6 years, he left the Bureau to lead a normal life and raise a family. He said the agents who stayed longer than that usually morphed into hardened government men. But he was always proud that it was an FBI man, Mark Felt, (“Deep Throat”) who took down Nixon, My brother had worked with Mark and said he was a competent, honest, decent guy.
Cindy:
Good stuff. Too long at any job is a disaster.
“Mark Felt, (“Deep Throat”) who took down Nixon, My brother had worked with Mark and said he was a competent, honest, decent guy.”
My question has always been, why and by what authority was Mark Felt spying on the President?
S. Meyer: “why and by what authority was Mark Felt spying on the President?’
Because he Felt like it? 🙂
Seriously, I don’t know. …..and sadly, my brother is deceased, so I can’t ask him.
Cindy, you should not make me laugh so hard. All sorts of things can happen. 🙂
Allan…LOL…Love it.
Mespo-truly priceless. And you actually did it in the Lion’s den. Were your family possibly from Sicily?
My rebellious Scottish, Irish and Southern ancestors salute you. It’s almost always fun to be a pain in the ass.
GEB:
“Were your family possibly from Sicily?
My rebellious Scottish, Irish and Southern ancestors salute you. It’s almost always fun to be a pain in the ass.”
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Both sides are Abruzzese which a lot of folks know is the mountainous region east of Rome running all the way to the Adriatic Coast. They have some true iconoclasts there. And you’re right about it being fun. One of the wives of a G-Man came up and said it was the funniest thing she ever heard at an FBI function. She said her husband (who was from NJ) wanted to laugh but thought it would break decorum.
🙂 🙂 🙂
“Perhaps I am wrong, but I do not recall any time when the FBI covered for a scum like Hunter Biden to try and affect the outcome of an election or used its awesome powers to promote two years worth of Trump/ Russia lies to destroy a Presidency.”
Based on Nixon’s landslide re-election victory in 1972, he was the most popular president in the 20th century. Yet Mark Felt – who WaPoo made famous as Deep Throat – set out to destroy Nixon’s presidency because he was passed over to be the Director of the FBI.
Yes, Nixon abused his power (to prevent embarrassment, not a corrupt motive) to try to cover up the Watergate break-in after he became aware of it. Is that worse than the CIA wiretapping the campaign plane of LBJ’s opponent, Goldwater? Some accounts are that LBJ himself ordered it.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/05/22/cia-fbi-spy-presidential-campaign-trump-goldwater-218415/
10 held…I stand corrected although others who knew Mark Felt have a different belief about his motives. Thank you for the correction.
10 held by H……………..As I said in my previous comment, my brother worked with Mark when both were in the Bureau, and held him in high esteem. My brother was a staunch Republican. Your assessment of Mark is ill-informed, imo.
I thought of you recently Cindy re: your ministry to nursing home patients. Here’s the story…I was getting a haircut at my usual friendly, redneck barber shop when an elderly woman entered looking distressed. I was sitting in the barber’s chair and she made a request of all of those in attendance. She had her elderly husband in the car and she was asking for help in getting him out of the car. Our eyes locked and she smiled at me intently. I asked, “do we know each other?” She said my name and I was shocked at who it was. A retired nurse in her late 70s, former parishioner of the Cathedral where we once worshipped together, she and I hit it off the first time we met years ago. Her husband now in his early 90s was a towering lay leader at the Cathedral, and a real alpha yet holy Catholic wise man. I introduced her to the barber staff, and one of the barbers went out to get her husband with her. However they returned shortly without him and she was in tears. Thats when I thought of you. She had admitted her husband to a nursing home because Alzheimers took hold, he became violent and she could not care for him anymore. As my barber finished I took her hand and continued the conversation. She said her husband would not remember me. I asked permission to approach him, she agreed, and he visibly became excited as I drew near while sitting in the car. It appears he remembered me, grabbed my hand, said my name, my spouse’s name, I knelt on the asphalt by his passenger seat with the car door open, and we chatted a good 20 mins. He appeared lucid to me but his wife was in tears with joy. None of us attended the Cathedral anymore because of our new Bishop, and we lost touch. I told them I wrote the Pope a forceful letter denouncing our bishop, and the husband lit up like a roman candle. He laughed, said his own bit about our MIA bishop, and then the wife told me she needed to get her husband a treat at the bakery next door to the barbershop. As I accompanied her she again grabbed my hand and appeared relieved until she wasnt. Upon paying for her baked good, she became confused, I offered to pay for her purchase, she apologized, paid for it, and as we left she started to cry. It seems all she wanted to do was please her husband, get him a haircut, though that was not possible, and instead he seemed to “come back” to the old husband she once had. The visit provoked much emotion for her even if she was still grabbing my hand. The love her has for her husband really slayed me. Such an inspiration! Suffice to say it impacted me greatly and made me appreciate people who visit folks in nursing homes, hence this stroy. I called her a few days ago to keep the conversation going. Although I suspect my time with them was a blessing for them, in actuality it was a bigger blessing and grace from God for me. It began Advent for me and it was a great way to start the Christmas season. Isnt Good good?
Many blessings to you and yours Cindy. I know the folks you visit at nursing homes receive many graces from God through you.
Merry Christmas to all.
Thanks, Estovir. That story was a wonderful gift to us all. Merry Christmas.
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Estovir……What a wonderul story for a wonderful person like yourself. And how kind to think of me in such a poignant and profound setting. I’m grateful to you!
I can’t imagine the joy you gave the woman and her husband! You were a gift fron God that day, and continue to be. One should go into the Alzheimer patient’s world, which you did, and then he came back into yours. It’s all so unpredictable. I see it during my sing-alongs. A patient will be sitting almost lifeless-like. staring at the floor….Then all of a sudden you’ll sing a song that reaches his or her memory and they become animated, singing word for word. It’s a fantastic moment. I try to make each sing-along and music a little different each week to keep it interesting and fun and fresh not only for the patients, but the Care Givers and staff, as they’re spent, emotionally and physically.
Good for you for contacting the Pope! That’s great that the husband loved that!
Well, thank you for the Christmas wishes, and for your kindnesses.
Tomorrow, Honestlawyer and I will celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary! We’re as shocked as everyone else that we made it this far…LOL!
All the best to you and your family, and thank you again for the story.
Merry Christmas!
The world today is in desperate need of uplifting, encouraging news hence my story telling.
Married folks like you and Mespo are inspiring examples of hope to the rest of us. You may have seen this wedding song sensation by Fr Ray Kelly, an Irish priest who sang for a wedding couple. True beauty. Enjoy.
Happy Anniversary!
Estovir….I will make sure that Honestlawyermostly sees your kind wishes for our anniversary..Thank you!
And wow! That priest is amazing! What a special thing for that couple!
Go ahead and supply your better-formed opinion, then.
I don’t necessarily have a problem with the FBI monitoring public social media posts, I don’t see much difference between that and a police officer patrolling a public area. There should be limits on private spaces. That said, the FBI went beyond looking for criminal activity, they were thought police. While they were policing thoughts and jokes that violated progressive orthodoxy, the Uvalde shooter was posting videos torturing and killing animals, and posting about shooting up a school and raping. Guess the FBI had more important things to do.
Do not forget what the incompetent morons missed while they were doing this bullsh*t.
Just like they missed all those flying lessons by the 9/11 terrorists
GEB………..”Just like they missed all those flying lessons by the 9/11 terrorists”
And the flight instructor was not just a little curious as to why they didn’t want to lean how to LAND a plane???? Geez……
“I don’t necessarily have a problem with the FBI monitoring public social media posts,”
That you didn’t deal with the rest of the FBI’s actions in context, demonstrates you are a fascist or fascist tendencies.
In science, the term “theory” means a statement made that is not yet proven true.
What is interesting is that, every day, more of these “conspiracy theories” are being proven as true. In that context, they are no longer theories; they are facts. No matter what the FBI wants them to be labeled.
No.
“In everyday use, the word “theory” often means an untested hunch, or a guess without supporting evidence. But for scientists, a theory has nearly the opposite meaning. A theory is a well-substantiated explanation of an aspect of the natural world that can incorporate laws, hypotheses and facts. … A theory not only explains known facts; it also allows scientists to make predictions of what they should observe if a theory is true. Scientific theories are testable. New evidence should be compatible with a theory. If it isn’t, the theory is refined or rejected. The longer the central elements of a theory hold—the more observations it predicts, the more tests it passes, the more facts it explains—the stronger the theory.” (American Museum of Natural History)
There are relatively few scientific theories (e.g., the theory of relativity, the theory of evolution).
The problem is that in medicine, all too often, a study is conducted and the researchers assume a predicted outcome. When that does not happen they spend far too much time trying to break their own study rather looking for the reason for the discrepancy or even looking at the possibly that they might be wrong in their assumptions! God Forbid!
If your medical center performs 1000’s of coronary bypass grafts (this was in the past), guess what their studies will say about coronary artery bypasses. If you have a large gender affirming center with thousands of referrals and many “top” and “bottom” surgeries (ie:mutilation) guess what their studies will say about gender affirming surgery? Always follow the money.
” more of these “conspiracy theories” are being proven as true.”
Kevin is correct. The totalitarians around us call all the dirty deeds they do “conspiracy theories”. On this blog, one in particular does all the time, while being proved wrong ‘all the time’.
The FBI is the gatekeeper against misinformation¹.
HOW DARE ANYONE QUESTION THE FBI!!!
Of course any objections to its role in censorship is a “conspiracy theory²”.
¹Misinformation: Any fact that contradicts the narrative of the majority.
²Conspiracy Theory: Any narrative that questions the narrative of the majority.
How f’ing stupid do these unethical rationalizing people at the FBI think the public is?
As I have said until I’m blue in the face, “The political left has shown its pattern of propaganda lies within their narratives so many times since 2016 that it’s beyond me why anyone would blindly accept any narrative that the political left and their lapdog media actively push?”
It seems like we’re finally crossing over into a new year, Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Steve:
“How f’ing stupid do these unethical rationalizing people at the FBI think the public is?”
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With some compelling evidence of 80 million of us, they think we’re very stupid.
74 million.
I think that should be roughly 154 million.
#defundtheFBI
The efforts to mislead us continue.
Look at the MSM handling of the issue.
We elected a Republican house.
They damn well better investigate this.
Hahahhahhahahhahahhhahahha!!! You really think they aren’t going to cave??
I would agree but if they actually help pass this spending bill, I’m not too sure that they’ll be much help with anything. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. They’ve stopped working for us for quite a while.
Electing Republicans means little. It is who we elect that is meaningful.
Take McConnell for example. Except for judicial appointments he is a manipulator who has done more to hurt Republicans than to help.
He doesn’t think a Republican Congress can pass a bill better than the Democrat one he urged Republicans to support.
Consider the level of arrogance required to be caught red handed committing a crime and still have the temerity to deny it!
I give you….HILLARY CLINTON!!!
I’d give her back!
There is no good reason for the FBI to even be surveilling Twitter for misinformation. If the government becomes the arbiter of truth, as the FBI is attempting to do, there will be no truth. Washington, DC, is the biggest source of lies in the country, if not the world.