It’s Friday, February 24th, 2023…but before we begin, is there any limit to the blatantly obvious lies Joe Biden is willing to tell, and the MSM is happy to ignore?

Biden hit for boasting of growing up in Polish community during Poland visit: “I thought he was Puerto Rican“

Biden has previously boasted about growing up in Puerto Rican community, attending Black church

As one Tom Elliott tweeted, “For those who haven’t been paying attention, Biden is half half Puerto Rican, half black, half Jewish, half Republican, half Polish, half Italian, and half coal miner.”

Not to mention half-witted and all-liar.  Though we question whether Biden ever claimed to be half-Republican, here’s proof he lied about “sorta” being raised Puerto Rican…

…having attended “the Black church” and fought apartheid…

…having been to shul more than most Orthodox Jews…

…being an honorary Greek (notice Dumbo applauding his prevarication!)…

…as well as creating an appointment to the Naval Academy and conversations concerning same which never occurred:

We don’t know which is more fantastical: Biden’s bogus claim about his appointment to Annapolis, or that he actually believed he was destined for football stardom?!?  After all, he never really played much, if at all for Delaware, but…big surprise…had no problem lying about it. 

As a co-worker once observed of a boss who would regularly regale us with tales of his varied and sundry skills and experience, “The guy would have to be 1,500 years old to have done everything he says he has.”  We uncovered conclusive evidence one of his claims was concocted by chance, which cast doubt on every other boast he’d made.

On the other hand, Joe provides the proof he’s prevaricating in his own recorded words.  Which makes one wonder, does he understand that the internet exists, and that it’s forever?!?

Now, here’s The Gouge!

First up, FOX brings us up to date regarding…

Keith Melvin Moses: What we know of Orlando, Florida, alleged shooter after TV reporter, others killed

“Keith Melvin Moses, the 19-year-old Florida suspect accused of fatally gunning down a beloved local news reporter, a 9-year-old child and a 20-year-old woman in a string of shootings Wednesday has a lengthy criminal past, according to law enforcement, but questions remain about the motive and what connection, if any, he had to the victims.

…“At 19, he has a lengthy criminal history to include gun charges, aggravated battery and assault with a deadly weapon, burglary and grand theft charges,” Orange County Sheriff John Mina said at a Wednesday afternoon press conference. He did not elaborate further on Moses’ criminal past.

FOX 35 Orlando reported that online court records show Moses was arrested in November 2021 on charges of possession of cannabis and drug paraphernalia. But the charges were dropped the next month. It’s unclear if he had a juvenile record, as that information usually remains sealed for minors. At approximately 11 a.m., gunfire erupted in the 6100 block of Hialeah Street in Orlando where a woman in her 20s was found shot inside a vehicle and succumbed to her injuries. 

…“He was an acquaintance of the woman this morning, but as far as we know, had no connection to the reporter and no connection to the mother and 9-year-old. We don’t know why he entered that home,” Mina said of Moses. “The vehicle didn’t look like a typical news vehicle with a lot of markings on it. It’s possible that he could have mistaken them for law enforcement. I just don’t know at this time.”…”

Here’s the juice: One thing is known, or should have been obvious.  With a rap sheet longer than most people’s arms (and that’s just the crimes committed during his brief two years as an adult), Mr. Moses posed a clear and present danger to the public, and shouldn’t have been breathing air outside of a prison cell. 

Since we’re on the subject of known threats to public safety allowed to roam free, writing at NRO, Jeff Zymeri relates the…

Missouri AG Demands St. Louis Prosecutor ‘Resign or Face Removal’

“…In a statement, Bailey pointed to a horrific incident in downtown St. Louis last week in which an out-of-town teenager was run over and had to have both of her legs amputated. According to Bailey, Gardner’s neglect as a city prosecutor is at fault: The driver who caused the accident was out on bond as he awaited trial for armed robbery. “As Attorney General, I want to protect the people of St. Louis, and that includes protecting victims of crime and finding justice for them,” explained Bailey. “Instead of protecting victims, Circuit Attorney Gardner is creating them. My office will do everything in its power to restore order, and eliminate the chaos in St. Louis caused by Kim Gardner’s neglect of her office.”

If Gardner does not resign by exactly noon on Thursday, February 23, Bailey’s office promised to initiate immediate removal proceedings in the form of a writ of quo warranto, a mechanism to challenge a person’s right to hold office.

…The driver of the speeding vehicle, Daniel Riley, 21, was out on bond and under house arrest for allegedly stealing a firearm from a victim at gunpoint in 2020. Riley had been ordered to wear a GPS monitoring device. Riley’s robbery case was supposed to go to trial last July, but was withdrawn and refiled. At that point, Riley had already earned 54 separate violations for failing to comply with the pre-trial bond conditions, according to Bailey’s statement. The now 21-year-old would go on to earn 50 more violations since July.

“The Circuit Attorney never filed a motion to revoke Riley’s bond,” read the statement. “This is the latest in a long pattern of brazen neglect. The St. Louis Circuit Attorney has a long history of failure to prosecute violent crime, with a backlog of at least 3,000 cases.”

Earlier this week, Gardner’s office said it was well aware of Riley’s criminal history, but said the decision to allow him out on bond was the call of the judge on that particular case. However, a statement from the 22nd Circuit Court responding to Gardner’s accusation said judges are not notified of GPS violations. Only the attorneys of record are notified. 

This is not the time for finger pointing, it’s time to support this family, and ensure that justice is served,” read a statement from Gardner’s office. The office added that the case against Riley had been complicated by the robbery victim’s death — but the victim is very much alive, according to his father, Jim Dandridge. “Obviously, he’s alive. He just left to go to work. He’s a young kid. He’s 20 years old. He does all kinds of stuff. He’s perfectly healthy – healthy as a 20-year-old boy can be,” Dandridge told a local Fox affiliate.

Riley has been arrested for the teenager’s maiming, pleading not guilty. This time, the judge denied him bond.

Criticism has not only come from Republicans like Bailey and Missouri governor Mike Parson. St. Louis Democratic mayor Tishaura Jones, who is a longtime Gardner ally, condemned her behavior. “I hope the Circuit Attorney recognizes that seeking accountability and change is not ‘pointing fingers,’” explained Jones. “If she cannot do so, then she must do some serious soul-searching about her future as circuit attorney because she has lost the trust of the people.”“

You’ll recall it was Kim Gardner who charged the couple who defended their home from a criminally-trespassing Black Lies Matter mob that had breached the entrance of their gated community with unlawful use and flourishing of a weapon.  No doubt had the mob forced Mark and Patricia McCloskey to defend either their property or themselves from physical attack, Gardner would have charged the couple, not the members of the mob.

Next, NRO‘s Dominic Pino reports what shouldn’t surprise anyone with half a brain or an ounce of common sense, namely, as the…

NTSB Releases Initial Report on Ohio Train Derailment; Details Raise Questions on Buttigieg’s Policy Response

“…The NTSB’s preliminary report confirms what some initial reports had suggested about the nature of the accident. There is not any evidence in this report that the crew did anything wrong. They were adhering to the speed limit, and they responded correctly to the promptings of the safety devices. The first two hotbox detectors did not show cause for concern. It was not until the third one that the crew should have reacted, and it did.

The train’s emergency braking system went into effect as it should have to stop the train. It seems that the wheelset failure occurred at a very inopportune time, reaching critical heat levels right before a hotbox detector after being comfortably within safe operating levels at the previous hotbox detector. Regardless of which braking system is in use — including the much-hyped electronically controlled pneumatic (ECP) brakes that the Department of Transportation has been talking about — it takes a while to stop a freight train.

The idea that the failure of a past regulatory effort to mandate ECP brakes on high-hazard flammable trains (HHFT) contributed to this accident is absurd. First, the issue seems to have been the timing of the hotbox-detector reading, and there was no brake failure. Second, this train was a general-merchandise train, and it was properly classified as such. The HHFT designation only applies to trains with “a continuous block of 20 or more tank cars loaded with a flammable liquid or 35 or more tank cars loaded with a flammable liquid dispersed through a train,” according to the DOT. This train only had three cars carrying flammable liquids, and only one of those cars was breached in the accident. Vinyl chloride is a gas, and is consequently and properly subject to different regulations. The vast majority of the train was non-hazardous. No iteration of the failed ECP-brake regulation would have applied to this train.

Another component of HHFT regulations is that they are always restricted to a speed limit of 50 miles per hour. That was already the speed limit on this section of track, and the train was going 47 miles per hour, so that portion of the designation is also irrelevant.

The decision to vent and burn the vinyl chloride seems to have been taken with great deliberation and caution. The NTSB says responders were aware of the rising temperatures in one of the cars on February 5, but the venting only began in the late afternoon of February 6. That suggests it was not a decision that was taken lightly, and with good reason, considering the images we all saw of the burn.

No part of Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg’s policy response to the accident would have prevented the accident, based on the evidence the NTSB has so far released. Top areas of interest as the investigation progresses are whether responders were right to vent and burn the chemicals, whether anything different could have been done concerning hotbox detectors, and whether the car that started the derailment was properly inspected.“

Here’s a second shot of the juice: Be it railroad regulations or gun control, it’s a recurring theme in any Progressive policy issued in response to an accident or tragedy that nothing they propose would have prevented said accident or tragedy from occurring.

If you have a strong stomach and need a good laugh, catch Mayor Pete’s entire East Palestine press conference, where he regurgitates half-digested, half-baked White House talking points like a mother bird feeding her nestlings.  Particularly powerful were Pete’s assertions…

…and…

Yeah,…if the Transport Workers Union of America prioritizes safety over cash into the union’s coffers, we’ll drop the soap in Mayor Pete’s shower.  Guess this feckless fool should have waited for the NTSB to come out with its preliminary report before assigning blame where it doesn’t belong.

Then there’s this septet of special selections certain to sate the curiosity of inquiring Conservative minds:

(1). Kim Strassel argues why the Ukraine conflict is Ron DeSantis’s security test.

(2). In a small victory for as much common sense as morality, the Tennessee General Assembly passed a bill on Thursday that would prohibit the hosting of drag shows in public venues or anywhere minors might be present.  Sorry, but anyone who opposes such legislation is either irredeemably ignorant or manifestly immoral.

(3). Arkancide: The act of being murdered by a member of the Clinton criminal cartel and the death being ruled a suicide despite the facts clearing indicating otherwise.

(4). Mollie Hemingway relates how…

$200M in NYC Purchased COVID Gear Auctioned For Just $500,000 https://t.co/21jqflYALG

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) February 21, 2023

‘Cause you would‘t want to stockpile them in anticipation of the next gift from Xi Jinping…

…to the world.

(5). Andy McCarthy records how The Donald is one lucky guy, as the publicity-hungry foreman of the Georgia grand jury looking into his purported election interference has engaged in a bizarre media blitz which could well work to Trump’s advantage.

(6). Writing at NRO, Asra Nomani relates how 2,000 pages of emails obtained in response to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests — reported here for the first time — reveal that TJ staffers and administrators, seemingly motivated by the pursuit of so-called equity, willfully engaged in a deliberate pattern and practice of withholding awards, devaluing their worth, and deceiving parents in the process.  “Seemingly”: the emails specifically STATED it!

(7). In a related item of woke insanity, a diversity executive for a Progressive social justice organization in Philadelphia has been accused of lying about her race by her own family, with the activist’s mother stating her daughter’s name was Rachel Elizabeth Seidel of European descent…

…NOT Raquel Evita Saraswati, a “queer, Muslim, multhi-ethnic woman”.  “I’m as White as the driven snow and so is she,” her mother said.

Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:

Then there’s these from Marcus Aurelius…

…and Balls Cotton:

Finally, we’ll call it a wrap on a personal note, as our sincere congratulations go out to Officer Michael McKee, who is, as of Wednesday evening, a full-fledged member of the Howard County Police Department.

Congratulations, Officer McKee; You’ve done your parents and your country proud!

Magoo

Video of the Day

Pay attention, as we know from our personal experience in Naval Aviation Tucker is not exaggerating the inevitable consequences of this woke madness.

Tales of The Darkside

This forward, which you need to watch in its entirety, from our energy correspondent Jeff Foutch shows why Conservatives love, and Libtards have to hate, John Kennedy. Hey, $50 trillion here, $50 trillion there…suddenly you’re talking real money!

On the Light in the Loafers Side

Mayor Pete, confirming with his choice of words both his incompetence and the fact he couldn’t care less about the good people of East Palestine.