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The family farm where President Jimmy Carter tended peanuts, corn and sugarcane as a boy and later returned throughout his life will be preserved and opened to the public.

Preservation group The Conservation Fund said Monday that it has acquired the farm as part of a 2,458-acre (995-hectare) purchase. The farm is just outside Plains, Georgia, the 39th president’s hometown. Carter spent his youth exploring the woods around the farm and returned many times as an adult to walk with his wife Rosalynn and hunt, the fund said.

Near the end of his life, Carter, who died in 2024 at 100, returned to the farm for one final fishing trip to its pond. Rosalynn Carter died in 2023.

“For our family, this land was always about more than a farm. It was home — a place my grandparents treasured. We’re grateful to The Conservation Fund and to everyone working to make sure it’s protected for generations to come,” Jason Carter, a grandson of the Carters, said in a statement.

The farm should be open to the public for hunting, fishing and outdoor recreation as soon as next year, The Conservation Fund said. The fund said it plans to transfer the land to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources the following year. The purchase price was $8.5 million, The Washington Post reported.

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Just bought the ebook. There are a gazillion good reviews on Internet, so I have high hopes.. I'm finishing a book right now, then I'll read it and post my thoughts here.

Anybody here already read it?

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is set to vote Tuesday on whether to advance an effort to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has accused lawmakers of undermining American troops in war zones by targeting him over mere “policy disagreements.”

The procedural vote will either block the impeachment resolution or set up a final vote Wednesday. With Democratic leadership backing the effort brought by GOP Rep. Thomas Massie, the outcome will likely hinge on whether Republican lawmakers break ranks after their sweeping losses in the midterm elections.

Hegseth dug in for a congressional fight in his first news conference in months on Tuesday, portraying Massie as a rogue lawmaker and arguing that he had committed none of the high crimes required in the Constitution for his removal. He framed the effort as an indictment against the nation’s service members and their successes while undermining American forces “in real time.”

“This is not patriotism,” Hegseth said. “This is sabotage.”

Massie’s resolution includes eight counts of impeachment. It largely focuses on the war in Iran but also includes references to Hegseth’s role in carrying out military actions in Yemen and Venezuela.

Massie, a Kentucky Republican leaving Congress in January after losing his primary to a Trump-backed opponent, says Hegseth has “knowingly executed and implemented unlawful orders.”

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Rep.-elect Don Leonard of Ohio said Tuesday that “senior members of the Democratic House” have threatened to make his life “a living hell” unless he backs, without conditions, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to be the next Speaker of the House.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Tuesday turned aside a resolution to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, halting an effort to remove the Pentagon chief for his conduct in office and his handling of the war in Iran.

The vote came as Republicans grapple with the fallout from sweeping midterm losses that some in the party have blamed on the war in Iran and the resulting surge in gas prices. But after President Donald Trump signaled strong support for Hegseth, GOP lawmakers largely stood by the secretary Tuesday. They rejected the impeachment effort led by Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie and backed by Democrats.

The vote may only delay an impeachment push against Hegseth, with Democrats set to take control of the House and Senate in January.

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is expected to become the next speaker when Democrats take charge in January, stood firmly behind the push, saying Hegseth has “abused his power” and “undermined America’s national security.”

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer endorsed Hegseth’s impeachment as well.

Hegseth rebuked the effort Tuesday in his first news conference in months, portraying Massie as a rogue lawmaker and arguing he had committed none of the high crimes required in the Constitution for his removal. He framed the effort as an indictment against the nation’s service members and their successes and said it was undermining American forces “in real time.”

“This is not patriotism,” Hegseth said. “This is sabotage.”

Peter Nowak of donotpassgo.ca podcast interviews Globe and Mail personal finance columnist Rob Carrick regarding new measures in the industry, Mark Carney’s approach to banking, and why Canadians’ reluctance to switch banks helps maintain the oligopoly.

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With Jim Jordan elected GOP leader, let’s remember that Jordan is part of a longstanding coverup of sexual abuse of student athletes at Ohio State by Dr. Richard Strauss. The story got a lot of attention a few years ago and it briefly seemed possible that it might derail Jordan’s position in the House GOP caucus. But he stonewalled, refused to credibly address the allegations and eventually his colleagues and conservative media gave him a pass. He’s never come clean about any of it. As recently as last year there was a whole new documentary about it. Multiple ex-wrestlers and even a ref describe how Jordan knew about it, turned a blind eye and has been lying about it ever since. “To say that (Jordan) knew nothing, that nothing ever happened, it’s a flat out lie,” said former Ohio State Wrestler Dan Ritchie in the documentary. You’d think House Republicans would be stung enough by Donald Trump’s main character status in the Epstein Files. But memories are short. Jordan was never the caucus leader until now. Democrats need to be certain everyone knows that his colleagues know about his stonewalling and the coverup and are fine with it.

My BX750MI-GR has saved my precious data on two occasions. Earlier this year, my seven year old, well used waffle iron shorted, popping loudly and sparking quite brightly in the process, probably because of all the gunk that had accumulated inside its less cleanable interior over the years. That not only made my breaker trip, but also blew the 16 amp main fuse. The UPS kicked in immediately, making a klick and a beep, which felt amazing. That was my first time ever.

As for the second time, see this post.

Boom, there it is. Donny don’t need this tainted money. He’s already obscenely wealthy, so why doesn’t he just walk away from it, and not even give the appearanceof being corrupt?

It’s a concept so simple that even Clownstick von Douthat — the Face That Launched A Thousand Dumbfuck Columns — gets it. 

But Donny doesn’t get it, and he launches into another incoherent explanation about why it’s totes cool for him rake in billions off of some dodgy fake-money factory he co-owns with his felonious failsons and also the United Arab Emirates.

Ross once again cuts him off. 

Douthat: “But companies that are invested in by people in foreign countries, it seems like you could just walk away from that and then, you know, and then you would not be accused of corruption, right?”

Bro, Ross Douthat is doing you a solid. He’s giving you an out. Just say ‘yes,’ and run with it.

But the concept of ‘how about you just don’t be corrupt?’ is so alien to Donny that he has no fucking clue what Douthat is talking about. 

But this money goes up to eleven! Why would anyone walk way from it? 

Seriously, Donny can’t imagine why everyone isn’t as corrupt is he is.

Douthat: “There’s a Forbes story that said that your net worth went up by $3 billion since you—”

Donny: “Well, so did everyone’s”

Douthat: “My net worth did not go up by $3 billion.”

Donny: “Well, you should’ve had stock.”

Douthat: “I should’ve had stock?”

Even Ross is taken aback by Donny’s tone-deaf defense of his own naked greed.

While We the People still struggle to pay for basic goods and services, Dear Leader is out here bragging about how much he’s enriched himself off of taxpayer dollars. Oh, and if your net worth didn’t go up as much as Donny’s did? Well then, it sucks to be you, bro. Maybe you should have done some insider stock trading, like he did. Show some initiative! 

**Can you imagine if this 60 Minutes interview had aired the Sunday before the midterms, and not after? How many additional seats would the Democrats have picked up? **Ten? Twelve? All of them?

January 3rd can’t come soon enough. We need a Democratic House and Senate to investigate Donny’s fuckery, and put a stop to as much of it as they can.

Of course, Preznit Fuckwit knows that accountability is coming for him, and he’s reacting the only way he knows. He’s a penny-ante little mobster, so he immediately starts barking out penny-ante little threats. ‘Nice Democratic majority you got here. Be a real shame if something were to happen to it.’

Of course, every seedy little mob boss needs a seedy little mob lawyer — and so Donny sent Muggsy Blanche over to CNN’s State of the Union, to do his best to intimidate the incoming Democratic Congress. 

One problem for the Toddster, though: SOTU host Dana Bash was not impressed by Todd’s wankery.

Dana Bash: “But I do want to ask you about another thing that that president said. He said that the Democratic lawmakers are extortionists, and they should be imprisoned. Is that a possibility?”

Todd Blanche: “[long pause] Well, it depends on what the— the— the crime is and what they’ve done.”

Free clue for Stammerin’ Todd: there is no crime — and he knows it.

Congressional oversight isn’t a crime — what it is, is lawmakers doing their Constitutionally-mandated job to root out corruption in the executive branch. It’s what the outgoing Republican Congress should have been doing all along. Todd knows that, too.

But Todd’s caught between a rock and an overfull diaper. The Boss wants him to go on the Sunday shows, goddammit, and scare the shit out of the Democrats — and so he has no choice but to show up on CNN and try his best to sound all threatening and stuff, and then sweat and stammer when Dana Bash asks the simple question: for what crime? It’s all a cheap dog-and-pony show, and Todd knows that, too.

January 3rd is coming. Accountability is coming.

Tick fucking tock.

Oh, and Happy Piss-Drunk Pete Gets Impeached Week to all who celebrate.

Hakeem Jeffries: “I am a hard yes on the Hegseth resolution. The so-called Secretary of Defense has abused his power, undermined our national security, and engineered this reckless and costly war of choice in Iran, which has skyrocketed prices on the American people and made the country less safe. Pete Hegseth has got to go.”

Look, no way am I on Team Jeffries. I do not want him to be Speaker of the House. But it’s nice to hear him be unequivocally on the right side of an issue, for a change.

This is a repost. Messed the first post up 😔

A brick.

If this one already made an appearance on here, I'm sorry. Just got reminded of it while thinking about idioms for hefty books, in english I couldn't find any. In my first language we would say "it's a brick"

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Shortly after US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared during a Tuesday press conference that he was proud of the alleged war crimes he's committed, a Democratic lawmaker representing one of the largest military communities in the US came out in favor of his impeachment.

Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.), who represents a significant portion of San Diego, explained why she would vote to advance Rep. Thomas Massie's (R-Ky.) articles of impeachment against Hegseth in a Tuesday social media post.

In supporting Hegseth's removal from office, Jacobs cited "the illegal Iran war, illegal strikes in Yemen (where he mishandled classified information via Signal), and over 200 murders in boat strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific," where the US military has targeted suspected drug trafficking vessels.

"He’s dangerous and needs to go," said Jacobs.