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Botany

Botany's Journal
Botany's Journal
July 26, 2023

My random speculation is that McCarthy's impeachment threat of Impeachment of Joe Biden ....

... is because he knows (he knows typo) that he was deeply involved in the J-6 attempted coup and
he does not want that truth (ti typo my keyboard is shot) to get out.

We do know that he was well aware of the connections between Trump and Russia in 2016.
and worked to keep it hidden. I wonder if Kevin is Russian Dirty too?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/17/putin-pays-donald-trump-kevin-mccarthy-recording

This article is more than 6 years old
Top Republican was recorded suggesting that Putin pays Trump

McCarthy has tried to sell this as he was just joking when told that the Washington Post had him on tape
saying that Putin pays Trump.

July 25, 2023

The evidence against Trump is coming from REPUBLICANS not from Biden, the democrats, or the left.

Funny just about all the people who have given testimony to the grand juries or talked to Smith
& Company have been republicans, worked for Trump, and or were Trumps or people associated
w/Trumps lawyers.

Such as Bernie Keriks lawyer, Tim Parlatore


Former Giuliani colleague turns over thousands of pages to special counsel on 2020 election

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/bernie-kerik-turns-documents-special-counsel-jack-smith-rcna96045

July 24, 2023

Trump is at 71 indictments right now. 34 from Bragg in Manhattan and 37 from jack smith ....

... in Florida I wonder how many more will be from Jack Smiths J-6th probe? Trump could be at or
> 100 by the end of this week. After finding those stolen top secret documents in his living quarters
@ Merde a Logo why he is still walking free is beyond me. The man had our top secret remote sensing
technology ( satellites* ) information in his bedroom. Tell me that he didn't let Putin in on what we have
watching Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus?

BTW In 2014 Mike Flynn had access to the data and images of Putin's planned invasion of Crimea and didn't
give President Obama any warning. The President fired his ass and then he went to live in Russia and didn't
come back until 2015 when he started to work for his boss (Vlad) in the Trump campaign.

* I have a family member who worked with that stuff and they would arrest him/her PDQ if he told or sold
any of that information.

July 18, 2023

Wasn't the current chair of the RNC all in on using....

.... using fake electors in 2020 like the ones who just
got indicted in Michigan?


The rot is deep.

July 18, 2023

5:30 pm Columbus Ohio and the smoke is all around

Good God in Butter this is depressing. And yet we have
a party, much of the media, Joe Manchin, and TPTB in lock step with the fossil fuel industries who right now are killing the supportive capacities of our home aka the earth. Until our sun becomes a red giant the earth will be here but humans not so much.

Sunday evening we had a short thunderstorm where you could here and feel it coming in but you could not see the rain clouds because of the smoke but the rain fell through all that forest fire smoke and Dog only knows what kind of potentially toxic compounds those rain drops brought down with them.

this is the end of the world as we know it.

July 16, 2023

My heart is heavy and I'm depressed because the smoke from the Canadian forest fires is in the ....

.... air here in Central OH. You can smell it, you can see it, and those fires are a result of
climate change from our use of fossil fuels. The areas that are burning now or have been burned
in Canada should never carry these kinds of fires because they should be covered with snow 4 to
8 months out of the year and the rest of the year the ground level should be really damp w/ferns,
moss, blueberries, rotting wood, lichens, and tons of swamps, lakes, creeks, rivers, and bogs.









July 15, 2023

Tomato List '23

Cherokee Purple
Sun Sugar
Mariglobe
Old German
Mortgage Lifter
German Queen
Black Krim
Brandywine

Other growy things

Cilantro
Swiss Chard (Fordhook)
Parsley
Basil San Genovese & Thai Cinnamon
Sugar Snap Peas
Jalapeño
Red Cayenne
Better Bell Green Pepper
Potatoes (some kind of red skin)

July 13, 2023

Early voting for Aug. 8 special election draws long lines at Franklin County Board of Elections

Nice picture at the link

The GOP in OH is about to become the dog who caught the car with their anti choice and anti women actions.

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Danny Calhoun was one of several dozen voters lined up outside of the Franklin County Board of Elections on Morse Road Tuesday to vote early in the Aug. 8 special election.

Calhoun, a Westerville resident sporting a bright black and yellow New York Yankees baseball cap, said he would vote against Issue 1, a proposed constitutional amendment that would make it harder to pass such amendments in the future. If passed, it would raise the threshold to pass an amendment to the Ohio Constitution from 50% plus one to 60% and require signatures from all 88 Ohio counties to get one on a ballot.

Calhoun said a likely constitutional amendment to enshrine a right to abortion access and reproductive healthcare in November is another reason he is voting no on Issue 1. He expressed frustration at the Ohio Legislature, which is controlled by Republicans, for putting this measure on the ballot.

"It's important to me that as citizens, that we're represented fair and correctly. And the idea that a few people can make decisions for the collective to me is just wrong," he said.

Calhoun said he was encouraged to see a large turnout in Franklin County. He is usually an early voter and it's only the second or third time he's stood in a line to vote early.


https://news.wosu.org/politics-government/2023-07-11/early-voting-for-august-8-special-election-draws-long-lines-at-franklin-county-board-of-elections


Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, a Republican who supports Issue 1, said he expected voter turnout for the special election to be low.

July 11, 2023

Slavi Ukraini! Unseeded Ukrainian Elina Svitolina stuns world No. 1 Iga Świątek to reach Wimbledon




CNN —

Unseeded Ukrainian Elina Svitolina stunned world No. 1 Iga Świątek on Tuesday, winning 7-5 6-7 6-2 in a Center Court classic to reach the Wimbledon semifinals.

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