History of Mount Rushmore

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Carved into the southeastern face of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota’s Black Hills National Forest are four gigantic sculptures depicting the faces of U.S. Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt.

The 60-foot high faces were shaped from the granite rock face between 1927 and 1941, and represent one of the world’s largest pieces of sculpture, as well as one of America’s most popular tourist attractions. To many Native Americans, however, Mount Rushmore represents a desecration of lands considered sacred by the Lakota Sioux, the original residents of the Black Hills region who were displaced by white settlers and gold miners in the late 19th century.

The Loss of a Sacred Land

In the Treaty of Fort Laramie, signed in 1868 by Sioux tribes and General William T. Sherman, the U.S. government promised the Sioux “undisturbed use and occupation” of territory including the Black Hills, in what is now South Dakota. But the discovery of gold in the region soon led U.S. prospectors to flock there en masse, and the U.S. government began forcing the Sioux to relinquish their claims on the Black Hills.

Warriors like Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse led a concerted Sioux resistance (including the latter’s famous defeat of Gen. George Armstrong Custer in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876), which federal troops eventually crushed in a brutal massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890. Ever since then, Sioux activists have protested the U.S. confiscation of their ancestral lands and demanded their return. The Black Hills (or Paha Sapa in Lakota) are particularly important to them, as the region is central to many Sioux religious traditions.

(Battle of Little Bighorn

The Birth of Mount Rushmore

Mount Rushmore, located just north of what is now Custer State Park in theBlack Hills National Forest, was named for the New York lawyer Charles E. Rushmore, who traveled to the Black Hills in 1885 to inspect mining claims in the region. When Rushmore asked a local man the name of a nearby mountain, he reportedly replied that it never had a name before, but from now on would be known as Rushmore Peak (later Rushmore Mountain or Mount Rushmore).

Seeking to attract tourism to the Black Hills in the early 1920s, South Dakota’s state historian Doane Robinson came up with the idea to sculpt “the Needles” (several giant natural granite pillars) into the shape of historic heroes of the West. He suggested Red Cloud, the Sioux chief who signed the Fort Laramie treaty, as a potential subject.

The Needles, South Dakota

In August 1924, after the original sculptor he contacted was unavailable, Robinson contacted Gutzon Borglum, an American sculptor of Danish descent who was then working on carving an image of the Confederate General Robert E. Lee into the face of Georgia’s Stone Mountain. Robinson had a history of disputes with those who commissioned the Lee project, and they fired Borglum, who left the sculpture unfinished. During his work at Stone Mountain, Borglum associated with members of the newly revived Ku Klux Klan, although it’s unclear whether he actually joined the white supremacist group.

Stone Mountain Carving

Borglum convinced Robinson that the sculpture in South Dakota should depict George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, as that would give it national, and not just local, significance. He would later add Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt to the list, in recognition of their contributions to the birth of democracy and the growth of the United States.

Sculpting the Presidents at Mount Rushmore

During a second visit to the Black Hills in August 1925, Borglum identified Mount Rushmore as the desired site of the sculpture. Local Native Americans and environmentalists voiced their opposition to the project, deeming it a desecration of Sioux heritage as well as the natural landscape. But Robinson worked tirelessly to raise funding for the sculpture, aided by Rapid City Mayor John Boland and Senator Peter Norbeck, among others. After President Calvin Coolidge traveled to the Black Hills for his summer vacation, the sculptor convinced the president to deliver an official dedication speech at Mount Rushmore on August 10, 1927; carving began that October.

In 1929, during the last days of his presidency, Coolidge signed legislation appropriating $250,000 in federal funds for the Rushmore project and creating the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission to oversee its completion. Boland was made the president of the commission’s executive committee, though Robinson (to his immense disappointment) was excluded.

To carve the four presidential heads into the face of Mount Rushmore, Borglum utilized new methods involving dynamite and pneumatic hammers to blast through a large amount of rock quickly, in addition to the more traditional tools of drills and chisels. Some 400 workers removed around 450,000 tons of rock from Mount Rushmore, which still remains in a heap near the base of the mountain. Though it was arduous and dangerous work, no lives were lost during the completion of the carved heads.

Mount Rushmore Depictions

On July 4, 1930, a dedication ceremony was held for the head of Washington. After workers found the stone in the original site to be too weak, they moved Jefferson’s head from the right of Washington’s to the left; the head was dedicated in August 1936, in a ceremony attended by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

In September 1937, Lincoln’s head was dedicated, while the fourth and final head–that of FDR’s fifth cousin, Theodore Roosevelt–was dedicated in July 1939. Gutzon Borglum died in March 1941, and it was left to his son Lincoln to complete the final details of Mount Rushmore in time for its dedication ceremony on October 31 of that year.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial, sometimes called the “Shrine of Democracy,” has become one of the most iconic images of America and an international tourist attraction. In 1959, it gained even more attention as the site of a climactic chase scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s film “North by Northwest.” (In fact, South Dakota did not allow filming on Mount Rushmore itself, and Hitchcock had a large-scale model of the mountain built in a Hollywood studio.)

In 1991, Mount Rushmore celebrated its 50th anniversary after undergoing a $40 million restoration project. The National Park Service, which maintains Mount Rushmore, records upwards of 2 million visitors every year. Meanwhile, many Sioux activists have called for the monument to be taken down, even as they continue to protest what they view as illegal U.S. possession of their ancestral lands.

Crazy Horse Memorial

Another sculpture was also carved in the Black Hills – that of Crazy Horse.

A Lakota Sioux warrior, a famed artist, his family and a canvas composed of granite are the elements that comprise the legendary past, present and future of the Crazy Horse Memorial.

Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski began the world’s largest mountain carving in 1948. Members of his family and their supporters are continuing his artistic intent to create a massive statue that will be 641 feet long and 563 feet high. To give that some perspective, the heads at Mount Rushmore National Memorial are each 60 feet high. Workers completed the carved 87½-foot-tall Crazy Horse face in 1998, and have since focused on thinning the remaining mountain to form the 219-foot-high horse’s head.

Crazy Horse Memorial hosts between 1 and 1½ million visitors a year. The number of foreign travelers, particularly group tours from Asia, is increasing.

The Indian Museum of North America, and the adjoining Welcome Center and Native American Educational and Cultural Center, feature more than 12,000 contemporary and historic items, from pre-Colombian to contemporary times. The new Mountain Museum wing helps explain the work behind the scenes, augmenting the introductory “Dynamite & Dreams” movie at the Welcome Center.

Crazy Horse Memorial is open every day, from 8 a.m. to dark during the summer season. Memorial Day weekend through the end of September, the storytelling continues each night at dark with the “Legends in Light” laser-light show projected on the mountain carving.

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  1. Morning All!
    WOW Filly!
    another great open!
    I am amazed at sculptures and those who create them! taking a block of granite or stone and chipping away what shouldn’t be there boggles my mind. to see it all in your head before you start is one thing to only remove what you don’t want is another.

    the only thing i ever successfully carved was a wooden spoon from a pine log…lol…

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          1. you went there??
            hubby and I always wanted to go…we still might–but we would never go to Sturgis during bike week–crowds freak me out!
            I’d love to see the Black Hills!

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            1. Oh, yeah! Of course, I went to Mt. Rushmore when I was a kid but barely remembered it. I drove to VA and picked David up – he was in a really bad place and his Dad asked me to come out – and brought him back here – he had never been to NE or the midwest. We rented a camper and took about 10 days to travel up thru SD and into Wyoming to Devil’s Tower. We camped in Sioux Falls and did day trips from there.

              We went to Sturgis but it wasn’t during bike week. Bought a beer glass from one of the bars there. Oh, we went all kinds of places!!!!

              Maybe I’ll pull all my pics together, scan them into my computer again, and do an open with just pics from that trip……I donated $300 to the Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary – took a tour of that place, too.

              https://southdakota.com/profile/black-hills-wild-horse-sanctuary/

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  2. i am reposting this from last night

    kea, I sent you an invitation to be an author and write some stories to share, if you want to, and CM? that’s an open invitation to you too!
    I understand everyone’s time constraints…so no pressure–but if anyone wants to contribute stories, we’d love to hear them!
    I’ll repost this invite in the morning.
    Good Night all!

    UPDATE: kea has accepted our invite to be an author…and CM if you ever want to share stories or articles–we’d be glad to have you as well!

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    1. Thanks! I may take you up on that someday, but am very busy with life at the moment. I barely have any free time even on weekends.

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      2. Throwing my approval into the mix, if you ever run across something interesting and do have a little free time. The ones I have been doing are all just cut/paste from the net – I’ve got that down to a science now! LOL – the personally written ones take a LOT more time.

        BTW, it doesn’t have to be a full-blown, 4 page open either – if you run across an article somewhere that explains, for example, something YOU have done in your life that would give us a window into your past experiences, just a brief excerpt and note explaining your connection, then a link to the article – voila! An open!!!!

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        1. Good morning Filly! Thanks. I may write eventually. It would probably be home improvements or gardening type stuff.

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  8. Meet Elizabeth Deutsch. She’s currently a law clerk for Justice Breyer.

    And, in my humble opinion, she’s the most likely person to have leaked the draft Supreme Court opinion in Dobbs, purporting to overturn Roe v. Wade.

    🧵 pic.twitter.com/V8mfc5hG2I

    — Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) May 4, 2022

    She clerked for a stridently pro-choice appellate judge.

    And it just so happens that her husband is a journalist, who shared bylines with Josh Gerstein at Politico, and it looks like they are still buds.

    — Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) May 4, 2022

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  9. EXCERPT: “In 2018 President Trump signed the omnibus spending bill. This 2232-page bill was passed by the House and had included a ban on sending any aid to the Azov battalions. At the time, representative Ro Khanna, a Democrat from California, was an outspoken critic of providing aid to the Azov Battalions. Ro Khanna said in a statement, “I am very pleased that the recently passed omnibus prevents the US from providing arms and training assistance to the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion …” Ro Khanna continued, “White Supremacy and neo-Nazism are unacceptable and have no place in our world.” How interesting it is that the Democrats are now pushing to fund the Azov Battalion to the tune of $33 billion. It seems the roots of the Democratic Party haven’t really changed.

    At the time of the signing of this bill it was already illegal for the Azov Battalion to receive aid under the Leahy Law. The Leahy Law bans U.S. aid from going to groups when the Secretary of State has credible information that such a unit has committed gross violations of human rights. However, people who have been proponents of the ban, specifically on Azov, say that the Leahy law did not preclude it from getting aid. They say that the Secretary of State has never made such a determination about this group in particular. This is why they felt that it was necessary to include a special exception to the Azov battalion in the 2018 omnibus spending bill. Section 8129 specifically precludes Azov from assistance. It reads, “none of the funds made available by this act may be used to provide arms, training, or other assistance to the Azov Battalion.”

    https://trendingpolitics.com/supplying-of-any-weaponry-and-funds-to-azov-is-prohibited-by-law-dodii/

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  10. Good morning y’all! Looks to be another warm day here today. We were supposed to have rain, but it looks to be holding off until Friday now. Got some weed eating done yesterday and got the lawn mowed. May weed eat more this evening after watering the garden…was hoping for that rain!

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    1. And we’ve got more rain coming and clouds again. It didn’t even hit 60 here yesterday – today is supposed to be warmer, rain isn’t supposed to start until tonight. Hopefully, I can get the mowing done today at least…..if the mower starts…..wish me luck!!!!

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  12. here is a thread by will chamberlin on who he thinks is responsible for the scotus leak
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    Meet Elizabeth Deutsch. She’s currently a law clerk for Justice Breyer.

    And, in my humble opinion, she’s the most likely person to have leaked the draft Supreme Court opinion in Dobbs, purporting to overturn Roe v. Wade.

    But first, a disclaimer:

    I have no inside information. This thread is speculation, based almost entirely on publicly available information. I could easily be wrong.

    Cool? Cool.
    Her academic background isn’t that uncommon for Supreme Court clerks. Yale undergrad, Yale law, and 2 British Master’s degrees, from LSE and Cambridge.

    Do note the Master’s degree in Gender.
    Here’s where things start to get interesting. Every law student has to write a note – a long legal research paper, usually making a novel argument about the law.

    Elizabeth Deutsch wrote hers about reproductive rights and abortion.
    Specifically, she argued that Obamacare’s non-discrimination provision should be interpreted to *force* Catholic hospitals to perform “emergency abortions.”

    Aggressive argument – and hey, law students make aggressive arguments.
    While in law school she wrote a NYT op-ed about reproductive rights. Sensing a theme here.

    Her career page on LinkedIn doesn’t reveal that much…until we start digging a little further. Image
    First, thanks to her NYT wedding announcement (of course), we know that she clerked for judge Nina Pillard.
    Pillard was one of the DC Circuit judges appointed by Obama and forced through by Harry Reid blowing up the filibuster.

    She’s stridently pro-choice. Perhaps not shocking.
    After her clerkships, she got a Gruber fellowship at the ACLU for a full year.

    What was she working on?

    You guessed it. Abortion and reproductive rights.
    But none of this proves anything. Yes, Deutsch’s career seems pretty focused on abortion. But without some connection to Josh Gerstein (the journalist who received the leak opinion) there would be no reason to suspect her.

    Let’s go back to that NYT wedding announcement.

    “The bride and groom met at Yale. She is a lawyer. He is a journalist.
    Elizabeth Deutsch, Isaac Arnsdorf (Published 2018)
    The bride and groom met at Yale. She is a lawyer. He is a journalist.

    Isaac Arnsdorf just got hired by the Washington Post as a national political reporter. (Of course he’s on the Trump beat). Image
    But where has he written in the past?

    Oh, look. He wrote for POLITICO.

    SHARING A BYLINE WITH JOSH GERSTEIN.
    Looks like Gerstein and they are still bros – chatting on Twitter, interacting as recently as last year.
    So, to conclude:

    We have a currently-serving Supreme Court law clerk whose career has been almost solely focused on abortion.

    She wrote her law school note on abortion.
    She wrote op-eds about reproductive rights.
    She spent a year working on abortion for the ACLU.
    She clerked for a stridently pro-choice appellate judge.

    And it just so happens that her husband is a journalist, who shared bylines with Josh Gerstein at Politico, and it looks like they are still buds.
    I don’t know that Elizabeth Deutsch leaked the draft opinion.

    But I certainly think someone who has spent much of their academic and professional life fighting to expand the right to get an abortion could be desperate enough to do so.

    FIN

    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1521685968939630592.html

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      1. he’s not the only one making guesses who it was…and the fact that there are many candidates at all tells you the foxes have invaded the henhouse!

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  16. Too funny!!!! I do love Chappelle!!!! Hope you can watch this video, Pat!

    EXCERPT: “In another video, Chappelle could be seen thanking his famous friends for helping out, saying: “Whenever you’re in trouble, Jamie Foxx will show up in a sheriff’s hat.”

    “I thought that was part of the show,” Foxx responded.

    Later the comedian sounded a note of both shock and levity saying, “I’ve been doing this for 35 years. I just stomped a N***** backstage. I’ve always wanted to do that.”

    More Tweets/videos: https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/05/04/watch-dave-chappelle-attacked-onstage-during-hollywood-bowl-show/

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    1. Whoa! That POS got beaten up pretty bad! Clearly, his right shoulder is waaaaay out of it’s socket!!!!

      “After returning to the stage on Tuesday, the 48-year-old joked: “It was a trans man.”

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  17. EXCERPTS: “Republican women put up important victories in the Indiana and Ohio primaries on Tuesday, further torpedoing the feminist left’s talking points about “patriarchy” as the Supreme Court reportedly stands on the cusp of overturning Roe v. Wade.

    In Ohio, the Trump-endorsed Madison Gesiotto Gilbert has been tapped as the projected winner in the primary race for the 13th congressional district, according to Cleveland.com:……..In his much-coveted endorsement, former President Donald Trump hailed Gilbert as an “America First Patriot” at one of his rallies.”
    ————————
    In the Hoosier state of Indiana, Republican women fared even better as candidates Erin Houchin, Jennifer Ruth Green, Victoria Spartz, Angela Grabovsky, and Jackie Walorski secured their nominations. Spartz and Walorski ran in uncontested races.

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/03/republican-women-victorious-ohio-indiana-primaries/

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  18. Pretty darned good record on endorsements! No-one can argue with those numbers!!! 55 to 0!!!! I expect that next week, Trump will continue that streak here with Herbster, altho I won’t be voting for him.

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  19. Entire article @ BB (Nolte): “Hey, you idiots who are all juiced up to vote for Democrats now it looks like the obscenity called Roe v. Wade is about to be overturned… Newsflash, stupes: Those same Democrats had 50 years to make abortion legal all across the land and those same Democrats CHOSE not to.

    How stupid are you?
    No, really, how stupid are you?
    Do you enjoy being manipulated?
    Do you enjoy being played for a stooge?
    Don’t you see what’s going on?

    Think about this…Nearly 50 years ago, after a bunch of old, white men fabricated butchering unborn babies into a Constitutional right, Democrats began using used the threat of Roe v. Wade being overturned to get you to vote for them and send them money.

    For nearly 50 years Democrats have raised the spook specter of, Eeeeevil GOP gonna overturn Roe! And for just as long the GOP has said, Yes, we do want to overturn Roe. No shit, dummies. And what did Democrats do in response? Other than scare you to the polls and take your money, for 50 years Democrats did nothing, nada, not-a-thing, zip, zero, bupkis. Democrats knew this day could come and did nothing!

    Over the course of those 50 years, Democrats held the presidency for 21 years and did nothing to legalize abortion legislatively. For nearly two years, between 2009 and 2011, Democrats held the presidency, the House, and a filibuster-proof majority in the U.S. Senate and still did … nothing!

    And now you’re mad at us? We have NEVER deceived you with our intent to end this atrocity. For 50 years we have been 100 percent upfront and honest about our burning desire to end this holocaust. All we did was what we said we were going to do. We suited up, ran on the field of play, and fought like hell to bring it into the endzone. Where were your guys? They didn’t even show up to play. They were too busy in the stands hustling you for money and votes.

    Don’t you get it? The issue of abortion means nothing to Democrats. This deeply unprincipled party cares only about power and if obtaining power means allowing a problem to fester rather than solve it, they are going to allow that problem to fester.

    Am I getting through to you? Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?

    For 50 years, Democrats have used you in the same way too many Middle Eastern countries use the Palestinians. The Palestinian problem could have been easily solved a hundred times, but their so-called leaders and the countries that hate Israel want to keep the Palestinians poor and miserable to achieve a broader goal — the destruction of Israel (which I know most of you agree with, so ha ha).

    For 50 years Democrats have refused to solve the abortion issue legislatively, have kept you ginned up, have taken your money, have placed you on tenterhooks, have refused to resolve the problem to a achieve a bigger goal — obtaining power through your money and manipulated votes.

    Wake up, idiots. You have no more right to be angry with us than if your team lost by forfeit. You want to know why…? Because Democrats forfeited on this issue for a half-century.

    Dummies.”

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    1. i agree with all this except this will not end abortions. anyone with a lick of reading ability can see that. it merely makes it a state by state issue.
      if you’re in california you think you won’t be able to get an abortion? absurd. new york? same answer.
      this ruling merely states the federal gov’t had no right to make a “constitutional” ruling where it had no jurisdiction.

      so quit with the hair on fire theatrics.

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  20. From The Bee:

    “SAN FRANSISCO, CA—In an unprecedented and bizarre ruling, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has preemptively overturned the upcoming SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

    “Yes, we are well aware that we have no authority to overturn the Supreme Court and that the SCOTUS decision hasn’t even been passed down yet, but we’re Leftists. Try and stop us!” said 9th Circuit Court Judge Kireh Mehvlehn. “The right to abortion is more sacred and transcendent than the Constitution, the country, or the universe itself! By the power vested in me by the eternal forces of darkness, I hereby declare this decision OVERTURNED!” She then banged her official-looking gavel very seriously on her desk to seal the deal.

    Democrat leaders claim the Circuit Court’s decision has no legal power, but we all should obey it anyway since Democrats still need a way to dispose of their mistresses’ children without anyone finding out.

    Republicans responded with anger to the 9th Circuit ruling, but then shrugged their shoulders and said their hands were tied and there was nothing they could do—since Republicans also need a way to dispose of their mistresses’ children without anyone finding out.

    Judge Mehvlehn then announced the court will turn its attention to overturning Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter.”
    ————————–
    “WASHINGTON, D.C.—Democrats have gathered in force on the steps of the Supreme Court Building to express their collective outrage at possibly having to drive a few hours to commit murder.

    “A five-hour round trip just to be able to murder a baby? Does the oppression never end?” cried Senator Warren, surrounded by protesters. “No woman should ever have to fill up with gas in order to meet a hitman!”

    After the news broke of Roe possibly being overturned, liberals initially took to the streets to protest women being jailed for having miscarriages and warning that women with pregnancy complications would be shot for sport. However, they later learned that overturning Roe would do none of those things, and would in fact only allow states the option to outlaw the killing of small kids. This discovery did nothing to diminish their vexation that women in red states would have to drive to neighboring blue states, where killing defenseless children for cash will still be allowed.

    Democrats have vowed to fight tirelessly to ensure murder will remain as easy as possible. “It doesn’t matter what it takes, even if it means an insurrection to overthrow the judiciary—whatever we have to do so kids can have their skulls crushed without too much hassle,” said Senator Klobuchar.

    At publishing time, protesters had updated the Democratic motto ‘Safe, Legal, Rare’ to a chant more fitting for 2022: “Easy, Legal, Extra Lethal!”
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    “WASHINGTON, D.C.—In an announcement leaked to the press, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts stated the person responsible for leaking the draft of the court’s Roe v. Wade decision was found to be Swedish Supreme Court Janitor Hildur Clintonheim.

    “Our elite team of court investigators did phenomenal work catching Clintonheim,” said Chief Justice Roberts while simultaneously checking Twitter to get a read on which way he should rule regarding Roe v. Wade. “And to think this whole time we gave this janitor access to our documents, our offices, and Justice Kavanaugh’s keg den.”

    Roberts said investigators caught Clintonheim in the nick of time as he was trying to replace Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s real, wooden gavel with a fake gavel that made a squeaking sound when hit. Experts believe that had the janitor pulled off this second heist, the nation would have plunged into depravity and chaos, full of parents killing unborn children and adults openly grooming and drugging school kids.

    Shock and dismay have reportedly rippled through the halls of the highest—and now most vulnerable—court in the land. Justice Sonia Sotomayor expressed particular surprise at the source of the leak, stating she didn’t know Sweden was a real country.

    The investigative team who caught Clintonheim could not be reached for comment as they had all mysteriously killed themselves.”

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    1. Another one:

      “JERUSALEM—Religious experts have begun voicing concerns that a local carpenter’s disinformation is spreading among Israelites most susceptible to unapproved ideas.

      “Visit your nearest synagogue for the latest information on how to obey God. Listen to the experts!” A contingent of authorities in Jewish law spoke out against the carpenter’s simple teaching about loving God and your neighbor. “Follow the data—we need tithes, loopholes, and ever-changing rules, not repentant hearts!”

      The usually divided Pharisees, Sadducees, and Scribes showed solidarity in fact-checking Jesus’s teaching. “We rate Jesus’s teaching as ‘Needs Context,’” said a spokesman for the group.

      Eyewitnesses have confirmed that a group of Independent Fact Checkers followed the carpenter around holding large signs with disclaimers above his head: “SINCE YOUR SERMON INCLUDES INFORMATION ABOUT OBEYING GOD’S LAW, WE’VE ADDED DIRECTIONS TO THE NEAREST SYNAGOGUE.”

      At publishing time, the religious experts were conspiring with the government to keep the dangerous disinformation from spreading into Judea, Samaria, or to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

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  21. More dirt on Oz….so many in the medical community use their medical creds as an excuse to support despots!!!!

    EXCERPT: “Despite tough rhetoric toward China, Pennsylvania Senate candidate Mehmet Oz once worked at a Chinese military hospital and spoke glowingly about the country, according to a recent report. Oz in the 1990s performed surgeries in at least two hospitals, including the Chinese military “301 Hospital,” according to the Washington Times.

    Oz, in an undated video posted on YouTube, said he first came to China in 1993 and “actually operated at Fuwai Hospital and the military 301 Hospital.” “I’ve had a long history of coming to this great country,” he added. In the video, Oz indicated he was at a USANA baby care facility in Beijing. USANA Health Services was a sponsorship partner of his daytime TV health and wellness show that had a subsidiary in China.

    The “301 Hospital” is described as a Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) General Hospital on the website of an affiliate hospital. According to the description, it was founded in 1953 and is “an important health care base of the central government.”

    “It is responsible for the medical care of military commissions, headquarters and other units, officers and soldiers, and the diagnosis and treatment of difficult diseases in various military regions, services and arms. The hospital is also a medical school of the People’s Liberation Army. It focuses on postgraduate education and is the only hospital running a school in the entire army,” it said.

    On January 24, 2019, Oz tweeted a photo of himself and two relatives during a trip to Beijing, tweeting:

    ‘#TBT to a trip I’ll never forget — Beijing, 1992 with my father-in–law Gerald Lemole and brother–in–law Michael Lemole. We’re all doctors and were there to operate.’

    He encouraged followers to follow him on a Chinese social media platform Weibo, where he posted to an account in Chinese until May 2019. The Times noted that Oz’s father in law, Dr. Gerald Lemole, was a cardiovascular surgeon like Oz and had taken a heart surgery team to Beijing in 1991 to train Chinese doctors, according to a Philadelphia Inquirer article.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/03/mehmet-oz-performed-surgeries-chinese-military-hospital-90s/

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  22. GO GET ‘EM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the computer shop owner files suit against all who lied and called him a hacker and the hunter laptop russian misinformation
    FTA
    CNN, The Daily Beast, Politico, and Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) have just been hit with a multi-million dollar lawsuit for spreading false claims about “Russian disinformation.”

    John Paul Mac Isaac, the computer repairman who turned in Hunter Biden’s “Laptop from Hell” to the FBI, claims in his suit that Schiff and the others falsely accused him of peddling Russian disinformation.

    His attorney Brian Della Rocca said Mac Isaac is seeking “at least $1 million in compensatory damages and punitive damages which will be the much bigger number and will be determined at trial” because his client has “suffered immensely at the false statements spread about those who brought the information on Hunter Biden’s laptop to everyone’s attention.”

    “He has lost his business, friendships, and his honorable standing in his community.

    “This lawsuit is to attempt to repair a small portion of that damage caused by the defendants in the suit.

    “We intend to show that their actions were intentionally malicious,” he added.

    Mac Isaac said: “After fighting to reveal the truth, all I want now is for the rest of the country to know that there was a collective and orchestrated effort by social and mainstream media to block a real story with real consequences for the nation.

    “This was collusion led by 51 former pillars in the intelligence community and backed by words and actions of a politically motivated DOJ and FBI.

    “I want this lawsuit to reveal that collusion and more importantly, who gave the marching orders.

    “Twitter initially labeled my action hacking, so for the first day after my information was leaked, I was bombarded with hate mail and death threats revolving around the idea that I was a hacker, a thief and a criminal.

    “Schiff has some explaining to do.

    “Without any intel, the head of the intel committee decided to share with CNN and its viewers a complete and utter lie.

    “A lie issued in the protection of a preferred presidential candidate.

    “The fight to get to the bottom of who told everyone this was Russian disinformation is far more important for the nation than me clearing my name.”

    https://slaynews.com/news/adam-schiff-and-cnn-hit-with-multi-million-dollar-defamation-lawsuit-over-russia-claims/

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  23. EXCERPT: “Academy Award-winning actor James Woods roasted CNN flack Jeffrey Toobin’s abortion rant, saying, “his seed never gets past his laptop screen.”

    “The #GreatWanker, Jeffrey Toobin, pontificating on abortion is ironic,” Wood wrote in reaction to Toobin going off on abortion rant on CNN.

    “His seed never gets past his laptop screen,” the actor added, in reference to when The New Yorker famously suspended Toobin after he was caught masturbating during a Zoom call with New Yorker and WNYC radio members in 2020.

    In his rant, Toobin claimed that abortion rates do not go down in societies that ban a woman’s choice to kill her unborn child, alleging that “there are just as many abortions, if not more” in these societies. The CNN analyst also claimed that in such societies, the killing of a woman’s unborn child “is conducted in an unsafe way,” adding, “all it does is drive the process underground and endanger women’s lives.”

    In 2008, a married Toobin impregnated his colleague’s daughter Casey Greenfield and pressured the lawyer to have an abortion. She refused to terminate the pregnancy. A Manhattan Family Court judge forced CNN’s star chief legal analyst to pay child support.

    In reaction to another pro-choice activist, Woods tweeted at Reverend Raphael Warnock, who said, “As a pro-choice pastor, I’ve always believed that a patient’s room is way too small for a woman, her doctor, and the United States government. I’ll always fight to protect a woman’s right to choose. And that will never change.”

    “Ironic that you don’t mention room for the baby,” Woods reacted.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/05/03/james-woods-rips-cnn-flack-jeffrey-toobins-abortion-rant-his-seed-never-gets-past-his-laptop-screen/

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  24. Yeah, well, that’s all well and good….but Google still retains the data!!!!! And sells it!!!

    Entire article @ BB: “Google has launched a new tool that will allow users to remove their phone number, email address, home address, and other personal information from its search engine.

    NPR reports that Google is now offering a tool that will allow users to remove their phone number, email or street address, and other personal info from its search engine. Michelle Chang, Google’s global policy lead for search stated in a recent announcement of the change: “The availability of personal contact information online can be jarring.” She added that the data could result in “unwanted direct contact or even physical harm.”

    Google previously only offered to remove personal and financial information in a situation where there was a legitimate threat, but now Google is allowing anyone to remove their personal information. Chang noted that people should still be wary of the personal info they put online, stating: “It’s important to remember that removing content from Google Search won’t remove it from the internet, which is why you may wish to contact the hosting site directly, if you’re comfortable doing so.”

    Google may still deny a removal request from a user if they deem that the information is “broadly useful” or part of public record, such as information that is newsworthy or posted to government sites.

    Applying to have your information removed is surprisingly easy, simply follow this link and click on the button stating “Start removal request.” Google explains what happens after submitting a request, writing:

    – You get an automated email confirmation. This confirms we received the request.

    – We review your request. Each request is evaluated on factors including the requirements above.

    – We gather more info, if needed. In some cases, we may ask you for more information. If the request doesn’t have enough information for us to evaluate, like missing URLs, we’ll share specific instructions and ask you to resubmit the request.

    – You get a notification of any action taken.

    If the submitted URLs are found to be within the scope of our policy, either the URLs will be removed for all queries or the URLs will be removed only from search results in which the query includes the complainant’s name, or other provided identifiers, such as aliases.

    If the request doesn’t meet the requirements for removal, we’ll also include a brief explanation. If your request is denied and later you have additional materials to support your case, you can re-submit your request.
    Read more at NPR here.”

    Links: https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/05/03/how-to-tell-google-to-forget-your-data/

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  26. EXCERPT: “On Tuesday, President Biden reacted to the decision by warning that reversing Roe would mean undoing the right to contraception in Griswold v. Connecticut, and other rights involving privacy. “If the rationale of the decision, as released, were to be sustained, a whole range of rights are in question.”

    Biden’s arguments were echoed by other left-wing pundits, and who warned that the right to interracial marriage in Lawrence, the right to same-sex marriage in Obergefell, and other rights were in danger.

    Some even claimed, falsely, that Alito specifically linked his rationale for overturning Roe to these other cases. But Alito, in fact, distinguished the decision in Roe from these other cases, because only abortion involves taking a potential human life.

    Alito began that portion of his argument (page 31 on the leaked draft) by noting that Casey v. Planned Parenthood (1992), a follow-up to Roe, defended the right to abortion by citing precedents establishing many of these other rights, which he listed.

    Alito then noted that the right to privacy was not absolute: if it were, it would “license fundamental rights to illicit drug use, prostitution, and the like.” Moreover, he said, abortion was different from the many other rights the Court had recognized:

    ‘What sharply distinguishes the abortion right from the rights recognized in the cases on which Roe and Casey rely is something that both these decisions acknowledged: Abortion destroys what those decisions call “potential life” and what the law at issue in this case regards as the life of an “unborn human being.” See Roe, 410 U.S., at 159 (abortion is “inherently different”); Casey, 505 U.S., at 852 (abortion is a “unique act”). None of the other decisions cited by Roe and Casey involved the critical moral question posed by abortion. They are therefore inapposite. They do not support the right to obtain an abortion, and by the same token, our conclusion that the Constitution does not confer such a right does not undermine them in any way.'”

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/03/fact-check-alito-decision-on-abortion-specifically-denies-other-personal-rights-affected-reversing-roe/

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  27. Merger? Yes or no: with TruthSocial?

    Entire article@ BB: “Recent reports claim that Tesla CEO Elon Musk is in talks with large investment firms and high-net-worth individuals to back his $44 billion Twitter acquisition. Musk could be attempting to bring in additional outside money to lower the portion of his own personal fortune at stake in the acquisition of the social media platform.

    NBC News reports that Tesla CEO Elon Musk is in negotiations with large investment firms and high net-worth individuals to take on more financing for his $44 billion purchase of the social media platform Twitter, reducing the amount of his own wealth attached to the deal. Musk, who is currently the world’s richest person, is worth $245 billion.

    But most of Musk’s wealth is attached to his shares in Tesla. Last week, Musk revealed that the had sold $8.5 billion worth of Tesla stock following his agreement to purchase Twitter. Musk has committed to investing $21 billion in the purchase of Twitter, a sum that new financing from outside investors could reduce.

    Musk agreed to pay the $21 billion in cash alongside a margin loan secured against his Tesla shares. The banks involved in the deal agreed last month to provide $13 billion in loans based on Twitter’s business reportedly rejected the idea of offering more debt to Musk for the purchase of the company due to the social media platform’s limited cash flow.

    Musk has further pledged Tesla shares to banks in order to secure a $12.5 billion margin loan based on new investor interest in financing the deal. Musk is reportedly in talks with private investors such as equity firms, hedge funds, and high-net-worth individuals in an effort to secure preferred equity financing for the deal.

    Preferred equity would pay a fixed dividend from Twitter, similar to how a bond or loan pays regular interest but would appreciate in line with the equity value of Twitter. Among the equity firms speaking to Musk are Apollo Global Management and Ares Management, according to inside sources.

    Recently leaked internal communications between Twitter employees reveal that many are panicked and angry about Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s takeover of the company.”

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  36. anyone ever had dandelion wine?
    I remember as a kid picking them for my grandmother who made it but I never tasted it.
    the deer here seem to hoover up the yellow dandelions…before they can take over the yard…lol..

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  38. Hi everyone!!!! Its a so so day. Off to chase from rabbits. Need to weed wack some grass and replant some bulbs because a little fuzzy thing pulled them all out.

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  44. Well, so much for mowing today! Brrrrr…..in just the short time it took to run into the grocery store for bananas, and stop at Casey’s for gas for the mower, my hands were already numb! Nope – I am NOT mowing when it is that cold! I’ve mowed when the grass was longer than it is now with no problem so…..I am going to continue hibernating for the moment! LOL – ah! Hot coffee!!!!

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  45. EXCERPT: “The U.S. trade deficit rose an astonishing 22 percent in March to $109.8 billion as prices of oil and imported products rose due to soaring inflation, according to data released Friday by the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

    The trade gap for February was revised up to $89.8 billion, making it the previous record high. January’s figure was $89.23, which was then a record high. Economists had been expecting the deficit to hit $106.5 billion, according to Econoday.

    Imports jumped 10.3 percent in March to a record $351.5 billion. The figures are not adjusted for inflation so much of the gain is likely due to higher prices and not solely caused by an increase in imports. Oil prices surged in March, contributing to the surge in nominal imports. Exports were also up, rising 5.6 percent to $241.7 billion, also a record.

    U.S. imports have surged in nominal terms as inflationary pressures have put the U.S. economy in a headlock. Strong demand from U.S. consumers, flush with excess savings from suppressed spending during the lockdowns and stimulus checks, pushed imports above $300 billion last fall. March was the fifth consecutive month above that highwater mark.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2022/05/04/bidenflation-trade-deficit-soars-over-100-billion-for-the-first-time-ever/

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  46. EXCERPT: “The European Union is aiming to set up a medical super-database containing the medical information of citizens from across the multinational bloc.

    EU officials look set to start their newest experiment with big data, with those within the new bloc promising to create a pan-European medical super-database containing the private health information of people from all across the union’s 27 member states.

    While the multinational organisation’s mandarins appear to be praising the move as the next big step forward in healthcare for the union, past examples of data leaks and warnings from experts reveal that such a project might be fraught with danger.

    According to a press release on the European Union’s website, the so-called “European Health Data Space”, or EHDS, will allow medical professionals, as well as approved researchers and third parties, to access citizen’s medical data in a way that is in keeping with EU laws surrounding privacy and information security.

    Those who have their information on the system will also reportedly be able to control their information to some degree, being able to correct inaccurate elements and restrict access to certain records to some degree, the extent of which is left unmentioned in the press releases.”
    ——————-
    “Time and time again governments say that they are providing a data service to their citizens and claim that it will be protected, but what we see is this information ending up in data profiles available on Google searches,” one security researcher told Breitbart London regarding the dangers of vaccine passes.

    “The systems we have are too complicated and once that data gets digitised and out there and replicated in the country’s database that you are travelling to, with its own set of privacy protocols, you are looking at an expanding universe [of data],” he went on to say.

    Despite this negative experience the French had with their digital vaccine pass system however, it does not seem to have deterred French civil servants from moving further down the big data rabbit hole, with the country having since announced that it was creating a fully-fledged state digital ID system only days after the country’s president, Emmanuel Macron, was elected to a second term in office.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/05/04/eu-wants-to-create-a-pan-continental-medical-super-database/

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  48. Entire article @ BB: “A generous neighbor recently gave $200 to each of the 48 deputies working for the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office in Milledgeville, Georgia, and their reactions were priceless. The gift amounted to nearly $10,000, WMAZ reported Monday. Ernesto Lopez has been a deputy with the agency for many years and recently took some time away from the office. However, when he got back to work there was an envelope waiting for him and he had no idea what was inside.

    “Usually, we get Chick-fil-A gift cards, you know — just something small — but when I saw it, I was surprised. I wasn’t expecting something like that,” he recalled, adding the cash will help with bills and other expenses. Tori Kala, who works as assistant vice president of Century Bank and Trust, was the one person the anonymous donor knew would accomplish his mission, so she put together the envelopes with special notes inside and promptly delivered them to the agency.

    In a social media post Wednesday, the sheriff’s office posted a photo of officials with the stack of white envelopes:
    ——————-
    Followers were quick to applaud the donor’s surprise gift and share their appreciation for the deputies. “How awesome! I know each & every deputy was thankful! God bless this special donor who appreciates his Sheriff’s Office!” one person commented. Someone else called the gift “Well deserved” while another said, “A tough and often under appreciated job, that’s an awesome gesture.”

    According to Kala, the generous donor simply wanted to show his appreciation for the people who give so much to their community every day. “He said, ‘You know what? Law enforcement needs it for what they do. They protect us.’ He wanted to thank them for their service and protecting us,” Kala told WMAZ.

    Meanwhile, Sheriff Bill Massee reportedly knew the donor’s name but was keeping it a secret.”

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  49. FDA says trend is cv is more like seasonal flu…cdc says puts your masks back on…battling asswipes…

    FTA
    Top officials at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wrote Monday that, going forward, Americans will have to accept COVID-19 as another respiratory virus like influenza.

    FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, Principal Deputy Commissioner Janet Woodcock and the agency’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, wrote that COVID-19 will be in circulation for the foreseeable future and must be accepted as another common virus in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Like with influenza, this new reality will likely require annual COVID-19 shots to be tailored around the most threatening strains of the virus, the officials wrote.

    https://dailycaller.com/2022/05/03/fda-covid-19-coronavirus-influenza-flu-vaccine-annual/

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  50. too funny…not gonna link the story it’s behar for pete’s sake…
    joy claims women need to have a sex strike to straighten out the world…the replies were hysterical

    a) who would hit THAT in the first place?
    I would, repeatedly, with a snow shovel

    b) does this mean behar has to give up ALL her batteries?

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