THE RADIUM (GHOST) GIRLS

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On the 20th of April, 1902, Marie and Pierre Curie successfully isolated a brand new element: radium, after years of hard work. At the time, it was believed that this new material might have all kinds of beneficial properties. So radium was swiftly incorporated into many products, ranging from makeup to ceramics to health tonics and jewelry. What wasn’t understood at this time was that radium was, in fact, quite deadly. A year before the publishing of her book “Radioactivity,” Marie died. Before her death, she had become aware of the great perils of radiation, which is also what took her life.

By the time Marie died, radium had taken the globe by storm. Radiation was something that wasn’t well understood at the time but had positive associations. It was branded under names such as “cure for the living dead” and “perpetual sushine. And perpetual is exactly what it turned out to be!

As the world descended into World War One, another use for radium came to the forefront: when infused into paint, it would make that paint glow in the dark. This made it an ideal material for coating watch faces, control panels, and instrument dials. Radium provided much-needed illumination for soldiers in the field without relying on other bulky equipment. From 1917 the demand for radium-coated dials skyrocketed, which was good news for the United States Radium Corporation. The company had been in the business of extracting and processing uranium for a few years. Now it expanded to mixing and applying radium-infused paint, a substance which they called“undark.”

Women using radium paint on alarm clock at a factory in 1932 | Picture Credits: Daily Herald Archive

It was no surprise that many local people were employed as dial painters. The dial painters would be supplied with radium paint and freshly stamped dials and had to use paintbrushes to strategically apply radium to the dial parts that needed to glow. Precision was required, so workers were instructed to lick the tips of their brushes in between each application to bring the bristles to a fine point.

For precision, the girls would soften the brush between their lips, thereby ingesting radium in the process | Photo Credits: Nontoxic Prints

The United States Radium Corporation workers had access to radium for free. They used it to paint their teeth and nails to give them a pleasant glow before heading out to dances in the evenings. Years passed. Hundreds of thousands of dials were painted and shipped out. The war eventually came to an end, much to the relief of the general population. But all was not well for the ex-workers of the United States Radium Corporation.

The original site of the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation in Orange, NJ Richard Harbus

Slowly, one by one, dial painters were falling ill. As the 1910s became the 1920s, hundreds of women who had worked as dial painters started noticing pain in their teeth and jaws. Many were having to visit their dentists regularly and were losing teeth with every visit. They were constantly exhausted, and in some cases, it was found that their jawbones were riddled with holes, reduced to a brittle hollow honeycomb. Despite this alarming wave of sickness, few were able to persuade anyone to take their ailments seriously. These female workers came to be known as the ‘Radium Girls.’

Radium Jaw, a certain sign of death in victims | Photo Credits: All That Is Interesting

When 22-year-old Molly Maggia passed away after experiencing years of pain in her jaw and teeth, her condition was described as syphilis. The complaints of many other women were glossed over with the same explanation, despite symptoms that pointed towards something more sinister. It was 1925 before any of the workers came to understand the devastating effect radium had on their bodies.

The 19-year-old woman started working at the Radium Luminous Materials Corp. in Orange, NJ, in 1917, and at first reveled in her job. It was lucrative — plus painting glow-in-the-dark radium on soldiers’ wristwatch faces meant she and her young female co-workers were helping in the war effort.

Grace Fryer had once been a dial painter. Now her body was quite literally falling apart. The bones of her spine crumbled and required a metal brace. Tumors and abscesses sprouted in her jaw, and she was in constant pain. The radium she had ingested while working had riddled her with cancer and weakened her bones. It would soon end her life.

Furious, Grace and four of her colleagues moved to sue their ex-employer. For two years, however, no lawyer would take them seriously, despite their steadily worsening conditions. In 1928, the suit was finally filed. By this time, the demand for radium was declining, as people woke up to the dangers of radiation. Sales of radium-infused products fell further when newspapers around the world printed details of Grace’s story.

Grace Fryer, the first victim to take the radium industry to court | Photo Credits: Buzzfeed

The Radium Girls weren’t just sick; they were literally radioactive. The body of Mollie Maggia was exhumed in 1927 in the hope that her bones would give the remaining victims the evidence they needed to win their cases. Reportedly, when her coffin was lifted off the ground, her body glowed because of radiation. It wasn’t entirely surprising, considering her bones were found to be highly radioactive.

By the end of 1928, the case had been settled in favor of the female workers. They were awarded some compensation, although it was only a fraction of what they had initially demanded. Their medical bills were covered, and they were able to live out their final days with some measure of dignity. Many more suits followed from workers not just at the United States Radium Corporation but at several companies that had handled radium in the years after its discovery. Workers came to testify on their death beds. While Grace Fryer and her colleagues are remembered for leading the fight against injustice, there were thousands of more workers whose fates varied enormously.

Bedside Hearings of radium girls were common since they were too ill to come to the court. | Photo Credits: RSNA

Though many of the radium girls suffered greatly and died before their time, their deaths were not in vain. Many of these victims volunteered for tests and medical examinations, allowing us to understand for the first time how radiation affects the human body. This persuaded scientists to take extraordinary precautions in later experiments with nuclear weapons, potentially saving thousands of lives.

In addition to this enormous service to later generations, the case pushed forward by the radium girls was the first incident in which an employer was forced to take responsibility for the health and safety of its employees. This was a revolutionary concept in 1928.

The sacrifice and courage of the Radium Girls deserve to be applauded. Their case led to the introduction of life-saving regulations for workers all over the world and the establishment of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in the United States. The fearless champions continue to shine through history.

Few if any residents in Orange, NJ today know the history of the former plant site. Quietly tucked into a tree-lined residential neighborhood, it has been renamed High & Alden Street Park and features a playground — perhaps a fitting tribute to the young lives lost.

“I think it’s a good idea they [made it a park],’’ resident Robin Laurent, 40, recently told The Post after learning of its past. “It’s good for the people in the neighborhood and the people of Orange.’’

The playground that now stands on the site


References: https://nypost.com/2017/03/22/skin-glowing-from-radium-ghost-girls-died-for-a-greater-cause/

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  1. Morning All!
    awesome open Filly!
    those poor women!!
    it’s nice that there’s a park where the factory used to be, but has the radium been disposed of properly? hope it’s not buried there!!!

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      1. agreed. but it’s the announcing it that’s curious.
        she could let those she interacts with daily know…so why the announcement?
        Blue always thought there was some coded message–and I don’t know that i believe all that…but it IS curious

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  10. how is THIS not a call for an insurrection???

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  11. I was wondering about this…Pompeo is claiming mcconnell wants barnette to win the primary because she can’t win the general–so he gets a democrat. someone replies that REALPOTUS endorsed oz because some of barnette’s older tweets are really bad and can easily be used against her if she wins the primary. I’m not saying any of that is true…could all be a head fake…

    California Joe
    May 10, 2022 1:44 am

    Mike Pompeo is publicly attacking Dr. Oz ( at the direction of Mitch McConnell!). Mitch would rather have Kathy Barnette win the primary because he knows she will easily lose the general election. McConnell wants a Democrat win in Pennsylvania!

    https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-pompeo-questions-dr-oz-candidacy-after-voting-turkish-election-2022-5

    redlion
    redlion
    May 10, 2022 3:13 am
    Reply to Fangdog

    If anyone here takes the time to search for Kathy Barnette’s tweets on topics such as marriage, you can clearly see that her old tweets carry enough radioactive baggage that may cost her the election in a blue state like Pennsylvania.

    After taking a look at Kathy Barnette’s twitter history, I can understand why President Trump did not endorse her because her past public comments on twitter make for very easy opposition research by the Democrats.

    Marriage Licenses r RACIST!

    Listen @ http://t.co/djJRNDlJ2C #WAARadio #BlackLivesMatter http://t.co/n4I305asuj pic.twitter.com/TKW1ggteWP

    — Kathy Barnette (@Kathy4Truth) September 26, 2015

    @terriveganmom @WayneDupreeShow @smithkarl393 Gay marriage rights IS NO WHERE in the 14th Amendment. D 5 “gods” on d SCOTUS made it up…

    — Kathy Barnette (@Kathy4Truth) July 2, 2015

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        1. I can understand that, considering McTurtle – and he is right, sort of. She should come out RIGHT NOW and loudly/proudly admit she was wrong!!!! However, she wasn’t wrong about gay marriage. Same principle as Roe, IMO.

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  18. Well, the female orioles are here – saw 2 of them on the feeder and jelly this morning. Yep – straight into summer! Calling for a high of 90 on Thursday, with thunderstorms. Primary day for me today! I’m seriously conflicted on the Governor’s race – Trump’s endorsed Herbster or Pillen, who Ricketts has endorsed – both have issues for me but the 3rd guy, Lindstrom, is too young and inexperienced, and in the one term he had, he voted to raise NE taxes. Problem for me with Herbster is that his campaign aid told me he won’t support MM until the FDA authorizes it and was kind of wishy-washy on my other questions. But, then, I don’t expect Trump would support it, either. Neither of the other two responded to my questions. I am sooo sick and tired of the same old/same old!!!!

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    1. I made a dish for the orioles and put out some jelly. I cut a sour cream container so it’s maybe 3/4″ high and glued it to an old hummer feeder bottom turned upside down. The dish fits perfectly in the little indentation in the feeder bottom. Then i tied twine to rim of the feeder and secured the dish to the railing. Yesterday I just set the cut sour cream container on the railing and later in the afternoon they knocked it off the railing. this way it’s secured there and the hummer feeder bottom gives them perches to sit on.
      hubby intends to string something up from the eave to the tree out there with a pulley so we can get the feeder off the deck and can leave it out there all night–i brought the dish in last night so the bears and raccoons won’t get at it. But since the next 2 weekends we’re on roof patrol it may not happen till later this month.

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      1. Excellent rigging! We make do, eh? When I go out to vote later, I’m going to stop at FD and see if they have any cheap jelly feeders – the one I have is a small dark blue plastic square container attached to an iron hanger. I put a Pyrex custard cup inside to put the jelly in. I’m clearly going to need more than one since my big one got all busted up. They prefer the jelly over the nectar.

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  20. EXCERPT: “An Alabama law making it a felony to conduct gender transition surgeries or provide puberty blockers and other hormone treatments to children under the age of 19 took effect Monday, carrying a sentence of up to ten years in prison for those convicted.

    Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) signed the Alabama Vulnerable Child Protection Act into law in April, telling opponents like White House press secretary Jen Psaki. “Alabama will continue protecting our kids and not letting out-of-state liberals like Jen Psaki and the Biden White House tell us what to do.”

    “Our state is prepared to defend our values,” Ivey continued. “Like I said, we need to focus on properly developing our children into the adults God intended them to be.”

    Several transgender groups have been challenging the bill and are seeking a temporary injunction on its taking effect — but federal district Judge Liles Burke on Sunday made no overture toward blocking the measure.
    ———————–
    Alabama is the first state to successfully implement such a measure, as the Arkansas legislature attempted a similar protection only to meet the veto of the Natural State’s governor Asa Hutchinson (R).

    Relatedly, Ivey signed another child protection bill banning the discussion of sexual orientation in K-5 classrooms as well as requiring children use the restroom that aligns with their biological sex.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/09/alabama-ban-gender-transition-surgery-drugs-children-takes-effect/

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  21. Entire article @ BB: “Monday, during an appearance on FNC’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said he was working with lawmakers to dissolve Biden’s so-called Disinformation Governance Board.

    The Kentucky Republican lawmaker said he opposed policing news organizations and argued determinations about “disinformation” should be left up to the public.

    “We’re going to shut it down,” he said. “And I’m busily getting signatures from other senators. There is a way that we can get it onto the calendar. And there is perhaps a way we can actually get a vote. It’s not very easy when the Democrats control things, but I’m going to do everything I possibly can to get a vote to defund this organization. Boy, is it any — is it not with amazement you see how far that they have come from Kennedy’s Democrat Party? This is not your grandfather’s Democrat Party anymore. So much for the marketplace of ideas. They have decided that they are going to determine what disinformation is.”

    “But my point to Mayorkas was this,” Paul continued. “We have a $32 million Mueller investigation to see if there is collusion between Russia and Trump. There wasn’t any. And, yet, the Steele dossier, upon which they base this all on, which was given to Steele by Russians, it was Russian disinformation. If they can’t admit that that’s disinformation, it was propagated by CNN for years and years. If they can’t admit that, how could they possibly do the job of policing disinformation? Now, I don’t think it’s a job that you could possibly do. So even if you could, and they admitted that it was disinformation, I would be against policing CNN. People can turn the channel when they see that CNN doesn’t care about the truth. But I would not police CNN. I’m against policing any news organization. The public can figure this out.”

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  22. Huh….this is interesting:

    EXCERPT: “Investors should probably be rooting for Rich Strike in the Preakness but against the horse in the Belmont Stakes. According to time-honored Wall Street tradition, a Triple Crown winner means that the market will decline in the second half of the year. But when a horse wins the Derby and the Preakness and not the Belmont, stocks go higher. There’s no rhyme or reason to this, but the pattern has worked out time and time again.

    The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 5.6 percent in 2018 when Justify won the last Triple Crown, and it was off 2.2 percent in 2015 when American Pharoah took the crown. Between the years 1919 and 1978, only 11 horses won racing’s Triple Crown. In eight of those 11 years, the Dow fell. There were no Triple Crown winners in the 1980s, 1990s, or the first decade of this century.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2022/05/09/breitbart-business-digest-rich-strike-and-the-curse-of-the-triple-crown/

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  23. Another court win!

    EXCERPT: “Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) will remain on the 2022 midterm ballot, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Monday afternoon.

    “Today, the Arizona Supreme Court affirmed that, in Arizona, conservatives have free speech too and cannot be punished on a trumped-up claim of ‘insurrection’ absent a criminal conviction and due process,” Gosar’s attorney Alexander Kolodin exclusively told Breitbart News. “It was an honor to represent Congressman Gosar to vindicate this important principle.”

    The lawsuit sought to disqualify Gosar based on section three of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution enacted after the Civil War. The action alleged Gosar was ineligible for the November ballot because he violated the Disqualification Clause in the Fourteen Amendment by participating in the January 6 incident, which the media dubbed an “insurrection.”

    The suit was originally tossed by Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Christopher Coury in April. It was then appealed to the Arizona Supreme Court.

    On Monday, Arizona Supreme Court Justice Robert Brutinel ruled against the emergency appeal based on procedural grounds. Justice Brutinel agreed with the lower court’s ruling the said the plaintiffs improperly argued that private citizens can challenge a candidate’s ballot qualification, which is “not the proper proceeding to initiate a Disqualification Clause challenge.” That right is left up to congressional authority:

    “Qualifications of its own Members,” appears to vest Congress with exclusive authority to determine whether to enforce the Disqualification Clause against its prospective members. However, we need not decide these issues because we hold that A.R.S. § 16-351(B), which authorizes an elector to challenge a candidate “for any reason relating to qualifications for the office sought as prescribed by law, including age, residency, professional requirements or failure to fully pay fines . . . ,” is not the proper proceeding to initiate a Disqualification Clause challenge. By its terms, the statute’s scope is limited to challenges based upon “qualifications . . . as prescribed by law,” and does not include the Disqualification Clause, a legal proscription from holding office.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/09/exclusive-arizona-supreme-court-allows-paul-gosar-2022-ballot/

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  24. This is exactly what I said about this BS!!!!

    EXCERPT: “In light of Oz’s service in the Turkish military, his endorsement deal with Turkish Airlines, his Turkish real estate portfolio, and his vote in Turkey’s most recent presidential election, scholars are speculating that his mother’s health may not be the true reason he maintains his citizenship in the country.

    As American Enterprise Institute senior fellow Michael Rubin pointed out, Oz could still care for his mother without being a citizen of the country. For example, Turkey’s reportedly lax visa process would allow Oz to visit his mother without being a citizen of the country. As Rubin explained:

    ‘Oz could care for his mother regardless of his citizenship status. Until recently, Americans could go to a booth at Turkey’s major international airports and get a Turkish visa for $20. The whole process took less than five minutes, even when there was a line. Oz reportedly has a net worth in excess of $100 million, so the financial strain of getting a visa a few times each year was no deterrent. Today, the process is even easier: U.S. citizens can apply online for an e-visa in advance of their travel and receive their Turkey visa almost instantaneously.’

    Oz could be considered a foreign agent of Turkey, according to an advocacy group that recently called on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate Oz for a possible violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act for his work with Turkish government-backed Turkish Airlines.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/09/scholars-question-mehmet-ozs-justification-for-maintaining-turkish-citizenship/

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  26. EXCERPT: “Democrats are defending Roe v. Wade as the foundation of women’s rights, but their bill to codify Roe into law lacks the word “woman,” and only mentions the word “women” in the title.
    ——————–
    But the 2021 bill to codify Roe, the Women’s Health Protection Act, did far more than that. It also included radical provisions on gender, including the proclamation that biological women who identify as transgender men can also become pregnant:

    ‘The terms “woman” and “women” are used in this bill to reflect the identity of the majority of people targeted and affected by restrictions on abortion services, and to address squarely the targeted restrictions on abortion, which are rooted in misogyny. However, access to abortion services is critical to the health of every person capable of becoming pregnant. This Act is intended to protect all people with the capacity for pregnancy—cisgender women, transgender men, non-binary individuals, those who identify with a different gender, and others—who are unjustly harmed by restrictions on abortion services.’

    In addition, the bill included other radical provisions on “reproductive justice,” calling it a fight against “white supremacy.”

    Byron York of the Washington Examiner noted Monday that the 2022 version of the Women’s Health Protection Act had stripped out the radical “roots” of the legislation. However, the new legislation failed to include the word “woman” at all (original emphasis):

    The 2021 bill is, in many ways, the bare, exposed id of today’s Democratic Party. It is filled with the kind of language that turns off voters in the vast middle of the electorate — Democrats, Republicans, and independents. And that is why, now that the Supreme Court leak has pushed abortion to the front of the political debate, and with midterm elections on the way, Democrats have removed all that language from the 2021 version of the bill.

    That stuff about Reproductive Justice? It’s gone. About BIPOC? It’s gone, too. Nonbinary people? Gone. White supremacy? Nowhere to be found. Now that Democrats know the public will be watching, thanks to the Supreme Court leak, they don’t want people to see what they really think about abortion.

    One notable aspect of the 2021 bill has made it into the 2022 bill. Even though it is known as the “Women’s Health Protection Act,” the title is the only place in the entire 2022 bill where the word “women” or “woman” appears. Instead, the 2022 bill is designed to cover any “person” who is pregnant. It describes its purpose as protecting “a person’s ability to determine whether to continue or end a pregnancy,” and it would strike down any effort to “interfere with a person’s ability to terminate a pregnancy [or] to diminish or in any way negatively affect a person’s constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/09/democrats-bill-to-codify-roe-abortion-omits-the-word-woman/

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  36. Just called my Congress critter, Adrian Smith’s office. I asked if he had watched 2000 Mules and the clerk said he didn’t know. I requested that Smith watch it and respond to me via e-mail, that I EXPECTED a response.

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  37. EXCERPTS: “It’s not every day that a federal judge calls a lawsuit from one of the country’s top lawyers a nasty and partisan “Hail Mary pass” intended to undermine free and fair elections. But that’s what happened on Wednesday when U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, a Clinton appointee, tossed out a lawsuit brought by Democratic superlawyer Marc Elias.

    “In the 102 years since my father, then a Ukrainian refugee, came into this country, if there were two things that he drilled into my head, they were … free, open, rational elections [and] respect for the courts. The relief that I’m being asked to give today impinges, to some degree, on the public perception of both,” Kaplan said of the lawsuit, which sought to preserve redistricting lines in New York state that a court had already ruled unconstitutional. “And I’m not going to do that.”

    It’s been a rough month for Elias, the man former president Barack Obama tapped to lead his post-presidential initiative to expand “voting rights” and the Democratic Party’s premier legal attack dog. Just last week, Special Counsel John Durham accused Elias, who represented Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign—and who every election cycle counts virtually every powerful Democrat as a client—of lying about his relationship with the opposition research firm he retained to assist that campaign.
    ———————
    Elias’s tactics are now drawing rebukes from judges, prosecutors, and even fellow Democrats, who say his hard-charging nature is hurting the party. Elias is publicly reeling. He last month scrubbed years of posts from his Twitter feed and hasn’t explained why. The move comes less than a year after he decamped from the white-shoe law firm Perkins Coie to found his own law firm—ostensibly to engage “more fully” in the “political process,” though some speculate the firm was increasingly uncomfortable with Elias’s tactics and the scrutiny of the Durham probe. Durham indicted Elias’s partner, Michael Sussman, a month after Elias left.
    ———————-
    Durham’s accusation is not the first time that Elias has been slammed for rank dishonesty. The Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last year sanctioned him for “lack of candor” in a Texas election case, which Elias ferociously contests.

    He has run into trouble on substance, too, blundering into a major defeat in the Supreme Court in 2021 that some critics say was entirely of his own making.

    That came when Elias challenged two ordinary voting regulations in Arizona under a provision of the Voting Rights Act that protects minority political involvement. Liberals did not want the Court to rule on the scope of that provision—they feared the conservatives would interpret it narrowly and hamstring their attacks on new red-state election laws.”

    https://freebeacon.com/democrats/the-decline-and-fall-of-a-democratic-superlawyer/

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  42. Good afternoon y’all! Had a quick minute to pop on and say hi. Had to take my dog to the vet this morning for a procedure and need to pick her up at 3pm. Catching up on house work and yard work at my other property while I have the day off.

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    1. Good afternoon, CM. Busy day for you! I’m going to vote later and pick up a few things at the store. Hoping to find a cheap jelly feeder – one just isn’t enough for these Orioles! LOL

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      1. Thanks! No news is good news. She had a couple bumps on her and one had popped. Skin cysts that older dogs get sometimes. Having them removed so they don’t bother her.

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        2. Update…Pup-pup is fine. Was a little tipsy after being put under, but all good now. She is “noticing” her E-Collar now…”Cone of Shame”… 🙂

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  43. Whoa…an orange oriole flew into our window and lay stunned on the deck…his mate flew to the deck and hopped all around him…I watched for about 5 minutes, she flew off and he got back on his feet. still slightly stunned I guess but looking all around…but then a yellow oriole flew at him and he flew off only to hit another window (not nearly as hard). he’s now in a corner of the deck staring at the wall…sigh

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    1. Oh, crap! He might recover. I just jimmy-rigged my old feeder with the big orange top that got smashed. I had a bowl-shaped plastic top for a feeder that ostensibly was supposed to keep the squirrels out. But it was open and the seeds got wet every time it rained. So I took the base of my old feeder – it is still intact, if a little bent – and I still have the hanger for it. I put 4 custard cups in the bottom, filled them with jelly (took one whole jar), then attached some plastic-coated wire around the feeder hanger, and thru the hole in the cover to pull it down tight – keeps the big birds out and will block the rain some. I then used the wire to hang it on the frame around the garden beds. Now they have PLENTY of grape jelly!!!!

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  46. EXCERPT: “A woman discovered a box of mail-in ballots on an East Hollywood sidewalk over the weekend while walking her dog, Fox11 reported Tuesday. The Los Angeles County Registrar’s Office and the United States Postal Services (USPS) are investigating the incident after Christina Repaci found 104 unopened ballots.

    Repaci called the whole encounter “stressful,” and told the outlet officials were extremely difficult to get in contact with:

    ‘It was so much stress and for just one person to get back to me. What do I do here? Now if it happens to someone else, they don’t know what to do. They’ll just put them in a dumpster or throw them in the trash. I just don’t think it should have been this hard to figure out what to do with legal ballots. This is a country of freedom, and our votes should matter and something like this should never happen.’

    She reportedly took the ballots home while she tried to figure out who to contact. She said she called several politicians and the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department, who told her “it wasn’t their problem” and “to contact the USPS.” Eventually, the L.A. County Registrar’s Office contacted her about retrieving the ballots, and Registrar Dean Logan “personally drove to pick up the ballots,” according to the report.

    “He (Logan) picked them up. I made sure he was legit. He gave me a card, and took a photo of the box,” Repaci said. The LA County Registrar’s Office released a statement, saying they believe “this was an incident of mail theft and not a directed attempt at disrupting the election.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/10/box-of-104-mail-in-ballots-discovered-east-hollywood-sidewalk/

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  47. you know what troubles me about Justice Alito’s removal to a more secure location? who knows where he is? he’s a CONSERVATIVE judge…his life is in danger. read: Scalia

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  48. Lauren Boebert’s bill on eliminating the Misinformation Board…less than 150 words…

    FTA
    Regardless, The Protecting Free Speech Act is my kind of legislation. It reduces government and it used less than 150 words. In other words, we don’t have to pass it to find out what’s in it.

    A Bill

    To terminate the Disinformation Governance Board of the Department of Homeland Security and to prohibit the use of Federal funds to establish any other similar Board, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

    SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the “Protecting Free Speech Act”.

    SEC. 2. TERMINATION OF THE DISINFORMATION GOVERNANCE BOARD.

    The Disinformation Governance Board of the Department of Homeland Security is hereby terminated.

    SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON FUNDING THE ACTIVITIES OF THE DISINFORMATION GOVERNANCE BOARD.

    No Federal funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available to the Department of Homeland Security may be made available to establish or carry out the activities of any other entity that is substantially similar to the Disinformation Governance Board terminated by section 2.

    https://thebluestateconservative.com/2022/05/09/we-will-be-impeaching-this-tyrant-lauren-boebert-slams-mayorkas-introduces-legislation-to-eliminate-his-disinfo-board/

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        1. Absolutely! Plain, modern English and no more passing bills that change OTHER bills, thereby requiring one to search out the old bill to see what is being changed. They do this on purpose!!!!

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  49. EXCERPT: “The Air Force admitted Monday during a preliminary injunction hearing that it has rejected all religious accommodation requests for the coronavirus vaccine from airmen except for those who were already leaving the service, Breitbart News has learned.

    This means that the service has granted zero meaningful requests and denied over 7,595 — ending the careers of those airmen, according to the attorney arguing the case in the courtroom.

    Alliance for Free Citizens General Counsel Kris Kobach, who is representing 36 airmen seeking religious accommodation for the vaccine in a federal court case in Nebraska, said the Air Force admitted verbally during the hearing they are granting religious accommodations only for those planning to leave the Air Force, but none for those who actually wish to continue serving.

    So far, the Air Force has granted 46 accommodation requests — all to airmen already planning to leave the Air Force within six months.

    Kobach, who along with America First Policy Institute is representing the airmen, told Breitbart News, “The hearing today confirmed that the military religious accommodation process is pure theater. The answer is always no. The Air Force has granted zero accommodation requests that were not effectively early retirements.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/10/exclusive-air-force-admits-all-granted-religious-accommodations-for-vax-were-for-airmen-already-leaving-service/

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