What Shall We Bake Today?

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In honor of the upcoming Memorial Day holiday, I’m posting some rather easy and quick picnic desserts.

No Bake Cheesecake Flag Cake

The base for this dessert is a no-bake Jello Cheesecake (mix in a box). Prepare according to directions. Then you add raspberries and blackberries to complete the flag look.

Red, White and Blue Trifle

In a large glass compote, layer either store bought pound cake or angel food cake chunks with whipped cream, blueberries and strawberries.

Patriotic Chocolate Cake

Your favorite brand of chocolate cake mix, some whipped cream and fruit (strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and blackberries) will make this memorable dessert a breeze.

Memorial Day Pizza

Brownie mix makes a wonderful crust for this holiday pizza! Prepare brownie mix as directed and bake in a round pan. Top with either vanilla or cream cheese frosting, add fruit and mint leaves and you’re done!

Strawberry Poppers

This dessert is an easy, pick up and go dessert. Cleaned strawberries are sliced diagonally twice (but not apart) and then whipped cream is inserted using a star tipped pastry bag and a blueberry is placed on top.

There you have it! Easy to prepare, spectacular to see and delicious to eat recipes for your Memorial Day picnic!

“Work smarter, not harder.”

Scrooge McDuck

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  4. interesting thought copied from tcth

    Citizen817
    May 27, 2022 12:34 am

    @c_3c_3

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    2h
    Want to be furious?

    We could place an armed security guard at the single entry point of every school in America and pay them $70K per year for roughly 1/5 of what Congress has sent Ukraine.

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  11. Good morning y’all! It’s Friday! Excited to get more chores done over the 3 day weekend. Was going to burn some brush, but it has rained too much this week and everything is still damp. Have a little bit of weed eating and chainsawing to do and then help my mom trim her strawberry runners.

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    1. Morning CM!
      it is DARK here…thunderstorms are threatening again…had some milder ones yesterday. still enough to mess with internet. but nothing is moving this morning…no hummers, no orioles, no deer…something’s coming

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  12. Hmmm…..might this creature, indeed, be another tranny in the MIC’s team of them???

    EXCERPT: “White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Susan Rice is leading the administration’s gun control efforts. Jean-Pierre said there is “no one better” than Rice to lead the effort in the wake of a mass shooting Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. She was responding to a question about whether President Joe Biden intended to tap his vice president as a gun czar, a role Biden held during the Obama administration that some Democratic lawmakers have urged the president to fill again.

    “We have a whole-of-government approach … that Ambassador Susan Rice is leading, along with other departments,” Jean-Pierre added.

    Rice leads Biden’s Domestic Policy Council and was considered a top vice presidential prospect during the 2020 campaign. A veteran of the Obama administration, she drew controversy after downplaying the possibility of a planned terrorist attack when four Americans were killed in Benghazi, Libya. Rice was ambassador to the United Nations at the time.”

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/no-one-better-than-susan-rice-to-lead-gun-effort-white-house-says-not-vp

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  13. EXCERPT: “Americans can’t afford to buy a used car or even gas because the Left doesn’t want them to drive. They can’t buy homes because the Left wants to destroy the suburbs and force everyone to live in megacities. They have trouble buying meat because the Left wants them to eat soy.

    The same is true for the whole exercise in planned economic misery that we’re experiencing. Take Hoover’s “A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage” and reverse it. That’s the goal. What we’re living through is not an unintentional accident: it’s the American Holodomor. The Left doesn’t want you to be able to drive, buy a home, or enjoy a burger.

    Naive Republicans will say that, “Biden is not paying enough attention to the border” or “Biden is not paying enough attention to inflation”. That’s like saying Jack the Ripper wasn’t paying enough attention to cutting up prostitutes.

    2 million illegal aliens are expected to invade America because the Biden administration is paying a whole lot of attention to keeping the border open. That’s why it’s busy fighting in court to dump Title 42 so that every illegal alien who crosses the border will be sure to come here.

    When an administration makes increasing the flow of illegal aliens a core legal priority for the DOJ, that means it’s paying a whole lot of attention to it. Much like Jack paid a lot of attention to ladies of the evening. The Biden administration doesn’t believe that there should be a border.”

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/our-economic-misery-isnt-accident-its-plan-daniel-greenfield-0/

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  14. EXCERPT: “Twisted killer Salvador Ramos was not confronted by a school safety officer as he entered Robb Elementary School “unobstructed” to commit his massacre Tuesday, said law enforcement officials, who rolled back earlier reports that an officer had engaged him.

    Officials also revealed Thursday that Ramos had fired most of his shots shortly after entering the school through an unlocked door, leaving 19 children and two school teachers dead. “I’d say numerous. More than 25. There was a lot of gunfire in the beginning,” he said. “During the negotiations, there wasn’t much gunfire other than trying to keep the officers at bay.”
    —————–
    One law enforcement expert told The Post on Thursday that the delay in rushing the school may have been “a very serious error” by law enforcement. “There are a number of issues here,” said Maria Haberfeld, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan. “You have multiple agencies on the scene with no coordination. So, this is already an issue.

    “In my mind, there should have been an immediate response with the first force response,” Haberfield said. “Every second, every minute that you wait, you are going to have another casualty.”

    https://nypost.com/2022/05/26/how-salvador-ramos-got-into-texas-school-before-shooting/

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  15. EXCERPT: ““The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree,” the saying goes. This could come to mind in light of longstanding research showing that the majority of mothers of boys with “gender identity disorder” (GID) are “mentally ill” themselves. It’s yet more evidence that “transgenderism” is not biologically induced, as is the now-fashionable claim, but is a psychological problem stemming from early childhood influences.

    What’s more, this, along with other studies showing that “liberal” women are more likely than their conservative sisters to have mental illness, inspired one writer to ask Wednesday, “Does leftist ideology create tangible psychiatric issues?”

    Speaking of creation, liberal comedian-cum-commentator Bill Maher himself recently expressed skepticism about the innate-MUSS (Made-up Sexual Status, a.k.a. “transgender”) theory. Pointing out that more than 20 percent of Generation Z now identifies as “LGBTQ,” he asked, “If this spike in trans children is all biological, why is it regional? Either Ohio is shaming them or California is creating them.”

    The research supporting the latter proposition was published at PubMed and compared a group of mothers with MUSS (GID) boys with those having normal sons. It found “that mothers of boys with GID had more symptoms of depression and more often met the criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder than the controls. Fifty-three percent of the mothers of boys with GID compared with only 6% of controls met the diagnosis for Borderline Personality Disorder.

    In fact, MUSS boys are nearly nine times as likely as normal lads to have a mother exhibiting a severe “personality disorder,” according to American Thinker’s Olivia Murray. Though Murray wrote her piece yesterday, some might take issue with the fact that the PubMed research, which she cited as well, is from 1991. But they should take issue with the fact that little if any such research is being conducted today.

    Thirty years ago the default assumption was the obvious one: that MUSS feelings reflected a psychological problem. Today, however, establishment pressure to accept that MUSSes are innate — that people are sometimes born in the body of the “wrong sex” — is great enough to preclude honest inquiry despite there being no good scientific evidence whatsoever for this assertion.”

    https://thenewamerican.com/leftism-to-blame-most-mothers-of-trans-boys-are-mentally-ill-themselves/

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  17. OK – this is NOT cool!!!! You just screwed the pooch, Greenwood!!!!

    Entire article – Todd Starnes: “Country music star Lee Greenwood announced that he will no longer perform at the National Rifle Association’s Convention in Houston. The famed “God Bless the USA” artist cited the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas in a statement to Variety. In a statement, Greenwood said:

    “As a father, I join the rest of America in being absolutely heartbroken by the horrific event that transpired this week in Texas. I was scheduled to perform at NRA’s private event on Saturday with my band. After thoughtful consideration, we have decided to cancel the appearance out of respect for those mourning the loss of those innocent children and teachers in Uvalde.

    “During this Memorial Day Weekend, we should also remember the servicemen and women, and first responders who’ve given their lives to protect our great country. Please join me to pay our respects as we unite together as would be the most appropriate measure at this time.

    Greenwood and other artists had been scheduled to perform in the NRA’s Grand Ole Night of Freedom celebration. Don Mclean also announced he will not perform.”

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    1. I just contacted him via e-mail from his website to tell him I am ashamed of him – the NRA had NOTHING to do with this! This lies squarely at the feet of the “system” who knew 4 years ago this POS was planning this!!!! I’m seeing on Fox this morning that this IS, indeed, the same guy!

      And then Lee is on Fox saying his performing at the NRA after this shooting would be like he is saying “I love this gun!” about this specific gun “…that just killed kids.” WHAT BULL SHIT!!!! You caved, you asshole!!!!

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  18. EXCERPT: “Charleston police reported that a man was killed by a woman armed with a handgun after he opened fire on a crowd with an AR-15. The shooter was a convicted felon who could not legally own a firearm. Dennis Butler, 37, has been identified as the now deceased gunman. He was known to law enforcement and has been convicted of multiple felonies.

    “As a young police officer, I was a rookie and had about a year on, one of the most knocked-down dragged out fights was with Mr. Butler and he had a firearm on him at that time in 2006,” Charleston Police Chief Tyke Hunt told MetroNews on Thursday.

    Butler was shot and killed after firing at a group of people attending a birthday/graduation party at an apartment complex in West Virginia’s capital on Wednesday night. The gunman was then reportedly shot and killed by a woman who was licensed to carry.

    “It looks like the person who fired upon Mr. Butler does not have any reason to prohibit them from carrying a firearm lawfully,” Hunt said. “She is a member of the community who was carrying her firearm lawfully, and instead of running from the threat, she engaged with the threat, and saved several lives last night,” another Charleston Police Department spokesman said. “I credit her for being vigilant. Watching him get out, engaging the threat, and stopping it.”

    https://nationalfile.com/armed-woman-thwarts-potential-mass-shooting-at-charleston-apartment-complex/

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  19. Boom! Ban hammer again!

    EXCERPT: “The infamous social media account Libs of Tik Tok was suspended from Instagram on Thursday without reason other than that the account “violated community standards.”

    Libs of Tik Tok, an account that culls the internet for evidence of the most insane aspects of the raging culture war in the United States, broke the news of the suspension on Twitter.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-instagram-suspends-libs-of-tik-tok-for-community-guidelines-violation

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  22. wow…just spent the last half hour trying to find easy printable sudoku puzzles for my open…I tested them before i included them in the open because all of the instructions i found on line eventually use more skilled techniques to solve than a beginner level.
    anyway, to my frustration, (yup, that was NOT thunder, it was me screaming) once i solved the puzzles and made sure they were easy and solvable with beginner skills, they turned out to be gifs…AGHHHHHHHHHHH
    sigh…it’s in drafts. I will keep searching…but not today

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  23. got my cookie dough made and in the fridge…gotta make cut outs for a surprise birthday party for Tammy on Sunday. (She’s my in law–son in law’s mom–who survived breast cancer and then brain tumors)
    so more traveling…sigh

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  25. interesting as well…tcth

    j x
    May 27, 2022 9:43 am

    Dr. Oz holds dual citizenship in Turkey and the United States. There appears to be no dispute that Oz voted in the 2018 Turkish election.

    As attorney and former JAG Corps officer, Joanna Martin wrote, “Oz is an ineligible candidate. Article I, Sec. 3, clause 3, US Constitution, sets forth the qualifications to be a United States Senator: among other things, one must have been for nine years a Citizen of the US. A Citizen of the United States doesn’t vote in Turkish elections.”

    https://newswithviews.com/trumps-endorsements-are-inflating-the-swamp/

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  26. EXCERPT: “As local NBC affiliate KXAN reported:

    ‘The shooter who killed at least 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School on Tuesday walked into the school without being stopped by anyone, the Texas Department of Public safety said Thursday. It corrected a statement Wednesday by DPS Director Steven McCraw that a Uvalde ISD police officer was the first person to engage the shooter. Instead, on Thursday it said there were not Uvalde ISD police on campus.

    Uvalde CISD, located 84 miles outside of San Antonio, is one of the smaller school districts in Texas. The school district has its own police department made up of four officers, a police chief and a detective. According to the school’s website, the district has also hired a security guard.

    The district’s policy is to have security staff patrol door entrances, parking lots, and the perimeters of campuses at the middle and high school, according to a document listing the school district’s security measures from the 2019-20 school year.’

    The DPS press conference contradicted what Gov. Greg Abbott (R) told the public yesterday, when he said: “Officers with the Consolidated Independent School District approached the gunman and engaged with the gunman” outside the school.

    https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2022/05/26/dps-there-was-no-good-guy-with-a-gun-patrolling-uvalde-school/

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    1. are you seeing the reports that the shooter was arrested 4 yrs ago…and claimed when he turned 18 he was gonna shoot up the high school?
      I haven’t posted those cuz I don’t know if they’re true or not…

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      1. I haven’t seen the actual connection made altho I saw something last night but IDR for sure exactly where. I posted something here about those incidents a couple of days ago – no names were included in that article so I couldn’t make the connection. This is the article – the 14 year old would be 18 around now – perhaps that’s him?

        EXCERPT: “Two Uvalde teens were recently arrested for Conspiracy to Commit Murder after officers said they foiled a mass-shooting plot the pair had schemed. A press release obtained by KENS 5 thoroughly chronicles events leading up to an investigation performed by the Uvalde Police Department and the Texas Rangers.

        In the press release, Uvalde Chief of Police Daniel Rodriguez said that a Morales Junior High School student,14, and a former Morales student, 13, had specifically targeted numerous students in what they described as a plan to perform a “mass casualty event against the school.”

        Authorities said the students were motivated in large part by the Columbine shootings:

        “The investigation revealed that the students were infatuated with the Columbine High School shootings and identified themselves to the shooters. The investigation uncovered that the students even referred to themselves using the Columbine shooter’s names.”

        Investigators also believe the students were planning to hold the attacks years from now during their senior year, on the anniversary of the Columbine shooting. However, one of the students began to convince the other that they should move the attacks up to this year.”

        https://www.kens5.com/article/news/crime/two-teens-arrested-in-mass-casualty-plot-in-2018-targeting-a-uvalde-middle-school/273-54856560

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      2. OK – this one says the two cases are not linked, altho IDK what the Scottish Sun would know about it:

        EXCERPT: “THE Texas town at the center of a tragic massacre was previoulsy hit by another Columbine-inspired shooting plot before Tuesday’s carnage.

        The two cases are not linked but happened a short distance away in the same town of Uvalde, Texas, about 80miles west of San Antonio.”

        https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/8921331/uvalde-texas-second-school-shooting-plot-columbine/

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        1. here’s what i read yesterday at wolf’s…

          Sadie SlaysOffline
          Coyote
          May 26, 2022 15:13

          HUGE FIND on 4chan! A local news article from 2018 about two Uvalde, TX students planning a massive school shooting in 2022. Law enforcement knew about this four years in advance!

          Article: https://archive.ph/p1OOU

          Upon rendering aid and support, the student revealed a future plan to conduct a school shooting in the year of 2022.

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          May 26, 2022 15:15

          Same reporter covered the story in 2018 and 2022:

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          bflyjesusgrl 🍊 😎ULTRA MAGA😎
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          Coyote
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          May 26, 2022 15:40

          Same story from 4th grader.
          Survivor recounts moment Salvador Ramos stormed Texas school (nypost.com)
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          May 26, 2022 15:17

          Another article from 2018:

          “One of our Morales Junior High students was experiencing a crisis. Upon rendering aid and support, the student revealed a future plan to conduct a school shooting in the year of 2022,” said Anne Marie Espinoza, executive director of communications and marketing for Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District.

          https://web.archive.org/web/20220526042909/https://www.uvaldeleadernews.com/articles/juveniles-detained/
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          May 26, 2022 15:17

          Wow!! Great find Sadie.
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          mollypitcher5
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          May 26, 2022 15:23

          The trillion $ question is whether or not Ramos was in those boy’s circle or was he obsessed with the plot as laid out by the local news coverage or he thought this up by himself .
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          Aubergine
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          May 26, 2022 22:44

          What is being implied is that Ramos HIMSELF was one of the two boys who plotted in 2018.
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          Sadie Slays
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          May 26, 2022 15:38

          Was these two people glowies, or loose ends that got cleaned up?

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          May 26, 2022 16:13

          Heart attack guy (glowie?) was involved in this creepy drill in March 2022:

          Chilling images show students at Salvador Ramos’ HS pretending to be dead during active-shooter drill

          https://nypost.com/2022/05/25/texas-shooting-salvador-ramos-hs-held-active-shooter-drill-weeks-before-massacre/

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          May 26, 2022 16:43

          THE DRILL WAS ON 3/22. SKULL & BONES!

          Active Shooter Drill at Uvalde High School on 3/22.🤯
          This is the number of Yale Skull and Bones. pic.twitter.com/hIJlAGahIR

          — World War 33 (@covidhoax1984) May 26, 2022

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  27. EXCERPT: “Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares (R) has filed a brief in support of a West Point, Virginia, teacher who was fired for refusing to use the preferred pronoun of a transgender student. Miyares’s brief begins, quoting case law:

    ‘No State has more jealously guarded and preserved the questions of religious belief and religious worship as questions between each individual man and his Maker than Virginia. The Commonwealth’s interest in securing the religious liberty of its citizens against interference or penalty from any government remains as strong today as it was when those [constitutional] provisions were adopted more than 200 years ago.’

    Both Miyares’ office and West Point High School French teacher Peter Vlaming argue that Virginia’s religious protections are more robust than the “watered-down version of the federal right” protected in the U.S. Constitution.
    ——————————
    In 2018, Vlaming was fired for refusing to use a transgender freshman’s preferred pronouns, stating a religious objection to the school’s pronoun policy. According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the student had “undergone a gender transition.”

    Vlaming sued the West Point School Board after the firing, only to have a King County Circuit Court judge dismiss the case. Vlaming has brought the case all the way to Virginia’s Supreme Court, where Miyares has filed his brief in support. At the time, West Point Superintendent Laura Abel described Vlaming’s actions as “discrimination.”
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    But in Vlaming’s brief, his Alliance Defending Freedom lawyers point out that “he declined the School’s and a parent’s demand that he use biologically incorrect ‘preferred pronouns’ to show a student who identified as transgender that he affirmed and agreed with that identity.”

    “Vlaming could not affirm and agree that a person’s sex is determined by their beliefs rather than biology,” it continues. “He could not speak religious messages that he does not believe to be true. He could not lie to his students.” The case is Vlaming v. West Point School Board, No. 211061 in the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of Virginia.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/26/virginia-ag-backs-fired-teacher-in-first-amendment-case-over-preferred-pronouns/

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      1. Yeah! One job done – got the scraping and the painting done! 2 small bathroom windows and 2 bedroom windows. They could all use another coat but at least this is done – I’ve been telling myself to do it for over 2 years now! Sheesh! Slacking, I am! I’ll wait until evening for the trumpet vines – once the sun goes behind the trees in the west, it will be much cooler. Up to 82 now!

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            1. AGREED!
              everyone has their unfinished projects–my daughter has many–and i tried to get her to commit to finishing one a summer…but she puts them off…then tried to get me to finish her embroidery projects…LOL…
              no dice

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              1. I have a few things left on my punch list from the kitchen renovation. Think I will nibble away at it when I get home…BEFORE beer-thirty and playing music…lol.

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              2. hubby waits till he finishes his commute home before he starts his wine-hour. he’s a responsible drinker–he makes sure he can navigate the hall to the sofa..LOL

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      1. From Reddit: “Glowie

        Normally used for the CIA but also used for agencies like the ATF, FBI, etc. Their inability to blend in to the native population’s habits, patterns and speech makes them stick out like a sore thumb to the population, hence they “glow in the dark.”

        The most common trappings of government shills are their inability/hesitation to use the major racial slurs, improper use of memes, and the pushing of mainstream political theories.

        See also: Glow in the dark, glowposting

        “I feel ya, glowie. Must be frustrating. I know everything I post is satire or attempted satire, or pertaining to my favorite game – Minecraft. So easy to be misunderstood in these wicked times. I hope you get the day off for Christmas, at least.”

        “The worst thing about having an erratic sleeping schedule and being sleeping on American business hours is that you don’t get to always read the replies of your designated glowie. When you are most active he is at home sleeping. sucks.”

        “If anyone says, “here’s how to get cheap guns illegally”, “we should shoot first “, and ” Stop larping kill the blank now ” that is a glowie pure and simple.”

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  36. wouldn’t they be Logan Act violations???

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    1. If you think back, we were all saying that then, too. Yes, it is a violation, but since when do THEY care??!!?? We even posted pics of Lurch meeting in France, I think, with an Iranian rep.

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  38. Pat, this is where I first saw the conjecture that it was the same guy from 2018 in Uvalde – I was watching Fox at the time:

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    2. Then there is this from the following article: “Uvalde Police quickly denied Gonzales’ claim on Friday, prompting him to walk it back an hour later”

      excerpt: “Texas Republican Tony Gonzales has retracted his unfounded claim that Uvalde gunman Salvador Ramos was arrested for a school shooting plot in 2018 after blaming the authorities for ‘letting him slip through the cracks.’ On Friday morning at 7.33am, Gonzales – a pro 2nd amendment Republican – insisted that Ramos was arrested in 2018 when he was underage for a plot to shoot up a school in Uvalde.

      ‘This wasn’t hearsay. I got this late last night: the shooter was arrested years ago, four years ago, for having this plan for basically saying, for saying, you know, when I’m a senior in 2022, I am going to shoot up a school.’ ‘Something fell between the cracks between then and now to allow this to happen. We need to shake out all the facts,’ he said during an appearance on FOX News.

      DailyMail.com can confirm that an incident in Uvalde where two ‘Columbine-infatuated’ teenage boys were arrested for threatening to shoot up a school but because they were juveniles, their identities were not confirmed at the time and they remain secret. Shortly after Gonzales’s appearance, FOX reporter Bill Melugin tweeted that Uvalde police denied Ramos was one of the kids involved.

      And in a tweet soon after, Gonzales admitted: ‘It is now unclear if the shooter was one of the two kids detained.’ He went on: ‘If this was not the shooter, we need to find out who these kids are, where they are now, and if they were classmates of the shooter. There is a clear need for mental health resources in our community.’

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10860977/Texas-Rep-Tony-Gonzalez-Uvalde-gunman-arrested-4-years-ago-threatening-shoot-school.html

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              1. you know, people don’t like to experience bad feelings–sadness, loneliness, rejection.
                but you have to learn to DEAL with those feelings–not sugarcoat them, not deny them…FEEL them…FACE them…and then get over them…
                happiness is not a constant state…and you can’t medicate yourself into that state. it’s not healthy

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              2. Exactly! There were sooo many times I could have used my childhood history as an excuse! I always spoke openly about it and, as you say, got over it and went on doing what I needed to do.

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    1. Yeah buddy! Scraped AND painted, thank you very much! And I had to fill the jelly feeders yet again!!! I also greased the pole down in front where I have the Hummer/Oriole feeder to try to keep the ants off of it! I slathered Vaseline all over the upper part of that pole! The O’s don’t care but the Hummers won’t feed if there are too many ants.

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      1. I’ve seen 1 hummer and 1 oriole today…but it is seriously dark out there…no thunderstorms thankfully, but a steady rain is falling…

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        1. Yesterday, I had 10 Orioles out there at one time in various stages: feeding, protecting the feeder, 4 on the big feeder, with several waiting nearby in the honeysuckle vines. Just a few minutes ago, one was sitting in the Cottonwood tree nearby chattering at me to get away from the jelly feeder while I was filling it!

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          1. wow!
            well our honeysuckles are coming into their own…i think the hummers and orioles are making the best of it…they’re everywhere up here–and they are growing to garage size bushes

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            1. Oh, it’s bird central in my backyard! The Starlings have built another nest in the eaves; I’ve got the Thistle feeder back out so the finches are hitting that, as well as the other seed feeder and the jelly; and, of course, all the other small assorted sparrows and what-not; Turtle Doves on the ground and patio roof; Blackbirds, of course, and Robins, Hummers and Orioles. Just sit between my 2 garden beds and you will be surrounded by birds!

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              2. Love watching the birds. I need to freshen up our hummer feeders…we are getting the big black ants in them now. My cats like to watch them from the window and “chitter” at them.

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            2. I’m training my vines and using velcro garden tape to attach them to the framework. Every day, I tuck a vine in here or there, to keep them climbing up. A couple of them have made it almost to the top center point. Someday, it will be almost like a canopy of honeysuckle.

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        1. I’m discovering the window people and SIL weren’t quite as skilled as they claimed to be! SMH. There are gaps where the trim wasn’t fitted properly and the window wasn’t hung exactly right.

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            1. Aw, hell! It will last until well after I’m dead and gone, I expect. A lot better than the old windows – they were the old casement style with the handle to turn to open them. Not one window in this house worked! The woman who lived here for quite some time after her hubby died was older and somewhat handicapped. So she didn’t worry about opening windows or the patio doors – the old style heavy-as-hell sliders – and never used the fireplace. The track was full of gravel and they were really hard to open. I do love my French doors!

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              2. It’s really nice in the summer – I open both doors and it’s like an extension of my living room! Turn on the party lights and the stereo, light the tea lights in the lanterns….yeah, it’s nice! And so peaceful and quiet, usually – unless the neighbors are having a graduation party or something, which is rare.

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              4. Screened-in patio, altho that bad wind we had has torn it down one side of the east window. I’ll need to re-do that whole side again but, for now, no bugs or bats and Jake hasn’t figured out yet that he can get out if he really wants to! LOL

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  40. Kerry pulled into a crowded parking lot and rolled down the car windows to make sure her Irish setter had sufficient fresh air when she went shopping. The dog was stretched out on the back seat, and Kerry wanted to impress upon him that he must remain there. She walked to the curb backwards, pointing her finger at the car and saying emphatically, ‘Now you stay. Do you hear me? Stay,’ in a very firm voice. The driver of a nearby car gave Kerry a startled look. ‘I don’t know about you, lady,’ he said incredulously. ‘But I usually just put my car in park.’
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    Mrs. Dormouse was stealing food from the kitchen with her children, when Slats, the cat pounced. Encouraging her children to run, Mrs. Dormouse shepherded them towards the mouse hole but it was obvious she wasn’t going to make it. In desperation, she turned to face Slats the cat and shouted ‘Bark, Bark’ extremely loudly.

    Slats the cat skidded to a halt, turned and ran away. Mrs. Dormouse turned to her children and said, ‘You see how important it is to learn a foreign language.’
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    1. There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.

    2. I got rid of my husband. The cat was allergic.

    3. Never feed your cat anything that doesn’t match the carpet.

    4. You know when people see a cat’s litter box, they always say, “Oh, have you got a cat?” Just once I want to say, “No, it’s for company!”

    5. “Humans: No fur, no paws, no tail. They run away from mice. They never get enough sleep. How can you help but love such an absurd animal?” (Anonymous cat about humans)

    6. Anything on the ground is a cat toy. Anything not there yet, will be.

    7. For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat.

    8. Cats are like potato chips. You can never have just one.

    9. Some people who have cats go on to lead normal lives.

    10. Cat’s motto, “No matter what you’ve done wrong, always try to make it look as if the dog did it.”

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  41. A Pakistani pigeon was arrested by Indian law enforcement on suspicion of being a spy. The bird flew over the contentious border and was apprehended due to a suspicious ring around its ankle printed with numbers. The numbers were actually the cell phone number of the pigeon’s owner. After a thorough investigation, the pigeon was deemed not a threat to national security and was set free. “It was just an innocent bird,” police told Reuters. But before you laugh it off, you should know that this wasn’t the first case of avian espionage in the area: In 2016, a pigeon was taken into Indian custody after it was found with a note threatening Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

    Fat Bear Week, hosted every year by the Katmai Conservancy, allows the public to vote for which Alaskan bear will be the chunkiest before going into hibernation. After making a donation to a charity, people got to vote for one of the “Lardaceous Leviathan Levels Chunky Challengers.” On “Fat Bear Tuesday” (this year, it was October 6), the adipose award went to Bear 747, affectionately nicknamed Jumbo Jet. The brown bear weighs at least 1,400 pounds—something that will help him make it comfortably through the cold winter.

    When British charity PDSA announced the winner of the Gold Medal, its top civilian award, people were surprised—mostly because the winner wasn’t a person at all, but a giant African pouched rat. Magawa was awarded the high honor for his diligent work searching out unexploded land mines in Cambodia. The nearly three-pound rat was presented with a tiny gold medal and commended for his “lifesaving bravery and devotion” after discovering 39 landmines and 28 items of unexploded ordinance in the past seven years, according to the charity. They also noted that when Magawa’s not saving lives, he enjoys snacking on peanuts and bananas and napping. Same, Magawa, same.

    Just before logging onto a Zoom class, Mackenzie Leedy spotted a chipmunk swimming in his pool. But it didn’t look like the little guy was freestyling for fun, and Leedy saw that he was starting to sink. Calling him “buddy,” he rescued him with a pool skimmer. But Buddy wasn’t out of the woods (er, pool area) yet and was shaking uncontrollably, rolled over on his back. Leedy wrapped him up in a towel and brought him walnuts. After showing Buddy to the class, his teacher took pity on him and let him go early to care for the chipmunk. Finally, the sun came out, and after eating a few nuts, the little guy was back on his way. “Every time I see a chipmunk, I kinda hope it’s him,” Leedy told the Dodo.

    Who doesn’t prefer a relaxed dining experience? Murphy, a dog who belongs to Audrey Waito, certainly does. Waito posted a TikTok video of Murphy very carefully carrying his dinner bowl from the kitchen to the living room and jumping up on the couch—without spilling a single kibble—then settling in to veg out and snack. Waito says that Murphy got the idea from watching her and her daughter eat on the couch and decided that if they got to be comfy while eating, then so did he. Now it’s a tradition to eat together as a family.

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  42. crap…I really destroyed my old laptop…LOL…
    the wizard was looking for parts–it had a 360* touchscreen…which i never used anyway–it just came with it when i bought it years ago–only paid $800 at Best Buy. the replacement parts–screen, hinges, keyboard and bottom were close to $500 and that was if he gave us a deal on labor.

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    1. Doesn’t he have any – or know of any – refurbished used laptops, like mine? I’ve been using it for 2 years now – a Lenovo Thinkpad – and paid $120 for it. Transfer all the data and voila! You’re ready to go!

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      1. I am hard on laptops…he looked at my keyboard and laughed–“angry typer?” he asked…I laughed and said sometimes!
        i’ve worn the keys off…
        but hubby and i use each other’s laptops when necessary so biggest concern is capability

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  43. ummmm…file this under…holy crap!!! fda official hospitalized against his will…
    FTA
    A top federal official in charge of evaluating the safety of drugs was hospitalized against his will this month for an unspecified “mental disorder,” prompting concern over his fitness for the role he said includes making “major decisions that impact on public health,” The Daily Wire has learned.

    Dr. Jeffrey Siegel, director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Drug Evaluation Sciences, was transported from his home to a hospital for “mental disorder” at 3 a.m. on May 9, according to Montgomery County, Maryland, police dispatch logs reviewed by The Daily Wire. Police declined to release a report on the incident despite a Freedom of Information Act request, but Siegel wrote about being taken from his home in a rambling note left on a neighborhood listserv.

    “15 minutes later I saw bright red and blue lights (I may have the colors wrong) outside the house and then EMTs in our house who started to ask me to please come with them,” Siegel wrote in the note, more than a week after his hospitalization. “Thinking I was being asked to go voluntarily I politely declined. They insisted. Finally, they turned me around in the steps of my front hallway on Moorland Lane, handcuffed me, forced me unto a gurney, tied me down, took me in the ambulance to the hospital.”

    One neighbor who received the missive via Nextdoor expressed concern about Siegel’s ability to do his job, given that Siegel also wrote that he makes ‘major decisions that impact on public health.’”

    “I am frankly left a little bit worried for the soundness of operations at our FDA, if indeed that is true,” the neighbor wrote.

    A biography of Siegel states that he leads the office that “oversees Clinical Outcome Assessments, Biomarker Qualification, Research and Bioinformatics” in the Office of New Drugs. An FDA org chart says that the deputy director position is vacant, and that he is also leading the “Division of Biomecial [sic] Informaci [sic], Research & Biomaker [sic] Dev.”

    Siegel posted the note with pictures of bruised wrists, apparently sustained during a struggle with paramedics who were restraining him, complained about “brain fog,” and lashed out out a particular doctor for not giving him drugs he was seeking.

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/fda-official-in-charge-of-evaluating-new-drugs-hospitalized-for-mental-disorder-says-no-covid-thank-goodness

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    1. I think the majority in the head positions thru-out HHS are mentally and/or emotionally compromised. For that matter, far too many of all government civil employees are damaged goods! Some might suggest the weight of all his lies is making him crazy, if there is a smidgeon of conscience still there somewhere!

      I just saw something on Beyond the Unknown – I’ve got several episodes saved – and I’m going to an open about it – low-frequency sound waves and how they affect people. I’ve got 4 different subjects on my list of things to look up and prepare for opens! Almost every time I watch that show, I find something interesting!

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      1. that’s soooo cool! I always enjoy your finds!!! we’re so lucky to have you here Filly!!!

        I finally found a puzzle i can use for the sudoku open!

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        1. It’s so much fun for me to do, too, Pat! Good for you on finding the right puzzle! I gotta say, I don’t think I’ll be very good at this one….numbers and me just do not go together! But we’ll see!!! LOL

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  46. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two. here’s one I found that I liked.

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  47. Action Alert: Join Children’s Health Defense in Demanding that the FDA Withdraw its Approval of Remdesivir for Children

    EXCERPT: “The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on April 25 that it expanded approval of the toxic antiviral drug, remdesivir (also known as Veklury), to treat children as young as four weeks old who are either hospitalized with COVID or are considered to be at high risk for progressing to severe COVID. It is unclear whether regulatory authorities, who have expressed repeated concerns about the vulnerability of children under five who cannot yet be vaccinated, might consider those children “high risk.”

    While those who stand to profit from remdesivir sales claim that the drug can potentially reduce disease progression and help children recover more quickly, remdesivir is known to be highly toxic. Critical care specialist Dr. Paul Marik calls it a “particularly useless drug” and notes that it actually increases the risk of death by 3% and increases the risk of acute kidney failure by 20%. Presumably, disease progression has already occurred if a child is being hospitalized for COVID so the advisability of adding a dangerous, ineffective drug into the mix is highly questionable. Since children are at virtually zero risk of death or serious complications from COVID, giving them remdesivir defies logic.
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    Please fill out this quick form to demand the FDA withdraw their approval of remdesivir for children.”

    https://childrenshealthdefense.org/child-health-topics/take-action/action-alert-join-childrens-health-defense-in-demanding-that-the-fda-withdraw-its-approval-of-remdesivir-for-children/

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  48. 2 more mysterious “suicides” linked to epstein/clinton…although i don’t get it. the woman was paddling around the river but was found with an extension cord around her ankle which was connected to a concrete block–how does she paddle with the concrete block in her boat?
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    Ashley Haynes, 47, was found drowned in the Arkansas River with an extension cord knotted to her ankle and attached to a concrete block –just months before businessman Mark Middleton’s body was discovered hanging from a tree with the same style electrical cord wrapped around his neck and a close-range shotgun blast through his chest.

    https://radaronline.com/p/bill-clinton-jeffrey-epstein-shocking-second-death-pal/

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