Andrew Jackson’s 1400-pound block of cheese

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Despite a humble beginning, Andrew Jackson grew to become a legend. Born in the backwoods of South Carolina, he attended school only sporadically as a boy. By the age of 14, he had been predeceased by both of his parents and his brothers and fought in the American Revolutionary War (during which time he contracted, and survived, smallpox). He was known for his fiery temper and propensity for fighting.

Still, he managed to pull himself up by the bootstraps to become a wealthy lawyer, celebrated general, influential politician and, eventually, President of the United States of America. And, at some point, he was gifted a really, really big wheel of cheese.

Andrew Jackson’s early life

Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767, in the Waxhaws region of the Carolinas. The exact location of his birth is unknown, and both states have claimed him as a native son, though he always said he was from South Carolina. The son of Irish immigrants, his father died before he was born, and his mother and both of his brothers died during the American Revolution. As a result, Jackson would hold a life-long grudge against the British.

Career and political achievements

Despite very little formal education as a child, Jackson started reading law books as a teenager and, in 1787, earned admission to the North Carolina bar. He soon moved to the region that would become Tennessee and began working as a prosecuting attorney. Later, he opened a private practice.

Jackson did quite well in his business and earned enough to build a mansion, the Hermitage (still standing in Nashville today), and to buy slaves. In 1796, he became the first man elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee and was later elected to Senate in 1797. Only a year later, he was elected judge of Tennessee’s superior county and later chosen to head the state’s militia.

The Hermitage. The plantation was owned by Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the United States, from 1804 until his death at the Hermitage in 1845. It also serves as his final resting place.

During the War of 1812, he held the role of general and twice led the Americans to victory. Later, he ordered an invasion of Florida and, defeating the Spanish, claimed the land for the United States. Though his actions were controversial, they ultimately sped up the U.S. acquisition of the land.

Due to his popularity, many suggested that he run for president. Though he initially protested, supporters managed to get him a nomination. In a five-way race, Jackson neatly won the popular vote, but no candidate received the majority of electoral votes. The House of Representatives was charged with deciding between the three leading candidates: Jackson, John Quincy Adams and Secretary of the Treasury William H. Crawford. Adams won.

President Andrew Jackson

Four years later, Andrew Jackson won the election, despite an unusually large number of personal attacks. He was the first president not from Massachusetts or Virginia, and people either loved him or hated him–there was no middle ground.

The newly minted president made it clear that he was in charge, and almost immediately he made a decision that would mar his reputation for centuries to come: he suggested moving Native American tribes in the United States to the west of the Mississippi. The forced removal wasn’t completed until two years after he left office, but the great loss of life is largely attributed to his ignoring the corrupt actions of government officials.

On the upside, Jackson’s penny-pinching ways, along with increased revenue, enabled him to pay off the national debt in 1835 and keep the nation debt free for the remainder of his term. This is the only time in the history of the United States that the federal government was debt free.

Andrew Jackson

In October 1840, the city of New Orleans held a silver jubilee celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the American victory over the British in the Battle of New Orleans. This portrait of Andrew Jackson, the aging hero of that battle, was based on a larger oil painting created during the jubilee. Later, to the chagrin of many, Jackson vetoed the re-charter of the Bank of the United States (who was aligned with the opposing party). Despite the unpopularity of this move, he easily won reelection with more than 56 percent of the popular vote.

The big block of cheese

On New Year’s Day 1836, Andrew Jackson received a giant block of cheese. It wasn’t as much a gift as it was a testament to the great state of New York.

Dairy farmer Colonel Thomas S. Meacham of Sandy Creek, NY, came up with the idea in 1835. He believed that creating a gargantuan wheel of cheese from all the local cows, and then shipping it to the president, would help prove New York’s success as a center of farming and industry. Though his efforts were perhaps misguided, he certainly did garner a lot of attention.

According to legend, the finished product was a wheel of cheddar four feet in diameter, two feet thick, and nearly 1400 pounds. It was wrapped in a giant belt that, according to a story in the New Hampshire Sentinel, presented a “fine bust of the President, surrounded by a chain of twenty-four States united and linked together.”

After touring the northeast, the cheese was loaded onto a schooner and set sail for Washington D.C. It was accompanied by five other giant cheeses (though only about half the size) intended for Vice President Martin Van Buren, William Marcy, Daniel Webster, the U.S. Congress, and the legislature of the State of New York.

Upon its arrival at Pennsylvania Avenue, the president simply did not know what to do with it. He gave away as much as he could, and undoubtedly ate his own fair share, but by all accounts, it was left to age sitting on a floor in the middle of the White House.

A giant cheese party

What do you do when you have more cheese than you can possibly eat on your own? You throw a party. And that’s exactly what Andrew Jackson did. Nearing the end of his second term, the president decided that he didn’t really want to pack up a giant cheese and take it with him. Instead, he would make the two-year-old pile of cheese the center point of his last public reception.

Jackson’s cheese in the East Room of the White house

10,000 visitors showed up and devoured the stinky wheel in under two hours. According to Benjamin Perley Poore in his 1886 book Perley’s Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis, “For hours did a crowd of men, women and boys hack at the cheese, many taking large hunks of it away with them. When they commenced, the cheese weighed one thousand four hundred pounds, and only a small piece was saved for the President’s use. The air was redolent with cheese, the carpet was slippery with cheese, and nothing else was talked about at Washington that day.”

Unfortunately, even though the cheese was gone, its odor was not. Jackson’s successor, Martin Van Buren, reportedly had to air out the carpet, remove the curtains, and paint and white-wash the walls in the room where the cheese had resided.

Source: https://lulz.com/andrew-jackson-1400-pound-block-of-cheese/

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  2. THIS is a must read… eff bee eye whistleblower admits there is a workspace INSIDE Perkins Coie dating back to 2012. the article is at TCTH. a workstation gives the dnc and hitlery’s campaign access to conduct those unlawful searches we heard about…
    FTA
    There is very little that surprises me, but this is completely stunning. An FBI whistleblower came forth to inform Rep Jim Jordan and Rep Matt Gaetz that the FBI maintains a workspace inside the law firm of Perkins Coie. {Direct Rumble Link}

    In response to a letter sent by Rep. Matt Gaetz and Jim Jordan, Perkins Coie, the legal arm of the DNC and Hillary Clinton, admitted they have been operating an FBI workspace in their Washington D.C. office since 2012. Pay attention to that date, it matters.
    This is a huge development. Essentially, what is being admitted in this claim is that a portal existed into FBI databases within the law firm that represents democrats. This means access to FBI database searches exists inside the office of the DNC and Clinton legal group. Think about the ramifications here.

    CTH has long claimed there was some kind of direct portal link between the Clinton campaign team and the FBI databases. There were too many trails of extracted non-minimized research evidence in the hands of the Clinton team that CTH could not trace to a transferring FBI official. If Perkins Coie operated a portal in their office that allowed them to conduct search queries of American citizens, then everything would make sense. That access portal is exactly what is being claimed and admitted in this report.

    The start date of 2012 is important for several reasons, not the least of which is FISA presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer criticizing the scale and scope of unlawful FBI database access going back to exactly 2012. Keep in mind a FISA-702 search, is simply an unlawful FBI warrantless electronic search of an American (“702” represents the American citizen) into the central database -maintained by the NSA- that contains all electronic data and communication.

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/05/31/breaking-the-fbi-maintains-a-workspace-including-computer-portal-inside-the-law-firm-of-perkins-coie-the-ramifications-are-significant/

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  4. Good morning y’all! That must have been some stinky cheese after sitting there for a couple years! We have some of his official papers in a building at work. He is a big deal down here. I remember Maga Mom mentioned taking a family trip to Hermitage a while back and Daughn had a story about taking her son there. I have never been, but may go there with my wife sometime. Nashville is only about 2.5 hrs. from here. We have been to Nashville several times and done touristy stuff, but this one will make a good weekend trip.

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      1. It did say they had to air it out. With no a/c and D.C.’s high humidity in the summers,( built on an actual swamp), I’d say it was probably putrid. Gag!

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      1. yep….but it’s been noted that durham didn’t object to any of the jurors…so speculation is a guilty verdict was not the endgame of this trial…getting the testimony out there for other cases was

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  12. not Paul’s first crash…he was driving too fast and crashed his sports car which killed his older brother…
    FTA
    The pair careened off the road into an embankment before the car bounced out and flipped multiple times.

    David had urged Paul to slow down just before the fatal crash.

    “This is a bad stretch, better slow down,” he said.

    Paul was cited for misdemeanor manslaughter but was exonerated by a coroner’s jury.

    The jury also recommended that signs warning of sharp curves be placed on that road.
    When the car flipped Paul was able to escape and get help. He had only a broken collar bone.

    David, unfortunately, died at the scene, despite first responders trying to lift the car off him to relieve pressure. A witness said it looked like his neck brace was “lodged tightly against his neck.”

    https://www.the-sun.com/news/5462338/nancy-pelosis-husband-paul-killed-brother-crash/

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  15. Good morning! Been fixing the pics – I guess from now on, I will go back to importing to Imgur first – sorry about that! Have to go back and read the comments but wanted to mention….watching the History channel about Patton – so many pics where he looks so very much like Trump! I also learned he pulled some real boner moves! First off, Patton didn’t have pearl-handled pistols – they were ivory-handled. Patton also believed in reincarnation, which fostered his habit of slapping soldiers who were shell-shocked and/or had battle fatigue. The second time he was forced to apologize by Eisenhower.

    Patton also launched a behind-the-lines effort to rescue his son-in-law, Johnny Waters, who was captured by the Germans. In 1945, he was being held near Hammelburg, Germany in a prison camp and Patton and his team happened to arrive within 40 miles of the camp. He believed it was divine intervention and he had to rescue Johnny. His men convinced him to send a team of only 300 vs 3000 men because they were behind enemy lines. They got to the camp and took it over but as his forces left the camp, the Germans surrounding the camp unloaded on them, destroying every single vehicle. Twenty-five of the troops were killed, 32 were wounded, and the rest were captured.

    Johnny Waters actually died in a German hospital from wounds sustained during the rescue attempt. Patton’s rescue mission was an unmitigated disaster.

    On top of that, Patton smuggled out of Germany a copy of the original 1935 Nuremburg Laws, which codified Hitler’s anti-Jewish policies. Eisenhower had directed that ALL copies be left in Germany to be used as evidence for the Nuremburg Trials. Patton eventually donated the signed copy to the Huntington Library in Pasadena, CA. After 54 years, it finally made it’s way to the National Archives.

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    1. Morning Filly!
      sorry about the pictures…dunno why they were a problem…but figured it was best for you to sort it out!
      thanks!!
      I saw an article that drew comparisons between Patton and Trump–noting the similarities n their appearance,,,
      patton died 12/21/45…not quite 6 months later trump was born 6/14/46

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  16. DOJ asking appeals court to reinstate mask mandate on all public transportation…
    FTA
    The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to overturn a U.S. District Court judge’s order that declared a government mandate requiring masks on public transportation unlawful, according to a report.

    A federal judge in April voided the Biden administration’s mask mandate for travelers using public transportation such as trains and airplanes. The mandate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) applied to people as young as 2-years-old.

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-federal-appeals-court-covid-mask-mandate-public-transportation

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      1. Morning CM!
        as we move into the hotter summer months, the flu cases tend to drop…so do the “cv” cases.
        this is getting ridiculous

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  18. WARNING, WARNING, WARNING! Do NOT believe this woman!!!!

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  21. so make $9 MILLION and get fined $600 for not timely reporting it…sounds fair…what utter BS!!! and their STOCK Act doesn’t prevent insider trading by congress…you just got to report it…more BS!
    FTA
    The Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, or STOCK Act, requires representatives to report their securities transactions to the House Clerk’s office within 45 days. Fallon failed to file timely disclosures for 122 transactions valued at more than $9 million between January and December 2021, according to the report. Between January 2017 and December 2021, Rutherford made late disclosures of 157 trades worth at least $652,000, according to the House ethics office. Both congressmen declined to be interviewed by investigators.

    An attorney for Fallon and Rutherford, Kate Belinski, acknowledged that the lawmakers were late to disclose their trades. But she called the queries “unnecessary” in responses to the reports, citing “taxpayer expense and administrative burden.” Belinski requested the House panel dismiss the referral, noting that the congressmen have already paid fines. 

    Those fines were $600 for Fallon and $800 for Rutherford, according to the ethics office. It said Rutherford’s penalty was calculated incorrectly though, while Fallon didn’t provide enough information to assess the accuracy of his fine.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2022/05/31/house-ethics-office-substantial-reason-to-believe-two-congressman-violated-ethics-laws/

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  25. Entire Article: “(Chris Parker, Headline USA) A report published on the official National Library of Medicine (a government agency) clearly calls out the government’s manipulation and misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic. In an article that was syndicated by the NLM, Russell L. Blaylock, a retired neurosurgeon, wrote that “The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most manipulated infectious disease events in history, characterized by official lies in an unending stream lead by government bureaucracies.”

    He refered to the government’s responses to the pandemic as “a long list of unprecedented intrusions into medical practice, including attacks on medical experts.” Blaylock has written extensively about viruses and their impact on the human body in the past—long before COVID-19. He also has discussed the government’s detrimental role in healthcare on several occasions prior to the pandemic. Since retiring, Blaylock has devoted his time to conducting medical research and informing the public on both health concerns and health-related policies.

    A disclaimer on the NCLM’s website did state that its resources “ are scientific literature databases offered to the public by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.” It noted that the library does not assume an editorial role in the publications that it archives and indexes as scientific literature.

    “[T]he presence of any article, book, or document in these databases does not imply an endorsement of, or concurrence with, the contents by NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), or the U.S. Federal Government,” said the disclaimer.

    Still, Blaylock’s report was considered valid enough for inclusion on the NLM’s official government website. It later went on to accuse the leaders of mainstream media and social media of assisting in the dissemination of COVID misinformation. Blaylock especially called out the attacks on Dr. Peter McCullough, a well-cited medical expert who has successfully treated thousands of COVID cases. The media and government continue to attack his reputation despite a clear track record.

    This isn’t the first time that scientists and medical experts have called out the government’s misinformation and dangerous response to COVID-19. Headline USA previously covered a long list of experts and government officials exposing true misinformation—including the director of the Illinois Department of Health, who openly admitted that COVID death numbers were inflated.”

    https://headlineusa.com/nih-quietly-embrace-covid-critics/

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  26. EXCERPT: “Shortly after the media hyped the fact that the Azov Battalion had dropped neo-nazi insignia from their uniforms, it was revealed that gay soldiers in Ukraine are now heading to war wearing a “unicorn LGBTQ” patch. Yes, really.

    As Zero Hedge highlighted, after months of downplaying or outright denying Azov’s direct links to neo-nazism, the media heralded the fact that the unit had dropped a “neo-Nazi symbol exploited by Russian propagandists.”

    “Ah yes… when these fighters proudly display Nazi symbols, the real problem is Russian officials and media pointing it out: all very inconvenient of course,” commented the news outlet. Perhaps in an effort to distract from the embarrassment, the legacy media is now celebrating a new unicorn patch worn by gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Ukrainian troops.

    “As volunteer fighters Oleksandr Zhuhan and Antonina Romanova pack for a return to active duty, they contemplate the unicorn insignia that gives their uniform a rare distinction – a symbol of their status as an LGBTQ couple who are Ukrainian soldiers,” reported Reuters.

    “Was the DC regime’s $40 billion aid package contingent on rebranding the Azov Battalion-led Ukrainian military into LGBTQ warriors?” asks Chris Menahan. “The DC regime loves raising the LGBT flag over all the nations they occupy, so it wouldn’t surprise me if that was the case,” he added.

    As we previously highlighted, shortly after the war began, British MI6 spy chief Richard Moore asserted that the conflict was partly about protecting the sanctity of “LGBTQ+ rights”.

    “With the tragedy and destruction unfolding so distressingly in Ukraine, we should remember the values and hard won freedoms that distinguish us from Putin, none more than LGBT+ rights. So let’s resume our series of tweets to mark #LGBTHM2022,” he wrote.”

    https://summit.news/2022/06/01/after-azov-dropped-nazi-insignia-from-uniform-media-hypes-new-unicorn-lgbtq-patch/

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  28. Entire article: “YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyoming — A 25-year-old Ohio woman was tossed 10 feet into the air Monday morning when she was gored a bison, according to the National Park Service.

    A news release from the parks service says the bison walking near a boardwalk at Black Sand Basin, which is just north of the Old Faithful geyser. The woman, who is from the Columbus suburb of Grove City, also was on the boardwalk, approached the bison and got within 10 feet.

    It was then the bison attacked the woman, authorities say. The woman suffered a puncture wound and other injuries. She was taken by ambulance to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls.

    Regulations at Yellowstone prohibit visitors from getting within 25 yards of a bison and other large animals, such as elk, bighorn sheep, deer, moose, and coyotes. Visitors are told to stay at least 100 yards away from bears and wolves.

    The park service says bison have injured more visitors to Yellowstone than any other animal. Bison can run three times faster than humans. This is the first reported incident in 2022 of a visitor getting too close to a bison and being gored. Park officials say the safest place to view animals is from a vehicle.”

    https://www.cleveland.com/nation/2022/06/bison-gores-ohio-woman-at-yellowstone-national-park.html

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    1. I often fear this will be my daughter one day. she always tries to get too close to wild animals to get “great” pictures…hubby and i have tried talking reasonably to her about this and the example she is setting for our granddaughter…

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  32. teachers’ union urging teachers to attend meeting to oppose a new charter school…”less students equals less $$…” that’s always BEEN the bottom line–it’s all about the benjamins
    FTA

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  35. EXCERPT: “FAIRFAX, VA – Despite the Fairfax County school board’s decision to punt a controversial vote on changes to family life education (FLE) classes to June, parents showed up in full force at Luther Jackson Middle School at last Thursday’s meeting.

    The Fairfax school board is considering changing the FLE classes in the name of equity, including largely eliminating separate gender classes. The recommendation, from the school board sex-ed committee, would mix boys and girls in 4th through 8th grade for all discussions of puberty, sexually transmitted diseases, and the human reproductive system. The board will also consider increasing penalties against students for “malicious misgendering” “deadnaming” their peers. “Deadnaming” is a word used to describe the act of referring to someone by a name they used prior to transitioning.

    “Too far, too much, too young,” was Fairfax County parent Jeff’s mantra. And his fellow parents in attendance roundly agreed. “I asked my son this morning what he was going to learn,” Jeff told Fox News Digital at a rally ahead of the school board meeting. “He said, ‘math, science, language arts, writing. And he said, ’oh, science.’ That’s what we want to hear, right? We don’t want to hear, ‘I got punished today because I called somebody by the wrong pronoun. Or what this regulation identifies as ‘malicious misgendering.’”

    Elizabeth McCauley of the Virginia Mavens was concerned the administrators seemed to be prioritizing progressive agenda items at a time when Virginia schools are falling behind. Recent reports have found that, in the state of Virginia, only 33 percent of eighth graders and 38 percent of fourth graders are proficient in reading.

    “I think just the basic of saying what is falsehood is true,” McCauley told Fox Digital: “Boys are boys and girls are girls. And God has uniquely designed each individual the way they are. And starting at a very young age and preying upon young children. Grooming young children. Having pornographic, pedophilia literature in schools. That’s very problematic. And also doing that and focusing so much effort on that, when kids are falling behind in academics.”
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    McCauley spared no hesitation when asked why she thought the Fairfax school board pushed the FLE vote to June.

    “They’re afraid because hey, I’m a mother bear,” McCauley said, pointing to her t-shirt that read, “Beware the Mama Bear.” “Beware the mother bears. Mother bears and Papa bears are coming out because we care about the future of our country. We care about our children.”

    More: https://www.foxnews.com/media/parents-rally-ahead-fairfax-county-school-board-vote-sex-ed-classes

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  36. Entire Article: “The massive evidence of corruption in the FBI that has come to light since 2015 only confirms that the organization is desperately corrupt, working against the American people, and in immense need of serious reform. If that reform is not forthcoming, it should be disbanded. In 2015, ISIS targeted me and other American civilians in an attack on U.S. soil for exercising our constitutional rights.

    All the evidence points to the fact that instead of protecting us, the FBI agent involved was egging on the attackers. Did Obama’s FBI want to make an example of those who supposedly insulted the prophet of Islam after Obama had said “the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam”? The FBI could have dispelled these suspicions immediately, but instead completely stonewalled our requests for information. The archives on this and other cases must be opened – and the whole place fumigated.

    In 2015, a free speech symposium I organized, was the target of the the first Islamic State (ISIS) attack on U.S. soil. A “60 Minutes” special on CBS susequently revealed that an undercover FBI agent accompanied the terrorists in a separate car as they approached the Center. Many questions remain unanswered regarding his role in the attack and the FBI’s responsibility to forewarn in such cases. (Editor’s note: ISIS is also known as Islamic State, ISIL, and Daesh.)

    The undercover agent, alias ‘Steven Jane’, had been communicating with jihadists Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi through encrypted messages for some time. According to “60 Minutes,” a few weeks before the attack he urged them to “Tear up Texas.” Simpson responded, “bro, you don’t have to say that … you know what happened in Paris … so that goes without saying. No need to be direct.”

    The mastermind behind the Garland attack, Erick Jamal Hendricks, was also communicating with the FBI as well as with Ibrahim Simpson, who along with Nadir Soofi opened fire on the event. Hendricks made it clear that he was an ISIS supporter and spoke of using acres of land to train recruits, the agent said.

    “My work is for Allah. It is my full-time job,” said Erick Jamal Hendricks, making it clear once again what jihad violence is all about. It’s ironic that he said it to an FBI agent, with the FBI committed to the claim that Islam is a religion of peace that has nothing to do with terrorism. Did the agent try to convince Hendricks that he was misunderstanding Islam?

    Obama’s FBI knew about impending attack and did nothing. They wanted us dead.

    While I do believe that undercover FBI agents have to play along with the jihadis they’re dealing with, because in order to be in an informant you have to have credibility, it’s a whole other thing if you’re encouraging and cheering on the proposed murder of Americans who are standing in defense of the freedom of speech, and then not doing anything about it. Why did the FBI only have one agent there? And not a team waiting for them to shoot back?

    Fast forward to Uvalde.”

    Video: https://gellerreport.com/2022/05/video-pamela-geller-discussing-massive-corruption-in-the-fbion-oans-tipping-point.html/

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  37. EXCERPT: “The forewoman for the jury that acquitted Sussmann said as much in a brief statement to the news media Tuesday afternoon, suggesting it wasn’t worth the jurors’ time to convict someone for lying to the FBI. “I don’t think it should have been prosecuted,” the jury forewomen said, according to an account in The Washington Times. “There are bigger things that affect the nation than a possible lie to the FBI.”

    Such sentiments were predicted in polling two years ago, just before Donald Trump was beaten by Joe Biden in an election where a lie — that Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation — clearly impacted voters. A Newsweek poll in late October 2020 found that a stunning 54% of Americans agreed with the statement that lying has become more acceptable in American politics. In other words, it is no big deal.

    Kevin Brock, the FBI’s retired intelligence chief who monitored the Sussmann trial closely, told Just the News that the evidence submitted by Durham during the trial that the FBI was lying to its own agents likely had a profound impact on the jurors.

    “The Durham prosecution team introduced an FBI communication that indicated that the FBI itself was misleading the agents who were charged with conducting the Alfa Bank investigation by saying that the information came from Department of Justice and not a third party, namely, Michael Sussman,” Brock told the “Just the News, Not Noise” television show Tuesday night.”

    https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/moral-sussmann-trial-americans-see-lying-dc-norm-making

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    1. that wasn’t in her purview.
      the jury was to determine whether or nor sussman lied to the eff bee eye which is a crime…doesn’t matter if it’s a huge lie or a smaller one…the question is yes or no.
      you can’t ignore laws you don’t like or think are immaterial.

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  38. EXCERPT: “The U.S. Supreme Court issued an unusual vote temporarily blocking a Texas law meant to place restrictions on social media companies censoring the speech of their users. The ruling was 5 to 4, with liberal justices Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer joining conservatives Chief Justice John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett in the majority.

    Liberal Justice Elena Kagan and conservative justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and Neil Gorsuch dissented with the ruling. The law would have allowed social media users to sue companies if their speech were impeded on their platforms. It also designates the social media channels as “common carriers” similar to railroads and phone companies. Tech companies sued to block the law based on the argument that it violated their free speech rights by forcing them to publish objectionable speech on their platforms.

    Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed the law, known as House Bill 20, into effect on Sept. 9 but it was struck down by a federal judge in December. The tech industry filed an emergency request to block the law after the federal appeals court for the Fifth Circuit ruled in May to undo the injunction while federal courts decided the ultimate fate of the law.”
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    Here’s more about the Texas social media law: (video @ link)

    https://www.theblaze.com/news/supreme-court-temporarily-blocks-texas-law-restricting-social-media-censorship

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  39. EXCERPT: “Ronald Reagan, one of America’s greatest presidents, once made a statement that acknowledged an unfortunate truism: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.”

    The residents of New Mexico can relate. When the Biden administration took what should have been beneficial action, they unleashed an unprecedented disaster. It appears the largest wildfire in New Mexico history was caused by the federal U.S. Forest Service. In response, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has demanded the federal government pay for 100 percent of the recovery costs.

    As reported by the Las Cruces Sun News, the U.S. Forest Service started fires in what were supposed to be two separate controlled burn locations, Calf’s Canyon and Hermit’s Peak. They lost control over the burns, and the fires joined together, forming a “megafire.” The blaze has raged across almost 500 square miles, and destroyed an estimated 330 homes.
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    Governor Grisham called for compensation to New Mexico from the Federal Emergency Management Administration. Based on investigations showing the federal government’s involvement in starting the fires, Grisham wants Biden to authorize 100 percent funding for the needed recovery efforts.

    Investigators stated one of the fires caused by the Forest Service actually dated back to January. A controlled burn that was done at that time somehow persisted, dormant and undetected, then flared up again.

    It is unclear whether the Forest Service-caused blazes were the result of gross negligence or something else entirely. The Biden administration has signaled it intends to cripple America in order to enact globalist ideology. Destruction of our lands fits that agenda.”

    https://www.westernjournal.com/governor-demands-biden-pay-100-wildfire-damages-revelation-administration-started-megafire/

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  41. 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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  46. seeing articles that US Cyber Agency is warning that dominion voting machines are hackable..and they may not be fixable.
    one sure way to get them replaced? if someone (way beyond my purview) hacked the machines so that Donald Trump wins EVERY FREAKING RACE IN EVERY STATE…
    the dems would have to replace them then, no?
    (and i would be peeing myself for a like a week…LOL

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    1. I would stay wet for a week, too, I think! But it’s not just the Dominion machines – ES&S (Buffet) machines, too. That is what NE uses! From SOS website (I can’t copy/paste, dang it!): “All equipment utilized in Nebraska was purchased through Electronic Systems & Software, LLC (ES&S). All equipment used in the State is federally certified by the US Election Assistance Commission (EAC).”

      This article (subscription required at WSJ only so I can’t post much) from 2018 is talking about ES&S:

      EXCERPT: “Election machines used in more than half of U.S. states carry a flaw disclosed more than a decade ago that makes them vulnerable to a cyberattack, according to a report to be delivered Thursday on Capitol Hill.

      The issue was found in the widely used Model 650 high-speed ballot-counting machine made by Election Systems & Software LLC, the nation’s leading manufacturer of election equipment. It is one of about seven security problems in several models of voting equipment described in the report, which is based on research conducted last month at the Def Con hacker conference.”

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      1. too bad someone doesn’t turn the dang tables on the left and have Trump win every race…
        no quicker way to get the entire country up to speed on the vulnerability of machines!

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  47. living in a log home has it’s challenges…like carpenter bees. Last year…mid-late summer we purchased 2 of these carpenter bee traps…the bees fly up the holes and fall into the glass jar below, where they will eventually die. before they do die, their scent will attract other carpenter bees and lure them to their death too.
    we caught a few last year…but this year?? wow! hubby just emptied them–well he left one in each for the scent factor–and there were probably 7-8 in EACH ONE! i would highly recommend these–but they are are pricey…

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