…Because of Dad

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Somebody else’s family…

I grew up a very lucky girl.  I had a great mom, a competitive, older sister, a somewhat bratty, younger brother, and a completely awesome Dad. 

Dad himself did not have an easy life.  At 16, he had to quit high school because both my grandparents contracted horrific cases of influenza.  While an aunt cared for his parents, and looked after his siblings, he found a job at a clothing factory to support the family.  Months later, my grandfather, a carpenter by trade, was able to return to work, but Dad chose to keep working and help out as much as he could.  Within a few years, he met and married my mother.

Because Dad had a limited education, employment prospects were few, far and in between, but he always kept food on the table.  One of my earliest memories is of seeing my father coming home very early in the morning still dressed in his milkman uniform. 

same uniform, different Dad

When the dairy shut down, Dad was forced to work as a general laborer, working on such projects as The Pocono Raceway and The Schaeffer Brewery.  Neither of those jobs were close to our home, so Dad drove long hours to and from work, but he never complained.  I learned that there is nothing more important than family…because of Dad.

I remember when I was in grade school,  being frustrated with a homework assignment to write a book report (which was finished) and draw an accompanying picture.  I couldn’t draw a horse; no matter how I tried, it looked terrible.  Dad came out to the table, asked what was wrong and when I blubbered I can’t draw, he sat down beside me.  Taking my blue composition book and a pencil, he explained the shape of the horse as it came to life on the paper.  I was mesmerized.  He then instructed me to take my pencil and recreate the image—making a smaller horse beside his—and I did it! Right there and then I fell in love with drawing…because of Dad.

not his drawing…but close!

As we kids grew older, Dad used our dinner times to not only to ask about our days at school, but to discuss and debate many different issues.  He was the first conspiracy theorist I ever knew.  We debated the moon landing frequently, as well as JFK’s assassination and Hitler’s suicide. I learned how to defend my positions, make informed opinions and how to keep an opened mind…because of Dad.

Dad’s theory

One of the greatest gifts I ever got from my Dad was making people laugh.  He was a musician, played the accordion—had his own band—and played at weddings and dances, and at our home on Sundays. 

not my Dad, although he DID like red

He would play and sing and the neighbors always came over to hear him.  Before long, they were clapping along or dancing, and laughing, because Dad always told jokes. If he wasn’t singing, he was cracking jokes.  Even when he was in the hospital, he was always joking with the nurses and making them laugh.   I learned how to brighten someone’s day…because of Dad.

When I first met my second husband, a handsome, college educated professional man, he was a single father, newly divorced and I thought he was nothing like my Dad.  He wasn’t artistic or musical in the least, didn’t care to debate conspiracy issues or current issues at all, and couldn’t tell a joke to save his soul.  And then I saw him with his daughter, and I knew he was the one…because of Dad.

Thanks, Dad!

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  1. Morning All!
    Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers out there!
    last evening we got to see the first set of twin fawns!!!
    that was exciting…and they were a lot tinier than the first fawn we saw.

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  12. wow! Ultra Maggot intends to run again. hitlery says she’s not running in 2024.
    we all know hitlery lies, so there’s that…but later in the article the press sect says she struggles to keep up with Ultra Maggot? wow! just WOW! I’ve seen him shuffle more times than i can count! sweetheart if you can’t keep up with THAT? maybe you need some vitamins!
    entire article

    Hillary Clinton shut down any speculation that she might run for president again in 2024, calling such a campaign “out of the question.”

    Clinton sat down for an interview with the Financial Times in which she discussed her own political career, the Biden presidency, former President Donald Trump, and the 2024 presidential race.

    Asked whether she had any intentions to run again, Clinton held firmly against a return to the race.

    “No, out of the question,” she told the Financial Times. “First of all, I expect Biden to run. He certainly intends to run. It would be very disruptive to challenge that.”

    Clinton said that the most important issue moving forward was the next election, trumping any other social or economic policy debate. She called the prospect of a Republican president in 2024 “so frightening” that anything does not help Democrats win a non-priority.

    “We are standing on the precipice of losing our democracy, and everything that everybody else cares about then goes out the window,” Clinton said. “Look, the most important thing is to win the next election. The alternative is so frightening that whatever does not help you win should not be a priority.”

    The Washington Post reported Friday that Biden may announce his re-election bid in spring 2023, and that the Democratic National Committee is not planning for a primary debate schedule, under influence from Biden’s team who want to project strength despite poor poll numbers.

    White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre laughed off a question Monday about Biden’s physical and mental well-being during an interview with CNN’s Don Lemon.

    “Does the president have the stamina, physically and mentally, do you think to continue on even after 2024?” Lemon asked.

    “Don, you’re asking me this question,” a visibly stunned Jean-Pierre exclaimed. “Oh my gosh. He’s the President of the United States.” The press secretary then laughed and told Lemon that she, 47, sometimes struggles to keep up with Biden, 79. She added that Lemon’s question was not one that “we should even be asking.”

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hillary-clinton-rules-out-presidential-run-biden-dnc-potential-candidates

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      1. Morning Filly!
        of all us kids, I think i am most like my dad.
        I miss him!!

        i don’t think Ultra Maggot shows the stamina to run again. he didn’t even tehnically run in 2020…just hid in the basement

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  13. 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 religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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  14. a little later this morning, I’m taking my hubby out for an earlier lunch. he likes this little diner a few towns over and on Sundays, they are only open till noon. (other days they are open until 2pm)
    this is the little diner, that during the cv crap, posted on all their doors, that inside a peaceful protest was occurring. there were no masks required. if you wanted to wear one, they would certainly not discriminate against you, but you were warned there were not masks inside.
    the diner owner was fined and forced to shut down for a week wherein she fought the health department’s rules and WON! and as long as her diner remained a “peaceful protest” she was allowed to be open and not have to require masks of staff or patrons.
    she earned a loyal following…and that little place is ALWAYS crowded!

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  17. Not 100% verified but it wouldn’t surprise me!!!

    Entire Article @ TheTruthAboutGuns: “Apparently not content with its efforts so far to make gun ownership more difficult and expensive for America’s 100 million firearm owners, a source tells TTAG that the Biden administration is taking steps to reduce the availability of .223/5.56 ammunition available to the average shooter.

    A person with knowledge of the situation tells us that, more than just “considering” the move, Winchester, which operates the US Army’s Lake City ammunition plant, has been informed that it may no longer sell M855 and SS109 ammunition produced in excess of the military’s needs on the civilian market.

    How would that affect the civilian supply of .223 and 5.56 ammunition? We understand that as much as 30% of the commercial market’s sales volume of .223/5.56 is produced by Lake City. The motivation here is obvious. The Biden administration is attempting to further spike the price of ammunition, squeezing the owners of America’s favorite rifles…the scary black ones that the president assures us are only good for killing people and taking down Kevlar vest-wearing deer.

    Let’s face it. Even the hapless Biden administration must realize that they don’t have any realistic prospect of getting another “assault weapons” ban through the Senate. Instead, they’re doing the next best thing. They’re trying to make shooting most AR-15 rifles as expensive as possible for Americans who own between 20 and 25 million AR platform guns.

    We’ve reached out to Winchester for a statement on the Biden administration’s move, but haven’t received a response yet. We’ll updated this post when we do. In the mean time, it’s just possible that the Biden gang may have shot themselves in the foot (metaphorically speaking, of course) with this ploy. John Cornyn and Chris Murphy pulled out all of the stops to hammer out a compromise deal in the Senate that got 10 Republicans to sign on. They announced it with great fanfare this past the weekend.

    Now, as the actual legislation is being written around that deal framework, the Biden clown car crashes right into the middle of things with a heavy-handed maneuver that’s sure to further anger tens of millions of gun owners less than five months from the election.

    Will the ten GOP Senators who agreed to the Cornyn/Murphy deal stay on board now? Possibly. Maybe even probably. But the administration’s ham-handedness here can’t make it any easier for the bipartisan ten to maintain their resolve in the face of a snake-belly-low move by the ostensible leader of the Democrat party.

    This is a developing story. Stay tuned.”

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    1. I am really beginning to think that NOTHING will surprise me any more!!!! I’ve turned so negative that anything positive would be the only thing to really surprise me these days!!!

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  24. EXCERPT: “Law enforcement officials reportedly never tried to open the door at a Texas elementary school last month where a shooter murdered 19 children.

    “Surveillance footage shows that police never tried to open a door to two classrooms at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde in the 77 minutes between the time a gunman entered the rooms and massacred 21 people and officers finally breached the door and killed him,” the San Antonio Express-News reported, noting that the information came from a law enforcement official who was involved in investigating law enforcement’s response to the tragedy. “Investigators believe the 18-year-old gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers at the school on May 24 could not have locked the door to the connected classrooms from the inside.”

    The doors are reportedly designed so they can only be locked or unlocked from the outside, and police might have assumed that the door was locked. The report said that it is not known if the door to the classroom where the 18-year-old Hispanic male was holed up was even locked.

    The source told the local newspaper that it didn’t even matter whether the door was locked because “officers had access the entire time to a ‘halligan’ — a crowbar-like tool that could have opened the door to the classrooms even if it was locked.”

    The news comes as a report from The New York Times revealed that a law enforcement official with the city, not the school district, who was armed with an AR-15 style rifle had the opportunity to shoot the attacker before he entered the school but didn’t because he hesitated over fear that he might hit kids in the background.

    “The chief deputy sheriff said that any attempt to shoot the moving gunman would have been difficult, and that the officer would undoubtedly have faced harsh criticism and possibly even a criminal investigation had he missed and hit a bystander in the distance, especially a child,” the report noted.”

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-video-shows-police-never-tried-to-open-door-to-get-in-texas-classroom-where-shooter-was-report-says

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      1. They just look worse and worse by the minute!!!! Having said that….altho I DON’T think this is the case here, one has to acknowledge the truly valid reasons that cops these days would hang back. Their lives are basically ruined even after the investigation proves it was a “justifiable use of deadly force.” But only if the victim is black, mind you!

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  25. This is nonsense to me…..species come and go – such is life – so what if it goes extinct? Do we have pictures and samples that have been preserved? Yes….yes, we do. Sheesh! And I will not accept that ANY species is actually extinct until every single square inch of this earth and seas have been explored and examined. I see stories like this frequently – it comes up on a regular basis. Enough with this foolishness! And I do NOT want taxpayer money used for such tilting at windmills!!!!!

    Entire Article @ JustTheNews: “Scientists this week announced the discovery of a specific species of tortoise from the Galapagos Islands, one that was earlier thought to have gone extinct nearly a century ago. Researchers have long believed that the Fernandina Island Galapagos—a tortoise discovered on its eponymous island near the start of the 20th century—had disappeared from the face of the earth around that time.

    Yet a team of scientists recently declared that investigations into a lone female discovered on Fernandina Island revealed that assumption to be false.”

    “The discovery in 2019 of a female tortoise living on the island provided the opportunity to determine if the species lives on,” the team wrote in an article published in Nature. “By sequencing the genomes of both individuals and comparing them to all living species of Galapagos giant tortoises, [we showed] the two known Fernandina tortoises are from the same lineage and distinct from all others,” they said.

    “Fernandina,” as the scientists have informally dubbed her, may be the last of her species, meaning that with her death—on a natural span about 100 years from now—would officially end her specific lineage.”

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    1. with all the research about these turtles…no one ever froze turtle sperm to keep the species going?
      you’d think someone would have done that by now

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      1. It had been presumed extinct already and this one was only found recently. I thought the same – well, if you’ve got a female…..but, then, you need a male for eggs so…..

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  26. reading a story about Ultra Maggot wanting to transition into EVs quickly…anyway…there was this comment

    Libra1965 Sir TuberKopf • 2 days ago

    in the buffalo shooting, a man who built the motor running on water was one who was murdered. funny the shooter drove over 3 hrs to kill…… was that man a target ????/ i bet he was !!!!

    interesting…don’t know the veracity, but it would NOT surprise me. the radical left does not mind killing a few extra people to accomplish their targeted goal.

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    1. Nor would it surprise me….I wonder how many hundreds of thousands – millions even maybe? – lowly little GSA guttersnipes are tracking millions and millions of people…..?

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  27. “You’re paying, what, $2 a gallon for your gasoline? If Biden got in, you’d be paying $7, $8, $9. Then they’d say, ‘Get rid of your car.'” Donald Trump, November 2, 2020

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        1. Speaking of Tesla….I finally watched an episode of Mysteries of the Abandoned that I had saved but hadn’t watched yet. I saw in the preview it included something about him. I finally watched it last night and it’s given me the focus I needed.

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  28. BTW, there is NO “accidental” about it!!!! It’s all in the Communist Playbook!

    Entire Article @ DC: “It’s been said that America can always be counted on to do the right thing, once we have exhausted all the other alternatives. As of Father’s Day 2022, America has spent about 60 years exhausting the alternatives to fatherhood — and the collateral damage is all around us. Broken families. Gutted communities. Betrayed women. Terrified children. Busy morgues. And overflowing prisons.

    The evidence is so overwhelming that it’s not really controversial anymore. Children who grow up without their fathers — especially in communities where fatherlessness has become the norm —carry the heaviest social, economic and psychological cross social science can measure. The mountain of data is nothing short of Himalayan.

    Children raised in single-parent homes constitute:

    63% of teen suicides;
    90% of runaways and homeless children;
    85% of behavior disorder patients;
    71% of high school dropouts;
    75% of teenagers in substance abuse rehab centers;
    85% of young prison inmates.

    This is what we have to show for the trillions of dollars spent and the decades of research conducted. If there was a way for a social worker or a bureaucracy or a government check to fill the Dad-shaped hole in America’s broken families, we would have found it by now.

    It doesn’t exist. Three generations of elites — from Washington to Hollywood — have promised young Americans that severing the natural connections between sex, marriage, commitment, kids, and parenthood would be “liberating.” As the statistics above show, it’s been anything but.

    The only solution to fatherlessness is fathers. And we have to figure out a way to say so, even in these hypersensitive times. Our culture has gone to such laudable lengths to de-stigmatize single motherhood that we now accidentally denigrate married fatherhood. We work so hard to affirm non-traditional gender roles and family structures that we have forgotten just how valuable they have always been.

    Fatherhood isn’t about being a male. It’s about being a man. Fatherhood harnesses masculinity to the good of society, so the community benefits along with the family, and each individual father as he grows into his vocation. The strength, courage, dependability, honesty, accountability, gentleness, toughness and protectiveness that define real masculinity keeps children safe, wives happy, and trouble at bay. A fish may or may not need a bicycle, but women and children very much need men.

    We know what actual toxic masculinity looks like. It looks like boys raised without men: insecure, vulgar, misogynistic, angry, ignorant, violent, confused and above all, scared. In every poor community in America, from opioid-riddled Appalachia to violent inner cities, every boy who doesn’t know how to be a man and every girl who doesn’t know she deserves one, is crying out into that empty void in their homes and in their hearts, “Father, father, why have you abandoned me?”

    That question cannot be answered, or that agony soothed, with universal health care or a “Build Back Better” plan. The measurable, material benefits of intact families — the second income and additional caregiver — are the least important ones. What really matters is not what fathers do, but what they are.

    For two generations now, America’s elite institutions have devalued what they are, through a welfare state that penalizes work and marriage, through an education system that punishes boyishness and a culture that scolds chivalry as abusive and masculinity itself as toxic. It turns out, dads are just one more thing our failed elite class was wrong about.

    Father’s Day is a reminder that what our broken culture, struggling single moms, frightened kids need is not another program or policy, but a person.

    Dads: accept no substitutes.”

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  29. Entire Article (video @ link):

    “While the Democrats harp on the importance of safety, gun control, and the end of violence in America, one look at Chicago, a Democratic stronghold, paints an entirely different picture of the utopia the liberal party promised. Back in 2019, when Lori Lightfoot became Mayor, she listed a slew of changes she would bring to the city. But now, with it being 2022, Chicago is not only dealing with a surge in crime and violence, but on Monday, a naked woman lying in the road used the opportunity to steal a police car and run over a police officer before crashing.

    Although the video below is absurd and confusing, sadly, this has become somewhat of a daily routine for law enforcement in Chicago. Thanks to the efforts by the Democrats and Black Lives Matter movement, police officers have been under constant criticism for how they interact with the community. But the incident reviewed by Superintendent David Brown even had him startled as the unidentified woman was naked in the street before charging the officer and stealing his vehicle. Take a look.

    Thankfully, the officer was taken to a nearby hospital for a leg injury and is expected to make a full recovery. As for the woman, after speeding down the road, and hitting several cars during her escape, she eventually crashed and was detained. Also taken to the hospital, the individual was admitted for an undisclosed condition. Chargers against her are still pending.”

    https://www.drewberquist.com/2022/06/naked-woman-runs-over-officer-with-his-own-squad-car-speeds-off-crashes-in-lightfoots-chicago-video/

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        1. I don’t blame him! I love muscle cars but my dream car is still a 1980’s IROC Z-28. A close girlfriend (who was a bit teched in the head – the entire family had “issues”) with whom I lived and worked had one and it was sooooo hot!! OMG!!! Whoo, buddy, did we have fun!!!!

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  31. Entire Article @ Independent Sentinel:

    “Mike Pence is laying the groundwork to run for President in 2024 according to the Wall St. Journal. He’ll run whether Donald J. Trump (DJT) runs or not.

    “Ultimately, I believe that most Americans understand that we did our duty that day under the Constitution and the laws of this country,” Mr. Pence said in an interview of his actions on Jan. 6, when he resisted pressure from Donald Trump to delay the certification of the electoral votes, the WSJ reports.

    Not delaying the certification is one thing, but Pence could have offered some verbal support for Donald Trump at the time. He didn’t. The WSJ said that people in the Capitol that day were calling for Pence’s hanging. That wasn’t a serious threat but RINOs and Democrats won’t let it go. As for Pence’s run for the presidency, there is a problem.

    “The Trump base in many states is very firm and very loyal,” said Pennsylvania pollster Terry Madonna. “That’s Pence’s problem. He has to find a way to move some of those people over to him and campaign without alienating that base.” Pence wants to go with Trump’s agenda but presents himself as a less controversial personality. Unfortunately, some see him as a wimp.

    “The president and I had very different styles, we’re different men,” Mr. Pence said. “But we were working shoulder-to-shoulder…and we delivered for the American people.”

    Mr. Pence lined up a high-profile advisory board for the Indianapolis-based group, including several people who worked for Mr. Trump. Members include former counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway; former director of the National Economic Council Larry Kudlow; former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos; and David McIntosh, president of the conservative group Club for Growth.

    He is also expected to form a super PAC, which can accept unlimited funds, people familiar with the planning said. Pence is traveling and speechifying throughout the country and even in China.

    Pence is the McConnell choice or at least one of the choices. This whole idea sounds like the idea that Jeb Bush had. He was going to win the Primary without conservatives.”

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    1. you know what this is? this is his pay off for selling out the maga base. he gets to keep all campaign funds collected but not used…
      so he fund raises…gets some big donors (pay offs) and then does a lackluster campaign and gives up. he gets his pay off

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  32. Entire Article @ Bearing Arms:

    “When the Bands of America marching band competition kicks off in Orlando, Florida this October, students from the West Harrison High School band in Mississippi will be taking part, and thanks to the generosity (and support for the Second Amendment) from many locals, the kids won’t have to pay for all of their expenses themselves.

    A gun raffle held by the band’s booster club has officially sold out of the $100 raffle tickets, and that has some gun control fans in the area steaming, saying it’s “highly inappropriate” for the booster club to use guns as a means to raise money for the students.

    “It’s highly inappropriate,” said Tori Bishop, a former Harrison County School District parent and an administrator for a Facebook group called Harrison County Parents for a Safer Return to School. The group has more than 1,500 members. “In light of the recent school shooting, and the mass shootings we’ve been having going on in this country … it is in extremely poor taste. I am disappointed in the district,” Bishop said.

    “I understand that rifles are commonly raffled in this area but there are semi automatics and handguns on this list as well,” said former state Rep. Sonya Williams Barnes, who now works for the Southern Poverty Law Center. “After the tragedy in Uvalde, it seems to me that the organizers should have used better judgment by shutting the raffle down. Even if for no other reason but for respect to those 19 babies and 2 teachers whose lives were lost.”

    It seems to me that most folks understand that this raffle has nothing to do with the monstrous actions of the cowardly killer in Uvalde. I mean, the raffle did sell out, after all. It’s not like the organizers were struggling to find people willing to spend $100 for the chance to win a gun, which honestly, in this economic environment, is kind of surprising.

    The school district itself also isn’t a part of the raffle, which is being organized by an outside booster group with no official ties to the district. And winners will have to go through a background check before they can pick up their new firearm from the local gun shop that’s sponsoring the raffle as well, though that’s of little importance to the gun control fans who want to see the raffle shut down.

    And they may well get their wish. A link to the Facebook page where the guns were being raffled off was disabled when I checked on Friday, and there have been several other gun raffles around the country that have been suspended or pulled in recent weeks after complaints, including a raffle benefitting the Columbia, Missouri Police Officer’s Association, a volunteer fire department in Pennsylvania, and a high school wrestling team in North Carolina.

    In fact, the cancellations have become so widespread that even some national media outlets have noticed. NPR ran a story a couple of weeks ago talking about a number of other raffles that were suspended or called off, with some organizers reporting receiving an overwhelming amount of hate and “negative feedback”.

    “Due to some bad publicity, and negative feedback from other citizens I am going to seize the current sportsman package raffle. Everyone will be refunded for their purchases,” a post on the Aliquippa Police K9 Facebook page announced last Thursday, two days after the shooting at the primary school in Uvalde that killed 19 children and two teachers. Later that day came a follow-up post noting “the hate mail that’s flowing in right now because of a overly sensitive society.”

    As in Rocky Run, Aliquippa Police Chief John Lane concedes it was “bad timing” for the fundraiser. The proceeds were to go to the widow of Lane’s predecessor, who died in 2020. He says that in the past, a sergeant with the K9 unit has raffled other things besides guns. “He’s done cigars; he’s done lawn furniture. But [the gun raffle] makes the most money.”

    Lane says that despite the decision to call the raffle off, the community reaction to it in the days after the Uvalde shootings was running about 70-30 in favor of holding it anyway. “I understand why some people find it wrong,” he says. “But it goes both ways.”

    Yes, but the loudest voices tend to win out at a time like this, which is why we’re seeing so many of these raffles are being called off right now. And with opponents of the raffles declaring that anyone who supports them must not care about the victims in Uvalde, or care more about guns than kids, a lot of the folks who don’t think the raffle should be cancelled may be cowed into silence simply because they don’t want that hate directed their way. It’s the heckler’s veto at work, and the ones who are most harmed are those who stood to benefit from the raffle’s success; high school marching bands, fire departments, and even the widow of a Pennsylvania police chief.”

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  35. Oh, shit!!!! And DeSantis steps up yet again!!!

    EXCERPTS: “Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky on Saturday approved Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccines for use in American children as young as 6 months. The decision allows, for the first time, children under five years old to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

    “Together, with science leading the charge, we have taken another important step forward in our nation’s fight against COVID-19,” Ms. Walensky said in a statement Saturday. “We know millions of parents and caregivers are eager to get their young children vaccinated, and with today’s decision, they can.”

    Parents can begin scheduling vaccination appointments for their children this coming week, the White House said. A panel of advisers to the CDC voted unanimously earlier Saturday to recommend authorization of the two vaccines for young children. The Food and Drug Administration approved the shots for emergency use in children as young as 6 months on Friday. Regulators approved shots from Pfizer-BioNTech for persons aged 6 months through 4 years. Previously, the company’s vaccine was available to those 5 and older.
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    FDA Commissioner Robert Califf vouched for the shots’ safety and said they will provide protection against the worst outcomes, such as hospitalization and death. Federal officials say there have been 30,000 COVID-19 hospitalizations and nearly 500 deaths in the 0-to-4 years old age group.

    “Those trusted with the care of children can have confidence in the safety and effectiveness of these COVID-19 vaccines and can be assured that the agency was thorough in its evaluation of the data,” Dr. Califf said.
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    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, said his state will not use any of its resources to promote or distribute the shots. His state is the only one that did not preorder shots for the youngest age group, prompting hospitals and pediatricians to complain they will have to seek the vaccines on their own, causing a delay.

    The Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics said Friday it is working to find options for families while it pushes Mr. DeSantis to reconsider. The governor said he thinks the risks outweigh the benefits for the youngest kids, so the state will not be involved.”

    https://amp.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/jun/18/cdc-advisers-unanimously-pfizer-moderna-covid-19-s/

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  36. No wonder she’s so fucked in the head!!!! I won’t post any of her stupid comments….

    EXCERPT: “As part of a media tour selling her new personal memoir Rough Draft (after her Trump-campaign memoir a few years ago), MSNBC host Katy Tur appeared on Monday’s Fresh Air for the hour on NPR. Tur talked about growing up with an abusive journalist father, Bob Tur, who now identifies as Zoey Tur. She compared him to Donald Trump as bombastic and volatile and scary, and suggested they could see the same therapist.
    ———————
    Before she broke out at NBC, Tur dated Keith Olbermann when he was an MSNBC star. Davies said he didn’t know about it. She joked it’s not as if Olbermann left networks like MSNBC “amicably.”

    At the end, Tur lamented that people are too partisan in their news tastes. “And obviously, some corners are worse than others. And I think that we do great, impartial journalism in the daytime hours of my network. But I also worry that viewers can be primed to expect something.”

    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2022/06/18/katy-tur-suggests-trump-needs-therapist-her-transgender-dad

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  39. Well, fancy that….I FINALLY went on-line to find instructions on maintaining trumpet vines! Lo’ and behold, they must be pruned all the way back every fall!!! No wonder I’ve had fewer and fewer flowers!!!! I need to dig out as many small roots as I can. I also found a link to kill them, if I decide I want to do that….personally, I’ve always wanted some Wisteria, too, so…..we’ll see how this goes for the next year or so.

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  40. Slipping on down to say

    What a beautiful tribute to your father Pat! I’m sure he is smilin’ wherever he is…

    Thank you for sharing with us.

    and Good Morning!

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      1. Yes you were… (precious pic!)

        I was also … blessed enough to have had 71 years with him … your tribute to your Dad brought back a flood of memories and lots of smiles, and a few (happy) tears.

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          1. It is truly a factor, a blessing…

            however, I can cite many examples of peeps who are making it, have made it… without a ‘good father’ . I think a combination of nature and nurture are key. The ‘nurture’ can arise from the mother figure(s) as well, and a father ‘figure’ (uncle or grandfather) if ‘good father’ is not available.

            A huge “negative” for having a really “good” father for a naive entity such as myself as a youth… was the expectation that ‘males’ are like my Dad. Apparently it was a lesson I had to learn the hard way 😉

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      1. It’s a vine, so INVASIVE… I have spent many a winter pulling and cutting grape and wisteria vines. I love wisteria also… and I don’t have enough sunlight for everything I like, but there is a wisteria BUSH, which has same beautiful blossoms, but is NOT invasive. You might want to look into that as you have tons of sun on your land.

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        1. I figured they were probably invasive, like the trumpet vines, but didn’t know if they were as bad. And in this spot, I need a vine on the arbor. But I’ll keep the wisteria bush in mind, definitely.

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        2. A couple of notes on Wisteria.

          There are, IIRC, two main flavors of Wisteria….the Chinese and the Japanese, or some such. Both are deciduous. In Spring, one blooms before it leafs, and the other leafs before it blooms. We have one of each to extend the blooms. Can’t remember which is which. You cannot fertilize in Spring before all the blooms are down, or the leaves will bury the flowers.

          If they’re on an arbor, they’re not too invasive. If they can reach a tree, they may smother it.

          They are very heavy. An arbor of 2×2 lumber isn’t going to make it.

          If a stem doesn’t get light before it goes dormant, sap will not rise into it in Spring and you’ll have a bunch of dead wood.

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  43. so this little diner is great for so many reasons…but the one that keeps me coming back is the clientele.
    old guys, Veterans–all talking–and none too shyly–complaining about the left, the current resident of the wh…and the like!
    today’s special was creamed beef on toast–one of my favorites–but they buttered the toast??? gave it a greasy flavor i wasn’t fond of…
    hubby brought half of his meal home!

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              1. Yep – Sears’ Great-great Aunt or maybe Grandma, ICR at the moment, was a Queen of her tribe and a leader in the slave wars. Meanwhile, the Hoe’s Father’s ancestors fought that same tribe in those same wars – they were big slave owners.

                I posted some links at M’s when Sears was first elected.

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              3. I had never even heard of Sears before she was elected and when I heard “from Jamaica,” it clicked….hmmmm…who else is from Jamaica and we know they owned plantations with slaves. I originally was curious about how close they were in age, did they ever interact in Jamaica, etc. And then I kept diving…..

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