Poisoning of the Treaty Oak

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Although over a quarter of a century has gone by, the bitter memory of the Treaty Oak’s poisoning still lingers in the minds of many Texans. Few recall, however, the dark motives of the man convicted of the crime.

The Treaty Oak is the lone surviving member of the Council Oaks, a grove where folklore holds that Stephen F. Austin met with Comanche and Tonkawa tribes to negotiate the first boundary treaty of Texas. The 600-year-old live oak is a belove Austin landmark. Before the poisoning, its branches spread some 130-feet wide.

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John Giedraitis, at that time the arborist for the City of Austin, discovered dead grass under the tree in spring, 1989. After heavy rains caused the poison to penetrate the oak, leaves yellowed and sailed to the ground. Something was terribly wrong. Soon the malevolent cause of the tree’s illness was discovered, a revelation that shocked the Lone Star State.

Texas Heritage Tree Care working on tree

When news of the poisoning spread throughout Austin, residents were outraged. The tree was a treasured part of the region’s history: Before European-Americans settled the land around it, the tree was revered in Tejas, Apache, and Comanche culture. A plaque beneath the site tells the (unsubstantiated) story of Texas settler Stephen F. Austin negotiating a border treaty with Native Americans on that very spot in the 1830s.

2012 timeframe

In an attempt to save the dying tree’s life, the city launched a full-blown recovery campaign. The contaminated soil was replaced with fresh dirt and the damaged roots were treated with sugar. A sprinkler system was installed in Treaty Oak Park to provide the tree a steady supply of revitalizing spring water. Other efforts were less practical: a Dallas-based psychic named Sharon Capehart tried healing the tree by transferring energy into it. (In the process, she allegedly discovered that its spirit had once belonged to an ancient Egyptian woman named Alexandria.) Without any supposed psychic gifts or tree expertise to offer, some Austin citizens responded with good vibes.

Similar to this process undertaken in Auburn

Texans from far and wide arrived to pay their respects to the dying tree. Around its thick trunk, they left notes and gifts, as well as prayers for the tree’s recovery. The experts were unanimous: none of them believed there was any hope for the Treaty Oak. Billionaire Ross Perot sent Austin a blank check. The city would spend $250,000 in an attempt to save the tree, using radical, desperate methods.

As the public processed the shock and grief, the Austin police worked to nab the perpetrator. On June 29, 1989—a few months after the crime had been committed—they arrested their primary suspect: a 45-year-old local named Paul Stedman Cullen. He was convicted on a second-degree criminal mischief charge nearly a year later. His motive?

Cullen poisoned the tree as part of a mystic ritual. “Prosecutors said he used the herbicide in an occult ritual to kill his love for his counselor at a methadone clinic, protect her from another man, and pay back the state for outdoor work he was forced to do while he was in prison,” The New York Times reported in 1990.

Before pouring the Velpar on the oak’s roots, Cullen had placed objects that belonged to his counselor in a circle around the trunk. He told an acquaintance that every time he passed the tree and saw it dying he would “see his love for the counselor dying.” The jury had the option to sentence him to life in prison, but in the end they settled on a sentence of nine years (which he served a third of) and a $1000 fine.

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Witness Cindy Blanco testified that Cullen owned books on witchcraft and that he’d told her he had placed items belonging to the counselor around the oak’s roots before pouring the herbicide. When Cullen drove past the dying tree, Blanco claimed, it was as though he were watching his own unrequited love slowly perishing.

Cullen maintained his innocence and claimed the media was setting him up. His attorney made the case that Cullen had lied to Blanco in an attempt to appear impressive. The defendant faced the stark possibility of a life sentence.

From Austin History Center

The jury faced a difficult decision. They understood that a man’s life is worth more than any tree, even if the man in question is a criminal. Yet at the same time, the jury acknowledged a serious and disturbing crime had been committed and justice must be served. In May 1990, the jury gave Cullen a nine-year sentence and a fine of $1,000. He would serve only three years.

Perhaps prayers are stronger than black magic. In the end, the Treaty Oak survived. Though now a third of its original size, the oak is going strong and managed to produce acorns in 1997 for the first time since the poisoning. The Treaty Oak outlived Cullen, who passed away in 2001 at the age of only 57.

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  1. Morning All!
    glad this story had a happy ending!
    it’s a shame there is so little regard for history these days. erbody has an issue–a rage–they think is more important that any one else’s…
    sigh

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    2. this explains that

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  11. Possible conflicts of interest and back-room deals being uncovered between Dutch Ministers in conjunction with Bill Gates / Bill & Melinda Foundation, and their €600m stake in delivery service Picnic.

    This is nothing to do with Nitrogen, it’s purely about acquiring the land. pic.twitter.com/41eQpenSwf

    — Jumpstar (@crispsammich) July 10, 2022

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  12. NY judge rules ny’s involuntary isolation 7 quarantine “rule” null and void…
    FTA
    The lawsuit challenged “Isolation and Quarantine Procedures” Rule 2.13 (10 NYCRR 2.13), which allowed New York governor Kathy Hochul to use the state Department of Health to issue regulations allowing health officials to involuntarily quarantine and detain people diagnosed or suspected of being exposed to a communicable disease for indefinite periods of time, depriving them of freedom, due process, and property rights, all while avoiding legislative oversight.

    Acting justice of the Supreme Court Ronald D. Ploetz ruled on July 8 that Rule 2.13 violates New York State law and is thus null, void, and unenforceable. He said that the Executive Branch had infringed on separation of powers, trampled on the constitutional due process rights of citizens, and ignored existing state law governing isolation and quarantine for serious contagious diseases.

    snip

    Involuntary quarantine had in fact been considered by the über-progressive state Legislature and decisively rejected. The proposal for involuntary quarantine dates back to 2015, when Democrat state assemblyman Nicholas Perry introduced a bill to allow the “removal and detention of cases, contacts and carriers” by the governor or surrogates. Rule 2.13’s provisions closely parallel Perry’s failed bill. Perry’s bill was toxic; it had no co-sponsors and no companion bill in the state Senate, failed to make it out of the Health Committee, was publicly denounced by the Health Committee’s chairman (a Democrat), and was withdrawn in December 2021 just before Perry resigned to become ambassador to Jamaica.

    The unusual nature of the rebuke was noted in an amicus brief filed by minority leader pro tempore Andrew Goodell, the Assembly’s second highest-ranking Republican. “This was an extraordinary repudiation of the bill, and a strong indication that the State Legislature had absolutely no desire to implement legislation that would authorize the involuntary confinement of people with suspected cases of an infectious disease without any due process.”

    Nevertheless, in the absence of legislative action, Rule 2.13 was adopted in March 2020 under the Cuomo administration and periodically renewed by Governors Cuomo and Hochul, most recently in April 2022. The Department of Health acknowledged that it wanted to make Rule 2.13 permanent.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/07/resistance_building_against_governors_covid_powers.html

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  13. Good morning! Cloudy, rainy day here with rain overnight but already 73 so it’s gonna be hot. Still humid, too. Another day on the roller coaster……..neglected to plug in my phone so it was dead this morning. Ooops!

    I understand, and approve of, knowing our history and appreciating it. However, that much effort and expense for one tree??? Seriously? Personally, I think that’s a bit much but that’s just me……

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          1. It certainly played a part in MY history and the history of this property. Who is to say WHICH history is more significant and/or important than the next? So, they signed a treaty there. Big whoop! Is every single location around the country where a treaty was signed honored in such a manner? Nope.

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              1. Yes, you’re right – I am in a “mood.” Feeling kind of defeated today – caught betwixt and between this morning.

                No doubt the treaty was critical to many people but who is to say that waaaay back when, in the early 1800’s, some treaty wasn’t signed with members of the Ponca Tribe right here on this property? No-one really knows everything that’s happened in the past. And, now that I think about it, it kind of bugs me the way people seem to want to worship inanimate, temporary objects. Maybe that’s why this kind of irks me. Seems such a waste to me and somehow hypocritical – worship this silly tree, meanwhile your country is falling down around your fricking ears!

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              2. yes, but allowing someone to selfishly get rid of a symbol of past coperation that brought peace is disheartening in itself. history is intangible–the tree is a symbol of coming together–and someone tried to erase it.
                THAT pisses me off.

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              10. no, I think i read that’s one of the copies they found…I can’t research it now, I am getting ready to go get my chromatic adjustment on my hair…LOL

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  15. Entire Article: “While Biden – or “the big guy” – has his real name attached to his private account for some time, it changed around early 2016, going from “Joseph Biden” to “Peter Henderson” in Hunter’s e-mails.

    It is unclear whether this change was on Hunter’s end (on his devices) or on Joe’s, but Peter Henderson’s e-mails included messages such as “Keep in touch, Love Dad” and shared links – often about Hillary Clinton.

    In Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan series, “Peter Henderson” is the name of a KGB mole that infiltrated the United States government.”

    https://thenationalpulse.com/2020/10/23/exc-is-peter-henderson-joe-bidens-e-mail-pseudonym/

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  17. entire bullshit, whining, book-deal whimpy ryan account
    Former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) said he was “sobbing” as he watched the Jan 6, 2021 attack at the Capitol happen, according to a new book.

    In Atlantic journalist’s Mark Leibovich’s new book, “Thank You For Your Servitude,” Ryan said he felt “disturbed” about what was taking place in a building in which he spend most of his political life,
    Ryan, who was Sen. Mitt Romney’s (R-Utah) running mate in the 2012 presidential election, retired from his position as House Speaker in January 2019. He stepped into the role following former House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) retirement four years prior.

    “I spent my whole adult life in that building,” Ryan told Leibovich in the book. “And I saw my friends, a lot of cops, some of my old security detail – I’m still friends with a bunch of those guys. It really disturbed me, foundationally.”

    Ryan also told Leibovich that “something snapped in him” as he watched the insurrection.

    “Ryan figured the president would bitch and moan and maybe make a big show of ‘fighting’ for his supporters for a while,” Leibovich wrote in his book. “Everyone could feel good and victimized. But eventually Trump would just leave; hopefully, he would know to do this on his own. And everyone could then just get on with their lives.”
    Most Democrats prefer new presidential candidate in 2024: poll The Hill’s Morning Report — Can the Jan. 6 panel connect the dots?

    Leibovich’s book focuses largely on the GOP lawmakers and officials who enabled the former president, or as he writes, the “supplicant fanboys who permitted Donald Trump’s depravity to be inflicted on the rest of us,” per the Washington Post.

    The House select committee investigating the Jan 6, 2021 attack at the Capitol is expected to hold two public hearings this week, after completing six televised public hearings last month.

    here ya go paulie

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  21. Good morning y’all! Had to come back to work to relax from my vacation! 😂 We got a lot done though and still have little things to do every night after work. Had a good anniversary dinner the night before our anniversary. We worked all Friday, our anniversary, but got a lot accomplished. Pushed myself hard that day working outside and almost got heat sick. It was well worth using out vacation for working, but man am I tired. Hoping for a quiet day at work today.

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  23. Entire article from SD yesterday:

    “A quietly released study from the U.N. Human Rights Commissioner [See Here pdf] looking into allegations of war crimes conducted during the Ukraine -vs- Russia conflict, specifically looked into allegations of Russian military targeting a nursing home facility in the eastern region of Luhansk.

    What the UN investigation revealed was that Ukraine military soldiers had intentionally used the nursing home as an active base to launch military strikes against Russian forces. The Associated Press was forced to reveal, “Ukraine’s armed forces bear a large, and perhaps equal, share of the blame for what happened in Stara Krasnyanka, which is about 580 kilometers (360 miles) southeast of Kyiv. A few days before the attack, Ukrainian soldiers took up positions inside the nursing home, effectively making the building a target.”

    The issue of the Ukraine military, intentionally and with purposeful forethought, using civilian locations to embed their military units, highlights the inherent dangers associated with western propaganda during the conflict. In fact, the effort to create civilian casualties seems more purposeful as a strategy to gain western media support and create stories that can be used to advance sympathy toward Ukraine, even if it means putting their own civilians in harm’s way.

    (Via AP) […] The report by the U.N.’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights doesn’t conclude the Ukrainian soldiers or the Russian troops committed a war crime. But it said the battle at the Stara Krasnyanka nursing home is emblematic of the human rights office’s concerns over the potential use of “human shields” to prevent military operations in certain areas.

    The aftermath of the attack on the Stara Krasnyanka home also provides a window into how both Russia and Ukraine move quickly to set the narrative for how events are unfolding on the ground — even when those events may still be shrouded by the fog of war.

    For Ukraine, maintaining the upper hand in the fight for hearts and minds helps to ensure the continued flow of billions of dollars in Western military and humanitarian aid.

    […] David Crane, a former Defense Department official and a veteran of numerous international war crime investigations, said the Ukrainian forces may have violated the laws of armed conflict by not evacuating the nursing home’s residents and staff.

    “The bottom-line rule is that civilians cannot intentionally be targeted. Period. For whatever reason,” Crane said. “The Ukrainians placed those people in a situation which was a killing zone. And you can’t do that.” (read more)

    Keep in mind, the United States is funding Ukraine to fight this war. Without U.S. funding, including the shipments of weapons, the training of military units and the embedding of U.S. special forces to assist the Ukraine military, Ukraine and Russian governments would have likely entered into peace negotiations.”

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  24. EXCERPTS: “In a sign that he is about to announce another presidential campaign, Donald Trump released a video this week of his awesome Boeing 757 being refurbished. This is the airplane he used to campaign during his successful 2016 election. According to Trump, “Now it has been completely modernized and renovated, and looks GREAT, all done in the Great State of Louisiana, and coming back to the skies in the Fall of 2022, or maybe sooner. Get ready!”

    Americans are definitely “ready” for the return of Donald Trump to the White House, especially after 18 months of the worst presidency in United States history.
    ———————
    While these problems are growing, the Biden administration is curiously out of touch with the concerns of average Americans. As a new poll clearly showed, by a wide margin, the most important issues for Americans are the economy, inflation, gas prices and everyday bills such as groceries. An astounding 63% of Americans rank economic issues as the most important concern for their family.

    Despite the outcry from their voters, President Biden and the Democrats are focusing on abortion, gun control, the war in Ukraine, and the January 6 committee. This may be the biggest disconnect in modern American history between a political party and the voters who are supposedly being served.

    The same poll showed that 88% of Americans believe the country is on the “wrong track.” No wonder, millions of Americans are clamoring for the return of Donald Trump to the White House.”

    https://thelibertydaily.com/americans-want-trump-back/

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  25. EXCERPT: “We are living in a world where the degree of disinformation and outright lying has reached such a state of affairs that, possibly for the first time ever, we see the majority of the western world starting to question their own and surrounding level of sanity. The increasing frenzied distrust in everything “authoritative” mixed with the desperate incredulity that “everybody couldn’t possibly be in on it!” is slowly rocking many back and forth into a tighter and tighter straight jacket. “Question everything” has become the new motto, but are we capable of answering those questions?

    Presently the answer is a resounding no.

    The social behaviourist sick joke of having made everyone obsessed with toilet paper of all things during the start of what was believed to be a time of crisis, is an example of how much control they have over that red button labelled “commence initiation of level 4 mass panic”.

    And can the people be blamed? After all, if we are being lied to, how can we possibly rally together and point the finger at the root of this tyranny, aren’t we at the point where it is everywhere?

    As Goebbels infamously stated, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State [under fascism].”

    And here we find ourselves today, at the brink of fascism. However, we have to first agree to forfeit our civil rights as a collective before fascism can completely dominate. That is, the big lie can only succeed if the majority fails to call it out, for if the majority were to recognise it for what it is, it would truly hold no power.

    The Battle for Your Mind

    “Politicians, Priests, and psychiatrists often face the same problem: how to find the most rapid and permanent means of changing a man’s belief…The problem of the doctor and his nervously ill patient, and that of the religious leader who sets out to gain and hold new converts, has now become the problem of whole groups of nations, who wish not only to confirm certain political beliefs within their boundaries, but to proselytize the outside world.”– William Sargant “Battle of the Mind”

    Much more: https://greatgameindia.com/gaslighting-psychology/

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  26. EXCERPT: (Full transcript at link)

    “Seth Dillon, CEO of the satire news website The Babylon Bee, said the company’s goal is to show the irrationality of the popular narratives that pervade modern culture by making jokes about the issues of the time, from Roe v. Wade to the fact that a Supreme Court nominee could not define the word “woman.”

    “Rationality itself is under attack. It’s not just free speech. There are people who have abandoned rationality on purpose, and are trying to get you to go along with agreeing with them that two and two make five,” Dillon said during a recent interview for EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” program.

    Dillon’s goal with The Babylon Bee is to make people laugh and question their own thinking, he said, but he’s found the company taking on a more important role.

    “The goal was to make people laugh, and to make them think a little bit, to be subversive the way that satire is supposed to be subversive, to poke holes in the popular narrative,” said Dillon. “The goal wasn’t to be on the front lines of some kind of big battle but that is where things are at.”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/rationality-itself-under-attack-ceo-babylon-bee

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  27. Entire Article @ Slay News: “Rising GOP star Rep. Mayra Flores (R-TX) has put Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on notice by warning voters that the celebrity Democrat “does not represent the Hispanic community.”

    Speaking during an appearence on Fox News’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Flores also fired back at the New York Times for calling her a “far-right Latina.” Flores dropped the hammer on Ocasio-Cortez, noting that AOC’s “woke” agenda does not connect with Hispanic voters.

    “AOC does not represent the Hispanic community, definitely does not represent Texas District 34 and who we are here. And we’re not worried about the Washington nonsense, ‘Latinx.’ We’re worried about the cost of living, gas, food, health care. That’s what we’re worried about every single day. We’re not waking up and thinking about what’s happening in Washington.”

    “They’re just so disconnected. It’s really sad because they think that the world revolves around Washington, D.C., and that’s really not the reality. I am proud of my culture and my beautiful family,” Flores told Fox News digital earlier. She continued terrifying the Democratic Party:

    “I was born in Burgos, Tamaulipas, Mexico, and raised with strong Conservative values to always put God and Family first. I have received only hate from the liberal media and constantly been told by the left to go back to Mexico. They don’t support us immigrants, they only use us for political power and don’t care about our well-being. I am here now and I won’t allow them to continue taking advantage of my people.

    “The NYT knows nothing about me or our culture. Somos gente de Dios, Familia y Travajo [We are people of God, Family and Work], Si Señor!” she said.”

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  28. Big COVID Scam

    They made a disease
    And spread it around
    They banned all the cures
    ‘Till none could be found

    Don’t it always seem to go
    That you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone?
    You gave up your rights
    Then got your clot shot

    They kept you inside
    Made you wear a mask
    Then closed all your shops
    They didn’t even ask

    Don’t it always seem to go
    That you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone?
    You gave up your rights
    Then got another shot

    You got sick at home
    And got worse there, too
    Then to the hospital
    Where you got screwed

    Don’t it always seem to go
    That you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone?
    You gave up your rights
    Then got a booster shot

    Your immunity’s gone
    You still get the disease
    And spread it around
    To others with ease

    Don’t it always seem to go
    That you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone?
    You gave up your rights
    And still get more shots

    They hide the reason
    We’re all dropping dead
    We fill up with clots
    As more disease spreads

    Don’t it always seem to go
    That you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone?
    You gave up your rights
    And give babies shots

    As we’re dropping dead
    All over the place
    We know it’s the Vax
    To kill off our race

    Don’t it always seem to go
    That you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone?
    You gave up your rights
    And still line up for shots

    Now more people die
    And Big Brother’s in charge
    The poor do the work
    With the rich livin’ large

    Doncha know it always goes
    You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone?
    Your rights are long gone
    And you live for those shots

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  31. Hmmmm…..Hoft from GP posted this 12H ago on TS:

    “URGENT—- We have an 💥 EXPLOSIVE 💥 STORY breaking in the AM. The information we have received will expose the Jan. 6 sham — AND should end Chris Wray’s career. If our website goes down in the AM. You now know why.”

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            1. ok, you’re confusing me…didn’t you post that hoft from the gateway pundit posted they have a bonbshell story and if their website goes down it’s because of the story?

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  36. G’Day y’all …

    slow moving …

    Filly your Open made me cry … how anyone could do such a thing is beyond me. Live Oaks are such beautiful trees, and this one had so much history. Glad to read it is recovering, thriving…

    Hope today goes well for you both.

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  37. hmmmm uber files leaked…from tcth

    sync
    July 11, 2022 11:03 am

    Uber Files: Massive leak reveals how top politicians secretly helped Uber

    https://www.bbc.com/news/business-62057321
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    sDee
    sDee
    July 11, 2022 11:42 am
    Reply to sync

    A globalist dream if I ever did hear one.

    To me, Uber was suspect from the beginning as another DeepState/BigTech operation.

    Seemed to come out of nowhere
    Global rollout on day one.
    Way too slick a rollout with no explanation of the investment, business model or who paid for the massive software development costs.
    Complete lack of coercion, political pressure and opposition from the taxi syndicates which have long been subject to massive waves of regulation, control, and kickback schemes.
    Immediate quiet acceptance of the huge risk in using private cars for public transit from either the auto insurance companies or 50 state regulatory agencies
    Central registration and phone tracking apps required to book an Uber, drive an Uber, and to process the payments.
    A clone was spun off (Lyft) to create the illusion of choice.

    .
    As we now know Uber is an integral part of the surveillance state.

    The ability to hail a cab, go where you want and pay cash was way too big a hole in the agenda that had to be closed.

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    1. I’ve always loved his brilliant quotes but had never read any of his books, then I realized that I have one….that I’ve never read….Conquests and Cultures. I need to pull that out…..

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    1. It has again been mentioned and I’ve wondered like others have….might he be doing this intentionally, albeit perhaps subconsciously? This entire family is the very definition of abuse every which way you turn!!!!

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      1. you mean inside he’s crying for help, so outside he does stupid things to attract attention to get help? possibly.
        or he’s just a dick.

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        1. I don’t think anyone can argue that he got that way by himself by a long shot, ya’ know? Yes, as a way of getting his DAD’s attention – I don’t think he got much attention when he was the younger brother, do you? Brother Beau was always the shining star. When a kid’s mind get twisted by your parents like that…..who knows. Just spitballin.’

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  45. tcth

    marymorse
    marymorse
    July 11, 2022 1:08 pm

    🚨BREAKING: Private jet used primarily by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and other officials stolen from government hanger by angry farmers.
    pic.twitter.com/2rnNPoTe9g

    — News For All ➐ (@NewsForAlI) July 9, 2022

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  47. An older lady was somewhat lonely and decided she needed a pet to keep her company. So off to the pet shop, she went. She searched and searched. Nothing seemed to catch her interest, except this ugly frog. As she walked by the jar he was in, he looked and winked at her. He whispered, “I’m lonely too, buy me and you won’t be sorry.”

    The old lady figured “what the heck,” she hadn’t found anything else. She brought the frog and put him in the car.

    Driving down the road the frog whispered to her “kiss me and you won’t be sorry”. So the old lady figured “what the heck”, and kissed the frog. Immediately the frog turned into a gorgeous sexy young handsome prince. The prince then kissed the old lady back and guess what the old lady turned into?

    She turned into the first motel she could find!
    ———————
    When the husband finally died his wife put the usual death notice in the paper, but added that he died of gonorrhea. As soon as were the papers delivered when a good friend of the family phoned and complained bitterly, “You know very well that he died of diarrhea, not gonorrhea.

    Replied the widow, “I nursed him night and day so of course, I know he died of diarrhea, but I thought it would be better for posterity to remember him as a great lover rather than the big shit he always was
    ———————
    Ethel and Mabel, two elderly widows, were watching the folks go by from their park bench. Ethel said, “You know, Mabel, I’ve been reading this ‘Sex and Marriage’ book and all they talk about is ‘mutual orgasm.’

    “Mutual orgasm here and mutual orgasm’ there. That’s all they talk about. Tell me, Mabel, when your husband was alive, did you two ever have a mutual orgasm?”.

    Mabel thought for a long while. Finally, she shook her head and said, “No, I think we had State Farm.”

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  48. here’s the “bombshell” stuff gwp has…from tcth

    ncxplant
    July 11, 2022 1:03 pm

    TGP’s Jim Hoft Joins the War Room to Discuss the EXPLOSIVE Jan. 6 Whistleblower Report Exonerating Proud Boys and Trump Supporters (VIDEO)
    By Jim Hoft
    Published July 11, 2022 at 11:41am
    7 Comments


    Last night The Gateway Pundit posted an URGENT ALERT on social media platforms GETTR, Telegram and Truth Social of a HUGE breaking report this morning that should take down corrupt FBI Chief Chris Wray.

    This morning TGP contributor Cara Castronuova released whistleblower documents, text messages and audio transcripts of FBI informant James Knowles’s communications with his FBI handlers on January 6 exonerating Trump supporters and the Proud Boys of any conspiracy or planning to storm the US Capitol, to enter the US Capitol, or to overthrow official proceedings.
    IT DID NOT HAPPEN as we all know.
    Now we have the proof!

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  49. A man moves into a nudist colony. He receives a letter from his mother asking him to send her a current picture. Too embarrassed to let her know that he lives in a nudist colony, he cuts one in half and sends her the top part.

    Later he receives another letter asking him to send a picture to his grandmother. The man cuts another picture in half but accidentally sends the bottom half. He is really worried when he realizes that he sent the wrong part but then remembers how bad his grandmother’s eyesight is and hopes she won’t notice.

    A few weeks later he receives a letter from his grandmother. It says, “Thank you for the picture. Change your hairstyle? It makes your nose look too short.”
    ——————-
    An elderly couple had dinner at another couple’s house, and after eating, the wives left the table and went into the kitchen. The two elderly gentlemen were talking, and one said, “Last night we went out to a new restaurant, and it was great. I would recommend it very highly.”

    The other man said, “What is the name of the restaurant?” The first man thought and thought and finally said, “What is the name of that flower you give to someone you love? You know… the one that is red and has thorns.”

    “Do you mean a rose?” “Yes,” the man said. He turned toward the kitchen and yelled, “Rose, what’s the name of that restaurant we went to last night?”
    ——————–
    70-year old George went for his annual physical. All of his tests came back with normal results. Dr. Smith said, “George, everything looks great physically. How are you doing mentally and emotionally? Are you at peace with yourself, and do you have a good relationship with God?”

    George replied, “God and I are tight. He knows I have poor eyesight, so he’s fixed it so that when I get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom poof the light goes on when I’m done poof the light goes off.”

    “Wow!” commented Dr. Smith, “That’s incredible!”

    A little later in the day, Dr. Smith called George’s wife. “Ethel,” he said, “George is doing fine. Physically he’s great. But, I had to call because I’m in awe of his relationship with God. Is it true that he gets up during the night and poof, the light goes on in the bathroom, and then when he is through poof the light goes off?”

    Ethel exclaimed, “Oh, my God! He’s peeing in the refrigerator again!”

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  50. I was talking about this the other day…no bid contract to house illegal “children” —ccp involvement comes out
    from tcth

    Sir Francis Bacon
    Sir Francis Bacon
    July 11, 2022 1:32 pm

    Note: all locations in close proximity
    https://www.mapquest.com/directions/from/us/north-carolina/greensboro-nc-282039451/to/us/north-carolina/fort-bragg-nc-283594149/to/us/north-carolina/chapel-hill-nc-282038912

    Home of Air Born unit and special forces sent to Ukraine.
    Fort Bragg, North Carolina(NC)

    School purchased by and ran by Communist China for Biden’s illegal Immigrants.
    Hebrew Academy in Greensboro, North Carolina(NC)

    First Created Spike Protein for COVID-19 by Communist China and American Scientists
    At the University of North Carolina,Chapel Hill, North Carolina(NC)

    Surprise! Shady Communist China Firm Financially Involved in Biden’s Luxury Camp for Illegal Alien Children in North Carolina; Chinese Took Over School’s Board in 2019
    By Kristinn Taylor
    Published July 9, 2022, at 2:10pm

    The 100 acre, $84 million luxury campus of the American Hebrew Academy in Greensboro, North Carolina, site of the Biden administration’s five-year lease for a new camp for illegal alien migrant children, is being backed by a communist Chinese company, Puxin Limited, that loaned the school $26 million dollars in 2019 and continues to be a lender to this day. Top ranking academy board members were replaced by Chinese figures after the 2019 loan, according to reports. Two months ago the New York Stock Exchange suspended trading in Puxin and moved to delist the firm.

    A September 19, 2019 press release by Puxin Limited announced the loan.

    BEIJING, Sept. 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Puxin Limited (NYSE: NEW) (“Puxin” or the “Company”), a successful consolidator of the after-school education industry in China, today announced that it has entered into a loan agreement, deed of trust note and other ancillary documents with American Hebrew Academy, Inc. (“AHA”), a North Carolina non-for-profit corporation, pursuant to which Puxin extended a loan in a principal amount of US$26 million to AHA to fund its operations of an international college prep boarding school in North Carolina, the United States. The loan bears an interest rate of 18.0% per annum and becomes due on September 6, 2020. The loan is secured by AHA’s interest in certain real property located in North Carolina.

    About Puxin Limited

    Puxin Limited (“Puxin” or the “Company”) is a successful consolidator of the after-school education industry in China. Puxin has a strong acquisition and integration expertise to effectively improve education quality and operational performance of acquired schools. Puxin offers a full spectrum of K-12 and study-abroad tutoring programs designed to help students achieve academic excellence, as well as prepare for admission tests and applications for top schools, universities and graduate programs in China and other countries. The Company has developed a business model effectively combining strategic acquisitions and organic growth achieved through successful post-acquisition integration, which has differentiated the Company from other after-school education service providers in China.

    Judicial Watch reported the positions taken by the Chinese:

    “The American Hebrew Academy has deep Chinese connections, according to records uncovered by Judicial Watch. Its president, vice president and treasurer are Ni Zhang, Shong Gao, and Wei Yang. A few months after closing in the fall of 2019, the school took out a $26 million mortgage from Puxin, a Chinese education company. It planned to open under a new name, but never did. The money HHS is paying in rent will likely be used to pay back the Chinese company.”

    WFMY-TV reported at the time in 2019 the Puxin deal involved more than a loan:

    Public records available with the Guilford County Register of Deeds show that on Monday, September 9, American Hebrew Academy (AHA) transferred financial liability of its 100-acre property in Greensboro NC, to Puxin Limited, a publicly-traded Beijing-based firm. The documents were prepared in Orange County and signed an notarized by a Durham County Notary Public on September 6th.

    Puxin Limited is a Chinese K-12 after-school educational services provider based in Beijing. The Company offers study-abroad tutoring programs that help students to prepare for admission tests and applications for top schools, universities, and graduate programs. The documents also showed Puxin entered a lease agreement with AHA and the Deed of Trust amount of $26 million.

    Excerpt from Floridian Press:

    After securing the loan from Puxin, AHA went through a similar restructuring and rebranding process. Ditching the religious aspect, it renamed itself AHA International School — a secular college preparatory high school geared toward international students. It announced its anticipated reopening for the 2020-21 year.

    A source familiar with the transition rebukes claims that Puxin’s role was strictly financial in nature. Puxin was deeply involved in the rebranding efforts and may have even pushed for the school to reserve 1/3 of its future student population for Chinese students.

    Just as Puxin issued the loan, 8 AHA board members either stepped down or were removed.

    Ni Zhang, Shong Gao, and Wei Yang stepped in to serve in the highest ranking roles.

    The school’s registered agent on its business registration documents changed from former CEO Glenn Drew to a woman named Qinghua Zhao.

    Puxin’s financial records to its shareholders indicate the company’s income from the interest-bearing loan increased drastically from 2018 to 2019 as well as from 2019 to 2020 and attributed the growth to AHA.

    William Scarborough, who oversees AHA’s property and represents the board did not respond to requests for the names of current board members but did confirm Puxin refinanced the school’s debt in 2019 when it was the verge of default. He also confirmed that Puxin remains a lender to the school.

    North Carolina’s eight Republican Congressmen, Richard Hudson, Ted Budd, Madison Cawthorn, Patrick McHenry, Virginia Foxx, Dan Bishop, Richard Rouzer and Gregory Murphy have been raising a stink about the Biden administration’s plans to house illegal alien children at the luxury campus.

    The Washington Examiner reported Friday the Biden administration signed a no-bid contract worth $177 million with New York-based Deployed Resources to manage up to 1,100 illegal alien children and underage teenagers in the lap of luxury at the academy.

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