Christmas in July? Invention of Christmas Tree Lights

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Shall we harken back to 1879, the year of Edison’s light bulb patent? He liked to demonstrate the magic of his new creation and entice investors with it every chance that he got. His bulbs always garnered widespread excitement with plenty of “Oohs” and “Ahhs.” That Christmas was no different, when he decorated his Menlo Park lab with his new lights, bringing spectators from near and far to see the winter magic. Inside or out, nothing adds more of a magical accent to the Holidays than bright, colorful and soothing lights.

Before electric Christmas lights, families would use candles to light up their Christmas trees. This practice was often dangerous and led to many home fires. Edward H. Johnson put the very first string of electric Christmas tree lights together in 1882. Johnson, Edison’s friend and partner in the Edison’s Illumination Company, hand-wired 80 red, white and blue light bulbs and wound them around his Christmas tree. Not only was the tree illuminated with electricity, it also revolved on a base!

The Johnson’s illuminated and revolving tree of the future
Vintage string of Christmas tree lights on display at the Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West Orange, JN

Christmas lights were not mass-produced until 1902, when General Electric, a company founded by Edison in the 1880’s, brought the holiday lights to select consumers. The lights were quite expensive and not available to the mass market until a few decades later. Advertisements that boasted a safer and odorless way to decorate for the holidays stimulated sales for the lights.

Vintage advertisement for Thomas Edison’s Christmas Lights

To this day, a large Christmas tree shines bright in the Thomas Edison’s Glenmont mansion in New Jersey every Holiday Season, which is now decorated by park rangers.

Thomas Edison’s Christmas tree in 2018 vs. circa 1920

Mrs. Edison’s touch was everywhere during the Holidays, with her special Christmas trees set up in the conservatory for her house workers to enjoy. A favorite was the Swedish candle box tree. Many decorations were lovingly placed around the house…and of course a formal printed menu for the big dinner she held every year for family and friends, usually totaling 30 people! That and her husband’s Christmas lights made it all the more memorable.

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    2. There’s another one that everyone loves that I do not like – watch Bongino talk for an extended period – watch his tongue – looks like a snake’s tongue flickering out every once in a while – beyond creepy!

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        1. Oh, yeah – back when I used to watch Hannity and Dan and Geraldo used to go back and forth….it is creepy as hell! And somehow he manages to flick that tongue out mid-sentence/word! Sends shivers down my spine!!!

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  2. WTF??!!?? Who on earth even ACCEPTED that lawsuit??!!??

    Entire Article @ NYP (video @ link): “After getting stood up, she finally got her date — in court. A Michigan woman is raising eyebrows online after suing a man for $10,000 for — wait for it — standing her up on a date. A clip of the wild virtual hearing — during which the scorned woman got into a heated shouting match with the judge — is currently blowing up online.

    The woman, named QaShontae Short, had reportedly filed a lawsuit back in 2020, in which she alleged that Richard Jordan “did not show and left on her mother’s birthday and her mom had just passed away,” per legal docs obtained by TMZ. Short sued the accused date ditcher for intentional infliction of emotional distress on the grounds that Jordan had deliberately hurt her by standing her up.

    Go figure: Their Zoom hearing quickly devolved into a circus after Short locked horns with the judge over whether Jordan’s romantic no-show job was a criminal offense. “That’s [her charge] not something that’s really justiciable in district court,” said Judge Herman Marable Jr., who was presiding over the case in Flint, Michigan. “That has to be brought in circuit court.”

    Judge Herman Marable Jr. in Flint, Michigan, definitely had his work cut out for him when QaShontae Short sued Richard Jordan for intentional infliction of emotional distress. After some back and forth between Short and the judge, defendant Jordan weighed in, deadpanning: “To be honest with you, sir, I thought this was just gonna be thrown out.”

    “We had a date, one date, and nothing else after that, and now I’m being sued for $10,000,” the incredulous man added. “I don’t see how this is gonna go any further. I think this is a waste of your time.” However, Short then claimed that the man had perjured himself by allegedly lying about leaving her in the lurch — a point the judge said she was in no position to determine.

    “In that letter, he lied. And then that’s what brought forth the perjury,” Short declared. “It was never perjury in the beginning. It was perjury after his response.” “Well you can’t say . . . listen, he has the right to put whatever is in the answer,” Marable responded, to which the plaintiff retorted, “I’m not saying he can’t.”

    The judge, growing impatient, explained. “You can’t add another count because you don’t like or disagree with what is in his answer!” However, Short, who has reportedly been a widow since 2005, per the Daily Mail, refused to back down, insisting, “If he responds and his response is a lie, it’s perjury. Then my documents will prove that he lied in his response.”

    Finally, fed up with the plaintiff, his honor asks if Short understands what perjury is, to which Short incorrectly responds, “Yes, I understand perjury is a lie. I know what perjury means!” “No, perjury is a false statement made under oath,” Marable says, correcting her. However, Short, not grasping the concept, doubles down, exclaiming: “Exactly, and I have a document that proves he was lying!”

    After a protracted debate over legal semantics — during which the stubborn Short repeatedly yells “are we done here?” — she finally agrees to transfer the case to district court in line with the judge’s original recommendation. “OK, I’m gonna do that. [To another woman in the courtroom] Give me the four?” says Marable, before asking, “Ma’am, what about his costs associated with appearing because you filed in the wrong court?”

    That’s when Short backpedals, arguing: “Ummmm, I need to see because I was not aware, since you said perjury was not on there, I was not aware that a criminal offense for intentional infliction of emotional distress was considered a criminal offense.” “That is not what I said, that is not what I said,” a beleaguered Marable protests, whereupon another circuitous shouting match ensues.

    Finally, tired of Short’s complaints, Marable mutes the Zoom call and transfers the suit to circuit court. He then demands that the plaintiff should foot the filing fees for the case, adding that her suit will be thrown out if they are not paid within 56 days.”

    Short, who has reported being unemployed since early June, has a history of filing frivolous lawsuits, per the Daily Mail. In 2020, she sued the Flint Police Department for $300 million and also filed a suit against AT&T, all of which have since been dismissed.

    In a similarly ludicrous case in 2020, a Missouri man unsuccessfully sued Apple for $1 trillion after claiming that the tech giant’s employees had monkeyed with his phone during repairs.”

    https://nypost.com/2022/07/19/woman-sues-man-for-10000-for-standing-her-up-on-date/

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  5. Filly. haven’t read your open yet …

    Just got back from an errand … need to do some things here before it rains …

    am processing some things in my head … may take a little retreat from the outside world for awhile

    will decide today…

    Cheers!

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  6. Holy crap, it’s hot out there! Had to do my watering since we got about 2 minutes of good rain. I gave my peach tree a good soaking, moved to the CA Poppies, then moved on to my climbing rose bed – the clematis are coming back beautifully, btw. I was preparing to do the lily bed – sun is burning the crap out of my Lily Tree flowers….grrrr….and what do I see but a cat lying next to the foundation, belly up. I was afraid a cat had died in my flower bed! I walked closer and discovered it was my little black and white friend, taking a snooze in the shade. SMH – I said “Hey, kitty, kitty!” – he picked up his head a little bit, looked at me thru sleepy eyes, and let out a quiet “Mew” before going back to sleep. Sigh…..I think I may have acquired an outdoor kitty…..if he keeps coming around, I am going to have to get him to the vet for shots, fleas and get him snipped. I’m hoping, since I worked there for a few months, they will give me a price break – faint hope, to be sure.

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      1. Oh, he won’t be a happy camper – no doubt of that! I just talked to them – Terry told me roughly $150 or so. I asked about a discount and she said, “Well, we can always ask!” I doubt they will agree since they weren’t real happy with me…..I was soooooo bored! Some days, I would sit there all day long and only get one or two calls for a vet, with absolutely no walk-ins! I cannot deal with that, plus I know nothing about cattle, pigs or sheep! Cats, dogs, horses – that’s it! Someone would be bringing cattle for semen testing, castration, etc., etc. and the vet would rattle off this list of meds and stuff I needed to get ready, then walk away and leave me there by myself. Meanwhile, I’m left wondering “WTH did he just say??” I also wasn’t prepared about how cruel some of those procedures are – yeah, no, not the place for me! The final straw? I watched one of the vets give 4 shots – 2 each to 2 different dogs, 2 different meds, and used the same needle for ALL of them! That was it and I quit the next day.

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  7. “The media, both traditional and social media, had an outsized role during the pandemic in pushing the US government’s Covid response and defending the resulting coercive measures, including lockdowns, school closures, mask and vaccine mandates, while ignoring collateral damage and treating skeptics of these measures as having bad motivations. Their result was a one-sided, often factually misleading or unsubstantiated narrative on important issues concerning science, economics, and health, for the better part of two years.

    This has had a chilling effect on information flows and journalism, and it dramatically distorted public understanding in many areas from science to health to economics to the proper role of media in a free society. A consequence of this shift in the ethos of the media, trust has declined dramatically to only 16% of the total population with trust in papers and only 11% with trust in TV, with partisan differences in the way people answer pollsters.

    In addition, cancellation and censorship have been institutionalized in legacy media culture in a way that has been injurious to the free exchange of ideas as well and public health messaging in general. This culminated in the creation (and almost immediate dissolution) of a Disinformation Board at the Department of Homeland Security, but the problem began much earlier and continues to this day. And yet even as of this writing, many attempts to share science-based articles on Facebook are met with discouraging warnings, while users of Twitter and LinkedIn are threatened with account deletion.

    Many crucial questions remain about precisely how this happened and is still happening. These are in need of investigation. Among the questions: To what extent did the media cooperate with the government in the effort to drive one narrative and suppress competing ones? Were there sociological reasons? Financial? Was it purely a case of the free press acquiescing to government control or imagining themselves to be part of the regime, in which case what has become of the First Amendment? Is it right that legacy media alone should be the arbiter of science and admissible opinion?

    This report reviews the main issues that require investigation, cites examples of the bias and censorship, presents a timeline of pro-lockdown media coverage, and suggests an agenda for more extensive investigation. The authors hope this report can serve as a useful guide for a deeper look into this unprecedented use of media power to shape the pandemic response.”

    Report: https://brownstone.org/research/articles-of-inquiry-the-role-of-media/

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      1. i think erbody did…
        that’s why he didn’t present a case…something about then he can present all evidence–as “new” evidence…IDK

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  9. More hidden players…..long article (spacing adjusted):

    EXCERPTS: “I barely knew who Matt Pottinger was until I read that he’d appointed Deborah Birx as White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator in her bizarrely self-incriminating memoir Silent Invasion. There’s little information about Pottinger’s role in Covid online.

    Yet Pottinger is portrayed as a leading protagonist in three different pro-lockdown books on America’s response to Covid-19: The Plague Year by the New Yorker’s Lawrence Wright, Nightmare Scenario by the Washington Post’s Yasmeen Abutaleb, and Chaos Under Heaven by the Washington Post’s Josh Rogin. Pottinger’s singularly outsized role in pushing for alarm, shutdowns, mandates, and science from China in the early months of Covid is extremely well-documented.

    Pottinger’s enormous influence during Covid is especially surprising not only because of his absence from online discussion about these events, but because of who he is.

    The son of leading Department of Justice official Stanley Pottinger, Matt Pottinger graduated with a degree in Chinese studies in 1998 before going to work as a journalist in China for seven years, where he reported on topics including the original SARS. In 2005, Pottinger unexpectedly left journalism and obtained an age waiver to join the US Marine Corps.

    Over several tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, Pottinger became a decorated intelligence officer and met General Michael Flynn, who later appointed him to the National Security Council (NSC). Pottinger was originally in line to be China Director, but Flynn gave him the more senior job of Asia Director.

    Despite being new to civilian government, Pottinger outlasted many others in Trump’s White House. In September 2019, Pottinger was named Deputy National Security Advisor, second only to National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien. Pottinger is best known as a China hawk, but a smart and sophisticated one. He’s been ahead of the curve in calling out China’s increasingly aggressive geopolitical stance, articulating this challenge with near-perfect eloquence.

    1. Ratcheting Up Alarm via “Asymptomatic Spread”

    In January 2020, Pottinger unilaterally called meetings and ratcheted up alarm about the new coronavirus in the White House based on information from his own sources in China, despite having no official intelligence to back up his alarmism, breaching protocol on several occasions.
    ———————
    On January 27, 2020, Trump’s staff attended the first full meeting on the coronavirus in the White House Situation Room. Unbeknownst to those in attendance, Pottinger had unilaterally called the meeting. Others urged calm, but Pottinger immediately began pushing for travel bans. As Abutaleb writes:

    ‘Few people in the room knew it, but Pottinger had actually called the meeting. The Chinese weren’t providing the US government much information about the virus, and Pottinger didn’t trust what they were disclosing anyway. He had spent two weeks scouring Chinese social media feeds and had uncovered dramatic reports of the new infectious disease suggesting that it was much worse than the Chinese government had revealed. He had also seen reports that the virus might have escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China. There were too many unanswered questions. He told everyone in the Sit Room that they needed to consider enacting a travel ban immediately: ban all travel from China; shut it down…

    [Pottinger] spent several days calling some of his old contacts in China, doctors who would tell him the truth. And they had told him that things were bad—and only going to get worse. Pottinger’s discourse was measured but he conveyed the gravity of the threat. He said that the virus was spreading fast. He said that dramatic actions would need to be taken, which was why the government should consider banning travel from China to the United States until it had a better understanding of what was going on. As he continued, people sat up in their chairs. This was not the “we’ve got everything handled” message that Azar had conveyed just minutes earlier.’
    ———————-
    Among those present, Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney appears to have been the only one to express skepticism of Pottinger’s information. As Abutaleb writes:

    ‘Mulvaney intervened to wrap things up. He could tell that Pottinger and a few others were calling for a dramatic change, one that was an anathema to his libertarian instincts. He was pretty skeptical of Pottinger’s “sources” in China, too. They weren’t going to be setting US policy based on what someone had heard from their “friend” thousands of miles away. Mulvaney reiterated that they would reconvene the next day to discuss matters again before anything was settled. He warned attendees not to leak any details of the meeting to the media.’

    The next morning, January 28, 2020, Pottinger says he spoke to a doctor in China who told him the new coronavirus would be as bad as the 1918 Spanish flu, and that half the cases were asymptomatic. As Rogin writes:

    ‘The next morning, Pottinger had a conversation with a very high-level doctor in China, one who had spoken with health officials in several provinces, including Wuhan. This was a trusted source who was in a position to know the ground truth. “Is this going to be as bad as SARS in 2003?” he asked the doctor, whose name must remain secret for his own protection. “Forget SARS in 2003,” the doctor replied, “this is 1918.”

    The doctor told Pottinger half the cases were asymptomatic and the government must have known all about it. Later that same day, National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien brought Pottinger into the Oval Office, where he seized the first opportunity to repeat to the President what the doctor in China had told him that morning.

    “This is the single greatest national security crisis of your presidency and it’s now unfolding,” O’Brien told the president. “It’s going to be 1918,” Pottinger told Trump. “Holy fuck,” the president replied.

    Wright goes into more detail on this meeting, in which Pottinger interjected to alarm the President:

    ‘Later that day, the national security adviser, Robert O’Brien, brought Pottinger into the Oval Office, where the president was getting his daily intelligence briefing. Far down the list of threats was the mysterious new virus in China. The briefer didn’t seem to take it seriously. O’Brien did. “This will be the biggest national security threat you will face in your presidency,” he warned. “Is this going to be as bad or worse than SARS in 2003?” Trump asked. The briefer responded that it wasn’t clear yet. Pottinger, who was sitting on a couch, jumped to his feet. He had seen enough high-level arguments in the Oval Office to know that Trump relished clashes between agencies. “Mr. President, I actually covered that,” he said, recounting his experience with SARS and what he was learning now from his sources—most shockingly, that more than half of the spread of the disease was by asymptomatic carriers.China had already curbed travel within the country, but every day thousands of people were traveling from China to the U.S.—half a million in January alone. “Should we shut down travel?” the president asked. “Yes,” Pottinger said unequivocally.’

    Much, much more: https://brownstone.org/articles/the-talented-mr-pottinger-the-us-intelligence-agent-who-pushed-lockdowns/

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    1. so this guy is basing his actions on shynese friends?
      sorry…the shynese cultivate operatives, and dupe unsuspecting fools…
      which one was he?

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  10. Holy fricking crap! This WHOLE danged time, I have been unable to set up my VM. I just called CS again and gee, guess what? They didn’t have the latest phone in their system – it was still set to the first phone, which was only 3G, necessitating that they send out new phones. Now I finally have VM!!!! SMDH

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  11. EXCERPT: “After seeing how so many people have overreacted during the pandemic, I’ll also like the world less: Canada, Australia, New Zealand and much of Europe, but especially the US, because I’ve seen American Coronamania up close. I say this sincerely and literally, without intending any of Col. Hedgepath’s tribute.

    – Many Americans have shown that they’re gullible group-thinkers who lack critical thinking skills.

    It was obviously scientifically unsound to begin, even for “for two weeks,” locking down hundreds of millions of healthy people—for the first time in history—in response to a respiratory virus, to mask an entire population, to test, on a mass scale, healthy people—with a method that delivered 90% false positives—and to require young, healthy people to take unnecessary, often damaging shots, when the virus threatened only a small, clearly identifiable, older, unhealthier slice of the population.

    The media’s fearmongering and the internal inconsistencies, arbitrariness and cynical opportunism of the government’s lockdowns, masks, testing and “vaccine” edicts couldn’t have been more obvious. Some, like me, said so. But a majority embraced and aggressively promoted this lunacy.

    – Many Americans are mentally ill.

    Many Americans are detached from reality. It was clear in March, 2020 that over 99.7% of Americans under 65 were at no risk of Coronavirus-driven death. Yet, many irrationally supported closing down society, hid behind leaky masks, obsessively washed their hands well after the surface spread myth had been debunked, ordered groceries, elatedly posted Facebook photos of cards showing that they took unneeded, experimental injections, and hectored everyone else to inject. A previously veiled epidemic of American mental illness has been laid bare. Residual mask-wearing likely correlates with, and reveals, the 20% of Americans who’ve been swallowing tons of antidepressants and/or anti-anxiety meds for the past several decades.

    Per Psychologist Mattias Desmet, mass psychosis swept the US, Canada and Europe because many people lacked a life purpose and close social connections. Coronamania gave them a cause in which to believe and an anti-virus tribe to which to belong.

    Americans didn’t consider that restructuring daily life and the economy to placate the mentally ill is not ultimately doing that cohort, or the society at large, a favor. We can feel sorry for the mentally ill, but sane adults should govern.

    – Americans have no tolerance for rational discourse.

    I could find no one who would engage in a sustained discussion in which they would justify their pro-lockdown, pro-mask, pro-injection position by answering basic questions while citing basic facts. This absence of inquiry and the brainwashed intolerance for dialogue enabled and sustained Coronamania.

    This should be the new American lawn sign: “Debate Has No Home Here.”

    – Most Americans can’t withstand peer pressure.

    Many who perceived Coronamania’s disconnection from reality withheld their opinion because they were afraid of being disliked. The desire for social approval shapes liberal behavior. The Emperors—Fauci, Birx and their cronies—clearly Wore No Clothes but zero liberals were willing to say so; it was the worst instance of groupthink in history. The “progressive” mob cheered smug fools like Colbert and Kimmel—who haughtily promoted the harmful shots—because they were afraid that their peers might cast a side-eye at them if they had the temerity to question the pop culture narrative. Many Americans are sheep with a mean streak.

    Coronamania has shown, once again, that the minority is often right. Most Americans supported the lockdowns, masks, tests and vaxxes. None of these measures has helped. Each has caused much harm.

    – Americans are headline readers of cheesy and plainly biased news sources, and they readily internalize slogans and labels.

    Most Americans derive their mistaken worldviews from Twitter, YahooNews, GoogleNews, HuffPost, TV network news, the NY Times, CNN and NPR. During Coronamania, they have trusted these absurdly biased fearmongers and ignored what their own eyes should have told them. Many bought the “Crush the Curve” and “We’re all in this together” propaganda. Further, they believed in the shots simply because they were called “vaccines” and were hyped as “safe and effective.”

    Many still uncritically believe the litany of media-fed Coronamania lies. They naively assume that because someone appears on a screen under the aegis of some media brand, they’re telling the truth.

    – Americans are virtue signalers.

    We’ve become a culture in which being “nice” means acting as if you care about people when you really don’t. Doing so enables people to feel better about themselves. Americans like to think they’re helping others, as long as it doesn’t inconvenience themselves. For example, many who professed to care about old people have seldom visited them in nursing homes.

    Throughout Coronamania, the virtue signalers didn’t consider the costs to other peopleof the WEF Lockdowns, Mask Theater, Testfest or Vaxx-a-thon. Laptoppers didn’t care what lockdowns and vaxx mandates did to blue collar workers, business owners or people trying to find work or have a social life.”

    More: https://brownstone.org/articles/the-lockdowns-unearthed-american-cultural-rot/

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  13. Hot, hot, hot – 97 in the shade of my patio! I’ve given up on covering the cukes – if they burn up, they burn up. I only planted them for shits and giggles anyway, just to see if the seeds would grow since they are 3 years old! I’ve got 2 volunteers doing well in my east bed for any cukes I might want.

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      1. 98 now…..hotter in TX, of course. The cell phone tech is in TX – American, thankfully! He said they were calling for a high of 101. Pretty insane that north-central NE just might beat TX!!!!!

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          1. Oh, I’m inside for the duration now….except the occasional cig – hardly a breath of wind right now. Yuck! I do need to water my Weigelas but I’ll do that this evening, when it cools off some.

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  15. 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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    1. Whether it is THE most crooked is open to interpretation – I consider the 9/11 debacle to be one of the all-time worst – but certainly the most blatant and in-your-face, that’s for darned sure!

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        1. Oh, absolutely! But she certainly won’t be the first who started out all conscientious and truly wanting to do the right thing for the People. Unfortunately, that doesn’t usually last long…..the system wraps them up. And the GOP puts so many responsibilities on them, like quotas in fund raising. They are REQUIRED to bring in a certain level of funding “for the Party.”

          I watched an interview with…..what was his name….ah, yes – Ken Buck! He did an interview with Sharyl Atkkisson about what he discovered when he got to Congress. I haven’t found that specific interview but this is a link to one of her podcasts where she talks to Buck and Chaffetz about what actually goes on in Congress. You may have to click forward, although I’ve got it stopped at the beginning of those interviews – hopefully, it will be ready for you to listen. There is no time counter so I can’t tell you exactly where to start. I skipped forward a few times until I got to the interviews.

          “Eye-opening Full Measure interviews with Rep. Ken Buck and then-Rep. Jason Chaffetz blow the lid off the secretive, extra-Constitutional system political party bosses created and operate in Congress. It’s beholden to powerful money interests; not you.

          Listen to this podcast by clicking the link below, or the arrow in the player below. Or listen on iTunes or your favorite podcast distributor under “The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast” and “Full Measure After Hours.”

          https://sharylattkisson.com/2021/10/two-members-of-congress-spill-their-guts-about-the-swamp-podcast/

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  19. Here’s a poem my husband wrote, with God’s inspiration & voice implied, shortly after the birth of our first grandchild Lilah. Hubby chose “Grizz” as his grandpa name ❤ 😇 ❤

    Bright Northern Star

    By perfect design from an eternal hand

    Her light shines bright into this dark land

    Her little fingers hold my Ancient Hand

    Her steps I will order as we walk the sands

    I am so excited that she looked at me

    I saw life in her eyes and a calm northern sea

    I will light her eyes up, with My eyes you see

    She will learn to love Truth and Discernment with Me!

    Will she walk? Will she run? Will she learn to fly?

    Will she sing like a cardinal in our cold northern sky?

    She will walk, she will run, and oh yes she will fly!

    With wings like eagles she’ll sing in my sky!

    I crafted her being, she is perfectly made

    Her soul is mine, so her beauty won’t fade

    Pray for her daily, and teach her My ways

    And she’ll shine like a star with a bright northern haze!

    Thank you dear Lord, I am so amazed

    At your creation of life on this warm summer day

    Lilah is beautiful, beyond compare

    Please bless Lord, oh bless, Grizz’s cute little bear!

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          1. Great News!!! I hope so too. Me & social events aren’t a great mix. & now I have people looking for me for my 40th HS Reunion (I’ve never attended Any of the previous ones)–Yikes!

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      1. Yes, next Saturday…NINE Years to the Day of Josiah’s Liver Transplant amazingly! Lots to do & then the next day hubby leaves for the hotel out of state where he’ll stay for training/orientation for his new Over the Road trucking job. 🙂

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  20. EXCERPT: “The authors of a new report on digital identity systems warned “the actual and potential” human rights violations arising from the digital ID model can be “severe and potentially irreversible.”

    The 100-page report — “Paving the Road to Hell? A Primer on the Role of the World Bank and Global Networks in Promoting Digital ID” — published by New York University’s (NYU) Center for Human Rights and Global Justice urged human rights organizations to heed the threats posed by a global push for digital IDs.

    The NYU researchers said many proponents — including the World Bank — portray digital IDs as a means to achieving greater inclusivity and environmental sustainability when, in fact, the systems are likely to do just the opposite.

    According to the report, the digital ID has been dressed up as an “unstoppable juggernaut and inevitable hallmark of modernity and development in the 21st century,” causing dissenting voices to be “written off as Luddites and barriers to progress.”

    The authors argued for open debate “with full transparency and involving all relevant stakeholders,” including the most marginalized and most vulnerable.”

    https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/digital-road-digital-id-systems-human-rights-violations/

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  21. California businessman Darrell Issa came to Washington DC in 2001. Now he joins a growing list of key Republicans in Congress calling it quits. He’s led many high profile investigations into corruption and fraud. Along the way, he says he’s seen many changes – not for the better. For one, he says party politics and money interests increasingly dominate the Capitol Hlll agenda. And believe it or not, he’s not just talking about Democrats. That’s our cover story: Issa’s exit interview about money, politics and the swamp.

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  22. OK – this is the video I was looking for – I thought I’d saved the link and I did – yes!!! Interview with Ken Buck.

    FULL MEASURE: October 1, 2017 – Bucking the System

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      1. Whenever you get to it, Pat, or not at all – your choice. I’m just making it available to anyone who would like to watch it. No problemo, my dear! And if you don’t get to it and want the link again, just ask – they’re both saved in my YT bookmark folder.

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      1. Hi. 😀

        Yup I was at the dollar store and there it was……pumpkins. And BBW yup ghosts…. ugh. No xmas stuff yet BUT they are playing that xmas music on the radio.

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  26. I have to ask but why does the site only let me comment on my computer and not my ipad? It keeps asking me to log into WP in the tablet. Odd

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        1. It’s not my business but I’m curious why those who have these issues don’t just sign into WP…..I’ve had a WP account for a number of years – I set it up some years ago when I was hoping to work as an editor for a retired Nun who had kept many journals thru the years and wanted to publish them. With WP, we could coordinate remotely – she lived in O’Neill, which is about an hour from me.

          She was a heck of a woman, let me tell you! She had a number of ailments which kept her wheel-chair bound and she was so happy to see I had a truck – she was hoping I could take her out to their family ranch in my truck. I was trying to work out a way in my head to build a ramp I could use to get her up into the truck. Unfortunately, I never heard back from her – hope her bro didn’t murder her – bad, bad family there! There had been a murder in the family before.

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          1. See what’s funny is I’m signed into WP on my ipad and I can access other sites but this one always asks me to log in again. Tech logic.

            Wow Filly you got all the stories

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            2. My gypsy blood kept me on the move….at that point, I wanted to make some extra $ but work at home. That would have been the perfect opportunity and man, would it ever have been interesting! She had been all over the world – in the Himalayas, India, Africa, etc., etc. She was also a really good painter.

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  27. I hope anyone who knows someone who is vaccine-injured will forward this to them – at least it might be an option for them.

    EXCERPT: “The founders of a new online campaign — #CanWeTalkAboutIt — hope to break the culture of silence around COVID-19 vaccine injuries by encouraging people injured by the vaccines to share their personal stories. Launched last month with a live online “Let’s Talk” webcast, #CanWeTalkAboutIt brings together the vaccine-injured with medical experts willing to speak out about the risks of COVID-19 vaccines.

    The campaign also seeks to help people injured by the vaccines network and locate resources and information in their own countries and communities. It also invites them to submit a black-and-white photo, with their right sleeve rolled up, wearing a band-aid to symbolize that they got the vaccine, and share the post, with a short description of the injuries they experienced, on their social media networks with the #CanWeTalkAboutIt hashtag.

    In an interview with The Defender, Agnieszka Wilson, one of the founders of the campaign, said she became aware of questions surrounding the safety of various vaccines after sustaining a probable vaccine injury — rheumatoid arthritis, which she developed after she got the Tdap vaccine — during her pregnancy. This incident led her to discover the silence that often accompanies vaccine injuries.

    “If you take a headache pill and you see that there’s a side effect that makes your skin blue, then you obviously might say ‘okay, it might be from that, right?’” Wilson said. “But when it comes to vaccines, you can’t really talk about these things.”

    Wilson said that the silence led her to do her own research on vaccine injuries. “That’s when I dug into this whole new level of silence that I didn’t know about, regarding vaccines,” she said. Wilson said that she wanted to do more than just conduct her own research. She wanted “to do something about it,” she said — which led her to start the New York Medical Freedom Coalition when she lived in the U.S.

    After returning to her native Sweden, Wilson launched her own interview program, the “Aga Wilson Show,” on which she interviews doctors and scientists. Through this program, Wilson became aware about the looming risk of injuries related to the COVID-19 vaccines. She also noted silence on the part of the mainstream media and a reluctance from ordinary people to speak openly about such issues.”

    More: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-vaccine-injuries-global-campaign-canwetalkaboutit/

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  28. EXCERPT: “The researchers noted: “Mask mandates were implemented in almost all world countries and in most places where masks were not obligatory, their use in public spaces was recommended …These mandates and recommendations took place despite the fact that most randomized controlled trials carried out before and during the COVID-19 pandemic concluded that the role of masks in preventing respiratory viral transmission was small, null, or inconclusive.

    “When the data were analyzed, the study also revealed that the widespread use of masks did not reduce COVID-19 transmission. Worse, a moderate positive correlation was found between mask usage and deaths in Western Europe, which “suggests that the universal use of masks may have had harmful unintended consequences.”

    Mask mandates in schools didn’t reduce COVID-19 cases

    As part of the government-sponsored propaganda campaign, a widely cited CDC study, published in October 2021, reported that counties without school mask mandates had larger increases in COVID-19 case rates in children after the start of school compared with counties that had school mask mandates.

    The study was used to support school mask mandates, but a team of researchers revisited the research, incorporating a larger sample size and longer study period. The updated study, published in May, used nearly six times more data compared to the original study and found no significant relationship between mask mandates in U.S. schools and COVID-19 case rates.”

    https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/masks-sick-foegen-effect-covid-transmission-cola/

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        1. IIRC, that was in 2018 – I was campaigning for Todd Watson and walking thru WM asking people to vote and handing out his card. I happened to hear a couple of guys talking on the next aisle with foreign accents that I didn’t recognize. So I went around to their aisle and approached them (white guys), asking where they were from – they were from So. Africa and were here working as contractors. I mentioned how sad it was what was happening in their country, with all the killing and burning going on, and asked what they thought about it all. They said they would go back and fight for their country and land, if need be. Interesting convo!

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  36. well it’s time for me to keep hubby company on the sofa.
    we have a contractor coming this evening to discuss replacing the side door–framework and all. he gave us pricing last summer–we picked out the door and everything and he said it would probably take 4 months to get. then we never heard from him and forgot about it over the winter.
    he got sick, some viral thing, and was hospitalized last winter.
    so we called again this summer…and we’re back to square one…with a hefty price increase I’m sure.

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      1. he never showed…
        he is an incredibly busy man/family.
        they farm, they cut firewood and he is a log home builder/contractor. so he’s always doing something…

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  37. DM headlines

    Jeff Bezos’ girlfriend Lauren Sanchez who has her own fortune of $30M donates $1M to charity that cares for migrant children in Mexico before they cross US border – as her beau works to shake his reputation as a ‘stingy’ giver—- How about stay out!!!!

    Small North Carolina town’s ENTIRE police department – four cops and a chief – quit on same day over ‘hostile’ black town manager who was fired from her last job for gender and racial discrimination—–Of course

    Fauci’s $800,000 retirement payday: Report suggests the 81 year old – who is the highest paid federal employee – will make MORE than Biden and rake in $414,000 in the first year after hanging up his lab coat——WTF

    America’s baby formula shame: Biden’s 53 flights of foreign back-up is only enough to feed infants for a week… leaving shelves still bare and forcing moms to take matters into their own hands —– Not making headlines

    New Zealand Covid deaths soar to RECORD high as Omicron wreaks havoc: Scientists claim nation is vulnerable because it spent too long under ‘hermit’ China-style eradication strategy—- Maybe because you vaxxed

    Two children test positive for monkeypox in the US, CDC confirms
    Both youngsters are understood to be ‘doing well’ and became infected following contact with gay or bisexual men – where most cases are being detected.—— Ummmmmmmmm

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  38. It’s really amazing how this phone FINALLY works – the company “forgot” to switch over to the 2nd phone they sent me in their system so this one wasn’t registered. No fricking wonder I couldn’t set up my VM or download anything! FFS!!!! Nice young man in TX helped me – we were hotter up here today than he was!!!! Still 103 on my patio!!!!

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  39. Time is a funny thing….I think you mean 8 seconds
    If it’s 8 hours then I’m a billionaire

    Karine Jean-Pierre Claims Joe Biden is “Still Putting in 8+ Hours of Work a Day” While He’s Sick With Covid

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