100 Interesting Facts: Part 1

General 4 Minutes

A mix between a Chihuahua and a dachshund is called a “chiweenie.”

There are no seagulls in Hawaii.

Even though dragonflies have six legs, they cannot walk.

Gummy bears were originally called “dancing bears.”

Sea otters have the thickest fur of any mammal, at 1 million hairs per square inch.

The bird on the Twitter logo is named “Larry.” He was named after the basketball player Larry Bird, who played for the Boston Celtics.

The term “coccyx” (also known as your tailbone) is derived from the Greek word “cuckoo” (“kokkux”) because the curved shape of the tailbone resembles the bird’s beak.

A baby has around 30,000 taste buds. They are not just on the tongue but also on the sides, back, and roof of the mouth. Adults have about 10,000.

In one survey, three out of four people admitted to sharing an ice cream cone with their pet.

When humans take a breath, they replace only 15% of the air in their lungs with fresh air. When dolphins take a breath, they replace 90% of the air in their lungs with fresh air.

Feral pigs ate and completely destroyed $22,000 worth of cocaine that had been hidden in an Italian forest.

Pablo Picaso would often carry around a pistol loaded with blanks. He would fire it at people he found boring or anyone who insulted the painter, Paul Cézanne.

Monarch caterpillars breathe through holes in the sides of their bodies.

Male lobster’s bladders are in their heads, and when they fight, they squirt each other in the face with urine.

The word “oysterhood” means “reclusiveness” or “an overwhelming desire to stay at home.

Ancient pagan cultures, such as the Celts, believed that benevolent and helpful spirits lived in trees. Knocking on tree trunks roused a spirit for protection, which led to the saying “knock on wood.

Laughter synchronizes the brains of both speaker and listener so that they become emotionally attuned.

Isaac Newton believed he was potentially part of a line of great men to receive great and ancient wisdom. He even created a special name for himself “Jehovah Sanctus Unus,” or “to Jehovah, the Holy One.”

Hugging your cat has been shown to reduce stress and anxiety, especially for people who are dealing with illness, depression, PTSD, and other ailments.

A group of monkeys in Delhi, India reportedly attacked a laboratory assistant and escaped with several coronavirus blood samples. The monkeys were later spotted in a tree chewing one of the sample collection kits.

Bart Simpson’s name is an anagram of BRAT. His full name is Bartholomew Jojo Simpson.

An oak tree produces about 10 million acorns during its lifetime.

There’s enough concrete in the Hoover Dam to build a two-lane highway from San Francisco to New York City.

The Muppet vampire, Count von Count from Sesame Street, is based on actual vampire myth. One way to supposedly deter a vampire is to throw seeds outside a door. Vampires are compelled to count the seeds, delaying them until morning.

The “O” before an Irish name, such as “O’Reilly,” means “descendant of.”

Gossip and complaining make up approximately 80% of most people’s conversations.

Developing a larger vocabulary may help protect you against depression. It allows you to precisely label–and confront–subtle emotions.

Riding or sitting on a sea turtle in the United States is a 3rd degree felony.

Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour. By age 70, humans lose an average of 105 pounds of skin.

Listening to your favorite music for just 15 minutes a day lowers stress levels, anxiety, sadness, and a depressed mood.

To make one pound of honey, honey bees must gather nectar from nearly 2 million flowers.

Bluetooth” technology is named after a 10th century king, King Harald Bluetooth. Bluetooth united the tribes of Denmark, just like the wireless technology united cell phones and computers.

A duel between three people is called a “truel.”

There is a Statue of Liberty in Paris that faces the Statue of Liberty in America, showing friendship between the two countries.

Research shows that people who laugh at dark jokes have higher IQs and report less aggressive tendencies.

Termite queens live longer than any other insect. Some scientists estimate that they can live as long as 100 years.

Ancient Romans left graffiti on Egyptian pyramids that says, “I didn’t like anything but the sarcophagus,” and “I can’t read the hieroglyphs.”

The kererū (New Zealand Wood Pigeon) is well-known for getting drunk off fermented fruit and falling out of trees.  Consequently, it has earned the reputation for being “clumsy, drunk, gluttonous, and glamorous.”

Sweden has a rabbit show jumping competition called Kaninhoppning. The world record for the highest rabbit jump is 42 inches (106 cm).

A female chicken will mate with many different males. If she decides later that she doesn’t want a particular rooster’s offspring, she can eject his sperm. This happens most often when the male is lower in the pecking order.

Scientists believe that early human ancestors used to have three eyelids. One of the eyelids eventually became the small fold in the corner of human eyes today.

The space between the eyebrows is called the “glabella,” which is derived from the Latin word “glabellus,” meaning “smooth.”

The seagulls in the Alfred Hitchcock movie “The Birds” (1963) were fed a mixture of wheat and whisky so they would stand around and not fly too much.

A pangram is a sentence that contains every letter in the language. For example, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”

Isaac Newton was a member of the British parliament for one year. He spoke only once, and that was to tell someone to please close the window.

The word “porcupine” means “spiny pig” in French.

In the 2004 movie “Mean Girls,” the “nice girl,” Cady, is named after Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a 19th-century pioneer in the American women’s rights movement.

In 1962, a laughter epidemic broke out in Tanzania. The outbreak began in a girls’ school and spread to other communities, ultimately affecting 1,000 people and causing the temporary closure of 14 schools.

Gelotophobia is the fear of laughter. Those who suffer from gelotophobia respond to all laughter as if it is at their expense. Up to 13% of the population could be afraid of laughter.

The Wizard of Oz’s Full Name is Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkel Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs. In the book, he explains that he called “myself O.Z., because the other initials were P-I-N-H-E-A-D.”

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  1. Morning All!
    well the first few rounds have moved through since yesterday afternoon–thunder, ligthning, and a few bursts of rain…but not enough rain to even cause some water to flow over the waterfall. it is really dry!!
    hubby said maybe more today

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    1. Good morning! Can’t win for losing, it seems. And when it does finally start to rain, it probably won’t quit for a week! One of those Murphy’s Law kind of things. I decided to try recording the weather report from the other “local” channel I get and they are equally wrong! Supposed to be a high yesterday of 86? Nope – 96 yet again! SMH

      No seagulls in HI? Huh, wonder why….wonder why all those taste buds go away….wonder if my Sis knows that about female chickens? A question for our next convo. The brown fox pangram is used in all typing classes, at least it used to be. I can’t tell you the number of times I had to type that sentence in tests. It was always on the tests, every single one!

      There ya’ go – oysterhood! That would be me!!! Yeah, and SOME cats CAUSE the anxiety!!! Just ask me!!! OK – anyone who fears laughter is just nuts – period!

      …..sigh…..once again, my little B&W buddy showed up promptly as soon as the lights came on. Jake, of course, was growling and hissing. I think I’m going to have to name him…..I put some Neosporin on the sore on his head and he didn’t seem to be as badly covered with fleas this morning. He was rolling around on his back while I was rubbing his belly and he rolled right off the front porch! LOL

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    1. I can still remember sitting on the floor in front of our black and white TV, watching his funeral. I cried when little John saluted! I also wrote about it in my autograph book.

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              1. mine too—I have a bunch of journals–one just for bike trips, one from my first marriage, several for my son about his life from the day he was born…

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              2. I was never into journaling but I’ve saved a lot of those bits and pieces. Some of it I found when my a-Mom died – she had saved a ton of things. She even still had the book shelf my Dad made for me as a child. I have that now, too.

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              4. I even still have the hand-made program for a Mother/Daughter thing at parochial school containing the poem I got up on stage and recited. Small, velvet-covered cover, held together with yarn with pieces of paper glued to the pages.

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              7. i have always loved writing–wrote letters all the time to people before email and some i still do.
                those letters he trashed from my best friend in high school who went off to college, then committed suicide were irreplacable and all i had left of him…

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              11. I understand. my theory is that every grudge is a part of my heart walled off and I don’t want to give that bastard any of my heart. I forgave him so I can find peace and joy in my life. there is a scar on my heart for sure, but he doesn’t own any part of it.

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              14. Just like this deal with my SIL – there will NEVER be any forgiveness there! That old saying “It will be a cold day in hell when….” applies! I already forgave him for his part in HB’s last actions that took her life but I also had to forgive myself on that front so it would be very wrong for me to continue to blame him alone. He was one of many who failed in that case.

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  9. Sen Massie thread on his week…

    Thomas Massie
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    18h • 9 tweets • 3 min read
    Every weekend I come back to Kentucky and try to purge my brain of the hypocrisy and stupidity I’ve witnessed in Congress the week before. Otherwise, it just piles up.

    It’s noon on Sunday and I still haven’t purged the nonsense I dealt with in person this past week.🧵 Image
    I heard the Democrats argue vociferously that a wrist brace is a bump stock. If there was any doubt of their profound ignorance, they removed it by displaying a poster of the wrist brace and reiterated it would facilitate full-auto fire. Image
    I witnessed almost every democrat on the Judiciary committee call the most common rifle sold in the United States a “weapon of war,” and then heard them argue passionately that the Department of Education and the USDA needed these “weapons of war.” Image
    I listened to every single one of them argue that firearms manufacturers should be liable for the acts of criminals, and follow that up by voting against removing immunity for pharmaceutical companies even when they are clearly negligent!
    I heard Secretary Buttigieg say that high gas prices would be beneficial, and describe electric cars as very affordable. Image
    I asked the Secretary if he knew what impact Biden’s electric car mandate would have on the grid and he did not, or he chose to ignore it. When presented with the math, he seemed unable or unwilling to acknowledge the magnitude of the electric consumption. Image
    I watched a stacked deck of witnesses argue that inventors do not deserve a day in a real courtroom when big tech steals their inventions. They claim an executive branch tribunal can function independently of politics, even though the Supreme Court ruled that it’s not even legal.
    I watched them pass a bill on a party line vote that banned a weapon if it looked a certain way, but not ban that very same weapon if it looked a different way, while they assured the public that this would make them safer. Image
    I could go on. This is just a sampling of what I witnessed personally and pushed back against this past week.

    I’ve got a few more hours to get ready for more of the same insanity this coming week.

    I appreciate your support!

    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1551246386624184320.html

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  10. So, name suggestions for my new little man…..I actually thought I might call him that – Little Man – my Sis had a cat with that name….or was it a dog? Who knows – could have been a horse! What do you think would be a cute name? Oh, and BTW, my sis also has yet another kitten – black and white, too, but predominately black while my little guy is predominantly white. She found it in her feed shed and started bottle feeding it. Eyes are now open and she’s only having to feed it twice a day now.

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      1. I think he is as big as he’s going to get, personally. His nuts are fully developed, so he isn’t as young as his size would indicate. I’d estimate possibly close to a year old.

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  11. this article discusses companies like 23 and me where people freely give their dna samples to “discover” things about themselves. now critics warn that that dna can be used to target that specific person–and it’s not just people–think animals–livestock. this brought to mind 2 things: all those cows that died–were they the “test” of genetic agricultrual warfare? and a tv show several years ago had exactly this weapon–they called it the Norseman and it specifically targeted an individual based on dna…coincidence, right?
    FTA
    “You can’t have a discussion about this without talking about privacy and the protection of commercial data because expectations of privacy have degraded over the last 20 years,” he added. “Young folks actually have very little expectation of privacy, that’s what the polling and the data show.”

    “That’s what this is, where you can actually take someone’s DNA, you know, their medical profile, and you can target a biological weapon that will kill that person or take them off the battlefield or make them inoperable.”
    If you love the news, check out The Liberty Daily’s homepage.

    “People will very rapidly spit into a cup and send it to 23andMe and get really interesting data about their background,” he continued, Fox News reports.

    Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, expanded on that, adding that US adversaries could use the same technology to attack US food security – targeting livestock and crops to induce famine.

    “If we look at food security and what can our adversaries do with biological weapons that are directed at our animal agriculture, at our agricultural sector … highly pathogenic avian influenza, African swine fever,” she said, adding: “All of these things have circulated around the globe, but if targeted by an adversary, we know that it brings about food insecurity. Food insecurity drives a lot of other insecurities around the globe.”

    https://thelibertydaily.com/congressman-and-senator-issue-warning-dna-collection-from-test-kits-likely-being-used-to-make-targeted-bioweapons/

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    1. I don’t know if they are actually doing it yet…..a program to tag every single animal for tracking. When this DNA testing first started taking off, I thought I would do it to see if my brother and I had any Indian blood from his Mother. My Mom told us she had met her once and she looked like she was Indian. Just out of curiosity primarily but, if we did have Indian blood, it would most likely be Ponca and maybe we could get some of that “free” tribal money, ya’ know what I mean??? But, as always, I read the fine print and discovered that they would then own MY DNA and could re-sell it! Nope! Changed my mind on that one pronto!

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  13. Good morning y’all! Back to work blurs this Monday. Just kidding, need the rest from all the work at home. Just got my U-Boxes reserved for our move.2 more days of work left after today with Thursday just being my checkout day! We are supposed to get more rain this week, but hopefully not as much. Don’t need anymore of that drama! Got the grass mowed this weekend and still had time to help a cousin cut a tree off his porch roof. Did some cosmetic damage, but nothing structural.

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      1. Good morning Pat! Ms Mama is doing okay, foot still sore, but not swollen. I think she is more stressed about the move at this point than anything.

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        1. i’m sure you’re right about that!
          hopefully it will go relatively smoothly and she’ll be smiling and happy soon!
          (cuz if Mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy!)

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    1. Eliminate the entire boon doggle!!! Not to mention the Catch 22 in this “School Choice” option. Remember when Lyin’ Canadian Ted introduced his bill to allow private schools and home-schoolers to receive Title 10 (or whatever title it was) funding from the government? It would also have required teaching Common Core if they accept the funding. I’ll bet this is the same.

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  18. short article posted in its entirety about the pointlessness of wind and solar power
    article
    This essay by David Stevenson of the Caesar Rodney Institute Center for Energy & Environment appeared in May, but I just ran across it today. It analyzes data from the PJM electrical grid, America’s largest, between 2019 and 2021.

    This comparison of actual regional grid carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions between 2019 and 2021 shows increased use of wind and solar did not reduce emissions. Wind and solar electric generation are actually poor technologies no one would use without permanent government mandates and massive subsidies and taxes that are adding $1 billion a year in power cost. They are also unreliable, non-recyclable, have negative environmental impacts, have shorter productive life spans than alternative power sources, and take up a lot of ground. If it doesn’t reduce carbon dioxide emissions why are we using wind and solar?

    The intermittency of wind and solar power generation means that other, reliable sources have to cycle up and down, repeatedly. This decreases efficiency and increases emissions. Thus:

    Coal emissions should have fallen the same 7% generation did, but only fell about half as much as power plant efficiency fell.

    Overall, CO2 emissions declined only 0.8%. As I understand the data, this suggests that CO2 emissions would have declined more if there had been no wind or solar on the PJM grid.

    This lack of CO2 reduction by wind and solar comes at a high cost. Tax payers and electric customers provide expensive subsidies totaling almost $2 billion in the 2020-21 period, or $1 billion a year.

    Wind and solar energy are entirely pointless, if you don’t consider the fact that enormous amounts of money are changing hands. You and I pay more in electricity rates and taxes, while the Communist Chinese and a handful of Americans and Europeans make out like bandits.

    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/07/more-evidence-of-the-pointlessness-of-wind-and-solar.php

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  19. i know nothing about her or even IF this will happen…

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  21. interesting…this guy claims to know how to beat inflation…while simultaneously being sued for price fixing schemes while he was at Hormel…
    FTA
    Minnesota Democrat Jeff Ettinger says he “know[s] how to fight inflation” because his former company made food “affordable.” That company is facing an array of lawsuits that say it conspired to inflate the price of pork.

    Ettinger served as CEO of Hormel Foods from 2005 to 2016. During that time, Hormel conspired with other pork processors to run a “classic … price fixing scheme” to drive up the price of ham and bacon, active lawsuits facing the company argue. While Hormel has said the allegations are “completely without merit,” one of the companies involved in the purported scheme agreed to a $42 million settlement in early July.

    Now, Ettinger is running in an August special election to replace the late Jim Hagedorn after the Republican congressman died in February. Ettinger has attempted to fight concerns of record-high inflation under President Joe Biden by touting his time at Hormel—in a July 10 ad, the Democrat said he “know[s] how to fight inflation” as his “business was making food affordable.” He went on to repeat the claim twice in the following week.

    The price-fixing lawsuits that loom over Hormel, however, could undermine Ettinger’s ability to navigate a perilous political climate that is driven by voters’ concerns over the economy. According to a June MinnPost poll, 94 percent of Minnesotans say rising gas and grocery prices have made their lives more “difficult” or “inconvenient.” On a national level, meanwhile, Americans view inflation as the top problem facing the country and believe that problem is Biden’s fault—64 percent of likely U.S. voters say the Biden administration’s policies have increased inflation, according to a March Rasmussen poll.

    Ettinger declined to comment.

    According to the series of lawsuits against Hormel, the food processing company in 2009 began sharing sensitive information with its competitors about its “profits, prices, costs, and production” in an attempt to drive up pork prices. A who’s who of grocery and restaurant chains have joined the lawsuits, the first of which was filed in 2018—prominent plaintiffs include Kroger, Hy-Vee, Buffalo Wild Wings, Jimmy John’s, and Sonic Drive-In.

    Ettinger, who grew up in Los Angeles, made big money from his time at Hormel—his total compensation in 2016 alone was $36 million, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The Democrat’s financial disclosure also shows tens of millions of dollars in investments, and half of the roughly $800,000 Ettinger has raised came from his own pocket.

    Ettinger’s wealth sparked one of his primary opponents, small business owner Rick DeVoe, to accuse Ettinger of being out of touch with everyday voters in Minnesota’s First Congressional District, who DeVoe said are sick of “corporate malfeasance.” Still, Ettinger said in his July ad that he understands why Minnesotans “feel squeezed.”

    Ettinger used his financial advantage to emerge from the special election’s May 24 primary and will face Republican Brad Finstad in November. Finstad, a former state legislator, served in former president Donald Trump’s Department of Agriculture and has raised $614,000 to Ettinger’s $805,000.

    https://freebeacon.com/democrats/swine-and-sleaze-democrat-conspired-to-hike-pork-prices-lawsuits-say/

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    1. Hmmm….interesting to see Hy-Vee in that group. I’m not sure how widely they are represented but I always thought it was a NE thing. I know the local Hy-Vee’s are now employee-owned.

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  22. OK – pictures. Autograph book and booklet from Mother/Daughter banquet:

    I have no clue how this page got ripped out of my autograph book but at least I kept it – look at that handwriting!!! LOL

    From the M/D banquet:

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      1. IDC, Pat! Do you know how many “Judy Jones” there are? Thousands of ’em. And I’ve changed last name 5 times in my life, starting with my adoption. Both adopted parents are gone, as are most of the other adults involved at the time. And Tom Jones is very common, too. He used to have a heck of a time making calls to various companies and agencies. They would always say “You’re not Tom Jones! (the singer)

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        1. yeah, but with the details you feel comfortable revealing, someone could put 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 together…
          just worrying for you…but it’s your choice…

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              1. Meh! Not here in my teensy, tiny town – indeed, not here in NE at all except possibly in what few big cities we have. We’re lucky if we have a pop of 1K at this point. Our local cops and county sheriffs would never comply with such foolishness and I don’t think the State Patrol would either. Besides, I never go anywhere, never participate in any political events – all I do is post truths on-line and write LTE’s. If they want to jail me for my speech, well, have at it, asswipes!

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    1. haha…you’ve adopted another cat!!
      I wish I could have an outside cat–I couldn’t have one in the house–but one outside would be okay…except I would be worried about it getting cold–being out in the rain…

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  30. oh my…copied from tcth…read the last bit

    Jim in TN
    July 25, 2022 10:46 am

    Near the end of this article about being gaslighted,

    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/jul/24/from-oil-to-monkeypox-truth-is-elusive-to-mainstre/

    It says the Post reported that D.C. has the highest concentration of MonkeyPox in the nation.

    It makes sickening, savage sense. Where else in this country are you going to find the highest concentration of people trying to F us over?

    Okay, which of you asked God to put a Pox on our leaders? A Pox that will pass over those that follow God’s commands?

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  32. Emerald Robinson’s The Right Way – entire article:

    “NBC’s junior varsity propagandist Katy Tur pretended to experience a brief moment of self-awareness during an interview for her new book (I Spout Pure Crap! will be ignored at bookstores everywhere), and it was remarkable because it’s the closest thing to honesty to ever come out of the mouth of Katy Tur.

    What makes this interview so interesting is that Katy Tur seems to be dimly aware that America’s corporate media is suffering a crisis in credibility — and Katy Tur seems to understand that Katy Tur is partly responsible. What happened? Did Katy Tur remember interviewing Donald Trump in July 2015 — and trying to argue that illegal immigrants don’t really commit crimes in America? Yes, she really tried to do that.

    (Warning: this clip has been edited to be funny, and the odds that you’ll shoot coffee out of your nose once Marvin Gaye starts singing is high.)

    Did Katy Tur remember that she was the person who told the world (via Twitter!) that North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un was brain dead? Because Katy Tur has such an extensive collection of contacts inside the North Korea regime and — well, no, just a couple of anonymous U.S. officials told her — whoops.

    Actually, Kim Jong Un was just fine. The problem has always been that Katy Tur is brain dead. To atone for her massive error, she simply deleted the tweet. No apology, no explanation, nada. How’s that for journalism?

    Here she is — two years later — worried that there’s “globe-altering consequences for just letting people run wild” on Twitter. She’s referring to Elon Musk, but the self-awareness meter should have been flashing red. Notice the panic too — in both the interviewer and the interviewee — regarding the prospect of Elon Musk buying Twitter to restore something like free speech to the platform.

    Why is Katy Tur afraid of Elon Musk? Why is Katy Tur pretending to understand the health of Kim Jong Un? Why would Katy Tur act like she reads Pew Research reports? Who hired a useful idiot like Katy Tur in the first place?

    America’s corporate media unmasked itself as one vast left-wing conspiracy during the Trump years — and it’s no secret that it has essentially merged with Clinton-camp and Obama-camp government officials to create a Soviet-style propaganda machine that has destroyed journalism in recent years.

    The problem now is that everybody knows the corporate media is hopelessly corrupt. They know that nobody trusts them. They know why nobody trusts them. Their job depends upon you trusting them — and so they need you back. Otherwise, their bosses will find new people to lie to you.

    They know the music has stopped. They can read the ratings like everyone else. It’s the ultimate dysfunctional relationship: they need you back so that they can keep lying to you in the future. Even the New York Times wants its credibility back — and it recently forced its prominent (and widely discredited) opinion writers to issue mea culpas on a wide range of subjects.

    This kind of coordinated apology tour should tell you just how serious the threat from independent outlets and Substack-based reporters has become for the corporate media industry. The job of America’s corporate media is to deceive the public — but very few people are deceived anymore. That’s a big problem for people like Katy Tur.

    So, no, I don’t think that Katy Tur is actually experiencing a brief moment of self-awareness. You would have to be a fool to think that she’s struggling with a guilty conscience. That’s not what’s happening here. She doesn’t suddenly want to practice journalism either.

    She’s got a book that she wants to sell you. Only an idiot would buy a book about Katy Tur’s father being a tranny (true!) and how she’s climbed the ranks at NBC by writing fake tweets about Kim Jong Un (true!) and doing car-crash interviews with Donald Trump (true!) that make her look terrible. Does that sound like a best-seller to you? It’s hard to move the merchandise when your primary role is lying to the American public, and only 11% of the American public still cares to listen.

    Katy Tur is hoping that you’re still an idiot.”

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  38. Manchin has cv
    FTA
    Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced he tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday as the Senate looks to complete an array of priorities before breaking for August recess.

    “This morning I tested positive for COVID-19. I am fully vaccinated and boosted and am experiencing mild symptoms,” he tweeted. “I will isolate and follow CDC guidelines as I continue to work remotely to serve West Virginians.”

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/joe-manchin-positive-covid-19

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  40. Dallas Love Field – Female shooter was yelling as we walked into the baggage check in area. Shots were fired in the air. People began to take cover and run. Within minutes Dallas PD handled the situation. I don’t believe anyone, but the shooter was injured. pic.twitter.com/2gMd7vDyPs

    — Jonathan Adams (@JZiLLA214) July 25, 2022

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    1. @DallasLoveField what just happened? A group of people were running and yelling “run” and we all immediately took cover. Nothing has been communicated to us. Everything seems to be calm now. It was most certainly a scary experience for all. @SouthwestAir pic.twitter.com/zU7QLhFV4C

      — Johnny Mojica (@johnnyamojica) July 25, 2022

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  43. 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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  45. NF,

    Before you take Nutz to the Vet (and have to rename him Nutzless), you can find flea treatments that are safe, effective and long-lasting for a reasonable cost. Just squeeze a few drops on the skin at the back of his neck where he can’t lick it off and the fleas and their eggs are gone for 60 – 90 days. Years ago when we had indoor / outdoor cats, it worked great!

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      1. I’m in no discomfort and only every now and then (like today) the BP meds will make my BP so low that I’m pooped – but that’s easily tolerated. I’m still waiting for my first CAT scan analysis to evaluate the condition or progression of the dissection . . . now scheduled for 15 Sep. Should’ve happened sometime in June.

        So, all’s mostly good.

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        1. glad to hear it’s all mostly good!
          but you have the patience of a saint Carl…I’d be madder than a wet hen!

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    2. Thank you, Carl. Having worked at the vet’s office here a few years ago, I am up on all the newest treatments for fleas but I certainly appreciate the advice. Flea powder would work as well but the flea treatment will be a tiny fraction of the overall cost. If it were only fleas, then I wouldn’t go to the vet but he needs all his shots and must be clipped. But that’s a good idea about the name – I’ll have to consider that!

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            1. Ah! So we have agreement across the board, then? I also realize he probably has ear mites, which is probably where the sore came from at the base of his left ear – scratching at the mites.

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  47. Some Piper pics from the trip she and I took after her Mom died. It was my BD present to her. We went for a week and stayed at bed & breakfasts. The first one had an elevator and she was thrilled that she could operate it herself. We went to the Henry Doorly Zoo, the Children’s Museum in Lincoln, Ponca State Park, an aquarium, and the Children’s Zoo in Omaha. We had sooooo much fun!!!

    Petting Zoo @ Ponca

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      1. That was the best week ever!!! More incoming if I can ever get them uploaded…..sigh….the first 3 just flew into Imgur, then it slows down and stops – my danged ISP!!! But they always blame it on my computer!

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  48. EXCERPT: “Schools in Washington, D.C., will require all students ages 12 and older to get the COVID-19 vaccine before they can attend school in the fall, despite warnings from legal experts who say the mandate violates federal law.

    The Office of the State Superintendent of Education announced on July 19 that student immunization requirements for the upcoming 2022-2023 school year will include the COVID-19 vaccine for all students who are of an age for which there is a vaccine fully approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). “On July 8, 2022, the FDA fully approved the COVID-19 vaccine commonly known as the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for individuals 12 to 15 years old,” said State Superintendent of Education Christina Grant in a press release.

    “The approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for individuals 12 to 15 means that, unless exempted, any student age 12-15 at the start of the 2022-23 school year must have received the primary COVID-19 vaccine series or have started receiving the shot by Sept. 16, 2022,” she said. “We want to make sure that all of our students have everything they need for a healthy start to the school year,” Grant added. “This means making sure children see their primary medical provider for a well-child visit and receive all needed immunizations.”

    D.C. law requires students in all area schools, including private, parochial and independent schools, to be fully compliant with mandated vaccinations, unless they have an approved exemption. The law also requires schools to verify immunization certification for all students. The requirement was detailed in a law the D.C. Council approved last year and is the first legislation of its kind in the region.

    CHD demands D.C. Schools rescind mandate

    In a letter sent today to Grant, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., chairman and chief legal counsel for Children’s Health Defense (CHD), asked Grant to rescind the program or CHD would sue to overturn the mandate. Kennedy said Grant’s press release was incorrect because the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was never fully approved and still remains under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA).

    The FDA earlier this month granted full approval to Pfizer’s Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine for adolescents 12 through 15 years old, without convening its vaccine advisory panel. In August 2021, the agency granted full licensing of the Comirnaty vaccine for ages 16 and older. However, there are no Comirnaty-labeled vaccines available in the U.S., for any age group.

    Although courts have upheld many childhood vaccination requirements for licensed and approved vaccines, no court has ever upheld a mandate for schoolchildren for an EUA vaccine, according to Kennedy.

    Kennedy wrote:

    “In fact, a District of Columbia United States District Court held that EUA vaccines cannot be mandated to soldiers in the U.S. military, who enjoy far fewer rights than civilians. Doe #1 v. Rumsfeld, 297 F.Supp.2d 119 (2003). That court held: ‘… the United States cannot demand that members of the armed forces also serve as guinea pigs for experimental drugs.’ Id. at 135.

    “Federal law 21 U.S.C. § 360bbb-3(e)(1)(A)(ii)(III) requires that the person to whom an EUA vaccine is administered be advised, ‘of the option to accept or refuse administration of the product, of the consequences, if any, of refusing administration of the product, and of the alternatives to the product that are available and of their benefits and risks.’

    “The reason for the right of refusal stems from the fact that EUA products are by definition experimental.

    “Under the Nuremberg Code, a universal legal norm, no one may be coerced to participate in a medical experiment. Consent of the individual is ‘absolutely essential.’ The liability for forced participation in a medical experiment, not to mention liability for injury from such coerced medical intervention, may be incalculable.”

    More: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/chd-district-of-columbia-schools-covid-vaccine-mandate/

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  49. EXCERPT: “Groups in Canada and Australia are urging public health officials to reconsider rolling out COVID-19 vaccines for young children, following the authorization earlier this month in both countries of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 6 months to 5 years.

    The Australian Vaccine-risks Network (AVN) on July 19 sent an open letter to Dr. Brendan Murphy, secretary of Australia’s Department of Health and Aged Care, voting members of the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation and members of parliament threatening to “move forward with preparations for seeking the intervention of the Federal Court of Australia” if officials don’t respond.

    The Canadian COVID Care Alliance (CCCA) on July 14 published an open letter to Canadian health officials stating their members would “be happy to meet you to discuss findings documented in this letter in greater detail.” Both letters emphasized three arguments against authorizing the mRNA shots in young children and babies:

    – Children don’t need COVID-19 vaccination because they are at extremely low risk of COVID-19.
    In any case, the mRNA shots don’t work well.

    – The potential harm from the mRNA shots outweighs the benefits for young children.

    – Both letters also referenced the June 30 open letter to U.K. health officials from more than 70 physicians and scientists warning against vaccinating younger children against COVID-19.

    The U.K. letter, written in response to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) in mid-June of the Moderna and the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 shots for children as young as 6 months, urged U.K. health officials to not “make the same mistake” the FDA made.”

    https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/canada-australia-covid-vaccines-young-children/

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  50. EXCERPT (Tweets thruout): “Dan Crenshaw and Marjorie Taylor Greene are nominally members of the same political party, but you’d be forgiven for thinking otherwise. Practically from the moment MTG joined Congress a year and a half ago, the two have been in one of the most bitter and protracted Twitter feuds in memory. Crenshaw has labeled Taylor Greene a “performance artist” for her public positions, and last winter he said she was either a Democrat or an idiot for her position on using FEMA funds for anti-Covid efforts. Throughout the spring, the two went back and forth about Ukraine. Now, they’re battling over the latest National Defense Authorization Act.

    And yet, an analysis of the two Congressmembers and their records shows that there is hardly any comparison between the two. In her eighteen months in Congress, MTG has proven herself to be ten times the Congressman that Crenshaw is. Here are nine reasons why.

    1. MTG actually cares about what’s in our spending bills.

    The most recent spat between Crenshaw and MTG was over the pending renewal of the National Defense Authorization Act. MTG has done yeowomen’s work pointing out one problem after another with latest NDAA, which is stuffed with everything from frankenmeat to vax mandates to more cash for proxy forever wars.

    2. MTG doesn’t have a psychotic bloodlust.

    Supporting Ukraine’s war effort against a Russian invasion is one thing, but Rep. Crenshaw stands out in how giddy he is at the idea of creating an East European bloodbath. For Crenshaw, the mere fact that a war in Ukraine will kill lots of Russians makes it a good thing, no matter how many others die in the process, as long as American troops aren’t the ones doing the dying (for now).

    3. Meghan McCain hates MTG.

    It’s a good heuristic in the modern Republican Party: If a McCain hates you, you’re probably doing something right. Fortunately, John McCain has been dead too long to have any opinion on Marjorie Taylor Greene. But luckily we have John’s daughter Meghan as a stand-in. And man, does she hate MTG:

    4. MTG didn’t abandon the January 6 political prisoners.

    Plenty of Republicans have come around to rejecting the politically-motivated sham narrative of January 6th. But few have done as much as MTG to highlight the worst abuses of the January 6th witch hunt and defend rank-and-file Trump supporters from a calculated effort to humiliate and destroy them.

    MTG has denounced the mistreatment of prisoners in D.C.’s horrible local jail, which even won her plaudits from Time magazine. She has asked enough questions about Ray Epps ever since Revolver’s reporting last summer that Newsweek credited her with “reigniting” the Epps story earlier this summer.
    (Tweets)

    5. MTG didn’t want to extend the Afghan forever war.

    Not only does Dan Crenshaw love the idea of bankrolling a Ukraine forever war, but he’s also furious that the last forever war actually ended.

    6. MTG doesn’t support statue-toppling lunatics.

    Remember when a criminal fentanyl addict died, and suddenly Americans weren’t allowed to have history anymore? Didn’t that suck? Well, Congressman Crenshaw thought it was just great. In July 2020, at height of the Floyd Frenzy, Crenshaw endorsed ripping down Confederate statues because… a lot of the statues were of Democrats!

    7. MTG shows real political courage.

    There is a recurring theme to many of the entries on this lift: When it comes to politics, MTG is the one with real political courage, willing to take a position even at the moment when it is maximally unpopular. She defended statues at the peak of George Floyd summer. She defended January 6 protesters right away, instead of waiting months to see that it was “safe” to do so.

    MTG showed the most impressive display of political courage this past spring, when she went against both the establishment Washington blob and the Fox News consensus to fiercely oppose U.S. involvement in the Ukraine war. She said what was obviously true yet was borderline illegal to say: President Zelensky’s government is incredibly corrupt, and war-loving Republicans like Dan Crenshaw were trying to pull the U.S. into World War III.

    8. MTG doesn’t embrace BLM lies.

    George Floyd was a lifelong criminal who died of a fentanyl overdose while violently battling cops trying to arrest him for his latest crime. Convicting Derek Chauvin of any crime was dubious. Convicting Chauvin of second-degree murder was mob justice. Convicting every other officer at the scene, simply for being there trying to do their jobs, was insanity. But Dan Crenshaw loved every repulsive second of it.

    9. Dan Crenshaw loves Black Rifle Coffee.

    Yes, that Black Rifle Coffee, the male-to-male transsexuals who trashed Kyle Rittenhouse and called his supporters “repugnant” and “the worst of American society.” Crenshaw has appeared on the Black Rifle Coffee podcast, and Black Rifle has appeared on his. Crenshaw has popped up in their videos. But most ridiculous of all, Crenshaw hired Black Rifle co-founder Jarred Taylor to direct this absolutely excruciating ad:

    https://www.revolver.news/2022/07/marjorie-taylor-greene-mtg-blows-neocon-dan-crenshaw-right-out-of-the-water/

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