Reptiland

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No, not Congress. Although Congress IS filled with snakes, I am referring to Clyde Peeling’s Reptiland in Allenwood, PA. We pass Reptiland every time we visit home and the parking lot is always FULL! I wondered what was the attraction with snakes, but I discovered Reptiland is much, much more than just snakes!

In many zoos around the country, reptiles are relegated to a single building in the back corner. True, many visitors take the time to see the snakes, gators, and lizards housed here, but it’s often an afterthought to the main attractions like the big cats, elephants, and other popular animals. However, at Clyde Peeling’s Reptiland in Allenwood, Pennsylvania, reptiles are the star attraction.

Begun in 1964, Reptiland has grown to over 75 species and 2,000 total animals. In Peelings’ own words, they are “his passion.” Reptiland is one of only 8 zoos in PA that are accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.

There are five main areas to Clyde Peeling’s Reptiland. Walking around the park clockwise, the first area you’ll come to is a small number of outdoor enclosures featuring several varieties of turtles and tortoises. The most popular enclosure houses three Galápagos tortoises. These are some of the largest tortoises in the world and are quite fascinating to see in person.

Next to the Galápagos tortoises is the Program Center. Here, shows are held five times a day and feature a zookeeper taking about the animals at the park, along with a few special friends. It’s a 30 minute show geared more for kids, but very informative–with the added bonus of getting to touch a small crocodile at the end!

The second area of the park surprised me the most– the Butterfly Garden. While it does seem a bit out of place, given the reptile theme, you can walk in this greenhouse and see butterflies all around you. They even hatch their own butterflies in the garden, giving visitors a great chance to see what they look like in different stages of their lives. (The Butterfly Garden is closed during the colder months of the year, so plan your trip accordingly.)

Next, the tour goes into the Reptile and Amphibian Gallery. In many ways, this is a typical reptile house you’d find at any other zoo. A variety of animals are contained within the building, including frogs, snakes, and even small crocodiles.

The snakes were interesting for their variety. In addition to having some of the most well-known snakes like the black mamba or the anaconda, the area also included snakes you might see while hiking in Pennsylvania, such as the timber rattlesnake and the copperhead.

Also inside the Reptile and Amphibian Gallery are the zoo’s alligators. The two alligators are housed in a nice enclosure that features a large viewing area, ensuring you’ll get a great view no matter how crowded Reptiland is. There are programs here that tell you a bit more about the alligators. While there is no set feeding schedule, you might be able to see the alligators fed if you are lucky.

The fourth area of the park, the Island Giants exhibit, is home to the Aldabra tortoises and Komodo dragons. These animals are unique in that they both are very large but confined to a very small natural habitat. The Aldabra tortoises are one of the world’s largest tortoise species and are primarily found on one island in the Indian Ocean. Komodo dragons are relatively uncommon in zoos, and there is only one other zoo in Pennsylvania that has them (the Pittsburgh Zoo).

The last section of Reptiland is the most curious. Here, animatronic dinosaurs move and roar as you walk along the paths of the Dinosaurs Come to Life exhibit. The goal here is to teach people about the reptiles that used to walk the earth, and it is well done with realistic dinosaurs but again, this display is only open during the warmer months, so plan accordingly.

Source: UncoveringPA

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  1. Morning All!
    we had quite the adventure yesterday! We drove east from here (about an hour and a half) for doctor appointments for hubby through tremendous thunderstorms!
    got to the hospital…they required masks…but inside the doctor’s room, she told us to take them off.
    at the check in desk, the receptionist asked what can i do for you kiddos? I laughed and said kiddos? no one has called me kiddo in a month of sundays! she said it’s the new “inclusive training”…I can’t call you ma’am or sir anymore…so how am I supposed to address folks?
    I laughed and said, well you know, my preferred pronouns are your highness…she just about busted a gut laughing…when we were all checked in, i gave her my best queenly wave…started her laughing all over again.

    then we trekked all the way back, did our grocery shopping and came home…on our road, one of the farmer’s cows slipped the fence and when he saw our truck coming, took off into the woods. we went back to the farmer’s house to alert him, but no one was home.
    so we went back down our road only to see the cow back at the original spot. we tried to go slowly past him, but he started to run again…this time tho he ran up the road and slipped back thru the fence to where he belonged.
    what a day!

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      1. Morning!
        no, from the looks of things we got maybe a shower. the little town in NY that got flooded last year was hammered tho—we drove past downed tree limbs and huge puddles on our way out…
        how was Little House the other night???

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        1. I am so ticked off – I watched that one episode and all of a sudden, the channel where I had it and The Waltons scheduled to record is no longer part of my “package” so I can’t watch either now!!!! Corrupt coercion to pay more!!! Yeah, I could buy the DVD’s but the point is to have one or two shows a day I can watch whenever I feel like it. With the DTV box and the smart TV, it is just too many steps to have to take every time I want to watch an episode on DVD. At least I can still record Highway to Heaven!

          And, again, I don’t want to go to internet streaming, reducing my only 2 real avenues for gathering info to only 1, as well as giving up any local stations. I’ve been researching and looking into all options at this point.

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      1. yup…but it was more than announcement I think…i think it was a quiet nod to a game plan for courageous red state govs…if they have the balls. the country wants and deserves law & order!!! this is a way forward with that

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  17. arrested 101 TIMES!!! and still freed without bail. NUTS
    FTA
    The career crook whom Mayor Adams dubbed “Recidivist No. 1” as a symbol of the city’s revolving door of criminal justice has been identified as Harold Gooding, a 53-year-old serial shoplifter — who has been arrested 101 times.

    “How many crimes do you think he really committed? Two hundred? Three hundred? A thousand?” NYPD Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael LiPetri said at a news conference Wednesday.

    “And guess what? He’s walking around the streets of New York City today, probably committing another crime as we speak.”

    On Wednesday, sources identified Gooding as the unnamed person at the top of the NYPD’s list of the “Worst of the Worst” repeat offenders — let free again and again thanks to New York’s broken bail-reform law.

    https://nypost.com/2022/08/04/meet-the-shoplifter-with-101-arrests-and-let-go-almost-every-time/

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  18. copied from tcth

    Winston
    August 5, 2022 8:09 am

    Houston Bans ‘Ghost Guns’ From Buyback Events After Man Found Opportunity To Print Money
    AUG 04, 2022

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/houston-bans-ghost-guns-buyback-events-after-man-found-opportunity-print-money

    Houston city officials banned 3D-printed firearms at future gun buyback events after one man recognized an opportunity to exploit the system and print money.

    The anonymous man told local news Fox 26 that he made 62 3D-printed guns and handed them over in Houston’s first gun buyback event last weekend. He said the city offered him $50 per gun, cutting him a check for $3,100.

    The man said the cost of production per gun was $3, netting a profit of $47 per weapon. He said, “the goal was not personal profit, but to send [Houston leaders] a message about spending $1 million tax dollars on something that has no evidence of any effect on crime…”

    He added another goal: to make the city “pay fair prices [at gun buyback events], use private donations rather than tax dollars, and don’t destroy historic guns.”

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  21. copied from tcth…don’t see how they can mandate vaxxes for the general population when this disease is generally confined to those in contact with homosexual/bisexual males…but it is good to know about the antibiotics

    Bewildered but resilient
    August 5, 2022 10:42 am

    I do not trust our govt on state or federal levels not to take the new monkey pox “health emergency” to the level of mandates, so I’m sharing this info to keep Treepers informed.

    The monkey pox vaccine contains an ingredient that can seriously harm those who have suffered an adverse reaction to Cipro or related fluoroquinolones. Do your own due diligence. The damage done by this class of antibiotics can be significant, they have black box warnings, and most doctors are clueless.
    Personal experience.

    From a twit acct I occasionally check :

    Celeste Hayes
    @Celeste64882539
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    9h
    It is true about the Cipro ingredient and yikes!!! 😳. Anyone with previous Cipro AE’s beware. I still have issues from Fluoroquinolone use 20+ years later…

    Monkeypox Vaccine insert.
    https://fda.gov/media/131078/d

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  23. Glad you made it home safely yesterday. I’ve been piddling for almost 4 hours – tended to my new feeder/planter combo – added soil, watered carefully with Miracle Gro mix; completely redid my big jelly feeder and I’ll post a pic later – much easier than just trying to describe it. Found a spray nozzle that fits my front curly hose perfectly so I can water the Weigela bushes easily, as well as the willow tree and most of the other plants out front.

    Predictions say we could have a heat index over 100 today so I wanted to get everything done outside while it was cool. They say a slight chance of serious thunderstorms tonight into tomorrow, possibly into Sunday, with a high by then only in the low 80’s. We’ll see!

    Picked a cuke and have 4 more starting – yeah! Since I put out the meal worms in the thistle feeder that didn’t work properly for thistle seed, I now have tiny Wrens, which I rarely saw before. Short, chubby cute little things! I didn’t see even one Oriole yesterday so they may, indeed, be gone.

    My old protagonist, Mr. Wilson, passed away so I will be doing a LTE about him this week. He was always a gentleman and respectful, and I want to acknowledge that I considered him to be an honorable man. I will miss our exchanges.

    I also discovered that we currently have NO Chief of Police and NO regular police officer except for a woman who is “on loan” from Madison County/Norfolk. My neighbor, Jerry, had stepped into the COP position when the previous one resigned after the conclusion of his lawsuit against the City. There was apparently an article in the paper at the time simply stating that Jerry had “resigned.” I only found out because I bought a copy of the paper for the first time in months and saw an ad to fill those “open” positions.

    Gossip from Lois is that he wasn’t enforcing the law appropriately according to the City Council and chose to retire rather than be fired. Jamie said she had also heard such “rumors.” I knew he had an alcohol problem as well so…..who knows! Whatever – I wish him well in his retirement. As I told Jamie, with only one cop on duty, some laws are going to have to be ignored – no way around it! And with this City Council? Pfftttt….I’m surprised Jerry even gave it a shot, TBH!

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              1. IKR? Gross! So never live – actually, this is my first time ever, now that I think about it. IDK – maybe a very long time ago when I first started into the bird world….but not something I usually put out.

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    1. tweet war…

      I see my initial predictions were right despite the initial excitement of Robson pulling ahead –

      Congratulations to my home state for full making the transition to full blown MAGA/conspiracy theory/fraudster.

      The voters have spoken – be careful what you wish for…

      — Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) August 3, 2022

      Kari Lake responds…

      This ain’t your daddy’s Arizona.

      The state belongs to the people now.

      And they chose @KariLake to move Arizona forward. https://t.co/QDB0szHCPX pic.twitter.com/s0yWmqO4Sn

      — Kari Lake War Room (@KariLakeWarRoom) August 3, 2022

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  26. previously foreign agents (registered) are working in ultra maggot’s admin…

    FTA
    Titled, “Foreign Agents Lurking Inside Biden’s Basement,” the group’s new report outlines the networks of at least 13 officials under President Joe Biden who were once paid to represent foreign interests and registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Their prior clients range from Iran and Kazakhstan to Canada and Mexico.

    FARA records show White House Deputy Counsel Jonathan Su’s law firm paid out $30,000 a month to Mercury Public Affairs on behalf of the government of Kazakhstan in 2018. Biden Special Assistant Erin Pelton was employed with Mercury in the same year and worked on behalf of both Kazakhstan and Qatar, according to public government documents.

    In 2006, Biden’s U.S. Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski’s public affairs firm, McGuireWoods Consulting, was paid nearly $140,000 over a six-month period by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO).

    “As Americans experience one Biden-era crisis pile on top of another, the President’s Cabinet, spokesmen, and aides behind the scenes seem to put America last,” said Derrick Hollie, the communications director for Inside Biden’s Basement. “It is instructive for Americans watching their needs take a back seat to know which of those officials Inside Biden’s Basement have represented nations other than our own yet now have tremendous power over their lives.” Hollie worked previously in Trump’s Department of Transportation.
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    While the report names 13 officials who were registered foreign agents before their tenure in the administration, the report is not exhaustive. The administration is actively working to conceal the identities of presidential appointees more than 18 months into Biden’s first term.

    https://thefederalist.com/2022/08/05/exclusive-report-shows-biden-admin-run-by-former-registered-foreign-agents/

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  30. musk countersues twitter
    FTA
    Elon Musk accused Twitter of fraud in a countersuit over his aborted $44 billion deal for the social media company, which he said held back necessary information and misled his team about its true user base, according to media reports.

    According to The Washington Post, the countersuit filed by the billionaire and Tesla CEO filed Thursday alleges that Twitter committed fraud, breach of contract and violation of the Texas Securities Act.

    Musk’s counterclaims were filed confidentially last week and unsealed in a filing late Thursday at the Delaware Chancery Court, the Wall Street Journal reported.

    https://www.bigcountryhomepage.com/news/national-news/musk-countersuit-accuses-twitter-of-fraud/

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  31. OK – my re-vamped jelly feeder….you will note the use of the bungee cords on the bottom holding the cage to the dish inside, which has the steel rod screwed into it’s center. These, as well as the round top cover, were the pieces from my a-Mom’s old seed feeder – the cage is the only part remaining of the original Oriole feeder. The dish has small holes around the outside since it was a seed feeder so I placed a cheap shower cap over the dish from the top and poked the steel rod thru it’s center, thereby keeping the jelly from leaking thru the holes in the hot sun! I accidentally dropped it on my way to hang it up, hence, the spilled jelly. The top got knocked catty-wampus but I was able to fix it. Over the winter, I am going to find a suitably sized squeeze bottle that I can use for adding jelly next year. The spoon tipped sideways is a real PITA!!!

    My peaches – note the changing color – they aren’t quite as green now – yet they just don’t seem to be getting much bigger. I check them every day or, at most, every other day, tho, so I’m not going to look again until a week from today – then I’ll go take another pic from the same angle – maybe then I’ll be able to see a change.

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  32. The Bee:

    MOSCOW — As the U.S. State Department continues to negotiate with the Kremlin for the release of Brittney Griner, Russian President Vladimir Putin has made it clear that he will not let go of the WNBA star for anything less than a 1st edition foil Charizard Pokemon card.

    “I must have this card, and then my Pokemon collection will finally be complete,” said Putin. “This card is very hard to find in Russia. I don’t want any terrorist prisoners or Russian arms dealers. I only want the card — the card I have dreamed of for ages.”

    “Oh yeah, and it must be gem mint condition too. No blemishes. I’m not messing around with you Americans!”

    State Department officials have taken the offer to President Biden, who replied: “Not a chance, man! It took me forever to get that card! I’ll give you a 2nd edition Blastoise and throw in a few terrorists and my son Hunter. Take it or leave it!”

    At publishing time, Biden finally agreed to release every Russian prisoner in U.S. custody and send $52 billion in exchange for nothing.
    —————–
    AUSTIN, TX — Alex Jones has been ordered by a jury to pay $4.1 million to the frog community who sued him for defamation after the media personality and conspiracy theorist repeatedly called them “gay.”

    “You people don’t understand! They’ve been putting chemicals in our water that’s changing the biochemistry of the local frogs and turning ’em gay!” said a defiant Alex Jones during closing statements. “It’s a scientifically proven fact! Open your eyes!”

    Representatives for one of the plaintiffs, a green American Bullfrog, dismissed the statements as “gross and defamatory.”

    “Mr. Hopper is not, nor has he ever been, a homosexual,” said attorney Derpio Dibbins. “He loves women. He has over 32,000 children to prove it. We’re pleased with the jury’s decision, and we hope Mr. Jones has learned his lesson that if he says anything we don’t like on his podcast we will take all his money.”

    Mr. Hopper also expressed that he was pleased with the verdict. He will receive a payout of $3 after he pays all his lawyers.

    At publishing time, Mr. Hopper was seen by local paparazzi on a lily pad with another male bullfrog.
    —————–
    HOLLYWOOD, CA — The 2022 Batgirl movie is canceled after $70 million dollars in Batmobiles were destroyed backing out of the Batcave. The destroyed cars depleted 90 percent of the movie’s budget and forced production to end early.

    “I’m a good driver!” said Leslie Grace, who played the Batgirl. “But the Batcave is only three times as wide as the Batmobile! Anyone would make mistakes backing up!”

    Before production started, the width of the Batcave was tested to ensure enough space for all drivers to back out using the Batmobile. Every test was successful, but no women were included in the test.

    The director of the film expressed his frustration. “It’s a movie set! After she destroyed three vehicles we took down all the walls to CGI them in and she still managed to destroy it!”

    According to the production team, Grace had one successful attempt at backing out of the cave and immediately swung open the doors into a C-stand, causing the window to shatter. Grace reassured her crushed fans that she is still her own hero and that everyone should buy a vehicle with a backup camera.

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  33. Entire Article @ Free Beacon:

    “The Biden administration is poised to deny free school lunch funding from a Florida Christian school that refuses to comply with the administration’s LGBT mandates, despite the school’s qualification for a religious exemption.

    Grant Park Christian Academy in Tampa, Fla., represented by Alliance Defending Freedom, is suing President Joe Biden and Florida agriculture commissioner Nikki Fried for enforcing the Biden administration requirement that schools comply with its LGBT mandates or lose federal school lunch funding.

    In May, the Biden administration redefined the meaning of “sex” in Title IX to include sexual orientation and gender identity, forcing schools to permit transgender students to use male or female bathrooms and play sports with either sex in order to receive National School Lunch Program funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. More than half of state attorneys general rejected the memorandum, with Florida attorney general Ashley Moody saying the Biden administration was “using hungry children to advance a political agenda,” the Washington Free Beacon reported.

    The Florida school refused to substitute gender identity for biological sex, costing them their ability to feed two meals and snacks daily to their 56 students when the fall semester starts. If Grant Park’s application is not approved by Aug. 10, the school will not be reimbursed for the meals it serves students. ADF legal counsel Erica Steinmiller-Perdomo said Fried should not block Grant Park’s school lunch funding, as Title IX provides a religious exemption.

    “For five years, this Christian school has received funding to provide nutritious meals to dozens of low-income children in the community,” Steinmiller-Perdomo said. “Commissioner Fried and the Biden administration are trying to rewrite the law and ignore the exemption in an attempt to force this school to choose between violating its religious beliefs or providing lunches to children.”

    Published under: Biden Administration, Florida, LGBT, School”

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  34. Entire Article @ Free Beacon:

    “The man likely to become al Qaeda’s next leader has spent decades using Iran as a base of operations and maintains deep ties to the hardline regime, signaling that two of the globe’s leading terrorist forces could exponentially expand relations in the near future.

    Saif al-Adel, al Qaeda’s number two leader and longtime head of its security arm, fled to Iran in the early 2000s, along with other senior leaders, following the September 11 attacks. From there, he helped relay orders from the just-killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri and orchestrate terrorist operations that killed dozens of people, including Americans, according to former U.S. officials and information on the Iran-al Qaeda axis published by a watchdog group.

    Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) protected al-Adel during his time in the country, and the regime permitted him to plan deadly terror attacks, including a May 2003 operation in Saudi Arabia that killed eight Americans. “Adel’s suspected presence in Iran has raised further questions regarding Iranian influence on al Qaeda if Adel were to be named leader,” according to United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), an advocacy group that closely tracks Iran’s regional terror operations.

    These ties have only deepened since President Joe Biden’s bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan that left the Taliban in power and the country in shambles. Senior leaders in Iran’s Quds Force, an elite IRGC branch, remain in close contact with al Qaeda leaders, “and since the fall of Afghanistan, have provided some al Qaeda leaders with travel documents and safe haven,” according to a European intelligence analysis. The Iran-al Qaeda alliance, former U.S. officials told the Free Beacon, has quietly grown for many years, making the prospect of a new nuclear deal with Iran—which will provide Tehran with billions in cash—beneficial for its allies in al Qaeda.

    “When the U.S. government enriches Iranian terrorists through sanctions relief or a lack of enforcement, that money ultimately goes back to support al Qaeda,” Gabriel Noronha, a senior Iran adviser for the State Department during the Trump administration, told the Free Beacon. “We know that Saif al-Adel has not just been living in Iran for most of the past 20 years—he’s been hosted there by the regime along with other al Qaeda operatives. Since 2015, the Iranian regime has allowed al Qaeda to establish an operational headquarters in the country, providing them with documents, passports, funding, and logistical support like safe houses.”

    Al-Adel and his network of al Qaeda confidants used their time in Iran to build close “operational coordination” with Tehran’s security forces, including the IRGC. While Iran was once at odds with al Qaeda due to religious differences, that has not been the case for many years now, according to Noronha and other former U.S. officials familiar with these ties.

    “These are not totally separate and distinct terrorist groups or even rivals anymore—they are part of an anti-American and anti-Western alliance,” Noronha said.

    From his perch in Iran during the mid-2000s, al-Adel “was allowed by Iran to travel to Pakistan and open more contacts with other al Qaeda leaders,” according to UANI’s research, which is based on intelligence and open-source reporting. Iran’s decision to permit al-Adel and other al Qaeda operatives to freely move in the region “opens up speculation that al-Adel could establish a ‘satellite office’ for the group in Iran,” according to a 2011 AP report.

    Nathan Sales, former U.S. ambassador-at-large and coordinator for counterterrorism, told the Free Beacon that “contrary to expectations and contrary to conventional wisdom, the Iranian regime and al Qaeda have maintained a mutually beneficial relationship for many years.” Iran, Sales noted, recently hosted senior al Qaeda leaders and operatives, “which is exactly what we should expect from the world’s worst state sponsor of terrorism.”

    The depth of these ties was first unveiled by former secretary of state Mike Pompeo in January 2021, when he disclosed publicly that a U.S. operation killed one of al Qaeda’s top leaders on the streets of Tehran in 2020. “Al Qaeda has a new home base: the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Pompeo said in a speech at the time, marking one of the first public disclosures about Iran’s deepening relationship with the terror group.

    Hans-Jakob Schindler, a senior director at the Counter Extremism Project, which tracks jihadi groups, noted that al-Adel “has become very high value” since al-Zawahiri was killed, “and the Iranians usually take advantage of such situations.” Al-Adel’s “existence in Iran and his freedom to act while in Iran will solely depend on what the Iranian regime think his value and usefulness for their aims is,” Schindler said.

    Published under: Al Qaeda, Iran, Terrorism”

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      1. The yellow flowers are the CA Poppies that I planted in both garden beds. The yellow ones I just posted are my Asiatic Lily in front – a freebee way back when I first ordered the Tulips and Iris that eventually died. The purple ones are Dark Purple and Lilac petunias and they smell divine! Like my sister, I can smell those! She hasn’t been able to smell much else since she had all her back surgeries.

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              1. Oh,, yeah! I’m a big hoarder! Especially something as solid as that! They just don’t make ’em like that any more. I have the handles and the covers, as well as the plate for the top – the whole shebang. I’ve used some of the pieces for other things, tho. LOL

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              3. It hasn’t been moved since I put it there in 2013! LOL – I had help, of course. Same for the Aztec-looking statue. You can’t tell it but that sucker weighs about 200 lbs – has a full 4 feet of solid cement underneath the part you see above ground. Took 2 guys to maneuver it in there after I dug the HUGE deep hole!

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  44. who’s surprised? americans love beef! take your fake meat elsewhere
    FTA
    It seems that consumers may have lost their appetite for the plant-based meat substitute company Beyond Meat. Its recent trial with McDonald’s has McFlopped, and future stock projections may leave investors feeling queasy.

    Beyond Meat, which went public in 2019, has had yet another high-profile partnership yield disappointing results. The company signed a three-year global distribution agreement with fast-food giant McDonald’s back in 2021. McDonald’s then quickly added the “McPlant burger,” with a Beyond Meat vegan patty as its base ingredient, to its menu.

    But customers didn’t bite, and many now project that most McDonald’s restaurants will soon stop offering it. According to JPMorgan Chase & Co. analyst Ken Goldman, who spoke with employees at 25 different McDonald’s locations, most stores cite poor sales as the reason for discontinuing the McPlant.

    “Not surprisingly, the reason sometimes being cited is that the product did not sell well enough,” Goldman wrote. He also stated that the McPlant burger was all but “McDone” in the United States.

    https://www.theblaze.com/news/consumers-beyond-done-with-beyond-meat-vegan-food-company-s-stock-tanks-trial-with-mcdonald-s-flops

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        1. I can’t imagine it myself and have never had the urge to try it. I would guess it might fly in the trendy areas around the cities – that’s the only places where stuff like that is popular.

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  45. 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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  49. Entire Article – Emerald Robinson:

    “The legendary Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney was on my show recently to explain why someone is impersonating him on Telegram — and why someone is impersonating me on Telegram. The interview begins at 35:30 of my one-hour program here.

    Gen. McInerney’s theory is that these fake social media accounts run by impostors are an attempt to discredit us. My lawyers have reached out to Telegram — without success. Meanwhile, the fake Emerald Robinson account operators are running ads for something called “Trump bucks” while using my name and face.

    There’s a word for this sort of thing — and the word is: fraud.

    My lawyers have reached out to the “Trump bucks” people as well — and, suddenly, my face disappeared recently from the fake Emerald Robinson account on Telegram. It was replaced with a generic cartoon image.

    Needless to say, I want everyone to know that the Emerald Robinson account on Telegram is not me!”

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  50. EXCERPT: “The U.S. declared monkeypox a public health emergency to raise awareness and allow for additional funding to fight the disease’s spread, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said on Thursday.

    “We’re prepared to take our response to the next level in addressing this virus, and we urge every American to take monkeypox seriously and to take responsibility to help us tackle this virus,” Becerra said. Becerra said he also is considering a second declaration that would allow federal officials to expedite medical countermeasures — such as potential treatments and vaccines — designed to ensure drugs are safe and effective.

    President Biden said in a tweet he remained “committed to our monkeypox response: ramping-up vaccine distribution, expanding testing, and educating at-risk communities.” “That’s why today’s public health emergency declaration on the virus is critical to confronting this outbreak with the urgency it warrants,” Biden said. The last time the U.S. declared a public health emergency was in January 2020, for COVID-19.

    According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 7,100 cases of monkeypox have been reported in the U.S., including five cases in children. Symptoms of monkeypox infection are usually mild and include fever, rash and swollen lymph nodes, and occasionally intense headache, back pain, muscle aches, lack of energy and skin eruptions that can cause painful lesions, scabs or crusts.

    The virus is rarely fatal and no deaths have been reported in the U.S. Monkeypox primarily is spread through skin-to-skin contact during sex and affects mostly gay and bisexual men, public health officials say, although the virus can affect anyone. According to the CDC, about 98% of monkeypox patients who provided demographic information to clinics identified as men who have sex with men.”

    Now that the Biden administration has declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) can move to issue an Emergency Use Authorization for the JYNNEOS vaccine for children under 18.

    There are two vaccines that may be used “for the prevention” of monkeypox virus infection: JYNNEOS — also known as Imvamune or Imvanex — and ACAM2000, which is licensed by the FDA for use against smallpox and “made available for use against monkeypox under an Expanded Access Investigational New Drug application.”

    The FDA told ABC News on Thursday that while the current monkeypox vaccine, JYNNEOS, is approved only for adults ages 18 and older, it will be available for kids on a case-by-case basis. The JYNNEOS vaccine, delivered in a two-dose series, was not tested through clinical trials in children.

    However, the FDA confirmed to ABC News that “numerous” children have been granted access to the vaccine through a special permission process, but declined to state exactly how many children have received the vaccine to date through this process.”

    https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/monkeypox-health-emergency-fda-kids-vaccines/

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