HUMP DAY!!!!!!!!

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Amazing Camel Facts:

Camels’ humps are not used to store water. Even though they come from hot climates, their humps store fat and also help the rest of their bodies to stay cooler. When needed, the fat will be converted to food or water.

The word ‘camel’ comes from an Arabic word, when it’s literally translated, it means beauty. Don’t ever try and say that camels are ugly! (Look at that sweet face above…lol)

They need to stay hydrated in the desert, so it’s no surprise that camels can drink as much as 40 gallons of water at once. Considering it’s not being stored in their humps, that’s pretty amazing.

During the Second World War, German tank drivers would drive their vehicles over camel droppings, thinking it would bring them good luck.

Arabian camels are the ones which only have one hump (Asian camels have two). In Arabian culture, they are so iconic that there are more than 160 words which mean ‘camel’. Camels are very social, even though they might seem extremely laid-back and slow. In the wild, they travel with around 30 others when looking for food.

Arabian camel
Asian camel

Camels are very social, even though they might seem extremely laid-back and slow. In the wild, they travel with around 30 others when looking for food.

There are more than 14 million camels in the world – most of them live in the Middle East, Asia and Australia.

In Turkey, a camel wrestling event takes place every January. Camel wrestling dates back to the ancient world, so even though animal rights groups aren’t very happy with the sport, there are no signs of it stopping in the near future.

Camels will not damage their mouths if they eat thorny twigs and other items which might cause injury to other animals.  A camel’s mouth is split into two. This helps them to graze and eat their food more effectively.

The majority of mammals, including humans, only need to lose 15% of water before becoming dehydrated. However, camels are able to lose up to 25%, which means they can go much longer without water.

In Middle Eastern countries, many people eat camel and consider it a delicacy. The hump is apparently the best part, and younger camels are tastier than the older animals.

A camel’s nostrils are amazing. They retain water vapor which can be returned to the body when necessary, but they can also be closed if there is too much sand or wind blowing.

Camels don’t just spit for fun. If they feel threatened, they will use it as a defense mechanism. Be nice to camels and they’ll be nice to you!

They may not seem like fighters, but camels have been used during wars in the past. Ancient Greeks, Romans and Persians used to ride them, but they were used in the 20th Century too.

In 1855, the US Congress allowed the War Department to purchase camels using a $30,000 budget. They were used for several years, until the soldiers became tired of their bad tempers and smell.

Wild Bactrians are the only type of camels which have never been tamed or domesticated. They live in the wastelands of Eastern Asia and are incredibly tough creatures. However, they are less than a thousand of them left on the earth.

The world’s largest meal included a roasted camel. It was served at an Arabic wedding feast.

If you visit Abu Dhabi, you’ll be able to pick up a camel milkshake – made with real camel milk. The milk has loads more Vitamin C and iron than cows’ milk, and is very good for you. It is used in Kazakhstan to help treat illnesses, such as tuberculosis. The only reason it hasn’t made its way to the Western world is because the governments won’t pay for testing processes.

The Camel Mobile Library provides people in Kenya with literature. Camels are used to take books to areas which would not otherwise have access to a library.

A camel might appear to have thick fur, but its coat reflects the sun. This makes it ideal in the hot desert, and the camels don’t get too hot.

The Al-Dhafra Camel Festival takes place every year in the UAE. One of the most popular events is the beauty contest, which sees thousands of camels compete for the title.

Camels aren’t as slow as they look – they can run up to speeds of 40mph. However, they cannot maintain this for very long, but can comfortably move at up to 25mph.

The legend of the Red Ghost tells the story of a terrifying red camel wandering an Arizona desert and causing all kinds of atrocities, including killing people and trampling over tents.

The only time you will see a camel without a hump is when it is first born. Once the baby camel is old enough to eat solids, the hump (or humps) will start growing.

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  1. Good morning y’all! Using today to make some dump runs and do some painting. Hopefully once we get settled in the new place I will have more time online to chat.

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  2. I think camels are some of the fugliest creatures on earth! And yes, they do stink from what I’ve smelled of them in zoos.

    Yeah, Michaels (Trump’s pic) beat out Pence’s pic (Klayfish, with Walker and Pence’s endorsement) for WI Governor. And Butler has conceded to Joe Kent in WA!!!

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  3. EXCERPT: “WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump will be questioned under oath Wednesday in the New York attorney general’s long-running civil investigation into his dealings as a real estate mogul, he confirmed in a post on his Truth Social account.

    Trump’s testimony comes amid a flurry of legal activity surrounding him, taking place just days after FBI agents searched his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida as part of an unrelated federal probe into whether he took classified records when he left the White House.

    He arrived at the New York attorney general’s office shortly before 9 a.m. in a multivehicle motorcade. As he left Trump Tower in New York City for the short ride downtown, he waved to reporters assembled outside but did not comment.
    —————–
    In May, James’ office said that it was nearing the end of its probe and that investigators had amassed substantial evidence that could support legal action, such as a lawsuit, against Trump, his company or both.

    The Republican billionaire’s deposition — a legal term for sworn testimony that’s not given in court — is one of the few remaining missing pieces, the attorney general’s office said.

    Two of Trump’s adult children, Donald Jr. and Ivanka, testified in the investigation in recent days, two people familiar with the matter said. The people were not authorized to speak publicly and did so on condition of anonymity.”

    https://fox17.com/news/nation-world/former-president-donald-trump-says-hes-testifying-wednesday-in-long-running-new-york-attorney-general-letitia-james-investigation-real-estate-mogul-trump-organization-mar-a-lago-florida-search-witch-hunt-deposition-definition

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  4. EXCERPT: “Militarized police. Riot squads. Camouflage gear. Black uniforms. Armored vehicles. Mass arrests. Pepper spray. Tear gas. Batons. Strip searches. Surveillance cameras. Kevlar vests. Drones. Lethal weapons. Less-than-lethal weapons unleashed with deadly force. Rubber bullets. Water cannons. Stun grenades. Arrests of journalists. Crowd control tactics. Intimidation tactics. Brutality. Lockdowns.

    This is not the language of freedom. This is not even the language of law and order. This is the language of force. This is how the government at all levels—federal, state and local—now responds to those who speak out against government corruption, misconduct and abuse.

    These overreaching, heavy-handed lessons in how to rule by force have become standard operating procedure for a government that communicates with its citizenry primarily through the language of brutality, intimidation and fear.

    We didn’t know it then, but what happened five years ago in Charlottesville, Va., was a foretaste of what was to come.
    ——————
    On August 12, 2017, government officials took what should have been a legitimate exercise in constitutional principles (free speech, assembly and protest) and turned it into a lesson in authoritarianism by manipulating warring factions and engineering events in such a way as to foment unrest, lockdown the city, and justify further power grabs.

    On the day of scheduled protests, police deliberately engineered a situation in which two opposing camps of protesters would confront each other, tensions would bubble over, and things would turn just violent enough to justify allowing the government to shut everything down.

    Despite the fact that 1,000 first responders (including 300 state police troopers and members of the National Guard)—many of whom had been preparing for the downtown rally for months—had been called on to work the event, and police in riot gear surrounded Emancipation Park on three sides, police failed to do their jobs.

    In fact, as the Washington Post reports, police “seemed to watch as groups beat each other with sticks and bludgeoned one another with shields… At one point, police appeared to retreat and then watch the beatings before eventually moving in to end the free-for-all, make arrests and tend to the injured.”

    “Police Stood By As Mayhem Mounted in Charlottesville,” reported ProPublica. Incredibly, when the first signs of open violence broke out, the police chief allegedly instructed his staff to “let them fight, it will make it easier to declare an unlawful assembly.”

    In this way, police who were supposed to uphold the law and prevent violence failed to do either.

    Indeed, a 220-page post-mortem of the protests and the Charlottesville government’s response by former U.S. attorney Timothy J. Heaphy concluded that “the City of Charlottesville protected neither free expression nor public safety.”
    ——————-
    It’s all part of an elaborate setup by the architects of the police state. The government wants a reason to crack down and lock down and bring in its biggest guns. They want us divided. They want us to turn on one another. They want us powerless in the face of their artillery and armed forces. They want us silent, servile and compliant.

    They certainly do not want us to remember that we have rights, let alone attempting to exercise those rights peaceably and lawfully, whether it’s protesting politically correct efforts to whitewash the past, challenging COVID-19 mandates, questioning election outcomes, or listening to alternate viewpoints—even conspiratorial ones—in order to form our own opinions about the true nature of government.

    And they definitely do not want us to engage in First Amendment activities that challenge the government’s power, reveal the government’s corruption, expose the government’s lies, and encourage the citizenry to push back against the government’s many injustices.
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    Fifty years ago, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas asked:

    “Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us? The constitutional theory is that we the people are the sovereigns, the state and federal officials only our agents. We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet… [A]t the constitutional level, speech need not be a sedative; it can be disruptive… [A] function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger.”

    In other words, the Constitution does not require Americans to be servile or even civil to government officials. Neither does the Constitution require obedience (although it does insist on nonviolence).

    Somehow, the government keeps overlooking this important element in the equation.”

    https://agovernmentofwolves.com/2022/08/09/repression-terror-fear-the-government-wants-to-silence-the-opposition/

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  5. EXCERPT: “Candidates endorsed by former President Donald J. Trump had another immaculate night in statewide and federal races Tuesday, just a day after the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided Mar-a-Lago. His endorsement record now stands at 192-11.

    Businessman Tim Michels, who served as a U.S. Army ranger for 12 years, beat out his opponent, Rebecca Kleefisch, for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in Wisconsin, Dave Wasserman of the Cook Report declared.
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    Five other candidates backed by the 45th president in the Cheese State advanced to the general election Tuesday at the federal level, according to the Associated Press election results compiled by the New York Times. At least one candidate in the state legislature earned her nomination:

    Rep. Bryan Steil (R-WI) – GOP nominee for the First Congressional District
    Derrick Van Orden – GOP nominee for the Third Congressional District
    Rep. Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI) – GOP nominee for the Fifth Congressional District
    Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) – GOP nominee for the Seventh Congressional District
    Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) – GOP nominee for U.S. Senate
    State Assemblywoman Janel Brandtjen (R-22) – GOP nominee for District 22

    In Connecticut, Leora Levy won the GOP U.S. Senate primary over Themis Klarides and Peter Lumaj. Levy, the national Republican committeewoman for Connecticut, received Trump’s endorsement on Thursday, when Trump slammed her general election opponent, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT).
    ———————
    Additionally, all three Trump-backed candidates clinched nominations in Minnesota Tuesday:

    Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) – GOP nominee for the Sixth Congressional District
    Rep. Michelle Fischbach (R-MN) – GOP nominee for the Seventh Congressional District
    Rep. Pete Stauber (R-MN): GOP nominee for the Eighth Congressional District
    The sweeping victories make Trump’s endorsement record immaculate in 31 states.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/08/09/trump-backed-candidates-sweep-board-day-after-fbi-raids-mar-a-lago/

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  6. Entire Article (Tweets @ link): “The suspect the media labeled a ‘serial killer’ of Muslim men in Albuquerque has been identified as 51-year-old Afghan migrant Muhammad Syed. Now wait for the story to disappear completely. On Sunday, President Biden tweeted about the murders, suggesting that they represented some sort of hate crime committed against Muslims.

    “I am angered and saddened by the horrific killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque. While we await a full investigation, my prayers are with the victims’ families, and my Administration stands strongly with the Muslim community. These hateful attacks have no place in America,” tweeted Biden.

    And with much of the media no doubt waiting with sick anticipation for the killer to be revealed as a white man, they’re probably crestfallen by the revelation of the actual culprit. Indeed, tweets by major media outlets refused to name the suspect, with CNN merely calling him a “51-year-old man.”

    After police in Albuquerque received tips from the Muslim community about the suspect, officials announced that Muhammad Syed had been taken into custody. Syed, a Sunni Muslim, reportedly targeted the victims because he was angry over his daughter marrying a Shiite Muslim.

    “The White House and media was praying for the killer to be a white vigilante so they could advance their “white extremist” narrative,” comments Chris Menahan. “Instead, it appears this is just another one of many interpersonal ethnic conflicts we’ve imported into our country in order to “make it stronger.”

    “Is Biden going to travel to Albuquerque to condemn “Muslim extremists” like he did with the “white extremist” shooting in Buffalo or is this another visit he’s going to skip like we saw with Waukesha?”

    https://summit.news/2022/08/10/serial-killer-of-muslim-men-identified-as-51-year-old-afghan-migrant/

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            1. We started our guest room last night. I finished taping off the floor to prime the shoe moulding trim. Ms. Mama’s project, but I am trying to stay ahead of her since she is still at work for another half hour.

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  7. I’m guessing Pat and Hubby are without power today – hope they are getting the needed rain without the high winds and danger from trees falling! I just spent 10 minutes on the phone with my ISP rep trying to again figure out this issue of uploading my pics…..sigh…..my intent was to post the following pic, which finally came thru – 3 flowers and 2 more tiny buds showing, too! I think the other one has a bud but that might just be wishful thinking!

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          1. I’ll bring it inside for the winter – I’ll hang it in the south window in the bath room. I’ll also bring in the 3 extra Vinca’s and the 2 Clematis plants, as well as digging up the Canna rhizomes to re-plant next year.

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              1. I started getting interested in house plants when I was in the Army. Someone gave me a plant for Secretary’s Day that brightened up my barracks room – I had a pretty white & light blue wire & wood painted bird cage and used it as a planter. It turned into a life-long hobby.

                I used to have a lot of houseplants with grow lights in the hall way and my bedroom but I’m down to only one full-time houseplant now. These others will be planted outside next spring.

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              6. U sed to have african violets on the window sills at the old house…but they were getting old. ‘when i came here, i went to 2 nurseries in the area, neither had them

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  8. Afternoon all!
    we woke this morning without internet…
    without internet, the phones stink…so we drove into town…wondering what was up…
    it was just us. talking to the internet company was a joke–they gave him some things to try and then he had to drive back into town to tell her nothing worked. they made an appt to come out to the house FRIDAY at the earliest. sigh
    then sitting here typing some opens into word, it popped back on…wth???

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  11. Entire Article @ FB: “Los Angeles County officials are rejecting more than one out of every five petition signatures in the campaign to recall radical prosecutor George Gascón (D.), according to a random sample of signatures provided to the anti-Gascón campaign, which says the “shockingly” high rate is because officials are using outdated signature standards.

    In July, the Los Angeles County registrar notified the Recall DA George Gascón campaign that a random sampling of signatures revealed a 22 percent rejection rate, 60 times more than the rejection rate for mail-in-ballots during the 2020 presidential election. In response, the recall campaign pushed the registrar to explain what they believed was a “shockingly large rejection rate.”

    The campaign obtained public records that show the registrar’s office was training staff to review votes using outdated signature standards, which allow the disqualification of any signature for minor variations compared with the one provided on a person’s voter registration form. In a letter to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, lawyers for the campaign expressed concerns that these outdated standards were leading to an improperly high rejection rate.

    Registrar Dean Logan on Monday said concerns over the signature rejections were “selective outrage” and “a fictitious narrative to misinform and cast doubt.” But Marian Thompson, the attorney who wrote the letter, told the Washington Free Beacon the county clerk has not been forthcoming about the reasons for the rejection rate and refuses to share the precise number of invalid signatures.

    “If they didn’t follow the law and apply the same legal standards used for signature verification for vote-by-mail ballots, then we have a legal team assembled to resolve this matter in a court of law,” Thompson said.

    Gascón has been mired in controversy since taking office in November 2020. Like many progressive prosecutors backed by the left-wing billionaire George Soros, Gascón moved immediately to end cash bail, lighten sentencing guidelines, and reduce incarceration. His deputy district attorneys sued him weeks later for the drastic changes, saying his prosecutorial approach would violate their oath of office. Soros’s Justice and Public Safety PAC contributed $4.7 million to Gascón’s campaign.

    The movement to recall Gascón began gathering steam as crime spiked in the city. In Los Angeles last year, auto thefts, robberies, and homicides were all up, with the city’s murder rate nearing a 15-year high. In December, former Los Angeles prosecutors began circulating a petition to recall Gascón and gathered more than 715,000 signatures by July. If around 579,000 of those signatures are from registered voters in Los Angeles County, a recall election will be held in November. The signature count is due next week.

    In March, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) codified pandemic-era changes to the state’s voting regulations, which reduced mail-in rejection rates by more than 80 percent in the 2020 presidential election. The current standards presume that a signature appearing on a ballot is legitimate. Prior to that change, votes could be rejected if signatures differed even slightly from a voter’s registration.

    Los Angeles County is in the process of verifying signatures after a random sampling in July determined there were not enough valid signatures to trigger a recall. The Washington Examiner reported the county has denied the Gascón recall campaign observation rights for the election’s signature count, further obfuscating the verification process. A spokesman for the county registrar said the recall campaign is entitled to review the count when it is over, and that their office’s “focus is on completing the verification within the legal timelines with integrity and appropriate quality review.”

    Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project, told the Free Beacon the registrar’s handling of the count “fuels skepticism.” “Public officials should embrace transparency,” Snead said. “When they don’t it fuels doubt in the integrity of our electoral system.”

    Published under: California, Election Law, George Gascon, George Soros”

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  29. oh yeah…the tv is beyond hope. hubby contacted the maker, they wanted him to take a video of the thing flashing at the bottom, provide a picture of the serial number on the back and provide a physical addess for the tv.
    hubby said i can’t do videos with our crappy internet…but he did send a pic of the serial number. he didn’t want to give the physical address–it’s not connected to the internet so what exactly do they need that for?
    anyway…for them to “come out to repair” cost $200 JUST for a service call–parts extra. we got this tv on sale at best buy for $300…not worth it…and then the internet went out…
    hubby had nothing to do…so we played cards last evening…LOL
    it was fun

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      1. it is…cheap shit these days…
        full of stuff we don’t want or need.

        before i forget, hubby has another dr appt tomorrow–they made 3 appt for the same day (tomorrow) and then the one dr decided to go on vacation, so she moved 2 –NOT ALL THREE–to last week. so we have to trek all the way back out there tomorrow–another 1 1/2 drive EACH way. sigh…we’ll probably leave around 11:30…
        so you’ll know where i am.

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          1. lol…I thought about it this morning…I could just try to send you an email from my phone…but then I realized i only have it in my yahoo acct which wouldn’t open…sigh

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  30. for the love of mike…

    “A former senior FBI lawyer, Kevin Clinesmith, who was found guilty of forgery in the Trump-Russia probe has been restored to “good standing” status by the District of Columbia Bar Association despite not fully completing his probation sentence.” https://t.co/b4amKOQwVh

    — James A. Gagliano (@JamesAGagliano) August 9, 2022

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  41. this guy is a total ass…rating peanut butter cups better than beef
    FTA
    One of the primary achievements boasted by Mozaffarian and Tufts is the development of the “Food Compass” in 2021. It rates thousands of foods and beverages on a scale of 0-100 based on nine nutritional values. While the methodology behind the ratings appears to be objective and comprehensive, some critics have pointed out some odd rankings by the system.

    For instance, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups have a rating of 30, while cooked ground beef has a rating of 26. Chocolate Lucky Charms, the sugary children’s breakfast cereal, has a rating of 69, while a skinless, sauce-less, grilled chicken breast has a rating of 61. An egg fried with cooking spray scores a 41, compared to a school lunch medium-crust pepperoni pizza scoring 48.

    https://dailycaller.com/2022/08/09/dariush-mozaffarian-white-house-conference-nutrition-food-compass-cereal-meat/

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  44. Something just ISN’T right here……this is all FAR too blatant and out in the open….there MUST be a reason that these fools feel so very confident……this article is from the Hopium perspective….

    EXCERPT: “This blatant Gestapo-like act of fascism by the Biden DOJ/FBI, has done nothing but prove Trump’s entire overarching narrative since the beginning; that the Deep State exist and the DNC are deranged totalitarian psychopaths who will abuse government by any means necessary to achieve their nefarious agenda. That there’s a two-tiered “Justice” system. Just look at how the FBI slapped Hillary on the wrist for her egregious handling of classified material that threatened NATSEC; as compared to the alleged mystery documents that the Biden admin didn’t care about until America First candidates started sweeping primaries.

    This raid was so outrageous and so unprecedented, that conservatives, liberals, and centrists alike, have all expressed malcontent for the actions of the Biden DOJ/FBI. Former DNC Presidential candidate, Andrew Yang, and disgraced former DNC New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo, spoke out about this madness. Even left-wing MSM, they are admitting this raid has established a dangerous new precedent. This is a colossal normie-waking red pill. Trump looks like the victim/martyr.”

    https://bioclandestine.substack.com/p/it-was-a-trap

    And that’s just the point!!! It is, indeed, SO outrageous and unprecedented……truly, they just can’t be that stupid, can they??!!?? We are missing something here….clearly, I don’t get it…..

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    1. I was reading articles in a flurry after the internet came back on. some say there was an eff bee eye informant at Mar-a-lago, because the eff bee eye knew where the safe was, brought a safecracker with them. but the fact that it was empty means that REALPOTUS might have used the eff bee eye to smoke out the informant. for example–maybe he told one person that he hid juicy stuff in the safe…when in fact he didn’t. but the rat told the eff bee eye, they jumped on this chance and it backfired.
      now REALPOTUS knows who the rat is…
      i dunno…theories

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  45. well, I’m gonna sign off…we’re gonna play cards–5 Crowns. good game.
    after doc tomorrow hopefully we get a new tv…we’ll see
    Good Night All!
    I hope to see y’all in the am!!

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