The Language of…Flowers

Nature 2 Minutes

According to the Alamanac, historically flowers have always had a hidden language. Following the protocol of Victorian-era etiquette, flowers were primarily used to deliver messages that couldn’t be spoken aloud. In a sort of silent dialogue, flowers could be used to answer “yes” or “no” questions. A “yes” answer came in the form of flowers handed over with the right hand; if the left hand was used, the answer was “no.”

Plants could also express aversive feelings, such as the “conceit” of pomegranate or the “bitterness” of aloe. Similarly, if given a rose declaring “devotion” or an apple blossom showing “preference,” one might return to the suitor a yellow carnation to express “disdain.”

How flowers were presented and in what condition were important. If the flowers were given upside down, then the idea being conveyed was the opposite of what was traditionally meant. How the ribbon was tied said something, too: Tied to the left, the flowers’ symbolism applied to the giver, whereas tied to the right, the sentiment was in reference to the recipient. And, of course, a wilted bouquet delivered an obvious message!

But it’s not just the TYPE of flower that has meaning–color is also important. Take, for instance, all of the different meanings attributed to variously colored carnations: Pink meant “I’ll never forget you”; red said “my heart aches for you”; purple conveyed capriciousness; white was for the “the sweet and lovely”; and yellow expressed romantic rejection.

Likewise, a white violet meant “innocence,” while a purple violet said that the bouquet giver’s “thoughts were occupied with love.” A red rose was used to openly express feelings of love, while a red tulip was a confession of love. The calla lily was interpreted to mean “magnificent beauty,” and a clover said “think of me.”

Unsurprisingly, the color of the rose plays a huge role. Red roses symbolize love and desire, but roses come in a variety of colors and each has their own meaning.

  • White rose: purity, innocence, reverence, a new beginning, a fresh start.
  • Red rose: love, I love you
  • Deep, dark crimson rose: mourning
  • Pink rose: grace, happiness, gentleness
  • Yellow rose: jealousy, infidelity
  • Orange rose: desire and enthusiasm
  • Lavender rose: love at first sight
  • Coral rose: friendship, modesty, sympathy

You can see a more in depth listing of flowers, herbs and other plants at the following wesbite:

https://www.almanac.com/flower-meanings-language-flowers

Here are some of the ones that interested me:

Black eyed susans mean justice
Clematis means mental beauty
Gladiolus means integrity, strength, victory
Nasturtium means patriotism, conquest in battle
African violets mean faithfulness
Unknown's avatar

Published by pat frederick

Published

159 thoughts on “The Language of…Flowers”

  1. Morning All!
    had a hummer fly right next to my face…I could feel the tiny breeze from her wings beating so fast…
    they are brave little buggers! lol

    Liked by 1 person

    1. Good morning! I still have one female hummer around – Jake likes to jump up to look out the patio door first thing in the morning and the two of them were checking each other out a few minutes ago! I don’t think Jake knew quite what to think! Ah, no wonder I love Clematis! LOL – as for the Glads? No, thank you! Not one of those glads came up the next year in my west bed and don’t get me started on the Summer Cheer daffodil – 4 times I’ve tried to plant them and 4 times they’ve died. I’ve never been a fan of sunflower/black-eyed susan but I’ve never tried the others.

      BTW, I got an e-mail from Piper – all she said was that she couldn’t look at the memes I e-mailed because she was using her school computer and imgur was blocked. That’s it! Nothing else – I replied and told her I understood, said it was sooooo nice to hear from her, and asked her to call. Nada.

      Liked by 1 person

      1. Morning Filly!
        baby steps…you’ll get there with Piper!!!

        wonder if the squirrels ate your bulbs? they eat any bulb I plant outside…and go after anything i leave on my deck too

        Liked by 1 person

        1. No, they bloomed bigly the first year but not one came back the next spring and I would have seen the signs of squirrels digging in the mulch. I even made sure I watered the daffodils right thru the winter, which is what they require. I’ve decided to get 2 low Euonymus bushes next spring to plant in front of the Clematis to protect the roots from the sun. Examples of evergreen euonymus:

          Liked by 1 person

              2. I just love growing things, especially seeing the beauty that results from my efforts. And, of course, I MUST be 100% thorough in all I do! It almost hurts me physically to kill a thriving plant – like the cukes in the barrel – I know they aren’t going to produce any more but…..they’re just so green and alive….I can’t pull them up. Funny now, tho, when I think back to my childhood – I used to hate it when I had to help my parents in the yard/garden. Yuck! Picking off potato bugs and dropping them in a can of kerosene!

                Liked by 1 person

              3. That garden I created from nothing! The house was stone, built from the rock of the Blue Ridge waaaay back in the 1700’s, set in the middle of 50 acres. In the front field was a rock wall of the same age and I hauled truckload after truckload of those stones to create that flower bed. That kept me occupied for a good long while!

                Liked by 1 person

        2. No, they bloomed bigly the first year but not one came back the next spring and I would have seen the signs of squirrels digging in the mulch. I even made sure I watered the daffodils right thru the winter, which is what they require. I’ve decided to get 2 low bushes next spring to plant in front of the Clematis to protect the roots from the sun.

          Liked by 1 person

    2. Decades ago I was sitting out on a patio in La Jolla w girlfriend, and a hummer came up and appeared to be interested in her ear. Did the hesitancy move they do. It was ab 24″ from me…so close! Turns out she was wearing garnet post earrings, and it had seen them from afar.
      Just a little magic moment and memory.

      Liked by 2 people

      1. hi piper!!
        if i go out and stand between where the feeders normally are and hold the feeder in front of me…they will land and feed. I’ve had one sit on my thumb to feed….I couldn’t even feel it!

        Liked by 1 person

      2. Hi Piper! I’ve got one female still hanging around. Yesterday morning, she and Jake were checking each other out thru the screen door. She’s just chattering away, darting back and forth – meanwhile, he didn’t quite know what to think! LOL

        Liked by 1 person

  6. Liked by 1 person

  7. Liked by 1 person

      1. I know right? bring your own snacks…wear your pjs…bring your pillow and fall asleep…there’s a couple around up here yet, but not close enough to visit–but we see them on trips home

        Liked by 1 person

        1. Up until a few years ago, there was one in a small town west of me but I’m not sure whether it’s still open or not. When I was growing up in Norfolk, the drive-in was where Orville Carlisle always did the 4th of July fireworks show. There is a school there now, as well as the YMCA.

          Liked by 1 person

  11. when my kids went to college, they were the same age–so we had TWO kids to put thru school. they got the pell grants–not much–and we paid for some, they got loans for the rest. we couldn’t afford 2 in college at the same time…but scholarships and such were for people of color. our daughter found a few teaching “awards” that she applied for and got–but still they were not much. our son, found nothing he could apply for.
    now that ultra maggot is forgiving $10K–the black caucus says blacks deserve more–$50K! BULLSHIT!!!! there are more scholarships out there for folks of color than ever before
    FTA
    “Black student loan borrowers hold the most debt out of any other racial group. An April report by PBS NewsHour found that, among 2016 graduates, nearly 40 percent of Black students graduated college with $30,000 or more in debt compared to only 29 percent of white students, 23 percent of Hispanic students and 18 percent of Asian students,” The Hill reported.

    With that, here comes the usual suspects, such as the Congressional Black Caucus, which “called for more focus on the impact the crisis has had on Black borrowers.”

    The Hill also reported the NAACP is making some noise.

    “If student debt repayments can be paused over and over and over again, there’s no reason why the President cannot cancel a minimum of $50,000,” the NAACP said.

    And the Student Borrower Protection Center cited “racial financial inequities.”

    “The first thing you have to understand is the fact that student debt is not only a direct reflection of systemic disparities we have in this country, but it also continues to perpetuate them,” said Kat Welbeck, SBPC’s director of advocacy.

    “When it’s time for [Black] families to send their children to school, they have less wealth to be able to pay for college,” Welbeck said. “So Black borrowers are not only more likely to borrow but also borrow higher amounts. When Black students leave school, they then also have these higher student debt balances that cuts into opportunities for wealth building over a lifetime.”

    https://www.thecollegefix.com/biden-student-loan-bailout-leaves-black-borrowers-clamoring-for-more-report/

    Liked by 1 person

  13. american thinker article has the sperry comments above and this below–about the list of “classified docs” seized…
    FTA
    Because our images are deleted after 6 weeks to preserve space on the server, let me list what it says (highlights in original):

    Found in the 15 boxes at Mar-a-Lago

    Retrieved in January 2022

    184 unique classified documents

    92 secret documents

    67 confidential documents

    25 top secret documents

    ABC news.

    Every single one of those highlighted words is completely wrong. Those classifications (which should not have been leaked, of course) come from pencil pushers; that is, hired bureaucrats assigned those classifications to the documents. There is only one person in the land who can officially classify and declassify documents, and that is the President of the United States. He gets that plenary power through the Constitution and the will of We the People, who elected him.

    To the extent bureaucrats assign classifications to documents, they do so only through delegated power. No matter how many little red rubber stamps they use to mark up documents, it is the president who has the final say. Not the Department of Justice, not the FBI, and certainly not some soggy little bureaucrats in the National Archives.

    In this case, Trump issued a standing order declassifying all documents related to the Russia Hoax. That is enough to override everything else. But even if he hadn’t given a standing order, his plenary power means that, when he acted in a way that effectively declassified the documents, that action had the full force and effect of a verbal order doing so. The power is all his. Because there’s no evidence that Biden tried to re-classify the documents, they are declassified, and everything to the contrary is sheer ignorance or a blatant lie. (This charge of ignorance or dishonesty applies to RINO GOP Sen. Roy Blunt, of course.)

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/08/more_problems_emerge_with_the_maralago_affidavit.html

    Liked by 1 person

  14. Liked by 1 person

    1. Yepper! Daily Mail article: “Shocking 1940s video shows how US children were sprayed with dangerous pesticide as neighbourhoods were gassed with the ‘miracle cure’ that could kill mosquitoes and end Polio

      Footage shows groups of people being sprayed with the chemical in Texas
      Clip gives an insight into the lack of health and safety regulations in 1940s
      Later scenes show US army personnel handing DDT to people in Naples

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5467597/Children-sprayed-dangerous-pesticide-DDT-shocking-clip.html

      Liked by 1 person

  17. hmmmmmmm…need more info on this
    FTA
    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had to pull out of a big-bucks fundraiser for New York gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin on Long Island on Sunday because of an “unforeseen tragedy,” the candidate’s rep told The Post.

    The Sunshine State Republican was slated to appear at a $25,000-a-plate gathering in Oyster Bay.

    “An unforeseen tragedy forced Governor DeSantis to reschedule his trip to New York,” Zeldin spokeswoman Katie Vincentz said, declining to elaborate. “While we’re rescheduling with Governor DeSantis for a later date, tonight’s fundraiser will proceed and is expected to raise almost a million dollars.”

    https://nypost.com/2022/08/28/desantis-pulls-out-of-zeldin-fundraiser-over-unforeseen-tragedy/

    Liked by 1 person

  19. Holy shit!!! I’m watching FOUR Blue Jays – one was walking around in the gutter, 3 are over by the red petunias hanging on hooks under the cottonwood tree!!! WTH do they want with red petunias??!!??

    Liked by 1 person

  20. Just talked to Mom – everyone she gave some of my peaches to also tried her CO peaches – they said my peaches taste just as good!!!! Hell, now I’m thinking about replacing the one that died!!! LOL – I have to dig back thru 5+ years of receipts to find where I bought those!!!

    Liked by 1 person

  21. Sigh…..my Mother…..”the internet is the worst thing that has ever happened….” BUT…..she just asked me to look up some plants on the net and she needs the instructions for her phone enlarged so she can read them. But she can’t find them now….so I said give me the manufacturer and model # – I’ll look it up on-line, save them on my computer, enlarge them, print them out and mail them to her…..but the internet is evil!!!! ROFLMAO

    Liked by 1 person

      1. Well, I don’t agree that it’s “evil.” It is a tool, as you say. Imagine how blind we would be right now without it! Just got off the phone with my ISP – the continual disconnection seems to have been solved. He also said there are a LOT of complaints about Imgur and the poor upload speeds. But, dang it, I don’t want to have to go thru learning yet another picture site…..! Man, it sucks to get old!

        Liked by 2 people

  22. Morning Ladies …

    Monday … cloudy … raining again …

    I remember when there was no TV (rather our family didn’t have one yet)

    No cell … just a partyline phone … (peeps could listen in even then tho’)

    Ahh… ‘Once upon a Time’

    Liked by 2 people

    1. Good morning, PR! Ah, yes, the old party line – what fun that was!!! We always had a TV but it was black & white and, of course, no remote. I remember watching JFK’s funeral. It was completely clouded over when I got up, with a few sprinkles, but it is clearing now. Predicting back up into the 90’s most of next week but only low-mid 80’s today so I’m going to try to mow.

      Liked by 2 people

  23. EXCERPT: “By April 2020, two months into the lockdowns, eminent Italian Philosopher Giorgio Agamben had put his finger on a point that was bugging many of us. He observed that the purpose of “social distancing” – really just a euphemism for confinement – was not intended merely as a temporary measure but a new structure for society itself.

    Thinking it through, and deciding to speak out, he wrote that “I do not believe that a community based on ‘social distancing’ is humanly and politically liveable.”

    He cited Elias Canetti’s 1960 book Crowds and Power, summarizing it as follows:

    “Canetti, in his masterpiece Crowds and Power, defines the crowd as the thing upon which power is founded through the inversion of the fear of being touched. While people generally dread being touched by strangers, and while all of the distances they institute around themselves are born of this fear, the crowd is the only setting in which this fear is overthrown.”

    Canetti wrote:

    “It is only in a crowd that man can become free of this fear of being touched. […] As soon as a man has surrendered himself to the crowd, he ceases to fear its touch. […] The man pressed against him is the same as himself. He feels him as he feels himself. Suddenly it is as though everything were happening in one and the same body. […] This reversal of the fear of being touched belongs to the nature of crowds. The feeling of relief is most striking where the density of the crowd is greatest.”

    Agamben elaborates:

    “I do not know what Canetti would have thought of the new phenomenology of the crowd that we are witnessing. What social distancing measures and panic have created is surely a mass, but a mass that is, so to speak, inverted and composed of individuals who are keeping themselves at any cost at a distance—a non-dense, rarefied mass. It is still a mass, however,

    If, as Canetti specifies shortly afterwards, it is defined by uniformity and passivity—in the sense that “it is impossible for it to move really freely. […] [I]t waits. It waits for a head to be shown it.” A few pages later Canetti describes the crowd that is formed through a prohibition, where “a large number of people together refuse to continue to do what, till then, they had done singly. They obey a prohibition, and this prohibition is sudden and self-imposed. […] [I]n any case, it strikes with enormous power. It is as absolute as a command, but what is decisive about it is its negative character.”

    We should keep in mind that a community founded on social distancing would have nothing to do, as one might naively believe, with an individualism pushed to excess. It would be, if anything, similar to the community we see around us: a rarefied mass founded on a prohibition but, for that very reason, especially passive and compact.”

    The reaction to this heresy and others by this colossal academic figure was extreme and truly indescribable. There ought to be some other word than canceled. Friends, colleagues, translators, and fans the world over trashed him in the most extreme terms – newspapers, journals, tweets, you name it – not just for his writing on the pandemic response but also for his entire intellectual legacy. A man once revered came to be treated like vermin. You can look at this essay by a translator as one example.

    So the question is whether he was right, and let us consider his observations on social distancing as just one example. It strikes me as quite brilliant. What he says about crowds, citing Canetti, pertains to cities, gatherings, groups, multigenerational households, multicultural communities, street parties, block parties, airports, pilgrimages, mass protests, migrants on the move, crowded subways, pool parties, beaches, or any place where strangers and people who barely know each other find themselves in close proximity.

    Here we encounter each other’s core humanity, and overcome the fear of treating each other in a dignified way. It is here in which we discover and internalize human rights and universal moral principles. We overcome the fears that keep us down and instead gain a love of freedom. Yes, this is the very opposite of “social distancing.” Someone needed to call it out: a prohibition against congregating is a prohibition of society.

    And it’s not as if the other side did not admit that their agenda was much broader. Consider a very strange tomb written during the lockdown summer of 2020 by Anthony Fauci with his long-time collaborator at the NIH David Morens. Together they theorize in the biggest possible way about the relationship between infectious disease and human society.”

    https://brownstone.org/articles/social-distancing-was-supposed-to-be-forever/

    Liked by 1 person

            1. No … the length between cars, while idling . at a light. drive thru windows, even red light …

              It seems some folks are EXTREMELY impressionable 😉

              Liked by 1 person

      1. You have the eye Filly … I would never have spotted him. Watched a sweet movie last night … Murphy’s Romance … Sally Field played a cowgirl (who would have thunk!) to James Garner’s ‘strong and steady’ older guy, named Murphy, of course!

        Liked by 2 people

  25. Michael loved, loved, loved the ice cream and has eaten almost all of it. I’m going to be REALLY generous and give him a gallon. He is off tomorrow so I’ll be spending some time at his place – he’s the only person IRL with whom I can have a good philosophical discussion.

    Liked by 1 person

  26. EXCERPT: “The legend is that patents are a just reward for new inventions. The reality is that they are government grants of monopoly privilege for industrial interests. What began as a royal privilege left over from feudal times mutated into a right of anyone to deploy the power of the state to block competitors and thus exercise monopoly pricing power based on a statutorily determined amount of time.

    For centuries, patents have been debated as to their social and economic merit. That they inhibit competition is beyond dispute. Not even those who reverse engineer a product have the right to produce and sell the results. The only question is whether such interventions are truly necessary to incentivize innovation.

    In the case of pharmaceuticals, the justification is a bit different. It has surrounded the supposed need to cover the high costs of research and regulatory compliance. Industries need compensation lest their entire industry becomes unprofitable and we all suffer a lack of medical advances.

    None of this pertains in the case of the Covid shots. Moderna received fast-track regulatory approval and $10 billion in tax subsidies for its mRNA innovation. Even then, it claimed the right to demand exclusive rights to its formulas. During the pandemic – during which time the company also enlisted governments and private business into forcing consumers to accept its product – it agreed to forego its claims.

    Now that the pandemic is over, and the demand for the shots has plummeted worldwide and vaccine mandates scrapped, Moderna is suing Pfizer for stealing its intellectual property. The court fight could last years, at the end of which they will likely settle and redistribute their loot.

    On top of that, both are publicly-traded corporations that made enormous profits off the pandemic, while the jury is still out on whether and to what extent their product proved to be a net benefit in terms of reducing disease severity. It certainly did not stop infection or spread.

    To top it off, both companies are granted complete legal indemnification from damages from the shot, according to 42 U.S. Code § 300aa–22. “No vaccine manufacturer,” says the law, “shall be liable in a civil action for damages arising from a vaccine-related injury or death associated with the administration of a vaccine after October 1, 1988, if the injury or death resulted from side effects that were unavoidable even though the vaccine was properly prepared and was accompanied by proper directions and warnings.”

    This is another level of privilege they enjoy, justified on grounds that no vaccine manufacturing company could possibly deal with the cost of vast litigation plus bear the expenses of research and development.

    It is simply not possible that any industry could be granted more privileges in the law. Most of them are rather new in a legal sense. Boldrin and Levine have demonstrated that the claims to support this kind of privilege are false in theory, false in history, and false in the current moment.”

    https://brownstone.org/articles/moderna-and-pfizer-cat-fight/

    Liked by 1 person

  28. Posted at M’s, too.

    OK, this is a very long video (almost 1.5 hours) but go to about the 17:00 minute mark – not long after that, he talks about being told that the “Deep State” did not want him hired because they considered him to be pro-Trump!!!!

    Commentary from Brownstone: “Paul Elias Alexander is the author of many literature reviews on Brownstone. As a scientist and scholar, he worked for the World Health Organization before being tapped by the Trump administration in April 2020 to sort out the chaos that emerged after the policy response to the virus.

    His story of all his encounters is nothing short of remarkable. He tells it for the first time publicly in this interview. We can only urge readers to spend the time to listen because nothing we write here can adequately summarize what he saw and heard.”

    https://brownstone.org/video-podcast/what-i-heard-and-saw-dr-paul-alexander-speaks/

    Liked by 1 person

  29. EXCERPT: “I’ve been taking a closer look at what happened at the start of the pandemic and how it came about, and what we can do to stop it happening again.

    There are two basic questions that need answering. One concerns the origin of the virus itself – was it engineered or natural, when did it emerge or leak and where, and what explains its changing behaviour in different times and places? The second concerns the origins of our response: where did the lockdowns, social distancing, masks and other non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) come from, and why did everyone adopt them even though they had never been used before and there was no evidence such costly measures would achieve anything of significance?

    Here’s what I currently think happened – this article is deliberately concise, to serve as a summary. Follow the links to read more detail on each aspect.
    ——————–
    The lockdown and NPI agenda began in the Bush White House in 2005 – though China had previously used lockdowns/NPIs in response to SARS in 2003 and claimed success (despite SARS disappearing everywhere and not just where NPIs were used). U.S. President George W. Bush was worried about biological attacks after 9/11 and the Iraq invasion and asked his team to come up with a whole of society response.

    The 2005 bird flu scare added impetus to the emerging agenda of ‘pandemic preparedness’ (despite the fact that the scare came to nothing). The plan the team came up with was based on the use of NPIs for social distancing – very similar to what China had used, though the team members themselves did not credit China for their idea but, bizarrely, the high school science project of one member’s 14-year-old daughter.

    This draconian biosecurity strategy grew from there. It came to include a stress on the fast development of vaccines and deployment of digital vaccine passes as the exit strategy from restrictions, particularly mRNA vaccines which were seen as a printable vaccine amenable to quick tailoring to emergent pathogens.

    The strategic preference for mRNA vaccines may explain why U.S. and other health authorities seem to have put much more effort into finding safety problems with the adenovirus vector vaccines (Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca) than the mRNA vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna). Bill Gates was an early convert to the biosecurity movement and became a major patron, particularly as U.S. Government enthusiasm for it cooled during the Obama years.

    The new biosecurity-oriented, NPI-based pandemic preparedness ideas gradually became embedded in international policy and practice, including through national pandemic plans, WHO guidance, and pandemic simulation exercises such as Event 201, organised by Johns Hopkins University.

    Lockdowns were first deployed on the advice of the biosecurity crowd in Africa in 2014 in response to Ebola, and intriguingly included the strange phenomenon next seen in early 2020 of hundreds of social media bots promoting the idea. Who was behind these ‘lockdown bots’ in 2014 and 2020 has not been resolved.

    Tinkering with viruses to help develop vaccines and treatments for potential pandemic pathogens is part of the biosecurity agenda, and it is well known that viruses leak from labs, raising serious questions as to whether the payoff for research is worth the risk of deadly leaks.”

    https://brownstone.org/articles/lockdowns-and-fast-track-vaccines-the-origin-story/

    Liked by 1 person

  30. Speaking of Jared Kushner…..

    EXCERPT: “The possibility of US lockdowns – never attempted on this scale in the history of pandemics – was already in the air in early March 2020. The theory of lockdown had been floating around for 15 years but now China was first to try it, and claim enormous success, however fraudulently.

    Incredibly, the US was set to try it out too but getting Trump on board was going to take some doing. The federal government had the quarantine power since 1944. That much we knew. But just how expansive could its exercise be? Would they dare quarantine the well with the sick? How far would this go?

    Thanks to several journalistic accounts, we have a better idea of what went on in the White House before the dreadful March 16, 2020, press conference of Donald Trump, Anthony Fauci, and Deborah Birx in which the lockdowns were announced. Along with that came a flier with tiny print about which the ever-trusting Trump apparently knew nothing: “bars, restaurants, food courts, gyms, and other indoor and outdoor venues where groups of people congregate should be closed.”

    Read those words again. Has anything like this ever been issued by any government in the history of the world, before China did it? I cannot think of a case. It shuts not only the places where people do “congregate” but also everywhere where they might congregate. Churches. AA meetings. Civic clubs. Libraries. Museums. Homes! And this happened under Trump’s watch right here in the US! There ought to be a word to describe something more extreme than totalitarian.

    There were a number of people in Trump’s circle in those days who proved panicked and confused enough to embrace the idea. But who precisely wrote those words in the sheet handed out to reporters?

    We cannot say for sure but Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner played an important role. He had enlisted two close friends from college to help: Nat Turner and Adam Boehler. Both were graduates from the Wharton School, like Trump. Jared somehow believed that they knew something about pandemics because they worked in health-care delivery. So he called them.

    Boehler headed the $60 billion US International Development Finance Corporation and still does. It’s one of those many agencies that throws contracts and cash to big shots within industry. Before that job, he was head of Landmark Health delivery services, which means that he knew business and finance, not public health. He is among those high-finance execs who were drawn to healthcare not for the science but for the money.

    As for Turner, he is a serial entrepreneur who got his start selling snakes from his parents’ garage. Truly. He founded an ad agency that he eventually sold to Google 10 years ago, Invite Media, for more than $70 million. His company Flatiron – oncology-related electronic record software – sold to Roche in 2018 for $1.9 billion. His page at the Wharton School describes him as “Young, Entrepreneurial and Google-Owned.” He is now a billionaire investor at an implausibly young age.

    And Google-owned!

    The book Nightmare Scenario (2021) explains what happened next. On March 13, 2020:

    “Boehler and Turner burrowed into a room in the basement of the West Wing and started calling people who grasped both the scale of the crisis but also the politics. Over that weekend, they put together recommendations and then circulated them with Birx and Fauci. The guidelines were refined further before being presented to Trump in the Oval Office. They wanted to recommend shutting down in-person education at schools. Closing indoor dining at restaurants and bars. Canceling travel.

    Birx and Fauci saw the guidelines as a crucial pause that would buy them some time to better understand the pandemic. Shutting down flights was not enough, they said; more would have to be done. …. Boehler, Kushner, Birx, Fauci, and other aides presented Trump with the recommendations several days later, anxious over what he might say. Kushner had been preparing Trump for the possibility that they were going to need to take more “draconian” actions.”

    This account was not speculative. Kushner himself in his new book tells a very similar story:

    “On my way to the White House early the next morning, March 12, my [billionaire investor] brother Josh called from New York City. He described the worrisome signs: the city had canceled its annual Saint Patrick’s Day parade, thousands of people were self-quarantining, and millions more were leaving the city. When I told him that I was asked to jump into the response, he made a suggestion: “You should call Adam.”…”

    Call Adam!

    Why not call, oh, for example, a public health scientist? Someone with some expertise in viruses? A medical doctor? Universities are packed with them. Someone, anyone, with actual knowledge and experience? Nope. It was entirely a crony operation, privileged fools about to take over the private lives of hundreds of millions of people.

    Boehler was the perfect person to help us with the federal government’s COVID response, especially because he had the skills to overcome the fierce rivalries among the administration’s health-care team….After the meeting, Boehler and I huddled in my office and began sketching out how we could help with testing and supplies. To get additional support, we called our mutual friend and successful health-care entrepreneur Nat Turner. …

    As we dealt with the shortage of cotton swabs and other supplies, we faced another problem: the need to develop public health guidelines. Let’s just stop right there and consider this realization. Oh, they needed guidelines for the rest of us to follow, for reasons of politics and public relations. After all, they are surely the masters of the craft. Continuing:

    “Given that people across the country were confused and concerned, Birx and Fauci had been discussing the need for a unified set of federal standards to help Americans understand what they should do to keep themselves safe and slow the spread of the virus. They insisted that these guidelines would help prevent hospitals from becoming overwhelmed. Despite all the talk over the past week, no one had taken steps to produce a document. When Nat Turner flagged the issue,”

    Again, let’s stop the tape there. Nat Turner pointed out that no one had yet issued any orders? Good call, dude. Someone needs to get right on that. Just open up a Google doc and get to work on writing a central plan for the whole country. You have a two-hour deadline.

    “I asked him to coordinate with Derek Lyons to produce a draft and encouraged him to call Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former head of the FDA and a renowned public health expert [and Pfizer board member]. I had been trying to persuade Gottlieb to come back into government for a short-term stint to help us better organize our response and support our effort to develop a vaccine.

    When we called Gottlieb, he was grateful that we were preparing guidelines. “They should go a little bit further than you are comfortable with,” he said. “When you feel like you are doing more than you should, that is a sign that you are doing them right.”

    Look, this whole scene truly just boggles the mind. Phone calls. Rushed documents. Friends of friends. Pharma executives. People in the know!

    The result was a document that shut down the US and the world, all banged out by rank amateurs with ungodly privilege, with nary a thought of asking disinterested experts. Whatever they typed would affect the lives of 333 million people coast to coast. Did they think about that? Did they even care? Did the even once think about people not of their class and pedigree?”

    More: https://brownstone.org/articles/jared-kushner-and-the-mystery-of-the-first-us-lockdown/

    Liked by 2 people

  31. good news! the fib found privileged info they’re not supposed to have, but their review team probably set it aside without reading it, right? what a joke! that judge needed to issue an injunction and SEIZE the damn boxes—
    fta
    The Justice Department said Monday that some of the materials seized in the FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s residence may be protected under attorney-client privilege.

    In the three-page court filing, Justice Department attorneys said an FBI review of the seized documents and other materials found a “limited set” that could be off-limits to investigators.

    The discovery was made by an FBI “filter team” that reviews seized materials for privileged or classified information. The team recently completed its review of the documents it seized from Mr. Trump’s residence and office at his private Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida.

    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/aug/29/doj-admits-materials-seized-trump-may-be-protected/

    Liked by 1 person

  32. So much for mowing today – already up to 82 without the slightest breeze! Nope, nope and nope! I used to work really hard at keeping my place looking nice and neat in order to fit in with my neighbors. I started having my dandelions sprayed because everyone around me had not ONE dandelion – I didn’t want my seeds to end up in their yard.

    And yet, after almost 10 years here, I have still not been truly welcomed into the community – I will never be considered as a “native” here. Frankly, I don’t GAS any more!

    Liked by 1 person

  36. declare me the winner or hold a new election
    entire article
    Former President Donald Trump called for a new election “immediately” Monday if he is not declared “the rightful winner” of the 2020 presidential election against President Biden.

    He posted the following statement on Truth Social:

    So now it comes out, conclusively, that the FBI BURIED THE HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP STORY BEFORE THE ELECTION knowing that, if they didn’t, “Trump would have easily won the 2020 Presidential Election.” This is massive FRAUD & ELECTION INTERFERENCE at a level never seen before in our Country. REMEDY: Declare the rightful winner or, and this would be the minimal solution, declare the 2020 Election irreparably compromised and have a new Election, immediately!

    “This is going to trigger some people,” national radio host Todd Starnes said. “Trump’s got a point here. The FBI was caught meddling in two presidential elections.”

    78 Percent Say Trump Would’ve Been Reelected Had They Known Truth About Biden’s Laptop

    Polls indicate the Hunter Biden laptop story would’ve influenced the outcome of the 2020 election.

    https://www.toddstarnes.com/politics/trump-either-declare-me-winner-or-hold-another-election/

    Liked by 1 person

      1. yup! BUT HE FINALLY SAID IT!
        declare me the winner!
        they will try to ignore this because there’s not a winning strategy for them. so ignore and speed up whatever they’re going to do to try to outpace the rallying cries of millions of people…
        when they quicken the pace, they’ll make mistakes…

        Liked by 1 person

  37. Get this shit!!!! And then the NE GOP “apologized” for posting the graphic picture!!! SMDH – that bitch Kleeb again (don’t forget – Seth Rich used to work for them!) Sure am glad to see she is the “former” Chair of the Dem Party here!

    ENTIRE ARTICLE @ NotTheBee: “Nebraskan Democrats accuse Republicans of posting child porn … for posting pics from a trans book currently available in school libraries”

    The Nebraskan Republican Party took some flak for posting images from Maia Kobabe’s graphic novel Gender Queer. To be fair, the images depict what appear to be minors engaged in sexual acts and are highly inappropriate. However, as the book is available in school libraries around the state, it can’t possibly be child pornography…right?

    The tweets came in response to Nebraska Democratic Party chair Jane Kleeb making fun of Republicans and their position that “gambling devastates the family” calling them “fun haters.”

    The GOP account shot back with: “Like fun haters against fellatio being taught to school age children? @janekleeb Well u are right !! We have principles and values, not “everything goes” policies. Sorry to be sane.” And then attached the pictures from Gender Queer.

    The post was quickly pulled down, and the Republican chair said it had not been authorized, but of course, this is the internet, and several screen grabs were taken before it disappeared. That’s when the former chair of the Nebraska Democratic party accused them of peddling child pornography and called them disgusting.

    And this is where the disconnect in the party comes in. Some Democratic followers saw the GOP’s post as being disgusting and their claim that the book is in schools as being a Republican conspiracy theory.

    But others were upset that the Democrat leadership had called the images child pornography and thought this book and similar LGBTQ books for children should remain in schools rather than being banned.

    How are these people engaging in the same conversation? And the Democrat leadership is playing both sides. On the one hand Kleeb says, “Nebraskans are tired of Republican conspiracy theories and weird antics. The party has gone off the rails. They think lying about our public school teachers is a strategy to win elections.”

    On the other hand Kearney Public Schools Superintendent Jason Mundorf defended the inclusion of books like Gender Queer because: “We have students who are facing internal questions regarding their gender and sexual identity,” he wrote. “These books can provide a context by which some student readers can identify with someone (even if it’s a fictional character) who has had similar struggles.”

    And Democrat Deb Neary, a State Board of Education member said, the uproar involving the tweets: “risks hurting some of our more vulnerable student populations. I am quite certain that there is no school administrator, no policy maker, no librarian, no educator, no Democrat, or no parent in NE, that is intentionally promoting the use of inappropriate materials in our schools…[but]
    I do know that Nebraska is one of only 2 states in the country that does not have an age appropriate and standardized health education.”

    Honestly, with all of the talking out both sides of their mouth that the Democrats are doing, the GOP backpedaling here was probably the wrong move. Now is not the time for cowardice. It’s time to press forward and drive this stuff out of the schools. Our children and our future as a nation depend on it.”

    Liked by 1 person

    1. never are these children encouraged to seek out a parent to talk to, who may very well take them to a counselor to work out these feelings–BUT THAT’S A PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY—it’s not a school’s or a teacher’s or a librarian’s place!

      Liked by 1 person

  38. Hmmmm….Catturd blocked SD from following his Twitter since SD is pointing out all DeSantis’ faults….I do understand that Catturd is focused on the Governor’s race but we’ve been concerned about some of the very things SD points out – his past actions cannot be denied so……I have no doubt that DeS will win by a landslide for Governor.

    Liked by 1 person

    1. some dude declared that all desantis supporters should leave his blog last week..??
      but catturd likes desantis as a GOVERNOR in 2024 and MAYBE president later…

      Liked by 1 person

        1. exactly!
          some say this is the way to get rid of both trump and desantis.
          fill desantis’s head with promises and big $$…have him run for pres instead of governor against trump, then cheat the election…both are out…

          Liked by 1 person

  42. brought from wolf’s…update of sorts on desantis. it seems the unfortunate tragedy was the miami dolphins memorial service…but he did go to jersey to see a “money guy”

    gil00Offline
    Coyote
    August 29, 2022 14:34

    Now, Im not picking at this, however,
    he did the right thing not attending a fundraiser. However he went to see a money guy in Jersey. So did Desantis go to the memorial at all? Unclear in the article.

    “While unable to attend the evening event, DeSantis was in Deal, New Jersey, earlier in the day at the home of Jay Cayre, head of Midtown Equities, sources told The Post.

    A spokesperson for Zeldin said DeSantis would return to New York at a later date for an event with the candidate.”

    https://nypost.com/2022/08/29/ron-desantis-bowed-out-of-lee-zeldin-fundraiser-to-attend-memorial-service/

    Liked by 1 person

    2. Midtown Equities is also in Miami:

      “Bringing the surrounding artistry and cultural appeal to the neighborhood, Midtown Miami is Miami’s premier destination to experience the ultimate urban lifestyle where you can live, work, shop, eat, drink, and play. Occupying 18 blocks on the Biscayne Corridor, Midtown Miami is Miami’s first “city within a city”. The $2.3 billion, 26-acre urban development offers a contemporary array of restaurants, boutiques, shops, offices, residential towers, art galleries, and green spaces.

      There are over 70 retail stores ranging from apparel, health & beauty, home furnishings, restaurants, and eateries. Notable retailers include Target, Sports Authority, Foot Locker, Nordstrom, Guess, and West Elm, while notable restaurants include Sugarcane and World of Beer. These tenants provide locals and tourists with a strong nightlife presence. Midtown Miami has been described as New York’s SoHo with a Miami twist.

      The residential component includes high-end, luxury residential units among a number of buildings within the complex. Midtown 2 and Midtown 4 have over 327 units in their towers, 62 mid-rise live / work units, and 18 live / work mews. Midblock holds 137 units in its tower and also boasts town homes as part of the building.”

      https://www.meqs.com/midtown-miami

      Liked by 1 person

  44. About DeSantis – from 2021:

    EXCERPTS: “From October to May every year, Florida’s sugar companies burn their 400,000 acres of fields to prepare for harvest, thus getting rid of the outer leaves of the cane stalks. It’s an old-fashioned practice that sends billows of smoke floating across these towns, showering down what residents refer to as “black snow” that coats their houses and cars and the lungs of the unlucky.

    “It’s been going on so long that people are just accepting of it,” said Pahokee native and former mayor Colin Walkes. “These are mainly communities of Black and Brown residents. People have been living with these conditions for many years.”

    But if the wind shifts so the smoke blows towards eastern Palm Beach County, where the wealthy white people live? That’s when the cane-burning rules created by the Florida Forest Service say the sugar companies have to stop burning.

    Instead, if they still want to prep for the harvest, they must switch to a more expensive operation called “green harvesting” that doesn’t make soot fall like a dark curtain. Once the wind shifts back toward all the poor people’s homes, then it’s fine to start burning again.

    Such an unjust arrangement works just fine for our state legislators.
    ———————-
    That’s how Big Sugar wields so much power. As the Miami Herald reported in March, the industry spread around $11 million in campaign contributions in just 2020. The House voted for the bill, 110-7, and the Senate passed it, 38-1. Ironically, the lone Senate no vote on the “Right to Farm” bill came from Sen. Gary Farmer. Then it went to Gov. Ron DeSantis so he could sign or veto it. That’s where something curious occurred.

    Joined at the hip to Big Sugar

    Three years ago, Congressman DeSantis seemed like a longshot candidate for governor. Everyone assumed the guy who’d win the GOP race, and most likely the whole shebang, would be a veteran politician, red-headed Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam.

    Big Sugar looooooved Putnam, a defender of everything ag-related. He began taking sugar industry money in his first political race in 1996 and never stopped. He took those free Texas hunting trips too, although he didn’t need such a gift. He was going to do what Big Sugar wanted anyway.

    The industry did not seem to like DeSantis. As a conservative congressman, he’d voted against the federal price supports essential to maintaining their big profits. DeSantis got no sugar money for his campaign.
    —————-
    Anyway, you’ll be about as shocked as Capt. Renault in “Casablanca” when I tell you that on April 29, DeSantis signed the bill into law. He did so, according to Fenske, because of its overwhelming support among legislators. No other reason. Walkes, who somehow was not invited to the signing ceremony, said he wasn’t a bit surprised about DeSantis’ change of attitude toward Big Sugar. “I see this as him holding to the party line,” he told me. Other influential Republicans did sugar’s bidding, so he did too.

    Then Walkes noted another factor. A savvy pol planning a run for higher office, as DeSantis so clearly is, has to be thinking about paying for a big-dollar campaign, he said. Big Sugar may be stingy about fixing its pollution, but it has no qualms about dropping big bucks on Florida politicians.

    “It’s just like that old saying,” he said, “dollars talk and you-know-what walks.”

    https://floridaphoenix.com/2021/05/06/big-sugar-burns-fields-bends-desantis-and-fl-legislature-to-do-its-bidding/

    Liked by 1 person

  46. EXCERPT (originally published by Epoch Times – I would post their link but you can’t read it unless you have an account):

    “While Dr. Anthony Fauci claims he’s stepping down to “pursue the next chapter” of his career, an attorney who has been pursuing legal accountability for Fauci’s actions believes it’s because “his presence is no longer politically sustainable.”

    Fauci announced on Aug. 22 that he is stepping down from his positions as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, chief of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Laboratory of Immunoregulation and as chief medical adviser to U.S. President Joe Biden.

    “The huge pop we are all hearing is the global opening of champagne bottles celebrating Fauci’s departure,” attorney Thomas Renz told The Epoch Times. Renz is the lead attorney in several major cases brought against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Defense, the Biden administration and Fauci himself; regarding forced vaccine mandates, the COVID-19 lockdowns, mask mandates, business closures, alleged hospital negligence, vaccine injuries to military personnel and civilians and efforts to censor the truth about COVID-19.

    While his assertions have been dismissed as “false,” “rich in conspiracy theory” and “based on faulty data due to a database glitch,” Renz responded to critics that even if he was “only right five percent of the time,” it still means “we were lied to five percent of the time.”

    Inaccuracies and inconsistencies

    According to Renz, the whole COVID-19 playbook used by the government and the liberal media to force compliance of restrictive protocols is filled with inaccuracies and inconsistencies. While Fauci demanded the use of masks and social distancing because these measures were supposed to prevent the spread of the virus, numerous studies and scientists say otherwise.

    The CDC admitted in August 2020 that “sustaining social distancing interventions over several months might not be feasible economically and socially.” Fauci himself has flip-flopped numerous times on the effectiveness of wearing masks. Democrat politicians who imposed mask mandates, lockdowns, quarantines and rules barring indoor personal-care services were frequently caught doing precisely what they forbade others to do.

    With the cumulative effect of the flip-flopping, double standards and false information, Renz believes “the public is starting to wake up.” “They can no longer keep telling us that everything is a crisis,” Renz said. “They can’t say: ‘Hey, we’ve got a new monkeypox pandemic and we need to declare a new emergency. So what if there’s only about 7,500 people affected nationwide.’”

    As The Epoch Times reported this month, Dr. Syed Haider suggested that the development of the monkeypox outbreak seems suspiciously identical to the way COVID-19 was introduced to the world. Data published by the CDC this month, in its “Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report,” showed there were about 7,500 cases of monkeypox in the United States. Of those, 99% of the cases were in males, and of those, 94 cases reported recent male-to-male sexual or intimate contact.

    “How is that a national pandemic,” Renz asked rhetorically. “How is that an emergency? How is that anything?”

    https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/anthony-fauci-stepping-down-politically-sustainable-et/

    Liked by 1 person

  48. EXCERPT (posted by Brownstone Institute): “The syndrome long COVID is complex as symptoms may fluctuate and people go through different stages. Symptoms have been protracted by patients in ICU and those with organ damage, but also occurred in people with only a mild infection. A list of 62 different symptoms defines the syndrome of long COVID. Fatigue, brain fog, breathlessness, anxiety, depression and a loss of smell and taste are among the most frequently found symptoms.
    —————-
    Symptoms long COVID link to MIES

    At this point, there has been limited attention to a possible relation between long COVID and exposure to chemicals in masks, nasopharyngeal tests and disinfectants.

    In a meta-analysis by an interdisciplinary team of German physicians, a potential risk of Mask Induced Exhaustion Syndrome (MIES) has been found. The most frequently observed symptoms (fatigue, headaches, dizziness, lack of concentration) as described for MIES overlap with important symptoms for long COVID syndrome.

    The lack of smell and taste during COVID-19 seems to be different as compared to symptoms during the flu. A lack of taste and smell are frequently observed after chemotherapy in cancer treatments and has been linked to malnutrition, inflammation and depression.

    Also, brain fog is a symptom occurring after chemotherapy. It seems likely that the harmful effects of long-term mask-wearing and frequent nasopharyngeal testing with increased exposure to chemicals (not naturally found products) can accelerate symptoms and contribute to long COVID.

    Up to now, the safety of long-term and frequent wearing of masks and taking nasal swab samples in a delicate area in the nose, often by hardly experienced persons, have been poorly investigated. Severe nose bleedings (epistaxis), cerebrospinal fluid leakage, vomiting, dizziness and fainting have been reported. Most frequently used masks and nasopharyngeal tests are derived from China with less strict controls and measures for the presence of hazardous materials.

    In several countries, masks and nasopharyngeal tests delivered by governments were taken from the market. Microplastics, nanoparticles (graphene oxide, titanium dioxide, silver, ethylene oxide, coloring compounds, fluorocarbon (PFAS) and heavy metals have been found in masks and nasopharyngeal tests.

    Unfortunately, not all masks and tests used during the pandemic are controlled. A report from the Dutch Public Health Institute (RIVM) released in November 2021 stated that “the safety of masks cannot be guaranteed.”

    The short- and long-term impact of frequent exposure on the physiology and physical and mental functioning of the human body is unknown.”

    https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/masks-long-covid-connection/

    Liked by 1 person

  49. escorted from the building? how about election interference? how about prosecuting him? RAID his house–seize his passport!
    FTA
    A senior FBI official in the bureau’s Washington field office has been fired after coming under congressional scrutiny for suspected political bias in handling the investigation of Hunter Biden’s computer laptop.
    The Washington Times learned that Timothy Thibault, an assistant special agent in charge, was forced to leave his post according to two former FBI officials familiar with the situation.
    Mr. Thibault was seen exiting the bureau’s elevator last Friday escorted by two or three “headquarters-looking types,” according to eyewitness accounts provided to one of the former officials.

    https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/fbi-special-agent-tom-thibault-shitcanned-escorted-from-building/

    Liked by 1 person

  50. That’s what they do with ‘anyone’ under investigation.

    So they can’t go to their office or elsewhere in the bldg and get rid of any evidence.

    The article produces no evidence the agent was fired… being forced to leave one’s post is not necessarily the same as being terminated. Andrew McCabe was “escorted out” … he later got his retirement … and Wray probably threw him a party.

    Honestly, I doubt any of these dudes “get fired” –

    Strzok is C_A – transferred into FIB to salvage Comey’s actions.

    Page was/is an atty working at the London C-A station when she was transferred into FIB

    Liked by 2 people

Comments are closed.