Frankensteins

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Yes, that’s NOT a typo.  There have been several nominees for Frankensteins in my opinion.  But first a warning: some of these segments are quite gruesome, and if you are a dog lover—perhaps watch Young Frankenstein instead and have a few laughs.

Jonathon Dippel

Was “mad scientist” and alchemist Johann Konrad Dippel the inspiration and original model of Mary Shelley’s Victor Frankenstein? Although Mary Shelley never mentioned Dippel or a castle in Germany in any of her previously known writings, the similarities are astonishing.

Johann Konrad Dippel was born in 1673 and died in 1734. He wrote over seventy works and treatises on mathematics, chemistry and philosophy, most written under the pseudonym of Christianus Democritus, with his texts now buried in various academic collections.  Dippel was an alchemist, trying to turn base metals to gold, and searching especially for the Philosopher’s Stone and the Elixir Vitae, the secret to extended, if not eternal life.

Dippel was an early chemical manufacturer. He created a concoction called “Dippel’s Oil” or “Dippel’s Animal Oil” used primarily as an agent in the tanning of animal hides, from where it most likely gets its name, and in cloth coloring. It was also said to be useful in calming the pangs and distempers of pregnancy. Whether it was to be used topically, digested, or as an aromatic, is unclear. Its chemical composition with ingredients like Butyronitrile Methylamine and Dimethylpyrrole Valeramide would suggest that ingesting any significant amount would not be very healthy.

Dippel’s connection to Frankenstein comes from his days at the castle on the hilltop near Darmstadt above the Rhine River Valley below Mainz. Johann Dippel was resident there for a time when the castle had fallen vacant of its lordly Franckenstein family owners after the Reformation and the War of European Succession. Dippel tried unsuccessfully to induce the Landgrave of Hesse to deed him the castle in exchange for Dippel’s providing the duke with the secret of everlasting life, the infamous elixir.

He never did come up with a successful Elixir of Eternal Life while at Darmstadt and eventually moved on, with the locals rather chasing him away like those pitchfork wielding villagers in the Universal Frankenstein movies. His permanent acquisition of the castle was opposed and the legends of his making his oil and formulas from the body parts of human corpses was likely an early form of conspiracy theory, born from his boiling animal bones to get ingredients, mixed with the castle’s time as a prison where prisoners were buried in pauper’s graves, and it was hinted that he dug them up to make his concoction, and therefore an easy connection to digging up the dead to bring eternal life.

Dippel moved on from the castle at Darmstadt, still ever seeking his life sustaining elixir, but in the end it may have had the opposite effect. He died of complications of chemical poisoning, either from his close work with some very toxic substances over time, or perhaps sampling his own elixir formula, which may have had the opposite effect than the one intended.

Andre Ure

Andrew Ure was born on May 18, 1778, in Glasgow, United Kingdom. The son of a wealthy cheesemonger, he received an expensive education, studying at both Glasgow University and Edinburgh University. He received his MD from the University of Glasgow in 1801 before spending a brief time with the army, serving as a surgeon. In 1803, he finally settled in Glasgow; becoming a member of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons.

In 1804, at the newly formed Andersonian Institution (now the University of Strathclyde), Ure became a professor of chemistry and natural philosophy. He gave evening lectures on chemistry and mechanics, which he encouraged the average working man and woman to attend. With audiences of up to 500, his lectures inspired the foundation of numerous mechanical institutions throughout Britain.

During this same time, Ure worked as a consultant for the Irish linen board. There he devised his alkalimeter for volumetric estimates of the true alkali contents of various substances that were being used in the linen industry. By this time, he had successfully earned himself a reputation as a highly competent practical chemist.

It was at Glasgow University where Andrew Ure became acquainted with James Jeffray, a professor of anatomy and physiology. Jeffray was a renowned teacher, attracting over 200 students to his classes each year. An innovative surgeon, he is credited (along with Edinburgh obstetrician James Aitken) with the invention of the chainsaw for use in the excision of diseased bone. As a teacher in anatomy, a field that was growing in demand, his options for teaching instruments were limited. The only legal supply of material for dissection was the bodies of hanged criminals. On November 4, 1818, Ure joined Jeffray in the dissection of one such criminal.

Matthew Clydesdale was a weaver, arrested and found guilty of murdering a 70 year old man in a drunken rage. He was sentenced to death by hanging, and on November 4, 1818, that execution was carried out. Upon his death, his body was placed in a cart and transported up to Glasgow University and into the Anatomy Theatre.

During this time, people, especially scientists, were fascinated with electricity. In fact, in 1780, Italian anatomy professor, Luigi Galvani, discovered that by utilizing sparks of electricity he could make a dead frog twitch and jerk. This discovery quickly led to others experimenting with electrical currents on other animals. Shows were made where scientists would electrify the heads of pigs and bulls.

James Jeffray and Andrew Ure would take that experiment one step further. The crowd gathered in the Glasgow University Anatomy Theatre where they would learn what would happen when electricity was exposed to a deceased human body.

With his galvanic battery charged, the experiments commenced.

Incisions were made at the neck, hip, and heels, exposing different nerves. Ure stood over the body, holding two metallic rods, charged by a 270 plate voltaic battery. Those rods, when placed to the different nerves, caused the body to convulse and writhe. When the rods were touched to Clydesdale’s diaphragm, his chest heaved then fell. “When the one rod was applied to the slight incision in the tip of the forefinger,” Ure later described to the Glasgow Literary Society, “the fist being previously clenched, that finger extended instantly; and from the convulsive agitation of the arm, he seemed to point to the different spectators, some of whom thought he had come to life.”

The experiment lasted about an hour. Ure wrote his account of the experiment, and even delivered a lecture. Ure and Jeffray did not bring Matthew Clydesdale back to life, though they did not believe it was a failure on their methodology. Instead, Ure believed that if his death had not been caused by bodily injury, there was a possibility that his life could have been restored. He also noted that if their experiment had succeeded in bringing him back to life, it would not have been celebrated. After all, he was a murderer.

The story eventually took on a life of its own. Memories and accounts differed, and one such account is that of Peter Mackenzie. In 1865, Mackenzie claimed to have been present at the Glasgow University Anatomy Theatre that day. He claims that Ure had actually been successful, and Clydesdale had been brought back to life. To abate the risen fear among the crowd, one of the scientists grabbed a scalpel and slit his throat. Clydesdale fell down, once again, dead.

Robert Cornish

Tales of Mad Scientists have been in existence for centuries now. And while many are criticized for being wacky, inhumane and downright psychopathic many can also be celebrated for making breakthroughs within various scientific fields–especially within the field of medicine where procedures today have origins from millennia ago; in medieval times and before them in prehistory. One such tale with a more modern spin comes from the 1930s in Berkley, California where an American called Robert Cornish attempted to bring the dead back to life.

Cornish was a medical phenomenon, graduating at 18 from the University of California and gaining a Doctorate at 22. He was a handsome chap but his eccentricity was soon apparent as one of his invention concepts was a pair of spectacles to allow the reading of newspapers underwater. This may illustrate his intelligence; however as to gain a patent in those times was considered very noteworthy and could propel a person to fame. Cornish worked at the Department of Experimental Biology at a University when he began to get notoriety for something of a darker nature than underwater specs.

Dog-lovers read no further. Cornish began an experiment to cure the undead but not permitted to use human beings he had to operate on dogs. The doctor organized a public demonstration which Time magazine witnessed. He named his patients – five fox terriers – Lazarus after the mythical figure brought back to life by Jesus.

Robert Cornish tried many different techniques before gaining moderate success with the following. He would suffocate the animals first with either Nitrogen or ether. He would wait no more than five minutes after the heart had stopped to try and resuscitate. To do this he found a way to keep the blood circulating by using a piece of wood called a teeterboard, a type of see-saw to rock the patient up and down to maintain the circulation of blood.

Before re-animation, he would inject the creature with a concoction of saline, oxygen, adrenaline, blood as well as anti-coagulants and coagulants. Oxygen would be blown into the mouth via a rubber tube. Bear in mind this was in the 1950s when CPR and techniques of the sort were in their infancy meaning his methods were extremely right-field.

The first three dogs were revived but showed little signs of life after. The best result was Lazarus II who was in a coma for eight hours before passing again. The fourth dog – Lazarus IV – came back to life albeit blind and brain-damaged, Cornish reported that she recovered to near full strength in a matter of months. Lazarus V was the same but returned to normality in shorter time. These are the words of Doctor Cornish only however and were not confirmed by Time or anyone else it appears. Despite these factors, Cornish hailed his experiments a success.

The mad-cap doctor was heavily criticized and eventually fired from the UCLA Laboratory when protestations about the canine killings reached their ears. He was forced to do his experiments in the confines of his own abode and with pigs rather than dogs.

Requiring funding, Robert Cornish tried to clear his name by convincing people that his work was vital. This was through a movie titled ‘Life Returns’. Cornish played himself as does one of the Lazarus dogs. It uses a familiar aspect to pull at the heartstrings of the audience, with the doctor attempting to resurrect his son’s dead dog. It was the only way his son would love him again after all. The film was far from a success and ergo did nothing to improve the reputation of the doctor.

His next plan was to find a human patient. He searched the jails and found a willing convict called Thomas McMonigle, an inmate of San Quentin prison, convicted of killing a fourteen-year-old girl. The government declined the request on compassionate grounds. There is another rumor however which seems to be justified by newspaper reports from the time. This relates to the courts fearing a ‘double jeopardy’ clause. Death by the gas chamber which would have released the convict from his conviction and therefore he would have been a free man.

Vladimir Demikhov

Calling Soviet doctor Vladimir Demikhov a mad scientist may be undercutting his contributions to the world of medicine, but some of his radical experiments certainly fit the title. Case in point — though it may seem like myth, propaganda, or a case of photoshopped history — in the 1950s, Vladimir Demikhov actually created a two-headed dog.

Even before creating his two-headed dog, Demikhov was a pioneer in transplantology — he even coined the term. After transplanting a number of vital organs between dogs (his favorite experimental subjects) he aimed, amid much controversy, to see if he could take things further: He wanted to graft the head of one dog onto the body of another, fully intact dog.

He was “successful”. In the above picture, laboratory assistant Maria Tretekova lends a hand as noted Russian surgeon Dr. Vladimir Demikhov feeds the two-headed dog he created by grafting the head and two front legs of a puppy onto the back of the neck of a full-grown German shepherd.

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I can’t leave the reader with such horrible images…let’s end with some happy, funny ones instead.

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  1. Good morning!

    I never could watch scary movies. But our times are even scarier than the movies.

    Speaking of scary – Sadie Slay posted a photo of Elon Musk’s mother….
    https://www.theqtree.com/2022/10/05/dear-kag-20221005-open-thread/#comment-971861

    Sadie is convinced Musk is up to no good with the purchase of Twitter.

    SD agrees – Musk Twitter Purchase Back on Table, Unfortunately with Plan for Everything App – https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/10/04/musk-twitter-purchase-back-on-table-unfortunately-with-plan-for-everything-app/#comments

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    1. Morning GA!
      hope you have a safe journey today!
      thanks for the links…I’m not sure what to make of musk…he seems all over the place sometimes…

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      1. Morning, Miss Pat. I will be in touch if things get dicy with my sewing the sling and padded liners etc for the lift. Yo Da Woman in the sewing department!

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  2. Morning All!
    what should have been a 40 minute errand turned into a several hour journey. we picked up the script from the pharmacy, and hubby suggested we grab some food from Burger King and take it home. sounded good–we went thru the drive thru…and when we paid, the cashier asked us to pull around front–the chicken sandwich would take a few minutes. so we did. 5 minutes later, the manager comes out with 2 big cookies. She apologized profusely–they were training new employees and one dropped the chicken on the floor. Then she said she realized another new employee never put more chicken filets in the fryer…so they were doing that now and said it would indeed be a few more minutes. ten minutes later we were on our way.
    Only to be stopped in traffic about halfway home for a funeral procession–and it must have been someone loved and respected. we were going thru a little town in ny–right over the border–but there were fire engines, ambulances and police cars from every local municipality in the area–NY & PA…all paying their respects for someone very special.

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    1. Well, no doubt it sucked being so delayed but at least it wasn’t something drastic, like a tree falling on your vehicle or something like that! Frustrating, tho, that’s for sure! Just glad you guys are safe!

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      1. we are…but I admire all the first responders coming out for that funeral. They do show strong solidarity up here. I have always noticed that. They will all turn out if a local veteran passes as well. We lined the streets and highways one year when a local solider was killed overseas…flags and people lining his route into the state and right to his final resting place.

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      1. yup…and they are actually not blocking the message yet…
        how long will they allow the “blm is a scam” message to stand out there before they take it down?

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  15. the road to hell…2 gay men were living in separate apartments but considered “married” (i think that’s how this goes) a third guy enters the picture as a “friend” of one of the first 2–but is UNLIKED by the other. he moves in with one and when that man dies, he tries to renew the lease but the landlord wants to evict him. he sues and the JUDGE says the new guy is entitled to “family-like” protections…thus creating polygamy via fiat…
    entire twisted article
    The same New York state court that first recognized same-sex marriage over 30 years ago has now recognized polygamous relationships.

    “Before gay marriage was legalized in any state, Braschi v Stahl Assocs. … was decided. The New York State Court of Appeals became the first American appellate court to recognize that a non-traditional, two-person, same-sex, committed, family-like relationship is entitled to legal recognition, and that the nontraditional family member is entitled to receive noneviction protections,” New York Civil Court Judge Karen May Bacdayan wrote in her decision.

    “What was ‘normal’ or ‘nontraditional’ in 1989 is not a barometer for what is normal or nontraditional now,” Bacdayan continued. “Indeed, the definition of ‘family’ has morphed considerably since 1989. Specifically, many articles have been written about multi-person relationships in recent years, revealing a preference that for some has long been known.”

    The case before the court involved three men: Scott Anderson, Markyus O’Neill, and Robert Romano. Anderson and Romano had been “life partners” for 25 years, had joint bank accounts, and were named as beneficiaries on each other’s retirement accounts. The two men maintained separate apartments, however, “to provide them comfort and space.”

    Enter O’Neill, who met Anderson in 2011 and moved into his rent-controlled apartment in 2012. O’Neill and Romano both knew about each other, but according to O’Neill, Romano did not like him. Romano admits that they were not friends.

    Anderson apparently carried on amicable relationships with both men until he died, at which point O’Neill tried to renew Anderson’s rent-controlled lease and was denied by the landlord. The landlord then sued to evict O’Neill, who claims he is entitled to renew Anderson’s lease as a “nontraditional family member” under New York law. The landlord claims O’Neill is undeserving of that label, as Anderson was already a life partner with Romano.

    Judge Bacdayan sided with O’Neill, writing, “The existence of a triad should not automatically dismiss respondent’s claim to noneviction protections.” That Romano never consented to having O’Neill join his family was unimportant to Judge Bacdayan. “Was the relationship a ‘good’ one?” Judge Bacdayan asks. “It seems equally as unimportant as considering sexual relations to delve into the level of happiness in a relationship. Is one stripped of their rights to ‘marital property’ on the basis of having a ‘bad’ marriage?”

    In his Obergefell v. Hodges dissent, Chief Justice John Roberts warned that recognition of same-sex marriage would inevitably lead to the recognition of plural marriages. Judge Bacdayan notes this warning in her opinion and proves him right.

    Luckily, there is a conservative majority on the Supreme Court that would never redefine marriage to add polygamous unions to the list of relationships that the state must recognize.

    But the Democrats want to add seats to the Supreme Court, and if they do, you can be sure they will find enough Judge Bacdayans to make their vision of the law a reality.

    https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fopinion%2Fcourt-that-first-legalized-same-sex-marriage-now-legalizing-polygamy

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  16. the prosecutors can’t prove they found the grenades in his suv and the dna found on them does NOT match the defendant, but the grenade evidence is admissible???
    FTA
    Mehta dismissed the July objections from Haller and Woodward in an omnibus order (pdf) on Sept. 6, ruling evidence about the grenades was admissible.

    Haller, Woodward, and Harrelson’s attorney, Brad Geyer, filed DNA test results (pdf) with the Oct. 2 motion, showing the FBI did not find Brown’s DNA on the grenades.

    A mixture of DNA was found on the pin of one grenade. Male DNA was on the body of the other grenade. Brown was not a match to any of the DNA on the explosives, according to a report from the FBI Laboratory in Huntsville, Ala.

    Brown has said he believes the September 2021 raid on his property and federal indictments were retaliation for his refusal to become an FBI informant and spy on the Oath Keepers. Agents from the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force met with Brown at a Florida restaurant in December 2020, according to a detailed letter (pdf) he sent to The Epoch Times on Dec. 31, 2021.

    Brown is scheduled to go on trial Dec. 5 in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. On April 12, 2022, he was charged in a superseding indictment with possession of an illegal short-barrel shotgun, possession of an illegal short-barrel rifle, two counts of possession of a destructive device, improper storage of explosive material, and three counts of illegal possession of classified material.

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/dna-on-seized-hand-grenades-does-not-belong-to-oath-keepers-defendant-jeremy-brown-fbi-lab_4774898.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=TheLibertyDaily

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    1. Well, first off, where were the grenades found? Since his DNA was not present on them, were they found in a location that was unsecured where someone could have planted them? Unless they were found in a secure, locked storage compartment, with him having the only access……I’m thinking the FBI planted those suckers!!!!

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  18. Sliding on down….wow! What an interesting open, Pat! I can vaguely recall seeing bits and pieces of the original Frankenstein movie but have seen none of the others – I’ve never been interested in this type of movie.

    Of course, my attention was caught by something insignificant to most people….”To do this he found a way to keep the blood circulating by using a piece of wood called a teeterboard, a type of see-saw to rock the patient up and down to maintain the circulation of blood.”

    My first inclination is to wonder if that was where the phrase “teeter-totter” came from…..but that is not the case, since that was in the 1930’s. From my research:

    “From thefreedictionary, I found that there are even more terms used for this equipment: tilt or a tilting board, teedle board, dandle or dandle board. Teeter or teeterboard, and teeter-totter, which is probably the most common term after seesaw. So it is indeed a regional term, which also explains why Google Ngrams has no recorded use of teeter totter in British English: Link to Ngram for seesaw teeter totter in British English

    Yet, if seesaw was in use since before 1800, how and why did teeter totter come into use seemingly all of a sudden just before 1920? Link to Ngram for seesaw teeter totter in American English

    Link to Online Etymology Dictionary for seesaw

    https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/76907/what-is-the-etymology-of-the-word-teeter-totter
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    From the comments:

    Teeter-totter is the most widespread in America. Seesaw is specifically Southern. Dandle is from Rhode Island. Other regional variants include dandle board, teedle board, teeter, teeterboard, tilt, and tilting board. See the Dictionary of American Regional English for details.

    Etymologically, the word teeter-totter was formed by reduplication of either titter or totter. It derives from titter, now a dialect form for teeter, and totter, which means the same thing. The OED also attests titter-totter, and says to see the Engl. Dial. Dict. for details. The earliest citation is:

    1607 R. C[arew] tr. Estienne’s World of Wonders 266
    He played with a little boy at titter-totter.
    See-saw is also a reduplicative word, and its earliest citations are also from the 1600s, although a bit later than the previous one. However, those are all just interjections. The first noun use is this one:

    1704 Swift Mechan. Operat. Spirit Misc. 297
    Then, as they sit, they are in a perpetual Motion of See-saw.
    And the first verb citation is this:

    1712 Arbuthnot John Bull ɪᴠ. vii,
    So they went see-sawing up and down, from one End of the Room to the other.
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    teeter (v.)
    1843, “to seesaw,” alteration of Middle English titter “move unsteadily,” probably from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse titra “to shake, shiver, totter, tremble,” from Proto-Germanic *ti-tra- (source also of German zittern “to tremble”). Meaning “move unsteadily, be on the edge of imbalance” is from 1844.

    Noun teeter-totter “see-saw” is attested from 1871 (earlier simply teeter, 1855, and titter-totter in same sense is from 1520s). Totter (n.) “board swing” is recorded from late 14c.; see totter (v.), and compare see-saw.

    see-saw (n.)
    also seesaw, 1630s, in see-saw-sacke a downe (like a Sawyer), words in a rhythmic jingle used by children and repetitive-motion workers, probably imitative of the rhythmic back-and-forth motion of sawyers working a two-man pit saw (see saw (n.1). Ha ha.).

    In reference to a children’s sport of going alternately up and down on a plank balanced on some support, it is recorded from 1704; the figurative sense of this is from 1714. Applied from 1824 to the plank arranged and adjusted for the game. Also compare teeter-totter under teeter (v.).”

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    1. Morning Filly!
      I like the Mel Brooks version of just about any film–it was always always funny…
      how words get their start is always interesting!

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  19. my long time friend is visiting tomorrow, so I baked her favorite cookies and made dessert for tomorrow evening and cleaned up the kitchen.
    oatmeal raisin cookies and cinnamon streusel cake

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    1. Oh, that coffee cake looks scrumptious! Skip the raisins, please, in mine! I’ve never been fond of them in the first place and that was one of the things that my nurse-midwife insisted I eat to bring up my iron levels when we were trying to have HB at home. Raisins and liver! I’m good with the liver but yucky raisins?!?! Sigh….but I ate them!

      I do hope you enjoy your visit with your friend. Thanks for the reminder! Hopefully, you’ll bring her on to say hello?

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  20. Entire Article @ JustTheNews: “Former President Donald Trump says his two most recent legal strikes — suing CNN for defamation and taking the Biden Justice Department to the Supreme Court — aim to restore fairness in America’s courts of law and public opinion.

    In an interview Tuesday evening hours after his legal team took its battle over presidential records to the nation’s nine justices, Trump told the “Just the News, Not Noise” television show that the case was about erasing politics from DOJ and the FBI.

    He said government agencies treated him far differently than Hilary Clinton, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush when disputes about classified records, missing records or personal materials arose and that his healthy poll numbers are a sign Americans understand he’s being treated differently.

    “It’s a weaponization by the DOJ,” Trump said in a wide-ranging interview with Just the News and Real America’s Voice. “And I think it’s just something that has to stop. So we fight that battle, I think we’re doing very well in that battle. And I think the public agrees with us because you know better than anybody, my poll numbers are higher now than they ever were. So I think the public understands what’s happening.”

    Trump’s poll numbers have risen since he left office, and a Washington Post-ABC News poll since the Mar-a-Lago raid found Trump was leading President Joe Biden 48% to 46% among registered voters in a hypothetical 2024 matchup. [NF: Personally, I think the spread is MUCH bigger than that!]

    Trump on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court in a motion filed with Justice Clarence Thomas to intervene in the fight over records the FBI seized from his Florida home. His motion asked the high court to issue an emergency order that would restore a court-appointed special master’s authority over about 100 documents with classification markings found at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate during the Aug. 8 search.

    Such an order would allow the former president to argue the memos are covered by executive privilege or were declassified before he left office. “Any limit on the comprehensive and transparent review of materials seized in the extraordinary raid of a president’s home erodes public confidence in our system of justice,” his lawyers argued.

    Trump suggested records that were shipped from the White House to his estate when his presidency ended were never at risk, making the raid in August unnecessary. “They talk about us. I think we were the most secure place,” he said. “You take a look at this, we were probably the most secure.”

    As for CNN, Trump said he chose to sue because the network has reported many things that weren’t true about him and was unwilling to consider his side of stories over disputes such as Russia collusion or election integrity. “It’s just like incredible, they just say anything,” he said of CNN. Trump’s lawsuit alleged that CNN incited hatred for Trump and stepped up its defamation because it fears the former president will run again in 2024.

    “CNN’s campaign of dissuasion in the form of libel and slander against the Plaintiff has only escalated in recent months as CNN fears the Plaintiff will run for president in 2024,” the suit argued.

    The network thus far has refused to comment on the litigation.

    Trump also weighed in on the gravity of the Russian war on Ukraine, insisting as he does on the campaign trail that it would not have happened if he were still president. He suggested the best geopolitical leverage the United States could exercise against Russia President Vladimir Putin is to rapidly ramp up energy production and drive down the price of oil, devastating Moscow’s economy while benefiting Americans weary of historically high gas prices.

    “Think of this, we were energy independent,” he said of the record his administration achieved. “We were soon going to be energy dominant. We would have been bigger than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined. We were going to supply the world, and [the Biden administration] just ended it. It was shocking.

    “And that started the rise of inflation. It also gave Putin so much money, because remember, we had it down to $40 a barrel. So that’s another way of stopping it. By the way, if you could get it down to $40 to $50 a barrel, he wouldn’t be able to have the war, it would stop. Other than that, you’d have to talk to him, and you have to reason with him.”

    The full interview will air at 6 p.m. ET Wednesday on the @Just the News, Not Noise” television show on Real America’s Voice.”

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  21. Filly found something you might find interesting…maybe not…about the vegas massacre..from tcth

    Ugly Cuss
    October 5, 2022 8:20 am

    Why did it happen? The FBI won’t/can’t assign motive. Why?

    “5 Years After Las Vegas Concert Shooting, an FBI Whistleblower Reveals Probable Motive”

    https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2022/10/04/5-years-after-las-vegas-concert-shooting-an-fbi-whistleblower-reveals-probable-motive-n1634216
    5 years ago the Las Vegas shooting happened. Worse mass shooting in our history.
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    John Galt III
    John Galt III
    October 5, 2022 8:48 am
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    There was a great deal of “chatter” about Paddock’s conversion to Islam at the time. If so, that obviously is not in the FBI’s or Deep State’s interest as Islam is the only protected and approved religion by the Democrats. Remember it was the State Department who let the 9/11 hijackers in with very limited due diligence and the FBI who totally ignored what they were doing when they got here.

    The FBI let the press into Paddock’s house in Mesquite, NV only 24 hours after entering it which was the exact same modus operandi as the San Bernardino, CA Muslim mass murderers.

    Detecting a pattern?
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    Alex1689
    Alex1689
    October 5, 2022 9:43 am
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    MBS was there. It was a MIC hit/distraction to try to take him out. He apparently likes the gambling tables or something. Who owns the building? Who has the entire top couple of floors?

    There is footage that appears to be MBS in western dress being hustled out by a security team across the casino floor.

    There are reports of gunfire from helicopters.

    That would make sense, wouldn’t it?

    Nothing about the official story adds up. And MBS has been a thorn in the side of the DS for a long time, especially since he took out their partner in crime, money laundering, and child trafficking, Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal.
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    Sinkingship
    Sinkingship
    October 5, 2022 10:05 am
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    Bill Gates and Bin Talal own the top floors aka Four Seasons. Saw the tape of the person resembling MBS. This explanation is the one that fits IMO.

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    1. Already planned in my open…..I’ve heard of that FBI officer – Guandolo – before and the brief memories that I can recall right now were NOT to his benefit. IMO, he is speaking from his own biases. Islam, the religion, had nothing to do with this. Again, IMO. ISIS always takes credit for anything like this that happens – that in and of itself means squat!

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        1. Of course I’m finding that a lot of the links don’t work any more…..and I don’t think I can find the picture from the Smithsonian Magazine that showed Jesus Campos had allegedly “gone missing” as an almost-teen child in Mexico….spitting image of the guard who inexplicably disappeared after a couple of TV interviews.

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              3. There are sooooo many threads to pull on Las Vegas, including witnesses present that day dying inexplicably not long after…..SA was a big part of it. I just haven’t decided whether the FBI was in on that, or it just “happened” to coincide with one of their own ops? Yeah, not likely!!!!

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  26. Entire Article @ JustTheNews: “As part of a sweeping change that has gun rights groups alarmed, federally licensed firearms dealers (FFLs) are now required to provide the FBI with the personal addresses of individuals whose attempted purchases were denied.

    In turn, the FBI must now provide details of the failed transactions — not only those denied but also those just delayed — and the personal information of the rejected individuals to local law enforcement, raising fears of greater government infringement on the Second Amendment.

    The changes were quietly implemented last week by the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) to comply with new federal law. NICS was established to determine if an individual is prohibited by law from receiving firearms and can either approve, deny, or delay a firearms purchase.

    In March, Congress passed and President Biden signed a massive appropriations package for fiscal year 2022 that included the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Act (VAWA). Tucked into the VAWA was a bipartisan measure called the NICS Denial Notification Act, which mandates that the FBI’s NICS Section alert state and local law enforcement of all denied attempts to purchase a firearm within 24 hours. The stated purpose of the bill is to stop criminals and prevent gun crimes before they happen.

    The FBI elaborated on how the law will be implemented in an email obtained by Gun Owners of America. “The NICS Denial Notification Act of 2022 requires the FBI’s NICS Section to notify state, local, or tribal law enforcement of all FBI NICS denied transactions within 24 hours,” the email reads. “The FBI must provide notification to law enforcement based upon the location of the FFL and if different, the purchaser’s address.”

    The email also explained that FFLs must provide the addresses of purchasers to the feds.

    “To support the determination of what local agency should receive the notification, FFLs will be required to provide the buyer’s complete address to NICS as recorded on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Form 4473 when transactions are denied or delayed,” the message continued. “The address information will be required before the status can be provided or retrieved either by the NICS contracted call center or via the NICS E-Check.”

    Previously, firearms dealers were only required to provide the state of residence of a customer rather than their full address in the event of a delay or denial. Gun rights groups have expressed outrage at the changes, arguing they lay the groundwork for a registry of potential gun owners maintained by the federal government.

    “The NICS process was never intended to hinder the ability of law-abiding firearms consumers by requiring the forced collection of unnecessary personal consumer data in bulk,” Michael Cargill, owner of Central Texas Gun Works, said in a press release. “Neither the ATF nor the FBI can act beyond authority of Congress and violate the Constitution by furthering the ultimate goal of creating an illegal firearms owner database.”

    Gun rights advocates have also noted the new law doesn’t actually require the reporting of addresses for delays. “What the law actually says and how FFLs are being told they must implement it are totally different,” said attorney Emily Taylor on the Armed Attorneys podcast. “The implementation is far broader than the law itself — and of course very, very bad news for gunowners, because who wants their address shot out to local law enforcement because you’re trying to buy a gun.”

    Cargill called for the feds to remove from their interpretation of the law their language regarding delays, arguing it “exceeds the scope of the plain language of the NICS Denial Notification Act” and “the constitutional rights of a customer’s privacy are being violated by extending this reporting requirement to delayed customers.”

    Delays by NICS require the retailer to pause the transaction for three business days, allowing NICS more time to research the individual in question. The FBI is supposed to follow up with law enforcement if someone is erroneously delayed or denied. One concern among gun rights advocates is the Biden administration’s “zero tolerance” policy for gun dealers that willfully violate the law. Officials have warned FFLs will have their licenses revoked if they try to skirt the law.

    According to critics, however, FFLs are increasingly at risk of losing their licenses as regulations get more complex and dealers become more likely to inadvertently violate the law. “If you create more and more complex rules that the FFLs have to follow, they will mess up, which means they’re licenses will get yanked,” said Taylor.

    Just the News reached out to both the FBI and the ATF for comment for this story. The ATF referred Just the News to the FBI, which didn’t respond.”

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  28. dropping down here to say I’m back…didn’t want to jinx myself like yesterday…lol
    did a mini banana run.
    HOLY CRAP! large eggs at the little market in town are $5.49 a dozen!!!!!!!!!!!

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      1. normally I get eggs at wm too…but with my friend coming, I wanted to have extra on hand…a BOX of tissues–$3.99!!!! that local market is raising prices fast!

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  29. “Since then, he’s had the tattoo blacked out. He now sports a black bar on his arm.”

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  30. Will you look at this shit??!!?? IN NEBRASKA!!!!

    Entire Article @ LifeNews: “A Nebraska news station fired a journalist from her job this month because she participated in a campaign to end abortions in her town. The McCook Gazette reports Melanie Standiford was a news director and co-anchor at KNOP-TV in North Platte, Nebraska, for five years before she was fired this month. KNOP-TV is part of Gray Television, which owns more than 100 news stations across the country.

    According to the report, Standiford, who is pro-life and has nine children, lost her job after her bosses found out that she was helping to pass a Sanctuary City for the Unborn ordinance in her hometown of Curtis. The ordinance would protect unborn babies by banning abortions within city limits.

    Shannon Booth, general manager for the station, told the North Platte Bulletin that their journalists are not allowed to “actively engage in any political activity for any candidate, party or ballot initiative.”

    KNOP-TV apparently found out about Standiford’s pro-life actions last week when another news outlet mentioned her name in an article about Curtis and other Nebraska cities that are working to pass Sanctuary City for the Unborn ordinances. According to the article, Standiford helped to gather signatures on a petition to bring the pro-life ordinance for a vote.

    Here’s more from the report: ‘Standiford told the Bulletin that she is pro-life but has taken pains to report the issue without bias. She said she agreed in early August to circulate a petition in her church in Curtis for those who wanted to sign. She said many church members signed as well as at another church in Curtis. Within days, 47 people signed, the Bulletin reported.’

    A leading pro-life advocate was upset by the news. “By firing Standiford for circulating a petition in her church, Standiford’s employer is sending a strong message to Nebraskans who wish to participate in the citizen initiative process: If you like your job, don’t even try it,” Mark Lee Dickson, director of Right To Life of East Texas and founder of the Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn, told LifeNews.com.

    He said Standiford is currently in discussions with the Thomas More Society about her path forward. “This is disturbing for several reasons, first and foremost, it is just not legal. The Nebraska Statutes, which all employers must abide by, state, ‘Any person who (1) coerces or attempts to coerce any of his or her employees in their voting or in any other political action at any caucus, convention, or election held or to be held in this state or (2) attempts to influence the political action of his or her employees by threatening to discharge them because of their political action . . . shall be guilty of a Class IV felony.
    “What we all need to remember here is that news station’s policies do not trump the Nebraska Statutes,” Dickson said.

    In November, Nebraskans in Curtis, Arnold, Paxton, Hershey, Brady and Wallace will have the opportunity to vote on Sanctuary City for the Unborn ordinances that protect unborn babies from abortions in their communities.

    While each ordinance differs slightly, they all recognize that unborn babies are valuable human beings who deserve to be protected under the law. Generally, each ordinance would make it unlawful for anyone to perform an abortion or “knowingly aid or abet an abortion” in the city. Exceptions would be allowed if the mother’s life is at risk. Abortion practitioners could be penalized for aborting unborn babies, but the ordinance would not penalize women who seek or have abortions.

    To-date, 51 cities in Nebraska, Texas and Ohio have adopted ordinances that outlaw the killing of unborn babies in abortions within city limits. One in Lubbock, Texas, which voters approved in 2021, forced a Planned Parenthood to stop aborting unborn babies in the city. Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, 15 states now protect unborn babies from abortion, and eight more are fighting in court to do so.

    Abortions are still legal in Nebraska. In August, Gov. Pete Ricketts said he wants to ban abortions and “affirm the rights of preborn babies and to support pregnant women, children, and families in need.” However, he said the state legislature currently does not have enough votes to pass legislation to limit or ban abortions.”

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  31. life without parole for man convicted of killing Officer David Dorn
    entire article
    Stephan Cannon, 26, was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murder of former St. Louis Police Capt. David Dorn after a Missouri jury convicted him in July, according to reports.

    Cannon was convicted of shooting and killing Dorn during a night of looting and rioting in June 2020 in the wake of the death of George Floyd in Minnesota.

    Dorn, 77, was responding to a burglary alarm at a friend’s pawn shop when he encountered a group of looters outside. He was struck four times and died from his injuries.

    Dorn and four officers were struck by bullets — officers were pelted with rocks and fireworks, and 55 businesses were burglarized or damaged across St. Louis during the protests.

    The septuagenarian had served 38 years on the St. Louis police force before working six years as chief in Moline Acres. He had retired from the Moline Acres department in 2014.

    Cannon was convicted of first-degree murder, first-degree robbery, first-degree burglary, stealing $750 or more, unlawful possession of a firearm and three counts of armed criminal action – all felonies.

    The aftermath of the shooting was allegedly caught on video that had been shared to Facebook Live and later removed. Prosecutors played it in court.

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/st-louis-man-convicted-david-dorn-murder-sentenced-life-prison-without-parole

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  32. so ultra maggot thought he could avoid the lawsuits if he curtailed the loans being forgiven…not gonna happen says this guy– legal scholar GianCarlo Canaparo.
    FTA
    “I think this suit has some legs,” he said, noting that the states must be able to prove that Biden’s action would cause them a concrete injury that the court has the power to fix. “In this case, the states actually have some very good arguments—a lot.”

    “Many states operate as loan servicers to federal debt, which means that every time the Biden administration changes these programs or forgive some debt, they lose money,” Canaparo explained. “That money is invested in the states through bond programs and other sorts of financial incentive structures. So, the states will suffer a concrete harm on account of this.”

    Those states, according to Canaparo, would still suffer economically even if the Biden administration only cancels federal student loans held by the federal government.

    “It’s an attempt by the Biden administration to keep the states out of court, but it’s not going to work as my sense,” he said.

    When it comes to the legality of Biden’s action, Canaparo said Biden and Cardona don’t have the authority they claimed to have under what is known as HEROES Act, a 2003 higher education law created in response to the Iraq war.

    “The President is trying to use an emergency powers provision that was created to give temporary relief to soldiers fighting abroad after 9/11,” he told NTD, noting that Biden and Cardona are unlawfully exceeding the scope of the HEROES Act when they offer a blanket relief to potentially millions of people who don’t qualify. “It is really an abuse of emergency power.”

    “This is a political gift that people on the left have been clamoring for since 2011, and Biden has finally delivered,” he continued. “That’s what this is about. It’s politics. And the administration is pretending that it is necessary for the pandemic, but it just isn’t.”

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/bidens-attempt-to-save-student-debt-bailout-from-court-challenges-wont-work-legal-scholar_4771436.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=BonginoReport

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  33. From Emerald Robinson: “Did Hunter Biden ever divest himself of his Chinese assets? I’m the last reporter to ask the Biden regime that question of course — and that was a year ago.

    That old question came back to me this week because the attorney Tom Renz has released a whistleblower report from a former vice president of EcoHealth Alliance named Dr. Andrew Huff that contains the following astonishing claim: a company called Metabiota was funded by Hunter Biden’s investment firm Rosemont Seneca and by the CIA’s own investment arm In-Q-Tel.

    What was Metabiota doing? It was working with EcoHealth Alliance and others to “investigate coronaviruses.”

    Look at that last date again: 2014. Hunter Biden’s firm has been working with third-party proxy EcoHealth Alliance to weaponize bat coronaviruses since 2014. The purpose of the project is to “enable global surveillance for pathogens…”

    Global surveillance. That’s why Hunter Biden’s Metabiota is ostensibly a medical data company that pushes a global medical tracking system as a product.

    In order to install a global surveillance program, you need a reason — and COVID-19 is that scary reason. The global surveillance program is the vaccine passport system — and there’s no global vaccine passport without a vaccine. There’s no vaccine without a deadly new virus. And there’s no deadly new virus unless you’re creating them artificially by splicing spike proteins into new viruses.

    It’s hard for the national security state to do that work legally in the United States — so they fund third-party proxies like EcoHealth Alliance to do it in China where safety measures are non-existent. What was Metabiota partnering with EcoHealth Alliance to do exactly? Doesn’t every global medical tracking system need a weaponized bat coronavirus to track after all?

    Earlier this year, The Daily Mail published an article that should be read in full — several times.

    According to the article, Hunter Biden “introduced Metabiota to an allegedly corrupt Ukrainian gas firm, Burisma, for a ‘science project’ involving high biosecurity level labs in Ukraine.” The Daily Mail article also states that Metabiota “has worked in Ukraine for Black & Veatch, a US defense contractor with deep ties to military intelligence agencies, which built secure labs in Ukraine that analyzed killer diseases and bioweapons.”

    So Hunter Biden was not only funding weaponized bat coronaviruses while funding the global tracking system that would track people infected by weaponized bat coronaviruses but also facilitating the creation of bioweapons labs in Ukraine in 2014.

    Do you see where this is going? Hunter Biden — who is really just a proxy for his father — is funding every aspect of the COVID pandemic in 2014. Once COVID gets released (accidentally of course!) in 2019, the world is lucky enough to have the Biden regime installed in time to push vaccine mandates everywhere.

    All the conspiracy theories are coming true.”

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  34. EXCERPTS: “Speaking to Laurence Fox, filling in for Nigel Farage on the fledgling news channel, GB News, Trump offered his thoughts on the difficulties facing new Prime Minister Liz Truss, the extent to which King Charles III should continue to be politically active, and the downfall of previous Conservative leader, Boris Johnson.

    “I like some of the things she’s done. She seems very nice, very good, I like some of the things,” Trump said when asked for his opinion of Liz Truss. He then spoke highly of the low tax ideology she is attempting to instill with considerable opposition.

    “It’s inverse, a lot of times finance is inverse,” Trump explained. “I cut taxes very substantially, and we did much more business. She’s done that, and I know she’s taken some hits for it, which surprises me actually. But it could be that in the end you have bigger revenues, it’s going to be very interesting.

    “What she did is very inverse to what some people thought, but that doesn’t mean that they were right. I have a feeling that she may be right,” he predicted.
    —————–
    In response to a line of questioning about King Charles III’s long-standing support for environmental campaigning, Trump believed the new British monarch would rein in his own personal views to emulate the long-held royal tradition to be apolitical and impartial.

    “I think he’ll be different, I know him very well,” Trump told Fox. “I spent a lot of time when I was over there as president with him, and with his wife who is absolutely lovely by the way. And we had a good time together, so I’m a little prejudiced when I say it.

    “He has a strong view on things, probably difficult when you’re the king, you want to have 100 percent of the people love you like the Queen did. The Queen had everybody love her, she didn’t have that kind of an agenda and yet she was a very strong woman. I got to know her too, she was a great woman.”
    —————–
    Perhaps the most explosive exchange during the interview with GB News was Trump’s personal view on the demise of former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Trump said Boris “was a friend of mine, and perhaps still is,” but admitted he hasn’t spoken to him “for a while.”

    “I think the biggest problem Boris had is he went liberal all of a sudden,” Trump claimed. “He went to the other side, and I think that was just crazy because he’s a good man, but something happened to him, he changed.

    Trump took aim at the Johnson administration’s commitment to net zero, claiming “[Boris] went for the windmills all over the place, and he went a little wokier than I believe he really is, and I think ultimately that was the thing that got him out.”

    “I don’t believe it was the party,” Trump said, referencing the Downing Street party scandal when Boris Johnson broke coronavirus regulations during lockdown. “I think the party was just an excuse. He’s a good guy, but he changed. He was a conservative guy, and he became much less conservative, and I think a lot of people didn’t like it,” Trump added.”

    https://rmx.news/uk/trump-backs-liz-truss-and-says-friend-boris-lost-support-when-he-went-liberal-all-of-a-sudden/

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  35. they screw up and leak again…I would be TOTALLY PISSED if I were POTUS

    New: Sealed list of docs seized from Mar-a-Lago that DOJ determined to be potentially privileged was made public due to a docketing error spotted by @ZoeTillman — includes items on National Archives, Mueller, Joe DoGenova, Pat Cipollone s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2311…
    @mentions
    Potentially privileged docs separated into Exhibit A (Govt docs) and Exhibit B (personal docs) — comprised of five boxes from the Storage Room, one box containing the contents of the 45 Office desk, and a seventh box handed over by the Case Team.

    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1577681630067556353.html

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  37. interesting…SS says there’s no records of visitors at ultra maggots delaware home so they denied the post’s FOIA. In the comments someone says that ultra maggot’s “private” residence is not required to keep records. I still think since the SS is protecting him, they need to keep records–cya sort of thing in case something happens…i smell a rat
    entire article

    The New York Post has filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Secret Service to find out who Biden has been meeting with at both of his Delaware homes, where he has spent much of his presidency.

    But the Secret Service claims there are no such records and thus hasn’t turned anything over to full the FOIA request.

    Here’s more via the New York Post:

    The Secret Service says it checked again and still can’t find any records that identify visitors to President Biden’s Delaware residences — where he has spent roughly one-fourth of his presidency — outraging Republicans and prompting one congressman to say “the stonewalling and gaslighting must stop.”

    The agency made the baffling claim in its denial of a Freedom of Information Act appeal from The Post.

    Secret Service deputy director Faron Paramore wrote in a letter dated Sept. 27 that “the agency conducted an additional search of relevant program offices for potentially responsive records.”

    “This search also produced no responsive records,” Paramore wrote. “Accordingly, your appeal is denied.”

    The Post is evaluating legal options to acquire records of who visited the president during the nearly 200 days he was at his Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach homes.

    Biden spent about 28% of the days during his first year as president at least partially in Delaware, largely out of public view. He has spent an almost identical share of his second year as president in Delaware.

    Transparency advocates of varying political stripes have fought in court for decades to identify presidential influencers, saying it’s important for the public to know who shapes government policy.

    “A bunch of malarky.”

    Biden’s detractors, meanwhile, note that he made a habit of meeting with his family’s influence-seeking international business partners before he took office and question whether that remains the case.

    Congressional Republicans are vowing to aggressively pursue transparency, including with regard to Biden’s link to his family’s consulting businesses, if they retake control of one or both chambers in the November midterm elections.

    Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), who is poised to lead the House oversight committee next year if Republicans retake the House, said the Secret Service should hand over records of the president’s guests.

    “The claim that there are no visitor logs for President Biden’s Delaware residence is a bunch of malarky,” Comer told The Post.

    “Americans deserve to know who President Biden is meeting with, especially since we know that he routinely met with [first son] Hunter’s business associates during his time as vice president,” Comer said.

    Given how everyone who meets with the president must be vetted by the Secret Service, it really does sound like a bunch of malarky that no record of whom Biden has met with exists. This just can’t be so.

    What it really sounds like is that whichever SS official is keeping the record is a partisan Democrat plant trying to protect Biden, just like we have seen in the FBI and DOJ.

    https://therightscoop.com/what-secret-service-claims-there-are-no-records-of-whom-biden-met-with-at-his-delaware-homes/

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  39. EXCERPT: “Data collected from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) V-safe app reveal that women and also recipients of the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson (J&J) COVID-19 vaccines were disproportionately affected by adverse events following their vaccination.

    The data were publicized Oct. 3 by the Austin-based nonprofit Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) following its successful lawsuit against the CDC and a court order demanding the CDC release the data.

    ICAN published the data using a graphical online dashboard and also made the raw data — containing more than 144 million lines of health data — available to the public. The V-safe smartphone app collected post-vaccination health assessments from approximately 10 million people between Dec. 14, 2020, and July 31, 2022.

    Del Bigtree, CEO of ICAN, described the data file as “huge, gigantic” and remarked on the CDC’s failure to make this information available. “The CDC had billions of dollars to build something like this,” he said. “They didn’t do it, so we did it for them.”

    https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/women-covid-vaccine-injuries-v-safe-data/

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  42. EXCERPT: “It’s a course that “weeds out the doctors from the wannabes,” wrote FastWeb last year about notoriously difficult organic chemistry. This hasn’t stopped a group of Big Apple wannabes, however, from getting an organic chemistry professor fired because his class is “too hard.” The kicker is that the professor, Maitland Jones, Jr., is highly accomplished in his field — in fact, he wrote the book on it.

    (Or, at least, a book on it.)

    The Daily Mail summarizes the story:

    – Maitland Jones Jr., 84, was fired from New York University after 82 of his 350 students signed a petition against him

    – Students claimed course materials for his organic chemistry class were too hard and blamed Jones for their poor test scores

    – Jones previously taught at Princeton before moving to a yearly contract teaching at NYU, and later wrote a 1,300-page textbook on the subject he taught

    – Jones said he noticed students struggling to reintegrate to in-person classes post-COVID-19….
    Former students and NYU faculty defended Jones, citing poor conduct from students

    The Mail also tells us that “Jones was not alone in the pushback from students in the return from pandemic learning. Kent Kirshenbaum, another organic chemistry professor, discovered students cheating during online tests. Citing poor conduct in his decision to reduce grades, students protested by saying ‘they were not given grades that would allow them to get into medical school.’”

    The implications of this were not lost on internet commenters. “Poorly educated doctors — every pharmaceutical company’s dream clients,” wrote “Connie” under the Mail piece. And “Karl44” observed, “This ‘participation trophy’ generation now expects a participation degree! If this is the future of America, we are in real trouble!”

    As for the complaining students, they wrote in their petition, “We are very concerned about our scores, and find that they are not an accurate reflection of the time and effort put into this class,” The New York Times related.”

    https://thenewamerican.com/idiocracy-cometh-students-shocked-that-organic-chemistry-is-hard-get-professor-fired/

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  43. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

    Like

  46. Filly?
    have you been seeing and taking care of any more spam? i think maybe that fix worked…but i wanna make sure you’re not seeing them first and getting rid of them

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