What Shall We Make Today: Halloween Edition

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The best Halloween themed dessert by far is Dirt Cake.  It’s easy to make and lots of fun to be creative with your presentation.

Dirt Cake

1 16-oz package of Oreos (crushed)

¼ cup butter, softened

1 8-oz cream cheese, softened

1 cup powdered sugar

2 pkgs instant vanilla pudding (3.9-oz size)

3 ½ cups milk

12 oz cool whip

Place the Oreos in a Ziploc bag; close.  Using a rolling pin, gently crush the cookies.

In one bowl, cream the butter, the cream cheese and the powdered sugar. 

In another (large) bowl, beat the pudding mixes and milk.  Then fold in the whipped cream and make sure the whipped cream is thoroughly incorporated.  Gently mix the butter/cream cheese/powdered sugar mixture into the pudding/milk/whipped cream mixture.

Layer the creamed mixture with the cookie crumbs in a compote dish. Add gummy worms if desired.

OR…

You can use a 13 x 9 dish and create a graveyard. Milano cookies make great headstones.

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      1. missed you too!
        her hubby changed his doctor’s appt to this afternoon and she wanted to go along.
        fun having her here…when i catch up…I’ll tell you what we did…LOL

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        1. Ah! For some reason, I had gotten the impression she was single…..now that I think about it, I don’t know why I would think that but…..🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️ I did! LOL

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  5. Good morning from chilly NE!!! Down to 37 when I got up this morning and they are calling for possibly upper 20’s tonight. I was unable to get my front hose disconnected yesterday so it’s time for something bigger than a pair of pliers!

    Some pics I took of the sunset last night:

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      1. OK, I’m gonna brag a little bit…..do you remember waaaaaay back when his name first came up…….long, long ago…..and I said he was bad news???? Hmmmmm….????

        OK, let me get a cast on this arm…….😳😧😩😒😏🙄🤐🤐🤐

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          1. I think it was back at W’s and you weren’t there much at the time, IIRC. The first time his name came up, before many people were talking about him, I researched him. As soon as I saw that he had worked for THE biggest Sharia Law finance corporation in the US? Told me all I needed to know.

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  7. from tcth

    Citizen817
    October 7, 2022 1:03 am

    @realDonaldTrump

    8h
    Must immediately meet with China on Fentanyl, and what they are doing in pouring it into the U.S. It is ripping our Country apart, killing 250,000 people a year. CANNOT CONTINUE!

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      1. i think he’s intimating we need someone with the balls to meet with shyna, beat them back…tariffs, closing confucious institutes, cracking down on spying…hard nosed AMERICA FIRST type…not ultra maggot

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  8. never heard this before
    from tcth

    Dr. Prepper
    Dr. Prepper
    October 7, 2022 1:04 am

    I’m hearing Oct 20 will be the day two emp’s are set off over USA. Take with it what you will.

    Biggest False Flag in history, Russia cyber attack will be blamed for total grid failure. Bla, bla, bla.

    Probably a good weekend to go camping. Practice for being off the grid just in case.

    Wondering if I should go fill those last 5 , 5 gallon propane tanks.
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    4gypsybreeze
    4gypsybreeze
    October 7, 2022 3:46 am
    Reply to Dr. Prepper

    I am a firm believer in eclipses and that things seem to go “wonky” when they happen.

    October 25 is partial solar eclipse.
    Nov. 7-8th is total Lunar eclipse.

    I will be voting early on the 8th. then come home and just chill…..check the race results here at the Treehouse!

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        1. No, it doesn’t…..I looked at it and wished I could take pics like that and then I realized….well, hell, with a telephoto lens and all the different fancy equipment and editing programs, I COULD take pics like that! LOL

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            1. All kinds of things to take into consideration…..things that all take $$$ so I’ll stick to my sweet NE skyscapes, birds, fields, etc. with my (no doubt to a real photographer) simple little tiny digital camera! I’m just playin’ anyway! Trying to find the beauty around me.

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  16. This is not about Mao or communism … forget the “ism’s” …

    they were created by those who have controlled us for centuries …

    “You will own nothing …”

    ckout zerohedge piece …

    ttps://www.zerohedge.com/markets/peter-schiff-massive-fiscal-time-bomb

    “We could be paying $1 trillion in interest in one year!”

    Who gets that trillion $ in interest… why the same people who print those dollars out of the air!

    And who owns the Fed? Private bankers … and who owns the banks ?

    I’m preaching to the choir, right?

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      1. My guess? Instead of being the property of the US of A Incorporated, we will become the property of the CCP!!!! IIRC, don’t they own most of our “debt?” As I’ve said many times before, I can’t begin to understand the financial side of this debacle but….that’s what I heard, anyway.

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  17. Pat,

    Your Open brings back memories …

    when the three grands were in grammar school, my daughter decided to make Dirt Cups for each child’s class… you know how many that was, right? I drove up to Charlotte to help her … HOURS!!
    making those cups … they were a huge hit… 😉

    Good morning …

    Going to try and get some sleep… was awake all night …

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  18. ultra maggot introduces blanket pardons for those convicted of federal marijuana crimes. more vote pandering
    FTA
    This past summer, a group of lawmakers including Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., wrote a letter to Biden, Garland and Becerra urging them to deschedule cannabis and issue pardons to all individuals convicted of nonviolent cannabis-related offenses.

    Biden, while slower to embrace marijuana reform than many of his Democratic colleagues, pledged on the 2020 campaign trail to decriminalize cannabis use and expunge prior convictions.
    MORE: Senate Democrats unveil long-awaited marijuana legalization bill

    Senate Democrats this year also finally released their long-awaited marijuana legalization proposal, which would lift the federal prohibition and allow states to determine how they want to regulate marijuana. But the legislation faces an uphill battle in the 50-50 chamber, where 10 Republicans would need to support it, and Senate leadership has yet to announce when the bill will be brought up for a vote.

    “Members of Congress have been working on this issue,” Biden administration officials said Thursday. “But that effort has stalled and we’re almost at the end of the Congress. So the president has been considering his options and he’s now taking executive action to address the country’s failed approach to marijuana.”

    Republican Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson claimed Biden’s move was to score political points.

    “The President, in his announced policy on marijuana, has waived the flag of surrender in the fight to save lives from drug abuse and has adopted all the talking points of the drug legalizers,” Hutchinson said. “Biden is simply playing election-year politics and sacrificing our national interest to win votes.”

    https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/biden-announces-blanket-pardon-for-all-federal-marijuana-possession/

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    1. I agree with the basic premise but, of course, they are going to take this waaaaay too far such that full-on, major drug dealers will get off. But MJ should be removed from that list and the States should stand up for their rights to legislate the issue within their own borders! States’ Rights, Baby!!!!

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      1. some states have already legalized mj. but doesn’t it require congress changing the law???? can he blanket pardon like that? (I really don’t know). it’s like abortion, congress has never made it a federal thing…and they’ve have YEARS to do so…same with mj

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        1. It needs to be de-classified as a Schedule 1 drug – it should be on the same regulatory level as beer, IMO. Now, I am not talking about ANYTHING other than naturally-grown, pure MJ – no additives, not “laced” with any OTHER drugs, etc. You know what I mean, Pat. IDK whether a change in the law would be required in order to move it out of that classification but I haven’t read the whole article yet.

          EXCERPT: “The federal government regulates drugs through the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) (21 U.S.C. § 811), which does not recognize the difference between medical and recreational use of marijuana. These laws are generally applied only against persons who possess, cultivate, or distribute large quantities of marijuana.

          Under federal law, marijuana is treated like every other controlled substance, such as cocaine and heroin. The federal government places every controlled substance in a schedule, in principle according to its relative potential for abuse and medicinal value. Under the CSA, marijuana is classified as a Schedule I drug, which means that the federal government views marijuana as highly addictive and having no medical value. Doctors may not “prescribe” marijuana for medical use under federal law, though they can “recommend” its use under the First Amendment.

          The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), charged with enforcing federal drug laws, has taken a substantial interest in medical marijuana patients and caregivers in general, and large cultivation and distribution operations more specifically. Over the past few years, dozens of people have been targets of federal enforcement actions. Many of them have either been arrested or had property seized. More than a hundred are currently in prison or are facing charges or ongoing criminal or civil investigations for their cultivation or distribution of medical marijuana.

          The DEA, like local enforcement agencies, can choose how to make the best use of its time. Ideally, the DEA will leave medical marijuana patients and their caregivers alone. But federal law does not yet recognize medical marijuana, and the DEA is currently allowed to use the Controlled Substances Act to arrest people for its use. In many pending and past cases, the DEA and U.S. Attorney’s office have used exaggerated plant numbers and inflammatory rhetoric, as well as informants who trade jail time for testimony, to justify enforcing federal laws against medical marijuana patients and caregivers in California and other states.”

          More: https://www.medicalmarijuana.com/law/federal-marijuana-laws/

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        3. More…..

          “In United States v. Booker (2005), a Supreme Court decision from January 2005, the court ruled that the federal sentencing guidelines (as outlined above) are advisory and no longer mandatory. However, many federal judges continue to give great deference to the guidelines.”
          ————-
          Conflict between State and Federal Law

          As of this printing, the federal government claims that marijuana is not medicine and in Gonzales v. Raich (2005), the United States Supreme Court held that the federal government has the constitutional authority to prohibit marijuana for all purposes. Thus, federal law enforcement officials may prosecute medical marijuana patients, even if they grow their own medicine and even if they reside in a state where medical marijuana use is protected under state law. The Court indicated that Congress and the Food and Drug Administration should work to resolve this issue.

          The Raich decision does not say that the laws of California (or any other medical marijuana state) are unconstitutional; nor does it invalidate them in any way. Also, it does not say that federal officials must prosecute patients. Decisions about prosecution are still left to the discretion of the federal government.

          According to a post-Raich statement by California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, the ruling does not overturn California law permitting the use of medical marijuana. Lockyer also underscored the role of local law enforcement in upholding state, not federal, law. A superior court has rejected the County of San Diego’s claim in a lawsuit filed against the State that California’s medical marijuana laws are preempted by federal law. As of this printing, that case is pending on appeal.

          States have recognized marijuana’s medical value and have either passed laws through their legislatures or adopted them by initiative. In support of the numerous states that have taken responsibility for the health and welfare of their people, and have implemented medical marijuana laws, ASA is fighting for states’ ability and right to pass and enforce their own laws, regardless of federal law.”

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  19. Well, now….from this article that PR posted at M’s – funny but this little tidbit is somehow left OUT of the official narrative…..the missiles in Turkey came first!!!!

    “I was a youngster when the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Soviets reacted to the United States placing nuclear missiles in Turkey and decided to give the United States a taste of its own medicine. The United States was horrified at the prospect of having Soviet missiles 90 miles from our shores and reacted strongly.”

    https://sonar21.com/americans-better-wake-up-and-realize-the-russians-are-genuinely-pissed-off/

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  20. a second raid? of course it’s speculation, but Bratt is suggesting that they did not recover the specific documents they were searching for…so what do they think he was “supposed to turn over to NARA” that he did not? and since he was not there to impede their search…if they didn’t find them, did he really take them? how do you convince a judge that YOU screwed up and didn’t get everything the first time?
    FTA
    The New York Times is prepping the terrain for another FBI raid of Donald Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago for missing documents that the Department of Justice is apparently seeking.

    “A top Justice Department official told former President Donald J. Trump’s lawyers in recent weeks that the department believed he had not returned all the documents he took when he left the White House, according to two people briefed on the matter,” the Times reported on Thursday night.

    “The outreach from the official, Jay I. Bratt, who leads the department’s counterintelligence operations, is the most concrete indication yet that investigators remain skeptical that Mr. Trump has been fully cooperative in their efforts to recover documents the former president was supposed to have turned over to the National Archives at the end of his term,” the report added.

    https://beckernews.com/breaking-ny-times-report-suggests-the-fbi-is-preparing-to-raid-trumps-home-in-mar-a-lago-again-47312/

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  24. GE laying off employees in the wind division…
    FTA
    CHICAGO/DENVER, Oct 5 (Reuters) – General Electric Co is laying off workers at its onshore wind unit as part of a plan to restructure and resize the business, which is grappling with weak demand, rising costs and supply-chain delays, four sources familiar with the move said.

    The sources said the company on Wednesday notified employees in North America, Latin America, the Middle-East and Africa about the cuts. It also has plans to cut its onshore wind workforce at a later date in Europe and Asia Pacific.

    The cuts are expected to affect 20% of the onshore wind unit’s workforce in the United States, they added. This would equate to hundreds of workers, one of the sources said.

    GE confirmed to Reuters it was “streamlining” its onshore wind business in response to market realities but did not comment directly on any workforce cuts.

    “These are difficult decisions, which do not reflect on our employees’ dedication and hard work but are needed to ensure the business can compete and improve profitability over time,” a GE Renewables spokesperson said in an emailed statement.

    Onshore wind is the largest of GE’s renewable businesses, which together employed 38,000 people worldwide at the end of 2021. The unit, however, has been battling higher raw material costs due to inflation and supply-chain pressures.

    In the United States, which has been GE’s most profitable onshore wind market, policy uncertainty following the expiry of renewable electricity production tax credits last year has hit customer demand, leading to a fall in the unit’s revenue this year.

    https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Fbusiness%2Fenergy%2Fexclusive-ge-lays-off-workers-onshore-wind-unit-part-turnaround-strategy-sources-2022-10-06%2F

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  25. this article details all the time fetterwoman missed work…
    FTA
    Records from Fetterman’s four years in office, however, offer a different portrait of his time in the $179,000-a-year elected job. They show Fetterman typically kept a light work schedule and was often absent from state business, including presiding over the state Senate, which is one of his chief duties, according to an Associated Press review of his daily calendars and attendance records.

    The review found that Fetterman’s daily schedule was blank during roughly one-third of workdays from January 2019, when he first took office, to May of this year, when he suffered a serious stroke. Even on days where his schedule showed he was active, a typical work day for Fetterman lasted between four and five hours, the records show.

    https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-health-pennsylvania-campaigns-covid-5dcdd51b1f87b6cfa7dc607cb1d13e29?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

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  27. sharon osbourne wants a refund of the $$ they gave blm…LOL
    FTA
    Sharon Osbourne wants her money back.

    The former “The Talk” co-host agreed with Kanye West about Black Lives Matter being a “scam” when TMZ asked her about the rapper’s recent antics, from his White Lives Matter shirt to his social media tirades.

    “Well, we gave $900,000 to [Black Lives Matter], and I’d like my money back, please,” she told a reporter.

    Osbourne, 69, did not specify why she wanted a refund, but she did express confusion surrounding the outrage over West’s headline-making shirt at his fashion show.

    “I don’t understand why white lives don’t matter. I don’t understand it. It’s not my culture,” she said. “Everybody matters, don’t they?”

    Osbourne also said West, 45, shouldn’t be canceled over his actions and instead encouraged people to ignore him if they don’t “like him.”

    https://pagesix.com/2022/10/07/sharon-osbourne-agrees-with-kanye-about-scam-black-lives-matter/

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  31. Entire Article @ JustTheNews: (NF: This is a start, at least…..more states need to do the same.)

    “The Delaware Supreme Court on Friday that a state law enacting universal mail-in voting violated the state’s constitution. “The Vote-by-Mail Statute impermissibly expands the categories of absentee voters identified in Article V, Section 4A of the Delaware Constitution. Therefore, the judgment of the Court of Chancery that the Vote-by-Mail Statute violates the Delaware Constitution should be affirmed,” the court wrote.

    It further rejected a component of the law that would have created same day registration throughout the state.

    “The Same-Day Registration Statute conflicts with the provisions of Article V, Section 4 of the Delaware Constitution,” it continued, “Consequently, the judgment of the Court of Chancery that the Same-Day Registration Statute does not violate the Delaware Constitution should be reversed.”

    The court asserted that the three-page ruling would precede a “more formal opinion” but highlighted the state’s plan to mail ballots to voters by Oct. 10 as rationale for the “abbreviated order.” While absentee voting is constitutional in Delaware, per the Epoch Times, anyone seeking such an accommodation must be under to reach their polling place, due to reasons such as illness or disability.

    Friday’s ruling is a blow to Democrats who have sought to make permanent COVID-19 era adjustments to the absentee voting process in a plethora of states. “

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  32. snicker, snicker

    John Kennedy 🤣

    “I’m an optimistic guy. I have hope for my Liberal friends. Jellyfish have survived for 165 million years without a brain.”pic.twitter.com/RmP4zS70R5

    — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) October 6, 2022

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  34. judicial watch sues for FOIA records on why Byrd was housed at Joint Andrews Base…
    FTA
    Judicial Watch filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after Joint Base Andrews, the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, and the FBI failed to respond to three July 2022 FOIA requests about Byrd’s housing at Joint Base Andrews while his name as the shooter of Ashli Babbitt was being withheld from the public by the government.

    In its complaint, Judicial Watch explained to the court that it had asked all three government agencies for all records relating to the billeting of Byrd at Joint Base Andrews during the period from January 6, 2021, to July 2022, including authorization papers, housing, meals, transportation, and visitor logs.

    “This is a rather extraordinary January 6 cover-up of why the Defense Department was involved with the aftermath of the improper police killing of an unarmed woman (and a veteran),” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

    In June 2022, Judicial Watch produced DOJ records related to the shooting of Babbitt that included a memo recommending “that the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia decline for criminal prosecution the fatal shooting of Ashli McEntee [Babbitt],” also noting that the shooter, Byrd, “did not create a police report or documents” related to the shooting of Babbitt. A footnote details missing evidence: “During the debrief of Lieutenant Byrd, he did recall writing a few sentences on an evidence bag the evening of January 6, 2021, at the request of a crime scene officer. To date, the bag has not been located by USCP or MPD.”

    In November 2021, Judicial Watch received multiple audio, visual and photo records from the DC Metropolitan Police Department about the shooting death of Ashli Babbitt on January 6, 2021, in the U.S. Capitol Building. The records include a cell phone video of the shooting. An audio file of a police interview of the shooter, Byrd, indicates he declined to cooperate.

    Judicial Watch previously uncovered records from the DC Metropolitan Police showed that multiple officers claimed they didn’t see a weapon in Babbitt’s hand before Byrd shot her, and that Byrd was visibly distraught afterward. One officer attested that he didn’t recall hearing any verbal commands before Byrd shot Babbitt. The records include internal communications about Byrd’s case and a crime scene examination report. Investigators who wrote the January 6, 2021, Metro PD Death Report for Babbitt (identified as Ashli Elizabeth McEntee-Babbitt Pamatian) note that the possible Manner of Death was “Homicide (Police Involved Shooting).”

    https://www.judicialwatch.org/sues-uncover-details-ashli-babbitts-shooters-special-housing/

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    1. i believe this is true…
      these people are so afraid of losing their “influence”…really what has kim ever done to achieve the influence she does have? she’s got a huge butt…wow…that’s an accomplishment

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

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  47. Going to go snuggle with hubby for a while…
    Good Night All!
    thanks again Filly for minding the blog while I was visiting!
    i’ll have stories tomorrow…lol

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  50. We just got news that Dr. J will be able to fix me up with a stent on 2 Nov at Spring Valley Hospital. I don’t know yet how long after the operation I’ll have to stay at the hospital . . . hopefully two days at the most.

    Provided that all goes well, it shouldn’t be too bad at all.

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    1. awesome news Karl!!!
      thanks for sharing.
      I will keep you in my prayers and hope whenever you’re able, you’ll update us!

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