When Halloween Died…

Personal 2 Minutes

I have fond memories of trick or treating as a child.  Up to a certain age, my dad would walk along with us girls, while my mom stayed home and handed out candy with my little brother.  We wore costumes made of synthetic-easy to catch fire- fabric and plastic masks on elastic bands sure to obstruct your vision and make you sweat buckets.  We always had trick or treat on a Friday evening from 6-8 pm and each house invited you in or at least tried to guess who you were.  We had no flashlights, no reflective tape, no glow sticks.  If you wanted candy, you took your chances.

The house at the end of our block was always decked out to the nines in spooky decorations.  Scary music blared through speakers in the windows.  The older couple was always dressed as a werewolf and a witch and they loved playing their parts to scare the neighbor kids.  It was a grand tradition we always looked forward to.

Our Halloween treat bags would get full quickly because every house in a 4-block square had their lights on—meaning they were giving out treats! And oh, what treats we’d get—popcorn balls, full size candy bars, caramel apples and goodie bags! Those were awesome!  Little paper treat bags filled with penny candies—even candy corn! (I love candy corn!)

The whole experience was creepy and such fun!  Fast forward a few years (never mind how many) and the government has sucked the fun out of trick or treating.  Gone are the spooky hours—now it’s held on a Saturday between 2-4pm.  Gone are those masks too.  Now it’s make-up (which is presumably non-toxic).  The candy bars have shrunk; the popcorn balls are gone, as are the caramel apples.  And those treat bags?  Not allowed.  Nothing unwrapped or homemade is permitted. 

But the final nail in the coffin of the holiday was the vans.  After we were all grown and out of my parents’ house, they would sit on their front porch and hand out candy bars to the trick or treaters.  A few years later, the vans started pulling up at the end of the block.  The doors would open and larger kids (translation: teenagers) would pour out, sans costumes, and approach the houses.  They wouldn’t even call out trick or treat.  They just thrust their pillowcases out and expected treats.  And since they weren’t wearing any masks, it was easy to tell that none of these “kids” lived in the surrounding neighborhoods.  That’s when the magic of Halloween died for my parents. 

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  10. interesting…the source had already been named
    from tcth

    aDoozy
    October 31, 2022 3:30 pm

    BREAKING: US Marshals Take Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips Into Custody for Not Revealing Their Source in Konnech Scandal
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/breaking-catherine-englebrecht-gregg-phillips-taken-custody-houston/
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    Ausonius
    Ausonius
    October 31, 2022 3:41 pm
    Reply to aDoozy

    There has been a filing to vacate the contempt charge because the “persons or entities” with access to the information was “the person” already named (and the judge did not realize this?) “in open Court on October 6th.”

    Click to access gov.uscourts.txsd.1888133.46.1.pdf

    From a certain Brian Cates on TruthSocial:

    “Carefully note the last paragraph of page 1, where Gregg affirms as a true fact that the server at issue, that Konnech is claiming he ‘hacked’ into with his team and ‘stole’ Konnech’s data off of, is located in CHINA.”

    https://truthsocial.com/@BrianCates/posts/109260656665478354
    Last edited 16 minutes ago by Ausonius

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  11. from tcth

    sync
    sync
    October 31, 2022 4:19 pm

    Wikileaks just dumped all of their files online. Everything from Hillary Clinton’s emails, McCain’s being guilty, Vegas shooting done by an FBI sniper, Steve Jobs HIV letter, PedoPodesta, Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, Bilderberg, CIA agents arrested for rape, WHO pandemic.1/2

    https://file.wikileaks.org/file/?fbclid=IwAR2U_Evqah_
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    October 31, 2022 4:21 pm
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    Clinton emails

    https://file.wikileaks.org/file/clinton-emails/
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    October 31, 2022 4:23 pm
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    “lula da silva”

    https://search.wikileaks.org/?q=%22lula+da+silva%22
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    October 31, 2022 4:27 pm
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    Something big breaking?

    Musk dumping emails of Twitter execs colluding with Biden officials and now Wikileaks
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    Brant
    Brant
    October 31, 2022 4:31 pm
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    Odd thing about this election is its the absolute latest it can be with the first Monday not until the 7th. More like an early November surprise than October surprise.
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    Tisha
    Tisha
    October 31, 2022 4:29 pm
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    Deadman’s switch activated?

    Do we know the status of Assange?

    Pray he’s ok.

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  13. EXCERPT: “According to RealClear Politics, the average of the last five polls among likely voters, taken before the big ad buy by Cheney’s PAC and the surge of donations to Lake’s campaign that followed, shows Lake leading Democratic candidate Katie Hobbs by 3.8 points. One of those five polls, conducted by InsiderAdvantage for FOX 10, shows Lake leading Hobbs by 11 points.

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    Cheney, rejected overwhelmingly in Wyoming once she revealed her true colors, has vowed “to make sure [that] Donald Trump … I’m going to do everything I can to make sure he is not the nominee [in 2024]. And if he is the nominee, I won’t be a Republican.”

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    https://thenewamerican.com/cheneys-attack-on-kari-lake-backfires/

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  16. 100% agree. I don’t like halloween but I like pumpkins and I just buy a bag for myself. We don’t get any kids. YEAH

    But it just used to be kids you knew. Heck I recall someone gave me a bottle of beer for my Dad once. Or they had little bags for the kids they knew. No more. I don’ t think so

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    1. these “kids” were older teenagers—and my parents gave them their candy bar and the “kids” stared at them to try to scare them into giving more. my dad wasn’t having it…my mom was scared though…that was the last year for them—it was ruined

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