Etymology of Words and Phrases – Part 2

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GABARDINE: Few movements in history have been more thrilling than the pilgrimages of the Middle Ages. Many people traveled to shrines throughout Europe and even to the Holy Land. Pilgrims continued to visit some of the shrines at enormous sacrifice of time and money. They wore an unofficial but characteristic garb: a gray cowl bearing a red cross and a broad-brimmed, stiff hat. Pilgrims carried a staff, a sack, and a gourd. They usually traveled in company with other adventurers, singing hymns as they walked and begging food from those they met.

Medieval Pilgrims

Since a particular type of upper garment was worn by the pilgrim, it gradually came to be identified with the journey itself. A will filed in 1520 included this bequest: “Until litill Thomas Beke my gawbardyne to make him a gowne.” From the garment the term came to refer to the coarse material from which it was customarily made. Slight modifications in spelling produced gabardine – a kind of cloth that passed from the religious pilgrim’s vocabulary into general use.

Assorted Gabardine

RUBBER: On his second voyage to “East India,” Columbus found natives playing with a substance they called caoutchouc. It would stretch and then snap back into shape; when made into balls it would bounce. Scientists who examined the odd substance agreed that it was unlike anything known in Europe, yet they confessed themselves unable to imagine any use for it.

Small quantities of caoutchouc were brought to Europe, but it remained a curiosity for more than two centuries. Finally, someone discovered by accident that the material could be used for removing the marks of a lead pencil. Hence, bookkeepers termed it “lead-eater.”

Around 1780 Joseph Priestley experimented with a bit of caoutchouc, hoping to find some use more important than erasing errors made in ledgers. He failed and decided that it would never be of value except for rubbing out pencil marks.

Joseph Priestley

Consequently, he called it “East India rubber.” Soon the nickname of the one-job substance was abbreviated to rubber. The name serves as a perpetual reminder that civilization was once at a loss as to what to do with a substance of a thousand uses.

MAP: Greek geographers of the sixth century BC developed considerable skill in making charts to guide sailors and travelers. Then the Romans extended the art by engraving scale representations of the Empire on fine marble slabs. These devices, and the more abundant clay tablets, proved to be extremely cumbersome, so someone thought of painting geographical charts upon cloth.

Fragment of Greek “Map”

For this purpose, the most suitable material proved to be fine table linen, or mappa. This led to the practice of calling any flat geographical chart a map.

RECIPE: Since Latin was the universal language of medieval scholars, physicians used it in writing directions for compounding medicines. Virtually every prescription listed the ingredients in precise order and began with the Latin verb recipe, meaning “take.”

Ancient Apothecary “Recipes”

Care in measuring and blending the ingredients of a tasty dish is also essential. Therefore, when housewives began to master the art of reading and writing, they adopted the apothecary’s custom and made written lists of ingredients and steps in cookery. Inevitably, such a set of directions took the pharmaceutical name and became familiar to the household recipe.

BUDGET: Struggling with a budget is no new problem; it dates back to the days of the Roman Empire. Housewives had to be cautious in their spending and they kept money for household expenses in a little leather bulga (Latin for bag). This custom also prevailed among businessmen, who may have borrowed it from their wives or vice versa.

Antique “Bulga”

Centuries later, the Latin word was adopted into Middle French as bougette (“little leather bag”). When the British Chancellor of Exchequer appeared before Parliament, he carried his papers explaining the estimated revenue and expenses in a leather bag and then “opened the budget” for the coming year. Thus, budget (as it came to be pronounced) came to mean a systematic plan for expenditures, both for governments and for private individuals.

EAT ONE’S HAT: Many a man engaged in a contest of some sort has offered to eat his hat if he loses. In such a situation, a knowledge of etymology would be of great value, for the expression eat one’s hat once referred not to a Stetson or a Panama, but to a culinary product.

Napier’s famous Boke of Cookry, one of the earliest European cookbooks, gives the following directions: “Hattes are made of eggs, veal, dates, saffron, salt, and so forth.” In the hands of amateur cooks, the concoction was frequently so unpalatable that it required a strong stomach to eat it.

Even so, the early braggart who offered to eat a hatte had in mind nothing so distasteful as a felt or a straw!

FLOUR: During the Elizabethan Age, the word “flower” meant “the best,” as it does today in such expressions as “the flower of the nation’s youth.”

Millers of the period ground wheat by a crude process, then sifted the meal. Only the finest of it passed through the cloth sieve in a process called “boulting.” Reserved for tables of the nobility, this top-quality ground wheat was naturally called the “flower of wheat,” but in this context the word came to be spelled flour. The two spellings were used interchangeably until the 19th century. In Paradise Lost, Milton wrote the line, “O flours that never will in other climates grow.”

Boulting

COOKING TERMS: There is at least one serious gap in European history. Her contemporaries failed to record the name of the woman who first thought of stuffing an egg. Nothing is known about her recipe, except that she was liberal with pepper. Her invention was so hot that folks who tried it were reminded of Beelzebub’s fiery furnaces. As a result, the tidbit came to be called a deviled egg.

Most other terms of cookery are prosaic by comparison. More than half were borrowed from the French – which suggest that English cooks were never very imaginative. Braise stems from French for “hot charcoal.” Toast is but slightly modified from “toaster” (“to parch with heat). Boil stems from a continental verb meaning “to make little bubbles.” Poach grew out of pocher, which meant “to pouch,” that is, to enclose an egg’s yellow in a little pouch of white.

Fry, grill, roast and baste were also adapted from French. Fricassee was taken as is from that language, but the ultimate origin is unknown.

The oldest term in cookery is probably cook, still much like Latin coquus. The Norse gave us bake, from baka (“hearth”). The Saxons contributed sear, spelled just as it is today. It originally meant to “wither with heat.” Scorch – the bane of a cook’s existence – has a long history that goes all the way back to the Old English scorkle, which started life as a term for skinning meat by searing.

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        1. Yeah, it should have posted tomorrow, on the 3rd, which is when it is scheduled at M’s. Oh, well – too late! Guess I screwed up when I scheduled it but sometimes that thing is wonky. You enter a date, then close it, ready to schedule and then notice the date is wrong. SMDH

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              1. on the left hand side where it lists things like stats, inbox, posts…
                go into posts and you will see them all listed there. hover the mouse over the post you want to edit and options appear–pick quick edit to change the date, time, etc
                just “edit” allows you to go back into the whole post

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  21. AGREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  22. i didn’t know it either…
    from tcth

    Feisty Hayseed
    November 2, 2022 2:07 am

    I did NOT know that –

    President Joe Biden avoided being drafted into the military five times — getting one more deferment than former president Donald Trump.

    Biden received five student draft deferments during the Vietnam War, and after graduating college, received a medical exemption as well.

    https://www.the-sun.com/news/4053947/joe-biden-draft-deferment-more-donald-trump/

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  25. Entire Article @ ReclaimTheNet:

    “Growing video platform Rumble, based in the US, has refused to cave to France’s demands to censor Russian news sources such as RT France and Sputnik. Rumble has instead chosen to pull its services from France rather than comply with the order. “The French Government has demanded that Rumble @rumblevideo block Russian news sources. Like @elonmusk, I won’t move our goal posts for any foreign government,” Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski tweeted.

    In a statement, Rumble said, “the French Government demanded that we remove certain Russian news sources from Rumble.”

    Rumble outlined its commitment to free speech, adding, “As part of our mission to restore a free and open internet, we have committed not to move the goalposts on our content policies. Users with unpopular views are free to access our platform on the same terms as our millions of other users.”

    Rumble said that it was disabling access to users in France while they look into challenging the legality of the government’s demands. Journalist Glenn Greenwald, who has a show on Rumble, weighed in on the decision. “If Rumble obeyed France’s censorship order – like Big Tech firms often do – it’d mean Americans could only access voices and views which foreign governments (EU, China, Iran, etc.) permitted to be aired.”

    Several months ago, the European Union (EU) imposed sanctions on Russia, including banning RT and Sputnik from being broadcast in member countries. The two news outlets were accused of spreading Russian propaganda about the invasion of Ukraine. The channels are not allowed on television or online in EU countries. However, they have been circumventing the sanctions through online platforms that are not based in the EU.

    Last month, France’s President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged the difficulties in blocking RT and Sputnik from the country, as French citizens still had online ways to access the content. “We’re using the informational weapon and Russia was doing it even before by spreading propaganda on social networks, through propaganda channels that we have cut off on our soil but still continue to find channels to broadcast,” Macron said in an interview broadcast by France 2.

    Rumble describes itself as a high-growth neutral video platform with independent infrastructure that is “immune to cancel culture” – and a platform with a mission of restoring the internet to its roots.”

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  30. Entire Article @ JustTheNews: “A live security video feed at the home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi caught the suspect in the recent assault on her husband Paul Pelosi, but no one from the U.S. Capitol Police was watching, sources told Just the News. U.S. Capitol Police did not return numerous requests for comment on Tuesday.

    A source revealed to Just the News that the officer who was in charge of monitoring the feed didn’t notice the break-in occurred until the flashing strobe lights from responding San Francisco police squads were visible on the feed. Berkeley resident David DePape has been charged in the attack.

    Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger said that the department is currently conducting a formal review of the incident but declined to provide further detail in a statement released on Tuesday. Speaker Pelosi was not in San Francisco at the time of the attack.”

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  31. U.S. Government Database Redacts Names Of Non-Profits Receiving Over $250 Million In Taxpayer-Funded Ukraine ‘Aid.’

    By NATALIE WINTERS/WarRoom.Org

    Entire Article: “The federal government is hiding the names of non-profit groups receiving nine and eight-figure grants from the Biden administration during the Russia-Ukraine war.

    ForeignAssistance.gov, the federal government’s flagship website tracking its foreign spending, itemized the nearly $3.2 billion that has been allocated to Ukraine for “economic development” and “humanitarian assistance” for fiscal year 2022. The grants come from a variety of agencies including the United States Agency for International Development, the Department of State, and the Department of Energy.

    32 grants totaling nearly $300 million dollars, however, have identified their non-governmental organization (NGO) implementing partner as either “NGO – United States Redacted”; “NGO – Non United States Redacted”; or “NGO – International Redacted.”

    For example, four grants totaling $100,000,000, $57,000,000, $43,000,000, and $10,000,000 to support “emergency humanitarian assistance” were allocated to unidentified NGOs.

    A $7,900,000 grant sent to an unidentified NGO even saw its purpose redacted, pursuant to the “Exceptions Outlined in the Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act of 2016.”

    The only detail about the grant is that it aims to “support the Mission’s goal for an independent, prosperous, and healthy Ukraine united around core European values in one or more of the following sectors: strengthening of democratic governance, and more inclusive, sustainable, market-driven economic growth.”

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    1. I am soooo sick of sending $$ to ukraine…while we have homeless here…people on assistance here…piss poor roads here…crumbling bridges here.
      FIX AMERICA FIRST

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  32. (LifeSiteNews) — A groundbreaking documentary that sketches the connection between recently skyrocketing sudden deaths, COVID jabs, and the depopulation agenda behind it all will be released November 21. The trailer for “Died Suddenly,” presented by radio host Stew Peters, is now available for public viewing:

    https://rumble.com/v1q1u1m-died-suddenly-official-trailer-streaming-november-21st.html

    “Healthy adults are dropping dead all across the globe. In the last 18 months, the term ‘Died Suddenly’ has risen to the very top of ‘most searched’ Google terms,” notes the film website’s short introduction to the documentary. The film aims not only to “tell the stories of those who died suddenly,” but to “find answers” explaining their deaths.

    Snapshots from the movie trailer give glimpses into what the documentary team has found: massive and mysterious clots being found in the bodies of the vaccinated deceased, an “apocalyptic” spike in excess deaths, and indications, according to the filmmakers, that high fatality rates among the jabbed are ultimately the result of a deliberate depopulation plan.

    A marked increase in the numbers of excess deaths have been recorded across the world particularly since the second half of 2021, after the COVID jabs were made available to the public. One film commentator featured in the trailer has claimed that the massive death increase amounts to “12 standard deviations above the mean,” or a one-in-800-year event.

    “Why do we never believe them? For centuries, the global elite have broadcast their intentions to depopulate the world – even to the point of carving them into stone,” observed the Stew Peters Show in the release of the documentary trailer, which opens with film footage of the Georgia Guidestones.

    The now-demolished, anonymously-commissioned Georgia Guidestones was a monument that prescribes humanity be maintained at a population of “under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature,” and that human beings “be not a cancer upon the earth.”

    The film trailer raises the question of why Bill Gates, who provided major funding for the global COVID response, is “involved in public health,” and why he considers world overpopulation to be a threat to be averted. The trailer closes with the momentous claim regarding the recent death spike, “This is the greatest orchestrated die-off in the history of the world.”

    The film’s team has launched a “#DiedSuddenly hashtag that has since trended on Twitter. The Stew Peters Network has also recently presented a documentary on child sex trafficking called “These Little Ones.”

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  33. where the hell is the transportation sect?
    entire article
    We’ve all heard of the game “Where’s Waldo?” Well, I’ve got a better question. As we look upon the hordes of federal parasites dedicated public servants, where’s Pete? We’re seeing the convergence of some dangerous circumstances — a perfect storm, if you will. But it’s not a convergence of weather patterns, but problems with the transportation infrastructure. Yet Pete (Buttigieg) is nowhere to be found — at least not anywhere near the problems he’s supposed to prevent.

    Loaded ships are still waiting off the coast of California because there aren’t enough trucks that meet the state’s emission standards to unload them — and it’s going to get worse in 2023, when more rules kick in. The ports are choked with cargo containers while perishables spoil and store shelves run empty. It’s a government-created problem. What is the government’s solution? Mandate that port employees work overtime loading the trucks that aren’t there. It’s government problem-solving 101.

    The airline industry is plagued with cancelations and late flights. And it’s not because of climate change (bad weather) or mechanical failures. It’s because they don’t have enough pilots. When we tried to control a virus by closing the country, pilots retired, others refused to comply with the vaccine mandate and were fired, and some unknown number took the vax and found they could no longer pass their physicals. But this time, Pete is on the case. He’s told the airlines that the Department of Transportation will fine them if they don’t hire more of the pilots that don’t exist. That should light a fire under their executive tails.

    But the deadliest transportation storm front is the approaching railroad strike. The Biden administration averted a strike in September by brokering a last-minute deal with the railroad unions. Now Joe and Pete just need all 12 of the unions to approve the deal to avoid a strike — by November 19. There’s just one problem. It’s an “all or none” situation, and two unions have already rejected the deal.

    If the deal falls through, 33 million tons of cargo per week will not be delivered. That’s a lot of baby formula and toilet paper. Factories will close, store shelves will run empty, power plants will go offline, and construction will stop. Joe’s administration is lining up alternatives to trains if the railroads shut down. They assure us that if they fumble this — and they may — we’ll just ship everything by truck. But there’s a problem with that also. It would take an additional 460,000 trucks to move the freight that trains move. Bumper to bumper, that number of trucks would stretch across America — twice. It may take Freightliner a few days to crank those out.

    Even if we had those trucks, they would use five times more fuel than trains (see this and this). That would be the fuel we don’t have, because Joe decided to wage war on the industry that produces the fuel — because he thinks he can control the weather that way. Are you following that logic?

    And speaking of fuel, that’s another problem. As we move into winter, we are facing a diesel fuel shortage that is becoming critical. The Energy Information Administration has issued a report stating that as of October, we have only a 25-week reserve of fuel, and shortages are expected this winter. That’s the lowest reserve America has had in 14 years.

    If we run out, crops won’t be harvested, and supplies won’t be delivered — even if the trains are still running. We’re just one natural disaster away from petrochemical Armageddon. What steps is the government taking?

    Canceling pipelines
    Stopping the drilling on public lands
    Restricting fracking
    Selling our strategic reserve to China

    But the Biden administration has a solution for the fuel shortage. Buy electric cars, which run on electricity generated by burning the fuel Biden’s trying to eliminate.

    This is what a man-made storm convergence looks like. As cargo piles up in ports, a rail strike is looming — because of government dereliction. We don’t have the trucks to move the cargo — because of ill conceived emissions standards. If we did have the trucks, we couldn’t fuel them — because our government has decided that it prefers batteries to the fossil fuels that charge the batteries.

    It’s a perfect storm of life-threatening crises — brought to us entirely by the Biden administration. So who in our government should be fixing this mess? That would be our intrepid secretary of transportation, Pete Buttegeig, who has never fixed anything in his life but checks all of the required intersectionality boxes.

    So, let’s return to our opening question. While all of these problems have grown, where has Pete been?

    Attending the grand opening of an LGBT bar
    Taking maternity leave
    Looking for new ways to tax motorists
    Making sure our highways aren’t racist

    That’s what passes for an “adults back in charge” administration these days. It kind of makes our outrage about mean tweets seem quaint — no?

    So when the stupid front approaching from the west, collides with the dereliction front approaching from the east, and the transportation perfect storm dumps on all of us, we’ll find that

    We can’t buy groceries.
    We can’t heat our homes.
    We can’t go to work, even if there were something to buy.

    When President “Soft-Serve” takes another long weekend while we shiver in our dark homes, we’ll know the consequence of entrusting fools to run our country. Only the grace of God will prevent those consequences from becoming grave this winter.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/11/youd_better_be_prepared_for_the_perfect_transportation_storm.html

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  35. the postal service sending out warnings that the blue mail boxes people routinely put their outgoing mail in may not be secure–thieves are breaking into them–check washing schemes are plentiful. but yet dems say they’re secure–mail in ballots and all! so is this a scheme to get erbody to start digital bill paying OR are the dems lying to us? or both?
    entire article
    The U.S. Postal Service has announced that it has a security problem with its blue mailboxes:

    According to 24/7 Wall Street, a personal finance site:

    The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has warned people not to use its blue boxes on specific dates. It particularly warned about the chances of theft from these on Sundays and holidays.

    …

    The USPS’s warning suggested how people dodge the trouble. “If customers simply used retail service or inside wall drop slots to send their U.S. Mail, instead of depositing it to sit outside overnight or through the weekend, blue collection boxes would not be as enticing after business hours to mail thieves for identity theft and check-washing schemes.”

    As a solution, people should go to their local post office or put mail in boxes after the last dispatch time.

    Which is pretty queasy-making news, considering that election officials are asking voters to deposit their mail-in ballots with these same blue mail boxes with all these security problems.

    The news comes at an inconvenient time, given that midterms are about a week away now.

    The news is strikingly credible, because it’s focused on consumer finance, and the security focus is on the mailing of checks.

    A Google search of the matter shows that mail break-ins are being investigated in many places, and Postal Service warnings are going out through local radio stations in places such as Texas, New York, Indiana, California, Pennsylvania, Alabama — to take just a random search. It suggests a rather widespread problem that hasn’t been gotten under control, and they’re under intense pressure from upset customers.

    Meanwhile, over in electionville, Washington authorities are touting the wonderfulness of mail-in balloting, claiming it’s utterly safe, convenient, and secure.

    If a mailpiece, as they call it, is not secure from thieves who steal checks, why would a mail-in ballot be secure from political operatives fanatically committed to ensuring that their candidate wins by any means necessary?

    Somehow, it’s secure from one group and not the other? It suggests there are problems already and the post office had no choice but to warn consumers about them now, so maybe the voters should be warned as well — before we hear the coming drivel about safest, securest elections in history.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/11/us_postal_service_warns_against_using_their_mailboxes_for_anything_important.html

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  37. EXCERPT/TRANSCRIPT: “This is what the next conservative president has to do. First of all, you set up a new intelligence agency focused solely on foreign infiltration. You staff it with people who left the service — maybe the CIA, the FBI — at the beginning of the Obama administration or earlier, so they’re not tainted.

    Then you bring in a whole bunch of new guys, vetted from special forces, from the technical institutions. This agency is like an untouchables unit. It’s only about foreign agents. And then you declare a three month amnesty for every foreign agent in the country. The president declares an amnesty.

    You’ve got three months to leave the country or to come forward to the new agency and spill your guts. Tell us everything you know. If you spill your guts, you’ll get to escape prosecution. You’ll have to testify in court against the… you’ll have to rat out your colleagues in court, but you won’t be prosecuted. That would throw every foreign network in the country into total confusion.

    You’d see a whole bunch of Senators leave the Senate for ‘family reasons.’ You’d see a whole bunch of Big Tech guys stand down, a whole bunch of Wall Street guys stand down. Thousands of… hundreds of thousands of Chinese would leave the country. Russian mob would sell their mansions in Miami and go back to Moscow.

    You’d see Hezbollah guys taken off because all these networks would be in confusion. None of them could trust what was going on. You might have some Iranian spy dealing with a corrupt, corrupt defense contractor. But he wouldn’t know if the corrupt defense contractor was wearing a wire, had taken a deal and he’s thinking, ‘If I get caught, I’m going to Leavenworth with for 30 years.

    Because at the end of three months, if you don’t come forward, you get 30 years in jail. See a lot of these traitors, these Senators, they get slowly corrupted. They might be compromised on… sexually compromised on a trip overseas. Their family might be threatened. They might be offered a business deal that they don’t understand the implications of. A lot of these traitors want out.

    Amnesty is the road out. As long as you rat out everybody you were working with. You would, you would completely transform the country in a matter of a few weeks without firing a single shot. America would be a different place and millions of Americans would understand how deeply penetrated we were by the Iranians, by the Chinese, by the Russians, by the Cubans, by the Turks, by the Saudis, et cetera.

    Heavy penalties if you don’t come forward, amnesty if you do. Leave the country, take amnesty, or go to jail for 30 years, that’s your choices. That would transform America.”

    (Entire show – there is a link to a short clip in the article)
    https://rumble.com/v1qw2t2-trevor-loudons-proposal-to-eliminate-foreign-infiltration-is-so-radical-it-.html

    Some will see this as a brilliant proposal because it would almost certainly work. Others might be concerned about the costs to our freedoms since federal law enforcement does not have a good track-record in recent years. Loudon’s proposal attempts to address this lack of faith in current agencies by only recruiting those who have not been compromised. That may be easier said than done, especially considering the size this agency would need to be in order to bear fruit.”

    https://americafirstreport.com/trevor-loudons-proposal-to-eliminate-foreign-infiltration-is-so-radical-it-might-just-work/

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  38. Entire Article @ TheFederalist: “The Republican National Committee has filed a lawsuit against the city of Flint, Michigan, for failing to hire an equal number of poll workers from each of the two major political parties in preparation for the midterm elections.

    Michigan law requires election officials appoint an equal number “of election inspectors in each election precinct from each major political party.” Despite a demand letter from the RNC, Flint has failed to comply with state statutes. Roughly only 120 of the 680 election inspectors hired in Flint for the 2022 midterms are Republican, the newly filed lawsuit alleges. While Flint recently told the RNC it hired 50 more Republican-affiliated poll watchers, it refused to further ensure equal party representation among election workers.

    That means only 18 percent of Flint’s approximately 680 election inspectors are Republican. Not to mention that on the city’s absentee ballot counting boards, the lawsuit claims, there are only six Republicans to 56 Democrats — a 9 to 1 ratio.

    “Michigan election law clearly states that election commissioners have a responsibility to hire an equal partisan breakdown of election inspectors, but Flint has hired hundreds more Democrats than Republicans,” RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said in a statement. “This is unacceptable and unfair to Michigan voters: Republicans are going to court to deliver the fairness that Michiganders deserve.”

    The RNC’s lawsuit follows another election-related controversy in Flint.

    After reports surfaced that city officials had disproportionately hired more Democrat than Republican poll watchers during Michigan’s Aug. 2 primary, attorneys for Pure Integrity Michigan Elections sent a letter to the city demanding it balance out the number of partisan poll watchers before the November general election. Flint’s longtime, controversy-riddled city clerk, Inez Brown, announced she was stepping down two days after receiving the letter.”

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  39. Three budding artists win College Fix editorial cartoon contest: here are their entries

    First place: Angelique Clark

    Second place: Henry Longmeyer (only 12 years old!)

    Third place: Nathan Biller

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  42. Entire Article @ EpochTimes (from Dr. McCullough’s Substack):

    “Yesterday I met a 42-year-old optometrist who six days after the second mRNA COVID-19 vaccination suffered a distal aortic dissection. He was healthy and was physically fit. He knew something was wrong when back pain and leg weakness developed resulting in severe effort intolerance on vacation.

    He rushed home, was hospitalized and underwent the appropriate diagnostics to determine the presence of an aortic aneurysm or widening of the aorta and then a discrete tear which blood flow now goes through the true lumen and a false lumen created by the dissection. This occurs in the outer third of the media or the muscular layer of the blood tube.

    In his mind this catastrophic event is due to the COVID-19 vaccine, and I agree. The mRNA and Spike protein produced by the mRNA circulates in blood on average two weeks, so it is freely able to deposit in the lining of blood vessels and the vascular media of major vessels.[i][ii] Once present, the Spike protein damages cells and incites inflammation which is a destructive process driven by white blood cells, cytokines, and complement.

    It is known that the second injection is approximately 80-fold more reactogenic with fever, pain, myalgia, etc. As part of that response, there can be a major surge in blood pressure due to release of catecholamines or stress hormones.[iii] This increase in the change in pressure over the change in time for each heartbeat is the driving force to initiate the tear in the aorta. Once this happens, there is no turning back, the rip goes down the major blood tube and threatens the blood supply to the spinal cord, vital organs, and legs.

    Each patient is different, with some having external rupture resulting in death. Others require emergency surgery or endovascular stenting to restore blood flow to vital organs. In the case of the optometrist, he was managed conservatively with medications to control blood pressure. Data from the International Registry of Acute Aortic Dissection (IRAD) indicates he faces a 22% 3-year mortality rate and this is increased by his history of prior aortic aneurysm (HR, 2.17; 95% CI, 1.03 to 4.59; P=0.04).[iv]

    It is exactly this complication for which I have always advised patients with prior aortic abnormalities (aortopathies) to avoid COVID-19 vaccination. If you know someone who has died shortly after vaccination and they had antecedent back pain or a prior aneurysm, ask the family if there was an autopsy. This is important since aortopathies can be familial and other family members could be screened with imaging and genetic testing. This man’s life is indelibly changed because COVID-19 vaccination was for “keeps.”

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  43. Entire Article @ RAIR Foundation:

    “Exposed: Leaked Hospital Email Reveals Explosion of Stillbirths (Video)”

    “Pfizer’s own numbers showed that 28 out of 29 pregnant women lost their baby. A leaked email from a Fresno, California hospital has revealed stillbirth rates have risen dramatically, reports NTD. The staff member who leaked the email says that the increase coincides with the rollout of the experimental Covid vaccines.

    The email, which was sent to hospital staff, states that the trend is expected to continue. It also said that there were 22 stillborns in August 2022.

    Through the roof — And so far in September, there have been seven, and it was only the eighth day of the month, according to the email a chief nurse prepared. According to the employee who shared the email with The Epoch Times, fetal deaths after the rollout of the covid vaccines were through the roof. She said it used to be one to two deaths every three months in her hospital.

    No response from hospital — The newsgroup reached out to the head nurse who wrote the leaked email to request a statement on why there has been a rise in what she called “demise patients,” or stillborns, but there has been no response. Dr. James Thorpe in Florida, who specializes in maternal-fetal medicine, reports that the content of the email is consistent with over 1300 peer-reviewed publications in just 15 months, documenting severe complications and death after the Covid vaccines.

    https://rumble.com/v1qzz9g-exposed-leaked-hospital-email-reveals-stillbirth-explosion.html

    Stillbirth explosion — RAIR Foundation USA previously reported that stillbirths in fully vaccinated women were exploding in Canada. For example, in Waterloo, Ontario, 86 cases had been reported in six months, compared to typically five to six per year, stated doctor Daniel Nagase. “That is highly unusual.”

    Since the rollout of the experimental shots, the U.K. and the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System documented numerous vaccine-related adverse events for pregnant women. Dr. Chris Alan Shoemaker recently touched on the dangers of the vaccine to pregnant women during his powerful speech on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada:

    ‘This shot was designed to cross into the ovary; this shot was designed to cross into the brain barrier. This shot was designed to go everywhere. And that’s why people are dying in such strange circumstances, unexplained circumstances, and the numbers are horrific,” he told the audience. “Sixty-seven percent of people who get the vaccine while pregnant lose the pregnancy.” Pfizer’s own numbers showed that 28 out of 29 pregnant women lost their baby.”

    Prominent Virologist Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi warned pregnant women against the jab: “The vaccine package insert from Biotech even says that pregnant women aren’t allowed to be vaccinated because vaccine injury cannot be ruled out. And if a young woman decides to get vaccinated, she should avoid becoming pregnant for two months.”

    Despite warnings from prominent doctors like Bhakdi or Dr. Hodkinson, who have been adamant that pregnant women should not be vaccinated under any circumstances, many women were coerced to get the vaccine.”

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  44. This has to stop – enough already! Eliminate ALL reservations!!!!

    EXCERPTS: “American Indians are the only group of U.S. citizens whose child custody claims are decided solely on the basis of race instead of the best interests of the child.

    Under federal law, it doesn’t matter in custody disputes if a child’s home is a crime-infested haven for violent gangs and drug dealers. It doesn’t matter if a child’s home is an avenue of emotional, physical, and even sexual abuse. What does matter is the color of the child’s skin.

    In 1978, Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) codifying this institutional racism. Passed out of fear that the adoption of American Indian children would erode Indian culture, ICWA mandates that children who are up for adoption with the slightest trace of Indian blood be placed under tribal custody instead of a non-Indian family. In practice, this means adoptive parents can have their children stripped away from the only parents they’ve ever known to live on a reservation hundreds of miles away at the will of a tribe.
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    Supreme Court to Revisit ICWA
    DesRochers’ story is just one of more than a dozen cases outlined in an amicus brief by the Christian Alliance for Indian Child Welfare before the Supreme Court. On Nov. 9, the high court will hear oral arguments in the case Haaland v. Brackeen, where the court will decide on the ICWA’s constitutionality.

    The Alliance’s amicus brief claims the law violates the Constitution’s equal protection clause and exceeds congressional authority in child custody cases, which are decided at the state level.”

    https://thefederalist.com/2022/11/01/scotus-to-decide-if-american-indian-babies-can-be-ripped-from-adoptive-parents-on-the-basis-of-skin-color/

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  45. Entire Article @ NationalFile:

    “Mark Finchem, the GOP candidate for secretary of state in Arizona, was locked out of his Twitter account just under 10 days before the election. When new Twitter boss Elon Musk was informed of the issue, he said he will be looking into it. Less than an hour after Musk’s tweet, Finchem’s account was restored.

    “After careful review, we determined your account broke the Twitter Rules,” reads the notification received by Finchem. “Your account is temporarily in read-only mode, which means you can’t Tweet, Retweet or Like content. Most accounts regain access within a week, but it could take longer.”

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  47. Where the heck is everybody? No-one at M’s either…..not even 8:30 am and I’m already bored! I’m going to the library today at some point, before the cold temps hit. Gotta get some non-boring books.

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  48. Entire Article @ Spectat0r.org:

    “How many Americans don’t fit into one of the categories of depressed, frustrated, angry, or maybe all three? The people who are truly delusional — including President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris — seem to have convinced much of the media that they’re perfectly normal.

    In just one of the bizarre incidents last week, a man broke into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s residence and assaulted her husband with a hammer. The alleged assailant, David DePape, is a nudist activist and clearly a whacko. But there is nothing abnormal about DePape in the San Francisco community in which he lives.

    In another weird incident, a man reading a Bible in Madison, Wisconsin, was assaulted by protesters, who seized his Bible and tore it up. One protester reportedly ate pages from the book. This, in Madison — one of the most liberal communities outside of Berserk-ely, California, and Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts — is also probably not abnormal.

    In just the past week, Biden said that Harris was “a great president,” wandered away from a White House tree-planting ceremony saying, “Where are we going?,” and said that the Democrats campaigned for Obamacare in 54 states in 2018. (Rep. Lauren Boebert tweeted an appropriate response: “I guess if you count the states of denial, confusion, delusion and disaster that his Regime has caused he just might be on to something.” Boebert is on to something: the real mood of the nation.)

    Biden also said that he’d passed his student loan buyout by only a couple of votes and that gasoline cost $5 a gallon when he was inaugurated. (The student loan buyout wasn’t considered by Congress, far less passed into law. Biden ordered it without legal authority. Gasoline was about $2.39 a gallon when he came into office.)

    I didn’t watch the Pennsylvania Senate debate between Dr. Mehmet Oz and John Fetterman, but I have seen enough clips to know that Fetterman cannot conduct a normal conversation. Between Biden and Fetterman, it almost seems that the Dems are trying to make mental incapacity stylish. In Biden, it’s been obvious since he was elected. In Fetterman’s case, it has been evident throughout his campaign.

    Even CNN admits that the Fetterman campaign is apparently covering up significant neurological injury he suffered in a stroke in May. One NBC report featured stroke victims who identify with him because of their personal struggles. Feeling empathy for someone is not enough reason to vote for him or her.

    Fetterman is clearly unfit for service in the Senate, where — despite the performance of senators such as Dianne Feinstein, who reportedly can’t remember where she is or to whom she last spoke — the ability to speak and argue with others remains at least a convenience. (Feinstein remains on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, where she is privy to our nation’s most closely guarded secrets. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer doesn’t see the need to remove her from the committee.)

    But Fetterman may yet be elected. According to the Wall Street Journal, more than 630,000 mail-in ballots had been cast before his debate with Oz, amounting to about 48 percent of the ballots requested. The only good news is that Biden and Harris made an appearance in Pennsylvania last Friday to campaign for Fetterman. They’re so unpopular that their appearance may yet sink him.

    The reason they’re unpopular is entirely clear. Crime rates have skyrocketed nationwide, especially in most major cities. People don’t feel safe in their homes, far less out in the streets. Inflation is steady at about 8 percent; mortgage interest rates are above 7 percent (the highest in about 20 years). A lot of Americans — maybe one in every four families — are skipping Thanksgiving dinner because it’s too expensive. That’s both frightening and depressing.

    The Biden crew still claims that our border is secure. The truth is that at least 2.3 million illegals came into the country in fiscal year 2022. That doesn’t include the 600,000 “gotaways,” who are the drug smugglers, other criminals, and terrorists Biden’s open border lets into the country. About 380 people on the terrorist watchlist have been apprehended by Customs and Border Protection this year alone.

    But the Democrats don’t want you to believe that crime is even a problem. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, when pressed in a debate to speak about the state’s crime surge and cashless bail, said: “I don’t know why that’s so important to you.… Anyone who commits a crime under our laws … has consequences.” Unless, of course, they’re released on cashless bail to commit more violent crimes even before the charges against them are reduced or dropped entirely by a “progressive” prosecutor.

    But despite the Dems’ best efforts, even many Democrats are fed up with the way the federal and state governments are being run. According to a Washington Post report of an interview with a Democrat strategist, Democrats are suffering from “blue-state depression,” with voters in blue states experiencing “fatigue” from “pandemic restrictions, one-party dominance, and concerns about violent crime and quality of life.”

    And there’s worse coming. New York and parts of New England are already rationing heating fuel. Energy companies are warning that shortages of diesel fuel — essential to trucks carrying virtually everything that makes our economy function — are growing critical. One report says that the diesel reserve is down to about a 25-days supply. When those shortages are felt — soon after the election — trucks won’t be able to deliver the things we need most. It’s probably going to be a very long, cold winter.

    We’re now a week before a truly critical election. Don’t plan on waking up next Wednesday to the results. There will be a lot of mail-in ballots to count, the defeated candidates — which, we hope, will be Democrats — won’t concede, and the election will drag on for weeks or months. And, regardless of the results, the Dems won’t have learned anything. Their delusions will not be cured.

    As I have written before, January 2025 can’t come soon enough.”

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    1. when times are tough, we need upbeat patriotic can-do fix-it types—encouraging us to band together–we’re in this together type of american compassion–to pull out of the funk and have hope.
      this dem administration is the poster child for hopeless

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