Butterballs!

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Thankfully, I am NOT referring to the butterball above! I’m talking turkey!!

Female turkeys don’t gobble, but they do purr.

Turkeys are known for the gobbling sound they make, but it turns out that only the male birds make that iconic call. Female turkeys—or hens—on the other hand, will instead cluck like a chicken, yelp if they’re excited or agitated, or purr like a cat (although, according to the National Wild Turkey Federation, it’s more of a “rolling, almost staccato call” than a purr, but it conveys the same feeling of contentment).

Turkeys were once primarily bred for their feathers, not their meat.

These days, farmers breed turkeys in order to sell them for their meat. But, according to Encyclopedia Britannica, up until 1935, the birds were bred for their “beautifully colored plumage,” which features stunning striped patterns.

An adult turkey has around 5,000 to 6,000 feathers.

Not only do turkeys have gorgeous feathers, but they also have a lot of them. According to the U.S. Fish and Wild Life Service, an adult turkey has anywhere from 5,000 to 6,000 individual feathers on their body.

Male turkeys are called toms or gobblers.

Female turkeys are called hens, just like female chickens; but male turkeys aren’t roosters. Instead, they’re called toms, or, since male turkeys are the ones who make the notorious gobbling sound, they can also be called gobblers.

Toms have more warts than hens.

While some of the differences between male and female turkeys could be considered endearing—such as the noises they make and the names they’ve been given—there’s at least one difference between the two genders that isn’t quite so cute. Tom turkeys have more warts on their heads than their lady friends, according to Encyclopedia Britannica. Hens also weigh about half as much as their male counterparts.

Male and female turkey droppings are shaped differently.

Although you might expect there to be a few differences between the way male and female turkeys look, you might be surprised to find out that there’s also a difference when it comes to their bathroom habits. According to the Pennsylvania Game Commission, male droppings are “j-shaped,” while those of females take on a more “spiral or curlicue” shape.

Turkeys hear certain sounds better than humans.

When you think about animals with amazing hearing, dogs, elephants, bats, or owls likely come to mind, but probably not turkeys. It turns out, however, turkeys can actually hear far-off and low-frequency sounds better than humans, according to the National Wild Turkey Federation. “Hearing allows the bird to detect a threat if its eyes are occupied on finding food,” retired regional biologist Bob Eriksen for the NWTF explains. “Wild turkeys have an uncanny ability to locate the source of a sound.”

Turkeys lived around 10 million years ago.

The woolly mammoth had its hey-day on Earth until about 10,500 years ago before eventually becoming extinct 4,000 years ago. While it’s hard to imagine a turkey flying above a gigantic woolly mammoth, the birds have actually been around for a lot longer. In fact, turkeys have been on the scene for almost 10 million years, according to the University of Illinois.

Turkeys almost went extinct—twice.

While turkeys aren’t currently an endangered species, there were two points in the past when we almost lost them completely. According to the Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine, the California turkey went extinct about 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, likely due to climate change or overhunting, or a combination of the two. And when European settlers arrived in America, turkeys again found themselves as targets of prolific hunting. The birds were totally gone from Connecticut by 1813, disappeared from Vermont around 1842, and by the 1930s, turkeys were again growing dangerously close to extinction before efforts were taken to make sure they weren’t wiped out.

Turkeys were named after the “Turkish” area despite being from North America.

You might have wondered why turkeys have the name that they do despite the fact that they originated in North America. Encyclopedia Britannica explains that when the bird became popular in England, the name turkey-cock, formerly used for the guinea fowl found in Islamic (or “Turkish”) lands, was used to refer to the bird we know as a turkey today.

All but 12 U.S. states have turkeys.

While people in all 50 states enjoy turkey as a part of their Thanksgiving dinners, the birds, specifically Eastern wild turkeys, can be found roaming wild in 38 states in the U.S., according to the National Wild Turkey Federation. They can also be spotted in various provinces up in Canada.

Turkey beards grow three to five inches per year.

Yes, turkeys have beards, but they aren’t made of hair. Instead, turkey beards consist of modified feathers that form bristles or filaments, according to the Pennsylvania Game Commission. Some turkeys even have multiple beards that can each grow up to three to five inches each year.

Turkeys can—and will—attack humans.

Turkeys may not have the fierce reputation that some fang-gnashing, claw-showing predators have earned, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t have an aggressive side. In fact, turkeys are fully willing and able to attack humans. That’s why the Massachusetts government provides tips on how to prevent conflicts with turkeys while both CBS Boston and Good Day Sacramento offer insights into what to do should you find yourself as a victim of a turkey attack.

Store-bought turkeys can’t fly.

The turkey that you buy at the grocery store has been bred and raised to provide you with as much meat as possible. Because of this, they end up with unnaturally large breasts which hinder their ability to fly, according to The Patriot News.

Wild turkeys, however, can soar for over a mile.

Wild turkeys, on the other hand, are perfectly capable of taking flight. In fact, according to The Patriot News, they can reach speeds of up to 55 miles per hour while in the air. And the Pennsylvania Game Commission reports they can soar for a mile or more by alternating between strong wingbeats and gliding.

Turkeys can run 12 miles per hour.

Some turkeys may not be able to fly, but their inability to get airborne doesn’t completely slow them down. Even while on the ground, they can still move at a pretty good clip, running upwards of 12 miles an hour, according to the Pennsylvania Game Commission.

Turkeys have more than doubled in size in the last 40 years.

If you’re able to feed your entire family with one turkey at Thanksgiving, that’s due to the fact that the birds have gotten much bigger over the years. As recently as 1980, the typical U.S. domesticated turkey weighed less than 19 pounds at slaughter—not much bigger than a wild turkey, according to the Pew Research Center. But nowadays, the average bird we carve up on Thanksgiving weighs 29.8 pounds, more than twice the average weight nearly 40 years ago.

We eat nearly 50 million turkeys each Thanksgiving.

Around 88 percent of Americans choose the traditional bird for their Thanksgiving meal, which means that around 46 million turkeys are eaten in the U.S. on that one day each year, according to the University of Illinois. It’s also a popular pick for other holidays as well, with 22 million and 19 million eaten each year on Christmas and Easter, respectively.

The average American eats 104.9 pounds of turkey every year.

Along with eating turkeys on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter, Americans also enjoy the bird’s meat throughout the rest of the year in sandwiches, soups, and a range of other dishes. And according to 2015 data from U.S. News and World Report, the average U.S. citizen eats nearly 105 pounds of turkey annually.

Nearly 229 million turkeys were produced in the U.S. last year.

There are more than 330 million people in the United States. And in 2019 alone, 229 million turkeys were produced across the country, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service. Soon they might overtake us!

The world record for the fastest turkey carving is 3 minutes and 19.47 seconds.

On June 3, 2009, the U.K.’s Paul Kelly set the Guinness World Record for the fastest time to carve a turkey. He was able to successfully butcher the bird in just 3 minutes and 19.47 seconds!

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    1. Good morning! Yepper – all except the truck clock, which will be changed the next time I go somewhere. Interesting about the turkeys…..a lot in there I didn’t know. Unfortunately, those meaty turkey breasts are all-too-often the result of chemicals. Wild turkeys are really gorgeous birds!

      I was doing some experimenting boosting the color saturation in my pics – what do you think?


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            1. Thank you! I thought so, too! And all those big-wig photographers have the fancy, shmancy cameras with different parts and pieces to make their pics look perfect and cost thousands of $$$’s whereas mine are coming from a pocket-size digital camera that cost about $300 – a lot for me at the time!!! Screw ’em! I’m having fun – that’s all that counts to me!

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              1. any local contests you can enter?
                the penny saver here has contests…and the local bank has contests for photographs for their bank calendars…it’s small stuff…but it might get you recognized!

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        1. She has been with him for quite some time. From August: “Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) top spokesperson is moving over to his reelection campaign.

          Christina Pushaw began working for the governor’s office as DeSantis’s press secretary a little more than a year ago, but in that time she’s earned a reputation among Florida politicos and journalists for her combative online presence and frequent squabbling with reporters and virtually anyone willing to criticize her boss.”

          https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3598340-desantis-press-secretary-christina-pushaw-resigns-from-governors-office-to-join-his-campaign/

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  15. from tcth

    Citizen817
    November 6, 2022 5:53 am

    Experts, GOP Reps Call On The Biden Admin To Shut Down A Secret Chinese Police Station In NYC

    The U.S. government must launch a probe into the Chinese overseas law enforcement operation in New York City, as other countries raise the alarm over reports of police stations on their soil.

    In 2022, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) established secret police stations in over 100 cities around the world to conduct intimidation and harassment operations against overseas Chinese, human rights organization Safeguard Defenders revealed in a September report. While other countries have announced probes into the alleged police stations, the location within American Changle Association — a Chinatown community organization in New York City — continues to operate outside legal boundaries and should be shut down.

    “There has been a noticeable uptick in incidents where the Chinese government is targeting people on other nations’ soil,” Senate Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Jim Risch of Idaho, who also serves on the Senate’s intelligence committee.

    “This shows the Chinese Communist Party is not afraid to exert its will outside of China, and we should do all that we can to counter this behavior.”

    https://dailycaller.com/2022/11/05/government-close-china-police-station/

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  22. Entire Article @ BizPacReview: “The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finalizing rules that will restrict oil and gas producers’ methane emissions which could raise costs for independent drillers and force them to shut down.

    The EPA’s methane rules, which are expected to be implemented in 2023, will force oil and gas well operators to plug methane leaks and adopt new performance standards for existing sources of methane emissions, according to the rule’s text. Such regulations could significantly raise operating costs for independent energy producers who mostly operate smaller wells and force them to go out of business, industry groups told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

    “The EPA’s regulatory program can be exceptionally demanding on small wells, which can be made uneconomical if the rule isn’t carefully crafted,” Independent Petroleum Association of America Executive Vice President Lee Fuller told the DCNF. “This is concerning because, during the 2020 election, Biden talked about eliminating fossil fuel energy as quickly as possible.”

    The proposed regulations would fight the “climate crisis” by cutting 41 million tons of methane emissions from 2023 to 2035 or about 920 million tons of carbon dioxide, according to the EPA. Methane is a “potent greenhouse gas” that contributes to climate change by trapping about 30 times as much heat as carbon dioxide over 100 years.

    All wells with estimated methane emissions of three tons a year or more are required to search for leaks using optical gas imaging and must “promptly repair” any leaks found, according to a summary of the proposed rule. However, small well sites emit less than six barrels of oil equivalent per day of methane, falling below the three tons per year threshold, according to an Energy Department study released in April.

    “EPA should retain a low production well distinction in the regulations,” a spokesman for Kansas Independent Oil & Gas Association, told the DCNF. “Regulations designed for large wells do not function appropriately for low-production wells.”The EPA released the proposed rules on Nov. 2, the same day as Biden’s Global Methane Pledge in which the president promised to reduce methane emissions a”s quickly as possible” during the COP26 UN climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland.

    Biden will also attend Egypt’s COP27 conference two days after election day and 40 countries will release new plans to curb methane emissions at the conference, Reuters reported.

    “Small wells can quickly become uneconomic with onerous rules and would likely be shut down because operators cannot absorb the additional regulatory burden,” Western Energy Alliance President Kathleen Sgamma told the DCNF.

    The Democrats’ $370 billion climate spending bill, which Biden signed into law in August, will place fees on producers’ excess methane emissions. Oil and gas companies will have to pay $900 per metric ton of methane they emit in 2024, $1,200 per ton in 2025 and $1,500 in 2026.

    “Since the rules affect about 760,000 marginal wells producing about 8% of America’s oil and natural gas, shutting them down by regulation would take away an important source of energy and result in a huge loss of jobs,” Sgamma said.

    The EPA considered the nearly 500,000 comments that were submitted in response to the methane proposal and intends to release a supplemental proposal soon, the agency said in a statement provided to the DCNF.”

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  23. I did some research on this group – Marshall Yates is from Hillsdale College – outstanding reference, IMO. And this gal who headed up the Fairfax County EIN is awesome!!! At this point, I give this group a 5-star rating!!!

    EXCERPT: “As states and localities across the country prepare for Election Day on Tuesday, a grassroots election integrity organization is training and helping mobilize citizens to monitor and participate in elections.

    The Election Integrity Network (EIN) began by hosting a summit last year prior to Virginia’s 2021 gubernatorial race to train people to work the polls on Election Day. As a result of the summit, state and local coalitions were created from task forces to focus on election issues and share them with each other so they can learn from everyone’s experiences.

    One of the resources EIN provides is the “Citizens Guide to Building an Election Integrity Infrastructure” to help people get involved in election integrity in their communities.
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    EIN uses the coalition model that was first used in Virginia to build coalitions in other states. Virginia focused on training poll workers and watchers so that there was 85-90% coverage of polls during the state’s off-year election in 2021. Nationwide, more than 80,000 poll workers and watchers have been recruited.

    States where EIN is active include Georgia, Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Nevada, Tennessee, Minnesota, Illinois, and Arizona. EIN estimates it has trained more than 1,000 people in Pennsylvania, more than 2,000 each in North Carolina, Wisconsin and Arizona, and more than 3,000 in Illinois.
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    Yates said that the chair of the Fairfax County, Va. Election Integrity Task Force, Christine Brim, was involved in alerting the county to the vulnerabilities of election software company Konnech, with which the county had a contract.
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    Next year, EIN is focusing on the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), which “is a non-profit organization with the sole mission of assisting states to improve the accuracy of America’s voter rolls and increase access to voter registration for all eligible citizens,” according to ERIC’s website.

    A total of 33 states and Washington, D.C., are part of ERIC, which is a database that states can use to cross-reference voter registration to ensure that someone isn’t registered to vote in more than one state.”

    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/nationwide-grassroots-election-integrity-effort-gains-momentum-local

    Video of Marshall Yates:

    “How Local Election Integrity Volunteers in Fairfax, VA Were Right, Polite, and Persistent in Making the Case to Sever Ties with Konnech”

    “Christine Brim, Chairman of the Fairfax County, VA Election Integrity Task Force describes in this episode of Who’s Counting? with Cleta Mitchell how her group of local volunteers took action in August 2022 when they first heard of possible ties between their county’s poll worker management software, PollChief and the Chinese Communist Party. These dedicated Virginia volunteers researched for themselves information about the company that owns PollChief: Konnech Software. After confirming the validity of the allegations about Konnech’s ties to the CCP, they began providing that documentation to the Fairfax County election officials.

    For nearly two months, the volunteers politely – and rightly – persisted in forwarding documentation about potential data sharing with China….and continued asking, “Will Fairfax County terminate its contract with Konnech?”

    Then, when Eugene Yu, CEO of Konnech was arrested on October 4th on charges of identity theft of election worker data, a Pandora’s box of election integrity threats exploded in public view – and Fairfax County took immediate action – because they had been educated by their local citizen volunteers.

    In this episode of Who’s Counting? with Cleta Mitchell, Cleta speaks with Christine about what their local task force did, how they did it, and how they politely but accurately informed their local election administrators about why Fairfax County needed to terminate the Konnech contract.

    This episode confirms the vital role of the local election integrity task forces and the importance of citizen researchers and volunteers who can support local election officials if those officials will accept their help. Something that the Fairfax County election officials ultimately did. Other election officials should take heed and listen to their citizens as did Fairfax County on Konnech.

    To view Christine’s report on the history and details of the Konnech security breach, click here. https://fairfaxgop.org/information-for-election-officers-on-konnech-software/

    This is a case study in why EIN is doing what it is doing. Building a permanent election integrity infrastructure.”

    https://rumble.com/v1nkjk4-time-for-election-offices-in-the-us-to-dis-konnech-from-ccp-related-company.html

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  24. EXCERPT: “An influential United Kingdom (UK) based social purpose organization that was blamed for the UK government’s use of “grossly unethical tactics to scare public into Covid compliance” is recommending that banks use the “wealth of data that they hold” to provide “carbon feedback” on transactions and introduce social credit-style rewards and incentives to encourage “sustainable behaviours.”

    The measures are being pushed by the Behavioural Insights Team (also known as “The Nudge Unit”) which specializes in using behavioral insights to “nudge” people into changing their behavior. In a recent blog post, The Nudge Unit revealed that it had partnered with “carbon footprint management” company Cogo to “explore how banks should go about nudging their customers to go green.”

    Cogo already has partnerships with several banks, including the UK’s NatWest bank, which uses Cogo’s services to provide a personalized, real-time carbon footprint tracker in its mobile app. Cogo’s carbon footprint tracker displays carbon footprint saving and recommendation messages next to transactions. The messages include “you could save up to 138kg [of carbon] by taking public transport” and “you could save up to 7kg of carbon by changing your diet.”

    After surveying 2,007 UK mobile banking users, The Nudge Unit and Cogo found that 40% of users did not support their bank providing advice or support about reducing their environmental impact. The most common reasons users had for opposing their bank pushing these messages were that “it’s not the banks’ responsibility” and “data privacy concerns.”

    Regardless, The Nudge Unit and Cogo are still urging banks to “seize this opportunity” by “introducing carbon feedback.” Specifically, The Nudge Unit and Cogo are recommending that banks “nudge customers to take the sustainable actions that people are most willing to take” by focusing on behaviors related to energy, green finance, and electric vehicles and using reward programs and incentives to encourage sustainable behaviors.”
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    In addition to advising the UK government, The Nudge Unit also lists US state and city governments, Australian government agencies, local UK police forces, and the Bank of England as some of the groups that it works with.”

    https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-nudge-unit-banks-carbon-footprint-tracking/

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  33. Entire Article: “Fauci seethes over ‘terrible’ booster uptake, blames ‘lies and misinformation’
    Only 7% of Americans have received the mouse-tested shot.”

    Jordan Schachtel
    21 min ago

    “Speaking at an awards ceremony over the weekend, retiring government bureaucrat Anthony Fauci expressed his dismay over the fact that Americans seem entirely uninterested in getting the latest Pfizer and Moderna booster shots.

    “We have a COVID vaccine and a booster that is matched very well to the circulating virus and yet only about 15% of people who have been vaccinated have gotten the boost, that is terrible,” Fauci raged, like a pharma rep who failed to meet his sales quota. “We’ve got to do better than that.”

    In total, only about 7% of all Americans have taken the new shot, according to the CDC. The boosters were only tested on mice, but approved for emergency use through the FDA’s rubber stamp partnership with Pfizer and Moderna.

    There is no evidence that the boosters do anything beneficial to help combat Covid-19. Recent studies by both Columbia and Harvard found that the new boosters are no more effective than the old expired mRNA shots. Pfizer, which obviously has a conflict of interest in the matter, has released its own “study” claiming otherwise.

    At the event, Fauci paradoxically received a humanitarian award named after Muhammad Ali, the anti-establishment, counter culture boxing icon who was persecuted by career government bureaucrats like Fauci for his refusal to serve in Vietnam. Fauci, for his part, avoided the draft by joining the NIH.

    In his acceptance speech, the disgruntled bureaucrat expressed his disgust with Americans who refuse to follow Government Health orders.

    “I want to encourage the young people here today but really throughout this country to reject a key ill that is currently tearing apart civil society,” he started. “What I refer to as the normalization of untruths. Put more bluntly, the normalization of lies that we see all around us. Now, helped along by social media, facts and falsehoods now coexist as sometimes equals, deliberately sowing confusion and discord, and distorting reality,” he continued. “It is easy to become so inured to the ubiquity of misinformation that we simply accept it.”

    Speaking of lies and misinformation…

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  35. well that was enlightening.
    I needed a lid for a container and that turned into a 15 minute search in my cabinet…gees! now everything is paired up as it should be and I have 19 extra lids without containers…
    aliens must be swiping the containers at night

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  37. getting WAAAAAAAY better treatment than the homeless or Vets in this country—THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE FOR LAW BREAKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    entire nauseating article
    Homeland Security not only put illegal immigrant families up in hotels at taxpayer expense but the contract it signed insisted they be given five-star treatment with laundry service, their choice of mattresses and guards — not to keep them in, but to keep others out.

    Some of those contracting details were revealed by America First Legal, a conservative outfit run by former top Trump aides, which obtained documents through an open-records request and called some of the accommodations for illegal immigrants “astounding.”

    Immigrants were given the option of meat at every meal, 24-hour access to drinks and snacks, babysitters to watch their children, television with programming in English and Spanish and a choice of mattresses for their beds.

    The hotels were part of the Biden administration’s response to the unprecedented surge of illegal immigrants that swamped Homeland Security’s resources in early 2021.

    The department used the hotels to house migrant families it was still trying to process.
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    Family Endeavors Inc. won no-bid contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars from ICE and Health and Human Services despite not having any experience with that size contract.

    The awards came after the firm hired Andrew Lorenzen-Strait, who had previously served as a senior ICE official overseeing treatment and then worked as a member of the incoming Biden administration’s transition team after the 2020 election.

    “We thought that it was important to make this information public so that the average citizen can see what the government is up to,” said Reed D. Rubinstein, senior counselor and director of investigations at American First Legal. “That’s where this contract is really helpful because it gives you a. window — a small window, but a window nonetheless — into how the Biden administration is conducting itself.”

    Hotels were used in El Paso, Pecos and Cotulla, Texas, and Chandler and Phoenix in Arizona.

    Among the things Family Endeavors promised ICE in the contract was that it would never refer to the illegal immigrants it was detaining as “detainees” or “aliens” — even though they were, legally, both of those. The contracting document even uses those legal terms repeatedly to refer to the immigrants.

    The Times reached out to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for comment for this story.

    AFL said the illegal immigrants seemed to get more consideration than Americans, including veterans. The organization pointed out that Texas and Arizona, where the hotels were commandeered, have nearly 40,000 homeless residents — including 3,000 veterans.

    AFL obtained more than 150 pages of documents from an open-records request, though it took more than a year for ICE to produce them.

    The hotels reported in the documents were two Best Westerns, one Comfort Suites, one Wood Springs Suites, one Holiday Inn Express, one MicroHotel and one Hampton Inn.

    Key details were redacted, including the prices paid for specific services. Indeed, even the room rate for the hotels is blocked out in the documents, with officials calling that sensitive proprietary information.

    What did emerge from the contract were efforts to ensure illegal immigrants were made comfortable, had “unfettered” access to lawyers, and were not disturbed by the general public.

    The document specifically told Family Endeavors it had no obligation to prevent the illegal immigrants from leaving the hotels — though it could try to impose unspecified “consequences” on those that did leave.

    “Service provider shall provide security to ensure resident safety; but said security primary function[sic] is to ensure no unauthorized individuals enter the residential facility,” the contract said.

    The contract said migrants must be provided with at least a 4-inch thick mattress, but if that wasn’t to their liking they could request to double up with at least two 3-inch pads.

    Meat-based courses had to be part of all three daily meals, with Kosher, Halal and vegetarian meals also available — and all of it delivered as room service.

    The documents said migrants were to be instructed on the proper use of trash cans and “proper use of toilet tissue.”

    That is likely due to problems ICE encountered over the last decade as the demographics of the illegal immigrant population shifted, and newcomers were unfamiliar with U.S. plumbing’s ability to handle toilet paper. ICE detention facilities reported soiled paper being strewn about cells as migrants sought in vain for trash cans or other means to dispose of the refuse.

    Migrants were also to be instructed in the proper use of toothbrushes.

    Mandatory roll call was also banned. Instead, service employees were told to check in with the illegal immigrants a few times a day “in a manner approved by ICE.”

    The hotels also provided a “suggestion box” to receive complaints.

    Mr. Rubinstein said that while decent treatment of migrants is a given, the Biden administration’s approach is part of the reason it’s faced record border chaos.

    “You can rest assured that tales of free television and so forth are making their way back to other countries and helping to stimulate immigration,” Mr. Rubinstein said.

    ICE ended the hotel program early this year. In court documents, the agency said it had improved its catch-and-release program at the border enough that the hotel space is no longer needed.

    But while the hotels were in operation. advocates for the illegal immigrant children complained that they couldn’t be sure all proper detention standards were being met.

    They also told a federal judge they were worried the migrants would languish at the hotels, rather than be released quickly under the terms of a legal settlement governing the treatment of illegal immigrant children.

    The contract details track with other ICE agreements on how to handle illegal immigrant children and families.

    The Washington Times has previously reported on the conditions at shelters for unaccompanied immigrant children, run by Health and Human Services, and for detention facilities for families, run by ICE.

    The HHS shelters piped music deemed “sensitive to culture and preference” into the rooms of the children, while dietitians scrutinized the menus each day to make sure they included whole grains but not whole milk. Doctors and dentists treated the children, often delivering the first medical care of their lives.

    Shelters also organized field trips for the kids.

    ICE family facilities had soccer fields and volleyball courts, classrooms for kids, a computer lab and extensive cable television access.

    The Obama administration expanded use of the family facilities, with officials at the time saying they helped solve the first family migrant surge.

    The Trump administration also used the facilities, but the Biden administration, bowing to pressure from immigrant-rights activists, has emptied the facilities of families and instead released them as quickly as possible.

    https://amp.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/nov/6/feds-paid-room-service-laundry-and-babysitters-ill/

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  39. [NF: Exactly the situation I experienced with Dennis – his lies were just soooo outrageous, everyone believed them!!!]

    EXCERPT: “In a former role I had a boss who lied a lot. The lies were pure fantasy, but massive in scope and delivered with sincerity. They were very successful. This success was based on the reluctance of most people to consider that someone in a position of authority in a humanitarian organization would completely ignore any semblance of reality. People assumed the claims must be true, as fabricating information to that extent in those circumstances seemed to defy logic.

    The principle of Really Big Lies is based on their being so divorced from reality that the listener will assume their own perception must be flawed, rather than the claims of the person speaking to them. Only an insane or ridiculous person would make such outlandish claims, and a credible institution would not employ such a person.

    Therefore, given that the institution was apparently credible, the statements must also be credible, and the listener’s prior perception of reality therefore flawed. Lesser lies, by contrast, are likely to be perceived as sufficiently close to known reality to be provably wrong. Inventing truth can be more effective than bending it.

    Early on, my colleagues would ask me to “do something about it,” as they still thought the organization should not lie to our source of funds, to partners, or to the audience of scientific meetings. Over time many of these same colleagues learned that integrity was a poor career choice, whilst good team players supported false narratives. Though I had always been aware of the fragility of integrity, this place taught me a lot about human behavior. In the end, only a minority refused to participate. It was excellent preparation for COVID-19 and the evolving credibility crisis of global public health.
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    The above is all either unethical or clear nonsense, contradicted by prior public health orthodoxy. If these positions were only slightly wrong, they would promote internal argument and debate. However, they are so far beyond the pale that to question them means questioning a whole system of authority and learning, the entire current hierarchy of public health. This would risk employment and the support of colleagues, and cause avoidable stress. Holding to the new dogma enables a positive career path and financial security, as did siding with the Inquisition centuries ago. Success requires loyalty, and loyalty must be demonstrated by repeating dogma so that the outside world can see only consensus.
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    Whilst growing their industry’s finances, public health professionals are degrading themselves and betraying society. The betrayal, based on incessant lying, is something for which they will inevitably face consequences. In our lying, we have betrayed our constituency, as we did previously over eugenics and forced sterilization. It is a poor record and one to be ashamed of. Eventually, even the most dedicated followers will begin to question the sense of putting on a mask at a restaurant door only to remove it 10 steps later, or vaccinating vast populations against a disease to which they are already immune whilst they die of other readily preventable diseases.

    The way out of this is simply to refuse to lie, or to cover for the lies of others. This may seem self-evident, but clearly it is not. The relatively high salaries and public esteem that health professions have experienced may make it harder to step away, but truth will catch up, one day, to those that don’t. Cults eventually decay as leaders become drunk on power and the most dedicated devotees struggle to remain obsequious. It is far better to leave early and live with dignity.

    Epilogue — The teller of very big lies from my former workplace was only respected by those who also lied, and those who remained fooled. It’s a poor substitute for dignity. Those working to promote the current spate of lies in public health, or keeping their heads down while these lies harm others, will have to decide whose respect is worth holding. One can fool many, and sometimes even oneself, but in the long run one can never escape truth.”

    https://brownstone.org/articles/global-health-and-the-art-of-really-big-lies/

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  40. “It Was a Short Time Ago and Never Happened Anyway” — By Richard Kelly, November 1, 2022

    Entire Article @ Brownstone: “The moral code of the West, greatly diminished already, has all but disappeared under the onslaught of the last 3 years. A great crime was committed while what’s left of morality fought bravely but could make little impact. Lives were ruined, wealth was stolen, agency snatched away. Lockdown as a tactic appears defeated for the moment – vaccine injury is still hush-hush.

    There are other good reasons to think the onslaught is not over, that we are at the moment in a ‘phony war’ while enemy forces regroup. Inflation, energy, food, surveillance are all active fronts in the broader battle. It hardly matters which one will flare up next.

    In each case, the battle boils down to privileging the immediate needs of the individual, over the perceived, modelled, future ‘needs of the state’ or indeed the ‘needs of the planet.’ The primacy of the individual over the ‘needs of the state’ (or the ‘needs of the planet’ as a more palatable lie) is under serious, imminent threat. To survive, and eventually perhaps to recover, we are going to have to face painful truths.

    At the moment, the best some people can manage is to stay silent, where before they may have been quietly collaborating with lockdowns, masks, social distancing – which let’s face it, are disgusting euphemisms for, respectively, imprisonment, assault and solitary confinement.

    Some people are not even at that point. They are still completely unaware of what has happened to them, and what they are doing to others. They are like the Japanese soldiers still fighting the war in the Pacific decades later. For them, a deadly pathogen stalks their every move; they persist with their magic incantations, costumes and dances, by which I mean endlessly talking about Covid and cases and variants, wearing filthy bacteria-infested porous rags on their faces, and avoiding handshakes in favour of pathetic hands-clasped-in-prayer nodding and bowing.

    Their magic cannot offer salvation, but they don’t realise that and it’s all they have. They have lost any ability to think for themselves. They are Henny Penny – “The sky is falling!” Why else would they say “Oh dear, a member of our congregation has Covid, we’d better put masks on this Sunday just to be sure.”

    To be sure of what, exactly? I’ll tell you what – lurking in the back of their conscience, is the fear that they might accidentally open their eyes to the truth, and be exposed for the fool (at best) or the monster (at worst) that they already were, or became. What they want to ‘be sure’ of is that this nagging doubt is never brought to the surface.

    Some people, as we see starting to emerge, confident enough in their own track record of behaviour throughout this whole shooting match, who see themselves as having had ‘a good war,’ have the gall to start talking about forgiveness, skipping straight over those inconvenient moral concepts of confession and justice. Those who fit into this group are also employing ‘the royal we;’ that is, shifting any notion of guilt away from any single individual person, let alone they themselves, instead talking in more abstract terms about what ‘we’ as a society got wrong.

    From their point of view, they personally do not have anything to apologise or atone for, but they can be magnanimous enough to forgive others, who acted badly. This is a grotesque spectacle worthy only of contempt.

    The German philosopher Karl Jaspers, writing about Germany after World War II, quoted in David Satter’s 2012 book “It was a long time ago and it never happened anyway’ conceived a fourth type of guilt, to add to three more conventional types of guilt: criminal guilt, political guilt and moral guilt. Jaspers proposed ‘metaphysical guilt,’ which affects all those who were touched by atrocious crimes, whether as participants or not:

    ‘There exists a solidarity among men as human beings that makes each co-responsible for every wrong and every injustice in the world, especially for crimes committed in his presence or with his his knowledge….If I fail to do whatever I can to prevent them, I too am guilty. If I was present at the murder of others without risking my life to prevent it, I feel guilty in a way not adequately conceivable either legally, politically or morally. That I live after such a thing has happened, weighs upon me as indelible guilt. (Karl Jaspers)’

    I seriously doubt that those ‘stunning and brave’ souls coming out now proposing amnesty for the lockdown proponents could look themselves in the eye and and absolve themselves of any metaphysical guilt in connection with the atrocities of the last 3 years. On the contrary, a brief look at their Twitter accounts would likely show quite the opposite.

    Satter’s book referred to above is an examination of Russia and the communist past, and of the fact that there has been no honest examination of the horror of that period. Satter argues that Russia will be forever hampered by its inability to properly acknowledge and memorialise the victims of the Communist experience. The refusal to concede the truth of what happened is a trap which we are in danger of falling into ourselves. If we do, it will be a long painful journey back out, and we might not make it.

    Avoiding the trap, avoiding the analgesic, palliative effects of the seeming return to ‘normality’ will need a Herculean effort. I’m writing this on Melbourne Cup Day, when the rest of the city and perhaps the country, if you believe the marketing, gets excited about the ‘race which stops the nation.’ How comforting to fall into the embrace of the colour and movement, the predictable stories of jockeys and trainers, and thoroughbreds, and fashions and hats, and drunkards and parties, and costumes and suits. It’s so much nicer to forget that all that Covid bullshit ever happened.

    But it won’t go away just because you’d prefer to go to the races. I think we can categorise people on a spectrum of denial/acceptance of what the last 3 years entailed. At the denial extreme, are people who actively deny that any atrocities took place. These are the ones about whom we might say ‘methinks thou doest protest too much;’ their active denial likely a front to hide their guilt of which they are all too aware.

    Next are those who passively deny it all by deliberately distracting themselves with other matters, like the Melbourne Cup, and avoiding all talk of ‘it.’ In the middle are the soporific, the ones who don’t even know that something untoward happened, have no consciousness of it, and no inkling that anything ought to be done about it. Venturing beyond the tipping point towards acceptance, the next group are those who understand viscerally that ‘it’ was a sorry chapter but one which will fade into history – the ‘let’s move on’ crowd. At the acceptance end are those who have thought about it, have been horrified by it, have done, or tried to do, something about it.

    The closest some people get is to say “how nice it is to be able to go to the Melbourne Cup and associate freely again.” Of course the truthful reflection should be ‘how appalling it was that they ever presumed to stop us associating freely, those bastards.”

    By now most people will have found one of these positions along the spectrum within which, for the moment at least, they can manage a way forward, a way to keep going in quiet desperation each day with whatever tasks confront them. I think it will be difficult for anyone to move ‘left’ towards the denial end or ‘right’ towards the acceptance end. If once you have opened your eyes, you can’t unsee what is in front of them, so you can’t go back towards denial.

    Likewise, opening one’s eyes unfolds a horrible prospect of what might be further to the ‘right’ – what more will I discover that will appall me? Best not go any further. The exception to this might be those at the acceptance end who, though trying to do something about it, trying to correct the injustices, eventually run out of fortitude, and slip left toward the ‘move on’ crowd. Karl Jaspers again:

    ‘We are sorely deficient in talking to each other and listening to each other. We lack mobility, criticism and self-criticism. We incline to doctrinism. What makes it worse is that so many people do not want to think. They only want slogans and obedience. They ask no questions and they give no answers, except by repeating drilled in phrases.’

    Jaspers’ words echo loudly today. How are we ever to break through to an honest reflection of the atrocities of the last 3 years faced with such intransigence on the part of the very victims of the lockdowns and the vaccines? It seems almost hopeless.

    Some conversations that need to happen face insurmountable obstacles. Some hurts are so deep that they cannot even be written about, except perhaps in a secret journal. These are the conversations between once-were-friends, between parents and children, between husbands and wives, between bosses and staff; destined never to happen, the conversations hold the key to reconciliation. Those in a rush, those making undue haste toward apology and justice, need to bear this in mind. We’re in it for the long haul; raging at those whom we judge to be most complicit is unlikely to bear fruit in the short term, and the more incandescent our rage the quicker we will burn out. A final word from Jaspers:

    ‘All of us have somehow lost the ground under our feet. Only a transcendent…religious or philosophical faith can maintain itself through all these disasters.’

    I’ll be back at church on Sunday. Without a mask. Offering handshakes.”

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  42. EXCLUSIVE – “FBI called to Kari Lake’s campaign office after staff received suspicious white powder in two envelopes with ‘threatening’ messages for Republican Arizona Governor candidate”

    — FBI and police were at the Lake offices from 10pm Saturday to 5am on Sunday
    — A staffer received two envelopes containing a suspicious white powder
    — There were also threatening messages the campaign considers an ‘attack’
    — A hazmat team and bomb squad also responded to the scene in Phoenix
    — Lake is in a tight race in Arizona with her Democratic opponent Katie Hobbs
    — Last week Hobbs suggested Lake was partly to blame for a break-in at her campaign headquarters

    The FBI swooped on Republican Arizona Governor candidate Kari Lake’s campaign offices on Saturday night after staff received suspicious white power, DailyMail.com can reveal. Law enforcement was at the offices in Phoenix from 10pm to 5am after Lake’s team was sent two envelopes with the substance and abusive messages. Her campaign believes this was a ‘terroristic attack, trying to intimidate Kari and the campaign staff’.

    A source familiar with the campaign told DailyMail.com: ‘Yesterday, one of Kari’s staffers opened up an envelope that had a suspicious white powder in it and had a letter in there with a bunch of vulgarities and ranting and raving about Kari. ‘The employee then noticed second package that was exactly like the first one she had opened and she reported it.’

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11396085/FBI-called-Kari-Lakes-campaign-office-staff-received-suspicious-white-powder.html

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  43. asshats are at it again…

    New from AZ / thread:

    Last night, the FBI & Phoenix Police, along w/ hazmat & bomb squad units, responded to an incident involving “suspicious items” at Kari Lake’s campaign HQ, according to Phx Police. A source familiar says white powdery substance was mailed in two envelopes.

    — Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) November 6, 2022

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    1. from the Blaze
      Two envelopes containing a suspicious white powder were allegedly mailed to Kari Lake’s campaign headquarters. The incident reportedly prompted the response of hazmat units and the FBI.

      NBC News correspondent Vaughn Hillyard reported that the FBI, Phoenix Police, hazmat teams, and bomb squad units responded to an alleged incident involving “suspicious items” discovered at Kari Lake’s campaign headquarters around 10 p.m. on Saturday.

      A source said that a “white powdery substance” was found in two envelopes addressed to Lake’s office.

      A campaign staffer reportedly opened one of the envelopes and was exposed to the powder.

      The Daily Mail reported that the envelopes also contained “abusive messages.”

      A source familiar with Lake’s campaign told the Daily Mail, “Yesterday, one of Kari’s staffers opened up an envelope that had a suspicious white powder in it and had a letter in there with a bunch of vulgarities and ranting and raving about Kari. The employee then noticed a second package that was exactly like the first one she had opened and she reported it.”

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      At the time of the incident, Lake was at a campaign event in Scottsdale and away from her headquarters.

      Law enforcement is said to have conducted an investigation at the office until 5 a.m. on Sunday. Investigators have seized the suspicious materials.

      As of yet, the staffer has not reported any symptoms or injuries from the exposure.

      Daily Mail political reporter Rob Crilly said, “Staffer is fine, I’m told, but campaign is shaken up.”

      The Daily Mail reported, “Her campaign believes this was a ‘terroristic attack, trying to intimidate Kari and the campaign staff.'”

      Lake is battling her Democratic opponent Katie Hobbs in the Arizona gubernatorial race.

      This story is breaking and will be updated when new details surface.

      https://www.theblaze.com/news/kari-lake-headquarters-white-powder

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  44. Nice job, officer!!! FB Post:

    “Amazing WORK!!! On the morning of October 29th, a gentleman was running on the Silver Comet when he experienced a cardiac emergency. He went down and stopped breathing. Runners on the trail noticed his condition and immediately called 911 and began giving him CPR. In short time, Officer Yates arrived and took over emergency medical response and began giving CPR to the man. There was no breathing, no pulse, and no other signs of life. Despite his condition, Officer Yates did not give up and gave CPR for over 10 minutes. EMS arrived and took over and within seconds, the man not only regained his pulse, but actually woke up! As EMS placed him onto the stretcher to be loaded into the ambulance, he was actually looking around and asking what had happened.

    Without a doubt, if it was not for the quick actions of the citizens on the trail who immediately began taking care of this stranger, and the endurance of Officer Yates, the Silver Comet would have claimed another life. Thankfully, this man will live to conquer the Silver Comet again another day.

    Amazing work!!!”
    —————-
    Entire Article: “COBB COUNTY, Ga. – A Powder Springs police officer revived a man, who had stopped breathing and had no pulse, after performing CPR for more than 10 minutes until paramedics arrived. The Powder Springs Police Department shared an image from a dashboard camera, taken on Oct. 29 from the Silver Comet Trail.

    Police said a man went into cardiac arrest and people on the trail began to give CPR to the man. Powder Springs Officer Yates arrived at the scene and saw the man was not breathing, there was no pulse and the man showed no signs of life.

    Police said Yates was performing CPR for more than 10 minutes when the man regained his pulse and woke up ask he was loaded into an ambulance by EMS.

    “Without a doubt, if it was not for the quick actions of the citizens on the trail who immediately began taking care of this stranger, and the endurance of Officer Yates, the Silver Comet would have claimed another life,” Powder Springs Police Department said on Facebook. “Thankfully, this man will live to conquer the Silver Comet again another day.”

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  45. from wolfs

    eilertOnline
    November 6, 2022 14:25

    New Q!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    4959

    Q !!Hs1Jq13jV6 11/06/2022 11:18:56 ID: 7790a7

    8kun/qresearch: 17724555

    What groups are financing Ukraine?

    Why are they financing Ukraine?

    Why was Hunter in Ukraine?

    What did ‘Pop’ threaten to withold from Ukraine?

    A billion dollars?

    Who benefits?

    What did ‘Pop’ receive in return?

    Why is Hunter not in jail?

    Think.

    Blackmail?

    Bribes?

    Extortion?

    Threats?

    How do you control a ‘leader’?

    How do you control a country?

    Are you ready to take back control?

    Your vote matters.

    You have all the tools you need.

    Q

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          1. Well, it’s not an old barn, is the problem, altho it looks like one – it used to have a porch and small balcony on the front that they took down – it’s in town, one of my neighbors. If you look closely, it’s got the Tyvek lining in preparation for siding that will be going up on the house soon. If it were, indeed, an old barn/farm scene, then it would look better, I think. Just not quite perfect yet…..I e-mailed a couple of my pics to Nebraskaland magazine and asked for an opinion and they were very dismissive and disdainful…..which, of course, got my back up so…..I’ve decided to pursue this a bit and just find out what I can do.

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              1. Thanks, GA. They pissed me off now….tee-hee! Besides, I really enjoy it – I’ve been a picture-taking fool for many, many years, altho more often than not, it was family, home, plants or animals rather than scenic shots. The skies are so very clear here compared to NOVA.

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  49. lol

    Troublemaker10
    Troublemaker10
    November 6, 2022 3:10 pm

    Benny Johnson
    @bennyjohnson

    Massive “RUN TRUMP RUN” chants break out at Trump rally in Miami, FL two days before midterms.

    …And the rally doesn’t start for another 3 hours

    Miami-Dade is going Red.

    (Video linked in tweet)…

    Massive “RUN TRUMP RUN” chants break out at Trump rally in Miami, FL two days before midterms.

    …And the rally doesn’t start for another 3 hours

    Miami-Dade is going Red. pic.twitter.com/9gnBZJJ7Yi

    — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 6, 2022

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