My Apologies to Cranberries

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In my house growing up, Thanksgiving always featured the gelatinous cranberry sauce above.  It wiggled on the plate as we passed it around—carefully avoiding my plate, thank you very much!  I turned up my nose and passed it along.  Thankfully when I wed, my husband had a similar revulsion to the stuff.  However, upon researching cranberries for this open and seeing more appetizing versions, I realized I probably misjudged this berry.  So I hereby apologize sincerely and if anyone reading this has a good recipe for homemade cranberry sauce, I would be more than willing to try it out.  Read on for some interesting facts about cranberries from the justfunfacts.com website.

The name cranberry is used to describe tart red berries produced by several plant species.

In Britain, cranberry may refer to the native species Vaccinium oxycoccos, while in North America, cranberry may refer to Vaccinium macrocarpon.

Vaccinium oxycoccos is cultivated in central and northern Europe, while Vaccinium macrocarpon is cultivated throughout the northern United States, Canada and Chile.

Vaccinium oxycoccos is known by the common names small cranberry, bog cranberry, swamp cranberry while Vaccinium macrocarpon is known by the common names large cranberry, American cranberry and bearberry.

Native Americans used the cranberries as a staple as early as 1550.

By 1620 Pilgrims learned how to use cranberries from the Native Americans.

The development of cultivated varieties cranberries occurred only during the past 100 years, making it one of the most recently domesticated fruit crops.

Cranberries are a major commercial crop in the U.S. states of Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon, Washington, and Wisconsin, as well as in the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, New Brunswick, Ontario, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Quebec.

Cranberries are low, creeping shrubs or vines that can grow up to 7 feet long and 2 to 8 inches in height.

They have slender, wiry stems that are not thickly woody and have small evergreen leaves.

The flowers are pink, with very distinct reflexed petals, leaving the style and stamens fully exposed and pointing forward. Small flowers appear in June and are pollinated by bees.

The fruit is a berry that is larger than the leaves of the plant; it is initially light green, turning red when ripe. It is edible, but with an acidic taste that usually overwhelms its sweetness.

Berry picking begins in early September and continues until late October. More than 121,255 US tons are produced in the United States annually. Most cranberry products are consumed in the United States and Canada.

Cranberries are a very good source of vitamin C, dietary fiber, and manganese, as well as a good source of vitamin E, vitamin K, copper and pantothenic acid.

The health benefits of cranberries include relief from urinary tract infection (UTI), respiratory disorders, kidney stones, cancer and heart diseases. Cranberries are especially beneficial to the eyes (they significantly improve symptoms of cataracts, macular degeneration, and diabetic retinopathy).

As fresh cranberries are hard, sour, and bitter, about 95% of cranberries are processed and used to make cranberry juice, sauce, compote or jelly.

They are also sold dried and sweetened.

Cranberry juice is usually sweetened or blended with other fruit juices to reduce its natural tartness.

Cranberry sauce is a traditional accompaniment to turkey at Christmas dinner in the United Kingdom, and at Christmas and Thanksgiving dinners in the United States and Canada.

Cranberries are also used in baking (muffins, scones, cakes and breads).

At one teaspoon of sugar per ounce, cranberry juice cocktail is more highly sweetened than even soda drinks that have been linked to obesity.

There are several alcoholic cocktails, including the Cosmopolitan, that include cranberry juice.

The Lenni-lenape Indians of New Jersey called the cranberry “Pakim” meaning ‘bitter berry.’ They used this wild red berry as a part of their food and as a symbol of peace and friendship. The Chippawas called the cranberry “a’ni-bimin,” the Alogonquin called it “atoqua,” and the Naragansetts called it “sasemineash.” Native Americans would eat it raw, mixed in with maple sugar, or with deer meat (as a dried “Pemmican”).

Cranberries were offered to the pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving.

Source: https://justfunfacts.com/

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  1. Morning All!
    I glanced at the headlines here in PA…we elected a liar and a vegetable in my state…how did yours do?
    THEY CHEATED LIKE HELL HERE IN PA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    1. NE turned out as expected, altho I haven’t seen the results on my chair-warmer, Adrian Smith yet – I voted for the Legal MJ guy, personally, but I’m sure Smith will win. We KNEW if the fraud wasn’t fixed from 2020 this would happen – and here we are – AGAIN!!!! I feel like I should call my grandson and say no worries about him not voting/paying attention. Doesn’t do us a damned bit of good!!!!

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      1. Morning Filly!
        disgusting isn’t it?
        75% of people are unhappy with the way the country is going, so let’s vote for the same type of idiots in there now?
        I do not accept the results…we are not this STUPID as a people, are we????

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          1. I dunno Filly…but i agree with Sauce this morning at M’s…this is put up or shut time for spaceforce, q and the rest of it.
            we didn’t fight hard to FIX 2020 and now this? out and out war may be the only way forward

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  4. from wolfs

    TheseTruthsOffline
    Coyote
    November 9, 2022 01:00

    Chad Pergram:

    1) GOP KY Sen Rand Paul on his reelection: When I return to the Senate. As Chairman. I promise you this. The COVID cover-up will end. I will subpoena every last document of Dr. Fauci..Congress has not held one hearing to investigate the origins of COVID.

    2) Paul: As Chairman I will not only hold Dr. Fauci accountable, we will finally investigate why your tax dollars were sent to fund dangerous research in Wuhan. And if I have my way, the taxpayer will never again be forced to fund the creation of dangerous super viruses.

    2) Paul: As Chairman I will not only hold Dr. Fauci accountable, we will finally investigate why your tax dollars were sent to fund dangerous research in Wuhan. And if I have my way, the taxpayer will never again be forced to fund the creation of dangerous super viruses.

    — Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) November 9, 2022

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  10. electioneering going on in Philly…captured by project Veritas
    entire article
    BREAKING: Illegal Electioneering For @JohnFetterman & @JoshShapiroPA Caught on Undercover Video by Project Veritas Action at Philadelphia Polling Location

    “We’re scared of him(@DrOz)”

    “This is a Democratic Party form.”#Election2022 #Vote2022 pic.twitter.com/tY2ti0BIAR
    — Greg Price (@greg_price11) November 9, 2022

    In an undercover video filmed by Project Veritas Action (PVA) journalists at a Philadelphia polling location, Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe alleges that the investigative group’s journalists were told whom to vote for mere feet outside of one of the city’s polling places. Two of the interactions were captured on camera. “This is referred to as electioneering,” O’Keefe asserts.

    “This is a Democratic Party form,” says a “committee person” whom PVA identifies as Rudy Stewart. The self-identified committee member presents a stack of papers titled “Official Democratic City Committee Ballot” for the 2022 general election in Philadelphia County. “Here’s the ballot,” Stewart says while speaking to an undercover PVA reporter.

    At another point in PVA’s footage, Stewart states to presumed voters passing through: “Anyone need Democratic Party information?” Stewart then hands out the material to the passersby. Later on, pointing to Fetterman’s Republican opponent Dr. Mehmet Oz’s name listed on a table of Pennsylvania candidates pinned to a wall, Stewart says, “We’re scared of him.”

    “I’m scared of him. We’re scared of him,” Stewart states, gesturing to Oz’s name, then to Shapiro’s GOP rival Doug Mastriano’s name. “So don’t vote for them?” a PVA reporter questions. “Yes,” Stewart affirms with emphasis. “These guys are scary.”

    Another “committee person” PVA identifies as James Harrison says, “I just help out whoever, the majority of the community supports.” An undercover PVA journalist asks, “So you’re telling me I should vote John Fetterman? I should vote Joshua Shapiro?” To which Harrison replies: “If you vote Democrat, all of them are the Democratics [sic]. They only got one against one.”

    PVA’s video cites a section in Philadelphia County’s training guide for election board officials that defines electioneering, which includes “Handing out campaign materials” and “Telling voters which candidates to support.” PVA highlights both components.

    O’Keefe also claims that pro-Fetterman and pro-Shapiro campaign posters were hanging at the entrance of the polling center.

    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/miacathell/2022/11/09/project-veritas-illegal-electioneering-fetterman-shapiro-n2615691

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  12. BTW, I posted this at M’s last night – talked to my grandson and he informed me that my granddaughter is preggers – I’m going to be a great-grandma!!! I also asked him if he voted and he said no……I told him to call me and I’ll do the research and tell him how to vote – now? Fuck that shit! I’m about to call him back and say he’s absolutely right!!!!

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      1. Yeah, I guess….I’m happy for her, truly – she is the one who won’t speak to me, doesn’t want to know that the hospital murdered her Dad – and that’s ok – I’ve accepted that. She has been with this guy for a long time and they are very happy, so I am happy for her. I just wish James could have known….

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              1. No, you are mixing her up with Piper (13), whom I haven’t heard from since Sept 3 – I quit badgering her – I’ve left enough msgs/sent enough texts – she knows I’m here. This is my older granddaughter, Ashley, whom I delivered in 1996. I then only saw her sporadically thru the years until she and her Dad moved here in 2013. She left in 2015, after HB died, to go to SC with her Mom and her Dad followed not long after. Ashley then eventually moved to GA, where she lives now.

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              2. oh, I see…my mistake!
                it’s her first?
                sometimes being a mom changes you–softens you in ways and hardens you in others.
                perhaps there’s hope?

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              3. Yes, her first….I’m certainly not going to hold my breath. First she would have to get over her refusal to hear the truth about her Dad’s death and, tbh, I doubt that will ever happen.

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  13. this conversation is spot on based on what I’m reading everywhere…they’re saying Trump is done for 2024,,,desanctimonious is the way forward…this was planned–every win we were “allowed” and every LOSS too—to pave the way for GOPe ron boy…
    from tcth

    Cjzak
    November 9, 2022 6:54 am

    The only bright light in anything that happened yesterday in the farce of insane actions was FL. Why? Why did TPTB let FL succeed in maintaining what they did.?

    According to CTH, DeSantis is owned by the GOPe. Why would they allow his apparent AMerica first agenda to win when they took it away elsewhere? They knocked out the big stars arising in the likes of Kari Lake and Tudor Dixon. They maintained the Senate as being controllable still. McConnell got his prizes and kept his control.

    DeSantis was allowed to stand and FL maintained its red, supposedly, and very constitutional status for the most part. WHY?

    All I saw was that we allowed a very ill man with horrid policies that are as antiAmerican as anyone could make up and gave him a Senate seat. When I saw that race was as close as it was I knew the fantasy of the red wave was just that, a fantasy made up by the conservatives and MAGA republicans. The little voice whispering in my ear for the last 2 years saying that the red wave as advertised was not happening, turned out to be right and I had tried so hard to ignore my gut feelings on what was really going on. Living in NYS, I knew there was no chance the state government was going to change hands. The left is too entrenched here and the voters are not really worried about that. They like the govt. in charge for the most part.

    If we learned anything from all this mess, which is doubtful for most people, it’s that reinforcement that polls and media are never ever to be looked at as anything but fiction and lies. For the first time in the last 10 years, I really think there’s no doubt that America is gone as far as anything made up of a majority of a free people. What happens now is completely unknown. We the People in large measure have submitted to the money men riding the top of the world.

    Those of us left to fight have a long road ahead. Good luck to all of us and may God find our children and grandchildren worthy of saving a free country for some time in the future. He sure seems to have washed his hands of the rest of us,at this moment anyway. So, His will be done and carry on patriots.
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    Bshaw7369610
    November 9, 2022 6:59 am
    Reply to Cjzak

    You don’t see it? They control him so they allowed a real vote. It’s not about what he does for them in one state. Once they have their puppet in the whitehouse it’s back to business as usual.

    What happened in florida was a real election and probably mirrored 2020 real result. Why on earth would conservatives only get it in florida? Makes no sense unless you apply what I just laid out.

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    1. When I first turned on Fox, there was some Jewish guy (I assume he was Jewish wearing a skull cap) going on and on and on about Trump being done and DeSanctimonious being “the man” now!

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  14. EXCERPT: “LAS VEGAS—Tossup races for the U.S. Senate, three House seats, and the governor’s office are too close to call in Nevada, especially after the state’s two largest counties stopped counting ballots a half-hour after polls closed on Nov. 8.

    In Clark County, where 70 percent of Nevadans live in and around Las Vegas, and in Washoe County, which includes Reno, vote-by-mail (VBM) ballots dropped off or delivered on Election Day will not be counted until Nov. 9, the Nevada secretary of state announced at 7:30 p.m. on election night.

    Clark County Registrar of Voters Joe Gloria said delays in counting the ballots in his county are because of a manpower shortage and what appears to be a high turnout, especially just before polls closed at 7 p.m. Washoe County Registrar Jamie Rodriguez said a high volume of VBM ballots, especially in the campaign’s closing days, will take his staff at least another day to count.

    Rodriguez told reporters in Reno that Washoe County had received more than 6,000 ballots in the mail that day, and another 10,000 were turned in at ballot drop boxes.”

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/nevada-races-too-close-to-call-after-biggest-counties-quit-counting-votes_4852396.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=TheLibertyDaily

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  15. Entire Article: ATLANTA — After months of campaigning, the race for the Georgia Senate seat is still up for grabs as incumbent Raphael Warnock and challenger Herschel Walker are likely headed for a runoff.

    The runoff would be held on Dec. 6 with Warnock and Walker squaring off again if necessary.

    Warnock currently sits at 1,823,846 votes or 48.99% of the vote. Walker finished with 1,822,860 votes or 48.97% of the vote. Libertarian Chase Oliver is currently at 75,899 votes or 2.04% of the vote. This is with nearly 92% of precincts reporting.

    If it goes into a runoff it will be a key race in the battle for control of the Senate.”

    https://www.kens5.com/article/news/politics/warnock-walker-to-meet-in-runoff-for-georgia-senate-seat-2/93-2525e15c-8380-45f0-a935-91cef277bda1

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  18. why i will never support a desantis presidential run
    FTA
    With this in mind, as we venture forth down the 2024 road to the White House, do not forget that the Establishment’s most important goal is to obliterate MAGA and lull Americans back to their previous pro-globalist slumber. Billionaire investor Ken Griffin, who has invested heavily in Governor DeSantis, has said so explicitly. According to Politico, the big Republican donor wants to “blunt the vein of populism that has complicated the party’s relationship with the corporate world.” Think about those words for a second. Griffin and his Establishment Club friends want the American people to stop voting for things in their own best interest and return to a time when they voted for things in the best interest of the small, insular, privileged, corporate few. Isn’t it strange that “elites” defend “democracy” only when the few at the top of the economic pyramid get their way but always denounce as vulgar “populism” anything like the MAGA movement that pursues the broader wants and needs of the American people?

    There’s an awful lot I like about Ron DeSantis, but when he is backed by Paul Ryan, Jeb Bush, the Lincoln Project, and big-money anti-MAGA donors like Ken Griffin, I see only two possibilities: (1) either they think that Governor DeSantis will eventually play ball with the Über-Globalists or (2) they are committed to dividing the MAGA coalition between DeSantis and Trump, conquering MAGA once and for all, and forcing voters back to the Establishment-approved, corporate Republicanism embraced by the likes of Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, Asa Hutchinson, Larry Hogan, Tim Scott, and Nikki Haley.

    I reject any path forward that forfeits hard-won MAGA victories, empowers the anti-American globalists, or returns total uncontested power to the Uniparty “elites” running D.C. Fighting the unholy alliance uniting Marxism, corporatism, and global totalitarianism is too important. And saving the MAGA coalition from the Machiavellian strategists seeking its destruction remains too critical.

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

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  21. wow…I’m not there yet…sigh…but maybe she’s right

    Jenevive
    November 9, 2022 7:45 am

    Whats with all the doom and gloom. We won the house.. Take the win.
    who cares if we won by 2 or 22 ..We won.. its red.. If nothing else
    we can put a stop to a lot of the Biden crazy stuff..
    Who cares if it was a ripple or a Tsunami, We got the win
    in the house..Pelosi will be gone as Speaker…all those
    committees will now be headed by Repubs so we won;t
    have to endure all those stupid investigations into POTUS

    Take the Win..Stop listening to the media and thier hysteria
    about OMG no red wave.. TAKE THE WIN…

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  22. Beautiful Open, Miss Pat!

    Cranberries have long been known for their medicinal benefits – especially for UTIs – urinary tract infections.

    https://www.suwanneetimes.com/353-3-17-21-raw-living-cranberries

    Here’s our family favorite easy Cranberry Relish:

    Mama Smith’s easy homemade cranberry relish – !

    We always used to have all three – the relish, the sliced canned or the homemade whole berry sauce:

    Directions:

    Grind a package of cranberries with a large tender skin, seedless naval orange* in a meat grinder or food processor (I use the latter).

    Add sugar to taste.

    Optional – add a little bit of fresh grated or ground ginger.

    Refrigerate – keeps a long time. You can also freeze it.

    Cranberries are great for preventing or helping urinary tract infections.

    *(Seedless – with good thick tender skin – a couple of the new-fangled mandarins will do. Cut away any hard tips, etc. before grinding. It’s hard to find big ole FL Naval oranges since the blight/disease hit the FL groves during the Bush administration.)

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    1. Thanks GA!
      I used to love the sugar free CranApple juice–then they simply stopped making it, it seemed. I do occasionally drink regular cranberry juice, but I cut it with water or sugar free gingerale.

      what do I look for when buying whole cranberries???

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  23. A Southern favorite!

    Cranberry Orange Bread or Muffins

    Yield: 1 loaf – or may double, triple, etc.

    Ingredients
    • 2 cups flour
    • ¾ cup sugar
    • 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
    • ¾ teaspoon salt
    • ½ teaspoon baking soda
    • ¼ cup butter, cut into small chunks
    • ¾ cup orange juice
    • 1 tablespoon grated orange zest
    • 1 egg, beaten
    • 1 cup chopped cranberries (fresh are best, but may use dried cranberries)
    • Optional – ½ cup chopped walnuts or pecans

    Directions:
    Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
    Grease a 8 1/2×4 1/2-inch loaf pan.
    Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and baking soda in a bowl.
    Stir butter into flour mixture until combined.
    Add orange juice, orange zest, beaten egg; mix well.
    Fold in cranberries and walnuts.
    Spoon batter into the prepared pan/s or muffin tin/s.

    Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 60 to 75 minutes.
    Cool in the loaf pan for 10 minutes before removing. Cool completely on a wire rack.
    Remove from muffin tins while hot. Serve hot or warmed in oven loosely wrapped in foil.

    Note – Some recipes call for vegetable oil instead of butter in the batter – if you desire to do so – mix it in with the wet ingredients, then add to dry ingredients.

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      1. Lots of good natural sugar and carb wheat flour substitutes these days and you can add and adapt this recipe quite well. I love to experiment.

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  24. The Amendment passed.

    EXCERPT: “The full ramifications of the amendment are unknown. As is often the case with changes to the Constitution, lawsuits and court rulings ultimately decide the exact meaning of particular phrases in an amendment and how to apply those words in an everyday context. State lawmakers could also craft legislation aimed at regulating the right to an abortion proposed in the amendment, which may themselves be subject to legal challenges.

    The groups behind the proposed amendment — the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Michigan, Planned Parenthood of Michigan and the nonprofit Michigan Voices — characterize it as a way to resuscitate the rights previously protected under Roe.

    “The Supreme Court made its ruling. Passing this amendment simply restores the same protections that Michiganders had for five decades under Roe v. Wade,” said Darci McConnell, a spokesperson for the Reproductive Freedom for All campaign.

    Opponents disagree.

    “It’s been written in a way to appear moderate when it is actually one of the (most extreme) policies on abortion that’s been presented in any state,” said Christen Pollo, a spokesperson for Citizens to Support MI Women & Children, a coalition opposing the amendment.

    The Free Press spoke with advocates and critics of the amendment and legal experts to parse the language of the amendment and evaluate what its passage would mean for Michiganders seeking abortions.”

    https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2022/08/16/michigan-abortion-law-amendment/10296812002/

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  26. Gotta get rid of the Big Macs!

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  31. jim
    November 9, 2022 8:33 am

    Just looking at PA and AZ makes it clear that all the pundits who encouraged game day voting got it completely wrong.

    The polls in both states were open for weeks and the were very few reports of machine malfunction but on game day when the Rs voted there was complete chaos.

    It seems to me that the cheaters figured out yet another way to cheat.
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    1. PA is very red in the northern and central areas–but liberal in the south and east–we are larger geographically, but they are more population dense…
      and we all know liberalism is a disease that spreads…the closer the quarters, the dumber the people.

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  36. A reply on Catturd’s twitter:

    “The problems with the election process in Pa were not fixed after 2020. No voter ID. Dominion machines still in place. Modems on central, precinct-level computers that make
    results tampering not only possible but likely. Nothing changed so nothing changed.”

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  40. interesting take on a comment that trump should hang it up and not run in 2024

    Jenevive
    November 9, 2022 9:37 am
    Reply to Jeffrey Carter

    How did he get rejected Nationwide. lots of his endorsments won. not all but
    lots..How many of DeSantis endorsements won..NONE..

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  46. WeThePeople2016
    November 9, 2022 11:47 am

    Emerald Robinson

    @EmeraldRobinson

    3h
    ·
    The voting machines “ran out of paper” in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania yesterday. In fact, “officials say that roughly 44 polling locations in Luzerne County ran out of paper to print ballots.”

    Of course, it’s completely normal on Election Day for 44 polling places to run out of paper simultaneously.

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  47. ronna needs to go too…the rnc can’t pay legal bills if he decides to run in 2024
    entire article
    Republican National Committee (RNC) chair Ronna McDaniel says the RNC can not pay former President Donald Trump’s legal bills if he makes a bid for the White House in 2024.

    “We cannot pay legal bills for any candidate that’s announced,” McDaniel told anchor Dana Bash in an Oct. 6 interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

    The RNC chair pointed to the New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit against Trump, saying, “It was voted on by our executive committee for our former president that this was a politically motivated investigation, and that’s what it’s been.”

    Late last year, the RNC reportedly made two payments totaling $121,670 to the law firm of Ronald Fischetti, a veteran defense attorney who was hired to represent Trump as he faced investigations by James and then-Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr.

    Asked about those bills, McDaniel affirmed that they “came from the Letitia James lawsuit that started while [Trump] was president.”

    “But we cannot do in-kind contributions to any candidate right now. He’s the former president being attacked from every which way with lawsuits, and he’s certainly raised more under the RNC than we’ve spent on these bills,” she added.

    In early 2021, the RNC declined to back 2024 presidential primary candidates, even if former President Donald Trump chose to run again.

    “The party has to stay neutral. I’m not telling anybody to run or not to run in 2024,” McDaniel said in the interview with The Associated Press. “That’s going to be up to those candidates going forward. What I really do want to see him do, though, is help us win back majorities in 2022.”

    The former president has yet to make any official announcement of the 2024 presidential bid, but has repeatedly teased the possibility that he might run. At the Nov. 3 rally in Iowa, Trump dropped another hint, saying he would “very, very, very, probably do it again.”

    When asked by Bash if Trump will announce his run soon, McDaniel said she had no idea.

    “I don’t even know what I’m doing for Thanksgiving right now, let alone thinking about 2024,” she replied.

    On Sept. 21, James filed her civil lawsuit against Trump, The Trump Organization, Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump, and Trump’s business associates over alleged fraud, claiming that the value of Trump’s assets was inflated.

    Back in 2018, James campaigned with the goal of filing a lawsuit against then-president Trump.

    “I’m running for attorney general because I will never be afraid to challenge this illegitimate president when our fundamental rights are at stake,” she said at the time.

    In the latest move, Trump fired back at James with the lawsuit describing her legal action against him as a “relentless” and public “crusade … with the stated goal of destroying him personally, financially, and politically.”

    Meanwhile in 2019, Vance launched a three-year investigation into the Trump Organization, alleging the company had evaded paying taxes.

    The organization’s CFO Allen Weisselberg in August pleaded guilty to charges of tax fraud.

    Weisselberg’s lawyers said that he was punished by the Democrat district attorney’s office because he wouldn’t offer information that would damage Trump.

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/rnc-cannot-pay-trump-legal-bills-if-he-launches-2024-bid-committee-chair_4846416.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=BonginoReport

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  48. read to the bottom of the article…those $800 a MONTH debit cards illegals are given when they get here are funded by taxpayers…freaking unbelievable!
    entire article
    As the country faces a border crisis, with millions of undocumented immigrants pouring over the southern border this year alone, the Justice Department awarded $41 million in contracts to a nonprofit to help immigrants fight deportation.

    The Acacia Center for Justice, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit created as a collaboration between Vera Institute of Justice and Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights, received six legal services contracts from the DOJ beginning Sept. 1, Fox News reported.

    “The objective of the Acacia Center for Justice … is to expand on Vera’s work over the past twenty years in providing legal support and representation to immigrants facing deportation through the development, coordination and management of national networks of legal services providers serving immigrants across the country,” the group’s website states.

    The Vera Institute, which views immigration enforcement agencies as a “threat” to civil liberties, hauled in a massive $171 million government contract in March to help unaccompanied minors avoid deportation,” Fox News also reported.

    Former New York Lt. Gov. Betsy Betsy McCaughey pointed out in a recent column in the New York Post that non-profits get federal funds to facilitate illegal activity by supporting border crossings.

    “Democratic politicians want to maximize illegal immigration, but they don’t want their fingerprints on it,” she wrote. “The remedy: pay so-called charities that will do the work for them.”

    She said migrants still in Mexico are given debit cards — with $800 a month to pay for necessities — distributed by the non-profit Organization for Migration, paid for with funds from the U.S. State Department.

    “The money isn’t coming from the Sunday collection basket,” McCaughey writes. “Sister Pimentel [executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley] admits her organization is reimbursed by the federal government. It’s coming from taxpayers, who have no clue they’re supporting this operation.”

    https://thepoliticalinsider.com/biden-admin-gives-41m-to-help-illegal-immigrants-fight-deportation

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  49. Between my Mom’s inexperience with her cell, and my piss-ant cheap-ass POS phone, she hasn’t been able to get thru to me when she calls. She said she immediately goes to VM, which I can’t access. Anyway, I just worked it out with her to text me instead. She also had her physical and passed literally everything with flying colors; she is walking half-a-mile a day; just got her new glasses. As her primary doctor keeps telling her, she probably IS going to live to 100!!!!

    She has a fondness for Madagascar Palms and has one that is 6′ tall that blooms continuously all summer long. She started 10 new plants from the blooms and now she doesn’t know what to do with them. She also wants to sell the 6′ plant – so she is going to check in with Earl May in Norfolk – they are the only dedicated plant/gardening outlet around here. They might want to buy it and I suggested perhaps some of the banks or medical offices in town would like it for their entries.

    I told her to keep one and she can start over like she did with the 6′ palm! After all, she’s going to live to 100 anyway!!! LOL

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