Farmer’s Almanac Home Remedies for Dry Hair and Skin

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Do you have dry hair, hands, scalp, or skin? If there’s one thing that we love, it’s making our own natural remedies and treatments. Check out these fantastic recipes that will restore and liven up your hair, face, and skin—and not break the bank.

Remedies for Dry Hair

Weekly Conditioner for Fly-Away Hair

Try a weekly deep-conditioning. For a rich conditioning treatment that you’d pay $30 to $100 for at a salon, mix a couple of tablespoons of olive, coconut, or castor oil with 1/2 cup of full-fat mayonnaise (alternatively: a ripe, mashed avocado), and massage into your hair and scalp. Then wrap your hair in a large plastic grocery bag and top it off with a warm, dry towel for about 30 minutes. Wash and rinse as usual (but sometimes twice is needed, to remove the oil).

Moisturizing Leave-in Conditioner

Mix two parts water, one part witch hazel, two parts vegetable glycerin (a natural moisturizer available online or in health/natural food stores), and a tablespoon of olive or other cooking oil per cup of liquid in a spray bottle. If you have aloe vera gel on hand, add one part of that to the mixture. A few drops of essential oil will give you a scented product. Spritz on wet or dry hair before styling.

More Body and Bounce

Mayonnaise, straight from the jar, will make hair soft and shiny. The egg nourishes brittle hair with protein, while the vinegar gives it body and bounce.

Try this mixture to regain supple hair: Mix one teaspoon powdered brewers’ yeast with four ounces of apple cider vinegar to create an after-wash rinse. Pour it over wet hair and let stand at least a minute before rinsing.

Oily Hair and Skin

Add one teaspoon baking soda to two ounces of your shampoo. This works as an alkali to absorb excess oil.

Baking soda works the same way with skin, it will absorb oil and also neutralize excess acid in your skin. Make a paste with baking soda and water.

Try lemon juice as an astringent facial cleanser.

Remedies for Dry Hands and Nails

Let’s start with some good tips and basics on keeping your hands from getting dry and cracked.

Add moisturizer right after you wash your hands. Apply when your skin is a little wet to help it hang on to some of the water.

Avoid any alcohol-based cleansers on your skin. Consider liquid soap that contains moisturizers.

Use the right moisturizer! Look for products which lists ceramides (oils), dimethicone (a type of silicone), and shea butter provide a good seal for your hands. The thicker the cream, the better.

If you polish your nails, find an acetone-free polish remover, as acetone is a serious drying agent.

It goes without saying that you need to wear gloves when using any harsh or chemical ingredient to clean the house.

Also make sure to wear gloves or mittens when you go outside to prevent the dry winter air from drawing moisture from your hands and nails.

If your hands get so dry that they crack, be careful of infection. Clean the area with hydrogen peroxide and apply an over-the-counter antibiotic ointment.

Some dermatologists suggest coating hands and nails with Vaseline or another strong barrier and wearing cotton gloves overnight to treat dry nails and cuticles.

To prevent brittle nails and ragged cuticles, try this handmade cuticle massage:

Cuticle Massage:
5 red seedless grapes
1 tablespoon sugar
Wash the grapes, then slice them in half widthwise. Dip the cut side into the sugar. Using half a grape for each finger, massage the skin around each fingernail for about 30 seconds each. Wipe off the excess sugar with a soft towel, then rub hand cream onto hands and cuticles.

Remedies for Dry, Itchy Skin

Again, let’s start out with some basic tips on caring for your skin so that it doesn’t become dry and itchy.

Apply moisturize every day or even twice a day if you are over 40. Apply immediately after showering or bathing when your skin is still a little damp. Do not scrub skin dry.

Choose a lotion brand that has petroleum jelly or lanolin high on the ingredients list.

For super-dry skin, use olive oil. Rub it in prior to a bath or shower. You may substitute peanut, sesame or sunflower oil.

Avoid steaming hot water or lengthy immersions, which will strip your skin of its natural oils. Dermatologists suggest taking shorter baths or showers in warm (not hot) water. If you have severe dry skin problems, keep your showers to no longer than 5 minutes and use lukewarm water.

Use a mild, glycerin-based soap. And stay away from hair or skin-care products that contain any forms of alcohol, which are drying agents. 

Wash gently. Vigorous scrubbing can further irritate sensitive skin. Gently clean around the “fold” areas of your skin—underarms, neck, and groin—and feet. Use very little, if any soap, on your trunk and limbs.

Don’t go outside in any season without using SPF of at least 15 on your face and hands.

To soften dry skin, add 1 cup powdered milk to your bath. (It worked for Cleopatra, supposedly.)

Try adding lemon juice or vinegar to your bathwater. Soap, being highly alkaline, may make your skin feel itchy.

Oatmeal Bath for Itchy Skin

If you have itchy skin, try a soothing oatmeal bath. 

Blend one cup of oats in a food processor or blender. Run a lukewarm bath (NOT hot). Pour the oat into the warm water and stir. Soak in bath for 15 to 20 minutes and very gently rub into skin.
Rinse with warm water and pat skin dry. While skin is still moist, apply a hypoallergenic moisturizing cream.

A quart of milk in a hot bath is a luxury as well as a skin toner. It’s a trick nearly as old as time.

Homemade Oatmeal Scrub

For a homemade scrub, mix ground oats and honey. Rub all over your face—especially your nose. The abrasive mixture will remove dry, scaly skin while the honey seeps in as a moisturizer. Rinse completely off and pat dry, and your skin will be glowing and baby soft. Only use this remedy once a week.

Chickpea Facial

¼ cup chickpea flour

¼ cup tumeric.  (Note: use Kasturi tumeric because regular turmeric can temporarily stain the skin)

Yogurt, as needed

In a small bowl, mix the chickpea flour and turmeric. Store the mixture in an airtight bottle. When ready to use, place a teaspoon of the mixture in a small bowl and add enough yogurt to make a paste. Apply the paste evenly to the face and leave on until it dries, about 10 to 15 minutes. Wash off with warm water.

Coffee Scrub

Coffee grounds work to help diminish cellulite and varicose veins, in addition to improving circulation and smoothing the skin’s texture.

2 cups used coffee grounds

½ cup sugar or sea salt

⅔ tablespoon unscented massage oil

Mix all of the ingredients in a large bowl. Massage gently on the skin, then rinse with warm water.

Remedies for Dry, Tired Eyes

Used teabags make excellent eye cosmetics. After being dunked (and allowed to cool slightly), drain the tea bag and place it over your closed eye (one for each) and hold it there for a few minutes. Redness, soreness, swelling and irritation will disappear like magic.

If you suffer from dry, scratchy, itchy, eyes, try laying a warm, moist washcloth over your closed lids for a few minutes each day.

This simple, effective treatment helps to liquefy the lubricating oil in glands located along the eyelids. It may take a few days, but if you use the compresses faithfully, you should experience relief.

Remedies for Dry, Chapped Lips

To prevent cracked or chapped lips, use a lip balm and apply it often. See our post on how to make your own lip balm. If you make a big batch that’s a bit heavier on the olive oil, you can use your homemade balm for hands, fingernails, facial moisturizer, and (just a dab) hair conditioner, too.

Plain honey is an excellent remedy for chapped lips. Blend fully into lips. 

General Advice for Beating Drys!

Forget the idea that drinking plenty of water is the only thing necessary for keeping your skin (eyes, nasal passages, nails) moist and your hair well behaved. Dermatologists say that while drinking water is important for overall health, as far as moisturizing skin, hair, and nails are concerned, you need to add moisture from the outside and prevent it from escaping into the drier surrounding air.
 

Use a humidifier. Indoor heating removes moisture from the air and your body. Humidifying dry indoor air helps to provide that indoor moisture. Try to maintain indoor air at 30 to 50 percent humidity. It’s especially important if you suffer bloody noses and lots of respiratory infections. You could run an electric humidifier, but passive solutions may do the trick for you. We maintain a lot of well-watered houseplants that transpire water into the indoor air. We keep steamers going on each of our stoves that pump moisture into the air whenever the stove is running.
 

Hanging your laundry on bars indoors is another great strategy. It doesn’t take much longer to dry near the wood stove than it would in an electric dryer, and while it dries, your laundry humidifies the air around it.

When Dry Skin is Severe

If your dry skin just gets to a point of inflammation, unbearable itchiness, or scabbing, you may need to see a doctor. They can prescribe thicker, richer emollients.

You also need to ensure that you don’t have psoriasis, atopic dermatitis and other skin conditions may also need prescription medication and treatment.

Source: Farmer’s Almanac

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  1. Morning All!
    it’s about 32* and seems to be raining. see if it turns to ice…sigh
    this thing about Ultra maggot and keeping classified documents? it’s gonna get worse I believe. A pattern is developing. he didn’t just have them at one location…they could be everywhere! the fib should search every house and/or office he’s ever used. and he claims he doesn’t know what they are–dementia or a lie? either way, that’s BAD for national security. he is a threat and should be investigated and impeached.

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    1. Good morning! Still dark out so I can’t tell what’s happening at the moment. 21 degrees outside and something ate the food again last night. Clearly, it isn’t LM so I have brought the dish in now and will be covering the doggie door by the end of the day. Enough! For all I know, it could be a raccoon altho I’ve never seen one here.

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  6. whoa

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        1. Marc Lamont Hill? A right royal asshole! From Wiki: “Hill is the host of UpFront on Al Jazeera English. Previously he was the syndicated television show Our World with Black Enterprise and hosts the online Internet-based HuffPost Live. He is also a BET News correspondent, and a former political commentator for CNN and Fox News. Hill also hosts VH1 Live! and reunion shows for Basketball Wives. In November 2018, Hill was fired from his position as a commentator for CNN after remarks before the U.N. on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict that were alleged to be antisemitic.[2][3]”

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      2. I just went back and looked…we both posted that Diamond had passed–me at 6:49 and you at 7:05…but neither referenced this guy making this accusation.
        we both miss stuff…and some stuff should be posted more than once…jmo

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  8. Fentanyl is genociding our youth and killing hundreds of thousands. It’s become the number one cause of death for young people. This is unacceptable.

    We must secure our border.

    We must finish the border wall.

    We must enforce an immigration moratorium.

    That’s America First.
    — Rep. Paul Gosar, DDS (@RepGosar) January 11, 2023

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  9. So the “study” being used to justify the banning of gas stoves was commissioned by a company called “Carbon-Free Buildings” and is part of the WEF.

    What a coincidence, right? I’m sure this is about kids and asthma and not more globalist climate change garbage.
    — Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) January 11, 2023

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  11. so all those that refused to accept religious exemptions as a reason not to take the vax should be SUED into oblivion

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  15. Citizen 817
    Citizen 817
    January 12, 2023 12:21 am

    @realDonaldTrump

    16h
    Karl Rove was, as usual, wrong when he stated that then V.P. Biden’s HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL papers, which were in his office for many years, were in any way similar to the Secret Service guarded, & otherwise very secure, Mar-a-Lago papers. Biden was not then President, had no power to declassify, & came under the very tough Federal Records Act. I come under the much more generous Presidential Records Act, was having productive discussions with Radical Left NARA, & did everything right. A giant Scam

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    1. Citizen 817
      January 12, 2023 12:21 am

      @realDonaldTrump

      15h
      Biden’s documents are HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL, many pertain to UKRAINE, where Hunter was “raking in the dough,” and FUNDED BY CHINA, which gave $55 Million to Biden, through Penn, and probably had easy access. Was the Old Crow’s boss, China loving Coco Chow, involved? Just asking?

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  16. Troublemaker10
    January 12, 2023 1:56 am

    I have no words.

    *******

    210 Democrats vote against bill requiring medical care for babies born alive after abortion attempt

    Excerpt:

    Democrats said the bill would interfere with families’ medical decisions….

    …..The bill passed 220-210, and all 210 of the “no” votes came from Democrats. Only one Democrat voted for the bill — Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas — and one other Democrat, Rep. Vicente Gonzalez of Texas, voted “present.”

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-vote-against-bill-requiring-medical-care-babies-born-alive-abortion-attempt

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      1. Morning Bill!
        RIGHT?
        once that little one is OUT of the woman’s body their whole my body, my choice argument is gone. it’s a little person with all the rights as the mother–(altho for me that starts at conception)
        and not saving it’s life is murder

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  17. Citizen 817
    January 12, 2023 3:14 am

    Kash Patel

    @Kash

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    4h
    hey @truthsocial do yall remember when someone named Hillary Clinton built an illegal server in her closet, and actually took home, stored, sent, received dozens of top secret docs at her HOME… then remember when Comey baselessly cleared her of any wrong doing… see a pattern? #GovernmentGangsters of the first order, Wray and Garland are prepping the landscape for Biden’s exoneration

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  18. LOL here’s an opinion I can understand…LOL

    paper doll
    January 12, 2023 3:40 am

    Perhaps Obama told Joe no 2024 and Joe refused to step aside…suddenly you got lawyers finding classified papers. Opps.

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  22. testing the waters, then changing their tune
    entire article
    The Consumer Product Safety Commission on Wednesday walked back a claim made by one of its members that the Biden administration was weighing a ban on new natural gas stoves over health concerns.

    The reversal follows fierce rebukes from politicians and the energy industry.

    The chair of the federal agency, Biden appointee Alexander Hoehn-Saric, said previous assertions made by fellow Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. that the agency would consider a ban in the coming months was simply not true.

    “Research indicates that emissions from gas stoves can be hazardous, and the CPSC is looking for ways to reduce related indoor air quality hazards,” Mr. Hoehn-Saric said in a statement. “But to be clear, I am not looking to ban gas stoves, and the CPSC has no proceeding to do so.”

    Mr. Trumka, also a Biden appointee, appears to have overplayed his hand when claiming earlier this week that a ban was on the table because of studies that say the emissions from natural gas stoves cause health conditions like respiratory issues and cancer.
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    Nearly 40% of U.S. households use natural gas stoves for everyday cooking. The claims caused accusations from the energy and restaurant sectors, lawmakers and American consumers that the CPSC was overstepping its authority.

    Minutes before CPSC‘s reversal, the leading oil and natural gas lobby predicted that there was no way the agency would be able to impose a ban in the face of such massive opposition.

    “Given the amount of pushback that they’ve already gotten — there are millions of consumers that depend on gas to heat their home and to power their home, and of course to cook their food,” American Petroleum Institute President and CEO Mike Sommers told reporters in Washington. “There would be a significant grassroots backlash against that kind of move, people love their gas stoves.”

    Sen. Joe Manchin III, West Virginia Democrat, called it “a recipe for disaster” and fired a warning shot at the commission.

    “The federal government has no business telling American families how to cook their dinner,” Mr. Manchin, who chairs the Senate Energy Committee, said in a statement. “I can tell you the last thing that would ever leave my house is the gas stove that we cook on. If this is the greatest concern that the Consumer Product Safety Commission has for American consumers, I think we need to reevaluate the commission.”

    House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Washington Republican, described a ban as the “latest in a long line of power grabs by the radical left and Biden administration.”

    “It is not about public safety,” she said. “It is about telling the American people the federal government knows best and will decide what kind of car they can drive, how they can heat their house, and now how they’re allowed to cook food for their families.”

    https://amp.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jan/11/federal-regulators-reverse-course-banning-new-gas-/

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  23. FFS!
    now it’s PLANTIFA…and guerilla gardening…whereby people think they have the right to plant on YOUR property…smh
    communism at it’s best.
    entire insane article
    Guerrilla gardening’ entails intentionally ‘gardening without borders’ on other people’s land

    “The world is facing a looming existential threat caused by exploitative habits and intentional
    human negligence.”

    That is how Brandon Edwards-Schuth and Marco Cerqueira, a pair of graduate students at Washington State University, describe the pending global crisis as they see it in their recent Northwest Journal of Teacher Education article.

    Their solution to combat this dystopian future? “Plantifa.”

    Plantifa is situated “at the intersections of anti-fascism, eco-justice, decolonization, and arts-based curriculum theories,” the scholars write.

    “We feel that education rooted in a Plantifa curriculum can be one potential way for both teachers and communities to use a diversity of tactics to fight climate change and subvert power structures working against environmental justice,” the scholars state in their November 2022 paper.

    If adopted, the authors note, they envision Plantifa being carried out by communities, as well as incorporated into current classroom lesson plans, perhaps as a final class assignment.

    For that assignment, the scholars suggest students engage in the practice of guerrilla gardening, “a subversive and communal eco-justice approach to environmental degradation and inequity.”

    Unlike traditional gardening, which the duo describe as taking place in “designated flower beds or defined community gardens,” guerrilla gardening, they write, entails intentionally “gardening without borders,” for example on somebody else’s land.

    Anti-fascist guerrilla gardeners, they write, assist “nature in breaking trespassing laws, where it is really the insatiable consumption inherent under capitalism which has trespassed Earth.”

    “[V]acant lots, medians, and ‘derelict land’” are just some of the sites anti-fascist guerrilla gardeners may target, note the pair of scholars, as these are all “spaces of eco-potentiality.”

    In laying out what Plantifa assignments might look like in the real world and hence beyond the pages of the Northwest Journal of Teacher Education, the scholars write of how students would start assignments with an initial reconnaissance mission to scout out possible locations for their guerrilla assault on the colonialist regime. Next, they would choose their flora. Then finally, the planting would begin.

    Planting “may be discreet,” they state, perhaps using drones to drop “seed bombs” on otherwise inaccessible “remote or barricaded spaces.”

    “At other times,” they suggest, “it may be easier to just place whole plants into an area chosen in communality with the students.”

    Upon completion of their Plantifa assignments, students would then reflect on their Plantifa experience, the scholars state. The following are some of the suggested questions for students to ponder:

    “Why is ‘democracy’ as we understand and practice limited to humans, and who, what, or where ought to be included in a democracy?”

    “Why are spaces ‘owned,’ ‘private,’ or possess value (or none)?”

    “What is your local flora, and is it legally and/or ethically wrong to plant without boundaries…”

    “Why is anti-fascism important to our community, our eco-system?”

    Curious about some of the practical aspects of Plantifa’s proposed implementation, The College Fix reached out recently to both Edwards-Schuth and Cerqueira via email with a series of questions.

    These largely concerned the grade level for which the scholars believed Plantifa to be most appropriate and whether they worried instructors or educational institutions might be reluctant to adopt the Plantifa curriculum over concerns that certain aspects of it are technically illegal, opening the door to students potentially being arrested and participating institutions facing legal repercussions for encouraging students to garden without borders.

    Although neither Edwards-Schuth nor Cerqueira replied to The College Fix’s inquiries by the time of publication, they do acknowledge in their paper that what they present is just “a start of what Plantifa…might look like.”

    Hence, there are still details to be worked out. To some extent they even acknowledge possible legal challenges to their work in their proposed next steps along with partnering with local food banks and working with indigenous communities to decolonize work.

    In the meantime though, the architects of Plantifa do not seem as if they will permit such trifles as the legality or practicality of their proposed pedagogy to hold them back.

    “We feel that Plantifa is one of many curriculum possibilities towards social and environmental justice in our local communities and globally,” they write.

    “We are nature,” they declare to the world. “We are the yarning tracing ways of common guerrilla gardeners. We are the planet. We are plants. As we plant seeds, we become the seeds. We all are Plantifa!”

    https://www.thecollegefix.com/scholars-develop-plantifa-curriculum-to-promote-eco-justice-guerrilla-gardening/

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  24. this wonderful veteran will turn 105!!!! on January 30th. Happy Birthday, Sir!
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    NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Flag-waving admirers lined the sidewalk outside the National World War II Museum in New Orleans on Wednesday to greet the oldest living survivor of the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor as he marked his upcoming 105th birthday.

    “It feels great,” Joseph Eskenazi of Redondo Beach, California, told reporters after posing for pictures with his great-grandson, who is about to turn 5, his 21-month-old great-granddaughter and six other World War II veterans, all in their 90s.

    Eskenazi turns 105 on Jan. 30. He had boarded an Amtrak train in California on Friday for the journey to New Orleans. The other veterans, representing the Army, Navy and Marines, flew in for the event.

    They were visiting thanks to the Soaring Valor Program, a project of actor Gary Sinise’s charitable foundation dedicated to aiding veterans and first responders. The program arranges trips to the museum for World War II veterans and their guardians.

    Eskenazi was a private first class in the Army when the attack occurred. His memories include being awakened when a bomb fell — but didn’t explode — near where he was sleeping at Schofield Barracks, reverberating explosions as the battleship USS Arizona was sunk by Japanese bombs, and machine gun fire from enemy planes kicking up dust around him after he volunteered to drive a bulldozer across a field so it could be used to clear runways.

    “I don’t even know why — my hand just went up when they asked for volunteers,” Eskenazi said. “Nobody else raised their hand because they knew that it meant death. … I did it unconsciously.”

    He was at the Army’s Schofield Barracks when the Dec. 7, 1941, attack began, bringing the United States into the war. About 2,400 servicemen were killed.

    Eskenazi and his fellow veterans lined up for pictures amid exhibits of World War II aircraft and Higgins boats, designed for beach landings.

    “Thank you guys for providing us a country that was worth fighting for,” veteran Billy Hall, who rose to the rank of major in the Marines after enlisting in 1941, shouted to well-wishers.

    The museum opened in 2000 as the National D-Day Museum and has expanded in size and scope since then.

    https://whnt.com/news/oldest-living-pearl-harbor-survivor-marks-105th-birthday/

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  25. professional athletes buying farm in Iowa to lease to farmers at a profit.
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    A group of professional athletes is buying a farm in Iowa.

    New York-based Patricof Co. is facilitating the purchase. A spokesperson for the company confirmed details of the deal, first reported by Front Office Sports. He told Des Moines sister station KCCI the group of two dozen athletes includes Joe Burrow of the Cincinnati Bengals, Blake Griffin of the Boston Celtics, and Kevin Gausman of the Toronto Blue Jays.

    The farm, according to the spokesperson, is located in northern Iowa. He declined to provide any more detail on the location but said the 104-acre piece of land will be used to grow corn and soybeans.

    The spokesperson declined to disclose how much the athletes spent on the Iowa farmland, but said it is part of a $5 million investment in farm purchases.

    While the athletes will own the farms, don’t expect to see them out in the fields during fall harvest. The spokesperson said the athletes will lease the land to farmers for profit. He said this group could also purchase more Iowa farmland in the future.

    https://www.wpbf.com/article/pro-athletes-buy-iowa-farm/42466034

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          1. I supposed it’s just like anything else in life – just like people are scared of horses. It’s unfamiliar and you feel insecure and don’t know what to do. That’s always an uncomfortable feeling.

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              1. You would have been on tenterhooks the other day, when I gave my stove-top a good scrubbing. I get the suds everywhere, then take q-tips to clean off the jets inside the burners. Only 1 of them gave me any trouble – took about 4-5 times of cleaning it out and starting it with my butane lighter. Once I got it dried out, it started right up and I’m good for another 6 months! LOL

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  31. Well, yee-haw, TN!!!!

    “5 La Vergne officers fired, 3 suspended for sexual acts on duty, ‘girls gone wild’ hot tub party, three-way relations, city says”

    Entire Article: LA VERGNE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Five La Vergne police officers were fired and three were suspended Wednesday for allegedly having sexual relationships with a fellow officer on duty, sending explicit photos to each other, and engaging in “three-ways” with another officer and his wife, according to a police investigation document.

    The five officers were fired and the three officers were suspended Wednesday, Jan. 4. Documents obtained by News 2 said Mayor Jason Cole called the director of human resources on Dec. 12, 2022, reporting one officer was having intimate relationships with other officers, including a “three-way” with another officer and his wife. Cole also mentioned a “girls gone wild” hot tub party at an officer’s house, according to the documents.

    In addition, one officer is accused of attempting to intimidate a city employee by putting his hands around their neck, and two additional officers conspired to be untruthful during the investigation, the documents said. There were six incidents of unreported sexual relationships, according to records, and two incidents of sexual relations on duty inside the police substation.

    One officer was called into HR on Dec. 13, 2022, about the alleged incidents. He admitted to HR director, Andrew Patton, of knowing and being at the hot tub party with three other officers. He then told Patton an officer’s top came off in the hot tub, revealing her breast, according to the documents. He told Patton he and another officer helped put her top back on. The documents go on to say one officer tried to intimidate another officer in denying any allegations against him in the case.

    La Vergne Mayor Jason Cole released the following statement Monday, several days after News 2 obtained the documents: “This situation is unacceptable and as soon as it was brought to our attention it was immediately investigated and action was taken upon the individuals involved. Our top priority moving forward will include rebuilding the public’s trust. I have full confidence in the police department’s leadership team and their ability to lead the department. We will be retraining all of our employees in the rules, regulations, and expectations set forth by city leadership.”

    La Vergne Police Chief Burrel Davis also released a statement, saying: “This is a difficult situation for our department and for the city, but I want to be clear that the actions of a few do not represent this department as a whole. This situation is being addressed internally with our staff, we are bringing in counselors to help our officers work through these circumstances, and we will continue to provide the most professional protection as possible for this community. We have sufficient staff to cover all of our patrol shifts and I have full confidence in our officer’s ability to protect and serve. We are working diligently to rebuild the trust of our citizens and our community. We understand this will take time and diligence from our command staff and officers to repair the honor and integrity of our department.“

    https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/5-la-vergne-officers-fired-3-suspended-for-sexual-acts-on-duty-girls-gone-wild-hot-tub-party-three-way-relations-city-says/

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  36. last weekend we bought an “apple” block for the deer. it has corn in it from the looks of it as well. these little nut hatches are all over this thing…pecking at the corn. when they finally get a piece of corn to fall onto the tree stump, they scoop it up and fly off.

    there has only been one deer there. he was licking and trying to nibble at it, but the tiny birds are getting way more than he does

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    1. news is coming out that the “second” batch was found in his garage in Delaware (i think)…which I’m betting is the FIRST batch actually. then they sent LAWYERS looking at other locations…

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    2. As per timing…the first thing to consider IS the House Republicans, more specifically the Freedom Caucus jumping into high gear on committee investigations. Sceered much?!

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  46. “University that housed Biden center pressed to end FBI China spy probe after big Beijing donations — University of Pennsylvania, which hosted the Penn Biden Center where classified documents were found in November, received $47.7 million from China in the three years when Biden was affiliated with it.”

    EXCERPT: “The University of Pennsylvania, the Ivy League institution which collected tens of millions of dollars from China while paying Joe Biden and hosting his foreign policy think tank, successfully pressured the Biden Justice Department to end an FBI counterespionage program targeting Beijing’s increasing influence within U.S. academia.

    Attorney General Merrick Garland shut down the FBI’s so-called China initiative in February 2022 shortly after more than 160 members of the University of Pennsylvania faculty signed and made public an open letter demanding the program be shuttered, on the grounds that it amounted to racial profiling. The faculty letter was part of a larger university battle against the program.

    File: UPennLettertoGarlandreChinaInitiative.pdf

    “We acknowledge the importance to the United States of protecting both intellectual property and information that is essential to our national and economic security,” read the letter made public on Feb. 9. “We understand that concerns about Chinese government sanctioned activities including intellectual property theft and economic espionage are important to address. We believe, however, that the China Initiative has deviated significantly from its claimed mission: it is harming the United States’ research and technology competitiveness and it is fueling biases that, in turn, raise concerns about racial profiling.”

    A handful of left-leaning universities, including Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, had also previously appealed to the DOJ to close down the program. Two weeks after the letter was sent, Garland announced the termination of the program, sending shockwaves through federal law enforcement.

    The DOJ’s own website still includes, to this day, a lengthy recitation of criminal cases the 4-year-old program had brought against members of academia who were working with China — either on espionage charges or failure to disclose foreign monies, as is required by law.

    Just a month prior to the Garland decision, FBI Director Christopher Wray traveled to the Reagan presidential library to give a speech pleading for the government to devote more attention and resources to combating China’s devastating influence inside the United States. He specifically cited cases where Beijing had used university academics to do its bidding. The FBI boss claimed China’s espionage has become “more brazen, [and] more damaging.”

    https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/university-housed-biden-think-tank-pressed-doj-end-fbi-program

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  47. “Penn Biden Center where classified papers were found is a ‘dark-money nightmare’”
    By Isabel Vincent
    January 11, 2023 4:59pm Updated
    EXCERPT: “The Ivy League think tank where lawyers found classified materials linked to the Obama White House is a patronage mill for the Biden administration, raising suspicions among critics that its establishment attracted tens of millions in donations from anonymous Chinese donors. The Department of Justice is probing how “a small number” of classified documents from President Biden’s years as vice president ended up at the Washington, DC, think tank that bears his name, the White House confirmed Monday. A second batch of papers was found at an additional location, it was reported Wednesday.

    The University of Pennsylvania received more than $30 million from Chinese donors shortly after the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, which functioned as an office for Joe Biden before he was elected president, was announced in 2017, according to public records. “The Penn Biden Center is a dark-money, revolving-door nightmare where foreign competitors like China donated millions of dollars to the university so that they could have access to future high-ranking officials,” said Tom Anderson, director of the Government Integrity Project at the Virginia-based National Legal and Policy Center.

    The Penn Biden Center — the Ivy League think tank where lawyers found classified materials linked to the Obama White House — is a patronage mill for the Biden administration.

    (The Penn Biden Center — the Ivy League think tank where lawyers found classified materials linked to the Obama White House — is a patronage mill for the Biden administration.
    Penn Biden Center)

    The University of Pennsylvania raked in a total of $54.6 million from 2014 through June 2019 in donations from China, including $23.1 million in anonymous gifts starting in 2016, according to public records. Most of the anonymous donations came after the university officially announced in February 2017 that it would create the academic center named for Biden, whose term as vice president under Barack Obama had just ended. In addition to leading the think tank, Biden was named a professor at the school.

    (It was reported Wednesday that a second batch of confidential documents was found at an additional location. AP)

    https://nypost.com/2023/01/11/penn-biden-center-is-dark-money-nightmare-patronage-mill/

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  49. “RESTAURANTS — 7 Fast-Food Chains That Don’t Use 100% Pure Chicken In Their Nuggets.
    Here’s your “proceed with caution” warning sign…”

    By Steven John
    Published on January 9, 2023 | 10:39 AM

    EXCERPT: “Before we get into the less than 100% chicken meat of the matter, let’s make sure we’re all 100% on the same page when it comes to chicken tenders vs. nuggets vs. strips and such in the first place. Technically speaking, a chicken tender must be made from the pectoralis minor muscle of a chicken—it’s that smaller strip of meat that hangs just below the larger breast muscle.

    Because this smaller strip of muscle is used less rigorously than other parts of the bird’s anatomy, it is less developed and thus really is more tender. So, a proper chicken tender is not just a large piece of white meat that has been breaded and cooked—usually by deep frying—but is made from this specific piece of poultry. As for chicken nuggets or strips? Those can be made with any chicken meat. The thing is, they’re often made with more than meat alone, and no, we’re not talking about what you’ll find in the breading or seasoning. For most nuggets, the meat is cut off the bone, ground, and then blended with seasonings and fillers.

    If you have a hard time telling, err on the side of listening to what a restaurant is telling you, or not telling you. Most will shout from the rooftops that their tenders are hand-breaded and cut from whole tenderloins. If they don’t, they probably aren’t, proceed with caution.

    1 McDonald’s
    2 Burger King
    3 Whataburger
    4 Dairy Queen
    5 Smashburger
    6 Domino’s
    7 White Castle

    https://www.eatthis.com/fast-food-chains-dont-use-pure-chicken/

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  50. yep…i remembered right…in the garage

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    DestashJan
    DestashJan
    January 12, 2023 11:15 am
    Reply to ClivusMultrum

    “All but one of these documents were found in storage space in the President’s Wilmington residence garage,” White House lawyers wrote in a Thursday statement. “One document consisting of one page was discovered among stored materials in an adjacent room.” 🤡

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