Laughter: The BEST Medicine

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This was posted at Wolf’s the other day and I loved it so much I brought it here!  Thanks Barb Meier for bringing it in the first place!! (I added the pictures…)

Barb Meier(@barbmeier)

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Wolverine

January 19, 2023 17:29

Sharing from a FB friend:

Laughter is still the best Medicine!
I used to be able to do cartwheels. Now I tip over putting on my underwear.
Hate it when I see an old person and then realize we went to high school together.

I told my wife she should embrace her mistakes… so she hugged me.
My wife says I only have 2 faults. I don’t listen and something else….
At my funeral, take the bouquet off my coffin and throw it into the crowd to see who is next.
I thought growing old would take longer.
I came, I saw, I forgot what I was doing. Retraced my steps, got lost on the way back, now I have no idea what’s going on.
The officer said, “You drinking?” I said, “You buying?” We just laughed and laughed…. I need bail money.

Day 12 without chocolate. Lost hearing in my left eye.
Scientists say the universe is made up of protons, neutrons and electrons. They forgot to mention morons.

The adult version of “head, shoulders, knees and toes” is “wallet, glasses, keys and phone.”
A dog accepts you as the boss… a cat wants to see your resume.
Oops…. did I roll my eyes out loud?
Life is too short to waste time matching socks.

Wi-fi went down for five minutes, so I had to talk to my family. They seem like nice people.
If you see me talking to myself, just move along. I’m self-employed; we’re having a staff meeting.
I won’t be impressed with technology until I can download food.
Some people call me crazy. I prefer ‘happy with a twist’.
My doctor asked if anyone in my family suffers from mental illness. I said, “No, we all seem to enjoy it.”

I really don’t mind getting old, but my body is having a major fit.
Camping: where you spend a small fortune to live like a homeless person.
Project Manager. Because Miracle Worker isn’t an official job title.
I told my wife I wanted to be cremated. She made me an appointment for Tuesday.
The world’s best antidepressant has 4 legs, a wagging tail and comes with unconditional love.

Love is how excited your dog gets when you come home.
I’ve reached the age where my train of thought often leaves the station without me.
If you’re happy and you know it, it’s your meds.
Hope this finds you in Good Health and Good Spirits.

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  5. ultra maggot took out a $250,000 line of credit loan against his beach house before they found classified docs there…can’t be to repay the half million $$ wall WE THE TAXPAYERS put up for him
    FTA
    The loan came about a month after the Nov. 2 discovery by Biden’s lawyer of documents marked ‘classified’ at his former Penn Biden think tank office in Washington, DC. That sparked the probe now being overseen by special counsel Robert Hur.

    The White House has not responded to a question about what the loan was for. Fox News obtained the loan document, which came about two weeks before additional documents marked ‘classified’ inside Biden’s Wilmington garage.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11710333/Biden-secured-250-000-line-credit-2-74-million-Rehoboth-vacation-home-December.html

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    1. Morning!
      I tried shoveling this stuff that fell off the roof twice already. but it’s so stuck there…I can’t eat chop away at it with the shovel edge!

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  9. “The FDA Succeeded in Interfering with the Practice of Medicine/ WSJ Op-Ed — A little-noticed provision of the omnibus spending bill gave the agency power to ban off-label use of approved therapies.”

    Meryl Nass
    12 hr ago

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “On December 29, 2022 President Biden signed the $1.7 Trillion “omnibus” government appropriations bill for fiscal year 2023, which funds the government through September 2023. It had been released to Congress on December 20. It was passed by Congress on December 22, 2022—a mere 2 days after being released.

    It had 1,653 pages that almost no one read in the 2 days they had to consider the bill before voting.
    Now, facts about what was in this bill are dribbling out and they are disconcerting, to say the least. Let me say clearly that I have not reviewed this bill (and can’t possibly do so) and am relying on what others have written. I believe these provisions are put in huge bills for multiple reasons, one being that ordinary humans cannot pick through them.

    The law that allowed for the use of off-label licensed drugs like HCQ and IVM appears to have been neutered. Also gone is the prohibition for using EUA products outside an emergency, discussed in a previous substack and confirmed by Sanjoy Mahajan’s identifying the FDA notice dated Jan. 31 that confirms it.

    It seems that the government’s stamping out the independent practice of medicine is marching forward in the dark, avoiding any public opposition. The below is from Dr. Mercola:

    https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2023/02/04/new-laws-allow-pharma-make-decisions-patients.aspx

    ‘In the U.S., 1 in 5 prescriptions is written for an off-label use.1 While sometimes this allows medications to be overused or misused, it also protects doctors’ ability to freely treat patients, and patients’ ability to use all available treatments after making an informed decision.

    That 20% of medications are used off-label also indicates “a degree of freedom physicians currently have that will be foreclosed,” notes English comedian and actor Russell Brand,2 if a little-noticed provision in the omnibus spending bill is passed. “Literally, this will mean that your doctor will not be able to do what’s best for you because they’ll work for Big Pharma now,” Brand says.3′

    19 Lines in 4,155-Page Bill Could Change Practice of Medicine — The 2023 omnibus appropriations bill — a 4,155-page tome involving $1.7 trillion in spending — includes 19 lines that could give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration the power to ban off-label use of approved medications. In a commentary for The Wall Street Journal, Dr. Joel Zinberg wrote:4

    “Physicians routinely prescribe drugs and employ medical devices that are approved and labeled by the Food and Drug Administration for a particular use. Yet sometimes physicians discern other beneficial uses for these technologies, which they prescribe for their patients without specific official sanction.

    The new legislation amends the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, or FDCA, to give the FDA the authority to ban some of these off-label uses of otherwise approved products. This unwarranted intrusion into the physician-patient relationship threatens to undermine medical innovation and patient care.”

    https://merylnass.substack.com/p/the-fda-succeeded-in-interfering

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    1. there was a story about the coming of “autonomous” flights–flights WITHOUT pilots.
      didn’t read it or bring it…too scary.
      we are being exterminated

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        1. I used to love to fly. then hubby and i few with the kids to Florida…his ears hurt him the entire time. we never flew again.
          now? I wouldn’t even attempt it!

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          1. I did, too, until I had to do so much travelling lugging a portable computer all over the fricking country! That was a real pain!!! Thankfully, that was before 9/11 but even then, going thru security was a hassle since they had never seen a portable computer before. SMH – ever since my late teen years, I have had a real obsession with having my own transportation available at all times, so I never have to depend on someone else to get out of a situation or get home. And I always prefer taking my OWN vehicle vs riding with others.

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  14. judge goes wild, on video calls for and leads a warrantless search and then retires thinking that she could evade impeachment. they really believe they are untouchable.
    entire article
    A family court judge in West Virginia, facing impeachment for her outlandish behavior on the bench, has retired.

    But that still won’t prevent her from facing her own judgment day.

    Officials with the Institute for Justice have confirmed that Louise Goldston, who used to be assigned to the state’s Family Court, has quit her position.

    Her decision came just as the state legislature was pushing to impeach her for violating the rights of West Virginians.

    “The resolution to impeach Goldston specifically mentions the judge leading a warrantless search of the home of Institute for Justice client Matt Gibson. Despite her retirement, Matt and IJ will continue moving forward with their lawsuit against Goldston,” the IJ confirmed.

    Tori Clark, a lawyer with the IJ, said, “The West Virginia Legislature has done the right thing in this case, but Americans cannot and should not have to depend on legislative grace to ensure that judges follow the Constitution. Judge Goldston’s retirement is a good first step, but this lawsuit must continue to move forward so we can ensure that Matt and others who are wronged by unconstitutional judicial conduct can vindicate their rights in court.”

    Goldston went off the rails in March 2020 when she “stopped a court proceeding between Matt and his ex-wife, ordered everyone in the courtroom to go to Matt’s home, and led a warrantless search party through the home.”

    The IJ explained its client, Matt, tried to stop her by telling her she could not enter without a search warrant, and she said, on video, “Oh yeah, I will.”

    At that time Goldston ordered Matt’s former wife to take anything from the home that she thought was hers.

    Multiple ethics charges soon were filed against the judge, and she was censured and fined by the state Supreme Court of Appeals.

    Then Matt brought his lawsuit for violating his rights.

    “The judge argued that she should be entitled to judicial immunity and that Matt’s claims against her should be thrown out,” the IJ said, but the district court refused to go along with her agenda.

    Matt said, “I’m happy that the corrupt judge is stepping down so she can’t violate other people’s rights like she did to me. But judges aren’t above the law. My case will move forward to ensure that what happened to me does not happen again.”

    WND previously reported when the case developed that some of the items taken by the ex-wife, with the judge’s permission, actually belonged to him and his children.

    https://conservativefiringline.com/judge-facing-impeachment-proceedings-flees-but-still-will-have-to-face-lawsuit-video/

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  15. these people playing God are playing with fire. bringing “back” extinct animals is not a great idea. and the disasters that can occur are never thought through. “just because we can, doesn’t mean we should…”
    entire article
    Colossal Biosciences, a Texas firm that is the world’s first “de-extinction” company, has announced it has obtained $150 million in funding to bring back the extinct dodo bird. Of course, it helped that the project’s goal was ostensibly tied to “climate change.”

    Colossal Biosciences, which previously made headlines for its plans to to bring back the woolly mammoth and the Tasmanian tiger, says it is now turning its attention to the dodo.

    The bird, which is closely related to pigeons, went extinct in 1662 after being wiped out from its native ecosystem, Mauritius, because of human settlement and ecosystem competition. The dodo is widely considered one of the best examples of human-induced extinction.

    The dodo will mark the third animal the company is working on. Colossal is most famous for its lofty goal of creating a woolly mammoth-elephant hybrid, but the company also announced plans last year to try and back another extinct animal, the Tasmanian tiger.

    Colossal Biosciences, which this week announced a new $150 million funding round, is led by Austin-based entrepreneur Ben Lamm and geneticist George Church of Harvard Medical School, was formed in 2021 with the goal of advancing the field of de-extinction and combating climate change.

    The approach will be based on CRISPR/Cas9 technology, which edits genes by precisely cutting DNA and then letting natural DNA repair processes to take over. The researchers plan to cut and paste the genetic code to align it as closely with the dodo samples as possible.

    In mammals, this gene-edited material would then be embedded in the reproductive system of an existing relative of the species.

    But because the dodo is a bird, the technique has to be tweaked somewhat because it needs to account for an external egg. This will be tricky, as no one has yet managed to use gene-editing for birds in this way.

    In the dodo’s case, scientists will take primordial germ cells – embryonic precursors of sperm and egg that pass on genetic code from one generation to the next – from a Nicobar pigeon.

    They will then edit these cells to more closely resemble a dodo, such as its flightlessness, and then insert them back into a host pigeon egg.

    When the resulting chick hatches it may have a few differences compared to the original species, just because of how challenging it is to 100 per cent replicate an extinct creature’s genetic code.

    So, in this case, the egg will definitely come first.

    It turns out the first dodo DNA samples were able to be collected last year. However, there is no need to worry about T-Rex or velociraptor returning.

    Forget Jurassic Park, though: dinosaurs, dead for tens of millions of years, remain inaccessible, their genetic material having disintegrated long ago. Extracting their genes from mosquitoes in amber made a good plot for a novel and movie franchise, but can’t and won’t work in practice.

    Those qualms aside, some do see problems arising from pursuing this avenue of experimentation.

    “Bringing dodos back does not help the species (I’m not sure that idea makes any sense). Nor does it help the actual dodos who were victims of human activities,” Josh Milburn, a moral and political philosophy lecturer at Loughborough University, told Newsweek. “It just creates new dodos. Does it help us? Creating animals just for our own curiosity does not sound respectful; it sounds like we’re instrumentalising these animals.

    . . . . Milburn argues that the newly de-extinct dodos would not have a good life, and neither would any of the other animals impacted by the project.

    “If de-extinction efforts are successful, what will happen to the dodos created? Will they be kept in zoos for our amusement? That sounds wrong. We should not create animals just so we can exploit them,” Milburn said.

    Others note an entirely different problem.

    I think we have enough DODOs already — amirite, gang? #highfive don’t leave me hanging, bros https://t.co/N9MT6PVqND

    — Jon Gabriel (@exjon) January 31, 2023

    https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/02/texas-company-obtains-150-million-in-funding-to-bring-back-dodo-bird/

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    1. “The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to stand up the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) in Manhattan, Kansas. This state-of-the-art facility is a national asset that will help protect the nation’s agriculture, farmers and citizens against the threat and potential impact of serious animal diseases.” via USDA NBAF

      Wonderful — the DHS is/was overseeing this mammoth (pun intended) project. You’ll never guess what specific language and terminology they used to describe the facility…….”

      If you guessed “safe and secure” you win todays prize:

      One recently infected (don’t worry about it), but now fully recovered (!!!) adult cow.
      Or maybe they will be testing these diseases on bears too. Horrific.

      It’s effectively a fully legitimized, taxpayer funded den of iniquity and animal cruelty facility.”

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  18. Filly if you have a chance, watch the last video kea posted last night. it’s about “southerners” and the balloon…
    hubby had to see what I was laughing about and he laughed along with me.

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    1. what amazes me about outhouses is that little ones went out by themselves in the night (at least Laura Ingalls did sometimes)…didn’t parents worry about dangerous animals?

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      1. Most of them had farm dogs that would warn them and most of the wild animals would stay away from farmsteads for the most part unless they were rabid. It’s one of those signs of the times….you did what you had to do.

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        1. true but that was indoor stuff, right??
          I’m just amazed that they had to go outside in the middle of the night and no one thought it might be dangerous

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          1. No doubt a lot of them took a gun with them. I’ve watched a lot of westerns where they took a gun with them to the outhouse. The baths were outdoors in the summer, I expect, but during the day probably.

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  26. “US Shoots Down Chinese Spy Balloon; China Threatens Response”
    (Video)
    ENTIRE ARTICLE @ Newsmax: “The U.S. military shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the Carolina coast Saturday after it traversed sensitive military sites across North America. China insisted the flyover was an accident involving a civilian aircraft and threatened repercussions. China responded it reserved the right to “take further actions” and criticized the U.S. for “an obvious overreaction and a serious violation of international practice.”

    In its statement Sunday, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said “China will resolutely uphold the relevant company’s legitimate rights and interests, and at the same time reserving the right to take further actions in response.”

    President Joe Biden issued the order but had wanted the balloon downed even earlier Wednesday. He was advised the best time for the operation would be when it was over water, U.S. officials said. Military officials determined bringing it down over land from an altitude of 60,000 feet would pose an undue risk to people on the ground.

    The presence of the balloon in the skies above the U.S. this week dealt a severe blow to already strained U.S.-Chinese relations that have been in a downward spiral for years. It prompted Secretary of State Antony Blinken to abruptly cancel a high-stakes Beijing trip aimed at easing tensions. “They successfully took it down and I want to compliment our aviators who did it,” Biden said after getting off Air Force One en route to Camp David.

    “They decided, without doing damage to anyone on the ground, they decided the best time to do that was when it got over water within the 12-mile limit. “They successfully took it down, and I want to compliment our aviators who did it.” Biden added defense officials said to him, “let’s wait for the safest place to do it.”

    The giant white orb was spotted Saturday morning over the Carolinas as it approached the Atlantic coast. About 2:39 p.m. ET, an F-22 fighter jet fired a missile at the balloon, puncturing it while it was about 6 nautical miles off the coast near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, senior defense officials said. Among the latest developments breaking Saturday evening:

    — The debris field formed a 7-mile radius.
    — The balloon debris will be analyzed at Quantico, Virginia, which is the location of FBI headquarters.
    — The Pentagon had reportedly jammed the balloon signal so it could not transmit data back to China, and even extracted data from it.
    — There is a potential third balloon out over the Atlantic Ocean, The Washington Post reported.
    — A temporary shutdown of commercial airspace by the FAA has since been lifted, according to reports.

    The spectacle had Americans looking to the skies all week, wondering whether the mysterious balloon had floated over toward them. Ashlyn Preaux, 33, went out to get her mail Saturday in Forestbrook, South Carolina, and noticed her neighbors looking up — and there it was, the balloon in the cloudless blue sky. Then she saw fighter jets circling and the balloon get hit. “I did not anticipate waking up to be in a ‘Top Gun’ movie today,” she said.

    The debris landed in 47 feet of water, shallower than officials had expected, and it spread out over roughly seven miles and the recovery operation included several ships. The officials estimated the recovery efforts would be completed in a short time, not weeks. A salvage vessel was en route.
    U.S. defense and military officials said Saturday that the balloon entered the U.S. air defense zone north of the Aleutian Islands on Jan. 28 and moved largely over land across Alaska and then into Canadian airspace in the Northwest Territories on Monday. It crossed back into U.S. territory over northern Idaho on Tuesday, the day the White House said Biden was first briefed on it.

    The balloon was spotted Thursday over Montana, home to Malmstrom Air Force Base, which has fields of nuclear missile silos. The Americans were able to collect intelligence on the balloon as it flew over the U.S., giving them a number of days to analyze it and learn how it moved and what it was capable of surveilling, according to two senior defense officials said. The officials briefed reporters on condition of anonymity.

    The officials said the U.S. military was constantly assessing the threat, and concluded that the technology on the balloon didn’t give the Chinese significant intelligence beyond what it could already obtain from satellites, though the U.S. took steps to mitigate what information it could gather as it moved along.

    Republicans were critical of Biden’s response. “Allowing a spy balloon from the Communist Party of China to travel across the entire continental United States before contesting its presence is a disastrous projection of weakness by the White House,” said Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

    Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.V., tweeted: “Now that this embarrassing episode is over, we need answers from the Biden Administration on the decision-making process. Communist China was allowed to violate American sovereignty unimpeded for days. We must be better prepared for future provocations and incursions by the CCP.”

    Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., was more positive: “Thank you to the men and women of the United States military who were responsible for completing the mission to shoot down the Chinese surveillance balloon. The Biden Administration did the right thing in bringing it down.”

    China has continued to claim the balloon was merely a weather research “airship” that had been blown off course. The Pentagon rejected that out of hand — as well as China’s contention it was not being used for surveillance and had only limited navigational ability. The Chinese government Saturday sought to play down the cancellation of Secretary of State Blinken’s trip. “In actuality, the U.S. and China have never announced any visit, the U.S. making any such announcement is their own business, and we respect that,” China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.

    The Pentagon also acknowledged reports of a second balloon flying over Latin America. “We now assess it is another Chinese surveillance balloon,” Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, Pentagon press secretary, said in a statement. China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not immediately respond to a question about the second balloon.

    This is not the first time Chinese spy balloons have crossed into U.S. airspace in recent years, one of the officials said. At least three times during the Trump administration and at least one other time during Biden’s time as president they’ve seen balloons cross, but not for this long, the official said.

    Blinken, who had been due to depart Washington for Beijing late Friday, said he had told senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi in a phone call that sending the balloon over the U.S. was “an irresponsible act and that (China’s) decision to take this action on the eve of my visit is detrimental to the substantive discussions that we were prepared to have.”

    Uncensored reactions on the Chinese internet mirrored the official government stance that the U.S. was hyping the situation. Some used it as a chance to poke fun at U.S. defenses, saying it couldn’t even defend against a balloon, and nationalist influencers leaped to use the news to mock the U.S. China has denied any claims of spying and said it is a civilian-use balloon intended for meteorology research. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs emphasized that the balloon’s journey was out of its control and urged the U.S. not to “smear” it because of the balloon.

    In preparation for the operation Saturday, the Federal Aviation Administration temporarily closed airspace over the Carolina coast, including the airports in Myrtle Beach and Charleston, South Carolina, and Wilmington, North Carolina. The FAA rerouted air traffic from the area and warned of delays as a result of the flight restrictions. The FAA and Coast Guard worked to clear the airspace and water below the balloon as it reached the ocean.

    Television footage showed a small explosion, followed by the giant deflated balloon descending like a ribbon toward the water. Bill Swanson said he watched the balloon deflate instantly from his house in Myrtle Beach as fighter jets circled around. “When it deflated it was pretty close to instantaneous,” he said. “One second it’s there like a tiny moon and the next second it’s gone.” Swanson added that a trail of smoke followed the balloon as it dropped.”

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  33. EXCERPT: “The Democratic Party on Saturday approved the reordering of its 2024 presidential primary, replacing Iowa with South Carolina in the leadoff spot as part of a major shake-up meant to empower Black and other minority voters critical to its base of support. Although changes are still possible throughout the summer and beyond, the formal endorsement by the Democratic National Committee during its meeting in Philadelphia is an acknowledgement the start of the 2024 primary will look very different from the one in 2020.

    States with early contests have a major influence in determining the nominee because White House hopefuls struggling to raise money or gain political traction often drop out before visiting states outside the first five.

    The new plan has been championed by President Joe Biden, who is expected to formally announce his reelection campaign in the coming months. The reconfiguring would have South Carolina hold its primary Feb. 3, followed three days later by New Hampshire and Nevada, which is swapping the caucus it used to hold in favor of a primary.

    Georgia would vote fourth Feb. 13, followed by Michigan on Feb. 27, with much of the rest of the nation set to vote on Super Tuesday in early March. “The Democratic Party looks like America and so does this proposal,” the party chairman, Jaime Harrison, said before the plan was approved. It “elevates the backbone of our party,” he said.

    The move marks a dramatic shift from the current calendar, which saw Iowa start with its caucus, followed by New Hampshire and then Nevada and South Carolina. Four of the first five states under the new plan are battlegrounds, meaning the eventual party winner would be able to lay groundwork in important general election spots.

    That is especially true for Michigan and Georgia, both of which voted for Republican Donald Trump in 2016 before flipping to Biden in 2020.”

    https://www.newsmax.com/us/south-carolina-primary-democrats

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  34. “College Board’s AP African American Studies Course Cuts Revealed”
    ENTIRE ARTICLE @ Newsmax: “The official curriculum for the College Board’s Advanced Placement African American Studies course has been unveiled and a number of concepts that were included in the original course have been cut, according to Axios. The changes come after Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis blocked the course in January, saying it is “inexplicably contrary to Florida law and significantly lacks educational value.”

    DeSantis claimed the course teaches critical race theory, an academic framework that, according to the NAACP, teaches that “racism is more than the result of individual bias and prejudice. It is embedded in laws, policies and institutions that uphold and reproduce racial inequalities.” Conservatives largely view teaching this as inaccurate and harmful. Here are some of the biggest changes between the draft of the curriculum the Miami Herald obtained and the current framework:

    — Black Lives Matter: The original curriculum included material on “the origins and mission of the Black Lives Matter movement and Movement for Black Lives.” The revised curriculum does not require that the BLM movement be taught and lists it instead as a sample project topic which “can be refined by states and districts.”

    — LGBTQ: The draft curriculum included a section on “Black Queer Studies,” which mentioned works by writers Cathy Cohen, Roderick Ferguson and E. Patrick Johnson. The new framework discusses the sense of exclusion Black lesbians felt from the civil rights movement and the women’s movement but does not use the term “queer studies” and includes “Gay life and expression in Black communities” as an optional topic and not a requirement.

    — Reparations: While lessons in the original curriculum had highlighted the debate over reparations for slavery in America, the new framework only mentions reparations once as a sample project topic and not a course requirement.

    — Mass incarceration: In the draft of the curriculum, the instructional focus on Black lives today included lessons on Black incarceration from the passage of the 13th Amendment to the present and the larger prison industrial complex. Students would have studied the “relationship between carceral studies and abolition movements” through works by scholars such as Michelle Alexander, who is best known for her 2010 book “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.” The new curriculum includes material on the exploitation of imprisoned African Americans in the early 1900s but only mentions incarceration and criminal justice once and makes the topic optional.

    — A movement renamed: The section on “The Black Feminist Movement and Womanism” in the original curriculum was renamed to “Black Women and Movements in the 20th Century.” Prominent Black women writers such as bell hooks, Audre Lorde and Alice Walker have also been cut.

    Since announcing the changes, the College Board has come under fire from those who accuse the organization of buckling under pressure from DeSantis. The organization rejected the suggestion that political pressure played a role in its decision. “The fact of the matter is that this landmark course has been shaped over years by the most eminent scholars in the field, not political influence,” the College Board said in a statement.

    It is unclear how the changes may affect DeSantis’ earlier decision to ban the course from Florida’s high schools.”

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  38. Heartbreaking stories…from Wolfie – Pat, did you read Kalbo’s post? I’m right with him – I WANT REVENGE!!!! There will be NO healing without it!

    “How the Response to COVID Affected Us at a Personal Level — It will take many years to fully process the trauma of what we experienced during COVID. But our individual human stories can help us get at least part of the way there.”

    Michael P Senger
    21 hr ago

    EXCERPT: “The scars that have been left on all of us by the response to COVID are incomprehensibly varied and deep. For most, there hasn’t been enough time to mentally process the significance of the initial lockdowns, let alone the years-long slog of mandates, terror, propaganda, social stigmatization and censorship that followed. And this psychological trauma affects us in myriad ways that leave us wondering what it is about life that just feels so off versus how it felt in 2019.

    For those who were following the real data, the statistics were always horrifying. Trillions of dollars rapidly transferred from the world’s poorest to the richest. Hundreds of millions hungry. Countless years of educational attainment lost. An entire generation of children and adolescents robbed of some of their brightest years. A mental health crisis affecting more than a quarter of the population. Drug overdoses. Hospital abuse. Elder abuse. Domestic abuse. Millions of excess deaths among young people which couldn’t be attributed to the virus.

    But underneath these statistics lie billions of individual human stories, each unique in its details and perspectives. These individual stories and anecdotes are only just beginning to surface, and I believe that hearing them is a vital step in processing everything that we’ve experienced over the past three years.

    I recently sent out a query on Twitter as to how people had been affected by the response to COVID at an individual level. The conversation that emerged is a luminating and haunting reflection of what each of us experienced over the past three years. Below is a tiny selection of the responses that I found especially powerful.

    Specifically, the query was: “Which aspect of the response to COVID affected you most at a personal level?”

    https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/how-the-response-to-covid-affected

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    1. Kalbo: “Sorry to read of everything you’ve endured. The loss of your parents. Mother, likely the jab. Unbelievable pain. Infuriating.

      Sadly, most everything in your post is mirrored in my life. Likely many here QTree, if not most or all. Heartbreaking. Infuriating.

      A few thoughts. Reality as I see it. Some personal venting.

      Justice, IMO, will NOT happen. There will be NO accountability for FauXi, scarf bitch, Walensky, CDC, FDA, Pfizer, Moderna, J&J, medical systems, hospitals, politicians….

      WithOUT apologies. Revenge, I’m good with it. It would, IMO, help the timid, weaker, stand up for their Rights. <<< Folks capitulating to government tyranny, enabled much of the problem.
      Again, withOUT apologies. I will NEVER forgive. I will NEVER forget. <<< Their actions were Intentional AND with Malice.
      At best, we are in a holding pattern. More likely, Great Reset is rolling on, incrementally. While WEF has been exposed, it has not slowed the Great Reset. IMO.

      With my thoughts in mind. NO, I am no caving to the bastards. But I recognize the increasing threat to us, AND our way of life. Perhaps worse, I never lose sight of, this is a Global Reset…effecting the Global population.

      QTree has been my anchor, throughout Covidiocy. Supporting has been, sources shared here. Along with the good common sense we grew up with. Sorting out truths from skeery hype.

      Formulating internal plans for DW and I. Family that choose to be awake. Recognize some are willfully, blind, deaf and dumb to reality. Can’t fix stoopid.

      Decades ago, I learned to create and build on plans. Short term, mid term and long term. Significantly, the types of plans have evolved mightily. My Cold Anger, is channeled to ensuring our future. Return to normal, with our Rights intact.

      For anyone getting this far, please pardon the ramble."

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      1. I read Alison’s and agree with her in part too.
        I’ve only worn a mask when asked to. and that was doctor visits mostly. hell, my doc still had his staff (and him) wearing them this past October.
        I pointed to mine and said this is bullshit, you know…
        he said as a “medical facility” under fda and cdc guidelines they (and by extension me) were required to wear them.

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              1. You don’t know what you’re missing! And THE best all-around fertilizer once it’s aged. But really the smell I wish I could bottle is the actual “horse” smell. I’d just bury my nose in Z’s neck and breath in his smell…..just the memory of it gives me shivers.

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    2. The toilet one actually happened to me – I dreamed I was sitting on the toilet and, when I started to pee, I couldn’t understand why it was so difficult, then the warmth woke me up! LOL – so THAT’S why kids pee the bed!!!

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