APRIL FOOLS!!!!

Education, Entertainment, History, Humor 7 Minutes

April Fools’ Day—celebrated on April 1 each year—has been celebrated for several centuries by different cultures, though the exact origins remain a mystery. April Fools’ Day traditions include playing hoaxes or practical jokes on others, often yelling “April Fools!” at the end to clue in the subject of the April Fools’ Day prank. The embrace of April Fools’ Day jokes by the media and major brands has ensured the unofficial holiday’s long life.

Some historians speculate that April Fools’ Day dates back to 1582, when France switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, as called for by the Council of Trent in 1563. In the Julian Calendar, as in the Hindu calendar, the new year began with the spring equinox around April 1.

Roman Julian Calendar
Gregorian Calendar

People who were slow to get the news or failed to recognize that the start of the new year had moved to January 1 and continued to celebrate it during the last week of March through April 1 became the butt of jokes and hoaxes and were called “April fools.” These pranks included having paper fish placed on their backs and being referred to as “poisson d’avril” (April fish), said to symbolize a young, easily caught fish and a gullible person.

Hilaria in Ancient Rome

Historians have also linked April Fools’ Day to festivals such as Hilaria (Latin for joyful), which was celebrated in ancient Rome at the end of March by followers of the cult of Cybele. It involved people dressing up in disguises and mocking fellow citizens and even magistrates and was said to be inspired by the Egyptian legend of Isis, Osiris and Seth.

Vernal Equinox and April Fools’

There’s also speculation that April Fools’ Day was tied to the vernal equinox, or first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, when Mother Nature fooled people with changing, unpredictable weather.

Gowk Day was a day of wild goose chases, pranks and set ups in Scotland for generations, starting with “hunting the gowk,” in which people were sent on phony errands (gowk is a word for cuckoo bird, a symbol for fool) and followed by Tailie Day, which involved pranks played on people’s derrieres, such as pinning fake tails or “kick me” signs on them.

The Gowk Day custom derives in part from young people being led from wood to wood to track the newly arrived Spring cuckoos, with the “hunt the gowk” always staged too early for the birds to be found. The traditional prank was to ask someone to deliver a sealed message requesting help of some sort.

When the note was opened on delivery, the nature of the errand was revealed. “Dinna laugh, dinna smile, hunt the gowk another mile,” was the message. The daft missions further evolved with reports of people being sent to the butcher for items such as a gill of pigeon milk. It is believed Gowk’s Day was marked in Scotland from at least 1700.

Accounts detail how it was usually the early milk boy or girl who would usher in Gowk month by falsely warning passers by that ‘yer lace is lowse’ or “ye’ve let something fa” More elaborate jokes were perpetrated by the older school children and apprentice boys. In the Western Isles, gowk cakes, made from milk, eggs and fruit, were eaten on April 1.

April Fools’ Day Pranks

In modern times, people have gone to great lengths to create elaborate April Fools’ Day hoaxes. Newspapers, radio and TV stations and websites have participated in the April 1 tradition of reporting outrageous fictional claims that have fooled their audiences.

1856: The Tower of London hosts a lion washing extravaganza

In the days leading up to April 1, 1856, London residents received an official-looking invitation printed on Tower of London stationery and bearing a crimson wax seal. Signed “Herbert de Grassen,” supposedly a “senior warden” at the popular tourist attraction and prison, the leaflet offered admission to “view the annual ceremony of washing the lions” on April 1.

Such an event could have indeed taken place two decades earlier, but the Tower’s famous menagerie—which for 600 years featured bears, leopards, lions and other dangerous beasts—had closed in 1835. Nevertheless, a certain number of would-be spectators showed up for the display, only to learn they’d fallen prey to an April Fools’ hoax.

1957: Spaghetti grows on trees

Leave it to the Brits to concoct one of history’s most memorable April Fools’ Day pranks. On April 1, 1957, the BBC aired a segment in which a Swiss farming family harvested long strands of pasta from their spaghetti trees. In England at that time, spaghetti was still an exotic delicacy with mysterious origins, so many viewers bought the report hook, line and sinker. Some even called in to ask how to grow spaghetti trees of their own. The BBC reportedly suggested, “Place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best.”

1962: Swedish televisions don pantyhose

On April 1, 1962, a supposed technical expert for Sweden’s one and only television channel made an exciting announcement. By stretching out a pair of nylon stockings and taping it over their screens, he reported, viewers could watch the usual black-and-white broadcast in stunning color. Television owners rushed to implement the astonishingly simple hack, only to be disappointed when the hose did nothing but obscure the picture. Regular color programming would eventually debut in Sweden on April 1, 1970.

1972: The Loch Ness Monster surfaces

Very few April Fools’ Days go by without some Nessie-related hoax, but in 1972 a widely published photograph convinced many that Loch Ness’ elusive dweller had finally made an appearance—sadly, dead rather than alive. It turned out that a prankster from Yorkshire’s Flamingo Park Zoo had dumped the body of a bull elephant seal in the lake. He had only intended to play a joke on his coworkers, but the “news” quickly went viral.

1976: Gravity takes a hiatus

On April 1, 1976, the BBC pulled off yet another of its many April Fools’ Day pranks. Astronomer Sir Patrick Moore told listeners that at 9:47 a.m. that day, the temporary alignment of Pluto and Jupiter would cause a reduction in Earth’s gravity, allowing people to briefly levitate. Sure enough, at 9:48, hundreds of enthralled callers flooded the lines with reports that they had floated in the air.

1992: Richard Nixon makes a comeback

National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation” program reported that former-President Richard Nixon had declared his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. Accompanying the announcement were audio clips of Nixon delivering his candidacy speech and declaring “I never did anything wrong, and I won’t do it again.”

Harvard professor Laurence Tribe and Newsweek reporter Howard Fineman then came on the air to offer their analysis of Nixon’s decision and its possible impact on the 1992 presidential race. A clip from Torrie Clarke, press secretary of the Bush-Quayle campaign, was also played in which she said, “We are stunned and think it’s an obvious attempt by Nixon to upstage our foreign policy announcement today.”

Listeners reacted emotionally to the announcement, flooding NPR with calls expressing shock and outrage. Only during the second half of the program did host John Hockenberry reveal that the announcement had been an April Fool’s Day joke. Comedian Rich Little had impersonated Nixon’s voice.

1998: Lefties get their own burger

In a full-page advertisement in USA Today, Burger King unveiled a new menu item specifically engineered for southpaws: the Left-Handed Whopper. According to the fast food chain, the burger’s condiments were rotated 180 degrees to better suit the 1.4 million lefties who patronized its restaurants. Thousands of customers requested the new burger, swallowing an April Fools’ Day whopper as they ordered their Whopper.

2000: People Google with their minds

Now famous for its annual hoaxes, Google played its first April Fools’ Day prank in 2000. Visitors to the search engine’s website learned about a new “MentalPlex” technology that supposedly read people’s minds, thereby bypassing the need to type in a query. Google has orchestrated an increasing number of elaborate ruses in the years since, announcing such products and features as Google Nose, Gmail Motion and PigeonRank.

2013: Uncle Sam Wants Kitties

The U.S. Army jumped on the hoax bandwagon in 2013, when it sent out a seemingly official press release announcing the latest additions to the U.S. Armed Forces. Claiming that drafting cats to serve their country would cut down on military spending, officials went on to say that it was time these feckless felines got to work.

As Sgt. 1st Class Tyler Radmall wisely stated, “Not only will the Army have a more cost-effective working animal, but we will be doing our part in getting them off of the streets and finding them employment.” But while Army brass seemed bullish on the idea, they did note that the K-9 units weren’t taking too kindly to the new recruits, resulting in more than a little fighting like cats and dogs.

Of course, I can’t possibly let this day pass without acknowledging the birthday of my sweet girl! Happy Birthday, Heather Brianna!!!

HB at 3 months
HB dearly loved hats of all kinds!
After a night of sleeping on the beach in VA Beach
HB in the Gulf of Mexico
Christmas 2014
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              1. I hope she wants to hear the stories!
                Mom loves to talk and tell stories and I love to listen (even though I’ve heard them all before)

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  4. INCOMING BOOMERANG! LOL

    BREAKING: President Trump raises over $4 million in 24 hours after Manhattan DA’s indictment. 25% of donations are from first-time donors to the Trump Campaign.

    — Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) March 31, 2023

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  6. whoa…

    TheseTruths
    TheseTruths(@thesetruths)Offline
    Wolf
    April 1, 2023 01:28

    DawsonSField did a deep dive into the Trump case. This is in thread reader form. The link should open, but if you copy and past it, remove the space after the initial “s.”

    https ://twitter.com/DawsonSField/status/1641867101966090240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1641867101966090240%7Ctwgr%5Eb8090409c7e4e4484b30e586c480b9beeadf502d%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpatriots.win%2F

    So it appears that the Manhattan D.A.s office has indicted Donald Trump.

    So what opportunities does this open up?

    Why now? And why now is important…

    Further down the thread:

    So it is very unlikely that the D.A.s novel theory will survive court review when he has no legal jurisdiction over the ‘crime’ he is alleging happened. So the ‘false records’ can’t be a felony under current precedent.

    Dems argue that some staff investigators thought there was reason to invetigate. In the unlikely event that Bragg gets a ruling to say that FEC dropping an investigation still means the crime was committed.

    That is very bad news for Hillary’s campaign…

    Why?

    Because the DNC & Hillary’s campaign has a similar 2-2 dismissal of a campaign violations case.

    But it wasn’t a $130k payment barely connected to the election.

    It was for laundering $83 million through state party offices to the DNC to allow excessive contributions to HFA…

    Why is this important?

    In the unlikely event Bragg secures a court ruling that he can prosecute Trump for an uncharged federal campaign funding violation, what happens?

    It sets the precedent that state D.A.s in all 40 states including NY can charge DNC, Hillary & her campaign!

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    1. Need the rare non-left-Soros prosecutor with actual cojones to do anything like that.

      So far, Durham and the others, including our judges and even the Trump SCOTUS nominees, seem to be duds.

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  8. Citizen 817
    April 1, 2023 12:22 am

    @realDonaldTrump

    12h
    Matthew Collangelo left the DOJ in Washington, D.C., to work with Bragg at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office to “GET TRUMP.” Also, don’t forget Clinton Lawyer Mark Pomerantz, who left private practice to become a D.A. Prosecutor of President Donald J. Trump, only to leave during the investigative process to sell a book, and tainting the entire case, heretofore unheard of “stuff.” It’s not supposed to work that way. ELECTION INTERFERENCE, KANGAROO COURT!

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  10. Citizen 817
    April 1, 2023 12:25 am

    @realDonaldTrump

    7h
    THEY HAVE CLOSELY STUDIED 11,000,000 PAGES OF DOCUMENTS, FINANCIAL RECORDS, AND TAX RETURNS (SOME GOTTEN ILLEGALLY!), BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF DEALS AND TRANSACTIONS, AND THEY’VE GOT NOTHING. AFTER 8 YEARS OF VARIOUS POLITICALLY MOTIVATED INVESTIGATIONS, HOAXES, SCAMS, AND WITCH HUNTS, THIS MUST MAKE ME THE MOST HONEST AND HONORABLE MAN ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. NOBODY IN HISTORY HAS EVER BEEN THROUGH THE SCRUTINY THAT I HAVE. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!

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  21. WTH????????????????????????

    Kahf is the former Board Chairwoman of Hamas-linked CAIR in New Jersey and the current Chairwoman of a Muslim Brotherhood-founded Mosque led by an Imam who was arrested and convicted of being a member of Hamas.

    Following her Superior Court of New Jersey appointment on March 23, 2023, Islamic supremacist attorney Nadia Kahf became the first hijab-wearing judge in the United States. Kahf, a Syrian-origin family and immigration attorney, took the oath of office on Thursday with her hand on a copy of the Quran – a book that teaches supremacy, hatred, and hostility. Furthermore, it dehumanizes and stigmatizes non-believers.

    Islamic governments across the world celebrated Kahf’s appointment. Islamic news sites in Morocco, India, and Turkey. “Nadia Kahf becomes New Jersey’s first hijabi judge,” wrote Sinar Daily, a news site in Malaysia. The Turkish government gleefully highlighted on their English news station:

    American attorney Nadia Kahf, appointed to the Supreme Court of the state of New Jersey, became the first hijab-wearing judge on the bench.

    She took the oath of office with her hand on the Quran pic.twitter.com/LyNoYwjga8
    — TRT World (@trtworld) March 23, 2023

    Kahf has a background serving as a leader in a radicalized and terror-tied organization and an Islamic center founded by the Muslim Brotherhood that wants to overthrow our Constitutional republican form of government and replace it with Sharia.

    She will serve as a Passaic County Superior Court judge after New Jersey’s left-wing Governor, Phil Murphy, nominated her last year. Governor Murphy has a long history of working with Islamic terror-tied groups and individuals to harm the state he was elected to protect. Hamas-linked Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR) in New Jersey has continuously praised Murphy’s work.

    https://rairfoundation.com/threat-alert-islamic-terror-tied-leader-nadia-kahf-sworn-in-as-new-jersey-superior-court-judge-video/

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  22. interesting…this story details an ex-fib agent’s girlfriend (supposedly) tweeting things about the fib whistleblowers–and things don’t add up. she tweets things she really shouldn’t know–so the speculation is, is the ex fib using HER twitter acct to try to intimidate the whistleblowers? when seriously confronted–she deleted her acct…not fishy at all right?

    https://gregprice.substack.com/p/i-found-disgraced-fbi-agent-timothy

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  23. “Trump Will be Gagged Next”
    Get Ready for the Depths of NY Corruption -Armstrong

    Jimychanga
    10 hr ago

    “Trump will now find himself silenced and whatever Free Speech he once had, will now be stripped away from him like the rest of his constitutional and human rights. We are about to witness just how corrupt our legal system truly is. This is George Soros’s puppet. Alan Bragg will now show the entire world that in the United States, there is no such thing as constitutional or even Human Rights.

    Martin Armstrong had exactly this happen with his case, until the Supreme Court added his case to their calendar and the corrupt Manhattan DA’s and judge dismissed it after SEVEN YEARS in solitary, one of the longest miscarriages of justice in American History:

    “They can now gag Trump, restrict his movements, and harass him to PREVENT him from running in 2024. They will listen to every word he says and are just going to wait to be able to throw him in prison on Civil Contempt indefinitely with ZERO Constitutional Rights. Welcome to the REAL America. They call it a “protective order” to protect the Government and Bragg as you are stripped of ALL your First Amendment rights.”

    Please read and share the article linked below. And call your flaccid RINO Congress critters this weekend. Email, leave a message. If this goes down they are TOAST, and so are the remainder of our freedoms:

    Click to read: ARMSTRONG ON WHAT THE CORRUPT NY DISTRICT ATTORNEY WILL DO NEXT WITH TRUMP

    https://jimychanga.substack.com/p/trump-will-be-gagged-next

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    1. Armstrong: “Trump will now find himself silenced and whatever Free Speech he once had, will now be stripped away from him like the rest of his constitutional and human rights. We are about to witness just how corrupt our legal system truly is. This is George Soros’s puppet. Alan Bragg will now show the entire world that in the United States, there is no such thing as constitutional or even Human Rights.

      Bragg will most likely seek a Gag Order in addition to a denial of bail, which no matter how ruthless the judge, will probably realize he cannot deny bail to a former President. Still, they will most likely put a Gag Order on Trump, and that way they can throw him in jail even indefinitely as they did to me using Civil Contempt of Court which is not a crime. If they charge him with Criminal Contempt, then he gets a trial by jury. Under Civil Contempt, you have ZERO rights and no right to a trial.

      his is who I believe is a disgusting individual. I have been told he ran for office saying he would indict Trump. Screw NYC. Crime is off the hook. It is no longer a safe city to even go to visit. At the last coin show there, they robbed a dealer and stole his entire inventory when packing up to leave. That’s OK – but for Trump to pay money to a porn star warrants endless taxpayer money to be spent for this guy’s career.

      BEWARE Mr, Trump. They kept me in prison on Civil Contempt from 2000 to 2007. I was released ONLY because I got to the Supreme Court and they ordered the government to explain how I could be held for 7 years without anything on statute 28 USC 1826 which had a maximum of 18 months. To avoid having to answer, they suddenly released me.

      So forget the payment to a Porn Star. They can now gag trump, restrict his movements, and harass him to PREVENT him from running in 2024. They will listen to every word he says and are just going to wait to be able to throw him in prison on Civil Contempt indefinitely with ZERO Constitutional Rights. Welcome to the REAL America. They call it a “protective order” to protect the Government and Bragg as you are stripped of ALL your First Amendment rights.”

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  28. Oh, yeah – Bayer has to get their pound of flesh!!!! Scumbags!

    EXCERPT: “Bayer is suing four farmers in the Bootheel of Missouri for illegally spraying older versions of dicamba on its genetically-engineered soybeans, as well as doing so after the state’s cutoff date for spraying the herbicide. The lawsuits, filed in January in federal court in the Eastern District of Missouri, allege that the farmers are in violation of their user agreements with Bayer and have harmed the company’s reputation with the EPA.

    Bayer alleges the farmers also saved seeds from Bayer’s dicamba-tolerant crops and replanted them – a violation of their user agreement. During the course of the investigation into saving seeds, Bayer said it found evidence of the farmers illegally spraying older versions of dicamba – which are legal to buy but can’t be used on the crops. The lawsuit charges the farmers with patent infringement, breach of contract, tortious interference with business expectancies, and negligence.

    Critics say the lawsuits are an attempt by Bayer to blame the older version of the weedkiller for damage caused by the widespread legal use of dicamba on crops.”

    https://investigatemidwest.org/2023/03/29/bayer-sues-four-missouri-farmers-for-illegally-spraying-dicamba-saving-and-replanting-seeds-from-the-companys-genetically-engineered-crops/

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  29. Good Morning, Pat and Filly.

    Great open – I love your history posts, Filly – and my heart goes out to you as you remember your beautiful Heather. Sending love, prayers for comfort, hugs.

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  30. This comment at CTH really fits today.

    Lorrie Girten – April 1, 2023 7:27 am

    April Fools!

    You woke up and thought you lived in the land of the free—🇺🇸
    •free to elect a leader you chose 🇺🇸
    •free to express an opinion-whether controversial or mainstream 🇺🇸
    •free to choose what “medicine“ to take, or not🇺🇸
    •free to raise your children with your values and beliefs🇺🇸
    •free to practice your faith without censure 🇺🇸
    •free to fund programs that benefit actual tax paying citizens — not the administrative corporate cesspool…🇺🇸

    Did you wake up this morning and believe you were free? 🇺🇸

    April Fools!

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      1. before i hit post, i looked at the image “text”…in there is cgi–does that mean this not an actual image but a computer generated one? that might explain why us normies can’t catch the same vibrancy of the colors?

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        1. At a minimum, it means it was “enhanced.” Yeah, without putting out the $$$’s for the REALLY good equipment? Not happening! I’ll just keep it my little hobby and play when I feel like it.

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  38. “The funniest thing I thought about when I first saw this was the inclusion of the Temple Bar in Dublin. Prides itself as the ‘oldest bar in Ireland’ or some shit like that. It’s owned by Russian Mafia guys.”

    “Toxoplasma is often found in cat feces. Otters, which live along the shoreline on California’s Pacific coast, can be exposed to the parasite in rainwater runoff – all four cases scientists studied came in during the heavy rainfall season. Toxoplasmosis infection is common in sea otters – which have a roughly 60% chance of being infected in their lifetimes and can be fatal, but this strain is of particular concern. People get paid huge salaries to study this kinda shit. Think about that.”

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  47. ALERT: John Fetterman Will Return to Senate on Anniversary of Khmer Rouge Takeover — To celebrate brutal communist regime, lacrosse-aligned stroke victim will resume duties as rubber stamp for Biden’s radical left-wing agenda

    ENTIRE ARTICLE @ FreeBeacon:
    By Andrew Stiles
    March 30, 2023

    “What happened: A former lacrosse player who speaks on behalf of Sen. John Fetterman (D., Pa.) announced Wednesday that the monstrous stroke victim would return to the U.S. Senate on April 17. Fetterman has been in Walter Reed National Hospital since February 16 receiving treatment for what his chief of staff described as a “severe” case of “clinical depression.”

    What it means: The senator, who suffered a near-fatal stroke on the campaign trail in May 2022, will resume his job—supporting President Joe Biden’s radical left-wing agenda—on a date that lives in infamy.

    April 17 will mark the 62nd anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion, the failure of which would condemn generations of innocent Cubans to a life of suffering under communist dictator and Obama administration ally Fidel Castro. Even more disturbingly, April 17 is the 48th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge. The date marks the end of the Cambodian civil war and the rise of a brutal communist regime under Pol Pot, who presided over the deaths of nearly two million people—roughly a quarter of the country’s population.

    Context: Fetterman and his allies have destroyed their credibility when it comes to keeping the American people informed about the state of the senator’s health. Following his stroke in May 2022, Fetterman’s campaign released a note from his doctor—also a campaign donor—insisting he “has no work restrictions and can work full duty in public office.”

    That turned out to be an exaggeration, at best. The New York Times reported in February that Fetterman’s efforts to “work full duty in public office” without restrictions were stymied by “serious mental health challenges” and “unfamiliar duties that are taxing for someone still in recovery.” By returning to the campaign trail too quickly—in order to boost the Democratic Party’s electoral prospects—Fetterman “may have set himself back permanently.”

    Trend alert: Fetterman’s decision to return to work on a day associated with unfathomable left-wing atrocities reminds us of the time Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) unveiled her “free college” plan in 2019. The date? April 22, which happens to be the birthday of Vladimir I. Lenin, architect of Soviet communism and one of history’s greatest monsters.”

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  48. EXCERPT: “On Feb. 8, the Air Force informed two Republican political candidates, also military veterans, that their information had been improperly leaked to a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee contractor. That same day, the Department of Veterans Affairs’ chief technology officer met to discuss cybersecurity with his wife, the chairwoman of the DCCC.

    “Meet w/Suzan’s technology team (account security)” reads the 3:00 p.m. calendar entry on Veterans Affairs assistant secretary Kurt DelBene’s official calendar, a reference to his wife, Rep. Suzan DelBene (Wash.), chairwoman of the DCCC. The calendar entry, a copy of which was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, also contains a link to the DCCC’s Zoom account. Just hours earlier, the Air Force notified the two veterans, Sam Peters and Kevin Dellicker, that a DCCC contractor had duped them into releasing their restricted service records during the 2022 elections.

    Both Peters and Dellicker were running for Congress as Republicans when their military records were improperly obtained by a Democratic opposition research group, according to campaign disclosures. The House Weaponization Committee launched an investigation into the breach of military service records in March.

    “This isn’t going away quietly,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) said last Monday. “It wasn’t on just one person. It was all these Republicans running. We’re gonna have to just not clamp down on that, [but] look to see if it’s happened anywhere else.”

    The timing of the meeting could be an optical nightmare for the Democratic power couple. A Biden appointee, Kurt DelBene is responsible for all privacy-related matters at the Department of Veterans Affairs. He oversees the department’s Privacy Service, whose mission is “to preserve and protect the personally identifiable information (PII) of Veterans.” The political campaign committee his wife now chairs is in hot water for using the social security numbers of at least seven Republican congressional candidates to trick the Air Force into releasing their private military service records.

    The DCCC confirmed the Feb. 8 meeting with Kurt and Suzan DelBene took place but denied it had anything to do with “DCCC political matters.” A DCCC spokesman told the Free Beacon that Kurt DelBene was brought in to ensure it was following all cybersecurity protocols to protect their private email addresses from “bad actors” and “foreign adversaries.”

    https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/as-veterans-learned-the-dccc-had-leaked-their-data-the-vas-tech-chief-was-meeting-with-his-wife-she-runs-the-dccc/

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  49. “Texas COVID-19 Vaccine Freedom Act (HB 81 and SB 177) — Proposed Ban Would Provide Relief to People Living Under Mandates”

    Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH™
    16 min ago

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Many people have told me they would not even think about COVID-19 vaccines if it weren’t for mandates. The vast majority of vaccine recipients have told me they took the shot for some reason other than a clinical benefit including employment, school, travel, or family desires.

    The varied positions and responses to COVID-19 vaccination from public health agencies, states, colleges and universities, and employers are a tip-off that the risks of SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination are not viewed similarly from group to group.

    The Republican Party of Texas has endorsed The Texas COVID-19 Vaccine Freedom Act (HB 81 and SB 177) by Rep. Brian Harrison and Sen. Mayes Middleton. The current language of these identical bills can be found here:

    House version: Texas Legislature Online – 88(R) Text for HB 81
    Senate Version: Texas Legislature Online – 88(R) Text for SB 177

    So far in less than an hour, 96% of respondents support this concept in the form of legislation. Be sure to visit my Twitter feed and cast your vote:

    VOTE HERE! Dr. McCullough Tweet on Texas COVID-19 Vaccine Freedom Act, April 1, 2023

    Using legislative tools to ensure civil liberties including the right to bodily autonomy and medical decisions is critical to resolving the pandemic crisis. Please support this legislation in Texas and take up similar actions in your state, region, and country.

    If you find “Courageous Discourse” enjoyable and useful to your endeavors, please subscribe as a paying or founder member to support our efforts in helping you engage in these discussions with family, friends, and your extended circles.”

    https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/texas-covid-19-vaccine-freedom-act

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  50. “Trump Uses His One Phone Call to Ring Up Ron DeSantis And Yell At Him”
    POLITICS · Mar 31, 2023 · BabylonBee.com

    “NEW YORK, NY — Family, friends, and legal advisors of President Donald Trump were confused after learning Trump used his one phone call to contact Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and berate him from his location in a New York jail.

    “Yeah is this Ron DeSanctimonious?” Trump was heard shouting into the phone while wearing his orange jumpsuit. “Wrong Way Ron — that’s who you are! I’m sitting here in jail on completely bogus charges, the Democrats are continuing their disgusting witch hunt, and for that, you’re going to pay, Ron! You’re going to pay BIGLY! Do you think this makes it easier for you to swoop in and take the nomination? You haven’t even announced! SAD!”

    Trump is facing multiple charges brought by Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg in a case many legal analysts find highly questionable. Though Trump has loudly voiced his opinion that the charges are politically motivated and an attempt to stop his 2024 presidential campaign, he chose to call DeSantis and chew him out rather than consult with his legal team. “This is the most horrible misuse of authority in the history of the country! Many people are saying so! But you know who I’m mad at? You, Ron! Just wait until they give me back my cell phone and I can start Truthing about you again! MAGA!”

    Sources within the Governor’s office indicated that, while the call was surprising, DeSantis seemed unflustered. “The Governor has more important things to deal with,” said the source. “Like traveling around and campaigning without making any announcements.”

    At publishing time, with his one phone call already used, Trump was reportedly discussing legal strategy with his attorneys via charades-style sign language through his jail cell window.”

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