Weird Wednesdays

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I stumbled upon a collection of truly “weird” homes and I plan on showcasing one of them a month…be prepared!  This Weird Wednesday’s offering is called Luna Parc and it’s located in New Jersey.  The house and property are not open to the public per se, but they hold tours in the spring to fall if you’re so inclined.

Luna Parc: Psychedelic Wonderland in the Woods

Upon entering the gates to Luna Parc, you are awestruck at the immensity of the project Boscarino has been building in the woods for all these years. The front yard is awash in brilliantly colored sculptures, walls and spires. Everything is encrusted with swirling mosaics of tile, glass, concrete and painted metal.

As we wound our way through the forests and farmlands of the Sussex County countryside, Mark and I wondered why Ricky Boscarino, owner of “Luna Parc,” decided that this remote locale would be the perfect place to create his own unique environment. We’ve visited Luna Parc several times over the past dozen years or so and it is always a thrill to see just how much it has continued to grow in new and fascinating ways with each visit we make. And it is always a real pleasure meeting Ricky, the mastermind behind this environmental madness.

Upon entering the gates to Luna Parc, you are awestruck at the immensity of the project Boscarino has been building in the woods for all these years. The front yard is awash in brilliantly colored sculptures, walls and spires. Everything is encrusted with swirling mosaics of tile, glass, concrete and painted metal. The house itself sits above the terraced yard looking like a technicolor gingerbread chalet in a psychedelic fantasy land.

Ricky, the proud creator of this unique home, is friendly and easy-going and always willing to give us a tour of the newest additions he has made to his one-of-a-kind-eastate in progress. We asked him how he first found the property.

“I grew up in Piscataway and I used to go to summer camp at Stokes, so I kinda knew the area a little. I started a jewelry business in 1986 and I was looking for a place of my own. I really just stumbled upon this place after pounding the pavement for about two years. It was an old hunting lodge, and the family that owned it hadn’t even been here for about ten years.”

“Structurally it was fine, but it had to be rewired, etc. I should have knocked it down, but I needed a place to live! As soon as I walked up the driveway, I knew I would be here the rest of my life. My first vision was the round window. I started ripping shit out of the house from day one, and it’s been non-stop. Everything started to radiate from the house.”

The house is surrounded inside and out by whimsical multi-media art projects in various states of completion. Most are made entirely by Ricky’s own hands out of found objects, such as glass bottles, yardsticks, corks, bottle caps, stones, and other collected or donated materials. One of the outlying buildings in the front yard is a hut fashioned from thousands of brilliant blue glass bottles.

“Some are the Sky Vodka bottles and others are Arizona iced tea,” Ricky told us while scrounging through the pile recyclables. “Whenever I have an event here, I always get donations of various stuff I ask for. This project will be made entirely of blue glass bottles, which are the hardest to come by. I originally estimated I’d need 1,500 bottles to complete it, but now it looks like I’ll need about 3,000. And I didn’t drink even one of them!”

The 5-acre property is covered with an array of eclectic buildings and displays. A walk through the back property reveals more work-in-progress spread out amongst the trees and shrubbery. Walking amidst the trees and scattered sculptures, old movie set props and odd junk yard finds, we come to a chapel that Ricky has built as an homage to his grandfather, who, Ricky told us, once witnessed a miracle in Sicily.

“That’s where the crutches come in,” said Ricky, pointing to a dozen crutches leaning against a tree. “Kind of like ‘Catholic kitsch.’”

What we came across next were hundreds of empty Mrs. Butterworth glass bottles set into concrete blocks.

“This is going to be a nine-foot replica of Mrs. Butterworth built out of blocks which will be illuminated from the inside. Actually it’s almost better describing what its going to look like than what it might end up to be!”

In the middle of all of this material madness is Ricky’s studio, where he creates his finer pieces of jewelry and pottery, which he sells at art shows throughout the year.

“I do get a lot of visitors, but the place is not open to the public. I have an open house once in a while to sell the jewelry, which can be described as eclectic and fun, and people respond well to it. People get to walk through the property. This woman left a message on my machine today saying ‘I’ve got to come for my soul.’ What do you say to that?”

Standing amongst all the half-finished projects and piles of miscellaneous (but organized) clutter, we asked the question: “Where do you get all this stuff from?”

“I’m constantly scouring the area. I put the word out if I need stuff. Like in the kitchen, I covered the walls with corks. I just asked if anyone had any corks! Now I’ve created a monster and I don’t know what to do with all this stuff. They have a good dump here in the area. It’s not like an urban dump, which I guess would be more interesting, but there’s plenty of things to scavenge.”

And scavenge he does, like many of New Jersey’s visionaries who create a unique environment around themselves. We asked Ricky if he had a master plan, or message he’s trying to convey with Luna Parc.

“My master plan is to not have a master plan, which keeps me open. It’s all about ‘layering.’ I can take something down and improve on it, or move it around or add to it. There are no mistakes, that’s the magic of it. Things will always change. People have this misconception of the end product. If it starts to deviate from the original idea, they get frustrated. That’s the magic of creating stuff, that things do evolve.”

So, how do you balance your work for hire and your work on your house, which takes priority?

“The house definitely takes priority. I’m very fortunate that the business is successful and takes care of everything. It gives me the freedom to do all this. I spend way too much time working on the property.”

Inside the house, the art gets a little more intricate. Some rooms resemble a thrift store or museum, including collections of antique stringed instruments, taxidermied animals and strange religious artifacts. Ricky’s artwork is omnipresent, giving the place a feeling of controlled chaos. The bathroom, complete with a toilet, bode, urinal and oversized tub, is tiled from floor to ceiling in a swirl or patterns and textures, with a stream of running water trickling down through pastel colored gravy boats. The house, which started as a small hunter’s cabin, has grown into a vast labyrinth of stairways, hidden room and lookout towers, all decorated with Ricky’s own visionary artwork. There are self-portraits and paintings of Ricky’s friends on every wall. It is almost inconceivable that one man could produce such an extensive body of creative output in a single lifetime. We don’t really have any idea how he does it, but we are very thankful for the fact that he does, and we are certain that he will continue to amuse and fascinate us well into the future.

“I plan to live to be 100 and it’s my intention to see that Luna Parc is secure and safe.” Ricky told us. “I also plan to haunt the place after I die. I’m planning on building my mausoleum in the back.”

Luna Parc is a private home not open to the public other than by invitation. If you’d like to take the cyber tour of the property, you can visit www.lunaparc.com.

SOURCE: Mark and Mark August 26, 2012 1 @ weirdnj.com

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  1. That house is the weirdest I’ve ever seen.

    Wondering if he’s been visited by building inspectors or if they leave him alone?

    Would be interested to read a biography of Ricky Boscarino’s life – and what shaped him into the eccentric that he became.

    Also wondering how he finances his endeavors?

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        1. What have you got planned for today?

          I need to finish some wheelchair sewing projects and tidy up the house a bit – still being careful of the surgery site (skin graft size of a nickel over the cancer site) – they want it unbandaged, so I can’t wear my glasses. Good thing I’m far-sighted in old age. I can drive judiciously – but will stay in town and be careful. All is healing well and I get stitches out on Monday afternoon.

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          1. yesterday I made the dough for my cut out cookies and today I will cut them out and bake them. They’re one of my mom’s favorites (and my daughter’s too) and I didn’t get to make them at Christmas this year because we left earlier than planned because of a winter storm that was moving in.
            So i thought I’d make them now.
            the recipe makes a lot of cookies, so I’ll have some for my friend we’re visiting Friday afternoon, some for Mom and some for the kids.

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    2. Morning GA!
      it IS weird…they have tours during the summer. and there are depositories at his place for recyclables. if he’s planning on doing something with “blue bottles” he gets the word out and people donate them–if he needs doll heads–people donate them. plus he goes to recycling drop off spots and roots thru those…

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      1. I would not want to eat or sleep there. His threat to haunt the premises is proof of an unbalanced personality.

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        2. “Unbalanced?” Who is to say what is unbalanced these days? Seems to me he is well balanced in knowing what he wants in life. How is that unbalanced? OK, yeah, he’s “weird.” What’s wrong with weird???

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          1. I’m just saying how I feel. I’ve been around enough weird and strange to do me for the rest of my life. That includes my own difficulties being strange, eccentric, weird due to past upbringing. The Celebrate Recovery pamphlet about children of dysfunctional abusive families says they have to guess what’s normal. I have a hard enough time holding myself in balance without getting too close to other weirdos.

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            1. Oh, my, GA! I never, ever thought of you as weird or strange or eccentric; on the contrary, I envy your amazing capacity for organization, your huge heart that loves so deeply and cares for your daughter….indeed, even your ex who did you so wrong….that you will let nothing stop you from doing what you know is right, your deep and enduring faith, your diligent attention and enjoyment of all your growing things…. No, my dear – YOU are FAR from weird! JMO, of course!

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              1. Those close to me called me eccentric and Sally Q’s name for me was ‘Strange’ – it’s the artist in me I guess….but life changes people. I try to keep my impulsiveness and outrageousness in check as I’ve aged.

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    1. Bummer! It was 34 here when I got up but that should be the last of those temps. 40’s and 50’s at night and mid-to-high 70’s coming up…..up to 38 now and bright and sunny, with less wind, thankfully. Today I have to get ready for Jerry to pick-up my mower and I want to get a start on the flower beds.

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      1. it’s a Hall & Oats song…LOL
        “Rich Girl”

        You’re a rich girl, and you’ve gone too far
        ‘Cause you know it don’t matter anyway
        You can rely on the old man’s money
        You can rely on the old man’s money
        It’s a bitch girl but it’s gone too far
        ‘Cause you know it don’t matter anyway
        Say money but it won’t get you too far
        Get you too far

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  16. Sliding down….morning, Pat! I found this yesterday late…..

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “May 2 (Reuters) – World number one Novak Djokovic will be able to compete at the U.S. Open this year after the U.S. government said on Monday it will end its COVID-19 vaccination requirements for international travellers on May 11.

    Djokovic, one of the most high-profile athletes unvaccinated against COVID-19, missed the U.S. Open in 2022 due to his vaccine status. The 35-year-old Serb was unable to enter the country this year after unsuccessfully applying to the U.S. government for special permission to play at Indian Wells and Miami.”

    Djokovic missed last year’s Australian Open and was deported from the country due to his vaccine status and has said he would skip Grand Slams rather than have a COVID shot. Djokovic has won three of his 22 major titles at the U.S. Open. The hardcourt Grand Slam will be held from Aug. 28-Sept. 10 this year.”

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    2. Commenter at CTH whose wife is a critical care nurse said she believes McConnell has considerable brain problems.

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      2. Diminished capacity was my first thought watching this.

        Looks like someone new is coming his hair too. Bet he has a full time companion/handler to walk him through the day.

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  21. this is an ad hubby showed me and I thought filly would enjoy a little bit of it. i watched the first few seconds with the sound off…
    it’s for a bird feeder that supposed to be squirrel proof…LOL made me laugh

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    1. LOL – I’ve seen those feeders before but only on-line. Problem is, they will learn and will attack it from the top, hanging on with their back feet and hanging down to reach the feeders. I’ve seen ’em do it on the feeders hanging on my patio eaves!

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  24. Of course, our immediate reaction will be “HOW COULD THEY???” and yes, I think it’s shameful, too. However, look at the numbers – this isn’t a hill to die on: 54-45 against……ok, let’s say those 4 GOP Senators actually voted FOR it, leaving the numbers as 50-49. They would just turn around and allow Feinstein to vote from home, then bring in the Ho to break the tie. It still would have failed, by hook or by crook – YMMV

    EXCERPT: “An effort to restore the jobs and back pay of firefighters who lost their jobs for refusing or even criticizing the COVID-19 vaccine was defeated when four Senate Republicans joined with Democrats to defeat the measure.

    Senators 54-45 against U.S. Senator Rand Paul’s (R-KY) “Support the Reinstatement of Trained and Effective Firefighters” amendment which “makes funding available to fire departments that terminated firefighters for refusing vaccination or voicing opposition to COVID-19 mandates only if they offer full reinstatement and backpay to those who lost their jobs.”

    https://americanactionnews.com/u-s-senate/2023/04/29/these-four-republicans-voted-to-deny-reinstatement-to-firefighters-fired-for-refusing-covid-vaccines/

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  25. EXCERPT @ EpochTimes: “A major federal agency is keeping its COVID-19 vaccine mandate in place even as most agencies are ending their vaccination requirements. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is retaining its mandate, Secretary Denis McDonough said in a message to employees reviewed by The Epoch Times.

    The White House’s announcement that many mandates are ending “will not impact” the VA, McDonough said. “To ensure the safety of Veterans and our colleagues, VA health care personnel will still be required to be vaccinated at this time,” he told workers. “As we transition to this new phase of our response to the pandemic, the vaccine (including booster shots) remains the best way to protect you, your families, your colleagues, and Veterans from COVID-19.”

    A VA spokesperson declined to provide any data consulted when choosing to keep the mandate in place. The VA’s website claims that vaccines “help protect you from getting severe illness” and “offer good protection against most COVID-19 variants,” pointing in part to observational data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that indicate the vaccines provide poor protection against symptomatic infection and transient shielding against hospitalization.

    No clinical trial efficacy data has been made public for updated shots from Moderna and Pfizer, and none of the vaccines prevent infection or transmission. The VA is the second-largest federal agency, employing nearly 400,000 people. The VA was the first U.S. agency to mandate vaccination for its workers. “We’re mandating vaccines for Title 38 employees because it’s the best way to keep veterans safe, especially as the Delta variant spreads across the country,” McDonough, an appointee of President Joe Biden, said in a statement on July 26, 2021.

    The mandate was later expanded to most Veterans Health Administration employees and volunteers. It covers personnel such as psychologists, pharmacists, housekeepers, social workers, volunteers, and contractors. “Effectively, this means that any Veterans Health Administration (VHA) employee, volunteer, or contractor who works in VHA facilities, visits VHA facilities, or provides direct care to those we serve will still be subject to the vaccine requirement at this time,” McDonough said on Monday.

    The mandate does not cover employees deemed to be VA health care personnel.

    Mandates imposed by two other agencies, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Indian Health Service, are also remaining in place while the agencies review the requirements, the Biden administration said. The NIH did not return requests for comment, and the health service declined to provide more details.

    Most of the administration’s mandates are ending on May 12, the White House said this week. That includes mandates for federal workers and contractors imposed by Biden that were struck down by courts as likely illegal, a mandate for foreign travelers arriving by air, and the requirement that some foreigners arriving by land present proof of vaccination.”

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/major-us-agency-to-keep-covid-19-vaccine-mandate-despite-white-house-announcement_5236080.html

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    1. i’ve been thinking about this and I agree with others. the let ron run act is a trojan horse. they couldn’t care less about him being prez…they know he won’t beat Trump. but the act destroys election integrity in FLA–but they don’t want anyone focusing on that so they buy rhonda…he gets to keep the leftover $$…and fla turns blue.
      who bought a mansion there? that would be piglosi

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      1. near the end of Dad’s life, when we would visit I would bring all his favorites…and I knew Mom was a little jealous. I am trying to make up for that now. every time we visit, I bring unexpected treats.

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    2. I’m puttering outside….plants back out and I think I’ll go ahead and plant the Impatiens today. Worse comes to worse, I can always cover the bowl with a towel at night if need be. Put my spotlight back out in my Aztec statue so the light shows through the eyes and mouth – looks deliciously creepy at night! Need to get my west gate open, if I can – sucker hasn’t been opened in 2 fricking years and is sagging – then open up the shed and air up the mower tires. I don’t want to be caught unprepared if Jerry forgets to give me a heads up that he’s headed my way. I also need to tend to the Lily of the Valley – the new shoots up against the foundation will grow up underneath the siding if I’m not careful. I have still not come to a decision on the 2 Clematis in the pots…..even tho I wanted the dark red for out in front, that isn’t going to look very good with the purple (supposed to be blue) Clematis already there. What to do….what to do…..well, I’ll figure something out.

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  33. MR52
    May 3, 2023 11:56 am

    According to both Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley, 15 Democrats from the Judiciary Committee have sent a letter to the Appropriations Committee asking that funding for the security that defends the lives of the Supreme Court Justices and their families be denied until the Court buckles to the demands of the Democrats.

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  35. seems like this is true…the gov’t doesn’t want the public have access to public lands.
    FTA
    For a half-century, the United States Department of Interior (DOI) has used a multi-use doctrine in administering much of the 480 million acres of federal public lands its 11 agencies manage across the country.

    Under the Federal Land Policy & Management Act of 1976, recreational activities such as fishing, hunting, and camping are regarded as equally viable uses of public land as are economic pursuits such as grazing, logging, mining, and oil/gas development.

    In April, the DOI’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposed new regulations in the Federal Register that would make conservation a land-use category to be considered along with recreational activities and economic pursuits on the 245 million acres of public lands it manages.

    The proposed new rule on BLM lands, which include most of the nation’s onshore federal land oil/gas development, drew criticism from Western senators during a May 2 Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee review of DOI’s $18.9 billion Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) budget request.

    Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) said the proposed rule is “attacking multi-use,” which has been the guiding policy for federal public land use for decades, by making conservation non-use of land a use of land.

    “We’re making non-use a use,” he continued, insisting such a categorization “would turn federal law on its head—up is down, black is white.”

    Making conservation a use the same as logging or minerals development or backpacking is all about adding another regulatory and litigative tool to preservationist elites to restrict access to, and uses of, federal land, Barrasso said.

    “Environmental radicals do not want the public to have access to public lands,” he said.

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/bureau-of-land-managements-new-conservation-rule-will-restrict-public-access-to-federal-lands-sen-barrasso_5236466.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=BonginoReport

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  39. Seats in a library in Alexandria, Egypt




    “It’s been open for over 50 years. Yes they do – they sell drugs in a gun store. Or is it guns in a drug store? Who gives a fuck – it’ still a pretty cool place. They have some stylin’ t-shirts for sale also. Check ’em out. They even have a website: http://mccaysvilledrugcenter.com/“

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  40. active shooter in Atlanta

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  41. Well, that was satisfying. Got the Impatiens planted, the Moss Roses on the west cleaned out of leaves and old decorations, and the gate opened surprisingly easily! Yeah! On top of that, only one tire is a little low on the mower.

    Considering the sunshine and warm weather predicted, with a possibility of a little rain even, I’ll have to mow twice!!! Grass is really getting long so fast! And a bunch of branches and sticks to pick up out back. I may just give up and cut the dead peach tree down myself as close to the ground as I can get it and then dig down to cut it below level. I did that with the mulberry tree so I’ll just do the same thing.

    I also made some Oriole nectar – the Hummers can make do with that – and I’m just waiting for it to cool off. I still haven’t seen any of either yet but soon, I expect…..I hope, anyway!

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  42. Very long but very interesting article….

    EXCERPTS: “This is a real war. An Info War. A kinetic war. A clandestine war. A spiritual war.

    But the front of the war that I tend to be most attracted to and guided by is the War of Stories that defines and codifies the Micro within the Macro, and connects the various theaters into more directed, congruent and understandable fronts.

    As I have argued before, my obsession with stories is coded with the belief—the knowledge—that human beings are creatures—creations—inherently guided by, informed by, inspired by and ultimately defined by stories, both real and imagined, as both can have equal and sometimes opposite impacts on the realm of the real. That is the power of stories.

    Narratives, whether true, false or some obfuscated mix of the two can and do have very real impacts on the world around us, just as they have very real impacts on each and every one of us, the would-be sovereign and free minds attempting to make sense of all this swirling, chaotic madness on a daily—almost an hourly—basis. Stories can be used to confuse, to influence, to reveal, to suppress … sometimes all at once. Stories are paradoxical and integral, impossible to capture fully and yet, able to be understood at a glance, as they speak to the depths of psyche.
    ——————-
    And yet, in order to have true power to subvert and influence the Collective Mind in a direction that is antithetical to its own cognitive, emotional and even spiritual well-being, said Mind CANNOT see the strings being run down from on high in order to jerk and pull them. When the Media BECOMES the story rather than guiding it along, a key vector in the enemy’s collectivist control matrix has itself been distorted and subverted … disrupted.

    Donald Trump was the first major public figure in the United States to begin this disruption campaign. Soon after he came down that golden escalator, Trump declared war on the Fake News media. While many of us—including myself—found this endearing and entertaining at the time, we also believed the attempt to ‘expose’ and educate the public on the role of the Media Industrial Complex was somewhat futile, so tight and complete was their entrenchment in the Collective Mind, like a psychological tick too embedded to dislodge, or a metastasized tumor grown too bulbous and callused to remove without destroying the mind of its host.

    And yet, when we reframe Trump’s opening salvo—and the information war he has acted as the vanguard and general of ever since—from an attempt to defeat the Media Industrial Complex, and even if we graduate beyond the slightly more plausible attempt to expose said collective, I believe that, by settling on the true brilliance of Trump’s plan—that being, to PROVOKE said Media Industrial Complex—we can sit back and marvel at the entire tapestry, now that the War of Stories has matured and stretched out long enough to form a fuller picture.”

    https://burningbright.substack.com/p/a-wolf-named-fox

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    1. “While I have argued for some time that the exposure of the ‘Left,’ Marxist and openly Globalist media rags—from CNN to the Washington Post—was necessary, and while we have all exulted in the schadenfreude of seeing the ‘New Media,’ same as the old media represented by Vice News, BuzzFeed, Vox and others join the Silicon Valley scrap heap of dying and decayed propaganda funnels, there has been one institution, one gnawing, scraping and admittedly, quite cunning beast still in the fold—one still wearing the America First movement, Trumpism itself—as a sheepskin suit, lurching and twitching in its desperation to appear as one of us even as it inevitably and invariably seeks to lead us astray, whipping us up into alternating bouts of anger and despair that it might seek to cannibalize, to stoke and to tend into a fiery frenzy that ultimately consumes its host, or else renders it weak enough to devour.

      I am talking about a wolf named FOX.

      It can sometimes seem strange to some within the America First movement that people like me consider FOX to be representative of the very worst of the Media Industrial Complex, until I remind them that they were the main Trojan Horse through which the post 9/11 wave of U.S. Patriotism was provoked, collected and misguided into a Forever War in the Middle East that claimed the lives of far too many American soldiers … and countless more innocent civilians in lands whose strife has largely been engineered and encouraged by western Globalists since time immemorial.”

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    2. “Tucker Carlson is one man, not a movement. He’s a mind and a storyteller, and a highly influential one, and I plan to delve deeper into what he could represent and what effects he might visit upon the Collective Mind and the Info War as it continues to ramp up in future pieces, but for now, I want you to consider what his firing represents and the Net Effects it is already visiting upon the last solid pillar of [their] Media Empire.

      Don’t shrink back from the wolves at the door. Stand before them, meet their eyes, and move forward with the light you carry, knowing that to drive them back is to drive them over the hills, where a new sun renders their indistinct forms corporeal and mortal, exposed and vulnerable.

      We have many more blinking minds coming into the valley of the Great Awakening in the coming days. While many of these minds voted for Trump and endorse the America First movement, they were held sway in a worse sort of prison that has just been broken and dashed, caught in an endless loop of partial awareness, doom and despair.

      Now, let’s show them what hope looks like, and watch our power grow in the presence of their awakening. Truth, like water, seeks its own level. But truth, unlike water has the power to ascend. And we are ascending.

      Until next time, stay Positive, stay Based and most importantly … stay Bright.”

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  43. “Jacksonville.com – LAKELAND – A Florida woman is fighting to keep her 6-foot-long pet alligator in her home. The 125-pound reptile named Rambo wears clothes, rides on a motorcycle and has a bedroom in Mary Thorn’s home in Lakeland.

    Thorn has had a license for the alligator for 11 years, but it recently grew to 6 feet. Wildlife officials say that size alligator must have 2.5 acres of land. Thorn tells the Orlando Sentinel that even if she had land available, Rambo can’t be left outdoors because of sensitivity to sunlight.

    Thorn takes Rambo to schools and charity events to teach people about reptiles. She says she has trained him not to bite. Florida wildlife commission spokesman Gary Morse says Thorn’s case is under investigation.”

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  44. “JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (WFLA) — A semi-truck hauling beehives crashed early Tuesday, releasing a swarm of bees onto unsuspecting morning commuters. The Florida Highway Patrol told NBC affiliate WTLV the truck was hauling beehives, which were home to around one million bees. The crash happened on U.S. 301 near I-10 in Baldwin, which is just outside of the Jacksonville city limits.

    No one was hurt in the crash, according to FHP, but some of the hives were damaged, leaving a swarm of confused bees gathered around the truck. Beekeepers loaded the intact hives onto another truck before the road reopened at around 7 a.m. The damaged hives were hauled away along with the semi.”

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      1. because congress exempts themselves from laws–which sounds like a violation of the equal protection clause in the bill of rights

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