
Recently one of my oldest friends and her husband came for a visit (and to pick up my mom’s contributions to their flea marketing endeavor.) She has begun to have muscular tremors and is undergoing tests to determine their origin and best course of treatment. Sadly, she has had to give up her car and rarely goes out anymore because these tremors can occur at any time. I was truly touched that they decided to come up to visit!
Her husband, with her permission, showed up a brief video of her standing in their kitchen. She was trembling all over and visibly shaking and then-POOF-she just snaps out of it. She remembers nothing of what happened at all.
Understandably, her husband now does the cooking as my friend is afraid to be around a hot stove. Which brings me to the saddest part of this post. Every fall, when my friend visits, we would spend the entire time talking cookies—we called it Christmas Cookie Countdown.
We’d sit at the table with our notebooks, recipe files and samples of new cookies. We’d made and share shopping lists and discuss the new cookies—would they package well? Are they worth the effort or special ingredients? We had a great time sampling and discussing.

Since I was totally unaware of her condition, I had all my recipes and stuff ready to go on the buffet. I saw her eye the pile with such sadness but until they divulged what was going on, I had no idea why. After we ate our lunch and I cleaned up the kitchen, I brought the stack over to the table and said let’s plan! She said, I can’t bake anymore and it’s senseless to think about. I opened up my file and said Merry Christmas! You pick out the cookies you want, and my gift to you this Christmas is to bake them for you! I told her I’d even bake an extra basket for her to share with her flea market friends as well. Her smile was all the thanks I needed!

Morning All!
still too dark to see anything outside. hubby says the rest of the month is supposed to be in the 70’s…but we’ll see!
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Morning, Pat! How sad! I’m assuming they have considered one common, basic cause of tremors: low salt level? Still dark here, too, at 56 now. Simply stunning day yesterday! GT’s food is on the patio, no sign yet.
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And, of course, as soon as I hit enter and turned, there he/she was, chowing down! LOL
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LOL…
KIDS!
lol
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Morning Filly!
the doctor wants to do more tests, but mentioned muscular diseases–MS is the only one i was familiar with since my sister passed away with it. but she never experienced the brain problems like this.
they have done loads of bloodwork but found nothing out of the ordinary.
but she continues to lose weight.
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YES!!!!!

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thank goodness!

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no decorum, no honor for their office—get rid of every tradition there is. schumer drops dress code in senate so fetterwoman can vote in sweatpants. country’s going to hell–but THIS? this is what they’re doing
https://www.axios.com/2023/09/17/senate-drops-dress-code-schumer
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Pat, your friend really should check into CBD – it is amazing for Parkinsons and other diseases that cause tremors and seizures. I’ve posted some of these before – this is just one of several videos I have saved that show the benefits. At this point, considering how thoroughly corrupt Big Pharma is these days, I would try that before I would accept any of their damned poisons! I get that they may be totally closed-minded about this. Still….if it were my friend, I would at least try to convince them to at least check into it. It won’t hurt her if it doesn’t help…just sayin.’
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this is my friend who has insisted since i met her (her hubby told me it’s been since HE met her) that she will die at a certain age and she just turned that age minus one. she is almost resigned that whatever THIS is, is what’s going to kill her…like she’s given up.
but her son has been recommending cbd for a few years
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OK, she clearly has some issues….
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shes does. the fact that there’s no “trigger” liked tiredness or onset feeling and they total lack of memory of the episode makes it harder for the doctor too.
they want to do a cat scan or mri? the one in the tube thing, but she’s too scared to do it–but they need to see if there’s a brain tumor
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Scared? Why? Afraid of finding out once and for all? A cat scan is nothing! Never had an MRI – I think that is the tube that clangs so loudly.
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then that’s the one she scared of–the tube one that clangs.
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So put in some fricking ear plugs! SMH
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NF: Karl Rove – what a fucking idiot! GO AWAY!!!
NF: Maybe this is the problem at M’s!
Election season 2078…..
Speaking of raccoons….
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imo they are ASSUMING these are teens…if they don’t know their identities. are they already angling for juvenile detention and early release?
nwtex
nwtex
September 18, 2023 3:37 am
Seattle Metro – A group of teens viciously beat a store clerk while robbing her store in Normandy Park.
Police are asking for help identifying the suspects.
Lawlessness runs the PNW.pic.twitter.com/fJWX4MPDMw
— Katie Daviscourt (@KatieDaviscourt) September 18, 2023
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what ELSE can those adults do with them in private?
jim
September 18, 2023 8:02 am
TERRIFYING: “In the last 24 hours, the California legislature has passed not one, not two, but four bills that are designed to REMOVE CHILDREN FROM THEIR HOMES and into government systems where adults can have private conversations with them.”pic.twitter.com/AspGhlFcj0
— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) September 17, 2023
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Paving the way to get children into foster care, then all bets are off. Doubtless, some will be trafficked.
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Morning Bill!
hope you and the missus are doing good!
i think that’s exactly the pipeline they’ll be thrust into
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Good Morning to you and yours!
What a horror show, to live in California & be stripped of parental rights.
Here we are…a day out from Constitution Day. What would the founders think?!
“ Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
John Adams
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agreed.
destroy morals and family
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Mondays!





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CRAP!!!

I’ve been neglecting Lizzie!!
thanks for the reminder!
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Hell, you’re better than me – I would never remember those!
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“They have special bathrooms for dick piercings?”

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A ship captain with a sense of humor…
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Pat, you anywhere near Morgantown, PA? 9 teens escaped from the detention center last night – all of them have been corralled. 4 just gave up because they were cold! LOL
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LOL…no not near us–near my daughter and family though…
I read that they were wearing shorts and t shirts…LOL
PA can’t keep anything corralled, can we?
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“You will be held accountable….”
DEFENDING THE REPUBLIC
September 18, 2023
EXCERPT: Dear Patriots,
“I can promise the Biden Administration the following: buckle up because your lawless policies will not go unchallenged. We will not allow you to shred the constitution and infringe on the rights of Texans. You will be held accountable.”
These are words that warm the hearts of patriots across the fruited plains. They were written by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton after he was acquitted on sixteen articles of impeachment. We can not wait to see the next moves by AG Paxton!
Meanwhile, we start off another week with….
— more background on AG Ken Paxton and his fight in Texas.
— a list to debunk the Democrat talking point that there is no evidence against Biden.
— continued work by warrior Kari Lake on election fraud in Arizona.
— a shocker in Wisconsin.
— advice from the sensible Florida Surgeon General.
— the lie the IRS and Biden told us has been revealed.
— why the Navy is having recruiting problems.
THANK YOU to our many loyal Donors and Paid Subscribers. We sincerely appreciate your support.”
https://defendingtherepublic.substack.com/p/you-will-be-held-accountable-d67
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this is why they wanted him off–that the bush family are sore losers
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https://www.newsmax.com/politics/ken-paxton-attorney-general-texas/2023/09/16/id/1134731/
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https://nypost.com/2023/09/01/we-cant-handle-more-migrants-either-nj-gov-murphy/
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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/sep/17/flight-attendants-threaten-strikes-alaska-american-united
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Oh, FFS! Hunter Biden is now suing the IRS, claiming the agents violated his privacy!!!
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well of course he is…
deflect and delay
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LOL…just saying…
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Someone missing a shoe or is the shoe missing a foot???
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SPIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the fat cells one!!!!
and dang! people got imaginations for that “trailer” one!!!!!!
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IKR? Even I wouldn’t try anything like that!!!
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I read that this morning and thought…that can’t be real.
how can they NOT locate it?
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Someone had to see that plane come down!!! Jeez, just send up a chopper, FFS!
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agreed!
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Holy crap! Surely people aren’t really THIS stupid??? FFS! She’s never eaten a banana before??!!??
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i dunno…the president doesn’t have this kind of power…
Charlotte99
Charlotte99
September 18, 2023 8:21 am
Did you know the United Nations is planning to seize “global emergency powers” with President Joe Biden’s support?
It’s true. Under a shocking new plan that is scheduled to be adopted two months before the U.S. presidential election in 2024, all it would take is some sort of a major “global shock”, for immediately enabling the United Nations to literally take political authority over the entire planet.
A July 4 article in The Federalist first broke the story. Unfortunately the mainstream media in the United States is not covering this at all, so most people have absolutely no idea this is going on. To many this may sound like a conspiracy theory, but this is actually what is being proposed, and the Biden administration is fully behind this insidious plan.
In the month of September 2024, UN global representatives will gather for “the Summit of the Future”, and during that conference UN member states are scheduled to officially ratify a “Pact for the Future”.
Once enacted, the “Pact for the Future” grants global powers to the U.N. plan for a new “emergency platform” – a stunning proposal to give the U.N. significant powers in the event of future “global shocks,” such as; “major climatic event,” “future pandemic risks,” a “global digital connectivity disruption,” “major event in outer space,” and generic “unforeseen risks”, (‘black swan’ events).”
The proposal is the biggest attempted power grab in the history of the United Nations. If approved, the United States as we know it could cease to exist:
https://thefederalist.com/2023/07/04/the-u-n-is-planning-to-seize-global-emergency-powers-with-bidens-support/
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Yeah, I posted something about that a day or so ago.
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i thought it sounded familiar…LOL
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Can’t for the life of me find it now, of course!!! SMH
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i read 3 blogs plus ours.
I look at 3 aggregate news sources.
i usually don’t remember where i’ve seen stuff before…so i apologize.
if i see it and can’t remember, i just post it at our place…
shrug
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Well, I have to remind myself – this isn’t THE main job in your life, like it is mine! You have other things going on IRL whereas I have nothing but on-line.
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if this is your passion–you main passion in life–then do something important with it!
you have the research skills, a desire to share knowledge and skills, and you’re genuinely funny.
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I know I should expand my hang-out spaces but….it’s hard to leave my only friends….and I can’t do anything in public….so the internet it is. I’m starting to comment on Substack articles here and there. I’m just kind of stuck, not sure which direction to go. I don’t trust any of the “social” media and I want more substantial interactions than what you find there. But I don’t want to take on the responsibility of my own blog….yet….don’t want that weight right now. We’ll see how things shake out….frankly, W’s would be a better place for me but, well, until W steps up and does the right thing….nope! And even then, I’d have to think long and hard, considering what some who are still there said at the time.
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I understand…
someone chased butterfly away from wolfs…she is still missed.
you are as well Filly!
what about the tcth…lots more people there to interact with?
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It crossed my mind and I scanned the comments once or twice @ TCH….sooooo many people there now! And, frankly, I’m still leery, myself – if they’ll treat people like that once, they’ll do it again, IMO. IDK – I’m torn between keeping at it or just saying fuck it and throwing in the towel!
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We are on-line for different reasons.
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IDT this is it but this touches on it from May; I think Rucker re-posted it recently.
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oh see that’s my disconnect. i saw the UN and didn’t equate that with the WHO treaty (which i did remember from earlier this year)
so who would have control? now i’m confused…the un and the who aren’t the same gang of criminals
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Well, one is the arm of the other, I just don’t know which is which. At least, as far as I know. I DO know they are inextricably connected.
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OK, I’m already bored….
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with?
because?
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Lacking news in my e-mail…not even 9 am and I’ve already mined most of my meme sources…
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is that normal for a Monday morning?
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No, it’s not….Super Spreader’s computer took a dump but that’s just one of many that I usually get.
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Bronx daycare owners arrested on murder charges, as well as assault and child endangerment.
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Holy shit! The children were exposed to fentanyl, possibly just floating in the air – 3 children were unconscious due to ingesting fentanyl; 1 year old died, 2 year old in critical condition, another 2 year old boy and 8 mo. old girl were also rushed to the hospital. They had apparently rented out a room on the premises. It is suspected that they have been exposed to this for some time.
https://nypost.com/2023/09/17/nyc-day-care-center-owner-neighbor-charged-in-1-year-olds-death-after-possible-fentanyl-exposure/
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anyone can work at a daycare it seems.
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IDK if the couple owned the building or not. TBH, I didn’t read the article – when I saw it on Fox, I just went looking for a source to post.
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this has got to be propaganda…standing ovation for ultra maggot?
Bubby
September 18, 2023 9:21 am
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12529763/Biden-NYC-Assembly-dinner-Ashley-traffic-migrants.html
FTA “Biden’s downtown trip snarled traffic as police blocked roads in busy parts of Manhattan to clear the way for his motorcade to travel from the heliport to the fancy hotspot – where he received a standing ovation from patrons. ”
Where I live he would have been booed!!! New York City elite leftists are still delusional!!! A standing ovation for a decrepit, senile, demented, pedophile, massively corrupt politician destroying the country selling out to the ChiComs is unbelievable!!! Send more illegal aliens to Manhattan!!! Let them suffer like the border towns in Texas!!!
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It’s Manhattan! Of course they are pros at kissing ass!
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they need more illegals in manhattan then…LOL
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That’s a danged good question!
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Only thing I see missing is bacon! Gotta have bacon! Muzzies hate bacon!
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well i’m not mooseslime, but i hate it too…
when hubby and i are out with the kids for breakfast, I’ll give him the meat off my plate (bacon, sausage, scrapple) and he’ll give me his hash browns or home fries.
everyone’s happy–nobody gets hurt…LOL
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No problem – not the same thing at all.
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🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

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did they pay for that display?
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In one way or another, I expect!
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“Imagine if this photo turned out to be true lololol…”

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you know at times he DOES seem to be a time traveler…he knows things!
I bet that would be something interesting…see if anyone has made a list of the things he seemed to know ahead of time…
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“‘Sad and horrific’: starving bear’s intestines were blocked by garbage” @ CNN

“These wipes were removed from a bear that had to be euthanized by Colorado Parks and Wildlife. | Colorado Parks and Wildlife”
TELLURIDE, Colorado (CNN) — Colorado wildlife officers had to euthanize a sick bear after receiving multiple calls from concerned residents in Telluride. And during a necropsy, wildlife officers came across a disturbing discovery inside the bear.
“There was all these paper towels, wipes, plastic bag type materials, and indigestible food content,” said John Livingston, Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokesperson. “Trash content … wasn’t able to move its way through to the lower intestines.” All of which was prohibiting the male black bear from absorbing proper nutrients. “A bear like this is about 400 pounds and has a lot of fat on it,” Livingston told CNN, which means the mammal would have possibly starved for months before dying. “To be eating and eating and not able to break down any of that food would have been a really sad and horrific way for that bear to suffer as it died,” he said.
Officers had to make an ‘unfavorable call’ — “The first thing we noticed right away was a little bit of foam around its mouth,” Livingston said. While the foaming didn’t appear to be rabies, officers noticed other concerning behaviors. The bear also had puffy eyes, which “indicated that it was battling some kind of infection,” Livingston noted. “He would walk about 20 or 30 yards at a time before needing to lay down.” These symptoms signaled to the wildlife officers the bear was in a lot of abdominal pain, the spokesperson said.
“We could not leave a sick bear like this knowing it was suffering and struggling to survive,” said Rachel Sralla, Colorado Parks and Wildlife area manager, in a news release. “That’s a horrific way to die, decaying from the inside out for that long. As officers, we had to make an unfavorable call,” Sralla said. “It’s a call we wish we never had to make.” The bear was put down on the evening of September 9.
In addition to preventing the bear from suffering, “CPW made the decision to euthanize the animal for human health and safety reasons,” the release said. Although the decision didn’t come easy, it brought a sense of relief to the bear country community. “When you do a full analysis of what was happening inside that bear, our officers feel good about the decision,” Livingston said. “We didn’t let this bear suffer out there,” he continued. The euthanized bear was well-known in the Telluride area, and had been hazed away from public spaces by wildlife enforcement before. The same bear was suspected to be involved in a home entry earlier this summer, according to the press release.
‘Bears can smell things up to five miles away’ — However, if bears are frequently being seen in proximity to homes, it is cause for concern. “If the bears are around your residential area all the time, somebody doesn’t know what to do,” Livingston said. “Because if that bear is not getting a food reward, it will move on and go back up into the mountains,” he continued. “It only takes one person that’s, you know, leaving unsecure food to attract them out.”
Bears are smart animals with a good sense of memory, allowing them to remember where they found and referencing it as a place to return to, according to the wildlife spokesperson. “Bears have an incredible sense of smell, and can smell things up to five miles away,” Livingston told CNN. “If it smells a trash food source that’s left out, there’s a good chance that, in our Colorado mountain towns, there’s a bear within five miles that can smell that.”
Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials issued a statement providing ways for residents and hikers to “bearproof” their homes and lives, warning “only people (like you) can prevent problems with bears.” “There’s been a large push over the last decade to get more residents in mountain communities to buy bear proof trash cans,” the wildlife spokesman said.
Livingston also suggests placing garbage cans out on trash day, instead of letting it sit, not keeping doors and windows open overnight, and not putting bird feeders in trees. “It really takes everybody doing their part, whether they’re a visitor to Colorado, or us who live here full time. It takes everybody to do their part to secure that trash so bears aren’t getting into it.”
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that’s soooo sad. when we used to compost our food scraps we never put anything in there that couldn’t be consumed by animals.
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“I’m in favor of it and it should pay for 100% of the costs of housing, feeding, educating and providing all necessary medical care. They should also be taxed to pay for any criminal and judicial procedures. They voted to become a sanctuary state and city, let them suffer the consequence of their actions. Besides, diversity is making NY and NYC more prosperous or so they keep telling us… Are poor people going to be replaced by migrants in NYC? State lawmakers in New York want tax increases to pay for migrants flooding into New York City as the area struggles to accommodate them…”
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2023/09/16/pay-their-fair-share-socialist-lawmakers-push-for-migrant-taxes-on-new-yorkers-during-immigration-crisis/
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yup. if you voted for folks advocating for being a sanctuary city or state…what did you think was going to happen???
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“This 18th century sculpture called Disillusion, which includes an intricate net carved from a single block of marble, was created by Francesco Queirolo without assistance, since no apprentice would touch it for fear of the delicate net crumbling in their hands. It took him seven years…”

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https://www.museosansevero.it/en/the-chapel-and-the-veiled-christ/the-statues/disillusion
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GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
today they duct tape a banana to a wall and call that art…
they have no concept
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IKR? I know jack about art but even I can really appreciate something as spectacular as this! I’m tellin’ ya’, the world has gone insane!!! Validate someone no matter how blatantly crazy they are!!
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we got a book on chainsaw carving when we first moved here…since we knew we’d be taking down trees.
I can picture the thing i want to carve in my mind, but (and i tried with clay first) I always think of something better after i molded half the clay.
with clay you just smush it together and start over–with trees or MARBLE, you have to see it so precisely in your mind at the start.
that is a work of art!!!!!
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Indeed it is! I love chainsaw art!
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me too!
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“Green “flash” at sunset, captured in Bonaire, Dutch Caribbean… A slightly rare atmospheric phenomenon…”

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weird!
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“Jack Smith’s Real-Life Bogeyman—From claiming Donald Trump is a flight risk to warning that his social media posts imperil the lives of government officials, Smith appears more unhinged than normal.”

JULIE KELLY
SEP 18, 2023
(Artwork by Ruben Cueto)
ENTIRE ARTICLE: “One must wonder if Special Counsel Jack Smith checks under his bed every night to make sure a large man wearing an oversized blue suit, long red tie, and MAGA hat isn’t there. Smith, the public has been assured, is a nerves-of-steel prosecutor who has taken on some of the world’s most dangerous criminals during his time at the U.S. Department of Justice and The Hague. Following Smith’s appointment in November 2022, one former colleague swooned to the New York Times how Smith “has a way about him of projecting calm” and that “people look to him for steady guidance.”
But his recent conduct suggests Smith might be losing his grip. Tasked with supervising both criminal investigations into Donald Trump—the events of January 6 and possession of alleged classified material—Smith continues to make outlandish allegations about the former president in court motions. These claims include warnings that Trump is a flight risk, is jeopardizing the safety of government officials and poisoning the D.C. jury pool with his social media posts, and “could precipitate violence” if sealed search warrants were disclosed to him.
Smith’s reality-detached assessment of Trump first is evident in his June 2023 indictment against Trump for the alleged unlawful retention of national defense information. Using the most hyperbolic language possible to describe the 300 or so files with “classified markings” found in storage boxes at Mar-a-Lago—most were handed over by Trump himself—Smith claimed that the “unauthorized disclosure of these classified documents could put at risk the national security of the United States, foreign relations, the safety of the United States military, and human sources and the continued viability of sensitive intelligence collection methods.” (The seizure of those alleged documents happened more than a year after Trump had left office, plenty of time to have jeopardized national security if he wanted to.)
Smith did no better in his follow-up indictment charging Trump with four counts related to January 6. “The attack on our nation’s capital on January 6, 2021 was an unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy,” Smith said during a brief public statement on August 1. “It was fueled by lies. Lies by the defendant targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the U.S. government, the nation’s process of collecting, counting, and certifying the results of the presidential election.” Smith then went on a weird riff about how law enforcement saved the nation that day.
Flight Risks, Riots, and Mean Nicknames — What the public did not know at the time was Smith had just won a court battle against Twitter seeking all data from the former president’s dormant account. Smith not only asked a D.C. judge to authorize a search warrant for the account’s information, including direct messages and deleted posts, but sought to conceal the warrant from Trump in a nondisclosure order.
In doing so, Smith told the court that Trump might flee the country if he was informed about the Twitter warrant—a claim he later stated was made in “error.” But it wasn’t a mistake. The flight risk concern was discussed several times during a sealed hearing in February between Judge Beryl Howell and both parties, as I reported here. At one point, Howell seemed to concur with Smith, noting that Trump “does have properties overseas that would be probative.” (There is a discrepancy as to when the flight risk claim was made but the public may never know since the final non-disclosure order remains under seal as does most of the case. Howell signed the NDO and fined Twitter $350,000 for allegedly delaying production of the records.)
After ditching the flight risk claim, Smith’s team took it up a notch. If Trump found out about the warrant, he might cause riots in the streets. “Following his defeat in the 2020 presidential election, the former President propagated false claims of fraud, pressured state and federal officials to violate their legal duties, and retaliated against those who did not comply with his demands, culminating in violence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 (emphasis added),” Smith argued in response to Twitter’s appeal of the NDO. Trump’s knowledge of the warrant, Smith continued, “could precipitate violence as occurred following the public disclosure of the search warrant executed at Mar-a-Lago.”
Smith appeared to be referring to an armed man attempting to force his way into an FBI office in Cincinnati a few days after the FBI raided Trump’s property. He was shot and killed by police. So, to recap Smith’s thinking: Trump is to blame for the violence that occurred on January 6 even though security and intelligence failures are well-documented and it’s not the president’s job to protect U.S. Capitol grounds and because a single crazy person tried to shoot up an FBI office in Ohio after the Mar-a-Lago raid—Trump would incite more violence after learning of a search warrant on his Twitter account?
A preposterous, desperate, and wholly dishonest argument. But Smith really jumped the shark last week in a 19-page motion seeking a gag order on the leading GOP presidential contender. Citing numerous Truth Social posts, Smith accused Trump of attempting to poison the jury pool and intimidate potential witnesses in the January 6 case. From the motion:

Not only is Smith apparently unaware that most Americans have no confidence in the Department of Justice but the notion that Trump could in any way influence prospective jurors in a near-100 percent Democratic city by commenting on a social media platform few D.C. residents probably use is laughable.
Smith then accused Trump of posting “false and disparaging claims about the Department of Justice and prosecutors in the Special Counsel’s office in an attempt to undermine confidence in the justice system. [The] defendant called the Special Counsel’s Office a ‘team of thugs.’” Smith insisted he has been “subject to multiple threats” and one of his top prosecutors received “intimidating communications.” Thin-skinned much?
Smith Seeks to Strip Trump of Key Campaign Theme — Smith asked Judge Tanya Chutkan, who has a history of making anti-Trump comments in court, to prohibit Trump from making statements “regarding the identity, testimony, or credibility of prospective witnesses,” and “statements about any party, witness, attorney, court personnel, or potential jurors that are disparaging and inflammatory, or intimidating.” (Trump filed a motion earlier this month asking Chutkan to recuse based on “disqualifying” remarks about the former president, as I reported here.)
Despite Smith’s description of the gag order as “narrow,” it is anything but. If Chutkan grants Smith’s proposal, Trump would be prevented from saying anything critical of the DOJ, FBI, federal judges, and D.C. juries. Trump couldn’t opine on government officials including Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray, a key talking point on the campaign stump. Smith also wants to ban Trump from commenting on “potential witnesses,” which includes GOP rival Mike Pence. A “potential witness” could be whomever Jack Smith wants it to be in such a sweeping case.
This is a brazen act of election interference since DOJ corruption and the dual system of justice in the nation’s capital are a few of Trump’s top campaign issues. Ironically, by seeking the gag order, Smith is responsible for amplifying these critical comments in the broader blogosphere outside of Truth Social. Should Chutkan put a gag order on Smith? While Chutkan weighs two speech issues—presumably defending her right to speak her partisan mind during unrelated court proceedings while agreeing at the same time that Trump should keep his mouth zipped—Smith no doubt is working on the next chapter in his Scary Donald Trump files.
Perhaps someone should volunteer to check under Smith’s bed every night.”
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so during a rally, he steps up to the mike and says great to be here…now a few words from my friends…and lets THEM tell the rest of the story…LOL
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not that i can see him backing down like that though
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Yeah, we know that won’t happen! LOL
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this seems to build on your article above about the who
Amanda
September 18, 2023 9:56 am
Florida’s Forced Quarantine and Forced Vaccination Law
https://josephsansone.substack.com/p/floridas-forced-quarantine-and-forced
I’ll admit I was unaware of this law till Mary Helms, the Republican Liberty Caucus Chair for Franklin County Florida brought this to my attention. Mary’s husband John Helms got the Ban the Jab resolution passed in the Franklin County GOP recently.
This updated law was passed in 2023. It is Florida Statute, Title XXIX, Chapter 381, specifically Section 00315. It appears a total disaster. According to this law, Floridians can be forced isolated and quarantined against their will, and any treatment, not just vaccines, can be forced on them. The language was changed from prior versions from ‘vaccine’ to ‘any means necessary to treat the individual’. Robert Valenta pointed out to me that was likely changed because it is becoming apparent that C19 injections are not ‘vaccines’.
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It becomes difficult to argue the Tenth Amendment when the state legislature cedes their sovereignty to the federal government. In this interview I did a while back with James Roguski, where James and I were interviewing each other, James expressed the view that the WHO is planning on using the federal government, and then the federal government will use the states, to implement WHO’s mandatory policies. This Florida law seems to coincide with Roguski’s revelation.
There was a blanket health protection law called SB222 that got derailed earlier this year in favor of SB 252, which appears to offer no protections at all in this area. SB 252 does not nullify Florida Statute, Title XXIX, Chapter 381, Section 00315. In fact, it leaves a door open for WHO to dictate policies if the state mandates it. As far as I can tell, the state of Florida has to obey the federal government and must follow and integrate with federal plans because of F.S. 381, Section 00315.
It looks like there is deliberate intent.
How else could we explain such a law that leaves a path open for the federal government and the WHO to clamp down on Floridians?
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And were was ConRon while this was happening??? SMH
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maybe campaigning in another state
but honestly could be anywhere with his head up his ass
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SMDH – 2 of the Iranians we are giving back decided they’d rather stay here…and we’re going to LET THEM??!!??!!??
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I hope they can stay IN JAIL
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You know that won’t happen – bet they turn them loose with “electronic monitoring,” or they’ve already been out under that supposed requirement.
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oh right–those ankle monitors that no one knows how to remove….
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Sigh….I just gotta say – those fricking melons had damned well better be THE sweetest ever on the planet!!! I restrained myself yesterday – yes, I really did! – but I just checked them – STILL no change!!! On a happy note, however, I now have 5 (that I found) avocado-size melons! Yeah!
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I bet they’re juicy and scrumptious!
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I am so fricking sick and tired of idiot US citizens who go to dangerous countries like Iran on their own, then expect the US to rescue their ass! NO!!!!
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agreed–but PAYING for their return, almost guarantees they will be taken hostage and ransomed.
bad bad policy–it invites kidnapping
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H/T M
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pence is doa and as soon as he pulls his head out of his ass he may be able to see it.
but he’s getting paid to keep it up there
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‘I’m married to Julian Assange – I just want a normal life for us and our boys’

Read the interview I did with Susan Lee published online and in print over the weekend.
STELLA ASSANGE
SEP 18, 2023
Yesterday, on 17 September an interview I did written by Susan Lee was published online at The Mirror and OK! Exclusive, and in print in The Sunday Express.
https://stellaassangeofficial.substack.com/p/im-married-to-julian-assange-i-just
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what the hell is THAT on my statue’s face?
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My guess is a succubus – you know, one of those movie monsters?
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what?
LOL i thought a succubus was a female demon that had sex with men to claim them.
she’s humping my statue’s face!
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OK – IDK the official term but you get my drift! LOL
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LOL…
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