DIY: Uses for Bananas (Besides Eating Them)

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I found this on Reader’s Digest.  It was updated May 22, 2023.

Make a face mask

Take a moment to pamper yourself!  That’s right: You can use a banana as an all-natural face mask that moisturizes your skin and leaves it looking and feeling softer. Mash up a medium-size ripe banana into a smooth paste, then gently apply it to your face and neck. Let it sit for 10 to 20 minutes, then rinse it off with cold water. Another popular mask recipe calls for 1/4 cup plain yogurt, 2 tablespoons honey and 1 medium banana.

Eat a frozen “banana-sicle”

As a treat for friends and family, peel and cut four ripe bananas in half (across the middle). Stick a wooden ice-cream stick into the flat end of each piece. Place them all on a piece of wax paper, and then put it in the freezer. A few hours later, serve them up as simply yummy frozen banana-sicles.

If you want to go all out, quickly dip your frozen bananas in 6 ounces melted butterscotch or chocolate morsels (chopped nuts or shredded coconut are optional), then refreeze.

Polish silverware and leather shoes

It may sound a bit like a lark, but using a banana peel is actually a great way to put the shine back into your silverware and leather shoes. First, remove any of the leftover stringy material from the inside of the peel, then just start rubbing the inside of the peel on your shoes or silver. When you’re done, buff up the object with a paper towel or soft cloth. You might even want to use this technique to restore your leather furniture. Test it on a small section first before you take on the whole chair.

Tenderize a roast

Banana leaves are commonly used in many Asian countries to wrap meat as it’s cooking, to make it more tender. Some folks say the banana itself also has this ability. So the next time you fear the roast you’re cooking will turn tough on you, try softening it up by adding a ripe, peeled banana to the pan.

Brighten up houseplants

Are the leaves on your indoor plants looking dingy or dusty? Don’t bother misting them with water; that just spreads the dirt around. Rather, wipe down each leaf with the inside of a banana peel. It’ll remove all the gunk on the surface and replace it with a lustrous shine.

Deter aphids

Are aphids attacking your rosebushes or other plants? Bury dried or cut-up banana peels an inch or two deep around the base of the aphid-prone plants, and soon the little suckers will pack up and leave. Don’t use whole peels or the bananas themselves, though; they tend to be viewed as tasty treats by raccoons, squirrels, gophers, rabbits and other animals, who will just dig them up.

Use as fertilizer or mulch

Banana peels, like the fruit itself, are rich in potassium, an important nutrient for both you and your garden. Dry out banana peels on screens during the winter months. In early spring, grind them up in a food processor or blender and use them as mulch to give new plants and seedlings a healthy start.

Many cultivars of roses and other plants, like staghorn ferns, also benefit from the nutrients found in banana peels; simply cut up some peels and use them as plant food around your established plants.

Assist with first aid

Banana peels have anti-inflammatory properties, which means they are great when it comes to bug bites, minor scrapes, poison ivy and sunburn. All you have to do is put the banana peel on the affected area and press it like you would a cool compress. You can repeat this process until you feel some relief.

Ripen an avocado

Are you an avocado enthusiast? Though you could eat all the avocado toast and guacamole in the world, sometimes avocados just don’t ripen fast enough. In order to satisfy your avocado craving for all your cooking needs, use a banana to help speed up the ripening process.

Bananas release ethylene, which triggers ripening in avocados. Simply place a banana in a brown paper bag and roll it up with an avocado. Check it daily until it is ripe enough.

Slough off dry skin

In order to keep your skin feeling smooth and radiant (without learning all the professional spa etiquette), create a body scrub with a banana. There are many different variations, depending on the kind of scrub you need. For a gentle scrub, you can mix a mashed banana with brown sugar. For a medium scrub try mixing in oatmeal or sea salt. If you really need a heavy-duty scrub, grind apricot pits at home and add it to your banana to really dig deep into your pores.

Remove warts

Warts are stubborn and gross, so needless to say, nobody wants one. A natural way you can go about removing one is by using a banana peel. Cut a piece of ripe banana peel to cover the affected area, placing the inside next to your skin, and keep it there overnight by using some medical tape. In the morning you should notice some improvement, and you can repeat the process nightly until it’s gone!

Attract butterflies and birds

Bring more butterflies and various bird species to your backyard by putting out overripe bananas (as well as other fruits such as mangos, oranges and papayas) on a raised platform. Punch a few holes in the bananas to make the fruit more accessible to the butterflies. Some enthusiasts swear by adding a drop of Gatorade to further mush things up.

The fruit is also likely to attract more bees and wasps as well, so make sure that the platform is well above head level and not centrally located. Moreover, you’ll probably want to clear it off before sunset, to discourage visits from raccoons and other nocturnal creatures.

Add to compost pile

Here’s a great gardening tip: With their high content of potassium and phosphorus, whole bananas and peels are welcome additions to any compost pile, particularly in so-called compost tea recipes. The fruit breaks down especially fast in hot temperatures. But don’t forget to remove any glued-on tags from the peels, and be sure to bury bananas deep within your pile (otherwise they may simply turn out to be a meal for a four-legged visitor).

Whiten teeth on the cheap

Everyone wants pearly whites, but do you really want to spend all that money on treatments? Banana peels contain citric acid, which will help lighten surface stains on your teeth. For natural teeth whitening at home, after giving your teeth a good brush, simply rub the banana peel on the surface for about two minutes every day. Your smile will not only be whiter, but brighter!

Get rid of splinters

Splinters can be a real pain, literally and figuratively. The natural enzymes in banana peels can help loosen splinters that just don’t seem to want to get out of your skin. Press the inside of the peel on your skin for up to 30 minutes, and it will help move the splinter to the surface for an easy plucking.

Make banana “ice cream”

If you don’t have the time or calories to spare, try making ice cream out of bananas. All you have to do is freeze your peeled bananas and blend them in a food processor or blender. The result is an ice-cream-like consistency and a satisfied craving. Try adding some peanut butter or shredded coconut as toppings.

Create a dog treat

Dogs love human food, but most of the time our cherished pooches cannot digest what we eat. Bananas, however, are foods that our pets can enjoy. They are high in fiber, magnesium and potassium. Mash up a banana and add it to your dog’s favorite food so they can chow down.

Restore dry hair

Bananas are great ways to combat that stringy and brittle feeling. To make a banana hair mask, puree one to three really ripe bananas (depending on your hair length) and then massage it throughout your scalp to your ends. Let it sit for 15 minutes, then rinse it in the shower followed by a shampoo.

Ease heartburn

Bananas are an alkaline fruit, which means they may help neutralize acid in the stomach. You can eat bananas regularly as a home remedy for heartburn and GERD. Add a banana to your breakfast to help coat the stomach for the rest of the day.

Prevent a scratched CD from skipping

Is your favorite DVD or CD playlist for the car scratched? Gently rub the scratched part of the disc with the inside of the peel in a circular motion. Wipe off any residue with a soft cloth and then shine it with some glass cleaner. The wax in the banana peel may help fill in the scratches so you can enjoy your treasured disc once more.

With all these cool banana hacks, be sure you eat at least some of the bananas you’re buying!

SOURCE: Reader’s Digest

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    1. Morning, Pat! Who knew bananas could do all that??!!?? About the houseplants – you can get the same effect by just using your fingers to wipe the leaves – the oils are beneficial. Sure wish we’d known about removing warts when I was a kid….I went thru some really terrible pain after having mine burned off my fingers with an electric knife. They numbed my fingers first but when that wore off….I think it was THE worst pain I’ve ever felt in my life – even worse than childbirth! They did both hands at the same time so….when it wore off, they just throbbed and throbbed and I couldn’t touch anything w/o pain….I had them on my lips, too. Before they did my fingers, they sliced a couple off with a scalpel – yeah, it hurt! A LOT!!! But, God forbid they NOT have a “perfect” child!!!

      Still dark here, too, and 66 at the moment. Possible dangerous storms moving thru today, altho most will be to the east of me, I can hear thunder rumbling – no sign of GT yet. I did put some food out by the shed for the 2 orange tabby’s….I saw them chowing down on it but they are very skittish and scoot back under the shed when I come outside. Sigh…just what I need!!!

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      1. Morning Filly!
        you are a softie!
        we still have at least one hummer. don’t know what she’s waiting for…??
        i worry she is a newborn this year and her mom was the hummer who hit the door and died. what if she has no one to show her migration???

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        1. Well, then she won’t survive. Such is life in the animal world. Stop putting out nectar – give her a kick in the ass to get going! It is instinctual and she will figure it out….or not. Whatever!

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  4. TheseTruths(@thesetruths)Offline
    Wolf
    September 23, 2023 00:44

    Ken Paxton Claims ‘Secret’ Texas Court Threw Out Nearly 1,000 Cases of Voter Fraud

    During an interview with Tucker Carlson, Paxton explained how a local court threw out nearly 1,000 cases of voter fraud that his office was prosecuting.

    Paxton said it didn’t make sense for the state’s Court of Criminal Appeals to dismiss over 900 cases of voter fraud and deny him the right to prosecute criminal matters.

    “We were fully busy prosecuting voter fraud, and suddenly the Court of Criminal Appeals – all Republicans – said nope, it’s unconstitutional for the attorney general to be in court because these are the executive branch. That was their reasoning,” Paxton said. “They said that was a ‘judicial’ function, so I could no longer be in court.”

    The Republican told Carlson that his office prosecuted more than enough cases to prove voter fraud. However, Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan blocked them all.

    Paxton then criticized the Texas voting system, which supports mail-in ballots and not requiring people to provide an ID as other forms of voting do.

    “When you change it to mailing it out to everybody … We have no idea who’s voting … That’s the system that they like because we can’t prove voter fraud if we set up a system that’s completely open,” Paxton added.

    The attorney general claimed Republicans on the Court of Criminal Appeals are attempting to set him up for defeat, allowing voter fraud to happen right before their eyes.

    Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan is bad news. He was instrumental in trying to get Paxton removed from office.

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  6. Citizen 817
    Citizen 817
    September 23, 2023 12:26 am

    @realDonaldTrump

    15h
    Many people are saying that,”You forced Rupert Murdoch into retirement!” I do not believe this is so, but while we’re at it, how about getting rid of “Democrat” Mitch McConnell, who gives the Radical Left Lunatics, together with his small band of automatic “yes” votes, EVERYTHING they want. There is ZERO Republican Leadership in the United States Senate. MAGA!!!

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  7. Citizen 817
    Citizen 817
    September 23, 2023 12:27 am

    @realDonaldTrump

    3h
    On top of everything else going wrong with our Country, Interest Rates have just hit an almost 16 year high, and the housing market is crashing. Next up will be the Autoworkers, who are being sold down the drain by Crooked Joe Biden and the leaders of the “United” Autoworkers. It doesn’t matter what salary you make, in 3 years these jobs will all be gone as Electric cars will almost entirely be made in CHINA. Be careful TRUCKERS, you’re next!!!

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  9. Cactus
    September 23, 2023 1:33 am

    Good news for Texas elections. Getting rid of the voting czar in Harris county and turning the election processing over to elected county officials, not appointed officials.

    Texas Supreme Court lets state law eliminating Harris County elections chief stand.

    The ruling means the elections in the state’s largest county will be overseen by two other county officials.

    Legislators targeted Harris County’s elections department after taking issue with the way the 2022 elections were run.

    Texas Republicans authored SB 1750 after controversy surrounding Harris County’s 2022 primary elections, which led to the resignation of the elections administrator at the time, Isabel Longoria. In November, paper ballot shortages and long wait times at several polling locations led several losing Republican candidates to seek a redo of the elections.

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  10. Citizen 817
    Citizen 817
    September 23, 2023 3:53 am

    @realDonaldTrump

    1h
    Crooked Joe Biden had no intention of going to visit the United Autoworkers, until I announced that I would be heading to Michigan to be with them, & help then out. Actually, Crooked Joe sold them down the river with his ridiculous all Electric Car Hoax. This wasn’t Biden’s idea, he can’t put two sentences together. It was the idea of the Radical Left Fascists, Marxists, & Communists who control him and who, in so doing, are DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY! Within 3 years, all of these cars will be made in China. That’s what Sleepy Joe wants, because China pays him and his family a FORTUNE. He is a Manchurian Candidate. If the UAW “leadership” doesn’t ENDORSE me, and if I don’t win the Election, the Autoworkers are “toast,” with our great truckers to follow. Crooked Joe Biden is the most Corrupt and Incompetent President in the history of the USA. If he is able to gather the energy to show up, tell him to go to the Southern Border instead, & to leave the Car Industry alone!

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  18. i read where fetterwoman told reporters he will wear a suit again if the “jagoffs” (in the repub party) agree with the CR and fund the gov’t.

    has his head grown exponentially or what?
    WHO THE BLAZES DOES HE THINK HE IS?
    not even a year into his first term and he thinks he wields that kind of power?
    or, like many other lazy ass delusional members of the left, does he think he DESERVES it?

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  19. play stupid games, win stupid prizes

    Winston
    September 23, 2023 8:12 am

    NY Man Arrested With $1.6 Million In Fentanyl Fails To Show For Court After Being Granted Non-Cash Bail
    SEP 22, 2023

    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ny-man-7-prior-arrests-fails-show-court-after-being-arrested-16-million-fentanyl-then

    If we told you that a man accused of carrying $1.6 million in fentanyl in Pittsburgh didn’t show up for his court date after being released on non-cash bail earlier this month, would you be surprised?

    Us neither.

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  20. “Judge Slams Biden Admin’s ‘Political’ Move To Restrict Gas Drilling”

    (Unused oil rigs sit in the Gulf of Mexico near Port Fourchon, Louisiana August 11, 2010. (Reuters)
    By Ben Wilson, September 22, 2023

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “A federal judge rejected and criticized a move by the Biden administration to restrict oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico, calling it a “political” move and ordering the government to remove the restrictions.

    Judge James Cain of the Western District of Louisiana on Thursday blocked the proposed restrictions by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and ordered Lease Sale 261 to happen by Sep. 30. He called it an attempt to “provide scientific justification to a political reassessment of offshore drilling.”

    BOEM had ordered the lease sale be decreased by six million acres, from 73 million acres to 67 million acres, and imposed new restrictions on the vessels that could collect oil and gas, citing the interest of protecting endangered whales. The Biden administration will appeal the judge’s order.

    Cain said the Biden administration’s plan was “more like a weaponization of the Endangered Species Act than the collaborative, reasoned approach prescribed by the applicable laws and regulations.”

    “The court observes that plaintiffs have demonstrated substantial potential costs resulting from the challenged provisions,” Cain said in his decision. “While the government defendants largely focus on the acreage withdrawal and dynamics of the sale itself, many of plaintiffs’ alleged hardships arise from the vessel restrictions.”

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  21. SATIRE
    “PHOTOS: John Fetterman Isn’t the Only Senator Enjoying Relaxed New Dress Code–You won’t believe your eyes”

    By Andrew Stiles
    September 20, 2023

    ENTIRE ARTICLE @ FreeBeacon: “Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) relaxed the dress code for U.S. senators (but not their employees) so that notorious slob John Fetterman (D., Pa.) can wear hoodies and basketball shorts to work. Fetterman, whose doctor falsely claimed the Democrat would face “no work restrictions” after suffering a stroke last year, apparently felt that wearing a suit and tie to the office was too restricting.

    Senators can now “choose what they wear” in the upper chamber, Schumer told Axios last week. As Sen. Susan Collins (R., Maine) pointed out, there don’t appear to be any restrictions on attire under the new rules. “Obviously, I’m not going to wear a bikini,” she said. “But the fact is, as I understand it, I could!”

    It turns out Fetterman isn’t the only senator taking advantage of the new dress code. Please enjoy the following photos of your senators wearing whatever the hell they want in the hallowed halls of the U.S. Capitol.

    Mitch McConnell

    Susan Collins

    Chuck Schumer

    Ted Cruz

    Kyrsten Sinema

    Mitt Romney

    Cory Booker

    Chuck Grassley

    Amy Klobuchar

    Bernie Sanders

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  28. “The first-ever Brightline train departing from Miami to Orlando was delayed Friday due to a deadly crash along the route. Delray Beach police said a pedestrian was hit and killed by a Brightline train that was heading from West Palm to Miami. Brightline representatives confirmed that the Miami to Orlando train was delayed by 30 minutes.

    Friday was the first day the high-speed passenger train service began running trains between Miami and Orlando. The Associated Press reported that the Florida trains travel up to 79 mph (127 kph) in urban areas, 110 mph (177 kph) in less-populated regions and 125 mph (200 kph) through central Florida’s farmland.

    According to an ongoing Associated Press analysis of federal data, Brightline trains have the highest death rate in the U.S., with trains fatally striking 98 people since Miami-West Palm service began. The data shows there is about one death for every 32,000 miles its trains travel.”

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  29. Pouring down rain now, with thunder and lightning, temp has dropped to 64 – still no sign of GT – hunkered down somewhere, I expect! We could get some hail and high winds, with an occasional tornado but, again, it is more to the east of me….so far anyway! The wind isn’t too bad here at the moment but it’s picking up….


    NF: Amazing what you can learn on-line! LOL

    NF: What say you, Pat???

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    1. we buy a wine kit–cuz the freakin raccoons always get to the grapes before we do! but i can buy that it takes that much.

      now about that last one? WHO CUT IT OFF? and WHY???????????????????
      people are weird

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  31. “New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy is under fire and being ridiculed in a new political cartoon commissioned by the Sussex County Republican Committee. The cartoon shows the governor dragging a boy from his family and indoctrinating him into changing his gender identity.

    Sussex County Republican Chairman Joe Labarbera announced that the satirical artwork would be featured in public advertisements across more than 50 locations in northwest New Jersey. The campaign is scheduled to run throughout the election period. The group is also planning a social media push and displaying the image on billboards along major highways.”

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  33. NF: Ah, the memories! I still have a turntable….but I never play music at home, only in my truck!

    NF: Ooooh! Bet she didn’t like THAT!!! ROFL – that’s one way to get back at someone!!!

    “A Chicago man bought a used car for $600, registered it in his ex-girlfriend’s name and then parked it in an airport parking lot. It sat there for three years, racking up $ 100,000.00 in fines.”

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  35. “The Vibrant Life Of Rocky Dennis, The Boy Whose Rare Deformity Inspired The Film ‘Mask’”
    By Natasha Ishak | Edited By John Kuroski
    Published February 21, 2022
    Updated May 19, 2022

    EXCERPT: “When Rocky Dennis died at age 16, he had already lived more than twice as long as doctors expected — and lived a fuller life than anyone thought possible.

    (Rocky Dennis and his mother, Rusty, with whom he shared an incredibly close bond.)

    Rocky Dennis was born with an extremely rare bone dysplasia which caused his facial bone features to contort and grow at an abnormally fast rate. Doctors told his mother, Florence “Rusty” Dennis, that the boy would suffer multiple disabilities because of his disease, and would most likely die before he turned seven. Miraculously, Roy L. “Rocky” Dennis beat the odds and lived a nearly normal life until he was 16. This is the incredible story of the boy who inspired the 1985 film Mask.

    The Early Life Of Rocky Dennis — Roy L. Dennis, later nicknamed “Rocky,” was born a healthy baby boy on Dec. 4, 1961, in California. He had an older half-brother named Joshua, Rusty Dennis’ child from an earlier marriage, and by all accounts, Rocky Dennis had been perfectly healthy. It wasn’t until Rocky was a little more than two years old that the first signs of an abnormality appeared in his medical exams.

    (The first signs of Rocky Dennis’ rare condition did not appear until he was a toddler.)

    https://allthatsinteresting.com/rocky-dennis

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    1. It’s a really fascinating story, IMO….

      “Rocky Dennis didn’t get to live a long life but he lived it to the fullest. Through his humor and gentle tenacity, the teenager showed others that anything is possible so long as you believe in yourself.

      “It’s been scientifically proven that energy can’t be destroyed—it just takes another form,” his mother said after his death.”

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  38. The storms have passed by – more surrounding us, tho – and it’s quiet with light rain and partly cloudy but temp is down to 61. Still no sign of GT or the tabbies.

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  40. starting raining as we headed out–still raining steadily here…but we’re back.
    I saw this awesome flag today–I warrior-looking guy with a sword.
    the writing on the flag?
    TRUMP 2024
    Let’s FINISH what we started

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      1. i posted above–we did some errands–get the mail, pick up bananas–the ones at the little market on wednesday were pretty mushy, have lunch and talk to mom

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  42. whoa…they’re attempting to take down Scott Pressler…not vouching for any of the information presented…

    Ted
    September 23, 2023 11:19 am

    Hope you’ve all been following the many Tweets on The Last Refuges Twitter account on Scott Pressler, who it turns out he’s a DeSantis supporter and an anti Trump guy. Here’s one of them:

    In the aftermath of the midterms, which the GOPe rigged against DJT, @ScottPresler kicked DJT while he was down by applauding this DeSimp’s tweet about how we should stop questioning the theft of the ‘20 election and “worshiping DJT.” This is precisely why I distrust Presler. pic.twitter.com/OI1g7snGMT

    — Jejune the Conqueror (@jejune_jmccc) September 22, 2023

    Ted
    September 23, 2023 11:21 am
    Reply to Ted

    Who’s the DeSantis guy on the lower right?

    Chris Nelson @reopenchris has NUCLEAR MELTDOWN, attacks a fellow DeSantis supporter for suggesting they shouldn’t criticize other conservatives over minor disagreements. pic.twitter.com/SxCOffwKN1

    — JoMa 🏴 (@joma_gc) September 22, 2023
    Ted
    September 23, 2023 11:22 am
    Reply to Ted

    The dirt on pressler:
    1. worked for a talent agency with ties to Israeli intelligence years ago
    2. was fired from RNC (I think in VA) because he had sex with a 16 year old boy
    3. because of 2, the rnc keeps him at arms length
    4. every campaign he works for loses

    — Stephen Schutt (@schuttsm) September 22, 2023

    Ted
    September 23, 2023 11:23 am
    Reply to Ted

    #2. Presler was actually doing gay porn in the VA GOP offices and posting photos on Craiglist. Why he was let go. And explains #3

    #4 is correct. His candidates lose

    — Daniel Freer⚔ (@DWF57) September 22, 2023

    Real Buddy Smot
    September 23, 2023 1:31 pm
    Reply to Ted

    Treepers:

    When the primary is over, and it essentially is, we are all going to hold hands and go after Biden or whoever they nominate. Do not crawl so far out on a limb that you can’t get back.

    We cannot win without the DeSantis folks, the Vivek folks, and the RINOs. There are not enough of us.

    Scott Pressler is working his ass off to help register Republicans. He has already said he will support the Republican nominee.

    Some of the people in here being ultra divisive may not be who you think. When I work campaigns, we have an entire group of folks who invade the opposition’s pages.

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  43. get this S.O.B. OFF the gov’t payroll!!!

    Clarion
    September 23, 2023 11:11 am

    GOP reps move to eliminate Fauci’s multi-million dollar taxpayer-funded chauffeur and security detail
    
    Fauci defends hush-hush perks, declaring that he’s “been involved in saving, literally, millions of lives.”

    JORDAN SCHACHTEL

    9/22/2023

    A handful of brave GOP members of Congress want to put the kibosh on Dr Fauci’s taxpayer-funded perks, which reportedly include a limousine, a full time driver, and a fully staffed U.S. Marshals security detail.

    Rep. Dale Strong (R-AL) introduced a bill Thursday that has thus far been branded the “No Taxpayer Funded Detail for Anthony Fauci” act.

    “When I discovered that Dr. Fauci still had a taxpayer-funded driver and personal guards after he stepped down, I felt that it was another example of Washington bureaucrats putting themselves above the American people,” Rep Strong said in a statement.

    “Our country is $33 trillion in debt. Taxpayers shouldn’t be paying for Dr. Fauci’s security detail, especially when Fauci was one of the highest-paid federal employees in the U.S.,” he added.

    Fauci’s taxpayer-funded detail is estimated to cost the U.S. taxpayer around $1 million dollars per month, according to comparable previous security details. Contrary to popular belief, the “retired” NIAID chief reportedly remains on staff via a no show job at the NIAID, so that he can receive his U.S. Marshals security detail.

    https://www.dossier.today/p/gop-reps-move-to-eliminate-faucis?r=l5gn4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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  44. Wisconsin bans absentee ballot boxes
    FTA

    Absentee ballot drop boxes won’t be allowed in Wisconsin under a ruling handed down Friday by a divided Wisconsin Supreme Court.

    The court’s conservative majority also ruled that it’s illegal for someone else, like a spouse or roommate, to return a voter’s completed absentee ballot to the clerk’s office. The voter must carry out that task personally.

    The majority decision was written by Justice Rebecca Bradley and joined by the rest of the court’s conservative majority, including swing Justice Brian Hagedorn.

    Both rulings mean absentee voting in Wisconsin’s 2022 election and beyond won’t be as convenient as it was two years ago when it surged during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

    “Nothing in the statutory language detailing the procedures by which absentee ballots may be cast mentions drop boxes or anything like them,” Bradley wrote.

    Wisconsin Supreme Court BANS use of absentee ballot drop boxes in big election ruling

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  48. WTH is wrong with these people?!?! I mean, really!

    “By doing this, he endured excruciating pain for two years of his life, but eventually his arm lost all feeling and the muscles in his arm atrophied… This man in India who held his arm up one day and decided to keep it there. Almost 50 years later, his arm is still in the air…”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amar_Bharati

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  49. it’s so chilly and damp outside (still raining here) hubby decided today was a good day for our practice fire.
    before wood stove season gets cranking, he cleans the stove pipes and then we have a small fire to make sure everything is connected properly.
    sigh…sitting in front of it feels good!

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