Fun Facts about My Cousin Vinny

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Marisa Tomei’s birthday is this month, so I thought I’d look at little known facts about My Cousin Vinny, which I think is her breakout movie.

From Mental Floss:

My Cousin Vinny was inspired by an encounter with a guy hoping to pass the bar.

My Cousin Vinny was one of the earliest ideas screenwriter Dale Launer ever had. “In the very early ’70s, I met a guy who … was waiting the bar exam results,” he told ABA Journal in 2012. Launer asked what would happen if he didn’t pass, and the guy said he could just take it again, and if he didn’t pass that time, he’d just take it again. And again. Until he passed. “So I said, ‘What’s the most times somebody has taken and failed and finally passed?’” Launer recalled. “He said, ‘Thirteen times.’ … I always thought that guy who took 13 times to pass the bar, or girl, is probably out there practicing law in some capacity. Now, how would you feel if suddenly you learned that guy is your lawyer? … What if you have been accused of a crime and clearly, you have what appears to be the worst lawyer in the country?”

Robert De Niro was Launer’s first choice to play Vinny Gambini.

After the script was written, a casting meeting was called and Launer met with Fox’s president, vice president, and CEO. When Launer suggested Robert De Niro for the part of Vincent LaGuardia Gambini, “the prez looked uncomfortable, embarrassed that I would suggest such an actor,” Launer told Writer Unboxed. “‘De Niro, uh … well … he’s not funny. And … his movies don’t make money.’ … Now … the only movies De Niro acts in that make money? Comedies! So, I feel vindicated. But I wish I could’ve been given a big fat check when I [ended up] being proved right.”

Joe Pesci based Vinny on guys from his neighborhood.

“There’s a lot of people around like that in smaller neighborhoods, so I put a few of them together and [came] up with Vinny,” Pesci, who grew up in New Jersey, told The Movie Show in 1992.

The studio initially wanted to cut Mona Lisa Vito from My Cousin Vinny.

n 2007, Launer told Writer Unboxed that the studio had wanted to get rid of Vinny’s Chinese-food-loving, unemployed hairdresser/car expert girlfriend. To keep the character, Launer reluctantly added a scene, requested by the studio president, to the second draft: “He wanted Vinny’s girlfriend to complain that he’s not giving her enough attention,” Launer said. “You often see movies where some guy is hell bent on accomplishing something, and you’re on the ride with him—and his wife/girlfriend/mother is feeling neglected. And she complains. And I HATE this! … Watching those scenes is simply boring. You want to fast forward it. Awful.”

Eventually, he said he “figured out a way where they’d HAVE to keep her and embellished her character … she does complain, but at least apologizes for bringing it up, and you don’t hate her for bringing it up largely because it’s funny. … Now, I thought if she brought this up at this point where he is simply going through hell—he should be pissed off. And he is. So he kinda tears into her.” Mona Lisa’s “biological clock” rant (above) became one of his favorite scenes in the script.

The studio took a chance on Marisa Tomei.

Tomei didn’t have a lot of film experience when she landed the part of Mona Lisa Vito. “I’d seen her [on the set of Oscar] working with John Landis and [had] gone with [him] to the cutting room to look at her performance,” Lynn said in DVD commentary.” She was playing a 1920s blonde flapper, very different, but I could see how funny and talented she was. And we got her in to read. She read wonderfully and we persuaded the studio to let me go with this unknown actress in the role. It was the best decision I ever made.” Lynn said he knew they’d gotten the right actress for the part when he saw the dailies from the first scene they shot with her—Mona Lisa and Vinny’s arrival in Alabama, when she tells him, “Oh, yeah, you blend.”

Marisa Tomei is from Brooklyn, but she doesn’t sound like her My Cousin Vinny character.

Tomei grew up in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, so “I really knew the neighborhood,” she told The New York Times in 1992. But that doesn’t mean she sounded just like Mona Lisa. “I don’t think that extreme, but I could be wrong,” she told NPR’s Fresh Air in 2010. “My mom was an English teacher, and she was on my butt about that kind of thing and correcting my speech from a young age.”

The legal system is portrayed very accurately in My Cousin Vinny.

Lynn has a law degree from Cambridge University, and, he said in DVD commentary, “I get terribly irritated when I see films in which the legal procedure is obviously wrong.” In addition to Launer’s research, Lynn made adjustments to make sure the legal proceedings were correct. “I’m very pleased with the fact that, although this is heightened for comedic purposes, everything you see legally in this film could happen and is approximately correct,” he said. “Which, by the way, makes it the more frightening.” Lynn even sat in on a murder trial in the Monticello, Ga. courtroom that served as the inspiration for the Vinny courtroom set. “Some of the lines in the [Vinny trial] came directly from that trial,” he said, including Lane Smith’s pronunciation of heinous (“high-a-nus”) and his line about “our little old ancestors” in the opening remarks.

One scene in My Cousin Vinny was lifted from a book about comedy and the law.

The book featured real moments from actual courtrooms. Launer lifted the memorable voir dire scene of a potential juror for Vinny. The lawyers “ask them their opinion on capital punishment, and they said something like, ‘I think it should be left up to the victims’ families,’” Launer told Abnormal Use. “Then they then described exactly what the murderer did, and then that the juror actually said, ‘Fry them.’ So I put that right in the movie.”

My Cousin Vinny shot scenes in an actual prison.

The cast and crew shot for several days in a state prison in Gainesville, Georgia, in the wing where prisoners are kept in solitary confinement. “It does have a death row, right beside the wing where we were shooting, and I looked all around death row,” Lynn said in DVD commentary. “It was a very frightening building, and we were all pretty scared when we were there, even though we had guards with us at all times.”

It took up to 40 minutes to get from the outside of the building to where they were shooting inside. Whitfield told Abnormal Use that “When Ralph and I were walking through the prison the first time like holding our blankets and walking to our cell and you hear the prisoners screaming at us. Those are real prisoners, and they really were yelling at us. … They had to tone it down with what they put in the movie because they were saying some horrible stuff. Ralph and I were petrified.”

The prison guards in My Cousin Vinny aren’t actors.

The guards in the movie were real prison guards. The production used real prisoners as extras twice: once in the background when Stan and Bill are being brought into the prison, and during a short scene where the duo plays basketball during exercise time. “The prisoners were all extremely cooperative and did exactly what we asked,” Lynn said in DVD commentary. “I don’t know what incentives or threats were made in order to achieve that.”

Joe Pesci learned how to do a card trick for My Cousin Vinny.

In the scene where Vinny is convincing Bill to let him represent him, Vinny does a card trick. “It was important to me that the card trick wasn’t faked,” Lynn said in DVD commentary. “Of course you can fake anything by cutting and showing another shot, but I talked about this to Joe before we started shooting, and he learned how to do this card trick. So the scene in which he does it does not have any cuts in it. He actually fools the audience before their very eyes. He did it beautifully. I thought Vinny’s argument would be much less powerful if the audience could say oh well that was just faked by the way the scene was cut.”

The word yutes came from a real conversation with Joe Pesci.

The conversation between Vinny and Judge Chamberlain Haller about “two yutes” became “perhaps the most quoted piece of dialogue from the film,” Lynn said in DVD commentary. It was inspired by a conversation that Lynn and Pesci had when they were prepping the film at the Mayflower Hotel in New York City. “He said something about ‘these two yutes’ who were on trial and I said ‘what?’ and he said ‘what?’ and I said ‘what’s a yute?’” Lynn recalled. “I realized as we were having that conversation that that was something that ought to happen between Vinny and the judge, so I simply wrote it in the way it happened naturally.”

You can visit many locations from My Cousin Vinny.

Though the film is set in Alabama, the production actually shot in three separate small towns in Georgia. “Apart from the courtroom,” which was a set, “virtually everything was shot on location,” director Jonathan Lynn said in Vinny’s DVD commentary. “It wasn’t a very expensive movie, and that was the cheaper way to go. It also had more authenticity.” Which means you can visit a number of the film’s locations—including the Sac-O-Suds convenience store.

My Cousin Vinny was praised by the law community.

“The movie is close to reality even in its details,” lawyer Maxwell S. Kennerly wrote on his blog, Trial and Litigation. “Part of why the film has such staying power among lawyers is because, unlike, say, A Few Good Men, everything that happens in the movie could happen—and often does happen—at trial.” Professor Alberto Bernabe of The John Marshall Law School, who hands his students a list of law movies organized by category, puts Vinny under “Education,” not just because “it provides so much material you can use in the classroom. For example, you can use the movie to discuss criminal procedure, courtroom decorum, professional responsibility, unethical behavior, the role of the judge in a trial, efficient cross-examination, the role of expert witnesses and effective trial advocacy.”

The film has also been praised by a Seventh Circuit Court Judge; referenced by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia; and made it into a legal textbook.

Maria Tomei found out about her Oscar nomination for My Cousin Vinny in an unlikely place.

Tomei was sleeping on a friend’s couch—a friend who was pregnant and due at any moment—when she found out about her Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination. Her friends were watching TV, and “there were shouts from the other room, and they awoke me,” she told David Letterman in 1993. “I didn’t know if she was going into labor or what.” Tomei would go on to win the Oscar—and yes, despite the urban legend that 74-year-old presenter Jack Palance announced the wrong name, the actress really did win.

There could have been a sequel to My Cousin Vinny.

In 2004, Lautner’s bio noted that “Joe wanted to do it, but Marisa didn’t. Now she does, and so does Joe, but the studio isn’t terribly interested in the remake, feeling too much time has passed since the initial release. Perhaps everyone who liked it has passed on. Or changed their minds. Launer hopes they will see the light.” According to Whitfield, the sequel might have involved Vinny going to Europe.

Joe Pesci made an album as Vinny Gambini.

Before he was an actor, Pesci was a lounge singer; six years after My Cousin Vinny came out, he released an album called Vincent LaGuardia Gambini Sings Just for You. It features the songs “Wise Guy,” “Take Your Love and Shove It,” “Yo Cousin Vinny,” and “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love,” a duet with Tomei as Mona Lisa. It debuted at No. 36 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart.

Patriots coach Bill Belichik referenced My Cousin Vinny during Deflategate.

Rudy Guiliani isn’t the only person who has randomly referenced My Cousin Vinny during a press conference. “I would not say that I am Mona Lisa Vito of the football world,” Belichik said when asked what he knew about football pressure. When she heard, Tomei texted Pesci. “We thought it was pretty funny,” she told The Rich Eisen Show.

SOURCE: MENTAL FLOSS

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      1. Ugh! Jeez…don’t talk to me about sinuses…most days, I want to rip them out of my skull!!! I’ve discovered Benadryl helps some with the drainage at least but my situation is different.

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    1. What little snow we got yesterday was melted and completely gone by mid-afternoon, altho the wind kept up for a long time. This morning, it’s 26 and clear, with a bunch of stars showing in the sky.

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  6. EXACTLY! they can’t tell you…because countries like China and India are NOT reducing their carbon footprints.

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  10. seems the student was only proud as long as she wasn’t facing any consequences…
    contrast THIS statement…

    “I don’t regret my actions that day and I will not apologize for them as well,” Khalique told WSN. “It was an act of supporting Palestinian liberation unequivocally. It was an act of standing against genocide, and I am proud to be on the right side of history.”

    with this…

    “The backlash was relentless,” Khalique said. “There are people calling for me to be jailed, for me to be executed, for me to be murdered, assaulted — for me to be deported, for me to be sent to Gaza. This was all over right-wing media, this was on news outlets. My face was broadcast on the news and people were demanding that I should be expelled and deported for tearing down posters that were unauthorized to be there.”

    https://nyunews.com/news/2023/12/07/nyu-suspends-student/

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  13. NF: Yet another lawsuit that shouldn’t even be allowed!!! I distinctly remember that the cooking time depends on the wattage of the MW you are using and it takes less than 10 seconds to add the water and stir it up!!!

    HIALEAH, Fla. (WFLA) —A Florida woman is suing the Kraft Heinz Food Company for $5 million, claiming they misled the public about the time it takes to prepare Velveeta microwavable mac and cheese cups. Amanda Ramirez is listed as the main plaintiff for the class-action suit, which alleges Kraft Heinz violated federal law by saying Velveeta Shells & Cheese cups take 3½ minutes to prepare.

    “Ready in 3½ minutes” is printed on the box, which is the amount of time the product takes to cook in a microwave. However, the suit says it takes more time to complete the other required steps, as reported by NBC affiliate WFLA.”

    The rest of the article is below.

    https://nbc-2.com/news/state/2022/11/28/florida-woman-sues-kraft-heinz-for-5m-says-mac-and-cheese-preparation-is-misleading/

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  14. is nyc forcing shelter contractors to register illegals to vote?
    FTA
    “The right to vote is a sacred right given only to United States citizens, and certainly not one provided to those who crossed over our border illegally and made their way to New York City last month. The City better not be acting in violation of the judge’s ruling that struck down the noncitizen voting law that would have allowed 800,000 noncitizens with a Green Card or Work Authorization and who have resided in New York City for 30 days, to vote. The only thing that may be stopping the registration of these noncitizens is our lawsuit that halted the law from taking effect, but it’s very disturbing that in their own contracts, the City is requiring contractors to distribute registration forms while prohibiting them from asking citizenship status.”

    The detailed contract appendix specifies the contractors who routinely interact with the public as part of their daily operations are required to hand out voter registration forms provided by the city. These regulations mandate the contractors be ready to give forms in Spanish or Chinese and obtain an ample quantity of such forms from the city.

    snip

    Despite these accusations, officials from NYC’s Department of Social Services have rebutted Malliotakis’s claims. According to them, the incriminated contract section strictly pertains to “eligible clients” who are U.S. citizens within shelter housing.

    “These allegations are both incorrect and unfounded. DHS has a legal mandate to insert voter registration-related language in shelter contracts, which is applicable solely to citizens who are eligible. This does not extend to asylum seekers housed in shelters,” a spokesperson told FOX News.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/nyc-house-republican-claims-have-smoking-gun-evidence/

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      1. I didn’t either but then I know next to nothing about that subject. Occasionally, thru the years, we would stay up and “watch the ball drop” but not often and never when I was alone. I do remember one NY’s Eve specifically from when I was really young. My parents had gone to a party and I stayed with my Grandma. She liked a beer now and then, being thoroughly German, and opened a beer for NY’s Eve – she gave me a small juice glass of beer so we could pretend we were drinking champagne and “toast” the New Year! LOL

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    1. okay…with the coffee thing? I’ve said it more than once that my hubby makes the BESTEST COFFEE ever!
      in the last 2-3 weeks, i lost my taste for it. then this morning, BAMMO it was back and tasting as good as ever. So i mentioned it to him…asking if he lost taste or smell.
      he said a little he thinks, but those senses were always more acute for me regardless.
      then he said oh–i did open a new can of coffee this morning. So i dug into the garbage to find the old can–“morning blend” it said on the can.
      we normally buy “original roast”.

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  23. should we be worried about global cooling instead?
    FTA
    Now, ten days later, it is very cold. Again, the Bing A.I. assistant tells me: “I searched the web… but couldn’t find any specific information” about record lows for Dec. 5, though I was directed to a site that reports all-time record highs and lows for the 50 states. With a bit of searching, I determined that none of the record highs in the 50 states occurred after 1995, but two all-time record lows occurred in the 2000s: one for Maine in 2007 and Oklahoma for 2009. No record highs during the last 29 years, yet we’re going to be baked like a mackerel?

    It should be easy to search for something as simple as “record low temperatures” for Dec. 5, 2023, but it is not. Just to make it easy for A.I., I asked for “record low US temperatures for November, 2023.” Once again, I got the “sorry but I couldn’t find any information” (though I did learn from Axios that 70 million Americans were subject to record lows in early November). “Record lows” have been scratched from the web, and when I search for “climate is cooling,” I get responses like “best cooling system for your home.” No, I don’t need a new HVAC system.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/12/if_global_warmists_are_going_to_panic_about_something.html

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    1. Hmmm…found this from November:

      “Record cold blast hits Lower 48 states”
      November 1, By Rebecca Falconer

      “A record wintry snap was slamming much of the Lower 48 U.S. states on Wednesday night.

      Of note: Some 70 million people were under freeze warnings, from eastern Texas to southern New York and the National Weather Service said “widespread record low temperatures” were likely Thursday morning from Texas to Maine, with below-normal conditions persisting across the East and South in the daytime.”

      https://www.axios.com/2023/11/02/cold-us-lower-48-states-record-low-temperatures-snow

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    2. From May 2019:

      EXCERPT: “Climate change itself is already in the process of definitively rebutting climate alarmists who think human use of fossil fuels is causing ultimately catastrophic global warming. That is because natural climate cycles have already turned from warming to cooling, global temperatures have already been declining for more than 10 years, and global temperatures will continue to decline for another two decades or more. That is one of the most interesting conclusions to come out of the seventh International Climate Change Conference sponsored by the Heartland Institute, held last week in Chicago.

      “Check out the 20th-century temperature record, and you will find that it’s up and down pattern does not follow the industrial revolution’s upward march of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), which is the supposed central culprit for man-caused global warming and has been much, much higher in the past. It follows instead the up and down pattern of naturally caused climate cycles,” says Peter Ferrara, who served as one of the speakers at the conference.

      “Temperatures dropped steadily from the late 1940s to the late 1970s. The popular press was even talking about a coming ice age. Ice ages have regularly occurred roughly every 10,000 years, with a new one actually due around now.” Ferrara said…..

      https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/20972/20190504/expert-says-the-earth-is-actually-cooling.htm

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  25. gwp…and no link provided

    Black Knight
    Black Knight
    December 10, 2023 8:37 am

    Breaking on TGP:

    The Administration through Anthony Blinken just sold Israel $105M of munitions WITHOUT Congressional approval.

    “The United States is committed to the security of Israel …” but not our own border.

    Tell me again who is running out government.

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    1. “The State Department approves the sale of tank ammunition to Israel in a deal that bypasses Congress”

      EXCERPT: “WASHINGTON (AP) — Going around Congress, the Biden administration said Saturday it has approved the emergency sale to Israel of nearly 14,000 rounds of tank ammunition worth more than $106 million as Israel intensifies its military operations in the southern Gaza Strip.

      The move comes as President Joe Biden’s request for a nearly $106 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other national security is languishing in Congress, caught up in a debate over U.S. immigration policy and border security. Some Democratic lawmakers have spoken of making the proposed $14.3 billion in American assistance to its Mideast ally contingent on concrete steps by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to reduce civilian casualties in Gaza during the war with Hamas.

      The State Department said it had notified Congress of the sale late Friday after Secretary of State Antony Blinken determined “an emergency exists that requires the immediate sale” of the munitions in the U.S. national security interest.

      That means the purchase will bypass the congressional review requirement for foreign military sales. Such determinations are rare, but not unprecedented, when administrations see an urgent need for weapons to be delivered without waiting for lawmakers’ approval….”

      https://apnews.com/article/israel-us-emergency-sale-tank-ammunition-war-d3e9b41528433f2da9814d3293996cd5

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  27. “‘Push’ Notifications: A Secret Spying Frontier”
    KIT KLARENBERG
    DEC 10, 2023

    EXCERPT: “On December 6th, US Senator Ron Wyden dispatched a strongly-worded letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ). He urged officials to “permit Apple and Google to inform their customers and the general public” about demands for “push” notification data, from “government agencies in foreign countries.”

    In the spring of 2022, Wyden’s office “received a tip” that major tech firms were handing over data related to these communications upon request from state entities. His staff have been investigating the issue ever since, although Apple and Google stonewalled their approaches, as “information about this practice is restricted from public release,” by direct US government order.

    Push notifications are clickable, attention-grabbing pop-up messages that appear on users’ smartphones and internet browsers. In recent years, popular apps and websites – in particular those of mainstream media outlets – have ever-more widely encouraged users to permit these notifications on their devices and browsers.

    While a convenient means of remaining constantly updated about news developments, or public and private social media communications, their method of transmission creates a little-considered but extremely serious vulnerability, gravely threatening individual user privacy.

    These notifications aren’t dispatched directly from an app to users. Instead, a device’s operating system serves as an intermediary, receiving the information then passing it on through its internal processing system. Along the way, the data contained within is harvested by the processor. All app stores – including those provided by Amazon and Microsoft – have in-house systems of this kind. App developers have no choice but to utilise them, if they wish to offer users push notifications.

    This is of enormous concern, given tech giants can be compelled to hand over this information without notifying users through a variety of means. For example, buried at the bottom of Apple’s official “legal process guidelines”, which sets out how the company cooperates with US government and law enforcement agencies, it is acknowledged:

    “When users allow an application they have installed to receive push notifications, an Apple Push Notification Service (APNs) token is generated and registered to that developer and device. Some apps may have multiple APNs tokens for one account on one device to differentiate between messages and multimedia. The Apple ID associated with a registered APNs token may be obtained with a subpoena or greater legal process.”

    Wyden’s letter concludes on a forceful note. He calls for the Justice Department to allow Apple and Google “to be transparent about the legal demands they receive, particularly from foreign governments, just as the companies regularly notify users about other types of government demands for data”:

    “These companies should be permitted to generally reveal whether they have been compelled to facilitate this surveillance practice, to publish aggregate statistics about the number of demands they receive, and unless temporarily gagged by a court, to notify specific customers about demands for their data. I would ask the DOJ to repeal or modify any policies that impede this transparency.”

    ‘The Payload’

    Given the wealth of sensitive intelligence on users produced by push notifications, it is unsurprising the US government and major tech firms alike are wary of discussing the matter candidly. Contained within these updates is extensive metadata, detailing which app received a notification and when, as well as the device and associated app store account to which the notification was delivered….”

    https://kitklarenberg.substack.com/p/push-notifications-a-secret-spying

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  28. Val1
    December 10, 2023 9:14 am

    BE CAREFUL BUYING GIFT CARDS
    ….
    “[The] …. part of a scam that tampered with gift cards, scanned the bar code and stole money from the gift card as money was loaded on them. Victims are completely unaware it is happening, and the money is often siphoned to an offshore account within seconds. Their investigation revealed that the operation spanned across California and several regions nationwide,” a press release stated.

    After the tampered gift cards were returned to shelves, unsuspecting shoppers would then purchase one of the cards and load funds onto it. The money, however, would immediately transfer to a bank account, in this case likely a Chinese bank account, Gandhi said.

    “It’s going to go unreported because are you going to confront somebody who gave you a $0 gift card? No, that’s rude. And then you’re sitting there fat, dumb and happy, thinking, ‘Oh, I did something nice for somebody,’ not knowing that your money’s gone,” he said.

    https://www.foxbusiness.com/retail/holiday-shoppers-warned-disturbing-gift-card-scam-likely-padding-chinese-bank-accounts

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  29. NF: Now I know what they mean when they say “Give him the Darwin Award!”

    “On what planet in what universe is this woman in any way attractive? That’s not ‘fat-shaming’, it’s justy a friggin’ question. And the tattoos amplify the garish appearance if ya ask me. And this question is being asked by me, and not ‘for a friend’…”

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    1. it’s amazing to me that a rugged white man–gorgeous in his own right–is called toxic and to be avoided by women–but THAT^^^^^^^^^^ is supposed to be attractive?
      they have bastardized the meaning of sooo many words

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  31. we’ll see…won’t we??? EVENTUALLY? MAYBE?

    Halley
    December 10, 2023 10:25 am

    President Trump has said “I caught them all!” and “Do not worry!” and in September stated that the White Hats would be back in control of DC “in less than 5 months”. Dr. Jan Halper-Hayes has claimed – with President Trump’s authentication! – that Space Force has the “real numbers” on the 2020 election Coup – “They’ve got the goods”. These are not statements from the Land of Hopium. They are all the actual Hope we have. I’m in.

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  39. “Illegal Alien Arrested for Murder of 16-Year-Old Texas Cheerleader as Corporate Media Hides the Details; I support local media as an alternative to national corporate media but they still refuse to tell the whole truth on many stories.”

    JD RUCKER
    DEC 10, 2023

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “An arrest has been made in the case of the murdered 16-year-old Texas cheerleader. Rafael Govea Romero was arrested Sunday in Schulenburg, Texas. He is accused of murdering Lizbeth Medina whose body was discovered by her mother in the bathtub of their apartment. Multiple local and national news outlets have reported on the arrest, but they all left out an important piece of information: Romero is an illegal alien.

    The press release dropped by the Edna Police Department clearly points this out, but after reviewing 14 corporate media reports, none of them mentioned this detail. Medina was supposed to perform with her cheerleading squad at a Christmas parade in Edna on Tuesday but she never made it.”

    Here is the GoFundMe set up to help the family: https://www.gofundme.com/f/lizbeth-medina

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  42. Well worth watching, Pat! GOP shenanigans again!!!

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          1. This is the most likely for a stray – he has upper respiratory congestion and the discharge is pus-like:

            Feline upper respiratory infections. A frequent cause of eye discharge in cats, these can be caused by viruses such as feline calicivirus, a contagious respiratory disease; pneumonitis or rhinotracheitis (herpesvirus); bacteria; and protozoa. Symptoms can be mild or become very serious and may include a sticky, pus-like eye discharge.

            https://www.webmd.com/pets/cats/eye-discharge-in-cats

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              1. Definitely….and that would entail a LOT of $$$$ that I can’t afford nor will I put that kind of money into a stray. Only if I were planning on bringing him inside and that would be even MORE $$$.

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  46. President reverses course…will NOT testify tomorrow
    FTA
    Former President Donald Trump was expected to take the witness stand Monday in New York to testify in his own defense against allegations that his family and his business engaged in fraud, but he reversed course Sunday, saying that he will not testify.

    Trump said in a Truth Social post that he won’t take the stand again because he has already testified and has nothing more to say on the matter other than that the whole trial is an attempt at election interference.

    Trump was expected to testify for the third time on Monday for his own legal team to question him before the roughly two-month trial concludes, according to The Hill.

    “We’ve done nothing wrong,” Trump said last week before he entered the courtroom for the trial.

    https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/trump-give-final-defense-witness-stand-new-york-fraud-trial

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    1. That’s almost all you hear on TV any more – I agree – offensive in the extreme! That is NOT music and it never will be!!!!

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