Ice Castles

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(I found this article from Fox News dated January of 2022!)

What’s the only thing cooler than a castle? An ice castle. Figuratively and literally, these ice castles and other impressive winter displays are among the best of the bunch. Read on for some of the most breathtaking ice castles and sculptures in the country. FYI: Unless specified or noted as a free attraction, check the website listed for entrance fees, which vary depending on age and day.

Ice Castles New Hampshire, North Woodstock, New Hampshire  

In the majestic White Mountains, journeyers will be treated to a fairy-tale display of ice castles from mid-January until mid-February depending on the weather conditions. All of the castles are hand-constructed and hand-placed by ice artists using hundreds of thousands of icicles, and you’ll also see tunnels, ice caves and ice slides. Illuminated by LED lights, visitors can also opt for a horse-drawn sleigh ride or the “Enchanted Forest Walk.”    

Ice Castles in Lake George, New York  

Prepare to be amazed in the Empire State. In Lake George, you’ll be treated to ice displays with LED lights and colors at the Festival Commons at Charles Wood Park. This new winter event is expected to be open from January to early March, weather permitting. Each hand-built castle is said to take thousands of hours to create, and each castle is approximately a whopping one acre in size.

Ice Castles in Midway, Utah 

It’s to Utah we go for yet another Ice Castles experience. This one, situated in the scenic foothills of the Wasatch Mountains at the Soldier Hollow Nordic Center — a one-time Winter Olympics venue — is Ice Castles’ original outpost. Guests will be amazed by ice-carved slides, fountains, caverns and narrow slot canyons, crafted completely in ice and inspired by the natural slot canyons for which the Southwest is known. For a special outing, hop aboard a horse-drawn sleigh ride through the Wasatch Valley for ice-ing on the cake. Ice Castles in Midway, Utah, typically opens in late December or early January and remains open through late February.

International Snow Sculpture Championships in Breckenridge, Colorado

Not familiar with Breckenridge’s International Snow Sculpture Championships? Once you start scoping out videos from the mesmerizing event, good luck leaving the YouTube vortex. The celebrated snow-sculpting competition brings together 12 teams from around the globe to hand-carve 20-ton blocks of snow into larger-than-life art. Making these pieces even more impressive is the fact that competitors can only use hand tools. The carving week takes place Jan. 24-28, 2022, and viewing week for this unique outdoor art gallery is Jan. 28-Feb. 2, 2022. 

Ice Castles in New Brighton, Minnesota

Head to Long Lake Regional Park in the Twin Cities suburb of New Brighton, and you’ll be greeted with quite the frozen sight to behold. As you marvel at the castle, take note of the various caverns, tunnels, crawl spaces, slides and fountains, all handcrafted from individually placed icicles. To up the ante, there’s also a sculpture garden with fairy-tale-themed ice sculptures linked by a light grove along a wooded trail to the castle. Ice Castles in Minnesota historically opens in early January and stays in place through early March, weather permitting.

Michigan Technological University’s 100th Winter Carnival in Houghton, Michigan

From Feb. 9 to Feb. 12, 2022, Michigan’s Upper Peninsula will host this free-to-visit carnival that’s sure to dazzle folks of all ages. Every year, the carnival has a different theme, and students put on quite the spectacle through highly detailed snow and ice sculptures.  Some of the largest sculptures take a month to create, and smaller statues are built overnight. There are also broomball games, comedy skits and the carnival’s queen coronation to enjoy.

Ice Castles in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin 

A crazy-cool citadel awaits at Geneva National Resort and Club in this so-called “Newport of the west,” where you can ooh and ahh at caverns, arches, ice slides, an ice maze, crawl tunnels, the arctic alcove (a popular spot for proposals) and more. To boost your holiday activities quota, you can take a horse-drawn sleigh ride along the shoreline of Lake Como. Due to the shorter winter season in Lake Geneva, Ice Castles in Wisconsin typically doesn’t open until late January and only remains open through late February, weather permitting.

Winter Carnival Ice Palace in Saranac Lake, New York

This free attraction alone is well worth a visit to the charming mountain town of Saranac Lake. At the winter carnival, the ice palace is the pièce de résistance, erected on the shore of Lake Flower’s Pontiac Bay and built similarly as it was in 1897, the first year the palace revealed its shimmering, glimmering self. Using ice harvested from Lake Flower with 1,500 blocks stacked atop each other, this ice display is built by volunteers. Visible for the duration of the carnival Feb. 4 to 13, 2022, heavy equipment is now used to help make the labor easier, but the communal spirit of neighbors coming together to make something special is ever–present.

Samoset Glacier Ice Bar & Lounge in Rockport, Maine

Yes, grown-ups can enjoy a good old-fashioned ice castle excursion, but for some adults-only fun, it’s tough to outshine this ice bar and lounge put together by ice sculptors and designers who devote weeks to chiseling down 300-pound blocks of ice to fashion bars, seats, tables, ice luges, couches and sculptures. Fire lamps and faux-fur cushions round out the mix as you sip on hits like a “snowball martini or “Old Man Winter” and warm up with New England clam chowder and chili. There’s live music at night and the bar will be open Jan. 14-15 and Jan. 21-22, 2022, with free access for hotel guests and $25 for outside visitors.

Ice Maze at CityCenterDC in Washington, D.C.

Our nation’s capital recently welcomed the return of the Ice Maze at The Park at CityCenterDC, a mixed-use development and public park. The free, interactive experience surpassed its previous ice records, with a 130,000-pound clear ice maze accompanied by multicolored lights. This year, the maze was created by 10 international award-winning sculptors and ran in mid-December for three days. Ice activations have been a tradition at CityCenterDC for the past five years, and an announcement will come in 2022 as to what surprise guests can expect in the new year.

SOURCE: By Perri Ormont Blumberg Fox News

Published January 16, 2022

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  2. can you believe this crap? the university decided no more “special” graduation ceremonies–no back graduation, no asian graduation, etc…and the students aren’t feeling SPECIAL enough. the other ceremonies focused more on THEM and made them feel SPECIAL…gimme a break cupcakes!
    article

    The University will no longer fund cultural graduation ceremonies, according to an email sent on Tuesday by Brandelyn Flunder, director of the Center for Leadership and Learning.

    The Multicultural Engagement Center, which closed earlier this month to comply with Senate Bill 17, previously put on Black Graduation, Latinx Graduation and GraduAsian. The MEC’s closure will also impact welcome programs including the CultivAsian, Bloq Party, New Black Student Weekend, Adelante, Four Directions, and Leadership Institutes. Flunder said in a second email on Tuesday that the MEC is “working diligently to find an alternative home” for the graduations.

    “Because you have been able to come into the space and see many of the staff, I understand that it likely feels that we are operating at status quo, but please make no mistake, while our doors remain open (for now, at least), our programs do not,” Flunder said in the first email.

    The University did not provide additional comment by the time of publication.

    Government sophomore Erin McCormick said she’s always tried to connect with people who looked like her, being one of few Black people in her area. When she transferred to UT-Austin, McCormick said she looked forward to Black Graduation.

    “Of course, everyone would attend regular graduation, but Black Graduation elevates the accomplishment that much more, given the history of the University and Texas in general,” McCormick said.

    Public relations sophomore Vashéd Thompson said Black Graduation was a reason she chose to attend the University. She said even if students decided to put on the graduations, the lack of University recognition would make the events seem less “official.”

    “That’s already disheartening when you’re not feeling supported by the university that you go to, when you’re not feeling congratulated and like they’re proud of you, when you spend four years and thousands and thousands of dollars to attend the school,” Thompson said. “(It) feels like a stab in the back.”

    Thompson said she met most of her current friends at New Black Student Weekend, another event that may not continue. She said the event helped her find community in what felt like a very large school.

    “We really got to get close together and really see who was going to be in our class and make friends before stepping on campus,” Thompson said. “For programs like that to be up in the air and maybe not exist moving forward just makes me so sad for the new classes coming in.”

    Recent UT alumnus Kai Bovik said they attended the GraduAsian ceremony and helped plan Lavender Graduation, previously put on by the Gender and Sexuality Center. It’s unclear how the closure of the GSC will impact Lavender Graduation.

    “It was a lot better for me than the big graduations,” Bovik said. “Having those smaller spaces was important both because I got to go with my family and my friends and feel more celebrated myself, but also because it was (with) the communities I’d been building at UT my whole time there.”

    Bovik said cultural graduations need a venue, food, stage and equipment, among other materials. They said the lack of University funding could make it difficult for the ceremonies to continue.

    “Our communities are going to find a way to put something on, and just organize and show up,” Bovik said. “(But) it’s harder to make it special and celebratory and successful in a lot of ways without having that funding in place.”

    https://thedailytexan.com/2024/01/25/ut-announces-it-will-no-longer-fund-cultural-graduation-ceremonies/

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  3. willis has a history of financial misappropriating public funds. former employee says she has a recording…
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    Fani Willis may have fired the employee who warned her about mishandling federal funds. But she didn’t deny her allegations.

    Less than a year into her tenure as Fulton County district attorney, in 2021, Willis met with Amanda Timpson, an employee in the district attorney’s office responsible for giving nonviolent juvenile offenders “alternatives to the juvenile court system.” During their conversation, a recording of which was reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, Timpson claimed to Willis that she had been demoted after attempting to stop a top Willis campaign aide from misusing federal grant money meant for a youth gang prevention initiative.

    According to Timpson, the aide, Michael Cuffee, planned to use part of a $488,000 federal grant—earmarked for the creation of a Center of Youth Empowerment and Gang Prevention—to pay for “swag,” computers, and travel.

    “He wanted to do things with grants that were impossible, and I kept telling him, like, ‘We can’t do that,'” Timpson told Willis in a Nov. 19, 2021, meeting. “He told everybody … ‘We’re going to get MacBooks, we’re going to get swag, we’re going to use it for travel.’ I said, ‘You cannot do that, it’s a very, very specific grant.'”

    “I respect that is your assessment,” Willis responded. “And I’m not saying that your assessment is wrong.”

    Later in the conversation, Willis apologized to Timpson, and said Cuffee had “failed” her administration.

    Less than two months later, Willis abruptly terminated Timpson and had her escorted out of her office by seven armed investigators, according to Timpson. When Timpson filed a whistleblower complaint the following year that alleged wrongful termination, Willis’s office issued a statement describing Timpson as a “holdover from the prior administration” who was terminated because of her “failure to meet the standards of the new administration.”

    Timpson’s experience sheds further light on how Willis—who campaigned on the promise of restoring “integrity” to the district attorney’s office—does business. The Democrat has come under fire amid revelations that she tapped her lover, Nathan Wade, to handle the office’s racketeering case against former president Donald Trump. Willis is also alleged to have misappropriated taxpayer funds to facilitate her affair with Wade, a married man with scant prosecutorial experience.

    To Timpson, these twin incidents demonstrate “a pattern” in Willis’s conduct.

    “My case and Nathan Wade’s case are very similar when you break them down point by point,” Timpson told the Free Beacon. “Ethical violations, abuse of power, and the misuse of county, state, and federal funds.”

    Timpson, who joined the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office as Director of Gang Prevention and Intervention in 2018, was hopeful that Willis would take the office in a new direction. In December 2020, Willis named Timpson to her 2021 Executive Leadership Team, a select group of employees tasked with playing “a critical role of changing and rebranding the culture in [the district attorney’s] office.”

    Timpson first got the sense that something was awry shortly after Willis assigned Cuffee to serve as Timpson’s direct manager. By March 2021, Timpson said, Cuffee planned to use part of a $488,000 federal grant—earmarked for the creation of a Center of Youth Empowerment and Gang Prevention—to pay for “swag,” computers, and travel. Instead of heeding Timpson’s warnings that his plan was illegal, Cuffee claimed the purchases were part of Willis’s “vision.” And in June 2021, Cuffee removed Timpson from the gang prevention program.

    Cuffee disputed Timpson’s version of events during an interview with the Free Beacon on Tuesday. He acknowledged that he had discussions with her about purchasing computers for the Center of Youth Empowerment and Gang Prevention. But Cuffee said he was proposing to pull dollars from a different fund to finance the purchase.

    “This is just a money grab for Timpson,” said Cuffee, who told the Free Beacon he left Willis’s office in December 2021 for “personal” reasons. “She can do what she needs to do.”

    In July 2021, Timpson discovered that several out-of-state students were participating in a federally funded program for middle-schoolers from Atlanta and Fulton County public schools. The Free Beacon confirmed that a public school student from Wisconsin attended Willis’s Junior District Attorney program in July 2021.

    Timpson met with Willis on July 26, 2021, to discuss her concerns about the gang prevention grant and the Junior DA program. But Willis wanted to hear nothing of it, Timpson said.

    “I wanted to make sure she knew because I didn’t want any scandal to be related to her. She immediately cut me off in the middle of my sentence and demoted me from the director of juvenile diversion to a file clerk.”

    Now wary of Willis’s approach, Timpson brought a recorder with her the second time she warned her boss about alleged financial malfeasance in the office.

    “I knew it was me against the entire office,” Timpson said. “If I didn’t get any hard evidence about what I was saying, everyone was just going to write me off.”

    During their Nov. 19, 2021, meeting, Timpson told Willis about Cuffee’s stated plans to spend federal funds on computers and other ineligible expenses.

    Documents reviewed by the Free Beacon confirm the grant in question was not meant to be spent on computers or other items. The Fulton County Center of Youth Empowerment and Gang Prevention never opened, and the county-owned building meant to house it is closed to the public, its gates padlocked.

    Timpson followed up with Willis on Dec. 7, 2021, reiterating in an email concerns that federal funds were being misappropriated.

    “I have been humiliated and retaliated against for doing the right thing,” Timpson wrote, “trying to protect your administration from scandal and advocate for the youth I was charged with working on behalf of.”

    Willis never responded to the email. She fired Timpson on Jan. 14, 2022.

    “As you know, you serve as an at-will employee with the Office of the Fulton County District Attorney,” a signed letter from Willis to Timpson read. “Please accept this correspondence as notice that your services to this office are no longer needed.”

    Timpson says Willis had her escorted out of the office by seven armed investigators.

    “I am 4’11” on my best day,” Timpson told the Free Beacon. “Who is so scared of me that you have to walk me out of the building by seven armed investigators? I’ve never had a warning about any negative behavior that would warrant someone feeling threatened by me.”

    Timpson in August 2022 filed a whistleblower complaint in Fulton County Superior Court, seeking damages for lost wages. The case is in discovery.

    After firing Timpson, Willis’s office in November 2022 used $1,245 of federal funds from the gang prevention grant to purchase items from Dell, county spending records show.

    It was not the first time Willis dipped into federal grants to purchase computers and finance travel.

    In 2020, the DA’s office received a $2 million grant from the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative to help clear the Atlanta Police Department’s rape kit backlog. Willis’s office has since pulled nearly $13,000 from the grant to purchase computers and spent an additional $27,000 on airfare, hotels, and car rentals, according to Fulton County records.

    Willis’s office has also purchased computers using grants from the Georgia Innocence Project, the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Program, and federal funds appropriated under the Violence Against Women Act, according to spending records. It’s not clear if computers are allowable expenditures in any of the grants.

    The DA’s office issued the statement dismissing Timpson as a “holdover from the prior administration” after Timpson filed her suits against Willis and the office. Timpson, who has since secured letters of recommendation from more than 20 associates, including Fulton County assistant district attorney Natalie Zellner, said Willis’s statement made it hard for her to find employment.

    “It was, honestly, tormenting,” Timpson said. “Someone in a position of power is saying this about me and I have no way to combat it.”

    https://freebeacon.com/democrats/fani-willis-axed-employee-who-blew-whistle-on-misuse-of-federal-funds/

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    1. There you have the scam, from beginning to end! SMDH – there is FAR more of this going on all over the country than we can begin to fathom!!!

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  6. “California Becomes First State To Ban Heterosexual Marriage”
    WORLDVIEWS · Jan 30, 2024 · BabylonBee.com

    SACRAMENTO, CA — With a landmark piece of legislation, the state of California became the first state in the nation to ban heterosexual marriage.

    The historic law, which effectively makes it illegal for a man and woman to be joined in holy matrimony, now defines marriage as a union between anyone other than a male and a female.

    “This is a day that will be remembered forever,” said Governor Gavin Newsom in a statement celebrating the ban. “The last vestiges of oppressive normalcy are gone, and we can all be gay as Satan intended.”

    The law was met with celebration by everyone still living in California, as they were all gay already.

    Critics accused the new ban of being overtly discriminatory, largely due to the fact that it discriminates against heterosexuals. Newsom was quick to deny the criticism. “Totally not true,” he said. “Heterosexuality was invented by white colonizers to force people out of their natural gay state. Everyone who went to college at one of our prestigious universities should know that.”

    At publishing time, lawmakers in California were reportedly setting their sights on passing new legislation that would remove children from heterosexual parents and send them to live with 50-year-old drag queens.”

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  8. “Betrayed by The System: how a college classmate lost his life to a series of legal, illicit, and foreign drug villains—There are no easy answers to this problem. [NF: I beg to differ – STOP prescribing mind-altering drugs to children!!! VERY easy answer!!!]
    JORDAN SCHACHTEL
    JAN 31, 2024

    EXCERPT: “This week, I learned about an incredibly sad tragedy. Someone I attended college with had died from a fentanyl-related overdose (or poisoning) a few years ago. I remain shocked to hear this news. Though we were not close, this was a kid that everyone admired. During the brief time I knew him, he was kind, respectful, and truly didn’t seem to have a bad bone in his body.

    His story serves as a cautionary tale. Although they have been rather public in telling his story, for the sake of his family’s privacy, I will refer to him as John. All of the facts I have gathered are available publicly. John grew up in a loving, middle class, church going family in a safe community.

    His parents believe that John’s path to addiction began at the very young age of 10. He was diagnosed as abnormal and medicated with undisclosed prescription pharmaceuticals. You can tell in the way that they speak about this episode that they deeply regret this decision. Today, an estimated 5-10 percent of American children are currently prescribed with powerful stimulants for the blanket diagnoses commonly known as ADD or ADHD.

    John was also a star athlete. He was such a good athlete that he was given a scholarship to play at our NCAA Division 1 school. But due to the physical demands of the sport, John was also prescribed high-powered painkillers to help him stay on his feet and compete.

    At just 18 years old, John had already been on a long term, consistent regimen of legalized meth and legal opioids. At the time, all of the debilitating substances that were circulating his system were almost indistinguishable from illicit drugs, but were granted with a stamp of approval from The System.

    I don’t think that John graduated from our school. In fact, I think he dropped out after only a year or two. But during the time he was on campus, John was one of those larger than life figures who was hard to forget. He had a lot of friends and he was universally liked. He was a very decent person, but you could kind of tell that he was battling some internal demons….”

    https://www.dossier.today/p/betrayed-by-the-system-how-a-college

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      1. I think it started with the teachers, personally. Once they unionized, I think they didn’t want to have to deal with their own failures at making the school day a fun, exciting place to be. I can recall actually looking FORWARD to school! My a-Mom always worked hard at making the day interesting (1-2nd grades) and was loving and kind to them at the same time. Not any more!

        Then they eliminated phys-ed, home ec, shop, etc., etc. Thankfully, our schools here still have most of those programs in some form.

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          1. Oh, not in my school! Good heavens, no! We got a new young female HS French teacher, single, and some parents put up a fuss about that!!! We did have one music teacher who, when I thought back on it later, had decidedly gay traits. I think it was one of those “don’t ask/don’t tell” kind of things because he was there for a very long time and was very popular. Mom even invited him to her Xmas teas, as well as other teaching-connected events. He was also popular with the students.

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  9. just when you think things couldn’t get any stupider!
    FTA
    Ford Motor Company is planning to contract technology and software from at least four Chinese firms that supply similar services to the Chinese government and military, and the North Korean government, according to contracts obtained by Republican investigators.

    The revelations — which were released Monday by Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., the chair of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, and Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash. — are part of the GOP’s ongoing joint investigation into Ford’s partnership with Fujian, China-based electric vehicle (EV) battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL).

    According to the Republican leaders, they recently reviewed portions of Ford’s signed agreements with CATL. Those documents revealed the four Chinese firms in question “will be intimately involved” in the design, construction, and information technology processes for a proposed EV battery factory Ford is building in Marshall, Michigan, with services provided by CATL.

    “It is indefensible for Ford to use the same cloud integration and data provider that is linked to North Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs sanctions evasion activity,” Gallagher and McMorris Rodgers wrote to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen last week.

    “Before the Ford plant even comes online, its entire security system could be compromised by this software,” they continued. “The same company that is actively supporting the PRC’s surveillance state will have the capability to embed backdoors, spyware, and other forms of malware within Ford’s [cloud service] infrastructure, compromising the confidentiality and integrity of Ford’s sensitive information and posing risk to American’s data privacy rights.”

    The lawmakers penned the letter to Yellen after reviewing the signed agreements between Ford and CATL. They requested that the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control investigate possible sanctions evasion activity conducted by the four firms which remain unidentified.

    Gallagher and McMorris Rodgers sent a separate letter to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, asking her agency’s Bureau of Industry and Security to investigate the four unnamed software service providers. They specifically asked the agency to consider placing the companies on a list of entities subject to significant U.S. trade restrictions.

    “To summarize, a cursory review of publicly available information uncovered the above mentioned companies’ direct ties to the [People’s Liberation Army], the CCP, China’s Ministry of Public Security, the ongoing genocide of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, and the North Korean government,” they wrote to Raimondo.

    And, in a third letter, the Republicans asked Ford President and CEO James Farley to make a relevant company official available for an interview with their committees.

    https://news.yahoo.com/ford-plans-hire-chinese-military-211858831.html

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        1. This is why if/when I do find someone who wants to trade my truck for a Ranger, it MUST be old enough that there is no possibility of an internet connection. I would dearly love to get another one like I had when I moved back here in 2009.

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  10. California Joe
    California Joe
    January 31, 2024 2:06 pm

    How unusual!

    Former Broward Medical Examiner’s Office investigator accused of stealing money from dead man’s bank account – WSVN 7News

    A former investigator from the Broward Medical Examiner’s Office has been arrested and accused of stealing money from the bank account of a deceased individual. The daughter of the victim is now speaking out.

    Darrell Reid, 39, whose responsibilities included responding to death investigation scenes to take possession of bodies, allegedly used Cash App to transfer $450 from the bank account of a man who had passed away in a Coral Springs apartment.

    In October of last year, neighbors in Coral Springs noticed a foul smell coming from the apartment, which prompted police to break the door down. Officers then found the body of 75-year-old John Francis Colligan.

    Detectives said they began their investigation after the deceased man’s daughter noticed suspicious charges on her father’s account.

    Reid, on Oct. 21, came to the scene to take photos, collect the body, and examine and document IDs and credit or debit cards.

    “He was professional, he was very empathetic,” Colligan’s daughter said.

    Colligan’s daughter noticed “three separate credit card transactions that were described as payments sent via Cash App to ‘Shanika Wright’ for $150 each.”

    “My dad doesn’t use Cash App, I can’t even get him to use online banking,” she said.

    Investigators said that on the same day Colligan’s body was found, “A Bank of America debit card was linked to Darrell Reid’s Cash App account added as a payment source.”

    In total, officials said, Reid Cash Apped his girlfriend, Shanika Wright, $450 from Colligan’s credit card.

    https://wsvn.com/news/local/broward/former-broward-medical-examiners-office-investigator-accused-of-stealing-money-from-dead-mans-bank-account/

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      1. Made it to 55, now it’s 54….light rain possibly tomorrow into Friday – by then, I shouldn’t have any problems and can head to Norfolk.

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          1. Always! I’m going to talk to the auto sales shop where I got my current truck, altho I think the $$$ amounts involved won’t interest them but at least I’ll know. Who knows! Maybe they’ll know of someone who wants a big F150.

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  12. “Well now Planned Parenthood is trying to wordcraft ‘virginity’ and ‘sex’ AND they are partnering with the CDC to bring this into public schools. They are saying stuff like this:

    “The idea of virginity comes from outdated — let’s be real, patriarchal— ways of thinking that hurts everyone,” the organization tweeted in June of 2023 over a picture of a billboard that states, “Virginity is a social construct.”

    And this: “Sex means different things to different people. Generally speaking, society tends to define sex in a very narrow way: penetration — penis into vagina. But where does that definition leave queer people? Or folks who can’t, or don’t, have penis-in-vagina sex, and choose to have oral, anal, or another type of sex instead?” the pink-clad woman in the video says.

    “Sex is defined by one thing and one thing only: You! Maybe that’s being fingered for the first time. Maybe it’s having anal sex. Maybe it’s having your first orgasm. Maybe it’s masturbating for the first time, or when you enthusiastically consent to sex,” she claimed.

    “That’s the beauty of your sexual journey. You’re in charge, and you can figure it out on your own terms. Choosing to have sex — when, what kind, where, and who with — is something that only you get to define,” she concluded.

    Just another way for them to cause confusion and to gin up new customers in the future…. And the government is abetting this.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/01/26/planned-parenthood-targets-youth-video-virginity-invents-definition-sex/

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  18. james’ big reveal???

    James O’Keefe
    @JamesOKeefeIII
    BREAKING VIDEO: Top White House Cyber Official tells O’Keefe in Disguise “they can’t say it publicly” the White House wants to replace Kamala Harris and Confirms President @JoeBiden
    mental decline: “Biden is definitely slowing down.”

    “I’m just telling you what I’ve heard… they’re really concerned about it” …“I think they need to get rid of him or her.”

    “But no one in modern history has ever said, like, ‘We’re not going to renominate the president for a second term.’”

    Charlie Kraiger @CharlieKraiger
    , a Cybersecurity policy analyst and Foreign affairs Desk Officer in the Executive Office at the White House, tells O’Keefe “I had a meeting with Michelle Obama @michelleobama
    …. Someone asked her, ‘Will you ever run for office?’ And she said, ‘No’ Empathically.” She was like, ‘I’ve seen all this shit my husband has had to go through and that does not interest me.’

    “@VP
    @KamalaHarris
    hemorrhages black staff. She can’t keep black staff. They quit on her en masse”

    “She will be the vice president nominee. There was a debate about removing her from the ticket, but sadly they didn’t, she’s not popular, but you can’t remove the first black lady to be vice president from the Goddamn presidential ticket. Like what kind of message are you going to send to like African-American voters…People would be like, “What the fuck?” Like she’s a woman and she’s multiracial.”

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    1. Nothing that hasn’t already been speculated…as to whether to believe Big Mike or not…that’s just as questionable, IMO.

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  19. Benny Johnson
    @bennyjohnson
    🚨 Tara Reade (@ReadeAlexandra
    ) who says Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993, has filed a complaint with the US Department of Justice seeking $10 million in damages for invasion of privacy,emotional distress, and a violation of her rights.

    She says the FBI subjected her to a secret operation, “Operation Cassandra” to stalk, discredit, intimidate, and to possibly eliminate her as a threat to Joe Biden.

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  20. “Podesta Back in the Spotlight is Worst Case Scenario for Deep State”
    CLANDESTINE
    JAN 31, 2024

    “HOLY SHIT…Just when I thought the Biden regime couldn’t get any more stupid, they bring John Podesta back into the spotlight. Why would they make it this easy for us?

    Biden just brought in the ringleader of the satanic pedos. Given the Epstein files coming out, this might be the dumbest thing the Deep State could have done. Now citizen journalists are going to recirculate all of his pedophile/satanic activity. But most importantly, we have the free speech platform to do it, and the influence/reach to make a significant impact on public perception. They can’t censor us now thanks to Elon.

    Now we are going to be pumping out red-pills about the Podestas, making Biden’s optics even worse. It’s like Zelensky promoting Marina Abramović to oversee school construction in Ukraine. They are making it blatantly obvious where their allegiance lies, confirming they are evil.

    It’s time to red-pill the public on the Podestas. It’s time to dive back down maybe the most disturbing rabbit hole there is… I’ve been dreading the day I would have to do this, but it must be done. Stay tuned.”

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  21. “Manufactured shortage…There is a pain pill, ADD, and anxiety medication shortage in the United States. Meanwhile there is no shortage of any of these medications in most other countries…And in the White House pharmacy as well…White House Medical Unit gave …

    So why is the White House pharmacy handing out Fentanyl, Morphine, Benzos, and Ketamine like it’s candy? Because when important people need pain medication or just to get high (controlled substances were also given to ineligible staff) they are able to obtain it…

    For you? Tylenol and Advil after your surgery… Or just hit the streets where you can buy our laced fentanyl that will kill you and/or slowly ‘eat’ and destroy your limbs…”

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      1. Oh, I knew – Congress has one as well, I’m pretty sure. I saw something years ago about deliveries of heavy-duty drugs being made to Congress from a nearby pharmacy on Capitol Hill.

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  24. “It’s a dog’s life…”

    “The Ocelot has plans for you. Go ahead. Fall asleep. I’ll be waiting….”


    “Ford Motor – Mustang engine install”

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  25. “Scythian stag, c 5th Century BC. Leather antlers, wooden body, originally covered in gold leaf. Originally top of headdress, found in a burial chamber in the Altai mountains.”




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  29. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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