California State Flower: Poppy

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The California poppy (Eschscholzia Californica) was designated the state flower of California in 1903. Also known as the flame flower, la amapola, and copa de oro (cup of gold), the California poppy grows wild throughout the state. Native Americans in California valued the poppy as a food source and for the oil extracted from the plant. Every year, April 6 is California Poppy Day and May 13th – 18th is Poppy Week.

Seeds of this plant were introduced into English gardens in the nineteenth century. Seed catalogs now offer many different colors. California poppies have been planted in most of the United States and have become established along roadsides, in empty lots, and other disturbed places. In California, it is hard to tell anymore which poppies are native wildflowers and which are garden escapes.

California poppies are easy to grow. Sow the seeds shallowly (1/16-inch deep) in fall or early spring in mild, wet winter climates, including most of California west of the Sierra-Nevada. Seeds will germinate after the first fall rains or when the soil warms in the spring. In hot summer areas, the poppies will bloom in spring and early summer, and then the tops will die back and the plants become dormant during the heat of the summer. The poppy survives in the form of a fleshy taproot. In cooler coastal climates, California poppies may bloom most of the summer. Sandy, well-drained soil in full sun is best. No supplemental watering is required unless the growing season is exceptionally dry.

In mild-winter climates, these poppies will survive several years, resprouting each fall. They will reseed themselves if they are happy. Where winters are cold, the poppy behaves as an annual, renewing itself from seed each year. The flowers of California poppy close each night, and on cloudy days. Enjoy them where they grow. If you pick California poppies for a wildflower bouquet, you will be disappointed when the petals almost immediately fall off.

SOURCE: US FOREST SERVICE

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  1. Morning All

    it’s 42* outside and about 157* in here…not really. just one of those dang days! i went to make coffee thing morning and grabbed the can out of the fridge and hit the side of the fridge and….coffee grounds everywhere…sigh

    and we all know how well they clean up.

    so that was the start to MY day…

    on the plus side… it does smell like coffee in here at the moment…so there IS that…lol

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    1. Morning, Pat! Hoo-boy – been there, done that! It think the only thing harder to clean up is spilled sugar! I have CA poppies planted in both of my garden beds and 2 pots. The ones in the pots are starting to green up a bit already. I figured I would have to re-seed the 2nd year – didn’t expect them to come back – but they do, every spring. This is the 3rd or 4th year I’ve had them there and they keep coming back. They get long seed pods on them at some point; I guess that’s how they re-seed themselves.

      It is a nipply 24 here this morning! Can’t tell yet whether it’s cloudy or not.

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      1. Morning Filly!
        i envy you your flowers! the only ones i plant are the marigolds around the vegetable garden because the deer do not like the smell and so they don’t attempt to go in there and eat anything. maybe i should be planting them in the grapevines…they have found they can get in there–over the fences and eat the big succulent leaves…sigh

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        1. I’m lucky with that, being on the edge of town – no deer to worry about! Maybe plant the marigolds all along the outside of the fence line and in between the rows of vines? Hang bars of Irish Spring soap on the fenceposts? Found this:

          “Deer Repellents — Deer hate the taste of garlic and pepper (both can be planted during the winter season). It’s best to apply deer repellents with these natural ingredients to ward off deer from vineyards. Apply granular deer repellents around a deer fence for best results.”

          https://www.deerbusters.com/blog/deer-damage-prevention-at-grape-vineyards/

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          1. we have tried all that…lol…
            no one told our deer that they shouldn’t like irish spring…lol
            doesn’t bother them. i tied it to the cages around the small trees (to protect the trunks from deer rubs) and around the grape fence–they just leap over the fence…
            the day lilies were the one flower they didn’t eat–but then the groundhogs liked the bulbs…LOL
            I will have to be content looking at your gorgeous roses and flowers pictures

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  3. i brought this before. now it seems the Maricopa Supervisors HAVE vacated their seats…!!

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  9. This is an excerpt from a paid post from Tucker – retired Col. Macgregor:

    TRANSCRIPT: “The donors own the political figure.”

    When Tucker Carlson asked if Congress would be stupid enough to pass a law granting citizenship to illegal aliens who enlist in the military, Douglas Macgregor answered, “YES.”

    “The problem is Washington is donor-occupied. Donor occupied. The donors own the political figure. So what do the donors want?

    “You’ve heard the expression donors win elections, not voters. Well, if the voter isn’t winning the election and the donor is winning it. Are these policies not a function of the people delivering huge quantities of cash to the to the Hill, whether they’re part of the pharmaceutical industry, a foreign lobby or a defense lobby or something else?

    “So, who are the people in Washington responding to? They’re not responding to me. I don’t think they’re responding to you. And I don’t think most Americans feel that they’re responsive at all. So the problem is not do we have Americans who care? Of course, we do. We have millions of them. We’re not alone. But we’re not in power, Tucker. That’s the problem.”

    https://vigilantfox.news/p/retired-army-colonel-issues-chilling

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      1. Oh, but Pat, Pat, Pat – that is only AFTER they make them citizens!!!😶🙄😏😣😫😖🙁😡😡😡 All US citizens have the right to self-protection! THEN we will REALLY see war in the streets!!! Put the whole damned thing on steroids!!!

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  10. ENTIRE ARTICLE @ PostMillenial: “On Thursday, fresh off the heels of Super Tuesday, Joe Biden will deliver this year’s State of the Union address, hoping to persuade Americans that under his leadership, the country is not only surviving, but thriving.  

    The president’s speech is expected to be divisive, pitting MAGA Republicans and any American who leans right against Democrats and the left, painting the former as being on the wrong side of every issue both domestic and foreign. Biden has made such speeches before as when he did so in front of Independence Hall with a blood red backdrop. Many Americans saw this as something that would incite conflict. 

    “President Biden will make the case to continue to build the economy from the bottom up and middle out that has led to record job creation, the strongest economy in the world, increased wages and household wealth, and lower prescription drug and energy costs,” White House Communications Director Ben LaBolt said in a statement, per the Daily Mail. 

    He contrasted that with the “MAGA Republican agenda,” which he summed up as “rewarding billionaires and corporations with tax breaks, taking away rights and freedoms, and undermining our democracy.” 
     
    As NBC News reports, Biden is also likely to draw attention to the numerous conflicts the United States is funding around the world, namely Ukraine’s continued fight against Russian aggression, and suggest that his administration is on the right side of history. 
     
    A Democratic member of Congress who spoke on the condition of anonymity told the outlet that they’d like to see Biden address Israel’s war against Hamas, and the toll it’s had on civilians in Gaza.  
     
    On a personal level, Biden will have to prove to Americans that he is fit to serve amid fears that he is perhaps too old to hold such an important position. 
     
    A Biden campaign adviser told the outlet that “there will be a number of Americans who on Tuesday will stop for the first time and really kind of digest that this is going to be Trump versus Biden in November,” making the State of the Union address even more important.” 

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          1. I just still can’t quite believe that ALL of those people who mill around him, all of the reporters – NO-ONE exposes this? No, sorry – I just don’t believe that!

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              1. Oh, yeah, the MSM – but there are a lot of unaffiliated “reporters” now who have an incentive to break such news. Do you seriously think that people like O’Keefe wouldn’t report that???

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          1. There are soooo many factors that come into play: what drugs today? how much sleep did he get? what time of day is the speech being given, i.e., “sundown syndrome?” How many times has he practiced the speech? No, sorry – I’m just not buying it.

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  14. “Congress debates spending bill with 605 pages of earmarks before Friday shutdown deadline”

    By Nicholas Ballasy, Just The News

    Published: March 4, 2024 11:00pm

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “The U.S. Congress is debating a spending package ahead of a government shutdown deadline on Friday, the day after President Biden’s scheduled “State of the Union” address. Congress passed a bill last week to extend the first appropriations deadline to Friday, March 8 and the second to Friday, March 22.

    On Sunday, House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Kay Granger, R-Texas and Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., released six fiscal year 2024 appropriations bills. The committee chairs said in a press release that the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2024 “funds the six bills at levels consistent with the bipartisan budget agreement and reaffirmed in the topline agreement struck by Leader Schumer and Speaker Johnson in January of this year.”

    According to the House and Senate Appropriations committees, “the legislation is expected to be considered first in the House and then later this week by the Senate.” In addition, the committees announced that the “remaining six appropriations bills for fiscal year 2024 are expected to be released in the coming days and be voted on ahead of their expiration on March 22.”

    The legislation contains a lengthy list of earmarks from both Republican and Democrat lawmakers. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., said the first six appropriations bills contain a whopping 605 pages of earmarks. 

    “BREAKING:@SenSchumer just released the text for the first six spending bills we’re supposed to vote on this week that includes 605 PAGES OF EARMARKS. One example? Schumer’s $1 MILLION ask to build a new environmental justice center in NYC,” Scott wrote.

    Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, said that earmarks “corrupt government” and they “turn Republicans Democrat.” “No Republican should support them. No Republican should vote for this bill,” Lee wrote on his X account.

    Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., former chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, predicted that there won’t be any spending reductions in the rest of the current fiscal year.

    “What we’ve done is just for the sake of time traded what we call an omnibus, one of these huge spending bills that everything’s in there, right, they throw everything in there, there’s not the individual bills with individual votes, we usually get that right before December, right before Christmas in December, that’s going to be broken into two smaller bills in March but it’ll have the same effect,” he said. “There will be no reductions in spending and there will be an increase in spending.”

    Conservatives in the House have pushed for House Republican leadership to include provisions of the Secure the Border Act, H.R. 2, into the spending package but Perry said it likely won’t happen. “None of those policies are going to survive this negotiation,” Perry told Just the News. “Our bills are not the ones that Senate’s taking up.”

    David Ditch, a policy expert at the Heritage Foundation, said the 1,050 page spending package contains another 1,281 pages of “explanatory statements” because “there are long lists of pork projects and niche special interest carve-outs.”

    There are 30 pages of earmarks in the Energy and Water Development appropriations bill alone. Meanwhile, the national debt is reportedly climbing by $1 trillion every 100 days. 

    Some members of Congress, such as Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., filed applications from constituents on local or state projects that they would like to secure federal funding to complete.  Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan, D-Va., boasted on X that she successfully added 15 earmarks to the 2024 appropriations bills.

    Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., noted a $850,000 earmark for a bus stop and $1.8 million to expand an LGBTQ community center. “This is an embarrassment for the American people,” Norman said Monday on the “Just the News, No Noise” TV program. “I don’t see any spending cuts.”

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    1. no, no, no!
      earmarks have GOT TO GO!!!!
      we’re i the hole and putting lipstick on PIGS! FFS!!!!!
      that shit needs to be tabled or shut the gov’t down! they are NOT serious about debt

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  15. IDR if this has been posted or not….

    Just The News: “The Supreme Court on Monday imposed a temporary stay on a Texas law permitting state officials to arrest illegal aliens.

    Associate Justice Samuel Alito imposed the stay after the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals permitted the law to take effect on March 10, NBC reported. U.S. District Judge David Ezra imposed an initial stay late last month. Alito’s stay come in response to plea from the Biden administration and will remain in effect until March 13. The justice gave Texas until March 11 to respond to the administration.

    In issuing the original stay, Ezra argued that the law would permit the Lone Star State to “permanently supersede federal directives,” amounting to “nullification of federal law and authority — a notion that is antithetical to the Constitution and has been unequivocally rejected by federal courts since the Civil War.”

    Under the Biden administration, Texas has routinely clashed with Washington over Operation Lone Star, its unilateral effort to secure the border in the face of perceived federal apathy toward the unprecedented surge in illegal crossings.

    Among the most high-profile dispute have been the state’s deployment of a buoy barrier in the Rio Grande river and its construction of concertina-wire fencing along the Mexican frontier to deter illegal entrants.”

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          1. Oh, yes – I’ve known that for years. Fact is, fundamentalist Arabs don’t care whether they are living or not – a hole is a hole to them, whether that be dead, a 5 year old child, or a goat!

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  20. Governor Pillen has done the right thing again! The legislature approved by 30-7 a “safe needles act” – the same kind of bill that has destroyed every other State that’s tried it! Thankfully, Pillen vetoed the bill!

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  21. Just now watching the weather forecast from last night….dropping to a high of 46 on Friday, 49 on Saturday, with a chance of precip Thursday night and Friday, with a slight chance of changing to some snow. But, when we “spring forward” on Sunday, temps will be back up in the 50’s & 60’s.

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  22. The danged Legislature is standing in the way of using the death penalty. We voted for it in 2016 and it hasn’t been utilized since 2018. NE is unable to get the needed chemicals to do it via lethal injection so it was suggested we use nitrogen gas, as done recently in AL. Frankly, I could GAS less whether it is “humane!” In fact, I believe they SHOULD feel the pain!!! As one woman said, “What did they do to their victims? That certainly wasn’t “humane!”

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  23. The big fire you posted about, Pat, outside of Detroit was in an industrial plant, causing explosions, one firefighter hit with flying debris. At least, I think it was you that posted it….

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          1. “Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel told WDIV-TV late Monday that the explosions started around 9 p.m. at the Select Distributors plant and that Clinton Township officers and firefighters immediately responded.

            “They understand some type of CO2 or propane explosions were taking place at the facility, and again, it was just continuous explosions, as well as the fire,” Hackel said.

            After 11 p.m., he told the news outlet that the fire had been contained.”

            https://fortune.com/2024/03/05/industrial-plant-fire-multiple-explosions-rock-detroit-suburbs-send-debris-flying-mile-away-danger/

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              4. Could include replacement batteries, too, I would guess. They aren’t made there, just batched and shipped, I think, for the manufacturers.

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        2. Another question: Do you live in Nebraska? I had a passing aquaintance with someone who lived there, who said marijuana (Cannabis sativa) grows wild in the drainage ditches. They called it “ditch weed”. Curious, considering. Any info?

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          1. Oh, yes – born and bred here, returned from VA in 2009 – north/central, about an 1.5 hrs from SD. Yep, ditch weed is everywhere but it has no medicinal qualities at all – it is considered a “noxious weed” here. Sometimes the livestock can run across some especially strong batches and they can get kind of wonky and unstable, tho. LOL

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      1. No….I just piggy-back on Pat and Marica’s blogs – that way, THEY get to do all the dealing with WP! ROFL – as I’m sure you’ve noticed, I’m not a very…shall we say…. “diplomatic” kind of gal!

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        1. I’m not diplomatic, either. I’m sure we would get along. I’ve also looked up Gov. Jim Pillen on line. I like that he is/was a veterinarian. Anyone who likes animals is my kind of person.

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            1. I live in Savannah, GA, where I grew up. After many travels and living various places, I came home to roost on the same property my family left to me. I’ve been posting on my WordPress blog site, katharineotto.wordpress.com regularly, especially lately. I also follow interesting sites based in the midwest and overseas.

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              1. Ah! Cool – a neighbor to our dear friend, GA/FL! I’m always confused but I think she also lives in GA, close to northern FL. OK, I’ve got your site up…I’ll save it in my book marks!

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              3. She hasn’t been here at Pat’s or at Marica’s lately due to her daughter’s health issues but I expect she is able to read now and then.

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              4. welcome! Filly wrote a lot of interesting opens about Nebraska last year or the year before. do you know how to search the site? is you don’t let me know–if you do, search for Nebraska and a bunch will come up for you to read

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              5. Thank you, and no, I don’t know how, but I’m willing to learn. I do have to make use of daytime hours out of doors now, because we’re due for more rain this afternoon, and I need to attend to my poor chickens, who have been encooped all week because of the downpours.

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              6. at the end of the day’s post (today is the CA Poppy) you’ll see info about the post who wrote it is on the left. next is a file folder (today’s says Nature) if you click on that, it will tell you nothing found but give you a search bar–type in Nebraska and enter–a whole lot of Filly’s opens about Nebraska will come up

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          2. My primary issue with Pillen is that he refuses to even discuss medical MJ….”leave that to the FDA…” Yeah, right…the fricking FDA! And he’s learned nothing, apparently!!!

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            1. It’s a complicated issue. I’ve been tracking the evolution of drug laws throughout the world for several years. I tend to belive that having no laws is preferable for those of us who enjoy freedom.

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              1. I don’t think I would go quite that far. Like it or not, some restrictions are needed vis-a-vis children, I believe.

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              3. Oh, I’m with you there – as Pat and I have discussed recently, we need to return to Common Law instead of Corporate Law!!!

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              4. I’m outside now, with my chickens. If it starts raining, I may have to take the phone indoors, but I’ve been thinking up solutions to our problem. Considering the complications involved, perhaps Nebraska should start feeding its cows ditch weed, then sell the milk to medical marijuana needfuls. That way, cancer patients could get protein and processed cannabis, without having to go through FDA, DEA, and USDA loopdeloops. Maybe Gov. Pillen could use this incipient economic boon to stimulate Nebraska’s independence and its economy.

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              7. I only have two chickens. Speckles, the rooster, is over 12 years old. He was born here. I bought Tweety almost four years ago, and she was laying eggs until recently, when the weather got so erratic, and she got sick. That was about two weeks ago. Tweety quit eating and drinking, and lost weight, but she’s better today. Hungry. She’s still a little weak, so I doubt she will start laying again soon. That’s fine with me. I don’t even like eggs, and they, like chickens, attract predators.

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              9. Yes, they do. I’ve had lots of trouble with racoons, and with snakes, who also love them. Trouble is, I like racoons, but they can cause lots of damage, including to chickens and their eggs.

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              10. we had a problem with them on our deck. we bought this spray (Rodent Sheriff). it’s peppermint oil spray–they hate the smell–haven’t had a problem since. if it rains hard, you have to reapply, but it’s really working. it works on ants too

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              11. I used to make peppermint candy with peppermint oil. I’ve also grown peppermint and other herbs in gardens and planter pots, not lately. But I like deer and used to feed them. A neighbor fed racoons. They come up through the salt marsh. Maybe I’ll just buy some live peppermint from my local garden shop . . .

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              12. that might do it too!
                the deer here are plentiful (this being mostly woods). we’ve been here for almost 18 yrs and i started growing grape vines on the hill/mountain behind the house. we fenced it in that first year. for over 10 years, the deer never bothered the vines. then one really dry summer, one found out she could jump over the high fence coming from the back (higher ground) and jumping down into the fenced area. the large grape leaves were succulent ( and apparently tasty).
                every summer i find one in there–sometimes she lays right on the soft grass just inside the fence..content.
                sigh

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              13. I don’t have a smart phone – only my laptop – and I can barely even send a pic from my flip-phone. I’m one of those so-called Luddites who doesn’t like all the new technology. I like what I’m comfortable with and don’t like to change.

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  24. yup i agree. the other 4 justices gave the map to the dems on HOW to do this within the constitution according to them

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    1. That beyotch needs to be hung, drawn and quartered in the public square! One of THE most evil women on the planet! Equal to Killary, IMO.

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  26. Interesting story about the California poppy. I lived in the mountains of Colorado several years and saw poppies growing wild there, but they had vibrantly orange-red flowers. I guess poppies can grow almost anywhere.

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    1. Hi, Katherine! I lived in CO for 2 years – gorgeous country – and I saw poppies there, too. I lived in Pueblo – flat land with arroyos here and there with the mountains in the background – but close enough that I traveled frequently into the mountains. I love the silence way back in the hills. It was the first place I ever saw a humming bird! I initially thought it was a bumble bee!

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  27. do we believe her?
    FTA
    “As former First Lady Michelle Obama has expressed several times over the years, she will not be running for president,” said Crystal Carson, director of communications for her office. “Mrs. Obama supports President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ re-election campaign.”

    Sources familiar with the discussions say she intends to assist the Biden campaign this fall, as she did four years ago. But as in 2020, her engagement is likely to be fairly limited compared to that of her husband, reflecting both her other commitments and her long-standing reluctance to re-enter the political fray full time, the sources said.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/michelle-obama-former-first-lady-not-running-president-2024-rcna141767

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  28. heads up from wolfs…I don’t use any of those, but…

    Deplorable Patriot

    Deplorable Patriot(@depat)

    Online

    Coyote

    March 5, 2024 11:06

    Heads up, please.

    Even if you don’t use Facebook, Instagram or Messenger, please know that all three are down world wide. Everyone has been logged out, and cannot get back in.

    Google (Gmail, Drive, etc.) and YouTube were also down for a bit this morning.

    My guess: cyberattack. If not, it’s all being turned over to another entity.

    Ten days of darkness, and all that is looking more real every day.

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      2. OK – here ya’ go: 350K for FB is not all that many, tbh…ah! “All owned by Meta…”

        “Facebook, Instagram and Threads suffer major global outages”

        Facebook is logging users out of their accounts and refusing to let users back in.

        By Madeleine Hubbard, Just The News

        Published: March 5, 2024 10:55am

        “Facebook, Instagram and Threads, all social media platforms owned by Meta, are suffering from a major worldwide outage on Tuesday.

        Facebook is logging users out of their accounts and refusing to let users back in or change their passwords. Instagram displays the message: “Couldn’t refresh feed.” Threads, meanwhile, appears as a blank page.

        More than 350,000 Facebook users reported outages to Downdetector.com, a website that tracks outages.” 

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  34. haven’t see news stories yet about this…

    Xavier

    March 5, 2024 11:58 am

    According to the citizens of Massachusetts reporting in on WRKO this morning, cheating is rampant. Same old tricks, no Republican ballots, felt tip pen, etc. etc.

    Whatever happened to winning honestly ? It will be a small miracle if Trump and the local America First candidates win. The RINO politicians and the media have hit an all time low with their smear tactics, even smearing an Angel Mom whose son was killed by an illegal invader.

    This is what Nukem Nikki is banking on. She’s a shoe-in in Salem.

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  35. so the day started with spilled coffee grounds…wanna know how it’s going?

    hubby has these audits every year–2 days he has to go in to work. so today, at lunch time here…I hear a noise. now i heard this same noise LAST spring as well.

    it sounds like chittering–like a bat or bird stuck in my kitchen cabinet. last year we couldn’t figure it out and it eventually stopped…well it’s back and hubby is not here to save me this time. it’s not afraid of my voice–i yelled at “it” to go away (and yes i looked in the cabinet.)

    I’ve been banging on the ceiling above the cabinet and that seems to stop it for a little while–then it starts up again…

    we have a pine ceiling installed over insulation and hubby thought that maybe a bat got in under the roof vent and fell down between the metal roof/wood roof or between the insulation/pine boards. 

    BUT this is the exact spot it did it last year as well…it’s freaking CREEPY as hell!

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      1. not sure about mouse–it’s not scratching–and it’s not chewing–it’s all wood behind the cabinet–solid logs so it’s got to be where the roof comes down to the wall if you know what i mean–gotta be in the roof somehow

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            1. Really? We had a couple in our TH in Arlington….our roommate, Jeff, was petrified of them. One night, after we’d caught one and set it loose outside, we put up a wire from the ceiling light fixture to his bedroom door at a sharp angle. When he opened the door, the black sock we loosely tired around the wire slid down towards him. He liked to shit his pants, thinking it was a bat! OMG! That was soooo funny!!!

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  38. Red Jammers are the vintage White Motor Company/Bender Body Company Model 706 buses used at Glacier National Park in the United States to transport park visitors since 1936. While the buses are called reds for their distinctive livery, painted to match the color of ripe mountain ash berries, the bus drivers are called jammers because of the sound the gears made when the driver shifts on the steep roads of the park. The “jamming” sound came from the unsynchronized transmissions, where double-clutching was required to shift gears prior to a 1989 retrofit that added automatic transmissions.

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  44. WeThePeople2016

    March 5, 2024 3:56 pm

    BREAKING 🚨 A Georgia House commission with powers to discipline and remove prosecutors voted 97-73 for Senate Bill 332 which could disrupt Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ prosecution of President Donald J. Trump.

    The bill only needs approval from Governor Kemp, who has said he will sign the measure. (AP)

    https://t.me/THEREALTORIABROOKE/43912

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  49. okay my easy chair is tempting me…so before i wander off…

    Good Night All

    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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