The Last Boy Scout

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Today is Bruce Willis’ birthday and I enjoy so many of his movies, but Die Hard, Hudson Hawk and The Last Boy Scout are 3 of my favorites!  I found this article on Mental Floss—fun facts about Bruce.

From Mental Floss

On March 30, 2022, Bruce Willis’s family members, including ex-wife Demi Moore and their three daughters, posted a joint statement to their social media accounts announcing that Willis would be retiring from acting due to a recent health diagnosis.

“Bruce has been experiencing some health issues and has recently been diagnosed with aphasia, which is impacting his cognitive abilities,” the statement read. “As a result of this and with much consideration, Bruce is stepping away from the career that has meant so much to him.”

From his turns as unlikely action hero John McClane in the Die Hard series to smaller supporting roles in 1994’s Pulp Fiction and 1995’s Nobody’s Fool, Willis has consistently surprised audiences with his eclectic career choices. For more on Willis, including his recording career and how he made movie history with 1988’s original Die Hard, keep reading.

Bruce Willis was born in West Germany.

Walter Bruce Willis, the son of a military man, was born on March 19, 1955, while his father was stationed in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany. Just two years later, parents David and Marlene Willis moved to Carneys Point, New Jersey, where he spent part of his time in both high school and at Montclair State University trying his hand at acting. After his sophomore year, Willis decided to leave college and head to New York City to pursue a performing career.

Bruce Willis may have been one of the best bartenders in New York City.

While auditioning for acting roles and scoring the occasional break—he appeared in an off-Broadway play, Heaven and Earth, in 1977—Willis tended bar at Chelsea Central on New York City’s Upper West Side. According to actor John Goodman, who knew Willis before either of them became famous, Willis was notable even then. “Bruce was the best bartender in New York,” Goodman told The New York Post in 2017. “He kept an entire joint entertained all night. He just kept the show going. He was amazing.”

Bruce Willis was cast in Moonlighting even though ABC thought the role was “uncastable.”

Willis had done only some stage work and bit parts in movies like 1980’s The First Deadly Sin with Frank Sinatra and 1982’s The Verdict with Paul Newman before he went in to audition for ABC’s Moonlighting, a send-up of detective dramas. At the time, the role of David Addison was proving so difficult to cast that the network was looking to pay creator Glenn Gordon Caron, director Bob Butler, and co-star Cybill Shepherd to abandon the project. Then Willis auditioned, beating out 3000 other hopefuls and securing the part. The series ran from 1985 to 1989.

Thanks to Die Hard, Bruce Willis changed Hollywood salaries forever.

While doing Moonlighting, Willis spent his hiatus shooting feature films like 1987’s Blind Date with Kim Basinger. But it was 1988’s Die Hard that cemented him as a big-screen attraction. The action film about a New York City cop trapped in a Los Angeles skyscraper with his estranged wife and a group of terrorists was a hot commodity, and 20th Century Fox agreed to pay Willis the then-astronomical sum of $5 million for the role. (Richard Gere and Clint Eastwood were also considered.) At the time, major stars like Tom Cruise and Michael J. Fox were getting roughly $3 million a picture. The payday for Willis had other performers taking notice, and salaries reportedly went up as a result.

“It was an enormous amount of money at the time,” Willis told Entertainment Weekly in 2007. “And I was a TV actor! The day after I signed the deal, every actor in Hollywood’s salary went up to $5 million.”

The Bruce Willis movie Hudson Hawk was based on a song.

Following Die Hard, Willis was a proven box office commodity that could help projects get made. In 1991, he starred in Hudson Hawk, a critical and commercial disappointment about a jewel thief with a love of music who is hired to steal from the Vatican. The film was based in part on a song written by musician Robert Kraft in 1981. Kraft knew Willis, then a bartender and actor, and shared it with him. Over the years, the two continued to shape the song, adding characters and stories. Eventually, it wound up in the hands of screenwriters Stephen De Souza and Daniel Waters.

Bruce Willis all but disappeared in Nobody’s Fool.

In contrast to conventional wisdom of the era, Willis parlayed his success as an action hero into opportunities to work with actors and directors he found interesting—even if it meant taking a small supporting role. (Willis spent just 22 minutes onscreen in 1994’s Pulp Fiction as boxer Butch Coolidge.) For 1995’s Nobody’s Fool, he passed on his normal $15 million fee to take $1400 a week since it meant working with Paul Newman. (Newman had forgotten the then-unknown Willis was a bit player in Newman’s 1982 film, The Verdict.) Because Willis felt so strongly Nobody’s Fool was Newman’s film, he opted out of having his photo included in the press kit and his name wasn’t in the production notes.

Bruce Willis had his own cartoon series.


In 1996, Willis lent his voice to Bruno the Kid, a syndicated animated series about an 11-year-old spy named Bruno who convinces his handlers he’s really an adult. “Bruno” was Willis’s nickname growing up as well as the name of his musical alter ego. In 1987, Willis released an album, The Return of Bruno, along with a cable special. The cartoon lasted one season.

Bruce Willis never finished shooting one of his movies.

In 1997, Willis started shooting Broadway Brawler, a romantic comedy about a washed-up hockey player falling in love. Just 20 days into shooting, Willis used his powers as producer to fire director Lee Grant, Grant’s husband and producer Joe Feury, cinematographer William Fraker, and wardrobe designer Carol Oditz—all reportedly over creative differences. The problems continued even after replacement director Dennis Dugan was brought on board. Rather than continue to waste money on the $28 million movie, studio Cinergi opted to shut it down. Cinergi’s parent company, Disney, absorbed the production costs in exchange for Willis agreeing to star in three Disney movies: Armageddon (1998); The Sixth Sense (1999), Willis’s biggest hit to date; and The Kid (2000).

SOURCE: MENTAL FLOSS

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  1. Here’s an update copied from the Q-Tree. Love & Blessings to ALL! <3

    Micro ground report:

    I told you guys about my hubby having an “idiot weiner” guy who kept parking in a way to impede access to the loading dock so Hubby maneuvered his 40′ truck w/in 6″ of the guy’s pickup. Well, the next time Hubby delivered there the guy had managed to park out of the way…Finally! LOL. We’ll see if it still holds up this week.

    My son Brandon completed his Fire Fighting trial period with the City of Detroit yesterday & is slated to get his badge finally. He was initiated w/ a dual assault by the guys at the recent fire-station placement, first cream in the face (usually it’s a pie), & then later being doused w/ water while he was washing dishes. He’d put his cellphone in a plastic bag in his pocket in advance having heard such shenanigans were typical.

    He said when they erased the “T” (for trial-man) in front of the FF on the duty board he got tears in his eyes. The hazing during training included whenever any superior officer asked for his first name his reply was always “Trial Man, Sir”. He apparently is now a full-fledged dual-role Fire Fighter & EMT for Detroit at this point even though he has never yet entered a burning building in the course of his training. He did help put out a garage fire at least…so I guess Detroit isn’t so arsonistic any more, since they’ve demolished so many vacant homes since Mike Duggan became the mayor, which is a relief for all.

    Our special needs son Josiah is trying out more of a schedule for when he’s with us in our home & when he’s with his wife in her parents’ home. This time he has been able to come home without major upheaval on their side as they finally are beginning to grasp that his type of autism means he needs to come home to re-group periodically & he is not “violating the covenant” nor trying to destroy their marriage. This is a Huge PTL, for the last time he came home he was crying for hours over the early days as the other side just couldn’t/wouldn’t understand his needs. The pastor has been helpful in calming these troubled waters in recent weeks & we are so thankful for this much less distressing transition than what has been happening for the past 16 months or so…

    Finally, our third grandchild is due later this week, so I’d really appreciate prayers for my DIL Tara, son Nathaniel, & their D Lilah as this family goes through another transition into a place my husband & I never visited, as in being parents of just 2 kids–we had twins in the second pregnancy. Please pray for a safe delivery for mom & baby, good health for both, comfort & peace for Lilah as she adjusts to a baby (presumed) sister, & for God’s Will & timing in all of these things.

    Thanks to so many of you for loving prayer support over the years–You ALL Rock!!!

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    1. Morning Valerie!
      thanks for the update here!
      i will keep your whole family in my prayers!
      so happy for your FF son!!! GREAT JOB!
      and i’m happy that Josiah is getting a chance to live his best life!
      we were blessed with one grandchild–lucky you to be getting a third!!!!

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      1. TYSVM for your prayers & grandparenting encouragement. How old is your precious grandchild? Our oldest GD going to be 2 in June & youngest is about 11 months right now. We’re hoping all these GDs born pretty close together & living w/in a couple blocks of each other & us will be close as they grow up!

        I’m the 1st of the 3 kids in my family of origin to be on their 3rd bio grandchild (though my younger bro has a couple step grands & just one bio grandkid, so far the only GGS for my parents). My youngest brother is the first of us to have a kid w/ 2 kids & he was also the first of us to become a grandparent, though we all hit that milestone in 2022. For all 3 of us sibs our oldest kids gave us our first grandchild & then Michael & I got our second from our youngest kid.

        Our middle son, Brandon, just got the Blessing from his GF’s parents on his recent Toronto trip so is likely to get engaged sometime this year. His GF is applying to various law schools most/all in Canada. They are likely to marry while she is still a student so B is preparing to potentially move North of the Border, God willing. Though I want to pray for him/them to be in MI I choose to pray for God’s will more than my own….crazy times!

        One law school, not a top choice, but she’s accepted there, is just across the Detroit River in Windsor, Ontario. This school has a dual training for law in the US & Canada & is affiliated w/ a law school in Detroit, possible University of Detroit, Mercy. That placement would be the least disruptive for our family & also fill a need/desire of B’s GF to be able to practice law in both the US & Canada so Maybe God will nudge her that way…we’ll see ❤

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        1. our granddaughter is turning 15 (!) in a couple of weeks!
          and she will be our only grandchild–so we spoil her rotten! LOL both our kids are just about 40, so this is it.
          sounds like a tremendous family you have there Valerie!!!!

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          1. Driver’s Ed time!!! Sounds like fun. One of my old friends who came to the B-Day celebration I mentioned elsewhere was in her early 40’s when she had her first/only child. She’s a year older than me but her son is still in HS while my youngest is 26 & I had my first when I was a couple months shy of 30 LOL. You never know, God could sneak in an Abraham & Sarah bundle of joy for one or both of your kids.

            My daughter told her hubby that she’s ready to get pregnant again & he said he’s not ready to see her give birth again because that was really hard on him. She Says she hopes to have 6 kids but that remains to be seen. She also plans to homeschool, which is a new adventure for our family (my DIL plans to HS too!)..fun times ahead, to be sure!

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            1. wow! 6 kids???
              my granddaughter is a farm kid–she already drives the farm equipment –and some of it is BIG!
              she drives a snow mobile on the farm during the winter and she’s fearless!

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              1. That is So Awesome!!! She sounds Amazing, just like her grandma! ❤

                I was the oldest of stair-step kids of 5 families that spent 2 weekends of the year on the one family's farm (bringing in the hay in the Summer & wood duty in the Fall) & that meant that I got to drive the tractor & the pick-up truck before anybody else to assist in these adventures (4 Detroit-area "city-slicker" families down on the farm LOL)–Many Good Times!!! Men & kids were always doing the labor & women were cooking & cracking up constantly in the kitchen keeping 26 people fed round the clock (& corralling females for indoor facilities & males outside using a convenient low hanging branch for a seat over the poop pit–yikes)!

                On one of those trips my dad's dad came along & it turned out that our friend's Reed City farm was very near Grandpa's grandparents old homestead farm. We were driving around & he pointed out the property & noted 3 Huge Pines planted very close together. He said they marked the grave for his grandma's doll from when she was a little girl. It gave me chills & a sense of roots. Years later I was saddened to discover the old deed to that property which had been sold off to the Grosse Pointe Hunt Club some years back when none of Grandpa's generation wanted to hold on to the old family farm…sigh!

                I Really Wish we could acquire an old family farm ourselves on decent acreage (the one mentioned above was on 40 acres so seems ideal–they had 3 level hillside barn w/ old stone silo, big farmhouse, outbuildings, pastures, woods, huge garden, berry patches, fruit & nut trees, & even a stream meandering through) where we could pool resources & develop some type of multi-family near homestead situation to support the upcoming generation & move us all toward more self-sufficiency. Don't know if that will ever happen but I can dream at least. I want our kids & grandkids to be better off than we were/are by the time we're gone!

                Is she a hunter too? My hubby was showing Clarissa something on the Meateater show & she was Really getting the itch to go hunting again, which she hasn't for a year or two between pregnancy & parenting. I asked her & even if she got pregnant next month she thinks she'd still go Up North this Fall for hunting season!!!

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              2. oh yeah…definitely a hunter–already has her first buck mounted…her other grandparents did that for her.
                she plans on going to vet school and wants to own a horse farm. big dreams.
                farms can be lovely–but they are a lot of work too. our granddaughter helps do the feeding after school and on weekends ad their goat herd was her idea. now they have a website and they breed and sell them–a lot to 4H families to raise and show

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              3. Wow! None of my 3 hunting kids has a deer mounted & hubby has One after 30+ years of hunting & my dad has 2 after 60+ years of hunting!

                Hubby’s hunting buddy Pete has a 5 acre “gentleman’s farm” near Lake Saint Clair & this large, Catholic, homeschooling family has big 4H participation w/ multiple animals. They didn’t start that way but lived about a block from Detroit in their early marriage. Gunshots/bullet hits next to their home had them move & they have mightily adapted over the years! We’re probably too old to make such a change but would love to support our kids in such endeavors, if possible…

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              4. it’s a tradition in my son in law’s family–the first buck gets mounted–both he and his brother got them as gifts from their parents. they did that for our daughter too when she started hunting.
                i personally do not like heads mounted on the walls, but they do

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              5. I don’t mind them, depending on where they’re placed. Hubby’s trophy is in his bass cave & another one we picked up at a resale shop, he felt bad that it was just left in a pile in the basement there, is lurking over our upright piano in the living room so not in the way at all 🙂

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          1. Feb 17 so I hit that “brutal” milestone a month ago. Hubby’s almost 3 years younger so we get to joke about my advanced decade until the end of 2026…sigh…At least I can partake of free community college now if I want LOL

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        2. Thank you, Val, and happy BD to you, too! Didn’t know you were a February baby, too. Did you see that Wheezer came back for a couple of days? He has a family somewhere since the congestion and eye/nose goop is no longer present; he’s also not scratching at ear mites. Ha! And just like that! Here he is again at the patio door!

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          1. I haven’t read here for a while so missed that. Is that your stray cat that pseudo adopted you or is it vice versa? We have a few neighborhood cats who were born under a neighbor’s porch & still roam the block & are rather friendly but from a distance!

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            1. Yes, from last summer/fall. Once the snow started, I never saw him again and figured he was probably gone. I happened to see him crossing my backyard a couple of weeks ago, heading towards the gate – it looked like him but I wasn’t sure so I stepped out on the patio and called to him. All of the other strays will hightail it out of dodge when I do that but he didn’t – he jumped down from the gate and came over to the patio. I uncovered the doggie door and put some food out for him, then pushed the doggie door a couple of times to remind him how to get in. After a few minutes, he pushed his way thru and came in to eat. Very leery of me now after I sprayed him with my water bottle after he scratched me and drew blood so I don’t blame him. Then he disappeared again for a few days, finally showing up this morning.

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              2. I’m hoping to make more in-roads with him once spring finally decides to stick around and I’m out working in the yard again. But if not, that’s ok, too. I’ll keep giving him a place for grits and calm when he needs it.

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  2. Armageddon is a staple film in our family & we love Willis’ “all go, no quit, big nuts, Harry Stamper” portrayal there! We debate Die Hard as to whether or not it’s a Christmas movie but it seems to get into Christmas rotation recently ;) ;) We also appreciate that Bruce Willis has been a pretty patriotic conservative over the years. Sorry he’s facing these health issues…

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    1. never saw armageddon. we watch all the Bruce Willis movies we have all the time. And Die Hard we watch after Thanksgiving dinner especially–it’s our official kick off for the Christmas season–as soon as Hans fall off Nakatomi Plaza…lol

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      1. Armageddon is a very fun movie & quite action oriented w/ a lot of fun & memorable actors in the ensemble cast. We have multiple movie quotes from it that regularly make the rounds in our family. Check it out some time & let me know what you think of it (if you remember–ha ha). The fall of Hans!!! Yippie Kai Yay LOL

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      2. Armageddon is a great movie – I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched that one. I also loved The Sixth Sense (“I see dead people”). Never was a big fan of Die Hard and I only saw the first one. Twelve Monkeys wasn’t bad for a futuristic movie, as was The Fifth Element.

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    1. We’ve got some cold weather coming, as well as some possible snow by this week-end. It was 41 when I got up, now at 40, but it’s going to get colder, with wind possibly up to 30 MPH. So it’s not over yet! I can’t find anyone to roto-till my cantaloupe bed….sigh….I can see that my neighbor has one out by their garden but I hate to ask him for another favor since he already plows my DW for me. But my yard guy did say he would do it if Mark will let us use their tiller. We’ll see….I’ve still got time yet since I won’t plant until May, at least.

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        1. I don’t take them any more, altho I tried a couple of different types to try to get my sinuses under control, including Benadrylm but they don’t make me sleepy. Didn’t do a thing for my sinuses, of course!

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      1. i wonder if obummer left something in TT when they bugged it while President Trump was campaigning against hitlery…PT figured out they were bugging TT–but maybe something was left there–they seem awfully hot to get their hands on it…desperate almost.

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  17. this is toooooo convenient for my taste. did NYC Mayor cross the wrong path? a woman files a sexual assault case against the mayor she claims occurred in 1993–under the same act that allowed crazy carroll to sue President Trump. she is only asking for $5 MILLION in, you know, personal trauma injuries..

    FTA

    Filed in Manhattan under the Adult Survivors Act, which provided New Yorkers a one-year window to bring lawsuits over sexual assaults that may have occurred decades ago, the woman said the incident allegedly happened when she and Adams worked together at New York City’s transit police bureau. At the time, she had asked him for career help after having been passed up for a promotion. In the 26-page complaint, the woman claimed that Adams drove her to “a vacant lot and requested oral sex.” When she declined, Adams then allegedly “forced her to touch his penis and ejaculated on her leg.”

    “The effects of that sexual assault, betrayal and astonishing abuse of power, continue to haunt the plaintiff to this day,” the lawsuit said.

    The woman claimed that she feared for her life at the time due to Adams’ then-status as a police officer with a loaded gun.

    Mayor Eric Adams has denied the sexual assault allegation since the lawsuit was filed in November 2023.

    “That is not who I am,” he said at a community meeting in December. “I want to be very clear: Never happened. I don’t even know who the person is. I don’t even remember if I ever met them before.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/18/details-revealed-of-sexual-assault-allegedly-perpetrated-by-nyc-mayor-eric-adams-31-years-ago/

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  18. Peter Navarro

    @RealPNavarro

    Here is the statement I issued after Justice John Roberts decided to reject my release pending appeal. STATEMENT OF PETER NAVARRO RE: SCOTUS DECISION Justice Roberts took care to note that his reason for denial was “distinct from [my] pending appeal on the merits.” That appeal on the merits will continue and if I fail in that appeal – after nonetheless serving my full prison term — the constitutional separation of powers will be irreparably damaged and the doctrine of executive privilege dating back to George Washington will cease to function as an important safeguard for effective presidential decision-making. There is much at stake here and it is worth the fight. The partisan nature of the imprisoning of a top senior White House aide should chill the bones of every American. In Joe Biden’s weaponized justice system, a Democrat controlled Congress and Justice Department together with an Obama-appointed District Judge and three Obama-appointed Appeals Court judges drove the Navarro railroad right into prison. If anybody thinks these partisans and politicians in robes aren’t coming for Donald Trump, they must think twice now.

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  21. how did he pass the registration test to lawfully buy a gun???

    Winston
    March 19, 2024 9:07 am

    How could he be legally carrying the weapon in CHICAGO and where did he get it?

    Illegal Immigrant Can Carry Guns: Federal Judge
    MAR 18, 2024

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/illegal-immigrant-can-carry-guns-federal-judge

    Prosecutors charged Heriberto Carbajal-Flores, the illegal alien, in 2020 after he was found in Chicago carrying a semi-automatic pistol despite “knowing he was an alien illegally and unlawfully in the United States.”

    “The court finds that Carbajal-Flores’ criminal record, containing no improper use of a weapon, as well as the non-violent circumstances of his arrest do not support a finding that he poses a risk to public safety such that he cannot be trusted to use a weapon responsibly and should be deprived of his Second Amendment right to bear arms in self-defense.”

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  23. You mention it’s Bruce Willis’ birthday today and that today is the first day of spring. I guess you are referring to Tuesday, March 19, 2024, but my sources are all different. My ephemeris says the sun will enter Aries on Thursday, March 21 or during late evening of the 20th.

    Also, you don’t say what year Bruce Willis was born. While my concerns may seem petty, I am continually confused by time shifts around the world, especially with “Daylight Savings Time” in the US now.

    For instance, running stories, like the persecution of Donald Trump by all the federal government mucky mucks and their henchpersons overlap on the net, so I can’t follow the status of any evolving “current event”. Putin’s election contest in Russia, for instance.

    As we can see, nothing is over until it’s over, but it leaves residue and confusion in its wake.

    Happy Birthday, Bruce Willis.

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    1. Morning katharine!

      i got it cbs news…lol

      “Spring has almost sprung; The vernal equinox, the official start date for the season in the Northern Hemisphere, arrives today. The 2024 spring equinox will occur at exactly 11:06 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, March 19.”

      and Bruce was born in 1955.

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      1. Thank you, Pat. Chilly morning here in Savannah, too, but warming fast, up to 60-plus degrees and sunny. I was drinking coffee and listening on YouTube to RFK, Jr. talking about the CIA and its involvement with regime change, beginning with Iran in 1953. Allan Dulles worked for the OSS and for a law firm prior to working for Truman, etc. RFK, Jr. also went into the rumor about his grandfather’s having been a bootlegger during Prohibition and explained that story. And now the sun is getting higher, so I have something to think about today.

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        2. It’s too cold yet to “do things” here but I’m getting prepared with all of my feeders and plans for garden/flower beds. Trying to find someone to roto-till my cantaloupe bed but not having any luck so far.

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            1. Oh, I’m on the route as well….I’ve got soooo many trinkets, pictures, statues, china, silver, etc., etc. from my a-Mom and I’m trying to declutter and give things away to people I know will appreciate them. And I don’t even want to THINK about my garage!!!

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              3. It’s a playground for someone like me who is challenged by problems. I have lots of problems seeking creative solutions or creative temporary fixes. Right now, Im going to the shed behind the chicken coop to patch the hole at the roof edge junction gnawed by rats or squirrels to get the chicken scratch grains and other treats inside.

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  26. Some interesting info on Netanyahu’s wife – she’s a right royal bitch, seems to me!!!

    “Zippy: The Svengali of G@za”

    JIMYCHANGA, MAR 19, 2024

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “I find it interesting to explore the power behind the throne (or in this case, the power behind the power behind the throne) namely, B#bbi’s wife Sara’s main advisor, Tz#pi N@von. Here’s a small taste:

    That sort of advice has to rub off on you sooner or later. Psychooooooo (alright, maybe that’s a little harsh. Hear her out…)

    What a nutjob. Why does the crap always seem to rise to the top in human society?”

    https://news.walla.co.il/item/3130767 (Hebrew)

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    1. i understand her feelings. i might not have expressed them so verbally myself…but the atrocities committed against women–young and old–and children–on Oct7th? there is much to be said about “an eye for an eye…”

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      1. Nope, wrong is wrong, no matter which “side” you’re on. Two wrongs NEVER equal one right!!! And you should listen to her in the video – simply awful treatment of staff!!!

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        1. i am not saying she is right…but savagery is not acceptable on any side and you don’t deter that by asking nicely.

          look at the illegals who commit rape and steal and murder here–we let them off with a don’t do it again or else–and what happens? repeat offenders.
          sometimes, like it or not, you have to make an example of one of them to deter the others.

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          1. I’m not saying to withhold punishment at all and, as you well know by now, I don’t think the punishments are nearly harsh enough, such as more use of the death penalty; I also want to see the prison work crews again – no reason whatsoever that they can’t do that work to pay back “society” in general. After all, it is the Peoples’ taxes that are paying for their keep!!! I watched an episode on ID last night about a guy who had committed 2 murders in the past, was released on parole, and promptly went out and murdered someone else. DEATH PENALTY, PLEASE!!!!

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              1. I agree with that, too, altho I don’t support gratuitous cruelty. Give them a shot and put them to sleep just like you would a rabid dog – same principle!

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    2. I’d love to see all Islamists removed from GAZA. The whole territory exists only to attack and harm Israel.

      Islam should be banned from the face of the earth – it has no redeeming qualities!

      The MO of Islam is hate, rape, murder, war, conquest, hypocrisy, blasphemy.

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  27. “GOP presses Mayorkas for docs on brothers of Laken Riley murder suspect”

    By Ben Whedon, Just The News, Published: March 18, 2024 3:19pm

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan and California Republican Rep. Tom McClintock on Monday wrote Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas seeking materials related to the brothers of Laken Riley’s alleged murderer.

    Riley was found dead on the University of Georgia campus near Lake Herrick in early March. Authorities have charged Jose Antonio Ibarra with her killing. U.S. immigration records show he entered the country in 2022 and was flagged for removal though he received parole under the Biden administration.

    Of immediate interest to the Republicans, however, are Ibarra’s brothers Diego and Argenis. 

    “According to ICE, both brothers entered the United States illegally near Eagle Pass, Texas, on April 3, 2023. They were expelled by Border Patrol agents pursuant to Title 42 authorities but re-entered the country illegally on April 30, 2023,” they wrote. “Despite attempting to bite a Border Patrol agent, Diego Ibarra was subsequently released on Alternatives to Detention (ATD) by ICE. Argenis Ibarra was released by ICE with a notice to appear in immigration court.”

    Letter to Mayorkas re: Ibarra brothers

    They then emphasized the litany of reported arrests and offenses involving Diego Ibarra as well as his own alleged gang affiliation. The Republicans then pointed to both brothers’ presence near the University of Georgia during the time of the investigation into Riley’s murder.

    “Criminal aliens exploit vulnerabilities in our nation’s immigration system to the detriment of those in the United States. The Biden Administration’s border and immigration policies only increase the likelihood that criminal aliens will successfully enter and remain in the U.S.” they asserted.

    The pair then demanded the case records and other materials related to Diego and Argenis.”

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  31. “I’m up….!”

    Oldie but one of my favs, of course! I can’t wait to see what they do with the slinky on the pole!!!

    “A front moving down in November…..”

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  32. “Words of Wisdom”

    BTW, she has been moved to the country-club prison!

    “Sheepdog after fighting wolves off to defend his sheep”

    “Have your welding helmet at the ready”

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      1. With my birth Mom, it was whatever was handy at the time. Grandma used a section of rubber hose. Adopted Mom made me go out and pull off a switch from a tree. And I got backhanded a few times as well.

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      1. I’ve only had that scare a couple of times. I did get a misdemeanor possession charge one time when I laid claim to some weed that wasn’t mine to save my roommate from a dealing charge. That was a complicated situation where my tenant in the basement apartment was actually the one who had brought the weed upstairs in that case.

        He and his live-in GF (with whom he had a child) were fighting and she called the cops to the house and gave them permission to come upstairs. Beyotch! I found out later that he wasn’t who he said he was, either – he was using his dead brother’s DL and name since he had warrants out for him!

        Note to self: if you’re going to rent out rooms/apartments, pay someone to vet them for you!!! However, Tom was dealing and I knew that so it could have been much worse. That went away after a short probation period.

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    1. forgot to bring this part

      Clarion

      Clarion

      March 19, 2024 10:58 am

      I think something like this happened in my local library system.

      Chuck Schumer’s wife makes $540k+ a year at the *non-profit* New York Public Library

      Meanwhile, the city is being forced to scale back library hours.

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  42. “Supreme Court rules against FBI in No Fly List case”

    By Madeleine Hubbard, Just The News

    Published: March 19, 2024 12:14pm

    “The Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously ruled against the FBI in deciding that a man’s challenge to his former placement on the No Fly List may proceed.

    U.S. citizen Yonas Fikre was living in Sudan when he discovered in 2010 that he was placed on the list. He sued the FBI over his placement, and the agency later removed him from the list and argued that the lawsuit was moot and should be dismissed. 

    Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing for the court, said the government has not demonstrated that Fikre’s case is moot but it may be able to do so in the future. 

    “As the case unfolds, the complaint’s allegations will be tested rather than taken as true, and different facts may emerge that may call for a different conclusion,” he wrote.”

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  43. “Another “Conspiracy Theory” is Now “Good for You”The Deep State does not exist. Wait…”

    IGOR CHUDOV, MAR 19, 2024

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “The New York Times explained to us, on many occasions, that the “Deep State” does not exist and is a crazy conspiracy theory.

    However, times have changed! Deep State, you see, exists and is now good for you.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20240319092611/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/opinion/trump-deep-state.html

    Be assured that the New York Times still thinks that the “conspiracy theorists” alleging the existence of the “deep state” are still bad for us, despite the deep state existing just as they were alleging.

    It is also not the first time this has happened. This is why I do not spread unfounded conspiracy theories and only report the actual news!”

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  45. Seems to me that there are a LOT much more consequential cases for SCOTUS to take up vs. the dude who chose to go to Sudan!!!

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  50. NF: This is too funny! I rented my landlord’s truck for a few months while I got the $$$ to finance a car – it was this exact style and color, albeit a slightly lighter blue. I drove from rural VA to Fairfax and back to work every day and yes, it was a beast! LOL

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