The Promised Land

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Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers’ strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord. King was pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital. He was 39 years old.

In the months before his assassination, Martin Luther King became increasingly concerned with the problem of economic inequality in America. He organized a Poor People’s Campaign to focus on the issue, including a march on Washington, and in March 1968 traveled to Memphis in support of poorly treated African-American sanitation workers. On March 28, a workers’ protest march led by King ended in violence and the death of an African American teenager. King left the city but vowed to return in early April to lead another demonstration.

On April 3, back in Memphis, King gave his last sermon, saying, “We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop … And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we, as a people, will get to the promised land.”

One day after speaking those words, Dr. King was shot and killed by a sniper. As word of the assassination spread, riots broke out in cities all across the United States and National Guard troops were deployed in Memphis and Washington, D.C. On April 9, King was laid to rest in his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia. Tens of thousands of people lined the streets to pay tribute to King’s casket as it passed by in a wooden farm cart drawn by two mules.

The evening of King’s murder, a Remington .30-06 hunting rifle was found on the sidewalk beside a rooming house one block from the Lorraine Motel. During the next several weeks, the rifle, eyewitness reports, and fingerprints on the weapon all implicated a single suspect: escaped convict James Earl Ray. A two-bit criminal, Ray escaped a Missouri prison in April 1967 while serving a sentence for a holdup. In May 1968, a massive manhunt for Ray began. The FBI eventually determined that he had obtained a Canadian passport under a false identity, which at the time was relatively easy.

On June 8, Scotland Yard investigators arrested Ray at a London airport. He was trying to fly to Belgium, with the eventual goal, he later admitted, of reaching Rhodesia. Rhodesia, now called Zimbabwe, was at the time ruled by an oppressive and internationally condemned white minority government. Extradited to the United States, Ray stood before a Memphis judge in March 1969 and pleaded guilty to King’s murder in order to avoid the electric chair. He was sentenced to 99 years in prison.

Three days later, he attempted to withdraw his guilty plea, claiming he was innocent of King’s assassination and had been set up as a patsy in a larger conspiracy. He claimed that in 1967, a mysterious man named “Raoul” had approached him and recruited him into a gunrunning enterprise. On April 4, 1968, he said, he realized that he was to be the fall guy for the King assassination and fled to Canada. Ray’s motion was denied, as were his dozens of other requests for a trial during the next 29 years.

During the 1990s, the widow and children of Martin Luther King Jr. spoke publicly in support of Ray and his claims, calling him innocent and speculating about an assassination conspiracy involving the U.S. government and military. U.S. authorities were, in conspiracists’ minds, implicated circumstantially. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover obsessed over King, who he thought was under communist influence. For the last six years of his life, King underwent constant wiretapping and harassment by the FBI. Before his death, Dr. King was also monitored by U.S. military intelligence, which may have been asked to watch King after he publicly denounced the Vietnam War in 1967. Furthermore, by calling for radical economic reforms in 1968, including guaranteed annual incomes for all, King was making few new friends in the Cold War-era U.S. government.

Over the years, the assassination has been reexamined by the House Select Committee on Assassinations, the Shelby County, Tennessee, district attorney’s office, and three times by the U.S. Justice Department. The investigations all ended with the same conclusion: James Earl Ray killed Martin Luther King. The House committee acknowledged that a low-level conspiracy might have existed, involving one or more accomplices to Ray, but uncovered no evidence to definitively prove this theory. In addition to the mountain of evidence against him—such as his fingerprints on the murder weapon and his admitted presence at the rooming house on April 4—Ray had a definite motive in assassinating King: hatred. According to his family and friends, he was an outspoken racist who informed them of his intent to kill Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He died in 1998.

SOURCE: History.com

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  1. Fascinating topic, Miss Pat. 

    Two quotes in this article stuck out for me:

    “For the last six years of his life, King underwent constant wiretapping and harassment by the FBI. “

    “In addition to the mountain of evidence against him—such as his fingerprints on the murder weapon and his admitted presence at the rooming house on April 4—Ray had a definite motive in assassinating King: hatred. According to his family and friends, he was an outspoken racist who informed them of his intent to kill Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.”

    Martin Luther King had many enemies….His position of non-violence was not popular with every civil rights leader. 

    One speech in particular made MLK enemies amongst the angry black grievance race-mongers and others who wanted to fuel violence:

    It was his Love and Forgiveness speech at Southern Methodist University – Dallas TX – 3/17/1966 – https://www.smu.edu/News/2014/mlk-at-smu-transcript-17march1966

    And this part in particular near the end…I have highlighted the parts that would infuriate those like Sharpton or Øbama, who create riots, burn cities, kill white people, create protection rackets to pad their purses with million$$$, while they leave black people dangerous ghettos and leave lost fatherless drug-addled youth to die.

    Quote:

    “Fortunately the Greek language comes to our aid in trying to describe the meaning of love in this context. There are three words in Greek for love. One is the word Eros. Eros is sort of an aesthetic love. Plato used to talk about it a great deal in his dialogs, the yearning of the soul for the realm of the divine. This comes to be a sort of romantic love. And in this sense we all know about Eros. We have experienced it and read about it in all the beauties of literature. 

    In a sense, what Poe was talking about was Eros when he was talking about his beautiful Annabel Lee with the love surrounded by the halo of eternity. And Shakespeare was talking about Eros when he said, “Love is not love / Which alters when it alteration finds, / Or bends with the remover to remove / O no, it is an ever-fixed mark / That looks on tempests and is never shaken.” You know I can remember that because I used to quote it to my wife when we were courting. That was Eros.

    And then in the Greek language talks about Philia, which is a kind of intimate affection between personal friends. This is a very beautiful love. This is the kind of love that you have for the people you like. This is the kind of love you have for your roommate and those people that you get along with very well and that you go out with. This is Philia. This is friendship. 

    Then the Greek language come out with another word. This is the word Agape. Agape is more than romantic or aesthetic love. Agape is more than friendship. Agape is understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. Theologians would say that it is an overflowing love that is the love of God operating in the human heart. When one rises to love on this level, he loves every man not because he likes him, not because his ways appeal to him, but because God loves him and he rises to the level of loving the person who does the evil deed by hating the deed the person does. I think this is what Jesus meant when he said love your enemies. And I’m so happy he didn’t say like your enemies. I must confess that there are some people that it is pretty difficult to like. But Jesus said love them and love is greater than like. Love is understanding creative goodwill for all men. When you stand up against the evil system and yet understand the perpetrator of that evil system. 

    You may be in Selma, Alabama, and you may have a sheriff by the name of Jim Clark who calls you all kinds of names and inflicts upon you the most tragic brutality. And you just keep on marching and standing up for what is right. But as you look at Mr. Clark you know he’s that way because somebody taught him that. You know he’s that way because his culture has so patterned things that he’s grown up thinking that he’s superior and Negroes are inferior. You know that even his church didn’t help him out to clarify his views too much on that problem. And so he ended up being taught something that he grew up believing. 

    And so you, out of love, stand up because you want to redeem him and the object is never to annihilate your opponent but to convert him and bring him to that brighter day when he can stand up and see that all men are brothers. This is something of what the non-violent method says. And so this is what we try to do. We haven’t always been true to it but we have tried. Some, out of anger, have strayed away. But by and large we’ve stayed with it. 

    Somehow, we’ve lived with it at its best and been able to look into the face of our most violent opponent and say we will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you. We cannot in all good conscience obey your unjust laws because non-cooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good so throw us in jail and we will still love you. Threaten our children and bomb our churches and our homes and, as difficult as it is, we will still love you. Send your hooded perpetrators of violence into our communities at the midnight hour and drag us out on some wayside road and beat us and leave us half dead and we will still love you. But be assured we will wear you down with all the lashings that we suffer. One day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves, we will so appeal to your heart and your conscience that we will win you in the process. And our victory will be a double victory. 

    This is what the non-violent method says at its best. It has brought us a long, long way and it will help those of us who have been on the oppressed end of the old order to go into the new order with the right attitude. Not with bitterness, not with the desire to retaliate, not with the desire to get even with those inflicted injustice upon us all of these years, but with a desire to forgive and forget and move on to a moral balance. We will not seek to substitute one tyranny for another, thereby subverting justice. We will not seek to rise from a position of disadvantage to one of advantage. 

    This is why I say that a doctrine of black supremacy is as dangerous as a doctrine of white supremacy. God is not interested merely in the freedom of black men and brown men and yellow men, but God is interested in the freedom of the whole human race and the creation of a society where all men will live together as brothers. And every man will respect the dignity and worth of human personality. And so that is the need to stand up, that is the need for all people of goodwill in this nation to become involved participants.

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    1. Morning, Pat! Looks like clear skies here, temp at 31. King, just like Kennedy, was murdered by our own government, no doubt in my mind.

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  7. “Trump and Bin Salman Communicating as Tensions Rise in Middle East”

    CLANDESTINE, APR 04, 2024

    “VERY interesting! The New York Times reports that Trump recently spoke with Saudi Crown, Mohammad Bin Salman.

    As tensions rise in the Middle East, Trump is communicating with arguably the most prominent figure in the Muslim world, while Biden is asleep at the wheel.

    The NYTs cite they do not know the contents of the conversation, just that the two spoke via phone recently.

    Trump has always had a great relationship with MBS, and all the BRICS leaders for that matter. Let’s hope Trump and his diplomatic efforts can convince the BRICS nations to hold off from escalating WW3, in the hopes that Trump can reclaim office and swiftly end NATO/Israel’s aggression.

    The leaders of the world know that Biden isn’t going to solve anything. The world wants Trump.”

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  9. so this illegal was one of obummer’s DACA–came as a “child” illegally, got work permits and was deported because of crimes. so he crosses AGAIN illegally and commits murder. THANKS OBAMA–THIS IS ON YOU!

    FTA

    What started as a dream for Mexican Brandon Ortiz-Vite ended in a nightmare for the Grand Rapids family of Ruby Garcia.

    New information from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement reveals Ortiz-Vite entered the United States illegally as a child, and was later approved for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program created by the Obama administration, WZZM reports.

    He now faces multiple potential life sentences in Garcia’s murder last month.

    Those approved for the DACA program, known as dreamers, are shielded from deportation for two years and allowed to secure work permits in exchange for good behavior. The program, which was repeatedly rejected by lawmakers, was expanded by former President Barack Obama in 2014. The expansion was then rescinded by former President Trump, before President Biden reinstated the expansion by executive order in 2021.

    A federal judge in September ruled DACA violates federal law, though the program remains in place pending an appeal.

    Ortiz-Vite’s DACA status expired on May 10, 2019, following several crimes including driving without a license and burglary that ultimately resulted in his deportation to Mexico by the Trump administration on Sept. 29, 2020, according to ICE.

    Ortiz-Vite returned sometime in the years since, and is currently lodged in Kent County Jail with a detainer request from ICE.

    State Police investigators allege Ortiz-Vite confessed to shooting Garcia multiple times with an illegally purchased handgun before unbuckling her seatbelt and dumping her body along US 131 near downtown Grand Rapids on March 22. He was arrested two days later.

    https://www.themidwesterner.news/2024/04/illegal-immigrant-murderer-brandon-ortiz-vite-was-dreamer-deported-for-crimes-then-re-entered-u-s-illegally-again/

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  10. NF: This is just more bull shyte! Ashley Biden LEFT the diary under her mattress when she checked out, FFS!! Finders, keepers; losers, weepers! Sucks to be you, Ashley! Shouldn’t have left it there!!! It must not have been THAT important to her!!! Or did she leave it intentionally? Hmmmm……

    Just The News: “The Department of Justice this week asked a judge to impose a four-to-ten month prison sentence for Aimee Harris, who stole the diary of first daughter Ashley Biden and ultimately sold it Project Veritas.

    Harris pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit interstate transportation of stolen property, The Hill reported. Her sentencing was originally slated for December of 2022, but has been delayed 12 times already.

    The DOJ on Tuesday asked Judge Laura Swain to impose the sentence, along with three years of supervised release. The DOJ previously sought only six months of home confinement and the three-year supervised release period.

    Harris entered her plea in August of 2022, along with Robert Kurtlander, whom she enlisted to aid in selling the diary. The pair ultimately sold it to Project Veritas for $20,000 each, though the outlet did not publish its contents.

    She originally obtained the diary while staying at Biden’s Florida residence in 2020. Court filings from the Southern District of New York indicated that they had previously sought to sell the diary to the campaign of former President Donald Trump, though they refused and urged the pair to give it to the FBI.”

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  11. Smith is trying to say the President does not have the authority to declare what is classified or what is personal and that subjugate agencies beneath him DO. ridiculous! As President, he has plenary power to determine what is classified and what is personal and NO ONE in the Constitution is above him in that decision. 

    FTA

    “Both scenarios rest on an unstated and fundamentally flawed legal premise — namely, that the Presidential Records Act (‘PRA’), and in particular its distinction between ‘personal’ and ‘Presidential’ records determines whether a former President is ‘authorized,’ under the Espionage Act to possess highly classified documents and store them in an unsecure facility,” Smith’s team wrote in the filing.

    The Presidential Records Act requires the return of presidential records at the end of a president’s term, but says they can keep their personal records, which is described as documents containing “highly personal information, such as diaries, journals, and medical records.” 

    In a Tuesday filing responding to Cannon’s order, Trump’s lawyers maintained that the Presidential Records Act gives Trump the authority to decide whether a record is personal or presidential, that all of the records found in his possession could be considered personal despite classification markings, and that that Trump’s determination that they’re personal records can’t be second-guessed by the courts.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/rcna146166

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  12. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/03/us/politics/trump-spoke-recently-with-saudi-leader.html

    Our Take: “Everybody and their mother is talking about this story– and why wouldn’t they be? Is it evidence that Donald Trump is the real leader of the United States? Yes, it is. Is it a Devolution proof? I think so. Is Donald Trump the Peacemaker? Damn right he is.

    Mohammed bin Salman is the most important leader in the Middle East, and arguably the most important leader in the world at this exact moment in time. So of course the world is talking about him.

    But anybody who has been following my musings won’t find this development particularly surprising, just vindicating. But vindication is not my interest, so I’m going to hone in on a different aspect of this story than everybody else:

    Jamaal Khashoggi.

    Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan of course took this opportunity to swipe at Trump over MBS’s alleged murder of Khashoggi. They point out that Trump defended MBS against these allegations, which came solely from the CIA, without the presentation of any evidence, let alone a trial, or even an official statement—just the ‘anonymous comments’ from bloodsucking cravens who are too cowardly to stand out in the sunlight and speak their mind. (These same scumbags want us all to live in fear of them because they like to kill people in cold blood.)

    Haberman and Swan also point out that in 2020 candidate Joe Biden vowed to treat MBS as a ‘pariah’ because of what he did to Khashoggi. Interesting, because that’s exactly what the CIA and State Department demanded of all world leaders in the wake of that scandal, which really begs the question:

    Did the Saudi’s actually kill Jamaal Khashoggi?

    I don’t think they did. While Khashoggi was a prolific scumbag who is not mourned by anybody with any sense of decency, he was a relative nobody in the face of somebody like the Saudi Crown Prince. By the time Khashoggi was murdered, MBS had already ‘won’ his little war against his corrupt family members. He had already taken control of the Saudi government, and implemented his will. Killing Khashoggi—who in late 2018 was nothing more than a whinging dissident living in exile—makes very little sense for a young emerging world leader who was in the midst of ‘rebranding’ the Arab people in the eyes of the world.

    MBS is all about showing everybody that there is more to Arabia than just orthodox Islam, so why would he waste his time fulfilling the stereotype of a ‘violent and vindictive Arab?’

    The CIA desperately wants us to believe that MBS killed Khashoggi—believe me, I’ve read ALL of their propaganda on it—which is exactly why I am thoroughly convinced that it was the CIA who killed Jamaal Khashoggi, because his death has benefitted them and their objectives far more than it has benefitted the one guy who is actually trying to bring peace and prosperity to the Middle East.

    (How do you like them apples, Langley?)” — GhostofBasedPatrickHenry

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  13. Blogger GA/FL may be a neighbor. The description about the types of love is thought-provoking. I remember the day MLK was shot. I was in high school, and Savannah was put on curfew because of fear of racial riots. My friends and I went out walking, but we were alone. All was quiet, as if everyone was stunned. Subsequent events have revealed US government complicity, if not active participation, in his death. J. Edgar Hoover has been shown to have had a definite paranoid streak, but the result of the murders of that decade–JFK, MLK, and RFK–all added up to a message of universal love beyond individual motives, as GA/FL so eloquently says.

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    2. Good morning, Katherine! GA is the person I had in mind when you first began posting and I mentioned that you might be neighbors. I hope the two of you connect!

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    3. As for MLK Jr., it was not discussed in my small NE town, at least within my hearing. Any such discussions were held in a hushed voice outside the range of “little ears.” Until the late 1960’s, Norfolk had exactly ONE black resident whom most people had never even seen. She was an older woman whose house was directly behind the HS, with a 10′ privacy fence surrounding the yard.

      In about the same timeframe as MLK’s death, the junior college in town had the audacity to admit 3 black students and let me tell you! There was one heck of a hullabaloo over that, especially after it came out that the HS principal’s daughter dated one of them. I only heard a word here, a word there – my parents did not speak about it in my presence.

      I met my first black person after I went to work on the Thoroughbred racetrack in NE when I was 19 or 20, an old man who was a groom and a super-nice guy. By far, the vast majority of grooms & jockeys were from So. America, with some locals sprinkled thruout. I got my REAL education about black people during basic training at Ft. McClellan, AL. That was a big wake-up call and I discovered blacks are just as racist as whites!!!!

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      1. we had a black young man in our class in high school. he name was Alvin and he was friendly and funny. no one treated him any different and he didn’t treat us any different and that was that…but this was the early 70’s by then.

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      2. Our various childhood and teen experiences are fascinating. I grew up rubbing elbows with blacks in neighborhoods around mine, in area grocery stores and the like, but there was no social interaction. My mother had a series of black maids, part-time. One lasted for years and could put up with my mother until my mother died . . . was the next-to-last person to see her alive. I still check in on Sallie now. She is 91 years old.

        I was in junior high school when the public schools were integrated. The South has had resentment against the North, especially since Reconstruction–not against the blacks, but the against the Yankees. Many people don’t understand the difference.

        Also, I think people tend to be suspicious of those they don’t understand, and government policy accentuates the differences. In the South, we have all been conditioned by media and government to behave unnaturally, but I still find black individuals on the street are warmer and friendlier than those closer to my skin color.

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        1. I really had no opinion one way or the other until I met the guy at the track – to me, he wasn’t that different from all the Hispanics, just a little darker, and a really nice, kind man.

          There were 5 or 6 black women in my basic training class, most of whom I had no issues with. And, in truth, the only “issues” that did arise were due to a white gal who I thought was my friend – her last name was Bates, IDR her first name.

          My supposed “friend” was one of those people who were called “wiggers” – white trying to be black, IOW – very patronizing on it’s face, if you ask me – she really went overboard with it. But she had a serious crush on one of our drill sergeants (both men), DS Corona, a short, thin, sexy Hispanic guy who liked to flirt. I wasn’t attracted to him at all and there was little interaction between us, outside of him teasing me in the chow line at the mess hall when I complained there was no corn available. “I thought you’d have some corn in your back pocket, NE!” Prick!

          Anyway, it was the DS’s policy to rotate the Platoon Leader position and she was all excited, almost salivating at the thought they would pick her and she would get to spend a lot of time with DS Corona.

          I, OTH, wanted nothing to do with it and was seriously disappointed when I was selected instead. She immediately flipped on me and rounded up a group, headed by a black chick named Jackie Betts, of those members of the platoon who thought this was all a game – they snuck out of the barracks at night, hid contraband candy in the ceiling tiles, constantly breaking rules.

          Meanwhile, I just wanted to do what I had to do to get thru it successfully – period!

          She was so jealous that she lied to them, claiming I was turning in people for sneaking out and for contraband, when, in actuality, I NEVER turned anyone in nor would I w/o giving them forewarning.

          I tried to meet with them and clarify things but they turned into a mob, all screaming at me, while most of the platoon – including blacks – sat on their bunks and just watched the insanity, shaking their heads.

          Someone called DS Johnson at home and he came out and found me sitting in the bus stop a block away – I had to get away, even tho I knew I’d probably get in trouble for leaving the barracks property.

          Thankfully, my stint as Leader was cut short and Bales/Jackie et al and I simply avoided each other from thereon out. Let me end by saying this: it was a VERY enlightening time for me.

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          1. See? The military is one enclave I have had no exposure to, but for all the soldiers around here from Ft. Stewart and Hunter, wearing fatigues at Starbucks and the like. I have worked in VA hospitals, though. Although I liked the vets, the VA system seems committed to prescribing lots of drugs (like Valium in Psychiatry) and continuing the drugs for many years. I gather the military is its own world, with its own layers of prejudices and social protocols.

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            1. VA healthcare kinda sucks, altho that varies based on location and you’re right about the drugs in a lot of cases. When I joined, it was shortly before the Women’s Army Corps (WACs) was disbanded, effective 1/1/77; since I enlisted in November 1976, my class was one of the last to go thru basic as WACs. Since I was stationed at the Pentagon, I had the privilege of attending the disbanding ceremony and still have the program. The healthcare benefits I received in my contract are totally different than what they have now – I get free healthcare for everything except for things like plastic surgery or pregnancy, and dental care (unless it was a result of military service). Because I was a WAC, I was also able to ETS from the Army 1 month early under a pregnancy discharge. Once the switch to RA was made, that option was eliminated. Nowadays, the vets have to pay for the “insurance” and co-pays. It all depends on the timeframe of service – whatever was in effect in your contract at that time.

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              1. I’ve been listening to Tulsi Gabbard on YouTube. I like her. I guess she is Hindu, but she was on Lex Fridman’s podcast talking about her service in Iraq, as a member of the medical corps. Your thoughts?

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              3. WEF. I understand those letters. Money, fake money, and delegated power. But the squirrels are thriving this spring, so maybe they will save some blueberries for the birds. Communism in action.

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              5. I want to discuss more about this later, because I’m working on another couple of blogs, one about the proliferation of plastic waste; and another on re-reading “Moby Dick.”

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              7. What’s CC? I can’t keep up with all the letters. I finally figured out that IMO means In My Opinion, and IMHO means that with Humble. I use US of A, instead of America, to designate which political entity claims which specific piece of the land mass, etc. Guess I’m Humbly Stupid.

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              10. OK. That’s two votes, plus mine, for the hoax that is termed “climate change”. Maybe the planetary climate is changing, as the earth wobbles on its axis, but mankind’s contribution cannot be measured, unless we are collectively exhaling lots of hot air.

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              16. it’s such a minute part of the atmosphere. focusing on it is ridiculous. and nature gave us a wonderful system ( as long as we don’t mess with it). we breathe out CO2 which the green plants and trees breathe in and they in return “breathe out” O2…it’s a wonderful system.

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              17. Not only that, but photosynthesis breaks down water through the Krebs cycle to create the plant’s sugars, including carbohydrates and other nutrients that feed us all. All organic compounds contain carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen in complex chains. That’s why organic compounds, including gasoline, burn.

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              19. I’m a generalist amateur researcher, interested in how things work. In my 70- plus years, I’ve had multiple interests, with careers following the interests of the time. I took basic chemistry, physics, and botany to go to medical school, did that and residency in psychiatry at U of Florida and Emory University. Since then I’ve done locum tenens work at VAs and mostly in the public mental health field, before I got chickens. I’ve always been a reader and a doer, seeking to use what talent I have to make use of the stuff I inherited from my pack-rat parents or have acquired on my own.

                I have kept hand-written journals since I was a teenager, including dream diaries. Still curious but often unable to follow up, for lack of consistency.

                My relentless desire for personal freedom has made it difficult to commit to anyone except my pets.

                Enough about me. Thanks for your interest. You and Filly, and other bloggers have spurred me to look into Mercury last night, the planet, god (Woden/Odin) and the neurotoxic element (Hg) in our ecosystem and waterways. In astrology the ruler of today, Wednesday. And for tomorrow, Thursday: related to Thor in Anglo-Saxon folklore. And Speckles is crowing. Up.

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              20. you and Filly are kindred spirits in the make use of what you have genre. she repurposes all kinds of stuff!
                and you and I are kindred spirits in the journals. I started a journal for my son from the very day he was born and have continued for the most part to this day. thoughts, impressions, events in his life…
                i used to have journals and letters I’ve received from friends as they went off to college but my first husband burned my memory box (made by my dad) and all the letters inside.

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  14. Loomer bringing more sauce…the judge’s daughter and now THE WIFE! she worked for…letitia james…small world of hate for one man…Donald Trump

    Laura Loomer

    @LauraLoomer

    EXCLUSIVE: LOREN MERCHAN’S MOTHER AND JUDGE MERCHAN’S WIFE WORKED FOR THE TRUMP HATING NY AG LETITIA JAMES You won’t get this information anywhere else ! Now that Judge Merchan has expanded the Gag order tonight on President Trump, preventing him from speaking about the judge’s family after I exposed Loren Merchan, it’s time for me to introduce you all to Loren Merchan’s mother.

    Meet LARA MERCHAN! Lara Merchan is the mother of radical leftist political operative Loren Merchan, who’s father is Judge Juan Merchan, the rabid TDS suffering judge presiding over Alvin Bragg’s Lawfare attack against President Trump, was a Special Assistant Attorney General, under New York AG Letitia James. ANOTHER MAJOR CONFLICT OF INTEREST! Lara Merchan was employed by the New York State Attorney General from 2009-2022. Letitia James was “installed” into office in 2019 after running on a campaign to “Get Trump”.

    I wonder if they’ve ever met. Do you think they all go on family date nights to the Voodoo shops in Chelsea, NY to put pins into Trump dolls? I think about that sometimes… RECEIPTS! I have provided a copy of Judge Merchan’s mortgage satisfaction document to prove that he and Lara are or were married.

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  19. Sorry but I just can’t stand pugs!!! Not only are they ugly (ok, French bulldogs ARE kind of cute….as puppies!) but they always have breathing difficulties!

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  21. “The Lawfare Against John Eastman and Jeff Clark Portend The Fate of Every Right-Leaning Attorney Who Fails To Stand Up For Their Persecuted Colleagues — To invoke an uncannily apropos sentiment famously attributed to Edmund Burke: The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

    PAUL INGRASSIA, APR 04, 2024

    EXCERPT: “If the Biden Regime can be summarized by a single word, it would be: injustice.  No presidential administration in the history of the United States ever observed such an egregious assault on civil liberties and the rule of law, especially constitutional due process and the presumption of innocence, than what is now occurring under Biden and his weaponized Department of Justice today. 

    Donald Trump is, of course, Political Hostage Numero Uno of the weaponized justice system – and his white martyrdom at the hand of a deeply subverted justice system in this country has galvanized his base, and his countrymen, to levels that surpass anytime since he first entered politics in 2015. 

    Americans recognize the grave injustice of what is now unfolding in courtrooms across the country.  But of course, the casualties of America’s weaponized justice system span well beyond President Trump, extending to lawyers who represented him during that most trying period for the republic, between November of 2020 and January of 2021, when the Constitution was put on the chopping block. 

    The few lawyers who did rise up to defend President Trump channeled the brave spirit of the Founding Fathers in doing so, putting literally everything on the line – their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor – when virtually nobody else in the profession (and that is without exaggeration) would do the same. 

    Two such lawyers, John Eastman and Jeffrey Clark, entered the storm as many of their peers turned a blind eye — or actively turned against them.  That most turbulent period in the days and weeks following the 2020 election put strains on our constitutional form of government to a degree not seen in generations, at least spanning back to the Civil War era. 

    But it is during periods of trials and tribulations, not of peace and tranquility, that the Constitution’s durability is put to the ultimate test.  In order to keep a republic amid great adversity, exceptional men of character must rise up – and go against the grain, to preserve the time-honored traditions and sacred way of life incubated and passed down from one generation to the next…”

    https://paulingrassia.substack.com/p/the-lawfare-against-john-eastman

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  22. “‘I Didn’t Do That,’ Insists Biden After Aides Ask Him Who Colored On The Wall Of The Lincoln Bedroom”

    POLITICS · Apr 3, 2024 · BabylonBee.com

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    WASHINGTON, D.C.-When asked by the press who drew in crayon all over the Lincoln Bedroom at the White House this week, President Biden answered with an emphatic, “I didn’t do that” before quickly shoving a handful of red and blue crayons in his mouth.

    “That’s flagrant misinformation,” remarked the President through a full mouth of colored wax. “Mrwighphrggedgh. I didn’t do that.”

    Whitehouse Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was quick to condemn the accusations, reminding members of the press that there is no way to know who drew on the walls and decried them for accusing the President of Crayola vandalism when there are much more important issues to focus on.

    “As you can see, with any of it, misinformation, this day of drawing on the walls has always happened every year, no, no let me clarify, every year we draw on the walls and the President supports the crayon-wall-drawing community, but he himself did not draw-let me clarify-on the wall in that particular bedroom. In fact, I’m pretty sure Peter Doocy did it,” Jean-Pierre explained to the press.

    Doocy was quickly arrested by the FBI.

    As of publishing time, the press was also trying to determine who left that mysterious brown mess on the rug of the Oval Office, legos out all over the Capitol Rotunda, and smeared peanut butter all over the interior of Air Force One.

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  23. “After Asking For Preferred Gender Pronouns, Doctor Asks Patient, ‘OK, Now What’s Your Actual Gender?'”

    LIFE · Apr 3, 2024 · BabylonBee.com

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    BEND, OR — After discussing preferred pronouns during a routine medical exam, a doctor then asked for his patient’s actual gender because they had no idea what they were looking at.

    “It says on your chart that your preferred pronouns are ‘tey/ter.’ That’s all well and good, but what’s your actual gender?” Dr. James DeOrio reportedly asked his blue-haired patient. “I need to know what I’m supposed to be looking at, you know, down there.”

    The patient, whose name has been withheld due to privacy concerns, was agitated by the doctor’s persistent questioning. “What does that have to do with anything?” tey asked, holding out ter hands while asking for “one gender change, please.”

    Dr. DeOrio took it upon himself to educate his patient on the importance of biological sex in medical treatment before clarifying that there was no such thing as a magical gender-changing pill.

    “Something may have to be cut off,” Dr. DeOrio said. At publishing time, Dr. James DeOrio was canceled.

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  24. About the awesome actions recently from our GOP State Reps….the guy whose campaign I worked on when he ran against Fischer for the Senate, Todd Watson, took over as the head of the GOP Committee in the Lincoln area. It wouldn’t surprise me in the least to find they are following his lead on these issues. He is very well versed in Constitutional issues and a very smart, canny guy!

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      1. On the map posted at W’s – look at that tiny area that encompasses the Lincoln-Omaha region – they always vote dem. And both cities are cesspools!

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  27. OK – I don’t like pledges at all! Each person has to act according to their own conscience and understanding!

    EXCERPT: “In the hotel where Abraham Lincoln kicked off his Civil War presidency, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. refined his most famous speech, dozens of organizations gathered this week with a common goal: to forge a historic coalition that would catapult conservatives to the forefront of early voting and election lawfare and expand their movement to Hispanics, Asians, union workers, and African-Americans fleeing the Democratic Party.

    The meeting Wednesday at the Willard Intercontinental, organized by America First Works, a 501 c4 aligned with the America First Policy Institute and its founder, former Trump White House Adviser Brooke Rollins, kicked off with a simple tool that decades ago united conservatives: a signed pledge.
     
    The original Reagan-era pledge, crafted by anti-tax activist Grover Norquist, committed candidates starting in 1986 to never raising taxes. The new “United We Win” pledge committed groups with diverse interests to coalesce around a common goal to “reclaim our nation’s narrative” and “win the argument” heading into November, “leaving no stone unturned” and “saving America.”

    The 402-word pledge, obtained by Just the News, was signed by dozens of prominent conservatives on its first day, including: …….”

    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/conservatives-forge-early-voting-coalition-built-around-new-unity-pledge

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  29. “The Push for WW3”

    CLANDESTINE, APR 04, 2024

    “Secretary of State Blinken says “Ukraine WILL become a member of NATO”

    (VIDEO)

    The moment Ukraine becomes a member of NATO, all member states will then be considered in direct conflict with Russia, and this proxy war will turn into full-scale WW3.

    The American People have no interest in sending our men and women to die in Ukraine, to cover up the crimes of corrupt oligarchs and bureaucrats, all while our own border remains unchecked, and our society continues to crumble.

    But the Biden regime do not care about the People, they care only for themselves and their pursuit of global hegemonic domination. They don’t care how many lives they must sacrifice to do it or how much destruction they leave in their wake.

    This is what’s at stake in the 2024 election. Peace, or the war to end all wars. It’s your choice.”

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    1. nato promised to Putin they would not surround russia with nato countries and they have been breaking their word one nation at a time. nato itself is to blame if ww3 erupts…no onoe else.

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      2. It was US actions that caused the overthrow of the Putin-friendly President the majority of Ukrainians elected, I think in 2014.

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          1. Oh, their motivations span a wide range of subject matter, IMO. An “all of the above” approach needs to be adopted with them!

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  36. I’m so cornfused – IDK what we’ve seen and what we haven’t…..

    Just The News: “U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Thursday rejected former President Donald Trump’s bid to dismiss charges against him in special counsel Jack Smith’s classified documents case, Reuters reported.”

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    2. i did just read about this. the case is still in the pre-trial phase…if she dismissed it now, smith would appeal before she slammed her gavel down and he could get a better ruling in the court of appeals.

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  44. this seems like nonsense to me. if biden can UNDO what Trump has done–Trump can undo this “final RULE ” as well…what an ignoramus!
    FTA
    The Office of Personnel Management, the government’s chief human resources agency, on Thursday implemented new regulations barring career civil servants from being reclassified as political appointees, or as other at-will workers, who are more easily dismissed from their jobs. It comes in response to “Schedule F,” an executive order Trump issued in 2020 that sought to allow for reclassifying tens of thousands of the 2.2 million federal employees and thus reduce their job security protections, according to the Associated Press.

    Biden nullified Schedule F upon taking office, but if Trump were to revive it during a second administration, he could dramatically increase the around 4,000 federal employees who are considered political appointees and typically change with each new president. How many employees might have been affected by Schedule F is unclear.

    House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., torched the Biden administration’s final rule, arguing it insulates federal workers from accountability:

    “OPM’s final rule is yet another example of the Biden Administration’s efforts to insulate the federal workforce from accountability,” Comer said in a statement. “The federal workforce exists to serve the American people, yet many Americans have a deep and growing distrust of the federal bureaucracy. The Biden Administration’s rule will further undermine Americans’ confidence in their government since it allows poor performing federal workers and those who attempt to thwart the policies of a duly elected President to remain entrenched in the federal bureaucracy. We need more accountability for the unelected federal bureaucracy, not less.”

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-administration-rule-makes-firing-federal-workers-harder-trump-promises-deep-state-revamp

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  48. These doctors offices are getting worst.

    I called the office that would do the surgery and she’s like. Well maybe she needs to be reseen by the doctor. I’m like NO!!!!!! Nothing has changed except all these stupid mother %*&^*&^&% tests where they never call back or update anything and she needs a &^(^(*^ knee that has been dragged out since November.

    I am SOOOOOO done with this shit.

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      1. I mean this is just turning into BS.

        The cardiologist office never even called me back and that was 4 weeks ago. The test was almost 7 weeks ago.
        Her PCP is on vacation.
        No update on the site.
        Now this office for the knee guy needs to call me back.
        This is just &&&*^*&*&&%*&(

        The person was like its been a while.
        I’m like you try get these tests in a timely manner now a days.

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          1. Its bad. They never even called me back for her blood test in Jan of this year!!!!

            This is a major hospital in our area. Her surgery would be at a different place thank goodness but this is crazy.

            Mom’s like Maybe I should keep limping.

            Trying to get tests in a certain amount of time is impossible. They are like 3 or 4 weeks backed up.

            No call backs. Unless they want more money.
            All calls now go to a main call center.
            Milking the insurance like crazy.

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              3. I’m trying….That’s why I called the knee guy because they never called me back with her tests results so I think she’s clear.
                That’s what I’m going to tell his nurse if she calls back. We are stuck in a system.

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