April Illusions

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This month’s games are a little different.  These are optical illusions according to their labels, but most are cleverly hidden images.  See how many you can sleuth out!

Can You See the Cat?

Can you find the hidden tiger?

Where’s the mouse?

How are the boys?

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    1. Morning, Pat! I suck at these kinds of things, always have. 52 here this morning and rain, heavy rain, rain, heavy rain, ad nauseum, with thunder but, thankfully, little wind. Wheezer came to eat sometime during the night. I posted Malone’s meme thread at M’s this morning. And yes, I do know what you mean by “snow clouds!” Intimately! LOL

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      1. Morning Filly!

        we were looking at the photos on the trail camera on the porch. the raccoon has been here numerous times in the week since we last looked–but only left us a “gift” last night again…baffling. in one picture we can see a tiny bright speck on the deck itself–must have been a mouse (its eye caught the light from the flash).

        sigh.

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  4. Julie Kelly 🇺🇸
    @julie_kelly2
    So an entire pallet full of boxes that had been held by GSA somewhere outside of DC is dumped at Mar-a-Lago. Apparently these are the boxes that ended up containing papers with “classified markings.”

    I will double check indictment but I don’t recall this event in the timeline:

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  6. WOW!!!! just had our first oriole!!!!

    we hung the hummer feeder chains out–they like to hang on them. and one just did! so i hurried and put the jelly out for them and he’s back eating!!

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      1. we’ve only seen the one, but he does everything he did last year…lol

        he hung on the chain in the front of the deck and then sat on the railing under the chain looking towards the side deck with their jelly was tied to the deck. i got up and got the feeder and put it out. he waited a few minutes and hopped right over to it. he’s been back feeding one more time so far.

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  8. Julie Kelly

    @julie_kelly2

    I really hope SCOTUS is paying attention to how DC judges are scheming to keep J6ers in prison on 1512c2 convictions if SCOTUS reverses that charge in J6 cases. This order is not just a warning to the defendant involved—Larry Brock, a decorated military veteran with no criminal history convicted of 1512c2 and 5 nonviolent misdemeanors who successfully appealed an unlawful sentencing enhancement—it’s a warning to ALL J6ers convicted of 1512c2 to NOT seek release from jail if SCOTUS reverses how DOJ and federal judges (including this one, John Bates) applied the law. DOJ has already come up with a replacement “enhancement” to substitute the one overturned on appeal to apply as defendants seek relief waiting for SCOTUS opinion. NOW judges are warning they will take the extraordinary step of ordering prison time to be served CONSECUTIVELY not concurrently (at the same time) on low level offenses. The ex-chief judge recently said ordering consecutive sentences on misdemeanors is not standard practice in DC court but could be considered in order to keep 1512c2 defendants in jail EVEN IF THAT COUNT DROVE EXCESSIVE PRISON SENTENCE. Absolutely shameless and lawless.

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  9. dogsmaw
    April 28, 2024 8:54 am

    Criminal Charges Proposed for Undocumented Immigrants Entering Louisiana

    https://thehayride.com/2024/04/criminal-charges-proposed-for-undocumented-immigrants-entering-louisiana/

    Legislation proposing criminal charges for undocumented immigrants entering Louisiana has passed a committee in the House of Representatives.

    The bill moving forward Wednesday from the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice is similar to legislation in neighboring Texas. It passed the panel 7-4 and was opposed by the Southern Poverty Law Center and migrant groups.

    Next would be a House floor vote.

    The Senate, by 28-11 on April 9, has already passed Senate Bill 388 sponsored by Sen. Valarie Hodges, R-Denham Springs.

    If it becomes law, the governor could set up a border compact with Texas.

    The penalty for a first offense would be a maximum of six months in prison and any subsequent offenses could draw up to a year in prison.

    “This bill addresses the crisis of illegal immigration we are seeing across the nation, but addresses it specifically for Louisiana,” Hodges said. “So all of us in this room know that it is no secret that our country is being overwhelmed with a growing invasion of more than 10 million, people who came here without verification or identity or permission.”

    Hodges said her bill was necessary because the federal government was not enforcing border control policies.

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  11. NF: In the video I watched on Fox, he said he called the baby “Baby Jesus” because it was a couple of days before Christmas and the box reminded him of a manger; plus, he didn’t want to degrade him by calling him “John Doe.”

    “24 years ago, an officer was dispatched to an abandoned baby. Decades later, he finally learned that baby’s surprising identity.”

    By Steve Hartman, April 26, 2024 / 8:49 PM EDT / CBS News

    South Bend, Indiana — “Gene Eyster, a retired police lieutenant, cannot drive past one specific apartment complex here without reliving that strange day 24 years ago. “That was one of the strangest calls I think I’ve ever had: ‘We have a found baby in a box,’” Eyster, a 47-year veteran of the department, told CBS News. “You always wonder, what happened?”

    On Dec. 22, 2000, a newborn was found abandoned in a common hallway. For Eyster, the case of the “Baby Boy Doe,” swaddled in cardboard and blankets, didn’t end after the child got to the hospital. “I went back with a teddy bear,” Eyster said. “Just a symbol to let everyone that walked past know that he was cared about.”

    For more than two decades, Eyster wondered what became of that boy. Unfortunately, records were sealed so there was no way to find out. That was until just a few weeks ago, when Eyster got a phone call from a fellow officer, who asked Eyster if remembered the case of the baby left in the carboard box. 

    “And he (the officer) said, ‘he’s (the baby) sitting next to me, he’s my rookie,’” Eyster recounted.  

    The rookie in question was Matthew Hegedus-Stewart, the baby in the box. After his rescue, he was placed for adoption. He always knew he had been left in a box, but only connected the dots to Eyster after joining the department.

    Today, Hegedus-Stewart wears the same uniform Eyster did and patrols the same neighborhood. “Full circle moment,” Hegedus-Stewart said. “That hit home. I can only imagine from his point of view.”

    He really can’t imagine. Because what to Hegedus-Stewart may feel like a coincidence, to Eyster feels divined. Their reunion and their new friendship came just a few months after Eyster’s only son, Nick, died unexpectedly at the age of 36. “So the timing couldn’t have been any better, it helped to fill a void that I’ve had to deal with,” Eyster said.

    Twenty-four years ago, Eyster was called to be there for a child in need.  Now, the child is set to return the favor.  And whether it’s a coincidence or not, the result is undeniably great police work.”

    Video: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/officer-abandoned-baby-south-bend-indiana-gene-eyster-matthew-hegedus-stewart-remarkable-discovery/

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    1. Word on Reddit is that it is a fake headline. The post itself was deleted but the comments indicate they think it was fake.

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  20. LOVE THIS PHRASE…”not the fastest set of tractors on the farm…” LOL LOL LOL

    rioters are “demanding” their arrests and violations be scrubbed from their college and personal records so they don’t follow them into adulthood. idiots! they don’t expect to be held responsible for their actions.

    FTA

    As noted above, the students are fearful that their arrest records and suspensions will “follow them into their adult lives.” Based on their recent actions, I realize that we’re not dealing with the fastest set of tractors on the farm here, but I have a news flash for these rioters. Nearly every one of you is at least 18 years old and some of the juniors and seniors are in their twenties. You are already in your “adult life,” despite the fact that you’re not acting in a very mature fashion. 

    For what it’s worth, you may not be learning very much at college because you’re missing so many classes, but this could turn out to be one of the more educational moments of your young lives. Everyone’s actions have consequences for better or worse. If you decide to tip back a few drinks and get behind the wheel of your vehicle, you may wind up with a DUI on your record or potentially something far worse. If you knowingly decide to violate the law in any fashion, the consequences of your actions can and likely will follow you around for a long time to come.

    https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2024/04/28/pro-hamas-protesters-seek-amnesty-pardons-to-protect-careers-n3787362

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  24. “China Yanks US Leash in Blinken Visit and Meeting with Xi Jinping: When the US Secretary of State arrives at the Chinese dog park and is immediately placed on a leash to be marched around a bunch of low-level officials, it’s a reminder of who the boss is.”

    POLITICAL MOONSHINE, APR 28, 2024

    EXCERPT: “The State Department reports that, “Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken traveled to Shanghai and Beijing, the People’s Republic of China, for meetings with President Xi Jinping, Director of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Foreign Affairs Commission and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Minister of Public Security Wang Xiaohong, and Shanghai Party Secretary Chen Jining from April 24-26.”

    This particular trip is notable for its timing relative to four things:

    1. The Biden Administration’s evidenced proxy status for China achieved by private equity deals in energy with Joe Biden and decades of US infiltration and subversion
    2. The encroaching 2024 election and its timeline
    3. The likely prospects for a third World War and its timeline
    4. The role that WWIII will have in interceding on one of two things: a) the election or b) Trump’s second term if he manages to get into the Executive as an “unavoidable circumstance.”

    [All of that is old Moonshine to give us an appropriate lens for Blinken’s visit and newcomers are welcome to catch-up on their own.]

    When Blinken’s trip was first announced, it immediately became one to monitor for a very good reason that we have examined and discussed before: the Chinese have an historical modus operandi of scripting controllable elements of diplomatic engagement in ways to undermine the potency of US diplomacy, which has sunken to its lowest levels in recorded history under Joe Biden and Barack Obama, who is pulling Joe’s strings from the shadowy backdrop in what amounts to his fourth term [he spent his third term getting rid of Donald Trump during DJT’s first]….”

    https://politicalmoonshine.substack.com/p/china-yanks-us-leash-in-blinken-visit

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    1. not fond of the beach house idea per se–but that’s an amazing use of a shipping container…LOL

      and the lion and lioness? I would love a large print of that to frame and put on the nightstand!

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          1. Well, it’s not clear now – I just mean in general. Still cloudy altho the periods of rain aren’t so frequent any more and still 52. Wheezer showed up for lunch and again for dinner. LOL

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            1. the oriole was back frequently all day. i took the feeder in when it started to pour (it didn’t last long) and then he was sitting on the railing waiting for me to bring it back out..LOL

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              2. if the jelly washed out of the little feeder (it’s the bottom of hummer feeder turned upside down)…the jelly will wash onto either the railing or the deck itself and then i have to clean it or it will attract raccoons and bears.

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  31. Surgery… 60-year-old Alejandra Rodriguez wins Miss Universe Buenos Aires 2024…

    MORE…

    I had to google other pictures of her because this one has definitely been edited:

    Still a beautiful woman… But LOL! Neck and hands never lie…

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  35. “Grifter Gavin Newsom Asks the Internet for Help Designing a California Coin. He want’s to design a new coin highlighting “innovation” in California. The responses gave me a good laugh today.”

    SUPER SPREADER, APR 28, 2024

    h/t: Gavin Newsom Asked the Internet to Submit Designs for a New Coin Honoring CA’s Innovations, and Hoo Boy..

    Tweet:https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1783504252603883597

    Just some of the hilarious replies.

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  37. Jim Stanley, Press Secretary for CA Assembly Republicans wrote a nice letter:

    Dear Gov. Newsom,

    I would like to humbly submit the entries below for the California Innovation Coin Contest.

    Under your bold leadership, California has developed a truly unrivaled method of incinerating money. While most people would think it impossible to spend $24 billion on homelessness only to see the problem grow rapidly, you have proved the naysayers wrong. Like a perpetual motion machine operating in reverse, you have seemingly broken the laws of physics to pour an unlimited amount of energy and resources into homelessness programs while producing no results.

    To commemorate your momentous innovation, it would only be appropriate to select one of the designs below that recognize the condition of California’s streets, parks and sidewalks that have resulted from your leadership:

    I look forward to seeing one of these designs in production.

    Best regards,

    Jim Stanley
    Press Secretary | Assembly Republicans
    Cell: 860-460-8775
    Email: Jim.Stanley@asm.ca.gov

    P.S. I don’t think minting a bunch of $1 coins will put much of a dent in the $73 billion deficit you’ve presided over, but you certainly get points for creativity.

    One more, (cause we all know who Grüesom works for):

    Suggestion: The only “innovations” coming out of California lately are new creative ways to misappropriate, launder and embezzle funds from the public. The California $1 coin should cost $10 and be worth 10¢.

    Enjoy – SuperSpreader

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  38. 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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      1. Hanging in there. Thank you for asking!
        The office never called back so I called her knee doctor and they said it sounds good.
        So it looks like I might have a surgery date for her in May.
        I’m a little nervous I must admit.

        We have pre op this week so I will know more.

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          1. It’s always amazing when that happens. Have everything pops up. I have so many plants popping up. The deer approve.
            And the puppy was chasing a rabbit scent for over in hour in the backyard. Too cute.

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