What Shall We Bake Today?

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Georgia and I were discussing muffins a little while ago and I thought I’d post this recipe for Good Morning Sunshine Muffins!

Good Morning Sunshine Muffins

Ingredients

1 cup all-purpose flour

1 cup whole-wheat flour (or substitute another cup of all-purpose flour)

1 cup rolled oats

2 teaspoons baking powder

½ teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon ground ginger

1 cup whole milk (can sub unsweetened almond milk or soy milk)

3/4 cup applesauce

3/4 cup packed brown sugar (use 1/2 cup if you prefer a less-sweet muffin)

1/3 cup vegetable oil (can sub melted coconut oil)

1 egg

2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

1 1/2 cups carrot (grated (about 3 medium carrots))

1/2 cup + 2 tablespoons sweetened flaked coconut

1 cup fresh pineapple (cut into 1/4-inch dice or “tidbit” size -or- use canned pineapple tidbits, drained -or- 1 cup frozen pineapple tidbits)

Instructions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Grease or place cupcake wrappers in a standard-size, 12-cup muffin pan.

In a large bowl, whisk together the flours, oats, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and ginger.

In a medium bowl, whisk together the milk, applesauce, brown sugar, vegetable oil, egg, and vanilla extract.

Pour the wet ingredients over the dry and whisk just until all ingredients are incorporated. Gently stir in the carrots, 1/2 cup coconut, and pineapple.

Use a cookie scoop to divide the mixture between the muffin cups. Cups should be filled to the top.

Sprinkle tops evenly with remaining 2 tablespoons coconut.

Bake for 20 – 25 minutes or until muffin tops spring back when poked and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.

Allow to cool for 5 – 10 minutes before removing from the muffin tin. Serve plain or with butter, if desired.

Store in an airtight container at room temperature for 2 – 3 days, or freeze.

ENJOY!

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123 thoughts on “What Shall We Bake Today?”

  1. Good Morning All!

    only about 42* here this morning but the sun is trying to break through some clouds. a male and female oriole were on the deck railing when i came down singing for breakfast…lol. While i was tying the feeder tot he railing they were scolding me for sleeping so long…LOL

    the hummers immediately came to their feeders when i put them out too

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    1. Good morning, Pat! We’ve got 45 and partly cloudy, w/storm clouds building to the SW. Could get up to another inch of rain but it should be out of here by tonight! The entire state is now officially out of the drought; there is a flooding threat in some places. I noticed a LOT of fields with standing water that haven’t been planted yet – they’re a muddy mess. But next week is supposed to be gorgeous, in the high 60’s, low-to-mid 70’s w/mostly sun. I will be getting the cantaloupe planted next week – it will be a while before they are big enough to need the trellis so that gives me time to get it up. First I have to rake it and pull out the clumps of grass.

      I do love spring and getting my hands in the dirt again! I had so much fun planting flowers in my various pots last night. But, man, was my back hurting by the time I got finished. Well, I’m not “finished,” per se, but I’m 3/4 there!

      I noticed a bright green flag stuck in the ground between my driveway and the evergreens on the east when I got back yesterday but didn’t investigate. I then saw the tilled bed and thought maybe Chad had left it to give me a heads up that he’d been there. Turns out, it was Jason and his wife who put the flag there to highlight a nest of baby bunnies in the ground so I wouldn’t drive over it! LOL

      I called Chad to thank him – he didn’t even know I wasn’t home, but he did say he was kind of surprised that I didn’t come outside when I heard the tractor. Turns out, he is a gunsmith but not the one my brother visited – he didn’t know him. I asked him about payment and he said just get a check to him whenever. He does live in the house with the shotgun shell mailbox so I’ll just walk it down to him. He seems to be a VERY busy man! When he answered and I told him my name, he didn’t even remember me until I mentioned tilling! LOL – his front yard has a lot of decorative displays every year.

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      1. Morning Filly!
        bunnies nest in the ground??? i didn’t know that!

        sounds like you have nice neighbors!!

        hubby wanted to do some yard work these weekend, but says our forecast is rainy…sigh

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        1. Oh, yeah! A couple of years ago you might recall I told the story about mowing my back yard and going over what looked like a bare spot about 10″ long and 5″ wide. Right after I went over it, the thought crossed my mind that it might be a nest and I looked back – sure enough, there was a baby bunny hopping away towards the fence line. I figured there were probably more and started pulling all the leaves and grass out of the hole – sure enough, there were 3 more bunnies. I pulled them out and sent them off after their compatriot thru the fence – I expect/hope they ended up underneath the evergreen, where a lot of rabbits nest.

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            1. No, they were just scared and they were so tiny, not more than a few weeks I would guess. Even if they did bite, they couldn’t do much damage.

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      1. LOL

        my son’s first cat (the one eyed one) was SOOOOO sweet. he would cuddle in your lap and if you started petting him and then stopped, he would gently tap your hand to continue

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        1. Jake will do that – he reaches out and tries to pull my hand back. He’s just too big now to sit on my lap.

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            1. He’s a royal PITA! The biggest issue, tho, is his habit of tripping me and hovering around my feet. And he always lays down right in my path!

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    1. Considering the lawfare being conducted against GP right now, as well as their steadfast support for the J6’ers, I’ve decided to forgive them, altho I won’t believe anything they say about Ukraine.

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    2. Oh, those dastardly dandelions! Now I’m waiting on Matt to do the spraying to take care of those, Texas stickers and thistles, and fertilize the grass. I’m guessing that will happen next week. I pulled some huge ones last night in the bed around the cottonwood tree. Big honkers!!! I always try to get as much of the root as possible.

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  8. Jason Foster

    @JsnFostr

    12h• 14 tweets • 4 min read •

    Read on X

    Highlight 🧵for our motion to intervene and unseal @TheJusticeDept arguments for hiding its broad subpoenas for phone and email logs of attorneys advising congressional oversight committees. ⬇️

    In 2017, when @TheJusticeDept and @FBI were resisting aggressive congressional oversight of FISA abuses, they secretly launched what looks like a broad retaliatory effort to target attorneys for their congressional oversight committees.

    Using grand jury subpoenas and gag orders to companies like Google, they deployed a broad dragnet to covertly collect detailed logs of their overseers’ patterns of communications.

    They did not flag the important constitutional, privilege, and #whistleblower confidentiality issues implicated by this dragnet.

    Rather, they simply sent a list of our phone numbers and email addresses—w/o mentioning we were attorneys advising committees doing oversight of DOJ.

    DOJ convinced the court to order service providers like Google to simply comply and shut up about it.

    What did @TheJusticeDept tell court? The whole truth, a series of misleading half-truths, or something else?

    Who knows. It’s all still sealed more than half a decade later.

    Well, this is America.

    It’s supposed to be a free country, where court records are open to the public and the First Amendment guarantees our right to know what our government claims in court—so we and our elected leaders can figure out if its BS.

    “Democracy Dies in Darkness”

    Due process: notice and an opportunity to be heard.

    Is that too much to ask?

    Transparency = accountability.

    There is no legitimate reason to keep the government’s ex parte claims in support of these gag orders secret after all these years.

    Let’s see them. Let’s see how compelling, accurate, and complete they are.

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  10. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

    @RepMTG

    I’m calling the motion to vacate Speaker Mike Johnson next week after weeks of warning Mike Johnson to stop giving Democrats everything they want. Now Hakeem Jeffries and the entire leadership team has said they will vote to table the motion because Mike Johnson has given the Democrats everything they want and they know it’s impossible for them to take the majority so protecting him is essentially their way of controlling the Speaker’s gavel. The vote on the motion to table will essentially reveal the Uniparty in full. Vote YES to table the motion to vacate = Uniparty member Vote against tabling the motion to vacate = not Uniparty member We voted for Mike Johnson to be our Republican Speaker and we must hold him accountable for his actions and failures to our conference or we risk losing the majority next year. List of Speaker Mike Johnson betrayals: Passed a 2 part Omnibus with Democrats and majority of Republicans against it that fully funded Biden’s open border, DOJ, FBI with new building, full term abortion, and trans agenda on kids and refused to allow us to make amendments and gave us only one day to read the over 1,000 page bill. Reauthorized FISA and was the deciding vote against warrant requirements – flipping his position from 6 months ago when he was for warrant requirements to protect Americans. Passed over $100 billion to foreign wars – $61 billion to Ukraine, $26 billion to Israel $9 billion to Gaza (Hamas), $3.5 billion to bring “refugees” to the U.S. from Gaza that Joe Biden says he wants to make U.S. citizens who will get to vote but did absolutely nothing to secure America’s border. Republican voters are absolutely fed up with being continually let down by Republicans they elect. Holding ourselves accountable and correcting our course is the way forward to prove to our voters we are worthy of the majority. This is not too hard of a task to accomplish. What is too hard is letting our people down. That’s unacceptable to me.

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  13. Wendy Patterson

    @wendyp4545

    Breaking News: Trump’s Defense is tying Cohen to an extortion attempt on Trump.

    1) Stormy’s former attorney testified that they never made a deal with Trump. The deal was made with Cohen.

    2) The banker testified that it was Cohen that asked him to open two accounts quickly, not Trump.

    3) It was a low level accountant that listed the attorney fee under attorney fee in Trump’s bank register not Trump.

    The amount paid on that transaction to Cohen was $420,000 for attorney fees in which Cohen is claiming that $130,000 was for a deal made with Stormy that Trump said he knew nothing about. The check from shows that it was cashed in 2017.

    So far in the Trump hush money trial, it was Cohen who did all of the actions they’re accusing Trump of doing.

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  17. whoa…orangutan with a wound, self medicates and treats it with a poultice.

    FTA

    An orangutan named Rakus hit a rough patch in the summer of 2022. 

    Researchers heard a fight between male orangutans in the treetops of a rainforest in Sumatra, Indonesia; a day later, they spotted Rakus sporting a pink wound below his right eyelid. 

    A chunk of flesh about the size and shape of a puzzle piece was missing. When Rakus, who is most likely in his 30s, belted out a long call, the researchers noticed another wound inside his mouth. 

    Over the next several days, researchers followed Rakus at a distance — and saw something so surprising they wound up reporting it in great detail in the journal Scientific Reports. 

    According to their study, published Thursday, Rakus was observed repeatedly chewing on the leaves of a particular liana plant over several days. The climbing vine is not a typical food for orangutans, but it is known to humans as a pain reliever. 

    On at least one occasion, Rakus made a paste from the chewed leaves and applied it to his face. It’s the first time an animal has been seen applying medicine to a skin wound. 

    https://www.nbcnews.com/science/rcna150230

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  18. i think he believes the lies–he’s told them for so long

    FTA

    Joe Biden Thursday evening crashed Dr. Jill’s White House dinner party honoring teachers.

    “Tonight we celebrate you because teaching isn’t just a job, it’s a calling. And all of you were called to this profession for a reason,” Dr. Jill said. “You believe that a better world is possible and you make that world real.”

    After returning from North Carolina, Biden shuffled into the East Room of the White House in a surprise appearance, took the microphone, and lied about being a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

    “By the way, I actually taught for a number of years in law school and then I was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania,” Biden said.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/joe-biden-crashes-dr-jills-white-house-dinner/

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  19. Plantings this year: In the hanging baskets, white Petunias this year. I put red Salvia in my big urn near the 3 red Begonia plants that I managed to over-winter from last year. Bright yellow French Marigolds (full sun all day) for the metal decorative wheelbarrow – always yellow or orange, to complement the Trumpet vine nearby on the trellis.

    I bought some dark purple Petunias (from WalMart – the others I got at Menards) for the pot in the chair near my Uncle Sam statue (in really sad condition – I’m going to have to toss it soon – I’m just not up to repairing it again and repainting it) and ladder with the purple Clematis on it. I had a white Petunia in it last year and I’m waiting to see if it comes back – sometimes they’ll surprise you!

    If it does come back, I’ll put the purple Petunias in hanging pots on the exterior of my patio – I’m going to use 4 of my metal beer buckets this year. The big pot in my wood burning stove out front contains Lobelia this year – pale purple. I’m still waiting to see if the Vinca I planted in front of my front porch come back, as well as the ones in my converted seed feeder.

    I’ve ordered 2 bare root bright yellow Milkweed plants for my tire tower in the back yard – full sun all day, attracts the bees, butterflies and hummers. They are perennials but, since the tire tower is raised above the ground and subject to freezing, I’m going to cover it this fall with a black contractor trash bag before the freeze sets in – hopefully, that will provide warmth from the sun thru the winter. Another experiment!

    As for the 2 huge round planters next to my garage doors – still TBD. I’ve also got the dark red Clematis that I’ve been tending and babying along for 2 years to plant on the other side of the glider under the Willow – not sure it will get enough sun but they are tough plants and usually find a way. Hard to kill off Clematis!

    I’m really hoping my new yellow Lilac bush gets big enough to bloom this year – can’t wait to see that! I do love spring when everything is coming back and growing. All of my perennials are popping, too.

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    1. wow! i am sooo jealous! it all sounds so lovely!!!

      i planted a clematis the first year we were here…we brought the railing from our daughter’s crib with us in the move (goodness knows why) and i thought it would make a nice climbing basis for the plant. the deer munched it to the ground and if it comes back up, they eat it. sigh

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      1. Yeah, can’t have ’em where you live. There are varying drawbacks and benefits to different styles of living. Everyone has to find their own balance.

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          1. YW, my dear! They are so much fun to watch! Still no sight of them here yet. I expect next week, when the weather is supposed to be really nice and warm. But you never know. I’m 100% positive, tho, that they WILL show! No doubt in my mind!

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      1. I hadn’t considered the 2 big pots yet…..I like to put in plants that are really striking and different since they are front and center on either side of my garage door, with nothing to block them.

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  20. apparently Mast donned his idf uniform

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  21. hubby watched the deer go into his wood shed this morning so we were trying to see where she’s laying–there’s not a lot of empty space except to the left, but she wasn’t there. finally we spotted her ears moving…she’s practically laying IN the tractor bucket…lol

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  22. BREAKING NEWS Alabama authorizes second nitrogen hypoxia execution for death row killer Alan Eugene Miller

    • Alabama has authorized the second ever execution via nitrogen hypoxia 
    • Killer Alan Eugene Miller is set for his second execution  
    • It comes despite controversy over the first nitrogen execution in January  

    By WILL POTTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

    PUBLISHED: 09:07 EDT, 3 May 2024 | UPDATED: 09:35 EDT, 3 May 2024

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13379769/Alabama-nitrogen-hypoxia-execution-alan-miller.html

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  23. Seeing on Fox about all the money that is donated to these big, expensive colleges – HUGE dollars from foreign countries, like China – BILLIONS. Foreign countries should not be allowed to donate to US schools, period! And if they want their citizens to attend, they must pay FULL price, if not more, depending on their needs, such as translators, etc.

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  24. Hmmmm….now that’s a thought….!

    “It’s Time For Donald Trump’s Media Company To Consider Buying The NY Times, Washington Post, Or Wall Street Journal – And Make Fake News Fair Again! Donald Trump has shown that he can restore legitimacy to government. Americans have therefore every reason to believe he can do the same to the legacy media.”

    PAUL INGRASSIA, MAY 03, 2024

    EXCERPT: “A great deal so far has been written about how President Trump will dramatically overhaul and scale back the administrative state when he becomes President again in November.  Such a move, if successful, would restore a great deal of legitimacy to democratic lawmakers, particularly in Congress – and the President himself – who will be less hamstrung by the subversive ideologies and agendas of career Washington bureaucrats.  

    Of equal importance, though less talked about, is how a next Trump administration might restore integrity and legitimacy back to the fourth estate, legacy and corporate media institutions, which have long ago abandoned any pretext to impartiality.  As most Americans know readily well, legacy media does not even attempt to pretend to be unbiased, fair, or neutral: instead, outlets like the New York Times, Washington Post, and even the Wall Street Journal, simply reflexively parrot the anti-Trump, anti-America First talking points of their overlords in the Democratic Party, intelligence agencies, and military industrial complex.  

    Yet the legitimacy of the legacy media, and the “newspapers of record” I listed, are at historic lows.  Many Americans – conservatives, especially – are turning away from these legacy outlets in droves, for alternative channels in the decentralized media space.  Part of that has to do with revolutions and developments in technology in recent years.  However, an even greater part of it has to do with these outfits themselves self-immolating by their failure to report the truth accurately on a whole array of topics, from the illegitimacy and vote-rigging surrounding the 2020 election, to the false “insurrection” narrative put out by the House January 6th Committee, to the failure to report accurately on the weaponized system of justice and the show trials against President Trump, to the media’s collective failure to report at all on the Biden Regime’s border catastrophe.  

    As legacy newspapers have turned a blind eye to these critical stories in recent years, they have also doubled down on their censorship efforts – selecting against dissident stories that challenge their received worldview.  They have also actively enabled the censorship of stories and the work of brave investigative journalists, like James O’Keefe, Alex Jones, and Laura Loomer, whose careers are dedicated to exposing the corruption at the heart of Washington’s Swamp, which is enabled and abetted by both party establishments.

    President Trump has proven himself to be more than just an ordinary politician.  He is a visionary, a man who has achieved the pinnacle of success in both public and private life.  His latest endeavor, Trump Media & Technology Group Corp, which recently went public through its merger with DWAC, resulting in a multibillion-dollar windfall, is testimony to his visionary eye.  The possibilities of what he can do with this latest media project are virtually endless – at his disposal is the opportunity to fundamentally remake the entire media ecosystem, top down, in the image and likeness of MAGA….”

    https://paulingrassia.substack.com/p/its-time-for-donald-trumps-media

    https://www.flynnmovie.com/ref/ulcreate

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  29. Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈

    @MrAndyNgo

    Portland Police just told media that in their early investigation, they’ve found that thousands of dollars in library property was stolen, including rare texts and comics in the

    @Portland_State

    collection. The extremists smashed glass and stole them. In the four-day Antifa and far-left siege of the Millar Library “for Gaza,” people and property could come in and out at any time.

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  30. Still mostly sunny w/a steady wind, up to 63; just planted the French Marigold plants in the wheelbarrow pot. I brought it in and sat down on the patio to do it; while I was in the process, Wheezer stuck his head thru the doggie door. When he saw me there, he backed out, then looked in a couple more times before finally entering, skirting me and going to the food dish. When I got up to bring the pot inside, he moved away until I went inside. He’s been eating quickly and moving on but returning more frequently during the day.

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  31. “A Bright Red Line—Blinken, Burns and NATO’s Bid for Ukraine”

    RYAN DELARME, MAY 03, 2024

    EXCERPT: “From the very outset of the war in Ukraine, when the United States made it immediately clear that we’d be taking primary responsibility for funding and arming the Ukrainians, one question has continued to remain unanswered: why should the American Taxpayer care about who owns what land in Eastern Europe?

    It is unquestionable that U.S. funding of this war adversely affects Americans economically, but it is still not entirely clear in what way this war is supposed to somehow be in the peoples’ best interest.

    Another question that remains inadequately answered is why Putin decided to invade Ukraine in the first place. As with Iraq, Afghanistan and just about every other war in the last several decades, we are only given the explanation that best suits the Military Industrial Complex and the U.S. Security State.

    Should we accept that Vladimir Putin, once described by Bill Clinton and every subsequent president as rational, suddenly turned into a psychopath over night? That he just woke up one day and decided to attack Ukraine for no reason at all, and is planning to march across Western Europe, attacking NATO countries next?

    These propagandized, real-life super villains don’t just spring up out of nowhere, for no discernible reason and start wars arbitrarily. There are always motivating factors, and these factors almost always suppressed so that they never reach Western audiences.

    Not long ago, the Bin Laden letter was circulating on TikTok until the U.S. government, as it so often does, proceeded to force TikTok to remove the content….”

    https://badlands.substack.com/p/a-bright-red-line

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      1. right??? those teachers are not worth it. the median income for that area is LESS THAN HALF THAT–but these asswipes think they’re worth that much?
        plus there’s all sort of new positions–more teacher’s aides, more counselors for traumatic events…all kinds of extra UNION staff positions.

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        1. Oh, I’m betting their administration costs are higher than salary costs!!! And there are more admin staff by far!!!

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          1. oh yeah…and look at this nonsense…

            But that is of no concern to the CTU, based on its list of demands. The union intends to require every school to have at least one sex-neutral restroom and for every counselor and social worker to undergo training on “LGBTQ+ issues” each year. It also specifies that no union member may be compelled to tell a student’s parents when the student rejects his or her sex. Since when does a labor union get to decide what parents are allowed to know about their own children?

            This isn’t the only way the contract veers into social issues and away from academics. CTU wants taxpayers to pay for unused school facilities to be turned into migrant housing and to pay $2,000 in “support” to each unaccompanied minor. Ever-hungry for more members, the union also insists each school must have a “newcomer liaison.”

            The union is also pushing for policies that will make its youth violence problem worse. The contract put forward by CTU calls for “police-free schools,” security guards (presumably members of the union), and the creation of school safety committees at each school chaired by — who else? — the union delegate or the delegate’s appointee.

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  37. “So, about every couple of years, this fat fuck ratbag emerges from the shadows…  

    This fat piece of shit was on CNN yesterday talking UP the jew-hating, terrorist-supporters on today’s campuses. Just the fact that this guy – and guys like him – are given any kind of credance and a platform to spew the bullshit they do is despicable. He – and the people that allow him to voice his ‘opinions’ – are hateful dooshbags with absolutely no sense of what normal folks like you and I think about anything. 

    As for the idiot broad from The NY Slimes, that’s her on the right in the tuxedo kissing her wife. Yup. Need I say more?….

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      2. Yo! I’VE GOT ORIOLES!!! Well, one male for the moment – but he went at the jelly. More to come soon, no doubt! Sun is out again, with a strong breeze.

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  39. Just The News: “Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife were indicted Friday on conspiracy and bribery charges, reportedly in connection with a Justice Department probe into ties between U.S. business leaders and the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan. The possibility of an indictment has been known for years.

    From 2014 to 2021, Cuellar and his wife accepted nearly $600,000 in bribes from an Azerbaijan-controlled energy company and a bank in Mexico, according to the Associated Press. In exchange, the Texas congressman allegedly agreed to advance the interests of the country and the bank in the U.S., according to the indictments reviewed by the wire service.

    The indictment also alleges Cuellar agreed to influence legislation favorable to Azerbaijan and deliver a pro-Azerbaijan speech on the House floor of the U.S. House. Cueller said in statement Friday that he and his wife, Imelda Cuellar, “are innocent of these allegations.”

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  40. “Is this guy dressed for success or what? A day in the life of a typical anti-Isreal protestor includes (but is not limited to) long blue fingernails, an LBGTQXYZ+ purse, a Hamas keffiyeh scarf, cut-off tight tank top, bad tattoos, watching porn on his phone listening, to the collected poetry of Karl Marx, all with a five o’clock shadow. How long ago do you think it was when his parents killed themselves out of embarrassment?”

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  47. Oh, FFS!!!! What a total crock of shit!!!

    EXCERPT: “A violent autistic teen who was caught on camera brutally beating a teaching aide last year is seeking legal recourse against a Florida school district for “failing to meet his needs.” Brendan Depa was arrested for aggravated battery and is facing up to 30 years in prison for assaulting an employee at Matanzas High School.

    According to the Daily Mail, the 18-year-old teen, who is over 6 feet tall and weighs almost 270 pounds, is suing the Flagler County school district for “failing to meet his needs” after 59-year-old teaching aide Joan Naydich took away his Nintendo Switch.

    In response to Naydich’s threat, Depa reportedly spat on her and chased her as she fled the classroom to report the incident to school administrators. Disturbing surveillance footage shows the teen, who was 17 at the time, pushing the teaching aide “to the ground before kneeling and punching her in the head and back” over a dozen times.

    In the suit, Depa’s lawyers claim that Matanzas High School employees knew of his “disabilities, triggers, and problem behaviors,” along with his history of wrongdoings, including spitting, shoving an aide, intimidating school staff, and shouting at his teachers. It also highlights that because Depa is “a large black male student, he is subjected to misperceptions and racism.”

    The lawsuit noted that “the school and staff working with him and the district knew that the electronics, specifically the Nintendo and its use on a school campus, was a trigger for escalating behaviors,” reads the filing, which describes the teen as a “ticking time bomb whose needs, despite concerns and warnings, were completed disregarded by the district.”

    Continuing, Depa’s lawyers argued that the brutal attack on Naydich, who suffered from multiple broken ribs and a concussion, was due to the school district’s “failure to address his needs or have staff around him” with the proper training….

    https://www.thepublica.com/teen-who-beat-teaching-aide-over-nintendo-switch-confiscation-sues-school-for-failing-to-meet-his-needs/

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