Kent State Shooting

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Today is the anniversary of the Kent State shooting that killed 4 students and injured 9 more.  History.com provides a detailed account of why it happened:

Four Kent State University students were killed and nine were injured on May 4, 1970, when members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a crowd gathered to protest the Vietnam War. The tragedy was a watershed moment for a nation divided by the conflict in Southeast Asia. In its immediate aftermath, a student-led strike forced the temporary closure of colleges and universities across the country. Some political observers believe the events of that day in northeast Ohio tilted public opinion against the war and may have contributed to the downfall of President Richard Nixon.

The Vietnam War

American involvement in the civil war in Vietnam—which pitted the communists of the northern part of the country against the more democratic south—had been controversial from its beginnings, and a significant segment of the general public in the United States was against the presence of U.S. armed forces in the region.

Protests across the country in the latter half of the 1960s were part of organized opposition against U.S. military activities in Southeast Asia, as well as the military draft.

In fact, President Richard M. Nixon had been elected in 1968 due in large part to his promise to end the Vietnam War. And, until April 1970, it appeared he was on the way to fulfilling that campaign promise, as military operations were seemingly winding down.

Invasion of Cambodia

However, on April 30, 1970, President Nixon authorized U.S. troops to invade Cambodia, a neutral nation located west of Vietnam. North Vietnamese troops were using safe havens in Cambodia to launch attacks on the U.S.-backed South Vietnamese, and parts of the Ho Chi Minh Trail—a supply route used by the North Vietnamese—passed through Cambodia.

Controversially, the president made his decision without notifying his Secretary of State William Rogers or Defense Secretary Melvin Laird.

They, along with the rest of the American public, found out about the invasion when President Nixon addressed the nation on television two days later. Members of Congress accused the president of illegally widening the scope of U.S. involvement in the war by not receiving their consent through a vote.

However, it was public reaction to the decision that ultimately led to the events at Kent State University, a public university in northeast Ohio.

Vietnam War Protests

Even before Nixon’s formal announcement of the invasion, rumors of the U.S. military incursion into Cambodia resulted in protests at colleges and universities across the country. At Kent State, these protests actually began on May 1, the day after the invasion.

That day, hundreds of students gathered on the Commons, a park-like space at the center of campus that had been the site of large demonstrations and other events in the past. Several speakers spoke out against the war in general, and President Nixon specifically.

That night, in downtown Kent, there were reports of violent clashes between students and local police. Police alleged that their cars were hit with bottles, and that students stopped traffic and lit bonfires in the streets.

Reinforcements were called in from neighboring communities, and Kent Mayor Leroy Satrom declared a state of emergency, before ordering all the bars in the town closed. Satrom also contacted Ohio Governor James Rhodes seeking assistance.

Satrom’s decision to close the bars actually angered the protesters more, and increased the size of the crowds on the streets of town. Police were eventually able to move the protesters back toward campus, using tear gas to disperse the crowd. However, the stage was set for trouble.

Ohio National Guard Arrives

The following day, Saturday, May 2, there were rumors that radicals were making threats against the town of Kent and the university. The threats reportedly were primarily made against businesses in the town and certain buildings on campus.

After speaking with other city officials, Satrom asked Governor Rhodes to send the Ohio National Guard to Kent in an attempt to calm tensions in the area.

At the time, members of the National Guard were already on duty in the region, and thus were mobilized fairly quickly. By the time they arrived at the Kent State campus on the night of May 2nd, however, protesters had already set fire to the school’s ROTC building, and scores were watching and cheering as it burned.

Some protesters also reportedly clashed with firefighters attempting to put out the blaze, and Guardsmen were asked to intervene. Clashes between the Guard and the protesters continued well into the night, and dozens of arrests were made.

Interestingly, the next day, Sunday, May 3, was a fairly calm day on campus. The weather was sunny and warm, and students were lounging on the Commons and even engaging with the Guardsmen on duty.

Still, with nearly 1,000 National Guards at the school, the scene was more like that of a war zone than a college campus.

Protesters and Guardsmen Gather

With a major protest already scheduled for noon on Monday, May 4, once again on the Commons, university officials attempted to diffuse the situation by prohibiting the event. Still, crowds began to gather at about 11:00 that morning, and an estimated 3,000 protesters and spectators were there by the scheduled start time.

Stationed at the now-destroyed ROTC building were roughly 100 Ohio National Guardsmen carrying M-1 military rifles.

Historians have never reached consensus as to who exactly organized and participated in the Kent State protests—or how many of them were students at the university or anti-war activists from elsewhere. But the protest on May 4th, during which activists spoke out against the presence of the National Guard on campus as well as the Vietnam War, was initially peaceful.

Still, Ohio National Guard General Robert Canterbury ordered the protesters to disperse, with the announcement being made by a Kent State police officer riding in a military jeep across the Commons and using a bullhorn to be heard over the crowd. The protesters refused to disperse and began shouting and throwing rocks at the Guardsmen.

Four Dead in Ohio

General Canterbury ordered his men to lock and load their weapons, and to fire tear gas into the crowd. The Guardsmen then marched across the Commons, forcing protesters to move up a nearby hill called Blanket Hill, and then down the other side of the hill toward a football practice field.

As the football field was enclosed with fencing, the Guardsmen were caught amongst the angry mob, and were the targets of shouting and thrown rocks yet again.

The Guardsmen soon retreated back up Blanket Hill. When they reached the top of the hill, witnesses say 28 of them suddenly turned and fired their M-1 rifles, some into the air, some directly into the crowd of protesters.

Over just a 13-second period, nearly 70 shots were fired in total. In all, four Kent State students—Jeffrey Miller, Allison Krause, William Schroeder and Sandra Scheuer—were killed, and nine others were injured. Schroeder was shot in the back, as were two of the injured, Robert Stamps and Dean Kahler.

Aftermath of the Kent State Shooting

Following the shooting, the university was immediately ordered closed, and the campus remained shut down for some six weeks following the shootings.

Numerous investigatory commissions and court trials followed, during which members of the Ohio National Guard testified that they felt the need to discharge their weapons because they feared for their lives.

However, disagreements remain as to whether they were, in fact, under sufficient threat to use force.

In a civil suit filed by the injured Kent State students and their families, a settlement was reached in 1979 in which the Ohio National Guard agreed to pay those injured in the events of May 4, 1970 a total of $675,000.

Kent State Shooting Legacy

A signed statement by the Guard, drafted as part of the settlement, read, in part: “In retrospect, the tragedy… should not have occurred. The students may have believed that they were right in continuing their mass protest in response to the Cambodian invasion, even though this protest followed the posting and reading by the university of an order to ban rallies and an order to disperse… Some of the Guardsmen on Blanket Hill, fearful and anxious from prior events, may have believed in their own minds that their lives were in danger. Hindsight suggests that another method would have resolved the confrontation…”

Photographer John Filo won a Pulitzer Prize for his famous image of 14-year-old Mary Vecchio crying over Miller’s fallen body, just after the last shot was fired on the Kent State campus that day. However, this image is hardly the only lasting legacy of the events of May 4.

Indeed, the Kent State shooting remains symbolic of the division in public opinion about war in general, and the Vietnam War specifically. Many believe it permanently changed the protest movement across the American political spectrum, fostering a sense of disillusionment regarding what, exactly, these demonstrations accomplish—as well as fears over the potential for confrontation between protesters and law enforcement.

SOURCE: HISTORY.com

Sources

Personal Remembrances of the Kent State Shootings, 43 Years Later. Slate.
Kent State Shootings. Ohio History Central.
The May 4 Shootings at Kent State University: The Search for Historical Accuracy. Kent State University.
Nixon authorizes invasion of Cambodia, April 28, 1970. Politico.
Was It Legal for the U.S. to Bomb Cambodia? The New York Times.
Photographer John Filo discusses his famous Kent State photograph and the events of May 4, 1970. CNN.
Kent State at 25: A Troubling Legacy. Christian Science Monitor.

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    1. Morning, Pat! IDR seeing much about this at the time but, then, I never watched any news – I was 17 at the time and all wrapped up in romance with my first husband. It was the previous year that my brother (who had joined the Navy as an alternative to jail for vandalism/theft of hubcaps) was shipped to VN. My adopted parents didn’t allow me to see my siblings but my Grandpa called, told them he was shipping out and wanted to see me before he left. I asked my Mom and, as usual, it was “Ask your Dad.” When I asked him, he grouched that “more people get killed on the highways than in Vietnam” but agreed when I stood my ground and said I wanted to see him. IDR much about our meeting, tbh.

      The male Oriole’s mate showed up this morning! And we’re off and running! Either one of the squirrels or birds chewed off a section of the silicone bowl – I had trimmed it too short (lesson learned) – I’ve ordered 2 more so I have another as back-up. 43 this morning, with scattered clouds but mostly sunny. I got the marigolds planted last night. Now I have to figure out what to put in the big pots near the garage. I’ve begun a new shopping list! LOL

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    1. TheseTruths

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      May 4, 2024 01:03

      Trump Whodunnit: Prosecutors admit key evidence in document case has been tampered with

      In a stunning admission, Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team is admitting that key evidence in former President Donald Trump’s classified documents criminal case was altered or manipulated since it was seized by the FBI, and that prosecutors misled the court about it for a period of time.

      Legal experts told Just the News the revelation could prove to be a serious problem for prosecutors and a violation of court rules to preserve evidence in the state it was seized.

      In a new filing Friday, Smith’s team said that the order of documents in some of the boxes of memos that were seized by the FBI from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate was altered or jumbled, leaving two different chronologies: one that was digitally scanned and another the physical order in the boxes.

      “Since the boxes were seized and stored, appropriate personnel have had access to the boxes for several reasons, including to comply with orders issued by this Court in the civil proceedings noted above, for investigative purposes, and to facilitate the defendants’ review of the boxes,” Smith’s team wrote in a new court filing to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon.

      “There are some boxes where the order of items within that box is not the same as in the associated scans,” the prosecutors wrote.

      Smith’s team in a footnote also conceded it had misled the court about the problem by previously declaring that the evidence had remained in the exact state it had been seized. 

      “The Government acknowledges that this is inconsistent with what Government counsel previously understood and represented to the Court,” the footnote said.

      You can read the filing here: gov.uscourts.flsd_.648653.522.0.pdf

      The organization of the documents in storage boxes at Mar-a-Lago is likely to be an important part of Trump‘s defense. His team is expected to argue the documents were stored in the White House in chronological order on the days that Trump received them, and that staff simply boxed them up and sent them to his home without him accessing them or knowing they contained classified information. 

      Smith’s team tried to downplay the problem and argued it’s not a reason for a delay in Trump’s case.

      But several legal experts told Just the News the court filing essentially is an admission of evidence tampering, and could be problematic. 

      “Prosecutors and investigators should never tamper with or alter evidence in their possession, including the order of documents in a box because one never knows what may become relevant or crucial to a court or jury later in a case,” Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz said. 

      Prominent defense attorney Tim Parlatore, who worked on Trump’s team earlier in the classified documents case but no longer is involved, said ”this admission is stunning on multiple levels.”

      He said the revelation “reinforces the incompetence” of prosecutors “in conducting basic criminal investigations and prosecutions that I observed when I was on the team. 

      “But at a deeper level, the loss of specific document locations is a destruction of exculpatory evidence,” he added. “I went through all of the boxes at NARA and the document order was important because it was clear to us that the boxes had been untouched since leaving the White House.

      “For prosecutors who are trying to prove that the defendants knowingly possessed these documents to then destroy the evidence that would undermine that claim is a very serious violation,” he added.

      Smith’s team tried to downplay the problem, offering several explanations for how the documents and their order could’ve been scrambled since the government took possession of the boxes.

      “There are several possible explanations, including the above-described instances in which the boxes were accessed, as well as the size and shape of certain items in the boxes possibly leading to movement of items,” the prosecutors wrote. “For example, the boxes contain items smaller than standard paper such as index cards, books, and stationary, which shift easily when the boxes are carried, especially because many of the boxes are not full.”

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    May 4, 2024 01:08

    NYPD Reveals Details About the ‘Professional’ Pro-Hamas Agitators Popping Up on Campuses

    New York Police Department Deputy Commissioner of Public Information Tarik Sheppard is revealing details of who is behind the pro-Hamas college protests terrorizing Jewish communities. 

    Sheppard told Fox News‘s Neil Cavuto that the NYPD is “very confident” the pro-terrorism agitators are outside professionals who are being flown in from “around the world” to cause chaos at universities. 

    He said that the pro-Hamas agitators are funded by private individuals who target and manipulate young, impressionable students to join radical protests that make them feel seen and a part of a group. 

    “They may just fly in for a day or two, and leave,” Sheppard said, adding that the professional agitators often “travel around the country” to ignite protests and then leave. 

    The NYPD revealed that just 29 percent of the people arrested at Columbia University’s pro-terrorism protests were “not affiliated” with the school— not students, teachers, or staff. They also said that 60 percent of the arrests they made at City College of New York (CCNY) were not students, but “outside agitators.”

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    2. This sounds like tactics used everywhere, including the Bolshevik Revolution, or the union organizers Steinbeck wrote about in Salinas Valley, California. Yesterday, I read about the US labor strikes in the late 1800s and 1900s. The National Guard has been brought in before, usually to clear out industrial sites, like GMs sit down strike in Flint, Michigan in 1936-7.

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  9. Feisty Hayseed

    May 4, 2024 12:43 am

    “Someone” is Radicalizing the college students

    NYPD says protesters had weapons, gas masks and ‘Death to America!’ pamphlets

    A high-ranking official with the New York Police Department said protesters had weapons including knives and hammers as well as pamphlets with “Death to America!” written on them.

    Michael Kemper, a NYPD’s chief of transit, posted photos Friday of what police confiscated from the protesters.

    “For those romanticizing the protests occurring on college campuses, ‘Death to America!’ is one sentiment that runs counter to what we believe in, what we stand for, and what many have fought for on behalf of this country,” Kemper stated on X. “And if you think the words written on this piece of paper are disturbing … you should hear the vile, disgusting, hateful, & threatening words coming out of the mouths of far too many of these so called ‘peaceful protestors.’”

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nypd-says-protesters-had-weapons-gas-masks-and-death-to-america-pamphlets/ar-AA1o6LqQ

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  11. so the chinese refuse to accept their illegals being deported from US? fine start repatriating ALL the business and land owned by chinese in this country. 

    Bill Melugin

    @BillMelugin_

    NEW: Per CBP source, for the last two days in a row, Border Patrol’s San Diego sector apprehended 200+ Chinese nationals. May 2nd – 223 Chinese May 1st – 262 Chinese That means more Chinese were caught crossing illegally in the last 2 days than in all of FY’21 (342). Overwhelming majority of the Chinese are mass released as China is not cooperative with deportation flights from the U.S.

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  14. T2T has paid off the mortgage of Derek Floyd. what a wonderful organization

    FTA

    With violent pro-Hamas protests erupting on our nation’s campuses, millions of illegal aliens swarming across the southern border, and a mentally declining president who seems like he can barely get through a sentence—much less run the most powerful nation on earth—it can seem like all the news is bad these days. The tale of Derek Floyd, the FDNY firefighter who died of a heart attack after being fired because New York City needed money for illegal aliens, leaving his family with nothing because he was just short of becoming eligible for benefits, certainly fits into the “tragic” category.

    But there’s some happier news Friday: The non-profit foundation Tunnels to Towers has paid off the mortgage of Floyd’s grieving widow, Christine, throwing a desperately needed lifeline to the mother of two.

    She was overjoyed by the news:

    “When I received the phone call, I had to pull over to the side of the road because I couldn’t stop sobbing,” Christine said Friday. “This is a miracle from God in the midst of such a storm.

    “I am very grateful for Frank Siller and the Tunnel to Towers Foundation for assisting my family after Derek’s passing, Derek would have been grateful and proud that his service to his country is being repaid and honored to his family,” she added.

    https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2024/05/03/t2t-foundations-steps-up-in-a-beautiful-way-pays-off-mortgage-for-widow-of-fired-ny-firefighter-n2173726

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  15. the author’s right…the irony is lost on these morons
    FTA
    Over the many years I’ve lived in this area, I’ve interacted with quite a few persons who have attended KU. I’ve found precious few of them to be what I would deem highly educated. Most of them seem to have majored in Power Drinking and worshipping a mythical creature called a Jayhawk.

    I learned of the events in Lawrence via a local radio morning talk show. Via telephone, the host interviewed a young woman who attended KU and who, although not part of the demonstration, described the encampment and its denizens. One aspect of her remarks dealt with how well-organized and well-prepared these anti-Israel, anti-American, pro-terrorism “protestors” appeared to be.

    The part that leaped out at me was when she spoke of the demonstrators having “numbers on their arms, apparently drawn with a Sharpie.” These numbers were, ostensibly, the phone numbers of lawyers and/or bondsmen for the demonstrators to call in the event of arrest.

    Now, I already knew that progressives in general and wokesters in particular tend to be irony-challenged. I’ve even written about the phenomenon in these very pages (e.g., here). But the notion of the very people chanting “Death to the Jews” and “Death to Israel” sporting numbers on their arms seemed like an irony that was too hard—and far too obvious—to ignore. If more proof were needed that Leftists are blind to irony, this was certainly it.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/a_gruesome_and_cynical_irony_in_the_heartland.html

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  18. well at this point we have at least 2 male hummers and at least 1 female. the fighting has begun…lol

    and the return of The Little General. he’s a male hummer who sits on the railing “guarding” the feeders and runs off anyone but his mate. later in the season he will take to sitting on top of a feeder when there are more interlopers…LOL

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        1. sigh…you are such a patient and caring Mom GA!
          when you’re able to, please treat yourself to something special…pamper YOURSELF!!! you deserve it!!

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  27. Went out to check the jelly in the feeder and it was almost gone; what remained was watery from the rain. Took most of a full squeeze bottle!

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  28. Already had my first Oriole fight! Didn’t last long – the smaller of the two males left quickly. That’s odd – the male Oriole ignores the House Finch on the other side of the feeder, yet he ran off the female Oriole a few minutes ago.

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  31. “All coffee beans naturally contain caffeine. In order to make a cup of decaf, the beans must undergo a process using chemical solvents, primarily with methylene chloride. I thought you needed to know that.“

    NF: Yep! Happens to me all the time!

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  37. i almost forgot! Filly, we watched that watch video! a “watch”…a ROLEX–they’re expensive to start with!! then it’s a Paul Newman type…when he said $400,000-$500,000 and the guy “feinted” we laughed–but then he kept telling him how much MORE it was worth? WOW!!!!

    happy a veteran has it. (hope he can get a hair cut now…LOL)

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    1. Awww, leave the ole hippy alone with his hair! The fact that it had never been worn helped a lot to increase the price.

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      1. I know. i never would have worn it either–they’re really expensive! i would have been afraid to wear it!
        either shave the beard or cut the hair–he looks so out of touch

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  40. Alrighty then – I’m back and flowers are planted. Red Petunias in the buckets and Asiatic Lilies in the 2 big pots in front of the garage. Wheezer came in to eat while I was working with the baskets/Petunias. He gave me a wide berth and started chowing down. LOL

    Asiatic Lily

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          1. I put 3 plants in each pot so it should make a striking display! Especially once the trumpet vine starts blooming.

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  41. “Johnson’s Pro Islam/AntiSemitism Bill”

    MAY 04, 2024, Tom Renz

    EXCERPT: “Let me begin by stating clearly that I support all people’s right to believe as they choose and without fear or intimidation. I’m a proud Christian but love and respect my brothers and sisters that believe in freedom whether they be Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist, Hindu, whatever. You believe how you want just don’t tell me what to believe. That said, the “good Christian” speaker Mike Johnson just pushed another anti-American bill, under the false guise of stopping antisemitism, that will allow crooked administrations like Biden’s, as much authority to promote Islam as to stop antisemitism. That’s right – the antisemitism bill is also a pro-Islam bill… bet you haven’t heard that yet.

    I’m not going to get into great detail on this but here’s what crooked sellout Johnson and his Democrat buddies did. The “antisemitism bill” is here in it’s entirety: ……

    https://tomrenz.substack.com/p/johnsons-pro-islamantisemitism-bill

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      2. And the ONLY ones who actually read the bill are the rep’s assistants. Then they give the elected “representative” an overview, pointing out any parts that need consideration. They do NOT actually read the entire bill except once in a great while; I’m sure some, like Massie and Paul, read them on a more regular basis but very few.

        The list of required activity for each member established by the RNC is insane! They have to make so many phone calls daily/weekly and bring in a specified amount of $$$ in donations to the “party,” among a host of other “duties.” That’s only 2 I can recall at the moment but I’ve got a link….somewhere….from 2015 when Rep Buck was first elected – I can’t find it at the moment. I know I had it and I know I wouldn’t delete it. He was flabbergasted at how much the Party requires of them.

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          1. That bitch! Well, she IS Pierre Delecto’s niece after all! Wasn’t that what Romney was calling himself?

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  42. “My Latest for Real Clear Investigations: A detailed analysis of recently unsealed defense motion and exhibits that demonstrates collusion between Biden White House and National Archives officials to concoct classified docs case.”

    JULIE KELLY, MAY 04, 2024

    “I wanted to pass along my recent article for Real Clear Investigations on the fast-moving classified documents case in southern Florida.

    Judge Aileen Cannon continues to permit the unsealing and public docketing of critical information related to how the Department of Justice has conducted this dirty investigation. On Friday night, in another shocking development, Special Counsel Jack Smith admitted materials contained in boxes seized during the August 2022 FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago are not in their original condition, raising serous questions as to how the case can proceed. (I will have a piece to you shortly on the latest revelations.)

    We might next week see the unsealing and docketing of grand jury materials from Washington, D.C.; among the many corrupt facets of this case is the fact the DOJ conducted roughly 99 percent of the investigation in Washington rather than the proper jurisdiction of southern Florida. The reason why is obvious: the ex-chief judge of the D.C. District Court, Obama appointee and Trump hater Beryl Howell, rubber stamped every DOJ request including an egregious request to pierce attorney-client privilege between Donald Trump and his lawyer, Evan Corcoran.

    Howell cited the “crime fraud exception” before forcing Corcoran to produce all of this records to Smith. Those records represent the basis for the obstruction counts against Trump and long-time personal aide Waltine Nauta in Smith’s 40-count indictment. Cannon recently expressed frustration during a court hearing last month about the fact grand jury files related to the case remain in Washington—some under seal.

    Much more to come!”

    https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/05/02/unredactions_reveal_early_white_house_involvement_in_trump_documents_case_1028630.html

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  43. (Photo credit: NIAID)

    EXCERPT: “EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak testified before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Wednesday about his coronavirus research collaboration situated at the epicenter of the worst pandemic in a century. 

    Daszak’s organization collaborated closely with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a lab complex specializing in bat-borne viruses, including SARS-related coronaviruses. The lab hosted one of the world’s largest coronavirus databases before the data was made inaccessible in the fall of 2019.

    Daszak is the first scientist connected to the coronavirus research in Wuhan called to testify before the committee. Democrats and Republicans alike aggressively questioned Daszak on his downplaying of the risks involved in these coronavirus research projects and questioned whether he breached laws regulating federal grantees…..”

    https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/ecohealth-daszak-grilled-by-subcommittee/

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  47. OMG! I just had a BRILLIANT idea!!! I have a much better place for the dark red clematis that I’ve been tending for 2 years. If you recall, I’d planned on putting it on the other end of the glider under the willow tree. It would be ok there but JUST ok since it would only get a couple of hours of sun in the late afternoon. I was looking out back and decided I needed something on the east end of my swing under the cottonwood tree. Until the last couple of years, I always had a pot there with bright red, orange or yellow flowers.

    BTW, I’m disgusted with the Huskers these days so I’ve scotched the plan for the Huskers display next to my garage! Fuck ’em! Well, but I still do have those red metal pieces that would make the H…..I guess I could go ahead and put that up….if they redeem themselves!

    Since that swing will never be used again, I’m going to plant the clematis at the east end of it and let it climb on the glider. It will turn into a yard ornament instead of a glider! LOL – I have it bunchee’d down anyway to keep the wind from knocking it over and the slats inside the metal frame on the seat are rotting, with some broken. No-one will be swinging on it again before I’m gone anyway, ’cause I am not going to the trouble to fix it!

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      2. I had 3 male Orioles out there battling a while ago! For a couple of minutes, 2 were feeding at the same time, on opposite sides. Then the 3rd troublemaker had to enter the picture!

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  48. hubby got done cutting the grass (as best as he could–some parts of the lawn is still very wet) he’s going to get cleaned up and then we’re headed out to the PO and grab some dinner somewhere. 

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  49. 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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