E.T. Phone Home

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Tomorrow, June 11, (1982) is the anniversary of the release of E.T. in the United States.  I went searching for some interesting fun facts about the movie and below is what I found on the GeekTyrant.com website.

From GeekTyrant:

Steven Spielberg shot most of the film from the eye-level of a child to further connect with Elliot and E.T. With the exception of Elliot’s mom, no adults’ faces are shown until the last half of the film.

Most of the full-body puppetry was performed by a 2′ 10 tall stuntman, but the scenes in the kitchen were done using a 10-year old boy who was born without legs but was an expert on walking on his hands.

The filmmakers had requested that M&M’s be used to lure E.T., instead of Reese’s Pieces. The Mars company had denied their request and so Reese’s Pieces were used instead. As a direct result, Reese’s Pieces sales skyrocketed. Because of this, more and more companies began requesting that their products be used in movies. Thus, product placement was born.

ET’s face was modeled after poet Carl Sandburg, Albert Einstein and a pug dog.

The end of the film was one of the most significant musical experiences for composer John Williams. After several attempts were made to match the score to the film, Steven Spielberg took the film off the screen and encouraged Williams to conduct the orchestra the way he would at a concert. He did, and Spielberg slightly re-edited the film to match the music, which is unusual since normally the music would be edited to match the film. The result was Williams winning the 1982 Academy Award for Best Original Score.

According to the film’s novelization, E.T. is over ten million years old. Steven Spielberg also stated in an interview that E.T. was a plant-like creature, and neither male or female.

E.T.’s voice was provided by Pat Welsh, an elderly woman who lived in Marin County, California. Welsh smoked two packets of cigarettes a day, which gave her voice a quality that sound effects creator Ben Burtt liked. She spent nine-and-a-half hours recording her part, and was paid $380 by Burtt for her services. Burtt also recorded 16 other people and various animals to create E.T.’s “voice”. These included Spielberg; Debra Winger; Burtt’s sleeping wife, who had a cold; a burp from his USC film professor; as well as raccoons, sea otters and horses.

Steven Spielberg’s original concept was for a much darker movie in which a family was terrorized in their house by aliens. When Spielberg decided to go with a more benevolent alien, the family-in-jeopardy concept was recycled as Poltergeist (1982).

Steven Spielberg worked simultaneously on both this film and Poltergeist (1982) in 1982 (which was directed by Tobe Hooper but produced by Spielberg), and both were made to complement each other. “E.T.” represented suburban dreams, and “Poltergeist” represented suburban nightmares.

Corey Feldman was originally scheduled for a role in E.T., but over the course of a script re-write, his part was eliminated. Steven Spielberg felt bad about the decision and promised Feldman a part in his next planned production which turned out to be Gremlins (1984).

ET’s communicator actually worked, and was constructed by Henry Feinberg, an expert in science and technology interpretation for the public.

Harrison Ford was initially intended to have a cameo role in the film as Elliot’s school headmaster, but the scene was cut.

Steven Spielberg shot the film in chronological order to invoke a real response from the actors (mainly the children) when E.T. departed at the end. All emotional responses from that last scene are real.

Steven Spielberg and Melissa Mathison came up with the concept of a sequel called “Nocturnal Fears”, where Elliott and his friends are kidnapped by aliens and E.T. would help them out. E.T.’s name would be Zreck, and his species was at war with the other aliens.

At the auditions, Henry Thomas thought about the day his dog died to express sadness. Director Steven Spielberg cried, and hired him on the spot.

SOURCE: GeekTryant

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  1. Mornin’ Miss Pat – I’ve never seen ET and don’t want to. I don’t like science fiction, did not watch the Star Trek or Lost in Space TV series, and had to make myself sit through the first Star Wars.   That was hard!  Jabba the Hutt was really creepy.   The best line in the whole movie was, Darth Vader’s ‘I’m your father.’

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    1. Morning GA! THAT STINKS! ALL OF IT!
      gees, they take you for granted–and that’s not right! you do a lot for your daughter and him and they just expect it and critique it? smh…that’s entitlement right there, rearing it’s ugly head. they should have to do for themselves for a while to gain an appreciation of ALL YOU DO DO!
      and why can’t his “dance partner” take him to those appts? you’re such a good, kindhearted person GA, but i don’t think he’s your responsibility any more.
      your life is your life–and you time for yourself. i think it’s possible to get care giver burnout–and you certainly do enough to have that–all the way around.
      it’s easy for me to say these things because i’m not in your situation, but imo–you go ABOVE & BEYOND all the time–and now instead of appreciating it, they demand it.
      so sorry about all that!
      rest, recharge and enjoy a little “you” time

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      2. Miss Pat, If you can, please delete all that rant after the first Star Wars paragraph. It doesn’t even make sense – I was just over-loaded letting off steam. So sorry.

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      3. Thanks so much for the encouragement… you are a joy – and have a gift for lifting people up. I know your family appreciates you so much! I really do!

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  2. Morning All!
    chilly again this morning. a grosbeak was waiting on the railing this morning for me to bring out the jelly feeder…when i came out he didn’t move either. so I put it out and he immediately jumped on it –watching me though–and then flew off.
    they have ME trained…LOL

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    1. Morning, Pat! That training kicks in fast, doesn’t it??? LOL – 62 and clear here this morning. It’s not supposed to be quite as hot today but we’ll see. Apparently the squirrels are still going after the nectar feeder hanging on the trellis. It was barely hanging on this morning and was totally empty…sigh…after I cleaned and refilled it yesterday. I think I might try some of the pellets you can buy that supposedly keep squirrels, rabbits, etc. away from gardens. I’ll sprinkle it all around the garden beds….hell, I’ll try anything at this point!!! Frankly, I’m still thinking about some kind of poison….sigh….no, I can’t do that – stray cats could easily eat the carcass and die….shit!!!

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      1. Morning Filly. buy a hawk. LOL
        but you’re right about the carcass.
        i am convinced we had a bear in the area the last few days. i woke up one night to go to the bathroom and we had a lot of windows open because we were staining spot on the floor and hubby was redoing grout. when i passed the bedroom window there was this stench–not like a broken sewer pipe or even rotting garbage–but it was distinctive. and there were no deer in the yard for a couple of days. the deer are back this morning and the stench is gone.

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          1. first thing we asked when we moved up here…lol
            everyone says the same thing–deer can smell them when they are approaching–and i don’t mean like next door–when they are far away- so they can get their fawn safely hidden. so it’s distinctive.
            is that what i smelled? i can’t say for sure–but it smelled bad and unlike anything I smelled before. it would make me think danger is coming.

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            1. Maybe he/she had rolled in a carcass….

              EXCERPT: “If you’ve ever been near a zoo, you know how overwhelming it can smell – even from afar. In the US alone, there are over 400 zoos. Some of them have bears. So it’s not weird to wonder – what do bears smell like?

              You will be surprised to learn that bears have a unique odor. Some bears might smell light and earthy while others might smell like a wet dog on a sunny day and have a disgustingly pungent smell.

              Black and brown (grizzly, Kodiak) bears might sometimes have a strong repelling odor, while polar bears will mostly smell neutral and clean, like a salty fresh breeze.

              Some bears roll in the grass and pass such fresh herbal smell on themselves; others roll in the carcass and just reek.

              Let’s explain this in-depth, so the next time you visit a zoo, you can guess from a distance which bear you are about to see next.”

              https://thedailywildlife.com/what-do-bears-smell-like/

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  8. it’s always about $$

    Pegon Zellschmidt

    June 10, 2024 8:07 am

    Ukraine is a ‘gold mine’ Allowing a Russian victory in the conflict would deprive America of access to vast mineral resources, Lindsey Graham says

    Washington “cannot afford” to allow Russia to achieve victory in the Ukraine conflict as this would mean losing direct access to vast mineral assets, US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) has said.

    In an interview with ‘Face the Nation’ on CBS on Sunday, Graham accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of being a “megalomaniac” who is attempting to “re-create the Russian Empire by force of arms,” starting with Ukraine. He further claimed that if Moscow wins the current conflict, it will then take over Ukraine’s wealth and share it with China. Graham described that prospect as “ridiculous,” suggesting it would be better if this “gold mine” were available to the US instead.

    “They’re sitting on 10 to $12 trillion of critical minerals in Ukraine. They could be the richest country in all of Europe… If we help Ukraine now, they can become the best business partner we ever dreamed of, that $10 to $12 trillion of critical mineral assets could be used by Ukraine and the West, not given to Putin and China,” Graham stated.

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    1. and yet what is ukraine doing with the $$ we send them? STEALING IT

      Pegon Zellschmidt
      June 10, 2024 8:13 am

      Ukrainian officials stole $490 million meant for military
      Criminal proceedings are underway in relation to dozens of cases of alleged embezzlement, according to politician Mikhail Bondar

      In the absence of defensive fortifications, Russian forces have made rapid advances in the country. Last month, Ukrainian media reported that military and civilian authorities in Kharkov Region had paid millions of dollars to fake companies for the supply of non-existent construction materials to build fortifications.

      In May, Russia launched a large-scale offensive on Kharkov Region, capturing multiple towns and villages. Some Ukrainian troops, including Denis Yaroslavsky, a commander active in the area, blamed their superiors for putting up inadequate defenses, claiming they may have embezzled money intended for their construction.

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  9. I really loved ET and Gremlins – great movies that were clearly fictional! Poltergeist….not so much. Those kinds of movies I do not like at all! I don’t believe any of that crap anyway and I don’t believe ghosts exist either.

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      1. From Wiki: “Struggling inventor Randall Peltzer visits a Chinatown antique store, hoping to find a Christmas present for his son Billy. In it, Randall finds a small, furry creature called a mogwai (Cantonese: 魔怪, ‘devil’). The owner, Mr. Wing, refuses to sell it to Randall, but his grandson secretly does, warning Randall to remember three important rules: do not expose the mogwai to light, especially sunlight, which will kill it; do not let it come in contact with water; and above all, never feed it after midnight.”

        Gizmo was the main gremlin.

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  10. https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-opens-investigation-car-manufacturers-collection-and-sale-drivers-data

    Our Take: Data freedom is the civil rights issue of our time, but because so many already-established civil liberties are being trampled, it doesn’t get the attention it deserves.

    From the super computers we hold in our hands to the friendly and helpful wire taps in our homes to, as in this news out of Texas, the cars that take us where we want to go, we are living in the Wild West of data freedom.

    Centralized entities — governments, corporations, NGOs, etc. — extract enormous value from user data and, depending on what state you live in, there are very few limitations on how they can use it.

    So why should you care? And what do I mean by data? I dug deep into this topic in July 2020, but to summarize:

    All of it. Consider what that means with the example of video games.

    As Patrick Stafford noted in his May 2019 piece, The dangers of in-game data collection: Can your choices come back to haunt you?, ‘…developers…see a chart that outlines how that game’s players are motivated…How do players interact within a game? What choices do they make? That information can be used to make better games. And it can also be combined with other types of information to build robust personal profiles. Those personal profiles are typically used to target advertising, but privacy experts warn that, in the future, that information may be used in sinister ways we can’t expect.’

    Of course, it’s not just video games. The same data mining, distillation, structuring, analysis, and visualization is happening for every conversation, transaction, social media post, and any other online behaviors – across every sector of every industry, in every nation across our realm. Data experts have defined the concept of ‘data exhaust’ to refer to the stream of intimate ones and zeros we leave in our wake.

    Data freedom is highly complex, and it’s not as politically sexy as censorship or monopoly grievances — but it’s arguably more important. Imagine you have the capability to intimately view humanity on a global scale, viewing and interacting, in real time, with any slice of the data you want, running predictive modeling on that data at scale… Would you not develop a God complex?

    Yes, obviously. Sadly, too few officials with statutory authority are willing to fight for data freedom (ostensibly because they’re all benefiting from data harvesting and its immeasurably valuable outcomes.) Good on Paxton for being one of them.

    ‘Alexa, remind me to move to Texas.’ — Ashe in America

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  11. Top thought on the above: I saw ET, but don’t remember much. The facts are interesting. The comments about Lindsey Graham and Ukraine annoy me. I believe he was a protogee of Newt Gingrich, but he has morphed into a war hawk in typical US Buttinsky style. Where does his funding come from? Does anyone remember that Ukraine was a part of Russia long before the Soviet Union became the USSR? Or that Ukraine used to be called the “bread basket of Europe”? Or that the nuclear meltdown of Chernobyl in the 1980s was in Ukraine? That the US probably engineered the blowup of the Nordstream pipeline, raising energy prices for Europe yet again? Lindsey Graham is bad news for the US, Asia, and the world. His personal ambition and greed are out of control.

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      2. I just looked up Graham’s bio on Wiki. He was an Air Force lawyer, in the House during the Clinton years, has been in the Senate since 2003. Was a Gringrich supporter but then was part of coup with Tom DeLay (R-TX) and others to unseat Gingrich. Was investigated by the Senate Ethics Committee in 2022 for soliciting campaign money for some candidate. Is the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary committee. Talking with the IDF, and claims Iran is the problem. Has participated in a “Consensus Report” entitled “Disposing of Weapons Grade Plutonium”.

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      1. That’s what I have ascertained, too. I saw Newt Gingrich speak in Atlanta many years ago. I liked him and what he said. Lindsey Graham is another story, who apparently rode Gingrich’s coattails, then participated in the coup that threw him out of his House Speaker role. I have seen Graham speak too, later. He seemed a weak imitation, even though they look somewhat alike.

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  12. “Trump Has Raised $400 Million In One Week”

    On May 30th, Donald Trump was found guilty on 34 counts of… falsifying records of something, no one really quite knows what. A week later on June 6th, Trump announced that he has raised $400 MILLION since the verdict.

    Speaking at a Turning Point Action town hall event in Arizona, Trump stated “I just went through a rigged trial in New York with a highly conflicted, and I mean highly conflicted, judge where there was no crime.”

    “They didn’t want to bring the case. They could have brought the case seven years ago. It’s only when you run for office they bring cases,” Trump continued. 

    Trump further noted that he is “beating Biden, by the way, by a lot,” adding that following the conviction, “more campaign funds were given to this campaign than any campaign they think in history, almost $400 million.”

    It is an unprecedented amount and likely will not be matched by Biden before the election. — Modernity News

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    1. if they wanted to boost the maggot, they could. lotta dark money and theft could be utilized to make it seem like the maggot’s rallying. my guess is they won’t waste it on him.

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  19. EXCERPT: “The Supreme Court handed down a victory for political freedom last week in National Rifle Association v. Vullo that may lay the groundwork for lawsuits featuring dissidents against the Covid regime, including Berenson v. Biden and Murthy v. Missouri.

    In Vullo, the Court considered whether the New York Superintendent of the Department of Financial Services violated the NRA’s First Amendment rights when she launched a campaign to coerce private actors “to punish or suppress the NRA’s gun-promotion activities.” MariaVullo and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo met with executives at insurance companies doing business with the NRA to threaten the companies with adverse regulatory proceedings unless they ceased their relationships with the NRA. 

    In a unanimous opinion, Justice Sotomayor ruled that this campaign, if proven true at trial, was illegal. “Vullo was free to criticize the NRA and pursue the conceded violations of New York insurance law,” the Court held. “She could not wield her power, however, to threaten enforcement actions against DFS-regulated entities in order to punish or suppress the NRA’s gun-promotion advocacy.” 

    The case offers direct parallels to the censorship of Covid-related information. The Biden White House repeatedly worked through third parties – including Meta, Twitter, and Google – to censor disfavored information. 

    In Murthy v. Missouri, four federal judges have found that the Biden administration, the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and the CIA violated the First Amendment in its ongoing collaboration with Big Tech to censor speech from the plaintiffs, who include doctors, news outlets, and states’ attorneys general. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the case in March, and an opinion is expected in the coming weeks. 

    Justice Sotomayor offered unequivocal support for the crux of the plaintiffs’ argument in Murthy, writing, “Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors.” 

    But the case may offer an even better precedent for journalist Alex Berenson, who has sued the Biden administration, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, and White House officials for their role in prompting Twitter to ban him from the platform in August 2021. In Berenson v. Biden, the Defendants’ motion to dismiss heavily relied on the lower court’s decision in NRA v. Vullo, which the Supreme Court just unanimously overturned……”

    https://brownstone.org/articles/the-supreme-court-just-gave-us-hope/

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    1. NF, Thanks for the update. It’s hard to sort through all the tangles and historical trends. Regarding Ayn Rand and “Atlas Shrugged”, I agree with your comparison between her life and writings and her books vs. the Now. I’ve also wondered if some Stuff outlives its usefulness, or breaks, but is too much trouble to get rid of, like cassette tapes, CDs, VHS tapes, or old computers or phones. I’m running low on time and interest to follow up on things that have accumulated and have begun falling apart over the years. Regarding Rand’s ideal getaway in Atlas Shrugged, I wondered how all those secluded geniuses got by when their stuff began to break down.

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      1. I haven’t read it so it wasn’t my commentary, unfortunately. I have an old dot-matrix printer in my garage, along with a couple of fancier, programmable coffee pots, none of which work any longer. I can “recycle” them thru the city if I pay the fee, which is exorbitant! Beyond that, I repurpose a lot of things – I’m almost always working on jimmy-rigging something! LOL

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        1. I keep saving potentially useful parts of broken, torn, or rotten things, and making use of what I can. My parents’ old tools, like hammers, screw drivers, or pliers, or my grandmothers old book-binder, and mother’s old 3-hole punch, still work. Old sewing and cooking equipment have rusted or broken.

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          1. Yep – I still have the battery-operated pencil sharpener that my Mom had when she was teaching school in the 1960’s!!! Tools that were my Dad’s and he died in ‘1996! Mom held onto all of them, even after remarrying in ’98. When she died in 2012, she still had it all.

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  20. EXCERPT: “One fateful day in March 2020, the incompetent men shut down the world with lockdowns. It was the opposite of the premise in Atlas Shrugged. Who is John Galt? Who cares? The incompetent people could stop the motor of the world too. Atlas shrugs either by disappearing competence or by an overwhelming mass of incompetence too great even for Atlas’s broad, strong shoulders.

    Competency crises seem to be brewing left and right and are constantly on public display of late. Consider the self-interested testimony of Fani Willis. Jared Bernstein, the chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, caused an interview to go viral by struggling to explain monetary policy. Several previously 100% effective Covid vaccines have been withdrawn from the market (Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca). Lastly, consider the inspiring image of our own Secretary of Defense triumphantly marching off his plane in the Philippines wearing his Covid mask and face shield. It is not-so-reminiscent of the image of General MacArthur triumphantly marching onshore at Luzon to liberate the Philippines. It is difficult to observe these things and think, These are competent individuals.

    General Douglas MacArthur wades ashore during initial landings at Leyte, Philippine Islands. Army Signal Corp Photo, NARA ID 531424

    In Ayn Rand’s novel, the competent individuals who build businesses, products, and industries all go on strike and suddenly disappear. The resulting world becomes increasingly bleak. Government takes a larger role. Simple things start to break. Less value is provided and at the same time, everything is more expensive. That sounds much like the world we begin to find ourselves in today.

    Rand witnessed all of this herself. She was born in the city of St. Petersburg in pre-revolutionary Russia, the daughter of a pharmacist. After the revolution, her father’s pharmacy was nationalized and they fled to Crimea which was under White Army control during the ensuing Russian Civil War. Afterward, they returned to St. Petersburg and were forced to live under desperate conditions. Nearly starving, she was granted a visa to visit Chicago. She managed to stay in the US and chose to leave her family behind. She watched as incompetent men destroyed her father’s business, needlessly broke up her family, and repeated this disaster society-wide.

    Meanwhile, we can read and laugh about recent trends like quiet-quitting, which may be a darkly alternative concept of Galt’s Gulch. Regardless of competency, people can disappear and simply collect a paycheck. Rather than compete, the goal becomes optimizing work-life balance and pursuing passions outside of work. If competent people begin to do only the bare minimum, is it any wonder that customer service or quality control always seems to be on the decline everywhere we look?

    The outcome is always the same: incompetence spreads. In many cases, incompetence becomes celebrated. In 2021, Fauci was awarded the Dan David Prize for “speaking truth to power” during the pandemic. Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York was given an international Emmy for his “masterful” pandemic briefings. Today, where do both stand? …….”

    https://brownstone.org/articles/atlas-shrugs-twice/

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      1. I re-watched a lot of these kinds of movies with HB and then again with my GS, Gage. I had a bunch of them on purchased VHS tapes that I gave to Piper (Free Willy 1 and 2 were frequent repeats!) and still have a full bin (or two?) of VHS tapes, some of which have 2-3 movies on them.

        When cable came into existence and you paid for it, you were able to record anything you wanted. Now, of course, with sat TV, you can’t do that except within THEIR box. I need to ship them off to one of these companies that advertise on-line about copying them onto DVDs but the cost would be thru the roof!

        Some really, really great movies, too, as well as Princess Di’s wedding and funeral. I have a fancy DVD/VHS machine that I bought when I moved in here in order to do just that and bought a stack of DVDs, half of which I still have. But it would take forever!!!! I was hoping I could rope my GS into doing it but that didn’t fly! LOL

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  22. I’ve got to run down to the local store and p/u my 2nd case of jelly – only 4 jars left from the previous case!!! I’m thankful they seem to have slowed down a bit recently. I talked to Mom this morning – Sis isn’t coming up until late Wednesday and they will leave for Lincoln Thursday morning so I can wait a bit yet if I don’t get the rebate check today. Mom will be gone for a week or 10 days so she is busy getting everything set, i.e., arranging for people to water her plants, get her mail, etc. And I keep finding more items to add to the box….

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  23. SMH – this is why I don’t shop here much. 2 packs of cigs here was over $15!!! I can get a carton in Norfolk (10 packs) for $40. No rebate check yet but Sis is coming around 4 pm Wednesday so I’ll wait and go then so I can spend some time with her.

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      1. The grocery store is the same for the most part but she gives me the wholesale price for the jelly. They’re really nice – I know the owner – and I can occasionally get some good deals. Back when I was eating gallons of ice cream, I usually got it there – comparable price to WM.

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  24. Hmmmm….not sure if that’s supposed to say something or just cat prints…? Upside down, it might be “HIS!” LOL

    Uhhhh…..did ya’ lose something???

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    1. Not windy? It’s up to 85 here, a faint breeze now and then, and sunny; our humidity is still really low, so it feels cooler.

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  30. a woman parks in front of a hospital. her passenger is her mom who requires a wheelchair. the woman goes to retrieve one, leaving the car still running. another woman coming out of the hospital jumps in the car and speeds off–with the passenger still inside. she crashes the car into a building that houses the AG of DC. she runs from the car–the cops nab her. the passenger sustains more injuries and dies at the hospital. in only 3 days, the DC US Attorney drops the murder and kidnapping charges of the carjacker. WTF???

    James Woods
    @RealJamesWoods
    DC carjacker crashes near US Attorney’s office, elderly woman inside vehicle dies: police | Fox News

    And Matthew Graves let her walk on murder and kidnapping charges today.

    Of course.

    https://www.rvmnews.com/2024/06/james-woods-calls-out-dc-us-attorney-dropping-murder-kidnapping-charges-against-carjacker-videos/

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      1. did you see that shoplifter at sephora who refused to be arrested? she said they didn’t even get 20 ft from the store so she should be able to pay for the stuff now that she get caught. she has a ding on her record and if she gets another one, she can’t go to college. the “MAN” is out to get her.

        the cops told her she was under arrest and she said no. they were trying to be polite. i would have gotten her ass out of the chair, cuffed her ass and thrown her into a patrol car.

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        1. Unfortunately, since they basically threw the physical fitness standards out the window, a LOT of them wouldn’t even be capable of stopping her!

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  32. Just The News: “Moments after being whisked away from the U.S. Capitol after it was breached on Jan. 6, 2021, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was captured on videotape declaring “I take responsibility” for failing to have a better security plan for the complex that fateful day, according to footage released Monday by House GOP investigators.

    “We have responsibility, Terri,” Pelosi is heard saying on the videotape to her chief of staff, Terri McCullough. “We did not have any accountability for what was going on there, and we should have. This is ridiculous.”

    Pelosi also said: “You’re going to ask me – in the middle of the thing when they’ve already breached the inaugural stuff – ‘should we call the Capitol Police, I mean the National Guard?’ Why weren’t the National Guard there to begin with?” 

    McCullough, replied as the speaker’s SUV raced through an underground parking garage: “They thought that they had sufficient … resources.” 

    Pelosi responded, clearly frustrated: “No, that’s not a question of how they had … they don’t know. They clearly didn’t know. And I take responsibility for not having them just prepare for more.”

    Pelosi seemed to be referring to congressional leaders, and McCullough seemed to be referring to the U.S. Capitol Police force.

    You can watch the video footage here.

    The footage was recorded by Pelosi’s daughter Alexandra, who helped HBO shoot a documentary about the Jan 6 riot. But the video was not aired in its entirety until Monday, when Republicans on the House Administration Oversight Subcommittee released it after obtaining it from the TV network.

    Pelosi’s reaction to the Capitol riot depicted in the footage was reported by Politico on Sunday. However, some of the key quotes above were not included by the outlet, which reviewed the footage independently. 

    “Numerous independent fact-checkers have confirmed that Speaker Pelosi did not plan her own assassination. Cherry-picked out-of-context clips don’t change that. Three years later, House Republicans are still trying to whitewash January 6th. It’s shameful, unpatriotic and pathetic,” a spokesperson for Pelosi told Just the News.

    House Republicans, however, said the footage undercut three years of Democrat-led narrative that Jan. 6 and its failures were the sole responsibility of former President Donald Trump and his followers.

    “Pelosi’s J6 Select Committee spent taxpayer’s money chasing false political narratives and using Hollywood producers for their ‘investigation,'” Subcommittee Chairman Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., said in a social media post on X. “Her admission of responsibility directly contradicts their own narrative.” 

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  33. Just The News: “A coalition of states, Miles Berry Farm and the Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association filed a new lawsuit on Monday challenging the Labor Department’s rule that would require agricultural employers to allow temporary foreign farm workers to form unions without congressional approval.

    Southeastern Legal Foundation, which is representing Miles Berry Farm and the Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association in the lawsuit, said in a news release the department “claims that it has authority to do so under the Immigration Reform and Control Act, even though that congressional statute – which grants temporary H-2A employment visas to migrant farm workers—never so much as mentions the right to form unions.”

    Vice President of Litigation for SLF Braden Boucek argued that President Biden is “once again mobilizing the bureaucracy to dismiss and override Congress when it won’t act as he wants” and this time “it comes at the expense of America’s farmers.”

    He also said that “making a living off the land is hard enough these days without the Department of Labor granting a right to foreign workers that is denied to Americans.”

    Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach shared a similar view in a formal statement about the lawsuit. “Once again, Joe Biden is putting America last. He’s giving political benefits to foreign workers while American workers struggle in Biden’s horrible economy. I stand with American workers,” he said.”

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  34. If only ConRon weren’t such a mealy-mouthed fake – they’re sure doing a great job in FL!!!

    “Ya know, I laugh almost constantly at the screwy laws they pass in New York and Califonicatia. Here in Florida, we do things a little different. Our lawmakers pass legislation that eases the burden on working-stiff homeowners like me. A bill the Governor signed last week is a perfect example.

    According to this very-well written article at TheGuardian.com, on 1 July, there will be unprecedented new curbs on the power and excesses of HOAs, the ultra-local panels of government that decide what color your front door should be, and how clean you need to keep your mailbox, in pursuit of high standards of maintenance and aesthetics.

    No more can residents be cited or fined for trivial transgressions, like leaving their trash cans out beyond collection day, or having holiday lights and decorations still hanging long after the last visitors have returned home – at least without 14 days’ written notice, a hearing and appeals. 

    Thank you Governor. Here in the Villages a while back, the HOA tried to fine one of my neighbors for having a tiny white cross in her garden. She got so upset over their actions she eventually moved back to Minnesota. That’s a terrible thing to do to someone. No one should ever be made to move back to VikingLand once they’ve escaped. Juss’ sayin’…”

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  37. NF: Ah, yes! I remember these…..used one a time or two!

    Sweet!!!

    “Yesterday Mrs. CW was in the checkout line at the grocery store, and the clerk asked her what she was making with some of the stuff she was buying. Informed that she was planning a casserole, the checkout gal looked confused and said, “What’s a casserole?” 😕😕😕😕😕 I told Mrs. CW that she should have written the recipe down for her, but in cursive.”

    LOL – “acid trip car”

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  40. ….sigh….I just had to chase the squirrel off of the small nectar feeder again – he/she totally drained it! So now I’ve rigged it to hang underneath the jelly feeder. This is my hell, isn’t it?!?! 🥵🥵🥵😡🤬🤬

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  41. 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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  44. “Be proud of yourself, patriot.  For resisting the Jab propaganda, for thinking for yourself, for doing your own research.”

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