Harlequin Shrimp

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The harlequin shrimp is a saltwater shrimp species that inhabits coral reefs in the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans. Its beautiful appearance and selective diet make it a unique creature among shrimp species.

The Harlequin Shrimp is a strikingly colored species of shrimp found in tropical Indo-Pacific coral reefs. It has a distinctive color pattern of red, white, and blue that warns predators that it is toxic. But remember, this shrimp is not toxic.

This colorful shrimp reaches up to 2 inches in length and has enlarged pincer claws. Its colors are aposematic, meaning they act as a warning signal to other animals that it is distasteful or poisonous.

The Harlequin Shrimp feeds primarily on sea stars, using its claws to pry them off coral and flip them over to access their softer underside.

The vivid and highly contrasting colors of the Harlequin Shrimp make it popular in the marine aquarium trade, but it can be difficult to care for properly. Due to its specialized diet, it requires a continuous supply of sea stars, which can be challenging to obtain and keep alive.

The Harlequin Shrimp is a strikingly colored crustacean found in the Indo-Pacific. It has a white body covered in large light blue spots, giving it a harlequin pattern and its name. The males are slightly smaller than the females.

This shrimp has ten legs. The first pair are modified into large, flattened claws called chelipeds that it uses to capture prey and bring food to its mouth. Its eyes are located on stalks protruding from its head, giving it a wide field of view to spot predators and prey.

The Harlequin Shrimp’s first pair of antennae resemble a flattened leaf. These specialized antennae help the shrimp sense the smell of nearby prey. When it detects prey, the shrimp swiftly attacks using its large chelipeds and feeds on various species of starfish found in coral reefs.

Harlequin shrimp is a picky eater. They have a surprisingly unique diet that consists mainly comprised of echinoderms, particularly starfish. They will also eat a few species of sea urchins, but starfish make up the bulk of their diet. Even the potent toxins found in many starfish do not affect the harlequin shrimp.

To eat a starfish, the harlequin shrimp will flip the starfish onto its back, which disables it. The shrimp then begins eating at the tip of one of the starfish’s arms. It eats its way down the arm all the way to the central disk of the starfish.

The harlequin shrimp uses its claws to peel away the starfish’s spiny exoskeleton to get to the nutrient-rich internal tissues underneath. This peeling behavior and its striking coloration are how the harlequin shrimp got its name – it looks like it is wearing a harlequin costume while eating.

Due to their specialized diet, harlequin shrimp can only be found in areas with abundant starfish populations. They use their powerful claws to capture and subdue starfish, and their digestive systems have evolved to handle the toxins.

SOURCE: OCEANFAUNA.COM

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  1. Very interesting post about another fascinating creature. I had never heard of Harlequin Shrimp.

    Hope you all have good weather today!

    Forecast for the Village – “Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 3pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 92. Heat index values as high as 106. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.”

    Typical weather for late July in the Tropic of Humidity. Coming up – Hurricane Season!

    There’s one little spot in the S Atlantic that bares watching right now….

    https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/xgtwo/two_atl_2d0.png

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    2. Good morning, GA. It’s 68 here this morning and very humid still. No rain predicted for the next 10 days and hot, hot, hot – low to mid-90’s. Hope all is well with you.

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  2. Morning All!
    hmmm….my header picture didn’t post! wonder why
    oh well.
    cool here this morning and a lot deer all over this morning, so mama bear and her cubs have moved on for now.

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    1. Good morning, Pat! Still very humid here & 68 at the moment. We had enough wind overnight that I had to get up and bring my flag in but no wind now.

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  8. Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy(@wolfmoon1776)

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    July 27, 2024 02:58

    HHS Secretary Becerra just issued a PREP Act declaration for bird flu. This allows the FDA Commissioner to issue EUAs for bird flu vaccines, with no liability.

    The US government has ordered 4.8 million doses of bird flu from the CSL Sequirus company, produced in dog kidney…

    — Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) July 26, 2024

    HHS Secretary Becerra just issued a PREP Act declaration for bird flu. This allows the FDA Commissioner to issue EUAs for bird flu vaccines, with no liability.

    The US government has ordered 4.8 million doses of bird flu from the CSL Sequirus company, produced in dog kidney cells and using a dangerous squalene-containing adjuvant.  

    The AMA issued CPT codes for this vaccine last Friday, so doctors could be reimbursed for administering it.

    There have been a total of 11 cases of bird flu in the US since 2022, all mild, most involving just conjunctivitis. None were shown to have been transmitted human-to-human.

    Why would you need this vaccine, unless you expected a much more virulent virus to appear which had mysteriously gained the ability to spread between humans?

    Will there be another lab-derived pandemic? Not on my watch! #Kennedy24

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  9. I got up to find Wheezer snoozing on my chair this morning – it was still pretty dark outside and the focus isn’t the best since I was taking it from inside at an angle:

    My first lopes:

    There are 3 in this picture:

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  10. EXCERPT: “…Harris’ father is Jamaican and Irish. Her mother was Tamil Brahmin Indian, a high caste that is considered India’s elite. Harris was born in Oakland and spent her formative years in Berkeley. Even today, Berkeley would never be considered a bastion of Blackness; but it is a hotbed for communism and Marxist philosophy. Then, Harris’ mother moved her and her sister Meena to Montreal, which in the late ’70s and early ’80s, was probably more homogenous than it is today. Media personality and political analyst Kira Davis, who like Harris is biracial and spent her formative years in Canada, gave me some insight on this. Davis said, and I quote, “Montreal is where communists train their children.” 

    Davis also gave insight into the type of education that Harris probably received in Montreal, and it has little to do with Black culture.

    Montreal is the most liberal of cities in the most liberal of provinces. When you’re educated in Montreal, you’re educated to hate your country as a colonizer and Western devil.  

    This is where Harris spent her teenage years before returning to the States to attend Howard University, a historically Black college and obviously, a strategic choice to further cultivate this Black image that she wants everyone to swallow as whole cloth. So, it seems that like the gender cult, “I feel it, therefore it is,” it seems that merely declaring yourself “Black” is the only requirement to be it. If that’s the case, then Rachel Dolezal (now Nkechi Amare Diallo) and Shaun King are owed an apology: 

    https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2024/07/27/not-all-blacks-are-on-board-with-a-kamala-harris-presidency-n2177399

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    1. Thanks, Filly, for the background info. You make a good Sleuth. I know very little about Kamala, but she sure sounds wishy-washy to me. You have provided some insight to explain that this woman seems very confused and doesn’t really know where she stands on anything.

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      2. I started out doing on-line research 11 years ago – what a learning process THAT was! I literally knew nothing when I began this journey. Since my daughter died in 2015 and my grandkids want nothing to do with me, I’ve pretty much been doing it full-time, every day of the week. It’s my only way to contribute to the goal of saving our Republic.

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  11. “Elon Musk Just Had a Federal Agency Ruled Unconstitutional”

    Red State, By streiff | 5:32 PM on July 26, 2024

    AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Elon Musk’s SpaceX turned a small bore squabble about an alleged unfair labor practice into a massive assault on the administrative state that could result in the entire enforcement structure of the National Labor Relations Board being declared unconstitutional. In an opinion released Thursday, US District Judge Alan Albright of the Western District of Texas, a Trump appointee, ruled that SpaceX “has demonstrated a substantial likelihood of success on its claims that Congress has impermissibly protected both the NLRB Members and the NLRB ALJs from the President’s Article II power of removal.” 

    The case started with SpaceX firing eight engineers for circulating a letter criticizing Musk for alleged “sexist conduct” and claiming the company discriminated against women. There is no word on the engineers’ hair color or pronouns. After their defenestration, they were required to sign severance agreements that prevented them from publicly disparaging SpaceX or joining in class action lawsuits. They made a complaint to the NLRB, which was naturally accepted.

    Judge Albright’s decision followed a July 10 ruling in which he granted an injunction against any NLRB action until the agency’s constitutionality is established.

    SpaceX’s attack on the NLRB structure was based on a recent Supreme Court decision, Security and Exchange Commission vs. Jarkesy, and the Fifth Circuit opinion that preceded the Supreme Court ruling.

    BACKGROUND: 

    5th Circuit Slaps Down Joe Biden’s SEC, Liberals Promptly Lose Their Minds – RedState

    The Skinny on SCOTUS – 6-27-24 Edition: The Sleepers – RedState

    SpaceX argued that, like in Jarkesy, the double insulation for NLRB administrative law judges was an unconstitutional infringement of the president’s power to fire minor officers. In this case, a byzantine system essentially ensures administrative law judges can do whatever they wish. Administrative law judges can only be removed for good cause determined by the Merit Systems Protection Board. The MSPB has the same protection. The appointed members of the NLRB are only removable “for neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.” The Supreme Court has twice found that level of insulation from the consequences of your actions to be unconstitutional; see Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Federal Protection Bureau and Collins v. Yellen. 

    There is a long way to go before the NLRB has its windows shuttered and its doors nailed shut, but now, that agency is on the defensive. There are other cases in which Amazon and Trader Joe’s are making the same argument in progress. Given the history of rulings on the subject, the Roberts Court is likely to agree.”

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    2. Redundancy in federal bureaucracy is my issue, so I’m glad Musk is challenging it. It seems every state imitates the Feds, to create their own bureaucratic tier of enforcers. This leads to an aristocracy of lawyers, as Alexis de Tocqueville observed in the 1830s.

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      2. Personally, I think the Feds have encroached on States’ rights by getting involved in issues that should be up to the States alone, such as education — and the law, for that matter.

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          1. Well, we were originally supposed to be governed by Common Law until they replaced our Constitution with the Act of 1871 – we now function under corporate law.

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        2. That’s what the War Between the States was really about: self -determination regarding such things as tariffs. Slavery was marketed by Lincoln as the issue, but the northern states had all the manufacturing and southern states supplied most of the raw materials, like cotton, wheat, corn, timber, and tobacco.
          Lincoln, who started as a corporate railroad attorney, started the USDA in about 1852, to further rail transport from food producing areas to “consumers” in northern cities, like New York, Boston, and Chicago.

          Not to defend slavery, but it was a factor in the South’s economy, built into the economic division of the states.

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          1. Agree – it wasn’t really about slavery at all – that was ancillary to the real purpose. Lincoln himself said that he wasn’t for or against slavery – his sole overriding goal was to keep the Union together.

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  13. Just The News: “Ohio Senator and GOP vice presidential hopeful JD Vance on Friday fired back at criticism he’s faced over commenting that the United States was run by “childless cat ladies.” 

    The senator originally made the comment to then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson in 2021 when running for his Senate seat, but it has resurfaced after Vance was confirmed as the Republican nominee for vice president last week.

    Vance said the original comment was made sarcastically, but continued to attack the Left as antichildren and antifamily.

    “I know the media wants to attack me and wants me to back down on this, Megyn, but the simple point that I made is that having children, becoming a father, becoming a mother, I really do think it changes your perspective in a pretty profound way,” Vance told Megyn Kelly on her SiriusXM “The Megyn Kelly Show.”

    “There’s a deeper point here, Megyn. It’s not a criticism of people who don’t have children. I explicitly said in my remarks that this is not about criticizing people who for various reasons didn’t have kids,” he continued. “This is about criticizing the Democratic Party for becoming antifamily and antichildren.”

    Vance claimed that there are still liberal schools that require to wear masks, despite the coronavirus pandemic ending years ago, and that the Harris campaign does not support expanding tax credits. He also said that workplaces should be more accommodating to working parents.

    “I’m proud to stand up for parents. And I hope that parents out there recognize that I’m a guy who wants to fight for you,” Vance said. “I don’t think we should back down from it … I think we should be honest about the problem.”

    The senator also said that he was not opposed to families using in vitro fertilization (IVF) in order to have biological children, but that the rights of Christian hospitals should be protected too.”

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    1. I was wondering what “JD” stood for….

      From Wiki: Vance was born James Donald Bowman on August 2, 1984, in Middletown, Ohio, to Beverly Carol (née Vance; born 1961) and Donald Ray Bowman (1959–2023). He is of Scots-Irish descent.[8][9] His parents divorced when he was a toddler. After Bowman was adopted by his mother’s third husband, Bob Hamel, his mother changed his name to James David Hamel to remove his father’s name but used the name of one of her brothers to preserve his nickname, JD.[10][11]

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        1. EXCERPT: “James adopted his stepfather’s last name for some of his teenage years, with his 2003 senior yearbook identifying him as James Hamel. This was also the name used during James’ military service from 2003 to 2007, where he served as a Corporal in the Marines.

          Marriage to JD Vance’s wife Usha
          In 2014, Vance married his wife, Usha, and decided to take on his maternal grandparents’ surname. In his bestselling novel Hillbilly Elegy, and in his congressional bio, Vance has repeatedly emphasized their importance in his upbringing, and thanked his grandmother in his Senate victory speech, and in his vice presidential acceptance speech, causing the RNC audience to chant “Mamaw! Mamaw!”

          Vance’s family history is central to his name change, and equally critical to his selection as vice president.

          Vance’s association with blue-collar, rust-belt America, a place he characterizes as “cast aside and forgotten by America’s ruling class in Washington,” could prove pivotal in helping Trump flip back crucial states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.”

          https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/18/jd-vance-name-change-why/74452398007/

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  14. Yeah, Nebraska!!!

    Just The News: “The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday upheld a state law (LB 574) that includes restrictions on abortion and so-called gender-affirming health care for minors. 

    The court ruled the law does not violate a state constitutional amendment that requires bills to apply to a single subject, according to the Associated Press. 

    The state’s highest court acknowledged in its ruling that abortion and gender-affirming care “are distinct types of medical care” but said the law does not violate Nebraska’s single-subject rule because both abortion and transgender health fall under the subject of medical care, the wire service also reports. 

    The lawsuit was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union representing Planned Parenthood of the Heartland.” 

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    1. I agree with the state of Nebraska, in this case. Both medical treatments involve risk for the doctor and patient, with unclear lines of accountability. Abortions can be risky, in any case, just as natural birth is risky. Many women have died in childbirth, throughout history. A real human being needs to have the judgment and moral guidance to help with those decisions. The state is far removed from the birthing or operating room.

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  16. I went out and watered my plants before it gets hot and found a much bigger lope on my vines! Redirected vines and removed some off-shoots. I’m thinking I might need to reinforce that trellis with another t-post on the backside in the center. Once the fruit gets big and heavy, a strong east wind might knock it over. Granted, most of our wind is from the south or west/NW. I do have one left but I need to paint it first.

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      1. I’m planning to put the sealer on in a couple of hours – maybe 2 coats in the shower part – and she can take a shower in 48 hours.

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            1. we had to redo the grout on one of the entryways when we replaced the door–the frame had to be removed–a whole big project. anyway, we regrouted and then we left to visit Mom for a few days planning on sealing it when we got back.

              well we forgot and walked on it when we got home. the grout cracked. hubby tried rewetting it and smoothing it, but to no avail. it was a small area, so we dug out that grout and redid it again. this time we sealed it properly. sigh

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              2. the tile in the bathrooms and the laundry area are all nice and square with defined edges. the tile i picked out for the kitchen/great room entry ways has irregular edges. but it was THE perfect color so we bought it. never again…lol

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      1. I crawled on my belly like a Marine to get behind that toilet to put on the color part.
        Scrubbing with the acid cleaner wasn’t so bad – I used a long handle stiff brush.

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  21. “Media Warns Community Notes May Make It Harder For Them To Lie”

    Media · Jul 26, 2024 · BabylonBee.com

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    U.S. — Members of the mainstream media sounded the alarm about the Community Notes feature of X, formerly Twitter, which they say makes it harder for them to lie.

    “It is the duty of journalists to report our truth, which sometimes doesn’t match up with what many people would call ‘reality,’” MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow said on her program Thursday evening. “We often have to lie for the greater good, and X’s Community Notes is making that much more difficult.”

    Several anchors and newspaper columnists echoed Maddow’s sentiment, calling on X to pull Community Notes from the social media platform. “How am I supposed to make you think what I want you to think if I keep getting fact-checked? This isn’t fair!” CNN’s Anderson Cooper said, his eyes moist with tears.

    Time magazine has reportedly delayed its upcoming issue, hoping to avoid blowback from Community Notes. The editorial staff, however, feared publishing only material approved by Community Notes and removing all lies would leave the entire magazine blank.

    On Fox News, Sean Hannity praised what Community Notes was accomplishing with its crowd-sourced fact-checking until he was called out of taking more than he needed from a “Take a penny, leave a penny” tray at his local grocery store.

    At publishing time, members of the media were expected to push even harder for Kamala Harris to win the election so she could restore their license to spread lies without consequences.

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  22. “Kamala Harris Secures Liberal White Women Vote By Always Being Drunk And Intolerable”

    Politics · Jul 26, 2024 · BabylonBee.com

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    WASHINGTON, D.C. — New poll numbers showed Kamala Harris had locked up the white liberal woman vote by constantly being drunk and intolerable.

    “Hey, girlfriends!” Kamala slurred at audience members of a recent rally. “Are we ready for Happy Hour right now? It’s Friday somewhere, am I right? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”

    Political analysts determined that liberal white women fell in line with Kamala after seeing how relatable she was. “I like the way she’s able to yell at a waiter while holding a glass of white wine and not spill a bit on her, just like me!” said one female rally attendee. White liberal women also say they love how Kamala staggers around the stage talking incoherently, just like they all do when they’ve had a few too many at their kids’ private school fundraisers.

    “She’s so relatable. I also love chugging a bottle of sparkling white wine and posting total nonsense on social media,” Kamala supporter Britany Kane said. “The way she slurs her speech and staggers around in public while dancing to whatever Beyoncé song is playing over the public sound system…. I totally do that too!”

    At publishing time, the Harris campaign had released a new campaign slogan to help reel in even more liberal white ladies: “If Life Gives You Lemons, Add Vodka!”

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  23. “FBI Director Suggests Trump’s Ear Just Spontaneously Exploded”

    U.S. · Jul 26, 2024 · BabylonBee.com 

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    WASHINGTON, D.C. — In his testimony before Congress, FBI Director Christopher Wray proposed a bold new theory about the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, saying that it was possible that there was, in fact, no assassination attempt at all and that Trump’s ear might have spontaneously exploded.

    Wray cited the popular 90s sci-fi television show The X-Files and the theory of spontaneous human combustion, noting that the whole idea of a 20-year-old being able to sneak past all of the Secret Service agents and local police forces to shoot a presidential candidate was so far-fetched that Trump’s ear spontaneously exploding was the most logical explanation.

    “According to our investigation and analysis of the incident, it really seems that Trump’s right ear might have exploded all by itself in a neat little bullet-shaped hole,” Wray testified. “He definitely probably was not actually hit with a real bullet — we’ve totally ruled that one out. Investigations are still ongoing, so I may have better information later, but for now, it seems like Trump’s ear just sort of decided to light itself up. It happens. Medical science doesn’t have an answer for everything, ya know?”

    Mainstream media outlets reporting on Wray’s explanation have proposed that any mentions of a 20-year-old attempted shooter, “Ree Tardy Oswald,” or even sloped roofs are certainly just far-right conspiracy theories made up to discredit the near-certain scientific fact that Trump’s ear magically blew a hole in itself.

    At publishing time, Wray had also suggested that all of the “blood” on Trump’s face was actually ketchup.

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  24. “8 New Events Coming To The Paris Summer Olympics”

    Sports · Jul 26, 2024 · BabylonBee.com

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    The 2024 Summer Olympics are here, and this time they’re in France! But this isn’t your grandma’s Olympics. Eight exciting new events are here to challenge athletes from across the globe, and The Babylon Bee has the exclusive details.

    Here is the complete list of new events for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games:

    1. Synchronized Surrendering: A special addition just for the French Olympics.
    2. Refugee 300m Relay: It’s like a normal relay race, but in this one, you’re fleeing a migrant who is trying to kill you.
    3. Freestyle Rioting: This event replaces ribbon dancing at this year’s games.
    4. Rooftop Queer Toss: Iran is heavily favored to take home the gold.
    5. Homosexual Gymnastics: Also known as gymnastics.
    6. Destroy the Great Satan of the West Allah be Praised 100m Hurdles: Men’s only category.
    7. Men’s Long-Distance Woman Stoning: Points deducted for throwing acid.
    8. Competitive Election Rigging: France’s biggest competitor in this category is expected to be Team USA.

    Which event is your favorite? Any suggestions for others? Let us know!

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  25. Watching an episode of Treehouse Masters – Takes place about 1.5 hrs outside of Pittsburgh in Boswell to a camp called “Outdoor Odysee” – a host site for a program for the children of parents who served in the Marines. In the summer they operate the Semper Fi Fun Kids’ Camp. Have you ever heard of it, Pat? It’s run by Brandon Jones, son of MG T.S. Jones, who founded the camp.

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    1. One thing that really bugs me about a lot of these treehouses – they’re only 10-12 feet off the ground! That’s not a REAL treehouse, IMO!

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    3. Oh, cool! The General was there for the reveal and it brought him to tears! They featured something they call the ‘MEPS’ triangle on the front at the top, meaning: Mental, Physical, Spiritual, w/Emotional in the center, signifying the guiding principles of the camp.

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  26. NF: Whoa! Blast from the past….

    “John, Bobby…and Marilyn — Exploring an Infamous Kennedy Conspiracy”

    Matthew Ehret, Jul 27, 2024

    EXCERPT: “Over the years, it has come to my attention that a very large number of people have embraced the narrative that Bobby Kennedy and his brother conspired to murder Marilyn Monroe, whose body was found naked in her bed on the morning of August 4, 1962, with the official cause of death labelled ‘self-induced barbiturate overdose.’

    Recent Netflix films like ‘The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes” released in 2022 have added fuel to the fires that have helped cure millions of Americans of their romantic memories of John and Bobby Kennedy, who were featured as the purported organizers of Marilyn’s untimely murder.

    Covert Action Magazine jumped on the bandwagon, with an article titled ‘New Evidence Suggests Marilyn Monroe Was Murdered and LAPD Covered Up Murder,’ and even my good buddy Hrvoje Morik recently embraced this narrative.

    How should those who may be on the fence regarding this topic deal with the argument that the Kennedy brothers, so long beloved heroes of America, murdered Marilyn Monroe?

    How would we know where to start forming a responsible judgement of the actress’s untimely death and the Kennedy role therein, when lies permeate the information landscape with intelligence agencies often supporting contradicting sides of popular narratives to many topics of history?

    A Matter of Method: Storytelling

    Everyone loves stories.

    Storytelling represents a huge power that resonates to the basic needs of the soul. But obviously, this power that awakens our imagination, gives us access to the deep past as well as the deep future, while touching the deepest fabric of existence, is often highly misused by powerful forces which have seen fit to treat storytelling as a form of magic to charm the minds of the masses into controlled cages….”

    https://badlands.substack.com/p/john-bobby-and-marilyn

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  28. okay…opinions please.
    i just got another Joanns Fabrics & Crafts email–i am subscribed and appreciate the announcement of sales and whatever.
    they just started a “new” line of fabric…called Happy Value. is it me or does that sound chynese?

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  30. Oh, FFS! Someone actually sued over this BS?!?!

    “The court on Thursday ruled that “boneless wing” refers to “cooking style” and is not to be taken literally. The 4-3 ruling was peppered with dissent, with one judge calling the majority opinion “utter jabberwocky”. But a majority of the judges considered being cautious of bones in a boneless wing to be common sense.

    Writing for the majority, Justice Joseph T Deters said: “A diner reading ‘boneless wings’ on a menu would no more believe that the restaurant was warranting the absence of bones in the items than believe that the items were made from chicken wings, just as a person eating ‘chicken fingers’ would know that he had not been served fingers.”

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      1. I’m guessing someone bought some “boneless wings” and found a bone left in one or something – not something to sue over!

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  34. Just The News: “A Hezbollah rocket was launched into northern Israel and struck a playground on Saturday, resulting in 10 people dying. It was in a village in the Golan Heights. 

    Many of the victims are children, according to reports. Officials say the death toll is expected to increase, according to the New York Post. At least 29 others were injured, according to CNN. 

    Foreign Minister Israel Katz, after discussing the matter with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, declared that “Hezbollah crossed all red lines,” later adding that Israel is “facing an all-out war” with the terrorist group. 

    This is the deadliest attack since Oct. 7.”

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  43. “Who’s been feeding the koi growth hormones?”

    Boeing 307 Stratoliner

    Giant Italian gun captured by Austro-Hungarians during Caporetto breakthrough, November 1917

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