125 Interesting Facts About Everything Part 4

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Fact: Frankenstein’s Creature is a vegetarian

Both Victor Frankenstein and Creature are fictional characters in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. In the classic novel, Creature says, “My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment.” This is one of the interesting facts you should definitely share with your vegetarian friends!

Fact: Medical errors are a top cause of death

According to a Johns Hopkins research team, 250,000 deaths in the United States are caused by medical error each year. This makes medical error the third leading cause of death in the country.

Fact: Sloths have more neck bones than giraffes

Despite the difference in neck length, there are more bones in the neck of a sloth than a giraffe. There are seven vertebrae in the neck of a giraffe, and in most mammals, but there are 10 in a sloth’s. While they’re on your mind, here are some adorable sloth pictures you totally need to see.

Fact: Bees can fly higher than Mount Everest

Bees can fly higher than 29,525 feet above sea level, according to National Geographic. That’s higher than Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world.

Fact: Ancient Egyptians used dead mice to ease toothaches

In Ancient Egypt, people put a dead mouse in their mouth if they had a toothache, according to Nathan Belofsky’s book Strange Medicine: A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages. Mice were also used as a warts remedy in Elizabethan England.

Fact: Cap’n Crunch’s full name is Horatio Magellan Crunch

He’s also been called out for only having the bars of a Navy commander, but the so-called cap’n held his ground on Twitter, arguing that captaining the S.S. Guppy with his crew “makes an official Cap’n in any book!”

Fact: Paint used to be stored in pig bladders

The bladder would be sealed with a string and then pricked to get the paint out. This option wasn’t the best because it would often break open. American painter John G. Rand was the innovator who, in the 19th century, made paint tubes from tin and screw caps.

Fact: Humans have jumped farther than horses in the Olympics

The Olympic world record for the longest human long jump is greater than the world record for longest horse long jump. Mike Powell set the record in 1991 by jumping 8.95 meters, and the horse xtra Dry set the record in 1900 by jumping 6.10 meters.

Fact: The Terminator script was sold for $1

James Cameron is the award-winning director of movies like Titanic and Avatar. In order to get his big break with The Terminator, he sold the script for $1 and a promise that he’d direct it. Of course, this movie has some of the most famous movie quotes of all time in it.

Fact: Pigeon poop is the property of the British Crown

In the 18th century, pigeon poop was used to make gunpowder, so King George I confirmed the droppings to be the property of the Crown.

Fact: Onions were found in the eyes of an Egyptian mummy

Pharaoh Ramses IV of ancient Egypt had his eyes replaced with small onions when he was mummified. The rings and layers of onions were worshipped because people thought they represented eternal life. This aligns with the reason for mummification: to allow the pharaoh to live forever.

Fact: Abraham Lincoln was a bartender

You know that the 16th president of the United States fought for the freedom of slaves and the Union, but what you didn’t know is that he was a licensed bartender. Lincoln’s liquor license was discovered in 1930 and displayed in a Springfield liquor store. According to Wayne C. Temple, a Lincoln expert, Congress wanted to fire Ulysses S. Grant in 1863 because he drank a lot, and Lincoln’s response was to send Grant a supply of whiskey.

Fact: Beethoven never knew how to multiply or divide

The renowned pianist went to a Latin school called Tirocinium, where he was taught some math but never learned multiplication or division—only addition. Once, when he needed to multiply 62 by 50, he wrote 62 down a line 50 times and added it all up.

Fact: Japan released sushi-inspired Kit Kats

For a limited time in 2017, Tokyo’s Kit Kat Chocolatory shop made three types of the chocolate bar that were inspired by sushi but didn’t actually taste like raw fish. The tuna sushi was raspberry, the seaweed-wrapped one tasted like pumpkin pudding, and the sea urchin sushi was the flavor of Hokkaido melon with mascarpone cheese. All were made with puffed rice, white chocolate, and a bit of wasabi.

Fact: An espresso maker was sent into space in 2015

Coffee lovers will appreciate this interesting space fact: Samantha Cristoforetti was the first astronaut to get a warm and cozy piece of home sent to her while in orbit. The Italian Space Agency worked with Italian coffee manufacturer Lavazza to get the coffee capsules into space.

Fact: The word “aquarium” means “watering place for cattle” in Latin

Of course, today’s aquariums aren’t for cows. The first aquarium that looks like what you’d imagine was created in 1921 and opened in 1924 in England.

Fact: An employee at Pixar accidentally deleted a sequence of Toy Story 2 during production

Ed Catmull, the cofounder of Pixar, wrote in his book, Creativity Inc., that the year before the movie came out, someone entered the command ‘/bin/rm -r -f *’ on the drive where the files were saved, and scenes started deleting. It would have taken a year to recreate what was deleted, but luckily another employee had a backup of the entire film on her laptop at home.

Fact: Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ron Wayne started Apple Inc. on April Fools’ Day

The three technology innovators signed the documents to form the Apple Computer Company on April 1, 1976. But the company was not fully incorporated until January 3, 1977. Thirty years later, the company was renamed Apple Inc. and is no joke. In 2018, Apple became the country’s first trillion-dollar company.

Fact: The inventor of the tricycle personally delivered two to Queen Victoria

In 1881, Queen Victoria was on a tour on the Isle of Wight when her horse and carriage could not keep up with a woman riding a tricycle. Intrigued by the bike, the queen proceeded to order two. She also asked that the inventor, James Starley, arrive with the delivery. Though you might associate tricycles with toddlers, Queen Victoria made them cool among the elite at the time.

Fact: Your brain synapses shrink while you sleep

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Sleep and Consciousness studied mice to observe what happens to their brains while they sleep. Dr. Chiara Cirelli and Dr. Giulio Tononi found an 18 percent decrease in the size of synapses after a few hours of sleep. Don’t worry, though—this nighttime brain shrinkage actually helps your cognitive abilities.

Fact: A waffle iron inspired one of the first pairs of Nikes

Bill Bowerman was a track and field coach in the 1950s who didn’t like how running shoes were made. He first created the Cortez shoe but wanted a sneaker that was even lighter and could be worn on a variety of surfaces. During a waffle breakfast with his wife in 1970, he came up with the idea of using the waffle texture on the soles of running shoes. Waffle-soled shoes made their big debut in the 1972 U.S. Olympic track and field trials in Eugene, Oregon.

Fact: Boars wash their food

National Geographic reported that at Basel Zoo in Switzerland, zookeepers watched adult and juvenile wild boars pick up sandy apples and bring them to a nearby creek in their environment to wash before eating. Though some items like sugar beets were eaten without the human-like behavior, the boars brought a whole dead chicken to the creek to wash before chowing down. One ecologist called this a “luxury behavior.”

Fact: Baseball umpires used to sit in rocking chairs

People have been playing baseball since the mid-19th century. In the early days, umpires would officiate the games while reclining in a rocking chair located 20 feet behind home plate. By 1878, the National League also declared that home teams must pay umpires $5 per game.

Fact: The first commercial passenger flight lasted only 23 minutes

In 1914, Abram Pheil paid $400 (which would be $8,500 today) for a 23-minute plane ride. The Florida flight flew between Saint Petersburg and Tampa, where only 21 miles of water separate the cities. Pheil, a former mayor of Saint Petersburg, and the pilot, Tony Jannus, were the only passengers. This momentous flight paved the way for air travel as we know it.

Fact: The world’s first novel ends mid-sentence

The Tale of Genji, written by Murasaki Shikibu in the 11th century, is considered the world’s first novel. After reading 54 intricately crafted chapters, the reader is stopped abruptly mid-sentence. One translator believes the work is complete as is, but another says we’re missing a few more pages of the story.

SOURCE: Reader’s Digest: Elizabeth Yuko

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  1. Morning All
    cloudy and cool here this morning. there’s a detour on the road we use to get to town–routing all around through NY. pretty drive for sure, but dirt roads and a lot of twists and turns and no street lights. deer running everywhere–seems like it would be dangerous at night.

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    1. Morning, Pat! Definitely a dangerous road at night!!! It kills me how the so-called “scientists” just assume because something happens to the brains of mice during sleep it also happens in humans. What outright BS!!!

      I went out last evening and took pics of my 3 biggest lopes – the first one should be ready in a few days, with the other 2 following in a week or so.

      AND…..drumroll please for a MAJOR announcement!!! WHEEZER IS A GUY!!! Today, while I was stroking his back as he ate tuna, I copped a quick feel and yep – 2 little jewels back there!!! No wonder Jake has been so combative!!! And yes, Wheezer’s little sojourns thru the living room were specifically to leave his scent to challenge Jake.

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  4. Filly? I watched the video this morning…FIVE TIMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    first time i laughed…second and third time I sand along–fourth and fifth i tried to dance along…IT WAS FREAKING AWESOME!!!

    thanks!!!!!!!!

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  10. Julie Kelly 🇺🇸

    @julie_kelly2

    Interesting–Fifth Circuit just ruled that geofence warrants violate 4A. Recall the FBI sought and received a Google geofence warrant on Jan 6, 2021. INTO MY VEINS JUDGE HO (Trump appointee, on short list for SCOTUS, Trump chose ACB instead)

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    1. The Cackler is also a master Waffler, an attorney, doncha know, like much of Congress and the judiciary. Good luck getting a straight answer on anything regarding the country’s economic finaglings.

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      1. Katharine, I never could find my Egyptian opens at Marica’s blog so I’ve uploaded them with the pics here and Pat will post the 2 parts whenever the timing is right for her. I wrote that over 4 years ago so it’s not surprising that I couldn’t find it.

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        1. OK. I’m finding the same people over and over on the web. Small world. I’m now reading a friend’s book called “Cut and Run” about the US Forest Service’s timbering in the Black Hills, South Dakota. Grace Herndon, the author, has died now, but she was married to a rancher in Norwood, Colorado her entire adult life and was very interested in conservation efforts. I have moticed you and Pat have commented on the Google feed about Mt. Rushmore.

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          1. Sounds interesting! Pat is scheduling them for next Friday & Saturday, I think. You’ll also find a lot of commonality between QTree and The Conservative Treehouse – not many of the “regulars” at CTH anymore, tho.

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          1. Hi from Me, Again. Let’s not forget that Chinese “coolies” immigrated to this country originally to work on our fledgling railroad system. That’s why we have so many people of Oriental ancestry living in coastal and urban areas. Why do you think every every major US city I’ve visited (NYC, Chicago, San Francisco, etc.) have “Chinatown’s”?

            My take on US history is that early settlers got lazy and wanted someone to do their work, so there was a big marketing push for labor from crowded or oppressed regions of the world. Immigrants helped the US expand westward, in the beginning, until the US reached the Pacific. So the US started expanding southward, into Mexico (Mexican War, about 1850), and through its corporations, all over the world. Hawaii. And Northward, buying the territory of Alaska from Russia. Personally, I wish I were Polyglot. I would like to learn Chinese, or Russian, or even Spanish.

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              2. England and mostly German/PA Dutch primarily for me. Whether there is some American Indian in there or not is questionable since we don’t know for sure about my birth Dad, who was adopted.

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            2. I have no desire to learn any other languages, personally, altho I do like French – I took 2 years of it in HS. Just seems like such a romantic language.

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              1. I love French and French literature. It was my second major in college, and in traveling around France, I learned to understand it better than to speak it. Parisians wanted to speak English to American travelers, but the in the boonies, many didn’t want to speak English.

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              2. I don’t blame them in the least – no native of any country should be required to learn a foreign language if they choose not to.

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              3. I don’t believe in any government mandates. I choose to learn what I want, but I’m glad there was some structure to my education, like reading, and maybe writing and arithmetic. They have opened doors to learning everything else.

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              4. Well, that goes a little too far for me since there are sooooo many people in the world w/o the slightest bit of common sense! But it must be kept local or no higher than State level.

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              5. There needs to be certain baselines for school children. Once adulthood is reached, then it’s up to the individual. JMO

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              6. Picking at nits, but baseline is a vague term that doesn’t specify anything. That’s why I support the three Rs–reading, riting and rithmetic. Yes these are inaccurate spellings, but spelling does not seem to be an issue for most people.

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              8. I agree so far. Next question is how many levels of government should be involved, if any? Who is expected to pay? All taxpayers, or only property tax payers? Education consumes a large part of every government budget.
                (Sorry for the slew of questions rolled into one, but this is a complex issue. Public education is a fairly recent development.)

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              9. I think the highest level should be the Governor and only people who have children participating in public school should pay, IMO. If people choose to send their children to private or religious school, they also should not have to pay any tax. And it should be an “education tax” – shouldn’t be any property tax, IMO.

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              10. I agree. Also home schooling, with the proviso that certain skills, as we’ve discussed, should be cultivated. I am a states’ rightist. Yesterday, I read about former Alabama Governor George Wallace, who resisted integration so hard after LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act following JFK’s death. LBJ ordered the National Guard to Alabama, to protect the marchers to Montgomery from Selma, AL. I remember those tumultous times. I was going through adolescence, transitioning from elementary to junior high, then to high school. My sort-of political mother and public health doctor father were both affected, but in different ways. My mother wanted me to get a private school high school education, to insure my getting into a good college, and my father was essentially apolitical, until later, after Carter became governor of GA and started bureaucratizing public health.

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              11. I was completely sheltered from anything to do with occurrences like that around the country. My Dad worked for the PO, first as a carrier then a clerk (eventually Postmaster in Wayne, NE) and my Mom was a 1-2nd grade public school teacher. I went to parochial school from the 4th thru the 8th grades. The ONE big happening I do recall vividly is when JFK was killed – I wrote about it in my autograph book and we watched the funeral on TV.

                I literally knew nothing, remembered almost nothing but the most basic election and governing processes from my HS American History class. Since I quit school in October of my senior year, I never took Government, which was taught in the 2nd semester. I knew literally nothing about our own government, congress, voting, etc., etc. until 9/11 – I knew who the current Governor was, the President and VP – that’s it. I had no clue how Congress even functioned.

                I literally ignored politics – had never voted until after 9/11 and just voted R because that’s what most of the people around me did. I will say this: when Obama received the nomination, like many people, I said to myself: “Maybe we’re finally putting racism behind us.” Then I bought one of his books – after reading it, I told my daughter I feared he was THE anti-Christ! Somehow, I knew…..

                I didn’t really start my learning curve until I received my inheritance from my adopted Mom and bought my home here in 2013. And, wow, what a trip it has been!!!

                Sometime you should read my story about my experience with the Egyptians in NOVA 10 days after 9/11….I was working for an Austrian company that sold 4 VTOL UAV systems to the Egyptian Navy and we had 8 Naval officers come over for training. Imagine that in redneck rural VA!!!

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              14. Well, I just spent almost an hour trying to find it on the blog. It was a good many years ago and I never did find it. Here is the link to Marica’s blog: https://marica1776.com – if you scroll all the way to the bottom, you’ll see a list of authors – scroll down until you get to my screen name and click on it – that will bring up all the many, many opens I’ve done thru the years – most of the links for the pictures no longer work.

                Easiest way would be for you to post your e-mail address (or I can post mine) and as soon as one of us gets it copied, I can delete it since I’m an admin on the blog. Then I can just e-mail you the document itself – probably won’t include the pics, tho.

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              16. There are a LOT of personal ones I’ve done, as well as a lot about horses, historical events/discoveries, ancient inventions, military-related stuff, a series on Etymology, etc., etc.

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              18. Like I said, I never could find that particular open but click on this: https://marica1776.com/ and scroll down to the bottom where the authors are listed – click on “NebraskaFilly” and it will bring up my opens. Again, most of the pics are gone now.

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              20. And I agree with that, too, but that’s why the education system has become so bloated. We all have our special areas of expertise and interests. How to choose which ones are most “educational”? I liked the PTA influences in my childhood, but the unions have commandeered most of the teachers.

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              21. Oh, well….don’t get me started on unions! I’ve always refused to join any union – don’t approve of them, tbh.

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              23. Romance languages, French, Italian, and Spanish, maybe Portuguese, are derived from Latin, or from the Roman Empire, and started, maybe as Latin dialects. But don’t quore me on this, because it’s only my theory.

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  14. I have a particular fondness for Norway, with family connections there, and for its Viking heritage. Independent-minded, and not slaves to authority. I’m glad Norwegions are rejecting the insane notions of CBDOs and electronic tracking of cash exchanges.

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      1. I visited in 1975, in the winter, and stayed with relatives. Got.my first introduction to cross country skiing, but couldn’t keep up with L and D. All I saw was snow in the hills outside Oslo. The climate would feel good now, Miss Pat. I knew L, because she stayed with my family when she came to a Geogia college on a Rotary Club scholarship.

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        1. reminds me of my childhood…
          one winter we got so much snow the snowplows created 5 foot walls of snow on the streets. my Dad pulled us kids on a sled around the neighborhood. we couldn’t play in the yard, because there was no yard available lol because we were too short to stand in the snow. (Mom needed a break from us 3 kids)

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          1. I left home as soon as I could get away after high school and spent the summer in Colorado, in Estes Park, where my friend had relatives with a summer cottage there. We worked as chambermaids mornings and rode the host’s horses through the mountains afternoons. I fell in love with Colorado then, the mountains, and especially the climate. Returned later and lived several years in Telluride.

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              1. You are right, much to my dismay. Economic exploitation has taken over the state. Water, which was always scarce or erratic, has been diverted to dams and huge lakes, like the Hoover Dam and Lake Powell, which take water from the Colorado River and its tributaries. I have been researching Herbert Hoover for thatvreason, and the Bureau of Reclamation, which is contributing to the deforestation of timber in the Black Hills National Forest, for profit. The west is being plundered for its resources, and that’s why Idaho potato farmers are mad.

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  15. This is exactly how they murdered my son in SC because he had not been jabbed!!! When people came to the hospital, they were asked first and foremost if they had taken the COVID jab – if you said no, you got the treatment James got: straight into Remdesivir, ventilator, kidney failure, dialysis, coma, brain death….if you said yes, you got totally different treatment!!!

    “The US Medical Establishment F#CKED America — A DAY OF TOTAL RECKONING MUST COME”

    Jimychanga, Aug 15, 2024

    “This pre-release interview is the most disturbing exposé you’ve heard yet. It’s way worse than you think, and this team has the data and whistleblowers to prove it. Any presidential candidate who sweeps this under the rug is quilty of complicity in ongoing mass murder. UGLY – Listen!

    MUST-SEE: Vaxxed III movie exposes the shocking true stories of HOSPITAL HOMICIDE across America

    YouTube won’t touch it. Listen on Brighteon: (highlight, copy and paste the link below into your browser if you have to)

    https://www.brighteon.com/a5b31f9e-b523-4171-b875-1d795cbfbcbb

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  16. EXCERPT: “Twenty-six years ago, a new search engine company received its first investment, and rapper Will Smith taught Americans to get jiggy with it.

    Facing a potential breakup following a devastating antitrust ruling, Google is getting glitchy with it to discount its search engine’s alleged preferences in the 2024 presidential race.

    Google has blamed technical bugs for results that favored Vice President Kamala Harris since she became the presumptive Democratic nominee: omitting the attempted assassination of her GOP opponent and former President Donald Trump from “autocomplete” suggestions. It also let the Harris campaign falsely attribute her narratives to media organizations with search ads in which she replaced news organizations’ headlines with her own.

    The House Oversight Committee opened a formal probe of the autocomplete omission as well as similar actions by Facebook’s AI chatbot Wednesday. A spokesperson told Just the News the committee also “intends to press Google for details about the Harris campaign reportedly manipulating Google’s ad features and news headlines.”

    “Big Tech has leveraged their businesses to influence public opinion and have engaged in an alarming pattern of speech suppression and censorship,” the spokesperson said.

    The left-leaning New Republic expressed puzzlement at the Harris campaign’s bait and switch, noting “plenty of positive coverage of Harris since President Joe Biden withdrew from the race and endorsed her to replace him.”

    California law and a 2023 settlement with the Golden State could even spell legal trouble for the Harris headline hoodwink, which may also feed into renewed gripes from publishers about Google profiting off their content without a license, the subject of legal and legislative pushes.

    A very broad Business and Professions Code punishes advertising “which is known, or which by the exercise of reasonable care should be known, to be untrue or misleading,” with up to six months in jail and a $250,000 fine. It applies to “any newspaper or other publication, or any advertising device … or in any other manner or means whatever, including over the Internet.”

    Google paid California $93 million a year ago to resolve an investigation over its representations about “Location History,” which the company called “outdated product policies that we changed years ago.”

    Attorney General Rob Bonta — who succeeded Harris in office — alleged that Google showed users “deceptive prompts” from 2014 to 2018 to mislead them to enable geolocation data collection while telling them it was turned off by default, and that it gathered location data in other ways, such as the default-on “Web & App Activity.” …….

    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/harris-headline-hoax-under-house-gop-investigation-news-publishers

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  17. Just The News: “Two federal appeals courts have taken starkly different views on one of the government ‘s newer electronic dragnet tools – geofence warrants that track people via their cell phones – setting up a likely showdown before the U.S. Supreme Court that could define privacy in the digital era for decades to come.

    Last week, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that such geofence warrants are “categorically prohibited by the Fourth Amendment” protection against unlawful search and seizure. The judges concluded the mass gathering of Americans’ cell phone geographic locations to identify a single suspect in a postal worker’s armed robbery amounted to the sort of general warrant that the Founding Fathers steadfastly rejected at America’s birth as their new country broke from British rule.

    “It is undeniable that general warrants are plainly unconstitutional,” that appeals court ruled. The 5th Circuit oversees appeals from Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas federal district courts.

    A few states over, the 4th U.S. Circuit of Appeals came to a different conclusion, ruling that when law enforcement gathers two hours of all a cell phone users’ records in Google’s database for a certain location near a crime it didn’t violate privacy because more than a half-billion cell phone users had opted to turn on the geo-tracking capabilities of their to make their apps work better. Such opt-ins, the 4th Circuit ruled, amounted to a waiver of privacy. The 4th Circuit oversees appeals from Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina federal district courts.

    The dueling interpretations of two appeals courts – known in legal parlance as circuit splitting – sets up a likely path for the issue to be resolved by the nation’s nine justices at the U.S. Supreme Court. Privacy experts like the Electronic Frontier Foundation predict the justices are more likely to side with the 5th Circuit.

    “Police around the country have increasingly relied on geofence warrants and other reverse warrants, and this opinion should act as a warning against narrow applications of Fourth Amendment precedent in these cases,” EFF wrote in a blog piece this week that heralded the 5th Circuit ruling.

    Law enforcement have argued that such geofence warrants are essential to solving crimes and protecting Americans during an attack like the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. The FBI issued the largest-ever known geofence warrant in that case, covering more than four hours of time and four acres of geography around the Capitol that ensnared about 1,500 people as potential suspects.

    U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras upheld the warrant on the grounds that law enforcement acted in “good faith” for public safety. That rationale is being appealed in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

    “Geofence warrants have become an investigation tool of choice after law enforcement discovered that Google had been maintaining its Sensorvault, a treasure trove collecting over a decade of highly precise location data of persons using Google applications,” the American Bar Association declared earlier this month.

    Meanwhile, the 4th and 5th Circuit rulings refer to each other’s cases that affected crimes outside of the nation’s capital. The primary difference is that the 4th Circuit believed the generic opt-ins cell phone users make when they accept to install an app with geo-location services turned on amounted to a de facto waiver of their 4th Amendment rights should government come calling for the data later.

    The 5th Circuit Circuit disagreed, saying the mere fact that a half billion people have accepted geo-location tracking was proof that consumers were making a decision of convenience and not a waiver of privacy from government surveillance.

    “When law enforcement submits a geofence warrant to Google, Step 1 forces the company to search through its entire database to provide a new dataset that is derived from its entire Sensorvault,” the 5th Circuit decision noted. “In other words, law enforcement cannot obtain its requested location data unless Google searches through the entirety of its Sensorvault—all 592 million individual accounts— for all of their locations at a given point in time. Moreover, this search is occurring while law enforcement officials have no idea who they are looking for, or whether the search will even turn up a result.”

    “Indeed, the quintessential problem with these warrants is that they never include a specific user to be identified, only a temporal and geographic location where any given user may turn up post-search. That is constitutionally insufficient,” the appellate court ruled.

    In other words, using a digital dragnet to search millions of Americans location records to identify an unknown assailant or two amounted to a fishing exercise tantamount to the “general warrants” the Constitution’s framers rejected handily two centuries earlier.

    Google has revealed that the number of geo-warrants has gone from rare in 2016 to overwhelming – more than 10,000 annually – a decade later. The tech giant announced last year it was shutting down its ability to store all users’ geo location data in its own database known as Sensorvault and instead leaving it on each consumer’s cell phone where it must be obtained by individual warrant.

    No matter how Google changes their practices, the breadth of digital searching that law enforcement can still do in 2024 from other vendors leaves most experts certain the issue of geofencing and tactics likely will be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.”

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  18. Just The News: “Nine Republican attorneys general have filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration over “Bidenbucks,” an executive order directing federal agencies to promote voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts, arguing that it “violates the Constitution.”

    On Tuesday, Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led eight other states in suing the Biden administration in federal court in Kansas. The states involved in the lawsuit with Montana are Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and South Dakota.

    The attorneys general argue in the lawsuit that through President Biden’s Executive Order 14019 from March 2021, he “has sought to convert the federal bureaucracy into a voter registration organization and to turn every interaction between a federal bureaucrat and a member of the public into a voter registration pitch. That exceeds any authority executive entities have under federal law, violates the Constitution, threatens States’ attempt to regulate voter registration, and thus ultimately undermines the voter registration systems set up by the States.”

    Critics often refer to the executive order as “Bidenbucks,” which alludes to “Zuckerbucks,” the approximately $400 million from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg widely alleged to have been funneled through left-leaning nonprofits to turn out the Democratic vote in the 2020 presidential election.

    “The head of each agency shall evaluate ways in which the agency can, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, promote voter registration and voter participation,” including “soliciting and facilitating approved, nonpartisan third-party organizations and State officials to provide voter registration services on agency premises,” the executive order states.

    “Fair elections are an essential part of our country’s Republic. Congress gave the states the power to oversee elections years ago,” Knudsen said in a statement Tuesday. “I will not stand by while the Biden-Harris administration attempts to shamelessly garner votes by employing its own agencies to register voters and disregard states own voter registration systems, putting the integrity of our elections at risk.”

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  20. “Gaslighting on Gas Stoves – Biden’s Dept. of Energy Passes New Rules They Claimed Were a GOP Conspiracy”

    Red State, By Brad Slager | 4:45 PM on August 14, 2024    

    AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle, File

    EXCERPT: “It has been over a year now that the topic of governmental control over gas stoves in the home has generated its share of controversy. With the media playing along, the Biden administration has been striving to place restrictions on these appliances. But each time it has been mentioned, there has been significant pushback on the move, both publicly and politically, and then an abrupt shift in the messaging would take place. The persistence of this effort typifies the Leftist desire for control and the unceasing drive for such.

    As a result of constant pushing, the announcement has just been made that new rules will be instituted on gas stoves. The Department of Energy has declared it will be finalizing these new standards despite Congressional efforts to halt this, as well as bi-partisan and public opposition.

    This all began in January 2023, when something of a trial balloon was sent up from the Consumer Products Safety Commission. Richard Trumka Jr. made the comment that we need to rethink the safety aspects of gas stoves. Within a day, there was a flood of media coming out to repeat the claim and to make it sound like the most common sense thing is to rid ourselves of these killer appliances. Then came the backlash, and it was so severe that just as quickly, we heard that there was, in fact, no call to eliminate these stoves.

    By the second day, the press came out and declared that no one is looking to ban gas stoves and that this was nothing more than a conservative conspiracy, cooked up by those who wanted to promote culture wars or some such excuse. The tell here was that we saw this whiplash 180 coverage take place not just in the media but at the very same outlets.

    As seen from ABC News, the bifurcated narrative had been, “These conservative crackpots are making this up,” and “Well, of course, they want to ban stoves; it just makes sense.”

    The idiocy in all of this lying insistence in the press is that they tried to say the pushback was based on a lie. “Nobody wants to ban the stoves” was the prevailing claim being made after the outcry. Yeah, only one problem, you simpletons: With the Trumka interview that kicked up all of the controversy at Bloomberg, it stated right there in the headline that the CPSC would “Consider (a) Ban on Gas Stoves.” …….

    https://redstate.com/bradslager/2024/08/14/gas-lighting-on-gas-stoves-bidens-dept-of-energy-passes-new-rules-they-claimed-were-a-gop-conspiracy-n2178117

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  21. “Natural Gas Is Now Cheaper Than Water”

    Hot Air, Stephen Moore 2:00 AM | August 15, 2024    

    AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough

            EXCERPT: “Among the great mythologies of recent years, one stands out above the rest, is that the world is in a “great energy transition.” Actually, the world IS in a dramatic energy transition. But it isn’t the one the Left wants it to be.

            Despite hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars thrown at wind and solar power, we still get less than 10% of our energy from green sources. The needle really hasn’t moved at all over the past two decades. The more the government spends, the less we get per taxpayer dollar thrown at it. That’s the very definition of a falling stock.

            The REAL energy transition is toward natural gas. A few weeks ago, the price of natural gas fell below $2 per MMBTU, the lowest price level for energy, after adjusting for inflation, in 20 years and probably ever in the history of mankind. Just a few years ago, the price in real dollars was four times higher.

            As an experiment, I went to the grocery store to find out what a 16-ounce bottle of Evian water now sells at. The price I saw was $2.69 and can go as high as $3. This means natural gas is now less expensive than water.

            This natural gas revolution has happened because of modern drilling technologies — including horizontal drilling and fracking. That technology keeps getting better and better and will continue to keep the price low for many decades to come. The pace of drilling technology improvement far outpaces the pace of depletion. In other words, for all intents and purposes, America’s natural gas supplies are limitless — a bottomless well.

            Meanwhile, natural gas has all the attributes of a wonder fuel. It is abundant, made in America, clean-burning (using natural gas REDUCES carbon emissions), reliable and cheap. The United States has at least 200 years’ worth of natural gas supply — and probably far more than that. We aren’t running out. Chris Wright, CEO of Liberty Energy in Denver and one of the leading experts on drilling technologies, says “we keep finding more natural gas as the drilling technologies get better.”

            Environmentalists should be celebrating the natural gas revolution: It is by far the largest reason that CO2 emissions have fallen dramatically in the U.S. and that our air is cleaner today than at any time in 100 years. At the same time, we are finding that windmills and solar panels are far from the “clean energy” that we had hoped they would be. We now have graveyards full of retired toxic plastic and steel wind turbines that have to be buried in massive landfills or dumped in the ocean. Windmills use 4,000 times more plastic than all the plastic straws in the world….”

    https://hotair.com/stephen-moore/2024/08/15/natural-gas-is-now-cheaper-than-water-n3793162

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  22. “The DNC as a Super Spreader Event”

    So, this isn’t so much a news item as a fascinating potential nugget unearthed by friend of Badlands Julians Rum, who was prompted to resurface a Q drop from 2020 regarding a last-minute change to the D Convention (ostensibly under the guise of Covid-19 measures, at the time,) now returned to relevance with the resurrected Monkeypox narrative.

    Julian was himself responding to a Wall Street Silver Tweet that went viral pointing out the obvious propaganda push for Monkeypox we’ve seen over the last few weeks … especially since some officials are now calling for the DNC in particular to be delayed or cancelled altogether for the betterment of public health.

    Now, this is all incredibly gay. That much is obvious. And I personally wouldn’t count on the DNC actually being delayed or cancelled because of this nonsense.

    That said, I think it’s a fantastic example of dot-connecting by one of the best Anons still in the game, and I think the fact that these narratives ARE being pushed demonstrates there’s a true panic pattern developing for the Deep State ahead of what SHOULD be their grand coronation of the next Hope and Change candidate. — Burning Bright

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  23. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/08/14/saudi-prince-mbs-israel-deal-00173898

    Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, knows a thing or two about assassinations. Lately, he’s been telling U.S. lawmakers he’s at risk of one.

    The Saudi royal has mentioned to members of Congress that he’s putting his life in danger by pursuing a grand bargain with the U.S. and Israel that includes normalizing Saudi-Israeli ties. On at least one occasion, he has invoked Anwar Sadat, the Egyptian leader slain after striking a peace deal with Israel, asking what the U.S. did to protect Sadat. He also has discussed the threats he faces in explaining why any such deal must include a true path to a Palestinian state — especially now that the war in Gaza has heightened Arab fury toward Israel.

    The talks were described to me by a former U.S. official briefed on the conversations and two other people with knowledge of them. All of the people, like others quoted in this column, were granted anonymity to describe a high-stakes, sensitive topic. The discussions have been weighty and serious, but one takeaway, the people said, is that the crown prince, often referred to as MBS, appears intent on striking the mega-deal with the U.S. and Israel despite the risks involved. He sees it as crucial to his country’s future. — Politico

    Our Take:

    They killed Kennedy. They killed King Faisal. They killed Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat (1993 Oslo Accords— Two State Solution). They tried to kill Trump. They kill peacemakers. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the sons of God. — GhostofBasedPatrickHenry

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  24. “After Two Weeks With Kamala, Tim Walz Announces He Has Signed Back Up With National Guard And Requested Deployment To Iraq”

    Politics · Aug 14, 2024 · BabylonBee.com

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    MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Former vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz has just made a groundbreaking announcement, stating in a press conference that he has just re-enlisted in the National Guard and requested deployment to Iraq after spending two harrowing weeks with Kamala Harris.

    “After careful consideration, I have decided to re-enlist in the armed forces and seek deployment to somewhere — anywhere,” said Walz. “I’ll go to Iraq, for real this time. I will go to any war zone you want. I’m begging you.”

    Though leaving the ticket after only two weeks, campaign staffers report that Walz actually set the record for the longest time any person has ever worked with Kamala. “Most people don’t make it twenty-four hours with that woman. Walz really hung in there,” said aide Mandy Donaldson. “Twelve days was the previous record, and that guy was deaf. This is actually my last day, I just got a new job as a janitor at a slaughterhouse. I can’t wait.”

    According to sources, Walz has called his former fellow soldiers and issued a heartfelt apology. “Please…take me back,” whimpered Walz. “The horrors I have lived through these past two weeks, I do not think I will ever recover from. I’m so sorry I ever left you guys.”

    At publishing time, Tim Walz had volunteered to go walking around searching for land mines if it meant immediate deployment.

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  25. “James O’Keefe Goes Undercover As Bottle Of Wine To Score Interview With Kamala”

    Media · Aug 14, 2024 · BabylonBee.com

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    WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a highly controversial journalistic exposé, Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe recently scored a highly coveted exclusive interview with Kamala Harris by going undercover as a bottle of wine. Videos captured during O’Keefe’s conversation with the Vice-President showed Harris completely at ease during the interview, utterly failing to notice that O’Keefe was anything but a massive bottle of Pinot Noir.

    “Gimme another glass, there’s great significance to another glass,” said Kamala, as O’Keefe grinned mischievously. “You’re my best friend, giant bottle. Did we fall out of a coconut tree together? It’s like, where’s my yellish, my yellow schoolbus? I’m a woman in a blue suit. Haha!! Gimme another one!”

    According to sources, O’Keefe initially suggested he pretend to be gay, though it was unclear how that would help him gain access to the Vice President. Staffers suggested the ingenious wine bottle disguise, which O’Keefe was initially resistant to wear. However, he relented after staffers told him the bottle of wine could be gay.

    Though conservatives derided the Vice President’s performance in the video, mainstream media praised Kamala’s incredible rhetorical prowess despite imbibing 13 glasses of wine. “Boy, did that backfire on O’Keefe! Look at this goddess,” said MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, watching as Kamala vomited into a kitchen sink. “Not since Abraham Lincoln has our country been blessed with such inspiration and genius!”

    At publishing time, O’Keefe had also managed to snag an interview with Tim Walz by dressing up as a gigantic tampon.

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      1. Hmmm….ok, I would like that! Men’s small and the basic black with the pic of just Trump and F-F-F would be perfect! Yeah!!!

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  27. EXCERPT: “Big break in the Matthew Perry death investigation — there have been multiple arrests made, including at least one doctor … TMZ has learned.

    Law enforcement sources tell us … multiple law enforcement agencies have executed search warrants and seized computers, phones and other electronic equipment to determine who supplied Perry with the ketamine that caused him to lose consciousness last October and drown in his hot tub in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles.

    Perry had been getting ketamine infusion therapy for anxiety and depression, but the last therapy was a week and a half before his death, so the ketamine in his system was not doctor-prescribed.

    TMZ broke the story, Perry had the same level of ketamine in his system that is used for general anesthesia in surgery.

    Law enforcement sources tell us … the ketamine Perry ingested was not legally prescribed and multiple agencies, including the DEA, U.S. Postal Service and LAPD, have conducted a criminal investigation for months.

    We’re told at least 1 doctor has been arrested, along with several dealers who helped arrange and deliver ketamine to Perry.

    Our sources say the search warrant revealed text messages discussing Perry and the ketamine he wanted and what they were doing to get it to him. The texts also discuss the price the “Friends” actor would pay for the drug….”

    https://www.tmz.com/2024/08/15/matthew-perry-arrests-ketamine-death-investigation/

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  28. I just had to put out another WP block – when I don’t keep the seed feeder filled, all the sparrows and finches flock to it. Also had to add a little jelly and refilled the seed feeder. We’ve got mostly sunshine today after a day of rain yesterday (we need more!) and temp is up to 78. Heading into a long stretch of mid-to-high 80’s coming up and no rain at all on the horizon.

    Jake is ensconced on the rug in front of the new patio door, surveying his domain, watching for that pesky Wheezer….!

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  29. Patience
    Patience
    August 15, 2024 11:47 am

    Is this true? 🤔

    BREAKING: Secret Service agent left her post on Trump detail to BREASTFEED yesterday in North Carolina

    🍼🍼🍼🍼🍼🍼
    “They report that she was found in a room

    that was supposed to be
    -for official business only,

    like
    -protecting Trump from emergency threats.

    Secret Service agents aren’t allowed to bring family with them on the job.”

    “The Secret Service has actually responded to this report and they aren’t denying it.

    Rather they say
    -they are investigating the incident

    but add

    that there was no impact to Trump’s event.”
    Last edited 22 minutes ago by Patience

    Patience
    Patience
    August 15, 2024 11:54 am
    Reply to Patience

    https://rumble.com/v5b1sqt-shocking-new-footage-proves-its-as-bad-as-we-thought-ep.-2309-08152024.html

    Dan Bongino

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  34. “Clade 1 Mpox Jumps to Sweden”

    Clandestine, Aug 15, 2024

    ⚠ALERT⚠

    “MSM now claim that Clade 1 Mpox has jumped to Sweden.

    Clade 1 of Mpox is more contagious than the Clade 2 variation that broke out in 2022. The BBC write that Clade 1 can be spread by:

    -Sex

    -Skin-to-skin contact

    -Talking or breathing close to others

    Some scientists suggest there have been instances where Clade 1 Mpox can jump via airborne respiratory particles, but it’s not the main form of transmission for the virus.

    I’m not saying you should be worried about catching it. I’m saying you should be worried about the Deep State utilizing this situation to manufacture another global pandemic and steal another election. Because we’ve seen them do it before. Mail-in ballots are their objective.

    I have no idea if it will come to the US, but the Covid propaganda campaign started with MSM articles just like this one, warning of a horrifying virus jumping countries. Stay frosty.”

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  35. Hmmm….I have to wonder if there is a specific reason I didn’t get my local newspaper in the mail today, as I usually do…..then again, I did submit a LTE excoriating Brook for his support for Walz…..LOL. I would hope he wouldn’t stop my subscription (for which I’ve paid) over that….maybe tomorrow.

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  36. Huh…well, ok, then – some seriously dark storm clouds to my west and I can faintly hear thunder. Wind has dropped, too. SMH – so much for the weather forecasters!!! Then again, I haven’t seen any rain yet so…..it could all just blow over or around us.

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    1. our sky is currently the palest blue i have ever seen with some white clouds…weird.

      we picked the ripe tomatoes off the vines–gosh they smell so good–too bad i can’t stand tomatoes…lol

      the i checked on the grapevines–nary a single grape left on the plants…raccoons must have gotten into them again

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      1. Ah, the perils of gardening in the woods! OK, now how does that work? You love the smell of them but don’t like the taste?

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        1. i love the smell when i pick them off the vine…there’s a faint scent on my hands–smells divine. I eat tomatoes in veggie pizza–but they are diced small and mixed with a lot of other stuff. and i like spaghetti sauce and pizza–just not raw chunks.
          i am a very picky eater…LOl

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  37. Holy crap! We just got a HUGE gust of wind – thought it was going to take down all of my feeders and I had to rush out and take my Trump 2024 flag down! Thankfully, it has died down now and we are actually getting some rain.

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  38. And just like that, the wind and rain have stopped – we had a real downpour for a couple of minutes! Yeah! I don’t have to water!!! LOL – still hearing the thunder rumbling but it’s moving thru quickly and the sky to the west is lightening. Temp dropped almost 10 degrees in that short period!

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  39. Nice! Temp is holding steady at 70 and we are getting more of that beautiful rain! Several times, it was a downpour! Thankfully, there is no wind to speak of; I expect some areas got a bit of hail but none here.

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  40. “Hey – if can’t afford groceries, maybe she could stay alive on word salads – she’s certainly mastered that talent. Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday will call on Congress to pass a federal ban on price gouging as part of her economic platform to lower grocery prices and everyday costs.

    That action, to be announced during a speech in North Carolina, is among others she will take in her first 100 days in office to lower high grocery costs, according to a campaign official granted anonymity to discuss policy ahead of an official announcement.

    Give me one huge muthafuckin’ break, lady. If you want to hear more about her bold plan to lower prices by fining food processors, read this. Someone please take this woman somewhere deep in the woods…”

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  41. “Meanwhile, here in The Villages, a predator roams…”

    NF: My apologies if some are repeats – ICRS kicks in!!! LOL

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  44. George
    @BehizyTweets
    BREAKING: The Georgia Supreme Court unanimously ruled that private contractors working for the government are also subject to public records requests. This means citizens can now obtain evidence from companies involved in elections like Dominion [voting machines]

    The court concluded in its ruling that “a request for public records related to a private contractor’s services to a public agency can be served upon non-agency custodians of the relevant public records — including the private contractor if he or she is the custodian of the records sought — and the Court of Appeals erred in concluding otherwise.”

    To clarify, the case was spawned from a man who, in 2022, sought records from a college contractor but was denied by the Fulton County Superior Court and Georgia Court of Appeals. It wasn’t election-related, but I couldn’t help but confirm with Georgia patriots, who told me this is HUGE NEWS in their fight to secure the 2024 election and get accountability for the stolen 2020 election

    By the way, it’s not just Dominion; Runbeck Election Services also does a lot of work in Georgia. They contract with Fulton and other counties to print and sort ballots. If anything goes “wrong” in November’s election, we now have a foolproof way to get to the truth before they delete everything

    This is one of the most significant rulings in recent history.

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  45. Blast from the past – the start of all the rioting!

    ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’: One of the Biggest Hoaxes of our TimeThe incident that launched a thousand riots… never happened.

    Sharyl Attkisson, Aug 15, 2024

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “It’s been ten years since the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, launched violent riots and a movement that is largely based on misinformation to this day.

    Above: Surveillance video showing Michael Brown choking a shop owner shortly before he attacked police officer Darren Johnson, who shot Brown in legitmate self defense, according to the Obama Justice Dept.

    • Brown’s hands weren’t raised.
    • Brown did not say “don’t shoot.”
    • Brown was not shot in the back.
    • Brown was shot in the front.
    • Brown was attacking police officer Darren Wilson.
    • “Eyewitnesses” quoted uncritically in the media were lying since they couldn’t have seen the events.

    We were played.

    It’s incredible how many people still don’t know the whole “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” narrative was a hoax and never happened (even according to the Obama Justice Dept.) Officer Darren Johnson continues to be slandered a decade later as misinformation is still circulated, even by some members of Congress. This is largely the media’s fault.

    Officer Wilson was cleared of all charges and violations. On March 4, 2015, the Obama Justice Dept. cleared Wilson of civil rights violations finding that numerous witnesses quoted uncritically in the media were not credible, they apparently lied in their accounts (Brown had his hands raised and was shot in the back) since it turns out they couldn’t have witnessed the events. (However, none of them were held accountable.) The DOJ also found that the credible witnesses supported Wilson’s account. Brown did not have his hands up in surrender. Forensic evidence shows Brown was moving toward Wilson, supporting Wilson’s account that Brown had attacked him and tried to choke him.

    Read the DOJ findings for yourself at the link below.”

    https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/03/04/doj_report_on_shooting_of_michael_brown_1.pdf

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  49. “Rob Schneider Reveals TV Doctor’s Shocking ‘Anti-Vax’ Admission — The CDC doesn’t want you to hear this conversation.”

    The Vigilant Fox, Aug 15, 2024

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “In an eye-opening conversation that cut straight to the issue, comedian Rob Schneider and Tucker Carlson discussed a topic many are too afraid to even whisper: vaccines. Schneider raised a pivotal moment from over a decade ago, around the time he and his wife were preparing for the arrival of their first child, when he had a jaw-dropping conversation with a TV doctor that he’ll never forget.

    (Video clip)

    ROB SCHNEIDER: “What shots did you give the baby?”

    TV DOCTOR: “None.”

    ROB SCHNEIDER: “What?”

    TV DOCTOR: “Yeah, they’re too small to absorb those toxins right now. They don’t have an immune system. They have an external immune system: Their mother’s breast milk.”

    ROB SCHNEIDER: “Well, why do you tell other people to get it?”

    TV DOCTOR: “That’s up to them.”

    Looking back at the conversation, Schneider scoffed at the “That’s up to them” remark, noting that these shots are often required for kids to attend public school.72 Doses

    Image: Shutterstock/Tunedin by Westend61

    The conversation quickly pivoted to the alarming increase in the number of vaccinations children are now required to take. “When we went to school, it was three shots. Now it’s staggering—72 different doses of 16 vaccines before the age of six,” Schneider lamented.

    He pointed out the disturbing correlation between this uptick in vaccinations and the rising number of health issues among children, a topic that is often brushed aside as mere coincidence.

    Image: prnewswire.com

    Carlson chimed in with a sobering observation: “You can say anything on YouTube—you can call for the overthrow of the government, you can advocate for transgender nuns—but you can’t use the ‘V’ word.”

    Schneider took the conversation further, pointing out the 1986 law where Congress labeled vaccines as “unavoidably” unsafe. This designation protected pharmaceutical companies from liability, shifting the burden of vaccine risks onto the public while companies reaped the profits.

    “If you can’t choose to avoid risks, then you don’t have freedom at all,” Schneider stressed. “Then you’re a slave,” Carlson added. “Someone owns your body and can make you hurt yourself.”

    Video clip: https://vigilantfox.news/p/rob-schneider-reveals-tv-doctors

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  50. Just The News: “Former President Donald Trump on Thursday directly responded to a proposed effort from the Biden administration to lower prescription drug prices that the president announced alongside Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday, likening her proposals to the policies of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

    Biden on Thursday announced the move during an event in Prince George’s County.

    “Now, Kamala is reportedly proposing communist price controls. She wants price controls,” Trump said at a press conference at his Bedminster, N.J., estate. “If they worked, I’d go along with it too. But they don’t work. They actually have the exact opposite impact and effect, but it leads to food shortages, rationing, hunger, dramatically more inflation.”

    “She’s running on the Maduro plan,” he said. “[L]ike something straight out of Venezuela or the Soviet Union. This announcement is an admission that her economic policies have totally failed and caused really a catastrophe for our country and beyond that, a catastrophe in the world a little bit unrelated, but not totally unrelated.”

    He further blamed the administration’s spending packages for rising prices, contending that landmark legislation ostensibly designed to curb price increases actually had the opposite effect.

    “Their inflation Reduction Act, by the way, was a disaster. It’s what caused the inflation. Their inflation Reduction Act was a con job,” he said. “They actually admitted that it wasn’t really for inflation that they did it. They don’t know why they did it, but they named it the inflation Reduction Act, which was a very nice name, got approved based on that. Unfortunately, people didn’t understand it. I understood it. I said that’s going to cause tremendous inflation.”

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