Pain Heals. Chicks Dig Scars. Glory Lasts Forever.

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Today is Keanu Reeves’ birthday (born in 1964) and one of my all-time favorite movies is The Replacements.  The comedy details a bunch of misfits recruited to finish out the regular season of football during a players’ strike.  Reeve plays a washed-out college quarterback who redeems himself by uniting the team and leading them to victory. Gene Hackman plays the coach recruited to lead the misfits to win 3 out of the 4 remaining games to get into the playoffs. The team has never played with each other before—most are not even football players– but each brings something special to the game and they learn to unite and play as a team.

Contrast them with the striking professional players—a bunch of “bitchy millionaires” who at one point tell their fans during an interview that they know $8 million sounds like a lot of money, but they have to pay so much to their agent, and so much to their ex-wife…Then another player interrupts and asks the fans if they know how much insurance costs on a Mazzerati?  It’s all about money to them—not the love for the game.

It’s a rough start for the Replacements, losing the first game, but they rally in the second and third games and they actually have a shot at the playoffs.  The fans are loving these replacement players too—so much so, that some of the striking players return for the last game.  (Bruised egos, if you ask me.) That causes the owner to strong arm the coach, who truly believes in his quarterback (Reeves), to replace Reeves with the “star” quarterback.  The first half is a disaster because the prima donna refuses to be a team player.  The coach benches him and Reeves shows up to help the team win.

Happy Birthday Keanu!

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  1. Good morning, Miss Pat!

    I haven’t seen Replacements – but now I want to! Haven’t seen but one Keanu Reeves movie that I can recall – but I loved it – A Walk in the Clouds – It’s about a young man who helps a pretty lady’s family save their grape harvest at their winery.

    Here’s a list of Keanu Reeves movies –https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keanu_Reeves_filmography

    I didn’t know many of them, except the John Wick series that I’d love to watch. I love tough guy heroes like Wick and Reacher.

    Was surprised Reeves was in Dangerous Liaisons and a Shakespeare movie – Much Ado About Nothing. Not sure if that one is a real Shakespeare comedy or just named after one.

    Home until Thursday afternoon, unless a problem arises at the Village. Gonna be hot today – “10 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 5pm. Sunny and hot, with a high near 96. Heat index values as high as 105. Calm wind becoming east northeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.” – will have to mow and do the yard work early.

    Tomorrow, I have the pest control and termite inspection – and get stitches out from surgery. Wednesday, hair cut and work on cleaning/organizing here. Hope I will get a lot done – sewing, going through discarding old papers, etc. Thursday afternoon, will pack, load and drive back.

    Hope you all have a very good Labor Day Monday!

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    1. Morning GA!
      The Replacements is a funny movie–all about second chances, comebacks, and underdogs. we watch it several times a year. it always kicks off football season…lol
      sounds like you will be very very busy! do you still have a black eye?
      Hope your Labor Day is good as well!

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  2. Morning All!
    Happy Labor Day!
    sigh…the thing about having company here is i clean and clean the week they are coming abd then again after they leave…LOL
    extra sheets and towels. and of course, the floors and bathrooms need cleaning.
    I sat down in the chair and promptly fell asleep yesterday afternoon.
    i’m getting old!

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      1. Morning Filly!
        it’s weird…hubby is barefoot all the time here and he never leaves footprints on the wood floor. we have dust and dirt–but not footprints. whenever either of my kids and families visit–they go barefoot and leave footprints everywhere. that does bother me.
        and we have our normal laundry on Mondays–I’d be doing it all day if i didn’t do the extra towels and sheets yesterday.

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  7. Morning, Pat! I’ve never seen this movie – sounds like it would be good. I’ve seen a couple of his movies – I enjoyed Point Break with Swayze and Speed with Sandra Bullock but those are the only 2 of his that I’ve seen.

    Nipply again at only 53 and clear skies; yesterday was stunningly gorgeous and I got a lot of spraying for weeds done. Finished around the cottonwood tree and treated the slab in front of my garage, as well as part of the east end of my driveway in back. Normal routine with Wheezer this morning. Another lope dropped yesterday – I took that one over to my neighbor who plows my driveway. They weren’t home so I just left it for them – they’ll figure it out quick enough – she came over to ask what I was planting when I was preparing the bed.

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    1. Morning!

      I’ve seen the lake house but none of the matrix type movies. hubby has seen Speed–not my kind of movie either.

      my SIL came up with freshly picked sweet corn, peaches and a watermelon. he’s such a good guy!

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  14. EXCERPT: “At a formal ceremony for retiring professors at my university, each retiree got an opportunity to make a short speech. In my own speech, I mentioned that my last few years coincided with the Covid panic. Far more than the disease itself, what shocked me was the worldwide mass mind that sprang into existence seemingly overnight.

    All over the world, suddenly people were subjected to all-encompassing propaganda and pressures to conform to the same Covid policies. In contrast, a university should be a place to protect and encourage individual thinking, I maintained.

    Aside from the Covid phenomenon, in recent years I have often observed the tendency for novel ideas to spread rapidly around the world and quickly become established orthodoxy that precludes debate and criticism. This amounts to a kind of toxic global conformism.

    “Toxic conformism” can be defined as aggressively promoted compliance with evil and/or harmful behavior in order to remain in good standing with others. In response to Covid, the universal, rapid implementation of toxic conformity may be unique in history.

    There is nothing wrong with conformity per se, as long as it represents adhering to the reasonable expectations of a sane society. For example, conformity to norms of politeness has great merit in most circumstances, as anyone can appreciate who participates in a civil society, such as Japan’s. Only the immature and maladjusted believe that defying reasonable norms of behavior is somehow always commendable.

    However, the kind of conformity we currently observe on an international scale is not organic or reasonable. It is imposed by fiat from those with power and influence, despite the doubts and objections of many. It is not the product of wholesome social development and rational, willing acceptance.

    These days a great problem for Japanese people–as well as for citizens of other nations–is not conformity to their own society and culture; it is mandatory conformity to powerful international organizations like the UN and the WEF. Since their agendas are often foolish and unreasonable, conforming to their expectations often causes great harm.

    Whenever I hear about a new idea rapidly spreading in Western media and cultural circles–e.g., “People should eat bugs”–I know that in a matter of weeks or months, I will be hearing the same idea in the Japanese media and elsewhere. News stories about bug farms, recipes for preparing meals with bugs, and propaganda explaining that bugs are not repulsive but rather tasty and nutritious will soon be everywhere. Actually, this very thing is happening at present.

    Obediently, most in Japan will think and do as they are told, or at least they will accept the superior wisdom and virtue of bug-eating, though they may not personally feel inclined to embrace a diet of bugs.

    A few years later (or even sooner), the Gospel of Bug Eating will likely also be widespread in the religious world, especially among academic pundits and megachurch/parachurch leaders. They will go through the Bible and church history with a magnifying glass looking for texts and traditions to support insect consumption. Since he subsisted on a diet of locusts and honey (Mark 1:6), even John the Baptist will find himself on the bandwagon (more on this phenomenon later)…..”

    https://brownstone.org/articles/the-rise-of-global-conformism/

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  17. T. Turtle

    September 2, 2024 11:27 am

    Make no mistake, they are coming for US!

    “Immaculate Conception Church Burns in France – Latest Catholic Church to Go Up in Flames – Bell Tower Collapses in Inferno (Video)”

    comment imageThe Immaculate Conception Church of Saint Omer in Calais burned in France. The bell tower collapsed in the inferno.

    Excerpts:

    The origin of the fire is not known at this time. The fire broke out at 4 AM in the morning.

    The bell tower collapsed in the inferno.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/immaculate-conception-church-burns-france-latest-catholic-church/

    The Church of the Immaculate Conception in Saint Omer, also known as the Church of the Haut-Pont went up in flames on Sunday night.

    The Immaculate Conception Church in Saint-Omer, in Pas-de-Calais, was destroyed by a fire on the night of Sunday to Monday, France Bleu Nord reported on Monday, September 2. The fire was brought under control around 7:30 a.m. Monday morning and required the intervention of 90 firefighters, according to the prefecture.
    The fire started in the sacristy around 4 a.m., said the mayor of the town, François Decoster. The flames then spread to the side and central nave, then to the roof and the bell tower, which collapsed.

    No injuries were reported, according to the Pas-de-Calais prefecture, which specifies that around fifty local residents living near the building were evacuated as a precaution. The mayor specifies that there is no risk for local residents of lead or asbestos pollution, because the church was renovated in 2015 and 2018. However, the town hall advises residents in the area “not to open their windows today”.

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  18. sometimes you make obviously errors to hide your intention somewhere else. company hired to rewrite an aging election database OFFSHORED part of it to a foreign entity.

    article

    When election officials in New Hampshire decided to replace the state’s aging voter registration database before the 2024 election, they knew that the smallest glitch in Election Day technology could become fodder for conspiracy theorists.

    So they turned to one of the best — and only — choices on the market: A small, Connecticut-based IT firm that was just getting into election software.

    But last fall, as the new company, WSD Digital, raced to complete the project, New Hampshire officials made an unsettling discovery: The firm had offshored part of the work. That meant unknown coders outside the U.S. had access to the software that would determine which New Hampshirites would be welcome at the polls this November.

    The revelation prompted the state to take a precaution that is rare among election officials: It hired a forensic firm to scour the technology for signs that hackers had hidden malware deep inside the coding supply chain.

    The probe unearthed some unwelcome surprises: software misconfigured to connect to servers in Russia and the use of open-source code — which is freely available online — overseen by a Russian computer engineer convicted of manslaughter, according to a person familiar with the examination and granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about it.

    The company that conducted the scan, ReversingLabs, has also warned about those issues in a blog post and a talk at a hacking conference last year, though it did not specify the state and the vendor where the issues were found.

    New Hampshire officials say the scan revealed another issue: A programmer had hard-coded the Ukrainian national anthem into the database, in an apparent gesture of solidarity with Kyiv.

    None of the findings amounted to evidence of wrongdoing, the officials said, and the company resolved the issues before the new database came into use ahead of the presidential vote this spring.

    This was “a disaster averted,” said the person familiar with the probe, citing the risk that hackers could have exploited the first two issues to surreptitiously edit the state’s voter rolls, or use them and the presence of the Ukrainian national anthem to stoke election conspiracies.

    https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/01/us-election-software-national-security-threats-00176615

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    1. had this discussion with my teacher daughter. she said it’s a sad situation in America that most of us only speak English. I asked her how much she speaks French in her daily life since she took that language in high school. no response

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  24. TheseTruths

    TheseTruths(@thesetruths)

    Online

    Wolf

    September 2, 2024 14:27

    Federal Appeals Court Rules Illegal Immigrants Have No Second Amendment Right to Bear Arms

    The Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans has ruled that illegal immigrants do not have the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment.

    This ruling is a significant victory for the rule of law and American sovereignty, as it underscores the importance of upholding the rights and protections reserved for U.S. citizens.

    The case involved Jose Paz Medina-Cantu, a Mexican national who was arrested in Texas by Border Patrol agents in 2022. Medina-Cantu, who had illegally re-entered the United States after being deported, was found in possession of a handgun.

    After pleading guilty to the charges of illegal possession of a firearm and unlawful re-entry, Medina-Cantu shamelessly attempted to challenge the legality of his conviction, arguing that the ban on his firearm possession violated his Second Amendment rights, Fox News reported.

    However, the three-judge panel delivered a decisive response, affirming that the Second Amendment’s protections do not extend to individuals who are in the country illegally.

    U.S. Circuit Judge James Ho, a respected conservative voice appointed by President Trump, wrote a concurring opinion that highlighted the clear distinction between the rights of American citizens and those who have violated our immigration laws.

    I enjoy that the judge validates common sense and our laws.

    Judge Ho wrote:

    The Second Amendment protects the right of “the people” to keep and bear arms. Our court has held that the term “the people” under the Second Amendment does not include illegal aliens.

    […]

    Illegal aliens don’t qualify under the definition of “the people” set forth in Verdugo-Urquidez and Heller—not as a matter of common sense or Court precedent. As to common sense, an illegal alien does not become “part of a national community” by unlawfully entering it, any more than a thief becomes an owner of property by stealing it.

    […]

    And as to precedent, the Court has repeatedly explained that “an alien . . . does not become one of the people to whom these things are secured by our Constitution by an attempt to enter forbidden by law.”

    […]

    Moreover, the Court has provided further reason why it reaches this conclusion. For an illegal alien “[t]o appeal to the Constitution is to concede that this is a land governed by that supreme law.” And “the power to exclude [aliens from the United States] has been determined to exist” under our Constitution. So, the Court concluded, “those who are excluded cannot assert the rights in general obtaining in a land to which they do not belong as citizens or otherwise.”

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  26. “Exclusive: Harris campaign press secretary pulled Tim Walz out of gaggle during question on Gaza hostages — It’s not just a Tim Walz issue anymore.”

    Jordan Schachtel, Sep 02, 2024

    EXCERPT: “Vice presidential candidate Tim Walz has been on the receiving end of plenty of criticism after a video showed him walking away as he was asked about this weekend’s tragedy involving the murder of six hostages (including one American citizen) by Hamas in Gaza.

    It turns out that a top staffer on the Democratic presidential campaign prompted the decision not to speak about the atrocity that occurred over the weekend.

    The Dossier has found that Governor Walz abandoned the press gaggle in question (which only lasted 90 seconds) at the Minnesota State Fair after appearing to be coaxed by a national press secretary on the Harris-Walz presidential campaign.

    While touring the state fair in Saint Paul and meeting with supporters, Walz walked over to the press area and begins to have a back and forth with the media. One reporter asks Walz how he is balancing his two roles as governor and as vice presidential candidate, while another asks him how he’s feeling.

    After all of the hard hitting journalism, a female reporter asks him about an actual issue of national intrigue, given that there are several American hostages being held by Hamas. “What’s your reaction to the six hostages being found dead in Gaza?” a reporter can be heard asking Walz during the press gaggle.

    (Video)

    As readers can see in the video above, Walz suddenly freezes up, looks to his right, and acknowledges the man standing there. He then states, “All right, thanks everybody,” before abruptly leaving the press behind.

    The Dossier has confirmed that this mystery man is Teddy Tschann, a national press secretary for the Harris-Walz 2024 campaign. Tschann has a very senior role in the campaign and he is authorized to speak on its behalf. You can see his face clearly earlier in the video, when he notices that Governor Walz is speaking to the press, and proceeds to get in position out of the shot to assist his principal….”

    https://www.dossier.today/p/exclusive-harris-campaign-press-secretary

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  27. T. Turtle

    T. Turtle

    September 2, 2024 3:09 pm

    FJB and Harris Foreign Policy.

    “JUST IN: US Seizes Venezuelan President Maduro’s Airplane in the Dominican Republic Following Sanction Violations”

    Excerpts:

    The U.S. has confiscated Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro‘s $13 million plane in the Dominican Republic due to violations of sanctions, as reportedby CNN.

    Earlier this year, the United States reinstated sanctions on Venezuela’s oil and gas industry due to the Maduro administration’s refusal to facilitate “an inclusive and competitive election.”

    According to U.S. officials, the aircraft was flown to Florida on Monday, underscoring escalating tensions between the two nations.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/just-us-seizes-venezuelan-president-maduros-airplane-dominican/

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    1. LOL – under the terms of a Trump XO!!!

      “….used for state visits around the world, and it was seized in violation of sanctions laws and export controls, specifically, a violation of US executive order 13884, signed by President Trump in 2019.

      Per US official, this was the result of a joint investigation between HSI and the US Dept of Commerce. The plane is a Dassault Falcon 900-EX.

      Relations between the US and Venezuela have been very frosty in recent years.”

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  30. Another stunning day! Temp is only up to 78 – I’m still in my sweats and fleece hoodie! Bright sun but windy, so I’m extra glad I got the spraying done yesterday.

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