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Colonel Sanders was born today in 1890.  Entrepreneur.com had an interesting article on 7 things we may not know about the Colonel.

From Entrepreneur:

Did you know the real Colonel Sanders once tried to sue KFC?

The chicken chain’s recent marketing campaign has brought Colonel Sanders back to American television screens, embodied first by Darrell Hammond and now by Norm Macdonald. The move has been controversial: any over-the-top portrayal of a real human by a celebrity is going to rub some people the wrong way. (And yes, Colonel Sanders was indeed a real human; a study referenced in the 2012 book Colonel Sanders and the American Dream showed that less than 40 percent of Americans aged 19 to 25 were aware of that.)

However, KFC’s biggest misstep has been the sanitization of the Colonel. As our own Ray Hennessey wrote, “The new Colonel is a caricature, carefully choreographed by the company and its creative hired hands. Instead of resurrecting the Colonel to lead KFC’s sales back to their former fried glory, the company has instead unleashed a childish pantomime that people old enough to remember Colonel Sanders don’t like and people too young to know him can’t possibly understand.”

KFC has been eager to celebrate kitschy parts of the Colonel’s history, while ignoring more complex attributes that made him both successful and dangerous to the brand while alive. Here are a few of the most interesting facts about Colonel Sanders that many people don’t know – including a few that KFC probably would rather gloss over.

 For most of his life, he was a terrible businessman.

Most customers probably don’t realize that the Colonel only became a successful restaurateur after failed careers as a lawyer, insurance salesman, lamp salesman and tire salesman. Sanders often made unwise business gambles and had a habit of getting into fights that resulted in being fired – something that suited him as a self-employed entrepreneur, but that was less ideal as a company spokesperson later in life.

 He once shot someone for his brand.

What Sanders lacked in business skills, he more than made up for in passion. When Sanders painted a large sign pointing potential customers from the highway toward his gas station in Corbin, Ky. (it would eventually expand into Sander’s first cafe), he enraged the owner of a competing gas station, Matt Stewart. Stewart painted over Sanders’ sign, leading to Sanders threatening to “blow [his] goddamn head off” and repainting the sign himself.

When Sanders discovered Stewart once again painting over the sign, he and two Shell officials ran to catch him red handed, heavily armed. In the resulting gun fight, the Shell manager was killed and Sanders shot Stewart in the shoulder. KFC currently has a purposefully poorly acted reenactment of the fight that gave Sanders complete control over the gas station market in the area after his competition was sent to jail for murder.

He cheated on his wife (a lot).

While KFC loves certain quirky details about Sanders personal life, one of the facts KFC chooses not to highlight is his relationship with women, especially his two wives. Sanders married his first wife, Josephine, at the young age of 19. According to Colonel Sanders and the American Dream, his second wife’s nephew said Josephine wasn’t interested in a sexual relationship after giving birth to three children. So, Sanders “found what he needed to find in other places.”

One outlet for Sanders’ sexual energies was Claudia Ledington, a former waitress at Sanders’ first restaurant, Sanders Cafe. Claudia and Sanders wed in 1949, after an ongoing affair and two years after his divorce with Josephine. It would be Claudia that would support Sanders in transforming KFC from a restaurant with a good chicken recipe to a national brand.

Throughout his life, Sanders was notoriously licentious. Sanders’ biographer, John Ed Pearce, recalls a woman at the Chamber of Commerce saying that whenever the Colonel came in she had to beat his hands off of her. A 1970 New Yorker article quotes him observing crowds of housewives seeking autographs saying: “Umm, that gal’s let herself go… Look at the size of that one… I don’t know when I’ve seen so many fat ones… Lord, look at ’em waddle.” In short, if the Colonel was alive today, it wouldn’t be shocking to see his name come up in the Ashley Madison leak.

He’s not a military colonel.

If you’re not from Kentucky, you may have assumed that Sanders served as a military leader at some point in his long life. In fact, he was a Kentucky colonel, a title of honor awarded by the state of Kentucky. Sanders became a colonel in 1935 as the founder and owner of the gas station-adjacent restaurant Sanders Cafe, but misplaced his certificate, receiving his second colonelship in 1949.

In the 1950s, Sanders began marketing himself as a southern gentleman and Kentucky colonel, dying his beard white, crafting a string tie and donning his iconic white suit. As he franchised his concept starting in the ’50s, selling the recipe for his Kentucky fried chicken to restaurants across the U.S., this identity as a Kentucky colonel linked Sanders to a southern ideal that lent the Indiana-born man an air of legitimacy.

He only made $2 million selling KFC.

After KFC went from a single cafe to a franchised concept, Sanders sold the business in 1964, feeling out of his league at the age of 75 as the chain rapidly grew. The $2 million, plus an ongoing salary to remain the face of the brand wasn’t a terrible deal. However, after the company’s profitable IPO, in which shareholders made millions, Sanders began to feel as though he got the short end of the stick.

At the company’s first franchisee convention after the IPO, Sanders took the stage and spent 40 minutes railing against management. He claimed executives were thinking only about the short-term and ruining his reputation. While he failed to win over the franchisees and went on to continue his duties as a spokesperson, it seems a part of him remained convinced he had been tricked into giving up his business.

He tried to sue KFC for $122 million.

After KFC was sold to Heublein in 1971, Sanders’ appetite for disruption grew. When the chain denied him the right to open an antebellum-themed restaurant selling Original Recipe chicken, Sanders sued the company for $122 million. He eventually settled out of court for $1 million and a promise that the Colonel would stop embarrassing the company. Sanders did not keep up his end of the bargain.

According to him, KFC doesn’t use the famous secret original recipe of 11 herbs and spices.

While very few people in the world know exactly what is in Colonel Sanders’ mix of 11 secret herbs and spices, we do know that the Colonel said many times in his life that KFC stopped using his recipe. As KFC is intensely protective of the recipe, it is a difficult matter to fact check. The chain reports that it keeps Colonel Sanders’ handwritten recipe of 11 herbs and spices safely locked away in a vault, utilizing two suppliers to preserve that secrecy of the ingredients.

Whether or not the Colonel’s original recipe is in use today, it is clear that Sanders was dismissive of KFC’s menu in his final years. In 1970, the New Yorker quoted him saying the company’s new gravy recipe “ain’t fit for my dogs.” While the chain turned business around and reportedly improved food quality in the ’80s under new leadership, Sanders’ wasn’t around to see it. He died on Dec. 16, 1980, at the age of 90.

SOURCE: ENTREPRENEUR.COM

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    1. Good morning to you, Miss Pat!

      Weather here this week – rain-rain-rain and temps only in the 80s!!!

      I’m home until Wednesday afternoon, when I’ll drive back to the Village and on Thursday, drive Sally’s Dad back here for two doctor appointments.

      Last weekend was a monster – Sally Q near her worst. Saturday evening, she was in her ‘I hate you’ mood/mode, refusing to take her meds and knocked them out of my hands. I finally had to get her Dad to come feed her and give her meds. I’m going to have to do something….but am praying about what to do.

      She resents my presence in her apartment, but staying in the Lodge has gotten too expensive – plus she needs closer supervision. It’s a difficult dilemma.

      Dealing with her behavior is worse than both her health issues and equipment issues combined.

      Her Dad is another matter. He blames me for her behavior. He says I provoke her. He says I need to stay out of her apartment and go home as much as possible, but then complains that he has to check on her several times during the night (not true, he could have her blood sugar at a sufficient level at 9 pm to last through the night until 6-7 am when he gives her long acting insulin shot.

      Just glad I could come home to regroupand restore body, soul and spirit – my spiritual, physical and emotional equilibrium!

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      1. Morning GA!
        wow, you’re getting it from all angles, aren’t you?
        you truly are a saint GA! her dad sounds like a piece of work–telling you what you’re doing wrong, but still relying on you to get him to his appointments? I would not have your patience and grace!
        they take you for granted GA. they have no idea what a blessing your are for them.

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    2. Morning, Pat! Interesting open! I knew a little bit of the history but this was enlightening. Cool and sunny here – waffling between 59 & 60. Wheezer finally came during the night and ate his canned food. I refilled his dry food when I got up and he jumped down from the chair, went to the dish, then looked up at me like he was expecting more canned food/tuna! Nah, sucker! You already ate that! Be here on time tomorrow morning! LOL

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      1. Yeah, but the individuals/sites aren’t always treated the same – sometimes their Tweets will open, then 5 minutes later, they won’t. I really don’t think that has much to do with it at this point. This is a WP/AI issue across-the-board with X. JMO tho.

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          1. I only understand a little more because of all the years of working on various computer systems and actually helping our tech guy write programs. Those processes have long been overwritten with modern technology but the basic principles of programming remains.

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              1. I’m not now! At one time, before laptops, I could have actually built my own computer, considering they instituted “plug-n-play.” You buy a video or audio “card” and plug it into the main board. I could even remove the main chip to replace the chip fan. Now it’s gotten FAR too complicated for me.

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        1. There are a couple of X posts at M’s – they are stealing cats and pets and eating them, as well as catching ducks in the public ponds, wringing their necks and taking them home to eat.

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    1. maybe wp doesn’t like wall street apes?

      Wall Street Apes

      @WallStreetApes

      The FDA has been the victim of a horrible rumor that 50% of their funding comes from the pharmaceutical industry In response they’ve released an official report of their funding to prove everyone wrong Officially 47% of their funding comes from Big Pharma (holy sh*t) “So think about that. The people that you’re supposed to be making rules and regulations for, are the same people that are paying you money. Seems like a conflict of interest, no?”

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    2. Guess I’ll give it a shot…

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  10. “Harris-Walz campaign recruiting military veterans to influence social media — Veterans are being bribed to betray their oath.”

    Lee Williams, Sep 09, 2024

    (Photo-illustration from licensed Shutterstock account).

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “The next time you see a social media post from a military veteran who claims to support banning certain firearms or any other infringement of our civil rights, realize they may be getting paid to violate their oath.

    An email obtained last week by the Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project revealed that the “precision micro-influencer” marketing firm People First is hiring veterans to serve as paid social media influencers for the Harris-Walz campaign.

    It is not hard to understand why the progressive firm wants to hire former military members. Veterans have credibility — especially when the topic is guns. Whenever the gun-ban industry convinces a vet to call for an AR ban or violate their oath in some other way, they always tout it as a win. This is why Tim Walz is so celebrated by Giffords, Brady and Everytown. Before his stolen valor was revealed, Walz cultivated the false impression that he spent most of his military career knee-deep in grenade pins.  

    People First has a long history of supporting the war against guns and Second Amendment Rights. They know what they’re doing, and they’re very good, unfortunately. Now, the New York City-based firm wants to recruit veterans living in seven key battleground states, but then explains in its recruitment email that they are open to hire anyone with a “compelling story,” regardless of where they live.

    Paid Social Media Opportunity for Veterans! Phil McKnight 

    Hi there!

    My name is Phil, and I am an Organizer at People First. I am reaching out to share an exciting partnership around veterans!

    Veterans, you know better than anyone that our allegiance to this country is pledged toward the Constitution and the values that are enshrined within it – not to any particular man or woman. 

    We need your help explaining which values you believe our elected leaders should uphold as we approach the upcoming November election. This campaign is also open to family members of those currently or previously enlisted in any of the six US military branches. 

    Join this campaign now if you are located in any key battleground states: 

    Arizona

    Georgia

    Michigan

    Pennsylvania

    Wisconsin

    Nevada 

    North Carolina

    Not from one of these states? No problem. Anyone who has a compelling story to share should apply now too.

    If you are interested in participating in this opportunity, please let me know as soon as possible so we can get you started on the next steps. Looking forward to hearing from you!

    Best, Phil

    Phil McKnight Digital Relationship Organizer People First Marketing CreatorNetwork.cc is a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) platform designed specifically for People First Marketing. Our platform helps businesses and marketers to connect and collaborate with content creators in a more efficient and effective way.

    The process is relatively simple. The influencer submits draft content, which is then edited and approved.  The influencer then posts it on their social media platforms, and they’re paid 10-15 days later. As a result, People First has made oath breaking easy and, unfortunately, profitable.

    McKnight did not respond to emails seeking his comments for this story.

    Censorship, gun control

    People First founder and CEO Curtis Hougland rose to prominence fighting against what he told Vanity Fair magazine in 2019 was “hate speech and online extremism.”

    “Democrats want to focus on facts and figures. The other side plays into fears and taps into emotions, and they show it to you. It’s all about emotional resonance,” Hougland told the magazine. Hougland was behind the passage of Nevada’s Question 1 in 2016, which expanded background checks and ended most private gun sales.

    “Across the geographic footprint of Nevada, the company credentialed and recruited 287 influencers, many of them doctors and nurses, and told them to create their own version of a messaging brief, provided to them with a company dashboard,” Vanity Fair reported.

    Today, People First is working dozens of campaigns and advocacy programs, Hougland says on his LinkedIn page. “We can source online advocates by district, religion, party, ethnicity, age, and affinity,” he wrote. “We’re 82 days away from Election Day! Enough time to execute a local or national campaign and impact elections and ballot initiatives.”

    Takeaways

    When you raise your right hand and swear to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, you don’t get to pick and choose the amendments you’re willing to support and defend. The oath has no expiration date. It doesn’t end upon retirement or ETS. Walz forgot that, sadly. Same-same for any vet who responds to People First’s siren song.

    If you really want to thank a veteran for their service, hire them. They will be the best employee on your payroll, but not this. What People First is doing to our veterans is reprehensible. They’re bribing them into betraying their oaths. Rather than direct deposit, People First should pay their influencers with 30 pieces of silver.”

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  11. iirc President Trump warned us they would be doing this…emptying their prisons, mental facilities and sending them into the US. he seems to know their plans and tells us ahead of time about them, but how?

    Troublemaker10
    September 9, 2024 7:35 am

    The 12 min video linked in this tweet is so infuriating.

    —

    Allison Dyer
    @3rdGener

    “DHS has acknowledged that Venezuela for example is emptying their prisons and their rehabilitation facilities with the understanding that you’ll get out if you leave here and go to the United States”

    Thank the Biden & Harris Administration for the unvetted, unfettered access.

    Electing Kamala Harris will be nothing but the same, or worse.

    Video linked in tweet…

    “DHS has acknowledged that Venezuela for example is emptying their prisons and their rehabilitation facilities with the understanding that you’ll get out if you leave here and go to the United States”

    Thank the Biden & Harris Administration for the unvetted, unfettered access.… https://t.co/aSbbl3htjz pic.twitter.com/PAK5NG1qDN

    — Allison Dyer (@3rdGener) August 30, 2024

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  15. US Intel Undercuts DOJ’s ‘Foreign Interference’ Claim Used to Smear Conservative Pundits

    The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) announced Friday that it has not “observed” any foreign interference in the 2024 election, seemingly undermining cynical remarks by Attorney General Merrick Garland. 

    The ODNI’s Foreign Malign Influence Center (FMIC) stated in a 2-page report that the intelligence community “has not observed any foreign actor seeking to interfere in the conduct of the 2024 elections.” Natalie Winters, a co-host of the Steve Bannon WarRoom podcast, first reported these findings.

    While the report stipulated that Russia “poses the most active foreign influence threat” to the election, it found no evidence of meddling. The FMIC’s assertions come just days after Garland issued dire warnings about so-called foreign influence targeting the election.  — HeadlineUSA

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  16. Biden Steals Trump’s Idea To Launch Sovereign Wealth Fund

    Two days ago when president Trump first floated the idea of a sovereign wealth fund…

    … hard-core Democrats and/or socialist billionaires balked at the idea, mocking it as wannabe Saudi Arabia.

    Trump, speaking to economic leaders on Thursday, said he envisioned the fund as a way to address persistent debt issues and said it would be funded through his plan to impose tariffs on all imports.

    “We’ll be able to invest in state-of-the-art manufacturing hubs, advanced defense capabilities, cutting-edge medical research and help save billions of dollars in preventing disease in the first place,” Trump said. “And it is many of the people in this room who will be helping to advise and recommend investments for this fund.”

    But expect all the leftist critics to positively love the idea now, just a few hours later, because late on Friday Bloomberg reported that the Kamala/Biden admin has stolen yet another idea from Trump (after eliminating tax on tips, and stimulating new business creation): aides to Joe Biden “have been crafting a proposal to create a sovereign wealth fund” that would allow the US to invest in national security interests including technology, energy, and critical links in the supply chain, a person familiar with the effort, told Bloomberg.

    As Bloomberg admits, the “behind-the-scenes work” by NSA Jake Sullivan and his deputy, Daleep Singh, mirrors – at least in spirit – a proposal floated Thursday by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who called for a government-owned investment fund to finance “great national endeavors” during a speech to the Economic Club of New York. Of course, it would look just a little suspicious if the admin of the president in absentia were to float a wealth fund idea just one day after Trump did the same, so Bloomberg had to make it seem that Biden had been working on their version of Trump’s idea “for months” and that’s precisely what it said. — ZeroHedge

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  19. “Catholic News Site: Gun Ownership is Immoral”

    By Tom Knighton | 6:30 PM | September 03, 2024

    AP Photo/Philip Kamrass, File

    EXCERPT: “Whether someone owns a firearm or not is a personal decision. I respect how people reach that decision just so long as it doesn’t involve trying to make my decision for me. That includes people who decide that they think owning a gun is immoral. If they confine that to themselves–saying it doesn’t fit with their view of morality, for example–then no worries. If they say that my owning one is immortal, then we have an issue.

    Most folks have the good sense not to take that position. They might think it, but they know that they’re going to stir up some hate and discontent by openly saying it.

    It’s even worse when they use the worst possible examples to justify it.

    And that’s just what the former president and editor-in-chief of Catholic News Service did when he decided to write a piece for a Catholic website with the headline, “Is it time to talk about the morality of gun ownership?”

    It starts with this:

    Imagine yourself in your house. A neighbor is banging on the front door and yelling. Or there are noises outside, a car window being smashed. What do you reach for?

    Susan Lorincz reached for a gun. Embroiled in a dispute with her neighbor, Lorincz, standing behind a locked and bolted metal door, fired a bullet through the door, killing Ajika Owens, single mother of four.

    Jason Lewis reached for a gun and went out at 3 a.m. to investigate when he heard noises on his street. Three teens were breaking into cars. When he yelled at the kids, he thought one of them was running toward him. He fired, killing 13-year-old Karon Desean Blake.

    Lorincz is white. Lewis is black. Both victims were black. Lorincz lives in Florida, Lewis in Washington, D.C. Both were convicted in August of manslaughter and face years in prison.

    The two stories are exhibits A and B in the madness that has overtaken a country in which there are more guns than people, a country which is unique among advanced countries for the number of deaths caused by guns, a country where lethal violence is considered option No.1 for self-protection of life and property.

    Of course, this is a great example of cherry-picking examples to back up your position.

    However, he doesn’t acknowledge the people who have used firearms to defend themselves; people who would be dead had they been unarmed. It happens more times than the alternative he presents here….”

    https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2024/09/03/catholic-news-site-gun-ownership-is-immoral-n1226122

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    1. Good morning, GA! Yep….and that is why I will never live close to an ocean coastline or to a river that is susceptible to flooding. A lake works for me! LOL

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  22. Brownstone Institute: “How Does This End?

    We’ve got tens of thousands in Brazil showing up for protests against censorship and the quasi-dictator/judge who banned X. Meanwhile, no one showed up for the president’s parade.

    What a picture of the world today! So many regimes around the globe – in the West, Europe, Commonwealth countries, Latin America, and Africa – are only loosely hanging onto power, while masses of people are using every peaceful tool available to throw off the yoke. 

    The roots of this crisis are deep but we know what kicked it off. It was the mass quarantining of the citizens in all countries, followed by the forced injection of a shot most did not want or need and which has done immeasurable harm. The social contract shattered, and even basic functions of government wholly neglected, the crisis was born. 

    The question is: how does it end? Are there mechanisms in place that enable the toppling of discredited rulers and their replacement by a new class not in the pay of the hegemon?”

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  24. Oh, wow….!!! Can you imagine the hours and hours that went into this?!?

    “Delivery on the way…”

    “Walking her sharks….”

    Bow of the gondola of German naval airship PL19

    “Flying in all weathers”

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    1. that top one is pretty but wouldn’t want it in the house. wood can be tricky inside–heat can dry it out too much and it can crack and it get dusty like everything else and hard to clean.
      in a model log home we toured, they had support beams for their second story off the great room like we have. they looked like trees holding up the one side…but they had cracked. they had it roped off because the crack was making it dangerous–no immediate danger we were told–but it had to be replaced. the cost was in the thousands for one piece. and that wasn’t hand carved.

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  25. Just The News: ” Kate Middleton, the princess of Wales, announced Monday that she has completed her chemotherapy treatment and will resume her public life but with a light schedule. 

    “Doing what I can to stay cancer free is now my focus,” she said in a video message, roughly six months after revealing she had an unspecified form of cancer.

    The 42-year-old Middleton will reportedly keep the light schedule through the end of the year. 

    “The last nine months have been incredibly tough for us as a family,” she also said, adding her “cancer journey is complex, scary and unpredictable for everyone, especially those closest to you.”

    Middleton has made several public appearances since she revealed she had cancer, according to ABC News. The princess, wife of the heir to the throne, Prince William, attended the men’s final at Wimbledon in July where she was joined in the Royal Box by her daughter Charlotte, 9, and sister, Pippa Middleton Matthews, 41, the news outlet also reports.”

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  26. I do think she actually is significantly in the minority. Here, you look across the board, prominent Republicans are supporting President Trump, but ultimately, I think she’s a nonfactor. I’m not trying to be rude, but you don’t get to call yourself a conservative or Republican when you support the most radical nominee that the Democrats have ever put up.

    That doesn’t make you a conservative, it certainly doesn’t make you a Republican. I think it makes you somebody who wants to protect the establishment.

    Red State: “She continued, saying it isn’t a “shock” or “news” that Cheney doesn’t support Trump, “[b]ut what should come as a shock is that she is trying to call herself a conservative Republican or either one of those two words while supporting somebody who so clearly does not represent conservative principles.”

    Did that line about the establishment give you goosebumps? Because it did for me. This–right here–is exactly the way it should be done. We need more on our side speaking about all of the opposing forces we must fight to get the country turned around.”

    https://redstate.com/beccalower/2024/09/08/pure-fire-gov-sarah-sanders-hits-the-big-issue-with-the-cheneys-other-republicans-endorsing-kamala-n2179073

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  27. “‘Ticking Time Bomb’: Volunteers Cleaning Up Seattle Homeless Encampment Discover Propane Tanks Amid Trash”

    Red State, By Ward Clark | 5:46 PM on September 08, 2024

    AP Photo/Elaine Thompson

    EXCERPT: “When I was about 12, I was the recipient of what one might call a “good talking to” from my father, who was displeased over the brilliant idea I had conceived to find out what would happen if I shot a small portable propane canister with a .22 rifle. Fortunately, the Old Man noticed what I was up to before I could fire the shot in question, but I was denied the use of my favorite .22 caliber, summertime companion for one month. 

    Propane tanks, in case you didn’t know, can explode, and while we were unsure if a .22 caliber bullet would have that effect, the Old Man wisely didn’t want me finding out the hard way. (I still don’t know what would have happened had I shot that propane canister, and you can write that lack of knowledge off to a sudden rush of brains to the head.)

    Knowing this, you can imagine the concern of some Seattle volunteers, when they found a bunch of propane tanks amidst five tons of trash while cleaning up a homeless encampment:

    A shocking discovery rattled volunteer groups cleaning up a Seattle homeless encampment over the Labor Day weekend as they unearthed nearly 80 propane tanks, 20 of which still reportedly contained flammable material.

    “We have many camps going up in flames, we see them every day. We see explosions inside our greenspaces, it’s from the propane tanks. It’s a ticking timebomb,” Tim Emerson, program director of nonprofit group We Heart Seattle, told KOMO 4 News, a local outlet.

    We Heart Seattle was among the three groups assisting with the cleanup that cleared approximately 5.6 tons of debris, excluding the weight of the tanks, Emerson said.

    Here’s the thing: This discovery isn’t shocking, or at least, it shouldn’t be. It’s not even mildly surprising. These “encampments” – I’m tempted to adopt a Great Depression-era idiom and call them “Bidenvilles” – are full of garbage, much of which is hazardous in one way or another. Garbage, human waste, discarded drug paraphernalia – it’s all there. This is known:

    In a recent report, (We Heart Seattle’s Andrea) Suarez told the outlet that the same cleanup that uncovered 80 propane tanks also uncovered other dangerous materials, including guns, machetes and blades.

    It’s not just propane tanks, guns, and blades. For almost a decade now there have been troubling incidences of disease associated with these areas, including typhus, tuberculosis, and more. Not to mention the discarded needles and human waste….”

    https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/09/08/ticking-time-bomb-seattle-group-cleaning-up-homeless-encampment-find-propane-tanks-amid-5-tons-of-trash-n2179067

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  28. Stephen Miller
    @StephenM
    First off, I’m just an aide who’s had the honor of working for America’s greatest president and witnessing his unparalleled vision and unrivaled leadership.

    As to your question, growing GDP via mass third world migration makes everyone in America poorer (except those who profit from cheap labor) — per-capita GDP plummets.

    It is a vast wealth transfer from US workers to foreign workers and the companies who employ them (and to migrants on welfare and public support).

    If America annexed Haiti tomorrow it would increase our GDP by increasing our population — but would make the average American poorer and the average wage smaller.

    And mass low-wage migration cruelly depletes the resources and safety net upon which American families, children and seniors alike rely.

    It is the most regressive economic policy.

    Mass migration is a grave moral betrayal of the social contract that binds all citizens to each other and binds the government to its citizens.

    This is to say nothing of the catastrophic results for public safety and human lives. Harris’ illegals have committed unfathomably depraved acts of rape, mutilation, torture and murder.

    How many more Americans must suffer and die in the name of cheap foreign labor and the Democrats’ quest for political power?

    The Harris plan to grow the GDP is clearly to resettle the third world in all 50 states. The Trump plan is to shut the deport, deport the illegals, and make America into the economic and manufacturing powerhouse of the world.

    I’ll let Americans judge which plan they prefer for their families, neighbors and communities.

    Lastly, as to tariffs. Of course foreign countries are the ones who pay the tariffs — which is why foreign heads of state try so mightily to prevent tariffs from being applied when they cheat. The simplest example here is when a country dumps subsidized goods (say steel) in our market. A tariff on that country either a.) causes them to abandon product dumping and abide by the rules b.) further subsidize its own industry and great cost to the government — either way, the US taxpayer collects the revenue from the tariff.

    Again, protective tariffs built America. Low taxes on domestic industry + tariffs on foreign industry = American manufacturing renaissance. We sustain ourselves and supply the world.

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  31. Kentucky Uber

    “Meet devout Sikh Avtar Singh Mauni – the proud owner of the world’s largest turban. He wears the traditional Punjabi turban called a ‘pagdi’ in the Indian town of Patiala in Punjab, India” — Picture: Ajay Verma / Barcroft India Credit: Ajay Verma / Barcroft India

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  33. i was out in the garden, cutting back the zucchini plant–it just keeps growing and growing! lol

    I have 6 more flowers and 4 more small (pickle size) zucchinis on there! I’ve been cutting back the leaves–they’re ginormous! but since it’s getting more sun now on the base, it’s growing more.

    there was a bee flying from pepper flower to pepper flower so maybe more peppers too.

    the tomatoes look like they’re almost done.

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  36. “Hurricane landfall predictions are not unlike presidential voter polls. First and foremost, they want to put the fear of god in you as soon as they possibly can, and advanced notices almost always change. Other than that, it may or may not become a hurricane, and it may or may not hit where they’re projecting today.”

    It’s true!!! Of course they have a website: https://www.becometheforce.com/

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  38. “January 6 Questions for Kamala Harris — Harris compares the four-hour disturbance to the worst terror attacks in U.S. history–yet she is mum about her brush with death that day. Will a debate moderator force her to break her silence?”

    Julie Kelly, Sep 09, 2024

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Americans are bracing for the first—perhaps only?—debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris on Tuesday night. After weeks of squabbling, both sides consented to rules that the candidates and ABC News moderators must follow in what is expected to represent a pivotal moment in the tight presidential race.

    Harris will enter the fray following a weekend of bad news for her campaign. Polls demonstrate that her post-installation popularity bump is gone; she now is neck-and-neck with Trump overall and in must-win states. A New York Times/Siena College survey conducted earlier this month indicates voters want to know more about Harris’ policies, which will be tricky since she is backtracking on nearly all of her past positions. The Biden/Harris regime remains wildly unpopular with Americans as nearly two-thirds of respondents said they want a “major” change in White House leadership.

    Questions during the debate likely will address the economy, immigration, crime, foreign affairs, and “democracy,” whatever in the fresh hell that means. It is unlikely, unfortunately, that Harris will receive any questions about January 6 despite the fact the mostly peaceful protest has animated the Biden/Harris regime’s policies and messaging for nearly four years.

    Biden, in fact, launched his ill-fated re-election campaign with a video featuring ominous clips of January 6. On the three-year anniversary of January 6, Biden claimed “we nearly lost America” that day. Much of Biden’s dishonest rhetoric about J6 is repeated in Justice Department charging documents and in the screeds of federal judges in Washington.

    Harris, for her part, rarely discusses January 6. Which is very odd considering, according to the FBI at least, she almost died at the hands of an alleged MAGA bomber that afternoon. As I have reported, no one in the J6-obsessed media has asked Harris a single question about January 6.

    It is time for that media blackout to end. Here is a partial list of questions for David Muir and Linsey Davis to consider asking Harris on the debate stage in Philadelphia tomorrow night:

    1. Tomorrow will mark 23 years since the 9/11 terror attacks, which resulted in the murder of nearly 3,000 people. You compare January 6, which resulted in the deaths of four Trump supporters, to 9/11. Please explain to the loved ones of 9/11 victims how those two events are the same and why they should not be insulted by your comparison.
    2. The Biden/Harris DOJ continues to investigate, arrest, and prosecute J6 protesters. New arrests were announced just last week as the total caseload reaches 1,500 defendants. Why is the government still charging J6ers while violent BLM rioters from 2020 who assaulted federal police and destroyed federal property in Washington have had their cases dropped? Why isn’t your DOJ continuing to investigate and prosecute BLM rioters who caused the lockdown of the White House in May 2020 or burned St. John’s church and other areas of the nation’s capital?
    3. You brag about your credentials as a prosecutor. How can you possibly defend the selective prosecution of J6ers while BLM and pro-Hamas protesters go free?
    4. In general, do you support pretrial detention—meaning denying release of a defendant awaiting trial—for nonviolent political protesters? If not, what do you say about the fact your DOJ has held nonviolent J6ers in prison for months and years in some cases before they go to trial?
    5. Why did you leave the Capitol at 11:15 on January 6 and go to the Democratic National Committee headquarters?
    6. How were you alerted about the discovery of a pipe bomb shortly after 1:00 p.m. on January 6?
    7. Are you shocked that your Secret Service detail, bomb-sniffing canines, the Capitol Police, and D.C. Metro police missed the device, an explosive the FBI said was planted the night before?
    8. Are you disappointed the FBI still does not have the pipe bomb suspect in custody?
    9. If elected, will you make the J6 pipe bomb investigation a priority?
    10. Is Matthew Graves, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia handling the ongoing J6 prosecution, on your short list for attorney general?

    Of course, the idea a moderator or even a reporter on the campaign trial would raise any of these questions is a pipe dream, pun intended.

    And the fact the media continues to allow Harris to ignore her still unexplained presence at the DNC during an event she outrageously compares to 9/11 and Pearl Harbor raises even more unanswered questions.”

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  40. i finally found this again…

    saw this, this morning. they read off some of the “reeducation” courses available to j6ers in prison.

    Troublemaker10

    Troublemaker10

    September 9, 2024 4:04 pm

    Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸
    @RepMTG

    WATCH: Treniss Evans reveals the names of some of the “reeducation courses” provided for J6 prisoners in the DC Gulag

    Video linked in tweet…

    WATCH: Treniss Evans reveals the names of some of the “reeducation courses” provided for J6 prisoners in the DC Gulag pic.twitter.com/6ch36rHDK1

    — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) September 9, 2024

    https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1833216552327356511?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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  42. In a seaside resort town in France, a gas station is suddenly transformed into a spectacular diving board, from which some boys jump into the sea with daring and breathtaking acrobatics, creating a surprising and stunning scene.

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  43. “An intricate nest is hosting full grown chicks, ready to fly out. Unfortunately, a hungry squirrel noticed the unguarded nest and climbs down on it from a tree branch. The squirrel is planning how to attack the chicks: their only chance for survival is to leave the nest and take their first flight in this world.”

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  44. Just The News: “Iconic Hollywood actor James Earl Jones, most known for his roles as the voices of Darth Vader in Star Wars and Mufasa in The Lion King, died on Monday at the age of 93. 

    Jones died at his home in Dutchess County, New York, but the cause of his death was not immediately clear, according to The Independent.“

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  45. gil00(@gil00)Offline
    Coyote
    September 9, 2024 16:59

    James Earl Jones, well known for his roles in “Field of Dreams,” “Lion King,” “Star Wars,” and more, has died. He was 93.

    Jones died Monday morning in his New York home, his representatives confirmed to Deadline and NBC.

    The actor’s representatives from the Independent Artist Group confirmed Jones’ death to the outlet, but could not provide an immediate response to Nexstar.

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  49. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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