Belgian Malinois

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From THESPRUCEPETS.COM:

The Belgian Malinois is a medium-sized herding dog with boatloads of athleticism, energy, and smarts. These sheepdogs from Belgium thrive when then have a job, making them excellent candidates for police and military operations.

What makes them good working dogs—the intelligence and vitality, namely—might rule the Belgian Malinois out for many potential pet owners. Ever-loyal Mals need committed, active owners who are willing to provide hours of mental and physical stimulation daily.

Characteristics of the Belgian Malinois

Belgian Malinois’ temperaments are marked by their high energy level. They need lots of mental stimulation and physical activity every day. These dogs generally have a moderately affectionate and friendly personality, and they form strong bonds with their primary owners.

While these dogs have characteristics similar to the German shepherd, the breeds have a different head shape, and the Belgian Malinois is leaner and has shorter fur.

History of the Belgian Malinois

The Belgian Malinois is one of four Belgian shepherd varieties alongside the Tervuren, the Groenendael, and the Laekenois. These Belgian shepherds date back to the 1800s, and the Malinois get their name from the city of Mechelen (Malines) where they were developed. Breeders were looking to create a strong herding dog and protector with a steadfast work ethic. 

The Malinois first arrived in the United States in the early 1900s, but their shot-lived popularity dissipated after World War II. But their popularity rose again in the 1960s after the American Kennel Club recognized the Malinois in 1959.

By the turn of the 21st century, Belgian Malinois were commonly seen working as police dogs, military dogs, drug-detection dogs, and search-and-rescue dogs. The Secret Service even employs them to patrol the White House grounds. Plus, Belgian Malinois are part of Navy SEAL teams, including the one that killed Osama bin Laden in 2011.

Belgian Malinois Care

The Belgian Malinois is not the right breed for everyone. These dogs generally aren’t well-suited to living in an apartment because they need lots of space to run and play. They’re best for owners with an active lifestyle who can provide plenty of ways for the dogs to exercise their minds and bodies. These dogs also require proper training and socialization to ensure they are well-mannered. And their grooming is fairly simple. 

Exercise

It is essential for Belgian Malinois to receive vigorous daily exercise and mental stimulation. Otherwise, they might become anxious or develop behavior problems. Aim for at least one to two hours of exercise per day, including brisk walks, running, hiking, and playing fetch. This breed also is an excellent candidate for dog sports or any activity that involves focus and endurance to challenge their brains and bodies.

Remember: Your Belgian Malinois needs more exercise than many other breeds. A couple easy walks aren’t enough—unless you run about 5 miles a day with your pup.4 Be sure to schedule time for vigorous exercise throughout the day.

Be aware that the Belgian Malinois’ herding instinct might create a tendency to chase cars, bikes, and other moving objects. So, they must be kept on leash or in a secure fenced area. 

Grooming

Grooming is likely the easiest part of owning a Belgian Malinois. They have a short, straight, weather-resistant coat with a dense undercoat. In general, little more than basic grooming is necessary. Plan to brush at least weekly to remove loose fur and prevent mats. Shedding often increases as the weather changes in the spring and fall, necessitating more regular brushing and vacuuming.

Check whether your dog needs a nail trim roughly once a month. Some dogs can go longer between nail trims if they naturally wear down their nails through activity, such as walking on pavement. Also, aim to brush their teeth daily.

Training

In general, this breed is highly trainable, intelligent, and eager to please. They respond well to positive reinforcement and consistent instruction. 

Training and socialization should begin early in Belgian Malinois’ puppyhood. Enroll in a puppy obedience class as soon as your dog meets the age requirement, and expose your dog to different people, other animals, and situations. Belgian Malinois don’t always get along with other dogs, but having positive exposure to other dogs from a young age can help. 

Likewise, this breed isn’t always appropriate for families with children. Their high herding instinct can cause them to nip at kids’ heels. Even if you don’t have kids, it’s important to train your dog to be well-mannered around children, so you’re always able to safely control situations. 

SOURCE: THESPRUCEPETS.COM

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    1. Morning, Pat! These are great dogs but would be waaaay too much for me, just on the exercise requirements alone! Seriously? Brush their teeth every day? I think not!!!

      66 and cloudy here this morning – if we’re lucky, we’ll get a little rain but not much. Wheezer was back in his usual place this morning; he ate his canned food and promptly departed, no doubt in search of a new conquest. Boys will be boys, after all!

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      1. Morning Filly!
        I agree too much for me too.
        but i am amazed at with training what they can accomplish!
        we had 9 deer in the yard this morning–most have that “zombie” coat going on. there was a spike buck sniffing around the does this morning and promptly getting a hoof to the face…LOL

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  4. oey Mannarino
    @JoeyMannarinoUS
    The Haitian Animal Eating story in Springfield, Ohio goes waaaayy deeper than just eating animals.

    Animal sacrifice is an offering to the lwa (spirits) often used in Haitian black magick.

    Look up some of these rituals and familiarize yourself with them – specifically spells that use the intranquil spirit, etc.

    This is a religion and it’s not one to be messed with. The fact that Kamala Harris imported it directly into Springfield, Ohio is TERRIFYING.

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  5. Shadow of Ezra

    @ShadowofEzra

    The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation conducted a raid on the Millersville Police Department, seizing all records tied to active investigations into global corruption. These files reportedly contained evidence of fraudulent mortgages, human trafficking, election fraud, and drug trafficking operations involving U.S. Congress members, Attorney Generals, and law enforcement, with connections to BRICS nations, particularly China. He concluded by stating that a foreign adversary has overtaken the government and the only solution is to set aside our differences and destroy this enemy.

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    1. I still don’t get this whole “national debt” insanity…..WTH does that even mean??? No, I don’t really want an explanation that I wouldn’t understand anyway….I just want to bitch about the stupidity and insanity of it all!

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      1. in my simple understanding…let’s say you have $100 in your checking account. as a responsible person, you pay your debt and have $20 left. then you notice a bill for $35 you forgot to pay.

        if you’re the gov’t, you just print more money–which decreases the value of every dollar out there. they keep spending and creating bills without anything to back it up.

        we used to be on the “gold” standard which meant for every dollar out there we have gold backing it up somewhere. that is no longer the case i believe.

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        1. Thanks for trying, Pat, but my brain does NOT handle math at all in any form. I know the US “went off the gold standard” some years ago but even that I didn’t really understand.

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  11. really long thread. Vance attacking harris’s FINALLY stated policies–the night before the debate–imagine that.

    JD Vance
    @JDVance
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    It has been 50 days since Kamala Harris became the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party.

    In the dead of night yesterday, she finally released her campaign policy page. Here’s what I think of it 🧵
    ⁨⁨1) Kamala Harris claims she wants to cut taxes for middle class families, but here’s what’s in her plan:

    IRS Audits for working families: Getting audited is a horrendous experience, even if you’ve done nothing wrong. Harris cast the tie-breaking vote to hire 87,000 IRS agents to audit more people. As recently as last summer, 63% of new audits fell taxpayers earning less than $200,000.

    The IRS, like Kamala Harris, claims that it’s not going to increase audits on people making under $400K, but the Treasury Inspector General stated the agency’s strategic plan, “did not include specifics on how the IRS was going to ensure it met this commitment.” That’s because they have no intention of ensuring they’re not going to audit middle class families—that’s where they’re going to find the money to pay for their massive spending proposals.

    Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, under questioning in the House, could not deny that 90 percent of new audits under the IRA would be on households earning less than $400,000. The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office found that the majority of additional taxes the IRS recommended from audits from 2010-2021 came from taxpayers with income less than $200,000.

    It’s even harder to pretend that taxing working men and women isn’t their focus when you think about the reporting requirement Biden-Harris signed into law to require businesses to fill out a 1099K form on transactions over $600 made using third-party payment platforms. The reporting threshold before their bill was $20,000.

    There’s no minimum number of transactions in their bill, so a single transaction over $600 that triggers the reporting requirement creates more paperwork. Even Senate Democrats have backed different bills to blunt the impact of this enormously burdensome mandate.

    The Government Accountability Office found this aspect of the Harris tax record would result in at least 30 million new 1099K forms getting sent out in 2024. The Joint Committee on Taxation found that over 90 percent of the tax burden will fall on middle class families and gig workers.

    The Biden-Harris tax plan, as explicitly outlined in their formal budget request to Congress would increase taxes by $5 trillion. That’s going to stack on top of her inflationary climate spending bills and drag the economy down further. It’s been estimated that “the tax changes in the Biden-Harris budget would reduce long-run GDP by 1.6 percent…wages by 1.1 percent, and employment by about 666,000 full-time equivalent jobs.”

    That’s nearly a million people out of work and lower wages for everyone in order to shift money towards the Harris Green New Deal—as she said to CNN in her first interview after nearly a month as the Democratic nominee, her values haven’t changed on that policy, which she supported enthusiastically when she was in the Senate.

    All in all, the Biden-Harris record has been a massive wealth transfer from working people to the Green New Deal’s constituencies—the Harris tax plan is going to be more of the same, no matter what kind of claims she makes during the campaign.⁩Image
    2) Kamala claims she wants to make rent more affordable and home ownership more attainable, but that’s not what her plan would do at all.

    Kamala wants to give every first time homebuyer a $25,000 check toward downpayment assistance. What she fails to leave out is that this would likely raise the average home price by the same amount, making her plan moot. We also haven’t heard how the debt-burdened federal government would pay for such a plan.

    There’s also no guarantee that this down payment assistance will be limited to citizens. The campaign has yet to lay out what requirements there will be, beyond being a first time homebuyer and having a two year history of rental payments. One reporter has indicated that only an SSN or taxpayer identification number will be required. If that’s true, then this would leave open the door for millions of illegal immigrants to get this assistance. And this wouldn’t be the first time housing assistance has gone to noncitizens—there are a number of federal housing subsidies that noncitizens are eligible for: including the HOME Investment Partnership Program and Treasury’s pandemic era Emergency rental assistance program.

    But under Kamala, the potential for assistance to go to illegals isn’t the only issue. Couple that with Kamala’s CFPB and DOJ effectively forcing banks to lend to noncitizens. They’ve rewritten guidance mandating that banks cannot deny loan applications strictly on citizenship grounds, even though citizenship and residence status bear a large impact on loan repayment prospects.

    Vice President Harris also mentions how she’ll spur the construction of “3 million more rental units.” While she outlines an admirable plan, it’s tough to take it seriously. This Vice President has overseen an administration that has enacted new red tape for multi-family and single-family construction. We’ve seen her Housing and Urban Development Department enact green energy requirements for new rental units, mandatory strictly-cosmetic updates to public housing units, and more regulations that will make it harder to grow the rental supply.

    That’s not the end of it. The Vice President seems to think that the ongoing housing crisis is strictly due to a supply problem, but it’s not. Her policies have also driven demand for housing through the roof, particularly when looking at the price and availability of rental units.

    As I’ve outlined before, and as academic research supports, mass immigration drives up demand, threatens the American dream of homeownership, and makes housing less affordable for working Americans.

    When a city’s immigrant population increases, the area’s home prices and rental costs rise by a comparable amount. But the effects vary by neighborhood: home values are negatively correlated with the immigrant concentration. The result: only current homeowners in non-immigrant, wealthy neighborhoods stand to benefit from mass immigration. Working-class residents see their rental costs soar, and their home values decline.

    It’s common sense, we can’t fix our housing crisis until we address the crisis at the border.⁩Image
    3) Vice President Harris claims she’ll “take on the everyday obstacles and red tape that can make it harder to grow a small business.”

    However, under her administration, the SEC has promulgated at least 47 rulemakings, the majority of which have not been mandated by Congress, and we’ve seen Treasury enact burdensome compliance regulations, with some even aimed at small businesses, like the Administration’s preferred implementation of the Corporate Transparency Act.

    This doesn’t sound like cutting red tape to me. It sounds like the opposite: enacting overbearing regulations that stifle innovation and kill job creation.Image
    4) Kamala Harris claims she wants to make our education system a pathway to the middle class.

    Take it from me, a working-class kid who went to Ohio State on the GI Bill and then to Yale: education can absolutely be pathway to the American Dream. But I’m not naive enough to think that our current system works for everyone. It obviously doesn’t. Fewer than one-in-five American students goes smoothly from high school to college to a career that uses their degree.

    Kamala Harris doesn’t want to address these problems. Instead, she wants to double down on the failures of our education system. She wants taxpayers to write off more student loans, to increase subsidies that will only drive up tuition costs, and to send even more money to some of the worst-performing universities in the country.

    Here’s what I’d like to know: What will Harris say to Pennsylvania ironworkers who are upset that they have to pay for someone else’s college degree?

    The answer, I’m afraid, is absolutely nothing. Kamala Harris, like the rest of our education establishment, treats the majority of hard-working Americans without a college degree as an afterthought. We’re the only developed country in the world without a distinct, vocational education pathway, and yet Kamala Harris thinks the solution is to send even more money to universities.⁩Image
    5) Kamala says she wants to invest in affordable child care, but again that’s not what her plan would do:

    As I’ve said before, I want our public policy to increase access to affordable childcare options and empower parents with the flexibility and resources to make the best childcare decisions for their family.

    Harris says that she wants families to “afford high-quality child care.” That may sound nice, but as always, Harris is light on detail and heavy on slogans. What might she mean by this?

    It’s tough to say, but the best indication would be the national childcare plan that she’s already laid out with President Biden as par of their “Build Back Better” plan. We all know how those policies turned out: skyrocketing inflation.

    But the childcare provisions of their plan were so extreme that not even a Democrat-controlled Congress could pass them. They wouldn’t have worked for many American families.

    Most parents who use a paid childcare center say they prefer a faith-based provider. What would Harris’s plan do for them? Nothing. Childcare providers based in a house of worship would have been excluded from funding opportunities. Other faith-based providers would be subject to additional regulations in order to access funding that might not have been able to meet.

    Many parents prefer to stay at home with a young child or have a loved-one watch them. Would Harris’s plan support these families? Not at all. Her proposal was only supports childcare centers and would offer no support to families that prefer not to send their children to daycare.

    Ensuring families have access to affordable childcare is an important challenge for our policy to help tackle. But the answer cannot be to force families into Kamala’s preferred one-size-fits-all model. We can support parents and their children without leaving millions of families behind.⁩Image
    6) Kamala Harris made it clear that she views American energy policy as a part of her wider fight against global warming. For example, she takes credit for passing the Inflation Reduction Act, which she claims lowered household energy costs while building a green energy economy. The reality of the IRA’s climate record, however, is much different.

    CBS News reported earlier this month that the cost of electricity has increased more than 28.5 percent since 2019, with the average American now paying nearly $300 each month just in utilities. These higher costs can be attributed to a shrinking supply of American electricity. More specifically, Harris’s environmental policies have shuttered reliable coal power plants, slowed the approval of new natural gas plants and failed to enact permitting reform for American generation and transmission infrastructure. Instead, they have placed an increasing burden on less reliable sources of energy, such as solar and wind. These renewable sources are more dependent on conducive weather than coal and gas plants, which means they are most prone to failure exactly when Americans are most reliant on electricity to do things like heat their homes. Kamala’s energy policies are making Americans poorer and more vulnerable to extreme weather.

    As for the “new green energy economy,” let us look at the IRA’s effort to make American roads more conducive to electric vehicles. The IRA allocated $7.5 billion to build new EV charging stations along highways. In the almost two years since the IRA became law, the Biden-Harris administration has built just eight charging stations. This program is part of the wider Harris push to replace gas-powered cars with EVs, which has also fizzled. Many automakers, including Ford and General Motors, are delaying or curtailing EV rollouts amid lower-than-expected consumer demand, despite rosy predictions from administration officials and $7,500 federal tax credits to buy new EVs. Meanwhile, dealers are complaining that they cannot move the EV inventory they already have.

    Kamala Harris also pledges to advance “environmental justice” and pays fealty to international climate agreements. At best, the policies spawned by progressive and foreign ideologues will go the way of the EV push: billions of tax dollars wasted with American energy and auto workers left with uncertain futures. At worst, Kamala’s climate policies will increase energy costs for all Americans, degrade their standard of living with new climate mandates, leave them vulnerable to dangerous weather and make America a worse place to live.

    We all want cleaner air and water. What we do not want is more climate hysteria.⁩Image
    7) Kamala Harris says she wants to secure our borders. Her record tells a different story:

    Harris touts her record prosecuting international criminals as California’s Attorney General. One of the reasons why California has so much migrant crime is because it is a sanctuary state that shields illegal aliens from deportation. Hence foreign criminals feel more protected in California. Another thing Attorney General Harris did as California’s AG was write a 2015 letter to the US Senate defending California’s sanctuary state policies and opposing a bill that would penalize the state’s noncooperation with federal immigration law. It is safe to assume that there would have been a lot fewer migrant criminals to prosecute in California if the state and AG Kamala had allowed ICE agents to do their jobs and deport them.

    Kamala Harris then claims to have supported a bipartisan border security bill that would have deployed more agents and drug scanners. I believe she is referring to Sen. Chris Murphy’s Border Act of 2024 (S.4361). What she won’t tell you is that the bill also codifies catch-and-release, allows up to 1.8 million illegals to enter before the border could be closed, gives billions of taxpayer dollars to the same NGOs that are driving the invasion and expands the executive parole powers used by Biden instead of limiting them. The bill’s author Sen. Murphy put it best when he admitted that, under his bill, “the border never closes.” I think all of that is totally unacceptable when our nation is facing a historic border crisis, which is why I and my Republican colleagues opposed it. Kamala Harris should have instead pushed for a standalone vote on new border agents and scanners.

    Kamala Harris also brags that, thanks to her efforts, border crossings are currently at 4-year lows. It is worth remembering that almost four years ago, on their first day in office, Biden and Harris issued executive orders that stopped border wall construction and stopped deportations. They then rescinded Trump’s Remain In Mexico policy, allowing every migrant with a dubious asylum claim to enter America while waiting in an years-long case backlog. As a direct result of these actions, America endured consecutive months record-breaking illegal immigration. Only once their Border Act was rejected, and border security consistently polled as a top concern of voters, did Biden and Harris issue orders that give the appearance that they care about illegal border crossings. She cannot take credit for nominally lower border crossing numbers after she spent almost four years holding the border wide open.

    But the most destructive part of the Kamala Harris border plan is where she says that she wants to give her 8.5+ million illegal aliens an “earned pathway to citizenship,” which means rewarding illegal aliens with amnesty and the right to vote in our next election. Promising amnesty and citizenship will create a gigantic magnet for illegal immigration that will entice people around the world to race across our borders.

    If there’s a takeaway from this section, it’s that Kamala opened our borders to 8.5+ million illegal aliens, lied about it for almost four years, blamed others when she got caught and now wants to reward those illegals with citizenship.⁩Image
    8) Kamala Harris has said she wants to support veterans and their families. She has completely failed to do so as Vice President:

    Right from the beginning, Biden and Harris charted a bad course, putting U.S. soldiers in harm’s way. In Afghanistan, as the situation turned chaotic in 2021, a lot more could and should have been done to keep our people safe. People on the ground warned Biden and Harris – through a dissent channel cable – that the situation would get chaotic. The administration didn’t listen. And so when the time came to move our people out of Kabul, we ended up running the operation out of Kabul’s own airport, right in the city. It was chaos, and ISIS terrorists exploited that chaos to murder 13 U.S. service members at Abbey Gate on August 26, 2021.

    And the thing that gets me is this: Kamala Harris never once bothered to pick up the phone and call those families. Kamala Harris never once supported an investigation into the decisions that led to Abbey Gate. If Kamala Harris cared about veterans, she would have demanded accountability. She didn’t.

    I think our veterans and their families deserve a genuine investigation into what happened at Abbey Gate. That’s about accountability, yes, but it’s also about making sure it doesn’t happen again.

    The same mistakes that led to our losing people at Abbey Gate were repeated again and again and again. At Tower 22 in Jordan on January 28, 2024, we lost three service members to a drone launched by an Iran-backed militia. Different time, different place, different enemy – but a lot of the same mistakes. By that time, our forces had been under fire in Syria and Iraq dozens, hundreds of times since October 7 – and we weren’t shooting back. The situation was chaotic, we weren’t in control, it was only a matter of time before our people paid the price.

    Take your pick of military operations under this administration – from the pier to nowhere in Gaza to the Red Sea operation against Houthi militants, the common thread running through them is our soldiers get thrown into situations where they are sitting ducks, where they very often come to serious harm, with no serious thought given to how we’re going to get the other side to stop shooting at us.

    That absolutely has to stop, and it will stop under President Trump. When Russian forces attacked us in Syria on President Trump’s watch, we killed them. When we took on ISIS in the Middle East, we destroyed them. Our goal should never be to send our troops into harm’s way as some kind of symbol of resolve. We send our troops in to win. That’s how it should be.⁩

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        1. i thought it was my browser, but it posted as a tweet at wolf’s…

          maybe it’s done to discourage us and quit?

          LOL…they don’t know me when i find a good dance tweet…LOL

          and THANKS for bringing it here!

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  14. Tweets aren’t opening at M’s either. Let’s see if it will open here – nope, won’t even post the link at all. And this is an official State communication from the Governor about the incoming hurricane!!!

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  18. i was reading about the CR they want to pass with the SAVE Act rider. there are several repubs not voting for it and their reasoning is sound. it’s not really about the SAVE Act–it’s about continuing with the horrible CR practice. PASS A DAMNED BUDGET. THAT’S YOUR JOB!!!
    they spend like there’s no tomorrow.
    make the difficult decisions and get us out of debt.

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  19. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/09/gal-luft-arrested-china-agent

    Our Take: Wait a minute. So the Feds just arrested an American-Israeli with dual citizenship for being an unregistered foreign for… China?? Huh? And they arrested him in Cyprus? An island-nation known for being a hotbed of transnational organized crime, particularly for the Ukrainian-Israeli Mafia? (Hello, Igor Kolomoisky. War Hamster says hi.)

    Did yall know that in February 2014, after the CIA overthrew the government of Ukraine in the Maiden Coup, they installed a high-ranking member of the Israeli Mafia to serve as interim president until they could get their puppet, Poroshenko, elected through a totally real and not fake election?

    The guy’s name was Oleksandr Turchynov, and he is accused of being a henchman for Israeli Mafia crime lord Semion Mogilevich, who is described by the FBI as the “boss of all bosses,” and his nickname is “The Brainy Don.” (Definitely using that as his Trumpamania name, by the way.)

    While working for Ukrainian intelligence, Turchynov was subpoenaed to appear in Ukrainian court in 2010, accused of destroying files pertaining to Mogilevich.

    It’s also worth noting that William Sessions—the FBI Director during the elder Bush administration—served as Mogilevich’s personal attorney, serving in that role up until Sessions’ death in June 2020, as documented by Craig Unger in his book about Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia.

    So, just to be clear: in 2014, the CIA overthrew the Ukrainian government and installed a member of the Israeli Mafia as interim president. And the crime boss of the Israeli Mafia had the Bush Family’s FBI Director on retainer as his personal attorney.

    Swampy. — GhostofBasedPatrickHenry

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  20. Libs of TikTok

    @libsoftiktok

    BREAKING: Venezualan gang Tren de Aragua have reportedly taken over a hotel in El Paso, TX. The El Paso County Attorney’s office just filed a restraining order against the hotel. They allege the owner has allowed illegal activity to go on for months. Police have been called there over 700 times in 2 years. Surveillance photos show 2 men in an altercation and a migrant holding a weapon.

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  22. “Ohio Chinese Buffet Forced To Close After Haitians Decimate Food Supply”

    U.S. · Sep 9, 2024 · BabylonBee.com

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    SPRINGFIELD, OH — A Chinese food buffet was forced to close Monday after Haitian immigrants completely decimated the local Chinese food supply.

    “This business has been in my family for many years, said Duke Wong, owner of Happy China Yum Yum in Springfield, Ohio. “With 20,000 Haitian migrants roaming the town, all our delicious local ingredients have disappeared.”

    According to sources, Happy China Yum Yum was the preferred source of delicious Chinese dishes such as orange “chicken,” and Mongolian “beef” in the area. Over the last several years, however, their business model has become unsustainable.

    “I took my cooler down to the park the other day, and there weren’t even any geese,” Chiang lamented. “Um, I mean, chicken. I couldn’t find any chicken at the park.”

    Chiang, who escaped from China forty years ago, became an American citizen legally with the dream of serving “chicken,” “beef,” and “fish” to as many customers as possible. Sadly, his dream is dying.

    “I wish Trump would build the wall,” he said.

    At publishing time, Duke Wong had escaped to open a new restaurant in the greener pastures of Upper Sandusky, Ohio.

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  23. “Bluey Reported Missing After Haitian Migrants Move In Next Door”

    World · Sep 9, 2024 · BabylonBee.com

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    BRISBANE, AUS — A local six-year-old identified as Bluey Heeler has gone missing. She was last seen pretending to be a Granny named Janet in front of a house full of Haitian immigrants, say authorities.

    The local community has reportedly pointed the finger at the Haitian neighbors because they just moved in next door to the Heeler family and Bluey went missing the very next day. Police have called on the public to remain calm and suggested that it’s racist to assume Haitians are responsible just because they are Haitians.

    “They eat dogs! I’ve seen it!” said Doreen, a local Great Pyrenees, and family friend to the Heelers. “You should check their bins! They probably ate her and threw the bones away!”

    Meanwhile, Bluey’s father Bandit held a televised press conference in which he addressed the alleged kidnappers: “I don’t know who you are or what you want,” he said. “If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.”

    He continued, “If you let my daughter go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.”

    Bluey’s mother Chili is reportedly out searching the woods every night, looking for any sign of her daughter. “She might just be playing magical statues out there — waiting for someone to come find her…” she said, hopeful.

    Anyone with information about her whereabouts is encouraged to contact the Brisbane Police Department.

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  24. “God Announces He Will Now Be Voiced By James Earl Jones”

    Theology · Sep 9, 2024 · BabylonBee.com

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    HEAVEN — Though many have claimed to have heard the voice of God throughout human history, the Lord will now have a voice that is highly identifiable by all people, as a representative from Heaven confirmed that the deceased James Earl Jones has been contracted to play God’s Voice for all eternity.

    “It’s a natural fit,” said a spokesangel shortly after news of Jones’s passing made the rounds. “The Lord blessed James Earl Jones with his awesome, booming voice with an eye toward using it for His glory well into eternity. Though Mr. Jones used his voice talent to garner fame and fortune during his time spent on earth, he will now use it in service to God Almighty.”

    Well-known for his roles in films such as Field of Dreams, The Lion King, and all three movies in the Star Wars franchise, James Earl Jones will now lend his authoritative and pleasant voice to God for whenever He really wants to get the attention of human beings. “Truth be told, there are times when his voice would have come in handy in previous years,” the spokesangel continued. “Can you imagine how terrified Moses would have been if he had heard the voice of Darth Vader coming from the burning bush? Forget taking off his sandals, Moses probably would have needed a new pair of shorts.”

    At publishing time, an insider from Heaven revealed Jones was relieved to no longer have to be the voice that says “This is CNN.”

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  28. Wow! Just now hit 70, still cloudy and super windy suddenly. Had to run out and bring in my trash bin before it blew over – and it’s one of those big ones on wheels that the mechanical arm picks up & dumps. I could see others blown over down the road.

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  29. “Trump Can Knock-out Kamala Tonight By Exposing Her Disastrous Record, Radical Policies — President Trump’s prospects of winning the electoral college are nearly a whopping thirty points over the embattled veep.”

    Paul Ingrassia, Sep 10, 2024

    Column: How to get answers from Trump, Harris? These debate questions - Los Angeles Times

    EXCERPT: “More than any other election year since the advent of television has the results of a presidential debate proved so consequential.  As of this writing, President Trump has the momentum on his side. 

    After enjoying a manufactured “honeymoon” period in the month after Joe Biden was ousted from the presidency via a behind-the-scenes coup, in which Kamala was in no small part complicit (and some might say, its mastermind), the vice president’s numbers have come crashing back to earth.  According to Nate Silver, perhaps the leading name in the polling industry, President Trump’s prospects of winning the electoral college are nearly a whopping thirty points over the embattled vice president. 

    This pro-Trump sentiment has reverberated across betting markets, too: Polymarket, maybe the premier election betting website this cycle, places the 45th President’s odds of winning the electoral college six percentage points higher than Kamala Harris.  The market platform has President Trump with leads in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada, while closing in rapidly on Wisconsin and Michigan, two crucial rustbelt states that helped catapult him to the presidency in 2016.

    These poll numbers and trends place the President in a formidable position heading into this evening’s debate.  At this juncture in time, President Trump is a world-class debater, having pummeled candidate after candidate now in three separate presidential contests.  His mastery of the art of debate was on full display in late June, when he literally knocked out Joe Biden – the first time ever an incumbent president was forced into a premature exit from his race on account of a historically disastrous debate performance….”

    https://paulingrassia.substack.com/p/trump-can-knock-out-kamala-tonight

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  30. Still looking for the KY highway shooting suspect, veteran Joseph Couch: warning people in London, KY to stay inside. The 5 people who were shot are going to be ok. Armed and dangerous and nowhere to be found; search area is a “jungle.” Found his car and rifle. He sent a text to a woman 30 minutes before the shooting, saying “I’m going to kill a lot of people. Well, try at least.” followed by another text saying he would kill himself afterward but he hasn’t been found yet.

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  36. Matt Gaetz

    @mattgaetz

    Here is the problem, Senator Lee: Our own leadership has pre-negotiated its surrender on the SAVE Act and they already know they’ll cave on it and accept a “Clean CR” from Schumer. Hard to get inspired to run into a fight when the surrender has already been choreographed.

    (Gaetz is responding to Lee)

    Mike Lee

    @BasedMikeLee

    Some of our best House Republicans don’t want to vote for the spending bill—even with the SAVE Act attached. They’re standing up against the longtime abuse of take-it-or-leave-it spending bills. I respect that, and certainly respect them. Nonetheless, this vote is a no-brainer. It isn’t even a close call. We must do all we can to deter noncitizen voting by passing the SAVE Act—before it’s too late. And the only way to do that is to pass it as part of the September spending bill. Please like and share if you agree, and tell your representatives to vote “yes” on Wednesday to #PassTheSAVEAct.

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    1. NEW LAWSUIT TO STOP ILLEGAL ALIEN VOTING

      We are suing ALL 15 counties in Arizona for refusing to remove illegals from their voter rolls. This follows our lawsuit against Maricopa.

      Every county in AZ is flagrantly defying its duty under state law to expunge illegal voters:

      /1🚨NEW LAWSUIT TO STOP ILLEGAL ALIEN VOTING

      We are suing ALL 15 counties in Arizona for refusing to remove illegals from their voter rolls. This follows our lawsuit against Maricopa.

      Every county in AZ is flagrantly defying its duty under state law to expunge illegal voters: pic.twitter.com/2B7warOhM3

      — America First Legal (@America1stLegal) September 4, 2024

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  39. para59r

    para59r(@para59r)

    Online

    Coyote

    Reply to  TheseTruths

    September 10, 2024 12:37

    According to Data from The US Social Security Administration Website, HAVV
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    1,632,111 people in Pennsylvania have attempted to register to vote WITHOUT ID just in 2024

    48,330 people in Pennsylvania have attempted to register to vote WITHOUT ID JUST THIS PAST WEEK

    It’s RIGGED pic.twitter.com/RmbF1EF88y

    — Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) September 9, 2024

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  41. “Exclusive: Unveiling Saudi Network Behind 9/11 – Former FBI Agent’s Revelations”

    CIAgate, Sep 10, 2024

    EXCERPT: “The 9/11 attack has been shrouded in secrecy by the U.S. government for 23 years, leading to much speculation and questions among the public . Despite numerous investigations and official reports, the full picture of those tragic events has never been fully revealed.

    Ahead of another anniversary of this tragedy, we decided to publish a confidential FBI report that can illuminate many aspects that have remained hidden until today. Our step is intended not only to satisfy public curiosity but also contribute to a deeper understanding of how and by whom the preparations for this terrorist attack were conducted.

    Penned by former FBI employee Bassem Youssef, who was directly involved in the 9/11 investigation, the report details Omar al-Bayoumi’s interactions with officials from Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, between 1998 and 2000. The document also offers an unprecedented look into the events leading up to that fateful day.

    While some of these details have been explored in the media, many of our readers will find value in examining these firsthand insights.

    Download full document: By Expert Report – 1.35MB ∙ PDF file – Download

    Here’s a condensed summary of the comprehensive 311-page report….”

    https://ciagate.substack.com/p/exclusive-unveiling-saudi-network

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  42. Just The News: “The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled a question on legalizing abortion can be on the November ballot, overturning a lower court decision. 

    The court heard arguments this morning, and Chief Justice Mary Russell issued a decision a little after 2 p.m, according to local news station ABC-17. The judges’ decision reverses the decision in Cole County Circuit court last week.

    The question is known as as Amendment 3, which relates to access to abortion, was certified by Missouri’s Secretary of State’s Office after thousands of petition signatures were certified. The initiative to get the measure on the Nov. 5 ballot received over 380,000 signatures, the news station also reports.

    Supporters and opponents of abortion have tried to get the related measure on November ballots in at least nine states this year year including Missouri.”

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    1. EXCERPT: “….The amendment would guarantee a right to an abortion until fetal viability.

      Columbia Mayor Barbara Buffaloe and the mayors of Kansas City and St. Louis wrote to the court asking that the judges allow Amendment 3 to be on the ballot. The mayors submitted a 12-page amicus brief on Monday requesting that the Missouri Supreme Court allow voters an opportunity to vote on Amendment 3. The amicus brief argues that the nearly 2 million Missourians those cities represent are being denied their constitutional rights to a free and fair election….”

      https://abc17news.com/politics/missouri-politics/2024/09/10/missouri-supreme-court-puts-abortion-question-back-on-november-ballot/

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  45. boy i hope they sue against this “policy” . you can’t purge voter rolls within 90 days of an election? then you shouldn’t be able to REGISTER either within 90 days of an election. ineligible MEANS ineligible. if you allow them to vote and have their vote counted you are watering down eligible voters’ voices!
    FTA
    In its guidance, the department reminds states that efforts to ensure accurate and current voting rolls must be accomplished in compliance with federal law and in a nondiscriminatory manner. Specifically, the department explains important limits imposed by federal law on the rules and procedures states may adopt regarding their voter registration lists. For example, list maintenance efforts must be uniform and nondiscriminatory, and a program to systematically remove ineligible voters must not be done within 90 days of a federal election. There also are specific rules about how to remove registered voters because they have moved. Importantly, these federal protections apply whether the process is initiated by the state or is responsive to third-party submissions.

    https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-issues-new-guidance-federal-law-regarding-voter-registration

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  48. undue hardship??????????? what a load of bullshit!

    GGGGGggggrrrrrrrrrrr

    September 10, 2024 4:06 pm

    EXCLUSIVE: Nancy Pelosi’s Relative Snags Sweetheart Conflict Of Interest Waiver From Feds

    Laurence Pelosi, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s nephew, had a stake in a joint real estate venture with Goldman Sachs called Restore Utah, which benefits from HUD’s Section 8 housing vouchers, while his wife, Alexis Pelosi, was employed at the agency, according to a copy of the waiver approval released by watchdog group Protect the Public’s Trust.

    While it would usually violate federal ethics rules for a beneficiary of HUD funds to have a spouse employed at the department, HUD found an exemption that allowed Laurence to retain his stake in the real estate project. Requiring him to divest, or his project to forgo HUD funds, would allegedly result in “undue hardship” for Alexis and her husband.

    Part of HUD’s reasoning was that Restore Utah was Laurence Pelosi’s “primary profession,” however, Alexis Pelosi’s financial disclosures indicate that he had four other income streams around the time the conflict of interest waiver was approved.

    Link:https://dailycaller.com/2024/09/10/nancy-pelosi-relative-snags-sweetheart-conflict-interest-waiver/

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  50. Good grief!!!

    “This is Why You Shouldn’t Store Guns in Ovens”

    Bearing Arms, By Tom Knighton | 2:29 PM | September 10, 2024

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    ENTIRE ARTICLE: I’ve written about the obligation of every gun owner to make sure their weapons are stored properly. I generally don’t get into specifics on what “properly” entails because I figure if you’re here, you probably already know that it means a gun lock at a minimum and a gun safe ideally.

    However, some people aren’t that smart.

    A park ranger at Yosemite once allegedly remarked that the reason it was so hard to create a bear-proof trash can was because there was a considerable overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.

    That apparently holds true for people with guns looking to store them. I mean, I didn’t think there’d be a need to tell people not to store their loaded guns in the oven, and yet here we are.

    Police in Virginia have issued a warning for people not to store guns, or anything else, inside their ovens after a frightening incident. 

    Chesterfield Police said last week, firefighters responded to a home after the owner’s oven exploded. 

    An investigation revealed that someone turned on the over with a handgun inside. The weapon heated up, and five rounds went off. 

    No one was injured, thankfully, but this one is…special.

    Normally, if you throw rounds in a fire, they’ll cook off, but because there’s no barrel to direct the energy, the bullet itself doesn’t do all that much. If you put a semi-automatic firearm in the oven, however, and turn it on, the round in the chamber cooking off will send a round down range just like someone pulling the trigger. Plus, since this was a semi-auto, it worked the action four more times.

    My guess is a round cooked off inside the magazine somewhere along the line so it basically ran out of ammo before firing off the full magazine.

    It was just good fortune that no one was injured in this example of outright human stupidity, and I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt by thinking the person who turned on the oven wasn’t the person who put a gun in there in the first place. I wouldn’t put money on that being the case, though.

    I mean, sure, the oven isn’t the first place I’d look for a gun. There are a lot of hiding places that I’d consider well before then, so on that front, I don’t suppose it’s the dumbest place to store a firearm–assuming that you remove it before firing up the oven or the oven doesn’t work and can’t be fired up–but it’s far from the smartest place to hide one.

    Had someone been injured, someone would be facing charges. Of course, we don’t know that charges weren’t filed as it is, but “gross stupidity” isn’t a criminal offense. If it were, there are a lot of politicians that would be behind bars. But depending on how law enforcement officers looked at it, this could be discharging a firearm in the city limits, which many communities have laws against. So charges might have been filed.

    Regardless, and I don’t believe I’m about to say this, don’t store guns inside of your appliances, especially those that create a great deal of heat.

    There’s not enough bourbon in the world after this one.”

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