The looks of malachite butterflies, Siproeta stelenes, are absolutely unique, at least in the wilds of South Florida. Nothing really comes close to matching it, making it one of the easiest butterflies to identify. You see it; you know it.
Malachites are dark brown to black with large green patches, the inspiration for its name. The combination is striking; some argue malachites are the most beautiful butterflies fluttering about our region.
Malachites are large butterflies, measuring roughly between three and four inches across. The forewings as noted have large green patches on a brown/black background; the rear wings have a series of green spots. The undersides are orange-brown with green patches. Males and females are similar in size and in looks, but there can be some variation by season.
A quick note before we precede: malachite is borrowed from a copper-based green mineral of the same name. The stone is beautiful enough to be used in jewelry and carved into works of art.
Malachite butterflies are considered uncommon in South Florida. We’ve only seen them a few times, all in central Broward County. The population here is believed to have come over from Cuba in the 1960s, and is slowly moving north toward Central Florida. They’re mostly found from Martin and Collier counties south and in the Tampa Bay region.
They do stray farther northwards, but rarely. According to the Alabama Butterfly Atlas, there has only been a single confirmed sighting of a malachite in the state and that was in 2006.
Malachites are also found in south Texas and in Arizona and New Mexico along the border with Mexico. Malachites’ natural range includes the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America and South America into Brazil.
Favorite foods include rotten fruit, bird and bat droppings (yum!) as well as nectar from several flowers. Host plants include Browne’s blechum and maravilla, both of which are members of the same genus, Ruellia, neither of which are native to Florida. Maravilla isn’t found in the wild here, but Browne’s blechum is a wide spread weed here. Mangos, avocados and citrus are among malachite favorite fruits.
Malachites produce three generations a year and are in flight, or active, year-round in South Florida.
Females lay their eggs singly on the leaves of the hosts. Malachite larvae are black with multi-branched orange and black spines and two prominent horns on the head.
Preferred habitat for malachites include the edges of forests and clearings. They’ve also been found in orchards.
Malachites are members of Nymphalidae, the brush-foot butterfly family.
SOURCE: WILDSOUTHFLORIDA.COM
Sew Colorful 
Morning All
too dark outside to tell what the weather/skies are like or the temp.
i sent prayers up for katharine and GA and all who might be in the path of storms coming.
hope everyone is safe!
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Morning, Pat! Same here – still too dark to see the sky, temp at 50. Hoping for the best for our southern friends. I’ll be heading to Norfolk later for my monthly shopping. I haven’t lost connection even once since I had them re-position my antenna – problem solved…..for the time being anyway. It will be less of a problem as fall settles in and the trees lose their leaves.
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Morning Filly!
YAY! (about your connection)
it’s been raining here and about 50* too. it’s been gray for the last 3 days…I am ready for some sunshine!
we’re doing our banana run later this afternoon.
stay safe!
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That first one nails it! People in general have gotten far too complacent and don’t want to be bothered with digging for truth.
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Good morning, Pat and Filly! We haven’t seen a Malachite or any green butterfly here in N FL… yet. Maybe the coming storm winds will sweep them up this way.
The storm will pass over Tallahassee on Thursday night with tropical storm force winds, which usually mean trees, limbs and power poles down. However, a rare strong Spring storm brought down enough trees, limbs, etc. to topple 500 power poles, so it may not be so bad this time. If there aren’t any strong storms in the city to ‘prune the trees’ for a couple of years, the next storm causes a lot of damage and outages. One storm recently caused 3000 truck loads of limbs and trash to haul away!
Email note from the city saying help is already on the way: “Mutual aid crews from five states are en route and will arrive late tomorrow. Crews are coming from Missouri, Louisiana, Ohio, North Carolina and Oklahoma to assist with response and recovery efforts. Additional crews will be brought in from around the southeast once the hurricane’s path has developed.”
I’ll be going to the Village today, and need to get up, dressed, packing, loading, fill up the car with gas if I can find any. I’ve still got 3/4 tank, so can get to the Village and back again anyway, but I usually fill up the car anyway. I used up the eggs last night making Apple raisin bread pudding that I can wrap and freeze in squares. I filled gallon jugs with water to freeze and keep the freezer cold for a couple of days and maybe save the food. I’ll drive back Sunday evening, if the roads are clear.
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Morning GA!
you seem to have a good plan in place. please, please be careful and stay safe!!
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Your gift for organization is incredible! You think of everything! Amazing! Hopefully, you will dodge the worst of it. Be careful, lady!
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Thank You, Filly – You are a blessing – dear friend!
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US-owned manufacturers, thank you!! We have FAR too many foreigners of one stripe or another here already! AND NO HIRING FOREIGNERS EITHER!
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agreed. they might hire American workers to do the drone stuff, but foreign supervisors and bosses.
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And the profits go back to the foreign entity!
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exactly!
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September 25, 2024 01:14
Idaho man charged with threatening to kill Trump: ‘I am going to down him personally and kill him’
His last name is Crazybull. 🤪 You can’t make this stuff up. But he has aliases, so maybe this is one of them.
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I figured he was from some Indian tribe with that name….
EXCERPT: “Federal authorities arrested a Sandpoint man accused of threatening to kill former President Donald Trump because he blames Trump for the loss of his tribal land, federal court documents say.
A grand jury charged Warren Jones Crazybull on Aug. 20 with threats against a former president, a maximum term of five years in prison. Crazybull, who goes by a number of aliases, told police he is a member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, and blames Trump and John F. Kennedy for broken treaties that resulted in the loss of the tribe’s land, records say. The Rosebud Sioux Tribe filed a lawsuit against Trump in 2019 claiming his go-ahead of the Keystone XL pipeline, which spilled thousands of gallons of oil in 2022, violated their treaty and the U.S. Constitution because it crossed through Native land with no consultation or analysis from the tribe.
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Crazybull made a number of “concerning” statements on his page, including that he would “take (Trump) down single combat,” documents say. He also called on people to arrest and kill John F. Kennedy Jr., who died in a plane crash in 1999. The rest of the posts appear sporadic, with a number of words and hashtags jumbled together – “singularity Flingularity AND MY DNA…,” he wrote. “7Q My new home. Rushmore hotel TURTLE ISLAND REPUBLIC MY PROPHECY ROCKS.”
“Turtle Island” is a term for North America used by some Indigenous rights activists….”
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/sep/24/sandpoint-man-arrested-for-threatening-to-kill-don/
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tried several ways to post that tweet…wp doesn’t like okeefe
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September 25, 2024 01:20
James O’Keefe Announces New Film on Migrant Industrial Complex Dubbed “Line in the Sand” – Premieres October 10th Exclusively on The Tucker Carlson Network (VIDEO)
The trailer:
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Personally, I don’t believe it is targeted – some of THE most innocuous Tweets aren’t accepted either.
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i posted a bunch below no problem…came to one about Maui…didn’t work. one about the steal in AZ…didn’t work.
who knows anymore…and i guess that’s the point.
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Michael Jackson was used and abused by his own family!
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nwtex
September 25, 2024 5:13 am
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heidi
September 25, 2024 5:39 am
Exclusive: Feds and State AG Investigate an Alleged Human Trafficking Empire Run in Springfield, Ohio, for Years by ‘King George’
Excerpt:
Dispatches from Springfield, Ohio – The story in this town is not about cats or dogs. It’s about mules. It’s a twin tragedy of migrant workers from Haiti exploited and locals from Springfield marginalized. Just about every week since 2019, First Diversity Staffing Group Inc. has shuttled vulnerable Haitian migrants in unmarked white Ford and Chevy vans from Florida to Ohio, where they are allegedly exploited for cheap labor by companies like Dole Food Company Inc. It is a secretive and sinister operation that has gone unchecked for more than five years. The mastermind behind this scheme lives in a $1.35 million mansion on Pawleys Plantation Court. His name is George Ten, but in that underworld, his nickname is “King George,” because of his opulent lifestyle of luxury cars, cash handouts and fast-talk. For years, he has operated his reign of alleged exploitation openly and freely out of a former mansion on E. High Street.
read in full: https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/375011/feds-and-state-ag-investigate-an-alleged-human-trafficking-empire-run-in-springfield-ohio/
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Bet the Soros clan is involved!
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nwtex
September 25, 2024 6:03 am
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Right now, they are predicting hurricane force winds for my N FL area and lots of Gulf water dumped on our KY friends. May the Lord protect us all!
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EXCERPT: “Sean “Diddy” Combs predicted “They’re probably going to be arresting me” in a resurfaced interview published in 1999, wherein the disgraced music mogul talked about his parties — some of which have recently become known to the public as “Freak Offs.”
“Your parties are the hottest ticket around,” an Entertainment Tonight reporter told Combs, to which the music mogul replied, “They won’t even give me a permit for the parties, man, they don’t want me to throw the parties no more.”
“But we ain’t gonna stop,” Combs continued. “You gonna hear about my parties, they gonna be shutting them down, they gonna probably be arresting me, doing all types of crazy things, just because we wanna have a good time.”
Combs went on to say, “Whenever you bring up a different element into people’s environment, things that broaden people’s horizons, people get intimidated. There’s a lot of people out there that feel intimidated by it.”
“And it ain’t nothing but breaking down racial barriers, breaking down generation barriers, people from all walks of life,” he added. “Ron Perlman talking to Jay-Z, Jay-Z talking to — you know what I’m saying? It just goes on and on.”
“It’s just, like, people from all walks of life connecting and getting together,” Combs said….”
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/09/24/sean-diddy-combs-predicts-his-own-demise-over-his-parties-in-resurfaced-interview-theyre-probably-gonna-be-arresting-me/
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“The FCC just fast-tracked George Soros’ purchase of 220+ radio stations before November’s election. The stations reach 165M Americans. This has never been done before.”
Let’s see if this will post…..
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Let’s try this again…
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This one includes video of Crazybull….yep, he’s a crazy Indian alright! IF it opens…..
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It opened @ M’s….after 10 attempts to embed….
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He wants Trump and JFK Jr. (he thinks he’s still alive) in body bags.
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has he confused rfkjr with jfkjr?
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No, he’s clear on that score – he has fallen for the theory that has been going around for a long time now that he isn’t really dead….something we all hoped was true at one point.
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EXCERPT: “Americans wary of Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo for his iconoclastic approach to COVID-19 may be surprised to learn that his skepticism of one-size-fits-all recommendations is catching on in the scientific community and is backed by data from a nonprofit health institution second in name recognition to only perhaps the Mayo Clinic.
The science publishing establishment doesn’t want to give the data credence, however, with the corresponding author of the research telling Just the News on Monday the Cleveland Clinic team’s paper was rejected by peer-reviewed journals and its findings are now outdated.
The Florida Department of Health’s updated guidance Sept. 12 for COVID boosters, and Lapado’s Sept. 14 broadside against federal public health agencies for “gaslighting Americans” into thinking they need the “unproven” boosters, stands in stark contrast to federal guidance.
The public debate on more than four years of COVID response measures is not going away, with former National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins promoting his new book on “truth, science, faith and trust” with an excerpt in The Atlantic that repeats the verified falsehood that then-President Trump recommended taking bleach as a COVID treatment.
It’s the second time in less than a month that the magazine, which dates to the Civil War, has promoted the bleach myth, a staple of high-ranking Democrats including House Oversight Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin and White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients.
Scientific American also spread the bleach myth in an editorial endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president. The first political endorsement in its 179-year history was then-Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in 2020.
The Food and Drug Administration last month fully approved new mRNA COVID vaccines for ages 12 and up and authorized them on an emergency basis for ages six months through 11 years, quickly followed by EUA for the non-mRNA Novavax vaccine.
It said the formulation “corresponds to the Omicron variant KP.2 strain” – which was already fading fast – a late unilateral change made by Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Director Peter Marks against the recommendation of the FDA’s outside advisers.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention promotes the new boosters for all ages, claiming that even people with every prior jab “are more likely to get very sick” from COVID without the latest, prompting doctors to ask for the specific data behind those claims.
Ladapo’s department urged Floridians not to take mRNA vaccines, the most common, and for providers concerned about infection for patients 65 and up and those with “underlying health conditions” to “prioritize patient access to non-mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and treatment.”
It cited the “high rate of global immunity and currently available data” showing a higher risk of myocarditis “and other cardiovascular conditions among otherwise healthy individuals” and possible increased risk for a heart-racing condition and autoimmune diseases.
The guidance cited “studies across geographic regions” that found a higher risk of infection four to six months after the jab, persistent “[e]levated levels” of mRNA and spike protein in some inoculated people and “[p]otential DNA integration” with human sperm and egg gametes.
University of California San Francisco epidemiologist Vinay Prasad, a vocal critic of the evidence base for federal claims, agreed with Ladapo’s “gaslighting” language and praised him as “the only surgeon general to my knowledge recommending spending time outdoors, a healthy diet and activity rather than unproven Pfizer boosters.”
The health sciences campus in the UC system has unexpectedly emerged as a pebble in the feds’ shoe on COVID policy, with Prasad’s UCSF colleague Eric Widera – a fan of COVID vaccines until the latest one – asking followers on X if any countries other than the U.S. recommend boosters for children…..”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/gaslighting-americans-doctors-back-florida-surgeon-general-spat-feds
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Just The News: “Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro said Congress should pass a resolution to repudiate the findings of the 2020 Jan. 6 Committee investigation.
“I hope they do something,” Navarro said on the “Just the News, No Noise” TV show. “That’s exactly what they should do. It would have helped Steve Bannon, myself and Donald Trump if they had done it a year and a half ago when they should [have].”
Navarro was sentenced to prison earlier this year for failing to comply with a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol in 2021. He was convicted of two counts of contempt of Congress last year.
Navarro referred to the Jan. 6 Committee in 2022 as a “witch hunt.”
“It was formed for only one purpose, and that was not to investigate the insurrection,” Navarro said. “It was simply to build a criminal case against Donald Trump to stop him from running for president and barring him from being elected.”
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Well, if I were rich, I would take Wheezer to the vet….if I could get hold of him, which I doubt – not by myself anyway. I think he may have Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV) – he is showing some of the symptoms: Weight loss, fever, lethargy, decreased appetite, swollen lymph nodes, pale gums. He’s certainly not gained any weight in the 2+ years I’ve been feeding him, is lethargic w/decreased appetite and has pale gums & tongue. It would probably cost $300-400+ just to get him treated and vaccinated, and that wouldn’t include neutering. On top of that, unless I can put any medicine in his food, I couldn’t apply the treatment anyway. So it’s a lost cause from the gitgo. I’ll miss him when he goes – I don’t expect him to make it thru the winter.
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oh Filly…that’s so sad!
how does a cat acquire that? poor diet??? bitten by something??
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Other cats – it’s rampant within feral cat populations and is spread easily via nasal excretions and saliva or a deep scratch that draws blood/breaks the skin. It’s highly infectious.
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you can’t get it , can you?????
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that’s a relief!
you have a large, compassionate heart and i would hate to see you get hurt because of it!
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Well, my hand is still healing….most of the pain is gone except for a twinge now and then, but there is a small lump there still. And then there’s that time Jake tripped me and I fell into the china closet…broke a picture but not the doors, thankfully! ROFL. – but I get your point: there’s pain and then there’s heart pain – 2 different things. I don’t get that invested in strays – I’ve learned thru the years after all the strays I’ve taken in!!!
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Safety first….
Helmets save lives….
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Hear, hear! Nope, not one!
Ah, yes! The good ole shag carpeting – I knew a guy in VA who had a van with the interior covered in it! I have a picture of him in it somewhere….
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SPIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
haitians eat the furries…LMAO
i know some ts songs, i think. all you are is mean, and marry me juliet or something or other
those 2 played on country music stations
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Never listened to even one! The only place I listen to the radio is in my truck and always classic rock. I simply can’t stomach the “new country” except a few of the really patriotic singers.
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“Justice Department Assures Americans Diddy Is Securely Locked Away In Epstein’s Old Cell”
Celebs · Sep 24, 2024 · BabylonBee.com
NEW YORK — A representative from the U.S. Department of Justice assured the American public that music mogul-turned-sex trafficking suspect Sean “Diddy” Combs had been securely locked away in Jeffrey Epstein’s old prison cell.
“There’s nothing to worry about,” said Attorney General Merrick Garland. “We’ve placed Mr. Combs in a very… special cell.”
Diddy was reportedly transferred from his cell in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center to the same cell Jeffrey Epstein occupied at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City earlier this week so that prison officials could keep a closer eye on him.
“It’s a far more secure cell,” said Steve Waylon, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. “No one’s coming out of there alive.”
Epstein has been the subject of conspiracy theories ever since he famously killed himself in 2019 just as two cameras positioned outside his cell malfunctioned. Prison officials stated confidently that they’ve learned from their mistakes.
“We removed the malfunctioning cameras,” Warden Jessie Jeeves explained. “And we got rid of the prison guards, too. That way no one can accuse us of killing him.”
When asked to clarify what updated CCTV cameras may have replaced the existing system, the warden simply said, “Yes.”
At publishing time, Diddy had reportedly been taken off of suicide watch so he could have some alone time.
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“10 Most Devastating Effects of Getting Rid of the Department of Education”
Education · Sep 24, 2024 · BabylonBee.com
“When Donald Trump recently promised that, if elected, he would abolish the Department of Education, Democrats pounced on the statement, foretelling an apocalyptic hellscape of the uneducated should the federal government no longer oversee education in the United States.
Through extensive investigation, The Babylon Bee has compiled the following list of far-reaching and terrifying consequences of abolishing the Department of Education:
Don’t fall for Donald Trump’s evil plan to improve the quality of education for America’s school children.”
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i watched my granddaughter try to do that math crap years ago.
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Thankfully, HB was in school before that insanity surfaced!
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“Florida residents have been urged to complete their preparations for Hurricane Helene by Wednesday night as the major storm is expected to make landfall Thursday.
Those in the Florida Panhandle, the Big Bend region, and the central and eastern Gulf coast have been advised to stock up on groceries, gas, batteries, and more. The storm – forecast to become a Category 3 hurricane when it makes landfall, possibly in the Big Bend area – is expected to be the strongest of the season with potential flooding, destructive winds and a life-threatening storm surge, according to AccuWeather.”
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https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-russia-collusion-lawsuit-2016-presidential-election-florida-1957743
Our Take: From Hunter Biden to P. Diddy to NYC Mayor Eric Adams, RICO is coming into crystal clear focus lately. That’s in addition to Fulton County Attorney General Fani Willis’ failing RICO case in Georgia against Trump and others.
Maybe this story is why there’s a heightened focus. The Racketeered and Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act was signed into law in 1970 by President Richard Nixon, and it is the primary vehicle through which organized crime is prosecuted in our great nation.
It stands to reason that, if the government were engaging in organized crime, that RICO would be the legal mechanism to seek accountability.
In 2016, Hillary Clinton was the Democrat nominee for the Presidency. More importantly, she was the sitting United States Secretary of State, with all the power and resources that office bestows.
Now consider that the appeals court could have declined to hear this case outright. But a federal appeals judge allowed Trump to file a brief and gave him until Friday. That’s notable.
It will be much easier for ambivalent, and even anti-Trump normies to process political organized crime charges when they’re learning the RICO ropes from Diddy and other pop culture figures.
It’s almost as if that symmetry and audience training is by design. — Ashe in America
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Sydney
September 25, 2024 9:56 am
And just like that, the DOJ’s new indictment of Routh under 18 USC Section 351 takes away Florida’s investigative powers even before they started:
“(f) If Federal investigative or prosecutive jurisdiction is asserted for a violation of this section, such assertion shall suspend the exercise of jurisdiction by a State or local authority, under any applicable State or local law, until Federal action is terminated.”
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I knew that would happen.
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pgroup ( retired lawyer?) at wolfs always gives his opinions on stuff like this and claims its unconstitutional and FLA has options maybe?
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Whether it’s unconstitutional or not matters naught to them – 90% of what Congress DOES is unconstitutional!!! Yes, 10th Amendment/States’ Rights should cover this but, as I always say, we no longer function under Constitutional law. IMO, that is not only unconstitutional but flat-out treason by those who approved the Act that changed it to Corporate law.
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All caught up so I suppose I should go ahead and make my shopping run. BBL…..
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drive safely!!
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Martin
September 25, 2024 11:15 am
SEPTEMBER 25 2024
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo went on MSNBC Wednesday,
talking about Trump and said:
“Let’s extinguish him for good.” “Lets just get it done.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/biden-commerce-secretary-calls-msnbc-audience-deal-trump/
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Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
NEW: In a multi day operation on Nantucket Island, ICE’s Boston office announces they arrested four illegal aliens who are charged with raping or sexually assaulting Nantucket children or residents – all of whom were released from local custody despite the serious charges.
They include:
Elmer Sola, a Salvadoran illegal alien who entered the U.S. as a gotaway and was charged last month with three counts of aggravated child rape. The victim was a Nantucket child.
Bryan Daniel Aldana-Arevalo, another Salvadoran illegal alien who entered the U.S. as a gotaway and was charged in July with raping a Nantucket child.
Gean Do Amaral Belafronte, a Brazilian illegal alien who entered the U.S. as a gotaway and was charged in June with sexually assaulting a Nantucket resident.
Felix Alberto Perez-Gomez, a previously deported Guatemalan illegal alien who re-entered the U.S. as a gotaway and was charged last month with sexually assaulting a Nantucket resident.
All four of these alleged sex offenders were gotaways, ICE says. They were all arrested by ICE on Nantucket – in sanctuary state Massachusetts.
According to internal CBP data, there have been over 1.9 million known gotaways who successfully evaded apprehension & snuck into the U.S. during the Biden administration, tracked via cameras, sensors, footsign, etc.
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h/t Marica
Jack
@jackunheard
🚨 BREAKING: The Coca Cola boycott is officially happening.
Their new custom website allows the use of “Harris 2024” but prohibits “Trump 2024” due to it being deemed “political in nature” or “offensive.”
This is election interference.
People have also reported that you can use the name “Allah”, but not “Jesus” because they restrict “religious figures” to not offend anyone.
Last time I checked, “Allah” is a religious figure.
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this is in response to the postal workers union penning a letter calling Trump an “existential threat”
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Well, that was a long trip. I’ve been really good about spending $$$ so I decided to splurge on a couple of things, and I had to do some searching to find what I wanted. It’s a gorgeous day – up to 82 by the time I was headed home. Now my patio temp says 87 on the direct-sun side. Slight breeze now and then and pretty, fluffy white clouds. I can’t argue with that!
As everyone knows, I drink coffee all day long and when I get busy on the computer, it cools off, so I have to keep reheating it over and over again in the M/W. I remembered that years ago, I had an electric cup warmer that would keep my mug of coffee or tea hot so I decided to see if I could find one. They didn’t have the older model that was simple/basic, of course, but it was supplanted by a new fangled kind, with a lightweight mug with a built-in heater. It sits on a coaster-size plate that charges it. We’ll see if it works.
I also decided to switch Jake’s food to try to cut down on the odor, so that took me some time to find what I needed. I’ll mix it in with the old food so he can acclimate to it over time – otherwise, he could get diarrhea. And I wanted to look at the price of a secretary’s hydraulic chair that would raise & lower and be more comfortable than this hard bar-type chair. They had a gamers’ chair that looked interesting but it was almost $100 and I wasn’t willing to go that far.
I did save a good bit on gas – the little store where I get my cigs is also a gas station; the average price in Norfolk is $2.99/gal but I got it for $2.87/gal for paying with cash. I also took extra time there to check out what they had in the vape department. I didn’t find what I wanted, tho.
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sounds like you had a good trip! we’re about to leave for our banana run. still rainy and dreary and the temp never went above 50*!
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Be careful on the wet roads! I’d send you some of our weather but I’m greedy!!! And that tide will turn soon enough.
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Posted some good stuff @ M’s, Pat….
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I’ll check it out!
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good ones!
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NF: The Government employees’ union was a PITA even back in 1977-79, when I was working @ the Pentagon!!!
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Jackasses!!! Keep kicking that can down the road and see where it gets us!!!
Just The News: “The House on Wednesday passed a stopgap to fund the government for three months in a 341-82 vote, averting a government shutdown. The stopgap is now expected to be passed by the Senate this evening before heading to President Joe Biden’s desk. The legislation includes $231 million to fund the U.S. Secret Service, according to The Hill.
The 82 members who voted against the stopgap were part of the GOP.
Prior to the vote, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said that once the continuing resolution passed, the Senate would move fast to vote on it. “As both parties work to avoid a shutdown, we encourage House Republican leadership to get this bill to the floor and pass it quickly. Time is of the essence,” Schumer said Tuesday, according to NBC News.
“Once the House acts, the Senate will move quickly to get the CR done,” he continued. “I encourage my colleagues on both sides to prioritize speedy passage of the CR. If we work together, stay away from poison pills and partisanship, we can avoid a government shutdown.”
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NF: It’s a beginning!
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Breaking: Fluoride in Water Poses ‘Unreasonable Risk’ to Children, Federal Judge Rules
A federal judge rejected the EPA’s argument that the exact level at which fluoride is hazardous is too unclear to determine if the chemical presents an unreasonable risk, and ruled the agency must take regulatory action.
by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D., September 25, 2024
EXCERPT: “In a decision that could end the practice of water fluoridation in the U.S., a federal judge late Tuesday ruled that water fluoridation at current U.S. levels poses an “unreasonable risk” of reduced IQ in children. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can no longer ignore that risk, and must take regulatory action, Judge Edward Chen of the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California wrote in the long-awaited landmark decision.
More than 200 million Americans drink water treated with fluoride at the “optimal” level of 0.7 milligrams per liter (mg/L). However, Chen ruled that a preponderance of scientific evidence shows this level of fluoride exposure may damage human health, particularly that of pregnant mothers and young children.
The verdict delivers a major blow to the EPA, public health agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and professional lobbying groups like the American Dental Association (ADA), which have staked their reputations on the claim that water fluoridation is one of the greatest public health achievements of the 20th century and an unqualified public good.
Fluoride proponents refused to reexamine that stance despite mounting scientific evidence from top researchers and government agencies of fluoride’s neurotoxic risks, particularly for infants’ developing brains. Instead, they attempted to weaken and suppress the research and discredit the scientists carrying it out.
Rick North, board member of Fluoride Action Network, one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, told The Defender, “What’s false is the CDC claiming that fluoridation is one of the 10 greatest health achievements of the 20th century. What’s true is that ending fluoridation will be one of the 10 greatest health achievements of the 21st century.”
“The judge did what EPA has long refused to do, and that is to apply the EPA standard risk assessment framework to fluoride,” said Michael Connett, attorney for the plaintiffs. “In so doing, the court has shown that the widespread exposure to fluoride that we now have in the United States is unreasonably and precariously close to the levels that we know cause harm.”
The EPA can appeal Tuesday’s decision. The agency told The Defender it is reviewing the decision and has no comment at this time. The U.S. Department of Justice, which represents the EPA in the lawsuit, also said it has no comment….”
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fluoridation-risk-kids-landmark-decision/
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Court Tosses Lawsuit Filed by Family of College Student Who Died After Getting Mandated COVID Vaccine
A federal court on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense filed by the family of a 24-year-old college student who died from complications of COVID-19 vaccine-induced myocarditis. Children’s Health Defense attorneys said the ruling ignored “substantial evidence” of willful misconduct.
by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.. September 25, 2024
EXCERPT: “A federal court on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) filed by the family of a 24-year-old college student who died from complications of COVID-19 vaccine-induced myocarditis. The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed the lawsuit, ruling that the federal government enjoys sovereign immunity, which protects it from lawsuits.
Children’s Health Defense (CHD) funded the suit, which was filed in May 2023 by the estate of George Watts Jr. Watts’ family filed the lawsuit against the DOD and Lloyd Austin III in his official capacity as defense secretary. The DOD oversaw the development and distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines under Operation Warp Speed.
The lawsuit alleged the DOD engaged in “willful misconduct” by continuing to distribute only the stockpiled version of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine that had received emergency use authorization (EUA) even after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted full approval to another Pfizer vaccine, Comirnaty.
According to the lawsuit, the DOD “capitalized on a quintessential ‘bait and switch’ fraud,” using the fact that Comirnaty was FDA-approved to bolster its claims that the Pfizer-BioNTech EUA vaccine was “safe and effective,” misleading the American public in the process.
In November 2021, a federal judge rejected a DOD claim that the Pfizer-BioNTech EUA vaccine and the fully approved Comirnaty vaccine were “interchangeable.”
COVID-19 vaccines are classified as a “covered countermeasure” under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act). The act provides immunity to vaccine manufacturers and those who administer the vaccines against injury claims during a public health emergency.
The only exception to the PREP Act’s immunity shield is if a countermeasure-related injury is caused by “willful misconduct” by a person or entity otherwise protected under the act.
But Tuesday’s ruling sidestepped the PREP Act’s provisions altogether. According to the ruling, the PREP Act does not revoke the sovereign immunity of the government or federal agencies, but “explicitly preserves it.”
“The government asserts its general immunity from suit, which, independently of the PREP Act, ‘bar[s] suits for money damages against officials in their official capacity absent a specific waiver by the government,’” the ruling states….”
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/george-watts-jr-covid-vaccine-death-lawsuit-dod-dismissed/
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Good night, Pat! Hope you had a safe, enjoyable banana run!
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Good Night Filly!
have a great story to share in the morning
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