Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall

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Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first African-American on October 2, 1967 and I wanted to look at his life, and I found this article at Mental Floss.

From Mental Floss:

Before he became the first African-American justice on the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall was already a powerful civil rights pioneer: He argued 32 cases in front of the Supreme Court in his work as a lawyer for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the ’40s and ’50s. He won 29 of those cases, including landmark decisions about school segregation and voting rights. And although his name is synonymous with the civil rights battles of the 1950s, Marshall was also at the forefront of debates about police brutality, women’s rights, and the death penalty.

Over 50 years after his historic appointment to the nation’s highest court, Marshall is remembered both for his trailblazing work and for his big personality. (Justice Marshall was a devoted fan of Days of Our Lives and as solicitor general was known to “drink bourbon and tell stories full of lies” with President Lyndon Johnson.) Here are a few things to know about this civil rights hero and legal pioneer, who was born on this day 110 years ago.

1 HE WASN’T ALWAYS THURGOOD.

Thoroughgood Marshall was born in Maryland in 1908. Young Thoroughgood would eventually change his name to Thurgood. He once admitted, “By the time I reached the second grade, I got tired of spelling all that out and had shortened it to Thurgood.”

2 HE LEARNED ABOUT LAW FROM HIS FATHER.

As a child in Baltimore, Marshall developed an interest in the law when his father William, a country club steward, took him to observe legal arguments at local courts. Thurgood and his father then had lengthy discussions around the dinner table during which Thurgood’s father fought every statement his son made. Justice Marshall said of his father in 1965, “He never told me to be a lawyer, but he turned me into one.”

3 AS A YOUNG LAWYER, MARSHALL FOUGHT FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN TEACHERS TO BE PAID FAIRLY.

During his time at Lincoln University (where he graduated with honors in 1930), Marshall’s family struggled to afford the tuition. His mother, Norma, who worked as a teacher, pleaded each term with the university’s registrar to accept late payments, whenever she could scrape together enough money to pay the cost of attendance.

Marshall tackled equal pay for African-American teachers after he graduated from Howard University’s law school in 1933. Six years later, Marshall won a big victory for teachers like his mother, when a federal court struck down pay discrimination against African-American teachers in Maryland. Marshall went on to fight for teacher pay equality in 10 states across the South. And many of his most well-known legal battles were fought against discrimination in public education, like Brown v. Board of Education (1954).

4 HE WORKED A NIGHT JOB AT A BALTIMORE HEALTH CLINIC DURING SOME OF THE BIGGEST LEGAL BATTLES OF HIS EARLY CAREER.

Marshall fought to make ends meet as a young lawyer. In 1934, he took a second job at a clinic that treated sexually transmitted diseases. Marshall worked at the clinic even as he prepared for the landmark case to integrate the University of Maryland. When he moved to New York in 1936, Marshall did not officially quit his night job—he merely requested a 6-month leave of absence from the clinic, according to biographer Larry S. Gibson. But Marshall never returned to his night job. By 1940, he had become the Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

5 MARSHALL RISKED HIS LIFE WHILE FIGHTING CIVIL RIGHTS BATTLES.

While working for the NAACP in 1946, Marshall traveled to Columbia, Tennessee to defend a group of African-American men. Marshall and his colleagues feared for their safety after the trial and tried to leave town fast. But, according to biographer Wil Haygood, they were ambushed by locals on the road to Nashville. Marshall was arrested on false charges, placed in a sheriff’s car, and driven quickly off the main road. His colleagues—who were told to keep driving to Nashville—followed the car, which then returned to the main road. Marshall said that he would have been lynched if not for the arrival of his colleagues.

6 HE WAS BOTH AN INFORMANT AND A SUBJECT OF AN FBI INVESTIGATION DURING THE RED SCARE.

In the 1950s, Marshall tipped off the FBI about communist attempts to infiltrate the NAACP. But he was also the subject of FBI investigation, under the direction of J. Edgar Hoover. According to FBI files, critics tried to connect Marshall to communism through his membership in the National Lawyers Guild, a group that was called “the legal bulwark of the Communist Party” by the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee. Later, after he was nominated to the Supreme Court, Marshall’s opponents tried again to tie him to communism, but the FBI couldn’t find any communist ties.

7 AFTER A ROCKY START, PRESIDENT KENNEDY APPOINTED MARSHALL TO HIS FIRST JUDICIAL ROLE.

President John F. Kennedy sent his brother Bobby to meet with Marshall about civil rights in 1961. But Marshall did not hit it off with the Kennedys and felt his experience on the topic was being discounted. According to Marshall, Bobby “spent all his time telling us what we should do.” Still, a few months later, Kennedy nominated Marshall to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals. It took a year for the Senate to confirm his nomination, over the objection of several southern Senators.

8 PRESIDENT LYNDON JOHNSON NOMINATED MARSHALL TO THE SUPREME COURT IN 1967, AFTER HE CREATIVELY ENGINEERED AN OPENING ON THE COURT.

In 1967, President Johnson wanted to put Marshall on the Supreme Court—but there wasn’t a vacancy, so Johnson decided to do a little political maneuvering. According to the most common version of what happened, Johnson appointed Justice Tom Clark’s son, Ramsey, as the Attorney General, which made the elder Clark—who feared a conflict of interest—retire on June 12, 1967. Johnson officially nominated Marshall as his replacement the next day.

9 MARSHALL HAD TO UNDERGO AN INTENSE SENATE CONFIRMATION HEARING BEFORE TAKING HIS SEAT ON THE SUPREME COURT.

Marshall was sworn in to the Supreme Court on October 2, 1967. But before he took the oath of office, he had to survive a grueling wait, as several senators from southern states worked to derail his nomination. For four days in July 1967, those senators questioned Marshall about his legal philosophy and imposed a quiz about political history, reminiscent of a Jim Crow-era literacy test. Marshall was subjected to more hours of questioning than any Supreme Court nominee before him. Finally, on August 30, the Senate voted to send him to the Supreme Court.

10. HIS LEGACY IS STILL DEBATED.

Marshall had a perfect record of supporting affirmative action and opposing capital punishment during his tenure on the Supreme Court. But he grew frustrated with the Court in the 1980s and announced his retirement in 1991. Then, in 2010, President Barack Obama nominated one of Marshall’s former clerks to the Supreme Court. During Elena Kagan’s confirmation hearing, senators questioned her connection to Marshall and criticized his record. But Kagan speaks fondly about Marshall: “This was a man who created opportunities for so many people in this country and improved their lives. I would call him a hero. I would call him the greatest lawyer of the twentieth century.”

SOURCE: Mental Floss: Amy Moreland

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  1. Good morning, Miss Pat.

    Thank you for an insight into Thurgood Marshall. What a wonderful father and mother he had to help him become a good thinker, develop his legal mind, nourish a sense of justice.

    I’ve been home resting from Sally care for a few days, though still ironing out problems over there with her.

    Got the yard done and put up the bird bath, but not the swing and rocker – since there are more possible tropical storms and hurricanes that may come our way.

    How did Helene treat you all – did it affect your area?

    G

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    1. Morning GA! I hope you get to relax some and recharge!!
      We’ve had cloud cover and intermittent drizzle for a week. I was really hoping for some sunshine but that fizzled out quickly.
      our pond is back to the low level we had before Debbie refilled it so we could use a good rain.
      this not-raining–but not sunny gray skies is depressing.
      your house is okay??

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      1. I haven’t seen any sign of damage to my house. There was only a small branch in my yard about a finger wide and it was kinda rotten anyway.

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        1. I have seen him on YouTube and still want to read his book. Interesting and hard life, with a supportive grandmother. In praise of the woman’s necessary balancing ability in human relationships.

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    2. Morning, Pat! Another clear sunny day here, temp @ 54, then back into the low 80’s/high 70’s (sorry!) Same old/same old with Wheezer. USPS tracking says the book has been delivered – in your locker.

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  10. Interesting about Marshall. Interesting that he learned about debate from his father, and his mother worked so hard to help him get educated. A good example of parents working together to raise their kids right.

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    1. Morning katharine!
      good to see you here!
      I agree. my dad had theories about everything and the dinner table we’d discuss them. 3 kids all trying to apply what they learned in school and my dad trying to pick apart our arguments. Mom didn’t get involved…lol

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      1. That’s why I like two-parent families. Children like me learned a lot from each, together and separately. But when it came to learning to drive, I couldn’t think with both parents in the car. Gogogo, and Stopstopstop.was the refrain.

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    2. Interesting that it was Lyndon Johnson who put him on SCOTUS when it was Johnson who made a statement about welfare along the lines of “we’ll have those ni**ers voting democrat forever!” It was HE who destroyed the black family!!! Wonder what Thurgood Marshall thought about that?

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      1. Johnson was a tyrant in disguise. I saw a documentary that indicated Johnson engineered Kennedy’s demise. I was a when it happened, and I remember a news clip about Johnson picking his dogs up by their ears.
        My mother campaigned vigorously for Barry Goldwater in 1964 and enlisted her two daughters to sell Goldwater hats in front of Woolworth’s.

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        1. My family wasn’t political – they just always voted Republican and it wasn’t discussed, at least around me – oh, I’m sure my uncle who lived in NYC was but he was rarely seen in these parts. I have no doubt Johnson was “in on” the assassination but only in a minor way – he wasn’t the real power during that time, IMO.

          The only memory I have of it all is watching the funeral on TV – I wrote about it in my autograph book at the time – I still have that book, too! Some years ago, I posted pictures from it on M’s blog.

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          1. My mother was the political one, for awhile. No one in my local father’s family ever discussed anything political. It wasn’t polite to talk about religion or politics, doncha know? Wally wasn’t interested, except to say he was disappointed in Nixon for lying. Then Wally was more annoyed when Jimmy Carter, as governor, bureaucratized state public health departments.

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      1. Thanks, but the latest prediction is tomorrow, Oct. 3. A huge oak limb in my sister’s yard fell across the transmission wire around 1 am Thursday, during that terrible wind storm. Slade showed me yesterday where it was. He and Carol have been watching for GA Power’s truck but still haven’t seen it. Last time, GA Power called in help from all over the Southeast to fix downed lines.

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        1. I suppose at this point, all you can do is be somewhat thankful that it wasn’t worse – soooo many people dead and missing…..I’ve never had to live thru anything like that.

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          1. Nor have many people on the east coast, but they are younger than I am. From my early childhood, my family sought higher ground when hurricanes were due. This one has been particularly bad for the whole south east.
            Slade says GA power uses drones to asess damage, but drones can’t fix the problem, so far.

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  17. “Vance is the Future of MAGA — Night and Day”

    Robert W Malone MD, MS, Oct 02, 2024

    The President and the troll

    “Yeah, I watched the debate, and I am so glad I did.

    Seeing the two men on stage next to each other immediately brought to mind the Nixon-Kennedy Debate. You know, where Kennedy comes across as presidential and Nixon looks brooding and dark. No one even had to watch the debate to know who won. The same thing happened in last night’s debate.

    As Vance stood at the podium and the camera scrolled from one man to the other, the stark differences jumped out through the camera. Walz looked mottled and red – with a troll-like demeanor. Vance was handsome, with perfect posture, a wry smile and bright blue eyes – with a presidential appearance. Night and day.

    Trump is smart. He knows he has one term, and then, due to the cycle of life and the fact that Americans don’t want their leaders to be elderly, his time in politics will be up. For MAGA to last through the decades, it will need a young, charismatic leader to carry the torch.

    Last night, Vance emerged as a potential torchbearer for the future. The question that lingers is, will he be able to carry the torch and lead the way?

    Barring a sex or financial scandal, I believe that the answer is yes.

    “Walz wandered into the wrong bar” — Scott Jennings, on CNN

    (Video)

    Ouch…“The Hero with a Thousand Faces” (Joseph Campbell, 1949)

    The Hero’s Journey describes the classic storytelling pattern first identified by Joseph Campbell. This is the transformative quest of a hero who sets on a journey, faces challenges, and returns home changed. There is usually an element of redemption buried within the story. The journey consists of three acts: Departure, Initiation, and Return.

    “Hillbilly Elegy’, J.D. Vance’s memoir, can be seen as an embodiment of the Hero’s Journey Vance’s transformation from a troubled child in Appalachia to his eventual success at Yale.

    J.D. Vance’s origin story is powerful. It aligns with MAGA. It is MAGA. This is Trump’s legacy.

    I predict that Vance will not be relegated to the sidelines like many other vice presidents. Instead, I trust that he will be more active in this administration. Trump needs Vance to carry his legacy—that is, MAGA—through time.”

    (Video – DJT Jr. interview about debate)

    https://www.malone.news/p/vance-is-the-future-of-maga

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  18. “Florida police chief learns hard lesson, un-bans guns and ammo — Okeechobee police chief receiving criticism from across the country.”

    Lee Williams, Oct 02, 2024

    (Photo courtesy of the Okeechobee, Florida Police Department.)

    “Donald C. Hagan, the Chief of the Okeechobee, Florida Police Department, doesn’t appear to be enjoying his time on the national stage.

    Hagan had to take some time off, his spokesman said Monday, because he is receiving personal attacks from across the country. As reported Monday, Hagan rocketed to infamy for signing an illegal city ordinance that banned firearm and ammunition sales as well as firearm possession just days before Hurricane Helene made landfall.

    “The chief is not in,” a police receptionist said Tuesday morning. She directed calls to Okeechobee Police Major Bettye Taylor, who issued a statement Monday trying to clarify and explain her boss’ actions. Instead, it only muddied the waters.

    “The Emergency Ordinance commenced immediately upon the declaration by the Police Chief and was thereafter terminated by the Police Chief on or about 9:51 pm on the same date it was issued. The Emergency Ordinance was terminated for two primary reasons. One is that, fortunately, Hurricane Helene did not have a substantial impact on the City and its residents. Secondly, a provision prohibiting the sale of firearms and ammunition was inadvertently included in the Emergency Ordinance. Upon discovering this, the City and Police Chief acted expeditiously to terminate the Emergency Ordinance,” Major Taylor wrote.

    In other words, the part of the ordinance that banned the sale of guns and ammunition and prohibited firearm possession in public by anyone other than law enforcement or members of the military, was “inadvertently included” in the ordinance.

    As you can imagine, neither Major Taylor nor her boss returned calls or emails Tuesday seeking to clarify how or why they banned guns and ammo sales inadvertently. In her statement, Taylor also sought to reassure the town’s residents — as well as the legions of law-abiding gun owners who are following the story across the country — that the ban caused no harm.

    “At no time did the City, or the Police Chief, contemplate, nor take any action, to prohibit, confiscate or otherwise regulate firearms or ammunition,” she wrote.

    This, however, is not exactly true. The ordinance the chief signed clearly prohibited the “sale of, or offer to sell, with or without compensation, any ammunition or gun or other firearm of any size or description. The intentional display, by or in any store or shop, of any ammunition or gun or other firearm of any size or description. The intentional possession in a public place of a firearm by any person, except a duly authorized law enforcement official or any person in military service acting in the official performance of their duty.”

    Those are pretty strong prohibitions, which very clearly didn’t make their way into the ordinance inadvertently. Also, they very clearly regulate arms and ammunition, regardless of how long the ordinance was in effect. What’s also very clear is why the good major now wants to avoid even the appearance of regulating arms. Florida’s powerful preemption statute allows only the state legislature to regulate arms. Any public official who violates the preemption statute can be removed from office and fined up to $5,000, which the statute requires them to pay personally.

    Okeechobee Police spokesman, Detective Jarret Romanello, told local media Monday evening that city officials are reviewing the entire incident to determine how the “mistake” occurred, and that he looks forward to “providing more answers as soon as the review is complete.” Romanello also complained that most of the “noise” directed at his boss was coming from folks who live outside city limits.

    Takeaways

    What Detective Romanello calls noise, most would call concern. Law-abiding gun owners are concerned — and ever vigilant — about their Second Amendment rights. If a small-town chief of police infringes upon someone’s civil rights, it tends to get their attention and not in a good way.

    The police department’s claim that its illegal ban was somehow inadvertent or mistaken is laughable. Chief Hagan signed the ordinance himself. Did he not read it? Did he fail to notice that he was prohibiting gun and ammunition sales and even firearm possession by his 5,432 residents when he signed the document?

    The police chief, his major, his spokesman and the entire city council should admit the truth rather than hiding under their beds. There are a few national and statewide groups who may soon have a few questions of their own, which they’ll likely pose under oath.

    Despite all the blatant gaslighting, what happened is actually simple and easy to understand: Okeechobee Police Chief Donald C. Hagan banned firearm and ammunition sales as well as firearm possession as a major hurricane approached the state, which is inexcusable.

    If Chief Hagan doesn’t like the comments he’s receiving, maybe he shouldn’t have infringed upon his residents’ civil rights. He will always be an example for any other public official who contemplates violating the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution as well as the Constitution of the State of Florida.”

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  19. Yet another corrupt judge….the usual BS from the Eastern District!

    https://nypost.com/2024/09/30/us-news/lawsuit-against-cuomo-over-state-order-requiring-covid-patients-into-nursing-homes-tossed/

    A wrongful death lawsuit against Andrew Cuomo over a state directive that forced nursing homes to accept COVID-19 patients was tossed by a judge Monday – with the ex-governor’s camp claiming “justice has prevailed.”

    Eastern District of New York Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall granted a motion to dismiss the suit that was brought against Cuomo and other top aides in 2022 by a man whose father contracted the deadly disease in a Brooklyn nursing home and died.

    Daniel Arbeeny, of Brooklyn, argued in the suit that his father’s death was caused by a 2020 state health department order that required nursing homes to admit COVID-19 patients.

    Loved ones of others who died in nursing homes during the pandemic also joined the lawsuit, alleging the same thing. — NY Post

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          1. Oh, but you’ve got to set up a hidden video recorder to get it ALL on tape!!! Wouldn’t that be a kick in the ass?!?!

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  29. “Donald Trump, Our Cincinnatus: Donald Trump is the only politician equipped to rescue this country from the crisis that Kamala Harris — and the political class she represents — actively seeks to bring on.”

    Paul Ingrassia, Oct 02, 2024

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    EXCERPT: “Anyone who enters politics for no other reason than to obtain power should be the last one granted it, for these types throughout history always become the most dangerous. Dictators and despots, megalomaniacal kings and petty tyrants all have pursued political power out of nothing more than a Machiavellian desire to rule and conquer others, perhaps to satisfy some empty void within themselves but never out of a sense of service — or anything that makes them look beyond themselves and their own times.

    Political power is different from power in the private sector where ambition is often rewarded, and where ambition and success tend to go hand and hand. By contrast, in politics, ambition is a corrupting influence that if left unchecked almost invariably leads to tyranny.

    ——————-

    Fortunately, an alternative model for political power exists. This is one exemplified by those great politicians and statesmen who reluctantly leave private life in service to the public, much like Donald Trump.

    These are the types that any society should want to lead because for them politics is never the be and end all — and certainly not a conduit to find greater meaning or self-fulfillment. Thus, their expectations for politics are tempered by a realistic view of what politics can offer. This pragmatism returns an agenda driven by commonsense more than any particular ideology or creed, which is to the collective benefit of the community.

    Those who already derive meaning and purpose within their private affairs — through a combination of work, family, and religious faith — possess these things in abundance long before ever giving a thought to a second career in politics.

    For these types, politics more often than not is seen as a necessary hindrance and obstacle — what, in the past may be described as moral duty or sacrifice — that requires of them to temporarily put aside their private passions in pursuit of a civic responsibility.

    In this regard, they resemble the soldier drafted into combat to protect his people — he acts not because he loves war, but understands his duty to fight in service to the greater good. And yet, the noble type described enter the fray — be it battle or politics — in spite of everything because they hear the call that both their times and society demand of them — and respond accordingly.

    The American ideal of the presidency lends itself to the Roman ideal of the Cincinnatus figure – the fabled nobleman who leaves the farm to enter higher office, motivated by a sense of deeper purpose and loyalty to the common good, only to forsake the absolute power he was given afterwards. At which point he returns again to the proverbial farm — a symbol of private life — once the danger comes to pass.

    It is one thing to exercise political power responsibly; but to be given absolute power, and then relinquish that power upon recognition that one’s service is completed, stands as the ultimate act of humility — and the defining hallmark of political greatness.

    In our times, only one man encapsulates that Roman ideal — which is also the American ideal — for statesmanship: Donald Trump. And that is because he actually did it: he left his fortune and creature comforts of private life for the chaos — and unique dangers — of our time’s frenzied political arena.

    Therefore, only he is best equipped for and should become president of the United States, for only he can understand what those responsibilities mean at their fullest — which is to say, what man can achieve when his sights are set at their highest, tempered by the lessons amassed over a lifetime of dealing in all sorts of trials and tribulations, in settings both public and private life.

    Those experiences comprise the essence of political wisdom. And Donald Trump, having divined that wisdom — through experiences accumulated over decades — is better positioned than any other politician alive today to rescue this country from its present troubles, and from the abyss that Kamala Harris — and the political class who overwhelmingly shares her selfish political temperament — seeks to plunge our country into.”

    https://paulingrassia.substack.com/p/donald-trump-our-cincinnatus

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  30. NF: Oh….I am not going to post all of this – it is just too awful –

    “Below is a first-hand account of the vast devastation from Western North Carolina –

    by Auobrey Charlotte

    “Today I saw true devastation and death and I am not ok…

    Today was the first day that I attempted to make it into Asheville to work. I wanted to check on my store and my staff and see my coworkers and to get some much needed supplies. I am still out of power and water at my home in Marion. With hwy 40 East Bound closed I had to take back roads around it which included down close to lake Lure and Chimney Rock and then back up into Black Mountain and Swannanoa before finally into Asheville.

    The normally 40 minute drive to work took the better part of two hours and in that time the things I saw will haunt me for the rest of my life. The lightest of things were down trees collapsed power lines. I drove over and under so many destroyed power lines it wasn’t even funny.

    Then I got into areas where I was driving over cliffs and the edges of collapsed roads some of which had me wondering if I would even make it to Asheville alive or see my little girl again. On more than one occasion my car felt as if it were slipping off the road. The road was collapsed in many places and slid down the mountains and or into rivers below so much so that barely one car could make it through. I even had to drive through what used to be a stream which is now small river that had overtaken a bridge. It took me a while to get the courage to drive through it because I couldn’t see the bottom and wasn’t sure how deep it was or how safe it was to drive through. I had to wait on someone else obviously more familiar with the area to go through first for reassurance I could make it in my little Kia.

    Then I began to see cars such as the one below and even houses and a couple of campers collapsed and or washed away down the mountains and the rivers. Not even just with trees fallen on them. They had completely been destroyed and taken away by the storm waters. I saw whole sides of mountains and rivers that had collapsed in giant mudslides more than one hundred feet high easily.

    But that wasn’t the worst……”

    —————–

    Despite technology and the world having come so far, it is mules that are bringing relief to some parts of Western North Carolina…

    The Chronicle of the Horse published this first-hand account of a small horse farm’s experience during the storm:

    Stranded With Supplies Dwindling

    One of the people connected with once her phone charged was Dressage rider and breeder Emily Wright, who owns the nonprofit Tempus Renatus School of Classical Riding in Black Mountain, North Carolina. Three of Wright’s mares were swept away by rapidly rising flood waters as she and her septuagenarian mother were trying to save them

    “It was terrifying,” Wright said of Friday’s events. “I was watching the Ring camera all night to watch the water, and then there was a little stream next to the creek. We went to get horses out of the low-lying areas, where we had a couple of pens, but within minutes it was up to their knees. We got a stallion out and chucked him in the feed room—I was like, ‘sit, stay.’ Within minutes the fields were already knee-deep, and I was breaking fences, tearing down electric tape, and then one mare ran into the rapids, and her pasturemates followed her.”

    Miraculously, one of the mares, Rubia, was later found alive; another was found dead, and the third is still missing.

    “At least we were able to get most of the animals out; it was a matter of seconds from, ‘it will be fine’ to, ‘it’s not fine,’ ” she said. “It was really, really terrifying. It looks like an apocalyptic wasteland. There’s so much debris; there’s so much destruction that it’s hard to even know where to begin.”

    Variations on this story were repeated a thousand times in those hills last week. Horses, dogs, cats, cattle, chickens – swept away. People working feverishly to save their beloved animals, often failing. Sometimes, those very people probably lost their own lives in the fight….”

    More: https://www.malone.news/p/news-from-the-frontline-of-helene

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  31. And the same is happening here….

    EXCERPT: “The number of people who are illiterate in Sweden is expected to exceed 800,000 in winter of this year, with researchers expecting the number to soon reach 1 million, in large part due to mass immigration.

    The most recent survey by Statistics Sweden shows there are currently around 780,000 people between the ages of 16 and 65 who are illiterate in Sweden, but this number is soaring.

    “Each month, eight to ten illiterate students arrive,” said Rita Sommarkrans, SFI teacher in Västerås, to SVT. She added that if someone can’t read or write, it’s hard for them to find a place, pay their bills, or even book a doctor’s appointment. 

    “If this trend continues, we risk having an entire generation of young people who are effectively functionally illiterate,” wrote Minister of Education Johan Pehrson and Minister of School Affairs Lotta Edholm in an introductory article.

    However, Swedish publication Fria Tider notes that the ministers are failing to explain what the main cause behind the massive illiteracy problem is in the country, which is mass immigration of illiterate adults from the Third World, which the allegedly conservative ruling government is failing to stop….”

    https://rmx.news/article/sweden-could-soon-have-1-million-illiterates-largely-due-to-mass-immigration/

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  32. Oh, FFS! ENOUGH ALREADY!!!

    Just The News: “Special counsel Jack Smith on Wednesday submitted a new filing in his DC election case against former President Donald Trump, arguing that he is not immune from prosecution in light of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on presidential immunity.

    “The defendant asserts that he is immune from prosecution for his criminal scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election because, he claims, it entailed official conduct. Not so,” he asserted. “Although the defendant was the incumbent President during the charged conspiracies, his scheme was fundamentally a private one. Working with a team of private co-conspirators, the defendant acted as a candidate when he pursued multiple criminal means to disrupt, through fraud and deceit, the government function by which votes are collected and counted—a function in which the defendant, as President, had no official role.”

    Smith October filing on immunity

    Smith made the argument in a 165-page filing, asking the court to determine that Trump is not immune from facing his charges.”

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  36. Before the storm…

    “One big crack in the planet…”

    “Better to beach the boat than let it sink in the North Atlantic”

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  41. 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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