Real Haunted Houses in America: Part 2

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3 The Amityville House

Like the house from The Conjuring, the house from the film The Amityville Horror is based on a real place. And this one has an even more violent backstory.  In the early morning hours of Nov. 13, 1974, a young man named Ronald DeFeo Jr. padded quietly along the halls of his family home. Armed with a rifle, he went methodically from room to room and murdered everyone inside.

Later, DeFeo gave conflicting reasons for killing his parents and four siblings. At one point, he claimed he’d heard voices. Later on, he shifted the blame, saying that his sister and mother had actually been involved in the murders. Regardless of why DeFeo killed his family, his murderous act left a stain on the house itself. The next owners, the Lutz family, said that they felt strange, cold drafts, smelled disgusting odors and heard odd noises.

They even called in a priest to bless the home. But as he started his ritual, an invisible hand slapped him and ordered him to “get out.” Though George Lutz, the family patriarch, was later accused of embellishing the story, he has stuck stubbornly by it.

“I’m tired of being called a liar,” he said.

In 2013, Lutz’s son, Danny, came out with a documentary of his own to back up his family’s claim that the Amityville Horror house is haunted.  “It’s not easy to tell someone how you got thrown up a staircase,” Danny said. “It’s not easy telling somebody that your bed was bouncing off the ceiling.”

He added, “There was an element [there] of whatever you want to put on it. Evil demonic spirits or whatever the f— you want to call it. It exists, and that’s the hardest thing for me to deal with. Because I know it’s true.” If George and Danny Lutz are to be believed, then the Amityville Horror house is undoubtedly one of the most haunted houses in America.

4 The Myrtles Plantation

Some American haunted houses are scary because of stories and rumors. But the Myrtles Plantation, some claim, has physical evidence that ghosts haunt it.

This St. Francisville, Louisiana, plantation, which dates back to the 18th-century, has a gory history of slavery, murder, and more. Two people, in particular, are alleged to have died bloody deaths here.  The first is an enslaved girl named Chloe. As the legend goes, she was forced into a sexual relationship with the plantation owner, Clarke Woodruff. Worried that his wife would find out and punish her, Chloe began eavesdropping on the family’s conversation. When they caught her, the Woodruffs cut off her ear.

Chloe started wearing a turban to cover her mutilated ear — and began to plot her revenge. According to the story, she killed Woodruff’s wife and children with poison. Other enslaved people on the plantation panicked because they thought Woodruff would punish everyone — so they killed Chloe themselves. But although they threw Chloe’s body in the river, her spirit stayed at Myrtles Plantation. And in 1992, a photo taken for insurance reasons purportedly caught her on film.

This story does have a few holes, however. For starters, there is no documentation that the Woodruffs held someone in slavery named Chloe. And Clarke Woodruff’s family died of yellow fever, not poison. That is if you believe their version of history. The second person who died at Myrtles Plantation has a better-recorded death. William Winter, who inherited the plantation in 1871 after marrying one of the family’s daughters, died on its grounds. A mysterious man shot him in the chest, giving Winter just enough time to stumble up the stairs before he died in his wife’s arms.  Today, some claim to have seen William run indoors, only to collapse on the 17th step of the house — where he died in real life.

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    1. Morning, Pat! Dark here but not too cold (51) and clear, since I can see the stars. As soon as I turned on the patio lights, there was Wheezer, waiting for his tuna.

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        1. LOL – oh, believe me, I’ve GOT blankets! I’ll probably use the same fleece hoody that Little Man used….but I’m not going to all the trouble to create a cardboard house for him like I did for LM.

          Predicting our first freeze this week-end….guess I’ll bring in that last lope and let it ripen inside. We’ll be getting some smoke from the Wyoming fire, too. We’ve got a few white fluffy clouds at the moment but it’s clear otherwise. Temp has dropped to 48, which is common right before the sun comes up.

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  5. John Strand

    @JohnStrandUSA

    12h• 2 tweets • 2 min read •

    Read on X

    WOW: Tina Peters backing up the elections data before they wiped the systems gave the public a rare opportunity to analyze before and after the tampering — and it shows clear and deliberate manipulation of the voting systems.-Audit trail deleted-System logs deleted-Voting files replaced with new filesNow we know why the Democrat Judge in her case refused nearly all of her witnesses and excluded virtually all of her defenses, then sentenced her to 9 years in prison — because if this became a nationwide story the entire house of cards with Dominion could fall.@realtinapeters

    Read the forensic reports yourself here:

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  6. Feisty Hayseed

    October 9, 2024 12:58 am

    Fascinating Deep Dive of the machine that moves illegal alien Haitians into rural America.

    A Troubled Place

    In Charleroi, Pennsylvania, the local population grapples with a surge of Haitian migrants.

    Charleroi, Pennsylvania, is a deeply troubled place. The former steel town, built along a stretch of the Monongahela River, south of Pittsburgh, has experienced the typical Rust Belt rise and fall. The industrial economy, which had turned it into something resembling a company town, hollowed out after the Second World War. Some residents fled; others succumbed to vices. The steel mills disappeared. Two drug-abuse treatment centers have since opened their doors.

    The town’s population had steadily declined since the middle of the twentieth century, with the most recent Census reporting slightly more than 4,000 residents. Then, suddenly, things changed. Local officials estimate that approximately 2,000 predominantly Haitian migrants have moved in. The town’s Belgium Club and Slovak Club are mostly quiet nowadays, while the Haitians and other recent immigrants have quickly established their presence, even dominance, in a dilapidated corridor downtown.

    The key question in Charleroi is the fundamental question of politics: Who decides? The citizens of the United States, and of Charleroi, have been assured since birth that they are the ultimate sovereign. The government, they were told, must earn the consent of the governed. But the people of Charleroi were never asked if they wanted to submit their borough to an experiment in mass migration. Others chose for them—and slandered them when they objected.

    The decisive factor, which many on the institutional Left would rather conceal, is one of power. Martha’s Vineyard, when faced with a single planeload of migrants, can evict them in a flash. But Charleroi—the broken man of the Rust Belt—cannot. This is the reality of replacement: the strong do what they can, and the weak endure what they must.

    https://christopherrufo.com/p/a-troubled-place

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          1. I still have my a-Dad’s billy club from when he was an MP in the AF, before he joined the Navy. I also have my PGM club made especially for the 5 of us who steered the PGM meetings – the rep from Canada had them made for the team.

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  10. “Sue flagged down our crew during our time in North Carolina this weekend. She had no power, no food, no water, and no ability to travel. She had just undergone heart surgery two weeks ago. Thanks to our friends @elonmusk, @Starlink, @MichaelsStores, and @SamaritansPurse, we were able to get Sue the help she needed.”

    Video: Dr. Phil was with them….

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  11. Tony Seruga

    @TonySeruga

    Not fishy at all… An Afghan citizen living in Oklahoma was arrested for planning a terrorist attack on behalf of ISIS on U.S. Election Day. Spoiler Alert: a mobile device that visited the man’s home many, many times, also visited Senator Lankford’s office on 3 occasions.

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  12. Clarion
    Clarion
    October 9, 2024 7:30 am

    BREAKING: RFK JR. OPENS A POLICY PORTAL DIRECTLY TO TEAM TRUMP

    As part of the MAHA initiative, all policy proposals submitted through “Policies for People” will be reviewed directly by RFK Jr. and the Trump team.

    If you’ve ever had ideas for how to root out corruption, eliminate bad incentives, or clean up our environment – now is your chance.

    RFK Jr. has promised to read all proposals submitted through this new portal, giving you direct access to him and team Trump as they prepare to transition a new administration into our government come Jan 6.

    I suspect this initiative will play a large role within the transition team.

    Definitely worth checking out.

    The link is https://t.co/GT0PyCBeGa 🇺🇸✊

    — Lauren Lee (@sheislaurenlee) October 8, 2024

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    1. OK – I signed up, got the authentication e-mail, then went to the site. A VERY long list of policies (page after page after page) have already been suggested (who knows by whom). You can go thru and “vote” on them – I upvoted this one: “Taxpayer money shall not be used to pay for any Congressmen or government employee’s sexual harassment claim and all claims will be made public” and got the message that I have “3 votes left.” So there is a limit on your votes – why?

      I’ll let you know what kind of e-mails I get from them, particularly any fund-raising e-mails – I suspect that’s what this is actually designed to do!

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      2. OK – I reached my limit of 4 votes….wonder if that’s a daily limit? Guess I’ll find out – I’ll try to vote on more tomorrow and see what happens.

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  14. the foxes are in charge of the henhouse

    FTA

    Pay no attention to the global investment corporations that are vying for access to the natural resources—like lithium—in North Carolina’s landscape, and the shadowy business with no substantial presence in the marketplace, whose agents are running the property valuation operations! Confused? Allow me to explain.

    On the FEMA website, one can navigate to a webpage that discloses the recipients of certain federal FEMA contracts, and what services those contractors provide; here’s an explanation of the relationship between FEMA and the private sector:FEMA Advance Contracts for goods and services are competed [sic] and awarded in advance of major disaster declarations to provide efficient, cost-effective means for rapid delivery of supplies and services for recurring disaster response and recovery requirements.

    If you search for the private companies with contracts for the “Housing Inspection Services” function, you’ll see two contracts, one to “WSP USA Services, Inc.” and the other to Vanguard Inspection Services.

    For context, WSP is a environmental consulting firm based out of Canada, with BlackRock and Vanguard Group being major investors. Here’s a breakdown, from The Wall Street Journal “Markets” page:

    Screenshot from WSJ Markets

    Regarding Vanguard Inspection Services, it’s got all the markers of a front company; as far as I can tell, it looks as though VIS exists solely to do business with FEMA. From the homepage of the company website:Vanguard Inspection Services is fully committed to providing complete and compliant Disaster Home Inspections under FEMA’s Housing Inspection Services (HIS) Program. VIS’s committed staff, in partnership with our cadre of Independent Contractors performing disaster housing inspections, provide a quality service to ensure disaster survivors receive the assistance they need in an expedient manner.

    A number of the site’s other pages appear incomplete, with many displaying random code throughout—with who knows how many millions being funneled into VIS, you’d think they’d produce a legitimate looking website, but it just looks like a hack job.

    (Vanguard Group is not to be confused with Vanguard Inspection Services.)

    Now, a Florida county government recently announced that FEMA would be conducting “free” home inspections, which is part of the process to rebuild:After Floridians apply for FEMA assistance following Hurricane Helene, a home inspection may be necessary to help determine whether the home is safe, sanitary, and livable.

    Per the same announcement, inspectors will consider things like livability, whether or not the utility connections and systems are in “working order,” the “structural soundness” of the domicile, and whether or not the property is “safe” to access.

    First of all, we need to consider the implications of home inspectors, employed in part by BlackRock and Vanguard investments, surveying the damage and assessing the value of hurricane-stricken North Carolina—especially because of the vast lithium deposits in the ground beneath and around these private properties.

    According to Straits Research, a major market analyst, the demand for lithium is going to explode over the next few years:The global lithium market size was valued at USD 38.2 billion in 2022 and is projected to reach a value of USD 230.4 billion by 2031, registering a CAGR of 22.1% during the forecast period (2023-2031).

    This is a more than 500% increase in less than a decade.

    Here’s this, from a report less than two weeks ago;Albemarle, a major lithium producer, is pursuing lithium production in North Carolina. Earlier this year, it announced plans to reopen the resource-rich lithium Kings Mountain mine in the state by the end of 2026, supported by $150 million in DoE funding. However, it has faced backlash from environmentalists and indigenous groups looking to block the development, which has led to delays. Albemarle is looking to expand its domestic lithium production.

    And, wouldn’t you know it, but BlackRock is major investor in Albemarle:On August 31, 2024, BlackRock Inc. (Trades, Portfolio), a prominent investment management firm, expanded its investment portfolio by acquiring an additional 2,220,059 shares of Albemarle Corp (NYSE:ALB). This transaction increased BlackRock's total holdings in the company to 12,183,614 shares, reflecting a significant commitment to Albemarle….

    Are company agents essentially working on behalf of BlackRock and Vanguard going to be impartial parties as they value and assess the properties destroyed by Hurricane Helene? Are they going to deem these residences “liveable” and “safe” if their bosses want what’s buried beneath the homes? Is there an incentive for these contracted “home inspectors” to screw the homeowners out of their own property? Will these homes be condemned, so the BlackRock and Vanguard bosses can dole out paltry “fair market value” pennies, and become even wealthier?

    If I didn’t know any better, I’d reckon this is fixing to be one of the great wealth transfers in the history of the U.S.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/10/fema_contracts_out_its_home_inspection_services_to_blackrock_and_a_front_company.html

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  15. This is an interesting story, altho I do disagree with one thing he says – this BS happens ALL THE TIME, every single day, in some courtroom in the US! Lawfare exists right down to the County/City level!

    EXCERPTS: “In 2019, several Hollywood notables and dozens of others were swept up in so-called Operation Varsity Blues. The FBI accused parents, college employees and their go-betweens in a bribery scheme to get nominally unqualified students admitted to top colleges. 

    What you might not have heard is John Wilson’s story. He’s the parent who drew the most charges, but fought them. And – after a grueling and expensive court battle – he finally came out on top.

    Wilson: “What the government did to me is something that’s never happened to anyone in America. And what the prosecutors did to me once they put me in their crosshairs was so outrageous that if I hadn’t experienced it firsthand, I wouldn’t believe it in a million years.” 

    If Wilson was known for anything, it was as a self-made rags-to-riches success story and president of Staples, International. But his story changed drastically in March of 2019 when he returned to the U.S. from a business trip.

    Wilson: I got off the plane. I’m going through the normal customs and immigration security checks. They pulled me aside, say there’s something wrong with my passport. I go into a back room. And then, two FBI agents pushed me against the wall, handcuffed me, shackled me and told me I’m under arrest. I was shocked. I had no warning. This came out of the blue like a lightning bolt. 

    Sharyl: You ever been arrested before? Wilson: No, I’d never been arrested in my life. I’d never even been accused of a crime in my life. I’ve never been in a courthouse in my entire life.

    Sharyl: What’d they tell you was wrong? Wilson: They told me I was under arrest. I said, “You must have the wrong John Wilson.” I said, “There’s 15,000 John Wilsons. I didn’t do anything wrong.”

    Sharyl: And you had no idea this was related to college or anything at the time? Wilson: I had no idea what it was at all. Neither did they. They couldn’t tell me what it was related to. They said “It’s an unusual fraud charge we’ve never heard of. And that’s all we know.”

    The FBI took him to a federal prison in Houston.

    Sharyl: And what’d they do with you from there? Wilson: They stripped me down, put me in this big, I dunno, common area shower room. And the guards took a couple big hoses and started hosing me down like an animal in this large public shower. And still thinking to myself, “What did I do? How could this be happening? This can’t be real.” And the guard says to me, “You better watch your back in here. You know, you’re the only old white guy,” he says, “and they’re gonna assume you’re a pedophile and they hate pedophiles here and one of ’em is likely to try to shiv you and stab you.” I was in shock. I said, “What? How can that be?” I asked, “Can you lock me in my cell so I don’t get stabbed?” He says, “No, no. If they lock you in your cell, they’re gonna think you’re a p**** and they’re really gonna f*** you up.” That’s what he said, pardon my French, that’s what he said to me. I said, “Oh my god.”

    The next morning he learned from his brother, an attorney, why he’d been locked up.

    Wilson: I remember being handcuffed and shackled my feet and my hands shuffling down the hallway to this interview room where my brother was behind a plexiglass wall with another lawyer. I said, “What, what is this? What’s, what’s going on?” And “They said something to do with Singer.” “I said, Singer?” He said, “Yeah, you bribed coaches and you did some fraud.” I said, “What? I didn’t do that!” Again. I said, “They must have the wrong John Wilson.” 

    “Singer” was Rick Singer, considered the “mastermind” in the Varsity Blues college admissions scandal, nicknamed after the 1999 film about small town high schoolers looking for a way out – some through football scholarships.

    Among the parents arrested were actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman. They were accused of paying people to get their kids into top universities by bribing coaches, creating fake athletic photos, and cheating on tests. Both pleaded guilty in the case, in which 33 wealthy parents were charged.

    Prosecutors claimed Wilson paid $220,000 to have his son, Johnny Wilson, recruited as a water polo athlete at the University of Southern California. And they said he spent $1 million to unfairly get his twin daughters into Harvard and Stanford.

    Wilson admits he hired Singer and donated to colleges – like millions of parents have done – to increase odds their kids will get accepted in a fiercely competitive landscape. But he says they were well qualified in their own right and there was no cheating, lying, or bribery. It was Wilson’s financial adviser at Goldman Sachs who introduced him to Singer as a consultant who could maximize a student’s chances….”

    “….His dad was convinced he could prove, at trial, that his children’s admissions to prestigious colleges weren’t due to bribery. Prosecutors wanted him to plead guilty.

    Wilson: And then they proceeded to literally every three months add on more charges. And each time they did, they said, “We want you to plead guilty. If you don’t, we’re gonna add on more charges.”  And they did that again and again, four additional times. They ended up charging me with nine felonies and 180 years of prison time, all for the same act. And they said, “We’ll go for more.” And I said, “I’m not gonna plead guilty no matter how many charges you put on me. I didn’t do anything wrong.”

    Sharyl: But the jury convicted you? Wilson: Yeah, absolutely. They ran an unfair trial that was just outrageous. He argues he faced a prosecutor-friendly judge who stacked the deck.

    Wilson: I’ll give you a couple of examples of things they blocked. My daughters’ perfect ACT score, and near perfect scores were inadmissible.

    Sharyl: In other words, that would’ve shown that they deserved to get in college. Not that they were given a favor?

    Wilson: Right. They earned their admissions. They were qualified on their own merits for admission, even at Harvard and Stanford. My son’s certified swim times and his world record, the certified swim times proved he’s one of the fastest on USC’s team. They wouldn’t allow his own high school coach, who’s his water polo coach, who testified, to bring in his swim time.

    Sharyl: When you heard what the jury found, did you think to yourself, “Well, I can’t blame ’em with what they heard?” Wilson: Absolutely. 

    Sharyl: Or were you surprised? Wilson: No, no. We were sunk. We knew we were sunk when they blocked our evidence. I remember my lawyers even talking about this is something they’ve never seen before. It was so extreme. They said, “The good news is you’ll have a great appeals record,” but now I have to spend another two years fighting for the appeal.

    Sharyl: What happened on appeal? Wilson: On appeal, we got everything overturned except for this minor tax issue. So all the court convictions were overturned and the judges said, you know, “This is totally unfair.”

    Wilson paid a fine for the tax charge: improperly deducting USC donations. All the charges related to getting his kids into college were thrown out. The official Justice Department statement is that in May 2023, an appellate court affirmed the tax conviction and vacated and remanded the remaining counts of conviction. 

    But the fight isn’t completely over. Today, Wilson is suing Netflix over a documentary that he says smeared him and poisoned the jury pool….”

    https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/parent-who-survived-feds-operation-varsity-blues-college-admission-recalls

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  19. NF: I’ll bet there were more than that around the country!!!!

    EXCERPT: “As states rush to either affirm or ban children’s right to gender-affirming care, such as sex reassignment procedures, new data shows Oregon among the top of the charts in providing the care.

    Recent statistics disseminated by the nonprofit Do No Harm shows that roughly 13,394 minors underwent sex change treatments nationwide from 2019 to 2023. According to the data, the oldest child was 17 years old, with the youngest being 7 years old.

    While nearly 38% of those kids came from California, New York, Washington and Ohio, Oregon came in right behind in terms of the total number of child “sex change patients” with 853. Based on 2020 census data, that’s roughly one child per 4,967 residents, or about 20 patients per 100,000 people, which includes adults.

    “Like you, we want to protect children,” the nonprofit wrote on its website. “This tool will keep you informed of sex change treatments being performed on minors at healthcare facilities.”

    DNH considers “sex change patients” as “the total unique children who underwent gender-affirming procedures or hormone/puberty blocker therapy.” While the treatments are widely accepted in some states, others have enacted outright bans or restrictions on the care.

    In Oregon, a 15-year-old can receive gender-affirming medical treatments without parental consent….”

    https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/data-shows-oregon-prescribed-kids-puberty-blockers-613-more-capita-ca

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        1. i really should think about writing my “story”.
          I’ve told it here in abbreviated form many times. when i was 9 i didn’t want to be a girl anymore. i had large breasts and my period and no one else to talk to about it. my older sister was jealous (she didn’t get the boobs) and no other girl in my class was developed yet. the boys were rude and demeaning. i took to wearing hats and anything large to cover my figure.
          then the next year at school a new girl started–same condition as me. we bonded, we shared our feelings with each other and realized we were blessed to be women. talking with someone going thru what i was going thru made all the difference.

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          1. I remember that! Sadly, it was the opposite with me – I never did have much in that department, except when I was preggers. I remember wishing I could keep that aspect of pregnancy! LOL

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              1. Well, IMO, it’s something a girl should be able to talk to her Mom about. ‘Course, if you’re talking about my adopted Mom, she’d have had me wearing a binder! God forbid you let anyone know you’ve got boobs!!!

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  20. As it rightly should be!!!! The locals on the ground know far more than the feds!!!

    Just The News: “Congressman Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., said Tuesday that federal funding that goes to organizations like the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), should be distributed by the federal government but handled by the states. 

    “When we start talking about moving the funding around for this organization, I think we ought to seriously look at its management structure and that it should possibly just be a flow through for the states to receive these funds and let them handle it,” Burchett said on the “Just the News, No Noise” TV show. 

    Multiple Republican lawmakers in Tennessee voted against a spending bill that would have funded FEMA and Burchett was one of them. Burchett explained that there were other things in the bill that had nothing to do with FEMA. 

    “There’s money in there for COVID,” Burchett said. “There’s billions of dollars in this … spending package for COVID. COVID is over.”

    He added that legislators need to actually start reading bills before voting on them. “It … behooves Americans to force their legislators to start reading these bills…..not just get what you need out of them, but find out what the rest of the country is going to be stuck with, because our great grandchildren are going to be paying these bills,” Burchett said.”

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  21. Just The News: “America’s fourth-largest Catholic healthcare system performed so-called gender affirming surgeries on 81 children and prescribed puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones to 113 over the past five years, according to a national database launched Tuesday by Do No Harm, which fights identity politics in “medical education, research and clinical practice.”

    Still, the outsized role in the surgeries – including such procedures as vaginoplasty, breast removal and the sterilization of minors – played by the system, the Washington state-based Providence Health and Services, which owns 51 hospitals and 1,000 clinics in seven western states from Alaska to Texas, is one of the less touted findings from Do No Harm’s research.

    It’s not on the “Dirty Dozen” list of children’s hospitals promoting gender affirming care for minors, led by Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and also including UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.’s Children’s National Medical Center, or the Top-10 lists of billing providers and billing institutions.

    CatholicVote spotted Providence’s listing in the database, accusing the healthcare system of violating church teachings among other Catholic institutions in the database, which collectively performed surgeries on 170 children and prescribed drugs for 508 of them.

    “One of the largest Catholic healthcare systems actively cutting off children’s body parts through gender transition surgeries and betraying the Church’s historic commitment to human dignity is shocking – especially considering that Catholics have long played a vital role in establishing hospitals and championing care that upholds the dignity of the human person,” CatholicVote wrote on X.

    Do No Harm found that hospitals submitted more than $100 million in claims from 2019 to 2023 for “these experimental treatments on children,” which progressive European countries have sharply pulled back on in recent years, covering nearly 14,000 children, which the group called a “conservative estimate.” 

    The tally is based on “publicly available insurance claims data for children ages 0-17.5 at the time of the treatment,” pulled from “commercial insurance claims, in addition to Medicaid, Medicare, Tricare, and Veterans Affairs insurance,” who had a “diagnosis code related to gender dysphoria and received hormonal or surgical interventions,” the group said.

    This includes what Do No Harm calls nearly 750 “sex-change surgical procedure[s]” – which don’t actually change sex, which is genetically encoded – and nearly 8,600 children receiving puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones.”

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  22. Just The News: “The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has dismissed the Republican National Committee’s lawsuit over mail-in ballot curing, ruling that the GOP filed it too close to the November election.

    The commonwealth’s highest court made its decision on Saturday regarding the RNC’s case on mail-in ballot notice and cure procedures, Reuters reported. Ballot curing is when voters are allowed to fix any issues with their mail-in ballots.

    Last month, the RNC asked the court to prevent county election boards from adopting “notice and cure” procedures for mail-in ballots, arguing that the state legislature had not given the boards the authority to adopt those procedures.

    The Democratic National Committee filed a response to the RNC last month, claiming that the state’s election laws allowed the boards to implement the procedures. The court’s decision is “a victory, not for Democrats but for our democracy,” said Charles Lutvak, a spokesperson for Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign.”

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    1. unconstitutional is unconstitutional whether it be state or federal governments. if a law does NOT grant an agency the ability to implement the procedures, then DAMN the PA scotus ruling–which has a majority of dems on it–surprise surprise.
      you should be allowed to file cases, closeness to the election be damned, for ILLEGAL unconstitutional decisions. period.
      otherwise you allow fraud

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        1. you would think the 90 day rule would have ONE exception–legally of the action being questioned.
          you know damn well as i do if this were a republican committing these acts, the state scotus would intercede,

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  23. Yet another reason not to support that POS leftist Dan Osborn here in NE – he supports completing eliminating any limits on abortion!!!!

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  24. “Judge Rules That Nine-Year-Old NFL Fan Can Sue the Crap Out of Deadspin for False Blackface Allegations”

    By Jeff Charles | Red State | 6:00 PM on October 08, 2024

    AP Photo/Reed Hoffmann

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Remember when a braindead columnist tried to accuse a 9-year-old Kansas City Chiefs fan of wearing blackface at a football game in an op-ed for Deadspin? Well, it appears the child’s family will be able to hold the news outlet accountable for publishing the fallacious piece.

    A Delaware judge declined to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed against Deadspin over the article, which attempted to paint the 9-year-old child as a virulent racist.

    The lawsuit was filed by California residents Raul Armenta Jr. and his wife, Shannon, on behalf of themselves and their son, Holden, who attended a game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Las Vegas Raiders last November.

    According to the lawsuit, Holden, referred to in the lawsuit as “H.A.”, is a Chiefs fan who also loves his family’s Chumash-Indian heritage. He wore a Chiefs jersey to the game, with his face painted half-red and half-black, and a costume Native American headdress.

    The author, Carron Phillips, wrote an article accusing the child of wearing blackface because his face was painted half black and half red, the colors of the team he was rooting for.

    In the article, the author not only pretended the boy was wearing blackface, but also accused him of disrespecting Native Americans because he was wearing a traditional headdress.

    It takes a lot to disrespect two groups of people at once. On Sunday afternoon in Las Vegas, someone in the stands at the Kansas City Chiefs game wore a headdress and face paint that some observers found objectionable, leading to lots of unanswered questions.

    Why is Native American headdress banned in Arrowhead Stadium but not in every stadium in the league?

    The author claimed the boy had been taught “hatred” by his parents and called on NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to condemn the child and his family.

    Amazingly, when Phillips was called out for his blatant race-baiting lie, he doubled down in a post on X. “For the idiots in my mentions who are treating this as some harmless act because the other side of his face was painted red, I could make the argument that it makes it even worse,” he wrote. “Y’all are the ones who hate Mexicans but wear sombreros on Cinco [de Mayo].”

    He later deleted the post. But the damage was already done. The child’s family indicated they began receiving hateful messages and even death threats over Phillips’ lie. One even threatened to murder Holden “with a wood chipper,” according to the lawsuit.

    The judge definitely made the right ruling in this case. Phillips’ article was clearly a deceptive way to stoke racial tensions. There is nothing abnormal about this, as left-leaning members of the chattering class have been doing this for years.

    But the fact that he chose to use a child to ignite a racial controversy is about as low as whale excrement. Hopefully, Deadspin will be held accountable for publishing what was obviously a cynical attempt to exploit racial tensions for attention.”

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  25. “A growing number of gas stations were flashing empty signs on Tuesday as panic-buying gripped Florida, where residents – all of whom had at least a full week’s knowledge that the storm was coming – decided to wait for the very last minute to prepare. Everyone here in Florida was fully aware we are bracing for a monster hurricane to make landfall. Hurricane Milton was downgraded to a Category 4 storm on Tuesday but will regain strength this morning.”

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  26. OK, won’t even embed @ M’s….let’s see if it will work here (NOAA = government agency, as evidenced by the flags on their shirts) – ok, it finally embedded after umpteen attempts….let’s see if it will open:

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  27. “Friend of mine who lives in Clearwater left his house Monday mid-day to go to his kid’s house in North Carolina to ride out the storm. He texted me last night at 8:00 to tell me that he hadn’t reached the Georgia line yet and was gonna sleep in the car at the rest stop he was at. That is normally a seven hour drive from where he lives.”

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  28. “Across the state, home sales have slowed to a crawl. Inventory has ballooned by more than 50% in major cities like Tampa, Orlando and along the Space Coast, while demand has dropped by at least 10%, according to real estate data firm Parcl Labs.

    More than half of Tampa’s homes on the market have seen price reductions, making it one of the hardest-hit metropolitan areas in the country. The New York Post has a really good article about this today – it’s a good, short read.”

    https://nypost.com/2024/10/08/real-estate/florida-homeowners-are-now-struggling-to-sell/

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  30. “Polygraph Machine Explodes After Tim Walz Passes Nearby”

    Politics · Oct 8, 2024 · BabylonBee.com

    SEATTLE, WA — Tragedy struck the city of Seattle today as Minnesota Governor Tim Walz quickly walked by a polygraph machine near a campaign event and caused it to explode.

    “I’m such a knucklehead sometimes, but I am definitely not a Chinese asset,” Walz said as he walked by a lie detector, causing it to blow up due to sheer proximity.

    The explosion reportedly decimated a 3-block section of the downtown area, causing significant traffic delays on State Route 520 and Interstate 5. The Seattle Police Department advised the public to shelter in place as rescue workers secured the area.

    Experts claimed the polygraph never would have exploded if not for the increased instability caused by Tim Walz’s constantly waving arms. “The combination of Walz’s erratic gyrations and deceptive nature was a recipe for disaster,” said Dr. Ian Yellen, a lie expert. “We need to keep him as far away from lie detector tests as possible.”

    Walz gave a brief statement to the media following the blast to notify the public that he had survived the incident.

    “Whew! That was close! I was almost attacked by terrorists just now!” Walz said. “But I singlehandedly deactivated the nuclear bomb at the last minute,” he said. “I learned a lot about working under this type of pressure as a high school football coach and during my extensive combat experience in Iraq.”

    At publishing time, 60 Minutes correspondent Bill Whitaker confirmed that his interview with Kamala Harris and Tim Walz had been severely edited out of fear that their television appearance would trigger the remote detonation of other polygraph machines across the country.

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  31. “Oh Crap: Kamala Just Learned The Word ‘Indubitably’ Right Before A Huge Interview”

    Politics · Oct 8, 2024 · BabylonBee.com

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    U.S. — In a potentially disastrous turn of events, campaign staffers close to Kamala Harris confirmed that the vice president had learned the word “indubitably,” just in time for her upcoming interviews with The View, Howard Stern, and Stephen Colbert.

    According to sources within the Harris-Walz campaign, the new development had the potential to not only derail Harris’s campaign but also to deafen and emotionally scar all viewers and interviewers involved in the candidate’s media blitz.

    “Things were already bad enough when she heard the word ‘holistically,'” groaned Leslie Quayle, a gay staffer for the Harris campaign. “But this new word is going to be rough. She seems to think it means something like ‘joyfully.’ I have no idea how we’re going to be able to steer her away from using this one.”

    Vice President Harris was surprisingly available for comment.

    “There’s really great significance to the passage of time, indubitably so,” Harris said. “The people of Florida and North Carolina are handling this crisis indubitably, and I believe that we should indubitably defend a woman’s right to choose. It’s time to bring joy back to this country. Indubitably. And holistically. Am I right? HAHAHAHA!”

    At publishing time, the Harris campaign had been further devastated to find out that its candidate had just discovered the word “felicitous.”

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  34. George
    @BehizyTweets
    BREAKING: Adam Schiff just said he wants to ABOLISH the Senate filibuster to pack the Supreme Court so they can restore nationwide abortion, restrict gun rights, and grant citizenship to millions of illegals

    “If we’re going to want to take meaningful action on gun safety legislation with the universal background checks, we’re going to have to abolish the filibuster. If we want comprehensive immigration reform, we’re going to have to abolish the filibuster. If we want to restore reproductive freedom to millions of women in California, we’re going to have to abolish the filibuster.”

    This is what every Democrat, including the ones in the swing states, believes. It’s part of the oath they take to be propped up by the party. If we don’t vote like this election matters, we’re going to be living in the Communist Abortion States of America very quickly. It won’t even matter if you’re in a red state.

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  35. https://www.denver7.com/news/front-range/aurora/former-president-trump-to-visit-aurora-on-friday-campaign-confirms

    Former President Donald Trump will visit Aurora on Friday, his campaign confirmed on Monday.

    In its announcement, the Trump campaign called Aurora a “war zone,” claiming the city has seen an “influx of violent Venezuelan prison gang members from Tren de Aragua.”

    Trump will deliver remarks during a rally at the Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center on Friday at 1 p.m. Doors open at 10 a.m., and people can register to attend through this link.

    Gov. Jared Polis issued a statement following the announcement, saying Trump will find “an incredible city with two straight years of rapidly declining crime” during his visit.

    “Coloradans stand united in our love of our state, and we are proud to be a beacon for personal freedoms, a vibrant economy, and world class outdoor recreational opportunities. I am sure when he comes to Aurora, he’ll find an incredible city with two straight years of rapidly declining crime that is filled with hard-working people from many diverse backgrounds and small businesses that are driving Colorado’s economy forward. As Coloradans, we are proud of Aurora, proud of Colorado, and proud of the United States of America,” said Polis in a statement.

    U.S. Representative Lauren Boebert (R), who oversees Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District and is running to represent the state’s 4th Congressional District, said she is “ready and thrilled” to have the former president in Colorado. — Denver 7

    Our Take: This is going to be fun, and I plan to be there early to get a good spot. I had four different contacts — from different groups / demographics — send me this announcement when it happened, and everyone is excited.

    In 2020, Trump visited Colorado Springs, and the entire area was a sea of MAGA as people came from all over the state to see 45. I brought my oldest, and we didn’t get in because of the overwhelming turnout. I will not make that mistake again.

    The leftist media here is flipping out, which is enjoyable for all of us, as they double down on their gaslight that migrants are our strength and crime isn’t a problem in the Centennial state. In reality, stores are closing, razors and shampoo are behind locked glass, car thefts are up, and even leftists have changed their behavior to account for the threat of rising migrant crime.

    Additionally, open records published by the Denver Gazette last month prove that the government knew about the migrant gang takeover of Aurora apartment buildings and lied to the citizens about it. Trump’s visit comes at a pivotal time for the Colorado regime, which is white knuckling its grip on the crumbling narrative.

    There will be a sea of MAGA in Aurora on Friday. The tears of those forced to cover it are going to be delicious. — Ashe in America

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  36. https://www.denverpost.com/2024/10/08/colorado-supreme-court-masterpiece-cake-shop-jack-phillips/

    The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to rule on whether Christian baker Jack Phillips can refuse to make a celebratory gender-transition case for a transgender customer, and instead dismissed the case on a technicality.

    In a 4-3 decision, the justices found they could not consider whether Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, can legally refuse to make a pink-and-blue cake for transgender attorney Autumn Scardina to celebrate her gender transition on the grounds that doing so would violate his Christian faith.

    […]

    Scardina’s attorney, John McHugh, expressed disappointment and said he was evaluating if there were any remaining legal options.

    “The Colorado Supreme Court decided to avoid the merits of this issue by inventing an argument no party raised,” McHugh said.

    Phillips’ attorney, Jake Werner with the Arizona-based firm Alliance for Defending Freedom, said Tuesday that his client had been pursued and mocked for years by those who disagreed with him.

    “Enough is enough,” Werner said. “Jack has been dragged through courts for over a decade. It’s time to leave him alone.” — Denver Post

    Our Take: The saga of Jack Phillips and the Masterpiece Cake Shop has reached another milestone Tuesday. The latest case against the baker was dismissed by the Colorado Supreme Court, in what the institutional press in Colorado is calling ‘a technicality.’

    The ‘technicality’ is the US Constitution’s protection of religious liberty and freedom of expression. From the state’s high court:

    ‘The underlying constitutional question this case raises has become the focus of intense public debate: How should governments balance the rights of transgender individuals to be free from discrimination in places of public accommodation with the rights of religious business owners when they are operating in the public market?’ Justice Melissa Hart wrote in the majority opinion. ‘We cannot answer that question.’

    This case shines a spotlight on the state’s district and appeals courts, which did attempt to answer the question in ruling against Phillips and Masterpiece. The radical communists in Colorado intentionally target Christian business owners in an effort to make discrimination claims. In all cases — spanning more than a decade — the courts have ultimately, repeatedly found that the government cannot force a person or business into participating in a ceremony or event that violates their deeply held religious beliefs.

    And, yet, they still target Phillips. The process is the punishment.

    This decision by the Colorado Supreme Court is a notable shift, however, for a court that is widely considered the most progressive state high court in the nation. The 4-3 ruling is the first contentious ruling from the court since Monica Márquez was appointed as Chief Justice in September. Marquez joined the majority in this ruling.

    I’m sure Phillips is taking a celebratory sigh of relief before bracing for whatever the communists throw at him next. Congratulations, sir. Godspeed. — Ashe in America

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  39. Wall Street Apes
    @WallStreetApes
    You Literally Can’t Make This Up

    “I just witnessed a woman on TV crying because she did not qualify for her $750 in North Carolina because she did not have an ID”

    You don’t hate the Kamala Harris Administration enough.

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  42. EXCERPT: “In a California fundraiser hosted at Gov. Gavin Newsom’s home Tuesday in Sacramento, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz advocated for doing away with the Electoral College system, stating that “we need a national popular vote.”

    “I think all of us know the electoral college needs to go,”  the Democratic vice presidential candidate said. “But that’s not the world we live in. So we need to win Beaver County, Pennsylvania. We need to be able to go into York, Pennsylvania, and win. We need to be in western Wisconsin and win. We need to be in Reno, Nevada and win.”

    The comments were immediately seized on by the Trump campaign and prominent Republicans, who accused Walz of attempting to throw the results of a victory by former President Donald Trump into question if Trump were to win in November.

    Trump campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt questioned if Walz was attempting to lay “the groundwork to claim President Trump’s victory is illegitimate?” in an X post.

    In a statement provided to CBS News, a spokesperson for the Harris-Walz campaign said Walz “believes that every vote matters in the Electoral College and he is honored to be traveling the country and battleground states working to earn support for the Harris-Walz ticket. He was commenting to a crowd of strong supporters about how the campaign is built to win 270 electoral votes. And, he was thanking them for their support that is helping fund those efforts.” 

    Getting rid of the Electoral College is not a position the campaign holds, a campaign official said….”

    https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/walz-says-electoral-college-needs-to-go-campaign-says-thats-not-its-position/

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  43. more overreach…more tyranny

    FTA

    CTA is the for-profit equivalent of Department of the Treasury’s partisan overreach. With the IRS scandal, nonprofit organizations with the word “tea party” and “patriot” were targeted and subjected to further scrutiny and/or outright denial of their tax-exempt 501(c)(3) status. Under the CTA, an overly aggressive anti-Second Amendment bureaucrat could decide to do a word search for “gun,” “firearm,” “patriot,” “freedom,” or similar, and they would have a ready list of small business owners to target, investigate, and audit. It happened before with nonprofits, and it will happen again with “for profit” small businesses.

    The true goal of CTA appears to be setting up yet another new database of citizens to monitor, observe, and punish. The federal government is moving quickly to implement the CTA, as millions of small business owners in the United States have no idea this law even exists (only 13 percent of businesses in California, 5 percent in Ohio, and 4 percent in Pennsylvania have registered). Millions of businesses owners face becoming felons in three months unless they comply.

    There are currently seven separate lawsuits challenging the validity of the law. Last year, the House of Representatives passed a bill to give businesses more time to comply, but the bill is sitting in the Senate going nowhere. A recent email from their accountant may have been the first time many businesses realized this law exists. The legal confusion and seeming lack of urgency to inform the public suggest that FinCEN’s true intent is to “catch” millions of small business owners in “non-compliance” so that they can be investigated and audited by Department of the Treasury and punished. Serious criminals will not be concerned about paperwork violations. Mandatory compliance is required by January 1, 2025, or business owners will be subjected to hefty fines of $591 dollars per day (or up to 10 percent of a company’s annual receipts) and up to two years in federal prison.
    Unconstitutional Power Grab

    President Trump vetoed this unconstitutional power grab, as part of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2021, but his veto was overridden. In an unprecedented act of overreach, the feds are moving to collect data on all small business owners, who make up the backbone of the U.S. economy, for reasons that seem murky at best. And the information collected goes to FinCEN, the counterterrorism arm of the Treasury. Business owners have to register with a terrorism department. This seems to infer criminality on millions of law-abiding citizens.

    Under CTA, for-profit business entities with fewer than 20 employees and under $5 million in revenue are in the crosshairs. But businesses that make more than $5 million annually, or employ more than 20 full-time employees, are exempt from this invasive self-reporting requirement that could put owners in prison. That means BlackRock, Amazon, Facebook, Pfizer, etc., can operate “business as usual,” but “Grandma’s Donut Shop” will be required to show her “paper’s please” if she wants to make a living.
    Massive Economic Surveillance Program

    Business registration and entity creation has always been handled at the state level through State Corporation Commissions. With the CTA, even though a business is a registered entity at the state level, if it does not then self-report and register into a criminal database at the federal level, owners will not be able to operate the business. The federal government is overreaching into a state rights issue and creating a massive database in violation of the commerce clause. State attorneys general in every state should be weighing in on this issue. Unfortunately, their silence is deafening.

    Every small business owner in America needs to make their voice heard on this issue, and lawyers who care about the future of this country should be lining up to represent them pro bono. CTA is the last nail in the coffin of what remains of the illusion of a “free market” economy in the United States. It is nothing more than a massive economic surveillance program with no discernable oversight.

    https://thefederalist.com/2024/10/09/new-transparency-act-forces-small-businesses-to-register-personal-data-with-federal-law-enforcement/

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  45. “Overheard at the farmers market — There are several farmers markets in the area and I tend to make the rounds on a Saturday morning.  It’s a good time to get a walk in, see some good stuff, get some produce and maybe other crafty stuff.  Nice folks and a good way to see a microcosm of the world since regular folks and the crunchy-granola crowd mix and mingle.

    That said…

    One farmers market vendor had a Trump sign up next to his wares.  A crunchy granola dude wearing more bracelets than I do comes sauntering up.  I was making a purchase so just decided to hang out for a minute.

    CGD:  I was going to buy something until I saw your Trump sign.

    FMV (not taking the bait and in an exaggerated drawl): You go ahead and do whatchya gotta do. 

    (Have to admit I would have paid money for the FMV guy to say ‘You do you boo’ but that didn’t happen.)

    Polite conversation ensues as CGD announces he’s a Harris supporter (truly the epitome of a White Dudes for Harris kind of guy). He ended up buying something but didn’t get what he really came for, which was to get into an argument with a person he clearly thought was dumb when he walked up.  Because FMV was chock-full of facts to back up everything he said.

    I did think it was funny because CGD said he was nervous taking the back roads with his Kamala sticker on his car.  He doesn’t realize that the rest of us just pity someone like him because he’s clearly deficient in his thinking and if he doesn’t take a swing or isn’t a complete asshole, we’re not going to start anything.

    It was kind of fun to watch him get his metaphorical ass handed to him though.”

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  47. TheseTruths
    TheseTruths(@thesetruths)Online
    Wolf
    October 9, 2024 13:06

    UPDATE: North Carolina National Guard Admits They ‘Rotor Washed’ a Hurricane Helene Relief Site

    As RedState reported on Tuesday, Brian Trascher, Vice President and PIO of the United Cajun Navy, confirmed the Sunday “rotor washing” event at one of their Hurricane Helene relief stations in North Carolina by what he surmised was a UH60 Blackhawk helicopter.

    Brian Trascher of United Cajun Navy Confirms a Blackhawk Did ‘Rotor Wash’ a Western NC Resource Site

    “On the evening of Sunday, October 6, a helicopter ‘rotor washed’ a POD center where the United Cajun Navy was distributing supplies and giving relief to the people impacted by Hurricane Helene. This area was no-fly territory, so the appearance of a helicopter flying 500 feet from the ground was extremely frightening, as the UCN documented on its X page.”

    Trascher had more to say about who might have been behind the incident, and stated that the organization was investigating.

    A day late and a dollar short, the North Carolina National Guard decided to fess up that it was their Blackhawk helicopter that did the deed. On Tuesday evening, they issued this post on X.

    “The North Carolina National Guard (NCNG) is aware of an incident involving a NCNG UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during a delivery of generators at the request of a local civilian organization to power their distribution outpost in western North Carolina.”

    The NCNG continued their explanation of what happened in a thread.

    “While attempting to land, rotor wash caused items to blow away from the local distribution set up by a group of civilians in the area. The crew immediately identified the situation, aborted the landing for safety reasons, and departed the area.

    This incident is currently under investigation and the crew has been grounded until the investigation is complete. The NCNG is working with the identified local civilian organization to assess the level of damage caused by the rotor wash.”

    So, does assessing the level of damage involve reimbursing United Cajun Navy for supplies that were destroyed? Asking for all those Carolinians whose relief was hampered because a pilot was asleep at the controls…

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  48. Just The News: “A tornado reportedly touched down in South Florida ahead of Hurricane Milton’s landfall on Wednesday. Milton is now a Category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds of 165 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center.

    The National Weather Service Miami released pictures on Wednesday of a tornado crossing Interstate 75 while cars were driving. Local news outlets reported that the Tampa Bay area is currently under a tornado watch until Wednesday evening.

    According to the Associated Press, mandatory evacuation orders have been issued in 11 counties with a “combined population of about 5.9 million.” 

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