The World’s Greatest Mysteries: Part 1

Mysteries 6 Minutes

I love a good mystery, don’t you?  I found this article on Mental Floss and wanted to share!

From Mentalfloss.com:

1 Where is Cleopatra’s tomb?

Finding the burial place of Cleopatra VII, who is usually considered the last monarch of the Ptolemaic dynasty that ruled Egypt after the death of Alexander the Great—and therefore the last pharaoh of Egypt—would undoubtedly be one of the crowning archaeological achievements in modern history. The problem is, no one knows where to look.  Conventional wisdom places Cleopatra’s tomb beside her palace in an area of ancient Alexandria that is now submerged beneath the Mediterranean Sea. If this is the case, the tomb is likely lost forever. 

But a few researchers have set their sights on Taposiris Magna, the location of a temple dedicated to Osiris, the Egyptian ruler of the realm of the dead, near Alexandria’s western outskirts. Since Cleopatra wanted to associate herself and her Roman lover, Mark Antony, with Osiris and his sister-wife, Isis, some believe it stands to reason that the two could be interred there. Excavations at Taposiris Magna were still underway in 2023, and have so far yielded 16 burial chambers, mummies with golden tongues, funeral masks, coins engraved with the legendary queen’s face, and a tunnel more than 4000 feet long—but no signs of Cleopatra.

If you’re especially captivated by the legend of Cleopatra’s tomb, you’re welcome to help look for it: The Taposiris Magna excavation has been turned into a hands-on tourist experience that starts at about $21,000 per person. 

2 What happened on the Mary Celeste?

If you’ve heard of the Mary Celeste, you can thank Arthur Conan Doyle. The unexplained abandonment of the ship in 1872—and the still-unknown fate of the 10 people aboard—might have been forgotten if not for Conan Doyle publishing a sensational short story about the fictional Marie Celeste in 1884 that captured the popular imagination and turned the American merchant ship into one of the most enduring maritime mysteries of all time.

In terms of solving the mystery of the Mary Celeste and the fate of its captain, his wife and 2-year-old daughter, and its seven-man crew, Doyle’s highly fictionalized account, involving a missing African artifact and a murderous mutiny led by a man who had been born into enslavement in America, was unhelpful. But the official inquiry conducted years earlier had also failed to come up with any reason for the crew to have abandoned a seaworthy vessel. There was three and half feet of water in the hold and a pump had been dismantled, and the ship’s lifeboat was gone. But the ship was safe and operable when it was found drifting near the Azores islands, and the crew who found it had no trouble sailing it 800 miles to Gibraltar to file a salvage claim. 

In 2006, a chemistry professor at University College London proposed a solution: A “pressure-wave type of explosion” caused by the ship’s cargo—around 1700 barrels of industrial alcohol—and some unknown spark had caused little damage but frightened the crew into abandoning the vessel. But other researchers have discounted the theory. While the mystery around the Mary Celeste remains unsolved, it continues to serve as inspiration for storytellers: Season 4 of True Detective was partially inspired by the abandoned ship as well as the Dyatlov Pass incident, another historical head scratcher. 

3 What caused the Great Unconformity?

In 1869, American geologist and explorer John Wesley Powell was working in the Grand Canyon when he noticed something strange: What should have been thousands of feet of rock were just hundreds, and as tools and techniques improved, it became clear that in parts of the Grand Canyon over a billion years’ worth of rock was missing. Since the missing time immediately precedes the Cambrian explosion—the period when evolution seems to have kicked into high gear and life on Earth suddenly and rapidly diversified—scientists would very much like to know more about it. 

Rock strata are full of gaps, or “unconformities,” but a billion years is a big one, even in terms of geologic time. As geologist Kalin McDannell explained to science mag Eos, it’s the difference between a book that’s missing a few pages and one that’s had entire chapters torn out. Whatever happened, it wasn’t a local phenomenon—since Powell noticed the anomaly in the Grand Canyon, it’s been spotted in other parts of the world as well. The gap is twice as large in some places, representing more than 40 percent of the planet’s history that just isn’t there.

So where did it go? Two main theories have emerged in recent years. The first maintains that the missing rock was scoured away by glaciers a few hundred million years ago, during what’s known as the Snowball Earth period. The other theory is a little more dramatic: The culprit might be Rodinia, a supercontinent that predates Pangaea and potentially sliced away huge swathes of what would become our geologic record as pieces of the enormous land mass broke away, slid around the planet, and smashed back together. It’s also possible that the Great Unconformity isn’t one gap, but many smaller ones caused by a series of distinct geologic events.

Whatever the cause, the Great Unconformity is a case of one mystery that might hold the key to another. Some researchers believe that when the missing rock was deposited into Earth’s oceans, it altered the chemistry of the water and seeded it with vast amounts of minerals and nutrients. This could have given early lifeforms the resources they needed to evolve helpful things like shells and skeletons, setting the stage for the Cambrian explosion.  

4 What’s up with the Salish Sea feet?

If you type the phrase Salish Sea into Google’s search field, the autocomplete feature assumes you’re going to ask it about all those feet. The phenomenon seems to have started in 2007, when a 12-year-old girl found a running shoe containing a human foot on a British Columbia beach. Since then, more than 20 disembodied feet, most of them secured in sneakers, have washed ashore on the Salish Sea’s U.S. and Canadian coastlines. The embarrassment of extremities has prompted sinister theories ranging from the somewhat plausible (a serial killer is clearly at work) to the fantastic (it’s obviously aliens). Science, however, has requested that we all calm down a little and consider the facts. 

For starters, authorities have ruled out foul play, determining that several of the feet belonged to people who died accidentally or by suicide. Roughly 8.7 million people live along these shores, and there’s a grim correlation between seaside population density and the number of corpses that end up in the water. But if it’s a natural phenomenon, why is it just feet? Why did it start happening so recently? And why just the shores around the Salish Sea? 

Science can help us here, too. The bodies of drowning victims—a category that would include most of the people who die in the waters of the Salish Sea—tend to sink, where their soft tissue is consumed by bottom-dwelling animals such as crabs and lobsters. Since soft tissue is much of what’s holding our feet on, they can easily become detached. If they’re tucked inside running shoes or hiking boots that are made of lightweight, buoyant materials—technology that began to develop rapidly around the time the feet started washing ashore—they’re likely to bob up to the surface, where the Salish Sea’s distinctive combination of geography, wind conditions, and currents conspire to deposit them on beaches rather than carry them out to the open ocean. For all intents and purposes, we can probably mark this one “solved.”

5 How—and why—were the Olmec Heads made?

Long before the Maya (at least the Classical Period of Maya) and Aztecs built sophisticated civilizations in what is now Central America and Mexico, the area was home to the Olmecs, a society that flourished around 3200 to 2400 years ago. As the first great civilization of Mesoamerica, the Olmecs are sometimes considered a “mother culture” that influenced many of the peoples who would come in their wake. They cultivated an extensive trade network and possessed impressive engineering skills, but we know them best for the spectacular art they left behind, including approximately 17 colossal stone heads that have been discovered to date. 

The mystery of the heads is two-fold. First, their size—some are nearly 10 feet tall, and they weigh about 8 tons on average—would have presented enormous logistical challenges. Each head is carved from a single volcanic basalt boulder, and each of those boulders had to be moved more than 50 miles from where it was sourced. How did they do it? And second, why did they go to all that trouble?

Given the resources and labor required to transport and create them and the fact that they appear to depict distinct individuals, most archaeologists think the heads are portraits of powerful Olmec rulers (though some have suggested they could represent ballgame players who were maybe not that good). As for how they were moved such long distances, several theories have been suggested, ranging from wooden rollers to enormous rafts to temporary causeways built specifically for their transport. Answering these questions would fill in some important blanks in our knowledge of human history, but so far researchers can only make educated guesses. 

SOURCE: MENTAL FLOSS

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  4. The Olmecs have been coming up in lots of places lately. Many theories abound. We assume human migration has been from North to South, but it could have been from south to north, from the Pacific or Atlantic coasts. Or humans could have developed independently on each of the continents. We still have a lot to learn about our EarthHome.

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      1. This morning, I found my source for my first introduction to the Olmec Civilization: it was in Jared Diamond’s book “Collapse”, published in 2005. I like Diamond’s books. A geologist, he provides good maps, for one thing. Also, he was the first I know of to point out he eastern hemisphere is aligned east to west, whereas the Americas are aligned north to south.

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  5. Morning All!

    it’s still about 60* outside but hubby says temps will (according to the weather station) PLUMMET today. gosh everywhere you look, the words are getting more sensational aren’t they?

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    1. Good morning! Wide awake at 3:30 am, checked the time, went back to my recliner and dozed for an hour before I said, ok, I’m up. I’ve been perusing what I missed last night. Temp here is at 37 this morning; Wheezer ate his tuna and returned to sleep in the chair. Furnace still working perfectly, thankfully.

      I watched a documentary on the search for Cleopatra’s tomb – don’t recall the details now, tho.

      Now then, as for this “discovery” in 1869 that “What should have been thousands of feet of rock were just hundreds” – how did they KNOW it should have been thousands of feet? They didn’t have the technology at the time to be able to say that for a fact! Soooooo many statements like this are suppositions – IOW, a SWAG!

      Then again, I admit to being HIGHLY skeptical of pretty much anything they claim is “science” these days – “science” is what they WANT it to be for their own purposes – mostly baffling people with bull shit! We’ve all seen some blatant examples in the last few years! Personally, I don’t even believe that carbon-dating is truly an accurate method either. The so-called “scientists” come up with “theories” all the time but that is all they are = THEORIES! IOW, they are guessing! Pfftttt….give me hard, proven fact or go away!

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      2. Filly . . . First, good day. It’s after 1 pm here, and the Semi-annual Time Jiggle doesn’t happen this year until tomorrow night at 2 am EDT.

        Who can say for sure? I believe it is fact. So much for science.

        If science can’t tell what time it is, how can we trust any more they say? It’s 80 degrees Fahrenheit and sunny now. Speckles is taking a dirt bath. Those are facts. A few birds cheeping in tall, thin trees Over There. Otherwise, blessedly quiet. Specs glowing in the sun.

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        1. Sad to say, but science has been corrupted, too. But everyone has their own opinion. I’m pretty much skeptical of everything these days.

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  10. TheseTruths

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    November 1, 2024 01:26

    Elon Musk:

    She will be fired soon

    He was responding to this:

    Oversight Committee:

    BREAKING: Oversight Committee Releases Staff Report Finding FTC Chair Khan Abused Authority to Advance the Biden-Harris Administration’s Agenda

    For him to be able to clear these people out would be a dream come true.

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  13. TheseTruths

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    November 1, 2024 01:49

    Alex Jones:

    BREAKING: Investigators Have Found The Source of How Illegals Are Getting Registered To Vote

    This is only about 1:23 long. It is not Alex Jones speaking.

    Illegals are getting registered through the Electronic Registration Information Center, formed with Soros money and led by David Becker. E.R.I.C. contracts with the states to get Department of Motor Vehicles records that no one else is privy to. They are finding out who the ineligible voters are and who in the state isn’t registered to vote.
    “Their membership agreement prohibits you from disclosing to them who is or is not a citizen. So you send all the information about people that live there, don’t tell them if they’re citizens or not, and they pump those names onto the voter roles. And then they circulate it back and then they give it to the other organization David Becker founded, which is the Center for Election Research, which is the recipient of all those Zucker bucks from back in 2020.”

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  14. datahazard
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    Kamala-Mayorkas unilaterally transformed the US Border Patrol into a concierge service for random foreigners. Instead of patrolling the border, the BP has been illegally used to usher in over 717,000 alien parolees so far.

    There is no authorizing legislation for this. They simply wanted to bring in as many foreigners as possible, as fast as possible.

    The Border Patrol being illegally directed in this way only further exasperated their manufactured border crisis. The BP wasn’t patrolling the border while they were focused on this illegal “parole” policy.

    Because of this abuse of office, we have an unprecedented additional near 2,000,000 foreign known “Gotaways” in our country now, too.

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  16. 🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸
    @Real_RobN
    And here it is,

    the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,

    🚨🚨IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE: your government was overthrown on November 3, 2020,

    an Obama activist wishing Trump for Christmas in handcuffs, now in charge of Dominion voting machines.

    Jim savage held up in his hand a fairly large vDrive key and said,

    “You can overthrow the United States government with this.”

    @hoopes_leah
    “On Nov 5th I observed Savage into the counting center… And that’s when Jim savage was plugging vDrives into the computer.

    DOMINION FLIPPING MACHINES flipped Trump votes by 50,000,

    Whistleblower: “Jim savage held up in his hand a fairly large vDrive key and said this is extremely important. This controls all of the votes. This controls how the machine runs this. YOU CAN CHANGE AN ELECTION WITH THIS.”

    🚨🚨IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE: your government was overthrown on November 3, 2020,

    an Obama activist wishing Trump for Christmas in handcuffs, now in charge of Dominion voting machines.

    Jim savage held up in his hand a fairly large… https://t.co/Cjhdysa1p1 pic.twitter.com/xrVH4dU1LA

    — 🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 (@Real_RobN) October 31, 2024

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  17. Harrison

    November 1, 2024 5:17 am

    The J6 political prisoners being denied their right to vote. We must rid our nation of the current corrupt gang of politicians in the Harris/Biden administration.

    The Washington DC Jail Gulag is REFUSING to allow me & the rest of January 6 prisoners to vote in the 2024 election!!

    Today was the LAST DAY for provisional ballots & voting for Federal Inmates … And the DC Jail Officials have refused to take us to the voting area!!!

    ALL THE OTHER UNITS HAVE VOTED!!! THIS IS ELECTION INTERFERENCE & RIGGING!!!

    Dozens of us Political Prisoners have been incarcerated for 4 years waiting eagerly to vote for Trump & yet again out voice is being taken from us!!!

    This is so infuriating – but God is watching all these tyrants who would deny us this fundamental American Right!!!

    Now the prison has retaliated against us further and cut off the water in our cells, I have nothing to drink & can’t flush toilet … WELCOME TO THE KAMALA HARRIS DEMOCRAT GULAG!!!

    Never Surrender. Use your vote!!! We have been stripped once again of our & remember the Jan 6ers when you go to the polls

    The Washington DC Jail Gulag is REFUSING to allow me & the rest of January 6 prisoners to vote in the 2024 election!!

    Today was the LAST DAY for provisional ballots & voting for Federal Inmates … And the DC Jail Officials have refused to take us to the voting area!!!

    ALL THE… pic.twitter.com/jvw7pmClEl

    — Jake Lang – January 6 Political Prisoner 🇺🇸 (@JakeLangJ6) October 30, 2024

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  18. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4962275-vice-president-harris-blame-game/

    Our Take: We are in the thick of the fog of war. Pollsters are out begging people to believe in close races, Politico is suggesting Harris might lose the popular vote but win the electoral college, and the top 2024 Halloween costume was very likely “garbage.”

    Every independent I know is voting for Trump, and my leftie friends voted and checked out of the social sphere entirely in the past couple weeks. If ground game and candidate enthusiasm are indicative of the outcome — as they always were prior to 2020 — then Trump wins in a landslide.

    Yet, it feels like the world is collectively holding its breath.

    There is no universe in which I will “trust the outcome” of an unverifiable election, and certainly not when, every day, a new “horrifying new discovery” is projectile vomited onto voters. Stolen ballots, leaked passwords, machine glitches, known issues, unscannable ballots, BMD misprints, and more are happening around the nation.

    I’m not surprised that Harris insiders are allegedly pointing fingers, but I also have zero faith that The Hill is just doing journalism here. Everything is narrative. If The Hill is hyping hysterics in the Harris camp, with less than a week until Election Day, there is a reason. I doubt that reason favors truth and objectivity to dutifully inform the American public.

    Election Day is sure to be exciting and unprecedented, and we will bring you all of it on Badlands beginning at 1pET. Regardless of the “outcome,” it’s sure to be a weird, wild and wonderful day. Long live the Republic! — Ashe in America

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  19. https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/head-of-u-s-cyber-security-says-overseas-hackers-try-to-disrupt-election-223118917530

    Our Take: The head of CISA says overseas hackers are trying to disrupt the US election, and CO SecState Jena Griswold’s team just had machine BIOS passwords publicly on the internet for months.

    But that’s not important right now. CISA wants to make sure you know that disinformation is Iranian and Chinese hackers’ greatest weapon. Read that back.

    Foreign hackers are trying to disrupt the election with disinformation, but the passwords to 600+ pieces of equipment pose no threat; “experts” are confident that there is no threat to CO elections despite the passwords being available online for months, the SecState’s office concealing the breach for days, and foreign hackers targeting the election.

    These are not serious professionals. Safest and most secure. — Ashe in America

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  20. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4963677-trump-transition-rfk-jr-vaccines-hhs/

    Our Take: A few days ago, I used the word “activated” with relation to new Transition Team Leader Howard Lutnick.

    That came on the back of a sit-down interview he did with Financial YouTuber Anthony Pompliano, in which he not only told the story of his rise through the ranks of the Wall Street sector in the 80s & 90s, but the utter devastation he and his friends, family and coworkers suffered directly on 9/11, when he was at Ground Zero to witness it firsthand.

    He’s embraced Bitcoin as a Stockpile Asset for the US, is the one responsible for Trump’s tariff obsession, inspired by William McKinley, and is now telling all eight people watching CNN that vaccines cause autism.

    Lutnick is a self-made billionaire, one of several who seem to have been instrumental in shielding Donald Trump in various ways and at various points in his life, and many of whom are curiously being brought into a more public fold in the waning days of the 2024 election cycle.

    The A Team is being assembled for Trump 2.0. — Burning Bright

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  21. EXCERPT: “Earlier in the day, a video went viral of voters in Kentucky having ‘issues’ with an electronic voting machine that selected “Kamala Harris” when the voter had pressed on “Donald Trump”…

    (Tweets we’ve already seen)

    Admittedly, we have seen a few of these style of clips over the past few weeks and viewed it with the same level of skepticism we usually do. However, this time is different because the local County Clerk just issued a statement on Facebook confirming the issue “did occur”… but not before he had denied it occurred.

    According to the Laurel County Clerk Tony Brown, the machine was taken out of service while waiting for a rep from the AG’s Office.

    Screenshot here (just in case something interesting happens to the statement)

    So, the initial reaction was:

    There is no vote rigging here. It’s just a vast right wing conspiracy.

    Then, 3 hours later…

    Ok, the voting machine was busted, but it really was just a “ballot marking device” and as long as you triple checked everything, you must have caught the error

    Here’s the full statement:….”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/it-did-occur-kentucky-county-clerk-confirms-voting-booth-glitch-shifted-trump-votes

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  26. “This Weekend, try this #lifehack Just for Fun”

    Jimychanga, Nov 01, 2024

    CAN YOU TALK LIKE A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE? Here’s something almost everyone will enjoy as we roll up to a very important and contentious election..

    Have a Great Weekend!”

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  28. Trump in response to Cuban’s statement:

    “Mark Cuban, a really dumb guy, who thinks he’s “hot stuff” but he’s absolutely nothing, is now out there saying that I don’t surround myself with strong women. Actually, he is very wrong, I surround myself with the strongest of women – With the understanding that ALL women are great, whether strong or not strong. This guy is such a fool, he’s constantly on Television being critical, and only for the reason that I tuned him out completely while President because he called incessantly. I told him, very pointedly, “Look Mark, I’ve got a lot of things to do, I just can’t be taking so many pointless calls from you.” In any event, that affected him greatly, because he’s a very insecure guy, and a MAJOR LOSER, always has been and always will be! Nobody likes him, nobody respects him, and he’s unattractive both inside and out! He should go back to talk about the person he was forced to support, because I didn’t want it, Lyin’ Kamala Harris.

    Also, he’s got no clubhead speed!   I may, in fact, be surrounded by the strongest women in the World, including Heads of Countries, who make Mark look like a “baby!” All strong women, and women in general, should be very angry about this weak man’s statement.”

    I tried at least 30 times to post it @ M’s – it finally embedded, then once again flipped to the link…..

    https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1852119259729822180

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  29. ENTIRE ARTICLE @ PJ Media: “In the first five minutes, there were at least half a dozen profanities as host Joe Rogan and Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) recounted cute, adorable stories of young kids swearing, cussing, and dropping F-bombs.

    (Rogan Video)

    This ain’t your daddy’s Republican Party. Jeb(!) Bush couldn’t have done it. Neither could his brother or father — nor could the last GOP nominee prior to Trump, Mitt Romney. They’re too uptight and too puritanical to vibe with a dude like Rogan.

    It’s yet another reminder of how thoroughly the MAGA movement has overhauled the Republican Party: We’ve jettisoned the country club Blue Bloods and replaced ‘em with garbage men and McDonald’s workers. The political realignment is now nearly complete.

    Vance has a gift for straddling the lines between all the different subgroups within the new GOP. He’s religious enough to bond with the Catholics and Evangelicals; he’s educated enough for the intellectuals and the economic ideologues; he’s patriotic enough for the military bloc; and he’s gritty enough to charm MAGA-adjacent influencers. In baseball parlance, he’s a 5-tool prospect.

    So what did we learn? Your first takeaway is that Vance is unusually intelligent. Not kinda smart or “smart enough” (*cough* Kamala *cough*) but genuinely a genius. His depth of knowledge (and ability to pivot) allows him to communicate compassionately and thoughtfully, even in a three-hour interview. Not all smart people can pull this off: Lots of them come across as uncaring eggheads who prefer numbers to people.

    When Trump tapped Vance, there were quite a few critics. (Full disclosure: I was skeptical, too.) The issue was less about Vance specifically, and more about the 2024 electoral map: Other potential selections (Tim Scott, Marco Rubio) could’ve activated certain demographics or (Glenn Youngkin) enhanced Trump’s chances in blue-leaning states. After all, the #1 job of a VP pick is to help your boss win on Election Day. (Actually being competent after you’re elected is a distant second).

    Vance didn’t move the electoral needle in any appreciable way. His home state of Ohio was gonna go MAGA anyway. Plus, since he was unknown to most Americans, the Democrats (along with their sycophants in the media) had the very real opportunity to define Vance in vile, damaging ways. And they tried: He’s a weirdo! He has sexual relations with couches! He hates childless cat ladies!

    But they failed. And on the “Joe Rogan Experience” (JRE) today, you saw exactly what made him so appealing to Team Trump: He’s a genuine American who genuinely understands America. Instead of bonding with voters over something superficial (skin color, geography, ethnicity), he can bond with voters over ideas. And in the long run, that’s far more valuable — and not just for the 2024 campaign.

    Win or lose, Vance has a bright future in the GOP. He’s already the preemptive frontrunner in 2028. Within just the first few hours of being uploaded, the JD Vance interview has been viewed over two million times. (Just a wee bit shy of Trump’s 42 million views.) The total views won’t match Trump’s, but it’s likely to be his largest audience since he outdueled Tim Walz in their October 1 debate. That’s a lot of eyeballs.

    For the most part, the conversation went where you thought it would: They talked about COVID restrictions, big pharm, trans in sports, energy, history, Hunter Biden, Big Tech, censorship, media bias, Tony Hinchcliffe, Joe Biden’s garbage comment, abortion, religion, illegal immigration, marijuana, psychedelics, and more. (A few unpredictable topics too, including the brilliance of “Boyz N the Hood” and the domestic abuse allegations against Kamala’s husband, Doug Emhoff.) Vance avoided any missteps for the Democrats to exploit, while also serving slabs of red meat to the MAGA faithful.

    Most importantly, Rogan was impressed with Vance’s intelligence, humility, and humanity. He smiled, laughed, and treated Vance like a friend. (PR Pro Tip: You always wanna win over the host.) For JRE fans, it seemed like the beginning of a beautiful bromance.

    The PR fallout will be incremental instead of exponential. Vance didn’t change the narrative; he advanced it. And in the process, the Trump-Vance team reinforced its brand identity in the final days of the 2024 campaign: They’re normal Americans who care about normal things. They’re one of us! And the implication via the absence of Tim Walz and Kamala Harris? They’re NOT one of us.

    Maybe it’s because they hate Joe Rogan and his audience; maybe it’s because they can’t have a normal, unedited conversation. (Or maybe Kamala has personal reasons for doing the “Call Her Daddy” podcast instead of Rogan.) Regardless of the actual reason, Trump and Vance were on the JRE; Harris and Walz weren’t.

    And when push comes to shove, the voters are gonna choose the candidate who shows up. Like the Democrats always say: Representation matters.”

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  30. I didn’t see this part of the interview, just saw the references to it:

    ROGAN: “When my 14 year old was 2 we were on a skiing trip and we forgot her helmet and my daughter looks at the helmet and says: ‘Shit.’

    VANCE: “I took my 3 year old son on a trip and my son drops a cookie in between the seat and he looks at me and says: “Dad, well…fuck.”

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      1. Exactly! But it’s really funny, too, hearing it come from them. I laughed even as I smacked my nephew upside the head after he taught a 3 year old HB to yell out the car window: “Nice butt, lady!”

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          1. OK, I’ve told this story before but it was a long time ago….

            Years ago, when my niece, Mandy, was 5 years old, my sis and Mom lived together w/the 2 kids (Bobby was about 3) and worked at a nearby cattle yard. They came home every day with shit and mud on their clothes, bitching and moaning about the “damned cows!” The 3 of us were at the bar in Madison that Mom used to own – it was the go-to place for our family and friends and there were always kids running here and there. It was mid-day and we were sitting at the bar – Mandy, me, Sis and Mom.

            There was a black velvet painting on the wall behind the bar of a bull and bull fighter and Mandy sat and sat and sat, tilting her head back and forth, looking at that painting. After about 5 minutes, she tugged on my arm and, when I bent over to listen, she said, “Cow shit! (pointing at the painting) Damned cows!”

            Another of her favorites: Mom had a Dalmation named Baby Cakes and she used to get into the trash. Mom would yell out “You sonofabitch, Baby Cakes!” Mandy popped off with “Sumbitch, Baby Cakes!”

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  31. Hmmm….must have gotten a frost last night – I can see drops on the patio where it’s melting from the metal roof. More rain coming, too, but not today. I’m planning on a run to Norfolk later but we’ll see.

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  32. Grrrrr….fucking busy-bodies!!!

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “NEW YORK (TNND) — A New York man said he is trying to get his squirrel back after authorities seized the wild animal from his possession amid complaints. An online petition was launched on Change.org for Mark Longo, with supporters rallying to reunite him with his beloved pet, Peanut.

    Longo claimed there were multiple anonymous complaints about Peanut — also spelled P’Nut or PNUT — with at least six officers from the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) raiding his home on Wednesday. He said officers took Peanut, as well as Fred, a raccoon he had been rehabilitating.

    From Instagram: “Well internet, you WON. You took one of the most amazing animals away from me because of your selfishness. To the group of people who called DEC, there’s a special place in hell for you.

    Today at 10am Wednesday, Oct 30, 2024… The NY State DEC showed up to my house and took Peanut. He was TAKEN to the EUTHANIZED. Im in shock, disbelief, and disgusted to the people who did this to, PNUT. For the last 7 years, Peanut has been my best friend. He’s been the center of my world and many of yours for so long, I don’t know how to process this, emotionally.

    Last year we moved to NY in hopes of starting a NONPROFIT animal rescue in PNUT’s Name. @pnuts_freedom_farm will forever live in PNUT’s memory. With over 350 rescues, we’ve relied heavily on PNUT and his internet family to gather donations to help more animals. I don’t even know how will continue to fundraise for this nonprofit. I’ll be taking a break from social media for a bit.

    To the people who did this… THANK YOU for breaking apart a family and crushing any hopes of our nonprofit to survive. I want to thank those who have stuck by up for the last 7 years to watch peanut and his antic.

    I will set up a fundraiser for those who want to donate in Peanuts name. I’ll never give up on this nonprofit or those who fell in love with peanut. Thank you all. Mark Longo

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBwhVpdymnG/

    Longo, who runs an animal refuge inspired by Peanut called P’Nuts Freedom Farm Animal Sanctuary, said he is in shock and disgusted. He said he rescued Peanut seven years ago after he saw the squirrel’s mother get fatally hit by a car. He brought Peanut home, where he rehabilitated the animal for eight months before trying to release the squirrel back into the wild.

    “A day and a half later I found him sitting on my porch missing half of his tail with his bone sticking out,” Longo said.

    Longo determined Peanut lacked the survival skills to live in the wild and would remain an indoor squirrel — and an Instagram star was soon born. These days, Peanut has more than 530,000 followers on Instagram. To Longo, he’s much more than an social media sensation.

    “He’s been the center of my world and many of yours for so long, I don’t know how to process this, emotionally,”Longo said.

    Longo said he misses his little buddy and is afraid the animal has been euthanized.

    “I don’t know if Peanut is alive,” he told The Associated Press Thursday. “I don’t know where he is.”

    Video of him w/squirrel: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DASN8r7od7M/

    A spokesperson for the DEC said in a statement that the agency started an investigation after receiving “multiple reports from the public about the potentially unsafe housing of wildlife that could carry rabies and the illegal keeping of wildlife as pets.” The DEC spokesperson did not respond to a question about whether Peanut had been euthanized.

    As of Thursday evening, the petition amassed more than 18,000 signatures. “In the interest of Peanut’s well-being, we respectfully ask the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to re-evaluate their decision and return him to his family,” according to the petition. “Peanut is a cherished squirrel who has been displaced from his home, and we need your support to advocate for his safe return.”

    The petition also noted a GoFundMe account was also set up to help Longo with legal fees amid his battle to get Peanut back. Longo thanked everyone for the support and said he’s focused on Peanut’s return, as well as the other animals in his care.

    P’Nuts Freedom Farm Animal Sanctuary opened in April 2023 and now houses about 300 animals, including horses, goats and alpacas, said Longo, who runs the sanctuary with his wife, Daniela, and other family members.

    Longo is aware that it’s against New York state law to own a wild animal without a license. He said he was in the process of filing paperwork to get Peanut certified as an educational animal. As for Fred, Longo said he only had the raccoon for a few months and was hoping to rehabilitate the injured creature and release him back to the woods.”

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  34. Dadgum, it’s cold out there! Both the WP and seed feeders were empty. Just sitting on the patio long enough to refill them and then putting them back out made my hands numb! I just can’t take the cold any more!

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  39. Bye bye, Bruce S?

    True story (and headline)

    As the Babylon Bee wrote today, it is hard for comedy to compete – when such headlines are the real deal.

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  50. “Cheating in the 2024 Election: Some of the schemes and allegations from 2020 to now”

    Sharyl Attkisson, Nov 01, 2024

    EXCERPT: “Adding fraudulent votes to voting machines is common enough that there’s a name for it: “ringing up” votes.

    The bribed officials would “add fraudulent votes on the voting machine – also known as ‘ringing up’ votes” for … preferred candidates.” During Election Day, the elections officials would tell Myers how many votes were needed in order to create a win for the preferred candidate, and the officials would add these fraudulent votes to the totals. Then, they would later falsely certify that the voting machine results were accurate. 

    Beren would advise actual in-person voters to support Myers’ candidates and also cast fraudulent votes in support of Myers’ preferred candidates on behalf of voters she knew would not or did not physically appear at the polls.

    During Election Day itself, Myers conferred with Beren via cell phone while she was at the polling station about the number of votes cast for his preferred candidates. Beren would report to Myers how many “legit votes,” meaning actual voters, had appeared at the polls and cast ballots. If actual voter turnout was high, Beren would add fewer fraudulent votes in support of Myers’ preferred candidates.

    Justice Department Indictment in Pennsylvania Election Fraud Case, June 6, 2022

    Today, surprisingly few Americans, 37%, say they believe the 2024 elections will be both honest and open to rightful voters. Forty-three percent (43%) say they have serious doubts about election honesty, openness, or both. Just 64% say they are confident their votes will be counted accurately the 2024 national races.

    The most suspicious thing about the 2020 election is the powerful interests forbidding people from being suspicious about the 2020 election. And now the unresolved suspicions cast a shadow as we move toward November 5.

    A fair election welcomes scrutiny.

    An honest election invites the chance to address questions.

    A trustworthy election embraces transparency.

    People have questioned and cheated in elections throughout our history. To name a sampling of incidents captured in these final days before the 2024 election:

    • 1,600 self-identified foreigners were registered to vote in Virginia, and the Biden administration went to court to try to allow them to illegally remain on the rolls.
    • A mysterious and ill-timed flaw has reportedly been discovered in widely used voting machines.
    • Pennsylvania illegally cut off early voting, turning away residents hours before the deadline.
    • Ballots were burned at drop boxes in Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, destroying potentially hundreds of ballots. Officials said they believe the incidents are linked.
    • One Pennsylvania county busted a batch of 2,500 voter registration forms with large numbers of allegedly fraudulent forms.
    • Detroit, Michigan destroyed ballot dropbox video that was supposed to be preserved in a voter integrity investigation.
    • A “database error” in Arizona miscategorized more than 218,000 voters who had not proven their US citizenship.

    Read on for details.…”

    https://sharylattkisson.substack.com/p/cheating-in-the-2024-election

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