I found a funny article on Heavy.com detailing WORST Christmas gifts ever and I had to share! I removed all the links for the “gifts” she recommends and/or mentions, but they can be found at the link at the bottom.
From Heavy.com:
I’ve been known to give the worst Christmas gifts ever. I once gave my brother and his then-pregnant wife what I thought was a baby hat, which later turned out to be an oven mitt. (In my defense, no one in that town spoke English, and that quilted triangle could be worn on an infant’s head.)
It’s even worse when your gift hurts someone’s feelings. As a kid, I gave my dad plus-sized pajama pants, because I thought they looked comfy. (They were a few sizes too large.) The incident has gone down in family lore.
To help you avoid similar mishaps, I’ve compiled what I’ve learned about the worst Christmas gifts.
They usually fall into a few major categories: gifts that highlight someone’s perceived flaws (like acne products and weight-loss supplements); gifts that reveal how little you know about the recipient (like getting a dog leash for someone who doesn’t have a dog); and — my personal favorite — misguided self-help books.
(There is no category for accidentally giving someone an oven mitt for their baby. That’s just something that can happen if you get stoned while Christmas shopping in a foreign country.)
If you, too, have realized you’re a terrible gift-giver, don’t worry: Redemption is possible. For each of these mistakes, we’ve provided alternate gifts your loved ones will truly appreciate.
Read on to avoid giving the worst Christmas gifts.
A Very Pointed Self-Help Book
Bonus points if you give this to your boss. Self-help books can make for awkward gifting. (When I was 19, I unwrapped my Christmas gifts to find multiple books on how to overcome your “quarter-life crisis” — which I wasn’t aware I was having. It would’ve been a lot cooler if I had received one of these great books for 20 somethings.)
The intentions are good: You want to help someone. But instead of highlighting their shortcomings, choose a book with practices or insights that could help them grow — or, um, stop being a jerk — on their own.
“How to Text Men: The Ultimate Guide to Learn How to Text a Man and Make Him Beg for Your Attention”
This totally real, non-ironic book includes “word-for-word texts” to “make him CRAZY for you.”
If you use these texts, he won’t be the only one who’s CRAZY. “Discover how to make men BEGGING for your attention with brilliant texts,” reads the promotional text. Don’t give this to anyone. (Unless it’s a joke gift for your hilarious and proudly single friend.) Again, you might mean well: Maybe you want to help your friend find a good man, and she keeps screwing it up by sending kooky texts. But maybe your friend is actually doing just fine. Maybe she’s just not that into men. Maybe she enjoys spending time with herself.
Instead of helping her find a man, you could help her enjoy her solo time. Maybe she could pick up a new hobby, like vaporizing. Check out our guide to the best vaporizers. Or, buy her some organic CBD oil instead.
Sweat-Absorbing Armpit Pads for Your Sweaty Coworker
Got a super-sweaty coworker? Maybe they’re sweaty because they drink too much coffee. (Caffeine stimulates sweat production. This is a real problem. Um, I’ve heard.) Get them some mushroom coffee. It contains half the caffeine of normal coffee — and it may provide a less jittery buzz, in addition to other benefits.
Super Creepy “Revenge” Voodoo Doll
Don’t buy this doll. Even if you believe someone deserves revenge. The doll comes with pins you can stick on its different labels, which are designed to inflict various levels of revenge, ranging from “serious canker sores” to “deeply lonely life.” If your friend is wishing for someone else to have a “deeply lonely life,” they probably need therapy. But since you can’t give them that — at least not with a bow tied on it — give them John Prine’s “Sweet Revenge” album instead. His lyrical music and sense of humor might actually help them untangle their anger issues.
“How to Text Men: Texts That Will Make Him Want You”
Amazon offers many how-to books about texting men. (Any of them could make for the worst Christmas gifts ever.) This book’s cover features a woman who clearly needs author Joshua Bell’s advice on how to attract men. Bell promises to teach us “the ONE thing that will make him go crazy… and beg for your attention.” Later in the book, Joshua (who, according to his author bio, has an English degree), will teach us “the truth about the morning text and the good night text.” Wow. Can’t wait.
Please don’t buy this book for anyone — no matter how often they fumble their flirty texting. Instead, get her a rose quartz crystal, which is believed to aid in matters of the heart. She will definitely get better advice from a rock than from this book.
“The Attraction Blueprint: The Counterintuitive Approach To Attracting Any Woman You Want” by Sebastian Castaneda
According to this book, you can attract any woman with some simple psychological manipulation. (It’s easy!) This could make for a joke gift for a buddy who reads on their morning commute. Otherwise, don’t buy this book for anyone. The promotional text starts off by mentioning Freud, for reasons that remain unclear. Then it gets downright creepy: “Fear must be used as a source of absolute power. Do you want the power to hand select any girl you want? […] Do you want to get something from a woman without even having to ask?”
Um, ew. Somehow this book was published in 2017, by which time most of the general public had at least heard of the concept of consent. There’s not much information about the author, which I’m guessing is because he’s in jail. Just kidding. I have no idea where the author is. But still — don’t buy this book. Instead, check out this book produced by comedian John Oliver. It’s a children’s book about a rabbit, so it’s intended for a higher reading level than Castaneda’s manipulation handbook.
Any Book by This Disgraced Former TV Star
On a list of worsts, this book takes the cake. Apparently, Bill Cosby considered himself an expert on romance. In the book’s first sentence, Cosby says the first step towards romance is “learning to lie” to yourself. (Red flag much?) Don’t buy this book — even for a gag gift. Unless you’re buying all the available copies, and burning them in a bonfire while videotaping it. That actually might be a cool gift.
Maybe you should check out our gift ideas for women in their 20s. Any of them would be a better gift than this book — regardless of whether the recipient is a twenty-something woman or not. If you’re looking for a book written by a TV star, check out Chelsea Handler’s new book instead. I’m pretty sure she hasn’t drugged anyone. Except herself.
“Come on, People: On the Path from Victims to Victors” by Bill Cosby
Cosby actually did know something about victims — just not the kind he wrote about in this book. He chastises those who drop out of school or accept welfare, and reserves particular scorn for black men who end up in prison (where he himself would finally be incarcerated in 2019). Cosby shamed individuals while ignoring the systemic racism that ravaged their communities. He promoted this myth for years. To learn more about why that Cosby-style argument is wrong (aside from the obvious), check out any work by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Cat Toys for a Person Without a Cat
If you give this to someone without a cat, you may leave them feeling confused. Even if you think it looks fun to play with. It’s possible that you are just obsessed with cats. (Or on drugs.) If you’re determined to give a cat-related gift, but you can’t remember whether or not your friend is a fellow cat person, check out this book, “How to Talk to Your Cat About Gun Safety.”
Only fellow cat-owners will be able to put this advice to use, but everyone with a sense of humor will appreciate this book — regardless of where they fall on the political spectrum. Or the cat-person spectrum.
Your Suggested Birthing Plan for Their Pregnancy
Giving your friend this DVD would be a huge mistake. Nobody has a DVD player anymore. But even if your friend both owns a DVD player and is also pregnant, their birth plan is probably none of your business. (Bonus weirdness points if you get this for someone who’s not pregnant.) It’s nice that you want them to feel good. But maybe get them something less intrusive, like this herbal tea sampler.
“Face Mask for Sagging Skin & Double Chins”
Don’t point out your loved one’s double chin. Not even in a fun, you-look-like-Santa sort of way. Of course, some skincare gifts are awesome. Snag this body butter instead. It’s luxurious, lavender-scented, and — best of all — it doesn’t scream “you’re aging poorly.”
A Book You Think Will Improve Their Marriage
A general rule for better gift-giving: Avoid anything that seems custom-made for Donald Trump to give to Melania. (Well, if he wasn’t afraid of books.) “Men are right,” this book’s promo text reads. “Men want closer marriages just as much as women do, but not if they have to act like a woman.” This book has it all: misogyny, stereotypes, and permission for men to behave badly. If you’re looking for advice on living in a superficial pretend-marriage, this book is for you.
But if you want to help someone deepen their actual marriage? Maybe help them find a hobby that fosters togetherness instead. Like cooking.
Cosmetic Teeth to Conceal Their Real Teeth
You might need some fake teeth of your own, after you try to give this cosmetic tooth kit to someone. If your loved one has dental problems, remember to recognize their inner beauty. Then practice compassion: Dental problems can cause sufferers stress, anxiety, and pain. CBD could help alleviate their dental discomfort. Buy them a soothing CBD tincture instead. Then watch out for all the (real) smiles.
SOURCE: HEAVY.COM
Sew Colorful 
heck of a list
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freaking amazing son!!
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awwwwwwww
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sweeeet
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lol
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Morning All!
looks to be about 30-32* outside but raining/ it will probably freeze so we’re limited to what we can do today but we need to bring in firewood for sure. that will tricky enough
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Morning, Pat! 25 here this morning & partly cloudy. Still no Wheezer yet. I’ll head for Norfolk closer to noon, after it’s warmed up a bit.
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Afternoon Filly!
save travels if you haven’t already left!
hubby says we should do walmart this afternoon…
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Nope – had to do a load of laundry first, which is in the dryer. It will be a couple of hours yet before I leave. Warmer, too! We just hit 50 w/bright sun, thankfully.
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Pegon Zellschmidt
Pegon Zellschmidt
December 28, 2024 9:34 am
FinCEN — which stands for “Financial Crimes Enforcement Network” — is an unchecked federal agency that plans to use your personal information to build a massive database for law enforcement purposes. This database will then be shared widely by the Feds, and could be leaked to the media as so much other private information is these days.
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (“AAPS”) filed a Motion for a Preliminary Injunction against the new mandate requiring tens of millions of Americans to report personal information to the federal government. By January 1, 2025, Americans who participate in managing small entities – even some political ones — must report their home addresses, birthdates, and other information such as driver’s license numbers to the federal government.
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) is creating a massive new database of personal information about ordinary, law-abiding Americans, to share widely with other agencies and even internationally to facilitate federal investigations and prosecutions. FinCEN will assign a “FinCEN identifier” to everyone about whom it receives this information, the brief notes.
https://aapsonline.org/aaps-files-for-a-preliminary-injunction-against-mandatory-disclosure-to-fincen/
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She’s 100% correct!!!
Just The News: “Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Friday weighed in on the debate on hiring foreign workers for skilled labor and encouraged young Americans to invest in useful skills instead of social media content.
The debate resurfaced this week after President-elect Donald Trump appointed Sriram Krishnan as senior policy adviser for artificial intelligence. Krishnan suggested last month that Elon Musk consider lifting caps on green cards for skilled immigrants, which triggered the debate on hiring foreign engineers in Silicon Valley versus training U.S. workers for the roles. Musk will help lead Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency.
Greene on Friday supported Americans focusing more on skilled labor, and a strong work ethic, and encouraged younger generations to pursue careers like engineering, and coding instead of social media and content creation.
“Too many of our young people, are killing their bodies and minds on alcohol and drugs, wasting years and money earning useless college degrees, chasing unrealistic dreams, spending all their time trying to be the next youtuber/content creator/social media influencer instead of pursuing a useful skill set/trade/education in order to become a part of our much needed American workforce,” Greene wrote in a post on X.
“If you fall in this category, put down the selfie light, and go apply for a job and replace the H1-B visa holders and all the other skilled labor jobs that foreign workers are taking and American companies are desperately trying to hire.”
Greene also called for a larger change to the current education system in the United States, to create a culture that celebrates hard work.
“In order to go forward we must change our education system, create a culture that respects hard work and productivity, cut government waste/spending/regulations in order to produce a healthy robust economy that lowers inflation and pays higher wages to an American workforce, so that H1-B is no longer needed and can be done away with,” she wrote.
“Decades of America LAST bad decisions in Washington wove a giant web of America LAST policies that created systems and structures that must be torn down and rebuilt to put America FIRST,” Greene continued. “This requires everyone’s help to change it and we will all have to do what it takes to get it done.”
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she IS right!
there have always been those get-rich quick types of people in the past, but there wasn’t instant gratification like u-tube, phones, etc to promote those types of people. now there is.
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going out to load firewood. bbl
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Aaaaand….here we go again! SMDH
Just The News: “A patient in Louisiana who was hospitalized with the bird flu has a genetic analysis conducted that showed a virus in the patient could potentially make the disease more transmittable to humans.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed this case earlier this month and said the patient who got the disease likely got it from coming in contact with sick and dead birds. The patient has a strain called D1.1 which is close to viruses circulating in wild birds and poultry in the U.S.
The analysis released earlier this week said that the mutations from the disease might increase the possibilities of the bird flu impacting humans. “The changes observed were likely generated by replication of this virus in the patient with advanced disease rather than primarily transmitted at the time of infection,” the CDC stated, according to CNN.
“Although concerning, and a reminder that A(H5N1) viruses can develop changes during the clinical course of a human infection, these changes would be more concerning if found in animal hosts or in early stages of infection … when these changes might be more likely to facilitate spread to close contacts,” the statement continued.
The analysis also found that antiviral drugs likely wouldn’t do well against the virus.”
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so is this flu type what they’re spraying in the clouds (you know, where the BIRDS are?)
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Wouldn’t surprise me!
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I knew it! She blew up her marriage for that POS!!!! And she acts oh-so-holy!!! This is exactly why I never trust anyone who constantly spouts scripture! 9 times out of 10, when someone does that (and they aren’t a pastor or priest) they’re hiding something! Disgusting! Some will say, “well, you were divorced multiple times.” Yes, I was – but NEVER because there was another man in the picture nor have I ever claimed to be the oh-so-holy Christian SHE claims to be! I never ONCE violated my vow to be true to my hubby! Granted, I was pretty stupid in my choices but I remained steadfast until the relationship was officially over. They claim they began “dating” in 2020, which is BS!!!
From Wiki: “Earhardt’s first marriage to Kevin McKinney in April 2005 ended in divorce in 2009. In October 2012, Earhardt married former Clemson University quarterback Will Proctor.[36][37][38] They have one child.[39][40] They divorced in 2019.”
From Vanity Fair, June 2020: “The news of their relationship, which was first reported by Vanity Fair earlier Thursday, drew denials from both.
“Right now I am focused on raising my daughter and I am not dating anyone,” Earhardt, a Fox & Friends co-host, said through a network spokesperson. “As anyone at Fox News will tell you, Sean is a wonderful person and whomever he chooses to date will be extremely fortunate.” In his own statement through a spokesperson, Hannity said: “I do not discuss my personal life in public.”
But the source familiar with the situation says the two have “been seeing each other very secretively for years. He’s very private because he’s very famous and he’s very controversial,” the source says, “but it’s been an open secret that they have been seeing each other.”
Earhardt has been recording at Hannity’s home studio on Long Island, New York, and is renting a home nearby. “They’re together all the time, but in private … for years,” the source says, “not just months.”
The source says Earhardt and Hannity have been seen together “acting flirty in off-hours” and “getting cozy in the back of “a New York City bar not far from the Fox News studios. “And he’s whisked her off on his chopper for a vacation many times,” the source says. According to Vanity Fair, Earhardt rode on Hannity’s helicopter with him last August to the wedding of another Fox News host, Pete Hegseth.
Last week, Hannity and his ex-wife, Jill Rhodes, confirmed they had quietly divorced more than a year ago and separated years before that. They were together for more than 20 years.”
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Just The News: “Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Ainsley Earhardt on Thursday announced that they had gotten engaged over the holidays.
“We are overjoyed and so thankful to our families for all of their love and support during this wonderful time in our lives,” the couple said to Fox News in a statement. Hannity hosts his own show on Fox News and Earhardt is a host on the show “Fox & Friends.”
The couple confirmed that they had the blessing of their children prior to the engagement. Hannity has two kids from his previous marriage and Earhardt has a daughter from a previous relationship. They first started dating in 2020.”
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don’t know either of them
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Oh, surely you know Hannity from Fox.
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I saw the amount on TV right after I got back from running to the store yesterday and seriously considered going back out to buy a ticket….my luck, it wouldn’t have made a diff but…..I kinda wish I had now, dang it! LOL
Just The News: “A lottery player in the Golden State is about to start the New Year in grand fashion. Officials said early Saturday that one ticket bought in California matched all numbers in Friday’s Megamillions drawing — 3, 7, 37, 49, 55 and 6 — to win the $1.22 billion top prize.
The winner was sold at Sunshine Food and Gas in Cottonwood, a small community in northern California, according to the state lottery website. The jackpot had been building since Sept. 13 and is the fifth-largest in the history of the game.
The jackpot win was only the third in 2024, the lowest number in a single year since Megamillions was formed as a seven state lottery coalition in 2002 and began expanding nationwide.
Friday’s drawing came five days after a winning jackpot of $1.128 billion from was belatedly claimed Monday by a couple in New Jersey.”
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hubby thought the drawing was tonight…so we didn’t buy any tickets either. bummer
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EXCERPT: “….Though the death row commutations were particularly infuriating, some have suggested that maybe it wasn’t Biden himself who was the driving force behind the move. Among them is Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), who during a Fox News interview Thursday noted that he believed Biden didn’t even know what he was signing:
Donalds then expanded on his point, stating that this was something the radical left wanted to do all along but now had the chance to do because, in his view, Biden – for all intents and purposes – is not in charge anymore (if he ever was at all) in the final weeks of his presidency:
Honestly, I think at this point that a convincing case could be made that Donalds is not that far off in suggesting Biden didn’t have a clue what he was signing off on with the death row commutations. Quite frankly, since the election, the few times he’s been seen or given speeches he’s looked and sounded even worse than he did in the months leading up to Election Day….”
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2024/12/27/byron-donalds-floats-theory-about-the-biden-death-row-commutations-and-he-might-be-right-on-the-money-n2183677
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I agree…but what can be done without a whistleblower? even WITH a whistleblower?
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Nothing at the moment but Trump’s DOJ will be vastly different!
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NF: Candace has definitely screwed the pooch this time! Good grief, woman! Lighten up!!! SMH
EXCERPT: “There’s a line from that Adele song, “Hello,” that always triggers the “ick” factor in me: “I was wondering if after all these years you’d like to meet, To go over everything”
Friends, if your ex asks “to go over everything” years after you’ve split up, RUN AWAY. Nothing good can come of this. I got that same ick factor when provocateur Candace Owns essentially asked to “go over everything” with The Babylon Bee. It all started on Christmas Eve when Bee owner and CEO Seth Dillon shared Vivek Ramaswamy’s reaction to the satire site roasting him:
“When we joked about Vivek, he laughed and leaned into it — then sat down with us to talk about the need to take ourselves less seriously and lose our “hunger for sanctimony.” He’s an impressive guy all around, but this moment really stood out.”
(I know we’re supposed to be mad at Ramaswamy today, but bear with me. This is not about him.) For some odd reason, Candace Owens thought she should be involved in the discussion:
“Is this an invitation for me to come on your podcast and discuss your really funny jokes? Because if so, I fully accept. I think it would be an illuminating discussion for the public to understand why I simply do not like the way you move behind the scenes.”
(The reason is not so odd when you recognize that one of the ways to get noticed on X is to pick a fight with someone with a lot of followers.)
Someone in the thread suggested that Dillon and Owens debate. Owens replied, “Not even a debate. A discussion about his company and jokes which will help clarify matters to the public. He is publicly representing that this is all just satire and nothing more and I am stating that I know he is not being truthful. Daylight is always the best disinfectant.”
Lighten up, lady! You don’t belong on social media if you can’t laugh at yourself. There is no need to go over everything when it comes to jokes and satire. There is nothing that must be “clarified.” There’s nothing to “disinfect.” There’s no nefarious Jew plot going on behind the scenes at the Bee.
I’m guessing her post was a reaction to this Bee post: “Candace Owens Horrified To Learn Christmas Was Started By Birth Of A Jew” from Dec. 22:
https://babylonbee.com/news/candace-owens-horrified-to-learn-christmas-was-started-by-birth-of-a-jew
The point of satire is to use humor to mock someone’s foibles; in this case, it’s Owens’ long history of antisemitic comments.
[Update: Astute reader C. S. P. Schofield noted in the comments: “Sweetie, satire with a political point to make is pretty much where satire STARTED. It’s supposed to bite. Go read Swift’s ‘A Modest Proposal,’ but not while you’re eating. If you can’t handle the kind of gentle joshing the Babylon Bee hands out, you REALLY need to retire from public life and take up orchid culture or something.”]….
https://pjmedia.com/paula-bolyard/2024/12/27/candace-owens-challenges-the-babylon-bee-to-a-fight-or-something-n4935468
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“From Woke to Law: Realigning the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division to Correct Decades of Judicial Overreach — Reviving the Constitution’s Original Meaning to Combat the Weaponization of Justice.”
Paul Ingrassia, Dec 28, 2024
EXCERPT: “The Justice Department under the next Trump administration has a duty to remove protected classes for groups that have exploited civil rights laws to garner extra privileges and rights, over and above the rights of American citizens.
Of note include illegal aliens and LGBT persons. Neither of these groups should have ever enjoyed the privileges of heightened scrutiny analysis within the purview of Title VII or Civil Rights law generally. These laws were never intended for such persons, however, over years they have been misapplied and misinterpreted, resulting in very real harms to society.
In fact, heightened scrutiny analysis has no basis whatsoever in the text of the Constitution itself and can be rightly deemed anathema with the letter and spirit of the Constitution, though that is a separate topic worthy of its own discussion.
For decades, America’s civil rights jurisprudence has clouded and distorted the Constitutions’ original meaning and purpose. Activist judges, under the pretext of “judicial review,” have perverted the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment and other laws and constitutional provisions in service to a liberal ideology, now recognizably termed as “woke.” New standards of review were manifested into existence, such as “intermediate scrutiny,” which is used to adjudicate cases of alleged sex or gender-based discrimination.
None of these developments have a relationship, directly or indirectly, to the text or original intent of the Constitution itself. Instead, they have been weaponized in many cases against businesses, schools, and legacy American citizens, creating hostile work environments that actively prioritize non-Americans while at the same time discriminating against men and native-born people in many cases. The result has been to establish and legitimize a new form of institutionalized racism, directed primarily at whites – who themselves increasingly are a numerical minority in many states.
All of this has been made in service to an ideology born out of the civil rights movement that is oriented around a fundamentally Marxist view of history. This ideology perceives all historically disenfranchised and “wronged” minorities as needing legal recourse, in the form of extra-constitutional remedies that ultimately seek to establish absolute equality – now commonly described as “equity” – in real world outcomes.
This is in sharp contrast with the far more limited goal of legal equality enumerated under the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Whereas the former is ordered towards achieving equal outcomes, the latter establishes a baseline of generally applicable standards like fairness and justice for all parties regardless of background that courts must adhere to.
Arguably for the first time in decades an opportunity has opened for the DOJ to seriously reconsider our civil rights jurisprudence, much of which was devised by overzealous judges and courts while ignoring the text of the Fourteenth Amendment, or more recently, even the Civil Rights Act, whose framers certainly did not envision extending constitutional guarantees to transgender persons, under any circumstances.
A significant portion of this debate will naturally be centered on the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, which is a department within the DOJ tasked with enforcing federal statutes prohibiting discrimination on a variety of factors.
Those in favor of the division’s outright abolishment contend that our civil rights jurisprudence has been like a runaway train, often abusing its mandate to embark upon fishing expeditions to find cases of discrimination where none truly exist. Critics argue that the department has basically no redeeming value whatsoever. They maintain it should be shut down wholesale for violating the rights of Americans – including the speech and property rights of political dissidents, who are increasingly met with heavy-handed justice, under the pretext of civil rights…..”
https://paulingrassia.substack.com/p/from-woke-to-law-realigning-the-dojs
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hubby’s gonna LOVE these cars!!
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Looks like bacon to me!!!
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yup, I see bacon!
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No shit!!!
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NF: In all my daydreams, I try to tackle this question: what would I do? This is good advice, IMO.
“You walk with basically 25% of the total prize amount, and – if you’re most people – you’ll piss that away in five years. Set up a trust and claim it in the trust, taking the payout over 20 years. There is nothing on earth you need that you couldn’t buy when you get your (approx) $ 40,000,000.00+/- every January first, and you can gift the trust in your will. Me? I might wanna buy a new truck. And get a legal name change. And move somewhere where nobody knows me. And maybe a couple new hats, but that’s about it…”
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I agree…a trust is the way I’d go
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Well, that took longer than usual but I took my time since it was such a nice day. WM didn’t have the small WP blocks but they had the double-blocks and the feeder for them was only $10 so I grabbed it, as well as 3 big blocks. That should last them for a little while at least. Also another 20 lbs. of bird seed. Wheezer was waiting on the patio when I got home – guess he finally wore himself out. I spend more feeding the birds and the 2 cats than I do on myself!
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LOL
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Just The News: “President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that he supports visas for highly skilled immigrants amid the ongoing debate about the H-1B program among MAGA supporters.
“I’ve always liked the visas,” Trump told the New York Post. “I have always been in favor of the visas. That’s why we have them.” He referred to the program as “great.” “I have many H-1B visas on my properties,” Trump told the outlet. “I’ve been a believer in H-1B. I have used it many times. It’s a great program.”
Trump has restricted foreign worker visas in the past. Senior Trump adviser Stephen Miller has been a big advocate for restrictive immigration, as well as restrictions on H-1B visas. Miller had influence on a bill that would have imposed major restrictions on the visas such as requiring applicants to work abroad for at least 10 years, according to The Times of India, and for them to receive a high minimum salary of over $100,000 a year when granted such visas.
The conversation heated up when former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy posted Thursday that the main reason tech companies hire foreign-born and first-generation engineers over “native” Americans is due to an American educational culture that promotes mediocrity instead of striving for excellence.
Elon Musk, co-head along with Ramaswamy of DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, posted on social media platform X Friday night, that “The reason I’m in America along with so many critical people who built SpaceX, Tesla and hundreds of other companies that made America strong is because of H1B.”
“I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend,” he added.
On the other side of the debate within MAGA world was former Trump strategist Steve Bannon and others in his circle who argue that many of the people who come to U.S. companies via the H-1B visas are not high-skilled workers superior to Americans with similar educations, but rather are brought here because they are significantly cheaper for the companies.”
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this is going to be a fight!
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EXCERPT: “The US State Department has declared a US citizen who has been imprisoned in Russia for three years on drug smuggling charges is “wrongfully detained.” Marc Fogel, a history teacher from Butler County, PA, was arrested in August 2021 as he returned to Russia for his tenth year teaching there. Fogel had 17 grams of cannabis, which he alleges was obtained by prescription for treating chronic back pain. The Russians looked at it as drug possession and smuggling. They had a point.
(Thanks for the support, son.)
That escapade resulted in the globetrotting expatriate drawing a 14-year prison sentence. Fogel was not included in the December 2022 US-Russia prisoner swap involving WNBA player Brittney Griner.
In August 2024, another prisoner swap between Russia and the US freed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, Marine veteran Paul Whelan and Russian-American radio journalist Alsu Kurmasheva, but not Marc Fogel. That last deal included British-Russian dual national political activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, who, according to the State Department, “was not determined by this department to be wrongfully detained, but yet we were still able to secure his release last week.”……
https://redstate.com/streiff/2024/12/28/state-department-leaves-a-stink-bomb-for-the-trump-team-n2183681
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“Texas Teens Discover FAFO Is Real”
Bearing Arms, By Tom Knighton | 5:30 PM | December 27, 2024
ENTIRE ARTICLE: “There comes a point in every child’s life when they learn that Santa isn’t a real person. I do tend to like the concept that he’s real, but as an idea, but that’s not particularly relevant. It’s just timely considering what Wednesday was.
What is relevant, though, is that there are a lot of other things people should learn either are or aren’t real. The promises of communism aren’t real, for example, but the Law of Supply and Demand is.
Also, FAFO–otherwise known as F*** Around and Find Out–is very real, as a group of Texas teens found out when they thought it would be a blast to try and commit an armed robbery.
Yes. In Texas. It went about like you’d expect.
Fair questions. These kids may well have had BB guns, but when it’s pointing at you in a dark parking lot, no one is going to measure the barrel diameter. I assure you, they all tend to look like a .50 caliber when they’re in your face.
So, from what we’ve seen, it looks like four kids thought it would be a blast to rob this dude, didn’t account for the fact that they were in Texas, three of them got shot and the fourth is probably looking at serious charges. Note that the report says “several weapons” were collected from the scene. That means there was more than the armed citizen’s firearm.
Under my Texas law, as I understand it, there won’t be any charges against the man. He defended himself from what sure looked like a reasonable threat from here, and I’m sure a DA will see it the same way.
Folks, kids aren’t immune to getting shot. They’re not immune from being complete idiots and trying to hold up an armed individual who will then use a gun to defend himself or herself. If they test the principle of FAFO, they will find out so freaking hard that it’s not even amusing.
Well, it’s a little amusing, really.”
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kids watch violent video games and never consider the consequences.
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Good night, Pat!
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Good Night Filly!
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