Mississippi State Mammal: White Tailed Deer

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It seems a lot of states have the white-tailed deer as their state mammals.  I found this article on Birds & Blooms showing some very funny and cute photos of deer—many, but not all—are white-tails.

From Birds & Blooms:

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    1. Morning, Pat! We’ve got 28 this morning and 2+ inches of snow. Wheezer was waiting and my, was he ever loving this morning! Rubbing against me, butting me with his head, wanting to come inside, etc. – he ate and is now in my chair curled up and grooming himself. He hasn’t been up on the chair for months! Ah, cats! Ya’ just never know what your gonna get!

      The wind woke me around 3 am so I had to go out and bring in the WP feeders. Steel grey skies and it’s still pretty breezy so I won’t put them back out just yet.

      We need a pick-me-up, don’t you think???

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      1. every New Year’s Eve, the kids and us would each make a prediction for the new year (and it couldn’t be something general…like it will snow, etc.) and seal all 4 of them in an envelope to be opened New Year’s Eve to see who’s prediction came the closest–they won a prize (think it was like $10 lol) AND then we’d also make a resolution for the new year and seal those in an envelope. new year’s eve we’d open them to see who made it the longest with their resolution…they also won a prize.
        we’d laugh and laugh opening the predictions and the resolutions. fun times

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          1. it was. as soon as it started to get cold, we would draw a large picture (the 3 of us…hubby doesn’t draw) of snowmen and such and then we drew a ruled line on the side. we had different questions written on the opposite side–like when will the first measurable snowfall be? the biggest snowfall will occur on which day? how much will that be? and what will the total winter snowfall be for the season?
            the kids devised a “snow measuring” station in the yard for “official” readings.
            we had some great family times.

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    1. Morning GA! and thanks…I’m bringing the whole article. I never knew half of this stuff! eye opening for sure!

      Outgoing President Joe Biden urged incoming President Donald Trump to learn “decency” from permanently outgoing former president President Jimmy Carter. Biden once set his sights high by trying to compare himself to FDR and JFK, now has to settle for being the second Carter.

      On his way out the door, the media continues to insist that Biden is a good man. And that Carter, despite presiding over one of the worst administrations in history, was a good man.

      Biden and Carter had many things in common, record unpopularity, crooked brothers, and empowering Islamic terrorists, but decency was never one of them.

      Joe Biden was not a good man. Neither was Jimmy Carter.

      Carter ran for office promising an administration “that’s turned away from scandal and corruption and official cynicism and is once again as decent and competent as our people.” That was a lie.

      That “new morality” turned out to be a corrupt triangle between Billy Carter, Jimmy’s version of ‘Hunter’, a drunk who peddled foreign influence and mismanaged the family business, only to be bailed out by the National Bank of Georgia, whose president Bert Lance, was a Carter appointee, adviser and head of the Office of Management and the Budget.

      Lance was forced to resign and was indicted on charges of bank fraud in a trial that required testimony from Carter’s mother and involved accusations of improper loans to family members.

      Peanuts from the Carter warehouse were being used as collateral for loans from the bank complete with forged documents allowing the family business to sell the ‘collateral’ and a special counsel was appointed to investigate whether the dirty money found its way into the Carter campaign funds. The media argued that the actions of his brother and OMB director had nothing to do with Jimmy Carter. Even when Carter expressed his support and pride for Lance.

      When Billy Carter shilled for Libya, the media also claimed it had nothing to do with his brother. And then Jimmy left office and began shilling for so many dictators that the full list would run for pages. Over the course of his long retirement, Jimmy Carter not only met with Gaddafi, who had paid his brother $220,000, but with Zimbabwe’s Mugabe, Kim Il Sung of North Korea, Venezuela’s Maduro and Hugo Chavez, Syria’s Assad and Fidel Castro in Cuba.

      And Carter not only met with them, he loved them and covered up for them. He claimed that he “never doubted Hugo Chávez’s commitment to improving the lives of millions of his fellow countrymen” and on Castro’s death remembered “fondly our visits with him in Cuba and his love of his country.” The more people Jimmy’s tyrants killed, the harder he hugged them.

      Jimmy Carter loved terrorists and so he not only embraced Arafat, but also Hamas.

      In April 2008, Jimmy Carter met with Hamas and claimed that the Islamic terrorists wanted to live in peace with Israel. The next month, as a peaceful gesture Hamas fired a rocket at an Israeli shopping mall, wounding 90 including a mother and her 3-year-old daughter.

      But the more tyrants and terrorists Jimmy Carter met with, the more he built up his reputation as a good man just trying to fix the world. But Carter wasn’t fixing the world by empowering some of the worst mass murderers in the world, he was continuing to break it and make it worse.

      Carter met with mass murderers responsible for starving half a million people to death and then with terrorists aspiring to take over countries like Israel not because he wanted to stop the violence, but because he wanted to dial it up further by providing them with legitimacy.

      Jimmy’s ‘Carter Center’ claimed to monitor foreign elections while sanctioning corrupt leftist takeovers like the one in Venezuela which led to protests, starvation and mass migration to America. His activities on behalf of enemies like Saddam Hussein and North Korea went well beyond lobbying or even violations of the Logan Act and into a territory of outright treason.

      That included contacting world leaders and urging them to oppose the United States and making announcements in America’s name at meetings with foreign leaders. A normal D.C. lobbyist would have gone to prison for half the things that Carter did. And no one except a former president wearing the media mantle of sainthood could have gotten away with it.

      Why did Carter go to such trouble for Saddam Hussein and North Korea? Why did he go on a fundraising mission for the Islamic terrorists of the PLO? While Carter claimed to be a peacenik, tens of millions of dollars were pouring into the Carter Center including from foreign governments. Long before the Clinton Foundation, Jimmy Carter had built a massive foreign influence machine under the guise of a humanitarian operation that “came to him in a dream.”

      Even Habitat for Humanity, a key element in the rebranding of Carter as a humanitarian, couldn’t escape the sleaze when he led efforts to cover up sexual harassment at the organization.

      It wasn’t the first time that Carter let out the lust in his heart and protected sexual abusers.

      Biden’s mass commutations for murderers and rapists shocked a nation, but before him Carter had pardoned Peter Yarrow, of the group, Peter, Paul & Mary, for sexual misconduct with a 14-year-old girl.

      Jimmy Carter had covered for tyrants and terrorists who had murdered entire populations. Compared to that, what was the worth of the life and innocence of a single teenage girl?

      The worst thing about Carter was the way he had of converting his crimes into virtues. Unrepentant until the day of his long-delayed death, Carter and his defenders always claimed that everything he did only came about because he was too trusting and forgiving.

      Any other man with that the same political and family corruption, the cronies and associates who ripped off businesses and the country, the parade of terrorists and dictators, would have been denounced, but Jimmy Carter beatifically smiled, acting as if his ties to sinners made him that much more of a saint, and that embracing evil was evidence of his moral superiority.

      The worse Jimmy’s monsters were, the more he acted like he was saving their souls.

      Joe Biden could only dream of wearing that same fake religiosity that Jimmy wore through the White House and to Havana, Pyongyang and Caracas, or of a post-presidency redeeming himself by courting the world’s monsters. Biden may have been the second coming of Carter, but the stars aligned so that the first coming concluded weeks before the second coming was done.

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  15. EXCERPT: “As the tributes roll in before America bids farewell to Jimmy Carter, current global turbulence provides fresh reminders that the decisions the late 39th president made in office continue to impact the world four decades later and present both challenges and opportunities for the man about to assume the White House for a second term.

    Many of the issues confronting President-elect Donald Trump – Iran, the Panama Canal, the Education Department and appeasement diplomacy – have their roots in the Carter presidency, a reality that can’t be erased by the significant humanitarian achievements the former president aggregated after he left office or the widely recognized kindness of the God-fearing, Navy-serving peanut farmer who lived to be 100.

    “I don’t think there’s anyone that would say a bad thing about him, personally,” said Nicholas Giordano, a political science professor at Suffolk Community College and a popular podcaster. “He was genuinely a good and decent human being.

    “But it shows you that sometimes being good and decent isn’t necessarily equating to success as president,” he added. 

    Here are a few of the good-guy-bad-policy debates that arose in Carter’s final days on earth as Trump prepares to return to the White House next month.

    Panama Canal….

    China and Panama….

    The Iranian Revolution and Hostage Crisis….

    Iran falls to theocracy….

    U.S. Education Department….

    History’s Final Verdict — When the nation mourns Carter at his Jan. 9 State Funeral in Washington, D.C., he will accurately be remembered for his kindness, his faith, his service to country and the humanitarian achievements of his years out of office.

    But his successor as the 47th president will also be face global and national challenges that were also of Carter’s making, and history will ultimately write the final chapter on how those turned out.

    “Look, he was a statesman,” Walters said of Carter. “His impact, especially after coming out of the White House, was tremendous. You know, a guy that really gave a tremendous amount from him and his family to his fellow man. But listen, I. I think when you study history, we’ve got to be up front with our kids. 

    “It doesn’t matter if you’re Republican, Democrat, what your background is. We’ve got to go in and say, here’s what happened while this person was president. Here were their policies. Here was the impact,” he added.”

    https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/tuetributes-aside-jimmy-carters-passing-reminds-americans-his-presidency

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  16. Just The News: “House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan on Monday announced who would be leading the subcommittees for the 119th Congress.

    Jordan will remain the committee’s chairman in the next Congress, while Democratic Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin will serve as the ranking member of the coveted committee. Raskin previously worked as the ranking member of House Oversight.

    The chairman announced seven House Judiciary subcommittees for the next Congress, including a subcommittee on Oversight, a subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, and a subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance.

    The chairmen for the committees are: 

    • Wisconsin Rep. Scott Fitzgerald will chair the subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust
    • Texas Rep. Chip Roy will chair the subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government
    • California Rep. Darrell Issa will chair the subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet
    • Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs willl chair the subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance
    • California Rep. Tom McClintock will chair the subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement
    • New Jersey Rep. Jeff Van Drew will chair the subcommittee on Oversight

    Biggs, who is currently the chairman of the Crime and Federal Government Surveillance subcommittee, said he was “honored” to serve in the position for a second term.

    “We’ve worked diligently to expose the radical Biden-Harris regime’s weaponization of federal law enforcement agencies against law-abiding Americans and soft-on-crime and illegal alien policies that made our communities more dangerous,” Biggs said in a statement. “The American people demand change from the inside out, and the Subcommittee is ready to get back to work in January.”

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  17. Just The News: “The House Ethics Committee on Monday unanimously decided to close out four campaign finance violation investigations, concluding that none of the instances of misuse were done intentionally. 

    The investigations come after the House Ethics Committee released its report on former Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz, which found that there was evidence Gaetz paid multiple women for sex, including a 17-year-old high school junior, used illegal drugs like cocaine and ecstasy, and obstructed efforts by Congress to investigate his conduct.

    Gaetz has denied the allegations and a separate Justice Department investigation into the allegations did not yield any criminal charges.

    The latest cases focused on alleged campaign finance violations from Democratic Georgia Rep. Sanford Bishop, and GOP Reps. Ronny Jackson and Wesley Hunt of Texas, and Alex Mooney from West Virginia. 

    The panel concluded that while some of the cases included “evidence that the Member’s campaign did not fully comply with the applicable standards relating to personal use of campaign funds, as well as reporting or recordkeeping requirements for campaign expenditures,” none of the members violated campaign finance rules intentionally. 

    The committee decided not to take any disciplinary action against the lawmakers who did violate the rules, admitting that the existing rules under the Federal Election Commission are unclear, but gave them updated guidance and recommendations for how to avoid violations in the future, per Politico.

    Jackson praised the decision to dismiss his case, claiming it exonerated him from the allegations and that it proved he did not funds for personal use.

    “I am glad to put this ridiculous, partisan, and politically motivated matter behind me, and I am looking forward to working alongside President Trump to improve the lives of my constituents and all Americans,” Jackson told Politico.”

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  18. NF: The BC that the MIC released was a fake!

    The Federalist: “As desperate, phony, and even dangerous of a campaign Democrats ran this year, and as embarrassing as the outcome was for all of them, nobody came out looking more pathetic than Barack Obama. From 2024’s vantage point, is there any way to look at his legacy but as a tragic blight on American history?

    In the final months of the campaign, Obama seemed to know the outcome of the election would say just as much about him as it would about Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, or Donald Trump. And, like all realistic Democrats, he knew that the nominee he supported was on track to lose. His behavior in those days was nothing short of appalling.

    Obama first stood by and said nothing when George Clooney, who I had no idea was Democrat royalty, announced in The New York Times that Biden should give up his reelection campaign, as if there was some obvious plan as to what the party would do in that event. Obama did nothing and said nothing as his former vice president was squeezed out, and then he offered what should go down in Democrat history as the most uncomfortable, underwhelming endorsement a former president has ever offered a subsequent nominee. Obama participated in a highly staged phone call with Harris and, with all the enthusiasm of a mortician, told her, “It appears that people feel very strongly that you need to be our nominee.”

    It never got any better, and it climaxed in the shocking display of Obama belittling black men. Because he shared in their race (somewhat), Obama felt they should do as he said. “You’re coming up with all kinds of reasons and excuses,” he told them to their faces with his arms crossed and brow furrowed. “I’ve got a problem with that because part of it makes me think — and I’m speaking to men directly now — part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president.” Obama literally wagged his finger to tell these grown men, “That’s not acceptable. This shouldn’t even be a question.”

    If that weren’t crazed enough, he then trotted out wife Michelle to further nag male voters. “So fellas,” she said at a rally in Michigan, “before you cast your votes ask yourselves what side of history do you want to be on.” She said male “rage” is what could cost Democrats the election. “If we don’t get this election right,” she nagged, “your wife, your daughter, your mother — we as women will become collateral damage to your rage. So are you men prepared to look into the eyes of the women and children you love and tell them that you supported this assault on our safety?” (Can we get one of those overpaid consultants to advise women in politics that there’s nothing frank or authentic about referring to men as “fellas?”)

    Generally speaking, Democrat men have never been accused of being too manly, but it remains a mystery as to who came up with the idea to browbeat them into voting for Kamala. If it was Obama’s idea, man has he lost his magic. And if it wasn’t his idea, man has he lost his magic.

    “Hope and change” became, “Do what mommy and daddy said.”

    Then Trump won decisively, the first Republican in 20 years to win the popular vote. It’s the second time Trump defeated the Obama-backed candidate and the second chance Trump has to reverse the havoc Obama and his legacy have wrought.

    Consider that Obama’s supreme legislative achievement was a health insurance industry overhaul. The ultimate result has been higher prices and fewer insurance options. Obama supported Hillary Clinton as his successor, discouraging Biden. She was ended by Trump. In 2020, Biden became the Democrat nominee with the eventual support of Obama, only to preside over breakouts of foreign conflict, hyperinflation, rampant crime, and unmitigated chaos at the southern border, none of which was inevitable but in fact instigated by Biden’s agenda. Now voters are once again turning to Trump, the man who made his entry into the Obama-era of politics by demanding proof of Obama’s birth certificate, which Obama, the sitting president of the United States, responded to by publishing it. Sad!

    America is done with him. Obama was 2024’s biggest loser.”

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  20. She’s a VERY smart lady!!!

    EXCERPT: “Susie Wiles, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for White House Chief of Staff, is cracking the whip when it comes to social media use by any nominees requiring Senate confirmation. 

    With confirmation hearings set to begin next week, Wiles issued a memo over the weekend emphasizing that nominees should get prior approval from Team Trump if they absolutely must post and should never presume to speak for the president-elect.

    “While this instruction has been delivered previously, I am reiterating that no member of the incoming administration or Transition speaks for the United States or the President-elect himself,” Wiles wrote in a memo obtained by The Post.

    “Accordingly, all intended nominees should refrain from any public social media posts without prior approval of the incoming White House counsel,” she said in the Dec. 29 missive.

    Wiles also noted in her memo that she is appreciative of “how enthusiastic everyone is” to get to work when the new administration begins on January 20th, but they must first get through the Senate. In other words, pace yourselves.

    Some have speculated that Wiles was prompted to issue this proclamation following the Elon Musk-Vivek Ramaswamy kerfuffle last week over the use of H-1B visas, which garnered significant blowback from some in the MAGA movement and certain influencers. If you need a refresher on what went down, RedState’s streiff did an excellent summation.

    Musk and Ramaswamy, who will co-lead the non-governmental Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), will not require Senate confirmation, so the directive doesn’t apply to them. But, it seems that they may have unintentionally opened a can of worms over H-1B and Wiles wants it—and any other opinions that could potentially detract from the goals of the new administration—firmly shut.

    Pete Hegseth, Trump’s pick to be Secretary of Defense, seems to have taken Wiles’ words to heart and signed off of X for a while…..”

    https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2024/12/30/susie-wiles-social-media-ban-n2183755

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    1. we don’t have anything like costco here. mom goes to BJ’s (which I told her what that stands for in sleazy town–makes her love it more…LOL) but even that club is getting more expensive. everything is

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      1. The closest to me is either Sioux Falls, SD or some of our bigger cities, like Omaha & Lincoln, which are all about 2 – 3 hours from me.

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          1. Pretty much, I think. They started out (I think some still are?) as subscription stores – you had to join their “club” in order to shop there. At some point, they eliminated that requirement and really became similar to WM but with bulk items.

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              1. Don’t quote me on that – it’s been a very, very long time since I’ve been around any….actually, before I left VA, now that I think about it.

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  22. NE has made some half-hearted efforts to eliminate state income taxes – problem is, we don’t have the same options as states like FL – lower population, fewer attractions for travelers/vacationers, beaches, etc.., and taxes fund our schools. Needless to say, it didn’t go far!!! As for taxing the “higher overall incomes,” if we’re going to have taxes at all, I don’t have a problem with them paying more, tbh.

    “Some people say Social Security taxes aren’t taxes – they’re forced savings. Well, okay, maybe so, but you have zero choices. Sammy’s gonna take it and hold it no matter what. And then he’s got the balls to tax us for the benefit he forced on us? That ain’t fair – it’s true, but ya know what’s even less fair? When the state you live in grabs a piece of that benefit for themselves, too. That kinda bullshit should not be tolerated. 

    Five states tax SSI benefits – Nebraska, Colorado, Connecticut, Minnesota and Montana. For the record? Florida doesn’t have – and doesn’t need to have – a state income tax.”

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  24. “They knew the bronze – and even some of the gold medals – were tacky garbage when they got ’em, and here they are less than a year ago, and he’s got the nasty ass proof to back it up. The story and more photos are here.”

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  25. “Computer technology now moves so fast it’s hard to remember life before the internet. But just 19 years ago at the beginning of the nineties, the fledgling world wide web had no search engines, no social networking sites, and no webcam.

    The scientists credited with inventing the first webcam – thereby launching the revolution that would bring us video chats and live webcasts – stumbled upon the idea in pursuit of something far more old-fashioned: hot coffee.

    As computer geeks at the University of Cambridge beavered away on research projects at the cutting edge of technology, one piece of equipment was indispensable to the entire team – the coffee percolator.”

    https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-20439301

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      3. “…..”It didn’t vary very much,” explains Dr. Stafford-Fraser. “It was either an empty coffee pot, or a full one, or in more exciting moments, maybe a half-full coffee pot and then you’d have to try and guess if it was going up or down.”

        Word got out, and before long millions of tech enthusiasts from around the world were accessing images of the Trojan room coffee pot. Dr. Stafford-Fraser remembers receiving emails from Japan asking if a light could be left on overnight so that the pot could be seen in different time zones.

        The Cambridge Tourist Information office had to direct visitors from the US to the computer lab to see it for themselves. The coffee pot cam even got a mention on the BBC’s longest running radio soap opera – the Archers.

        “I think we were all a little bewildered by it all to be honest,” confesses Dr. Johnson. “I sometimes think nothing else I’m ever involved in again in my life will get this much coverage and it was just one afternoon’s crazy idea,” adds Dr. Stafford-Fraser.Die Kaffeekanne

        Ten years and millions of hits later, the scientists wanted to move on. “The software was becoming completely unmaintainable,” remembers Dr. Johnson. “Research software is not always of the highest quality and we simply wanted to throw away the machines that were supporting this.”

        Despite a wave of nostalgic protest from webcam fans around the world, the coffee pot and the webcam were eventually switched off. The last image captured was the scientists’ fingers pressing the “off” button.

        eBay screenshot
        Image caption,The coffee pot attracted 71 bids before selling for £3,350 on auction site eBay

        “In 10 years it had gone from being a wacky new idea, to a novelty that a reasonable number of people knew about, to a widely viewed icon of the early web, to an historic artefact, and then to something that people were mourning over when it was no longer there,” concludes Dr. Stafford-Fraser. “Only on the internet can that sort of thing happen in just a few years.”

        The Trojan room coffee pot was sold at auction – predictably over the internet – for £3,350. It was bought by Der Spiegel news magazine in Germany, which soon pressed the pot back into active service.”

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  26. Huh…Wheezer must REALLY not like the snow! I’ve been out there twice, to bring in the big WP block to thaw, then back out onto the patio (still windy so I’m not putting it up yet since the base of the block is wet and crumbling – hopefully, it will freeze and not fall apart) and he’s STILL on the chair sleeping!

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      1. Ah yes! This is true! Well, it’s already started then because he’s been gone for about 1/2 hour now. Off for another round of whatever it is he does!!!

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  27. Clarion

    December 31, 2024 11:21 am

    India relies on H-1B visas to facilitate offshoring U.S. jobs, while allowing a large number of Indians to settle in America. This creates a steady flow of remittances and strengthens political influence that aligns with India’s interests. Bad for American workers.

    https://t.co/JR1IDCjPKX pic.twitter.com/zUSECJx93M

    — U.S. Tech Workers (@USTechWorkers) December 29, 2024

    Remittances:

    An Indian news site based in California is concerned that Trump may ban the H-1B visa program (big if true) which could hurt remittance-driven luxury home prospects in India and reduce marriage chances for young Indian men: pic.twitter.com/do29IWlH5V

    — U.S. Tech Workers (@USTechWorkers) December 10, 2024

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  29. “Yeah – this cartoon from Saturday Evening Post is 66 years old. I know the joke’s a little subtle with the little kid reading a wooden letter block, but just fast forward to today, and they’d be doing the same thing with cell phones and tablets.”

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  30. “This will be a large part of Biden’s legacy. The US homeless population increased by more than 18% in a year, driven by high housing costs, natural disasters and a spike in migration to large cities. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (Hud) said Friday that more than 770,000 people were in shelters, temporary housing or had no shelter, according to a survey carried out one night in January 2024.

    The number follows a 12% increase the previous year and is the highest since the federal government began an annual count of the homeless population in 2007. The figure is likely an undercount, as it does not include people temporarily staying with family and friends.”

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    1. And exactly where did all those laid-off workers go? Anyone want to bet they’re still in the US and living off of welfare/state benefits????

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  33. Hmmm…just found some good movies to record – I’ve looked for Flashdance before and never could find it – it’s on the schedule now; as well as Speed and, of course, Footloose. LOL – and just for shits-n-giggles, I’m recording The Wizard of Oz! I can watch those movies over and over again! I’ve never watched any of The Matrix movies….I’m somewhat intrigued but hesitant about diving into that series. Have you watched them, Pat?

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  34. “DEI Blitz Reaches Buckeye Nation: OSU Spending Tens of Millions on DEI; Receiving Far-Left Grants and Foreign Donations”

    OpenTheBooks, Dec 30, 2024

    EXCERPT: “As our research has demonstrated over the past year, American universities have been ideologically captured by left-wing radicalism and are promoting anti-American, neo-Marxist notions under the banner of “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI). While we’ve come to expect stories like this in the ivory towers of Harvard or Princeton, state schools have been caught up in the madness, too.

    Ohio State University is a Big 10 school, home of the Buckeyes. It operates in what’s now a dark-red state when it comes to politics. Among its famed recent alumni are Patricia Heaton (Everybody Loves Raymond) and our Vice President-elect JD Vance, the author of Hillbilly Elegy.

    It’s not exactly where you’d expect to find a hub of DEI-related activity. And yet, after studying ten public institutions in our investigative series, we learned Ohio State is spending the most on payroll for DEI employees.

    BACKGROUND

    Thanks to transparency, Americans have discovered what’s happening in higher education, and a few states have begun pushing back: According to the Chronicles of Higher Education, DEI offices are now banned in seven public state systems, most recently throughout the University of North Carolina schools. Five additional states have also taken smaller steps to rein in DEI, like banning the use of diversity statements in hiring and admission decisions in state universities. More states have similar legislation pending.

    Still, most states around the country continue to pour taxpayer funds and student tuition dollars into salaries for people who push the divisive DEI at institutions of higher learning.

    At the same time, foreign funders contribute billions of dollars into American universities, raising questions about how adversarial countries influence research and student life, all while the universities collect billions from U.S. taxpayers.

    THE BIG NUMBERS

    Ohio State University spent $13.3 million on pay for 201 employees with DEI-related roles last year. That’s the equivalent of full tuition for over 1,000 in-state students at its main Columbus campus.

    The highest paid DEI officials are James L. More, vice provost for diversity and inclusion and chief diversity officer at OSU, and Keesha Mitchell, associate vice president for the Office of Institutional Equity, practically tied at just under $300,000 each.

    Another 29 people make between $100,000 and $269,000, with titles such as associate dean for diversity, inclusion, and outreach ($269,260), another associate vice president for the Office of Institutional Equity ($226,644), assistant vice provost for diversity and inclusion ($171,889), academic director for diversity and inclusion ($170,435), assistant dean and director of diversity, equity and inclusion ($145,923), among many more.

    Various departments have one or a handful of DEI-related staff, while the vast majority of such staff are concentrated in several larger DEI offices.

    Ninety people work in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion — 14 work on the Young Scholars Program for high school and college students, another 14 people receive small stipends for the Upward Bound program for high school students.

    Thirty-two people work in the Office of Institutional Equity, including Mitchell, the second highest paid of the 201 DEI employees.

    Twenty-six professors, lecturers, instructors and academic program services specialists are employed in the area of women’s gender and sexuality studies, with the top two highest paid earning $173,054 and $157,227.

    COURSEWORK GOES OFF COURSE…..”

    https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/dei-blitz-reaches-buckeye-nation

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  35. “A Year in Review”

    Clandestine, Dec 31, 2024

    “Welp, 2024, it’s been a good ride.

    We experienced the most intense presidential campaign/information war in human history, accompanied by assassination attempts, threat of nuclear war/WW3, and unprecedented corruption.

    But in the end, the People triumphed over the corrupt trillion dollar media machine. With Elon’s help, we were able to influence the nation enough to overcome voter fraud, made it too big to rig, and we got Trump back into the White House.

    2024 will be remembered as the year that the MSM officially died, and was replaced by a decentralized media, run by We the People. Human civilization is on a new trajectory now.

    So while the past year was arduous and unforgiving in the heat of mass-propaganda and brainwashing, the future looks much brighter. The shadow war is not over, but we have the upper hand, and we have stripped the Deep State of their most valuable asset, which was control of public perception. We are the media now.

    2025 will mark the beginning of a new Golden Age of prosperity and awakening, as truth is now allowed to walk freely without censorship, and the public are keen to MSM lies.

    We have many reasons to be optimistic for the future. Let’s make the most of our opportunity.”

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  36. sorry…fell into a hole of sorts. over at wolf’s there’s a bunch of comments about thick fog in places of the country with a bad smell and taste. tons of conspiracy theories right now. trying to find more on it…

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  40.  “The Taliban have decreed that Afghan women are forbidden to:

    Go to high school or university

    Work in the civil service

    Attend a protest

    Go abroad

    Drive a car

    Travel alone

    Ride in a taxi

    Speak in public

    Speak loudly inside your house

    Sing

    Read the Quran aloud in public

    Speak to a male doctor

    Play sport

    Go to the gym

    Go to the park

    Wear bright clothes

    Wear high heels

    Look at men they don’t know

    Show their faces in public

    Own a smartphone”

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  43. “Big Bull Tusker. Do not anger him.”

    “Bedhead on steroids”

    Well, that’s an interesting paint job!

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  44. “The Fairey Rotodyne, an early VTOL design. The rotor was driven by simple jets at the blade tips, and overall the Rotodyne was a lot less complicated than a tilt-rotor.”

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  46. “Data: Why Johnny Junior is losing Motivation — Post College Hiring is a Rigged Game”

    Jimychanga. Dec 31, 2024

    “Consider this data:

    The tide may turn. Regardless, this remains true:

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