been there! we have a smaller house–it’s just us. whenever the kids come, I also am a mad cleaning woman, but i also have to put things away so that the kids can have room for their gadgets and bags and (with my son) his TWO dogs…sigh. thank goodness that’s only once a year…lol.
But i have taken to writing down WHERE i’m putting things cuz once they go home, I’m like…where is THIS? what did I do with THAT? lol
Re: Sally – I’m back to sewing for her lift and chair this week. – A safety belt with arm bands/cuffs to hold her arms down so she won’t slip out. Spent a lot of time thinking out the design while doing solo weekend duty.
Also making shredded foam stuffed pillows and a pillow sized sheet of foam pad for the wheelchair to make her more comfortable at night.
She is very uncomfortable if we do not give the hydrocodone pain med and the lorazapam sedative every 6-8 hours.
I just finished a log carrier for my son. I made one for him before with sides (like i made for hubby–actually this is the second one i made him, the first one my daughter-in-law used to squelch a fire that happened when a spark from their stove alighted on a pillow too close to the fire.) thank God she put it out quickly.
this new one doesn’t have sides–just an oval carrier that lays flat with handles.
that could be MY Jeep! we keep her in the garage all the time, except for when the driveway is undriveable. then we park her at the bottom of the long hill and leave her sit out there in the winter.
we use the tractor to get down to the Jeep and then back up the the house.
this year has been unrelenting…there’s no better word for it. normally we get icy or cold spells, but then a warm up for a few days and all goes back to normal. not this winter.
Good morning, GA! I have zero complaints about my weather these days! Pat is the one who needs a really big improvement! LOL – woke up to 34 and bright sunshine this morning. Spring is on it’s way altho we usually get one surprise storm before winter gives up. Hope you and yours are doing well or as well as can be expected, especially SallyQ.
Now if only I could make my Mom understand that meme about Canadian healthcare!!! She thinks it’s absolutely the best on the planet, thanks to my corrupt Canadian cousin!!! SMH.
Interesting thought re: Jack Smith and the law firm Covington…
RichardSloeWinslow @SloeWinslow Feb 26 Replying to @julie_kelly2 Hey Julie – Here’s what Trump SHOULD do. The attorney-client privilege is “owned” by the client. On behalf of the United States, he should waive the attorney-client privilege with Covington and demand full production of all client files, including all email communications, and make it all public. I don’t see anyone talking about this….. but we should be.Feb 26, 2025 · 12:59 AM UTC
RichardSloeWinslow @SloeWinslow Feb 26 Replying to @SloeWinslow@julie_kelly2 Think about it. Jack Smith either engaged Covington in his individual capacity to represent his personal interests…… OR……. He engaged Covington in his OFFICIAL capacity as special counsel. In the latter case, Covington was working for the United States and now Trump (on behalf of United States) should have access to the client file. And, this issue is worthy of litigating the facts. If Covington provided ANY advice or counseling about Jack Smith’s official duties in the case against Trump, then Jack Smith and Covington CAN’T argue that representation was of Jack Smith, personally. US government should press the issue. Force Covington to produce “client” communications to the Court, and let the Court decide if the subject matter of Covington’s counseling was personal to Jack Smith, or advice to the United States special counsel about how to prosecute an official U.S. case against a citizen. The fact that Trump was the defendant at issue doesn’t matter here. The NATURE of the advice and counseling is the dispositive issue.Feb 26, 2025 · 1:10 AM UTC
RichardSloeWinslow @SloeWinslow 18h Replying to @SloeWinslow@julie_kelly2 Think about it Part #5: Come to think about it, wasn’t Norm Eisen (a lawyer) helping Jack Smith, the U.S. special counsel, in the case against Trump? Didn’t other Dem lawyers also get involved? SAME ISSUE. Any lawyer that provided legal advice and counseling to Jack Smith, in furtherance of his official duties as U.S. special counsel, was providing legal representation to the United States, not Jack Smith, personally. Why shouldn’t @AGPamBondi start firing off letters to ALL of them, and start asking for the client files?
DOGE says Texas nonprofit with former Biden transition member reaped millions operating empty facility — (As a result of the contract, Family Endeavors’ cash and portfolio of investments jumped from $8.3 million in 2020 to $520 million in 2023)
Supreme Court, blocks order for Trump administration to release billions in US foreign aid By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and MATTHEW LEE Updated 6:31 PM PST, February 26, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily blocked a judge’s order giving the Trump administration a midnight deadline to release billions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid.
Chief Justice John Roberts said the order issued by U.S. District Judge Amir H. Ali will remain on hold until the high court has a chance to weigh in more fully.
Ali had ordered the federal government to comply with his decision temporarily blocking a freeze on foreign aid, ruling in a lawsuit filed by nonprofit groups and businesses. An appellate panel refused the administration’s request to intervene.
The federal government froze foreign assistance after an executive order from President Donald Trump targeting what he called wasteful programs that do not correspond to his foreign policy goals.
they are threatening like spoiled children. fire them all. if secrets are revealed? hunt them all down abd execute for treason.
sunnydaze
February 27, 2025 1:37 am
Intelligence agencies have now openly launched a coup against President Trump, warning mainstream media that if DOGE cuts their funding, they’ll resort to selling state secrets to foreign nations.
Sean Curran, the Secret Service agent to the right of Trump in the legendary image from the Butler, PA rally at which Trump was shot, was prepared to sit next to Trump in a jail cell every day if necessary in order to protect him. “That’s how much I care for him…There’s nothing I would have not done for him.”
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Sean Curran, the Secret Service agent to the right of Trump in the legendary image from the Butler, PA rally at which Trump was shot, was prepared to sit next to Trump in a jail cell every day if necessary in order to protect him. “That’s how much I care for him…There’s nothing… pic.twitter.com/r8dczWllad
gees, my manners…forgot to say Good Morning!
we’ve got 32* currently and light to heavy rain coming down. if the temp drops we could be in a lot of trouble here. if it stays above freezing till it stops and dries out the driveway a little, we will be ok.
sigh
Ah, yes! Manners! I’ve been reading instead…..LOL. Good morning, Pat! I’ll keep my fingers crossed that it stays warm enough! Haven’t looked at all the Epstein info yet – I am watching Jesse’s show now – it’s the one Fox show that I record. Now let’s see who panics!!! Suicide, anyone???
Personally, I don’t think Gene Hackman was part of it – he was 94 w/a bad heart – don’t know anything about the wife. But for all 3 to die, including their dog, it makes you wonder if there might have been a gas leak or something similar….??? My Mom turns 94 this year but she is clearly in better shape than he was!!! But then, she’s a fighter, always has been, always will be – she’ll go out kicking and screaming, I expect! This pic of Hackman was from March 2024:
Temp was 34 when I got up, with bright sunshine, and – lo’ and behold! – opened the patio blinds and there sits lothario, Wheezer, waiting for his breakfast. Male hussy, he is!!!
Morning Filly!
we’ve got fog rolling in now too…weird weather for February!
I agree about Hackman. with his age, and the dog dying too i think a gas leak is probable.
I haven’t see anything anywhere about the list yet.
they keep trying to “work with” these “students” who continue to wear masks disguising their identities. I suspect many have no business being on campus at all. The dean needs to arrest these people pure and simple. They shoved a college employee, they are disrupting classes which students paid for, writing graffiti on the walls and are making the college unsafe. consider this their warning and arrest them next time or you can expect this behavior to continue.
Troublemaker10
February 27, 2025 9:00 am
Pro-Hamas protesters seize control of historic Barnard academic building and assault college employee
castrate him and then deport him. see what treatment he gets when he gets home.
Why did @UberEats hire an undocumented migrant from Colombia with an ACTIVE warrant out for his arrest? The Ubereats driver delivered food to a woman and raped her in her own home. Why were there no background checks or E-verify? Ladies, do not open the door for the food delivery… https://t.co/ZNwv0tsnrm— Esther Valdes Clayton (@Esther_Valdes) February 26, 2025
Just The News: “U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials were warned Wednesday evening to take special security caution and keep “situational awareness” around their Washington headquarters in anticipation of protests as USAID workers fired by the Trump administration return to their offices to retrieve personal belongings the next two days.
In memos sent from their “Operations Watch” alert system and obtained by Just the News, CBP employees in Washington were told that on Thursday and Friday “USAID staff, who previously vacated their workspace, will be on site to retrieve their belongings” in the vicinity around the Ronald Reagan federal building in downtown Washington D.C. near the White House.
“There is a high probability of public gathering and First Amendment activities,” one of the alerts said. “Please maintain situational awareness throughout the building.
“CBP employees should be aware of these activities and uniformed employees should use good tactics and consider the use of cover shirts during transit portions in one out of controlled CBP spaces.”
Another alert stated: “Be aware of your surroundings tomorrow, especially in uniform … we anticipate a significant amount of media as well as the possibility of nefarious actors.”
Tensions have been high since President Donald Trump ordered thousands of USAID workers terminated as part of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) reorganization of the federal bureaucracy. Workers and their allies challenged their firings as well as the suspension of billions of dollars in foreign aid payments by the agency.
Late Wednesday, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts blocked a lower court’s order requiring Trump to resume the foreign aid payments.
The Reagan building has been as the center of some of the tensions in part because CBP immediately took over some of the office space vacated in it by USAID. Officials told Just the News the CBP Operations Watch alert was based on intelligence that liberal and pro-government protesters might show up Thursday and Friday near the building.”
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Wolf
February 27, 2025 09:42
From last night:
Revolver — This is the beginning of a very humiliating end for Rep. Eric Swalwell…
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I went to Colorado 23 years ago with a friend who is an investigative journalist and Ted Gunderson who retired as head of the L. A. FBI to find hidden film of high ranking government officials having sex parties with orphans from Boy’s Town Orphanage in Nebraska!
The film was slipped out by a freaked out young photographer hired to record the perversion!
The deep state found out about the film and arrested the photographer on child porn charges and we figured they put him through MK-ULTRA brainwashing because all the film had been recovered from the places they were hidden, under old silver mines and in caves in the mountains around Durango.
And just in case they missed some, a fed with a tag from Oregon, followed us as we searched for the film.
These people are demonic and perverted behind redemption!
I wrote about Ted Gunderson here:
KMAG 20250115 Open Thread / False Flags, Pedos & Satanists
Oh, yeah – I did a lot of research into that back when Ben Sasse was in office – he was in charge of the House Page Program under bush when that all went down. Guarantee you Bush knew about it!
Just The News: “Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin is urging the White House to strike down a scientific finding that facilitated the EPA’s regulation of greenhouse gas emissions.
Citing unnamed sources, the Washington Post reports that Zeldin has asked the White House to strike down the “endangerment finding,” as it’s called.
The 2009 finding, which determined that greenhouse gasses were a risk to public health, allowed for the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. The Obama and Biden administrations used the finding to set limits on emissions from cars and power plants.”
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has delayed a ruling meant to redefine which foods are labelled ‘healthy,’ a potential setback for the Make America Healthy Again movement. The 2024 FDA ruling was meant to go into effect this week that requires foods to meet a much stricter nutritional criteria to be labelled ‘healthy.’
RFK Jr. signed off on a delay until April 28 in order to review the terms of the ruling and make any changes, as it was introduced before his confirmation as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Under the new ruling, for a food to use the ‘healthy’ label, it must have a certain amount of nutrients, like protein and whole grains, and contain minimal harmful ingredients like sugar and saturated fat. High-sugar cereals, protein bars, and yogurts once labeled ‘healthy’ will no longer qualify.
Meanwhile, new ‘healthy’ foods will include olive oil, salmon, canned vegetables, and even water and coffee, for the first time. – Daily Mail
Our Take: The pendulum tends to swing from one extreme to another. Veganism used to be the in thing, now it’s carnivore. Both diets when taken to the extreme can cause problems. It used to be liberal/atheistic politics, now it’s swinging to the conservative end of the spectrum with ingrained religious fundamentalism.
If we’re not careful, this could end up being more regressive than helpful for societal advancement. Need balance, open mindedness, always questioning the “official narratives” from the “authorities” – whether those are political, scientific, media, or religious authorities. – Jordan Sather
Senator Marsha Blackburn is demanding the immediate arrest of everyone tied to Jeffrey Epstein, just as his files are about to drop.
She warns that Epstein’s operation is far bigger than people realize
—an international network that requires scrutiny of flight logs, surveillance footage, and IRS records.
She also points to Ghislaine Maxwell’s infamous black book, currently in FBI hands, which will expose Epstein’s powerful clientele.
“Let’s get these people apprehended, let’s get them prosecuted, let’s get them jailed.”
Senator Marsha Blackburn is demanding the immediate arrest of everyone tied to Jeffrey Epstein, just as his files are about to drop.
She warns that Epstein’s operation is far bigger than people realize—an international network that requires scrutiny of flight logs, surveillance… pic.twitter.com/ytZn8r6ymG
— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) February 27, 2025
Yeah! My plan worked! I finally found a coffee bean grinder yesterday at WM and it worked perfectly for my chewable Vit C tabs. Now I’ve got a plastic container filled with the powder that I can mix into my yogurt every morning. I just did half of a large bottle in a fraction of the time and effort it would have taken with a mortar & pestle! Next, the calcium tabs! Eureka!!!
“‘Deranged Jack Smith’ Takes Down His Friends: An order signed by President Trump on Tuesday signals a new front in fighting lawfare operatives in the private sector.”
ENTIRE ARTICLE: “As an aide started to explain the latest order about to be signed during a press conference in the White House on Tuesday afternoon, President Trump interrupted his spiel.
“Hold it, this is a good one,” the president, holding up his hand, said to several reporters assembled in the Oval Office. “Is everybody listening? We’re going to call it the ‘Deranged Jack Smith’…bill.”
The order, in the form of a memo to several agency heads, suspended the security clearance of employees at Covington & Burling, a Democratic-connected white-shoe law firm headquartered in Washington. According to a January 27 Wall Street Journal article–and followed up by Politico–the firm provided at least $140,000 in pro bono services to disgraced former special counsel Jack Smith.
Although both cases ended after Trump’s election, Smith’s problems were just beginning. Trump had promised on the campaign trail that his administration would investigate evidence of abuse and misconduct by the special counsel and his team. He fulfilled that promise by signing an executive order on January 20 to end the “weaponization” of the federal government, particularly the DOJ and intelligence community: “The prior administration and allies throughout the country engaged in an unprecedented, third-world weaponization of prosecutorial power to upend the democratic process. These actions appear oriented more toward inflicting political pain than toward pursuing actual justice or legitimate governmental objectives.”
In a follow-up move, Attorney General Pam Bondi formed a “Weaponization Working Group” on Feb. 5 and specifically cited Smith, “who spent more than $50 million targeting President Trump.”
Smith officially left the Biden DOJ on January 10 but not before succeeding in releasing one volume of his two-volume report into the investigations of the president. And in the “quit digging a hole” category, Smith recently signed an open letter to current prosecutors expressing “alarm…by recent actions of the Department’s leadership.”With Free Friends Like This…
Trump, along with his DOJ, likely will have the last laugh. And it’s doubtful Smith’s free lawyers at Covington & Burling, with offices around the world, are amused. While it’s unclear how many security clearances have been suspended, it appears two lawyers—Peter Koski and Clinton pal Lanny Breuer—were directly involved in providing free counsel to Smith. Koski worked at the DOJ’s public integrity unit during the same time Smith headed the unit during the Obama administration. Other notable Democrats at the firm include former Attorney General Eric Holder, Biden’s longtime foreign affairs advisor and Ukraine war architect Victoria Nuland, and Biden’s former White House counsel Dana Remus.
The presidential directive may have an immediate impact on Smith’s ability to build a defense, particularly for Koski. “Revoking [Koski’s] clearance could limit his access to sensitive government records, given that both of Mr. Smith’s criminal investigations against Mr. Trump involved classified documents. Doing so could sharply limit what representation Mr. Koski might be able to offer,” the New York Times reported on Feb 25.
But Trump’s “Deranged Jack Smith” order goes beyond suspending access to privileged material. The president further ordered federal agencies to look for any government contracts with Covington & Burling. “I also direct the Attorney General and heads of agencies to take such actions as are necessary to terminate any engagement of Covington & Burling LLP by any agency to the maximum extent permitted by law,” the president wrote.
It’s unknown how many, if any, government contracts exist with the firm. Possibly none. But the missive is yet another welcome sign of the so-called “Trump 2.0” administration, where heads will roll inside and outside government not just for viciously targeting the president and his supporters but for misleading the American people and wasting time and money in the process. To wit, the president indicated this is just the start.
After signing the order, the president turned to his aide and asked, “we’ll be doing this for other firms as time goes by?” The aide answered in the affirmative. After adding his signature, Trump threw his Sharpie to someone in the office. “Why don’t you send it to Jack Smith,” he joked.
Prestigious law firms act as both the hidden hammer and revolving door in the lawfare against Republicans. This is playing out in at least a dozen lawsuits filed against the Trump administration over the past 30 days. Until there is pain felt by both public and private lawyers responsible for this unprecedented attack against the will of the people, it will continue.”
“Trump-deranged IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn, who illegally leaked the president’s tax returns of two decades to the New York Times, also gave leftie activists Pro Publica the private information of another 405, 427 taxpayers, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan has just discovered.
For his sins, he got a sweet deal with the Biden DOJ, pleading guilty to just one count of “unauthorized disclosure of tax return” in return for a five year sentence.
The New York Times published Trump’s stolen tax return that they received from Littlejohn, no questions asked, five weeks before the 2020 election. Twitter and Facebook did not censor their story or lock the NYT account for violating its “hacked materials” policy. Other media outlets slavishly followed the NYT.
And yet, two weeks later, when the NewYork Post published verified emails and other material from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop along with a copy of the FBI subpoena and work order from the laptop repair store, Big Tech throttled the story, 51 former intelligence officials lied that it was Russian disinformation, and the rest of the media sat on their hands or sneered.
This was evidence showing that, at the very least, Joe Biden had lied about his involvement in his son’s foreign business deals. At worst, he had orchestrated and profited from the influence peddling. The story was a bombshell.
The NYT stolen tax story showed that Trump legally minimized his taxes, like every billionaire. It was a nothing burger. So don’t pretend to be impartial.
********** Speaking of Hunter Biden, both his lawyers were a no-show in the Californian District Court Wednesday, where he is suing former Trump White House staffer Garrett Ziegler and his nonprofit Marco Polo over their searchable database of material from his abandoned laptop.
Judge Hernan Vera was not amused. “In light of the withdrawal by Plaintiff Robert Hunter Biden’s attorney Gregory Andrew Ellis and a notice indicating that the contact information for Plaintiff’s lead attorney Paul Salvaty is no longer accurate, the Court orders Plaintiff to show cause in writing, by no later than March 5, 2025, explaining the Plaintiff’s situation…
“Failure to timely or adequately respond to this Order may result in the dismissal of the action or other terminating sanctions.”
Has Hunter stopped paying his lawyers now that the Big Guy is out of power and Sugar Brother Kevin Morris is out of the picture? Either way, he has been subpoenaed to testify at a deposition in the case this Friday. Morris was a no-show for his own deposition Wednesday. Hunter might need to use that pricey Yale law degree Daddy got him and represent himself.”
“Donald Trump’s bruised hand has become a topic of consternation for newspapers in the UK, which have belatedly noticed what The New York Post reported two weeks ago. The president frequently sports a big bruise on the back of his right hand, which he usually covers with a flesh-colored band-aid.
It’s just from all the hands he shakes every day. Still, Fleet Street has diagnosed Trump with various secret fatal illnesses due to the alarming “hematoma,” even likening him to Queen Elizabeth II in the final months of her life. “Did he fall? What aren’t we being told about his health?”
Calm down, fellas. Trump is renowned for his bone crusher handshakes with other world leaders, which he likes to dominate physically. He is very gregarious and always has a steady stream of people in and out of the Oval Office, each of whom gets a handshake or two.
Then there is the fact that, as a candidate and now president, he has been more accessible to the public than most politicians. Many well-wishers, relieved that he has replaced Joe Biden, express their gratitude with the firmest handshake they can muster. Rings and long fingernails add to the toll. No hand could withstand such punishment without the odd bruise.
Sorry to disappoint, but a guy who withstood an assassin’s bullet isn’t succumbing to a sore hand.”
“Leaks abound at Frank Lloyd Wright’s most famous home, the Wall Street Journal reported, and repairs are costing 40 times what it cost to construct it. The gravity-defying Fallingwater is looking forlorn in recent months with a thick barrier of scaffolding. The efforts of its steward, the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, to fix dozens of leaks at the Mill Run, Pennsylvania property is adding up to $7 million — a far cry from the $148,000 required to build it in the 1930s.
The home-turned-museum isthe greatest example of Wright’s architecture, but its ambitious design and position over a waterfall have left it in a somewhat precarious state as it approaches the 100-year mark.
It’s hard to imagine that it’s nearly 100 years old. I have a friend who lives nearby and he’s said in the past that the house is musty – almost ‘clammy’ and it stinks like rotting mold. Such a shame…”
and that was 20 years ago! the AAA travel book listed it as a “must see”, so when one trip when that way, we made it a point to stop. the inside was nothing special in my opinion and there wasn’t even a guide…pay your money and walk around inside. wasn’t worth it imo.
“Skygazers like me have something to look forward to Friday, when the seven other planets in our solar system will be visible, with a little help, in a rare event.
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will all be visible without any optical assistance. The planets are always actually lined up, but we just can’t see them all at once. The planets are always in a line called an ecliptic – the plane where they orbit the Sun. As the planets race around the Sun at different speeds, sometimes they line up on the same side of the Sun, appearing closely together in the night sky. The best time to see the planets will be shortly after sunset on Friday.”
hochul wants $15 BILLION from the federal gov’t to fix NYC subways or she’s leaving the congestion pricing in place. I hope PDJT countered with stop harboring illegals and you’d have that $$.
Kathy Hochul tells Trump to cough up $15 billion to fix NYC subways.
“SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Oscar-winner Gene Hackman, his wife and their dog were found dead in different rooms of their Santa Fe home and had apparently been dead for some time, according to investigators.
Hackman, 95, was found dead Wednesday in a mudroom and his 63-year-old wife, Betsy Arakawa, was found dead in a bathroom next to a space heater, Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office detectives wrote in a search warrant. There was an open prescription bottle and pills scattered on a countertop near Arakawa.
Denise Avila, a sheriff’s office spokesperson, said there was no indication that any of them had been shot or had other types of wounds.
Actor Gene Hackman arrives with his wife, Betsy Arakawa, for the 60th Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., Sunday, Jan. 19, 2003. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)
The New Mexico Gas Co. is working with the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Department in the investigation, spokesperson Tim Korte told The Associated Press.
The utility tested the gas lines in and around the home after the bodies were discovered, according to the warrant. At the time, it didn’t find any signs of problems. A detective noted that people exposed to gas leaks or carbon monoxide may not show signs of poisoning, but also noted there were no obvious signs of a gas leak.
The Associated Press left email and phone messages Thursday for sheriff’s officials seeking more details. A spokesperson for the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, which runs the state’s medical examiner operations, declined to comment on whether the cause and manner of deaths had been determined.
A worker reported that the home’s front door was open when he arrived for routine maintenance and that he called police after finding the bodies. Two workers told police that they rarely saw the homeowners and that their last contact with them had been about two weeks earlier.
A dead German shepherd was found in a bathroom closet near Arakawa, police said. Two healthy dogs were found on the property.
The gruff-but-beloved Hackman was among the best actors of his generation, appearing as villains, heroes and antiheroes in dozens of dramas, comedies and action films from the 1960s until his retirement in the early 2000s.
He routinely showed up on Hollywood list of greatest American actors of the 20th century. He could play virtually any kind of role, from comic book villain Lex Luthor in “Superman” to a coach finding redemption in the sentimental favorite “Hoosiers.”
Hackman was a five-time Oscar nominee who won for “The French Connection” in 1972 and “Unforgiven” two decades later. His death comes just four days before this year’s ceremony. Tributes quickly poured in from Hollywood.
“The loss of a great artist, always cause for both mourning and celebration: Gene Hackman a great actor, inspiring and magnificent in his work and complexity,” director Francis Ford Coppola posted on Instagram.
Hackman met Arakawa, a classically trained pianist who grew up in Hawaii, when she was working part-time at a California gym in the mid-1980s, the New York Times reported in 1989. They soon moved in together, and by the end of the decade had decamped to Santa Fe.
Their Southwestern-style ranch on Old Sunset Trail sits on a hill in a gated community with views of the Rocky Mountains. The 8,700 square-foot (808 square-meter), four-bedroom home on six acres was built in 1997 and had an estimated market value of a little over $4 million, according to Santa Fe County property tax records.
Hackman and his wife also owned a more modest 2,000 square-foot (186 square-meter) home next door that was built in 2000.
Hackman also co-wrote three novels, starting with the swashbuckler, “Wake of the Perdido Star,” with Daniel Lenihan in 1999, according to publisher Simon & Schuster. He then penned two by himself, concluding with “Pursuit” in 2013, about a female police officer on the tail of a predator.
In his first couple decades in New Mexico, Hackman was often seen around the historic state capital, which known as an artist enclave, tourism destination and retreat for celebrities. He served as a board member of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in the 1990s, according to the local paper, The New Mexican.
In recent years, he was far less visible, though even the most mundane outings caught the attention of the press. The Independent wrote about him attending a show at the Lensic Performing Arts Center in 2018. The New York Post reported on him pumping gas, doing yard work and getting a chicken sandwich at Wendy’s in 2023.
Aside from appearances at awards shows, he was rarely seen in the Hollywood social circuit and retired from acting about 20 years ago. His was the rare Hollywood retirement that actually lasted.
Hackman had three children from a previous marriage. He and Arakawa had no children together but were known for having German shepherds. Hackman told the film magazine Empire in 2020 that he and Arakawa liked to watch DVDs she rented. “We like simple stories that some of the little low-budget films manage to produce,” he said.
An email sent to his publicist was not immediately returned early Thursday.”
ReMix News: “The following article originally appeared on the Ordo Iuris website.
In 2019, IKEA published an article on its company intranet that imposed the ideological demands of the LGBT movement on its employees. In response, Janusz Komenda published a comment criticizing the announcement and included two Bible verses referring to homosexual practices. As a result, store management decided to dismiss him. The consequences extended to those who had “liked” Komenda’s comment.
The Regional Court for Kraków-Nowa Huta ruled that his termination was unlawful and ordered his reinstatement. IKEA appealed the decision. However, the Regional Court in Kraków upheld the original ruling, stating that the dismissal was unjustified. The court reasoned that:
The workplace should be free from ideological indoctrination.
Komenda may have perceived IKEA’s actions as an attack on his values, prompting his response.
Employers must consider that a significant portion of Poles are Christians and have the right to uphold and defend their beliefs.
IKEA could not claim that Komenda violated community standards when, in fact, the company itself had done so.
The Supreme Court ultimately refused to accept IKEA’s cassation appeal (decision I PSK 62/24). It concurred with the lower courts that requiring employees to participate in social initiatives as a matter of company policy exceeds the boundaries of employment duties. The Court emphasized that:
Participation in an employer’s social initiatives beyond job-related duties should be voluntary.
Expressing a particular worldview does not justify an employer’s loss of confidence in an employee, especially when that worldview is unrelated to job performance.
The Court’s opinion stated: “An employer may invite an employee to participate in an initiative aligned with the company’s values, but exerting any form of pressure on the employee’s decision is impermissible, as occurred in this case.
(…) If we define an inclusive culture as one that fully integrates diverse employees through representation, openness, and fairness, then the exclusion of the plaintiff from the employee community due to his religious beliefs and differing worldview contradicts the appellant’s own rhetoric of inclusivity.”
Paweł Szafraniec, of the Ordo Iuris Center for Litigation Intervention, remarked: “With this decision, the Supreme Court strengthens the barrier against big companies imposing leftist ideology on their employees—disciplining and ultimately firing those who refuse to conform. This goes beyond the proper scope of an employment relationship. The Court also reinforces the right of Christians to defend their values, especially in Poland, where they make up a significant part of society. The Supreme Court’s ruling finally closes Mr. Komenda’s case.”
I’m beginning to wonder if the Hackman death’s may have been a mutual suicide pact….open bottle of pills, no physical injuries to either, no gas leak….. whether that has anything to do with the Epstein files….??? Who knows but they hadn’t been seen for 2 weeks prior so…..🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
Yes, 2 dogs were found w/another dead in a closet in the bathroom, near the wife. There were pills – don’t know what yet – scattered on the floor – the dog could have eaten – or been fed – pills…..IDK – a really weird one, fer sure! They haven’t said what KIND of pills they were yet.
“King Charles III Invites Trump for Unprecedented Second State Visit”
Newsmax, Thursday, 27 February 2025 01:41 PM EST
“King Charles III has invited US President Donald Trump for an “unprecedented” second state visit to Britain, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said while visiting the White House on Thursday.
“This is really special, this has never happened before, this is unprecedented,” Starmer said in the Oval Office as he handed Trump a hand-signed letter from the monarch containing the invitation. “This is truly historic.”
Trump made a state visit during his first term in office in 2019, when he met the late Queen Elizabeth II, King Charles’s mother.
“His majesty the king wants to make this even better,” said Starmer, who was at the White House to push Trump to give US security guarantees for Ukraine in the event of a deal to end the war with Russia.
The US president has long been a vocal fan of the British royal family. Reading the letter, Trump pointed out that he had been invited to Windsor Castle, near London, one of the royal family’s ancient homes.
“On behalf of the wonderful first lady Melania and myself, the answer is yes,” Trump said. “It will be my honor to be there.”
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Wolf
February 27, 2025 13:17
House DOGE Subcommittee – Rep. Tim Burchett (R) TN asks questions:
🔹Oh boy – you won’t be able to unhear this conversation.
🔹Lots of “Terrorists funded by USAID” talk then . . .
🔹USAID has taxpayer funded Lobbyist in DC asking for more money for USAID and . . .
🔹USAID brings together groups in DC that overseas work with groups that kill Americans
5 minute video of question and answer. The guy rattles off all the muslim terrorist organisations, ISIS, Hamas, Taliban… that receive US $$$ via USAID.
Hmmm….now they are saying there were signs of mummification with the Hackman bodies. It will be interesting to see what the ME says about their time of death. No obvious signs of foul play, no mention of any foul odor of decomposing bodies; both were found in the same position, on their sides on the floor…..
They had been dead for some time, at a minimum; the groundskeepers had been coming on a regular basis for the last 2 weeks but hadn’t seen them during that time. One of them found the front door open, which is why he went into the house and discovered the bodies…..hmmmmm…..that presumably means that the door HADN’T been open any of the other times they were there, which complicates this even more….very strange!
those are cool. my granddaughter was working on a painting on the glass on the opposite side of one of those frames. the intent when it’s finished and turned around and hung will be looking out a window at the farm.
I still have one w/out the back and padding that my a-Mom refinished – she got it from her Mom – but it needs to be refinished again now. The paint has worn thru and it’s beginning to rust. I should take on that project this summer! I’ll jot that down! LOL
Sew Colorful 
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Morning kea!
how are you and your mom and the pup faring?
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Morning.
Doing well. I’ve got a family member popping over this weekend for a visit so I’m cleaning like a mad women. But yeah winter sucks lol
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been there! we have a smaller house–it’s just us. whenever the kids come, I also am a mad cleaning woman, but i also have to put things away so that the kids can have room for their gadgets and bags and (with my son) his TWO dogs…sigh. thank goodness that’s only once a year…lol.
But i have taken to writing down WHERE i’m putting things cuz once they go home, I’m like…where is THIS? what did I do with THAT? lol
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Good morning, Pat and Filly!
Man – that Jeep is funny!
Hope the weather improves for both of you soon!
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Morning GA!
how are things with Sally??
how’s your weather? back to normal yet?
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Re: Sally – I’m back to sewing for her lift and chair this week. – A safety belt with arm bands/cuffs to hold her arms down so she won’t slip out. Spent a lot of time thinking out the design while doing solo weekend duty.
Also making shredded foam stuffed pillows and a pillow sized sheet of foam pad for the wheelchair to make her more comfortable at night.
She is very uncomfortable if we do not give the hydrocodone pain med and the lorazapam sedative every 6-8 hours.
What projects are you working on?
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I just finished a log carrier for my son. I made one for him before with sides (like i made for hubby–actually this is the second one i made him, the first one my daughter-in-law used to squelch a fire that happened when a spark from their stove alighted on a pillow too close to the fire.) thank God she put it out quickly.
this new one doesn’t have sides–just an oval carrier that lays flat with handles.
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that could be MY Jeep! we keep her in the garage all the time, except for when the driveway is undriveable. then we park her at the bottom of the long hill and leave her sit out there in the winter.
we use the tractor to get down to the Jeep and then back up the the house.
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Y’all have serious winters!
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this year has been unrelenting…there’s no better word for it. normally we get icy or cold spells, but then a warm up for a few days and all goes back to normal. not this winter.
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Good morning, GA! I have zero complaints about my weather these days! Pat is the one who needs a really big improvement! LOL – woke up to 34 and bright sunshine this morning. Spring is on it’s way altho we usually get one surprise storm before winter gives up. Hope you and yours are doing well or as well as can be expected, especially SallyQ.
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SCAVINO SEZ GITCHO POPCORN BUTTERED AND READY!
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Now if only I could make my Mom understand that meme about Canadian healthcare!!! She thinks it’s absolutely the best on the planet, thanks to my corrupt Canadian cousin!!! SMH.
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February 27, 2025 01:27
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February 27, 2025 01:29
Interesting thought re: Jack Smith and the law firm Covington…
RichardSloeWinslow
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Feb 26
Replying to @julie_kelly2
Hey Julie – Here’s what Trump SHOULD do. The attorney-client privilege is “owned” by the client. On behalf of the United States, he should waive the attorney-client privilege with Covington and demand full production of all client files, including all email communications, and make it all public. I don’t see anyone talking about this….. but we should be.Feb 26, 2025 · 12:59 AM UTC
RichardSloeWinslow
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Think about it. Jack Smith either engaged Covington in his individual capacity to represent his personal interests…… OR……. He engaged Covington in his OFFICIAL capacity as special counsel. In the latter case, Covington was working for the United States and now Trump (on behalf of United States) should have access to the client file. And, this issue is worthy of litigating the facts. If Covington provided ANY advice or counseling about Jack Smith’s official duties in the case against Trump, then Jack Smith and Covington CAN’T argue that representation was of Jack Smith, personally. US government should press the issue. Force Covington to produce “client” communications to the Court, and let the Court decide if the subject matter of Covington’s counseling was personal to Jack Smith, or advice to the United States special counsel about how to prosecute an official U.S. case against a citizen. The fact that Trump was the defendant at issue doesn’t matter here. The NATURE of the advice and counseling is the dispositive issue.Feb 26, 2025 · 1:10 AM UTC
https://nitter.poast.org/SloeWinslow/status/1894552785070240075
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Think about it Part #5: Come to think about it, wasn’t Norm Eisen (a lawyer) helping Jack Smith, the U.S. special counsel, in the case against Trump? Didn’t other Dem lawyers also get involved? SAME ISSUE. Any lawyer that provided legal advice and counseling to Jack Smith, in furtherance of his official duties as U.S. special counsel, was providing legal representation to the United States, not Jack Smith, personally. Why shouldn’t @AGPamBondi start firing off letters to ALL of them, and start asking for the client files?
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Troublemaker10
February 27, 2025 12:39 am
DOGE says Texas nonprofit with former Biden transition member reaped millions operating empty facility
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(As a result of the contract, Family Endeavors’ cash and portfolio of investments jumped from $8.3 million in 2020 to $520 million in 2023)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/doge-says-texas-nonprofit-former-biden-transition-member-reaped-millions-operating-empty-facility
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California Joe
February 27, 2025 1:35 am
Finally…
Supreme Court, blocks order for Trump administration to release billions in US foreign aid
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and MATTHEW LEE
Updated 6:31 PM PST, February 26, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily blocked a judge’s order giving the Trump administration a midnight deadline to release billions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid.
Chief Justice John Roberts said the order issued by U.S. District Judge Amir H. Ali will remain on hold until the high court has a chance to weigh in more fully.
Ali had ordered the federal government to comply with his decision temporarily blocking a freeze on foreign aid, ruling in a lawsuit filed by nonprofit groups and businesses. An appellate panel refused the administration’s request to intervene.
The federal government froze foreign assistance after an executive order from President Donald Trump targeting what he called wasteful programs that do not correspond to his foreign policy goals.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE.
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they are threatening like spoiled children. fire them all. if secrets are revealed? hunt them all down abd execute for treason.
sunnydaze
February 27, 2025 1:37 am
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February 27, 2025 1:39 am
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February 27, 2025 2:04 am
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February 27, 2025 2:51 am
Julia 🇺🇸
@Jules31415
Sean Curran, the Secret Service agent to the right of Trump in the legendary image from the Butler, PA rally at which Trump was shot, was prepared to sit next to Trump in a jail cell every day if necessary in order to protect him. “That’s how much I care for him…There’s nothing I would have not done for him.”
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gees, my manners…forgot to say Good Morning!
we’ve got 32* currently and light to heavy rain coming down. if the temp drops we could be in a lot of trouble here. if it stays above freezing till it stops and dries out the driveway a little, we will be ok.
sigh
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Ah, yes! Manners! I’ve been reading instead…..LOL. Good morning, Pat! I’ll keep my fingers crossed that it stays warm enough! Haven’t looked at all the Epstein info yet – I am watching Jesse’s show now – it’s the one Fox show that I record. Now let’s see who panics!!! Suicide, anyone???
Personally, I don’t think Gene Hackman was part of it – he was 94 w/a bad heart – don’t know anything about the wife. But for all 3 to die, including their dog, it makes you wonder if there might have been a gas leak or something similar….??? My Mom turns 94 this year but she is clearly in better shape than he was!!! But then, she’s a fighter, always has been, always will be – she’ll go out kicking and screaming, I expect! This pic of Hackman was from March 2024:
Temp was 34 when I got up, with bright sunshine, and – lo’ and behold! – opened the patio blinds and there sits lothario, Wheezer, waiting for his breakfast. Male hussy, he is!!!
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Morning Filly!
we’ve got fog rolling in now too…weird weather for February!
I agree about Hackman. with his age, and the dog dying too i think a gas leak is probable.
I haven’t see anything anywhere about the list yet.
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they keep trying to “work with” these “students” who continue to wear masks disguising their identities. I suspect many have no business being on campus at all. The dean needs to arrest these people pure and simple. They shoved a college employee, they are disrupting classes which students paid for, writing graffiti on the walls and are making the college unsafe. consider this their warning and arrest them next time or you can expect this behavior to continue.
Troublemaker10
February 27, 2025 9:00 am
Pro-Hamas protesters seize control of historic Barnard academic building and assault college employee
https://nypost.com/2025/02/26/us-news/dozens-of-pro-hamas-students-seize-control-of-historic-barnard-college-academic-building/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost
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castrate him and then deport him. see what treatment he gets when he gets home.
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Just The News: “U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials were warned Wednesday evening to take special security caution and keep “situational awareness” around their Washington headquarters in anticipation of protests as USAID workers fired by the Trump administration return to their offices to retrieve personal belongings the next two days.
In memos sent from their “Operations Watch” alert system and obtained by Just the News, CBP employees in Washington were told that on Thursday and Friday “USAID staff, who previously vacated their workspace, will be on site to retrieve their belongings” in the vicinity around the Ronald Reagan federal building in downtown Washington D.C. near the White House.
“There is a high probability of public gathering and First Amendment activities,” one of the alerts said. “Please maintain situational awareness throughout the building.
“CBP employees should be aware of these activities and uniformed employees should use good tactics and consider the use of cover shirts during transit portions in one out of controlled CBP spaces.”
Another alert stated: “Be aware of your surroundings tomorrow, especially in uniform … we anticipate a significant amount of media as well as the possibility of nefarious actors.”
Tensions have been high since President Donald Trump ordered thousands of USAID workers terminated as part of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) reorganization of the federal bureaucracy. Workers and their allies challenged their firings as well as the suspension of billions of dollars in foreign aid payments by the agency.
Late Wednesday, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts blocked a lower court’s order requiring Trump to resume the foreign aid payments.
The Reagan building has been as the center of some of the tensions in part because CBP immediately took over some of the office space vacated in it by USAID. Officials told Just the News the CBP Operations Watch alert was based on intelligence that liberal and pro-government protesters might show up Thursday and Friday near the building.”
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people can PEACEFULLY protest whatever they want. if they get radical, do not hesitate to jail a few.
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Ummm…how ’bout jailing a lot??? I like that much better!
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okay…I give in…let’s jail them all.
but DOJ will be mightily busy for the next 4 years so they may have to sit in jail like the J6ers did.
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Good! They can use the time to reflect on their “mistakes!”
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Gail Combs
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February 27, 2025 09:42
From last night:
Revolver — This is the beginning of a very humiliating end for Rep. Eric Swalwell…
There is this comment:
Mark Belk HalloweenGuy4
3 hours ago
I went to Colorado 23 years ago with a friend who is an investigative journalist and Ted Gunderson who retired as head of the L. A. FBI to find hidden film of high ranking government officials having sex parties with orphans from Boy’s Town Orphanage in Nebraska!
The film was slipped out by a freaked out young photographer hired to record the perversion!
The deep state found out about the film and arrested the photographer on child porn charges and we figured they put him through MK-ULTRA brainwashing because all the film had been recovered from the places they were hidden, under old silver mines and in caves in the mountains around Durango.
And just in case they missed some, a fed with a tag from Oregon, followed us as we searched for the film.
These people are demonic and perverted behind redemption!
I wrote about Ted Gunderson here:
KMAG 20250115 Open Thread / False Flags, Pedos & Satanists
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Ah, yes! The Boys Town scandal…..
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did that ring a bell with you?
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Oh, yeah – I did a lot of research into that back when Ben Sasse was in office – he was in charge of the House Page Program under bush when that all went down. Guarantee you Bush knew about it!
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Just The News: “Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin is urging the White House to strike down a scientific finding that facilitated the EPA’s regulation of greenhouse gas emissions.
Citing unnamed sources, the Washington Post reports that Zeldin has asked the White House to strike down the “endangerment finding,” as it’s called.
The 2009 finding, which determined that greenhouse gasses were a risk to public health, allowed for the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. The Obama and Biden administrations used the finding to set limits on emissions from cars and power plants.”
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Hmmmm….???
RFK Jr Makes Shock U-Turn on Processed Food that Could Anger MAHA Base
Our Take: The pendulum tends to swing from one extreme to another. Veganism used to be the in thing, now it’s carnivore. Both diets when taken to the extreme can cause problems. It used to be liberal/atheistic politics, now it’s swinging to the conservative end of the spectrum with ingrained religious fundamentalism.
If we’re not careful, this could end up being more regressive than helpful for societal advancement. Need balance, open mindedness, always questioning the “official narratives” from the “authorities” – whether those are political, scientific, media, or religious authorities. – Jordan Sather
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Martin
Martin
February 27, 2025 10:57 am
Senator Marsha Blackburn is demanding the immediate arrest of everyone tied to Jeffrey Epstein, just as his files are about to drop.
She warns that Epstein’s operation is far bigger than people realize
—an international network that requires scrutiny of flight logs, surveillance footage, and IRS records.
She also points to Ghislaine Maxwell’s infamous black book, currently in FBI hands, which will expose Epstein’s powerful clientele.
“Let’s get these people apprehended, let’s get them prosecuted, let’s get them jailed.”
Senator Marsha Blackburn is demanding the immediate arrest of everyone tied to Jeffrey Epstein, just as his files are about to drop.
She warns that Epstein’s operation is far bigger than people realize—an international network that requires scrutiny of flight logs, surveillance… pic.twitter.com/ytZn8r6ymG
— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) February 27, 2025
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Yeah! My plan worked! I finally found a coffee bean grinder yesterday at WM and it worked perfectly for my chewable Vit C tabs. Now I’ve got a plastic container filled with the powder that I can mix into my yogurt every morning. I just did half of a large bottle in a fraction of the time and effort it would have taken with a mortar & pestle! Next, the calcium tabs! Eureka!!!
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you can repurpose anything!
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I’m used to having to “make do” with what I’ve got at hand! LOL
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“‘Deranged Jack Smith’ Takes Down His Friends: An order signed by President Trump on Tuesday signals a new front in fighting lawfare operatives in the private sector.”
Julie Kelly, Feb 27, 2025
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ENTIRE ARTICLE: “As an aide started to explain the latest order about to be signed during a press conference in the White House on Tuesday afternoon, President Trump interrupted his spiel.
“Hold it, this is a good one,” the president, holding up his hand, said to several reporters assembled in the Oval Office. “Is everybody listening? We’re going to call it the ‘Deranged Jack Smith’…bill.”
The order, in the form of a memo to several agency heads, suspended the security clearance of employees at Covington & Burling, a Democratic-connected white-shoe law firm headquartered in Washington. According to a January 27 Wall Street Journal article–and followed up by Politico–the firm provided at least $140,000 in pro bono services to disgraced former special counsel Jack Smith.
Although both cases ended after Trump’s election, Smith’s problems were just beginning. Trump had promised on the campaign trail that his administration would investigate evidence of abuse and misconduct by the special counsel and his team. He fulfilled that promise by signing an executive order on January 20 to end the “weaponization” of the federal government, particularly the DOJ and intelligence community: “The prior administration and allies throughout the country engaged in an unprecedented, third-world weaponization of prosecutorial power to upend the democratic process. These actions appear oriented more toward inflicting political pain than toward pursuing actual justice or legitimate governmental objectives.”
In a follow-up move, Attorney General Pam Bondi formed a “Weaponization Working Group” on Feb. 5 and specifically cited Smith, “who spent more than $50 million targeting President Trump.”
Smith officially left the Biden DOJ on January 10 but not before succeeding in releasing one volume of his two-volume report into the investigations of the president. And in the “quit digging a hole” category, Smith recently signed an open letter to current prosecutors expressing “alarm…by recent actions of the Department’s leadership.”With Free Friends Like This…
Trump, along with his DOJ, likely will have the last laugh. And it’s doubtful Smith’s free lawyers at Covington & Burling, with offices around the world, are amused. While it’s unclear how many security clearances have been suspended, it appears two lawyers—Peter Koski and Clinton pal Lanny Breuer—were directly involved in providing free counsel to Smith. Koski worked at the DOJ’s public integrity unit during the same time Smith headed the unit during the Obama administration. Other notable Democrats at the firm include former Attorney General Eric Holder, Biden’s longtime foreign affairs advisor and Ukraine war architect Victoria Nuland, and Biden’s former White House counsel Dana Remus.
The presidential directive may have an immediate impact on Smith’s ability to build a defense, particularly for Koski. “Revoking [Koski’s] clearance could limit his access to sensitive government records, given that both of Mr. Smith’s criminal investigations against Mr. Trump involved classified documents. Doing so could sharply limit what representation Mr. Koski might be able to offer,” the New York Times reported on Feb 25.
But Trump’s “Deranged Jack Smith” order goes beyond suspending access to privileged material. The president further ordered federal agencies to look for any government contracts with Covington & Burling. “I also direct the Attorney General and heads of agencies to take such actions as are necessary to terminate any engagement of Covington & Burling LLP by any agency to the maximum extent permitted by law,” the president wrote.
It’s unknown how many, if any, government contracts exist with the firm. Possibly none. But the missive is yet another welcome sign of the so-called “Trump 2.0” administration, where heads will roll inside and outside government not just for viciously targeting the president and his supporters but for misleading the American people and wasting time and money in the process. To wit, the president indicated this is just the start.
After signing the order, the president turned to his aide and asked, “we’ll be doing this for other firms as time goes by?” The aide answered in the affirmative. After adding his signature, Trump threw his Sharpie to someone in the office. “Why don’t you send it to Jack Smith,” he joked.
Prestigious law firms act as both the hidden hammer and revolving door in the lawfare against Republicans. This is playing out in at least a dozen lawsuits filed against the Trump administration over the past 30 days. Until there is pain felt by both public and private lawyers responsible for this unprecedented attack against the will of the people, it will continue.”
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“On My Radar” – Miranda Devine Online
“Trump-deranged IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn, who illegally leaked the president’s tax returns of two decades to the New York Times, also gave leftie activists Pro Publica the private information of another 405, 427 taxpayers, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan has just discovered.
For his sins, he got a sweet deal with the Biden DOJ, pleading guilty to just one count of “unauthorized disclosure of tax return” in return for a five year sentence.
The New York Times published Trump’s stolen tax return that they received from Littlejohn, no questions asked, five weeks before the 2020 election. Twitter and Facebook did not censor their story or lock the NYT account for violating its “hacked materials” policy. Other media outlets slavishly followed the NYT.
And yet, two weeks later, when the NewYork Post published verified emails and other material from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop along with a copy of the FBI subpoena and work order from the laptop repair store, Big Tech throttled the story, 51 former intelligence officials lied that it was Russian disinformation, and the rest of the media sat on their hands or sneered.
This was evidence showing that, at the very least, Joe Biden had lied about his involvement in his son’s foreign business deals. At worst, he had orchestrated and profited from the influence peddling. The story was a bombshell.
The NYT stolen tax story showed that Trump legally minimized his taxes, like every billionaire. It was a nothing burger. So don’t pretend to be impartial.
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Speaking of Hunter Biden, both his lawyers were a no-show in the Californian District Court Wednesday, where he is suing former Trump White House staffer Garrett Ziegler and his nonprofit Marco Polo over their searchable database of material from his abandoned laptop.
Judge Hernan Vera was not amused. “In light of the withdrawal by Plaintiff Robert Hunter Biden’s attorney Gregory Andrew Ellis and a notice indicating that the contact information for Plaintiff’s lead attorney Paul Salvaty is no longer accurate, the Court orders Plaintiff to show cause in writing, by no later than March 5, 2025, explaining the Plaintiff’s situation…
“Failure to timely or adequately respond to this Order may result in the dismissal of the action or other terminating sanctions.”
Has Hunter stopped paying his lawyers now that the Big Guy is out of power and Sugar Brother Kevin Morris is out of the picture? Either way, he has been subpoenaed to testify at a deposition in the case this Friday. Morris was a no-show for his own deposition Wednesday. Hunter might need to use that pricey Yale law degree Daddy got him and represent himself.”
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“One Last Thing” — Miranda Devine On-Line
“Donald Trump’s bruised hand has become a topic of consternation for newspapers in the UK, which have belatedly noticed what The New York Post reported two weeks ago. The president frequently sports a big bruise on the back of his right hand, which he usually covers with a flesh-colored band-aid.
It’s just from all the hands he shakes every day. Still, Fleet Street has diagnosed Trump with various secret fatal illnesses due to the alarming “hematoma,” even likening him to Queen Elizabeth II in the final months of her life. “Did he fall? What aren’t we being told about his health?”
The poisonous Drudge Report blasted out the stories: “WHITE HOUSE MYSTERY. PRESIDENT BRUISED. HEALTH FEARS.”
Calm down, fellas. Trump is renowned for his bone crusher handshakes with other world leaders, which he likes to dominate physically. He is very gregarious and always has a steady stream of people in and out of the Oval Office, each of whom gets a handshake or two.
Then there is the fact that, as a candidate and now president, he has been more accessible to the public than most politicians. Many well-wishers, relieved that he has replaced Joe Biden, express their gratitude with the firmest handshake they can muster. Rings and long fingernails add to the toll. No hand could withstand such punishment without the odd bruise.
Sorry to disappoint, but a guy who withstood an assassin’s bullet isn’t succumbing to a sore hand.”
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Enough with the news….time for some memes!!!
And THIS is the next thing I have to look forward to….
Oh, hell no!!!
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I AGREE!!!!!!!!! HELLLLLLLL NO!
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“Leaks abound at Frank Lloyd Wright’s most famous home, the Wall Street Journal reported, and repairs are costing 40 times what it cost to construct it. The gravity-defying Fallingwater is looking forlorn in recent months with a thick barrier of scaffolding. The efforts of its steward, the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, to fix dozens of leaks at the Mill Run, Pennsylvania property is adding up to $7 million — a far cry from the $148,000 required to build it in the 1930s.
The home-turned-museum isthe greatest example of Wright’s architecture, but its ambitious design and position over a waterfall have left it in a somewhat precarious state as it approaches the 100-year mark.
It’s hard to imagine that it’s nearly 100 years old. I have a friend who lives nearby and he’s said in the past that the house is musty – almost ‘clammy’ and it stinks like rotting mold. Such a shame…”
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iirc we toured this house. it was okay–not really worth the price of admission ($20? $25?) it’s a house.
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Seriously? That’s a lot of moolah just to tour a house….unless it was George Washington’s house or something on that level.
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and that was 20 years ago! the AAA travel book listed it as a “must see”, so when one trip when that way, we made it a point to stop. the inside was nothing special in my opinion and there wasn’t even a guide…pay your money and walk around inside. wasn’t worth it imo.
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“Skygazers like me have something to look forward to Friday, when the seven other planets in our solar system will be visible, with a little help, in a rare event.
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will all be visible without any optical assistance. The planets are always actually lined up, but we just can’t see them all at once. The planets are always in a line called an ecliptic – the plane where they orbit the Sun. As the planets race around the Sun at different speeds, sometimes they line up on the same side of the Sun, appearing closely together in the night sky. The best time to see the planets will be shortly after sunset on Friday.”
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hochul wants $15 BILLION from the federal gov’t to fix NYC subways or she’s leaving the congestion pricing in place. I hope PDJT countered with stop harboring illegals and you’d have that $$.
Kathy Hochul tells Trump to cough up $15 billion to fix NYC subways.
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“SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Oscar-winner Gene Hackman, his wife and their dog were found dead in different rooms of their Santa Fe home and had apparently been dead for some time, according to investigators.
Hackman, 95, was found dead Wednesday in a mudroom and his 63-year-old wife, Betsy Arakawa, was found dead in a bathroom next to a space heater, Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office detectives wrote in a search warrant. There was an open prescription bottle and pills scattered on a countertop near Arakawa.
Denise Avila, a sheriff’s office spokesperson, said there was no indication that any of them had been shot or had other types of wounds.
The New Mexico Gas Co. is working with the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Department in the investigation, spokesperson Tim Korte told The Associated Press.
The utility tested the gas lines in and around the home after the bodies were discovered, according to the warrant. At the time, it didn’t find any signs of problems. A detective noted that people exposed to gas leaks or carbon monoxide may not show signs of poisoning, but also noted there were no obvious signs of a gas leak.
The Associated Press left email and phone messages Thursday for sheriff’s officials seeking more details. A spokesperson for the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, which runs the state’s medical examiner operations, declined to comment on whether the cause and manner of deaths had been determined.
A worker reported that the home’s front door was open when he arrived for routine maintenance and that he called police after finding the bodies. Two workers told police that they rarely saw the homeowners and that their last contact with them had been about two weeks earlier.
A dead German shepherd was found in a bathroom closet near Arakawa, police said. Two healthy dogs were found on the property.
The gruff-but-beloved Hackman was among the best actors of his generation, appearing as villains, heroes and antiheroes in dozens of dramas, comedies and action films from the 1960s until his retirement in the early 2000s.
He routinely showed up on Hollywood list of greatest American actors of the 20th century. He could play virtually any kind of role, from comic book villain Lex Luthor in “Superman” to a coach finding redemption in the sentimental favorite “Hoosiers.”
Hackman was a five-time Oscar nominee who won for “The French Connection” in 1972 and “Unforgiven” two decades later. His death comes just four days before this year’s ceremony. Tributes quickly poured in from Hollywood.
“The loss of a great artist, always cause for both mourning and celebration: Gene Hackman a great actor, inspiring and magnificent in his work and complexity,” director Francis Ford Coppola posted on Instagram.
Hackman met Arakawa, a classically trained pianist who grew up in Hawaii, when she was working part-time at a California gym in the mid-1980s, the New York Times reported in 1989. They soon moved in together, and by the end of the decade had decamped to Santa Fe.
Their Southwestern-style ranch on Old Sunset Trail sits on a hill in a gated community with views of the Rocky Mountains. The 8,700 square-foot (808 square-meter), four-bedroom home on six acres was built in 1997 and had an estimated market value of a little over $4 million, according to Santa Fe County property tax records.
Hackman and his wife also owned a more modest 2,000 square-foot (186 square-meter) home next door that was built in 2000.
Hackman also co-wrote three novels, starting with the swashbuckler, “Wake of the Perdido Star,” with Daniel Lenihan in 1999, according to publisher Simon & Schuster. He then penned two by himself, concluding with “Pursuit” in 2013, about a female police officer on the tail of a predator.
In his first couple decades in New Mexico, Hackman was often seen around the historic state capital, which known as an artist enclave, tourism destination and retreat for celebrities. He served as a board member of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in the 1990s, according to the local paper, The New Mexican.
In recent years, he was far less visible, though even the most mundane outings caught the attention of the press. The Independent wrote about him attending a show at the Lensic Performing Arts Center in 2018. The New York Post reported on him pumping gas, doing yard work and getting a chicken sandwich at Wendy’s in 2023.
Aside from appearances at awards shows, he was rarely seen in the Hollywood social circuit and retired from acting about 20 years ago. His was the rare Hollywood retirement that actually lasted.
Hackman had three children from a previous marriage. He and Arakawa had no children together but were known for having German shepherds. Hackman told the film magazine Empire in 2020 that he and Arakawa liked to watch DVDs she rented. “We like simple stories that some of the little low-budget films manage to produce,” he said.
An email sent to his publicist was not immediately returned early Thursday.”
https://apnews.com/article/gene-hackman-found-dead-f6c106e92987aeaaab7b35c1b956a5c8
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weird one for sure
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“I really don’t care, Margaret! ROFLMAO
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“Farmers are out in force again today across Europe to protest the EU-Mercosur trade agreement and Brussels’ wider agricultural policies.
Farmers from Czechia, Slovakia, Austria, and Hungary congregated to block the Holíč – Hodonin border crossing between Czechia and Slovakia.
Protestors held placards that read, “Stop Grain from Ukraine” and the “Green Deal is Suicide.”
https://x.com/RMXnews/status/1895099905187762484
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ReMix News: “The following article originally appeared on the Ordo Iuris website.
In 2019, IKEA published an article on its company intranet that imposed the ideological demands of the LGBT movement on its employees. In response, Janusz Komenda published a comment criticizing the announcement and included two Bible verses referring to homosexual practices. As a result, store management decided to dismiss him. The consequences extended to those who had “liked” Komenda’s comment.
The Regional Court for Kraków-Nowa Huta ruled that his termination was unlawful and ordered his reinstatement. IKEA appealed the decision. However, the Regional Court in Kraków upheld the original ruling, stating that the dismissal was unjustified. The court reasoned that:
The Supreme Court ultimately refused to accept IKEA’s cassation appeal (decision I PSK 62/24). It concurred with the lower courts that requiring employees to participate in social initiatives as a matter of company policy exceeds the boundaries of employment duties. The Court emphasized that:
The Court’s opinion stated: “An employer may invite an employee to participate in an initiative aligned with the company’s values, but exerting any form of pressure on the employee’s decision is impermissible, as occurred in this case.
(…) If we define an inclusive culture as one that fully integrates diverse employees through representation, openness, and fairness, then the exclusion of the plaintiff from the employee community due to his religious beliefs and differing worldview contradicts the appellant’s own rhetoric of inclusivity.”
Paweł Szafraniec, of the Ordo Iuris Center for Litigation Intervention, remarked: “With this decision, the Supreme Court strengthens the barrier against big companies imposing leftist ideology on their employees—disciplining and ultimately firing those who refuse to conform. This goes beyond the proper scope of an employment relationship. The Court also reinforces the right of Christians to defend their values, especially in Poland, where they make up a significant part of society. The Supreme Court’s ruling finally closes Mr. Komenda’s case.”
https://rmx.news/poland/polish-ikea-manager-who-fired-employee-for-citing-bible-verses-wins-appeal-case-will-head-to-supreme-court/
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I’m beginning to wonder if the Hackman death’s may have been a mutual suicide pact….open bottle of pills, no physical injuries to either, no gas leak….. whether that has anything to do with the Epstein files….??? Who knows but they hadn’t been seen for 2 weeks prior so…..🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
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dunno. who killed the dog? I think i read there were 2 other dogs and they were alive.
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Yes, 2 dogs were found w/another dead in a closet in the bathroom, near the wife. There were pills – don’t know what yet – scattered on the floor – the dog could have eaten – or been fed – pills…..IDK – a really weird one, fer sure! They haven’t said what KIND of pills they were yet.
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that will be interesting. and you’re right with pills on the floor–the dog might have ingested some.
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“King Charles III Invites Trump for Unprecedented Second State Visit”
Newsmax, Thursday, 27 February 2025 01:41 PM EST
“King Charles III has invited US President Donald Trump for an “unprecedented” second state visit to Britain, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said while visiting the White House on Thursday.
“This is really special, this has never happened before, this is unprecedented,” Starmer said in the Oval Office as he handed Trump a hand-signed letter from the monarch containing the invitation. “This is truly historic.”
Trump made a state visit during his first term in office in 2019, when he met the late Queen Elizabeth II, King Charles’s mother.
“His majesty the king wants to make this even better,” said Starmer, who was at the White House to push Trump to give US security guarantees for Ukraine in the event of a deal to end the war with Russia.
The US president has long been a vocal fan of the British royal family. Reading the letter, Trump pointed out that he had been invited to Windsor Castle, near London, one of the royal family’s ancient homes.
“On behalf of the wonderful first lady Melania and myself, the answer is yes,” Trump said. “It will be my honor to be there.”
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i thought Charles was on his death bed?
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No, not that I’ve heard…..there has been speculation about a possible illness such as his fat, swollen fingers, etc.
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ahhh…that’s right the swollen fingers–speculations then. thanks!
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Gail Combs(@gailcombs)Online
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February 27, 2025 13:17
House DOGE Subcommittee – Rep. Tim Burchett (R) TN asks questions:
🔹Oh boy – you won’t be able to unhear this conversation.
🔹Lots of “Terrorists funded by USAID” talk then . . .
🔹USAID has taxpayer funded Lobbyist in DC asking for more money for USAID and . . .
🔹USAID brings together groups in DC that overseas work with groups that kill Americans
5 minute video of question and answer. The guy rattles off all the muslim terrorist organisations, ISIS, Hamas, Taliban… that receive US $$$ via USAID.
https://xcancel.com/DogeWatchReport/status/1894873471475487221#m
OH, and I forgot to add that the UN LOBBYS CONGRESS TO PREVENT LAWS REQUIRING THE AUDITING OF USAID.
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Well, hell, no they don’t want that audited! It’s their cash cow!!!
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Hmmm….now they are saying there were signs of mummification with the Hackman bodies. It will be interesting to see what the ME says about their time of death. No obvious signs of foul play, no mention of any foul odor of decomposing bodies; both were found in the same position, on their sides on the floor…..
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signs of mummification? wonder what that means?
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They had been dead for some time, at a minimum; the groundskeepers had been coming on a regular basis for the last 2 weeks but hadn’t seen them during that time. One of them found the front door open, which is why he went into the house and discovered the bodies…..hmmmmm…..that presumably means that the door HADN’T been open any of the other times they were there, which complicates this even more….very strange!
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open or just unlocked?
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IDK – now they’re saying he looked thru the window…..
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February 27, 2025 1:48 pm
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i agree bout starting the war…lol. FAFO
and i still LOVE BEEF
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People used to tease me in NOVA about always wanting beef! LOL
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Re-purposed Window Frames
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those are cool. my granddaughter was working on a painting on the glass on the opposite side of one of those frames. the intent when it’s finished and turned around and hung will be looking out a window at the farm.
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Oh, cool! I’ve seen paintings like that!
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she has so many interests and talents!
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Parquet floor
Mausoleum Doors
1955 Cushman Golf Cart
The Raritan Inn Bed & Breakfast, Califon, NJ
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OH WOW!!! i love them all–but that parquet floor??? GORGEOUS!
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Stunning, isn’t it???
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we talked about putting a compass in our floor when we put our floor in, but we couldn’t agree on which one to put in…lol
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Antique Lamp
Viking Ax (10th – 11th Century)
65 year old Kitchen Step Stool
Lounge Chair
Classic Stingray
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i did that to hubby’s old step stool when we first met. we still have it!
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I still have one w/out the back and padding that my a-Mom refinished – she got it from her Mom – but it needs to be refinished again now. The paint has worn thru and it’s beginning to rust. I should take on that project this summer! I’ll jot that down! LOL
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lol
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https://vault.fbi.gov/jeffrey-epstein
https://archive.is/llWn6
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