Know-It-All Tuesdays: Saint Patty’s Day Trivia

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Why is St. Patrick’s Day celebrated on March 17?

Where and when was the first St. Patrick’s Day parade ever recorded?

What’s the oldest and largest St. Patrick’s Day Parade in the world?

What do the three leaves of a shamrock symbolize on St. Patrick’s Day?

What does the circle at the very center of a Celtic cross represent?

What is a boxty?

Which coastal Southern city has had a huge St. Patrick’s Day parade and celebration since 1813?

What does “Erin go bragh” mean?

How do leprechauns earn their gold?

What is the traditional main dish served at many St. Patrick’s Day celebrations in America?

So, how did you do?

It’s the day Saint Patrick died in 461 CE.

St. Augustine, Florida, in 1601. The area was then a Spanish colony, but it had an Irish vicar.

The New York City Saint Patrick’s Day Parade, first held in 1762.

The Holy Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Ghost), according to the legend that Saint Patrick used the shamrock to illustrate the concept to potential converts. It can also symbolize love, hope, and faith.

The sun.

An Irish potato cake.

Savannah, Georgia.

Ireland forever.

Making and mending shoes.

Corned beef and cabbage.

Until next month…stay sharp!

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    1. Good morning, Pat! I’ve got 33 here this morning but the sun is shining w/clear skies so it will be warming up quickly.

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  8. MAGA Minuteman

    March 11, 2025 12:52 am

    POTUS 45-47 on Canada and Tariffs…

    Donald J. Trump

    @realDonaldTrump
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    Despite the fact that Canada is charging the USA from 250% to 390% Tariffs on many of our farm products, Ontario just announced a 25% surcharge on “electricity,” of all things, and your not even allowed to do that. Because our Tariffs are reciprocal, we’ll just get it all back on April 2. Canada is a Tariff abuser, and always has been, but the United States is not going to be subsidizing Canada any longer. We don’t need your Cars, we don’t need your Lumber, we don’t your Energy, and very soon, you will find that out. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!

    https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/114141631976318293

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      1. no i read somewhere this morning Elon changed it because of the ukrainian attack on x. you have to have an account to read them…BUT if you have an account, you can also read all the replies to the tweets.

        just don’t think i wanna spend $$ on this though.

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        1. Well, that sucks…..he’s going to be sorry he did that, I’m betting. I don’t want to sign up for ANY social media sites, whether it costs $$$ or not. Rodney won’t post at all now, I expect. I say again: this sucks!

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  12. h/t Marica
    Breaking911
    @Breaking911
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    1h
    BREAKING: Judge rules the Trump admin. cannot deport Columbia Univ. terrorist supporter while legal fight over his detention plays out
    General Mike Flynn
    @GenFlynn
    Send this terrorist to Rikers Island on the East River in the Bronx that has a reputation for violence, physical abuse and neglect of its inmates. There have also been numerous assaults by inmates often resulting in serious injuries. Rikers Island ranks as one of the worst correctional facilities in the entire United States. That’s where this guy should sit this bullsh!t debate out.

    And these out of control judges must stop trying to act as though they hold more power over the
    @POTUS
    when it comes to issues of national security concern. THEY DO NOT!

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    1. Morning, all. Riker’s Island is a good place to sent provocateurs from Columbia U. Funny that the facility has evolved from being a haven for immigrants to being a federal detention facility. New York can take care of its own problems.

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        1. BTW, if you have grape jelly in an open feeder, they like it! It just has to be somewhere they feel stable because they’re so big. I tried it a couple of years ago on the trellis over the garden beds – Robins visited it all the time.

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          1. really???? we have our little jelly feeder (repurposed hummer feeder bottom) tied to the deck railing do it’s pretty secure and stable there, I’ll have to watch for them this year!

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              2. It’s not the height from the ground that matters but from the deck itself. 12′ above the deck is a different kettle of fish, eh?

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  14. “Congress’ Sex Abuse Enforcement Body Nailed For Fraud, Pattern Of Misconduct”

    The Federalist, By: George M. Perry, March 11, 2025

    Olympic gymnasts

    EXCERPT: “Congress chartered the U.S. Center for SafeSport in 2018 in response to the sexual abuse scandal of Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics, with its original mission to protect youth athletes from sexual abuse in sports environments.

    Today the center’s scope has become “safeguarding amateur athletes against abuse, including emotional, physical, and sexual abuse, in sports.” Combined with expansive definitions of “abuse” and “power,” anonymous reporting, and non-adversarial adjudications, the center has become a vehicle for intimidation, reprisal, and personal destruction.

    Last month, Judge John Woodard of Seminole County, Florida, found evidence of SafeSport’s “fraud, collusion, [and] pretense” in its withholding of exculpatory evidence over the course of a three-year investigation. The center “perpetrated a fraud upon the Court, the People of the State of Florida, the [Seminole County] Sheriff’s Office, the State’s Attorney Office,” and the defendant, a female athlete who had just turned 18 years old when two other teenage athletes accused her of battery. The court held that the center acted in “bad faith, intentionally, and with malice,” and granted the defendant’s motion to expunge and seal all records relating to the case.

    The accusers reported the defendant to the center in February 2022. That April, the SafeSport “investigator” (the court itself placed this title in quotes, showing just what they think of it) provided documents from his investigation to the Seminole County sheriff in support of the battery charge. By August, the sheriff and state prosecutors realized that SafeSport had “filtered information” by withholding exculpatory information and witness statements that were favorable to the defendant.

    That kicked off nearly two years of court orders and subpoenas ordering SafeSport to provide all of their evidence. Judge Woodard stated that SafeSport’s lawyer, Joseph Zonies, repeatedly refused to comply with these orders. In one email, according to the order, Zonies miscited a clause of the federal law governing SafeSport’s operations before ignoring an adjacent clause in the same law that explicitly requires SafeSport to cooperate with criminal investigations.

    While the state prosecutors were trying to get answers from SafeSport, the Seminole County sheriff was investigating the credibility of the key witnesses. In September 2024, one admitted that “she reported the wrong date, wrong time, and wrong location” to SafeSport. Worse still, “[s]he admitted that SafeSport knew the information was false.”

    Another Flawed Investigation

    This is the second time in four months a SafeSport investigator has come under a court’s scrutiny. The first generated congressional interest. In February, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, sent a “what did you know and when did you know it” letter to Ju’Riese Colón, the CEO of the Center for SafeSport…..”

    https://thefederalist.com/2025/03/11/congress-sex-abuse-enforcement-body-nailed-for-fraud-pattern-of-misconduct/

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  15. EXCERPT: “The agreement that President Donald Trump in January foisted on leftist Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro to accept thousands of Venezuelan air deportees is teetering. Maduro is mad because the Trump administration canceled a license allowing Chevron to operate in the South American country, citing the fact that Maduro has only accepted a few hundred criminal alien Venezuelans.

    The Trump administration should let that deal fail and be glad, because it was never needed. Most of the nearly 1 million Venezuelans who illegally crossed the U.S. southern border were living contentedly in more than 20 other peaceful countries for years before they realized the Biden administration would grant them an American lifestyle upgrade. Many Venezuelan migrants were granted U.S. asylum by lying about the fact that they had lived for years already in other safe, welcoming countries.

    The Trump administration can readily — and in good conscience — just send them back to these other countries in Latin America and Europe that already accepted them once, and had provided residency, asylum, and work authorization status.

    According to interviews I have conducted with thousands of Venezuelans intending to cross the U.S. border along the migrant trails of Latin America in recent years, virtually none had lived in Venezuela for five, eight, or even 10 years when they showed up at the border falsely claiming they had only just now fled Maduro for U.S. sanctuary. Some young Venezuelan men and women I interviewed have no recollection of ever living in Venezuela at all.

    The vast majority I interviewed, long before they lawyered up at the border with stories doctored to enhance bogus asylum claims, told me they had been living happily, comfortably, safely, and often very prosperously — for years — in the warm embrace of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, or a dozen other Latin American countries known more for vacation appeal than persecution….”

    https://thefederalist.com/2025/03/11/trump-doesnt-need-maduros-cooperation-to-deport-venezuelan-migrants/

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  16. Just The News: “President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he would add additional tariffs on Canada, amid recently imposed trade tariffs on Canada, China and Mexico that resulted Monday in the U.S. stock market having its worst day this year.

    “Based on Ontario, Canada, placing a 25% Tariff on “Electricity” coming into the United States, I have instructed my Secretary of Commerce to add an ADDITIONAL 25% Tariff, to 50%, on all STEEL and ALUMINUM COMING INTO THE UNITED STATES FROM CANADA, ONE OF THE HIGHEST TARIFFING NATIONS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD,” he wrote on TRUTH Social.

    He said the tariffs will go into effect Wednesday morning.”

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  18. Entire Article @ TheDailyBS: “Daily Caller News Foundation co-founder Tucker Carlson told NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo on his podcast Monday that he believes Republican Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton allegedly attempted to block the hiring of a particular person on the Intelligence Committee.

    Voters have pushed to see government files on the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy and deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. For President Donald Trump’s second term, a new House Oversight Task Force on the Declassification of Government Documents has formed to review the materials. On “The Tucker Carlson Show,” Carlson described how a particular hire was being discussed for the intelligence world.

    A senator on the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence allegedly halted that hire.

    “In January there was a scramble over who’s gonna get what jobs in the new administration. At one point there was someone who was being discussed for a job in the intel world, and a member of the SSCI, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and Intel Committee, went to the people making the decision and said, ‘You cannot hire this person because this person will be certain to push for the release of the JFK files,’” Carlson said.

    “So this is in 2025, less than two months ago, and you have a sitting member of the United States Senate whose main goal is to keep those files secret. Then you have to ask yourself, ‘What is that?’” Carlson asked. “If you’re telling me that six weeks ago, a member of the United States Senate was trying to keep someone out of a job in order to keep these files secret, that is to protect the CIA, I don’t believe that for a second.”

    While Cuomo asked Carlson what he believes the protection of the files “is,” Carlson said that, although he doesn’t know, the protection of the files to shield the CIA didn’t make sense, given that no one knows who was part of the agency during Kennedy’s assassination.

    In January, Trump ordered the Director of National Intelligence and other officials to present him with a plan to release the JFK files within 15 days of his request on Jan. 23. Following the request, the FBI confirmed on Feb. 11 to the Daily Caller that an estimated 2,400 records “previously unrecognized” as relating to JFK’s assassination had been found.

    Carlson went on to say that the hold-up of the files “doesn’t make sense,” to which Cuomo highlighted how the release of Epstein’s files “Phase One” was a disappointment to Americans, as little to no new information was released.

    “Once again, you clearly have a force that’s applying measurable pressure on the people who should have the power,” Carlson said. “The elected president of the United States should have the power under our system. That’s called democracy. And his appointees have derivative power from him. But they appear to be powerless in the face of some other source of power, and the question is what is that source?”

    As the two men went back and forth on expected change within the FBI, Cuomo stopped Carlson and asked why he didn’t know who allegedly prevented releasing the files.

    “So wait a minute. Here’s the part I don’t understand. You are uniquely qualified to get this answer because one of us can call the president of the United States right now and ask him, and the other one is me. So why don’t you know?” Cuomo asked.

    “So what I brought to it was the knowledge that a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee – I’m not guessing – called over and said you cannot appoint this person — ” Carlson began. Cuomo pressed Carlson again, asking the DCNF co-founder to “expose” the senator so others can start “chasing after him or her.”

    “Tom Cotton of Arkansas did that,” Carlson said. “Tom Cotton?” Cuomo asked. Carlson confirmed the name to Cuomo again, to which he additionally said he has not confronted Cotton about the allegations yet.

    The contents of both the JFK and Epstein files have not been fully revealed, with U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi saying on March 3 that the FBI was combing through thousands of additional files and hoped to release the full documents soon.

    Cotton’s office did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.“

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  19. Wait, Who is Posting Those Unflattering J. D. Vance Memes?

    J. D. Vance doesn’t look like himself. In recent days, memes have spread across social media in which the vice president’s face has been Photoshopped to give him cartoonishly chubby cheeks. He looks like a bearded baby or Humpty Dumpty. Sometimes, he is holding a lollipop and wearing a child’s baseball cap with a propeller affixed to the top. One meme takes his edited baby face and adds lusciously curly locks, while another changes his skin tone to a gentle purple hue, making him look like a Willy Wonka–inspired human blueberry. In every image, Vance has been reanimated as an utter doofus. […]

    Of course, people love making memes that portray their political adversaries as hapless and incompetent. That’s not exactly what’s happening with these images of Vance. The memes are going viral on the left-wing internet. But they are equally, if not more, popular on the right. Explicitly pro-Trump accounts on X that otherwise spend their time bashing liberals are posting embarrassing memes of their party’s second in command.

    No, the right doesn’t appear to be posting unflattering memes of Vance because it has turned on him. As I wrote when Vance joined the Republican ticket, he uniquely appeals to various factions across the party. […]

    So why is the right willing to make fun of one of its own with memes? … “They’re just funny.” – The Atlantic

    Our Take: The JD Vance memes are hilarious, and the fact that the dorks over at The Atlantic don’t understand them – or why Trump supporters would also be making/circulating them – is too perfect.

    They truly don’t understand internet culture, memetics, or humor in general. All of those things embrace self-deprecation as one of the highest forms of comedy, and the self-righteous pillow-biters at The Atlantic are too prideful and low-energy to ever get it.

    This is why we won the Meme War of 2016, and why we will win every Meme War for the rest of time. – GhostofBasedPatrickHenry

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  20. NF: Stop this stupid CR BS! SHUT IT DOWN!!!

    “It’s Rescission Time”

    By David A. Stockman, Mar 11, 2025

    EXCERPT: The politicians who run the GOP on Capitol Hill are about ready to rug-pull Elon Musk and his patron in the Oval Office big time. That is, the so-called “clean CR [continuing resolution]” that Speaker Johnson is apparently cooking up will ratify the entirety of the runaway spending in the last Biden budget, thereby canceling virtually every single dime that the DOGE operation has purportedly saved.

    This awful outlook, of course, is a consequence of the stacked institutional mechanics that Elon Musk is just beginning to grasp.

    For example, the appropriations authority for every one of the hundreds, if not thousands, of idiotic foreign aid contracts that DOGE has exposed and canceled must by law be recycled and respent on another contract. And therefore spent on projects perhaps only slightly less stupid but in any case no less unaffordable.

    We are referring to the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 and the passel of UniParty-appointed Federal district judges waiting to pounce in favor of lawsuits claiming funds are being illegally withheld by the executive.

    To be sure, the anti-impoundment provisions of the 1974 Act are inconvenient, albeit probably consistent with the black letters of the Constitution that delegate the power of the purse to Congress. But fortunately, there is a pretty creative hack that might be the next best thing to the now-proscribed impoundment tool that Richard Nixon overused, thereby triggering the rebuke to presidential discretion embodied in the 1974 Act.

    In Congress, rescission refers to the repeal or cancellation of previously appropriated budget authority. The recission process allows for the cancellation of funds that were previously allocated by Congress before the funds would otherwise expire. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. § 683) provides the framework for this process, which can be initiated by the President or Congress itself. -RW Malone, MD

    To wit, as Elon Musk apparently discovered earlier this week, the Congressional rescission tool is a pretty good workaround to unspend money that has already been appropriated. This method of cutting existing spending authority does require Congressional approval within 45 days, but rescissions are subject to an up-or-down vote and no filibuster in the Senate.

    So what the DOGE team needs to do right now is bundle up a massive pile of rescissions and send them to Capitol Hill to be voted upon as a pre-condition to consideration of the next CR.….”

    https://www.malone.news/p/its-rescission-time

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  21. I guess that’s one way to do it….

    NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. – A 41-year-old man was arrested after a shooting “between rival motorcycle gangs” that injured two on Saturday, according to the New Smyrna Beach Police Department. Police said the shooting happened at the RaceTrac gas station located at 3000 State Road 44 around 1 p.m., the New Smyrna Beach Police Department.

    According to a news release, “a large group of motorcyclists engaged in a fight in the parking lot, which eventually escalated into gunfire.” Police said the majority of the people involved in the incident left the scene before officers arrived.

    “History does have a way of repeating itself, doesn’t it?”

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  22. “Somebody somewhere was laughing all the way to the bank when this deal was signed, but now they’re crying in their beer ’cause DOGE found out about it. Piggybacking off the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) efforts, Rollins announced that they have cancelled the grant, worth $600,000.00.

    The grant description states its purpose:

    This integrated project involves research, extension, and teaching components proposed to address the growing concerns and issues surrounding menstruation, including the potential health risks posed to users of synthetic feminine hygiene products (FHP), advancing research in the development of FHP that use natural materials, as well as providing menstrual hygiene management (MHM) education for young women and girls.

    The specific objectives of this project are: a) to produce three natural fibers; regenerative cotton, regenerative wool and industrial hemp (cannabis sativa); b) to develop patents for sustainable feminine hygiene sanitary products using the three natural fibers; c) to evaluate the fhp made from each of the natural fibers in comparison to the standard synthetic product; d) to educate young women and girls about mhm through an extension program; e) to enhance instruction for students in the college of agricultural, family and consumer sciences and f) to provide a local fiber processing center for fiber growers in Louisiana.

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  25. “Ukrainian woman wanted by Interpol arrested at Polish border for trafficking human kidneys — The 35-year-old Ukrainian suspect is now in custody in Poland and awaits extradition to Kazakhstan”

    ReMIX, Thomas Brooke, March 11, 2025

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “A 35-year-old Ukrainian woman, sentenced to 12 years in prison in Kazakhstan for her involvement in an international organ trafficking ring, has been arrested while attempting to cross the Polish-Ukrainian border in Przemyśl.

    She had been wanted by Interpol since November 2020 under a red notice, which signifies the highest level of international search for dangerous criminals.

    According to Lieutenant Piotr Zakięlarz, spokesperson for the Bieszczady Border Guard Department, the woman was detained on March 7 during a routine inspection of travelers departing for Ukraine via the railway border crossing in Przemyśl. Authorities discovered her data in international search databases, confirming her status as a fugitive wanted by Kazakh law enforcement.

    The Ukrainian national was convicted for participating in an organized international criminal group that illegally obtained and sold human kidneys.

    “A woman in the period from July 2017 to January 2019 in Kazakhstan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Thailand, and Uzbekistan illegally obtained human organs in the form of kidneys, in order to resell on the black market,” noted Marta Pętkowska, spokesperson for the District Prosecutor’s Office in Przemyśl.

    Investigations revealed that at least 56 individuals fell victim to the illegal practice, which served as a primary source of income for the suspect.

    Despite being confronted with the charges, the woman denied any involvement during questioning by the authorities. Following her arrest, the prosecutor submitted a request for her detention, which the court approved for a period of seven days. She remains in custody while awaiting a court ruling on her extradition to Kazakhstan.

    At this stage, authorities have refrained from disclosing further details about the case.”

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      1. From the article but it’s not clear exactly what specific action…..”Democrats who love to blame President Donald Trump for every ill brought upon Americans by his predecessor now can stop whining about eggs.

        Days after Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins shared strategies that would tackle the soaring egg prices, she announced that there is light at the end of the tunnel…..

        …..“Egg prices are plummeting since President Trump took action! You’d think this dramatic drop would be headline news, right? But now that the issue is solved, the MSM will just move on to the next thing they can blame Trump for,” Rep. Wesley Hunt’s X account noted.”

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  28. TheDailyBS: A new report revealed a connection between drugs used to treat movement disorders and a side effect that causes “deviant” sexual behaviors. Patients reported feeling “shame” and being “mortified” by their own behavior after side effects from dopamine agonist drugs led to dangerous impulses including sex addiction and even pedophilia.

    The BBC spoke with nearly two dozen women who said the drug, taken to relieve their restless leg syndrome (RLS) “ruined their lives.” The outlet also cited reports by drugmaker GSK which learned of the link in 2003.

    “While there is no explicit reference to this side effect in patient leaflets, the UK medicines regulator told us there was a general warning about increased libido and harmful behaviour. GSK says a risk of ‘altered’ sexual interest is also referred to in the leaflets,” the BBC reported.

    “Some of the women who described being drawn to risky sexual behaviour told us they had no idea of what was causing it. Others said they felt compelled to gamble or shop with no history of such activities,” the report continued, adding that the GSK report cited one man “who had sexually assaulted a child while taking the drug for Parkinson’s.”

    “The only way I could describe it is it was just deviant,” a woman named Claire told the BBC after being prescribed the dopamine agonist drug Ropinirole following pregnancies and developing RLS. She reportedly would regularly “cruise for sex” flashing her chest “at any man she could find” while wearing see-through clothing. “There remains an element in your head that knows what you’re doing is wrong, but it affects you to the point that you don’t know you’re doing it,” she said.

    According to the BBC:

    A class action was brought against GSK in 2011 by four sufferers of Parkinson’s disease – the BBC has learned. They said Ropinirole led to gambling debts and broken relationships.

    They also complained that despite a link between such behaviours and the drug having been established in medical studies as early as 2000, GSK had failed to include any warnings in its product literature until March 2007. The class action was settled but GSK denied liability.

    Two men who were prescribed Ropinirole for Parkinson’s disease were listed in the 2003 report that noted their “deviant behaviour.”

    “In one, a 63-year-old-man sexually assaulted a seven-year-old girl, leading to a custodial sentence. The documents said the perpetrator’s libido had increased significantly from the start of his treatment with Ropinirole and his ‘libido problem subsequently resolved’ after his dose was reduced,” BBC reported. “In the second case, a 45-year-old man carried out ‘uncontrolled acts of exhibitionism and indecent behaviour’. His sex drive was reported to have increased prior to being prescribed Ropinirole but his urges ‘intensified’ after the treatment.”

    Ropinirole was reportedly prescribed for more than 17 million treatments and went through “extensive clinical trials,” GSK told BBC, saying the drug had a “well-characterised safety profile.”

    Since the 2003 report, GSK said prescriptions now list “altered or increased sexual interest” and “behavior of significant concern” as side effects.”

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  29. Just The News: “Ukrainian diplomats signaled their willingness to agree to a 30-day preliminary ceasefire with Russia as part of their negotiations with American officials in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.

    “Ukraine expressed readiness to accept the U.S. proposal to enact an immediate, interim 30-day ceasefire, which can be extended by mutual agreement of the parties, and which is subject to acceptance and concurrent implementation by the Russian Federation,” the State Department said in a joint statement with Ukrainian officials, according to CBS News.

    “The United States will communicate to Russia that Russian reciprocity is the key to achieving peace,” they said. The United States also announced it would end a pause on military aid and intelligence sharing as a result of the talks. [NF: BS!!!! This is wrong, wrong, wrong! NO AID AND NO INTELLIGENCE!]

    The Russians have not agreed to a ceasefire as of press time. They are unlikely to do so, however, without significant concessions, as the Russian army is currently making significant gains in the Kursk region against Ukrainian troops that occupied the border area. In the meantime, Russian offensives in Zaporizhzhia and the Donbas have posted modest gains in recent days and a spring offensive in expected to materialize soon.”

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  30. Entire Article @ TheDailyBS: “Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson criticized former MSNBC host Chris Matthews and Democratic strategist James Carville during a Tuesday podcast for their ineffective strategy in opposing President Donald Trump.

    Hanson’s critique of the two left-wing pundits follows Matthew likening Trump to former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini on Friday and Carville suggesting the president could have syphilis following his Oval Office clash with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. During a diatribe about Democrats’ and corporate media’s resistance to the president on “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” Hanson particularly honed in on Matthews and Carville for their recent anti-Trump rhetoric.

    (Video)

    “Their only strategy is Trump is a fascist, fascist, fascist. And then we had Chris Matthews, whom I know a little bit, and he thinks, ‘Can’t be Hitler anymore, so I’ll just give an exegesis on Mussolini.’ Yes, Chris, it’s already been used, I’m sorry,” Hanson said. “I think General [Barry] McCaffrey already said [that] when he violated Article 88 back in 2020. He called Donald Trump, I’m pretty sure it was him, he, that called him Mussolini, so you’re late to the party again.”

    “Then you have James Carville — he’s the Ragin’ Cajun. He’s reinvented himself at 80 … as the seer, except he’s wrong on everything,” he continued. “He said that, ‘Yeah, Donald Trump’s gonna lose. He’s just a big effing white whale. He’s a weak and effing big fat boy. Ha. [Former Vice President] Kamala Harris is not my favorite — she’s gonna win.’ No, she lost. You were completely wrong about that.”

    Carville wrongly forecast that Harris would win the 2024 presidential election in an Oct. 23 New York Times opinion essay titled, “James Carville: Three Reasons I’m Certain Kamala Harris Will Win.”

    “And then he sees a little bruise on Trump’s, on his right hand, and he doesn’t say to himself, ‘If you were president, and you give as many media appearances and interviews as he does, and you go to rallies, you probably shake in a month five or six thousand hands,” Hanson added. “And you probably get a lot of muscle stressed, torn tissue.”

    “So he sees the blotch and then he diagnoses him as tertiary syphilis, syphilitic. So Donald Trump is crazy and he’s a syphilitic. And okay, Mr. Carville, you have no medical knowledge … That’s like saying [former President] Joe Biden has syphilis because according to his diagnosis, Trump is crazy and says crazy things,” he said. “Well then, why is Biden acting that way? And he said, ‘Well, there was Stormy Daniels.’ Well, there was Tara Reade too. So Joe Biden was no chorus boy. So that’s the level of opposition that they have to Trump. And it’s pathetic.”

    Moreover, Hanson condemned the Democrats for how they conducted themselves during Trump’s March 4 congressional address and for their cringe video posted Wednesday that portrayed them as video game characters.

    Republican strategist Scott Jennings also criticized Carville in February over his prediction that Trump’s administration would “collapse” within a month. He argued that the Democratic strategist has been in a tailspin ever since his failed election prediction.”

    Video: https://thedailybs.com/2025/03/11/victor-davis-hanson-blasts-chris-matthews-james-carville-for-pathetic-opposition-to-trump/

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  31. “Delusional tantrums erupt when Trump ‘fight’ photo wins award”

    American Wire, March 11, 2025 | Nicole Haas

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “What happens when you win an award for capturing one of the most iconic and harrowing political moments of all time? You get slammed by raging leftists, that’s what.

    AP photographer Evan Vucci caught the incredible moment where then-presidential candidate Donald Trump rose to his feet with fist in the air after being shot in the ear, to tell Americans to “Fight, Fight, Fight!” The moment captured the hearts and minds of patriots across the nation and beyond, and Trump’s courageous actions began to open the eyes of political fence sitters, and Trump skeptics.

    Vucci’s photo has been viewed hundreds of millions of times and won the “Politico Photo of the Year” award from the White House News Photographers Association.

    The good news didn’t sit well with leftists who showed up in droves to have another collective Trump-hatefest on X over the post:

    “Does it count if it was staged?” one X user wrote. While another agreed and simply (and unbelievably) wrote: “STAGED”:

    Apparently the “staged” fantasy is a shared delusion among some leftist circles, as another exclaimed, “Fake Fake Fake!” in response to the photo and yet another expanded on the “conspiracy” questioning if Vucci was on it:

    Courage and patriotism are apparently foreign to some who simply can’t accept what their eyes and ears see and hear.

    “It’s such a great picture, showing clearly that Trump knew he was in no danger whatsoever that day,” was yet another sarcastic response.

    Thankfully, there was plenty of support for the photo and Trump’s historic moment:

    “The photo captures one of the defining moments of modern history. Congratulations on the well-deserved recognition,” Pete Webb wrote on X.

    “SIMPLY ICONIC! The 2024 Presidential election was over the moment DONALD J TRUMP rose and yelled to the crowd “FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!” wrote another.”

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  32. “Dem-sponsored bill seeks early release for convicted juveniles – who’ve murdered two or less!”

    American Wire News, March 11, 2025 | Nicole Haas

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “A conservative radio host is sounding the alarm on Seattle Democrats who want to release convicted juvenile killers early from prison — and offer them “free” housing. There’s one stipulation to the new bill, and that’s the two-murder maximum for convicted killers. Any more than two murders, and you’ve gone too far for Democrats.

    Sponsors of the bill are using the argument that juvenile brains are not fully developed until the age of 24, and have been supported by at least two criminal juveniles convicted of murder, and a child molester, according to KTTH radio host Jason Rantz.

    Released murderers would have access to rehabilitative programs and undergo “risk assessments” supporters of the bill claim, but it’s not clear who would be undertaking those tasks, and how it would be paid for. The bill garnered plenty of backlash on X:

    X user ‘GrandOLTeam’ did some digging and claimed to find that idea for the bill came from “incarcerated youth.”

    “This bill came from the youth who are currently incarcerated to give them hope for a chance at early release,” a section of the bill reportedly says. “It is beneficial for communities to reintegrate the incarcerated back into society where they can have a positive impact on the next generation and end the cycle of youth crime.” the bill reportedly continued.

    Another X user “Crystal Clear” claimed that “California is already there.”

    “It’s called CYF. A teen killer who helped her boyfriend murder her mother bragged that she will only be incarcerated until age 25. She and her boyfriend preplanned the attack against her mother and they named the knife, the weapon used for murder,” Crystal explained.

    Rantz would later explain that the two-murder max comes from a recent shooting where [Dems] didn’t want the “shooter to qualify.”

    According to Rantz, a repeated sex-offender pleaded guilty to possessing images of child sexual abuse, last week. The perp was caught after a teen boy was lured to his home with “gifts and weed” and spotted the images before telling his mother who called police.

    The perp had been released as a known “Sexually Violent Predator” by local authorities and never completed a sex offender treatment program, according to Rantz’s findings.”

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    1. HAHAHAHAHA…me too…we rarely buy lottery tickets.

      and yeah, my face is an open book. I can be polite, listen to what you’re saying without interrupting, but my face is saying what the hell is this nonsense you’re spewing? LOL

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      1. That’s one thing I did manage, learning to put on the “neutral” face during business meetings and such, but now? That skill went bye-bye!

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  37. Natalie Winters
    @nataliegwinters
    The Federal Judge who just went after @DOGE
    is married to the attorney representing Hampton Dellinger in his lawsuit against the Trump administration.

    She was also Lisa Page’s personal attorney during a GOP inquiry into her efforts to smear President Trump with the Russia Collusion Hoax with Peter Strozk.

    How is this not a conflict of interest!?

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  38. Eric Daugherty
    @EricLDaugh
    🚨 BREAKING: Rep. Sarah McBride – a transgender – was just introduced as “Mr. McBride” and ALL H*LL BROKE LOOSE because he was “misgendered.”

    The Democratic member literally started POUNDING HIS FIST and YELLING, and the hearing was then ADJOURNED.

    REP. KEITH SELF (R): I will now recognize the representative from Delaware, Mr. McBride.

    REP. KEATING (D): Can you repeat your introduction please?

    SELF: We’ve set the standard on the floor of the House…

    KEATING: What is that standard? Would you repeat what you just said when you introduced a duly-elected representative from the USA?! Please?

    SELF: I will. The representative from Delaware, Mr. McBride.

    KEATING: Mr. Chairman, have you no DECENCY? I’ve come to know you, but this is not DECENT.

    SELF: We will continue this hearing-

    KEATING: You will not continue it with ME unless you introduce a duly-elected representative the RIGHT WAY.

    SELF: This hearing is adjourned.

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  40. EXCERPT: “….Pulling the grants was a no-brainer given that the administration has clear authority to do so, and the reality of that is starting to become clear to faculty members, according to Steve McGuire, who heads up the American Council of Trustees and Alumni. An internal source told him that “layoffs [are] imminent” and that faculty are “apoplectic” at Columbia President Katrina Armstrong for losing control of the situation.

    NEW: Columbia has begun notifying faculty of cancelled grants.

    From an internal source there: 

    “Grant cancellation notices flowing in now. Labs shutting down. Layoffs imminent. Faculty apoplectic at Katrina Armstrong for letting it get to this point. She has to fix this fast.”

    Given how far-left Columbia’s faculty is, I’m not sure if they are mad at Armstrong for not stopping the pro-Hamas activists and their illegality or if they expected her to stop Trump somehow. Either way, this is a university that is rotten to its core and deserves every bit of punishment it is receiving. Layoffs should be imminent for a school that can’t even manage to stop terror-supporting from occupying public spaces and prohibiting Jews from traversing campus without being harassed. 

    I’ve got some good news, though. Columbia should have no problem funding labs and paying its employees because the university has a $14.8 billion endowment. Given that, why were American taxpayers giving them nearly half a billion dollars in the first place? It shows you how the elites of our society have so rigged the system to always keep the cash from the middle class flowing into their coffers when they’ve already got so much money. 

    Of course, all of this could have been avoided by simply taking action against these pro-Hamas lunatics. Columbia chose not to, terrified at the backlash, and now the price is being paid. Perhaps some lessons will be learned, but probably not.”

    https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/03/11/consequences-arrive-for-columbia-university-layoffs-imminent-n2186525

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  46. The Bahamas

    “Siblings raised this stone in memory of their father, Thorgil” [Maybe Sweden?]

    “Crow’s Heart”

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  47. “Non-citizen agitators have no right to live in America. Period. It’s that simple.”

    Jordan Schachtel, Mar 11, 2025

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Opponents of the Trump Administration are up in arms about the ongoing deportation proceedings against Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia University graduate who allegedly “led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization,” according to a statement from the Trump Administration’s Department of Homeland Security.

    On Saturday, ICE agents arrested Khalil, a green card holder and native of Syria, and he is reportedly being held in a detention facility. On Monday, a federal judge ordered the government not to deport Khalil, citing the need to review a petition opposing his deportation.

    Khalil arrived in America from Syria in December of 2022 and immediately began participating in extremist movements on campus.

    A Columbia University rioter breaks into the school’s Hamilton Hall during a pro-Hamas disturbance, Photo: Alex Kent/Getty Images

    While attending Columbia, Khalil acted as a spokesperson for the Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), a coalition of several Columbia University student organizations that advocate for the shared far-left and Islamist goal of the destruction of Israel.

    Khalil, second from the Left, participates in “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” at Columbia / Photo: AP

    CUAD officials have repeatedly called for violence and disruptions against American and foreign institutions. For the most comprehensive list detailing the incitement and support for terrorism related to Khalil’s group, check out this X thread from Ryan Mauro of the Capital Research Center.

    Moreover, Mr. Khalil participated just last week in a disturbance at Barnard College (along with, apparently, Ilhan Omar’s daughter), in which he helped occupy an academic building with the explicit purpose of shutting down the campus.

    Now, Khalil’s ideological allies in politics and the corporate media have taken to declaring that Khalil is a victim who should be allowed to protest and disrupt public and private proceedings as he sees fit, despite not being an American citizen. The people and institutions opposing his deportation claim the mantle of free speech, but none of them really care much about free speech. Had Khalil led disturbances and riots to support the rights of, say, Trump supporters to occupy and vandalize academic institutions, this same coalition would be the first to demand his immediate arrest and deportation.

    As most non-citizens living in the United States probably understand, living in America is a privilege, not a right. If we are to live in a sovereign nation, the United States government must reserve the right to toss out the non-citizen trash when they purposely fan the flames of conflict and disharmony in our country.

    Even if the Trump Administration wanted to deport Khalil merely for occupying a library and disrupting classes (without even covering the additional laundry list of incitement), that should be good enough grounds to launch him back to the Middle East. Any non-citizen agitator who is leading a movement demanding civil disobedience and/or incitement to violence should be thrown out of the country. Period.

    I admittedly have a significant added personal interest in deporting Hamas and Islamist-aligned individuals from the country (and you probably should, too), as their primary targets are Jews. Still, the standard does not need to involve ideological particulars. Sowing division between Americans and creating strife within our society is grounds for ending your stay here. He belongs on the next plane back to his homeland.

    The Trump Administration should remain unapologetic in its defense of the deportation of Khalil and any other non-citizen agitator from abroad. Any other foreign national who participates in activities that support anti-American ideals or seeks to agitate against our civil society should meet the same fate.”

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  50. Just The News: “The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a temporary stopgap spending bill to fund the government at current levels through the end of the fiscal year.

    The measure passed the lower chamber in an 217 to 213 vote, with one Democrat crossing the aisle. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., was the sole Republican nay vote. It now heads to the Senate, where it will need 60 votes to pass.

    Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has already indicated he will oppose the bill, meaning the GOP will need eight Democrats in that chamber for it to pass. Congress faces a Friday night deadline to avert a shutdown.

    The bill notably is not a perfectly clean CR and includes an additional $6 billion for defense, $6 billion for veterans’ health care, $10 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and a reduction of non-defense spending.”

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