Barbra Jean

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Today is Melissa Petermen’s birthday!  She was born in 1971 and is best known for her portrayal of Barbra Jean on the television show Reba.  I found this article on the countryrebel.com website detailing 5 things we may not have known about the Reba show.

From countryrebel.com:

One of the biggest hit television shows in the 2000s, Reba McEntire‘s beloved sitcom and family show took off like wildfire with American viewers.

Originally only expected to last a few seasons, the show endured the test of time and developed a massive fan base which helped it reach new heights as the top-rated sitcom on its network, The CW.

For more than six years, Reba captured viewers hearts and souls with its witty, wise-cracking humor and ditzy antics from the easy-to-love, Barbra Jean all while touching on some of life’s most difficult and hard-hitting topics.

If you consider yourself a Reba fan (which you likely do) then you’re going to love this list of shocking and true facts about this incredible TV show!

The Show Almost Wasn’t Called “Reba”

When the show was developed and pitched to Reba McEntire, it was originally written with the main character named “Sally”. Of course, by this time McEntire had a massive and loyal fan base built up from her career in music. After some talking with executives, the decision was made to re-name the show and character “Reba” to give fans a foothold and connect to the show.

 Reba Had Some Friendly Faces On The Show

Although many believed this hot and fresh sitcom was the first gig for some of these actors, both McEntire and Christopher Rich, who plays her ex-husband Brock, co-starred in Kenny Roger’s 1991 masterpiece, The Gambler Returns: Luck of the Draw.

Reba & Barbra Jean Are Best Friends – But She Would Never Admit It

Throughout the entire show, fans were able to see just how close Reba’s character and Barbra Jean became, but even through some of the most trying of circumstances, there never was a moment that she opened up about how close they are.

It was only during the very last episode they would ever tape that Reba actually acknowledged to Barbra Jean that she was her closest friend.

 The Final 6th Season Almost Didn’t Happen

Originally broadcast on the WB network, Reba was cut out of the lineup and cancelled after a merger brought an entirely new channel to television, The CW. During a last-minute maneuver, the 6th and final season of Reba was ordered by the network for a 13-episode run, giving devoted fans the closure they had been hoping for.

Reba + Barbra Jean = 4EVER

After spending more than six years working on the show together and enduring the highs and lows of their beloved series getting cancelled and renewed, Reba McEntire and Melissa Peterman (Barbra Jean) became incredibly close friends off screen.

To this day, Peterman and McEntire consider each other some of the closest friends they’ve had and every now and then, you can find Peterman crashing one of McEntire’s concerts in a hilarious turn of events! 

SOURCE: COUNTRYREBEL.COM

Happy Birthday Melissa!

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    1. Good afternoon! It was an ok trip but the worst was when I got home. At 5:30 I saw the temp was @ 61 – couldn’t be too bad, right? Ha! I replaced the seed block and went to retrieve the jelly feeder – the top was beeded up in water just from the humidity. Man, did that suck! The trip to Norfolk wasn’t too bad – I turned up the oxygen and kept the fan on low so it stayed cool at least. Jason & Christina were here mowing when I got back and he brought in my trash bin for me. He still hasn’t totally recuperated from the shingles; he said the docs gave him medicine but he couldn’t tell any difference. It was all over his head, in his eyes, and down to his chest.

      Trying to bring in the groceries in that humidity was a bear, that’s for sure. I will NOT be going outside again any time soon!

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  3. Charlotte99

    July 1, 2025 12:34 am

    Watch Mamdani NYC’s Democrat Mayoral candidate eating with his hands:

    (Born in Uganda)

    “Go Back To Third World”: Republican On Video Of Zohran Mamdani Eating With Hands

    Republican Representative Brandon Gill has told Zohran Mamdani to “go back to the third world” after an old video of the New York City mayoral candidate eating rice with his hands surfaced online.

    Congressman Brandon Gill

    @RepBrandonGill

    Civilized people in America don’t eat like this.

    If you refuse to adopt Western customs, go back to the Third World.

    https://nitter.poast.org/RepBrandonGill/status/1939489434983883116#m

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  8. Mamdani’s Government Grocery Plan Unravels in Humiliating Fashion.

    PULSE POINTS

    ❓WHAT HAPPENED: New York Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani has proposed socialist grocery stores, claiming they can be funded by redirecting city subsidies from private grocery stores.

    👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s Economic Development Corporation, and private grocery stores participating in the FRESH program.

    📍WHEN & WHERE: New York City, during Mamdani’s mayoral campaign.

    💬KEY QUOTE: “We will redirect city funds from corporate supermarkets to city-owned grocery stores whose mission is lower prices, not price-gouging.” – Zohran Mamdani

    🎯IMPACT: Mamdani’s proposal is based on a misunderstanding of city subsidies, which would lead to mass fiscal mismanagement if implemented.

    IN FULL

    Zohran Mamdani, the New York Democratic mayoral nominee, has defended his proposal for socialist grocery stores by stating that they could be funded by cutting city subsidies to private grocery stores. However, his claim is based on a misinterpretation of the city’s current grocery subsidy program, as first revealed by reporter Tim Carney.

    Mamdani has repeatedly cited a figure of $140 million, claiming it represents the amount the city spends on subsidizing private grocery stores under the Food Retail Expansion to Support Health (FRESH) program. He has proposed redirecting half of this amount to fund his socialist grocery store initiative, which he estimates would cost $60 million.

    The FRESH program, however, does not involve direct city spending of $140 million. Instead, it provides tax breaks and regulatory relief to grocery stores that invest in underserved areas, known as “food deserts.” Over the last six years, the program has cost the city approximately $20 million in waived tax revenue, rather than expenditure, averaging just $3.3 million per year. Furthermore, the $140 million figure cited by Mamdani refers to private investments made by grocery stores participating in the program, not government spending.

    In a video, Mamdani argued, “We will redirect city funds from corporate supermarkets to city-owned grocery stores whose mission is lower prices, not price-gouging.” However, his misunderstanding of the FRESH program’s structure raises humiliating questions about the plan. Carney explains, “So, this program would take 42 years to cost the city the $140 million that Mamdani says “the city is set to spend” on it.”

    This misrepresentation underscores a broader concern with Mamdani’s proposal: it appears to rely on a socialist framework that assumes private investment can be treated as public funds. Critics argue that such an approach would lead to fiscal mismanagement and actually undermine the city’s efforts to address food accessibility through public-private partnerships. This scenario would not just see government grocery stores with empty shelves, like North Korea, but also skew the market against private companies no longer incentivized to supply groceries to certain areas, leaving entire communities in new food deserts.

    https://thenationalpulse.com/2025/06/30/mamdanis-government-grocery-plan-unravels-in-humiliating-fashion/

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  9. The Justice Department announced a massive takedown of health care fraud and at the top of the list is a Pakistani’s $650 million fraud.

    All this and Arizona didn’t even convene a Pakistan Day.

    The Justice Department has charged a Pakistani national who allegedly orchestrated a $650 million fraud scheme that primarily targeted an Arizona Medicaid program offering addiction treatment and other services for Native Americans.

    Court papers say the defendant, Farrukh Ali, conspired with at least 41 substance abuse clinics to bill the state for hundreds of millions of dollars for substance abuse services that were never provided, not provided as billed or were medically unnecessary. Many of the patients who were enrolled — but not given legitimate treatment — were recruited from the homeless population or Native American reservations, officials say.

    Ali, who is not in U.S. custody and is believed to be in Pakistan, faces conspiracy, wire fraud and money laundering charges. He could not be reached for comment.

    According to prosecutors, he owned and operated a company called ProMD Solutions LLC, which was organized in Arizona but based in Pakistan. The firm provided credentialing and enrolling, medical coding and billing services for medical practices, court papers say.

    This is what happens when we outsource. You can have companies and individuals who never set foot in the U.S., but still make millions from our health care system with no accountability.

    Ali personally received approximately $24.5 million of AHCCCS funds as a result of the scheme, and he used $2.9 million of the funds to purchase a home located on a golf estate in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

    Will Pakistan extradite Ali? I can guess the answer. What about the UAE?

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/pakistani-committed-650m-in-health-care-fraud-in-u-s/

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  10. kinthenorthwest
    July 1, 2025 9:54 am

    This way past crazy in states protecting illegals in their state

    EXCLUSIVE: Convicted sex offender from Kenya avoids deportation, lands state job”He is dangerous,” a former prosecutor said. “He has no business being paid out of our taxpayer dollars and should be back with ICE.”
    A Kenyan national convicted of sexually assaulting a sleeping woman in Minnesota wasn’t deported after his prison sentence — he was promoted.
    Wilson Tindi holds a director position at the Minnesota Department of Education, where he audits taxpayer spending and oversees internal accountability.
    Court records show Tindi was convicted in 2016 of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct after breaking into a woman’s home and assaulting her in bed where she slept. He pleaded guilty to the sex assault charge in exchange for prosecutors dropping a first-degree burglary charge.
    Tindi was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to register as a predatory offender. His sentence was stayed for five years, but he was also sentenced to 210 days in the workhouse, records show.
    However, despite the felony conviction and offender status, Tindi serves as Director of Internal Audit and Advisory Services at MDE, according to public records and his LInkedin profile .

    https://alphanews.org/exclusive-convicted-sex-offender-from-kenya-avoids-deportation-lands-state-job/

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  14. Pe7rot Conservative6

    July 1, 2025 12:27 pm

    @shipwreckedcrew

    Thune should bring up a separate bill to remove Illegal Aliens from Medicaid.

    Straight up or down vote — put the Dems on record.

    If it passes, the House will pass it.

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  15. Just The News: “Business and tech titan Elon Musk on Monday gave a stark warning to Republican lawmakers who are trying to pass President Donald Trump’s major funding bill and send it to his desk by the July 4 deadline.

    The House of Representatives passed their version of the “One, Big Beautiful Bill” last month, but the Senate kicked off its marathon vote on the legislation on Monday. If the Senate is able to pass their version of the bill, it will go back to the House, where it is expected to meet some resistance and likely be further changed. At that point, it would have to go back again to the Senate for approval before going to the Oval Office for final approval.

    Musk, who has been highly critical of the legislation, claimed Republican lawmakers should be ashamed of the massive bill, which stretches over 900 pages. His sharpest criticism is over how high it calls to raise the debt ceiling.

    “It is obvious with the insane spending of this bill, which increases the debt ceiling by a record FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS that we live in a one-party country – the PORKY PIG PARTY,” Musk wrote on X. “Time for a new political party that actually cares about the people.”

    He also claimed that he would support Republican primary challengers to senators and congressmen who vote to support the bill, despite calling for reduce federal spending.

    “Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame,” he stated in a subsequent post. “They will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth.”

    The warnings come after Musk clashed with Trump over the bill earlier this month, despite previously being close allies. The feud has since cooled, but the pair have not publicly rekindled their friendship.”

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  17. The oxygen concentrator added over $50 to my electric bill…..sigh….If it’s not one thing, it’s another.

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  21. OurLastStand
    July 1, 2025 4:29 pm

    “Lia Thomas” male swimmer who cheated against female swimmers is big sad today.

    UPenn has signed OCR’s Resolution Agreement to resolve its Title IX violations, which requires UPenn to undertake the following action items:

    UPenn will restore to female athletes all individual UPenn Division I swimming records, titles, or similar recognitions which were misappropriated by male athletes allowed to compete in female categories;

    UPenn will issue a public statement to the University community stating that it will comply with Title IX, specifying that UPenn will not allow males to compete in female athletic programs or occupy Penn Athletics female intimate facilities;

    The statement will specify that UPenn will adopt biology-based definitions for the words ‘male’ and ‘female’ pursuant to Title IX and consistent with President Trump’s Executive Orders “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism” and “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports”;

    UPenn will post the statement in a prominent location on its main website and on each of its websites for women’s athletics;

    UPenn will rescind any guidance which violated Title IX, remove or revise any internal and public-facing statements or documents that are inconsistent with Title IX, and notify all staff and women’s athletics of all such rescissions; and

    UPenn will send a personalized letter of apology to each impacted female swimmer.

    https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-announces-university-of-pennsylvania-has-entered-resolution-agreement-resolve-its-title-ix-violations

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  24. Just The News: “A top Republican senator released FBI emails Tuesday appearing to show the bureau did not pursue intelligence indicating Communist China was looking to hijack the 2020 presidential election with a potential mail-in ballot scheme to assist then-Democratic nominee Joe Biden. 

    The bureau appeared, based on the emails, afraid it would undercut then-FBI Director Christopher Wray’s assurances to Congress that foreign meddling did not pose a threat to the presidential race.

    The internal FBI emails were made public by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, “revealing the FBI suppressed intelligence of alleged Chinese interference in the 2020 election” to “insulate” then-FBI Wray “from criticism, after Wray provided inaccurate and contradictory testimony to Congress,” the Iowa Republican senator’s office said in a press release.

    Wray testified in September before the House and Senate in 2020, before which which he downplayed the potential for significant foreign meddling in the 2020 election, dismissed the possibility of foreign mail-in ballot fraud and said he considered disinformation to be the biggest threat to the presidential election.

    Just the News published a story last month revealing that a confidential human source told FBI counter-intelligence in the summer of 2020 that China’s communist government was seeking to meddle in the impending election to help then-candidate Biden, according to a raw intelligence report distributed to federal agencies that was reviewed and made public by Just the News. 

    The Intelligence Information Report (“IIR”) in question originated with the FBI’s Albany Field Office. “These records smack of political decision-making and prove the Wray-led FBI to be a deeply broken institution,” Grassley said on Tuesday. “Ahead of a high-stakes election happening amid an unprecedented global pandemic, the FBI turned its back on its national security mission.

    “One way or the other, intelligence must be fully investigated to determine whether it’s true, or if it’s just smoke and mirrors. Chris Wray’s FBI wasn’t looking out for the American people – it was looking to save its own image. Now’s the time to rebuild the FBI’s trust. Director Patel’s willingness to work with me to establish renewed transparency and accountability is a critical part of that process, and I applaud him for his efforts.”

    Grassley made public 47 pages of partially redacted internal FBI emails from the fall of 2020, and the senator also released a letter that current FBI Assistant Director Marshall Yates wrote last week in which he summarized the declassified records. “Following a directive from FBI Headquarters, the IIR was recalled even though ‘the IIR was coordinated and disseminated in textbook fashion.’ This IIR prompted significant attention throughout FBI Headquarters,” Yates said in his three-page letter to Grassley. 

    “For instance, according to an email requesting the recall, it was noted that the ‘IIR AL sent out today is getting a lot of attention from all HQ divisions.’ The recall was issued to ‘reinterview’ the source. Although the source was reengaged and provided additional context to support the initial IIR, FBI Headquarters maintained its position not to republish the report.”

    The FBI official added: “One reason cited for not releasing the IIR was because ‘the reporting will contradict Director Wray’s testimony.’ Based on conversations with key individuals involved, it was conveyed that the recall of the IIR was abnormal. The rationale provided to Albany staff for the recall was that Headquarters deemed the report not ‘authoritative,’ but this characterization was met with disagreement by those in the Albany office. Internal emails reflect that Albany staff had concerns that suppressing the IIR would be ‘dangerous if we cite potential political implications as reasons for not putting out our information,’ emphasizing that it was not the role of analysts to align intelligence with public testimony.”

    The raw and unverified intelligence report in question was bluntly titled “Chinese Government Production and Export of Fraudulent US Driver’s Licenses to Chinese Sympathizers in the United States, in Order to Create Tens of Thousands of Fraudulent Mail-in Votes for US Presidential Candidate Joe Biden, in late August 2020.”

    The report was soon recalled, with spy agencies told to delete the information before they had a chance to properly investigate its claims.

    FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino alleged in June that the bureau’s prior leadership “chose to play politics” and hide evidence from the American people regarding a Chinese plot to hijack the 2020 U.S. election with fake mail-in ballots for Biden.

    Yates wrote last week that the FBI’s Abany staff had “warned against FBI assuming the role of sole gatekeeper for the Intelligence Community, emphasizing that suppressing field-generated reporting could deprive other IC elements of the opportunity to corroborate or discredit intelligence.”

    “Although an Intelligence Analyst requested further research and re-engagement with the source, Headquarters ultimately decided not to issue a new IIR, citing a lack of additional substantiating information, even after the source was reinterviewed,” the FBI official wrote. “As seen in today’s production, the source appeared to be reliable, and the FBI did not close the source for cause or lack of credible information.”

    Yates also said further emails showed that the now-defunct Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) “did not approve reissuance of the IIR, citing concerns about authoritativeness and the potential for disinformation by foreign actors” but that “other than a request for information to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, we have found no information to indicate that FITF-China aggressively investigated the reported information, despite corroborating intergovernmental reporting and logical investigative leads.”

    The newly-released FBI emails show that FBI officials Nikki Floris and Tonya Ugoretz were allegedly behind the recall of the Albany intelligence report, and that FBI official Laura Dehmlow also appeared to be involved in the recall.

    “I was contacted by Cyber DAD and CD DAD. They are directly requesting it be recalled until he is re-interviewed,” an email from a redacted FBI Counterintelligence Division official said on September 25, 2020. A redacted FBI official who appeared to be based in Albany asked, “Can who [sic] give me the names of the DADs so we can cite that? Thanks.” The redacted counterintelligence bureau official replied, “Yup. Nikki Floris (CD) and Tonya Ugoretz (Cyber). They are over the Intel shops.”

    The emails also show a yet-redacted FBI official shared an email on the “Recent Release of Counterintelligence IIRs — [REDACTED]” on September 28, 2020. The FBI information report in question was “recalled at the direction of DAD Nikki Floris, Counterintelligence, and DAD Tonya Ugoretz, Cyber” according to that email, which listed it as a “SUBSTANTIVE RECALL.”

    Ugoretz’s LinkedIn states that she was the Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division at the time, and Grassley said that Floris was the then-Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division.

    Grassley noted in his Tuesday press release that “months before dismissing the IIR, Floris provided an unnecessary briefing to Grassley and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) regarding their investigation into the Biden family” and that “the briefing — though classified — was later leaked to the press in an effort to falsely smear the senators’ investigation as Russian disinformation.”

    A still-redacted FBI official said in a September 30, 2020 email that “a new 1023 [FBI interview] will be needed, that will have updated date of acquisition and contact, with an updated source context statement. AND it will have to run the gamut at HQ for review/approval. Again, the reporting will contradict Director Wray’s testimony.”

    The redacted Unit Chief for China for the FBI’s FITF also weighed in the next month. “Hi Albany… Wanted to reiterate that we are not approving a reissue, specifically because of our concerns that the reporting is not authoritative,” the FBI unit chief said on October 8, 2020.

    The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee and court filings have previously identified Laura Dehmlow — who went on to become the Section Chief of the FBI’s FITF — as having been the China Unit Chief for the FITF in October 2020.

    Wray had told the House and Senate in September 2020 that the FBI’s FITF was established in 2017 “to identify and counteract malign foreign influence operations targeting the United States” and that it was only after the 2018 midterm elections that the FITF moved on from being “focused solely on the threat posed by Russia.” He claimed the FITF expanded its scope “to confront malign foreign operations of China, Iran, and other global adversaries.”

    Yates also wrote last week that, because of this saga, FBI Headquarters had set a new requirement on all FBI field offices for the 2020 election — that “all raw reporting concerning the election will now require HQ coordination, which was not required” before.

    “Overall, the records produced today reflect the broader sentiment within the Albany Field Office that the recall decision and resulting suppression of the IIR raised serious questions about the integrity of the intelligence reporting process and its susceptibility to perceived political pressures,” the FBI official wrote.

    Last month, Patel turned over to Congress earlier the long-hidden intelligence report raising concerns that China had plans to mass-produce fake U.S. driver’s licenses to carry out a scheme to swing the 2020 election to Biden with fake mail-in ballots.

    The FBI information report revealed by Just the News last month had been sent as an uncorroborated advisory to U.S. intelligence agencies on August 24, 2020. It was then suddenly recalled in September 2020 — the day after Wray testified to Congress that he had not seen any large-scale voter fraud efforts.

    Wray pointed to Russia as the biggest election influence threat and downplayed the possibility that foreign adversaries could facilitate voter fraud in the 2020 election when speaking to the House in mid-September 2020. “The intelligence community’s consensus is that Russia continues to try to influence our election primarily through what we would call malign foreign influence,” Wray told the House Homeland Security Committee in mid-September 2020, arguing that “we will not tolerate foreign interference in our election.”

    Wray said that “we have not seen, to date, a coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election.” When asked about his biggest concern related to election security in 2020, Wray replied, “What concerns me the most is the steady drumbeat of misinformation and sort of amplification of smaller cyber intrusions that contribute over time — I worry they will contribute over time to a lack of confidence of American voters and citizens in the validity of their vote. I think that would be a perception, not reality. I think Americans can and should have confidence in our election system and certainly in our democracy.”

    Trump took to his Twitter account to critique Wray’s comments.

    “But Chris, you don’t see any activity from China, even though it is a FAR greater threat than Russia, Russia, Russia,” Trump wrote in 2020, adding, “They will both, plus others, be able to interfere in our 2020 Election with our totally vulnerable Unsolicited (Counterfeit?) Ballot Scam. Check it out!”

    Wray appeared before the Senate Homeland Security Committee in late September 2020, where he was asked if voting by mail was secure. “Well, senator, what I think I would say is this: we take all election-related threats seriously… and our role is to investigate the threat actors. Now, we have not seen, historically, any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election, whether it is by mail or otherwise,” Wray said. “Certainly to change a federal election outcome by mounting that kind of fraud at scale would be a major challenge for an adversary, but people should make no mistake, we’re vigilant as to the threat and watching it carefully because we’re in uncharted territory.”

    The FBI director was asked if he was saying that he had not seen any widespread fraud by mail, and Wray vowed that “that’s something we would investigate seriously and aggressively.” The FBI information report containing allegations of a Chinese plan to use thousands of fraudulent driver’s licenses to help Biden defeat Trump was recalled shortly after Wray’s congressional testimony.

    U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) had said in July 2020 that “fraudulent driver’s licenses … continue to be found by CBP officers” at Chicago O’Hare International Airport. From January through June 2020, CBP said its officers had “seized 1,513 shipments with fraudulent documents — a total of 19,888 counterfeit US drivers’ licenses” and that “the majority of these shipments were arriving from China and Hong Kong.” The CBP press release did not directly link the fraudulent licenses to potential voter fraud efforts.”

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