Good morning! Humid this morning, as usual, but cool @ 67. I can see some clouds to the west and rain is predicted for late in the day & overnight. After that, the temps plunge for a week-to-10 days, w/highs only in the low-to-mid 70’s. But by the end of next week, they are predicting back up in the high 70’s. The cantalope need more heat/sun – there is one that is already a decent size; the others probably won’t amount to anything w/o more heat.
Oh man – I mowed almost the whole yard with my push mower – temp 88º – heat index 94º. I just could not finish that last little strip – almost didn’t make it to the garage and had to lie down on the garage door mat until I cooled down. I’m sooo out of shape. When I get cooled down and rehydrated, I need to edge and blow. I’ll probably wait to trim the woods until later in the week.
I’ve been cleaning out closets and putting away stuff I brought from Sally’s apartment. After I unload the minivan, need to load it back up with stuff I want to take back to the Village thrift shops. I’m determined to get it cleaned out, cleaned up and do the things I never got around to while going back and forth to Sally’s.
Oh, wow! Be careful! I can’t imagine using a push mower!!! I always try to do the hardest work early in the morning before it heats up too much. The humidity just doesn’t hit as hard when it’s cooler.
Good Afternoon GA!
I am a constant list maker–because i do so love crossing things off them! lol
I have my daily lists and shopping lists, and i also have my yearly lists. like things i need to do the taxes, things we need to do in the summer, things I want to do over the winter…etc.
at the end of summer, when i am packing those clothes away, anything i haven’t worn this season gets donated to my flea market friend.
then i go to my UFO pile–unfinished fabric objects–and select one to either do or toss.
I actually have a spiral notebook from when the kids were in school. they’d want to throw out their notebook in the summer, but i said no…there’s still sheets in there. they’d tear out “their” pages…and hand the leftover notebook to me. I have a bunch of them on a bookshelf.
when we go on long car rides, I take one with me–craft ideas–and think about what i want to make for the upcoming season. I doodle in there as well so i don’t forget what i was thinking to make.
I’ve already refiled my criminal referral of Dr. Fauci to President Trump’s Department of Justice for lying to Congress. This is yet another reason he should be behind bars. https://t.co/6wj4xkjmvR
Senior American intelligence officials broke protocol to conceal classified intelligence that COVID-19 came from a lab from the president and the public, granting Fauci’s inner circle extraordinary influence while silencing their own spy scientists.
And Rand Paul said:
I’ve already refiled my criminal referral of Dr. Fauci to President Trump’s Department of Justice for lying to Congress. This is yet another reason he should be behind bars.
BREAKING: The Trump Administration is stripping the license of the company that hired the criminal alien who killed 3 in the semi-truck crash: “We’ve been working with the federal government and they are pulling that company’s license.”
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EXCERPT: “Years after the FBI was forced to shut down multiple corruption probes of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s charity, the IRS under President Donald Trump began a criminal tax investigation into the Clinton Foundation and its dealings with other players on the global charity stage, but then abruptly stopped working with whistleblowers in spring 2019, according to IRS memos and internal emails reviewed by Just the News.
“Can’t talk about the CF,” a memo states in recounting how IRS agents suddenly cut off contact with two whistleblowers they had been working with for weeks. One of the whistleblowers was a decorated former federal money laundering analyst who had testified before Congress about issues like terrorism financing.
The documents, released under the Freedom of Information Act, add a new body of evidence about the federal government’s concerns about the former first family’s famous global charity as well as a persistent narrative of federal agents being thwarted in their pursuit of investigations tied to major Democratic Party figures.
John Moynihan, a retired Drug Enforcement Agency financial crimes analyst, and Larry Doyle, a corporate tax compliance expert, had spent years researching the Clinton Foundation, testifying to Congress about it and providing the IRS with evidence of alleged financial wrongdoing by the Clinton Foundation.
The whistleblowers’ cases
Moynihan and Doyle are currently pursuing two separate whistleblower cases involving the Clinton Foundation in U.S. Tax Court, one of which is tentatively slated for trial on Dec. 1. That case includes references to documents from an IRS criminal investigations division investigation…..”
“…..The mixed signals seem to show that a plethora of experienced IRS agents did, in fact, take seriously the whistleblowers’ allegations, documents and information, yet as the matter moved closer to a decision to bring charges or seeking a consent judgment – not to mention an impending presidential election — someone at the IRS or DOJ suddenly spiked the rails on which the investigative train was running.
The IRS documents available at press time do not show that any further action was taken, but still unanswered is who, when and how an investigation of this size and scope was derailed. The continued litigation may shine light on those questions.”
EXCERPT: “The U.S. Department of Agriculture is pulling the plug on federal support of solar projects being developed on America’s farmland. The agency announced Tuesday that it would no longer provide taxpayer dollars for solar panels on productive farmland.
“Our prime farmland should not be wasted and replaced with green-new-deal-subsidized solar panels,” Agriculture Secretary Brook Rollins said in the announcement.
On-the-ground solar energy has some of the greatest land-use requirements of any energy source, coming in after hydroelectric and coal, if the latter’s mines are included. The huge swaths of land needed for solar farms make agricultural farmland attractive to developers. According to the USDA, within the last 30 years, Tennessee alone has lost over 1.2 million acres of farmland to solar farms, with another 2 million acres projected to be lost by 2027.
“Tennesseans know that our farmland is our national security, our economic future, and our children’s heritage,” Tennessee GOP Governor Bill Lee said in a statement.
While solar has seen explosive growth in the past few years, the Trump administration and Congress are cutting back on the subsidies that have been driving a lot of the development. Growth in the coming years could be slower.
Community opposition to solar heats up
Concerns about solar using up farmland are not isolated to Tennessee. Across the U.S., communities are opposing solar development. Energy journalist and author Robert Bryce maintains a database of renewable energy projects that were denied permits or otherwise rejected by local communities around the world. Bryce has documented 369 solar projects rejected since 2015.
Communities that have rejected solar energy have done so for a number of reasons, including concerns about spoiling viewsheds, increased electricity costs and impacts on property values. But its impact on the availability of farmland is a growing concern as more agricultural land is subsumed by solar energy farms.
Since the supply of farmland in the U.S. doesn’t grow, agricultural acres transitioned to other uses decreases the supply, which drives up agricultural land costs, solar critics say. It also makes the U.S. more dependent on imports for its food supply.
Rep. Thompson: “Food security is national security”
“Secretary Rollins understands that food security is national security, and preserving prime farmland for agricultural production is a key component of protecting our food supply,” Rep. Glenn Thompson, R-Pa., said in the USDA statement…..”
NEW: DNI Tulsi Gabbard has stripped the security clearance of Charles Kupchan, the old boss of Trump impeachment "whistleblower" Eric Ciaramella. Kupchan will also be denied access to IC facilities. Any contract with the USG "is hereby terminated," Gabbard ordered earlier today.
BREAKING: A Ukrainian citizen suspected of involvement in the undersea explosions in 2022 that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipeline between Russia and Germany has been arrestedhttps://t.co/TC2ROCL7wW
During a Q&A session last night on her show, Lara Trump confirmed that if you are provided Secret Service protection, you personally get to choose your “code name.”
So why did Barack Obama choose the code name RENEGADE?
They were still working on the power line down the road from me and the power was blipping off/on so I took the opportunity, while it was cool, to clear out the south garden bed and re-direct the Honeysuckle vines up the trellis. Then I ran to the gas station to get gas for my truck and fill 2 gas cans for the mower, followed by the grocery store to get peaches and bananas. Lays has changed my favorite potato chips (Honey BBQ) to “Spicy Honey BBQ” and they are too spicy for me. The local store had some bags of the original chips so I grabbed 2 of them. And then I headed out to the dump since the back of my truck was getting filled up with yard waste. It’s supposed to rain tonight so I wanted to go before it got muddy.
It feels so good to be able to be productive again!!!
Just The News: “A five-judge panel of a New York appellate court on Thursday found that a $515 million fraud judgment against President Donald Trump was unconstitutional and violated the Eighth Amendment’s prohibitions on excessive fines.
Judge Arthur Engoron originally imposed a $355 million penalty as part of New York Attorney General Letitia James’s civil fraud case against the then-presidential candidate. Other interest assessments, led the figure to balloon to more than half of $1 billion by August, Newsmax reported.
James accused Trump of manipulating the value of his assets to secure favorable loan terms and lower insurance premiums. The president has denied any wrongdoing, though Engoron ruled for James in the bench trial.
The decision is a major win for Trump, who has largely fended off the myriad legal cases brought against him in the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election, save for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case over his falsification of business records.”
Two judges wrote that they felt New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit against Trump and his companies was justifiable and that she had proven her case but the penalty was too severe.
One wrote that James exceeded her legal authority in bringing the suit, saying that if any of Trump’s lenders felt cheated, they could have sued him themselves, and none did.
One judge wrote that Engoron erred by ruling before the trial began that the attorney general had proved Trump engaged in fraud.
Since the judges could not agree on the legal rationale for overturning the lower court ruling on the fraud, it stands. It is what is called a plurality decision. There is no majority opinion on the issue of fraud, just the penalty.
I expect Trump will appeal the fraud issue to the Court of Appeals. The penalty is out, but the business restrictions are still in place.
Just The News: “Dr. James Dobson, who founded the Christian ministry Focus on the Family and was a presidential adviser for five administrations, died on Thursday at 89. Dobson was a psychologist, New York Times best-selling author, and a Radio Hall of Fame broadcaster, the Dr. James Dobson Family Institute said in its announcement.
“Dr. Dobson was a pioneer—a man of deep conviction whose voice shaped the way generations view faith, family and culture,” JDFI Senior Vice President of Public Policy Gary Bauer said in a statement. “His bold leadership, integrity, and compassion helped equip countless families to thrive in a world of shifting values. He was a mentor, a counselor, and a steady voice of truth in turbulent times.”
Dobson’s ministry focused on “strengthening marriages, guiding parents, and defending biblical values by championing the central role of family in America,” JDFI said. He was born in Shreveport, La., in 1936, and founded Focus on the Family in 1977, one of the largest faith-based organizations in the world.
Dobson had daily broadcasts on over 4,000 radio stations across North America, and translated into 27 languages in more than 160 countries. After leaving Focus on the Family in 2010, he launched JDFI and started Family Talk, a nationally syndicated radio broadcast.
He wrote more than 70 books and was appointed to presidential commissions by Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. Also, he served on President Donald Trump’s Evangelical Executive Advisory Board.
Dobson is survived by his wife, Shirley, their two children, and two grandchildren.”
“Meet the northern right whale dolphin, a rare species instantly recognizable for its lack of a dorsal fin. It is one of only two dolphins in the world without one and the only one in the North Pacific without a dorsal fin.
Its smooth, torpedo-like body helps it slice through the water with minimal resistance, giving it a sleek, almost whale-like profile.
Even though their population is estimated in the tens of thousands, they’re elusive and usually stick far offshore, which is why people don’t come across them often.
These dolphins are famous for their aerial displays, often leaping, spinning, and performing synchronized maneuvers in massive groups called superpods that can number up to 3,000.
They frequently travel with Pacific white-sided dolphins, diving deep to chase schools of squid and small fish. Agile, social, and acrobatic, they remain one of the most fascinating and elusive marine mammals of the Pacific. Seeing them up close is a pretty unique experience! WOW!”
🇩🇪🔴 A young German girl spoke of the nightmare she experiences from her Muslim classmates.
"Sometimes they say to me that I’m German. And yeah, then they laugh at me, curse at me and tease me. Others are always Muslim, and they ask me why I am not a Muslim. I said I am a… pic.twitter.com/gggVOm9IPs
“Five Virginia School Districts Are Losing Federal Funding Because They Won’t Stop ‘Trans’ Social Experiments On Children”
The Federalist, By: Breccan F. Thies, August 20, 2025
ENTIRE ARTICLE: “After five far-left Northern Virginia school districts refused to stop forcing “transgender” policies on their students, the U.S. Department of Education is proceeding with suspending or terminating federal funding.
The Education Department announced Tuesday that the five Washington, D.C.-suburb districts — Alexandria City, Arlington County, Fairfax County, Loudoun County, and Prince William County — would be placed on “high-risk status,” meaning they will be forced to pay education expenses up front, and the federal government will only reimburse them.
More than $50 million in grant funding, including formula, discretionary, and impact aid grants, will be under the reimbursement status, meaning the districts will have to prove that federal dollars are being spent consistently with federal law in order to get federal funding.
The move comes after all five districts were found in violation of Title IX for maintaining their “transgender” policies allowing students to use the restrooms and locker rooms of the opposite sex based on “gender identity,” forcing students and teachers to use “preferred pronouns” at the threat of disciplinary action, and other far-left gender theory policies.
After the Education Department attempted to enter a resolution agreement with the districts to stop their endangerment of children, each of them rejected the agreement in order to adhere to the warped ideology.
“States and school districts cannot openly violate federal law while simultaneously receiving federal funding with no additional scrutiny. The Northern Viriginia School Divisions that are choosing to abide by woke gender ideology in place of federal law must now prove they are using every single federal dollar for a legal purpose,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement. “We have given these Northern Virginia School Divisions every opportunity to rectify their policies which blatantly violate Title IX. Today’s accountability measures are necessary because they have stubbornly refused to provide a safe environment for young women in their schools.”
While the high-risk and reimbursement statuses are most often used against entities with bad financial management, historically unstable finances, or a poor performance track record using federal funds, the five districts in the D.C. area are some of the country’s most wealthy and most populated.
Fairfax County, for example, is the country’s ninth most populous school district with nearly 200,000 students. Fairfax, Loudoun, and Arlington are all in the top 15 richest counties in the country, with Loudoun and Fairfax being the fifth and eighth, respectively.
In order to maintain federal funds, all the five districts would have to do is stop endangering children with their obsession over “transgenderism” and recognize that male and female are biological realities — something they seem incapable of doing.”
“Fewer Americans say they’re drinking alcohol these days: Only 54% report they consume alcoholic beverages, the lowest percentage in nearly 90 years of polls that track alcohol consumption across the country. That sobering statistic comes from Gallup, which has polled Americans on their drinking habits since 1939. The record low of 54% in 2025 compares with the all-time high, 71%, reported from 1976 to 1978.
Why? Gallup says the results coincide with research that shows any level of alcohol consumption can be bad for your health. Even low levels of drinking can lead to certain cancers and heart problems, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.”
I’m a “3” but only 1 applies to FL. When HB and I went across FL to the Gulf of Mexico, we traveled down Alligator Alley and we did see some in the ditches…..
NF: That photo of John-John is what comes to mind any time I think about it.
“The assassination occurred on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. By 3:00pm that afternoon, all the major television networks, including CBS, NBC, and ABC, immediately suspended regular programming to provide continuous coverage of the event and its aftermath.
This round-the-clock coverage included reports on the assassination itself, the subsequent events surrounding Lee Harvey Oswald, and the funeral of President Kennedy.
The widespread and continuous media coverage marked a significant moment in television news history, demonstrating its power and reach in times of national crisis. Some TV news footage from back then shows citizens of Dallas in the hours after the shooting gathering in the streets, around car radios, listening to the latest shocking news. But at the same time, in people’s homes, television was covering a major breaking news event nonstop for the first time. For four days, Americans flocked to television, and never let go.
When JFK’s funeral procession was televised that weekend, it was watched in 93 percent of all homes that were equipped with TV sets — the largest viewing audience ever recorded to that point.”
“The Federalist.com did an analysis of the crime rate in our Nation’s Capital, and it’s a hard read. Democrats insist Washington, D.C., doesn’t face a crime problem. On a podcast last week, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D–NY, claimed, “I walk around all the time. I wake up early in the morning … And I feel perfectly safe.” He dismissed Republican concerns about safety as “full of it,” but, of course, Schumer doesn’t go anywhere without his security detail. In a similar vein, D.C. Councilmember Charles Allen called the federalization of law enforcement “unnecessary, unwarranted,” and the D.C. Council emphasized that crime rates are at “the lowest rates we’ve seen in 30 years.”
Even dickhead Joe Scarborough admitted that Democrats privately acknowledge the problem. On his show last week, he said Democrats had called him in recent days, saying, “Washington should have gotten involved years ago. This place is dangerous, it’s a mess, it’s a wreck.” Scarborough noted that those same Democrats then rush to Twitter to attack Republicans, denouncing federal intervention as “the worst outrage of all time.”
Those who have visited a CVS or Walgreens in D.C. can see the reality: Everything sits behind plexiglass. That isn’t surprising, since the city’s property crime rate runs 49 percent higher than the most crime-ridden state.
In the article, the Federalist does a great job of explaining why the ‘reported’ crime numbers are low, but the real numbers much higher.”
⚖️ NEW: AFL is urging the Ohio Supreme Court to remove the American Bar Association as an accrediting authority for Ohio law schools.
The ABA mandates discriminatory DEI policies as a condition for law school accreditation — disqualifying itself as an accrediting authority. pic.twitter.com/JCDHhZXkxn
“Mark your calendars: Sept. 7 ‘blood moon’ total lunar eclipse…
The March 14, 2025 total lunar eclipse as seen over Mexico. By Rick Kern
The second and final ‘blood moon’ total lunar eclipse of 2025 is coming on the night of Sept. 7-8. Here’s where the celestial spectacle will be visible — and how to watch it if you’re not in the path…”
“In 2004, a group of Yale students pranked Harvard by posing as a Harvard Prep Squad by handing out over 1,800 placards to students. They were meant to say “Go Harvard” when it actually said “We suck”…
The practical joke was swiped from CalTech and coordinated by Michael Kai and David Aulicino, two Yale students in the class of 2005, and was executed with the help of 20 classmates. College pranks like this keep the rivalry alive in the best way…”
“Why is the world moving to such simplistic designs?
There hasn’t been any “world wonders built in hundreds of years. Why is the world turning into wish a simplistic, basic, and dull world? are people’s brains that zombie mode that they just accept living in a basic world?
Maybe just because it’s cheap… Cohesion is breaking up… And expensive, ornate designs don’t generate any more quarterly shareholder value than cheap, ugly shit…”
gotta make those 15 minute cities–can’t have originality or beauty. beauty sparks envy–if you’re envious you’re not happy in your drab apartment. you might yearn for something better instead of being happy being average.
“Republicans have a strong and growing lead in registered voters in Florida, holding a majority of over 1 million more active registered voters compared to Democrats as of August 2024. Republicans currently hold a significant lead over Democrats in voter registration, with 5.33 million active Republican voters compared to 4.33 million Democrats, according to August 2024 figures.
According to this report, Donald Trump’s gains among men, younger voters, and Latinos in 2024, more new voters nationwide chose to be Republicans than Democrats for the first time since 2018, according to a report from the New York Times which relies on voter registration data compiled by L2, a nonpartisan data firm.”
EXCERPT: “Federal prosecutors gathered evidence from James Comey’s top lieutenants that he authorized the leak of classified information to reporters just before the 2016 election but declined to bring criminal charges, according to recently declassified memos that call into question the former FBI director’s testimony to Congress.
The bombshell revelations involving ex-FBI general counsel James Baker and ex-Comey chief of staff James Rybicki were memorialized in documents that FBI Director Kash Patel discovered earlier this year, but the passages were originally redacted by the Justice Department in versions sent to Congress earlier this month.
Attorney General Pam Bondi intervened and eliminated the redactions, dispatching new versions of the memos this week to the House and Senate Judiciary committees, officials told Just the News.
The memos detail evidence and interviews gathered by U.S. Postal Inspection Service agents concerning classified information leaked to The New York Times in October 2016, ahead of the November election in which Republican Donald Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton.
“The USPIS Investigation also revealed Baker disclosed USG [U.S. government] classified information to the NYT under the belief he was ultimately instructed and authorized to do so by then FBI Director James Comey,” one summary memo reads. “For example, during interviews, Baker indicated FBI Chief of Staff James Rybicki instructed him (Baker) to disclose the information to the NYT, and Baker understood Rybicki was conveying this instruction and authorization from Comey.”
The memos don’t identify the specific pieces of classified information that were leaked or whether Comey or anyone else was authorized to declassify them for the media. But they were investigated by multiple prosecutors, including the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, D.C., under Trump’s first administration and by future-special prosecutor John Durham, and all declined to bring criminal charges, the memos show.
Bondi told Just the News on Thursday she was committed to bringing accountability for the yet unpunished leaks.
“This document produced at my direction confirms what many Americans have long suspected: former FBI Director James Comey and his chief of staff engaged in abhorrent conduct,” she said. “There must be accountability for those who were entrusted with safeguarding our nation’s secrets and failed to do so.”
Comey previously denied during congressional testimony that he had ever been a source in news articles related to the FBI’s investigations into Trump and Clinton and further denied that he had ever approved of anyone else at the FBI being such a source. He has long denied any wrongdoing and insisted he has been politically attacked because he stood up to Trump.
Patel told Just the News the evidence he uncovered raised concerns that one of his predecessors may have authorized illegal leaks and lied about it…..”
Just The News: “The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the Trump administration can reduce $783 million in grants for health research to the National Institutes of Health, reversing a lower court ruling on the matter.
The court was split 5-4 in the ruling, with Chief Justice John Roberts siding with the court’s three liberal justices, per the Associated Press.
🚨 JUST NOW: Chief Justice JOHN ROBERTS joined the liberals and DEI Justice Ketanji Jackson in trying to block President Trump from ending woke grants at the NIH.
The ruling was 5-4. Amy Coney BARRETT, Clarence Thomas, Sam Alito, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch side with Trump. pic.twitter.com/mcg2bt160r
Just The News: “Villanova University in Pennsylvania on Thursday sent out an active shooter alert to students and employees, instructing the community to shelter in place.
The university said police are responding to the scene and warned students and employees to steer clear of the university’s law school.
It was not immediately clear if anyone has been injured or shot, but Havertown police are assisting with the investigation, Police Chief John Viola told CBS News.
The alert comes as students and their families gather at the school for “opening day,” according to the campus website. Events included a family resource fair, information sessions, orientation, opening Mass and a family picnic.
“Illinois Mandates “Mental Health” Testing of ALL Children”
by Alex Newman August 21, 2025
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EXCERPT: “Children’s minds are now officially in the crosshairs of one of the most out-of-control state governments in America. Under a controversial new measure just signed into law by far-left Governor J.B. Pritzker, government schools in Illinois will begin mandatory “mental health” testing of all students each year, starting in 3rd grade.
Critics are sounding the alarm. Among other concerns, they are warning that Big Brother cannot be trusted to pry into the minds of children. From education leaders and privacy advocates to psychiatrists and medical professionals, opponents of the plan say it will intrude into the most sensitive areas of a child’s life.
“(Screenings) provide early identification and intervention, so that those who are struggling get the help that they need as soon as possible,” Gov. Pritzker, a leading proponent of transgenderism, said at the signing ceremony. “They improve academic and social outcomes. They help us break down the stigma that, too often, is a barrier to seeking help.”
One major goal is to “normalize” so-called “mental health care” for children and adolescents, explained Democrat State Senator Laura Fine, the chief sponsor of the bill. “The screenings will be designed to catch the early signs of anxiety, depression or trauma before it becomes a crisis or, in some cases, sometimes too late,” she said.
While Illinois is the first state to do it with SB 1560, Big Pharma lobbyists hoping to profit from drugging children are working overtime to get similar schemes passed in other jurisdictions. Even some Republican-run state governments are moving in that direction. And with pharmaceutical interests pouring money into political campaigns, the clock is ticking.
Illinois State Superintendent Tony Sanders, a radical leftist, claimed the program was critical to helping children succeed. “Mental health is essential to academic readiness and lifelong success,” he argued in a statement released after the legislation was signed into law, as if children never succeeded before the program was launched.
“Too often, we only recognize a student’s distress when it becomes a crisis,” continued Sanders. “With universal screening, we shift from reaction to prevention. The earlier we identify a need, the better support we can provide to that student to help them thrive — in school and in life.”
The exact details of the program will be worked out by the state board of education over the next year. Before September 2026, the bureaucracy is supposed to create “guidance” on the screenings, referrals for follow ups by mental-health professionals, and protecting the privacy of student data. Parents can opt out under the bill, for now. It all begins in 2027.
Celebrated actress and author Sam Sorbo, a prominent advocate of home education and a vocal critic of government schools, told The Newman Report that the new mental-health testing regime was a recipe for disaster. “Our schools have become even more dangerous than before,” she warned.
“Instead of working to improve academic results in our schools, they seek to delve into the personal, private, intimate details of their young charges, potentially learning key information to use against them or to groom them at some later date,” continued Sorbo, whose most recent book is Parents’ Guide to Homeschool: Making Education Easy and Fun.
Legendary Harvard-trained psychiatrist Dr. Peter Breggin, celebrated worldwide for his war on quackery such as lobotomies and electro-shock “therapy,” sounded the alarm about the Illinois plan as well. Among other concerns, he blasted the collaboration between Big Pharma and organized psychiatry to invade schools and “make a market out of children.” ……”
Sew Colorful 
Morning All!
dark, cloudy, drizzly this morning and 55*. the deck is wet pretty far from the railings, so we must have had some wind last night too.
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Good morning! Humid this morning, as usual, but cool @ 67. I can see some clouds to the west and rain is predicted for late in the day & overnight. After that, the temps plunge for a week-to-10 days, w/highs only in the low-to-mid 70’s. But by the end of next week, they are predicting back up in the high 70’s. The cantalope need more heat/sun – there is one that is already a decent size; the others probably won’t amount to anything w/o more heat.
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Morning Filly!
weird weather this year. we’re finally getting some rain but it’s really light –more misty–right now.
hope your cantaloupes rebound!
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Good morning, Pat and Filly!!! How are y’all?
Oh man – I mowed almost the whole yard with my push mower – temp 88º – heat index 94º. I just could not finish that last little strip – almost didn’t make it to the garage and had to lie down on the garage door mat until I cooled down. I’m sooo out of shape. When I get cooled down and rehydrated, I need to edge and blow. I’ll probably wait to trim the woods until later in the week.
I’ve been cleaning out closets and putting away stuff I brought from Sally’s apartment. After I unload the minivan, need to load it back up with stuff I want to take back to the Village thrift shops. I’m determined to get it cleaned out, cleaned up and do the things I never got around to while going back and forth to Sally’s.
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Oh, wow! Be careful! I can’t imagine using a push mower!!! I always try to do the hardest work early in the morning before it heats up too much. The humidity just doesn’t hit as hard when it’s cooler.
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Good Afternoon GA!
I am a constant list maker–because i do so love crossing things off them! lol
I have my daily lists and shopping lists, and i also have my yearly lists. like things i need to do the taxes, things we need to do in the summer, things I want to do over the winter…etc.
at the end of summer, when i am packing those clothes away, anything i haven’t worn this season gets donated to my flea market friend.
then i go to my UFO pile–unfinished fabric objects–and select one to either do or toss.
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THANKS!!! Copying this to my organization file!
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see—that could be a winter project for me…creating an actual FILE to keep all those lists in…thanks!
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Where do you put your lists? Bulletin board or refrigerator? Are they on paper or on your computer or phone?
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I actually have a spiral notebook from when the kids were in school. they’d want to throw out their notebook in the summer, but i said no…there’s still sheets in there. they’d tear out “their” pages…and hand the leftover notebook to me. I have a bunch of them on a bookshelf.
when we go on long car rides, I take one with me–craft ideas–and think about what i want to make for the upcoming season. I doodle in there as well so i don’t forget what i was thinking to make.
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my daily list sits on the table by the computer…so i easily write more things down as i think of them.
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The Daily Caller said:
Senior American intelligence officials broke protocol to conceal classified intelligence that COVID-19 came from a lab from the president and the public, granting Fauci’s inner circle extraordinary influence while silencing their own spy scientists.
And Rand Paul said:
I’ve already refiled my criminal referral of Dr. Fauci to President Trump’s Department of Justice for lying to Congress. This is yet another reason he should be behind bars.
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Charlotte99
August 21, 2025 1:28 am
BREAKING: The Trump Administration is stripping the license of the company that hired the criminal alien who killed 3 in the semi-truck crash: “We’ve been working with the federal government and they are pulling that company’s license.”
https://nitter.poast.org/bennyjohnson/status/1958335709665742971#m
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Take away illegal aliens’ CDLs and DLs too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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AGREED!
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Oh, FFS…..!
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I’m sure people who are interested in coins couldn’t care less about the rest of that crap!
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I’m so tired of their lies and propaganda.
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Hmmm…..who stopped this in 2019????
EXCERPT: “Years after the FBI was forced to shut down multiple corruption probes of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s charity, the IRS under President Donald Trump began a criminal tax investigation into the Clinton Foundation and its dealings with other players on the global charity stage, but then abruptly stopped working with whistleblowers in spring 2019, according to IRS memos and internal emails reviewed by Just the News.
“Can’t talk about the CF,” a memo states in recounting how IRS agents suddenly cut off contact with two whistleblowers they had been working with for weeks. One of the whistleblowers was a decorated former federal money laundering analyst who had testified before Congress about issues like terrorism financing.
The documents, released under the Freedom of Information Act, add a new body of evidence about the federal government’s concerns about the former first family’s famous global charity as well as a persistent narrative of federal agents being thwarted in their pursuit of investigations tied to major Democratic Party figures.
John Moynihan, a retired Drug Enforcement Agency financial crimes analyst, and Larry Doyle, a corporate tax compliance expert, had spent years researching the Clinton Foundation, testifying to Congress about it and providing the IRS with evidence of alleged financial wrongdoing by the Clinton Foundation.
The whistleblowers’ cases
Moynihan and Doyle are currently pursuing two separate whistleblower cases involving the Clinton Foundation in U.S. Tax Court, one of which is tentatively slated for trial on Dec. 1. That case includes references to documents from an IRS criminal investigations division investigation…..”
“…..The mixed signals seem to show that a plethora of experienced IRS agents did, in fact, take seriously the whistleblowers’ allegations, documents and information, yet as the matter moved closer to a decision to bring charges or seeking a consent judgment – not to mention an impending presidential election — someone at the IRS or DOJ suddenly spiked the rails on which the investigative train was running.
The IRS documents available at press time do not show that any further action was taken, but still unanswered is who, when and how an investigation of this size and scope was derailed. The continued litigation may shine light on those questions.”
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/we-cant-talk-about-clinton-foundation-new-memos-show-irs-inquiry-was
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good question
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EXCERPT: “The U.S. Department of Agriculture is pulling the plug on federal support of solar projects being developed on America’s farmland. The agency announced Tuesday that it would no longer provide taxpayer dollars for solar panels on productive farmland.
“Our prime farmland should not be wasted and replaced with green-new-deal-subsidized solar panels,” Agriculture Secretary Brook Rollins said in the announcement.
On-the-ground solar energy has some of the greatest land-use requirements of any energy source, coming in after hydroelectric and coal, if the latter’s mines are included. The huge swaths of land needed for solar farms make agricultural farmland attractive to developers. According to the USDA, within the last 30 years, Tennessee alone has lost over 1.2 million acres of farmland to solar farms, with another 2 million acres projected to be lost by 2027.
“Tennesseans know that our farmland is our national security, our economic future, and our children’s heritage,” Tennessee GOP Governor Bill Lee said in a statement.
While solar has seen explosive growth in the past few years, the Trump administration and Congress are cutting back on the subsidies that have been driving a lot of the development. Growth in the coming years could be slower.
Community opposition to solar heats up
Concerns about solar using up farmland are not isolated to Tennessee. Across the U.S., communities are opposing solar development. Energy journalist and author Robert Bryce maintains a database of renewable energy projects that were denied permits or otherwise rejected by local communities around the world. Bryce has documented 369 solar projects rejected since 2015.
Communities that have rejected solar energy have done so for a number of reasons, including concerns about spoiling viewsheds, increased electricity costs and impacts on property values. But its impact on the availability of farmland is a growing concern as more agricultural land is subsumed by solar energy farms.
Since the supply of farmland in the U.S. doesn’t grow, agricultural acres transitioned to other uses decreases the supply, which drives up agricultural land costs, solar critics say. It also makes the U.S. more dependent on imports for its food supply.
Rep. Thompson: “Food security is national security”
“Secretary Rollins understands that food security is national security, and preserving prime farmland for agricultural production is a key component of protecting our food supply,” Rep. Glenn Thompson, R-Pa., said in the USDA statement…..”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/concerns-about-solar-encroachment-farmland-grows-usda-pulls-subsidies-new
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absolutely right!
you can’t farm on land covered in solar panels after the panels are removed. what does that tell you???
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image outside my window…
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Oh, wow! That was a BIG spider!!!
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Looks like strings of diamonds. Very pretty peaceful view.
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it is during most months. in winter it becomes a luge track…lol
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I have no doubt that he was assisted by the US!!!
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h/t Marica
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They were still working on the power line down the road from me and the power was blipping off/on so I took the opportunity, while it was cool, to clear out the south garden bed and re-direct the Honeysuckle vines up the trellis. Then I ran to the gas station to get gas for my truck and fill 2 gas cans for the mower, followed by the grocery store to get peaches and bananas. Lays has changed my favorite potato chips (Honey BBQ) to “Spicy Honey BBQ” and they are too spicy for me. The local store had some bags of the original chips so I grabbed 2 of them. And then I headed out to the dump since the back of my truck was getting filled up with yard waste. It’s supposed to rain tonight so I wanted to go before it got muddy.
It feels so good to be able to be productive again!!!
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wow you were busy!!!
I made a banana pecan bread…LOL
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Just The News: “A five-judge panel of a New York appellate court on Thursday found that a $515 million fraud judgment against President Donald Trump was unconstitutional and violated the Eighth Amendment’s prohibitions on excessive fines.
Judge Arthur Engoron originally imposed a $355 million penalty as part of New York Attorney General Letitia James’s civil fraud case against the then-presidential candidate. Other interest assessments, led the figure to balloon to more than half of $1 billion by August, Newsmax reported.
James accused Trump of manipulating the value of his assets to secure favorable loan terms and lower insurance premiums. The president has denied any wrongdoing, though Engoron ruled for James in the bench trial.
The decision is a major win for Trump, who has largely fended off the myriad legal cases brought against him in the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election, save for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case over his falsification of business records.”
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Wethal
August 21, 2025 11:58 am
Reply to Mike Robinson
Two judges wrote that they felt New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit against Trump and his companies was justifiable and that she had proven her case but the penalty was too severe.
One wrote that James exceeded her legal authority in bringing the suit, saying that if any of Trump’s lenders felt cheated, they could have sued him themselves, and none did.
One judge wrote that Engoron erred by ruling before the trial began that the attorney general had proved Trump engaged in fraud.
Since the judges could not agree on the legal rationale for overturning the lower court ruling on the fraud, it stands. It is what is called a plurality decision. There is no majority opinion on the issue of fraud, just the penalty.
I expect Trump will appeal the fraud issue to the Court of Appeals. The penalty is out, but the business restrictions are still in place.
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Just The News: “Dr. James Dobson, who founded the Christian ministry Focus on the Family and was a presidential adviser for five administrations, died on Thursday at 89. Dobson was a psychologist, New York Times best-selling author, and a Radio Hall of Fame broadcaster, the Dr. James Dobson Family Institute said in its announcement.
“Dr. Dobson was a pioneer—a man of deep conviction whose voice shaped the way generations view faith, family and culture,” JDFI Senior Vice President of Public Policy Gary Bauer said in a statement. “His bold leadership, integrity, and compassion helped equip countless families to thrive in a world of shifting values. He was a mentor, a counselor, and a steady voice of truth in turbulent times.”
Dobson’s ministry focused on “strengthening marriages, guiding parents, and defending biblical values by championing the central role of family in America,” JDFI said. He was born in Shreveport, La., in 1936, and founded Focus on the Family in 1977, one of the largest faith-based organizations in the world.
Dobson had daily broadcasts on over 4,000 radio stations across North America, and translated into 27 languages in more than 160 countries. After leaving Focus on the Family in 2010, he launched JDFI and started Family Talk, a nationally syndicated radio broadcast.
He wrote more than 70 books and was appointed to presidential commissions by Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. Also, he served on President Donald Trump’s Evangelical Executive Advisory Board.
Dobson is survived by his wife, Shirley, their two children, and two grandchildren.”
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“Meet the northern right whale dolphin, a rare species instantly recognizable for its lack of a dorsal fin. It is one of only two dolphins in the world without one and the only one in the North Pacific without a dorsal fin.
Its smooth, torpedo-like body helps it slice through the water with minimal resistance, giving it a sleek, almost whale-like profile.
Even though their population is estimated in the tens of thousands, they’re elusive and usually stick far offshore, which is why people don’t come across them often.
These dolphins are famous for their aerial displays, often leaping, spinning, and performing synchronized maneuvers in massive groups called superpods that can number up to 3,000.
They frequently travel with Pacific white-sided dolphins, diving deep to chase schools of squid and small fish. Agile, social, and acrobatic, they remain one of the most fascinating and elusive marine mammals of the Pacific. Seeing them up close is a pretty unique experience! WOW!”
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they are never tolerant are they?
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Nope!
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“Five Virginia School Districts Are Losing Federal Funding Because They Won’t Stop ‘Trans’ Social Experiments On Children”
The Federalist, By: Breccan F. Thies, August 20, 2025
ENTIRE ARTICLE: “After five far-left Northern Virginia school districts refused to stop forcing “transgender” policies on their students, the U.S. Department of Education is proceeding with suspending or terminating federal funding.
The Education Department announced Tuesday that the five Washington, D.C.-suburb districts — Alexandria City, Arlington County, Fairfax County, Loudoun County, and Prince William County — would be placed on “high-risk status,” meaning they will be forced to pay education expenses up front, and the federal government will only reimburse them.
More than $50 million in grant funding, including formula, discretionary, and impact aid grants, will be under the reimbursement status, meaning the districts will have to prove that federal dollars are being spent consistently with federal law in order to get federal funding.
The move comes after all five districts were found in violation of Title IX for maintaining their “transgender” policies allowing students to use the restrooms and locker rooms of the opposite sex based on “gender identity,” forcing students and teachers to use “preferred pronouns” at the threat of disciplinary action, and other far-left gender theory policies.
After the Education Department attempted to enter a resolution agreement with the districts to stop their endangerment of children, each of them rejected the agreement in order to adhere to the warped ideology.
“States and school districts cannot openly violate federal law while simultaneously receiving federal funding with no additional scrutiny. The Northern Viriginia School Divisions that are choosing to abide by woke gender ideology in place of federal law must now prove they are using every single federal dollar for a legal purpose,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement. “We have given these Northern Virginia School Divisions every opportunity to rectify their policies which blatantly violate Title IX. Today’s accountability measures are necessary because they have stubbornly refused to provide a safe environment for young women in their schools.”
While the high-risk and reimbursement statuses are most often used against entities with bad financial management, historically unstable finances, or a poor performance track record using federal funds, the five districts in the D.C. area are some of the country’s most wealthy and most populated.
Fairfax County, for example, is the country’s ninth most populous school district with nearly 200,000 students. Fairfax, Loudoun, and Arlington are all in the top 15 richest counties in the country, with Loudoun and Fairfax being the fifth and eighth, respectively.
In order to maintain federal funds, all the five districts would have to do is stop endangering children with their obsession over “transgenderism” and recognize that male and female are biological realities — something they seem incapable of doing.”
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good!
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“Fewer Americans say they’re drinking alcohol these days: Only 54% report they consume alcoholic beverages, the lowest percentage in nearly 90 years of polls that track alcohol consumption across the country. That sobering statistic comes from Gallup, which has polled Americans on their drinking habits since 1939. The record low of 54% in 2025 compares with the all-time high, 71%, reported from 1976 to 1978.
Why? Gallup says the results coincide with research that shows any level of alcohol consumption can be bad for your health. Even low levels of drinking can lead to certain cancers and heart problems, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.”
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“It’s amazing the stupid shit people will believe…”
I still read almost every evening!
“Erin is a big sumbitch, ain’t it…”
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I’m a “2”…been to disney world and universal studios…when the kids were like 9 or 10.
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I’m a “3” but only 1 applies to FL. When HB and I went across FL to the Gulf of Mexico, we traveled down Alligator Alley and we did see some in the ditches…..
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whoa…
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NF: That photo of John-John is what comes to mind any time I think about it.
“The assassination occurred on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. By 3:00pm that afternoon, all the major television networks, including CBS, NBC, and ABC, immediately suspended regular programming to provide continuous coverage of the event and its aftermath.
This round-the-clock coverage included reports on the assassination itself, the subsequent events surrounding Lee Harvey Oswald, and the funeral of President Kennedy.
The widespread and continuous media coverage marked a significant moment in television news history, demonstrating its power and reach in times of national crisis. Some TV news footage from back then shows citizens of Dallas in the hours after the shooting gathering in the streets, around car radios, listening to the latest shocking news. But at the same time, in people’s homes, television was covering a major breaking news event nonstop for the first time. For four days, Americans flocked to television, and never let go.
When JFK’s funeral procession was televised that weekend, it was watched in 93 percent of all homes that were equipped with TV sets — the largest viewing audience ever recorded to that point.”
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“The Federalist.com did an analysis of the crime rate in our Nation’s Capital, and it’s a hard read. Democrats insist Washington, D.C., doesn’t face a crime problem. On a podcast last week, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D–NY, claimed, “I walk around all the time. I wake up early in the morning … And I feel perfectly safe.” He dismissed Republican concerns about safety as “full of it,” but, of course, Schumer doesn’t go anywhere without his security detail. In a similar vein, D.C. Councilmember Charles Allen called the federalization of law enforcement “unnecessary, unwarranted,” and the D.C. Council emphasized that crime rates are at “the lowest rates we’ve seen in 30 years.”
Even dickhead Joe Scarborough admitted that Democrats privately acknowledge the problem. On his show last week, he said Democrats had called him in recent days, saying, “Washington should have gotten involved years ago. This place is dangerous, it’s a mess, it’s a wreck.” Scarborough noted that those same Democrats then rush to Twitter to attack Republicans, denouncing federal intervention as “the worst outrage of all time.”
Those who have visited a CVS or Walgreens in D.C. can see the reality: Everything sits behind plexiglass. That isn’t surprising, since the city’s property crime rate runs 49 percent higher than the most crime-ridden state.
In the article, the Federalist does a great job of explaining why the ‘reported’ crime numbers are low, but the real numbers much higher.”
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“Mark your calendars: Sept. 7 ‘blood moon’ total lunar eclipse…
The second and final ‘blood moon’ total lunar eclipse of 2025 is coming on the night of Sept. 7-8. Here’s where the celestial spectacle will be visible — and how to watch it if you’re not in the path…”
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“In 2004, a group of Yale students pranked Harvard by posing as a Harvard Prep Squad by handing out over 1,800 placards to students. They were meant to say “Go Harvard” when it actually said “We suck”…
The practical joke was swiped from CalTech and coordinated by Michael Kai and David Aulicino, two Yale students in the class of 2005, and was executed with the help of 20 classmates. College pranks like this keep the rivalry alive in the best way…”
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LOL
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“Why is the world moving to such simplistic designs?
There hasn’t been any “world wonders built in hundreds of years. Why is the world turning into wish a simplistic, basic, and dull world? are people’s brains that zombie mode that they just accept living in a basic world?
Maybe just because it’s cheap… Cohesion is breaking up… And expensive, ornate designs don’t generate any more quarterly shareholder value than cheap, ugly shit…”
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gotta make those 15 minute cities–can’t have originality or beauty. beauty sparks envy–if you’re envious you’re not happy in your drab apartment. you might yearn for something better instead of being happy being average.
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that’s a lot of breasts!
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LOL
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“Republicans have a strong and growing lead in registered voters in Florida, holding a majority of over 1 million more active registered voters compared to Democrats as of August 2024. Republicans currently hold a significant lead over Democrats in voter registration, with 5.33 million active Republican voters compared to 4.33 million Democrats, according to August 2024 figures.
According to this report, Donald Trump’s gains among men, younger voters, and Latinos in 2024, more new voters nationwide chose to be Republicans than Democrats for the first time since 2018, according to a report from the New York Times which relies on voter registration data compiled by L2, a nonpartisan data firm.”
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Bugatti
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the dog cracked me up!
simple pleasures…lol
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That’s one thing you can always appreciate about animals! Few, if any, complications….
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Ocean liner of the air: Historical photos of Sikorsky S-40 flying boat from the 1930s.
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i wonder how many nose prints they have to clean off that window all the time? LOL
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No doubt! Curious creatures!
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The GM “Flat tops” for 1959
Caltagirone, scalinata di Santa Maria del monte. Don’t trip and fall at the top.
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hubby says those cars bring back memories–you could get 30 bags of groceries in those trunks!
thanks!
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No doubt! Tanks on wheels! LOL
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gorgeous hair–porcelain skin too!
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Looks natural!
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I can’t stand the beyotch, personally!!! If they are here illegally, they have committed a crime, you stupid wench!!!!
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so they want to rate crime now?
so we can let the thieves go if they only steal from rich people or under $500? how did that work out for shoplifting in CA?
an illegal alien has to commit how many MORE crimes does he have to commit before being deportable?
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Exactly!
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Pat, did you get some of the Sea Salt Caramel ice cream? It is sooooo yummy! I just ate 2 big bowls of it! LOL
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no! I picked up an ice cream cake (hubby’s birthday is coming up soon) and forgot all about it!
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EXCERPT: “Federal prosecutors gathered evidence from James Comey’s top lieutenants that he authorized the leak of classified information to reporters just before the 2016 election but declined to bring criminal charges, according to recently declassified memos that call into question the former FBI director’s testimony to Congress.
The bombshell revelations involving ex-FBI general counsel James Baker and ex-Comey chief of staff James Rybicki were memorialized in documents that FBI Director Kash Patel discovered earlier this year, but the passages were originally redacted by the Justice Department in versions sent to Congress earlier this month.
Attorney General Pam Bondi intervened and eliminated the redactions, dispatching new versions of the memos this week to the House and Senate Judiciary committees, officials told Just the News.
The memos detail evidence and interviews gathered by U.S. Postal Inspection Service agents concerning classified information leaked to The New York Times in October 2016, ahead of the November election in which Republican Donald Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton.
“The USPIS Investigation also revealed Baker disclosed USG [U.S. government] classified information to the NYT under the belief he was ultimately instructed and authorized to do so by then FBI Director James Comey,” one summary memo reads. “For example, during interviews, Baker indicated FBI Chief of Staff James Rybicki instructed him (Baker) to disclose the information to the NYT, and Baker understood Rybicki was conveying this instruction and authorization from Comey.”
The memos don’t identify the specific pieces of classified information that were leaked or whether Comey or anyone else was authorized to declassify them for the media. But they were investigated by multiple prosecutors, including the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, D.C., under Trump’s first administration and by future-special prosecutor John Durham, and all declined to bring criminal charges, the memos show.
Bondi told Just the News on Thursday she was committed to bringing accountability for the yet unpunished leaks.
“This document produced at my direction confirms what many Americans have long suspected: former FBI Director James Comey and his chief of staff engaged in abhorrent conduct,” she said. “There must be accountability for those who were entrusted with safeguarding our nation’s secrets and failed to do so.”
Comey previously denied during congressional testimony that he had ever been a source in news articles related to the FBI’s investigations into Trump and Clinton and further denied that he had ever approved of anyone else at the FBI being such a source. He has long denied any wrongdoing and insisted he has been politically attacked because he stood up to Trump.
Patel told Just the News the evidence he uncovered raised concerns that one of his predecessors may have authorized illegal leaks and lied about it…..”
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/exclusive-prosecutors-secured-evidence-comey-authorized-classified
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Just The News: “The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the Trump administration can reduce $783 million in grants for health research to the National Institutes of Health, reversing a lower court ruling on the matter.
The court was split 5-4 in the ruling, with Chief Justice John Roberts siding with the court’s three liberal justices, per the Associated Press.
This story is breaking and will be updated.“
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dang. I should have refreshed!
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Just The News: “Villanova University in Pennsylvania on Thursday sent out an active shooter alert to students and employees, instructing the community to shelter in place.
The university said police are responding to the scene and warned students and employees to steer clear of the university’s law school.
It was not immediately clear if anyone has been injured or shot, but Havertown police are assisting with the investigation, Police Chief John Viola told CBS News.
The alert comes as students and their families gather at the school for “opening day,” according to the campus website. Events included a family resource fair, information sessions, orientation, opening Mass and a family picnic.
This story is developing and will be updated.“
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“Illinois Mandates “Mental Health” Testing of ALL Children”
by Alex Newman August 21, 2025
EXCERPT: “Children’s minds are now officially in the crosshairs of one of the most out-of-control state governments in America. Under a controversial new measure just signed into law by far-left Governor J.B. Pritzker, government schools in Illinois will begin mandatory “mental health” testing of all students each year, starting in 3rd grade.
Critics are sounding the alarm. Among other concerns, they are warning that Big Brother cannot be trusted to pry into the minds of children. From education leaders and privacy advocates to psychiatrists and medical professionals, opponents of the plan say it will intrude into the most sensitive areas of a child’s life.
“(Screenings) provide early identification and intervention, so that those who are struggling get the help that they need as soon as possible,” Gov. Pritzker, a leading proponent of transgenderism, said at the signing ceremony. “They improve academic and social outcomes. They help us break down the stigma that, too often, is a barrier to seeking help.”
One major goal is to “normalize” so-called “mental health care” for children and adolescents, explained Democrat State Senator Laura Fine, the chief sponsor of the bill. “The screenings will be designed to catch the early signs of anxiety, depression or trauma before it becomes a crisis or, in some cases, sometimes too late,” she said.
While Illinois is the first state to do it with SB 1560, Big Pharma lobbyists hoping to profit from drugging children are working overtime to get similar schemes passed in other jurisdictions. Even some Republican-run state governments are moving in that direction. And with pharmaceutical interests pouring money into political campaigns, the clock is ticking.
Illinois State Superintendent Tony Sanders, a radical leftist, claimed the program was critical to helping children succeed. “Mental health is essential to academic readiness and lifelong success,” he argued in a statement released after the legislation was signed into law, as if children never succeeded before the program was launched.
“Too often, we only recognize a student’s distress when it becomes a crisis,” continued Sanders. “With universal screening, we shift from reaction to prevention. The earlier we identify a need, the better support we can provide to that student to help them thrive — in school and in life.”
The exact details of the program will be worked out by the state board of education over the next year. Before September 2026, the bureaucracy is supposed to create “guidance” on the screenings, referrals for follow ups by mental-health professionals, and protecting the privacy of student data. Parents can opt out under the bill, for now. It all begins in 2027.
Celebrated actress and author Sam Sorbo, a prominent advocate of home education and a vocal critic of government schools, told The Newman Report that the new mental-health testing regime was a recipe for disaster. “Our schools have become even more dangerous than before,” she warned.
“Instead of working to improve academic results in our schools, they seek to delve into the personal, private, intimate details of their young charges, potentially learning key information to use against them or to groom them at some later date,” continued Sorbo, whose most recent book is Parents’ Guide to Homeschool: Making Education Easy and Fun.
Legendary Harvard-trained psychiatrist Dr. Peter Breggin, celebrated worldwide for his war on quackery such as lobotomies and electro-shock “therapy,” sounded the alarm about the Illinois plan as well. Among other concerns, he blasted the collaboration between Big Pharma and organized psychiatry to invade schools and “make a market out of children.” ……”
https://thenewamerican.com/us/education/illinois-mandates-mental-health-testing-of-all-children/
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Good night!
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Good Night Filly!
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Good Night All!
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