National Sudoku Day

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Sudoku puzzles are one of my all time favorite puzzles!! Despite consisting of numbers, there is no math involved. As the illustration above indicates, the numbers 1-9 must appear in each row and column and 9-block square without repeating any number in those rows, columns and squares.

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  1. Morning All!
    sudoku is one of my favorite puzzles! it’s process of elimination and logic. I do them daily. It’s still pretty dim outside, but i had 2 hummers (that I could see) flying around the chain right in front of where i sit i took them out. I got scolded…lol

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    1. Morning, Pat! I’ve never been a big fan of puzzles, either sudoku or crosswords – I used to do some paint-by-number years ago – that results in a pretty picture to keep. Cloudy morning & I heard some rain drops in the wee hours, front porch/sidewalk is still damp. But it’s warmer at 63 – supposed to be in the mid-to-high 80’s most of the week. I’ve got almost my entire fence line cleared now – just have to do the back and then I’ll spray that section so I shouldn’t have to do it again for at least a year or so, hopefully. My next project is to get a shredder and eliminate all this paper I’ve got sitting around in boxes, both mine and my a-Mom’s! Pictures, too, from at least 10 photo albums of hers from all the travelling she did.

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      1. Morning filly!
        I agree about getting rid of paperwork. we still paperwork from his Mom and she passed 10 years ago. we decided to go thru it all this winter and just burn things, unless it’s something the family “historian” would find notable. (yep, his family has a historian). lol

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        1. I would burn this, too, but we’re not allowed to burn within the city limits. Michael had said I could bring it over to his place to burn but…..it’s better to just get a shredder then I’ll have it for the future. My a-mom’s family probably has a historian – I gave all the really old stuff to them already back in 2013 when I attended my uncle’s funeral. But most of it is at the museum in Norfolk, I expect. I donated a lot of the documentation/pics to them, too.

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  6. “FDA Commissioner Makary to Announce Radical Overhaul of Drug Advertising Landscape — Watch ‘Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson’ Sept. 14 for the full interview”

    (Setting my DVR! On my schedule here, it’s on at 7 AM on the 14th. Far past time something is done about this!!!)

    Sharyl Attkisson, Sep 08, 2025

    EXCERPT: “In a sweeping move poised to reshape America’s contentious prescription drug advertising industry, FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary has announced plans to send out thousands of enforcement letters targeting misleading pharmaceutical promotions.

    This initiative, revealed in Makary’s interview with me for the Sept. 14 edition of “Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson,” marks the first comprehensive enforcement effort in decades since direct-to-consumer drug ads were legalized in the U.S. in 1997—one of only two countries worldwide, alongside New Zealand, that permits such advertising.

    The crackdown comes amid growing public outrage over Big Pharma’s influence, with Makary emphasizing a commitment to transparency and fairness that aligns with demands from health advocates and endorsements from President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

    Read on for details.

    For years, drug advertising has bombarded American television, social media, and online platforms with glossy depictions of happy, active people—often singing and dancing—while downplaying serious risks.

    Makary, a former surgical oncologist and public health researcher at Johns Hopkins, didn’t mince words in the interview: “If you actually watch what’s happening, you watch these TV programs now, it’s like one nonstop running drug ad and they’re always singing and dancing.” He added, “We have a law that says you cannot create a misleading impression. So we are gonna enforce that regulation.”

    Historically, enforcement has been notoriously lax. FDA issuance of enforcement letters plummeted from around 130 annually in the late 1990s to just three in 2023 and zero the following year, according to Makary. This decline allowed misleading ads to proliferate with minimal repercussions—rare letters or fines that industry insiders say had virtually no deterrent effect.

    Past examples highlight the problem: In 2010, the FDA called out Eli Lilly for a print ad misrepresenting its depression and pain drug Cymbalta by overstating benefits and omitting risks.

    Similarly, Abbott Laboratories faced scrutiny for misleading promotions of its cholesterol drug TriCor, which failed to provide fair balance between benefits and side effects.

    More recently, in 2025, the FDA issued a warning letter to Sprout Pharmaceuticals for a social media post by its CEO promoting Addyi (flibanserin) that created false impressions about the drug’s safety and efficacy for female sexual dysfunction.

    Another untitled letter targeted Hemady (dexamethasone) promotions that were deemed false or misleading regarding risks.

    These cases underscore a pattern where ads overstate clinical outcomes, minimize side effects, or target consumers directly while insulting physicians by implying doctors aren’t informing patients about options.

    Makary’s plan extends beyond TV to social media influencers and online pharmacies, where paid promotions often ignore side effects entirely. “They’re never advertising generic drugs. They’re advertising drugs that are super expensive, that are jacked up 10 times more expensive in the US than other wealthy countries say in Europe,” he said…..”

    https://sharylattkisson.substack.com/p/fda-commissioner-makary-announces

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    1. I hear those ads all the time – it’s amazing to me why ANYONE would even consider taking those drugs with all the side effects that are rattled off. Problem is, they read them off so fast, it’s next to impossible to really take them all in!!! I guarantee most people don’t even listen to them!

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  7. Just The News: “President Donald Trump on Monday threw support behind a bipartisan effort led by Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., to end stock trading for members of Congress and their spouses. 

    “MASSIVE WIN!” Trump wrote on TRUTH Social. “Congresswoman Anna Luna is using a procedural loophole to force a vote to ban stock trading for Congressmen and Senators THIS MONTH! Nancy Pelosi is FREAKING OUT!”

    https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115168498016899741

    Forcing a vote on the bill

    The TRUTH post has a video linked of Luna explaining that she wants the legislation, H.R. 5106, brought to the floor by House leadership and if that doesn’t happen by the end of the month, she will bring forward a discharge petition to force a vote. H.R. 5106, also called the “Restore Trust in Congress Act,” is a bill that would prohibit members of Congress and their spouses from trading or owning stocks. 

    A discharge petition allows an elected official to bypass leadership and get legislation to the floor by collecting signatures from a majority of members of Congress.

    Luna said that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent also supported the move to end stock trading last month. 

    “Ninety-five percent of Americans support this…we’ve asked leadership to put this on the floor,” Luna said at a press conference last week. “If they don’t, I’m saying [the] timeline is [the] end of month. There’s a discharge petition prepared and ready to go. I think it’s very clear where the White House stands on this.”

    Ocasio-Cortez and Trump on the same side

    The legislation has 16 original cosponsors, with eight being Republicans and eight being Democrats, and was introduced in a widely bipartisan manner by Reps. Chip Roy, R-Texas, and Seth Magaziner, D-R.I., last week, as well as Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., Zach Nunn, R-Iowa, and “Squad” members Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash.

    “It’s far past time to ban Members of Congress from day trading stocks, and for the first time, a bipartisan coalition is standing together behind a united proposal to do just that,” Roy said in a statement. “The Restore Trust in Congress Act ensures that members of Congress will no longer be able to put the stock market first in their official decisions. This bill strikes a balance between being easy to comply with, but without tons of loopholes for Members to continue trading while on the job.”

    “We must take a strong stand against corruption and end stock trading by members of Congress once and for all,” Magaziner said in a statement. “I have made banning Congressional stock trading a priority throughout my time in the House, and this bipartisan bill is our best chance at finally getting it done.”

    Current law allows ownership with disclosure

    While the bill has not been taken up by the Senate, there is opposition to the overall premise. In July, a Senate committee approved legislation to ban elected officials from trading or owning individual stocks. Currently, senators are allowed to trade stocks, but they must publicly disclose their trades over $1,000 within 45 days of the transaction under the 2012 Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act, which applies to both chambers. This law prohibits insider trading but does not ban lawmakers from trading stocks altogether.

    The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization, says that “no member of Congress has ever been prosecuted for insider trading under the STOCK Act.” Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said some senators had concerns about the legislation and didn’t bring it to the floor, according to NPR.” 

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  8. Just The News: “The FBI on Monday released more documents related to transgender shooter Audrey Hale, responsible for the Covenant School shooting in Nashville, which showed the shooter named President Donald Trump on a “fantasy murder list.” 

    Hale, who was born a white female but identified as male, notoriously slammed white privilege, women, and Christianity in writings prior to the 2023 attack. However, the Metro Nashville Police Department, in their final report earlier this year, said notoriety was Hale’s primary motivation. 

    The murder list, which was dated 2019–2020, only contained four names, according to documents obtained by the Tennessee Star. Two of the names were redacted. Trump’s name was listed under a column of people Hale would “like to kill.”

    Hale also listed “Creswell Middle Prep,” referring to a middle school the shooter attended and was allegedly considering attacking before deciding to target the Christian elementary school. Hale attended both schools as a child.

    The shooter wrote in a subsequent journal entry on the same page about the prospect of Hale’s father dying, indicating a desire for him to die and claimed another person, whose identity was redacted, would not mind if he did die.

    “Eliminated from the world permanently. Our worlds would relieve of worry [and] stress from [redacted],” Hale wrote. “I sense it in his soul like I feel it in mine, full of hate, rage [and] desirable violent acts to certain people, because these people shouldn’t be living if they are not sacrificing for their loved ones, or kids, respect [and] love their wife/girlfriend, and provide for the f***** family. If someone can’t do that they are pretty g****** useless.”

    Hale also appeared to complain about the father not doing anything besides watching Trump on television and consuming political news.

    “You call in sick means you’ll stay home ALL DAY watchin’ that politics bulls*** [with] those talking head ear infection creators,” Hale wrote.

    The new documents come after another transgender shooter killed two children at a Catholic school in Minnesota last month, and injured over a dozen others.”

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  9. Just The News: “Florida GOP Rep. Randy Fine on Monday issued a stark warning to judges who release violent criminals, after a Ukrainian refugee was brutally murdered on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina. He wants them to be held “personally responsible.”

    Iryna Zarutska was fatally stabbed on the city’s light rail train on Aug. 22. She was 23-years-old at the time. The suspect has been identified as 34-year-old Decarlos Brown, who was arrested shortly after the alleged killing and charged with first-degree murder.

    Footage of the incident showed Brown sitting behind Zarutska on the metro for several minutes before opening a pocket knife and allegedly stabbing her multiple times. Subsequent footage showed next to no reaction from other passengers.

    President Donald Trump on Monday said the suspect was released on cashless bail in January and had allegedly been arrested and released on bail a total of 14 times before the stabbing.

    “Decarlos Brown Jr. should never have been released,” Fine said in a post on X. “Iryna Zarutska should still be alive. To the judges who put violent criminals back on our streets: your day in court is coming.” Fine said in a video message accompanying the post that he would be introducing legislation to hold judges who release violent criminals back into American communities “personally responsible” for future crimes those individuals commit.

    The lawmaker did not specify when the legislation would be filed or provide more information on what punishments the bill would suggest.” 

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    1. when i brought this over at wolf’s yesterday, prgoup mentioned it was unconstitutional. judges, for the most part, have immunity from the consequences of their decisions. i dunno. I can see both sides.

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  10. Just The News: “President Donald Trump on Monday announced the donation of his family Bible to the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., while speaking to the White House Religious Liberty Commission. Trump used the Bible in both of his inaugurations.

    “The Bible is also an important part of the American story,” he said. “That’s why I’m delighted to announce that just moments ago I personally delivered the Trump family Bible.”

    The book itself was the subject of some controversy during the Second Inauguration, with Trump failing to place his hand on it while taking the oath of office.”

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  11. so the county received millions in grant money to reduce monetary requirements for bail or use non cash bail requirements to reduce the “inequitable” jail population. and a white woman paid for their wokeness.

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  13. Just The News: “The Israel Defense Forces said Tuesday it has attacked Hamas leadership in Doha, Qatar.

    “The IDF and ISA conducted a precise strike targeting the senior leadership of the Hamas terrorist organization,” the Israeli military group posted on X. “For years, these members of the Hamas leadership have led the terrorist organization’s operations, are directly responsible for the brutal October 7 massacre, and have been orchestrating and managing the war against the State of Israel.

    The leaders of Hamas, the Palestinian group with which Israel has been at war for nearly two years, have had their headquarters outside of Gaza for years.

    “Prior to the strike, measures were taken in order to mitigate harm to civilians, including the use of precise munitions and additional intelligence. The IDF and ISA will continue to operate with determination in order to defeat the Hamas terrorist organization responsible for the October 7 massacre,” the IDF also posted on X.

    The attack reportedly happened late Tuesday afternoon local time. 

    A senior Hamas official told CNN that their negotiators were targeted. Hamas’ chief negotiator Khalil Al-Hayya met with Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani in Doha on Monday.”

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  16. “McMahon: The Decline Of American Universities Has Been A ‘Choice’”

    By: Catherine Gripp, September 09, 2025

    A view from the front of a large, empty amphitheater-style classroom.

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Secretary of Education Linda McMahon issued a call to the leadership of American colleges and universities in an address at Hillsdale College on Monday, urging a return to their roots in western civilization and the restoration of academic rigor in higher education.

    Americans’ confidence in higher education has been on a decline, according to Gallup, while interest in college alternatives like the skilled trades increases. “Decline is a choice,” McMahon said, “and too many college leaders today have made that choice and failed to own up to it.”

    McMahon painted a vision of what higher education traditionally offered — “world-renowned repositories of knowledge about our nation’s history, the great philosophical and literary traditions of western civilization, and the latest advances in science, technology, and medicine.” She touched on the disappearing reality of colleges as avenues for actual human interaction, “places to date, meet your future spouse, and maybe even have your first child.”

    Colleges must once again be places of academic rigor, McMahon cautioned, “a trial by fire that inspires students to struggle and strive.” She added that this depends upon admissions standards that are “rigorous, selective, and completely merit-based.” She pointed to the leftist conditioning deeply ingrained in every aspect of the college experience, stating that it is not the place for “social experiments in neo-segregationism or political correctness.”

    McMahon called on colleges to embrace and protect their heritage in the western ideals of liberty and civic engagement from “enemies both foreign and domestic.” This is the responsibility of higher education leadership, whether the assault on western tradition comes from “the Chinese Communist Party or from our own misguided undergrads,” McMahon said.

    She also took aim at the bloat of administration staff at American colleges and universities. Administrators control much of universities’ operations and decision making, McMahon said, yet “Americans don’t know their names, their full job descriptions, their biases, or their qualifications.”

    Some major institutions of higher education like California Institute of Technology, Duke University, and the University of California at San Diego employed more non-faculty staff than they had students enrolled, according to a report in 2023. Data from some “top” colleges and universities revealed student to non-faculty ratios close to 1-1, with student-to-faculty ratios substantially wider. None of the 51 schools listed employed more faculty than non-faculty employees per student.

    American students are facing an educational landscape with “plenty of would-be authorities with their own opinions, but few mentors and leaders who would take responsibility for their personal growth,” McMahon said.

    She acknowledged that decades of federal bureaucracy was in part to blame for the deterioration of college’s appeal and value, and that President Trump has “promised to fix it.” In July, Trump reached settlements with Columbia University and Brown University, to the tune of $200 million and $50 million, respectively.

    Conditions for Brown included rejecting racist, DEI-based admissions practices, university-perpetuated gender delusions and permissive antisemitism. For Columbia, the administration’s terms centered on addressing antisemitism, along with reevaluating the university’s Middle East ties and its recruitment of foreign students. Columbia is required to abide by new standards for demonstrations and protests in response to the mayhem caused by pro-Hamas protests on campus. In return, the administration restored most grants to the universities and closed the pending investigations against them.

    McMahon argued that the federal government is limited in what it can do to reestablish higher education as a truly valuable pursuit. “University leaders must embrace their role as public intellectuals directing institutions that can transform society. This is the difference between a university and a diploma mill,” McMahon said.”

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  17. “Rand Paul Compared Trump Cartel Strike To Lynching, Backed Obama Accidentally Droning Two Americans”

    By: Breccan F. Thies, September 08, 2025

    rand paul

    EXCE5PT: “The Trump administration used a drone strike to eliminate what it says was a Venezuelan boat filled with narcotics last week. When Vice President J.D. Vance applauded the operation as the “highest and best use of our military,” Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., compared the strike to a lynching.

    After a left-wing social media reply guy calling the strike a “war crime,” Vance replied back, “I don’t give a sh-t what you call it,” which triggered Paul’s bizarre comparison to lynch mobs in the Jim Crow South.

    “JD ‘I don’t give a sh-t’ Vance says killing people he accuses of a crime is the ‘highest and best use of the military,’” Paul said. “Did he ever read To Kill a Mockingbird? Did he ever wonder what might happen if the accused were immediately executed without trial or representation?? What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial.”

    Narcotics pouring across the southern border kill tens of thousands of Americans each year and enrich international terrorist cartels. President Trump has been treating cartel proliferation of such activity within the American homeland as a war, albeit yet another war undeclared by Congress. The strike is one of the very few recent examples of the U.S. military directly protecting Americans at home.

    Yet in 2015, when former President Barack Obama approved a drone strike in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region that reportedly accidentally killed two American hostages in addition to foreign combatants during another congressionally unauthorized war, Paul defended Obama.

    “The world is so partisan, I tend not to want to blame the President for the loss of life here. I think he was trying to do the right thing,” he said on Fox and Friends at the time. “These people were in a war zone and probably got what was coming to them – the captors. Unfortunately some innocent people also died.”

    Paul’s position on Obama’s drone strike drew praise from prominent warmonger Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C……”

    https://thefederalist.com/2025/09/08/rand-paul-compared-trump-cartel-strike-to-lynching-backed-obama-droning-americans/

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    1. did HE ever wonder about convicted rapists and murders who do not receive the death penalty–that were eligible for it? did he wonder how much we paid for his lawyers? his meals? his medical needs? his room? did her ever put a price on the lives a murderer took?

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  19. “More Good News on the President’s Priorities at the Supreme Court: Decisions on cases related to President Trump’s top priorities–curbing illegal immigration and bleeding the Deep State–at SCOTUS this week portend bigger victories ahead.”

    Julie Kelly, Sep 09, 2025

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “The Trump administration is celebrating two more victories handed down Monday by the Supreme Court with the latest developments appearing to signal bigger wins ahead on two White House priorities: the deportation of illegal immigrants and the removal of political appointees from so-called “independent” agencies.

    First, Chief Justice John Roberts “stayed”—put on hold—a decision by the D.C. courts that overturned the president’s firing of Rebecca Slaughter, a member of the Federal Trade Commission. Trump fired Slaughter, who had been appointed by Trump in 2018 and reappointed by Joe Biden in 2023, earlier this year; the White House sent Slaughter a letter simply stating, “your continued service on the FTC is inconsistent with my Administration’s priorities.”

    Slaughter, like others removed by the president, sued. She, also like the others, argued federal law and SCOTUS precedent requires the president to demonstrate “inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office” as a basis for removing a political appointee.

    In July, D.C. District Court Judge Loren Alikhan ruled in Slaughter’s favor and ordered her reinstated to “her lawful position as an FTC Commissioner,” a decision upheld by a 2-1 panel of the D.C. appellate court last week.

    But Neomi Rao, a D.C. appellate court judge appointed by Trump, disagreed with her two Obama-appointed colleagues on the panel and criticized the judiciary’s “unprecedented” breach into executive branch territory. “An injunction ordering reinstatement of an officer removed by the President likely exceeds the Article III judicial power and encroaches on the President’s exercise of the Article II executive power,” Rao wrote on September 2. “The Constitution establishes three departments of the federal government, and the so-called independent agencies are necessarily part of the Executive Branch, not some headless fourth branch,” she continued.

    With that, Rao got straight to the heart of the matter. Despite the headache caused by dealing with a flood of lawsuits filed by disgruntled Democratic appointees, the Trump administration is performing a vital extra-Constitutional cauterization desperately needed after decades-long mission creep that slowly but inexorably established a fourth branch of government that is opaque, unaccountable, and, in their own thinking, impervious to presidential and/or Congressional oversight. Or, as Donald Trump describes it, the “deep state.”

    Worse for the self-anointed headless heads of the fourth branch is that SCOTUS continues to rule against them. The highest court has recently upheld the president’s firing of several political appointees at the Office of Special Counsel, the Merit Systems Protection Board, and the National Labor Relations Board to name a few—firings that had been reversed by lower court judges in Washington.

    “The text, structure, and original meaning of the Constitution all point in the same direction—the President’s control and supervision of the Executive Branch requires that he be able to remove his officers at will. It follows that Congress cannot limit his removal power,” Rao, considered a contender for the Supreme Court, further stated.

    Is Cook Cooked?

    This should make Lisa Cook, the scandal-ridden member of the Federal Reserve Board fired by President Trump last month, and her celebrity attorneys very nervous. Cook is seeking to block her termination on the same basis as Slaughter and those before her by insisting federal law, in this instance the Federal Reserve Act, demands a “for cause” reason for the removal. Both sides are arguing whether a criminal investigation into Cook for what appears to be an airtight case of mortgage fraud committed before she was confirmed is “cause” enough to give her the boot under the statute.

    Abbe Lowell, one of Cook’s attorneys, claims “any such pre-office offense” does not meet the statutory standard; D.C. Judge Jia Cobb sounded skeptical of that argument during a hearing last month, but is nonetheless weighing Cook’s motion for a temporary restraining order to keep her at the Fed.

    But will the Supreme Court be forced to answer Rao’s legit concerns about a fourth branch of government? While the Supreme Court concluded earlier this year that “the Federal Reserve is a uniquely structured, quasi-private entity,” a more thoughtful examination is needed into exactly what that means in this day and age as the Fed amasses more power to dictate national economic policy.

    If a president is prohibited from firing a highly-influential appointee—gifted with a 14-year term no less——of his predecessor under the guise of “independence,” precisely where does that fall under our constitutional system? Whose “independence” is protected?

    ICE ICE Baby

    Perhaps more important to the president’s agenda is the decision by SCOTUS to put on hold a California judge’s order halting ICE raids in Los Angeles, which began in June. The following month, Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, a Biden appointee, granted a temporary restraining order sought by immigration activists claiming the raids were unconstitutional and racist among other allegations.

    Frimpong agreed. “Roving patrols without reasonable suspicion violate the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution,” she wrote. Frimpong also prohibited law enforcement from relying on race/ethnicity, language, presence at areas frequented by illegals, and “the type of labor one does” as a basis for a raid or stop.

    But in a 6-3 decision—with the liberal harpies per usual siding against the Trump administration along with another unhinged tirade by Sonia Sotomayor who said she “cannot stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost”—the court paused Frimong’s directive allowing the ICE mission to proceed for now.

    Writing for the majority, Justice Brett Kavanaugh offered a forceful defense of the president’s policy, noting “at least 15 million people are in the United States illegally” and that at least 2 million illegals live in the Los Angeles area alone. “Immigration stops based on reasonable suspicion of illegal presence have been an important component of U. S. immigration enforcement for decades, across several presidential administrations,” Kavanaugh wrote in his 10-page concurrence.

    He also addressed the separation-of-powers dispute looming over every immigration-related case: the ability of the judiciary to intervene.

    “Especially in an immigration case like this one, it is also important to stress the proper role of the Judiciary. The Judiciary does not set immigration policy or decide enforcement priorities. Article III judges may have views on which policy approach is better or fairer. But judges are not appointed to make those policy calls. We merely ensure, in justiciable cases, that the Executive Branch acts within the confines of the Constitution and federal statutes.

    ”Is a SCOTUS Rebuke of ‘Robed Crusaders’ in the Making?

    Kavanaugh appeared to be channeling fellow Trump appointee Andrew Oldham, a judge on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. In a scathing dissent related to court-ordered halts on the president’s Alien Enemies Act, Oldham accused his colleagues of a collective double-standard when it comes to Trump’s immigration policies. “For 227 years, every President of every political party has enjoyed the same broad powers to repel threats to our Nation under the Alien Enemies Act (“AEA”),” Oldham wrote in a barnburner 130-pag opinion on September 8. “For President Trump, however, the rules are different.”

    Lower court judges, Oldham accurately assessed, are not in a position to second-guess the expertise or purview of the executive branch in immigration matters. “That contravenes over 200 years of legal precedent. And it transmogrifies the least-dangerous branch into robed crusaders who get to playact as multitudinous Commanders in Chief.”

    Those words will make it back to the Supreme Court in due time; the 5th Circuit took up the case in May at the direction of the highest court.

    Oldham and Kavanaugh are the latest to acknowledge the judiciary’s nearly nonexistent authority in reviewing immigration policy including the Alien Enemies Act. But now six months after the issuance of the AEA, the president is still prevented from enacting the policy due to the activism of lower courts; SCOTUS can’t act fast enough.

    The administration, however, should feel cheered by this week’s success at the highest court. And if the president ultimately prevails in drastically reducing the threat of unchecked illegal immigration and the threat of an unchecked fourth branch of government, the country wins, too.”

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  20. “Refusing help because of who offers the help is stupid, isn’t it? I get confused sometimes because I’m not a whiny-ass fuckin’ baby…

    The idea that all of these big city Mayors and blue state Governors would resist help offered to fight crime in their cities and states is shameful at the very least. It’s almost as if the mayors – in Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington – all would prefer to watch their own citizens murdered in the their own streets rather than ‘bow down’ to an opposite party President. 

    The even worse thing about them is that more than likely, these jackwagons will get re-elected, because their constituents are just as fuckin’ closed-minded, hateful and just downright stupid as the people they vote for. Fairly frightening, isn’t it?”

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  22. New York Times – Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, appeared at a news conference this week at a factory in Kitchener, Ontario, with an unusual prop: a crown-shaped bottle of whisky. After making his announcement about a job skills training program, Mr. Ford said that although he does not drink alcohol, he had found the bottle of Crown Royal in his home. As he uncapped it and began pouring out its contents, Mr. Ford launched into an attack against Diageo, the global alcohol giant, for its decision to move Crown Royal’s bottling from Amherstburg, Ontario, to a plant in the United States.

    “This is what I think about Crown Royal,” said Mr. Ford, who appeared surprised by how sluggishly the bottle was emptying because of its narrow neck. “Everyone else should do the same thing – start supporting companies that make whisky here by Ontario people.”

    He also suggested that he might go further than emptying bottles. “You hurt my people, I’m going to hurt you,” he warned Diageo.

    Early in the current trade war with the United States, Mr. Ford removed all beer, wine and liquor made in the United States from the shelves of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, the government-owned retailer that is among the largest buyers of alcohol in the world.”

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  24. “Not sure what the point is, but to each his own.”

    “Kangaroo attacking a photographer attempting to take its picture in 1967. The camera looks like an expensive Hasselblad too.”

    “The cow loves you”

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      1. I think the practice of delineating crimes in that way is not appropriate or relevant, tbh. The crime is the crime, no matter why the perpetrator did it. JMO

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  27. Just The News: “The Department of Justice this week issued a memo directing the Civil Rights Division to work with federal, state, and local partners to identify threats to parental rights and free speech in education.

    “Recent years have seen a disturbing trend in which state and local authorities have brought radical gender and racial ideology into our public schools while suppressing dissenting viewpoints,” Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote in the memo. “Worse still, they have ignored, dismissed, and even retaliated against concerned parents who speak out against these morally and factually bankrupt ideologies and in defense of their own children.”

    “The First Amendment guarantees the right of every citizen to speak freely, assemble peaceably, and petition the government for redress of grievances-including at public school board meetings,” she added. “These rights do not yield to political trends or bureaucratic convenience. While schools must maintain order, such authority cannot be used as a pretext to silence dissent or punish parents for expressing their views.”

    She further highlighted the religious rights of parents to exempt their children from instruction contrary to their beliefs, specifically pointing gender and sexual orientation-related issues.

    “We are restoring the rule of law and returning the federal government to the people it serves. This Department stands with America’s parents,” she concluded.”

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  28. ⚖️ Supreme Court of India

    🎬 Brittany Murphy & Husband Die the Same Way
    Both pneumonia + anemia, four months apart.
    Hollywood mysteries never end…

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  29. “The MAHA Report” (copied from the White House Website)

    Robert W Malone MD, MS, Sep 09, 2025

    “Recommendations of the MAHA Commission to President Donald J. Trump”

    EXCERPT: “On February 13, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14212 titled “Establishing the President’s Make America Healthy Again Commission” (EO).

    The EO directed the Make American Healthy Again Commission to submit to the President, through the Chair and Executive Director, the Make Our Children Healthy Again Assessment, which was released on May 22nd. The EO further requires submission of a Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy to the President that is based on the findings of the assessment and that “shall address appropriately restructuring the Federal Government’s response to the childhood chronic disease crisis, including by ending Federal practices that exacerbate the health crisis or unsuccessfully attempt to address it, and by adding powerful new solutions that will end childhood chronic disease.”

    The assessment identified four potential drivers behind the rise in childhood chronic disease that present the clearest opportunities for progress:

    Poor Diet: The American diet has shifted dramatically toward highly processed foods, leading to nutrient depletion, increased caloric intake, and exposure to potentially harmful or unhealthy additives. Over 60% of children’s calories now come from highly processed foods, contributing to obesity, diabetes, and other chronic conditions.

    Chemical Exposure: Children are exposed to an increasing number of synthetic chemicals, some of which have been linked to developmental issues and chronic disease. The current regulatory framework should be continually evaluated to ensure that chemicals and other exposures do not interact together to pose a threat to the health of our children.

    Lack of Physical Activity and Chronic Stress: American children are experiencing unprecedented levels of inactivity, screen use, sleep deprivation, and chronic stress. These factors significantly contribute to the rise in chronic diseases and mental health challenges.

    Overmedicalization: There is a concerning trend of overprescribing medications to children, often driven by conflicts of interest in medical research, regulation, and practice. This has led to unnecessary treatments and long-term health risks.

    The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will launch an Initiative on Chronic Disease to leverage and align existing NIH research projects, improve NIH coordination on chronic disease research, and generate actionable results for diseases arising in childhood and adulthood.

    • The NIH will launch a new Whole-Person-Health approach to chronic disease prevention research and leverage collective expertise across the agency to catalyze transformative discovery science and intervention strategies that promote wellness, resilience, and optimal health, including metabolic health, at all stages of life.

    Real World Data Platform (RWDP)

    The NIH will link multiple datasets, such as claims information, electronic health records, and wearables data, into a single integrated dataset for researchers studying the causes of, and developing treatments for, the chronic disease crisis. The RWDP will eliminate redundancies from data collection, linkage, and compute infrastructures (including artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning and high-throughput analytics) while maintaining rigorous privacy protections and consent protections. It will also dramatically reduce administrative overhead by relying on a unified set of data use and governance agreements…..”

    https://www.malone.news/p/the-maha-report

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  30. Just The News: “The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear President Donald Trump’s tariff case this fall, expediting the case that would determine whether Trump can use emergency powers to place tariffs on many countries.

    The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to take up the case last week and give an expedited ruling on the matter. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit determined last month that Trump lacked the authority to impose tariffs, but placed the decision on hold to give the administration time to appeal.

    The Supreme Court scheduled oral hearings in the case to take place in the first week of November. The high court returns from its summer recess on Oct. 5.”

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  31. “Authors of ‘Astonishing’ Study Showing Unvaccinated Kids Are Healthier Refused to Go Public With Results — During a U.S. Senate hearing today on how the corruption of science has affected public opinion and vaccine policy, attorney Aaron Siri revealed a long-hidden study on vaccinated versus unvaccinated children, and testified about the origins of the study and why its findings were suppressed.”

    by Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D., September 9, 2025

    EXCERPT: “In a U.S. Senate hearing today, attorney Aaron Siri revealed the results of a large study that found vaccinated children were far more likely to develop chronic disease than unvaccinated kids. The study never underwent peer review and was never published, because the authors — staunch vaccine supporters — told Siri they were concerned about losing their jobs or reputations because their findings contradicted the official public health narrative and vaccine policy.

    Siri’s testimony, delivered during Tuesday’s Senate hearing, “How the Corruption of Science has Impacted Public Perception and Policies Regarding Vaccines,” addressed the study’s origins, findings and suppression.

    The study involved over 18,000 children enrolled in Henry Ford Health system’s insurance plan in Michigan. “The results are astonishing,” Siri told The Defender. “For example, vaccinated children had 4.29 times the rate of asthma, 3.03 times the rate of atopic disease (a group of allergic conditions), 5.96 times the rate of autoimmune disease, and 5.53 times the rate of neurodevelopmental disorder.”

    These findings were statistically significant — even when accounting for gender, race, birthweight, premature birth, and respiratory distress or trauma at birth.

    But rather than publishing the results, the study authors and their bosses at Henry Ford Health refused to make them public — even though the lead author previously assured Siri and Del Bigtree he would publish the results, whatever the findings…..”

    https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/unvaccinated-kids-healthier-henry-ford-health-study-aaron-siri-ican-senate-hearing/

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