On the night before Christmas in 1945 in Fayetteville, West Virginia, George and Jennie Sodder were asleep with nine of their children when a fire started in the house around 1:00 in the morning. George, Jennie, and four of their children managed to escape. The remaining children: 14-year-old Maurice, 12-year-old Martha, 9-year-old Louis, 8-year-old Jennie, and 5-year-old Betty still remained in the house. Between the five of them, they shared two bedrooms located upstairs.
George broke back into the house to save the rest of the children but the staircase was on fire. When he went outside to retrieve his ladder, it was missing from its normal spot. Plus, both of his coal trucks, which he was going to use to stand on top of, were strangely not starting. Marion, one of the children who escaped the fire, ran to a neighbor’s house to phone the fire department but the operator didn’t pick up. When another neighbor called, the operator failed to pick up the phone again. That same neighbor actually drove to town and found the fire chief in person, FJ Morris, and told him about the fire. However, even though the fire station was located a mere 2.5 miles away from the house, the firefighters didn’t reach the Sodder home until 8 a.m., seven hours after the fire began. When they got there, the house was literally burnt to ash.
Authorities sifted through the ash to try and find the remains of the missing 5 children but nothing was found and they were presumed dead due to the fire. Morris suggested that the fire was so hot that it literally cremated the children’s bodies—including their bones. While that theory sounds reasonable, it’s not entirely accurate because even when flesh is burned away, bones are typically left behind. Additionally, there was no smell of burning flesh reported during or after the fire.
The cause of the fire was deemed to be bad wiring and the five missing children were issued death certificates. Soon after the fire, George and Jennie began to suspect that their children were not dead but instead kidnapped and the fire was deliberately set as a diversion. In fact, George had the wiring checked earlier that fall by the power company which had deemed the wiring in safe working order. While the fire was in progress, a woman came forward and said she saw all of the five missing children peering from a passing car. Another woman who was staying at a Charleston hotel had seen the children’s photos in a newspaper and said she had seen four of the five a week after the fire. “The children were accompanied by two women and two men, all of the Italian extraction,” she said in a statement. “I tried to talk to the children in a friendly manner, but the men appeared hostile … and wouldn’t allow it.”
From the 1950s until Jennie Sodder’s death in the late 1980s, the Sodder family maintained a billboard on State Route 16, with pictures of the five vanished children and offering a reward for information. The last known surviving Sodder child, Sylvia, still doesn’t believe her siblings perished in the fire. To this day, they have never been found.
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Sew Colorful 
Good Morning All!
the picture I wanted to post with the open wouldn’t open this morning…AND I scheduled it for 12:15 in the afternoon. sigh.
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Morning, Pat! Ah, well! Shit happens! The rain moved in overnight – should be out of here by the end of the week-end and be back up in the 80’s for a while yet. Wheezer’s shacking up again, I guess – he hasn’t eaten any of his food that I put out yesterday. Odd that it looks like everyone has abandoned M’s for the moment…..
“THE RISE OF THE SEIZERS: A Handy Guide to The Players and the Played”
Walter Kirn, Sep 16, 2025
ENTIRE ARTICLE: ‘Here is a pocket history of contemporary mass control through drama.
It started with scripted movies and TV shows. These were filmed theatrical productions using actors who were suited for close ups, not just for beholding across an auditorium. They didn’t need to project their voices, for example. They could speak in low, intimate whispers or gravelly drawls. They could have, and ought to have, small and subtle flaws. Scars. Moles. Wrinkles. Crooked teeth.. These vocal, facial, and bodily eccentricities caused a sense of identification in audience members, who knew themselves to be imperfect too.
Then came two intermediate dramatic forms, bridges to the one that dominates and surround us now.
1. Reality TV, which was semi-scripted, based on contrived “situations,” and guided by producers or directors giving prompts to participants, private prompts, ones unknown to the other participants, who got their those own prompts. This practice, this method of shaping the story action, assured certain predictable conflicts. The resulting dramas felt both participatory and slightly absurd, like a bizarrely heightened version of actual life. Because the performers, of course, were “people” selected by public auditions. These auditions were held all across the country. Even right in your own town or city. Did you go to one yourself?
2. Documentaries. Sober, often disturbing and depressing portrayals of “our society,” “our world.” You were a serious, curious person who valued “the truth” when you watched a documentary The performers weren’t “performing” at all. They were captured by the camera just doing things. Or maybe the documentary was stitched together from “news” footage and other “found” material. At the end of a typical documentary the viewer thought, “I just learned something important.” Often it was a hard something. Tough stuff. But you’re tough too. You can take it. But wow, so heavy!
Which brings us to the present, to an enveloping form I’ll call the Seizer, because it goes right through you. A seizer is a dramatic narrative that happens all around you, and inside you. You are a performer. And kind of know it. (“Does someone have a selfie stick?”)
But you also don’t know it, because you’re not that cynical. Because you’re not crazy, which is what you’re called when other audience members are disturbed by your suggestion that you might all be patsies in a play you didn’t write, that isn’t supposed to be a play at all. A lot of the time, instinctively and because you’ve been shamed for suspecting otherwise, you still think of yourself as a member of the audience — who can comment online, of course, sometimes using videos.
How are seizers guided and shaped? Well, in lots of ways, but the main one is by actors and producers who masquerade as “reporters,” “politicians,” and even, weirdly, as celebrities who have supposedly removed their masks and are speaking and behaving as “themselves.” You know, “the real Tom Hanks,” etc., the imperfect human who catches viruses and goes into quarantine so they don’t spread. Seizers are also guided, propelled, and colored by completely hidden means — even by the known effects of certain drugs, such as cannabis and various pharmaceuticals. “I shouldn’t have posted that, but I was stoned.” “The news hit me hard ‘cuz I just got off Effexor.”
Seizers are self-reinforcing and self-directing, at least once they acquire sufficient momentum, because this is the age of AI and LLMs. They selectively magnify the actions and statements of the planted actors and producers and the favored, cooperative “creators” (meaning imitators) who very well might be you, particularly once you’ve learned what grabs attention, garners approval from those you want it from, and what gets mocked, ignored, or “ratioed.”
What’s loud gets louder. What’s big gets bigger. What’s clever sounds cleverer, until it doesn’t and grows cliched. And the prized or desired narrative threads, they grow stronger, thicker, more resilient. Sometimes they’re used to make weavings, or tie knots. “I just can’t get my brain around what’s happened. It gives me a headache. I don’t know what to think.”
But seizers need potent, engrossing inciting incidents if they’re to reach their full dramatic potentials — and work the changes that they’re supposed to. These incidents tend to happen suddenly and seemingly at random. “Out of a clear blue sky.” This fosters a sense of emergence, of naturalness, and it gets us all in on the same story at approximately the same time.
Traumatic events work best for this. “I wish I hadn’t watched that clip, but honestly I couldn’t look away.” Concealed in these shocks, which stun and blur the mind, are manifold future story possibilities, some inevitable, some contingent, some major, some minor, some almost imperceptible. And concealed in the mix are “Easter eggs,” of course, which give that exciting “aha!” when discovered and flatter our sense of our own acuity. “I’ve always been good at pattern recognition, maybe because of the family I grew up in. Kids from dysfunctional backgrounds, we pay attention.”
Seizers are generally – maybe universally — structured as mysteries, detective stories, ever-tantalizing, ever-unsatisfying. Research is required, and rewarded, compelling you to do more research. But their real genius as dramas is that they have many, many streams or branches, and perhaps an unlimited number, or so it seems. In fact, they aren’t open-ended, they just feel that way, like a lot of good stories do when you’re in the middle of them and are stumped for solutions. “I’d thought I’d solved it but then the suspect died, and then it felt like anything could happen.”
These forking paths and lanes of possibility are also quietly patrolled by traffic cops, and not just passively. You take a certain road at a certain time and at a certain speed (all factors matter), and you might hit a roadblock. One put there just for you. And perhaps not permanently. Tomorrow it’s gone.
This is the nuclear-level capability that makes seizers something truly new, even if the tropes and games they use are rooted in tradition. (Ancient tradition.) Dramatic productions of the older sort might strike different people in different ways, but, for the most part, they unite the audience. They provoke a common response in a shared space, or a metaphoric shared space. “The nation’s living rooms.”
But seizers are not that way at all. Or they can be that way, but to use them in that manner is to leave their deepest potentials unexploited, like using a samurai sword to chop your vegetables. Seizers, done right, import into the audience the very conflicts inherent in their stories. The show and the story unfold inside the audience, not in front of it. Not even off to the side of it. Within it. What I’m saying is that seizers subdivide the audience and turn these segments into characters, then pit them against one another, or ally them. You finally made it in show business! Congrats! If only you knew it, which you don’t.
But that’s not all that seizers can do. They can also split psyches. Can and do.
MORE TO COME…..”
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Good Morning Filly!
We really need the rain here…skies are somewhat cloudy at the moment, but no rain is predicted.
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I Hear You Now
September 17, 2025 1:24 am
Using our laws and traditions against us.
🔥 MUST WATCH 🔥
A Dearborn, Michigan resident opposed naming a street after pro-Hezbollah figure Osama Siblani.
Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud responded to the resident:
“You do not belong in this city, Islamophobe!
“Get out! You are not welcome here!”
source: https://xcancel.com/Osint613/status/1968057543290392952#m
👉 Many interesting comments, as well.
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Hope this will be discussed during President Trump’s visit to the UK.
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our last little hummer is still here…just saw her.
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Jake
September 17, 2025 7:42 am
Socialist Democrat Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, is refusing to endorse Gov. Kathy Hochul’s (D-NY) 2026 re-election campaign—even after Hochul went out of her way to back his candidacy in a New York Times op-ed this week.
Hochul isn’t communist enough for Mamdani!!
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/09/16/socialist-nyc-mayoral-nominee-refuses-to-endorse-hochul-despite-her-support-n2663436
The fact that Hochul has endorsed a candidate who once refused to denounce “From the river to the sea” tells you everything you need to know about where the Democratic Party is headed in New York. Even worse, Mamdani’s refusal to endorse her in return highlights the Left’s escalating demands: unconditional support, zero accountability, and no loyalty to the very leaders enabling them.
Hochul’s gamble may cost her more than political capital. She’s giving cover to the fringe—and getting nothing back.
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Jake
September 17, 2025 7:48 am
Minnesota again, Tim Walz country:
More Than A Dozen Injured In 2 Mass Shootings At Homeless Encampments In Minneapolis
https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/16/minneapolis-homeless-encampment-shooting-mayor-jacob-frey-thirteen-wounded/
Thirteen people were wounded in two mass shootings at Minneapolis homeless encampments Monday, and five remain in critical condition in what police say may have been connected attacks.
The city has now recorded five mass shootings in three weeks, including an Aug. 27 attack at Annunciation Catholic School that left two children dead and 21 others wounded.
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h/t Marica
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Just The News: “The House Oversight committee on Tuesday released more documents related to its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, which it obtained from Epstein’s estate, including the transcript of former Attorney General William Barr’s deposition.
The committee released its first batch of documents from the estate earlier this month, which included a birthday book that allegedly included a birthday note from President Donald Trump, Epstein’s last will and testament, entries from Epstein’s address/contact books from January 1, 1990, through his death, and information about Epstein’s known bank accounts.
The new documents included Barr’s testimony and letters from two other former attorneys general, who deny knowledge of information relevant to the committee’s investigation into the federal government’s Epstein probe, per The Hill.
Barr recalled in his deposition that he was made aware of an investigation into Epstein by the Southern District of New York in 2019, but stated that he did not follow the case well.
“I’m not generally familiar — or even specifically familiar — with the evidence amassed by the Southern District to prosecute either Epstein before he committed suicide, obviously, and then what they may have collected that affected other potential defendants,” Barr said. “In other words, I wasn’t monitoring the case that closely to know what the evidence was.”
Barr also testified that he did not remember discussing Trump’s presence in the Justice Department’s files on Epstein. Barr served as Trump’s attorney general from 2019 to 2020.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer additionally sent letters on Tuesday to House Speaker Mike Johnson on his committee’s investigation and the Epstein estate requesting unredacted versions of the late, disgraced financier’s cash ledgers, message logs, calendars and flight logs.”
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Just The News: “The U.S. House of Representatives passed the D.C. Juvenile Sentencing Reform Act on Tuesday afternoon, one more step to solidify President Donald Trump’s plan to secure the District of Columbia. The legislation targets the district’s problems with juvenile violence, lowering the “age of eligibility for juveniles to be transferred from juvenile court to felony court for certain violent crimes.” The bill lowers the age from 16 to 14.
As the law currently stands, minors under 16 fall under the jurisdiction of the D.C. Family Court. The new legislation would allow minors as young as 14 to be placed under the adult criminal court jurisdiction, expanding the umbrella for cases that can be tried by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. The legislation, introduced by Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, passed the Republican House majority 225 to 203.
In support of the legislation, Gill noted the district’s high homicide rate, which the president underscored when he declared a crime emergency on Aug. 11, triggering the deployment of the National Guard and increased patrols by federal law enforcement officials.
Gill indicated that since 2020, crimes have been steadily increasing that are committed by people under the age of 18, especially car jackings and, in some cases, murder. The congressman noted that last year, nearly 200 juveniles who were arrested for violent crimes had prior violent arrests. Gill and many fellow Republicans, including U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro, have argued lenient sentences for minors lead to more crime in the district.
In response to the bill’s passage, the congressman echoed the president and Republicans’ commitment to restoring law and order, especially in the district.
“I am thankful to my colleagues for voting yes on my effort to ensure that thugs who break the law and commit heinous crimes are able to be prosecuted at the fullest extent of the law,” said Gill. “President Trump’s mandate and today’s vote further prove that Republicans are the party of law and order. We are saving Washington, DC, from the sins of the Democrats who have driven it to the ground!”
The passage of the legislation comes ahead of a House Oversight Committee hearing set for Thursday, when D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser will be grilled on the district’s “soft-on-crime policies.” In addition to the mayor, District of Columbia Attorney General Brian Schwalb and Phil Mendelson, chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia, will also appear before the committee.
Several pieces of legislation have been introduced in Congress this term targeting crime and beautification of the district.”
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good!
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Just The News: “A Utah judge on Tuesday afternoon approved a request by Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk’s widow, for a protective order during the first court appearance in the case since the late-conservative activist was fatally shot last week.
Suspected shooter Tyler Robinson appeared in court virtually to hear the charges filed against him, which include aggravated murder and two counts of obstruction of justice. Robinson was arrested last week.
Prosecutors filed the protective order before the hearing, which bars Robinson from contacting Erika Kirk and her family in any form. Judge Tony Graf approved the order and set the next court appearance in the case for Sept. 29. Graf also approved Robinson’s request for a court-appointed attorney, and said the alleged shooter will be jailed without bail while the case plays out. Robinson has not yet entered a plea.
Charlie Kirk was considered one of the most influential voices on the right in recent years, notably founding Turning Point USA, which has chapters at universities across the country and hosts speakers’ summits for young conservatives.”
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I wonder why the protective order was necessary?
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IDK
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Geez, MN! Wake up!!!
Just The News: “Minnesota Democrat Gov. Tim Walz announced Tuesday that he is running for a third term in office next year. “I’ve always tried to do what’s right for Minnesota,” Walz said in his campaign launch video, The Hill news outlet reported. “And I’ll never stop fighting to protect us from the chaos, corruption, and cruelty coming out of Washington.”
In the video, Walz remembered Democratic state Sen. Melissa Hortman, who was killed in a shooting earlier this year. “We’ve seen terrible times this year. I’m heartbroken and angry about the beautiful people we’ve lost to gun violence,” Walz said. “But it’s in these moments we have to come together. We can’t lose hope because I’ve seen what we can when we come together.”
Walz in 2024 ran for vice president last year alongside then-Vice President Kamala Harris, who selected him to be her running mate after then-President Biden dropped out of the presidential race.
Several Republicans are challenging Walz in the gubernatorial election, including former state Sen. Scott Jensen and state Rep. Kristin Robbins. Walz defeated Jensen in 2022 by about six points, while Harris won the state last year by just about four points. The Cook Political Report rates the race as “likely Democratic.”
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that comment i posted this morning–some ‘slim in michigan told a man he didn’t belong in the city because he objected to a street being named for a ‘slim radical.
when they get int he majority, they start forcing out Americans.
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“… for the riots, looting, burning…..”
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“Have ya ever spent any time thinking about the derivation of words? Especially words that the spelling just doesn’t make any sense phonetically? Rough, tough and enough jump to mind quickly. In who’s mind does the combination of u-g-h sound like an eff? Really, WTF were they thinking? There are so many more words that don’t sound like they’re spelt, Juss’ don’t make sense.”
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good ones…gonna share some!
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“The plane at the top of the picture is the immense Boeing 777X, the largest twin-engine aircraft on the planet, still undergoing testing and promising to redefine long-haul travel. Just below, different versions of the 737 MAX, the airline’s favorite for short- and medium-haul flights.”
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Wonder how much distance it takes that huge plane to land?
Probably not many airports could handle that plane.
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No doubt!!!
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“Anyone Who Blames ‘Both Sides’ After Charlie Kirk’s Murder Is A Liar And Coward — Unity with people who hate us and want us dead is suicide.”
The Federalist, By: Peachy Keenan, September 17, 2025
EXCERPT: “I’d like to see [the nation] heal. But we’re dealing with a radical left group of lunatics, and they don’t play fair, and they never did,” President Donald Trump told NBC News.
A member of my extended family posted a reel on Instagram immediately after Charlie Kirk’s assassination in which he wrote: “He had it coming. Charlie Kirk was a monster.” This is a person who spends all day posting reels about how Trump is an evil fascist Nazi Hitler and prays that he dies soon.
An old friend of my family said this to one of my siblings moments after Kirk’s murder: “Good. Now there’s one less of them to deal with.” Does that mean he wants my sibling and me shot dead, too? That would be two less of them to deal with.
I’m supposed to want “unity” with people like this? I’d rather have them stay at least 50 yards away from my property.
And now, the Official Party of Wanton Assassination is busy making the case that there is extreme political violence “on both sides.” Immediately after the shooting, buffoonish Democrats like Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, and Elizabeth Warren marched out to the microphones with convoluted messages about coming together and stopping violence on both sides.
By now, the drumbeat of bothsidesism in the aftermath of Kirk’s assassination has become a cacophony. “Bothsidesism” is what I am calling the irresistible urge for morally corrupt politicians (on both sides!) and journalists to lay half the blame for Kirk’s brutal murder at the feet of the right.
In fact, the worst Bothsiders — even worse than the sneering Democrats who can barely contain their glee that Kirk is dead, even as they scold us for not being interested in “unity” — are sniveling Republicans and so-called conservatives.
“There are monsters in your midst too,” intoned The New York Times’ David French, who persists in claiming to be conservative.
As proof, they will present their list of “right-wing violent attacks.” To give this barebones list more heft, they will go as far back as the Oklahoma City bombing, as that cretinous GOP Sen. James Lankford did on CNN. Lankford even had the gall to open his interview with Dana Bash by bringing up “white supremacy.” On Fox and Friends, Ainsley Earhardt tried to bait Trump into conceding that there are extremists on the right, too. Thank God he refused to take it.
This outrageous formulation must be crushed into dust, immediately. There is no moral equivalency. The Bothsiders are on the wrong side.
Why are Bothsiders wasting time blaming the right after a vicious murder committed by a leftist? Shouldn’t they be vociferously defending the innocent? The answer is that they’re cowards. They are too scared to call out Democrats for creating, supporting, and ignoring the evil that has taken root in their party.
Instead of courageously calling out their friends, colleagues, coworkers, and media allies, these pathetic Republican Bothsiders will spout long lists of examples of “right-wing political violence.” This allows them to avoid doing what has to be done: laying bare the left’s deep hatred of conservatives that has been allowed to fester for decade after decade…..”
https://thefederalist.com/2025/09/17/anyone-who-blames-both-sides-after-charlie-kirks-murder-is-a-liar-and-coward/
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i am sick of the “both siders” that’s crap coming from the left to deflect from their actions.
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Indeed! You cannot compare the two!
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no, you’re right about that!
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bwhaahahahahahahahahahaha
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“These completed Jeeps are about to leave the Willys-Overland Factory in Toledo, Ohio,1942. Willys-Overland manufactured roughly 360,000 of the 700,000 jeeps used by the US military in WW2. The Willys MB, along with the Ford GPW, was the standard U.S. Army truck, 1⁄4‑ton, 4×4, command reconnaissance vehicle during WWII.
Over 600,000 of these vehicles were produced to a standardized design for the United States and Allied forces, making it the world’s first mass-produced four-wheel-drive car. Willys-Overland and Ford Motor Company were the primary manufacturers, with Willys producing over 360,000 units and Ford around 280,000.
These Jeeps were renowned for their versatility and ruggedness, serving in various roles including reconnaissance, gun towing, cable laying, and as field ambulances.”
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LOL jeep in a Crate
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near miss??? the comments to the article are VILE
FTA
Air Force One was involved in mid-air drama with a passenger jet as it ferried US President Donald Trump to Britain on Tuesday, according to reports.
An air traffic controller was forced to intervene when he noticed the path of a Spirit Airlines jet converging with the president’s plane over Long Island, CBS and Bloomberg reported today.
Spirit Flight 1300 was travelling from Fort Lauderdale to Boston when the quick-thinking ATC reportedly noticed their altitudes were similar and paths aligned over New York.
The controller repeated instructions to the pilots of the Spirit Airbus SE A321 to adjust their course, raising his voice when they did not respond promptly, according to recordings from liveatc.net.
The audio shared by @thenewarea51 saw the controller tell the Spirit flight to descend and turn twenty degrees right.
The voice ostensibly belonging to the controller then issued a ‘pay attention’ and repeated the instruction: ‘Turn twenty degrees right now.’
Again, the voice tells the Spirit pilots to turn right ‘immediately’, relaying ‘traffic’s off your left wing by … eight miles’.
‘I’m sure you can see who it is,’ the voice added. ‘Keep an eye out for him — he’s white and blue.’
Increasingly irate, it then repeats an instruction and says, ‘I’ve got to talk to you twice every time’ before reiterating: ‘Pay attention. Get off the iPad.’
A spokesperson for the airline told the Daily Mail today: ‘Spirit Airlines flight 1300 (FLL-BOS) followed procedures and Air Traffic Control (ATC) instructions while en route to Boston (BOS) and landed uneventfully at BOS.
‘Safety is always our top priority.’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15106483/air-force-one-spirit-airlines-new-york.html
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“If Trump Is Going To Let Foreign Students In, Make Them Pay Reciprocal Tuition — American universities should not be in the business of training foreign adversaries on the cheap. Foreigners must pay their fair share.”
The Federalist, By: Chris Fenton, September 17, 2025
EXCERPT: “President Trump’s recent defense of issuing up to 600,000 visas for Chinese students landed like a thunderclap. His MAGA supporters cried betrayal: how does “America First” square with opening the floodgates to our top rival? The irony is rich — this comes as his administration also moves to tighten visa durations for foreign students and journalists. The contradiction exposes a bigger problem: America’s universities, the Birkin Bag of higher education, are being sold at a discount. And the bargain is going to the very nations that overcharge American students studying abroad.
It doesn’t take long overseas to feel the sting of reciprocity denied. At Western University in Ontario, locals pay $6,000 a year. Americans pay $46,000, eight times more. At Polytechnique Montréal, Quebecers pay $3,000. Outsiders pay $30,000, a tenfold jump. At French universities, Americans pay 16 times more. At Oxford, Brits pay $12,700. Americans face bills of $52,000.
Across the globe, from Tsinghua University to the University of Hong Kong or Melbourne to University College London and beyond, the average premium American students pay hits 7.5 times that of a local resident. Yet when foreign students — many from adversary nations — arrive in the U.S., we often charge them the same full-freight tuition as domestic kids.
Does it really make sense at America’s public universities for both international and out-of-state students to pay the same $80,739 at UCLA, $42,400 at Ohio State, or $64,884 at Michigan? And what about private schools like UPENN, where American and foreign students pay $63,204, or Northwestern, where both pay $67,158? All while taxpayers subsidize the very system that makes those schools world-class?
The simple answer is “No.” The imbalance needs fixing, and fortunately a model already exists: the in-state versus out-of-state spread at America’s public universities. Extrapolate it globally, with a national-security filter, and you have a two-tier system that makes sense.
Make Foreign Students Pay Their Share
Tier One covers adversary nations as defined by the U.S. government under frameworks like 15 CFR 791.4 — China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. Students from those countries should pay close to the top observed reciprocal rate: Let’s go with 13 times the U.S. average. With out-of-state tuition at public schools averaging $28,300, that’s $368,000. At private universities averaging $38,400, the price tag hits nearly $500,000. Sticker shock? Absolutely. But why should adversaries get a deal here?
Americans already pay those kinds of premium multiples abroad, and those do limit the scale of American demand overseas. Similarly, charging students from foreign adversaries appropriately will mitigate the consumers able to afford it, so don’t go thinking our institutions will take advantage of this new flood of cash to admit even more Tier One students. That won’t work. Not only is it unpatriotic, but demand will hit a ceiling too, benefiting Americans seeking newly opened, highly coveted admission slots.
But what if the higher tuition kills all foreign demand? Simply, it can’t. The U.S. government isn’t price-fixing, it’s only requiring a multiple. Therefore, universities can still lower prices in order to increase demand, meaning a more tolerable, say, $130,000 tuition for a Chinese student would mean an extremely affordable 1/13th tuition of $10,000 for an American……”
https://thefederalist.com/2025/09/17/if-trump-is-going-to-let-foreign-students-in-make-them-pay-reciprocal-tuition/
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i think that’s a catch 22. if we make them pay a higher rate, then if colleges prefer the higher rate paying students to lower in-state rate students, we scream about that too.
i think foreign students should represent no higher than a flat percentage of the entire student body–regardless of tuition.
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I agree with that for sure!
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Just The News: “The Federal Reserve on Wednesday announced a 0.25% interest rate cut, marking the first such move since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.
Chairman Jerome Powell had been hesitant to make such a move, despite public urging from Trump. The move lowered the Fed rate from 4.25% to 4.00%, USA Today reported.
The Fed has not cut rates since late 2024. While the move is a win for Trump, he is unlikely to be satisfied with Powell, whom he has dubbed “too late” Powell due to his hesitance to lower rates.”
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a freakin’ quarter of a point?
what a joke!
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“Imagine buying some property, and opening an old shed to find all of this.”
Couldn’t pay me enough!!!!
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i loved both animal ones–and I agree–NO WAY IN HELL would I be sleeping there!
and that last guy? HAS SKILLS!
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sharing some!!
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getting ready to go on the big banana run…bbl!
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Drive carefully!
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🌪️ September Tornado Outbreak in North Dakota
North Dakota usually spends September quietly freezing… not spinning up 18 tornadoes in one day. It’s the biggest September outbreak in 30 years, flipping SUVs and lighting up storm chaser feeds. 2025 is still trying to one-up itself…
“Rare September tornado outbreak slams North Dakota — There were more tornado reports yesterday in North Dakota than there have been in Septembers over the last 30 years.”
By Jesse Ferrell, AccuWeather meteorologist and senior weather editor
Published Sep 15, 2025 10:56 AM CDT | Updated Sep 16, 2025 9:20 AM CDT
https://www.accuweather.com/en/severe-weather/rare-september-tornado-outbreak-slams-north-dakota/1815961
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whoa!
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🪧 Chinese-American Man, 1940s
“After Pearl Harbor, some Chinese Americans wore signs saying “I’m Chinese, not Japanese” to avoid harassment.”
Time Magazine even ran a guide on how to tell the difference.
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On Shore Wake Rider
“Surfer Mary Ann Hawkins. The photo was taken by famous surf photographer Doc Ball in Long Beach. The date usually given for the photo is 1938 and there was a flood in Los Angeles area in 1938; however, the license plate on that 1935 Ford looks like a 1936 California plate.”
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“Foshan Shehao Furniture”
“You’re going to stub your toe anyway. It might as well be on something stunning. I intended to write some lovely things about Foshan Shehao Furniture. Their work is magnificent (if impractical), and I’d dearly love to see it in person. However, yesterday, I got a bit up in my feelings and frankly just forgot. I apologize. Here is how to follow this talented company and a few photos I had gathered of their epic furniture.
You can follow Foshan Shehao Furniture on Instagram.
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not thrilled with it…you?
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Not really overall – just one or two pieces.
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Just The News: “Five police officers in York County, Pennsylvania were shot on Wednesday while they were serving a warrant, according to reports. Three of the officers are in grave condition while another is in critical condition, according to NBC News.
The suspect who allegedly fired on the officers died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, sources told the news outlet.
Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro said he had been briefed on the incident. “I’ve been briefed on the situation involving law enforcement in York County, and am on my way there now,” Shapiro wrote on the social media platform X. “We ask those in the area to please follow the directions of local law enforcement and @PAStatePolice.”
The shooting resulted in a shelter-in-place order from the Spring Grove Area School District. It has since been lifted.”
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I just read this article…which is right???? doesn’t say any died…and the guy surrendered..???
Two of the wounded officers were airlifted via MedEvac helicopter to York Wellspan Hospital for immediate treatment, while the third was transported by ground ambulance.
As of late Wednesday evening, all three were reported to be in stable condition, though specifics on their injuries—believed to include gunshot wounds to extremities and possibly the torso—remained under wraps pending family notifications. The York County District Attorney’s Office vowed a thorough investigation, praising the officers’ bravery in the face of what one source called a “deliberate ambush.”
In a precautionary measure, the Spring Grove Area School District activated a shelter-in-place order for all its schools in the vicinity, including Spring Grove Area High School and surrounding elementary facilities. District officials were quick to reassure parents that the incident bore no relation to students or school grounds.
“This officer-involved situation is not related to any of our students or schools,” a district spokesperson stated in a public alert sent to families. “Out of an abundance of caution, we are implementing shelter-in-place protocols until further notice from law enforcement.”
Parents gathered anxiously outside school perimeters, expressing relief but also outrage over the rising tide of violence against first responders.
As tactical teams from the York County Special Response Team swarmed the scene, a perimeter was established around the suspect’s property—a modest single-family home nestled amid farmland.
Negotiators engaged in a tense hours-long dialogue with the individual inside, who was armed and had reportedly barricaded himself following the initial exchange of gunfire. State police and additional agencies, including the FBI’s regional hostage rescue unit, provided support.
By 6:45 p.m., the standoff resolved peacefully when the suspect, identified as 42-year-old local resident Mark Harlan (no relation to any public figures), emerged from the residence with hands raised and surrendered without further incident.
Harlan, who faces multiple counts of attempted murder of a police officer, aggravated assault, and firearms violations, was taken into custody and transported to York County Prison.
DEVELOPING: Multiple people have been shot after police officers targeted in Pennsylvania
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Huh – just saw a hummer on the honeysuckle, who then moved over to the Rose of Sharon flowers…..
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we’ve still got that one–or at least only one shows up at a time…lol
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“CDC Vaccine Advisers May Roll Back Recommendation for Hep B Shot at Birth — When it meets tomorrow, the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee is expected to revise the current recommendation that all infants be vaccinated against hepatitis B on the day of birth. The rumored move to delay or scale back who receives the shot and when has sparked outcry among vaccine supporters.”
by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D., September 17, 2025
EXCERPT: “When the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee meets on Thursday, its members may revise the committee’s current policy recommending that every newborn in the U.S. receive the hepatitis B vaccine on the day of birth. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meeting materials, posted this afternoon, included outlines of the finalized presentations to the committee, but did not include the new proposed recommendations.
However, CNN reported that the committee is expected to vote on delaying the shot to age 4, citing Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.
The New York Times reported that the committee may consider recommending immunization only for babies born to mothers known to be infected with the illness, which is the only risk factor for newborns. The rumored changes to the hepatitis B (Hep B) vaccine recommendations have sparked outcry in the mainstream media.
At a U.S. Senate hearing today with the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Dr. Susan Monarez, and ex-Chief Medical Officer Debra Houry, several senators said they opposed any changes to the recommendations.
President Donald Trump fired Monarez last month after she clashed with U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Vaccine panel to review Hep B safety evidence
Thursday’s panel on the Hep B vaccines will discuss published scientific literature showing non-specific effects of vaccination, which are distinct from adverse events. These include changes in the immune system that have broader effects, such as changes in mortality rates, infections unrelated to the target disease, and the risk of allergic and autoimmune diseases.
Presentations will include effects of the Hep B vaccine — which in one study showed higher infant mortality between 7.5 and 12 months of age — and a general assessment of childhood vaccines.
Another presentation will review Hep B vaccine safety, summarizing adverse events when the vaccine is administered within 24 hours of birth…..”
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-vaccine-advisers-roll-back-recommendation-hep-b-shot/
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Good night!
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Good Night Filly!
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Good Night All!
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