South Dakota State Flower: Pasque

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Fun Fact

The Pasque flower is used in treating eye diseases like cataracts.

The Pasque flower was approved as the official floral emblem of South Dakota in 1903. The first flower to show its blossoms to settling Europeans in spring, it became the subject of Indian songs and legends.

A member of the Buttercup family, the tundra-loving Pasque is a small solitary bell-shaped flower with gorgeous blue to reddish purple colors, bearing plumed seed heads and golden stamens. It has handsome seed clusters that look like feathery, smoky gray pompoms. The blooming period of Pasque is from April to May, lasting for two weeks. As soon as it blooms, it signals the start of spring to South Dakotans and lights up the landscape from Mount Vernon to Sioux City.

Pasque is a low perennial, rarely exceeding 6 inches in height, and its furry leaf clusters appear rapidly after winter snow disappears. Large, flashy lavender flowers open soon thereafter consisting of 5-8 petal-like sepals, elongated clusters of white to purple, and a ring of numerous yellow stamens. The petal color ranges from deep violet to white. The long silky hairs that cover the finely divided, lobed leaves give the plant a sparkly silver sheen. These leaves continuously expand after the flowers open. The flowering stalk or stem is densely covered with silky hairs, helping to insulate it.

Pasque, all parts of which are poisonous, grows wild throughout the state, plus is distributed from the northwestern U.S. to northern Alaska. The hardy plant is best adapted to cool, moist climates and rarely succeeds in warm dry areas.

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  1. Morning All!
    looks dark and cloudy outside this morning.
    I believe the last hummer has migrated…we’ll see.
    But the chickadees and the blue jays are already looking for nuts and seeds on the deck…LOL

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      1. Good Morning Filly!

        if it’s not too much trouble, can you send about 6 inches of rain our way? LOL

        we had 3 female wood ducks swimming in what’s left of the pond this morning–big surprise there!

        and this tiny fawn–STILL has her spots–who saw hubby’s truck parked outside the garage. she stomped and took a step forward and stomped her foot again. then an acorn hit the metal roof of the woodshed. she got startled and ran next to mom…lol

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  3. Gudthots(@gudthots)

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    Coyote

    September 19, 2025 00:49

    Hoooooboy, this is going to get fun.
    This partnership is going to root out everything!

    DataRepublican (small r)
    @DataRepublican
    32m
    . @SomeBitchIIKnow and I have been working all night.

    We believe we’ve cracked it.

    Venezuela.
    “Harm reduction” policies.
    Soros DA attorneys.
    Alliance for Global Justice.
    Action Network.
    Mutual aid collectives.
    Legal defense funds.
    Mass migration.

    Antifa — your days of operating in the shadow are up

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      1. that’s what i was thinking, but there’s supposed to be notes in the daily briefs that it was discussed in his presence at least (even if he did not officially nod or say yes)–and there is no official confirmation of that in those records at all. this is what they’re basing that statement on.

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      1. Nope. Maybe get a little bit done on weeded out my house… I’ve been too absorbed in national and world happenings. I’ve spent a lot of time resting, reading, thinking, praying, grieving.

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  8. Aggiegirl
    September 19, 2025 8:53 am

    https://wgntv.com/migrants-in-chicago/ice-arrests-met-with-growing-resistance-from-chicagoland-residents/

    The first thing the illegals should have done, is take steps to become “legal”. There are many that have been here for over 30 years…30 years…and still no habla ingles.

    Why have they not done so? Why? Because there is no intent to assimilate…and why should they when they are afforded all sorts of proagrams supported by the state tax payer…the state who gets their dinero often from the feds.

    Again, there is no shortage of Abogados para imigraciones. All along S. Pulaski, one sees office after office of Abogados para imigraciones, that ‘Habla Espanol’.

    Now, aren’t these ‘rapid response teams’ obstructing some form of justice?

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  9. “We Are Not Going To Have A Debate About Free Speech — The cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel’s show doesn’t matter. What matters is the left’s embrace of political violence.”

    By: John Daniel Davidson, September 19, 2025

    Kimmel

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “The national conversation we need to have right now is not about free speech. The conversation we need to have is about the normalization of political violence on the left. We need to be talking about left-wing Antifa/trans terrorists gunning down Christians in broad daylight while Democrats and the corporate press justify it and the online left celebrates it.

    That’s the only conversation that matters right now. The manufactured outrage over ABC canceling Jimmy Kimmel’s show is an attempt to change the conversation, to flip the script so that instead of talking about the first major political assassination in America in sixty years, instead of talking about the mainstream left’s embrace of political violence and the institutional ecosystem that foments and funds that violence, we can talk about whether President Trump is using Kirk’s murder as a pretext to crack down on free speech and silence his enemies.

    What nonsense — and what a tell. It speaks volumes that Democrats, liberal media, and online leftists are so desperate to pivot away from talking about Kirk’s assassination that they have chosen to take up the transparently stupid cause of Kimmel’s free speech rights. Remember, these are people who don’t care at all about free speech. Some of those rending their garments this week over Kimmel’s cancellation were the same people who cheered on government censorship during Covid. They love censorship, so long as it’s their side doing the censoring.

    And it hardly needs to be said that nothing about the Kimmel story implicates free speech in any way. Kimmel didn’t just mock MAGA or criticize Kirk, he patently lied about the ideology of Kirk’s alleged assassin, and by allowing his comments to air, ABC arguably violated the terms of its FCC license.

    During his Monday show, Kimmel said this: “The MAGA gang is desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them.”

    Anyone with an internet connection and half a brain cell knows that Kirk’s alleged killer was deeply into Antifa and transgender ideologies, and that he specifically targeted Kirk for speaking out against these things. He was a creature wholly of the left, and to declare otherwise, as Kimmel did, is a deliberate falsification of the facts surrounding the most high-profile political assassination of our time.

    That means Kimmel blatantly violated FCC regulations. Public broadcasters like ABC are prohibited from spreading false information about a crime or catastrophe, and they can lose their licensure if they don’t adhere to the relevant federal regulations.

    No surprise then that Brendan Carr, the FCC chairman, addressed Kimmel’s comments when he went on Benny Johnson’s podcast on Wednesday. “This is a very, very serious issue right now for Disney. We can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to take action on Kimmel, or there is going to be additional work for the FCC ahead,” Carr said, adding that, “They have a license granted by us at the FCC, and that comes with an obligation to operate in the public interest.”

    Not that the FCC had to take action, because the marketplace was already reacting. On the same day Carr made his remarks, ABC affiliates were pulling Kimmel off the air. Nexstar, the nation’s largest television station owner, announced it would no longer carry Kimmel’s show. Sinclair Broadcasting, a Nexstar rival, also announced it was pulling Kimmel from its stations until he apologizes to Kirk’s family and makes a sizeable personal donation to Turning Point USA. And then of course ABC announced it was canceling Kimmel.

    Never mind that these affiliates were acting not so much in response to Carr but in response to the outrage Kimmel’s comments on Monday night had provoked among their viewers. But it didn’t matter, the news of Kimmel’s cancellation kicked off a news cycle focused on whether Carr’s remarks amounted to government suppression of free speech.

    Liberal journalists who never uttered a peep about the Biden administration’s crackdown on conservative outlets and individuals immediately commenced with performative outrage online, lamenting this “unprecedented” attack of the Trump administration. The president, they said, was using Kirk’s murder as a pretext to clamp down on free speech.

    None of the people peddling this line believe it. It’s a deliberate distraction by the institutional left and the Democrat party establishment to change the subject so they don’t have to deal with the horrifying reality that the left’s base — not the “far left,” not the fringe, but the base — has revealed itself to be totally comfortable with political violence against the right. Recent polls indicate as much, as does the widespread reaction of the left — online and in real life — to Kirk’s murder.

    So no, we won’t be having a tortured debate about the nuances of the First Amendment and the finer details of FCC regulations. We won’t be furrowing our brows over the line between regulation in the public interest and censorship of free speech. We won’t be agonizing over what Democrats might do once they regain power and deciding it’s best just to let the late-night host spew whatever lies they want.

    Free speech is not the issue at hand, and none of the people that want to make it the issue even care about it. Right now, they only care about changing the subject. They would rather talk about anything, manufacture any scandal, however idiotic or disingenuous, rather than deal with the truth.

    And the truth is that the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the mainstream left’s celebration of it is the biggest story since 9/11. It heralds a new era in American history, in which the entire country has to figure how to deal with a political left that has embraced violence and terror.

    Seen in that context, Kimmel got exactly what he deserved, and there’s not much more to say about it. America will not be grappling with the cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel Live! a generation from now. It will have no effect on anyone’s free speech rights under the Constitution. It is not a real controversy, it doesn’t matter, and we’re not going to debate it with the left.

    What does matter is the left’s embrace of political violence and the left-wing terrorist ecosystem that enables that violence. Right now, it’s the only thing that matters. So that’s what we’re going to talk about, and act upon, until we get the situation under control.”

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  13. LOLOLOLOL

    hubby just caught me. a danged squirrel has been coming up on the deck the last few days..a lot. I chase him all the time. He runs up the tree and sits on a branch shaking his tail at me. So this time I turned to the door window and shook my “tail” at him, saying how do you like it?

    hubby (who i did not see coming into the room) said who are you talking to???

    LOLOLOl

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  18. “Treason, Sedition, and Conspiracy: A set of definitions”

    Michael T. Flynn LTG USA (RET), Sep 19, 2025

    “Treason: The crime of betraying one’s country, especially by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government.

    Sedition: Is language or conduct intended to incite rebellion, insurrection, or violent resistance against a government or lawful authority. It involves actions or speech that stir up discontent, opposition, or hatred toward the government, aiming to overthrow it or disrupt its functioning. While distinct from treason (the act of waging war against the government), sedition focuses on the incitement to disorder or overthrow rather than the overt act itself.

    Conspiracy: This is a secret agreement between two or more people to do something bad, illegal, or against someone’s wishes, often for a common, unlawful purpose. This term also refers to the group of people or the action of plotting. While a conspiracy can refer to any secret plotting, such as for political gain, a legal conspiracy specifically involves an agreement to commit a crime or lawful end by unlawful means, which can carry its own penalties, even if the intended crime isn’t completed.Barack Obama, which definition do you prefer?

    AG Pam Bondi, let’s get on with it. Tell us something is going to happen or nothing at all. There is no more in between. Either we are going to hold people accountable or not. Asking for a couple of million friends.“

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  19. Clivus Multrum

    September 19, 2025 9:30 am

    Are you kidding me?
    Lard-Ass Letitia is the lowest of the low-hanging fruit and she’s going to be given a pass?
    What the hell are Bondi and Ed Martin doing about this matter?

    ********************************************************************

    Trump poised to fire US attorney for resisting effort to charge NY AG Letitia James: Sources

    https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/trump-poised-fire-us-attorney-resisting-effort-charge/story?id=125700904

    Ais

    September 19, 2025 9:42 am

    Reply to  Clivus Multrum

    Federal prosecutors in Virginia found no clear evidence that James knowingly committed mortgage fraud in her 2023 home purchase, and the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia is expected to be fired.

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  20. Freedom Ring

    September 19, 2025 9:20 am

    ASHLAND, Ohio (WJW) – Ashland County Sheriff Kurt Schneider said an investigation is underway after buttons that contained comments about President Trump, such as “Is he dead yet” and “One day, we will wake up to his obituary” were on display at the “Ashland County Democrats” booth at the Ashland County Fair on Thursday.

    “I will be contacting the U.S. Secret Service tomorrow,” Sheriff Schneider told the FOX 8 I-Team.
    According to an online post from the Ashland County Fair, the Democrat Party was asked to pack up the booth. The post said the group will not be back for the remaining of the fair week.

    The I-Team reached out to the “Ashland County Democrats” and a woman answering the phone, identified herself as the “chair” of the organization, and she told us she wants to talk to her attorney before commenting.

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  21. The isolationist within me says hell no….I truly wish we could just walk away!!!! If they can get some $$$,, fine! Otherwise, just leave it be….better yet, blow it all up!!!

    Just The News: “President Donald Trump on Thursday told reporters that his administration is attempting to get the former United States Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan back from the Taliban. The United States abandoned the air base in 2021 during former President Joe Biden’s massive military withdrawal from Afghanistan. 

    Trump made the revelation during a press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in England, where he also criticized his predecessor’s chaotic withdrawal. “We gave it to them for nothing,” Trump said of the base. “We’re trying to get it back, by the way. That could be a little breaking news. We’re trying to get it back because they need things from us. We want that base back but one of the reasons we want the base is, as you know, it’s an hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons.”

    The president did not expand on what “things” the Taliban is trying to get from the United States or provide any other insight into the plans to regain control of the base.

    The comments are the first time Trump specifically revealed plans to attempt to get the base back, but he criticized the withdrawal in February and claimed the base, which was the largest American base in Afghanistan, should never have fallen into enemy hands.”

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  22. Just The News: “Senate Republicans on Thursday confirmed 48 of President Donald Trump’s nominees en bloc, marking the first time the chamber used new rules under its nuclear option.

    The Senate faced gridlock on the nominees earlier this year after Democrats used various roadblocks to delay the confirmations. Senate Republicans hoped to avoid using a partisan tactic, but failed to find a bipartisan solution.

    Senate Republicans last week moved to implement the nuclear option, which makes it easier to confirm large groups of lower-level, non-judicial nominations with one swift majority vote instead of allowing the nominees to be bogged down over a single Democratic objection. 

    The first block consisted of people nominated for mid-level executive branch positions and ambassadorships, according to Politico. They were confirmed in a party-line 51-47 vote and included confirming Kimberly Guilfoyle to be ambassador to Greece and Callista Gingrich to be ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

    “If the Senate had continued at the pace that we’ve been proceeding at through the month of July, there would still be hundreds of empty desks in the executive branch on President Trump’s last day in office in 2029,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune said.

    The nuclear option was previously floated by Senate Democrats in 2023, which would have allowed the Senate to confirm up to 10 nominees under a single vote.”

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  23. Hmmm…..hope they take back the Redskins name, too!!!

    Just The News: “The D.C. City Council on Wednesday approved a $3.7 billion deal to rebuild and renovate the vacant RFK stadium property to officially bring the NFL back to Washington, D.C. The team, now named the Washington Commanders, has since 1997 played its home games in suburban Maryland. The measure, officially known as the Robert F. Kennedy Campus Redevelopment Act of 2025, passed on a 12-1 vote.

    The vote clears the way for Commanders owners to build by 2030 a 65,000-seat stadium at the now-abandoned, 180-acre site. However, the measure still awaits the signature of Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser, who has supported the project. The renovation will in fact be a multi-use project that when complete will include parks, youth sports facilities and mixed-use development, according to the local newspaper the Hill Rag. 

    The team will invest $2.7 billion and the District is contributing about $1 billion in direct support as well as in rent and tax breaks.

    Allegiant Stadium, home of the Las Vegas Raiders and the most recent NFL stadium to be built, cost a reported $2.33 billion. Assuming RFK’s renovation stays close to its projected cost, Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium will remain the most expensive NFL stadium at a whopping $6.75 billion.”

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  24. “Charlie Kirk Helped Combat The Epidemic Of Campus Loneliness — Into the dark web of campus ignorance stepped Charlie Kirk, a joyful warrior of immense spirit and optimism.”

    The Federalist, By: Stella Morabito, September 19, 2025

    Charlie Kirk talks at "prove me wrong" table next to Vivek Ramaswamy

    EXCERPT: “Many decades before Charlie Kirk began his free speech campaign, college campuses were actually places of open inquiry and stimulating conversations that sparked lifelong friendships. In fact, conservative historian Daniel Boorstin dedicated his 1960s classic The Image to the University of Chicago as “a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.” 

    But by that time, universities had already begun degenerating into bastions of left-wing brainwashing where open inquiry is now almost nonexistent and anyone who questions the left-wing narrative faces ostracism. As university culture became increasingly anti-speech, it became patently anti-thought. 

    This growing darkness resulted in an epidemic of ignorance, misery, distrust, and loneliness. Students became “triggered” even by the suggestion that anyone could have a different (i.e., “fascist”) point of view. 

    Enter Charlie Kirk

    Charlie Kirk cheerfully descended into the belly of that beast in his campaign to bring about a positive turning point in America, starting with youth. He entered the hell of college campuses to introduce students to the joys of open debate, inviting them to “prove me wrong” on any issue. For many students, it was a rare and entertaining spectacle. However, many were infuriated and “triggered” by his opinions. Many closet conservatives on campus were emboldened by his refreshing frankness and civility. 

    Thus, Kirk was in the process of unleashing a contagion of truth. In doing so, he was dismantling the very machinery that totalitarians must use to retain power: isolation and the fear of isolation.  I had the honor of talking to Kirk about that process when he offered me a segment on The Charlie Kirk Show to chat about my book, The Weaponization of Loneliness. 

    Kirk clearly had a keen understanding of how isolation is the most potent weapon in the arsenal of tyranny. He knew how the fear of ostracism leads to the misery felt by many of his challengers and supporters alike. And he deeply understood this key point: People need to have strong personal bonds — of family, faith, friendship, and community — to fend off the totalitarians who work to isolate people to control and terrorize them. People can’t function or even think clearly in the darkness of isolation. Kirk knew firsthand that personal bonds of love and trust give people the inner strength to resist tyranny. 

    This tyranny depends upon something I call the machinery of loneliness, which has three main components: identity politics, political correctness, and mob agitation. Together, they create the hostility to free speech that has long infected education and radicalized students. They build the illusion of a huge permission structure to silence people, especially when supported by media campaigns that demonize anyone who dares to question their toxic propaganda. Kirk instinctively understood that the machinery must be dismantled if we’re ever to rebuild a civil society.

    Disabling the Machinery From the Inside Out

    This three-legged stool of tyranny was allowed to fester for decades in all of our institutions. The all-pervasive media propaganda that supported it fed the fear of speaking one’s conscience at school, at work, and in our neighborhoods……”

    https://thefederalist.com/2025/09/19/charlie-kirk-helped-combat-the-epidemic-of-campus-loneliness/

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  29. Just The News: “The House of Representatives passed a stopgap spending bill on Friday amid concerns over a possible government shutdown.

    The GOP-led bill is a short-term government spending package designed to prevent a shutdown at the end of the month. The bill will go to the Senate, where Democrats have pledged to sink it, The Hill news outlet reported.

    The vote on Friday was 217-212, with two Republicans opposing it over high deficit spending levels, and one Democrat supporting it.”

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  30. Just The News: “A judge on Friday rejected President Donald Trump’s $15 billion suit against the New York Times for procedural reasons.

    U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday took issue with the content of the complaint, asserting that a legal filing was not “a protected platform to rage against an adversary,” Reuters reported.

    The decision leaves room for Trump to amend his complaint as Merryday did not address the merits of the complaint. Federal law requires that a complaint be a “short plain statement.”

    The suit itself addresses a number of articles and journalists at the outlet related to its coverage of Trump during the 2024 presidential election.”

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  31. “Alcohol industry uses tobacco tactics to downplay deadly risks and block reforms, studies show”

    US Right To Know, Pamela Ferdinand | September 19, 2025

    EXCERPT: “Urgent action is needed to protect public health from alcohol industry influence and to curb alcohol-related disease and death, according to international researchers.  

    “The alcohol industry has a serious, and dangerous, conflict of interest between its health-related education and policy-influencing activities, and its commercial priorities,” they say.

    That warning comes in one of a series of reports published this year in Future Healthcare, The Lancet Public Health, Addiction, and other journals, all pointing to the same conclusion: Alcohol is one of the world’s leading drivers of preventable disease, yet industry tactics routinely delay or weaken health protections to maximize sales and profits.

    The numbers are stark. Alcohol consumption accounted for 2.6 million deaths worldwide in 2019. It was recently shown to increase the risk of developing at least seven types of cancer: mouth, throat, larynx, esophagus, liver, colorectal, and female breast.

    The toll also extends far beyond individual drinkers. Like tobacco, the alcohol industry also fuels broad population-level secondhand harms, including injuries and deaths. Those impacts have been substantially underestimated until now due to a lack of data and modern analysis techniques, researchers say this month in The Lancet Public Health. 

    For example, a recent U.K. study using advanced methodology to study the global health burden of alcohol found nearly 300,000 deaths from road injuries in 2019 were attributable to alcohol use—far outnumbering prior Global Burden of Disease estimates of 45,400 deaths. 

    Intimate partner violence, fetal alcohol syndrome, developmental disorders, and rising rates of mental distress are all tied to alcohol use, affecting millions of people who do not choose to drink. If studies included alcohol-related harm to others, they would be likely to reveal substantially higher burdens for women and children, researchers say.A global health crisis driven by the drinks industry

    While young people and those in Eastern Europe, Central and Southern Sub-Saharan Africa are disproportionately affected by alcohol’s harms, researchers stress that the risks are just as pressing in wealthy countries like the U.S., where the number of alcohol-related deaths nearly doubled over the last 25 years.,,,,,”

    https://usrtk.org/healthwire/alcohol-industry-uses-tobacco-tactics-to-downplay-deadly-risks-and-block-reforms/

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  38. “According  to published reports, Americans are losing their homes to foreclosure a an alarming rate, and the folks out in Nevada are leading the way. People paid too much more often than not, and rising taxes and food, energy and high interest rates are all contributing factors. 

    In August there were a total of 35,697 properties in the US with foreclosure filings, according to a report by ATTOM. This represents a 1 percent decrease from the previous month, but an 18 percent increase compared to 2024.  August was the sixth consecutive month of year-on-year increases in foreclosures and the third month straight with double-digit annual growth. 

    Nevada was worst affected last month, with a foreclosure filing for one in every 2,069 housing units.

    The ongoing rise in both foreclosure starts and completions suggests that some homeowners may be experiencing added financial strain in the current high-cost and high-interest-rate environment.”

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  39. “The networks have been carrying these late night ‘talk’ guys for entirely too long – the genre is dead. Okay, not completely, but it’s in a coma that they won’t come out of. Carson, in an interview while he was still on the air with his show, said it’s not his job to tell people how to think, adding that taking one side or another in a political issue would be career suicide. He knew what none of these jack wagons didn’t – why would you intentionally alienate 50% or more of your potential audience? It’s career suicide, and it’s been playing out for some time. It’s damn near completely played out unless somebody gets hip to the new reality…

    Current investigations are focusing on the Armed Queers Salt Lake City chapter, which held a 2024 protest event in the city’s suburb where Kirk’s assassin, Tyler Robinson, was shacked up with a lover transitioning from male to female. The AQ-SLC logo was inscribed on shell casings found at Robinson’s sniper position. The group has scrubbed all its social media postings since his arrest.

    The thing on the left in the pic with the oh-so-stylish ripped jeans is an Iranian trannie – and the founder of the group. Yup. Like I’ve said, ya can’t make this shit up…”

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  40. “He (Biden) sought to rewrite the history of his own disastrous debate performance against Trump three months earlier. “Joe then rattled on about his own former debate performances. ‘I beat him the other time; I wasn’t feeling well in that last one.’ He continued to insist that his debate performance hadn’t hurt him much with the electorate. I was barely listening.”

    Harris goes on to reflect that her debate against Trump would be like “a big prizefight”, with huge consequences for America and the world, and she needed to be at the top of her game.”

    “Every year, roughly four million travelers visit Yellowstone National Park to marvel at its unique geothermal features. Rangers there collect all of the clothing and other personal items people leave behind or lose. So far, just this year, they’ve collected this many hats, items which someone with entirely too much free time opted to put on display for all of us to enjoy. There full article from Smithsonian magazine is here.?

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  41. “Even though kids are no longer drinking as much as we did when we were too young to buy it for ourselves, underage drinking is still a serious public health problem in the United States. Many kids still drink, and when they do, they often binge drink. Underage drinking poses a range of risks and negative consequences. It is dangerous because it is a significant factor in the deaths of people younger than age 21 in the United States each year. This includes deaths from motor vehicle crashes, homicides, alcohol overdoses, falls, burns, drowning, and suicides.

    Drinking alcohol can cause youths (Did I say ‘Yutes’?) to have accidents and get hurt. Drinking can also lead to poor decisions about taking risks, including unsafe sexual behavior, drinking and driving, and aggressive or violent behavior.

    Underage binge drinking is associated with an increased likelihood of being the victim or perpetrator of interpersonal violence because kids are just as likely as their adult role models to develop ‘liquid balls’, but are less equipped to actually handle it. 

    It increases the risk of alcohol problems later in life. Research shows that people who start drinking before the age of 15 are at a higher risk for developing alcohol use disorder (AUD) later in life. Research also shows that people’s brains keep developing well into their 20s. Alcohol can alter this development, potentially affected structure and function.”

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  47. “Deep Down”

    “The View”

    “Tiebelè, Burkina Faso”

    “Jump in! The water is fine.”

    “Not your standard work cubicle…..”

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  48. Just The News: “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccine advisory board on Friday voted unanimously to end the universal recommendation that Americans receive a COVID-19 shot, in favor of individual guidance.

    The vote occurred on the second day of the panel’s vaccine meeting, where they are also expected to weigh in on recommendations for the measles vaccine and Hepatitis. The panel already voted on the measles shot.

    The CDC panel voted to change the universal guidance, which previously recommended the 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine for most adults, but Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr still needs to sign off on the change. 

    The new guidance for people aged six months to 64-years-old reads: “Vaccination based on individual-based decision-making — with an emphasis that the risk-benefit of vaccination is most favorable for individuals who are at an increased risk for severe COVID-19 disease and lowest for individuals who are not at an increased risk, according to the CDC list of COVID-19 risk factors.”

    The panel also voted against requiring a prescription for the COVID-19 vaccine in a 6-6 split, per CBS News.

    A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services told the Wall Street Journal that federal insurance programs and plans under the Affordable Care Act are still required to cover the shots.”

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  49. “The image appears to depict the Jewel Rain Vortex at Singapore Changi Airport. The Jewel Rain Vortex is a 40-meter-high indoor waterfall located at the heart of Jewel Changi Airport. It is a key attraction within the Jewel complex, which offers dining, shopping, and other attractions alongside airport facilities. The waterfall transforms into a light and sound show every night. Singapore Changi Airport is a 5-Star Airport, known for its facilities, comfort, and cleanliness.”

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