Happy National Arkansas Day!

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Tripadvisor.com recommends seeing these Arkansas attractions for your next visit to the state!

Crater of Diamonds State Park: The ONLY diamond mine open to the public!

Anthony Chapel: The Anthony Chapel Complex is a part of Garvan Woodland Gardens, the 210-acre botanical garden of the University of Arkansas located on Lake Hamilton in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge: Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge is one of the largest big cat sanctuaries in the United States. The non-profit USDA licensed refuge, founded in 1992, has grown to become one of the Top 10 attractions in Arkansas and the most popular in Eureka Springs.

Christ of the Ozarks: Built in 1967, this 7-story memorial statue of Jesus is on the grounds of The Great Passion Play and overlooks Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

SOURCE: TRIPADVISOR.COM

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    1. Good morning, Pat! 17 here this morning, still a tiny bit of snow on the ground. No sign of Wheezer yet. No message overnight from my Sis so I’m assuming things are the same w/Mom.

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  8. JustScott
    January 11, 2026 4:15 am

    National Security Meltdown: Indians Now Guard America’s Secrets — And Sell Them to China

    Whistleblowers expose the silent purge of American workers and the rise of BRICS nationals in federal contractors

    Matt Forney Nov 28, 2025

    https://thevisafiles.substack.com/p/national-security

    “Iron Mountain, Boeing, and other companies who handle sensitive government and military data have been heavily infiltrated by Indians, either via offshoring or the mass hiring of H-1Bs and other visa holders. This would be a scandal if it involved foreigners from any nation, but India’s status as a BRICS member and its close alignment with enemy states like Russia and China means that this represents an exceptionally grave risk to American national interests. The fact that Indians have already been implicated in hacking and data breaches on behalf of China makes this even more alarming.” …….

    This is the underground cavern where the records of government employees are kept. Indian nationals are selling this information to China for blackmail, espionage and recruitment.

    And why not? It’s not their country. They don’t care. They have no loyalty to America or America

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  11. Dr. Naomi Wolf. 8 NYT Bestsellers. DPhil, Poetry.
    @naomirwolf
    Okay, I’ll just say it. I’ve seen enough videos of the faces of liberal white women in conflict with @ICE, to know what is up. Liberal men at this point (sorry) are disproportionately estrogenized, physically passive, submissive due to woke gender hectoring, or porn-addicted. White liberal women are disproportionately sexually frustrated. Policing others as in the pandemic was an outlet for them, but it was not nearly enough. The smiles you see on their faces now say it all: white women long for all out combat with ICE – who tend to be strong, physically confident, masculine men – because the conflict is a form of physical release for them. They long for actual kinetic battle and it will get even uglier.

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  13. EXCERPT: “Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a possible 2028 presidential candidate, has carefully crafted an image as a centrist in his Democratic Party that has recently shown signs of moving further to the left.

    At issue is whether the Pennsylvania state police should keep contributing data to a law enforcement database used for ICE roundups – which has put him in the hot seat between Republicans and Democrats. 

    Republican members of Pennsylvania’s congressional delegation, including Reps. Mike Kelly and Ryan Mackenzie, sent a formal letter urging Shapiro to maintain the state’s participation in the International Justice & Public Safety Network, formerly Nlets, a national law-enforcement data-sharing system. 

    The lawmakers argued that access to this system is critical for public safety and police communication, and that withdrawing or restricting that access could hinder efforts to track criminal activity and coordinate law enforcement across jurisdictions.

    “Nlets works to connect local law enforcement with federal agencies. As the federal government cracks down on illegal immigration and crime in cities nationwide, including right here in Pennsylvania, it’s imperative that our local and federal agencies have the ability to work together quickly and efficiently,” Kelly said in a statement.

    Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, a moderate, also signed the letter. “As a former law enforcement professional and FBI agent, I know that investigations succeed or fail in real time, based on timely and accurate information,” he said……”

    https://justthenews.com/government/congress/pa-gov-shapiro-finds-himself-center-politically-charged-immigration-enforcement

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  14. Just The News: “Bob Weir, the singer, songwriter and guitarist best known as a founding member of the Grateful Dead, has passed away at the age of 78, his family shared on Instagram Saturday.

    “It is with profound sadness that we share the passing of Bobby Weir,” Weir’s family wrote in a statement. “He transitioned peacefully, surrounded by loved ones, after courageously beating cancer as only Bobby could. Unfortunately, he succumbed to underlying lung issues.”

    The family also said Weir would “forever be a guiding force whose unique artistry reshaped American music.”

    “His work did more than fill rooms with music; it was warm sunlight that filled the soul, building a community, a language, and a feeling of family that generations of fans carry with them. Every chord he played, every word he sang was an integral part of the stories he wove. There was an invitation: to feel, to question, to wander, and to belong,” the statement said.”

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  15. Just The News: “President Trump said on Sunday that having Secretary of State Marco Rubio lead Cuba “sounds good” but he “strongly” suggested the regime make a deal with the U.S. now.

    “Cuba lived, for many years, on large amounts of OIL and MONEY from Venezuela. In return, Cuba provided ‘Security Services’ for the last two Venezuelan dictators, BUT NOT ANYMORE! Most of those Cubans are DEAD from last weeks U.S.A. attack, and Venezuela doesn’t need protection anymore from the thugs and extortionists who held them hostage for so many years,” Trump wrote on social media.

    “Venezuela now has the United States of America, the most powerful military in the World (by far!), to protect them, and protect them we will. THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA – ZERO! I strongly suggest they make a deal, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE,” he added. 

    Trump responded to a user who posted, “Marco Rubio will be president of Cuba” alongside a laughing emoji. Trump replied, “Sounds good to me!”

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  19. Lyndsey Fifield
    @lyndseyfifield
    On Wednesday afternoon 25-year-old Caitlin Stup was on her way to work at Sweetgreen in Houston when Brayden Smith boarded the bus and spotted gang rival Patrick Scott.

    Smith was out on probation for attempting to commit aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon.

    Scott was out on reduced bond for aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon.

    They began shooting at each other (with guns they’re not legally allowed to have). They missed each other entirely and instead shot Caitlin in the head—killing her.

    Smith has been charged with the murder, but Scott faces only a misdemeanor charge of unlawful carrying of a weapon.

    And not a single major media outlet has covered this story.

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  20. Just The News: “Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin of Virginia said on Sunday that he would support Vice President JD Vance if he runs for president in 2028. 

    “I think Vice President Vance would be a great nominee,” Youngkin said on “Fox News Sunday.” 

    “As people speculate on what’s going to happen down the road in 2028, I agree with President Trump and [Secretary of State] Marco Rubio. I think JD Vance would make a great, great presidential nominee,” he also said.”

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  22. “Latin America Unites Against Communism as Maduro Ally Tries Coup in Honduras — Leftists throughout Latin America are panicking as they realize their grip on power is fading fast.”

    Roger Stone, Jan 11, 2026

    “After President Donald Trump ousted narcoterrorist dictator Nicolas Maduro from Venezuela with ease and then charged him with various Capitol offenses in the U.S. jurisdiction, leftists throughout Latin America are panicking as they realize their grip on power is fading fast. None are more desperate than outgoing Honduran President Xiomara Castro.

    Castro was one of the most belligerent anti-Trump voices in the region for years, vowing refusal to cooperate with the remigration of illegals from the U.S. back to Honduras and even threatening to terminate the extradition treaty between the countries and expel the U.S. military base. But now Castro is changing her tune as she spins her narrative about electoral irregularities in the recent presidential election that did not go her way.

    “I respectfully invite you to maintain a direct and frank dialogue on the electoral process in Honduras… I consider it essential to formally invite President Donald J. Trump to a hearing or direct call, to address the electoral situation in Honduras with responsibility, mutual respect and transparency,” Castro wrote in an X post.

    Castro hopes to overturn the election of Nationalist Party candidate Tito Asfura, who won following the strong endorsement of President Donald Trump. Castro cites vague challenges and unrecognized minutes in her unlawful decision to delegitimize the results adjudicated by the National Electoral Council (CNE), a nonpartisan entity tasked with overseeing elections throughout Honduras. Castro is hoping a last-ditch charm offensive of President Trump can help legitimize her coup attempt.

    It will not work. Many countries throughout Latin America, including Argentina, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Paraguay, Peru, and the Dominican Republic, have emphatically rejected Castro’s decree ordering a recount of votes. It is clear that the region recognizes Asfura as the legitimate President-elect and wishes to move on with a peaceful transition of power without dealing with any more half-baked communist numbskullery.

    Additionally, a release from the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs proclaimed that 3.8 million Hondurans freely and lawfully exercised their right to vote and that the CNE certified the legitimate election results. The statement also noted that any attempt to annul the elections in order to engineer new results would result in major consequences. Any post-hoc groveling from Castro to President Trump will not change the reality of the situation. If Castro thinks she can play President Trump for a fool, she is gravely mistaken.

    Stone Cold Truth has reported on how Castro’s LIBRE Party plotted their electoral fraud coup throughout 2025. Luis Redondo, the President of the National Congress of Honduras, held a working session last month of the Permanent Commission, an illegal 9-member body set up by the ruling LIBRE Party to give special arbitrary power over election results to a group of hand-picked thugs, where they hatched this scheme.

    Led by Redondo and LIBRE Party apparatchiks, the National Congress approved Castro’s decree ordering the recount of approximately 19,000 tally sheets and demanding the transfer of electoral materials to Congress. The decree was approved without a quorum of National Congress members as ringers from the LIBRE Party served as substitutes for the absent members in an attempt to give this brazen power-grab the guise of legitimacy.

    General Roosevelt Hernández Valerio, serving as the head of the Honduran Joint Chiefs of Staff, has also declared that the Armed Forces will be enforcing election results as declared by the CNE. Castro may attempt to fire General Hernández in order to further send Honduras into chaos.

    Because she and her relatives within the infamous Zelaya family are deeply tied to drug cartels and several of her family members will likely be facing extradition for drug-related charges after Castro gets the boot, she may be attempting to play the martyr as she is dragged out of office kicking and screaming – to cause irreparable harm to the Honduran democratic process and sabotage the Asfura administration that is slated to be inaugurated on Jan. 27.

    Last week, LIBRE Party sympathizers tossed a bomb at a Nationalist Party official while she was in Congress. Deputy Gladis Aurora López was in the legislative building when a homemade explosive was thrown through a window, detonating and striking her from behind. It was a miracle that she only suffered minor injuries in the blast. These are the actions that Castro is hoping to further inspire with her attacks on election integrity in Honduras. It is incumbent upon the Trump administration as well as the international community to stand with the Honduran people as they repel the communist plague in their country, making sure that Castro is removed from power and her family is put to justice.”

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  24. OK then – Mom’s days of independent living are at an end, altho she won’t admit that – she told my Sis this morning that she was going to walk around the hospital 5 times today! Uh, she can’t even get out of bed! Her mental condition is also now clearly affected whereas before she was still fairly sharp.

    She will have to go to an assisted living center from here on and we will have to make plans to clear out her apartment. The doctor said she will be in the hospital until at least Tuesday. I’ll go up to see her tomorrow, and discuss things with my Sis before they head south.

    My Sis has a close friend who works at the assisted living center in Beatrice, near where she and my niece live, so she is going to see about getting her in there.

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    1. sigh…that will be a big change for her, I’m sorry.
      Today, talking to my mom, she told me she has to get rid of the flowers we sent her on Thursday because they’re dead. then she said, well I’ve had them for a long time. (3-4 days?) then she told me it’s really only one of the flowers (which is a long stem with a lot of little flowers) that is dying.
      so she might keep them another day.

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        1. Mom does not have access to newspapers. she refuses to allow a tv in her room–even though my brother has repeatedly offered (she had one in her living room at home and at least watched the news.

          She had other things to talk about. No all she has is her room…

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          1. Mom watches TV, has a subscription to the local paper, reads books (my brother in NC sends her Western paperbacks all the time, which she loves), and puts puzzles together, then frames them. Plus, since both Mandy and Carol live w/in 15 minutes, she can go and stay with them on week-ends now and then and do all the baking she wants! It will be a much better scenario for her.

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              1. Yeah, the more I think about it, the better I feel about it – she will be much happier. There aren’t that many of her local Madison friends still around and Jenny dying is a biggee since she was her best friend here. But Mom also lived in a subsidized apartment in a small town near my Sis for a number of years before she moved back up here when we moved here from VA so she knows people in the area already. And she will enjoy all the great-grandkids, no doubt!

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      2. I think the biggest hurdles for her will be (1) having to give up cooking and baking and (2) the freedom to pickup and go whenever she wants. Oh, my….and all her plants! Hmmm….maybe my Sis can talk them into letting her take some of her big plants with her. Pretty up the place!

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  26. Sunday Morning Smile

    Frantic Circling

    Uriewici aka Jack Tendoy.  Shoshone. 1880. Photo by C.M. Bell. 

    Needs Lovin’

    Comfortable Corner Reading Lamp

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  27. Let’s go out for root beers – looks exactly like the drive-in where I hung out as a teen-ager with the same cars!

    Extraordinary Entrance

    Soaking the chill out of the bones

    The Douglas XB-19 wheel wasn’t small.

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  28. Eric Daugherty
    @EricLDaugh
    🚨 JUST IN: Rep. Tim Burchett CONFIRMS our taxpayer funds went from Minnesota to Somalia and terror organization al-Shabaab, but it ends up in IRAN

    So they are funneling taxpayer dollars through Tim Walz TO OUR ENEMIES

    “They use the money, of course, to purchase weapons from the Houthis in Yemen, which is only about 250 miles away from them.”

    “And the Houthis get the weapons, and they get them from Iran. And that means the money, of course, was given to fraudulent groups in Minnesota.”

    “And it eventually, of course, ends up in Iran. And it’s just more of the same.”

    “We want to defund the Taliban. We can’t even get the Senate to do that. So it’s an ongoing process. But you need to know that they’re using American taxpayer dollars.”

    “American taxpayer dollars to fund terrorism. And that is exactly what’s going on. And this is the tip of the dadgum iceberg.”

    “You’re going to see this stuff all over the country. And it’s funding our enemies all over the world. As I’ve said many times, folks, they’ll hate us for free!”

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  32. Just The News: “A crackdown on nationwide protests in Iran has killed at least 538 people and even more are feared dead, activists said Sunday, while Tehran warned that the U.S. military and Israel would be “legitimate targets” if America uses force to protect demonstrators. 

    About 10,600 people have been detained over the two weeks of protests, according to the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, which has been accurate in previous cases of unrest in Iran in recent years. The organization said of those killed, 490 were protesters and 48 were members of security forces. 

    With the internet shut off in Iran and phone lines down, gauging the demonstrations from abroad has grown more difficult. The Associated Press has been unable to independently assess the toll. The Iranian government has not offered overall casualty figures for the demonstrations.” 

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  35. “Words Matter!”

    Michael T. Flynn LTG USA (RET), Jan 11, 2026

    EXCERPT: “You want to know why there is so much divisiveness across our nation today? One word: Democrats! ( As per the WH)

    “As ICE valiantly defends our sovereignty and communities, here are 57 times Democrats have recklessly, deliberately stoked hatred and division against them:

    1. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz smeared ICE officers as a “threat” to the public, called ICE “reckless,” suggested the state is at “war” with federal officers and “under attack” by ICE, and smeared ICE as the “modern-day Gestapo.”

    2. California Gov. Gavin Newsom likened ICE to “secret police,” calling them “authoritarian” and calling for people to “push back.”

    3. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker claimed ICE is turning the country into “Nazi Germany.”

    4. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul accused ICE of “terrorizing people.”

    5. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro claimed ICE officers “make our neighborhoods less safe.”

    6. Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan said ICE officers cause “chaos and terror.”

    7. Sen. Chuck Schumer declared that ICE “does not belong in our neighborhoods.”

    8. Sen. Tina Smith called ICE “a clear and present threat.”

    9. Sen. John Hickenlooper smeared ICE as “a reign of terror.”

    10. Sen. Jeff Merkley likened ICE operations to “fascism” and claimed officers are “doing nothing” but “terrorizing our communities.”

    11. Sen. Bernie Sanders asked people to “stop ICE from what they are doing as soon as possible.”

    12. Sen. Elizabeth Warren claimed ICE is “intentionally stok[ing] fear” and “tear[ing] communities apart.”

    13. Sen. Ruben Gallego said ICE exists to “scare the American public.”

    14. Sen. Mark Warner equated ICE officers to a brutal dictator.

    15. Sen. Dick Blumenthal accused ICE of spreading “lawlessness and recklessness.”

    16. Sen. Alex Padilla accused ICE of “indiscriminate violence.”

    17. Sen. Dick Durbin accused ICE officers of committing “atrocities.”

    18. Rep. Ilhan Omar said ICE is “state violence,” called officers “vile and beyond cruel,” and stated “[a]bolishing ICE is not enough.”

    19. Rep. Pramila Jayapal called ICE officers “deranged,” accused them of “kidnapping,” said “resistance” to ICE is “inspiring,” and claimed ICE officers will “shoot at you and kill you.”

    20. Rep. Eric Swalwell smeared ICE officers “masked thugs,” called them “terrorizing bandits,” said it was his “priority” to ensure officers “are no longer faceless,” compared them to the KGB, and demanded they “stay the fuck out of California.” …..21 – 57…..

    “…Words Matter! The truth is, (and very tragically) Renee Good was gaslighted into these actions by anti-ICE rhetoric from politicians, media influencers, and the people around her.

    She was maliciously persuaded to value immigrants over her own children, convinced that her choices represented the ultimate moral high ground—one that tragically superseded the sacred duties of motherhood.

    This doesn’t happen naturally. This is the result of malevolent persuasion from the Brainwashing Industrial Complex—an insidious network of ideologues, activists, and echo chambers that preys on vulnerable minds, twisting empathy into self-destructive fanaticism and eroding the foundational bonds of family and society.

    We must expose and dismantle this machinery before it claims more victims, reclaiming reason and humanity from the grip of manufactured outrage.

    Shame on everyone who led to this tragic event.”

    https://genflynn.substack.com/p/words-matter

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