Save this one for your most ambitious crafters – because the results are absolutely extraordinary. Folded ribbon and fabric triangles pinned one by one onto a styrofoam egg creates a dazzling, almost jewel-like Easter decoration that genuinely looks like a professional display piece. It’s meditative, satisfying, and completely addictive once you get the rhythm going.
What You’ll Need:
Styrofoam egg shapes (available at craft stores in multiple sizes)
Ribbon and fabric scraps in two or three coordinating colors per egg
Straight pins (lots of them – get the glass-head kind for easier handling)
Scissors
Optional: a large decorative ribbon bow for the top of the finished egg
How to Make It:
Cut your ribbon and fabric into squares – roughly 2 inches square works well for a standard-sized styrofoam egg.
Fold one square in half diagonally to make a triangle. Fold it in half diagonally again to make a smaller triangle – you now have a folded “petal” shape with a pointed tip and a folded edge.
Hold the folded triangle with the pointed tip facing toward the bottom of the egg, and use a straight pin to pin it securely to the styrofoam egg, pushing the pin through the two folded layers at the base of the triangle.
Repeat this process with the next square, positioning it so it slightly overlaps the first triangle. Pin it in place.
Continue working in rows around the egg, overlapping each triangle to cover the pins of the previous row. The goal is to cover the entire styrofoam surface so no white egg is visible.
Alternate between your two or three fabric/ribbon colors in a regular pattern as you go – this creates the beautiful quilt-like visual effect.
Once the egg is fully covered, add a decorative bow at the top pinned in place as a finishing flourish.
Pro Tip: Start at the bottom point of the egg and work your way upward in rings – this makes it much easier to keep your rows even. Using ribbon with a slight sheen (like satin ribbon) alternated with a coordinating patterned fabric creates the most stunning color and texture contrast. These eggs look spectacular arranged in a bowl or Easter basket as a centerpiece!
(Pat’s Note: This technique can also be used to make Christmas balls!)
SOURCE: PLAYPARTYGAME.COM
Sew Colorful 
Good Morning All!
cold here this morning but it looks like a beautiful sunrise might be in store for us. We have errands to run later this morning. we need more ammo.
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Good morning!
Sunrise @ 7:49, clear and cold, 24*.
Safe travels 🙏 God Bless.
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Good Morning Gina!
we have sunshine too and clear skies…but we’re at 15*!! so it’s cold out there!
since we live in the boonies, even short errands means a trip of 1-2 hours…lol
May God Bless you as well!!
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Morning, Pat! Been busy getting my bean soup going…..cold @ 21 when I got up but it’s up to 37 already w/the remaining clouds disappearing fast. Drive carefully!
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Good Afternoon Filly!
We’re finally back! We took the scenic route but had quite a few errands to run!
it was sunny this morning, but now it’s mostly cloudy.
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The sun makes such a difference in the mood!
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Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f6a8.svg BREAKING: Vice President JD Vance Officially CONFIRMS that Rep. Ilhan Omar Committed Immigration Fraud:
“Ilhan Omar definitely committed immigration fraud against the United States of America”
The VP says the White House is going to “go after” Omar for these crimes.
“What are the legal remedies now that we know she’s committed immigration fraud? How do you go after her? How do you investigate her? How do you actually build the case to actually get some justice for the American people?”
Vance also calls for a probe into Omar’s knowledge of rampant Somali fraud in Minnesota:
“She has been at the center of a lot of the worst fraudsters in the Somali community.”
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the cv boondoggle was too tempting for some.
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The House Ethics Committee has found a Democratic congresswoman committed numerous violations of House rules and ethics standards over $5m in allegedly stolen taxpayer funds.
Representative Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida is fighting for survival over allegations she used millions her family’s health care company received during the COVID–19 pandemic to fuel her political campaign.
It’s a ruling that could add weight to Republicans’ push to expel her from Congress.
After meeting for over seven hours Thursday night, an ethics panel composed of four Democrats and four Republicans found Cherfilus-McCormick committed 25 ethics violations. The panel said Friday it would recommend a punishment in the coming weeks.
The congresswoman, along with a handful of co-conspirators is accused of steering money that came into a family health-care company she ran with her brother, Edwin Cherfilus, into her campaign coffers through ‘straw donations.’
Cherfilus-McCormick was indicted by a federal grand jury in Miami in November.
The indictment from Cherfilus–McCormick’s case said she purchased a 3.14–carat ‘Fancy Vivid Yellow Diamond’ ring from a New York jeweler for $109,000, per CBS12. The congresswoman’s official house portrait appears to show a similar piece of jewelry adorning her finger.
Cherfilus-McCormick faces up to 53 years in prison if convicted.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15681605/Sheila-Cherfilus-McCormick-Guilty-stealing-5M-taxpayer-dollars.html
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we have one…do i hear two??
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she’s TOO STUPID for words.
Jake
March 28, 2026 7:03 am
Stunning, even for a leftist Democrat: Take money from taxpayers and give it to illegals as ‘reparations’
https://www.wnd.com/2026/03/stunning-even-leftist-democrat-take-money-taxpayers-give/
In a move that is stunning even for a leftist Democrat like Pramila Jayapal, she is demanding the government, which has no money of its own of course, take money from taxpayers and give it to illegal aliens. For being illegal aliens.
JAYAPAL: “The people that have been inflicting this harm need to be prosecuted… we are going to have to have some form of reparation.”
According to a report in the Daily Mail, the “woke lawmaker” claims the illegals are suffering from the “trauma” of being “targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.”
What next? Should we pay reparations to murders, rapists and bank robbers because they are suffering from the “trauma” of being targeted by the police? The key word is illegal, it is the US citizen suffering because of the illegals, not the illegals suffering for committing an illegal act, entering OUR country illegally!
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Illegal aliens are receiving reparations IMO.
$2000 and a free ride home!!!
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true! plus everything they scammed in the meantime.
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James O’Keefe
@JamesOKeefeIII
BREAKING: CALIFORNIA MASS IN-PERSON ELECTION FRAUD CRIMES CAUGHT ON CAMERA:
Recordings Show Homeless Are Paid By Petitioners To FORGE Real Voters’ Signatures To Sign Ballot Petitions On Skid Row, Thousands of Times
Disenfranchised Voters Say They Are OUTRAGED After Being Shown Their Signatures Are Forged
Undercover in Los Angeles, James O’Keefe uncovered an election fraud pyramid scheme operating on Skid Row.
In Part II of Cash for Ballots, series hidden camera footage shows petition circulators paying homeless individuals $2–$3 per form to sign ballot petitions using the names and addresses of real registered voters and forging their signatures. Circulators provided printed lists of voters, assigned identities, and directed the homeless individuals exactly what to write, monitoring them to ensure the information matched so the circulators get paid.
“You only write what I tell you to write.”
“Your name’s Robert.”
“If you mess up, I can’t get paid.”
The conduct captured appears to violate multiple California felony statutes, including Elections Code §18613 (signing another person’s name to a petition), Penal Code §470 (forgery), Elections Code §18601–18602 (paying for petition signatures), and Penal Code §470 (forging signatures).
The OMG team and Cam Higby visited addresses tied to the voters’ names being used. One resident said the named voter had not lived at the address for nearly a decade, yet election mail was still being delivered.
“Doesn’t live here, uh I bought this house nearly 9 years ago. The only reason I know that name, is because we still get her mail.”
“i always feel really weird when I get the voting ballot. Cause like, you know, obviously that’s fraudulent.”
This is Part II of an ongoing investigation. The Citizen Justice League will continue to release more footage of these crimes caught on tape.
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FLA AG sends letter to NFL requiring them to suspend the “Rooney Rule” which REQUIRES teams to interview 2 minority candidates for specific positions.
FTA
Florida’s attorney general is challenging the Rooney Rule and calling on the NFL to suspend it or face possible civil rights action.
James Uthmeier sent a letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on Wednesday to express concern that the Rooney Rule — which requires teams to interview external minority candidates for specific positions — is “blatant race and sex discrimination” and that hiring decisions should be based on merit only.
“NFL fans in Florida don’t care what color their coach’s skin is,” Uthmeier wrote. “They care what colors their coach is wearing — and that those colors are winning on the football field.
“The Rooney Rule and its offshoots are illegal in Florida.”
The NFL acknowledged receiving the letter and that the league is reviewing its contents.
“We believe our policies are consistent with the law and reflect our commitment to fairness, opportunity, and building the strongest possible teams,” NFL executive vice president Jeff Miller said.
Uthmeier said in a video posted to X on Wednesday that the rule “violates Florida law by requiring race-based considerations in hiring.” In the letter, Uthmeier asked Goodell to “confirm no later than May 1, 2026, that the NFL will no longer enforce the Rooney Rule or any variation or extension thereof — which requires consideration of race, sex, or any other prohibited classification — on teams in Florida. Failure to provide such confirmation may result in a civil rights enforcement action.”
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48322280/florida-attorney-general-says-nfl-get-rid-rooney-rule
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frame the question to get the answer you want…especially on ballot referendums.
Jake
March 28, 2026 7:15 am
Poll: Virginians Don’t Like Democrats’ Gerrymander Scamhttps://thefederalist.com/2026/03/27/poll-virginians-dont-like-democrats-gerrymander-scam/The Heritage Acton poll shows 43 percent of respondents are opposed to changing the constitution,, while 26 percent support the referendum.Here is what we all know about poll and referendum questions trying to manipulate us:The ballot question asks, “Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections, while ensuring Virginia’s standard redistricting process resumes for all future redistricting after the 2030 census?”Whose idea of fair? Heritage Action’s poll found the Democrats’ “fairness” phrasing boosts voters’ backing of the referendum. “Based on this ballot language alone, would you support or oppose this amendment?” Forty-five percent of respondents said they would, while 36 recent said they would not. Heritage Action approached the topic a different way, asking whether electoral maps should represent the interests of politicians, or voters. Perhaps not surprisingly, 87 percent of respondent chose the latter.
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10 Million theft ring from Home Depots. one alleged leader–a store owner.
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COBB COUNTY, Ga. — Surveillance video captured thieves pocketing merchandise inside a Home Depot in California – part of a group investigators say is linked to more than $10 million in stolen merchandise.
That includes arrests made right here metro Atlanta, Channel 2’s Michael Seiden reports.
Investigators say this operation stretched across the country with millions in stolen goods.
The man caught on surveillance stuffed his jacket with electrical breakers, each one worth about $100. During the same visit, he used a long pole to pull down boxes of electrical equipment from high shelves.
When those items are locked up, authorities say he just climbs the racks to get to them.
Investigators say this wasn’t just one brazen theft. They believe this was part of the largest organized retail theft operation targeting Home Depot in the company’s history.
Right now, four suspects are all behind bars in Cobb County after police say they hit more than two dozen stores.
The arrests began last spring when authorities in California busted the alleged head of the operation, a store owner.
Sheriff Jim Fryhoff, Ventura County, Calif., said his crews of thieves, known as boosters, would steal merchandise from Home Depot stores.
“He would then sell those items at a reduced price to contractors and other electrical businesses,” the sheriff said.
Criminologists who study organize retail theft rings say it’s not uncommon for these types of theft rings to expand into new areas.
“You’re going to exhaust some of the ones around you. You may not want to steal from the stores that are closest to you because people might recognize you,” said Dr. Read Hayes, University of Florida criminologist.
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/cobb-county/nationwide-theft-ring-largest-home-depots-history/26T5CJRG2FHNDN4DBUREQCXFBE/#Echobox=1774655837
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Aggiegirl
March 28, 2026 8:42 am
And the fraud gets caught, linked by TLD multi state involvement:
“According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Robert “Bobby” Leon Smith III, 50, of Archer City, Texas, owned and operated seven durable medical equipment supply companies based in Florida, Texas, and Maryland through which he submitted millions of dollars in false claims to Medicare for orthotic braces and foot baths that beneficiaries did not need.
Smith also owned a marketing company based in Texas that he used to conduct deceptive telemarketing campaigns that targeted Medicare beneficiaries for medical services they did not need. Working with an offshore call center located in the Philippines, Smith and his co-conspirators peddled medically unnecessary orthotic braces, foot baths, and genetic tests to Medicare beneficiaries nationwide. In audio recordings presented at trial, Smith was heard pressuring beneficiaries to accept these products even after the beneficiaries protested that they did not need or want them.
Smith obtained doctors’ orders for these products by allegedly paying kickbacks and bribes to illegitimate telemedicine companies. He then sold these doctors’ orders to other medical suppliers that he knew used them to submit false and fraudulent claims to Medicare. ”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scott-mcclallen/2026/03/27/fraud-ring-used-fake-doctors-orders-in-615m-medicare-scheme-n2673558
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I only use the local Home Depot for their Garden section, or for delivery.
Going inside those box-stores give me the heebie-jeebies 😁
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trying to find someone to assist you is ridiculous!
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I never had a problem in VA – there is none near me here – Menards is the most popular & biggest hardware store in Norfolk. I bought most of the stuff for my renovation there. I did spread the wealth, tho, and bought the cupboards from a different store. There are a couple of other non-chain hardware stores – the Ace Hardware store closed last year.
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there is a small building supply company in the small town over, but dang their prices are so far over the top for the same products…like Anderson doors. If it had been close, we’d have gone with the local company but it was 30% more at the local place.
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Ah! Yeah, you were in a unique location, which makes a big difference. Plus, Norfolk is a median-size town w/almost 27K pop.
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Morning, Gina! I went to Home Depot a lot in VA but there are none near me here. I never had an issue with them.
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i wonder if this is even possible???
Cactus
March 28, 2026 9:11 am
JMO.
President Trump wants to update the national voting processes to eliminate the documented, massive voting fraud that is occurring in the states.
What’s the background?
For the past 5 decades, the communist democrat / RINOs have been able to embed themselves into the federal government and the so-called “blue-state” governments by unconstitutionally changing some of the election processes to enable election fraud on a massive scale ……. resulting in democrat / RINOs illegally being declared winners, usurping the will of the voters.
In 1975, the embedded, communist democrat / RINOs in the Senate put in the current, unconstitutional “filibuster rule” that allowed the communist democrat / RINOs to stop any changes to the election processes that allowed them to steal national and local elections. The unconstitutional rule requires 60 votes in the senate to eliminate the filibuster.
Because the republicans hold such a slim majority in the senate ……. a result of the mass election fraud (?) ……… the communist democrat / RINOs think they have set up the system to stop President Trump from eliminating the massive election fraud for the mid-term elections….. yup, they’ve got him this time, for sure, you can take it to the bank.
Not so fast.
With republican leader Thune, a hardcore RINO, blocking the permanent elimination of the rule, President Trump will have to, constitutionally, go through or around Thune to eliminate the rule.
President Trump, could have Vice President JD Vance, as President of the Senate, come to the Senate, at the appropriate time, and assume the position in the presiding officer chair ….. constitutionally terminating the “filibuster rule”, thus allowing the passing of all the election changes before turning the senate back over to Thune.
MAGA / America First isn’t just our motto, it is our duty!
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leaving soon
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Be safe!
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Just The News: “House Republicans late Friday voted to fully fund the Homeland Security Department after rejecting a compromise that would have excluded immigration enforcement, setting up a showdown with the Senate as a partial government shutdown showed no sign of ending.
The 213-203 vote approved six weeks of full funding through May 22, seeking to pressure senators not to exclude previously approved money for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol.
House Republican leaders said that President Donald Trump supported their idea for temporary but full funding.
“House Republicans have voted once again to FULLY FUND the Department of Homeland Security,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said. “Nearly every single House Democrat voted no. It COULD NOT BE ANY CLEARER who truly cares about the safety and security of the American people and who is using them as political pawns,” he added.
With the congressional stalemate showing no signs of ending, Trump took matters into his own hands earlier Friday and signed an executive order to pay Transportation Security Administration employees who have worked for weeks without paychecks.
Trump signed the action hoping to ease long security lines at many of the nation’s airports. “America’s air travel system has reached its breaking point,” Trump wrote in his order.”
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Just The News: “Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi rebels said they carried out a missile strike on Israel Saturday, fueling fears the group is becoming directly involved in the broader Middle East conflict.
Israeli officials said the projectile was intercepted, marking the first attack from Yemen since the war began last month, the Associated Press reported.”
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Trump is truly a genius!!! His legacy will, indeed, last forever!!! AND WE LOVE IT!!!! This is long but, IMO, well worth the read! Wallow in it!!! LOL
“Democrat dream of erasing Trump legacy will be expensive and probably impossible: While Democrats will try to erase any impression of Trump’s presidency, that will be a difficult task that if taken on, will take years to accomplish.”
Just The News, Amanda Head, March 28, 2026
ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Once President Donald Trump leaves office, Democrats will face formidable practical and political obstacles in attempting to erase the physical markers of his legacy. The new $100 bills printed this summer with Trump’s signature are one of the latest obstacles facing his haters.
“Under President Trump’s leadership, we are on a path toward unprecedented economic growth, lasting dollar dominance, and fiscal strength and stability,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement accompanying the announcement. “There is no more powerful way to recognize the historic achievements of our great country and President Donald J. Trump than U.S. dollar bills bearing his name, and it is only appropriate that this historic currency be issued at the Semiquincentennial.”
DJT’s signature on currency
This summer, the U.S. Treasury will begin printing new $100 bills featuring President Trump’s signature alongside that of the Treasury Secretary, marking the first time a sitting president’s autograph appears on American paper currency. The change, set to roll out starting in June, replaces the long-standing Treasurer’s signature and coincides with the nation’s 250th anniversary celebrations.
By the end of Trump’s second term, the Trump-Kennedy Center signage will have been in place for three years, the White House ballroom will be a completed, functioning structure bearing his imprint, and millions of $100 bills carrying his signature will be in wallets and bank vaults nationwide.
And reversing such changes would require congressional action, costly physical alterations, or even new legislation—steps that risk appearing petty to the public and inviting legal challenges from supporters who view the projects as legitimate enhancements rather than personal monuments.
These enduring, taxpayer- or donor-supported assets create a lasting visual and functional reminder of his administration’s contributions, making any rollback effort both expensive and symbolically difficult. Legislatively, the challenge grows even steeper. Major policy achievements from Trump’s terms—tax reforms, trade deals, border security measures, and deregulation initiatives—become embedded in law and economic practice, requiring supermajorities or sustained political capital to unwind.
Future Democratic majorities would confront entrenched interests, judicial precedents, and public familiarity with the results, much as earlier attempts to fully repeal prior landmark legislation have proven difficult.
In late 2025, the board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts—reconstituted with members appointed by President Trump—voted unanimously to rename the iconic Washington institution the Trump-Kennedy Center (formally the Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts).
The change reflects substantial federal funding and revitalization efforts secured under Trump’s leadership, including major renovations that have helped preserve and modernize the facility for future generations of artists and audiences.
“America’s Golden Age”: Bessent
Construction is actively underway on Trump’s new, expansive State Ballroom at the White House, a project initiated in 2025 to address long-standing limitations in hosting large-scale official events. The roughly 90,000-square-foot addition, replacing outdated East Wing space, will offer significantly greater capacity—up to 650 seated guests—allowing future presidents to welcome world leaders and dignitaries in grander style.
Privately funded and designed with elegance in mind, the ballroom reflects Trump’s vision for a more capable and enduring executive residence, continuing a proud American tradition of presidential improvements to the people’s house.
Bessent concluded the Treasury’s announcement: “The President’s mark on history as the architect of America’s Golden Age economic revival is undeniable. Printing his signature on the American currency is not only appropriate, but also well deserved.”
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Just The News: “Two American officials told the New York Times on Friday that 12 American troops were injured in an attack on a U.S. military base in Saudi Arabia, including two who were reportedly seriously wounded. When the attack occurred was unclear as of Friday evening.
The U.S. and Israel began a weeks-long conflict against Iran late last month, which resulted in the death of leader Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iran has retaliated by hitting U.S. bases in the Middle East and attacking Israel. Nearly 300 American troops have been injured in the conflict so far and at least 13 have been killed.
The combined missile and drone attack on the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia is considered one of the most serious breaches of American air defenses in the conflict, the news outlet reported, and at least two U.S. refueling planes also suffered significant damage in the attack.
The identities of the U.S. troops injured in the latest attack have not been released so far.”
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Huh…..interesting….yes, they do need a Trump-style revolution!
Just The News: “Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss told an audience Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference’s annual gathering in Texas that England will host a CPAC Great Britain event in London this summer. The gathering of British conservatives will run from July 16-18 and tickets for the conference are expected to go on sale next week.
Truss claimed that Great Britain needs a “Trump-style revolution” because most people in the United Kingdom do not agree with the country’s current government, according to the Mirror. “They want to have a family, they want a nice car, they want to go on a nice holiday, they want to live in a Christian country,” she said. “They don’t want their country taken over.”
British journalist Joseph Robertson also confirmed the event in a post on X, stating that he will be serving as a director of the upcoming conference, alongside a “brilliant team.”
“Britain’s broken,” Robertson said. “The establishment surrendered our streets, sovereignty, & future. Time to rebuild.” Details on the venue and speakers for the conference were not immediately clear.”
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I’m glad I won’t live all that much longer, tbh…..I don’t think I would be able to handle the AI future! Up is down and left is right, inside is outside with AI…..smh. But there will be no stopping it! Todays kids need to be prepared, for sure.
EXCERPT: “First Lady Melania Trump introduced the “first American made humanoid” and advocated using artificial intelligence to teach children at a “Future Together” Summit this week. The response has not been positive among many educators and Christian leaders. As she entered the summit, walking alongside her was Figure 03, an AI robot humanoid, who was the first to speak.
Figure 03 was developed by Figure AI, Inc., a robotics company, which received venture capital funding in part from Jeff Bezos, Microsoft, Nvidia, Intel, OpenAI and others.
Figure 03’s introduction came one year after Melania Trump filmed her self-described documentary, Melania, last January. In it, she expressed concerns about increased technology screen time and social media usage among children with France’s First Lady Brigette Macron. Macron said France has a social media ban for children under age 15.
One year later, Trump, joined by Macron and the spouses of 45 international leaders, hosted a summit to advance children’s additional screen usage by promoting AI. Officials also presented national strategies to integrate technology into education systems.
In her keynote address, Trump highlighted three goals to transform public education: using AI “to personalize learning,” using “humanoid educators as at-home tools for students,” and advocating for “the role of technology and education as a driver for America’s economy.” Humanoids are non-human machines powered by AI.
She said each of the participants have “a vital role to play in shaping the TechEd opportunities for the next generation.” Her initiative’s “collaborative platform will serve as a capability multiplier for members … derived directly from our coalition’s foundational elements: AI, education, and global leadership.”
In response, Jared Cooney Horvath, PhD, MEd, told The Center Square, “This is what happens when people who don’t genuinely understand education try to ‘revolutionize’ education. Using AI can personalize learning in the sense that it can adapt to a child’s performance – but you know who else can adapt to a child’s performance? Teachers! And we can adapt to far more as well – we can differentiate between knowledge and a guess, we can read facial expressions, we can sense confusion and track unintentional errors.”
Human beings are also “biologically geared to learn from other human beings,” he said. “Our cognition and the larger learning process is more than just having access to information: it is physical, it is sensual, and it is social. This empathetic aspects of education can never be mimicked by anything lacking human biology.”…….”
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/educators-christian-leaders-push-back-humanoids-ai-teaching-children
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yeah I’m not wanting to be part of that crap either.
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Uh…..pretty precarious perch for a castle!!!
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Sweet!!! Love the paintjob!
Bet those stone floors are cold…..
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gorgeous hair.
yeah the castle looks iffy to me!!!
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HEY me too!!!
(the other day stuff) lol
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the dog picture did have me puzzled…LOLOL
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It’s amazing the positions they can get themselves into! It’s really comical!
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“On this day in 1964, Alaska was struck by the most powerful earthquake in the history of North America. Known as the Good Friday Earthquake, this devastating cataclysm began at 5:36 that evening, and though it lasted just four minutes and 38 seconds, this 9.3-magnitude megathrust quake did unfathomable damage. More than 500 years’ worth of pent-up geological stress exploded all at once along a 600-mile fault, pushing the ground as much as 60 feet laterally and raising some areas as much as 30 feet high. Entire sections of downtown Anchorage were so destroyed that they later needed to be razed, while outlying coastal areas were also plagued by the tsunamis, leaving some towns simply wiped off the map within an instant. In the end, roughly 140 people were killed and nearly a billion dollars’ worth of damage was done.”
“Human pinsetters working late at night at Subway Bowling Alleys on South Street in Brooklyn, NY, 1910. Before machines took over, young workers reset the pins by hand. The first mechanical pinsetter wasn’t invented until 1936 by a factory worker named Gottfried Schmidt.”
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Just The News: “U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday the war with Iran will last for about two to four more weeks, according to a report from Axios. His comments were reportedly made before G7 foreign ministers. He later told the press that the war would last for “weeks, not months.”
Rubio said that he does not think the U.S. will need “any ground troops” in Iran. “We are ahead of schedule on most of them [objectives], and we can achieve them without any ground troops, without any,” Rubio said.”
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I LOVE THE MULLINS ONE!!!!!!
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That’s one thing I learned about FL – it rains every fricking day!!!
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how does a STATE regulate what FEDERAL officers can wear?
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Your guess is as good as mine!
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I don’t think they can. sigh…more wasting of taxpayers’ monies.
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Temminck’s Lark. Alternative Name: Mustache Bird
Bad weather x2
Road Hazards
Boom! How does that happen?
Outta here!
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omg! that bird is adorable!
jotting down the name for a potential open in may–(April is all scheduled) if I can find enough info on it. THANKS!!
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YW – happy to assist!
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that clearly is one distinct bird!
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That it is! Nature is amazing!
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1950’s Traffic
Extraordinary Entrance
Cyborg
Ride ’em!
Showing off with one hand
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I love the door, but I’m not crazy about the lion heads, you?
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They’re a little big…..I’d prefer horse heads, myself! LOL
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LOL…but not for sleeping right…
whew…it’s been a while, but waking up with a horse’s head in your bed was a mafia sign, right?
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Correct
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Leaving the islands
Sawfish
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wow…great picture of the sawfish–puts it into perspective!
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IKR? Holy cow! It’s fucking humongous!!!
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nasty looking teeth too!
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TheLastRefuge
@TheLastRefuge2
Quit pretending.
In April 2024, 165 Democrats voted for a foreign aid package brought to the floor by Republican Speaker Mike Johnson. The measure included $26 billion more for Israel, $61 billion more for Ukraine and around $10 billion for Taiwan. 151 Republicans voted to support the aid bill.
There is almost $100 billion in total foreign aid and approximately $0 to secure the southern U.S. border.
This is a “Republican” bill, that passed with Democrats, not Republicans. The ideological UniParty is very real in Washington DC, and this vote was entirely against the wishes of most Americans.
https://politico.com/live-updates/2
024/04/19/congress/rule-passes-with-dems-00153303
It’s really not just Mike Johnson, the root of the issue is much deeper than just corrupt and detached Republican leadership. The issue extends to every aspect of life and politics in Washington DC. Every member is participating in a process to give money to other countries, regardless of whether the American voter wants that to happen or not.
There is a complete collapse of the governmental structure of the United States as it pertains to representative government. The concept of representative government is completely gone, not even considered any longer amid the professional political class from both wings of the UniParty vulture.
I have no idea how this structural collapse can be fixed. There doesn’t seem to be any entity willing to stop the nonsense as it relates to financial systems and U.S. foreign aid.
We are in an abusive relationship with our government. There really is no other way to look at it.
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Sadly, he is 100% correct!!!
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right?
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It’s tool time!
It’s all a charade
‘Merica….
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it IS sickening. and the “allies” when we asked for help with Iran–it’s not our war bullshit. well Ukraine AIN’T OURS EITHER ASSHOLES!
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yup…he’s right!
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that poor child will be traumatized for life after that! that miserable piece of shit should face the ultimate penalty. people like that look to smaller, younger, weaker victims preying on their innocence
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Just The News: “Reza Pahlavi, the exiled crown prince of Iran, called on the American people to take a moment and reflect on what a free Iran would look like.
“No more nuclear threats. No more terrorism. No more hostage taking. No more closing of the Strait of Hormuz. No more blackmailing fo the global community. Imagine an Iran that instead of exporting terrorism, is promoting freedom,” he said at the conference. “Stability to its neighbors. National security and economic opportunity for the United States and the free world,” he added.
“Can you imagine Iranians going from ‘Death to America’ to ‘God Bless America’?” he also said. “I can because I’ve seen the true soul of my people.” The crowd began chanting, “USA.”
He said he can imagine an Iran that “exports engineers, instead of extremists” and “startups instead of suicide bombers.” He said the Middle East will change when Iran is free.
“President Trump is making America great again. I intend to make Iran great again,” he said.”
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that would be amazing to see.
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just got done talking to Mom…I couldn’t get a signal driving around the mountains earlier.
She said she couldn’t wait for bingo tomorrow because it was “chocolate bingo” day…lol and she was feeling really lucky.
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Hope she wins! LOL
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democrats voting in a republican committee meeting–ousting REAL republicans in the process. dems will stop at nothing!! CHEAT is all they kow
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A chairman candidate for a local Republican committee outside Washington, D.C., is fighting to appeal an election after RINOs and Democrats staged a hostile takeover, installing their own leader and ousting actual conservatives from the group.
Former Warren County Republican Committee (WCRC) secretary Scott Lloyd lost the chairman race to local attorney David Silek during the group’s February 12 mass meeting that eyewitnesses said was riddled with disorganization, fraud, and blatant corruption from the start.
The faulty election featured contradicting ballot counts, many known Democrats and leftists ending up with ballots despite being turned away at first, and dozens of Republicans being blocked from entering the venue at the Front Royal Volunteer Fire Department, Breitbart News reported.
During the meeting, Warren County Board of Supervisors Chairwoman Cheryl Cullers — who was technically supposed to be on a four-year ban from the WCRC due to her PAC’s endorsement of Democrats — announced that the committee would shrink its membership from 251 to 102. Some of the conservatives who were kicked off the committee with no notice were interviewed in Breitbart News’s previous article.
Witnesses said Warren County Sheriff Crystal Cline, an ally of Silek, handled the application forms of those trying to re-up or start their committee membership. Cline reluctantly confirmed that she was involved in this process when confronted at a county meeting hosted by Cullers on Sunday, though she claimed she was not in charge of organizing or running the meeting:
As seen in the video, both the Republican Sheriff, Crystal Cline, and Republican Board of Supervisors Chairwoman Cheryl Cullers refused to answer whether or not Democrats should vote in Republican committee elections.
The RINOs’ goal “appears to be to take out all of the Catholics,” a source involved in local Republican politics theorized, alleging that County Supervisor Hugh Henry once made a comment in a meeting that we had a “Catholic problem that needed resolving.”
In an appeal filed to the Virginia’s Sixth District Republican Committee on Thursday, Lloyd and dozens of other Warren County Republicans who signed his petition argued that the election held at the committee’s mass meeting violated multiple provisions of the Republican Party of Virginia’s (RPV) party plan.
“This appeal is not about personalities or factions,” the document states. “It is about the integrity of the Committee’s processes. If the Republican Party is to demand election integrity from others, it must enforce it within its own ranks.”
While only 25 signatures are required, over 70 people who attended the mass meeting signed Lloyd’s appeal, and several provided sworn affidavits attesting to glaring issues during the voting process.
According to the witnesses, ballots were doled out without verifying the names of recipients, several people who did not want to sign the required Republican attestation forms were allowed to vote, with Sheriff Cline promoting the idea that people didn’t have to be Republican voters to cast a ballot in the WCRC chair, and others were turned away from the door by her husband, George Cline. He admitted to turning away at least nine people in a Facebook comment, claiming that the building was at capacity.
Other witnesses said they observed at least 20 people being turned away, noting that approximately half of those prevented from entering were parishioners at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Front Royal.
An important layer to this case has to do with blatant anti-Catholic biases held by members of Silek’s camp, shown by County Supervisor Henry’s alleged comments and Sheriff Cline’s social media posts.
Lloyd is a devout Catholic father-of-nine.
Much of the bigotry coming from the left was triggered by some of Front Royal’s Christian and Catholic conservatives voicing their concerns over the local Samuels Public Library offering children’s books pushing transgenderism.
A self-proclaimed “progressive Democrat” op-ed writer who argued in favor of the LGBTQ+ kids’ books in the local paper last May defended Democrats who voted in the WCRC election in a Saturday piece after Lloyd filed his appeal.
“For the record, I did not attend the meeting and would not have voted if I had, because I would not have felt comfortable signing an attestation in support of the Republican Party,” Cara Eldridge Young wrote for the Royal Examiner. “However, I do not judge the motives of those Democrats who chose to participate, and I believe I understand why some of them did.”
Other affidavits, including one from Lloyd, pointed out that outgoing Chairman Tom McFadden, Jr. left early and was not present to open the mass meeting, arguing that was a violation of RPV bylaws.
Committee members also stated that they were turned away at the door after 7:00 p.m. without any notice that it would be the cutoff time, affidavits stated. The mass meeting was advertised as being from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., with registration beginning at 6:00 p.m., and no mention of people not being able to register to vote if they arrived after 7:00 p.m, as also seen with a poster Sheriff Cline shared on social media.
The appeal places the range of people denied entry to vote at nine to more than forty individuals, greater than the 19-point margin between Silek’s 225 votes to Lloyd’s 206.
The document also notes discrepancies between the number of eligible voters reported by the credentials committee, versus the number of eligible voters reported from the floor, versus the number of ballots actually cast.
In a new exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Lloyd said there were definitely Democrats that cast ballots to vote for Silek.
“Which, as a conservative, is unacceptable to me,” he said. “And I think it’s unacceptable to most people who call themselves Republicans, because otherwise, what is the point of having a party if just anybody is going to determine its direction?”
After Lloyd refused to concede the election to Silek, he started to build his case.
“This was not only a flawed process, this was a fatally flawed process where things that are a matter of black and white and in the rules didn’t happen.”
John Massoud, the chairman of the Sixth Congressional District Republican Committee, told Breitbart News that Lloyd’s appeal will be heard — but sources say it will not necessarily be an easy path.
While Lloyd’s camp wants the appeal to be heard by the executives of the district committee — the chairman, vice chairman, treasurer, secretary, and the northern, central, and southern regional chairs — insiders told Breitbart News that Massoud has directed the entire 33-member group to hear it next week after consulting with RPV attorney Chris Marston.
The district committee is to go over Lloyd’s appeal on Tuesday, March 31 at 7:00 p.m. in the town of Fisherville in Augusta County. Fisherville is about an hour and a half away from Warren County, and the meeting’s timing in the middle of the Holy Week right before Easter might make it difficult for enough members to show up, a source noted.
To reach quorum on Lloyd’s appeal hearing, at least one third of the Sixth Congressional District Republican Committee will have to be present, as opposed to just the executive committee. If a quorum is not reached, the case may have to be heard by the larger State Central Committee instead.
“We’re trying to figure out what’s best for the people of Warren County and what is best for the state as a whole,” Massoud told Breitbart News in a March 15 phone call. “This is a very serious issue, and we go from there.”
When asked about the WCRC mass meeting, Massoud acknowledged that it was a “hectic event” and confirmed that he was aware that “at least three” Democrats were present.
Lloyd’s appeal also faces foes on the Sixth District committee, including Silek himself, who holds a spot due to his newfound chairman power over the WCRC.
Stephen Kurtz, a former chairman of the WCRC and current vice chair under Silek, also sits on that committee. While he was acting as the head of the WCRC Credentials Committee on the night of the February 12 mass meeting, multiple witnesses said Kurtz threw away ballot records in the trash after counting was complete.
McFadden, the former WCRC chairman who left the meeting early, told Breitbart News that he only did so after getting permission from an RPV attorney at around 6:30 p.m. because he “wanted nothing to do with the fiasco that was about to take place.”
He told Silek before he left that he thought he was going to win the vote based on the crowd that showed up early — before the doors were scheduled to open for voters to come in. When he arrived at the venue at 5:30, McFadden said there were about 200 people already there who were “definitely” Silek voters.
“They were all ‘his’ people,” McFadden added, noting that “the Catholics” — mostly supporters of Lloyd — showed up after 6:00 p.m., when the doors were advertised as open.
Steve Heise, who sat on the WCRC Vetting Committee, recounted how he was turned away at the door of the fire department when he went to vote.
“Everybody was told that the meeting was starting at seven,” Heise told Breitbart News.
When he arrived sometime after 7:00 p.m., he was stopped at the door by George Cline, husband of Sheriff Crystal Cline.
“[George Cline] says that it’s all full, that the fire marshal has said that only 400 people can go in, and there’s 400 people in there. And so they closed the doors. Nobody can go in,” he recalled.
Heise said he asked Cline if he could go in and vote after some people cast their ballots and left, but he was told no.
“You’re not gonna be able to go in. They closed the meeting,” Cline said, according to Heise. “No one who is not upstairs now will be able to vote.”
Heise then left, and texted Kurtz notifying him that he was turned away at the door.
A screenshot provided by Heise shows that Kurtz, the head of the Credentials Committee for the mass meeting vote, read the message when it was delivered at 7:42 p.m., but Kurtz has never replied over a month later.
When asked about his previous interactions with the Clines, Heise said he thought he and George were “really good friends” and that Crystal “seemed pretty nice” when he had previously spoken to her about her political positions and beliefs.
As reported in Breitbart News’s previous coverage of the mass meeting, a woman accused the sheriff of pushing her when she was in the venue’s hallway, just as she was entering the door to the room to vote.
“The line was moving, and then all of a sudden we were stopped by the assistant chief of the fire and rescue and the Sheriff… the fire chief was in uniform, he had his blues on, and the sheriff was in civilian clothing,” the woman said. “Well, they stopped everybody in the hallway from entering into the room to register and vote and participate in the meeting. And when I asked the fire chief why they were not letting us in, he said because there was a capacity issue.”
She said she was eventually given verbal permission to enter the room by the assistant fire chief.
“I walked in between both of them, and then all of a sudden, I was forcibly pushed by the sheriff,” she said. “I wasn’t forewarned. You know, you would think that she would have said, ‘Please wait,’ or ‘Don’t go in,’ right?”
A complaint was later filed to the Virginia State Police.
After Breitbart News’s first article on the WCRC was published, George Cline tagged his wife’s alleged victim in a Facebook comment, calling her a liar and gloating over the RINO’s success in shrinking the size of the committee to 102 people.
Before the voting began at the mass meeting, Silek delivered a speech that went well over his allotted five minutes, while a crowd of people was standing out in the cold weather waiting to be let in to vote after the first group.
“The people outside wanted to get in. The people outside were cold,” Joyce Blankenship, an attendee of the mass meeting, told Breitbart News. “The people out there wanted to come in and vote while he was going on about himself. It was all about him, you know. And it’s pride — you know where pride comes from, right?”
She continued on to say that Silek “didn’t care about the people.”
“He cared about himself. He cared about his own power… you have to care about people if you’re going to represent them.”
Another meeting attendee told Breitbart News that Silek emulated a certain failed 2016 presidential candidate when he told the audience to “clap” at two different pauses during speech, dubbing him “Dollar Store Jeb Bush.”
At another point in his speech during the February 12 mass meeting, Silek boasted that his family’s roots in Front Royal “go back to the founding of the town” — an interesting thing to brag about considering his previous effort to disband the town, documented in 2010 by the Washington Post.
A new whistleblower involved with local politics who chose to speak with Breitbart News following the publication of the first article said the RINOs used the “Trojan horse” strategy to take over the WCRC.
“It’s the Republican establishment that’s riding a Trojan horse,” he said, explaining that they mobilized local Democrats to come to the mass meeting to help with their coup.
The whistleblower provided a meme that has been circulating amongst local Republicans who feel disenfranchised by the new WCRC, depicting RINOs taking over.
If the Sixth Congressional District Republican Committee reaches quorum next Tuesday, it will be up to them to listen to the petition signees’ request to toss the February mass meeting’s results and hold a new one.
“Each of these violations independently undermines the February 12 vote for Chairman,” the appeal packet states after listing the documented issues with the election. “Taken together, they establish that the meeting was conducted in material disregard of mandatory bylaws governing participation, presiding authority, voter qualification, and ballot control.”
The appeal continued; “Because the procedural safeguards designed to protect election integrity were not followed, the rights of qualified Republican voters were violated. The resulting vote is unreliable and invalid. Accordingly, the February 12, 2026 Mass Meeting vote for Chairman must be set aside.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/03/27/watch-rino-sheriff-refuses-to-condemn-democrats-voting-in-gop-committee-election-conservatives-fight-back/
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I used slide rules in high school AND college!
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I never used one that I can recall.
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(whispering) I still have mine. how much of a geek am I? lol
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SPIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I knew where the super calloused one was going but it got me anyway!
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IKR? Me too!!!
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THAT would be me and friends going to a museum…lol
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Big Machine
Bridging the Gap
Messed up the landing and paid the price
Birds of a feather
Oops
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holy cow! what does that machine do? do you know?
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Earth moving perhaps? Hydraulic shovel?
“Liebherr consists of over 130 companies organized into 11 divisions: earthmoving, mining, mobile cranes, tower cranes, concrete technology, maritime cranes, aerospace and transportation systems, machine tools and automation systems, domestic appliances, and components. It has a worldwide workforce over 53,000, with fourteen billion euros in revenue for 2023”
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whoa…
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Nobody happier to see you
2025 Ferrari 12Cilindri – a modern Daytona?
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hubby loves this one!
he said thanks!
I’ll show him the rest after supper. He was cleaning the MUD out of the garage. He brought it i on the tires and the running boards of the truck with all the weird weather and the dirt road. Then it falls off the truck and lands in clumps on the garage floor. And my husband is way too clean to allow that to stay like that!
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And that will turn almost to cement if you let it dry that way! Smart move!!! Get it cleaned up early before it sets up.
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he keeps everything clean and functioning!
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