What Shall We Make Today?

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Today’s offering is another coconut cookie—but it’s no-bake and oh so pretty!  Raspberry Coconut Balls!

Ingredients

1 package (12 ounces) vanilla wafers, crushed

3-1/3 cups sweetened shredded coconut, divided

1 can (14 ounces) sweetened condensed milk

3 teaspoons raspberry extract

1 teaspoon rum extract

1/4 cup pink sanding sugar

Directions

Mix wafer crumbs and 1-1/3 cups coconut. Stir in milk and extracts. In a shallow bowl, combine sugar and remaining 2 cups coconut. Shape dough into 1-in. balls; roll in coconut mixture. Refrigerate in airtight containers.

ENJOY!

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  1. Good Morning All!

    temps about 58* but it poured AGAIN last evening and overnight with lots of wind and lightning. We lost power twice. Hubby and I have been talking about a whole house generator for the last few years and it’s only getting worse. They’re expensive but being without power can be expensive too. (we just bought a freezer full of farm beef) Still overcast this morning.

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    1. Good Morning.

      53* and still raining. The River where Paul used to live is in it’s flood stage. Paul lifted the house 4 feet a couple years ago. House should be okay. 🤞

      Sorry to hear about your power outage. Advice is to put a small container of water in your freezer. When frozen, put a penny on top of ice. Then during power failure you can check the penny level to see how much the freezer’s thawed. (I hope that makes sense, since I’m not really a Chatty Cathy in the morning! lol)

      God bless 🙏 Have a great day!

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      1. Good Morning Gina!

        we live in the woods and have always had a small generator–but it can only run 2 things at a time and NOT the well pump. so we have bottles of water stored all over so we can flush the toilets when the power is off.

        a whole house generator makes sense for us because of the wooded area we live in and the fact that the power company is lax with keeping the woods around their lines controlled.

        that makes prefect sense about the freezer! thanks!

        May God Bless you as well!!

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    2. Morning, Pat! IMO, a whole-house generator would be worth it for you, given your location. When you add up all the other little things you are spending $$$ on, it would ameliorate at least some of the expense.

      Bright, sunny day, temp @ 45, for my run to WM later. Wheezer came and ate some dry food last night but not much.

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      1. Morning Filly!

        wow we’re warmer than you for once! Drive safely!

        we’ve been discussing it for a while–the problem was always the stream. Propane and other trucks will not cross the stream–they wanted a bridge. no way that was happening, so we kept using our small gas powered one. SIL (the farmer) was telling hubby about some new ones and options and we’d need to get an electrician to build the cord and put in the outlet. SO he’s been talking to the company that put in the electric in the house–they did an amazing job–the breaker box is beautiful…lol so that’s where we’re at. Not gonna be cheap though–starting at $5,000.

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  4. Jake

    April 16, 2026 6:10 am

    Reply to  ed

    Mamdani’s plan to spend a whopping $30M to open NYC-owned supermarket stuns grocery executives: ‘I almost fell back’ 

    https://nypost.com/2026/04/13/business/mamdanis-30m-plan-to-open-nyc-owned-supermarket-stuns-grocery-executives/

    Kaner and Pena both said that a typical, 15,000-square-foot store without elevators or escalators costs under $10 million to build. 

    But it was the location of the store that raised even greater concerns with some executives. The city-owned store will be built on an empty lot next to La Marqueta, a decades-old, city-owned marketplace located under the Metro North railroad tracks at the corner of East 115th Street and Park Avenue.

    The problem: The new location is far from qualifying as a so-called “food desert” — a struggling neighborhood where supermarket closures have made groceries hard to come by.

    So where is the other $20 million going? Into Mamdani supporting politicians and friends pockets?

    Aldi U.S. CEO Atty McGrath (Aldi US) said a new Aldi store costs roughly $4–5 million to build. 

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  9. Charlotte99

    April 16, 2026 6:52 am

    Pete Hegseth fires highest-ranking US Army officer in the middle of Iran war

    Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ousted the highest-ranking US Army officer amid the Iran war. 

    General Randy George, a Biden appointee, was told to step down and take immediate retirement, CBS News reported. 
    A Pentagon official said: ‘We are grateful for his service, but it was time for a leadership change in the Army.’ 
    George is understood to have clashed with the administration’s vision for the Army.

    https://archive.is/Nr9JA#selection-972.0-1227.84

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            2. “Elon Musk: Soros has seized power in Hungary: The entrepreneur comments on a post by George Soros’ son, Alexander, about the Hungarian elections”

              Apr 13, 2026 06:02538

              “The organization of the merchant and financier George Soros has seized power in Hungary,” wrote the entrepreneur Elon Musk on X, commenting on a post by George Soros’ son, Alexander, about the Hungarian elections.

              Earlier, Soros Jr. stated on his page on X that the people of Hungary “have taken back their country“ after the victory of the opposition party “Tisa“ in the parliamentary elections. “A firm rejection of entrenched corruption and foreign interference,” he commented.

              “The Soros organization has seized power in Hungary,” Musk replied to Soros.

              The entrepreneur did not specify which organization he was referring to.

              95-year-old George Soros is an American financier and businessman of Hungarian origin. He founded the “Open Society” foundation, whose activities are aimed at developing democracy worldwide.

              After the elections, the “Tisa” party won a constitutional majority in the Hungarian parliament. After counting 97.74% of the votes, “Tisa” received 138 seats, “Fidesz” Prime Minister Viktor Orban received 55, and “Our Country“ received 6.”

              https://fakti.bg/en/world/1047857-elon-musk-soros-has-seized-power-in-hungary

              https://aguayonews.com/obama-teams-up-with-soros-to-praise-new-leader-in-hungary/

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  12. EXCERPT: “U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, the chief federal prosecutor in the nation’s capital, says she is seeking to interview any female victims who alleged to have been assaulted by Rep. Eric Swalwell in Washington D.C. and may seek to obtain any secret agreements Congress paid to keep accusers quiet.

    “You’re darn right,” Pirro told the John Solomon Reports podcast on Wednesday when asked if she was willing to pierce those settlements to reexamine material evidence.

    (Audio)

    Congressional offices have historically used settlements (sometimes funded by taxpayers via the now-reformed process) to resolve staff complaints of discrimination, harassment, or misconduct while keeping details private. These often include non-disclosure agreements (NDA) to protect both parties.

    An article from Real Clear Policy introduced into the congressional record in 2024 estimated the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights has paid out $18.2 million to settle 291 cases of miscondict or discrimination between 1997 and 2021.

    Earlier this year, an bill by Rep, Nancy Mace, R-S.C., to publicly disclose the settlements was overwhelmingly tabled in a bipartisan vote, essentially killing an effort at providing transparency…..”

    https://justthenews.com/government/congress/dcs-chief-prosecutor-pierce-settlement-agreement-investigate-swalwell-claims

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          1. This is why the good ones serve one term and leave – it’s impossible to fight, even from the inside, unless you’ve got “juice.”

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  13. Just The News: “The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite both closed Wednesday with record highs despite an ongoing conflict in the Middle East that caused concern in the stock market at the start of the conflict. 

    The S&P 500 closed with a gain of 0.80%, ending at 7,022.95, and the Nasdaq Composite gained 1.59% to close with 24,016.02. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 72.27 points, or 0.15%, to close at 48,463.72, according to CNBC.

    The S&P 500 has now gained 3% this week and the Nasdaq has increased nearly 5% so far. The numbers mean the S&P 500 has fully recovered from the losses it suffered as a result of the Iran conflict. 

    The record highs come as the United States and Iran engage in peace negotiations this week. The progress toward ending the regional conflict has also caused oil prices to drop. 

    The U.S. benchmark price of oil surged to $112 per barrel last week prior to Trump announcing a two-week ceasefire with Iran. Once announced, the West Texas Intermediate price fell below $100. It continued to fall Wednesday, settling around $91 per barrel.” 

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  14. Just The News: “Liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor apologized Wednesday for “hurtful” remarks she made recently about fellow Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s upbringing.

    “At a recent appearance at the University of Kansas School of Law, I referred to a disagreement with one of my colleagues in a prior case, but I made remarks that were inappropriate,” Sotomayor said in a statement released by the court. “I regret my hurtful comments. I have apologized to my colleague.”

    Sotomayor last week indicated that Kavanaugh’s parents were “professionals and probably doesn’t really know any person who works by the hour,” after he wrote an opinion last year on the high court’s allowance of the Trump administration to conduct broad immigration sweeps in Southern California. 

    Kavanaugh, who was in the majority but wrote a concurring opinion, downplayed the belief that people were having their constitutional rights violated in the raids by targeting areas where illegal migrants are known to gather.

    “To be clear, apparent ethnicity alone cannot furnish reasonable suspicion; under this court’s case law regarding immigration stops, however, it can be a ‘relevant factor’ when considered along with other salient factors,” Kavanaugh wrote. “Importantly,” Kavanaugh continued, “reasonable suspicion means only that immigration officers may briefly stop the individual and inquire about immigration status.”

    Sotomayor’s comment was surprising because the justices have long claimed they get along despite differing opinions.

    “I joined the court that dealt with differences as friends, as we respected each other. … That’s civility,” Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, a conservative, said Wednesday. “I don’t know how you bring it back in the current environment with social media and name calling and all and people accusing each other of various things and animus.”

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  15. Just The News: “Vice President JD Vance’s anti-fraud task force has shut down nearly 500 hospices and home health agencies in Los Angeles alone, Fox News reported.

    The figure includes 447 hospices and 23 home health agencies. Collectively, the facilities accounted for roughly $600 million in public funds fraud.

    President Donald Trump officially named Vance his “fraud czar” earlier this month, following a series of raids in LA that saw federal authorities target many hospices in the area.

    “Where there is fraud, the task force will find it,” a Vance spokesperson told the outlet. “We will not stop until every hard-earned taxpayer dollar goes toward the honest Americans who deserve them.”

    That string of operations followed Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Director Dr. Mehmet Oz in January posting videos highlighting the fraudulent hospice problem, linking the issue to the Armenian mafia in the area.”

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  16. I expect everyone will remember this – he deserves the settlement!!!

    “Pro-Life Advocate Wins First Amendment Victory After Being Arrested By Biden Administration—The victory ‘marks a significant rebuke of the DOJ’s conduct under the Biden administration.”

    The Federalist, By: Ashley Bateman, April 16, 2026

    Mark Houck, pro-life activist

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “The Department of Justice awarded more than $1 million to a pro-life advocate wrongfully arrested in his home, his defense announced last week, marking a legal win for free speech and a de facto acknowledgment of federal lawfare deployed against pro-life Christians under the Biden admin. The announcement came just days before Tuesday’s release of a detailed report that further exposes the Biden DOJ’s egregious abuse of the FACE Act.

    A ‘Reasonable’ Arrest

    In 2022, Catholic pro-life father Mark Houck was arrested at his home in Kintnersville, Pennsylvania. Houck had been charged with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act after pushing away a Planned Parenthood volunteer who was harassing his 12-year-old son. Although local police and the district attorney rejected the volunteer’s attempt to bring Houck to court, and a municipal court dismissed a lawsuit against him, the Department of Justice picked up the case, threatening Houck with a maximum 11-year prison sentence. Houck agreed to turn himself in peacefully, but federal agents ignored his compliance, staging an aggressive arrest in front of his wife and seven children. In custody, Houck was chained to a table for six hours.

    In January 2023 a jury in Philadelphia acquitted Houck in about an hour. A regular participant in 40 Days for Life campaigns, Houck partnered with the organization’s in-house legal team, Institute of Law and Justice, to file a lawsuit against the Department of Justice for $4.3 million.

    Last year, in the middle of negotiations, U.S. District Judge Paul Diamond dismissed the case, citing probable cause and reasonable use of force by federal agents in Houck’s arrest. Houck’s legal team appealed the dismissal and waited for months for reparations. Those reparations were finally actualized in 2026 and announced this week.

    The payout “marks a significant rebuke of the DOJ’s conduct under the Biden administration,” according to 40 Days for Life, and highlights significant “concerns about the weaponization of federal law enforcement against pro-life Americans.”

    New Administration, Same Deep State

    When President Donald Trump took office for the second time in 2025, he initiated a public effort to redeem pro-lifers who were targeted under the Biden administration. Trump issued a pardon of 23 Americans arrested for purportedly violating the FACE Act, and DOJ leadership published a memo limiting prosecutions under the act to “extraordinary circumstances,” or to cases of serious bodily harm, serious property damage, or death. 

    Members of Houck’s legal team found themselves suing the DOJ under an accessible administration. His attorneys reached out to DOJ officials and received a reply within 30 seconds, affirming interest in the case, said Shawn Carney, 40 Days president and CEO. Soon after, the DOJ requested a stay of proceedings to halt the lawsuit and begin negotiations. Houck’s attorneys agreed, expecting to quickly reach a settlement.

    Then Diamond, in the middle of the stay, threw it out. None of the federal attorneys involved had ever heard of a judge throwing out a case during the middle of negotiations, Carney said.

    “You live in fear of it happening again, not only to yourselves but to others, and you want to know that this administration, which rode this message to the White House, is willing to step in,” Houck said in an interview on Fox News Digital.

    But the deep state is deep, Carney said, and the DOJ can’t be reformed if activist judges back up their horrific acts. In a statement following the suit’s conclusion, Carney called the awarding of damages to the Houck family a signal that “pro-life Americans can go out and pray without fear of their government.”

    An Ongoing Fight Between Branches

    That freedom has been increasingly tenuous in recent years, as politics and a lack of judicial clarity on foundational constitutional rights have resulted in some federal cases accruing appeals, punted between federal agencies and judges appointed by political adversaries. Battles over immigration enforcement, vaccine policy, medical manipulation of gender dysphoric youth, and restricted free speech zones outside of abortion clinics have tested the ethical standards of the legal system.

    The compromised settlement — which is more than $3 million less than the suit requested and includes a stipulation that it does not imply “admission of liability” — still stands as a powerful beacon to Christian Americans suffering political persecution, with the announcement timed just days before the Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission’s final hearing. 

    But the details of the case carry a stark warning — freedom of speech is increasingly dependent on the political tide and the preferences of appointed officials.”

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  17. Whoa!!!

    Just The News: “Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax fatally shot his wife, then himself inside of their home, authorities said Thursday morning. The shootings were related to a domestic dispute related “what seems to be a complicated or messy divorce,” said Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis, according to CNN. 

    The incident reportedly occurred in the family’s Annandale, Virginia, home shortly after midnight.

    Fairfax was lieutenant governor under Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam from 2018 to 2022. He also ran for governor of Virginia in 2021. Fairfax faced calls for resignation following sexual assault allegations against him in 2019, CNN also reports.”

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  19. “I don’t know how dry it is up by you, but down here in Florida we’re suffering through one of the worst droughts in more than three decades. They say we’d need to get 20+ inches of rain in this month just to get back to what they consider normal conditions. Therer are a lot of lakes around here – we are in Lake County, after all – and the majority of them are down as much as eight feet. Starting to suffer wildfires also, so wherever those April showers that bring May flowers are, they sure as fuck ain’t here.”

    Chapel in Newark, NJ

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  21. “Iran’s terrorist Islamic regime is preparing to carry out the execution of a female protester, marking the first known case of a woman facing this outcome in connection with the recent wave of demonstrations. She is among roughly 1,600 individuals said to have received death sentences over the past year.

    Bita Hemmati has been identified as the first woman scheduled for execution tied to the protests that erupted nationwide in January and were forcefully suppressed by state forces.

    According to a statement released Tuesday by the opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), authorities have accused her of multiple offenses, including the use of explosives and weapons, throwing objects such as concrete blocks, taking part in protest gatherings, and actions deemed to threaten national security.”

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  24. Delphi then and now

    More Coffee

    Royal Danish Air Force Saab RF-35 Draken flies over the Danmark ship to commemorate the 40th anniversary of fighter squadron Eskadrille 725 in 1991.

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  27. this mass amnesty monstrosity puts illegal aliens ahead of Americans
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    article
    Another amnesty push is happening on Capitol Hill, yet the sponsors of the DIGNIDAD (Dignity) Act of 2025 are attempting to market it as not an amnesty bill.

    “America last” Republicans like Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla, the original co-sponsor of the bill and daughter of Cuban immigrants, refuse to recognize what the American people mandated the Trump administration to do—carry out mass deportations.

    For starters, the acronym of the bill name is in Spanish, which is not the official language of the U.S.. Naming an amnesty bill in a foreign language is a slap in the face to Americans, and a Member of Congress legislating on behalf of the illegal immigrant population is disloyal to America.

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    The DIGNIDAD Act has been drafted to give legal status to at least 13 million illegal immigrants who have been in the U.S. for many years because removing them or encouraging them to self-deport is supposedly unkind and a threat to their dignity as a human person. However, the dignity of the American citizen was never accounted for as this bill was drafted (or, frankly, any time amnesty is considered).

    Failing to mass deport is already tacit amnesty, but codifying amnesty in legislation is a direct contradiction of immigration law and only encourages the next wave of illegal immigration.

    There are multiple types of amnesty in the DIGNIDAD Act. First, “DREAMer” amnesty would be granted to the estimated 2.5 million illegal aliens who entered the U.S. as minors. Under this amnesty, the person would be given 10 years of conditional status, then full permanent residence would be available to them, the precursor to U.S. citizenship.

    Second, the act establishes the Dignity Program, which would give around 11 million illegal aliens who have been in the U.S. since before Dec. 31, 2020—prior to Biden’s border crisis—amnesty. Illegal aliens benefiting from this receive renewable legal status, work authorization, and the ability to travel in and out of the U.S. as they please. The only condition is that they check in every two years.

    Third, amnesty is given to illegal alien spouses and children of U.S. citizens.

    In addition to amnesty, the bill inhibits use of information provided in DIGNIDAD benefit applications from being used for immigration enforcement. This would repeat a terrible policy from the 1986 amnesty law that only fostered fraud.

    The bill would prevent immigration enforcement actions from occurring in or near an overbroad list of “protected areas,” including places where children gather, where ceremonies like weddings occur, medical health facilities, and courthouses, among others.

    The DIGNIDAD Act wouldn’t just gut immigration enforcement; it would also increase and expand legal immigration benefits. The bill would double employment-based visas and codify the foreign student-to-employee pipeline by allowing all “temporary” foreign students to remain permanently in the U.S.. It would codify the Optional Practical Training program, which incentivizes employers to hire foreign graduates instead of American graduates, and allow STEM Ph.D. and medical students to self-petition for both temporary and permanent visas.

    America’s immigration system is for Americans, but the DIGNIDAD Act is for the rest of the world.

    The current push for this bill is to put conservatives on defense, opposing amnesty, instead of being on offense, advocating for mass deportations and other, better legislation that would actually enforce our immigration laws and prevent noncitizens from voting in our federal elections.

    The DIGNIDAD Act defies the will of the American people. That is undignified.

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  28. Patience

    April 16, 2026 12:28 pm

    Donald J. Trump
    @realDonaldTrump
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    12h

    Trying to get a little breathing room between Israel and Lebanon.

    It has been a long time since the two leaders have spoken, like 34 years.
    It will happen tomorrow. Nice! President DJT

    ——-

    Donald J. Trump
    @realDonaldTrump

    I just had excellent conversations with the Highly Respected President Joseph Aoun, of Lebanon, and Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, of Israel.

    These two Leaders have agreed that in order to achieve PEACE between their Countries, they will formally begin a 10 Day CEASEFIRE at 5 P.M. EST. On Tuesday, the two Countries met for the first time in 34 years here in Washington, D.C., with our Great Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.

    I have directed Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Rubio, together with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dan Razin’ Caine, to work with Israel and Lebanon to achieve a Lasting PEACE.

    It has been my Honor to solve 9 Wars across the World,
    and this will be my 10th, so let’s, GET IT DONE!

    President DONALD J. TRUMP

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  29. I ordered a case of jelly last week and I’m guessing it should be in w/in a day or two – I can get most of what I need at the local stores so I decided not to make a run to Norfolk. Instead, I finally got the front Tiger Lily and Hosta beds cleared out. That kicked my ass! It’s hot out there in the sun (temp in back at 83) and I’m wearing a black t-shirt!

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  30. What a freak! He was zonked on drugs, FFS!!!

    https://notthebee.com/article/report-fema-official-has-been-directed-to-stop-posting-about-teleporting-to-waffle-house-

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  31. “Neuroscience, Vaccines, and Autism: What Science Actually Says and Doesn’t Say — An honest look at vaccine biology, autism research, and a hypothesis that may offer real hope for families of nonspeaking children.”

    Dr. Robert W. Malone, Apr 16, 2026

    Comments prepared in support of my upcoming presentation at the Autism Health Conference 2026

    You can register to attend here.

    EXCERPT: “If you are raising a severely autistic child, especially a nonspeaking one, you have probably spent years navigating a medical and scientific establishment that often felt dismissive of your observations, your instincts, and your questions. You have watched your child struggle. And many of you watched something change around the time of a vaccination appointment. Your child was developing. Then, in the days or weeks that followed a vaccine visit, something shifted. Language that was emerging went quiet. Eye contact that was growing became rare. A child who had been turning toward the world seemed to turn away from it.

    You reported this to your pediatrician and were told it was a coincidence. You found other parents who described the same sequence of events and were told you were part of a community built on fear. You were handed studies and told the question was settled. But the question did not feel settled, because you were there. You saw what you saw.

    This piece takes that observation seriously. Not because parental observation is infallible, and not because the science supports every conclusion drawn from it, but because a pattern reported independently by thousands of families across decades and across countries is not nothing. It is a signal that deserves honest engagement rather than dismissal. The goal here is to examine what science actually knows, what it does not know, and where the honest uncertainties lie.

    * * *

    The Microstroke Hypothesis: Where It Comes From

    The microstroke hypothesis proposes that vaccine-induced inflammation could, in some infants, cause tiny subclinical injuries to blood vessels in the brain. These would be too small to show up on standard imaging but potentially significant enough to affect neurodevelopment. It is not a mainstream scientific position. No major medical body endorses it, and there is no direct imaging evidence that it occurs.

    But the hypothesis is not invented from nothing. It draws on real biology…..”

    https://www.malone.news/p/neuroscience-vaccines-and-autism

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  33. 8:00 AM. The SS Grandcamp sat at dock, loading fertilizer. Routine work. At 09:12, conditions inside the hold reached the proper combination of heat and pressure for ammonium nitrate to explode. The detonation of the Grandcamp was devastating. Seismologists in Denver become concerned that an atomic bomb had detonated somewhere on the gulf coast. 

    Hundreds of people, including 27 of Texas City’s 28 volunteer firefighters and all of the crew of the Grandcamp, were killed almost instantly by the blast.  The ship itself was all but obliterated as tons of steel fragments rained down on the city. Also raining down on the city were flaming bales of twine that had been stored on the Grandcamp’s deck, now converted into flaming projectiles that started even more fires around the city.

    The area around the Texas City docks was packed with refineries, chemical plants, warehouses, and storage tanks filled to the brim with flammable chemicals and petroleum products. For days after the initial explosion, additional explosions, fires, and chemical leaks would ravage the waterfront. These fires would seriously hamper rescue efforts along the docks.  

    So many chemicals leached into the water of the bay that it could not safely be used to fight fires, leading to serious water shortages. Many of the victims who survived the initial blast had to be bathed in kerosene to free them of various chemical coatings.”

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  38. EXCERPT: “Dr. Sheila Nazarian said Wednesday on “America’s Newsroom” that actress Elizabeth Banks and other public figures are ignoring what she described as ongoing human rights abuses against women in Iran, including executions tied to recent protests.

    “This Elizabeth Banks sitting comfy in a little cushy couch on a podcast with her hair slicked back talking about how could anyone vote for Donald Trump,” Nazarian said. “You claim to be a feminist. You claim to be a humanitarian. Where are you when the women need you? You’re a fake. You’re a hypocrite.”

    Nazarian’s remarks came after Banks said she does not “understand” the 53% of White women who voted for President Donald Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris.

    “I don’t understand the 53% of White ladies that didn’t vote for Kamala. What were you thinking?” Banks said in a “Bustle” podcast episode.

    Nazarian, a California-based plastic surgeon who fled Iran as a child, made the remarks during an interview with host Bill Hemmer, who cited reports from human rights groups that Iranian courts had sentenced four more people to death following January protests, including a woman.

    The segment focused on both the treatment of women under Iran’s regime and broader reactions in the West. Nazarian framed the issue as a humanitarian crisis, criticizing what she characterized as selective outrage from prominent voices.

    “This woman, Beta, is about to be gang-raped and publicly executed, and so are three more women,” Nazarian said. “They have been doing this to many young people every single day, one or two public executions.”

    Nazarian described practices she attributed to the Iranian regime regarding female prisoners facing execution.

    “In Iran, this regime, these Islamists, they believe that if a woman is killed and she’s a virgin, she goes to heaven,” she said. “So what they do is they will gang-rape her before they execute her.”…..

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/iranian-american-doctor-sends-fiery-message-hollywood-actress-iran-prepares-execute-female-protester

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  40. “Hot potato with a shocking twist (no really… it shocks you). Toss the spud around with two or more players, and whoever’s holding it when the music stops gets zapped. It has three modes — including a music-only option for the less adventurous — and is a hilarious game you’ll be addicted to.”

    Yes, it’s a phone!

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  46. Ah! My Clematis out in front already has buds on it and it’s greening up nicely. My next job is to clear out the Lily of the Valley flower beds.

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  47. more…

    Hans Mahncke
    @HansMahncke
    Buried in Michael Atkinson’s explanation for why he rewrote the “whistleblower” rules to allow multiple layers of hearsay is a troubling claim, namely that the requirement for firsthand knowledge was unlawful.

    But saying “The statute required me to change the form from no hearsay to hearsay allowed” simply does not square with the text of 50 U.S. Code § 3033, which is silent on the issue and leaves it to the Inspector General to determine how to assess credibility.

    The previous rule excluding hearsay was entirely consistent with the statute’s requirement of “credibility”, in the sense that, as in a courtroom, it could reasonably be operationalized as requiring firsthand knowledge or at least supporting documentation, neither of which Ciaramella had. He did not even have specific knowledge of times or locations, only vague generalities.

    At most, Atkinson could argue he changed the policy as a matter of preference. But he cannot plausibly claim that the law required it. That is just a fake excuse on his part to deflect from the fact that he made this change just as Ciaramella walked in the door, and then covered his tracks both by failing to disclose the change and by backdating it, all of which points to him being part of the impeachment plot from day one.

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