Happy Birthday John

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Today is John Goodman’s birthday (born in 1952) and I really liked him in Roseann. I found this article on FAME10.COM.

From FAME10:

Everything John Goodman does, he does well. The endearing actor has gained a very loyal and passionate fanbase over his notable career for many reasons, but most of all because he is one of those actors that it is just very hard not to like. From Dan Conner on Roseanne to his recent role in Kong: Skull Island, there is nothing that John Goodman can’t do, and no matter what role he takes on, fans love it, and despite his many years as one of Hollywood’s finest actors, he has remained rather elusive to fans. So, here are 10 things you didn’t know about John Goodman.

Off To War?

In the early ’70s, after turning 18, like so many young Americans, Goodman was drafted into the army for the Vietnam War, but somehow Goodman got out of it. “I want to take my physical. But they measured me two inches shorter than I am. They measured me at six foot instead of six foot two. I was eleven pounds overweight for that height. They told me to lose weight and come back, but by the time I was scheduled to come back, the draft was abolished,” he explained in a 2008 interview.

Charity Work

While John Goodman might be a Hollywood star, his heart lies in New Orleans where he has resided for years with his family and where he has stepped up to be one of the most charitable citizens. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina the actor stepped in to help wherever he could and used his fame to appear in many recovery commercials in Louisiana. He also used his fame, alongside many fellow celebrities with ties to the area to bring awareness to the tragic Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Early Life

John Stephen Goodman was born on June 20, 1952 in Affton, Missouri, to Leslie Francis and Virginia Roos Goodman. When John was only two years old, his father who was a postal worker, passed away from a heart attack. Growing up with his siblings Elisabeth and Leslie, John’s mother worked as a waitress, a retail associate, and washed laundry in order to support the family. While in high school, Goodman focused on football and, after graduation he earned a scholarship to Missouri State University, but it was while there he discovered the drama program.

Being A Celebrity

Thanks to many of his on-screen personalities, John Goodman is known as a jovial and always laughing kind of guy, but that isn’t always the case. When it comes to being famous, Goodman has never been a fan, once stating, “Celebrity is a dirty word. People are conditioned to hate you if you’re famous or in show business. It’s that love-hate thing. They can’t wait for you to fail or get pulled over with a hooker or a stripper or a teenage boy with a lot of blow in the car.” Not to mention, his 2012 interview with The Guardian was anything but what the journalist expected. Of his interview with Goodman, Xan Brooks wrote, “From time to time, he emits a long, breathy groan, as though invisible doctors are subjecting him to some invasive medical procedure. I don’t know whether he’s exhausted or sick; whether he hates interviews or this particular interviewer. On balance, with the benefit of hindsight, I decide it’s all four of these things with the gas turned up.” After the interview went so poorly, the Brooks said he was “a little bruised” and so confused by Goodman’s mood that he even emailed Roseanne Barr asking her what their relationship was like on the set of Roseanne and what Goodman is like off-screen. Despite his interview experience with Goodman, Barr replied, “John is the funniest and deepest actor in the world. He has only gotten more open, more sweet, more expansive and giving, on-screen and off, if that were possible, since the Roseanne show.”

Getting Started

Although he became interested in drama in University, it wasn’t until after he suffered a career-ending injury in football that he actually took acting seriously as a career. After graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1975, Goodman left Missouri to go to New York City to pursue his dream of becoming an actor. Thanks to a loan from his brother Leslie, Goodman was able to secure an apartment near the Theater District and began working as a bouncer, bartender, and waiter to make ends meet while he tried to get roles. After working on stage, he began landing TV and film appearances as well as commercials, and while starring in a stage production of Antony and Cleopatra in 1987, an ABC talent scout recruited the lovable actor for an upcoming sitcom — Roseanne.

Getting Sober

Despite his happy, and strong characters that audiences saw, off-screen Goodman endured many personal struggles, and one of his biggest was with alcohol. In 2007 the actor checked himself into rehab after he felt things had finally gone too far with his drinking. “It was 30 years of a disease that was taking its toll on everyone around me and it had got to the point where, every time I did it, it was becoming more and more debilitating. It was life or death. It was time to stop,” he told The Guardian in a 2012 interview while adding that the alcohol was affecting his work as well as his temperament, memory and depression. Following the completion of his stint in rehab, the actor simply stated, “For my family and myself, I voluntarily took the necessary steps to remain sober the rest of my life.”

Health Improvements

As well as getting sober in 2007, Goodman has taken many other steps over the years to improve his health. In 2003, the actor quit smoking and described it as one of the hardest times of his life. “I quit smoking a year and a half ago and I turned into a werewolf. I went nuts. I’ve been smoking since I was in junior high school. I did a couple of episodes of The West Wing two years ago and I was in the middle of one of these psycho things and turned around and smacked the stage door as hard as I could and my fist immediately swelled up. Thank God I didn’t break anything, but that was the last episode I had of nicotine withdrawal.” Of course, more recently, fans have noticed a major physical transformation in the actor after he shed over 100 pounds, going from 300 pounds to 400 pounds in 2010, and has continued his weight loss and healthy living since. Goodman revealed he took to journaling his diet, exercising, hired health coach Mackie Shilstone, and cut sugar from his diet while working out six days a week. “I know it sounds sappy, but it was a waste. It takes a lot of creative energy to sit on your a– and figure out what you’re going to eat next… I want to live a better life,” Goodman said of his transformation.

Personal Life

John Goodman may be a well-known actor but he has never prescribed to the celebrity lifestyle, meaning he is often not in the headlines and he doesn’t publicize his personal life. The actor first met his wife Annabeth Hartzog in New Orleans while filming 1988’s Everbody’s All-American. The pair then married in October of 1989 and welcomed their only child, daughter Molly Evangeline, on August 31, 1990. Molly took an interest in the entertainment industry and now works as a production assistant on films.

Net Worth

After getting his start in plays, John Goodman’s first on-screen appearance came in a Burger King commercial, and he has seen nothing but success since! For more than three decades, Goodman has been in every genre through TV and film with some of his biggest and most popular roles coming with Roseanne, The Big Lebowski, The Flintstones, Coyote Ugly, O Brother, Where Art Thou? and more, not to mention his extensive voice work in animated hits such as The Emperor’s New Groove, Monsters Inc., Cars, The Princess and the Frog and Transformers. Most recently, Goodman has starred in Kong: Skull Island and Atomic Blonde, and is confirmed to have a part in the Roseanne revival series despite his character’s death in the show. Through it all, he has amassed an estimated net worth of $65 million.

Favorite Roles

Since officially beginning his on-screen career in 1983’s The Face of Rage, John Goodman has created a resume with over 150 acting credits to his name which is absolutely astounding. Of course, like all actors he has had many roles he is proud of while there are others he doesn’t look back on as fondly. During an appearance on ‘Inside the Actors Studio’ he revealed that his favorite movie out of them all that he has worked on was The Big Lebowski, but his favorite role was as Charlie Meadows in Barton Fink. Unfortunately for Coyote Ugly fans he simply said the only reason he took the part was “For the money. Honest to God, that’s the only reason I did it.”

SOURCE: FAME10.COM; TELISHA CARTER

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    1. Good morning, Pat!

      I like John Goodman too. Thanks for his story. Looking forward to the Roseanne revival. 😁

      Very sunny 60*, nice breeze out of the west 👍 good day for outside chores.

      Sincerely hoping you don’t see any snakes. 🐍🐍🐍

      Have a great day! 🙏

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    2. Morning, Pat! Hmmm….a couple of things about Goodman….first off, his story of getting out of Vietnam doesn’t make sense. No way they would have let him out of it over 10 or 11 lbs! And about that weight loss….”…after he shed over 100 pounds, going from 300 pounds to 400 pounds in 2010….” Huh? Telisha Carter @ Fame10 needs to work on her proofing skills! I assume she meant to say 400 to 300 pounds. But, then, I’m anal and these things just seem to pop out at me.

      Chilly sunny morning here @ only 57! Brrr….had to turn on my portable heater next to my chair. We really need more rain – only got a brief sprinkle yesterday – my grass is decidedly parched!!! Had to chase off one squirrel after I put out a new seed block yesterday. He/she got the message pretty quickly!

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      1. Morning Filly!

        I decided a while ago not to edit what i bring directly–good, bad, or ugly, it’s what was “published”…LOL

        I never realized John was that heavy though!

        We’ve been getting a decent amount of rain–enough that the weeds and grass are growing–interestingly enough we’ve got no weeds growing the garden…LOL…so I don’t have to weed it.

        I’m anxious to weed eat around the trees–last year we had 3 apples on one tree and none on the other and the raccoons ate the three. they broke a branch as well. But this spring both trees were covered with blossoms! I want to get close and see what’s growing!

        and this afternoon we’re going to make decisions about the grapevines. They are blossoming and growing, so we will have to start tying of the shoots because now they’re shooting straight up in the air and we need to train them to develop horizontally along the wires.

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        1. I don’t blame you at all for not editing others’ work! It’s on them! I think it’s hard for little people like us to gauge the weight of much bigger people. I’ve never been very good at it! Ah, yes – spring! It’s a fun time to see what’s growing every year!

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  5. so no kings, huh??

    Mike Netter
    @nettermike
    Anarchy grips California town as council overrules its own recall, locals threaten members
    A bitter political fight in a small Central California city spiraled into chaos last week after three elected officials who were ousted in a recall election voted to keep their seats anyway — sparking threats and intimidation at a packed council meeting.
    The turmoil erupted Thursday in Avenal, a city of roughly 13,000 residents in Kings County about 60 miles southwest of Fresno, where supporters and opponents of a controversial recall packed City Hall as the council weighed whether to recognize the results of a special election held April 28.
    Instead of certifying their own removals, Mayor Alvaro Preciado and councilmembers Leticia Gamez and Pablo Hernandez — three of four officials voters sought to remove — voted to reject the recall results and remain in office, The Sacramento Bee reported.

    Anarchy grips California town as council overrules its own recall, locals threaten members
    A bitter political fight in a small Central California city spiraled into chaos last week after three elected officials who were ousted in a recall election voted to keep their seats anyway… pic.twitter.com/I7mFCU1UI8

    — Mike Netter (@nettermike) June 17, 2026

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  7. H/T Rodney from last night

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  8. Just The News: “Italian leader Giorgia Meloni on Saturday disputed President Trump’s comment to a report that she begged him for a photo together at G7 summit earlier this week in France. “I and Italy never beg,” she said. Meloni also called Trump’s boast “totally fabricated.”

    Trump told Italian broadcaster La7 that Meloni pleaded with him for a photo at the meeting of leading industrialized nations in the French resort of Evian-les-Bains earlier this week, according to NBC.com.

    The comment appeared in response to Melonia not supporting the U.S. war with Iran, or at least the consequences of the Strait of Hormuz being blocked as a result. “She wasn’t there for us,” Trump later told NBC News. “She was not there – along with the NATO group – having to do with the strait.”

    Trump and Meloni once appeared close, at least politically, considering they were leaders in the global, right-leaning populist/nationalist movement. 

    Following the photo flap, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani announced that he was canceling a planned trip to the U.S. next week, NBC News also reports.”

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  9. Wow! Two trains collided!!!

    Just The News: “One person was killed and 89 others were injured Friday when two British passenger trains collided north of London, officials said. The crash in Bedford, England, drew a massive emergency response and the cause was not immediately released.

    The one victim who was killed was a railroad engineer for one of the trains, Eddie Dempsey, general secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers, said. Officials said 11 people suffered very serious injuries, 22 had serious injuries and 56 people walked away with minor injuries.

    “I am being kept updated on the collision of two trains between Luton and Bedford,” Health and Social Care Secretary James Murray wrote on X. “A number of people have been injured and I thank first responders who are helping those affected.”

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  10. Just The News: “A famous Iranian singer and eight members of a production team were reportedly sentenced to 74 lashes for performing without a hijab. Parastoo Ahmadi, 29, and eight others, including other musicians, received the lashes after she sang a patriotic song at a concert in 2024 without wearing a hijab. 

    The group was reportedly charged with offending public decency, as well as “vulgar and immoral content” online, according to The Guardian, which reviewed court documents and publshed a story Thursday on the matter. The victims were sentenced to the lashing, a two-year ban on leaving Iran, and a two-year ban on engaging in artistic activities.

    In December 2024, Ahmadi performed Az Khoone Javanane Vatan (translation: From the Blood of the Youth of the Homeland) without a hijab during a livestreamed performance that has since received millions of views. She was detained after the performance but released. Iranian authorities then filed formal charges.

    Bahar Ghandehari, advocacy director for the U.S.-based Center for Human Rights in Iran told the Guardian that “Ahmadi’s punishment of 74 lashes for merely singing and appearing without a hijab is yet another reminder that human rights conditions in Iran have not changed, despite the Iranian authorities’ wartime propaganda campaign aimed at improving their image.”

    Other Iranian artists expressed fear over the sentence, including Iranian-British actor Nazanin Boniadi. “Accommodating a regime that flogs women for their voices and kills citizens for demanding their rights only emboldens it to continue down its tyrannical path,” she told the Guardian.”

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  12. Hmmmm…..yeah, no thanks!!! I refuse to fly on a regular airplane – ain’t no way on this earth I’ll ever be found on an autonomous plane!!! I wouldn’t even chance a robotaxi!!!

    “Announcement marks major milestone for U.S. air taxi industry with the potential to significantly accelerate Joby’s path to commercial service”

    Joby Aviation, Published March 9 2026

    EXCERPT: “Joby Aviation, Inc. (NYSE:JOBY), a company developing electric air taxis for commercial passenger service, today announced it has been selected as a partner in multiple winning applications under the White House-backed Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) Integration Pilot Program (eIPP). Through the program, Joby has the opportunity to begin early operations this year in Arizona, Florida, Idaho, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas and Utah, marking a major milestone for the U.S. air taxi industry with the potential to significantly accelerate Joby’s path to commercial service.

    The eIPP program, established by Presidential Executive Order, paves the way for Joby to bring its technology directly to U.S. communities ahead of FAA type certification. It is expected to accelerate regulatory coordination by bringing the FAA and DOT together with local authorities to streamline approvals for airspace integration and the development of relevant infrastructure – advancing the safe integration of this new technology into the national airspace.

    “This is a defining moment for American innovation,” said JoeBen Bevirt, Founder and CEO of Joby Aviation. “Instead of just reading about the future of flight, communities across America are going to be able to see it in the skies above their own cities this year.”

    “Quiet, electric air taxis flying real routes are a powerful demonstration of American leadership in action, and proof that we’re building the next golden age of aviation right here in the U.S,” he added.

    “America has set the pace and the standard in aerospace innovation since the Wright Brothers first took to the skies,” said Greg Bowles, Chief Policy Officer at Joby. “This is how our country has always led — by bringing people together to turn breakthrough technology into real-world progress. From President Trump and Secretary Duffy to the state and local leaders who helped drive these applications forward, this kind of coordination is what will ensure America continues to lead. We’re grateful to our partners at every level who stepped up to make this possible, and we’re excited to see communities witness this next chapter of aviation take flight.”

    In addition to its air taxi aircraft, Joby was also selected for applications that include Joby’s Superpilot™ autonomous flight technology platform. Designed to enable highly automated operations over time, Superpilot™ has the potential to further expand the range of use cases partner states can explore under the program……”

    https://www.jobyaviation.com/news/joby-to-begin-u-s-operations-in-2026-under-white-house-air-taxi-program

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  13. SMDH – this is ridiculous!!!!

    Just The News: “Iran’s military commanders announced on Saturday that the country will close the Strait of Hormuz, alleging that Israel has violated the ceasefire between Iran and the United States that began earlier this week. 

    “In view of the United States’ bad faith and its clear breach of its commitments by failing to implement the first article of the memorandum ending the war, and in response to the continuous and ongoing violation of the ceasefire by the Zionist regime in southern Lebanon… It hereby announces that the Strait of Hormuz will be closed to the passage of vessels,” Iran’s joint military command, ​Khatam al-Anbiya Central ‌Headquarters, said in a statement, according to CNN. 

    Both Israel and Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy and U.S.-designated terrorist group, are trading accusations of ceasefire violations as the two sides continue to launch attacks against one another in Lebanon on Saturday, Just the News reported. The agreement between the United States and Iran to pause the war included a provision which called for a ceasefire on all fronts, which includes the Israeli conflict against Hezbollah. However, Israeli officials have asserted that they are not bound by the terms of the U.S.-Iran MOU, which the country did not sign. 

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed shortly after the United States announced the agreement that his country would not withdraw from Lebanon as a buffer against Hezbollah, regardless of what terms the U.S. agreed upon with Tehran, Just the News previously reported. 

    The Israel-Hezbollah conflict has already proven a sticking point in the ongoing negotiations to end the U.S.-Iran war. On Friday, Iran abruptly called off talks with the U.S. in Switzerland after alleged ceasefire violations in Lebanon, prompting the U.S. to rush to secure another ceasefire there.” 

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        1. i know POTUS does not want to kill the innocent iranian people, but they do not seem to want to get involved in the fight at all. we can’t do it for them. but this tries the patience of everyone.

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  14. I didn’t know they wrote ‘8647’ on the bottom!!!

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  17. Room With A View

    Chess piece depicting a frenzied warrior biting into his shield found in Uig – Scotland 12th Century AD

    Thor and Odin, The All-Father

    I had a hanging chair swing made out of the same material but it was only a single. I hung it from a big limb on the apple tree and used to sit out there reading, in the Blue Ridge, with a little table for my drink & cigs…..in the middle of 15 acres in the mountains. Talk about peaceful!!!

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  20. i broke the weed eater so I’m done for now…LOL

    I needed more string and after hubby replaced it, the end cap piece wouldn’t spin at all. so he took it apart. there’s a metal piece inside the shaft that broke in two.

    I sighed and he laughed. Don’t be upset I got my money’s worth from it. I asked–how so?

    He said I bought this one from the neighbor across the street–at the old house– 20 years ago. i paid a buck for it!

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  21. oh yeah…this is a banner year for my yellow lilies behind the house! some years they came up…deer left them alone. some years they came up, the deer ate them right away.

    this year only 3 of the 5 came up…but they are glorious!!! a dozen blooms on each!!!

    and I got a good look at the apple trees–the one tree is FILLED with little apples!!

    the other has a lot of apple but on only one side…wth?

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    1. That’s odd, only being on one side…..is one side in the sun while the other isn’t? Hopefully the deer don’t eat all the apples. You could try hanging some bars of Irish Spring soap in the branches I guess but IDK if that really works. The orange lilies in the 2 big round pots by my garage are both in full bloom, as is the yellow lily on the NE corner.

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  22. Feel good story of the day: Child killer stabbed to death in prison cell

    “The three British inmates who stabbed a convicted child-killer to death inside his cell in less than 5 minutes, were sentenced Friday to spend the rest of their lives in prison. He was found in his cell having been slashed and stabbed 27 times, then positioned to appear sleeping. He bled to death during the night before being found in the morning. The child-killer was convicted of murdering his 2-year-old stepdaughter, who had died from catastrophic injuries…..And the best part? This is the last thing he got to see before h died… Sweet dreams, scumbag.”

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  24. FORTIFYING RIGHTS AT THE EDGE OF A NEW WORLD: Natural Persons, Bodily Sovereignty, and the Frontiers of Rights Law in the Digital, Biological, and Spatial Age

    Jun 20, 2026

    “FORTIFYING RIGHTS AT THE EDGE OF A NEW WORLD“

    Natural Persons, Bodily Sovereignty, and the Frontiers of Rights Law in the Digital, Biological, and Spatial Age — Guest Author Sofia Karstens

    EXCERPT: “A single word separates freedom from exploitation: persons. Not humans, not homo sapiens, not citizens… persons. This distinction, quietly embedded in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by Eleanor Roosevelt and the drafting committee, was not semantic housekeeping – it was a legal firewall erected against a pattern of abuse the world had already witnessed in its most grotesque form.

    Today, at a juncture when biotechnology rewrites the genome, artificial intelligence surveils every transaction, corporations mine asteroids, and digital identity systems determine access to society, that firewall is being tested again. And we are running out of time to reinforce it.

    The architecture is neither accidental nor arbitrary. The Declaration does something quietly decisive in Article 6, which establishes the status on which every other right depends: “everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.” Read quickly, it scans as procedural housekeeping, but notice the load-bearing word is person – not human, not citizen, not subject. Personhood is the gate through which every other protection in the Declaration must pass, and the drafters knew it.

    That gate did its hardest work over property. When the General Assembly adopted the UDHR in 1948, the most contentious terrain was not speech or even the prohibition of torture; it was the right to own. Article 17 provides that “everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others” and that “no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.” The language sounds benign. It is not. Property was the very instrument through which personhood had been denied: to make a person ownable, the law first had to place them outside the class of those entitled to own.

    The pre-existing international legal order had previously operated on a bifurcated concept of personhood: natural persons (human beings) and legal persons (corporations, states, and chartered entities). Colonial powers had exploited this bifurcation brutally, reclassifying enslaved Africans, indigenous peoples, and colonial subjects as property rather than persons — or as a legally inferior subcategory of person not entitled to the same protections as European natural persons. The body itself became a unit of commerce. The question before Roosevelt’s drafting committee was: how do you write a right to property that protects the dispossessed without simultaneously legitimizing the mechanisms by which bodies are owned?

    Roosevelt’s solution was precise and radical. First, she fixed the operative legal status as that of natural persons – not natural humans. The word human carries a biological and historically racialized weight. The word person is a legal status – one that, critically, cannot be subdivided by race, ancestry, or cognitive modification. Second, she added the phrase “alone or in association with others,” which formally acknowledged collective property rights – protecting indigenous communal land ownership that had been systematically denied under frameworks requiring individual titling. A tribe, a community, a collective – they too are associations of natural persons, entitled to property protections that no state can arbitrarily strip away.

    The distinction between human and person is not philosophical abstraction – it’s a live legal weapon. Colonial law did not need to call indigenous peoples non-human; it was sufficient to define human so narrowly – through civilization, Christianity, property ownership, or literacy – that entire populations fell outside its protections. Courts upheld the dispossession of Native Americans not by declaring them animals but by ruling that their social organization did not constitute civil society capable of holding recognized title…..”

    https://www.malone.news/p/fortifying-rights-at-the-edge-of

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      1. There’s one in Sioux City, IA, about an hour east from me. Actually, there are about 3 within a couple of hours in several directions.

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  37. Finally getting some good steady rain….and, of course, that’s when 2 of the Turkey hens decide to reconnoiter my yard again. I threw on a hoodie and a pair of duck boots, opened one of the west gates (they had to have jumped it or the fenceline since all gates were closed), and herded them back out again. Thankfully, they were quite anxious about getting away from me! LOL

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  38. Just The News: “Vice President JD Vance departed the United States on Saturday to travel to Switzerland for direct talks with Iranian regime officials. 

    The vice president is leading the negotiating team that will attempt to hammer out a final deal with Tehran before the clock runs out of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by both sides that paused the war President Donald Trump launched earlier this year to eliminate Iran’s nuclear program and degrade its military. 

    The agreement, signed last week, gives a 60 day window for Washington and Tehran to reach a final accord to address Iran’s illicit nuclear program, permanently reopen the Strait of Hormuz to commercial traffic, and end the fighting. 

    Vance will join White House envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, who are already in Switzerland and are already engaged in negotiations. 

    Ahead of Vance’s departure, President Trump reiterated his longstanding promise: that negotiations will end with Iran giving up its nuclear program. “They’re never going to have a nuclear weapon. OK? It’s very clear and very simple,” Trump told Axios in an interview. 

    The anticpated talks this weekend were almost scuttled when renewed fighting broke out between Hezbollah, an Iran-backed terrorist group in Lebanon, and Israel, which has occupied swathes of southern Lebanon to push back the group. Both sides have accused one another of violating the conditions of the ceasefire. 

    The agreement between the United States and Iran to pause the war included a provision which called for a ceasefire on all fronts, which includes the Israeli conflict against Hezbollah. However, Israeli officials have asserted that they are not bound by the terms of the U.S.-Iran MOU, which the country did not sign. 

    Iran views a ceasefire in Lebanon as a red line for negotiations with the United States. Iran’s military on Saturday announced that it would close the Strait of Hormuz in response to the alleged violations. Opening the vital waterway is a key goal of President Trump, who has grown weary of high oil prices as a result of the conflict.”

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  42. these illegals stole American identities, created phony snap accounts. Then bought bulk food items with the fraudulent benefits to supply THEIR restaurant free of charge!

    FTA
    Two Venezuelan nationals have pleaded guilty in federal court in Worcester to using fraudulent Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit cards to illegally purchase food to stock a local restaurant. 

    Roman Vequiz Fernandez, 32, a Venezuelan national and Coralba Albarracin Siniva, 24, also a Venezuelan national, both residing in living in Leominster, Mass., have pleaded guilty to use, transfer, acquisition and possession of SNAP benefits in an unauthorized manner. 
    U.S. District Court Judge Margaret R. Guzman scheduled sentencings for Sept. 22, 2026. The defendants were charged in February 2026 along with Joel Vicioso Fernandez and Raul Fernandez Vicioso.
    This criminal conduct is a part of a larger fraud scheme that used the stolen identities of more than 100 individuals to obtain $440,000 in SNAP benefits from Massachusetts and Rhode Island. 
    The stolen identities were used to create 24 “households” in SNAP applications. All of these applications, submitted in the names of over 100 people, were listed as living in two single-family apartments in Providence, R.I.
    The defendants and their co-conspirators allegedly used fraudulent SNAP benefits cards to purchase large quantities of expensive bulk food items (such as multi-pound packages of chicken, beef, and pork) from various local wholesalers and food markets to stock El Primo Restaurant at no expense. 
    With their supplies obtained for free through fraudulent SNAP benefits, they prepared and sold menu items at El Primo Restaurant at a substantial profit, later wiring the proceeds of the fraud, among other places, to individuals living in Venezuela and the Dominican Republic.

    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scott-mcclallen/2026/06/20/you-wont-believe-how-these-illegal-aliens-stocked-a-restaurant-n2678036

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