Natalie Wood

Today is the anniversary of Natalie Wood’s terrible death.  Was it an accident or something else?  We may never know. This article from All That’s Interesting explores the story in greater detail.

From All That’s Interesting:

Natalie Wood died off the coast of California’s Catalina Island on November 29, 1981 — but some say her drowning may not have been an accident.

Before Natalie Wood’s death brought her life to a tragic end, she was an Academy Award-nominated actress who was in some of the most famous films of all time. She co-starred in Miracle on 34th Street when she was only eight years old. When she was a teenager, she earned her first Oscar nomination, for 1955’s Rebel Without A Cause. Natalie Wood was so talented and widely beloved that she was nominated for three Oscars before she turned 25. And her larger-than-life presence on camera was only matched by her glamorous offscreen life.

While the San Francisco-born star took Hollywood by storm, working with legendary directors such as John Ford and Elia Kazan, her romantic conquests included the likes of Elvis Presley before she tied the knot with actor Robert Wagner in 1957. Indeed, for decades before Natalie Wood’s death, she lived the American Dream, but one that would tragically devolve into a Hollywood nightmare. It all came crashing down during a fateful yacht trip around California’s Catalina Island in November 1981.

On November 28, 1981, Wood set off aboard her yacht Splendour with Wagner, co-star Christopher Walken, and boat captain Dennis Davern. But in the early morning hours of November 29, Natalie Wood disappeared from the boat, only to be found dead in the water due to drowning at age 43 the next morning.

The discovery of her body only yielded more questions than answers. Though Natalie Wood’s death was initially classified as an accident and “probable drowning in the ocean,” Wood’s death certificate would later be updated to “drowning and other undetermined factors.” And her widowed husband has since been officially labeled a person of interest. What really happened aboard the Splendour that night in 1981 remains a mystery. However, to this day, some suspect foul play in the death of Natalie Wood. This is the haunting story of how Natalie Wood died and what the true cause may have been.

A Young Natalie Wood’s Meteoric Rise In Hollywood

Natalie Wood was born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko on July 20, 1938, in San Francisco, California to an alcoholic father and stage mother. Studio executives changed the young starlet’s name shortly after she started acting. Her mother Maria was highly eager to make Wood the breadwinner and regularly pushed her to audition for roles despite her young age.

Maria’s encounter with a fortune teller when she herself was a child yielded an ominous premonition. The gypsy said her second child “would be a great beauty” and famous, but that she should “beware of dark water.” Wood quickly grew into a professional, memorizing not only her lines but also everyone else’s. Dubbed “One Take Natalie,” she was nominated for an Oscar for her role in Rebel Without a Cause when she was just a teen.

But behind the scenes, her love life was rocky. Wood had affairs with both the director, Nicholas Ray, and co-star Dennis Hopper. She also dated stars like Elvis Presley before she met Robert Wagner at age 18. The two married in 1957 but divorced five years later. They found their way back to each other in 1972, remarried, and had a daughter.

Though Wood’s career began to wane, she did act opposite Oscar winner Christopher Walken in her last picture, Brainstorm. The two became fast friends — with some suspicion that they were dating. “It wasn’t like they were lovey-dovey on the set or anything like that, but they just had a current about them, an electricity,” said the film’s first assistant director, David McGiffert.

It was Thanksgiving weekend of 1981 when their alleged relationship became a problem. Wood and Wagner invited Walken to join their sailing trip around Catalina Island — and that’s when everything went wrong. The scene was set for the tragic death of Natalie Wood.

The Story Behind The Death Of Natalie Wood

What happened on the evening of November 28, 1981, the night Natalie Wood died, is unclear. What is clear is that authorities recovered Wood’s body the following morning, floating a mile away from the Splendour. A small dinghy was found beached nearby.

The investigator’s report chronicled the events as follows: Wood went to bed first. Wagner, having stayed up chatting with Walken, later went to join her, but noticed that both she and the dinghy were gone. Wood’s body was found around 8 a.m. the next morning in a flannel nightgown, down jacket, and socks. The chief medical examiner in the L.A. County Coroner’s Office announced that Natalie Wood’s death was an “accidental drowning” on November 30.

The autopsy showed Natalie Wood had multiple bruises on her arms and an abrasion on her left cheek. The coroner explained Wood’s bruises as “superficial” and “probably sustained at the time of drowning.” But in 2011, Captain Dennis Davern admitted that he left out key details about the night Natalie Wood died. And as the years went on, Wood’s loved ones only had more questions.

How Did Natalie Wood Die? Inside The Haunting Evidence

Davern said the weekend of Natalie Wood’s death was filled with arguments — and that the main issue was the glaring flirtation between Walken and Wood. “The argument started the day before,” said Davern. “The tension was going through the whole weekend. Robert Wagner was jealous of Christopher Walken.”

Davern said Wood and Walken spent hours at a Catalina Island bar before Wagner showed up, furious. All four then went to dinner at Doug’s Harbor Reef Restaurant, where they shared champagne, two bottles of wine, and cocktails. Employees couldn’t recall whether it was Wagner or Walken, but one of them threw a glass at the wall at some point. At around 10 p.m., they used their dinghy to get back to the Splendour.

Accounts of the night of Natalie Wood’s death have changed over the years. Walken did admit to investigators that he and Wagner had a “small beef,” but that it regarded the couple’s prolonged film shoot-related absences from their child.

Though reports initially stated that the fight died down, Davern claimed otherwise in 2011. He said everyone continued drinking when back on board and that Wagner was enraged. He allegedly broke a wine bottle over a table and screamed at Walken, “Are you trying to f–k my wife?” Davern remembered Walken retreating to his cabin at this point, “and that was the last I saw of him.” Wagner and Wood returned to their room, too, when a shouting match ensued. Most ominously, Davern said he later heard the fight continue on deck — before “everything went silent.” When Davern checked on them, he saw only Wagner, who said, “Natalie is missing.”

Robert Wagner’s Suspicious Behavior After His Wife’s Death

For many to this day, it’s Robert Wagner’s behavior just after Natalie Wood’s death that is strangest and perhaps most suspicious. At first, Wagner told Davern to go look for her, and then said “the dinghy is missing too.” The captain knew Natalie was “deathly afraid of water,” and doubted she’d taken the dinghy out alone. But then Davern said that Wagner didn’t want to turn the boat’s floodlights on nor call for help — because he didn’t want to draw any attention to the situation.

Key witness Marilyn Wayne, who was in a boat 80 feet away that night, told Sheriff’s investigators she and her boyfriend heard a woman screaming around 11 p.m. “Somebody please help me, I’m drowning,” the cries implored, until 11:30 p.m.

Their call to the harbormaster went unanswered, and with a party on another boat nearby, the pair concluded it may have been a joke. As for Wagner’s hesitance to call anyone, he did eventually did — at 1:30 a.m.

This, among other things, left Wood’s sibling Lana confused. “She would have never left the boat like that, undressed, in just a nightgown,” she said. But that’s exactly how her body was found, mere hours later. With that, Natalie Wood was dead at age 43. The investigation into Natalie Wood’s death continued throughout the decades, however, with new details, questions, and suspicions arising as recently as 2018.

Changing Stories About Natalie Wood’s Cause Of Death

The case was reopened in November 2011 after Davern admitted he lied during the initial investigation and alleged that Wagner was “responsible” for Natalie Wood’s death. Since the bombshell report, Wagner has refused to talk to authorities. However, Walken has cooperated fully with investigators. According to the BBC, Wood’s death certificate was later amended from accidental drowning to “drowning and undetermined factors.”

In 2018, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Sheriff confirmed that Natalie Wood’s case was now undeniably a “suspicious” death. And Robert Wagner was officially named a person of interest.  “As we’ve investigated the case over the last six years, I think he’s more of a person of interest now,” said L.A. County Sheriffs Department Lieutenant John Corina. “I mean, we know now that he was the last person to be with Natalie before she disappeared.”

“I haven’t seen him tell the details that match… all the other witnesses in this case,” he added. “I think he’s constantly… he’s changed the — his story a little bit… and his version of events just don’t add up.” Investigators digging into Natalie Wood’s death made multiple attempts to speak with him, to no avail. “We would love to talk to Robert Wagner,” said Corina. “He’s refused to talk to us… We can never force him to talk to us. He has rights and he can not talk to us if he doesn’t want to.”

What Really Happened The Night Natalie Wood Died?

Walken hasn’t publicly spoken much on the events of the night that Natalie Wood died, but he did appear to believe that it was an unfortunate accident. “Anybody there saw the logistics — of the boat, the night, where we were, that it was raining — and would know exactly what happened,” said Walken in a 1997 interview. “You hear about things happening to people — they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in London because they think that the cars come the other way — and they die.”

Meanwhile, Corina maintains that Natalie Wood’s death was likely no accident. He said, “She got in the water somehow, and I don’t think she got in the water by herself.” In the end, Robert Wagner’s refusal to cooperate is legal and may simply stem from a desire not to revisit the tragedy. Natalie Wood’s death may have been the result of foul play, but the truth is, we may never know for sure.

SOURCE: ALLTHATSINTERESTING.COM

Washington State Animal: Olympic Marmot

Nuzzling, playing, chirping, feeding together; the Olympic marmot is quite possibly one of the most social and gregarious mammals on the peninsula. Marmots are rodents; they belong to the squirrel family and evolved during the Pleistocene Epoch. Some folks call them “rock chucks” or “whistle pigs”. There are 15 recognized species of marmot worldwide, all in the northern hemisphere, with six species in North America. The Olympic marmot however, is only found in the Olympic mountains and nowhere else (it’s endemic).

Identification:

Marmots are a housecat-sized rodent with a long, bushy tail. Adults can weigh 15 pounds or more before they enter hibernation in September or early October. Olympic marmots have widely varying coat colors, unlike their other American counterparts. The young are usually dark gray but the adults are often brownish in color, but may be yellow or tan colored with a variety of patch colors when they emerge from hibernation in the spring, and almost black in the fall.

Family groups of one adult male, one or more adult females, and several cohorts of young share a home range of 1/2-acre to five acres. In any given year, about 30 percent of adult females produce litters of 1-6 pups. Pups initially stay close to their burrows when they emerge in late July, but by mid-August, they can be seen wrestling and chasing each other in enthusiastic play. Marmots have a sharp, piercing whistle that warns others of intruders or potential predators, and notifies hikers that they are in marmot territory.

Habitat:

Marmots occupy mountain meadows above 4,000 feet. Although they are found throughout the Olympic Mountains, they are rare in the wetter southwest areas of the park. About 90 percent of Olympic marmot habitat is protected within Olympic National Park.

In the 1990s and early 2000s, Olympic marmot numbers declined, at least partly due to predation by non-native coyotes. Marmots and their habitat are also expected to be sensitive to climate change. In recent years, marmots have also disappeared from some of the driest meadows in the northeast Olympic Mountains. In response to these concerns, in 2010 the park initiated a volunteer monitoring program to record the presence or absence of marmots in many meadows throughout the park.

Diet:

Olympic marmots prefer fresh, tender, flowering plants such as lupine and glacier lilies. In May and June, they will eat roots and may even gnaw on trees. They can double their body weight in the summer and use stored fat during a seven to eight month hibernation.

Fun Facts

  • In 2009 the Olympic Marmot became the official endemic mammal of Washington state! 
  • The groundhog, or woodchuck, is a lowland species of marmot.

Marmots are supremely adapted to living on cold, windswept grasslands and exposed mountain slopes where snow covers the ground for all but a few short months. They forage on grasses, sedges, and herbacsous plants. They dig burrows in which they shelter from predators and weather, bear and nurse their young, and hibernate for up to 8 months a year. The body temperature of a hibernating marmot drops to <40F and the heart rate may drop to 3 beats per minute. Marmots do warm themselves up briefly every 10 days or so but do not eat or drink during hibernation.

Marmots have an unusually “slow” life history for rodents. Olympic marmots can live into their teens and do not reach reproductive maturity until age 3 or older. The average age of first reproduction for females is 4.5 years. Among reproductive-age Olympic marmots, about 35% of females wean young in an average year. Litters of 1-6 pups first come above ground in late July or early August, and about half of these young die before the following spring. The long maturation period, low rate of reproduction, and relatively high rate of juvenile mortality combine to make adult females particularly valuable to a marmot population – it can take years to replace one that is killed. The death of several breeding-age females can have serious long-term effects on the population.

Washington State Flower: Coastal Rhododendron

Names: The Pacific Rhododendron is also known as the Coast Rhododendron, California Rhododendron, or California Rosebay.  Rhododendron macrophyllum literally means, “Rose tree with big leaves.”  It is the state flower of Washington State.

Distribution: The Pacific Rhododendron is found west of the Cascades from southern British Columbia to Northern California.

Growth:  It reaches to about 24 feet; taller in the shade than in the sun.

Habitat: It grows in in fairly dry open forests and edges. It commonly grows along roadsides in the rainshadow of the Olympic Mountains.

Diagnostic characters: The thick, leathery leaves of Pacific Rhododendron are oblong, 3-8 inches long.  The pink, sometimes white, bell-shaped flowers are borne in showy clusters called trusses.  Each flower has 5 lobes with wavy edges.  Seeds are produced in woody capsules.

In the Landscape: Rhododendrons have long been a favorite of landscapers in the Pacific Northwest.  Although many may prefer the variety of flower colors, and forms in cultivated varieties, our native Rhododendron with its bold green leaves and spectacular pink flower clusters can find a place in both wild settings and more traditional landscapes.  Even those that steer away from rhodies due to the fact that they are so common in northwest gardens may be convinced to include this native species in their yard!  Pacific Rhododendron is also useful for erosion control on steep watersheds.

What Shall We Make Today?

Our last turkey cookie has a peanut butter cookie base!

Ingredients

1 package (16 oz) ready-to-bake refrigerated peanut butter cookie dough (24 cookies)

1/3 cup milk chocolate chips

24 Reese’s miniature cups (wrapped in gold foil, but unwrap for the cookies)

120 pieces candy corn

48 small edible eyeballs

24 yellow or orange Reese’s Pieces

24 red mini M&M’s

Instructions

Prep : Preheat the oven based on the peanut butter cookie dough directions.

Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper, baking mat, or spray with nonstick cooking spray.  Place 12 cookie dough balls per cookie sheet making sure to leave 2-inches of space between each one. Use the palm of your hand, or a flat bottomed glass, to flatten the dough balls so the top is flat.

Bake the cookies according to the package directions. When done, allow the cookies to cool on the warm tray for about 10 minutes before removing them to a cooling rack to cool completely before decorating.

Decorate The Turkey Cookies

Melt the chocolate chips in a microwave-safe bowl in 20 second increments, stirring well after each one, until the chocolate is smooth and melted. Dip the bottom of a miniature Reese’s peanut butter cup into the melted chocolate and place it in the center of the cookie, in the lower third of the cookie, to create the turkey head. Create the turkey feathers by dipping one side of five pieces of candy corn into the chocolate. Then place them in a fan shape above the Reese’s. Dip a Reese’s Pieces into the chocolate (just the bottom side) and then press it into the Reese’s cup to form the beak. Gently press a mini M&M next to the beak to form the wattle of the turkey. You may need to dip the mini M&M in the melted chocolate or it might just stay by itself. Dip the bottom side of two candy eyeballs into the melted chocolate and add them to the top of the Reese’s cup for the eyes, above the beak.

Allow the cookies to set for 20-30 minutes before serving.

ENJOY!

We Won’t Be Fooled Again!

For a while now, there’s been some talk about John Fetterman being a moderate Democrat—someone Republicans could work with and find common ground.  I was taken in for a bit myself, but then I read this article:  Fetterman is a Psyops, written by Jett Cross.  I present it below so you can decide for yourself. 

Fetterman is a Psyops
You don’t erase a radical past. You rebrand it.
Control isn’t always about silence. Sometimes it’s about agreement.
When conservatives crave unity more than truth, deception becomes easy.
A “common-sense” mask can hide the most dangerous ideology.
Fetterman’s rebrand started in 2022. The campaign ends in the White House.

BRIEFING

Jett here. Senator John Fetterman isn’t a Dem with an identity crisis. He’s a psyop. Let’s get into it.

You can see the entire blueprint if you just stop staring at the dirty hoodie long enough. Every piece of his history lines up like a case file: the Clinton-era AmeriCorps progressive grooming ground, the Obama-style activist mayor years, LGBTQ flags flapping off the statehouse, a hard push for pardons and commutations that law enforcement publicly hated, and a Marxist/BLM worldview he quietly scrubbed the second it turned inconvenient. None of that vanished, guys. It just got repackaged.

The story the media, and way too many on the right, are peddling is simple: “Finally! A sane, working-class Democrat who tells it like it is.” Come on, guys. Really? You’re buying this snake oil? This isn’t some political evolution for John Fetterman. It’s backroom engineering by slick consultants who get paid obscene amounts of money to turn activists into presidents. Just ask Barry. Somewhere around 2022, Fetterman’s team flipped the switch from progressive radical to “common-sense” populist. He probably saw The Squad collapsing under its own insanity and decided to switch gears. Smart move, actually. But let’s be real, it’s the same guy, voting the same way, just wrapped in new optics. Fetterman didn’t stumble onto the moderate middle; he discovered a marketing lane.

He’s testing out the next Democratic prototype: a “reasonable” leftist who talks like he hates the radicals but still feeds the same machine. A populist costume for Marxist wiring.

DEBRIEF

Fetterman’s rebrand isn’t random; it’s patterned, calculated, and documented. His history reads like a manual for building the next Democratic psyop: start in the activist trenches, collect the right allies, reframe the optics, and wait for America to forget who you were or think you had some “come to Jesus” awakening.

THE ORIGIN STORY: AMERICORPS & BRADDOCK

Before he was Pennsylvania’s “everyman senator,” John Fetterman was the poster child for Clinton-era activism. His political DNA starts with AmeriCorps, the government-funded “service” program built to funnel radical young progressives into government-approved activism. That’s where he learned how to moralize policy and dress ideology up as compassion.

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After AmeriCorps came Braddock, the struggling steel town he used as his own personal political laboratory. Fetterman didn’t just move there; he branded himself as its savior. The media loved the optics: a tattooed, Harvard-educated bald progressive “reviving” a dying Rust Belt town. But behind the photo ops was the same formula AmeriCorps taught him: frame decay as injustice, pitch government as salvation, and call it compassionate service.
Except, oops, it didn’t work.
Braddock didn’t thrive under Fetterman’s leadership. Actually, it flatlined. The population kept shrinking, poverty stayed high, and violent crime actually went up. The “model town” story was a mirage built for campaign ads.
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In his entire tenure as the mayor of Braddock, John Fetterman cast a single vote at a city council meeting and it was a meaningless one. It was a procedural vote for borough president. So, what happened next? This is always our favorite part of the story. What were the results? How did Braddock, Pennsylvania, fare under the leadership of John Fetterman? That’s really the only question that matters and again, we want to be as fair and objective as we can be. So, we’re going to tell you that under his tenure as mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, the seas did not rise. That is true. Braddock is still on dry land. Of course, it’s very far from the ocean, but it’s still dry. So, his climate policy worked. He can be proud of that. Unfortunately, everything else fell apart in Braddock.
People kept fleeing. Braddock’s population is currently at its lowest level ever recorded. The median income in Braddock, Pennsylvania, is $14,000 a year. More than a third of households in Braddock live below the poverty line. Braddock, by the way, has one of the highest crime rates in the state of Pennsylvania. In 2018, shortly after Fetterman left office, Braddock’s per capita murder rate was higher than it is in some of the most dangerous countries in the world. Honduras and Belize are safer than Braddock, Pennsylvania. So, that’s a failure and in a functioning system, a record like this would have disqualified John Fetterman from ever running for anything again. He failed demonstrably as a leader. It had a higher murder rate than Honduras and the lowest population ever recorded. Sorry, climate change didn’t improve the town.
THE TRUST FUND MARXIST
And here’s the part the media will never tell you: the “blue-collar everyman” schtick was financed by Daddy’s checkbook.
Fetterman spent most of his adult life twiddling those big thumbs of his in school. First business school, then Harvard, where he collected a shiny but meaningless “Masters of Public Policy.” Not that it cost him anything. Daddy paid for the degrees, the lifestyle, probably copious amounts of pot and Doritos, and everything in between.
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Fetterman had spent his adult life going to school — first to business school, then to Harvard for a so-called Masters of Public Policy, which for the uninitiated, is an utterly meaningless document that you pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to get in order to tell people that you went to Harvard. But in Fetterman’s case, it wasn’t expensive at all. It was free. His dad paid for it and paid for everything else. As the Philadelphia Inquirer put it, “For a long stretch, lasting well into his 40s, deep into middle-age, Fetterman’s main source of income came from his parents. They gave him and his family $54,000 in 2015 alone.”
In other words, John Fetterman was a classic trustafarian, a flaky, middle-aged man looking for a purpose in life and in Braddock, Pennsylvania, he found one. In 2005, a year after arriving in Braddock, Fetterman announced he was running for mayor and amazingly, boldly, given that he was a professional student living off his rich family, John Fetterman decided to run as a blue-collar populist — but the media asked no questions. They loved it.
In other words, John Fetterman wasn’t the blue-collar savior of Braddock — he was a trust-fund kid cosplaying as one. A middle-aged drifter living off his rich parents, playacting as a man of the people. And the media? They ate it up.
In other words, John wasn’t some lumbering man of the people. He was a bored, privileged kid looking for purpose. Which should ring a bell for most of you, since this is a pattern that defines so many left-wing radicals. Wealthy parents are aimless and desperate to feel important, so they latch onto activism as a personality. And in Braddock, Fetterman finally found his stage.
THE RADICAL RESUME: FLAGS, PARDONS & BLM
From mayor to lieutenant governor, Fetterman waved every flag that defined the progressive movement. Literally. The LGBTQ flag, the marijuana leaf, and the “defund and forgive” message embedded in his pardons push. Law enforcement hated it, and he didn’t care.
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Senate candidate John Fetterman, D-Pa., has removed mentions of Black Lives Matter from his campaign website in the last month, a review of archived webpages showed.

The “issues” page on Fetterman’s website currently includes sections on inflation ,criminal justice reform, legalizing cannabis, renewable energy, immigration and several other topics, but doesn’t include any section devoted to Black Lives Matter. Archived copies of the page, though, show that as recently as Aug. 22, the same page highlighted Fetterman’s commitment to Black Lives Matter.

THE NETWORK: BERNIE, SOROS & THE DA CIRCUIT

When Fetterman says he’s “just a Democrat,” remember, he was Bernie’s guy first and Biden’s loyal foot soldier all along. The Bernie endorsement opened the door to Soros-aligned “justice reform” networks and their DA allies.

And yes, Fetterman’s tight with Soros-backed, soft-on-crime Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner… the guy who’s practically turned leniency into an art form. Krasner is the prototype of the Soros soldier: weaponizing the justice system, protecting criminals, and punishing law and order.

Here’s Fetterman calling Larry a “champion” of criminal justice reform.

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And here’s Larry supporting the failed Defund the Police movement.

And finally, here’s Fetterman’s Soros-backed buddy, claiming it’s “racist” to notice that left-wing cities are collapsing into lawless shit holes.

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Also, here’s a fun thing to keep in mind… during his 2022 rebranding phase, John Fetterman called “Defund the Police” absurd.

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Pennsylvania Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman in an interview published on Tuesday said the concept of defunding the police “was always absurd.”

THE INNER CIRCLE: RADICAL SPOUSE & THE OBAMA PARALLEL

If you really want to understand the Fetterman playbook, look at his wife, Gisele. She’s not a background character. This woman is a full-blown activist with ties to the same progressive networks that shaped John. Pro-illegal immigration rallies, far-left advocacy, the whole package. Gisele isn’t softening his image. She’s reinforcing it.

In fact, the same “Defund the Police” movement that 2022 Fetterman called “always absurd” was the one his wife was proudly linked to.

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Gisele Fetterman, the wife of Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman, campaigned over the weekend with several defund the police activists who promoted a bail fund that helped release a man accused of trying to assassinate a Kentucky politician.

Gisele Fetterman on Sunday posted a photo of herself during an American Indian Impact event in Philadelphia, posing alongside “Top Chef” star Padma Lakshmi, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and Meena Harris, the niece of Vice President Kamala Harris. A video later tweeted by John Fetterman, Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor, showed his wife alongside “Scandal” star Kerry Washington urging voters to turn out for the midterm elections on Tuesday.

She also thinks swimming is “racist.”

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The wife of Democratic Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman claimed “swimming in America is very racist” — as she likened her husband’s use of closed captioning to turning up the brightness on a smartphone.

“Historically, swimming in America is very racist, and usually when you look at drowning statistics, it usually affects children of color, because of lack of access,” Gisele Fetterman said on the iGen politics podcast on Thursday.

If this story feels familiar, it should. We’ve seen this movie before; it’s the Obama character arc all over again. The activist past gets rewritten as “community organizing,” the Marxist edges get blurred out, and the radical couple gets sold as “inspiring.” Fetterman isn’t an outlier, guys. He’s the sequel.

THE REBRAND: THE SWITCH TO “COMMON SENSE”

In 2022, the hoodie-wearing radical shapeshifted into the Democrats’ “reasonable guy.” The BLM references vanished, the flag stunts stopped, and suddenly Fetterman is chatting with right-wingers while scolding left-wing extremists about open borders and antisemitism.

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Sen. @JohnFetterman, D-Pa., tells @ChrisCuomo he would never compare anybody to Hitler, Nazis or fascists for having different views: “If that kind of extreme rhetoric is going to continue, we’re going to be more likely to result in extreme kinds of outcomes and political violence.”

And almost immediately, many conservatives started gobbling it up. Not all conservatives, thank God. This post nailed it. Fetterman isn’t repenting for his past radical sins. He’s repositioning.

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Fetterman is dangerous. Hear me out… This isn’t some “new and improved” Fetterman. He’s a tried-and-true Marxist, always has been, always will be. There’s no miraculous change of heart here, no sudden moral awakening, and he’s definitely not doing us any heartfelt or moral favors with his “common sense” act. What he’s doing is calculated. He’s stepping into a space that’s wide open right now… the role of the so-called “common sense Democrat.” And it’s smart politics, because that image sells, especially now, as the Dem Party slides deeper into extremism. He sounds like an old-school Democrat who voted for Kennedy or cared about working-class families and values. But that’s not who Fetterman is. He’s a Marxist. This is carefully crafted camouflage. Just like Obama, he’s disguising his real politcal self and his motives under a common sense moderate mask. He’s presenting himself as relatable, reasonable, and even patriotic, while quietly clinging to the same Marxist ideology that shaped his politics from day one. And it’s going to work on a lot of people. Good, decent folks on our side who want to believe we can find some middle ground with these ghouls, will end up helping him build his power base and grow. That’s how this game is played. It’s not a transformation, it’s a strategy. And if we don’t recognize it for what it is, he’s going to walk into much bigger political shoes with our help, and make Obama look like a “cake walk.” Trust me…

THE RESULT: HOW THE PSYOP WORKS

Fetterman’s common sense act is bait for very hungry conservatives who just want their country to get back to normal. By echoing MAGA’s frustration with radicalism, Fetterman neutralizes opposition and builds the trust he’ll need later. Conservatives boost his clips, convinced he’s “one of the good ones,” not realizing they’re helping his rise.

Case in point: an X account with nearly 170,000 followers insists it’s “beyond obvious” that Fetterman will go Republican soon. Never mind that he still votes with Democrats 96% of the time.

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Fetterman isn’t helping conservatives. He’s playing them. The man votes like a loyal Democrat while posing as Mr. Red Pill for soundbites that get him trending in MAGA circles. He’s not crossing the aisle, guys. He’s crossing wires, and many of you are falling for it hook, line, and sinker.

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Until Fetterman VOTES to confirm Republicans in a tie breaking way, I don’t wanna see him on my timeline and I’ll assume conservative influencers are being paid under the table to promote him.

Reality check: Mr. Dirty Hoody is not challenging the Left’s power. He’s expanding it, one conservative retweet at a time. And you have to wonder… are some of these “influencers” getting paid to push the psyop?

THE FAKE FEUD: MANUFACTURED MODERATION

Now the media wants you to believe the Democrats are turning on Fetterman. Axios claims Pennsylvania Dems are plotting to take him out in 2028, painting this picture of poor John as the outcast, the man too “normal” for his own party.

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Axios: “Top Democrats in Pennsylvania are maneuvering to run against Sen. John Fetterman in a 2028 primary contest… even as Democrats turn on him over his softened approach to President Trump.”

Give me a break. This isn’t a mutiny. I called PR and marketing. The Democrats need a reboot. Their brand has rotted from the inside out, and Fetterman is the test subject for the “new normal.” The party of gender lunacy and criminals has to look sane again before 2028, so what do they do? They pick a guy who can take friendly fire from the radicals and pretend it’s proof he’s moderate. Meanwhile, just 11 months ago, he was cozying up to The New York Times, strategizing on how to beat Trump at his own game.

That’s the game. The Left doesn’t eat its own unless it’s theater. Fetterman gets to play the role of the “anti-woke” Democrat while still voting 96% with the machine. It’s camouflage. By the time 2028 rolls around, they’ll have their “common-sense hero” who can charm independents, calm the suburbs, and ingratiate himself just enough with MAGA that the fight won’t be quite as bloodthirsty as in past elections.

NOW YOU KNOW

Fetterman isn’t the outsider they’re trying to silence. He’s the inside man they’re quietly building.

SOURCE: CYPHER-NEWS.COM

The Perfect Table

FROM: DIYJOY.COM:

This Thanksgiving, go all out and be extra by folding your table napkins into turkeys before placing them on top of the plates. Your family and guests will love this for sure, they might even ask you how you did it. It’s super easy and quick to make and you can fold as many table napkins as you like. If you want to learn how then simply proceed to read the instructions down below and watch the video tutorial as well so that you can see how it is exactly done. I am so glad that I saw this video tutorial by Chinet on YouTube and I will surely try this at my Thanksgiving party.

Materials:

Table napkins

Directions:

Step 1

Unfold the table napkin, then lay it on your work surface, and fold the top corners down until the edges are nicely matching in the middle. Fold over both sides to meet in the middle, then fold both sides once more until nicely matching in the middle, and fold it down in half. Fold the tip up, then lift the half up so it resembles a turkey’s head, and set it aside.

Step 2

Grab another table napkin, then leave it folded lengthwise, and start folding it crosswise into an accordion. Leave about 3 inches at the end of the table napkin unfolded, then turn it over, and fold it over in half. Tuck the unfolded portion into the center accordion, then open it up, and it should resemble a fan. Place this on top of the turkey napkin and behind the head.

Now if all of that sounds a little complicated, there’s a video that might be easier to follow!

SOURCE:DIYJOY.COM

What Shall We Make Today?

This turkey cookie uses Oreos!

Ingredients

10 Oreo cookies

½ cup Chocolate Melted

2 cups Candy corn

20 Eyeball candies

10 Pumpkin chocolate chips

Instructions

Separate an Oreo cookie so that you have one cookie with filling and one without filling.

Pour some melted chocolate on the side with filling.

Arrange the candy corns in the shape of feathers.

Place the other cookie on top and press gently to stick everything together.

Use melted chocolate to stick eyes and chocolate chip beak on top of the Oreo and you are done. 

ENJOY!

Let’s Talk Turkey!

From Williamsonsource.com website:

Cooking a turkey for the Thanksgiving meal can be overwhelming. Butterball Turkey hotline has been assisting home chefs for over 30 years. And in that time, you can imagine that they have had some pretty interesting questions.  Here is a list of the most interesting questions they have been asked over the years.  If you need that hotline, it’s open on Thanksgiving, call 1-800-288-8372 from 7am-7pm and normal hours are from 9am-7pm daily. This year, Butterball has also added the option of texting.  Now through Thanksgiving, you can text the Butterball Turkey Talk-Line experts 24/7 at 844-877-3456.

1. So I’m looking at a turkey from 1969 sitting here in my father’s freezer … any tips on the best way to cook a 30-year-old bird?
A man found a turkey in his dad’s freezer from 1969. The Talk-Line suggested the man throw out the old turkey and purchase a new one. Then, the Talk-Line suggested to cook the turkey in the open roasting pan method.

2. How do I roast my turkey so it gets golden brown tan lines — in the shape of a turkey bikini?
A strange request in deed, but the Talk-Line can help in any turkey situation! The experts helped to create a “bikini look” by using aluminum foil in certain places on the turkey.

3. How to carve a turkey when all of its bones have been broken?
A proud gentleman called to tell the staff how he wrapped his turkey in a towel and stomped on it several times, breaking the bones so it would fit in his pan. The experts wouldn’t recommend this approach — if you have several folks coming to your holiday meal but a small pan, the Talk-Line would recommend trying a different method, maybe deep frying the turkey. Or, buy two smaller turkeys in place of a large one.

4. I carved my turkey with a chainsaw … is the chain grease going to adversely affect my turkey?
A gentleman called to tell the operator he cut his turkey in half with a chain saw and wanted to know if the oil from the chain would adversely affect the turkey. The Talk-Line wouldn’t recommend serving a turkey with chainsaw grease! Instead, let your turkey rest at least 20 mins after cooking to make carving easier. Then, using a carving knife you would find in your kitchen.

5. Why does my turkey have no breast meat?
A disappointed woman called wondering why her turkey had no breast meat. After a conversation with a Talk-Line operator, it became apparent that the woman’s turkey was lying on the table upside down. The Talk-Line experts recommend cooking your turkey breast side up in the open roasting pan method. This will give you a flavorful turkey and make it easier when transferring your turkey to a plate so you don’t have to flip it over.

6. It’s my first Thanksgiving and I have a tiny apartment-sized oven … how much will my turkey expand when cooking?
A new bride cooking Thanksgiving dinner for the first time in a small, apartment-sized oven, wanted to make sure her turkey wouldn’t expand during cooking (as baked goods do) and get stuck in the oven. Rest assured, your turkey will not expand in the oven. But be sure to use a pan with at least 2″ sides so your turkey juices don’t spill over during the cooking process … you want to save the juices for turkey gravy.

7. How do I get my turkey to stop sudsing? Is a soapy turkey recoverable?
A first-time Thanksgiving chef called after she had washed her turkey with dish soap. You don’t have to clean your turkey, simply pat the extra juices dry with paper towels before stuffing or roasting the turkey – quite a bit easier than washing with soap!

8. For the sake of delicious smells, can I cook my turkey over the course of four days?
The Talk-Line doesn’t recommend slow-cooking your turkey over the course of multiple days. You are able to use a slow cooker if needed, but experts would recommend 6-8 hours in the slow cooker. If cooking in the oven, it should only take a few hours to cook

9. How do I baste a pre-basted turkey?
Some folks love to baste the turkey while it’s cooking. If you’re one of them, the Talk-Line suggests basting only a few times during the cooking process so you don’t continuously let out the heat of the oven.

10. My turkey thawed on my lap … can I eat it?
A gentleman won a turkey at the casino, and brought it home on the bus where it had thawed. The safest way to thaw your turkey is in the refrigerator — it takes one day for every four pounds of turkey. The Talk-Line experts wouldn’t recommend eating a turkey that has been thawed in warmer temperatures.