YT gifts Trump rare praise; the Gray Lady admits history is happening; NPR & PBS lose their allowance; Florida flushes fluoride; and Trump torches the UN’s 2030 globalist fantasy.
Goodbye PBS! On the gendering of animals… I was at the farmers market last year with my dog. She had on a pink harness and we had a pink leash. A woman referred to my dog as she, and then quickly apologize that she might have misgendered my dog. I laughed, and told her it was fine. She’s wearing pink. So she’s obviously a she. The woman looked at me, shocked, and said, well pink doesn’t always mean that it’s a female. And I said, well, in our house, it does. She was incensed, turned away, and fled. It was hilarious!
Just added you to my list, "Kelly". Haven't been seeing your or your little friends for most of a month. At least you're offering a new take--mRNA not just poison in our food.
Yep. AWFLs are the worst people around. Though they rarely look as polished as the photo shoot and subsequent massive airbrushing would suggest. Even the token AWFL of color is every bit as terrible as her white counterpart. Fire them all and send them to Starbucks as barristas.
Oh, no, not more of them at Starbucks! Thankfully, I found a local roaster run by a vet that is so anti-woke he basically states on his Yelp website that if you're not for freedom and for the nation, you don't need to come to his shop. After people complained he wasn't forcing masking on his employees, he added this:
"We will not be shamed into compliance. I love freedom, liberty, the US Constitution and the United States of America, We love law enforcement and all of our first responders. If you do not love our country take your business somewhere else. We also roast amazing coffee and have a cafe where you can drink it at. We would love for you to come in and enjoy some premium gourmet fresh roasted coffee."
I have a favorite little and they serve great coffee. THE BEST food in west central Florida with the best MAGA loving, hard working owners, servers and clientele. Off the beaten path sort of. Unless you need gas up your Cessna or it needs a tune up. Freedom and constitution loving people who hated our rights being stomped on. They respect everyone of course. But don’t insult who we are. No masks or distancing during covid. No NPR, CBS, ABC, MSNBC on their TV’s. A great place to celebrate Trump’s 100 days in office. ❤️🤍💙🇺🇸
This place makes the ultimo cold brew, called Viking Swill. In our sunny West Slope climate, I drink it all year, and being half Scandahoovian, the name resonates!
Mesa County, Colorado sits in the Western edge of the State--what is known as the Western Slope. It is the Eastern edge of the Colorado Plateau--sun, fantastical sedimentary rock formations, snow capped Igneous extrusions that rise high above the canyons, very warm summers and relatively mild winters. I moved here from Washington State and felt like I left one of the 7 levels of Hell and entered Heaven on Earth. Everyone here seemed so friendly--I could strike up a nice conversation with someone standing in line at the store without a preamble, so I asked a lady at the Spectrum Internet store, "Do you have to be nice to be allowed to live here"? She said, no, it's the sun, it just infuses people with a great attitude.
Please, no. My son got his computer science degree two years ago and is still struggling to find a full time job, coding. There are too many unemployed software engineers out there as it is. Let them learn to pick fruit.
They would be the WORST customer service folks imaginable. Entitled and egotistical and completely unable to work the simplest machine. I wouldn't wish that even on the dummies spending $10.50 on coffee.
Origin of Everything | Why was Pink for Boys and Blue for ...
Up until the 1940's a lot of people thought pink was the more masculine color. Pink for Boys and Blue for Girls might seem strange to modern eyes and sensibilities, but up until the 1940's a lot of people thought pink was the more masculine color and blue was clearly more feminine.
I worked in OB for 27 years and after the baby was bathed we automatically put little pink shirts and hats on baby girls and blue shirts and hats on baby boys. Never once did anyone object.
It depends on when your are talking about. Classically, blue was associated with peace, the ocean (which is considered feminine due to the tides and their association with the moon) and the Virgin Mary. As AngelaK mentioned, in classical art, you will almost always see Mary painted wearing blue.
But baby clothes were pretty unisex until the 1950. Mostly they were white, which could be bleached and put on either gender—an important point when you are hand sewing clothes! Even when pastels became associated, it looks like they were pretty interchangeable between sexes through WWII.
The change seems to be attributable more to marketing and the rise of purchasing home goods in the 50s.
Hmmm..putting on my art history degree hat, I certainly remember many blue silk tafetta gowns on women in paintings, but not all that much , if any, pink on men... perhaps I recall one. Crimson and red on men, most definitely yes. Men of status did love to wear color.
Some of the male reenactors at Jamestown Virginia wear pink tights under their knee length breeches -- but they are sort of closer to red, not a pastel pink.
I have a valid, viable career pivot/recommendation for these fast relics; it is impolite, possibly misogynistic, and definitely RUDE. Now, guess the profession?
Way back in early April, 2020 a NPR story actually inspired me to explore the field of behavioral science and the coercive power of symbolism, historical application by Goebbels in Germany to "other" diseased undesirables. In a story about masks. It raised every hair on my neck for its reference to masks being "honor badges" towards the end, after reading through the AWFL fluff:
Being a student of the history of WWII and the Holocaust those words meant something different to me than most. The yellow star Jews were forced to wear in Germany were adopted as a "badge of honor" by well-meaning Jews.
It was that term that raised the hairs up on my neck in early April, 2020 and directed me to research behaviorism. Which eventually led to other related and tangential subjects to research like bioethics, epidemiology, medical sociology, disease politics and all of the dark mind sorcery we are being manipulated by on so many fronts. Climate, gender, oil, elections, war, all of it.
Thanks to NPR! Then again, I'm not an AWFL and can think critically when I read a story even on NPR. Cutting through the propaganda BS and getting to the buried lede: Masks were *always* about symbolism, division, visible distinctions between 'good' and 'bad' teams.
And then there's this reality check. What if none of it matters anyways, facial recognition and biometric surveillance systems are already in place and we're debating a system of control that's already been obsoleted?
You can get a passport card that fits in your wallet like a driver's license. It's a passport-lite, good for travel outside US only in North America and the Caribbean, but works for Real ID.
Or we try to "opt out" and endure the inconvenience and time delays as our way to protest and throw sand in the surveillance gears that rely on mass compliance. Too much noncompliance slows the system up for them, too, makes them reconsider adopting new policy when it proves to be too inefficient.
I refuse to go through the scanner, and require a manual pat-down. For which "they" have to wait until a female official is free to do the touchy-feely. Just a few sand grains in their machine.
Conservative contrarian, I guess you and I are two fish on the same pond.
I wanted my lab doodle male to have at least one time puppies with our golden doodle female,
we were told that normally they get four to six puppies…..
Fast forward and 12 hours of labor they were thirteen…..so we got :
Grand ma….Pointer mix with American bulldog
Dad and mom and thirteen pups.
We gave 8 to friends and family in 5 different states and we have a what’s up chat exclusively for them
“My puppies “ were we pretty much know everything about them and had been blessed knowing where they are and what they do constantly, our lifestyle has changed 180 degrees and we don’t care anymore about appearances, when you get showered with love and incondicional affection and if you are gone for an hour or two they welcome you as if you were gone for days…..they depend on you for each day and each meal….you get a close up to what we are to GOD and HIS incondicional love for us.
No matter what happens, what brakes or what gets chowing up, you clean this morning for the second time and everything gets more dirty in your home.
Then you just smile and move on.
At 66 that’s the new meaning of life.
GOD BLESSED US and trust us to take care of this beautiful creatures.
“All dogs are male and all cats are female”. I can’t remember the person who first said it, but I thought ‘How true!!!”
I ALWAYS call cats ‘she’ (we women can be ‘catty’, after all.), and Dogs are ‘he’, (unless it’s an ‘ankle-biter….then it may be amorphous 🫤🫢🤭). Dogs are just SO masculine……with the exceptions of chihuahuas and Yorkers……..
Well… you can own a dog but a cat owns you. My cat works hard to keep me in line. Feeding, outside time, litter box upkeep. She calls me out if I slack.
It was the last good one before they went pop. In 1973 we saw them open, along with The Amazing Blondel, for Badfinger. A very good show, REO was blow the doors off loud; music to a 15 year old lad such as I.
It was the only one I REALLY liked. I played it all the time. I saw them in concert 7 times, IIRC. Got to meet them once. Shook all their hands! 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗 <--- FYI, me being joyous.
Yesterday my cat - a one eyed castrated male who would not be mistaken for a female - interrupted me at my desk to demand I bring the box of eggs that had just been delivered inside - AND DO IT RIGHT NOW OR GET A CLAW IN THE SHIN! I'm amazed at the things he gets wound up about. The eggs needed to come in out of the sun, but why would the cat care about that? He doesn't eat eggs, and he pays no attention to deliveries generally.
Great story! For many years it’s irritated me that liberals have occupied farmer’s markets, as though it’s ‘their’ territory. Excuse me, conservatives like natural, whole foods as well. In my home town it’s not much of an issue because we live in a conservative area, but if you ever want to feel like a duck out of water, go visit the farmer’s market in Santa Fe, NM! Some of their produce was outstanding, but their attitude was as condescending and nasty as you’d expect.
I’m in Northern Colorado…a fish out of water EVERYWHERE I go. Yesterday people were outside of Whole Foods protesting Trump…protesting Trump in my neck of the woods is like protesting Beef at a vegan market 🤦♀️. So. Dumb.
She felt shame for knowing your dog was female because of the pink, then scolded you for understanding why she knew it. Cannot imagine how difficult it is to navigate daily life with that mindset. So many rules and regulations for a simple interaction. I couldn’t do it even if I tried.
I play board games with a large group of people. I was playing with a man and two women. The women went to go pick out a game. When they returned, one said, "Of course we picked something pink!" And these women are left wing. So, even most of the left wingers know pink is for women.
My hubby looks fabulous in pink and purple dress shirts, but he hates wearing them. He won't even put the pink leash on our female dog. Drives me batty.
I was eating while reading these comments and was taking another note as I read "he won't even put the pink leash on" the brain paused at that point I almost sprayed the room with food. It was a good laugh for the digestion.
😅🤣😂 I just told my husband about the original post, read him my comment, then yours. Now we both are laughing so hard we're crying. Thank YOU for the laugh!
This! They know - they absolutely do - but they quickly become focused on aligning with political correctness and enjoy the virtue signaling it imparts and then the self-satisfaction they feel as they inwardly reward themselves for defending it properly and being worthy of admiration. 🙄 Fools. Then their reaction to truth thrown back in their faces, after they so “masterfully defended the indefensible,” is one of being appalled and an arrogant refusal to be aligned with anyone having such opposing views. It’s pertinent for them to leave you in a pool of disapproval so that they feel good about causing you to feel worse than they actually do. But it doesn’t work. I always feel better. 😆
Please please please tell me this isn't a true story. That's ridiculous. At the very least, I hope she doesn't mis-gender any rats living in her basement.
Sounds like it could’ve been in Sarasota. We had nuts like that at the farmer’s market downtown. You wouldn’t believe it if I described some of the things I saw there…
We have a female black German shepherd who’s very outgoing. Every time my vet sees her I have to correct him that she’s a she, even when the vet is up close, hands on examining her. I just laugh, my dog is a tomboy like me.
Where’s Lesley Stahl & 60 Minites to report on the DOGE meeting yesterday? Oh that’s right…..they’re getting sued into oblivion by Trump for election interference…..
You don’t hate the media enough — you think you do, but you don’t.
Question Response: Perhaps use the same Socratic approach one should take with any law enforcement. "Do you know why I pulled you over to-day?" I really appreciate what you do but I have been advised to not answer questions. Why did you stop me?
To the "reporter" with genuine interest:
What media do you represent? Has your outlet reported on the good that the Trump administration is doing in stopping human trafficking? Do you agree with the corporate media that pretended it was not a problem during the first administration? Have you ever interviewed someone that was rescued from human traffickers? Is this story about supporters the most important use of your skills as a reporter?
It is odd to me that even though reporters know how hard it is to get MAGA/MAHA to talk to them, they still think their 'polling' is valid.
I went to pray across the street from our (used to be) local abortion clinic years ago (thank God, it's since shut down). I had not even thought about that available Saturday for me being Mother's Day weekend. As such, there were tons of people there, including police and a yellow painted curb, enforcing that only certain Americans had the right to cross into the public street. Yeah, make THAT make sense. Anyway, my husband and I hung out for a while praying. As we were leaving, a reporter approached me asking if he could interview me. I promptly said NOPE! When he asked why I wouldn't talk to him, I said, "Because you guys NEVER get the facts correct when speaking to Christians or conservatives. You twist everything and take it out of context!" And that was back in the early 90's!!!!
I loved your story, Vicki! You did more for him than I would’ve.
Back in the late 90s, I went through AT&T Wireless customer service training. There, I learned that the worst customer to have (from the company’s standpoint, anyway) was the one that cancels without telling you why because they leave you without any way to improve.
So my only response to a reporter would be to politely decline. The MSM needs to die, put simply, and I’m not giving a one of them anything to think about that they shouldn’t have learned from journalism school (or a simple examination of their own conscience). And nothing could make beholding its demise more delightful than to hear it gurgling with its final gasp, “hooooow?!?” 😁
Never talk to ANY media unless you are able to (overtly or covertly) make your own recording of the entire exchange, so that when you are misrepresented, you have the ability to correct the record &, if the investigator is demonstrably manipulative, you have the ability to discredit their work, and restore your correct image by presenting your intended replies. This goes for any documentarian or journalist regardless of political stripe or ideological commitment. Never consent to information asymmetry.
Perhaps you can temper your fear with the near certainty that Jeff's Trumpet (C&C) could at least make your rebuttal visible to the sane & in-the-know.
well I will take the neanderthal hicks over the democrat base of multi colored hair with tats and piercings over every inch of their bodies any time - and they believe they are the smartest kids on the block - right
The tats---just checked--the list of ingredients is frightening: cobalt, cadmium....other elements and compounds toxic to the human, however, there exist "vegan friendly inks". I'd like to see a correlation between tattoo-acquisition and injection acquisition since 2021.
Speech Rights: It should be no wonder that two important rights in this country are Our right to Free Speech and our right to Remain Silent. Martha Stewart could tell you just how important is the latter... But she won't because she learned the hard way.
So why the dichotomy? It is because of the bi-polar nature of our people. We think free speech gives us the right to express our opinion freely. They think free speech gives them the right to twist our opinion in any way that is damaging to us.
Donald Trump signed a new Executive Order to overhaul federal workforce training to prepare Americans for skilled trade jobs... Trump’s new plan would provide support for 1 million apprenticeships annually. No amount of academia can compensate for a lack of hands-on experience. The old notion that one must complete higher education to obtain a good-paying job is a relic of the past. In fact, many of these trade positions offer excellent first-year pay compared to entry-level corporate jobs. Additionally, these are jobs that likely cannot be replaced with AI. There will always be a need for plumbers, electricians, welders, etc. Higher education is unnecessary for most fields, and reframing education as an opportunity to learn directly from those in the field is an excellent way to educate the next generation of workers, albeit at the detriment of universities.
Higher education once had a justification for its existence: turning out scholars. But when higher education took over nursing from hospitals (to name only one example) and began confusing training for education on top of deciding that college was meant for everyone, they lost the plot, or as a friend of mine likes to say, “they fell off the sled.”
Funny you say that Mary Ann! Decades ago, I graduated from a nursing school, not a university. When I first began my career, there were several doctors who preferred to have only nursing school grads attend to their patients. One guy would attach notes to all of his patients’ charts stating No BSN or MSN please. (While I loved my profession, I left shortly after HMOs became the norm.)
My step mother and her closest friends were all hospital trained nurses. They knew how to efficiently perform every procedure, they were kind and caring for their patients, they understood drug interactions, and I was convinced they knew more than the doctors. After coming to know nurses (the ones my step mother called "the two year wonders"), I have heard others say they fear being put in a hospital now.
My grandmother, great aunts, mom, and aunt were all hospital trained. ALL of them bemoaned the state of their profession and had the same fear of being hospitalized. Now, I will say I do know caring, intelligent BSN/MSN nurses with integrity and knowledge. But sadly many of them left nursing during Covid.
My mother was a 3 year diploma graduate from a Catholic school of nursing. She wasn’t Catholic but too young when she graduated HS for other programs. In WW2 she was a decorated nurse anesthetist serving in the army. Physicians respected her and patients loved her.
I became a nurse later in life, starting as a LPN, got my RN and then my BSN working in a wide variety of settings. My approach to every situation was heavily influenced by my mother’s kindness towards her colleagues and patients. I had a fantastic role model.
We were able to run a unit when we graduated! 1968! 45 years of TLC and loved it! Our CV Surgeon loved older nurses caring for his patients! I’m hearing a lot of disappointing news about the medical field. Two hospitals here in my fair state begging for help I hear! Wonder why? Just maybe health care will come back to the right path. Forget cell phones and care for the patient like he or she were your family! Makes a big difference!
I’m a 2 year nurse. I see it across the board 2,4,MSN. Doesn’t matter the training, it’s the heart. Even when I worked at a desk job on a patient floor I answered lights but my office mates would say ‘we are passed that time’ meaning we did our time on the floor. Well I went in to nursing to help people so scrubs, business attire or whatever I will still answer a light. Speak to patients. My office mates had degrees from little community college like myself, Columbia University, southern 3 year nurses, and WSU. Years of experience ranged from 8-25 and many from all over but none of them would answer a light unless I made them feel bad by answering lights. It’s what is in the heart.
Higher “education” cares only about profits and growing their endowments. They do that by enrolling unqualified students the university knows will fail, but before that inevitable happens, the scholarships bring in more cash. Student outcomes have no relevance.
With a trade like that, not only will he be in high demand and make good money (plumber is another one), he will also learn other building trades like carpentry by working in conjunction with other tradespeople. This will translate to his personal life, where he may save money buying his first house by purchasing a fixer, and he will be able to competently do projects himself, or have a network of others he can hire or trade services with.
We are now in our 3rd house, over 52 years. And two others on family property, which we maintain. Each of them has been a fixer-upper. But "tool-user" was high on my young-man-test list.
Our 2 grandsons want to be a welder and a mechanic. I couldn’t be prouder. My son, however, majored in Public Relations at Penn State. A Public Relations major is taught to lie, manipulate, confuse, conceal, and mislead the public. SMH. He also never was required to use the university library for anything in his 4 years there.
Yes! God answered prayer for us this week - having windows put in a metal bldg by our house, and of course the electric wiring was right in the way, but the Lord steered me to an electrician who was able to come right over and fix it!
It’s a great career. My husband has been a commercial electrician for 33 years and was a residential one for three years before that. We aren’t wealthy at all, but if not for extreme medical and support expenses for three children with disabilities stretching over 27 years we certainly could have been - easily. It’s a fair salary that a man can support both his wife and kids on if needed. You do have to make sacrifices to lifestyle in the early years and stay out of debt, and then you can achieve the American dream while having life long job security. His union is one of the strongest in the country, not corrupt like many are, and certainly not run like the “teacher’s union” kinds of unions. They really take care of their members above all else, and we have had great health care all these years since our union manages its own plan, again protecting its own people and not corporate interests.
My husband usually is the general foreman or super on any job site but that’s because he works really hard and is detailed, clean, and precise in his work. A quiet amiable man that gets respect wherever he goes. He gets up at 3:15 am every day even though he doesn’t start until 6am, solely because he wants a stress free drive in the mornings and to arrive 30-60 mins early to make sure he has time for prayer and to get everything set up for the job site. I admire his work ethic. He is deserving of twice his salary if not more. But I would rather have the security it has provided our family than the riches.
I just participated in an event at a northeast trade school. Highly motivated students that have worthy goals, ambition and work ethics. And zero student loan debt!
My mom made a list of professions that she wanted her five daughters to marry, electricians and plumbers topped the list. While she didn't get her wish in sons-in-laws, my son did become an electrician.
I wanted to be an electrician. Passed the exam with one of the highest scores. Next came the interview with two old codgers to get into the program. This was in the late ‘80’s.
Needless to say, they seemed to think me being female was a detriment. I was so put off I decided I wasn’t going to go through that apprenticeship program. I’m still mad about it!
Shame you didn't persist, Paige. My sister did the same and became a well liked union electrician. But she put up with a lot of crap early on. She retired 3 years ago at 58. Was practically drug back as a supervising consultant for 3 months of the year. Needless to say, doing quite well.
Oh, lots of things. Support for at-risk students at a high school, rural carrier at a post office, sales rep at several places, accounts receivable supervisor then contract negotiator at a trucking company.
I started a cleaning business over 20 years ago. Not sure if I could work for anyone anymore 😄
Mike Rowe was part of this assembly. He wrote how impressed he was with the young new innovations that these visionaries were coming with. Talked about wandering into a bar in Dearborn, MI and having group of Ford auto techs coming in. Ford throws a celebration yearly to celebrate the best in all their technology and innovation groups. Rowe was so impressed with this group after spending an hour talking with them. A group picture he posted showed the group to be hardly what you would expect.
I look back on my career, I hired in with a HS education. Over the course of the years as I worked my way up the ladder jobs held by people with only a HS diploma became unreachable without a college degree. As I returned to college what once required an associate degree became a bachelor degree which became a master’s degree. I’ve come to realize the shift may have been more of an attempt to get more young people into the indoctrination camps of college. I understand many professions require college degrees (thank goodness) while others are well suited for OTJT. Not every white collar job requires a college degree. Additionally look at the standard requirements for degrees. Why must I take a work religion course or a black history course no matter the course of study? Why do I need a women empowerment course for a degree? I don’t.
I've never understood why colleges offer degrees in business. Our local college has a business faculty none of whom have actually ever worked in or owned one. And, most importantly, successful businessmen can do business without a degree, ftlog.
Like we get these people with law degrees: soft hands, no experience, can’t balance a checkbook or do basic repairs and hire them to run our states and country!!🤯
You just said the scary part: they run our states and our country. Imagine how things would be if elected officials actually knew how to do something useful.
Had a friend whose husband was a "professor of business". And who had never built, nor owned a business. Make this make sense? While my husband had created and run (still there 39 years later) his own business.
I am here! Haha, still holding on! I began my sewing pattern business in 1990, and my instructions were considered wordy at that time. I have been redoing them for the last two years to adjust for new printing requirements, and I now am amazed at how simple the instructions seem. I am putting in double what I had before, to help the newcomers to sewing. People learning to sew nowadays need so much help with everything, including terminology. There has been an astounding diminishing of skill over these years.
Wallpaper hanger! I had one room done by a general contractor who pretended he could do it, and the next room done by an old paperhanger who had done it for years and was a true artisan. He said he would have loved to take on an apprentice but no young guys were interested.
They need to bring the Shop class back to the junior high and high schools. I have loved what Mike Rowe is doing with the classes he has built. His organization is called MicroWorks.
Still waiting to see how they address constitutional carry/ open carry. If one can carry concealed constitutionally, without any form of permit required, and one can carry openly whilst boating, fishing, hunting, or camping, how do you wash not allowing open carry here?
—“ I’ll just point out that, over the last four years, Jack never thought Biden’s lockdowns, mandatory drugs, or vaccine passports for accessing air travel were threats to the rule of law.”
Right?? 🙄 Their hypocrisy is so appallingly obvious to anyone with a brain 🙄
Starting in the mid-2000’s, I realized critical thinking had died in America. I’ve now corrected myself and realized one must actually have a brain for thinking- critically or not- and that’s what’s missing in the MSM, Dems, Ivy Leagues, ActBlue, NPR, etc..Oh the list of the brainless is so long and fueled by nothing but hate and arrogance.
I knew when this was aired quite often on NPR: (paraphrasing), "The news can be complicated these days. Everyone leads a busy life. Let us sift through it and present you with what you need to know!" Chills went up & down my spine...never listened again. Unfortunately so many people I know believe and go there to be told what to believe. It's presented in such a reasonable, "intelligent" way...🙄
You know, that was true for me. It absolutely drove me. Always trying to find a novel way to make "acquisition of understanding" (Latin) easier for my students.
“Where is your faith?” he asked his disciples. In fear and amazement they asked one another, “Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him.”
Luke 8:25 NIV
Who is this? HE is the Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of the Living God, sent by the Father to save the world through Him. All praise, honor and glory to the King of kings!
A little off topic: Pittsburgh had some bad storms late on Tuesday afternoon. Not as bad as a hurricane or raging wildfire.
Lost power at 5:20 pm on Tuesday and still has not been restored. Power company is estimating 5-7 days for power to be restored. Yes, you read that right.
We have become a 3rd world country. Survived a hurricane in Florida, lived on Chesapeake Bay, and battered by fierce weather coming in from Lake Erie while in W. New York. Never, ever, had power out this long.
At the 40-hour mark without power, I determined this was some sort of mental torture. Alex Jones always says that in case of EMP, civilization would collapse in about 2 weeks tops.
No power is boring and unsafe. Lots of senior citizens and disabled living in high rise apartments that are not able to charge their wheelchairs or power their oxygen devices. Doesn't seem to be a real hurry by those in charge with the government to help.
Currently at a friend's house, who actually has electricity, using a old computer. Won't be able to "like" your comments, but I will be enjoying them.
Wow Kathleen, thanks for the update. I was watching those storms that day, on Ryan Hall's YT channel, and someone in another Rumble live chat who lives near Pittsburgh said he had limbs down and the power was out. Anything more than 24 hours can be life threatening for some, like you cited.
Yes, in this Dem run, sanctuary, and progressive city, there does not see to be any intensity to help the most vulnerable. One lady finally had one of the local news stations do a story on the disabled not being able to charge their medical devices.
I guess I was under the impression that Philadelphia was the Dem run sanctuary city with the corrupt elections. I thought Pittsburgh was in the conservative part of the state.
One more way to kill the masses of weak and elderly. We should be glad. In a world where self is truly god then dogs eat dogs and we destroy our own children and mothers for whatever time is left and time is running out quickly for all devils.
Sorry for you and other Pittsburgians! 3rd world is right! how can this be?! even the massive outage in Portugal/Spain was mostly fixed in 24 hours. hope you stay ok.
I once lost power for 2 weeks (coastal CT after a hurricane). Thank heavens the water heater was gas! I had a big hurricane party, where everyone brought the meat from their freezers and we grilled and partied. This was in the days before the internet et al, and I guess we were accustomed to reading and whatnot. Til it got dark. It was interesting to reset your personal clock to sunset and sunrise. Today, there'd probably be some electronic withdrawal!
Thank goodness I have a gas water heater, so I was able to take a hot shower.
At first, the power company was able to give updates over the phone if you put in your phone and house number. Then, they stated they were overwhelmed with calls, and then just terminated the call. Now, we are told to go to the website to report an outage. Pretty much indicating it will be May 6th to restore power...maybe.
Bought a 35 kw genset this year. I don’t intend to be without power, ever. Diesel, it will run on waste oil, cooking oil, or pretty much anything. Plus 30 solar panels. I intend to be that dot you can see from space when next outage comes this year. Because it always does during hurricane season.
My power went out for a few hours several days ago. It really caused me to pause and to realize how dependent I am on these "modern conveniences". I can live without my phone, but without my computer?! Different story.
Water, as well. Fall of '22, after a long day of canning meat (thanks for frightening me about food shortages, Pres. Cabbage-head), while washing up canning equipment, tap water flow slowed to a trickle. It didn't really bother me, because I had just returned from another location with a few gallons of well water . Turns out that a main had burst up the road. But from that experience, I learned--and since I hadn't recently brewed, and thus had lots empty of 5-gal. carboys, I filled them with water. So I have 30-40 gallons in the cellar. I would at this point probably boil it before cooking or drinking, but it's water.
The really bizarre part is watching/listening to people in charge stating it will take 5-7 days to get power restored as if it is totally normal to take so long.
This happened to us last year in Houston. There was a freak tornado thingy in May, and we lost power for 5 days. Then in July we had a Cat 1 hurricane, the lowest possible category, and we were without power for 10 days, as were huge parts of the city. We purchased a portable generator that can run on either gasoline, nat gas, or diesel. And installed a quick connect to our gas line. The fact that we have to do this in one of the US's largest cities, where we're literally on the coast in hurricane alley, and guaranteed to have many more worse storms, is.... well. I mean, I expect to be without power for a week if it's a Cat 3+, or maybe even Cat 2, but this was unbelievably disheartening.
Yes. During peak hurricane season (Aug/Sept) it's typically 90+ degrees outside and 99% humidity. Really terrible to be without A/C, and potentially deadly for seniors or those in care facilities.
There definitely was after Helene! I knew I needed something creative to hold on to sanity. So I began knitting a sweater that very day! Just finished it a week ago. Knitting helped so much!!
30 years ago, when determining what to purchase to replace the 1950 electric stove (though it did have 6 burners and two ovens); I was determined to get a gas stove. Because we'd had too many winter ice storms taking down the power. One time I went to roasting a chicken in the fireplace (concrete blocks and a shish kebab skewer). Had to put in propane for stove fuel as there is no natural gas here. One fireplace in this house remains to be opened up; from the plain molding and higher opening I am sure it must have been in the kitchen. Would love to see what's inside (it was closed up when central heating was put in in the 30's.) On husband's to-do list--he opened the fireplace directly above. We are loaded with wood, and have 3 working fireplaces.
I just heard about this last night! Will be adding Pennsylvania to my prayer list. Yes, just another way to get rid of some old useless eaters? 🤬 😭 Lord please restore the power, in Your mighty name 🙏🏻
So sorry you're having to deal with this. I believe the weather is deliberately manipulated to induce emergencies, not only in the US but all around the world. It would seem "they" know their time is limited. Still, my heart goes out to you and everyone dealing with this.
I SO want to lean in to <𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮 "𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺" 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥.> No crystal ball. Prayerful "they" are outed in full by the end of the decade. Sooner would be even better. Meantime, yep, they're doing their damnedest to wreak havoc, kill and psyop-subjugate as many of us as possible. Too late in the long term scheme of things. Jig's up. Slo-mo topple is underway. Though in historical context, the collapse of their empire will probably seem rapid. Getting ahead of myself... Yes, they are running scared. Nice to read a macro view vs. the nitty gritty. Details are necessary, but it's good to pull back and take in the whole chessboard as it were.
Spain got hit bad! Thank goodness the Communists’ green energy scam wasn’t complete over here. No power for 5 days after Helene: you really learn what you need in emergencies.
Kathleen, do you can? in '22 I put up about 100 lb of chicken, beef and port. Still sitting on the shelves in the cold room. [umm, that was pork, not port. Port does not need canning--its alcohol content keeps it just fine]
As long as the seal remains intact (and ironically, that season, a number of jars whose seal I had tested, later came loose), probably indefinitely. RoseRed Homestead (youtube channel) spoke of a jar 10 years old—she had just failed to find it.
We live in the country and bought a Generac generator for just such times. The more we seem to go to “renewable” energy the more outages we have. After one a year ago, during the summer I found out power companies are becoming critically short of manpower for line working. This butts right up to trade schools and people who want to work. I have a friend in Alabama who frequently loses power for storms. Apparently, evergreen trees down there uproot rather easily in high winds. They have power back on hours generally and it was only a couple of days when a big tornado went through. Here, in Michigan it can take days, if not weeks after a small storm.
Our electric bills have increased tremendously because of more reliance on renewables. Guess no one told them that the sun doesn't shine in PA during the winter months.
Coupled with the fact the power company is relying more on contracting employees rather than regular employees.
And the government told people they were "non-essential" during the pandemic...and this is the result.
This is my biggest, “hit my head against a wall”. Any rational person knows Solar can’t run our power grids. Optimistically, they are saying 12 to 18%. Why, why, would we do this? Follow the money….
Yup, trees are down all over the place. It was a very intense couple of minutes! The street next to ours was restored last night, but we are still being told next Tuesday. The universities are fine so my husband is schlepping our big rechargeable batteries back and forth to keep them charged. They let us have one lamp in evening, and the chest freezer gets periodic runs on the larger pack. Still have hot water, and the toilets flush so I feel like it's not as bad as it could be. (I'm not discounting the serious harm done to some.) Tree crews are here from IN, OH, and eastern PA. It's true our infrastructure could be in better shape, and we could stand better city officials, but sometimes nature is just scary and on Tuesday it was scary.
It wouldn't be so bad for recovery if we actually had competent people in charge.
Like imagine you could watch a press conference and know that the people in charge weren't woke.
The mayor of Pittsburgh publicly stated that he would not cooperate with ICE...so defend the illegal aliens to the max while the city could not even do proper snow removal this past winter.
Gonna be interesting because there is a mayoral election this year.
I am currently reading the book, “Confronting the Presidents” by Bill O’Reilly. Let me say first I am in no way an O’Reilly fan, but my brother is, and knowing I am a former Am. History teacher, he thought I might enjoy it. This book covers the presidents from Washington through Obama. Each president is given about 7 to 10 pages up to the beginning of the 20th century where a bit more is awarded. I know a great deal about the first 5 presidents having taught history. I was intrigued to learn that at the time of Washington’s election to president, (almost unanimous), Philadelphia boasted 20 independent newspapers. While Washington was well liked his Cabinet, especially the second term, fought bitterly, back stabbed, and lied continuously. Cabinet members would run to the press papers and make up lies and scandals, that were duly printed. Not much different than now….
I loved this book so much I bought a copy for my granddaughter who is homeschooling her three children. What I liked was having the Presidents in order in story form. Also Bill is a real journalist and his writing wasn’t biased. Great book! ( President CliffsNotes!!)
Yes, while I am not a fan of his politics and his bombastic style of reporting, I do appreciate many of his “Killing” books. I am finding he packs some really interesting nuggets on each president.
There is another book out there that list the presidents that did the most damage. I don't like O' Reilly in any form and I don't think he tells the facts only shaded to his point .
Oh yes, I’m waiting to hear that soon. I have a positive attitude, though. I think it is a matter of timing, and this behavior by judges is being allowed to happen so more people will clearly see the need for house cleaning!
You + Bill Gates fund National Propaganda Radio, I guess the Fair and Balanced slogan is already taken, NPR listeners know everything and more NPR memes as whistleblower Uri Berliner resigns!
Where their $ comes from, Bill Gates paid-for propaganda, the Dunning–Kruger effect, of course they would stay on and focus on Chinese owned Tik-Tok and more NPR + PBS memes as they leave Twitter!
Harvard’s Tax Exempt status is being stripped by Trump per the NY Post. Let’s see what kind of tax payments to the U.S. Treasury come out of Harvard? Billions, I hope.
I believe support of Trump is steady but I'm certain the enthusiasm is a bit more muted, sort-of like the hush of eager anticipation, waiting for the main course to be served. The menu consist of the many corrupt elected politicians/bureaucrats being held responsible for any crimes they have committed. Once that begins in earnest, enthusiasm will sweep across the planet. 🌎
"Had they asked —or cared— Ms. Libecki almost certainly could’ve rattled off a dozen concrete wins, or explained why she likes Trump’s Cabinet picks so much"
I might speculate that they DID ask her, and because she COULD answer concretely and persuasively, they ignored reporting her answer. Had she fumbled and stumbled her answer, THAT would've made it into their narrative. I mean, their article.
Did I say he isn't correct? Did I even remotely *imply* that he isn't correct?
No. And no. Plainly no and no.
My POINT was about the likely dishonesty of the NY Times, in that they probably did ask her, and she answered ably so they ignored her. Because if she had answered inarticulately, THAT they would've published.
She wasn’t criticizing your comment at all. She was actually supporting it as being a wonderful and glowing example of why we shouldn’t speak to the press. Like adding an additional supportive sentence to the end of everything you just said. She, and we, saw your point clearly and agree with you. ☺️
This is the day the Lord has made let us rejoice and be glad! Traveling across Montana through ND to Northern Minnesota makes me appreciate God’s work to create our beautiful country. Praise be to God for His Mercy endures forever.
You are totally at 😮 ohhhh, how beautiful it is, I would always wonder how hard was for the pioneers to do the same walking or in a wagon, granted we do it in a beautiful paved road and with facilities, restaurants and hotels or RV parks and we can get enough of the Beautiful Creation of The LORD bud definitely, to do it only by hope, dreams and lots of prayers it was remarkable.
Speaking of pioneers, I bought a boxed set of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books to give as a gift, but I decided to read them myself. I’m turning 70 this month and have not read them since I was probably 10 years old. I’m almost finished with the first one, “Little house on the Prairie”. Wow. Everybody should’ve read it! Very Un-PC concerning the Indians, but that was life in the 1800’s ( and the book was first published in 1935).
Those books which I read as a child, shaped the future me (who turns 75 this summer). They are why I learned to do crewel embroidery in 7th grade, and why I have been making all our bread and soap these last 52 years. Laura's daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, wrote a book on embroidery--I suppose that's part of what got me started.
I bought a set years ago at a thrift store but haven’t read them yet. I understand it’s also a primer on how they survived. Thanks for reminding me about those books.
The pioneers were a God fearing people and trusted that He would provide for them like He did for the Israelites. That’s what gave them the courage to move West.
"The DOGE team says that when they went into the US Institute for PEACE they had loaded GUNS inside their headquarters trying to resist the DOGE team. They were spending money on things like private jets and had a contract with the Taliban.
Their chief accountant deleted over 1TB of financial data over the past years and the DOGE team was able to recover it.
They received $55M a year from congress and any money that went unspent got swept into a private bank account which had no congressional oversight and used it to fund parties and the private jet.
at the INSTITUTE FOR PEACE!
The DOGE team says they reported their findings to the FBI and DOJ.
"It was by far the least peaceful agency we've ever dealt with.""
There are two possibilities, one is what the IFP bureaucrats did is legal, if so Congress should be held responsible for not crafting laws/regulations to prohibit such behavior. The other possibility is the IFP bureaucrats broke laws and need to be prosecuted.
I saw that interview and was very impressed with the team. WTF is the “institute for PEACE” doing with loaded weapons in their building? We’re they going to take down the DOGE team or have they been watching too many Netflix thrillers? I’d like to see weapons charges pursued until we determine who obtained these firearms, how and why.
Goodbye PBS! On the gendering of animals… I was at the farmers market last year with my dog. She had on a pink harness and we had a pink leash. A woman referred to my dog as she, and then quickly apologize that she might have misgendered my dog. I laughed, and told her it was fine. She’s wearing pink. So she’s obviously a she. The woman looked at me, shocked, and said, well pink doesn’t always mean that it’s a female. And I said, well, in our house, it does. She was incensed, turned away, and fled. It was hilarious!
Love this! Reality does not sit well with some people, but don't let them hold you back from speaking truth.
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Just added you to my list, "Kelly". Haven't been seeing your or your little friends for most of a month. At least you're offering a new take--mRNA not just poison in our food.
Yep. AWFLs are the worst people around. Though they rarely look as polished as the photo shoot and subsequent massive airbrushing would suggest. Even the token AWFL of color is every bit as terrible as her white counterpart. Fire them all and send them to Starbucks as barristas.
AWFLS is such a perfect name!
It matches the Abuse Waste Fraud Liberalism (or Larceny) of the Fedocracy
Omg it’s the AWFULS 😂😂😂
I call them hags for short.
Oh, no, not more of them at Starbucks! Thankfully, I found a local roaster run by a vet that is so anti-woke he basically states on his Yelp website that if you're not for freedom and for the nation, you don't need to come to his shop. After people complained he wasn't forcing masking on his employees, he added this:
"We will not be shamed into compliance. I love freedom, liberty, the US Constitution and the United States of America, We love law enforcement and all of our first responders. If you do not love our country take your business somewhere else. We also roast amazing coffee and have a cafe where you can drink it at. We would love for you to come in and enjoy some premium gourmet fresh roasted coffee."
I love this guy!
I have a favorite little and they serve great coffee. THE BEST food in west central Florida with the best MAGA loving, hard working owners, servers and clientele. Off the beaten path sort of. Unless you need gas up your Cessna or it needs a tune up. Freedom and constitution loving people who hated our rights being stomped on. They respect everyone of course. But don’t insult who we are. No masks or distancing during covid. No NPR, CBS, ABC, MSNBC on their TV’s. A great place to celebrate Trump’s 100 days in office. ❤️🤍💙🇺🇸
Tell us where this is, so some of us can enjoy it too.
Mountain Air Coffee and Roasters, Grand Junction, Colorado. In Mesa County, where "sanctuary" is not allowed: https://www.cpr.org/2024/02/21/colorados-mesa-county-passes-resolution-declaring-itself-a-non-sanctuary-county/
This place makes the ultimo cold brew, called Viking Swill. In our sunny West Slope climate, I drink it all year, and being half Scandahoovian, the name resonates!
If I'm ever near there, I'm going!
Pasco county Florida. Happy Hangar cafe
I don't drink coffee but I would buy from him just because I like his stand.
You do know that you are reading Coffee and Covid?😁
Where is this? I want to move
there!
Mesa County, Colorado sits in the Western edge of the State--what is known as the Western Slope. It is the Eastern edge of the Colorado Plateau--sun, fantastical sedimentary rock formations, snow capped Igneous extrusions that rise high above the canyons, very warm summers and relatively mild winters. I moved here from Washington State and felt like I left one of the 7 levels of Hell and entered Heaven on Earth. Everyone here seemed so friendly--I could strike up a nice conversation with someone standing in line at the store without a preamble, so I asked a lady at the Spectrum Internet store, "Do you have to be nice to be allowed to live here"? She said, no, it's the sun, it just infuses people with a great attitude.
Let them learn to code.
Please, no. My son got his computer science degree two years ago and is still struggling to find a full time job, coding. There are too many unemployed software engineers out there as it is. Let them learn to pick fruit.
Better yet, hire them out as domestics to Hollywood hacks.
When you have had more dinner hours than dinners, you understand that honest labour is the greatest gift and the greatest equalizer.
Or mow lawns.
They would be the WORST customer service folks imaginable. Entitled and egotistical and completely unable to work the simplest machine. I wouldn't wish that even on the dummies spending $10.50 on coffee.
I'm triggered. Lol.😉
Sounds like they could work at many of the Walmarts in the country though, as door guards.
Hahahahahaha!
BLACK AWFLs ARE A SECURITY THREAT TO THE NATION!!!
Why “black?” I didn’t realize subversives didn’t come in ALL colors!!
They do.
They would be ABFLs.
But "pink is the new blue" and apparently even colors can have preferred pronouns.
Was pink originally for boys and blue for girls?
Origin of Everything | Why was Pink for Boys and Blue for ...
Up until the 1940's a lot of people thought pink was the more masculine color. Pink for Boys and Blue for Girls might seem strange to modern eyes and sensibilities, but up until the 1940's a lot of people thought pink was the more masculine color and blue was clearly more feminine.
I worked in OB for 27 years and after the baby was bathed we automatically put little pink shirts and hats on baby girls and blue shirts and hats on baby boys. Never once did anyone object.
It depends on when your are talking about. Classically, blue was associated with peace, the ocean (which is considered feminine due to the tides and their association with the moon) and the Virgin Mary. As AngelaK mentioned, in classical art, you will almost always see Mary painted wearing blue.
But baby clothes were pretty unisex until the 1950. Mostly they were white, which could be bleached and put on either gender—an important point when you are hand sewing clothes! Even when pastels became associated, it looks like they were pretty interchangeable between sexes through WWII.
The change seems to be attributable more to marketing and the rise of purchasing home goods in the 50s.
There are some interesting links: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gendered_associations_of_pink_and_blue
Hmmm..putting on my art history degree hat, I certainly remember many blue silk tafetta gowns on women in paintings, but not all that much , if any, pink on men... perhaps I recall one. Crimson and red on men, most definitely yes. Men of status did love to wear color.
Some of the male reenactors at Jamestown Virginia wear pink tights under their knee length breeches -- but they are sort of closer to red, not a pastel pink.
Times do change.
I wonder how they'd look as Bikini Baristas? Er, excuse me while I throw up.
Some of these big butts waddling around really make me think of a good use for the slogan "Build Back Better " !
I have a valid, viable career pivot/recommendation for these fast relics; it is impolite, possibly misogynistic, and definitely RUDE. Now, guess the profession?
I'll bite, what is it? :)
Street walker? They're kinda old aren't they?
True, But aren’t there are lots more lonely old Jons with cheap stiff-dick-meds, money to burn, and lifelong voids of the GFE?
Probably.
GFE???
I can’t think of a “U” word besides “ugly,” because AWFUL would be even better. Un-something works. Unrealistic?
Er, does your German Shepard speak English or German?
Way back in early April, 2020 a NPR story actually inspired me to explore the field of behavioral science and the coercive power of symbolism, historical application by Goebbels in Germany to "other" diseased undesirables. In a story about masks. It raised every hair on my neck for its reference to masks being "honor badges" towards the end, after reading through the AWFL fluff:
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/04/03/826996154/coronavirus-faqs-is-a-homemade-mask-effective-and-whats-the-best-way-to-wear-one
Being a student of the history of WWII and the Holocaust those words meant something different to me than most. The yellow star Jews were forced to wear in Germany were adopted as a "badge of honor" by well-meaning Jews.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/wear-it-with-pride
It was that term that raised the hairs up on my neck in early April, 2020 and directed me to research behaviorism. Which eventually led to other related and tangential subjects to research like bioethics, epidemiology, medical sociology, disease politics and all of the dark mind sorcery we are being manipulated by on so many fronts. Climate, gender, oil, elections, war, all of it.
Thanks to NPR! Then again, I'm not an AWFL and can think critically when I read a story even on NPR. Cutting through the propaganda BS and getting to the buried lede: Masks were *always* about symbolism, division, visible distinctions between 'good' and 'bad' teams.
Isn't it interesting that Real ID has chosen a yellow star as its symbol.
And then there's this reality check. What if none of it matters anyways, facial recognition and biometric surveillance systems are already in place and we're debating a system of control that's already been obsoleted?
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/04/24/biometrics-active-a-weird-thing-happened-returning-through-airport/
Yeah I think we're digital "slaves" already. There is not an untracked person in the US I am guessing.
Amish?
Interesting link and comments. Thx.
Yikes! Seriously? I didn't know this. We are currently going to use our passports.
You can get a passport card that fits in your wallet like a driver's license. It's a passport-lite, good for travel outside US only in North America and the Caribbean, but works for Real ID.
Or we try to "opt out" and endure the inconvenience and time delays as our way to protest and throw sand in the surveillance gears that rely on mass compliance. Too much noncompliance slows the system up for them, too, makes them reconsider adopting new policy when it proves to be too inefficient.
I refuse to go through the scanner, and require a manual pat-down. For which "they" have to wait until a female official is free to do the touchy-feely. Just a few sand grains in their machine.
Thanks!
Yep. I got one about 3 years ago before I knew what Real ID was.
Have you looked into getting your Real ID revoked?
I’ve thought the same thing. Nothing is by accident!
Both
Hahaha! If you think about it dogs really do have to be bilingual. 😆
We have 8…
My wife speaks six languages and I do two…
It depends what they do, you talk to them in a different language.
I can curse better in Spanish and she can in French….
But we use English in public (That’s the official language).
They love music in any one of the others and understand food and play time in seven.
I know what people going to think, but for us they are more than family.
Love it! Yesterday I pulled up behind a Suburban with characters for two parents, four kids, five dogs, and four cats. 😂😂
On my car I want to include a character that represents my fake Canadian Girlfriend.
You can tell right away that they are great people and lovers of life….
Always, always choose life.
15 here, 8 wolf hybrids and 7 domesticated rescue mutts; we wouldn't trade one of them. The largest is 150 lb and the smallest around 30 lb.
Conservative contrarian, I guess you and I are two fish on the same pond.
I wanted my lab doodle male to have at least one time puppies with our golden doodle female,
we were told that normally they get four to six puppies…..
Fast forward and 12 hours of labor they were thirteen…..so we got :
Grand ma….Pointer mix with American bulldog
Dad and mom and thirteen pups.
We gave 8 to friends and family in 5 different states and we have a what’s up chat exclusively for them
“My puppies “ were we pretty much know everything about them and had been blessed knowing where they are and what they do constantly, our lifestyle has changed 180 degrees and we don’t care anymore about appearances, when you get showered with love and incondicional affection and if you are gone for an hour or two they welcome you as if you were gone for days…..they depend on you for each day and each meal….you get a close up to what we are to GOD and HIS incondicional love for us.
No matter what happens, what brakes or what gets chowing up, you clean this morning for the second time and everything gets more dirty in your home.
Then you just smile and move on.
At 66 that’s the new meaning of life.
GOD BLESSED US and trust us to take care of this beautiful creatures.
My dog understands two languages!
"Fetch Reinhart "
WEF ! WEF !
They're omni-lingual!
🤣
🤣🤣🤣
“All dogs are male and all cats are female”. I can’t remember the person who first said it, but I thought ‘How true!!!”
I ALWAYS call cats ‘she’ (we women can be ‘catty’, after all.), and Dogs are ‘he’, (unless it’s an ‘ankle-biter….then it may be amorphous 🫤🫢🤭). Dogs are just SO masculine……with the exceptions of chihuahuas and Yorkers……..
Well… you can own a dog but a cat owns you. My cat works hard to keep me in line. Feeding, outside time, litter box upkeep. She calls me out if I slack.
You can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish! 🎹🐠🎯
That's a good album!
It was the last good one before they went pop. In 1973 we saw them open, along with The Amazing Blondel, for Badfinger. A very good show, REO was blow the doors off loud; music to a 15 year old lad such as I.
It was the only one I REALLY liked. I played it all the time. I saw them in concert 7 times, IIRC. Got to meet them once. Shook all their hands! 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗 <--- FYI, me being joyous.
thank you.
Yesterday my cat - a one eyed castrated male who would not be mistaken for a female - interrupted me at my desk to demand I bring the box of eggs that had just been delivered inside - AND DO IT RIGHT NOW OR GET A CLAW IN THE SHIN! I'm amazed at the things he gets wound up about. The eggs needed to come in out of the sun, but why would the cat care about that? He doesn't eat eggs, and he pays no attention to deliveries generally.
Yep- dogs have owners- cats have staff.
Though I’ve thought some dogs I’ve ‘owned’ felt they had a giant climate controlled doghouse with meal and housekeeping services.
Oh, my gosh, I have three cats and my “Orange Man” is my best friend ever when it’s time to eat. As I type this, he’s nudging under my arms! 😹
😹 absolutely true in this "cat house"
Especially the New Yorkies!
😂🤣😂🐶good one.
That custom - dogs male, cats female - supposedly originated with Queen Victoria .
CStone, as the owner of two large male dogs, I completely love this comment! 😂 No ankle-biters around here.
I have a pair of Shihpoo littermates, both neutered males. One is slimmer than his brother, and is routinely perceived as a female.
🤣 I remember thinking this as a child. Somewhere around age 6?7? When I spent a lot of time at a friend’s family farm my mind changed but totally true
I had a friend who said that too...I had a female dog at the time and thought it was so strange!
Great story! For many years it’s irritated me that liberals have occupied farmer’s markets, as though it’s ‘their’ territory. Excuse me, conservatives like natural, whole foods as well. In my home town it’s not much of an issue because we live in a conservative area, but if you ever want to feel like a duck out of water, go visit the farmer’s market in Santa Fe, NM! Some of their produce was outstanding, but their attitude was as condescending and nasty as you’d expect.
I’m in Northern Colorado…a fish out of water EVERYWHERE I go. Yesterday people were outside of Whole Foods protesting Trump…protesting Trump in my neck of the woods is like protesting Beef at a vegan market 🤦♀️. So. Dumb.
THIS!
She felt shame for knowing your dog was female because of the pink, then scolded you for understanding why she knew it. Cannot imagine how difficult it is to navigate daily life with that mindset. So many rules and regulations for a simple interaction. I couldn’t do it even if I tried.
Permission structures. So binding. So restrictive.
I play board games with a large group of people. I was playing with a man and two women. The women went to go pick out a game. When they returned, one said, "Of course we picked something pink!" And these women are left wing. So, even most of the left wingers know pink is for women.
LOL! However I do like a pink dress shirt on a manly man in a sharp suit with tie!
I regularly wear a pink dress shirt with my blue suit. Nothing wrong with that. But this game was PIIIIIIIINK. Like hot pink scorch your eyes pink.
My hubby looks fabulous in pink and purple dress shirts, but he hates wearing them. He won't even put the pink leash on our female dog. Drives me batty.
I was eating while reading these comments and was taking another note as I read "he won't even put the pink leash on" the brain paused at that point I almost sprayed the room with food. It was a good laugh for the digestion.
😅🤣😂 I just told my husband about the original post, read him my comment, then yours. Now we both are laughing so hard we're crying. Thank YOU for the laugh!
That's awesome! 🤣
Maybe, if he's not obese.
Who doesn't like a good game of Candyland?
This game was called Figment.
I love to see a liberal’s hair on fire.
It’s definitely a frequent sight!!
PBS and NPR have been bastions of progressive puke for years. I’m glad to see their funding cut.
I heard there are lots of boats out there rebelling against being labeled as a she!
Don’t forget when you dock a boat it goes in a slip.
Whatever you do, don't tell her she has a wide beam!
Friendship sloop.
Good one--but we're too poor to rent a slip, so we just tie up at the dock.
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What are we going to do about plumbing? Male and female ends??
😅🤣😂
And any machine, as well.
Is that because the usually male Captain is "controlling" the ship?
I have a friend who refers to dogs and other animals as “it”. So condescending to the animal
World. Of course they are he and she. Be they rats canine feline or any other.
And she knew it meant female too.
This! They know - they absolutely do - but they quickly become focused on aligning with political correctness and enjoy the virtue signaling it imparts and then the self-satisfaction they feel as they inwardly reward themselves for defending it properly and being worthy of admiration. 🙄 Fools. Then their reaction to truth thrown back in their faces, after they so “masterfully defended the indefensible,” is one of being appalled and an arrogant refusal to be aligned with anyone having such opposing views. It’s pertinent for them to leave you in a pool of disapproval so that they feel good about causing you to feel worse than they actually do. But it doesn’t work. I always feel better. 😆
Please please please tell me this isn't a true story. That's ridiculous. At the very least, I hope she doesn't mis-gender any rats living in her basement.
It is very true!
Sounds like it could’ve been in Sarasota. We had nuts like that at the farmer’s market downtown. You wouldn’t believe it if I described some of the things I saw there…
So sad. Back in the 80s, Sarasota was a lovely little town,and I enjoyed visiting. I wouldn't go there now if you paid me.
What a bitch! (the dog, not the woman)
We have a female black German shepherd who’s very outgoing. Every time my vet sees her I have to correct him that she’s a she, even when the vet is up close, hands on examining her. I just laugh, my dog is a tomboy like me.
—“ People, this is why you should never talk to corporate media, no matter how friendly and sympathetic the reporters seem.”
🎯🎯🎯
Indeed!!
Where’s Lesley Stahl & 60 Minites to report on the DOGE meeting yesterday? Oh that’s right…..they’re getting sued into oblivion by Trump for election interference…..
You don’t hate the media enough — you think you do, but you don’t.
https://x.com/evans_wroten/status/1918112472336069002?s=46
Excellent comment!
Now, why doesn't DOGE and Trump just close the entire Corporation for Public Broadcasting, instead of only defunding its branches at NPR and PBS?
The same as with the Department of Education.
I'll bet that's next... let everyone get used to the NPR/PBS defunding first, then Boom!
I’m pretty sure if you defund the cpb, you’ve closed it. Where will it get money to operate?
The CPB is still getting money for now, so while it's good to trim its branches, it's time to remove the trees!
Government deforestation is good for the planet, as opposed to their idea of carbon neutral nonsense.
Replace government trees with real trees.
Like your comment times a million!
Ditto!
Wait, Lesley Stahl is still alive?
She wasn’t the last time I saw her on television!
😂😂😂😂
Zombie?
Or keep your responses very pithy, like just saying “Trump is ending human trafficking, slavery, and deporting rapists and murderers”
And RFK Jr discovering, and announcing, that his dept is behind the trafficking of 300K children (I think that's the number)
It’s starting to dribble in…
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leaders-764-arrested-and-charged-operating-global-child-exploitation-enterprise
In Seattle yesterday, they were protesting deportations. I guess they like" human trafficking, slavery, and deporting rapists and murderers”
As long as they aren't in THEIR neighborhoods.
Question Response: Perhaps use the same Socratic approach one should take with any law enforcement. "Do you know why I pulled you over to-day?" I really appreciate what you do but I have been advised to not answer questions. Why did you stop me?
To the "reporter" with genuine interest:
What media do you represent? Has your outlet reported on the good that the Trump administration is doing in stopping human trafficking? Do you agree with the corporate media that pretended it was not a problem during the first administration? Have you ever interviewed someone that was rescued from human traffickers? Is this story about supporters the most important use of your skills as a reporter?
It is odd to me that even though reporters know how hard it is to get MAGA/MAHA to talk to them, they still think their 'polling' is valid.
You're totally right, but it gets tiresome living life in "soundbites".
I went to pray across the street from our (used to be) local abortion clinic years ago (thank God, it's since shut down). I had not even thought about that available Saturday for me being Mother's Day weekend. As such, there were tons of people there, including police and a yellow painted curb, enforcing that only certain Americans had the right to cross into the public street. Yeah, make THAT make sense. Anyway, my husband and I hung out for a while praying. As we were leaving, a reporter approached me asking if he could interview me. I promptly said NOPE! When he asked why I wouldn't talk to him, I said, "Because you guys NEVER get the facts correct when speaking to Christians or conservatives. You twist everything and take it out of context!" And that was back in the early 90's!!!!
I loved your story, Vicki! You did more for him than I would’ve.
Back in the late 90s, I went through AT&T Wireless customer service training. There, I learned that the worst customer to have (from the company’s standpoint, anyway) was the one that cancels without telling you why because they leave you without any way to improve.
So my only response to a reporter would be to politely decline. The MSM needs to die, put simply, and I’m not giving a one of them anything to think about that they shouldn’t have learned from journalism school (or a simple examination of their own conscience). And nothing could make beholding its demise more delightful than to hear it gurgling with its final gasp, “hooooow?!?” 😁
I would qualify this:
Never talk to ANY media unless you are able to (overtly or covertly) make your own recording of the entire exchange, so that when you are misrepresented, you have the ability to correct the record &, if the investigator is demonstrably manipulative, you have the ability to discredit their work, and restore your correct image by presenting your intended replies. This goes for any documentarian or journalist regardless of political stripe or ideological commitment. Never consent to information asymmetry.
You’re right but I’d still be afraid of my correction not having the same reach as the original misinformation 😕
Perhaps you can temper your fear with the near certainty that Jeff's Trumpet (C&C) could at least make your rebuttal visible to the sane & in-the-know.
Yes but people here already know this stuff 😕 Kind of preaching to the choir.
Information asymmetry. Nice.
well I will take the neanderthal hicks over the democrat base of multi colored hair with tats and piercings over every inch of their bodies any time - and they believe they are the smartest kids on the block - right
The tats---just checked--the list of ingredients is frightening: cobalt, cadmium....other elements and compounds toxic to the human, however, there exist "vegan friendly inks". I'd like to see a correlation between tattoo-acquisition and injection acquisition since 2021.
I wonder if any thoughts go through the mind of someone contemplating getting a tattoo?
Righto.
Speech Rights: It should be no wonder that two important rights in this country are Our right to Free Speech and our right to Remain Silent. Martha Stewart could tell you just how important is the latter... But she won't because she learned the hard way.
So why the dichotomy? It is because of the bi-polar nature of our people. We think free speech gives us the right to express our opinion freely. They think free speech gives them the right to twist our opinion in any way that is damaging to us.
Trump’s EO to Support Trade Apprenticeships
Posted May 2, 2025 By Martin Armstrong
Donald Trump signed a new Executive Order to overhaul federal workforce training to prepare Americans for skilled trade jobs... Trump’s new plan would provide support for 1 million apprenticeships annually. No amount of academia can compensate for a lack of hands-on experience. The old notion that one must complete higher education to obtain a good-paying job is a relic of the past. In fact, many of these trade positions offer excellent first-year pay compared to entry-level corporate jobs. Additionally, these are jobs that likely cannot be replaced with AI. There will always be a need for plumbers, electricians, welders, etc. Higher education is unnecessary for most fields, and reframing education as an opportunity to learn directly from those in the field is an excellent way to educate the next generation of workers, albeit at the detriment of universities.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/north_america/americas-current-economy/trumps-eo-to-support-trade-apprenticeships/
Higher education once had a justification for its existence: turning out scholars. But when higher education took over nursing from hospitals (to name only one example) and began confusing training for education on top of deciding that college was meant for everyone, they lost the plot, or as a friend of mine likes to say, “they fell off the sled.”
Funny you say that Mary Ann! Decades ago, I graduated from a nursing school, not a university. When I first began my career, there were several doctors who preferred to have only nursing school grads attend to their patients. One guy would attach notes to all of his patients’ charts stating No BSN or MSN please. (While I loved my profession, I left shortly after HMOs became the norm.)
My step mother and her closest friends were all hospital trained nurses. They knew how to efficiently perform every procedure, they were kind and caring for their patients, they understood drug interactions, and I was convinced they knew more than the doctors. After coming to know nurses (the ones my step mother called "the two year wonders"), I have heard others say they fear being put in a hospital now.
My grandmother, great aunts, mom, and aunt were all hospital trained. ALL of them bemoaned the state of their profession and had the same fear of being hospitalized. Now, I will say I do know caring, intelligent BSN/MSN nurses with integrity and knowledge. But sadly many of them left nursing during Covid.
And once the good ones are driven out.................
💯
My mother was a 3 year diploma graduate from a Catholic school of nursing. She wasn’t Catholic but too young when she graduated HS for other programs. In WW2 she was a decorated nurse anesthetist serving in the army. Physicians respected her and patients loved her.
I became a nurse later in life, starting as a LPN, got my RN and then my BSN working in a wide variety of settings. My approach to every situation was heavily influenced by my mother’s kindness towards her colleagues and patients. I had a fantastic role model.
We were able to run a unit when we graduated! 1968! 45 years of TLC and loved it! Our CV Surgeon loved older nurses caring for his patients! I’m hearing a lot of disappointing news about the medical field. Two hospitals here in my fair state begging for help I hear! Wonder why? Just maybe health care will come back to the right path. Forget cell phones and care for the patient like he or she were your family! Makes a big difference!
Yes! Training not education! ie. The medically trained people!
Absolutely. In NZ nurses were trained in hospitals only until the mid 80's when tech schools took over.
The two year nurse, at least the ones I know, see patients as an illness to be fought rather than a human in distress.
I’m a 2 year nurse. I see it across the board 2,4,MSN. Doesn’t matter the training, it’s the heart. Even when I worked at a desk job on a patient floor I answered lights but my office mates would say ‘we are passed that time’ meaning we did our time on the floor. Well I went in to nursing to help people so scrubs, business attire or whatever I will still answer a light. Speak to patients. My office mates had degrees from little community college like myself, Columbia University, southern 3 year nurses, and WSU. Years of experience ranged from 8-25 and many from all over but none of them would answer a light unless I made them feel bad by answering lights. It’s what is in the heart.
❤️ bless you.
Oh, that is so awful...
Higher “education” cares only about profits and growing their endowments. They do that by enrolling unqualified students the university knows will fail, but before that inevitable happens, the scholarships bring in more cash. Student outcomes have no relevance.
Absolutely the truth.
Like a “hospitality degree?”
or a degree in leading hiking tours
I'd say the same about teachers. They don't need a masters in childhood development. They need in-classroom training.
Oh my yes!
Fantastic! My high school son wants to be an electrician.
With a trade like that, not only will he be in high demand and make good money (plumber is another one), he will also learn other building trades like carpentry by working in conjunction with other tradespeople. This will translate to his personal life, where he may save money buying his first house by purchasing a fixer, and he will be able to competently do projects himself, or have a network of others he can hire or trade services with.
We are now in our 3rd house, over 52 years. And two others on family property, which we maintain. Each of them has been a fixer-upper. But "tool-user" was high on my young-man-test list.
Our 2 grandsons want to be a welder and a mechanic. I couldn’t be prouder. My son, however, majored in Public Relations at Penn State. A Public Relations major is taught to lie, manipulate, confuse, conceal, and mislead the public. SMH. He also never was required to use the university library for anything in his 4 years there.
Ha, this goes along with what we were talking about in Jenna’s column!
Wonderful! Encourage him. Help him. Electrician is a top tier vocation.
Yes! God answered prayer for us this week - having windows put in a metal bldg by our house, and of course the electric wiring was right in the way, but the Lord steered me to an electrician who was able to come right over and fix it!
It’s a great career. My husband has been a commercial electrician for 33 years and was a residential one for three years before that. We aren’t wealthy at all, but if not for extreme medical and support expenses for three children with disabilities stretching over 27 years we certainly could have been - easily. It’s a fair salary that a man can support both his wife and kids on if needed. You do have to make sacrifices to lifestyle in the early years and stay out of debt, and then you can achieve the American dream while having life long job security. His union is one of the strongest in the country, not corrupt like many are, and certainly not run like the “teacher’s union” kinds of unions. They really take care of their members above all else, and we have had great health care all these years since our union manages its own plan, again protecting its own people and not corporate interests.
My husband usually is the general foreman or super on any job site but that’s because he works really hard and is detailed, clean, and precise in his work. A quiet amiable man that gets respect wherever he goes. He gets up at 3:15 am every day even though he doesn’t start until 6am, solely because he wants a stress free drive in the mornings and to arrive 30-60 mins early to make sure he has time for prayer and to get everything set up for the job site. I admire his work ethic. He is deserving of twice his salary if not more. But I would rather have the security it has provided our family than the riches.
Advise him to move into industrial quickly as possible.
Best pay and it's ression proof.
When the economy is good you install machines, when bad you disconnect machines.
I just participated in an event at a northeast trade school. Highly motivated students that have worthy goals, ambition and work ethics. And zero student loan debt!
My mom made a list of professions that she wanted her five daughters to marry, electricians and plumbers topped the list. While she didn't get her wish in sons-in-laws, my son did become an electrician.
I wanted to be an electrician. Passed the exam with one of the highest scores. Next came the interview with two old codgers to get into the program. This was in the late ‘80’s.
Needless to say, they seemed to think me being female was a detriment. I was so put off I decided I wasn’t going to go through that apprenticeship program. I’m still mad about it!
Shame you didn't persist, Paige. My sister did the same and became a well liked union electrician. But she put up with a lot of crap early on. She retired 3 years ago at 58. Was practically drug back as a supervising consultant for 3 months of the year. Needless to say, doing quite well.
I'm sure you know that women make good mechanics due to the size of their delicate little female hands... 😉
What did you end up doing Paige?
Oh, lots of things. Support for at-risk students at a high school, rural carrier at a post office, sales rep at several places, accounts receivable supervisor then contract negotiator at a trucking company.
I started a cleaning business over 20 years ago. Not sure if I could work for anyone anymore 😄
Am very sure. Self employed for most of my working life until "the pandemonium" hit and Canada shut me down.
Am retired now but old clients still throw me the odd bone. 😉
Mike Rowe was part of this assembly. He wrote how impressed he was with the young new innovations that these visionaries were coming with. Talked about wandering into a bar in Dearborn, MI and having group of Ford auto techs coming in. Ford throws a celebration yearly to celebrate the best in all their technology and innovation groups. Rowe was so impressed with this group after spending an hour talking with them. A group picture he posted showed the group to be hardly what you would expect.
I look back on my career, I hired in with a HS education. Over the course of the years as I worked my way up the ladder jobs held by people with only a HS diploma became unreachable without a college degree. As I returned to college what once required an associate degree became a bachelor degree which became a master’s degree. I’ve come to realize the shift may have been more of an attempt to get more young people into the indoctrination camps of college. I understand many professions require college degrees (thank goodness) while others are well suited for OTJT. Not every white collar job requires a college degree. Additionally look at the standard requirements for degrees. Why must I take a work religion course or a black history course no matter the course of study? Why do I need a women empowerment course for a degree? I don’t.
I've never understood why colleges offer degrees in business. Our local college has a business faculty none of whom have actually ever worked in or owned one. And, most importantly, successful businessmen can do business without a degree, ftlog.
Like we get these people with law degrees: soft hands, no experience, can’t balance a checkbook or do basic repairs and hire them to run our states and country!!🤯
You just said the scary part: they run our states and our country. Imagine how things would be if elected officials actually knew how to do something useful.
Had a friend whose husband was a "professor of business". And who had never built, nor owned a business. Make this make sense? While my husband had created and run (still there 39 years later) his own business.
"Those who can't do ........... teach "
Marty, IMO, not just indoctrination, but a racket to get all students into extreme financial debt and leave with a useless degree.
If ever SHTF, a down and dirty skilled worker will be 1,000 times more valuable than some office clown sitting at a computer.
TRUE dat!
Excellent news!
Very good news!
There’s always a big need for skilled carpenters and upholsterers as well.
We have not a single upholsterer anywhere near us. There used to be a handful. It's a skill/talent that someone could make a good living at.
Absolutely.
Also: just TRY to find a seamstress or cobbler these days...
I am here! Haha, still holding on! I began my sewing pattern business in 1990, and my instructions were considered wordy at that time. I have been redoing them for the last two years to adjust for new printing requirements, and I now am amazed at how simple the instructions seem. I am putting in double what I had before, to help the newcomers to sewing. People learning to sew nowadays need so much help with everything, including terminology. There has been an astounding diminishing of skill over these years.
Wallpaper hanger! I had one room done by a general contractor who pretended he could do it, and the next room done by an old paperhanger who had done it for years and was a true artisan. He said he would have loved to take on an apprentice but no young guys were interested.
Have always done my own paper-hanging. Starting from knowing nothing, got pretty good at it. Bedroom paper still looks good, 37 years after hanging.
They need to bring the Shop class back to the junior high and high schools. I have loved what Mike Rowe is doing with the classes he has built. His organization is called MicroWorks.
Just avoid THIS shop teacher...
https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/warmington-trans-teacher-lemieux-returning-to-classroom-this-time-in-hamilton
Was this the guy with the false front?
Well these seems good and common sensical on its face. Thanks.
I am so encouraged by the timing of this! My 17 year old son - homeschooled)
We are proud of our community trade school… classes are always filled and high graduate rate.
https://www.tristarcareercompact.com/
I guess it will be posted on whitehouse.gov this afternoon. I make myself read every word of every E.O.
Florida flushes fluoride... Nice, but could the state prioritize:
- Take C-19 off of childhood vax schedule
- Make ivermectin over the counter
And RFK... require all CURRENT vaccines and "vaccines" to undergo trials vs placebos.
Suspend their use until such trials are successfully completed.
Yes Yes Yes
He did that yesterday, at the Cabinet meeting.
I did not hear that... are you sure? I think he only said for NEW vaccines...
Big Pharma would fight placebo testing for ALL vaccines tooth and nail.... and they own a LOT of our congress...
Such testing would be VERY expensive, and would likely eliminate many current cash-cow vaccines permanently.
DeSantis is willing and ready to sign both into law but the Florida House is mainly feckless RINOS so not likely to happen.
Still waiting to see how they address constitutional carry/ open carry. If one can carry concealed constitutionally, without any form of permit required, and one can carry openly whilst boating, fishing, hunting, or camping, how do you wash not allowing open carry here?
Agreed 100%
Florida needs to end the “property tax” scam PERIOD! WTH is wrong with our legislators?
Where is Florida DOGE?
I’d like to report some waste and fraud that I see in my city 🤌🏽
Rome was not built in a day. See how far we have come in only 100.
We're talking here about Florida, not Trump admin.
FL has been slow to act on these topics. Over 10 other states already allow IVM open counter. So FL needs to step up.
Based Florida Man--according to AI
As of April 2025, the following states allow ivermectin to be purchased over-the-counter:
Arkansas, Idaho, Tennessee, and South Carolina
While Florida may be slow, Oregon is running backwards at full speed. Florida may have to send troops to rescue Oregon's citizens from tyranny.
Jeff needs a permanent "for Portlanders" section. In fact, all the substacks need "for Portlanders".
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Exactly. And I have to ask, exactly WHY don't they do that? Hmmmm?
—“ I’ll just point out that, over the last four years, Jack never thought Biden’s lockdowns, mandatory drugs, or vaccine passports for accessing air travel were threats to the rule of law.”
Right?? 🙄 Their hypocrisy is so appallingly obvious to anyone with a brain 🙄
Starting in the mid-2000’s, I realized critical thinking had died in America. I’ve now corrected myself and realized one must actually have a brain for thinking- critically or not- and that’s what’s missing in the MSM, Dems, Ivy Leagues, ActBlue, NPR, etc..Oh the list of the brainless is so long and fueled by nothing but hate and arrogance.
As in: “Nature abhors a vacuum!”
I knew when this was aired quite often on NPR: (paraphrasing), "The news can be complicated these days. Everyone leads a busy life. Let us sift through it and present you with what you need to know!" Chills went up & down my spine...never listened again. Unfortunately so many people I know believe and go there to be told what to believe. It's presented in such a reasonable, "intelligent" way...🙄
@RL Nailed it "with a brain" - sadly our past culture and education system lobotomised a generation.
Praying Wisdom for Health and Faith in JESUS for Healing! Amen and AMEN!
Agree 💯.
By awesome deeds You answer us in righteousness, O God of our salvation,
You who are the trust of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest sea;
Who establishes the mountains by His strength,
Being girded with might;
Who stills the roaring of the seas,
The roaring of their waves,
And the tumult of the peoples.
They who dwell in the ends of the earth stand in awe of Your signs;
You make the dawn and the sunset shout for joy.
— Psalm 65:5-8 NAS
Every day we need to remember the awesomeness of the God we serve. Thanks, Janice💜
Always preaching to myself as well as trying to share encouragement. 😌
God’s word is living and active…it always has impact!
The best part of teaching is learning!
I learned so much while homeschooling my kids!
Everything I forgot and so much I never learned!
You know, that was true for me. It absolutely drove me. Always trying to find a novel way to make "acquisition of understanding" (Latin) easier for my students.
Agree 💯. And some days I need reminders of God's will and awesomness all the time.
Me too. I’m from 🇨🇦. How I wish we could have a C&C Canada-edition sometimes.
I agree, I live on the left coast. I would love to have some input as to how a 72 year old Canadian could somehow move to the US.
Me too George.
"Road trip".
(Am in Western Canuckistan as well.)
“Where is your faith?” he asked his disciples. In fear and amazement they asked one another, “Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him.”
Luke 8:25 NIV
Who is this? HE is the Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of the Living God, sent by the Father to save the world through Him. All praise, honor and glory to the King of kings!
Amen 🙏
Right on time, dear Sister in Christ! 🙌🏼😇🙌🏼
A little off topic: Pittsburgh had some bad storms late on Tuesday afternoon. Not as bad as a hurricane or raging wildfire.
Lost power at 5:20 pm on Tuesday and still has not been restored. Power company is estimating 5-7 days for power to be restored. Yes, you read that right.
We have become a 3rd world country. Survived a hurricane in Florida, lived on Chesapeake Bay, and battered by fierce weather coming in from Lake Erie while in W. New York. Never, ever, had power out this long.
At the 40-hour mark without power, I determined this was some sort of mental torture. Alex Jones always says that in case of EMP, civilization would collapse in about 2 weeks tops.
No power is boring and unsafe. Lots of senior citizens and disabled living in high rise apartments that are not able to charge their wheelchairs or power their oxygen devices. Doesn't seem to be a real hurry by those in charge with the government to help.
Currently at a friend's house, who actually has electricity, using a old computer. Won't be able to "like" your comments, but I will be enjoying them.
Wow Kathleen, thanks for the update. I was watching those storms that day, on Ryan Hall's YT channel, and someone in another Rumble live chat who lives near Pittsburgh said he had limbs down and the power was out. Anything more than 24 hours can be life threatening for some, like you cited.
Yes, in this Dem run, sanctuary, and progressive city, there does not see to be any intensity to help the most vulnerable. One lady finally had one of the local news stations do a story on the disabled not being able to charge their medical devices.
I guess I was under the impression that Philadelphia was the Dem run sanctuary city with the corrupt elections. I thought Pittsburgh was in the conservative part of the state.
Pittsburgh and Allegheny County are woke.
The surrounding counties are conservative. If you look at the election map of Pennsylvania from Nov 2024, the blue blotch is the Pittsburgh area.
One more way to kill the masses of weak and elderly. We should be glad. In a world where self is truly god then dogs eat dogs and we destroy our own children and mothers for whatever time is left and time is running out quickly for all devils.
Sorry for you and other Pittsburgians! 3rd world is right! how can this be?! even the massive outage in Portugal/Spain was mostly fixed in 24 hours. hope you stay ok.
Read stories about the people in Portugal not minding about their loss of power. Thought just wait if it goes on longer than 12 hours.
People are having to ride around in their cars in order to charge their phones.
I once lost power for 2 weeks (coastal CT after a hurricane). Thank heavens the water heater was gas! I had a big hurricane party, where everyone brought the meat from their freezers and we grilled and partied. This was in the days before the internet et al, and I guess we were accustomed to reading and whatnot. Til it got dark. It was interesting to reset your personal clock to sunset and sunrise. Today, there'd probably be some electronic withdrawal!
Thank goodness I have a gas water heater, so I was able to take a hot shower.
At first, the power company was able to give updates over the phone if you put in your phone and house number. Then, they stated they were overwhelmed with calls, and then just terminated the call. Now, we are told to go to the website to report an outage. Pretty much indicating it will be May 6th to restore power...maybe.
All the more reason to prepare for the worst. Time to look at getting a generator as our grid is not getting any better.
It's amazing how things are prioritized.
Phone, yep it works but I could live without it
Power, nope, hope I can live without it.
This long-term power outage event has been a real eye opener for me.
Bought a 35 kw genset this year. I don’t intend to be without power, ever. Diesel, it will run on waste oil, cooking oil, or pretty much anything. Plus 30 solar panels. I intend to be that dot you can see from space when next outage comes this year. Because it always does during hurricane season.
What surprised everyone is that this happened in a major city.
Not a coastal destination or even the flatlands of the Midwest.
It's like the city and power company did not have an emergency plan in place.
They probably had a "plan" on a piece of paper sitting in some drawer.
It's tough to deal with when you are prepared, I can't imagine what it's like for the people who just assume power will always be available.
We are all lulled into a false sense of security about a lot of different things.
This prolonged power outage was a real eye opener for me.
Alex Jones kept warning about stuff like this...
My power went out for a few hours several days ago. It really caused me to pause and to realize how dependent I am on these "modern conveniences". I can live without my phone, but without my computer?! Different story.
I also rely heavily on my computer. Don't have a TV so I do streaming and get all my news online.
Water, as well. Fall of '22, after a long day of canning meat (thanks for frightening me about food shortages, Pres. Cabbage-head), while washing up canning equipment, tap water flow slowed to a trickle. It didn't really bother me, because I had just returned from another location with a few gallons of well water . Turns out that a main had burst up the road. But from that experience, I learned--and since I hadn't recently brewed, and thus had lots empty of 5-gal. carboys, I filled them with water. So I have 30-40 gallons in the cellar. I would at this point probably boil it before cooking or drinking, but it's water.
Wow...Polaris mall in Columbus was out yesterday and this morning, parts of NE Ohio lost power...for about 4 hours though...not 5 days!
The really bizarre part is watching/listening to people in charge stating it will take 5-7 days to get power restored as if it is totally normal to take so long.
Go to the website when you don't have electricity. Yup.
Yep, that is what I thought before their automatic recording disconnected me.
This happened to us last year in Houston. There was a freak tornado thingy in May, and we lost power for 5 days. Then in July we had a Cat 1 hurricane, the lowest possible category, and we were without power for 10 days, as were huge parts of the city. We purchased a portable generator that can run on either gasoline, nat gas, or diesel. And installed a quick connect to our gas line. The fact that we have to do this in one of the US's largest cities, where we're literally on the coast in hurricane alley, and guaranteed to have many more worse storms, is.... well. I mean, I expect to be without power for a week if it's a Cat 3+, or maybe even Cat 2, but this was unbelievably disheartening.
10 days...amazing, considering it gets really hot in the South.
Yes. During peak hurricane season (Aug/Sept) it's typically 90+ degrees outside and 99% humidity. Really terrible to be without A/C, and potentially deadly for seniors or those in care facilities.
I know my pulmonary problems really get worse when it gets hot.
Heart problems can also be affected by high heat.
Kathleen, praying for you from Oklahoma
Thank you. I am lucky that I had someplace else to go. But, the elderly and the disabled don't have that option.
Hang in there Kathleen! Hope you get your power back soon 🙏
Thank you.
It is a wake-up call for sure that I need to revise my disaster plan.
There definitely was after Helene! I knew I needed something creative to hold on to sanity. So I began knitting a sweater that very day! Just finished it a week ago. Knitting helped so much!!
Our power was out 11 days, the generator paid for itself yet again.
My son-in-law drove in with a nice generator five days after Helene had done her worst. He came just as the power in my area returned.
30 years ago, when determining what to purchase to replace the 1950 electric stove (though it did have 6 burners and two ovens); I was determined to get a gas stove. Because we'd had too many winter ice storms taking down the power. One time I went to roasting a chicken in the fireplace (concrete blocks and a shish kebab skewer). Had to put in propane for stove fuel as there is no natural gas here. One fireplace in this house remains to be opened up; from the plain molding and higher opening I am sure it must have been in the kitchen. Would love to see what's inside (it was closed up when central heating was put in in the 30's.) On husband's to-do list--he opened the fireplace directly above. We are loaded with wood, and have 3 working fireplaces.
I just heard about this last night! Will be adding Pennsylvania to my prayer list. Yes, just another way to get rid of some old useless eaters? 🤬 😭 Lord please restore the power, in Your mighty name 🙏🏻
Thanks for the prayers for the Pittsburgh area.
Please pray for Minneapolis. Tampon Tim is still in charge!! 👺
In PA we have Gov. Shapiro. When he was AG, he supported the finding that 20 stab wounds, including to the back of the head, was a suicide.
Democrats need some serious therapy......or is that just wishful thinking 🤔
Wishful thinking...unfortunately.
Kathleen, isn’t it interesting how adept people have gotten at committing suicide??? 🤯
Yes, you would think that one of the Clintons were in the neighborhood.
So sorry you're having to deal with this. I believe the weather is deliberately manipulated to induce emergencies, not only in the US but all around the world. It would seem "they" know their time is limited. Still, my heart goes out to you and everyone dealing with this.
100% weather manipulation.
I SO want to lean in to <𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮 "𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺" 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥.> No crystal ball. Prayerful "they" are outed in full by the end of the decade. Sooner would be even better. Meantime, yep, they're doing their damnedest to wreak havoc, kill and psyop-subjugate as many of us as possible. Too late in the long term scheme of things. Jig's up. Slo-mo topple is underway. Though in historical context, the collapse of their empire will probably seem rapid. Getting ahead of myself... Yes, they are running scared. Nice to read a macro view vs. the nitty gritty. Details are necessary, but it's good to pull back and take in the whole chessboard as it were.
Well said HI!
100%
Exactly
Spain got hit bad! Thank goodness the Communists’ green energy scam wasn’t complete over here. No power for 5 days after Helene: you really learn what you need in emergencies.
No kidding. I will definitely have to revise my disaster plan.
Kathleen, do you can? in '22 I put up about 100 lb of chicken, beef and port. Still sitting on the shelves in the cold room. [umm, that was pork, not port. Port does not need canning--its alcohol content keeps it just fine]
How long does the canned meat keep?
As long as the seal remains intact (and ironically, that season, a number of jars whose seal I had tested, later came loose), probably indefinitely. RoseRed Homestead (youtube channel) spoke of a jar 10 years old—she had just failed to find it.
No, I do not can.
My mom and grandmother both did. I was too busy and too lazy to learn.
It’s really pretty simple.
I heard the same story from my western PA friends Kathleen. I’m sorry. We were without power for 15 days after Hurricane Sandy. It was grueling.
Thankful it is not winter.
Good luck. Er, I can send some soup cans and string, if needed.
Thanks...I have to throw out 2 refrigerators that were full of food.
We live in the country and bought a Generac generator for just such times. The more we seem to go to “renewable” energy the more outages we have. After one a year ago, during the summer I found out power companies are becoming critically short of manpower for line working. This butts right up to trade schools and people who want to work. I have a friend in Alabama who frequently loses power for storms. Apparently, evergreen trees down there uproot rather easily in high winds. They have power back on hours generally and it was only a couple of days when a big tornado went through. Here, in Michigan it can take days, if not weeks after a small storm.
Our electric bills have increased tremendously because of more reliance on renewables. Guess no one told them that the sun doesn't shine in PA during the winter months.
Coupled with the fact the power company is relying more on contracting employees rather than regular employees.
And the government told people they were "non-essential" during the pandemic...and this is the result.
This is my biggest, “hit my head against a wall”. Any rational person knows Solar can’t run our power grids. Optimistically, they are saying 12 to 18%. Why, why, would we do this? Follow the money….
We did the same. The Generac weekly test run noise is a welcome sound. Expensive but we'll worth it.
I had just loaded up my freezer with a ton of beef and lamb. Ouch, losing most of that hurt!
I had a lot of food in both refrigerators. Mainly because I learned a difficult lesson at the start of the pandemic when things were closed.
YETI coolers are awesome... if one can afford the darned things!
Add a chunk of ice and it can keep stuff cold for amazingly long...
Part of the problem is that we never experienced an outage that would go on for days or week.
We were pretty used to power being restored somewhat quickly.
Lots of us are going to be redefining our plans for survival.
Happened to us a few summers ago. And I wasn't home to can it, so husband had to throw out hundreds of $$ of meat.
Oh no, that is awful. I'm glad you have friends to stay with and help you.
Yes...
Yup, trees are down all over the place. It was a very intense couple of minutes! The street next to ours was restored last night, but we are still being told next Tuesday. The universities are fine so my husband is schlepping our big rechargeable batteries back and forth to keep them charged. They let us have one lamp in evening, and the chest freezer gets periodic runs on the larger pack. Still have hot water, and the toilets flush so I feel like it's not as bad as it could be. (I'm not discounting the serious harm done to some.) Tree crews are here from IN, OH, and eastern PA. It's true our infrastructure could be in better shape, and we could stand better city officials, but sometimes nature is just scary and on Tuesday it was scary.
When I lost power on Tuesday, all the houses across the street still had power.
It really is a hit or miss on what houses are hooked up to what transformer.
Brittle. Our infrastructure is brittle. It takes very little for it to completely break.
Agree.
Yeah Pittsburgh fam just left here to return to vandegrift, they got theirs back this am. Lots of tree damage up there.
It wouldn't be so bad for recovery if we actually had competent people in charge.
Like imagine you could watch a press conference and know that the people in charge weren't woke.
The mayor of Pittsburgh publicly stated that he would not cooperate with ICE...so defend the illegal aliens to the max while the city could not even do proper snow removal this past winter.
Gonna be interesting because there is a mayoral election this year.
Glad NPR has been defunded! The cringe commissar CEO should be fired too. This post from January 2024 started the dominos that led to her downfall: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/commissar-npr-ceo-katherine-maher-she-her
I am currently reading the book, “Confronting the Presidents” by Bill O’Reilly. Let me say first I am in no way an O’Reilly fan, but my brother is, and knowing I am a former Am. History teacher, he thought I might enjoy it. This book covers the presidents from Washington through Obama. Each president is given about 7 to 10 pages up to the beginning of the 20th century where a bit more is awarded. I know a great deal about the first 5 presidents having taught history. I was intrigued to learn that at the time of Washington’s election to president, (almost unanimous), Philadelphia boasted 20 independent newspapers. While Washington was well liked his Cabinet, especially the second term, fought bitterly, back stabbed, and lied continuously. Cabinet members would run to the press papers and make up lies and scandals, that were duly printed. Not much different than now….
I loved this book so much I bought a copy for my granddaughter who is homeschooling her three children. What I liked was having the Presidents in order in story form. Also Bill is a real journalist and his writing wasn’t biased. Great book! ( President CliffsNotes!!)
Yes, while I am not a fan of his politics and his bombastic style of reporting, I do appreciate many of his “Killing” books. I am finding he packs some really interesting nuggets on each president.
There is another book out there that list the presidents that did the most damage. I don't like O' Reilly in any form and I don't think he tells the facts only shaded to his point .
Why would anyone want to read such a negative book about the presidents? They all had a crisis and it was handled with varying degrees of success
I found it left politics and ideology out completely, but maybe I have more tolerance for Bill.
BOR has a researcher, Martin Dugard, and he includes sources. So.
That's Comrade Commissar, to you, Yuri.
For the time being.
/sarc-off
3.... 2... 1... Some radical lefty District judge will step in and file a TRO.
The craven and cowardly (corrupt?) SCOTUS still sleeps...
Oh yes, I’m waiting to hear that soon. I have a positive attitude, though. I think it is a matter of timing, and this behavior by judges is being allowed to happen so more people will clearly see the need for house cleaning!
I sure hope so...
I think the 3 radical liberal "justices" are beyond salvaging... they are activists and have broken their Oaths many times already...
NPR has been a foul wind for a long time.
NPR's health news is called "SHOTS" https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/11/04/nx-s1-5178706/fluoride-drinking-water-rfk-jr-trump-conspiracy
They have never covered vaccines, autism, vaccine-injuries honestly, objectively. Defund can't happen soon enough. Foul wind indeed!
Well said Michael
My son said "B*tches be gone." Lol.
𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚: 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐍𝐏𝐑 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐬 (𝐍𝐮𝐭𝐭𝐲 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐧 𝐑𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐨!)
You + Bill Gates fund National Propaganda Radio, I guess the Fair and Balanced slogan is already taken, NPR listeners know everything and more NPR memes as whistleblower Uri Berliner resigns!
https://covidsteria.substack.com/p/best-npr-memes-nutty-partisan-radio
𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚: 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐍𝐏𝐑 & 𝐏𝐁𝐒 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐬 (𝐃𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚!)
Where their $ comes from, Bill Gates paid-for propaganda, the Dunning–Kruger effect, of course they would stay on and focus on Chinese owned Tik-Tok and more NPR + PBS memes as they leave Twitter!
https://covidsteria.substack.com/p/best-npr-and-pbs-memes-as-they-leave-twitter
Yeah, wonder what the cia will have to say about that?
Peter and John had no human possessions but they had the power of God to operate wonderful miracles by the Hand of God!
What are you sharing with this rotten world?
“Then Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.””
Acts 3:6 NKJV
Harvard’s Tax Exempt status is being stripped by Trump per the NY Post. Let’s see what kind of tax payments to the U.S. Treasury come out of Harvard? Billions, I hope.
Good.
great news!!!
I believe support of Trump is steady but I'm certain the enthusiasm is a bit more muted, sort-of like the hush of eager anticipation, waiting for the main course to be served. The menu consist of the many corrupt elected politicians/bureaucrats being held responsible for any crimes they have committed. Once that begins in earnest, enthusiasm will sweep across the planet. 🌎
Please add to that everyone in Congress who became wealthy on their congressional salaries!
Supposedly on the Trump menu to be deeply investigated...
IF that happens... the facts will be a shocker.
"Had they asked —or cared— Ms. Libecki almost certainly could’ve rattled off a dozen concrete wins, or explained why she likes Trump’s Cabinet picks so much"
I might speculate that they DID ask her, and because she COULD answer concretely and persuasively, they ignored reporting her answer. Had she fumbled and stumbled her answer, THAT would've made it into their narrative. I mean, their article.
Jeff is correct. Do not talk to the press.
I communicate with them using sign language: my middle finger.
I hope you turn it up so they can hear it. And both, for stereo.
Hahaha.
Did I say he isn't correct? Did I even remotely *imply* that he isn't correct?
No. And no. Plainly no and no.
My POINT was about the likely dishonesty of the NY Times, in that they probably did ask her, and she answered ably so they ignored her. Because if she had answered inarticulately, THAT they would've published.
I meant no criticism of your comment.
Fair enough. I read more into it than was there. My apologies.
She is just saying, what good is it to speak facts to the press, when they ignore you anyway.
I understand that's what she was saying, but nothing I wrote could be construed to disagree with her take.
I've long argued that Repubs and conservatives should ignore the media, not go on their shows, etc., because the media are patently dishonest.
She wasn’t criticizing your comment at all. She was actually supporting it as being a wonderful and glowing example of why we shouldn’t speak to the press. Like adding an additional supportive sentence to the end of everything you just said. She, and we, saw your point clearly and agree with you. ☺️
I disagree(d), but clearly I'm wrong because she has said as much. So to the extent a published comment can be "retracted", I hereby retract it.
🤣👍 that works ❤️
I’m personally can get enough of this 100 days.
I heard someone say “It is going to be Biblical “
I believe it.🙏🤗
GOD BLESS AMERICA AND THE WHOLE WORLD.
AMEN.
All Praise and Thankfulness to the Father for His mercies never end! 🙌🏻
Amen!
Good morning C&Cers!! Happy Friday!!
Good morning! How are you?
Great thank you! How are you this fine morning Dr Linda?
I am doing well. It’s a quiet day today. I am just doing things around the house.
That’s always nice! 😊
Good morning Dr Linda!
I fine morning to you!!
To you as well!
Good morning, with warning: Don't eat Jello Shots at The Basement. I'm not doing that ever again. Until tonight.
Lol not my thing luckily 😁 You made me laugh though 😁
Not my thing, either. I was just trying to get a laugh. I do like regular jello, though!
Happy good morning!
A happy good morning to you also (well it’s afternoon by now so happy afternoon/day!).
Good Friday morning C&C.
This is the day the Lord has made let us rejoice and be glad! Traveling across Montana through ND to Northern Minnesota makes me appreciate God’s work to create our beautiful country. Praise be to God for His Mercy endures forever.
I can wait to do it again.
You are totally at 😮 ohhhh, how beautiful it is, I would always wonder how hard was for the pioneers to do the same walking or in a wagon, granted we do it in a beautiful paved road and with facilities, restaurants and hotels or RV parks and we can get enough of the Beautiful Creation of The LORD bud definitely, to do it only by hope, dreams and lots of prayers it was remarkable.
Thank you for all that made it possible for us.
Speaking of pioneers, I bought a boxed set of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books to give as a gift, but I decided to read them myself. I’m turning 70 this month and have not read them since I was probably 10 years old. I’m almost finished with the first one, “Little house on the Prairie”. Wow. Everybody should’ve read it! Very Un-PC concerning the Indians, but that was life in the 1800’s ( and the book was first published in 1935).
Those books which I read as a child, shaped the future me (who turns 75 this summer). They are why I learned to do crewel embroidery in 7th grade, and why I have been making all our bread and soap these last 52 years. Laura's daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, wrote a book on embroidery--I suppose that's part of what got me started.
I spent my childhood reading and re-reading those books. They are pure gold.
I bought a set years ago at a thrift store but haven’t read them yet. I understand it’s also a primer on how they survived. Thanks for reminding me about those books.
The pioneers were a God fearing people and trusted that He would provide for them like He did for the Israelites. That’s what gave them the courage to move West.
Amen!
Earlier this morning I read this on X:
"The DOGE team says that when they went into the US Institute for PEACE they had loaded GUNS inside their headquarters trying to resist the DOGE team. They were spending money on things like private jets and had a contract with the Taliban.
Their chief accountant deleted over 1TB of financial data over the past years and the DOGE team was able to recover it.
They received $55M a year from congress and any money that went unspent got swept into a private bank account which had no congressional oversight and used it to fund parties and the private jet.
at the INSTITUTE FOR PEACE!
The DOGE team says they reported their findings to the FBI and DOJ.
"It was by far the least peaceful agency we've ever dealt with.""
There are two possibilities, one is what the IFP bureaucrats did is legal, if so Congress should be held responsible for not crafting laws/regulations to prohibit such behavior. The other possibility is the IFP bureaucrats broke laws and need to be prosecuted.
It's one or the other!
Yes, DOGE was on Watters World last night. Great interview with Musk and the team!
I saw that interview and was very impressed with the team. WTF is the “institute for PEACE” doing with loaded weapons in their building? We’re they going to take down the DOGE team or have they been watching too many Netflix thrillers? I’d like to see weapons charges pursued until we determine who obtained these firearms, how and why.
100% Guy.
I hope Elon's stepping away does not slow down the DOGE work...
I think the coordinated attacks on Tesla had just that goal...
Or perhaps he is really not stepping away.....
I hope that's true!
easy to be on the down-low.