Gulf of Mexico fades into history; Google de-wokes times and seasons; libs liken NIH to Third Reich; analysis of the slew of lefty legal injunctions against DOGE; performative slurping is over; more.
Happy about the straws but can we get to the really important stuff -- light bulbs!! I don't want that LED garbage in my house. Bring back regular light bulbs!!
Check out Speed Queen. I 'understand' SQ filled in all the requirements in one phase, was passed, now rest works right for laundry.. If only dishwasher manufacturers had been that wise? Need appliances NOW, but when this changes warehouses will still be full of the offending products with limiting
Speed Queen is awesome. We got one back in July after our Whirlpool died after only five years. There is a button that you can push that FILLS the tub full of water for all cycles (if you want). It also allows you to open the lid and put an errant sock in after the unit is on (no stupid locking lid). It is 100% made in WI, USA and is solid as a tank. No shaking and going becoming out of balance and it gets clothes clean (because you get to actually use enough water). The best made machine I've ever seen. No wonder laundromats use them. Also, there is a huge difference between your local Appliance store and the "big box store" versions of appliances. And the box stores to best of my knowledge do not have SQ's.
79-Thank you. One recommended was laundromat type but too costly. Hoping for a more 'regular' model that still does the job. Whgt a blessing I learned this. Do you have a model number by chance?---- How about dishwashers? I was a fool, did not know about chips. Rather than replacing rack on 30 year old great working Kitchen Aid DW--went for new. KA had food grinder 'disposer'--dishes only needed to be scraped. New Maytag requires washing dishes before go in. However heard KA might now have 'problems' with electrical panel. Simply purchasing an appliance these days is daunting. Thank you for any suggestions/opinions.
No one should be using ANY dishwasher. The soap you have to use contains a surface tension reducer that stays on dishes to make them shiny when they dry. This chemical is NOT natural. It is mildly toxic to the human body. It can accumulate in the body and become one of the 5 causes of Cancer.
Built in obsolescence I think it's called, Char. I detest the throw away mentality of engineers/manufacturers today! And I won't go down the trail of 'smart' appliances that allegedly spy on your daily activities.
A friend ask her repairman (while he was administering last rites to her third washing machine in just a few years) which machine was the best, and he said, hands down, the Speed Queen. He said he never had repair calls for them.
Now can somebody make a toaster that gets hot enough to toast, and last longer than a couple years? I finally resorted to purchasing a 50's vintage rebuilt Toastmaster B-14. Works wonderfully!
I have a 35 year old kenmore stored downstairs. I found out after I'd replaced it with a new $2,000 Speed Queen that all the kenmore needed was a new (inexpensive) shock absorber.
I think you need to be a LITTLE tech-savvy for this.
I remember as a kid when my dad removed the little washer that was a faucet's "water restrictor", drilled it out to a larger hole and re-installed it.
Washers have water-level sensors tat may be moved higher to allow more water to be present. But this may impact the gearbox, if it's not robust enough to handle the extra resistance more water would provide.
I'm naturally curious and resent state control over things I purchase, so I do my research, learn how something's built, and see if there's a way to circumvent controls. There almost always is. But you may have to be a techie to figure it out. Sorry...
and the "New" machines require you to "wash" the washer about once a month.... using an extra long cycle of hot water & an expensive additive (that you can replicate with bleach or vinegar)
It’s so stupid!! 😡 And even so, my washer randomly spits out gunk into my wash every so often (usually my lighter colors, conveniently enough 🙄) and I have to rewash that load 🙄 I will definitely be replacing it with a Speed Queen as soon as I can!
Ranger--Thank you. I really appreciate. Searching for 2 critical things. Dishwasher with grinder [disposer]--had ancient but foolishly went new over repair before knowing. AND safest oven --without chemicals to bake into foods. The hours spent--learning nothing. Told induction safest, but sounds like that is for cook tops, not ovens.....Avoid convection and air fryer.......ok, but just yikes. .Mentioned earlier. recalls for not listing allergens in foods like soy or dairy. Yet unable to learn the contents of oven linings? Spending lots extra for VOC free products in small cabin being built--THEN searching for safe air fryer for grandson, learned bad news of many. Led me to question ovens, learning nothing . Spend so much for VOC free products then bake them into foods.? Serious worry to me. Thank you for the GE info especially. Really appreciate. Spose everything has some components from chyna, but factories here is good to hear. Might chance GE. 'Some' --like induction range even with incomplete information. Refrigerators. Got to make choices like 2 months ago.
We only buy used. Our used washer broke a few days ago, but we found GE at an estate sale. They seem pretty good. I have heard great things about speed queens though
I had a GE that ran perfectly for 22 years, then gave out. We looked at everything, but got a lot of negative comments about the new GE quality so didn't buy that. We were warned everywhere to stay away from Samsung, and actually no one seemed enthusiastic about any of the brands. We were told by many people the new refrigerators were expected to last about 5 years, no matter how much you pay. We got a fantastic deal on an Italian Bertazzoni floor model fridge with a dent in the back that you can't see plus a 5 year warranty on it, so although its original price was about $3800, we got it for $1400. I love the fridge, but at a only year in I have no idea how long it might last. Wait and see.
We've been using Bosch 800 dishwashers for 13 years. Unfortunately one died 2 years ago. American Home Shield would only replace it with a Kitchen Aid. HATE IT!
Get a Speed Queen washer. It has no bells and whistles to break down, uses lots of water to wash, is commercial grade, and is a beast. After having one of those low water washers a few months, I put it on the curb and bought the Speed Queen.
Nearly All the "standards" are not to modernize or conserve...that's at best secondary, new regs and standards are primarily smoke and mirrors pushed by a Progressivist (Wilson) system of overpaid agency/dept. bureaucrats, engineers, industry, sales reps, suppliers selling upgrades and artificial innovations that fix the ONE prominent "issue or problem" while creating 2 or 3 more by doing so; this is work for work's sake whether changes in global energy sources or a more "water efficient" toilet design required by state or municipal code; perpetual, periodic production/supply/costs/installation with certification, intentionally drive the economy and spending and collaterally cost-crush some into subsidy dependency for compliance...or broader "investment" when renovating and complying to new codes and ordinances.
Truly non-standardization is also maddening, where 10,000 parts exist to repair said Low Flow Toilets in all their various incarnations, stylings, flushing mechanisms etc--not to mention your incoming water quality has to be nearly filtered and softened to perfection ($$$), and longevity of product is NOT an enforceable standard.
We got one piece standard volume Glacier Bay toilets from Home Depot. They produce an extra turbulence during the flush that is very forceful and works great! They are the BEST!
Actually, there’s a high end ($700+ a few years ago; no idea now) Toto that works better than any other. Their lower cost models are good, but not amazing.
I have 3. Problems. Had to replace the main valve stem unit on them all because they constantly failed to re-fill the bowl completely. Call to service worked well-- free replacements in mail. But, I had to do the work. Putzed with them(new) for months before giving up and making the damn call.
I have a Kohler Persuade toilet with dual flush and I have never in 12 years had to flush more than once or use a plunger. I recommend it highly. I bought 2 more for another property. Under $570 and it looks awesome with a skirted trapway. Easier to clean.
Yes! So tired of scraping food off of “clean” dishes. My appliance repairman said the water doesn’t get hot enough to actually clean the dishes. So annoying!!
Set the hot water heater - if you have one - temp at 140 instead of 120 [energy saving]. I've let the kids know that the hot water is HOT so that the grands - and they - are not at risk of scalding. I learned ~15 yrs ago, when one of the buildings at work was evacuated and closed b/c of an outbreak of legionnaires disease, that 140 KILLS the bacteria but that 120 does not. That was enough for me.
Mine is set at 128°F; I use SOFT water . . . and it cleans fine on all levels:
Express, quick wash, normal, heavy.
as to disease: I believe ALL dishwashers(certainly, GE, MINE) have heat boosters to bump the cleaning temp to 160°F. Leave the main hot water heater alone, if so.
I actually rinse them very well, AND use the extra hot feature to get them clean now. For washing clothes, I use extra water and higher temps, so all their energy saving features actually make me use more energy!
CHeck your water to be sure it is SOFT. If so, verify the hot cycle is reaching 160°F, I believe. Read the manual. Almost all these units have 2ndary heaters to boost temp . . .
Finally, try different levels of cleaning: HIGH, NORMAL, Express, quick wash with heavy food on plates and determine the one that works for YOU.
Funny you say that! I’ve been buying old washing machines…you know, the kind that actually fill completely full of water and do a little “shimmy & Shake” for about 10 min…off the market place for years now. When my beloved old Maytag finally bit the dust, I caved and bought a new one (which I immediately regretted) and which now sits collecting dust in a conex in our back 40 lol! I was able to eventually find another old Maytag (which I love)!
These so called “efficient” appliances may save on water, but they use ten times as much electricity trying to get the job done!! Please “Make Appliances GREAT (and common sense) Again”!!
I ran across brochures from the 1950's advertising refrigerators. They looked more innovative than what we have now and they probably worked better, too.
Twice now, my 2-year-new top-load washer with an agitator has let a spider survive an entire washing/rinsing/spinning cycle. I kid you not. Each time, the spider was on the agitator, enjoying the relatively dry ride.
If I insert any clothing in this washer that is folded, it comes out folded. There are clothes that come out with some dry spots that never got wet.
oh did you strike a nerve, Kathy... my husband was complaining how our new, high efficiency, low water and poor results washing machine, which came with our new built home in 2022, doesn't really clean the clothes, even using the "Deep Water Wash" function on every load and "hot water. Said his Dad's machine in Michigan really gets things clean. I told him well, yeah, your dad's machine is 20 years old, uses real hot water and has a center agitator that really agitates. pointing to our agitator, I told him it's for decorative purposes, doesn't really work - it's so ridicuous - an old fashioned washboard works better than this piece of crap, which will surely break down in another year, forcing us to buy another worthless machine, Rinse and repeat, pun intended!
I had one of those that was missing the agitator. My clothes often emerged from the washer dry! The manual said that's because the washer did a super job spinning the clothes. 🙄 Aside from the fact that my laundry didn't get washed, the machine used to tear little holes in my clothes. So efficient!
I don't remember! I know before the clothes eater, I had a Maytag washer and dryer that I had owned since 1993 but when I got married, my husband wanted new appliances, so I gave my Maytags to my mother. She still has them! I could kick myself (or maybe the hubby🤔😂).
They weren't very durable, either. I think we had them for like five years when they broke down. I have one with an agitator now and it mostly fills up (way more than the clothes eater, at any rate). At least all my clothes get wet when I wash them. Someday, maybe I can afford a Speed Queen!
I am hereby instructing Secretary Lee Zeldin to immediately go back to my Environmental Orders, which were terminated by Crooked Joe Biden, on Water Standards and Flow pertaining to SINKS, SHOWERS, TOILETS, WASHING MACHINES, DISHWASHERS, etc., and to likewise go back to the common sense standards on LIGHTBULBS, that were put in place by the Trump Administration, but terminated by Crooked Joe. I look forward to signing these Orders. THANK YOU!!!
I'm a person who loves to blend things - I don't know why, but it borders on a compulsion..
Anyway, I have a few different types of laundry detergent down in the garage. I mixed some detergent that was thick and viscous with some other thick and viscous detergent from Trader Joe's, and the result was thin and runny. The TJ's detergent is soapy/foamy. The other detergent (from a "cheap stuff" store where the poors shop) is slippery, but feels more oily than soapy. Maybe it's missing the phosphate or maybe it's something else.
Not washing my clothes with that crap anymore, as I don't want whatever's in it up against my skin. Call me suspicious, but something in me tells me it's just another way "they" attempt to poison us out of existence...
Make your own with washing soda, borax, baking soda oxy-clean and grated bar soap. It will satisfy your love of blending and knowing what you're getting, and it makes everything smell fresh not like you simply took a perfume shower!!!
Thanks, Nancy! I'll try this. I collected essential oils for years after I read "Jitterbug Perfume" by Tom Robbins. So I do like some scents. But my stepmom washes her sheets (the ones in the guest room we sleep on) in some nasty, cloying Gain detergent. She must use a lot of it, because it's hard to even fall asleep, it's so strong.
Dr Linda, my original comment seems to have gotten lost, so I’m replying again.
In short, the soap probably works fine but modern detergent is missing phosphate, which is needed for a proper rinse. May I suggest adding TSP to your wash in addition to your detergent; it should improve the final result. I don’t have a ratio (tsp/gal or ml/L), sorry.
Yes I need a new dishwasher. The relatively new one we have is crap. Three hour cycles and does not clean the dishes. The old one had a quick wash—45 minutes and done. Have already replaced the circuit board even. Free the appliances!!!
Heat pumps too. We’re due for a new furnace but we’ll have ‘up grade’ both because the new furnace won’t work with the old heat pump, or vice versa. They regulated (updated?) heat pumps to be obsolete, once they die, they both essentially die.
Note: our heat pump is much newer than our waaaay old furnace.
The irony is that GE made washing machines that could have worked with less water 60 years ago. Instead of relying just on agitation, they had a pump to sprinkle the clothing from above. The water went through a filter basket to catch lint. Filter Flow they called it.
Make the pump stronger and spray down from above and the clothes on top would get clean even if not submerged.
Yes! Now that y’all mention this, I’ve been wondering who is the best person at the W. H. To send letters to requesting things like this be handled. For the first time in my life, I really think if Trump hears about these things, he will fix it. But we need the best contact info. Anyone know?
I have a friend with an eye degeneration illness, and she cannot tolerate LED lights. I often find them harsh and glaring. There was no scientific basis for eliminating incandescent bulbs.
You can buy LED bulbs at nearly any color temp. The 5000 °K are usually cheapest and most available and probably lots of folks buy them without knowing you can get the same color temp as old incandescents(2900) in LED form too. They should be no "harsher" than the old type as they radiate the same light "rays".
EDIT: Correction, not true; the BLUE peak is higher in many LED lights. Look down further for my suggestion for LED lights that basically have the same spectra with minimal blue peak.
Don't rely on CDC for info on LED. They will tell you what obozo/bidumb want you to know. Check Dr. Mercola's substacks- he wrote about these a while ago.
The LEDs emit electro magnetic energy that isn't good for us, it causes cellular damage. Look up Arthur Firstenburg. Not sure about the spelling of his last name.
Here's a link to neurosurgeon Jack Kruse who who reveals some huge medical scandals including the serious blue light health risks. You won't regret watching.
Led lights in neighbors home invade my bedroom. I feel like my home is at motel 6. Just awful and I think they make people cranky and probably add to mental illness. Since no sleep. But when they turn them off. My body is so happy and sleeping well brings wellbeing. They are hostile lights. Especially driving highways!!!
My workplace (hospital) recently went through a renovation and installed LED lights with dimmers. I keep them as low as my coworkers will tolerate. But I hear that my coworker who works on alternate days from me walks in and turns up all the dimmers. Many feel assaulted by the bright light.
Studies have been done - in hospitals, I believe, - about the harmful effects of these LED lights on patients - and workers. LED bulbs are harmful to our health. Great Substack by "The Light Doctor" who goes deep into the woes of the lighting issues. https://lightdoctormartinmooreede.substack.com/
I hope you are aware that LEDs are available at various light penetration levels. E.g. cold light 5000°K, and warm light 2900° K. These are very different 'brightness' levels. If you are unhappy at the light levels of your neighbours homes then I would suggest that you ask them if they are aware of the differences!
They have three in one fixture all warm spectrum. But bright enuff to pierce my hallway from there garage which is set quite a ways back from the street into my house all the way to the back wall of my kitchen and back bedroom on the backside of my house
I recently bought a box of floodlights at Costco after my stocked supplies ran out. I was really annoyed, because the floods are in my kitchen and I figured the damn LEDs would be a different color from the incandescent still in the ceiling. But they now have a color switch on them, so you have 4 settings. The lowest setting matched the incandescent perfectly.
My understanding is that even with the warm light setting, it is still an LED and causing problems with our eyes and brains. Not sure if anyone knows this in more detail.
Wow, there are more LED haters here than I realized...
LEDs are pulsed - they blink on and off rapidly, which may be part of the issue people have with them. Incandescent bulbs do this, too - it's a function of alternating current, which changes polarity in the US 60 times per second (passing through a zero-current moment each time). The difference is, on a filament bulb, the filament doesn't go all the way out at that zero-current moment, because it's still hot from the max-current moment 1/120th of a second before. It dips in brightness a little, but it happens so fast that we don't notice it.
Aside from the blue of the 6500K LED bulbs (vs. the 2700K "warm" bulbs that mimic incandescent bulbs), it could be the much-more-defined pulsing of the LED bulbs that people find annoying and even unhealthy. If you look at an LED and swipe your head to the side really quickly, under certain conditions you can see a "trail of dots" in your persistence of vision, as opposed to the "smear" you'll see under the same conditions with incandescent.
LEDs blink, by the way, because at the energy level they produce their brightest light, they would burn out almost instantly if they were held at that level constantly. The blink allows them to cool off during their off state, keeping them from burning out. Dimmers that work with LEDs vary the ratio between on time and off time - when off for longer than on, the LEDs appear as less-bright.
There's your physics lesson for today, folks. Yes, I know - I'm a geek.
BTW, fluorescent lights make me sleepy, for some reason. I had to fight to stay awake in school a lot of the time, because of those darned fluorescent tubes across the ceilings...
I’ve noticed lately that after reading text on a screen, when I look away, I see stripes, like lines of blurred text that remain in my vision for a while burned into my retinas after I look away from the screen. Do you know what’s going on there?
Persistence of vision. It's your vision system's natural response to staring at high-contrast images.
You can try lowering the brightness on your screen to reduce eye fatigue. As a matter of fact, I just did this on my monitor as I was replying - I often walk away from the screen with tears in my eyes from eyestrain. Thanks for the reminder!
can't stand the LED's. I have one incandescent left & it's the only lamp I can read under for long periods. After about 15 minutes under an LED lamp, my eyes are aching!
I bought a bazillion lightbulbs in 2012. Brought them all with me when I moved cross-country in 2015. I STILL haven’t run out..,but I’m close. This would be perfect timing 🤣.
I purchased (100) incandescent 60 watt bulbs 2 years ago too as the "prohibition" was getting close. Replaced all bulbs in the house with them and have not yet had to replace any. Oh the lies we've been told.
I loaded up a Home Depot shopping cart with regular lightbulbs when O’Bummer outlawed them. Got them for $.99 a package. I too carried them cross states to have on hand and am still using them and loving them. None of that LED light for me.
Me too! I’m on my last box of 60w and need to restock. When I bought these in bulk, I bought Philips, which don’t last as long as the GE did. Hard to believe the supplies have last 10+ years!
Buy "appliance" bulbs. Same conventional light and not a high cost. I bought a bunch of oven-safe bulbs with the standard base and use them all around the house.
🤣🤣🤣. In all seriousness, I wonder if this is a forestry issue. I believe that the smaller trees are harvested for pulp and if that isn't happening then there will be supply and demand issues.
A major issue with paper products and the forever chemicals is thy are introduced through the bleaching process. Unbleached toilet paper has fewer chemicals and napkins and paper towels and . . . .
Forestry is a big business in Alabama. Pine trees are planted on land and harvested 20 years later, replanted, etc. It’s used for kid’s college funds, retirement, etc. I have a friend who is in the tree harvesting business, and it’s been a tough go these last 4 years. The mills aren’t open as much now due to downturn in building because of high interest rates. Hopefully, that ends this year!
We have one. It was an add on to our Spectrum cable. I prefer the old fashioned answer machine anyway. I’ve never set up a message box on my iPhone and don’t use that number for my first contact.
Yes. But I prefer messages and call screening on an answering machine. I don’t necessarily want to be contactable every single moment and left messages on my cell phone. I’m retired and everyone I care about knows where to find me. . Leave a message on my machine. One less layer of annoyance.
One of the big problems is that you lose phone service if the power or the cable goes out. You didn't on the old land lines. I remember my godmother was in her 90's and every time the cable went out, her landline went out and she could not call anyone if she needed help and no one could call her. It was a huge problem.
Fun fact: when we evacuated a wildfire in 2003, I kept calling our landline, because when the machine answered, I knew our home was not one of the over 2200 burned.
Yes, they are digital now and yet you pay about as much on taxes (set long ago) as you do for the line. But there are still very good reasons to have one. If parents would get landlines for their kids to use, there wouldn't be as much pressure from the kids to have cell phones. A smart phone handed to a child is like handing them access to every vile thing in the world.
When I worked as a phone guy, we had special 10-digit numbers we could call known as ANIs that allowed us to identify the line we were dialing from. Helps if you're in a dark phone closet and you're trying to find that new line you're supposed to install for a customer.
Truly the most silly and juvenile pranks 🤣 I know there’s smarter and funnier ones out there but these are the ones I recall friends doing whenever I was at their houses.
I still do have a landline. Cell service in my house sucks and I work from home, so having a phone that I don't have to keep asking clients/callers to repeat themselves is essential. Plus I learned from Jeff that the Gazans in tunnels used landlines as the spy tech couldn't intercept them, and think in the US the gov actually has to have a warrant to tap it. It's getting pricey, but I am now dug in that I will keep it. Also saves me from having to tote my cell phone around the house with me and I turn it off at night and use an alarm clock. Old school, lol.
Is it actually over the telephone lines though? When I was trying to find a landline, all the offerings are VOIP (voice over internet provider). It seems theyve abandoned the telephone lines which seems short sighted as if the power is out, the internet is out and so is your phone. We were wanting something that would be a separate system as an emergency prep but I dont think its available like that anymore..
No its still a true landline. We get an insert in our bill (yes I am also stubborn and refuse paperless billing - no one gets automatic access to our checking account or credit card, and already get too many emails) trying to get us to switch to VOIP technology but that negates the whole reason for having a landline in the first place. Like if the power is out it still works, although we use cordless handsets, we do have a non cordless phone that we can plug in and use.
We had landline but we were at the end of the line. Oldest house in the area. They could NOT keep the lines from every kind of damage. I had to call them every week and often i couldn't call... Oh wait! I have the same problem with my Wi-Fi. Sigh... If there were just privitized making money, without gov pickers...
Ours is still an analog line and we did have a spate of service calls several years ago but they did come out and replace some of the lines. (Include the one I snipped with the hedge trimmer when I was trimming a bush too close to the house, lol) But I suspect at some point that will go away. Sigh.
Well, ya never know....we got rid of a lot of our vinyl albums in the early 2000's as we could not find a replacement needle for our turntable, but still hung on to some for sentimental reasons. But then around 2010 our daughter gifted us a record player for Christmas so we could listen to them again, and now vinyl has made a little bit of a comeback. Perhaps with this growing awareness of EMPs landlines will do the same? Buildout is probably too expensive, though.
My 95 yr old mom still has a landline. She has never wanted or had a cell phone. Therefore she’s never distracted when she’s doing anything or interrupted when she’s around others. Life is simpler and better when you’re not available to phone calls, emails or text messages 24/7.
We are all conditioned now like lab rats to respond to a ring, ding, buzz... you can't relax unless you shut the phone off and then feel compelled to turn it back on as the "what if" scenarios start to create minor bouts of anxiety. Modern life is ridiculous... and the younger tech generations have no idea what life is like sans an extra appendage that they carry in their back packet (brewing cancer) and whip it out every 10 minutes so it can tell them what to do next.
We have a landline. I pay absolutely no attention to it so if someone calls and leaves a message I may listen to it in six months. We use Ooma which costs about eight bucks a month - which is really the only reason we still have it.
Judith, Wait--Ooma? Never heard of it. Can be used on ATT line [same had for decades]? --ATT land line is outrageously expensive. Hope to learn this will work.
I have a hard time hearing and understanding people on phone calls using VOIP (and 'smart phones,' too). Usually have to use speaker phone.
Kinda hate it a little.
But it's a fact that I used it in an office I used to work in.
I think Ooma might be to ATT, what ROKU is to television channels/livestreaming services in a way, but with a small monthly fee, not just a one time fee.
Our office used it to cut down on phone costs - I'm trying to remember if it went out when the wifi did. I don't think so. It's probably using the phone company network's internet. So if theirs went down, it would go down.
Someone more technologically savvy could probably weigh in on that.
I thought he already signed the order, but I guess not. Amazon started selling incandescent again, however, there are a limited amount of suppliers. I'm sure it will ramp up soon as so many people have problems with LEDs. They hurt my eyes and give me a headache.
The Biden administration made selling Incandescent light bulbs in the US illegal in August 2024. Amazon quit selling them then, but it looks like they are already allowing them again.
to Grok : do LED lights on the "warm" setting still produce blue light?
Yes, LED lights on the "warm" setting still produce some blue light, but significantly less than those on cooler or daylight settings. Here's how it works:
LED Color Temperature: The color temperature of LED lights is measured in Kelvin (K). Lights with lower Kelvin values (e.g., 2700K to 3000K) are considered "warm" because they emit a more yellow or amber light, similar to traditional incandescent bulbs. Higher Kelvin values (e.g., 5000K and above) are "cool" or "daylight" and produce more blue light.
Blue Light Emission: Even warm white LEDs emit some blue light because the technology often involves using a blue LED chip coated with phosphors. These phosphors convert some of the blue light to longer (warmer) wavelengths, but the conversion isn't perfect, so a small amount of blue light still gets through.
Impact: Although the amount of blue light from a warm LED is lower, it's still present. This can be important for people sensitive to blue light, especially in the evening when blue light can affect sleep patterns by suppressing melatonin production. However, warm LEDs are designed to minimize this impact compared to cooler LEDs.
There is also lightbulbs.com. They seem to carry everything, even Christmas light bulb strings that take the old-fashioned incandescent large colored bulbs.
Same here... my brain interprets LEDs like a toxin to be avoided. I ordered incandescent light bulbs off Amazon and they turned out to be cheap crap that don't last but a few months with regular use. It was an off brand so maybe I should try to find a well known brand... I sure hope this ridiculous green investment money maker for the parasite class goes the way of the dinosaur ;)
100%. GE switched over all their production to LED years ago when they first passed the stupid law. The China bulbs don't last as long, but that's my only choice.
CHop--off topic , sort of. Do you know if GE appliances are now manufactured in chyna? I cannot find out. Been recommended , yet do not buy from cHyna if at all possible. Thank you.
Anita. Thank you I did check this from other post. Factories here is great news. Spose unavoidable to have anything with out 'components' from chyna. Might be time to simply stop checking, been exhausting. However would still like to know what chemicals used in linings of ovens. It is secret--or perhaps my poor searching abilities just have not found. Do you perchance have information or where to find?
Going back to the fact 'tards are stupid, low water flush mandates for toilets is a perfect example. I know people who have brought toilets back from Mexico, Anyone ever been to Germany.? Their toilets have 2 flush options, essentially #1 (low water flush) and #2 (high water flush). Not labeled of course, but common sense required (so you would have to label them if they were sold in America).
How do they get around the maximum flush per mandates? I'll bet the #2 flush is just the new normal flush, and the only difference is you get a lesser flush if you want for #1. I mean, when those German toilets do a full flush, you aren't going to find any crap hanging around
Toto. Put those in 20 years ago and have not needed a plunger since. Eljer Titan are just as good and you can get those at the big box home improvement stores.
We had to get rid of our water saver because the plunging effect broke the seal over and over AND the handle kept falling off, into the tank and couldn't be retrieved without incredible about of time and hardship! 😡🔥
Dunno bout that….LEDs work pretty well….run cooler, illuminate well, cheaper to operate, and last longer. Initial cost is my only objection. What am I missing?
I do like that they don't heat the house up in the summer and I need brighter light if I'm doing detail work like hand-sewing. Regular light bulbs don't provide enough light for me to do that. At the end of the day, the issue is not banning one type or the other but giving people the freedom to buy the bulbs they prefer to use.
I had a sick parakeet years ago, and the vet told me to put a light next to the cage to keep the bird warm. My father used to keep a light on in the basement to keep the pipes from freezing. And yes, LED light is not good for your retina.
The reality I’ve discovered is that they do NOT last! The LEDs I’ve bought cost three times as much, and on average last about 6 months, depending on their location and how much use they get.
Some of them have an irritating delay when switched on and they produce an ugly, unnatural light.
I’m sure improvements could be made to incandescents, but LED is not an improvement IMO.
We recently found out that there are 2 types of LEDs, those that are rated for high temps and those that aren't. While LEDs dont put off heat like incandescents, the little circuit boards do and there are some that dont handle the increased temps at all. For every 5 deg off of ideal (let's say 70 deg) it will reduce their lifespan by a considerable percent. So in an enclosed light, in a house that reg stays above 75 deg (AC is expensivo) your "10 year lightbulb) will last maybe 3 years. They label them now, the ones that are rated for enclosed fixtures. So we've already replaced every bulb in our house twice- and we've only lived here 6 years. Since we removed the covers on all the lights, they dont go out near as fast.
So I need to keep my house cooler than I want in the summer to make my light bulbs last longer. These government officials are brilliant. Only kidding, they aren’t
The cheap ones burn out quickly, but get this: the LEDs inside are wired in series (like the old Christmas tree lights), so if one LED burns out, none of them function! There are probably millions of these in landfills that would work perfectly fine if one LED was replaced.
If we were a truly efficient society, we would demand that all LED bulbs sold be designed with their LEDs wired in parallel.
You are correct. The old incandescent bulbs last much much much longer than the LEDs.. there are still incandescent bulbs in service for over 100 years. What wears them out is to turn them on and off.
You are missing the fact (that they don't tell you) they emit harmful EMF's, and are bad for your eyes, and have mercury in them, but other than that, they are great.
fluorescent tubes apparently have some mercury. My local Lowe's used to accept them when they burned out (supposedly to properly dispose of them), but not longer does. I have yet to find a way of disposing of the bad ones, although I have been told to just thrown them in the trash!
“Standard, incandescent bulbs and halogen bulbs do not contain hazardous materials. However, compact fluorescent light (CFLs), fluorescent tubes and light emitting diodes (LED) bulbs contain toxic metals such as mercury, arsenic and lead. CFL light bulbs contain about 3 milligrams of mercury gas. If the bulb breaks, individuals can easily breathe in toxic levels of mercury vapor and other metals.* If the bulbs are improperly disposed, these metals can contaminate our soil, groundwater, lakes and streams.”
I am looking across the room at two different light bulbs. One is old incandescent "yellow" bulb and the other is a bright, white LED. The white light looks cleaner. To me, the yellow bulb looks dingy by comparison. Again, it's a preference.
Must be the yellow hue that incandescent or low lumen bulbs give off- yellow being a warm color compared to the more blue tone that daylight bulbs give off which is considered a cool tone. Just guessing...🤔
Incandescents radiate heat as well. I’ve used a 100w trouble light with an incandescent bulb in my RV wet bay for years when the temps are low. Works perfectly.
Cheaper to operate because gov subsidies? Windmills? Solar panels all over acres and acres and acres of ppl feeding farmland? Chinese made? Maybe it's all a lie.
This is the reply my electrician husband always gives me when I complain that I want to go back to incandescent. I’m not sure if he and you are right or if he has just been trained to see it that way? 🤷🏼♀️
The flickering of them really annoys my eyes and brain. It’s sort of like how a strobe light eventually affects you.
As for lasting longer: that’s true with most bulbs around our house, but NOT the ones that normally take a halogen bulb. The LEDs in my bathroom fixtures burn out constantly the same way the original bulbs did and so half the time the lighting is too low for me to see anything well because I’m waiting for him to replace them. I think both kinds of bulbs cost a lot so he always drags his feet replacing them. He does grumble that the halogen gets too hot.
And the regs around air conditioners. We are hanging in there with an A/C system we last replaced in 2003. My understanding is that due to new environmental regulations the cost of replacing it is supposed to go up by a $1000 or more starting this year. At least that is what the tech who was at our house last time we got it repaired told me. Granted, he may have just been trying to earn a commission on a new unit, but I told him I will wait and see what Trump will do when he gets elected. That shut him up.
I wouldn't really mind the LED bulbs if they actually _lasted_. The cooler temps are welcome in the summer months around here, but the "10 year" thing is ... not. So bringing back incandescents and such will be nice.
Had an all-in-one fixture with LEDs die. But looks like it was just one of the settings for the light so a switch got it working again and not needing a whole new unit. Had to nix _that_ idea for a new overhead light at one point. :)
Our house is just 5 years old. It wasn't even a year in and we've been replacing LEDs since. They don't last and aren't bright. Don't get me started on my new appliances. Already replaced stove once and have had tech out on new one....need to have them back. Turn on one burner and the one beside it comes on too. Ice maker hasn't worked in a year and dishwasher is crappy....and all were name brands.
I hope he goes after all stupid regulations on appliances next!
Almost everyone I know has had to replace a major appliance in the last 6 months, unlike my godmother who still had her washing machine from the 1950's. They don't make anything to last anymore and it's infuriating. We've replaced one appliance every year in the house we moved into and the house was newly renovated with new appliances. It's ridiculous. No one cares about making a quality product anymore. They only care about making a profit. And they keep adding all of these "special features" that break. Can't we focus on just making a quality product that lasts, please!!!
The appliances don't work anymore because you can decrease the water flow, OR the electricity consumption, but not both if you want the appliance to still clean or wash, So what does the EPA do ? Reduce both by mandate.
Yep. Can't find reliable people to fix anything. When my godmother's old refrigerator broke, the repair company had to send 3 different people out to try to fix it! The last guy was an older, experienced repairman.
Our house is 19 years old and it has some of the original incandescent lights from when we bought it (new construction)! And yet the LEDs keep having to be replaced all the time 🙄
We opted for really bright LED integrated light fixtures for our barn. The first set lasted about 3 years, and then, all of a sudden, they were all blipping out. We had to shear our alpacas in very low light, because it happened right around that time. On shearing morning, two of the lights right over the shearing area went dark. So, we replaced them all with the same style, but brighter. Guess what? Those only lasted about a year. So, our next trick is to replace all of the direct wiring with plugs, and get the plug in versions, which will not require an electrician to replace. Our barn ceiling is 14' tall, so it's no easy task.
I’m so furious at these judges trying to stop Trump and his administration from cutting waste and thus allowing more money to go back to the regular people in this country! Tarring and feathering would be appropriate for them!
Notice though what the administration isn't doing. There are no lofty speeches saying things like, "we respect the court's authority and will pause the activity while the case works it's way through the courts. We are a nation of laws and look forward to the appeals process". There is no pabulum like that whatsoever.
Instead, the administration is saying nothing, no platitudes, no hostile defiance, no "nation of laws" nonsense. Instead, Vance puts out a tweet implying the courts actions are lawless. The administration quietly files the proper paperwork response to move through the appeals process. And most importantly, it looks like they are just ignoring the court orders.
As far as I can tell, nothing is stopping but accelerating. There's no outright defiance of the orders, but no acceptance of their legitimacy either. The judge who put out the first order is already huffing and puffing that it's not being followed. But so what? What is he going to do about it? But since Trump isn't getting all angry and defiant there's no target for the media to attack.
Trump understands that not everything requires a response, it's often best just to reject a bad faith premise. Cuck conservatives never understood this. The media and Democrats would call the GOP racists, and conservatives would run to the microphones to defend themselves and explain how it wasn't true. Total loser mentality. Trump taught us that when they call us racists, you laugh at them and call them pedophiles. A deliberate bad faith action requires a response in kind.
Yet I see one conservative after another wringing their hands about "out of control left wing judges" without realizing their anguished posts gives them power and legitimacy. It's a loser menatlity and no surprise that the country was nearly lost under their leadership. Thank God for President Trump.
From Sean Davis this morning, one of the few conservatives that gets it:
The theater kids running the Democrat Party are insecure and desperate for attention, so of course they’re going to pretend it’s a “constitutional crisis” any time they don’t get their way.
The proper response to spoiled children who have public temper tantrums whenever mommy doesn’t buy them the candy they demand is to ignore their nonsense and go about your business.
This country’s laws and constitution do not grant nationwide veto power to unelected inferior district judges. The proper response to these clowns is to ignore them, impeach and remove them, and/or eliminate entire federal judicial districts and thereby force the Supreme Court—if it refuses to rein in these little bolsheviks in robes—to handle every single district case on its own.
There’s a time, like now, when the Supreme Court needs to step in immediately and end this nonsense. The list of cases that have been subject to excessive cost and years of delay because the Supremes will only take up a very limited number of cases to fit into their schedule is a miscarriage of justice. Way too much time is wasted studying prior cases and precedents when the plain, easily understood language of the Constitution is all that is needed to decide a case.
As a Christian it took me a long time to be deprogrammed from the media-defined behavior supposedly required of a Christian. The fact that the media is overwhelmingly non-Christian makes me shake my head at my foolishness in letting it happen.
There is no requirement to be "nice" to people acting in bad faith, it's not required to be a Christian. Christ certainly wasn't, he called out the scribes and Pharisees right to their faces as vipers and sons of satan. He called the hypocritical Jews "a perverse and corrupt generation" in front of a large crowd.
We think we have to respond to everything, and take people's opinions seriously, as we've been brainwashed that we have to always be "nice". We don't. When someone is deliberately lying to you it is acceptable and morally courageous to call them a liar. When someone demands in bad faith you "care" about something, it's perfectly acceptable to laugh at them.
The key is determining when it's in bad faith, but it's actually pretty simple. If the person is dealing with us in a dishonest manner, that is misrepresenting things, exaggerating the significance, lying by omission, intentionally manipulating emotions, etc. then that's bad faith. Period. Good people do not interact with other people in this manner. Once I detect that my obligation to be "nice" ends.
I've gradually come to the conclusion that it's actually the moral position that we must not be nice to people who behave this way. They need to experience negative reinforcement or they will just continue their manipulative behavior on others.
Think about it this way, when the lying, pushy, and manipulative salesman comes to your door, is the moral thing to be pleasant to them? Or is it moral to call them out as a scumbag liar and slam the door in their face?
Here's the thing, if enough people call them out as scumbags then just maybe they'll get tired of it and get an honest job. But if everyone is "nice" to them then they are more likely to continue at it and scam your elderly, gullible neighbor. They get no negative reinforcement for their dishonest behavior.
Yet people have been conned into thinking being "nice" is a good thing when it's really just a coward's way to avoid confronting dishonest behavior. And shockingly of course, the most dishonest people are those that demand we be "nice".
"There is no requirement to be "nice" to people acting in bad faith, it's not required to be a Christian. Christ certainly wasn't, he called out the scribes and Pharisees right to their faces as vipers and sons of satan. He called the hypocritical Jews "a perverse and corrupt generation" in front of a large crowd.",
in today's world, Jesus would be considered an 'anti-semite'.
My Son & I have been studying Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius. Opinions and judgments keep us from living in the present. Although, we do have to be aware of the past & future.
Mark Twain was a stoic. He is one of my favorite quotes regarding imagination: “You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
Excellent. Keep it up. I started reading Ryan Holliday's popular daily posts on Stoicism until one day he wrote about how all of the J 6'ers deserved what they got for their "insurrection".
I Love Mark Twain, and along with TJ, they produced more of my favorite quotes than anyone. Two other gems from Twain were "If you don't read the papers , you aren't informed. If you do read the papers, you are misinforemed'. And my all-time favorite ," It isn't what you don't know that will kill you. IIt's what you think you know for sure, but just ain't so".
Well put! Which makes me wonder what they have up their sleeve. Trump KNEW this is what they would do. I think he has a plan and it is in motion. But you nailed it!
Thanks for the added perspective. I appreciate Jeff’s take (which I hadn’t had time to fully read when I posted obviously) and your points about Trump’s lack of reaction. That makes a lot of sense. I also hope your reference to conservatives wringing their hands and the loser mentality comment isn’t partially directed at me. I was simply expressing frustration at their sheer arrogance and hubris (and I definitely think all of these judges are personally getting something out of the profligate government spending). I haven’t posted anywhere else or said anything to anyone about this besides this post. I’m glad all of this is coming to light and coming to a head. I hope their pride will indeed be their undoing.
Judges, Politicians, Media who try to circumvent cutting waste, fraud and financial crimes, are outing themselves as conspirators to the biggest heist in Human History. I hope Pam Bondi is taking note and will act swiftly.
I thought the same thing... One would think then that would accelerate the process to the Supreme Court because you would have multiple "cases" that would need to be adjudicated at the same time.
And since when is the "Supreme Court", which derives its power from Article III (Judicial), superior to either the Article I (Congress) or Article II (Executive) co-equal branches of government???
But I still feel that Roe was overturned conveniently for the summer of 2022, just in time for the mid term elections. Too many Blue States such as Michigan, used this to get radical abortion legislation on ballots and to use abortion to get blue governors and legislators elected. I know of at least 6 states that got radical abortion legislation passed and no state’s that got pro life legislation enacted. However, if this wakes up the Right to Life movement then it achieved some purpose.
I’ve had the same thoughts. These states are packed with murdering POS’s who jumped at the chance to make it easier and faster to murder unborn babies - WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT. They are loving it! It is sick and twisted.
Yes, it is, but God still knows what He intends. Perhaps he is telling us to encourage women in every way to have their babies, to find God given ways NOT to become pregnant, instead of ignoring it and holding up our hands in defeat. David slew Goliath with a rock. Our giants are before us, but we have lots of rocks.
Yes, to motivate people to the polls, but big money was poured into states to get it passed because it A) is population control and B) fuels a lucrative beauty industry. Late term aborted fetuses can be sold for several purposes, one being stem cells for anti aging products.
As someone who was a ballot initiative facilitator in the summer of 2020 to get an ancient Michigan law repealed that was allowing our governor unending lockdown measures, my eyes were opened to how corrupt my state was. We organized signing parties at rest stops, outside businesses still open, farmer’s markets, anywhere we could while still being locked down. In 3 months we got almost double the needed amount of signatures to get this initiative reviewed by our Republican led legislature to remove the law from the books. But the SofS slow walked the review of the signature for months effectively delaying it until well after the election. But within 6 weeks of the Roe v Wade overturning, they had 750, 000 signatures to get a radical abortion law on the November ballot. The language was found to have all kinds of grammar errors and misspellings that should have doomed it to going on the ballot, but at the last minute a partisan judge allowed it. Yes, I now know how the Swamp, both Federal and State works.
We know Michigan well. And it’s disheartening to hear this but I am not surprised at all. Oregon had enough signatures to recall Brown back in 2020 and she found a way to stop it. Because they cheat, it is difficult to stop them. Not impossible. But very difficult.
I know how much you suffered under Whitler as I have friends and family in Michigan. One step to stop it is to get your voter rolls cleaned. That's key in the cheating.
To do that you need a SofS that is not as corrupt as the current governor and AG, and also NOT running for governor herself in 2026, which this one is. But we do have good people trying to get the voter rolls cleaned up, one in particular is still trying to get to the bottom of all of Michigan’s cheating.
I believe TN had already passed very pro-life legislation prior to 2022 but of course it was immediately challenged in court. If I recall correctly, because of the 2022 SCOTUS decision, the TN decision stood. I think some other conservative states also passed very pro-life legislation. But naturally, the left swept into blue states and totally lied (because that's what they do -it's in their very nature to lie) to win elections and put forward very horrible pro-abortion laws.
Just like all the cannabis votes, bought and paid for by Soros…with OUR money, it turns out! Now the cannabis industry is failing, going from $3000 a bale to $500 and they’re all closing up shop in Humboldt county. It’s too expensive to farm it, just like we told them would happen… just a money-grubbing, taxable slush fund for the politicians.
Let the cases go to SCOTUS…let’s settle the issue of constitutionalism so that no administration can undo what he has done. Next step…codify them! I’ll bet we have some legislators ready to spring into action once the issues are settled by SCOTUS. it’s going to be beautiful to watch.
But on the other hand - it's really amusing to watch the (D)ifferent politicians keep on defending the fraud and waste rather than saying "hey - this needs to stop". The inability to read the room is quite telling.
I also find it interesting that biden circumvented the courts and cancelled student loan debt anyway. “Piss off courts…I’ll do what I want anyway.” I HOPE as we maneuver through getting real judges back in charge we replay over and over again bidens circumventing the courts.
I still wonder if anyone actually got their debt erased 😒 or was it all for show? I paid mine off in 2024 after almost 10 years of paying them back, and several people I know are still paying. So WHO actually got let off at our expense?
You would think THAT would wake up braindead demoncraps. But, hard to wake them up when nobody will expose it. Mainstream most certainly won’t. They don’t want it advertised that he did it against court rulings and they don’t want anyone to know WHO exactly got their debt erased. I wish someone like Charlie Kirk who has the influence and capabilities to find all this out would report it.
I applied to the program but never heard back. I read that only people working in rural, government positions were eligible. Or something like that; either way, my conservative ass was NOT worthy 😅
He basically says, let TRUMP go to the Treasury with Elon and DOGE boys in tow, and access the records personally and see what the judiciary has to say to the PRESIDENT looking at info.
Some of my hens cost upwards of $25 - $50 each to add to my layer flock these days. But I always have year round eggs and sell in the summer at just enough to almost cover 75% of feed costs, which has gone up 20 -35% in the last 5 years.
I was thinking the other day of what the Democrats remind me of right now...My mother and several other older people have told me about killing chickens. You cut the head off and then the chicken will crazily run around for several minutes before finally keeling over. Thus the phrase, "like a chicken with it's head cut off."
They will also fly a short distance with their heads cut off. I still have childhood nightmares of watching an aunt kill chickens by chopping their heads off with an axe and headless chickens flying and dropping all over the yard.
I am wondering if these lower courts really will learn any lessons that Trump is trying to teach them here. They will continue to impede progress in this term and future presidential terms if they dont get slapped hard here.
Of particular interest to me in North Carolina, is that the name Fort Bragg has been restored to the Army base which had been renamed Fort Liberty. I don't suppose our President can force a name change on the shopping center in Raleigh which was originally named Cameron Village. Whoever Cameron was, he had some tenuous tie to slavery, so it is now called the Village District. Does anyone see hypocrisy in these leftists renaming places because of a perceived moral flaw in the person for which they are named, while at the same time advocating for the killing of babies and the mutilation of children? How about their constant criticism of our President's (admitted) moral failings while supporting any kind of sexual perversion for themselves?
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.
So ridiculous that in Chicago, the Democrats changed the name of a school that focused on science because it was named after Ben Carson. After all, why would you want a school meant to inspire people to be named after a man who was the most brilliant neurosurgeon in the world - I mean who would be inspired by that?! Thick sarcasm intended .
Not only that, but I can guarantee you Cameron was a Democrat, a truth which seems lost on the Democrats. And I went to NCSU, so it will always be Cameron Village to me!
The Camerons had quite a few slaves, around 900. Nonetheless, I agree the name change was nothing but virtue signaling. The only good thing about the name change is you can tell who the six people are that were actually born in Raleigh, no one from there calls it The Village.
My husband and I managed a missionary guesthouse in Accra, Ghana for three months in 2013. A woman from the U.S. came to visit, thinking she was going to see a utopia that her ancestors had been forced to leave. After going out the first day, she came back and refused to leave her room again until time to return to the U.S.
Once Kennedy was murdered, Marxism was introduced. And it was not really evident at the time that this was the course embarked upon, and it was not likely a lot of the people involved at the time knew what was going on or being introduced. After all, the opportunism inherent in self-serving agendas such as Lyndon Johnson's 'Great Society' are a kind of blindness. The term useful 'useful' idiot comes to mind.
One prime feature of Commie Revolutions is name changing. Commies always have to turn the house upside down and raze everything to the ground for the sake of their New Creation. And they do it with a religious fervor because Marxism in whatever form is a religion. The Soviets did the same thing. BUT ... Leningrad is now once again St. Petersburg. And Stalingrad is returned to Volgograd [formerly Tsaritsyn (1589–1925) and Stalingrad (1925–1961)]. A lot of cultural de-Sovietization went on and now the new Russian Federation is a fairly normal place. That is, for most people and in their daily lives and that of the culture.
The United States has been living under a form of Communist government for decades now, brought in slowly at first with all kinds of It's a Small World, Global Eco-Terrorist and New World United Nations sourced political agendas/political policy promotions. And it also may be said that a large part of the BRICS Plus movement was just to get out from underneath this God-awful Woke Commie agenda, deceptively called Globalism. And It is also all the stuff such as we have seen in the USAID promotions.
In short, we all have had a belly full. Time to move on to a real normal normal. And this what we are seeing in the new and well-organized New Narrative being brought in. The scope of it is breath-taking. Because when 'orders' reach down to the Super Bowl and Google's calendar designations, you can bet your boots that a real counter-revolution. It's now comply or get left behind ... only in reverse gear. Mitigation of the horrors, relief in law is now well on the way.
As furious as I am about these liberal judges, trying to slow down Trump’s momentum I will take your advice, Jeff, and not panic until you say so! Meanwhile, I’m praying!
Once these judges' rulings have made it to the Supreme Court they will be overturned and Trump will have the full power and authority to clean house as needed.
IMO, serous sanctions should be applied to judges, if their lawfare is found to be spurious and partisan... removal from the bench would be appropriate in many of these cases...
It would sure slow a lot of these corrupt scumbags down...
Echoing Jeff's analysis is this excellent X post from Kurt Schlichter:
Here is a long take on the court injunction crisis, which is less crisis than an opportunity… OK, stop panicking about all the stupid legal decisions from leftist judges that the left is getting from judge shopping in leftist jurisdictions. Stop. Panicking. First, no one should be surprised by any of this. The administration certainly isn’t. We always knew exactly what they would do. Do not take the fact they are not screaming and yelling as them rolling over. They are not rolling over. There’s plenty going on behind the scenes as administration lawyers prepare their papers for the legal fight to come. Second, since we have to have this fight, this is the time and the battleground to have it. Why? We want it settled right at the beginning of the administration so that we don’t have to deal with this down the road. And we want to fight on these orders because 1) they are manifestly the result of bad faith judge shopping and the opinions themselves are both procedural and 2) they are substantively ridiculous. They are legal jokes. Don’t listen to the dummy lawyers on Twitter - only listen to me or the people I tell you that you can rely on. Everyone telling you these are reasoned, valid legal decisions is either a legal illiterate or thinks you are stupid. Third, the way this fight is happening is to our advantage. Wait, you ask, we’re getting decision after decision against us! How can that be good? Because they are leaving the Supreme Court no choice. People want Trump to sound off about this, but he doesn’t need to. What’s left unstated is the fact that he can just not obey these manifestly improper orders. They say it’s a constitutional crisis now, but that becomes a real one when they push Trump too far. He’s not going to submit forever to micromanagement of the executive branch by activist District Court judges in blue cities across America. And Chief Justice Roberts knows it. CJ Roberts and majority of the court know these are ridiculous legally, and the last thing they want to do is stake the credibility of the Court – which famously has no divisions – on this kind of nonsense. They are not going to jump on the grenade that is these decisions. There might someday be a fight with a president about something where he is legally in the wrong, but this is not that time. This is not the hill the Supreme Court will die on. Wisely, Trump’s not adding fuel to the fire by threatening to do what it’s very clear he can do, which is disobey. This provides SCOTUS the cover it needs to deal with these upstart district courts without looking like Trump strong-armed it. So relax and let the process go forward. We’re going to win on all these injunctions, and I expect fairly quickly
I have personally met Holocaust survivors, including members of my family. While the level of detail that each of them gave about their experiences was different, all of them were unequivocal in their testimony that they and their fellow Jews were targeted for mass extinction, and that they were lucky to have survived. They also testified that Jews were not the only ones who are victims of hair, Hitler and his genocidal thugs. There were something like 16 million Jews worldwide in 1939. Why has the population of Jews not roughly quadrupled, like that of the rest of the world since that time?
You are an ill informed ass, someone who has an ideological ax to grind against the Jews for some reason, (as well as all of the millions of others who were murdered by the Nazis). I really hope for your sake that you like warm weather, because that’s where you’re headed, for eternity. More sincerely, I hope you wake up from your Jew, hating stupor and realize how very wrong you are and have been, and that you beg God for forgiveness for your willful ignorance and hatred.
Corrie Ten Boon's biography is a great place to start. It can be viewed on YouTube on Vision Video. Rather than retaliating in anger, she was compelled by the horrors (horrors is an understatement) she survived to share the love of God and the power of forgiveness with others around the world. By the way, I cannot even begin to imagine living through the horrors she and her entire family endured - many did not survive including her sister, her brother, and her father. There are countless other stories. Jan Jekeliek's of Epoch Times did a documentary with his father about his experiences in a concentration camp and how he escaped by jumping from a train which saved his life. So many more heart wrenching stories of survival and death.
It is well and good to forgive others for what they have done to you. However, you simply cannot forgive someone for what they did to someone else. Understand that there are since against God‘s law, and sins against human beings. These are two very different things. Even God cannot forgive me if I do something wrong to you. Only you can do so. God certainly can, and mercifully does, forgive those who sincerely repent of their sins against His law. Oh, it is absolutely impossible for anybody living, now or at any time in the past or future, to forgive those Nazis and their collaborators who murdered so many millions of people, choose and not choose. People can forgive them for the effect that those murders had on them, as survivors, but they cannot forgive the actual murder itself or the pain inflicted on those people prior to end during the murder.
That is Jewish law and tradition, and has been for thousands of years. Even on Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement, we ask God for forgiveness for the sins we have committed against His law. However, we are obligated to go to each person who we have wronged and ask for their forgiveness. I understand that Christian theology and is different, but I would ask every person who is a Christian of whatever stripe.to understand that Jesus during his lifetime was a practicing Jew and would have agreed with what I have said about Jewish law.
I just bought a book called The Boys: the story of 732 Young Concentration Camp Survivors the other day. Written by Martin Gilbert. I havent started it yet, but this convo made me think maybe somebody would be interested in reading it.
Thanks for the recommendation. One of the old books that's no longer in print is Hansi: Hilter's Youth. It's the story of an orphan who ended up in Hitter's Youth and all of the unbelievable things she lived through and eventually how she became a Christian during the Cold War and she immigrated to the United States and began a Christian ministry. It's interesting to look at how the youth were captured and propagandized.
Lots of lies here. And you failed to mention the biggest victims: In WW2 over 55 million people died, with Christians being at least 30 million of them.
But their deaths are underrepresented due to Woke-ness. Check this out:
America has 90 Holocaust memorials but only 53 WW2 memorials!
I visited Auschwitz and Birkenau back in 1990 and I can assure you that it’s not fake. I don’t know what it’s like now, but back then there were huge rooms filled with braids that had been cut off the women before they were gassed, huge piles of eyeglasses, etc. And I mean HUGE piles. There’s no way someone would go to that extent to fake it. You’ve been misinformed.
Why don't you stop it with all of it. This re-treaded, recycled knee jerk reaction is ... well, jerky. The truth about the Holocaust is somewhere in between ... and the truth is not all Holocaust Museum lily white. And it certainly is not all human lampshades and the like.
And tell me, why is it ... or why was it until recently that only one Holocaust mattered? And that it was nearly a sin to mention any other genocides, and maybe genocides more real the Official Narrative Genocide being promoted?
Look at the real history. The Soviets did horrific things. The Americans did really horrific things, especially after the war was over. And the Germans did bad things? And so, who were the worst? The answer might well-surprise us. And speaking of which, why was David Irving hounded, imprisoned and lawfared to death? David Irving? For telling the truth in his well-researched and meticulously footnoted histories? And there have been many, many others persecuted for the same 'crime', truth telling.
And by the way, just who does the persecuting? Who are the biggest persecutors on earth? Answer me this Lucy!
You’re an ass. I don’t have the time or the inclination to write a 50 page paper on why, but I definitely could.
I hope that you grow a heart and sufficient brain cells to figure out how mistaken you are, and that you can somehow forgive yourself for the drivel that you post online.
Oh! My feelings are so hurt by your Big Boy Artillery barrage with a 'you're an ass' written on every shell. And actually, Sir Mister Wrong Side of the Equation, you will be convicted in the Court of Public Opinion ... for felony lameness and for perjury.
You were wise to run and hide. Because you would have lost.
You, being a jew, and very likely a Talmudic, Zionist jew... are, like all of your ilk... a lying scumbag... that despises all non-jews.
Reading your vile, filthy talmud proves this.
Jews were not targeted by Hitler (a great leader) for mass extinction... but for mass expulsion/relocation... many countries have expelled all jews, for good reasons we see today... jews are a cancer... corrupt, manipulative and slimy. Examples in congress: Raskin, Goldman, Schiff, Sherman, Blumenthal, Wasserman-Shitz, Sanders, Schumer, Nadler... the STENCH!!
Speaking of asking for forgiveness, scumbag... spell out the justification for murdering 300,000 innocent Gazans, more than the number of jews that died in the relocation/expulsion camps of WWII (less than 300,000, proven many times)
All justified by the Oct 7 IDF FALSE FLAG... which jew media Haaretz admits the IDF knew WELL in advance was coming, let it happen... and Haaretz admits that the IDF killed most of those that died that day, NOT Hamas.
Such vitriol doesn’t require censorship, though—on the contrary, I’m grateful you’ve shown us who you truly are and hope you leave this comment proudly on display for all to see.
You are welcome, you dumb bitch... and my post was an example of hysteria-inducing truth... obviously...
How many of the links did you read and review, turd? Any SPECIFIC rebuttals to the truth therein, or just your simpering, woke bullcrap response, which didn't address anything?
Since you were responding to a delusional belief due to your reading comprehension challenges for the second time in a row, there was nothing for me to rebut because I wasn’t even discussing that topic. I was talking about the vaxxicide Holocaust presently underway. I apologize if I used too many syllables there.
Sir, just because someone disagrees with the propaganda put out does not make them hate anyone. The numbers and info put out about this is not all fact nor is all true. Stop jumping to accuse someone who you do not know. There is truth out there if you search for it. Go down the rabbit holes and search.
With all due respect, it is a FACT that roughly 6,000,000 Jews and roughly 5,000,000 non-Jews were murdered during the course of the Holocaust. Entire communities have been like out, by the thousands. That is to say, thousands of communities. I have personally met many Holocaust survivors during the course of my life, including some family members. One of my relatives was in the Auschwitz complex of death camps, and he said that it was a death factory. Cattle cars were coming in constantly, and leaving empty, with the occupants of those cars going up in smoke after cremation within 2 to 3 hours of having arrived there. This is a fact, it is not subject to disagreement. The only thing that can be subject to disagreement is a) what to do about rectifying the wrong that was perpetrated, and b) how to prevent another such horrific crime from ever occurring again to any group of people.
In my experience, and I’m 63 so I have a fair amount of it, those who deny either the Holocaust itself, or the scope of it, have an ulterior motive, and in virtually every case, that motive has a lot to do with not liking Jews very much. Now, everyone is entitled to their opinion, but no one is entitled to their own facts. Facts just are, regardless of how many people don’t like those facts.
You know, it is interesting that at the end of the war, General Eisenhower ordered the filming of what was going on in all of the camps that had been liberated by Allied forces, because he knew that “some son of a bitch is someday going to say that this never happened.“ His words, not mine. Well, look at this thread and tell me that Eisenhower wasn’t right.
BS. I can remember in the late 1960s that the number was 6 million, and that this number was long agreed upon by virtually all scholars of the subject (of various religious and national backgrounds) by that point in time. Stop with the revisionist history.
You’re entitled to your opinion on any subject you choose, but you are NOT entitled to your own facts.
Well, Abiding Dude settled this question all by himself. Read his 2nd post, and tell me that he is not one of the most hate-filled people you’ve ever come across.
Once again, you're speaking without understanding the context. If you looked at the link, you would see I'm referring to the present Holocaust underway.
Thanks for the clarification. I thought you were the WW2 one, which has a lot of BS associated with it. That link that Abiding Dude provided (on unz.com) explains it well.
Then don’t go to any Jewish doctors, don’t use any antibiotics or other medications developed by or with the help of Jews, and don’t have any surgical procedures done using equipment and techniques developed by Jews. You’ll be dead before long…and missed by few.
No lies whatsoever. And the reason that I didn’t mention the several tens of millions of people who died during World War II is that they died as a result of a war. For sure, it was a war of aggression wage by Germany, Japan and Italy, and we did put people like Albert Spear and various German generals and the German foreign minister on trial for waging aggressive war. Today we call that crimes against humanity. But dying in a war is different than being purposely selected based on your heritage for extermination. You have to understand that women, children, old people, and even infants were targeted and massacred by the millions. That is categorically different from dying in a war, though in each case the person is just as dead. I was addressing Abiding Dude’s moronic, false and hateful comments - because “the Holocaust” refers to that purposeful selection and genocide.
WRT WW2, one of my grandfathers volunteered at age 35, because he was an immigrant and thought that he owed something back to this country. He was also a doctor, and he helped to save many lives. Every one of my uncles also served, as did every other mail of age in my extended family. One of them that I know of died during the war, as a result of injuries suffered in battle. I have long thought that we need to remember these veterans and their sacrifice, as well as those from every other war in our history. We are free because of those people and what they did for us.
As for being “woke,” I am the furthest thing from it that you can imagine. I have had many supposed friends and many people in my extended family cut off contact with me because they don’t like the ideas that I spout, ideas which are just traditional, American or traditional moral values. Wokeism is a mental disorder, and I am not a victim of it.
I see your reading comprehension skills are almost as challenged as Abiding Dude’s (his are significantly poorer as this is his second time going off on an insult-laden, reactionary tangent based on a fallacious premise). As I clarified elsewhere, I was referring to the *present* Holocaust underway. This one’s more like 17 million and counting.
Except that South America definitely doesn’t border the Gulf and, technically, neither does Central America. The only bordering nations are Cuba, Mexico, and the United States. Mexico is always considered North America (Remember NAFTA?), and Cuba is (historically) almost always considered a part of North America also.
Let’s move past being offended. Especially about names of geography. We’ve lived through 15 years of destroying historic statues and renaming military bases… and even renaming schools.
I deeply value the name 'Gulf of Mexico' as it honors highly advanced civilizations that existed before the continent was called 'America.' While 'Gulf of America' resonates with me, I interpret it as referring to the entire Western hemisphere, not just the United States or North America alone.
Having grown up in South America, I was raised with the perspective that North and South America form one unified continent—a view still held in parts of Europe.
When I moved to the United States, I found it curious when people would say 'Welcome to America,' since I had lived in 'America' my entire life.
This distinction reflects a broader historical shift. Before World War II, North and South America were commonly viewed as a single continent. The term 'The Americas' emerged to collectively describe both continents and the Western Hemisphere. It wasn't until the 1950s that most American geographers began treating North and South America as separate continents.
Highly advanced civilizations that worshiped snakes such as Amaruca (America) and engaged in gruesome human sacrifices, who embedded an army of literal demons into their lands that still terrorize people to this day and still demand human sacrifices and blood? Sorry, but that dog don’t hunt.
Like all civilizations throughout history, pre-Columbian societies were complex, made up of human beings with both virtues and flaws. They made remarkable advances in mathematics, astronomy, architecture, agriculture, and medicine, while also engaging in practices that we find troubling today. This complexity is true of virtually every historical civilization, from ancient Rome to medieval Europe to imperial China. Understanding and acknowledging this full history, both achievements and shortcomings, helps us better comprehend our shared human journey.
So, I hear Biden put the Gulf of Mexico off limits to drilling for oil. But now, no one will be drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. They will be drilling in the Gulf of America. See? I think Trump is trolling the enemy once again. The same enemy that hates any wholesome words. Words like America.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been to many Latin countries and yes, the cultures are diverse and the peoples lovely, but I think the case can be made that widespread pre-Christian ophiolatry in Latin America is likely the spiritual reason for the rise of violent dictators and drug cartels in those lands, not to mention the gathering of Nazis and Communists there. Ancient snake worship and human sacrifice has drawn demons and demonic activity to Latin America, and it’s still happening today.
‘The Spanish exorcist (Father José Antonio Fortea) warned that “to the extent there is more witchcraft and Satanism going on in a country, to that extent there will be more extraordinary manifestations of those powers of darkness.”’
All that understand and research Agenda 21/Agenda 30/ Great Reset or whatever they are calling it these days are or should be concerned about this switch of names. The NWO - Agenda 21 calls for the world to be divided into 9 or is it 11 regions. One is the North American Union which we always assumed was Canada, Mexico and The US. Patrick Wood who writes about the group from the early 1900's called "Technocracy Inc.", found a "North American Technate" map from 1934 which included Greenland down to Panama in that region. Are changes to this system being subtly socialized and implemented? Time will tell.
Thank you for posting this wonderful passage of scripture…revealing at once our significance in God’s eyes and our insignificance in the spectrum of His vast creation.
"Trump’s legal strategy is brilliant, and it is working. Let the man work."
Jeff, your analytic, disciplined, lawyer brain once again lays this out so calmly to those of us that tend to fly off the handle at the slightest provocation. Thank you, again, for that. Brilliant. Both you and Team Trump.
Yes, and Jonathan Turley has also warned. Elon needs to calm down a little on ignoring or self-“nullifying” the legal system. These things can play out very quickly at the “TRO level”. And on the other hand almost all these judges are so vain that “disrespecting” the legal system, i.e. trying to work around it instead of with it, will put you on the losing path right away. He should not fall into that trap – – Trump alienated Roberts for years for that reason.
I don't know how many saw the pathetic news clip of Schumer and others chanting "WE WILL WIN". They just don't seem to understand the majority of us want the government reduced and our freedoms back. They could care less what happens to the country as long as they can fill their pockets. So sad and disconnected!
PLEASE GIVE HER YOUR THOUGHTS!! PLEASE PLEASE! And consider joining her town hall tonight. Wouldn't it be great to derail it with pro-MAGA support? https://mcclaindelaney.house.gov/live
Loved this! Wrote mine as if I were a former crazy blue-haired lib who has now done a 180 thanks to DOGE exposure of government corruption and money-laundering. Sending to every conservative I know!
Who was it on here said, I think yesterday(I think). “If my smile gets any bigger, I may have to get a bigger face!” Does anybody remember who that was?
I've never laughed so hard at the freakout from the Dems and some Repubs. I'm happy for the first time in 5 years! MAGA and MAHA! He will be on Mt Rushmore!
Minnesota, Amy Klobuchar, just started a "tip-line" for people worried about President Tump's EO's. It's backfiring as people are reporting the Democrats.
Happy about the straws but can we get to the really important stuff -- light bulbs!! I don't want that LED garbage in my house. Bring back regular light bulbs!!
How about backing off the new appliance regulations? So we can buy appliances that actually work properly again.
Especially washing machine machines that fill to more than a cup of water
Check out Speed Queen. I 'understand' SQ filled in all the requirements in one phase, was passed, now rest works right for laundry.. If only dishwasher manufacturers had been that wise? Need appliances NOW, but when this changes warehouses will still be full of the offending products with limiting
chips; which cannot be removed.
Speed Queen is awesome. We got one back in July after our Whirlpool died after only five years. There is a button that you can push that FILLS the tub full of water for all cycles (if you want). It also allows you to open the lid and put an errant sock in after the unit is on (no stupid locking lid). It is 100% made in WI, USA and is solid as a tank. No shaking and going becoming out of balance and it gets clothes clean (because you get to actually use enough water). The best made machine I've ever seen. No wonder laundromats use them. Also, there is a huge difference between your local Appliance store and the "big box store" versions of appliances. And the box stores to best of my knowledge do not have SQ's.
79-Thank you. One recommended was laundromat type but too costly. Hoping for a more 'regular' model that still does the job. Whgt a blessing I learned this. Do you have a model number by chance?---- How about dishwashers? I was a fool, did not know about chips. Rather than replacing rack on 30 year old great working Kitchen Aid DW--went for new. KA had food grinder 'disposer'--dishes only needed to be scraped. New Maytag requires washing dishes before go in. However heard KA might now have 'problems' with electrical panel. Simply purchasing an appliance these days is daunting. Thank you for any suggestions/opinions.
char: Model # AWN632SP116TW02 Product Code: TC5003WN
Ours is the classic model with as few electronics as possible.
No one should be using ANY dishwasher. The soap you have to use contains a surface tension reducer that stays on dishes to make them shiny when they dry. This chemical is NOT natural. It is mildly toxic to the human body. It can accumulate in the body and become one of the 5 causes of Cancer.
Built in obsolescence I think it's called, Char. I detest the throw away mentality of engineers/manufacturers today! And I won't go down the trail of 'smart' appliances that allegedly spy on your daily activities.
A friend ask her repairman (while he was administering last rites to her third washing machine in just a few years) which machine was the best, and he said, hands down, the Speed Queen. He said he never had repair calls for them.
Donna O, remember the 'lonely Maytag repairman commercials?
I know, I'm dating myself and I no longer watch a TV.
thanks for this info!!
Speed queen, coming with the expectation of it lasting 25+ years... Thumbs up!
I bought a Speed Queen, it cost more, but so worth it. I love it. It is like a tank!
which model? I'm in the market for a new machine!
Speed Queen.
The fewer electronics the better.
In my opinion, you can't beat the Speed Queen classic model!
Now can somebody make a toaster that gets hot enough to toast, and last longer than a couple years? I finally resorted to purchasing a 50's vintage rebuilt Toastmaster B-14. Works wonderfully!
I had to buy a new toaster what a hassle I bought a Cuisinart. Don't waste your money I have to push the handle down 3 times to make it work
Thank you! Last month husband fixed my spewing-water-on-floor Maytag from ~1990 but....
Kudos to husband! Hang on to that Maytag.
I have a 35 year old kenmore stored downstairs. I found out after I'd replaced it with a new $2,000 Speed Queen that all the kenmore needed was a new (inexpensive) shock absorber.
Speed Queen, purchased after a Kenmore of many years. It's worth the $$
I love my Speed Queen. I purposely bought it because it was a top loader that filled up the washer with water!
Happy to hear this. My stackable Kenmore washer and dryer are 20 years old now. Still getting it done, but nothing lasts forever.
Chips may not be removeable... But sensors may be hacked!
Doug. Perhaps but for some more tech savvy than I. Instructions?
I think you need to be a LITTLE tech-savvy for this.
I remember as a kid when my dad removed the little washer that was a faucet's "water restrictor", drilled it out to a larger hole and re-installed it.
Washers have water-level sensors tat may be moved higher to allow more water to be present. But this may impact the gearbox, if it's not robust enough to handle the extra resistance more water would provide.
I'm naturally curious and resent state control over things I purchase, so I do my research, learn how something's built, and see if there's a way to circumvent controls. There almost always is. But you may have to be a techie to figure it out. Sorry...
I bought a Speed Queen decades ago. It lasted 34 years!!!!
Then I bought another one.
and the "New" machines require you to "wash" the washer about once a month.... using an extra long cycle of hot water & an expensive additive (that you can replicate with bleach or vinegar)
truly a racket. infuriating.
It’s so stupid!! 😡 And even so, my washer randomly spits out gunk into my wash every so often (usually my lighter colors, conveniently enough 🙄) and I have to rewash that load 🙄 I will definitely be replacing it with a Speed Queen as soon as I can!
Wait until it just starts to fill with water, turn it off and add a tub of water (often with pre soaked clothes and/or added borax or bleach).
You know you can buy GE or speed queen washers and dryers
Ranger. I am tryong to learn where GE appliances are now manufactured. Country. Do you k now? Unable to find that info.
https://speedqueen.com/the-speed-queen-story/
Maybe this will help you https://geappliancesco.com/operations/
Ranger--Thank you. I really appreciate. Searching for 2 critical things. Dishwasher with grinder [disposer]--had ancient but foolishly went new over repair before knowing. AND safest oven --without chemicals to bake into foods. The hours spent--learning nothing. Told induction safest, but sounds like that is for cook tops, not ovens.....Avoid convection and air fryer.......ok, but just yikes. .Mentioned earlier. recalls for not listing allergens in foods like soy or dairy. Yet unable to learn the contents of oven linings? Spending lots extra for VOC free products in small cabin being built--THEN searching for safe air fryer for grandson, learned bad news of many. Led me to question ovens, learning nothing . Spend so much for VOC free products then bake them into foods.? Serious worry to me. Thank you for the GE info especially. Really appreciate. Spose everything has some components from chyna, but factories here is good to hear. Might chance GE. 'Some' --like induction range even with incomplete information. Refrigerators. Got to make choices like 2 months ago.
We only buy used. Our used washer broke a few days ago, but we found GE at an estate sale. They seem pretty good. I have heard great things about speed queens though
GE is no longer made well!
I had a GE that ran perfectly for 22 years, then gave out. We looked at everything, but got a lot of negative comments about the new GE quality so didn't buy that. We were warned everywhere to stay away from Samsung, and actually no one seemed enthusiastic about any of the brands. We were told by many people the new refrigerators were expected to last about 5 years, no matter how much you pay. We got a fantastic deal on an Italian Bertazzoni floor model fridge with a dent in the back that you can't see plus a 5 year warranty on it, so although its original price was about $3800, we got it for $1400. I love the fridge, but at a only year in I have no idea how long it might last. Wait and see.
And dish washers!! My new $800 Boschdoesnt have enough water to rinse the detergent off the plates. And it won't dry unless you use the 3hour cycle!!!
We've been using Bosch 800 dishwashers for 13 years. Unfortunately one died 2 years ago. American Home Shield would only replace it with a Kitchen Aid. HATE IT!
Jut because parts of CA and other areas in the SW are a desert, doesn't mean the rest of us need to be on water restriction.
Get a Speed Queen washer. It has no bells and whistles to break down, uses lots of water to wash, is commercial grade, and is a beast. After having one of those low water washers a few months, I put it on the curb and bought the Speed Queen.
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LOW FLOW TOILETS!
yes - horrible, horrible, horrible. Requires flush after flush and ends up using as much if not more, water!
Its so stupid. It's like solar and wind. It's a net negative in terms of effect on the environment.
Same with low flow toilets. You waste twice as much water. Which has a cost to you and the local government.
Anything the crazed environmentalists design is a failure. Proven over and over again!
Well, I'll say....it's almost as if it was planned....:)
Nearly All the "standards" are not to modernize or conserve...that's at best secondary, new regs and standards are primarily smoke and mirrors pushed by a Progressivist (Wilson) system of overpaid agency/dept. bureaucrats, engineers, industry, sales reps, suppliers selling upgrades and artificial innovations that fix the ONE prominent "issue or problem" while creating 2 or 3 more by doing so; this is work for work's sake whether changes in global energy sources or a more "water efficient" toilet design required by state or municipal code; perpetual, periodic production/supply/costs/installation with certification, intentionally drive the economy and spending and collaterally cost-crush some into subsidy dependency for compliance...or broader "investment" when renovating and complying to new codes and ordinances.
Truly non-standardization is also maddening, where 10,000 parts exist to repair said Low Flow Toilets in all their various incarnations, stylings, flushing mechanisms etc--not to mention your incoming water quality has to be nearly filtered and softened to perfection ($$$), and longevity of product is NOT an enforceable standard.
We got one piece standard volume Glacier Bay toilets from Home Depot. They produce an extra turbulence during the flush that is very forceful and works great! They are the BEST!
these:
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https://www.homedepot.com/pep/19-in-2-Piece-Toilet-Dual-Flush-1-1-1-6-GPF-Map-Flush-1000g-Elongated-White-Toilet-With-Soft-Close-Seat-12-in-Rough-in-AGM-MT619T/330985662
Actually, there’s a high end ($700+ a few years ago; no idea now) Toto that works better than any other. Their lower cost models are good, but not amazing.
I have 3. Problems. Had to replace the main valve stem unit on them all because they constantly failed to re-fill the bowl completely. Call to service worked well-- free replacements in mail. But, I had to do the work. Putzed with them(new) for months before giving up and making the damn call.
I made the mistake of using a bidet once!
Hahaha!
Invigorating...
We swear by them!
I have a Kohler Persuade toilet with dual flush and I have never in 12 years had to flush more than once or use a plunger. I recommend it highly. I bought 2 more for another property. Under $570 and it looks awesome with a skirted trapway. Easier to clean.
https://www.kohler.com/en/products/toilets/shop-toilets/persuade-curv-comfort-height-two-piece-elongated-dual-flush-chair-height-toilet-75790?skuId=75790-0
Our entire property was fitted with Kohler. There is nothing better!
Don't get me started on that one! Plus the low flow shower heads, although those are easy to defeat if you remove the little filter in them.
Someday I’d like to try a compost potty.
Yes, yes, and hail yes!
Yes! So tired of scraping food off of “clean” dishes. My appliance repairman said the water doesn’t get hot enough to actually clean the dishes. So annoying!!
Set the hot water heater - if you have one - temp at 140 instead of 120 [energy saving]. I've let the kids know that the hot water is HOT so that the grands - and they - are not at risk of scalding. I learned ~15 yrs ago, when one of the buildings at work was evacuated and closed b/c of an outbreak of legionnaires disease, that 140 KILLS the bacteria but that 120 does not. That was enough for me.
Mine is set at 128°F; I use SOFT water . . . and it cleans fine on all levels:
Express, quick wash, normal, heavy.
as to disease: I believe ALL dishwashers(certainly, GE, MINE) have heat boosters to bump the cleaning temp to 160°F. Leave the main hot water heater alone, if so.
Anti scald valves for the fixtures humans use are in order of you go that route.
Correctomundo!
thank you!!
Hand washing 🍽️ disher works 💯 better !!
we do that for easy, nearly clean stuff. The main stuff all goes through the machine. Wake up every morning to a clean tub of dry dishes.
I actually rinse them very well, AND use the extra hot feature to get them clean now. For washing clothes, I use extra water and higher temps, so all their energy saving features actually make me use more energy!
CHeck your water to be sure it is SOFT. If so, verify the hot cycle is reaching 160°F, I believe. Read the manual. Almost all these units have 2ndary heaters to boost temp . . .
Finally, try different levels of cleaning: HIGH, NORMAL, Express, quick wash with heavy food on plates and determine the one that works for YOU.
That will be $100 for the service call.
But the dry cycle gets incredibly hot, baked that stuff on solid. Why is hot air okay and not hot water??
Funny you say that! I’ve been buying old washing machines…you know, the kind that actually fill completely full of water and do a little “shimmy & Shake” for about 10 min…off the market place for years now. When my beloved old Maytag finally bit the dust, I caved and bought a new one (which I immediately regretted) and which now sits collecting dust in a conex in our back 40 lol! I was able to eventually find another old Maytag (which I love)!
These so called “efficient” appliances may save on water, but they use ten times as much electricity trying to get the job done!! Please “Make Appliances GREAT (and common sense) Again”!!
Can we make refrigerators again like my 1948 GE that's still running?
no, we can't.
HUGE compressor, will never fail but eats electricity like a big dog.
They may eat electricity but is that cheaper, in the long run, than repetitively having to buy new units?
I ran across brochures from the 1950's advertising refrigerators. They looked more innovative than what we have now and they probably worked better, too.
Twice now, my 2-year-new top-load washer with an agitator has let a spider survive an entire washing/rinsing/spinning cycle. I kid you not. Each time, the spider was on the agitator, enjoying the relatively dry ride.
If I insert any clothing in this washer that is folded, it comes out folded. There are clothes that come out with some dry spots that never got wet.
OH MY GOODNESS! This cracks me up!
LOLOLOL, i'm sorry - that is funny notwithstanding your frustration with a flawed product that wastes your time!
Yeah, first time it was funny. Second time, I began wondering where these spiders were coming from. Still haven't figured it out.
husbands pants pocket
what brand??!
Maytag. About the only brand I could get in top loader w/agitator. Bought near the end of the lockdowns.
oh did you strike a nerve, Kathy... my husband was complaining how our new, high efficiency, low water and poor results washing machine, which came with our new built home in 2022, doesn't really clean the clothes, even using the "Deep Water Wash" function on every load and "hot water. Said his Dad's machine in Michigan really gets things clean. I told him well, yeah, your dad's machine is 20 years old, uses real hot water and has a center agitator that really agitates. pointing to our agitator, I told him it's for decorative purposes, doesn't really work - it's so ridicuous - an old fashioned washboard works better than this piece of crap, which will surely break down in another year, forcing us to buy another worthless machine, Rinse and repeat, pun intended!
I had one of those that was missing the agitator. My clothes often emerged from the washer dry! The manual said that's because the washer did a super job spinning the clothes. 🙄 Aside from the fact that my laundry didn't get washed, the machine used to tear little holes in my clothes. So efficient!
GG, what brand was your clothes eater?
I don't remember! I know before the clothes eater, I had a Maytag washer and dryer that I had owned since 1993 but when I got married, my husband wanted new appliances, so I gave my Maytags to my mother. She still has them! I could kick myself (or maybe the hubby🤔😂).
They weren't very durable, either. I think we had them for like five years when they broke down. I have one with an agitator now and it mostly fills up (way more than the clothes eater, at any rate). At least all my clothes get wet when I wash them. Someday, maybe I can afford a Speed Queen!
good news!!!! https://x.com/TrumpDailyPosts/status/1889316878688071709
I am hereby instructing Secretary Lee Zeldin to immediately go back to my Environmental Orders, which were terminated by Crooked Joe Biden, on Water Standards and Flow pertaining to SINKS, SHOWERS, TOILETS, WASHING MACHINES, DISHWASHERS, etc., and to likewise go back to the common sense standards on LIGHTBULBS, that were put in place by the Trump Administration, but terminated by Crooked Joe. I look forward to signing these Orders. THANK YOU!!!
Yes!! Maybe add soap that actually cleans.
I'm a person who loves to blend things - I don't know why, but it borders on a compulsion..
Anyway, I have a few different types of laundry detergent down in the garage. I mixed some detergent that was thick and viscous with some other thick and viscous detergent from Trader Joe's, and the result was thin and runny. The TJ's detergent is soapy/foamy. The other detergent (from a "cheap stuff" store where the poors shop) is slippery, but feels more oily than soapy. Maybe it's missing the phosphate or maybe it's something else.
Not washing my clothes with that crap anymore, as I don't want whatever's in it up against my skin. Call me suspicious, but something in me tells me it's just another way "they" attempt to poison us out of existence...
Make your own with washing soda, borax, baking soda oxy-clean and grated bar soap. It will satisfy your love of blending and knowing what you're getting, and it makes everything smell fresh not like you simply took a perfume shower!!!
Thanks, Nancy! I'll try this. I collected essential oils for years after I read "Jitterbug Perfume" by Tom Robbins. So I do like some scents. But my stepmom washes her sheets (the ones in the guest room we sleep on) in some nasty, cloying Gain detergent. She must use a lot of it, because it's hard to even fall asleep, it's so strong.
Take your own sheets - that fragrance you're inhaling is toxic!! I don't understand the obsession with highly fragranced items.
Happy blending, Doug!
Dr Linda, my original comment seems to have gotten lost, so I’m replying again.
In short, the soap probably works fine but modern detergent is missing phosphate, which is needed for a proper rinse. May I suggest adding TSP to your wash in addition to your detergent; it should improve the final result. I don’t have a ratio (tsp/gal or ml/L), sorry.
We buy a large bag of baking soda ( the larger the better , cost wise) .......
About a handful in a full wash (clothes) , with just a squirt of vinegar........... SAFE AND EFFECTIVE !
And no side effects . Clothes detergents and softeners have lots of chemicals . The more fragrant ones being badddd to the bone(s)
Vinegar and baking soda is how I made a "volcano" in my elementary school science class...
😀😀😄 That combo works to unclog slow draining pipes too, but it was probably more fun making a volcano!!
Yes I need a new dishwasher. The relatively new one we have is crap. Three hour cycles and does not clean the dishes. The old one had a quick wash—45 minutes and done. Have already replaced the circuit board even. Free the appliances!!!
Bosch dishwasher, 17 years old - cleans/works great with no repairs.
Yes the older ones are better. Keep it forever!!
Heat pumps too. We’re due for a new furnace but we’ll have ‘up grade’ both because the new furnace won’t work with the old heat pump, or vice versa. They regulated (updated?) heat pumps to be obsolete, once they die, they both essentially die.
Note: our heat pump is much newer than our waaaay old furnace.
'Cash for Clunkers' was an Obama era scam to get rid of perfectly good vehicles.
It messed up the used car market for a long time too.
They are deigned to fail. Forced con$umeri$m.
The irony is that GE made washing machines that could have worked with less water 60 years ago. Instead of relying just on agitation, they had a pump to sprinkle the clothing from above. The water went through a filter basket to catch lint. Filter Flow they called it.
Make the pump stronger and spray down from above and the clothes on top would get clean even if not submerged.
Yes! Now that y’all mention this, I’ve been wondering who is the best person at the W. H. To send letters to requesting things like this be handled. For the first time in my life, I really think if Trump hears about these things, he will fix it. But we need the best contact info. Anyone know?
Came here to say just this. I hate paper straws but I really hate LED bulbs.
LED light is bad for your retina.
Did not know that….not sure why that would be but will check with the CDC to find out. 🤭
I have a friend with an eye degeneration illness, and she cannot tolerate LED lights. I often find them harsh and glaring. There was no scientific basis for eliminating incandescent bulbs.
The worst are the LED Christmas lights!!!
They actually hurt. Weird Brightness.
I’m quite sure some politicians made $$ on them.
You can buy LED bulbs at nearly any color temp. The 5000 °K are usually cheapest and most available and probably lots of folks buy them without knowing you can get the same color temp as old incandescents(2900) in LED form too. They should be no "harsher" than the old type as they radiate the same light "rays".
EDIT: Correction, not true; the BLUE peak is higher in many LED lights. Look down further for my suggestion for LED lights that basically have the same spectra with minimal blue peak.
Philips HD LED.
Check with the CDC, but verify with Fauci…….😂😂
😋
Priceless. I looked askance at your first words, then cracked up when I realized you were interviewing for a job as Jeff's satirist.
They’ll lie
LOL!!!!!
Don't rely on CDC for info on LED. They will tell you what obozo/bidumb want you to know. Check Dr. Mercola's substacks- he wrote about these a while ago.
LED bulbs are harmful to our health. Great Substack by "The Light Doctor" who goes deep into the woes of the lighting issues. https://lightdoctormartinmooreede.substack.com/
Bad for your brain too, due to the amount of blue wavlength LED light contains.
The LEDs emit electro magnetic energy that isn't good for us, it causes cellular damage. Look up Arthur Firstenburg. Not sure about the spelling of his last name.
incandescents emit the same EM energy,
cellular damage? show proof in a scientific paper link, please.
LED bulbs are harmful to our health. Great Substack by "The Light Doctor" who goes deep into the woes of the lighting issues. https://lightdoctormartinmooreede.substack.com/
Regardless of the generation medium, equivalent EM energy will be the same!
The obvious advantage of LED is the reduced electrical consumption.
EM emission is EM emission, period!
!!!!
LED lights are absolutely AWFUL for our overall health. We need to limit our exposure as much as humanly possible.
Here's a link to neurosurgeon Jack Kruse who who reveals some huge medical scandals including the serious blue light health risks. You won't regret watching.
https://youtu.be/TcbuqQd57rY?si=1nY13YuMv6DGcufM
very good! Thanks for sharing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeR2uPPCA2k&t=51s
buy Philips UHD / LED bulbs;
about same spectra output as incandescent!
hmmmm. How do you figure that?
at a particular color temp? 5000°K?
standard incandescents are about 2900° K
Led lights in neighbors home invade my bedroom. I feel like my home is at motel 6. Just awful and I think they make people cranky and probably add to mental illness. Since no sleep. But when they turn them off. My body is so happy and sleeping well brings wellbeing. They are hostile lights. Especially driving highways!!!
My workplace (hospital) recently went through a renovation and installed LED lights with dimmers. I keep them as low as my coworkers will tolerate. But I hear that my coworker who works on alternate days from me walks in and turns up all the dimmers. Many feel assaulted by the bright light.
Studies have been done - in hospitals, I believe, - about the harmful effects of these LED lights on patients - and workers. LED bulbs are harmful to our health. Great Substack by "The Light Doctor" who goes deep into the woes of the lighting issues. https://lightdoctormartinmooreede.substack.com/
ridiculous!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeR2uPPCA2k&t=51s
buy Philips UHD / LED bulbs; about same spectra output as incandescent!
I’ll buy some of your stockpiles of incandescent bulbs 🙂
REALLY?!
Fantastic. I will DM you Peggy.
Incandescents and fluorescents available for the asking!
I hope you are aware that LEDs are available at various light penetration levels. E.g. cold light 5000°K, and warm light 2900° K. These are very different 'brightness' levels. If you are unhappy at the light levels of your neighbours homes then I would suggest that you ask them if they are aware of the differences!
They have three in one fixture all warm spectrum. But bright enuff to pierce my hallway from there garage which is set quite a ways back from the street into my house all the way to the back wall of my kitchen and back bedroom on the backside of my house
Maybe invest in some miniblinds..?
Or black out curtains!
Agreed. And they're invariably bright white instead of that lovely warm glow. The light of cities has changed awfully in this regard.
I recently bought a box of floodlights at Costco after my stocked supplies ran out. I was really annoyed, because the floods are in my kitchen and I figured the damn LEDs would be a different color from the incandescent still in the ceiling. But they now have a color switch on them, so you have 4 settings. The lowest setting matched the incandescent perfectly.
My understanding is that even with the warm light setting, it is still an LED and causing problems with our eyes and brains. Not sure if anyone knows this in more detail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeR2uPPCA2k&t=51s
buy Philips UHD / LED bulbs; about same spectra output as incandescent!
Another option for LED screens--app removes blue light screen output on a schedule you set: https://justgetflux.com/
the problem, apparently for some, is there is too much blue light included in the spectra of MOST LED bulbs.
That which I show in lower post here, does not.
You can buy full spectrum lightbulbs at healthlighting.com. Incandescent at Amazon.
or I will be glad to sell a bunch of mine sitting in my attic for 8 years!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeR2uPPCA2k&t=51s
buy Philips UHD / LED bulbs; about same spectra output as incandescent!
Another option for LED screens--app removes blue light screen output on a schedule you set: https://justgetflux.com/
Wow, there are more LED haters here than I realized...
LEDs are pulsed - they blink on and off rapidly, which may be part of the issue people have with them. Incandescent bulbs do this, too - it's a function of alternating current, which changes polarity in the US 60 times per second (passing through a zero-current moment each time). The difference is, on a filament bulb, the filament doesn't go all the way out at that zero-current moment, because it's still hot from the max-current moment 1/120th of a second before. It dips in brightness a little, but it happens so fast that we don't notice it.
Aside from the blue of the 6500K LED bulbs (vs. the 2700K "warm" bulbs that mimic incandescent bulbs), it could be the much-more-defined pulsing of the LED bulbs that people find annoying and even unhealthy. If you look at an LED and swipe your head to the side really quickly, under certain conditions you can see a "trail of dots" in your persistence of vision, as opposed to the "smear" you'll see under the same conditions with incandescent.
LEDs blink, by the way, because at the energy level they produce their brightest light, they would burn out almost instantly if they were held at that level constantly. The blink allows them to cool off during their off state, keeping them from burning out. Dimmers that work with LEDs vary the ratio between on time and off time - when off for longer than on, the LEDs appear as less-bright.
There's your physics lesson for today, folks. Yes, I know - I'm a geek.
BTW, fluorescent lights make me sleepy, for some reason. I had to fight to stay awake in school a lot of the time, because of those darned fluorescent tubes across the ceilings...
Doug, succinctly put.
Thanks for the physics and EE lesson.
Another option for LED screens--app removes blue light screen output on a schedule you set: https://justgetflux.com/
I’ve noticed lately that after reading text on a screen, when I look away, I see stripes, like lines of blurred text that remain in my vision for a while burned into my retinas after I look away from the screen. Do you know what’s going on there?
Persistence of vision. It's your vision system's natural response to staring at high-contrast images.
You can try lowering the brightness on your screen to reduce eye fatigue. As a matter of fact, I just did this on my monitor as I was replying - I often walk away from the screen with tears in my eyes from eyestrain. Thanks for the reminder!
Smile, everyone.
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-trump-brings-back-incandescent-light-bulbs-water-pressure-after-bidens-bans
And nowhere are they more insidious and dangerous than on the road.
Newer model cars are all equipped with them and make driving a nightmare, even in daylight.
can't stand the LED's. I have one incandescent left & it's the only lamp I can read under for long periods. After about 15 minutes under an LED lamp, my eyes are aching!
but WHY??!
I replace all my incandescents with LED's and see no problems. I use about 15% of the energy now to light my house.
With 92 LIKES on your post. . . I MUST be missing something. LOL!
LED bulbs are harmful to our health. Great Substack by "The Light Doctor" who goes deep into the woes of the lighting issues. https://lightdoctormartinmooreede.substack.com/
I bought a bazillion lightbulbs in 2012. Brought them all with me when I moved cross-country in 2015. I STILL haven’t run out..,but I’m close. This would be perfect timing 🤣.
I purchased (100) incandescent 60 watt bulbs 2 years ago too as the "prohibition" was getting close. Replaced all bulbs in the house with them and have not yet had to replace any. Oh the lies we've been told.
I bought some on eBay, but then I really scored when I found a box of them at a garage sale!
You folks flaunting your treasures must appreciate that C&Cers are trustworthy!
I'm just here to find out who has lightbulbs I will burgle when I fall on hard times.
🤣
The LED police are watching...
Garage sales, estate sales and auctions are great places to score light bulbs.
I still use incandescent bulbs which I buy off of Amazon.
Dollar Tree is another place to find these.
Is Dollar Tree selling incandescents still?!
Me too! I recently moved and was shocked by my own incandescent hoarding. 😁
I loaded up a Home Depot shopping cart with regular lightbulbs when O’Bummer outlawed them. Got them for $.99 a package. I too carried them cross states to have on hand and am still using them and loving them. None of that LED light for me.
Same here and running out. Trump got in just in time to restock with a quadzillion.
I hate LED with a passion. All except one place. LED strips under the kitchen cabinets above of the countertops. Very practical for that!
Me too! I’m on my last box of 60w and need to restock. When I bought these in bulk, I bought Philips, which don’t last as long as the GE did. Hard to believe the supplies have last 10+ years!
Buy "appliance" bulbs. Same conventional light and not a high cost. I bought a bunch of oven-safe bulbs with the standard base and use them all around the house.
Same!!! LOL!
And rational pricing for paper towels & paper de toilet. I might want to roll my neighbor's front yard some night but not at these prices ..... 🧻🧻🧻
Papier de toilette. But I get your drift.
Hablo no Frenchie amigo
hahaha
🤣🤣🤣. In all seriousness, I wonder if this is a forestry issue. I believe that the smaller trees are harvested for pulp and if that isn't happening then there will be supply and demand issues.
A major issue with paper products and the forever chemicals is thy are introduced through the bleaching process. Unbleached toilet paper has fewer chemicals and napkins and paper towels and . . . .
...and coffee filters.
Hemp solves this
It's a racket! Bamboo can often be used in place of trees/wood pulp. 💔🤗
Forestry is a big business in Alabama. Pine trees are planted on land and harvested 20 years later, replanted, etc. It’s used for kid’s college funds, retirement, etc. I have a friend who is in the tree harvesting business, and it’s been a tough go these last 4 years. The mills aren’t open as much now due to downturn in building because of high interest rates. Hopefully, that ends this year!
There are sooo many trees here
Lol
Gma, did you ever get my email asking if you want to meet for coffee? It was a long while ago! How time flies!
What are you, ten? 🤣🤣🤣
Let's bring back landline phones!! Remember the "party line" when everyone could talk and you could actually hear them all??
No. I didn't think you'd remember. 😑 It was the good old days. You didn't dare mention your dirty laundry unless you WANTED it told. Free News!
I still have my landline. I think you can still get them...at least for now. I do remember party lines. Weird to think of it now...
Smart... EMF radiation, WiFi, 5g... is getting a little scary...
We have one. It was an add on to our Spectrum cable. I prefer the old fashioned answer machine anyway. I’ve never set up a message box on my iPhone and don’t use that number for my first contact.
I believe almost all landlines are now the new fiber optic cables.
Yes. But I prefer messages and call screening on an answering machine. I don’t necessarily want to be contactable every single moment and left messages on my cell phone. I’m retired and everyone I care about knows where to find me. . Leave a message on my machine. One less layer of annoyance.
Ah yes, the answering machine...my dad's was called a Code a Phone. I think it was one of the original answering machines.
Yea, they're VOIP (voice over internet provider) so if the internet is out so is your phone :/
Yes, they are
iPhone??
Landlines are called POTS lines in the telephone biz. POTS stands for "Plain Old Telephone Service".
I used to be a phone guy...
I have a landline, too. When we first moved to a more rural area, the cell connection was a bit iffy, so I kept the landline.
Tried getting a landline for my parents but it’s only digital?? Not an actual landline. And it was expensive.
One of the big problems is that you lose phone service if the power or the cable goes out. You didn't on the old land lines. I remember my godmother was in her 90's and every time the cable went out, her landline went out and she could not call anyone if she needed help and no one could call her. It was a huge problem.
Fun fact: when we evacuated a wildfire in 2003, I kept calling our landline, because when the machine answered, I knew our home was not one of the over 2200 burned.
Wow. Clever way of keeping tabs on your home!
My cousin had the ring cameras and actually watched his burn down until the camera lost connection. Total loss all the way down to the foundation.
Exactly why we need one, they loose power occasionally and or WiFi we want the peace of mind of a landline. 😕
I have a landline and it is expensive. I call it insurance and suck it up. 😣
Yes, they are digital now and yet you pay about as much on taxes (set long ago) as you do for the line. But there are still very good reasons to have one. If parents would get landlines for their kids to use, there wouldn't be as much pressure from the kids to have cell phones. A smart phone handed to a child is like handing them access to every vile thing in the world.
Exactly
And dialing "Popcorn" for the time.
When I worked as a phone guy, we had special 10-digit numbers we could call known as ANIs that allowed us to identify the line we were dialing from. Helps if you're in a dark phone closet and you're trying to find that new line you're supposed to install for a customer.
Hello.
Is Mr. Walls there?
No.
Is Mrs. Walls there?
No.
Are there any walls there?
No.
You'd better run, your house is falling down!
🤣 Hello you’re dog is peeing in my bush
We don’t have a dog
That’s Ok, we don’t have a bush
Hello Is your refrigerator running?
Yeah…???
Better go catch it!
Hello is John there?
No
Call again Hello is John there?
No you might have the wrong number.
Call again Hello is John there? (Few more times)
No (each time)
Then
Hello, this is John. Do I have any messages?
Truly the most silly and juvenile pranks 🤣 I know there’s smarter and funnier ones out there but these are the ones I recall friends doing whenever I was at their houses.
I loved all the Bart Simpson prank calls to Moe's Tavern...
Is Amanda there?
Amanda who?
Amanda Hugankiss.
[Moe, yelling across a crowded bar] Hey, I'm lookin' for Amanda Hugankiss!
<sigh> Caller ID killed Bart's little fun pastime...
Jeff, bringing back memories of "phony phone calls!"
If you want to have some fun....... register for some event with the name Dick Hertz .
Than wait for the instructor to ask ............. "Whose Dick Hertz ? "
Ask for Mike Hunt.
I'll tell Dick when he gets back from the doctor's ..........
ahhhh...... forever young (lol)
Now.......... back to all the pain and suffering in the world .
I still do have a landline. Cell service in my house sucks and I work from home, so having a phone that I don't have to keep asking clients/callers to repeat themselves is essential. Plus I learned from Jeff that the Gazans in tunnels used landlines as the spy tech couldn't intercept them, and think in the US the gov actually has to have a warrant to tap it. It's getting pricey, but I am now dug in that I will keep it. Also saves me from having to tote my cell phone around the house with me and I turn it off at night and use an alarm clock. Old school, lol.
Is it actually over the telephone lines though? When I was trying to find a landline, all the offerings are VOIP (voice over internet provider). It seems theyve abandoned the telephone lines which seems short sighted as if the power is out, the internet is out and so is your phone. We were wanting something that would be a separate system as an emergency prep but I dont think its available like that anymore..
No its still a true landline. We get an insert in our bill (yes I am also stubborn and refuse paperless billing - no one gets automatic access to our checking account or credit card, and already get too many emails) trying to get us to switch to VOIP technology but that negates the whole reason for having a landline in the first place. Like if the power is out it still works, although we use cordless handsets, we do have a non cordless phone that we can plug in and use.
I once read that cordless phones are REALLY bad in terms of EMFs...
If you measure with an RF meter they are higher than cell phones.
Sigh...can't win!
We had landline but we were at the end of the line. Oldest house in the area. They could NOT keep the lines from every kind of damage. I had to call them every week and often i couldn't call... Oh wait! I have the same problem with my Wi-Fi. Sigh... If there were just privitized making money, without gov pickers...
Ours is still an analog line and we did have a spate of service calls several years ago but they did come out and replace some of the lines. (Include the one I snipped with the hedge trimmer when I was trimming a bush too close to the house, lol) But I suspect at some point that will go away. Sigh.
I’m in Mid Mo, I suspect the same.
Well, ya never know....we got rid of a lot of our vinyl albums in the early 2000's as we could not find a replacement needle for our turntable, but still hung on to some for sentimental reasons. But then around 2010 our daughter gifted us a record player for Christmas so we could listen to them again, and now vinyl has made a little bit of a comeback. Perhaps with this growing awareness of EMPs landlines will do the same? Buildout is probably too expensive, though.
My 95 yr old mom still has a landline. She has never wanted or had a cell phone. Therefore she’s never distracted when she’s doing anything or interrupted when she’s around others. Life is simpler and better when you’re not available to phone calls, emails or text messages 24/7.
P.S. she doesn’t have a computer or IPad either!
We are all conditioned now like lab rats to respond to a ring, ding, buzz... you can't relax unless you shut the phone off and then feel compelled to turn it back on as the "what if" scenarios start to create minor bouts of anxiety. Modern life is ridiculous... and the younger tech generations have no idea what life is like sans an extra appendage that they carry in their back packet (brewing cancer) and whip it out every 10 minutes so it can tell them what to do next.
My God!! How does your mom come to her political beliefs??
😂
The best part of babysitting was listening in on party lines!
We have a landline. I pay absolutely no attention to it so if someone calls and leaves a message I may listen to it in six months. We use Ooma which costs about eight bucks a month - which is really the only reason we still have it.
Judith, Wait--Ooma? Never heard of it. Can be used on ATT line [same had for decades]? --ATT land line is outrageously expensive. Hope to learn this will work.
Ooma is a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) service.
Last office I worked at had that on our "landline" phones.
Costs very little a month, but it has the same sketchy sound quality as any other over internet phone set up...
Anita. Thank you. Yet understand VOIP not exactly safe/operational if wifi goes out? Perhaps will just keep ATT and continue being gouged.
Not recommending it at all.
Just putting some info out there.
I have a hard time hearing and understanding people on phone calls using VOIP (and 'smart phones,' too). Usually have to use speaker phone.
Kinda hate it a little.
But it's a fact that I used it in an office I used to work in.
I think Ooma might be to ATT, what ROKU is to television channels/livestreaming services in a way, but with a small monthly fee, not just a one time fee.
Our office used it to cut down on phone costs - I'm trying to remember if it went out when the wifi did. I don't think so. It's probably using the phone company network's internet. So if theirs went down, it would go down.
Someone more technologically savvy could probably weigh in on that.
Sounds a lot cheaper than our sole $65/month Consumer Cellular line on which we receive probably one non-spam call/month!
RJ, I DO remember AND kept my landline!😀
Amen on the lightbulbs.
I thought he already signed the order, but I guess not. Amazon started selling incandescent again, however, there are a limited amount of suppliers. I'm sure it will ramp up soon as so many people have problems with LEDs. They hurt my eyes and give me a headache.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-roll-back-appliance-light-bulb-standards-2025-02-11/
Wow, that’s awesome!
Sorry about your headache some one here said that you can already buy incandescents online. “LEDs produce short-wave, high-energy blue light, which has been linked to biological and sleep disturbances.” https://health.clevelandclinic.org/are-led-lights-damaging-your-retina
The Biden administration made selling Incandescent light bulbs in the US illegal in August 2024. Amazon quit selling them then, but it looks like they are already allowing them again.
to Grok : do LED lights on the "warm" setting still produce blue light?
Yes, LED lights on the "warm" setting still produce some blue light, but significantly less than those on cooler or daylight settings. Here's how it works:
LED Color Temperature: The color temperature of LED lights is measured in Kelvin (K). Lights with lower Kelvin values (e.g., 2700K to 3000K) are considered "warm" because they emit a more yellow or amber light, similar to traditional incandescent bulbs. Higher Kelvin values (e.g., 5000K and above) are "cool" or "daylight" and produce more blue light.
Blue Light Emission: Even warm white LEDs emit some blue light because the technology often involves using a blue LED chip coated with phosphors. These phosphors convert some of the blue light to longer (warmer) wavelengths, but the conversion isn't perfect, so a small amount of blue light still gets through.
Impact: Although the amount of blue light from a warm LED is lower, it's still present. This can be important for people sensitive to blue light, especially in the evening when blue light can affect sleep patterns by suppressing melatonin production. However, warm LEDs are designed to minimize this impact compared to cooler LEDs.
There is also lightbulbs.com. They seem to carry everything, even Christmas light bulb strings that take the old-fashioned incandescent large colored bulbs.
Same here... my brain interprets LEDs like a toxin to be avoided. I ordered incandescent light bulbs off Amazon and they turned out to be cheap crap that don't last but a few months with regular use. It was an off brand so maybe I should try to find a well known brand... I sure hope this ridiculous green investment money maker for the parasite class goes the way of the dinosaur ;)
Ya wanna bet those suppliers make their bulbs in Chyna ?
100%. GE switched over all their production to LED years ago when they first passed the stupid law. The China bulbs don't last as long, but that's my only choice.
CHop--off topic , sort of. Do you know if GE appliances are now manufactured in chyna? I cannot find out. Been recommended , yet do not buy from cHyna if at all possible. Thank you.
Not sure. My BIL was working for GE at the time when they converted their plants to LED
Seems here they do: https://geappliancesco.com/operations/
Someone else here in the comments gave this link, and I'm just copy and pasting it.
Anita. Thank you I did check this from other post. Factories here is great news. Spose unavoidable to have anything with out 'components' from chyna. Might be time to simply stop checking, been exhausting. However would still like to know what chemicals used in linings of ovens. It is secret--or perhaps my poor searching abilities just have not found. Do you perchance have information or where to find?
Looking today
I buy mine from estate sales 😉 and you usually can find 75 and 100watt
Still have a couple "pre-ban" ones...
Toilets that flush!
Going back to the fact 'tards are stupid, low water flush mandates for toilets is a perfect example. I know people who have brought toilets back from Mexico, Anyone ever been to Germany.? Their toilets have 2 flush options, essentially #1 (low water flush) and #2 (high water flush). Not labeled of course, but common sense required (so you would have to label them if they were sold in America).
Is that so difficult, morons at the EPA and OSAH?
You can buy those here
Yes, we have them. Bought them at Costco!
How do they get around the maximum flush per mandates? I'll bet the #2 flush is just the new normal flush, and the only difference is you get a lesser flush if you want for #1. I mean, when those German toilets do a full flush, you aren't going to find any crap hanging around
Toto. Put those in 20 years ago and have not needed a plunger since. Eljer Titan are just as good and you can get those at the big box home improvement stores.
We had to get rid of our water saver because the plunging effect broke the seal over and over AND the handle kept falling off, into the tank and couldn't be retrieved without incredible about of time and hardship! 😡🔥
Dunno bout that….LEDs work pretty well….run cooler, illuminate well, cheaper to operate, and last longer. Initial cost is my only objection. What am I missing?
I do like that they don't heat the house up in the summer and I need brighter light if I'm doing detail work like hand-sewing. Regular light bulbs don't provide enough light for me to do that. At the end of the day, the issue is not banning one type or the other but giving people the freedom to buy the bulbs they prefer to use.
^^^ THIS ^^^
LEDs have a fast flicker that some people are very sensitive to.
Yes: 60 cycles per second, same as fluorescent bulbs.
Wasnt the flicker the ''reason' fluorescent bulbs banned in schools? Then LEDs, which also flicker........ So?
I had a sick parakeet years ago, and the vet told me to put a light next to the cage to keep the bird warm. My father used to keep a light on in the basement to keep the pipes from freezing. And yes, LED light is not good for your retina.
We keep a light on in the garage to keep the boat "warm" during chilly Vegas nights...lol....
Safety of your eyes...
The reality I’ve discovered is that they do NOT last! The LEDs I’ve bought cost three times as much, and on average last about 6 months, depending on their location and how much use they get.
Some of them have an irritating delay when switched on and they produce an ugly, unnatural light.
I’m sure improvements could be made to incandescents, but LED is not an improvement IMO.
We recently found out that there are 2 types of LEDs, those that are rated for high temps and those that aren't. While LEDs dont put off heat like incandescents, the little circuit boards do and there are some that dont handle the increased temps at all. For every 5 deg off of ideal (let's say 70 deg) it will reduce their lifespan by a considerable percent. So in an enclosed light, in a house that reg stays above 75 deg (AC is expensivo) your "10 year lightbulb) will last maybe 3 years. They label them now, the ones that are rated for enclosed fixtures. So we've already replaced every bulb in our house twice- and we've only lived here 6 years. Since we removed the covers on all the lights, they dont go out near as fast.
So I need to keep my house cooler than I want in the summer to make my light bulbs last longer. These government officials are brilliant. Only kidding, they aren’t
Another electrical engineering mind... Welcome to the geek club! 🤣
Good to know!
Agreed, they do not last as long as advertised. It’s a con.
Yup same experience and it annoys me to no end 😡
The cheap ones burn out quickly, but get this: the LEDs inside are wired in series (like the old Christmas tree lights), so if one LED burns out, none of them function! There are probably millions of these in landfills that would work perfectly fine if one LED was replaced.
If we were a truly efficient society, we would demand that all LED bulbs sold be designed with their LEDs wired in parallel.
You are correct. The old incandescent bulbs last much much much longer than the LEDs.. there are still incandescent bulbs in service for over 100 years. What wears them out is to turn them on and off.
I use them for all of my outside (28) Dawn-to-Dusk Lights. So far they have saved me a fortune in electricity costs!
You are missing the fact (that they don't tell you) they emit harmful EMF's, and are bad for your eyes, and have mercury in them, but other than that, they are great.
Don’t incandescent bulbs have mercury as well? I could be uninformed.
No.
fluorescent tubes apparently have some mercury. My local Lowe's used to accept them when they burned out (supposedly to properly dispose of them), but not longer does. I have yet to find a way of disposing of the bad ones, although I have been told to just thrown them in the trash!
I have never heard or read that
I just looked it up
“Standard, incandescent bulbs and halogen bulbs do not contain hazardous materials. However, compact fluorescent light (CFLs), fluorescent tubes and light emitting diodes (LED) bulbs contain toxic metals such as mercury, arsenic and lead. CFL light bulbs contain about 3 milligrams of mercury gas. If the bulb breaks, individuals can easily breathe in toxic levels of mercury vapor and other metals.* If the bulbs are improperly disposed, these metals can contaminate our soil, groundwater, lakes and streams.”
We have been conned again
Me too. I don't get the love for incandescents. My LEDs work fine and I don't have to climb ladders to change bulbs frequently. Don't cancel me!
There are advantages. I guess we should have choice not government mandates?
I am looking across the room at two different light bulbs. One is old incandescent "yellow" bulb and the other is a bright, white LED. The white light looks cleaner. To me, the yellow bulb looks dingy by comparison. Again, it's a preference.
Sunlight (natural) seems warm color. So wondering why they label the cool light bulbs = "daylight."
Must be the yellow hue that incandescent or low lumen bulbs give off- yellow being a warm color compared to the more blue tone that daylight bulbs give off which is considered a cool tone. Just guessing...🤔
My Incon distance last much much longer than the LEDs
Incandescents radiate heat as well. I’ve used a 100w trouble light with an incandescent bulb in my RV wet bay for years when the temps are low. Works perfectly.
Cheaper to operate because gov subsidies? Windmills? Solar panels all over acres and acres and acres of ppl feeding farmland? Chinese made? Maybe it's all a lie.
This is the reply my electrician husband always gives me when I complain that I want to go back to incandescent. I’m not sure if he and you are right or if he has just been trained to see it that way? 🤷🏼♀️
The flickering of them really annoys my eyes and brain. It’s sort of like how a strobe light eventually affects you.
As for lasting longer: that’s true with most bulbs around our house, but NOT the ones that normally take a halogen bulb. The LEDs in my bathroom fixtures burn out constantly the same way the original bulbs did and so half the time the lighting is too low for me to see anything well because I’m waiting for him to replace them. I think both kinds of bulbs cost a lot so he always drags his feet replacing them. He does grumble that the halogen gets too hot.
Halogens will burn you. But then again if an incandescent has been on and you touch it, you'll also get burned.
I dislike the dark shadows myself.
Dean - what you are missing, is doing a little research on your own. We’re not your secretaries.
We kind of are, lol.
This is C&C.
: )
How about gas cans that can actually flow gas into my lawnmower??
Amen. I bought extra pieces to remove the locking mechanism, add an air hole at the back, and an easy screw on screw of tube and top.
Plastic straws today!!!!
Gas cans tomorrow!!!!!!!
And the regs around air conditioners. We are hanging in there with an A/C system we last replaced in 2003. My understanding is that due to new environmental regulations the cost of replacing it is supposed to go up by a $1000 or more starting this year. At least that is what the tech who was at our house last time we got it repaired told me. Granted, he may have just been trying to earn a commission on a new unit, but I told him I will wait and see what Trump will do when he gets elected. That shut him up.
FYI there are Energy Star tax credits that kicked in in 2023 and suppose to go to 2032.
I wouldn't really mind the LED bulbs if they actually _lasted_. The cooler temps are welcome in the summer months around here, but the "10 year" thing is ... not. So bringing back incandescents and such will be nice.
Had an all-in-one fixture with LEDs die. But looks like it was just one of the settings for the light so a switch got it working again and not needing a whole new unit. Had to nix _that_ idea for a new overhead light at one point. :)
Our house is just 5 years old. It wasn't even a year in and we've been replacing LEDs since. They don't last and aren't bright. Don't get me started on my new appliances. Already replaced stove once and have had tech out on new one....need to have them back. Turn on one burner and the one beside it comes on too. Ice maker hasn't worked in a year and dishwasher is crappy....and all were name brands.
I hope he goes after all stupid regulations on appliances next!
Almost everyone I know has had to replace a major appliance in the last 6 months, unlike my godmother who still had her washing machine from the 1950's. They don't make anything to last anymore and it's infuriating. We've replaced one appliance every year in the house we moved into and the house was newly renovated with new appliances. It's ridiculous. No one cares about making a quality product anymore. They only care about making a profit. And they keep adding all of these "special features" that break. Can't we focus on just making a quality product that lasts, please!!!
They need repeat customers.
There are are Quality products out there that will last, but cheap knock-offs will not!
He is:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-roll-back-appliance-light-bulb-standards-2025-02-11/
Thank you thank you thank you. Hallelujah. The return of common sense.
Speed Queen washing machines. $1500 but built old skool, all mechanical, like those found in laundromats. Some Homer Depots sell them.
The appliances don't work anymore because you can decrease the water flow, OR the electricity consumption, but not both if you want the appliance to still clean or wash, So what does the EPA do ? Reduce both by mandate.
My dishwasher started smoking, the tech was all shoulders, don't know. WHAT??
Yep. Can't find reliable people to fix anything. When my godmother's old refrigerator broke, the repair company had to send 3 different people out to try to fix it! The last guy was an older, experienced repairman.
I am having the same exact problems with my latest girlfriend :
Nothing is made to last anymore !!
I see what you did there, lol.
Our cook stove is a 1950 model. Our washing machine is from the mid-1970’s. And we wash our dishes by hand.
Our house is 19 years old and it has some of the original incandescent lights from when we bought it (new construction)! And yet the LEDs keep having to be replaced all the time 🙄
The actual bulbs last, but the wiring and other components can affect the life of the LED. I view it as deceptive marketing of the LEDs
Exactly. Lies from the get go. They tell you in small print that the 10 year lifespan is based on something like 4 hours of use a day.
The LEDs always burn out rapidly for me.
I’ve never had any LED bulb blast more than a few months.
We opted for really bright LED integrated light fixtures for our barn. The first set lasted about 3 years, and then, all of a sudden, they were all blipping out. We had to shear our alpacas in very low light, because it happened right around that time. On shearing morning, two of the lights right over the shearing area went dark. So, we replaced them all with the same style, but brighter. Guess what? Those only lasted about a year. So, our next trick is to replace all of the direct wiring with plugs, and get the plug in versions, which will not require an electrician to replace. Our barn ceiling is 14' tall, so it's no easy task.
They are and you can buy incandescent at 1000 bulbs.com
Yes... the straw switch was ridiculous. Instead of plastic straws wrapped in paper, we got "paper" straws sealed in plastic.
And metal straws that end up piercing small children’s throats if they fall or are bumped with one. ER physicians hate them.
I’m so furious at these judges trying to stop Trump and his administration from cutting waste and thus allowing more money to go back to the regular people in this country! Tarring and feathering would be appropriate for them!
Notice though what the administration isn't doing. There are no lofty speeches saying things like, "we respect the court's authority and will pause the activity while the case works it's way through the courts. We are a nation of laws and look forward to the appeals process". There is no pabulum like that whatsoever.
Instead, the administration is saying nothing, no platitudes, no hostile defiance, no "nation of laws" nonsense. Instead, Vance puts out a tweet implying the courts actions are lawless. The administration quietly files the proper paperwork response to move through the appeals process. And most importantly, it looks like they are just ignoring the court orders.
As far as I can tell, nothing is stopping but accelerating. There's no outright defiance of the orders, but no acceptance of their legitimacy either. The judge who put out the first order is already huffing and puffing that it's not being followed. But so what? What is he going to do about it? But since Trump isn't getting all angry and defiant there's no target for the media to attack.
Trump understands that not everything requires a response, it's often best just to reject a bad faith premise. Cuck conservatives never understood this. The media and Democrats would call the GOP racists, and conservatives would run to the microphones to defend themselves and explain how it wasn't true. Total loser mentality. Trump taught us that when they call us racists, you laugh at them and call them pedophiles. A deliberate bad faith action requires a response in kind.
Yet I see one conservative after another wringing their hands about "out of control left wing judges" without realizing their anguished posts gives them power and legitimacy. It's a loser menatlity and no surprise that the country was nearly lost under their leadership. Thank God for President Trump.
From Sean Davis this morning, one of the few conservatives that gets it:
The theater kids running the Democrat Party are insecure and desperate for attention, so of course they’re going to pretend it’s a “constitutional crisis” any time they don’t get their way.
The proper response to spoiled children who have public temper tantrums whenever mommy doesn’t buy them the candy they demand is to ignore their nonsense and go about your business.
This country’s laws and constitution do not grant nationwide veto power to unelected inferior district judges. The proper response to these clowns is to ignore them, impeach and remove them, and/or eliminate entire federal judicial districts and thereby force the Supreme Court—if it refuses to rein in these little bolsheviks in robes—to handle every single district case on its own.
https://x.com/seanmdav/status/1889323332031357244
Preach!!!! I love it!
There’s a time, like now, when the Supreme Court needs to step in immediately and end this nonsense. The list of cases that have been subject to excessive cost and years of delay because the Supremes will only take up a very limited number of cases to fit into their schedule is a miscarriage of justice. Way too much time is wasted studying prior cases and precedents when the plain, easily understood language of the Constitution is all that is needed to decide a case.
And that's a fact jack! How much do we pay these Supreme Court a -holes anyway?
Ditto!
Excellent!
That was a good post, thanks for sharing.
Yes. One of the things I am working hard to internalize is the stoic saying "you don't have to have an opinion on everything"
As a Christian it took me a long time to be deprogrammed from the media-defined behavior supposedly required of a Christian. The fact that the media is overwhelmingly non-Christian makes me shake my head at my foolishness in letting it happen.
There is no requirement to be "nice" to people acting in bad faith, it's not required to be a Christian. Christ certainly wasn't, he called out the scribes and Pharisees right to their faces as vipers and sons of satan. He called the hypocritical Jews "a perverse and corrupt generation" in front of a large crowd.
We think we have to respond to everything, and take people's opinions seriously, as we've been brainwashed that we have to always be "nice". We don't. When someone is deliberately lying to you it is acceptable and morally courageous to call them a liar. When someone demands in bad faith you "care" about something, it's perfectly acceptable to laugh at them.
The key is determining when it's in bad faith, but it's actually pretty simple. If the person is dealing with us in a dishonest manner, that is misrepresenting things, exaggerating the significance, lying by omission, intentionally manipulating emotions, etc. then that's bad faith. Period. Good people do not interact with other people in this manner. Once I detect that my obligation to be "nice" ends.
I've gradually come to the conclusion that it's actually the moral position that we must not be nice to people who behave this way. They need to experience negative reinforcement or they will just continue their manipulative behavior on others.
The bad actors in both the media and the Church have done a solid job convincing people of two things:
1. Jesus was some sort of hippie (couldn't be further from the truth)
2. "Love" means accepting and validating everyone's behavior, no matter how harmful and sinful.
We've got some work to do breaking through this, but God is with us so I think we can do it. :D
Spot on.
Everybody needs to reread this! I remember you saying it's more important to be kind than nice and I agree.
Think about it this way, when the lying, pushy, and manipulative salesman comes to your door, is the moral thing to be pleasant to them? Or is it moral to call them out as a scumbag liar and slam the door in their face?
Here's the thing, if enough people call them out as scumbags then just maybe they'll get tired of it and get an honest job. But if everyone is "nice" to them then they are more likely to continue at it and scam your elderly, gullible neighbor. They get no negative reinforcement for their dishonest behavior.
Yet people have been conned into thinking being "nice" is a good thing when it's really just a coward's way to avoid confronting dishonest behavior. And shockingly of course, the most dishonest people are those that demand we be "nice".
You had me at hello!
Yes. That last paragraph especially 🎯🎯🎯
It’s more important to stand up and speak out then to be nice.
Exactly right. Thanks!
Jeff,
Based on your comment:
"There is no requirement to be "nice" to people acting in bad faith, it's not required to be a Christian. Christ certainly wasn't, he called out the scribes and Pharisees right to their faces as vipers and sons of satan. He called the hypocritical Jews "a perverse and corrupt generation" in front of a large crowd.",
in today's world, Jesus would be considered an 'anti-semite'.
How ironic.
My Son & I have been studying Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius. Opinions and judgments keep us from living in the present. Although, we do have to be aware of the past & future.
Mark Twain was a stoic. He is one of my favorite quotes regarding imagination: “You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
Excellent. Keep it up. I started reading Ryan Holliday's popular daily posts on Stoicism until one day he wrote about how all of the J 6'ers deserved what they got for their "insurrection".
I Love Mark Twain, and along with TJ, they produced more of my favorite quotes than anyone. Two other gems from Twain were "If you don't read the papers , you aren't informed. If you do read the papers, you are misinforemed'. And my all-time favorite ," It isn't what you don't know that will kill you. IIt's what you think you know for sure, but just ain't so".
Ryan’s book got started.
A wise person told me, “Just because you have something to say, it doesn’t mean you should say it”.
Nice
At least we don’t have to state our opinion on everything. Having a reasoned opinion is a good thing.
Well put! Which makes me wonder what they have up their sleeve. Trump KNEW this is what they would do. I think he has a plan and it is in motion. But you nailed it!
What we do not know is if all is turned back to them, can the records be changed hidden or altered? I doubt it, yet do not know.
I suspect they are not only trying to delay, but also to hide information, and hoping for an avenue to open to impeach President Trump.
Why cant a different federal judge file a contrary order?
Or other (red state) AGs counter the liberal AGs?
I wish they would come and call out Minnesota's corruption
Ditto!
Thanks for the added perspective. I appreciate Jeff’s take (which I hadn’t had time to fully read when I posted obviously) and your points about Trump’s lack of reaction. That makes a lot of sense. I also hope your reference to conservatives wringing their hands and the loser mentality comment isn’t partially directed at me. I was simply expressing frustration at their sheer arrogance and hubris (and I definitely think all of these judges are personally getting something out of the profligate government spending). I haven’t posted anywhere else or said anything to anyone about this besides this post. I’m glad all of this is coming to light and coming to a head. I hope their pride will indeed be their undoing.
Judges, Politicians, Media who try to circumvent cutting waste, fraud and financial crimes, are outing themselves as conspirators to the biggest heist in Human History. I hope Pam Bondi is taking note and will act swiftly.
Can't another judge file an order demanding Musk continue as Trump orders and NOT turn over anything?
Hmmmmmm…….wouldn’t that be cool!!!! Like a judge duel…….i like it!
Yes, and it could state that likely crimes are being exposed, so the documentation must continue and be preserved.
I thought the same thing... One would think then that would accelerate the process to the Supreme Court because you would have multiple "cases" that would need to be adjudicated at the same time.
And since when is the "Supreme Court", which derives its power from Article III (Judicial), superior to either the Article I (Congress) or Article II (Executive) co-equal branches of government???
It baffles me that these crooks believe that they will not have to pay the price for their crimes
It’s true that they never have yet. I suppose they think the past is prologue.
I’m hoping it’s a new day.
well said
Yes I’m thinking and hoping the same. They’re showing to whom they’re beholden.
They just tarred and feathered themselves as they did with abortion by trying to overturn pro-life initiatives in individual states.
They inadvertently caused the issue to be taken to SCOTUS.
Now abortion law is back in the hands of the states based on overturning what WAS the law of the land, Roe
But I still feel that Roe was overturned conveniently for the summer of 2022, just in time for the mid term elections. Too many Blue States such as Michigan, used this to get radical abortion legislation on ballots and to use abortion to get blue governors and legislators elected. I know of at least 6 states that got radical abortion legislation passed and no state’s that got pro life legislation enacted. However, if this wakes up the Right to Life movement then it achieved some purpose.
I’ve had the same thoughts. These states are packed with murdering POS’s who jumped at the chance to make it easier and faster to murder unborn babies - WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT. They are loving it! It is sick and twisted.
Yes, it is, but God still knows what He intends. Perhaps he is telling us to encourage women in every way to have their babies, to find God given ways NOT to become pregnant, instead of ignoring it and holding up our hands in defeat. David slew Goliath with a rock. Our giants are before us, but we have lots of rocks.
exactly right
Yes, to motivate people to the polls, but big money was poured into states to get it passed because it A) is population control and B) fuels a lucrative beauty industry. Late term aborted fetuses can be sold for several purposes, one being stem cells for anti aging products.
https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/the-babies-who-are-murdered-to-order-7195092.html
As someone who was a ballot initiative facilitator in the summer of 2020 to get an ancient Michigan law repealed that was allowing our governor unending lockdown measures, my eyes were opened to how corrupt my state was. We organized signing parties at rest stops, outside businesses still open, farmer’s markets, anywhere we could while still being locked down. In 3 months we got almost double the needed amount of signatures to get this initiative reviewed by our Republican led legislature to remove the law from the books. But the SofS slow walked the review of the signature for months effectively delaying it until well after the election. But within 6 weeks of the Roe v Wade overturning, they had 750, 000 signatures to get a radical abortion law on the November ballot. The language was found to have all kinds of grammar errors and misspellings that should have doomed it to going on the ballot, but at the last minute a partisan judge allowed it. Yes, I now know how the Swamp, both Federal and State works.
We know Michigan well. And it’s disheartening to hear this but I am not surprised at all. Oregon had enough signatures to recall Brown back in 2020 and she found a way to stop it. Because they cheat, it is difficult to stop them. Not impossible. But very difficult.
I know how much you suffered under Whitler as I have friends and family in Michigan. One step to stop it is to get your voter rolls cleaned. That's key in the cheating.
To do that you need a SofS that is not as corrupt as the current governor and AG, and also NOT running for governor herself in 2026, which this one is. But we do have good people trying to get the voter rolls cleaned up, one in particular is still trying to get to the bottom of all of Michigan’s cheating.
probably funded by USAID
It’s really hard to “like” this post because of the content. It’s so sick. 😭
It actually gets worse. There is video/photos of what Russia soldiers found in Kharkiv. I'll spare you as it is worse than any nightmare.
I just read your above link and even that is too much to bear. God have mercy 😭
I “like” it only because I appreciate having the information!
Sick.
I believe TN had already passed very pro-life legislation prior to 2022 but of course it was immediately challenged in court. If I recall correctly, because of the 2022 SCOTUS decision, the TN decision stood. I think some other conservative states also passed very pro-life legislation. But naturally, the left swept into blue states and totally lied (because that's what they do -it's in their very nature to lie) to win elections and put forward very horrible pro-abortion laws.
Just like all the cannabis votes, bought and paid for by Soros…with OUR money, it turns out! Now the cannabis industry is failing, going from $3000 a bale to $500 and they’re all closing up shop in Humboldt county. It’s too expensive to farm it, just like we told them would happen… just a money-grubbing, taxable slush fund for the politicians.
The case had worked its way through the appellate court and application to the Supreme Court for years.
I agree with that 100%. And I am certainly not a proponent for abortion, but conservatives made a big mistake bringing that case before the primaries.
They should've assumed there would be a leak given everything that happened during Trumps term.
That’s what I’m hoping also but it still makes me mad!!!!! 😡😡😡
Well no one ever accused them of being intelligent.
Let the cases go to SCOTUS…let’s settle the issue of constitutionalism so that no administration can undo what he has done. Next step…codify them! I’ll bet we have some legislators ready to spring into action once the issues are settled by SCOTUS. it’s going to be beautiful to watch.
But on the other hand - it's really amusing to watch the (D)ifferent politicians keep on defending the fraud and waste rather than saying "hey - this needs to stop". The inability to read the room is quite telling.
Right?? You can really tell whose side they’re on!
I also find it interesting that biden circumvented the courts and cancelled student loan debt anyway. “Piss off courts…I’ll do what I want anyway.” I HOPE as we maneuver through getting real judges back in charge we replay over and over again bidens circumventing the courts.
I still wonder if anyone actually got their debt erased 😒 or was it all for show? I paid mine off in 2024 after almost 10 years of paying them back, and several people I know are still paying. So WHO actually got let off at our expense?
From what I understand it was the children of wealthy donors who got their loans forgiven. And those who work as aides in DC, and democrat activist’s.
You would think THAT would wake up braindead demoncraps. But, hard to wake them up when nobody will expose it. Mainstream most certainly won’t. They don’t want it advertised that he did it against court rulings and they don’t want anyone to know WHO exactly got their debt erased. I wish someone like Charlie Kirk who has the influence and capabilities to find all this out would report it.
If true, no surprise
I applied to the program but never heard back. I read that only people working in rural, government positions were eligible. Or something like that; either way, my conservative ass was NOT worthy 😅
Yes I agree and of course not one of these fakes on the Left had any qualms about Biden doing that 🙄
You're too kind.
😂
Curious to know Jeff's thought's on this lawyers suggestion:
https://x.com/shipwreckedcrew/status/1889139311431606285
He basically says, let TRUMP go to the Treasury with Elon and DOGE boys in tow, and access the records personally and see what the judiciary has to say to the PRESIDENT looking at info.
Apparently you haven’t checked on what a bag of feathers cost these days.
Some of my hens cost upwards of $25 - $50 each to add to my layer flock these days. But I always have year round eggs and sell in the summer at just enough to almost cover 75% of feed costs, which has gone up 20 -35% in the last 5 years.
My coop has been empty for five years now. A store bought egg is not even the same food.
True 😆 And tar is probably crazy expensive too 😛
🤣
I was thinking the other day of what the Democrats remind me of right now...My mother and several other older people have told me about killing chickens. You cut the head off and then the chicken will crazily run around for several minutes before finally keeling over. Thus the phrase, "like a chicken with it's head cut off."
They will also fly a short distance with their heads cut off. I still have childhood nightmares of watching an aunt kill chickens by chopping their heads off with an axe and headless chickens flying and dropping all over the yard.
I worked with a guy who had similar nightmares of a chicken chasing him around the yard after it had been beheaded.
Was it here that someone mentioned Judges can be impeached? I would love to see some of these fools impeached.
Marxists gonna marxist.
Yup. Haha.
I am wondering if these lower courts really will learn any lessons that Trump is trying to teach them here. They will continue to impede progress in this term and future presidential terms if they dont get slapped hard here.
Impeachment of these judges need to happen.
Sack then up and throw them in the DC gulag!!!! Picture that for a minute!!!!
It would be crowded
That's what GITMO is for.
Perhaps they should be set adrift in the Gulf of America.
Only during the winter when an Alberta clipper comes thru. Never during Hurricane season.
It would be a good start anyway... 😉
Make it a televised event as well
Of particular interest to me in North Carolina, is that the name Fort Bragg has been restored to the Army base which had been renamed Fort Liberty. I don't suppose our President can force a name change on the shopping center in Raleigh which was originally named Cameron Village. Whoever Cameron was, he had some tenuous tie to slavery, so it is now called the Village District. Does anyone see hypocrisy in these leftists renaming places because of a perceived moral flaw in the person for which they are named, while at the same time advocating for the killing of babies and the mutilation of children? How about their constant criticism of our President's (admitted) moral failings while supporting any kind of sexual perversion for themselves?
George Orwell in his book 1984:
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.
Standard Commie Operation Procedure!
My brother served at Bragg. I visited Bragg. I'm not just bragging, either.
Ha ha, love it!
I'm in Northern Virginia and they're renaming schools and roads at such a fevered pace no one can keep up.
So ridiculous that in Chicago, the Democrats changed the name of a school that focused on science because it was named after Ben Carson. After all, why would you want a school meant to inspire people to be named after a man who was the most brilliant neurosurgeon in the world - I mean who would be inspired by that?! Thick sarcasm intended .
The stupidity of these people is boundless.
It’s simply racism.
It's a hatred towards all that is conservative and common sense.
It’s simply racism.
It's amazing that they can't respect a very successful conservative black man! They hypocrisy is crazy but so very sad!
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Evidently it’s named now for a different soldier named Bragg who served in WWII’s Battle of the Bulge and earned a Silver Star and Purple Heart
Yes it was renamed to Private Roland Bragg. It was a clever way to get Fort Bragg back without all the hysterical pearl clutching.
At least they didn't name it after Alvin Bragg.
No, Bragg was a Confederate General... which is why the left tried to purge him... they purged a lot of such.. even the great Robert E. Lee.
Sad that the South lost.
Yes, I saw that. I'm glad for the name change, no matter who it's named after.
In this house we say Fort Bragg and Gulf of America! History never ended. A globe from 1991 shows how much the world has changed and will continue to change: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/end-of-history-last-man-globe
The irony is monumental - no pun intended.
Not only that, but I can guarantee you Cameron was a Democrat, a truth which seems lost on the Democrats. And I went to NCSU, so it will always be Cameron Village to me!
As it is to me.
Also UNC-Chapel Hill went about renaming numerous campus buildings whose benefactors were confederates who funded them. Such virtue!
https://rha.unc.edu/renaming/
(I'm sure many other colleges are doing the same)
Now that the money has been spent and they won’t be giving it back 🙄
The Camerons had quite a few slaves, around 900. Nonetheless, I agree the name change was nothing but virtue signaling. The only good thing about the name change is you can tell who the six people are that were actually born in Raleigh, no one from there calls it The Village.
My husband and I managed a missionary guesthouse in Accra, Ghana for three months in 2013. A woman from the U.S. came to visit, thinking she was going to see a utopia that her ancestors had been forced to leave. After going out the first day, she came back and refused to leave her room again until time to return to the U.S.
Once Kennedy was murdered, Marxism was introduced. And it was not really evident at the time that this was the course embarked upon, and it was not likely a lot of the people involved at the time knew what was going on or being introduced. After all, the opportunism inherent in self-serving agendas such as Lyndon Johnson's 'Great Society' are a kind of blindness. The term useful 'useful' idiot comes to mind.
One prime feature of Commie Revolutions is name changing. Commies always have to turn the house upside down and raze everything to the ground for the sake of their New Creation. And they do it with a religious fervor because Marxism in whatever form is a religion. The Soviets did the same thing. BUT ... Leningrad is now once again St. Petersburg. And Stalingrad is returned to Volgograd [formerly Tsaritsyn (1589–1925) and Stalingrad (1925–1961)]. A lot of cultural de-Sovietization went on and now the new Russian Federation is a fairly normal place. That is, for most people and in their daily lives and that of the culture.
The United States has been living under a form of Communist government for decades now, brought in slowly at first with all kinds of It's a Small World, Global Eco-Terrorist and New World United Nations sourced political agendas/political policy promotions. And it also may be said that a large part of the BRICS Plus movement was just to get out from underneath this God-awful Woke Commie agenda, deceptively called Globalism. And It is also all the stuff such as we have seen in the USAID promotions.
In short, we all have had a belly full. Time to move on to a real normal normal. And this what we are seeing in the new and well-organized New Narrative being brought in. The scope of it is breath-taking. Because when 'orders' reach down to the Super Bowl and Google's calendar designations, you can bet your boots that a real counter-revolution. It's now comply or get left behind ... only in reverse gear. Mitigation of the horrors, relief in law is now well on the way.
You should see Sweden.....!
I saw Sweden in the 1980s and it was already rotting away. Just not so obvious as it is today.
My own dark hunch is that the West will never fully recovery from what has happened. Maybe things will get better, but never the same as before.
Fellow NC’er here. They also renamed my college dorm because of some musty and obscure perceived slight to someone. So irritating.
I've been in Texas for awhile now... Just recently found out about Fort Bragg, didn't know about Cameron Village 🤯 I'm from Timberlake 🥰
Great! I was wondering about that this weekend! Of course everyone in NC always called it Bragg.
We always called Fayetteville “Fayette-Nam.”
Pray for Trump and team! They have many adversaries…
for a wide door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.
1 Corinthians 16:9
As furious as I am about these liberal judges, trying to slow down Trump’s momentum I will take your advice, Jeff, and not panic until you say so! Meanwhile, I’m praying!
Once these judges' rulings have made it to the Supreme Court they will be overturned and Trump will have the full power and authority to clean house as needed.
IMO, serous sanctions should be applied to judges, if their lawfare is found to be spurious and partisan... removal from the bench would be appropriate in many of these cases...
It would sure slow a lot of these corrupt scumbags down...
And the judges will be publicly humiliated. Justly so.
How long will that take? 3 years? That's too long.
Jeff mentioned an emergency hearing. I would think it would happen quickly.
My guess is at some point the DOJ files a writ of mandamus but I’m not a lawyer so I’m just guessing.
Echoing Jeff's analysis is this excellent X post from Kurt Schlichter:
Here is a long take on the court injunction crisis, which is less crisis than an opportunity… OK, stop panicking about all the stupid legal decisions from leftist judges that the left is getting from judge shopping in leftist jurisdictions. Stop. Panicking. First, no one should be surprised by any of this. The administration certainly isn’t. We always knew exactly what they would do. Do not take the fact they are not screaming and yelling as them rolling over. They are not rolling over. There’s plenty going on behind the scenes as administration lawyers prepare their papers for the legal fight to come. Second, since we have to have this fight, this is the time and the battleground to have it. Why? We want it settled right at the beginning of the administration so that we don’t have to deal with this down the road. And we want to fight on these orders because 1) they are manifestly the result of bad faith judge shopping and the opinions themselves are both procedural and 2) they are substantively ridiculous. They are legal jokes. Don’t listen to the dummy lawyers on Twitter - only listen to me or the people I tell you that you can rely on. Everyone telling you these are reasoned, valid legal decisions is either a legal illiterate or thinks you are stupid. Third, the way this fight is happening is to our advantage. Wait, you ask, we’re getting decision after decision against us! How can that be good? Because they are leaving the Supreme Court no choice. People want Trump to sound off about this, but he doesn’t need to. What’s left unstated is the fact that he can just not obey these manifestly improper orders. They say it’s a constitutional crisis now, but that becomes a real one when they push Trump too far. He’s not going to submit forever to micromanagement of the executive branch by activist District Court judges in blue cities across America. And Chief Justice Roberts knows it. CJ Roberts and majority of the court know these are ridiculous legally, and the last thing they want to do is stake the credibility of the Court – which famously has no divisions – on this kind of nonsense. They are not going to jump on the grenade that is these decisions. There might someday be a fight with a president about something where he is legally in the wrong, but this is not that time. This is not the hill the Supreme Court will die on. Wisely, Trump’s not adding fuel to the fire by threatening to do what it’s very clear he can do, which is disobey. This provides SCOTUS the cover it needs to deal with these upstart district courts without looking like Trump strong-armed it. So relax and let the process go forward. We’re going to win on all these injunctions, and I expect fairly quickly
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“Even the Führer knew to support German science”
Finally! A mainstream(ish) publication acknowledging the NIH is responsible for genocide! Technically, it’s democide, but that subheading still merits revocation of their Holocaust denial badge (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-holocaust-denier).
The "holocaust" was a LIE. Only an uninformed fool would NOT deny it. Example:
https://www.unz.com/article/auschwitz-six-facts-and-seven-questions/
You know NOTHING.
I have personally met Holocaust survivors, including members of my family. While the level of detail that each of them gave about their experiences was different, all of them were unequivocal in their testimony that they and their fellow Jews were targeted for mass extinction, and that they were lucky to have survived. They also testified that Jews were not the only ones who are victims of hair, Hitler and his genocidal thugs. There were something like 16 million Jews worldwide in 1939. Why has the population of Jews not roughly quadrupled, like that of the rest of the world since that time?
You are an ill informed ass, someone who has an ideological ax to grind against the Jews for some reason, (as well as all of the millions of others who were murdered by the Nazis). I really hope for your sake that you like warm weather, because that’s where you’re headed, for eternity. More sincerely, I hope you wake up from your Jew, hating stupor and realize how very wrong you are and have been, and that you beg God for forgiveness for your willful ignorance and hatred.
Corrie Ten Boon's biography is a great place to start. It can be viewed on YouTube on Vision Video. Rather than retaliating in anger, she was compelled by the horrors (horrors is an understatement) she survived to share the love of God and the power of forgiveness with others around the world. By the way, I cannot even begin to imagine living through the horrors she and her entire family endured - many did not survive including her sister, her brother, and her father. There are countless other stories. Jan Jekeliek's of Epoch Times did a documentary with his father about his experiences in a concentration camp and how he escaped by jumping from a train which saved his life. So many more heart wrenching stories of survival and death.
It is well and good to forgive others for what they have done to you. However, you simply cannot forgive someone for what they did to someone else. Understand that there are since against God‘s law, and sins against human beings. These are two very different things. Even God cannot forgive me if I do something wrong to you. Only you can do so. God certainly can, and mercifully does, forgive those who sincerely repent of their sins against His law. Oh, it is absolutely impossible for anybody living, now or at any time in the past or future, to forgive those Nazis and their collaborators who murdered so many millions of people, choose and not choose. People can forgive them for the effect that those murders had on them, as survivors, but they cannot forgive the actual murder itself or the pain inflicted on those people prior to end during the murder.
That is Jewish law and tradition, and has been for thousands of years. Even on Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement, we ask God for forgiveness for the sins we have committed against His law. However, we are obligated to go to each person who we have wronged and ask for their forgiveness. I understand that Christian theology and is different, but I would ask every person who is a Christian of whatever stripe.to understand that Jesus during his lifetime was a practicing Jew and would have agreed with what I have said about Jewish law.
You are so full of bullcrap... typical of your malignant tribe.
https://www.unz.com/article/auschwitz-six-facts-and-seven-questions/
I just bought a book called The Boys: the story of 732 Young Concentration Camp Survivors the other day. Written by Martin Gilbert. I havent started it yet, but this convo made me think maybe somebody would be interested in reading it.
Thanks for the recommendation. One of the old books that's no longer in print is Hansi: Hilter's Youth. It's the story of an orphan who ended up in Hitter's Youth and all of the unbelievable things she lived through and eventually how she became a Christian during the Cold War and she immigrated to the United States and began a Christian ministry. It's interesting to look at how the youth were captured and propagandized.
https://www.unz.com/article/auschwitz-six-facts-and-seven-questions/
Lots of lies here. And you failed to mention the biggest victims: In WW2 over 55 million people died, with Christians being at least 30 million of them.
But their deaths are underrepresented due to Woke-ness. Check this out:
America has 90 Holocaust memorials but only 53 WW2 memorials!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Holocaust_memorials_and_museums_in_the_United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:World_War_II_memorials_in_the_United_States
I visited Auschwitz and Birkenau back in 1990 and I can assure you that it’s not fake. I don’t know what it’s like now, but back then there were huge rooms filled with braids that had been cut off the women before they were gassed, huge piles of eyeglasses, etc. And I mean HUGE piles. There’s no way someone would go to that extent to fake it. You’ve been misinformed.
You know nothing. The jews have made that into some sort of craven Disneyland.
Read, learn and wake up:
https://www.unz.com/article/auschwitz-six-facts-and-seven-questions/
To Mr. Weiss:
Why don't you stop it with all of it. This re-treaded, recycled knee jerk reaction is ... well, jerky. The truth about the Holocaust is somewhere in between ... and the truth is not all Holocaust Museum lily white. And it certainly is not all human lampshades and the like.
And tell me, why is it ... or why was it until recently that only one Holocaust mattered? And that it was nearly a sin to mention any other genocides, and maybe genocides more real the Official Narrative Genocide being promoted?
Look at the real history. The Soviets did horrific things. The Americans did really horrific things, especially after the war was over. And the Germans did bad things? And so, who were the worst? The answer might well-surprise us. And speaking of which, why was David Irving hounded, imprisoned and lawfared to death? David Irving? For telling the truth in his well-researched and meticulously footnoted histories? And there have been many, many others persecuted for the same 'crime', truth telling.
And by the way, just who does the persecuting? Who are the biggest persecutors on earth? Answer me this Lucy!
You’re an ass. I don’t have the time or the inclination to write a 50 page paper on why, but I definitely could.
I hope that you grow a heart and sufficient brain cells to figure out how mistaken you are, and that you can somehow forgive yourself for the drivel that you post online.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ZZ0g6GdcwYLz/
Explain that, assmaggot!
Oh! My feelings are so hurt by your Big Boy Artillery barrage with a 'you're an ass' written on every shell. And actually, Sir Mister Wrong Side of the Equation, you will be convicted in the Court of Public Opinion ... for felony lameness and for perjury.
You were wise to run and hide. Because you would have lost.
You, being a jew, and very likely a Talmudic, Zionist jew... are, like all of your ilk... a lying scumbag... that despises all non-jews.
Reading your vile, filthy talmud proves this.
Jews were not targeted by Hitler (a great leader) for mass extinction... but for mass expulsion/relocation... many countries have expelled all jews, for good reasons we see today... jews are a cancer... corrupt, manipulative and slimy. Examples in congress: Raskin, Goldman, Schiff, Sherman, Blumenthal, Wasserman-Shitz, Sanders, Schumer, Nadler... the STENCH!!
https://rumble.com/v457fgc-jews.html
What are YOUR answers to the questions in the above link, you simpering zio-assclown? Refute all the FACTS in this too, you jagoff Judah-ben-ahole:
https://www.unz.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/BreakingTheSpell-Kollerstrom.pdf
Speaking of asking for forgiveness, scumbag... spell out the justification for murdering 300,000 innocent Gazans, more than the number of jews that died in the relocation/expulsion camps of WWII (less than 300,000, proven many times)
https://rumble.com/v5ic05f-atrocity-inc.html
Then justify the criminal use of white phosphorous on Gazan civilians, and other WAR CRIMES, you spawn of Satan:
https://rumble.com/v5urom2-the-evidence.html
All justified by the Oct 7 IDF FALSE FLAG... which jew media Haaretz admits the IDF knew WELL in advance was coming, let it happen... and Haaretz admits that the IDF killed most of those that died that day, NOT Hamas.
Well, you cockroach????
Bravo, Abiding Dude! That was a very undudelike but impeccable example of hysterical antisemitism in action.
I have previously critiqued the weaponization of the term “anti-semite” to smear dissidents (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/requiem-for-a-smear-victim-clemens) and the hyperbolic exaggerations of rampant antisemitism to justify censorship (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/on-fearing-freedomplus-thanking-substack), but this is such a textbook example, I have saved it to my files as a living demonstration of the power of propaganda to induce dehumanization of a group so you no longer see them as individuals but rather as vermin, or shall I say cockroaches.
Such vitriol doesn’t require censorship, though—on the contrary, I’m grateful you’ve shown us who you truly are and hope you leave this comment proudly on display for all to see.
You are welcome, you dumb bitch... and my post was an example of hysteria-inducing truth... obviously...
How many of the links did you read and review, turd? Any SPECIFIC rebuttals to the truth therein, or just your simpering, woke bullcrap response, which didn't address anything?
Since you were responding to a delusional belief due to your reading comprehension challenges for the second time in a row, there was nothing for me to rebut because I wasn’t even discussing that topic. I was talking about the vaxxicide Holocaust presently underway. I apologize if I used too many syllables there.
Another brilliant example! Thank you, Tim! Classic 🤣
Sir, just because someone disagrees with the propaganda put out does not make them hate anyone. The numbers and info put out about this is not all fact nor is all true. Stop jumping to accuse someone who you do not know. There is truth out there if you search for it. Go down the rabbit holes and search.
With all due respect, it is a FACT that roughly 6,000,000 Jews and roughly 5,000,000 non-Jews were murdered during the course of the Holocaust. Entire communities have been like out, by the thousands. That is to say, thousands of communities. I have personally met many Holocaust survivors during the course of my life, including some family members. One of my relatives was in the Auschwitz complex of death camps, and he said that it was a death factory. Cattle cars were coming in constantly, and leaving empty, with the occupants of those cars going up in smoke after cremation within 2 to 3 hours of having arrived there. This is a fact, it is not subject to disagreement. The only thing that can be subject to disagreement is a) what to do about rectifying the wrong that was perpetrated, and b) how to prevent another such horrific crime from ever occurring again to any group of people.
In my experience, and I’m 63 so I have a fair amount of it, those who deny either the Holocaust itself, or the scope of it, have an ulterior motive, and in virtually every case, that motive has a lot to do with not liking Jews very much. Now, everyone is entitled to their opinion, but no one is entitled to their own facts. Facts just are, regardless of how many people don’t like those facts.
You know, it is interesting that at the end of the war, General Eisenhower ordered the filming of what was going on in all of the camps that had been liberated by Allied forces, because he knew that “some son of a bitch is someday going to say that this never happened.“ His words, not mine. Well, look at this thread and tell me that Eisenhower wasn’t right.
The 6M number emerged only decades after the event.
It kept getting revised up as the $$$ started rolling in from playing the victim card.
It's been very profitable for the Chosen.
BS. I can remember in the late 1960s that the number was 6 million, and that this number was long agreed upon by virtually all scholars of the subject (of various religious and national backgrounds) by that point in time. Stop with the revisionist history.
You’re entitled to your opinion on any subject you choose, but you are NOT entitled to your own facts.
The slimy jews have been using the "6 million" bullcrap long before WWII.
many of the photos use to depict the 'holocaust' were actually from Eisenhower's own death camps for German POWs.
Why did Eisenhower fail to mention any "holocaust" or mass murder of jews in his memoirs, you dumb ahole? maybe he "forgot"? LOL!!
Well, Abiding Dude settled this question all by himself. Read his 2nd post, and tell me that he is not one of the most hate-filled people you’ve ever come across.
Talk about an epic self-own 😆
Once again, you're speaking without understanding the context. If you looked at the link, you would see I'm referring to the present Holocaust underway.
Thanks for the clarification. I thought you were the WW2 one, which has a lot of BS associated with it. That link that Abiding Dude provided (on unz.com) explains it well.
The gaza genocide is real. https://www.gettyimages.com/search/2/image?phrase=gaza
Thx. This too...
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ZZ0g6GdcwYLz/
jews are a cancer on any society.
Then don’t go to any Jewish doctors, don’t use any antibiotics or other medications developed by or with the help of Jews, and don’t have any surgical procedures done using equipment and techniques developed by Jews. You’ll be dead before long…and missed by few.
So... jews are the "Supreme race"... eh?
Straight from the unflushed toilet called the "talmud".
https://x.com/DanBilzerian/status/1825211759906693465
You are craven, pathetic and... typical of your vile ilk.
Small wonder you are reviled, rejected and expelled.
No lies whatsoever. And the reason that I didn’t mention the several tens of millions of people who died during World War II is that they died as a result of a war. For sure, it was a war of aggression wage by Germany, Japan and Italy, and we did put people like Albert Spear and various German generals and the German foreign minister on trial for waging aggressive war. Today we call that crimes against humanity. But dying in a war is different than being purposely selected based on your heritage for extermination. You have to understand that women, children, old people, and even infants were targeted and massacred by the millions. That is categorically different from dying in a war, though in each case the person is just as dead. I was addressing Abiding Dude’s moronic, false and hateful comments - because “the Holocaust” refers to that purposeful selection and genocide.
WRT WW2, one of my grandfathers volunteered at age 35, because he was an immigrant and thought that he owed something back to this country. He was also a doctor, and he helped to save many lives. Every one of my uncles also served, as did every other mail of age in my extended family. One of them that I know of died during the war, as a result of injuries suffered in battle. I have long thought that we need to remember these veterans and their sacrifice, as well as those from every other war in our history. We are free because of those people and what they did for us.
As for being “woke,” I am the furthest thing from it that you can imagine. I have had many supposed friends and many people in my extended family cut off contact with me because they don’t like the ideas that I spout, ideas which are just traditional, American or traditional moral values. Wokeism is a mental disorder, and I am not a victim of it.
German science was furthered by torturing and killing people. That’s how he did science.
They are by sleight of phrase self justifying gain of function and depopulation.
The rest is off, but you’re close on the cats 😹
I see we have some common ground, after all!
Only two people misunderstood—you and Unabiding Dude. Unless you think the NIH was a Third Reich agency? 😆
I see your reading comprehension skills are almost as challenged as Abiding Dude’s (his are significantly poorer as this is his second time going off on an insult-laden, reactionary tangent based on a fallacious premise). As I clarified elsewhere, I was referring to the *present* Holocaust underway. This one’s more like 17 million and counting.
Shoooot. The NIH IS The Turd Reich!
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LMAO!
I like it!
Given that the Gulf is bordered by North America, Central America and South America, the more appropriate name would be Gulf of the Americas.
Except that South America definitely doesn’t border the Gulf and, technically, neither does Central America. The only bordering nations are Cuba, Mexico, and the United States. Mexico is always considered North America (Remember NAFTA?), and Cuba is (historically) almost always considered a part of North America also.
Technically, you are correct. However, I still think Gulf of the Americas more fitting as it is more diplomatic and offends none.
I'm offended by the idea.
Now what?!
See how that works? LOL
It is really a matter of complete indifference to me. "A rose by any other name...."
Let’s move past being offended. Especially about names of geography. We’ve lived through 15 years of destroying historic statues and renaming military bases… and even renaming schools.
I deeply value the name 'Gulf of Mexico' as it honors highly advanced civilizations that existed before the continent was called 'America.' While 'Gulf of America' resonates with me, I interpret it as referring to the entire Western hemisphere, not just the United States or North America alone.
Having grown up in South America, I was raised with the perspective that North and South America form one unified continent—a view still held in parts of Europe.
When I moved to the United States, I found it curious when people would say 'Welcome to America,' since I had lived in 'America' my entire life.
This distinction reflects a broader historical shift. Before World War II, North and South America were commonly viewed as a single continent. The term 'The Americas' emerged to collectively describe both continents and the Western Hemisphere. It wasn't until the 1950s that most American geographers began treating North and South America as separate continents.
Plus 'Golf' is President Trump's favorite sport.
Stand corrected 🤣. (Comment edited)
I wasn't sure if that was y'all's way of spelling. But I couldn't resist.
My native Spanish ear gets in the way of English, my adoptive language. 😵💫
Highly advanced civilizations that worshiped snakes such as Amaruca (America) and engaged in gruesome human sacrifices, who embedded an army of literal demons into their lands that still terrorize people to this day and still demand human sacrifices and blood? Sorry, but that dog don’t hunt.
Like all civilizations throughout history, pre-Columbian societies were complex, made up of human beings with both virtues and flaws. They made remarkable advances in mathematics, astronomy, architecture, agriculture, and medicine, while also engaging in practices that we find troubling today. This complexity is true of virtually every historical civilization, from ancient Rome to medieval Europe to imperial China. Understanding and acknowledging this full history, both achievements and shortcomings, helps us better comprehend our shared human journey.
Pithy, but to the point.🤣
So, I hear Biden put the Gulf of Mexico off limits to drilling for oil. But now, no one will be drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. They will be drilling in the Gulf of America. See? I think Trump is trolling the enemy once again. The same enemy that hates any wholesome words. Words like America.
Just a thought.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been to many Latin countries and yes, the cultures are diverse and the peoples lovely, but I think the case can be made that widespread pre-Christian ophiolatry in Latin America is likely the spiritual reason for the rise of violent dictators and drug cartels in those lands, not to mention the gathering of Nazis and Communists there. Ancient snake worship and human sacrifice has drawn demons and demonic activity to Latin America, and it’s still happening today.
‘The Spanish exorcist (Father José Antonio Fortea) warned that “to the extent there is more witchcraft and Satanism going on in a country, to that extent there will be more extraordinary manifestations of those powers of darkness.”’
https://www.ncregister.com/news/when-an-entire-country-becomes-infested-with-demons-catholics-exorcize
“Many of the gruesome murders, including beheadings and human sacrifices, committed by Mexican drug gangs are done so in the name of Santa Muerte, said Almonte, who is writing a book about the cult.” https://nypost.com/2021/12/21/religious-saints-of-murders-outlaws-worshiped-by-cartels/
Interesting for sure.
I hear you.
One letter off. I’ll take it!
All that understand and research Agenda 21/Agenda 30/ Great Reset or whatever they are calling it these days are or should be concerned about this switch of names. The NWO - Agenda 21 calls for the world to be divided into 9 or is it 11 regions. One is the North American Union which we always assumed was Canada, Mexico and The US. Patrick Wood who writes about the group from the early 1900's called "Technocracy Inc.", found a "North American Technate" map from 1934 which included Greenland down to Panama in that region. Are changes to this system being subtly socialized and implemented? Time will tell.
I like that!
It's a dumb idea.
What's an 's' between friendly nations.... LOL!!!
PSALM 8:4-5, 6-7, 8-9
What are human beings that you are mindful of them,
mortals that you care for them?
Yet you have made them a little lower than God,
and crowned them with glory and honor.
You have given them dominion over the works of your hands;
you have put all things under their feet,
all sheep and oxen,
and also the beasts of the field,
the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
O Lord, our Sovereign,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Thank you for posting this wonderful passage of scripture…revealing at once our significance in God’s eyes and our insignificance in the spectrum of His vast creation.
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Paper straws.
So symbolic. Like Dems, they just suck harder and collapse.
LOL
Lol
The Left is making the same mistake they made with abortion. They "allowed" SCOTUS to rule on Roe because they fought a GA law that limited abortions.
Exactly, they are playing right into Trump's hands.
Shh. Don't tell them. Although they don't listen anyway.
They are incapable of listening. The hubris is too great.
They listen here.
"Trump’s legal strategy is brilliant, and it is working. Let the man work."
Jeff, your analytic, disciplined, lawyer brain once again lays this out so calmly to those of us that tend to fly off the handle at the slightest provocation. Thank you, again, for that. Brilliant. Both you and Team Trump.
Yes, and Jonathan Turley has also warned. Elon needs to calm down a little on ignoring or self-“nullifying” the legal system. These things can play out very quickly at the “TRO level”. And on the other hand almost all these judges are so vain that “disrespecting” the legal system, i.e. trying to work around it instead of with it, will put you on the losing path right away. He should not fall into that trap – – Trump alienated Roberts for years for that reason.
Yes! I think they should keep quiet and carry on!
Oh. So that is what Roberts problem is. Not sure I believe that is the issue
Roberts has been bought. Trump probably has something over him as Robertshas been both sides lately rather than all leftist.
I think it made Roberts even more comfortable opposing Trump, maybe put it that way.
I don't know how many saw the pathetic news clip of Schumer and others chanting "WE WILL WIN". They just don't seem to understand the majority of us want the government reduced and our freedoms back. They could care less what happens to the country as long as they can fill their pockets. So sad and disconnected!
He better not take away National Chocolate Cake Day.
The man might be a little crazy but he sure ain't stupid!!! 🥮
It's time to have a National White Cake Day too?
I’m having a panic attack!!!!!! Not chocolate day!!!!!
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Here's another email from one of my corrupt congressmen: April Delaney. She wants to know "Have you been personally affected by Trump’s actions? To anonymously share your experience with me take my Survey https://iqconnect.house.gov/iqextranet/EsurveyForm.aspx?__cid=MD06AM&__sid=100009&__crop=14300.6664283.5018404.7316693"
PLEASE GIVE HER YOUR THOUGHTS!! PLEASE PLEASE! And consider joining her town hall tonight. Wouldn't it be great to derail it with pro-MAGA support? https://mcclaindelaney.house.gov/live
Loved this! Wrote mine as if I were a former crazy blue-haired lib who has now done a 180 thanks to DOGE exposure of government corruption and money-laundering. Sending to every conservative I know!
Perfect!
I let her know how happy I am that Trump disallowed biological males in women's sports & spaces. LOL.
Thanks - that was fun!!
I got an email from my rep too with a survey asking if I was concerned with Elon Musk's DOGE's actions.....NO
Did it!!!!! And it was, indeed, FUN!!!
Who was it on here said, I think yesterday(I think). “If my smile gets any bigger, I may have to get a bigger face!” Does anybody remember who that was?
Yes, I also replied to my congresswomen's newsletter saying she was concerned about Doge. I simply replied: "We love Doge!"
This is what I wrote--
I've never laughed so hard at the freakout from the Dems and some Repubs. I'm happy for the first time in 5 years! MAGA and MAHA! He will be on Mt Rushmore!
Minnesota, Amy Klobuchar, just started a "tip-line" for people worried about President Tump's EO's. It's backfiring as people are reporting the Democrats.
Thank you for sharing this link! I supplied my thoughts despite the crappy UI and the tiny text box provided. 😄
Done
✅ That was fun!
Done!
As we restore the calendar, let's also eliminate "BCE" and "CE". - 2025 anno Domini