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  • Today's Cryptogram

    05/04/2024 4:38:41 AM PDT · by Lonesome in Massachussets · 3 replies
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  • Nostalgia for the Mud

    05/04/2024 4:38:30 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 4 replies
    Kunstler.com ^ | 3 May, 2024 | James Howard Kunstler
    “Resentful childless harpies unconsciously longing for domination. Why else worship at the altar of Hamas? Why else would it be so overwhelmingly female?” — Dr. Jordan Peterson. Wasn’t it cute how the youngsters who “occupied” Columbia U’s Hamilton Hall — and were busy smashing things up inside — demanded restaurant-grade meals sent in to avert “starvation and dehydration” amongst their dauntless ranks? You could imagine a colossal mommy breast with three hundred nipples descending from the sky over upper Manhattan to nourish them back to action. “Feed me. . . !” It turns out, actually, that at least half the...
  • AMERICA PRAYER VIGIL - MAY 4, 2024 [PRAYER]

    05/04/2024 4:37:42 AM PDT · by Maudeen · 2 replies
    Free Republic ^ | 5/4/2024
    Join with fellow FREEPERS across the world to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, Technology, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. (1 Timothy 2:1-2) ONLY WITH JESUS CAN YOU REACH YOUR FULL POTENTIAL!
  • Dems Debate Anti-Israel Protests [semi-satire]

    05/04/2024 4:35:30 AM PDT · by John Semmens · 1 replies
    Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 5 May 2024 | John Semmens
    This week police were called in to oust protesters who seized control of Hamilton Hall on the Columbia University campus in New York City, smashing glass doors and windows in the process. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Penn) hailed the decision to "remove these anti-Semitic thugs from the property. This is no 'peace protest.' It is a demonstration in support of the Hamas terrorists who slaughtered over a 1,200 Israeli civilians last October 7 and demands the elimination of the Jewish presence in the region." Mayor Eric Adams (D) objected to "the trashing of the premises, tearing down the American flag, and...
  • Donald Trump Demands Jack Smith Be Arrested After Document Revelation

    05/04/2024 4:22:59 AM PDT · by Libloather · 8 replies
    Newsweak ^ | 5/04/24 | Ewan Palmer
    Donald Trump has called for Special Counsel Jack Smith to be arrested after the prosecutor's team said some evidence in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case are no longer in their "original, intact" form. In a post on Truth Social, the former president demanded "ARREST DERANGED JACK SMITH. HE IS A CRIMINAL!" after federal prosecutors wrote in court filings that there are some boxes where the "order of items within that box is not the same" as they appear in digital scans of materials in the wake of the FBI retrieving them from Trump's Florida resort in August 2022. Smith's office...
  • Questions/Prompts to AI Platform Claude Sonnet re: Communism and Free Markets

    05/04/2024 4:14:50 AM PDT · by RoosterRedux · 5 replies
    I use various AI platforms and like to probe them to see if they are able to respond to tough questions and particularly to see if and where they might have biases that overrun their "logic." Here are some questions that might be of interest to you.BTW, in this case I used Poe.com as my point of entry and then used Claude Sonnet. I am a Claude.AI monthly subscriber. Me:Why do communist countries become dictatorships and fail?Claude Sonnet: There are several key reasons why communist countries have historically tended towards dictatorships and failed economically: Concentration of power In communist systems,...
  • Americans Are Driving Their Cars To Death In Order To Save Money

    05/04/2024 4:11:17 AM PDT · by RomanSoldier19 · 27 replies
    https://jalopnik.com ^ | 5/4/24 | By Owen Bellwood
    Here at Jalopnik, we know there’s nothing wrong with keeping a beloved old beater running for mile after mile, and we regularly celebrate high mileage heroes. Now, it turns out the rest of America is catching onto this way of thinking as the savings of holding onto an old car for longer begin mounting up. Drivers across the country are increasingly holding onto their cars for longer than ever, with an increasing number hitting more than 100,000 miles in their cars, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. The trend comes as drivers realize the savings to...
  • Germany’s Anti-Fascist Hysteria

    05/04/2024 3:54:36 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 6 replies
    Chronicles ^ | March, 2024 | PAUL GOTTFRIED
    Antifa block at the 1Europafüralle demonstration in Berlin. (image from: Leonhard Lenz, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons) We in the United States, especially those of us on the right, know that the left is threatening our freedom and inherited moral standards. We also understand that these assaults have been facilitated by what Donald Trump broadly describes as the fake news, which are the powerful, misnamed “news sources” that shape our political culture. These vehicles of state propaganda have worked to white out or distort whatever does not fit their ideologically driven narratives. Although such distortions or concealments from our indigenous media...
  • I'm very nervous': Public servants react to feds' plan for increased in-person work

    05/04/2024 3:44:58 AM PDT · by Loyalist · 11 replies
    Ottawa Citizen ^ | April 30, 2024 | Catherine Morrison
    Tanya King, a transgender and autistic public servant working for Public Services and Procurement Canada, said she is concerned about the possibility of having to spend more time in the office. PHOTO BY JEAN LEVAC /PostmediaSome federal public servants are expressing frustration over the government’s reported plans to ask employees to work from their offices for three days a week starting in the fall, many taking to social media to express concerns about everything from commuting to finding childcare.Tanya King, a transgender and autistic public servant working for Public Services and Procurement Canada, said she is concerned about the possibility...
  • Armed groups, presumably tied to Hamas, stole $70 million from Gaza bank last month – French report

    05/04/2024 3:41:34 AM PDT · by ScaniaBoy · 5 replies
    The Times of Israel ^ | 4 May 2024 | By AFP
    Armed groups in Gaza, including one with presumed Hamas links, last month robbed the Bank of Palestine of some $70 million (NIS 260 million), French daily Le Monde reports. The funds were taken from the vaults of several branches of the bank, the report says, citing a Bank of Palestine document sent to “certain international partners” detailing the robberies. On April 16, staff discovered a hole in the ceiling of the safe deposit room at one of the bank’s Gaza branches and found that some $3 million worth of shekels destined for cash dispensers were missing, Le Monde reports. The...
  • Now jailbound ex-Baltimore DA Marilyn Mosby faces losing luxury Florida vacation condo she bought fraudulently as feds seek to seize it, two days after she requested presidential pardon

    05/04/2024 3:35:50 AM PDT · by Libloather · 4 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 5/04/24 | Will Potter, James Gordon
    Former Baltimore DA Marilyn Mosby could be about to lose her Florida vacation condo - the same property she was found to have bought fraudulently, days after revealing she plans to ask for a presidential pardon to avoid a lengthy jail term. Mosby, 44, bought the property in February 2021 for $476,000 but the feds are now looking to seize it and sell the place. If there are profits from the sale, Mosby would get back her original $47,600 down payment, prosecutors have stated. During her trial on perjury and mortgage fraud charges, the court heard how Mosby lied on...
  • Trials' Lessons: Faith - Evangelical Caucus/Devotional

    05/04/2024 3:28:19 AM PDT · by metmom · 1 replies
    Gracetoyou.org ^ | 1997 | John McArthur, Grace Community Church
    “By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac; and he who had received the promises was offering up his only begotten son” (Hebrews 11:17). The main reason God allows trials in the lives of Christians is to test the strength of their faith. The memorable example in Genesis 22 of Abraham’s testing is perhaps the severest trial any human being has ever faced. When God told Abraham to offer his only son Isaac as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of Moriah (Gen. 22:1-2), Abraham no doubt was stunned. In terms of God’s nature, His plan...
  • wheel lock firearm ignition device

    05/04/2024 12:39:16 AM PDT · by kawhill · 5 replies
    Flintlock, ignition system for firearms, developed in the early 16th century.
  • Awkward moment Biden's economic adviser Jared Bernstein admits he can't explain how money works

    05/03/2024 10:58:25 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 24 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | May 4 2024 | JAMES GORDON
    Jared Bernstein, the Chief Economist and Economic Policy Adviser to Joe Biden, has been featured in a clip in which he struggles to explain how money works. Bernstein was being interviewed for an upcoming documentary about the economy entitled Finding The Money. 'We all use money, and yet the questions of what is money, and where does money come from remain elusive,' the film teases in a preview.
  • David Crosby at Kent State - November 2017

    05/03/2024 10:50:02 PM PDT · by Morgana · 15 replies
    Kent State ^ | January 20, 2023 | Kent State
    The late David Crosby of Crosby Stills and Nash talks about the May 4, 1970 shootings at Kent State and how it lead to their song, "Ohio."
  • Ohio

    05/03/2024 10:26:49 PM PDT · by Morgana · 16 replies
    Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young ^ | Nov 6, 2014 | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
    Ohio by: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Tin soldiers and Nixon coming We're finally on our own This summer I hear the drumming Four dead in Ohio
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    05/03/2024 10:25:40 PM PDT · by Chris Robinson · 8 replies
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  • Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘black book’ with 221 additional high-profile names is being sold to a secret bidder

    05/03/2024 9:52:06 PM PDT · by Libloather · 21 replies
    NY Post ^ | 5/03/24 | Katherine Donlevy
    Jeffrey Epstein is going to name names — again. A mysterious “black book” believed to belong to the late pedophile financier, which revealed the names and addresses of 221 previously undisclosed people, is going up for auction — and bidders are being assured that their identities will be kept secret. It could fetch up to $200,000 — or more, the auction house owner told the Daily Beast, which first reported the story. **SNIP** The book was reportedly found on Fifth Avenue in the East Village by a female musician in the 1990s, but how it came to be there remains...
  • To Be Happy, Women Must Do The Opposite Of Everything Secular Western Culture Tells Them

    05/03/2024 9:50:50 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 23 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 05/03/2024 | Joy Pullmann
    Suzanne Venker’s latest book, How to Build a Better Life, distills her countercultural, practical, and effective life advice for women.Everyone wants to talk about what’s wrong with men, whether it’s “toxic masculinity,” “men without work,” “the end of men,” the longhouse, or the need for men to “clean their rooms.” Not so many people, however, want to talk about what’s wrong with women. Even the longhouse complaint is that women are too successful:As of 2022, women held 52 percent of professional-managerial roles in the U.S. Women earn more than 57 percent of bachelor degrees, 61 percent of master’s degrees, and...
  • 10 Lies Democrats Tell About Our Elections (And How To Refute Them)

    05/03/2024 9:48:27 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 5 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 05/03/2024 | Shawn Fleetwood
    There is almost no subject the left won’t lie about. Whether it’s denying basic biology or fabricating “bloodbath” hoaxes about their top Republican rival, no topic is off limits for the Democrat “disinformation” police — and that includes elections. Since the 2020 election, Democrats and their media allies have worked overtime to smear Americans concerned about the integrity of U.S. elections. No matter how legitimate these concerns may be, the left slanders anyone who challenges controversial elections won by Democrats as so-called “election deniers.” Putting aside the fact that Democrats have questioned elections they don’t win (see the Trump-Russia collusion...