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ICE all over the non-Portland areas in Oregon. Many helicopters flying over most of the day. ICE finally came in to the illegal alien criminal GUTS of Oregon. They picked up numerous cartel members, dealers, pedophiles and child traffickers while raiding apartments, etc. Demonrats are wetting their pants over it and soiling their briefs and filing lawsuits according to news sources. So much for “all king’s day.” LOLOLOLOL! Thank you ICE!! Thank you Trump and administration!!

Made some trades this morning and the website is toast so far. Anyone else having the same experience?

Not sure how I got on a Democratic text message solicitation, but I constantly am getting messages from various Democratic candidates using ActBlue. Never signed up for it. I’m constantly blocking new text messages soliciting donations. How do you get off once and for all of a Spam text message situation

Psalm 62:1 (King James Version) Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. It is impossible to overstate the size of Trump’s accomplishment with the Israel/Gaza peace agreement. One week after the Swedish brat was going to Gaza to stir up unrest and blame Israel for more atrocities, Trump is signing the agreement for peace. This is truly remarkable by a remarkable man who has spent his entire life prepping for this moment. The man who has been vilified more than anyone since Christ while showing why the Founding Fathers wanted successful part time politicians rather than...

A chemistry professor in a large college had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab the Professor noticed one young man (exchange student) who kept rubbing his back, and stretching as if his back hurt. The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country's government and install a new communist government. In the midst of his story he looked at the...

At a recent gun show I picked up a still-in-the-box Henry Steel Lever 30-30. The gent selling it had shoulder replacement and was unloading the rifle a a good price. He said he had fired it less than 10 times. Not a mark on it. So it came home with me. My question for the group here is this - what's the 'right' leather sling for this rifle? This rifle will not see hard use - my old faithful Marlin 336R is my rifle for short range stands. It'll go in the woods in two weeks for modern firearm season....

What would it look like today if Kamala Harris had won the election? I think we all know those hostages would not be free in all likelihood. I am deeply grateful for President Trump having the forward thinking and skills necessary to be able to have these people freed - well, the ones who survived. More than that, I feel President Trump and his advisors approached this prayerfully - the BEST kind of guidance. I shudder to think what would have happened had Kamala Harris won that election.

Of major assassinations in the past 65 years, JFK, RFK, Lee Harvey Oswald & Charlie Kirk were executed in the presence of large numbers of witnesses or with significant, direct media coverage of the assassinations. The question, perhaps unanswerable, is, is there a message or effect intended here, with the high public exposure in those cases? Jeffrey Epstein and, strangely, MLK, were either "suicided" or outright assassinated in a relatively confined environment, in the absence of a high number or witness or with only limited media exposure of the actual killings. The determining issue about Epstein's secretive "suiciding" seems obvious....

I don't do anything hinky or illegal on my PC. But is CCleaner good for cleaning up cache? At the moment, I use the "delete history" feature on my browser and the "delete history" feature on "Internet Options." Does CCleaner do anything else?

I don't trust doctors at all. I am over 50 years old and I have only trusted THREE doctors in my entire life- I don't trust them.

Please excuse this rant.

Nancy Pelosi has been very quiet lately. Where did she go? What is she doing during the shutdown? Hard to believe she has nothing to say. Hakeem needs to check on her. What is Paul doing? Is Nancy's daughter on the front lines with Antifa? Inquring minds want to know...

Finally managed to get my relocation to Tennessee approved by the big multi-national bank I work for. Used a medical exception, a large medical file and several doctors letters saying Chicago area winters are brutal on my Ankylosing Spondylitis, Rheumatoid Arthritis and peripheral neuropathy in my feet and lets.More in Comments

Blue Fascism Deuteronomy 13:4 (King James Version) Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. The Democrat National Socialist Party has become one of the most violent Party’s in the history of the United States. They have nothing left to run on other than Trump is Hitler or whoever is the worst human they can label to keep their violence growing. They have been organizing these Antifa groups since Barak who was a radical Communist who tried to turn America...

We just had municipal elections here in Fairbanks and the Fairbanks North Star Borough. With one exception we are now run by leftist lunatics. There was a rip roaring 18% turnout. So 82% of voters don't care what happens to them. Fairbanks has joined Anchorage, Seattle, Portland, and Frisco in gong down the toilet. I am here for the natural wonder of the place, but the government here is absolute sewage.

While the shutdown is needless, the Democrats are rightly concerned about healthcare cost coverage. MEDICAID EXPANSION FAIRNESS What I’m thinking of is to slightly and generally increase the state Medicaid expansion share to 5% plus the highest rate of state income tax. Right now, California pays for Medicaid expansion at 10% and rakes in 13% income tax from doctors. That would make Medicaid expansion cheaper for no income tax red states like Florida and Texas. To help fund likely Medicaid expansion to states like Texas and Florida, the state Medicaid shares (traditional & expansion) would increase annually starting in 2028...

The law, which lets the president deploy the military domestically and use it for civilian law enforcement, is dangerously vague and in urgent need of reform. The Insurrection Act needs a major overhaul. Originally enacted in 1792, the law grants the president the authority to deploy the U.S. military domestically and use it against Americans under certain conditions. While there are rare circumstances in which such authority might be necessary, the law, which has not been meaningfully updated in over 150 years, is dangerously overbroad and ripe for abuse. More on Domestic Deployment of the Military >> What is the...

Yesterday evening I killed a skunk in my backyard and left it to be picked up this morning. I set my trail camera out because when I killed a skunk previously, it was gone by morning and I was hoping it would happen again.Sure enough, it was gone but no photos on the camera. There was a brief blur but nothing else.This is a mystery to me and the only thing I can think of is that an owl might have swooped in and snatched it up.Any thoughts? I know the camera was working because later last night it captured...

The Engines of Wealth: From Conquest to CodePreface: Understanding the DNA of Human ActionHuman history is shaped by the tension between constant biological drives and changing social environments. Across centuries, people have sought the same essentials — food, clothing, shelter, and security — yet the mechanisms to achieve them have evolved dramatically. Civilizations rise and fall not because human nature changes, but because the systems that organize labor, energy, and capital shift in response to crisis, innovation, and opportunity.This essay traces three transformative forces that have repeatedly restructured societies and economies: war, which expanded wealth through conquest; plague, which redistributed...

I wanted to let everyone know that the State of California is using some legal means to take money from bank accounts with no notice whatsoever. This just happened to me through Wells Fargo and I will be dealing with the matter after the weekend when their offices are open. Does anyone have experience with this? I lived in California over 10 years ago but I have no idea what this can possible be for.