Posted on 08/31/2021 12:00:43 AM PDT by weston
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I’m saying nothing!🤣😂
I thought I’d tell you a little bit about some of the characters I’ve met here. Definitely not all negative and I need to quit letting the others color my opinion.
Margaret was an adorable petite little lady, she passed away at 93. But was sharp as a tack until the end. I met her and her son Larry at church. Margaret lived not too far from me so I would visit her now and then. I don’t know how she ended up in a country house but her house was 100% Margaret. She would come to church dressed up in these beautiful spotless clothes that look like they came out of the 1920s. And her house looked the same. She had these adorable crocheted white Lacy things on all her furniture. And her house was tidy and spotless. And she loved talking about how she grew up in a cabin that her father built. And she would get out of map and showed me in North Carolina where that was. I especially loved her stories about her childhood end our father would do woodworking for people to bring in some money, but mainly they survived on the land. I think Margaret was the youngest of eight or nine children. Her mother died young, Margaret said likely from overwork.
But as interesting as Margaret was, Larry was more of a Marvel. Larry ended up marrying his cousin. But that didn’t work out and luckily they didn’t have any kids! Larry did pizza delivery most of his life. Which is really bizarre considering how intelligent he was. It didn’t matter what subject you bring up he knew something about it. And not at all in an arrogant look what I no way. There was just stuff he knew and loved talking about. His house was about the opposite of Margaret, you could barely walk in. He had paths going from room to room but the stuff he hoarded was books. All books. And I don’t doubt that he remembered almost all of what he read.
Gwen is 84 now. I met her at church also. She took me over to where she was born in Roan Mountain. They had no running water but their house was next to a stream so they considered themselves lucky. They built a little house over the stream and kept there milk products in the Stream to keep cold, so those little houses are called Dairies. They’re all over the place here. Gwen had kin all over the place, so we went on a couple day trips over to North Carolina and she showed me the houses that she remembered, stopped at a couple cemeteries were her ancestors were buried, and of course she had to tell me the lineage of how they were related. None of which I could remember or understand, LOL. When married a guy from out of the area and they had four kids. She said they were living near Boston she told him she was going back to Tennessee. And he could either come back or not. So he did. She’s a feisty little thing. She was the first one to correct me on how I pronounce Appalachia. Apparently the rest of the country pronounces it completely wrong, which is weird. But at least she corrected me so I didn’t embarrass myself further.
And you only look as old as the Space Force!
What wonderful people.
They contribute so much to the rich tapestry that is our life.
You are a better person for having known them.
You are too kind, exit.
Very interesting people.
It is child abuse, you are right.
Ridiculous and insane to make someone this young wear a mask.
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The only hope for stopping a vaccine passport is tying it to racism, as with voter ID challenges.
That’s why Nicky Minaj is such a threat.
If black vaccination rates stay low, those court challenges will have legs.
I’m surprised they’re sending some to Blue States,
That looks yummy!
I miss Whataburger!
In Corpus I would take my son to the marina, and we would stop at Whataburger on the way and sit at a bench and watch the boats
Space X is back after a successful 4 days in space.
The 1st civilian 4 man crew.
Congratulations to Elon Musk!
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A protester waves a "Trump 2024" flag at the freedom protest in London on Saturday. Photo by @onemanreports
Got it little while ago.
Back in the day when lived out of town I used to go by the farmer’s almanac.
Kingmaker - Big IF! (True)
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That the Sussmann indictment is an undisguised signal that conspiracy charges are soon to follow is transparent in the first few paragraphs of the indictment. One need not read past page one to understand where Durham is heading.
All unlawful conspiracies have an object or purpose.
For example, a group of criminals might meet one night to plan to rob a bank the next day. When the robbers get caught and charged with conspiracy, the charging papers will describe the object of the conspiracy to be the robbery of the bank.
In the Clinton Campaign conspiracy, the object or purpose was successfully obtained beyond the wildest dreams of any of the conspirators.
Durham begins the Sussmann indictment with a description of the success achieved by the conspiracy: Paragraph 1 describes and quotes from a NY Times article in
October 2016, which asserts that agencies of the federal government have received and are investigating evidence that the Trump organization has been making secret back channel communications to a Russian bank.
Durham describes not only the object of the conspiracy, but its successful achievement of the conspiracy’s primary purpose. The object never was that Trump would ultimately be prosecuted for crimes he was framed for. Rather, this was always about the narrative and the press- something that the indictment stresses again and again.
The Clinton Campaign wanted a friendly press not only to publish the fake narrative, but they needed the reporting to allude to the criminal or national security investigation by the FBI and other agencies.
The fact of such an investigation served two ends: The narrative would have more gravitas, thereby casting Trump in a hugely suspicious light, and the fact of an investigation gave the press they may have needed to publish the uncorroborated reports.
Durham’s indictment skillfully lays out this plan, and it places Sussmann at the center of inducing The FBI to launch an investigation, and then to immediately carry the fact of the investigation to a compliant press.
This was not a one-man show, which is why there are many in Washington who are not sleeping very well right now.
https://twitter.com/KingMakerFT/status/1439244636602646532
Sweet stories, thanks for sharing.
Heartbreaking to watch.
Sweet memories.
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