Posted on 08/31/2025 9:08:15 PM PDT by ransomnote
I can see the Appalachians from our back deck.
Don’t know the elevation here but its hilly, not flat a’tall.
My father worked in Iceland for the DOD after WW2 and married a native Icelander. I was born and raised there and attended the American DOD school on the US Airbase until I graduated in 1971. So I lived in Iceland for 18 continuous years.
BREAKING: YouTube has just agreed to PAY $24.5 MILLION to settle a lawsuit filed due to the banning of President Trump!
EVERY CENSOR MUST PAY!
There are COUNTLESS more who ILLEGALLY censored conservatives for YEARS! pic.twitter.com/HZkRc3RSzE— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) September 29, 2025
In your prior post, you made the point that it is common practice to interview the true target of the investigation last, "That way the prosecution knows all of the answers before the perp is asked the questions."
If I combine your observation with Patel's recent remarks before the House Oversight Committee in which he said prior administrations (Bush, Obam, Biden) did nothing about Epstein so President Trump brought 'new charges' in the Epstein case, then it seems the 'new charges' were RICO. The charges had to be new because corrupt Bush era attorney Alex Acosta's plea deal protected all involved in Epstein from further prosecution.
RICO charges would explain why Bush era AG, Alberto Gonzales, and all AG's since then were also subpoenaed to appear before Cormer's House Oversight Committee throughout August and September.
- Department of Justice Records: August 19
- Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr: August 18
- Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales: August 26
- Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions: August 28
- Former FBI Director Robert Mueller: September 2
- Former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch: September 9
- Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder: September 30
- Former U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland: October 2
- Former FBI Director James Comey: October 7
- Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: October 9
- Former President Bill Clinton: October 14
The hearings are private and the MSM is complicit, so when Patel said President Trump filed 'new charges' against Epstein, none of the MSM asked what those charges were. After all the rage-press the MSM devoted to accusing President Trump of 'hiding' Epstein files, the MSM did not ask, "What new charges did Trump file re Epstein. Nor did the MSM alert the public that Bill/Hillary are to testify regarding Epstein. The MSM is leading the public to believe this is all just President Trump revenging himself, when it is actually President Trump following through to get justice for us.
So the battle is on; Congress wants to shut down and NATO is threatening war, all to prevent exposure of the Epstein case and the Clintons' involvement.
The Jeffrey Epstein Story Begins and Ends with the Clintons
Front Page Magazine ^ | July 15, 2025 | Daniel GreenfieldPosted on 7/15/2025, 12:49:15 PM by Red Badger
Who Really Backed Epstein
Front Page Magazine ^ | July 17, 2025 | Daniel GreenfieldPosted on 7/16/2025, 7:20:10 PM by E. Pluribus Unum
The name not yet mentioned: Obama. Based on your observation about moving from the bottom to the top, I'd say Obama is the top of this toxic pyramid.
Sorry to report that I had to take that Fainting Couch to the dump after FReepers caused me to collapse on it one too many times....
‘Oh Noes’ Bigg Red!
Umm, *Phrasing*.
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They are laughing at you because, what we take as civil discourse or disagreement they, being third world savages, take as weakness. Plus if you are a woman they’d ignore or attack you. And most airport authorities are an arm of the liberal big cities that they are part so don’t expect any action by them.
Until the citizens rise up and push back the Islamic pestulence will continue its advance.
Amazing!
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Here is one. This actually had such an impact on the oil and airline industries that it made the front page of Time Magazine. It had a dramatic impact on the Simplex method used in Linear Programming.
A “Karmarkar transportation problem” refers to using Karmarkar’s algorithm—a powerful interior-point method for linear programming—to solve a transportation problem, which involves minimizing costs to transport goods from sources to destinations. Karmarkar’s algorithm, unlike the simplex method, moves through the interior of the feasible region using projective transformations rather than moving along the edges. While Karmarkar originally presented the algorithm for general linear programs, it can be applied to transportation problems as they are a specific type of linear program
President Trump is going to gain a lot of political capital if this peace deal is a success and he’s probably going to need it for the month of October.
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Any connection to “puppy bowl”?
Good point!
I do remember some serious discussions about this problem in class.
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Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
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In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Q ~ Trust Trump's Plan ~ 09/01/2025 Vol.511, Q Day 2866, KittenClaws wrote: LOL! Sorry to report that I had to take that Fainting Couch to the dump after FReepers caused me to collapse on it one too many times....
NOOOOOOOooooooooo!!!!! I've been waiting in line too long! I'm next!
The couch can't be gone! IT CAN'T BE! I am, after all, the biggest victim of them all!!!
*sound of body hitting the floor on top of the cat dish*
*sound of angry cat*
https://jihadwatch.org/2025/09/indonesia-muslims-storm-church-during-worship-service-force-christians-to-disperse
Indonesia: Muslims storm church during worship service, force Christians to disperse
Jakarta (AsiaNews) – A group of at least 20 self-styled Islamic fundamentalists stormed a shop-house (a building common in Southeast Asia, used for both commercial and residential purposes) and forcibly dispersed the faithful of the Bethel Indonesia Church (Gbi) in the middle of a religious service.
https://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/09/we-cant-debate-our-way-out-of-this.html
Charlie Kirk died for the same cause that David Horowitz was assaulted for, that Robert Spencer was banned for, and that Ben Shapiro faced bomb threats for: free speech on campus.
In an academic environment where a respected 74-year-old scholar like Charles Murray could be physically assaulted at a college while the perpetrators walked away with a ‘mark’ on their permanent record, the willingness of conservatives to appear on campus was an act of courage.
https://jihadwatch.org/2025/09/dearborns-muslim-mayor-refuses-to-apologize-for-telling-christian-pastor-he-was-not-welcome-in-the-city
Dearborn’s Muslim mayor refuses to apologize for telling Christian pastor he was not welcome in the city
At Dearborn, Michigan’s first city council meeting since his clash with a local Christian minister went viral after a heated exchange over a controversial honorary street sign naming, Mayor Abdullah Hammoud declined to apologize for his saying the minister was “not welcome here” and that he would “launch a parade” when he left town.
https://jihadwatch.org/2025/09/how-foreign-criminals-in-the-uk-avoid-deportation
How Foreign Criminals in the UK Avoid Deportation
…Abdul Ahmadzai is currently appealing deportation. Having fled across the Channel post-conviction for raping a 14-year-old girl in France, Ahmadzai is now represented by a lawyer concerned about Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights: “No one shall be subjected to torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”
According to Ahmadzai’s lawyer, there is the very “real risk” that his client could be “detained in a space fewer [sic] than three metres squared” if he were sent back to Paris.
https://jihadwatch.org/2025/09/after-recognition-of-palestine-hamas-executes-three-men-before-crowd-cheering-and-screaming-allahu-akbar
After recognition of ‘Palestine,’ Hamas executes three men before crowd cheering and screaming ‘Allahu akbar’
These bloodthirsty jihadi savages know that there is nothing they can do that will shake the international left’s love for them.
What Prime Minister Albanese, Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong and other like-minded politicians in Europe and Canada don’t seem to understand is that by recognising a non-existent Palestinian State they have encouraged even more brutality from Hamas and other terrorist groups.
https://jihadwatch.org/2025/09/uk-police-arrest-autistic-man-in-the-middle-of-the-night-for-post-fk-hamas-fk-islam-on-social-media
UK police arrest autistic man in the middle of the night for posting ‘f**k Hamas, f**k Islam’ on social media
“British police officers have been accused of acting like the ‘Stasi of East Germany,’” but the British police are actually nothing like the Stasi. The Stasi was acting in the interests of East Germany. The British police are the muscle of a traitor class that is bent on destroying Britain.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, North said: ‘I’m disgusted by the police, because they could have done this in an orderly, civil way, but they chose maximum intrusion, and it was essentially [being treated like] an act of terrorism.
‘They were trying to find evidence that I had intended to stir up racial hate with it. Which is unbelievable. It’s crass. The meme itself is a controversial sentiment, but controversial is not illegal, and it happens to be my opinion.’
North has since been release on unconditional bail until December 21 but said the tweet in question is still ‘a sentiment I wholly endorse’.
He added: ‘I’m quite shaken by the whole thing right now. I’ve not slept and I’m not likely to. I’ve always known my tweets were a bit spicy but to be snatched by a goon squad at night for a “F*** Hamas” meme is just breathtakingly outrageous and absurd.
‘My wife was mortified. She was left alone after I was snatched out of the house and she was in bits, but she is very stoic and she is my rock.’
https://jihadwatch.org/2025/09/uk-doctor-who-wrote-i-dont-condemn-hamas-i-dont-condemn-oct-7-can-continue-to-practice-medicine
UK: Doctor who wrote ‘I don’t condemn Hamas, I don’t condemn Oct. 7’ can continue to practice medicine
What if she has Jewish patients? Does the MPTS care about them?
A British doctor under investigation for hundreds of antisemitic social media posts, including calls for the ethnic cleansing of Jews, has been allowed to continue practicing while the General Medical Council, the body that regulates doctors in the UK, investigates her conduct.
Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan, a trauma and orthopedics specialist and former member of Palestine Action before its proscription as a terrorist organization, is at the center of one of the latest cases of antisemitic hatred within the UK’s health-care system.
https://jihadwatch.org/2025/09/the-idf-continues-to-strike-gaza-city
The IDF Continues to Strike Gaza City
The IDF continues to pound Gaza City, as the campaign there is now at its most intense. In the latest 24-period, from September 24 to September 25, the IDF struck 170 separate targets in the city, as well as targets further south, in the cities of Rafah and Khan Yunis. And along with its destruction of so many weapons, rocket launchers, outposts, tunnels, and Hamas combatants, the IDF has managed to empty Gaza City of two-thirds of its occupants — 670,000 inhabitants out of the one million who were in Gaza City just before the latest IDF assault — have fled the city, now a war zone, and are moving to the “designated safe area” of Al-Mawasi in the south, a feat that no one thought it would be possible for the Israelis to achieve.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/tylenol-fda-knew-about-autism-risk-years-emails-show/
Tylenol, FDA Knew About Autism Risk For Years, Newly Surfaced Emails Show
Emails obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation show that as long ago as 2008, officials at Johnson & Johnson, the original maker of Tylenol, were privately concerned about what they believed to be credible evidence of a possible link between autism and acetaminophen. The FDA was also aware of the link.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/rfk-jr-rejects-united-nations-health-goals-ignore-global-rise-chronic-disease/
‘Watershed Moment’: RFK Jr. Rejects UN Health Goals, Says They ‘Ignore’ Global Rise in Chronic Disease
The U.S. rejected the U.N. declaration on noncommunicable diseases, claiming its goals are weak and insufficient. In a speech last week to the U.N., U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned the declaration ignores the role of ultraprocessed foods in the global rise in chronic disease and lets industry off the hook.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-long-history-data-manipulation-alive-well-even-under-rfk-jr/
CDC’s Long History of Data Manipulation Is Alive and Well, Even Under RFK Jr.
The CDC has a long way to go to overcome its history of corruption and scientific misconduct, despite U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s efforts to demand full transparency and evidence-based decision-making, according to Dr. Peter Gøtzsche. Gøtzsche breaks down examples that illustrate how the agency’s deception is not a thing of the past.
The CDC has claimed, for example, that influenza vaccines reduce hospitalizations and mortality even though the randomized trials did not find this. The CDC did not provide a single comment that its claims were based on deeply flawed case-control studies.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfas-cover-up-decades-corporate-deceit-chemical-contamination/
The PFAS Cover-Up: Decades of Corporate Deceit and Chemical Contamination
PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” stand out amid the flood of man-made chemical compounds for their persistence, pervasiveness and toxicity. With no safe level of exposure and decades of corporate cover-ups, experts warn that only a blanket ban can prevent these poisons from permanently contaminating all life.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/community/30-cities-one-mission-supporters-rally-to-thank-rfk-jr/
30 Cities, One Mission: Supporters Rally to Thank RFK Jr.
#ThankYouRFK rallies across America were extremely successful this weekend!
Americans who support ending the chronic disease epidemic gathered in over 30 cities to show their support for U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) efforts.
Special thanks to the local Children’s Health Defense chapters across the country who helped to plan and execute these actions.
Over 100 MAHA supporters showed up at Pfizer headquarters in New York City. The New York Times and New York Post showed up to cover the rally. My friend Michael Anthony put together an excellent video of the rally here.
https://x.com/themeatofit/status/1972183977361371447
https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/29/ill-kill-you-right-now-chicago-anti-ice-demonstrator-allegedly-threatened-federal-officers/
‘I’ll … Kill You Right Now’: Chicago Anti-ICE Demonstrator Allegedly Threatened Federal Officers
Paul Ivery allegedly threatened and assaulted a U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) officer outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility near Chicago, Illinois, on Saturday, according to court documents.
While attempting to flee, one officer said Ivery jumped onto a civilian vehicle before being tackled to the ground, the documents show. The two began to tussle, with Ivery allegedly pulling the back of the officer’s helmet down, restricting his movement and vision. The alleged action also caused pain and exposed the officer to pepper spray deployed in the vicinity, according to the court documents.
Ivery was eventually detained by law enforcement.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/29/paul-finebaum-espn-us-senate-republican/
Paul Finebaum, a host and analyst for SEC Network, says that he’s “considering” an exit from ESPN to pursue a U.S. Senate run as a member of the Republican Party.
Speaking in an interview with Clay Travis of OutKick, Finebaum stated the political assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk made him ponder over what really matters in life. Finebaum told Travis that it was tough for him to get through his show after he heard about the killing of Kirk.
“I spent four hours numb talking about things that didn’t matter to me. And it kept building throughout that weekend,” said Finebaum to Travis. “I felt very empty doing what I was doing that day.”
https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/29/anti-ice-protests-target-immigration-facilities-after-dallas-shooting/
ICE-Hating Leftists Target Immigration Facilities In Blue Cities Days After Deadly Dallas Attack
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities in Oregon and Illinois saw chaotic leftist protests over the weekend, days after a deadly shooting targeting immigration agents in Dallas, Texas.
Federal officials tear-gassed, tackled and arrested suspects from screaming crowds of protesters in Portland and Broadview near Chicago, as shown in video footage captured by multiple on-the-ground reporters. The Trump administration has sounded the alarm about rising violence against immigration officials after a shooter opened fire on a Dallas facility on Wednesday, inadvertently killing at least one detainee while targeting ICE agents.
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/youtube-agrees-pay-24-million-settlement-trump-lawsuit-over-suspension
YouTube agrees to pay $24 million settlement in Trump lawsuit over suspension
YouTube is now the final Big Tech company to settle the trio of lawsuits Trump filed against social-media platforms over account suspensions.
https://justthenews.com/government/security/trump-brokers-trilateral-coordination-plans-israel-and-qatar
Trump brokers trilateral coordination plans with Israel and Qatar
Qatar is home to one of the largest American military bases in the region and has hosted ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas.
President Donald Trump on Monday held a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim at Thani to foster closer diplomatic coordination between both nations.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/leavitt-mass-firings-will-occur-if-democrats-allow-shutdown
Leavitt: Mass firings will occur if Democrats allow shutdown
Trump himself has insisted that Democrats seek additional funding to provide health care to illegal immigrants.
https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/watch-live-congressional-leaders-meet-trump-white-house
Trump meeting with Congressional leaders fails to produce a deal that avoids government shutdown
The House has already passed a bill to keep the government funded through late November, but the Senate failed to pass the measure along party lines.
https://bigleaguepolitics.substack.com/p/pentagon-whistleblower-billions-in
Pentagon Whistleblower: Billions in Ukraine Aid “Untraceable”
Internal audits reveal U.S. taxpayer dollars sent overseas are untraceable.
Internal audits show major gaps in oversight of U.S. taxpayer funds.
A Pentagon whistleblower has come forward with explosive claims that billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars sent to Ukraine cannot be properly accounted for, raising fresh concerns about corruption, waste, and America’s role in the conflict.
According to documents obtained by congressional investigators, internal Pentagon audits revealed “major gaps in oversight” of the massive aid packages approved by Congress since 2022. The whistleblower, a senior defense official, testified that weapons shipments, cash transfers, and logistical support worth tens of billions have no clear tracking mechanisms once they cross the border into Eastern Europe.
https://justthenews.com/world/russia-unleashes-drone-missile-attacks-ukraine
Russia unleashes drone-missile attacks on Ukraine
According to Ukraine’s military, Russia launched 595 drones and 48 missiles overnight and air defenses managed to shoot down 568 drones and 43 missiles.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/09/chicago-teachers-union-praises-fugitive-cop-killer-assata-shakur-after-she-passes-away/
Chicago Teachers Union Praises Fugitive Cop Killer Assata Shakur After She Passes Away
“Today we honor the life and legacy of a revolutionary fighter, a fierce writer, a revered elder of Black liberation, and a leader of freedom whose spirit continues to live in our struggle.”
https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/28/indivisible-government-shutdown-chuck-schumer-soros/
Soros-Backed Leftist Group Behind Campaign To Force Government Shutdown
A left-wing activist group that received millions of dollars from the Soros family’s organization is spearheading a pressure campaign to push Democratic senators to vote against funding the government and force a partial shutdown.
Indivisible — the organization behind many of the recent “No Kings” protests and other demonstrations part of the so-called “resistance” against President Donald Trump — has embarked on a recent effort to goad Senate Democrats to not come to a bipartisan funding agreement with their Republican colleagues and the president.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/28/what-would-it-really-take-to-overturn-obergefell/
What Would It Really Take To Overturn Obergefell?
“Gay marriage did that,” Katie Faust, founder of Them Before Us, repeated for the eighth time to an audience at the recent National Conservative Conference.
She wasn’t raising tired talking points about the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges ruling undermining federalism or religious liberty. She was lamenting how gay marriage upended children’s rights.
Voices like Faust’s calling for a reckoning with the effects of Obergefell are increasingly gaining traction among some conservatives. NatCon’s “Overturn Obergefell” panel, which came weeks after the filing of a longshot Supreme Court petition, reflected rising hope that the culture is trending towards reversal.
“The last 10 years have made one thing unmistakably clear,” Faust said. “We can either recognize gay marriage, or we can recognize a child’s right to their mother and father. We can’t do both.”
https://gellerreport.com/2025/09/trump-vows-to-reopen-mental-institutions-their-closure-catastrophic-mistake.html/
Trump Vows to Reopen Mental Institutions, Their Closure “Catastrophic Mistake”.
Trump says he’d consider reopening ‘insane asylums’ to help clean up some of the nation’s biggest cities
The President claimed that America’s streets would be safer if more people are forced into long-term psychiatric care — although he admitted it would be ‘massively expensive’
https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/29/federal-workers-unions-democrats-trump-shutdown-schumer/
Federal Workers’ Unions Say They’ll Accept ‘Severe Hardship’ If They Can Stick It To Trump During Shutdown
Dozens of federal unions say they are prepared to back a government shutdown despite a funding lapse risking severe consequences — including job loss — for their members.
The Federal Unionists Network (FUN) and 35 national, state and local unions sent a letter to top Democratic leaders on Monday urging party leaders to hold the line against a clean GOP spending bill less than 48 hours before the government is set to partially shut down. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has thus far expressed willingness to plunge the country into a government shutdown if the GOP does not agree to his demands — despite the prospect of a new round of firings and federal workers forgoing pay for an indefinite period.
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