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Jan of the Windmill, by Juliana Horatia Ewing https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5601/5601-h/5601-h.htm JAN OF THE WINDMILL. A Story of the Plains. BY THE LATEJULIANA HORATIA EWING.AUTHOR OF “SIX TO SIXTEEN;” “FLAT IRON FOR A FARTHING;”“MRS. OVERTHEWAY’S REMEMBRANCES,” ETC. WITH ELEVEN ILLUSTRATIONS BY MRS. W. ALLINGHAM(HELEN PATERSON). FIFTH EDITION LONDON: GEORGE BELL & SONS, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1890. DedicatedTO MY DEAR SISTER MARGARET.J. H. E. CONTENTS. PAGECHAPTER I.THE WINDMILLER’S WIFE.—STRANGERS.—TEN SHILLINGS A WEEK.—THE LITTLE JAN.1CHAPTER II.THE MILLER’S CALCULATIONS.—HIS HOPES AND FEARS.—THE NURSE-BOY.—CALM.14CHAPTER III.THE WINDMILLER’S WORDS COME TRUE.—THE RED SHAWL.—IN THE CLOUDS.—NURSING V. PIG-MINDING.—THE ROUND-HOUSE.—THE MILLER’S THUMB.20CHAPTER IV.BLACK AS SLANS.—VAIR AND VOOLISH.—THE MILLER AND...

We wuz everybody, apparently. Vikings, Samurai, Native Americans, Shakespeare — all of it. The greatest identity theft in history, presented as scholarship, swallowed by people with the IQ of a shoe. This is the “Collect Them All Edition” of WeWuzzery, where Erik the Red turns into Erik the Black, the Bard of Avon becomes the Bard of Abuja, and the Olmec heads get drafted into the Congo.

President Donald Trump on Thursday said Democrats have given him an “unprecedented opportunity” to slash federal agencies, signaling plans to harm his political opponents during the two-day-old government shutdown while blaming them for causing it.Trump’s warning came a day after his administration froze about $18 billion for two major infrastructure projects in New York City and canceled roughly $8 billion more for climate-related projects in Democratic-leaning states.

German prosecutors say police recovered an AK-47, several pistols and ammo intended to be used in deadly attacks on Israeli or Jewish institutionsGerman police arrested three men they suspect of preparing a serious attack against Jewish targets in Germany for Hamas, prosecutors said on Wednesday, a week before the second anniversary of the Palestinian Islamist terror group’s attack on Israel. Prosecutors suspect the three men of being foreign operatives for Hamas and of being involved in procuring firearms and ammunition to be used for assassinations targeting Israeli or Jewish institutions in Germany, they said. “In the course of today’s arrests,...

Well, that didn’t take long. The much-anticipated October Surprise in this year’s Virginia state elections arrived - like clockwork - yesterday. October 1. And it was ugly news for the Jay Jones campaign. He’s the Democrat candidate for Attorney General who’s in a tight race with incumbent Attorney General Jason Miyares. Turns out that at about 1 a.m. on Friday, January 21, 2022, Jones was clocked doing 116 mph in a 70 zone on I-64 in New Kent County.

The FBI is ending its partnership with the left-wing Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Director Kash Patel announced on Wednesday. The move comes after the organization got busted labeling Turning Point USA as an “extremist” group. “James Comey disgraced the FBI by writing ‘love letters’ to the ADL and embedding agents with an extreme group functioning like a terrorist organization and the disgraceful operation they ran spying on Americans. That was not law enforcement, it was activism dressed up as counterterrorism, and it put Americans in danger,” Patel said in a statement. “That era is finished. This FBI formally rejects Comey’s policies...

If Democrats were to succeed in their funding proposal, parolees — still illegal aliens in any common-sense understanding — would gain access to federal health care benefits.The federal government shut down on Wednesday after Democrats refused to vote on a clean continuing resolution to keep the government funded for the next seven weeks. When Republicans pointed out that Democrats were unwilling to vote to fund the government without restoring health care eligibility for illegal aliens, the media and other Democrats jumped into action, “fact-checking” Republicans and claiming that wasn’t true. These “fact checks” rely on the ludicrous claim that foreign...

Pope Leo XIV criticized those who question the prevailing narrative on climate change during a recent gathering in Rome.The pontiff slammed those who “ridicule those who speak of global warming” and affirmed the efforts of his predecessor, Pope Francis, according to The Guardian.Leo presided over the 10th-anniversary celebration of Francis’s landmark ecological encyclical, Laudato Si (Praised Be), at a global gathering south of Rome. The encyclical cast care for the planet as an urgent and existential moral concern and launched a global grassroots movement to advocate for caring for God’s creation and the peoples most harmed by its exploitation.Leo told...

I am a Christian nationalist. In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s worshipful memorial service, the political left has predictably busied itself with slander, labeling the event “Christian Nationalism’s biggest moment” or even a Nazi rally. Neither of these heinous descriptions are accurate. The Babylon Bee satirically mocked these claims with the headline “Nazi Rally Inspires Millions to Forgive And Love Their Enemies.” Indeed, Erika Kirk’s public and emotionally charged forgiveness of her husband’s murderer was one of the most powerful redemptive moments of our time. It’s now undeniable that the Left aims to label everyday conservative Christians who are politically...

Is the U.S. Constitution worth preserving? Of course it is. Is it worth defending, even at the cost of life and limb? Of course it is. Is it worth distributing to young and old, including in our schools? Of course it is. Well, actually, not everybody agrees with that last part. Here is a two-year-old story that somehow escaped wide attention. It’s still relevant today because many of our elites likewise have a low view of the Constitution. The essence of the story is this: In a liberal school board in Texas two Septembers ago, attempts to distribute pocket copies...

Despite being Jewish, I am a fan of the Catholic Church, as all students of history and lovers of the West should be. Despite missteps over the two thousand years of its existence (as must be true of all human institutions), the Church has been a positive force in the world. After all, beginning in 33 AD, the Church laid the foundation for the best of Western society.Sadly, the current Pope doesn’t seem to be as big a fan of the Church as I am, given how he’s systematically gnawing away at its core values. His latest assault is a...

The federal case against Gabriel Metcalf in Billings, Montana, under the federal Gun Free School Zone Act of 1990 (GFSZ), has been resolved in Metcalf’s favor. In a split decision, the three-judge panel on the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ordered the case remanded to the district court and has ordered the case dismissed. From the Summary by Judge VanDyke (purchased on PACER account): The panel reversed the district court’s order denying Gabriel Cowan Metcalf’s motion to dismiss an indictment charging him with possessing firearms within 1,000 feet of a school in violation of the Gun-Free School...

Harvard University has recently hired a visiting professor in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality department whose alter ego is a drag queen who goes by the name of “LaWhore Vagistan.” The department announced in July it is bringing on Kareem Khubchandani to teach classes on “Queer Ethnography” and “RuPaulitics: Drag, Race, and Desire.” Khubchandani has an extensive career in drag queen performance and is committed to bringing “the nightclub to the classroom, and vice versa, teaching critical race, postcolonial, and gender theory through lipsync and lecture.” “I am an educator, scholar, and performer invested in feminist, queer, and trans everyday-aesthetics,...

Left-wing activists in the West display an extraordinary tendency toward cognitive dissonance. They are able to firmly believe in mutually exclusive assertions. Such people often refuse to acknowledge the contradiction between their various beliefs. Thus it is that homosexual activists in Europe and in the U.S. join public demonstrations of sympathy for Islamic terrorists who routinely kill homosexuals for the Islamic crime of being homosexual. I remember when such an absurdity was a joke worthy of a comical movie. Now, it’s a tragic reality. In a video online there is an example of an activist who was hoping to...

More than 800 illegal immigrants have been rounded up and arrested by federal police from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Border Patrol during a September operation targeting Illinois and Chicago. The Department of Homeland Security announced on Wednesday afternoon that federal agents and officers deployed to the blue state as part of Operation Midway Blitz since Sept. 8 have arrested more than 800 people illegally residing in the United States. "The Trump Administration will not allow violent criminals or repeat offenders to terrorize our neighborhoods or victimize our children and innocent Americans," DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin...

All this talk about redrawing congressional districts overlooks the big picture. In other words, the census will end up doing in 2030 what some GOP state legislatures are trying to do before 2026. This is from Tom Rogers:Much has been written about the various attempts to create more Republican House districts through extreme gerrymandering. This column recently discussed a pending Supreme Court case that could strike down the Voting Rights Act’s remedy of creating majority-minority districts and result in the creation of even more Republican House seats.However, none of these actions affect presidential elections, which are decided in the Electoral...

The irony couldn’t be richer. Just a day after we learned that President Joe Biden needed palm cards with pictures to recognize Pritzker and other key Democrats, Pritzker said Tuesday that it’s Trump who has dementia and should be removed from office. But the hypocrisy is still richer still because Pritzker played a big role in the scandalous coverup of Biden’s mental decline. Pritzker, while serving as a proxy for Biden, frequently and firmly attested to Biden’s mental health. Pritzker became vicious about it, attempting to smear a respected special prosecutor for concluding the Biden was too impaired to stand...

Rahm Emanuel gave the world a simple truth about politics when he wrote, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.” Obama the Goof was pretty good at it. In Trump’s second presidency, has mastered this. He used emergencies to shut down the border, lay heavy tariffs on trade cheats and to turn DC into a clean capital worthy of hosting world leaders at the White House. Trump now is using the government shutdown to do what people...

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🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(10/2/25)[Prayer]Water, Rivers, and Streams in the BibleJudges 12:1-7Jephthah and Ephraim 12 The Ephraimite forces were called out, and they crossed over to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, “Why did you go to fight the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? We’re going to burn down your house over your head.” 2 Jephthah answered, “I and my people were engaged in a great struggle with the Ammonites, and although I called, you didn’t save me out of their hands. 3 When I saw that you wouldn’t help, I took my life in my...