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ICE, FBI, local police breaking into a house 4 doors away, gossip is that it's an ICE raid. Walked by, told a local cop to stay safe, he said thanks. Farming community, LOTs of field workers here every year for over 100 years.

I really don't know why I'm posting this. Perhaps it's just venting, or a lack of ears and a heavy sadness. Therapy, perhaps, or possibly a couple of beers. My bird - African Gray, "Puffer" - had an event tonight just before I arrived home. I noticed immediately that something was wrong when I opened the door: He greeted me whenever I entered the room - morning & night - and serenaded me when I was out of the room. Despite the species' intelligence & strong vocabulary, his go-to word was "Hello" and he used it smartly. It was oddly...

Very surprised and disappointed that Governor Abbott failed to sign a bill that would have stopped having "Cannabis" legal in Texas.and millions of pot shops popping up on every street corner. Not to mention all the crime that goes hand and hand with weed legalization.

🏧🍿🛜🇮🇱🇮🇷🍿🏧🇮🇷🚥🍿🏧🛜 https://t.me/beholdisraelchannel/58112 Iran is over 60 hours without internet.the regime is afraid! https://t.me/beholdisraelchannel/58112

https://t.me/beholdisraelchannel/58021 China is reexamining its investments in Iran following the escalation . Two senior Chinese scholars, Niu Xinchun and Zou Zhiqiang, have warned that the escalation of Israeli attacks on Iranian infrastructure is endangering China's economic interests in the country. According to them, the damage to civilian sites such as ports, energy facilities and industrial sites creates an immediate need to evacuate civilians and reassess the course of economic cooperation. So far, about 1,600 Chinese citizens have been evacuated from Iran, at the initiative of the Chinese Embassy in Tehran. According to estimates, there are currently between a few thousand...

Original joke by me What was the radio call sign used by the IDF for a successful surprise strike on Iran? "Torah,Torah,Torah"

America cannot survive if it continues to fund The killing of innocent preborn babies. In the Bible, a lot of smiting of nations happens for just this reason. The Big Beautiful Bill is not perfect, but it must be passed. I hope there will be amendments that will decrease spending and the deficit and fix all of the other things that people object to in the bill, but all of these are secondary and can be addressed in the future. Our great ship is beginning to turn. Who would have ever thought that the Supreme Court would be required to...

Not a big deal, but just a bit surprised at how little we see Ambassador Huckabee on TV during this Iran mess. I mean I see the Israeli Ambassador to the US, many Israeli leaders (military and civilian), and even Trey Yingst….lol…all the time. Just wondered about why our Ambassador is keeping such a low profile.

Evil vs Israel Ephesians 6:4 (King James Version) And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. All of the sudden the world is back to the days of king David and the Philistines with Israel and Iran. Of course, Iran was Persia although it is the same fight between the Arabs and the Jews. It is just this time it seems like there is not much unity between Iran and the rest of the Arab world as they have finally worn out their welcome and the Arabs...

Dear Freepers After almost 25 years of freerepublic.com being a rare bastion of sanity in this crazy world, I will be ending my time as a member of this once great site. The quality of FR has degraded to the point that I no longer find much usage for the site that I can’t find on other platforms and sources. I have had multiple conversations with many freepers, both in the forum and privately and many of them agree with some of my points of contention: A) The primary reason I am leaving is the failure of FR to address...

Think about that! The left has never had such a battle. Because they've had pantywaists as opponents. No longer.

One normally does not figure anything good can come out of a riot and the destruction but there may be some good here. There are thousands of rioters at these events. President Trump has sent in two thousand national guardsmen to assist ICE and DHS. Many of the rioters are illegal aliens. Now would be a good time for the national guardsmen to make a huge number of arrests under the insurrection act. They may be able to scoop up a thousand or more illegal aliens at one time, detain and deport them. That would be quite a catch. Rinse...

Women are rising in western society in all spheres of life. In the picture above North Melbourne defender and co-vice captian Nicole "Flash" Bresnehan points her fellow players to move forward attacking the goal. If the rise in women means a rise in misandry, then men should be very very concerned. But if it means better sharing and caring, we will all be better off. And when it means that football is becoming more beautiful, more collaborative and more impassioned, then I love seeing the shared leadership of women like Flash.

Not sure what to make of this, perhaps people more knowledgeable about computers than I can add some insight: I opened up my Lenovo laptop, I had not shut it down over night, just closed the screen. I could faintly hear music and some background noise. It sounded as if I was listening to a phone, that had been left off the hook with the line open. I had no programs running. I then shut down and restarted. Problem went away. I do subscribe to a computer help system that has in the past come into my computer to resolve...

In politics, they say you want your people all peeing out of the tent rather than into it. In this context, there is a case to be made for assigning Elon Musk a new task to keep his mind off the budget and keep him focused and on point. Here is the assignment. Give him a contract to develop the desalination technology that will increase the habitable size of the USA by one-third and double the habitable size of the Earth. This can be achieved by collapsing the cost of desalinating seawater to roughly $ 200 per acre-foot. (That would...

Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!

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We spent decades kicking that rusted can, telling ourselves the road would hold if we just bought more time. But now the can is gone. It rusted through, crumbled into dust. The road behind is littered with the ruins of old promises, and ahead lies a choice.No easy paths. No shortcuts.One direction follows the same broken trail, it feels familiar, but hollow. The other, a quieter road through unknowns, dappled with light but demanding more of us.This isn't just a political moment. It's a human one.Some will see this image as the common man. Others might see the last leader...

I have been using this TP-Link router for 9 years. In the beginning years, it ran without any problems or freezes. Last 6 months, it froze once every day like clockwork. Every morning I had to reboot by unplugging and plugging power. Usually it only froze once every day. On rare occasions it froze twice in a day but that was rare. I was getting ready to buy a new one thinking it is just getting old.. But.... Strangely, during last two weeks it has not frozen or crashed even once! Nothing has changed. Same PC's and phones and security...

I loved Top Gun Maverick. I know this one is not as good, but is it still worth seeing at the movies?