I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
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There's a measles outbreak in the western part of our state. On the news they announced that anyone who had been in a Walmart in a certain town from 2:00-5:00 on Saturday was exposed. It also said that children and staff who haven't been vaccinated at 3 different schools in that town are now banned from coming to school for three weeks. I HOPE the seriousness of the situation will get through some thick skulls.
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I sure hope so as well, Ruth. I heard on our news that a case has been reported in Missouri which is just across the river f rom us. In fact many people from here (south central Illinois) go to work in Missouri everyday. There may have already been a report in Illinois as well, I'm not sure.
I haven't heard anything to date about anyone kept out of school but your state apparently has a fair amt. of children who haven't been protected by vaccine. That is so sad to do to children. Still hard to imagine in this day and age with so much information available that people choose to believe the un-scientific versions of childhood vaccinations — while most of the adults who do choose the erroneous version are likely fully vaccinated.
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To share some good news, my online store is live! It's a specialty shop for women who had a UMX without mound reconstruction. The Mods don't allow self-promotion, which I totally get - otherwise we'd be inundated with Etsy links from everyone and their aunt Carol. But if you're curious, they have given me the ok to share the URL if you DM me.
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Good luck with your store.
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TThat's awesome, miriandra! I had a lumpectomy, but would love to look at your store. If I run across someone that it would help, I'd love to send them your way.
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Trials, temptations, disappointments--all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering of temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
James Buckham
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Absolutely. Listening to a stone-cold loony while he bears no relationship at all to the world at large or Canada in particular.
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Never had one.
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BREAKING: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney humiliates Donald Trump inside the Oval Office by telling him to his face that Canada will "never" be "for sale" despite his imperialist fantasies.
This is what an expert diplomat sounds like in action...
"Mr. President you have said that Canada should become the 51st state, any thoughts?" asked a reporter during a meeting between the two leaders.
"No, no, well I still believe that but you know takes two to tango right? But no I do. I mean I believe it would be a massive tax cut for the Canadian citizens, uh, you get free military," said Trump.
"You get tremendous medical cares and other things," he continued. "There would be a lot of, uh, advantages but it would be a massive tax cut and it's also a beautiful... You know as a real estate developer — you know I'm a real estate developer at heart — when you get rid of that artificially drawn line... Somebody drew that line many years ago with a like a ruler, just a straight line right across the top of the country."
"When you look at that beautiful formation when it's together. I'm a very artistic person but when I looked at that— I said that's the way it was meant to be," said Trump. "But you know it, uh, I just do feel it's much better for Canada."
"But we're not going to be discussing that unless somebody wants to discuss it," he rambled on. "I think that there are tremendous benefits to the Canadian citizens, tremendously lower taxes, free military which honestly we give you essentially anyway because we're protecting Canada if you ever had a problem but, uh, you know it's, uh, it would really be a wonderful marriage because it's... It's two places that get along very well, they like each other a lot."
"Well if I may, as you know from real estate there are some places that are never for sale," said Carney.
"That's true," admitted Trump.
"We're sitting in one right now, you know Buckingham Palace you visited as well," said Carney.
"That's true," said Trump again.
"And having met with the owners of Canada over the course of the campaign last several months, it's not for sale, won't be for sale ever, but the opportunity is in the partnership and what we can build together," said Carney.
Carney recently won his country's election, in part because widespread backlash against Trump drove voters away from the conservative candidate.
"And we have done that in the past and part of that as the president just said is with respect to our own security and my government is committed for a step change in our investment in Canadian security and our partnership," said Carney.
"And I'll say this as well, that the president has revitalized international security, revitalized NATO, and us playing our full weight in NATO and that will be part of it," he added, flattering Trump's ego to get what he wants.
"I must say, Canada is stepping up the military, uh, participation because, Mark knew, you know, they were low and that's a very important thing but never say never! Never say never," said Trump.
This is how you deal with an egomaniacal ignoramus like Trump: put your foot down hard on the issues that matter, then smooth things over with some meaningless positive affirmations. It's like soothing a toddler who needs to be put to bed.
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BREAKING: Democratic star Congresswoman Ilhan Omar incinerates MAGA Vice President J.D. Vance after he attempts to shamelessly smear her by misrepresenting an old video clip of her.
He thought that he was scoring cheap points but it backfired beautifully...
"This isn’t just sick; it’s actually genocidal language. What a disgrace this person is," Vance wrote on X in response to a truncated clip of an interview Omar did with Al Jazeera seven years ago.
The clip was shared by the far-right provocateur account "LibsOfTikTok" and was stripped of context in a pathetic attempt to make Omar seem bigoted.
In it, Omar said that: "Our country should be more fearful of white men across our country because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country."
She added that the government should be "profiling, monitoring, and creating policies to fight the radicalization of white men," a perfectly reasonable suggestion given the sharp rise of white nationalist violence and right-wing mass shooters.
A 2021 report from the Anti-Defamation League backs up Omar's claim, stating that 73% of right-wing extremist-related killings over the past decade were carried out by white supremacists.
Omar quickly put Vance in his place—
"In this nearly 8yr old clip, I am referring to the rise of white nationalism in an annual report issued by the Anti-Defamation League that said white supremacists were responsible for 78 percent of ‘extremist-related murders,’" Omar replied to Vance on X.
"PS you should look up what 'genocidal' actually means when you’re actively supporting a genocide taking place in Gaza," she added.
It's what they always do. If you don't have something — go back far enough to manufacture something. Vance is an idiot just like the orange one.
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Put on your hip waders:
BREAKING: Donald Trump lets loose a deranged old man rant as the American economy craters, pronounces that "I'm the shopkeeper and I keep the store!" about his disastrous tariffs.
If the United States is a store, it's about to go out of business. We can already picture the Spirit Halloween banner going up over the White House...
During a press conference, a reporter asked Trump if he will be announcing any "deals" with foreign nations later this week.
"Well, I could announce all of them now. I could announce fifty to a hundred deals right now because I'm the shopkeeper and I keep the store!" replied Trump.
Of course, if there really were deals to announce Trump would do so. His popularity is plummeting and he needs a quick win. Instead, he's steering us even deeper into economic crisis.
"You know, I know what countries are looking for and I know what we're looking for and I can just set those terms and they can go shopping or they don't have to go shopping, because everybody wants to shop here," Trump went on.
"This is like a beautiful store. This is like one of Bernard Arnault's or maybe I should say Alex even more importantly. Young, the future," said Trump, pointing to the billionaire owner of LVMH. "But Bernard it's an honor to have you, we're having a meeting after this, uh, but he has the greatest stores in the world and they want to shop."
"Our country is the greatest store in the world of that kind and everybody wants a piece of it and they took advantage of us for years because we allowed presidents... Our presidents allowed it to happen. You know I don't blame China," Trump added.
It should be readily apparent to anyone with even the most rudimentary understanding of politics and economics, but the United States is not a store. We rely on the flow of trade with our allies to grow our GDP and wealth. When that flow is cut off — like it has been by the Trump tariffs — companies are forced to lay off workers, consumer prices skyrocket, and the stock market crashes.
As usual, this is just meaningless bluster from Trump meant to distract from his historic failure of an administration. Last week he claimed that he had already hammered out "200 deals" but has yet to produce evidence of a single one.
The truth is that there are no deals, there is no plan, and there is no reason to support this disgrace of a president.
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BREAKING: Donald Trump and his White House are hit with devastating news as Occupy Democrats launches the premiere episode of its new podcast, The Occupy Democrats Show, which will be dedicated to “exposing the Trump Administration unprecedented criminality, corruption, and incompetence — as well as to holding every single complicit Republican member of Congress accountable — through hard-hitting breaking news and analysis.”
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BREAKING: Donald Trump gets crushing news as a second federal judge rules that he exceeded his presidential authority by exploiting the Alien Enemies Act to mass deport people to a "notoriously evil jail" in El Salvador.
This judge really didn't hold back tearing into the fascist MAGA regime...
U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein of the Southern District of New York said that the law in question can only be used when there is a declared war or if the United States is actually experiencing an invasion. Despite Trump's bombastic rhetoric, undocumented migration does not meet that criteria.
The so-called evidence proving that "that [Tren de Aragua] has engaged in either a ‘war,’ ‘invasion’ or a ‘predatory incursion’ of the United States, do not exist" wrote the judge.
"There is nothing in the AEA that justifies a finding that refugees migrating from Venezuela, or TdA gangsters who infiltrate the migrants, are engaged in an ‘invasion;’ or ‘predatory incursion,’" he continued.
"They do not seek to occupy territory, to oust American jurisdiction from any territory, or to ravage territory. TdA may well be engaged in narcotics trafficking, but that is a criminal matter, not an invasion or predatory incursion," Hellerstein went on.
"Thus, I find that the Presidential Proclamation exceeds the scope of the AEA," he added.
Hellerstein also sharply criticized the Trump administration for executing its deportations with "no mention [to migrants] of an indefinite detention in a foreign jail hired by the United States" with only "faint hope of process or return."
He pointed to a ruling by the Supreme Court demanding that migrants be given adequate warning before deportation under the AEA.
"The notice is a fleeting affair, for if the alien fails to express an intent to file a petition for habeas relief within a dozen hours of being served … or to actually file a petition within another 24-hour period, ICE ‘may proceed with removal,’" he wrote.
"And even if an alien files for habeas relief, Respondents state that they still may deport him if the court does not grant a temporary restraining order, or takes too long to conduct the proceeding," he continued.
"Respondents’ proposal for notice is insufficient under the AEA, the Supreme Court’s ruling … and Constitutional due process," the judge added.
Not done there, he slammed the conditions at the infamous El Salvadoran prison known as CECOT that's being used to house deportees.
"The destination, El Salvador, a country paid to take our aliens, is neither the country from which the aliens came, nor to which they wish to be removed. But they are taken there, and there to remain, indefinitely, in a notoriously evil jail, unable to communicate with counsel, family or friends," wrote Hellerstein.
"Here, absent a preliminary injunction, Petitioners would be removed from the United States to CECOT, where they would endure abuse and inhumane treatment with no recourse to bring them back. If that is not irreparable harm, what is?" he asked
Just last week, a federal judge in Texas came to a similar conclusion about Trump's unlawful use of the AEA, saying that it could not be exploited to target a gang. At this point, Trump is in open defiance of the courts and should be impeached for his criminal behavior.
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Donnie Two-Dolls a legend in his own mind.
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One of my huge favorites. I'm still devasted by his loss. I almost never missed a program.
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True as ever.
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