I'm a 60 something wife, mom and grandmom who is homebound/disabled by severe hypersensitivity to chemicals. I fill my days with learning, loving and art. My favorite values are truth, generosity and gratitude.
CATHOLIC: Hong Kong has a new law requiring priests to violate the Seal of Confession if they hear a person confess a “crime of treason.” The spiritual consequences of such a violation are far more severe than any worldly government can impose. It seems likely that priests will go into hiding to continue their ministry.
FACEBOOK: Meta sells ad after ad after ad to Chinese scammers posing as disabled American veterans. Complaining doesn’t get them to taken down the ads; it gets them to take down your attempts to expose the scams!
FAUXTUS: During a speech in Milwaukee this week, Dementia Joe bragged, “We have among the lowest inflation rates of any country in America.”
LEFTIES: The Fitzwilliam Museum, owned by the University of Cambridge, has installed signage warning visitors about the dangers of enjoying landscape paintings.
“Paintings showing rolling English hills or lush French fields reinforced loyalty and pride towards a homeland. The darker side of evoking this nationalist feeling is the implication that only those with a historical tie to the land have a right to belong.”
MARIJUANA: A study entitled “Association of Cannabis Use With Cardiovascular Outcomes Among US Adults” was recently published in the Journal of the American Heart Association. In it, researchers report on their analysis of data from over 434,000 patients aged 18 to 74, collected between 2016 and 2020 from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey.
Previous research has linked marijuana use to an increase in heart disease, but the findings were often dismissed because many of the participants also smoked tobacco, which has long been linked to various cardiovascular issues. Noting that cannabis smoke is similar to tobacco smoke, except the one contains THC while the other contains nicotine. Isolating those who did not use nicotine in any form, the study found that marijuana use increased the incidence of heart disease, heart attacks, and strokes. Even one joint per week increased the risks by 3%. Daily use increased the risks by 25% for heart attack and 42% for stroke.
PLANET FITNESS: A woman who complained about a man shaving in an Alaska Planet Fitness women’s locker room with a 12-year-old present has had her membership revoked. According to commenters, this is now a corporate policy. And it is costing them customers as people resign in protest.
SCOTUS: The Supremes have ruled unanimously that when public officials post on social media about their work, they are acting on behalf of the government and may not block anybody. But when they post on their personal accounts about unrelated matters, they can.
HANDBASKET to HELL: Dylan Mulvaney has a new music video out called “Days of Girlhood” in which he promotes finding happiness through shopping, drinking, engaging in casual sex, and taking drugs. The man needs prayer. And lots of it.
HOW THEY’RE MADE: [7:44] – Who doesn’t love their Crayolas?!
SOUTH AFRICA: On March 12, three Orthodox monks were shot and killed at their monastery in Cullinan, about 18 miles east of Pretoria. On March 13, a Catholic priest was shot and killed in the sacristy as he prepared to celebrate daily Mass.
TRUMP IN 1980: [2:25] – What Trump at age 34 had to say about running for president.
TRUMP IN 1988: [1:36] – What he had to say eight years later.
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES: Volume 15 [3:02] – 2018 when the city of Edmonton came up with a great idea for reducing noise complaints. 2016 when San Francisco prohibiting any city contracts going to companies headquartered in states that don’t share its far left values. And 1903 when a thin-skinned politician tried to legislatively ban unflattering political cartoons.
WOMEN’S SPORTS: The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, accuses the NCAA and several Georgia universities of violating Title IX, as well as the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment. It goes on to accuse the NCAA of attempting to chill the free speech of athletes through speech codes.
GRAMMY NOTES: I got a glimpse into why God sometimes seems so distant when I had to stand back and watch my kids deal with challenges. I got into quite an argument with childless female relatives once, when I told them to stop helping my cocky toddler down the two carpeted steps into the carpeted den.
One of the ladies snarled, “You act like you WANT her to fall.” I explained that I had gone to considerable trouble to teach her to crawl backwards down stairs. They were holding her hand and helping her walk down frontwards on her feet and I could see on her face that she had no idea how much she needed that help.
I pointed to the two carpeted steps and responded, “I would rather she tumble down those and realize she isn’t ready than [pointing to the long stairs to the 2nd floor and the concrete steps to the front walk] slip away from us and try walking down those on her feet.” She turned white and all the ladies stopped helping.
HAPPY PI DAY: Although … if it really was pi day, it would never end. Just sayin’.
J6: On March 11, 2024, the Committee on House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight released its “Initial Findings Report” on the events of January 6, 2021. It also included findings regarding the Democrats’ hyper-politicization of the January 6th Select Committee.
Chairman Barry Loudermilk (GA-11) stated: “The American people deserve the entire truth about what caused the violent breach at the United States Capitol of January 6, 2021. It is unfortunate the Select Committee succumbed to their political inclinations and chased false narratives instead of providing the important work of a genuine investigation. In my committee’s investigation, it is my objective to uncover the facts about January 6, without political bias or spin. My report today is just the beginning.”
REGRET: A Pew Research survey found that 24% of tattooed individuals regret their decision. That’s nearly one in four who regret making a permanent change to their bodies that does not affect their reproductive futures.
GRAMMY NOTES: Dearest after half a day with no appointments outside the office … “Are you SURE you don’t need anything at the store? I could run something to the post office for you!” Speaking of hubby’s work … yesterday was his architecture business’ 36th birthday. ♡
A friend asked me how I am managing to make such great progress with my 2024 Organize and Declutter project. It turned into a whole “thing” so I am going to post it here and just give her the URL. 🙂
Professional cleaners say they get through their work because all they do is clean. They don’t get distracted the way we do by our STUFF. We can get similar fast results by taking a similarly targeted approach to cleaning, as well as to decluttering and organizing.
Do a sweep of the whole house with a trash bag and ONLY touch actual trash. Ignore everything that is not going to the curb!!
Do a sweep of the whole house with a laundry basket and ONLY touch dirty clothes. Take them to the laundry room.
Do a sweep of the whole house with a dish pan and ONLY touch dirty dishes and other food-related items. Take them to the kitchen.
Do a sweep of the whole house with a recycle box and ONLY touch things that are ready to recycle. Then put them on the curb or in the trunk of your car. (Then don’t forget to drop them off! LOL)
Do a sweep for donations. Or do what I do and create a designated spot for ongoing collection to put things as you encounter them. Whenever hubby has an appointment near the drop off center, I hand him the box and start a new one.
Doing a series of targeted sweeps like this will get you a long way towards feeling less like you’re choking on your own stuff. So after each step, congratulate yourself for getting rid of unwanted clutter! Now … on to the organizing part!
Re: Getting advice from professional organizers. There are a lot of them, but in my opinion, Clutterbug has the best advice. I haven’t been slavishly applying her tips, just listening to her videos here and there, waiting for the nuggets that resonate with me.
I’m going to talk about targeting again. But this time, it’s zeroing in on a very particular thing about your stuff that is annoying you. One of my first 2024 projects was to do something about my hanging kitchen utensils. The two strips of hooks were both under the upper cupboards and both had problems. One was a wedding present that was very poorly designed for the utensils that came with it. The other had accumulated more than double the things than there were hooks and all of it was bunched up in the same corner with two canisters of hole-less utensils and right next to my magnetic strip of knives. I was always having to move things to get what I wanted, then put back all the crap that had fallen off while I was at it.
I decided to take a very targeted approach, keeping firmly in mind that my goal was just to make my hanging utensils less annoying. I got them ALL out, gave it some good thinking (the most important part!!), identified which utensils actually would stay on those blasted wedding present hooks (not the ones that came with them!) and which utensils could live in my two “short things” and “tall things” canisters. I ended up donating a few things that I honestly never use, but decided to keep some that I rarely use, but when I need them, they are the best tool for the job. E.g., my rolling pin. I also decided the wedding hooks and utensil canisters could stay in use and where they had always been, but that I seriously needed a better storage solution for the ten big hanging utensils shown above.
I had to consider several things.
What did I want? I wanted to be able to reach out and take down or hang up a utensil without having to duck, scramble, or argue with other utensils.
How much space do I need and where do I have said space at eye level? Over the sink.
What “organizing hanging things” solution would work for me? I took measurements and did some serious internet sleuthing until I found a metal peg board system at Lowe’s. I made the shopping list below for Dearest, who doesn’t like to think too hard or get things wrong. He was delighted that everything was exactly where I said it would be.
The next question was to figure out what to do with the stuff that was already on that wall, which turned into another Organize and Declutter adventure featuring my disorganized spices. Some were in a cupboard, some were over the sink, some just hung out by the stove … I got them all out and sorted, composted a few that were just way past it, and made a couple of policy and labeling decisions that have really helped me cook more efficiently and creatively.
At each step, I’d tell my husband what I was thinking about and he’d say, “But what are you going to do with that stuff?” And that, right there, is what I think may be our biggest roadblock to getting anything organized or decluttered. I call it “globalizing.” Keep. Your. Project. Targeted.
While I was saving my pennies for the Lowe’s purchase, I got the spice thing planned and started, then grabbed Mr. Handy on a day off and asked him to move the racks. He was so delighted with the result that he didn’t even remember that I have a little pile of things I took off that wall to deal with … some day. Not today. It’s in the “Round Tuit” place. And I’ll get to it. Eventually. But for now, I am too busy reveling in how easy it is to COOK!!! I hadn’t realized how stressful clutter can be until I got a couple of these targeted projects done. It’s really amazing.
One ginormously helpful tip I learned from Clutterbug is to not buy any organizing tools … no containers, bins, hooks, shelves, whatever … until after you have identified what you want to store, where you want to store it, what the dimensions of your stuff and storage needs are, and what limitations you have. THEN, you do your measuring and thinking (the most important part). THEN, you do your shopping. And only after you are certain you’ve found the best possible storage solution do you purchase anything. The fun happens when you finally get to put your stuff away in your wonderful, targeted, and perfectly fitted organizing tool! And keep in mind that buying something new may not be the best solution. The only thing I bought for “Operation Annoying Trail Mix” was a bottle of glue to reinforce and pretty up a cardboard box. Hubby cut down an Amazon box to the dimensions I wanted and I had the fabric in my overcrowded fabric stash … which scored me a small, but let’s cheer anyway win on reducing the fabric mess! LOL
Over time, I have developed a list of Stuff Management rules that I use when I’m doing the Big Think part of a targeted project. I’ve also found a few online suppliers that have excellent organizing tools at reasonable prices. I got the Poppin bins (below) from The Container Store @ https://www.containerstore.com/welcome.htm for $14 each. They’re pretty, sturdy, and exactly the right size for my shelves.
They solved two problems, one of which was my way too much fabric issue. These bins are STUFFED with the old bed sheets, batting, and other “not pretty quilting cotton” materials I use for my clothes and quilting projects that used to be piled in dusty, annoying corners. The other problem the bins solved for me was that those bottom two shelves are the worst dust magnets. I have been using them for books, but honestly, they were too low and too dusty to be any good for books. My thinking on this project actually began with the dusty books. Clutterbug talks about bins a lot, so once I had the idea and found those Poppin bins, the solution to my dusty, annoying piles just happened. Two for one! The bins come in prettier colors, but I decided on gray because of the inevitable dust. Instead of the dust dulling a pretty color, it will just make the bins look … well … gray. 🙂
I’m a label person. And I use a LOT of essential oils. When I started with them, I bought a couple of wooden boxes. Then I got more and more oils and they just metastasized all over. I realized I needed to reorder some, but since I had zero idea what I even had, I picked that for an Organize and Declutter project. This also didn’t cost me much, since I had these wire racks hanging out in another room, collecting dust and clutter. Putting all my oils in one place and at eye level has been fabulous. I alphabetized the bottles, but there are so many that some had to be behind others. My dd suggested label holders, which I got from Amazon, 50 for $8 @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08QX6PQFQ. Thankfully, they also fit nicely on the Poppin bins as well. (Please ignore the weird wall. I want to paint the bathroom; that patch is a color I tried and rejected.)
Another of my little 2024 targeted projects was the bathroom cubbies. I took everything out onto a table and sorted it all into three approximately equal categories that I could label in a way that made sense. Then, I had Dearest look at the piles and tell me if the categories and label names I’d chosen made sense to him. Our brains work very differently, so it’s important for me to check with him before proceeding. I couldn’t find any pre-made bins that fit the cubbies (5” x 5” x 5”), but I did find these (5″ x 5″ x 6″) corrugated boxes @ https://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/S-4704/Corrugated-Boxes-200-Test/6-x-5-x-5-Corrugated-Boxes. I got a pack of 25 shipped flat for $15 and only needed to slice an inch plus the top flaps off, then assemble them to make perfectly fitted cubbie bins.
I thought I’d be okay with the corrugated until I had the idea to photograph our pretty shower curtain, print the picture on to paper and decoupage it to the cardboard. I also found some card stock in my paper stash that matches the bathroom counter top. I used that to line the boxes and make the labels. They turned out so cute! And it is SO much easier to pull a bin out and put it on the counter to find what we want than it was to root around in the open cubbies. I also really like it that I know exactly where the essential, but rarely needed tools are. E.g., tick twister, thermometer, pill splitter. Even better, my hair scissors aren’t constantly threatening to fall on my head when I use the toilet!
Phew! So that about covers the “How I am succeeding at organizing and decluttering my messes.” I’ll let all y’all go now, so I can get back to sorting beads and figuring out how many I need of which styles of these containers I’ve chosen @ https://www.containerstore.com/s/office/craft-hobby/stackable-craft-organizer-drawers/12d?productId=11008488. I’m so excited about turning my “Bead Drawer From Hell” into a delightful art resource! I had hoped the drawer could fit under my bed to hold overflow yarn, but it’s just a smitch too tall, so it’s going to ReUse It! The overflow yarn is in the “Round Tuit” pile. I’ll get to it. Eventually.
BIBLE: Does this mean that Adam and Eve were white?
BOEING: John Barnett (62) worked for Boeing for more than 30 years, after which time he became a vocal critic of the company’s safety and production quality practices. At the time of his death, he was a key witness in a whistleblower lawsuit against Boeing, in which he claimed the company retaliated against him for repeatedly reporting defects. His dead body was found in a vehicle on the same day he was scheduled to appear in court. The Charleston County Coroner’s office issued a statement saying his death appeared to be due to “a self-inflicted gunshot wound.”
DIABETES: A study entitled “Effect of Ergocalciferol on β-Cell Function in New-Onset Type 1 DiabetesA Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial” was published in JAMA Network on March 5, 2024. It reports on a study that found high dose Vitamin D can improve the function of insulin-producing beta cells in children and young adults recently diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.
FAUXTUS: One of them is Barack Obama. Who are the other two who are actually ruining things?
HYPOCRISY: Last week, drag star Ru Paul launched an “all-inclusive” online bookstore named Allstora which promised to “carry all books.” This week, Ru Paul apologized for his decision to sell “harmful books” and removed them from the catalog. “While other online bookstores will continue selling hate-filled books, Allstora will not. We will be a community, a home, for all.“
SPAIN: Father Custodio Ballester has been charged with committing a “hate crime” for an essay he wrote in 2016 (link below). If convicted, he faces up to three years in prison and a fine of over $1,600.
GRAMMY NOTES: My dd was looking in the mirror and asked me if her pants made her butt look big. I said, “I think you’ve gained some weight since you started working at the ice cream shop.” (They ate their mistakes. The same had happened to me at her age!)
Her gf gasped and said, “You can’t say that!” Why not? “You’re her MOM. You’re supposed to tell her she’s beautiful!” Nope. I vowed never to lie to my kids and they knew it. If I’d told her the pants were fine, she would’ve believed me. Instead, she stopped eating her mistakes.
ANTI-CATHOLIC: [16:06] – Best comments: “Do you have to act like you are in WWE, to keep your 30 people in your congregation?” and “Empty Cans Make the Most Noise!”
IVERMECTIN: A study entitled “Ivermectin for COVID-19 in adults in the community (PRINCIPLE): an open, randomised, controlled, adaptive platform trial of short- and longer-term outcomes” was published in the Journal of Infection on February 29, 2024.
It reported on the outcomes for 8,811 ‘rona patients, of which 2,157 had received ivermectin. In one paragraph filled with gobbledygook, the authors reported that the ivermectin group recovered more quickly than the usual care group.
In the next paragraph, which was free of all gobbledygook, they stated that ivermectin was “unlikely to provide clinically meaningful improvement.” The study was funded by the NIH and one of the authors has ties to Big Pharma. Color me shocked.
NORTH DAKOTA: A district court has ruled in favor of the Christian Employers Alliance (CEA) which filed a lawsuit against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in 2021. The court agreed that the Biden administration violated the First Amendment by mandating that employers must provide insurance for and health care workers must participate in gender-transition procedures regardless of their religious beliefs.
PHILADELPHIA: CLICK https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1766896286224003248 [1:26] to hear how “Defund the Police” will impact residents. Basically, if you are being robbed between 3 am and 7 am, you’ll have to leave police a voicemail.
SOTU: CLICK https://twitter.com/itsreallyleah/status/1766125803790794762 [5:18] to watch a montage of lines from previous SOTUs that Biden reused this year. The repetition of the insulin promise makes my blood pressure soar. I know a single mom who has been forced to use pet insulin, because her co-pay shot up to $700 for a single prescription.
VAXXX: According to the U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA), only 5% of all COVID-19 deaths between January and May 2023 were among those who refused the vaxxx. Ninety-five percent were among those who had had at least one jab. Eighty percent were among those who had had four.
I’m getting really fed up with scammers, particularly the ones claiming to be American military veterans. So, today I went down the rabbit hole and put together this primer on how to recognize, avoid, and report internet scams.
Clicking the link on the Facebook ad takes you to this web page, which claims to offer a wooden flag hand-made in the United States by a genuine military veteran for the low, low price of just $39.95. BUY NOW to get the Big Sale Price. Order TWO and get an even bigger discount! Frankly, you might as well flush the money down the toilet. At least then it wouldn’t go straight into the coffers of the scammers who will (a) harvest your personal data, (b) send you some cheap crap (or nothing), and (c) never, ever refund your money.
Doing a Google Image Search of the flag photo revealed it was stolen from a retired Floridian’s wood shop. He is sold out of that particular model, but when he had it, he rightfully got $265.00 for it.
The schmucks who made the fake site even stole Ferrell’s video for the Facebook ad, which I have seen from other people’s complaints, Facebook does not care about! S’funny thing how fake ads get a pass, but saying anything negative about the Wuhan Flu gets your Facebook page locked for a month. Kinda makes you think these fake ads are coming out of China, dunnit?
Going back to the fake Facebook profile for “James Anderson” … I googled the Mississippi address on the fake Facebook profile. It does not exist.
I did an image search for the banner photo. It’s a designer outlet mall in the UK.
I did an image search for the profile photo. The only result was to a barbershop that appears to be a well established business in Yorktown, PA. The only image match on the page is a link to the flag scam.
Going back to the fake flag website … clicking the black banner at the top assuring customers of the company’s excellent reputation goes nowhere. Elsewhere on the site, they actually have the gall to talk about protecting intellectual property rights!
Scrolling down … note the odd syntax in “TIPS: Our goods are authentic, 100% handmade, counterfeit must be investigated! Customers, please identify our products!” I think this is one sign the site is foreign. It’s also funny, since it basically admits the good are 100% counterfeit.
Scrolling down … another sign of a fake site is pressure to BUY NOW!!
Scrolling down … a photo of “my little studio” shows a very clean room devoid of wood working tools. Google Image Search identified the green machine with the big crank at the bottom left as a rolling mill used cold roll metal sheets and wire to produce thinner gauges or transfer textures. At the back, there appears to be a stump with a tool for stapling or riveting. And on the right, I see a self-healing cutting pad with an architect’s scale ruler on top and a heat gun. At the front right, there is also a mouse and laptop, two things you would definitely not find in a wood shop, because the sawdust would ruin them.
Google Image Search found the exact same “My little studio” photo at another fake Veteran site, this time posing as the workshop where alligator hides are turned into beautiful wallets. Google Image Search of the wallet photo showed the exact same wallet for sale at Temu (Chinese) and an Amazon store (Chinese).
I took a quick look at the home page of the site where the fake flags are being peddled. Note again the odd syntax in the banner and how it has nothing to do with the products listed below. I didn’t bother to do image searches on more than one. It turned up another theft.
What can you do? Besides learning how to identify these scammers and avoid being taken in, you can spread the news on your own social media or other internet platform by linking to this post. CLICK https://www.tiktok.com/@truepatriotsmagazine/video/7344821407366253867 [3:09] to see what John from True Patriot Magazine did.
In addition, you can look up businesses and/or leave reviews @ https://www.trustpilot.com/. N.b., I left one for a scam site I had not purchased anything from, but had done Google Image Searches, etc., like I did for this one. They published it.
AIR TRAFFIC SAFETY: Is this what diversity hires get you?
On Thursday, a Boeing 777 had one of its 260 lb. tires fall off during take off. It crushed two cars in the parking lot below. Because each strut has six tires, the jet was able to land without incident.
Things didn’t go so well with the Boeing 737 that had one of its struts fail entirely the very next day. Thankfully, everyone survived the crash landing.
CATHOLIC: Years ago, we chose to abstain from meat on all Fridays. I have a carved wooden fish that says JESUS. On Fridays, it sits on the counter; on the other days, it sits on the window sill. For me, it has always been about honoring the day Jesus suffered in the flesh and shed His blood for us, but since we regularly enjoy vegetarian meals, meatless entrees don’t really count as penitential. However, I am not a huge fan of fish, so I go out of my way to serve fish on Fridays.
SCAM: Buyers beware. This is yet another Chinese scam advertising on Facebook as a “Veterans with Disabilities” product. Tip offs: Boilerplate website, stock photos (run one or two through Good Image Search), claim to BBB rating that goes nowhere (click it), ACT FAST pressure for non-existent sale (check Amazon … same product for a lot less). Also, the Amazon listing has a majority of one-star reviews with many complaints about the products received not looking like the photo and being of very poor quality and much smaller than claimed.
S&G: CLICK https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1765818289479954838 [2:43] to hear “Maxi Glamour“ testify at the Missouri House against a bill to ban drag shows for kids. The graphic above is a screen shot of the home page of his website.
SOTU: [4:28] – Newt Gingrich calls FAUXTUS’ speech the most malicious State of the Union in history. The link below is provided so you can check for yourself whether Newt or MSDNC’s “historian” are telling the truth about Truman’s 1948 SOTU speech.
GRAMMY NOTES: I ran into the mom of one of my dd’s occasional high school friends at the drug store one evening. She grabbed me and demanded, “WHAT do you put in your potato soup?!?!“
Huh?
“Angela had it at your house that time she stayed for dinner and she has been asking me to make it ever since, but every time I try, she says it’s not as good as Mrs. BCs. So WHAT do you do?!“
After briefly pondering just how long ago it was that Angela had dinner with us … six months? … I recited “Mrs. BCs Super Duper Exotic Potato Soup Recipe” …
Clean and cut up a bag of new potatoes. Boil uncovered in a big pot with just enough water to cover the taters to begin with, letting it boil off a bit until the taters are forkable.
While the taters are cooking, chop and saute one large onion in butter, with salt and pepper. Then add to the forkable potatoes and water. Dump in a GIANT tub of sour cream, stir and warm through. Serve with a sprinkling of dried parsley on top to make it look like you slaved all day.
She stood there, her jaw agape, eyes bugging out, and exclaimed, “THAT’S IT?!?!” Yup. “JUST SOUR CREAM?!?!” Yup.
FRANCE: France has become the first country in the world to explicitly include the right to abortion in its constitution. CLICK https://twitter.com/LifeNewsHQ/status/1764760254297067660 [:48] to see the hell-bound cheer and bang their drums. With more than 200,000 unborn murdered every year, France’s population is growing smaller every year. Kudos to the Catholic bishops to staunchly opposing this vile decision.
RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME: RLS plagues my life. I mix this essential oil blend in my palm with some magnesium lotion and massage it into the crampy spots. It helps.
S&G: Another trannie has been arrested and charged with possession of child pornography. It’s not his first time either.
ALASKA: Fletch Fletcher, a male teacher in the Dimond High School of Anchorage School District now identifies as non-binary. He likes to wear tight dresses and very tight pants so his bulge sticks out, making students extremely uncomfortable. He also has a public social media account where he makes sexual comments.
Within hours of Libs of TikTok making this man’s deviant behavior public, the principal sent an email to parents saying the report was “malicious” and assuring parents they are handling the “personnel matter” in house. He also locked down the school’s web page. His concern for this teacher’s feelings is inappropriate. One commenter correctly noted:
“A teacher’s standard of conduct includes dressing appropriately for the position. Wearing clothes that includes offensive images or language is not allowed. Wearing clothes that distracts from the goal of teaching is not allowed. Wearing clothes that makes others uncomfortable will be determined by the school administrators. The complaints are not about a man wearing women’s clothing, which would be my complaint as a parent. The complaint is a man wearing women’s clothes that reveals the shape of his penis. This isn’t a transphobic complaint. It’s a sexualized complaint in view of children. The complaints need to be taken seriously.”
DEMOCRATS ♡ FASCISM: I’ve been expecting this. The whole point of defunding the police and passing soft on crime laws like zero bail was to make the streets so dangerous that the gummint would be “forced” to deploy the military.
J6: In the past two months, 93 people have been arrested and charged with crimes related to Jan. 6, bringing the total to approximately 1,358 people.
William Shipley, a former federal prosecutor who has represented more than fifty J6 defendants said, “There was a clear period of time where there weren’t arrests of any significant number happening.”
But now, “every day you see two or three more. … I think the Department of Justice, the Biden administration, is committed to continuing to keep this story front and center for purposes of the campaign.”
LIBS OF TIKTOK: Chalk up another win for this hard-working social media warrior! Within 24 hours of her exposing a Democrat earmark to use our money to fund sex king parties, the sponsors (Casey and Fetterman) formally withdrew their support and the Senate voted unanimously to remove the entire earmark.
LOATHSOME: I hate scammers, but I especially despite the ones who pretend to be injured veterans. As per usual, this one has a sob story about trying to raise a few bucks with his hand-carved wooden items.
The turtle (which comes “Heartfelt thanks to everyone who helped my daughter“) is $25. The same set of photos pops in Google Image Search at Ebay (for sale by fuzhaung20 for $20) and Amazon (for sale by the YLSZHY Store for $14.47). These descriptions likely are more accurate in admitting the original was hand-carved, but the product is cast resin.
Even worse, this Facebook ad has a photo of the guy with his “daughter” which Google Image Search revealed to be one of a series of iStock images they posed for.
And to add to the insult, it says, “Some people use my identity to cheat. Here is my ID card. Please pay attention to distinguish. Thank you for your trust.” The base image is a novelty driver’s license from Amazon with some modifications that don’t even make sense.
E.g., the name listed is Dale McKissick III Esq. “Esquire” means he is a licensed attorney, not someone who needs to carve turtles to earn money for his daughter’s doctor. The man in the photo is a double leg amputee, but the alleged ID says he is a “Disabled Veteran” with a “Communication Impediment.”
Also, the home address doesn’t exist.
SCOTUS: The Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments regarding Trump’s presidential immunity appeal.
GRAMMY NOTES: Once upon a long time ago when I was at the end of my last nerve, I announced to the father of my offspring that he was in charge until I returned … whenever that might be. I went to a nearby restaurant and ordered a glass of wine and a big bowl of chips with salsa. The waiter said, “Bad day?” “You know it.” After I had marinated in the peace and quiet for a good while, he came back and quietly suggested I finish up and leave as soon as possible. “The after movie crowd is about to hit and they’re mostly noisy college kids.” I took his advice and have blessed his memory ever since.
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