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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.
by | March 12, 2024 · 1:53 pm

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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?

GROOMING: CLICK https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1767229108449059164?s=20 to see SecTrans Pete’s hubby lead school children in pledging their hearts “to the rainbow.”

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.

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by | March 11, 2024 · 2:07 pm

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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!”

CHILD-FREE BY CHOICE: CLICK https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1765840562756964836 [:37] to hear how this woman uses the life God gave her. May He have mercy on her soul.

HAITI: The United States has also evacuated our embassy and left Marines there to guard the embassy from the rebels.

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.

Read a fact check of the claims he made @ https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/03/08/fact-checking-bidens-state-union-address/.

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.

GRAMMY NOTES: I saw Dearest reaching toward my scissors. I had barely opened my mouth when he declared, “I won’t!“

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by | March 10, 2024 · 6:19 pm

Don’t Get Scammed

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.

For more information on how to report a scam @ https://www.verified.org/articles/guides/how-to-report-a-scam-website. You can report scammers to:

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.

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by | March 9, 2024 · 2:42 pm

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AIR TRAFFIC SAFETY: Is this what diversity hires get you?

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

FAUXTUS: CLICK https://twitter.com/WeGotIt2k/status/1766301539432595623 [:17] to hear Dementia Joe say, “Send me to Congress.”

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.

WORDWAFFLE: I enjoy this game. It forces me to think outside the box … which frequently includes words (e.g., RUPLE) that are not in the solution.

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.

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by | March 8, 2024 · 10:52 am

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2024: CLICK https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1766062378095894546 [2:56] to hear an outraged liberal list all the reasons you want to vote for Trump.

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.

SOTU: Two Not The Bee writers watched so we didn’t have to. I am grateful.

GRAMMY NOTES: My grandkids did not get the cool grandma. They got the mom of their moms.

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by | March 7, 2024 · 1:41 pm

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1A: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/deXw70ECH7o for a quick primer on what “no expectation of privacy in public” means.

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.”

CATHOLIC: If you are at all concerned about the current papacy, I encourage you to click and read https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/257000/anonymous-cardinal-demos-ii-proposes-agenda-for-next-pope. It’s long, but well worth your time. Links below may also be of interest.

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.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OY3gD3g4ILA to see the surprising reality.

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by | March 6, 2024 · 11:28 am

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2024: Super Tuesday results – Trump won 14 states: Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, Massachusetts, Maine, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Arkansas, Colorado, Minnesota, California, Alaska, and Utah. Haley won Vermont, then conceded she’s got no chance and ended her campaign.

BAD DESIGN: This is an actual product … and one that should never have made it past the marketing department’s first draft. It’s basically Jenga, but with “54 hand-painted wooden pieces that you can arrange into a variety of patriotic designs as you stack the blocks.” It stacks up to four feet tall and is allegedly “The perfect game to spice up your carnivals, parties, BBQs, and more” … unless, of course, anybody who was alive on 9/11 is present.

BORDER: As a result of FOIA’d records, the Biden administration has been forced to admit that it secretly flew 320,000 illegal aliens into the U.S. so they wouldn’t have to cross the southern border.

CALIFORNICATION: Gov. Newsom just enacted a $110 million program to operate a Hate Hotline so Californians can report any “hostile expression or action committed, in whole or in part, because of a person’s actual or perceived identity(ies) or characteristic(s), including race, color, disability, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, or gender, including gender identity, and/or because that person is a part of a protected group.”

CATHOLIC: Nothing keeps me from succumbing to temptation like knowing I’ll have to tell the priest what I did at my next confession.

ELITES vs. NORMIES: CLICK https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1765206817737453720 [:14] to hear MSDNC’s Jen Psaki, Joy Reid, and Rachel Maddow snigger about idiot rube Republicans in Virginia caring about immigration. Maddow yucked it up with, “Well, Virginia does have a border with West Virginia.”

LOUISIANA: On Tuesday, Gov. Landry fulfilled his promise to the voters and signed permitless concealed carry (also known as constitutional carry) into law in Louisiana. This makes Louisiana the 28th state to pass such a law.

MILITARY: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=777469003840467 [1:14] to see the 56th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 36th Infantry Division, officially signify the end of their mission in Kosovo. This Military Mama Bear is super duper happy to have her Baby Bear back on U.S. soil … but probably nowhere near as happy as her Hubby and 3 Little Monkeys are to have her back HOME.

“The casing and uncasing of the colors is a time honored tradition that marks a unit’s transition to its next assignment. On April 26, 2023, the 56th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 36th Infantry Division, cased their colors in Fort Worth, Texas, Leaving home station and traveling to Kosovo in support of Operation Joint Guardian, to join the Nato-led Kosovo Force.

“They unfurled their colors in Kosovo on June 30, 2023, taking authority of Regional Command East. As the mission came to an end, the colors were once again cased, during a second transfer of authority ceremony, February 27, 2024, marking the end of the Brigade’s mission in Kosovo. On March 3, 2024, COL Walker and CSM Stewart once again unfurled the Brigade colors, signifying the units safe return to Texas, transition to home station, and commitment to remain ready for future assignments.”

PSYLLIUM HUSK: Consumer Lab’s recent tests found the following whole husk and powder supplements contained lead: Equate (way too much!) and Konsyl, Metamucil, and NOW (some). Brands that tested lead-free: Organic India, Swanson, Citrucel; Viva Naturals; Yerba Prima.

SHOE, MEET OTHER FOOT: In 2020, AOC approved of the “mostly peaceful” riots, tweeting, “The whole point of protesting is to make people uncomfortable.” On Monday, far-left activists gave her a chance to experience being uncomfortable when her own people chased her out of a movie theater in Brooklyn for not being anti-Israel enough.

TEXAS: Arizona rancher John Ladd has found 17 dead bodies on his land which spans 10.5 miles along the U.S. southern border, less than half protected by a border wall. He says the coyotes rape almost all the women they bring over, leaving the women’s clothes hanging on his trees as trophies. Ladd carries a Glock at all times in case he ever needs to defend his life.

VAXXX: CDC announces Booster #10 should be available by autumn. Goodie.

GRAMMY NOTES: The Mascots joined a friend in making rosaries while praying for a family they know that is in a stressful and potentially dangerous situation. Your prayers, please, for this family. It involves a drug dealer having set up shop in their neighborhood.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3rIaDSiWOyE to see Gabe reconnect.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2_d9HYVFduY to enjoy the neighborhood race track.

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by | March 4, 2024 · 11:05 am

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2024: Nikki Haley has won her first primary … in Deep Blue D.C. And, even there, Trump got 33.2%. In 2020, Biden won 92% of the votes in D.C. So the only thing notable about this is that it puts Haley in some history footnote as the first female to win a Republican primary.

CHI TOWN: Chicago police officer Mohammad Yusuf (43) is suing the city for refusing to change his race from “Caucasian” to “Egyptian and African American.” Yusuf says when he joined the force in 2004, they only offered “Caucasian,” “Hispanic,” and “African American.” At the time, he chose Caucasian, but has since learned through 23andMe that his ancestors hail from North Africa.

He has also experienced what he perceives to be anti-white bias in his career advancement. In 2019, he scored in the “first promotional tier” on the sergeant’s exam, but has since been repeatedly bypassed in favor of black officers who were less qualified and had disciplinary issues. He notes that other CPD officers have been allowed to have their gender identities changed to match their “lived experience,” but he was denied the right to correct his racial identity despite having DNA evidence.

LIFE EXTENSION: I had an allergic reaction to this product and wrote to the company asking for help identifying the ingredients. It took a while, but they came through with only one exception, the berry flavors. I want to commend them to you for going the extra mile to contact their suppliers to find out what the source ingredients were for everything else.

Information sent to me by Life Extension, Wellness Specialist Correspondence Team:

Sources for Main ingredients: Calcium carbonate (limestone); Magnesium carbonate (magnesium and calcium carbonate); Potassium bicarbonate (KCL); Alginic acid (brown seaweed); Strawberry extract (strawberries); Ellagic acid (pomegranate hull).

Sources for Other ingredients: Xylitol (Xylose); Mannitol (Glucose); Stearic Acid (Palm Oil); Hydroxypropyl Cellulose (Wood Pulp); Citric Acid (Cassave); Silica (Silicon Dioxide); Vegetable Stearate (Palm Oil); Stevia extract (Stevia leaves); Maltodextrin (Corn); Modified food starch (Waxy maize); Mixed berry flavors (proprietary).

SCOTUS: One day before Super Tuesday, when more than a dozen states hold their primary elections, the Supremes ruled unanimously that the power to decide who can run in federal elections lies with federal officeholders and the candidates. The three states that barred Trump from their primary ballots will have to put him back on.

VAXXX: A paper entitled “Safety Signal Generation for Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss Following Messenger RNA COVID-19 Vaccination: Postmarketing Surveillance Using the French Pharmacovigilance Spontaneous Reporting Database” was published in July 2023 in JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. It reported on a little known side effect of the ‘rona jab, which is sudden deafness.

WILLY WONKA: This is real. Parents paid $40 a head to take their kids to this much-anticipated event in Glasgow last weekend. The AI-illustrated website promised an “Enchanted Garden,” a “Twilight Tunnel” and an “Imagination Lab.” The reality was a sparsely decorated warehouse that one customer said “looked like a meth lab.”

GRAMMY NOTES: I gave Bunny my copy of Little Women for National Read Along Day. She received it March 1st. She had finished it by March 3rd!

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by | March 3, 2024 · 8:17 am

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2024: Trump has won Idaho, Missouri, and Michigan.

BORDER: The presumptive 2024 presidential nominees visited and provided more information about their approach to this key, possibly #1 election issue. There are more clips at the Not The Bee link below. Here are two:

  1. CLICK https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1763297557252300893 to see FAUXTUS totter along a low-traffic, safe spot in Brownsville, Texas.
  2. CLICK https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1763308708761608550 to see Trump at heavily-trafficked Eagle Pass, where the Texas National Guard now controls the border.

COVID-19: The CDC has finally admitted that the ‘rona has mutated into something similar to flu, when the highest viral load and greatest infectiousness are in the first few days. On March 1, it did away with the 5-day quarantine requirement in favor of staying home and away from others until at least 24 hours after one’s fever has resolved and overall symptoms are getting better.

FASCISM: On Friday, Blaze Media journalist Steve Baker was arrested by the FBI and brought to a Texas federal courtroom to face four misdemeanor charges related to January 6, 2021. The FBI put him in handcuffs, a belly chain and foot shackles. He appeared in the same courtroom with a non-January six felony defendant who had no handcuffs or leg restraints.

FLORIDA: The University of Florida has terminated all staff in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion roles with immediate effect.

ISRAEL: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/777636854412975 to hear a guy play the Israeli national anthem in front of a “Gays for Palestine” rally at Harvard.

J6: On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit unanimously ruled that Larry Brock, a Jan. 6 defendant, had his sentence improperly enhanced. Brock’s sentence is therefore vacated and he will be remanded to the district court for re-sentencing. This decision may effect many other J6 cases.

SANCTUARY CITIES: New York City’s Mayor Adams speaks —

2021: “We should protect our immigrants. Period.”

2022: Declares a state of emergency because of the thousands of migrants who have been sent from southern border states since spring, saying the demand being put on the city to provide housing and other assistance is “not sustainable.”

2023: Says the migrants will “destroy New York City.”

2024: “We need to modify the sanctuary city law that if you commit a felony or violent act we should be able to turn you over to ICE and have you deported.”

VAXXX: A research paper entitled ”Brief research report: impact of vaccination on antibody responses and mortality from severe COVID-19” was published in the February edition of Frontiers in Immunology. It reported on the survival outcomes of 112 adults who had been admitted to Ohio State University Hospital with acute respiratory failure due to COVID-19 between May 2020 and November 2022.

Of those that had died, 70% had been vaccinated while 37% had not. Most of the vaccinated had received an mRNA serum. Noting that the vaccinated patients tended to be less healthy and older than the unvaccinated, researchers compared rates among those with similar characteristics and found the unvaccinated still fared significantly better.

GRAMMY NOTES: The Mascots and a buddy put on a play for their moms!

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zkt-aBOQtJw for “math teacher.”

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1IuS2QWPw9Q for “this will look great in the living room!”

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RCdWukpjbGA for “technically, it’s true.”

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by | March 1, 2024 · 1:11 pm

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2024: [3:58] – The Supreme Court has decided to hear Trump’s case regarding presidential immunity. This decision means the lower courts cannot proceed with their cases against him until SCOTUS hears and rules, which won’t be any time soon.

BORDER: An illegal alien from El Salvador has been arrested in connection with the deadly shooting of a 2-year-old. This is his fifth arrest in two years.

An illegal alien from Venezuela has been arrested for the brutal murder of 22-year-old nursing student, Laken Riley. Jose Antonio Ibarra (26) Ibarra entered the U.S. illegally in 2022 and has been arrested at least once before.

An illegal alien has been arrested for sexually assaulting a minor in Virginia. Renzo Mendoza Montes (36) was arrested and released six months ago in El Paso under a Biden catch-and-release policy.

CALIFORNICATION: California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law exempting Panera Bread from its new wage hike for fast food workers. Funny coinkidink … Greg Flynn, a billionaire who owns about two dozen Panera Bread locations in California, has quite a history with Gavin Newsom. They attended the same high school and have been involved in business dealings together; Flynn also donates to Newsom’s campaigns.

DEMOCRAT CRICKETS: President Biden posted 27 times about the death of George Floyd; he’s had nothing to say about the murder of of Laken Riley. Likewise, the Slime Stream Media has had nothing to say. In the 24 hours following her death, the New York Times posted six stories on the front page about a dead owl, but none about Laken Riley. The AP said Riley had been killed by an “Athens resident” and suggested she shouldn’t have been out jogging alone if she’d cared about her own safety. She wasn’t jogging in a crime-ridden neighborhood, but on campus. The AP article got down to paragraph seven before saying that the suspect “doesn’t have an extensive criminal history and is not a U.S. citizen.”

DIVERSITY HIRE: CLICK https://twitter.com/atwitty2/status/1762876552314753189 to hear Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson say twice that bump stocks shoot 800 rounds per second and NO ONE corrects her.

According to Wikipedia, a bump stock causes a semi-automatic firearm trigger to reset automatically rather than require the shooter to pull it manually. This somewhat mimics a fully automatic weapon. Bump fire stocks can be placed on a few common weapons such as the AR or AK families. They can achieve rates of fire between 400 and 800 rounds per minute depending on the gun.

“Per minute” vs. “per second” … it’s all the same to the brainiac who doesn’t know what a woman is.

FASCISM: “Remember when Donald Trump was the worst president ever and was an enemy of the First Amendment and regularly attacked a free and fair press because he’d call Jim Acosta ‘fake news’? What do you call it when a government starts arresting real journalists? … Remind me, how many journalists did Trump arrest?” – Harris Rigby at Not The Bee

SEXPLOITATION: The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times report that social-media giant Meta has known that people are using its Facebook and Instagram paid subscription tools to facilitate child sexual exploitation, but has done nothing to stop it.

Hundreds of “parent-managed minor accounts” sell adult male users’ images of their own young daughters wearing swimsuits and leotards. The photos themselves were not pornographic, but the parents running the accounts know the users are getting off on the photos. Some go so far as to talk trash with or even have their daughters engage in sexual talk with users.

“One calculation performed by an audience demographics firm found 32 million connections to male followers among the 5,000 accounts examined,” the Times report says adding that Instagram users who report sexually explicit images and suspected predators “are typically met with silence or indifference.”

SENATE: Mitch McConnell (82) announced he is retiring as Republican leader. He will continue in his Senate seat until 2027.

SNOWFLAKES: Question – If you see somebody holding a sign you don’t like, what do you do? Answer – Call the POLICE! CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gnJQnVZ8OTM and shake your head.

STUFF MANAGEMENT: Thanks to a random comment on a Blacktail Studios video, I have added a fifth item to my Principles.

GRAMMY NOTES: I told Dearest we were out of one thing. He offered to run to the store. I suggested as long as he was going, he could pick up ONE OTHER THING. He said, “I’ll need a list.”

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