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Birdingmom's avatar

Lots of great ones today as usual. Don't worry about the right wing lists. I've been saying for a couple of years that when they haul me off to the gulag, I want their list of charges to be really long. For example: Christian, pro-life advocate, religious freedom advocate, medical freedom advocate, constitutionalist, free speech advocate, 2A supporter... You get the picture.

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Shirley's avatar

Article 58. That’s a fiver for you, maybe a tenner!

I’ll be in the same gulag for sure.

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Birdingmom's avatar

I had to look up what Article 58 was! Learned another something old today. Definitely non-compliant through and through. SO refreshing that one of the new physical therapists where I go got kicked out of 2 peds practices for refusing to vax their children. We talk non-stop the whole time about all things non-compliance!

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James Goodrich's avatar

First I wanted to thank the veterans for protecting us and making our lives free. We all should be thankful to them!! There are so many issues today that are out of our control. I sometimes can’t watch the news, especially the border. It’s good to try to make people aware of these problems because many just don’t pay attention. However, we should all control what we are able to change for the good. Today is a good day to start 😊. Thanks Dr. Malone for creating this platform. Have a great weekend everyone!!! J.Goodrich

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James Goodrich's avatar

I did want to let people that may be interested know that my wife did get her religious exemption from her Boston Hospital employer. Thanks to those who said a prayer for her, it seems to have worked. There was quite a disclaimer added that things could change, but for now, next Thursday will not be her last day. Thank You and Thank God!!!

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Shelley's avatar

This is such good news James. I hope that there is more push back today than there has been. We need more bright spots.

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James Goodrich's avatar

Thanks Shelley my wife is really relieved. There’s at least 3 friends that haven’t received an answer so we’ll see what happens????

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donna kovacevic's avatar

Wonderful news James. Slava Bogu!! Glory to God.

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James Goodrich's avatar

Thanks Donna, they had sent an original email that sounded as though they were denying her exemption, which is so stressful. But the other day it was accepted. Thank God!!

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donna kovacevic's avatar

Great news. Glory be to God!!

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Brandon is not your bro's avatar

So happy James G !!

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James Goodrich's avatar

Thank you Brandon!!!

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D D's avatar

I'm so glad James, either way would have worked, except we would have lost a valuable, dedicated worker, and the work that she loves!

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James Goodrich's avatar

Thanks DD so happy!!

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Melanie Reynolds's avatar

That is great. Prayer is powerful

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James Goodrich's avatar

Thank You Melanie, prayer really does work.

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Randall Stoehr's avatar

Shoooop ...right on thru the hoop!

The 3 from way out....Nothing but net.

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D D's avatar

James, Dannion Brinkley will be calling for support of the veterans too, having been a Marine. Every year he calls out support for them, having sat with so many in hospice.

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James Goodrich's avatar

Thank god for people like Mr. Brinkley, without people like him life here would be much worse. BTW, thank you for the letter, I’m going to open it at lunchtime. Very curious thanks DD!!

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Pinebeetle's avatar

Yes indeed🥂

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Big E's avatar

Great stuff! Never enuff! Stay tuff!

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DTT's avatar

Excellent set of funnies; thank you much.

That J6'er in New Jersey apparently did disappear into the forest to become folklore. I wish the guy success in his escape from the evil SOBs who claim he is a danger. 🙏🏻

Of course, they think that about all of us....

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Meemanator's avatar

Maybe we are a danger...just not in the way they think. 😂

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Mark's avatar

FBI overkill. That was a two officer job to serve that warrant. Been there, done that. Or better yet call him and have his attorney surrender him. Full on Tactical Ted should be applied sparingly and for true bad guys.

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pretty-red, old guy's avatar

'bout died watching Ricky G!

Great funnies to start the wokend!

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Pinebeetle's avatar

The Chappelle. LGBTQIA’s skit was priceless too

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Barbara Lee's avatar

In the “What’s Missing “ pyramid: Make consumer products addictive and indispensable (and inescapable like smartphones and CBDC).

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Barbara Lekowicz's avatar

Yep. Your Friday Funnies sure started my day out on the right foot as usual. Loved the shopping cart and of course the Ricky Gervais video. Oh he has his pulse on the nation, doesn’t he?

Looking forward to hearing you speak at The Florida Summit in Ocala tomorrow!

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Sandy's avatar

OMG the shopping cart. Grocery trip this week was AWFUL. Followed by the gas station.

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Shelley's avatar

The shopping cart resonated with me too!

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Pinebeetle's avatar

That one took my walnut sized brain awhile to register then the bulb came on.

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Shelley's avatar

Been there on others!

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Bruce Miller's avatar

The Bezos/Taylor Swift cartoon was the most perfect description of the mind of young American women imaginable. Truly a picture is worth 1000 words.

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pretty-red, old guy's avatar

Bruce. I was clueless on that one! HELP understanding the cartoon parts. . .?!

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Shelley's avatar

I glanced and shrugged. With Bruce's comment I said okay what it is. Bezos is a filthy billionaire and Swift is a super hero billionaire.

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Jean's avatar

Having just read an article relating to El Nino and how our E-US grid won't be up to the challenge - have to go with 'They Achieved Net Zero' as the winner, with the empty food basket a close 2nd. Ever helpful to get the Funnies to gain a clearer focus.

The 'right' business always makes me smile. While I am a Constitutional Conservative, I cheerfully agree to being right. In fact, when I come across due egging on I'll inform that I'm 'hard right' just to horrify (while chuckling to myself).

Safe travels and many pleasures with good friends tomorrow. Much success and satisfactions.

Bestest Always ♡♡♡

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Micheal Nash, Ph. D.'s avatar

That net zero looked like Texas a couple of years ago when wind and solar failed big time

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Jean's avatar

I followed that event! Had had a sorta minimal impression that Texas might offer the greenies support. It surely didn't. Of course now the geniuses have been adding demands on the grids and more renewable input - individual readiness for similar shortfall with a grander area impacted is appearing on our horizons.

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Shelley's avatar

Rolling blackouts are the promise of green energy along with the tripling of electricity prices. In WY coal plants accounted for about 71% of the electricity produced in 2022, down from a peak of 97% in 2003 but still second-highest in the nation after West Virginia. Now wind power accounts for 22% of the share, more than doubling just in the past three years. Gov Gordon vetoed a bill blocking eminent domain for the wind turbine colonization of Wyoming’s beautiful countryside.

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Micheal Nash, Ph. D.'s avatar

Laws ought to be passed tracking every dollar spent on those odious wind turbines. Might throw in e cars as well. Only unmitigated graft could explain such enormous amounts of fed and state subsidies on such patently worthless technology.

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Shelley's avatar

Weren't windmills used for centuries to crack corn or pulverize wheat and oats? Didn't they know back then that on windless days their milling had to be done next to a running creek to get power or powered by moving animals?

Harnessing cheap dependable energy now will not leave the elites' next 100 generations with enough power is the fear.

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Shelley's avatar

And people died. I have friends there and their pipes burst and they had to move into a motel while the insurance paid for the reconstruction. Much damage but no loss of life.

The Dem gov in WY with an R beside his name just forced the main electricity provider to ask for 29% price increase because the new windmills do not generate enough electricity and require electricity to operate. I have a friend in IA that is having a house built in WY.

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Big E's avatar

Leftists are great at this because they want to take over. Conservatives mostly want to be left alone to be (mostly) good people. We must stop doing stuff that doesn't work. 

Watch “So many EXCUSES” by Cliff Maloney (video 1min 28 sec)! https://x.com/CliffMaloneyJr/status/1722294649593720896?s=2

Maloney says: The real reason Democrats won big elections is they turn out their voters. Period.

His advice:

1. Do More of What Works

- Target registered voters.

- Multiple passes.

2. Do Less of What Doesn’t

- Stop trying to register voters.

- Stop waving signs.

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Micheal Nash, Ph. D.'s avatar

Stop outside money. Elections should be funded entirely in state…none from outside

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Sybil's avatar

Love them! Thank you!

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Mark Miller's avatar

Re. Venus

The headline is nonsensical. It's called being 67 million miles from the Sun (Venus), instead of 92 million miles (Earth). It makes a huge difference.

There is interesting discussion apparently going on between planetary scientists saying that the planets didn't start out where they are now, that Jupiter and Saturn started out closer to the Sun, and planets like Venus, Mars, and Earth started out farther away, and that over billions of years, they managed to "change places," with the planets in their current positions. I haven't made sense of it yet. The thinking is that orbital harmonics had something to do with it, small nudges each time they passed each other in their orbits. So, by this hypothesis, Venus probably was once earth-like, but it didn't change because of what some life form did (since we don't know if life ever existed on it). It changed because of a change in its orbit around the Sun, something we have no control over.

The old one I used to hear is, basically, "Greenhouse gases are bad, because look what they did to Venus." Again, quantity matters. Venus's atmosphere is 96% CO2. In Earth's atmosphere, it's 0.04%. Huge difference. They're like polar opposites.

We don't know if life happened on Venus, but I'll say we also have this thing called plant life, which absorbs and uses CO2, and transforms it into oxygen. Earth started out with a heavy amount of atmospheric CO2, like on Venus and Mars, but life changed that on Earth. So, in terms of "destroying the planet," producing CO2 is far from it. It's plant food. Yum.

I rather like what George Carlin said about all this in 1992. You can tell from the heckling he got that some in the audience didn't like him pointing out their conceits, but I'm glad he said it.

https://youtu.be/7W33HRc1A6c?si=TdPHz0kXzWuPx7UN

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Pinebeetle's avatar

I’m sure climate change had something to do with it.

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Mark Miller's avatar

I'm sure orbiting around the Sun had something to do with it, too. Point?...

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Mark Hopkins's avatar

About Venus.... 97% CO2 atmosphere... it's only 2400 times the .04% CO2 in Earth's atmosphere. But hey, with enough cars (especially the coal powered electric ones), we'll get there some day.

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Larry Alexander's avatar

Ronna is not alone,the ranking members of the Senate and House also share in the debacle. the House is in good hands ,but the Kentucky Senator is no match for the Demonut Cartel. IMO

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Shelley's avatar

70 republican House members just voted yes to $300 million for a new FBI building. Four of the five MO Reps voted for this. Mine did not so he will be getting a thank you message from me.

I am closely watching Speaker Johnson and this is not a good start.

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Micheal Nash, Ph. D.'s avatar

When you hear about your rep being visited by a f.b.I. swat team at 5 a.m. …….

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Melanie Reynolds's avatar

My husband retired in June. Because we no longer had my husband health insurance our daughter got on Medicaid. She is 19. You can’t make more than $13 an hour to get Medicaid . Well she got married in August and now because of her married stays is no longer able to get Medicaid. Her husband is on his dad’s insurance. So she checked on Obamacare. $200 a month. Now they are young newly weds he is working and she is working. But they don’t make a lot of money.

We let all these refuges into our country and pay health etc. It is so frustrating.

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