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When a leech bites it includes an anesthetic that numbs the area, making it difficult to feel the bite. The saliva also contains an anticoagulant to prevent the hosts blood from clotting, allowing the leech to feed more efficiently.

The other day in the New York Post there was a story about a Columbian national illegal alien Lina Maria Orovio-Hernandez. She has been living in Massachusetts for more than 20 years.

She has received over 400,000 dollars in stolen federal benefits during this time including Section 8 rental assistance. The charges also include voter fraud, specifically the 2024 presidential election, and obtaining fraudulent ID’s including a Mass. real ID.

She faces charges such as false representation of a social security number, making a false statement on a passport application, aggravated identity theft, receiving stolen federal moneys, fraudulent voter registration, and fraudulent voting.

These benefits were put in place for real American citizens in their time of need. Hernandez had no right to these benefits they are for the poor, the sick, single parents and struggling “American” families.

This lady has been receiving social security disability. She is seen, or caught, on camera at an atm withdrawing our money, walking around with an “I Voted” sticker on her designer shirt, what hubris. Watching her agility on camera shows she is perfectly capable of working, she has no disability, it’s all a big fraud. She actually looked healthier and in better physical shape than I am. I’m starting to realize these illegals live a much better life than I do. All I want is to be treated like an illegal alien . No one is handing me thousands of dollars in monthly checks and benefits.

When my mother’s father came here from Italy, legally, through Ellis Island, he had 5 dollars in his pocket. He worked his ass off his whole life, ending up owning 60 apartments in South Boston. I was raised with the mindset if you want something and you work hard, you can achieve your goals. How many millions of Lina Hernandez’s has Biden and the democrats let in? Where’s the media on this story? MSNBC, CNN, News Max, Fox and locally, ABC, NBC, CBS, where are they? I thought there was zero voter fraud, I thought we had the most secure voting system in the entire world, another massive lie. If we had a real media, this story would be headline news, and we would find the 2020 presidential election WAS stolen, this is why Fox News won’t run this story.

If I took a gun and held people up, and stole say 100,000 dollars from a person, or many people, what’s the difference from fraudulently stealing 400,000 dollars from social security. That’s our money, Lina Hernandez stole from us and our families. She’s a common crook. These illegals in my town are still sitting around the pool at the Holliday Inne, every day getting their meals delivered, no charge. These perfectly able bodied people receive free housing, free food, free cable tv, free transportation, free phones, free WiFi, free medical, free schooling for their kids, still to this day!

This story of Lina Hernandez being hidden by the media is like the anesthetic the leech uses to hide the blood they suck from our bodies. What happens in the next 2 to 3 years, Trump being successful and fix this by throwing all of these leeches out, or God forbid a democrat gets into the White House and tens of millions of illegals continue to pour into our country, and allowed to become citizens. This will determine if our safety net systems survive or completely collapse. If collapse occurs the Cloward-Piven strategy will be in its final stage. Communism will certainly take over and these elites will become our masters. People that opposed them will become imprisoned and slaves. BTW, do you know which university Cloward and Piven were professors at??? You guessed it, Columbia university in the 1960’s, makes total sense doesn’t it…

The leech, that horrible ugly creature. They attach themselves to a passerby and then feed on the hosts blood. Their whole purpose in life is to take more and more so they can produce more and more of their own. The leech teaches us that sin takes all it can from human life and gives absolutely nothing in return. J.Goodrich

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Ned B.'s avatar

Some people work, some people work the system.

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Ray Fouts's avatar

Just like Trump said, I didn't write the tax code, I just use it. Or at least something like that.

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WRE's avatar

Yep!! He also told her "You were in the Senate ... if you didn't like it, why didn't you change it?? You didn't because all your friends and donors use it, too!!"

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Jack Mc Guire's avatar

This isn’t the tax code they’re using it’s the benefits from Health and Human Services, and they’re not using them legally they’re using fraud to steal them while Massachusetts hides and supports them.

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Michael Self's avatar

Fraud isn’t allowed in the code

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Science is Political 2.0's avatar

Yes. actually it was my father's parents both of them who came over from Italy,, the Naples area.. Ellis Island and his family (large family) settled in the Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania. They were all in the "trades" my dad was both a barber and butcher/meatcutter but then enlisted. But like you said EVERYONE WORKED HARD ALL THE TIME; my aunt's actually owned "sewing machines" and turned that into a living.. and later as the family grew they owned small Pizza shops.. in the Pittston area of Pennsylvania, My father's military papers says that he was born at home on Rock Street in Pittston, PA, Luzerne County. (My father met my mother in Germany.. I know my DNA. but the work ethic back then was off charts. I read the document my grandfather, Angelo Musto had to sign which included: being capable of earning a living, providing for his wife and family and also had to swear allegiance to America. At that time there was Monarch.. in Italy: King Leopold. I could look it up.. but I was amazed that the MEN HAD TO put all this writing. He also had a sponsor here in the United States who had come here in the late 1800s. I can't imagine what my father would think if he saw the United States that he paid the Ultimate Sacrifice (yes he did). He was cynical though when he got out of the Army. I can't imagine what his response would be now. I think that is why so many Italians from the N.Y and Pennsylvania are extra outraged about the FREE AND STOLEN "money" by the ILLEGAL ALIENS.. and most Italians were of Catholic faith as well at least back then. That is all I have to say..on that today. going to find an acupuncturist :) later.

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Bandit's avatar

How did your father pay "the Ultimate Sacrifice" if he was discharged from the army? Paying the Ultimate Sacrifice, means they died in service to our country.

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LEA7's avatar

Spot on. And, we let them? It's infuriating when wrong becomes right because they take it - no asking. Most are too complacent and "compassionate". Where is our fire in the belly? Banked and ready to flare?

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Bandit's avatar

WE don't let them! Our government and our legal system let them steal from us.

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LEA7's avatar

But we are complicit if it continues, yes?

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Bandit's avatar

Really? How do we stop it? I try and vote the trash out, but by law, and the fact I follow that law, I only have one vote. We can sign petitions and make phone calls, that they ignore. Everything else is illegal.

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LEA7's avatar

Agree, and in my state of Maryland, my red vote is immediately nullified by many more blue ones. My point was I speak out on the wrongs (and even our churches are liberal) and hope some seeds of sanity fall on fertile ground. We NEED the DOGE and spending cuts to show responsibility, and yes, this is maddening when our options are few. Keep the faith.

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LB (Little Birdie)'s avatar

So blue here too! I just do all I can do and also hope seeds get planted. As the good Drs keep saying - there is a lot out there (human and not so) plotting to make the good go bad - we must not weaken in spirit or deed. Let them Rail On, We Are Fighting the Good Fight. We will get the herd to turn.

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LM Drew's avatar

carry on.... i.e. continue. What is entrenched needs stamina to correct.

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Laurel's avatar

I think the problem is the two party system. Candidates are so busy playing to their bases that noone has energy to do/say anything unpopular, no matter how necessary. Campaigning is about criticizing your opponenet's party, not about clarifying a new perspective . When, in 2016, Trump was seeking the Republican nomination, I heard about 5 different parties-worth of perspectives, but none were really laid out for consideration. Hell will freeze over before the two parties release their grip on keeping our choices limited. Which suits the deep state just fine.

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LM Drew's avatar

amen Now I believe POTUS Trump is correcting these schemers.

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Bandit's avatar

🙏🤞

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randall stoehr's avatar

And this "NEEDS ALL THE EXPOSURE IT CAN GET"!

As you have so wonderfully now exhibited as Evidence A!

A+ J.G.

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James Goodrich's avatar

Thank You Randal Stoehr

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James Goodrich's avatar

I wanted to add this note. I thought someone might say this is only one person, what’s the big deal. These are government statistics!

DOGE has discovered over 12 million people, mostly illegals, were receiving checks, listed to be over 120 years old. These were checks going out being cashed.

1.4 million illegals are receiving Medicaid insurance. Biden allowed 2.1 million illegals to get social security numbers and collect social security benefits. This is completely illegal.

These are government numbers, I’m sure the actual numbers are much, much higher. So when you hear democrats say they want to save social security, and that republicans are shreading Medicaid, know they are protecting illegals. They are trying to protect their voters, their constituents! Also know, this is unsustainable. This is going to bankrupt the system, it will end these systems of safety nets.

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James Goodrich's avatar

My sister has Trump derangement syndrome, and that’s no lie!!😂😂😂

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James Goodrich's avatar

I know that story had come out and repeated over and over again, even in print news. My sister is a high positioned payroll person in a fairly large medical device company, and last night she said that. The system has a default that puts birth dates of like 1901 when it deletes people. So you’re right Barbara. It’s amazing that the president himself had that in his speech to congress.

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Carole's avatar

That Real ID... That really irks me. When I visited Mexico back in the late 1980s, all I needed to get back into the U.S. was a certified copy of my birth certificate. Now, can't get on a plane or even visit a Federal building with out "Real" ID. It takes money just to collect all the signatures and documentation needed to get one. But hey, it was a great idea, right? Right??? Because we all know a Real ID can't be forged. They can forge every other document they need, but the Real ID is a magical document that cannot be forged.

Sorry... Guess I'm feeling particularly snarky today.

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Stacy Ackerson's avatar

Do not get the real ID, get a passport instead. Search for Real ID and The Highwire to find the segment explaining why none of us should have it.

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leah's avatar

I never wanted that RealID but when I got my drivers license renewed by mail, there it was, all nice and golden in the right hand corner, snickering down at me, laughing at how clever it was. I'm disgusted. I didn't ask for it but living in a blue state? (MI)

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Stacy Ackerson's avatar

😩😡

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John Conover's avatar

Yes, more people need to know this

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John Conover's avatar

Real ID is just a gateway to everything digital. Once that happens, they can control every aspect of our lives

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LB (Little Birdie)'s avatar

Snarky can definitely sneak up and bite. I think I met a dog once named Snarky!

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Carole's avatar

I'd like to have a dog named Karma. I could take her with me to WalMart, in case they object to cattle prods!

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T. Paine's avatar

You’re right James, It’s heartbreaking to work hard, honestly pay our taxes, raise a family teaching them to be good citizens, encouraging them to vote, only to discover everything has been a lie. We are allowed to vote for who they have chosen and either option is acceptable to them. In order to cling to power long enough to complete the installation of their cyber surveillance prison they are now printing money hand over fist instead of raising our taxes and calling it inflation instead of embezzlement. The next phase is either we put as many of these criminals in jail or we all end up in cyber prison.

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ComeQuicklyLord's avatar

“ The thief comes only to STEAL, and KILL and DESTROY…” John 10:10 (emphasis mine)

Those who illegally entered our nation, for whatever reason, are stealing (including rape) some are killing, but the end result is Destruction.

Demagnetize our nation!

1. E-Verify as a national employment law, which results in company fines starting at $5,000 a person, and repeat offenses begin at $10,000 a person. (BTW: most GOP Reps and Senators in the Red State I live in, opposes this. 🤔)

2. No social benefits and education to illegals—they are stealing our resources which they have no right to receive.

3. If people say, “We NEED them because our working population is dwindling, which I will answer, “STOP killing our BABIES!” Over 65 million American Babies have been sliced, diced, burned, brains sucked out, and dismembered, in the mother’s womb. Are their minds so warped, yes they are, that you cannot see the cause and effect of killing our children? I estimate that we have 65 million illegal aliens in our nation, accrued over the past 50 years—not the 11 million that Obama stated.

IF America wants to survive, we must deal with this issue properly, and not lull ourselves to sleep with the saliva of the leaches, as James points out.

AND, when things get more expensive because of the tariffs, put on your big boy pants, and buckle up butter cup, because fighting communism takes courage and sacrifice—I know, because my dad fought against them in the Korean and Vietnam war.

My rant for the day—have a nice weekend, and see you Sunday.

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Carole's avatar

I've seen so many similar stories. Relatives who live in California work, pay taxes, and are struggling to get by. Meanwhile, they see illegals work and get paid "under the table", while also collecting benefits. And they (the illegals) laugh at the dumb natives for obeying the law.

On the other hand, they say Karma is a bitch. Some people may get by with thievery their entire lives, but I believe in the Afterlife, and a Judgment we all have to face.

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Cranky Boomer's avatar

Leeches are bad enough, to be sure, and they need to take their punishment. But aren't the enablers of that kind of behavior - through government incompetence, fraud, corruption, laziness, poor stewardship of public monies, whatever - where the real threat lies?

I think that's where DOGE's biggest wins have been, identifying the underlying failures of the systems that allow the leeches to feed. Congress needs to institutionalize DOGE as an agency and make it the new mindset for all federal employees going forward.

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Walt Yocius's avatar

Thank you, James for you articulate and insightful comment! I agree we are at a tipping point. I pray that our citizens wake up and embrace their Creator with the values He gives for our flourishing and we continue to get back to common sense and re-establish our democratic republic as the Founders established it!

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Chris's avatar

Imagine living in Norway where 80% of your income is sucked away by the government to give to these “more needy” people. No wonder Europe is also flooded with immigrants, many also illegal.

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ComeQuicklyLord's avatar

I’m going to pass this on to others James—it could not have been written better.

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James Goodrich's avatar

Thanks CQL!!

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Dawn Ceylong's avatar

And we’re freaking surrounded by people that think like leeches 😡

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WRE's avatar

BUTBUTBUT...she cries so sweetly and... she wants to stay with her children (Tom Homan has the solution to that)!! You're just a meanie, James!!!

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RWinDC's avatar

Interestingly enough, if you were to sponsor a cousin from Italy and they were to try to sign up for benefits, you as their sponsor would be liable for the amount of those….. yet another way that “refugees” / the undocumented are treated differently. :(

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weedom1's avatar

So many good ones. Difficult to pick the winners. I'll go with the Harvard pig and the Credibility gone.

(Patel and Bongino should have skipped making this statement about Epstein's death. It did no one any good at all. )

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Alan Davis (FlyoverAlinCT)'s avatar

Sad. It was like a hostage video. At least provide enough information to reduce overworked skepticism.

Frank Pentangeli killed himself.

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marian johnson's avatar

keep tuned

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Science is Political 2.0's avatar

I know what is with that

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Sonia Nordenson's avatar

They have to give the straight story: there is truly no evidence of murder. Someone should have asked them if he's in a witness protection program.

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Brandy's avatar

Yes, I was glad when Patel was put in charge, but now I am wondering if he was the right pick. Either way, Epstein is dead, let's get the pedophiles and lock them up.

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Laurel's avatar

The pedophilia is kind of the cover issue. The resulting blackmail is likely more deeply important to what's happening now. In the same sense, who killed JFK is a gripping question, but who altered our country's direction and what they are doing now seems like the real importance.

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Brandy's avatar

Yes, but to get to the bottom, you need to know who is committing the coverups.

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weedom1's avatar

Yaaaa, I agree.

But people will cry when the U.S. has to build huge facilities to hold them all.

My theory is that Patel and Bongino fear being outnumbered due to the enormity of locking up a large percentage of people who work in government.

For the present, the Epstein files are such entrenched leverage that insiders fear total governmental collapse if they are revealed.

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Brandy's avatar

Maybe we need a total government collapse. That may be the only way we can clean it up and shrink it. However, I don't really know what repercussions would occur.

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weedom1's avatar

It would suk a lot, kind of like what the U.S. and Europe did to Ukraine.

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JIM WHARRY's avatar

Not so funny about the congressmen/women receiving bar codes. Someone noted, maybe it was Malone, that they should all be required to wear jackets with their sponsors' names and logos on them, like NASCAR drivers do. That way we can easily determine who they represent, because they sure don't represent their constituents.

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LB (Little Birdie)'s avatar

They represent the constituents who "like" them.

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Katurbuc's avatar

That’s such a great idea! True transparency!

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Garfield's avatar

The young lady depicted in the student loan image does not fit the message. She does not have rainbow colored hair and is dressed the way college girls used to dress. The tattoos are not visible nor are the piercings. What's up with that?

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Norma Odiaga's avatar

Lol!

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Nancy Benedict's avatar

My husband and I will be married 50 years in 2026 and I can concur that conversation is essential. Sometimes it’s contentious, other times sweet and agreeable. Opposites attract😊

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53rd Chapter's avatar

51 and counting here. We had a dust-up last night, but don't remember what it was about...

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Bill Allen's avatar

One of the few advantages of having age related memory problems is that these "dustups" are soon forgotten in substance but for some reason not forgotten in terms of emotion. And when is it too late to dissolve the relationship? I'm thinking age 75.

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53rd Chapter's avatar

I was half-kidding but I see you are not. Isn’t that where forgiveness is so important, on an emotional level? On a foundational level, where the rubber meets the road? “Forgive as the Lord forgave you.” “Father forgive them for they know not what they do.” Do we not tend to want to hold on to the hurt feelings, in some self-destructive way, rather than, not only to let them go, but to dismiss them with grace, and yes, true forgiveness?

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Nancy Benedict's avatar

Amen.

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Ned B.'s avatar

28 grams to the ounce, I learned that in school... by dealing drugs. (Joke... sort of).

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randall stoehr's avatar

The Haight Ashbury Special of the day in San Francisco.

Hahaha... So keep a "lid" on it!

No more Nickel or Dime bags....I'm sold out.....

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Karen Scribner's avatar

420 is not a time, it is the CA penal code for pot possession. Pot was invented by the US govt to get people against cannabis. It tricked the doctors in the AMA to vote against.

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JasonT's avatar

The Monopoly meme is spot on.

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LEA7's avatar

Parody appears synonymous with facts these days. Very funny ones today, and mostly wry. Safe travels homeward!

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James Lord's avatar

Oh, what now? There's some guy named Troy who keeps screaming that it should be "The Wizard of 31 g."

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Diana Thompson's avatar

My husband definitely has CSD. It is triggered more at Costco than Walmart. Sometimes I need to ask him to call on his "zen" before we enter the store, and to try walking slowly so he doesn't run people over with the cart and I don't get whiplash as I attempt to look around in the aisles.

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Diana Thompson's avatar

I realized after I wrote this, that it's not as dramatic at Walmart because we just grab a hand-basket. Easy to navigate between zombies with the hand-basket.

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LB (Little Birdie)'s avatar

Mine likes to sneak goodies into the cart at the last minute! Last time it was lemon candy coated almonds. It's futile to keep saying "We're not buying sugar". sigh...

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Diana Thompson's avatar

Funny how they often resemble 3-year-olds.

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Karen Scribner's avatar

Leave them at the store. You cannot buy almonds or almond flour here that is not contaminated with glyphosate.

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LB (Little Birdie)'s avatar

He's hidden the package,, but I think they were organic. From Italy? It was an almond covered in a lemon candy coating. There were candies like it my Grandmother would buy. Pastel colored hard shell with one almond inside. He's just still a big kid 🤷‍♀️

PS: Did you mean the candy or my hubby?

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Danielle's avatar

🤣 I leave mine at home by preference for this very reason.

Too hard to concentrate on finding things and making sure that no idiots are injured at the same time!

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LB (Little Birdie)'s avatar

Mine won't sit/stay.

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Diana Thompson's avatar

Good plan.

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Leonard's avatar

Your funnies are so awesome and educational and true!

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James Lord's avatar

"Are you in Great Britain?"

Remember last year when London's police chief, Mark Rowley, threatened to extradite Americans to the UK over speech?

https://www.foxnews.com/media/uk-police-commissioner-threatens-extradite-jail-us-citizens-over-social-media-posts-we-come-afte

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SR Miller's avatar

I heard yesterday ( 🤔 day before?) that there are 19 +/- people in legal trouble in jolly ol’ England for thought crimes against their foreign invaders - not threats, not actions, posing/posting an opinion [when is Farage gonna be scooped up?]

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James Lord's avatar

I'm surprised it's not more than that. I've seen numerous people using their phones to record visits from the police. Visits.... over Facebook posts and hurty words. Tommy Robinson just got out of prison (again). He has committed the crime of pointing things out.

I also remember from last year that Andrew Bridgen and John O'Looney were seeking to present a case to Rowley concerning amyloid clots and COVID jab democide, but I haven't heard anything since. I'm sure Rowley has other priorities.

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GMoody's avatar

I’m surprised Secretary Rubio hasn’t issued a travel alert for US citizens traveling to Great Britain.

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Ned B.'s avatar

Sayer Ji wrote an impassioned post today about his experience with "the Cross-Border Weaponization of Protected Speech" on this issue.

https://sayerji.substack.com/p/my-lawful-speech-was-recast-as-criminal

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Vivian Evans's avatar

So that's where my Mum got her advice about finding a good husband from: Nietzsche! That's what she advised me to look out for and think about ... and yes, she (and Nietzsche!) were right. It worked for us, until his too early death. Mind you - sharing enthusiasm for the same things is also a necessity.

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randall stoehr's avatar

Wizard of Ounces.....

Never looked at it that way.

Great way to start a Friday!

Who can resist the Land Of Oz?

We are living in it!

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Jay Zimmerman's avatar

Great episode of Friday funnies today! If all of the subject matter in those memes and comics today remedied then we would be in pretty good shape! Thanks for showing our miserable condition with Grace and humor!

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Not Me's avatar

Epstein didn’t just kill himself—-heard he performed his own autopsy too.

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