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BTW Hubby was corresponding with a Russian scientist doing similar studies in Siberia using domesticated Russian horses.

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In my opinion Iran was never just about the Middle East, it was about world peace and breaking the grip of the Cabal. That is why there is such a stark contrast between how the press and the rest of the world views the Ukrainian war vs the military op against Iran.

LIVE Q&A: Iran, Lawfare, and Why the Establishment Is Going All-In Against Trump

PARTIAL ROUGH TRANSCRIPT

32:00 Barbara Boyd: On a bill in Congress about merging Israeli & US technological intelligence: “ Well Hey. It’s already pretty effectively merged in terms of the Mossad and the COA and has been ever since James J Angleton created in essence the Mossad from the CIA. To me none of this has any magnitude equivalent to the complete merger of our intelligence community with MI6 and Five Eyes and NATO. Which is far, far, far more dangerous, more disgusting and more off the mark in terms of a native US-Based intelligence compared to anything Israel could think about…

36:20 Iran having a nuclear weapon is a threat to the world. Iran started off negotiations with Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff by saying, we have enough nuclear material for nine bombs right now. That is a genuine threat to the world. You are seeing how the IRGC operates before your eyes. It has been that way for a very, very long time. There is no terrorist operation in the world which doesn’t benefit in some fundamental way. They are not independent. And most of what the IRGC is and everything else comes from the City of London’s long time control of every single terrorist operation in the Middle East. Be they Shiite or Be they Sunni.

Trump stopped that at the beginning of his very first term with his visit to Saudi Arabia. Trump said, the USA is out of this game PERIOD. And that in part is the long history of what this is really all about.

37:50 Mike Steger: The Middle East is the cockpit for escalated war on a Global scale. Iran was set up as part of that agenda. We have documented this. Bernard Lewis, Brzeziński, this was radical Islam used as a basic weapon to threaten the world. [And push it] into a kind of chaos which then Lloyds and others would control and profit and monetize.

Trump realizes that [and] he has dedicated more time in his presidency to stabilizing the Middle East. And there is no doubt that the situation in the Middle East on October 7th which escalated into this horrific war in Gaza came out of Iran and Iran’s interests – Largely British – but through Iran to destabilize the Middle East AND PREVENT THE ABRAHAM ACCORDS, TO PREVENT LONG-TERM PEACE AND STABILITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST. [Ghost in the last video on this page goes into the actual play-by-play of how the Abraham Accords were de-railed. -GC]

38:40 The reality is you have a military cult in the IRGC which controls upward of 50% of the entire Iranian economy. I do not think the clerics or the so-called democratically elected political representatives have had any real control in that country for quite some time if ever… I think the situation is far more dangerous than Iran. And I will point to just one clear evidence of that.

[Ghost goes even further and thinks Iran was all about starting a nuclear war. As I wrote in THE CASE FOR NUCLEAR WAR I think the Cabal is crazy enough to want to start one. –GC]

Kim Jong-un and Trump could have one-on-one direct dialogue. They are having ongoing letter and other correspondence as we speak. He has had that since he came back in. There was NEVER a chance to have dialogue with the clerics or the Ayatollah because the reality is the Ayatollah has not really been holding real power. I think that is the fundamental difference. You can’t trust Iran because you actually don’t have a sense of who is really in power. That is why the negotiations have been hung up. Because there is not a real center of power in Iran to give it a coherent nation state status. [So WHO and WHERE is that center of power? In the UK where the Ayatollah and top IRGC commanders have property?? GC]

43:00 Mike Steger: I think there’s been a kind of a fight in China and it’s not been maybe a balanced one per se. What the communism of Mao was set up, largely by kind of British and globalist interests, to play, is the exact role China was beginning to play in this kind of globalist globalized economy. They became the kind of sweat shop of the world. Cheap labor supply, cheap manufacturing, and what you saw was a rise of billionaires dominating China. And that’s been a kind of corruption that China now is trying to confront and clean out.

What Trump’s challenging China is to say, look, that doesn’t function. That doesn’t work. And there are some people in China at various political levels who recognize that that is not the pathway to go. That it’s led to intrinsic corruption in China, that it leads to political instability. But China’s got a difficult problem. They’ve got to try to hold the nation together. And it’s been a 2,000-year-old problem in China. The Chinese like to break off into their own separate provinces, their own separate princedoms and kingdoms. It’s hard to hold the nation together. So that’s kind of an underlying threat that China constantly faces. And they’ve tried to nationalize with the Mandarin language. There’s all kinds of things they’ve had to do that most people wouldn’t have any idea of, to try to rectify this lack of real national unity inside China… [This agrees with the little I have learned of China. Ghost & Alpha Warrior distinguish between the CCP and Xi. The CCP being the Chinese Deep State. Also given the amount of trouble Xi has handling China, I doubt he wants to actually control anymore land except as tribute states (Belt & Road). –GC]

45:00 Trump has shown in Iran that we are killing the old system. The vestiges of this kind of divided world, this kind of a new cold war era of China, Iran, Russia, North Korea as a block. He’s saying, “We’re killing that system. You’re not going to benefit off of cheap Iranian oil, but we’re going to have a much longer term stable system led by the United States, founded on the US dollar-based system, but based on nations having the right to industrialize, build up, and to thrive. A system of nation states.” And I think there are some in China. I think probably this is the dialogue President Trump is having with Chairman Xi that this is where he’s taking the world and that chairman Xi is well aware that that would be best long-term for China because it really doesn’t have the ability to play the role of a global economic hegemon. That’s just British imperial thinking that’s made its way into China through various aspects including Maoism. So, I think that’s the presentation Trump is making. And I think he’s got to be forceful because if you don’t kill the old system, it’s very difficult for people holding on to the status quo to ever leave it and jump into the new one. I would just add that, China was essentially manipulated based on the WTO — this whole idea of globalization — to become the sweat shop of the world. That’s not really what any nation wants to be….

Steve Bannon and others who continue to insist that we have to go to war with China are not understanding what the president is actually doing and that’s why Mike is quite right…

51:00 Adam: And then here’s one from Cool Cool Roy which I think is actually a much more important question than people realize. “Would you agree that playing the hate and blame game is one of the greatest forms of self- oppression and government oppression on earth?” Before I open it up, let me just say yes. And the way that people describe it sometimes is the victim mentality. Become victimized by some other group or some other ideology, some other identity. Barbara and Mike, your thoughts on this super chat here.

51:30 Barbara Boyd: I think this is a good one. Mike’s pointing to me, so I’ll start.

Okay. Aristotle and Carl Schmidt, the German legal theorist and Nazi, basically had this idea that you don’t know who you are unless you have an enemy. In other words, you define yourself by your enemy. By something terribly negative. You don’t define who you really are, what your mission is here on this earth, and what reality actually is in terms of of how you deal with it. That is human. What Carl Schmidt and Aristotle believed is best deal because you end up in a cycle of endless wars out of all of that and kind of tribal policing of yourselves based on tribal ideas and identities rather than superseding them to actually fulfill our mission here on earth. Genesis tells us what it is. Go forth, multiply and subdue the earth. I really think that’s completely different than either Aristotle or Carl Schmidt.

Carl Schmidt, — I just went and reminded myself, his entire thesis was based on the friend – enemy distinction. That was kind of like the central thesis to it. This kind of issue of building these gangs and encounter gangs of different varieties and then having that kind of gang counter gang warfare play out in the public sphere. That in my mind is basically what’s been controlling essentially all of modern politics. It is using that control mechanism in one way or another for sure. Mike, any thoughts?

53:42 Mike Steger: Yeah, Let’s just take it into the British question, because this is how they tried to control their empire. They did it n East Africa. 👉But probably the most famous case is in India. Where Hindus were the majority, the British power would back the Muslim minority and to aggravate the sense that the Hindus had a right if they had the majority to direct where they wanted to go. But in the Muslim controlled areas near the Indus in West India which is now Pakistan they would back the Hindu minority and aggravate the Muslim majority to the point where you would get this kind of potential for a major backlash👈… It’s not parody in terms of the kind of conditions, but you get this emotional backlash that creates civil war. And that’s exactly what happened in India when the British left in 1947. A civil war broke out on religious lines, killing up to two million people. And that’s the kind of thing you see them attempting to provoke, whether it’s in Belfast or the Henry Nowak: case or the George Floyd dynamic in the United States. They’re trying to create and instigate this kind of reaction. [Crypto Rich, a Muslim, informed Mike of this in a lot greater detail in his recent podcast. -GC]

You can see this if you go to X because it’s so visceral so guttural that it dominates a lot of the social media discussion. That’s why, on Promethean Action, we focus on unifying the country. Our strength is unity and orienting towards the redevelopment of the nation. To rebuilding it just like you want to unify the church as an ecumenical mission, as a good Christian, you want to unify the nation towards a mission of industrial and scientific advancement…


AI DATA CENTERS

1:02:07 Mike Steger: I think there’s a number of things. It’s clear that this data center AI comes out of Silicon Valley. There’s very little to trust about a lot of these institutions. The way they’ve run the social media process, what they’ve run with social control, what they did with censorship, how they were back doors to the intelligence community. All of that’s true. All of that’s worth not trusting. But at the same time, there is a real viability to AI applications, but not necessarily the way that a lot of these AI firms are talking about it.

So, there’s a lot of this idea that we can deliver it to personal consumers and it’s going to be some big financial gain based like social media was broad-based consumption on every phone, every young person. The reality is that AI is probably going to be far more profitable and useful as it’s integrated into the re-industrialization of the United States because there’s real applications connecting it to an industrial robotic and high-tech process of manufacturing of logistics. So there’s real benefit to these kinds of advancements. It’s always a double-edged sword. How do you apply it? Do you apply it towards social control which has been the IC Silicon Valley modus operandi for 25, 30 40 years or is it going to be applied towards a new re-industrialized United States? There are certainly very clear aspects of Trump, of the JD Vance, of this new Republican party, who see that they’re building up the industrial firms, they’re broadening out the defense contractor base with new firms who are looking to apply these things, to integrate it into real manufacturing and production, to increase the kind of broad-based wealth of the country.

Now that said, how we deal with data centers is something that we’ve got to think through as a country. Doing it in big farmland areas doesn’t make a lot of sense. There was a proposal to do it in Buick City up in Flint, which was prior to River Rouge where Ford did the largest factory at the time. It was Buick City up in Flint. That was a massive start to finish raw material to finish automotive product in one plant.

Now that’s been laid waste for a long time and there was proposal to put data centers there. Now Flynn has knocked it out. Like to me it makes a lot more sense to put them into brown fields where you have connected water and power supply than to do it into open farmlands. Much like power centers should be integrated into city centers and industry, not just, solar panels all over our corn fields. So, I think we’ve got to think this thing through. I think that there’s plays on both sides as Barbara’s pointed out. Maybe she wants to go into more depth today.

There’s clearly other aspects. There was a lot of propaganda push from Russian news networks to target our fracking industry. You know, 15, 20 years ago, they really tried to undercut the idea of fracking. They got the whole left in America to be anti-fracking even though that’s what’s created all of this natural gas that these green environmentalists have been obsessed with. The same thing is true today with China because there is a real race for AI that’s real and largely because China sees it. China knows even maybe better than a lot of Americans that this AI is going to be a boon towards their manufacturing and productive sector and they sought to have global control of that. So I think the question is re-industrializing thinking about how we use these AI data centers. Even as Trump said making sure that these AI companies are treated like pharmaceutical companies. You can’t just release these new models. We have to know what they’re actually going to be doing. What kind of effect they have….

so we’ve got to regulate it. We might have to integrate it, but we have to be smart about it. It’s a double-edged sword. We can’t become anti-technology, but we can’t allow the model of Silicon Valley and social control to continue to dominate the way we let these companies become big major firms in the United States. And I think that’s a political question. It’s a question of political power. And it’s the kind of challenge that self-government creates because we can just either hand it to the experts and be ruled by oligarchy or if we’re going to deal with it, we’ve got to deal with it in a smart way and not just react because there are certain forces that want to control our reaction. They want us to react and shut this thing down and we’ve got to be smart about it. So that’s kind of how I think about it.

1:06:40 Barbara Boyd: I had pointed out I think last week that Kevin O’Leary who you know is famous from TV, is actually building a data center in Utah and started getting all sorts of strange stuff that he wasn’t doing in terms of zoning and everything else. Big attacks on him. He hired a firm to actually track down where all this was coming from. Unsurprisingly he proved that it was coming from China. Which makes a whole lot of sense. Okay, We’re in a race as to who is going to actually develop the useful aspects of this first and foremost. Data centers are a requirement of that. That said, you’ve got to take into account environment. You shouldn’t be building it on, farmland, which should be in agriculture at this point. And is a really big deal out there because we have problems with our farmers, which have nothing to do with AI. [Goes into food Cartels]

POLITICAL ISLAM

1:50:00 Adam: Sha says “I think you are missing the plan of Islam.” Barbara and Mike your thoughts on this one? Are are we missing the plan of Islam?

Barbara Boyd: No, we’re not missing it. You got to understand a little bit about Islam as a religion. All right? There’s two sides to it. There is so-called political Islam, which was largely an invention. And you know, some of my Muslim friends will actually get mad at me at this point, but that was actually an invention of the Arab Bureau of British Secret Intelligence for purposes of using Islam as a weapon in this whole dynamic in the Middle East to have gangs and counter gangs. Basically, revisionist Zionism versus political Islam. The Muslim Brotherhood being the biggest example of that. Obviously the Muslim Brotherhood and those who are looking to have a re-founding of the caliphate, even Turkey wants that, are looking towards proselytizing other people in the world to become part of Islam or they’re considered to be enemies of the religion that is essentially what you’re talking about when you talk about the Plan of Islam. Most Muslims do not subscribe to this at all. So, you got to be very careful here and make the distinction and figure out whether you’re being pushed into something that really is not all that big a deal. I think the last time I looked demographically, the Muslims constitute about 1% of the United States total in various areas of the country. [Google says 1.3% to 1.5%GC] They obviously have settled, because of immigration patterns and family patterns and the religion and everything else. People get freaked out about it because they think oh my god this group of people is here and they’re not adhering to anything in the community and they haven’t been absorbed into the community. That’s a problem. It’s a problem we face across the board in terms of immigration in our country.

👉But, in order for people to actually integrate into a culture, you got to be able to define the culture they’re integrating themselves into.👈

And if you look at our culture in the United States at this point, and you asked yourself, if I was coming here and I actually am being told you need to integrate into American culture, what would I see? What would I see? Would I see Graham Platner and think that I got to integrate with that? That’s kind of a problem. It’s not as simple as the plan, which everybody’s kind of attached to at this point of, oh my god. they’re going to come here and essentially take us all over. It is a source of tension in various communities in the United States around this question of, you know, becoming an American and identifying being an American as your essential identity. But in order for people to do that, we got to do a much better job of actually defining what a citizen and citizenship in the United States actually means. So that’s how to answer your question.…

118:16 Mark Steger: And let me just go back to the last question because I think what people are missing, I mean Islam has been radically altered by a lot of the foreign funding [and] British operations over the last 50 years. What Trump’s message to a lot of these Gulf Kingdoms, the Saudis, the entire Islamic world is in 2017, knock it off. We’re not going to be funding ISIS and al-Qaeda any longer as we did under Obama. We’re not going to be funding Hamas in this operation. You guys have got to change the orientation away from this caliphate.

But the bigger question is for too long people in the United States and in Europe have taken Christian civilization for granted. There’s not a clarity of what it is, what its principles are, how it manifests as a worldview, what we’re committed to developing, what our role in the universe is. We don’t have a people [who] might go to church. They might want to oppose the kind of cultural decadence and destruction of Hollywood and the elites, the liberal elites in this country. We have not fortified in a theological and deeper cultural way, a worldview that expresses the kind of strength and beauty and the kind of power of scientific discovery that Christian civilization really means. And I think people have to have a sense that that’s what’s needed. That’s what we’re doing with Promethean Action. That’s what we’ve recognized for a long time. And we’re developing it from the standpoint of how this kind of cultural outlook has got to be strengthened and made more conscious in the minds and hearts of the American people. And if we have that, as Barbara said, we’re going to recruit a lot more of the people that are here towards a real sense of what our civilization is based on. And we’re going to counter probably the most insidious effects which has been things like the rap culture. This rap music culture, this anti-American materialist kind of culture which has recruited a lot of the immigrant communities.

Parents come in hoping to maybe integrate and be part of it, but they’ve got their traditions and cultures. It’s their children. You’ll see this in France. the second & third generations have become less and less assimilated and integrated because the culture that’s been promoted has largely been anti the very principles of our civilization. So the question is are we making clear the real principles of what a western Christian civilization represent. And I think that’s what we’ve got. That’s what Trump’s looking to revive….

Speaking of Iran, and Obama’s ‘Agreement’ There is Obama’s Handler, Valerie
Jarrett.


Flashback: Who is Valerie Jarrett?

….According to FBI files obtained by Judicial Watch, Jarrett’s father, Dr. James E. Bowman, a pathologist and geneticist, “had extensive ties to Communist associations and individuals.”

The files also show that “in 1950, Bowman was in communication with a paid Soviet agent Alfred Stern, who fled to Prague after getting charged with espionage.”

Alfred Stern and his wife, Martha Dodd Stern, “were indicted in absentia on espionage charges on Sept. 9, 1957, The New York Times reported. The indictment charged them with conspiring to act as Soviet agents, receiving American military, commercial and industrial information and transmitting it to the Soviet Union. The indictment charged that they used their house in Ridgefield, Conn., for meetings with Soviet agents.”

Dr. James Bowman “was also a member of a Communist-sympathizing group called the Association of Internes and Medical Students,” reported Judicial Watch. “After his discharge from the Army Medical Corps in 1955, Bowman moved to Iran to work.” Valerie Jarret was born in Iran on Nov. 14, 1956.

The Association of Internes and Medical Students, according to the FBI files, is a group that “has long been a faithful follower of the Communist Party line.” Bowman had “deep ties to Chicago,” reported Judicial Watch, “where he often collaborated with fellow Communists.”

Judicial Watch further stated that the Jarrett family Communist ties “also include a business partnership between Jarrett’s maternal grandpa, Robert Rochon Taylor (1899-1957) and [Alfred] Stern, the Soviet agent associated with her dad.”

Valerie Jarrett’s father-in-law, Vernon Jarrett (1917-2004), “was also another big-time Chicago Communist,” according to the FBI files. “For a period of time Vernon Jarrett appeared on the FBI’s Security Index and was considered a potential Communist saboteur who was to be arrested in the event of a conflict with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR),” Judicial Watch said.

According to the FBI documents, Vernon Jarrett’s job was to “write propaganda for a Communist Party front group in Chicago that would ‘disseminate the Communist Party line among … the middle class.”

“Faithful to her roots, [Valerie Jarrett] still has connections to many Communist and extremist groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood,” said Judicial Watch. “Jarrett and her family also had strong ties to Frank Marshall Davis, a big Obama mentor and Communist Party member with an extensive FBI file.”


Discover the NetworksValerie Jarrett

…The federal government placed Bowman [ValJar’s Dad — GC] under special surveillance because of his involvement with the European Recovery Program (ERP)—i.e., the Marshall Plan. Historian Paul Kengor explains: “This ERP/Marshall Plan association is very intriguing, and troubling. One of the most insidious forms of Communist Party agitation in the 1940s and 1950s was to frame the Marshall Plan as a form of vile American imperialism. It was the Kremlin line, pushed by Stalin and Molotov and mimicked by [the] Communist Party USA. One of the worst peddlers of this line was Frank Marshall Davis, who characterized the Marshall Plan in his columns as a ‘device’ to maintain ‘white imperialism.’ The plan, by Davis’s rendering, was a disgusting ‘oppression of non-white peoples everywhere,’ a slavery purchased by Secretary of State Marshall’s ‘billions of U.S. dollars … to bolster the tottering empires of England, France, Belgium, Holland and the other western exploiters of teeming millions of humans.’ … Was James Bowman [promoting the same notions about the Marshall Plan]? I cannot tell from … his FBI file, but I can say that Bowman’s work for, or position on, the Marshall Plan was the item of special concern to the FBI.”

Bowman was also a member of the Association of Internes and Medical Students, a group that, according to Bowman’s FBI file, engaged in un-American activities and “has long been a faithful follower of the Communist Party line.” …

Bowman was also very active with the communist student group American Youth for Democracy as well as the International Labor Defense and the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born (ACPFB), three of Frank Marshall Davis’s favorite organizations. Paul Kengor writes the following about ACPFB:

“This group had been so extreme that the Democratic Congress’s huge ‘Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States’ (published in 1944) devoted a lengthy 15-page section just to ACPFB, atop innumerable added references elsewhere in the report. Key members included prominent African-American communists Langston Hughes and Paul Robeson, the gushing admirer of Joe Stalin, plus the usual assemblage of duped liberals/progressives, ranging from theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, to the great Orson Welles, to famed movie actor Edward G. Robinson.

“As the Congressional report noted, ACPFB ‘was founded by the Communist Party in order to exploit racial divisions in the United States for its own revolutionary purposes.Its modus operandi was to polarize Americans along racial lines in order to advance the Soviet agenda. Closely linked to International Labor Defense, the primary (concealed) intention of ACPFB was to protect foreign communists who came to America and agitated for the Soviet Comintern. The core objective was to prevent deportation of these foreign-born communists living in America. One such figure was German communist Gerhart Eisler, who became a major CPUSA cause, and whose name was omnipresent throughout Frank Marshall Davis’s Chicago Star….

1961-1983

When Valerie Jarrett was five, her family relocated to London for one year before settling in Chicago’s elite Hyde Park neighborhood in 1963.

For additional Information on Valerie Jarrett, click here.

Why did Jarrett’s family go to London for a year?

How the British Invented Communism (And Blamed It on the Jews) — The Untold Story of Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky, MI6, and the Russian Revolution

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A different take on the Middle East situation.

The Republican War mongers and Israel are NOT happy about the possibility of peace in the Middle East. Is Israel going to get Greece to fight Turkey? Israel cannot fight directly because Turkey is in NATO. Also the Israeli Draft of people into the IDF is having repercussions. It is very disruptive of business and commerce. Dual citizens are leaving Israel to escape the Draft and the Ultra-Orthodox Jews are now praying for the fall of Israel.


WARNING: Ghost does not like the expansionist plans of Israel or the Zionists. However he has facts and background not normally available. Much of it complements the information from the Promethean Action video above. The video is 1 ½ hours.

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scott467

Looks like SpaceX stock (ticker: SPCX), which had its IPO on Friday, is popular with retail investors. From James at InvestAnswers (youtoob channel), this is from his Patreon website, not sure the link will work for non-subscribers or not:

SpaceX Continues To Take Oxygen from other Stocks
2 hours ago

James: Retail investors are pouring money into SpaceX stock so fast that it’s leaving almost nothing for other companies. In just the past two trading days, everyday buyers purchased nearly as much SpaceX stock as they bought of every other U.S. stock combined during the entire previous week.

On Monday alone, they bought $93.8 million worth — that’s about 73% of all the money retail investors spent on any single stock that day.

FUN FACT RE IA13

The other TOP names retail like are all IA13 NAMES….. wow money also flowed into Marvell, Micron, and Broadcom, SpaceX completely dominated retail buying.”

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kalbokalbs

If I had spare money, I’d invest in most anything Elon, except EVs.

EVs, Elon’s version need to be able to fuel as convenient as ICE vehicles.

  • Same or lower cost. It’s ALL convenience and dollars.
  • Stop talking about 80% charge. No One fuels their ICE vehicle to an 80% of fuel tank capacity. Simply ignorant concept.

As Cooth points out, USG is the boogeyman to Elon’s success.

pgroup2

Tesla is not a public car company.

It is a testing platform for robots and the cars are for this gig.

https://www.boringcompany.com/

TradeBait2

Well done. 👍

kalbokalbs

Thank you. Slow Guy knew that.

I’d NOT invest in EV…was my point. Yes, Tesla is bigger than EV. My point stands. No Tesla investment.

EVs are dysfunctional at this point. No investment.

scott467

Hopefully SpaceX will announce that they are buying Tesla in the next 30 days.

Then nearly all of his companies and products and services will be under one umbrella.

Barb Meier

Propane tanks are always filled to 80 percent.

kalbokalbs

Good to know. thank you.

Grok

No, Teslas are not only charged to 80% — you can charge them to 100% whenever you want.
Tesla recommends setting your daily charge limit to 80% for most vehicles (especially those with NCA/NMC batteries) to maximize long-term battery health, but it’s not a hard restriction.

Key Points from Tesla’s Official Guidance:

  • Daily use: Keep the charge limit at ~80%. This reduces stress on the battery and helps preserve capacity over time.
  • Long trips: You can (and should) temporarily raise it to 100% when you need the extra range. Just try to drive soon after so the battery doesn’t sit at 100% for long periods.
  • The car’s touchscreen or Tesla app shows the recommended daily limit for your specific battery type. Some batteries (like certain LFP packs) have different recommendations, often encouraging 100% more regularly.

Why 80%?
Charging to lower states of charge (around 50-80%) generally causes less degradation than routinely sitting at or near 100%. Tesla has shifted from older ~90% recommendations to 80% for many models based on real-world data.

You can freely adjust the slider in the app or car anytime — it’s very flexible.

Bottom line: Charge to 80% most days for best longevity, but go to 100% guilt-free when you need the range. Many owners do exactly that with excellent results after hundreds of thousands of miles.

Barb Meier

Fascinating. With propane, I think it is about the expansion and contraction of the gas depending on the outside temperature.

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kalbokalbs

Agree.

pgroup2

Coupled with a law of physics that a liquid cannot be compressed; only put under pressure.

Commonly called hydraulic.

eilert

cthulhu

It’s just got so much potential so long as government keeps their paws off of it……mars base, asteroid mining, moonbase…..

kalbokalbs

Leaks stop and divots started filling in?

cthulhu

Will unwrap tomorrow. In the meantime, doxycycline is destroying my digestive system and I can’t go to sleep until things settle (which should be soon).

patfrederick

I hope you feel better soon!

cthulhu

TY. In the greater scheme of things, this is but a minor irritant.

patfrederick

if it matters to you, it matters. I hope it resolves quickly.

cthulhu

As do I. Thank you for your well-wishes. I’ll know more tomorrow.

How much more is an open question.

cthulhu

As an example, they swabbed the divot on Friday and sent it to the lab to culture.

Today, I found out that it came back “positive”.

Naturally, I asked, “positive for what?” “Dunno.”

“Is the antibiotic I’m taking appropriate for what got cultured?” “Dunno.”

Thinking to self, “are we sure it’s not MRSA?” Figuring I might find out more tomorrow.

pgroup2

If it’s MRSA, then you’re in a big club.

MRSA is in every hospital. It is not what it once was. It is no longer controllable and frankly is of no concern medically.

If you get an infection from it, vancomycin or a related bug killer will deal with it.

cthulhu

Yes, but they’ve got me taking doxycycline.

TradeBait2

Kind of what wifey went through with her eye infection. The lab never came back with anything conclusive, so the response was always, “Dunno. We want you to try XXX.”

For her, the DMSO/saline eye drops along with IVM parasite cleanse did the trick over the course of months. Vision totally restored with improvements over her pre-infection condition.

Some combo of that plus potentially other ingredients may help you with your individual situation when this trad approach is finished.

🙏 for your relief and healing.

cthulhu

Yeah, I’m still playing the game, but it’s annoying that they want me to play like an idiot.

And thank you for your prayers.

TradeBait2

Berberine is incredible

cthulhu

Yeah, I’m pretty much off of them while taking the doxycyclene — only two more days!

cthulhu

Speaking of which, I wonder how Carl is doing…..

cthulhu

After the side-effects of the doxycycline, I feel like I’m half-prepped for a colonoscopy. I wish docs would seriously consider stacking procedures so you didn’t have to prep twice.

pgroup2

You might try insisting on it. Just a thought.

cthulhu

I have heard rumors that colonoscopies are backed-up (heh) about six months.

TradeBait2

True – at least around here. SisterIL has been trying to get an appointment and it is about that far out.

If we only knew what could have caused a spike that created the need…

patfrederick

  :wpds_shock:   :wpds_lol: 

TheseTruths

How frustrating. I hope and pray you find out something definitive soon. 🙏

cthulhu

OK, new developments —

New doctor (the 3rd). Ixnay on the ornate wrappings. Culture was staph aureas — change oral antibiotic to Keflex. Visit again on Friday.

TradeBait2

Hope this works for you quickly, coothie.

Firefly

Time to get in on a stock is EARLY!

(Wisdom from a non-stock owner)

kalbokalbs

Link works for Slow Guy.

scott467

Thank you, good to know for future reference 👍

kalbokalbs

Which is why Slow Guy Posted, until we have an opportunity to read the MOU, I trust The Plan. Trust Trump. Not going to WAG what’s in the plan. Trump’s bottom line has been consistent.

I do hope Trump literally reads the plan, at a presser. As well as release the plan, which they of course will, after it is signed.

Tangent.

While I think Trump would relish being at the signing, I doubt he’ll be there.

Trump has said as much. IRGC would like nothing better than embarrass Trump on a Global stage…IRGC refuse to sign. Outside of WH, it has been WH (unofficial?) policy, Trump and Vance not together.

TradeBait2

Agree, Not smart for both to be together anywhere outside of America.

Islamist azzhats only understand force and violence. Sign, then prepare to kick their azzes into Hell for violating the agreement. If they wise up, it will be better for the Persians. If not, the Persians need to growacet and take back their country. not our job. Our job to open the strait and destroy their nuke program. Done.

TheseTruths

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Scott Presler:

I’m being pressured to STOP talking about the SAVE America Act

& they don’t want me to return to South Dakota.

I won’t be bullied & I cannot be bought.

Due to these bullying attempts, I’m also looking at coming to Sturgis.

What traitors don’t want the SAVE America Act passed?

kalbokalbs

R-Cons (save a few), every Dumocrat (except maybe Fetterman), AND Deep State.

Then there are foreign actors. Chinee AND Brits.

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pgroup2

Sturgis will love you as long as you spend money there.  😂 

TradeBait2

R-conss are telling you they have benefitted from the election steals and theft of taxpayer money just as much as the Demoncraps.

Only back Trump endorsements. If none, choose the lesser of evils.

TheseTruths

Wall Street Mav:

When Jimmy Carter purchased the teachers’ union’s endorsement in 1979 by establishing the Department of Education, the USA was #1 in education.

46 years and $4.1 trillion dollars later, the USA is #40. We are, however, #1 in cost per student.

pgroup2

Jimmah, we sure don’ miss ya.

But at least you got a boat named after you.

TradeBait2

👍

Jimmah was as corrupt as any Demoncrap who walked this planet. His media celebrated faith was even leftist oriented. He left the SBC because of support for homosexuality and other perversions. He was Naval Academy buddies with one of the Stephens brothers, the R-con Jack, who bankrolled the Clintons as well as other Uniparty participants and causes.

Stephens became the Chair of Augusta National in GA and over the Masters golf tournament due to their friendship and connections.

Jimmah left quite the legacy on earth.

kalbokalbs

Well, Jimmah is no longer the worst US president, ever.

Replaced by hussein, who was replaced by Maggot.

pgroup2

Technically, he didn’t steal it. He got people to volunteer.

With an E.O. no less.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102

From the EO:

“… do hereby prohibit the hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States …”

I wonder how much 1933 gold is still sitting in foreign hands.

Or just moved to Puerto Rico, for example.

Or maybe even Gitmo.

The mind boggles.

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TheseTruths

Secretary Sean Duffy:

WHOA: OHIO JUST PULLED 1,200 FOREIGN TRUCKERS FROM THE ROAD…

They couldn’t FOLLOW OUR RULES and prove they were here LEGALLY, so Ohio TOOK ACTION.

Get ready, more crackdowns to come! CLICK HERE

cincinnati.com/story/news/202…

kalbokalbs

Highways, outside of blue shitholes are getting safer.

Duffy doing a great job.

cthulhu

Compare and contrast with Bootygigjudge.

pgroup2

That’s Mister Chest Feeder to you, bub.

TheseTruths

This might be news already reported; the date on the tweet is June 16. The video contains the juicy details of charges against the SPLC.

Juanita Broaddrick:

HALLELUJAH!! SPLC has been indicted !

eilert

Let’s guess they get an Obama judge.

TradeBait2

Bring the hammer.

TheseTruths

I love that the Florida AG has issued a statement to MLB for warning players who put Bible verses on their caps during “sacred” not-proud month.

Do you practice religious discrimination in Florida, @MLB?

You’ll be hearing from my office soon.

TradeBait2

Love baseball. Hate, and I mean that literally, the actions of the MLB organization.

I feel the same way about the NFL and NBA.

So I am equal opportunity hater of the words and actions of pissant, uniparty supported, globalist, evil doers.

The problem is they are also trying to ruin the college sports I love.

Did I say I really hated the actions of those people? If not, I can say it again and again and again…

TheseTruths

So, you’re hanging out in the cockpit of a 737. Waiting for taxi clearance…and you see this.

(Blue Angels and Thunderbirds fly over.)

kalbokalbs

Very cool.   :cheers: 

TradeBait2

That is so freakin’ awesome!

TheseTruths

ABC News:

McDonald’s is bringing back fried apple pies for the first time in more than three decades to honor America’s 250th birthday.

Starting June 23.

kalbokalbs

Yay! Used to eat plenty of them.

Though, McDonald’s no longer on my pit stop list.

pgroup2

Sure hope they’re made from WA state apples and not Chinese apples.

TheseTruths

Some of the apples come from Michigan.

https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/about-our-food/meet-our-suppliers/apples-mike-dietrich.html

Leo Dietrich & Sons’ Story

At their orchard in Conklin, Michigan – on a plot of land that the family has owned since the 1850s – Leo Dietrich & Sons hand-pick apples at their peak of ripeness. This means they pick about 10,000 apples a day during harvest season.

So how do they produce so many? With the help of honey bees to pollinate the trees and Pheromone traps to reduce the need for pesticides, Leo Dietrich & Sons can supply some of the crisp, juicy apples that are used to produce the apple slices that go into a McDonald’s Happy Meal®.

“McDonald’s has high standards for us. It’s our job to see to it that we deliver that good-tasting apple.” – Mike Dietrich

pgroup2

Good to know we aren’t alone.

TradeBait2

They would be wise to do a lot of things that people actually loved to eat from the past. That they don’t is why we no longer go.

Aubergine

I have to admit it; I am SO excited, lol!

TheseTruths

BREAKING: Trump-Backed Candidates Win Republican Primary Races in Georgia and Oklahoma

The midterms are coming up fast. The GOP needs good people in these races. In Georgia, Mike Collins pulled out a win.

In Oklahoma, Trump-backed Kevin Hern won his primary.

TheseTruths

Projection much? 😂

WATCH: “Ready for Any Bulsh*t Maneuver” – Election Denier Democrats Claim Trump “Plans on Rigging” 2026 Elections, Announce New “Election Security Task Force”
Some of the least trustworthy villians:

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and Democratic Senators Raphael Warnock (GA), Mark Warner (VA), Alex Padilla (CA), Dick Durbin (IL), and Adam Schiff (CA) starred in the video to announce “the most expansive protective effort for voting and elections that our caucus has ever undertaken.”

What a joke.

TradeBait2

All the Demoncraps have is lies and more lies using their fake media whores to distribute.

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Firefly

Yup! Projection!

  :insane: 

TheseTruths

O’Keefe Media Group Goes Undercover, Infiltrates New Jersey Antifa – Identifies Members

An O’Keefe Media Group journalist went undercover for eight months and infiltrated New Jersey Antifa.

The journalist infiltrated the private Signal chats of a group known as “NJ BURN.”

“Inside the group’s Signal chats, members discussed plans for port blockades, riot activity, support networks for criminal defendants, and celebrated acts of political violence. Using names, profile photos, and digital receipts, OMG traced individuals to positions throughout some of America’s most influential organizations,” James O’Keefe said.

Inside the Signal “NJ BURN” chat included a Rutgers University Director, T-Mobile AI leaders and more.

The chat members celebrated Charlie Kirk’s murder and hoped that Trump would be assassinated. 

NJ ANTIFA INDIVIDUALS IDENTIFIED:

• Alexyss P. – New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault Community Council Member @NJ_CASA

• Jim Keady @JWKeady – Former New Jersey Democratic Candidate

• Woojin Ko – OpenAI Research Engineer @OpenAI

• Beleckecom Moffouk – T-Mobile AI Automation Expert @TMobile

• Zainab Tanvir – Imaging Director at Rutgers University @RutgersU

• Amanda Marie Dominguez – Rutgers University PHD Student in Education @RutgersU

• Aditi Rao @aditilrao – Princeton University Classics @Princeton

• Shannon Smythe – Princeton Theological Seminary Field Education Director @Princeton

• Cres Vellucci @CresVellucci – National Lawyers Guild Co-Founder/Co-Member & ACLU Board Of Directors @NLGnews @ACLU

• Celine Semaan @celinecelines – Co-Founder Slow Factory Labs @theslowfactory

More at the link.

TradeBait2

Saw this yesterday – this sting was excellent. Well done by OMG.

eilert

This part is incorrect:

38:40 The reality is you have a military cult in the IRGC which controls upward of 50% of the entire Iranian economy. I do not think the clerics or the so-called democratically elected political representatives have had any real control in that country for quite some time if ever… I think the situation is far more dangerous than Iran. And I will point to just one clear evidence of that.

[Ghost goes even further and thinks Iran was all about starting a nuclear war. As I wrote in THE CASE FOR NUCLEAR WAR I think the Cabal is crazy enough to want to start one. –GC]

Kim Jong-un and Trump could have one-on-one direct dialogue. They are having ongoing letter and other correspondence as we speak. He has had that since he came back in. There was NEVER a chance to have dialogue with the clerics or the Ayatollah because the reality is the Ayatollah has not really been holding real power. I think that is the fundamental difference. You can’t trust Iran because you actually don’t have a sense of who is really in power. That is why the negotiations have been hung up. Because there is not a real center of power in Iran to give it a coherent nation state status. [So WHO and WHERE is that center of power? In the UK where the Ayatollah and top IRGC commanders have property?? GC]

The eliminated Ayatollah (Khamenei) did have the power over the government, and IRGC.
There were rivalries, but that Ayatollah always had the last word and everybody in that regime followed it, until he was eliminated.
IRGC did not initially have the power and was originally created as a protection for the clerical branch under the first Ayatollah, who was installed by MI6 and Carter in 1979.
The Artesh (army) were originally in control through the presidency.

After the death of the first Ayatollah (Khomeini) a power struggle between then President Rafsanjani and the second Ayatollah, which was installed by him. This second Ayatollah (Khamenei) then elevated and used the IRGC as a tool to eliminate not only the President, but the power of the Artesh. Thus, the IRGC got its power solely through Khamenei and he used them effectively for 37 years until he was eliminated (though not buried yet) in the February 28 2026 opening strikes.

There is currently a power struggle between the IRGC, the only institution with weapons, but no real people or soft power; the clerics Supreme Council under the ‘alive, or un-alive’ new GayAyatollah; further the hard-core section of the supporters, who have the soft power and are the ones demonstrating (increasingly diminishing) in the streets and lastly the outward facing officials like the Foreign Minister and leader of the parliament.

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pgroup2

IRGC = werewolf units

Valerie Curren

  :wpds_arrow:  Without replying to any replies to me that are currently outstanding (11 right now) & without reading today’s opener or comments from yesterday or today…

Please, I beg of you all that know the Lord, pray for me and my immediate family. I/we are in a suddenly desperately pressurized situation regarding my parents’ estate.

Later I will “update” on the funeral & doings…

Details of Estate Upheavals

Following the funeral & luncheon we had a preliminary business meeting between the 3 siblings & their spouses. This was where little brother, who is the Executor & Trustee of my late parents’ estate, wanted to lay out in broadish terms & round numbers the status & value of the various “holdings” (my word not necessarily an accurate or legal meaning) of the estate. There are 3 physical properties: Dad’s House (that we all grew up in), The Cottage in Gaylord, & “The Luzerne Hilton” hunting cabin in Northern Michigan adjacent to The Shack that is already owned by Hubby, Little Bro, & Clyde’s (Dad’s longtime hunting buddy) only son.

The Hilton was supposedly to be deeded to Hubby, our 3 non-disabled kids, & Hubby’s longtime hunting buddy, Pete. Apparently right after Mom died Dad, in the next month had taken action, or his lawyer had, to get Clyde off the Hilton deed (he’d died in late 2024 & it was a last man standing gets the property type of deed) & Dad re-deeded the property to himself & then put it also into the trust but this info only came to light when Little Bro/Executor had an attorney do a title search & discovered this status; it wasn’t even available in the online databases Little Bro & the lawyer for the Trust/Estate had access to. This was discovered in the week leading up to Dad’s death. Little bro had said Dad clearly wanted “the Hilton” to be separate from the Estate & deeded to the 4 Currens & Pete (Michael’s hunting buddy) on the deed–neither of my brothers wanted to be a part of The Hilton going forward, & Trustee Mike so stated & put in text. Dad had expressed these wishes on multiple occasions never indicating that his deed work had been in the trust–I’m not sure that he fully understood that, or maybe he just forgot, since actions were taken June last year & Mom’s death & funeral all happened mid-late May.

Anyway per discussions yesterday since The Hilton is also “in the Trust” each of we three siblings currently own a third & if anyone(s) want to retain ownership he/she/they will need to “buy out” the one(s) who don’t want to retain ownership.

So of course of the three of us I’m the only one who wants to have/keep The Cottage & apparently the only one who also wants to retain The Hilton in the family (we were already given to understand it was to be most of ours & Pete’s)…

So as of the end of our meeting yesterday, various actions to get more accurate valuations of properties & contents were in motion & the data needed on The Cottage (at least) would be available this Friday, or shortly thereafter, so I would have info needed to calculate whether or not I could swing The Cottage ownership going forward (counting the cost). The Hilton info would be solidified soon too so we could decide on that as well.

Well a few hours later (we got home about 6:30pm & this was about 8 when Michael was going to bed) we receive a series of texts in the Taking Care of Dad Group Chat that we’ve been using for 3 siblings & spouses, that Little Bro & SIL, who were planning to head to Gaylord on Friday to attend to Dad’s burial up there, now had the ability to also meet a Realtor at the Cottage with the intent to List The Cottage For Sale, as long as we were all OK with that going forward (me clearly being the only impediment as I’d reiterated in our meeting that I desired to retain the Cottage if it was reasonably feasible to do so)…

Bottom line is that I’m reeling from this suddenly intense pressure when we’d left the meeting with the idea I’d have data needed for decisions Friday, & attempt to make a decision by the following Friday if possible regarding keeping the Cottage &/or the Hilton.

I’m sick inside about how things are happening, Hubby & I are not on the same page (yet) as to how to proceed, I’ve looped our kids in as best I could after those 8pm-ish texts, & we are all just overwhelmed, hurt, & in some ways I feel emotionally & mentally abused.

Our meeting ended with my brothers & their wives agreeing that the Currens could still proceed with our planned Cottage family vacation, the last full week of July, but given these “let’s just list & sell the Cottage now” maneuvers I don’t even know if that is gone.

Please pray for me & Michael that we can come to a place of agreement as to how to proceed (he could barely look at or talk to me as he was leaving for work 4 am-ish, as he’s completely overwhelmed, hasn’t read the 8pm+ text streams because he was already stressed out, barely slept, & also feels sick inside, sometimes for different reasons).

Please pray for my 4 kids & their spouses/fiancée as we all wrestle with the long-term implications of ownership or letting go of places that have been part of our family for nearly their entire lives & in the Cottage’s case been in my family about a century.

I’m supposed to be meeting my brothers & SILs at Dad’s House 10 am (but I need to sleep more & find some degree of peace first), so Curtis (middle kid) who lives in Oklahoma can go through Dad’s house & see if there are any things he’d like to take with him when they head back to OK, possibly later today.

Yesterday’s meeting was supposed to be information only, no decisions were going to be made. It still blows my mind that they threw down that “by the way let’s just list the Cottage for sale with the same realtor who will help us sell Dad’s house so we’ll save money & we can just get it done” text stream later last night.

Evidence to the contrary…No Words.

I’m really hurting right now & was just trying to process Dad’s passing & our two big days of visitation & funeral. I’m overwhelmed, as are the rest of the Currens especially Michael. We desperately need the Lord to help us in so many ways.

So in a somewhat lighthearted way after I’d presented the situation as it had blown up last night to the kids all gathered at Nathaniel’s house (I was hoping to have a Curren family business meeting This Weekend, not mere hours after Dad’s funeral) I asked each of the Five there, my 4 & Nathaniel’s wife Tara, to give me their bottom line percentage viewpoint of how important it was to Each of them that we keep the Cottage in the family.

Tara 40% keep, 60% let it go
Nathaniel 70% keep, 30% let it go
Brandon ditto Nathaniel’s numbers
Clarissa 75% keep, 25% let it go

In priceless Josiah fashion & not trying to be funny–he said these numbers Twice!
Josiah 85% keep, 25% let it go
He has/”had” a severe learning disability in math. I said it’s either 85/15 or 75/25 & he ended up choosing 85/15

I’d said I was more like 98% keep & 2% let it go & thought Michael would be 2% keep & 98% let it go, but that was just a guess…

By the way my miscarried grandchild happened at The Cottage & their mortal remains are in the septic/tile field under the Cottage Garden. To me AND the Bereaved Mother this is now a family burial ground. She was comforted knowing her baby would “always be with us up there” as The Cottage would always be in the family…

Man it’s so cliche to be in such a place & I really didn’t think that’s how things would be going in My family…sigh…

It’s like we won “a new car” on the Price is Right, but we don’t have the money to pay taxes, licensing, & transfer fees so we have to pass it up or something…(there are significant assets in the Trust so I might be able to swing both places but be “house poor” in the process with no cushion for ongoing costs & retirement needs)…

Please pray for God to show us the way forward, for each of us to have peace, for extended family relationships to not be damaged/destroyed by these words/actions, and most importantly for God to be glorified in the midst of all this heartache & pain.

I’m trying to parrot Job, “naked I came into the world & naked will I depart, blessed be the Name of the Lord”–he was a Much better man than I’ll ever be!

  :wpds_arrow:  Thanks for being a collective shoulder for me to cry on & a faithful friend to lift me & my family to the Lord in our hour/season/lifetime of need!

I do love & treasure you all so. Thanks for helping me bear this burden in love…  💔 

Brave and Free

Sorry to hear of the issues with your parents estate. I’ve experienced similar issues with the death of FIL years ago and his “camp” up north.
Prayers for you and everyone involved. My not turn out the way we think, but ultimately it’ll be God’s way.

cthulhu

With The Fiancee’s mom, I suggested that they use a bank as executor. This worked out well — it cost a pretty penny, but the sisters had to team up to fight the executor instead of viciously fighting each other.

To summarize, it cost them over $20,000 each to have someone else to fight…..but they could speak to each other afterward.

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Valerie Curren

That is fascinating. Glad their relationship wasn’t destroyed!

Valerie Curren

Thank you Brave & Free. I’m sorry for what you endured & thankful that you are resilient enough to come out on the other side honoring the Lord.

God will get us through & help us bear or drop whatever load is involved. So much easier to reflect on such Grace in hindsight methinks…Thank you for praying!

cthulhu

You never really know someone until you have to divide an inheritance with them.

Good luck and keep us informed!

Brave and Free

^^This^^ so true.

patfrederick

agreed

Valerie Curren

Thanks Cthulhu. You guys can offer a very necessary outlet w/ plenty of wisdom & humor to boot. I’ll check in as I’m able 🙄

pgroup2

Norman Mailer once said, after seven divorces, that you don’t truly know a woman until you’ve divorced her.

For over two decades I have puzzled over the meaning of that. Still puzzled.

Valerie Curren

That’s a scary concept 😉 😉

cthulhu

Realtor’s commissions are typically on a percentage of the sale price. “So we’ll save money” is likely bogus.

kalbokalbs

At times, commission negotiable is my understanding.

cthulhu

Since a couple of years ago, commissions are negotiable as a matter of law. It’s still filtering through as a matter of practice.

But just think about how this would work. You’re going to get a “group discount” from a broker in two different jurisdictions without getting substandard representation in one?

Valerie Curren

All food for thought!

Valerie Curren

Nice!

kalbokalbs

  :wpds_beg: Valerie.

Slow Guy perspective. As usual, I always have an opinion.

  • People commonly lose their ethics (greed takes over), when FREE money, valuables are in play.
  • >>> Siblings make the decision with votes of equal value. Toss a coin for ties. No spouses. No Grands.

Two experiences dealing with Estates. Parents were divorced.

  • Mom. Oldest bro Executor. Gathered us six siblings around his dining table. NO spouses, Grands or anyone else. Mom’s children ONLY. Bro read the Will and had copies for everyone. We discussed what to do, voted, though it was always unanimous. Stuff, keepsakes, treasured or needed items, went where they should. Everybody happy.
  • Dad. Executor was in Dad’s new family. He told us how things would go and basically that is how things went. Take it or leave it. Surprise, he took 100% of the insurance money. Beyond that, things seemed fair. But we don’t know, what we don’t know. None of us six fretted over it.

DW and Slow Guy’s Will. Oldest Executor. Money wise, 1/3 each. Stuff wise we have a letter directing who gets what, based on our figuring what is a combination of fair AND needs of the (adult) child.

  • Without great detail, this has been explained to each of them. Basically 1/3 each. Major stuff divvied up in letter from us. Whatever is left, someone take it, toss a coin or give it to DAV (Disabled American Veterans). Dumpster as last resort.
  • Keep it simple.
  • Celebrate life.
  • Do NOT get greedy.
  • Be grateful for what they receive, as they did NOT earn it.
  • Be considerate of each other’s needs, feelings.
patfrederick

sounds very fair.
mom told me years ago, my sister (the oldest) was the executor of their estate–I had no problem with that. then sister passed away and shortly after Dad did too. Mom then told me that DAD wanted my brother to be the executor before he died, because he was the only boy. (he had ALWAYS been the only boy)
when THEY decided to put Mom in memory care, they sold her house. took whatever they thought was valuable and sold the rest. Mom was lucid enough at that point to tell them what she had promised me for years, i got none of that.

co executors are sometimes a better choice. we have 2 children…they are co executors of our estate.

cthulhu

Fiancee and her sister would have been a disaster as co-executors.

Valerie Curren

👍 👍

patfrederick

my brother is not dealing well with Mom’s decline–never has. the decisions are primarily being made by my SIL.

Valerie Curren

If she’s anything like my SIL that’s pretty scary! Yikes 🙁

patfrederick

they live within a 20 minute driving distance from where Mom is currently and they were visiting a few times a week. and i am grateful for that. as for the decisions being made, I’m not being consulted on anything…never have.

Valerie Curren

That’s how it was once Dad was in little bro’s house. You can only do what you can do. I hope your mom will be OK, have unnecessary meds reduced, & continue to be taken care of an attentive & familiar aide!

patfrederick

me too. and thanks.

Valerie Curren

YW hugs

Valerie Curren

I remember you sharing some of this, which sounds like grievous wounding to me. So Sorry 🙁

I’m only part way through the 65 page document on the Trust & it appears only my other brother was in line as a back-up or replacement trustee. I’m the oldest & only girl. My dad did have a sexist side, so that might be partly why I have no inkling of a trustee role. He’s gone so I can’t even ask…if I had the nerve.

I think our middle bro chafed at baby bro being the sole Executor/Trustee. However, given that he lives a thousand miles away it was not remotely practical for him to take on such a role. He & I have “equal say” as co-heirs with little bro AND simultaneously No Say as Little Bro can basically do whatever he wants within the guardrails of the law & the Trustee documents.

patfrederick

if I thought for a moment that my brother was making the decisions, I could probably live with that–he was always Mom’s favorite. but that is not the case. SIL is several years older than he, older than both me and my hubby even, and she is making the decisions–always has in their marriage. that is what irks me, but i will get over that too.

there are a few precious things i want–love letters my Dad wrote my mom while he was in the navy, a lone star quilt i made my parents and their wedding rings. I have no idea if those things exist anymore.

Valerie Curren

Oh Pat…this breaks my heart. My kids, especially oldest son, were quick to point out that little bro’s wife runs roughshod over him & others & he has never learned how to rein her in. She technically should have no say in Trustee matters, but I kind of doubt that’s the actual case!

patfrederick

thanks Valerie. hopefully even if they keep these things from me, they will not dispose of them either.

Valerie Curren

It’s heartbreaking when you’ve been “promised” something but the one who promised didn’t make provision for that promise to be fulfilled. That happened w/ Hubby’s brother’s then wife after Michael’s mom died. She had “promised” Helen certain jewelry upon her death but had no will or written wishes so her husband, M & his bros’ stepfather, got all of Ann’s things, including her original artwork that her sons desired to stay in the family. The step-dad ultimately parted with (at least some of) the jewelry but he literally made Helen get down on her knees in front of him & beg for it. She was so deeply hurt and angered by all that that I don’t think she ever got over it.

The step-dad remarried someone after Ann’s death & then he pre-deceased his final wife & same thing Mary got it all, including Michael’s mom’s art. Mary was a strange, vindictive, jealous woman & wouldn’t even allow Michael’s ex-girlfriend, who was almost like a daughter to M’s step-dad, to ever be around him due to jealousy. We think she either threw away or sold off Ann’s remaining earthly possessions. Ann’s three sons were deeply hurt.

Valerie Curren

Thank you for sharing your lived experience in complex families & your wise road forward as parents. Beautiful truths there.

In my case my parents chose to inform little bro about their finances & have looped him in for about five years now. He has had numerous meetings with financial planners &/or lawyers, w/ & w/out Dad (depending on functionality), & no one saw fit to inform us of virtually anything. We tried to get info on ongoing costs for The Cottage & the hunting camps for years but none was ever forthcoming. Everything was played close to the vest, which was pretty much my dad’s way in much of life.

Yesterday there were some handout sheets of info on the assets, copies for each spouse, & various discussions but no decisions were made, at least not significant ones. They recorded our interactions “for the lawyer” & little bro’s wife made some notes. Contents of buildings are supposed to be assessed at “garage sale pricing” & basically siblings are supposed to pay each other for items wanted/taken. Mom & Dad did not make designations of personal property, but whatever was removed with Dad’s permission when he still lived in his home is given to the recipient & not part of the estate.

I guess I should be thankful because no one else wants photos or historical documents so I am allowed to remove such things from the house w/out having to pay. They also all agreed that the rest of Mom’s jewelry is mine (it’s costume except 2 items that Dad was going to designate who would get them but he never did–I thought he might have wanted one or both items to go to SIL who provided such wonderful care for him at the end of life, but everyone said all of it is for me as I’m the only daughter).

I just had an interlude where Nathaniel dropped in on his way to work, I’d asked if he had time to hug me, so that was awesome, but also had me crying…again…sigh…

Looks doubtful that I’ll sleep before that 10 am gathering, but then that means I’ll pretty much be incapable of operating under my own strength…which is perhaps Exactly where God wants me to be at this juncture–Ha!

pgroup2

Just make sure your team can offer a good enough price to convince a judge/trustee that it’s a fair market price.

Alternatively, have a secret sweetheart buyer [not known to be associated with you] waiting to make a juicy offer, which will likely succeed in obtaining the property.

Once the property is in the buyer’s possession, your team pays the monthly obligations while making arrangements to move title into your name.

side note – this is one big reason why real estate should always be in a trust that is managed by a reputable law firm. Once in the trust, there cannot be any shenanigans like this because the restrictions on selling are written into the trust.

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Valerie Curren

Well that’s an idea worth throwing into the mix for sure…Thanks!

TradeBait2

^^^^ This.

Valerie Curren

They’re gone now 🙁

Valerie Curren

Would take some research but maybe. I’ll mention it to Michael…

Aubergine

I like how you think.

pgroup2

From working in the dens of shysters, in one of my prior careers.

Valerie Curren

Wait I thought you still worked law/yer adjacent 😉 😉

PAVACA

Valerie Curren
Thank you so much for the update.

I was hoping that something like what you’re describing would not happen—let alone not so close to your father’s passing. But there it is.

A month before my father passed, his BIL passed. They had been close and my father, who was himself very ill, reeled from that loss.

Then, my father passed.
The week after his funeral, I (the Executor of his Estate) was at the family home. Deceased BIL’s widow came over to visit.
She told me that the Will of her husband gave control of their family home to their three sons.
She had just been told by her sons that she had to be out of the house within the next two weeks, since the sons were going to sell it. No discussion.

I made her a cup of tea and gave her the contact information for an attorney who specializes in that kind of behavior from relatives of deceased persons.

She kept the family home.

Valerie Curren

Wow that is traumatic AND uncalled for. My goodness. Glad you could help her!!!

It was mentioned off the cuff by little bro that anyone who tries to break the trust or change the terms (I can’t remember how it was phrased) will be treated as if they pre-deceased the original trustees, my parents, & will get nothing!

I’m thinking I may need to see financial &/or legal counsel as to how I might proceed in a way that can allow us to keep both properties & have Some funds to work with. We did NOT discuss terms of payment of sibs to each other so Maybe there is a chance that it doesn’t have to all be in a lump sum.

Funds from our parents’ separate IRAs are payable over 10 years to try to minimize our tax penalties. Dad’s IRA is the largest asset valued. We are likely to have to pay 25% of any IRA withdrawals as tax since they were from pre-tax funds.

Valerie Curren

Thank you Gail. I’m going to pray & discuss. SIL’s father is an attorney & Brandon’s fiancée is becoming one. I sent the 65 page pdf to my 3 non-disabled kids for consideration. B’s to be family is very alarmed!

kalbokalbs

Bingo!

Valerie Curren

Thanks Gail. I’ll look into it. I might not be able to be as “hardball” as all that & if none of them want it, let alone the use of it, it’s unlikely that will motivate any changes. Great ideas!

PAVACA

Valerie Curren
IMO, much depends on the exact language in the Will and Trust of your father regarding the distribution/disposal of properties and other assets. Is one assuming correctly that all of your father’s children have been given exact copies of the Will and all Trust documents?

Valerie Curren

Yes I believe we all have copies now (the 65 pages were sent out around Memorial Day) as of last night, I believe

kalbokalbs

Heads up move, referring BIL’s widow to an attorney.

The sheer greed of some, after a parent passes, is obscene.

The part I can’t get past, whatever folks inherit, they did NOT Earn. Appreciate it. Do NOT be greedy. SMH.

As we get older. Friends parents pass. Mostly we hear of no issues dividing up Estates. But some are off the charts greedy.

Valerie Curren

whatever folks inherit, they did NOT Earn. Appreciate it.” AMEN!!!

Aubergine

I am so sorry.

I have been watching/assisting as my daughter goes through an estate battle with her long-term boyfriend. It sucks.

I have learned one thing in my life of 61 years; some people love memories and some people love money. And we don’t understand each other, at all.

In your shoes, I would fight like hell to keep the place I loved. The baby’s burial place particularly moves me to say it. One thing I know about you, just from reading your posts all these years; that place is very important to you.

Money is just money, and a transitory thing. If it ever got to be “too much,” that cottage could be sold as easily then as now.

All that said, you do you. Pray over it, ask for guidance, and it will come. You will do the best thing in the long run.

P.S. Sometimes Mom has to “fight the current” when everybody else is drowning. I’m sorry you are in the tsunami right now.

Valerie Curren

“some people love memories and some people love money. And we don’t understand each other, at all.

In your shoes, I would fight like hell to keep the place I loved. The baby’s burial place particularly moves me to say it. One thing I know about you, just from reading your posts all these years; that place is very important to you.”

Everything you said is precious to me. I appreciate your insights, support, & prayers more than I can possibly say. Bless YOU! Big Hug 😪 one warrior to another!

Aubergine

I’m just sorry you are struggling when you are grieving.

Valerie Curren

It is incredibly hard. I fell asleep in exhaustion shortly after I got home, late enough for Michael to already be asleep. Woke up for the restroom & had tears coursing down my face for at least 15 minutes straight.

My brothers & their wives left Dad’s house way earlier than I did. Three different neighbors came by & one I probably spent a couple hours with. The last one was a younger man from down the block we stood out in the rain talking & he had tears pouring on & off even more intensely than the rain. In a sense it was like I had an additional pop-up visitation & had lengthy emotional conversations with people who are broken up about my parents’ passing.

The lady next door was at the funeral & luncheon on Tuesday. My bro, who did all the funeral arranging solo, had wanted us to sing the “Welcome Song”. A very cheesy song that our parents had us sing whenever new people were joining us for a meal in their home. We sang it just before the luncheon food was served. My mom had a beautiful singing voice & I guess my voice sounds enough like hers that some people got chills. The next door lady balled her eyes out hearing my voice as she’d heard Mom for years when she was in her backyard & Mom was at her piano in the back room. She was so broken up that the strangers at the table began talking with her (they are one of two couples still surviving from the New Years Eve Gang as well as two widowed members, the husband has known my dad since grade school) & they discovered they were all Italian & had other things in common. Before the meal was over phone numbers were exchanged & plans for them to get together & reminisce about my parents & a possible job offer for neighbor’s daughter by NYEG’s son were put forth. God is so Good!

Aubergine

Yes, He is!

TradeBait2

OK, Val – been through this twice. One went very well, one went poorly. Neither had the level of assets yours does, Val. Neither were consequential to our needs or desires. But human nature was observed in both and we learned some things.

Wifey’s went relatively well and like yours, there were several other siblings involved (4). There were four spouses associated with the 5 children. Wifey is the oldest, a former bank officer, and the second mom of her siblings. Her youngest brother is a very successful businessman and real estate owner. The two of them were on the same page, Neither “needed” anything from the estate. So the other three had little chance ot cause mischief, although one druggie addled brother made a poor attempt that was brought to heel quickly. To their collective credit it all went well generally.

Mine was different, just less involved. My sister, driven by her greedy husband, took advantage of my mother’s mental health issues and had her change the will a year prior to mother’s death. The house had nominal value and was the primary asset. We did not “need” anything, nor did they for that matter. They have no children. Except her husband wanted a new Harley, in addition to some extra cash to buy her a new car. None of it went as Dad, who died first, wanted it to go in the will that was active until he died (first). All mother did was spend everything she could get her hands on that he made. The estate was not worth my time and the cost to contest, although I could have and won based on the laws of Ohio. Any proceeds we would have received would have gone to the savings of our grandchildren and my sister knew that. She took it all anyway. Now there is no relationship between us. Which is sad. Hope it was worth it to them.

As others have posted, the nature of people that we care about is revealed in times such as you are going through. The cottage and Hilton represent more than assets to you, but do not appear to have the same meaning to others. If they do not bend, you will be forced to make a decision to hire an attorney or accept the majority decision in my opinion. Only you and Michael with the Lord’s input can determine that.

Praying for your situation and the will of the Lord to be made clear in your minds and hearts.

pgroup2

A trust is in your near future – fortune cookie note.

  :wpds_lol: 

Valerie Curren

What a Beautiful solution!!! You could have money to carry you through & no need to modify your lifestyle unless you choose. A Very Clear Win Win it would seem!!! PTL!!!

TradeBait2

Good move. It’s better that way.

Sister took mother’s insanity and played it for the money after dad died. I knew it would happen, both of she and mother did low life things all of their lives. When she had to tell me the will had changed, I asked her why she felt it necessary to lie to me for the entire time it had been changed. She had no answer. We both knew it was to try to make it legal. Not seen them in 10 years and no longer keep in touch. She chose a new car and crap motorcycle over a relationship with the only blood kin she has left in this world.

Valerie Curren

That is truly Her Loss, in not being connected to you any more. I’m sorry you went through such needless betrayals 🙁

Valerie Curren

My dad had childless cousins on his dad’s side that had a farm North of Traverse City. Nearby neighbors became like the kids & grandkids they never had. When both died they had arranged for these neighbors to inherit their farm. I don’t know what that cousin’s siblings might have thought of the arrangement but my family thought it was wonderful that these friends had become as dear to them as family, stepping up & caring for them as they aged, and the cousins could bless that younger family is such a meaningful way.

In talking at length with my parents’ neighbor lady last night I learned that my mom was almost like a mother to her. Her own mom was an alcoholic, drug addicted abusive/neglectful parent. My mom was a shining light & angel in this woman’s eyes. As our conversation wound down I just felt strongly that I should give her my mother’s Bible, that earlier in the day my sibs/spouses had packed into a box for me. She wanted me to have the ability to take that book back at any time & I was like no this is for you. I kind of want my mom to continue being a mom to her indirectly through whatever intimacies she might discover in that much read & loved book. This same neighbor has wanted to continue the tradition of writing Bible Verses on the sidewalk in front of Dad’s house. We gave her ALL of the sidewalk chalk Dad had on deck (it could last a couple years I think) so she can keep carrying that tradition forward. Warms my heart!

pgroup2

Similar crap when my mom passed. Siblings convinced her to change her will while she was under opioids and without telling me she was terminally ill [that long geographical distance that was such a blessing turned out differently later]. Mom had gotten a big malpractice settlement shortly before she died and my sisters sure didn’t want to split it three ways.

The irony was that I knew what was in Mom’s will when both of the sisters were under five years old. Mom told me that each child would get one-third because there was no way she was going to try to ‘rank’ her kids. .

Valerie Curren

God Bless YOU PGroup. I hope He has been healing these hurts for you…

Valerie Curren

TY TB for sharing from your lived experience (as did Kalbo). I treasure your insights.

Thankfully in my family’s case all siblings AND spouses are (allegedly strong) Christians. I don’t sense that anyone is trying to cheat any others out of things. Little bro is attempting to follow the letter of the law in as much as it is possible. I believe that he will try to deal with all of us “fairly”. Ironically my brother in OK said if he lived in MI he would happily jointly own the Cottage with me! My situation is compounded because I’m the only one interested in retaining these family properties, but I have no means to do so except what the inheritance might provide & the fact that our house just paid off so going forward the “half” of our house payment no longer dedicated to our house (still have taxes & insurance to cover) could theoretically be applied to Cottage & Hilton routine costs & maybe handle them, or get close. The real issue is the buyout amount that will be needed so it could look like my brothers get nearly all the “money” in the Estate & I get two properties we love, use, & desire to stay in the family for generations but then have no/minimal funds to help us carry the financial burden safely. Well, Dad’s IRA will, as I understand, pay out annually for 10 years in a way that minimizes the tax penalty, but we’ll owe at least 25% but it could still be a tad over $20G/year for that decade, which in our lives is Huge money…

I am so thankful for your prayers & your wisdom here. God will help us get through…

TheseTruths

I’m sorry about all the trouble. It’s none of my business, but I don’t understand why these business issues can’t wait until a while after all your dad’s services, and be done at a more leisurely pace. I would put my foot down and ask that people hold off while grieving, but that’s just me. Prayers for all the best. 🙏

Valerie Curren

Thank you TT & I agree. Part of the acceleration was that OK bro was available now so tackling some of it in-person was only possible now–they return to OK early tomorrow today. Part of it, I think, is Little Bro’s & SIL’s personalities & go getter done now mindset. In fact when I went to Dad’s house Wednesday morning The Executor & Wife were working with someone who was going to run the Estate Sale, that has now moved up to late July (will probably happen when my family is at The Cottage, which could be the last time 🙁 ) instead of early August as scheduled with another group. I didn’t even know that this walk through & analysis would be going on at all, let alone when the 3 sibs & 2 spouses were simultaneously in Dad’s home. I went there thinking we were mostly being together while OK bro & SIL made their way through the house to pick the items he wanted. I had No Idea that that Estate sale, too, was now into overdrive. I think that means that there is maybe a month left to go through Dad’s home to gather items to keep that may or may not be payable to the Estate to take possession of. I was there 11+ hours “today”…

It’s A Lot to pile on all at once. There’s little room to breathe or process, there’s little time to act on “stuff” before it’s sold off or thrown away. It’s pretty overwhelming 🙁

Thank you for your prayers, they mean so much. Blessings!

Firefly

Job endured great suffererings before he could finally accept the Lord’s will.

Continued prayers for you and your family!

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Valerie Curren

Thank you Firefly! God be with you too. He’ll see us all through, no matter what it is!

PAVACA

Valerie Curren
Just read your post again, along with the text of the “meeting” and other things from the Spoiler link.

Some thoughts, all IMO —
First, it appears that the sibling who is the Executor of your father’s Estate made a major mistake in holding an “informational meeting” with the other siblings right after the funeral — and then “changing the game” / “moving the goalposts” that same day with the “talking to a Realtor to list the Cottage” text message.

Second, it is crucial that you (and also any attorney you may hire to represent your interests in the Estate) read every word in the Will and Trust documents that were given to you. If it looks like any document is missing or “has been lost”, get an explanation from the sibling-Executor right away.

Third, is there any language in either the Will or the Trust which explicitly states that any family member who contests either or both documents, would be considered by the Estate as being “deceased”, and their inheritance portion would be shared out to the other heirs?

Fourth, it appears that the sibling-Executor is attempting to put you (and your husband) into a “box” of “they’re the ones being selfish and holding up the Estate process.” Do NOT let that crap take root.

Fifth, please be careful in any dealings with the sibling-Executor. Emotions can run high, surviving heirs can act “weird”; and unless something is in writing that can be verified as either being from the deceased prior to their death (example: a handwritten note signed by them), or is explicitly stated in the deceased’s Will and/or Trust documents, it is not valid.

PAVACA

Yours Truly can smell stuff like this a mile away.
Example: The very day of my father’s funeral — I got back to the family home after the funeral lunch. My son (age 25 at the time) was with me. Saw my (then-living) brother’s car parked there. I walked into the house.
There was my brother, removing all of the valuable “collectible plates” from the wall hutch near the dining room table.
First thing I said: “Stop that! Put them down on the table. They’re now part of Daddy’s Estate.” Brother: “Oh, well, we [he and his wife] were just going to keep them with us so they’re safe.” Me: “NO. Doesn’t work that way.” Brother dropped the most valuable “collectible plate” — of Pope John XXIII. It broke into pieces on the floor. He quickly put the rest of the items on the table and left the house.
Turns out, he was doing what his wife told him to do. And was at it when I walked into the house. Five minutes more, and all the items would have been packed into their car.
Brother also made more “trouble” during the Estate process.
it took YEARS for us to speak to each other again once the Estate closed.

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Valerie Curren

Good Grief. Your sibling divorce was a survival mechanism!

Valerie Curren

So sorry…horrifying!

Valerie Curren

Thank you Gail. I’m not sure about motives here but they did just have Dad in their home for nearly 3 months & are probably extremely anxious to get back to “normal” life & get Executor duties off their back, fwiw.

Valerie Curren

TY so much for this detailed analysis. I will have to read it again, & have my family (at least key people) read it too to discuss & plan some action steps. My Executor brother had mentioned “Dad’s lawyer” and “My lawyer”. I wanted to ask him why he needed a different lawyer from Dad’s if he was carrying out Dad’s wishes. Maybe he’s creating a protective bubble of some sort for himself, I do not know.

Several conversations “today” were quite emotional. We got clarity on a few things including how my brother is managing & interpreting approaches to the Hilton. He also indicated that he didn’t intend to just sell the Cottage, though reiterated that he has the legal right/authority to do so via the terms of the Trust. They are meeting with that Realtor in Gaylord on Friday, the same one who is listing Dad’s house, & little bro says he trusts him. I hope this meeting is to establish price points for my potential buyout of the Cottage from sibs but it is also clearly preliminary to them just outright selling the Cottage. I have no real say or sway here, by terms again, so at this point it’s the “honor system” as to how people conduct business.

OK bro talked with me when I first arrived at Dad’s house & indicated that he was absolutely not OK with what went down via text messages the night before. If he lived in MI he would gladly co-own the Cottage with me, which is a comfort.

Things are moving at a ridiculously fast rate. I have greater clarity after various conversations at Dad’s house. I’m still overwhelmed & wish little bro & SIL would pump the brakes a bit but seriously doubt that is an option. Little bro has the weight of ALL the decision making on the Estate on his shoulders, he could discuss & vote by committee to try to keep his Older Siblings views in mind but that’s not what is happening & since he can do what he wants when & how he wants I guess I need to stay prayed & armored up for whatever’s coming down the pike! God help me!!!

Happy go lucky

Valerie, I’m sorry and it seems awful for you 😢 🙏

Most importantly, this world is not our final home. And we have to, have to, have to keep our eyes on God. He has so much better planned for us and that makes these disappointments like nothing.

Valerie Curren

Thank you Happy. Amen & Amen! As I was sobbing recently I was also thinking some day God will wipe away All our tears! To God be the glory

barkerjim

Thank you, Gail!!! So many dots to connect!!! So little time!!!

patfrederick

patfrederick

kalbokalbs

Coolest post of the day.

From the replies. chapel location

  • Thorncrown Chapel Eureka Springs, AR.
  • Anthony Chapel at Garvin woodland gardens.
patfrederick

it’s gorgeous, isn’t it??

kalbokalbs

It is! Looked it up on Google Maps.
Only six miles to Beaver Lake, Beaver Damn, Beaver Dive Shop…  :wpds_shock: 

  :cheers:   :pepper:   :banana-mario:   :banana2:   :cheers: 

patfrederick

no comment

TradeBait2

😂

TradeBait2

Spent a couple of nights in Eureka Springs 50 years ago at the historic Crescent Hotel. Back then the town reminded me of a hippie European village tucked away in the mountains (Ozarks). Christ of the Ozarks was a major attraction along with the related Passion Play.

Cool place.

https://crescent-hotel.com

https://www.christoftheozarks.org

patfrederick

Troublemaker10
June 17, 2026 1:43 am

Feds Unseal Indictment Charging 15 Minneapolis Antifa Militants with Conspiracy to Impede or Injure Federal Officers While Trying to Stop ICE Enforcement (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/feds-unseal-indictment-charging-15-minneapolis-antifa-militants

Jake
June 17, 2026 6:01 am

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and….All Hell Breaks Loose Outside Federal Courthouse in St. Paul After Feds Unseal Indictment Charging 15 Minneapolis Antifa Militants
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/all-hell-breaks-loose-outside-federal-courthouse-st/
Later Tuesday, supporters of the indicted Antifa militants erupted outside the Warren E. Burger federal courthouse.
Federal officers sprayed the protestors and pushed back on them as they attempted to breach the building.
“F*ck you Fascist Nazis!” one rioter shouted.
Yes we should all support mob rule because it has worked out so well wherever it has been tried! (sarc)

patfrederick

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Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

The Republicans agreed with Dumocrats to remove very fair, and talented, William Pulte, from serving as Acting DNI in return for getting FISA approved by the Dumocrats. However, the Republicans moved so fast with the hearings of the Great Jay Clayton, current U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, that Pulte would be gone before the Dumocrats would vote on FISA. Now, the Dumocrats are saying they will vote against FISA — So, the Republicans wound up having fulfilled their commitment, but Dumocrats broke the Deal. In addition, the newly nominated U.S. Attorney, Jamie McDonald, must be confirmed and blue slipped. Because of the ridiculous views of Republicans on blue slipping (Dumocrats are often willing to nix it), I may not be able to get the extraordinary Sullivan & Cromwell Partner, Jamie, approved, and I don’t want to take Jay Clayton away from the great job he is doing until Jamie is in place. Therefore, to add a slight bit of intrigue but, for the Good of the Nation, and the People of our Country, I will not approve FISA without THE SAVE AMERICA ACT going along with it. Not complicated, actually, the Republicans fell into a trap. Regarding the approval of our Great Patriot, Jay Clayton, we are cancelling the Senate Hearing RE: DNI today, and will not be going forward until Jamie McDonald is approved to be U.S. Attorney. In the meantime, Bill Pulte will remain as the Acting Director of National Intelligence. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Jun 17, 2026, 3:54 AM

pgroup2

When setting a trap, first be sure you aren’t standing in a bigger trap.

kalbokalbs

Great Truth by Trump.

No FISA 702, without SAVE America. Then work on trashing FISA 702. Yea, may take years.

TradeBait2

🖕 FISA. Not interested in giving the DS anything that helps them destroy America.

kalbokalbs

100% agree.

Gotta have SAVE America Act for mid terms. Then work on trashing FISA..

No doubt, Trump loathes FISA.

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TradeBait2

Club Senate is such a useless institution.

PDT doing what we need done regardless of the obstacles.

patfrederick

Tony Seruga
@TonySeruga
This is a classic case of elite incestuous self-dealing dressed up in progressive “gender equity” drag. Let me walk you through the whole grift, piece by piece.

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f3e0.svg The $9.1 Million “Pritzker Discount” Mansion

In November 2024, the Newsoms acquired a 5,600-square-foot, six-bedroom midcentury modern estate at 224 Woodland Road in Kentfield, Marin County — one of the wealthiest enclaves in America.

The seller: Daniel Pritzker, billionaire heir to the Hyatt Hotels fortune.

The price: $9.1 million — which was actually $600,000 over the final asking price of $8.5 million. The property had originally been listed at $10.75 million, then dropped to $9.5 million, then to $8.5 million. Somehow the Newsoms swooped in and paid more than what the market was demanding. Curious.

The vehicle: The home was purchased through MHBD Farms LLC — an entity created just two days before the transaction closed on November 14, 2024. The LLC is named after the Newsoms’ four children. Jennifer Siebel Newsom was later listed as the manager of that LLC as of May 2025.

This is the second time the Newsoms have used a mysterious LLC to acquire real estate. In 2018–2019, an LLC registered to Newsom’s cousin and PlumpJack business partner Jeremy Scherer bought a $3.7 million Fair Oaks estate in cash, then “gifted” it to the Newsoms — conveniently avoiding the transfer tax.

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f4b0.svg The Pritzker Connection — It’s Deeper Than Real Estate

This wasn’t some arm’s-length transaction between strangers. The Pritzker family were Gavin Newsom’s first-ever political donors when he launched his career. That’s not a coincidence — that’s a long-term patronage relationship.

The Pritzker family — through their various entities and foundations — contributed roughly $572,000 to the California Partners Project, Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s “gender equity” nonprofit. Let’s sit with that: the family that sold the Newsoms a mansion also shoveled over half a million into the First Partner’s charity.
And that charity is where the real action is.

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f3ad.svg The “Nonprofit” Industrial Complex

Jennifer Siebel Newsom runs a multi-layered financial ecosystem that blurs every line between charity, personal enrichment, political influence, and taxpayer funding.

The Three-Headed Beast:

View the second image in the first comment below.

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f4b8.svg The Numbers — Follow the Money

The Representation Project (2011–2024):

•$1.8 million paid directly to Jennifer Siebel Newsom in salary (per IRS filings)
•$1.6+ million paid to her for-profit company Girls Club Entertainment for “writer/producer/director” fees
•Combined total from the nonprofit to her and her company: roughly $3.4 million over roughly 13 years
•Annual take: approximately $300,000 (salary + GCE payments) — roughly a third of the nonprofit’s total annual income in recent years
•Her 2024 salary was $161,250; GCE received an identical $161,250

The California Partners Project (2020–present):

•Gavin Newsom has solicited $4.8 million in behested payments for this nonprofit
•$1.8 million of that came from the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria (the casino tribe — more on that below)
•$572,000 from the Pritzker family
•Other donors include Silicon Valley Bank ($100K), Blue Shield of California ($50K), and the New Venture Fund ($100K)
The Office of the First Partner (taxpayer-funded):
•Created by Gavin Newsom in 2019 as a division of the governor’s office
•Armed with roughly $5 million in cumulative taxpayer funding
•Staffed by nine employees with an annual budget of over $1.1 million as of 2023
•This government office openly “shares resources” with the California Partners Project to launch advocacy campaigns
•Siebel Newsom used this platform to push for billions in school mental health funding — while her nonprofit sells the curricula and films to those same schools

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f3b0.svg The Graton Rancheria Quid Pro Quo
This is the most brazen piece. The Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, which operates the Graton Resort & Casino in Sonoma County, donated $1 million to the California Partners Project at Gavin Newsom’s personal solicitation.
Around that same time, Newsom used his office to block the Koi Nation, a smaller tribe, from building a competing casino near Graton’s operation. Ethics watchdogs — including Michael Chamberlain of Protect the Public’s Trust — flagged this as a potential violation of California conflict-of-interest law requiring officials to recuse themselves from matters involving entities that have donated to their family’s charities.

The timeline screams quid pro quo:

1. Newsom asks tribe for donation to wife’s charity
2. Tribe writes check
3. Newsom blocks tribe’s competitor

That’s not governance. That’s a protection racket with better branding.

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f3eb.svg The School Pipeline — Taxpayer Dollars Into Her Pocket

The California Board of Education adopted guidance recommending Siebel Newsom’s films and curricula for classroom use the same year Gavin became governor. The Representation Project licenses these films to school districts at roughly $270 per district. By her own boast, 2.6 million students have seen the films nationwide.

The films include titles like Miss Representation, The Mask You Live In, The Great American Lie, and Fair Play — all pushing radical gender ideology. The Office of the First Partner used its taxpayer-funded platform to advocate for $5 billion in youth mental health spending and 10,000 new school counselors — who were then positioned to purchase her materials.

Corporate donors to The Representation Project include PG&E, AT&T, Comcast, and Kaiser Permanente — all entities with massive business before the governor’s office. Kaiser alone has received state contracts exceeding $35 million during Newsom’s tenure. PG&E donated $25,000 to a Representation Project fundraiser a week after Newsom’s 2018 election, while facing government scrutiny for its role in California wildfires.

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f50d.svg The Federal Investigation

As of June 2026, the DOJ is actively investigating the Newsoms’ finances — including Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s taxes, her nonprofits, and the flow of money between them. Federal investigators have been contacting donors, former and current employees, and board members connected to her organizations.
Gavin Newsom is, predictably, framing this as political retaliation from the Trump administration. But the paper trail — the behested payments, the LLC shell games, the self-dealing between her nonprofit and her for-profit company, the donor-to-policy pipeline — was all out in the open long before any federal probe.

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f3af.svg The Bottom Line

What you’re looking at is a closed-loop influence-peddling system:

•Billionaire family (Pritzker) donates to wife’s charity and sells the couple a mansion
•Governor solicits millions for wife’s nonprofit from entities with business before the state
•Wife draws salary from her own nonprofit while her private company gets paid by that same nonprofit
•Taxpayers fund her government office, which promotes the agenda her films sell
•Schools buy her licensed content with money her husband’s policies allocated
•Donors get favorable treatment, blocked competition, and no-bid contracts

The $9.1 million Pritzker mansion isn’t just a house. It’s a monument to how the political class converts public trust into private wealth — all while lecturing the rest of us about equity and justice.

Brave and Free

Sounds like a more robust Clinton Foundation.

patfrederick

it does, doesn’t it?

patfrederick

ahhhh…the smell of bear spray in the morning…

kalbokalbs

LE made some nice “throw downs” on dirtbags.   :banana-mario: 

patfrederick

it was grand to watch!

barkerjim

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/jelly-probes-wednesday-june-17-2026

Good morning, C&C family, it’s Wednesday! Your special California edition roundup today includes: a sitting governor who called a press conference to announce that he is, personally, a criminal suspect— a bold marketing strategy normally avoided by criminal suspects; a four-minute-and-forty-two-second basement selfie video, shot in a lighting style we’ll call Hostage, in which Newsom bravely reveals he’s under federal investigation while heroically declining to mention for what; a leaked talking-points memo whose first question is “what is he being investigated for?” and whose first answer is —and I am not making this up— essentially “good question, ask the DOJ”; millions that mysteriously wandered into his wife’s feminism-themed nonprofit and somehow never wandered back out; a Native American tribe that donated nearly two million dollars at right about the moment Gavin took its side in a casino fight, which is either a remarkable coincidence or a remarkable non-coincidence; a former chief of staff who just pleaded guilty to Fraud and Lying, which would make an excellent name for a punk rock band; and the governor’s central thesis that the most powerful man on Earth is personally terrified of him, despite said man not appearing on any ballot Gavin will ever reach, even on his best day. Grab a glove and your petroleum jelly. It’s probing time.

patfrederick

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duchess01

TEEHEE !!! 🙃

kalbokalbs

Fascinating read Gail. Thank you!

kalbokalbs

Yes, I do, recall… Important to do so.

eilert

I have not said anything about China.

I made a comment about the transcript where they said that the IRGC had control over the clerics, which they didn’t, at least until Khamanei was boom boomed.

There is an internal power struggle at the moment, and they may come out on top, but this is very fluid and this struggle may weaken them even more, so that there is a possibility that they may get overthrown by the Iranian people opposed to the regime.

duchess01

FOR FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND ALL IN NEED OF PRAYER

PRAISE AND WORSHIP

HE RESTORES YOU | Gentle Piano Worship with Healing Scriptures for a Weary Heart


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duchess01

EACH DAY WE TAKE UP THE OFFENSIVE WEAPON OF THE WORD OF GOD – THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT – ONE VERSE OPENS THE DOOR TO THE CONTEXT OF THE CHAPTER MESSAGE

Verse of the Day for Wednesday, June 17, 2026

“Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Romans 8:39 (KJV)

COMMENTARY FOR ROMANS 8:39

The freedom of believers from condemnation. (1-9) Their privileges as being the children of God. (10-17) Their hopeful prospects under tribulations. (18-25) Their assistance from the Spirit in prayer. (26,27) Their interest in the love of God. (28-31) Their final triumph, through Christ. (32-39)

32-39 All things whatever, in heaven and earth, are not so great a display of God’s free love, as the gift of his coequal Son to be the atonement on the cross for the sin of man; and all the rest follows upon union with him, and interest in him. All things, all which can be the causes or means of any real good to the faithful Christian. He that has prepared a crown and a kingdom for us, will give us what we need in the way to it. Men may justify themselves, though the accusations are in full force against them; but if God justifies, that answers all. By Christ we are thus secured. By the merit of his death he paid our debt. Yea, rather that is risen again. This is convincing evidence that Divine justice was satisfied. We have such a Friend at the right hand of God; all power is given to him. He is there, making intercession. Believer! does your soul say within you, Oh that he were mine! and oh that I were his; that I could please him and live to him! Then do not toss your spirit and perplex your thoughts in fruitless, endless doubtings, but as you are convinced of ungodliness, believe on Him who justifies the ungodly. You are condemned, yet Christ is dead and risen. Flee to Him as such. God having manifested his love in giving his own Son for us, can we think that any thing should turn aside or do away that love? Troubles neither cause nor show any abatement of his love. Whatever believers may be separated from, enough remains. None can take Christ from the believer: none can take the believer from Him; and that is enough. All other hazards signify nothing. Alas, poor sinners! though you abound with the possessions of this world, what vain things are they! Can you say of any of them, Who shall separate us? You may be removed from pleasant dwellings, and friends, and estates. You may even live to see and seek your parting. At last you must part, for you must die. Then farewell, all this world accounts most valuable. And what hast thou left, poor soul, who hast not Christ, but that which thou wouldest gladly part with, and canst not; the condemning guilt of all thy sins! But the soul that is in Christ, when other things are pulled away, cleaves to Christ, and these separations pain him not. Yea, when death comes, that breaks all other unions, even that of the soul and body, it carries the believer’s soul into the nearest union with its beloved Lord Jesus, and the full enjoyment of him for ever.

Commentary by Matthew Henry, 1710.
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Proverbs 3:26: Finding Unshakable Peace in God’s Strength


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Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered !!!

duchess01

WE ARE FIGHTING A SPIRITUAL WAR OF GOOD VERSUS EVIL

PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD

Father God, I now follow your command to put on the full armor of God, because my battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the unseen world.

I first pray on the Belt of Truth that it may be buckled around my waist, may I be centered and encircled by your truth dear Lord. Hem me inside all that is true and right, and may I be protected and held up by the truth of your living word, in my Lord Jesus name.

I pray on the Breastplate of righteousness, please protect my vital organs and my inner man, cover my integrity, my spirit, and my soul. Guard my heart for it is the wellspring of life, please strengthen and guard the most vulnerable places in my life with that which is right, good, and noble that I might not receive a fatal blow from the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.

I pray on the Gospel Shoes of Peace. I choose to stand in the shoes of your good news, and on the firm foundation of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the solid eternal rock. All other ground is sinking sand, I pray that I will not slip or fall, but that my feet would be firmly fitted on your lordship, my Lord Jesus. I choose to stand on you, so that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus, the eternal Rock of Ages. I receive your holy peace now my Lord, from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head, in my Lord Jesus name.

I pray the Shield of Faith into my hand now. As I take up the shield of faith, I ask that you might extinguish every dart and arrow that is launched from the enemy to take me down spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and every attempt of the enemy to destroy my joy. I ask that my faith in you would make it flame out. Extinguish every flaming arrow that would come against me, my life, my family, my home, or my ministry. May my faith always be out in front of me like a shield. Give me the courage to “faith my fears” by choosing to walk by faith and not by sight, in my Lord Jesus name.

I pray on the Helmet of Salvation, that you might protect my mind from the thoughts that can lead me astray. I choose to take every thought captive, and arrest all intentioned ideas and motives that would harm others, or distract me from your holy will for me. I submit every captured thought to the Lordship of my Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you would imprison those thoughts that are not of you my Lord. Transform my mind and renew my thinking that I may think God thoughts, and have a sober mind that is focused on your glory. Please protect me from being double minded that I may allow my mind, I reject to live an earthly life, because I choose to live a holy one, governed by you My Lord Jesus, the prince of peace, please have my mind to be saturated with the holy mind of Christ, in my Lord Jesus name.

Finally, I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the holy word of God, I pray this powerful offensive weapon into my hand, and ask that your holy word would be fitting for every encounter I face. As the enemy gets close to me, please give me the insight, wisdom, and skill to wield the word of God to drive away the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.

May the enemy and his team flee from me, upon hearing the word of God spoken by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Give me the sword of the spirit to cut through the wiles of the devil, so that I may discern the schemes of the enemy when he is near.

With all kinds of prayers, supplication, and intercession I pray to you my Lord God as the one who fights my battles. Now that I’m in your holy powerful armor, I walk away covered and ready to face my day as you go before me, and please protect me in the midst of the spiritual warfare in this unseen world, in my Lord Jesus name.

Thank you my Lord, for the spiritual weapons of armor and prayer that you have given me. It is written no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses me. 

Thank you Father God, my Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I am more than a conqueror in my Lord Jesus. I pray all of this in the mighty name of my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, Amen.

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duchess01

PLEASE PRAY FOR ABUSED, MISSING, AND TRAFFICKED CHILDREN

BE MY VOICE

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CHILD NOT CHOICE

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JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN

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duchess01

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St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.

Amen.

duchess01

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kalbokalbs

hussein, “I was making a mistake a day.”
Hell, WE knew that.   :wpds_evil: 

patfrederick

i think he’s glossing over his actions by calling them mistakes instead of deliberate attempts to destroy the country. like the maggot with his dementia…he wasn’t actively making bad decisions, they were caused by his dementia.

you can’t be prosecuted for making mistakes. you can for treason.

TradeBait2

Spot on.

Even Brandon’s dementia is not real IMO. That was his get out of prison card for Ukraine. He knew he had been caught.

patfrederick

yup and we are forced to accept, because the world would collapse from the repercussions. so evil wins and we have to pretend.

TradeBait2

It’s a 🤡 world.

scott467

yup and we are forced to accept, because the world would collapse from the repercussions.

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That’s strange… my world would suddenly become sunny and full of joy from the repercussions.

And I don’t think I’m the only one.

I think the only people whose worlds would collapse would be the worlds of the criminals and traitors, and all the NPCs who support them.

And I’m okay with that… 😁

patfrederick

you’re a sane and just person.
the country has people like you and me AND the crazy aunts and uncles who think they’re the opposite sex, who see all black people as saints and all white people as the devil.

it’s the crazies we tolerate that will be our doom.

scott467

I didn’t notice any worlds collapsing when the d-Rats tried to put DJT in prison with a 400+ year sentence.

Let’s use that same model for the d-Rats.

scott467

He’s being modest, it was a lot more than one a day.

Aubergine

Well, yeah. I mean, he got up in bed with a man every morning, mistake number one. And then he pretended to be President, mistake number two. AND his advisor was Valerie Jarrett, BIG mistake every day. I could keep going.

kalbokalbs

From Gail’s opener. Incredible, Chinee rehabilitating “dead” desert.

duchess01

PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
MAPA = MAKE AMERICA PRAY AGAIN

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duchess01

GOD’S GREAT LOVE

When God gave His Only Begotten Son
The ransom for souls – the victory won
He demonstrated His great love to be
For all His Beloved – for you and me

By the Blood of the Lamb – we are redeemed
There’s no other way it could be it seemed
His sacrifice was pure – untainted by sin
Let the suffering end – His new life begin

There is no greater love one man can give
Than to lay down His life and to forgive
He forgave His oppressors – yes He did
His victory over death – all amid

What does God want in return for His love
Is it peace among men or branch of olive
For what do we strive to do day after day
What is it we need – to live only His way

We must love Him with our mind, heart, and soul
Serve Him through others – His heart to console
Serve no other gods – no idols have we
The servant of all – He wants us to be

We must keep our Sabbath to worship Him
Not just for one day – but surely passim
We must honor our earthly mother and dad
The best of caretakers we ever had

We must not kill our brother – any way
In spirit or slander or libel – betray
We must take not – what belongs not to us
Or covet the goods of another thus

We must not covet the wife of any man
Or lust in our hearts because we can
No envy or malice can we keep inside
Nor from God should we ever seek to hide

We must love our neighbor as Jesus loved
Do all that we can – make him so beloved
For it is in giving that we will receive
And it is in dying – we come to believe

Dying to self – to follow Jesus, Our Lord
Is that which will bring us to full accord
Keeping His Word – we must strive to do
For God’s Great Love lives in me and you

D01: 07/26/2013


duchess01

Psalm 91. The most powerful prayer from the Bible. God’s protection, healing

#psalm91 #psalms #prayer

Pray Everyday

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Sleep Well with Psalms. Psalm 91, Psalm 121, Psalm 3, Psalm 4, Psalm 139.
#faith #god #psalms

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eilert

POTUS is not going to sign renewal of FISA if ‘Save America Act’ is not part of it

TheseTruths

Fun Fact: In-N-Out Burger’s CEO, Lynsi Snyder, has turned down offers worth over a billion dollars and is dead set on keeping the company 100% private—no selling, no franchising, ever. That means even Elon Musk, with all his money in the world, can’t buy In-N-Out. The burgers stay family-owned.

kalbokalbs

Good news!

patfrederick

maybe they can only sell to other family members…???

TheseTruths

Loving America comes naturally to some people.

barkerjim

https://www.malone.news/p/get-big-or-get-out

An Austrian-school reckoning with the true cost of centralized food, and whether the decentralized alternative can actually pay for itself

TheseTruths

REVEALED: UFC Freedom 250 Terror Plot Ringleader is a Noncitizen – Feds Reveal More Details of Alleged Plot to “Attack & Kill Government Officials” at White House Event (VIDEO)
I had wondered how the FBI became aware of this plot. According to the article:

The FBI started its investigation based on a tip from 19-year-old Tycen Proper’s mother after she told law enforcement she was concerned “due to his recent conduct, including firearms purchases and communicating with certain individuals online,” according to an FBI agent’s affidavit

So they were tipped off. What if no one tips them off? It’s uncontitutional for the government to spy on everyone to look for these kinds of plots.

litenmaus

It’s probably just a coinky dink that the FISA surveillance is up for renewal and a “Non-Citizen” just happens to be the “ringleader” of this so-called terror plot. Boy howdy good thing we have FISA surveillance. /s

This whole case just reeks of the same kind of false flag event that was the Governor Gretchen Witmer kidnapping created by the FBI to bolster the narrative of “White Supremacy” only now the main character is a non-citizen and the narrative is “Terror Plot.”

TheseTruths

Good point!

barkerjim

https://www.malone.news/p/the-ai-they-dont-want-you-to-have

Biological Intelligence, Government Power, and the New Biosecurity State

patfrederick

8675310
June 17, 2026 12:08 pm

REVEALED: SEN COTTON TIED TO ANTI-TRUMP NGO GETTING MILLIONS FROM USAID Senator Cotton sits on the board of International Republican Institute, which reportedly received $130M in taxpayer money last year—much of it from USAID. The group actively works against Trump’s policies while funding UN refugee programs. IRI spent $12M on travel and $14M on “benefits” last year. They even provide housing allowances, according to their tax forms. Now Cotton’s blocking Trump’s DOD pick. Funny how that works.
“Who is Tom Cotton’s wife? Meet Anna Peckham Cotton, a former CIA officer who served as Assistant General Counsel at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and as Deputy General Counsel at the National Reconnaissance Office. Given her background, it’s reasonable to ask whether Tom Cotton is influenced by her past roles in east Asia?”

kalbokalbs

Cotton. Just another bought and paid for R-Con. IC stooge IIRC.

They are All the same.

patfrederick

they are. it would honeslt surprise me if there were 2 honest people in gov’t service. they all want the grift and the glory.

Happy go lucky

I think my congressman is honest. But he’s kinda dumb, so there’s that.

patfrederick

you owe me a new keyboard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  :wpds_lol:   :wpds_lol:   :wpds_lol:   :wpds_lol:   :wpds_lol: 

TradeBait2

Spot on.

Brave and Free

Follow the wife’s……..

barkerjim
kalbokalbs

Quick look at Breitbart and Faux News,i did not see reports of Trump saying below information. Would not surprise me if it is true. Will look again later.

Substack article.

While at the G7, in front of media from all over the world, Trump said that Obama paved the way for Iran to obtain nuclear weapons, and that their plan was to destroy Israel and the entire Middle East.

Trump just revealed the big secret to the world.

CLASS IS IN SESSION! THE WORLD IS BEING BRIEFED!

It’s not just the American People Trump is talking to. He’s talking to the entire world. The global public are being prepared for world-altering news. The world must be informed of the great criminality that took place, BEFORE there can be justice. The landing must be soft and gradual.

Trump is preparing the world for what must be done. Obama, and all those involved in supplying Iran with nuclear weapons, must be held accountable.

Trump just prevented WW3 and saved the world, and it was the Obama administration and their global crime syndicate that were behind the plot.

While the world watches…

TradeBait2

He did say that and followed up in reporter questions. Wifey and I watched.

Iran’s plan was to target with nukes, which was the purpose of their long range ICBM program. He said if the military had not taken them out with the B2’s many international cities in the region as well as Israel would be totally wiped out by now.

He pointed to Obama giving them the cash to do what they were trying to do. Where he said it in France at the G7 with even more international leaders present put the whole world on notice and a target on the Obama gang. He said nice things about Xi/Chinese and Putin/Russian restraint during the bombing.

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kalbokalbs

Wow! Glad you saw it. thanks for posting.

At this point, it is a matter of time until hussein is indicted, arrested…

Good with an October surprise. though I am good with hussein arrested, anytime. Sooner is better.

TradeBait2

Cannot happen soon enough!

kalbokalbs

Guessing MLB will penalize Texas rangers for not supporting Freak month – tranny crap. /s

WOW! The Texas Rangers are the ONE AND ONLY MLB team refusing to host a pride night — they’re actually running a FAITH AND FAMILY NIGHT this week

Based!

“The Rangers are the only team in MLB that does NOT hose a pride night. This week, they’re hosting faith and family night instead.”

TheseTruths

I remember reading about the Rangers being the only team that bucked the system for several years now. Seems they would have gotten into trouble before now, but maybe MLB is being stricter this year. With Josh Hawley and the Florida AG putting the spotlight on MLB, maybe it will back off.

scott467

“but maybe MLB is being stricter this year.”

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Just as gay as they wanna be!

I’d haul them all before Congress to find out what’s going on. Put them right on the spot.

Is it the wymyn behind all this nonsense, did the wymyn turn everything gay?

Or have actual homos taken over the administration of the MLB and other sports leagues?

I would ask each team owner, “Are you a homo?”

And the league leadership, “Are you homos too?”

How did homos takeover your league?

How did your league become a promotion platform for perverted sex?

That seems more than a little strange, doesn’t it?

Does your Mom support this perversion?

What’s really going on here?

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scott467

They should all hose pride night! 😂

kalbokalbs

Seems Ms Linda was calibrated. Back onboard Trump Train.

Thank you, Lindsey. The President’s coalition is uniting behind his leadership and vision for a safer, more peaceful and prosperous world.

patfrederick

Political Observer
June 17, 2026 1:15 pm

Office of Public Affairs | Department of Justice Files Suit to Stop Ongoing Medicaid Fraud Related to New York’s $10 Billion Home-Care Program | United States Department of Justice:
“The lawsuit aims to stop an alleged fraud scheme by which PPL has generated millions of dollars in unauthorized profits funded by federal taxpayers in connection with its takeover of New York’s $10 billion-dollar CDPAP program. The lawsuit alleges that the New York Department of Health awarded PPL the lucrative CDPAP contract after conducting a sham bid process, and then, despite learning of PPL’s intent to deviate from the representations made in its bid and violate the financial terms of the contract, failed to take action to hold PPL accountable and to protect public funds from misuse, resulting in a fraud scheme that remains unchecked to this day.”

TheseTruths

https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2026/06/17/luigi-mangione-will-assert-psychiatric-defense-at-state-murder-trial

Luigi Mangione will assert a psychiatric defense at his state murder trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a judge said Wednesday.

Judge Gregory Carro said Mangione’s lawyers have informed him they will attempt to show that he was suffering from “extreme emotional disturbance at the time of the occurrence.”

If they succeed, Mangione could be sent to a psychiatric treatment facility instead of prison.

Nice try, murderer. 😡 Did he tell his fawning fans that what he did was wrong and he was just temporarily deranged? Or did he let them think he was some kind of avenger against United Healthcare, instead.

IMO it should be a death penality case, but that is probably out of the question.

“Extreme emotional disturbance.” Like what some here have been going through over the past few weeks? I don’t think they have killed anyone. Just sayin’.

TradeBait2

I had extreme emotional disturbance for 20 years – the terms that Clinton, Obama and Biden were in office. Did not kill anybody to my knowledge.

Robert Baker

No doubt that is true TB, but the power of your rhetoric built many a safe space and has caused many Progressives to have their therapists on speed dial. You will have to give an account when the longed for New Utopia becomes reality.

TradeBait2

😂 Will try to put on even more steam!

I figure I will have a lot of splainin’ to do anyway.

eilert

kalbokalbs

Chuckling over the last couple words below.

JUST NOW — PRESIDENT TRUMP drops this line to the press before walking inside at Versailles:

“This is SO beautiful! We thank the president, Brigitte is an amazing woman!”

TheseTruths

😅 👍🏼 PDJT handles all the issues.

kalbokalbs

kalbokalbs

Trump delivered lots of great information on the Iran MOU. Shutdown numerous presstitutes.

Bitch slapped hussein numerous times, over the moronic JCPOA.

  • A few days back. hussein tried to belittle Trump beating the hellout of Iran, AND prop up the JCPOA mess.
kalbokalbs

Marco is exhausted. Marco needs some rest.

Oh Wait.

  • Friday MOU should be signed by JD.
  • C U B A.

  :cheers: 

Next? Ukraine / Russia throw in the towel. (I hope.)

litenmaus

While Zelensky is welcomed with open arms at the G7 summit

Ukraine drone hit a bus full of Belarusian children in the Bryansk area and the Ukraine military attempt to encircle Kostantnovka in the Donbas region fell apart.

I don’t think that the Ukraine/Russia conflict is going to cease anytime soon Kalbo….

duchess01

[DS] Got Played,This Is It Not Just Another 4 Year Election, Trump Is Taking It All Back – Ep. 3929
 June 17, 2026  x22report

https://x22report.com/ds-got-playedthis-is-it-not-just-another-4-year-election-trump-is-taking-it-all-back-ep-3929/

The Economists & D’s were all wrong, the economy is not headed into a recession and inflation is not going to continue to go up. Retail sales are up and doing betting, investments and manufactures are coming back to this country. The US is the number one producer and exporter of oil. Everything is changing, Trump is moving the country into the new economic system and destroying the old one. The [DS] got played, everything about them is being exposed. The MOU with Iran is a framework deal, Iran gets nothing they must prove to the US they are doing what Trump wants, and if they decided not to follow the MOU Trump said he will just bomb them again. Iran have no leverage, the regime has no leverage, the surrendered and Trump laid out the terms of the surrender. This is not just another 4 year election Trump is dismantling the [DS] worldwide so we the people can take it all back.

Ep 3929a – Economist, D’s Got It All Wrong, No Recession,It’s The Removal Of The Old Economic System
https://x22report.com/aiovg_videos/ep-3929a-economist-ds-got-it-all-wrong-no-recessionits-the-removal-of-the-old-economic-system/

Ep 3929b – [DS] Got Played,This Is It Not Just Another 4 Year Election, Trump Is Taking It All Back
https://x22report.com/aiovg_videos/ep-3929b-ds-got-playedthis-is-it-not-just-another-4-year-election-trump-is-taking-it-all-back/

duchess01

Peace and Tranquility Prayers
Prayer for a Calm Heart

Lord of Peace, as evening falls, I seek the calmness only You can provide. Quell the storms of my mind and replace anxiety with Your peace. As the world quiets down, let my heart do the same. May Your presence envelop me so that I may know tranquility tonight and always. Amen.

Serenity at Day’s End

Heavenly Father, with the closing of this day, I ask for serenity. As the night sky displays its vast beauty, let my soul mirror its peacefulness. Help me to let go of the worries of the day and trust in Your loving care. May Your peace reign in my heart and home tonight. Amen.

Prayer for Restful Stillness

Dear God, in the stillness of this evening, I come to You seeking rest for my soul. Help me to lay down the burdens I’ve carried today and find comfort in Your arms. Grant me peace that passes understanding and a rest that restores my spirit. May my sleep be undisturbed and my dreams be sweet. Amen.

Nighttime Whisper for Peace

Creator of All, as I listen to the night’s gentle whisper, I ask for peace to settle over me. Let Your tranquility wash away the noise of the day. In this quiet hour, I lean on Your promise of peace, a heavenly balm to my weary soul. Keep me in perfect peace as I keep my mind stayed on You. Amen.

Prayer for Gentle Rest

Omnipotent and Gentle Lord, at the end of this day, I seek the gentle rest that You so lovingly provide. May my mind be at ease, my body relax, and my spirit find harmony. Help me to release every concern into Your capable hands and sleep in the assurance of Your protection and peace. Amen.

gil00

Theres a word or three for women like this. She is quite a miserable person. She has dug a hole so so deep. I wonder if shes in a public employment position or healthcare?

An Arizona woman went on an unhinged rant against a taco restaurant because it is owned by two white brothers.

Lily Kaplan torched Poolboy Taco in Phoenix after sampling the Mexican eatery’s nachos and soft tacos.

She shared a blistering review with her 21,000 TikTok followers earlier this month slamming the quality of the food and taking aim at owners Jared and Aaron Pool.

‘I’m just over white restaurant culture here in the Valley,’ Kaplan, who is white, said. 

‘White culture in the US is giving racism, misogyny, and pedophilia these days. And it is such a bummer seeing another duo, white men, brothers, opening a really, really mediocre restaurant.’ 

Kaplan took offense to the fine print of the colorful menu, which mentions the restaurant is ‘100 percent seed oil free.’ 

‘The seed oil mention is very MAGA,’ she said.

Kaplan admitted that her review was going to be ‘unfriendly’ before she even set foot in the store as she railed against its white owners.

Her review featured a picture of one of the Pool brothers sitting outside his restaurant with his two children. He was dressed in black skinny jeans, a tie-dye shirt and a gray snapback hat.

‘This photo is giving wannabe Brooklyn edgy, but it’s just giving your kids hate you, and you hate the person taking the photo,’ Kaplan said.

She noted that Poolboy ‘overall represents the state of America’ at the moment. 

‘It’s white men doing things that aren’t that great or remarkable, just because they’re the only ones with the capital to do it, because of the centuries of the patriarchy and racism,’ she said in the video. 

She also slammed the liquid cheese sauce on her $8 nachos, which were loaded up with guacamole, pickled red onions, pico de gallo and slaw. 

‘These nachos were apparently a staff favorite, which is such BS,’ she said. ‘It’s nacho sauce, which is never going to do it for me. 

She also ordered five soft tacos, which range from $3 to $5.50. 

‘Not a ton of flavor,’ she remarked. ‘It’s fine. Again, pretty flavorless, I’m not gonna lie. Very, very, very basic.’ 

Poolboy is a play on the owner’s surnames and named after their award-winning taco. 

Aaron disputed Kaplan’s claims that they are flush with cash, telling The Arizona Republic: ‘It’s not that I have a lot of money. I have debt from operating through the pandemic.’ 

He also told the outlet he didn’t know why Kaplan would even visit if she already knew she wasn’t going to like the food. 

The brothers also own Gadzooks Enchiladas, which Kaplan said in the video she also didn’t like. 

‘I’ve been building this brand for six years,’ Aaron told the outlet. 

‘This is me. We have never taken ourselves seriously and said that we are authentically a taqueria. 

‘It’s all of the life experiences I have gone through put together. It’s just a better version of Taco Bell.’ 

Kaplan told The Republic that her video was not about cultural appropriation. 

White people should be able to make tacos. It’s an American food,’ she said. 

‘I just had the vibe that they don’t represent diversity. I understand that it’s a wild thing to say in a food review. If they are not aligned with Trump and pedophilia, then we should talk about it. I don’t know, and I don’t really care.’ 

She also said she did not choose the place to specifically make a political comment, telling The Republic: ‘There’s really no thought behind it. 

‘They have the right to be white, they have the right to own a taco shop, they have the right to be Trump supporters. They could have reached out to me to disagree with me, but they didn’t.’ 

It is unknown what political party the Pool brothers align with.  

Since posting the video on June 1, Kaplan’s video has amassed three million views.  

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15908157/lily-kaplan-poolboy-tacos-arizona-white-culture.html

patfrederick

she’s a racist.

gil00

No kidding. In the comments a person posted that her family is exceptionally wealthy. No way to verify though.

pgroup2

If that’s the case, then the brothers should sue, claiming RICO if she’s a trust fund baby. That will annoy her family by putting their wealth at risk since she was using it to harm the brothers’ business.

Phoenix has plenty of attorneys that need work.

gil00

Oh hey …. consequences!

TheseTruths

She’s a mental case.

pgroup2

‘There’s really no thought behind it.

She certainly told the truth with that line.

gil00

👍

Wolf Moon

The comments from the public are awesome!

gil00

Frequently thats the best part.

TradeBait2

Have a short ground report.

Tourism season is in full bloom here. That means a lot of people everywhere. Employers start hiring illegals to staff jobs while paying in cash.

From May 24-30, ICE/Sheriff/Local PD’s had an operation. 117 in 6 days. Buh-bye. SonIL bagged and tagged three of them.

The local immigration attorney who handles the cases for the illegals says the “immigrant” community is scared, some will not even come to his office for help. Local fake news tried to present it to gain sympathy. None provided.

MOAR!!! 😂 👍 🇺🇸

gil00

Oh definitely more more more. If those scummy companies dont hire Americans they can go under.

pgroup2

Yes. The work that needs to be done will still need to be done after they leave.

TradeBait2

So many “retirement” age people need the work and are employed around here. The labor jobs the illegals do are washing dishes, cleaning rooms, lawn service, roofing labor, etc. Plenty of low cost teenager, high school grad help around to handle it. Some of the employers give them a couple months off in the winter. The locals draw unemployment then and do what they want. Some of them pick up work other places during the time. The illegals use that time to go back home for a visit or find work in other areas that are still active.

The way this should be done is for employers to obey the laws. The.feds could then monitor the need for immigrant labor better. Do a better job bagging the corrupt employers and it could be straightened out.

TradeBait2

Talked to SonIL again this evening. He and his unit bagged quite a few more since the first of the month.

cthulhu

Good going!!

scott467

Carney Calls It a Rupture. Trump Just Cracked Iran After 47 Years

Ahead of the G7 in Evian, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney warned of a “global rupture” as the post – Cold War rules-based order breaks down, a claim the episode argues was underscored by Donald Trump’s summit remarks suggesting Syria should handle Hezbollah if Israel cannot without “killing everyone else,” and criticizing Israel’s actions in Lebanon.

The script says Trump’s approach reflects a sovereignty-based foreign policy that bypasses imperial proxies and multilateral institutions, highlighted by direct engagement with “the full spectrum” of the Iranian system to secure an Iran memorandum of understanding and by prioritizing Gulf leaders in public time.

It argues the real target is dismantling the “terror premium” on oil tied to Strait of Hormuz threats, and portrays Europe’s Ukraine pledges as unfunded, citing Britain’s defense leadership resignations over lack of money, fueling Carney’s alarm.
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kalbokalbs

IT’S OFFICIAL: After a JAW-DROPPING report, Elon Musk says all UK politicians who “turned a blind eye to the r*pe of Britain must go to PRISON”

Some of them were BRANDED with “M” for Mohammed https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f92f.svg

He’s right.

**250,000** victims estimated NATIONWIDE. Whites were the target.

WILL CAIN: “The numbers in the report are absolutely staggering. Around 87% of those convicted in the group based child s*x exploitation are distinctively Muslim names. The report cites evidence of grooming gang activity in 149 different areas in the UK.”

“And get this, an estimated 250,000 victims nationwide. In one case alone, 47 children were identified as victims. Britain launched a national review of closed grooming gang investigations last year to re-look at 1200 cases, including 236 involving r*pe.”

scott467

YES!!!

kalbokalbs

Speaking of the boring Company earlier today…

Prufrock-MB2 is ready to mine in Nashville! MB2 commissioning is complete, including the brief 11 rpm rotation shown here.

Will MB2 catch up to MB1, who had quite the head start?

And Prufrock-MB3 ships in August!

TradeBait2

They are really hoping to get Elon to approve Knoxville to Gatlinburg. The regional airport is expanding rapidly with other airlines like SouthWest having added flights.More and more people could fly in and do the tunnel into Gatlinburg and the Smokies quickly and reduce the traffic congestion of the the traditional routes.

kalbokalbs

kalbokalbs

Seems JDs flight to Switzerland is canceled.

Saw reports of the MOU fourteen points…though I missed the MOU has been signed.

BREAKING: U.S. and Iran have signed the MOU for ending the war remotely on Wednesday and it is now in effect, two U.S. officials told me

kalbokalbs

JDs comment Is Priceless. Wait for it…

10/10 @JDVance

kalbokalbs

AWESOME! President Trump signed the Iran peace deal IN VERSAILLES, France

TRUMP, before boarding the motorcade: “It’s SIGNED — it’s signed in Versailles! I just signed it!”



kalbokalbs

JUST IN: It’s 1AM and President Trump has just WALKED OUT of dinner in Versailles with French President Macron, boarding the motorcade en route to AIR FORCE ONE for America

He LOVES how beautiful it is — Macron then gave him a hug

LFG, the man is returning home after a WILDLY successful week abroad

He refuses to slow down, even at 80 years old!

duchess01

Gretchen Whitmer’s Defiant Response Sparks Backlash

Wolf Moon

WOW.

TheseTruths

If you don’t learn from history, it will repeat itself. People want to be free. (*cough* American Revolutionary War *cough*). It’s not hard. But the British people don’t have guns like the American colonists did.

kalbokalbs

Brits need to grow a cet and toss their government.

TheseTruths

Someone would try to embroil America in it, but you are correct: it’s up to the Brits.

duchess01

Europe Votes in LANDSLIDE For Mass Deportations, JAILING Illegals! EU Parliament: ‘Send Them Back!

scott467

That bald guy on the left looks like he’s panti-fa.

scott467

👍😂

cthulhu

Andy Ngo is one of the best reporters out there for actually finding things out and reporting them.

duchess01
cthulhu

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