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There’s a hidden 14 “return policy” and their logon process doesn’t work reliably. When you complain their tech support stalls until your “14 days” expires. Argh!
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Jets cancel invite to super fan set to take $100K field goal challenge in honor of her late father: ‘Could have made it’
By Alex Mitchell
Published Dec. 25, 2025, 7:00 a.m. ET
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(Ashley Castanio-Gervasi) felt ready to kick. But then the Jets pulled the ball away from her like Charlie Brown in a “Peanuts” cartoon, when they suddenly said that she was actually not eligible to kick in the final contest for the six-figure prize.
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Sorry, but finding a “rule” at the 11th hour stinks.
I have no problem with them making whatever rule they want, but not deep into the competition.
Argh!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes,_Virginia,_there_is_a_Santa_Claus
In 1897, Philip O’Hanlon, a surgeon, was asked by his eight-year-old daughter, Virginia O’Hanlon, whether Santa Claus existed. His answer did not convince her, and Virginia decided to pose the question to The Sun.[7] Sources conflict over whether her father suggested writing the letter,[8] or she elected to on her own.[7] In her letter Virginia wrote that her father had told her “If you see it in The Sun it’s so.”[8] O’Hanlon later told The Sun that her father thought the newspaper would be “too busy” to respond to her question and had said to “[w]rite if you want to,” but to not be disappointed if she got no response.[9] After sending the letter she looked for a response “day after day”.[9] O’Hanlon later said that she had waited for an answer to her letter for long enough that she forgot about it. Campbell theorizes the letter was sent shortly after O’Hanlon’s birthday in July and was “overlooked or misplaced” for a time.[10][a]
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Church’s response began: “Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age.” He continued to write that Santa Claus existed “as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist” and that the world would be “dreary” if he did not. Church argued that just because something could not be seen did not mean it was not real: “Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.” He concluded that:[23]
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“Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.” — Francis Church in The Sun on September 21, 1897
So true!
I always use “electricity” when I have to respond to any child’s question about reality.
Santa, Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, The Great Pumpkin, an honest politician, or jumbo shrimp … … … …
“Well, I am an electrical engineer and I KNOW electricity is real, but I can’t see it. Why can’t other things, that we can’t see, be real?”
It’s worked for me so far, and I can’t imagine what I’ll say then.
Merry, Happy, or just Seasonal Greetings, what ever you celebrate.
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It’s Called the Clot Shot for a Reason & Is Trump Being Set Up?
Dec 12, 2025
Tom Renz’s Newsletter
For God, family, and Country – The fight against corruption.
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Corruption In The Church And The Duty To Withhold Support
Near the end, I talk about one more institution that has betrayed a sacred trust. The Catholic Church has paid out enormous sums in settlements over clergy sexual-abuse cases, while dioceses continue to use parishioner donations to fund legal defenses that often prioritize the institution over abused children.
As a Catholic myself, I call for a simple act of conscience. Quit tithing until the Church stops using the collection basket to shield predators and starts openly confronting the rot. Giving money to an institution that will not protect the innocent is not charity.
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In a very pointed issue, Tom Renz’s Newsletter made several insightful points that I intend to blog about. This is one.
The Catholic Church has strayed from “religion” into “politics”, with stops along the way at “hedonism” (sexual promiscuity with birth control), “murder” (abortion on demand),
“condoning suicide” (euthanasia), “gay rights” (pedohilia priest blessing homosexual marriage), and finally “political corruption” (becoming a branch of Gooferment by taking money to “resettle” illegal immigration).
To misquote Reagan, … …
“I didn’t leave the Democratic party, the Democratic Party left me.” ― Ronald Reagan
… … the good people and me didn’t leave the Church, the Catholic Church left us.
So sad, and as I have said before —
— the Catholic Church has lost its “moral authority”.
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The Big Think Interview with Yuval Noah Harari
Big Think
Dec 13, 2025
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If you consider, for instance, a dollar bill, it has no objective value whatsoever, at least not for human beings. Maybe termites can eat it, but humans can’t eat dollars, they can’t drink them. There is nothing useful you can do with them. They nevertheless have value because the greatest storytellers in the world, the finance ministers, the bankers, the investors, they tell us a story that this piece of paper is has value. I can use it to buy bread or potatoes or bananas or anything else.
As long as millions of people believe in this story, they are willing to work, for instance, on constructing and nuclear reactor because at the end of the month, they get these few colorful pieces of paper. Today, of course, it’s not even paper. Most of the money in the world today is not paper notes and metal coins. It’s just digital information moving between computers. But as long as people still have trust in the story about these digital information, it works.
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As the tin foil hat survivalists preach, at some point in time, “We, The Sheeple” will recognize that:
“Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon” — Milton Friedman
“Inflation is theft, you’re stealing value from people who save money.”-Ron Paul
“The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion — policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners — had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard. Solemn pledges were broken, retroactive laws were promulgated, provisions of constitutions and bills of rights were openly defied. And hosts of servile writers praised what the governments had done and hailed the dawn of the fiat-money millennium.” — Ludwig von Mises
And, when the SHTF, people will seek band aids, beans, bullets, and bullion. The farmer, the carpenter, the electrician, and the plumber will thrive. The politicians, bureaucrats, celebrities, and influencers will starve.
Hope I never have to live thru it.
But it seems unavoidable.
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Metro
Senior citizen who saved himself from would-be mugger is heading to prison because of NYC’s ‘draconian’ laws
By Kevin Sheehan and Ben Kochman
Published Nov. 20, 2025, 5:16 p.m. ET
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A Queens senior citizen who shot dead a man who tried to rob him will spend four years in prison after admitting to toting an unlicensed revolver — as his lawyer ripped the city’s “draconian” gun laws.
Charles Foehner, 67, pleaded guilty to one count of criminal weapons possession Thursday in a deal to end his case more than two years after he fatally shot would-be thief Cody Gonzalez, who charged at him near his Kew Gardens home.
The Queens District Attorney’s Office chose not to prosecute Foehner, a retired doorman, for Gonzalez’s killing after he told cops that he’d defended himself from a mugger who lunged at him late at night holding what looked like a knife — but which turned out to be a pen
Foehner was not charged with manslaughter after claiming self-defense, but pleaded guilty to a lesser gun charge. But prosecutors slapped Foehner with a slew of weapons raps for the unlicensed handgun and for an arsenal of illicit handguns, revolvers and rifles inside his home in the quiet neighborhood.
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“If we respected people’s constitutional right, and provided practical means for citizens to exercise that right, Mr. Foehner would not be in the position he is in today,” Kenniff added.
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So, let me understand this, the Queens DA Melinda Katz didn’t prosecute a “hard to win” case but did prosecute an “easy to win” one and insisted on a harsh punishment.
Sounds like “prosecutorual misconduct” to me.
Buffing up the old political resume and punishing self-defense.
Without allowing “self-defense”, “We, The Sheeple” has no defense against career criminals and the crazy insane that are allowed to roam at will.
Fighting this injustice is a just a war of attrition against a Gooferment bureaucrat with unlimited funds.
One would hope that:
That should get the attenton of ALL current and potential politicians and bureaucrats.
Where is the Federal Gooferment’s politicians and bureaucrats standing up for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. At the very least, federal funds for “law enforcement” should be impounded until rights are restored.
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Body Of Teen Who Jumped Off Manahawkin Bridge Located: Police
Veronica Flesher’s profile picture
Posted Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 9:07 am ET
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Editor’s Note: If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. Call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline for free, confidential support, 24 hours a day.
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MANAHAWKIN, NJ — The body of a 19-year-old seen jumping from the Manahawkin Bridge just before Thanksgiving has been found, Stafford police said.
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Hopefully, that troubled individual is at peace now. So sad. I don’t know why they did that, but I hope someone finds out.
Nothing could be that bad.
Dona Nobis Pacem
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https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/seven-voting-laws-every-blue-state-should-enact-right-now/
Seven Voting Laws Every Blue State Should Enact Right Now
By Marc Elias
November 28, 2025
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1. Enact a statutory right to vote for every eligible citizen.
2. Ban signature matching of mail-in ballots.
3. Count all ballots postmarked by Election Day.
4. Guarantee voters they will not have to wait more than 30 minutes in line.
5. Ban third-party voter challenges and other forms of vigilantism.
6. Provide criminal and civil remedies for voter intimidation.
7. Revise and strengthen election-certification laws.
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Remember the Dead Old White Guys were opposed to “democracy”.
“The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding documents. Their vision for us was a Republic and limited government.” — Walter E. Williams
Remember they saw the (bloody) French Revolution, as well as the many “slave uprisings” in the New World.
“If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.” — Emma Goldman ― often incorrectly attributed to American humorist Mark Twain ― but very very true imho!
“The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone’s opinion is worth the same.” — Robert A. Heinlein
All that being said:
#8 Voter Id — mandatory — citizens only — indelible ink like in India
#9 Voter Competency — no “nursing home” voting blocks — not sure how to enforce that but should be easy to figure out
#10 Voter crypto signature — if iPhone and Android can do passkeys then the USA can do it too
#11 Fraud and Campaign contributions penalties with teeth
#12 Political Campaign contributions limited amounts, from real individuals, and all domiciled in the district
#13 Paper ballots only! No machines.
#14 Repeal the 17th Direct Election of Senators and return it to the State legislators
#15 Ranked Choice voting nationwide
I thing that about covers it. I’m sure I’ll think of some more.
Laugh!
As if anyone cares.
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Massive Democrat Money Laundering Discovered – Names include Gretchen Whitmer, Jon Ossoff and Cory Booker
by Jim Hoft Dec. 15, 2025 8:00 am1022 Comments
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Epilogue It now can be seen that Senators Cory Booker, Mark Kelly, Elissa Slotkin, Raphael Warnock, Adam Schiff, Jon Ossoff, Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar are heavily and possibly criminally involved as recipients of what is obviously a massive money laundering effort that probably spans the past two decades! This grouping of 42 seniors, AKA “smurfs” reveals the dedicated efforts of some very determined, corrupt individuals to launder money into the Democratic sphere of campaign finance. These 42 persons are “alleged” to have donated over 7.4 million dollars in over 32,000 separate donations. The ActBlue scheme of “Too Small, Too Many To Find” has been discovered! This current revelation is just a current snapshot of what will be an ongoing and probably ever growing investigatory effort.
Stay Tuned Fellow Patriots and please share this as you are able! The Best (Or Worse) is Yet to Come!
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The ActBlue scheme of “Too Small, Too Many To Find” and that of WinRed need to be thoroughLy investigated. And all involved sent to jail. PERIOD!
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Shocking moment killer paedophile is shot dead in the street just hours after he was freed from prison
By FRANCINE WOLFISZ, NEWS REPORTER
Published: 19:06 EST, 13 December 2025 | Updated: 19:21 EST, 13 December 2025
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Despite his initial confession, he later told a court he did not remember whether he was responsible.
Bruno’s mother, Josiana Aparecida da Silva, said she felt both pain and relief after learning of Ferreira da Silva’s death.
She said: ‘I am happy, not because of my son – my son is dead, he cannot come back – but I am happy that he won’t kill anyone else.
‘No more children will die because of him.’
She added in an interview with a local TV station that ‘justice has been done, but for me it took too long,’ Metro reported.
‘I had the courage to go and see the man who killed my son when he was tried but I regretted it because I was filled with hatred and wanted to kill him.
‘I thought I wouldn’t have the courage to kill him, but today, seeing him dead, I know that if I had had the opportunity to kill him, I would have done so, as a mother.’
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Personally I’m surprised he survived prison time. In the USA, paedophiles don’t usually survive.
Since there is very little chance of “rehabilitation”, this is one of those areas for this gun-owning pro-life pro-choice little L libertarian where I am conflicted.
I understand the need for the death penalty for inmates who harm correctional officers; don’t like it but it’s the exception that proves the rule.
Paedophiles, since they can’t change, are in the same category for me; maybe second time offenders should too be subject to the death penalty.
Sigh!
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