In cleaning out my old home prior to sale, I keep finding memorabilia that makes me sad. Here’s a photo of Evy’s cousin for who she was named. She passed away prematurely and I don’t know any more.
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EVLYNN: The cousin who passed prematurely and Evy was named for
Monday, October 7, 2024
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Springfield, Ohio is home to a Human Trafficking empire
Monday, October 7, 2024Exclusive: Feds and State AG Investigate an Alleged Human Trafficking Empire Run in Springfield, Ohio, for Years by ‘King George’
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Dispatches from Springfield, Ohio – The story in this town is not about cats or dogs. It’s about mules. It’s a twin tragedy of migrant workers from Haiti exploited and locals from Springfield marginalized. Just about every week since 2019, First Diversity Staffing Group Inc. has shuttled vulnerable Haitian migrants in unmarked white Ford and Chevy vans from Florida to Ohio, where they are allegedly exploited for cheap labor by companies like Dole Food Company Inc. It is a secretive and sinister operation that has gone unchecked for more than five years. The mastermind behind this scheme lives in a $1.35 million mansion on Pawleys Plantation Court. His name is George Ten, but in that underworld, his nickname is “King George,” because of his opulent lifestyle of luxury cars, cash handouts and fast-talk. For years, he has operated his reign of alleged exploitation openly and freely out of a former mansion on E. High Street.
Asra Q. Nomani
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What began as my efforts to track down a rumor about animal cruelty has turned into an investigation that reveals a malignant system of labor exploitation involving a local businessman, George Ten, whom Haitians and local residents call “King George,” the chief executive at First Diversity Staffing Group Inc., a Springfield company that has been the tip of the spear in the alleged trafficking operation of Haitians to the town.
While Haitians have lived in homes condemned now with an “X” on the front door, he lives in a $1.35 million mansion on Pawleys Plantation Court in a ritzy neighborhood called “Estates at Country Club of the North.”
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This is a story of unchecked greed and cruelty, committed not by the immigrants, but to the immigrants, with local residents of Springfield also a casualty.
As most journalists learn through experience, things are rarely as they seem. When the allegation of migrants eating cats and dogs exploded across the media, I knew there was more beneath the surface. What began as an investigation into animal cruelty quickly revealed a much darker reality—a large-scale human trafficking operation.
I arrived in Springfield from my home in Morgantown, W.V., a town much like Springfield in size and scale. I wanted to get to the bottom of this story. I came to Springfield because I felt a connection to the immigrants and the locals here, both their stories echoing my own experience growing up uniting two worlds. I moved to the U.S. with my brother when I was four years old, joining our parents as they made the difficult move in search of a better life, and when I was 10, we settled in West Virginia.
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Maybe DJT45 may have gotten the story wrong about animal cruelty, there is an underlying story that’s a lot worse.
He should make this a campaign issue about Human Trafficking and Election Interference.
Argh!
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INSPIRATIONAL: “Tests” and school should NOT obsure the real purpose of education
Sunday, October 6, 2024FROM QUORA
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Regular People & Their Amazing Stories
Posted by Taresa Strachan
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“I gave my 10 year old a math test today. He spent nearly an hour and used four sheets of scratch paper. He worked each problem with intense concentration. And then with a deep breath he handed it to me to be graded.
I quickly worked my way through the test and calculated his score.
“It’s an 89” I said, “that’s a high B.”
Immediately his eyes filled with tears. He had done his best work, given his greatest effort and had still come up short.
I looked at my boy and back down at his paper.
And then I ripped it in half.
My boy is amazing in the kitchen. He can cook a meal for the entire family without breaking a sweat.
My boy is incredible at putting things together. He uses tools like a skilled craftsman.
My boy is a founding member of the mother/son debate team, (I just made that up) he can persuade me into doing things I never planned to do.
My boy is hilarious. He is always the first one to make a joke at the dinner table.
My boy is a sensitive soul. He’s kind and gentle when that sort of thing is necessary.
My boy is diligent. He will work at something until he feels it’s as good as it can be.
My boy is NOT defined by the grade on his math paper.
When I ripped that paper up, I looked my boy in the eyes and I told him how I had watched him. How I saw him give his best, how he considered each problem and checked each one until he felt it was complete. I watched him erase and rework problems he was unsure of. I watched him pour every bit of effort in his little body into that test.
And I told him I had never been more proud.
Children are so much more than test scores. They are so much more than their reading level. They are so much more than the box we try to mold them in to.
School is important, education is important but it’s not of highest importance.
I am more concerned with how he treats others, with his level of integrity and his desire to serve Jesus than any score on any test.
I am more concerned with his ability to learn how to use his talents to earn money for his family.
I am more concerned with the character that we are building than the division facts on the paper.
Our children should have an opportunity to show us where they excel, especially in the elementary years.
I was shocked at the pressure he felt to do well on that test. I never imagined the tears of disappointment that would fall. I admire his ambition and his desire to do well.
I have never been more proud of an 89 on a math test.”
Credit: Sprinkles In My Closet
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Just the other night I saw a seven year old ADHD boy master “counting by twos” page of homework. He got in a rhythm, had fun, big smile,and was so pleased with himself. I gave him a round of applause and he was even prouder.
Not that he still won’t get in trouble for doing dumb things, but he says “he hates math because it’s hard”, I’ll remind him of “adding twos”.
It’s more important that he seeks that endorphin filled moment of accomplishment so that when life’s problems face him — as they do for us all — he can slog through them without being discouraged.
I’m sure he’ll remember these formative positive moments long after his adults are gone.
That’s the essential human teaching to leave behind.
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MEME: Avoiding a copyright suit by this much ….
Saturday, October 5, 2024
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GOVERNACIDE: The death penalty is just morally wrong and fraught with abuse
Saturday, October 5, 2024https://kottke.org/24/09/0045345-the-state-should-not-give
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“The state should not give itself the right to kill human beings — especially when it kills with premeditation and ceremony, in the name of the law or in the name of its people, and when it does so in an arbitrary and discriminatory fashion.”
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The Gooferment should never be permitted to kill for any reason.
I can make a small carve out for those humans that are just too dangerous to keep prison. For example, there should be a Devil’s Island where murders, who attack guards, can be kept and never leave.
The problem with the death penalty is that there is no “undo” function and mistakes happen. Whatever the reason — an “honest” mistake or some sort of discrimination — a mistake can be corrected. But not if the mistake is deadly.
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JOBSEARCH: Always remeber your roots are as deep as your paycheck
Friday, October 4, 2024159 employees are leaving Automattic as CEO’s fight with WP Engine escalates | TechCrunch
Ivan Mehta
<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2024-10-04>>
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Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg said on Thursday that 159 employees (roughly 8.4% of staff) accepted a severance package that the company had offered to those who disagreed with his direction of WordPress and his handling of the tussle with web hosting provider WP Engine.
In a blog post, Mullenweg said the package offered $30,000 or six months of salary, whichever is higher, but the employees who took it would not be eligible to be re-hired by Automattic.
Nearly 80% of people who took the offer worked in the company’s Ecosystem / WordPress division, and the rest were in Automattic’s Cosmos businesses, consisting of apps like Pocket Casts, Day One, Tumblr and Cloudup.
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Once again, wage slaves must always be looking for their next job or gig. Unless they have their FU money in a safe store like an annuity, they must be ready when their CEO, organization, or a regulatory agency loses their mind and commits suicide or murder.
When this happens it is NOT the time to begin to think about your resume. Back when I was first fired — and I was 4½ times — I was only surprised the FIRST time. Thanks to that employers’ outplacement, I learned a valuable lesson. I am the Captain of My Own Ship, the CEO, CFO, CTO, Marketing Manager, Sales Manager, Sales Person, and Product De Jour. I even had a “VP of Product Development” reporting to the CFO! From that day forward, until the day I retired, I had a monthly “meeting” on the First Sunday of every month early in the morning. First thing, without fail, although I did serve coffee, I would put on each of my metaphorical hats and review my work in that role. Was I always happy as I reviewed my “subordinate personality’s” accomplishments? No, but I was never “surprised” again.
When presented with a “surprise”, I immediately shifted gears seamlessly into “active job search” from “passive job search”. Was I stressed by the “surprise”? Yes, but my first action after filing for unemployment (Have to “steal” back as much as possible from what the various Gooferments “stole” from me!), was to take a week of vacation. Calms the soul and refreshes the spirit.
YMMV but be ever vigilant.
“You, too, must keep watch! For you don’t know when the master of the household will return—in the evening, at midnight, before dawn, or at daybreak.” — Mark 13:35
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HEALTH: Where’s the warning label for high-fructose corn syrup and emulsifiers?
Friday, October 4, 2024https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13890137/doctor-colon-cancer-crisis-food-ingredients.html
EXCLUSIVE I’m a doctor on the frontlines of America’s colon cancer crisis – I believe two ingredients found in ‘healthy’ foods are to blame
By Emily Joshu Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com
Published: 07:45 EDT, 26 September 2024 | Updated: 08:45 EDT, 26 September 2024
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She notes the introduction of high-fructose corn syrup and emulsifiers in the 1970s and 80s could explain why so many adults in their 40s are getting colon cancer at record rates.
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Not that I expect much from the FDA, CDC, NIH, or any of the politicians and bureaucrats, but how about a skull and crossbones for all products containing these?
Argh!
Yeah, not until Pelosi sells all here stocks in these companies!
Argh!
RFKjr has made the “obesity epidemic” an election issue. This could be added to that!
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ConspiracyTheories: Is there a Geoterrorist CHEMTRAIL operation against Florida?
Thursday, October 3, 2024OPERATION HURRICANE HELENE: NWO Cabal Launches Vicious Geoterrorist Attack Against Florida—Why now?
Via State of the Nation
- Massive CHEMTRAIL operation conducted right over the Florida State Capitol in Tallahassee, Florida
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AN OPEN LETTER TO
GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS
Dear Governor DeSantis,
This is one of several open letters that we have written to you about the extremely dire predicament known as weaponized weather attacks, which the state of Florida is again facing in the form of the geoengineered Hurricane Helene.
Here is a previous open letter that was sent to you two years ago just before the highly weaponized Hurricane Ian ravaged the state of Florida quite deliberately before Election Day.
In point of fact, every single member of the Florida Legislature has been made aware of the stark reality that the once ‘Sunshine State’ has been unrelentingly geoegineered via various chemical geoengineering technologies into the “Chemcloud Cover State”.
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This is an “interesting” Conspiracy Theory.
I have no evidence to put before the Court of Public Opinion.
On a prima facie basis, I think this should be “investigated” by some trustworthy entity other than the Gooferment. If such a thing exists.
On my Conspiracy Theory Taxonomy and Ruler (Type and Veracity), I’d grade it as:
* Governmental
and
5. Possible
YMMV!
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ENGINEERING: Building hurricane proof housing developments
Wednesday, October 2, 2024Miracle Florida neighborhood that survived Hurricane Helene without a scratch
By Sonya Gugliara For Dailymail.Com
Published: 07:30 EDT, 2 October 2024 | Updated: 08:40 EDT, 2 October 2024
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In the midst of crumbled homes and flooded communities stands a single Florida development that survived Hurricane Helene without a scratch.
Hunters Point, a housing development in Cortez, Florida, avoided flooding and kept electricity while nearby streets were filled waist-deep with water and houses lost power.
The community’s first residents arrived in 2022 and have since experienced three devastating hurricanes – Ian, Idalia and Helene – without serious damage.
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So it is possible to build housing that can withstand a hurricane!
When the Gooferment “approves” site plans, why don’t they insist on some, if not all, these “lessons learned”.
Federal and State flood insurance should be the big cheerleaders for these type of actions.
Swales, raised roads, beefed up studs, solar panels — all seem to be very cost effective.
I don’t understand why Gooferment seems to always be in the way,
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MONEY: Why are “savings” taxed at all?
Wednesday, October 2, 2024https://www.cato.org/blog/penalty-american-savers-how-usas-fix-it
September 26, 2024 9:44AM
The Penalty on American Savers and How USAs Fix It
By Adam N. Michel and Joshua Loucks
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For many young and low-income Americans, the limits discourage them from using the accounts at all. Americans who use these accounts and then have to access their money early for a family emergency or job loss face new layers of taxes. Many low-income workers are automatically enrolled in these programs by their employers, following government incentives or mandates.
Money deposited in qualified accounts cannot be used flexibly based on an individual’s or their family’s immediate needs. If someone cannot confidently commit to leaving their savings untouched until the government-designated time, it may be wiser for them to avoid using a qualified account altogether.
IRS data show that for the lowest-income taxpayers, penalties for improper use of retirement savings make up a significant portion of their tax liability. Using an average from tax years 2017–2019, Figure 1 shows that 43 percent of all taxes paid by taxpayers with adjusted gross income (AGI) below $5,000 went to penalties for accessing their own money. About 19 percent of income taxes paid by taxpayers with AGI less than $25,000 went to penalties on qualified accounts.
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Why not let Walmart offer “banking services”? Why not allow Credit Unions offer tax free savings? Why aren’t Treasuries (i.e., Bills, Notes, Bonds) tax free like Municipal Bonds?
It doesn’t take a degree in Economics to figure out that America has a “savings problem”. “We, The Sheeple”, responding to incentives, is deeply in debt. No taxes on debt; taxes galore on any kind of savings/
Argh!
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