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Knee pain remedy by drinking egg shells powder.. I think I'll let my mom try this Has anybody here tried it before?
https://x.com/Thekeksociety/status/1785165682973561173.
No, but now I plan to! Thanks for sharing!
Good night all. Sweet dreams and blessings to you. Gotta put this screen down so I can sleep.
Have a blessed night.
Not Q related so I'll just leave this here...
charm.li
Every vehicle's repair and service bulletins since '83.
You're welcome.
Pretty cool, but seems to only go until 2014 or so.
there's a rabid downdoot-Darcy on the loose!
I’ll downvote if necessary. It has to be really bad though.
Downdoot Delilah!
I liked queen back in the day but nothing I listened to regularly. After watching the movie I started watching old videos of them. Freddy was a great entertainer. Now I absolutely love rocking with Queen. Living Queen members say the movie isn’t true. IDK, it was entertaining and I don’t expect a documentary movie about someone to totally accurate.
I will check it out. I watch a lot of old concerts on YouTube. I can’t imagine seeing these bands live back then. Nothing like today’s concerts. Check out Lynyrd Skynrd live video in Oakland CA. I don’t remember the year it’s the tour they opened for the Stones. The stones got made because they were over played there allotted time. I can’t imagine having to go on after them.
So nothing new? It’s either down voting or rude DMs, sometimes both. Upvoted just to aggravate the jerks.
Sometimes it’s fun to be sneaky and bad🤣
kek
Any one see the post several weeks ago about a guy that inherited his brother’s property? Wondering if I missed an update. Summary: His brother was awake, had lots of books on several relevant topics we discuss here. The surviving brother was digging into the information and had been red-pilled. His brother’s barn was burnt down and I believe he ended his life. I’m not 100% positive of the circumstances of his death. I didn’t save the post. I’m just wondering how he’s doing. Sounded like a lot to process. Praying he’s doing ok.
I actually remember this post. But I didn’t save it. Hope everything is well with them.
Hoping we will get an update. He has a lot on him. Waking up and grief of a brother at same time.
There needs to be a PET food bank for lower income people with Pets. Apparently, people are abandoning their pets in growing numbers with the state of the current economy.
This is a good organization. I really believe it’s legit. I might be a little biased because she’s my favorite artist. I truly think she loves animals. She has adopted several dogs over the years, even gets them from the roadside. At her concerts she has a food collection.
Founded by country music icon Miranda Lambert and her mom, Bev Lambert, in 2009, MuttNation is a donation-supported 501c(3) nonprofit organization that has raised over $9 million since inception with a mission to promote the adoption of shelter pets, advance spay & neuter; and educate the public about the benefits of these actions. MuttNation also works with transport partners to assist and relocate animals during times of natural disaster. MuttNation Fueled by Miranda Lambert, a pet line of toys and supplies that benefits the Foundation, is available exclusively at Tractor Supply Company stores throughout the US.
https://muttnation.com/
There is a shelter in my area that operates solely on donations and volunteers that does this. Local business owners will do fundraisers and proceeds donations and such for them too. It really is a great place and the owner is very active in the community and every penny in and out is open to the public to see. There needs to be more animal shelters ran in this way.
That’s wonderful.
Thanks for sharing your positive Neighborhood news.
Yes they are and it’s very sad. The shelters and pet adoption agencies are full. I saw a post last week about a ten year old cat needing a home because the owners divorced. Said nothing about couldn’t afford the cat. My personal opinion if you doesn’t have enough compassion to keep your cat I can understand why your marriage failed. If I was able I would have adopted that cat. The dog is terrified of cats, tried it with a mama cat that was dumped out & didn’t work.
Could be vet expenses in addition to food costs. Most people give every vaccine they recommend. My daughter has stopped taking her dog to the vet unless it’s an emergency. She no longer wants to do vaccines.
That’s putting it mildly. He would not walk in the room they were in. Wouldn’t play with toys. If the little six week old kitten was in my lap he would shake very badly but had the nerve to try to bite it. My other dachshund came into a house with cats. She and one cat would chase each other around the house but lay beside each other sleeping. I could tell she missed that cat when she died.
😹😹😹 as a pet sitter… Can confirm, there are some dogs that are afraid of cats. 🤷♀️
Minor! 😂😂😂
Snoopy was deathly afraid of the cat next door. One swipe from that cat could take out a big chunk of his doghouse.
My uncle used to live in Cave Creek, Arizona before it got trendy. He had a pet cat that was half mountain lion. (Dunno how that copulation was possible, but whatever). That big kitty didn't take crap from any dogs and the dogs in the neighborhood were scared of it!
Veterinarians have made having a Pet a Grand Larceny event. No doubt. Bankruptcy via love for your furry friend. There should be a cheaper option that you can sign a waiver so there is no liability for the person trying to mend your pet much less cost. I read the liability for pet food makers, should they accidentally poison your Pet, is the original cost of your Pet and not a penny more.
We cook our dog’s food. There are easy recipes online. Most pet food in America is made in china. Just like the FDA food guidelines for humans pet food is full of grains and fiber. Heard they have been putting bugs in it for years, can’t confirm. I wish we had cooked my previous pet’s food. A cat had feline thyroid disease. We didn’t take her to vet after she almost died from rabies vaccine at a few months old. We only took her when she was sick and the vet didn’t give her any vaccines. Our first dog ate Iam’s thought it was one the best. She threw up a lot at least once a month and had to feed her rice and chicken for several days. The vet said she had gut issues. Now I know it was the food. Second dachshund we gave iams and he started throwing up so we switched and eventually started cooking it. Did research and there are websites dedicated to iams killed their dogs.
True, sadly I think the dog food poisoning has been going on longer. I don’t know the history of it. Dog food used to made in the US. I remember seeing the local purina plant growing up. Most humans eat pure junk they aren’t going to swayed to feed the dogs quality food.
Well we are guilty of not restraining him. I tried so hard to get my daughter to put him in a restrained seat. There again not my decision and I lost that battle. Now he’s in the car at least twice a week. They have a house at the coast and he rides in there lap. A few times a month we go on Fridays and my daughter goes with us. Those days he’s in my lap and I have him in almost a death grip. He sits in my lap and sleeps. I put a towel over him and he’s out. I pray nothing ever happens but I can’t dwell on things I can’t control.
Today it’s no telling what’s in processed animal food. No wonder dogs get cancer between the shots and the food it’s hopeless.
When I had a dog when we lived in America, I sometimes made her steak. I wish that I had fed her homemade dog food. I remember I had bought this premium stuff for her that was said to have less crap in it, no preservatives, etc. She ate it for a while, but then began to refuse it. It really frustrated me, but then I had my folks over and I learned that there was mold growing on it. Because I am colorblind, I couldn't see that it was turning green.
Don’t beat yourself up. Most of us didn’t know the dog food was toxic until recently. Oh wow I never thought about not being able to see food was bad if you are color blind. I’m glad it was figured out. By the way have you heard of the glasses that let you see colors? I saw a news video several years ago, people saw sunsets and other things in color for the first time. That’s very cool. My husband can’t taste or smell since 2020. He was sick less than 24 hours and he lost it. I kinda think it’s something wrong other than from Covid. He doesn’t want to go to ENT dr or do stuff at home to get it back. Saline nose rinse and sniffing essential oils. I don’t push . I have told him he could be eating bad food or with crap 💩 in it and he wouldn’t know the difference. I say that usually when he brings home a dessert someone made and it’s worse than grocery store bday cake.
My dad has sleep apnea and he had surgery to correct his nasal passages. It didn't solve the problem because he still must sleep with a C-PAP machine and now he's lost his sense of smell. My sister lost her sense of taste and smell due to catching Corona-chan very early, in January 2021. Then everything smelled/tasted like rotten eggs. For her, Flo-Naze helped her recover her senses. My wife was hit by a car in 2019 and lost her sense of taste and smell due to a concussion, but it's slowly returned, more or less. Her situation reminded me a bit of my colorblindness. There are varying degrees, and my uncle is worse than I am (he used to be a painter, too!). I can see colors, but sometimes I can't understand what they are. Colors can be slippery at times, if that makes sense. I hadn't realized that the brown dog food was turning green, because red/green/brown can be slippery and I have to see colors in terms of context for me to understand them. One of my hobbies is making pixel artwork with iron beads, and last night I had to ask my daughter's opinion on a skintone shading for my current project. I have heard about those colorblind glasses, but they are so expensive.
Thanks for sharing. I’ve researched regaining sense of smell and taste a lot. If it were me that lost it I’d be working every remedy. My dad, brother and myself all have a very sensitive nose. We can smell something before others. Certain scents take me right back to my childhood. Strawberry soap at grandma’s🩷 He taste pepper and salt in food I don’t taste it all. Sometimes he smells a cigarette burning. He can smell very strong bad odors. Mainly he tastes salty, sweet, hot spicy but not the flavor that sets apart from being Mexican salsa, Chinese food etc. People we know that lost their smell/taste get it back. They all say watermelon tastes like grass. I didn’t know it was a thing before Covid. I’m glad your dad & wife have recovered. Health problems are not fun at all. Glad you can see some colors. If I had to choose between loosening hearing or sight I’d loose my sight. I have seen some amazing things in my life and we my memory😀 I love music to much and couldn’t stand not hearing my loved ones or animals. Great memory but can’t remember lyrics to my favorite songs🤦🏻♀️ Have a great night/day & week. PS: tell me more about your crafting. I’ve never heard of iron beads.
This is really the best way. many of the clients that I work for have food they make themselves, or they order raw food or pre-cooked food that they keep in the freezer. Better than that dry kibble that’s full of toxins.
I think it’s becoming more common. I’m glad more people are figuring it out. I think the company is Tango & Spot ships quality dog food frozen. Used it for a while but the boxes were getting damaged and it had dry ice to keep frozen. It was a hassle with damage boxes, thawed food and trying to get inside when she was working. I’ve heard about the raw food and he would be better off, not my decision. He’s part mine because he’s with me so much but legally her’s and she’s final decision maker although we discuss what’s best. The main ingredient for his food used to be quinoa. Over the period of 1-2 years he lost weight and his ribs were showing, nothing wrong with labs. Switched to rice main ingredient and started feeding him more. His hair is thicker and ribs don’t show. My husband has started making the food to help her out. She works full time and a little baby it was a lot. His food: carrots, ground chicken, rice & switched from chicken stock to bone broth. A vitamin powder supplement goes in the food when made & he gets omega daily. Plus when he’s with me he gets eggs, milk and whatever I’m eating.
When I was younger and looking for ideas to make me instantly rich. I came up with an idea for a cat cook book. It was titled Diner a deux. It was full of protein recipes that were good for the human and good for the cat. So a single person felt they were cooking for more than themselves when preparing their meals. It's an idea just waiting to happen.
That’s cool and you could do an ebook to cut down on cost. Only issue is getting it out there. Maybe give some to cat influencers. I always thought I’d write a book, never happened. Just as well I can barely write a sentence without errors. I’ll stick with crafting.
Crafting beer? 🍺 My background is Accounting. Not a writer or good cook either. Thanks for the ebook idea.
Crochet and other simple crafts. I can’t stand beer wouldn’t be making it if I loved. Rum & Tequila are a different story, love both, don’t drink it like I did in my very early life. I can fail at math on a calculator, you got me beat on that subject. My dad can add up a long row of numbers in his head obviously I didn’t get that passed down. I grew up in the kitchen with my grandma so cooking just comes naturally. Try it you might like it. The key is don’t over cook and keep it simple.
Here’s something you can try if you like Mac N Cheese.
. Boil macaroni, while boiling cut up cheese in small cubes (about the size of a nickel). I normally use yellow cheddar and if low mix in another kind. Anything you like will do.
. Drain macaroni when done.
. Put back in pot. Add one egg & stir good through out.
. S&P as you like
. Add the cheese and stir, cover with lid, sit back on oven but not the hot eye. After about 10-15 minutes should be melted. Ready to eat.
*** For 3 servings macaroni I do about a 1.2 block regular size cheese. If I’m cooking for 2-4 I use half box. I use Barille, use something better than store brand.
If you don’t like mac n cheese pass on to someone that does. That’s my grandma’s recipe and people should know easy simple recipes. I hate following a recipe with 10 steps.
Interesting video of a Christian scientist refuting the lies of the Flat Earth psyop, in which he addresses how scriptures are misused to support that inane theory of our universe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu9S2r_TVwI
I saved to watch later. I love Answers in Genesis videos.
I only recently discovered Answers in Genesis. I learned how the "Big Bang Theory" as it relates to the formation of the planets, the moon, etc. is not settled at all. Some moons rotate the opposite direction as one would assume. And of course, not only is our moon is the only one that faces us as it orbits, but it fits perfectly for an eclipse. I saw another video that showcases so many of the evolutionary discoveries that have been false alarms due to confirmation bias. Piltdown Man is the most famous example of scientific fraud used to support evolution, but there have been many more. Neanderthals were proven to be just humans and we never heard about that evolutionary theory being debunked. Stuff we learned in textbooks decades ago have been quietly debunked without us knowing.
Stuff we learned in textbooks decades ago have been quietly debunked without us knowing.
Very true! There’s one video about dragons. I think it’s part of the dinosaur video and they have a small dragon clip. The dinosaur video is very good. They give scripture about the dinosaurs living when people lived. Again something they lied about. I believe scientists were paid or blackmailed to dis credit the Bible. About twenty years ago I watched a video, a Christian Scientist from Texas saying the flood was real. He gave in depth details about the earths canopy before the flood, compared it to the face shield on the astronauts helmets for fake moon landing🤣 couldn’t resist. Also the limestone caves in Texas shows markings of water at different levels. The Grand Canyon is a perfect example of massive flood. It wasn’t carved by glaciers. I wish I could remember his name. Shoot It was probably more like 30 years ago. I saw him on Kenneth Copeland, I watched him daily, had no idea he was evil.
Isn't Kenneth Copeland the guy who was praying for vaccines on his show? I think most televangelists are evil grifters. I grew up with my parents watching TBN and looking back I can see how they were a bunch of phonies and crooks. Like that guy with the hair helmet who speaks with an accent, who waves his coat around at people. I don't buy that. I know God heals as my mom was healed of the deadliest kind of breast cancer like a surge of electricity that flowed through her body. But to make it into an assembly line as if God needs to clock in and work for these people... I don't buy it.
I only recently learned that the King James Bible spoke of unicorns a few times. Wild.
I’m not familiar with Kenneth Copeland’s activities in recent years. I watched him in the 90s every day. Watched him, John Hagee, Creflo Dollar & TD Jakes. TD is linked to the Diddy parties. There’s pics online John Hagge doing devil horns with his hands. He’s a big supporter of Jews. Heck I went to see him with the church and bought his Bible. Now said Bible is gone with other junk to the thrift store. Katy Perry’s parents are evangelical’s, we know how that turned out. I’m not sure who you are talking about with hair helmet, I’m not familiar with the current popular TV preachers. My great grandmother watched Ernest Angsly (probably spelled wrong) in the 80s. People lined up down the aisle for him to “heal” them. He was a damned circus act. He touched them, “loudly said Healed” they fell out on the floor and were healed. I was a teenager and it was entertainment for me. She had different kinds of cancer over twenty years. Started with Breast cancer they probably didn’t get lymph nodes under the arms. In the last year she wanted to go see him so bad. She believed in Christ but was fooled by this fake preacher. Her niece took her, at least she got to go and was at peace. She died soon after at 79. Linked video below. I can’t find video of him healing someone. This is clip of someone taking about him and clip of the “healing” preacher. Growing up every Sunday before church my mom and grandma watched Jimmy Swaggert and Oral Roberts. They history of evangelical preachers isn’t great. Lord don’t forget about Jim & Tammy Fay Baker. I’m glad your mom was healed✝️🛐
https://youtu.be/pceXXkwE70g?si=PCDDalLD7-ElvwM6
Oh I gotta read about unicorns in the Bible🦄
Hunter got high 💃😆🔥
👉🏻 https://youtu.be/OgLD1yhxNik?si=JesusChristIsKing
If the NBA has magnets in the ball and hoop, as I have seen highly upvoted here with linked Twitter video claiming it, explain why LeBron James just got eliminated 4-1 on a buzzer beater.
Because the kayfabe story is that an "aging" Lebron lost in a humiliating way this year but will come back to win decisively and show the young hotshots he is still "King James" next year sells a lot more merch
Other kayfabe stories remaining: Lebron and his son play for the same team, become first father son duo to win a ring together, Lebron's son tired of being in his father's shadow asks to be traded to rival team to face each other in the championship
It is ALL pro wrestling and all manipulated the same way. Only difference is wrestling asks you for 4 hours a week and basketball wants 8 hours a week, but wrestling has girls in booty shorts and sometimes stories about the undead or Samoan gangsters. So better to watch wrestling ;)
People know that NBA (and all Big Sports) are rigged, but have a hard time explaining how. So they come up with cockamany theories like this.
They are, but it's not that complicated.
It's the referees.
Which is one reason I'm stunned they let them lose. In the first round, no less.
Question for those who have seen changes in their family and friends who had the vaxxes. Have any of you seen mental changes as opposed to physical? Have any of you seen people completely flip their beliefs? An example would be a formerly conservative person suddenly thinking biden is great? Or someone who was a religious person who has given up their faith? Anything drastic like that? Thanks.
I noticed my vaxx colleagues doing doctor checkups for all sorts every other week.. seems they're very paranoid now that news kept coming out about "suddently" in younger people and side effects.
It’s hard to say if dementia is old age or the vax. My dad is 80 and his mental has declined a bit. It’s forgetfulness like telling the same story every time you see him. He’s still active, drives, cuts grass but can’t do some things he could five years ago. Had hip replacement last year and that slowed him a bit. However my mom has been in nursing home two years and that’s taken a toll on him. She’s very demanding and complains about everything every time you visit. He is vaxed, I think twice. Also did a vaccine trial in the past two years to get $$$. The man doesn’t need money, he’s worked hard and hasn’t squandered his money. I think it was the new RSV vaccine. Nothing I can do about it he doesn’t listen to me.
My mil has shown a different personality as well her old self over the past few years. Some things she says isn’t like her. She’s fully vaccinated but I don’t think she’s getting more boosters. I don’t ask because she was very rude/mean towards my husband because he refused the vax. Even said if you are in the hospital with covid don’t call me. She’s a retired nurse and believes everything doctors and news says. Clearly a victim of fear mongering. She’s about 78.
My mother in law has shown signs of dementia and it’s gotten worse. I don’t know if it’s attributed to the vax but she does whatever her doctor says so I’m sure she’s up to date on all boosters (even though we begged her not to).
Nope. Re mental things is like forgetfulness here and others fobbing it off as "they're over doing it" 🤨🤦
Isaiah 6:1-5
In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one called to another and said:
“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!”
4 And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. 5 And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”
1 John 1:1-10.
A Song: https://youtu.be/o0okXPC50cY
Have a blessed day.
I can confirm that In the last 2 years only 3 posts were removed and all of them were because they were garbage. And now you come here claiming somehow we have become infiltrated?