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Hi friends, I hope you are well on this beautiful autumn day. I’m enjoying it from my recliner. My husband was called & me & the grand-dachshund are chilling. He’s become ours since over the past few months. He’s old and has some medical problems. We are trying to take the load off my daughter & he seems to not behave as good with them, probably jealous. After almost three days keeping my almost three granddaughter I’m exhausted. Mom & baby girl and home, it’s such a beautiful blessing from God. Thankfully they are next door and I can pop in for some sugar.
SUPPLEMENT COMPANIES - USA
I’ve spent several hours over the past few days researching ivermectin from post here, where to buy & supplement brands. WOW it’s much worse than much worse than I imagined. I’m aware Reddit gets a bad rap, I don’t have an account. I’ve seen some Reddit posts on supplement companies, third party ratings, etc. I didn’t know that some brands I’ve bought over the years are owned by big corporations and most likely sourced in China. I have done a deeper dive. Basically if it’s not independently owned stay away. Heck I don’t even know if we can trust small companies at this point. I think I’m going to get immune system herbal tinctures from small shops. Plan on adding ivermectin as well. Unfortunately I can’t drink herbal tea after almost two years of diet change and cutting out plant foods. I’m finding out most plants & some animal foods make me sick. I’m scheduled with an allergy doctor for testing next month. I’m glad I know but it pisses me off doctors have dismissed my gut & ibs issues for thirty years. I know ultimately it’s up to me to figure out this, I really didn’t have a clue it could be food intolerance, allergies or what’s sprayed on them. I’m not posting links because I’m trying complete the research before sharing. ChatGPT & I have become aquatinted. Unfortunately it has some of the same brainwashing information that pharma controlled mainstream sites have as well.
Have a great week everyone.
"Self restraint, self mastery, common sense, the power of accepting individual responsibility and yet of acting in conjunction with others, courage and resolution - these are the qualities which mark a masterful people."
"Such ordinary, every-day qualities include the will and the power to work, to fight at need, and to have plenty of healthy children."
"Finally, even more important than ability to work, even more important than ability to fight at need, is it to remember that chief of blessings for any nations is that it shall leave its seed to inherit the land."
-Theodore Roosevelt
https://www.worldfuturefund.org/Documents/maninarena.htm
Great advice. I don’t much about the presidents before the 1950-1960s. I just watched a series on him out west in his mid twenties, before being President. I’d like to read more about him. I take most historical dramas like this with a grain of salt. It’s always good to do research. I watch them because I’m a visual person and can get a better understanding than reading.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elkhorn_(TV_series)
I like how he prioritizes things at least in that speech (might be my favorite of all time), uses a hierarchy of values, and doesn't deal in absolutes. This is how I understand God, guiding man, gradually. Meeting him where he is at.
I've never heard of that show until now, looks like a good watch
The more people learn how to read cursive the better, but with AI, soon everything will be visual. In fact I feel it a calling of mine to bring all the old classic tales eg: Aesop and literature like the Republic by Plato into the future somehow. Make it visual or even better yet, interactive and actually fun. Or at the very least, their messages.
What ever happened to the Wall? Did Trump resume building it?
Answering my own question with AI:
As of September 2025, about 80–100 miles of new barriers are under construction or in planning, including 83 miles of traditional wall and 17 miles of waterborne barriers using leftover funds from the first term.
In October 2025, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced 10 new "Smart Wall" projects (a hybrid of steel barriers, sensors, cameras, and patrol roads) funded by $4.5 billion, aiming for 230 miles total.
Specific projects include nearly 10 miles near San Diego's Otay Mesa and Tecate ports, plus gap-filling in Arizona.
"Operation River Wall" launched in October 2025 to secure 260 miles along the Rio Grande using Coast Guard assets.
Projected Timeline: Officials plan 85 miles in 2025 alone, with hundreds more in 2026–2029. The goal is "operational control" through barriers plus tech/enforcement, not full coverage.
Excellent news qa!
I miss newspaper.. good ol' newspaper you read while sipping on coffee, the thin pages you leaf through and that sound it makes..it seems like a thing of ages ago.
Sunday cartoon section.
Yeah, but the Sunday Funnies here on GW easily tops that.
Well I thought that goes unsaid.
And the puzzle section on sundays. Smell of the newspapers, rare as it is these days, takes me back to the time when my son was very young and every sunday we would go to walk around the nearby lake and end the walk at the cafe with the nice view, with the sunday paper spread to the puzzle section, doing puzzles with him, while eating croissants and other poisons. Good old days. Had no clue how many lies were printed in those harmless newspapers!
Sounds like you made a beautiful memory with your son...special times! ✨
Matthew 7:7-11. https://www.bible.com/bible/59/MAT.7.ESV
''The Flood of Death'': A Mass Dino Grave in Canada BY FRANK SHERWIN, D.SC. (HON.)
THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 2025
https://www.icr.org/article/the-flood-of-death/
Paleontologists in Alberta, Canada, have recently unearthed “a mass grave on a monumental scale.”1 The BBC story speaks of
Thousands of dinosaurs [that] were buried here, killed in an instant on a day of utter devastation.
Now, a group of palaeontologists have come to Pipestone Creek - appropriately nicknamed the “River of Death” - to help solve a 72-million-year-old enigma: how did they die?1
The question and answer regarding the mass dinosaur death is found in the same sentence above. It was a massive flood (“river”) of death that killed them 4,500 years ago. Unfortunately, paleontologists will not accept this hypothesis and unnecessarily place the event many millions of years ago.2,3
In Michael Benton’s paleontology text in the section on dinosaur extinction, he lists “three current models to explain the KPg [Cretaceous-Paleogene or K-T extinction] event.”4 These are the impact hypothesis (i.e., the giant asteroid impact supposedly 66 million years ago5), the volcanic hypothesis, and the multiple causes hypothesis. In the multiple causes hypothesis he mentions “evidence of numerous killing agencies, including impact, marine regression [sea level drop], volcanic activity, and changes in climate.”4 Alas, the most obvious “agency” is not mentioned: a worldwide deluge.6
Indeed, on the same page of Benton’s text he states,
Over the years, more than a hundred hypotheses have been presented for the extinction of the dinosaurs....From about 1920, dozens of hypotheses were put forward, ranging from the physiological (slipped discs, excessive hormone production, loss of their sex drive) to the ecological (competition with mammals, change in plant food), from the climatic (too hot, too cold, too wet) to the terrestrial catastrophic (vulcanism, magnetic reversal), from the topographic (marine regression, mountain building) to the extraterrestrial (sunspots, cometary impact).4
As one can see, any explanation is valid—no matter how outrageous—except the most obvious: a global flood.7,8
A section of the BBC article has a most telling title: “A Sudden Devastating Event.”1 Morelle and Francis state,
“We believe that this was a herd on a seasonal migration that got tangled up in some catastrophic event that effectively wiped out, if not the entire herd, then a good proportion of it,” Prof [Emily] Bamforth says.
All the evidence suggests that this catastrophic event was a flash flood - perhaps a storm over the mountains that sent an unstoppable torrent of water towards the herd, ripping trees from their roots and shifting boulders.
Prof Bamforth says the Pachyrhinosaurus wouldn't have stood a chance. “These animals are not able to move very fast because of their sheer numbers, and they're very top heavy - and really not very good at swimming at all.”
Rocks found at the site show the swirls of sediment from the fast-flowing water churning everything up. It’s as if the destruction is frozen in time as a wave in the stone.1
To be fair, as one can see, they do mention a flood—a local flash flood.
One cannot help but be amazed that when viewing Pipestone Creek and other massive graveyards, the paleontological community is so blind that they are unwilling to consider the obvious Genesis Flood explanation for dinosaur fossils. This is a clear example of what is called confirmation bias—the propensity to interpret information or evidence in ways consistent with existing beliefs while rejecting others. Wearing such blinders has significantly influenced the interpretation of the fossil record for over a century and a half so that the worldwide sedimentary formations are only considered in a uniformitarian context. But as the late Henry Morris, the founder of ICR, stated in 1974, “dinosaur graveyards are found on every continent, all over the world. Again the uniformitarian is challenged to point to any such phenomena occurring anywhere in the world today.”9
Virtually every dinosaur fossil ever found is ensconced in sedimentary or (rarely) volcanic sediments, indicating a sudden and catastrophic deposition.10 This is particularly true with rich Cretaceous dinosaur beds (e.g., the Lance and Ferris Formations in Wyoming and the Hell Creek Formation in Montana).11 So why would paleontologists entertain bizarre extinction explanations such as slipped discs, sunspots, or magnetic reversals? Because if a scientist dismisses the global Flood out of hand, then anything goes when trying to explain the dinosaur demise. Anything.
The paleontologists are calling the Canadian mass grave the “River of Death,” but it should more accurately be called “The Flood of Death.”
References
Morelle, R. and A. Francis. Solving the Mystery of a Dinosaur Mass Grave at the ‘River of Death.’ BBC. Posted on BBC.com 2025. Thomas, B. Published Reports of Original Soft Tissue Fossils. Posted on ICR.org. Thomas, B. Did Natural Gas Take Millions of Years to Form? Creation Science Update. Posted on ICR.org August 8, 2011. Benton, M. 2015. Vertebrate Paleontology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 262. Clarey, T. 2017. Do the Data Support a Large Meteorite Impact at Chicxulub? Answers Research Journal. 10: 71–88. Clarey, T. 2017. South America Shows the Flood Progression. Acts & Facts. 46 (3): 9. Morris, J. 2014. Traditions of a Global Flood. Acts & Facts. 43 (11): 15. Clarey, T. Ichthyosaur Graveyard Explained by the Flood. Creation Science Update. Posted on ICR.org May 8, 2025. Morris, H. 1974. Scientific Creationism. Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 99. Clarey, T. 2015. Dinosaur Fossils in Late-Flood Rocks. Acts & Facts. 44 (2): 16. Clarey, T. 2015. The Hell Creek Formation: The Last Gasp of the Pre-Flood Dinosaurs. Creation Research Society Quarterly. 51: 286–298.
Mass casualty event in PA
When/where?
Multiple victims injured in shooting at Lincoln University here is the link: https://6abc.com/post/multiple-victims-injured-shooting-lincoln-university/18071874/
Sorry, didn’t really have details. Scanner radio.