I just wanted to comment on all the cars looking the same- this is something we've noticed, too! And it seems like they're mostly white, black, or gray. Kiind of depressing, imo.

I can recommend Larry Rawdon, contact him via his website, here: https://osasgarden.com/

He was a pharmacist who turned to natural treatments to cure himself of a tumor (I think- don't quote me on this because it's been a very long time.) He originally practiced in TN and we knew people who went to him there. We moved from Tennessee over ten years ago and a few years before we moved Dr. Rawdon was fined an insane amount of money by the state medical board ($1 million, the highest fine they'd ever levied at the time) for practicing medicine without a license. His "medicine" was just juicing/food and nutritional supplements. He's in Alabama now.

He had so many people coming in for help that I think it made the state medical board nervous.

Some people would come to him as a last resort, right at the point of death after chemo and radiation had failed and they were at the end, and he could not help them. These are apparently the patients he "harmed." (It's funny to me how easily obtainable and affordable fruits, veggies, and herbs were deemed harmful but the expensive chemo and radiation that also failed were not, lol.) But I know three people personally who he has cured. Not secondhand or word of mouth cures but family members and friends, one an immediate family member. The issues I'm specifically referencing are diverse- from not being able to carry a baby to term to copd to breast cancer.

I think he's in his 70s now and I'm not sure how much he's still doing as far as one on one cures, but he can probably help you with the info you need and steer you in the right direction as far as treatment.

The article says that a net taxpayer is someone who pays in more taxes than they get back as a refund. So if you are already getting a larger refund than you pay in- basically not paying anything in at all- then you wouldn't get the $5k.

Many people already get a payout at tax time in the form of refunds.

Here is my conservative take on this issue: Our family was super poor when our kids were young. We could have gotten food stamps easily but chose not to. We were just very careful with our budgeting. Later we started a business that brought us out of poverty. We did well enough that within a few years we were paying in tens of thousands of dollars in income tax yearly. We still had a big family and had to be careful with our finances, though.

So, our family of nine would go shopping and we’d buy real food. No chips or sodas because we. were. on. a. budget. We had to be. We ate healthy food and got enough but it was no frills. (We also gardened and had chickens for eggs and goats for milk.) Every time we grocery shopped we’d see at least one family who arrived in a better and newer vehicle than us, in brand name clothes, hair and nails done, who loaded their carts down with “luxury” items (as in not essentials) like junk food that my kids would have loved to have, prepackaged meals, chips, soda, steaks, ribs, etc.

I’m not going to lie. This stung. Here we were- young people with a fledgling business that we were breaking our backs to make successful, paying in so much in income taxes, and doing without the things that our tax dollars were helping to buy for other people. If I can’t afford it for myself it seems unfair that I’m affording it for others. I have no problem with SNAP benefits helping people but it should go for real food to help people stay fed/healthy.

Revisiting this because I just checked egg prices and 60 eggs at our local Walmart are now $24- they dropped that much in a little over a week.

I paid not quite $28 for a 60 pack at Walmart this last weekend, but that was down $2 on the same package from the previous week. (I’m not buying 60 eggs/wk but I’ve been watching the pricing for a while. This is the first time I’ve seen a drop.)

Came here to say this. We have parrots so we have to be very careful about things like this. When we got a new range, we hooked it up in our work building in an area with roll up doors and ran the oven and stove top on their highest settings for a few hours several days in a row. Then we cleaned everything with vinegar/water before installing it at home. I'm not sure how you could do this with a wall oven but it worked for us and our birds did just fine :).

Thank you, we are blessed!

I've found some really nice fabrics online on Etsy (and Ebay) recently. Nothing really compares to feeling the material first before buying but some sellers will do samples. And once you find a seller that has consistently good quality fabric you can go back to them again and again.

I haven't sewed in years but I made lots of my kids' clothes, dolls and toys, and blankets when they were growing up. I haven't done much since then. I did a little sewing for the public as far as baby items when I could. Well, we just found out that we're expecting our first grandbaby this year and of course I want to make some things for him/her. My husband pulled out my old machine and serger and I even splurged on an embroidery machine. I'm super excited to jump into it again.

One thing I kind of hope for is that if manufacturing comes back like Trump is hoping that we'll have sewing factories and fabric mills again. When I was making my kids' things, there were still places like that around us, although even then they were on their way out. You could sometimes buy fabric from the factories, like overruns or the ends of bolts, and I bought a lot of knits and ribbing at a factory not too far from us back then. My grandmother made a lot of quilts with fabric meant for men's pajamas from those places, lol. It would be nice if that came back.

Way back when the 2020 steal happened a Christian guy I listened to predicted that there would come a day when the American people would be so disgusted with the dem party- once ALLLL the shenanigans and corruption they'd had their hands in had been exposed- that you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who still supported them. Back then that seemed impossible but now I can definitely see it happening. Especially since the USAID thing is just 0.7% of our budget with so much waste. Wait until they get to the bigger stuff.

My daughters believe all of this as well, but according to them their father and I are the cOnSpIrAcY tHeOrIsTs in the family, lol.

My grown daughters believe this but think their Dad and I are the conspiracy theorists lol.

I was watching Steve Turley this morning and he said that Florida updates voter info continually as people vote. They won't know how people voted but they know how many of each party affiliation have voted and they update that info through the day. He was saying it's a good way to gauge how our side will turn out to vote.

What would the IRS do if you mailed in a payment that wasn't postmarked? Would they let it be counted as "on time" if your payment arrived without a postmark three days after the deadline? Just wondering.

I think whether they are encouraged to vote or not has to do with the rules of their specific community. Some don't think you should vote- and many lack the proper id and documentation to vote- but I think that may be changing. I follow an ex-Amish man who now works to help people get out if they want, and he posted about Old Order Amish voting a few days ago (sorry for the youtube link):

https://youtu.be/MLHY1mJgf1A?si=8Lycf1dHj2PLrOSj

This specific group is upset and organizing to vote but their reason for doing so this election cycle is that they're ashamed/horrified at how the US government is treating their own citizens in the wake of Helene.

I looked into this lady and you are right. This meme is incorrect. I found her on YouTube and listened to some of what she has to say, specifically about gender issues in kids, and what she essentially tells them is that God made you the way you are for a reason- that He made you WITH a purpose and FOR a purpose just the way you are. Very much the opposite of what is inferred here.

When I google this lady's name plus the title of the "facing my gender identity" header in the meme above, it takes me to that blog post but it's by a lady named Hope, not Kathy Koch, from a WordPress blog called "Hope's Passage".

I see that Kathy Koch has said she struggled at times feeling like she fit into the mold that society has placed on women- basically on how feminity should look- and I can understand her feeling that way as a younger person since she's so tall and big. But she hasn't ever suggested she felt like she was the wrong gender.

A little story- I swapped schools in junior high many years ago. When I was in the office getting my paperwork straightened out, what I thought was a man walked in. I turned and saw what looked like a big, tall man in a ladies sweater with a dress shirt with really pretty Peter Pan collar underneath it, and dress shoes with frilly socks. Except it wasn't a man, it was a lady teacher. She was the tallest and broadest woman I had ever seen! But she was a lady- she looked a lot like Kathy Koch as far as size and shape, and even sounded like her with a deep voice. But she was a sweet lady, who ended up getting married and having a family not long after I started school there. Today if people saw that teacher, I know they would assume she's a man, but she wasn't.

I agree- God bless Mike Lindell. I'm a Christian and I believe God gave him his ideas, business, and success to fight this fight in such a time as this. The left has so unfairly maligned him as stupid, he's lost so much money, and yet he KEEPS. ON. FIGHTING.

I don't think I could do it.

We are struggling in this economy but as soon as things are better I'll be buying more pillows, sheets, and towels. Mike deserves to get everything he's lost back and then some.

Here as well- we don't really do personal social media but we have business pages on FB, insta, and a business YT channel. I about had a heart attack when we got logged out and couldn't get back in- I don't need our business page hacked lol. I'm simultaneously freaked out over the outage and relieved that we aren't hacked and our customers aren't getting spammed with horrible messages or posts.

We homeschooled all 7 of our kids. There was one child in particular who acted a lot like your daughter. We finally settled on a hands off curriculum for him that had daily lessons on the computer and multiple choice testing (it was called Switched on Schoolhouse and that was over 20 years ago - it wasn't online but on disks.) That kept me from fighting with him and it was his choice how long his schooling took. I'm sure there are far more options available now.

Another thing you might consider if she is bored is letting her pursue something that she's passionate about. This would be a subject she is free to explore on her own- you just provide the materials she needs, whether that is letting her watch documentaries, making trips to the library, buying extra curriculum or materials, etc. We let our kids do unit studies on whatever really interested them and let them dig into those things in their free time after they got their basic schoolwork done for the day (it might be horses, art, filmmaking or anything- we ended up with a 13 year old who built his own computer after he spent a LONG time learning how to build computers.) If she finds something she loves and is passionate about, it helps motivate her to get the rest of her work done so that she can move onto what really interests her.

I second the "bribe" suggestion also. Let her earn rewards for doing what she's supposed to do; they don't have to be huge things.

And there is just this- she has to learn that in life we all have to do things we don't want to do.

My heart literally yearns for this!

She was 13 when Trump was elected. So she really wasn't paying attention to the economy or serious social issues then, other than hearing what we discussed at home. So she really has no way to compare now. But if Trump gets back in and turns things around, then she will be able to truly compare. As a young adult now, she hears what we are saying but she is also bombarded by what the media and her peers say which is essentially just "orange man bad." When we ask her why not Trump, all she can say is that she doesn't like him. I get that that's a bad reason for her to not choose him but we can't force her to change how she thinks. She was raised conservatively with Christian values and IS a Christian. She will come around. But we can't force her- just keep talking to her.

My youngest has said the same. Like it or not young people hear the media and what the media says just seems so much cooler/smarter/more informed than what dumb mom and dad say. She was raised conservative Christian but I think all kids around her age kind of test things as they gain independence. I did ask her this morning to reconsider her stance if Trump gets back in and things get better and she said she would. I think our young people are just super demoralized.

If you look at the lastest video from Amanda Grace and Clay Clark from just a few days ago? Clay Clark took all these compiled Kim Clement videos to Trump and sat with him to watch them. The one that gets me is that the 2013 prophecy that says, "There is a man named Mr. Clark and a man named Donald, and you're watching me right now wondering, 'Could He be talking to me?' Yes- yes I am!" And according to them, DJT said, "Is he talking about us right now?" It blows my mind to think that God was showing him a moment ten years in the future.

Also a 2007 video speaking about Trump as a trumpet and then President where DJT remarked that he seriously wasn't considering running then, so how did this guy know? It just gives me chills.

God bless this sweet lady.

Sorry if I did this wrong. I have never made a post here, only occasionally commented. This is for the Trump family and tomorrow’s caucus. I just thought some here might want to agree in prayer.