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However, the dead, fictitious, people who have moved out of district, and those who have visited D.C at least once. will still be allowed to vote. :whistle:
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Marine corporal earns prestigious medal for saving military $140M
Irene Loewenson
Thu, May 16, 2024 at 3:38 PM CDT

A Marine truck mechanic received a medal typically awarded to more senior service members for saving the Defense Department more than $140 million through work he began as a teenage lance corporal.

Cpl. Gage Barbieri, now 21, received the Meritorious Service Medal on Friday from Col. Damon Burrows, commanding officer of 2nd Marine Division’s Headquarters Battalion. Barbieri is only the second Marine corporal to receive the Meritorious Service Medal since at least 2008, Burrows wrote on LinkedIn.

While serving as the Marine Corps’ representative to Oshkosh Defense as it revised its technical manuals for the joint light tactical vehicle, Barbieri pointed out flaws in the manuals, including one issue that could lead to rollovers.

Barbieri’s engineering acumen would save more than 900,000 person-hours of maintenance production time and more than $140 million throughout the entire life cycle of the platform, the Corps calculated.

“This was one hell of a catch by this young Marine,” said Jason Wolfe, Marine Corps production support manager to the vehicle’s program executive officer at Oshkosh, in a Marine Corps news release. “His work on this work package could possibly prevent loss of life.”

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/marine-corporal-earns-prestigious-medal-203823735.html
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DC hosted voting registration training for illegal immigrants
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Paul Bedard
May 14, 2024 3:15 pm
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Washington, D.C., hosted an online training camp last month to help illegal immigrants sign up to vote in city elections.

Making good on new legislation granting illegal immigrants voting rights, even for those who have lived in the district for just 30 days, the city joined a handful of others in opening the vote to undocumented migrants.


The training PowerPoint, provided to legal watchdog Judicial Watch under a Freedom of Information Act request, said that some form of government identification was required to register.


District PowerPoint shows which document non-citizens use to register to vote.
The migrants will not be allowed to vote in federal elections, just city contests, according to the newly approved law.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/3003524/dc-hosted-voting-registration-training-illegal-immigrants/
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They didn't demand a $20/hr minimum wage working or not, a bank card with overdraft protection, and chickens or pigs in their rooms? :whistle:
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Weather / Water Oaks, The Tree from Hell
« Last post by Elderberry on Today at 02:03:21 pm »
99.9 KTDY 10/18/2020

https://999ktdy.com/water-oaks-the-tree-from-hell/

The day after Hurricane Delta, the sun came out and it was a beautiful morning to wake up to unless you had a tree laying across the roof of your house. The sound of chainsaws in the distance was all too real the morning after Hurricane Delta. Water oaks were one of the first trees to fall. Don't judge a book by its cover, the beauty of a water oak is hiding its impending evils.

Delta took down many trees all around Acadiana. Most of the beautiful oaks she toppled are water oaks. The reason these trees fall so easily is that their root formation goes only a few inches deep into the ground. So there is this huge tree weighing thousands of pounds basically sitting on top of the ground. It takes hardly any wind to blow one over.

Local arborist Kelly Hebert told KLFY, "If you aren't taking care of the trees and let then overgrow, you could be putting not only your life at risk but those around you.

It's not a matter of when it's going to come down, it's a matter of we know it's coming down.-Hebert

Water oaks can grow as high as 100 feet tall and 3 feet in diameter. These trees are canopies of evil waiting to cause you problems, not if but when.

Water oaks have been used by people down south for timber and fuel since the 17th century. One of the reasons is because these trees are so easily downed. They look as though it would take a freight train to push one over, but that's not the case, unfortunately.

If you have a water oak on your property that is a safe distance from your home, that's a good thing. Just don't you or your family stand under it when it's windy or the ground is soggy or both.


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What Do We Want? Everything! Migrants Send List of Demands to Denver City Officials
May 14, 2024
 
Ira Mehlman
Media Director
As the surge of illegal immigration began to unfold at the start of the Biden administration, the city of Denver, Colorado – or at least the politicians who run the city and state – decided that what most Americans see as a crisis would be a great opportunity for them to virtue signal. As recently as December 2022, both the mayor of Denver and the governor of Colorado issued proclamations declaring the Mile High City to be “a welcoming community, and we will support these individuals and families with the humanity and dignity they deserve while facing such a difficult situation…We will do what we can to provide for their needs at this time, including uniting them w/ friends, family, jobs & transportation to other destinations.”

Eighteen months later, it might be dawning on them that the response to their generosity with public resources has been more than they bargained for – a lot more. An estimated 40,000 migrants have turned up in Denver, stretching city and state resources to the breaking point. Things got so bad that just a few weeks later, the mayor declared an official state of emergency over migration. Things have only gotten worse since. In order to accommodate the needs of the migrants, the city has shifted resources away from the needs of its pre-existing homeless population and cut back on many vital services to its citizens.

https://www.fairus.org/blog/2024/05/14/what-do-we-want-everything-migrants-send-list-demands-denver-city-officials
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Editorial/Opinion/Blogs / Re: Lessons from COVID Totalitarianism
« Last post by catfish1957 on Today at 01:56:59 pm »
Most sad lesson is that public health used to be at least the one area exempt from governmental lying, distortion, and political manipulation.

That ship has sailed forever.

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This May Be the Most Far-Flung Argument Yet to Reward Illegal Aliens
May 15, 2024
 
Illegal aliens can’t legally drive in Missouri. Legislation passed in 2009 specifies that applicants for driver’s licenses must be U.S. citizens, or have proof of lawful presence in the United States. Admirably, Missouri is holding fast against trends to the contrary. Nineteen states plus the District of Columbia now grant driver’s licenses to illegal aliens.

This, of course, does not deter mass immigration advocates from pushing their agenda and trying to systematically whittle away at the rule of law. To them, Missouri is simply another challenge to overcome. Now, thanks to researchers at left-leaning Washington University in St. Louis, they have a new argument to use, one that may hold the record as the most over-reaching, painfully desperate justification ever advanced for extending benefits to illegal aliens.

New research from the university, published in the lofty American Sociological Association’s Journal of Health and Social Behavior, finds that, “Birth outcomes improve in states that extend driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants.”

 https://www.fairus.org/blog/2024/05/15/may-be-most-far-flung-argument-yet-reward-illegal-aliens
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Deserves Major Props...And Trump Certainly Noticed It
Matt Vespa

 |  May 18, 2024 6:00 PM

If you’re a fan of the late Tom Petty, you’ll either love or hate this edited clip featuring a parody of the song “Free Fallin’” by “Joe Biden and the Alzheimers.” The lyrics are tweaked and spliced together with various times Joe Biden seemed aloof during public events. The clips of Joe falling are where the chorus kicks into high gear. And Donald Trump posted it on his social media account:


https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1791037760146469210

It’s not the first time the former president has taken a swipe at Biden. His age and mental health have been the primary focus, with mock commercials featuring the White House as an assisted living facility. Nancy Pelosi walking side-by-side with Biden was cut into a Visiting Angels advertisement.

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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/05/18/donald-trump-has-another-brutal-post-about-joe-biden-n2639241
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Joe Biden faces potentially nightmarish June swoon with his re-election hopes fading
Opinion by Michael Goodwin • 12h


‘APRIL is the cruelest month,” poet T. S. Eliot famously declared.

Joe Biden might beg to differ.

June is shaping up as a potential nightmare for the 81-year-old president.

His re-election, his legacy and son Hunter Biden’s freedom are all on the line over the course of a month-long gantlet.
 
And he has only himself to blame.

Biden’s surprising demand last week that Donald Trump debate him twice, with the first face-off in June, underscores his desperation to get his campaign back on track.

His insistence on a televised showdown in a month already crammed with high-stakes events reveals that Biden knows his bid for a second term is in deep trouble.

Trailing in most if not all of the swing states and getting disastrous ratings from voters, he’s ready to put his chips on the table five months before the election.

Trump agreed to both debates, with the first scheduled for June 27 and the second for Sept. 10.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/joe-biden-faces-potentially-nightmarish-june-swoon-with-his-re-election-hopes-fading/ar-BB1mDD3z?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=24f646acd08f4296beea5e649d765f22&ei=26
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