Cover image: The Hurricane by Michael Rucker
Please pray for all those in the path of destruction. That includes my youngest brother, two nephews, a number of cousins and many others.
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Badlands News Brief – October 7, 2024
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Whistleblower Warns FBI Will Deploy Plainclothes Agents to Maricopa County Polling Stations to Monitor Trump Voters
82nd, 101st Airborne send troops to help in Helene recovery efforts
A week late, but, hey.
Georgia prosecutors urge Supreme Court to keep Mark Meadows’ election subversion case in state court
Untapped Relief: FEMA Is Sitting on Billions of Unused Disaster Funds
Of Irregular Wars & Irregular Minds
Joe Scarborough Is Losing His Mind. Why?
Elon and Tucker Accuse Pro-Kamala Billionaires of Being on Epstein’s Client List!
Silicon Valley tech bros are getting red-pilled and voting for Trump…
Tweets…X-Files, uh, posts, whatever
Meme Zone
Per the boss’s instruction:
I’d throw in a few Rockefellers and Rothschilds also.
Of course, this does not mean committing felonies, but standing up to the forces that want to tear this nation – and humanity apart. The very people XVII told us will be destroyed by the time this movie comes to an end are currently roaming the halls of power…supposedly. It’s a sickening sight.
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Luke 10:38-42
38Now as they went on their way, he entered a village; and a woman named Martha received him into her house. 39And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to his teaching. 40But Martha was distracted with much serving; and she went to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.” 41But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things; 42one thing is needful. Mary has chosen the good portion, which shall not be taken away from her.”
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Anonymous ID: hHkrVD7x No.148156632
Nov 5 2017 20:06:36 (EST)
Anonymous ID: pqW40Wgk No.148156518
Nov 5 2017 20:05:48 (EST)
>>148154137
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray. And do thou, Prince of the Heavenly Hosts, by the power of God, cast down to Hell Satan and all his evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.
>>148156518
Amen brother.
Q
As always, prayers for the fight against that which seeks to enslave us are welcome. Via con Dios.
Thank you, dear De Pat, for a cornucopia of posting goodness!
Gold in them thar mudflats? (talking about the GOLD video)
The US established two branch mints in Charlotte NC and Dahlonega GA when gold was found in those areas. (They also established the New Orleans mint, for different reasons: A lot of money flowed through the Big Easy due to river borne trade.)
The gold deposits played out…at least the economically viable ones did. But when the weather moves a bunch of stuff downstream for you, panning might be viable again.
So can we stake a claim?
How ’bout we go to a restaurant and claim a steak?
😂
Great take down.
Be a shame if it went viral.
He’s buying a suit for the rally and to have his picture taken with Trump. I hope someone makes it happen.
Two rallies outside of swing states. CO Friday. CA Saturday.
Thursday is open…? AZ, NM or NV?
JD will be in Tucson, AZ on Wednesday.
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/events
The unlikely story about the shooting at a church in Burnet, Texas, was a hoax.
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2024/10/07/sheriff-man-fabricated-story-about-shooting-at-armed-church-attackers/
Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
But why?
Why?
What was his purpose?
I can only speculate. Maybe he needed attention? If so, that’s pretty sad, and a sick way to go about it.
Maybe someone was trying to get him removed from the volunteer safety team for some reason, and he wanted to prove his worth?
JD Vance:
well, Bill…
“…our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region…”
everything “we’re” doing there…all the “movements”…are the result of or are prompted by our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region…
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Jack Posobiec:
Hope they get creative, given mobility and communication challenges.
Push early voting, assuming NC has it.
Trump Team needs to work hard to get the word out and assist with transportation.
A New York judge has lifted the order that prevented the giant “Vote for Trump” sign from being displayed & lit up at the Sticker Mule building in upstate New York
“We are all set to light it up!” – Anthony Constantino
Constantino put up a sign to symbolize the return of manufacturing to America under Trump, so the Democrat Mayor sued but LOST BIGLY
“All I know is tonight the party is on, and the lighting will occur, and there is no court order prohibiting the lighting and display of the sign, so it’s obviously a nice victory for Anthony and his team.” – Constaitno’s lawyer, Sal Ferlazzo
Great story, in several ways.
Including, D-Rat mayor political move, shutdown.
oh no.
(sad face)
for me, summer isn’t really over til…
the crickets stop singing, and…
all the tomatoes die.
tonight : all the crickets stopped singing about an hour ago.💔
it’s in the 40s outside now, awww.
as for the tomatoes…still a whole new harvest of green ones on the vines…but the ripening process has begun to deteriorate, awww.
down into the 30s, later this week.
(sad face) 💔
It’s the Great Cycle of rest and renewal. You can enjoy it, or move to the tropics where everything is trying to kill you all the time.
(….says the lifelong Californian….)
lived in the tropics and subtropics for many years…endless summer is great…hurricanes awful…tropical bugs awful…tropical food great + horticultural projects constantly (the constant gardener 💓)…flora, fauna, sun, beaches & ocean swimming, all great…flip flops no socks ! supergreat ! bikey all the time, yay…
but I missed the changing seasons, eventually.
so here we are : end of summer, sad face…
don’t much like watching beautiful things die off, the tomatoes are like friends (too much bonding ??)
crickets don’t all perish…some do but others go into a deep deep hibernation til warm weather returns.😃
I love nature but nature can be cruel & fickle sometimes..😫
but to everything there is a season.
turn
turn
turn
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Milton…intensifying..
Cat 5/ 180 mph
Tampa Bay prediction, but hopefully NOT as a Cat 5.
Maybe if we waved a red stapler at it, we could get it to visit Cuba instead?
mocking Miltie, are ye ??
as it departs Mexico now and heads more into GoM, sustained winds are at 135 mph (gusts higher)…it’s spreading out more…but winds are decreasing a bit from Cat 5…
maybe that’s some “good” news ?
That painting of the hurricane really does capture the force and destructive power of a tropical cyclone.
“Kamala Harris said X needs to be taken down because there’s no oversight or regulation on what’s being posted”
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Try not to be such a skank, Cacky.
Always good advice 👍😂
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Lithium-Ion Batteries Blamed for Hurricane Helene Fires
“Florida State Fire Marshal Jimmy Patronis on Tuesday said there have been 16 fires during and after Hurricane Helene attributed to lithium-ion batteries used in Tesla and other electric vehicles, golf carts and other vehicles and devices.”
I use lithium batteries to do my yard – mower, trimmer/edger, blower. I treat them as carefully as the nuclear football. I do not leave them out in the garage, and plan to take them to the city hazardous recycling center when/if they ever fail. These yard tools and batteries are now 6 years old and still going. However, I’m an old biddie with a small yard – not using the tools for large yard or commercial work.
The Fiancee is in Rome. She sent me a pic in front of St. Pete’s.
Part of my reply:
Once the roof and the walls were done, and the old church cleared away, it was time to think about decorating. There are various tombs and side-chapels, Michelangelo’s Pieta, references to the relics therein, and the like, but there is one bit of decor that had me catch my breath when I first saw it — and continues to inspire me. Bernini’s Baldacchino.
There is no end of the funny little bits about it — it was commissioned by Pope Urban VIII, who was originally Maffeo Barberini of the Barberini family, whose heraldric symbols are bees, laurel leaves, and the radiant sun. Accordingly, these appear throughout.
But, then, there are some elements that are profound.
The first one, I’m going to steal the writeup from Wikipoo — “In a Latin cross church, the high altar should be placed in the chancel at the end of the longitudinal axis and yet in St. Peter’s it was located in the centre of the crossing. Bernini sought a solution whereby the high altar above the tomb of the first Pope of the Catholic Church could be reconciled with tradition. With his design for the Cathedra Petri or Chair of Saint Peter (1657–66) at the apsidal end of the chancel, Bernini completed his visual concetto or design idea; the congregation had a perspectivised view down the nave to the image framed by the baldachin which compressed the distance between the crossing and the Chair of Saint Peter in the chancel, reconciling the Prince of the Apostles’ tomb, his implied presence on the chair and his legitimate successor officiating at the ceremonies.”
The second is not readily apparent at first. The four columns sit on rectangular marble bases, or plinths — on the outward faces of which (from Wikipoo), “Each shield is enclosed by a woman’s head at the top and by the head of a satyr at the bottom. A papal tiara with crossed keys surmounts the shield. All shields look nearly identical, but – if examined one after another starting with the left-hand front plinth – they reveal dramatic changes in the expression on the female face. The coat of arms itself, flat on the first plinth, undergoes a noticeable deformation, progressively bulging up to the sixth shield and flattening again on the last two shields. Above the eighth shield, the female face is replaced by the head of a winged child or putto. The allegory behind the coats of arms is universally interpreted as representing the various stages of childbirth.”
This is as raw as it gets — in the 1600’s, this is the gateway to life….in the church of Life Eternal.
Third, there is simply what it is. the Baldacchino is roughly 100 feet high, reaching upwards in a space about 380 feet to the top of the dome. It projects the aspirations of those of us who walk on the earth into the greater universe. Imagine the interior of the church without Bernini’s masterpiece…..what a crushing place it would be.
The baldachin, or ciborium, is a ceremonial tent, originally temporary. Typically, these were used for visiting priests or altars. Often fine silks were used.
Bernini’s masterwork borrows this form, but is crafted of bronze — which is immensely heavy.
I have great hopes and anticipations for Gail’s post tomorrow, but I haven’t seen anything lately from her. 🙁
GGGGGggggrrrrrrrrrrr
October 8, 2024 6:40 am
Reply to nwtex
Atlanta Motor Speedway is open to Milton evacuees – the speedway is providing dry camping free of charge in its Legends Premium Campground for RVs and Legends Tent Campground for pop-up campers and tents… More information is available by contacting AMS directly or visiting their website at http://www.atlantamotorspeedway.com.
Dry camping at no charge in the Legends Premium Campground for RVs and Legends Tent Campground for pop-up campers and tents
Complimentary access to nearby shower facilities
A limited number of camping spaces with water, power, and sewer hook-ups available for $35 per night
Evacuees can enter the campgrounds via GA Highway 20 and Lower Woolsey Road at Entrance “H” or US Highway 19/41 at Entrance “E”. For those seeking full hook-up spaces, reservations can be made by calling the AMS ticket office at 770-946-4211 during business hours.
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/milton-evacuations-atlanta-motor-speedway-opening-camping-evacuees
😀💥
New COVID-19 vaccines reached about 395,000 New Yorkers, or 3.5%, so far in fall 2024, as health officials push to reverse a trend of limited uptake of the shots…
By contrast, about 1.4 million, or 12% of, New Yorkers overall received the updated COVID-19 vaccine released last fall.
https://archive.ph/TVrLF#selection-653.0-653.120
George
@BehizyTweets
Democrats have been BUSTED in St. Louis, Missouri, trying to register migrants to vote in the 2024 election. The same is likely happening in battleground states Flyers were given to migrant workers, telling them to “vote for Harris-Walz and pro-worker candidates.” Also, to “Stop the steal by stopping Trump’s allies.” Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft says, “I think it shows why we need a law in Missouri that requires individuals to show proof of citizenship before they register and before they vote.” Is anyone surprised at this point? Because I’m NOT.