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The government is preparing to seize homes and land using eminent domain for the construction of a Data Center in Coweta, Georgia.
This American’s childhood home is being taken by force by Georgia Power. Homeowners in this county do not have a choice.
It effects over 330 private properties. Georgia Power says it will negotiate purchases and easements and use eminent domain.
Georgia Power claims its to strengthen the grid for the growing energy demand in Georgia (due to many new data centers).
The lines are widely linked to Project Sail, a massive proposed hyperscale data center campus that will span 829 acres.
….. This is the dumbest move I’ve seen the datacenter industry make so far. The developers of that datacenter should, if they’re smart, be leaning HARD on Georgia Power to immediately halt its attempt to exercise Eminent Domain and develop an alternate route for its transmission line, at the very least.
An even better idea would be for the developer to announce – TODAY – that it no longer needs Georgia Power to supply electricity to its installation and will instead build its own.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/a-message-for-datacenter-developers?utm_
The latest political lie “data centers will build their own power centers to supply their electricity.”
Let them build them on all that land that China and Bill Gates owns. Then we can confiscate it.
Heck, lets build it on the congressional office buildings and move the reps and senators out across the country.
make them live in the state they represent and then explain why they vote as they do.
More evidence that this is not the Trump I elected.
A 30 year data center builder was interviewed on Newsmax and he said they always try to build on older commercial property that mostly has utilities and is underused. How about building on some run down mall? My guess is some government bureaucrat is making the bad decision just like MN replacing all electric meters with “smart” meters even if you have a perfectly functional meter less than 10 years old..
Just another example of the Constitutional abuse of eminent domain.
Datacenters can easily buy and install a mini-nuclear-reactor fueled power station to meet their needs.
In other news: Swalwell is a boiling frog.
https://www.c-span.org/program/news-conference/rep-swalwell-accuser-holds-news-conference-on-sexual-misconduct-allegations/677383
You misspelled sorry POS.
<Swalwell is a boiling frog.>
He will be mist 🙂
Yea, when they released the evidence on Swalwell it was the tip of the iceberg, guaranteed to put him in prison (he REALLY must have pissed off Nancy Pelosi!!!)
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Uhhh, what?….↓ ↓ ↓
https://youtube.com/shorts/yDPiwKG1c7E?si=Zk0jrobd1ItQ8HpM
Ha! 😲
Salem Media to Be Acquired by WaterStone in Major Growth Deal :: Salem Media Group, Inc. (SALM)
Waterstone is a London based british book retailer book retailer based in London, owned by Paul Singer‘s Elliott Investment Management.
One step, one brick, one nail at a time to ready themselves for embracing the Anti-Christ.
The Book of Revelation prophecies it’s all coming to the fore, so I’ve no doubt that it will be so. The only question remaining is where do we stand,
as individuals made in God’s image, saved by Jesus Christ, while the beast gets ready to devour the remnants of humanity?
I can’t speak for others, but I plan to follow God’s laws and remain committed to my faith, right up to the bittersweet end. Whatever evil may torment my earthly body, it will gain no hold over my spirit.
God has made an everlasting covenant with His faithful, and I have every reason to believe His grace will come to the fore, as well.
Praying for you sister, you speak the truth, may Jesus come quickly
Shadow of Ezra
@ShadowofEzra
CIA whistleblower claims the agency “took back 40 boxes of JFK and MK-Ultra files” that Tulsi Gabbard was reviewing for declassification.
The whistleblower also alleges the CIA “illegally monitored the computer and phone usage” of Gabbard’s investigators during the probe into the COVID-19 origins cover-up.
Cont and video…
Half them owe their office to Fauci and mail-in ballots. Of course they have no interest in the truth.
The CIA continues to be a nasty, lawless gang.
They’re seriously going to have to send tanks and troops to Langley to stop these people. They are at war with America and it’s long past time America made war on them.
Drop a MOAB on their arses…
They should have been shot the moment they broke in…
Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
BREAKING: South Carolina Gov. McMaster is set to call a SPECIAL SESSION to redraw their Congressional map….
….The new map, which would likely ELIMINATE the Democrat US House seat, could pass with just a SIMPLE MAJORITY.
Cont…
My TN showed how to get it done 😎
Get with it South Carolina!
You would think Miss Lindsey, with his decades of SC politics, could call a few of those state Senators sitting on their hands to actually represent the people and approve of the redistricting.
But Lady Bug gotta lady bug.
The Governor better understands what just happened in Indiana.
Those five RINOs still need to go.
6 counting Miss Lindsey.
They decided against it
“Elon Musk just defended America better than every politician in Washington combined.”….
Elon Musk DID GOOD on THIS Explanation
and
HIS CAUTIONS on AI – ARE SPOT ON
” HOW Do You ” TRAIN ” a Child Without a Moral Basis ” was ONE of His Musings
xcancel.com/XFreeze/status/2041860876328956181
Tru Dat! 😎
Not a member of x, is there any way to print this?
This commentary is just so good, with many points for debate/discussion.
“Interior Sec. Doug Burgum UNLEASHES on the Democrats who keep whining about President Trump’s restoration of the filthy Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool”….
They love public filth, decay and dysfunction-it makes them feel urban gritty and edgy, and feeds into narratives about failure by “society” (read: competent, faithful, hard working, responsible people) that requires remedial action and above all, funding.
Everyone needs to stop their whining. President Trump isn’t going to leave DC in the shape he found it. Seemed rather disgusting actually. After all, when he left NY, it was in a lot better shape than I’m reading about today. But the swamp does like its swamp water, I reckon.
It’s a REFLECTING Pool!!!!
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 NOW: Outrage is erupting after the LARGEST K-12 book publisher in America Scholastic has been exposed for running ANTI-ICE books for CHILDREN — such as a little Mexican girl coming to America and realizing it’s “stolen land”
The books also make the name “Donald Trump” synonymous with “fascism”
Cont and video linked…
Finally. There have been people in education (or who were) that have been saying the textbook publishers need to be looked into.
By the way: even if you home school, in certain states you do have to use BOE approved curriculum which uses materials from…these textbook companies.
My friend was just able to buy pounds and pounds of books from public schools for the classical academy her children attend for pennies on the dollar.
She was told that, here in Missouri, in order for those public schools to retain their scholastic rating they are required to replace a minimum of 20% of their libraries EACH YEAR! You can guess what they’re getting rid of – and what they’re acquiring. (And why the books were so cheap.)
If this is true it explains a lot, and is totally in keeping with the direction public schools are headed. And people think Missouri is so reliably red!
Then Mexico is on stolen land also, by their logic.
It all is, except for Eden.
Once the Aztec people Reconquer the Southwest USA, will they restart the human sacrifices at the top of the temple?
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“Fox Host: Not great news today when it comes to inflation. Up at 3.8%, so far a 40% spike in terms of grocery prices. Those numbers are up. Certainly not good news
Mike Johnson: Not good news. We are keenly aware of it”
https://x.com/HQNewsNow/status/2054600126123917455?s=20
They’re aware of it. That’s lovely.
If the GOP sits on its behind, they will definitely risk the midterms. If that’s “doomerism” then so be it.
Most of them are happy about it for that reason.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/05/13/nolte-dem-l-a-mayor-karen-bass-proposes-free-teeth-meth-addicts/
Spencer Pratt should smoke them all in a landslide. If not, IDK. TG I don’t live in CA.
No reason you can’t go there and vote for him. Not like they check ID.
Sad but true.
“BREAKING: Landmark Peer-Reviewed Study Finds Vaccination Is a Major Risk Factor for Autism”
“For decades, scientists have debated what drives the relentless rise in autism. Some have claimed it’s simply due to “increased screening” while others insist vaccines play no role whatsoever. Thousands of studies have explored genetic, environmental, and perinatal factors—but very few have ever evaluated vaccine and non-vaccine determinants together within a unified analytical framework.”
It is time to face the reality of what the results are with these man-made vaccines and stop it. We are making ourselves and our children sick.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petermcculloughmd/p/breaking-landmark-peer-reviewed-study?r=b7nwz&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
Way too much money is spent to keep everyone silent about these poisons. I keep telling my family (who are always sick) to stop taking vaccines. They are so frightened they might catch something scary, but they have no idea how bad these franken shots are.
I suspect Tylenol.
It also looks like a small part of the increase may be Somali fraud.
Please…
“one decade of pirates!” is barely a blip compared to a hundred years – a full century – of constantly-increasing toxic soup injections’ endemic damage to the DNA that is the gene pool of America.
The stolen money is one way the “statistic” is falisfied… so is the *”medical research showing no connection”*
public schooling numbers of “special needs/ autistic students, students with IEPs, students that require a full-time aid daily” is a more accurate account.
** May 8, 2026
“Paul Thorsen, former CDC scientist and lead author of the foundational 2003 NEJM paper used for two decades to “disprove” the MMR-autism link, was extradited from Germany and arraigned in Atlanta on two counts of wire fraud and nine counts of money laundering; he’s being held without bail as a flight risk.”
((He wrote fraudulent ‘research studies’ and kept a handsome cut of the grant money for his trouble… he should be hung *for the research fraud*, imo.))
“… According to U.S. Attorney Hertzberg, the charges, and other information presented in court: From 2000 to 2009, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, awarded over $11 million to two governmental agencies in Denmark to study the relationship between autism and exposure to vaccines, between cerebral palsy and infection during pregnancy, and between childhood development and fetal alcohol exposure. In 2002, Thorsen, who had worked as a visiting scientist at the CDC when it was soliciting the grant applications, became responsible for administering the research money awarded by the CDC.
Thorsen allegedly stole more than $1 million of the CDC grant money by submitting fraudulent documents to the Danish government, Aarhus University, and a Danish hospital where scientists performed research under the grant. From February 2004 through June 2008, Thorsen allegedly submitted over a dozen fraudulent invoices, containing the forged signature of a CDC laboratory section chief, that falsely claimed a CDC laboratory had performed work and was owed grant money.
Based on these invoices, Aarhus University transferred hundreds of thousands of dollars to CDC Federal Credit Union accounts the university believed belonged to the CDC. In truth, the credit union accounts were personal accounts held by Thorsen. After the money was transferred, Thorsen allegedly withdrew the fraudulent proceeds for his own use, obtaining cashier’s checks and buying a home in Atlanta, a Harley Davidson motorcycle, and Audi and Honda vehicles.
A federal magistrate judge issued an arrest warrant after a grand jury in Atlanta indicted Thorsen on April 13, 2011, but Thorsen evaded apprehension for nearly 14 years by remaining in Denmark. On June 4, 2025, Thorsen, 65, was arrested in Passau, Germany, pursuant to an INTERPOL Red Notice based on the April 2011 arrest warrant.
{ https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndga/pr/autism-researcher-extradited-germany-face-federal-charges-stealing-cdc-grant-money }
Well, you’re gonna get that wherever you have Somalis! 😎
Centuries of marrying their cousins proves they have come by their intellectual deficiencies the honest way, no need to resort to turning their infants and children into vaccine needle pincushions.
Haha
Contributory to the set-up-degradation of the Humans’ physiologic constitution & capacity for resilience.
As is *all* toxic environmental pollution.
There are proabaly a million or more ways to damage, injure, maim, disrupt, and destroy a Human nervous system & brain. We’ve all been subjected to a vast number simultaneously –
none as obviously singularly powerfully effective as toxic soup injections on the regular.
Tylenol suppresses the immune system.
So increased screening is what bothers them ….not the fact that they 75% have it
It looks like Ed Gallrein might be surging in both polling and betting odds (against Thomas Massie) right before the election…
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InteractivePolls
@IAPolls2022
KY-04 GOP PRIMARY
🟥 Ed Gallrein: 48.3% (+10.6)
🟥 Thomas Massie: 43.1% (-3.7)
⬜️ Not sure: 7.6% (+/- shift vs April 6) —— With leaners
🟥 Ed Gallrein: 52.8
🟥 Thomas Massie: 45.1%
@QuantusInsights
| 5/11-12 | 908 LV
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Political Polls
@PpollingNumbers
🔴 New –
Trump endorsed challenger to Rep. Thomas Massie takes the lead in GOP primary winning odds (Polymarket)
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Millions from AIPAC and a dirty October surprise and we get another Israel first RINO. Yay.
And open secrets tells us Massie is backed by Muslims and people who also donated to Democrats. So your choice is between a pro Trump person with some Jewish funding or an anti Trump person with Democrat and Muslim backing. Geez, it’s a hard choice – not. Why would anyone MAGA vote for the guy who draws his funding from Democrats?
We are seeing in the data center buildout, backed by both sides of the Uniparty at all levels of Gov’t, the embrace of AI as the next control vector. AI requires massive amounts of cheap and reliable energy. Thus the slow release of peer studies and model updates that reveal that the Green New Scam was exactly that, a scam.
Team Greta (the true believers) are mostly silent, while Team Gore (the Grifters) and Team WEF (the control engineers) are subtly shifting their efforts away from Green Scams to the AI mechanisms for Grift (Team Gore) and control (Team WEF). It is fascinating to watch in real time. In the meantime, those that succumbed to the alternative fuel control mechanism full stop (EU/UK) are left buried with expensive energy that cannot support their current levels of economic activity, let alone the AI that the WEF will require to control the masses. They will be left even further behind.
Yet, my 2024 GM is trying to install a “15min update” every time it gets Wifi access…
Disconnect its WiFi connection device 😉
President Trump’s top priority is that AI Data Centers are built quickly and without restriction. It’s for national security! Anthropic and Palantir are used to target sites in Iran.
“A massive National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) pandemic-preparedness program focused in part on hantaviruses was already actively underway—and had just achieved unprecedented structural and vaccine-platform mapping of Andes hantavirus—before the highly publicized 2026 international Andes hantavirus outbreak ordeal emerged.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/jonfleetwood/p/project-provident-niaid-launched?r=b7nwz&utm_medium=ios
Ireland’s soul has been coopted by demon ideological forces.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ireland-convicts-78-year-old-preacher-preaching-near-abortion-clinic
Yes – unique DNA AND fingerprints… every structure in the Human body is present at 10 weeks gestation… afterward no new structures appear, only further development of existing structures occurs; including the fingerprints that are already apparent at 10 weeks after conception.
Try this out on a pro-abortion apologist and teenagers:
IF it was YOUR body (“my body my choice”)… YOU would be the one dead at completion of the abortion.
Outstanding meme, btw Betsy.
It’s impossible to tell young women anything they think they don’t know already, Amara Grace.
They know the price of everything and the value of nothing, especially human life.
I watched a video last night of a young black woman trying to get through to those who believe killing a part of themselves has no repercussions. She has an abundance of them only two years after. Her sorrow and regret were deep and visible. But she was cogent, brutally honest, and heartbreakingly remorseful.
Funny, no? No one ever considers that some of the fathers who might want their babies, who stand by helplessly as their children are consigned to oblivion have no say.
Tragedy beyond enduring. All of it.
“People are people No Matter how small.” – Horton from Horton Hears a Who
That makes me want to cry, dear Feisty…
can people flag this comment so hopefully Sundance/ad rem will see and let the powers that be know I need them to check their email and respond, have some info to pass on regarding some people Sundance is researching but can’t just post it in a thread because of confidentiality involved.
I’ll flag it for you but what about emailing? Its on the top of the page or perhaps the side.
Emailed twice. I can only put so much in the email. So hoping to get a response on next steps.
I offered this on the weekend, and thought I would offer it again with a few additions.
My thoughts today are about President TRUMP’S attempt to bring about a Golden Age in America, and how that obviously depends upon our younger generations today, in whom I, as a retired teacher of German, Latin, Ancient Greek, and History (Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Europe and America), still have great interest. My route may seem circuitous at first, but stay with me!
Over 30 years ago, a movie appeared called The Sandlot, which depicted the adventures of baseball-loving boys in the 1950’s. Much like Peanuts or the short comedies from the late 1920’s and early 1930’s called The Little Rascals, adults in The Sandlot were either not present or were tangential to the story, i.e. much like my own childhood in the 1950’s, when, apart from school days, you left the house and returned only for lunch and supper for most of the day.
You rode your bicycle everywhere in the neighborhood (and maybe farther than your parents would have liked!), formed your own baseball or football teams without adults around, invented scenarios about re-fighting The Civil War, World Wars I or II or even new scenarios about Russian invasions for World War III, or had Wild West adventures, Tarzan-style quests through jungles, and so on. Girls had their own activities, of course, and only occasionally might be included in the masculine games and historical events.
When The Sandlot appeared, and for many years afterward down to my retirement in 2022 (in my 70’s), I was always struck by the reactions of my students to the film, at which they simply marveled, because it showed a kind of childhood which they did not have!
The film seemed to show children experiencing Life in another dimension or another planet: children freely roaming the streets, creating their own teams, playing on swings, slides, spinners/manual merry-go-rounds, with adults rarely around and certainly not interfering in their games and fantasies. Both my high-school and grade-school students looked at The Sandlot and at, if they happened to catch them, The Little Rascals comedies, with a certain wistfulness and even melancholy: Was it really like that when you were a kid? Well, in essence, yes it was.
In 1980 (note the date), a professor named Neil Postman wrote a book called The Disappearance of Childhood. His thesis was simple: with the rise of cable television and the R-rated movie and a few other factors, Childhood had changed drastically backward to the kind of non-childhood in the Medieval Era, i.e. Postman defined childhood as being delineated by Types of Knowledge.
Modern Childhood was very young, in his definition, when in the 1800’s adults slowly developed the notion that children in a technological age should be educated much better than usual and that focusing their minds away from the adult world was an advantage to their education and development. Specifically, Knowledge of Sexuality and World-Wide Violence needed to be severely limited, until children became adolescents and could be introduced to certain truths.
Medieval and early modern children were not shielded from anything in the adult world: living in cramped quarters and even one-room houses, they easily picked up on the sexual activity of their parents (or others). Public executions were considered entertainment and also learning experiences for children. Children were usually put to work at a very early age, either on the farm or in the new factories and even in mines. They were not in school at all or very much and were not engaged in uneconomic play. Postman concludes that because of these and other things, those children were basically little adults.
The Disappearance of Childhood did not know about the Internet, but it would have added a huge amount of fuel to Postman’s fire. Surveys show that children as young as 10 or even younger have watched “hard-core pornography” while surfing the Internet, despite efforts (obviously feeble) to prevent that. Postman also did not know about the Cell Phone, which became ubiquitous around 2010, which also offers a small window constantly into “The Virtual World” and which – if parents have unwisely given their children such a phone (and most of them have!) – prevents the child from concentrating on anything real around him or her.
Some recent books – descendants, so to speak, of The Disappearance of Childhood – have appeared to show the effects 40 years later of such technology on the last two or even three generations. The titles are self-explanatory: The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt, Childhood Unplugged by Katharine Martinko, The Coddling of the American Mind by Gregory Lukianoff (and co-author Jonathan Haidt), and in particular, Free-Range Kids by Lenore Skenazy.
She had been nationally ridiculed on major networks for allowing her child to ride a New York subway alone:
“When I wrote a column for The New York Sun on “Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Take The Subway Alone,” I figured I’d get a few e-mails pro and con. Two days later I was on the Today Show, MSNBC, FoxNews and all manner of talk radio with a new title under my smiling face: “America’s Worst Mom?”
“Yes, that’s what it took for me to learn just what a hot-button this is — this issue of whether good parents ever let their kids out of their sight. But even as the anchors were having a field day with the story, many of the cameramen and make up people were pulling me aside to say that THEY had been allowed to get around by themselves as kids– and boy were they glad. They relished the memories!”
See: https://www.freerangekids.com/about/
Some of the books above detail the neurological research done on children’s brains and the psychological research on their behavior, and the results are less than favorable: the loss of a 1950’s style “free-range” childhood, and the rise of an online-cellphone-video-game childhood, has led to rises in depression, anxiety, feelings of loneliness,* and suicide in the younger generations.
Haidt mentions the rise of “Safetyism” in his book: Mrs. Ausonius and I had noticed this in the 1980’s because of two “Panics,” both of which turned out to be hoaxes. One was about Halloween, with reports about lunatics passing out apples filled with razor blades, or poisoned candy, etc. The other was worse: day-care centers accused of not just child abuse, but even Satanic rituals against children.
Some people, who ran day-care centers in Texas (The Keller Case) and California (The McMartin Case), were convicted of crimes against children and spent years in jail based on the fantasy-filled testimony of Kindergartners! (Eventually, the Truth literally set them free, but their lives had been ruined.)
Of course, real child abuse exposés in the Catholic Church**, in Hollywood’s abuse of child actors and actresses, etc. did not help the situation.
One of the results was the rise of empty playgrounds, especially in large cities. Since the later 1980’s, playgrounds and sidewalks have been desolate: no children anywhere at any time, unless you happened to see a parent running next to a young child trying to ride a bicycle, or if a well-organized and well-supervised T-Ball or soccer game was happening. Another result was the rise of “Trigger Warnings” and their cultivation in high schools and colleges.
“Safetyism” really took off 6 years ago with The Chinese Wuhan Flu, and the mania about masks and “safe distances” and other idiocies.
“We just want you to stay safe!” became a mantra, and is still heard too often today.
The decline of “free-range childhood” led to a change in housing developments: gated communities (seen by Italian semiotician Umberto Eco as part of “Neo-Feudalism” or “Neo-Medievalism,” about which there are interesting websites q.v.), “neighborhoods” with no sidewalks, narrow streets filled with parked cars, no playgrounds, no open fields (except maybe a dog park), and no alleys, all areas where children might gather to play before the 1980’s.
To be fair, developers designed such places because families with children became a minority. Children since the 1970’s have been aborted or birth-controlled into a small part of American society.
PETS have too often taken the place of children: “Dog Parks,” bumper stickers with “Let Me Tell You About My Grand-Dogs,” (DO NOT get me started on that monstrosity! 😉 ) grocery stores with expanding Pet Aisles, all point to a childphobic population.
However, Mrs. Ausonius and I have also noticed throughout the last 50 years that, in our experience, Free-Range Childhood does still exist…in the small cities, towns, and villages in rural areas. The fears found in Manhattan or Chicago, et al. do not exist in e.g. New Bremen, Ohio.
One realizes quickly why so many people today in the U.S. Military hail from those small-towns and rural areas!
Fearful children will often become fearful adults: which institutions benefit from having a timid, fearful, risk-averse population?
Could one such institution be a Government, especially a dictatorial, Communist government? “We just want you to stay safe!” says the government, and you will be very safe in those chains around you!
And so, you can undoubtedly foresee my conclusion: for a Golden Age to occur in America, we will need fearless, creative, and independent adults, and the only way to achieve that goal, is to nurture fearless, creative, and independent children.
Parents must both shield in some cases and in others monitor their children in relation to the Internet and cellphones. They must foster imagination through books and non-video games and other such things. And schools do NOT provide such nurturing with a politically correct curriculum and constant “group activities.” No more “group” Science Projects or History reports: independent work is needed – where Failure is possible and Success is NOT guaranteed!
“Staying safe” from bad grades is not an option!
I have not mentioned Religion so far, but as a product of Catholic schools through a Master’s degree, I will say that the morality and behavior cultivated from an early age by my Catholic religion helped me in childhood and beyond. Knowledge of Divinity is a necessity: Atheism shows a reprehensible failure of Imagination!
When the Internet got going in the 1990’s, CHEATING in schools became more widespread than ever before. The Internet allowed you to download pre-paid term papers on any topic for a small price, or simply to plagiarize paragraphs and “assemble” a report as original.
At that time, I was teaching at a Catholic, all-boy high school and was one of the few who had Internet experience: my colleagues would often come to me and say e.g.: “I’m positive this has been plagiarized, but I can’t prove it.” Within a few Google clicks, I easily found the originals.
Our principal – a priest! – never wanted to expel anybody for cheating, even chronic cheating! The unspoken reason was that cheating was so widespread, the school would shut down, if every chronic offender were expelled.
He was an idiot: after making a few examples, the cheaters would diminish in number, and an Atmosphere of Honor and Honesty would have been restored.
Internet Cheating was the worst problem in my career, and it has not abated! And so, our Moral Culture has been attacked in all sorts of ways by The Computer Age.
Thank you in advance!
* A song called The Lonely Generation by the band Echosmith gets right to the point:
“We’re the Lonely Generation, A Pixillated Version of Ourselves...”Looking for something right in all the wrong places (i.e. Online)...”
** After c. 50 years in Catholic education, I knew of only two men who were guilty, a Brother and a Priest: I know a good number of priests who were falsely accused by either dementia patients or grifters hoping to extort money from the local bishops.
Brilliant post! I too was a “Free Ranger” in Central New Jersey. I’m 78 in a couple of months. Product of Catholic grammar school, Catholic HS (3 years of Latin!) and one year at St. Joe’s in Philly.
We rode our bikes many miles every day, built tree forts, camped in farmer’s field next to a stream, swam in irrigation ponds, hiked and camped at the Battle of Monmouth battlegrounds, looked for Molly Pitcher’s well ….every farmer claimed his brook was where she fetched water. No bike helmets, no cell phones and gone all day till dark.
What a childhood! Mom did not have to work, she volunteered at the church and was den mother for the scouts. Dad commuted to NYC every day. He was 4th degree Knights of Columbus with his plume hat and sword.
We (my brother & sister) were blessed to grow up then.
Right above your comment someone posted a comment from Elon Musk, “how do you train a child without a moral compass?”
Yours addresses the creation – or lack thereof – of the moral compass. Which sadly, every day, my reading convinces me we as a society have failed for much longer than we knew.
Yes, No Styrofoam Bike Protective Helmets – What a Bad Joke!!!
Brilliant. If we don’t challenge our kids, the moment a real challenge comes and it will, they will roll up in a ball and suck their thumbs.
My story too as a youth!
“much like my own childhood in the 1950’s, when, apart from school days, you left the house and returned only for lunch and supper for most of the day. You rode your bicycle everywhere in the neighborhood (and maybe farther than your parents would have liked!), formed your own baseball or football teams without adults around, [My additions: Played Army – had dirt clod fights with other groups of kids, built forts, …
I missed this post last weekend, and am glad you reposted it today. I always enjoy your posts over the years, you are very wise, Sir. It’s amazing how growing up in the 50’s and 60’s was so different, a night and day difference. I was enrolled in parochial schools, and I wish I could have had you for a teacher.
You are most kind with those sentiments! I am sure I would have been honored to have you in my courses!
Many thanks for your comments and those of everyone above!
It is amazing: today there have been cases e.g. when a parent left her 11-year old daughter in the car for a few minutes to pick up something at a store, a Comissar walking by called the police (!!!) to report child abuse!
The mother was arrested and prosecuted!
Such a stupid standard would have meant that 125 million parents in the 1950’s would have been jailed!
The out-of-control Nanny State needs to die, so that our children and all of the succeeding generations can live proper and full lives
See:
https://outsidethebeltway.com/mother-charged-for-leaving-11-year-old-in-a-car-protecting-children-or-paranoia/
Nolte: Gallrein Overtakes Massie in Kentucky GOP Primary Poll
Love to see Massie get primaried.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/05/13/nolte-gallrein-overtakes-massie-kentucky-gop-primary-poll/
Something is very wrong in the Vatican.
While Iran continues to execute citizens by public hanging from a crane day in/day out, Leo disregards.
Just as he does the slaughter of thousands of Nigerian Christians by Islamic, subhuman barbarians.
How does the so called Vicar of Christ justify this abominable “award”??
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15815259/Pope-infuriates-Iranians-risks-reigniting-Trump-row-awarding-Vatican-honour-Tehran-ambassador.html
Leo is proving Revelations.
Vengeance belongs to the Lord.
Leo is the successor usurper. His agenda is to destroy, not build.
This is for all the Musk naysayers!
Powerful! …and true.
But you can be sure that all the casinos in Reno will not lose a single kWh.
You know, I would instantly call absurd stories like that: “Fake News.”
Of course YOU would…
https://fortune.com/2026/05/12/lake-tahoe-data-center-49000-residents-power-source/
The farce of passing the SAVE Act is over.
https://thefederalist.com/2026/05/13/john-failure-is-not-an-option-thune-just-failed-election-integrity/
Democrats vow revenge for 2028. Listen to Dime Store Obama make his threats even though the Republicans still have more redistricting ammunition while the democrats have relatively little.
Nolte: Hakeem Jeffries Concedes Defeat, Moves Gerrymander Battle to 2028https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/05/13/nolte-hakeem-jeffries-concedes-defeat-moves-gerrymander-battle-to-2028/
So MAGA responds with lawfare of our own. Sue claiming the D states are unconstitutionally gerrymandered along racial lines. Have SCOTUS toss it out
All Democrats ever do is vow revenge.
I would laugh at them. Dollar Store Obama got his clock cleaned on his “maximum warfare” plan.
‘I’m not some hooker’: GOP senators release Hunter Biden texts buried by DOJ
Years-old text messages allegedly from Hunter Biden appear to show discussions about paying women for sex, arranging their interstate travel, and wiring them money in exchanges released on Monday that Republican lawmakers say the Biden Justice Department quietly sat on for years without pursuing potential Mann Act or prostitution-related charges.
The tranche of 150 pages of text messages, released by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI), was obtained after years of congressional requests to the DOJ tied to broader Republican investigations into former President Joe Biden and his family.
“These records show the Biden DOJ possessed text messages from Hunter Biden indicating potential trafficking/Mann Act violations,” Grassley wrote Monday on X. The Mann Act prohibits transporting individuals across state lines for prostitution or other illegal sexual activity.
In another exchange on Jan. 18, Hunter Biden allegedly asked, “How much would another 8 hours cost. I’ve paid 5000 for first eight hours,” before later discussing wiring additional money. One reply stated, “9500 ok.”
IRS whistleblowers who later testified before Congress about alleged favoritism toward Hunter Biden during his tax investigation also said investigators uncovered evidence suggesting possible Mann Act violations. One whistleblower alleged the younger Biden deducted payments to prostitutes as business expenses and financed interstate travel for women.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/i-m-not-some-hooker-gop-senators-release-hunter-biden-texts-buried-by-doj/ar-AA22X8Np
I’m actually surprised that Hunter is still alive. I expected him to have “snorted” his cardiac muscle into stillness long before now.
I’d like to say Punter was the biggest absurdity of the four year insanity, but the entire thing was insane-Joe, nurse Jill, the nutty daughter, bizarre Cabinet, the sleezy siblings, the day to day handlers who we’ve never really had a great handle on, the election fraud and lawfare and media and celebrity implosion-it was all a crazy psy op, one mass of lies piled on top of another.
may all Treepers have a peaceful good evening….
nite
Live long & prosper.
This pilot was told, by a way higher up, not to fly a rescue mission in his helicopter in Vietnam…:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/G_N0dq03Sf0
The pilot’s response at the end, is priceless….
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FCo7-kpw7CA
Fed chair confirmed?!!!! I saw it on Libs of TikTok
Yes
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna
@RepLuna
The CIA has 24 hours to return the documents to Tulsi Gabbard’s office or else I will make a motion to issue a subpoena. These documents have been requested by Congress.
@DNIGabbard
@CIADirector
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Leading Report
@LeadingReport
CIA seized 40 boxes of JFK and MK-ULTRA files that were being processed by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) for declassification.
OK — so exactly HOW does a squad of CIA people RAID the spaces of the DNI —- and Ratcliffe not know about it?
And why isn’t Gabbard on the phone with Ratcliffe telling him to first return the materials, and then fire whoever ordered the raid?
It’s obvious Ratcliffe has zero control over what goes on there. The CIA is operating completely independently of the Executive Branch. They believe they are their own branch. President Trump should send US Marshalls to Langley to arrest these people. If that doesn’t work, he should send tanks and troops. This can’t continue.
From Dr William Makis of Alberta; soon to be of Florida:
Next time you hear someone pushing for Alberta to become the 51 state:
We have successfully enacted legal action that has led to suspensions of several fake websites that have been defrauding cancer patients using my stolen photos, name and credentials.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s govt health bureaucrats and lawyers have been setting up fake websites over the past 2 years to attack and punish cancer patients for exercising their “Right to Try”, which Premier Smith has made illegal in Alberta.
This was admitted privately by one of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s legal counsels who also works for Alberta Health Services Executives who answer to Premier Smith.
They have also been stealing cancer patient private medical information, but what they do with it, I don’t know.
These are very evil, cruel people and we will continue to pursue every legal avenue available.
The “rape story,” by a grifter who could not even recall(!) the date of the alleged event, continues to grind along … adding tens of millions of dollars to the supposed amount.
I wonder what these lawyers will do when their 2019-era allegations are actually dismissed, and they suddenly realize that they have no payback at all?
The U.S. Senate today approved Kevin Warsh as chair of the Federal Reserve.
The vote was 54-45 in the most-partisan-ever U.S. Senate confirmation of a Fed chair. A single Democrat, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, voted with the Republican majority.
Jerome Powell’s term ends on Friday.
(many sources)
“Barbara Boyd
Promethean Action
How people in Michigan were foolish enough to elect Slotkin to the U.S. Senate is a mystery! 🤔
If it ain’t close, they can’t cheat.
Mike Rogers (underperformed DJT by more than 100K votes) trailed Slotkin by 19K votes. Can he flip an open seat in November? GOP didn’t win a MI-U.S. Senate race since 1994.
Hantavirus: Have We Learned Nothing? The Fear Machine Is Starting Again. This Time, You Should Recognize It.
The images, the language, and the emotional conditioning are familiar because we have seen this exact pattern before. It always begins the same way: create fear first, provide context later, and by the time the facts catch up, the public has already been pushed into a state of panic and vaccinated.
It seems every 2 years we get a new viral scare from the media, as the very expensive and intrusive Biosecurity Agenda gets built out.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/hantavirus-have-we-learned-nothing-fear-machine-is/
Because people like you keep posting stuff about it.
You are wrong. You are ignorant. And, who knows, maybe you are stupid as well.
{ Vance Announces Federal Government is Deferring $1.3 Billion Dollars in Medicaid Reimbursements to California, Suspends 800 Hospices (VIDEO) }
Maybe stop *all* federal funding to states that harbor criminals in violation of federal law… sounds good to me…
that’s fraud too.
“The View Lefties Are Pretty Upset That Billy Bob Thornton Won’t Help Save the Country From Trump” 😂
(I met him several years ago with his 🎶 band- he can actually sing. He was very humble & polite)
https://twitchy.com/dougp/2026/05/13/the-view-lefties-are-pretty-upset-that-billy-bob-thornton-wont-help-save-the-country-from-trump-n2428163
They’re like the possessed maoist revolutionary women you see films of publicly berating and humiliating poor people who wanted to think for themselves and be left alone.
I just heard that the CIA raided the office of DNI Tulsi Gabbard and seized boxes of files related to the JFK assassination and MK Ultra.
😳
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna is on it.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/rep-anna-paulina-luna-fires-preservation-letter-cia/
MKUltra survivor Cathy O’Brien April 28, 2026 interview
her segment starts ~ 19min.
{ https://jeffreyprather.com/paper-clip-mk-ultra-whistleblower/ }
Her censored testimony
I’ve seen unconfirmed reports that Iran is pumping oil into the ocean since their storage is full.
If true, it seems really simple to stop. Bomb the pipes leading to the ocean…
What a POS..
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/05/13/republican-south-carolina-senate-leader-kills-gops-redistricting-effort-competition-makes-us-better/
https://generaldispatch.whatfinger.com/holy-crap-the-cia-just-raided-tulsi-gabbards-office-and-seized-documents-related-to-the-jfk-assassination-mkultra-and-more-that-gabbard-was-set-to-declassify/
In case anyone is interested in watching/following the day. Looks pretty good. As always praying for safety, the volunteers, event planners, attendees, guests, security, weather, for all to be good and go well.
https://freedom250.org/celebration/rededicate-250-a-national-jubilee-of-prayer-praise-and-thanksgiving?utm_medium=email&utm_source=ncl_amplify&utm_campaign=260512-freedom_250_20260512_send_3_windonaldjtrumpcom&utm_content=ncl-XC3G8CeNa3&utm_term=&_nlid=XC3G8CeNa3&_nhids=KBogTPQE9r
Mark Meadows
@MarkMeadows
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
DOJ’s @ASGWoodward
has SUED DC Bar Association officials for politically targeting Jeff Clark.
This is BIG. Great work by Stanley Woodward and well deserved support for our friend.
No more targeting Trump lawyers just because you don’t like their politics!!
Cont….
John Solomon reported that the info about CIA raiding ODNI is not accurate.
The situation is that Tulsi was getting ready to declassified some CIA documents and there is a dispute between CIA and ODNI re redactions. CIA wanted their documents back until the president resolved the redaction dispute.
No raid.
Katie Pavlich
@KatiePavlich
UPDATE on this and more on
@KatiePavlichNN
at 10 pm et on NewsNation. I just spoke to an Intelligence official who told me the following:
-The documents were not taken today and it was not a raid on DNI Gabbard’s office
-People from the CIA took documents (related to the JFK assassination/MKUltra) from the National Reconnaissance Office *last year* in the middle of the night during the government shutdown and have not returned/is withholding them from ODNI
-Because the CIA is withholding these documents, they cannot be declassified and scanned for public release
Cont….
Sen. Rand Paul’s Son William Hurled Antisemitic Insults at Rep. Mike Lawler
https://www.notus.org/congress/william-paul-mike-lawler-confrontation-antisemitism
I do not care about the the data center. How can the SEE EYE A RAID Tulsi’s DNI office? This is HUGE. And I mean it. I am not even going to mention the famous name associated with MK Ultra Files. Guys and gals AGAIN, THIS IS HUGE!!!!!!!!!!! Someone needs to get called out for this. Who made the call ?
Sundance has a ton of pictures from the events in China he post in the last hour…
https://nitter.poast.org/TheLastRefuge2/with_replies
Very telling…
https://twitter.com/WeLeftTheEUSSR/status/2054479770696462583
to bypass protected:
https://xcancel.com/WeLeftTheEUSSR/status/2054479770696462583