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Bill Murray is back as Phil Connors in this Jeep ad, driving out of the time loop like it’s nothing. If Groundhog Day can change, we can too. Finally exiting the loop. 🚗
This at Barefoot Bay, and people pointing out that a girl in a LearJet crash video was walking by the crash barefoot...seems a little coincidency...
Not sure what to make of it. Probably nothing.
So....manhole was offensive?
If you think Trump renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America is dumb.....
you wanna know what else is dumb?
The fact left-wingers are triggered about this after they spent the last decade plus renaming sports teams, public schools and universities, streets and highways, food and condiment brands, and redefining half the dictionary altogether.
Here’s a list of some just in case you forgot, but I first have to mention a change very personal to me. They changed the name of my High-school in Arlington, Virgina, from Washington-Lee, to Washington-Liberty!
Ok...now check out the other names they changed!
• Washington Redskins ➡️ Commanders
• Cleveland Indians ➡️ Guardians
• Stanford Indians ➡️ Cardinals
• Loudoun County Raiders ➡️ Captains
• Edmonton Eskimos ➡️ Elks
• Columbus Day ➡️ Indigenous Peoples’ Day
• Lee–Jackson Day ➡️ eliminated
• Robert E. Lee High School ➡️ John Lewis High
• Jefferson Davis Highway ➡️ Richmond Highway
• Mount McKinley ➡️ Denali
• Fort Bragg ➡️ Fort Liberty
• Fort Hood ➡️ Fort Cavazos
• Boy Scouts of America ➡️ Scouting America
• Aunt Jemima ➡️ Pearl Milling Company
• Uncle Ben’s Rice ➡️ Ben’s Original
• Eskimo Pie ice cream bars ➡️ Edy’s Pie
• Land O’Lakes ➡️ removed the Indian, but kept the land
• Illegal alien ➡️ undocumented worker
• Hispanic ➡️ Latinx (a term Hispanics did not want and do not use)
• Mother ➡️ birthing person
• Anchor baby ➡️ child of noncitizens
• black ➡️ Black
• Breastfeeding ➡️ chest feeding
• Inmate / prisoner / convict / felon ➡️ justice-involved person
• Ex-con / ex-felon ➡️ returning citizen
• “Gender” as a biological fact interchangeable with “sex” to being a social construct
• Fat ➡️ plus-sized
• Master bedroom ➡️ primary bedroom
• Manhole ➡️ utility hole
Homeless ➡️ Unhoused
And let’s not forget all the they, them, their pronouns.
VOTE RED ALL THE WAY IF YOU WANT TO KEEP UNDOING THIS NONSENSE!!!
Trump/last rally in Kansas: "This is it."
Michael Jackson in news w/ Thriller:
"Something evil lurkin' in the dark"
Last tour w/ The Jacksons: Victory-opened in KANSAS City
Solo tours: Bad World, Dangerous World, HIStory
Died before last scheduled tour: This is It
Lincoln's last speech was about reuniting southern states back into the Union, rebuilding the country & supporting black voting rights.
"We meet this evening, not is sorrow, but in gladness of heart."
"A call for a national Thanksgiving is being prepared."
Scott Bessent-Sec of Treasury's ancestor was John Bessent who served in Revolutionary War.
Page 1 of his 1832 pension application, John says he "was in no engagement while I was in service." Compare w/ Scott Bessent....Central Casting, so not engaged in actual service.
Bessent = SWAMP FOX
Francis Marion (Rev War's Swamp Fox) used SC forests, rivers & swamps for surprise attacks on the British to disrupt communications & supply lines, free Continental army soldiers & disappear before British could retaliate. He later helped form the new SC govt.
In 1781 ..... a BESSENT helped amputate the City of London's tentacles that were strangling a brand new nation... The United States of America.
Today... We are witnessing another BESSENT a descendant of the first... Finishing the job.
“As for this damned old fox, the Devil himself could not catch him.”
Those were the words Banastre Tarleton spat after chasing Francis Marion twenty-six miles through the swamps and still losing him. Two centuries later, the man now running the U.S. Treasury deliberately took the same name.
This is a message to those he means to defeat....
Scott Bessent, born in Conway and long rooted in Charleston, chose “Swamp Fox” as his Secret Service codename.
One of his own ancestors, John Bessent, rode as a private in Marion’s brigade in 1781.
Both families carry French Huguenot blood; Bessent is active in Charleston’s historic Huguenot Church, the same community that helped shape the Lowcountry Marion defended.
Marion was the original—a slight, wiry Huguenot planter’s son from Berkeley County who first learned war against the Cherokee.
After Charleston fell in 1780 and Gates’s army was wrecked at Camden, conventional resistance in South Carolina collapsed.
Marion didn’t.
He gathered a handful of volunteer horsemen, based them on places like Snow’s Island, and turned the unnavigable cypress swamps and blackwater creeks into a weapon.
They struck at dawn or from dense cover, then vanished.
Bessent later joked he hadn’t fully clocked the second meaning of the nickname:
"...a fox loose inside Washington’s political swamp."
The hedge-fund macro strategist and government outsider has leaned into the metaphor—someone who prefers asymmetric, terrain-smart moves over frontal assaults.
The parallel is deliberate.
Marion kept the Revolution alive in the South when it looked finished.
Bessent carries the same family story and the same name into a very different fight.
The swamps have changed; the fox hasn’t.
On this day:
Nov 1, 1765 The Stamp Act went into effect. British Parliament taxed printed material, legal docs, dice, playing cards, etc. for American colonists.
This angered the colonists as they questioned who should be able to tax them.
"No taxation without representation"
As Americans, many of us had ancestors who at one time were denied the right to vote. Maybe they didn't own property, were enslaved, were black, were indigenous or were women. We were not all treated equally, but today all citizens have the right to vote.
Make sure you vote!
In early colonial times, only property owners were allowed to vote. Voting was done in public, and they felt others could be manipulated or bullied into voting a particular way. It wasn't until after the colonies declared independence that they began allowing others to vote.
In colonial times, Virginia was one of the few colonies that required voters to be white. Only 4% of free blacks in 1855 lived in states that allowed them to vote. As some men had European & African ancestry, the courts often decided if they were "white enough" to vote.
Few women in the colonies could vote-property owning widows where voting wasn't restricted to men. Women during the Revolutionary War felt they shouldn't be taxed if they couldn't vote. After the war ended, NJ was the only state that allowed women to vote-but only until 1807.