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Hold down the Ctrl key while pressing the + key for larger text or the - key for smaller text! ================ >-->In The 'Shangy' News :) . . . . ,-,--. __| //``-, \ \_`\ )\a-a-? \ \ \_`(_=_/_-`__ \__, , \| | _ _,' ___7 ) | (_)(_`__(_,---' | ( _( ) | / /_| |________| __/__/__|__|_________) _________(__,_|)/ (__)|/____\(_______________ mic I am quite pleased to announce that we have a new sponsor for the website www.ShangralaFamilyFun.com. Choice Mutual gives us two excellent articles answering questions if you are considering life insurance on one of your kids or grandkids. My mom took out policies on her grandkids. So very thoughtful of her. Check out their article here... How To Find The Best Life Insurance For Kids In 2020 https://choicemutual.com/life-insurance-children/ Likewise, they offer excellent advise for buying life insurance for your parents. This guide will tell you everything you need to know. Check it out here... 10 Important Tips To Buying Life Insurance For Your Parents In 2020 https://choicemutual.com/life-insurance-parents/ You can always be assured that I only go with the best for you! :) -<>- >HOT Off The 'Shangy' Press :) This super hot new page is from our friend Jo Ann. If you are like me and not that hot on classic cars or a true blue car buff, you may find this place is perfect for your next road trip. It even makes me want to visit it because it is so awesome. Some of the most finest vehicles made are on display here and the setting is in Colorado with its lovely mountains and Western glory. Be sure not to miss out on this and the video by checking it out here... _._ .' `. | | "=======" $ ^ ^ $ ` # ' `._.' _.'< ' >'-._ .' \ / ' / v \ / . .: . | . `' .: ` ' : ` :. `. : :. ` / \ : : < ) / \ : : : ` `*=---=* . / : ) | ' ` ) \` `.' :; | ( `\-. \( / |. \ ) ) ` ( `-' _Y- `'\' \ | )\ ) : ) \ : . \ ` | \ ` , ( : . :' \ \ ` | . \ : | ' ) \ \ : ) .' mb \ .' | | ( a:f \ (__| (__) \ .__.--..' ; | `-..--.--, \ +._____.-=__] [__.--===::-' Gateway Auto Museum! http://www.shangralafamilyfun.com/automuseum.html --- ...Quite Stunning! Thanks Jo Ann! ======================================================= >-->From SmileZilla: ) ) __ ( __ (~( __ (~( \O\ )~) )O) )_) (O( (_(__ ( )_) ) )~)__ __ /O/ )~) ) (~( (_( (O( __ \O\ ) )_)(~( \_\ >Taxes One-Liners for Democrats who love them so much: Ambition in America is still rewarded... with high taxes. America is the land of opportunity. Everybody can become a taxpayer. Americans are now in a daze from intaxication. There was a time when $1000.00 was the down-payment on a car; now it's the sales tax. If my business gets much worse, I won't have to lie on my next tax return. Drive carefully. Uncle Sam needs every taxpayer he can get. Children may be deductible, but they are still taxing. There is no child so bad that he/she can't be used as an income tax deduction. Congress does some strange things - it puts a high tax on liquor and then raises the other taxes that drive people to drink. The attitude of Democrats in Congress toward hidden taxes is not to do away with them, but to hide them better. Democrats have the unsolved problem of how to get the people to pay taxes they can't afford for services they don't need. Every year around April 15 Americans have a rendezvous with debt. The rich and the poor are alike - they both complain about taxes. A fool and his money are soon parted. The rest of us wait until income tax time. Golf is a lot like taxes. You drive hard to get to the green and then wind up in the hole. Nothing makes a person more modest about their income than to fill out a tax form. I hate junk mail... and that includes the tax forms they send me. Income tax is Uncle Sam's version of "Truth or Consequences." An income-tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt. About the time a man is cured of swearing, another income tax is due. ======================================================= +------------ BIZARRE HOLIDAYS ------------+ June 29 is Camera Day, Hug Holiday, International Mud Day and Waffle Iron Day June 30 is Meteor Day July 1 is Canada Day / Dominion Day, Creative Ice Cream Flavors Day, International Chicken Wing Day, International Joke Day and National Postal Worker Day July 2 is I Forgot Day and World UFO Day July 3 is Compliment Your Mirror Day, Disobedience Day, Eat Beans Day and Stay out of the Sun Day July 4 is Independence Day (U.S.), International Cherry Pit Spitting Day, National Country Music Day and Sidewalk Egg Frying Day July 5 is Build A Scarecrow Day, National Apple Turnover Day, National Bikini Day and Work-a-holics Day ======================================================= >-->From GoodCleanFun: _ /' `\ k___y th j /`Y'\ .,--,. \___/ ... ,' __ ', _ ||| j /' `\ t f | t j f | | j t_| T j \ / t Y| | ', `--' ,' || U '~--~' LJ kth >Change of Address I had just moved from an apartment to a house in the same small town. One day at the grocery store, I finally used the last of my personalized checks bearing my old address. The cashier examined the document and asked if everything on it was correct. I assured her that it was, and she started to put the check in the cash drawer. But then she inquired again if everything was accurate. "Why do you ask?" I responded. "Because," she replied, "my husband and I moved to this apartment yesterday, and I don't remember seeing you at breakfast." -<>- >London Building A Texan was taking a taxi tour of London and was in a hurry. As they went by the Tower of London the cab driver explained what it was and that construction of it started in 1346 and was completed in 1412. The Texan replied, "Shoot, a little ol' tower like that? In Houston we'd have that thing up in two weeks!" Next they passed the House of Parliament - started in 1544 and completed in 1618. "Well boy, we put up a bigger one than that in Dallas and it only took a year!" As they passed Westminster Abbey the cab driver was silent. "Whoah! What's that over there?" asked the Texan. The driver replied, "I don't know, it wasn't there yesterday." -<>- >Fiery Love Jolene had wanted new kitchen cabinets for a long time, but her husband insisted they were an extravagance. She went to visit her mother for two weeks, and when she returned, she was overjoyed to find that beautiful new cabinets had been installed in her kitchen. A few days later, a neighbor came over to visit and after admiring the new cabinets, the neighbor added, "We were all so glad that the fire was confined to your kitchen." -<>- >Pain The patient who came to my radiology office for abdominal X-rays was already heavily sedated. But I still had to ask her a lot of questions, the last one being, "Ma'am, where is your pain right now?" Through her medication, she answered, "He's at work." -<>- >2nd Grade Math I was the substitute teacher for a second-grade math class that was learning about groups. In one exercise, pupils were asked to label a group of items according to their common characteristics. Pictured were onion rings, doughnuts, a bundt cake, and ring cookies. The correct answer would have been that all the items have holes in the center. But one health-conscious boy's response was, "All of those things contain too much cholesterol." -<>- | -+- _ _|_ {@} _|=|_ /___\ /(")\ (") .---'-'---. /((~))\/\ _ .-. /___________\ ~~/@\~~\|_|/ ((_)) | A /^\ A | / \ ||| ((_)) '-' | |"| | /~@~@~\ ||| '-' ldb_|___|_|___|_____/_______\|||______ >Wedding Vows My fiancee and I spent months preparing for our wedding. During the ceremony, we planned to recite our vows--without any prompting from the pastor. When the day arrived, we stood face to face in the garden, and Jim was so nervous that he accidentally omitted some of his lines. Nevertheless, I responded with my vows, and we were pronounced man and wife. When our pastor greeted us on the receiving line, I jokingly asked him if our union was legal. "After all," I said, laughing, "Jim flubbed his lines." "You're fine,"he replied reassuringly. But as he walked away, he called back, "Just don't get sick!" ========================================================= >-->From Our Friend LouiseAu :) >SMILES , __ _.-"` `'-. /||\'._ __{}_( |||| |'--.__\ | L.( ^_\^ \ .-' | _ | | | )\___/ | \-'`:._] jgs \__/; '-. Recently in traffic court, a man who received an expensive parking ticket testified that a uniformed policeman had given his okay for the man to park there. The judge asked the man if he would recognize the officer if he ever saw him again, and the man replied that he would. The judge then said, "Good. When you see the officer again, tell him he owes you $157. Next." -------- Fresh out of high school, I found a job cleaning the elegant home of an older couple. Among other duties, I had to dust their many imported carvings and petrified collectibles as well as pick up after their pets. One day I was astonished to find two ivory fossils lying on the floor beside the bookcase. I quickly picked them up and put them back on the shelf. The next week the same thing happened. That afternoon my employer came into the parlor, her faithful canine behind her. Looking around, she eyed the bookcase. "Tippy," she asked the dog, "how do your bones keep getting up there?" ------- An elderly parish priest was tending his garden near a convent when a passerby stopped to inquire after the priest's much-loved roses. "Not bad," said the priest, "but they suffer from a disease peculiar to this area known as the black death." "What on earth is that?" asked the passerby, anxious to increase his garden knowledge. "Nuns with scissors! -------- I met an acquaintance whom I hadn't seen for quite a number of years. I remembered her as an emphatically single woman after an unpleasant divorce, but to my surprise she was sporting a new wedding ring. When I congratulated her, she related an incident from the wedding. Her nephew had traveled over 1,000 miles to attend. When she told him how delighted she was that he came, he said, "Auntie, I had to come. I had to see what it looked like when hell froze over." -------- The teacher asked the students to bring one electrical appliance for "Show & Tell," and the next day every kid had something. The teacher asks Wendy: What did you bring? "I brought a Walkman." "And what is it for?" "You can listen to music with it!" "That's nice Wendy. What did you bring Kenny?" "I brought a 'lectrical can opener, it opens cans!" "Well done, Kenny. Umm, Johnny, I see you didn't bring anything!" "Yes, I did. It's in the hall." So the entire class goes into the hallway. "Umm, Johnny, what is that?" "It's a heart / lung machine hospitals use to keep your heart going." "Whoa. What did your father say about you bringing this?" "He said, 'AAAARRRGGGH!!!'" -------- An office manager was sent three secretaries, equally qualified, to fill one vacancy. "Well," thought the manager, "I'll give them an honesty test. He gave each secretary a money bag to take and bank telling them that there was $50 in the bag. (In fact, he had placed $100 in each bag; thus the honesty test.) The first secretary goes to the bank, discovers the extra money, banks $50 and returns the extra $50 to the manager. The second secretary goes to the bank, discovers the extra money, banks the full $100, and returns with a deposit slip as proof. The third secretary goes to the bank, discovers the extra money, banks $50, goes to the local TAB and uses the $50 to win $300, then returns, explains to the manager and gives him the all the money. Question: Which secretary does the manager select to retain? Answer: The one with the biggest top. -------- Bernice was terribly overweight, so her doctor put her on a diet. "I want you to eat regularly for 2 days, then skip a day, and repeat this procedure for 2 weeks. The next time I see you, you'll have lost at least 5 pounds." When she returned, Bernice shocked the doctor by losing nearly 20 pounds. "Why, that's amazing!" the doctor said, "Did you follow my instructions?" Bernice nodded. "I'll tell you though, I thought I was going to drop dead that third day." "From hunger, you mean?" "No, from skipping all day." ------- On Sunday a pastor told his congregation that the church needed some extra money. He asked the people to consider donating a little more than usual into the offering plate. He said that whoever gave the most would be able to pick out three hymns. After the offering plates were passed, the pastor glanced down and noticed that someone had placed a $1,000 bill in the offering. He was so excited that he immediately shared his joy with his congregation and said he'd like to personally thank the person who placed the money in the plate. A very quiet, elderly, saintly looking lady all the way in the back shyly raised her hand. The pastor asked her to come to the front. Slowly she made her way to the pastor. He told her how wonderful it was that she gave so much and in thanks asked her to pick out three hymns. Her eyes brightened as she looked over the congregation, pointed to the three most handsome men in the building and said, "I'll take him and him and him." -------- "Do you believe in life after death?" the boss asked one of his employees. "Yes, sir," the clerk replied. "That's good," the boss said. "After you left early yesterday to go to your grandmother's funeral, she stopped in to see you." --- ...Oh My! HaHa! Thanks LouiseAu! -<>- . . :"-. .-"; |:`.`.__..__.'.';| || :-" "-; || :; :; / .==. .==. \ : _.--._ ; ; .--.' `--' `.--. : : __;` ':__ ; ; ' '-._:;_.-' ' : '. `--' .' ."-._ _.-". .' ""------"" `. /`- -'\ /`- -'\ :`- .' `. -'; ; / \ : : : ; ; ; ; : : ':_:.' '.;_;' :_ _; ; "-._ -" :`-. _.._ :_ () _; "--::__. `. \"- -"/`._ : .-"-. -"-. ""--..____.' / .__ __. \ : / , / "" \ . \ ; bug "-:___..--" "--..___;-" >Ten Things A Cat Thinks About Have you ever wondered what your furry feline was thinking about? Well wonder no more! 1. I could have sworn I heard the can opener. 2. Is there something I'm not getting when humans make noise with their mouths? 3. Why doesn't the government do something about dogs? 4. I wonder if Morris really liked 9-Lives, or did he have ulterior motives? 5. Hmmm... If dogs serve humans, and humans serve cats, why can't we cats ever get these stupid dogs to do anything for us? 6. This looks like a good spot for a nap. 7. Hey -- no kidding, I'm sure that's the can opener. 8. Would humans have built a vast and complex civilization of their own if we cats hadn't given them a reason to invent sofas and can openers in the first place? 9. Why does God allow neutering? 10. If that really was the can opener, I'll play finicky just to let them know who's boss! --- ...LOL! Thanks LouiseAu! ========================================================= >-->From HandyHints: ) ) ( (( (( )) )) )); '';( ) .--. ------' (-)(-) ',----- |- | .-, ==' - -- - '== | ^| /|))))___' )o( '_______ .--. |^ |/ /\ ('. .( |. | |. / // / )) (''(( )) | ^| | ^////)) ( )) ) ( \^ \|^ || ^| (( \. .|/^ / ) \ ^ / \. ^ ./ |^,^| |\/| |. | \\\;;;, __|___|___ /_ ; ( / \ ) / )\ `-. . . . `-. . . -' `./ / '\ /~\_/~\ \ ' | / _ _ \ \ /. \ | | / \ || `- - '||/|\ /WWWWWWWWWWW\ || || ^^^^(_)(_)^^^ \| \| W w W w W ww w W W w W w w w W_______ w W w W wW w W |OOShy The weather is heating up and that means our air conditioning will soon be working overtime. To make sure your AC unit is working as efficiently as possible pay attention to these details. An efficient AC means a cooler home and less energy costs coming out of your pockets. Don't allow moisture to build up in your HVAC system That moisture indicator on your HVAC system is important - and when it goes off, it shouldn't be ignored. Air conditioning systems should not have moisture within the refrigeration system. A professional will have to vacuum it out to get your system working effectively again. Don't fix HVAC leaks with duct tape Duct tape may be strong, but it's not the solution to your HVAC issues. There is aluminum tape that you are supposed to use and it is not expensive. It's even easier to apply than duct tape, and will actually last. Replace your HVAC filters regularly Failing to replace your HVAC filters frequently enough can cause problems down the road that extend beyond a time-consuming cleaning job. A dirty or clogged filter will impact efficiency and could even cause damage to your system. You should change your HVAC filters every one to three months, and more frequently if you smoke indoors or have pets. -<>- Ever pulled a garment out of the dryer that's suddenly 2 or 3 sizes too small? It's happened to the best of us. There are some tricks to unshrinking that favorite piece, although sometimes it's just a temporary fix. Still, it might help you to squeeze out a few more wears! You can try massaging a garment of any fabric back into peak condition by washing it with a mild soap (like a baby shampoo). Gently rinse out the water but don't wring out the garment. Try using a towel to get out more moisture. Then you can gently coax the garment to stretch out. T-shirts or other cotton items that have gone tiny can be stretched if you use this method: Put 3 tablespoons of hair conditioner in a basin of warm water. Add the shirt and let it soak for about five minutes. Rinse and stretch the shirt out on a flat surface, like a countertop, until you reach the desired size. Use cans or jars to hold the garment in place, and allow it to air dry. Jeans often shrink in the dryer. One way to stretch them out is to spray some water on the tight areas and pull the fabric out in all directions. This will relax the denim. Let it air dry. Also, take shrink-prone clothes out of the dryer before they have a chance to completely dry out. Then, hang them up or lay them flat to finish air drying. ======================================================= >-->In The Worldly News: VA NEWS: Resources and Organizations for Women Veterans, Veteran & Wrestler Aerial "Big Swole" Johnson on VA Podcast https://tinyurl.com/yd394buq Jeanine Pirro (6-27-2020) https://www.bitchute.com/video/HXbHlhrjn0uI/ The Number of Abortion Clinics in Danger of Permanently Closing Due to COVID Will Shock You https://tinyurl.com/yap9trm6 Last year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection rescued 4,900 people. “For an agency that faces calls to ‘defund CBP’ and whose personnel are labeled murderers and white supremacists, the lack of attention to the rescues is a source of deep frustration, said Mark Morgan, acting head of CBP,” Stephen Dinan writes in The Washington Times. https://tinyurl.com/ydadn24v Video: NJ cops catch 4-year-old thrown from burning building, help save residents https://tinyurl.com/ybo5xpyu Video: Conn. police officer saves man from drowning - The officer swam around 100 yards out to where the man was struggling to stay afloat https://tinyurl.com/yaz6dmvs Okla. police save woman from fiery car wreck - The woman was trapped inside her burning vehicle for 40 minutes following a wrong-way crash https://tinyurl.com/y97caksa Black Americans Join Hands to Defend Lincoln Statue From Radical Mob https://tinyurl.com/y8pvkuug Aerial Footage: Thousands Closely Packed For Pride Festival https://tinyurl.com/y9kn2cdh CDC’s Ridiculous Guidelines For Reopening Schools Turn Classrooms Into Prisons https://tinyurl.com/ycyghrbc Welcome to the “New Normal” – A World Full of Really Stupid Rules Yes, you can’t make this stuff up – people all over the world have lost their minds in the name of “safety” – and you won’t believe the ever-growing list of rules you’ll be expected to follow. https://tinyurl.com/ya2z8xrv Key Takeaways From Ex-FBI Agent Strzok's Diary https://tinyurl.com/ydex7a5f WATCH: The Truth About Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben’s https://tinyurl.com/y872k8qp Historians hope to free the work of the freedmen from the mob’s anger https://tinyurl.com/y99n7clf Disney fans petition for an update to Splash Mountain due to 'racist tropes' https://tinyurl.com/ydz8x6e5 --- ...I love this song! zippity doo dah - Always makes me SMILE! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bWyhj7siEY Westwing News: President Trump Is Reversing Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce https://www.whitehouse.gov/westwingreads/ WhiteHouseNews: https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600daily/ Latest From ReliableNewsNow: https://reliablenewsnow.com/ Latest From AFA: http://tinyurl.com/j7lakqw Students For Life https://tinyurl.com/yd5nxmu6 Latest From OperationRescue: http://www.operationrescue.org/ Latest Product Alert: Hand Sanitizer, Contact Lenses, Peanut Butter http://www.emergencyemail.org/products/?fmt=text Latest Health Alert: http://www.emergencyemail.org/health/?fmt=text Click to Give Free https://tinyurl.com/y2abb8d2 -<>- >From BizarreNews: If you have to get rescued, this is the way to do it. When a family got caught in a riptide while swimming off a beach in Cornwall, UK they were saved by an unlikely rescuer. Or more acurately, by an un-clothed rescuer. You see, where they were swimming is a nude beach, and so was the woman who swam out to help them. 28-year-old Jessica Layton was sunbathing on naturist beach Pedn Vounder, near Porthcurno, when the drama happened. She reported, "I was topless in the sea when I saw two young women struggling to swim near rocks. Another member of the family ran in to help them and she started struggling too. "I swam towards them and thought 'oh s**t' as I realised how strong the rip current was. I was struggling myself and they were panicking, which wasn't ideal in a situation like that." "Fortunately, I'd just put my bikini bottoms on before it happened. It's a classic - of course I was going to be topless when something like this happens!" She said the family were really grateful for her heroic actions. As one of Jessica Layton's friends put it, "not all heroes wear capes, some of them don't even wear bikini tops." -<>- It used to take quite a story to make the news. These days it seems like all you need is cellphone video of an altercation in a parking lot to end up on national television. But there are still a few people who add depth of human emotion and experience to their contributions to the news. People like the naked runner. Since June 1, about five people have reported seeing a naked man near the Natty Greene and Palmetto Trails in Greensboro, NC. Families are using these trails to take time outside and decompress from being stuck at home and working from home. But now, some people say, this violated their sense of security. Maiya Nakayama was running near her home, on the Natty Greene trail, when she saw him. "I saw a man running up through the woods. It looked like he was naked, but I thought I was just imagining it," she said. Then he came closer. "Shirt, shoes, no bottoms," Nakayama said. "I was honestly just shocked. I thought I was going crazy because no one else was there to confirm that I saw it." On the other side of the trail, Esther Leerkes says she saw the same man. She was alone and concerned for her safety. "I didn't have my cellphone on me, stupidly. I was scared," Leerkes said. Leerkes said from talking with her neighbors, she's learned the naked runner has made several appearances during the first few days of June. While no one has reported the man approaching them, Leerkes hasn't felt comfortable coming back out on the trail by herself. *--- Is there something in my head? ---* A Bronx man was stabbed on top of his skull with a cleaver during a brawl in Harlem on, and seemed unfazed by the blade. "He got stabbed in the head yo, this is crazy!" one person is heard saying. A video shows 36-year-old Roberto Perez talking calmly with horrified onlookers and strolling toward an FDNY ambulance. He appears not to be aware of his blood-drenched undershirt and the protruding knife. Despite the horrifying nature of the wound, police said the victim escaped serious harm because the blade didn't penetrate his skull. Perez was listed in stable condition at Harlem Hospital. Witnesses characterized the events preceding the stabbing as an apparent domestic squabble. *--- 'LEPRECHAUN' ---* So-called hate speech has been increasingly criminalized in Great Britain. Now, a Scottish man has been convicted of a message that was grossly offensive, indecent or menacing. According to the Evening Express, the prosecutor (appropriately named Susan Love) cited the fact that Terry Myers, 41, called the Irish boyfriend of his ex-girlfriend a "leprechaun." Love declared that the mail was threatening but added that it was a racially aggravated offense due to the use of the word 'leprechaun.' His defense attorney said that the two men had a "petty and pathetic" history and that his client regretted the use of the term. He was nevertheless found guilty and fined $350 for the offense. *--- Runner marks 87 marathons in 87 days --- * A woman who decided to spend her COVID-19 lockdown time running a marathon every day has reached day 87 of her attempt, which she plans to end at 100 days. Alyssa Clark, who is originally from Bennington, Vt., said she was living in Italy in March when she found out the summer marathons she had been training for were being canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Clark said she decided to run a marathon for every day she was in lockdown. She initially expected her marathon-running project to last for only about 15 days, but numerous extensions to the orders led to her setting a goal of 100 marathons in 100 days. The runner unofficially broke the Guinness World Record for consecutive days running a marathon distance when she ran her 61st marathon May 30. It was unclear whether she would be awarded an official record. Clark marked her 87th consecutive marathon run Thursday. She said she plans to keep her project going until she reaches 100. *--- Woman seeks paternity test for goats ---* A Florida woman filed a civil suit against a neighbor demanding a paternity test for the five goats she purchased in December. The lawsuit filed by Kris Hedstrom demands that her neighbor, Heather Dayner, either refund the $900 she paid for the five Nigerian dwarf goats she purchased in December or provide a sample of DNA from the goats' purported father to prove their lineage. Hedstrom's lawsuit alleges she was under the impression that she would be able to register the goats' pedigrees with the American Dairy Goat Association. She said Dayner, owner of Baxter Lane Farm in Odessa, told her the father of the goats, Country Caprese Ace, was registered with the organization, but the group rejected her attempt to register the babies because Dayner is not an active member. Hedstrom alleges the association told her she would need to submit 40 hair follicles from the father goat to prove the lineage of the babies, so she sent Dayner a letter requesting the DNA sample. Dayner responded by offering to take the goats back and give Hedstrom a refund. --- ...We have a page on them here... Nigerian Dwarf Goat! http://www.shangralafamilyfun.com/goat.html ========================================================= >-->Politics From Victor :) _ //\\\ //|o o\\ ( - ) .;;. ,'-`,_ \/`\ ,| ```--._ \ `-' | ___ |=; `-. _,'----| ``--'-' ,-',-' | \-' _/ ( _.-' \ \ \ pb \____\_\ ,--````)`) zzzzzzzzzzz >Trending On Social Media: Do you really think it’s just a “coincidence” that Jeffrey Epstein abruptly died right before he was going to prison for the rest of his life and would likely need to testify against or expose some of the worlds biggest names in connection with his pedophilic crimes? Do you really think it’s just a “coincidence” that the pathologist who was hired to do George Floyd’s autopsy was the same pathologist who “observed” and had connections to the autopsy for Jeffrey Epstein? Do you really think it’s just a “coincidence” that members of the Chinese Communist party were part of the group outside the Whitehouse rioting and causing destruction and most of the rioters and looters in Minneapolis were from out of state? Do you really think it’s just a “coincidence” that an event guaranteed to spark anger about racial injustice happened at the very moment the unemployment rate in the country was at an all time high because of Coronavirus? Allowing millions who were now without jobs to have the ability to spend their time looting and rioting? Do you really think it’s just a “coincidence” that random piles of bricks magically appeared in various cities right before riots broke out, while there were no construction sites or possible need for a pile of bricks within miles? Do you really think it’s just a “coincidence” that scientists discovered the Coronavirus was actually man-made and that it had been doctored to bind to humans? Or that it hardly mutated since it began to infect us which suggests it was already fully adapted to humans? Do you really think it’s just a “coincidence” that the virus they created which caused a huge pandemic just so happened to be an airborne virus that would make it perfectly acceptable for paid rioters and looters to wear masks and conceal their identity, yet blend in perfectly with the crowd since everyone else is wearing masks too? Do you really think it’s just a “coincidence” that the media used a picture from an Italian hospital on the news during the COVID pandemic pretending it was a current scene at a hospital in New York...and then apologized publicly and called it a “mistake” and then two months later used a picture off the World War Z movie trailer on the news pretending it was America on fire? Was that also a “mistake”? Do you really think it’s just a “coincidence” that while the media and news shoved their twisted narrative in our face and focused solely on the riots and looting going on, that we missed the DIRE news that a judge ruled that Hilary Clinton WILL in fact be forced to testify regarding her missing emails? Or that the Senate gave authorization to subpoena over 30 Obama officials in the Obamagate case? Do you really think it’s just a “coincidence” that all of these terrible things are happening back to back to back to back on an election year? Because if you do...think again. This was planned. And we paid the price just like they wanted us to. Innocent and beautiful lives have been taken because of their sick agenda - beautiful black souls, beautiful white souls, beautiful law enforcement souls. HUMAN souls. WE ARE BEING PLAYED. WAKE UP AND SMELL THE BS AMERICA. Wakeup! *Copied from a friend* --- ...Does Make ya wonder! Thanks Victor! -<>- It’s all starting to add up - talking of getting rid of the police? ,-'"";`- ,<""\oO\|*(`. / | "/ ;/_\ ( \ ,-' `;--) |; |(_' ( | ( | \ `-.) \ | / / ||\ / /| ||').:___,-(`| \\ \ / | \\ `. ,' | `\ `-' | `. \ `. | -shimrod \ | >Smells like New World Order is in the works. Here's the TRUTH of what's happening in the world!!!! Create a VIRUS to scare people. Place them in quarantine. Count the number of dead every second of every day in every news headline. Close all businesses. (most) 40,000,000 out of jobs. Peak unemployment. Remove entertainment: parks, gyms, bars, restaurants, sports. No dating. No touching. Mask people. Dehumanize them. Close temples and churches. Create a vacuum. Let depression and anxiety and desperation set in. THEN... ignite hatred and civil war. Civil unrest. Empty the prisons because of the virus and fill the streets with criminals. Send in Antifa to stir up hate and vandalize property as if they are freedom fighters. Loot, riot and torch cities Undermine and shame law enforcement Have City government order police to stand-down. We are all being baited by adversarial governments who want to destroy America and capitalism - China, Iran, Russia. And, in an election year, have Democrats blame all of it on the President! Can’t take America in a war, destroy it from within. We are being conditioned, manipulated, and programmed by multiple agendas as never before..... Time to DO OUR OWN RESEARCH and MAKE UP OUR OWN MINDS rather than eating everything being spoon-fed to us! SOCIAL MEDIA is going to kill us! --- ___, _.-'` __|__ .' ,-:` \;',`'-, / .'-;_,; ':-;_,'. / /; '/ , _`.-\ | | '`. (` /` ` \`| | |:. `\`-. \_ / | | | ( `, .`\ ;'| \ \ | .' `-'/ \ `. ;/ .' '._ `'-._____.-'` `-.____| _____|_____ jgs /___________\ ...So true! Thanks Victor! What makes all of this worse is that the giants in control of our information are all left leaning, anti-Christian, anti-Conservatives with billions of funding. Google being one of the largest with over a $Trillion. They try to step on and eliminate all who have an apposing point of view. Here's another one... A Coincidence? - right before all this happened - Russia, Iran and China meet. Probably hatching a plot to start this world pandemic. They hate our President Trump so much! Why? Money! Russia's gross domestic product grew only 1.3 percent in 2019, down from 2.5 percent the previous year. The bank estimated Russia's economy slowed down to 1.2% in 2019 over 'softer-than- expected investment and trade, together with a continuation of international and US economic sanctions.' https://tinyurl.com/y82amjnc Iran's economy has been hit hard since US sanctions which were reimposed in mid 2018, and as a result nearly half of its imports and exports have halted with an estimate of 600,000 barrels of oil being slashed and the national currency falling to a record low against the US dollar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Iran In 2017, the Trump Administration launched a Section 301 investigation of China’s innovation and intellectual property policies deemed harmful to U.S. economic interests. It subsequently raised tariffs by 25% on $250 billion worth of imports from China, while China increased tariffs (ranging from 5% to 25%) on $110 billion worth of imports from the United States. Such measures have sharply decreased bilateral trade in 2019. On May 10, 2019, President Trump announced he was considering raising tariffs on nearly all remaining products from China. A protracted and escalating trade conflict between the United States and China could have negative consequences for the Chinese economy. https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/RL33534.html ========================================================= >-->From TheGroaner: ____ .---[[__]]----. ;-------------.| ____ | || .--[[__]]---. | || ;-----------.| | || | || jgs |_____________|/ | || |___________|/ >A Bit Embarrassed A new bride was a bit embarrassed to be known as a honeymooner. So when she and her husband pulled up to the hotel, she asked him if there was any way that they could make it appear that they had been married a long time. He responded, "Sure. You carry the suitcases!" -<>- >Losing Its Bark We have an old tree that became diseased and was losing its bark. It needed a bark transplant so we called a tree surgeon. The communication was mangled and when the surgeon arrived, he went to work on a tree across the street. He was halfway done when I noticed the error. I tried to stop him, yelling, "Stop! Stop! You're barking up the wrong tree!" -<>- >Anything You Want A man came home from work and was greeted by his wife dressed in a teddy. "Tie me up," she purred, "and you can do anything you want." So he tied her up and went out for a round of golf. -<>- >The French Thief Recently, a guy in Paris nearly got away with stealing several paintings from the Louvre. However, after planning the crime, getting in and out passed security, he was captured only 2 blocks away when his van ran out of gas. When asked how he could mastermind such a crime and then make such an obvious error, he replied: "I had no Monet to buy Degas to make the Van Gogh." -<>- >Q and A Quickies: Q: Why did the computer need a jacket? A: Because it kept freezing. _..._ ___ .:::::::. `"-._.-''. , /:::::::::\ ': \ _._ \:-::::::::::::\ :. | /|.-' /:::\ \::::::::\:::::| ': | | / |:::| `:::::::|:::::\ ': | `\ | __ |\::/\ `-:::-|::::::| ': | .`\ .\_.' `.__/ | |::::::\ ':. | \ ';:: /.-._ , / |:::::::| :. / ,`\;:: \'./0) |_.-/ ;:::::::| ': | \.`;::. `` | | \::::::/ :' / _\::::' / / \::::| :' / ,=:;::/ | \:::| :' | (='` // / | \::\ `: / '--' | /\ | \:::. `:_|.-"""-. \__.-'/::\ | '::::.:::...:::. '. /:::| | '::/::::::::::::. '-.__.:::::| | |::::::::::::\::..../::::::| / |:::::::::::::|::::/:::::::// \:::::::::::::|'::/::::::::/ /\::::::::::::/ /:::::::/:| |::';:::::::::/ |::::::/::; |:::/`-:::::;;-._ |:::::/::/ |:::| `-::::\ `|::::/::/ jgs |:::| \:::\ \:::/::/ /:::/ \:::\ \:/\:/ (_::/ \:::;__ \\_\\___ (_:/ \::):):)\:::):):) `" `""""` `""""""` Q: What did the mother skunk say to her teenage skunk? A: Don't stink and drive. Q: Did you hear about the alligators that joined the FBI? A: They became investi-gators. Q: What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is every night? A: A widow. Q: What do men and beer have in common? A: They're both empty from the neck up. Q: What's the best thing to put on a pie? A: Your teeth! ========================================================= >-->From CleanLaffs: A weeping woman bursts into her hypnotherapist's office and declares, "Doctor, I have been faithful to my husband for 15 years, but yesterday I broke that trust and had an affair! The guilt is killing me. I just want to forget that it ever happened!" The hypnotherapist shakes his head and says. "Not again..." -<>- A blind man was describing his favorite sport, parachuting. When asked how this was accomplished, he said that things were all done for him: "I am placed in the door and told when to jump. My hand is placed on my release ring for me, and out I go." "But how do you know when you are going to land?" he was asked. 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A third of the audience members raise their hands, their grins a bit less vibrant. "Once a month?" A few hands tepidly go up. Then he asks, "OK, how about once a year?" One man in the back jumps up and down, jubilantly waving his hands. The therapist is shocked as this lone aberration disproves his theory. "If you make love only once a year," he asks, "what are you so happy about?" The man yells, "Today's the day!" -<>- The supermarket had a sale on boneless chicken breasts and I intended to stock up. At the store, however, I was disappointed to find only a few skimpy pre-packaged portions of the poultry, so I complained to the butcher. "Don't worry," she said, "I'll pack some more trays and have them ready for you by the time you finish shopping." Several aisles later, I heard the lady butcher's voice boom over the public-address system: "Will the gentleman who was looking for bigger breasts please meet me at the back of the store." -<>- The company my brother worked for had a phone system that rerouted after-hours calls. If any calls came in on a certain line while he was working late, Dave knew it would be a wrong number. It got to the point where as soon as the phone rang, Dave would pick up and say, "Psychic Hotline. I'm sorry, but you've dialed the wrong number." The caller would often reply with something like, "But I didn't even ask to speak to anyone yet. How did you know I dialed the wrong.... Oh!" (Click.) ========================================================= >-->From ArcaMaxJokes: A man tells his doctor that his wife has laryngitis. The doctor said there was nothing he could do to cure it. The man said, "Cure it? I want to prolong it." -<>- Mother: Why did you just swallow the money I gave you? Son: Well you did say it was my lunch money! What's a mushroom? The place they store the school food! Teacher: I said to draw a cow eating some grass but you've only drawn the cow? Pupil: Yes, the cow ate all the grass! -<>- >Welfare Applications For those unfamiliar, Welfare payments are made in the US to individuals and families with income below a level. The following quotations are taken from actual letters received by the Welfare Department in applications for support of receiving payments. I am forwarding my marriage certificate and 6 children. I had seven but one died which was baptized on a half sheet of paper. I am writing the welfare department to say that my baby was born two years old. When do I get my money? Mrs. Jones has not had any clothes for two years and has been visited regularly by the clergy. I cannot get sick pay. I have six children can you tell me why? I am glad to report that my husband who is missing is dead. This is my eighth child. What are you going to do about it. Please find for if my husband is dead. The man I am now living with can't do anything until he knows. I am very much annoyed to find out that you have branded my son illiterate. This is a dirty lie as I was married a week before he was born. In answer to your letter, I have given birth to a son weighing 10 lbs. I hope this is satisfactory. I am forwarding my marriage certificate and my 3 children one of which is a mistake as you can see. My husband got his project cut off about two weeks ago and I haven't had any relief since. Unless I get my husband's money pretty soon, I will be forced to lead an immortal life. You have my changed little boy to a girl, will this make any difference? I have no children yet, as my husband is a truck driver and works night and day. I want money as quick as I can get it. I have been in bed with the doctor for two weeks and he doesn't do me any good. If things don't improve, I will have to send for another doctor. In accordance with your instructions, I have given birth to twins in the enclosed envelope. -<>- /9 6\ // | | \\ // | | \\ // | | \\ // __|__ | \\ // |__X__| __|__ \\ ___________//___________________________________|__X__|________\\______ |_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|#####|_____|_____|____ ___|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_ |_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|____ ___|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_ |_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|____ ___|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_ Dave Flanagan >Wailing Wall A reporter goes to Israel to cover the fighting. She is looking for something emotional and positive and of human interest. Something like that guy in Sarajevo who risked his life to play the cello everyday in the town square. In Jerusalem, she heard about an old Jew who had been going to the Wailing Wall to pray, twice a day, every day, for a long, long time. So she went to check it out. She goes to the Wailing Wall and there he is! She watches him pray and after about 45 minutes, when he turns to leave, she approaches him for an interview. "Rebecca Smith, News. Sir, how long have you been coming to the Wailing Wall and praying?" "For about 50 years." "What do you pray for?" "For peace between the Jews and the Arabs. For all the hatred to stop. For all of our children to grow up in safety and friendship." "How do you feel after doing this for 50 years?" "Like I'm talking to a blankety-blank wall." -<>- .' .': , : : ;; : : ,' ; : : _;. ; _O : `. ,( \\:____.-"_; '.;_,-"", __,-: `` \_ : ( -----(::|\\ "(____"-: ):|:`\ __..--"" "- ; |:|:.`\. __..-" :. .. ) |:):::.`\.,""` __..-" ''' ) ; /;/::::.` \` " __..-" ) ; _(;::::::./` "` _."" ;,""`||.:::-"``,"` . _." .) 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