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Where is This?
The Hedgehog Report - Phoenix Edition 
66 responses to “Where is This?”
Had to go in and reset a new password in order to post here. 😦
The photo is the street in front of NYC Mike’s house in New York City
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9 Common Traits of People Who Were Raised by Helicopter Parents, According to a Psychologist
1. Low stress tolerance
“Helicopter parenting often shields kids from discomfort, but stress is part of life,” Dr. Capanna-Hodge states. “Without small, manageable opportunities to learn how to cope, the nervous system doesn’t build resilience—and these adults often have low stress tolerance, feeling overwhelmed by everyday challenges.”
2. Difficulty making decisions
Dr. Capanna-Hodge says that when kids grow up without the chance to make age-appropriate choices, they don’t get to build the confidence that comes from experience.“As adults, they often struggle with difficulty making decisions because they never learned to trust their own judgment,” she adds.
3. Fear of failure
As Dr. Capanna-Hodge says, if failure was treated like something to avoid rather than something to learn from, kids internalize that mistakes equal danger.“That nervous system association sticks, and as adults, many carry a persistent fear of failure that keeps them from taking healthy risks,” she explains.
4. Low self-confidence
Generally, kids who were constantly corrected, micromanaged or rescued start to believe they’re incapable.Dr. Capanna-Hodge goes on to say, “That message wires into their brain and body, and as adults, they carry low self-confidence and are prone to negative thinking, even in areas where they are more than capable.”
5. People-pleasing tendencies
“When children learn that approval comes from performance or perfection, they often grow into adults with people-pleasing tendencies who are unable to set boundaries, putting others’ needs ahead of their own to feel secure and accepted,” Dr. Capanna-Hodge shares.
6. Trouble solving problems independently
If you were raised by helicopter parents, you might find that without that space to make mistakes and figure things out on your own, you now don’t have real-world coping tools.“That’s why so many adults raised by helicopter parents struggle with independent problem-solving—they were protected from discomfort instead of coached through it,” Dr. Capanna-Hodge says.
7. Dependence on external validation
“When kids are constantly directed or praised only for performance, they learn to rely on others for approval,” Dr. Capanna-Hodge says. “As adults, this can create a deep dependence on external validation—they don’t trust their own voice unless someone else confirms it.”
8. Delayed independence, also called “failure to launch,” can be an outcome of helicopter parenting.“Overhelping sends the silent message that the world is too hard and they can’t handle it,” Dr. Capanna-Hodge says. “As a result, many young adults raised this way face failure to launch, relying on parents far past childhood because independence feels unsafe.”
9. Low risk tolerance
Dr. Capanna-Hodge explains that if every risk was labeled as “dangerous” growing up, the nervous system learns to equate uncertainty with threat.“As adults, this shows up as low risk tolerance, where even small changes feel overwhelming or unsafe,” she observes.
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Walt wins the contest! Although it is actually the house of Teddy Roosevelt in NYC.
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Does look like Manhattan, except ..but since Walt already guessed that let’s say Chicago.
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NYC would never live in a dump like that. He lives in an estate in Brooklyn.
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My first ever win at ‘Where is this?’.
Taking victory lap while GF watches from the stands.
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DW,
I have a comment in moderation.
Is this retribution for winning?
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HHR split between Bitter threads and DW threads…
Reminds me of the Civil War.
One group tries to leave the union…
(just kidding)
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Suppose aliens from another planet have been visiting the U.S., but have not visited for say 30 years or so, and then they come back today.
What would shock them the most about the current situation in the U.S.?
Go.
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Would the aliens think we as a county (compared to 30 years ago) has progressed or regressed?
Would they be shocked at the disunity today in the U.S.?
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News in Numbers4,000Stolen vehicles recovered in Oakland since California Highway Patrol officers were deployed to the city last year, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom. State officials say the CHP’s involvement has coincided with an overall decline in crime.
Aug. 29, 2025
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Walt is keeping the thread going while completing all his chores.
Incredible multi tasking.
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I can see poor Walt sneaking into the tool shed to post a message.
Wife calls “what are you doing in there”?
Walt:
“Just looking for the weed wacker to trim the bushes before I start on the porch painting job and the pantry shelf job, dear”!
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The garden club soiree does not start until 2. So I have some free time.
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I can make it by 2.
I will try to blend in.
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The secret code so you know its me is “petunia”.
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If we all have to contribute a comment about their gardens I can talk about the right herbs to grow if you will be roasting guinea pigs, so don’t worry I won’t be able to participate.
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Belichick’s Tar Heels gets blown out 48-14.
But hey, give the dude a break.
I bet he has his hands full with a 24 yr old wife and maybe he is not good at multi tasking like Walt is.
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How many handcuffs for Prickzer?
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Wtf?
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An appellate court just reversed another district court on an injunction. This time was the injunction over cancelling EPA climate awards. The D.C. Circuit found the lower court abused its discretion and any claims must go to the Court of Federal Claims…https://media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinions/docs/2025/09/25-5122-2132901.pdf
@JonathanTurley
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…Notably, the court stressed that “the equities strongly favor the government, which on behalf of the public must ensure the proper oversight and management of this multi-billion-dollar fund.” It noted that a whistleblower stated that the Biden Administration was just getting money out before Trump took office: “The employee compared the situation to ‘throwing gold bars off the Titanic.’”
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I guess Trump did not stiff clients.
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Doltz is an idiot.
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Here’s CBS doing what they do best –
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death toll over 1400 in Afghanistan earthquake
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“Last month Thune unveiled a procedural scheme to block President Trump from making any critical appointments during the August recess, effectively aiding the Democrats’ obstructionist agenda.
Thune quietly secured unanimous‑consent for a paper‑thin Senate schedule through the Trump appointee confirmation deadline, ensuring only pro forma sessions on five key dates in early August.
After pulling off this stunt, Thune is back from recess and now says he is ready to confirm the backlog of Trump’s nominees.”
…too little too late.
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I am sure janzam will be happier with a Dem senate majority of 80 members against 20 100% litmus tested Rs who are guaranteed to vote exactly like she wants 100% of the time.
No, they won’t get anything done or passed but it will SEND A MESSAGE to those RINOS.
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Tina
September 2, 2025 at 5:01 pm
I guess Trump did not stiff clients.”
Zzzz…
They tried and failed and had to pay up.
Big difference between blanket orders to not pay for work contracted and completed (correctly deemed unconstitutional) and the right to revoke awarded grants.
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Buffune needs to shape up/ship out. He is an embarrassment.
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Remember the free passers (wrong multiple time on this have stated “it’s all about basic contract law.”
Yes, it is, but there are proper courts for that- federal court of claims.
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This is long over due:
NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya is demanding full answers from the Pharma companies on Operation Warp Speed and the COVID-19 vaccines. “I think it’s really healthy to have transparency about what the drug companies that were involved in Operation Warp Speed know.
It’s also really healthy to open up a discussion, an honest scientific discussion uncensored on the evidence on the COVID vaccine.” “A lot of people have lost trust in all vaccines as a consequence of essentially misstatements, I don’t know what you want to call them, including things like the vaccine ‘stops you from getting and spreading COVID.’
Remember all the mandates that were in place?” “I think that kind of level of distrust, I’ve never in my long career in public health have seen before.” “And what the president’s doing is very, very healthy. Transparency is the way forward.”
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They need to give the wh staffers a raise, big time.
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Why even go to the “North Korea of Europe?”
https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1963022262266720282
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Remember the free passers (wrong multiple time on this have stated “it’s all about basic contract law.”’
LOL
Tina was the one that was wrong, the Administration already paid the $2 billion owed to the contractors who had completed work. Trying to stiff them was a violation of contract law and was unconstitutional and the ruling they had to be paid was correct.
Tina is pretending that somehow cancelling grants awarded is the same thing as not paying contractors for work completed.
It isn’t.
But Tina never admits being wrong, she just fabricates a new lie.
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And for Tina’s education, blanket orders refusing to pay for any work completed is not a “contract dispute”. It is a violation of contract law.
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Despite Tina’s lies, here is how it really happened.
I”n early March 2025, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling upheld a lower court order requiring the Trump administration to unfreeze and pay nearly $2 billion in foreign aid for work already completed by nonprofit aid groups and contractors. The payment was mandated after the administration had frozen foreign assistance funds following a January 2025 executive order.
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Why: The administration had frozen the funds for 90 days after an executive order, sparking lawsuits from aid groups and organizations. The Amount: The total amount to be paid was around $2 billion. Who Was Involved: The case involved foreign aid from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the State Department. The Ruling: The Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision forced the Trump administration to comply with the lower court order to unfreeze the funds.“
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The appropriate court is the Federal,court of claims,
the case you site also had a responsibility by the gubment to pay for future work.
You were wrong on both.
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You were wrong on both.”
Zzzzz….
I was right that completed work had to be paid, and SCOTUS rightfully made the Administration pay.
I never said future work needed to be paid.
I fully support the revocation of a lot of the grants awarded that were for woke NGOs and other wastes of money.
I fully agree that work completed has to be paid.
Why?
Because they are completely different issues.
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Contract Law is the basis for our economy.
Without it you would have chaos and uncertainty for any business transaction.
That is why the courts correctly did not let the Administration stiff contractors for work completed.
The grants cancellations are different. The administration is alleging the awards were improper and shouldn’t continue to be funded. That is fine.
Eventually, the administration may be sued and the Federal Court of Claims may rule one way or another.
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Incorrect, the federal,court of claims handles contracting disputes.
The USAID involved several elements and you were wrong about each one.
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I heard this on the (FOX) radio the other day, so I have no link.
There have been some serious studies done about negative effects of the CROWVID vaccine, particularly those over some age [50?, 55?, 50?] .
That age group was a whopping percent higher to now have a whole slew of respiratory ailments than (I think) those who did not get the CROWVID shots.
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Where is Bitter?
If he needs my help to unsnarl the tech difficulties…then we are in deep doo doo.
I am an idiot when it comes to dealing with all this technology. A friend is flying in from Chicago and renting a car to take 5 of us deeper into WV for 4 days. He emailed the wife and asked if he could put me on as another possible driver on the rental he is getting for all of us. To do that, I had to download some app, create an account, take photo of my drivers license, and a lot of other rigamarole involving passwords, etc. The wife had to do all of that for me while I sat and fumed.
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https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/08/trump-administration-returns-to-supreme-court-in-dispute-over-foreign-aid-payment/
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They are looking now at the major players involved with the vax, Walt. That is why several cdc members resigned. There are allegations that harmful side effects were ignored or buried. Also, the vax is not effective.
The free passers favorite deity, Fraudci, stated in 2019 that an effective mRNA vax would take 10 years to develop. Note, this was before Covid “escaped from the lab.” The lab that we allegedly funded.
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Maybe Bosoberg, Ali baba, or one of the other district court Marxists can stop this ahead of time.
@KenRoth
Drug trafficking is a crime, not an act of war. Traffickers must be arrested, not summarily executed, which U.S. forces just illegally did.
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https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-strike-rubio-trump-0f901b2a30ee20e314bcab1385ffb0c0
US Navy blows up drug cartel speedboat that left Venezuela loaded with illegal drugs. 11 killed.
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once again, Democrats defend crime
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As usual, Tina posts something pretending it pertains to something else.
“The Trump administration informed a federal appeals court on Tuesday evening that it has returned to the Supreme Court, seeking to pause an order by a federal district court in Washington, D.C., that requires the federal government to pay billions of dollars in foreign aid that Congress has already allocated. In a 36-page filing attached to a letter submitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (and published online by Josh Gerstein of Politico), U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer told the court that unless it steps in, “it will effectively force the government to rapidly obligate some $12 billion in foreign-aid funds that would expire September 30 and to continue obligating tens of billions of dollars more—overriding the Executive Branch’s foreign-policy judgments regarding whether to pursue rescissions and thwarting interbranch dialogue.”
This is, of course, entirely separate from the case where the administration was forced to unfreeze payments for work already completed. That had nothing to do with “contract disputes”, it was a clear violation of contract law and both the lower court and SCOTUS recognized that.
I fully support revoking funds “already allocated” but not spent.
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No I posted the complete discussion of the matter. You did not.
There were multiple parts of the us aid case which you missed
you even misconstrued what the sc said.
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Nineveh News:
A US District judge has ruled that the Trump Administration “must bring back to life the youths from Venezuela who belonged to a humanitarian club, and were trying to deliver much needed medical supplies to the United States,” said Ben Ohverueld in his judicial order.
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In a coordinate action, the trust the science people allied with Rinos and freepassers want Rfk to be fired or resign .
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Hope, the plane owner wins here.
https://jonathanturley.org/2025/09/03/this-buds-for-you-alaskan-pilot-appeals-forfeiture-of-plane-over-six-pack-of-beer/
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This guy was weaponized in Ukraine.
https://x.com/alx/status/1962981123023065223
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No I posted the complete discussion of the matter. You did not.
Nah, you are a pathological liar.
You posted a completely different case that had nothing to do with the SCOTUS ruling that funds for the contractors with completed work had to be unfrozen (and they were).
Again, there is a huge difference between trying to stiff contractors for completed work (NOT a contract dispute, a contract law violation) and suspending payment for grants awarded but not yet spent (could be disputed in Federal Claims Court).
Of course Tina knows the difference, she just can’t admit she was wrong.
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I opposed the nomination of RFK Jr on the grounds I think he is a kooky far leftist Democrat, plus some of his theories on vaccines and other issues are unfounded trash.
However, a lot of the steps he has taken to clean the federal health bureaucracy of woke and partisan hacks are positive. Case in point the guy who went out talking about “pregnant people”.
At this point, firing him would be a feather in the Dem’s cap and a black eye for Trump at a time we can’t afford either.
Firing the head of the CDC after one month was an unforced error, not because she was no aligned with RFK but because if that was the case then she should not have been appointed.
So I reluctantly will support RFK Jr to stay on the job, hoping he can curtail his kooky side and concentrate on what is important (same advice I would give Trump, btw).
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Not AI, actual Politico headline
https://x.com/Mrmiked42/status/1963014663785885927/photo/1
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Drug trafficking is a crime, not an act of war. Traffickers must be arrested, not summarily executed, which U.S. forces just illegally did.”
If the traffickers were given an order to stop and didn’t, then they weren’t executed, they were killed trying to escape.
“Traffickers must be arrested”
Depends. Many perps are killed while committing a crime for various reasons. “Have to be arrested” is false.
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Good point…just change the referent and it sounds even more absurd:
“SHOOTING UP CHURCHES is a crime, not an act of war. CHURCH SHOOTERS must be arrested, not summarily executed, which U.S. forces just illegally did.”
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“ROBBING BANKS is a crime, not an act of war. BANK ROBBERS must be arrested, not summarily executed, which U.S. forces just illegally did.”
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Sununu May run for the open nh seat. He should.
Same with hee haw in ga-run,
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Sununu would be great.
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In addition to the lefts stance on social issues, here is why lower and middle income Americans moved towards Trump . Fascinating data at the link –
https://committeetounleashprosperity.com/real-household-income/#pdf-what-happened-to-americans-real-income-under-trump-biden-and-obama/4/
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Thomas Massie EXPOSES Trump & Epstein “It’s shameful this has been called a ‘hoax’. This is NOT a hoax. This is REAL. REAL SURVIVORS. REAL VICTIMS. The perpetrators are protected as they’re RICH, POWERFUL, & POLITICAL DONORS in Washington DC”
https://x.com/adamemedia/status/1963283522485195075?s=46&t=_MA1I7Be_6DwRQfoBxrlbA
Also Epstein victims working on creating their own Epstein list independent of the Federal Government.
The problem is that CIA and Mossad are essentially the same organization so if Mossad was running the honeypot, the CIA and our corrupt government was also running the show.
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New DW thread, no contest, will get one tomorrow if able.
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