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ICE Appreciation Week continues.

96 responses to “ICE Appreciation Week continues.”

  1. I can see the CNN headline now:

    “ICE throws grenade at protesters, woman loses fingers”

    Paul will believe it.

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  2. Paul, great version of an alternate universe there.

    “Putting his hands up” zzzzzz….

    “Executing a man on his knees”…zzzzz

    This guy was armed with a loaded weapon and was in a violent altercation with law enforcement officers. He had no business attacking the officers, he was not the intended target, he had no business “defending” anyone being arrested by law enforcement.

    Put lipstick on a pig, it’s still a pig. This basically got what he was asking for.

    What happened is what could be expected.

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  3. And for the record, when these cases reach the Supreme Court, President Trump’s win rate is roughly 90%.”

    Damm, this will be awful news to Chicon, who thinks there should never be any appeals.

    What you should do is

    1. Whine
    2. Show outrage
    3. Impeach the judge you don’t agree with

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  4. So why do we have a new thread already? Only a few comments on the old one that was started today.

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  5. it was up to 57, and I wanted to post the new Homer Hedgehog.

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  6. and I think its a good one to illustrate the absurdity…there is literally nothing that they won’t claim isn’t white supremacy.

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  7. I have not checked on the fish in the fish pond.

    I am about to say they are on their own.

    It is cold.

    It is going to get colder.

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  8. Walt, fish were endowed by their creator to know how to survive when it gets cold.

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  9. The problem is the litigation tjme.

    There is also a foreign born, Marxist judge that has ruled 3 separate times and has been reversed twice. The third attempt is pending.

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  10. TheBrancaShow

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    The moment Alex Pretti made physical contact with the first CBP officer he committed a forcible federal felony good for 8 years in a federal penitentiary, under 18 USC §111.

    From that point on CBP was making the arrest of a violent felony suspect, armed with a gun, forcibly, non-compliant with lawful arrest, shouts of GUN!, a gunshot is heard, and Pretti brought his right hand from his waistband into view gripping a black object while being held at gunpoint by officers.

    That will get you lawfully shot 999 times out of 1,000.

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  11. The execution of Alex Pretti is playing so badly because you can look at his actions and life story – his last act was helping, boy scout, athlete, health care worker to veterans – and compare those to the men who killed him and know which you would want to be your son.

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  12. Tina is a lying piece of shit.

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  13. Preventable tragedies that rarely get national attention

    Renee Good
    Alex Pretti

    These two cases involved individuals who put themselves in direct confrontation with law enforcement, threatened officers, and tragically lost their lives. Those incidents are constantly elevated, politicized, and used to inflame outrage.

    Now compare that to the following.

    These are less-known victims, people who were harmed or killed by individuals who were not legally supposed to be in this country, yet were here due to systemic failures. Their names are rarely spoken. Their families rarely get airtime.

    Brianna Kelson
    Karen Diamond
    Billy McKellar
    Zabar McKellar
    Krishaun McKellar
    Kason McKellar
    Nicole Gregory
    Larisha Sharell Thompson
    Jimmy Friesenhahn
    Ava Moore
    Jorge Gonzalez
    Aleksandre Modebadze
    Jim McCammon
    Camillia Williams
    Lesbia Mileth Ramirez Guerra
    Ilias Louie Mavros
    Adan Lopez Lorenzo
    Matias Roblero Emanuel
    Debrina Kawam
    Grayson Christopher Davis
    Angel Samaniego
    Evangeline Ubaldo Moreno
    Sebastian Ubaldo Moreno
    Fraime Ubaldo
    Marangely Moreno Santiago
    Tiger Gutierrez
    Rylan Oncale
    Taliyah Crochet
    Melody Waldecker
    Kaitlyn Weaver
    Jocelyn Nungaray
    Scott Miller
    Matthew Carney
    Anilson Mauricio Perez Gomez
    Kristie Thibodeaux
    Lauryn Ni Kole Leonard
    Laken Riley
    Shannon Patricia Jungwirth
    Mario Alberto Trejo Estrada
    Jorge Alexander Reyes Jungwirth
    Riordan Powell
    Melissa Powell
    Travis Wolfe
    Catalina Valdez Andrade
    Merced Andrade Bailon
    Ruperto Mondragon Salgado
    Jario Hernandez Sanchez
    Carmen Unilda Navas Zuniga
    Michael Kunovich
    Diana Velazquez Alvarado
    Julisa Molina Rivera
    Jose Jonathan Casarez
    Sonia Argentina Guzman
    Daniel Enrique Laso
    David Breaux
    Karim Abou Najm
    Matteo Garcia
    Erpharo Gilbert
    Limber Lopez Funez
    Diane Hill Luckett
    Maria Rios
    Maris Mareen DiGiovanni
    Brent Allan Hallett
    Martin Iran Carreon Adame
    Ned Byrd
    Kayla Marie Hamilton
    Sandra Vazquez Ceja
    Victor Huerta
    Terry Aultman
    Brenda Aultman
    Erin Simanskis
    Rachel Morin
    Ruby Garcia
    George Levin
    Lizbeth Medina
    Maria Gonzalez
    Aiden Antonio Torres De Paz
    Luis Jocsan Nanez Lopez
    Hallie Helgeson
    Brady Heiling
    Ivory Smith
    Alex AJ Wise Jr
    Mustaffa Muhammad
    Nicacio Hernandez Gonzalez
    Jon Douglas Ratcliffe
    Jacques Price
    Amalia Coc Choc de Pec
    Estrella Anastasia Pec Coc
    Maricela Simon Franco
    Jeremy Poou Caceras
    Santiago Jacobo
    Anjelica Guadalupe
    Amaya Briceno
    Aiden Clark
    Kimberlee Guillory
    Gloria Stephanie Palomec
    Paul Osokin
    Anya Varfolomeev
    Jennifer Ann Morton
    Dania Cruz Mejia
    Dennis Buan
    David Hang
    Colby Brice Compton
    Gretchen Gross
    Crecensio Rosas De La Rosa
    Corbin Wagner
    Francisco Javier Cuellar
    Douglas R Cline
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    Moussa Fofana
    Andi Lynn Blair
    Cheston Edwards
    Cindy Goulding
    Evelyn Falcon
    Miguel Ruiz
    Francisco Zamora
    Victoria Eileen Harwell

    Two realities exist.

    One group made choices that led to confrontation with law enforcement and is endlessly amplified.

    The other group includes innocent people whose lives were stolen, yet whose stories are quietly ignored.

    Selective outrage is not justice.
    Ignoring victims because they do not fit a narrative is morally bankrupt.

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  14. I still am not fully well. I am at about 85%, Still clogged up, nostrils gets closed up at night.

    But you still have to go and do what you have to …

    No nap today, so maybe I will sleep better tonight.

    I hear Trump canned Gonjino or whatever his name is. Is that true?

    I have read reports (not verified that close to 5,000 illegal criminals were rounded up in Minneapolis area by Ice from November to now..

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  15. Sadly, rest assured there will be more bloodshed over all thiis on both sides.

    There needs to be understanding that local police must cooperate with ICE.

    Sancutary city mayors and sanctuary state governors need to go buy the constitution, not their feelings.

    They have to honor detainers on criminals in their custody and hold them and transfer them to ICE custody at a jail.

    The State and local police must be directed to protect ICE when they come under attack and protect hotels,etc, when mobs appear and break the law, make arrests and prosecurte lawbreakers who destroy pro[perty and attack law enforcement–federal or state. or local.

    It simply make the city/state a safer place.

    I hope the fed govt prints the names of all the criminal illegals they arrested in MN since November in every paper in MN. And also published the names of those arrested in MN fror breaking the law and impeding ICE

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  16. I believe Bongino resigned and went back to his show, and was not fired or “canned.”

    Somehow shoveling snow doesn’t seem like a good way to health, Walt. Respiratory stuff can be tricky and you can easily relapse if you pull out all the stops too soon. Just saying…..

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  17. Jan,

    uour list is a good one. Does it include the woman in Jefferson Co, WV who was murdered and lit on fire by an illegal aliens last year. Does it lit the guy that he in another incident was severely beaten with a baseball bat? Both were ih 2025 I think .

    Does your list include all the American citizens who died as resutl of their being run into by a drunk driving illegal alien?

    I think if you listed all victims of illegal aliens it would be well over 1,000. Well over.

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  18. I know Bongino quit and went back to his podcast or whatever. This was a guy with similar name, based in Chicago, short guy with similar name.

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  19. Bovino.

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  21. Do democratic values including grifting, letting illegals vote, etc.? No clue what that is, but on the most important issues, Rs lead.

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  22. One source I ran across says there are about 4,000 U.S. citizens who have died at the hands of illegal aliens in recent years.

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  23. “In fiscal 2020, ICE arrested people on immigration violations whose criminal histories included 1,837 homicide convictions or charges sometime in the past, but its data doesn’t say when the killings or convictions occurred.

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  24. DC TV over the last 5 years has reported a number of deaths at the hand of illegals. Some were murders (like women out jogging who were raped and murdered by illegals in the D.C. area), some victims were shot, stabbed to death, etc., some died from being hit by vehicles driven by drunk illegals.

    This does not count the woman killed by an illegal aliens in neighboring Jefferson county WV last year. That was not reported on DC TV stations.

    I know there have been dozens of deaths of innocent people out west who were hit by carloads of illegal immigrants fleeing border patrol.

    At least one border patrol agent drowned trying to save an illegal immigrants in the Rio Grand.

    Plus the girl whose throat was slit on the transit bus in NC by an illegal

    Plus the girl that was raped and murdered by the two illegals…

    Plus the GA college student (Laikin Riley?) studying to be a nurse who was murdered while jogging by an illegal…

    ******************************

    Interestingly, apparently no statistics are kept on how many people are killed in the U.S. by illegals aliens who were arrested and convicted of those crimes.

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  25. it was up to 57, and I wanted to post the new Homer Hedgehog.”

    Forgot about Homer, carry on.

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  26. I have not checked on the fish in the fish pond”

    Have you asked the slave driv…..huh wife if its ok to bring the fish in and put them in the bathtub?

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  27. retllaw Avatar

    retllaw

    January 26, 2026 at 10:24 pm

    Bovino.”

    You had it right the first time.

    Bongino left the FBI. Bovino is still around.

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  28. Bovino is Border Patrol.

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  29. Have you broken the ice or at least put a pipe through it to let air into the water? Or you could say a few respectful words and buy new fish in the Spring.

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  30. Every act of state brutality you tolerate when it’s used against “the others” will eventually be used against you.

    Once violence is normalized, the circle of “others” keeps widening.

    No matter what—you’ll find yourself inside it, in time.

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  31. Once violence is normalized,”

    Hey, YOU are normalizing violence when you defend the actions of an organized agitator who shows up armed to violently confront lawful activities by law enforcement.

    GFY.

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  32. I don’t interfere with law enforcement. I do not protest. However, I admit that when there is a protest outside my office (which is across from City Hall) I will stop on my way to the train to see what the shouting is about.

    If the violence reaches me, there will probably be zombies running down the street.

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  33. Paul, the agents were at this location to arrest a known criminal.

    Please explain why you think Pretti or the woman he was “defending” were entitled to interfere with this operation.

    ” Federal agents were conducting a targeted operation to arrest Jose Huerta-Chuma, an undocumented immigrant with a criminal history including domestic assault charges. Huerta-Chuma remains at large.”

    This was a classic FAFO outcome.

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  34. Pretti died trying to prevent a criminal from being arrested.

    THAT is his legacy. Nothing else.

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  35. Or you could say a few respectful words”

    And then enjoy the sushi.

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  36. Paul and other leftists act like this is some sort of play where everyone knows the script and how the narrative ends. So they condemn cops as though they could have known all the details that are now known, when those details were not available in the heat of the moment. The cop might have elected not to shoot only to die seconds later at the hands of this man.

    This is why it is critically important for people to stay out of the way of police while they are making an arrest, and thereby maximize the potential for nobody to get hurt.

    If the new standard is that police have to do their work while being threatened, blocked, and attacked and at the same time ensure none of those opposing them gets hurt, then nobody will become cops and we have anarchy in our nation.

    All this rhetoric reveals is that Dems see an opening to get more votes in the fall out of this. They are exploiting Good and Pretti, and its disgusting. Most of the thousands of people who were murdered or raped by illegal aliens were silenced and their names quickly forgotten.

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  37. Another of Paul’s hero “health workers”…

    Meet Melinda, a healthcare worker at

    @VCUHealth. She posted a series of videos encouraging people to inject ICE agents with succinylocholine, a temporary paralysis drug, and spray poison on them. She also encourages woman to go on dates with agents and drug their food.”

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  38. If only we can win the 2028 POTUS race, then we might be in a much much better position for the next decade:

    InteractivePolls
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    2030 Census Apportionment Forecast Update.

    Under this scenario, Trump 2024 would have won 11 more EVs.
    ——
    States Gaining Seats:
    TX (+4), FL (+4), ID, UT, AZ, NC, GA, SC (+1 each)

    States Losing Seats:
    CA (-4), NY (-2), IL (-2), PA, MI, MN, OR, WI, RI (-1 each)

    Source: Jonathan Cervas (CMIST) at Carnegie Mellon University

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  39. I think if you listed all victims of illegal aliens it would be well over 1,000. Well over.

    Walt, you’re right about the numbers being far greater than the ones I posted. I actually copied a Facebook post, seeing its significance in pointing out how the left exploits 2 people engaged in deliberating obstructing the operations of ICE/Border officials, versus the unnamed, non-politicized masses randomly victimized by illegals.

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  40. The MN demonstrators seem to be zealots, amped up on their mission to resist, obstruct, and cause so much chaos that it turns a disciplined operation into an unhinged one. The red whistles they are equipped with, and incessantly blow during ICE confrontations, will alone drive people crazy.

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  41. Alex Pretti had been injured in a scuffle with federal agents in Minneapolis just one week before he was shot dead, it has emerged.

    Pretti, 37, was left with a broken rib after being tackled by a group of officers during a protest against Donald Trump‘s immigration crackdown, a source told CNN

    I thought Paul said this was a peaceful guy who just happened to be “defending” a woman….

    I have had broken ribs. They are extremely painful.

    For you to want to go back out and engage in new altercations with law enforcement shows a scary degree of “commitment to the cause”.

    Contrary to what Paul says, this guy was a real hater.

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  42. Rothmus

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    Rand Paul’s solution to illegal immigrants in the US: they get to stay but they don’t get welfare or citizenship.

    Just count them in the census? These ky Rs are bad.

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  43. VA rep introduces bill to ban ICE from polling places.

    I don’t think she thought that one through very much, but it IS a terrific self own.

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  44. From Amuse on X:

    ”That is the point of the current campaign to demonize federal immigration officials. For simplicity I will refer to all immigration officials as ICE, even though the work is carried out across ICE, CBP, and DHS. The campaign is not merely a set of criticisms of policy. It is a moral downgrade, a relentless effort to push a class of public servants outside the circle of normal human sympathy. It is also part of a broader color revolution attempt to remove President Trump and Republicans from power by delegitimizing the state’s basic functions, provoking disorder, and then blaming the resulting disorder on the administration tasked with restoring order.

    A puzzled reader may ask, “Color revolution, really?” The phrase can sound like an overstatement, or a slogan imported from another context. But consider what the term is meant to pick out. A color revolution is a political strategy that seeks regime change by combining street pressure, media pressure, institutional sabotage, and a story line that treats the current government as illegitimate. It does not require tanks. It requires moral permission for crowds to do what crowds normally fear to do. The method is to launder harassment into heroism and to launder intimidation into civic virtue. The target is not a single law. The target is the state’s capacity to govern.”

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  45. Could be a motive as to why Pretti showed up with a gun the next week.

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  46. Ice has a +10 favorite rate. The rinos and ds have to deflate that approval. They both have the same outcome. (More illegals and more benefits to them).

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  47. Rand Paul’s solution to illegal immigrants in the US: they get to stay but they don’t get welfare or citizenship.”

    I have actually supported a variation of this, where illegals who have been here say over 5 years and have no criminal history could be offered work permits on a quota system (so many a year). I also support permanent residency (green cards) to the Dreamers who are crime free, serve in the military for 3 years, and/or are gainfully employed for 5 years.

    Despite the rhetoric and the “2 million self deported” (which I think is probably inflated) the fact is only about 600k have been deported in the first year, and most of those low hanging fruit.

    The fact is that even if Trump could deport another 2-3 million in his term (doubtful) there would still be over 15 million illegals, most of which are not going anywhere.

    And if Dems get control again, a lot of the deportees will be back, bet on it.

    We are still not winning on immigration.

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  48. Ice ain’t stopping with Homan in charge.

    https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2016210819378192780

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  49. The entire thing started when an ICE thug violently pushed a woman to the ground for absolutely no reason. Do not ever forget how it all started.

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  50. Illegals should not be counted in the census.

    This is one of the biggest reasons Dems want more illegals, it keeps blue states from losing congressional seats.

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  51. Pretti decided to be an army of 1 to do battle with our police forces. He lost.

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  52. Do not ever forget how it all started.”

    LOL

    No it probably started with the woman trying to interfere with lawful operations.

    ICE was there to arrest a CRIMINAL.

    Anyone interfering is abetting criminal behavior.

    This guy was an agitator, member of an “anti_ICE” organization. He fought with agents at another location. He had a broken rib. He showed up at this location looking for trouble, armed with a loaded weapon to boot, and got what he asked for.

    Nothing Paul can say changes any of those facts.

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  53. Noem is not being fired.

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  54. Janzam supports the rape and murder of Ukrainians. FU!

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  55. Jason, you amoral scumbag, I will explain simply.

    They did not interfere. They were standing filming. The woman was standing some distance and filming when an ICE officer came across the street and shoved her. THERE WAS NO INTERFERENCE!!!!!

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  56. ICE thug violently pushed a woman to the ground for absolutely no reason”

    So Paul calls someone legally engaged in an arrest of a known criminal a “thug” but the people opposing such arrest are what “freedom fighters”.

    The we have the “absolutely no reason” canard.

    Here is the deal, just the fact this woman was close enough to an agent to be pushed to the ground and pepper sprayed already eliminates the “no reason” argument.

    Impeding federal officers from doing their job is a crime.

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  57. THERE WAS NO INTERFERENCE!!!!!”

    Nah, none.

    They just happened to be innocent bystanders engaged in preventing a legal arrest of a criminal from happening.

    You really are a brainwashed moron.

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  58. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Overrules Lawless Lowly District Judicial Insurrectionist, Removing Bullshit Restrictions on How ICE Can Handle Violent “Protesters”

    Ace covers a lot of this stuff, and raises a very relevant question as to why none of these protests were huge or went violent during prior deportations, as well as why all this recent MN unrest began only AFTER the Somali fraud was exposed.

    Sorry, Paul, this actvity is not organic, it’s being organized by bad actors who have no issue putting people like you into the line of fire. In fact, if more of your kinfolks get killed, the better it is for those bad actors to achieve THEIR aims.

    You are being used.

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  59. The missus had a regular mammogram appt today so I drove her since we were unsure of road conditions. Main roads ok. secondary roads a little sketch. No school on M or T and they just announced no school on Wed.

    We are trying to come up with a fish rescue plan. Wife wants to just put a pan of hot water on top of the frozen pond. I told her that will not help since the ice in 4 inches thick. I want to Bush a hole in the ice and pour in warmer water. Not sure if the fish like that idea or not. If I was a fish I would not like all that pounding on the ice…

    **************************

    “Have you broken the ice or at least put a pipe through it to let air into the water? Or you could say a few respectful words and buy new fish in the Spring.”

    My son has named all the fish, so replacement will be harder. One is Whitey Bolger, one is Big Bully, I forget the other’s names…

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  60. He was probably “just filming” when he got his rib broken a few days earlier, right, Paul?

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  61. On second thought, maybe eating Whitey Bolger is not such a great idea.

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  62. I do not know who else to put at the same table as Paul for the summer HHR banquet.

    Certainly not Tina or Jason…

    I guess Cash Cow and I will volunteer to sit at his table…, but Cow said if he gets out of hand she is going to mace him.

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  63. Paul is now resorting to Bitter’s redundant accusations. Sad….

    Pretti must have considered himself some sort of a vigilante hero. A few weeks earlier he had a rib broken by physically confronting immigration officials. After that his own parents warned him about “not doing anything stupid.” He apparently didn’t heed their warning, having another police altercation carrying a gun, extra ammunition, and blowing his whistle to aggravate the heated confrontation.

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  64. Yep, according to reports Alex Pretti was engaged in another conflict with federal agents a week earlier….

    “The earlier incident started when he (Pretti) stopped his car after observing ICE agents chasing what he described as a family on foot, and began shouting and blowing his whistle, according to a source who asked not to be named out of fear of retribution” CNN reported today.”

    Pretti said he was tackled by five agents and suffered a broken rib.

    Proverbs 11:27….paraphrase…..”Look for trouble and trouble will find you”…actively seeking out, causing, or dwelling on negativity, conflict, or risky behavior ensure you will encounter negative consequences.

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  65. The pond at the other house was 9 feet by 11 feet and 3 feet deep in the middle. The one we have here is a SMALL precast pond that is maybe 4′ X 6′ but only 16 inches deep in the deepest part and only 6 inches deep in the shallowest part.

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  66. Jason, amoral scumbag, watch the video. There was no interference. Filming is not interference. Standing on a public sidewalk is not interference.

    Amoral scumbag Jason loves federal overreach and no longer believes in the freedom of US citizens. Sad.

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  67. None of these people touched an ICE officer as far as I can tell. The ICE officer is the one who walked to them and shoved them.

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  68. new morning consult has the generic ballot GOP 43, Dem 45. This polling firm never has good news for GOP

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  69. Walt, found a link with some good information in how to deal with a frozen fish pond. I also have a pond, with fish I name, so am sympathetic to your plight.

    https://pondinformer.com/do-you-need-to-break-the-ice-on-a-fish-pond/

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  70. DW, I have a post in “moderation.”

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  71. @BrandonStraka

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    Rasmussen shows President Trump’s Hispanic approval jumping 28 points, now 53%–45%.

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  72. I used to feel sorry for myself living in lunatic CA. But, now after reading how fast VA is going far left I have transferred my concerns to those living in that state.

    ”Democrats in Virginia ran on affordability, but everything they have done since retaking power there says the exact opposite.

    The tax rate in Virginia is poised to become the highest in the nation,beating even California, and they are trying to create a slew of new taxes.

    Now, they are trying to give themselves a pay raise that is basically double what they already make.”

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  73. cLDaugh

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    🚨 JUST IN: In a VICTORY, a Virginia court just STRUCK DOWN any Democrat efforts to gerrymander the state’s Congressional map for more blue seats during the 2026 election If anything is passed, it must take effect AFTER the 2027 election GREAT! Dems will likely appeal this, though, and the decision MUST hold. Indiana really screwed up by refusing to redistrict, or this wouldn’t even be as big of a problem.

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  74. My diabetic ulcer is 50% healed. Back to 2 more weeks of non-weight bearing and working from my couch. GFYs

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  75. Janzam,

    Thanks for the link about frozen ponds and fish.

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  76. Biggest groups that support Dems

    ALL OF THEM ARE HEAVILY and easily INFLUENCED BY EMOTION, not logic

    –1. women

    –2 young people

    –3. Blacks

    Of course there are exceptions.

    ______

    But the above is a BIG reason who the Dems HATE and VILIFY any

    –any woman who is a republican

    –people who try to engage young people like Charlie Kirk did and make them think

    –any Black who leaves the D reservation and says they support Rs instead of Ds

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  77. I find it amusing that the Ds have and push a meme that Trump has some grandiose, Big Plan to dramatically alter human society.

    First, Trump is not smart enough to have some grandiose big plan to dramatically alter society. Secondly, if he DID, it would be odd that he made no attempt to implement his Big Plan prior to 2016 when he first ran for president.

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  79. My diabetic ulcer is 50% healed. Back to 2 more weeks of non-weight bearing and working from my couch. GFYs”

    You need to take better care so you don’t get more of those.

    Dr. Jason

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  80. Dr. Jason’s concern is noted and appreciated.

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  81. Berkeley County WV (where I live) has reported that they have a total of 20,000 students in public schools. 5,000 of those are special Ed students. They get federal dollars and state dollars to help cover costs needed for special Ed students.

    Berkeley County reported that the cost to provide for these special Ed students EXCEEDS what the Feds and State of WV provides by $38,350,621.94.

    That money is provided by the local school system.

    $7,670 for each special ed student is coming from the LOCAL school system tax payers.

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  82. Multiple reports of dhs convoys heading to minnesotastan

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  83. Someone was arrested for spraying some liquid on Rep. Ilhan Omar.

    Nobody should do such a thing to any elected representative.

    (But my hope was that it was disappearing ink)

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  84. 6 degrees, windchill – 5

    GfYs.

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  85. The VA redistricting ruling is big, even if appealed it could give SCOTUS an excuse to affirm the ruling later.

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  86. ABC News says more protesters will be bringing guns to protests for “safety reasons”.

    You can’t make this sh-t up.

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  87. Walt – How are the fish?!?

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  88. Survival of the fittest, not enough oxygen for everyone, Big Bully offs Whitey Bolger.

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  89. Pretti’s parents are smarter than Paul…

    Low bar, I know

    “The parents of Alex Pretti say their son quit his hospital job months ago and had shown “unusual behavior” recently. “He seemed to have joined some kind of group. We warned him two weeks ago — protest if you want, but don’t engage, don’t do anything stupid,” his father, Michael Pretti, told reporters. “He said he understood.” But it wasn’t until police pulled messages from Alex’s phone that the truth began to emerge — and what investigators found. It seems that Pretti’s parents didn’t want him participating. It seems Pretti allegedly scrubbed his social media presence one day prior to his actions leading to his death. When you make decisions based on emotions, you make poor decisions. He made bad decisions. I’m a 2A absolutist. You have a right to carry, not a privilege. But rights come with restrictions, you need your ID & permit on you. Reports say Pretti had neither. He wasn’t carrying legally.”

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  90. In PA, if you are armed and you have an interaction with police, you have to declare it. Pretti as soon as he approached/was approached should have said “I have a weapon” They would have told him to get down, put his arms over his head, and they would have disarmed him. THEN if he showed his permit and was not causing trouble they would have returned it to him.

    I have been stopped with a gun in the car, and the first thing you say is I have a (loaded/unloaded) weapon). They then ask for the permit, neither time it happened did they ask to see the weapon, just the permit.

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  92. So, he had no Id a permit. Even if he had those, he could not carry because Mn law does not allow you at a “protest.”

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  93. Paul should have waited for the fact to emerge before defending this guy. New Thread. Tina and Jason, please repost these things in the new thread.

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