If you think you have absolutely no intention of owning a cat‚ you must pay close attention. There is a nefarious movement that intends to put a cat in every home. The worldwide “cat distribution system” is coming to your home soon. Once the system has targeted you‚ there is no way to combat the effort. You will be a cat owner. We are unsure who the mastermind behind this devious plan is‚ but the results are visible everywhere. @pawsforatrip This little sweetheart had a collar on but no tag or chip so hopefully we can find her owner soon #catdistributionsystem ♬ Little Things – Adrian Berenguer Do not confuse the cat distribution system with a standard cat trap. With a cat trap‚ one wily little feline will get your attention. Once you are smitten with the kitten‚ all of its brothers and sisters will instantly appear at your feet. While some people do end up with cats this way‚ they usually drop the kittens at the nearest rescue facility. @vegan_warrioresse That’s a lot of cats #reels #reelsvideo #reelsinstagram #instagramreels #catstagram #catlover #catsofinstagram #catlovers #cats #catlife #cats_of_world #cat #catsofig #catsagram #catslover #catdistributionsystem #adorable #adorableanimals @petclips ♬ Originalton – Gerda Rasch The cat distribution system is a much more effective deployment method. By focusing on only one cat or kitten at a time‚ the results are predictable. Former dog lovers become cat owners so fast that their eyeballs are still spinning! Some people actually look forward to being caught in the web of cuteness. @magic_marzo Finally the #catdistributionsystem has given me a chance :)im so happy! #catsoftiktok #kitty #kittycat #kittensoftiktok #parkinglotkitty ♬ original sound – Marzo This poor guy didn’t stand a chance. The web of the cat distribution system snared him while out on a walk. Now look at him… hand feeding his new little baby with a syringe. And the snuggles! That’s totally adorable‚ but it means there is no chance of escape. He is too far gone for rescue. @iamchrisjames I went on a walk and found another kitten my girlfriend is gonna freak out #kittenrescue #kittenrescuestory #kittenlove #kittensoftiktok #kittentok #catdistributionsystem #catdistribution #kittenlover ♬ Lights Are On (Instrumental) – Edith Whiskers Apparently‚ this is not the first time this gentleman has succumbed! The distribution snare was fast and furious. His girlfriend posted this follow-up. Five kittens and a dog in the past year! He must be wearing a sign! @tatyana.jade My boyfriend found another kitten @iamchrisjames #kittenrescue #kittenrescuestory #kittensoftiktok #kittenlove #kittentok #catdistributionsystem #catdistribution #kittenlover ♬ original sound – Tatyana Jade The Cat Distribution System System Is A Growing Concern This is not the first time we have discussed the problem with the cat distribution system. This time‚ we are phrasing it as the warning it needs to be. While it is seemingly random‚ this is a targeted program designed to put a cat in every home! When non-cat people start adopting random cats they find on the streets‚ it will create mayhem. Our society has no protective measures against this. Protect yourself! Do not look at cute little kitties‚ no matter how loudly they meow. If they approach you on the street‚ run as fast as your legs can carry you. DO NOT MAKE EYE CONTACT. If you look into their adorable little eyes‚ you will be a goner for sure. The cat distribution system is real. It is here. BEWARE! You can find the source of this story’s featured image here and here. The post Meet The Cat Distribution System: The Silly Way Regular People Become Cat Owners. appeared first on InspireMore.

When five whale sharks found themselves entangled in a huge fishing net‚ a team of courageous divers came to the rescue! This setup off the coast of Indonesia wasn’t intended to capture these massive creatures‚ which are considered an endangered species. However‚ it seems that they wandered in by mistake. Luckily‚ the scuba divers knew how to handle the situation! Underwater footage of the rescue shows divers painstakingly extricating the trapped whale sharks‚ setting many smaller fish free in the process. Once the animals were untangled‚ they swam away seemingly none the worse for wear. Although this video was captured in March 2023‚ it wasn’t available online until much later. Screengrab from YouTube According to Men’s Journal‚ what happened to these rescued whale sharks is referred to as incidental bycatch‚ and it’s hardly an isolated case. Fishing gear is actually a huge threat to these animals‚ even when it’s not targeted at them. Unfortunately‚ even though they’re endangered‚ some people still hunt these creatures outright. It’s a shame‚ especially since their disposition has earned them the nickname “gentle giants.” Screengrab from YouTube Consequences of incidental bycatch can be truly upsetting‚ but we’re grateful for the people who step in to help. Thanks to the efforts of this brave rescue team‚ at least these five whale sharks will live to swim another day. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Divers Risk Their Lives To Save Five Whale Sharks Tangled In Fishing Net. appeared first on InspireMore.

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Our Top 10 James Taylor Songs list looks at James Taylor’s extraordinary songwriting career. When people mention JT these days‚ it’s assumed that they’re talking about Justin Timberlake. However‚ those old enough to remember the Y2K insanity know that the honest JT is James Taylor. Actively making gorgeous records and touring for over 50 years‚ James Taylor and his music may not be considered part of the Great American Songbook. Still‚ they are a big part of the canon of American popular music. Describing his music is a bit delicate. With a few exceptions in all categories‚ it’s too calm The post Top 10 James Taylor Songs appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

Advances in medicine over the decades have seen the 5-year survival rate of children diagnosed with cancer increase to 85%‚ but there are outliers to that average—with few more sinister than brain stem glioma. When French doctor Jacques Grill first saw these tumors in a young Belgian boy‚ it was a straightforward‚ agonizing conversation he […] The post Belgian Boy is the First Child in the World to Have Been Cured of Brain Stem Glioma‚ a Brutal Cancer appeared first on Good News Network.

Author of How to Prep When You’re Broke and Bloom Where You’re Planted online course If you’re itching for gardening season to start‚ you’re in luck. You can start now with the clean-hands-no-backache part. Whether or not you’ve grown a garden before‚ there are plenty of winter garden tasks you can do during the colder months to get ready for spring. Not using this more barren time means that your planting will be delayed‚ and your harvests will not be as good as they would have if you had been ready to go. Planning your garden is a crucial step in getting a decent bounty at harvest time‚ but there’s a lot more to it than just allocating space in your veggie plot. As I discussed a few years back in this interview‚ you need to work on becoming more self-sufficient NOW‚ regardless of where you live. You don’t have to have 30 acres in the country to produce at least some of your own food. Here are a few things you can do during the winter. Some of these things require that the snow already be melted‚ while others can be done even if it’s up to your knees. 1) Pick up any downed branches  Chop them into the appropriate sizes and set them aside for firewood or kindling. They’ll need to dry out for a season or two‚ but it’s a good way to add to your wood stash for free. Bundling sticks for a perfect fire 2) Rake the leaves. If the snow has melted‚ rake your garden to get rid of smaller debris and leaves. (I like this rake because the head is expandable and can work for various nooks and crannies.) Either bag up the leaves so they turn into mulch or add them to the compost bin. Making mulch from leaves Composting leaves How to make basic leaf mold 3) Kick the composting into high gear. If you have a smaller space‚ rotating compost bins are ideal and make compost super fast. They are the perfect size for those who need small amounts of compost for container growing. What can you compost? Winter composting resources 4) Dig up any perennial weeds that have survived the winter. If the snow has melted and the ground isn’t still frozen rock hard‚ you can begin attacking those stubborn weeds before things get overgrown. Check every week for new arrivals poking through especially as we move toward warmer weather. If you have any kind of chronic pain or mobility issues‚ this nifty tool makes weed removal far easier. Remove winter weeds and sleeping snails before spring 5) Decide what you are going to grow. Having a garden that can supply the maximum nutrients to you family will be of prime importance if the time comes when you can’t get to the store to stock up. Home Canning: How many tomato plants will you need? Growing a Garden: How much should you plant? 6) Order your seeds. Be sure to buy heirloom seeds so you can save them year after year‚ something that will be critical after a long-term disaster. Get a wide a variety of seeds for long term storage. And come on‚ who doesn’t love curling up in front of the fire with a pile of seed catalogs? We recommend Seeds for Generations‚ a small family business out of Virginia. You can go here right now and hit their big sale! They have a ton of varieties‚ and I’ve had excellent luck with the seeds I’ve bought there. And‚ you’re helping a small business instead of a Big Box.   7) Check for restrictions in your neighborhood. The laws and regulations targeting small growers could potentially make growing your own veggies illegal. Many HOAs make it difficult to be self-reliant. Check your local regulations – no one wants to deal with the “garden police.” You could actually go to jail for growing vegetables in your front yard in some places Gardening Like a Ninja: A guide to sneaking delicious edibles into your landscape 8) Get your greenhouse ready. Greenhouses should be completely emptied. Remember that rodents love make a cozy home in greenhouses. If you have one of the plastic ones (like this)‚ they should be cleaned top to bottom to ensure no mood‚ spores or moss that can affect your tender plants are present. Prepare your greenhouse for spring 5 things you need to do to prep your greenhouse for spring How to clean your greenhouse 9) Get your pots ready. Do you save the little pots from the nursery to use year after year? Be sure to clean them properly to ensure they are free of anything that might contaminate your new plants. Check them for leaks or cracks before planting in them. 7 DIY seed pots from common household items Get your pots or containers ready for planting (video) How to wash and disinfect plant containers The dos and don’ts of reusing flower pots 10) Test your soil. If your soil isn’t too hard to dig up a little‚ it’s a great idea to check the chemistry of your soil so that you can be sure your veggies will thrive. This will help you figure out what type of amendments you will need. This is a great kit to keep on hand for soil testing. Here are a few more articles that you may find useful: Learn Exactly How to Grow 25 Vegetable Garden Favorites for Maximum Harvests Urban Gardening: Grow Anywhere 7 Things To Do Right Now To Get Ready For A Fabulous Summer Garden Dirt Cheap: The Best Frugal Gardening Ideas on the Internet Check out The OP garden archives AND our popular Home Agriculture Comprehensive course. What are your favorite winter garden activities? Do you like to start getting ready to garden early? What tasks can you do during this time of year when you’re itching to get your hands in the dirt? Let’s talk about how to get your garden groove on before planting time in the comments section. About Daisy Daisy Luther is a coffee-swigging‚ adventure-seeking‚ globe-trotting blogger. She is the founder and publisher of three websites.  1) The Organic Prepper‚ which is about current events‚ preparedness‚ self-reliance‚ and the pursuit of liberty; 2)  The Frugalite‚ a website with thrifty tips and solutions to help people get a handle on their personal finances without feeling deprived; and 3) PreppersDailyNews.com‚ an aggregate site where you can find links to all the most important news for those who wish to be prepared. Her work is widely republished across alternative media and she has appeared in many interviews. Daisy is the best-selling author of 5 traditionally published books‚ 12 self-published books‚ and runs a small digital publishing company with PDF guides‚ printables‚ and courses at SelfRelianceand Survival.com You can find her on Facebook‚ Pinterest‚ Gab‚ MeWe‚ Parler‚ Instagram‚ and Twitter. The post 10 Winter Garden Tasks for People Who Just Can’t Wait to Get Started appeared first on The Organic Prepper.

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Let me scream from a rooftop that I warned righteous Republican House members not to expel Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.). I knew all their virtue-signaling would come back to bite them‚ as it did on February 13 when Biden Democrat Thomas R. Suozzi clobbered Republican nominee Mazi Pilip in a by-election in New York’s 3rd Congressional District by almost eight points. It’s not as if the ill-fated Republican nominee did a bad job soliciting votes. She was predictably outspent by the local Democrats‚ who were awash in Hollywood and high-tech money. Pilip epitomized the Republicans' attempt to showcase their own identity candidates. She ran in a district filled with Jewish and black voters as an Ethiopian Jew who had been an Israeli paratrooper and was married to a Ukrainian Jewish physician. It might be best for Republicans to stop flaunting their moral purity with ruinous consequences. The Republicans thought they had covered every base with Mazi‚ and she tirelessly hit the issues that supposedly mattered most to voters in her district‚ namely illegal immigration and the war with Hamas. The Republican candidate lost badly to a Democratic opponent who denounced her as a right-wing extremist while hiding his past support for Biden’s policies‚ including‚ until recently‚ the Democratic position on porous borders. If 105 Republican members of Congress had not voted to kick out Santos‚ even before the congressman was found guilty in a court of law for alleged criminal offenses‚ he would still be a voting Republican member of the House. One can only imagine the pleasure Democrats experienced as they observed Republicans running to expel one of their own for morally inappropriate behavior. I couldn’t even begin to imagine that the Democrats would ever act this way. Although they may weaponize the Justice Department against their political opponents and push weirdo notions like banning the public recognition of two distinct genders while funding transgender operations for preteens‚ Democrats do show the virtue of standing by their own. Congressional Democrats can bed Chinese spies‚ trip fire alarms in the Capitol on a whim‚ or continue to claim mendaciously that they have evidence that Donald Trump is working for Vladimir Putin‚ and nothing unpleasant will befall them. Democrats went on the warpath when Republicans voted to censure Black Lives Matter favorite Jamaal Bowman for his felonious fire alarm stunt‚ just before a congressional vote he opposed was supposed to take place. For Democrats and their media lapdogs‚ it was supposedly a racist act even to suggest that Bowman‚ a Hamas-friendly BLM supporter‚ had behaved improperly by physically endangering his colleagues. Nor has any attempt been made by Bowman’s party to kick out U.S. Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey. Clearly it doesn’t matter much to his party colleagues that Menendez and his wife are facing charges up to their ears for taking foreign gifts and engaging in massive money laundering. Democrats coddle their politicians‚ while Republicans cannibalize theirs in the name of virtue-signaling. I still can’t get out of my mind how the Democrats also stood faithfully behind Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) when he repeatedly lied about holding damning evidence that Trump and his staff were Russian assets. Unlike the disgraced Santos‚ Schiff is now on his way to becoming the next U.S. senator from California‚ amply supplied with cartloads of money from Democratic donors. Worse‚ Republicans still haven’t figured out how to win outside safe red areas. They’re not very good at flipping purplish districts‚ as we saw last week. The more resourceful Democrats easily outspend their opponents and seem to have a much better ground game‚ even without cheating‚ which they’ll happily do if necessary. The Republicans in any case need to come up with new strategies and lots of advertising money to flip the government in November. And they’ll need to find some way to minimize the Democrats’ use of loose voting practices‚ a situation that allows for cheating big-time. In the meantime‚ however‚ it might be best for Republicans to stop flaunting their moral purity with ruinous consequences. Last week the other side took home a big prize thanks to Republican House members. The Democrats were able to slim down the House Republican majority to the point where it is almost unworkable. Santos was a gift horse that his fellow Republicans should have treasured. He managed‚ to his credit‚ to sneak into his office while the previous officeholder‚ Suozzi‚ was fruitlessly pursuing the governorship. Republican moral posturing‚ it should be understood‚ is not a victimless crime. Almost half the country — that is‚ the decent‚ patriotic half — will suffer if Congress is placed in the hands of the Democrats. The victorious left will do everything in its power to complete the work of turning our once admirable constitutional state into a woke one-party regime. Whatever his personal failings‚ Santos was one of the barriers resisting that project. Now this sacrifice to moral purity has been replaced by a reliable Biden and Schumer ally. One wonders whether conservative journalists and Republican politicians who demanded Santos’ removal even care about the harm they’ve wrought.

Turns out a lot of Halo games have been pitched to Microsoft and 343 over the years‚ with many of them never seeing the light of day. Some of these 3o-odd pitches looked to bring back Halo's ODST unit in multiple forms‚ but most never made it past the initial planning stage. Continue reading Halo’s most revered spinoff almost returned‚ but pitches went nowhere MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Halo Infinite system requirements‚ Halo Infinite Bosses‚ Halo Infinite ranks