Our partner Rob Brezsny, who has a new book out, Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote […] The post Your Weekly Horoscope – ‘Free Will Astrology’ by Rob Brezsny appeared first on Good News Network.

By the Author of Dear Diary: It’s Me, Jessica Find the previous chapter here. Dear Diary, It’s me, Jessica. I sat with Rae at the picnic table, Dad working the fire of the outdoor oven, telling her what had happened with Tasha and her group, their act to get food and more out of people, how I hid and then confronted them.  Jack surrounded them with some of the Four Corners militia, and we sent them unharmed West to the city to their own fate.   “Chicken and biscuits, I missed all the drama,” she slapped the table.  “I got a ride with Mr. Miller back home to sleep in my own bed.” “Meh, you did not miss much, really.  And better to sleep in your own bed and not on the ground, in a bedroll with Samson and the puppies as comfort.” “Good point.” “I have to admit, watching Tasha clam up when Jack said he would toss them over the bridge and me confirming, ‘He has done it before,’ gave me a degree of satisfaction to see the look on her face.”   “Chicken and biscuits, you are terrible!”   “I learned it from you.” “Okay, there is that,” Rae grinned and winked at me. Mom came up with a wire basket of eggs and set it down next to three other baskets of eggs. “It is getting cooler, the days shorter.  The chickens are laying less then they do in the summer.  These are the eggs from the past week.  According to Joanna, if we roll them in a layer of Ghee or lard, they will keep for up to six months as long as we keep them cool.  She said the eggs will even take on the flavor of the Ghee or lard.  Should make for some good eggs!”   “Oh, now you are talking about real Southern comfort food,” Rae exclaimed.  “Two eggs over easy, with smoked bacon with biscuits, and that is what I call breakfast!”   “Good grief, Rae, you just talking about it, I think I gained five pounds,” Mom smirked.   “Alright,” Dad said from the outdoor oven, “The ghee needs to cool to the point it is semi-solid to coat the eggs,” he said as he pulled the cast iron pan from the outdoor oven stove top and put it on a trivet on the table.  “What are we talking about?” “Gaining weight,” Mom answered. “That would be a neat trick.  I think I am about the same weight as I was wrestling in high school,” Dad said looking down at his waist.   “I remember those days, you in your tight, wrestling singlet,” Mom gave Dad a sly smile. “Uh, yeah, okay,” Dad turned red and coughed twice. “Howdy, everyone,” HAM Guy said as he came around the corner of the house and took a seat at the picnic table.  “What’s new?” “We are preserving eggs in Ghee,” Mom answered. “Oh.  Well, that’s an interesting idea.” “Anything new on the radio nets?” Rae asked. “I passed the word to City HAM Guy about those people who came to Four Corners pretending to be special as a con to get free food.  He said they would keep an eye out.  Jamal and his crew found a gas station with a burned-out storefront, but in the back, there was a storeroom that was not damaged.  He says at the next trade they have some goodies to trade for like candy bars, coffee, cigarettes, chips, that kind of thing.” “Oh, coffee,” Rae exclaimed.   “Our supply ran out over a year ago,” Dad said. “Well, bring something good for trade!  I am sure coffee will be going for a premium!  In other news,” HAM Guy said in his best serious and stern TV news anchor voice, “The King of New America has determined he will mint silver and gold coins as the new currency.  His likeness on one side, and on the other a turkey, his finance minister.” “He might be nuts, but I think I am beginning to like this guy,” Mom said. HAM Guy changed back to his normal voice, “He might be better than some of the politicians we had in DC before the power went out.”   Then he changed back to a serious and stern TV anchor guy voice, “In weather, reports from the Northeast of heavy snow and extreme cold.  Without snowplows, the only means of transportation is either snowshoes or cross-country skis.  And in sports, no one cares as there are no professional teams anyway.” “Hear from your Ireland HAM friend?” Dad asked. “I did,” HAM Guy said, staying in his serious and stern TV anchor guy voice.  “She is getting reports of increased fighting in London, Paris, France, and Berlin, Germany, in what appears to be something of a civil war or fighting between native born and immigrants.  Some are calling it the European Crusades as differing religious or ethnic groups battle it out.  Several European countries have closed their borders.” HAM Guy returned to his normal voice. “The comparison to the actual Crusades is way off, but for those who don’t know history, meh.”  He shrugged his shoulders. “I always wanted to see Paris,” Rae sighed.  “What a shame.” Entry two Well, that did not take long. Billy’s new wife is pregnant.  There is some question about the timing if she was not already pregnant when they got married.   Diary, I do not think it matters.   What I do think is that it is not me!  It isn’t that I do not want kids.  I just think I am way too young for the whole settling down and having kids kinda of thing.  I might be the Hero of Four Corners, but if the power were still on, I would still be in high school thinking about finding the right dress and who would be my date to the Snow Ball.  I could not even vote, buy a lotto ticket, or buy cigarettes, not that I would smoke.   Maybe I have not met the right guy.  Not that I have had a lot of guys my age, outside of Billy, to pick from.   One guy was a member of a gang who attacked Four Corners.  When he was harassing Savannah, I gave him a butt stroke to the head with my rifle and knocked him out. Then just recently, Paul was a con artist who I knew was bad news from the word ‘go.’ Diary, the ‘new normal’ is definitely not what I was expecting.  The ‘new normal,’ I do not know what to think about that. About 1stMarineJarHead 1stMarineJarHead is not only a former Marine, but also a former EMT-B, Wilderness EMT (courtesy of NOLS), and volunteer firefighter. He currently resides in the great white (i.e. snowy) Northeast with his wife and dogs. He raises chickens, rabbits, goats, occasionally hogs, cows and sometimes ducks. He grows various veggies and has a weird fondness for rutabagas. He enjoys reading, writing, cooking from scratch, making charcuterie, target shooting, and is currently expanding his woodworking skills. The post Dear Diary, It’s Me, Jessica: Chapter 25 (Book 2) appeared first on The Organic Prepper.

President Donald Trump made quite the stir in recent days after declaring he does not want Somalis in the U.S.   Somalia “stinks and we don’t want them in our country,” according to the president, who added that Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who is Somali, is “garbage.”   Trump’s comments come after news broke that a fraud scheme among Minnesota’s Somali population cost taxpayers over $1 billion. Authorities are investigating multiple plots in which Somalis are alleged to have stolen taxpayer money by claiming social services benefits.   “Nonprofits tied to the Somali community claimed to have fed tens of thousands of nonexistent hungry children, claimed to have provided services to non-existent homeless, and claimed to have provided therapy for nonexistent autistic Somali children,” according to the White House. “Kickbacks were paid, lavish lifestyles were funded, and money was sent overseas–some of it even allegedly funneled to a terror group.”  Additionally, Trump has paused all visas for Afghan nationals. This happened after a man from Afghanistan, who has been living in the U.S. since the fall of Kabul in 2021, shot two National Guard members near the White House the day before Thanksgiving, killing U.S. Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom.    And after Trump vowed to pause immigration from “developing nations countries,” the U.S. has frozen all immigration applications for foreigners from 19 counties, and is reviewing applications that were approved during the four years of the Biden administration. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed on Fox News Thursday that the list will be expanded to “over 30” nations, but did not specify.   For now, the list includes: Afghanistan, Myanmar, Burundi, Chad, Cuba, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Laos, Libya, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Togo, Turkmenistan, Venezuela, and Yemen.   On today’s edition of “Problematic Women,” we discuss Trump’s heightened immigration crackdown, and why assimilation is nonnegotiable.   Plus, what is going on with the narco-terrorist boat strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific? We break it down. And Sabrina Carpenter is mad at the White House for using her music in an immigration enforcement video. All this and more on this week’s show!   The post Who Gets to Be an American? Trump Has an Answer   appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Everything you've been taught is a lie.

I don't know about you, but when considering how our country should fight its conflicts, I like to follow the advice of our enemies--like the Taliban. Well, maybe not. But that was the approach taken today by Morning Joe. Asked to comment on the controversy surrounding the September 2nd drone strike on drug smugglers, MS NOW's Senior National Security Reporter David Rohde said: "I'll be honest, in Afghanistan, the Taliban saw drone strikes as cowardly-- that American forces weren't willing to come fight them face to face on the ground." The irony is that, just seconds earlier, Jonathan Lemire said that yesterday: "The Signalgate inspector general's report was made public. Pete Hegseth looks bad there as well, in terms of, as it was put, that he was putting American military personnel at risk by sharing these war plans on Signal." We agree that putting American military personnel at risk unnecessarily is bad. But Rohde/Morning Joe/MS NOW apparently believe that putting American military personnel at risk is the way to go! Take the Taliban's advice, America: come out and fight like a man! Don't resort to those cowardly drone strikes! We say that when confronting a foe, take the Indiana Jones approach: don't engage on his terms — use the most advanced weaponry available. Note: Interestingly, Rohde, while working on a book, was kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan in November 2008 and held captive for over seven months, until he and a colleague escaped. Yet here he was today promoting the Taliban's view of the American military. Did David suffer a form of Stockholm Syndrome, in which he came to identify with his captors? Here's the transcript. MS NOW Morning Joe 12/5/25 6:18 am ET JONATHAN LEMIRE: We have heard Republicans, including some on our air, like Congressman Turner yesterday from the House Armed Services Committee, suggesting, look, Congress has not signed off on these attacks. We would have real reluctance if the president were to escalate them on land. But yet, there hasn't actually been much of a mechanism, David Rohde, for the Congress to step in and to try to, beyond what we saw yesterday, to really get to the bottom of this.  And we have, you know, and the timing of this shouldn't be lost. This, the examination, the close scrutiny that this strike, the September 2nd strike has received, also comes on the same day that the Signalgate Inspector General's report was made public.  Pete Hegseth looks bad there as well, in terms of, you know, as it was put, that he was putting American military personnel at risk by sharing these war plans on Signal, inadvertently, with a journalist. And yet, we have him on social media yesterday doing a performative victory lap and sort of strutting about, like, look, I'm under this pressure, but we're just going to push the button and hit another boat.  DAVID ROHDE: And I'll be honest, in Afghanistan, the Taliban saw drone strikes as cowardly -- that American forces weren't willing to come fight them face-to-face on the ground.  LEMIRE: Yes. ROHDE: And not that, you know, it's going to make the drug traffickers angry, but it's just this idea that our technology, and just wiping out people are all going to roll over and give up. 

Two teenage boys have been arrested for allegedly shooting and killing a 14-year-old and then lighting her body on fire.Danika Troy was reported missing by her mother on Monday, according to Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson, who conducted a media briefing on Thursday.'The evidence pointed to them immediately. They took them into custody immediately.'A day later, the girl's badly burned remains were found by a man walking near Kimberly Road in Floridatown.Police said they identified the remains as belonging to Troy because her mother had reported that she left with a scooter, and it was found near the remains. They also found shoes that matched those she was wearing.Johnson said that a witness told police that 16-year-old Gabriel Williams and 14-year-old Kimahri Blevins had planned the murder of the girl.In an interview with police, Blevins allegedly said he blocked Troy after they had a falling out on social media. Williams also said he was upset with something Troy had said, according to police.But a possible motive is still undetermined."They have been interviewed, but the motive that we're getting doesn't fit the forensics or any facts of the case," Johnson said.The sheriff said Williams stole the gun they used from his mother."It's bad enough that you kill a 14-year-old; you're 14, you're 16, you shoot her multiple times, and then you set her on fire," Johnson added.The state attorney's office said a grand jury will determine whether the boys should be tried as adults.RELATED: California man convicted of brutally attacking his son with a sledgehammer while he slept "This is what major crimes calls a ground ball," Johnson said. "The evidence pointed to them immediately. They took them into custody immediately."Williams and Blevins were each charged with first-degree premeditated murder. They both are in custody at the Santa Rosa Juvenile Detention Center."It shocks me," neighbor Sue Petrisch said. "It's always been so quiet here, and it's getting bad. It's terrifying, in fact."A candlelight vigil is planned to honor the victim on Monday at Avalon Baptist Church. A GoFundMe account has been set up to help pay for her burial costs. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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