To all it may concern .. 😢
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Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund
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Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources
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Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
Roger Q Publicanos retweeted
In the middle of World War Two, German soldiers in southeastern Poland started avoiding a cluster of villages.
They wouldn't go in. They wouldn't take people out for forced labor. They put up warning signs and stayed away.
They believed the area was infected with typhus.
It wasn't. Two doctors had invented the whole thing.
The man behind it was Eugene Lazowski, a young Polish doctor working for the Red Cross in the town of Rozwadów. He was watching the Nazi occupation tear his country apart. Executions. Deportations. People shipped off to labor camps, many never coming back.
He wanted to stop it. He had no weapons, no army, and no way to fight.
What he had was medicine.
His friend and fellow doctor, Stanisław Matulewicz, had discovered something strange. If you injected a person with a harmless, dead strain of a certain bacteria, their blood would test positive for typhus.
They wouldn't be sick at all. But on paper, they'd look like they had one of the most feared diseases of the war.
And the Germans were terrified of typhus. It spread fast, it killed, and it could tear through an army. When the Germans found it, they quarantined the area and kept their distance.
Lazowski realized what that meant. If he could make enough people look infected, the Germans would leave the whole region alone.
So he started injecting his patients.
He chose carefully. He sent the blood samples to German labs for testing, exactly as the rules required. The results came back positive. Again and again.
The Germans declared an epidemic zone. Villages were quarantined. Soldiers kept out. People who would have been seized for forced labor or worse were left alone, because nobody wanted to go near them.
Lazowski had to be careful. If too many cases looked fake, someone would ask why nobody was dying. So he spread out the injections over time and kept the outbreak believable.
Eventually the Germans did get suspicious. They sent a team of doctors to inspect.
Lazowski met them with food and vodka and played the gracious host. He guided them toward the sickest looking, dirtiest patients he could find, in the most crowded rooms. The German doctors, worried about catching typhus themselves, took a few samples and left in a hurry.
The tests came back positive.
The fake epidemic lasted until the end of the war. Estimates say it may have protected around 8,000 people.
Lazowski also secretly helped Jews from the nearby ghetto, giving them medical care at enormous risk.
After the war he moved to the United States and became a professor of pediatrics in Chicago. For decades he barely talked about what he'd done. Late in life he finally wrote a memoir. He called it My Private War.
He died in 2006.
He never fired a shot. He beat the Nazis with a needle and a lab test.
Ok.
Time for a little musical interlude.
Your welcome.
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This is a valid question that should be addressed from the federal LE and legal perspective and how that interacts with the state level LE and legal systems. This is most important in Blue and Purple areas.
What are the specific legal rights?
What are the red lines/thresholds to resorting to armed defense?
What if a violent mob comes to your neighborhood (frequently mentioned by the left but fortunately, not carried out, yet) and hurls Molotov cocktails at or invades occupied homes?
The average patriot needs this information to be pretty much iron clad. If they HAVE to make a decision to act, they’ll know where they stand and be able to weigh the consequences against not acting.
It’s sad that this is even a remote concern, in the US, in these times but here it is.
Replying to @WadeMiller @DataRepublican
My question is what happens in a "Rooftop Korean" situation where people decide they have had enough of the bullshit and defend themselves from the provocateurs and domestic agitators?
Roger Q Publicanos retweeted
I can’t believe this but I gotta do it. I never wanna hear MAGA NURSES CAN’T BE NURSES. The shit I hear from liberal nurses is beyond unprofessional. I hope this nurse learns from this report I’m about to make on her. I’m just glad I stepped in and helped the patient who was attacked by 2 random people.
Roger Q Publicanos retweeted
Two young Israeli soldiers gave their lives near Hebron to stop a massacre.
Staff Sergeant Ron Yonatan Roitman, 23, and Sergeant Yuval Shay Svilem, 20, were killed when gunmen attacked their checkpoint. Three others were wounded.
Netanyahu says the terrorists were planning a Hamas assault on civilians.
These heroes stopped it.
Remember their names.
Stand with Israel.
Roger Q Publicanos retweeted
Jennifer Welch wants “pistols firing” at Vice President Vance. This is messaging to the degenerates on hormones who will do it. She’s essentially saying she wants pistols locked, loaded, and fired.
@FBIDirectorKash
@SecretService
What The F Is Going On With @FOXNews?!
I guess we’re all done with “Fair And Balanced”.
Anyone else hear Brett Baer’s segment on the national debt.
“it’s both sides fault”.
While technically true, there is some context and stark comparisons as to which administration did what, like 100s of billions of dollars in fraud, root causes of the dramatic and catastrophic increase in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid spending, like importing millions of illegal aliens to the US for the past 4+ years and what it cost to repair things that the previous administration purposely broke.
Not a peep.
I had to turn them off after they started talking about the possibility of an end to the Russia Ukraine war.
Done with @FoxNews, their products and personalities.
Roger Q Publicanos retweeted
CHRISTIANS: Don’t get confused about casting your vote…
Here are 3 things a vote is NOT ❌
Roger Q Publicanos retweeted
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Opinion Of The Day:
We who vote Republican are depicted as fascist, white NAZIS, KKK and basically a lynch mob.
When I look up the news, what do I see?
People who tend to vote Democrat, leftists, liberals, communists, islamists, the “Greens”, illegal immigrants, etc, are rioting, looting, vandalizing and burning down cities, assaulting, assassinating, abusively prosecuting, doxing, stalking, swatting and de-banking their political opponents, committing massive frauds, handholding violent felons, living off of taxpayers, undermining our Republic and basically a very lengthy list of abhorrent behaviors.
Side note: Your counterparts overseas; if this was the 1940s, they would be the collaborators, saboteurs and antisemites, working with the NAZIS.
Not the heroic resistance.
Look in the mirror, YOU are the BAD guys.
Different uniforms and different flags don’t hide what you do..
Roger Q Publicanos retweeted
[Pardon de ces fautes et coquilles et corrections automatiques indues. Poursuivons, ce que je décris là, qui n'est pas exhaustif mais assez complet, se déroule sur la portion de rue que je peux voir, environ trente mètres]
Un jeune arabe en jogging gris marche les bras chargés de petites boîtes blanches ; il porte des lunettes double foyer et sa bouche est constamment ouverte ; il ramasse, avec deux comparses, les derniers articles qui traînent, glaneurs qui doivent être les derniers de la hiérarchie des pillards ; un camion de pompier dont je ne vois que la lumière incidente bleue les met en fuite ; une grosse jeune femme noire à bandana noir hésite à récupérer un sac blanc derrière une voiture, elle s'y risque, puis rebrousse chemin, des cris retentissent, les CRS vont sans doute surgir ; un homme arabe habillé d'une superbe veste en daim peut-être neuve inspecte la voiture jaune (ses dessous auront été décidément fort inspectés) puis donne des coups de pied dans les sacs qui traînent au sol, histoire de vérifier qu'il n'y a plus rien à prendre, après tout on ne sait jamais, il est toujours temps de mettre la main sur un maillot de football ; un homme voûté passe, sa main enroulée dans un énorme bandage ensanglanté ; soudain un fort contingent de pilleurs-casseurs très équipés et à pas lestes passe tout près ; l'un d'entre eux tient une grosse boîte noire en métal, qu'il lance de toutes ses forces sur la chaussée, puis relance, puis lance encore, au milieu de ses compagnons, elle s'ouvre, mais déception, elle ne contient rien (je comprends alors qu'il s'agit d'une boîte aux lettres, boîte qui servira de ballon de football aux casseurs successifs) ; des détonations retentissent, les casseurs courent en riant, la proportion doit être d'un CRS pour cinq cents ou mille ou deux mille pillards ; une petite voiture blanche portant le mot “SERVICE” se gare devant la voiture jaune, en sort un jeune homme arabe qui aussitôt se fond avec le reste des pillards, qui à ce moment courent pour fuir six CRS (les voilà marchant vite, on les sent essoufflés) ; je ne vois plus personne mais entends “Eh fils de pute ! Nique ta mère !”, insultes réglementaires de la soirée ; les pillages durent depuis trois heures, plus peut-être, un magasin a été pillé à deux mètres, une camionnette incendiée à dix, et je n'ai vu que vingt CRS et quelques pompiers ; je reste à mon poste, matraque en main, chats terrorisés ; A. m'appelle, elle est en sécurité, elle a croisé D., son ex, en tenue de casseur, “prêt à détruire des vitrines et à caillasser du flic”, je lui décris la situation ici, pour sa part elle était à République, ça n'était pas noir et arabe comme ici, mais plutôt manifestation de “boboland”, les flics étaient effrayants, ils fonçaient en voiture tout près de la foule ; M., la voisine, m'appelle, ils sont prêts à évacuer l'immeuble, il paraît qu'aux étages du dessus la fumée va rendre la nuit encore plus difficile ; en raccrochant je me rends compte qu'un homme crie dans la rue depuis de longues minutes, ou plutôt râle, un hâââârgh répété exactement, il a dû se casser quelque chose, mais je ne le vois pas ; il veut se battre, dit-il, wallah, wallah, hâââârgh, un homme à bonnet et à air slave prend appui sur la voiture blanche, il regarde en ma direction mais sans me voir, et s'il était chargé de repérer les lieux accessibles au cambriolage à son équipe, je met ma matraque sous le bras et allume cigarette, il me voit et part ; accalmie ; nouvelle équipe de CRS, cette fois ils sont vingt et portent des boucliers très grands, en grillage, qui ont l'air très légers ; “tout droit ! Tout droit !”, les derniers portent des sortes de lance grenade, l'index est sur la gâchette ; ils escortent un blond à Barbour et coupe militaire, qui plaisante de la situation ; les CRS doivent avoir gagné du terrain car les pilleurs demandent à la ronde si la rue est fermée ou non ; un groupe de trois jeunes hommes habillés à la mode bobo, casquette et blouson,
Interesting NC news..
@mattvanswol
TROUTMAN POLICE CHIEF ENDS OFF-DUTY SECURITY ASSIGNMENTS AT SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS
Troutman, NC - Troutman Police Chief Josh Watson has notified Iredell Statesville Schools that, effective October 26, 2026, his officers will no longer be authorized to work off-duty security assignments at Board of Education meetings.
The decision follows an October 12 incident in which Board Chairman Doug Knight requested the removal of a man who was reading sexually explicit excerpts from a book reportedly available in Lake Norman High School’s library. The excerpts included descriptions of sexual acts and anatomy that Firewire will not repeat in this post.
Troutman officers handled the situation calmly and politely asked the man to leave.
In his letter, Chief Watson cited concerns about the legal basis for requested removals, the protection of constitutional rights, and the expectations placed on officers assigned to these meetings.
“A request from the presiding officer does not, by itself, establish sufficient legal grounds for removal, detention, or arrest,” Watson wrote.
The board and school administration will now need to arrange alternative meeting security. Troutman Police will continue responding to calls for law enforcement assistance at board meetings within their jurisdiction. Officers may also continue working approved off-duty assignments at school sporting events and other school activities.
Firewire applauds Chief Watson for recognizing that officers must independently determine whether enforcement action is legally justified. His letter raises serious concerns about how requests to remove members of the public are handled.
Firewire's position is simple: If a book is appropriate for students to access in a school library, school board members should be willing to hear its contents discussed during public comment.
If board members find those passages too graphic to hear at a meeting, they should be willing to explain why the material is appropriate for students to read in private.
Excellent job, Chief Watson.
@isschools
THIS 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
J'ai vu une Tesla décoller. Et j'ai entendu beaucoup de bêtises.
« Ça ne sert à rien. » « Gadget de milliardaire. » « Qui a besoin d'une voiture qui vole ? »
Personne. Et c'est exactement pour ça que c'est important.
En 1978, Brabham a aligné en Formule 1 une voiture équipée d'un ventilateur géant à l'arrière. Il aspirait l'air sous le châssis et plaquait la voiture au sol. Elle a gagné sa première course avec une avance insolente. Elle a été interdite immédiatement.
Quarante-huit ans plus tard, on y revient. Un système de succion qui colle la voiture à la route et lui permet de passer sous la seconde au 0 à 100.
Personne n'a « besoin » de faire le 0 à 100 en moins d'une seconde. Comme personne n'a besoin d'une Formule 1. Et pourtant : les freins carbone de votre berline, l'hybridation de votre moteur, l'aérodynamique de votre SUV, les palettes au volant — tout ça vient de voitures de course que personne n'utilisera jamais pour aller au travail.
La Formule 1 ne sert à rien. Pourtant elle sert à tout.
En 1973, quand la France a lancé Ariane, l'Europe sortait de onze échecs consécutifs du programme Europa. La presse parlait d'argent jeté dans l'espace. Vingt ans plus tard, Ariane détenait la moitié du marché mondial des lancements commerciaux, et chaque satellite de télévision, de météo ou de GPS que vous utilisez a bénéficié de cette obstination.
Le progrès a toujours la même tête au début : un truc inutile, cher, ridicule, construit par des gens qu'on prend pour des fous.
Ce que j'ai vu à Dallas, ce n'est pas une voiture volante. C'est un châssis, une gestion de l'énergie et une maîtrise des flux d'air que l'industrie automobile mettra dix ans à digérer.
Les applications viendront : sécurité, freinage, stabilité, consommation. Elles finiront dans des voitures ordinaires conduites par des gens qui expliqueront, en 2036, que tout ça était évident.
La question n'est jamais « à quoi ça sert ».
La question est : qui ose encore construire des choses qui ne servent à rien ?
Il y a cinquante ans, c'était nous. La fusée, le TGV, le Concorde, le Minitel.
L'Europe construisait des choses absurdes et magnifiques.
Aujourd'hui, on commente depuis le siège arrière car nous sommes hors course.
Merci @elonmusk de nous faire rêver



























