Tattoo Tuesday

KOMO News, Man allegedly ripped tattoo off woman's throat because she made his mac and cheese

"[The victim] advised Wolfe was upset and told her the macaroni and cheese she made belonged to him," the probable cause statement said. "[The victim] advised she tried explaining to Wolfe that she made the dinner for him and the other resident when Wolfe grabbed her."

"[The victim] advised Wolfe pinned her against the wall and grabbed her throat. Wolfe then pulled the skin on [her] throat where she had just received a tattoo approximately 5 days prior. Wolfe ripped the skin from [her] neck, leaving the large laceration."

Immediately after the attack, Wolfe allegedly sat down at the table "and began playing on his tablet."

Wolfe was arrested and charged with assault in the first degree causing serious physical injury, per the Rolla Police Department.

He must really like Mac and Cheese. 

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The Monday Morning Stimulus

FoodNetwork, IHOP Just Changed Its Coffee After 20 Years — Is It Any Good?

“Coffee is our number-one selling beverage and for the first time in 20 years, we took a hard look at our entire coffee program,” Chef Art Carl, VP Culinary at IHOP tells Food Network. “We realized we had an opportunity to make it more flavorful, modern, and competitive.” 

In other words, the old coffee was weak.

“Our previous roast was light to medium with Arabica beans,” Carl says. “Based on guest feedback, the flavor didn’t stand up to the inclusions of creamer & sweetener, which around 80% of our guests like to add.”
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I hit a random IHOP location near me for breakfast and ordered some coffee along with my meal. Right away, I noticed it was bolder and more flavorful than any coffee I could remember from IHOP. While those tasting notes didn’t knock my socks off, I would definitely describe it as nutty and caramel-like. And, in what I would assume IHOP would count as a win, now when I think of settling into one of their booths for breakfast, my recollection has officially shifted from “the coffee is fine” to “the coffee is good.”

I have been to IHOP in the recent past (but not before this change), and I honestly couldn't tell you I remember the coffee.

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Katfish for Kiddos?

WBAL TV, Maryland schools partner with Bay2Tray to serve blue catfish in effort to help Chesapeake Bay

A new lunch menu item in Cecil County Public Schools helps control an invasive species in the Chesapeake Bay.

Cecil County Public Schools staff began serving blue catfish sandwiches in mid-February. At Cherry Hill Middle School, the sandwiches are called catty patties, a play on Crabby Patties from SpongeBob.

"The catty patty is actually really good, said Grayson Jezyk, a sixth-grade student at the school. "I like it a lot."

"It tastes very similar to a crab cake," said Chrisanna Teahl, another sixth-grade student.

 

The school's kitchen manager said the catty patties have been a hit among many students.

"It was very popular," the kitchen manager said. "The kids that like it really like it."

The initiative is part of the Bay2Tray program, which started 12 years ago in California as an initiative through Real Good Fish.

Real Good Fish sources sustainable seafood directly from fishermen. The Maryland Department of Agriculture partnered with the program to get blue catfish on the menu at more schools along the East Coast. It's part of an effort to control the population in the Chesapeake Bay.

Blue Catfish are, indeed, a mild, white and flaky fine tasting fish. I'm still shocked that sixth graders would welcome fish for lunch.

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Flotsam and Jetsam - Two Domestic Islamic Terror Attacks and Democrats Complain Our Soldiers are Eating Too Well

There were two apparent domestic terror incidents yesterday conducted by Islamic terrorist who were naturalized citizens against US targets. In the first, a convicted ISIS sympathizer from Senegal, recently released from prison, invaded an ROTC classroom at Old Dominion University in Virginia, shot and killed the instructor, and was subdued, and stabbed to death by the students. In the second, a Lebanese man from Dearborn Michigan crashed his car through the doors of a synagogue in West Bloomfield Michigan, struck one security guard and opened fired. He was killed by another security guard. Cam at Bearing Arms, Shootings Reported at Virginia University, Michigan Synagogue ***UPDATED***. Karol Markowicz @karol, "News: I'm reliably informed that the alleged attacker of Old Dominion in is Mohamed Jalloh, the same Jalloh who was previously convicted of providing support to ISIL." Ace, TERRORIST SHOOTS UP OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY; UPDATE: Confirmed, the Terrorist Is an ISIS Member Released from Prison by... Joe Biden "Have you had enough Muslim Cultural Enrichment yet?" and Terrorist Rams Car Through Synagogue Gate, Starts Shooting the Congregation "Must have been a straight white conservative male. That's my bet. The shooter is now dead and they're still hiding his name which casts a slight amount of doubt on my guess that he's a straight white conservative male." Chase Spears @DrChaseSpears, "This is not the way I want to see a familiar face show up on my feed. Brandon and I were classmates at the Command and General Staff College. He deployed to fight the enemy overseas in combat zones. Meanwhile, America imported the enemy who k*lled him. When I say this nation's immigration policy is a betrayal, I mean it. Words fail." Quote Greg Price @greg_price11 "The victim of the terrorist attack at Old Dominion has been identified as Lt. Col. Brandon Shah-- who was a Professor of Military Science and the leader of the university's ROTC program. He was a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom." Amy Curtis at TownHall, The Old Dominion University Shooter Has Been ID'd and It Looks Like Islamic Terrorism. Jarvis @jarvis_best, "May he never have to buy another beer for himself in his entire life" Quote New York Post @nypost "Hero ROTC cadet fatally stabbed crazed Old Dominion gunman to prevent more carnage https://trib.al/pnRex5W." Kostas Moros @MorosKostas, "The tragedy WAS prevented. Because the synagogue didn't rely on late-arriving police, and took its security into its own hands. You have pushed for efforts to ban carry in churches. You want to aid would-be terrorists and killers like the perpetrator today. Shameful." Quote Brady | United Against Gun Violence @bradybuzz "Law enforcement are responding to an active shooter situation at a Jewish synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan. Our thoughts are with the West Bloomfield community." Detroit FreeP, Temple Israel attacker dead, guard injured, kids safe: Latest updates. "Ayman Mohamad Ghazali carried out "the tragic attack on Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield," a spokesperson for the department told the Detroit Free Press in a statement late March 12. Ghazali was killed in the attack, a security guard was injured and the temple partially burned in a fire." Ace also has Updates On the Last Two of the Four Muslim Terrorist Attacks This Month Alone. Western Lensman @WesternLensman, "MSNOW is in full ‘blame Trump’ mode in wake of Islamic attacks: Alex Wagner: “You have to wonder fundamentally about the degree to which this White House...actually has the interest in keeping Americans safe." “It doesn't give you a sense that the safety and the security of the American people is paramount." Anything but blame the ideology and the actual people responsible. Impossible to loathe legacy media enough." Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze "It's an entirely new rulebook. They used to just downplay Islamic terror, but just as they did with Charlie Kirk, they now spring into action and immediatly blame the act on the right. They mention Nick Fuentes, an online influencer, and ignore institutionalized antisemitism on the left, in Congress (The Squad), candidates with nazi tattoos, in Academia, and in their own media circles. It's a complete alternate reality they are crafting." Quote Nicholas Fondacaro, "@NickFondacaro, "MS NOW is already suggesting the Republican Party has something to do with the Michigan Synagogue shooter: "The Republican party is having, right now, a real fight on its hands, has a real fight on its hands amid wings of the Republican Party that are extremely antisemitic or flirting with antisemitism. And Republicans on the other side of the party who are saying, hold on, what are you doing? This is not this is ripping us apart. Democrats are having a fight on that as well, but it's been pretty pronounced within the Republican Party."

Don Surber, Military is winning in Iran, so the media spins a lobster tale. Amy Curtis, Democrats Are Attacking Hegseth's Supposed Steak Budget. They'll Hate This Next Number. @Chicago1Ray @Chicago1Ray, "Hit that like button, if you got no problem with our troops eating Steak and lobster.... they f'n deserve it Kudos to Pete Hegseth for hooking our guys up... The media is going apeshit over the cost of ($22M) dollars, but they're ok with ($18B) of Somali fraud in Minnesota." Ted @streetlevel, "The Obama Years > Afghanistan: For Some US Troops, Guacamole, Steak and Lobster on the Menu. #PeteHegseth Story Link: (Oct 26, 2011) https://eurasianet.org/afghanistan-for-some-us-troops-guacamole-steak-and-lobster-on-the-menu." Noam Blum @neontaster, "¯\_(ツ)_/¯." Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze, "Several CNN Guests repeated the Hegseth ribeye and lobster narrative. So @jaketapper is silent about how this has been a tradition for US troops for decades, despite how much he claims to prop up dead bodies of troops @brianstelter has not weighed in on it despite Guest on his network repeating it. @kaitlancollins did not correct any of her guests onset about what the seafood and ribeye is actually went to, which were troops on extended deployment. So I'll echo @EsotericCD, what the hell is going on it's CNN (I've never appeared on cnn for favorable book reviews)." Quote Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze, "So @kaitlancollins is now also going to correct Paul Begala on TwitterX and issue an apology? Does CNN's main guests or hosts get anything right? EVER? x.com/thomasmhern/st…" Erick Erickson @EWErickson, "I've heard Democrats complain more loudly about our soldiers being well fed than about fraud in California or Minnesota. They sure do have their priorities. They seem to only be upset about the military spending because they'd prefer the lobster and steak to go to illegal aliens." Foster @foster_type, "I'm not easy to surprise on this stuff but I'm genuinely surprised how far the libs went with this one without even making one phone call or reading one additional tweet. Is this stuff because they are all on Bluesky now?" Quote Alex Christy @alexchristy17 "Seth Meyers (with the help of a Jen Psaki clip) joins Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert in not knowing about military surf and turf meals, "They spent $15 million on steak in one month. Who are you? Sterling Cooper Draper and Pryce? If you're gonna eat that much steak, you better have come up with a new campaign for lucky strike. No wonder Hegseth always looks miserable. He's 24/7 meat constipated. That's the face of a man war fighting with his colon." Eric Matheny @ericmmatheny, "For years, your tax dollars have been buying cellphones and EBT cards for migrants, fake daycare centers for Somalis in Minnesota, and settlements for congress members accused of sexual harassment. The media didn’t utter one until we gave our troops a decent dinner." Streiff at RedState, Hegseth Hatred Leaves Democrat Politicians and Media With Egg on Their Faces As Well As Steak and Lobster. Alladdin @Alladdin1983, "Cracked it: I knew something was off about the fake outrage over the steak and lobster, because those are standard meals the troops get weekly at the DFAC. I did a little digging. It seems the two vendors who had a monopoly on DOD food supply lost their contracts: VAL-PRO, INC. (located in California) and CHICO PRODUCE, INC. (also based in California). The new vendor setup is now open to multiple vendors (see the last picture). @DataRepublican @PeteHegseth @SecWar @SomeBitchIIKnow @GuntherEagleman @nicksortor."

Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47, "In just one year under President Trump, blue-collar workers have made up all the wages they lost under Biden. More progress. More to come." Scott Turner @SecretaryTurner, "Existing home sales are up, and housing affordability has improved for the eighth consecutive month. @POTUS’ economic agenda is delivering for the American people." Quote Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47 "US Existing-Home Sales Increase as Affordability Improves." But NRO warns Price Controls Will Not Help Patients, but in the world we live in, every country but the US controls the price, and we pay the balance.

At OutKick, Marco Rubio Jumps Vance and Newsom As Favorite To Win 2028 Election "Vance is often viewed as the more natural heir to Trump’s MAGA political movement. Rubio, however, has emerged as one of the most influential figures in Trump’s administration." Vance/Rubio or Rubio/Vance? I could go either way.

Sundance at CTH reports Witkoff and Kushner Meet Russian Delegation in Florida – Reports Indicate Discussions of Strategic Economic Cooperation on Oil.

Betsy Klein @betsy_klein, "In today's edition of Washington is Veep: A Democratic congresswoman made a legal complaint against President Donald Trump for, in part, excluding her from an upcoming Kennedy Center board meeting. The invitation, it turned out, was in her spam folder. Aide filed an update today:" Dan Crenshaw @DanCrenshawTX, "Everyone is worried that Washington is like House of Cards, while hoping it is like West Wing. Truth is that it’s more like Veep."

Rick Moran at PJM, Mojtaba Khamenei Is Nowhere to Be Seen as Speculation Grows Regarding His Health. Shayan Sardarizadeh @Shayan86, "This image of Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, which has been widely published by Iranian media today and now appears on his new X account, appears to have been manipulated with AI. Google's SynthID finds watermarks in it that indicate it has been edited using Google AI. A cropped reverse image search finds what appears to be the original version of the photo published several years ago. It shows Mojataba at a pro-government rally. The background and those surrounding him seem to have been edited and removed using AI." Althouse asks Is it true that "Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s new supreme leader, struck a defiant tone on Thursday in his first known public comments since succeeding his slain father"?, "That's what I'm reading in the NYT, but what proof is there that the man is even alive?" Ace claims it's Confirmed: New "Supreme Leader" Is In Coma, Lost Leg In Airstrike, "supreme leader more like supine leader amirite "Insider (World News)" claims the rumor is now confirmed."

Dave Strom at Hat Hair, Israeli Drones Striking IRGC Goons in the Streets. Saul Sadka @Saul_Sadka, "WILD: The predicted “future” came within 24 hours. This is Israeli Air Force footage of drones and jets blowing up Basij checkpoints all around Tehran today, based on tips called in by Iranian citizens. A revolution with air support against a regime with no air defence." Ace, Confirmed: Begun, the Drone Wars Have, "As I guessed, the new phase of the war is anti-personnel strikes on street enforcers and IRGC goons not with 1,000 pound bombs but with hand-grenade-sized charges delivered by drones." Mossad Commentary @MOSSADil, "MAJOR STRIKE IN IRAN Reports say the armored corps base in Ahvaz, Iran has been destroyed. This base is where Iran’s tanks and armored units are stationed and coordinated in the southwest of the country. If confirmed, it would be a serious blow to Iran’s ground forces and military infrastructure." Trent Telenko @TrentTelenko, "The Iranian Mullah Regime cannot meet the payroll of the Regime Security Forces... ...so, it is stealing the next payroll from everyone else. Food security issues started the last Iranian mass insurrection. The Mullah Regime just lit the short fuze for the next one." Quote Joe Truzman @JoeTruzman, "This morning, hundreds of thousands of Iranians woke up to frozen bank accounts. Customers of Bank Sepah and Bank Melli got an SMS saying their accounts were locked, @NarimanGharib posted on X. The banks' websites and service channels are blocked, and it's not possible to log into accounts at all. The regime is calling this a "Central Bank technical upgrade to communication switches for network stability," he wrote. This is almost certainly the regime freezing enormous sums of money taken directly from its own citizens to ensure its survival. Iranians are being robbed blind by their own government as it clings to power." Fusilli Spock @awstar11, "The hysterical predictions of obsolescence of the aircraft carrier were all wrong." Quote JinWoo Kim, IQ 289 @JinWooIQ "And it changes EVERYTHING about who's really fighting this war. CHINA SECRETLY ARMED IRAN WITH $5 BILLION IN WEAPONS →EVERY SINGLE ONE FAILED."

Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze, "Even the New York Times piece, despite all the throat clearing in the text, is forced to admit, that the school was situated on a military base, and the 157 death count is strictly on the word of the Iranian government. We've seen this before. Gaza Playbook" Quote Kyle Orton @KyleWOrton, "Let us hope even the Trump administration is not so stupid as to use civilian casualties figures derived from the Islamic Revolution. x.com/nytimes/status…" Kratos Disciple @KratosDisciple, "A tomahawk warhead is physically incapable of killing 153 people. The human body is mostly water, which absorbs explosive impact. Even if 153 children were somehow packed into a single room and the warhead detonated in the center of them, it still would not be able to kill all of them. As a point of reference, the explosion in Beirut was in excess of 5 million pounds of explosives. 5 million. 5,000,000+. The official death toll is 218 people. Approximately 7,000 injured." Twitchy, Steven Crowder Taking ABC and Their Iran 'Slopaganda' APART Point-by-DAMNING-Point Is a BEAUTIFUL Thing. Steven Crowder @scrowder, "A quick rundown on the slopaganda over at ABC. 1. ABC issues a report the FBI has warned California police departments Iran has aspirational plans to launch drone attack on California. 2. David Muir on his ABC nightly show (most watched news broadcast in America) parrots report seemingly aimed at causing panic in America. 3. Karoline Leavitt comes out with a post claiming that ABC intentionally omitted fact this was all based off of ONE SINGLE UNVERIFIED report. 4. Screenshots of initial FBI memo prove Leavitt correct and that ABC did in fact omit they were running their entire report off of unverified information." Sundance, President Trump Notes Briefing on Iranian Sleeper Cells that Entered During Biden Open Border Era. CBD at Ace's asks in The Morning Rant: What Is Winning In Iran? "So...to answer the question: Winning in Iran means degrading their war-making capacity down to nothing, so they cannot threaten their neighbors and world commerce. It means destroying their nuclear program so that rebuilding it would take many, many years."

Red Pill Dispenser @redpilldispensr, "Historian Bill Federer: "By 2030, there will be a majority Muslim population in Europe, and they'll just flat out vote in Sharia law." "People forget Egypt was completely Christian for six centuries. It's not anymore. All of North Africa was completely Christian for six centuries. It's not anymore." "Constantinople was the largest Christian city in the world, and the largest Christian church in the world for hundreds of years was the Hagia Sophia. And it got turned into a mosque." "They want to do the same thing with the Vatican."" Athena Thorne at PJM has a Shocking Video Out of NYC Almost Makes Me Rethink This Whole 'First Amendment' Thing. Jason Jones @jonesville, "Left: Emir Balat giving the one finger ISIS salute after an attempted bombing in NYC. Right: Zohran Mamdani’s guest giving the one finger ISIS salute as they celebrate Ramadan at City Hall in NYC. Why is no one calling him out on this?"

PJM's Stephen Kruiser warns Never Forget How Quickly Everything Can Go 'Full Spanberger.' Natalia Mittelstadt at JTN reports Ex-Virginia first lady Dorothy McAuliffe launches campaign for state's 7th congressional district. The New York Times @nytimes, "Breaking News: James Clyburn, the 85-year-old Democratic power broker from South Carolina, will seek an 18th House term, defying a push for generational change." Power is a hard thing to give up. Twitchy, Hypocrite Josh Shapiro Uses Squatter's Rights to Build Himself a Security Barrier on Neighbor's Property. PJM's Matt Margolis wonders Is This the Scandal That Dooms Josh Shapiro’s Presidential Ambitions? I doubt it. The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee, Democrats Expel Fetterman After Repeated Warnings To Stop Supporting America https://buff.ly/QiR2gqH." Quick, while it's still a parody!

From Atop Da Hill, Oz: Millions may be falsely enrolled in ObamaCare. Ace, Dr Oz: Up to 25% of Obamacare Enrollment Might Be Pure Democrat/Foreign Piracy "What are the odds." Green Beret Nap Time @GBNT1952, "Remember when Southwest Key, Catholic Charities USA, and Endeavors, all non profit organizations, received about $5.6 billion of tax payer money under Biden from 2021-2024 to help facilitate illegal immigration? Their CEOs made millions of dollars in salaries and most of their executives made $600-700k salaries annually each, all funded by you and yours so they could relocate illegal aliens all over the country. Lots of people got rich off of our money to ensure the establishment never loses again. Now our legislature is refusing to pass the SAVE Act… I wonder why?" Quote Green Beret Nap Time @GBNT1952 Replying to @GBNT1952 Top NGO recipients of your tax dollars: Catholic Charities USA - $1.4B." Vicky Taft at PJM, Watch This Shock Voter Fraud Video in California — Then Tell Your Senator to Pass the SAVE America Act. jj smith @war24182236, "Mar09 2026 1:54pm Location 6th & Mission These people are paying people $5 dollars to sign a ballot, but as you watch the video their telling them what name to sign (which is someone else name) and what address to write. Seems kind of suspicious to me. Why not sign your own name and you can hear people doing it actually twice."

Cam at BA, Cornell Student Facing Felony Charges and 'Red Flag' Order After Rifle Purchase. Said he wanted to protect himself from ICE agents. Shooting News Week, Will Minnesota’s Proposed Mandatory Home Inspection Law Be Enough to Prompt SCOTUS Action? "The law states that, in addition to securing state permission or certification for the possession of existing weapons, owners must “agree to allow the appropriate law enforcement agency to inspect the storage of the device to ensure compliance with this subdivision.” And, Parolee With 131 Priors Caught After Setting Homeless Man on Fire in Mamdani’s NYC.

Dave Strom reports on Yet Another Immigration Enforcement Hoax That Went Viral. 

At Hat Hair, Capt. Ed, CNN Anchor: On Fifth Thought, Our Teleprompter May Have Gotten That Terror Attack A Skosh Wrong and Dave Strom, WTH, CNN? Yet More Massive Lies From the Network. Matt Margolis, CNN's Abby Phillip Issues Humiliating On-Air Correction for Pushing Fake News. Tim Young @TimRunsHisMouth, "A correction a day later is bullshit. Abby Phillip and Ana Navarro should be fired… they both knew what was said was false to begin with." Quote Right Angle News Network @Rightanglenews "BREAKING - Not even a full 24 hours after CNN’s Abby Phillip was forced to issue a retraction after lying and claiming Mamdani was the target of the Islamist attack in NYC, Ana Navarro repeats the same exact lie with zero pushback from Abby."

Fred Lucas at Da Signal signals a First Grader’s ‘Any Life’ Message Sparks Major First Amendment Ruling. "The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of an elementary school student’s First Amendment rights after she was punished for adding the words “any life” to a picture of “Black Lives Matter.”"

From Breitbart, Report: Kansas Revokes Drivers’ Licenses of 1,700 Trans-Identifying Individuals for their declared sex not matching their biological sex.

Link Lauren @itslinklauren, The loudest feminist voices are suddenly silent regarding Iran’s women’s soccer team. Megan Rapinoe, Amber Glenn and all the female athletes who preach about supporting women... they're nowhere to be found. Such hypocrites and cowards.

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I'll Have the Meat Lovers with Added Pepperoni Thanks

Or the vegetarian pizza made from real vegetarians (cured, I'm no heathen). From NYPo, Women view beloved pizza topping as a major red flag in men: ‘It’s selfish’

As if dating in this tech-obsessed era wasn’t difficult enough, women on social media have decided that those who favor meat as a pizza topping are walking red flags.

As surface level as that sounds, women like Esme Hewitt (@esmehewitt) have a strong case for this way of thinking, stressing that their views on pizza toppings are more about a person’s empathy toward the environment and the state of our climate.

In a TikTok video with almost 500,000 views, the content
creator elaborated, saying, “I personally think that if you can’t reduce your meat intake, then you are selfish. What do you mean you can’t just have a veggie burger once in a while?”

 

She then emphasized how rainforests are being chopped down to make warehouses to kill animals in, and meat lovers “just don’t give a f–k?”

If you love nothing more than chowing down on a hearty slice topped with enough meats to clog an artery, Hewitt says, “It speaks so loudly to how you view the environment, how you view animal welfare and even yourself. Meat isn’t that good for you.”

And let’s not forget about men’s obsession with getting enough protein, which might very well be one of the reasons they order this type of pizza, which reminds women like Hewitt of “toxic masculinity.”

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Thursday Tanlines

HuffPo,  People Are 'Carrotmaxxing' To Get A Sunless Tan — But Does It Work?

A new viral TikTok trend has people “carrotmaxxing” — eating three or more full-sized carrots a day — to try to get glowy, tan skin (without the skin cancer risk). TikToker @lisa.alkntra shared a time-lapse clip in one of her videos, showing her skin getting progressively more tan from September through December. Another TikToker @kendramfit shared a video of her tan, claiming that instead of self-tanner, she is “just eating an excessive amount of carrots.”
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Eating an excessive amount of carrots causes carotenemia, “a condition that causes a yellow-orange hue to the skin because of eating beta-carotene-rich foods,” explained Dr. Corrie Alford, a board-certified dermatologist at MetroDerm in Atlanta. You can also achieve the same effect by eating squash, sweet potatoes, pumpkin or oranges. Alford explained, “When a person takes in more beta-carotene than the body needs, the extra gets stored in body fat and can build up in the outermost layer of the skin, causing the yellow or orange hue.”
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And while “carrotmaxxing” may help alter your skin pigmentation to a degree, it won’t necessarily make you look like you have an even, spread-out tan like you were hoping for. Although some people call it a “healthy glow,” Alford compares it to “a bad spray tan” instead.
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Too much of a good thing can have harmful effects, and that includes carrots and other beta-carotene-containing foods. “Excess vitamin A, known as hypervitaminosis A, can have toxic effects,” Alford said. “Luckily, the body only converts a small amount of beta-carotene to vitamin A, making hypervitaminosis A unlikely from eating carrots alone.”

And I don't like carrots quite that much.

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MD Oystermen Want Federal Bailout

Annap Cap Gazette, Maryland eyes federal disaster aid for oyster industry: ‘It’s our heritage’

Maryland officials say they are gathering the data needed to pursue federal disaster aid for the state’s struggling oyster industry, as watermen and Eastern Shore lawmakers press for relief under both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s fishery disaster process and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

For weeks, lawmakers and watermen have called for help, citing market conditions described as among the worst in recent memory, along with a historically cold winter and complications from the Potomac River sewage spill that have devastated the once-robust Maryland oyster industry.

At a meeting of the General Assembly’s Eastern Shore Delegation on Friday, Robert T. Brown, president of the Maryland Watermen’s Association, called oysters “the backbone of the industry.” “Just about anybody who’s in the seafood industry oysters a certain amount,” he said. “They crab most of the season, but they’ll oyster a little bit during the winter. It’s just a way of life that has been for years. It’s our heritage.”

I've done my fair share of oystering. It's backbreaking, dirty work.

Brown said the problem isn’t supply but buyers. A steep dropoff was clear as early as Thanksgiving, he said. “When Thanksgiving came and Christmas, our markets just fell apart,” he said. “I started oystering back in the ’60s, and in Christmas, you never could catch enough … for some reason, we got a generation of people that’s not eating oysters.”

Maryland Department of Natural Resources Secretary Josh Kurtz said the state has already begun working with NOAA on a potential fishery disaster declaration because of the market decline. Kurtz described a Feb. 4 meeting with NOAA’s fisheries disaster team after lawmakers and watermen asked the state to pursue federal help.

When the customers aren't buying your product, either the price is too high, or your product is not in sufficient demand. I suspect both are in play. According to Grok, oysters in Maryland command a retail price of $80-130/ bushel, and more in smaller lots, and if shucked. Certainly doable for a party, but a bit much for daily fare. Moreover, more and more Maryland residents are from out of state, and not into to the culture and wouldn't even know how to eat an oyster.  I don't see how the Feds are going to make us eat more oysters. But if they lower the price somehow, maybe I'll help. 

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Palm Sunday

With Natalie Roser:

YNET News, At the heart of every Medjool date is an ancient palm

Ancient wild date palms cling tightly to the soil of the Ein Shaviv oasis in the Arava (located south of the Dead Sea), and to one another. These are not the elegant, domesticated palms familiar from neatly kept plantations, standing in orderly rows and waiting for harvest. Here, the trees form untamed clusters packed tightly along the streambed, dozens at a time, intertwined in dense braids of branches, crowns, offshoots and shoots, until it is impossible to tell where one tree ends and another begins, which was born and which is dying. The flowing spring water carries a pleasant scent, and the ground is layered with a tough carpet of fronds and leaves shed over thousands of years we call history.

This is no exaggeration. A single date palm lives for about 90 years, but the palm colony as a whole is thousands of years old and, according to new research, deserves to be called the ‘mother of the date palm’, a nod to the ‘mother of wheat’ discovered by Aaron Aaronsohn in Rosh Pina some 120 years ago.

The palms growing here belong to a rare species never before documented in this region. They are the original Land of Israel date palms, as they existed before humans domesticated them about 6,000 years ago. Just as traces of Neanderthal DNA can be found in all of us, part of the genetics of this wild palm appears in every cultivated date. At the heart of every Medjool date we eat is an ancient palm.

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Flotsam and Jetsam - MN Mob Invades Church, Confronts Congregation

A bunch of Minnesota "protesters", egged on by failed journolist former CNN talking butthead Don Lemon, invaded a Baptist church in Minneapolis yesterday and confronted the congregation, following word that the name of the pastor was the same a one of the ICE agents that had been doxxed by the media. This is a plain and obvious violation of federal FACE Act, widely used by the Biden administration to jail grandmothers protesting at abortion clinics, but which at the behest of Republicans in Congress, also forbids the same acts at churches. At Twitchy, Don Lemon Leads ICE Protestors to Church - Just NOT How You Think: Right Angle News Network @Rightanglenews, "BREAKING - Anti ICE agitators, led by failed CNN host Don Lemon, stormed a Minneapolis church this morning, halting services and holding members hostage because they believed the pastor was ICE affiliated. “The whole point of it is to disrupt and make people uncomfortable.” (video at link). Dave Strom at Hat Hair, ICE Protesters Storming Churches Now; Hotels Kicking People Out. John Hinderacker at Power Line, More Minneapolis Madness: Collin Rugg @CollinRugg, "NEW: Don Lemon tries lecturing a pastor on the First Amendment after a mob of far leftists stormed a church in Minneapolis. Pastor: “This is unacceptable. It's shameful to interrupt a public gathering of Christians in worship…” Lemon: “Listen, there's a constitution, the First Amendment to freedom of speech and freedom to assemble and protest.” Pastor: “We're here to worship Jesus because the hope of the world is Jesus Christ…” Lemon: “But did you try to talk to them?” Pastor: “No one is willing to talk. I have to take care of my church and my family so I ask that you would also leave this building.” Imagine storming a church mid worship and thinking you are the good guys." Insty says HEY, WITH DON LEMON I’M JUST GRATEFUL IT’S NOT SEXUAL ASSAULT. Greg Price @greg_price11, "I'm no historian but I don't think there's ever been a situation in the last 100 years where the people storming the churches were the good guys." Quote End Wokeness @EndWokeness "BREAKING: Anti-ICE mob storms church in St. Paul, MN and shuts service down." Betsy Stauffer at LI, Anarchy: Minneapolis Activists Harass And Attack Anyone They Suspect of Being ICE, "One beating of a passerby stopped when one of the attackers told his comrades, “He’s one of us.”" Seamus (FreedomToons) @seamus_coughlin, "Me and my street militia are going around demanding to see people's papers and shutting down churches. You know, to fight fascism" Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre, "Every protester in this video has committed a federal crime They can all be easily identified Don Lemon needs to be in custody by the end of the day if the administration is to ever be taken seriously again." ABC whines DOJ vows to press charges after activists disrupt church where Minnesota ICE official is a pastor. "U.S. Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said her agency is investigating federal civil rights violations “by these people desecrating a house of worship and interfering with Christian worshippers.”" RushBabe, *No more subterfuge. The Leftist insurrection is blatant and dangerous.

At CIS, Is a ‘Civil War’ Brewing in Minnesota over Immigration? "Either get smart or stop lying, because the mullahs are watching." Phil Labonte @philthatremains. "my first impulse is to say, “it’s just talk, for now.” but then i remember the murders of Charlie Kirk, and Aaron Danielson, i remember Alvarado where 11 individuals ambushed officers at an ICE facility, i remember McAllen where a gunman fired dozens of rounds at a Border Patrol facility, injuring a police officer and an employee, i remember Dallas in September where a shooting at an ICE facility left one detainee dead and two others wounded where the attacker used ammunition marked with "anti-ICE" messages, i remember the guy that went to J.D. Vance’s home, and i remember the two attempts on Donald Trump. then i think, “oh, they’re already doing it.”" Quote Reddit Lies @reddit_lies, "Bluesky skeeters are discussing making IEDs to hit ice btw." Matt Vespa at TownHall, The Latest Trump Move Involving Minneapolis Is Going to Trigger a Lib Meltdown. Insider Wire @InsiderWire, "#BREAKING: 2 U.S. Army battalions on standby for possible deployment to Minnesota amid anti-ICE unrest." From News Wax, Pentagon Readies 1,500 Soldiers to Possibly Deploy to Minnesota. Sundance at CTH hosts Sunday Talks – Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche Discusses Minneapolis Investigations and Violent Protests and Sunday Talks – DHS Secretary Kristi Noem -vs Margaret Brennan Discussing Minneapolis Violence and reports Minnesota Governor Activates National Guard. "According to the Minnesota Dept of Public Safety, Governor Tim Walz has activated the national guard. However, in a statement on their X account the officials note, the guard “are not deployed to city streets at this time, but are ready to help support public safety, including protection of life, preservation of property and supporting the rights of all who assemble peacefully.”" Ward Clarke at RedState sees a Mic Drop Moment: Noem Calls Out Brennan's Border Blindspot. From Da Caller, ‘As A Muslima’: Rashida Tlaib Blows Gasket Over ‘Neo-Nazi’ DHS Post Of Man Riding Horse. 

Kim "Katie" USA @KimKatieUSA "Sheriff Grady just dropped the truth: 76% of illegals detained in his county have criminal charges. The other 24%? Riding with the criminals. He explains exactly why ICE is flooding Minneapolis, LA, and other sanctuary cities and how easy it is to stop." The Victory Girls report Child Abusers Top ICE List Of Most Wanted. 

Da Caller, Renee Good’s Partner Reportedly Under Investigation By Federal Authorities To Determine If She Impeded ICE Agents. From Breitbart, Judge Bars LAPD’s Use of Less-Lethal Foam Bullets on Protesters. Elizabeth Barcohana @E_Barcohana, "The ICE raids will continue just until we flatten the curve of illegal immigration. We’re all in this together." Katie Zacharia @KatieZacharia, "Stay at least 6ft away from ICE officers as they socially distancing from those infected with the woke mind virus."

News Wax has a Report that At Least 16,000 Killed in Iranian Protests. From 1945, Coercion Without Ownership: The Real Trump Playbook on Iran. Sundance reports Israel Not Happy with Trump Appointed Turkey and Qatar Roles in Assisting Gaza Stabilization and Executive Board. Kareem Rifai @KareemRifai, "They don't teach this in law school, but a feature of international law is that it hibernates and only wakes up when it can be used to defend the hypothetical sovereignty of people guilty of mass crimes against humanity." Quote Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan, "Assassinating Khamenei wouldn’t just be illegal under international law, wouldn’t just be a betrayal of antiwar, anti-regime change MAGA voters, but, with Khamenei also being a religious leader, it could lead to all sorts of terrorist blowback against US interests and civilians. x.com/danielbshapiro…"

John Sexton at Hat Hair wonders How Will China Try to Take Control of Taiwan (Can It Be Stopped?). Driscoll at Insty says BOMB CANADA — THE CASE FOR WAR: Blume Industries CEO Balding 大老板 @BaldingsWorld, "It is truly mind boggling the absolute memory hole Canadian activity has disappeared into because people hate Trump so much. Canada for years has had massive Chinese money laundering, drug, intel, and security issues with regards to China something everybody should know. They are not an ally they literally let the PLA train in China a few years ago. The idea that Trump took his actions in a vacuum and that is what prompted everything is just completely afactual ignorance. . . ." Quote Chris McGuire @ChrisRMcGuire, "Canada's agreement to let Chinese cars into their market is an extremely poor strategic decision. But it also shows that without strong and consistent messaging from Washington, even our closest allies will sacrifice long-term strategic interest for short-term economic or. . . "

From Da Mail, European diplomats reveal the 'tough guy' US negotiator leading the charge on Greenland: 'He hates us,' JD Vance. Sundance has Sunday Talks – Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent -vs- NBC Kristen Welker, Topics: Greenland and The FED. News Wax, Europeans Reeling as Trump Imposes Tariffs on 8 Countries Over Greenland Dispute. Susie Moore at RedState, Bessent on Greenland, Tariffs, and Why Jerome Powell Is in a Pickle. From Althouse, "Is President Trump serious about annexing Greenland?"/"President Trump strongly believes that we cannot outsource our security." CBD at Ace's, Greenland, NATO, The EU...The Clownshow Continues "So...everyone calm down. Greeenlanders? Take nice big checks written by America, and maybe some good high-paying jobs in our expanding military infrastructure and mining efforts. Denmark? Smile, cash the check, and relax now that you don't have to deal with Greenland. And the EU? Just sit down and shut up. Nobody cares what you think."

Sundance, The Norwegian Nobel Committee Have an Important, Albeit Hilarious, Announcement. "A Nobel Peace Prize laureate receives two central symbols of the prize: a gold medal and a diploma. In addition, the prize money is awarded separately. Regardless of what may happen to the medal, the diploma, or the prize money, it is and remains the original laureate who is recorded in history as the recipient of the prize. Even if the medal or diploma later comes into someone else’s possession, this does not alter who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. A laureate cannot share the prize with others, nor transfer it once it has been announced. A Nobel Peace Prize can also never be revoked. The decision is final and applies for all time."

Bill Murry at Da Fed, How Trump’s Foreign Policy Is Delivering 120 ‘Marshall Plans’ To The U.S. Driscoll sees CNN POLL: 58% declare Trump’s second term so far a “failure.” "The only Republican at CNN disagrees with his employer:" Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY, "I was reliably told by Democrat pundits that all of their Trump voting friends had abandoned him." Quote InteractivePolls @IAPolls2022, "WSJ POLL: 92% of people who voted for Trump in 2024 are giving him a positive job rating today, including 70% who “strongly approve”" From RCP, The Fed’s Job Isn’t Finished Until Hiring Comes Back.

At Twitchy, FAFO in Real Time: Leftist Gets Secret Service Visit Over 'What She Deserves' Threat to Press Sec: Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz, "The Secret Service came to my door today because of a tweet. No threats. No violence. Just words. That’s where we are now." DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican, "You are doing the favorite trick of the left: playing victim and crying tyranny at the slightest bit of accountability. You do deserve to be locked up forever, because it’s clear you enjoy nothing more than seeing people die for disagreeing with you. And instead you are free — because the people you so wish death upon are far too generous, far too nice, and far too tolerant. . . .”

Fox 4, Foods that Americans were told to avoid for decades are back under Trump's new nutrition rules. Nora Dimitrova Clinton at LI, sees Cowboys Versus “Soy Boys”: The Politics of Food, Alcohol, and Tobacco.

Matt Margolis asserts Democrats Are So Screwed and a Former Obama Advisor Just Proved It. "In a New York Times op-ed titled “Democrats Will Lose in 2028 Unless They Change Course Now,” Plouffe warns that the party’s long-term future looks bleak. He says the electoral map itself is shifting out from under their feet—and unless Democrats overhaul everything, they’re heading for years of political pain." Josh Barro at Very Serious, The Cult of Jasmine Crockett Shows Democrats are Still Trapped in the Dumbest Form of Identity Politics. "Comedians Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers were right to tell people not to waste money on her campaign. But they had to apologize anyway." Salena Zito at Hat Hair hears that In Reelection Launch, Josh Shapiro Admits Violent Attack Almost Drove Him From the Race, from Democrat anti-semite. 

Insty cites CHRIS BRAY: What Blue Zone Collapse Looks Like: “In my last post, I said that the Blue Zones are functionally insolvent. ‘The well is dry.’ Several commenters responded with the observation that they’ve been hearing this story for twenty years or more, but the Blue Zones are still going, so what insolvency and collapse are you talking about? But the collapse of the Blue Zones doesn’t look like Enron or K-Mart; California doesn’t shut down. The state has 39 million golden geese to cut open. There’s a lot of ruin in a state. But the collapse remains real, and it’s already happening. It looks like this.” Billy Binion @billybinion, "The entitlement here is astounding. California didn’t make these people money. These people made money for California. No one “deserves” it. When faced with crushing financial losses, it’s entirely rational for business owners to move elsewhere. Wealth taxes inevitably fail." Quote Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd, " Kara Swisher on California’s Wealth Tax “You made all your money in California, you ungrateful piece of sh*t. You could figure out a way to pay more taxes, and we deserve the taxes from you.”" Michael Guimarin on X: "I’m coming off private for about an hour so you can read this. The billionaire tax in CA is an example of an irregular warfare action by the Chinese Communist Party on the United States. What it does is push out the people who would fight CCP encroachment into CA. The CCP" / X. Back on private. At Liberty Unyielding, Virginia state tax rate could rise from 5.75% to 13.8%, highest in the nation. Good and hard. Betsy McCaughey at Hat Hair says Time to Crack Down on Fraud. Shouldn't it always be time to crack down on fraud? From the Daily Economy, The Public School Shell Game Makes Phantom Daycares Look Tiny. 

Hat Hair's Larry Elder takes issue with Mamdani's Fantasy World of Equal Outcome as does John Stossel in The Warmth of Collectivism. "In my new video, TikTokers claim capitalism is "ending." They sing about the beauty of communes. One asks, desperately, "Where is my commune?!" Good question. They're hard to find because they keep failing."

Michael Sebastian @HonorAndDaring, "Either we crush the nice guy loser mindset of Republicans or we lose our civilization. The nice guy losers who want to be loved by their enemies are selling us out." Quote Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando, "Democrats take power and immediately disenfranchise their opponents. Red state republicans can either disenfranchise them first, or end up living in a vassal district of a blue state." Atop Da Hill, Authorities’ inaction on threats against Trump voters is alarming. Insty hosts a video, STALIN’S AUTHORITARIANISM WAS LEFT AUTHORITARIANISM, AND THE AMERICAN LEFT WAS LARGELY OKAY WITH IT: Jeffery Mead @the_jefferymead, "That’s the same logic used by Stalin’s secret police. “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.” You pick the target first, assume guilt, then dig through everything until you can justify a charge. That isn’t the rule of law. That’s prosecution as a weapon. Very authoritarian from the side who is always warning us about authoritarianism.." At Althouse, "Mr. Trump does not attempt to hide his use of law enforcement powers for vengeance. He glories in it...." "His usurpation of law enforcement power threatens us all.... His move to control investigation and prosecution from the White House portends an America where the state uses force to promote the political interests of its leaders, rather than uphold the laws passed by our representatives. . . . Writes The Editorial Board of The New York Times, in "For Trump, Justice Means Vengeance.""

RCW warns The UK’s Free Speech Act is a Paper Tiger — And America is Next.

From TCW, DEI and a stark admission – it’s a war against straight white males. Campus Reform reports ‘LaWhore Vagistan’ to lead Harvard lecture linking drag, politics, and Kamala Harris’ ‘chitthi brigade’, "Kareem Khubchandani is a drag queen who calls himself 'LaWhore Vagistan.' He is teaching two classes at Harvard on drag and 'queer ethnography.'" At Hat Hair, Stephen Moore says we need to Stop Pretending That Colleges Are Nonprofit Institutions.

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Rule 5 Saturday - Nataly C Ospina - One Spicy Meataball

We're going to  Columbia for this week's Rule 5 wonder, Nataly C. Ospina, From Chi, Who is Nataly Ospina, the food blogger who perfectly cooked Ezio Greggio?

The host of "Striscia" has come out in the open with the sexy Colombian influencer, a food blogger with almost 1 million followers

Ezio Greggio, 70, is perfectly cooked, this time by Nataly Ospina , 35, a Colombian woman (originally from Medellin) and a very popular food blogger. Her Instagram posts are followed by over 900,000 followers who, besides being intrigued by her delicious and exotic dishes, are also naturally captivated by her beauty, which she makes no effort to hide. Her plunging necklines and sexy outfits highlight her perfect body.

Does she serve tropical cuisine? Not exactly. Her recipes are Italian, and perhaps even with these, she's tempted the "vulpine" Ezio Greggio.

The relationship between Greggio and Nataly Ospina was only recently made official, two years after the "Striscia la notizia" host ended his five-year relationship with Romina Pierdomenico .

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