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Wednesday, April 1, 2026
This is a country founded on strict Deism values? Who knew...
The idea that the U.S. was founded on Deism - a belief in a creator who does not intervene in human affairs - is a significant part of the debate regarding American origins. While some argue for a purely Christian founding, many historians note that key founders like Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams held deistic or non-orthodox beliefs, favoring reason over dogma.
Influence of Deism: Historian Frank Lambert noted that the Enlightenment and Deism significantly influenced the birth of the American republic.
Thomas Paine, whose writing was critical to the revolution, was a known proponent of Deism, arguing against mixing church and state. Other scholars and activists argue the founders were largely influenced by Judeo-Christian values.
A 1797 treaty, signed by John Adams, stated, "the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion". This debate often centers on whether the "Creator" mentioned in the Declaration of Independence refers to the Christian God or a more general Deistic concept.
Fuck them and the horses they rode in on. We need them like we need more fingers...
Trump pulling the US out of Nato would be among the “worst crises in the alliance’s history” and spark months of panic, and it should. The US has the majority of the pact‘s nuclear weapons, tanks, aircraft and troops meaning if Trump was serious about leaving for good then the battle to replace America’s military might would be impossible.
Their failure to recognize the threat that Iran posed to themselves is unthinkable, terribly naive and just plain stupid. They've let so many of them burka-wearing goonies in to their own countries - are they afraid somehow of insulting the people who are systematically stealing - and destroying - their heritages? THE UK alone has almost 1,00 masques already and Shariah courts number well over 100 just in England alone. Look at France and Germany and Italy and almost everywhere else.
They're letting themselves go to shit and depending on us to protect them from outside threats? Fuck 'em. When we need them to work with us they refuse, so vice-versa, motherfuckers. Just think about how much money we'd save. Juss' sayin'...
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They know nothing if it ain't a tax. They'll tax us all to tears...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren last week introduced legislation to establish America’s first-ever wealth tax: a 2% per year levy on the wealth - not the earnings, but the holdings - of those with assets worth $50 million or more, plus an extra 1% imposed on billionaires.
She calls it the “Ultra-Millionaire Tax,” saying that for every dollar held by a rich person, “they pay just two cents.” And remember, it’s an annual tax - so over a decade it could snatch away one-third of the savings built over a lifetime.
As of 2019 - the last available numbers - Elizabeth Warren's net worth was estimated to be around $12 million, largely accumulated through her career as a Harvard law professor, author, and consultant. Her wealth, shared with husband Bruce Mann, consists mainly of TIAA-CREF retirement accounts, a Cambridge home, and investment funds. Add on cumulative increases, and her net worth might be in the $ 40 million range, just below her new Bill's threshold. Coincidence? Remember - she's the one that wants us to believe she's an injun...
And that was written nearly 55 years ago...
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Is sending Artemis on April Fools Day such a good idea?
The first question any of us should be asking is 'Why is it so important that we go to the moon?' On the scale of 'been there, done that', this is pegging the pin on the meter. Another valid question is - why has it taken us 57 years to do it again?
Tonight, the first manned lunar mission in more than half a century will blast off to take four astronauts further into space than anyone has ever gone before. The Nasa crew is travelling around the far side of the moon, about 1,500 miles greater distance than any previous flight, before returning home.
Though they will not land on the surface itself, the ten-day Artemis II mission is a crucial step in the plan to establish a $20billion base on the moon. Then Nasa plans regular landings from early 2028, with the ultimate goal of taking humans to Mars.
The mission, which is launching from Florida, will see the first woman,
the first black person, and the oldest astronaut ever to travel to the moon.
They were anything but 'April Fools'...
As we prepare to celebrate Easter week, we should keep in our prayers and remembrances the many Americans (mostly young men and teens) who fought and sacrificed during that same time 81 years ago in the Battle of Okinawa.
It was the bloodiest battle and the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, the Navy’s Fifth Fleet under Admiral Raymond Spruance attacked the Japanese-held island. They were joined by a British, Canadian, New Zealand, and Australian naval task force and more than 180,000 Army soldiers and Marines. This was the final push toward invading mainland Japan and putting an end to the war.
Military planners considered the capture of Okinawa and its airfields to be a crucial and necessary precondition for the invasion of the Japanese mainland.
Were the U.S. to invade Japan, estimates of potential American casualties were upward of 1.7 to 4 million, with between 400,000 and 800,000 deaths.
The Battle of Okinawa only served to raise those estimates, as had the recent brutal battle for Iwo Jima, where U.S. casualties numbered 26,000 over five weeks of fighting. Only a few hundred Japanese had been captured out of the 21,000 troops who fought to the death.
God Bless my Father's Generation and all who've served.
April Fools - from whence they came? Maybe...
For centuries, many Europeans welcomed the New Year with the rebirth of spring. Festivities tied to the vernal equinox often stretched from late March into early April, climaxing around April 1. Then came the seismic shifts: In 1564, France’s King Charles IX issued the Edict of Roussillon, officially moving the start of the year to January 1. Later, in 1582, Pope Gregory XIII’s Gregorian reform corrected the drifting Julian calendar by skipping 10 days in October and reinforcing the January 1 New Year across Catholic Europe.
News traveled at the speed of horses and messengers. Some people never heard the change. Others stubbornly clung to ancient spring traditions. Those who kept celebrating the “old” New Year in early April were mocked mercilessly - sent on fake errands, pinned with paper fish (“poisson d’avril”), and labeled “April fools.”
Were they ignorant villagers slow to adapt?
Or brave traditionalists resisting elite authority and papal power in an age when changing the calendar felt like tampering with God’s own time?
This calendar clash - part reform, part cultural collision - may have birthed the global tradition of harmless (or not-so-harmless) pranks we still love today.
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Is this a sign that I might actually be losing it - like my wife tells me I am at least 30 times a day?
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Los Angeles County saw the largest decline of any county in the United States in 2025, according to new census data published on March 26. Nearly 54,000 people moved out of L.A. County between July 1, 2024 and July 1, 2025, U.S. Census data shows. The decline is part of an ongoing trend. In 2020 L.A. County was estimated to have more than 10 million residents. As of 2025, the county was thought to have just under 9.7 million residents.
It’s unclear where the fleeing Angelinos are moving. However, the neighboring counties of Riverside and San Bernardino saw a combined increase of 21,131 residents between 2024 and 2025, according to U.S. Census data. The greater Las Vegas area also saw a population boost of more than 21,000 people last year.
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The bullet that killed Charlie Kirk was so damaged that investigators could not confirm that it was fired from Tyler Robinson’s gun - but that also doesn’t mean it came from a different rifle, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Claims emerged this week that the “bullet jacket fragment” recovered from Kirk’s body didn’t match the .30-06 hunting rifle Robinson allegedly used in the September 2025 assassination - fanning online conspiracy theories about the conservative icon’s death. But court documents reveal something different. When the fragment was recovered during an autopsy and compared to the murder weapon found at the scene, “the result of the comparison was inconclusive,” according to court papers filed this month that reference findings from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Leaving Jersey was painful - for one reason. The food is hard to replicate...
These are not just foods. They are New Jersey. Although you may be able to replacte them somehow wherever you might be, it's just not the same, and the moment you move away or travel somewhere without them, you understand exactly what you used to have.
Taylor Ham/TaylorPork Roll - Call it pork roll or call it Taylor Ham depending on which side of the great divide you live on, but either way you can find the real thing outside of New Jersey in supermarkets, but it's just not the same. Breakfast sandwiches everywhere else are fine. They are not this.
Tomato pie - Not pizza. Not a variation of pizza. Tomato pie is its own thing, served at room temperature with the sauce on top of the cheese, and Trenton does it better than anywhere on earth. Out-of-staters do not understand it. That is their loss.
The boardwalk slice - Manco and Manco in Ocean City, Maruca's in Seaside, or Mack's in Wildweood, the boardwalk pizza of your youth cooked in a deck oven and eaten folded in half while walking. No plate. No fork. Perfect.
Kohr Brothers frozen custard - Softer, richer and more specific than soft serve. The orange and vanilla swirl on a sugar cone is a Shore summer in one bite. It exists elsewhere in name only.
Italian hot dog - A Newark original. Half a round of pizza bread stuffed with a hot dog, peppers, onions and potatoes. It sounds simple. It is extraordinary. Try explaining it to someone from Ohio.
Disco fries - French fries covered in brown gravy and melted mozzarella, available at any diner at 2 a.m. New Jersey invented the concept of making fries into a full emotional experience.
Sausage sandwiches at the Feast - Every Italian street festival in South Jersey runs on these. Peppers, onions, a good roll, grease that gets on your shirt no matter how careful you are. They may also be available elsewhere, but, fore me, there is no substitute.
Funnel cake - Yes it exists elsewhere. No it does not taste the same. The boardwalk air is part of the recipe.
Steel's fudge and Johnson's Popcorn - Not foods so much as institutions. If you grew up going to Ocean City you know exactly what these smell like from half a block away.
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