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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And, no - not MY Miss Barbara...
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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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Remington use to market a .223 cal. sabot round in 30-06, it was banned because the bullet had no rifleing marks. It was to make your deer rifle into a varmit rifle. Like shooting a .22 LR.
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That Kirk bullet thing? When I first heard about it SOUNDED like it was a different rifle that killed him, turns out the bullet that did the deed was too damaged to say for SURE that it came from that rifle.
ReplyDeleteI'm so tired of all this misdirection!
TV has convinced people that bullets can always be matched to a gun but it's not true. But you're right about mis-direction.
DeleteRemember the "teacher" in Canada who wore giant tits in front of his class and the media had NO problem with that.
ReplyDeleteThat "Newsradio"? sitcom was one of the dumbest ever. But there was a good looker on there I can't remember, not the smartass blond.
ReplyDeleteI find 54k leaving LA a drop in the bucket. Now if it was 540K that'd be different. 50 years ago I lived in several LA suburbs and hated them all.
ReplyDeleteI saw a vid yesterday that showed in slow motion Charlie Kirks microphone blowing up. Then they said remember Israel blowing up terrorists phones? I don't believe anybody but the killer(s) know.
ReplyDeleteI like the new gif, keep'em coming.
ReplyDeleteIn that gif, what do you suppose she's thinking? "How do you like my tits?"
ReplyDeleteProperty taxes are theft by the government. They have given themselves the right to tax everything. We had a revolution over a tea tax!
ReplyDeleteAnd here in Nebraska all my money I pay in property taxes goes to Lincoln and then Lincoln and Omaha take the vast majority of it and distribute a trickle to the rest of the state. 80 plus percent of my taxes go to schools from local to tech to colleges to universities. I have no children and yet I'm on the hook for every one else's kids and if I don't pay my property taxes the government takes what I've worked and slaved for and I'm out on my ear with nothing.
DeleteThe helicopter crews' suspension has been over-ruled by Pete Hegseth, a leader who understands his troops.
ReplyDeleteOnce again the media betrays complete ignorance or actual malice, if not both. ATF couldn't conclusively show the bullet came from that rifle. That is NOT the same as concluded it was not fired from that rifle. Ignorance, malice or both? You choose.
ReplyDeleteNH is massively variable from county to county and even city to city. I would bet that the less expensive cities are WAY LESS than most of the other states not on this list.
ReplyDeleteA bullet from that gun would have left a big mark. I grew up hunting. They are lying.
ReplyDeleteProperty taxes are high in Texas, but there is no state income tax.
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