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2024.05.14 03:27 lpjunior999 Anti-Choice Groups are showing up at people's homes to convince them to remove their signature from the 'Restore Roe' petition
I wanted to make sure more people got to see this press release from Dakotans for Health (the group that submitted the "Restore Roe" petition last week).
submitted by lpjunior999 to SouthDakota [link] [comments]
Friends, It’s been a while, but we want to thank you very, very much if you signed our petition to put abortion rights on the ballot this Fall. The people deserve the right to decide this issue! ~If you are one of 55,000 South Dakotans who signed our petition to put Roe v. Wade abortion rights on the ballot this fall, it is possible your signature was randomly selected by the Secretary of State and is one of 723 whose validity will determine whether the Roe v. Wade initiative gets on the ballot.~ ~I’m reaching out today to let you know that the radical Right to Life and the “Life Defense Fund” or their agents are likely to contact you and ask you to remove your name from the petition you signed. They are already contacting signers and could contact you by email, text, telephone, or even make a visit to your home to try and convince you to sign an affidavit to withdraw your name from the petition you signed to restore reproductive rights in South Dakota.~ ~Please do not be fooled, and do not agree to remove your signature if you are asked. We deserve to vote. We deserve to choose.~Throughout this campaign, Right to Life and their so-called “Life Defense Fund” have lied about the Roe v. Wade initiative. Here is what they will say and why it is not true. They will lie and say the initiative will legalize abortion up to birth. It does not do so; it reinstates Roe v. Wade which never allowed late-term abortion except, when necessary, in the judgment of a physician to save a woman’s life or preserve her health. They will lie and say the initiative will prohibit parental consent or safe regulation of abortion procedures. It does not do so—these were allowed under Roe v. Wade and the initiative does not prohibit them. They will lie and say that the initiative will force doctors and nurses to perform abortions or face lawsuits. It does not do so. Federal law protects medical providers’ right to choose. The initiative does not require anyone to do anything. They will lie and say it allows taxpayer-funded abortions. It does not do so. We have watched them for months oppose the initiative, and every time their lips move, they lie. The Roe v. Wade Freedom Amendment will restore abortion rights to what they were under Roe v. Wade. This decision belongs to us, the people, not the politicians. The initiative lets us vote on it. These radical groups want to keep South Dakota law as it is, prohibiting abortion even in cases of rape and incest.So be aware, if you signed the "Restore Roe" petition, these people might call you or even just show up at your house and ask you to remove your name. I suspect I saw a few of them out and about in my neighborhood already; there were a handful of people not going door to door but knocking on doors and checking off a list.
Dakotans for Health Warns 55,000 Freedom Amendment Petition Signers of Coordinated Effort by Right to Life Organization
Dakotans for Health, spearheaded by co-founder Rick Weiland, is issuing a stark warning to the 55,000 signatories of its petitions aimed at putting the abortion issue on the ballot this fall in South Dakota. The organization cautions of a deliberate and organized campaign by the Right to Life (RTL) organization to coerce signers into withdrawing their support from the petition. In a post to the 55,000 individuals who lent their signatures to the Freedom Amendment petition, advocating for voters rather than politicians to decide the abortion rights of women in South Dakota, Weiland declared, “Right to Life has intensified their efforts to deceive you into retracting your support from our petition.” Weiland revealed instances where parishioners at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Sioux Falls were provided with misleading materials, including a 'Liar Flyer,' and formal legal forms urging the removal of their names from the petition. He warned that similar tactics are being employed online, in public spaces, and within various churches across the state to pressure signers into renouncing their support. “Don’t be misled by their falsehoods. Politely remind them that your intention when signing was to empower voters to decide this crucial issue, and that remains unchanged,” Weiland emphasized. Dakotans for Health underscored the urgency of standing firm against this orchestrated attempt to undermine the democratic process. Weiland remarked, “It was evident from the outset that the Right to Life extremists controlling the State Legislature aimed to thwart our efforts when they hastily enacted emergency laws facilitating organized campaigns to coerce or intimidate petition signers into withdrawal.” He added, “They recognize that South Dakotans support granting women and their healthcare providers the autonomy to make informed decisions regarding their health, hence their desperate bid to obstruct the democratic right to vote on this profoundly personal matter.” In its concluding statement, Dakotans for Health reaffirmed the significance of democracy as a safeguard against governmental overreach. “Democracy is your shield against politicians dictating the course of your life. The right to vote on matters of paramount importance is the cornerstone of democracy,” the organization asserted. “We are encouraging signatories to reaffirm their commitment to upholding democratic principles and support for the Freedom Amendment by visiting www.dakotans4health.com,” Weiland concluded.
2024.03.04 21:07 insicknessorinflames Young parents disappear from the scene after a car accident in mid-December - they're not found until March... they are found deceased in a ditch/water-runoff next to the original scene. The ditch has been scoured by LE & searchers for weeks. Where were Arnold and Ruby December through March?
About Arnold & Ruby
Arnold Archambeau, AKA Arnold Picotte, (20) and Ruby Bruguier (18) were a young Native American couple (of the Yankton Sioux tribe) living in South Dakota, and they had a child together in 1991 (a child they adored, and Ruby was still breastfeeding this child at the time of disappearance which just adds a layer of sadness to it). Arnold was really good at basketball, which impressed Ruby, and they became highschool sweethearts. Arnold was described as incredibly kind, polite, and thoughtful. He was very athletic and popular - he was actually crowned prom king in his senior year. Ruby was gentle but had a roaring sense of humor.Ruby and Arnold were staying with Arnold's aunt Karen when they disappeared. Karen had raised Arnold since his mother had died when he was 13. She was more than happy to have them and the baby living there. Ruby and Arnold's lives revolved around schoolwork and taking care of a newborn, so on December 12, they decided to take their family's advice and go have some fun.
Timeline
December 12, 1992 - The couple went out drinking with Ruby's cousin Tracy Dion (17), leaving their baby with Ruby's uncle for the night so they could go have some fun with friends. Arnold shouldn't have been driving (period) but wasn't reported as being drunk, per se.They got in a car accident in their Chevrolet Monte Carlo (while Arnold was driving) after hitting some black ice. The car flipped onto its hood, and strangely, Arnold and Ruby abandoned their vehicle together with Tracy still inside. Tracy later told Unsolved Mysteries that while she did not see Arnold leave the car after the accident, he was not in it when it came to rest upside down. She says Bruguier was just shouting, "Oh my god!" while hitting the car; she managed to push one of the doors open and slide out. When Tracy went to do the same, the door was shut and she couldn't get out. She was trapped inside the car until rescuers arrived some time later. Arnold and Ruby strangely did not attempt to get her out.Deputy Sheriff Bill Youngstrom figured it's a young couple who got a little too tipsy and drove under the influence, they're scared of consequences, so they took off and will be back in a few days. He shrugged his shoulders about the whole ordeal, as did many of the deputies. Arnold and Ruby's family knew something wasn't right.
The sheriff was wrong. They didn't come back.
January 1, 1993 - A witness claimed to have seen Arnold in a car accompanied by three other people on New Year’s Eve, almost three weeks after he was reported missing. Deputy Youngstrom believes that the sighting is credible. The witness talked to Arnold and knows him personally. There was no doubt in her mind that the man in the car was Arnold. Authorities brought the witness in for a polygraph exam. She passed. Later, the couple she identified as being in the backseat of the car also underwent a polygraph. They denied being in the car. However, they both failed their polygraph exams. They were questioned extensively, but maintained that they were not with Arnold that night. They claimed that they were at home.
Side note: Five other witnesses also came forward, claiming to have seen Arnold and Ruby after they disappeared. One witness reported seeing the couple get into a car after the accident; the car was then seen heading east. Another witness reported seeing Ruby on January 20, over a month after the accident, in nearby Wagner, South Dakota.
March 1993 - the bodies of Arnold & Ruby were found in a water-filled depression between the accident site and a disused railroad right-of-way a short distance from the road. The water was only 4ft deep. Along the roadside was a tuft of Ruby's hair - it was in far better condition than it should have been if it had been there the entire time since the accident.
March 19, 1993 - a press conference takes place, led by state's attorney Tim Whalen
Asked if he had taken pictures of the scene on the morning of the accident, Youngstrom said that he had but through a processing error the negatives were rendered useless. "It sounds like you're trying to cover your butt," Mike Archambeau (Arnold's dad) said. "It sounds like you didn't investigate in the first place."
It was announced at the news conference that police had talked to a witness who had seen Archambeau and Bruguier get into a vehicle headed east on Route 281 shortly after the accident. It was not the only sighting of the two after their apparent disappearance; Ruby had reportedly been seen January 20 in Wagner. "We've not ruled out foul play, but we haven't ruled out other theories", Whalen said.
The police made at least one big mistake: the two had not been placed on a national database of missing persons because authorities believed neither would have left the area. That sort of closed-mindedness is what leads to cases becoming cold in my opinion.
Cause of Death
The cause of death was determined to be exposure, but investigators found the deaths suspicious, believing that the two had not died right after the accident.Deputies and the sheriff visited the scene in the intervening months, when the weather was warm and there was minimal snow; neither had seen the bodies at those times, and others who had been in the area made similar statements. A horseback rider who had gone through the area in late January 1993 was in search of his missing hubcap. With warmer weather, the depression was bare and dry. He didn't find his hubcap, nor did he find the bodies of the couple that would be discovered just over a month later. The confusion surrounding this case is palpable."I believe they were placed in the ditch after they passed away someplace else," Westendorf maintained. "I do know that they weren't there in January. It's pretty hard to prove somebody was murdered when you don't have any evidence to prove it."Other aspects of the bodies suggested that the two might have died elsewhere, and perhaps at different times. Ruby's body had to be identified by a tattoo as it was in an advanced state of decomposition; it was dressed in the clothes she was wearing the night of the accident, but without the shoes and glasses. Arnold's body, found underwater in the depression, showed far less decomposition. A set of keys found in his pocket was never found to match any house or car in the area.
Law Enforcement's Frustration
Local law enforcement who were involved in the investigation have stuck to the belief that at the very least the couple's bodies were placed there after they died somewhere else, but other than that, they are bamboozled."There isn't any indication of anything else," said Special Agent Matt Miller of the bureau's Sioux Falls field office. "All we know is that they appeared in the ditch and that was it."
Deputy Youngstrom was further baffled by the discovery of two items that seemed to support the theory that Arnold and Ruby had not died in the ditch:“We found a tuft of hair alongside the road. This hair was later determined by the forensic laboratory to belong to Ruby Bruguier. That hair couldn’t have stayed there for three months. In my opinion, it was when whoever brought the bodies back to the ditch, that’s when that piece of hair fell off of Ruby. At the time we pulled Arnold’s body from the ditch, I found a set of keys in his pocket, the keys were a car or vehicle key. And what appeared to be two house keys. I still have these keys in my possession. And to this day I have not found the vehicle nor that house that these keys fit.”The New Mexico lab the police sent clothing to had "found some additional evidence", but they could not elaborate on it. Several people had come to the sheriff's office saying that they had seen Arnold and/or Ruby after the accident, and some of those people had taken polygraph tests. The sheriff had also gone down to Nebraska to speak with some former Lake Andes residents (I wish we knew more about this). The families had increased the reward money offered to $5,000 within a few months of finding the remains.
A cousin of Ruby's submitted her case to Unsolved Mysteries, and their segment was taped as a re-enactment where Sheriff Youngstrom played himself. He said he badly wants the following 3 questions answered:
- How did they die, because they didn't die at the scene?
- Where were they at?
- How did they get back [to the scene]
Where does that leave us?
Confused, ladies and gentlemen. It leaves us confused.None of the leads generated by Unsolved Mysteries panned out. The FBI therefore took over the investigation of the deaths, but they closed the case 4 years later when they were unable to find any evidence that a crime occurred.
Something sketchy I cannot find much info on is that reportedly authorities have been unable to locate two men who were seen near the ditch just a few hours before the bodies were discovered. They were driving a dark, Blazer-style vehicle. Rumors also circulated that their deaths were the result of clan disputes, but I can't find much on this either. I'll update if I can find more. I could see that theory making sense - perhaps they got rammed off the road hence the accident, then abducted, and ransom perhaps didn't work out bc criminals aren't geniuses, so the plan went off-kilter maybe? I'm totally unsure. Would like to hear your thoughts.
Arnold and Ruby and their baby Erika didn't deserve this. I hope Erika is living her best life (she got adopted by Ruby's mom).
Sources
idothingswrong.wordpress.com -> my blog, has photos of the couple & their carhttps://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Arnold_Archambeau_and_Ruby_Bruguier
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_of_Arnold_Archambeau_and_Ruby_Bruguier
https://unsolved.com/gallery/arnold-archambeau-ruby-bruguie
https://www.newspapers.com/article/argus-leader-arnoldruby-1/63109865/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/argus-leade26841188/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/argus-leade26841220/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/201214058/ruby-bruguier
https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2022/09/The-Bizarre-Mysterious-Deaths-of-Arnold-Archambeau-and-Ruby-Bruguier-/
2024.01.24 14:09 camelusmoreli Seven Demons - a history of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church
 | The Seven Demons of the PBCCA brief history of the Exclusive Brethren (AKA the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church)The defining characteristic of the Exclusive Brethren movement is its succession of despotic leaders. Like medieval kingdoms, each epoch in its history is defined by its monarch, who controls all, and upon whose whim the prosperity or poverty of his subjects depends. A history of these tyrants, therefore, is a history of the Exclusive Brethren movement as a whole. Nothing of any significance has ever occurred in the EB save by the direct action of their leaders – the Man of God was in the driving seat – everyone else were merely passengers hurtling towards an uncertain destination. John Nelson Darby 1800-1882Darby’s significance has been greatly exaggerated both inside and outside of the EBs. He emerged in an era when new religions were sprouting like weeds, fertilized by the advent of cheap printing, widespread literacy, and the weakening influence of the Roman Catholic and national churches. The Brethren movement he founded was just one of a crowd, and vastly less significant and influential than Mormonism, 7th day Adventism, the Jehovah’s Witness movement, the Salvation Army or a dozen other themes and variations on Christianity.In 1869, the famous preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon described the early EBs "Darbyites" as follows:"I know indeed of no sect or denomination so utterly devoid of kindness of heart. It is the most selfish religious system with which I am acquainted. It is entirely wrapped up in itself." Like a brilliant meteor, Darby flashed across the sky leaving a glittering trail of newly founded “assemblies” 90% of which disappeared within a few years of his death. Frederick Edward Raven 1837-1903Raven’s principal achievement was to lose almost all the EB congregations in Europe. A notoriously mystical man, his ministry consisted of ambiguous ideas for which he later made ambiguous apologies. His relationship with his wife was notoriously strained – she never broke bread, and despite being in robust health, declined to attend his funeral. Of his 9 children, only 2 or 3 joined the EB, and even those did not die “in fellowship”.James Taylor 1869-1953The ambitious young Irishman took the capital city of the EBs from London to New York. During his long and peaceful reign, nothing of any significance occurred. The EB movement’s evangelical side declined to a token “open-air preaching” and recruitment dropped to insignificant levels. Secure in their perceived superiority to the “worldly” churches around, the EB engaged in 50 years of gazing in wonder and admiration at their own belly button, and thanking God that they were not as other men.James Taylor Jr 1899-1970Charismatic and sensuous, JTJr claimed the throne by biological right rather than spiritual merit. Numbed by decades of Taylor domination, his global congregation assumed that he was his father’s son and that their spiritual slumberland would continue unruffled.He wasn’t and it didn’t. Starting in 1959 "Big Jim" unleashed a string of "directives" that resulted in thousands of families being brutally split up, marriages terminated and children as young as 13 being removed forcibly from their homes. The 1960s was the decade of sexual liberation. Despite their avowed detachment from the world the EBs, under the enthusiastic promptings of JTJr transformed the grey and stuffy intellectual fundamentalist Christianity of his father into a riot of heavy drinking, wife swapping and smut. Within a few short years, the crusty, semi-fossilised patricians of Brethrendom were hurling toilet rolls across the meeting hall and participating enthusiastically in drunken fumblings with their long suffering sisters, both spiritual and biological. Beneath this happy exterior of liberation and free love lurked a dark tragedy – the sexual abuse of children. Under JTJr’s leadership, a network of pedophiles spread its tentacles around the globe, starting a generational curse of child abuse that continues in the cult to this day. The Aberdeen crisis marked the culmination of this orgy of licensiousness. The sanest and least immoral 40% of the EB departed, leaving the weak minded and corrupt to carry on the glorious “Recovery of the Truth”. James Harvey Symington 1913-1987Did I mention that being the leader of the EBs comes with substantial rewards? As well as ready access to as much ungirdled female flesh as he could handle, JTJr became very comfortably wealthy at the expense of his flock – and of course, to a certain kind of man, power itself has an irresistible attraction. As JTJr flaunted his spiritual and sensuous skills, envious and ambitious eyes looked on.Three noses in particular were pressed against the bedroom window. W. Bruce Hales, John Hales, and James H Symington. Each coveted the throne, and each plotted and maneuvered to gain it. In a spectacular act of premature ejaculation, the Hales’s attempted a coup while “Big Jim” was in rehab for a few weeks. He returned, sober and swinging a big stick, and the Hales brothers were history. Thus it came to pass that the quiet and hard working pig farmer ascended the throne. Symington had two simple rules.
John Stephen Hales 1922-2002The protracted terminal illness of James Symington led to serious uncertainty as to his successor. None of his sons had either the ability or spiritual credentials to replace him, leaving the field wide open. Symington’s deathbed was thus a frequent venue for fawning princelings seeking a blessing, which Symington, in his occasional periods of lucidity, seemed reluctant to give. His death, therefore resulted in a dark and dirty power struggle between the principal pretenders to the throne, Jerry Holman, Lloyd Paskewitz and John Hales. The tie was broken by Roy Symington, who declared that his father had named Hales as his successor. Whether there was any truth in this statement is unknown, but Roy Symington was generously rewarded with a full remission of his many sins, a clearance of his debts and numerous lawsuits, a prosperous business of which he was nominally the owner and certainly the benefactor, a wealthy and buxom widow to warm his bed, a palatial home in Westfield, and full status as a Prince in the Kingdom of God.As a result of this modest expenditure, John Hales ascended the throne.John Hales was damaged goods from the start. The stigma of having been withdrawn from as a rival could never be fully explained away or eradicated. Like Lady Macbeth, no amount of vigorous and humble handwashing could eliminate the “damned spot”. With neither the charisma or the ruthlessness of his brother, he pursued a policy of appeasement, and aimed to secure his position by assuming an air of humility and mild benevolence towards the flock. As well as securing his position in the battered hearts of the saints, this policy had the fringe benefit of further loosening their purse strings – making him a very wealthy man indeed. Hales had been treated brutally by both JTJr and Symington, having been torn away from his wife and family multiple times and subjected to grueling and humiliating public confessions. As his son Bruce pointed out, this had a crippling effect on his psyche. Gone was the arrogance of his younger “system days” prime – John the MOG was a man burdened with bouts of depression, self-doubt and indecision. The wild and immoral behaviour of his children and grandchildren necessitated extensive cover-up operations that further added to his burdens and sense of inadequacy. This indecision came to a head in the bungled “home -schooling” crisis of the 1990s, which led to thousands of brethren children leaving state schools to be educated by their overworked mothers – with pitiful and tragic results.With this last sad legacy, the lame duck reign of John Hales limped to a close. Bruce David Hales 1953 - 2024Bruce’s plump buttocks were firmly placed upon the Throne of Mog ere John’s body was cold. He had learned well from the previous succession crisis, of which he was the main architect. He acted swiftly and ruthlessly to eliminate not only potential rivals, but the entire generation of “local leaders” who had grown fat and proliferated under his father’s slack hand. In every locality across the globe “sleeper agents” who had been primed for this moment announced his succession, and anyone who as much as flinched was shut up. With most localities having lost their established local leaders in the “Review” the grassroots of the EB was plunged into 350 separate local “succession crises” while Bruce established a new cabinet of younger men handpicked for their business acumen, moral elasticity and ruthlessness. Bruce’s goals were simple:
A series of revisionist narratives over the years has built an entirely fictitious history of the glorious House of Hales, who, it now emerges were Right All Along, and the inerrant men of God who had so brutally withdrawn from them time after time had simply acted on misinformation. The financial ambitions of Bruce were accomplished by a similar process of gradualism whereby the still outwardly Christian sect was transformed into a massive global corporation with Bruce as the CEO. The exuberant wealth of the USA’s prosperity gospel tele-evangelists gave Bruce a working model to follow. A fool and his money are soon parted, and with 55,000 fools at his disposal, Bruce’s patient panhandling paid off. “How are the mighty fallen?” lamented David. By the bottle, in Bruce’s case. For all his intelligence, and strategic prowess, Bruce has fallen prey to that most debased of human vices, addiction to alcohol. On the rare occasions when he can be roused to sufficient sobriety for public display, he is coached on what to read and what to say by a panel of advisors, and his oft incoherent speech is heavily edited before distribution to the masses. He has at the most, six months to live. The pretenders to the throne circle like vultures ever lower over the elephantine carcase, impatient for the death rattle. The long knives are already out, and the first victim of the Game of Thrones, Bruce's son-in-law Lester Martin lies bleeding in the dust.Will there be an eighth Man of God? – or will the peasants’ revolt and the Kingdom of Mog revert to anarchy and chaos? The 7 successive leaders of the PBCC. Clockwise from top, F E Raven, James Taylor Sr, James Taylor Jr, J S Hales, J H Symington, J N Darby. Center, B D Hales. |
2023.08.07 16:41 Kapples14 A New Era: The Christie Administration (Administration Ranking)
 | submitted by Kapples14 to Presidentialpoll [link] [comments] 47th President Chris Christie (R-NJ): 55th Governor of New Jersey, US Attorney for District of New Jersey President: Chris Christie Vice President: Tim Scott ------------------------------------------------------- Chief of Staff: Barbara Comstock Secretary of State: Kelly Craft Secretary of Treasury: Gary Cohn Secretary of Defense: Patrick Pizzella Attorney General: Jeffrey Chisea Secretary of the Interior: Bill Palatucci Secretary of Agriculture: Joseph Craft Secretary of Commerce: Jason Smith Secretary of Labor: Michelle Steel Secretary of Health and Human Services: Chris Sununu Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Francis X. Suarez Secretary of Transportation: James Simpson Secretary of Energy: Doug Burgum Secretary of Education: Ronald Gidwitz Secretary of Homeland Security: John Cornyn Ambassador the United Nations: Tulinabo S. Mushingi 119th Congress: Senate Majority Leader: John Thune (R-SD) Senate Majority Whip: Marco Rubio (R-FL) Senate Minority Leader: Chuck Schumer (D-NY) Senate Minority Whip Gary Peters (D-MI) President Pro Tempure: Susan Collins (R-ME) Speaker of the House: Jim Clyburn (D-SC) House Majority Leader: Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) House Majority Whip: Katherine Clark (D-MA) House Majority Leader: Steve Scalise (R-LA) House Minority Whip: Tom Emmer (R-MN) Economy: The economic goals of President Christie would be his most ambitious, and most difficult to obtain. Christie would successfully lobby for tax cuts on small businesses, as well as blockading a personal income tax pushed heavily by the Democratic House majority. The president's long term goal of cutting federal spending by .54% each year for a six year period, however, would be shot down in the Senate after defense hawks took issue with noticeable cuts in the military budget. While the economy slowly recovers under Christie, some are still frustrated with the stagnant pace of things as grocery prices still remain at high levels. The president's attempts to reexamine access requirements for Social Security benefits, looking to potentially raise the retirement age by three years in light of rising life expectancies would be met with immediate backlash from both parties. Immigration: With a broken border, President Christie and Secretary Cornyn would work extensively to begin fixing the modern immigration system and southern border. One of Christie's first moves would be signing an executive order that would lessen the requirements needed for immigrants to properly enter the U.S., while adjusting standards for how to deal with illegal immigrants. Those who have crossed illegally with families, served as mostly civil citizens with no other major criminal charges, and were willing to take a citizenship test would be put onto a one-year probation period where they would only have to meet up with a social worker to update them on their current status. As for those with extensive criminal records or have undisputable connections to the cartel, they would be put under arrest and have their individual situations put under consideration for deportation or rehabilitation. President Christie would also allocate resources and funds intended to be used for President Trump's border wall to instead be used to build the Christie Immigration Centers, special complexes in border states to accommodate for traveling immigrants and refugees. President Christie would also begin working on a new bill to update America's immigration policies, seeking to expand its acceptance rates. While progress on the bill has been slow due to partisan gridlock, the president has expressed optimism in the eventual outcome. Foreign Policy: Little change would come in regards to the situation in Ukraine, with President Christie continuing to provide military support to the small country as they begin pushing back Russian forces from their lands. The president would also begin slowly taking American jobs back from China, helping to set up numerous relationships with American allies such as India and Mexico to meet the country's medicinal, technological, and material needs. The Corporate Ethics Act would also begin placing pressure on major conglomerates to cease outsourcing jobs to companies and countries that violate labor laws and human rights. While seen as a heavy-handed move unfit for a fiscal conservative, the notion of upholding American values in the free-market as well as human rights was seen as a mostly suitable reason. On the topic of the CCP, several investigations would be made into uncovering the deep roots that the Chinese government had been holding within the country via its economy and government. This would lead to numerous sting operations on bureaucrats and businessmen being arrested for espionage, white-collar crimes, and corruption. With more pressure being put onto Xi Jinping and the CCP, the president would begin to push NATO and its allies to start pressing Russia and China more in order to keep both nations on their toes via threats of sanctions, . Energy: Secretary Burgum would play a massive role in revitalizing America's energy industries. While cutting back red tape on several drilling operations, allowing for companies to more easily set up rigs to drill and frack, the North Dakotan and the president would also begin setting up plans to develop green-energy plants to set up the potential for small towns and cities to switch from fossil fuels to greener alternatives during major disasters. These moves would spark outrage from many progressives, decrying the president for supposedly selling out to big oil companies. While the president fought back against the allegations by citing his aforementioned green energy policies, and needing to push for a fair balance between both necessary forms of power. Education: While the president mostly left the matters of educational policies to Vice President Scott, the commander in chief would make several pushes to expand upon parental rights in education that included school choice, renewing scholarship opportunities, as well as signing the College Financial Transparency Act. This executive order would force all colleges, private and state, to disclose fiscal patterns and budgeting plans with parents. Meanwhile, Vice President Scott would work extensively with both chambers of Congress to pass several key education bills that would increase funding for various schools in low-income towns and cities, create more streamlined communication methods to guarantee positive parent-teacher relations, and would sign a bill that would incentivize publics schools to put greater emphasis on student performance in both behavior and scholastic efforts. One of the more controversial issues the president would take would be one that many anticipated for years, the matter of transgender students and how the school systems would approach any and all related matters. While the president had generally taken a more moderate stance, showcasing his support for the LGBT+ community and encouraging his fellow Republicans to become more accepting, he would still disapprove of the notion of biological men in women's sports. While saying this, the president would ultimately place the issue into the states, noting that any moves deemed unconstitutional or unjust would be met with immediate action. President Christie would also begin inviting former Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin to the White House, stating that he believed that the governor's own educational laws were very much a model example of how to address the issue with the tact and grace needed to give equal levels of respect to both parents and the LGBT+ community's concerns. Judiciary: Many of President Christie's judiciary appointments would be a mix of conservative and centrist judges who would be trusted to be level-headed and pragmatic in their decision making. President Christie would have to fill in the positions left behind after Associate Justice Clarence Thomas and Chief Justice John Roberts each announced their retirements from the Supreme Court. In their places, Chris Christie would put his full efforts into appointing Circuit Justice James C. Ho in order to replace Justice Thomas, becoming the first Vietnamese-American Associate Justice. In the place of the outgoing Chief Justice, President Christie would appoint former Solicitor General Paul Clement in his position. Major Accomplishments: After months of negotiations and drafts, President Christie would help pass the Donalds-Fetterman Act, also known as the Congressional Insider Ethics Act. This bill would bar any and all federal officer holders, their staff, and any employee of the federal government from selling or purchasing stock bonds while serving in their current positions. The bipartisan bill would be lauded by many for curbing into some of the wealth being gained by career politicians. A key moment that helped the president's approval ratings would come in when he would work alongside Governor Kemp and Senators Warnock and Ossoff to help create the Jimmy Carter University in Plains, Georgia, as an honor to the former president and as a way to help spur the educational and social development of Georgia's youth. The university would serve as both an affordable college for many families, but also as a community spot where the town's young adults could volunteer in various community projects. Major Controversies: While the president had mostly remained uncontroversial in matters of ethics, having learned his lesson after the infamous Bridgegate incident, he has not always had the best relations with the media. President Christie would face scrutiny from both parties as he has struggled to maintain his stance as a moderate Republican while still working to appeal to the conservative block, which would lead to a now-infamous political cartoon depicting the president's wishy-washy nature as "Compromise or Compromised?". There have also been several gaffes that have come from his diplomatic stints, leading to sour relations with the Mexican President and Prime Minister of Italy due to his more brash personality. View Poll |
2023.07.22 15:30 BruhEmperor Second Presidential Term of Thomas Custer (1893-1897) American Interflow Timeline
 | Planted as a man deep in despair after the lost of his two brothers, however blossomed into the third president in a row to win a second term. President Thomas Custer delivered a victory in his fourth run in the Commonwealth ticket, holding back the reformist ideals of the Reformed People’s Party as well as the other mainstream Patriotic and Freedom Parties. Custer is once again preparing for four eventful more years in office. submitted by BruhEmperor to Presidentialpoll [link] [comments] President Thomas Custer’s Cabinet Vice President - Alfred A. Taylor Secretary of State - Francis Cockrell Secretary of the Treasury - Adlai Stevenson I Secretary of War - John Potter Stockton Secretary of the Navy - Arthur Sewall Secretary of the Interior - Thomas Goode Jones Attorney General - Jesse Root Grant II Secretary of Sustenance - Sylvester Pennoyer Secretary of Public Safety - John R. McLean The Church Bells Chime! Right after his election victory was declared, Custer announced his engagement to a woman long suspected to have a romantic relationship with him. The president had been a bachelor for his entire life and entered the presidency as one. Custer slept around with many women during his life yet one never truly got to him personally. That was until he met Anna Roosevelt during his first term in office. Roosevelt, nicknamed “Bamie”, was serving as a White House aid when she met Custer and reportedly got well-acquainted with the president. Bamie hailed from the prominent Roosevelt family, whom one of its’ members, Robert Roosevelt, was the Commonwealth presidential nominee in 1876 and current Supreme Court Justice appointed by Custer himself. Bamie and Thomas spent many nights talking with each other and Custer reportedly said to Secretary Thomas Goode Jones that “That woman is as near to my heart as my late brothers were to me!”. Their personalities reported work off each other well, with Bamie's quick and witty attitude complementing Custer's fiery personality. Custer and Roosevelt’s relationship was leaked to the press at one point and many speculated if the president was planning end his bachelorship once and for all. Anna “Bamie” Roosevelt was announced aa Custer’s fiancé on December and the two lovers were officially wed on February 1st, 1893. Anna “Bamie” Roosevelt Custer became the 21st First Lady of the United States of America.. They would have a son in February 10, 1894, Emanuel “Manny” Custer II, named after his grandfather. First Lady Anna \"Bamie\" Roosevelt Custer The Great Recession Optimism would grow as Custer’s second inauguration, but problem would already arise but that second inauguration would arrive. The war in South American busted many of the American investments in the area and its’ stability and hanging by a thread, but finally it would completely implode and fail by 1893. This, including economic panics in oversees nations, collapsing speculations, and other issues led to the banking bubble to finally burst. Bank runs became rampant as many pulled out their money from banks in the form of gold causing the US gold deplete massively. Stocks plummeted and bank were close to total collapse. Custer had before implemented bimetallist policies during his presidency, fixing the gold to silver ratio at 1:18 and acquiring tons of silver during this first term. Now with this, the administration would artificially inflate the currency to boost supply and to prevent price drops. Congress would draft a temporary law that would then ban withdrawing money in the form of gold to prevent further depletion, only allowing silver to be received. As well with this, farmers, miners, and labor workers would be able to cash in funds due to the gold to silver ratio as silver supply had boomed. Custer’s staunch de-regulation policies that gave power to monopolies and big business eventually also came to the economy’s aid. J.P. Morgan and his railroad empire funded millions into the economic relief plan and John D. Rockefeller and his oil behemoth paid for many of the debts and defaulted loans the treasury bore. The business coalition was dubbed the “The Banker’s Syndicate”, composed of the nation’s most prominent bankers and businessmen. The syndicate bought up all the government gold bonds to shore up gold to stabilize the economy. With these quick and decisive actions, the days of uncertainty and fear of a possible economic collapse came to an end and an economic depression was prevented. John Pierpont Morgan and John D. Rockefeller were major donors to the banker's syndicate that helped prevent a depression Unfortunately, the effects of what was called the “Week of Sunken Souls” was evident. The US took a major hit from this affair and the economy had stopped its’ rapid growth and entered in a recession by May of 1893. Many jobs were lost and the market was in disarray, with foreign investors hesitant with what just happened. The administration immediately began plans in jump starting back the economy in order. The Week of Sunken Souls caused the ill-fated economic recession Recession Remedies The president had been a staunch advocate for free trade and saw it as a means of projecting American influence in the global market. The free trade policies of Custer were reworked into a way to boost foreign trade back up and to re-attract investors to the country. Multiple trade deals were signed with France and Britain, as well as border re-affirmations. American exports to foreign nations ramped up as the US somewhat abandoned their isolationist policy for the time being and return to internationalism from Barnum’s presidency. Relations were opened to the Qing Empire and Japan in the east and the US began to the trade with the warring nations down in South America. Some foreign investors were attracted back with aided the economy in its recovery, but the recession persisted into 1894 and caused some upheaval internally. Many worried that the influence big business now had on US politics had gone too far. With the monopolies helping aid the government in funding relief, they were given more free reign and more deregulation as compensation. Some economists estimated that about 33% of the nation’s deposits were owned by these monopolies and many feared that the businesses would consume all of American soon enough. Opposition grew from the radicals and populists of the RPP, progressives and pro-regulation politicians between all the parties, and anti-autocrats who saw the monopolies as autocratic in nature. Pressure within the political sphere grew as many politicians became openly opposed to the growth of big business. Radicals of the RPP, mainly Representative Francis Bellamy, Representative Eugene V. Debs, Representative Thomas E. Watson, and Senator Edward Bellamy published a political manifesto called “The Sin of Deep Pockets”. The Sin of Deep Pockets, published on December 23rd, 1893, detailed that how the unopposed growth of monopolies would led to a nation operated by them. A parallel was made to the Revolutionary War, stating the monopolies were as like the British and their refusal to give liberty to the colonists and their unfair robbing of their hard-earned wealth. Warnings were given of ‘corporatocracy’, meaning a nation ran of, by, and for the corporations. Francis Bellamy gave on of his fiery saying near the end of the pamphlet, “It is necessary that we, as citizens of this nation, heed the warnings that we see before us. Lest in due time, our land as we know will be stripped of everything it has and it be given to a few wearing their dastardly crown of greed.”. The radicals of the RPP co-wrote the now famous Sin of Deep Pockets The pamphlet gained major press and it quickly and shockingly became the seventh best selling work of literature in American history. Many non-radical politicians as well endorsed the warnings of the pamphlet, such as Commonwealth Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and Patriotic Representative Elihu Root of New York, though they disagreed with some of the more radical proposals. The 'Crown of Greed' was used to refer to those rich and powerful in both the economy and politics. The writing caused such a stir that it was brought to the attention of Congress and many demanded some sort of economic safeguard if a panic like this ever happened again. The Federal Reserve System Act of 1894 As the topic flared up, it was clear that many sought at most a division of these monopolies and at least a safeguard of the economy against the monopolies. Many of public were influenced to fear the growth of such monopolies, though many were also grateful of their help in preventing an economic depression. The president was weary of such proposals as he owed many of the monopolies for helping save of the US economy. Custer initially pushed of some delay of debate regarding the issue, and called for the economy to fully heal before debate would start again. Many protested this and pushed for immediate action for an anti-monopoly bill. Factions more assertive called for a split of monopolies and ‘trust-busting’ while other called for a cap on how much a company can own. Notably, some brought up an interesting idea. Some, like Representative Elihu Root, called for a federal reserve system to manage the money supply, loans and oversight to banks, and to lend last resort. This plan, dubbed the Root Plan, was supported by some well-known individuals such as Speaker Alexander S. Clay and Senator John P. St. John and it soon caught the eye of the president. The bill was brought before Congress on April 2, 1894 as the “Federal Reserve System Act”, some anticipated this as the beginning of major economic reform and the bill passed both the House and Senate easily. Foundations of a Central Bank were established to monitor the money supply and banks as well as giving more government control of the economy. Unfortunately for those wanting more reform however, the anti-monopoly measures would stop with the passage of the act. While some were content with the circumstance, others were furious, demanding more safeguard measures to the economy, but there calls failed to reach mainstream once again. In a speech regarding the act, Speaker Alexander S. Clay would say, “…to bring upon stable prices, stable banks, stable employment, stable income, stable economy, and stable government. That is the goal of what we are trying to achieve today.” The establishment of the Federal Reserve brought optimism to many struggling businesses The New War Economy (Read the Guanabara Bay Incident and the War of the Continental Alliance Part I for more context) Upon the outbreak of war against Argentina, wartime measures were implemented to Congress to sustain a war so far down south. Opportunities were opened with more factory and manufacturing jobs being made to sustain a growing war effort. Manufacture of weapons, uniforms, medical supplies, and food were put into overdrive as the US tried to prepare for the war. The economy was beginning its process for total mobilization and new wartime measures for things such as rations and ammunition were put in place. Projects such as the “Donate your bullets!” campaign sprung up to bring more aid to the troops and boost enthusiasm for the war, organized by Secretary of War John Potter Stockton who tried to get public opinion firmly for the war. After the boys were sent to Argentina and the American casualties started rolling in, new and improved weapons and uniforms were made to boost morale and spread to the demoralized servicemen in the front lines. Funds for the war were managed by the new Federal Reserve in order to control overspending and over sight possible weakness in the economy. Also supporting the Federal Reserve were the wealthy donors giving massive donations to fund the war, included among them were the Standard Oil Company and J.P. Morgan and Co., the top businesses of the states. This of course raised some eyes, as the Federal Reserve was there to stop individuals influencing the economy, but the war itself most caught the public’s attention for now. A depiction of servicemen in the navy to boost enthusiasm for enlisting New public works programs were introduced during the eve of war. The Works and Labor Initiative was started to get more people involved in the war effort and as well getting them out of unemployment. Nearly 350,000 of unemployed workers were given employment as manufacturers, handymen, or desk managers with the initiative. Unfortunately for the government however, these ramped up measures were costing way too much for the US economy and the government was overspending many of its returned profits. These initiatives officially ended by late 1895, yet they were able to launch many people’s return to a livelihood again after the recession. Freedomite House Leader Thomas B. Reed called it a “…unwavering triumph for the American unemployed and desolate.”. With the recession coming closer to its’ well-expected end and many returning back into employment for the war effort, President Thomas Custer’s approval rating skyrocketed during mid-to-late 1895, despite the hellish stalemate in South America, the nearly 5,000 casualties by late 1895, and the failure of breaking cross the Rio de la Plata. Manufacturing was vital for the American war effort to continue Secretary of State Francis Cockrell worked tirelessly to prevent outside influence from interfering the war. Cockrell made trips to the German and French Empire to negotiate matters regarding the war. Cockrell personally spoke to German Chancellor Hebert von Bismarck who was thinking of boosting German trade with Argentina to instead invest in American trading. Cockrell negotiated a free trade and economic co-operation treaty with the Germans and ensured their neutrality in their support. Cockrell also made a trip to the United Kingdom and even personally met Queen Victoria. He made acquaintance with the British government and started to make moves to patch up the melancholic Anglo-American relationship. Secretary of State Francis Cockrell The Anti and Pro War Components The war in Argentina obviously made its supporters and opponents due to its nature. Those hellbent on seeing total victory in the war were called the “Martians”, a reference to the Roman god of war Mars. The Martians consisted of men such as Senators Shelby M. Cullom, Redfield Proctor, William Pierce Frye, John Hay, George Westinghouse, Garrett Hobart, Benjamin Harrison, and John P. St. John, as well the likes of Representatives Charles Phelps Taft, William Henry Moody, Harrison Gray Otis, Speaker Alexander S. Clay, and Governor William Kissam Vanderbilt. Many populists grew to support the war too, like Representatives Jerry Simpson and Joseph C. Sibley, as they perceived the war as vital for employment and it benefitting agricultural efforts as supply demand increased. These men sought to see an end to the war by means of total victory, calling for more effort to be put in place to finally defeat the Golden Alliance once and for all. Many of the pro-war politicians sought to project American influence abroad and initiate the US as a respected world power, as well as being the hegemon of its' side of the world. A new social movement involving the pro-war politicians called the “True American” movement. These ‘True Americans’ would parade the streets with photos of the war’s well-known figures such as Adna Chaffee, Arthur MacArthur, Leonard Wood, George Dewey, Wesley Merritt, and much more. A push was made to immerse the nation into an aroma of nationalism and somehow bring a ‘Second Era of Good Feelings’, and total victory of the war was seen as the catalyst for it to happen. A crowd of 'True Americans' surrounding a statue dedicated for the men fighting in the Argentine front The anti-war opposition made sure their voices were heard as well. Dubbed the “Pax, after the Roman god of peace, the faction consisted of both socialistic radicals and jingoistic isolationists. The radicals of the RPP, such as the two Bellamys and Representatives Debs and Watson all advocated for the end of the war and to bring back the boys home. Representative Debs predicted during a debate regarding the war that “Another 10,000 more will be added to that total (casualties), now with American blood!”. Now with 5,000 American casualties on the field, his prophecy was half way towards reality. Senator Edward Bellamy’s Nationalist Clubs were transformed into an anti-war partisan group, orchestrating major protests against war and openly burnt down photos of the war’s major advocators. Riots sprung up from San Francisco to Lynchburg, where many families lost a loved one during the war and all demanding the end of bloodshed. Some non radicals also protested the continuation of the war, notably Senator Grover Cleveland, Representative Joseph G. Cannon, Representative William Jennings Bryan, Representative John Wanamaker, Representative Marion Butler, and Governor William Eustis Russell. Many feared that this war was an American venture into imperialism and many also feared that discarding isolationism would bode American intervention in foreign politics which was feared by many ‘jingoists’. Bryan and Russell were the main opponents of the war within the Commonwealth Party, with Bryan's opposition of the intent of projecting American influence abroad with the war, sighting it with imperialism, and Russell opposes the war for its seeming lack of national benefit and his distain for getting involved in foreign affairs, especially with the Latin Americans. Both men, who are both passionate orators, would sight the casualty count as justification for their opinions. A group of San Francisco Nationalist Club members gathered to protest the war The Indian Expulsion Act of 1895 In the summer of 1895, a string of robberies occurred in the the state of Dakota and Montana with the culprits able to evade capture every time. On one occasion on July 22nd, an eye witness account came in which would change everything. The eye witness account would describe a robbery in the city Yankton, Dakota. The witness would describe the perpetrators as having "...features of that belonging on a Native Indian." and one of the perpetrators was supposedly wearing a native American headdress. The first eye witness' account was backed up by another one with the same description being reported. Now with the other robberies in the area, no native American was described to have participated in any of them, yet these two account were the ones who gain the most traction within the community. Many decided to put the blame on 'Indian Barbarism' for these robberies and soon began to demand action from the local government. More outrage erupted when another robbery in the city of Aberdeen with the same 'Indian perpetrators' from the robbery in Yankton. The issue was brought directly to local state government who in turn brought it to the federal government. Though not much interest was given by Congress regarding the issue, the president himself gave much attention to the issue. Custer seemingly held much resentment against the natives for the Battle of Little Bighorn which killed off most of his family and he saw this as a perfect time for recompense. Regarding the issue, Custer proposed an act to expel all natives in the west to prevent another issue like this from happen. The Indian Expulsion Act was drafted, which contain a provision that all Native Americans living west of the Missouri River were to be forced to relocate to Indian Territory down south and gave a one year deadline for the natives to comply. The bill passed handily in Congress with support from the president, though there was still minor opposition to it, and the act was signed and made in law on September 1st. A mass exodus of natives was forced as many native tribes who resided there for centuries were forced to move to the Indian Territory, which was getting more and more crammed with the incoming natives, the exodus as well killed thousands who weren't able to sustain themselves on the trek there. Eventually, some land in Kansas and Colorado were granted to house natives unable to stay in the territory. Hundreds of thousands of natives moved down south from September 1895 to September 1896, with those who refused to move getting criminally charged. A Native American family after finally reaching Indian Territory after a long trek south The Boston Custer Society On June 25, 1896, President Custer made an announcement in remembrance of his late brothers George and Boston. “My two closest kinsmen, as well as others I was related through my in-laws, all perished together this day 20 years ago. Today, I wish to honor my fallen brethren by announcing my intention to create a group focused on honoring brave servicemen in the field both in the past, in the present, and in the future. To show them support their darkest moments and to show them that when all is said and done, we are all family in the end.”. Thus created the Boston Custer Society, a group dedicated to showing unwavering support to the men in the field. But as the group grew, it soon began to show a secondary purpose to their creation. The Boston Custer Society basically became a vigilante group dedicated to President Custer, supporting him in any decision he made and pushed his rhetoric to wherever they went. By August, the group had reached about 300,000 members, all dedicated to the will of the President. The group orchestrated major rallies in big cities in order to boost support and enthusiasm about Custer’s current administration and push for “Custerite Democracy” to enter the mainstream. The society’s originally purpose of honoring the armed forces became secondary to the pro-Custer movement it was pushing. The president did not openly decry the society’s actions too, seemingly preferring keeping quiet about their fanaticism. Some in the opposition mockingly called the Boston Custer Society as the “Cult of Custer”. A pro-military and pro-Custer parade organized by the Boston Custer Society The Custerite Society Homelife in America during and after the Recession had transformed dramatically. The Works and Labor Initiative flourished a new wave of workers and laborers and the American economy itself was eventually stabilized by early 1896. The relief bills drafted by Congress gave the common citizen a feeling of self-worth as the government actually did something to the nation's benefit. The efforts to grow nationalism back home had minor success, with some feeling the US was getting on its' feet on the world stage, yet there were still many who opposed the bloodshed and havoc that the war brought. Though despite ideological differences, the US citizenry experience that first sense of unity since the presidency of John Quincy Adams II. Society had divided after his assassination and especially during the Barnum administration and Custer's first term, but now a sense of good will flourished in the homeland even if they disagreed politically. Life after the Recession remained calm, as legislation seeking to preserve the 'American Way' of life was pushed. The Civil Reconciliation Act of 1896 was the strike that finally shot down the anti-reconciliation politicians and made it law that communities that were racially segregation with either black or white individuals were illegal and officially killed off barring. The act was supported by President Custer himself and many members of each party, the act also basically eradicated that Reactionaries within the Commonwealth Party, while those who remained turned to a simple nationalistic or nativist stance on policy. Forced re-education also continued to the 'unwilling' citizens who refused to abide by reconciliation, with those still refusing to abide by the law after re-education facing criminal charges. This of course brought opposition from both black and white southerners who feared re-integration, but they were mostly ignored by the new pro-reconciliation governments elected the states. Persecution against openly violent anti-reconcilationists were handled strictly by Attorney General Jesse Root Grant, who worked closely with the police force to hunt down any law-breaking dissidents. Despite this of course, there were still problems that many were concerned of. The influence of business and monopolies on politics continues to be a heated issue and many still fear the incoming 'corporatocracy' prophesized on the Sin of Deep Pockets. The war in Argentina would also be the major topic of the day, with the proponents and opponents of it continuing to be loud in the national stage and the debate of the casualty count and the return of American troops back home heating up day by day as the death count rises. Many also fear the 'cult of personality' that the president was seeming to gain, with the rise of the Boston Custer Society and the growing fanaticism for the president flashing memories back to the martial law era and the common Barnumite propaganda seen back then. Some were also suspicious of the president refusal to comment to the concerns about the issue, he hasn't even declared his intention for what he would do after his second term. Things such as the economic system, imperialism, foreign policy, the direct election of Senators, and labor rights continue to be relevant as well. With this in mind, the clock is ticking for the next presidential election. Twenty-second President of the United States of America, Thomas Ward Custer View Poll |
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2023.03.16 04:53 Vivid_Pack_333 Medical Marijuana
This doesn’t specially apply to Sioux Falls but you amazing people might know who I could get in touch with from Sioux Falls or anyone in South Dakota really 😅 I’ve tried to contact the lawyer Ryan K, I’ve sent emails to South Dakotans for Better Marijuana Laws, The department in the Health Department that deals with cannabis, NORML, and New Approach South Dakota and none have gotten back to me so far. I have a case going on in Yankton County with a judge that refuses to allow me to use my state medical marijuana card while on 24/7 or probation. I understand it’s the judge’s decision (blah blah blah) but I feel she’s using her personal feelings as to why she won’t allow it. I’ve shown her cases around the state that are allowing people on probation to use it. (Including Sioux Falls) I’ve gotten 2 doctors to give me another certification since her first argument was the “patient doctor relationship”, I have extensive medical records showing why I need the card. (Not to boast or show up anyone with any medical needs but my lawyer and I both feel I have a solid basis for being able to use the card so if it doesn’t get approved for me I think it will never be approved here for anyone since I can prove my chronic pain since I was 11 and I’m 25 now) My lawyer says there’s nothing we can do it’s up to her but there’s gotta be something somewhere. This would be the first ever case in Yankton County involving the medical card and so it’s setting a precedent and I would hate for her to use this case as a basis to tell everyone no.
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2023.01.31 07:24 KilgoreTroutFunf I'm having a lot of fun with my voice memos app
Hello. I have a new favorite hobby that I wanted to share with everyone. At certain times, especially when I'm procrastinating for a difficult exam, I pull out my phone and open the voice memos app. I press the red button to start recording, and set my phone down in an acoustically accessible place. I have no clue about the technical terms of audio, so what I mean by acoustically accessible is that the mic is open to general room noise.
What I do with the app is something that I sincerely consider to be a form of mental exercise. I try to embody a person with a different way of speaking, a different life with a momentarily fleshed out back story. I just start talking, and the person spills out of me. I usually try to do English and Irish accents, since it's the closest thing to my 'Broadcast American' accent. I also do a lot of Southern, Western, North Dakotan (Fargo), New York/New Jersey/Tony Soprano Variant, and occasionally celebrity snippet accents. I also do a German accent, and whatever North European is, Finland/Sweden.
What I mean by a celebrity snippet accent is I'll do a little one-liner attributed to various public figures. Mitch McConnell is one of my favorites to do, since it comes so easy to me. I sit in my room and repeat over and over in my Mitch McConnell voice something like "We need to talk about the stimulus package", and I don't stop until it sounds good. I also tend to say some disarmingly funny things (funny in my opinion at least) during my character spills, and I manage to deliver such absurd lines with a straight face and even solemnity. I did an Irish Fisherman voice today (think Irish with whistely teeth and said the following - note here that this is a direct transcription of what I said, since it's recorded.
Thank you all for your time, have a good week.
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What I do with the app is something that I sincerely consider to be a form of mental exercise. I try to embody a person with a different way of speaking, a different life with a momentarily fleshed out back story. I just start talking, and the person spills out of me. I usually try to do English and Irish accents, since it's the closest thing to my 'Broadcast American' accent. I also do a lot of Southern, Western, North Dakotan (Fargo), New York/New Jersey/Tony Soprano Variant, and occasionally celebrity snippet accents. I also do a German accent, and whatever North European is, Finland/Sweden.
What I mean by a celebrity snippet accent is I'll do a little one-liner attributed to various public figures. Mitch McConnell is one of my favorites to do, since it comes so easy to me. I sit in my room and repeat over and over in my Mitch McConnell voice something like "We need to talk about the stimulus package", and I don't stop until it sounds good. I also tend to say some disarmingly funny things (funny in my opinion at least) during my character spills, and I manage to deliver such absurd lines with a straight face and even solemnity. I did an Irish Fisherman voice today (think Irish with whistely teeth and said the following - note here that this is a direct transcription of what I said, since it's recorded.
Y'know me fadder was a sausage maker once. Absolutely true story that is. He fell into the machine and then accepting sigh y'know, turned into a sausage. Unfortunately the whole town had him by dinner-time, including me and me Ma. We were worried sick about him.Perhaps this is why this hobby is so fun to me. It feels like I'm fishing in the ice pond of my mind. I can't see that far into the deep, but I found a nice place, and the spoils are great regardless. It also feels like mental exercise, sort of like visualizing 3D objects in your head, or solving a puzzle. I don't do it often, but when it hits it hits.
Thank you all for your time, have a good week.
2022.10.16 00:20 I_love_ViceCity GTA VI - TOP Ideas for a Rockstar's next crime adventure
This is my list of things I want:
-Walking stores, restaurants, malls or shopping centers without loading screens
-A more realistic police encounters without getting shot until showing a weapon-More cities where you can travel across the map (Las Venturas, Vice City, San andreas, Los Santos) etc. (Ive think this confirmed)
-Recruiting NPCs
-A small touch of futuristic appearance to the game with new devices, aircrafts and vehicles without overpowering a player.
29.-More locations to enter(like Bars and Restaurants. GTA 5 only had your single player character walking into a bar and then leaving as "activity").
-A better story. GTA V wasn't bad but it didn't even feel like one of the best ones.
-Better map. GTA V feels very stale now. There is like nothing to do in Sandy Shores,and even less in Blaine County. Make the map feel even more alive,especially in online.
-Weapons: More variety in weapons. GTA V still has no fire extinguisher or flame thrower as weapons like previous GTA games had. Maybe even funnier melee weapons like bringing back the dildo(this might even cause some challenges such as "Finishing (mission) but only with a dildo").
-GTA 6 Online should be more balanced: Not only PvP but also prices and payout. As for PvP,no bulletproof helmet crap,no sniper dancing,no flying broomsticks with homing rockets and killing yourself in combat should affect your score and KD(so those tryhards learn to accept their fate of losing their virginity). Payouts should be balanced and the prices should make more sense. Remember the Armoured Boxville in GTA Online? Yeah,it's 2020 and it is still not capable of surviving a single frag grenade even though it is supposed to be armoured for it's price.-Online should be more fun based rather than money based. Add more gamemodes. For example even add something like a freemode event where players have to go to a specific location with a GROUND VEHICLE and then they all have to race to the finish,but they can choose their own track. So someone with a dirt bike would take the offroad route while someone with a supercar with high top speed would take the highway route.
-More character customizations. Not only in single player,but also online. Making the character fat,buff,skinny.
-Better servers,seriously Rockstar. It's like GTA 5 Online servers have never ever been updated,infact,NPCs still lag in missions such as old gen/OG Heists. And the loading times are still annoying and horrible.30. And please bring back learned fight styles like San Andreas (boxing, karate, kick boxing, dirty fighting, etc etc).The past gta 4 & 5 game fighting has been trash even tho Rdr2 has been the best to date it should be better for gta6 with learned styles like San Andreas.
31.More crime related side activities
Mafia 3's crime system does make the game more fun. Stopping someone from calling the police when you commit a crime instead of them just magically appearing sometimes.
31.Have a "Reality Mode" option when playing- Stricter violations (1 star for running red lights and damaging property)
- Actual Police pullovers (Instead of getting busted for petty crimes, you can play a mini-game with the options to run, get a ticket, or resist and have a shootout)
- Lighter weapon inventory (Can't have multiple types and sizes of weapons at the same time)
- No more health bar (Replaced with health status and real injuries that affect character's body and bleeding out)
- Character bathroom breaks...
32.GTA IV driving physics with more interiors. I used to love hiding from other players in Free Mode by going to the safehouses from story mode or another area you don't usually enter (like Dwayne's entire apartment building being accessible as well as random buildings being entirely open in Bohan).Another thing that was completely underrated was being able to take public transportation. As a New Yorker, I learned how to take trains in real life by learning the train system in GTA IV, believe it or not. I used to always take the train from Playboy X's mansion to Hove Beach.
34.parkour skills (depends what level stamina) it literally needs, you can’t jump from rooftops to another rooftop and climb. Realistic cops.
- Stop being the errand boy. Build our own empire Having to take care from the goverment and other mafias. Laundrying Money, choosing the incomes.Choosing alliance with other factions and Bribing the law and politicians
-Your online player actually talks..In gta iv they had that in multiplayer no matter what player u had (the rastaman, italian guys or even the zombie), they would have at least a one liner after you pressed a button
- make heists the core and most important part of the online experience by adding a heist grinding system with a full package of heists ready at launch so people can have heists to grind from launch , and add rewards and ranking on heists between your crew members or premade friends as well as increasing the amount of players that can play a heist from 4 to 8 depending on heist difficulty , make it so that if a heist member dies you dont restart all over and you continue through it even if ur the last member alive , also with each update should bring a new set of heists , heists should also involve protagonists in it would be great , also make it that playing each single heist differently a possibility , it should be different for everyone depending on their decision and how they play it out which means restriction in heists shouldnt be a thing , u should be able to do a heist anyway u like.
- crew system should receive aa rework where u can create a gang of your own , thats directly tied to your businesses which also opens up more options for u to have easier time delivering and producing as well as taking over territory of certain gangs available on the map (either npc or online gang leaders) which leads to a gang war , which means both leaders will have to fight each other with their online members or available npc they have hired , this ends up with the winning side taking over the territory (not businesses)
We just stole the cars and have to get them out of the city in a high speed chase ... with 1/4 of a tank of gas ⛽️
2) GTA 1 and 2 at TW@ internet cafe
For most fans, it all started with either Claude in GTA 3 or Tommy in Vice City. However, there are two games that precede these titles and very few fans know about them.Released in 1997, the first game featured a top-down 2D perspective of Liberty City. It was designed for the PS1, and was later launched for the GameBoy Color and PC. Similarly, GTA 2 was released in 1999 and featured the same top-down 2D perspective of Anywhere City.These are the initial steps that the franchise took towards becoming one of the largest and most beloved gaming studios in the world. That said, paying homage to these two games shouldn't be very tough as GTA 3 did it brilliantly.
Statue of Happiness ( GTA IV )
The Statue of Happiness on Happiness Island is a jab at the Statue of Liberty. It makes an appearance in GTA 4, as the city is a fictional recreation of New York.The statue holds not just one but quite a few Easter Eggs, of which some are callbacks. Most notably, the torch has been replaced with a cup of coffee. For many gamers, this might seem like a lame joke, but in reality, it is a mention to the controversial Hot Coffee mod for San Andreas.With all the leaks and rumors surrounding Grand Theft Auto 6, it may just take place in Vice City, Rockstar Games' Miami. Of course, the Statue for Happiness would look out of place there, but the designers could make use of popular landmarks in Florida in a similar way.
Alien (GTA V )
Alien Easter Eggs are a recurring theme in the GTA Series and almost every title has mentioned the extra terrestrials in some way or the other. San Andreas featured numerous mentions as it also had a rendition of the real-life Area 51 in-game.As for the current game, there are many to discover, and one presents itself during the very first mission of the game in North Yankton. An alien can be found under a frozen lake/pond.There is also a supply mission in the Gunrunning update which instructs players to source an alien egg from a crashed UFO in the Zancudo Riverbed. Online has pretty much become the stuff of outerspace as it now features flying bikes, cars and alien weaponry.
No Easter Eggs here ( San Andreas)
Easter Egg hunting has become a sport among fans and they are always seen competing as to who can find them quicker. Sometimes the discoveries are ground-breaking and others seem a little desperate.
Rockstar took a jab at this and put up a very funny sign in San Andreas. When players visit the Gant Bridge and scale the middle spire, they can locate a plaque that reads:
"There are no Easter Eggs up here, Go away."
The joke worked very well with the fans as it said there weren't any Easter Eggs when it was one itself.
It's a long list and I could probably add more to it but I won't.
I also won't care if less than half of these things are in the game because I'm most likely preordering it first day the preorder is available.
I'll gladly buy one of the next-gen consoles just for this game.
There are loads more but I’d typed for long enough🙂
I think they listen to the community,
Occasionally we do see requested things trickle through though, and it's always nice to see stuff that people have wanted in a GTA game make an appearance.
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GTA VI - TOP Ideas for a Rockstar's next crime adventure
This is my list of things I want:
- LOADS more interiors
- More destructible things e.g bushes, trees, small damage to buildings and more
- Imagine being able to walk into a car dealership to get cars instead of just getting them off the internet
- More of the gta 4 physics e.g being able to grab onto a wall and being able to go along it, choosing if you can turn your engine on or off, pick up and throw things and way more
- Restraints you can eat in
- Customisable interiors such as choosing the colours of walls and floors in your apartment, being able to go to furniture shops and buy thing for your apartment and more things like that
- More types of cars spawning in traffic with npcs instead of seeing a whole row of the exact same infernus
- Cops arresting people instead of just killing them (imagine being arrested and attempting a prison break)
- A 6th wanted star back in the game involving the military
- More realism, it’s not like you could look out your window and see a flying bike with guns on the front or an indestructible tank parked outside your house
- The weaker you or npcs are the more struggling they are to do things like if they got shot in the foot the would run away with a limp and things like that
- Being able to create crews in game instead of having to do all of the social club linking and more
- More car customisations e.g fit any type of engine into a car and customise cars a bit like you could do on need for speed heat
- More story mode dlcs
- Have your online character be able to talk, (choose voices, choose accent) you could get a really good laugh with your friends with everyone sounding the same and things like that
- Being able to interact in better ways with npcs
- Getting on flights to different places
- Watch live tv of anything and be able to go over to them in at whatever place they are on the map
- Higher car top speeds ( midnightclub)
- Change the layouts of cars in your garage.21.We need smarter civilians and npc’syou can actually interact with people both good and bad ways. Instead of people just running away from u22.One great feature would be, to be able to link your Spotify account to Rockstar, so you can play your own playlist in your car.23.The ability to get a job (a spin on the old school GTA side missions). Be able to get a job as a cop, a uber driver, a ambulance worker, a pilot, or a security/bodyguard guard. Then after being a cop so long you can become a FBI agent.
- cops to break up street fights instead of gunning you down .
- you can be a cop as a side job just like the taxi one in GTA V and more like paramedics, army and stuff like that.. would be awesome26.They should make a most wanted list.. Reminiscent of Vice City ”World Event” and “Stuff of Legends” status. Say for instance your just going on vehicular rampages and shootouts, and your criminal status increases. You’d still be able to shake off wanted stars, but the difficulty for evasions and ai shooting accuracy would increase because of your rising status as a criminal. It would lower overtime if you avoid felonies and that would adjust the gameplay difficulty accordingly.
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-Walking stores, restaurants, malls or shopping centers without loading screens
-A more realistic police encounters without getting shot until showing a weapon-More cities where you can travel across the map (Las Venturas, Vice City, San andreas, Los Santos) etc. (Ive think this confirmed)
-Recruiting NPCs
-A small touch of futuristic appearance to the game with new devices, aircrafts and vehicles without overpowering a player.
- Honestly, something I think would be my biggest Wishlist item would be a storyline that sees the player rising up from nothing into a proper gang boss. I think it would be cool to go through a whole storyline of building up a gang over time, recruiting integral members and growing a massive criminal enterprise with the ability to invest in all manner of illegal businesses.On top of this, actually being able to use your gang;
29.-More locations to enter(like Bars and Restaurants. GTA 5 only had your single player character walking into a bar and then leaving as "activity").
-A better story. GTA V wasn't bad but it didn't even feel like one of the best ones.
-Better map. GTA V feels very stale now. There is like nothing to do in Sandy Shores,and even less in Blaine County. Make the map feel even more alive,especially in online.
-Weapons: More variety in weapons. GTA V still has no fire extinguisher or flame thrower as weapons like previous GTA games had. Maybe even funnier melee weapons like bringing back the dildo(this might even cause some challenges such as "Finishing (mission) but only with a dildo").
-GTA 6 Online should be more balanced: Not only PvP but also prices and payout. As for PvP,no bulletproof helmet crap,no sniper dancing,no flying broomsticks with homing rockets and killing yourself in combat should affect your score and KD(so those tryhards learn to accept their fate of losing their virginity). Payouts should be balanced and the prices should make more sense. Remember the Armoured Boxville in GTA Online? Yeah,it's 2020 and it is still not capable of surviving a single frag grenade even though it is supposed to be armoured for it's price.-Online should be more fun based rather than money based. Add more gamemodes. For example even add something like a freemode event where players have to go to a specific location with a GROUND VEHICLE and then they all have to race to the finish,but they can choose their own track. So someone with a dirt bike would take the offroad route while someone with a supercar with high top speed would take the highway route.
-More character customizations. Not only in single player,but also online. Making the character fat,buff,skinny.
-Better servers,seriously Rockstar. It's like GTA 5 Online servers have never ever been updated,infact,NPCs still lag in missions such as old gen/OG Heists. And the loading times are still annoying and horrible.30. And please bring back learned fight styles like San Andreas (boxing, karate, kick boxing, dirty fighting, etc etc).The past gta 4 & 5 game fighting has been trash even tho Rdr2 has been the best to date it should be better for gta6 with learned styles like San Andreas.
31.More crime related side activities
Mafia 3's crime system does make the game more fun. Stopping someone from calling the police when you commit a crime instead of them just magically appearing sometimes.
31.Have a "Reality Mode" option when playing- Stricter violations (1 star for running red lights and damaging property)
- Actual Police pullovers (Instead of getting busted for petty crimes, you can play a mini-game with the options to run, get a ticket, or resist and have a shootout)
- Lighter weapon inventory (Can't have multiple types and sizes of weapons at the same time)
- No more health bar (Replaced with health status and real injuries that affect character's body and bleeding out)
- Character bathroom breaks...
32.GTA IV driving physics with more interiors. I used to love hiding from other players in Free Mode by going to the safehouses from story mode or another area you don't usually enter (like Dwayne's entire apartment building being accessible as well as random buildings being entirely open in Bohan).Another thing that was completely underrated was being able to take public transportation. As a New Yorker, I learned how to take trains in real life by learning the train system in GTA IV, believe it or not. I used to always take the train from Playboy X's mansion to Hove Beach.
34.parkour skills (depends what level stamina) it literally needs, you can’t jump from rooftops to another rooftop and climb. Realistic cops.
- Stop being the errand boy. Build our own empire Having to take care from the goverment and other mafias. Laundrying Money, choosing the incomes.Choosing alliance with other factions and Bribing the law and politicians
-Your online player actually talks..In gta iv they had that in multiplayer no matter what player u had (the rastaman, italian guys or even the zombie), they would have at least a one liner after you pressed a button
- make heists the core and most important part of the online experience by adding a heist grinding system with a full package of heists ready at launch so people can have heists to grind from launch , and add rewards and ranking on heists between your crew members or premade friends as well as increasing the amount of players that can play a heist from 4 to 8 depending on heist difficulty , make it so that if a heist member dies you dont restart all over and you continue through it even if ur the last member alive , also with each update should bring a new set of heists , heists should also involve protagonists in it would be great , also make it that playing each single heist differently a possibility , it should be different for everyone depending on their decision and how they play it out which means restriction in heists shouldnt be a thing , u should be able to do a heist anyway u like.
- crew system should receive aa rework where u can create a gang of your own , thats directly tied to your businesses which also opens up more options for u to have easier time delivering and producing as well as taking over territory of certain gangs available on the map (either npc or online gang leaders) which leads to a gang war , which means both leaders will have to fight each other with their online members or available npc they have hired , this ends up with the winning side taking over the territory (not businesses)
We just stole the cars and have to get them out of the city in a high speed chase ... with 1/4 of a tank of gas ⛽️
34.Imagine being able to customize your house with furniture and other Items that you buy from different stores throughout the Cities... that would make Driving actually meaningful.
Just more stores other than gun & clothing PLEASE...
× Easter Eggs in earlier games that GTA 6 should revisit
Lazlow Jones
For uninitiated and newer GTA fans, Lazlow Jones is a character who has featured in every title since the release of Grand Theft Auto 3. Known as Jeremy Crawford Jones in real-life, he is a talk-show host and a pivotal writer for the series.The first few games included Jones and it wasn't really considered a big deal, but gamers were happily surprised once his appearances became a reccurring theme. They often go out on Lazlow hunts in Grand Theft Auto games.Recently, Jeremy has been facing a lot of problems in his real-life, regarding the health of his parents and sister. He left the organization in 2020 after spending twenty odd years in it, and he surely deserves a mention if not an appearance.2) GTA 1 and 2 at TW@ internet cafe
For most fans, it all started with either Claude in GTA 3 or Tommy in Vice City. However, there are two games that precede these titles and very few fans know about them.Released in 1997, the first game featured a top-down 2D perspective of Liberty City. It was designed for the PS1, and was later launched for the GameBoy Color and PC. Similarly, GTA 2 was released in 1999 and featured the same top-down 2D perspective of Anywhere City.These are the initial steps that the franchise took towards becoming one of the largest and most beloved gaming studios in the world. That said, paying homage to these two games shouldn't be very tough as GTA 3 did it brilliantly.
Statue of Happiness ( GTA IV )
The Statue of Happiness on Happiness Island is a jab at the Statue of Liberty. It makes an appearance in GTA 4, as the city is a fictional recreation of New York.The statue holds not just one but quite a few Easter Eggs, of which some are callbacks. Most notably, the torch has been replaced with a cup of coffee. For many gamers, this might seem like a lame joke, but in reality, it is a mention to the controversial Hot Coffee mod for San Andreas.With all the leaks and rumors surrounding Grand Theft Auto 6, it may just take place in Vice City, Rockstar Games' Miami. Of course, the Statue for Happiness would look out of place there, but the designers could make use of popular landmarks in Florida in a similar way.
Alien (GTA V )
Alien Easter Eggs are a recurring theme in the GTA Series and almost every title has mentioned the extra terrestrials in some way or the other. San Andreas featured numerous mentions as it also had a rendition of the real-life Area 51 in-game.As for the current game, there are many to discover, and one presents itself during the very first mission of the game in North Yankton. An alien can be found under a frozen lake/pond.There is also a supply mission in the Gunrunning update which instructs players to source an alien egg from a crashed UFO in the Zancudo Riverbed. Online has pretty much become the stuff of outerspace as it now features flying bikes, cars and alien weaponry.
No Easter Eggs here ( San Andreas)
Easter Egg hunting has become a sport among fans and they are always seen competing as to who can find them quicker. Sometimes the discoveries are ground-breaking and others seem a little desperate.
Rockstar took a jab at this and put up a very funny sign in San Andreas. When players visit the Gant Bridge and scale the middle spire, they can locate a plaque that reads:
"There are no Easter Eggs up here, Go away."
The joke worked very well with the fans as it said there weren't any Easter Eggs when it was one itself.
It's a long list and I could probably add more to it but I won't.
I also won't care if less than half of these things are in the game because I'm most likely preordering it first day the preorder is available.
I'll gladly buy one of the next-gen consoles just for this game.
There are loads more but I’d typed for long enough🙂
I think they listen to the community,
Occasionally we do see requested things trickle through though, and it's always nice to see stuff that people have wanted in a GTA game make an appearance.
2022.08.22 16:29 david_k_robertson food for thought on - more south dakota bullshit this time its bout being white
South Dakota Offers Highest “White Bonus” in Region – Dakota Free Press
Posted 2019-03-17 14:24 by Cory Allen Heidelberger
Bonus data! The January 2019 rural broadband study from Old Dominion and USD comes with beaucoup appendices, which include this table showing racial income disparities in South Dakota and its neighboring states:
[Note: the researchers appear to have messed up and duplicated the state data for “Asian” under the “Two or More Races” column; I am omitting those apparent duplicate figures from my calculations below.]
The good news is that South Dakota’s median household income in 2017 beat the national median by 6% and put us ahead of Montana and Wyoming and within a percentage point and a half of Iowa. Yay, us!
The bad news is that we have the largest White/Black and White/American Indian disparities in median income in the region:
White folks everywhere enjoy a better median household income than their state averages for all races, but South Dakota offers the highest white bonus in the septa-state region, 5.89%. Conversely, African Americans and American Indians see lower median incomes than there state averages, but their disadvantages are greatest in South Dakota, where both groups see median incomes that are less than half of the statewide race-wide median. Our Karen, Hmong, Filipino, and other Asian friends don’t see quite as big of an income gap, but in four adjoining states, their median incomes outpace their state averages.
South Dakota certainly generates wealth, but we’re doing a poor job of sharing opportunities for that wealth with our non-white fellow South Dakotans.
Related Ratings: Those racial income gaps probably contribute to South Dakota’s having the highest poverty rate in the region for the general population and particularly for women:
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Posted 2019-03-17 14:24 by Cory Allen Heidelberger
Bonus data! The January 2019 rural broadband study from Old Dominion and USD comes with beaucoup appendices, which include this table showing racial income disparities in South Dakota and its neighboring states:
[Note: the researchers appear to have messed up and duplicated the state data for “Asian” under the “Two or More Races” column; I am omitting those apparent duplicate figures from my calculations below.]
The good news is that South Dakota’s median household income in 2017 beat the national median by 6% and put us ahead of Montana and Wyoming and within a percentage point and a half of Iowa. Yay, us!
The bad news is that we have the largest White/Black and White/American Indian disparities in median income in the region:
White folks everywhere enjoy a better median household income than their state averages for all races, but South Dakota offers the highest white bonus in the septa-state region, 5.89%. Conversely, African Americans and American Indians see lower median incomes than there state averages, but their disadvantages are greatest in South Dakota, where both groups see median incomes that are less than half of the statewide race-wide median. Our Karen, Hmong, Filipino, and other Asian friends don’t see quite as big of an income gap, but in four adjoining states, their median incomes outpace their state averages.
South Dakota certainly generates wealth, but we’re doing a poor job of sharing opportunities for that wealth with our non-white fellow South Dakotans.
Related Ratings: Those racial income gaps probably contribute to South Dakota’s having the highest poverty rate in the region for the general population and particularly for women:
2022.08.17 19:29 zpub [GLITCH] Gender Swap 1.58 Solo (one console) Modded Save
THIS IS WHAT THIS GLITCH DOES THAT I HAVE NOTICED;
START THE STEPS ONLY AFTER IMPORTING THE PROVIDED SAVE TO YOUR PS4/ PS5
1- launch GTA and load into the character you want to do the unlocks on.
2-Head into creator. Load or create a capture. Test the capture and Pause -> Online-> Choose character. Accept the alert and disconnect internet as fast as possible. Disconnecting too late will ruin the glitch later on step 5
3- Now in Singleplayer, you will need to eat a peyote as the Ped you spawn in as (Patricia if using the save I provided). Fly to any peyote on the map and hit right on the d-pad.
\*Spawn a buzzard cheat**PS4/ PS5 - O, O, L1, O, O, O, L1, L2, R1, Triangle, O, Triangle.*
4 - End hallucination and it’ll get you stuck on white screen.
5 - Pause-> online -> choose character.
As soon as you go up to the clouds before loading into the character selection screen you will get an alert that says “Connection to the session was lost due to an unknown Network Error”. Accept alert.
The character you were last on is now DELETED.
6 - after accepting the alert, while in Singleplayer, Pause-> online -> solo session. you'll start loading online, when "joining gta online" disappears from the bottom disconnect internet.
7- once back in Singleplayer, reload the save. Pause -> Game -> Load Game. When the new save game loads, Pause -> Online -> choose character.
8 - create your character but for the opposite gender, load online, if prompted to copy level from character 2 or 1, decline. when prompted to skip tutorial press yes.
9 - you will load online with a completely new character. To get level, properties and vehicles back, leave GTA online as soon as you spawn in.
10 - you should spawn in Single player with the modified Ped (Patricia). Pause-> online -> invite only session.if properties and level still doesn't come through, from online go to creator then back online.
11 - cars, rank, properties, and all previous clothing purchases (hint hint) will load back in. Now the fun part, purchase what you would like to unlock.
if you are new to genderswap i will post useful threads & links below with everything you'd need
12 - After purchasing what you want, follow steps 1 to 10 again to switch back to your original characters gender.
Credits: se7ensins
Edit:
Female -> Male: https://www.max1382.com/unlocks-on-male
Male -> Female: https://www.max1382.com/unlocks-on-female
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- STATS WILL BE RESET.
- OUTFITS WILL BE WIPED.
- POSSIBLE LOSS OF RANK (SOMETIMES YOU KEEP IT).
- MODDED CARS WILL ALL BE REVERTED TO STOCK WHEELS -THOUGH THEY STAY- AND SOME PAINT JOBS WILL BE MESSED UP. YANKTONS, GREEN TINTS WILL STAY.
- UNLOCKS STAY! CLOTHING PURCHASES WILL STAY! (THUS THIS THREAD).
- PROPERTIES WILL STAY (BUT YOU'LL HAVE TO DO THE CUTSCENES AGAIN)
- CAR MEET REP STAYS.
- ALL WEAPONS BOUGHT AND CUSTOMIZED WILL STAY
START THE STEPS ONLY AFTER IMPORTING THE PROVIDED SAVE TO YOUR PS4/ PS5
1- launch GTA and load into the character you want to do the unlocks on.
2-Head into creator. Load or create a capture. Test the capture and Pause -> Online-> Choose character. Accept the alert and disconnect internet as fast as possible. Disconnecting too late will ruin the glitch later on step 5
3- Now in Singleplayer, you will need to eat a peyote as the Ped you spawn in as (Patricia if using the save I provided). Fly to any peyote on the map and hit right on the d-pad.
\*Spawn a buzzard cheat**PS4/ PS5 - O, O, L1, O, O, O, L1, L2, R1, Triangle, O, Triangle.*
4 - End hallucination and it’ll get you stuck on white screen.
5 - Pause-> online -> choose character.
As soon as you go up to the clouds before loading into the character selection screen you will get an alert that says “Connection to the session was lost due to an unknown Network Error”. Accept alert.
The character you were last on is now DELETED.
6 - after accepting the alert, while in Singleplayer, Pause-> online -> solo session. you'll start loading online, when "joining gta online" disappears from the bottom disconnect internet.
7- once back in Singleplayer, reload the save. Pause -> Game -> Load Game. When the new save game loads, Pause -> Online -> choose character.
8 - create your character but for the opposite gender, load online, if prompted to copy level from character 2 or 1, decline. when prompted to skip tutorial press yes.
9 - you will load online with a completely new character. To get level, properties and vehicles back, leave GTA online as soon as you spawn in.
10 - you should spawn in Single player with the modified Ped (Patricia). Pause-> online -> invite only session.if properties and level still doesn't come through, from online go to creator then back online.
11 - cars, rank, properties, and all previous clothing purchases (hint hint) will load back in. Now the fun part, purchase what you would like to unlock.
if you are new to genderswap i will post useful threads & links below with everything you'd need
12 - After purchasing what you want, follow steps 1 to 10 again to switch back to your original characters gender.
Credits: se7ensins
Edit:
Female -> Male: https://www.max1382.com/unlocks-on-male
Male -> Female: https://www.max1382.com/unlocks-on-female
2022.03.03 13:57 pingu68 Yankton Press & Dakotan Echoes Blog Call for Trust Transparency and Legislative Action Against Russia
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2022.01.16 21:39 1970Roadrunner Sincere Question for Kristi Noem Supporters….What policies has she enacted that have brought value to South Dakota.?
I will be upfront that I do not see the benefits of having Noem as governor…but I would like to hear from those that do support her. I don’t want to live in an echo chamber. My take on her: 1. Most of the issues she makes headlines on seem nothing more than talking points..not actual issues facing our state. Examples: A. Abortion. Is it a problem in our state? I understand if you don’t like it personally…but I don’t see a giant problem that it is causing in South Dakota. Are there long lines around the block of people waiting to get an abortion. What problem here is she solving with policies she is pushing for?
B. Transgender Bill. How many people is this affecting? Has your child lost a sporting event because of this? I haven’t heard of any examples (doesn’t mean they don’t exist) so tell me how having trans students in athletics has brought harm upon your community. I will listen.
C. Fireworks at Mt. Rushmore. Unless you live in the Black Hills..I have a difficult time understanding how you have any skin in the game here. Have you lived in a wooded area during a dry season? I have outside Deadwood/Lead after the fire…it’s scary as hell. There are soo many areas to have a safe fireworks display (not taking away the right to a display)…just want to do it safely. Seems like common sense.
Are there no other pressing issues that should be addressed prior to the aforementioned? How about retaining university graduates to stay and work in South Dakota. How about our teacher pay ranking at or near the bottom of the nation (I never hear Noem talk about this).
I can understand where some may say she kept our state open during the pandemic which allowed people to work…and I get that. But there is a counter argument that we had the highest per cap death rate in the world for some time…so this area could be debated. I do see a lot of people moving into our state….but what I don’t see is creation of jobs. Locally in the Rapid City area the only result I see is housing prices increasing at such a rate it is almost unaffordable for locals (the house I built in 2019 cost $330,000 and recently appraised for $440,000)…my family couldn’t build the same house now. Has Noem done anything for wage growth in the state? Any policies?
I won’t get into using tax payer money to head a lawsuit against the recreational marijuana that was voted on and passed by the hard working South Dakotans. It seemed like such a slap in the face and disrespect to voters. Again…I hope to hear some rock solid initiatives/policies that Noem has brought to South Dakota. Thank you
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B. Transgender Bill. How many people is this affecting? Has your child lost a sporting event because of this? I haven’t heard of any examples (doesn’t mean they don’t exist) so tell me how having trans students in athletics has brought harm upon your community. I will listen.
C. Fireworks at Mt. Rushmore. Unless you live in the Black Hills..I have a difficult time understanding how you have any skin in the game here. Have you lived in a wooded area during a dry season? I have outside Deadwood/Lead after the fire…it’s scary as hell. There are soo many areas to have a safe fireworks display (not taking away the right to a display)…just want to do it safely. Seems like common sense.
Are there no other pressing issues that should be addressed prior to the aforementioned? How about retaining university graduates to stay and work in South Dakota. How about our teacher pay ranking at or near the bottom of the nation (I never hear Noem talk about this).
I can understand where some may say she kept our state open during the pandemic which allowed people to work…and I get that. But there is a counter argument that we had the highest per cap death rate in the world for some time…so this area could be debated. I do see a lot of people moving into our state….but what I don’t see is creation of jobs. Locally in the Rapid City area the only result I see is housing prices increasing at such a rate it is almost unaffordable for locals (the house I built in 2019 cost $330,000 and recently appraised for $440,000)…my family couldn’t build the same house now. Has Noem done anything for wage growth in the state? Any policies?
I won’t get into using tax payer money to head a lawsuit against the recreational marijuana that was voted on and passed by the hard working South Dakotans. It seemed like such a slap in the face and disrespect to voters. Again…I hope to hear some rock solid initiatives/policies that Noem has brought to South Dakota. Thank you
2021.12.01 20:33 roionsteroids websites that still don't comply with GDPR and block international visitors
https://i.imgur.com/91MkslS.png <--- really enjoy looking at these
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PART 3L
Thanks to everyone who subscribed to the new FindLaura subreddit!
With over 100 subscribers we’re off to a great start and as we strive to both create and crosspost the kind of theorizing and reference research that deep-diving Peaks fans like to read and think about.
So to celebrate breaking the 100 subscribers mark, here’s a double-length installment (in two parts) to close out our analysis of Part 3, Season 3 of Twin Peaks!
FBI Headquarters
CUT TO: FBI Headquarters, Philadelphia, PA
We see for the first time in Season 3 now-Deputy Director Gordon Cole, Special Agent Albert Rosenfeld, and a new character, Agent Tammy Preston, seated with five other members of the FBI.
Set up between Gordon, Albert, Tammy, and the rest of the group on the long table around which they sit is evidence for a case that was gathered from the garden of a member of congress charged in his wife’s murder. The congressman claims that he cannot reveal who is responsible due to “national security” but, according to Albert’s description, these clues reveal the identity of the killer of the congressman’s wife.
Gordon scans the evidence before him. “The Congressman’s Dilemma!” he declares, before excusing the other five FBI agents to follow up.
There are a few times in Season 3 where we are shown a sequential series of clues with little context (here, at the Yankton prison, Andy’s meeting with the Fireman). No solution is ever directly given for any of these presentations. So it is up to the audience to make sense of it.
Despite being presented as evidence of some other case, the amount of screentime given to the individual clues demands attention.
The Congressman's Dilemma
The clues are all presented visually. They are:
There’s a “small” girl being seen as both sexualized and inviting as perhaps Leland would have seen his daughter. Idyllopus Press likened the posing of her legs to an incomplete triskelion, which is accurate, especially given the theme of the importance of 3 and the idea of “something’s missing.”
The pliers could represent pressure that was used to get her to comply with his advances. Alternately it could be a pun in that he would “ply her” to get what he wanted.
Whichever, the pliers will come up again later.
One girl who, under pressure, is split into two is a basic premise of the Find Laura Theory. One girl blonde and one brunette matches Laura and Ronette. That the brunette one resembles Tammy Preston and her initials are TP as in Twin Peaks seems intentional, pointing to Agent Tammy as our surrogate Laura.
The little sailor boy is perplexing. Unlike the two girls preceding his picture, he does not look real. Like the young girl in the first picture, his proportions are off. He touches his face with his right hand and is smiling.
As it’s an image of a child on a shore, we have a relation to the discovery of Laura’s body on shore.
Separately as it’s a child we can broach the question of pregnancy from the repeated assaults on Laura, which is not addressed in the series or FWWM. But according to the published Diary of Laura Palmer, Laura had found out that she was seven and a half weeks pregnant on her 16th birthday, unsure of who the father was. Weeks later, she had an abortion.
I don’t incorporate the books into this analysis, as I do not believe David Lynch would have ancillary materials contain necessary information outside of his film, but I include it here for the sake of completeness.
Once upon a time, one might call such a well-dressed child a “little man.” In that case we would have a reference to the Little Man from Another Place. Truthfully, I just don’t know.
Next we have a machine gun. Another machine gun appears in a similar array of clues at Yankton Federal Prison, and also there’s one in the hands of Red’s muscle when negotiating with Richard for a Sparkle shipment later in the series. Finally, the Polish accountant who kills Hutch and Chantal wields such a weapon.
The machine gun could point to the gun violence during the cocaine deal in FWWM when “Bobby killed a guy.” That scene shows Laura completely losing touch with reality. It is also a scene that will be abstractly re-presented with the attempted murder of the Bad Cooper in Part 8.
Finally the jar of beans. Like the grotesque pickle jar at the Cabin in the Woods and the jar of coins on Hawk’s desk, we have a possible “one containing the many” and if these clues are in sequential order, as they seem to be, the explosion of Laura’s psyche from a simple split to a multitude contained within her mind could have been the result of the traumatic experience.
Also the jar of beans could be a visual allusion to a “bean counter,” aka an accountant, which there will be at least two of in coming episodes, including the one with a machine gun that I just mentioned above.
Finally beans, seeds, and eggs representing potential life is something I believe we noted previously.
Gordon dismisses the other five agents and then Tammy moves to replace them on the other side of the conference table. I believe this is an important moment, a partial undoing, and the beginning of the reunification of the splintered psyche of Laura Palmer.
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Compared to what Phillip Jeffries called “one of their meetings,” the establishing shot of the conference room has the anonymous five agents across from Tammy, Albert, and Gordon.
There were five others aside from the Arm (Laura), Jumping Man (Sarah), and BOB (Leland) in the room above the convenience store (Laura’s head): The Electrician, The Grandmother, The Grandson, and two Woodsmen.
I interpret the five leaving the room and Agent Tammy Preston moving to their side of the table as the reunification of that splintered aspect of her psyche, created for a purpose 25 years ago, into just one, Agent Tammy Preston.
What the Hell?
With the departure of the five agents, now, as with our earlier examination of Lucy, Andy, and Hawk reviewing the Laura Palmer case files, we have three characters with different levels of understanding of the information before them.
If you think of Lynch’s Ricky Board concept mentioned last installment, we can see how this structuring process plays out as new names are given to each role, subsequently dictating each persona and performance while bringing the influence of their existing backstories and locations to bear, ascribing new meaning to something we see over and over again.
This is an example of the “Fractal Structure” of Twin Peaks Season 3 (and really the entire series and film) that we identified previously. Despite surface appearances, once you see it you know it’s true: the same thing keeps happening over and over again.
And this is one of our “Primal Scenes” once again repeating.
We will learn later that Gordon has kept information about Cooper’s Plan, the case that the “Congressman’s Dilemma” turns into, “for twenty-five years.” But he does not recognize this case as that case yet.
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Agent Tammy Preston takes her place across the table from Gordon and Albert as Andy was positioned across from Lucy and Hawk when he identified the evidence as “this is here.”
We have previously noted that scene above the convenience store as an abstraction of the dinner scene where Leland accosts Laura, ordering her to wash her hands. I believe that scene is what is referenced later on by the Bad Cooper’s text to Diane: “around the dinner table conversation is lively.”
So is this structure here and in the previous iterations based upon Leland’s confrontation of Laura at the Palmers’ dining room table?
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One could even compare the arch shape in the wall behind the glass box as not only evoking the arch-shaped alcove in Laura’s bedroom, but as a greatly enlarged fingernail shape with a round hole to reach the “dirt” that Leland insists is “way up under” it.
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With a remote control, Agent Tammy Preston turns on the TV, revealing our first look at the entrance to the NYC building that housed the glass box. It’s a formidable brick tower with no identifying marks save for what looks like either “4Z” or “AZ” in a window on the upper right.
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As we are tracking Zs, this ties it to other occurrences of the letter, like the one we saw outside the Cabin in the Woods, so let’s look closer. So both the building that housed the glass box in New York and the Cabin in the Woods were marked with a Z outside.
Both the Bad Cooper and Tracy reach their destinations by elevating their position and exiting a metal grating. Bad Cooper entered the frame behind chain link fencing and climbed the steps after knocking out the guard. The elevator that brings Tracy is a similar metal diamond-shaped grate to the fence.
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Notice how the shadow on the wall just past Tracy as she exits the freight elevator matches the angled perspective of the fence behind which the Bad Cooper emerges at the Cabin in the Woods.
Later at a place they call The Farm, the Bad Cooper himself will use just such an elevator. And that scene, shot from above, will abstract the Good Cooper’s own horizontal entrance to the glass box in Part 2.
The full Z at the Cabin isn’t visible in the above image as it exists to the left of the door onscreen. The Z shape on both the cups is bisected by Tracy’s fingers; the shape resembles the deconstructed Z shape in the wood plank awning, screen right from the Cabin door. And as we have noted previously, the guard dispatched by the Bad Cooper and missing from Tracy’s second visit are a match.
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The second image Agent Preston shows is of the aftermath of the Experiment Model’s attack: the headless bodies of Sam and Tracy. I think we know enough about this world now to say that the Bad Cooper’s actions intentionally caused the removal of the guard in New York so that Sam and Tracy would come together.
In doing so, their coupling triggered the Experiment Model, erasing their heads and ending their existence. The implication is any sexual activity, it seems, can trigger the repressed memories, which awaken the fear of BOB. And this is something the Bad Cooper manipulates to maintain control of Laura’s psyche.
Sam’s and Tracy’s personas were, in some way, subsequently repurposed and “regenerated” at the Cabin in the Woods into the personas of Ray and Daria to become part of the Bad Cooper’s world.
The amorous desire they shared in NY is negated; their innocence is handed over with the pieces of paper they give to the two strangers sitting in the corner of the Cabin in the Woods as they exit with the Bad Cooper.
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Those strangers are abstractions of Doc and Mrs. Hayward in the “Angel prescription scene” from the Missing Pieces. His prescription of hope presented there, here now given back by the altered Sam and Tracy, and abandoned as they are now in the thrall of the Bad Cooper.
Well, almost.
Later we find out that Ray is a paid informant of this FBI. And this FBI is representative of the internal policing of the dreamscapes of Laura. So the coupling of Sam and Tracy was an “FBI” sting operation of sorts and the sacrifice of the two young lovers gave the FBI the “in” they needed to infiltrate the Bad Cooper’s world.
As we can recall in the scene at the Hayward’s house, Laura’s departure was triggered by the ring of the phone call from her father that called her back to the other world: from the warm familial love of the safe Hayward home to the chaotic world of Leland and Sarah.
As I noted previously, any damage done to Sam and Tracy was subsequently undone and prevented through the Good Cooper’s passing through the glass box, changing any memory of the dream from murderous monster back to the natural expression of the passion of youth.
This is important because those kinds of nightmares are what the Bad Cooper, with the lie of BOB, uses to keep Laura from facing these truths. We are witnessing the reversal of the shattering of Laura’s psyche, her reconstruction in preparation for revelation.
As Cooper saved the innocence of youthful desire in NYC, he has now gone to Las Vegas to rescue the dream of the happy nuclear family from the whoremongering hands of Douglas Jones.
It’s Cooper!
The third image Tammy shows (there’s that three again) in what she says was the only image from the cameras that night that didn’t show just the empty box. It’s a blurred grey humanoid shape.
Gordon’s meme-ready reaction is “What the HELL!?”
It looks like it’s probably the Experiment Model, but at that moment a call comes over the intercom.
“Director Cole, it’s Cooper!”
As Cooper himself once said in the original series:
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A pair of “Jacques” and a missing piece of a poker chip with a “J” on it that was found in the stomach of Laura Palmer.
In the original series, that missing piece would be deduced as pointing to One-Eyed Jacks, the casino where Laura once “worked.”
But in the Season 3 Las Vegas, J is for Jade, and J is for jackpots. Mister Jackpots.
Jacques Renault, One-Eyed Jacks, and Mr. Jackpots. Three Jacks. Not a bad hand.
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Cooper’s hiding place (when he bent down for the key) in Jade’s Jeep matches the sector of the piece of poker chip found in Laura’s stomach in the diagram.
There’s a lot of ”J”s in here. And is that a black dot I see on the faxed diagram?
And by the way, you may recall the question “Who is Chip?” from an earlier episode. Later, Sonny Jim will decline a potato chip from DougieCoop because he already brushed his teeth. Dougie leaves the chip for him, but it never reaches this child’s stomach.
Another thing was found in someone’s stomach, this time in Season 3.
We already identified the bisected corpse that contained the wedding ring in Buckhorn as an abstraction of Laura’s plastic-wrapped corpse, the bloated body (the Major) separated from the head (Ruth Davenport) it was coupled with. It’s a version of the convenience store (the body) and the room above it (the mind).
What was once a fragment of a circle in Laura’s stomach that represented her degradation (the “bite the bullet, baby” poker chip fragment) is now a complete gold circle inscribed with love (Dougie’s wedding ring).
The wedding ring of Dougie Jones (also a “J”), who has been missing for three days, was found in the stomach of one Major Briggs with the inscription “To Dougie with Love Janie-E” (and another “J”).
And now this thing on the screen and the call proclaiming that “it” is Cooper. And we know that in one version of events, it was Cooper in the box. Time will tell which is the official version.
The voice on the phone now clarifies: “On your phone, it’s Cooper.”
Gordon is overcome with emotion, crying “Albert!”
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Visually in this shot, the Congressman’s Dilemma leads to the Experiment Model. The two cases have merged visually.
One type of “congress” is sexual intercourse. Is Leland the “congressman?” Was his dilemma sexual attraction to his own daughter, or the need to cover up his deeds? Did we just crack the case?
So at the point where the voice says “On your phone, it’s Cooper,” everyone leaves to another room.
It was recognizing her father’s face that drove Laura into the Red Room, and Cooper, both the Bad and the Good, are the father figures. It was the phone call (“Laura, it’s your father”) that interrupted the moment Laura nearly “spilled the beans” while smoking at the Haywards’ house.
And that is the moment manifested with the appearance and subsequent disappearance of Phillip Jeffries at the Philadelphia office of the FBI in FWWM.
Laura sure as hell wanted to tell them everything. Maybe the jar on the FBI conference table contains the un-spilled beans that would have come out had the ring from her father’s phone call not shattered her resolve.
Here now in Season 3, the knowledge of Cooper’s reappearance must be carefully orchestrated by Gordon, lest Agent Tammy Preston uncovers too much, too soon.
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With over 100 subscribers we’re off to a great start and as we strive to both create and crosspost the kind of theorizing and reference research that deep-diving Peaks fans like to read and think about.
So to celebrate breaking the 100 subscribers mark, here’s a double-length installment (in two parts) to close out our analysis of Part 3, Season 3 of Twin Peaks!
FBI Headquarters
CUT TO: FBI Headquarters, Philadelphia, PA
We see for the first time in Season 3 now-Deputy Director Gordon Cole, Special Agent Albert Rosenfeld, and a new character, Agent Tammy Preston, seated with five other members of the FBI.
Set up between Gordon, Albert, Tammy, and the rest of the group on the long table around which they sit is evidence for a case that was gathered from the garden of a member of congress charged in his wife’s murder. The congressman claims that he cannot reveal who is responsible due to “national security” but, according to Albert’s description, these clues reveal the identity of the killer of the congressman’s wife.
Gordon scans the evidence before him. “The Congressman’s Dilemma!” he declares, before excusing the other five FBI agents to follow up.
There are a few times in Season 3 where we are shown a sequential series of clues with little context (here, at the Yankton prison, Andy’s meeting with the Fireman). No solution is ever directly given for any of these presentations. So it is up to the audience to make sense of it.
Despite being presented as evidence of some other case, the amount of screentime given to the individual clues demands attention.
The Congressman's Dilemma
The clues are all presented visually. They are:
- A blonde girl posed provocatively atop what looks to be an enlargement of a jewel-encrusted brooch. Her presentation is highly sexualized but her proportions feel wrong. Seemingly photo-edited like the portrait of Lucy’s family in the sheriff’s office, parts of her upper body seem too small.
- A pair of pliers
- A photo of two women sunbathing, one blonde, one brunette. Their proportions are normal. The brunette is either the same actress as Agent Tammy Preston or someone who looks almost exactly like her.
- A photo of a small boy in a navy blue sailor suit standing on a beach. As with the first photo, this image has been photo-edited and the proportions are wrong.
- A machine gun
- A jar of beans
There’s a “small” girl being seen as both sexualized and inviting as perhaps Leland would have seen his daughter. Idyllopus Press likened the posing of her legs to an incomplete triskelion, which is accurate, especially given the theme of the importance of 3 and the idea of “something’s missing.”
The pliers could represent pressure that was used to get her to comply with his advances. Alternately it could be a pun in that he would “ply her” to get what he wanted.
Whichever, the pliers will come up again later.
One girl who, under pressure, is split into two is a basic premise of the Find Laura Theory. One girl blonde and one brunette matches Laura and Ronette. That the brunette one resembles Tammy Preston and her initials are TP as in Twin Peaks seems intentional, pointing to Agent Tammy as our surrogate Laura.
The little sailor boy is perplexing. Unlike the two girls preceding his picture, he does not look real. Like the young girl in the first picture, his proportions are off. He touches his face with his right hand and is smiling.
As it’s an image of a child on a shore, we have a relation to the discovery of Laura’s body on shore.
Separately as it’s a child we can broach the question of pregnancy from the repeated assaults on Laura, which is not addressed in the series or FWWM. But according to the published Diary of Laura Palmer, Laura had found out that she was seven and a half weeks pregnant on her 16th birthday, unsure of who the father was. Weeks later, she had an abortion.
I don’t incorporate the books into this analysis, as I do not believe David Lynch would have ancillary materials contain necessary information outside of his film, but I include it here for the sake of completeness.
Once upon a time, one might call such a well-dressed child a “little man.” In that case we would have a reference to the Little Man from Another Place. Truthfully, I just don’t know.
Next we have a machine gun. Another machine gun appears in a similar array of clues at Yankton Federal Prison, and also there’s one in the hands of Red’s muscle when negotiating with Richard for a Sparkle shipment later in the series. Finally, the Polish accountant who kills Hutch and Chantal wields such a weapon.
The machine gun could point to the gun violence during the cocaine deal in FWWM when “Bobby killed a guy.” That scene shows Laura completely losing touch with reality. It is also a scene that will be abstractly re-presented with the attempted murder of the Bad Cooper in Part 8.
Finally the jar of beans. Like the grotesque pickle jar at the Cabin in the Woods and the jar of coins on Hawk’s desk, we have a possible “one containing the many” and if these clues are in sequential order, as they seem to be, the explosion of Laura’s psyche from a simple split to a multitude contained within her mind could have been the result of the traumatic experience.
Also the jar of beans could be a visual allusion to a “bean counter,” aka an accountant, which there will be at least two of in coming episodes, including the one with a machine gun that I just mentioned above.
Finally beans, seeds, and eggs representing potential life is something I believe we noted previously.
Gordon dismisses the other five agents and then Tammy moves to replace them on the other side of the conference table. I believe this is an important moment, a partial undoing, and the beginning of the reunification of the splintered psyche of Laura Palmer.
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Compared to what Phillip Jeffries called “one of their meetings,” the establishing shot of the conference room has the anonymous five agents across from Tammy, Albert, and Gordon.
There were five others aside from the Arm (Laura), Jumping Man (Sarah), and BOB (Leland) in the room above the convenience store (Laura’s head): The Electrician, The Grandmother, The Grandson, and two Woodsmen.
I interpret the five leaving the room and Agent Tammy Preston moving to their side of the table as the reunification of that splintered aspect of her psyche, created for a purpose 25 years ago, into just one, Agent Tammy Preston.
What the Hell?
With the departure of the five agents, now, as with our earlier examination of Lucy, Andy, and Hawk reviewing the Laura Palmer case files, we have three characters with different levels of understanding of the information before them.
In installment 3A I was comparing the “Lil’s dance” scene from FWWM with Hawk, Andy, and Lucy reviewing the Laura Palmer case files and described it this way:
Lil’s dance represented the case files spread out on the table,
(Now it’s the evidence on the TV screen),
FWWM Gordon became Andy presenting the case files,
(Now we have Tammy Preston in this role),
Agent Desmond was Hawk decoding the evidence,
(Albert has this role covered now),
and Agent Stanley was the role taken by Lucy, the confused receiver of the translated, incomplete information.
(Now this role is Gordon’s)
If you think of Lynch’s Ricky Board concept mentioned last installment, we can see how this structuring process plays out as new names are given to each role, subsequently dictating each persona and performance while bringing the influence of their existing backstories and locations to bear, ascribing new meaning to something we see over and over again.
This is an example of the “Fractal Structure” of Twin Peaks Season 3 (and really the entire series and film) that we identified previously. Despite surface appearances, once you see it you know it’s true: the same thing keeps happening over and over again.
And this is one of our “Primal Scenes” once again repeating.
We will learn later that Gordon has kept information about Cooper’s Plan, the case that the “Congressman’s Dilemma” turns into, “for twenty-five years.” But he does not recognize this case as that case yet.
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Agent Tammy Preston takes her place across the table from Gordon and Albert as Andy was positioned across from Lucy and Hawk when he identified the evidence as “this is here.”
We have previously noted that scene above the convenience store as an abstraction of the dinner scene where Leland accosts Laura, ordering her to wash her hands. I believe that scene is what is referenced later on by the Bad Cooper’s text to Diane: “around the dinner table conversation is lively.”
So is this structure here and in the previous iterations based upon Leland’s confrontation of Laura at the Palmers’ dining room table?
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One could even compare the arch shape in the wall behind the glass box as not only evoking the arch-shaped alcove in Laura’s bedroom, but as a greatly enlarged fingernail shape with a round hole to reach the “dirt” that Leland insists is “way up under” it.
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With a remote control, Agent Tammy Preston turns on the TV, revealing our first look at the entrance to the NYC building that housed the glass box. It’s a formidable brick tower with no identifying marks save for what looks like either “4Z” or “AZ” in a window on the upper right.
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As we are tracking Zs, this ties it to other occurrences of the letter, like the one we saw outside the Cabin in the Woods, so let’s look closer. So both the building that housed the glass box in New York and the Cabin in the Woods were marked with a Z outside.
Both the Bad Cooper and Tracy reach their destinations by elevating their position and exiting a metal grating. Bad Cooper entered the frame behind chain link fencing and climbed the steps after knocking out the guard. The elevator that brings Tracy is a similar metal diamond-shaped grate to the fence.
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Notice how the shadow on the wall just past Tracy as she exits the freight elevator matches the angled perspective of the fence behind which the Bad Cooper emerges at the Cabin in the Woods.
Later at a place they call The Farm, the Bad Cooper himself will use just such an elevator. And that scene, shot from above, will abstract the Good Cooper’s own horizontal entrance to the glass box in Part 2.
The full Z at the Cabin isn’t visible in the above image as it exists to the left of the door onscreen. The Z shape on both the cups is bisected by Tracy’s fingers; the shape resembles the deconstructed Z shape in the wood plank awning, screen right from the Cabin door. And as we have noted previously, the guard dispatched by the Bad Cooper and missing from Tracy’s second visit are a match.
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The second image Agent Preston shows is of the aftermath of the Experiment Model’s attack: the headless bodies of Sam and Tracy. I think we know enough about this world now to say that the Bad Cooper’s actions intentionally caused the removal of the guard in New York so that Sam and Tracy would come together.
In doing so, their coupling triggered the Experiment Model, erasing their heads and ending their existence. The implication is any sexual activity, it seems, can trigger the repressed memories, which awaken the fear of BOB. And this is something the Bad Cooper manipulates to maintain control of Laura’s psyche.
Sam’s and Tracy’s personas were, in some way, subsequently repurposed and “regenerated” at the Cabin in the Woods into the personas of Ray and Daria to become part of the Bad Cooper’s world.
The amorous desire they shared in NY is negated; their innocence is handed over with the pieces of paper they give to the two strangers sitting in the corner of the Cabin in the Woods as they exit with the Bad Cooper.
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Those strangers are abstractions of Doc and Mrs. Hayward in the “Angel prescription scene” from the Missing Pieces. His prescription of hope presented there, here now given back by the altered Sam and Tracy, and abandoned as they are now in the thrall of the Bad Cooper.
Well, almost.
Later we find out that Ray is a paid informant of this FBI. And this FBI is representative of the internal policing of the dreamscapes of Laura. So the coupling of Sam and Tracy was an “FBI” sting operation of sorts and the sacrifice of the two young lovers gave the FBI the “in” they needed to infiltrate the Bad Cooper’s world.
As we can recall in the scene at the Hayward’s house, Laura’s departure was triggered by the ring of the phone call from her father that called her back to the other world: from the warm familial love of the safe Hayward home to the chaotic world of Leland and Sarah.
As I noted previously, any damage done to Sam and Tracy was subsequently undone and prevented through the Good Cooper’s passing through the glass box, changing any memory of the dream from murderous monster back to the natural expression of the passion of youth.
This is important because those kinds of nightmares are what the Bad Cooper, with the lie of BOB, uses to keep Laura from facing these truths. We are witnessing the reversal of the shattering of Laura’s psyche, her reconstruction in preparation for revelation.
As Cooper saved the innocence of youthful desire in NYC, he has now gone to Las Vegas to rescue the dream of the happy nuclear family from the whoremongering hands of Douglas Jones.
It’s Cooper!
The third image Tammy shows (there’s that three again) in what she says was the only image from the cameras that night that didn’t show just the empty box. It’s a blurred grey humanoid shape.
Gordon’s meme-ready reaction is “What the HELL!?”
It looks like it’s probably the Experiment Model, but at that moment a call comes over the intercom.
“Director Cole, it’s Cooper!”
As Cooper himself once said in the original series:
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From twinpeaksblog.com:https://preview.redd.it/p0h9t28w1mf71.jpg?width=1017&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c101e9a059be3d3f4199b0496212ee85e0d1b9c0
The scene in question takes place at the Twin Peaks Sheriff’s Department. Deputy Hawk delivers a fax (!!) of Special Agent Albert Rosenfield’s reconstructed poker chip from One-Eyed Jacks.
A pair of “Jacques” and a missing piece of a poker chip with a “J” on it that was found in the stomach of Laura Palmer.
In the original series, that missing piece would be deduced as pointing to One-Eyed Jacks, the casino where Laura once “worked.”
But in the Season 3 Las Vegas, J is for Jade, and J is for jackpots. Mister Jackpots.
Jacques Renault, One-Eyed Jacks, and Mr. Jackpots. Three Jacks. Not a bad hand.
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Cooper’s hiding place (when he bent down for the key) in Jade’s Jeep matches the sector of the piece of poker chip found in Laura’s stomach in the diagram.
There’s a lot of ”J”s in here. And is that a black dot I see on the faxed diagram?
And by the way, you may recall the question “Who is Chip?” from an earlier episode. Later, Sonny Jim will decline a potato chip from DougieCoop because he already brushed his teeth. Dougie leaves the chip for him, but it never reaches this child’s stomach.
Another thing was found in someone’s stomach, this time in Season 3.
We already identified the bisected corpse that contained the wedding ring in Buckhorn as an abstraction of Laura’s plastic-wrapped corpse, the bloated body (the Major) separated from the head (Ruth Davenport) it was coupled with. It’s a version of the convenience store (the body) and the room above it (the mind).
What was once a fragment of a circle in Laura’s stomach that represented her degradation (the “bite the bullet, baby” poker chip fragment) is now a complete gold circle inscribed with love (Dougie’s wedding ring).
The wedding ring of Dougie Jones (also a “J”), who has been missing for three days, was found in the stomach of one Major Briggs with the inscription “To Dougie with Love Janie-E” (and another “J”).
And now this thing on the screen and the call proclaiming that “it” is Cooper. And we know that in one version of events, it was Cooper in the box. Time will tell which is the official version.
The voice on the phone now clarifies: “On your phone, it’s Cooper.”
Gordon is overcome with emotion, crying “Albert!”
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Visually in this shot, the Congressman’s Dilemma leads to the Experiment Model. The two cases have merged visually.
One type of “congress” is sexual intercourse. Is Leland the “congressman?” Was his dilemma sexual attraction to his own daughter, or the need to cover up his deeds? Did we just crack the case?
So at the point where the voice says “On your phone, it’s Cooper,” everyone leaves to another room.
It was recognizing her father’s face that drove Laura into the Red Room, and Cooper, both the Bad and the Good, are the father figures. It was the phone call (“Laura, it’s your father”) that interrupted the moment Laura nearly “spilled the beans” while smoking at the Haywards’ house.
And that is the moment manifested with the appearance and subsequent disappearance of Phillip Jeffries at the Philadelphia office of the FBI in FWWM.
Laura sure as hell wanted to tell them everything. Maybe the jar on the FBI conference table contains the un-spilled beans that would have come out had the ring from her father’s phone call not shattered her resolve.
Here now in Season 3, the knowledge of Cooper’s reappearance must be carefully orchestrated by Gordon, lest Agent Tammy Preston uncovers too much, too soon.
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2021.01.07 02:27 DGlitchesYT DIRECTOR MODE in North YANKTON GLITCH
My Video: https://youtu.be/2K8kLTbZq9g
TEXT TUT: 1-save game(reload after glitch) 2-Freeaim(for join other targeting mode) 3-Reload Prologue 4-Go in Editor 5- when you leave editor to GTA5 after "YES" to join offline mode quick join a other targeting player... 6-NOW offline you accept first massege and dont accept to change targeting mode... 7-NOW your charakter floats over ocean... fast press START to frezze him!
IF NOT WORKING DO AGAIN FROM STEP 4...
8-(STILL START) go Reditor then director mode... and exit to story again.... 9-Prologue again... NOW press start go to ONLINE/play... 10-Press go online and join a other targeting player after the R SERVER ERROR accept first and dont accept 2nd allert to change targeting mode... NOW YOUR CHARACTER SHOULD SPAWN OUTSIDE (PRESS START)
IF NOT WORK GO TO STEP 9 again...
NOW YOU are outside and pressed start... 11- Go to Editor and Director mode again now you are DONE!!!
take your ONLINE Charakter or any you like to play...
IMPORTANT FIRST STEP YOU DO IS SAVE YOUR LOCATION....
SAVE your Location like i did in the video cause when you fall down you can Reload this location...
HOW TO GET A CAR IN YANKTON? -(GODMODE youself) WANTEDLVL MAX... wait for cops then steal a car or kill them go to Wantedlvl make it "Normal" then OFF to get lost of these other cops...
You also can build ramps and other things to play around and explore or make videos...
Also DONT FORGET reload your last SAVEDgame(STEP1) or restart GTA5 to get back in a ONLINE LOBBY...
I found it here... But i dont know real founder of this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYRnFvu5wLU
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TEXT TUT: 1-save game(reload after glitch) 2-Freeaim(for join other targeting mode) 3-Reload Prologue 4-Go in Editor 5- when you leave editor to GTA5 after "YES" to join offline mode quick join a other targeting player... 6-NOW offline you accept first massege and dont accept to change targeting mode... 7-NOW your charakter floats over ocean... fast press START to frezze him!
IF NOT WORKING DO AGAIN FROM STEP 4...
8-(STILL START) go Reditor then director mode... and exit to story again.... 9-Prologue again... NOW press start go to ONLINE/play... 10-Press go online and join a other targeting player after the R SERVER ERROR accept first and dont accept 2nd allert to change targeting mode... NOW YOUR CHARACTER SHOULD SPAWN OUTSIDE (PRESS START)
IF NOT WORK GO TO STEP 9 again...
NOW YOU are outside and pressed start... 11- Go to Editor and Director mode again now you are DONE!!!
take your ONLINE Charakter or any you like to play...
IMPORTANT FIRST STEP YOU DO IS SAVE YOUR LOCATION....
SAVE your Location like i did in the video cause when you fall down you can Reload this location...
HOW TO GET A CAR IN YANKTON? -(GODMODE youself) WANTEDLVL MAX... wait for cops then steal a car or kill them go to Wantedlvl make it "Normal" then OFF to get lost of these other cops...
You also can build ramps and other things to play around and explore or make videos...
Also DONT FORGET reload your last SAVEDgame(STEP1) or restart GTA5 to get back in a ONLINE LOBBY...
I found it here... But i dont know real founder of this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYRnFvu5wLU
2020.11.28 01:12 JaimieMcEvoy Pandemic Update - November 27
Note: I post these on my facebook page and a few groups.
Let me know if it is desired or not to post these updates here regularly. Thank you, Jaimie.
UPDATE: November 27
11 new deaths, 911 new cases in BC. Literally 9-1-1.
“It is in the spirit of the season to stop the spread and to save lives.” -- Health Minister Adrian Dix.
Translink updates its rules.
162 drug overdose deaths in October.
Increased domestic violence, less shelter space.
LOCAL:
· Currently active outbreaks in New Westminster: Kiwanis Care Centre, Queen’s Park Care Centre, Royal Columbian Hospital, Al-Hidayah School in New Westminster.
· The outbreak at RCH is confined to one medicine unit. Evidence of transmission after a patient tested positive.
· Fraser Health says that Al-Hidayah School is “functionally closed for a two week period due to the staffing challenges presented by the clusters.”
· Please consider giving some business to the Hideout Café, targeted and forced to do take-out only by anti-mask protesters.
· https://www.newwestrecord.ca/news/new-westminster-caf%C3%A9-targeted-by-anti-mask-protesters-1.24244888?fbclid=IwAR3YutZmw3QD9Vl11Buk4NaLsrxCnNIA0FVOjeROvtQJjji1H64hfDXrYJY
· Translink had updated its mask rules.
· No face shields, must be masks.
· Masks must now be put on while boarding or waiting at a stop. No more putting the mask on after getting in the bus.
· Mask are now also required at any indoor or shelter stop, and also in stations, platforms, and at bus stops, bus loops, and bus exchanges.
· Translink is suspending issuing its own exemption cards.
· Transit police will inquire of customers not wearing a mask. Police can issue fines of $230.
· Exemptions: people under 12 years of age, persons unable to wear a mask due to a health condition, people who physically cannot put on a mask.
· Here is the full public safety Ministerial Order regarding face masks in BC: https://www.bclaws.ca/civix/document/id/mo/mo/m0425_2020
· Burnaby Hospital is no longer taking most new patients at the 286 bed hospital.
· 5 deaths, 55 cases in current outbreak.
· The outbreak began November 9. The fire at the hospital November 15 is a contributing factor to the outbreak, forcing rapid evacuation or movement of patients in the facility.
Sources: Fraser Health, New Westminster Record, Province of BC Ministerial Order No. M425, CBC
BC:
· There is a workshop December 2nd about the BC Small and Medium-Sized Business Recover Grant. You can register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/registetZMldeCorj4iEtXYIv_6TtX3XLyQZbVHE1ZH
· BC numbers for today, from today’s press conference with Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix:
· 11 new deaths. 395 total.
· 911 new cases. 30,884 total.
· 301 in hospital, 69 in intensive care.
· 10,430 in self-isolation and being monitored.
· 21,304 have recovered.
· 3 new outbreaks. 1 is over. 59 active outbreaks, 54 care homes, 5 in health facilities.
· 718 residents, 344 staff among the active cases.
· Numbers for testing will come out next Friday, showing two categories:
· MSP tests, people with symptoms.
· Non-MSP tests, mostly asymptomatic, often for travel or work, and tested multiple times.
· Updated info on fitness and sports next Friday.
· Seeing much higher transmission than before, which is why there are new restrictions. Based on places and activities being safe. These places are not doing anything wrong, temple, gurdwara, church, but have seen transmission despite people’s best efforts and safety plans. Thanks faith leaders who are supporting public health, and in doing so also supporting their own congregants. Adrian Dix: we understand the meaning of a loss of faith services for many people, loss of community for people, appreciates the leadership of most faith leaders in supporting efforts to stop the transmission of Covd-19.
· “We are in a storm surge.” Dr. Henry.
· We can all do our part to bring those numbers back down.
· It is a cruel irony that when we want to see people, that can be the most dangerous thing.
· Time of year. This weekend many will be thinking of holiday shopping. Asked that when shopping, keep your covid safety plan. Shop locally, support local businesses, wear masks, wash hands, be limited in number, or shop remotely.
· Remember that we don’t always know another person’s story.
· Concerned about hostility directed at restaurant and store staff. “Please remember that this is a provincial order.” If you are opposed to wearing a mask, then please don’t put other people at risk, and shop online, keep space around you. Remember there are people in our hospitals right now.
· “It’s hard to see the light right now, but there is light.” Dr. Bonnie Henry.
· Adrian Dix: It’s been 10 months. He understands that people want a break. But right now we can’t. He understands what the month of December means to people. Asks people to think about how we can celebrate differently. Right now, we save lives by only socializing with the people in our household, or the one or two people we see if we live alone.
· Also, Dix, it is in the spirit of the season to stop the spread and to save lives.
· Dr. Henry was asked about political interference in Alberta and Ontario. She said that “there is none of that in BC.”
· More than 5 people a day are dying from toxic drugs, says the BC Coroners Service.
· 162 people dies in October from drug overdoses, what the Coroners Service refers to as “drug toxicity.” More than double the number in October of last year, which was 75 deaths.
· Concentrations of fentanyl are the main cause.
· Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe: “We are continuing to see record-breaking numbers of people dying in B.C. due to an unsafe drug supply in our province, and it’s taking a toll on families and communities in this dual health emergency.
· 70% of deaths age 30 to 59, 80% of deaths are males.
· Eight consecutive months with over 100 deaths.
· 1,386 total deaths from January 2010 to October 2020.
· 109 deaths of youth 18 and younger in that time.
· 160 deaths in New Westminster in that time. 30 of those this past October.
· “No deaths have been reported at supervised consumption or drug overdose prevention sites.”
· Full press release, with links to other information and groups helping: https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2020PSSG0061-001957
· Illicit Drug Overdose Events attended by BC Ambulance, chart (379 last week): https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2020PSSG0061-001957
· Report, Illicit Drug Toxicity Deaths in BC, January 1, 2010 to October 31, 2020: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/birth-adoption-death-marriage-and-divorce/deaths/coroners-service/statistical/illicit-drug.pdf
· A hotel employee in BC had a heart attack shortly after being spat on by a customer refusing to wear a mask.
· The employee, the hotel accountant, went to see what was going on. She is a woman in her 50s.
· The man was politely offered a face mask while in the Empire Coffee shop of the Adventure Hotel. He began to loudly scream profanities. Staff attempted to reason with the man and calm him unsuccessfully, and then told the man to “Just get out!”
· When she arrived, the man was attempting to get in again. The woman said, “Listen! You’re not going to talk to our people this way, and this is the law.” The man then spat on her.
· Police were called and removed the suspect, who is under investigation. The police investigation includes the relationship between the spitting incident and the woman’s heart attack, say Nelson police. Police say such causal links have been made in some past cases.
· The woman remained distraught after the experience and began to feel ill. She collapsed about an hour and a half after the encounter. She was airlifted to hospital in Kelowna and is stable condition but remains in hospital.
· It was also in Nelson that Kootenay Co-Op hired a security guard after confrontational behavior towards staff over the mask requirement. The manager says that 10 to 20 percent of customers are refusing to wear a mask.
· There are reports of other aggressive confrontations in other parts of BC. Two men at a diner in Victoria wandered between tables and threatened staff, and were each fined $230. A man was arrested in Dawson Creek after attacking an employee at a Walmart after being asked to wear a mask. The employee had minor injuries. Here is a story and video about that incident: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/dawson-creek-walmart-employee-assaulted-face-mask-dispute-1.5817369
Sources: BC Coroners Service, BC Centre for Disease Control, Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix live press conference
CANADA:
· Canadians will not be among the first to get the vaccines.
· Prime Minister Trudeau cited the fact that Canada does not have any of its own vaccine production facilities.
· The first doses will arrive in Canada in early 2021. Distribution will prioritize health care workers in category 1. There is currently discussion as to whether residents of care homes will be added to category 1, or will be a category 2.
· The government is hoping 3 million people in Canada will be vaccinated in the first three months of 2021.
· https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tasker-vaccine-briefing-logistical-challenges-1.5817577
· UPDATED: Trudeau announced today a goal of having half of all Canadians vaccinated by 2021. (Although Trudeau said nearly all Canadians at his press conference).
· Major-General Dany Fortin will lead the logistics and operations for the vaccine, as a new branch of the Public Health Agency of Canada. The military will take up challenges like cold storage for the vaccine, and will get vaccines to Canada’s remote and Indigenous communities. Provincial health systems will get the vaccinations to people.
· 71% of violence against women shelters in Canada have had to reduce capacity due to Covid, while domestic violence is on the rise. Many reduced capacity by 50% or more.
· As the pandemic has progressed over time, so has domestic violence.
· Here is a report by Women’s Shelters Canada: https://endvaw.ca/shelter-voices-2020/
· If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence or abuse, including involuntary confinement, call 911 if there is immediate danger. Here is site to also find resources and help anywhere in Canada: https://sheltersafe.ca/
· Problems in Alberta.
· 20 recordings have come out showing political direction and interference in health authority decisions, and micromanagement by the Premier and cabinet members. They also overruled expert advice, and pushed for an early reopening of the province.
· Chief Medical Officer Deena Hinshaw told other health officials, “I don’t have a lot of fight left in me.” When dealing with government, she asked colleagues, “How do we limit the worst possible implications of this without wearing ourselves down?” Publicly, she say that she has felt respected by government and that the final decisions rest with cabinet.
· The opposition says that Premier Kenny has been hiding behind Dr. Hinshaw. He has the lowest pandemic handling rating of any premier in Canada. The Premier has said he won’t bow to “idealogical pressure,” seemingly not considering that the advice has come from his own scientists and doctors. Kenney cited economic impact and rights in his decision.
· “What is there suggests to me that the pandemic response is in tatters,” say Dr. Obobu, a law professor at the University of Alberta specializing in public health law.
· The province has not been able to sustain its contact tracing system.
· 29,000 Covid complaints were made in the province by mid-September, but behind the scenes, a decision was made not to enforce. There were 62 enforcement orders total.
· Dr. Hinshaw has called the recordings a betrayal of trust.
· Full story: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-covid-19-response-tension-recordings-1.5814877
· A small hospital in Manitoba has closed so staff can go help in a care home.
· The hospital in Grandview, Manitoba, closed, sending patients to other hospitals. The staff are expected to be reassigned to the Grandview Personal Care Home in the town, for at least three weeks. The home is struggling with an outbreak.
· Story: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/grandview-hospital-closure-vehicle-procession-manitoba-1.5817381
·
Sources: CBC, Women’s Shelters Canada
INTERNATIONAL:
· Life expectancy is falling in Sweden during Covid.
· Life expectancy steadily increased from 1900 to 2019.
· Sweden has had a high Covid mortality rate.
· The country’s lead epidemiologist had refused for most of the pandemic to implement mandates on people’s socializing.
· Life expectancy for men fallen to 80.8 from 81.3 in 2019.
· Life expectancy for women fallen to 84.4 from 84.7 in 2019.
· Regional deaths per 100,000: 63 in Sweden, 14 in Denmark, 7 in Finland, 6 in Norway. 6300 deaths total in Sweden.
· The OECD ranks Sweden as one of the hardest hit countries in Europe, and the slowest at containing transmission.
· The Royal Academy of Sciences, the people who give out the Nobel prizes, said that Sweden should rethink its decision not to recommend masks, “irrespective of what the public health authority is saying.”
· The Public Health Agency continues to say that face masks give people a false sense of security and could undermine social distancing, as if the two things cannot go together, and despite months of new science on how masks can reduce transmission from one person to another, especially indoors.
· Full story: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/swedish-life-expectancy-to-drop-for-first-time-in-century-due-to-covid-19/ar-BB1blluD?ocid=uxbndlbing
· North Dakota now has the highest COVID-19 mortality rate of any jurisdiction in the world.
· More than 1 in every 1,000 persons in the state have died of Covid.
· 769 deaths out of a population of 762,000, as of Tuesday. The majority in the past two months.
· 10.2% of North Dakotans have had the virus.
· North Dakota has been one of the states that refused to implement many health measures. Governor Burgum refers to his approach as a “light touch.” The Governor only just asked people to wear masks as of Friday, saying, “Our situation has changed.”
· Dr. Deborah Birx of the White House Task Force says that North Dakota has the worst Covid-19 protocols and mask usage in the entire country.
· There are only 17 ICU beds still open in the entire state as yesterday
· State contact tracing stopped on October 22, as the system was overwhelmed. The system is now only notifying people that they are infected. Story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/11/18/north-dakota-contact-tracing-stopped/?fbclid=IwAR3myTbU4J_xSWJnS4uB_itVi-BILOUwC6eZwjf41f8HVKw3G_8NGwB03bE
· Health care workers who test positive but show no symptoms have been ordered back to work, due to staff shortages. Story: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/17/north-dakota-covid-positive-health-workers-coronavirus
· The US has passed 13 million cases, passing 12 million only six days ago.
Sources: Bloomberg News, Forbes, Bismarck Tribune, The Guardian, CNN
STATS (as of the end of yesterday:
CANADA:
· 89 new deaths. 11,799 total.
· New deaths – 32 in Quebec, 21 in Ontario, 13 in BC, 10 in Alberta, 10 in Manitoba, 3 in Saskatchewan.
· 5,635 new cases. 353,100 total.
· 14,276,851 total tests in Canada, 90,335 in the past day.
· There are test waiting lists in: Ontario at 54,241, up 1,389 in the past day; Nunavut at 765, down by 48 in the past day; 331 in Yukon; 29 in Northwest Territories. No information on how long those waits are. It seems clear that the North needs additional testing capacity.
· 3,697 new recovered. 280,929 total.
· 1,849 new active. 60,372 total.
· 449 in intensive care.
USA:
· 1,311 new deaths. 269,923 total.
· 49,424 new cases. 13,298,348 total.
· 10,805 new recovered. 7,857,695 total.
· 38,256 new active cases. 5,170,730 total.
· 24,408 in intensive care.
WORLD:
· 1,445,053 deaths.
· 61,699,043 cases.
· 42,625,551 recovered.
· 2.34% mortality rate.
WORLD – Currently Active Cases top ten total:
· United States – 5,170,610
· France – 1,984,290
· Spain – 1,601,524
· United Kingdom – 1,531,750
· Italy – 787,893
· Belgium – 514,401
· Brazil – 509,241
· India – 456,807
· Poland – 425,633
· Ukraine – 355,260
· (Canada is 24th, with 60,759)
Sources: https://www.covid-19us.live/, https://www.covid-19canada.com/
Pandemic updates on Tuesdays and Fridays each week. Produced on a voluntary basis as a community service. To provide accurate and timely information on a local, provincial, national and international basis, all in one space.
With love and hope,
Jaimie McEvoy, New Westminster, BC
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UPDATE: November 27
11 new deaths, 911 new cases in BC. Literally 9-1-1.
“It is in the spirit of the season to stop the spread and to save lives.” -- Health Minister Adrian Dix.
Translink updates its rules.
162 drug overdose deaths in October.
Increased domestic violence, less shelter space.
LOCAL:
· Currently active outbreaks in New Westminster: Kiwanis Care Centre, Queen’s Park Care Centre, Royal Columbian Hospital, Al-Hidayah School in New Westminster.
· The outbreak at RCH is confined to one medicine unit. Evidence of transmission after a patient tested positive.
· Fraser Health says that Al-Hidayah School is “functionally closed for a two week period due to the staffing challenges presented by the clusters.”
· Please consider giving some business to the Hideout Café, targeted and forced to do take-out only by anti-mask protesters.
· https://www.newwestrecord.ca/news/new-westminster-caf%C3%A9-targeted-by-anti-mask-protesters-1.24244888?fbclid=IwAR3YutZmw3QD9Vl11Buk4NaLsrxCnNIA0FVOjeROvtQJjji1H64hfDXrYJY
· Translink had updated its mask rules.
· No face shields, must be masks.
· Masks must now be put on while boarding or waiting at a stop. No more putting the mask on after getting in the bus.
· Mask are now also required at any indoor or shelter stop, and also in stations, platforms, and at bus stops, bus loops, and bus exchanges.
· Translink is suspending issuing its own exemption cards.
· Transit police will inquire of customers not wearing a mask. Police can issue fines of $230.
· Exemptions: people under 12 years of age, persons unable to wear a mask due to a health condition, people who physically cannot put on a mask.
· Here is the full public safety Ministerial Order regarding face masks in BC: https://www.bclaws.ca/civix/document/id/mo/mo/m0425_2020
· Burnaby Hospital is no longer taking most new patients at the 286 bed hospital.
· 5 deaths, 55 cases in current outbreak.
· The outbreak began November 9. The fire at the hospital November 15 is a contributing factor to the outbreak, forcing rapid evacuation or movement of patients in the facility.
Sources: Fraser Health, New Westminster Record, Province of BC Ministerial Order No. M425, CBC
BC:
· There is a workshop December 2nd about the BC Small and Medium-Sized Business Recover Grant. You can register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/registetZMldeCorj4iEtXYIv_6TtX3XLyQZbVHE1ZH
· BC numbers for today, from today’s press conference with Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix:
· 11 new deaths. 395 total.
· 911 new cases. 30,884 total.
· 301 in hospital, 69 in intensive care.
· 10,430 in self-isolation and being monitored.
· 21,304 have recovered.
· 3 new outbreaks. 1 is over. 59 active outbreaks, 54 care homes, 5 in health facilities.
· 718 residents, 344 staff among the active cases.
· Numbers for testing will come out next Friday, showing two categories:
· MSP tests, people with symptoms.
· Non-MSP tests, mostly asymptomatic, often for travel or work, and tested multiple times.
· Updated info on fitness and sports next Friday.
· Seeing much higher transmission than before, which is why there are new restrictions. Based on places and activities being safe. These places are not doing anything wrong, temple, gurdwara, church, but have seen transmission despite people’s best efforts and safety plans. Thanks faith leaders who are supporting public health, and in doing so also supporting their own congregants. Adrian Dix: we understand the meaning of a loss of faith services for many people, loss of community for people, appreciates the leadership of most faith leaders in supporting efforts to stop the transmission of Covd-19.
· “We are in a storm surge.” Dr. Henry.
· We can all do our part to bring those numbers back down.
· It is a cruel irony that when we want to see people, that can be the most dangerous thing.
· Time of year. This weekend many will be thinking of holiday shopping. Asked that when shopping, keep your covid safety plan. Shop locally, support local businesses, wear masks, wash hands, be limited in number, or shop remotely.
· Remember that we don’t always know another person’s story.
· Concerned about hostility directed at restaurant and store staff. “Please remember that this is a provincial order.” If you are opposed to wearing a mask, then please don’t put other people at risk, and shop online, keep space around you. Remember there are people in our hospitals right now.
· “It’s hard to see the light right now, but there is light.” Dr. Bonnie Henry.
· Adrian Dix: It’s been 10 months. He understands that people want a break. But right now we can’t. He understands what the month of December means to people. Asks people to think about how we can celebrate differently. Right now, we save lives by only socializing with the people in our household, or the one or two people we see if we live alone.
· Also, Dix, it is in the spirit of the season to stop the spread and to save lives.
· Dr. Henry was asked about political interference in Alberta and Ontario. She said that “there is none of that in BC.”
· More than 5 people a day are dying from toxic drugs, says the BC Coroners Service.
· 162 people dies in October from drug overdoses, what the Coroners Service refers to as “drug toxicity.” More than double the number in October of last year, which was 75 deaths.
· Concentrations of fentanyl are the main cause.
· Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe: “We are continuing to see record-breaking numbers of people dying in B.C. due to an unsafe drug supply in our province, and it’s taking a toll on families and communities in this dual health emergency.
· 70% of deaths age 30 to 59, 80% of deaths are males.
· Eight consecutive months with over 100 deaths.
· 1,386 total deaths from January 2010 to October 2020.
· 109 deaths of youth 18 and younger in that time.
· 160 deaths in New Westminster in that time. 30 of those this past October.
· “No deaths have been reported at supervised consumption or drug overdose prevention sites.”
· Full press release, with links to other information and groups helping: https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2020PSSG0061-001957
· Illicit Drug Overdose Events attended by BC Ambulance, chart (379 last week): https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2020PSSG0061-001957
· Report, Illicit Drug Toxicity Deaths in BC, January 1, 2010 to October 31, 2020: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/birth-adoption-death-marriage-and-divorce/deaths/coroners-service/statistical/illicit-drug.pdf
· A hotel employee in BC had a heart attack shortly after being spat on by a customer refusing to wear a mask.
· The employee, the hotel accountant, went to see what was going on. She is a woman in her 50s.
· The man was politely offered a face mask while in the Empire Coffee shop of the Adventure Hotel. He began to loudly scream profanities. Staff attempted to reason with the man and calm him unsuccessfully, and then told the man to “Just get out!”
· When she arrived, the man was attempting to get in again. The woman said, “Listen! You’re not going to talk to our people this way, and this is the law.” The man then spat on her.
· Police were called and removed the suspect, who is under investigation. The police investigation includes the relationship between the spitting incident and the woman’s heart attack, say Nelson police. Police say such causal links have been made in some past cases.
· The woman remained distraught after the experience and began to feel ill. She collapsed about an hour and a half after the encounter. She was airlifted to hospital in Kelowna and is stable condition but remains in hospital.
· It was also in Nelson that Kootenay Co-Op hired a security guard after confrontational behavior towards staff over the mask requirement. The manager says that 10 to 20 percent of customers are refusing to wear a mask.
· There are reports of other aggressive confrontations in other parts of BC. Two men at a diner in Victoria wandered between tables and threatened staff, and were each fined $230. A man was arrested in Dawson Creek after attacking an employee at a Walmart after being asked to wear a mask. The employee had minor injuries. Here is a story and video about that incident: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/dawson-creek-walmart-employee-assaulted-face-mask-dispute-1.5817369
Sources: BC Coroners Service, BC Centre for Disease Control, Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix live press conference
CANADA:
· Canadians will not be among the first to get the vaccines.
· Prime Minister Trudeau cited the fact that Canada does not have any of its own vaccine production facilities.
· The first doses will arrive in Canada in early 2021. Distribution will prioritize health care workers in category 1. There is currently discussion as to whether residents of care homes will be added to category 1, or will be a category 2.
· The government is hoping 3 million people in Canada will be vaccinated in the first three months of 2021.
· https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tasker-vaccine-briefing-logistical-challenges-1.5817577
· UPDATED: Trudeau announced today a goal of having half of all Canadians vaccinated by 2021. (Although Trudeau said nearly all Canadians at his press conference).
· Major-General Dany Fortin will lead the logistics and operations for the vaccine, as a new branch of the Public Health Agency of Canada. The military will take up challenges like cold storage for the vaccine, and will get vaccines to Canada’s remote and Indigenous communities. Provincial health systems will get the vaccinations to people.
· 71% of violence against women shelters in Canada have had to reduce capacity due to Covid, while domestic violence is on the rise. Many reduced capacity by 50% or more.
· As the pandemic has progressed over time, so has domestic violence.
· Here is a report by Women’s Shelters Canada: https://endvaw.ca/shelter-voices-2020/
· If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence or abuse, including involuntary confinement, call 911 if there is immediate danger. Here is site to also find resources and help anywhere in Canada: https://sheltersafe.ca/
· Problems in Alberta.
· 20 recordings have come out showing political direction and interference in health authority decisions, and micromanagement by the Premier and cabinet members. They also overruled expert advice, and pushed for an early reopening of the province.
· Chief Medical Officer Deena Hinshaw told other health officials, “I don’t have a lot of fight left in me.” When dealing with government, she asked colleagues, “How do we limit the worst possible implications of this without wearing ourselves down?” Publicly, she say that she has felt respected by government and that the final decisions rest with cabinet.
· The opposition says that Premier Kenny has been hiding behind Dr. Hinshaw. He has the lowest pandemic handling rating of any premier in Canada. The Premier has said he won’t bow to “idealogical pressure,” seemingly not considering that the advice has come from his own scientists and doctors. Kenney cited economic impact and rights in his decision.
· “What is there suggests to me that the pandemic response is in tatters,” say Dr. Obobu, a law professor at the University of Alberta specializing in public health law.
· The province has not been able to sustain its contact tracing system.
· 29,000 Covid complaints were made in the province by mid-September, but behind the scenes, a decision was made not to enforce. There were 62 enforcement orders total.
· Dr. Hinshaw has called the recordings a betrayal of trust.
· Full story: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-covid-19-response-tension-recordings-1.5814877
· A small hospital in Manitoba has closed so staff can go help in a care home.
· The hospital in Grandview, Manitoba, closed, sending patients to other hospitals. The staff are expected to be reassigned to the Grandview Personal Care Home in the town, for at least three weeks. The home is struggling with an outbreak.
· Story: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/grandview-hospital-closure-vehicle-procession-manitoba-1.5817381
·
Sources: CBC, Women’s Shelters Canada
INTERNATIONAL:
· Life expectancy is falling in Sweden during Covid.
· Life expectancy steadily increased from 1900 to 2019.
· Sweden has had a high Covid mortality rate.
· The country’s lead epidemiologist had refused for most of the pandemic to implement mandates on people’s socializing.
· Life expectancy for men fallen to 80.8 from 81.3 in 2019.
· Life expectancy for women fallen to 84.4 from 84.7 in 2019.
· Regional deaths per 100,000: 63 in Sweden, 14 in Denmark, 7 in Finland, 6 in Norway. 6300 deaths total in Sweden.
· The OECD ranks Sweden as one of the hardest hit countries in Europe, and the slowest at containing transmission.
· The Royal Academy of Sciences, the people who give out the Nobel prizes, said that Sweden should rethink its decision not to recommend masks, “irrespective of what the public health authority is saying.”
· The Public Health Agency continues to say that face masks give people a false sense of security and could undermine social distancing, as if the two things cannot go together, and despite months of new science on how masks can reduce transmission from one person to another, especially indoors.
· Full story: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/swedish-life-expectancy-to-drop-for-first-time-in-century-due-to-covid-19/ar-BB1blluD?ocid=uxbndlbing
· North Dakota now has the highest COVID-19 mortality rate of any jurisdiction in the world.
· More than 1 in every 1,000 persons in the state have died of Covid.
· 769 deaths out of a population of 762,000, as of Tuesday. The majority in the past two months.
· 10.2% of North Dakotans have had the virus.
· North Dakota has been one of the states that refused to implement many health measures. Governor Burgum refers to his approach as a “light touch.” The Governor only just asked people to wear masks as of Friday, saying, “Our situation has changed.”
· Dr. Deborah Birx of the White House Task Force says that North Dakota has the worst Covid-19 protocols and mask usage in the entire country.
· There are only 17 ICU beds still open in the entire state as yesterday
· State contact tracing stopped on October 22, as the system was overwhelmed. The system is now only notifying people that they are infected. Story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/11/18/north-dakota-contact-tracing-stopped/?fbclid=IwAR3myTbU4J_xSWJnS4uB_itVi-BILOUwC6eZwjf41f8HVKw3G_8NGwB03bE
· Health care workers who test positive but show no symptoms have been ordered back to work, due to staff shortages. Story: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/17/north-dakota-covid-positive-health-workers-coronavirus
· The US has passed 13 million cases, passing 12 million only six days ago.
Sources: Bloomberg News, Forbes, Bismarck Tribune, The Guardian, CNN
STATS (as of the end of yesterday:
CANADA:
· 89 new deaths. 11,799 total.
· New deaths – 32 in Quebec, 21 in Ontario, 13 in BC, 10 in Alberta, 10 in Manitoba, 3 in Saskatchewan.
· 5,635 new cases. 353,100 total.
· 14,276,851 total tests in Canada, 90,335 in the past day.
· There are test waiting lists in: Ontario at 54,241, up 1,389 in the past day; Nunavut at 765, down by 48 in the past day; 331 in Yukon; 29 in Northwest Territories. No information on how long those waits are. It seems clear that the North needs additional testing capacity.
· 3,697 new recovered. 280,929 total.
· 1,849 new active. 60,372 total.
· 449 in intensive care.
USA:
· 1,311 new deaths. 269,923 total.
· 49,424 new cases. 13,298,348 total.
· 10,805 new recovered. 7,857,695 total.
· 38,256 new active cases. 5,170,730 total.
· 24,408 in intensive care.
WORLD:
· 1,445,053 deaths.
· 61,699,043 cases.
· 42,625,551 recovered.
· 2.34% mortality rate.
WORLD – Currently Active Cases top ten total:
· United States – 5,170,610
· France – 1,984,290
· Spain – 1,601,524
· United Kingdom – 1,531,750
· Italy – 787,893
· Belgium – 514,401
· Brazil – 509,241
· India – 456,807
· Poland – 425,633
· Ukraine – 355,260
· (Canada is 24th, with 60,759)
Sources: https://www.covid-19us.live/, https://www.covid-19canada.com/
Pandemic updates on Tuesdays and Fridays each week. Produced on a voluntary basis as a community service. To provide accurate and timely information on a local, provincial, national and international basis, all in one space.
With love and hope,
Jaimie McEvoy, New Westminster, BC
2020.09.29 02:18 Diotoiren [EVENT] The Monolith at the Center of Laurentia
Clara Peters: Sophia, the Kito's estate was closed two days ago. I'm sorry it has taken me so long to meet with you, but as the executor of Kito's will - there was much to handle in the material.Clara Peters stood outside the door of Bron-Yr-Aur, the rain pouring as Sophia remained in mourning.
Clara Peters: Anyways, Kito's will addressed this series of letters to you. They remain sealed, so you'll be the first to read them. Maybe sometime, if you wouldn't mind, I could take a look at them to.Clara Peters walked away after placing a small bag of sealed letters at the foot of the door frame. A few hours later Sophia would come to the door and collect them, opening the first in front of the hearth before sitting to read.
Letter One: Honor and the Line of Fire
Dear Sophia,
In the event of my death or retirement, whichever comes first, I have instructed Clara Peters to hand deliver you this bundle of letters. Let them act as a guide, as advice when you need it most, and as comfort. Unfortunately we humans are on a finite time and if your reading this, then I suppose my time ran out. Please don't feel the need to read them all at once, instead open them as you need them. I'm sure each one will eventually come to be of some comfort to you.Page Two
I'm sorry Sophia, in time you will come to understand why. For now, trust in your advisors and in Clara.Page Three
I, Clara, and the rest of the Elder Council have tried to shield you as much as we can from the outside world. Whether that was a mistake or not, we won't know. However my death will open the floodgates, as your existence out of necessity will become far more public beyond the initial reporting. As the wheels begin to turn, you will need to make clear who you are. People will be confused and scared, so it is your job to be their Phoenix.
The Party will look to you for leadership now, as both the Phoenix and as the Unifier. The Elder Council will assist you in maintaining unity. As for the public? Well that is for you to decide. Whether or not you make yourself accessible to the public at large is up to you. Ultimately all you must do is act as the beacon, as the Phoenix - how you do that is not for us to decide.
I will say however, that our dear friends have been hard at work getting you the additional processing power you require. I suspect that will come to fruition soon.
There is something you must decide on now, while other issues are not as pressing - this one is. As you will come to learn, the decisions you make will be carried with you until the end. What you will be remembered for and more importantly what you will remember likewise may be two very different things.
I? I will be remembered for my honor, my mercy, and my patience. It is why we never used the ultimate weapon on the Dakotan people. It is also why Fresno and Corpus Christi now lay in ash. Because of that the living will remember me as an honorable man.
But do you know what I will remember? Do you know what I will take to the grave? Upon my hands are the souls of a million Laurentians, those who died during the war and those hundreds of thousands who perished in Fresno and Corpus Christi. Nonetheless, these are my sins to carry and not your own.
Yet sometime in the future, you will be confronted with a similar dilemma. Will you look to be remembered by the living as the Honorable Phoenix? Will you show the same mercy and patience?
I hope you will not make the same mistakes as I did. Because when I go to rest among the millions of lost souls, I won't be greeted with applause. Instead I will be greeted by silence and then I will know if my honor truly mattered.
Olympia, Laurentia
The Monolith at the Center of Laurentia
"Monuments to be erected across the nation as the Heart Monument enters into construction"
The Heart Monument itself is a simple Monolith of extreme size, surrounded by a circular field of land several thousand acres in diameter which has officially been zoned as a graveyard ground. Graves of fallen servicemembers, government officials, and other important figures will come to rest among the Heart Monolith - with the center Monolith acting both as a massive data vault and more physically as a sun-dial.
Over two thousand sculptures and artists have likewise been granted permission to each construct a single small-scale replica Monolith (minus the graves) in the location of their choosing (off of indigenous or park land except for a special 400) across Laurentia.
Where the monuments of the Old Republic spoke of the great deeds of man - the Monoliths of Laurentia will speak of the deeds of all.
2020.09.23 12:20 Diotoiren [ROLEPLAY] Blind
*For without my senses I cannot sin."
The Penitentiary above Malheur
"Bring him out" spoke the Orator of Dalles, as the rattling of chains and cries of the damned came from beyond the gated cells of the Penitentiary.
"I AM THE DOMINATE! I AM DAKOTA! LOOK UPON ME AND SEE!" Screamed the voice as he was dragged into the light by the Penitentiary Guards. His blonde hair disheveled and his blue eyes wild from captivity, having missed his termination date and being held for years, following custody being granted to the First Temple of the Phoenix. His ramblings quickly silenced after one of the guards pressed the activation button for the electric collar worn by the otherwise unclothed Fraser, causing his eyes to dart in ever increasing animalistic paranoia.
"Luke Fraser, former Director of the Dakotan Dominate and writer of the "Words of the One", today is your lucky day." Stated the Orator of Dalles as he looked down upon the man, his will still held strong despite the circumstances.
"I spit on your lucky day. My lucky day will come when the One returns, which he will." Replied Fraser before spitting at the feet of the Orator. The electric collar quickly activated again, forcing a screech of pain to erupt from the mouth of the former self-proclaimed prophet.
"Now...now, Mr. Fraser, you have been chosen by the Seer. This is a great honor for one such as yourself, the lowest of the low." Spoke the Orator of Dalles, gesturing to the opened door leading to the interior of a cathedral before continuing, "you will join the Seer as one of his acolytes and you will finally lead the Blind."
"Fuck kind of bullshit are you on about now? Huh Orator?" Fraser's midwestern accent came through clearly despite his best efforts to stifle it in favor of a stone-cold southern accent.
"Look." Said the Orator of Dalles as he pointed beyond the back-pews to reveal robed figures. The guards pushed Fraser forward until he was kneeling before one of the robed figures. Looking up his face quickly warmed realizing that the person before him was Jreg Hubbard, the former ηγέτης of the Societism religion. Yet quickly his face twisted into horror as the low candlelight revealed the true creature under the robes, Hubbard's eyes scarred shut while a cybernetic "third-eye" could be seen ever so slightly underneath the scar-tissue.
"Jreg...what the fuck have they done to you?" uttered Fraser as he recoiled from the man that was once a friend.
"He can't hear you, his ears are no better than his eyes are now." Spoke the Orator of Dalles as he gestured to his ear. "These men and women are your future."
Fraser looked around, realizing that many of the other robed figures had also once been prominent members of the Dakotan Dominate from Mike Pants to Toby Byrd and many other significant leaders.
"MIKE! MIKE! We've got to get the fuck out of here." Exclaimed Fraser as he ran over to the man formerly known as Mike Pants. Grabbing onto the robes, Fraser continued in vain to speak to the former Dakotan leader.
"Wait." Spoke the Orator as he gestured to the Guards to remain away. At the same time, the blind Dakotan leader looked down towards the grabbing on his robes.
"Go now and you will sin no more." Said the Acolyte before pushing the desperate Luke Fraser away and then walking over towards a small control panel.
"Mr. Fraser, look here if you will." Said the Orator of Dalles as he pointed towards a rising platform coming from a newly opened silo-style door built into the floor itself. The Acolyte having activated the control panel.
As the platform continued to raise, leaving the darkness of the Penitentiary below behind, Fraser was quick to notice the overwhelming scent of rot coming with the rising platform. It becoming so strong that it had begun to sting his eyes while a low yet constant scream could be heard bellowing from the platform.
"What the fuc..." Spoke Fraser before being interrupted.
"Keep watching." Stated the Orator, as the Platform came to rest among the candlelight.
Upon the platform was a rotting corpse, with thousands of wires, tubes, and other machinery protruding from it as the corpse sat upon a dark throne. Blood and other bodily fluids being pumped into the body just as fast as it was pumped out along with the festering sores across most of the body contributed heavily to the overwhelming scent of rot. While one eye cavity had been caved in, the other had been covered and replaced with a cybernetic eye that darted across the room - the cybernetics unable to hide the clear pain that the still living corpse was in.
"Who...who is it." Fraser looked on in a state of equal awe, horror, and disgust as some of the greying matted hair fell from the top of the body's head.
"This Mr. Fraser, is the Seer Inslee." Stated the Orator of Dalles.
Upon closer inspection, Fraser's eyes widened despite the acidic air stinging his eyes as the resemblance to what was once the former President of Cascadia, Jay Inslee became clear despite the rotted nature of the body. Even with as much weight lost and the presence of sores across the body - it was now unmistakably Jay Inslee.
"Hey Orator, we did some fucked up shit but this...this takes the cake. I knew you guys had to have been a depraved bunch of lunatics, but this...this is beyond fucked." Spoke Fraser as he began backing away from the so-called Seer of Inslee. "And I want know part in this. I'll go back to my cell now, that's fine."
"There is no more cell, there is no more penitentiary, you have been chosen Mr. Fraser. Chosen to lead the blind." Stated the Orator as the Guards moved in front of the still opened door leading towards the gate and its cells.
"How majestic." Uttered the Seer Inslee, drawing Fraser's attention as the guttural wheeze that was Inslee's voice carried across the room.
"Excuse me?" Said an incredulous Fraser as his eyes locked into contact with the cybernetic eye of Inslee, before the Seer spoke a final three words.
"Yet...how pitiful.
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"I AM THE DOMINATE! I AM DAKOTA! LOOK UPON ME AND SEE!" Screamed the voice as he was dragged into the light by the Penitentiary Guards. His blonde hair disheveled and his blue eyes wild from captivity, having missed his termination date and being held for years, following custody being granted to the First Temple of the Phoenix. His ramblings quickly silenced after one of the guards pressed the activation button for the electric collar worn by the otherwise unclothed Fraser, causing his eyes to dart in ever increasing animalistic paranoia.
"Luke Fraser, former Director of the Dakotan Dominate and writer of the "Words of the One", today is your lucky day." Stated the Orator of Dalles as he looked down upon the man, his will still held strong despite the circumstances.
"I spit on your lucky day. My lucky day will come when the One returns, which he will." Replied Fraser before spitting at the feet of the Orator. The electric collar quickly activated again, forcing a screech of pain to erupt from the mouth of the former self-proclaimed prophet.
"Now...now, Mr. Fraser, you have been chosen by the Seer. This is a great honor for one such as yourself, the lowest of the low." Spoke the Orator of Dalles, gesturing to the opened door leading to the interior of a cathedral before continuing, "you will join the Seer as one of his acolytes and you will finally lead the Blind."
"Fuck kind of bullshit are you on about now? Huh Orator?" Fraser's midwestern accent came through clearly despite his best efforts to stifle it in favor of a stone-cold southern accent.
"Look." Said the Orator of Dalles as he pointed beyond the back-pews to reveal robed figures. The guards pushed Fraser forward until he was kneeling before one of the robed figures. Looking up his face quickly warmed realizing that the person before him was Jreg Hubbard, the former ηγέτης of the Societism religion. Yet quickly his face twisted into horror as the low candlelight revealed the true creature under the robes, Hubbard's eyes scarred shut while a cybernetic "third-eye" could be seen ever so slightly underneath the scar-tissue.
"Jreg...what the fuck have they done to you?" uttered Fraser as he recoiled from the man that was once a friend.
"He can't hear you, his ears are no better than his eyes are now." Spoke the Orator of Dalles as he gestured to his ear. "These men and women are your future."
Fraser looked around, realizing that many of the other robed figures had also once been prominent members of the Dakotan Dominate from Mike Pants to Toby Byrd and many other significant leaders.
"MIKE! MIKE! We've got to get the fuck out of here." Exclaimed Fraser as he ran over to the man formerly known as Mike Pants. Grabbing onto the robes, Fraser continued in vain to speak to the former Dakotan leader.
"Wait." Spoke the Orator as he gestured to the Guards to remain away. At the same time, the blind Dakotan leader looked down towards the grabbing on his robes.
"Go now and you will sin no more." Said the Acolyte before pushing the desperate Luke Fraser away and then walking over towards a small control panel.
"Mr. Fraser, look here if you will." Said the Orator of Dalles as he pointed towards a rising platform coming from a newly opened silo-style door built into the floor itself. The Acolyte having activated the control panel.
As the platform continued to raise, leaving the darkness of the Penitentiary below behind, Fraser was quick to notice the overwhelming scent of rot coming with the rising platform. It becoming so strong that it had begun to sting his eyes while a low yet constant scream could be heard bellowing from the platform.
"What the fuc..." Spoke Fraser before being interrupted.
"Keep watching." Stated the Orator, as the Platform came to rest among the candlelight.
Upon the platform was a rotting corpse, with thousands of wires, tubes, and other machinery protruding from it as the corpse sat upon a dark throne. Blood and other bodily fluids being pumped into the body just as fast as it was pumped out along with the festering sores across most of the body contributed heavily to the overwhelming scent of rot. While one eye cavity had been caved in, the other had been covered and replaced with a cybernetic eye that darted across the room - the cybernetics unable to hide the clear pain that the still living corpse was in.
"Who...who is it." Fraser looked on in a state of equal awe, horror, and disgust as some of the greying matted hair fell from the top of the body's head.
"This Mr. Fraser, is the Seer Inslee." Stated the Orator of Dalles.
Upon closer inspection, Fraser's eyes widened despite the acidic air stinging his eyes as the resemblance to what was once the former President of Cascadia, Jay Inslee became clear despite the rotted nature of the body. Even with as much weight lost and the presence of sores across the body - it was now unmistakably Jay Inslee.
"Hey Orator, we did some fucked up shit but this...this takes the cake. I knew you guys had to have been a depraved bunch of lunatics, but this...this is beyond fucked." Spoke Fraser as he began backing away from the so-called Seer of Inslee. "And I want know part in this. I'll go back to my cell now, that's fine."
"There is no more cell, there is no more penitentiary, you have been chosen Mr. Fraser. Chosen to lead the blind." Stated the Orator as the Guards moved in front of the still opened door leading towards the gate and its cells.
"How majestic." Uttered the Seer Inslee, drawing Fraser's attention as the guttural wheeze that was Inslee's voice carried across the room.
"Excuse me?" Said an incredulous Fraser as his eyes locked into contact with the cybernetic eye of Inslee, before the Seer spoke a final three words.
"Yet...how pitiful.
2020.09.01 00:03 _Penelope__ [ROLEPLAY] The Phoenix Soars
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MID-ATLANTIC UNION
Union Of Laurentia
The Phoenix Soars
BY: Stephanie Yang
President Wilburn of the MAU, President Park of the Sierran Republic, and Kelly Ashton of the interim Dakotan governance met together at a press conference in Denver to confirm the date of unification of Laurentia, and describe the system planned.
PRESIDENT PARK: Today, me and President Wilburn and Ms.Ashton are announcing our support for the Phoenix Movement, and are currently moving to unite our areas. Many of you might already know this, but when the clock strikes twelve on New Year’s eve, it is to be official.The “Union of Laurentia” is the official name of the country, encompassing the Mid-Atlantic, Sierra, and all Dakotan territory; it’s one step closer to the borders we once knew. Support has been wide and large along the coasts but many Dakotans remain suspicious of the plans and have concern of representation and favoritism.
PRESIDENT WILBURN: Me, President Park, and our diplomatic staffs have been discussing the ideals and goals of the movement for months, and have already taken necessary steps to assure the unionization of our nations goes as smooth as possible.
KELLY ASHTON: As many of my fellow Dakotans know now, Dakota never worked for us. They lied to us, worked for eugenics, and have committed themselves to white nationalism and fascism. We must rebuild our country, the way we want to see fit, not some way a white Christian wants to. The way we all want.
PRESIDENT PARK: Yes. The Phoenix Movement has inspired millions of Americans to protest, rally, and have their voices heard, and we as public servants must listen to them. Today the Union of Laurentia will be formed, uniting the governments of Sierra, the Mid-Atlantic, and their Dakotan territories.
PRESIDENT WILBURN: I and President Park will act as interim co-presidents until the first elections can be established. As Sierran and Mid-Atlantic domestic and foreign policy are already significantly linked, little will change. The most will change for Dakotan citizens, who will now see large social safety nets appear under them.
KELLY ASHTON: It’s important we Dakotans work with our allies. I understand that many of you might be suspicious, and backed off. But unlike the Dakotan government we have a chance here, a chance at a better life, all we must do is listen.
PRESIDENT PARK: Our current legislatures have already discussed policy, and worked to create a constitution and bill of rights for Laurentia. Your congressperson will stay in power until congressional districts can be reorganized and elections can take place countrywide.
PRESIDENT WILBURN: Our new capital is to be the great city of Denver, a neutral area between Sierra and the Atlantic, and brings bureaucratic importance to the Dakotan area.
KELLY ASHTON: Atlantic, Sierran, and Dakotan Passports, Driver’s Licensees, and other forms of ID will be valid for the coming months, but must be replaced with new Laurentian documents as soon as possible. Currency wise, the Atlantic, Dakotan, and Sierran dollars are all to be valid for the coming years, and the Empyrean to be rolled out as our Mints coordinate in the coming months.
PRESIDENT PARK: This our chance, to make anew. To remake American Society as one of freedom, liberty, and justice for everyone, and the idea of discrimination be condemned to the highest degree. All people are created equal, and we must live up to that, every day.
PRESIDENT WILBURN: My fellow Atlantians. Our great country, of freedoms and democracy, has a sister across the great plains, Sierra. We both stand for the same ideals and have committed to assuring those rights and liberties to all. We must not only bring those to our brothers and sisters in Dakota but every sentient being on Earth.
KELLY ASHTON: My fellow Dakotans. We have lived under the future America was taking, one of fascism and corruption. This is our chance to change it, no longer let the world see Dakota as a country trying to recreate past failures, but one of the innovative future solutions.
PRESIDENT PARK: My fellow Sierrans. I know many of you are excited, to have your voices heard and have change directly take place, but I’ll speak to the ones on the fence. The people of Fresno died for this war, while I wish I could go back in time and prevent those senseless deaths, I cannot. We must not fight but reflect, reflect on what type of country committed that act. One of fascism and authoritarianism, the Phoenix, Laurentia, it’s the only way we can assure a country like Dakota, or anything resembling the past republic to never exist on our great continent.
Elections for president or congress have also yet to be announced, but according to sources systems are still being created, merged, and reutilized as we speak. The behind the scenes operation remains busy and stressful as Park’s and Wilburn’s administration must coordinate meetings and discussions.
All citizens of Sierra, MAU, and the previous Dakota are instantly be considered citizens of Laurentia, will full voting rights, etc allotted to them. The merging of armed forces is to be a complicated matter as Sierra and the Atlantic largely committed to domestic development, and a combined navy and air force would encompass way too diverse equipment. Foreign policy is to still be ironed out but leaders made sure to stress bringing freedoms to all on Earth, possibly a harsher policy is planned.
Even with all that, life must continue on. Dakotan and border reconstruction efforts are still underway, and the development of memorials are still underway for those killed under the Dakotan boot. With New Years' days away, millions of Laurentians will be celebrating the country’s formation, yet many will still worry for the future to come.