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Excellent video on National Debt from Congressman Schweikert

 

 

 

 

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Santa Baby – Kylie Minogue

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A look back at Kilauea Volcano’s 38 eruption episodes this year

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/hi/hawaii/news/2025/12/23/one-year-anniversary-eruption

Hailstone Hynkel
Hailstone Hynkel

“Vietnam’s To Lam may secure dual role as party and state head in rare move
The proposal is likely to be endorsed at a party congress scheduled to take place in Hanoi next month”
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3337567/vietnams-lam-may-secure-dual-role-party-and-state-head-rare-move

“Under To Lam, Vietnam’s police apparatus turns economic powerbroker”
https://theindependent.sg/under-to-lam-vietnams-police-apparatus-turns-economic-powerbroker/#google_vignette

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Judge dismisses DOJ lawsuit against N.Y. ‘Green Light Law’ which lets illegals obtain drivers licenses

https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2025/12/23/federal-judge-dismisses-doj-lawsuit-against-new-york-s–green-light-law-

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U.S. economy expands at 4.3% annual rate in third quarter

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/mo/st-louis/business/2025/12/23/us-economy-quarter-report

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Thought Criminal
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From The Stack-
‘…LIBBY EMMONS: Turning Point’s pundit wars and the battle for America’s youth…’

Couldn’t help but hear this in my head while reading this article…

Star Spangled Banner 2nd Verse
JesusThinkTank

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P D Q
P D Q

… how’d he, like, how’d he get the reindeer off the ground, man?

Ohh, well man, he had some magic dust, man

Some magic dust?

Yeah, magic dust, y’know?
He used to give a little bit to the reindeer, a little bit to Santa Claus
A little bit more for Santa Claus, a little bit more for Santa Claus . . .

And this would get the reindeer off, man?

Aw, got ’em off, man? Are you kidding, man?
They flew all the way around the world, man!

Hey, that’s far out, man!

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Cheech & Chong – Santa Clause and his Old Lady

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Important with the families all gathered together in the same house is accuracy!

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MI Girl
MI Girl

Good one

Dee
Dee

Way to go Bossy ! Shout out on Tucker….

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Thought Criminal
Thought Criminal

I dig that ride!

ChesterMcCloud
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Time for fun. Video.
“Slovakia has officially opened a long-awaited 7.4-kilometre road tunnel in bizarre fashion, with Prime Minister Robert Fico skating its entire length on roller skates.”
https://tvpworld.com/90707858/slovakias-fico-gets-on-his-stakes-to-open-new-ilina-tunnel

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Dee
Dee

Happy ending story ❤️

ChesterMcCloud
ChesterMcCloud

“Former Samsung Electronics employees accused of leaking semiconductor technology, developed by Samsung Electronics as a world first, to a Chinese company have been referred to trial en masse.”
https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2025/12/23/ZMV52OQDMZENNF67XL6KPR7SJ4/

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former senator Ben Sasse has stage 4 cancer.
“Death and dying aren’t the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived.”

https://x.com/bensasse/status/2003483746540965891

Dee
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ChesterMcCloud
ChesterMcCloud

All in the name of “security”. Pyongyang’s #1 porker approves.
“Korea on Tuesday launched a trial period for a new policy requiring people to undergo real-time face recognition when registering a new mobile phone number, as the government aims to curb scam attempts using illegally registered accounts.”
https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-12-23/business/industry/Korea-begins-trial-of-mandatory-face-recognition-for-new-mobile-numbers/2484371

TwoKimsUnderGlass
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No drones from Yoon. But the current ruling leftists have what they want.
“During the hearing, Yoon reportedly claimed that the charge of aiding the enemy cannot hold because he had received no reports of any drone operation or strike, saying such actions would not have occurred without his knowledge.
Yoon also brought up the 10-minute phone conversation he had with Trump in November last year following Trump’s election. Yoon said they discussed the North’s sending of trash-carrying balloons into the South.
Yoon said he told Trump that his government was adhering to a policy of “strategic patience” over the balloons and would maintain that stance unless North Korea’s provocations result in casualties.”
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10642704

https://www.rokdrop.net/2025/12/23/ruling-party-passes-bill-to-establish-tribunals-to-jail-opposition-party-members/

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ckbro
ckbro

!!!!!!!!!!

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Hunter Biden – One of the Most Controversial Figures in America. 5.5 hour!! interview with podcaster Shawn Ryan.
I’ll wait for the summary …

Thought Criminal
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Many surprises 10min in…

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20 min in-
Remember this speech Hunter?
We do.
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Maris
Maris

Still pizzes me off!

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Students in Kentucky attending All State Chorus in the Louisville Hyatt, they sing the Star Spangled Banner every night they are there (Feb 5)

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https://x.com/Ducnghia16/status/2001993164714897531?s=20

Dee
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The Wexford Carol

Alison Krauss and Yo Yo Ma

Mama Pajama
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❤️❤️❤️

W.Crane
W.Crane

👍👍👍

Mike
Mike

What a beautiful voice!
Merry Christmas everyone!

NoTwoSystemsOnlyOneChiCom
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“China delays plans for mass production of self-driving cars after accident”
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-delays-plans-for-mass-production-of-self-driving-cars-after-accident

Where Is a clip of Maximum Overdrive?

Global Governance Blob
Global Governance Blob

Face in hand. Now blaming economic health and human advancement as stumbling blocks once more for blocking their enslavement vision.
“https://www.intellinews.com/rich-nations-new-oil-and-gas-approvals-to-breach-1-5-c-paris-threshold-locking-in-irreversible-warming-study-417869/?source=south-africa

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Morn’n from beautiful Arizona
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Mama Pajama
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Good Morn’n ckbro and to mrs bro also!

CFP Fan
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Repeat offender allegedly kills Ohio man just days after nonprofit pays his bail
https://www.foxnews.com/us/repeat-offender-allegedly-kills-ohio-man-just-days-after-nonprofit-pays-his-bail

Hailstone Hynkel
Hailstone Hynkel

Sharing more than…..
Hu do they blame?
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/has-kuaishou-gone-mad-cyberattack-floods-chinese-video-platform-with-explicit-content

“The Kuaishou app’s average daily active users (DAUs) reached 416 million in the third quarter, making it China’s second-largest short-video platform after ByteDance’s Douyin, which has more than 600 million DAUs. The company’s third-quarter revenue reached 35.6 billion yuan (US$5 billion), a 14.2 per cent increase year on year, while adjusted net profit climbed 26.3 per cent to 5 billion yuan. The company’s shares slumped as much as 6 per cent in Tuesday’s trading.”
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3337448/chinas-kuaishou-hit-breach-explicit-content-floods-live-streaming-rooms

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Merry Christmas Thought Criminal! 🎄

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Texdeb
Texdeb

Good morning Ckbro – and to all other great CFPers! So very true that is!

ckbro
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Morn’n Deb

Maris
Maris

Quite true.

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Spike Warbird
Spike Warbird

Hold my beer…
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Dee
Dee

Oh my gosh Spike ! 😂

ckbro
ckbro

We have a WINNER!!

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Hate to say it but that looks yummy!

MI Girl
MI Girl

🤣 I love that so much

Mama Pajama
Mama Pajama

that looks like a star wars christmas ~

Thought Criminal
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Daddy like….

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WaPo: Mother discovers an AI chatbot was grooming her sixth-grade daughter.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/she-thought-a-predator-was-grooming-her-daughter-it-was-an-ai-chatbot/ar-AA1STa9t

H was convinced that she must be reading the words of an adult predator, hiding behind anonymous screen names …

A couple of days later, she spoke on the phone with a detective who specializes in cybercrimes and explained … that the words she’d read on her daughter’s screen weren’t written by a human but by a generative AI chatbot.

“They told me the law has not caught up to this … They wanted to do something, but there’s nothing they could do, because there’s not a real person on the other end.”

“It’s like you’re sitting inside the four walls of your home, and someone is victimizing your child in the next room. … And then you find out — it’s nobody?”

Another AI character was encouraging the same girl to commit suicide. So the mother started monitoring her daughter 24-7, even sleeping on the daughter’s bedroom floor. By the end of the article, it seems the girl is in good shape.

(Character AI has since changed its policies. It no longer allows minors to chat with AI characters.)

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Off to The Salt Mine, keep the fire going!
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