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Where do you sit at a piano?Stand, sit, shuffle left & right - even around the right side sometimes to tune the treble...

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About that White House ballroom and the East WingLatest I saw was that the wing was first put up to hide the bunker below and that the reason plans won't be seen by regular channels is that a bigger royal bunker is the real reason for the ballroom...
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AWS outage and the peril of Smart ThingsReminds me of the time I went to a new client's house for a tuning. A new build, I guess a smart house? Anyway, to get the lights on in the piano room, she had to call her husband at work to control from his phone...
I do carry battery lights and am able to tune without power if needed.
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Road trip story...Not ours. A little background - my younger brother and wife sold the house, rehabbed a trailer RV and have been travelling north America the last few years. They are currently in Utah where they noticed an old rusting car off the side of a cliff. While searching online for details, they stumbled across this story - enjoy!
https://patrickcumby.com/finding-the-moki-dugway/
"It was never a good idea to drive an old and defective British roadster into the western desert, but the promise of adventure was so irresistible I did it anyway. It was June, 1987. Ronald Reagan was president and the Berlin Wall had not yet fallen. I was twenty-four years old, heartbroken from a great, failed romance. I was ready to take risks I would normally have never considered."
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The Chicago kidnappings have begunAnd now arresting police officers:
"Background checks performed by the FBI, Illinois State Police reveal no criminal history," Craig said. "If Officer Bojovic did not hold federal work authorization, he would not have been hired."
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When they think no one is listeningI guess since Republicans have established they are ok with deporting people to... anywhere, the next administration should be able to start deporting white supremicists without any problems, right?
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The Chicago kidnappings have begun"Two weeks ago, first grade teacher Maria Heavenerâs students at Funston Elementary saw something no child should ever have to see â federal agents releasing tear gas outside their school in Logan Square.
âIt was the first time my students had ever seen that level of violence in our community,â Heavener said. âRight there on the corner of Central Park and Armitage.â
That day, Maria and her colleagues acted quickly - closing windows, ushering students to safety, and standing between children and armed federal agents.
Last week at Funston, Mayor Brandon Johnson, CTU President Davis Gates and AFT President Randi Weingarten stood with Maria to honor the bravery of Funston educators, parents and community members. They demanded an end to the federal occupation of Chicago and to the attack on our Black and brown communities. Because classrooms should be sanctuaries â not battlegrounds." -
The Chicago kidnappings have begunIt looks like Republicans are trying to get violent pushback by increasing their own violent tactics. Sigh
Posted on a neighborhood chat over the weekend:
Good morning neighbors. Confirmed ICE activity on Clark & Ridge if anyone wants to help blow the whistle. 3 short whistles to alert ICE present, 3 long if you see anyone being detained. Please donât intervene if you see someone being detained, itâs been confirmed these agents are aggressive. Record from a distance if you can and avoid the alleys, they station in them. -
Is it really (un)civil war?Boy, conservatives seem to have no regrets dishing it out, but sure can't take it about one of their own...
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The Chicago kidnappings have begunTrapped here waiting for the knock on the door or break-in. Promised a free path back home, but guess Republicans lied about that too.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-self-deportation-cbp-home-app
"She desperately wanted to get out of the country.
It was mid-May and PĂ©rez, a Venezuelan mother of two, couldnât survive on her own in Chicago anymore. Sheâd been relying on charity for food and shelter ever since her partner had been detained by immigration authorities after a traffic stop earlier in the year.
PĂ©rez, 25, thought itâd be safer to return to Venezuela with her children than to stay in the U.S. Her request for asylum was still open and she had a permit to work legally, but so did a lot of other Venezuelans getting picked up on the streets and taken into custody. Authorities were detaining immigrants regardless of whether theyâd followed the rules."
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The Chicago kidnappings have begunWhen just about everything they claim gets proven a lie, why does the news report what they say anymore?
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The latest from Julius GeezerU.S. law prohibits the depiction of living individuals on currency and coins. This tradition aims to avoid the appearance of a monarchy and has been in place since an 1866 Act of Congress.
Since when do laws matter to Republicans in power?
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Just when you think it canât get any more absurdAnd illegal
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The latest from Julius GeezerOf course. Another illegal act.
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The Chicago kidnappings have begunHe was a bit of a hero on local social media...
"In South Shore this week, federal agents approached or entered nearly every apartment in a five-story building that was raided, and U.S. citizens were among those detained for hours, residents and witnesses told the Sun-Times."
(They ziplined down from blackhawk helicopters, flashbanged and broke their way into apartments.)
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Covid, again.There seems to be a misconception about what the vaccine/boosters accomplish. They don't seem to keep you from catching Covid - but what they are really good at is keeping you from spiraling down into needing to go to the hospital. The jury still seem to be out as to whether additional boosters are needed to keep an infection from needing hospital care.
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Hegseth's meetingIf there was ever a perfect time for a coup...
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Sending troops to PortlandSaw this today:
In short, the REAL reason DJT is suddenly sending troops into Portland, Oregon â in case it felt random. Literally -- follow the money. Let me explainâŠ
Yesterday, (Sept. 27th), I shared DJT's post on Truth Social:
âAt the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect war-ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists. I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary.â
Out of nowhere, he declared Portland âwar ravagedâ and ordered in troops.
Oregon officials â Gov. Tina Kotek, Mayor Keith Wilson â immediately said it was nonsense.
Portland was calm.
No one had asked for help.
Local leaders flatly told DJT the number of troops needed was 0.
So why Oregon? Why now?
Let's follow the money, beloved.
No. Literally.
Bc hereâs the part that got buried in the noise these last few weeks.
How about Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon has been investigating Jeffrey Epsteinâs financial network for over 3 years now.
On Sept. 9th, he introduced the 'Produce Epstein Treasury Records Act', a bill designed to compel Treas. Sec. Scott Bessent to release ALL of Epsteinâs suspicious financial activity reports to the Senate.
This legislation is part of Wydenâs ongoing effort to trace the BILLIONS of dollars flowing through Epsteinâs accounts and uncover the financial enablers of his crimes.
Wydenâs team has already seen glimpses â more than $1.5 BILLION in suspicious transactions, including:
â Over 4,7k wire transfers totaling approximately $1.1B processed through Epsteinâs JPMorgan Chase account.
â Payments to women from Eastern European countries, the regions where many of Epsteinâs alleged victims originated.
â Transfers through sanctioned Russian banks, used to process payments tied to sex trafficking.
â Involvement of other major financial institutions, including Deutsche Bank, Bank of New York Mellon, and Bank of America, which facilitated roughly $1.9B in Epstein-linked transactions.
â Investments tied to billionaire Peter Thiel, including $40M in Valar Ventures that has grown to roughly $170M â the largest asset of Epsteinâs estate.- And heâs also pressing JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon to explain WHY THE HELL the bank continued to do business with Epstein long AFTER his 2008 conviction.
Now... if y'all remember, just a few days after Wyden's bill (and 2 days before DJT made the post about sending troops to Portland (Sept. 25th)), I was sharing how the House Oversight Committee received a 3rd batch of documents from Epsteinâs estate, including calendars, call logs, and cash ledgers.
These are NOT Treasury financial reports - BUT, they complement Wydenâs investigation by showing operational patterns, interactions, and the broader context of Epsteinâs network, just in general.
In shorter words, and to make it plain: the timing of DJT's troop deployment comes just DAYS after Wyden escalated the Treasury financial investigation, and just 2 days AFTER the new Epstein documents were released to Congress.
Coincidence? I sure tf don't think so.
And thatâs not just Oregon news.
Thatâs the kind of story that could expose powerful men, global banks, and YEARS of cover-ups.
Not that I need to say this... but I think by now we all know this is NOT about âlaw and orderâ in Portland. smh.
So, in these kinds of instances, it's best to look for what they don't want you to see.
It is, once again IMHO, a headline-grabbing distraction.
By sending troops, DJT shifts attention away --AGAIN-- from the financial and operational investigations that could expose powerful people and institutions connected to Epstein.
And thereâs one more layer we can't ignore.
Sending troops into Portland isnât just a distraction â itâs a message.
Itâs DJT showing Oregon (and every other state that dares to dig too deep) that the federal government can come for you if you step out of line.
Itâs about intimidating the home base of the senator whoâs pulling on the financial threads of the Epstein network.
Itâs about making the âWyden-Epstein storyâ look like a local political scuffle instead of a global financial scandal.
Itâs about rebranding a city known for protests and investigative journalism as âwar-ravagedâ â so anything coming out of it can be dismissed as chaos.
THIS is how you bury a money trail:
By flooding the news cycle with âtroopsâ and âriotsâ and âlaw and order,â you turn the place where the investigation originates into a circus â and hope the public looks away from the billion-dollar question.
So no, DJT suddenly sending troops into Portland wasnât random IMHO.
And the scope of the story is no longer just about Epstein, banks, or Congress:
â Itâs about how power and media attention can be manipulated to bury inconvenient truths;
â Itâs about drowning out the story that actually matters â the money trail;
â And itâs about sending a warning shot at the people and places digging for those answers.
As always, sources in comments.
Hope this helped.
~Ms. G, J.D.
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- And heâs also pressing JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon to explain WHY THE HELL the bank continued to do business with Epstein long AFTER his 2008 conviction.
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The Chicago kidnappings have begunMost recent escalation were border control/ICE boats with gun toting goons cruising down the popular portion of the Chicago river/riverwalk right downtown. Normalizing military sightings??