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Mar 28, 2024 20:54:19   #
Reality TV Conjoined Twin Abby Hensel Marries Army Veteran Despite Sharing Body With Sister
https://www.themix.net/2024/03/reality-tv-conjoined-twin-abby-hensel-marries-army-veteran-despite-sharing-body-with-sister/?utm_campaign=TPI03272024BR2IE&utm_source=criticalimpact&utm_medium=email&source=TPICI

Conjoined twin Abby Hensel gets married!

Star of Abby and Brittany secretly weds in stunning gown
Abby and Brittany Hensel are fused together at the torso, with each controlling one side of their body, with public records revealing Abby married Josh Bowling in 2021

Abby Hensel Gets Married
Daily Mail reported that public records show that Abby Hensel, now 34, married Josh Bowling, 33, in Minnesota back in 2021. During the wedding, the twins wore a sleeveless wedding dress with lace trim detailing while the g***m wore a grey suit.

Abby and her sister Brittany are one of only a few sets of dicephalus twins in history to survive infancy, and they rose to fame a decade ago on their eponymous TLC television show, which chronicled their life events like graduating high school and looking for jobs.

Abby and Brittany share one body and, from the waist down, all their organs, including the intestine, bladder and reproductive organ. They are one of only two sets of twins in the world with this condition, with the other being brothers Ayşe and Sema Tanrıkulu, who were born in Turkey in 2000.

Abby and Brittany each have control over one side of their body, with the former controlling the right side and the latter controlling the left.

“When it comes to decisions, there are compromises we have to make,” Abby previously said. “We take turns. We want to work it so each of us is happy and we find a happy medium.”

“We usually bargain with each other, like ‘if you do this, I’ll give you that,'” Brittany added.

Abby Hensel, now 34, from Minnesota, secretly tied the knot with Josh Bowling, 33, a nurse and army veteran in 2021.

Conjoined twins Abby and Brittany
Hensel first gained national attention when they appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in 1996.

They later starred in the TLC reality series "Abby and Brittany,” which lasted for one season.

Abby And Brittany Want To Have Children
When the girls were teenagers, their mother said in a documentary that they hoped to have children one day.

“That is probably something that could work because those organs do work for them,” she said.

Brittany was quick to agree, saying, “yeah, we’re going to be moms.”

“The whole world doesn’t need to know who we are seeing, what we are doing and when we are going to do it. But believe me, we are totally different people,” she later added.

“Yeah, we are going to be moms one day, but we don’t want to talk about how it’s going to work yet,” Abby stated in agreement.

“People have been curious about us since we were born, for obvious reasons,” they said in the first episode of their reality show. “But our parents never let us use that as an excuse. We were raised to believe we could do anything we wanted to do.”

Abby And Brittany’s Lives Today
Josh is known to be a father of one and a nurse who works with hospice patients. His facebook page shows him with the twins and his daughter from a previous relationship enjoying activities like hiking, having ice cream, and dressing up for Halloween.

Abby and Brittany were raised Christian by their parents, and they work as fifth grade math teachers at an elementary school in their hometown of New Brighton, Minnesota after they obtained two teaching licenses.

“Obviously, right away, we understand that we are going to get one salary because we’re doing the job of one person,” Abby previously said.

“One can be teaching and one can be monitoring and answering questions,” added Brittany. “So in that sense we can do more than one person.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmrhZR_84wA


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Mar 28, 2024 20:44:46   #
The Many Ways a Porous Border Means Crime Without Boundaries
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/the-many-ways-a-porous-border-means-crime-without-boundaries/?utm_campaign=TPI03272024BR2IE&utm_source=criticalimpact&utm_medium=email&source=TPICI

When President Biden’s supporters attacked him for describing the man who allegedly murdered Georgia co-ed Laken Reilly as an “illegal,” they shined a light on one of the most contested words in American politics.

The progressive push to describe border crossers as undocumented or unauthorized can also serve to downplay and obscure the massive issue of crime perpetrated and spawned by the influx of millions of migrants since Biden was elected – often in ways that leave the migrants themselves as victims.

NYC Begins Giving Away Prepaid Debit Cards To I*****l I*******ts
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NYC Begins Giving Away Prepaid Debit Cards To I*****l I*******ts
While migrant advocates argue that illegal arrivals commit crimes at lower rates than Americans, the claim is unverifiable because the federal government and most states do not break down crimes by immigration status.

Criminologists also note that it ignores the vast web of statutory crimes concurrent with i*****l i*********n – drug smuggling, human trafficking, child labor violations, prostitution, the black market in employment, and so on.

What remains undeniable by the law of averages is that the massive surge in immigration since the Biden administration relaxed border policies – a surge that it puts at more than 4 million people, but other sources millions more – has been accompanied by much more crime, however unquantifiable.

Millions of migrants, though not all, run afoul of laws by their situation more than by overtly malign criminal intent. But their first step across the border is a lawbreaking one, and it is often followed by life on the law’s margins: living in the U.S. without insurance or proper work papers, providing illicit labor for unscrupulous or blasé employers, turning to black markets for counterfeit Social Security cards, and often becoming targets for robbers or extortionists. Their desire to come to America creates a vast pool of criminality involving them or those illegally profiting from them.

“On some criminal matters, like homicides, we’ve got a good sense of the scale there whether we solve them all or not,” said Alex Nowrasteh, a vice president at the Cato Institute who studies the economic impact of immigration. “But some of this other stuff is like all black markets in that it is opaque behavior. We don’t know how much crime there might be and in a sense I think it’s sort of unknowable.”

An outer layer of this criminal onion is the so-called “coyotes” who smuggle migrants to the southern border. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, which is sympathetic to the plight of refugees, paints a brutally stark picture of the exploitive lawbreakers who lurk behind the caravans and trucks and trains heading north.

“Some criminal groups view migrants as simply one of many commodities to be smuggled, alongside drugs and firearms,” it noted in a 2018 report. “Since the smuggling of migrants is a highly profitable illicit activity with a relatively low risk of detection, it is attractive to criminals.”

The United Nations also acknowledges the near impossibility of quantifying these criminal enterprises. “Assessing the real size of this crime is a complex matter, owing to its underground nature and the difficulty of identifying when irregular migration is being facilitated by smugglers,” it said.

In order to pay back these smugglers or the people willing to “host” them in the U.S., many migrants – no one knows how many – are often d**gooned into illicit behavior.


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Mar 28, 2024 20:38:32   #
GoFundMe For Construction Worker K**led In Baltimore Key Bridge Collapse Surpasses Goal In One Day
https://www.themix.net/2024/03/gofundme-for-construction-worker-k**led-in-baltimore-key-bridge-collapse-surpasses-goal-in-one-day/?utm_campaign=TPI03272024BR2IE&utm_source=criticalimpact&utm_medium=email&source=TPICI

A GoFundMe page that was set up to raise money for the family of one of the construction workers who was k**led in the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland in the early hours of Tuesday morning has surpassed its goal in less than one day.


GoFundMe For Key Bridge Victim
Jose Mynor Lopez, 35, was one of six construction workers who were k**led in the collapse of the bridge, which occurred when a container ship struck one of its pillars. Lopez and his fellow workers had been fixing potholes on the bridge at the time of the collapse.

“We are reaching out to you on behalf of a devastated family who tragically lost their beloved husband name Jose Mynor Lopez from Guatemala of 35 years old and father in the Keybridge Disaster incident,” the GoFundMe page reads. “Our hearts ache for the family left behind – a dev**ed wife and three beautiful children, ages 17, 8 and 5 who now face an uncertain future without their main provider and pillar of strength.”

“The Keybridge Disaster took away not just a life, but the stability and security this family once knew,” it continues. “As the sole breadwinner, the husband worked tirelessly to ensure his family had everything they needed. His sudden absence has left a void that cannot be filled, both emotionally and financially.”


The GoFundMe went on to say that Lopez’s “family is grappling with the immense challenge of rebuilding their lives from the ground up. From funeral expenses to daily necessities, every aspect of their lives has been disrupted by this devastating loss. The road ahead is daunting, but with your support, we can help alleviate some of the burden they face.”

“Your donation, no matter how small, will make a meaningful difference in the lives of this grieving family. It will provide them with the essential resources they need to navigate through this difficult time and move forward with hope and resilience,” it adds. “Together, we can show them that they are not alone in their sorrow and that there is a community of caring individuals standing by their side.”

GoFundMe Surpasses Goal
The goal of the page was to raise $25,000 for the Lopez family, but at the time of this writing, it has already raised over $27,000.

“My heart is with this family as they grieve the loss of their loved one,” one person who donated commented, with another adding, “My heart goes out to this family. I hope that in some small way these donations help. You are loved.”

“So very sorry,” a third donor wrote. A fourth person commented, “Your family is in my thoughts and prayers during this difficult time.”

Lopez’s Wife’s Restaurant Issues Statement
The Baltimore Banner reported that Lopez was from Guatemala and was a married father whose wife Isabel works at Owls Corner Cafe, a Puerto Rican restaurant in Dundalk.

“It’s a sad day for our Owl’s Cafe family,” the restaurant wrote on Facebook. “We are sharing this Go Fund Me link to support one of our work family members who tragically lost her husband and life partner Tuesday morning in the Key Bridge tragedy.”

“He was one of the construction workers at the time the bridge collapsed. As a community and family focused establishment, we cherish the bond we share with our community and customers,” the restaurant continued. “Let’s come together as a family to offer our support during their most challenging times. We are teaming up with churches and members of the community as well to help this family during this difficult time.”


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Mar 28, 2024 20:31:28   #
Biden wants taxpayers to pay for obliterated bridge — but a House Republican has better ideas
CHRIS ENLOE MARCH 28, 2024

Rep. Dan Meuser (R-Pa.) doesn't believe taxpayers should finance the rebuilding of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.

After a massive cargo ship obliterated the bridge, President Joe Biden promised to "move heaven and earth to reopen the port and rebuild the bridge as soon as humanly possible."

His plan? To force taxpayers to fund the project.

"It's my intention that federal government will pay for the entire cost of reconstructing that bridge, and I expect the Congress to support my effort," Biden explained on Tuesday.

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But Meuser thinks the government must explore other options instead of rushing to spend more taxpayer money.

"It was kind of outrageous immediately for Biden to express in this tragedy the idea that he’s going to use federal funds to pay for it in the entirety," he said Thursday on Fox Business. "You know, he doesn’t refer to it as the American taxpayers' dollars on anything. You know, the first reaction, in fact the only reaction, tends to be to spend."

He added, "We just can't take the easy route all of the time and just spend the taxpayers' money."


Instead, Meuser suggested three alternative ways to pay for the rebuilding project.

First, Meuser said Singapore, where the company that owns the ship is located, could play a role in helping finance the project. Second, he pointed to insurance companies, something Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has also suggested. Third, he said that money from Biden's massive infrastructure bill that isn't being used can be reappropriated to pay for the project.

The exact cost of the rebuilding project is not yet known. It is expected to cost several billion dollars.

Still, it would not be totally unprecedented for taxpayers to foot the bill.

After the I-35W Mississippi River bridge collapsed on August 1, 2007, Congress unanimously approved a bill allotting $250 million in emergency money to rebuild the bridge. Then-President George W. Bush signed that bill on August 6, 2007.

It looks to me like the shipping company should be 100% responsible for paying for all damages....including loss of life. I wanna know what information they get from the black box. Like always I doubt if we'll be told the t***h.
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Mar 28, 2024 18:56:40   #
F.D.R. wrote:
Okay, you got me. I can't match that.


I don't know what the 2 of us can do in that tailor
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Mar 28, 2024 18:54:59   #
Ted_68 wrote:
I knew I would like her from the start


I have a lot of respect for her. She is not a typical politician like Chuck or Nancy.
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Mar 28, 2024 16:33:05   #
Hamas, N**is, and Calling Out Evil....Prager U...Fireside Chat
https://www.prageru.com/video/ep-334-hamas-n**is-and-calling-out-evil?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_9428691

Why don’t people fight obvious evils? If you can’t tell that Hamas is as evil as the N**is were, it is because you refuse to do so. It’s easy to identify evil decades after the atrocities of the N**is, Stalin, and Mao. The trick is to call out evil while it’s happening. You have a moral obligation to do so.


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Mar 28, 2024 16:25:47   #
Judge Tears Into Sam Bankman-Fried, Hits Him with Massive Prison Sentence
https://www.westernjournal.com/judge-tears-sam-bankman-fried-hits-massive-prison-sentence/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=WJBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=western-journal

Sam Bankman-Fried, colloquially known by his initials SBF, characterized by a Manhattan judge as a power-driven fraudster lacking remorse, received a 25-year prison term on Thursday for embezzling over $8 billion from FTX customers, his defunct cryptocurrency exchange.

Judge Lewis Kaplan tore into the 32-year-old MIT graduate for masquerading as a proponent of cryptocurrency regulation, which he suggested was just a facade aimed at amplifying his political influence, the New York Post reported.

Judge Kaplan said of SBF that he is a “remorseless” convicted fraudster who put on an “act’ in which he “presented himself as the good guy” all in favor of “appropriate regulation of the crypto industry.”

“He knew it was wrong, he knew it was criminal, he regrets that he made a very bad bet about the likelihood of being caught,” Kaplan said.

Prior to his sentencing, SBF lawyers submitted a letter to Judge Kaplan and accused prosecutors of casting their client as a “depraved super-villain” with “dark and megalomaniacal motives.”

According to Business Insider, SBF’s lawyers wrote, “It adopts a medieval view of punishment to reach what amounts to a death-in-prison sentencing recommendation. That is not justice.”

In January, Ian Ayres and John Donohue penned what appears to be one of very few pieces in SBF’s defense titled, “FTX Was Never Really Bankrupt,” in which they posited that the prosecution repeatedly asserted that FTX customers lost over $8 billion due to SBF’s actions, “but never substantiated that claim. In reality, the crypto exchange had sufficient assets to make creditors whole all along — a fact that would likely change the public’s perception of its founder.”

Moments before Judge Kaplan handed down his sentencing, SBF denied having selfish motives and apologized “about what happened at every stage,” noting that “a lot of people feel really let down, and I’m sorry about that.”

SBF continued, “I made a series of bad decisions, they weren’t selfish decisions, they weren’t selfless decisions. They were bad decisions.”

How do you feel about the prison sentence?
The sentence was fair.: 32% (45 V**es)
He deserved more time.: 68% (97 V**es)

His attorneys and his mother, a Stanford professor, argued for a lesser sentence during his trial, highlighting his charitable intentions and suggesting he might not make it in prison due to his autistic spectrum condition.

However, this did not seem to deter prosecutors who continued to underscore the extensive harm caused to FTX’s investors, lenders, and customers — many of which were from developing countries and entrusted the exchange with what little they had.

His sentencing evoked many reactions over social media.


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Mar 28, 2024 15:49:44   #
Border Patrol union says Biden is flying in migrants so 'border doesn't look as out of control,' warns of amnesty plan
https://www.theblaze.com/news/border-patrol-union-says-biden-is-flying-in-migrants-so-border-doesn-t-look-as-out-of-control-warns-of-amnesty-plan?utm_source=theblaze-breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20240328Breaking-Border&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Breaking%20News&tpcc=email-breaking

National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd told the New York Post on Wednesday that the Biden administration is artificially reducing the number of migrant encounters at the southern border.

Judd explained that the administration is flying migrants into the United States "so that the border doesn't look as out of control." The union president called the plan "just a bait and switch."

"They're just paroling people in through airports rather than having them come across the border," Judd told the Post. "They're just gonna keep the numbers at around 5,000 [border crossings per day], parole people in and say, 'Oh, look, we cut our numbers down.'"

The number of border encounters is "astronomical[ly] high" compared to the Donald Trump and Barack Obama administrations.

"We're still five times higher than what we should be," Judd continued, "but lower than those record number of apprehensions at the southern border."

According to a Center for Immigration Studies Freedom of Information lawsuit, the Biden administration used Customs and Border Protection's cellphone app, CBP One, to secretly fly in 320,000 "inadmissible" i*****l m*****ts in 2023, Blaze News previously reported.

The nonprofit think tank's senior national security fellow Todd Bensman reported that the White House t***sported the migrants, preapproved through CBP One, to 43 airports in the U.S. from January through December 2023. The migrants were citizens of Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia, and Ecuador.

In January 2023, the Biden administration expanded the CBP One application to encourage migrants to apply for entry while in their home country in a "safe and orderly" manner. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas claimed the mobile app would discourage and ultimately reduce i*****l i*********n at the southern border.

A CBP spokesperson stated last year that less than 1% of migrants who have requested appointments at a port of entry through the app have been rejected.

The program was expanded again last summer to be able to allow up to 522,000 migrants per year into the country.

Troy A. Miller, the senior official performing the duties of the CBP commissioner, said the expansion would increase "the number of available appointments at ports of entry for the second time in less than two months, through scheduling enhancements and operational efficiencies."

Since January 2023, roughly 413,300 migrants have "successfully scheduled appointments to present at ports of entry using CBP One," CBP reported earlier this year.

Judd warned that, with all the new arrivals flooding the country, he expects an "amnesty program in the future."

"All you're doing is inviting more people to come because they then see, 'OK, well, all I gotta do is get here, stay here for 10 years and I'm gonna have a legal pathway down the road as well,'" he told the Post. "It doesn't work."

"Does Joe Biden really understand how many i*****l a***ns he's imported?" NBPC wrote on X. "If you think a man who can't read a teleprompter or find his way off a stage can accurately count into the millions, you may need help."

The White House did not respond to the Post's request for comment.

Biden and Mayorkas the mole rat are both guilty of Human trafficking




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Mar 28, 2024 14:53:21   #
F.D.R. wrote:
Not bad, not bad at all. I'd like to spend a quiet weekend with Ms Shanahan to further delve into her qualifications.


You're late....I'm already scheduled with her.
To impress her I sent her a photo of my kool EV


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Mar 28, 2024 12:43:26   #
New J*** 6 Scandals: Julie Kelly on Destruction of Evidence and the DNC Pipe Bomb...PREMIERING 3/28, 9PM ET
https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/new-j***6-scandals-julie-kelly-on-destruction-of-evidence-and-the-dnc-pipe-bomb-5611442

“Think about this: If you’re going to do an investigation into J****** 6, who’s one of the first people you would call to testify, even behind closed doors? FBI Director Christopher Wray—they never interviewed him. They never interviewed Steven D'Antuono, who’s in charge of the Washington Field Office who oversaw the entire J****** 6 criminal investigation.”
In this episode, I catch up with investigative journalist Julie Kelly to get an update on what we know, and still don’t know, about what happened on J*** 6, 2021.
“Why did the J****** 6 Select Committee—why did they destroy evidence that they collected? Why are they hiding transcripts from witness interviews at the White House ... and at the Department of Homeland Security? How possibly could text messages belonging to more than two dozen Secret Service agents and officials, including the director, just vanish?”
What are the charges defendants are facing? What was the level of government and law enforcement involvement? Why hasn’t the mystery of the D.C. pipe bomb been solved?
“If you would have told me that two years later—I think that was when we recorded that interview for the [Epoch Times J*** 6] documentary—that we would still be talking about people being rounded up, investigated, arrested, charged, and convicted now in early 2024, even I would have had a hard time, I think, grasping that that would be the reality. But here we are, in February of 2024. The Department of Justice is now on pace to arrest one J****** 6 defendant a day this year,” says Ms. Kelly.
Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
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Mar 28, 2024 12:33:24   #
Heavenly Accommodations

A wealthy man died and went to heaven. He was met at the Pearly Gates by Saint Peter, who welcomed him warmly and told him he will be taken to his forever heavenly dwelling. He then led him down the streets of gold. They passed castle after fantastic castle, then huge mansion after mansion, then beautiful cottages, until they came to the very end of the street and Saint Peter stopped the rich man in front of a little wooden shack that looks like its about to fall down. “Welcome Home.” said Saint Peter. “Why do I get this ugly thing when there are so many mansions I could live in?” the man demanded. “We did the best we could with the money you sent us!” Saint Peter replied.

https://www.ba-bamail.com/jokes/heaven-jokes/?jokeid=287
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Mar 28, 2024 12:16:16   #
XXX wrote:
Damn! What an awesome woman!


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Mar 28, 2024 11:42:26   #
MTG...'IT IS YOUR FAULT' Greene SHUTS DOWN Pelosi after D********G hearings...gets OVATION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_0tpd1KvNY
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Mar 28, 2024 11:41:24   #
MTG...'IT IS YOUR FAULT' Greene SHUTS DOWN Pelosi after D********G hearings...gets OVATION
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