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John Guandolo is a former FBI Special Agent and counterterrorism expert. He’s warning that Islamic schools inside America are teaching Muslim students to take over America He reveals he has curriculum from Texas schools that teaches if Muslims die trying to kill all non-Muslims, they’ll be rewarded in the afterlife “Why is it that what our leaders say about Islam is exactly opposite of what Muslims teach Muslim children about Islam in US Islamic schools? I have here the most widely used tabletop book of Islamic law in North America. What it says is the purpose of Islam is to wage war against non-Muslims to establish Sharia Law on earth Right here — the 3 duties is jihad. This is a picture of a tank If anyone dies in Jihad, they automatically will go to paradise — we have found copy of these in Texas in multiple cities. Islam is a totalitarian system governed by real law. We're losing the war in Texas and we're gonna lose if this isn't rapidly turned around.”

Please help them achieve the 50k mark!

@London_W4 That is beautiful!

Good morning everyone. So, I made the mistake last night of looking at the news and got angry. As I’ve said before, the only way to stay sane in this country, is to never look at the news and focus only on pretty things. Talking of pretty things; I was here on Tuesday. I can’t resist this gorgeous little Twinings tea shop on The Strand. A beautiful little corner of England, where you can go in and sniff the many and varied exotic tealeaves. So, if you’re passing and want to give your nose and your mind a treat, go in and for a few moments, England is perfect again.

Think you know what a mosque is? Think again. This is something every Texan needs to hear. Thank you to John Guandolo for sharing this perspective - take a moment to watch. The full episode is now live on YouTube. @JGuandolo54271

@tinkertonplunk I am so very sorry. That happened to me and my dog when I was 12. The pain stays. It wasn’t your fault.

thanks to everyone for the posts regarding Bert, we are in the worst place imaginable. I don't mean to be disingenuous, I have lost loved ones and close friends and had dogs and cats pass on , and the grief has been bad, after this tragedy never ever felt so empty 💔

Long before churches rewrote the rules… Irish women already had power. .... Between 6th-8th Centuries, under what we now call Brehon law, women in Ireland lived within a legal system that recognized them not as dependents, but as individuals with rights, wealth, and authority. This wasn’t symbolic power. It was written into law. A woman could own land. Not temporarily—not through a husband—but in her own name. She could manage cattle, control her wealth, and enter contracts that were legally binding. Marriage didn’t erase her identity. It didn’t absorb her into someone else’s life. It treated her as an equal party in an agreement. And if that agreement failed—if a husband was neglectful, abusive, or dishonorable—she could leave. Not empty-handed, not ruined. She could walk away with what was hers. In a world where most women across Europe had no legal identity at all, Irish women had options. They also had protection. Each person under Brehon law was assigned an “honour price” a value placed on their dignity. If a woman was insulted, harmed, or wronged, there were consequences. The law didn’t just acknowledge her existence, it enforced her worth. But perhaps most striking… was how far their influence reached. Women weren’t confined to the margins of society. They could be landholders, poets, healers, and leaders. Some trained warriors. Others ruled. And then there is Medb of Connacht—a queen who commanded armies, chose her own lovers, and negotiated power on her own terms. Whether legend or memory, she reflects something real: a cultural acceptance of female authority that feels startling even now. Even daily life reflected this respect. The law accounted for women’s physical realities—offering protections for pregnancy, acknowledging their needs, and weaving their experiences into the structure of society itself. This wasn’t a perfect world. But it was a radically different one. Because in much of medieval Europe, women were property. In Ireland, under Brehon law… they owned it. And then, slowly, that changed. With the spread of Christianity, followed by waves of colonization and new legal systems, those rights began to shrink. What had once been protected became restricted. What had once been normal became unthinkable. © Women In World History #archaeohistories

The Normans had a gift that no other people of the medieval world possessed in quite the same measure, and it was not the sword, though they were exceptional with that too. It was the ability to become. It began with Rollo. The Viking warlord who accepted a grant of land along the lower Seine from the Frankish king Charles III in 911 was, by any measure, a raider and a pagan, a man whose people had spent decades burning the monasteries and river towns of West Francia. The deal he made at Saint-Clair-sur-Epte required him to swear loyalty, accept baptism, and defend the territory he was given against further Viking incursion. He accepted all of it. Within a generation, his descendants were speaking a Romance language. Within two, they were among the most enthusiastic builders of Romanesque churches in Western Europe. Within three, they were the most aggressively orthodox Catholics on the continent, and nobody looking at them from the outside would have identified anything particularly Norse about them at all. They had not lost themselves in the assimilation. They had sharpened themselves on it. What the Normans retained, through all the intermarriage and language change and religious conversion, was a martial culture of exceptional intensity and a political ambition that the borrowed frameworks of Frankish feudalism gave form and direction without diminishing. The duchy of Normandy that emerged from the tenth century was not a Viking colony that had gone soft. It was something new: a state with Viking energy and Frankish organisation, ruled by men who understood both the value of institutional legitimacy and the utility of force, and who were entirely comfortable using whichever was more effective at any given moment. When William crossed the Channel in 1066, he did not arrive as a conqueror in the simple sense. He arrived with a claim, however contested, and a willingness to build a new English order rather than simply loot the existing one. What followed the Battle of Hastings was a transformation of English institutions so thorough that it reshaped the language, the law, the church, the aristocracy, and the architecture of the country within a century. The Normans who settled in England did not remain Norman in any meaningful cultural sense for long. They became English, or rather they became the English ruling class, absorbing and being absorbed in ways that made the eventual product something neither Norse nor Frankish nor Anglo-Saxon but genuinely new. They had done the same thing in Italy, and it was if anything more remarkable there. Norman knights had begun arriving in southern Italy in the early eleventh century, initially as mercenaries and pilgrims, men without land or prospects at home who found employment fighting in the endlessly complicated wars between Lombard princes, Byzantine administrators, and Arab rulers in Sicily. Within decades they had stopped being mercenaries and started being lords, carving out territories through a combination of military effectiveness and shrewd political positioning that turned freelance adventurers into the rulers of one of the wealthiest regions in the Mediterranean world. The Kingdom of Sicily that Roger II consolidated in the twelfth century was one of the most extraordinary political entities of the medieval period. Its court conducted business in Latin, Greek, and Arabic. Its architecture fused Norman, Byzantine, and Islamic forms into a style that exists nowhere else and has never been replicated. Its administration drew on Byzantine bureaucratic tradition and Arab fiscal practice as readily as it drew on Norman feudal custom. Roger himself was depicted in mosaics in the Byzantine imperial style, addressed in Arabic court poetry, and recognized by the Pope as a legitimate Catholic king. #archaeohistories

@EllaBeard11 Gorgeous color!

Morning, Acer pseudoplatanus Brilliantissimum starting to open its salmon pink leaves in the spring sunshine. I’ve always wanted this tree and managed to plant it last year. Looks to have settled in well. Have a good Thursday.

@kwoade Well done Tink!

The Presentation of the Loo Socks

@London_W4 Great photo!

Ok, to brighten your day, here’s me and my eldest daughter in front of Ayer’s Rock in Australia, in 1998 when me and my wife decided to go around the world for six months with our eighteen month old daughter. People thought we were mad. I thought they were mad not going.

@kwoade Happy dogs!

Dog walker plausibly here.

@k_ovfefe2 Good morning, she is so cute!

Good morning

Dog rescue needs land! Please repost.

@_DOGPOOL_ You have been through a lot. I wish your friend had kept some acreage for you in his will with 400 acres! Let us know how we can help in the future. Don’t lose too much weight now. Keep your chin up.

It's been a great run here with the pups. We have done things I wouldn't have believed possible. We've saved a lot of pups and healed a lot of hearts in doing so. Overall, I am very happy with the job we have done! Sadly, yesterday we lost the lease to the land. It wasn't a huge surprise; the value of the land is at about $95-120k an acre. 45 miles NW of here it is half that, or less. While I am very disappointed, I am not angry at the son. Even if he were a dog guy that is a lot of cash. Tom had over 400 acres. It will be divided into 3 subdivisions over the next 5 years or so. Just the way things go around here now. Wake County is the number 5 county for growth in the United States, and it is spilling north to this area now. So, this morning I start with a new plan. We have 6 weeks to relocate. We are having an adoption event this weekend and already have a lot of locals calling. News travels fast in a small town. We will work the next weeks to place the 8 I still have here. If that fails, I have 3 rescues that will take the ones that remain. I will still pull pups from the shelter I have been, but it will be for the other rescues. We have an empty lot available for the equipment and kennels to store them temporarily until we either find land to lease or we can incorporate them into another rescue if land isn't available to us. My volunteers have gone with me to visit the other rescues, and they all have positions at them if they choose. If we are unable to find land to lease, they are able to continue rescue here locally. All that said this really sucks. We just recovered from the fire, and this happens. I have lost sleep, weight and some of my sanity in the process. All while the need for rescue grows. God and all of you have kept me from going over the edge. Whatever comes now I am prepared for. I will continue rescue somewhere, in some form. Saying thank you to you all seems insufficient, you have helped us through some of our darkest days here and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Without support we would never have been able to save the lives we have. Please know how much I value all of you here helping pups! THANK YOU ALL!!!

This is happening in two Sheffield parks. Reportedly a dog has died. Those of you who remember my beautiful Ethel may remember she was poisoned and we were never sure by what. She fought for her life for a week in intensive care before she died. It was traumatic. (Thanks to all who tried to help her) Whoever is doing this needs jail.

Dogs are being poisoned in parks across "Modern England". We all know who's doing this. And laws are being changed so you can't even mention who's doing it under the guise of "phobia".

Didn’t know I needed to see a baby camel until I did.

🐕‍🦺🛡️ K9 Falko (Putnam County SO, OH) is now protected with a bullet- and stab-resistant vest. 🐾💙 This is what protecting our protectors looks like. #K9Falko #PoliceK9 #K9Hero #ProtectPoliceK9s #HonorAndService

@svershbow Progress!

omg omg it's happening!! everyone stay calm!!!

Since it's Tax Day, I just wanted to remind y'all that the average Social Security recipient gets approximately $1800 per month. The average illegal gets approximately $3900 per month. Seems fair, right?