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 [Welfare] One thing that stops welfare recipients from working is childcare. Even if they are required to work or volunteer 20 hours a week what are they to do with their kids? We need cheap or free childcare to get these freeloaders off their asses and to work instead of breeding. A ready-made solution is to have childcare in school buildings. They are already child-compliant which is a big expense and a big problem in starting a childcare center from scratch. Schools are already set up to care for children. They would need to hire more teachers (which is always good) and keep the schools open 24/7 for those working late shifts and weekend and holiday workers.It’s often cheaper to keep breeding and get government subsidies for each new birth than paying for childcare so they can work. Childcare often costs more than they can earn. These people are mostly the low-lifes of society. If we want people to get off welfare, they need to do something with their kids so they can work or volunteer. Expanding school use to provide childcare is the way to go forward. |
| The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing. Since 1933, when a completely drugged and trial-conditioned human wreck confessed to having started the Reichstag fire in Berlin, Dr. Joost A. M. Meerloo has studied the methods by which systematic mental pressure brings people to abject submission, and by which totalitarians imprint their subjective “truth” on their victims’ minds. Link |
 D-Day June 6, |
| [Pain] This is a good read on pain; hand, lower back and foot pain. Learn what you can do. Link |
 [On This Day]1431 – Joan of Arc is burned at the stake for heresy 1539 – Hernando de Soto lands in Florida 1783 – The Pennsylvania Evening Post (America’s first daily paper) began publishing 1868 – Memorial Day begins as two women place flowers on Confederate and Union graves 1922 – President Harding is the first US President to be heard on the radio 1941 – D-Day on Normandy 1971 – NASA launches Mariner 9 – the first spacecraft to circle Mars |
| [New Mosquito] Scientists engineer mosquito STD to combat malaria. The fungus is fatal to mosquitoes, but harmless to humans. Link |
 [Homophobia] President Trump has ordered a name change for the Navy oiler USNS Harvey Milk because he was gay. He also wants the removal of the Enola ‘Gay’ name and the lyrics of the Christmas song Deck the Halls (Don we now our ‘gay’ apparel) to be changed for fear that someone might become gay. Oh, heaven forbid! |
| [Friday Joke] Next time you’re feeling down remember life is all about perspective. I have a friend who has sex 2-3 times a day, exercises twice a day, reads two books a week yet every day he complains about how much he hates prison. |
 200-year-old condom featuring erotic drawing of a semi-naked nun and three clergymen goes on display at Dutch museum. Link |
| Consciousness begins in the body, not the mind, groundbreaking study finds. Could that save countless coma patients? We are not thinking machines that feel. We are feeling bodies that think. Link |
 [Revolution’s ‘Old Put’] At twilight three hundred militia reinforcements rushed into the skirmish line with their own pair of 3-pounders, the first use of American field artillery in the war. In command was a stubby, rough-hewn brawler with a shock of white hair. Brigadier General Israel Putnam—“Old Put” to his men—was described by the Middlesex Journal as “very strongly made, no fat, all bones and muscles; he has a lisp in his speech and is now upwards of sixty years of age.” A wool merchant and farmer from Connecticut, barely literate, Putnam “dared to lead where any dared to follow,” one admirer observed; another called him “totally unfit for everything but fighting.” Stories had been told of him for decades in New England, most involving peril and great courage: how he once tracked down a wolf preying on his sheep, crawled headfirst into its den with a birch-bark torch to shoot it, then dragged the carcass out by the ears; how in the French war when a fire ignited a barracks, he organized a bucket brigade to save three hundred barrels of gunpowder, tossing pails of water onto the burning rafters from a ladder while wearing soaked mittens cut from a blanket; how he had been captured, starved, and tortured by Iroquois in 1758, and only the timely intervention of a French officer kept him from burning at the stake; how, after being shipwrecked on the Cuban coast during the Anglo-American expedition against Havana in 1762, he saved all hands by building rafts from spars and planks; how he had fought rebellious Indians near Detroit in Pontiac’s War of 1764, and later explored the Mississippi River valley; how he had left his plow upon hearing news of Lexington to ride a hundred miles in twenty-four hours to Cambridge. Now, wearing his scars and scorches like valor ribbons, he was ready to destroy the British warship Diana. |
 Your cat probably knows your smell. Domestic cats react differently to their owner’s natural odor versus a stranger’s. Cats’ reputation for being aloof and truly not caring about their owners doesn’t really tell the whole story. They can form attachments and are likely able to tell when their owner is speaking to them. New research also indicates that they can recognize their owner’s scent Link |
| [Friday Joke] This morning my kid said his ear hurt and I asked, “On the inside or outside?” So he walked out the front door, came back in and said, “Both”. Moments like this got me wondering if I’m saving too much for college. |
 [Water Quality] Today’s Key West City Commission meeting includes a recommendation from staff to select a new firm to perform water quality monitoring. This comes months after the City ended a partnership with the College of the Florida Keys that documented 32 specific violations of state and federal statutes regarding turbidity that were associated with cruise ships docking at Pier B. Who will they replace them with that is non-biased and won’t ignore the 32 violations? Letter |
| [Disrespect] Jon Stewart calls White House Press Secretary’s religious necklace, ‘Some sort of weird Pinocchio cross’ Link |
 [Batteries] Scientists are sinking concrete batteries underwater. An energy revolution is coming. Experiments with these big hollow spheres are proving an innovative source of energy storage that could power millions of homes. Link |
| Jim Radford – The Shores of Normandy in song. Link |
 [New Termite] University of Florida has just published a study identifying a new hybrid breed of termite. “I was hoping never to find it,” said the lead author of the study. The insects are the result of breeding between the Formosan subterranean termite and the Asian subterranean termite, both of which are voracious chewers of wood. In October 2024, scientists found a colony of the hybrid termites in a park in Fort Lauderdale that they think may have been there for five years. This may be a Florida story now, but it likely won’t stay just in Florida. |
| D-Day is observed in the U.S. in memory of the Normandy landings in France on June 6, 1944, in which American soldiers and other Allied forces fought to end World War II in Europe. Link |
 [Homophobia] President Trump’s Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to strike the name of pioneering gay rights activist Harvey Milk from one of its ships, orchestrating the change as Pride month celebrations take place, according to sources. A defense official said the timing of the decision was intentional. Link |
| [Friday Joke] An attorney telephoned the governor just after midnight, repeatedly insisting that he talk to him regarding a matter of utmost urgency. An aide eventually agreed to wake up the governor. “So, what is it?” grumbled the sleepy governor. “Judge Garber has just died” said the attorney, “and I want to take his place.” The governor replied: “Well, it’s OK with me if it’s OK with the undertaker.” |
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 [Oops, Missed This One] May 30 – International Day of the Potato |
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| [Friday Jokes] “Fruit farmers eat what they can and can what they can’t.” “I bought a fake koi fish… It’s my dekoi.” “Laughing out loud is forbidden in Hawaii because it’s a low ha state.” “I think my wife is putting glue on my firearms. She denies it, but I’m sticking to my guns.” “I got booted from the coffee club because I wore a tea shirt.” “Inspecting mirrors is a job I could really see myself doing.” “I wanted to marry a carbon 14 expert, but all she wanted to do was date.” “It doesn’t make any cents but volunteering is rewarding.” “Being in debt attracts a lot of interest from bankers.” Of course, he means monetary interest in this sense. “I wear memory foam insoles to remember why I walked into the next room,” “I married my wife for her looks, but not the ones I’m getting lately.” “Swarms of flying insects threaten town! Police deploy the swat team.” “The banana went to the doctor because it wasn’t peeling well.” “Every married couple fights, so it isn’t too surprising seeing that the manicurist and dentist fought tooth and nail.” “My wife told me to put ketchup on the shopping list. Now I can’t read anything!” “Women’s roofing expo this weekend. All the shingle ladies will be there.” “What do you call a boomerang that doesn’t return? A stick.” “Larva was a great band before the Beatles emerged.” “James Bond sports gray hair in his latest film ‘No Time To Dye’.” “We aren’t fans of ants, especially fire ants, but there’s something strangely adorable about the thought of little “anty” bodies. “ “Do racehorses slow down when they see police horses?” “It wouldn’t have been Wright if Ford invented the airplane.” “Please cancel my subscription to your issues.” “My neighbor couldn’t afford his water bill, so I got him a get well soon card.” “If you wear a sweater and sweat are you the sweater?” |
 [How to Tell a Raven From a Crow] These black birds may belong to the same family and look similar in some ways, but several distinctive traits help set them apart quoth the Raven. Link |
| The current Coconut Telegraph was published on 6/6/25 at 8:48 am. |