Since Parler came back they have a new video-sharing service they named PlayTV. I have been posting my videos there and wanted to let you guys take a look.

I have eight home videos up so far and have been experimenting with segments of around 30 seconds up to 10 minutes. I'm thinking of combining segments between six to ten minutes and stringing them together for longer productions. This is due to uploading time, data constraints, and to fit into the TV advertising schedule that people are used to already.

Here is a link to my profile on PlayTV below.


Buck Marsh Videos PlayTV
[url=https://playtv.parler.com/c/BuchananMarsh][/url]

I have a freeware video editing program that is pretty good, but I'm not that used to it yet. So the editing will get better as I go along. Other than the live bands I've already videotaped, I intend on only producing original material including the soundtrack.

Check it out if you do online videos. You may want to explore the submissions that are coming in from other people too. It is a relatively new service, but I got close to five thousand views on one video I put up early on. I haven't been directing traffic or even using tags and keyword rich text (until yesterday).

An old one making the rounds again

Quote:The flight attendant looks at her and asks to see her ticket. Then he tells her that she paid for economy and needs to go back to her seat. The blonde responds, "I'm blonde, I'm beautiful, I'm going to Toronto and I'm staying here." The flight attendant goes into the cabin and tells the pilot and co-pilot that there's a blonde sitting in first class, who should be in economy, and who doesn't want to go back to her seat. The co-pilot goes back to the blonde and tries to explain that since she only paid for economy, she needs to go back to her seat. The blonde responds, "I'm blonde, I'm beautiful, I'm going to Toronto and I'm staying here." The co-pilot tells the pilot that they should probably have the police come when they land to arrest this woman who won't listen to reason. The pilot says, "You said she's a blonde? I'll take care of it, I'm married to a blonde. I speak blonde." He goes to the blonde and whispers something in her ear, and she says, "Oh, I'm sorry," and gets up and goes back to her seat in economy. The flight attendant and co-pilot are shocked and ask the pilot what he said to make her move without a problem. "I told her first class isn't going to Toronto."

https://lists.theepochtimes.com/links/rK...hLov8uQiXM

Quote:Federal Agencies Made Over $161 Billion in Improper Payments Last Year: Watchdog

An improper payment is one made by the government that ’should not have been made or was made in an incorrect amount,' according to the watchdog.

The U.S. government made billions of dollars worth of improper payments in the most recent fiscal year, with several agencies found to be non-compliant with regulations on the matter, according to a recent report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).
“Since fiscal year 2003, executive branch agencies have reported cumulative improper payment estimates of about $2.8 trillion, including $161.5 billion for fiscal year 2024,” the Jan. 23 report from the agency read.
An improper payment is one made by the government that “should not have been made or was made in an incorrect amount,” including duplicate payments, money sent to ineligible recipients, and payments made for goods or services not received.
The $161 billion is enough to buy over 380,000 homes in the United States, according to median home sales price data tracked by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. It is lower than the $236 billion in improper payments estimated to have been made by federal agencies in fiscal year 2023. Annual improper payments have remained above the $150 billion level since 2019.
The Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 (PIIA) mandates that agencies identify risks related to improper payments and take corrective actions, while also reporting improper payments within the programs they administer.
GAO found that 10 agencies under the Chief Financial Officers Act were “noncompliant with PIIA criteria for fiscal year 2022.

The 10 agencies are the Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Education, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Labor, Treasury, Veterans Affairs, and Small Business Administration.
Out of the 10, nine were found to be noncompliant with the PIIA criteria for one or more programs or activities for two consecutive years—fiscal years 2021 and 2022. The only exemption was the Department of Homeland Security.
When an agency has been noncompliant for two consecutive years for the same activity or program, they are required to submit proposals on how they plan to become compliant with the PIIA.
These proposals are to be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). According to GAO, OMB is expected to provide guidance on the matter in the development of the fiscal year 2026 President’s Budget.
GAO recommended the director of OMB clarify that agencies not in compliance with PIIA explicitly state in their annual financial statements that they will come into compliance.
Before the GAO report was released, a draft version was submitted to OMB for review and comment. OMB agreed with GAO’s recommendations, without providing any comments on the report.
DOGE
The GAO report comes as President Donald Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office announcing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative seeking to modernize federal technology and software “to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity.” The U.S. Digital Service has been renamed as the U.S. DOGE Service (USDS).
According to the order, a temporary organization called the U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization is to be set up with a lifespan of around 18 months, headed by the USDS administrator. The organization “shall be dedicated to advancing the President’s 18-month DOGE agenda.”
The order mandates every government agency to establish a DOGE team, which coordinates with the USDS and advises agency heads on implementing the DOGE agenda.
The DOGE venture has already attracted opposition, with four lawsuits being filed against it on Jan. 20 by several groups at a court in Washington.
One complaint was filed by a coalition of associations including the American Public Health Association, American Federation of Teachers, Minority Veterans of America, and the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
A second lawsuit was filed by the Center for Biological Diversity, a third by the National Security Counselors, and a fourth one by consumer watchdog group Public Citizen.
Kieran Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity, alleged that DOGE will attempt to remove federal protections “for our air, water, and most imperiled wildlife.”
Earlier on Jan. 14, Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), a founding member of the DOGE Caucus, introduced a bill aimed at making the government more efficient.
“The American people gave Washington a mandate in November—waste less, save more. Today, I’m introducing a first set of bills to follow through on their mandate by prioritizing streamlined regulations, rulemaking, and record keeping. It’s time to put government waste in the doghouse and let DOGE get to work,” the lawmaker said.

Grocery Store Plastic Logic

https://rumble.com/v6acrk1-grocery-store...src_v1_upp

In the event anyone is interested I stumbled across, A collection of the 80-card "Myth or Real" set, cryptozoology trading cards issued by the American Realist Company in 1994.

Archive.org

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/us-fre...er/3460866

Quote:US freezes passport applications with 'X' gender markers following Trump order
State Department staff directed to suspend passport applications with 'X' sex markers per executive order, Guardian reports
Rabia Iclal Turan  | 24.01.2025 - Update : 24.01.2025

 



WASHINGTON
The US State Department has stopped processing passport applications with “X” gender markers following an executive order from President Donald Trump which states that the US recognizes only two sexes: male and female, according to reports.
According to an internal email obtained by The Guardian, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, following the executive order signed by Trump on Monday, instructed department staff to enforce the new guidelines, stating: “The policy of the United States is that an individual’s sex is not changeable.”
Trump's executive mandate declares that the US recognizes only “two sexes, male and female,” which he describes as an “immutable biological reality.”
The executive order, titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” requires government-issued IDs, including passports, visas and entry cards, to reflect “immutable biological classification as either male or female.”
The State Department first issued passports with the nonbinary “X” gender marker in April 2022.
On Thursday, State Department staff were instructed to “suspend any application requesting an X sex marker” and to “suspend any application seeking to change their sex marker” in accordance with the executive order, according to the Guardian.
The NOTUS news site reported, citing the White House, that Monday’s executive order does not apply retroactively or invalidate existing passports, but renewals must reflect the sex assigned at birth.
Anadolu reached out to the State Department for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

So here is pretty much every political ideology explained in under 5 minutes using as example your mom doing the laundry as comparison. Enjoy!

Interesting presentation. It's short, 21 min.

We had a rare treat of getting some snow fall here in the southeast United States tonight. I've only seen snow a few times so this was an opportunity I couldn't pass up. I had to go outside and just be in the snow. I geared up with a bunch of layers and headed out. I was amazed at how eery it felt to me at first being engulfed in a flurry of white specs all around. The snowflakes seemed huge to me, as I watched them whip around in my ultra bright flood lights i had switched on to be able to witness this rare site.

I had a quiet thought creep into the back of my mind.

The snow didn't feel "real" to me. I had one of  those old tin hat moments, and thought to myself, "I wonder if this is weather manipulated snow?"

I brushed it off, but it crept back in as I caught a few of these snowflakes on my tongue; A few even hit me in the eyes. But, I went back to enjoying this experience both visually,
and even audibly. Snow makes the most peaceful sound the way it falls. This was something i wont soon forget.

I go back inside so i dont die from pneumonia, sitting back watching some youtube, and I run across this video of people who are having this rare snow in the south.

They are burning the snow and it's not melting. It's burning. 

Skip to the 2 min mark and you'll find what im talking about.


I got my tin foil hat on and walked back outside and collected some snow and put a lighter to it...

It burned like a foam. Never really catching fire. Just a very very slow burn that did turn brown.
Almost like when you burn Styrofoam,  but much much slower. .

It never meltedNo water at all came from this experiment. The results of my test were exactly like the second example in the video.



If you're in this snow storm, gather some snow and take a lighter to it, and watch. 

At this point I'm thinking, First the mystery fog.

Now it's burning snow.

I see that this is an old topic, but was wondering what my fellow rogues thought of this.

So weird. 

 Ancient history is something I have been dabbling in a little bit lately, and as I have been looking into some of the different creation stories and learning about a lot of the different ancient gods I came across this Xolotl and thought he was one of the more interesting deities, and worth sharing.
I had never heard of him until tonight.
Great backstory. Its amazing the things our minds come up with when it comes to interpreting the "gods" and creation itself.



The Chilling Story Of Xolotl, The Aztec God Who Helped Create Humanity — And Then Tried To Cheat Death 

One version of the Aztec creation myth tells how Xolotl, the dog-headed god of lightning and fire, slayed his fellow deities and then transformed himself into a salamander in an attempt to hide from death.


The Aztec deity Xolotl was seen as the twin brother of Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent god linked with life and light. In many ways, Xolotl was Quetzalcoatl’s opposite. He was associated with sickness, deformities, and even death, but he was not considered evil.

Xolotl didn’t bring death to the Aztecs. Rather, he was a psychopomp, or someone who guided souls to Mictlan, the Aztec Underworld. In the culture’s mythology, dogs were also believed to help their masters travel to the afterlife, so Xolotl was often depicted with a dog’s head.

The deity also played a major role in the Aztec creation myth. He helped Quetzalcoatl retrieve bones from Mictlan to create modern humans — but he also killed his fellow deities and then tried to cheat death himself.

Overall, Xolotl is a perfect representation of the Aztec belief system, in which life and death are interconnected, transformation is constant, and balance is essential for the stability of the universe. And, like his twin brother Quetzalcoatl, Xolotl’s place in history extended beyond the Aztecs.

The Ancient Origins Of Xolotl, The Dog-Headed Aztec God
Like in any ancient culture, tales involving Xolotl were passed down through oral tradition, making it difficult to trace the exact origins of when the deity first emerged.

Xolotl is similar to other canine gods worshipped by the Maya and the Zapotecs — particularly in his association with lightning — suggesting his true roots may lie in earlier Mesoamerican cultures.



However, Xolotl is differentiated from other deities by his association with Quetzalcoatl. As twins, Xolotl and Quetzalcoatl represented opposing forces. Quetzalcoatl was associated with life, light, and the morning star, while Xolotl embodied death, darkness, and the evening star. They balanced each other out and created cosmic harmony.

Although Xolotl was the god of lightning and fire, he was also tied to twins, dogs, deformities, sickness, and misfortune. Depictions of the deity often included a dog’s head atop a skeletal body. Often, his feet were backward and his eye sockets were empty.

In addition to leading souls to Mictlan, Xolotl was tasked with guiding the Sun through the land of the dead every night until it rose again each morning.

Furthermore, Xolotl was known to represent transformation, as evidenced by his own ability to change into various forms, including the maize plant and, as his name suggests, the axolotl. He also served as a psychopomp, guiding the souls of the deceased through the nine levels of Mictlan, the Aztec Underworld. What’s more, his role in Mictlan also helped lead to the creation of humanity.

Xolotl’s Role In The Aztec Creation Myth
While the four Aztec creator gods were brothers Quetzalcoatl, Xipe Totec, Huitzilopochtli, and Tezcatlipoca, Xolotl also played an important role in the culture’s creation myth.

The legend tells of the “Five Suns,” or five cycles of creation, destruction, and rebirth that some ancient Mesoamericans believed the universe experienced. Xolotl’s story comes in during the creation of the Fifth Sun, which is the current era of humanity.



While there are several versions of the myth, one interpretation tells how Xolotl and Quetzalcoatl traveled to Mictlan at the end of the Fourth Sun to retrieve the bones of past generations and form them into new people.

They faced numerous challenges set by Mictlantecuhtli, the lord of the Underworld, but they eventually secured the bones. Quetzalcoatl then ground them and mixed them with his own blood, giving birth to the humans of the Fifth Sun.

Meanwhile, the new Sun remained still. The gods soon realized that additional sacrifices would be necessary to set the Sun in motion and sustain its journey across the heavens. Some versions of the creation myth tell how the gods realized they would have to die for the advancement of humanity, and they tasked Xolotl with killing them before taking his own life.



Xolotl, however, was reluctant to face death. After slaying the other deities, he attempted to flee. He transformed himself into a maize plant and a salamander known as an axolotl to hide, but the wind god Ehecatl ultimately found him and killed him.

Other iterations of the tale state that Xolotl was so sad after killing the other gods that he cried until his eyes fell out of their sockets. This is why he was often depicted with empty eyes in Aztec art.

Ultimately, the sacrifice of the deities set the Sun in motion, and their sacrifices were, in turn, rewarded by various human sacrifices in their honor ever after.


Xolotl ultimately came to be venerated as the god of fire and lightning, but the duality of his nature was not lost on the Aztec people who worshipped him. Offerings made in his honor included food, incense, and, in some instances, animal sacrifices. All of these were meant to appease Xolotl, ensuring his guidance and protection, particularly in matters related to death and the afterlife.

There were several festivals and celebrations held in Xolotl’s honor, the most notable of which was Hueymiccaihuitl, or the Great Feast of the Dead. The festival occurred during the 10th month of the Aztec calendar and was dedicated to honoring deceased ancestors. It involved rituals that acknowledged Xolotl’s role as a guide for souls to the Underworld.

During the festival, families presented food, flowers, and other goods to honor their departed loved ones, asking for Xolotl’s assistance in helping the souls of the deceased find their way to Mictlan safely. They also lit bonfires that were meant to symbolize light guiding souls through the darkness of the Underworld — which, of course, also represented Xolotl’s nature as a god of fire.


Ultimately, however, it is impossible to discuss Xolotl without mentioning Quetzalcoatl. While referenced as separate gods in modern writing, the two were inseparably worshipped, each representing the twin phases of Venus. They were two sides of the same coin — distinct gods, but each one half of a greater entity.

The relationship between these two deities is representative of the larger context of Aztec mythology. Throughout Aztec myths, duality, transformation, and an interconnectedness between life and death are common motifs, and they are perhaps no better illustrated than by the stories of Quetzalcoatl and Xolotl.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/xolotl