I wrote a high school paper on a Banned Book without knowing it! Catcher and the Rye of CIC origin.

 The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger 

Between 1986 and 2000, at least nine different attempts to remove The Catcher in the Rye from schools were based on the novel’s use of profanity and sexual references. Three of these attempts (Wyoming in 1986, North Dakota in 1987, and 1989 in California) were successful in getting the book removed. 

I wrote my high school paper for a psychology class - I think it was in 9th grade. So maybe 1986....to 1987 - right when the book was first being banned! Wow. I had no idea.

 The American Library Association (ALA) and Banned Books Week Coalition today unveiled the artwork for Banned Books Week 2026, October 4–10. Designed for use in Banned Books Week events nationwide and internationally, the 2026 theme is “Let Books Be. Protect the Freedom to Read.” The struggle against book bans is too immense to capture in a single image.

 https://simmonsvoice.com/8495/2017-2018/banned-books-the-catcher-in-the-rye/

The reason I read it was because of the assassination of John Lennon by someone obsessed with being Holden Caulfield. It was only later that I learned how J.D. Salinger had worked as a spy for military intelligence - I think it was OSS during WWII... nope - CIC.

While both the OSS and the CIC operated in the realm of wartime intelligence, they were distinct organizations. While the OSS focused on espionage and overseas covert operations, Salinger’s unit—the 4th CIC Detachment, attached to the 4th Infantry Division—focused on tactical counterintelligence, security, and tactical interrogations. [1, 2]

Overview of Salinger's Wartime Service

The Ritchie Boys: Because Salinger was fluent in French and German, he was selected for specialized training at the Military Intelligence Training Center at Camp Ritchie, Maryland. Trainees from this program were famously known as the "Ritchie Boys". [1, 2]
Combat & Interrogations: Salinger landed on Utah Beach on D-Day. He participated in brutal engagements, including the Battle of the Hürtgen Forest and the Battle of the Bulge. His primary duty was hunting down Nazi spies, searching abandoned command posts, and interrogating prisoners of war and German civilians. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Concentration Camp Liberation: In April 1945, Salinger participated in the liberation of Kaufering IV, a subcamp of the Dachau concentration camp. The horrors he witnessed there deeply traumatized him and caused lifelong psychological wounds. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Post-War Denazification: Following Germany's surrender, Salinger remained in Europe for occupation duty, tracking down Nazi war criminals during the denazification process. During this period, he met and briefly married a German woman named Sylvia

The American Library Association states that The Catcher in the Rye has been banned by schools and public libraries for having “excess vulgar language, sexual scenes, things concerning moral issues, excessive violence and anything dealing with the occult” and “communism,” among other things.

 Salinger famously carried his portable typewriter in his Jeep throughout the war, even typing out chapters under tables during active bombardments. He had early drafts of what would become The Catcher in the Rye in his pack when he landed on D-Day

Another Calf cordless Heat Pad! from Guangdong China: Xiangfutang electric heating leg and calf

 

 yeah I just have the 5v switch for heat....

so those are the color coding that I need to know - the package didn't give the heat settings for the colors!  

 wow!! complicated

On the 5V Xiangfutang (Xing Fu Tang) leg heater, you switch between the timing function and the heating function using the single main power/control button. [1]

Because these compact 5V USB controllers typically rely on a single button to cycle through all settings, use the following steps to navigate them:

Short press to adjust heating: When you first turn the device on, a single short press usually cycles through the heating temperature levels (typically color-coded as Red/High, Blue or White/Medium, and Green/Low). [1]
Double-click or Long press for timing: To switch the controller's focus over to the timer adjustment, you must double-click the button or long-press it briefly (usually 1.5 to 2 seconds). The LED light indicator will usually change its blinking pattern or display color to signify it is now adjusting the timer instead of the temperature.
Return to heating: Once you have selected your desired timing threshold, another double-click or waiting a few seconds without pressing anything will save the timer setting and automatically switch the controller back to displaying and controlling the heating function.

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my new EcoEcho Shiitake Shower Curtain is being made!

 

$9 Billion dollar fraud lie is not enough for Minnesota corporate fascist brown-no$ers: Cargill is the real fraud in Minnesota

 

the Maga cult fascists have been pushing the $9 billion fraud lie on tv over and over again with outside Maga fascist money that is a tax-deductible ad campaign. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrYf0Wtm-OY&t=33s

Check out the comment section - people are whipped up into a frenzy about billions of fraud that doesn't exist. hahaha.

Also now the claim is that Minnesota elections are fake due to the evil DFL...using immigrants for votes, etc.

Yep - straight up fascism based on propaganda lies.

A false accusation is actually illegal so let's not jump to the wrong conclusions with no evidence. Actual prosecuted and charged cases in major Minnesota scandals—such as the Feeding Our Future case—total closer to $300 million, with other specific Medicaid and housing fraud cases accounting for tens of millions." Sorry to burst your bubble buddy. Let's fix the REAL fraud in Minnesota! Cargill. The 14 billionaire heirs of the Cargill-MacMillan family share a combined net worth estimated between $50 billion and $65 billion. Yeah Cargill is the real fraud in Minnesota - they have offices in 70 plus countries around the world all doing speculative derivatives trading through Switzerland. Cargill gets hundreds of millions in tax welfare to DUMP grain into other countries thereby wiping out the local farm markets. Somalia had grain dumped into it by Cargill at 1/6th the local farm price, thereby undermining the farmers that previously had controlled Mogadishu. Cargill built illegal soybean export terminal and storage elevators in the Amazon rainforest! That's the real fraud. Time to grow up Minnesota.

The Methodists and Covenants MERGED in 2011 in Sweden! Fascinating

 My Mom's Irish-Palatine ancestry had converted to Methodist (and my mom's grandmother was a strict Palatine Methodist against drinking, playing cards and dancing!). My Dad's Swedish-German side was Covenant and also against drinking and playing cards and dancing! wild. 

Yes, the Mission Covenant Church of Sweden and the Methodists were highly similar, and their shared opposition to playing cards stems from a common theological and cultural foundation. [1, 2]

While they belonged to different denominational lineages, both groups were cornerstone members of the 19th-century "Free Church" movement (frikyrkorörelsen) in Sweden. Their cultural and behavioral similarities were so deep that they eventually merged in 2011 to form the Uniting Church in Sweden (Equmeniakyrkan). [1, 2, 3]

The two movements connected through shared spiritual goals, common leadership, and specific moral guidelines:

1. The Common Root: Radical Pietism

The opposition to card playing, dancing, drinking, and theater was not unique to one group; it was a defining trait of Pietism, a revival movement that emphasized personal conversion, a "living faith," and strict moral holiness over formal church rituals. [1, 2, 3]

The Methodists followed John Wesley’s strict "holiness" tradition, which viewed card playing as a gateway to gambling and a waste of God-given time. [1]
The Covenanters (Missionsvänner or Mission Friends) grew out of a Lutheran Pietist revival. They viewed card playing as "worldly" behavior unbefitting of a person who had been spiritually reborn. [1, 2]

2. Deep Historical Ties

The connection between the Covenanters and Methodists in Sweden was highly direct. In fact, a British Methodist minister named George Scott moved to Sweden in the 1830s and sparked the very revival that gave birth to the Covenanters. He partnered with Carl Olof Rosenius (a Lutheran Pietist), and together they founded the highly influential devotional newspaper Pietisten. The early Swedish Covenant congregations adopted many of the lifestyle guidelines, small-group structures, and revivalist preaching styles that Scott and the Methodists championed

Ohio Letters by Irish-Palatine to New Zealand asking about a Canadian sibling!

 I received my 2nd reply from New Zealand - my distant relative! She sent me three letters from a farmer in Ohio who moved from Ireland - he was writing to New Zealand, comparing New Zealand and Ohio to Ireland! He was also strictly against drinking. He said it's a narcotic and destroys anyone eventually if they drink. This was in1886-7. He talked about all the different trees you could grow. He exported his farm beef and crops back to England.

So the Palatine-Irish grew Apple orchards in Ireland and I thought they drank homebrew (I just ordered some cider yeast to ferment some cider from a White Bear orchard). Anyway - John Wesley who created Methodism - he preached at my ancestor's church in Ireland in 1760s - John Sparling. So Wesley said the Palatines drank homebrew and were not religious - but hardworking. I think maybe when they converted to Methodism then they all stopped drinking. hahaha.

"I rode to Ballingarrane, a town of Palatines, who came over in Queen Anne's time... Having no minister, they were become a most eminent, blameworthy people. They had no religion at all, were eminent for cursing, swearing, and drunkenness, but industrious beyond any of their neighbors."

Also the land farming got much harder as they had to keep subdividing their land! They had the same problem as the actual Catholic Irish. In 1821 Christopher Sparling, my ancestor, was murdered by Catholic Irish - because Christopher had built a big German barn and house - and out buildings for farming. He was leasing a 200 acre tract but he could not afford the rent still. Yet because he was Protestant and the owner Lord had kicked off the subsistence Irish - and Sparling had fought back against the Agrarian revolt - he got murdered. He was on his horse on the road with his wife and his wife also fought back. hahaha. 

Anyway that movie Black 47  - I watched it free on Kanopy - and it depicts this struggle between the Catholic Irish and the English Protestants during the famine. The Palatine Germans were caught in between and that's when they all began moving to Canada from Ireland - or New Zealand or the U.S.

So my Mom went to Canada with her grandmother - who showed my mom the farm in Canada - that was in the Palatine community in Canada. The letters I read said they had not heard from Susannah Sparling much at all - she was my mom's great-great-great grandmother (my Mom's grandmother's grandmother). Susannah Sparling had married Rody Hanly who was 100% Irish! My question is "was Hanly Methodist also?" Did he convert from Irish-Anglican or Irish-Catholic to Methodist? Hanly is a classical Irish name - meaning he must be the reason my oldest sister has Strawberry-Blonde Hair!? Wild.

She sent me a Sparling book also - but it's in Apple Icloud and I have to wait for Apple to approve me for password. hahaha. Anyway Sparling means "Sparrow" - in German - referring to a person with lots of energy. Another Palatine name is Switzer - the Swiss Huguenots had fled to Palatine - but then the French Catholics invaded Palatine. Crazy how Europe had so many wars over religion. hahahaha.  About 10% of the Palatines were also Catholic but Queen Anne was sponsoring the Palatines to move to British Colonies as Protestants - so she demanded conversion or be sent back. 1000 Palatines got sent to Jamaica to clear the land and very few survived!

Phillip F. Nelson Trineday interview! LBJ behind JFK assassination and False Flag USS liberty attack by Israel

 https://trinedaythejourneypodcast.buzzsprout.com/1284782/episodes/8706042-46-phillip-nelson-lbj-master-of-deceit