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In September, a couple out for a stroll in the eastern French Alsace region, came across a tiny aluminium capsule in a field. Inside was the message, written in barely legible German on a kind of tracing paper. The message appears to carry the date 1910, or 1916. Dominique Jardy, curator of the Linge Museum, near where the discovery was made, thinks 1910 is more likely, Le Parisien reports (in French) . Describing the find as "super-rare", he told the paper the capsule was likely to have come to the surface of the soil over time as have many military...

3 little rescue kittens getting a towel message from their humans. Video, 1 minute & 55 seconds

LeBron James says his thoughts on social justice can’t be contained on the back of a basketball jersey. The Los Angeles Lakers superstar won’t wear one of the NBA-approved social justice messages on the back of his jersey when the NBA resumes competition later this month in the Orlando bubble. “It was no disrespect to the list that was handed down to all the players,” James said Saturday in a confernece call from Florida. “I commend anyone that decides to put something on the back of their jersey. It’s just something that didn’t seriously resonate with my mission, with my...

António Guterres (UN Secretary-General) video message on COVID-19 and misinformation.As the world fights the deadly COVID-19 pandemic – the most challenging crisis we have faced since the Second World War – we are also seeing another epidemic -- a dangerous epidemic of misinformation.   Around the world, people are scared. They want to know what to do and where to turn for advice. This is a time for science and solidarity. Yet the global ‘misinfo-demic’ is spreading.Harmful health advice and snake-oil solutions are proliferating. Falsehoods are filling the airwaves. Wild conspiracy theories are infecting the Internet. Hatred is going viral, stigmatizing...

As a moderate, the late Arizona Senator John McCain was and is a political hero of mine. While I did not always agree with everything John McCain stood for, I respect the fact that he stood up for what he believed in, I respect his service to our country, I respect that he didn’t view compromise as a weakness, and I respect his campaign message of “Country First.” Many people nowadays when they hear America First, think of it as a nationalistic dog whistle thanks to President Trump. This however, was not what John McCain meant when he used the...

In Memoriam… Eight years ago today we lost Andrew Breitbart. Three weeks before his death he delivered a message that still resonates today.

The Queen, in her annual speech, has said "small steps" and not giant leaps bring about the most lasting change.

Prime Minister's 2019 Christmas message

Move along, nothing to see here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_VpaUGdy7U

Democrats are sounding growing alarms in the final push before the midterm elections that the party lacks the message it needs to combat President Trump and win back Democratic majorities in Congress. Some of the comments are positively biting, and illustrate that nerves are on edge less than two weeks before Election Day. They also hint at the fights that will take place if Democrats under-perform and fail to at least win back the House majority, which would count as a significant disappointment at this stage. **SNIP** "There's one issue in this election: Donald Trump. That is it," Rep. Peter...

The message is plain and clear. If you will turn away from your conservative values, like McCain did, the media and Democrats will honor you. The media reporting on McCain's death is just as if a very popular president had died. All of the praise and honor is coming from Democrats, but McCain was supposed to be a Republican.

About two weeks ago I went to my team's MLB chat page and it was gone! I guess MLB decided that it was an expense they no longer wished to incur. I am hoping that our vast array of baseball fanatics will know of other sites where the daily game can be discussed as it is played, and have other conversations on current events.

1. If You’re Not Having Sex Right This Second, You Are a Loser When all the winners on the screen that you’re supposed to root for are having sex the way most of us are shaking hands, it makes a lot of people in the real world think they should be doing the same thing. Couldn’t they show James Bond’s shaken expression as a doctor informs him he's contracted syphilis or something? 2. The Key to Success Is Being Born Special or Being Handed a Gift You know, like Harry Potter, Luke Skywalker, eeee, Superman, and nearly every other superhero....

On Wednesday evening, FOX News host Sean Hannity tweeted yet another cryptic message to his over 2.7 million followers. This is the third cryptic tweet in the recent weeks. Hannity asked his followers to “Stay tuned. Major, multiple Tick Tocks. 3 different fronts–MAJOR!!Patience, pieces are all falling in place.” Conservative radio and TV host Sean Hannity reportedly had dinner with president Donald Trump at the White House back on July 26th. Kimberly Guilfoyle, Anthony Scaramucci and former FOX News co-president Bill Shine joined Sean at the president’s dinner. Last Monday Sean Hannity posted an ominous warning. Something is going down…. Sean...

Since we know that members of the RNC ; Congress and the Senate visit FR from time to time, it is wholly possible that Trump and members of his team do so as well. It has occurred to me, that while they are hearing from Drudge, and Rush, and Brebart, it is possible that we can use FR as a forum to post our thoughts. If Donald Trump were to read FR and come across this post, what advice or words would you have for him regarding; 1. The new spending bill. 2. The border wall with Mexico. 3. Draining...

“YPG” is a term many have now heard, but may not know, in news reports about the fight against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Also known as “The People’s Protection Units” they are the 50,000-person strong Kurdish militia that has been working as an ally to western forces in the fight against ISIS in Kurdistan, a region of the Middle East that encompasses small parts of northern Iraq, northern Syria, Turkey and Iran. If you have tips you want American Military News to investigate please email [email protected]. Your identity will be protected. The Kurds are an ancient culture of...

On Wednesday, a worrisome trend started to pick up on Twitter in the form of accounts tweeting alleged Hillary Clinton campaign ads, designed to look like her real tweets, telling people that they can avoid waiting in line because they can vote by text message. The story picked up steam with this tweet, which also protested Twitter’s refusal to remove the offending posts.

So this weirdness just happened on our way to Hoboken at 7AM this morning on the New Jersey Turnpike. On 1630 AM radio, a voice keeps repeating "Trump will go 26th". It went on for at least 5 minutes from when the radio tuned it in while scanning. Near the Newark airport I78 part of Turnpike. Just landed in a Jason Bourne movie.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fq_OYmLC3w    

PHILADELPHIA For Hillary Clinton, finding thousands of words for her speech Thursday accepting the Democratic presidential nomination will be easy. Distilling her campaign to a simple few will be harder. Think of Ronald Reagan boiling down his 1980 campaign to the powerful message, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” Or Bill Clinton’s three main points in 1992: “The economy, stupid”; change vs. more of the same. Or Barack Obama’s in 2008: hope and change. Yet today, after more than a year of campaigning, has Hillary Clinton been unable to craft a clear, cogent message – just...

This year’s “ESPY Awards” on ABC opened with NBA stars Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul, Dwyane Wade and LeBron James delivering a message regarding last week’s death of two African-Americans at the hands of law enforcement, and the Dallas attack on police officers that left five dead and several others injured. “We cannot ignore the realities of the current state of America,” Anthony said. “The events of the past week have put a spotlight on the injustice, distrust and anger that have plagued so many of us. The system is broken. The problems are not new. The violence and the racial...