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A UCLA anesthesiologist who is vocal about his opposition to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate was escorted out of his workplace Monday for attempting to enter the building unvaccinated. In a video that he seemingly captured himself, Dr. Christopher B. Rake is seen being escorted out of the 200 UCLA Medical Plaza in Westwood by three individuals. “This is what happens when you stand up for freedom and when you show up to work, willing to work, despite being unvaccinated, and this is the price you have to pay sometimes,” he says. “But what they don’t realize is that I’m willing...

Dr. Christopher Rake is escorted from UCLA Medical Center by security (Twitter screenshot)“This is what happens when you stand up for freedom.”“This” was being summarily fired, escorted, and deposited from the premises like so much refuse by security guards at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Health.That’s the Westwood hospital where Dr. Christopher B. Rake worked until Tuesday as an anesthesiologist.It’s unclear what Dr. Rake is now. Is he fired? On unpaid leave? What’s clear is that the anesthesiologist can’t go to work. All because he refused a forced medical procedure — a shot — that he didn’t want, didn’t...

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Cuomo Primetime,” CNN Political Commentator and former Obama administration official Van Jones stated that President Joe Biden is doing good things, but he made claims about furthering his agenda, “then he steps on a rake and then he slips on a banana peel and then he falls down the stairs with some marbles and now people are looking at him in a negative light.” And people aren’t seeing “strong Joe Biden leadership that I think people were expecting,” and “the honeymoon’s over.” Jones also said that “right now, the Democratic Party is looking over the...

Paula Broadwell, the woman whose affair with then-CIA director David Petraeus cost him his job, has accused him of having her 'thrown under the bus' over their illicit relationship. The former intelligence officer said she felt 'betrayed' by Petraeus after news of their affair broke in 2012. 'I was in such a state of mental shock and quickly spiraled into a depression,' she told Vanity Fair.

WASHINGTON — The Obama re-election team released the names of more than 244 mega-fund-raisers Friday — including 31 who raised at least $500,000 to bankroll the Obama 2012 campaign and the Democratic National Committee. The fund-raisers are known in the political business as “bundlers,” people who use their extensive networks to raise money on behalf of a candidate. The Obama for America campaign calls their bundlers “volunteer fund-raisers.” The Obama team disclosed the 244 bundlers (in a few cases couples or business partners were counted as one bundling unit) who collected at least $50,000. No one from the Chicago area...

Leapin' lizards Batman! You mean in addition to having to rake all those leaves from the yard we have to rake the roof too? That's right Robin lad. If you have a barn, tool shed, equipment or garden shed that has a galvanized steel roof and is subject to a build up of leaves then you're going to have to remove them. Leaves, especially Oak leaves are high in tannic acid and if you let them build up for a relatively short period of time they will destroy the galvanized coating on the metal and leave nothing but a coat...

An 80-year-old New York cemetery worker has been charged with using a rake as an offensive weapon after allegedly beating a man who caught him urinating on a relative's grave, prosecutors said. The full details of the alleged incident were unclear, but according to the New York Post, Itomor Khaimov, 28, was walking his dog in the cemetery when he spotted the 80-year-old relieving himself in a vase on his grandmother's grave. When Khaimov asked the man what he was doing, he replied: "I'm urinating. ... I'm an old man, I can't hold it," the report said. As Khaimov confronted...

Man robbed at rake-point A New Zealand man has been robbed at rake-point. The 49-year-old from Porirua was walking to a market to buy his wife some mussels for breakfast when the incident happened. Two men aged between 20 and 30 stopped him. One of them threatened him with a steel garden rake. The pair took the man's wallet which contained the equivalent of just over £30 in cash after a scuffle. They then escaped. Police are looking for them. "He punched the one with the rake. He was prepared to take them on but he ended up on the...