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On Friday evening my 13 daughter and I went to Target to shop and while I was looking at movie DVDs, my daughter went two aisles over to look at kid's books.She ran to me a few minutes later, pale and unable to speak. I finally coaxed her to tell what happened and she said that a man tried to grab her. I asked her if the man was still there and she said yes. I took her with me to look and the realized that a man was behind us, about ten feet away. He was about 27-31 years...

[From 2011] Abstract: The National Popular Vote (NPV) plan is the latest in a long line of schemes designed to replace the Electoral College... ...The NPV, at face value, may appeal to traditionally democratic notions of “every vote being equal.” Yet its supporters seemingly have no concern for the many other non-majoritarian aspects of the governmental structure established by the Constitution... ...Supporters of the NPV claim that because the Constitution gives state legislatures the power to determine how electors are chosen, the NPV is constitutional and requires no approval by Congress. Such claims, however, are specious. The NPV is unconstitutional...

“For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence. But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day” (Proverbs 4:17-18 KJV).

Life at the tippy-top sure does increase the old carbon footprint. – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the dim-witted freshman Democrat from the Bronx, or somewhere, took incoming fire from the leering press over the weekend when it was revealed that she isn’t exactly walking her Global Church of Climate Change talking points. Fresh off of saying “Climate Change” is a “national emergency” that mandates the elimination of gasoline-powered cars and proclaiming that “We’re like, ‘The world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change.’ And, like, this is the war; this is our World War II,” it...

“For true, lasting privacy, we must shift from the ‘privacy policies’ of companies, which spring from data protection laws, to the ‘privacy’ of individual persons, as contemplated by human rights laws.” How do we accomplish this shift? TL;DR (in summary) Privacy pertains to the person; “privacy” is the state of being free from public attention and unwanted intrusion.Data is not privacy, but data from or about a person can be private or not private depending on how it’s used, who is using it and who has control of it.In the digital world, a person’s privacy policy is like the clothing that one...

The 2020 election will be the most important of our lifetime. You hear that from politicians every two years; this time it’s true. The American way of life is going to be on the ballot in 2020. Our free enterprise system, our individual liberties and the universal opportunity offered by this great country are under attack. A wrong choice in the next election could set this nation on a road from which there will be no turning back.

Trevor Noah, the host of “The Daily Show,” raised eyebrows after he joked that a war between Pakistan and India would “probably be the most entertaining” of all time, saying that Indian soldiers would enter battle dancing Bollywood style. “It would be the longest war of all time,” he said, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “Another dance number?” Swara Bhasker, an Indian actress, called Noah’s comments “ignorant and racist.” She reportedly said, “Ur set smacks of essentialism & a patronizing generalization.” Another Indian comedian wrote, “If you’re going to be a racist comic than at least get the comic bit...

This is an email passed to me from ransomnote: From lyby | 03/03/2019 4:42:38 PM PST replied https://www.facebook.com/elizabethwhitenews/videos/357700505083166/UzpfSTIxNzE0NzM2MTYzNDA2NjpWSzozNTc3MDA1MDUwODMxNjY/ I teach at Sanford Middle School in rural Lee County, Alabama. This tornado destroyed homes and lives of folks in the Beauregard community. Although there are numerous fatalities, we do not know yet if those affected are our students or members of their families. Just learned a bit ago that our school is being opened as a shelter... Please offer up prayers for all impacted by this tragic event. ~ lyby

Bugs happen. Every minute of every hour of every day, software bugs are hard at work, biting computer users in the proverbial posterior. Many of them go unnoticed (the bugs, not the posteriors). More still rise to the illustrious level of "bugs that are minor annoyances". Yet sometimes, when the stars align just so, a bug manifests itself in a truly glorious way. And when I say "glorious", I mean "utterly destructive and soul-obliterating". Nowhere are these bugs more insidious than when they are within the operating systems (and key components) themselves. Case in point: an October 2018 bug in...

(CNN) A car plowed into bicyclists and pedestrians on a street in New Orleans, killing two people and injuring six others as the city celebrates Mardi Gras festivities. A majority of the people struck Saturday night were on bicycles, but it's unclear how many, Police Chief Shaun Ferguson said. Of the people injured, three are in critical condition. The driver, Tashonty Toney, 32, was arrested and faces several charges, including two counts of vehicular homicide, hit and run, and reckless operation, the New Orleans Police Department tweeted. Toney was not injured and fled the scene, Ferguson said "We were able...

“‘Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy’” (Matthew 5:7). The most obvious way we can show mercy is through physical acts. Jesus specifically commands us to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the sick and imprisoned, and offer any other practical help to those who need it. When we serve others in need, we demonstrate a heart of mercy. The way of mercy did not begin in the New Testament. The Old Testament law taught, “You shall not harden your heart, nor close your hand from your poor brother; but you shall freely open your hand to...

This could be one of the greatest ideas of all Plinking time. Not everyone can own a fully automatic firearm. But anyone can own this very cool belt-fed, 15-grain, .22-caliber pellet rifle and have a helluva time. Thats right you don’t need the blessing or stalked by the ATF. This isn’t the pellet gun that you had as a youth while shooting at squirrels. This air gun can pump out a pellet at 600 feet per second. On full auto, you’re looking at 700 pellets per minute when you pull the trigger harder. Unfortunately, reloading is quite the chore, you...

“I am an innocent man being persecuted by some very bad, conflicted people in a Witch Hunt that is illegal & should never have been allowed to start,” President Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday in yet another understandable expression of frustration at the fact that the investigatory wheels now seem to be churning into every aspect of his private, public, and business life.Former Trump attorney and ‘fixer’ Michael Cohen unwittingly made some of Trump’s case for him during last week’s testimony, stating for the nation to hear that, while he did not believe Trump colluded with the Russians - the...

Why I converted to Islam – Roman Catholic priestPublished on The autobiography of a Roman Catholic priest, Idris Tawfiq, who became a Muslim about 15 years ago, has emerged online. Tawfiq was reported to have died after a period of illness on February 3, 2016 in the United Kingdom, UK but before his death, he had written his experience on how he converted to the ‘religion of peace.’ Although the reason for releasing this on the same day, one year after he died cannot be ascertained, ‘AboutIslam’ is reporting that until his death, he was head of religious education in...

It was an inauspicious moment for a military the United States is banking on to help keep an expanding China in check. An Indian Air Force pilot found himself in a dogfight last week with a warplane from the Pakistani Air Force, and ended up a prisoner behind enemy lines for a brief time. The pilot made it home in one piece, however bruised and shaken, but the plane, an aging Soviet-era MiG-21, was less lucky. The aerial clash, the first by the South Asian rivals in nearly five decades, was a rare test for the Indian military — and...

Who is the guy who really believes that Donald Trump thinks Kim Jong Un is a cool dude? Who is the guy who imagines that Donald Trump really believes that the roly-poly mass murderer had nothing to do with the murder of Otto Warmbier? But if you listen to the elite and their panting puppy media, you would get the distinct impression that Donald Trump actually considers this clown a pal.This raises an important question – is the elite itself transcendently dumb, or does it imagine us Normal people are so unfathomably dense as to be unable to conceive...

Filesystems are responsible for organizing how data is stored and recovered. One way or another, with time, filesystem may become corrupted and certain parts of it may not be accessible. If your filesystem develops such inconsistency it is recommend to verify its integrity.This can be completed via system utility called fsck (file system consistency check). This check can be done automatically during boot time or ran manually.In this article, we are going to review the fsck utility and its usage to help you repair disk errors.When to Use fsck in Linux There are different scenarios when you will want to...

Several schools are remaining silent on the effectiveness of their LGBTQ-inspired attempts to shift pronoun customs on campus. Cornell University, Bryn Mawr College and the University of California, Davis are among the growing number of colleges in the United States instructing their students on using each others’ preferred pronouns. Each of the three schools suggests that students ask each other what their preferred pronouns are. The schools educate students on various types of alternative pronouns, such as “zie” and “hir.” On Cornell’s Gender Inclusive Pronouns page, part of the school’s Diversity and Inclusion website, students are instructed that it is...

At least 23 are reported dead after tornadoes ripped through Lee County, Alabama. The National Weather Service believes the first tornado to strike had winds up to 165 miles per hour, classified as an EF-3 tornado. The tornado said to be a half-mile wide..... Four American tourists and a pilot are dead in Kenya following a helicopter crash Sunday night.... Venezuela's Interim President Juan Guaido calling for mass protests Monday and Tuesday in Venezuela. Guaido asking for protests to start at 11 am Monday. Guaido set to return home Monday..... 16 Syrian soldiers killed, one captured and beheaded by Al-Qaeda...

The good news: TLS 1.3 is available, and the protocol, which powers HTTPS and many other encrypted communications, is better and more secure than its predecessors (including SSL). The bad news: Thanks to a financial industry group called BITS, there’s a look-alike protocol brewing called called ETS (or eTLS) that intentionally disables important security measures in TLS 1.3. If someone suggests that you should deploy ETS instead of TLS 1.3, they are selling you snake oil and you should run in the other direction as fast as you can.ETS vs. TLS / SSL ETS removes forward secrecy, a feature that...