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Free burritos keep the action going but, jeez, open a window would ya?Hardcore gamers no longer have to tread the knife-edge of actual life or death in the physical world while pwning n00bs in their favourite battle royale.Thanks to some newly installed and highly conspicuous emergency buttons – each helpfully labelled EMERGENCY BUTTON to avoid any potential confusion – players hunkering down for the long haul at the Belong Gaming Arena in central Bristol from Monday next week will not end their days as a dried up old skeleton with a Dual Shock still quivering between their bony fingers.No, they...

The findings, published in the journal Heart, were based on nearly 3,500 adults, ages 35 to 75, who were tracked for about five years Napping late in the day also is not recommended because it can mar nighttime sleeping. more than a third of Americans regularly get too little sleep. That can lead to chronic health problems

VIDEO Donny Deutsch after going through several "Big Ones" in the past thinks that this time he has finally found the ultimate "Big One" on Fridays's Morning Joe that will be the "Game Changer" to take down Trump. Of course, he did not go into specifics. Could it be that doing so would harm a certain Democrat candidate that he is supporting? Unfortunately for poor Donny, President Trump did go into those inconvenient specifics in a video that he tweeted about Joe Biden that Donny preferred to avoid.

On 20 Sept. 2019, federal police officers chased down Portland antifa militants after they hurled rocks and projectiles at officers. One suspect was arrested at the scene. The masked militants had earlier marched in the "Climate Strike" protest before relocating to and near the ICE facility.

Never before has a boon to public health been met with such hysteria and ingratitude. Vaping is almost all upside in comparison with traditional smoking, a wanton destroyer of health and lives, and yet the nation is in the grip of a panic about e-cigarettes. In a rarity for the Trump era, the anti-vaping sentiment jumps traditional geographic and political bounds, running from the Oval Office to San Francisco, from President Donald Trump to his most fervent enemies. Trump announced a Food and Drug Administration ban on flavored e-cigarettes last week, while not too long ago the San Francisco Board...

The election campaign to date has been an exercise in idiocy and cowardice. It is obviously embarrassing for Justin Trudeau to have had to admit to attending an Aladdin-themed party in 2001 made up to look like Aladdin (although Aladdin was an Arab not an African, and blackening his hands was oddly laborious). But Maxime Bernier is right that Justin is not a racist, just a hypocrite. As Tucker Carlson, the Fox News commentator, said on Thursday night, the prime minister’s conduct is “sort of like finding out your super-sensitive brother-in-law, the one who tells you he’s a feminist, the...

[Elizabeth Warren's] now a prime target for rivals and their supporters.

She was US ambassador to Ukraine during the 2016 election when the Ukrainian government was colluding with the DNC and Hillary Campaign to undermine the US presidential election. Starting in 2018 Yovanovich denied Ukrainian officials visas to enter the United States to hand over evidence of Obama administration misconduct to Trump administration officials. US Ambassador Yovanovich, an Obama appointee, was removed from her post in Ukraine early in May 2019. John Solomon at The Hill reported: According to interviews with more than a dozen Ukrainian and U.S. officials, Ukraine’s government under recently departed President Petro Poroshenko and, now, Zelensky has...

The American Left, which manifests itself in the Democrat Party, is no different than the Communist and Socialist Left of the 20th century. They are just as diabolical, just as authoritarian, and just as adept at convincing young people that their political ideology is the way forward. Rich people shouldn’t be rich. It’s not fair that someone has something you don’t have. You have every right to their stuff because we’re ALL supposed to be “equal!” Or some such BS. What the lying Democrat socialist commies never say is that people who earned what they have should keep what they...

People in the US are now the world’s wealthiest citizens, just ahead of the Swiss, a new global report shows. The average net financial assets of people living in the US total €184,411 (around 202,900 Swiss francs) per capita against €173,838 for Switzerland, according to the latest Global Wealth Report published by German insurer Allianz. The rise of the US to the top of the rankings is thanks in no small part to the strength of the US dollar, the report states. While the US took top spot in the report, Switzerland continues to boast the highest gross financial assets...

Sen. Cory Booker’s presidential campaign manager is warning in a memo to staff that the Democratic senator from New Jersey must raise an additional $1.7 million by the end of the third quarter of fundraising – just 10 days away – or the campaign will not have a “legitimate long-term path forward.”

When you invite someone into your home, you might consider them to be guests. But what happens when you want them out and they choose to stay? No rent paid. No lease. You still must go to court. Meanwhile, you may be out of a home... She called the cops. “Cory said you can’t kick us out. You’ll have to get us evicted. We can stay for as long as we want,” said Dubuque. “The police were there when he said this. They said, ‘Yep. If you invited him in.’”

Winter has (probably) arrived in Sweden, with the first snowfall of the season in northern parts of the country. But first, let us explain the “probably”. Sweden determines the seasons not based on dates, but on meteorological definitions, according to which winter is considered to have arrived when temperatures drop below an average of 0°C five days in a row. And Tarfala in the Kebnekaise mountains is currently on its fifth day of –3°C temperatures. So unless it experiences a sudden heatwave, it means that when the clock strikes midnight, winter has arrived. […] In the Värmland region, the first...

For the first time since it was formed after the 9/11 attacks, the Department of Homeland Security is adding white supremacist violence to its list of priority threats in a revised counterterrorism strategy issued Friday. "The continuing menace of racially based violent extremism, particularly white supremacist extremism, is an abhorrent affront to our nation, the struggle and unity of its diverse population, and the core values of both our society and our department," said Kevin McAleenan, the acting Homeland secretary, in a speech at the Brookings Institute in Washington. DHS is stepping up its focus on what McAleenan called "targeted...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Herbert Hoover. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Herbert Hoover was the President of the United States during the stock market crash of 1929. Essentially, he was the George H. W. Bush of his day, who succeeded capitalist Calvin Coolidge and preceded socialist Franklin D. Roosevelt.Note: The name in the title is attributed to the famous radio malaprop by Harry von Zell, attempting to announce Hoover's name in a birthday tribute. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Marx Meets With Pope Francis and Cardinal Ouellet About German Synodal Plans The Sept. 19 meetings followed a public exchange between the German hierarchy and the Vatican over the draft statutes for a ‘Synodal Assembly.’ VATICAN CITY — Cardinal Reinhard Marx, president of the German Episcopal Conference, has held talks with Pope Francis and Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, about the German bishops’ plans for a “binding synodal path.” The meetings, held in Rome Sept. 19, followed a public exchange between the German hierarchy and the Vatican over the draft statutes for a...

Italy has seen a rise in so-called “phantom” boat arrivals as traffickers ferry migrants across the Mediterranean from Tunisia rather than Libya without being spotted, a prosecutor warned Saturday. The closing window of opportunity to reach Europe before the onset of winter has also seen a spike in the numbers of crossings, just ahead of a meeting of interior ministers on the hot-button topic of migration on Monday in Malta. Of the more than 6,620 people to have arrived in Italy since the start of 2019, some 5,500 have done so autonomously, managing to approach the coast or land without...

The rise of killer robots is now unstoppable and a new digital Geneva Convention is essential to protect the world from the growing threat they pose, according to the President of the world’s biggest technology company. In an interview with The Telegraph, Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, said the use of 'lethal autonomous weapon systems' poses a host of new ethical questions which need to be considered by governments as a matter of urgency. He said the rapidly advancing technology, in which flying, swimming or walking drones can be equipped with lethal weapons systems – missiles, bombs or guns –...

“When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge” (Proverbs 21:11).

Plans to accommodate “unwanted” migrants on Lindholm, an uninhabited Danish island, have been officially scrapped by the Social Democratic government. Minister for Immigration and Integration Matthias Tesfaye gave on Thursday official confirmation that the facility, plans for which were put in place by the previous government, has now been permanently shelved. Tesfaye’s ministry confirmed the decision via email. “It is very expensive to sail criminal foreigners back and forth between Lindholm and the mainland. One night on the island costs the same as one night at a luxury hotel,” read a Tesfaye statement included in the email. “But that is...