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Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Mike Rowe. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Mike Rowe is media's biggest promoter of dirty, gritty jobs and the productive, individual spirit of all blue collar workers and their supporters. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To solve the puzzle: Enter the letters in the top half (letter columns) of the puzzle into the white squares...

Hong Kong’s government on Wednesday formally pulled the extradition bill that ignited months of violent pro-democracy protests. “I formally announce the withdrawal of the bill,” Secretary for Security John Lee announced to the Chinese territory’s legislature, citing “conflicts in society” as his justification. Hong Kong has been roiled by protests throughout the summer, originally sparked by outrage over the extradition law, which Hong Kong residents say would allow Chinese authorities to effectively “kidnap” them with little evidence of criminality. However, the concern over the law has ballooned into fear that China plans to throw out its “One Country, Two Systems”...

All four members of “The Squad” come from deep blue districts that normally are safe seats for Democrats. But Rep. Ilhan Omar, who represents the city of Minneapolis and a few inner ring suburbs, is now caught in a scandal that threatens to alienate her biggest voting bloc base, fellow Muslim Somalis, who emigrated to Minnesota by the tens of thousands at the behest of the  State Department that thought the generous welfare benefits of the North Star State could well be spent on people from a tropical climate transplanted to the coldest metropolis in the country. Most readers...

Trump allies push back on ‘quid pro quo,’ say envoy testified Ukraine initially unaware of aid holdup President Trump and his allies in Congress pushed back against damaging revelations from diplomat Bill Taylor’s Tuesday testimony – in which the Ukraine envoy said the administration linked U.S. military aid to a call for politically related investigations in Kiev – saying the witness also acknowledged under questioning that Ukraine was initially in the dark on the aid holdup. Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, asserted that this counters claims of a “quid pro quo.” “At the end of the day, this was about quid...

Another secret hearing, another supposedly damning indictment of President Trump, another set of selective leaks from the left. Based on current headlines, it's all over for President Trump.Seems the testimony of former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Bill Taylor, has finally done him in, according to the breathless press reports. Here are the typical headlines: Ukraine ambassador William Taylor's testimony backs Senate Republicans into a corner -Washington Examiner The Most Damning Impeachment Testimony Yet -New York Times (they've got a ton of them on their site like this) And in a nice case of trial by selective leak, Time magazine...

Last night Republicans Lee Zeldin, Jim Jordan and Andy Biggs joined Laura Ingraham on The Ingraham Angle to discuss the ongoing Democratic coup of President Donald Trump. During the discussion Repl Andy Biggs told Laura that Democrats are refusing to allow Republican lawmakers to view the transcripts from the impeachment proceedings. On Tuesday Rep. Jim Jordan added that Republicans can only view the documents with a Democratic staffer present. On Tuesday Devin Nunes added his concerns on the Star Chamber proceedings. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) described the current proceedings this way to Sean Hannity, “It’s like watching a slow motion...

SEOUL - The recent nuclear negotiations between the United States and North Korea were substantive and lasted longer than anticipated, according to a Swedish diplomat who helped arrange the talks. The upbeat analysis by Swedish Special Envoy Kent Harstedt stands in contrast to that of North Korean diplomats, who blamed Washington for failing to bring new ideas to the early October talks in Sweden’s capital. At an event Wednesday in Seoul, Harstedt said the U.S.-North Korea negotiations lasted “many hours” and were “not interrupted.” He said he was “cautiously optimistic” the talks would continue, despite North Korea not accepting Sweden’s...

Bill Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, told House investigators on Tuesday that President Trump conditioned the release of military aid on the Ukrainian president's willingness to promise to investigate natural gas company Burisma and alleged interference in the 2016 election, according to a copy of Taylor's opening statement obtained by Axios. Key excerpts: "[On Sept. 1], Ambassador Sondland also told me that he now recognized that he had made a mistake by earlier telling the Ukrainian officials to whom he spoke that a White House meeting with President Zelenskyy was dependent on a public announcement of investigations—in fact,...

Key Points •Third quarter earnings season is underway, so it’s time to look under the hood. •A wide gap between S&P 500 profits and the broader NIPA measure from the BEA supports a late-cycle view. •The late-cycle view is also supported by weakening leading indicators.

Detained at Manila airport for a week, Bahareh Zare Bahari says Tehran-issued Interpol alert for assault is ‘fake,’ came due to her political activism An Iranian beauty queen has requested asylum in the Philippines after an Interpol alert about her filed by Tehran got her detained at the Manila airport. Bahareh Zare Bahari has been held at Ninoy Aquino International Airport’s Terminal 3 since October 17, as authorities examine Iran’s allegation that she assaulted a fellow Iranian in the Philippines and Bahari’s counter-claim that the Islamic Republic is targeting her for her political activism and that the charges against her...

The Vatican is in need of salvation. Donations to the Catholic Church have plummeted in the wake of its pervasive clergy sex abuse scandal — so much so that it’s at risk of default by 2023, according to a new exposé. In 2006, the church raked in 101 million euros ($112 million) in contributions. By 2016, that number was 70 million euros ($77.9 million), and now could be less than 60 million euros, the Telegraph reported. The startling bottom line is according to Italian investigative journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi, whose new book, “Universal Judgment,” came out Monday. He blames the church’s...

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Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice called Senator Lindsey Graham a piece of sh** during the recording of a podcast episode. 'He's lying, lying, lying, lying, and raising money off the death of four Americans,' Vietor, who was a former Obama spokesman, added in the exchange.

Where there is a will there is a way. Some folks have fashioned weapons from Playstation controllers to explosive devices. Many of these weapons that were home grown is due to their lack of economy but great in innovation to bring the fight. Guess that's why they strap every weapon they have and hope that physics is in a good enough mood today to let them fire knives out of their machine gun. The following are groups in no particular order that were fanatics in their cause while launching their own DIY wrist rockets at each other: Blyskawica Submachine Gun...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Music in The Bible) Psalm 4 Psalm 4[a] For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A psalm of David. 1 Answer me when I call to you,     my righteous God. Give me relief from my distress;     have mercy on me and hear my prayer. 2 How long will you people turn my glory into shame?     How long will you love delusions and seek false gods[b]?[c] 3 Know that the Lord has set apart his faithful servant for himself;     the Lord hears when I call to him. 4 Tremble and[d] do not sin;     when you are on...

On October 31, 2016, Pope Francis announced that after five hundred years, Protestants and Catholics now “have the opportunity to mend a critical moment of our history by moving beyond the controversies and disagreements that have often prevented us from understanding one another.” From that, it sounds as if the Reformation was an unfortunate and unnecessary squabble over trifles, a childish outburst that we can all put behind us now that we have grown up. But tell that to Martin Luther, who felt such liberation and joy at his rediscovery of justification by faith alone that he wrote, “I felt...

STOCKHOLM – Twenty prisoners live in one small room. They are handcuffed, their heads shaved, every move is monitored by ceiling cameras. A bucket in the corner of the room is their toilet. The daily routine begins at 6 A.M. They are learning Chinese, memorizing propaganda songs and confessing to invented sins. They range in age from teenagers to elderly. Their meals are meager: cloudy soup and a slice of bread. Torture – metal nails, fingernails pulled out, electric shocks – takes place in the “black room.” Punishment is a constant. The prisoners are forced to take pills and get...

Morning "Will ye also go away?" John 6:67 Many have forsaken Christ, and have walked no more with him; but what reason have you to make a change? Has there been any reason for it in the past? Has not Jesus proved himself all-sufficient? He appeals to you this morning--"Have I been a wilderness unto you?" When your soul has simply trusted Jesus, have you ever been confounded? Have you not up till now found your Lord to be a compassionate and generous friend to you, and has not simple faith in him given you all the peace your spirit...

AFP reported that 14 people will go on trial in France next May over the 2015 attacks on Charlie Hebdo and other targets that , judicial sources said Today (Wednesday). The trial will take place between May 4 & July 10, lawyers and a judicial sources said. .....

PARIS -- Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Canadian Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer now have something in common. They can both spend the rest of their lives complaining that they won the popular vote but still lost a national election. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau kept his job but lost the popular vote in Monday's federal election. Conservatives won 34.4 percent of the popular vote, while Liberals won 33.1 percent -- a difference of more than 243,000 votes. Trudeau's Liberal Party lost its parliamentary majority, falling 13 seats short of the 170 required to ram through whatever...