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Caspian Richard had only a moment to react when he was faced with a worst-case scenario during his first class back in school. The 13-year-old student who transitioned earlier this year was taking part in virtual schooling at Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB) when he heard a familiar name. But it wasn't Caspian. It was his legal name. His "dead name." His heart raced and butterflies filled his stomach. "It was a nervous feeling," Caspian said in a phone interview on Wednesday. "I was really worried about it." It's unclear if the other student meant to use the wrong name....

The proposed class action led by James and Darrell Byrd, brothers with four McDonald’s restaurants in Tennessee, was filed by the law firm representing 52 Black former franchisees who filed a similar lawsuit on Aug. 31. McDonald’s was accused of placing Black franchisees in undesirable inner-city locations with high security and insurance costs and below-average sales, and driving many away by failing to support them as debts rise and profits fall short. Jim Ferraro, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, estimated that McDonald’s has 186 Black franchisees in the United States, down from a peak of 377 in 1998, who own...

“There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going: A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any; A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up” (Proverbs 30:29-31).

Thomas Lifson's 10/26/2020 informative post detailed how Europe is now experiencing a second wave of COVID deaths.  The American mainstream media echoed the claim about the COVID spike in Europe and are also claiming that a similar one is happening in the USA based mostly on increased positive tests.  However, that trend correlates closely with the increased testing.  Unbiased COVID-19 data for this analysis was found in an interactive chart from Our World in Data.  Their COVID-19 data uses a seven-day moving average of daily deaths per million people to make it easier to compare trends for large and small countries.  I selected...

Taoyuan, TaiwanTwo women became the first military officers to marry their same-sex civilian partners at a mass military wedding in Taiwan on Friday, marking another landmark for LGBTQ+ rights in Asia. The island's Defence Ministry called it an "open and progressive" move and gave its blessings to all 188 couples married during the annual mass wedding in Taiwan, considered a beacon of liberalism in Asia. "I am hoping to boost the visibility of homosexuals so that people understand we are also just part of everyday life," said major Wang Wi, who cried after receiving her marriage certificate at the ceremony...

Former Vice President Joe Biden referred to his youngest son, Hunter, as the “smartest guy I know” during a campaign event on Wednesday. The Democrat nominee reportedly made the remarks during a surprise appearance at a virtual voter mobilization event with Oprah Winfrey, according to the UK Daily Mail. During the event, only a portion of which was made available to the traveling press, Biden opened up on how his children convinced him to accept the number two slot on the Democrat ticket in 2008.

If half the country weren't in thrall to an epidemic far worse than the Chinese Virus – I’m talking about TDS of course – the outrage meter against the type of bias exhibited by media giants such as Twitter/Facebook/Google would be constantly fluctuating in the red zone. Regardless of which team you played for. But like their progressive political partners Big Tech giants are committed to promoting their ideology and they are use to getting their way – by any means necessary. Thus we have the likes of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey lying to the Senate about his company lifting...

Just spoke with several rural mail carriers in Pennsylvania. Very little mail is being processed for the rural areas. Virtually all mail, including the rural mail is sent to the metro areas for mail sorting, including mail in ballots. By sitting on the rural mail and processing the metro mail, the metro Dem ballots are being processed and the rural Trump ballots sit in the metro post office awaiting sort. This could impact the cancelation date and delivery on time to be counted.

Paints himself as champion of civil rights movement despite previously supporting segregation......... \ \ \ \ \ Joe Biden has used images of Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler in a campaign ad against President Trump. The ad once again repeats the fake claim Biden has been using for two years, that Trump called neo Nazis in Charlottesville ‘very fine people’, when in reality he said they should be “condemned totally.” The key section of the ad uses archival footage of Adolf Hitler saluting at a rally in Nazi Germany, with the crowd throwing back the ‘heil Hitler’ salute. The clear...

WASHINGTON, Sunday, Oct. 28, 1860. In my letter which appeared in the TIMES on Friday, I barely announced the discovery of a diabolical plot to dissolve the Union, and gave a very brief Statement of its outlines. I now have it in my power to give highly interesting details of the reasonable scheme. These details afford unmistakable proof that the conspirators have no confidence in the sympathy of the masses, even of the Gulf States. Their plan is to betray the South into rebellion, by a repetition of the Lecompton fraud. They dread the consequences of a direct appeal to...

Since Trump voters will outnumber Biden voters on actual election day, weather is going to be important. As a weather geek, I can tell you it's looking great. Dry with seasonable temps across pretty much the entire country except for some rain in the NW and New England. VOTE!

Republicans continued cutting into the Democrats' early voting lead yesterday, despite a rain storm covering most of NC. Republicans chopped off just under 16K votes from the Democrat lead: Dems---1,556,483 (38.11%) (+62.5K votes yesterday) Reps---1,286,508 (31.50%) (+78K) Unas---1,220,771 (29.89%) (+74K) Black share of the early voting electorate dropped for the fifth straight day from 19.78% to 19.55%. Democrats overall lead dropped from 285K to 270K. As previously noted in earlier posts, Dems led 2016 early voting by 310K, and the black share of the vote was 21% that year. Please keep in mind that it rained all day yesterday in...

FRIDAY OF THE THIRTIETH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME LUKE 14:1-6 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus heals a man on the sabbath, thus demonstrating his authority over the Law. The Jesus portrayed in the Gospels consistently speaks and acts in the very person of Yahweh, the God of Israel. On another occasion, defending his disciples against the charge of picking grain on the sabbath, Jesus reminds his interlocutors that priests serving in the temple can, under certain circumstances, violate the sabbath and still remain innocent; then he adds with breathtaking laconicism, "I say to you, something greater than the temple is...

US Postal Inspectors are working to find the people responsible for dumping two bins of stolen mail in a townhome complex dumpster. A resident of the Willow Run Townhome complex on Perry Road near Windfern spotted the discarded mail Thursday morning and immediately notified management. Head of maintenance John Lester fished all of the stolen mail out of the trash and secured it in the complexes' office while waiting for a postal employee to arrive. “I was wondering what is this, where did it come from, who did this?” said Lester. Among the stolen correspondence were sensitive legal documents from...

DUBAI - Thousands of Muslims, from Pakistan to Lebanon to the Palestinian territories, poured out of prayer services to join anti-France protests on Friday, as the French president’s vow to protect the right to caricature the Prophet Muhammad continues to roil the Muslim world. Demonstrations in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad turned violent as some 2,000 people who tried to march toward the French Embassy were pushed back by police firing tear gas and beating protesters with batons. Crowds of Islamist activists hanged an effigy of French President Emmanuel Macron from a highway overpass after pounding it furiously with their shoes. Several...

VBM Ballots - DEMs lead by 637,912 In-Person Early Voting - REPs lead by 474,229 Combined Early Voting - DEMs lead by 163,683

Lil Wayne — No such thing as racism — This is an incredible story https://pjmedia.com/election/tyler-o-neil/2020/10/29/did-lil-wayne-just-endorse-trump-n1107030

Plans for a Friday, Oct. 30, campaign rally for President Donald Trump appeared to be up in the air Thursday. Now we know that Trump's destination is the Rochester International Airport. The rally appeared on radar screens Wednesday morning, Oct. 28, when the Trump campaign announced the president would hold a late-afternoon rally at the Rochester International Airport. City officials, concerned about the potential size of the rally and its adherence to state guidelines for crowd sizes, were working out details for the rally Thursday morning when they were told of the change. Air Force One would still land in...

This is the most patriotic thing you will see today.

Folks, the Democrats have set themselves up for the biggest ***-whipping since 1988. Want some more evidence that the media polls are wrong? Check out New Mexico, where roughly half of all registered voters have already voted: 2020 NM early vote data from TargetSmart: Non-college whites: 41.5% of all early voters College-educated whites: 24.9% of all early voters. Non-white vote: 34.6% (vs. 66.4% white) 2016 comparison from NM exit polling per CNN: Non-college whites: 21% College-educated whites: 29% Non-white vote: 51% (vs. 49% white). Translation: Trump's base is turning out in huge numbers, and the leftist base of college-educated Millennials...