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Leading California Medical Association officials reportedly joined Gov. Gavin Newsom at the elite “French Laundry” restaurant for a lobbyist’s birthday party on Nov. 6. As Breitbart News reported, Newsom apologized at a press conference Monday for attending the party, which appeared to flout his own administration’s suggested restrictions on social gatherings.

With the hull and sail design based on a trading schooner built in the Åland Islands, Finland, in 1906, from the horizon Ceiba will have the appearance of a classic turn-of-the-century vessel, when the last commercial sail-powered ships were made. “They represented the peak of working sail technology, before fossil fuel came in and cut them off at the ankles,” ...Ceiba is small for a cargo ship – tiny in fact. She will carry around nine standard shipping containers. The largest conventional container ships today carry more than 20,000 containers.

“Fox & Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade said on Wednesday that “it’s in the country’s best interest” if President Donald Trump starts working with the Biden transition team and gives them access to briefings. “Here’s the thing: For the president of the United States, while he continues to fight on, and this is probably going to be the end of the week for Pennsylvania if they don’t produce something, I think it’s in the country’s best interest if he starts coordinating on the virus, starts coordinating with security with the Biden team and just brief them,” Kilmeade — one of Trump’s...

Report: 20 million ARs, 150 million ammunition magazines would be taxed under Biden proposal SNIP Biden wants to ban new sales of AR-15 rifles and similar firearms as well as any ammunition magazine holding more than 10 rounds—sizes that come standard on most modern rifles and handguns. He would pay some owners to surrender the affected guns they legally own and force everyone else to register the guns under the National Firearms Act. The proposal would require owners to pay a $200 tax stamp for each item. The report said the kinds of rifles Biden wants to ban made up...

ViacomCBS is shedding another 100 employees this week across the company as the merger between Viacom and CBS — and the resulting streamlining efforts that have followed — continue to ripple through the combined corporation. The layoffs impact a range of departments across ViacomCBS, from sales to shared services such as finance and legal, per a source familiar with the situation. Several of the impacted divisions are reducing their teams by one or two employees, while others are being more greatly affected. Personnel at the company’s New York and Los Angeles offices will be impacted, though it is unclear which...

Amid the ongoing NBCUniversal restructuring, additional layoffs are being enacted across the television and streaming division’s entertainment networks business. The cuts, being implemented today, impact fewer than 5% of employees in the division helmed by Frances Berwick, according to a source familiar with the matter. And more job cuts are likely to occur in early 2021 on the content side of the business

Perhaps the wrong question is being asked about whether state legislatures can choose Trump electors because of evidence widespread of fraud in their elections where Biden supposedly "won." The better question might be can state legislatures just DECLINE to send electors to the electoral college due to evidence of widespread fraud which has not been resolved by the time they need to be sent?Let us take Georgia as an example. In the light of fraud and the REFUSAL by the Secretary of State to allow a full audit of the ballots, can the state legislature state that since the issue...

"I’ve always been someone who felt we are court jesters," said Russell who stars alongside Hawn in Netflix's Christmas Chronicles 2. "That’s what we do. As far as I’m concerned, you should step away from saying anything so that you can still be seen by the audience in any character." That is not to say Russell believes that stars should not be well informed, it would just behoove them to keep their opinions to themselves, he says.

The reptile millirobot changes from caterpillar motion to concertina motion after reprogramming. Credit: City University of Hong Kong ========================================================================= An easy way to make millirobots by coating objects with a glue-like magnetic spray was developed in a joint research led by a scientist from City University of Hong Kong (CityU). Driven by the magnetic field, the coated objects can crawl, walk, or roll on different surfaces. As the magnetic coating is biocompatible and can be disintegrated into powders when needed, this technology demonstrates the potential for biomedical applications, including catheter navigation and drug delivery. The research team is led by...

Ezra Cohen-Watnick just delivered a speech regarding the move to place civilian SpecOps directly underneath the Acting Sec of Defense. Listen closely. https://twitter.com/HuberHammerQ_/status/1329124041257574408

Obama's 'memorable songs' seem more like a list work-shopped by his publicity team, curated to fit the former president's 'I’m whatever you want me to be' image.Former President Barack Obama shared a playlist on Twitter Monday “featuring some memorable songs from my administration.” At the request of my boss, I listened to all of them.Music has always played an important role in my life—and that was especially true during my presidency. In honor of my book hitting shelves tomorrow, I put together this playlist featuring some memorable songs from my administration. Hope you enjoy it. pic.twitter.com/xWiNQiZzN0— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November...

The long wait for a vaccine that could eventually spell the end of the coronavirus pandemic appears to be on the horizon. Last week, Pfizer said its vaccine in a trial has been 90% effective in preventing COVID-19, while Moderna on Monday announced similarly encouraging results. The companies could get emergency federal approval within weeks. Yet it will only be after the drugmakers ship millions of doses around the world that the real time crunch on the vaccination effort begins. Pfizer's vaccine must be kept at nearly minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit to remain effective. That's about 20 degrees colder than...

“The Beauty of Intolerance” is a book by Josh and Sean McDowell. Its subtitle is “setting a generation free to know truth and love”. The book “The Beauty of Intolerance” is a polemic against the modern political movement that has redefined tolerance from “agree to disagree”, which the authors state Christians can live with, to “agree with me or shut up, anything else is evil hate!”

Here in Florida, we could deal properly with Joe Biden as per F.S. 104.061(2): "104.061 Corruptly influencing voting.— (1) Whoever by bribery, menace, threat, or other corruption whatsoever, either directly or indirectly, attempts to influence, deceive, or deter any elector in voting or interferes with him or her in the free exercise of the elector’s right to vote at any election commits a felony of the third degree... (2) No person shall directly or indirectly give or promise anything of value to another intending thereby to buy that person’s or another’s vote or to corruptly influence that person or another...

The Democrats dismiss any mention of the innumerable irregularities that tainted the general election as little more than crackpot conspiracy theories. This is a convenient way to avoid addressing serious questions raised by serious observers, but it will further undermine confidence in key institutions that form the foundation upon which the republic stands. Public trust in government, media, and even science was already declining before Election Day. This trend will dramatically accelerate if Americans don’t get answers to questions such as the following: Why would the voters deliver the Democrats a comprehensive down-ballot drubbing yet hand the White House to...

“It’s not the people who vote that counts. It’s the people who count the votes, “ – Josef Stalin.As President Trump was on the cusp of an overwhelming presidential election victory, a sudden and shocking shift in various swing state vote counts started to move to Biden in the wee hours of election night, supposedly because mail-in ballots were turning the tide. Here we are several weeks later, and questions still surround vote tabulations in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada and Michigan, which all had shown Trump with sizable leads before the mail-in votes began to build for Biden. Count...

Democrat Tom Wolf. the governor of Pennsylvania is now demanding that citizens wear masks INSIDE of their homes. As of today in Pennsylvania, you must wear a mask. Indoors or in an enclosed space, where another person or persons who are not members of the individual’s household are present in the same space, irrespective of physical distance. --- SNIP --- Ironically, this is happening right as a brand new, large study has come out saying masks provide "statistically insignificant" protection against COVID-19. Of course, you could have also guessed this by the fact that mask mandates don’t seem to have...

Cruise News Carnival Cruise Line Carnival Cancels All U.S. Departures Until February 2021 With Carnival Cruise Line still developing its plan to meet the CDC Conditional Sailing Order framework it has decided to cancel all U.S. departures until February 2021. There is even more bad news as cruises are also cancelled from select U.S. homeports until March 2021 and Carnival Legend out of Tampa for even longer. So it’s looking like the cruise industry in the U.S. will have to wait a little longer with the largest cruise line in the world now cancelling a range sailings into March 2021....

Third, the biographies of at least some of today’s race-minded trailblazers suggest a connection between fatherlessness and identity politics. The author of the bestseller White Fragility was a child of divorce at age two. The author of the bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race reports that her father left the family and broke off contact, also when she was two. The author of another bestseller, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, was raised by a single mother. The author of another hot race book, The Anti-Racist: How to Start the Conversation About Race and...

When safely and appropriately prescribed, antibiotics are critical tools used to save lives in the United States and around the world. During Antibiotic Awareness Week, we reaffirm our commitment to responsible antibiotic stewardship and acknowledge the contributions of American medical professionals. Antibiotics play a powerful role in modern medicine. They are instrumental in treating countless Americans with serious bacterial infections and preventing infection among others who are at-risk. Over the years, however, antibiotics have been overprescribed and overused. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), at least 47 million antibiotic prescriptions are written needlessly every year. This...