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The mother of a Florida teenager who was shot and killed by a sheriff’s deputy this month was wounded at his burial service Saturday. Quasheda Pierce, 39, was hit when a shot rang out at Riverview Memorial Gardens in Cocoa, where 18-year-old Sincere Pierce was being laid to rest just over two weeks after he and another teen were shot dead by a Brevard County Sheriff’s deputy. Police said the wounded woman and a 16-year-old boy were both struck when a gun the teen was carrying at the burial “experienced an accidental discharge” and struck both of them, WOFL-TV reported...

Does the left fear a 2024 run by President Trump? Looks that way, judging from this morning's AM Joy show on MSNBC, guest-hosted by Maria Teresa Kumar. The show devoted a segment to the possibility of Trump 2024. And in a pre-emptive strike on a possible run, the panel pleaded that the media shouldn't cover Trump, and that supporters shouldn't contribute to him.The segment began with a clip of Kamala Harris cackling past the graveyard, replying "oh, please" to a reporter's question as to whether she believes Biden-Harris could defeat Trump were he to run again. That segued into the...

President-elect Joe Biden will have an all-female senior communications team at his White House, led by campaign communications director Kate Bedingfield. Bedingfield will serve as Biden’s White House communications director, and Jen Psaki, a longtime Democratic spokeswoman, will be his press secretary. Biden also plans to name Neera Tanden, the president and CEO of the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, as director of the Office of Management and Budget, according to a person familiar with the transition process granted anonymity to speak freely about internal deliberations. All three are veterans of the Obama administration. Bedingfield served as...

My 80-year-old parents could use some fresh lean meat for their freezer. Both are in poor health and money is tight. They live in Gregg County, Texas. Could a beloved fellow FReeper help my parents out with a freshly harvested, processed deer? I will pay what I can.

The year 2020 will be remembered for a lot of things - not least the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement around the world. The organisation has led huge street rallies and high-profile campaigns against racism and police brutality. Now the three women who founded the movement told the BBC they believe it has transformed politics. "Black people alongside our allies stood up to change the course of history and we won," said Alicia Garza. Garza and her BLM co-founders, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi, spoke as part of the BBC 100 Women Masterclass 2020, a digital live event...

@KellyO NEW: @nbcnews photographer captures @JoeBiden leaving orthopedic office in Delaware where the president-elect was just treated for what his doctor called a sprained right ankle from a fall Saturday. Video...

Consultants cash in on radical changes to curricula nationwide In July, the leadership of Los Angeles's elite Harvard-Westlake School issued a 20-page confessional about the school’s role in perpetuating "racism and injustice" and promised changes. The school, which sends dozens of kids to the Ivy League every year, will now teach 11th-grade U.S. history from a "critical race theory perspective." And diversity consultancies, which routinely charge six figures for their services, will facilitate the school's transformation at every step. On the East Coast, the wealthy Fairfax County public school district shelled out $20,000 for an hourlong speech from critical-race commentator...

THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION’S TOP EMERGENCY EXPERT PUSHED BACK AGAINST CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY CLAIMS THAT COVID-19 ORIGINATED IN EUROPE, CALLING THE THEORY “HIGHLY SPECULATIVE.” The official, Mike Ryan, noted “it’s highly speculative for us to say that the disease did not emerge in China,” during a virtual briefing in Geneva. The remarks came in response to a question about whether or not COVID-19 could have emerged somewhere besides China. “It is clear from a public health perspective that you start your investigations where the human cases first emerged,” he added. The World Health Organization official’s words represent a rejection of...

REVEALED: Biden UN, State Dept Picks Are Documented Chinese Communist Party Consultants NOVEMBER 24, 2020 JOE BIDEN’S STATE DEPARTMENT TRANSITION REVIEW TEAM CONTAINS SEVERAL CONSULTANTS AND LOBBYISTS FROM ALBRIGHT STONEBRIDGE GROUP, A CONSULTING FIRM THAT HAS EXTENSIVE LINKS TO THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY. ASG has a robust China focus, declaring it “the firm’s largest single country practice” on the company website. Among the firm’s ranks are several Chinese Communist Party apparatchiks, including Jin Ligang, a Chinese Communist Party member and “former senior Chinese government official.” “The practice includes trade and policy experts, former high-level U.S. and Chinese government officials and...

Several newly-elected Republican House members, including New York’s Nicole Malliotakis, have banned together to create a group they’ve dubbed the “Freedom Force” — to oppose “The Squad” of progressive Democratic congresswomen. “This group will give a contrast to the hard left,” Utah Rep.-elect and former NFL player Burgess Owens said Friday on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle.” “We have ‘Freedom Force’ versus ‘Squad.'”

The Sunday Gospel announces a critical Advent theme: While I want to comment primarily on the Reading from Isaiah, the Gospel admonition surely deserves some attention as well. Too many today hold the unbiblical idea that most if not all people are going to Heaven. For weeks now we have been reading parables in the Gospels in which the Lord Jesus warns that many (possibly even most) are not headed for Heaven. There are the wise and the foolish virgins, the industrious and the lazy servants, and the sheep and the goats. Today’s Gospel features those who keep watch and...

Lijian Zhao, a spokesperson at the Chinese foreign ministry, earlier tweeted the fake image of an Australian soldier holding a knife to the throat of a child...Zhao’s tweet was in reference to a report earlier this month of a four-year investigation by the inspector-general of the Australian Defence Force. The report found that Australia's special forces allegedly killed 39 unarmed prisoners and civilians in Afghanistan.

@RandPaulInteresting . . . Trump margin of “defeat” in 4 states occurred in 4 data dumps between 1:34-6:31 AM. Statistical anomaly? Fraud? Look at the evidence and decide for yourself.(That is, if Big Tech allows u to read this) Anomalies in Vote Counts;

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said that President Donald Trump should "leave quietly," after Georgia certified its election results for Joe Biden last week.In an interview published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Saturday, Raffensperger, a Republican, said he's received threats and angry messages from the president and fellow GOP politicians who disagree with his decision to certify the election."My job as secretary of state is to make sure we have fair and honest elections, follow the law, follow the process," Raffensperger said in the interview. "When you lose an election, you should leave quietly. It's the will of the...

November 30 2020 Feast of St Andrew, ApostleŚw Andrzej Bobola, Warszawa - St. Andrew bobola church, Warsaw, Poland Monday of the Thirty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary 684 Reading 1 ROM 10:9-18Brothers and sisters: If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For one believes with the heart and so is justified, and one confesses with the mouth and so is saved. The Scripture says,No one who believes in him will be put to shame. There is no distinction between Jew and...

...But according to David Downs, the California bureau chief of cannabis-focused website and news outlet Leafly, the underlying factors that gave rise to these cases in the first place haven’t really gone away. Perhaps more than any outlet, Leafly has investigated these poisonings extensively. “What we found was that the structure of the market and the incentives to adulterate products had not changed. The profit motive still exists, you still make more money, fooling consumers and being unfair to them, such that the promise of injury was still there,” Downs said. Though the CDC said it would stop tracking the...

The recount in Georgia’s Fulton County has been delayed due to the Dominion Voting Systems mobile server crashing on Sunday evening. Officials in the county, which includes Atlanta, said that the server was newly purchased. “Technicians from Dominion have been dispatched to resolve the issue,” Fulton County officials said in a statement obtained by local station WXIA-TV. “The Georgia Secretary of State’s office has also been alerted to the issue and is aware of efforts to resolve the problem.”

I never get tired of this great picture of President Trump by Sabo (a politically conservative street artist active in Los Angeles, California.)

On Sunday morning, Judge Timothy C. Batten, Sr. issued an order to freeze ALL Dominion voting machines in the state of Georgia. “Defendants are ordered to maintain the status quo & are temporarily enjoined from wiping or resetting any voting machines in the State of Georgia until further order of the Court.” Gateway Pundit – Then later this afternoon Judge Timothy Batten reversed the claim based on the defendants’ claim that Georgia counties controlled the Dominion voting machines. Lin Wood tweeted: What??? Judge reversed order based on Defendants’ claim that GA Counties control voting machines. Machines are owned by State...

The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group said on Wednesday he was pleased about “the humiliating downfall” of US President Donald Trump, but urged regional allies to be on alert for any American or Israeli “folly” during the rest of his term in office. Hassan Nasrallah, in a televised speech, described Trump’s administration as “among the worst, if not the worst” in the United States, but said the new president would not alter Washington’s pro-Israel policy in the Middle East. Describing the US election as a travesty of democracy, he accused Trump of having no restraints and said his administration’s “arrogance...