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The parent company of Lean Cuisine is recalling approximately 92,206 pounds of its baked chicken meal products that may be contaminated with extraneous materials, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced Saturday. Nestlé Prepared Foods, a Springville, Utah establishment, said the meals might be contaminated with pieces of white hard plastic. The meals — 8⅝-oz. (244g) carton trays of “Lean Cuisine Baked Chicken, white meat chicken with stuffing, red skin mashed potatoes and gravy” with a lot code of 0246595911 and “Best Before” date of October 2021 — were produced and packaged on Sept. 2. They...

(Vahtera et al, ZooKeys 2020) The Movile cave in southeast Romania wouldn't be top of your holiday destination list: no light gets down to it, the air is thick with poisonous gases, and it was cut off from the outside world for around 5.5 million years before its accidental discovery in 1986. Life does exist in the Movile though, and scientists have identified the largest creature they've found there yet. It's a troglobiont (or underground) centipede that has been given the name Cryptops speleorex, and it grows up to 52 mm (2 inches) in length. The discovery takes the number...

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It seems that the Democrat new tactic - threaten and file lawsuits against news sources disseminating election fraud information, it is flowing down to grass roots level also. We see this in the threats of lawsuits against Faux News, Newsmax, the Cooomer lawsuit, and now this one: "President Trump Is On Target In Wisconsin – Ballots Identified in Pristine Condition Similar to Fraudulent Ballots in Georgia and Michigan. President Trump’s team’s recent lawsuit in Wisconsin must be over the target. Is this why a Madison, Wisconsin Attorney pushed back and threatened Gateway Pundit after our reporting on absentee and ‘indefinitely...

California’s fiscal squeeze tightened up Sunday when congressional leaders reached agreement on a $900 billion COVID-19 relief package that did not include direct aid to state and local governments. It means that Gov. Gavin Newsom faces fewer choices in fashioning a 2021-22 fiscal year budget that he must propose to legislators by Jan. 10 and that California cities struggling with budget deficits won’t be getting help from Washington. However, Newsom, et al, have since gotten some good news from California taxpayers. Administration forecasts that revenues would plummet into the abyss as pandemic-spawned recession struck the state proved to be too...

The Black Lives Matter umbrella group Detroit Will Breathe sued Detroit, alleging police abuse of force during the George Floyd riots in the city this past summer. A judge granted a restraining order in September but the city responded with a countersuit, claiming that the Black Lives Matter group organized a “civil conspiracy” to riot, destroy property, and disturb the peace. According to Detroit’s countersuit, the protesters “illegally, maliciously, and wrongfully conspired with one another with the intent to and for the illegal purpose of disturbing the peace, engaging in disorderly conduct, inciting riots, destroying public property, resisting or obstructing...

The California legislature proposes scheme after scheme to tax the wealthy. You Can Check Out But Never Leave California's proposed wealth tax, Bill 2028, would apply for a DECADE to anyone who spends 60 days in the state in a single year.Here are the details. • A 0.4% tax on residents with a worldwide net worth in excess of $30,000,000 ($15,000,000 for a married taxpayer filing separately). • The proposed tax would apply to residents, part-year residents, and temporary residents. • Temporary residents are defined as those who stay in the state more than 60 days during the calendar year....

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California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday named state Assembly member Shirley Weber to serve as California's new secretary of state. Weber is known for authoring legislation on reparations that was codified in the state earlier this year.

If you think Joe Biden's term as presumed president will extend through a full four years, there are a few used Dominion voting machines I'm offering to sell you at discounted prices. In fact, I'll make a prediction that his trusted staff of doctors, within three weeks after the inauguration, if not sooner, will sadly come to the conclusion that the Big Man has developed some severe mysterious symptoms requiring him to resign his office and hand it over to his V.P., Kamala Harris. Under the provisions of the 25th Amendment, enacted after President Kennedy's assassination, it appears that when...

"He did not subject to angels the world to come, concerning which we are speaking. But one has testified somewhere, saying, 'What is man, that Thou rememberest him? Or the son of man, that Thou art concerned about him? Thou hast made him for a little while lower than the angels; Thou hast crowned him with glory and honor, and hast appointed him over the works of Thy hands; Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet.' For in subjecting all things to him, He left nothing that is not subject to him" (Heb. 2:5-8). Man’s original intended...

Satan cannot shake or test the faith of any child of God without the Lord’s permission. Simply put, God has a purpose and plan behind every trial that Satan brings to our lives. Jesus gave a warning to the apostle Peter: “Simon, Simon! Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat” (Luke 22:31). The Word makes it clear that Satan’s main objective is to destroy the faith of those who serve Jesus. But many believers find it astonishing that the Lord granted Satan access to Peter in order to test him. Most Christians remember Peter’s...

Not a single court in the country has allowed the evidence of the possible theft by Democrats of the 2020 presidential election to be heard. Not a single major newspaper, outside the New York Post, has questioned Joe and Hunter Biden and Communist China's business dealings. Nor have they earnestly reported on or even taken the alleged allegations of voter fraud seriously. Over the past several years, Congress has conducted more than a dozen significant investigations into unlawful activity against conservatives by the Democrat party. Not one has resulted in any form of punishment or reform. The Department of Justice...

Prepare for supplies to tighten for the cheap, effective therapeutic treatment for early stage Covid-19 infection, hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). Just as the medical establishment in the US is relaxing its absurd and lethal suppression of the cheap, generic drug, following President Trump’s endorsement of it early in the pandemic, HCQ’s continued availability may suffer. The world’s second largest pharmaceutical facility producing the precursors for HCQ has been destroyed by an explosion and fire.Taiwan English News reports: An explosion at a pharmaceutical factory in Taoyuan City left two injured and caused a fire early this afternoon, December 20.People as far as Tamsui...

What, in today's political culture, is a "centrist"? Old-fashioned political nerds define it by support for legislation and policy proposals. If you love really big tax cuts and favor abolishing several Cabinet departments, you're not a centrist. If you want to "defund the police" and "end fossil fuels," you're also not a centrist. This is one of those matters of political categorization that our most prestigious newspapers mangle on a regular basis. Liberal editors and reporters have an annoying tendency to define the center as the precise location where they stand on the ideological spectrum. Case in point: The New...

"President-elect" Joe Biden, is constantly nattering on about light and darkness. Plagiarizing Peggy Noonan, he did it throughout his presidential campaign: Biden vows to end 'season of darkness' as he accepts Democratic presidential nomination -The Guardian, August 20, 2020Joe Biden Frames Election As Battle Of Light And Dark As He Accepts Democratic Nomination -Forbes, August 20, 2020Biden vows to defeat Trump, end US ‘season of darkness’ -Associated Press, August 21, 2020DNC 2020: Biden vows to end Trump's 'season of darkness' -BBC, August 21, 2020"We're about to go into a dark winter": Biden says Trump has no plan for coronavirus -CBS...

I was flying into Denver a year or so back to speak at a conference. Seated next to me on the plane was a very well-dressed Muslim woman, who looked quite professional in her outfit and her demeanor. About 45 minutes away from landing, she turned to me and spoke: “Are you a Christian priest?” I was wearing my cassock. “Yes,” I responded. “I have never met a Christian before,” she said. “Do you really believe that Jesus is God and that He died?” I was immediately put in mind of an exam I took in seminary. It was called...

When kids on a playground run out of other arguments they often resort to taunts and name calling. Adults are supposed to know better. But we live in an era in which otherwise responsible people seem to be reverting to a second childhood. Donald Trump is probably the most consequential president of our lifetime. Yet in the four years of his presidency, I can recall very few instances where one of his major policy changes was rationally discussed on the editorial pages of the New York Times. Instead, it’s been four years of diatribe. Four years of invective. Four years...

Georgia election official Gabriel Sterling announced that a fraudulent 2020 vote was cast using his address Georgia election official – and noted Trump-basher – Gabriel Sterling made a statement this afternoon announcing his official challenge to the voter registration of a woman who admitted to fraudulently voting using his home address in the 2020 election. Sterling is the Voting System Implementation Manager for the state of Georgia. He discovered the fraudulent voter registration when the Democrat-aligned get-out-the-vote organization Fair Fight Action sent a reminder to vote in her name to his home. Fair Fight was founded by Stacey Abrams in...

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti vetoed a plan backed by black and Latino members of the City Council to redistribute money cut from the police Tuesday because he said it was too focused on everyday needs and not on the “call of history.” The plan, which was originally passed 13-2, included funding to trim trees, improve parks, and repair sidewalks in poor neighborhoods. The mayor told the Los Angeles Times that the proposal was too focused on “business as usual.”