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...People caught on fast. In some neighborhoods in Chicago and Miami, it seemed like everyone made a bogus application to the Small Business Administration’s Covid-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan program.... ...The SBA’s much-vaunted new computer system, built by an outside contractor for $750 million, proved blind to certain types of fraud and sometimes awarded grants even when it spotted disqualifying features. The agency pressured loan officers with little training to churn through applications quickly, while making it difficult for them to detect or report suspicious ones. ...

A man from Kentucky decided to clear his driveway using a flamethrower Dressed only in a hat and bathrobe the man casually walked down the drive Passing drivers honked their horns as they drove by the bizarre sight Plenty of people on social media praised the ingenuity of the idea with many wishing they had in fact received flamethrowers for Christmas

WASHINGTON D.C., Dec. 27, 2020 (Gephardt Daily) — Utah Sen. Mitt Romney has joined a bipartisan group in urging President Donald Trump to sign a $900 billion coronavirus relief bill as unemployment benefits expired over the weekend and the government faces a shutdown on Monday. Romney (R-UT) joined Joe Manchin (D-WV), Susan Collins (R-ME), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Angus King (I-ME), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), and Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Problem Solvers Caucus Co-Chairs Representatives Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ-5) and Tom Reed (R-NY-23) in urging Trump to sign the relief package. A joint statement from the group...

Nashville Police Chief John Drake confirmed to local news outlets that Anthony Quinn Warner, 63, is the person of interest in the Christmas Day explosion in downtown Nashville.Drake told The Tennessean that Warner was linked to the blast near the AT&T building downtown. A spokesman for the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (told) The Tennessean that Warner was linked to the blast near the AT&T building downtown. A spokesman for the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department told Reuters that Warner is under investigation in the case.According to the news outlet, citing public records, Warner held several IT jobs over the years. He...

Amidst all the filth, vulgarity, profanity, sexuality and political correctness (in which the former is not evil but not affirming LGBTQ is) there some pretty good Christian and family films that you can see for free. Tubit is an American ad-supported streaming service owned by Fox Corporation and has been around for a while providing licensed content, and has some gems among the refuse that is to be refused (best to search under appropriate category) and requires no sign up for videos here, although a few short video ads interrupt. The list of movies below is not exhaustive, but most...

Donald J. Trump @real Donald Trump 6:21 pm December 27, 2020 Good news on Covid Relief Bill. Information to follow!

Assembled in teams at folding tables, GBI agents and state election investigators this past week scrutinized voter signatures on absentee ballot envelopes, a major test of their legitimacy. A small number of mismatched signatures would discredit suspicions from President Donald Trump and election skeptics who claim the system for verifying voter identity allows rampant fraud. Significant mismatches would expose flaws in the ballot verification process.

My friend Jimmy needs every prayer he can get, Friday I learned he was very sick with the china virus and not doing well. Today I found out he has been admitted to the UAB Hospital intensive care unit. His china virus has turned into viral pneumonia and his oxygen levels are sporadic and difficult to control. They are trying everything possible to keep him off the ventilator.

Between October 1, 2019 and September 30, 2020, ICE agents deported 185,884 illegal aliens from the United States. About 64 percent of those deported, 118,949 illegal aliens, had criminal convictions or pending criminal charges against them. Nearly 14,500 illegal aliens deported were family units while a little more than 4,000 were Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs).

ByCeline RyanonDecember 14, 2020 Pope Francis has teamed up with a member of the Rothschild family and multiple multinational corporations including Mastercard and Bank of America, to ensure the creation of a new, global economic system. The “Council for Inclusive Capitalism with the Vatican, founded by Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, launched Tuesday, with a proclamation promising that the council “answers the challenge by Pope Francis to apply principles of morality to business and investment practices” The press release included a quote from its Rothschild founder, who explained that “Capitalism has created enormous global prosperity, but it has also left...

Hilaria Baldwin is married to Alec Baldwin, the mouthy star who does a terrible impression of Donald Trump for Saturday Night Live. Hilaria, or Hillary Hayward Thomas as she was known growing up in Boston, is on the receiving end of internet sleuths who seem to be out to cancel her for faking a Spanish accent and lying about where she was born. Page Six has the story. Hilaria Baldwin has been forced to defend her fluctuating Spanish accent — and admitted that her name is “Hillary.” The wife of Alec Baldwin took to Instagram Sunday morning after a Twitter...

What I offer today is a dissertation I stumbled upon while doing research for a book I plan on writing. The subject of my book is the time when Jesus visited the Temple with His parents when He was 12. I was investigating the various rules and regulations concerning Jewish boys. While in my search I stumbled upon a few commentaries discussing what the age Christ's Disciples would have been. As usual, I found my self going on a tangent away from my main topic. However, this was one rabbit hole I enjoyed so much that I felt it worthy...

Looking for a range bag on Amazon and noted that they don't list the country of origin. Really trying to make an effort to buy American and don't want to be funding our enemy. I would encourage others using Amazon to ask before purchasing and if anyone has the name of an American made range bag, it would be greatly appreciated.

Highway 231 in Lebanon, TN shut down due to suspicious RV. RV reportedly broadcasting the same message as Nashville.

The man who launched the Christmas morning bomb in Nashville died in the explosion, federal authorities said Sunday late afternoon. A DNA test identified the bomber as Anthony Quinn Warner, according the Associated Press. No one else was involved in the incident, the outlet reported.

Bobby Piton, the mathematician who testified at the Arizona voter fraud hearing dropped a bombshell this weekend.Mr. Piton has done extraordinary work crunching data and his testimony pointed out blatant voter fraud through incontrovertible evidence, at one point claiming he’d stake his life on the factual nature of his testimony.In other words, these people have no parents, siblings, aunts, uncles or cousins who share the same last name (phantom voters). Piton revealed this weekend that he examined just over 9 million records in Pennsylvania and has identified 521,879 unique last names. In other words, these people have no parents, siblings,...

When the Supreme Court of Chief Justice John Roberts rejected the lawsuit of the state of Texas and other states that said the election rules in contested battleground states like Pennsylvania were unconstitutionally written, SCOTUS ruled that it could not prove Texas or its citizens suffered harm by the processes by which another state selects electors and writes election rules. This of course is nonsense. Supreme Court Justices are like field goal kickers. They have one job. In the case of SCOTUS, it is to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. We are a union...

I find this article by the Irish Times interesting. Somehow the deep state set an anchor in that lovely country. I recall seeing an unintentionally horrifying picture of Hillary Clinton photographed standing in a church doorway, holding a defenseless orphan in her claws (I think I wrote then that she was shown baring her teeth).So the article is yet another MSM hatin' on President Trump, and it holds up as proof that the President brutally fired Chris Christie the day after his election victory party. Chris Christie recalls later that his 13 stuffed ring binders, holding the detailed presidential transition...

The violent explosion that rocked downtown Nashville, Tenn., on Christmas morning is believed to be a suicide bombing by Anthony Q. Warner, 63, U.S. Attorney Don Cochran said Sunday. Authorities continue to ask those who knew or encountered the suspect to contact the FBI. The agency is still investigating, but there is no indication that anyone else was involved, Cochran said. Officials said DNA testing of human remains on the scene matched to Warner. They said no other threats were known against the city but wouldn't comment on possible motives for the bombing. According to NPR member station WPLN, Warner...

The Pope’s Christmas Speech He decries division while creating it.Shortly before Christmas, Pope Francis delivered a speech to Vatican officials in which he decried “conflict” within the Church. It was an odd theme for a pope who routinely sows such conflict. Naturally, he didn’t mention his own role in fostering division. Instead, he appeared to equate “conflict” with resistance to his subversive agenda.He said,When the Church is viewed in terms of conflict — right versus left, progressive versus traditionalist — she becomes fragmented and polarized, distorting and betraying her true nature. She is, on the other hand, a body in...