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The year 2020 will go down as exceedingly dumb, exceptionally dishonest, and utterly ridiculous, the calendar equivalent of that human potato who presides over a miserable TV show on the Airport News Network. Here’s how lame the year was – a Fox News host credited someone who was not me with observing that bulbous tuber is a potato, as well as dubbing him “Tater.” That moniker is my proudest achievement except, perhaps, my pioneering use of the cruise ship emoji to designate the Fredocon losers. Way to finish the year on yet another outrage. This year can’t end soon enough,...

'If this continues in France, the next step is auto-da-fés to burn books such as those of Voltaire' who also criticized religions. Opinion. ... “Caroline L.” is a professor at the Faculty of Law of Aix-Marseille. For talking about "sexually transmitted religions" during a master's degree, she received a complaint from the Ligue des droits de l'Homme (League for the Rights of Man) and countless death threats. ... “I am deeply saddened by what I consider an attack on free speech and academic freedoms,” says the teacher. She was accused of "Islamophobic" claims and the Aix-en-Provence prosecutor opened an investigation...

Maybe some of my Freeper acquaintances have noticed I have decided to just post items regarding period dramas from the Regency to Edwardian periods. To be totally honest, my psychological back broke weeks ago as I just have enough with the world we live in. My attitude is Let it Burn. So instead of joining a monastery, I decided to just focus on things that bring me joy. One aspect of that is I finally am taking advantage of my Amazon Prime status and am catching up on all the wonderful content available. Being interested in period dramas I have...

In the President’s signing statement, accompanying his signature of the COVID aid/government funding plan, he points out he wants "far less wasteful spending and more money going to the American people in the form of $2,000 checks per adult and $600 per child." Under the Budget Act of 1974, the President is required to submit a "budget request" to Congress in the winter. Many of the spending requests flagged by the President were consistent with his own budget request to Capitol Hill earlier this year.

The decades-old measure, named after an Illinois GOP lawmaker, limits the use of federal funds. WASHINGTON — House Democrats have spent two years passing government funding legislation without picking a fight over abortion, but with President Donald Trump leaving office, party leaders say 2021 will be different. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., who is set to chair the powerful House Appropriations Committee, said next year the House will eliminate the so-called Hyde Amendment, a decades-old policy that prohibits federal programs like Medicaid from paying for abortions. “This is the last year,” DeLauro said at a Dec. 8 hearing about the adverse...

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At least seven Pakistani soldiers were killed in a terrorist attack in the country's restive Balochistan province, the Army said on Sunday. The militants fire-raided a Frontier Corps (FC) outpost in Harnai region of the province late last night, it said. During the intense exchange of fire, seven soldiers were killed, it said. The area was cordoned off and escape routes blocked to apprehend the fleeing militants, while a large-scale search and clearance operation was under way. Commenting on the attack, Prime Minister Imran Khan said he was "saddened" over the loss of lives. "My heartfelt condolences and prayers go...

Democrats got Joe Biden into the White House but are alarmed at the political power of President Donald Trump’s populist economic platform, admits the pro-Democrat Washington Post. “Party strategists now speak privately with a sense of gloom and publicly with a tone of concern as the election results become clearer,” said the December 27 print report by political writer Michael Scherer: They worry about the potential emergence of a mostly male and increasingly interracial working-class coalition for Republicans that will cut into the demographic advantages Democrats had long counted on. They speculate that the tremendous Democratic gains in the suburbs...

ISLAMIST terrorists massacred a group of Christians in a remote village in Nigeria on Christmas Eve after promising to carry out an attack during the church's holy season. Boko Haram killed at least seven people including a pastor in their latest sickening attack. The militants stormed the village of Pyemi, near Chibok, in northern Nigeria as locals prepared to celebrate Christmas, according to International Christian Concern (ICC). Seven people were left dead while a further 12 from the area remain missing. The attack followed a threat released by Boko Haram warning they would strike Christian communities over the festive period....

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency deported more than 185,000 illegal aliens in Fiscal Year 2020 including more than 4,200 gang members, despite operational disruption caused by the Chinese coronavirus crisis. 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). The overwhelming majority, 92 percent, of illegal aliens deported from the interior of...

An excellent thread by the esteemed REX: 1. Sorry, guys. But this idea that the GOP will vote against Biden/the Dems to 'save the Republic' on Jan 6 is delusional. A few brave #MAGA Reps & Senators will object. But the GOP establishment will NOT, for as long as they can avoid it. Trump knows that. (If the link fails to work I will post a backup link in the first post.) Why?

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A high school senior of mixed race is suing a taxpayer-funded charter school in Nevada over the “coercive, ideological indoctrination” that is central to its Critical Race Theory-based curriculum that forces students to associate aspects of their identity with oppression. In the lawsuit, Clark v. State Public Charter School Authority, filed Dec. 22 in federal court in Nevada, the young plaintiff William Clark and his mother Gabrielle Clark claim their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights were being violated. Students were allegedly told that by refusing to identify with an oppressive group, they were exercising their privilege or underscoring their role...

Judge Wolfel orders Newsome to stop messing with strip clubs AND restuarants.

Statements & Releases Statement from the President Budget & Spending Issued on: December 27, 2020 As President of the United States it is my responsibility to protect the people of our country from the economic devastation and hardship that was caused by the China Virus.I understand that many small businesses have been forced to close as a result of harsh actions by Democrat-run states. Many people are back to work, but my job is not done until everyone is back to work.Fortunately, as a result of my work with Congress in passing the CARES Act earlier this year, we avoided...

ATLANTA -- Hall of Fame pitcher Phil Niekro has died at the age of 81.Niekro passed away in his sleep on Saturday night. The suburban Atlanta resident had a longtime battle with cancer.

Rouhani stressed the role of his position as President at a meeting on constitutional rights and citizenship held on Monday, December 21, 2020 when he said, “Article 134 of the Constitution clearly states that policy making and planning are the responsibility of the President." Rouhani tailored his speech in response to Khamenei's speech of December 20, making every effort to introduce his strategy for the survival of the mullahs’ regime as opposed to Khamenei's strategy. Because Khamenei, in his speech in a face-off with Rouhani on dealing with sanctions, emphasized a strategy of resistance and neutralizing their impact by relying...

December 28 2020 Feast of the Holy Innocents, martyrs Church of the Annunciation, Nazareth, Israel Britchi Mirela, ISRAEL, Nazareth Catholic Church Annunciation (interior 26)(Heritage sites in Israel with unknown IDs) Lectionary 698Reading 1 1 JN 1:5—2:2Beloved: This is the message that we have heard from Jesus Christ and proclaim to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all. If we say, “We have fellowship with him,” while we continue to walk in darkness, we lie and do not act in truth. But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, then...

A Chinese tycoon who died on Christmas Day was poisoned, Shanghai police say. Lin Qi, 39, was the chairman and chief executive of games developer Yoozoo, best known for the Game of Thrones: Winter Is Coming strategy game. The Shanghai police statement pointed to one of Mr Lin's colleagues - identified only by his surname Xu - as the main suspect. Mr Lin was believed to have a net worth of around 6.8bn yuan (US$1.3bn, £960m), according to the Hurun China Rich List. Many employees and ex-employees gathered outside Yoozoo's office on Friday to mourn his death. Who was Lin...