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There is a breaking story today about a tape-recorded call which is said to have taken place yesterday between President Trump and the Georgia Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger. This is an interesting story in light of the article I published earlier today about the valid election challenge that remains pending in Georgia, with signs that it is being purposely stalled until such time as the outcome of the case can have no impact on either the election or public perception of the events playing out right now. The tape was obtained by the Washington Post, but several media outlets...

Gerry passed away today at 78--NOT COVID-related. Story here: Gerry Marsden death: Gerry and the Pacemakers star passes away aged 78.

The safety efforts will include designation of a demonstration space, limitations on city bus routes, road closures, curfew and protective fencing, The officer, Rusten Sheskey, shot Blake after Blake opened an SUV’s driver-side door and leaned into the vehicle. Blake was left paralyzed from the waist down. The shooting was captured on video and circulated quickly online, fueling large protests in Kenosha that caused millions of dollars in damage to public and private property.

January 6 marks the festival of the Christian Epiphany commemorating the visit of the Magi—the three “wise men” of popular parlance—bringing gifts to the Christ child. It is also the day on which the presidency of the United States will be determined as the “wise men” of Congress meet to certify or decertify the vote of the Electoral College. The question is whether the current legitimate president will be recognized or whether a pretender to the throne, a false me Three facts should be obvious. The first is that the list of Donald Trump’s accomplishments as president is a long...

Members of Congress - in the House chamber? - gather to have the votes announced and possible objections raised What if Trump walks straight in with binders and binders of evidence that it was a rigged election? Finally, the media would HAVE to pay attention!

ere's What You Need to Know: The ability to change calibers has been an important consideration for the Russian military. Few who know firearms would argue that the SVD “Dragnov” is anything but a legendary weapon. When it was paired with the PSO-1 scope and entered service in 1963 it was the most advanced “sniper system” in the world. It was used in countless conflicts and its simplicity ensured that it was able to stick around far longer than competing marksman platforms. However, all good things must come to an end. According to a report from Tass, the Russian military...

Among the holiest days in the Christian calendar, Christmas celebrates the nativity of Jesus Christ as the unique Son of God. But that didn’t stop one of the most prominent revisionist parishes in the Episcopal Church from re-styling it with Islamic reading and a liturgy that aimed as much as possible to employ gender-inclusive language. All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, California routinely modifies language from both the Book of Common Prayer and the biblical text in order to better accommodate revisionist ideology. The liturgical innovations point to a trajectory rocketing past redefinition of sexual ethics and on to the...

All throughout high school, Brian Williams planned to go to college. But as the pandemic eroded the final moments of his senior year, the Stafford, Texas, student began to second-guess that plan. "I'm terrible at online school," Williams says. He was barely interested in logging on for his final weeks of high school; being online for his first semester at Houston Community College felt unbearable. "I know what works best for me, and doing stuff on the computer doesn't really stimulate me in the same way an actual class would." Paying for college was always going to be hard, but...

US President Donald Trump has been recorded telling Georgia's top election official to "find" enough votes to overturn the election result. "I just want to find 11,780 votes," Mr Trump told Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in a recording released by the Washington Post. Mr Raffensperger is heard replying that Georgia's results were correct. Joe Biden won Georgia alongside other swing states, winning 306 electoral college votes to Mr Trump's 232. Since the 3 November vote, Mr Trump has been alleging widespread electoral fraud without providing any evidence.

Numbers of incidental infections could form significant percentage of total hospitalizations. States throughout the U.S. are failing to distinguish between patients hospitalized because of COVID-19 and patients who merely test positive for the disease while being hospitalized for other reasons. Hospitalizations have for months been viewed as one of the critical indicators of the coronavirus pandemic: Countries worldwide have relied heavily on the number of patients sent to hospitals because of the virus as a way of measuring how severe a region or a nation's outbreak really is. Yet many, if not most, states are failing to make the distinction...

WILMINGTON, DE—To commemorate the "completely fair and honest" 2020 election, Joe Biden has announced a brand new memoir called If I Rigged It. The book is already being met with critical acclaim for its compelling description of a totally hypothetical situation where Biden and the Democrats fraudulently steal the election. "Listen here, Jack-- I didn't steal the election," said Biden to a group of adoring fans in the press. "But if I had stolen the election, this is how I would have done it. It's real simple, see? My new book will give you all the dirty details!" "This book...

December's Ratings Collapse for Fox News continues to be an unmitigated disaster for the Murdochs, Paul Ryan, and their paid and unpaid sycophants and apologists. Going from record ratings before their duplicitous Arizona call, to massive ratings collapse by Tuesday 12/29. Here are the current Fox News ratings losses according to Nielsen as of Tuesday 12/29: MacCallum -61% Bream -61% Ingraham -60% Hannity -58% Baier -56%, Carlson -56% Cavuto -48% Fox and Friendless -47% Outnumbered -45% The Five -44% Hemmer -44% Sandra Smith -44% Perino -43%

Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec New: Mitch trying to broker deal now, stimulus checks for full cooperation on the 6th, per Hill staffer, some willing to agree if it's passed first, and only first, others will object either way 12:58 PM · Jan 3, 2021

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., won another term as speaker Sunday with just more than enough votes than needed to secure the position. Pelosi won 216 votes, with 208 going to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. Two members voted for other Democrats while three Demcrats voted present. The new Congress convened Sunday, just two days after lawmakers ended their contentious previous session and with COVID-19 guidelines requiring testing and face coverings for House members. There was widespread mask-wearing and far fewer lawmakers and guests in the chamber than usual, an unimaginable tableau when the last Congress commenced two years...

Apples were among some of the first crops grown in colonial America. Potted seedlings and bags of apple seeds were brought over on the Mayflower. The Bible-thumping Puritans were not teetotalers. Apple orchards in colonial America usually meant one thing: hard cider. The apple tree is an unusual plant. It’s what’s called an “extreme heterozygote,” meaning the fruit it produces is highly varied from one plant to another. Even seeds planted from apples that fell from the same parent tree will yield offspring trees that produce completely different tasting fruit. Nowadays, we tend to think of apples as perfectly shaped,...

Depending on their status in society and where they lived, medieval people had a variety of meats to enjoy. But thanks to Fridays, Lent, and various days deemed meatless by the Catholic Church, even the wealthiest and most powerful people did not eat meat or poultry every day. Fresh fish was fairly common, not only in coastal regions, but inland, where rivers and streams were still teeming with fish in the Middle Ages, and where most castles and manors included well-stocked fish ponds. Those who could afford spices used them liberally to enhance the flavor of meat and fish. Those...

This music video shows off the theme of the Taiwanese drama, "Bromance," a series in the popular girl-posing-as-a boy genre. What's different is that the girl's parents makes her fool the world until she turns 26, on the advice of a fortune teller. Her love interest is the morally upright leader of 1 of 3 connected Triad families, who she saved as an adult AND as a child. Wonderful complexities.

I’ve been writing about the looming eviction crisis since early in the summer. This entirely predictable disaster has been obvious to anyone who has been paying attention ever since the pandemic broke out. A well-intentioned “eviction moratorium” effort by the government to prevent renters from finding themselves out on the streets after government shutdowns eliminated their jobs did little or nothing to prevent the damages sustained by landlords. It also never answered the question of what would be done about all the back rent that was going to come due when the moratoriums expired. These challenges are already taking their...

It seems that these days most people understand the troubles that come with snow. But have you ever considered how it was done before we had hundreds of trucks and fancy plows? Imagine tackling this past winter only using shovels and horse-drawn equipment. It might make you appreciate just how far we’ve come with snow removal. So where do you even begin without the snow plows of today? Well just like how a horse would have been used on a farm, they had to drag plowing equipment. Needless to say this was incredibly tedious because the horses couldn’t push the...

I received a log periodic antenna designed by ham radio operator WA5VJB from Kent Electronics. They are rated from 2 to 11 GHz, so this model will cover several of the ham bands. These antennas are made on PCB's and are ideal for use in the amateur microwave bands as compromise dish feeds. In this video I do a test of such a feed versus my patch antenna on the 3.4 GHz band. https://www.wa5vjb.com/products1.html I mounted one in place of the original dipole feed on a 2.4 GHz (13cm) gridpack at the same focal point. Whilst gain will be down...