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OLYMPIA, Wash. - Say it ain't so, beer lovers: Olympia Beer, a mainstay of bar taps and college parties for decades, is pausing production. Pabst Brewing Co. made the announcement in an Instagram post Monday. The owner of the iconic local brand said the decicion came afer a decline in the beer's sales. "Sadly, we have not been able to find a solution to the challenges posed by reduced beer sales and have had to make the difficult deciscion of temporarily pausing production of Olympia Beer," the company said on the beer's Instagram page.

Biden Signs Executive Order To Ban The Term ‘China Virus’ The latest of Joe Biden’s THIRTY SEVEN executive orders signed in the first week of his presidency states that the term ‘Chinese virus’ or ‘China virus’ is now banned. Yes, this is real. The White House website confirms that Biden signed this EO. CBS News reported ‘Biden to address racism toward Asian Americans during pandemic with executive action’. The report notes that “The Biden executive order is also expected to direct federal agencies like the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to examine whether there are xenophobic references like...

Paris (AFP) - Earth's oceans have been warming consistently throughout the last 12,000 years, according to research published Wednesday that authors said showed clearly humanity's profound effect on the climate.Researchers in the US and China reassessed sea temperature models and found that they usually represented seasonal temperature variations rather than the annual average.Adjusting for these seasonal discrepancies, they found that sea temperatures have in fact risen more or less in lock step with global air temperatures over the last 12,000 years.The newly adjusted sea temperature models suggested that oceans are currently roughly as warm as they were during the last...

The video is still posted on Facebook, but there is no need to go to Facebook, because I recorded the video via screen capture software, and uploaded it to my blog. As I was capturing it, scrolled the comments down for you to see. here is the link to the video. The 15 year old stabbed, would die later at the hospital. They are young children between 12 and 14, they giggle, and say things that can be hard to understand, and like all children they are clueless as to the consequences of their actions.Facebook claims to be the arbiters...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife recently shared a video of an encounter between a skunk and one of Colorado's deadliest predators with an outcome many wouldn't expect. The video below captures a skunk walking by a mountain lion at night. The clip then cuts to another scene that shows the mountain lion seemingly trying to decide whether or not to pounce on the small creature. The skunk (now seen through the brush on the left side of the clip) bluff charges the lion multiple times as the lion can be seen sinking backward and baring its teeth. Eventually, the skunk wanders...

The last huge earthquake, the last really “Big One” to hit the Pacific Northwest Coast, struck around 9 p.m. on Jan. 26, 1700 — 321 years ago. Called Cascadia, the magnitude 9.0 quake caused the entire Pacific Northwest coastline to suddenly drop 3 to 6 feet and sent a 33-foot high tsunami across the ocean to Japan. The last huge earthquake, the last really “Big One” to hit the Pacific Northwest Coast, struck around 9 p.m. on Jan. 26, 1700 — 321 years ago. Called Cascadia, the magnitude 9.0 quake caused the entire Pacific Northwest coastline to suddenly drop 3...

Remember folks, ALWAYS follow the money. There is a guy who we all know. He portrays himself as a very wealthy grandfatherly type. He’s just a kind old man. He’s an awe-shucks investor. You know, “I just look for value.” Yet there is another side to Warren Buffett. He is a cutthroat, manipulative investor who loves, loves, loves to contribute to politicians, the Democratic Party, and PACs that will do his bidding, which brings us to the fortune he will make with Joe Biden killing the Keystone Pipeline. How? Well, he owns BNSF – Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad –...

I consider the author Neal Stephenson a visionary. For example in his 1999 novel Cryptonomicon, he essentially describes a Bitcoin type cryptocurrency, almost a decade before it existed. In a past video, I described his idea in The Diamond Age of “distributed governments” which provide insurance-like services to customers, regardless of the geographic area they live in. Customers were free to choose their own government, or go without one. Stephenson has another fascinating, newer book called Fall, or Dodge in Hell, in which the internet splinters after a massive hoax convinced people online that an entire city had been wiped...

We’ve known about this for over 100 years, yet Hollywood has an economy that is stronger and more robust than most developing countries today. It’s time to make Pelosi’s and Kamala Harris’ state answer for their crimes against children and their slave trade. (Video)

Every single Republican lawmaker and figurehead should be required to watch the Rand Paul clip as a clinic for how to take on the left-wing media.Rand Paul’s patience ran out this week when he made an appearance on ABC with George Stephanopoulos and the latter exchanged journalistic inquiry for partisan hackery. The ensuing fight, however, was a case study in what the media has become and how all conservatives who hit the airwaves ought to take them on. Rather than pose legitimate questions to the Kentucky senator, Stephanopoulos, who made his money as a Clinton-era Democratic operative before jumping over...

Here's the full list (and don't worry, there's no vaguely inappropriate "34+35" heart): "IGOTU BABE" "CRAZY NLUV" "PER FECT" "SUMMR LOVIN" "LOVE SHAK" "STILL THE 1" "ADORE YOU" "LUVME TENDR" "SUGAR SUGAR" "AT LAST" "1000 YEARS" "ALLMY LIFE" "MY GIRL" "BABY LOVE" "ONLY YOU" "HAPPY 2GTHR" "I'LLBE THERE" "I'M YOURS" "ALL OF ME" "LEAN ONME" "10000 HOURS" The brand suggests that the range of songs serve as a tribute to the many generations of fans who have had Sweethearts since they were created in 1902—but, if you ask me, they also make for a great trivia game: Can you name...

(Chandra X-Ray Observatory) ================================================================== When black holes swallow down massive amounts of matter from the space around them, they're not exactly subtle about it. They belch out tremendous flares of X-rays, generated by the material heating to intense temperatures as it's sucked towards the black hole, so bright we can detect them from Earth. This is normal black hole behaviour. What isn't normal is for those X-ray flares to spew forth with clockwork regularity, a puzzling behaviour reported in 2019 from a supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy 250 million light-years away. Every nine hours, boom -...

The Chicago Teachers Union continues to stage a standoff with City Hall after the union voted to reject in-person learning on Monday. The Board of Education had required K-8 teachers to return to schools so they could be prepared for a return to in-person learning on Feb. 1. But because the CTU didn't comply, the city has announced a delay to the teachers' start date to Wednesday in order "to resolve our discussions without risking disruption to student learning.” Chicago Public Schools explained how remote learning is putting strains on students, both in terms of their education and finances. The...

The last time a juvenile was charged as an adult with carjacking in Cook County? February 2019. January 27, 2021 CWBChicago Citywide An alleged juvenile carjacker made a crucial mistake Saturday when he told arresting officers that he’d be out of jail in a day and would then track them down and shoot them: He wasn’t in Cook County anymore. Now, prosecutors in suburban DuPage County are asking a judge to transfer the teen’s case to adult court. Saturday night, the teen and two accomplices threatened to kill a 20-year-old woman as they robbed and carjacked her at gunpoint in...

Joe Scarborough on Wednesday minced no words about the Senate Republicans who say the country now needs to “forget” the deadly U.S. Capitol riot incited by former President Donald Trump.

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Biden effectively bans terms like ‘China virus’ in new crackdown on COVID ‘racism’WASHINGTON, D.C., January 27, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — President Joe Biden has issued a memorandum effectively banning the use of terms like “China virus” to denote COVID-19 by government and administration officials.The memorandum to combat “Racism, Xenophobia, and Intolerance Against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States” was published yesterday on the White House website.Without mentioning his predecessor President Donald Trump by name, Biden accused the government of being complicit in promoting racism: “The Federal Government must recognize that it has played a role in furthering these...

On the menu today: Joe Biden’s pledges on the pandemic shift from, “I’m going to shut down the virus,” to “there’s nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months”; Biden continues his pattern of making a bold and sweeping promise that his staff has to explain he didn’t really mean; and Patrick Leahy takes a quick trip to the hospital.

San Francisco will rename 44 schools, including campuses named after former presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln and Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

Democrat lawmakers are reportedly seeking to add language into this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would keep alleged white supremacists from joining the military. The Hill reports, “Lawmakers are taking matters into their own hands to prevent white supremacists and other extremists from joining and remaining in the military.” The obsession linking white supremacy to the Capitol riots and using it to pursue political opposition continues unabated. Rep. Anthony Brown (D-MD) tells the outlet, “The attack on our Capitol was an insurrection fueled in large part by groups that espouse the same extreme white supremacists’ views groups that...