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Anytown, USA, Feb. 16, 2021 -- The latest installment of the popular, annual "Linux Sucks" video series has been released by handsome, Linux luminary Bryan Lunduke."The end of Linux is nigh," bellowed Lunduke, handsomely, perched on his soapbox at the corner of Main Street and 6th Avenue. "Linux is doomed. Doomed, I say! Doooooomed!"Viewed by millions of Linux users, around the globe, the "Linux Sucks" series dominates the "Boring Slideshows Presented at Linux Conferences" category of videos. With the 2021 installment not being available on YouTube, instead distributed exclusively via the Odysee video platform."Because," explained Lunduke, authoritatively, "YouTube is stupid.""I've...

There it is, hiding in plain sight: An astonishing six-part plan to make America into a one-party state. With the 2020 election in the rear-view mirror, it is timely to focus on election politics for 2022 and beyond. The first step is pattern recognition: The Democrats are pursuing a multi-prong strategy to cement a permanent majority. To accomplish the goal requires upending the constitutional design. Until the scope of this effort is seen in its entirety, it can proceed in the shadows. It has six astonishing elements: i. Enable Congress to determine who can run for President,ii. Eliminate the Electoral...

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February 17 2021 Ash Wednesday Lectionary 219Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet.First readingJoel 2:12-18 ©Let your hearts be broken, not your garments torn‘Now, now – it is the Lord who speaks –come back to me with all your heart,fasting, weeping, mourning.’Let your hearts be broken, not your garments torn,turn to the Lord your God again,for he is all tenderness and compassion,slow to anger, rich in graciousness,and ready to relent.Who knows if he will not turn again, will not relent,will not leave a blessing as he passes,oblation and libationfor the Lord your God?Sound the trumpet in Zion!Order a fast,proclaim a solemn assembly,call...

A consultant for the Republican establishment, who wrongly predicted that former President Trump would not be the GOP presidential nominee in 2015, is now calling former United Nations (UN) Ambassador Nikki Haley the “front-runner” for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. GOP consultant Alex Castellanos — whose clients have included the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, former President George W. Bush, and Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) during his failed 2008 presidential bid — claims Haley is leading the GOP slate of potential candidates for 2024. “I think Nikki Haley is the front-runner and it’s going to be very hard to stop her,”...

Law Enforcement sources report the release of more than 200 mostly Central American family units into a West Texas border community. The Biden administration’s cancellation of swift removal policies for Central American migrants forced Border Patrol officials to begin the releases of certain migrants immediately. The recent dismantling of international agreements by the Biden administration created a backlog of migrants being detained in Border Patrol facilities. Due to these changes, the Border Patrol will begin to release Central American family groups that cannot be removed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to their home countries, according to information obtained...

*Must see photos of a medical rescue in the remote 3rd world* The natives carry her out on a very improvised stretcher. More like a bundle. __________ Ashley Judd reveals she could have LOST HER LEG or DIED of internal bleeding after shattering her limb in the Democratic Republic of Congo before 55-hour rescue with just a bamboo splint Judd, 52, broke her leg in four places during a trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo last week In a new Instagram post, she reveals she 'would have lost [her] leg' or died of 'internal bleeding' without help from Congolese...

Nine Democratic members of the New York State Assembly on Tuesday accused Gov. Andrew Cuomo of federal obstruction of justice in a letter seeking support to strip him of his COVID-19 emergency powers. The move followed last week’s exclusive Post report that revealed Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa admitting to Democratic lawmakers that Cuomo’s administration covered up data about the total number of nursing home residents killed by the coronavirus. The letter, sent Tuesday to members of the Assembly, said, “It is now unambiguously clear that this governor has engaged in an intentional obstruction of justice, as outlined in...

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A county board voted unanimously Tuesday to rename busy McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas after former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada. The all-Democratic Clark County Commission approved a measure directing the county’s airport staff to file a change with the Federal Aviation Administration renaming the facility Harry Reid International Airport. The county commission oversees the airport and is the final authority on a name change. There have been longstanding calls to rename the airport. Its current namesake, former Nevada Sen. Patrick McCarran, served as one of Nevada’s two U.S. senators from 1933 until his...

GOP Senate....wake up, and "Broom & Dump" Senate Minority Leader, Republican, Mitch McConnell. He has outlived his usefulness and failed the GOP miserably. Do it as soon as possible like Today!!!

ABC is in “crisis mode” and considering taking the spotlight off Claudia Conway after her appearance on “American Idol” was branded “exploitative” because it appeared to capitalize on her serious struggles with her mom, Kellyanne Conway. For months, Claudia, 16, has been documenting her volatile relationship with her mother, a former White House adviser to Donald Trump, on Tik Tok. Things got so bad that cops got involved last month after Claudia accused Kellyanne, 54, of leaking a nude picture of her (though she later recanted the allegation). This weekend, Claudia appeared on the talent show, with the network...

A North Carolina sheriff's office is giving people a chance on Valentine's Day weekend to show their former lovers they're still wanted by turning them in if they have outstanding warrants. The Nash County Sheriff's Office is offering what it calls a "Valentine's Day Weekend Special," which it described as "a special too sweet to pass up." The "offer" posted on its Facebook page includes what the sheriff's office described as a set of limited-edition platinum bracelets, free transportation with a chauffeur and a one-night minimum stay in "our luxurious (five-star) accommodations." It tops the offer with a special Valentine's...

The mother of murder victim Poon Hiu-win, who has asked not to be named, sent a pink suitcase to the man accused of killing her daughter. South China Morning Post On Christmas in Hong Kong last year, Reverend Peter Koon Ho-ming received a surprise gift – a pink suitcase similar to the one that Taiwanese police found three years ago containing the body of a pregnant woman. The suitcase was sent by the mother of Poon Hiu-wing, as a reminder that Koon must get her alleged killer, Chan Tong-kai, to surrender to authorities on the self-ruled island as soon as...

“A guy bursts in, the QAnon shaman, dressed like a viking… And [the Capitol police officer] basically talks to him. Shoot him. Shoot him! If you burst into the United States Capitol… If he were dressed like Bin Laden, would you have shot him?” Schmidt told Maher. .....

"Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding" (Proverbs 17:28 KJV).

Watch the ABC News Originals special "Trump: The Reckoning" streaming exclusively on Hulu TONIGHT. With the conclusion of the second Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald J. Trump, ABC News Originals special "Trump: The Reckoning" launches tonight, Tuesday, February 16, and will stream exclusively on Hulu in the U.S. It will take viewers through the final chapter of Trump's norm-shattering presidency, which ended with a second Impeachment. Providing a gripping account of the Senate trial from multiple perspectives, this special takes a close look at the unprecedented events that led to this historic moment. It features interviews with...

CNN anchor Don Lemon said Tuesday on “Newsroom” that after former President Donald Trump’s term, the “Republican Party can no longer say that they don’t agree with the insurrectionists, with the bigots, with the racists, with the white supremacists, with the anti-Semites.”

During a town hall on CNN on Tuesday, President Joe Biden said that he thinks “by next Christmas, I think we’ll be in a very different circumstance,” “there will be significantly fewer people having to be socially distanced, having to wear a mask,” a year from now, and it’s “highly unlikely that by the beginning of next year’s traditional school year in September, we are not significantly better off than we are today.”

President Joe Biden said during a CNN town hall on Tuesday that former military and former police officers were fueling the “growth of white supremacy.” Biden said, “I got involved in politics, to begin with because of civil rights and opposition to white supremacist, the Ku Klux Klan and the most dangerous people on America continue to exist. That is the greatest threat of terror in America, domestic terror. So I would make sure my Justice Department and the Civil Rights Division is focused heavily on those very folks.

President Joe Biden said he believed a majority of kindergarteners through eighth graders would be back in school five days a week by the tail end of his first 100 days in office. Biden said at a CNN town hall Tuesday night that reports about the aim being for students to be in school just once a week was 'a mistake in the communication.' 'But what I'm talking about is, I said opening the majority of schools in K through eighth grade, because they're the easiest to open and the most needed to be opened in terms of the impact...