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ALASKAPublished 17 hours ago Brown bears are typically dormant during the winter – but they don’t go into a 'true hibernation' In the wilderness, you need to watch your butt sometimes. An Alaska woman camping with her brother near Chilkat Lake over the weekend nearly had to kiss hers goodbye when she encountered a bear in the outhouse, she told a local radio station. "I got in there and sat down on the toilet seat, and something just immediately bit me in the butt," Shannon Stevens told the Haines, Alaska-based KHNS Wednesday. "I jumped up and screamed." The commotion got...

Nearly 42,000 years ago, when Earth’s magnetic fields reversed, this triggered major environmental changes, extinction events, and long-term changes in human behavior, a new study reports. The findings, made possible by a new radiocarbon record derived from New Zealand’s ancient kauri trees, raise important questions about the evolutionary impacts of geomagnetic reversals and excursions throughout the deeper geological record, the authors say. “Before this work,” says author Chris Turney in a related video, “we knew there were a lot of things happening around the world at 42,000 years ago, but we didn’t know precisely how… For the first time, we’ve...

A Johns Hopkins doctor believes that Covid-19 will be “mostly gone” two months from now.In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal on Friday, Dr. Marty Makary — a surgeon and a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health — argues that there are actually many more than the 28 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the U.S., possibly as much as 6.5 times more than that number. Between that group, and the roughly 15 percent of the country which has already received one dose of the vaccine, Makary argues that much...

Democrats in the House of Representatives have introduced legislation that would prevent former President Donald Trump from having his name displayed on federal projects, buildings, statues, lands, or other type of commemoration. According to the bill’s text, which was provided late last month, the legislation would “prohibit the use of Federal funds for the commemoration of certain former Presidents.” While Trump is not mentioned by name in the proposed legislation, he is the only president to have been impeached twice by the House. The bill, dubbed the “No Glory for Hate Act,” was introduced by California Democrat Rep. Linda Sanchez...

One of the hottest stories on the Twitter machine right now and in media/left-wing circles is about how Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was spotted at an airport Wednesday with his family as they waited for a flight to Cancun, Mexico. Read the full statement from Cruz. Below that is a photo of him returning back to the U.S.:New Statement from @tedcruz: pic.twitter.com/0WMni5O9R1— Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) February 18, 2021Senator Ted Cruz wheels his luggage at Cancun International Airport in Mexico before boarding a plane back to the U.S., while his home state of Texas grapples with a deadly deep freeze. Read...

Reince Priebus, a former White House chief of staff to Donald Trump, has called Republican donors and power brokers in Wisconsin to discuss a possible bid for governor or the U.S. Senate

Apparently during the COVID-19 pandemic, more than half of Americans have not used their vacation time. Jameson Irish Whiskey will encourage people to take time off to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day on Wednesday, March 17, 2021. Jameson will pay 1,000 people $50 each. You can enter by taking the Jameson pledge here. In addition to receiving $50, Jameson will make a $50 donation in each winner’s name to the Restaurant Workers’ Community Foundation.

A man from Sugarloaf Township charged with fleeing the scene after striking a construction worker who died on Interstate-81 waived his right to a preliminary hearing Friday. Zachary Gerbino, 27, appeared before District Judge James M. Dixon where he waived charges of accidents involving death and tampering or fabricating evidence to Luzerne County Court. Gerbino remains free on $25,000 bail. State police at Hazleton allege Gerbino was traveling north in a 2005 Hyundai Accent on I-81 when he struck Kevin DenDulk, 30, of Royersford, Montgomery County, at about 1:15 a.m. on Aug. 1. DunDulk was part of a construction crew...

Limbaugh Calls 12 Year Old Chelsea Clinton a Dog Rush: "A cute kid, let's take a look at the cute kid, see who is the cute kid in the White House..." Wait for it.

TAMPA (WFLA) — The former Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver who was found dead in his hotel room earlier this week may have been dead for three days when he was found, according to a preliminary medical examiner’s report. Former wide receiver Vincent Jackson was found dead at the Homewood Suites on Palm River Road in Brandon on Feb. 15. A preliminary report from the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner Department says staff members at the hotel went into Jackson’s room on Feb. 13 and Feb. 14 and found him sitting slouched over on the couch and assumed he was sleeping....

In his State of the State address, Gov. Andrew Cuomo touted the $306 billion in current and proposed infrastructure projects around New York that he said would revitalize the economy after COVID-19 shut down businesses and non-essential construction. In his Jan. 14 speech, the governor said a total $51 billion was being spent for projects to revive Manhattan's Midtown West neighborhoods, citing potential new projects as well as those well into planning. That figure includes the $1.6 billion Moynihan Train Hall, which opened Jan. 1; the $1.5 billion Jacob K. Javits Center expansion, expected to be completed this year; and...

In a new updated edition of his book Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another, journalist Matt Taibbi offers a term for a new practice of the corrupt mainstream media: bombholing.Bombholing is the practice of splashing wild and unsubstantiated stories all over the media. Then sending those same stories down the memory hole when they don’t pan out. Finally, media immediately distract viewers and readers with a new “bombshell,” which makes people forget the old “bombshell.” Viewers are led “from mania to mania.” Goaded into focusing on today’s outrage, people quickly forget the previous “bombshell,” which was...

Activists don’t want so much of Chicago’s $1.2 billion in relief going to cops, even to reimburse them. The revelation that Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot spent $281.5 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds on personnel costs for the Chicago Police Department is prompting outrage from local activists and citizens alike. “We asked for assurances they wouldn’t spend it all on police,” Alderman Daniel La Spata said Wednesday. “That’s the last thing people wanted, to infuse hundreds of millions more dollars into the police department right now.” The figure came to light after Lightfoot asked for City Council approval to transfer...

Usually citing one superficial study of just 14 persons and which simply tested blood and muscle oxygen levels after a short workout, we see headlines as below:www.sciencedaily.com › releases › 2020/11 ...Face masks don't hinder breathing during exercise, study finds Nov 5, 2020 — A new study has found that exercise performance and blood and muscle oxygen levels are not affected for healthy individuals wearing a face ... The study evaluated use of a three-layer cloth face mask... involving 14 physically active and healthy men and women..required to do a brief warm-up on a stationary bike. The exercise test involved...

Researchers exposed guppies to amounts of Prozac found near sewage plants Guppies are usually complex creatures with diverse behavior patterns The drugged fish did 'not have their individuality anymore' For fish to survive threats in the wild, members of a group need to behave differently from each other Most sewage filtration plants don't test for pharmaceuticals =================================================================== Prozac that finds its way into waterways could be wiping out fish's personality, according to a new study out of Australia. More than 250 million antidepressant prescriptions are filled in the US every year, including 20 million for Prozac, known generically as fluoxetine....

Appearing at a friendly CNN town hall event this week, President Joe Biden dropped a string of untruths on issues both large and small. One of the president's most egregious falsehoods was the claim that "we didn't have (the vaccine) when we came into office." The first shot was administered back on Dec. 14, 2020. Glenn Kessler, lead fact-checker for The Washington Post, quickly jumped into action on Twitter, explaining that this was merely a "verbal stumble, a typical Biden gaffe, as he had already mentioned 50 million doses being available when he took office. Former Trump officials should especially...

We are hosting a Game Night on our Discord Server on Thursday, February 28, at 8 PM Eastern / 5 PM Pacific. We will be playing Among Us and all are welcome. Please find the LAA Discord Server for patriotic gamers at https://discord.gg/lookaheadamerica.

With more than 40 million Americans having received at least the first dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, a third dose may be needed to prevent the spread of new variants of the disease, Bill Gates told CBS News Tuesday. Gates’ comments come amid growing concern that the current vaccines are not effective against the more contagious Brazilian and South African variants.Pfizer and Moderna have stated that their vaccines are 95% and 99% effective, respectively, against the initial strain of COVID. However, some scientists have questioned those statements. Additionally, the World Health Organization and vaccine companies have conceded that...

The legacy media is losing its ability to present plausible distractions from news stories it doesn’t want to cover.If Cuomo didn’t offer a future presidential prospect, he would surely be someone to throw under the bus. He’s a gubernatorial Biden — a shameless clown devoid of credibility or competence who represents everything regular Americans despise about the political class. Cuomo is the very picture of our coastal elites: his success owes almost completely to the name he inherited from his father Vito, er, Mario Cuomo and his membership in the ruling-class club. Cuomo spouts all of the pieties of the...

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra publicly admonished its principal flutist for her conspiracy-laden social media posts about COVID-19 and fraud in November’s presidential election. The orchestra tweeted that it does not condone the “words or sentiments” expressed in the posts on the personal social media accounts of flutist Emily Skala. “Ms. Skala does not speak for the BSO, nor do her statements reflect the core values or code of conduct grounded in humanity and respect,” orchestra officials announced. The orchestra released the statement after being alerted to Skala’s posts by other social media users. Facebook had flagged Skala’s posts for containing...