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A top Taiwanese official issued a plea today for people to stop changing their name to “salmon” after dozens made the unusual move to take advantage of a restaurant promotion. In a phenomenon that has been dubbed “Salmon Chaos” by local media, around 150 mostly young people flocked to government offices in recent days to officially register a change in their name. SNIP Under the two day promotion which ended today, any customer whose ID card contained “Gui Yu” – the Chinese characters for salmon – would be entitled to an all-you-can-eat sushi meal along with five friends. Taiwan allows...

FR CANTEEN MISSION STATEMENT Showing support and boosting the morale of our military and our allied military and the family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. FReeper Canteen Come on in, we're open Need a place just to hang out? This is it. We serve coffee, tea, conversation and music. Pull up a seat and relax. Our AWESOME military, our AWESOME allies, and their families are welcomed and honored here. No worries in the FReeper Canteen Just Hangin' Cafe. Grab a cup or a glass, and start a conversation. You never know who you might meet...

PENSACOLA, Fla. (WKRG) — The man who fired a shot at an alleged intruder inside his house is talking about what happened early Thursday morning on West Jackson Street. Keith Fendley says the suspects went into the garage and cut off the power to the home and broke through a window in a door that leads to the kitchen. He and his wife were asleep and the glass breaking woke him up. “I jumped up, got the gun, came right there,” Fendley said. He poked his head out into the hall and saw two figures in the dark and they...

ransomnote: I've edited out some 'colorful' words and humor to meet FR's family standards for readers. I also trimmed out some info that seemed like side-tracking. Where content was removed/replaced, I typed 'SNIP' and ['expletive']. I have watched many videos and read content by doctors and researchers who have explained why the PCR test does not actually test for Covid-19. The inventor of the PRC test objected to it's use with Covid-19 because "it doesn't tell you if you're sick". Here's a link that touches on that. https://nationalfile.com/inventor-of-pcr-test-said-fauci-doesnt-know-anything-and-is-willing-to-lie-on-television/Thread article begins here. It's more detailed than most PCR analysis I've read....

Lawmakers in the House of Representatives on Thursday passed two bills that would establish paths to citizenship or legal status for millions of undocumented immigrants, including those brought to the country unlawfully as children and workers in the agriculture sector. The legislation was passed largely along partisan lines, with Democrats in favor and Republicans opposed. The bills are narrower than the comprehensive immigration package introduced in February with the support of President Joe Biden. Even so, they face an uphill path to passage in the Senate, where 10 Republicans would be required to vote with every Democrat in order to...

President Biden misspoke in a speech Thursday offering updates on an update on vaccination progress in the U.S., referring to his vice president as "President Harris." "When President Harris and I took ..." Biden said, before momentarily pausing, "a virtual tour of a vaccination site in Arizona not long ago, one of the nurses on that tour injecting people, giving vax each shot, was like administering a dose of hope."

A White House aide wants the president “to start acting now” on reparations without congressional approval. But not even the consent of the House and Senate would legitimize reparations. It’s a policy so divisive, and so impossible to implement, that the idea, which is an ugly societal wedge of its own, needs to be dropped and never brought up again. While decent Americans have moved past racial politics and are starving for genuine unity, senior adviser Cedric Richmond “sees first-term progress on reparations,” reports Axios, which recently interviewed the director of the White House Office of Public Engagement. “We have...

President Joe Biden's handlers are still shielding him from full-blown news conferences with reporters, but they let him talk directly with Chinese President and Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping? Ye gods! What were they thinking, letting Biden talk to Xi Jinping? Xi Jinping wants to eat our lunch, the president said after talking to the communist leader in February. "If we don't get moving, they are going to eat our lunch," Biden said. Yet a couple of years ago, Biden insisted that China would never be able to eat our lunch. "China is going to eat our lunch? Come...

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Once the must-read print magazines for then-middle school millennial girls, Teen Vogue has long been a shadow of its former self. Glossy print spreads boasting Marc Jacobs and Betsey Johnson merchandise for the (upper-middle class) younger set have been replaced by angry drivel lambasting capitalism and Israel and teaching "How To Masturbate If You Have a Penis." What used to be a print magazine catering to actual teenage girls with flirting and fashion tips now clearly desires to be an ethno-Marxist manifesto for bitter, unwed thirty-somethings living with two roommates and a cat in Bushwick. So it should come as...

Alexi McCammond, girlfriend of disgraced former White House aide T.J. Ducklo, will not be taking over as editor in chief of Teen Vogue. The journalist said Thursday that she and the publication's parent company, Condé Nast, have "agreed to part ways" after staff members raised concerns over her "racist and homophobic tweets" from 2011, when McCammond was a teenager. McCammond, who was set to start the new gig on March 24, had already apologized years ago for the offending tweets, in which the journo expressed annoyance at a "stupid asian" teaching assistant, and her desire to "not wake up with...

Since one of Carnival’s brands in the UK announced domestic sailings for vaccinated guests only, there have been many questions to Carnival Cruise Line if they will follow. The cruise line’s brand ambassador made it very clear on the situation, which is not the same as P&O in the UK. Lots of Guest Questions Carnival Cruise Line Brand Ambassador John Heald cleared some things on Thursday morning following some confusion amongst the cruise community. It comes after sister line P&O revealed that domestic sailings would only be allowed for vaccinated guests. Many guests have asked online if Carnival Cruise Line...

The hidden poison in the Vatican’s statement against blessing homosexual unionsMonday saw big news from Rome with the release of a Vatican document forbidding the blessing of homosexual unions.March 17, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — How is it that Pope Francis’ Vatican has released a document forbidding the blessing of homosexual unions? Isn’t this the same Pope who famously said: “If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?” Isn’t this the same Pope who approved of civil unions for homosexual couples both in Argentina while bishop there, and just recently as...

If you’re an American of average income, listen up. You’re about to become a lot poorer. President Joe Biden’s proposed soon-to-be-unveiled multi-trillion dollar tax hike, the first major increase in taxes since 1993, will ensure that. With a massive wave of new spending on the way, it was only a matter of time before Biden and his far-left economic team came up with massive new tax increases to match. You might be happy with your $1,400 “stimulus check,” but you won’t be happy with the higher taxes you’ll be paying from now until you die. That’s right, because no matter...

U.S. Dept. of State calls on cos to stop participating in Nord Stream 2 project, warns of sanctions The U.S. Department of State on Thursday said that any firms involved in implementing the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project must stop participating in it unless they want to be subjected to sanctions. "The Department reiterates its warning that any entity involved in the Nord Stream 2 pipeline risks U.S. sanctions," U.S. State Secretary Antony Blinken said. Blinken has called on every such entity to "immediately abandon work on the pipeline."

Washington -- I was right. I have been right for over 50 years. Through those at times lonely years, I have been patronized by affluent magazines and newspapers for setting up The American Spectator as an organ of opinion that eschewed making a profit. I would cover our expenses in other ways. I did not ignore making a profit, but I had studied the plight of intellectual reviews and recognized that an intellectual review -- like a symphony orchestra, like a museum, like a think tank -- rarely makes a profit. There simply is not a large enough audience to...

And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.( Luke 11:1)I really want to give you, my dear readers, the best possible teaching on the most practicable and usable subject…prayer. How we need prayer! We need to develop a steady communion with God in these last days. There are so many soul deadening distractions, and so much to clutter and even to crowd out the inner life. There is so much more temporal gratification...

The NAACP sent a letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on March 9 urging the league not to negotiate a new TV deal with broadcast partner Fox. The civil rights organization condemned Fox News for promoting "hatred, bigotry, lies and racism" and implored the league to not fund the network by signing a contract with its sister company. The letter signed by president and CEO Derrick Johnson applauds "the NFL’s indications of support for social justice" while condemning Fox News' efforts "to inflame racial division and propagate an unstable political climate."

Explanation: Clouds of stardust drift through this deep skyscape, across the Perseus molecular cloud some 850 light-years away. Dusty nebulae reflecting light from embedded young stars stand out in the nearly 2 degree wide telescopic field of view. With a characteristic bluish color reflection nebula NGC 1333 is at center, vdB 13 at top right, with rare yellowish reflection nebula vdB 12 near the top of the frame. Stars are forming in the molecular cloud, though most are obscured at visible wavelengths by the pervasive dust. Still, hints of contrasting red emission from Herbig-Haro objects, the jets and shocked glowing...

Over the weekend amateur radio tinkerers in Europe managed to decode some portions of the telemetry data broadcast by the second stage of the Falcon 9 when it's in orbit. This data was in a somewhat standard format, but decoding still required some custom tools to extract the bitstream from the signal and then some guesswork to figure out the exact format. There's still lots of unknown data, but most interestingly this gave access to the engineering cameras including one showing the interior of the liquid oxygen tank.