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Being a lifeguard in California can be unbelievably lucrative. If we had only known, many of us would have packed our bags and headed west for a career on the California beach. Our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com found that lifeguards make a fortune in Los Angeles County. Seven lifeguards made more than $300,000 and 82 lifeguards had total earnings that exceed $200,000 in 2019, the latest year available. Fernando Boiteux was the most highly paid and earned $391,971. As the “acting chief lifeguard,” he out-earned 1,000 of his peers: salary ($205,619), perks ($60,452), and benefits ($125,900). The second highest paid, Captain...

A 12-year-old boy collapses in front of a convenience story early Saturday morning after police say he was abducted, sexually assaulted and shot.

Not many people have talked about this so I thought I'd bring it up for discussion. A lot of people have asked or stated, "Who is in charge". I want to know who in hell made biden's notes for the press conference. Complete with pictures and names of "reporters" to call on, neatly organized into rows. This takes a modicum of skill with Word or Powerpoint that Biden surely doesn't posses. Who sat with him in those "study sessions" before the press conference and coached him? Exactly who or what is running America? And one more comment. A lot of...

Academics at the University of York removed a depiction of the three wise monkeys from their website after they determined it could be seen as an insult to ethnic minorities. The Three Wise Monkeys, which embody the Japanese proverb “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” and are often used to describe those turning a blind eye to wrongdoing, have become the latest victims of the Black Lives Matter iconoclastic movement in the United Kingdom. The organisers of an upcoming art history conference at the University of York in England have apologised for their use of the three...

Last year’s gargantuan $2.3 trillion appropriations bill did a couple of very obvious things: It provided millions of Americans badly needed coronavirus relief aid and it averted an impending government shutdown. It also dealt with … UFOs. The legislation, which President Donald Trump signed into law, was a bureaucratic nesting doll that ran more than 5,500 pages and contained the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, which itself carried an unusual provision in its “committee comment” section, beneath the understated heading “Advanced Aerial Threats.” The stipulation mandates that the director of national intelligence work with the secretary of defense...

Just after Biden’s inauguration, (I warned of four years of living dangerously under Joe Biden). The weakness of his policies and person are obvious for all to see.The world then watched Joe Biden’s first press conference. While the American Press fawned over President Biden for partisan reasons, America’s chief adversaries, (https://www.theepochtimes.com/t-china">(China and Iran), watched for serious geo-political reasons. They know Biden is weak and his staff naïve, and, this week, they did something about it.[SNIP](“signed a 25-year strategic cooperation agreement addressing economic issues.”)

After Jason Jones here at The Stream called on Pope Francis to repent for the Vatican’s silence on ISIS, something extraordinary happened. Jones’ column got translated and reprinted all over the Arab world. It got to the Vatican. And Pope Francis included a short apology in his Tweet stream, as he visited Iraq. Chalk that up as a win for moral clarity. But let’s press the question further. What exactly do Church leaders need to atone for? Pope Francis, leader of the world’s largest church, just visited Mosul. That was the epicenter of ISIS’s long string of atrocities. The Terrorists...

Good Morning/Afternoon, WELCOME To The Grace Curley Show!!!! A REAL CONSERVATIVE TALK RADIO WOMAN!

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An early Republican candidate announced plans Monday to seek the Alaska U.S. Senate seat that has been held since 2002 by Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski. Kelly Tshibaka, who has led the sprawling Alaska Department of Administration since early 2019, in a statement said she is running "for the Alaskans who believe government is of the people, by the people and for the people. The D.C. insiders need to be held accountable to us.” Her campaign said she was resigning as commissioner in pursuing the Senate race. Murkowski is widely seen as a moderate and has at...

1955’s The Dam Busters is a brilliant film about stiff-upper-lip British bravery during WWII. Directed by Michael Anderson, it stars Michael Redgrave, Richard Todd, and in early cameo roles, Robert Shaw, and Patrick McGoohan. It dominated the British box office in 1955, and was nominated for an Academy Award for its special effects. And while its climatic action scenes look hokey today, with miniature aircraft that look like they could have been Airfix models, that’s in part because of the massive revolution in special effects the film directly inspired. When George Lucas was planning Star Wars, he took plenty of...

Top loads for Popping Winter/Spring Predators and Varmints. With our big game seasons winding down, it's time to turn our attention to the predators in the later winter and the varmints in the spring. Where the strong, stiff premium bullets – with their bonded cores, monometal construction and partitioned cores – are the darlings of the big game world, the small-bore cartridges that best handle the furbearers and varmints are the opposite: maximum frangibility is a benefit. I enjoy hunting both coyotes and foxes in January and February here in New York, when the fur is prime, and both species...

“Gorilla Glue girl” Tessica Brown is pregnant with her sixth child, she has confirmed on social media. “Blessed,” the 40-year-old Louisiana woman confirmed on Instagram as she shared a TMZ story that broke the news over the weekend. Brown — who went viral for using Gorilla Glue in her hair after running out of her usual product, finally getting it freed by a plastic surgeon — already has five kids from a previous relationship, TMZ noted. The new arrival will be her first with fiancé Dewitt Madison — who also has four kids of his own, Brown’s manager, Gina Rodriguez,...

A Border Patrol section chief reported that in recent days, more than 861 criminals have been encountered at the border, including 92 sex offenders and 63 gang members.“Within the copious amounts of groups being encountered in” the Rio Grande Valley sector in Texas, “a Salvadoran man with a prior conviction for murder was discovered” along with 862 criminal aliens, Chief Patrol Agent Brian Hastings (wrote) that recently, agents encountered five large groups of illegal immigrant families, unaccompanied minors, and some adults—totalling 539.

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” This morning – You could not make this up; an unimaginably complex WW3 Techno-thriller unfolding as markets stumble and global supply chains hover on the edge of anarchy. On the other hand, maybe that’s just the way it was planned. I am not one for conspiracy theories. But… this morning… If I was a writer of trashy global-techno-World War 3 pulp fiction, and proposed the following scenario where the global economy lurches into an unprecedented period of instability – nobody would believe me: 1) Global Supply Chains, weakened...

Pastor Jackson Lahmeyer has announced that he will run against U.S. Sen. James Lankford for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in 2022. Lahmeyer has been endorsed by retired General Michael Flynn. Lahmeyer said that Lankford, a Baptist minister who used to run Falls Creek Christian Camp, is a good man but not strong when it comes to making decisions. Lankford declined to go along with a formal objection to the results of the November 2020 presidential elections. Lankford said his primary goal was reform of election practice rather than a challenge to the Electoral College. Lankford apologized to...

Open Letter to the WHO: Immediately Halt All Covid-19 Mass Vaccinations Geert Vanden Bossche, DMV, PhD, independent virologist and vaccine expert, formerly employed at GAVI and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. To all authorities, scientists and experts around the world, to whom this concerns: the entre world population. I am all but an antivaxxer. As a scientist I do not usually appeal to any platform of this kind to make a stand on vaccine-related topics. As a dedicated virologist and vaccine expert I only make an exception when health authorities allow vaccines to be administered in ways that threaten...

We commemorate those who fought in the Vietnam War on National Vietnam War Veterans Day, March 29. There’s no doubt that the Vietnam War was one of the most brutal. In fact, over three million people were killed during the 20 years it went on. It was known as the Second Indochina War to Americans, and considering its long fighting time and brutality, National Vietnam War Veterans Day was created to honor all the men and women who fought during its time.

The third stimulus checks were signed into law just a few short weeks ago by President Joe Biden, but millions of qualifying Americans have already received their direct payments from the IRS. That's a record time for stimulus payments, which took at least a week or two to start processing with the prior two stimulus packages under the former administration. As of Wednesday, March 25, the IRS had issued payments to about 127 million qualifying Americans via direct deposit and paper checks. And, even more paper checks and debit cards will be on the way in the upcoming weeks. These...

Sen. Lindsey Graham R-S.C., said Sunday it was "sick" that President Biden is playing the "race card" regarding the GOP-led Georgia election law and the legislative filibuster. "What's sick is for the president of the United States to play the race card continuously in such a hypocritical way," Graham said. During an appearance on "Fox News Sunday," Graham slammed Biden for claiming that policy and legislation he disagrees with are relics of racism and the Jim Crow era. Graham criticized Biden and Democrats for their opposition to the filibuster, given both the president's and the party's advocacy to retain the...

Americans are breaking with Joe Biden over key issues within his administration. An ABC News/ISPOS poll released Sunday found a majority of Americans disapprove of Biden’s handling gun violence nationwide. The poll found more than 57 percent of participants did not approve of Biden’s plan to lower gun violence. This comes as Biden has said his administration is looking into ways to restrict gun ownership. However, several lawmakers have said his plans for gun ownership are far too selective.