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Are the new guidelines for a resumption of cruising from US ports finally on the way? According to a message Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava posted on Twitter, we should see a release from the Centers for Disease Control soon. The release we expect to see is phase two of the Conditional safe sailing order, which will allow cruise lines to start test cruises from US ports, one of the requirements before sailing with passengers will be allowed. Guidelines to be Issued Shortly? The Miami Dade Mayor requested a meeting with the CDC’s Director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, last week, as...

Of the various Covid injections available, is there strong science on the rate of excess death after having taken the shot? With many millions having recieved the shot, every day a few dozen will die of heart attack, cancer, stroke, being hit by a bus, etc. The real trick is to find out HOW MANY MORE died than usual, as a percent of those who took the shot. For example, if the background rate of death is 0.025% per Quarter of a Year, and the jabbed contingent on an age adjusted basis die at 0.056%, then death coincident (not causal,...

Desktop computers might feel like a thing of the past, but there are still plenty of reasons to choose a the best desktop PCs over a laptop. Oftentimes, even base model desktop computers are far more powerful than their mobile counterparts. This makes them better suited for multimedia projects like photo, video and music editing. And if you’re looking for a machine for your work or home office, you might as well get more power and performance at a similar (or lower) price. That’s right, desktop computers are often far more affordable than premium laptops. If you feel like you...

Did you think coughing or sneezing in public was a social non-no before the pandemic? A new study finds people are even more mortified to do it now. Over half of Americans say they feel judged when they have to sneeze in public, even when they’re masking up. The survey polled 2,000 Americans to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted social etiquette around coughing and sneezing, especially as allergy season approaches. Over half the poll (56%) feel the heat of judgmental eyes after sneezing or coughing. Another 55 percent shared they experience a slight moment of panic when they...

Dozens of America’s top media outlets parroted the conclusions of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) COVID-19 report despite warnings, even from the Biden administration, that the document was heavily-influenced by Chinese propaganda. The WHO buried its dismissal of the much-debated lab leak theory at the very end of its lengthy COVID-19 report. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told CNN on Sunday that he was worried “about the methodology and the process” behind the report, noting “that the government of Beijing apparently helped to write it.” Despite Blinken’s red flag, many media publications opted to take the report at face value....

Are you familiar with the concept of contouring, the makeup technique that uses cosmetics to enhance facial features? If applied effectively, contouring has the potential to turn an average face into an aesthetically appealing one.Contouring is really a consequence of the times. People feel pressured to look a certain way, and many respond by desperately attempting to make themselves appear more attractive than they really are. An individual who contours is compensating for perceived flaws.Of course, the contouring effect is applicable to much more than human faces.Montero Lamar Hill, more commonly referred to as Lil Nas X, recently released a...

Georgia is not the only state working on legislation to improve election integrity. Texas made a step in the right direction on Thursday when the state Senate approved legislation that would ban mail-in drop boxes and most drive-thru voting. The bill, SB7, was passed on a party-line vote. The criticism of the bill is along party lines, too. The Texas State Senate approved the legislation on April 1, a measure that Republicans say “ensures election integrity,” while Democrats say it’s voter suppression and makes it harder for people with disabilities and ethnic minorities to vote. SB7 passed on a vote...

The Committee on Liberatory Information Technology has announced a long-standing Chromebook bug that could reveal user location history. Evidently already on the radar of Google, the platform has a feature allowing anyone with physical access to your device to connect as a guest and view your Wi-Fi logs. Of course, once said intruder has accessed these logs, they would then need the technical knowhow to make sense of them. However, if they are skilled enough, they may be able to track your place history by viewing your Wi-Fi network access over the past seven days. It turns out the bug...

WASHINGTON — As COVID-19 lockdowns shuttered businesses across the nation in early 2020, West Wing aides began to sidle off into a downstairs bathroom in the next-door Eisenhower Executive Office Building — for appointments with a black-market barber, The Post has learned. With barbers across downtown Washington closed under local orders, the underground operation kept then-President Donald Trump’s staff looking their best as they battled a once-in-a-century pandemic ... The Biden White House’s apparent decision to keep the restored barber shop won praise from Trump White House staff, but also scorn for Democratic reluctance to reopen businesses more broadly. One...

The United States Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg was caught on video Thursday unloading a bike from an SUV just moments before riding the bike a short distance to his destination, to make it look like the 'environmentalist' was saving energy, in an epic virtue signal fail. A person off camera can even be heard questioning why the Biden administration official would be wearing a suit while bike riding. Buttigieg has been at the forefront of advocating for President Joe Biden to implement new taxes on transportation, including taxing individual’s based on the amount of distance they have driven as...

Ohio continues to add resources to a public-private partnership to combat unemployment fraud, which the state says has cost taxpayers more than $200 million, and the newest additions are a pair of big names. Gov. Mike DeWine announced recently a new agreement between the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services and Google to conduct data analytics on all outstanding claims. The state will pay the tech company $1.4 million to use Google Analytics to help discover fraud. “This is one of the first things the private sector group told me when they came in is drilling down on this...

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At yesterday’s meeting, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors continued to do all it could to not make it easy for the Senate to perform its audit. The Supervisors have been doing this for months. They even sued the Senate once in an attempt to not allow the Senate to perform an audit which is the Senate’s right. At that time the Board of Supervisors argued that since the ballots were all sealed, they could not unseal the ballots for the audit because during the audit the ballots would have to be unsealed and the law says they have to...

According to the Synoptic Gospels, sundown of Holy Thursday ushered in the Passover. Later on this evening, the Lord will celebrate the Passover meal with His disciples. We ought to be mindful that the unleavened bread Jesus will take in His hands is called “the bread of affliction.” Scripture says, You shall eat [the Passover] with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction—for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste—that all the days of your life you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt (Dt 16:3).Indeed, this is an evening of...

Whether we are talking about Anthropogenic global warming (AGW):The political forces looking to spend the climate trillions and the academia segment supplying the fear want to scrub the climate debate of anything but the scariest scenarios. They want an unwavering allegiance to vigorous spending on climate policy, no matter its effectiveness. - SDAor COVID-19, there is only one acceptable position that “reasonable people” are allowed to hold. And you know what that is because it’s pounded into your brain via the Media, the Academy and Politicians (MAP) on a 24/7 basis. The MAP will happily provide the specifics on the...

A Taiwan express train with almost 500 aboard derailed in a tunnel on Friday, killing at least 48 passengers and injuring 66 in the island's worst rail disaster in almost four decades. Images from the scene showed carriages in the tunnel ripped apart by the impact, with others crumpled, hindering rescuers in their efforts to reach passengers, although by mid-afternoon no one was still trapped. "People just fell all over each other, on top of one another," a woman who survived the crash told domestic television. "It was terrifying. There were whole families there." The crash, north of the eastern...

Source: Townhall Media/Julio Rosas"This is not politics," President Joe Biden said last week. "Reinstate the mandate if you let it down." Give him credit for consistency: When Gov. Greg Abbott ended Texas' mask mandate last month, Biden called it "Neanderthal thinking." But maybe the Neanderthals got it right. COVID-19 deaths in Texas plunged in March, and as National Review's Philip Klein points out, there's no relationship between mask mandates and coronavirus levels. Biden is clearly wrong on another point. This is not "not politics." America's constitutional federal system, and the latitude that both former President Trump's administration and the Biden...

Dr. Patrick Moore's new book "Fake Environmental Catastrophes and Threats of Doom" has risen to #1 Bestseller in both Environmental Science and Environmental Ecology on Amazon.com. This indicates a thirst for an alternative analysis to the narrative of global destruction by "climate change" and the "end of the world" prophesy now permeating the popular press. ----snip--- "It dawned on me one day that most of the scare stories in the media today are based on things that are either invisible, like CO2 and radiation, or very remote, like polar bears and coral reefs. Thus, the average person cannot observe and...

Wyoming is on the cusp of a needed improvement of their Constitutional Carry law. In 2011, Wyoming was only the third state to restore Constitutional Carry. Constitutional Carry is a close approximation of the state of law that existed when the Second Amendment was ratified in the United States, in 1791. At that time, there were no permits required to carry weapons in most public spaces, either openly or concealed.State governments and the Federal government did not impose legal burdens on the carry of weapons, openly or concealed, for two generations after the ratification of the Second Amendment.Gradual infringements on...

WASHINGTON, Monday, April 1. It is well understood here that there is a combination among those who propose to bid for the eight million loan to-morrow, to run the bids as low as possible. Washington capitalists are advised of the fact, and, if the New-Yorkers attempt to carry out their programme, it is quite probable that local bidders will secure the loan. Secretary CHASE understands this fact, and will probably check their speculation upon the Government. THE LAST REPORT ABOUT SUMPTER. It is reported that the Pawnee has been ordered to Charleston to take off Major ANDERSON and his forces....