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Among the funnier things that I have been able to do over the last several weeks, is look back at my social media posts from a year ago as the pandemic was in its infancy. Whether it is snarky posts about government overreach or frustration with the lack of intellectual honesty by which restrictions were being placed, I get a chuckle out of my own child-like ignorance of the year I was about to endure. A few days ago, I wrote a piece showing my analysis of the data from the Diamond Princess COVID-19 outbreak from a year prior. This...

People should start to ask themselves, aside from personal protection from the virus, what incentive do I have to get the vaccine? Certainly, there is some peace of mind that can come from knowing that you have significantly reduced your ability to be infected, but as far as most government mandates and recommendations, your life will go unchanged.That’s not to say that I am saying to avoid getting the vaccine. In fact, I will receive my second shot next Wednesday. My issue is with the data-devoid emotional appeals we still have from those within the government who tell us the...

President Joseph Biden pledged to stand with Ukraine against Russian “aggression” in his first official phone call with his counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who raised concerns of troop movement near the border. Biden “affirmed the United States’ unwavering support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity in the face of Russia’s ongoing aggression in the Donbas and Crimea,” the White House said Friday in a readout of the call. Ukraine has asked for international support as Russian builds up troops along their shared border, raising concerns of an escalation in the seven-year conflict. Four soldiers were killed in the eastern zone on...

More Shocking Details of FDA Purchases of Fetal Tissue — Agency Wanted “Fresh, Shipped on Wet Ice” Fetal Organs Supreme Court Drops the Ball on Clinton Email Testimony Judicial Watch at the Supreme Court: Fighting for Clean Elections Released Illegal Aliens Commit Home Invasions, Robberies, Store Burglaries Happy Easter! More Shocking Details of FDA Purchases of Fetal Tissue — Agency Wanted “Fresh, Shipped on Wet Ice” Fetal Organs The sale of body parts harvested during abortions is not generally understood, certainly not the gruesome details of the transactions. More grotesque details emerge in 575 pages of records we received...

The world's deepest known shipwreck, a World War II US Navy destroyer, has been fully mapped and filmed by a US-based crew. The Johnston was captained by Cmdr. Ernest Evans, a Native American from Oklahoma. Along with two other US destroyers and four smaller destroyer escorts, Evans led the Johnston in attacking a far superior Japanese force ... ...After two-and-a-half hours of fighting, the Johnston was without power and surrounded by Japanese ships....

A police officer was killed and another was wounded today when a man drove a car into a security barricade at the Capitol complex on Friday, acting Chief Yogananda Pittman said. The story has dominated news coverage, but one important factor has been conspicuously omitted.As of the time of this article, no major mainstream media outlet has reported on the religious ideology of suspect Noah Green. This is a sharp contrast to reporting on other attacks in which the religious affiliation of the suspects were instantly and loudly broadcast. But Green’s history does not fit a narrative. He was actively...

A Capitol police officer has died after a man crashed his vehicle into the North Barricade of the U.S. Capitol. Capitol Police reported two officers were injured during the incident on Constitution Avenue, during which a man hit them with his car. He then exited the vehicle while wielding a large knife or machete, which prompted the officers to open fire.The man who rammed a car into Capitol Police, killing one, has been identified as Noah Green, 25. Green was armed w/a large blade when he was shot dead. He identified as a follower of the black nationalist Nation of...

Sen. Tom Cotton and many other conservatives slammed Major League Baseball in response to the league’s decision to move the 2021 All-Star Game out of Georgia due to a recently enacted election integrity law.“Hey @MLB, how many days of early voting are allowed in China?” the Arkansas Republican tweeted after MLB released a statement slamming the Georgia law and suggesting it would restrict voting access and that it didn’t align with the “values” of the league.Others on social media pointed out that MLB also partnered with Cuba and held a baseball game in the communist country that was attended by...

Today, @MLB caved to fear, political opportunism, and liberal lies.— Governor Brian P. Kemp (@GovKemp) April 2, 2021Georgians - and all Americans - should fully understand what the MLB's knee-jerk decision means: cancel culture and woke political activists are coming for every aspect of your life, sports included. If the left doesn’t agree with you, facts and the truth do not matter.— Governor Brian P. Kemp (@GovKemp) April 2, 2021This attack on our state is the direct result of repeated lies from Joe Biden and Stacey Abrams about a bill that expands access to the ballot box and ensures...

Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón (D) says he is ready to "severely downsize or outright dissolve the City's Hardcore Gang and Major Narcotics units. It occurred to me that the old 'fight fire with fire' strategy may be past its 'use by' date. Not only will dissolving these police units save money that could be better spent elsewhere, it allows us to pioneer new methods for dealing with violent crime." One of the new methods, Gascon suggested is "passive resistance. Few people are aware that Gandhi liberated India from British rule by using passive resistance. This non-violent revolution...

Major League Baseball announced Friday afternoon that the game would be moving out of the Atlanta Braves' Truist Park because of the state's new law that restricts voting rights. The MLB draft is also being moved out of Georgia.Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement that "the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport is by relocating this year's All-Star Game and MLB draft."You can read Manfred's statement in its entirety below. No replacement location was immediately announced.

ALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (WPEC) — A 27-year-old teacher at Grove Park Elementary School in Florida is behind bars for soliciting and traveling to meet a 2-year-old, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said. Xavier Donte Alexander, who teaches fourth grade, was arrested Thursday and will appear in court Friday morning. According to Alexander's LinkedIn profile, he's been teaching at Grove Park for six months and has been an employee for the Palm Beach County School District since 2012. Detectives learned through an investigation that Alexander is also a babysitter on Care.com and other nanny websites, according to the sheriff's...

Any doubts over whether hard seltzer was just a “fad” were put to bed after last year’s sales figures came out: In 2019, U.S. drinkers bought more hard seltzer by volume than vodka. To be exact, we purchased 82.5 million 9-liter cases, or almost 2.1 billion 355-milliliter cans, according to global data firm IWSR. In the last 12 months, hard seltzer’s total share of the overall alcohol market in sales by volume rose to 2.6 percent — a small figure until you consider it’s more than a third of the total volume sales of all spirits, which stands at 6.8...

(h/t Secret Agent Man) SARS-COV-2 is uniquely also replicating itself using bacteria cells which changes everything. Explains how it has colonized sewers.Machine translated from Italian“Sars Cov 2 is also a bacteriophage virus. It means that it enters the bacteria and replicates its RNA from there as well. We finally have the scientific evidence, complete with photos of the virus colonizing the bacterium. This means that we are following procedures to be integrated. To eradicate it it takes more than classic viruses. Not only are closures needed, you need to disinfect and prevent. And now there is the scientific rationale for...

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy snapped the incredible image this week He altered the image to highlight things the human eye can't see The incredible picture was created by processing the image with an inverted luminance layer to enhance the lunar texture

A Stafford County woman was charged with carjacking and other offenses following a bizarre incident Wednesday in Triangle during which police accuse her of briefly taking a vehicle from one motorist and assaulting another after she blocked traffic on the roadway. Yasento Maria Lobor Koroma, 29, was also charged with DUI, obstruction of justice and assault and battery. She was placed in the Prince William Adult Detention Center. According to a news release from the Prince William Police Department, officers went to the intersection of U.S. 1 and Locust Shade Drive in Triangle at 6:25 p.m. in response to reports...

Give us this day our Daily bread…(Luke 11)We have been learning prayer, according to none less than Jesus. He is the best qualified to teach us to pray, having a perfect and complete knowledge of God; what He requires and desires of men, and of man; His needs, limits, weakness, and our deepest longings. According to the LORD’s prayer, man’s needs are fourfold. We need to pray for our daily bread, as well as to pray for the forgiveness of Sin, and along with that, we must forgive any who have offended us. Finally we must pray for deliverance from...

Throughout the 1990s and 2000s I worked in the music industry, doing marketing for record labels including Sony, Universal and Interscope Geffen A&M. My love for all things smooth, granted as a birthright to all born within the Santa Cruz county lines, never waned. I was often teased for being an aficionado of the soft-rock genre by colleagues at the office and bands I toured with. It was completely uncool to admit to being a fan of glossily produced songs in the era of indie rock, grunge and riot grrrls.

VAERS data as of 4/2/2021 for Covid Vaccines administered in the US.The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) Request (cdc.gov)Covid Vaccines top the list of all recorded vaccines listed in the CDC's database only 3 months of startup.It's not just deaths, it's life threatening illnesses (strokes, cardiac arrests,) ER Visits etc. The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) Request (cdc.gov)https://i.imgur.com/y7djbpj.png Social media images comments by people, or their families before/after their vaccination: