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The Bureau of Land Management released yesterday a tw0-minute video that supposedly answers questions, including, “Should I apply to be a wildland firefighter with the BLM?” This is at best, misleading, since most if not all of their employees that do fight fire work under job titles of “Forestry Technician” or “Range Technician”. Besides the “Should I apply” question, the video addresses others, such as: “I don’t know, it seems kind of boring. And not fun at all. “What if I get dirty? “What would I do in my free time?”

Joe Biden on Wednesday delivered a speech on his Socialist “American Jobs Act” and less than 2,000 people watched him mumble on the White House YouTube live feed. Joe Biden has spent his entire adult life fleecing people and selling out his public office in countless international pay-to-play schemes but he pretended to be old middle class Joe from Scranton. Joe Biden is proposing the first major federal tax hike since 1993 to fund a plan to tackle climate change, infrastructure and other Socialist pet projects. Biden’s tax hike is unpopular but since we have no real media, he gets...

The White House on Wednesday defended Vice President Kamala Harris' travel, as she faces scrutiny for not having visited the overwhelmed southern border, amid her latest assignment from President Biden to handle the "root causes" of the surge in migration in recent months. White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Wednesday during the press briefing was asked about the vice president’s recent travel to Chicago, as opposed to the southern border. While in the Windy City, Harris visited a local bakery. According to the pool note, Harris said her favorite is German chocolate and gets it for her birthday each...

The president of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, attacked Jews who criticized her union’s efforts to keep schools closed for in-class instruction as members of the “ownership class.” “American Jews are now part of the ownership class,” Weingarten said in an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency a month ago reported by the Jerusalem Post. The 63-year-old union president who represents 1.7 million members was responding to those who criticize efforts to keep schools closed while they exploit the coronavirus crisis for billions in stimulus money that won’t be spent for years. “I think some people are very...

Ontario has declared its third provincewide state of emergency as the number of COVID-19 cases surge... The stay-at home order requires all Ontarians to remain at home except for essential purposes such as grocery shopping, accessing health-care services (including COVID-19 vaccinations) work that cannot be done remotely and exercise close to home with only those from one's household. Non-essential retailers will be limited to curbside pick-up and delivery. Access to malls will be limited to specific purposes such as curbside pick-up. Big box store retail items will also be limited to selling essential items such as groceries, household supplies, pharmacy...

"I feel quite strongly that Guantánamo doesn’t have a place in our world"Benedict Cumberbatch says he wants Guantánamo Bay closed after working on ‘The Mauritanian’ "I feel quite strongly that Guantánamo doesn’t have a place in our world" Benedict Cumberbatch has said he wants Guantánamo Bay closed following his work on recent film The Mauritanian. The film, which is being produced by SunnyMarch – an independent film and television company that Cumberbatch jointly owns – explores the experiences of Mohamedou Ould Slahi who was incarcerated at Guantánamo Bay for 14 years without charge. After the 9/11 attacks in 2001, the...

April 7 is National Beer Day in the U.S. To celebrate, here's a list of the 35 best beers and beer styles on the market today, according to BeerAdvocates' database. And if that's not enough, scroll further for advice on how to pair food and beer and a ranking of the best domestic beers. IPAs to Pilsners: The best beer of every type In 1956, archaeologists working in northern Israel’s Raqefet Cave - once home to the Natufian people (13,050–7,550 B.C.) - stumbled upon an astonishing discovery: 13,000-year-old fermented gruel. Archaeologists had found prehistoric evidence of beer before in the...

The chief medical examiner in Washington, D.C., confirmed on Wednesday the causes and manners of death of four people who died during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot Two of the four deaths were ruled natural, one an accident and the fourth a homicide, WTOP reported. Ashli Babbitt is the person that was murdered. Image from the report below: “The District of Columbia Office of the Chief Medical Examiner on Wednesday released the official cause of death for four people who died during the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, ruling that protester Ashli Babbitt’s manner of death was a homicide.” “Chief Medical...

"I think the whole world felt some relief that Trump was gone"Serj Tankian has spoken of Donald Trump‘s departure from the White House, saying that “the whole world felt some relief” following president Joe Biden‘s victory. The System Of A Down frontman, who released his solo EP ‘Elasticity’ last month, was asked about his past criticism of Trump in a new interview with NME, and whether he felt more hopeful about Biden’s presidency. “The word is relieved, more than hopeful. The US president has way too much power in terms of Foreign Affairs, so it affects the rest of the...

Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi personally rents office space to a child welfare group, First 5 San Mateo County, that was set up by a convicted pedophile. The group partners with a nonprofit that ran a group house where child molestation occurred and partners with a conflict resolution center that had a volunteer convicted for storing hundreds of images of child porn. NATIONAL FILE has exclusively obtained the lease documents showing that Nancy Pelosi is the group’s landlady dating back to 2002, the same year monstrous pedophile Dr. William Ayres was given an award by city politicians for his work...

Apostasy is one of the most tragic phenomenons of Christianity. It never ceases to amaze how someone can live such a lie for such a long time only to end up renouncing their faith. Time after time, popular Christian figures have renounced their faith over the centuries–but it appears to be picking up at breakneck speed. Several popular and prominent Christian figures have renounced their Christianity over the last couple of years including the former editor of Christianity Today, Mark Galli, popular Hillsong musician, Marty Sampson, and purity culture pastor, Josh Harris, among many others. Now, another prominent Christian figure...

A third-generation peach grower in Escalon, I was born and raised on our family farm and knew that I wanted to farm when I was still a young kid. My son and daughter are involved in our family farm operation today.Sadly, I have seen the California cling peach industry decline significantly over the last 30 years. The state’s bearing acreage is down by nearly 50% and we’ve seen our cannery customers shrink from five down to just two: Del Monte Foods and Pacific Coast Producers.My own peach farming operation is feeling the impact of these changes as some of my...

Assembly Bill A416 2021-2022 Legislative Session Relates to the removal of cases, contacts and carriers of communicable diseases who are potentially dangerous to the public health Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2120-a to read as follows: § 2120-A. REMOVAL AND DETENTION OF CASES, CONTACTS AND CARRIERS WHO ARE OR MAY BE A DANGER TO PUBLIC HEALTH; OTHER ORDERS. 1. THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE UTILIZED IN THE EVENT THAT THE GOVERNOR DECLARES A STATE OF HEALTH EMERGENCY DUE TO AN EPIDEMIC OF ANY COMMUNICABLE DISEASE. 2. UPON DETERMINING BY CLEAR...

You try to make Trump look bad, But, by comparison to the present administration he appears more competent,effective,worldly,knowlegable,better organized,and trying to make America better

Two Ecuadorean girls who were abruptly dumped over a steel barrier at the Mexico-United States border could soon be reunited with their parents in New York City, an official with Consulate of Ecuador in Houston told DailyMail.com on Wednesday. U.S. federal guidelines stipulate that children can't be held at the detention centers past 72 hours after they have been apprehended by the Border Patrol. The law requires the children to be transferred to the care of the Department of Health and Human Services [HHS]. The Office of Refugee Resettlement is in charge of providing longer-term shelters for the minors. It's...

(CNN)Jack Hanna, an animal and wildlife expert who became famous after his many TV appearances, is retiring from public life due to dementia, his family announced Wednesday. "Doctors have diagnosed our dad, Jack Hanna, with dementia, now believed to be Alzheimer's disease," Hanna's family wrote in a statement posted to his verified Twitter account.

Shocking new video footage shows a Jewish family with a special needs child being removed from a Spirit airlines flight because their 2-year old daughter wasn’t wearing a mask while eating. Joe Biden must be incredibly proud. “What did I do?” asked the mother. “I told you, if you’re not in compliance, you have to get off,” the flight attendant said sternly. “What did we do?,” the husband asked again. “Non-compliance with the mask,” the attendant replied. “We’re wearing masks!” both parents replied. “She’s not wearing a mask,” said the angry attendant as she pointed to the young girl.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Wednesday joined the growing chorus of Republican lawmakers opposed to a government-mandated “vaccine passport” to verify inoculation against the coronavirus. “Thanks to the safe vaccines from Operation Warp Speed, we will defeat the virus. But forcing Americans to carry a ‘vaccine passport’ to go about daily life is unacceptable in a free society,” McCarthy wrote on social media. “That’s something you’d expect in Communist China. Not in the United States of America.”

He was Chattanooga’s hero of World War II. He was a symbol for all of the heroic sacrifices of the city’s service men and women in the 1940s. He was Tennessee’s bravest man, who refused to surrender. Those are not Charles Coolidge’s words. He was humble to a fault. But he was undeniably proud of his place in our city’s history, and that of our nation. Charles H. Coolidge died Tuesday, April 6 at the age of 99. He was four months shy of his 100th birthday on August 4. His death leaves only one surviving World War II Medal...

BEIJING (AP) — China’s government warned Washington on Wednesday not to boycott next year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing after the Biden administration said it was talking with allies about a joint approach to complaints of human rights abuses.