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“What was reported to us from someone who witnessed the (incident)… was that the chute failed to fully open as she was coming down and it was heavily tangled around her,” the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office said. They said the woman was “very experienced.” The FAA said they are investigating the incident, but focusing on the parachute rigging.

Why would you even go to the drive-thru when the drive-thru can come to you? Chick-fil-A. Its customer service humans are said to be exemplars of fine behavior. Yet here is the chain announcing that it's experimenting with robotic delivery. Specifically, the Kiwibot 4.0. The chain told Restaurant Business that Santa Monica -- already a paradise of indolence -- is now being blessed with Chick-fil-A Kiwibot robots that bring your chicken sandwich to you. Because why would you want to stand in line for, say, 10 minutes at a Chick-fil-A when a robot can bring you your order in, oh,...

A brand new survey that bot a majority of Americans want a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden, the son of Joe Biden. TIPP Insights conducted a poll in which it asked Americans: “Should a special counsel be appointed to investigate Hunter Biden?” The survey found that 85% of Republicans, 65% of Democrats, and 66% of independents agree that Hunter Biden’s case should be handled by a special prosecutor outside the Justice Department.

LIVE: Mike Lindell launches new platform, Frank sPEECH to fight tech censorship 4/19/21 RSBN is LIVE at Frank's unveiling to fight tech censorship with Mike Lindell and his team!

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has long been heralded by Democrats and their allies in the media as some sort of master political strategist. She dominated headlines following President Donald Trump’s State of the Union back in 2020 when she theatrically ripped up a copy of the president's speech. The "real reason" Pelosi tore up the speech is revealed in a new biography called "Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power."

A month after speaking at the March for Our Lives in his hometown of Austin, Texas, Matthew McConaughey says he supports some gun control but fears the youth-led movement could be "hijacked" by those hoping to eliminate all guns in the United States.

Five people were hospitalized after being shot and injured in Shreveport, Louisiana, CBS-affiliated television station KSLA reported late on Sunday, the third multiple shooting reported in the United States with 24 hours. In a briefing to local news outlets, police said they were in the first stages of investigating the incident, without confirming the number of people admitted to hospital nor their condition. Police officers were responding to traffic congestion reports when shots were heard, a police spokesman told reporters. "We responded this evening to a traffic congestion and during that congestion, numerous shots were fired," the spokesman said. One...

The pistol is named G43X MOS — for Modular Optic System. The MOS configuration allows the G43X MOS to mount a variety of optical sights directly to the pistol’s slide, which when mounted, allows for “faster target transition and quicker sights acquisition of your target,” according to the Glock website. In the case of the Slimline group of Glocks, cuts are made into the pistol’s slide for micro-optic mounting and are covered with a removable cover plate. The G43X MOS also features Glock’s Marksman barrel, a polygonally rifled barrel with “enhanced rifling” for improved accuracy. In contrast to most traditional...

aka: The “New Woke Order” - Remember the promised coming of the “New World Order”? It was heralded by US presidents and other world leaders, envisioned and promoted by the greatest intellectuals of the 20th Century, financed worldwide by international bankers and hailed by many. Well, you can forget it now; it ain’t happening; it’s been canceled. Something newer, bigger, better, more inclusive, and much, much, nicer to save the planet has arisen to replace the outdated, out of style model: “The New Woke Order” For those reading who are to young to remember much about the “New World Order,...

Morrissey has hit out at The Simpsons, after The Smiths were sent up in the show’s latest episode. The episode, titled Panic On The Streets of Springfield, aired last night (April 19), and saw Lisa getting a new imaginary friend – a depressed indie singer from 1980s Britain. ADVERTISING While the show stopped short of getting Morrissey onboard to voice the character, they instead enlisted the services of Benedict Cumberbatch to voice him, alongside a series of 80s-inspired songs written by Flight Of The Conchords Bret McKenzie. Advertisement Hours after the episode aired, a statement on Morrissey’s Facebook page said...

Five months after the presidential election, the Supreme Court said on Monday that it won't take up a case from several Republicans challenging changes to election rules in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. The unsigned ruling sends yet another message that the court's majority has no interest in relitigating the last election. Before Monday, the justices had already declined several requests to dive into one of the most litigious elections in history, denying petitions from then-President Donald Trump and other Republicans seeking to overturn election result in multiple states President Joe Biden won.

Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz has poured over $5 million into a network of nonprofits run by Black Lives Matter leader Patrisse Cullors, according to financial disclosure records, raising questions about whether this relationship played a role in the company's decision to censor unflattering news articles about the activist last week. The social media giant blocked its users from posting links to a New York Post story that revealed Cullors, a self-described Marxist, spent $3.2 million on high-end real estate as her Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation raked in millions in donations. Facebook said the reporting violated its "privacy and...

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Michigan Democrat state representative Jewell Jones was arrested and charged with a DUI, resisting arrest, and weapons possession, according to Fox News. The judge "released Jones ... on a $15,000 personal bond ... and ordered him to abstain from alcohol, illegal drugs, and recreational marijuana, submit to random drug and alcohol testing, and surrender to the Michigan State Police all weapons except those he needs for his Michigan National Guard duty." The 26-year-old politician's blood-alcohol level was "allegedly twice the legal limit, Fox News reports. Fox News states that Jones "resisted arrest when police arrived" and that "law enforcement also...

Case centers on whether recipients of Temporary Protected Status privileges are deemed to have been 'admitted' toThe Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments Monday in a potential landmark immigration case that could dramatically alter the fortunes of thousands currently living in the U.S. after fleeing countries with Temporary Protected Status (TPS). The U.S. designates certain countries for TPS if they are deemed dangerous due to conditions such as earthquakes, hurricanes, civil war or other armed conflict or other "extraordinary and temporary conditions." People from such countries who are already in the U.S. after entering illegally can receive privileges,...

Many like to point out the evil that is going on in our streets, in our boardrooms and in the halls of power in Washington, but often some of the most horrific crimes that are happening in our society are taking place in our scientific laboratories. For years, the U.S. government funded the use of “fresh” aborted babies in experiments that created bizarre human-mouse hybrids for “scientific research” purposes. And now we are learning that U.S. scientists have created human-monkey hybrid embryos for the first time ever. According to NPR, these embryos were created in order “to find new ways...

Two Hundred and Forty-six years ago we stood up and kicked Redcoat butt from Lexington and Concord all the way back to Boston. Remember our Patriots Today. Post comments and reflections here.

Ingenuity's First Black-and-White Image From the Air: NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took this shot while hovering over the Martian surface on April 19, 2021, during the first instance of powered, controlled flight on another planet. It used its navigation camera, which autonomously tracks the ground during flight. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Full image and caption >The small rotorcraft made history, hovering above Jezero Crater, demonstrating that powered, controlled flight on another planet is possible.Monday, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet. The Ingenuity team at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory...

What will be the results of a Pelosi/Biden government? Many think there will be inflation. Milton Friedman taught us that “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, in the sense that it cannot occur without a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.” The $2Trillion Covid relief plus the !5% minimum wage plus the forgiveness of college loans all pump money into the economy. Those actions are the very definition of monetary phenomena. The Bureau of Economic Analysis keeps us informed on the inflation rate but fails in one respect. The inflation information provided leaves...

The region of Hail in Saudi Arabia was buried in several inches of ice on Saturday after severe thunderstorms battered the area. Videos circulating on social media showed thick dark clouds enveloping the sky and blocks of hail on the ground. Omar Dajani, meteorologist at Jordan-based ArabiaWeather network, said that the hailstorm hit southwestern Hail in Saudi Arabia in the afternoon. “This is hail, not snow, and the temperature was high, around 28 degrees Celsius, when the storm hit,” he added. Photographer Abdullah al-Suleimi said shared pictures of the desert covered in a thick layer of hail in Al-Uthmour Bahrah...