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Bill and Melinda Gates met while working at Microsoft and married in 1994. The couple, who vowed to give up more than half of their money, will continue to collaborate on charitable endeavours. The financial ramifications are not readily apparent. Bill Gates, co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft, and his partner, Melinda French Gates, announced their divorce on Twitter on Monday. The two also continue to collaborate on philanthropic projects addressing education, gender equity, and health care. “After much thinking and work on our relationship, we have decided to end our marriage,” Bill and Melinda Gates said in a statement...

Those who feel that “systemic racism” still exists in the U.S.A. today cannot give convincing examples of it and completely ignore the undeniable success of the South’s black civil rights movement. This struggle can be traced back to December 1955 when Rosa Parks, a black woman member of the NAACP, sat down in the “For whites only” area of a segregated public bus and refused to give up her seat. This spontaneous act sparked the growth of a massive movement within the black Christian churches to eliminate all forms of racial segregation laws in America. In time, Dr. Martin Luther...

Joe Biden is in a pickle. He wants to continue to convince Americans they should get the experimental biological agent (AKA "the vaccine"), but, as Tucker Carlson pointed out last week, the administration and the CDC have offered no explanation as to why you need to continue to wear a mask after you have taken "the vaccine." Why would they want us to doubt the efficacy of the vaccine? Why would any sane person who is not in a high-risk group contemplate becoming a lab experiment subject if you are not allowed (yes, our rights are now derived from government...

Black Lives Matter has released an absurd updated "set of demands," and they are just as pathetic as one might expect. As detailed on their website, BLM now wants Donald Trump convicted for his actions on January 6 at the U.S. Capitol. The rest of the demands are equally as absurd.

A very good flick. Accurate enough that it wasn't shown in Indonesia for the longest time. A young Mel Gibson, not too idealistic but strong willed. Indifferent western colleagues who didn't get it. A screwed up country where westerners didn't have the answer. A love affair that didn't overdo the plot. Waited 40 years to see it on TCM. Serious flick that woke types will never understand. Like Joe Bob-check it out.

COVID is an abbreviation for the acronym COVID In India, 19 diseases and deaths have occurred at an unprecedented rate, with no end in sight to the epidemic and a top analyst predicting that the coming weeks will be "horrible" in the world of nearly 1.4 billion people. The official number of coronavirus cases in India reached 20 million on Tuesday, almost doubling in the previous three months, while deaths officially surpassed 220,000. As shocking as those statistics are, the real figures are thought to be much larger, with the undercount reflecting the health-care system's problems. People dying outside overcrowded...

The Queen has launched her first beer made with plants grown on her Royal Sandringham estate in Norfolk. Her Majesty has moved into home brewing with two new bitters produced using organic Laureate Spring Barley harvested from her gardens and crystal clear water drawn from a nearby bore hole. Sandringham Best Bitter is priced at £3.99 for a 500ml bottle and is made locally by Barsham Brewery in North Norfolk. There are two types of brew available, a 4.3% Best Bitter and a stronger 5% Golden IPA. The Best Bitter is a 'cold filtered traditionally brewed beer' made using three...

The first 100 days of the Biden administration have been marked by extraordinarily costly pieces of legislation, led by the passage of a $1.9 trillion COVID stimulus bill, with another $2 trillion infrastructure proposal currently under congressional consideration. Thus, you can be forgiven if, amidst this spending bash, you happened to overlook another radical proposition from the administration: student loan forgiveness, which, if enacted, would cost an estimated $1 to 1.7 trillion.Student debt statistics are indeed sobering: the average college graduate owes roughly $30,000, and student debt has doubled within the past ten years. Although these numbers are deeply troubling,...

The headlines used words like “outrage” and “shock” in describing the news that a man thought to be a Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) rabbi living in Jerusalem was allegedly a Gentile Christian missionary. How could this be?According to various news outlets, neither he nor his late wife were Jews at all, using forged documents to become Israeli citizens and choosing a Haredi lifestyle in order to infiltrate the religious community.The Jewish News reported, “Outrage in Jerusalem over ‘rabbi’ exposed as Christian missionary. Israeli media say the man, named as Michael Elkohen, infiltrated a Haredi community in a bid to convert its members.”...

There is a “good chance” that England’s “one metre plus” COVID-19 social distancing rule can be scrapped on June 21, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday. “I think we’ve got a good chance, a good chance of being able to dispense with the one metre plus,” Johnson told reporters during a campaign visit to Hartlepool, referring to the social distancing rules currently in force in England. On Sunday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said “some safeguards” may stay in place when legal restrictions end on June 21, such as continued use of masks and physical distancing. Last month, government...

Tucker Carlson has condemned American colleges and universities for requiring students to get vaccinated against COVID-19, arguing that such mandates 'forbid kids from getting an education'. The Fox News host - who has been clear that he is personally pro-vaccine - ripped into the mandates that have already been adopted by more than 100 schools on his show on Monday night. He asserted that schools forcing students to provide proof of vaccination is part of a larger campaign by Democrats to take bodily autonomy away from citizens.

Activists from Black Lives Matter, not happy with merely defunding the police or raking in huge corporate donations as their objective, now want President Trump banned from all digital media and future office.That's the report from the Washington Examiner, which notes that they've put out and updated their list of demands:"We are joining Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Rep. Cori Bush, Rep. Jamaal Bowman, and others who are demanding Trump be immediately convicted in the United States Senate," reads the first demand on the BLM website. "Trump must also be banned from holding elected office in the future."The group...

MAGGIE VALLEY, N.C. (WLOS) — Two owners from a Maggie Valley Inn are going viral after posting what some are calling a gross message on their kiosk. "Right now, the kiosk says ACAB, the barrel is rotten," Kitty Currin said. She and her husband Cody Currin have run the Our Place Inn in Maggie Valley since 2015, but it’s only recent that the inn’s online presence has really exploded. "Last that I checked, our post had reached 100,000 people,” Kitty Currin said. “So, while it's a little bit of an extreme acronym, I would say it's reached a lot of...

President Joe Biden sparked confusion and celebration on Monday when he made a blunder by saying Americans making under $400,000 will not pay a 'single penny in taxes'. Biden was selling his infrastructure and social spending programs during a trip to Virginia with his wife Jill when he made the slip in his speech. He was referring to his promise that Americans making less than $400k will not see any tax increases to help pay for the $4.1trillion infrastructure and spending packages he has proposed.

"Joe Biden’s Justice Department now operates as the unapologetic enforcer of the Democratic Party’s will, a modern-day Stasi unleashing a campaign of terror against the ruling party’s perceived enemies. Americans who dare to deny the legitimacy of the U.S. president—an activity considered political haute couture from 2016 until 2021—aren’t just dismissed as misguided conspiracy theorists but rounded up across the country to face criminal trials conducted not by a jury of their peers but by Democratic Party-ruled tribunals located in Washington, D.C.."It only took the U.S. Justice Department four short years between ambushing a top Trump national security advisor in...

Full Title: Biden's 100 Day Miracle Destroying the US. 100 days and we've seen gasoline go up at least a dollar a gallon, plywood has nearly doubled, food prices have jumped nearly 4%, some more. Bacon has jumped nearly a dollar a pound! All thanks to President Biden, his 100 Day Miracle.

This never gets old to me, especially the landings, but today at 3:01pm Eastern the next batch of SpaceX/Starlink satellites are scheduled to be launched. Anything can happen but the weather looks good for a launch today... This will be the 26th launch of 60 satellites, which means about 1550 Starlink satellites are up there in LEO offering internet service to a rapidly growing beta test base...including users in the USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Australia and New Zealand.....

The 45th president was fairly obsessed with ratings. Given Donald Trump's experience as a TV reality-show star, that is not terribly surprising. Between Feb. 20, 2020, and Dec. 6, 2020, Trump tweeted 44 times about TV ratings, according to Fast Company, or four times more often than about wearing a mask during that same span. Trump also quote-tweeted this from The New York Times on Mar. 29, 2020, a time when the country was shut down and when confusion and fear about the novel coronavirus dominated the minds of many Americans: "President Trump is a ratings hit. Since reviving the...

The Democratic Party’s Stasi The Biden Justice Department is “the shield and the sword”—the motto of East Germany’s Stasi—for the Democratic Party, protecting its own corrupt ranks while terrorizing any and all detractors. While reading emails in his bedroom last Wednesday morning, Paul Hueper heard a loud commotion inside his house. Still clad in pajamas, the Alaska business owner ran to his dining room to see what was happening.Hueper found himself face-to-face with several armed FBI agents, guns drawn, barking orders to him and his wife, Marilyn. The agents had kicked down the front door of their home in Homer,...

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