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In Northern California’s Butte County, at least 130 houseboats were evacuated from Lake Oroville as water levels fell to dangerously low levels.The lake’s record low is 646 feet, and the state’s Department of Water Resources expects that level to be breached in August. If that happens, public boat ramps would be inaccessible for the first due to low water levels. According to Aaron Wright, public safety chief for the Northern Buttes District of California State Parks, who spoke with AP, the only boat access point to the lake would be an old dirt road constructed in the late 1960s. Eric...

President Trump, who dreamed of being a movie producer, seems to have written the ideal script for confronting the media's biased, knee-jerk responses to every move he made. In my new book and film, Citizen Trump: A One Man Show, I dig deeper than the shallow "Duhlemonized" nonsense and expose the rigid mainstream media's determined constant attack and equal lack of judgment. The media prides itself on being a watchdog, but instead, it had become Pavlov's Lapdog. Obama/Hillary could say anything, and the Snarling dog in Trump could say nothing. No matter what he did, he was attacked, dismissed, called...

...We would all have to agree, I think, that 2020–21 was a banner year for dangerous clowns and their quack brethren, starting with the lunatics whose successful gain-of-function genetic research succeeded in turning a harmless bat virus into Covid-19, the virus that causes a kind of human ’flu that shut down the world and killed off thousands of old folks. Then we should include all the political and medical quacks who made sure that effective treatments, well-known to all real, competent physicians for years, were unavailable, even forbidden, and who went on to cause incalculable social and psychological damage by...

CHICAGO -- At least 16 people were shot, four fatally, across Chicago so far this weekend, CPD said. One of the most recent shootings took place in Woodlawn. A woman was shot six times early Saturday in Woodlawn on the South Side. The 30-year-old was trying to park her car about 5:40 a.m. in the 6200-block of South Eberhardt Avenue when a car that had been following her pulled next to her and someone from inside fired shots, Chicago police said. She suffered two gunshot wounds to the side, three to the arm and one to the leg, police said....

The Weekly Gardening Thread is a weekly gathering of folks that love soil, seeds and plants of all kinds. From complete newbies that are looking to start that first potted plant, to gardeners with some acreage, to Master Gardener level and beyond, we would love to hear from you. If you have specific question about a plant/problem you are having, please remember to state the Growing Zone where you are located. This thread is a non-political respite. No matter what, you won’t be flamed, and the only dumb question is the one that isn’t asked. It is impossible to hijack...

“Abolish the filibuster,” tweeted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on June 2. AOC’s tweet was a direct response to President Biden’s tweet earlier the same day, “We’re witnessing an all-out assault on our democracy — and we need to act swiftly to protect the sacred right to vote. We need the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.” Biden’s hyperbolic tweet was in reference to the fact that a few states have passed election integrity laws since the chaotic 2020 election, which could threaten the left’s electoral strategy of mass mail-in ballots, no identification verification, no signature...

If it ain’t sweet, it ain’t a kolache. As I found during a recent quest to find out more about why we call savory kolaches the wrong thing, the klobasnek, the proper term, is widely believed to have been invented in the heart of the Texas-Czech Belt in West. But Village Bakery owner Wendel Montgomery’s klobasnek—originally created as a simple sausage wrapped in kolache dough—has come a long way from its humble beginnings. Here’s a roundup of some of the more unique klobasniky we found around the state.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has said emphatically that a “clear direction” on infrastructure needs to be in place by the time Congress returns from its Memorial Day recess on June 7th. If that is true, infrastructure week may become a reality. Leading up to June 7th, the White House and congressional Republicans are trying to hammer out an agreement. However, given the lack of progress thus far, it seems clear that despite bi-partisan talks, such a deal isn’t imminent and infrastructure week may yet again just be a figment of the imagination of the President. This is a shame, as...

For nearly a year, Jefferson Square Park in downtown Louisville, often called Injustice Square, Breeway, or simply “the square,” has been a place where multiple rots started. The mainstream media however likes to call these riots peaceful protests. Protest in downtown Louisville led to 17 arrests, five cars towed, one confiscated gun, and a search for a driver who hit a protester with their car. Police provided video captured on Real-Time Crime Center cameras, which are on the Metro Corrections building by the corner of Sixth and Liberty streets, that showed an individual in a car appearing to be confronted...

WASHINGTON - The Biden administration says it is canceling or reviewing a host of actions by the Trump administration to roll back protections for endangered or threatened species, with a goal of strengthening a landmark law while addressing climate change. The reviews by the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service are aimed at five Endangered Species Act regulations finalized by the Trump administration, including critical habitat designations and rules defining the scope of federal actions on endangered species. Habitat designations for threatened or endangered species can result in limitations on energy development such as mining or...

Two individuals can be regarded as contrasting illustrations of the good and the bad of human beings. At the top is the exotic Black Venus, Josephine Baker, the American-born French entertainer who won the hearts of Paris and then became a French resistance fighter. At the bottom is Walter Duranty, one of Stalin’s useful idiots, who was the greatest journalist liar of his generation, the model of journalistic mendacity. On Baker’s birthday, June 3, a petition was signed by thousands of French citizens for her to be buried in the Pantheon in Paris, an honor reserved for the most distinguished...

WASHINGTON - Dr. Anthony Fauci has been a political lightning rod since the early days of the pandemic, lionized by the left as a beacon of truth in an administration that badly mismanaged the pandemic and villainized by the right as a misguided, spotlight-seeking bureaucrat seeking to undermine former President Donald Trump. But with the release of a trove of Fauci’s emails this week, Republicans’ attacks on the nation’s top government infectious-diseases expert have gone into overdrive. On conservative news channels, Fauci — who now serves as President Joe Biden’s pandemic adviser — has been pilloried as a liar who...

BALTIMORE — Police arrested two teenagers and an 18-year-old man in connection with the killing of a man from Israel who was killed while visiting Baltimore.Efraim Gordon, 31, was shot and killed on May 3, in the 3700 block of Fords Lane in northwest Baltimore, police said. Family and friends said Gordon was visiting from Israel to attend his cousin's wedding.City police said Friday evening that detectives arrested a 16-year-old boy, a 17-year-old boy and William Clinton III, 18, all of Baltimore.

As promised, here are my antibody test results. Link is to the test description, not my test. I'll paste my test results in the first comment. I had J&J on the 19th and had blood drawn at Quest yesterday (16 days later). My baseline test in late April was also negative.

The sudden collapse of the COVID-19 animal-to-human transmission theory is just one of many false narratives foisted upon We the People by our legacy Corporate Media with the aid of others in a cabal as reported by Scott McKay in The American Spectator: . . . the Narrative Wall has come down in a manner metaphorically quite similar to what happened to the civil infrastructure in Jericho, we can see just how devoid of merit is the American mainstream media. For an entire year these people, aided by the totalitarians who run the Big Tech social media sites, . ....

For many people, Tom Hanks may be the most trusted person in America. The Hollywood star, born in Concord and raised in Oakland, has become more outspoken recently regarding societal issues, imploring Americans to wear masks following his own COVID-19 diagnosis and hosting Joe Biden's inauguration day TV special. Today, he continued that spirit of social engagement with a New York Times op-ed deploring the lack of education surrounding the Tulsa Race Massacre. In the essay, Hanks recounts his upbringing in Oakland, commenting on both the city's diversity and integration, as well as the polarization and division. He notes that...

Attorneys representing the Muriel Bowser administration’s police force in Washington, D.C., made what should be a stunning admission in federal court last week. According to a report from WUSA-TV, a leading source of local news for the District of Columbia, “An attorney for DC Police said in court, for the first time, that the department did indeed use tear gas on protesters around Lafayette Square Park last June.” “The curfew, violence of past nights, chaos created by federal defendants, discharge of tear gas in that direction was not unreasonable,” lawyer Richard Sobiecki said. This admission is noteworthy because the Metropolitan...

Washington (AFP) - Forty years ago this month the first men began dying of a mysterious disease in California that would later be identified as AIDS. It would go on to claim millions of lives across the world. Here is a look at the discovery and the fight against the deadly condition. - 1981: First alert - In June 1981 US epidemiologists report five cases of a rare form of pneumonia in gay men from California, some of whom have died. Unusual versions of skin cancer are identified in others. It is the first alert about Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome...

As the media begin to allow the truth to come out about the origins of the China-made, Fauci-approved COVID-19 virus, it has become clear that our government and our media lied about it early on. The media fear porn was so excessive that it was obvious that something evil was afoot. Government and doctors alike told everyone to stay home and isolate themselves for months on end, leading to untold depression, suicides, and other health problems. The near uniform condemning of early treatment options for COVID-19 with HCQ protocol or ivermectin was strange. Never before had doctors refused to see...

America's military veterans can no longer sit on the sidelines. America's military veterans can no longer sit on the sidelines when there is a well funded, ongoing cultural and political war being waged to turn America into a Marxist, communist totalitarian state. It truly is time for America's over 20 million veterans and numerous veterans' organizations to become actively engaged and help to defeat the "forces of darkness" fighting America's constitution, republic, and way of life. America's veteran organizations such as the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Vietnam Veterans of America, and numerous other veterans organizations must become active...