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Two young sisters in Utah who apparently wanted to go to California to swim in the ocean took their parents' car on a freeway joyride Wednesday, crossed into oncoming traffic and then crashed head-on into a semi truck. Advertisement But the 9-year-old driver and her 4-year-old sister walked away unscathed, police said. The girls left from their home and apparently intended to head to the beach, according to West Valley police spokeswoman Roxeanne Vainuku. "I guess they were intending to start their summer vacation a little early," Vainuku told KSL-TV. From the home, the 9-year-old who was driving the car...

One thing I’ve learned since opening my eyes to the topic of politics is how the source of all manner of issues is never actually dealt with in ways that should be normal, but rather, actions are merely aimed at the symptom. Name the government programs created to cure a problem. They never solve the problem, sometimes make it worse, and forever exist because the symptom never really goes away.

US UFO Investigation: Cleveland Browns Quarterback Baker Mayfield saw a UFO, Obama believes in them, saying, “When it comes to aliens, there’s some things I just can’t tell you on air.” Tucker Carlson was informed there is UFO ‘wreckage.’ Recently, UFO’s are everywhere, and not just private accounts, but in numerous US military reports. Now, U.S. intelligence agencies offer Congress unclassified reports regarding UFOs, or as the Pentagon prefers—Unexplained Aerial Phenomena (UAPs). But the big takeaway—investigators have found no evidence the sightings are linked to aliens—but can’t deny a link either. Yet, an astrophysicist says they look terrestrial.

Shades of Tammy Wynette singing: “Our “D-I-V-O-R-C-E Becomes Final Today.” D-I-V-O-R-C-E-D is the one word missing from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s feeble excuse that recent criticisms of him are “really very much an attack on science,” and “the thread going through what’s happening now is very much an anti-science approach.” The Fauci Folly, falsified like everything else about him, is that he totally divorced himself from Science when he transitioned Science over to Politics.

With more than 10,000 backers, the Misen Oven Steel promises more accurate temperatures and therefore better food.Home cooks take note: there’s a new kind of pizza stone in town. Founded by former FreshDirect vice president Omar Rada in Greenpoint, Brooklyn circa 2015, Misen takes pride in its thoroughly tested, yet affordable, kitchenware including knives, pans, prep tools, and more. However, its latest project goes a step further, making the ambitious claim that “your oven is lying to you” and it has the fix. The Misen Oven Steel is a sensational new tool specifically designed to improve the precision of your...

Should We Fear a Threat to the Latin Mass?Several rumors and certain sites seem to view as probable the publication of a text dealing with, at least partially, the motu proprio Summorum pontificum of Pope Benedict XVI, which authorizes, under certain conditions, the celebration of the traditional Mass and affirms that it had never been abrogated.The first clue is quite remote, but it reveals a certain aversion of the reigning Pope to the traditional liturgy, or his will not to allow its extension, at least among the former “Ecclesia Dei” communities.Indeed, several of these communities, such as the Franciscans of...

At a stop in New Hampshire on Thursday night, former Vice President Mike Pence defended his actions on January 6 and, in the process, may well have doomed (or at the very least hamstrung) his chances of emerging as the Republican presidential nominee in 2024. "January 6 was a dark day in the history of the US Capitol," Pence said. "That same day we reconvened the Congress and did our duty. ... You know, President Trump and I have spoken many times since we left office and I don't know if we'll ever see eye to eye on that day."...

California officials are vowing to fight back after a federal judge overturned the state’s 30-year-old ban on assault weapons. In ruling the ban unconstitutional, U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez compared the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle to a Swiss Army knife, calling it “good for both home and battle.”Benitez, of the Southern District of California, issued a permanent injunction against the law’s enforcement but stayed it for 30 days to give the state a chance to appeal. California is one of seven states, plus Washington, D.C, that ban assault weapons, according to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

A Mag 5.3 triggering a swarm of aftershocks E of San Diego. Around 10 measured quakes in the past 24 Hours

I don’t care if the football’s on, we’ll have to watch whatever the TV wants us toSOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND, SIR? My television wants me dead. It’s doing this by playing dead itself. Only one of us will get out of this alive. The remote control isn’t working, you see. And now the TV set is having a private little chuckle at my expense behind its resolutely blank screen as I grope blindly behind the fascia edges hoping to locate an elusive power button. Why can’t I find the bastard thing? Surely there must be a…? Or did I...

Unfortunately, more often than not, the environmental consequences of a healthy diet are disastrous, particularly in the case of avocados.Guacamole, or so BBC has claimed, is “undoubtedly one of Mexico’s most popular dishes,” dating back to the times of the Aztecs. Thanks to Pancho Villa and Old El Paso’s spice mix, guacamole has conquered European lunch and dinner tables from Norway to France, from Switzerland to Spain. Served as an appetizer or a side dish, guacamole is a versatile culinary delight. The basis of guacamole is smashed ripe avocados. Most of the avocados sold in European supermarkets originate from a...

An epidemiologist and professor at the University of Stanford said Friday that Dr. Anthony Fauci’s credibility "is entirely shot" after revelations from his emails show a reversal on the subject of mask wearing to prevent COVID-19. "I think he's been all over the place on masks," Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine at Stanford said on "The Ingraham Angle." "There are emails you can find in the treasure trove of emails that have been released where he acknowledged the virus has been aerosolized -- well the cloth masks people have been recommending, they're not particular[ly] effective against aerosolized viruses. "I...

<p>A pursuit came to an end when a Florida man bailed out of the car he was driving and tossed a 2-month-old baby at deputies, according to the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office.</p><p>Deputies said they spotted a Nissan Rogue that failed to maintain its lane on 20th Street around 6:30 p.m. on May 26 and when an unmarked vehicle attempted to conduct a traffic stop, the driver of the Nissan refused to pull over.</p>

The lines are long for this.....heard some say they can't wait to have dinner with Pres. Trump....more dressy attire. This is the only link I have.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LwdxF5Sm4U

Groups of scientists tasked with identifying pandemic-prone microbes were stretched too far and thin -- Rohit Chitale, an epidemiologist at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, says the explosion of COVID-19 reflects a global failure to adequately invest in prevention. “There’s too much emphasis on treating infectious diseases after the fact,” argues Chitale, who is program manager of DARPA’s surveillance effort, called Preventing Emerging Pathogenic Threats (PREEMPT). Early detection efforts, in contrast, “are very poorly funded,” he says. Olival notes that PREDICT received approximately $200 million dollars over its decade-long life span—which is a tiny fraction of the $2 trillion...

I come from a very competitive family composed of 7 brothers and 3 sisters. Each of us loved to win, and it didn’t matter which game. We competed fiercely at Jungle Volleyball, Risk, Kick the Can, Monopoly, Roofball, Baseball, Basketball and Football. Winning at all costs was the objective and losing was simply not a viable option. Win or lose, we competed honestly and considered cheating contemptible behavior. However, my brothers were not gracious losers. One brother (victorious) chased another brother (loser) down the street with a pipe wrench because apparently someone reneged on the exact specifications of the anticipated...

The George H.W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations agreed to accept $5 million from a group with ties to the Chinese Communist Party and China's international propaganda efforts, according to a report Saturday. The group, which was founded by Neil Bush, a brother to former President George W. Bush and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, goes by the name Bush China Foundation for short. Its goal, according to its website, is to build "a constructive relationship" between the U.S. and China. But a written agreement published by Axios reveals that the Bush China Foundation agreed in 2019 to accept $5...

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp spoke today at the GOP State Convention on Jekyll Island. But before he spoke Kemp was greeted with screaming boos from the Trump-supporting, freedom-loving crowd! Apparently, the crowd is not pleased that Kemp blocked forensic audits and certified an election ripe with fraud. According to Georgia reporter Maya T. Prabhu, Kemp was speaking for 30 seconds before it was quiet enough in the convention hall to hear him!

Big Blue has now released Qiskit Runtime, which enables a significant acceleration of quantum calculations carried out over the cloud.Using a combination of tweaked algorithms, improved control systems and a new quantum service called Qiskit Runtime, IBM researchers have managed to resolve a quantum problem 120 times faster than the previous time they gave it a go. The simulation was run entirely on the cloud, through IBM's Qiskit platform – an open-source library of tools that lets developers around the world create quantum programs and run them on prototype quantum devices that IBM makes available over the cloud. The speed-up...