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It’s the programming equivalent of the circle of life: programming languages are created, gain popularity, hit their peak, and slowly degrade until nobody uses them anymore. With some languages, this process is fairly rapid, especially if the language in question never sees much adoption; others are decades old and still going strong.For developers, knowing which languages will fade is a crucial issue: It’s hard to earn money off programming in a language that nobody really uses anymore. Here are five languages that won’t disappear tomorrow, but the long-term trends definitely don’t look good.R In the TIOBE Index, R has tumbled...

Did conversations between Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Dr. Anthony Fauci have anything to do with the social media platform’s crackdown on COVID-related speech? House Republicans would like to know. After an exchange between the two showed up in the Fauci email dump last week, Kentucky Rep. James Comer and Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan — the ranking Republicans on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform and the House Judiciary Committee, respectively — sent a letter to Zuckerberg on Wednesday demanding the CEO of the social media giant surrender any communications the company has had with Fauci and other federal employees...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Presides “Drag Queen” Eucharist (Video)Likely to play up to the oligarchs, São Salvador da Bahia Cardinal Sérgio da Rocha, Brazil, presided a May 21 Eucharist for alleged murdered victims of “LGBTphobia.”The performance included a "Drag Queen" chanting the Ave Maria. In his homily, Rocha lamented “many violent deaths” among homosexuals. He left distributing Communion to his co-presiders, likely in order to avoid embarrassing pictures.According to CruxNow.com (June 11), Rocha responded “promptly” to the request of two local homosex propaganda organisations - so quickly that even the propagandists were surprise. One organiser, Cris Serra, said that he/she didn’t...

The one thing you don’t want to do is mess with a mother and her children. There’s something that happens inside a woman when she senses that her children are in danger. It’s hard to explain how this type of protective nature works, but it’s very primal, instinctual, and powerful. And that’s precisely what’s happening right now to scores of mothers across the country, as they watch in horror as their children’s educations are poisoned by an anti-American, anti-white, communist curriculum called “Critical Race Theory.” Critical Race Theory is a theoretical framework that is rooted in Marxism. It imagines individuals...

Click here to read the full articleThe Democrat’s abor­tion agen­da just took a big hit.Sen­a­tor Joe Manchin (D‑WV) told Bloomberg Government’s Alex Ruoff that he will demand the Hyde Amend­ment stay in spend­ing bills.The Hyde Amend­ment bars the use of fed­er­al funds to pay for abortions.NEWS: @Sen_JoeManchin tells @Alexruoff he’ll demand that the Hyde amend­ment stay in spend­ing bills.“I’m going to sup­port Hyde in every way possible.”Manchin Backs Hyde as Democ­rats Seek End to Abor­tion Funds Ban 🔒https://t.co/M5XaV11u6E— Jack Fitz­patrick ☘️ (@jackfitzdc) June 10, 2021Democ­rats’ plan to push a spend­ing bill with­out Hyde was like­ly doomed because of the Sen­ate’s...

Early Saturday morning, a gunman shot and injured at least 19 people outside an Austin, Texas, bar. Rick Moran reported: Sixth Street in Austin, Texas, was crowded with post-Covid revelers on Friday night when a man described as “black” with a thin build and “dreadlocks” opened fire outside a bar. At least 13 people were taken to the hospital. Of the 13 wounded, 11 were in stable condition with two critical. On Saturday afternoon, the Austin Police Department updated its website to say that one suspect is in custody, while another is still at large. Earlier in the day, police...

Veteran TV newsman and former University of Alabama football player Christopher Sign died Saturday morning in an apparent suicide, according to police. At 8:13 a.m. Saturday, the Hoover 911 center received a call of a person down at a residence on Scout Trace. Hoover police and fire personnel arrived to find the 45-year-old Sign dead. Hoover police Lt. Keith Czeskleba said the death is being investigated as a suicide. ABC 33/40 in 2017 announced Sign was returning to Birmingham from Phoenix as the evening anchor, replacing Dave Baird after he retired. Sign co-anchored broadcasts with Brenda Ladun and Pam Huff....

Remembering... Live link above https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgEzantaYlo

CARBIS BAY, England–The Group of Seven richest democracies on June 12 sought to counter China’s growing influence by offering developing nations an infrastructure plan that would rival Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s multi-trillion-dollar Belt and Road initiative. The G7, whose leaders are meeting in southwestern England, has been searching for a coherent response to the growing assertiveness of Xi after China’s surging economic and military rise over the past 40 years. U.S. President Joe Biden and other G7 leaders hope their plan, known as the Build Back Better World (B3W) initiative, will provide a transparent infrastructure partnership to help narrow the...

<p>Is there a political group with less self-esteem than the modern left? The constant seeking of approval, including from countries we won our independence from, has always been pretty cringe. Under President Trump, that only got worse as Europe decided that the United States was evil incarnate — despite them owing their current freedom (or what they call freedom) to our actions.</p>

Joe Biden now even has “woke” language being slipped into his budget.As we previously reported, when talking about funding for programs, Joe Biden’s budget removed “mothers” and replaced the term with “birthing people.”Joe Biden’s budget uses the term “birthing people” instead of women.This is woke, anti-science nonsense. pic.twitter.com/42atcoe11s— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 7, 2021Biden’s Director of Office of Management and Budget Shalanda Young was then questioned on why the language had been changed by House Budget Committee Ranking Member, Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO).Acting OMB Director Shalanda Young stands by unscientific “birthing people” reference in Biden’s budget pic.twitter.com/fKStOfOpcv— RNC Research (@RNCResearch)...

"I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)" is a 1970 song written by American musician Mark Farner and recorded by Grand Funk Railroad as the closing track to their album Closer to Home. The song conveys the pleas of a captain on a troubled sea voyage and facing a mutiny from his crew. Its use of an orchestra during the long repeated refrains of the closing movement served to differentiate it from much of Grand Funk's work. Grand Funk Railroad - I'm Your Captain - Shea Stadium 1971

The United States will allocate another $150 million to Ukraine to help the country bolster its borders against Russia, the Pentagon announced Friday. The $150 million package for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative "includes training, equipment, and advisory efforts to help Ukraine’s forces preserve the country’s territorial integrity, secure its borders, and improve interoperability with NATO,” according to a Defense Department statement. The money — used to help Ukraine better defend itself against Russian aggression and funded through foreign military financing with the State Department — will fund "counter-artillery radars, counter-unmanned aerial systems, secure communications gear, electronic warfare and military...

My colleague Jennifer Oliver O’Connell reported earlier on a mass shooting in Austin, Texas, late Friday night.Fourteen people were wounded, with at least two critically-injured during a shooting in downtown Austin.Two men are suspected of being involved in the shooting, according to the initial reports; although the police later said the number was unclear, but there was a description of one of the suspect.But it’s what the Austin American-Statesman said about that suspect that is causing a lot of talk today.At the bottom of its article on the shooting, the paper included the following. Editor’s note: Police have only released...

<p>Media and the Democrats are promoting a false perception on the fifth anniversary of the mass shooting at the Pulse Nightclub, in which Omar Mateen killed 49 people and injured 53 people.</p><p>There’s never been any evidence that the shooting was due to it being a gay club. It’s a horrible enough incident on its own, but that isn’t a proven aspect of the case. Indeed, the motive, at least as expressed by Mateen, was connected to ISIS, and the U.S. actions of Obama (and Biden) in Syria.</p>

As leaders from the G7 group of seven industrialised nations – United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan – meet at a luxury seaside resort in Cornwall, their implicit message is that they stand as a bulwark of democracies... For the host nation UK, “shared values and open societies” are on top of the Foreign and Development Track for the ongoing summit. This is also the premise behind having four special invitees – India, Australia, South Korea and South Africa. In January, Bloomberg had first reported that the UK had proposed that the ‘guests’ sign an “Open Societies...

Welcome to Your Weekend the sentiments of my week expressed in the music set that reflects my opening up the boxes of my past to sort things out and throw away some things and keep others. The cards and letters from people in my past like the guy that lived in an "Animal House" fraternity setting and ended up joining the Salvation Army. The man who was the Best Man at my wedding who told me the truth about myself just years after I got married and was working in the mainstream media serving as the officer of the church...

A Florida man is accused of dragging the body of a pedestrian he allegedly struck with his car on Sunday before fleeing the scene and dumping most of the remains behind a local bait shop, according to authorities. Joseph Charles Strickland, 28, of Weeki Wachee, was traveling on a road north of Tampa early Sunday when his car struck the unidentified pedestrian, 32, who was walking along the roadway, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. After the hit-and-run accident, they said the suspect traveled with the victim's remains to the back of the Dixie Lee Bait shop in Spring Hill....

BREAUX BRIDGE, La (KLFY) — The Breaux Bridge Police Department arrested a woman on Tuesday after she allegedly threatened to shoot her neighbors. Michelle Alexander, 48, of Breaux Bridge was arrested on charges of aggravated assault with a firearm, firearm free zone, possession of drug paraphernalia, resisting an officer, and battery of a police officer. On Tuesday, officers with the BBPD responded to a complaint in reference to a woman threatening to shoot her neighbors. Officers took Alexander into custody and obtained a search warrant for her home, where they found the rifle. Alexander is held in the St. Martin...