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~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Wheeler Army Airfield, HawaiiWheeler Army Airfield, also known as Wheeler Field and formerly as Wheeler Air Force Base, is a United States Army post located in the City & County of Honolulu and in the Wahiawa District of the Island of O'ahu, Hawaii. It is a National Historic Landmark for its role in the December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.Wheeler AAF comprises approximately 1,389 acres of land adjacent to Schofield Barracks and is home to a variety of Department of Defense activities including the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), the 169th Aircraft...

Skip What he fails to mention is that under President Bill Clinton, the GOP...voted for a slew of policy reforms: 16 Senate Republicans voted for the Family and Medical Leave Act; a telecommunications reform passed 81-18; the welfare-reform compromise passed 78-21; the Brady Act gun-control bill only passed because of Republican support; the North American Free Trade Agreement passed 73-26; Biden’s crime bill passed 95-4. It was the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 that frayed the political order in ways from which we haven’t recovered. For the first time in contemporary history, a political party unilaterally crammed...

Jerusalem Post Breaking News BREAKING NEWS Gantz addresses Israeli COVID spike: Keep epidemiological centers open By JERUSALEM POST STAFF JUNE 21, 2021 13:34 Defense Minister Benny Gantz addressed the recent rise in COVID-19 cases throughout Israel, instructing that the Ellah epidemiological center remain open, after its planned closing. Back in September, the IDF's Home Front Command established the Ella unit to carry out epidemiological investigations to curb the rise in infections.

We now officially live in a subscription economy… and it’s worth trillions of dollars. The global live streaming market is predicted to hit $247 billion by 2027 … By the end of next year, IDC expects that 53% of all software revenue will come through subscription models. Some analysts think the car subscription market is set to grow by over 70% next year. It’s all about recurring revenue. And it’s one of the biggest trends of the decade because it dips into multiple trillion-dollar industries at once. This is how we spot a megatrend. In the past 5 years, when...

President Donald Trump stated during an appearance on Real America’s Voice that he “never admitted defeat” in the 2020 presidential election, and that he has not “conceded.” Trump added that he believes “there are a lot of things happening right now.” “No, I never admitted defeat, we have a lot of things happening right now,” Trump insisted to host David Brody. “I think that that was an election that was – I don’t think, all you have to do is read the newspapers and see what’s coming out now. No, I, the word is concede, I have not conceded.” On...

What is that again? A strange and puzzling spiral in the skies captured by hundreds of skywatchers across the Pacific Ocean. People across the south Pacific islands, including New Caledonia, Tokelau, Samoa and Fiji, all reported spotting the same spiral phenomenon in the skies on Friday night, June 18. The spectacular spiral formation baffled viewers, who recorded video and photographs of it and took to social media to share what they saw. This is very similar to what occurred in Norway a few years back… What do you think? Footage posted on social media shows the spiral shape expanding in...

California’s Chapman University will host separate graduation ceremonies this summer based on students' skin color, sexual orientation, and disability. In addition to the main commencement ceremony for all students, the private university will offer at least six more ceremonies, which are optional.A post on the university’s Instagram page said the school will hold a Black graduation, an APIDA (Asian Pacific Islander Desi American) graduation, a lavender (LGBT) graduation, a disability graduation, a Middle Eastern graduation, and a Latinx graduation.

In the late 20th century, most of the vitality in gay culture emanated from its transgressive elements. Homosexuality was held to be a form of “deviance” under the moral paradigm that united western society....What happens to a counterculture when it becomes a defining element of the cultural establishment? This question will be answered over the next few decades.

“What’s an Abortion, Anyway?” begins a new children’s book by abortion activists Carly Manes and an illustrator who goes by the name Emulsify. But it never actually answers the question. Instead, the book, intended for young children, indoctrinates young minds with radical pro-abortion rhetoric that attempts to normalize the killing of unborn babies for any reason without limits. “Some people have abortions because they can’t take care of a new baby right now,” the book states, above an illustration of a mother holding a young child. Others because their “doctors say pregnancy could make them sick,” it continues next to...

The Llano Chamber of Commerce has apologized for a Juneteenth marquee that caused controversy on Saturday. The marquee read "Happy Juneteenth," followed by, "You're free. Stand up and live like it" and a reference to the Bible verse Galatians 5:1. The verse itself reads, "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery." Some residents were upset with the marquee. One KVUE viewer reached out, saying the marquee was "insensitive toward Black people" and "patronizing when it needs to [be] apologetic." "It's saying...

And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. ( Matthew 16:18-19)The Church is God's idea, and not mans. He planned it as a part of the larger Salvation and Redemption project, from the foundation of the world. We are currently in the closing...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Psalm 102Psalm 102[a] A prayer of an afflicted person who has grown weak and pours out a lament before the Lord. 1 Hear my prayer, Lord; let my cry for help come to you. 2 Do not hide your face from me when I am in distress. Turn your ear to me; when I call, answer me quickly. 3 For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers. 4 My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food. 5 In my distress I groan aloud and...

Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard will become the first transgender athlete to compete at the Olympics after being selected by New Zealand for the women's event at the Tokyo Games, a decision set to reignite the debate over inclusion and fairness in sport. Hubbard will compete in the super-heavyweight 87+kg category, her selection made possible by an update to qualifying requirements in May. The 43-year-old, who will be the oldest lifter at the Games, had competed in men's weightlifting competitions before transitioning in 2013. "I am grateful and humbled by the kindness and support that has been given to me by so...

Compromised scientist Peter Daszak has been removed from the Lancet’s COVID-19 commission following a number of leading exposés by The National Pulse investigative team surrounding Daszak’s work with the Chinese Communist Party. Daszak is a critical Fauci confidant and ally. In early February, The National Pulse highlighted how Daszak had collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology – believed by many including former Center for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield to be the source of COVID-19 – for nearly two decades. The National Pulse also unearthed Daszak’s detailed descriptions of the research he conducted alongside his “Chinese colleagues,”...

Dolezal, 43, changed her name to Nkechi Amare Diallo after she insisted that she is African American. Now, the infamous fraud is cashing in by charging "fans" for shoutout videos on the site Cameo. Dolezal has received 175 reviews, and is rated 5 star on the app, with people saying that their friends "absolutely loved" birthday messages. According to some of her clips available on the site, Dolezal promotes podcasts, provides congratulations and even offers pep talks. It comes just months after the race-faker moaned that she can't get a job after pretending to be black. In some videos, she...

A new study finds that lockdown orders didn’t reduce overall mortality, and may have even increased it. ife under lockdown was hard for all of us. From economic destruction to social isolation, the costs of restrictive government policies intended to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 have been steep. But now, yet another study suggests that the benefits wrought by our collective sacrifice were negligible at best—and that stay-at-home orders may even have increased overall mortality. In a new paper, economists from the University of Southern California and the RAND Corporation examined the effectiveness of “shelter-in-place” (SIP) mandates, aka stay-at-home orders,...

When it comes to chicken wings-- the prices are high and the supply is low thanks to supply-chain issues. That's why a restaurant known for its wings is making a change. Wingstop says it is now selling chicken thighs along with chicken wings. The restaurant launched a virtual brand called Thighstop Monday.

"Sesame Street" introduced two gay dads and their daughter for a recent "Family Day" episode — and it was the first time the iconic children's TV program has shown a married gay couple, according to Yahoo Entertainment, which called it "a bold statement for LGBTQ visibility." What are the details?The outlet said in a separate story that the episode's two gay dads are Frank (Alex Weisman) and Dave (Chris Costa), the brother of bike-store owner Nina (Chris Costa), and their daughter is Mia (Olivia Perez). In the clip of the episode, the couple arrives onscreen at about the 2-minute mark,...

Reactions are piling up after it was reported that the International Olympics Committee had approved Laurel Hubbard, a male who identifies as a woman, to become the first trans athlete to compete in the Olympics. Hubbard, 43, transitioned in 2012 and has been competing in New Zealand and would have been on New Zealand’s last Olympics team if it wasn’t for an injury that prevented it. Hubbard’s inclusion at the Tokyo games has engendered much criticism. Belgian Olympian Anna Vanbellinghen, for instance, said it is a “bad joke” that Hubbard will advance to the Olympics as a female contestant. “I...

A Seattle man was sentenced to five years in prison Monday for helping to set a police cruiser on fire and stealing an AR-15 rifle from another police car during the May 2020 unrest in Seattle. Tyre Wayne Means, Jr., 25, will serve the sentence concurrent to a sentence in Kitsap County Superior court for burglary. At the sentencing hearing U.S. District Judge Richard A. Jones told Means, “Your conduct was reckless, destructive and extremely dangerous to those who were there for peaceful protest.” “The right to peacefully protest and gather in support of social and political causes is one...