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Former President George W. Bush is pitching in to help President Biden celebrate the military's sudden victory in Afghanistan, breaking out his famous 'Mission Accomplished" banner from 18 years ago. "Lookie here what I still had in the attic!" exclaimed an elated President Bush as he dusted off his trusty banner. "Laura said I'd never find it in this mess, but she misunderestimated me once again. They said we couldn't beat Afghanistan, but boy howdy our boys finally showed them evildoers who's boss!" President Biden was reportedly very touched by the kind gesture. He broached the idea of attempting to...

I recently went down the bunny hole of critical race theory (I have yet to come up for air), immersed in completing an essay on the topic out of frustration of my failure to source any cogent write-up on the topic whatsoever. In polishing some formatting (grammar, spelling, etc.), I came across an MS Word 'highlight' on my use of the word 'dumbass'. I right clicked to hit 'ignore' and was astonished to view the result, something I'd not seen prior. Just sharing (screenshot below).

LAS VEGAS (AP) — This is not how USA Basketball expected to open its Olympic summer. Nigeria probably didn’t expect it, either. If there was any expectation of invincibility for the Americans heading into the Tokyo Olympics, it’s already gone — after Nigeria beat the U.S. 90-87 on Saturday night, an international shocker pulled off by a roster primarily filled by little-known NBA players that found a way to beat a group of All-NBA, All-Star and max-contract performers. “We just wanted to compete,” said Nigeria’s Gabe Nnamdi, who goes by Gabe Vincent when playing for the Miami Heat. “We know...

(CNN) - The devastating heat wave that ravaged British Columbia last week is being blamed for a massive die-off of mussels, clams and other marine animals that live on the beaches of Western Canada. Christopher Harley, a professor in the zoology department at The University of British Columbia, found countless dead mussels popped open and rotting in their shells on Sunday at Kitsilano Beach, which is a few blocks away from his Vancouver home. Harley studies the effects of climate change on the ecology of rocky shores where clams, mussels and sea stars live, so he wanted to see how...

Mark Steyn mocks Hunter's "valuable" art works. This is the funniest thing you will see all week!

Vice President Kamala Harris is facing criticism after suggesting that people who live in rural areas aren't able to make photocopies because they don't have a Kinkos or OfficeMax nearby. Harris made the remarks in an interview with BET News on Friday as part of an argument against voter ID laws, including those in some states that require a photocopy of ID to vote by mail. 'I don't think that we should underestimate what that [compromise on voter ID laws] could mean,' Harris said. 'Because in some people's mind, that means you're going to have to Xerox or photocopy your...

The greatest threat to American democracy today is not a repeat of January 6, but the possibility of a stolen presidential election. Contemporary democracies that die meet their end at the ballot box, through measures that are nominally constitutional. The looming danger is not that the mob will return; it’s that mainstream Republicans will “legally” overturn an election. In 2018, when we wrote How Democracies Die, we knew that Donald Trump was an authoritarian figure, and we held the Republican Party responsible for abdicating its role as democratic gatekeeper. But we did not consider the GOP to be an antidemocratic...

Discussion of recent controversy concerning gay men's chorus singing they are after children. As they say here, when the evil side tells you who they are, believe them.

Trouble is brewing on the European gas market. In the wake of a long, cold winter, natural gas reservoirs are unusually low and should, in principle, be refilled very quickly. Russia’s state-owned corporation Gazprom could increase supplies. The market leader, however, has not done that, despite prices recently reaching a 13-year high. In turn, there is growing concern across Europe that there may be insufficient gas supplies for the upcoming winter. Gazprom has not booked any additional gas transit through Ukraine in July, although deliveries of Russian natural gas to the EU will drop by more than 2 billion cubic...

The Modern Survivalist LIVE STREAM NOTIFICATION - Matt Bracken and Host Fernando Aguirre Broadcast from Spain and Florida, U.S.A. Join us today as we talk with Matt Bracken about current events and how to be better prepared! Make sure to join early and leave your questions in the chat section. Always a fast-moving show. Wide-ranging discussions include emerging global issues, US military degradation, national cultural instability, attacks on freedom from the left and recent news stories. A good resource for ideas to prepare for possible events and for equipment evaluations and suggestions. Subscribed listeners can ask questions in the comments...

The official declaration of a global pandemic last spring brought with it a short-lived sensation of optimism: the virus showed us that we could do things differently. EU officials agreed: they said that in distributing EU recovery funds, they wanted to avoid repeating the mistakes made after the 2008 financial crisis when billions of euros of public money went to bailing out the fossil fuel industry. […] Now EU pandemic recovery funds are set to start flowing in the second half of July. With climate crises increasingly becoming a daily reality around the world, will the fossil fuel industry be...

[h/t Qiviut (Faith is the antidote to fear. Mindset: be a victor, not a victim.)]Are Pfizer and Moderna misleading the public about the efficacy of their COVID vaccines by withholding the fact that there’s another way to parse their data — one that has more real-world significance?In 1954, writer and repentant cigarette industry lobbyist Darrell Huff wrote the best-selling book, “How to Lie with Statistics,” with the aim of teaching the general public how to decode the “secret language of statistics.”In his introduction, Huff wrote: “Averages and relationships and trends and graphs are not always what they seem.” He added:...

The annual cost of gender-based violence against women in the EU has been estimated at €290 billion, according to a study by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) on Wednesday (7 July). Intimate partner violence, which has risen considerably during the pandemic, makes up more than half of the cost of gender violence (at €151 billion). Gender violence refers to any physical, sexual or psychological harm to women. These results are around one third higher than previous estimates — partly due to a higher incidence and a change in the methodology. One in three women in the EU aged...

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have won an award for their decision to have no more than two kids. In light of UN’s World Population Day on July 11, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were given the award by Population Matters. The UK charity campaigns to achieve a sustainable human population and said it was an “enlightened decision” by the pair, parents to two-year-old son Archie and newborn daughter Lilibet. The charity sees population growth as a major contributor to environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, resource depletion, and climate change, and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are helping to...

A "sickening" viral video has emerged that shows a young boy desecrating the American flag while his mom watches. The child is seen ripping an Old Glory out of someone's yard and then dumping it on the ground. The short clip has spread quickly across social media, igniting a firestorm of strong reactions on the internet.

""Trump Supporter Charlie Kirk Reveals Lt. Michael Byrd as Shooter of Ashli Babbitt in a TV First (VIDEO)"" On Sunday morning Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk dropped a bomb on Sunday Morning Futures. Kirk was the first personality to name-drop Lt. Mike Byrd as the killer of US veteran Ashli Babbitt on January 6th in the US Capitol. The Gateway Pundit was first to report last week on the identity of Lt. Byrd as the shooter after months of Capitol Police refusing to disclose the name of the officer who shot Ashli Babbitt dead on Jan. 6. Charlie Kirk...

USS Missouri at sea in her 1980s configuration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa-class_battleship?wprov=sfti1 At the link, the top of the page starts wtih specifications. Scrolling down the page you find black and white photos (1944, Kamikaze attack, General Douglas MacArthur signing Japanese Surrender in Tokyo Bay etc.) An additional 35 photos linked at the bottom continue this series. I really liked a little video clip in the first comment beneath the post. If you click on it you can enlarge the video and turn the sound up to hear a tiny fraction of the immense sound of the guns as they fire. Here's...

Former President Trump all but told FNC's Maria Bartiromo on "Sunday Morning Futures" that he is going to run for president again in 2024. "I do know my answer, but I can't reveal it yet," Trump teased. "That has to do with campaign financing and everything else, so I can't reveal it yet." "We're gonna do very well and people are going to be very happy," he noted. "Look, you know, I look at the ratings of CNN... they're down 79%... I think they're going to come out and endorse me." Related

You could see it written all over Soledad O’Brien’s face. In her interview with the sitting Vice President she asks a simple question about the efficacy of IDs for voters. The word salad that came back from Kamala Harris was so inane, lacking in general coherency and mortifyingly insulting, the BET cameras caught a glimpse of an expression on the interviewer’s face that screamed, “why me?” This revelation from Harris’ sit down with BET capped off a bizarre weekend in which it was also revealed that she’s “far too busy” to deal with all the areas of focus she’s taken...

A Michigan mayor is facing fire after he used campaign money to fund a portion of his daughter’s wedding, according to reports. Mayor LeRoy Burcroff from Romulus, Mich., acknowledged that he used campaign funds to the sum of $4,500 to pay for an open bar at his daughter’s wedding.