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The condition — officially called "cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome" but now known to health care workers as "scromiting," a mashup of "screaming" and "vomiting" — has popped up with increasing frequency at hospitals in Colorado, doctors say. “The only thing that convinced me was that it stopped when I stopped smoking,” said Gribbon, now 20. “We use up a lot of medical resources to see if there is anything more seriously wrong with them,” Scromiting cases have increased as pot has become far more powerful, according to doctors. Experts say the marijuana consumed 20 years ago had levels of THC, the...

Dr. Andrew Kaufman, a good friend and colleague, provided this brief educational video on the so-called "deadly" Delta Variant that is believed to be causing major causalities in the world, disproportionately affecting children and the unvaccinated. Dr. Kaufman's presentation starts out with a basic lesson in genetics, required to understand the topic, but is well worth the time put in. You'll understand how profoundly misleading the narrative is about the "Delta variant" (and all future such "variants") if you watch the video beginning to end. For a deeper dive into the topic watch Sayer's interview with Dr. Kaufman titled: ZERO...

We are now in a situation where it's official: the vote totals in Arizona don't match the official numbers. The President of the Arizona State Senate, Karen Fann, released this news publicly Tuesday. As we discuss this, take into account that President Trump is holding a rally in Arizona on July 24. One America News reports that more findings are dropping in the next 48 hours. Oh dear Lord. This news will be soaked up by the Arizona public over the next few weeks, and when President Trump arrives, the rally attendees will probably be brandishing pitch forks. The political...

...Satanic Campaign strategies: Look harmless. Hitler looked like just an ordinary guy, not a scary person, at first. Sound nice and helpful. Tell people you are there to save them. Say what they want to hear. Champion those who feel left out or harmed. Find victims to save. Express empathy and outrage on behalf of others who need a hero. If people don’t feel like victims then convince them that they are and didn’t realize it. Show them how they’ve been wronged and deserve to be compensated. Control the education of the next generations, then introduce your new concepts before...

Too many Republicans still won't understand the nature of the opposition. They are culture war Neville Chamberlains, feeding Americans to the Minotaur one generation at a time.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is urging vaccinated Americans to “help” unvaccinated friends and family members who have questions about the vaccine, urging them to address “misinformation” and ultimately calling on them to identify the root of their concerns and “help make their vaccination happen.”“The amount of information—and misinformation—about #COVID19 vaccines can be overwhelming. Help friends and family who have questions about the vaccines by listening to their concerns without judgment and identifying the root of their concerns,” the CDC said in a Wednesday tweet, accompanied by a guide on how to have these discussions with...

Explanation: In silhouette against a crowded star field along the tail of the arachnalogical constellation Scorpius, this dusty cosmic cloud evokes for some the image of an ominous dark tower. In fact, clumps of dust and molecular gas collapsing to form stars may well lurk within the dark nebula, a structure that spans almost 40 light-years across this gorgeous telescopic portrait. Known as a cometary globule, the swept-back cloud, is shaped by intense ultraviolet radiation from the OB association of very hot stars in NGC 6231, off the upper edge of the scene. That energetic ultraviolet light also powers the...

Critics roundly condemned the White House after Press Secretary Jen Psaki revealed the Biden administration is working with Facebook to flag "problematic" posts that "spread disinformation" on COVID-19. On Thursday, Psaki was asked a question regarding the Biden administration’s request for tech companies to be more "aggressive" when policing what they referred to as "misinformation." Psaki revealed that the White House is "in regular touch with social media platforms" to handle it.

A teen was accused of abuse inside Vatican City.Powerful church figures helped him become a priest.VATICAN CITY — The warnings started coming eight years ago, sent to some of the most powerful figures in the Roman Catholic Church, alerting them to a potential sex abuse crime that stood out from other church cases.[Leggi questo articolo in italiano]The profile of the alleged abuser, by itself, was unusual: not a priest, but rather a teenage altar boy, who was said to have coerced a peer to engage in various sex acts night after night over six years. And then there was the...

The conservative law firm Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty has asked the Elmbrook School District to remove sexually explicit materials from its online library. In its letter to Elmbrook School District Superintendent Mark Hansen, the firm requested the removal after the parent of a 16-year-old Elmbrook student used the student's school-issued Chromebook to access a school-sponsored app, Sora, that makes the district's ebook and audiobook collection available to students and adults. The parent confirmed access to the sexually explicit material, the letter said. WILL said there is material containing graphic instructions on sex acts and the use of online...

Evidence is mounting that “wokeness” is a creation of abnormally anxious and prejudiced white women who feel that elaborate rituals are necessary to interact with people of other races — something that most people, who simply treat them as peers, have no need for. Matt Taibbi made such a case about Robin DiAngelo this month, highlighting a passage from the “White Fragility” author’s latest book in which she describes not knowing what to do when having dinner with a black person. She compensates by spouting racial and political bromides in an attempt to prove that she wasn’t racist, instead of...

I hereby revoke the March, 2020 dispensation from the obligation to attend Mass on Sundays and other Holy Days of Obligation, effective Sunday, August 15, 2021.

Police arrested Congressional Black Caucus chair Joyce Beatty on Thursday afternoon after she led pro-voting rights protesters into a Senate office building. Officers moved in as Beatty, 71, and a handful of other activists, including Women's March co-founders Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory, chanted, 'Fight for justice,' and, 'End the filibuster.' Capitol Police later said they had arrested nine people for 'demonstrating in a prohibited area on Capitol Grounds.'

Baseball legend Yogi Berra reportedly once proclaimed, “It’s like déjà vu all over again,” and while a bit of a redundancy, many shooters may be feeling such a sensation when heading to buy ammunition. The great ammunition shortage of 2021, along with high prices if you do find any, won’t likely end anytime soon–and it is unlikely to be contained to a single year.

This is life, all of it: Sitting like a small child upon the shoulders of the Creator of heaven and earth as He carries us out of slavery in Egypt to eternal life in the Promised Land. Everything along the journey is sweet and good, if we will only embrace it with love. Even the pain is good, a pain that cleanses body and soul as we rise to a place higher than our little minds can conceive. And yes, even those paths we believe we’ve stumbled down by our own fault, He carries us tenderly through those as well,...

On Thursday, Arizona Republicans issued a major announcement related to the audit of Maricopa County’s 2020 general election results. During the proceedings, Arizona state Senate President Karen Fann, along with state Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Warren Petersen, gave the floor to auditors who announced that as many as 74,000 absentee ballot mail-in records are missing in addition to a great many vote irregularities found by the audit. Fann began the hearing by introducing three individuals who played key roles in the state audit. Lead auditor Doug Logan first introduced a video clip that detailed the process and emphasized the security...

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee received a damning letter on Wednesday about President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management, Tracy Stone-Manning, detailing her complicity in a 1989 ecoterrorist crime and her reluctant assistance to federal authorities only after being granted limited immunity from prosecution. Retired U.S. Forest Service criminal investigator Michael Merkley, who was the special agent tasked with investigating the plot at the time, wrote to the committee that Stone-Manning “was not an innocent bystander.” “Contrary to many of the stories in the news, Ms. Stone-Manning was not an innocent bystander, nor was...

On Wednesday, President Biden lunched with Senate Democrats, hosted governors and mayors for a roundtable on infrastructure and also — hung out with Olivia Rodrigo, an 18-year-old pop star beloved by Generation Z. Rodrigo, who currently has the No. 1 album in the country and whose song "Drivers License" has been a radio staple for months, recorded public service announcement videos with Biden and Dr. Anthony Fauci and made an appearance in the White House briefing room to promote coronavirus vaccines. Her visit underscores one of the roadblocks to vaccinating more Americans right now. Only about 42 percent of people...

Forbes magazine arguably published one of the worst hot takes trying to spin the abysmal report showing consumer prices skyrocketing at record paces in June. Following the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) monthly release of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) data showing dangerous inflation, Forbes released an absurd story headlined, “There Is No Inflation: The June CPI Headline Head Fake.” Stevens Institute of Technology Teaching Professor George Calhoun argued that the CPI was “highly distorted. They may not know how highly distorted. Currently, several factors are inflating its value – yes, ‘inflation’ is inflated – to the point where the...

DALLAS - The State Fair of Texas unveiled the next round in the annual Big Tex Choice Food Awards. The 32 semi-finalists were announced Thursday morning. They include both savory and sweet treats. The food entries will compete for either the best tasting savory treat, best tasting sweet treat or the most creative. The entries that made the cut for 2021 include: