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"...Raskin told Hayes: "We got very lucky with Mike Pence." "All they wanted Pence to do was to rebuff the electors coming in from Arizona, Georgia, and Pennsylvania, lowering Biden's total below 270, kicking the presidential contest into a contingent election," Raskin said. In the event that no presidential candidate can reach 270 Electoral College votes, the next president is selected by the House of Representatives. This rare situation has not arisen since the 19th century.

Great analysis of the latest news from Arizona. See video at link, while it it still there.

I am a funeral director running his own funeral home – for the doubters this is me, I have been in the trade 15 years. https://www.mkffs.co.uk/What I will say is last year the death rate was totally normal. In fact many of my colleagues turned their fridges off before Christmas because there was no one to put in them.When we returned after Christmas, they began vaccination locally on January 6th, 2021, and the death rate immediately went through the roof. In fact, in fifteen years I’ve never seen a death rate like it.Then as suddenly as it began it ceased....

Covid-19 shoved Jeff Sweat into a medical coma for three weeks last winter, face down on a ventilator, on death's trap door. ...Sweat and several other patients with serious medical complications caused by the virus attend weekly opera classes via video conference, conducted by members of the Los Angeles Opera and music educator Rondi Charleston. "When you are intubated, you forget how to drink and breathe," Sweat said. "It was like breathing was a second language. Singing helps me connect. Breathing to a purpose. It gave me reason to learn how to breathe again."

A pair of 84-year-old religious statues were smashed to pieces early Saturday by a woman outside a Queens church, the latest in a disturbing spate of incidents targeting local Catholic properties, church and police officials said. The incident occurred at the Our Lady of Mercy parish, where the venerable statues of the Blessed Mother and St. Therese the Little Flower were knocked over, dragged into the middle of the street and broken with a hammer around 3:30 a.m., said John Quaglione, a spokesman for the Diocese of Brooklyn....

It’s not quite Chocolate City, but recent election wins by African-American politicians has the Big Apple on the verge of being the hub of black power. Not only is the nation’s largest city poised to elect its second African-American mayor and its first African-American district attorney, New York City’s new (b)lack power surge has already made significant inroads in state government and may soon even shake up the halls of Congress. And that’s just on the surface. Behind the scenes is a slate of party bosses, city council members and energized voters ready to usher in a new day for...

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The National Guard said this week that if it does not receive the $521 million reimbursement for its help protecting Washington, D.C., following the Jan. 6 insurrection it will hinder the readiness of the guardsmen to respond to other situations.... ...“The National Guard used fiscal year 2021 funding to pay for the operational Capital response from January to May. By front-loading the money, it ensured the Soldiers and Airmen who volunteered for the mission were paid,” the National Guard Bureau said in a statement to The Hill. “The nearly $521 million cost of that mission is still a deficit against...

“Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom” (Proverbs 18:1).

We could have gone our whole lives NOT seeing Eric Swalwell shirtless. We could have gone our wholes lives and THEN some NOT seeing Eric Swalwell shirtless riding a camel. And yet here we are. Guess this is better than ripping a giant fart on national television or you know, banging a Chinese spy but still. In case you missed it (hey, if we have to see it so do you):

Atmosphere is leakingYou may believe or not but it is true that Earth is losing its atmosphere continuously day by day.Every single day, nearly 90 tonnes of material escapes from our upper atmosphere and streams out into space.But there is one more thing is that 90 tonnes per day is a tiny leak for our huge atmosphere.Because our atmosphere weighs nearly 5 quadrillion tonnes, so we are not in any danger of running out of the atmosphere.Share and see some more facts like this- https://factshungry.com/facts-about-earths-atmosphere/

When a 7-year-old boy said he wanted to wear a skirt to school “because it’s breezy and pretty”, his parents weren’t too surprised. They went to the mall with their son, who then picked out a blue skirt. But when his father wrote about the experience on social media, it sparked a discussion about gender-neutral education in China. The father, a 31-year-old stay-home dad in Beijing who called himself Haixing, wrote on question and answer website Zhihu last month about his son’s experience. Patients with gender identity issues ‘more willing to seek help’ “My wife and I were fully prepared...

The National Football League (NFL) recently joined virtually every other American institution in lauding — and marketing to — the LGBT community during Pride Month in June. It did so by releasing a new 30-second commercial proudly proclaiming that "football is gay, lesbian, queer, transgender, bisexual and exciting." The ad begins by stating "football is gay" to the sound of drums rolling and people cheering. (I'm not sure what Dick Butkus would have to say about this advertisement, but I digress.) f you love this game, you are welcome here. Football is for all. Football is for everyone. The NFL...

Researchers in Sweden have challenged the interpretation that variable non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) and “herd immunity” protection are responsible for the rise and fall of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic waves in hard-hit locations where authorities have not enforced strict NPIs.Instead, they say that the herd immunity threshold appears to be much lower than previously thought.However, the team’s study also indicates that these thresholds are unstable and cannot be considered indicative of protection against emerging variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) – the agent that causes COVID-19.“Vaccination roll-out must continue with high participation,” says Marcus Carlsson from Lund...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum threads labeled “Prayer” are closed to debate of any kind.

Public health officials and government workers are trying everything they can to promote COVID-19 vaccination — advertisements, news releases, cash lotteries, and even incentives like free beer, joints or doughnuts in some places. But nothing sways a vaccine-hesitant person more than a word with a family member, friend or their own doctor, a new Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) poll reveals.

A couple of weeks ago, word arrived that 120 new missile silos had been discovered in the desert of Northern China. While the press made much of this evidence that China is busy expanding its nuclear weapons program, they did not look at who found the silos and how he did it. As it happens, the silos were spotted by Decker Eveleth, an undergrad at Reed College. He spent weeks poking around on satellite imagery until he happened upon the silos’ distinctive inflatable dome coverings. (Which, in turn, has led some people to describe them as “bouncy houses of death.”)...

Operation Pacific Iron 2021 is scheduled to take place within the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command’s area of responsibility in July to showcase the U.S. air force’s strategic flexibility, according to Pacific Air Forces.The announcement comes as U.S.-China tensions continue to simmer over the issues of Taiwan and the South China Sea.The exercise involves more than 35 aircraft and approximately 800 Airmen from Pacific Air Forces and Air Combat Command, Pacific Air Forces reported on July 13. Notably, 25 F-22 raptors—a seemingly unprecedented number of its kind to deploy to the West Pacific—will join the drill from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, and...

Why did so many Americans receive strange packages they didn’t think they’d ordered?Sid miller, the Texas agriculture commissioner, sat atop his stallion Smokey and faced the camera. It was Saturday, August 1, 2020. Miller had a message to share. “Good morning, patriots,” Miller began, raising the coiled lasso in his right hand by way of greeting. “I don’t know about you, but I’m getting tired of all these surprises coming out of China. First it was the Chinese virus, then we had the murder hornets, then we had to close the embassy in Houston because of espionage … Now we’ve...

Cyber Ninjas, the cybersecurity consulting firm hired by Arizona Senate Republicans to oversee a partisan review of the 2020 election, on Thursday pushed a false narrative that Maricopa County received thousands of mail-in ballots that had no record of being sent out to voters. The firm’s CEO Doug Logan used the baseless claim to urge legislators to subpoena more records and canvass voters at home, grasping for evidence of fraud even as a hand count of a statistical sample of ballots and two post-election audits showed no proof of wrongdoing in Maricopa County’s election. The false claim has reverberated online...