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By their fruits ye shall know them. We are living in a weird world of constant deception and bizarre government policies. Sometimes the liars are easily exposed, usually the policies are facially absurd, and this week there are 10 such examples. 1. Claiming that the U.S. is responsible for Cuba’s failed state Pinning the blame for Cuba’s failures on the U.S. is the argument of people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. (The other being the nonsense about Cuba’s great medical care and universal literacy.) In a pithy tweet, James Pethokoukis makes hash of this nonsense. James Pethokoukis @JimPethokoukis Jul 16 Again, saying...

Health officials in Israel reported that 2,342 local students and 227 teaching staff members have been diagnosed with Corona. High schoolers account for approximately 29% of the cases, while about 50% are elementary school students and a further 21% are kindergarteners. 14,690 students and 275 teachers have been asked to quarantine...

It’s a horrifying thought, but it’s true: cable news is in control of both political parties, and therefore the whole country. Think about it – how many people running for office right now are products of cable news, meaning they are people who, were it not for their appearances on whatever cable network corresponds with their political ideology, you likely never would have heard of? I’m betting it’s a lot of them, if not all. I want to be delicate here. I know everyone has their favorite networks and shows, but do you really want a country ruled by people...

A Wisconsin representative on Friday said 2020 election reviews being done in the state should be expanded into a “full forensic audit” following alleged irregularities being revealed in Arizona and Georgia. State Rep. Timothy Ramthun, a Republican, formally requested “a more comprehensive audit” from former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman, who is leading a conducting a review of the election at the behest of Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos along with retired police officers, and the Legislative Audit Bureau, which lawmakers authorized earlier this year to investigate the election.

The possible explaining of some controversial effects by a vortexial atom model Volume 4 Issue 2 - 2020 Marius Arghirescu State Office for Inventions and Trademarks, Patents Department, Romania Correspondence: Marius Arghirescu, State Office for Inventions and Trademarks, Patents Department; Romania, Published: April 30, 2020 Abstract In the paper is presented a vortexial pre-quantum model of atom, based on a vortexial type of electron’ and proton’ magnetic moment, resulted in a cold genesis theory(CGT) as etherono-quantonic vortex ( ) * B r (r ’) (r r ’), Γ =Γ +Γ > µ µµ µ of heavy’ tachyonic etherons (ms ≈10-60...

But most vaccine skepticism, if by that we mean reluctance, is not based on conspiracy theorizing — it’s based on risk-benefit calculations. You may think it’s an innumerate calculation. But when you look at patterns of uptake in the United States, two factors stand out, factors that are larger in their effect than partisanship: age and density. The older you are and the denser your community, the more likely you are to be vaccinated. The younger you are, and the more rural your community, the less likely you are to have gotten it. This reflects the real facts about the...

"...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...