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  • Per Tommy Robinson’s Telegram, a video of protests cranking up in NYC over vaccination passports [video clip]

    08/09/2021 10:23:07 AM PDT · by ransomnote · 9 replies
    t.me ^ | 9/9/2021 | Tommy Robinson News
    8/9/2021, 10:03:26 AM · 92 of 92tatown to ransomnotePer Tommy Robinson’s Telegram, a video of protests cranking up in NYC over vaccination passports.https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/23318Telegram: Contact @TommyRobinsonNewsProtesters gathering at the city hall in New York city against Coronavirus passports which are essentially health apartheid.t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/2331813.2KviewsAug 9 at 09:47
  • Norwegian Cruise Line can require vaccine passports in Florida, federal judge rules

    08/09/2021 10:21:29 AM PDT · by Capt. Tom · 22 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | August 09, 2021 | Kaelan Deese
    U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams granted Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings a preliminary injunction on Sunday evening challenging Gov. Ron DeSantis' statewide ban for businesses to require vaccines before engaging in certain activities. In the ruling, she wrote that Florida failed to "provide a valid evidentiary, factual, or legal predicate" for the ban, documents obtained by Politico show. The order allows the company to operate with 100% vaccinations or the requirement of all guests and crew to be vaccinated when sailing from Florida ports. The company will not be subject to $5,000 fines for every violation of the Republican governor's order,...
  • As Delta Variant Spreads, Florida Hospitals Race to Find Open Beds

    08/09/2021 10:13:26 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 98 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | 08/09/2021 | Melanie Evans
    ORLANDO—Nurse Darlene Andrews stood before a small crew responsible for stopping the latest pandemic surge from overrunning seven of AdventHealth’s Orlando-area hospitals. She quickly listed occupancy at each hospital. Six were beyond full capacity, with one at 123% for adults. Nearby wall-mounted screens streaming hospital data showed more than 90 patients—some with Covid-19, some seeking other care—needed beds. One had been waiting more than two days. A hospital in Altamonte Springs, Fla., and another east of downtown Orlando were the current hot spots, nurse Andrew Stakelum told the group, a team that oversees work that has become critical for U.S....
  • California Prayer Thread

    08/09/2021 10:04:57 AM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 9 replies
    August 9, 2021
    With the recall of Governor Gavin Newsom hanging in the balance, the entrenched influence of Hollywood in shaping our culture, and the numerous left wing precedents in both private and public life the state continues to set... The state both Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan called home (as well as Free Republic!) has become ground zero in the spiritual battle for the soul of this nation. Please join me in fervent prayer these fateful days and feel free to post your own, whether you are a California resident or not.
  • Report: Barack Obama’s 60th Birthday Celebration Continued Sunday with Crowded Brunch

    08/09/2021 9:58:19 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 39 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 08/09/2021 | David NG
    Former President Barack Obama reportedly continued to celebrate his 60th birthday Sunday with a brunch gathering of his friends at a restaurant in Martha’s Vineyard, marking the third straight day of pandemic partying for the Obamas. The Sunday brunch took place at a waterfront restaurant, with photographs showing Barack and Michelle Obama seated amid a crowd of friends, none of whom could be seen wearing masks as they socialized in close proximity, according to a report from the Daily Mail.
  • OLYMPIC Medal Count by country

    08/09/2021 9:56:57 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 11 replies
    https://olympics.com ^ | AUGUST 9, 2021 | Staff
    SEE CHART AT LINK............. USA #1!........................
  • A few good Christian Chuckles

    08/09/2021 9:56:22 AM PDT · by sodpoodle · 15 replies
    jokes ^ | 8/9/2021 | multiple
    Christian Jokes Creation An atheist scientist came to God and said, "We've figured out how to make a man without you." God said, "OK, let me see you do it." So the atheist bent down to the ground and scooped up a handful. But God stopped him and said, "Oh, no you don't. Get your own dirt!" I Don't Want To Go To Church! A mother went to wake her son for church one Sunday morning. When she knocked on his door, he said, "I'm not going!" "Why not?" asked his mother. "I'll give you two good reasons," he said....
  • Interim Operational Considerations for Implementing the Shielding Approach to Prevent COVID-19 Infections in Humanitarian Settings [formatted 'accessible' version h/t Musicnart]

    08/09/2021 9:55:24 AM PDT · by ransomnote · 7 replies
    cdc.gov ^ | July 26, 2020 | CDC
    [H/T MusicnArt]ransomnote: CDC Covid prison content below. Since Australia and Canada have already implemented mandatory Covid 'camps' complete with fenced yards and guarded floors, the exercise yard, and the single point of entrance/exit; the CDC is ready to set up it's own Covid prisons. CDC design specifications below. Yes. They are really prisons. PrintThis document presents considerations from the perspective of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) for implementing the shielding approach in humanitarian settings as outlined in guidance documents focused on camps, displaced populations and low-resource settings.1,2 This approach has never been documented and has raised...
  • US Faces Another “Dangerous” Heat Wave Amid 100 Large Wildfires Ravaging West

    08/09/2021 9:48:45 AM PDT · by blam · 23 replies
    Nation & State ^ | 8-9-2021 | Tyler Durden
    The dog days of summer have arrived as much of the country faces above-average temperatures. “It’s going to be a real oppressive week with dangerous heat and hot conditions across much of the U.S. Excessive heat watches are up across much of the Pacific Northwest for mid to late week, including in the Portland and Seattle metro areas. Meanwhile, heat advisories are in effect for a good part of the south-central U.S. and parts of western New York state,” according to the National Weather Service (NWS). Great Plains and Upper Midwest states could see triple-digit temperatures and daily record high...
  • NYT Reporter Says the Quiet Part Out Loud About COVID Vaccinations and Obama's Birthday Party

    08/09/2021 9:48:17 AM PDT · by lightman · 12 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | 9 August A.D. 2021 | Matt Vespa
    Talk about the upper crust life, huh? Former President Barack Obama has his bougie birthday party over the weekend. There were tons of guests. It was a superspreader event if we’re going by the liberal media’s rules. COVID is back in the news, and the media is beyond aroused by it. They’re getting off on rising cases, deaths, and hospitalizations. They’re also using this as their PSA bullhorn to tell people to get vaccinated. Should we get the shot? Yes, I think they should. Should they be forced? No. There are a ton of people who don’t like vaccine mandates...
  • Biden eyes 1st summer getaway as president

    08/09/2021 9:46:05 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 37 replies
    WDEL ^ | 08/09/2021 | Darlene Superville and Aamer Madhan
    After more than six months of work combating the coronavirus, negotiating a bipartisan infrastructure bill and repairing the U.S. image abroad, President Joe Biden should be heading out on vacation and a traditional August break from Washington. But with legislative work on the infrastructure bill keeping the Senate in session for a second straight weekend, and likely through next week, Biden hasn’t gone far — just home to Wilmington, Delaware, as he has done often since taking office. “Every president is always working no matter where they are,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said, explaining that presidents can’t ever...
  • What Guns And Rifles Are Americans Buying (At Near Record Numbers)?

    08/09/2021 9:38:33 AM PDT · by Onthebrink · 59 replies
    19FortyFive ^ | 8/9/2021 | Peter Suciu
    Firearms makers big and small have reported increased sales, and last month Springfield, Mass.-based Smith & Wesson reported that its sales more than doubled in its last fiscal year to $1.1 billion. The company’s sales certainly remained strong into July, when the company claimed the top spots on Guns.com top firearms sales charts for the month with its M&P 15 Sport II Optics Ready, an AR-style modern sporting rifle that the company noted was engineered for a wide variety of recreational, sport shooting and even professional applications.
  • Taliban capture sixth provincial capital in blitz across northern Afghanistan.

    08/09/2021 9:35:49 AM PDT · by kingtom · 38 replies
    Whatfinger News ^ | 08-09-21 | Dr Afzal Ashraf
    The Taliban seized a sixth Afghan provincial capital on Monday following a weekend blitz across the north that saw urban centers fall in quick succession and the government struggle to keep the militants at bay. Taliban terrorist seized most of the capital of northern Afghanistan’s key Kunduz province on Sunday, and took another neighboring provincial capital after a month long siege. The advances were the latest in a series of blows to government forces as U.S. troops complete their pullout after nearly two decades in the country. The terrorists planted their flag in the main square of Kunduz city, where...
  • Flubros and Flubras! A place for Flubros and Flubras! (Year 2)

    08/09/2021 9:35:46 AM PDT · by impimp · 29 replies
    www.Freerepublic.com ^ | 9 August 2021 | Impimp
    It’s just the flu, bro. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasite-stress_theory https://youtu.be/6DqJ1Wv6EtQ Jordan Peterson and Randy Thornhill discuss parasite-stress theory, Coronavirus, Spanish flu, Nazis, and virus response in general by conservatives and liberals. Essentially Thornhill contends that conservatives are hard-wired to want less immigration and more restrictions on people because they fear germs. Liberals want fewer rules and a free-flow of people because they are less scared of germs. After reading the previous two sentences you may very well be dismissive of what he is saying, but I think it can be rationalized by the fact that, due to our unique founding principles, American conservatives,...
  • Rhode Island woman, 20, sentenced to life in prison for murder of ex-boyfriend’s mother

    08/09/2021 9:28:51 AM PDT · by rightwingintelligentsia · 43 replies
    Cox Media via KIRO News ^ | August 9, 2021 | Kelli Dugan
    PAWTUCKET, R.I. — A 20-year-old Rhode Island woman pleaded guilty Thursday and was sentenced immediately to life in prison for the 2020 murder of her ex-boyfriend’s mother. According to the office of Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha, Shaylyn Moran of Pawtucket pleaded guilty to charges of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder and carrying a pistol without a license in the shooting death of 54-year-old Cheryl Smith, WPRI reported. In addition to the life sentence on the murder charge, Moran also received consecutive 10-year terms for the additional charges, The Providence Journal reported. Moran did not shoot Smith but...
  • Father, mother, and son all die within a week after refusing vaccine

    08/09/2021 9:26:58 AM PDT · by Berlin_Freeper · 213 replies
    metro.co.uk ^ | 9 Aug 2021 | Jordan King
    A man who lost his entire immediate family to Covid in one week is urging people to get the vaccine. Francis Goncalves’ mother, father and brother all died in hospital within two weeks of contracting coronavirus. Despite his parents living with underlying health conditions, they, along with his brother, refused to take a jab. ‘(My family) got caught up in a lot of the anti-vaccination propaganda that’s going around,’ he told Wales Online. ‘It preys on people who are afraid and they fall into the trap.’ Francis, 43, who lives in Cardiff, is now speaking out so people who’ve been...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Clericalism in Action: Lima Archbishop REFUSES Communion TWICE

    08/09/2021 9:26:27 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 11 replies
    Gloria TV ^ | August 9, 2021 | Gloria TV
    Clericalism in Action: Lima Archbishop REFUSES Communion TWICEShocking pictures were transmitted in a life-stream of a NO Eucharist in Lima Cathedral, Peru.The event was presided by the local Pachamama worshipper, Francis-Archbishop Carlos Castillo Mattasoglio.Cheap guitar pop music was playing while Castillo was handing out Communion, when a young man came forward, humbly knelt down, and waited to receive Communion.But Castillo started repeating at him: „¡En la mano Señor!“ [In the hand Sir!]. When the young man didn’t react, likely because he didn’t understand Spanish, Castillo stepped forward leaving him at a side and continued handing out Communion to those behind...
  • ‘NBC’s Worst-Case Scenario’: Olympics Ratings Crash As Americans Snub Games

    08/09/2021 9:22:04 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 121 replies
    https://www.dailywire.com ^ | AUGUST 9, 2021 | By Tim Pearce
    <p>NBC’s ratings for the this year’s Olympic games in Tokyo crashed from what they were five years ago in Rio de Janeiro.</p><p>The network is giving advertisers extra commercials to make up for the low viewership. On many days throughout the 17-day spectacle, viewership of the games clocked in at roughly half of what it was for the games in 2016, according to the Associated Press.</p>
  • Hot off the press: Nixon to resign, on Aug. 8, 1974

    08/09/2021 9:21:44 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 18 replies
    Dispatch ^ | 08/08/2021 | Paul Souhrada
    Back in 1974, Republican leaders, particularly in the Senate, were worried that President Richard Nixon, post-Watergate, would sink their chances in the next election. Rather than circle the wagons around the embattled leader of their party, they circled the wagons around the Capitol, and it was only a matter of time before Nixon knew he had to go and hand the keys to the White House to Vice President Gerald Ford (who took over the previous October after Spiro Agnew resigned amid his own problems) or risk impeachment.
  • The SR-71 Astroinertial Navigation System, aka R2-D2, was crucial in Blackbird mission. Here’s why.

    08/09/2021 9:12:21 AM PDT · by DUMBGRUNT · 39 replies
    The Aviation Geek Club ^ | 8 Aug 2021 | Dario Leone
    ...From 80,000 feet, it could survey 100,000 square miles of Earth’s surface per hour. Piloting the Blackbird was an unforgiving endeavor, demanding total concentration. But pilots were giddy with their complex, adrenaline-fueled responsibilities. “At 85,000 feet and Mach 3, it was almost a religious experience,” said Air Force Colonel Jim Wadkins. “Nothing had prepared me to fly that fast… My God, even now, I get goose bumps remembering.” The ANS was the 1960’s version of GPS, but instead of using satellites to locate itself, the ANS used the stars. This is because before the invention of the modern satnav networks...