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Dear friends; I truly liked President Trump's message last night and the phrase; Save America. It is absolutely amazing how far we have fallen since January under Red Biden and the woke godless demonic lawless Left; but remember friends, we as a nation were greatly falling before Donald Trump took office in 2016 and all President Trump was able to do for a moment was to slow it down a very very little in light of our EXPONENTIALLY imploding nation. We have to as Americans add that "EXPONENTIAL equation" into our perspective today as we look at our nation today;...

California Gubernatorial Recall Election - Frequently Asked Questions County elections officials have 30 days after the election to complete the official canvass. On the 38th day after the election, if the recall is successful, the Secretary of State will certify the election results, and the new governor would take the oath of office and assume the position for the remainder of the term (through January 2, 2023).

Joe Biden's national security adviser warned the Taliban on Sunday that the U.S. will issue a 'forceful' response if they interfere in American evacuation efforts from Afghanistan – and he doesn't rule out sending in more troops. 'If in the end Americans are blocked from getting to the airport, blocked from leaving the country, or our operations are disrupted or our evacuations are in some way interfered with, we have explained to them that there will be a swift and forceful response,' Jake Sullivan told NBC News host Chuck Todd during an interview on Meet the Press. Sullivan detailed that...

Suzanna Smith’s mother was supposed to spend a few weeks at a rehab facility in Fitchburg to recover from surgery, but she never came home. “She went in for back surgery, and she died from COVID. It’s still so surreal to me,” Smith said. Her mother, Masae Hodges, was 73 when she died last year. Hodges is one of more than 6,000 residents of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities in Massachusetts who have died of COVID-19, roughly one third of all COVID deaths in the state. But for grieving relatives like Smith, there are few legal options if...

Screenshot from embedded video of Australians pushing past police barriers in protest of more draconian COVID lockdowns.The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 and the resulting illness, COVID-19, has caused mass hysteria on global scale. Perhaps no response is as shocking as what we see in Australia. The country is included in the group of western democracies globally and among the Five Eyes intelligence community members. Yet, the nation’s response to the pandemic can only be described as authoritarian.A COVID-19 Delta outbreak emerged in Australia in June. The country adopted a “Covid-Zero” strategy early in the pandemic. The government has repeatedly imposed draconian...

Kamala Harris traveled to Southeast Asia to visit Singapore and Vietnam as thousands of Americans are stranded in Afghanistan in a potential hostage situation. Both Biden and Harris hid from the public for several days as the Taliban took control of Afghanistan. Advertisement - story continues below Kamala Harris walked over to a gaggle of reporters on the tarmac before boarding her flight to Singapore. Harris laughed when a reporter started to ask her about Americans trapped in Afghanistan.

Joe Biden's aides were 'too afraid' to quiz him and his National Security Adviser over key decisions made in the run-up to the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, according to sources close to the US administration. The President is accused of insisting on recalling US troops ahead of the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington DC, and allegedly ignored warnings that it would not leave the military enough time to get American nationals and allies out. A former defence official in regular contact with senior White House aides suggested that there was not much pushback from concerned...

Military planes making evacuation runs into Kabul are dropping flares and carrying out nosedive combat landings amid fears that Islamic terrorists may try to shoot one down as Afghans trying to flee the Taliban have described at least 20 civilians being killed in the chaos. US military planes are doing rapid diving combat landings to beat the threat of a missile attack, with video showing a French transport plane yesterday deploying flares designed to confuse heat-seeking technology which may have been stolen by Islamic State in Afghanistan. Taliban forces controlling all access points to Hamid Karzai International Airport are not...

Politics hide corruption in complexity. Congress passes bills of thousands of pages and the implication and damage are hidden until the effects are made part of what must be dealt with on a daily basis. Our legal system has become a corrupted labyrinth of exclusions and exceptions with confusing motions filed by both sides as cases move through the system. The final judgments make us scratch our heads wondering how they came to a judgment. We do not know because the process is so complex that only one with special knowledge can understand how the judgment was reached. The battle...

GLOBAL POLITICS Biden administration appears to have stockpiled military equipment for Taliban months before collapse By NEWS EDITOR August 19, 2021 Reading Time: 2 minutes WASHINGTON — For months, the Biden administration was stockpiling military equipment for the Taliban before the collapse of the Afghan government. The report comes from Reuters who shares that well over a month before the Taliban’s march across the country, the Biden administration was sending military equipment to Afghanistan amid a “planned withdrawal.” The plans of the Biden administration were not very well thought out or executed. But perhaps this was the plan all along....

According to Wikipedia, the Peter Principle is described as "a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their 'maximum level of incompetence; employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another.'" There is no greater example of this premise than our present occupier of the Oval Office, President Joe Biden. During the decades Biden spent in the Senate, he was merely one of a...

Joe Biden is unfit to be President of the United States. It was obvious when he was running for office that he lacks the physical stamina and mental acuity for the job. It has become increasingly obvious since January that the part-time President has either hidden from the media or stumbled through the kind of scripted press conferences that Americans rightly used to deride as the hallmark of banana republics. The handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan has exposed Biden's incapacity. The painful truth is now undeniable. He must go — even if that means Kamala Harris, who has been...

EXCERPT Book Review of Shorting the Grid by Meredith Angwin Shorting or Bloating the Power Grid? 1 out of 5 stars Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2021 With all the plaudits given this book, I’m sorry I must be the one to say that I found it to be full of half-truths and misleading data analysis that is apparently being used by advocates for bloated Capacity Power Grids (such as unions, both political parties and both nuclear and renewable energy interests), hypocritically all in the name of lowering electricity prices for consumers. I will let readers decide...

Liberal comedian Bill Maher took on the woke takeover of media. On his HBO show Real Time on Friday evening, Maher welcomed former New York Magazine writer Andrew Sullivan as a guest on the show. Sullivan singled out academia as the biggest cause of the woke takeover as universities have been allegedly teaching students to think of themselves as part of racial and sexual groups instead of as individuals. Academia has not be unique to the problem however, as Sullivan was recently pushed out of New York Magazine for not toeing the woke line. “You were at New York Magazine,...

A doctor has been accused of sacrificing livestock for Santeria witchcraft in his flat after investigators discovered 22 farm animals being kept in his New Jersey home on Thursday. When authorities arrived at Emilio Otero's property on Van Horne Street they were met with "seven to nine" goats, several chickens and even a dead pigeon nailed above a door. The investigators from the Division of Environmental Health for Jersey City visited the apartment after a tip off from Emilio's neighbours. Animal service agents were called to the flat and they removed at least 22 farm animals that had been kept...

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Sunday called on Tokyo to release the Islamic republic's funds that have been frozen in Japan because of US sanctions over its nuclear programme. "Delaying the release of Iran's assets in Japanese banks is unjustifiable," Raisi told visiting Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, the government website reported. Japan and to a larger extent South Korea are both major exporters of technology, and hold billions of dollars in Iranian assets. These funds have been frozen since the former US president Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew Washington from a landmark nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions on Tehran in...

Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer blasted President Biden’s Friday press conference on the debacle in Afghanistan, saying the president has put Americans “just one stray bullet away from a bloodbath in Kabul.” “I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a politician, particularly at a perilous moment like this, be so in denial, out of touch, out to lunch and all around clueless,” Fleischer, who served in the George W. Bush administration, told host Rita Cosby on WABC Radio Friday. “Joe Biden’s judgment on so many issues, for so many decades, has been so wrong, and we’re seeing it...

Public schools who want to institute mask mandate rules can't be denied federal funds, even if their state governments try to pressure them out of mask mandates, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said. The Florida state government threatened to withhold funds for schools in Broward and Alachua counties if they imposed mandatory mask rules. But the Biden administration has proposed using federal funds to make up the difference, with Cardona specifying Sunday that the schools "do not have to get the green light for [their] governor to use these funds." "We have to do everything in our power to keep them...

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of officials who worked for former Republican President George W. Bush are endorsing Democratic White House hopeful Joe Biden — the latest Republican-led group coming out to oppose the re-election of Donald Trump. The officials, who include Cabinet secretaries and other senior people in the Bush administration, have formed a political action committee — "43 Alumni for Biden" — to support the former vice president in his Nov. 3 race, three organizers of the group told Reuters, which first reported the story. The group on Wednesday put out a statement announcing its formation.Bush was the country's 43rd...

While only booster doses of Pfizer and Moderna have been announced, Murthy said they are waiting on efficacy data for a second Johnson & Johnson shot. "We anticipate the people who receive J&J will likely need a booster as well," Murthy said. MORE: Why you shouldn't rush to get a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot before it's your turn Asked about the safety of taking a third shot, Murthy emphasized that the booster distribution plan is "contingent on the (Food and Drug Administration) FDA and the (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) CDC Advisory Committee doing their full and independent evaluation."...