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Life in the Airline TerminalWhat the ruling class wants.Walking through an airport these days is like digging through sedimentary layers of useless government regulation. The TSA security line is where every hare-braned bureaucratic policy goes to die. Except they don’t die: they sit, fossilized in horrible suspended animation, crust upon crust of outdated protection against misunderstood crises. Here is what happens now when you board a plane. You have to put on your COVID-19 mask as you approach the first security checkpoint, where you will be asked to take off your mask to verify your identity. Then you put on...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A St. Petersburg woman was arrested for battery after she allegedly bashed her boyfriend over the head with pan full of hot grits, police said. The alleged assault occurred Wednesday in the 2400 block of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street. According to the affidavit, Deriese Johnson, 49, was arguing with her boyfriend and hit him over the head with a metal sauce pan. “Contained within this pan was hot grits, which spilled on the victim, causing a burn to his left arm,” the affidavit states. Police said the victim suffered head and facial injuries and...

September 2021 marked the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. It was a somber occasion, as millions of Americans looked back on one of the worst atrocities in American history, and that calamitous foreign policy America embarked on in response to it. Revolver writes “one of” the worst atrocities, because there are deeds that killed far more Americans than 9/11 did. In fact, America is living through one of those atrocities right now. Newly-released FBI numbers confirm something that has been apparent for the last year: The Black Lives Matter movement is the deadliest entirely-preventable atrocity inflicted on the American...

The United States is not just dealing with mutations of COVID-19. Our government and our culture have been infected with mutated strains of collectivism and corporate authoritarianism, already engaged in censorship and moving swiftly toward perpetual surveillance and control over our property, our finances, our health care and our most personal decisions. And those who are busy cramming authoritarianism down our gullets are simultaneously maintaining the illusion of our meaningful participation in government. Americans love to tell themselves, "That can't happen here." On the contrary, it is happening here. For at least the past 20 years, we have been ensnared...

In Case You Missed It: The Colossal Screw-up that was the Afghanistan Withdrawal - by Clint Roberts - How to Read a News StoryLate Summer of 2021 was full of headlines and news stories about Afghanistan. It’s been hard to keep up with and to keep straight. The short story is that it was an unmitigated disaster of our inept government’s making.In case you’ve gotten lost in all of the details since this debacle started, here is a list of the events, in chronological order, with plenty of links to sources.April 2021: Biden says he’s committed to pulling everyone out...

Georgia Tech Researchers have now shown that one of the very measures meant to keep data secure on a low-end phone can enable attackers to steal it. Their paper, presented on September 10 at the 6th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, demonstrates successful attacks on two different types of low-end Android phones, a ZTE Zfive and an Alcatel Ideal. In accordance with standard practice, the researchers reported their findings to software developers before releasing their results so that the problem could be fixed. The attack relies on placing a radio sensor within a few centimeters of a device,...

A total of 49 House and Senate Republicans helped Democrats pass billions in American taxpayer money on welfare, driver’s licenses, housing costs, and more for Afghans brought to the United States as part of President Joe Biden’s massive resettlement operation. On Thursday, 34 House Republicans and 15 Senate Republicans voted with Democrats to approve $6.4 billion in taxpayer money for the roughly 95,000 Afghans that Biden hopes to bring to the U.S. over the next 12 months — a population nine times larger than Jackson, Wyoming’s resident population.

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) doubled down on her position not to support the Democratic leadership’s $3.5 trillion spending bill on Sept. 30, while claiming that she had raised concerns about the bill with Democratic leaders in August. On Thursday, Sinema joined Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) in indicating that they would not back the bill without adjustments. Both votes are critical to the bill’s passage, and they have long maintained that the price tag is too high. Manchin said that he would not support any bill that costs more than $1.5 trillion, adding that if Democrats wanted to do more “they...

Police officers in one of the largest cities in Texas are no longer responding to calls that are deemed non-emergencies as of Oct. 1. In situations including when there is no immediate threat to life or property, residents and others in Austin are being told to submit a report online or call 311 because a call to 911 will not yield a response. The change in policy stems from recommendations from the Reimagining 911 and Non-Police Crisis Response, interim Austin Chief of Police Joseph Chacon told a briefing this week. He also cited concerns about COVID-19 exposure for officers and...

Note: My sister Suz Montgomery is suffering with–short of a miracle–the end-stage of cancer. I understand that she is at a point where she may not understand this message, but I am sending it anyway, for her, and with the hope that any lessons learned here can help the reader too. If Suz is unable to hear this message, I hope that someone reads it to her. Perhaps my niece Lisa can. I understand Lisa has essentially put her life on hold to care for her mother at this time. This is so admirable. Thank you, Lisa! Suz is well...

An Iran state media outlet promoted a clip Thursday of Vice President Kamala Harris praising a student who had just accused the United States of funding Israel's "ethnic genocide" against Palestinians. Press TV, an Iran-affiliated international outlet, tweeted out the exchange Harris had at Virginia's George Mason University Tuesday with a female student, who raised questions about U.S. monies provided to allies Israel and Saudi Arabia. "I see that over the summer there have been, like, protests and demonstrations in astronomical numbers" about the Palestinian cause, the student said. She went on to note how "just a few days ago...

Dear friends; how can any society survive when moral absolutes are being eradicated EXPONENTIALLY right before our eyes? How can we as a nation survive when individuals who seek to promote morality are hated, scoffed at, and demonized by millions of Americans and by both political parties? The very sobering answer my dear friend is, “It will not! nor will it EVER!” Thus, we now see the final sad state and coming downfall of our once great and highly respected nation as the Day of the Lord is rapidly approaching (Psalm 11:3, Prov. 14:3). Look at the heading picture very...

This interview is absolutely mind-blowing and I personally wonder how many believers even see the world we live in at present from this EXPONENTIAL Biblical reality? If you dare to see the EXPONENTIAL reality of today it will push you right into the ETERNAL ARMS of Almighty God's RIGHTEOUS ETERNAL saving grace! May Almighty God bless the watching of this video! Jan Markell talks to Nathan Jones for the hour about the connection between technology and Bible prophecy. Half the world’s population is “connected.” How is this setting the stage for the Antichrist and beast technology? How is it numbing...

Used as a tool to demonize contrarians and anyone on the right.Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger has blasted the site for its slide into “leftist propaganda,” accusing it of long since abandoning impartiality and simply becoming an amplifier for mainstream news narratives.anger co-founded Wikipedia with with Jimmy Wales in 2001.During an interview with the Epoch Times, Sanger noted that the online encyclopedia began with noble intentions but is now just another tool to demonize people who challenge the consensus.“Wikipedia made a real effort at neutrality for, I would say, its first five years or so,” said Sanger, adding, “And then …...

Vulnerabilities in Apple Pay and Visa could enable hackers to bypass an iPhone's Apple Pay lock screen and perform contactless payments, according to research by the University of Birmingham and University of Surrey. Experts in the University of Birmingham's School of Computer Science and the University of Surrey's Department of Computer Science found their approach could also be used to bypass the contactless limit allowing transactions of any amount to be performed. Their results will be presented in a paper at the 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. The researchers discovered the vulnerability occurs when Visa cards are set...

For every left-wing community organization, there's a grant in Build Back Better. Dems are pushing to pass a multitrillion-dollar spending bill called the Build Back Better Act. It ought to be called the Political Scam Bill. Buried in the 2,465 pages are numerous billion-dollar grants to unnamed community organizations for vague purposes such as promoting "community engagement" and "creating equitable civic infrastructure." Translation: Your taxpayer dollars will fund the payrolls of left-wing advocacy groups between elections. In return, they become the campaign army staffing phone banks, harvesting ballots and escorting people to the polls on Election Day. The Build Back...

“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). Sin is pervasive and deadly. When the early church father Chrysostom remarked, “I fear nothing but sin,” he correctly identified sin as the greatest threat any person faces. Sin mars all the relationships people are involved in: with other people, with themselves, and, most significantly, with God. Sin causes suffering, disease, and death in the physical realm and also causes spiritual death—eternal separation from God in Hell. Because sin is so deadly, we need to carefully define it, so we can understand and avoid it. First...

HTML SANDBOX 2021 We are so blessed by Jim and John Robinson, and by God through them, with this marvelous website. FreeRepublic has many capabilities you can use to refine your posts, to make your points more emphatically and dramatically.Many posters have given us previous versions of this Sandbox, but since the most recent was in 2016, it's now well past time for another. "HTML" is Hyper Text Markup Language, which can make your typing-text fancier and more useful. You supply invisible commands to produce remarkable effects. These commands are encased in left and right carets, like this: <command>.* Before...

A drop in certain heart electrical activity readings was found to precede COVID-19 death by around 52 hoursvoenkor/Depositphotos _______________________________________________________________________________________ Researchers from The Mount Sinai Hospital have found changes to electrical activity in the heart can help predict which hospitalized COVID-19 patients are more likely to decline and die. The biomarker is easily measurable and potentially predicts death several days in advance. When hospitals are overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients it can be challenging for doctors to work out where to best focus their limited attention and resources. A number of blood-based biomarkers have been found to help assess those patients most...

Lindsey Graham Retweeted.@LindseyGrahamSC wrote a letter addressed to President Biden regarding his "dereliction of duty" at the southern border."I think the guy deserves to be impeached for this. I really do." @ericbolling pic.twitter.com/tPIcPQ9ZvI— Newsmax (@newsmax) September 30, 2021