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‘The Vaccine ended my season, 1000 percent’ ‘The Hawks told me not say anything about it, not to tell anybody’ {this 4 minute video is not very compelling beyond the above-mentioned quotes}

This week, a month after Joe Biden announced his COVID vaccine mandate on all business with 100 or more employees, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) submitted its proposed rule to the Office of Management and Budget for review. The Labor Department stated, “The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has been working expeditiously to develop an emergency temporary standard that covers employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their workers are fully vaccinated or undergo weekly testing to protect employees from the spread of coronavirus in the workplace.” A “feature” of the new OSHA rule will require employers...

Does anyone have a list or a link to a list of food and items to stock up to help us get thru the coming shortages? Thanks

Biden commission’s draft materials on Supreme Court reform show split over adding justices A growing chorus of critics — especially those furious with the tactics used by Republicans to appoint the three most recent justices — have called to expand the size of the bench. Proponents include former presidential candidates and Cabinet members. Some of the commissioners agree with the pro-expansion arguments, “at least in part,” the draft materials said. But other commissioners concluded that adding seats “is likely to undermine, rather than enhance, the Supreme Court’s legitimacy and its role in the constitutional system,” the commission wrote. “There are...

George Takei’s decades-long feud with William Shatner is rocketing into space. The “Star Trek” actor threw enough shade at his former on-screen captain to cause an eclipse, as he dismissed Shatner’s flight this week on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin capsule and described him as “not the fittest specimen.” “He’s boldly going where other people have gone before,” snarked Takei, 84, when Page Six asked him what he thought of Captain Kirk’s brief trip Wednesday to the edge of space. “He’s a guinea pig, 90 years old and it’s important to find out what happens,” Takei added, as he spoke at...

A long wait to enter the mall can get to some people. One such TikToker is facing criticism on social media after singling out the unvaccinated — claiming to wait 15 minutes to enter a mall due to vaccination-differentiated safe management measures that started on Wednesday (Oct 13). Read the condensed version of this story, and other top stories with NewsLite. In a viral video posted on the same day by user kenifxyz — with over 170,000 views and almost 500 comments — it showed the snaking queue outside the entrance of Lot One, a shopping mall near Choa Chu...

The White House told governors to start preparing to vaccinate children as young as 5 by early next month in anticipation of clearance of Pfizer's Covid vaccine for the age group in the coming weeks, a White House official said. The Biden administration has purchased 65 million pediatric doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, enough to vaccinate the estimated 28 million children who would be eligible should the Food and Drug Administration approve Pfizer's request to vaccinate children ages 5 to 11, said an official of the Department of Health and Human Services. Pfizer and BioNTech said this month that they...

A prominent Bill Cosby accuser filed suit Thursday against the actor over a 1990 hotel room encounter in Atlantic City, New Jersey, before the state's two-year window to file older sexual assault claims expires. Los Angeles artist Lili Bernard told The Associated Press she was prompted in part by Cosby's recent release from prison. The 84-year-old Cosby has been free since June, when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned his 2018 sexual assault conviction in another case on procedural grounds. He had served more than two years of a potential 10-year sentence.

Oct 14 (Reuters) - French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen said on Thursday she would end all subsidies for renewable energy and take down France's wind turbines if she is elected next year. "Wind and solar, these energies are not renewable, they are intermittent. If I am elected, I will put a stop to all construction of new wind parks and I will launch a big project to dismantle them," She added that she would scrap the subsidies for wind and solar, which she said added up to six or seven billion euros per year. Le Pen also said...

Hours before he was scheduled to retire in 2018, Andrew G. McCabe, then the F.B.I.’s deputy director, was fired by the Justice Department, depriving him of his pension and prompting cheers from President Donald J. Trump, who had been hounding him over his role in the Russia investigation. On Thursday, the department reversed Mr. McCabe’s firing, settling a lawsuit he filed asserting that he was dismissed for political reasons. Under the settlement, Mr. McCabe, 53, will be able to officially retire, receive his pension and other benefits, and get about $200,000 in missed pension payments. In addition, the department agreed...

PIEDMONT, S.C. (WIS) - South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster says South Carolina will not stop businesses from mandating COVID-19 vaccines.

The hashtag #EmptyShelvesJoe shot to the top of the trending topics on Twitter Thursday amid the supply chain crisis threatening the nation’s economy and holiday shopping. Social media users employed the tagline to rip President Biden for empty shelves and skyrocketing prices caused by a backlog of shipping containers waiting to dock at California ports.

YouTube suspended Steven Crowder’s channel for one week on Wednesday, claiming the conservative pundit and comedian violated the platform’s rules against hate speech. YouTube’s counsel sent an email to Crowder’s attorney, William Richmond, informing him of the strike against Crowder’s account and explaining that a September 30 video uploaded to Crowder’s channel “targets the transgender community in an offensive manner,” according to a copy of the email. YouTube has blocked Crowder from posting videos to his main and auxiliary accounts for one week. The email said in part: "We write again on YouTube’s behalf regarding your client, Steven Crowder. YouTube...

in a secret recording, a Texas school administrator advised teachers to have an "opposing" book regarding the Holocaust – also known as the genocide of millions of European Jews during World War II. The school leader works with the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, near Dallas-Forth Worth. According to audio obtained by NBC News, Gina Peddy, the Carroll school district's executive director of curriculum and instruction, made the comment during a training session on which books teachers can have in classroom libraries. Carroll ISD held the training camp to respond to a parent's complaint of how the board reprimand...

SOUTHLAKE, Texas — A top administrator with the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake advised teachers last week that if they have a book about the Holocaust in their classroom, they should also offer students access to a book from an “opposing” perspective, according to an audio recording obtained by NBC News.

Foreign homeless people have additional issues besides mental illness and substance abuse. It's never discussed, but it will become known. I stopped to help Katay because I saw a Rocklin, CA police officer telling her to move on, which I thought was illegal. But I was to regret getting involved with her. I immediately gave her nearly $500 in groceries for herself and her kids, 4 gallons of milk, many packages of steaks, but she wouldn't let me see where she was staying. The most I ever got was her phone and her husband Mario's phone. (She was Venezuelan, he...

A woman who went viral with the hilarious story of her “worst first date” is now claiming that a “drove” of other women have come forward with stories of a strikingly similar — and awful — first dates, perhaps with the very same romantically-challenged bachelor. Elyse Myers, a web developer and content creator from Nebraska, first shared the tale of her disastrous 2011 date on TikTok last week. As she explained in the video, Myers met her suitor on a dating app before driving to his house, where she assumed they would be meeting up and leaving for a restaurant....

Explanation: A mere seven hundred light years from Earth, toward the constellation Aquarius, a sun-like star is dying. Its last few thousand years have produced the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293), a well studied and nearby example of a Planetary Nebula, typical of this final phase of stellar evolution. A total of 90 hours of exposure time have gone in to creating this expansive view of the nebula. Combining narrow band image data from emission lines of hydrogen atoms in red and oxygen atoms in blue-green hues, it shows remarkable details of the Helix's brighter inner region about 3 light-years across....

Democrats in the Virginia General Assembly voted for — and Governor Ralph Northam signed — a law allowing schools to refrain from reporting instances of sexual battery, stalking, violation of a protective order, and violent threats occurring on school property in 2020. § 22.1-279.3:1 of Virginia code had required that these, among a number of other major crimes, be reported to law enforcement if they occurred on campus. Democrats insisted that misdemeanors be extirpated from reporting requirements in House Bill 257, replacing the word “criminal” with “felony” in the code. In a stunning exchange between legislators in the House of...

"The Democrats are not in disarray; it is delusional to believe they are. The Deep State is fully in charge. They occupy the White House. By a slim majority of seats, they control both houses of Congress. Worse, their evil agenda is not in peril because a committed bloc of RINO co-conspirators who vote with the Democrat caucus, every time. In critical cases it seems three of of the six “conservative” justices aren’t so conservative after all - the SCOTUS is a de facto political wing of the Deep State. And, we call that disarray? Hardly. Look at the news,...