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20 lb. Feist was out in a hayfield rooting around and hunting for about an hour. When I let her inside she was shaking, unsure walking (stumbling around) and had bugged out eyes and dilated pupils. She had a couple of spasms where she got up and tried to run only to bang into the couch. She peed, pooped and puked. The puke look like it had some kind of small animal guts in it, most likely a mole, vole or mouse. This is the 2nd time this has happened in the past 3 weeks after she has spent a...

Mrs. Chandler received a panicky email from her conspiracy-minded friend. Her friend said that Fox News told her we are going to experience devastating supermarket shortages lasting for two years. I suspect that this could be Fox News creating fear to attract viewers. I am now being pressured to purchase a crapload of non-perishables.

Service members from all five branches of the U.S. military, federal employees, and federal civilian contractors have joined in a class-action (Pentagon Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over Vaccine Mandates on Military, Federal Employees and Contractors)The 24 plaintiffs “face a deadline under the Federal COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate to receive a COVID-19 vaccine that violates their sincerely held religious beliefs, and have been refused any religious exemption or accommodation,” according to Liberty Counsel, the Christian legal firm that filed the lawsuit.

A Russian actress and her director-cameraman, wrapping up a 12-day movie shoot aboard the International Space Station, returned to Earth Sunday and promptly filmed a few additional scenes that will be part of the film's conclusion. With cameras rolling, actress Julia Peresild, playing the role of a surgeon sent to the station to treat a critically ill cosmonaut, was pulled from the Soyuz descent module and carried to a nearby recliner where she pretended to be just back from her make-believe mission. Soyuz commander Oleg Novitskiy, who was wrapping up a 191-day stay in space, played the patient during shooting...

For Americans watching the shocking re-Nazification of Germany - where once again the ability to even buy food depends on a person's physiological/medical status - it may be tempting to downplay the re-emergence of a nasty German political virus and scoff that, "it can't happen here!" But it is happening here. The Biden Administration is sinking under the weight of its feeble figurehead, who is clearly living in a world of his own creation rather than living on planet reality. As Biden's approval ratings plummet to near-historic depths, the people who run his administration - some say it's really led...

No way in hell you are going to put a wok on an electric stove.”That was Steven Lee, a San Francisco official and restaurant investor, as quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle last year after the city’s Board of Supervisors voted to outlaw natural gas in new buildings.Nevertheless, they persisted. Per the Sierra Club, the quickening campaign to phase out natural gas recently notched its 50th city-level win in California alone. (Take a bow, Encinitas!) No. 50, as with some others, has “situational exemptions” for restaurants and the like, but the overall push to compel an all-electric design for homes...

Now, a new program in Washington state, where Mohamed lives, could soon put him back to work. In May, Washington governor Jay Inslee signed a law granting internationally-trained medical graduates the opportunity to obtain two-year medical licenses to work as doctors, with the possibility of renewal. Participants can forgo residencies—one of the most arduous steps in becoming a doctor—but must meet certain other requirements, including English proficiency, passing all three steps of the USMLE, and working under the supervision of a fully-licensed doctor.

Reader comment on item: How the West Could Lose in response to reader comment: hitler was very fond of islam _____ Translated excerpts from Amir in Israel on Sep 20, 2013, replying to a post by a secularist: ______ Hitler was very far from being a devout Christian and his use did not show strong faith in Christianity but opportunism in his name as he knew he could not completely eradicate the deeply rooted Christianity and he tried to "domesticate" it so that the Christian establishment would not interfere and the Vatican would not interfere. Hitler had some statements that...

A group of hippos - an unwanted legacy following the death of notorious Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar - are being sterilised. Escobar, who was shot dead by police in 1993, illegally imported exotic animals, including a male and a female hippo - dubbed the "cocaine hippos". Since then, a growing population has been taking over the countryside near his former ranch, Hacienda Nápoles. The Colombian government has so far sterilised 24 of more than 80 animals. They have been treated with a chemical that will make them infertile. Colombian environmentalists say the hippos, believed to be the biggest herd...

Joe Biden is officially the oldest man to ever be president, as he hits 79 in November, and the White House does not appear to be fond of answering certain questions about him. For example, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki recently danced around answering questions about his upcoming physical examination and his health status. As her daily press briefing wrapped on Thursday Brian Karem, who used to be the senior White House correspondent for Playboy magazine, shouted a question at Psaki. Q Hey Jen, will he take a physical anytime soon and report it to the American public? MS....

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head and chief White House medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that fully vaccinated Americans could enjoy Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas gatherings with family. Anchor Martha Raddatz said, “Dr. Fauci, we know the best way to keep safe is to be vaccinated. But what are your guidelines for the upcoming holidays? Will you be giving out Halloween candy? What do we do with Thanksgiving and Christmas and other holidays?” Fauci said, “I believe strongly that particularly in the vaccinated people if you are vaccinated, and your family members...

Dr. Rand Paul Joins Laura Ingraham to Discuss Big Government and January 6th Investigations Rumble...

Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time Mark 10:35-45 Friends, in today’s Gospel, James and John ask Jesus to place them in high places in his kingdom. They are asking for two of the classic four substitutes for God: wealth, pleasure, power, and honor, specifically for the last two. Power is not, in itself, a bad thing. And the same is true of honor. Thomas Aquinas said that honor is the flag of virtue. It’s a way of signaling to others something that’s worth noticing. So, what’s the problem? The problem is that they are asking for these two things in the...

(National Review) [On October 8], I was scheduled to meet with officials at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Office for Management and Budget (OMB) to discuss the profound legal and policy defects in a proposed rule governing the Title X family-planning program. But instead of keeping their commitment and hearing my presentation, they canceled the meeting and officially published the rule [on October 7]. Hearing from members of the public with expertise in agency matters has been a routine practice of both Republican and Democrat administrations for decades. Yet it is clear that HHS under...

Alleging that “Americans need more government to protect them from a systemic climate crisis,” President Biden announced “a new battle line will be formed across all financial institutions. This battle line will require these institutions to scrutinize customer accounts to determine if the investments and expenditures are sufficiently environmentally friendly to be permitted.” “Those holding investments that seek to profit from environmentally dangerous products like fossil fuels will be ordered to divest these assets,” Biden proclaimed. “Those seeking to purchase environmentally dangerous products like gasoline, natural gas, or heating oil will have their transactions blocked. While skeptics will say these...

Schism, scandal, or sideshow? What’s a bishop to do about ‘womenpriests’?In the Episcopalian cathedral of Albuquerque, New Mexico, a Catholic woman will undergo a ceremony Saturday that will declare her a priest — a Catholic priest, specifically, and a member of the Roman Catholic Womenpriests movement.The ceremony will get some attention — the woman, Anne Tropeano, has been featured in both secular and Catholic press.A protest for the ordination of woman as Catholic priests. Credit: Sally and Richard Greenhill / Alamy Stock Photo.ShareThe ceremony will not validly confer ordination — Tropeano will not be regarded by the Church as a...

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As Democrats continue to feud internally over the content and price tag of President Biden's proposed $3.5 trillion reconciliation package, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said on Sunday he hopes the disagreements eventually result in the legislation's defeat. "I hope for Democrat gridlock," Johnson said on Fox News’s "Sunday Morning Futures." "Oftentimes, in Washington, D.C., gridlock is the better alternative, but when it's Democrat gridlock, pray for it. I hope that's exactly what happens."

Allison Williams is out at ESPN due to the company’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The college football and basketball sideline reporter, who announced last month she was opting out of the season because she had not received the vaccine as she and her husband tried for a second child, said Friday night that her “request for accommodation” had been denied.

Devolution of COVID vaccine efficacy. pic.twitter.com/Tlm3SAG0OT— Kelly Bee 🐝 (@ke11ybender) October 15, 2021