Free Republic

Los Angeles County is seeking to compel psychiatric evaluations for Kobe Bryant’s widow and others to determine if they truly suffered emotional distress after first responders took and shared graphic photos from the site of the 2020 helicopter crash that killed the basketball star... Attorneys for Los Angeles County want the court to order Bryant and other family members of the people who were killed in the crash, including children, to undergo psychiatric evaluations as independent medical examinations. The lawyers propose that the evaluations be audio- and video-recorded and last eight hours for adults and four to six hours for...

ransomnote: Below, I posted my response to one of countless posts to me stating that I post Covid content without merit in order to push 'an agenda'. The name of the freeper this time is irrelevant because other have said the same thing. Freeper: This is a tour d’force of maybes, ifs and allegations that uses one theoretical allegation to build on the next.You and others on FR working to keep the Plandemic alive rely on inuendo and allegations. To support the 'narrative', your content supports an entire fabric of lies.* You imply 'Covid' is far more deadly than it...

A new study published in the NIH NCBI database and authored by Harvard professor S. V. Subramanian, Ph.D, and Penn State professor Akhil Kumar, Ph.D claims that vaccination rates have “no discernable relationship” with the amount of new COVID cases, and notes that “In fact, the trend line suggests a marginally positive association such that countries with higher percentage of population fully vaccinated have higher COVID-19 cases per 1 million people.” “At the country-level, there appears to be no discernable relationship between percentage of population fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases in the last 7 days,” the report states. “In...

Of course I like Joe Biden. I am a 69-year old liberal white male. Nevertheless, I do like him and I think he is doing a good job in the face of the serious problems America is facing. The difficulty of the task, and not his age or mental state, is the reason his administration is battling to keep ahead of events. Clearly, Biden has had a bad couple of months, which has led not only to sagging poll numbers but a raft of columns on the subject, “Can Biden Be Saved?” But when you look closely at what has...

Two longtime House Democrats, Mike Doyle of Pennsylvania and David Price of North Carolina, announced their retirements on Monday.

An Indian woman claims to have had her first child at the age of 70, making her one of the oldest first-time mothers in the world. Jivunben Rabari and her husband Maldhari, 75, proudly showed off their son - whose name they have not revealed - to reporters as they said he had been conceived through IVF. Rabari has said she does not have ID to prove her age, but told reporters it was 70, which would make her one of the oldest first mothers in the world. However, another Indian woman, Erramatti Mangayamma, is believed to be the oldest...

Let's Wait Patiently For Joe To Destroy The Democratic Party. By JAG Regarding POTUS Joe: My personal political strategy is to wait patiently until liberal policy-excesses lays upon the American electorate sufficient severity motivating them collectively to move back to the conservative right to correct the liberal policy excesses. Yes there is a human cost to this approach. However, there is no legal alternative. America is a democratic republic and the American electorate eventually get what they really and truly want. So? So if they want Joe and Joe's political policies, they must be willing to pay the price in...

A Miami private school has mandated that students who receive a COVID-19 shot stay home for 30 days after each dose - citing debunked claims that newly vaccinated people can shed the virus. School officials at Centner Academy in the city’s Design District sent home a letter to parents informing them of the controversial, new policy, news station WSVN reported. “Because of the potential impact on other students and our school community, vaccinated students will need to stay at home for 30 days post-vaccination for each dose and booster they receive and may return to school after 30 days as...

The unexpected drop in statewide school enrollment last year of 160,000 students may prove to be a blip, ready to rebound as the coronavirus recedes. Or that one-year 2.6% drop could be an oversize harbinger of what demographers are predicting will be a decade-long enrollment decline in California.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h1s6S4kotE

The number of deaths from Corona vaccination in Taiwan reached 852 on October 7, Medical Trend reported. The number of deaths after a Covid-19 diagnosis was 844. The Taiwan Ministry of Health issued a “Post-COVID-19 Inoculation Adverse Event Notice” according to which Taiwan began vaccinating on March 22 this year. From that day to October 6, the number of post-vaccination deaths in Taiwan has reached 849. The highest number of deaths reported after vaccination with AstraZeneca, at 643. After the vaccination with Moderna, 183 deaths were registered and after the jab with the vaccine Medigen produced by Taiwan, there are...

[Catholic Caucus] Press Review: “Traditionis Custodes” in the Context of the Current Crisis (2) There have been many comments and analyses of the Motu proprio Traditionis Custodes this summer. All place the decision taken by Francis to limit the celebration of the traditional Mass as much as possible in the context of the crisis which is currently shaking the Church, but with very different perspectives.On August 6, there appeared on the Correspondance européenne site, under the pen of Cristiana de Magistris, an article which sees in Traditionis Custodes the act of a weak power: “the document does not appear...

PBS News Hour, Oct 18, 2021 https://youtu.be/ACw9xvVp5YM?t=13m18s Garry Pierre-Pierre of Haitian Times (to Yamiche Alcindor): Kidnappings started years ago... basically targeting Mulato class... thought that they have money... then the darker skinned rich Haitians were targeted. And then steet vendors were targeted, just about anybody could be kidnapped in Haiti, so.. we've seen foreigners targeted. a French priest... and we saw churches, kidnapping pastors and parishioners live on Facebook... everybody is on set except White Americans everybody is afraid of the US government. But with this kidnapping Saturday, it shows to us clearly, that is not a concern any more....

Yesterday Maria Bartiromo opened her Sunday talk show with a note that beltway speculation is stirring about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell possibly stepping down. WATCH:Nancy Pelosi may STEP DOWN soon. Now that’s very interestingWhile there’s nothing specifically cited to support Ms. Bartiromo’s statement as a DC insider and member of the council on foreign relations, there has long been evidence that both Pelosi and McConnell will exit. Here’s why it makes commonsense:♦ For Nancy Pelosi – Joe Biden is an appointed figurehead for a background agenda driven by Obama’s Chicago Marxists. The Biden far-left...

A 17-year-old girl was abused by hospital staff and had a plastic bag placed over her head as what the staff and administrators called "standard procedure" in a Texas medical center. https://tv.gab.com/channel/realstewpeters/view/plastic-bag-put-over-teen-covid-6165e74f380c8a9e03ccd34c?fbclid=IwAR3Fra6VMwXAh3kzN__GiFFEzv4zdsvhP76Em_d2wDhAHIeaHaWeEtOhTUA

Pope Francis compares Black Lives Matter protests to Good SamaritanThe protests frequently turned into riots, and groups affiliated with the movement have anti-Catholic positions, including on abortion.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — In an address to the Fourth World Meeting of Popular Movements on Saturday, Pope Francis advocated for the destructive “protests” which broke out in the wake of George Floyd’s death in 2020, describing those involved in the movement as “collective Samaritans.”The Pope’s comments came as part of a longer speech on social justice, part of which he devoted to urging “all the great pharmaceutical laboratories” to open their patents on...

Explanation: Why can we see the entire face of this Moon? When the Moon is in a crescent phase, only part of it appears directly illuminated by the Sun. The answer is earthshine, also known as earthlight and the da Vinci glow. The reason is that the rest of the Earth-facing Moon is slightly illuminated by sunlight first reflected from the Earth. Since the Earth appears near full phase from the Moon -- when the Moon appears as a slight crescent from the Earth -- earthshine is then near its brightest. Featured here in combined, consecutively-taken, HDR images taken earlier...

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has faced a flurry of criticism from Republicans for taking paid parental leave with his husband and two newborns. But Buttigieg wants to refocus the conversation on another topic entirely: climate change. “Inevitably, every transportation decision is a climate decision, whether we acknowledge it or not,” Buttigieg said in an interview with The Climate 202. “So I think that's absolutely part of our mandate and part of our set of responsibilities as a department.” **SNIP** Cars and trucks account for the bulk of the sector's pollution, according to data from the Environmental Protection Agency. And in...

BREAKING REPORT: Chicago Threatens to Withhold Retirement Benefits From Police Officers Who Retire Rather than Submit to City's COVID Vaccine Mandate.. https://twitter.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1450220258204258311

The rape of Loudon County, Virginia parent Scott Smith’s daughter by a biological male wearing a skirt in the girl’s school restroom shows the wisdom of President Trump reversed the Biden/Obama administration’s “guidance” to schools and educators to permit transgender restrooms. The move was condemned as bigotry when it is just common sense. You don’t tempt fate. You don’t store flammables next to an open flame and you don’t have boys using the girls' restroom. Loudon County officials were well aware of the history of cross-gender restroom assaults as they considered their transgender restroom policy, particularly the rape of Scott...