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Surveillance video shows a retired U.S. Marine taking a gun away from an alleged armed robber who entered a Yuma, Arizona, convenience store early Wednesday morning. CBS 13 reports that the incident occurred in a Chevron gas station when three suspects entered the store, one of whom was allegedly armed. The retired USMC, who was near the counter when the suspects walked in, immediately turned on the alleged armed suspect and took away his gun. FOX 8 notes that the former USMC was able to detain the suspect after disarming him, but the other two suspects fled the scene. Upon...

Do black lives really matter? Apparently it depends on who we’re asking. In what seems counter intuitive in 2021, the answer from conservatives is generally yes, in that they believe all lives matter, regardless of color. They will tell you that society and government should strive to be colorblind and that someone should never get less or more based on the color of their skin. The goal is to get government out of the way and let all citizens pursue freedom and opportunity equally, regardless of color. For liberals however, the answer is quite different. They say “Yes! Black Lives...

A man in China died as the result of drinking a 1.5-litre bottle of Coca-Cola within ten minutes, his doctors have written in a report in Clinics and Research in Hepatology and Gastroenterology. The 22-year-old, who is not thought to have had underlying conditions, went to the emergency department at Beijing Chaoyang Hospital following acute upper abdominal pains and swelling, which had lasted for four hours. Upon inspection, he had an elevated heart rate of 130 beats per minute, low blood pressure, and a breathing rate of just 32 times per minute. A CT scan showed that there was a...

An invasive species of mosquito from East Asia is slowly spreading throughout Italy and could serve as a vector for viruses, according to a new scientific report. An article in the Parasites & Vectors scientific journal last week claimed to have evidence that the concerning mosquitos, known as Aedes koreicus, have been expanding toward southwest Italy since being discovered in the north in 2011. Describing the mosquitos as a “potential vector of nematodes and viruses,” the article warned that their presence “has recently been reported in many regions of Europe,” and that in Italy, they “are now spreading towards the...

Almost all cells regulate their biological processes over a 24-hour period, otherwise called a cell's circadian rhythm. To do so, cells use a biological clock that cycles different genes on and off throughout the day and night. Scientists already know that our metabolic health can suffer when our biological clock breaks down, due to shift work or sleep disorders, for example. However, it's unclear how exactly the biological clock of people with type 2 diabetes differs. Now a team of scientists has shown that the skeletal muscle in people with type 2 diabetes has a different circadian rhythm. They argue...

The Jetson One flies along at highway speeds, with LiDAR-enabled obstacle avoidanceJetson Aero VIEW 4 IMAGES If anyone can think of a more perfect name for a personal eVTOL, we're listening! Sweden's Jetson Aero has already sold out the 2022 production run of this cute little single-seat kit build, which is capable of zooming along at 63 mph (102 km/h). The Jetson One is a simple design purely dedicated to muckin' about and having fun. Its single seat is suspended in an aluminum/carbon fiber spaceframe. It's a straight-up drone-style multicopter, with eight props mounted coaxially on four arms, putting out...

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg predicted more supply chain bottlenecks, saying they will continue as long as the pandemic continues. “If a shoe factory closes in Vietnam in September for a COVID outbreak, you’re going to see the effect of that at the mall in December or January,” Buttigieg, who received criticism recently for taking a leave of absence during a supply chain crunch affecting ports and freight lines, said during a televised interview on Wednesday. The United States is “seeing goods move through our system and reach shelves at record levels,” he said, blaming the shortages on high demand. The...

An antidepressant best known as Prozac could offer the first treatment for the leading cause of blindness among people over 50, new research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine suggests. UVA's Bradley D. Gelfand, Ph.D., and collaborators have found early evidence that the drug fluoxetine may be effective against atrophic (or "dry") age-related macular degeneration, a condition that affects nearly 200 million people worldwide. The drug has shown promise in the scientists' lab tests and animal models, and the researchers bolstered by their results by examining two huge insurance databases encompassing more than 100 million Americans. That analysis...

......According to an arrest affidavit, the victim said he and his family were asleep when he saw an intruder in his bedroom and Cohen in one of the bathrooms. One of the teachers mistakenly climbed into bed and the other teacher went to the bathroom before the male occupant of the house escorted them out, according to The Associated Press.

Joe Scarborough has a bad habit of riding verbal hobbyhorses into the ground. As we've often documented, as here and here, once Joe gets what he thinks is a catchy phrase into his noggin, he repeats it—ad nauseam. Scarborough's hobby horse o' the morning on today's Morning Joe was accusing Republicans of "standing in the schoolhouse door," with an explicit reference to George Wallace, who infamously blocked desegregation in such manner. Scarborough uttered his "schoolhouse door" line no fewer than seven times, with Al Sharpton chipping in for an eighth edition. Scarborough was outraged that Republicans, led by Mitch McConnell,...

Advocacy group Public Citizen gained access to several leaked and unredacted contracts between Pfizer and both domestic and foreign governmentsThe company has 73 formalized deals for its COVID-19 vaccine, but only five have been formally published and include redactionsSeven unredacted contracts reviewed by Public Citizen are worth more than $5 billionPublic Citizen claims Pfizer used power to 'shift risk and maximize profits' in their secret government contractsThe group accuses Pfizer of blocking donations of the jab, opposing intellectual property waivers, having unilateral authority on decisions and more Pfizer has reportedly rejected the group's allegations A consumer rights advocacy group has...

On Wednesday, in the wake of Parkland mass shooter Nikolas Cruz pleading guilty in court, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell brought on Parkland gun-control activist David Hogg and praised him for increasing public support for more gun control. Like the older leftists, Hogg railed against the filibuster that has hindered Democrats from passing their agenda on gun control and other issues. After crediting his "March for Our Lives" group with boosting turnout of young voters who are more likely to be supporters of gun control, Hogg then complained: "And despite all of that, we now see two Senators getting in the...

CommentaryVaccine skeptics, vaccine refusers, vaccine deniers—these anti-vaxxers are scourges whose ignorance and misinformation are responsible for countless COVID-19 deaths, our public health authorities attest. Stamping their message out is so important that those with the biggest megaphones are being outed, threatened, and fired from their academic and medical posts, and wherever else they might be found.So, who are these health heretics whose dangerous rhetoric is questioning prestigious public bodies such as the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, blue-chip pharma companies such as Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson, and the great majority of governments?Dr. Peter...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued last-minute changes to its school-reopening guidance after two prominent teachers unions asked the agency to do so, according to newly obtained emails by watchdog group Americans for Public Trust. The emails, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by the watchdog and published online show a string of communications between the CDC, the National Education Association (NEA), and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the nation’s second-largest teachers union and one of the top donors to the Democratic Party. Multiple emails show that both of the teachers unions also received...

Seattle police arrested a man on Tuesday after he pulled a gun on a store manager who disarmed him and took his weapon.The manager of a convenience store in the 600 block of Denny Way watched a man grab about $200 in merchandise around 1:15 p.m. and walk out without paying.When the manager followed the man outside to confront him, the man reached towards his jacket pocket.The manager saw the handle grip of a pistol sticking out.The manager hit the man in his hand, causing him to drop the gun. The manager quickly picked it up and ran back towards...

The Elites want to dictate every aspect of your life from what you eat, to where you go, down to how many times a week you are allowed to shower and wash your underwear.The World Economic Forum (WEF) published alarming propaganda videos highlighting what life will be like after the Great Reset, the globalists’ radical plan to remake the global economy in the post-pandemic world.The release of the videos follows a quietly held WEF and United Nations General Assembly summit in Switzerland on “sustainability.” In addition to the long-running issue of “climate,” they also discussed the transformation of the global...

TWENTY-NINTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME LUKE 12:49-53 Friends, the statement of Jesus that we have in the Gospel for today is frightening: “I have come to cast a fire upon the earth; how I wish it were already kindled.” He’s throwing fire down, much like the God who destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. Okay, so how do we make sense of all this? I thought the angels on Christmas morning said that he had come as the Prince of Peace? Jesus is the Incarnation of the God who is nothing but love, but this enfleshment takes place in the midst of...

KEY POINTS The stock price of SPAC company Digital World Acquisition Corp. rocketed up more than 100% in trading after news of a merger that would launch former President Donald Trump's planned social media platform. Trump said he would roll out the platform called "TRUTH Social," which he claimed will "stand up to the tyranny of Big Tech." DWAC was incorporated as a special purpose acquisition company shortly after Trump lost a re-election bid against President Joe Biden. DWAC was among the top 10 most popular names on Reddit's WallStreetBets chatroom, even exceeding meme stock GameStop's mentions. The stock price...

A new challenge has taken off on TikTok where users perform skits to a song born out of a gaffe-turned-meme with the phrase “Let’s go Brandon” serving as a euphemism for “F-ck Joe Biden.” The song, titled, “Let’s Go Brandon,” was released by singer Loza Alexander on the video-sharing platform and based on an NBC Sports reporter’s mistake at an Oct. 2 NASCAR race. While fans chanted “F-ck Joe Biden” from the stands, the reporter, interviewing Xfinity Series driver Brandon Brown, congratulated him on his first win with a reference to the crowd’s post-race chant she repeated as, “Let’s go...

This is a link to an archive.org page with a working emulator based on DosBox that will run in your browser just by clicking on the "Emulate it!" picture at the top of the page. It takes a minute or two to load everything up and then the screen goes blank for a little bit when you make your selection. Hit the speaker icon and then the full screen button and you will be transported back to computing in 1992. This has worked in every browser that I have tried it in including Brave, Chrome, and Edge, but your mileage...