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Narcissus was a beautiful hunter in ancient Greece. He shunned all romantic advances. None were as beautiful as he knew himself to be, so there was no reason for a relationship with anyone. Eventually, Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection in a pool of water by a stream. He stared so lovingly and longingly at himself, unmoved and unmoving, staying and staring till death. The gods turned him into a flower now bearing his name. It grows wild along the riverbanks. All of us have mythologies we tell ourselves. Myths explain the way the world works for us...

President Biden, who in December said he “wouldn’t demand” vaccines be mandatory, not only mocked unvaccinated Americans on Thursday and their freedom to make their own medical decisions, but also endorsed the firing of first responders and police who don’t comply. During a town hall event with CNN, moderator Anderson Cooper asked about his thoughts on first responders and police in a number of major cities who are refusing to take the vaccine, which has been mandated at the city level. “Should police officers, emergency responders be mandated to get vaccines and if not, should they stay at home or...

Updated Oct 21, 2021, 04:05pm EDT TOPLINE The share price of a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) that plans to merge with a media group connected to former President Donald Trump quintupled at times on Thursday, following an announcement late Wednesday night that Trump planned to launch a new social media company.

A distraught Alec Baldwin repeatedly asked why was he given a “hot gun” after his prop weapon accidentally discharged on his New Mexico film set Thursday, killing a cinematographer and injuring the director, witnesses have claimed. The tragic accident unfolded while Baldwin was filming his upcoming western film “Rust” at Bonanza Creek Ranch in Sante Fe. Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, 42, died and director, Joel Souza, 48, was injured after they were both struck when the gun discharged, the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office said. Immediately after the incident, an eyewitness told Hollywood gossip site Showbiz 411 that Baldwin started asking...

The Nazi Arab who spray-painted swastikas in Huwara was captured. Yashar Koach to 'Rabshatz' Yitzhar and the Samaria Brigade. Several hundred thousand more such terrorists remain, but a good start Oct 22, 2021

Let me see if I’ve got this straight:Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has been on paternity leave since August despite a pending infrastructure bill - that presumably would include key “transportation” projects, some that might even involve ‘supply chain’ stuff. And speaking of supply chain stuff, I presume he knows, or at least has heard on the news, that the country is in the middle of the worst supply chain crisis in US history due to multiple problems/bottlenecks in the “transportation” system leading to shipping delays and higher consumer prices. But hey, Pete and Chasten are new daddies – on paternity...

WASHINGTON — President Biden has granted one-fifth as many interviews as Donald Trump, one-eighth as many as Barack Obama and half as many as a nearly assassinated Ronald Reagan did at this point in their presidencies, data shared with The Post reveal as reporters fume about limited access. Biden’s Thursday night CNN town hall will bring him to 16 interviews total — versus 82 by Trump, 131 by Obama and 32 by Reagan, according to data compiled by presidential historian Martha Kumar. ... “The staff is going way too far to ‘protect’ him. Which raises the issue of, ‘What’s wrong...

Simone Biles is still struggling after dealing with the "twisties" at the Tokyo Olympics. Biles discussed her mental health on the "Today" show Thursday. Biles revealed she is "still scared to do gymnastics" following the Olympics, fighting back tears as she discussed the issue. "I don't twist [on tour,]" Biles said. "I do double lay half outs, which is my signature move on the floor. That's never affected me. But everything else weighs so heavy and I watch the girls do it and it's not the same. "To do something that I've done forever and just not be able to...

According to a recent survey, more than half of child and adolescent psychiatrists in Britain report having been consulted by young patients distressed about climate change and the state of the environment. The alleged effects of climate change (or more exactly, thoughts about climate change) upon these children and adolescents include PTSD, phobias, sleep disorders, cognitive deficits, and feelings such as helplessness, hopelessness, grief, and anger. ... In this context, however, PTSD should surely stand for “pre-traumatic stress disorder”; that is to say children are being trained up so that, when they really do suffer from something rather than merely...

Digital World Acquisition Corp., the SPAC that is taking former President Donald Trump’s planned social media platform public, soared Friday following a massive rally in the previous session. Trading in the stock was halted due to volatility shortly after the opening bell Friday as shares surged for a second straight day. The SPAC, which trades under the ticker DWAC on the Nasdaq, skyrocketed nearly 190% before the trading halt. The stock surged more than 350% to close Thursday at $35.54 in explosive trading volume and volatility.

Cops in Missoula, Montana, have arrested an Afghan refugee in connection with the rape of a woman at a hotel. Biden immigration authorities “paroled” him into the country without screening

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Beep, bop, boop. It might be time to pull the plug on President Joe Biden after a long night repeating scripted talking points at CNN’s town hall on Thursday night. There were a number of seriously concerning moments when the president appeared to ‘power down’ in mid-thought or while interacting with presumably fellow human life. “He’s rebooting,” Kyle Hooten, managing editor of Alpha News, remarked. 404: President not found — Kyle Hooten (@KyleHooten2) October 22, 2021 “404: President not found,” he added. Is he stuck like that forever or? pic.twitter.com/aFoQNK9R6W — Benny (@bennyjohnson) October 22, 2021 “Is he stuck like...

New data shows San Francisco’s Millennium Tower tilted an additional quarter of an inch during the week of the first test of the troubled fix -- the maximum level predicted by the designer of the $100 million project. Since work began on the plan to shore up the tower on two sides in May, the building has sunk more than an inch at the northwest corner, which translates to another 5¾ inches of lean to the west toward Fremont Street. The sudden accelerated settlement led to a work stoppage in August and a test program for new construction strategies designed...

When competence is your goal, neither guilt nor victimhood should have a place. Standards and goals must be respected and maintained. When the co-dependency of guilt and victimhood metastasize in your university, you ask of your students something anathema to education – that each day they deepen their awareness of their own victimhood, and that they pay ever more tuition to the army of mental health administrators and woke professors who fatten off of their misery. Seek to produce competent students, and you honor your commitment to higher education; seek to produce innocent victims, and you transform your university into...

One of Sweden's most popular rappers was shot dead in Stockholm late on Thursday, heightening outrage over gang-related violence that has afflicted the Nordic country in recent years. Einar, 19, whose real name was Nils Gronberg, was killed in the upmarket Stockholm suburb of Hammarby Sjostad, and no arrests had been made so far. In a previous incident last year, Einar was abducted and assaulted by rival rappers. "A young life has been extinguished, and I understand that he meant a lot to many young people. It is tragic," Prime Minister Stefan Lofven told TT, Sweden's national news agency. Gronberg,...

Don’t take it from me, I don’t even get to tweet anymore. Take it from a little place I call the British government. Which admitted today, in its newest vaccine surveillance report, that: “N antibody levels appear to be lower in people who acquire infection following two doses of vaccination.” (Page 23)

Let’s begin at the beginning. Save America. Kill the bill. It seemed quixotic a few months ago when I began this mantra. Well, events are moving at the speed of light. Headlines Thursday were breathtaking. I think there is now a high and rising probability that the bill — in all of its fading majesty — will be killed. There’s an old saying by somebody somewhere — I believe it was Napoleon — that says, ‘Never interfere with an enemy while he’s in the process of destroying himself.’ Right now the Democrats are destroying themselves. They’ve moved from a circular...

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) on Thursday urged his constituents to remain vigilant in the fight against COVID-19, saying “let’s not punt on the third down.” Beshear, during a news conference, said that while hospitalizations, intensive care capacities and ventilator use are all down, Kentuckians must not become complacent in the fight against COVID-19. “These are all good things, you know, the graph only tells you so much, but it does help show the speed that things are getting better. At the same time, it gives us comparisons on where we were,” Beshear said.

Dr. Malik Peiris, who previously served on the Lancet medical journal’s COVID-19 origins investigation committee, received China’s “Nobel Prize” for research affirming the Chinese Communist Party’s false narrative that COVID-19 developed naturally. Peiris, a Sri Lankan virologist working in Hong Kong, was one of 12 scientists leading the now-defunct Lancet probe into the origins of COVID-19. While the task force is no longer listed on the medical journal’s website, as it was forced to disband due to extensive conflicts of interests with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, archived web pages reveal Peiris’s participation in the effort. Following Peiris’s stint on...