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On May 7, 2019, Lisa Lemble and Robert Gordon cut the ribbon on Ann Arbor, Michigan’s first curbside electric vehicle charger. It was an ordeal that required nearly a year of negotiation and permitting, and cost the couple about $15,000. “Mainly we want people to know that if they live in the city of Ann Arbor and don’t have a driveway and don’t have access to a garage, that it’s possible to put in a charging station curbside,” Lemble said at the time. Possible, yes. Easy, no. More than two years after the Tesla-owning couple installed their dual-nozzle Level 2...

Local market horror TV hosts have helped us through nights for decades, using their quirky personalities to introduce popular, creepy or plain old bad movies - in most instances these were the pre-cable days that lent themselves to captive audiences. The popular figure that embodied this genre was Elvira (Mistress of the Dark). Unknown to an unfortunately large number of people, her meteoric rise would not have happened without local horror tv hosts building their audiences. A few of these horror hosts became icons and gained national attention for their characters. However, most of these hosts were only seen locally...

Over the summer, as the world reeled from record-breaking heat waves, flooding and wildfires, the United Nations issued a climate change report that connected the dots with terrifying clarity.

An October survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) found that 37% of unvaccinated adult participants say they would leave their job if forced to either get a COVID-19 vaccine or take a weekly test. And if their employer mandated the vaccine and didn’t offer the testing option, 72% of unvaccinated workers say they would quit. The percentage of unvaccinated adult participants who say they would quit if vaccines were a requirement equates to roughly 9% of all adults, according to KFF, a nonprofit focusing on national health issues. **SNIP** "About a fifth (21%) of workers say that they...

(posted as vanity as it is not yet an official sourced story.) The utter state of the Libs. Sinema was a guest at this woman’s daughter’s wedding and protestors crashed it. She pleads with them almost in tears to please leave the wedding alone. They refuse to back down.

How to interact with the Democrats in our lives is an issue many Republicans have wrestled with for some time. Frequently we maintain a “no fly zone” when it comes to discussing politics with Democrat friends and family members, often by unspoken mutual agreement. We prioritize the relationship and do not want to damage it because of political differences -- there are other bonds through which we maintain our connection. A February 2020 Pew report bears out this approach -- almost half of all adults in the U.S. have stopped discussing politics with someone. Less cordial interactions, however, are not...

KENOSHA, Wis. — In the weeks leading up to Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial, attorneys on both sides made clear they wanted prospective jurors to fill out questionnaires before the selection process began. It was a fairly routine request, given judges and attorneys across the country have relied upon such forms for decades in high-profile trials to identify people with potential biases and conflicts of interest. But Kenosha Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder wouldn’t hear of it...... Local attorneys say the decision reflects Schroeder’s penchant for giving defendants wide latitude to tell jurors their side of the story. Several told the Tribune...

Okay, who did this?The Black Bat Cat SquadAnd as if Halloween isn’t scary enough as is, there’s this:The Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a Strong Geomagnetic Storm Watch for Oct. 30 through Oct. 31. This watch has been posted due to a significant solar flare and Coronal Mass Ejection from the sun that occurred in the late morning on Oct. 28…The Space Weather Prediction Center has posted a level G3 Geomagnetic Storm Watch, which is considered strong.“Strong” is smack dab in the middle of the 1-5 scale. So don’t expect much in the way of power system interruptions, but...

It is sad that it seems every day we read another dire forecast from the UN, Kerry, Biden, the teenager Greta, or someone else on climate change, and right now is always the last chance to act. Every solution involves the government confiscating a huge amount of money from taxpayers and then the U.S transferring huge sums to other countries to resolve the problem. Every solution involves Americans giving up their freedom and way of life while destroying the oil industry. What you don’t see in these dire forecasts are any scientific data from the last 150 years that directly...

Congress is currently working on a bipartisan plan to boost defense spending for the next fiscal year. Good news indeed for The Pentagon, but it is more essential than ever that these funds are spent cautiously, on things that we actually need, will actually work, and yes, made in America would be nice as well. Moderate Democrats are moving the opposite way from a progressive’s push to defund or greatly cut the Pentagon budget and in a rare glimpse of sanity from Capitol Hill, it appears they have the upper hand. The Military Times reported on October 18, “Senate appropriators...

Despite the happy face that the legacy media are putting on first day of President Biden’s European trip, his customary level of hypocrisy and incompetence is showing through the PR gloss. Start with the spectacle of a leader intent on demonstrating “leadership” on climate issues (as in throwing away billions of taxpayer dollars on useless, expensive, and harmful measures to curtail emissions of CO2) parading into Rome with an 85 car slow-moving motorcade, after 4 giant jets carried the party to Fiumicino Airport completed transatlantic flights. China’s President Xi Jinping, in contrast, will be attending the G-20 Summit in Rome...

Wisconsin State Representative Timothy Ramthun (R-Campbellsport) released a statement on Thursday calling for the “decertification” of Wisconsin’s 10 electoral ballots, regarding the 2020 general election. He issued a statement following the October release of the bi-partisan Legislative Audit Bureau report and the press release from the Racine County Sheriff’s Department on Thursday. State Representative Timothy Ramthun released the following statement: I have continued to pursue truth and integrity of our 2020 general election. Recent developments have made it abundantly clear that the legislature should not have certified Wisconsin’s 10 electoral ballots on December 14, 2020. The release of the bi-partisan...

Any ideological vision based on the language of lies disrupts and ultimately destroys by fostering chaos and destruction. In his novel The First Circle, Alexander Solzhenitsyn pictures Stalin ruminating over the concept of “language as an instrument of production.” A new way of speaking would establish the reality of the communist order and the communist man and woman. The Man of Steel had thought about refuting “the reactionary theory of relativity or wave mechanics;” but was “too busy with affairs of state” to tackle those ideas. Trofim Lysenko, who was in charge of Soviet science, was already conforming the science...

VIDEOIs Kamala Harris taking special supplements to enhance her performances? One has to ask after watching Kamala perform her over the top routines on the road. One critic who is definitely NOT amused is Jill Biden.

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There is nothing covert about the message, nothing sublime, nothing cryptic. Quite the contrary, the message is clear and in your face. If you have a problem with a little boy wearing a princess dress and believe that people who dress like witches with spiked collars look weird, you will be blown away – meaning, literally blown away. As in swept away by a gust of wind produced by a dark, angry witch. And this is a Twix commercial for Halloween? The ad itself is slow moving and hardly compelling, not the kind of commercial that would make you want...

EUGENE, Ore. -- A man who shot and killed someone who was breaking into his home will not face charges, police say. The shooting happened at South Crest Apartments on Donald Street early Monday morning and it left Skyler Weisberg, 28, dead. Leading up to the incident, police said Weisberg left his home in Tillamook County sometime after 10 p.m. on Sunday. Authorities pulled him over in Polk County after he made an alleged minor traffic violation, and he told the deputy he was headed to Eugene to look for his wife. Just after 3:30 a.m., Weisberg arrived to the...

On multiple fronts, prestigious institutions are driving wedges between parents and their own children. What if instead of mandated vaccines, masks, and critical race theory indoctrination, the social engineers were more concerned with avoiding jail? The more uncertain the times, the more is at stake. This is why power grabs and resistance to them are growing to a fever pitch. Now, even children aren’t off-limits for those wielding institutional dominance. The Tony Faucis and Merrick Garlands of society, the social engineers, join forces with central economic planners, the Janet Yellens and Jerome Powells, to trap children’s minds, bodies, and financial...

ransomnote: Yet another way the CDC is betraying the public.After lying to us about the virus, telling us we had no immunity because it was 'novel', and spending a year locking down, denying treatment, and creating a fake panic, the CDC was still thoroughly unprepared to handle the vaccine rollout, and make vaccine adverse event data available to the public (HINT: They have been intentionally lying and hiding the truth every way they can). The CDC doesn't care that the vaccines are not safe and are hurting, killing people.SO this Rumble user, NotABarbie, searched for, and found, many recent uploads...

With Democrats controlling the Senate, it comes as no surprise that President Biden has successfully nominated dozens of federal judges, but nearly all of those picks enjoyed the support of a high-profile Republican: Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. Graham, who until January was the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, voted in favor of all but three of Biden’s picks who have gone before the full Senate for votes. In two of those cases he did not vote at all, and he voted no in just one.