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A Southwest Airlines flight on Saturday turned political when one of its pilots finished an announcement to passengers with "Let's Go, Brandon," a slur used to insult President Joe Biden. "On Friday morning on a Southwest flight from Houston to Albuquerque, the pilot signed off his greeting over the public address system with the phrase, to audible gasps from some passengers," AP's Colleen Long wrote in an article published on Saturday. Long was a passenger onboard the flight for a vacation, she explained in a Twitter thread, and was almost removed from the aircraft after unsuccessfully trying to get the...

CNN anchor Jake Tapper said Friday on his show “The Lead” that Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto should stay strong after getting death threats for his pro-vaccine messaging. Sunday on “MediaBuzz,” Cavuto urged those who have not yet been vaccinated against COVID to do so for “those around you.” [cut] He continued, “Neil is a survivor. He has multiple sclerosis, he has had open-heart surgery, he beat stage four cancer, and he is now fighting COVID. Neil recently talked about the importance of vaccines on-air, precisely to protect people like him who have compromised immune systems.” Tapper added, “Sadly, many...

[H/T Greeneyes]Oh, it's a port backlog. It's CA's emissions rules, truck rules, container rules, etc.That's a lie.Denver just tried to fill nearly a thousand jobs at their airport. They had only 100 people show up for a job fair where they expected more than five thousand.Just two percent of their expected turnout.As a "federal" place all employees must be jabbed. Nobody wants the jobs and that's why.Literally nobody will take the job if it comes with a jab mandate.Further, and equally bad news, it doesn't matter if you "today" say you won't impose one. You might be lying; indeed it...

Who lives in the Swamp? You can’t make this stuff up! HERE’S A WHOLE LIST OF THE ANIMALS, AND CREATURES, AND BLOOD SUCKERS WHO LIVE IN THE SWAMP!!! YOU’VE SEEN SOME OF THE NAMES BEFORE. BUT MANY ON THE LIST YOU HAVEN’T SEEN OR KNOWN ABOUT BEFORE – AND IT’LL SURPRISE YOU, OR MAYBE IT WON’T…

Interesting old news video involving the cdc.

An Illinois mayor is standing against the statewide mask mandate issued earlier this year by Gov. J.B. Pritzker, lifting the requirement and making the measure optional in Elk Grove Village, a suburban community in northern Illinois. “We have to start moving on. We’re as safe as we can be. If you want to wear a mask, wear a mask,” Mayor Craig Johnson announced at a city council meeting, ABC 7 reported. “But it’s time to move on.” Pritzker, a Democrat, announced the statewide mask mandate in late August as he also ordered every eligible student, among other “high-risk settings,” to...

When he was a kid, Marquis Grissom Jr. would sometimes shed tears in the car on the ride home from youth baseball games. He cried because he heard “racist comments” from white opponents — players and especially parents, he said — as he competed on the field with an all-Black youth team in Atlanta. As the World Series plays out this weekend between the Atlanta Braves and Houston Astros, the glaring lack of Black players on both teams, and MLB in general, is not lost on Grissom. The Braves and Astros each have one Black player on their World Series...

Biden Brings Out Disabled Man Named Brandon In Apparent Attempt To Co-opt 'Let's Go Brandon' Meme Tim, Ian, Luke, and Lydia join lawyers David 'Viva' Freihert and Robert Barnes to scrutinize Biden's choice of a disabled man named Brandon to do a public appearance with, possibly in an attempt to head off the 'Let's Go, Brandon' chant that's swept the nation

Fires raged. Rivers flooded. Ice melted. Droughts baked. Storms brewed. Temperatures soared. And people died. Climate change in 2021 reshaped life on planet Earth through extreme weather. World leaders are gathering in Scotland to try to accelerate the fight to curb climate change. So far, it’s not working, as the world keeps getting hotter and its weather more extreme, scientists and government officials say. They don’t have to point far back in time or far off for examples. There have been deadly floods in Belgium, Germany, China and Tennessee. Fire blazed in parts of the U.S. West, Greece and even...

ROME (AP) — Leaders of the world’s biggest economies on Saturday endorsed a global minimum tax on corporations as part of an agreement on new international tax rules, a step toward building more fairness amid skyrocketing revenues of some multinational businesses. The move by the Group of 20 summit in Rome was hailed by U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen as benefiting American businesses and workers. G-20 finance ministers in July had already agreed on a 15% minimum tax. Its formal endorsement at the summit Saturday in Rome of the world’s economic powerhouses was widely expected. Yellen predicted in a...

A sick and perverted Twix commercial, yeah, Twix. A third gender is added to your passport.

To no one’s surprise, the state of Virginia is being stolen again. We saw it in the 2020 Election and we are seeing it again. Fairfax County was involved in unexplained and corrupt acts in the 2020 Election which were never addressed. We knew only a few days after the 2020 Election that there were three 330,000 vote drops for Joe Biden in the state in the middle of the night during the election. We later found out that these ballot dumps were in Fairfax County. Now we are finding out that Fairfax County is not requiring the last four...

Two Minnesota doctors are speaking out after being silenced for reiterating the importance of individual rights as it pertains to COVID-related policies. Dr. Scott Jensen, a GOP gubernatorial candidate in the state, faces a fifth investigation in just one year for emphasizing the importance of natural immunity, and Dr. Jeffrey Horak was reportedly terminated from his role of 15 years as a veteran of general surgery after speaking at a local school board meeting. Dr. Jensen explained the vaccine must be "targeted," however, to people most vulnerable to severe cases of COVID-19, rather than applying broad mandates. "The Minnesota Board...

A bright yellow mural declaring “BLACK LIVES MATTER” has been permanently painted on the main roadway leading to the White House, and work to redesign the surrounding street to accommodate a pedestrian gathering space is also complete. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser had the original mural painted in June 2020. She renamed the two-block stretch of 16th Street NW to Black Lives Matter Plaza, days after federal law enforcement officers violently shoved and fired tear gas at demonstrators protesting police brutality. “We sent a strong message that Black Lives Matter, and that power has always been and always will be with...

Hundreds of New York City firefighters took sick leave on Friday instead of complying with Mayor Bill de Blasio's deadline for all city workers to be vaccinated or be placed on unpaid leave - causing some firehouses to shut their doors because of staff shortages. 'The excessive sick leave ... because of their anger at the vaccine mandate for all city employees is unacceptable,' said FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro, who oversees a department where more than a quarter of its workers have not had one COVID vaccine shot. Nigro said their decision to take sick leave could 'endanger the lives'...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Memphis woman is behind bars after police say she tried to run a woman and her children off the road in North Memphis. Breonna Parker, 20, is facing eight counts of aggravated assault after police say she repeatedly harassed and assaulted a woman and her five children. Court documents said on October 20th, Parker went to the victim’s home and tried to get the victim to fight her. MPD said she honked her horn and yelled at the victim from outside while waving a gun. Police didn’t say why Parker wanted to fight the victim but...

Approximately 12,000 Air Force personnel have reportedly refused orders to be vaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus despite the Pentagon’s mandate. Officials said it was too late for them to take it by the Tuesday deadline which posed a test for leaders whose August directive apparently sparked defiance in one segment of the force, according to the Washington Post. The Thursday report continued: The vast majority of active-duty airmen, 96.4%, are at least partially vaccinated, according to data from the Air Force. But officials have warned that, barring an approved medical or religious exemption, those who defy lawful orders to be...

The Bare Bones Story When we were homeschooling our three children we often would go on field trips with our home school group. Once I led a trip to a cave that Indians used to live in and one boy brought his dog along. Well, the dog started to dig in the dirt and found a bone. The owner of the cave started to yell at the boy, “get that bone, it may be an important artifact”. The boy went to the dog but the dog acted like “Hey, I found the bone and it is mine, go find your...

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) president and CEO Derrick Johnson warned professional athletes against agreeing to play for teams located in Texas. The inspiration for this warning is the new Texas law limiting abortions after the baby’s heartbeat is detected. “One of the highly valued perks of being a pro athlete are the many opportunities for sex with nubile young women who are attracted by your physique,” Johnson pointed out. “Easy access to abortion was your parachute to escape a possible 18 years or more of child-support payments to a woman you hardly know. The new...

On the same day that the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a major new global warming report, John Coleman, a founder of the Weather Channel, appeared on CNN Sunday to reiterate his stance that “climate change is not happening.” * snip * “And if you get down to the hard, cold facts, there’s no question about it: Climate change is not happening, there is no significant, man-made global warming... “