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U.S. President Joe Biden once again went off script and told a bizarre story during his Veterans Day speech about former Negro League baseball Satchel Paige. “You know I’ve adopted the attitude of the great negro at the time, pitcher in the negro league, went on to become a great pitcher in the pros, Major League Baseball, after Jackie Robinson,” Biden said. “His name was Satchel Paige.”

On the Google.com homepage today, you’ll find that the usual logo has been replaced with a bit of artwork created by Phenix City, Alabama-based artist and veteran of the US Army Steven Tette. The Veterans Day Google Doodle shows the diversity of members of the military as well as what they do at home. To express the duality of each service member, they’ve been artistically split in half, one side showing their branch’s uniform and the other showing the uniform of their civilian jobs.

My favorite song of remembrance, Poppy Day Performed live by the Legendary Pink Dots in Tel Aviv Poppy Day

Media figures went wild on Wednesday with accusations of bias on the part of Kyle Rittenhouse trial Judge Bruce Schroeder after his ringtone erupted in the courtroom — allegedly to Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA,” though others heard “Southern Cross” by Crosby, Stills, and Nash. The moment occurred as the Kyle Rittenhouse defense tried to argue that the prosecution was deliberately trying to cause a mistrial by breaking several pre-trial orders to cover up for their lousy performance in the hopes of a do-over.

This Emmy-award winning short is a tribute to all veterans of the armed forces.

JOE Biden sparked social media fury today when he referred to Satchel Paige as "the great negro" during a bizarre Veterans Day speech. The president blundered over his words while talking about the baseball icon's time playing in the Negro League. "I’ve adopted the attitude of the great negro at the time, pitcher in the Negro leagues, went on to become a great pitcher in the pros, in the MLB after Jackie Robison, his name was Satchel Paige," Biden said.

“With us in government,” the vice president said during a brief address at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, “We campaign with de plan! Uppercase ‘T,’ uppercase 'P.’ The plan! And then the environment is such that we’re expected to defend de plan, even when the first time we roll it out there may be some glitches, and it’s time to reevaluate it and then do it again.”

What do you get the woman who has everything? A Times Square billboard featuring her own face, of course. Atlanta-based model Moriah Mills says she was left stunned when her “sugar daddy” gifted her the gigantic digital display for her 28th birthday last month. “Seeing my face up there in bright lights was the most thrilling thing,” Mills said of the 100x80ft billboard, which was set up on the corner of West 48th Street from Oct. 11 to Oct. 17. “I looked stunning… It made me feel like a star and it’s totally what I deserve.” Times Square pedestrians certainly...

The Los Angeles Police Department tweeted a release advising city residents to “cooperate and comply” when being robbed. The release begins: Due to an increase in violent street robberies, Robbery-Homicide Division has become aware of an ongoing crime trend of follow-home robberies. Suspects have been locating victims in Los Angeles, following them, and then committing the robberies as the victim arrives home or at their business. … These crimes have occurred throughout the City of Los Angles as well as neighboring cities. Different suspects have been identified and arrested for these types of crimes. LAPD uses the release to outline...

As world leaders meet this week at Glasgow for COP26, real-life data such as cold weather and increasing sea ice hints at the falseness of their faux climate crises. Residents of Delhi, for instance, are bracing for another cold winter after the country’s meteorological department forecasted below-normal temperatures for November. In fact, a string of exceptionally cold winters for the Indian capital have contradicted continual media predictions of unusual global warming—a dichotomy repeating regionally around the world. When I moved to Delhi in 2019, I was greeted by a winter that was colder than even the typically frigid weather for...

President Joe Biden referred to legendary baseball pitcher Satchel Paige during his Veterans’ Day speech on Thursday referring to him as “the great negro.” “You know, I’ve adopted the attitude of the great negro at the time, pitcher in the negro leagues, went on to become a great pitcher in the pros, in the Major League Baseball after Jackie Robison, his name was Satchel Paige,” Biden said as he began his speech.

A total of 32 House and Senate Republicans helped push Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure package over the finish line, most of whom have been showered with campaign cash from the leading lobbying group behind the bill — the US Chamber of Commerce. Lawmakers run for office, grabbing donations from interest groups, then, after their election, voting for legislation supported by those special interest groups despite their constituents’ opposition. The Chamber had been lobbying for Biden’s infrastructure bill, since the start of the year. By July, Open Secrets reported the Chamber had spent more than $12 million lobbying for the bill...

When state senators in South Carolina held two hearings in September about COVID treatments, they got an earful on the benefits of ivermectin — which many of the lawmakers lauded along the way, sharing experiences of their own loved ones. The demands for access to the drug were loud and insistent, despite the fact that federal regulators had just issued a strong warning against using the drug to treat COVID-19. One member of the public, Pressley Stutts III, reminded the panel that his father, a prominent GOP leader in the state, had died from COVID just a month before. He...

PM's comments comes shortly after national drill simulating outbreak of lethal new COVID-19 variant; following approval of pediatric coronavirus jab, campaign expected to begin over next week or two. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Thursday told parents there's no reason not to vaccinate their children after health officials okayed COVID vaccines for kids aged 5-11. "There is no reason to leave our children unprotected," he said. "There is no reason that your child should get infected an infect others when his whole life is ahead of him." Bennett added that coronavirus is still around and that cases are rising in...

Gene Simmons is blasting COVID-19 deniers and unvaccinated Americans, calling them "the enemy." "If you're willing to walk among us unvaccinated, you are an enemy," the KISS frontman said Wednesday in an interview on "TalkShopLive." "I don't care about your political beliefs," the "Rock and Roll All Nite" singer said while discussing canceling tour dates earlier this year when he and fellow bandmate Paul Stanley tested positive with so-called breakthrough cases of the coronavirus after being vaccinated, and a guitar tech for the group reportedly died. "You are not allowed to infect anybody just because you think you've got rights...

Novavax (NVAX) is getting some momentum for its two-dose COVID-19 vaccine, starting with a series of emergency use fillings globally and the first authorization in Indonesia this month. The company is on track to file with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by the end of the year, and has already called for a meeting with the agency to move forward, according to CEO Stanley Erck. Erck told Yahoo Finance Live on Wednesday that the company expects to hear back from the FDA "very soon" and believes Novavax could receive up to five authorizations in the coming 6-8 weeks...

I never commented on the Rittenhouse case until I started watching large chunks of the trial, and all I can say is that anyone who has done the same and denies that there's a huge gap between the media narrative about this and what actually happened is not telling the truth.

Charles Franklin “Peepaw” Beaverson passed away on Nov. 2, Election Day, at the age of 74. He had worked at Campbell Chain/Apex Tools for 45 years until his retirement. He belonged to the Kreutz Creek VFW and enjoyed attending the monthly cruise nights held by the Motor Menders Rod and Custom Car Club at the Markets at Shrewsbury. He had two daughters, two grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.At the end of his obituary, after his family suggests memorial contributions to Great Rewards Ministries in Red Lion, was this: “#Letsgobrandon.”To those who haven’t been paying attention — or as one veteran Republican...

The euphoria around Rivian kicked into overdrive Wednesday as it debuted as a publicly traded company, with an opening share price of $106.75. If that sticks, it would give Rivian an implied valuation of $90 billion. The opening trade was nearly 37% higher than its listed IPO price of $78. That absolute eye-popping number makes Rivian one of the largest IPOs in U.S. history and puts its market cap above GM as well as one of its backers, Ford (GM’s market cap is $86.31 billion; Ford’s is $78.2 billion).That share price continued to rise after it began trading around 1...

ROME — Humanity needs a global reset because the unjust, pre-pandemic world is not worth going back to, Pope Francis asserted Monday. In a message to the Paris Forum on Peace, the pope painted a dire picture of a pre-coronavirus world dominated by corruption, war, and capitalistic oppression. The reality we knew before the pandemic was that wealth and economic growth were reserved for a minority while millions of people were unable to meet the most basic needs and lead a dignified life,” Francis said, “a world in which our Earth was plundered by a myopic exploitation of resources, by...