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Since I was a young man, I always loved to lift weights. I remember back in high school, when I was preparing to try out for the freshman football team, training with the other guys on an old Universal weight machine. But football wasn’t my game (at least tackle football–flag was a blast in grade school!) as a 115-pound guy can get his bell rung quite easily, as I soon found out. Basketball was more my game, and I logged likely thousands of hours playing at my school or local parks–often late into the evening–until my dad would come looking...

If the Democrats want to suffer catastrophic defeats in the 2022 midterms, they need to follow one simple strategy: blame all their losses on White Supremacy. It was White Supremacists who elected Trump. It was White Supremacists who elected Glenn Youngkin. And it is because of White Supremacy that parents are upset with what is happening in their children’s schools. It’s all because of White Supremacy! As long as Democratic leaders continue to misunderstand what tens of millions of Americans are thinking and why they are voting as they do, they will continue to lose elections. Not only so, but...

It’s official. The next generation of Utah’s congressional district boundaries has been set for the next 10 years. As expected, Gov. Spencer Cox on Friday signed off on the new congressional map approved by the Republican-controlled Utah Legislature in a special session earlier this week. Cox’s signature on HB2004 finalizes the map that splits Salt Lake County, the state’s most populous, into four congressional districts — a map that Republican lawmakers drafted while largely ignoring a different set of maps drawn by the Independent Redistricting Commission. The map slices Utah’s capital, the Democratic stronghold of Salt Lake City, and dissects...

Glen de Vries had been aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft on 13 October, spending more than 10 minutes in space after launching along with Shatner and others.A businessman who travelled to space with William Shatner last month has died after a small plane crashed in New Jersey.Glen de Vries, 49, had been aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft on 13 October, spending more than 10 minutes in space after launching along with Shatner and others. He was killed along with another person in the New Jersey crash, state police said.https://twitter.com/blueorigin/status/1459248268806967299The plane, a single-engine Cessna 172, went down on Thursday...

This year, lawmakers have unleashed a barrage of proposals aimed at Big Tech. Their latest attempt is perhaps the most bizarre: Since they’re unhappy with the state of digital markets, they're trying to rewrite American antitrust laws to look more like Europe’s. Last month, Senators Amy Klobuchar and Chuck Grassley unveiled the American Innovation and Choice Online Act, which dictates how technology companies can present information on their own platforms. Contrary to its name, the bill would negatively impact innovation and choice in digital markets, while simultaneously bringing antitrust law, and the American economy, closer to the EU’s competitor-focused model....

Rep. Madison Cawthorn, a conservative Republican firebrand, shook up next year’s congressional race on Thursday night when he announced he would run for a different congressional district — effectively pushing a more traditional state lawmaker who was expected to run out of the race. “North Carolinians don’t settle for the status quo. We defy it. We made history together last year when you sent me to Washington to shake up the swamp and fight for you,” Cawthorn said in a video he tweeted on Thursday. He cited the fact that redistricting has created a “brand new” 13th Congressional District, which...

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An Ohio cold case that puzzled investigators for more than 50 years has finally been solved in Massachusetts. On July 11, 1969, a 20-year-old man vanished after stealing $250,000 from a bank in Cleveland. The man walked out of the bank with the money in a paper bag, and it took bank employees two days to realize what had happened. By then, the bank robber was long gone, having created a mystery that would take five decades to solve. Ted Conrad has been one of America's most wanted men since he committed the crime in 1969 while an employee at...

On Nov. 19, a partial lunar eclipse will reward patient sky observers with a view of a subtly changing moon and is a must-see event as it's the last lunar eclipse of the year. The moon may even take on a reddish hue. Lunar eclipses occur when the moon passes into the Earth's shadow. In this case, the partial eclipse phase will last 3 hours, 28 minutes and 24 seconds, and the full eclipse for 6 hours and 1 minute, making it the longest partial eclipse in 580 years, according to Indiana's Holcomb Observatory. At maximum eclipse, the moon's face...

The Weekly Gardening Thread is a weekly gathering of folks that love soil, seeds and plants of all kinds. From complete newbies that are looking to start that first potted plant, to gardeners with some acreage, to Master Gardener level and beyond, we would love to hear from you. If you have specific question about a plant/problem you are having, please remember to state the Growing Zone where you are located. This thread is a non-political respite. No matter what, you won’t be flamed, and the only dumb question is the one that isn’t asked. It is impossible to hijack...

Ten days after New Jersey's extremely close gubernatorial election, Republican nominee Jack Ciattarelli conceded to Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy. But moments later Ciattarelli declared he plans to run again for Garden State governor in four years, saying "that is exactly my plan. I’ll be running for governor." Ciattarelli’s announcement elicited cheers from his supporters attending his news conference in his hometown of Raritan, New Jersey. Pointing to Murphy, who was reelected by a razor-thin margin, Ciattarelli said "I want the governor to be successful in addressing the issues that are most important to New Jerseyans. But I just have this...

A man who worked as a bank teller in Cleveland and robbed his employer of $215,000 52 years ago has finally been unmasked by US Marshals - six months after he died. Theodore John Conrad died at the age of 71 in a north Boston suburb in May of this year, having turned his hand to selling luxury cars as a career, and later ending up broke. His wife Kathy and daughter Ashley only found out their father's secret during his final days, as he succumbed to cancer. Conrad successfully pulled off one of the biggest bank robberies in Cleveland,...

This week, American parents witnessed the U.S. government give the full go-ahead for the Pfizer mRNA COVID shot for kids aged 5 to 11. The public has been told that this injection has been specially formulated for children and contains a “lower dose” – just 10 micrograms of the ingredients compared to 30 micrograms for people aged 12 and up. But these COVID shots for under-12 kids contain ingredients that have nothing to do with “preventing” COVID – including one substance frequently used in people who have had heart attacks. So, could this be an attempt by Big Pharma to...

Ahead of the Thanksgiving travel season, gas prices have reached staggering highs with most states averaging $3.42 per gallon for regular gas, according to AAA. California topped the list of states with the highest gas price averages at $4.68 per gallon for regular gas as of Friday.

Video at the link. At least she dropped the fake French accent. Heartbeat away from being PoTUS.

I am 9 days past the surgery. Feeling like I may survive, and thinking that today I WON’T pray for the rapture. :) This is a pretty tough surgery. Thoughts? Experiences? Advice?

Europe’s drug regulator on Thursday confirmed it is investigating reports of a blood condition in recipients of Moderna’s mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. According to a bulletin posted by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), it is reviewing six cases capillary leak syndrome, considered a “very rare disorder,” after they were reported in the EMA’s EudraVigilance database. “At this stage, it is not yet clear whether there is a causal association between vaccination and the reports of capillary leak syndrome,” the EMA wrote on Thursday, adding that “these reports point to a safety signal … information on new, or changes in, adverse events...

A metallurgist in the US state of Washington has pleaded guilty to fraud after she spent decades faking the results of strength tests on steel that was being used to make Navy submarines. Prosecutors say Elaine Marie Thomas, 67, gave false positive readings for strength and toughness tests in at least 240 cases between 1985 and 2017. Authorities did not disclose which vessels were affected. But there was no indication that any submarine hulls had failed. Ms Thomas, of Auburn, Washington, was the director of metallurgy at a foundry in Tacoma that supplied steel castings used by Navy contractors to...

Henry Ruggs, a 22-year-old wide receiver for the Las Vegas Raiders, killed a 23-year-old woman and her dog while drunk driving in the early hours of November 2nd. Ruggs was driving his Corvette 156 mph before hitting the woman, Tina Tintor, and her dog Max. Following this severe impact, Tintor’s Toyota RAV4 burst into flames, leaving her trapped. Ruggs’ BAC was .161, twice the legal limit. In a poor attempt to take the heat off their client, Ruggs’ attorneys are now trying to blame the slow response of the firefighters on Tintor’s death. A witness reportedly told the court that...

In case after case, the US MSM just keeps getting it wrong. When the sources of news keep getting things wrong, and all the errors lie in the exact same direction, and they are reluctant to acknowledge error, we have a problem. If you look back at the last few years, the record of errors, small and large, about major stories, is hard to deny. It’s as if the more Donald Trump accused the MSM of being “fake news” the more assiduously they tried to prove him right.