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It’s Throwback Thursday! And Christmas is right around the corner!If we weren’t packing up for our trip to the mountain bunker for the winter I’d be making a batch of throwback Christmas cookies today. With a recipe from my throwback Christmas cookie recipe bookWith my old throwback cookie press.I’d probably not be using my old throwback spices, as we all now that they should be discarded after 6 months. Nobody told our Moms that; back before the great disposable society those rusty little suckers would be tucked away in a corner of the cupboard for decades on end. In fact,...

VIDEOLike Flounder in Animal House, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal messed up by trusting them. Them in this case is Joe Biden as well as Senators Manchin and Schumer. After giving away whatever leverage she might have had by supporting the BIF infrastructure bill Jayapal paved the way for an almost sure loss for her beloved Build Back Broke Bill. Her big mistake, like Flounder, was trusting them. The hilarious GULLIBILITY of both was off the scale.

HONG KONG -- Four children died in Australia on Thursday when wind lifted the bouncy castle they were in about 32 feet into the air, local police said. Nine children were in the castle at about 10 a.m. local time when it fell to the ground, Tasmania Police said in a statement. The students at Hillcrest Primary School had been celebrating the end of the school year, the statement said.“On a day where these children were meant to be celebrating their last day at primary school, instead we are all mourning their loss,” Police Commissioner Darren Hine said. Two girls...

The videos and texts show a primetime producer at CNN fantasizing about sex acts with a child in graphic detail. The source, who obtained evidence for authorities, came to Project Veritas after she was uncertain proper action would be taken. The producer in question also solicited sexually explicit photos of the source’s underage daughter. The source told Project Veritas she “felt disgusted” and was compelled to come forward, because “these people with power seem to get away with it.” Project Veritas has reached out to CNN for comment and at this time we’re awaiting a response. [WASHINGTON, D.C. – Dec....

He is alive! Norman Podhoretz is alive, and he agreed to an interview with The Wall Street Journal's very perceptive Barton Swaim this weekend. He says that many of his peers are now deceased but not him, and he certainly did not sound deceased. Bill Buckley and Irving Kristol have given up the ghost, and American political commentary is the poorer for their passing, but Norman is still with us, and at 91 -- almost 92 -- he is full of fire. He went on for almost a full page of the Journal, and I agreed with every word. In...

contempt for truth is the hallmark of contempt for the people. it takes 10 seconds of research to demolish this. (of course, that’s probably well past the attention span of his fanbase) here, let’s look: huh, florida is not “one of the lowest case rates per 100k” it is THE lowest case rate in the US over the last 7 days. literally the best of all 50 states. any more questions mr kimmel? one of the ugliest parts of the propaganda complex is when they stop caring about facts or even plausibility altogether. that’s where the real contempt for the...

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Professional sports leagues across the U.S. are dealing with a COVID-19 crisis, as a rash of cases is forcing the NHL and NBA to postpone games, and NFL teams to scramble to fill roster spots for absent players. After multiple COVID outbreaks in 2020, the hope this year was that high vaccination rates and a strict adherence to protocols would stave off a surge in infections. Until this week, it seemed to be working.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) said that “we are never going to get our lives back to normal, never going to see our economy working in the way we want it to, our businesses open,” until the coronavirus is defeated. While discussing the coronavirus situation in New Hampshire, Shaheen stated that New Hampshire doesn’t have as good a vaccination rate as the rest of New England, “So, we need to continue to encourage people to get their vaccinations, to get boostered, and to continue to wear facemasks, to do all of the things...

Casey Hodgkinson and her mother Anna, sat down with our reporter Carina Ruiz, to debrief after her first public speech at a recent freedom rally in Auckland.The mainstream media attended but still refuse to acknowledge Casey's story & Auckland businessman and mayoral hopeful had no issue gatecrashing her first public address. We’ll have more on this coming up in our next full episode.Despite being severely injured by the Pfizer vaxxine, Casey Hodgkinson still insists on love being the answer. She remains positive in the face of adversity and refuses to let her struggles get the better of her. https://banned.video/watch?id=61bb054a87e0a223e616544c

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday said lawmakers should not be barred from trading stock, a practice that has come under scrutiny because it gives members of Congress the opportunity to profit from inside information gained through their official duties. “We are a free-market economy. They should be able to participate in that,” Pelosi, whose venture-capitalist husband holds tens of millions of dollars’ worth of stocks and options, told reporters. Pelosi has long said she has no involvement in or prior knowledge of her husband’s trading decisions. The issue of congressional stock trading has taken on new urgency since the...

With Christmas approaching so quickly, I’m like most people: scurrying from store to store…looking for bargains on just the right gifts for my family and friends…and, of course, making the occasional stop at the grocery store. Until this week, that included our neighborhood Kroger. But thanks to the absurd decision Kroger’s corporate leadership just announced, I’m adding them to my Naughty List and will henceforth spend our grocery dollars elsewhere. In case you missed the news, “woke” executives at Kroger announced they will “end some benefits” for employees beginning January 1st… including removing paid emergency leave for unvaccinated employees who...

An assist to aging🤔 The inventor of the treadmill died at the age of 54 The inventor of gymnastics died at the age of 57 The world bodybuilding champion died at the age of 41 The best soccer player in the world, Maradona, died at the age of 60 And then.. Kentucky Fried Chicken inventor died at 94 Inventor of Nutella brand died at the age of 88 Cigarette maker Winston died at the age of 102 Hennessy inventor died at 98 The inventor of opium died at the age of 116 in an earthquake How did doctors come to...

The United States on Wednesday registered the highest number of hurricane-force gusts on record in a single day, the National Weather Service (NWS) said, days after one of the deadliest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history. More than 55 gusts of above 75 mph were recorded across a number of mostly Midwestern states...

Web infrastructure company Cloudflare on Wednesday revealed that threat actors are actively attempting to exploit a second bug disclosed in the widely used Log4j logging utility, making it imperative that customers move quickly to install the latest version as a barrage of attacks continues to pummel unpatched systems with a variety of malware. The new vulnerability, assigned the identifier CVE-2021-45046, makes it possible for adversaries to carry out denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and follows disclosure from the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) that the original fix for the remote code execution bug — CVE-2021-44228 aka Log4Shell — was "incomplete in certain non-default...

“I’ve seen ‘impossible’ happen so many times, it’s just common to me,” Robert Bailey, Jr. said as he showed me his most prized work: The Freedom Lantern. Robert’s dream is to see the U.S. government gift one of these meticulously crafted pieces to every U.S. veteran. The piece is meant to serve as a “thank you” for their service from a grateful nation and as a physical reminder that “someone cares.” “You know, that’s why we work with these veterans. We really like veterans, and I got to watching this veteran suicide business. It’s disturbing. I’ve been there, and I’ve...

In case you missed it the Formula 1 season concluded on the weekend with an epic finale to cap a season so memorable I have no doubt that major studios are already penning their scripts for rival big budget films. I was fortunate to catch one of the races at Monaco, an extra special privilege as the stands were 90% empty due to much confusion over whether spectators would be allowed. I have been an F1 fan for a long time and I understand quite a bit about the sport, but this article will not err towards the technical nor...

The London Observer, a Ministerial organ, says in its issue of Saturday Evening, Nov. 30: A special Messenger of the Foreign Office has been ordered to carry our demands to Lord LYONS, and will proceed by the packet from Queenstown to-day. The public will be satisfied to know that these demands are for an apology, and to insist on the restitution to the protection of the British flag of those who were violently and illegally torn from that sacred asylum. The Observer adds: "There is no reason why they should not be restored to the quarterdeck of the British Admiral...

A group of Republican lawmakers have moved to Joe Biden’s administration from potentially paying up to $450,000 in taxpayer money to some illegal aliens who were separated at the border under former President Trump’s “zero tolerance” policies. Sens. James Lankford (R-OK), Rick Scott (R-FL), Pat Toomey (R-PA), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), and Mike Braun (R-IN) on Tuesday introduced the Congressional Review of Agency Legal Settlements Act. According to Lankford’s office, the bill “empowers Congress to ensure agencies don’t skirt the formal rulemaking processes of the Administration Procedures Act and misuse federal tax dollars for exorbitant...